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around the world as the place where millions of Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Christians and Jews worship side by side in harmony as it has great tradition of embracing individual freedom, rule of law, dignity of every human being. “The First Lady and I have travelled 8,000 mile around the globe to deliver the message to all citizens across this nation — America loves India, America respects India, and America will always be a faithful and loyal friend to the Indian people,” Trump said. During his nearly 30 minutes long speech, Trump also said, “While our nations have many differences, they are both defined and propelled by a fundamental truth — the truth that all of us are blessed with divine light and every person is endowed with a sacred soul” & &! 23(( ! and quoted Swami Vivekanand. 0! " 2$ ) , On his maiden visit to India as the US President, State for Home Affairs, G Trump, who was welcomed by Kishan Reddy condemned the Modi on his arrival here, said attack by rioters. “My deepest " ) * + & " ( his country will remain a condolences to the family of , “loyal” friend of India and the Delhi Police Head called Prime Minister Modi an Constable who lost his life chapter” in ties between the the Naval helicopter deal is welcomed your PM at a giant “exceptional leader” who works amidst the protests in Delhi. two countries. about $2.6 billion, the Apache football stadium, and you wel- day and night for the country. Our Narendra Modi govern- ndia and the US are natural Both the leaders made contract is over $980 million. comed us at the world’s largest “India and the US are comment condemns all forms of Ipartners and both the coun- these points during a public Trump announced in his cricket stadium. Thank you for mitted to fight terrorists and Delhi Police Head violence and we assure a stern tries are committed to defend event “Namaste Trump” at the speech here about the two spectacular welcome. We will their ideology, that is why my AConstable and four civil- action against the culprits,” he their people from radical new look Motera stadium deals. The Cabinet Committee always remember this remark- Government is working with ians were killed while several tweeted. Islamic terrorism. This was shortly after Trump arrived on Security (CCS) headed by able hospitality,” Trump said. Pakistan to crack down on police personnel, including Union Home Secretary the focal point of visiting US here to commence his two-day Prime Minister Modi had Known for his fondness to terror groups,” the US President the Deputy Commissioner of Ajay Bhalla said the situation President Donald Trump’s riv- visit to India. He was accom- cleared the two defence deals tweet, Trump earlier took to said. Police (DCP) and Assistant is fully under control and suf- eting speech made before a panied by his wife Melania, last week. Twitter and tweeted messages “Under my Administration Commissioner of Police ( &!/ 3 ficient forces were deployed on capacity crowd at Motera sta- daughter Ivanka, son-in-law While the chemistry in Hindi, including one we unleashed the full power of (ACP), were injured after pro 4 + the ground. “The situation in dium here on Monday. The Jared Kushner and top brass of between Modi and Trump was expressing eagerness to visit the military on blood-thirsty and anti-Citizen Amendment 3(( , Delhi is fully under control. crowd erupted in a thundering his administration. fully evident as the two leaders India, to which Modi respond- killers of ISIS in Iraq and in Act (CAA) groups clashed for The senior police officials are applause when the US Modi and Trump will hold shared many hugs and heaped ed by tweeting the Sanskrit Syria. Today the ISIS territor- the second consecutive day of the CrPC, which prohibits on the ground and sufficient President said his country talks in New Delhi on Tuesday praise on each other in front of phrase, “Atithi Devo Bhava ial caliphate has been 100 per on Monday and hurled stones assembly of four or more peo- forces are also deployed at the “loves India and its people.” wherein the two countries will 1,00,000-strong enthusiastic (guest is god)”. cent destroyed and the monster at each other at Gokulpuri, ple, in areas affected by vio- spot,” said Bhalla. Prime Minister Narendra ink a $3 billion defence deal for crowd, the traditional and Talking about India’s rich known as Al-Baghdadi, the Chanbagh and Maujpur areas. lence in northeast Delhi. “Armed police personnel Modi, who spoke both before 24 Naval multi-role helicopters colourful welcome left the US culture and extraordinary founder and leader of ISIS, is Violence between groups There was heavy stone have been deployed at strate- and after the US President, and six Apache attack heli- President impressed. diversity repeatedly, Trump dead,” he said. supporting and opposing the pelting in Maujpur, while gic points. Areas with history hailed Trump’s visit as a “new copters for the Army. While “Five months ago, the US said India is always admired Continued on Page 7 CAA was also reported in the police baton-charged to dis- of past clashes such as Jafrabad, Jafrabad and Bhajanpura areas. perse protesters in Jafrabad. Seelampur, Maujpur, A youth also opened eight Shops and houses were van- Gautampuri, Bhajanpura, rounds of fire in the air on the dalised and set on fire in Chand Bagh, Mustafabad, streets on Monday afternoon in Maujpur and Bhajanpura. Wazirabad and Shiv Vihar, are the Maujpur while the police Amit Sharma, the DCP being monitored to maintain tried to control him. The man, Shahdara, official vehicle was law and order situation,” said identified as Shahrukh from also set on fire in Gokulpuri Alok Kumar, the Joint arrived here from Ahmedabad Shadara, was arrested later in while a petrol pump was put on Commissioner of Police, E where they attended the the day. fire by the protesters at Eastern Range. alking hand-in-hand, US ‘Namaste Trump’ event at the Police fired tear gas shells Bhajanpura. This is the second Meanwhile, the Delhi WPresident Donald Trump Motera stadium. and also resorted to lathi day of clashes in the city where Metro closed entry and exit an ! " and First Lady Melania Trump The Taj Mahal, which was charge to disperse the violent US President Donald Trump uneasy calm prevailed in the on Monday evening went built by Mughal Emperor Shah crowd of protesters. will arrive on Monday evening. Northeast areas. “Entry & exit $ % around the iconic Taj Mahal, Jahan in memory of his wife Following the violence, the Meanwhile, sources in the gates of Jaffrabad, Maujpur- hailing the 17th century Mumtaz Mahal who died in Delhi Police Commissioner Central security agencies hint- Babarpur, Gokulpuri, Johri Mughal-era mausoleum as a 1631, was refurbished for the Amulya Patnaik also stationed ed that riots were orchestrated Enclave and Shiv Vihar are L “timeless testament” to the rich visit. himself in the police control by certain elements to malign closed. Trains will terminate at and diverse beauty of Indian Holding hands, the couple room (PCR) and closely mon- the image of the country dur- Welcome metro station,” the culture. took a stroll in the resplendent itored the situation. The police ing the Trump visit. DMRC tweeted. ' The American power cou- gardens adjoining the pool at have also imposed section 144 In the evening, Minister of Continued on Page 7 ple spent almost an hour at the the celebrated monument, as a Taj Mahal, soaking in the beau- cool breeze made their experi- ty of the monument of love, ence even more pleasant. and were briefed about the his- Trump, dressed in a dark .5! % tory and traditions associated suit with a tie of light shade, $ with architectural marvel. and Melania, wearing a white 6 “The Taj Mahal inspires dress accessorised with a green % % awe. A timeless testament to waistband, also posed for pho- the rich and diverse beauty of tographs. Ivanka, wearing a 5 Indian culture! 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/1>7 divisive politics based on caste and 50 percent, yet the government inflat- Chaudhary said that the govern- religion. Development works have come ed the size of the 2020-21 budget. ment’s policy of devoting each year’s pposition parties in UP Assembly to a grinding halt. Even as the govern- “There is no point in expanding size budget for particular sector yielded Otrashed the annual budget for the ment claims to sign MOUs for invest- of the budget if the government lacks nothing. 2020-21 fiscal presented on February 18, ments worth lakhs of crores of rupees, the resources for financing schemes and “The first budget of Yogi govern- accusing the Yogi government of being nothing is visible on the ground. The the ability and administrative compe- ment in 2017-18, was dedicated to farm- in ‘self-congratulatory mode’, claiming government made tall claims that it pre- tence to utilize the budget,’’said the ers, second for industrial development, that it had presented the biggest-ever sented the biggest ever budget akin to Samajwadi Party leader. third for women empowerment and the budget of over Rs 5 lakh crore. claims was made during the presenta- Questioning the efficacy of devel- fourth and the present one for youth, The opposition said on Monday tion of 2019-20 budget in February last opment schemes of the government, the education and employment. So far no that the annual hike in the budget was year.’’ SP leader said, “The government claims sector has benefitted from the policy,’’he a routine affair and actual achievement Chaudhary added, “The claim is fic- to provided free power and LPG con- charged. lay in utilisation of budgetary grants and titious as by adjusting 7.5 percent infla- nections to millions of people in the The SP leader also said that the hap- the government had singularly failed to tion, the actual budget size has in fact state. But it also hiked power tariff by hazard loan waiver scheme for farmers spend money on development schemes shrunk. Provisions in last budget for 27 percent in less than three years. Also, announced in 2017 made little impact and projects. new schemes included was over Rs due to economic slowdown and high and thousands of farmers committed Initiating the general debate on 20,000 crore which has dipped to little inflation, very few people are in a posi- suicide and were still ending their budget, Leader of Opposition Ram above Rs 10,000 crore for 2020-21.” tion to afford refill of the LPG. Instead lives. Govind Chaudhary said, “There is an The Leader of Opposition also of putting money in the pocket of peo- Leaders of Bahujan Samaj Party and atmosphere of fear in the state as the BJP said that the utilization of budgetary ple, the government is in fact extract- other members also participated in the government is aggressively pursuing grants in 2019-20 budget was less than ing it from them.’’ debate which will continue on Tuesday. !" / 0 1 1203 # /1>7 he face-off between anti-CAA protest- ( Ters and police in Aligarh rocked both " &&/ & & the Houses of UP Legislature on Monday aking light of stray cattle menace in 8 &/& 0" B&0C with opposition parties demanding a MUttar Pradesh, Animal Husbandry judicial probe claiming that law and Minister Chaudhary Laxmi Narain said & " order situation was spiraling out of hands that agriculture production in the state had "7 >7 & 7 "7 in the state. gone up indicating there was no such men- The issue was first raised during ace and instead Madhya Pradesh and 8 1"" Question Hour in the Assembly and later Rajasthan for sending stray cattle into &""./ during Zero Hour in both Houses. UP. Leader of the Opposition Ram Govind The issue was raised during Question 17 &&5 Chaudhary alleged that women were Hour in Assembly where even members "" "" 7/ beaten up by the police and in the ensu- of Treasury Benches joined the opposition ing firing one person was killed. in blaming bad upkeep in government-run DE;9 1"" & “The situation in Aligarh is very cow sheds resulting in deaths of / "7 "/ tense and innocent people faced harass- bovine. ment of the people,” he said. The issue was raised by Sushma Patel &7& & " However, Parliamentary Affairs min- (BSP) wherein she wanted to know as how 7& EA9D ister Suresh Kumar Khanna charged the to many cattle had died in state-run cow- opposition for instigating violence and sheds. Narain admitted that around 9261 claimed that there was no deaths during cattle heads died due to natural reasons in ment should appoint people who could the violence. shelter homes in 2019. However, the BSP take care of stray cattle at cowsheds,” he “UP government is committed to members alleged that the deaths were said. The minister, however, said that he maintaining law and order and will take due to starvation, but the minister denied had no information on this. action if anyone takes law into their hand it saying that the government was paying and the opposition were just shedding Rs 30 per day per stray animal and ( crocodile tears,” Khanna added. presently around 5.5 lakh such animals SP members walked out of the House, Later, SP and Congress members were in shelter homes or taken care by vil- after Alternative Energy Minister Srikant joined the issue demanding a debate. lagers. Sharma could not answer on the subsidy However on pursuance of Speaker Leader of the Opposition, Ram given to consumers for installing a solar Hriday Narain Dikshit, the opposition OBITUARY Govind Chaudhary said that the problem panel,. agreed to raise the issue during Zero Hour of stray animal started after the BJP came SP member Sanjay Garg alleged that in which Samajwadi Party said that the to power but in response, the minister said the government was not disclosing the government had willfully targeted mem- that the government protected cows from details of subsidy given to consumers for bers of a particular community. being sent to slaughter houses. installing solar power units. The Power “This government does not want When Ajay Kumar Lallu (Congress) minister however said that said that the people to raise voice against its policies. pointed out that farmers were committing government was providing 75 per cent Poor people are out on the streets against suicide because of stray cattle menace, subsidy to farmers installing solar pump the draconian CAA but this government Narain said that people of Madhya Pradesh sets below 5 Horse Power (HP) while sub- is hell bent on muzzling voice of dissent,” and Rajasthan, were sending their stray sidy was 30 per cent above 5 HP. Chaudhary said. animals into UP and asked the Congress Sharma further said that that the gov- The SP demanded a probe into the members to ask their governments to stop ernment was also providing Rs 15,000 per matter by the sitting judge of High Court. it. HP and maximum of Rs 30,000 for roof On the other hand, the Congress demand- Annoyed with the answer, Congress top solar plant. ed a judicial probe into the matter. members staged a noisy walkout. The government also claimed that The government claimed that the During the debate, Surendra Singh during the three-year-BJP regime, demand police used restraint and was forced to act (BJP) said that it was a serious issue and of power had spiked by 54 per cent after when the situation went out of hand. he had seen dogs devouring carcasses of the government went for a drive to pro- The Parliamentary Affairs Minister cow. “The government was giving money vide power connections in a big way. Not ruled out a probe into the matter after for fodder but there was no one to take care satisfied with the Minister’s reply, SP which SP members walked out of the of these animals and hence, the govern- members staged a walk out. Assembly.

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Santosh Singh, who was sent to in the past, and had failed mis- ! tions from March 5. police lines from the post of erably in checking the crime. According to an official SHO Madiaon during former Inspectors should be appoint- communiqué, Chandigarh- ( /1>7 Imran said that his brother SSP Lucknow Kalanidhi ed on the basis of perfor- ( /1>7 runs a hatchery, poultry farm Gorakhpur Weekly Express Kamil had a verbal spat with Naithani’s regime, was given mance, and not on any other and a factory preparing poul- (04924) will remain available he Thakurganj SHO lodged Eraj and few others soon after %& the charge as Hazratganj SHO. criteria,” sources said. joint team of the cyber try feed. on Thursdays from March 5 to Ta case of murderous assault which Beg and some youths Former Alambagh SHO They said the list included Acrime wing of Special After the case was regis- 12 while Gorakhpur- and rioting while armed with arrived there and opened fire. AK Sahi, who is said to have a the names of some of the Task Force (STF) and Vibhuti tered, he shifted base to New Chandigarh Weekly Express weapons against more than ten On the other hand, Beg ( /1>7 good rapport with those in inspectors who were given Khand police nabbed a Delhi but fell into the police (04923) on Fridays from persons, five of whom were said Eraj and his son (on one power corridors, was appoint- marching orders by former swindler, who had duped sev- trap after he visited Lucknow March 6 to 13, Ghaziabad- identified by the police, in con- side) had a brawl with Kamil truggling to check crime ed as Sarojininagar SHO while SSP Kalanidhi Naithani on the eral people of huge amount for some work. Aligarh MEMU (04442) from nection with the group clash at who called several other youths, Sincidents, Commissioner of former Vibhuti Khand SHO charges of wayward style of running into several crores in Meanwhile, a police team March 6 to 10 on daily basis, Hussainabad Clock Tower including his brother Imran. Police Sujeet Pandey reshuffled Rajeev Dwivedi was appointed working and poor supervi- multi-level marketing, from arrested a gun-runner and Aligarh-Ghaziabad MEMU reported on Sunday. The police Beg said someone called him 13 inspectors and sent three to as Alambagh SHO. sion. Kshitij Tripathi from Vibhuti Khand police station recovered 11 Munger-made (04441) on Tuesdays from detained two of the accused and informed about the fight Reserve Police Line. However, There was a mysterious Crime Branch was appointed as area on Monday. pistols from his possession in March 6 to 10, Gandhidham- while efforts were on to nab the between the two groups after the induction of new person- fire at PIC-UP Bhawan when Chinhat SHO while TP Singh The accused, identified Ghazipur police station area Bhagalpur (09451) on March rest. which he rushed to the scene. nel raised eyebrows. Dwivedi was holding the as Jankipuram SHO, Ram as Mukesh Singh of Sarojini on Monday. The accused, 6, Bhagalpur-Gandhidham Thakurganj SHO Pramod He said the groups did not stop Hazratganj SHO charge of Vibhuti Khand. Soorat Sonkar as Gomti Nagar Nagar, was named in a case of identified as Surendra (09452) on March 9, Malda Kumar Mishra said advocate fighting and he opened fire in Dheerendra Pratap Kushwaha Inspector SB Shukla was Extension SHO and fraud registered at the Gomti Upadhyay (54) of Sultanpur, Town-Anand Vihar Terminal Mirza Fazal Ali Beg of the air to intimidate them. The was sent to Gosainganj in the appointed as Vibhuti Khand Pramendra Singh as Gomti Nagar police station. He was was arrested when he was (03429) via Sultanpur & Kaiserbagh opened fire on his case file had no mention of any same capacity, replacing DK SHO. Nagar SHO. said to have been absconding. going to Sitapur to deliver the Anand Vihar Terminal-Malda rival group in which he had a eyewitness account even as the Updhyaya, who was appointed “Some of the inspectors Former Chinhat and The team recovered two pistol to a customer. He con- Town (03430) via Sultanpur narrow escape as he was mov- police impounded Beg’s pistol. as Krishna Nagar SHO. who were given charge had Jankipuram SHOs were sent to mobile phones, three ATM fessed to his crime and dis- on March 17, 24 & 31, ing towards Beg, who was bran- The SHO said the public pre- Crime Branch inspector been involved in controversies police lines. cards, 10 cheque books, one closed that he had sold over Howrah- Gorakhpur (03033) dishing his pistol at the crime sent there refused to become laptop, one SUV and other 100 pistols to different cus- on March 6, Gorakhpur- scene where cops were on duty. witnesses fearing backlash from items besides Rs 3,250 in tomers in Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Howrah (03034) on March 7, He added that the police also the warring groups. cash. Mukesh owned up his Sitapur, Hardoi, Barabanki and Howrah- Gorakhpur nabbed Imran Haider of It may be mentioned that crime and disclosed how he and Lucknow. The police were (03031) on March 8, Thakurganj while others fled two groups of volunteers pre- forayed into the crime world. collecting the names of the Gorakhpur-Howrah (03032) the scene. sent near Hussainabad Clock He earlier had a PCO in persons who purchased the on March 10. All these trains According to the SHO, two Tower, where anti-CAA stir Sarojininagar after he flunked illegal weapons from the will pass via stations under groups were fighting when Beg has been underway for over a Class X. accused. He said he sold the the Lucknow division of reached the scene and opened month, had a fierce fight on He later took to property pistols at Rs 3,000 each. Northern Railway. fire twice. In police custody, Sunday evening. dealing work and soon struck gold. He set up several real ,* estate companies (Vastum The body of 19-year-old Infraland India Pvt LTd, Arjun (of Chinhat), who fell Green Care Agrretech, into Indira Dam under mys- Lucknow Infracity and terious circumstances on Lucknow Colonizers etc). He February 18, was recovered appointed his wife Rinki and from Indira Canal (near his family members as direc- Balsingh Kheda culvert) in tors in the companies and Nagram on Monday. His later opened the offices in father Ayodhya had lodged a Transport Nagar and Vibhuti missing report on Sunday. Khand (Rohtas Summit). The police said Arjun had Mukesh roped in gone to meet the contractor Siddharth Upreti, former GM for whom he worked. He was of Hello Ride company, Asif clicking a selfie at Indira Dam and Ajay Gupta (both team but lost balance and leaders of Shine City) and sev- fell into the canal. eral others to promote his He could not be searched scheme among the gullible. for over five days and his To trap the innocents, he body was found floating in offered a profit of Rs 13 per the canal on Monday. The cent per month against the police said the body was sent investment and amassed over for autopsy and further Rs 200 crore. He purchased investigations were ( ! + & ( 100 bigha land on which he underway. $ 0 1 Lucknow (PNS): The Met & department has forecast light rains across the state on Tuesday. There is warning of ( /1>7 “I reached home feeling In the FIR, the wife of the thunderstorm accompanied by nervous and frightened. When politician said that she arrived lightening and gusty winds wo miscreants posing as I opened the sachet, I found it along with her kids around (30-40 kmph) and hail at iso- Tpolicemen scolded an filled with stones,” she told the midnight and found another lated places over eastern UP. elderly woman for wearing police. A police spokesman woman leaving the house. Met director JP Gupta said gold ornaments and later said a case was registered and “When I inquired about similar weather conditions duped her of the valuables on further investigations were on. the purpose of her visit, she would prevail on Wednesday as Monday morning. As per “We have scanned scores of started abusing me and later well. “There is a cyclonic circu- reports, the woman, identi- CCTV footages and some attacked me and my kids. She lation above eastern UP which fied as Sheela Upadhyay of images of suspects were fell down when I pushed her in is causing these weather condi- Vishal Khand, was returning obtained. The police are scan- self-defence. She then started tions,” he said. On Monday, the home from St Joseph Hospital ning more footages and hope- issuing life threats,” the politi- state capital witnessed cloudy where she had gone for some fully, the case will be worked cal leader’s wife alleged. weather and light rains in some work. out soon,” he said. However, the other woman parts. Lucknow recorded the When she reached near alleged that she was just maximum temperature at 28.2 LDA market, the bike-borne strolling around in the apart- degree Celsius, which was 0.8 miscreants approached her. Wife of a political party ment when the politician’s wife, degree above normal. The min- “One of them told me that they leader and his female friend on accompanied by an aide, imum temperature at 16.2 were policemen. He then said Monday lodged complaints at assaulted her and used cuss degree Celsius was 5.1 degrees a murder had taken place in the Gomti Nagar police station words. She further alleged that above normal. The forecast locality and asked me as to why accusing each other of assault, she was threatened with rape by for Lucknow is partly cloudy I was wearing gold ornaments. criminal intimidation and the person accompanying her. sky with rains and thunder- He sternly asked me to put off insult. The incident took place Police spokesman shower likely in some areas. the ornaments. They took the on the intervening night of Anshuman Singh said they The maximum and minimum sachet in which I put my gold Sunday and Monday. The were working on the case. temperatures are expected to be ring and gold chain and then leader had come to Lucknow “Both the parties gave com- around 26 degree Celsius returned it to me,” she told the from Noida for some work and plaints against each other but and 15 degree Celsius, police. She said she was asked was staying in his apartment in later agreed for negotiations,” respectively. to leave the spot instantly. 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rdu play ‘Avadh Ke Ram’ was ( /1>7 on a motorcycle. When the riders were Ustaged at Sant Gadge signaled to stop, the person riding pil- Auditorium on Monday with the leuths of Special Task Force (STF) lion got down and started firing at the support of Institute of Human Sclaimed to have eliminated a hardened police team while the driver managed to Resources, Research and criminal carrying a reward of Rs 1.5 lakh escape. “Pathan and constable Imran Development Society and UP during an encounter in Suhela village in were injured in the gunfight and were Urdu Academy. Basti in the early hours of Monday. taken to a Community Health Centre The play highlighting the sec- However, one of the aides of the slain from where Pathan was referred to ular aspects of Lakhnawi culture criminal managed to escape. Slain gang- District Hospital, Basti, where he was traced all the anecdotes connect- ster Feroz Pathan was wanted in sever- declared dead upon arrival,” Awasthi ed with communal harmony over al cases in Uttar Pradesh and other states. said. a period of 7,000 years and the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awasthi said that the state govern- contribution made by the Muslim Awanish Awasthi said that Pathan was ment announced a cash reward of Rs community in the worship and killed during a gunfight, in which STF 2 lakh for the police team for the suc- honour of Lord Ram. The story constable Imran was also injured. The cessful operation. SP of Basti, Hemraj revolved around the Nawabs of cops of Gorakhpur Police were also Meena said that they had declared a Lucknow and their healthy respect assisted the STF during the exchange of reward of Rs 1 lakh on Pathan while for Hindu religion. fire. Awasthi said that acting on a tip-off, Allahabad SSP had announced a boun- The play brought forth the a team comprising STF and local police ty of Rs 50,000. The body of the slain contribution of Nawab Safdarjung personnel of Gorakhpur surrounded criminal was sent for autopsy and a who gave special grants for Hindu Lalgarh area in Basti early on Monday magisterial enquiry was also ordered temples, Nawab Shuja-ud-Daullah morning and noticed two men coming into the matter. who gave the land for Hanuman ( !! Garhi on which the temple of OO( 11 Aliganj was made. 4P /0 '% % 8# $%%# The play also brought forth & the contribution of Nawab Asaf- ( /1>7 that the government identified nullah ud-Daulah who gave grants to the flowing into the Ganga. “Out of the total temple and alms to all the mem- he UP government blamed Delhi for 217 nullah flowing in Ganga, 191 nullah bers of the community. While Tthe pollution in Yamuna river and were diverted while in Yamuna, of the Nawab Asaf-ud-Daulah gave land claimed that Holy Ganga had been total 170 nullahs, 49 have been diverted,” for Ramlila, it was Nawab Wajid cleaned from Bijnore to Ballia. Replying he said. Singh said that all 1038 villages Ali Shah who started the tradition ate disharmony among the com- tain little known aspects of ancient Ramcharitmanas in dohas. During — such as Dr Surya Kant, to a question of BSP member Shyam and 21 cities on the bank of Ganga have of lighting of firecrackers on the munities but they understood the history have been highlighted in intermissions, the audience were Shashank Srivastava, Hasan Rizvi, Sunder Sharma in the Assembly, UP Jal been declared Open Defecation-Free occasion of Diwali. Wajid Ali manipulations and continued to the play such as naming of a town informed about the manner in Dr Anwar Rizvi, Wamiq Khan, Dr Skakti Minister Dr Mahendra Singh said (ODF) while 123 STPs were working and Shah was one of the Nawabs who live in harmony. as ‘Laxmanpur’ by Lord Ram in which different stages of the glo- Talat Rizvi, Alok Raja, Prof Abbas that the state government was doing every 51 were under construction. Singh also celebrated Diwali and The play was written by SN honour of his younger brother. rious history were interconnected,” Raza Nayyar and Sunita Verma. thing to clean Yamuna too, but due to said that under Namami Gange pro- Janmashtami with a lot of fervour Lal, directed by Nawab Masood “Facts and circumstances Abdullah said. The awards were given away by Delhi, the river still remained polluted. gramme, 78 cremation places on Ganga and enthusiasm. Abdullah & SN Lal, and concep- attending the authorship of During the function, the Justice Shabihul Hasnain and Prof “Delhi is doing nothing to clear river have been modernised while sim- The play touched upon the tualised by Nawab Jafar Mir Ramayan by Maharishi Valmiki, Nishan-e-Urdu awards were given Mahrukh Mirza, Vice-Chancellor Yamuna except for taking water to meet ilar cremation places would be developed incidents wherein the outsiders Abdullah. conditions under which Tulsi away to several persons for their of KMC Urdu-Farsi-Arabi drinking water need of the national cap- on the banks of Yamuna too. “We are had made several attempts to cre- According to the director, cer- Das’s Ramayana was written and contributions in respective fields University. ital. As Mathura shares border with Delhi, doing everything to make the important it is bearing the brunt of the former’s cal- rivers of India like Ganga and Yamuna * 8 2 5/ 2 lous approach,” he said. 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Lucknow (PNS): The Traffic ( /1>7 Ali said that these cooks were big number under the present department has begun night- given honorarium which helped the BJP regime. time management at ten loca- he Labour Cell of Uttar Pradesh poor women to run their house- To highlight these issues, hun- tions of the city. Additional TCongress attempted to take out holds. He claimed that since the BJP dreds of cooks and labourers were DCP (Traffic) Suresh a march and gherao the Chief came to power, the government called to UPCC office on Monday Chandra Rawat said that Minister’s office in support of started harassing these cooks and and it was decided that a march night management of traffic demands of mid-day meal cooks on forced a lone cook to prepare food would be taken out and the CM’s has begun in the city for the Monday afternoon, but were for 50 or more children. office would be gheraoed to draw first time. restrained along with hundreds of “Despite the hardships, these attention. He said it is important in cooks inside the Congress headquar- women continued to doe their jobs. “However, the district adminis- view of the fact that after the ters at Mall Avenue. The agitators But with the government deciding tration forcibly confined Congress ‘no entry’ is opened, a large later handed over a memorandum to to outsource mid-day meal prepa- workers and cooks inside the party number of big vehicles enter the officials present there. ration to private and specialised office campus and instead asked to the city and create snarls at Chairman of UPCC Labour Cell agencies owning modern kitchens, submit a memorandum. The officers various points. “The load of Irshad Ali, who handed over the adversely affected the future of assured that necessary action would traffic increases when ‘no memorandum to Lucknow admin- these women who were set to lose be taken,” the Congress leader said. entry’ is cleared. Shaheed istration, said on Monday that sev- their jobs,” he said. Ali threatened that if the govern- Path is one point where traf- eral women have been engaged as The Congress leader further ment failed to take a favourable deci- fic snarls occur and even if cooks in primary schools to prepare said that the cooks were not the only sion, then the Congress workers and one car is trapped, it results in meal and serve to children under the ones losing jobs, but youths and pro- leaders would take to the streets and a major problem. After we Mid-Day Meal scheme. fessionals have lost employment in and gherao the Assembly soon. started the night management of traffic, we are getting fewer calls,” he said. %7)!& He said the duties are from 10 pm to 7 am and the points where night manage- honoured. ment is being carried out are Transport Nagar, Shaheed * ++ Path, Kanpur road, Dubagga Vice-Chancellor of BBAU tri-crossing, Munshipulia Acharya Sanjay Singh completed one crossing, IIM Bithauli tri- year in office on Monday. About the crossing, Junabganj tri-cross- achievements of the VC in the last ing, Ahimamau underpass, one year, media spokesperson Polytechnic crossing, Rachna Gangwar said that he signed Hazratganj crossing, various MoUs with five leading Khurram Nagar crossing, institutions of the country. “UIET, Tedhipulia crossing, which was a self-financed course, has Kamta crossing, Nadarganj now become a regular course, and tri-crossing and Bara Birwa for this the university has received tri-crossing. approval for 16 posts, which is a He pointed out that with major achievement for the universi- the start of the commission- ,, communities, took part in the pro- ty, and the credit goes to the VC. erate system, they have got grame with enthusiasm. On the BBAU has established a cell related over 350 constables and 50 A special yagya to preserve occasion, secretary of Gayatri to innovation, incubation and start- sub-inspectors who have been environment was organised by Parivaar Dr Shukla honoured Kripal up. A roadmap to construct 2 new deployed at various points in Samar Vihar Yagya Samiti at Singh Abbott for conducting the pro- hostels and improve the basic facil- the city and will be used in Sadbhavna Park in the colony. gramme smoothly and successfully. ities of the university has also been traffic management. Residents, including members of all Corporator Girish Mishra was also prepared,” he added. % O #F &% 3(( " ( /1>7 Pratham Singh, a stu- ctress Sonali Nikam, who dent of City Montessori Awas in the city for the pro- School, Kanpur Road motion of her show ‘Qurban Campus, has been offered Hua’, said she loves ‘malai paan’, admission with a scholar- one of the specialities of ship of US$ 1,50,000 by Lucknow. She said she has the prestigious Knox been to the city several times University, USA, for pur- and is in love with the cuisine. suing higher studies there. “I have heard of Tunday The scholarship has been offered to him for the kebabs and various non-vege- entire study period of four years. Thus, yet tarian delicacies which the city another student of CMS made it to the is famous for, but since I am a esteemed foreign university owing to his dili- vegetarian I opt for sweets and gence, aptitude and knowledge. CMS founder ‘chaat’,” she said. The actress Jagdish Gandhi congratulated Pratham on his said ‘Qurban Hua’ is an intense achievement and also praised teachers for their drama about two passionate hard work and guidance due to which students and young individuals on a achieve success. mission of their own, driven by the love and pride of their fam- P * ily. “This is the first time that we Children’s Academy organised a two-day have tried to show the culture camp based on ‘The Jungle Book’ by Rudyard of the hills and the entire Kipling. The events were aimed at personality shooting was carried out in the are two completely different father’s name as she’s con- development and confidence building of stu- areas of Rishikesh and persons hailing from starkly vinced he had no role to play dents besides instilling in them co-operation Haridwar,” she said. different backgrounds and cul- in the death of Neel’s sister,” skills, team spirit and leadership qualities. The Talking about the narrative tures. They tie the knot with- said Sonali. Regarding her own programme began on Thursday in which S of the show, she said she played out a trace of love that forms character Saraswati, who is Batra spoke about the benefits of camping. the character of Saraswati, who the foundation of any marriage. the sister of the male protago- Neetu Jain shared different ways of tying knots. is an intellectual girl and lives So, this confluence is bound to nist, Sonali said she is an intel- The students as wolf cubs with their masters with her father and brother, come with its fair share of tur- ligent and smart girl full of life. took lesson on different camping techniques, both of whom have a different bulence. While the hero is “A good Samaritan of sorts, she including making camp beds, lairs and light- perception of life. “The story is burning with the fire of revenge believes that it is not the peo- ing fire. On Friday, there was an interaction set in the picture-perfect town for his sister’s death, the female ple but their situations that lead with students on signalling, wildlife and first- of Devprayag while the protag- protagonist is single-minded- them to demonstrate bad aid. Thereafter, the students started decorated onists — Neel and Chahat — ly determined to clear her behaviour,” she added. and built their tents. !! "#$"%"% / 29 .1 2 5 7 % * 4 4 R !) % COVID19 and have gone back ! %! # ! to their homes from the quar- ver 100 Indians stranded #! ;Wuhan # $ % persons were brought under Ghulam Nabi Azad had decid- $& #56 could heave a sigh of relief as community surveillance in 34 eeved at the Modi ed to skip the President's ban- the Centre on Monday said an " $ States/UTs through the PGovernment's move to not quet in protest over the party's affairs department, said in a Air Force flight to the crisis-hit Integrated Diseases allow its top leaders, including top leaders not being extend- series of tweets. Chinese city is being planned ' ! %% E9 Surveillance Programme party chief Sonia Gandhi, to ed an invitation. s the US President He asked if any other vis- for February 26 for bringing the $ 9E G ! ;: (IDSP) network," said the meet with the visiting US pres- Chowdhury said the Modi ADonald Trump began his iting foreign head of state has evacuees back on February 27. .G $ ! Minister. ident Donald Trump, as has Government has done away ambitious two-day visit to ever praised a country, its Union Health Minister Dr '! A revised travel advisory been the tradition, the with the tradition of allowing India on Monday, the BJP national heroes, heritage, cul- Harsh Vardhan, who under- on travel to Singapore has been Opposition Congress has the principal opposition party described "Namaste Trump", ture, music and leader so took a review of the ongoing ! % ! issued on February 22. decided to give the official to hold discussions with the an event at Ahmedabad on profusely. coronavirus (COVID19) man- % &$ ' Regarding movement banquet hosted by President visiting US President, unlike in the line of 'Howdy Modi', a "This day will be written agement across the country #! 2'# EE across Kartarpur border in Ram Nath Kovind in honour of the past when such meetings "master stroke" of public in the golden letters in the his- with senior officials of the Punjab, it was informed that the visiting dignitary a com- were arranged. "I will not diplomacy between the two tory of India, thanks to the Ministry, said he has been in discussion with the Home pletely miss. attend the banquet hosted by countries. Gujarat Capital . visionary leadership of PM informed about the flight by outbreak of coronavirus there. Ministry, Health Ministry and On Monday, news came in the President on February 25. Trump has said that the On day one of the visit, Narendra Modi," he said. the Ministry of External Affairs At present, the screening of Health Secretary, Punjab, spe- about former Prime minister It is a protest on my behalf," he US and India will seal major 'Namaste Trump' was held at The US president was Ministry. passengers is being done in all cial screening has been Manmohan Singh too not said. trade pacts during his visit Motera Stadium in driven from airport to The Health Ministry quot- 21 airports, 12 major and 65 strengthened across the bor- attending the banquet hosted He said the Government which is exclusively focused Ahmedabad to welcome Sabarmati Ashram and later ed Vardhan as saying this. non-major seaports and border der and further necessary by President Ram Nath Kovind has not extended an invite to on India. Trump is to seek re- Trump who was given a rous- to the stadium as people India's national carrier Air crossings. facilitation for masks to be in honour of the US President Congress president Sonia election as President later this ing ovation by a capacity lined-up on both sides of the India has already evacuated In all 4,214 flights and worn by pilgrims is being ini- on Tuesday. Gandhi. "We do not feel good year. crowd of over one lakh. 22-km-long route to cheer around 640 Indians from 4,48,449 passengers have been tiated. Singh had earlier accepted about the change in tradition A high-powered delega- Trump and Prime both the leaders. Describing Wuhan in two separate flights. screened so far while as of now, At present, in addition to the invite but expressed his by the Modi Government, tion is accompanying the US Minister Narendra Modi also Modi as a "tremendously suc- According to estimates, over 2,707 samples have been test- screening of passengers from inability to attend the same. He when the principal opposition President with an eye on addressed the audience in the cessful leader" of the Indian 100 Indians are still living in ed of which only 3 samples had flights coming from China, has conveyed his regret to the party leaders are ignored dur- extracting a favourable trade stadium, the largest cricket republic, Trump, in his speech Wuhan. earlier tested positive (Kerala) Hong Kong, Thailand, President's office for not being ing such key visits. In the past, deal and reduction in tariff by stadium in the world . in the stadium , referred to A sizeable number of and all the three patients have Singapore, Japan and South able to attend the banquet, we ensured the principal oppo- India on American exports . "Namaste Trump is a the BJP leader's "landslide countries have evacuated their been discharged from the hos- Korea, entry screening has sources close to Singh said. sition party leaders meet the " Modi is a tough negotiator.", masterstroke of public diplo- victory like no other in the citizens from China and pitals and are now in home iso- been extended to flights com- Earlier, Congress leader in visiting dignitaries, including said the US President while macy between India and US," largest democratic election restricted movement of people lation. ing from Vietnam, Nepal, Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan US President George Bush or making his speech at the Vijay Chauthaiwale, who ever held anywhere on the and goods to and from the "All Indian evacuees from Indonesia and Malaysia with Chowdhury and Leader of Barack Obama," he said. 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The members of the Al Trivendra Singh Rawat by the all support to the NHAI for Mohand on the outskirts of #5 / % The searches were con- India by procuring illegal arms In Karnataka, NIA carried Hind module conducted meet- National Highway Authority the construction of the ele- Dehradun is proposed as part ?! ducted in connection with in furtherance of the terror out- out searches at 15 locations in ings at Bengaluru and other of India Chairman SS Sandhu. vated highway, Rawat said. of the project, the NHAI ! %#! .! Chennai Q Branch Case, ISIS fit's agenda. During searches at Bengaluru city and Kolar dis- parts of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu Congratulating the people At present, the distance chairman said. Noting that $% # # Khaja Moideen Module case the houses of the 10 accused, 16 trict in connection with inves- and propagated ISIS ideology, of the State after his meeting between Dehradun and Delhi parts of the proposed highway $ ! and ISIS-Al Hind Module SIM cards and 2 internet don- tigation of ISIS AL Hind procured arms and ammuni- with Sandhu, the Chief is around 250 kms. falls under the jurisdiction of !!# B C ! Case. gles besides documents and Module Case at the houses of tion and other incriminating Minister said the construction Work on the highway, forest and wildlife depart- ! %! #%! ' ! The Q branch case relates books have been seized, the arrested and absconding material for executing their of the highway will boost which will reduce travel time ment of neighbouring Uttar #! # # to 10 Bengaluru-based accused NIA said. accused and office of AL-Hind plans The seized items will be tourism and prove to be a between the two cities to two Pardesh, Sandhu asked the $5 persons who allegedly con- The ISIS Khaja Moideen Trust. During searches, a num- submitted before the jurisdic- milestone in its economic and a half hours, will begin Chief Minister to request the spired with ISIS/ Daish mem- Module Case, originally regis- ber of digital devices including tional NIA Special Courts at development. It will reduce soon, Sandhu said at the UP Government for speedy , + ber Khaja Moideen, native of tered by Special Cell of Delhi nine mobile phones, five SIM Chennai and Bengaluru and the distance between meeting with Rawat. forest and environment clear- 5 * * Parangipettai, Cuddalore dis- Police, was re-registered by cards, one Laptop, two Hard the digital devices subjected to Dehradun and the national Construction of an ele- ances so that work on the pro- #5 10 BC % trict, with the intention of car- NIA on January 30 this year Discs, four CDs/DVDs, 18 cyber forensic examination, capital to 180 kms and the vated road on the route ject could be expedited. & 8# rying out unlawful activities against arrested accused Abdul Books, one auto rickshaw, fire the NIA added. State Government will extend besides a new tunnel near ! %! 1 $'% % #$ ! % 1 $ B! C ! $$%! 1 ! ! ??0" 3 & ! 3! .3 %% $ & % 5 & P 3 ( ! EA9D & $%% 0P 1 + #5 " 0! in the absence of Aadhaar / ! >!) &#$ ' $F 7 card. 1# ! ' * ! he Centre on Monday Gonsalves also claimed retaries and representatives of ! $! preserved for a period of one Tdenied allegations of a star- that as many as three crore the selected Central Ministries &#$ 1# !5 year - a rule of the Conduct of vation death in Jharkhand and ration cards of poor people he Supreme Court on he Comptroller and and departments. *# ! wo NGOs alleged in the Election Rules. "We do arbitrary cancellation of near- have been cancelled by author- TMonday refused to entertain TAuditor General (CAG) on The Ministries included ! $ E.! TSupreme Court on Monday not look into it at the moment," ly three crore ration cards of ities across the country and a a plea seeking framing of guide- Monday held a brainstorming environment, forest and cli- % G#!) that the Election Commission the bench, also comprising poor people across the country 13-year-old girl had died of lines to ensure an expeditious session with representatives of mate change, jal shakti, earth J*#! ! 1 (EC) has violated election rules justices BR Gavai and Surya in the Supreme Court, assert- starvation in Jharkhand after grant of sanction to prosecute as many as seven Ministries to sciences, new and renewable %!J #! 9: by destroying the VVPAT Kant, said. ing that it was ready to prove she was denied ration on the accused in serious offences seek suggestions from the exec- energy, science and technolo- # $! # (voter verifiable paper audit Appearing for the NGOs, them wrong. account of non-matching of like the sedition case against for- utive on areas that could be gy, food processing industries, % 1 *# ! trail) data of last year's Lok lawyer Prashant Bhushan said "Let it be put on affidavit. Aadhaar details with her ration mer JNU Students' Union pres- selected for audit. and food and consumer affairs. B1* C & '!5 Sabha polls before the conclu- the "shocking fact" had I will respond and show all card. ident Kanhaiya Kumar. A Bench This would help in under- The meeting was intended sion of the statutory one-year emerged in an RTI response these are wrong. It is all incor- The attorney general sub- of Chief Justice SA Bobde, jus- standing their concerns and to focus on development, tech- period. and they would file an appli- rect statistics," Attorney mitted that the Centre would tices BR Gavai and Surya Kant would also supplement the nology and climate-related ,+ The NGOs - Association cation in this regard. General KK Venugopal told a file a comprehensive affidavit said such an order could be risk-assessment exercise being issues. #5 ! for Democratic Reforms The bench had earlier bench comprising Chief Justice on the issue and was waiting for passed only in a specific case and undertaken by the CAG in the "We are keen on this inter- $ (ADR) and Common Cause - issued notice to the poll panel SA Bobde and justices BR replies of state governments directions of generic nature course of finalising the annu- action... Activities undertaken 0.> ' #! - referred to the response on the PIL seeking a probe into Gavai and Surya Kant. which failed to file the same in could not be issued. "The law al plan of audit activities. by scientific and environmen- > 1! 1! % % received through an RTI appli- alleged discrepancies between The attorney general had compliance of notices issued to should be followed in a partic- The meeting, chaired by tal ministries are critical to the 5;: % 1 cation from the EC and alleged the voter turnout figure and the to intervene when senior advo- them on December 9, 2019. ular case," the bench told lawyer Deputy Comptroller and national objective of broad- & 1 ' before a bench headed by Chief number of votes counted in 347 cate Colin Gonsalves, appear- He said the Centre would col- Shashank Deo Sudhi, who was Auditor General Anita based economic growth and $! 5 1&1 ! Justice SA Bobde that the constituencies during the 2019 ing in a PIL, alleged starvation late the responses of states and appearing for former BJP MLA Pattanayak, sought more effec- balanced development across 9D59 % #! VVPAT data was needed to be Lok Sabha polls. deaths following denial of food file a response. Nand Kishor Garg. tive audit exercise from the sec- all sectors. 0.> 5 E59 % # 0 > & G ,"% %' - "

3 farmers from the West Bengal, "States which have of validating the biometric paid in three equal cash trans- about 10 lakh farmers have achieved 90 percent or more identity with a beneficiary's fers of 2000 - one every four %& "& " " year since its launch, the already self-registered for the saturation have been asked to bank account, have limited the months. It was launched on 24 AModi Government's ambi- scheme via the online portal of look at inter district variations number of potential payouts," February 2019, when the first tious cash-for-farmers pro- PM-Kisan. Bihar's potential is while states to do 100 percent sources added. instalment was paid. gramme 'PM KISAN' 158 lakh whereas data of only verification of 25 randomly Aadhaar linking was Stating that the cash ben- efence Minister Rajnath (Pradhan Mantri Kisan 59.7 lakh has been uploaded. selected villages in compara- optional for the first tranche efit under the scheme will not DSingh on Monday handed Samman Nidhi) has reached a Bihar has adopted a beneficia- tively low saturation districts," that covered the December only help farmers but also over to the CISF the trophy for saturation level due to some ry application based approach he said. 2018-March 2019 period. boost the state economy, Tomar the ''best marching contingent'' States' reluctance to adopt the which is delaying identification The data says, only 9 farm- For the second instalment said: "Our officials have amongst the paramilitary forces Central scheme and imple- and upload. ers registered from Adaman covering the period April- approached the state govern- and other auxiliary squads for mentation hurdles like linking According to Union and Nicobar Islands; 123 from July 2019, Aadhaar authenti- ment in this regard many times. performance during the with Aadhaar persisting. Agriculture Minister Narendra Arunachal Pradesh; 121 from cation was compulsory, except I have also written twice to the Republic Day parade this year. There could be 2.13 crore Singh Tomar, barring West Chandigarh; 21 from Dadra for north-eastern States and chief minister urging to join the An event was held in the more potential beneficiaries Bengal and Bihar, all other Nagar Haveli; 633 from Delhi; the erstwhile Jammu & scheme. South Block office of the who are left out from the States and Union Territories are 30 from Goa, 4902 from Kashmir. On the first anniver- But no reply has come yet defence ministry where CISF )! 4 & !6 &3 & ! scheme as States like West implementing the scheme Himachal Pradesh;11 from sary of launch of the from the CM." Tomar said Director General (DG) Rajesh 4) =>=> 3 , * 6 Bengal and Bihar have not which has benefited 8.45 crore Sikkim; 43 from Puducherry; Government's ambitious PM- some states like Andhra Ranjan, contingent comman- ") , adopted the scheme. farmers so far in the country, 733 from Meghalaya and 1010 Kisan scheme, Tomar on Pradesh, Bihar and Sikkim are der Deputy Commandant With the enrolment of 9.74 against the target of 14 crore from Tripura. Monday launched a mobile slow in authenticating their Prabh Simran Singh and other Rajpath on January 26. this is at present apart from vital crore potential beneficiaries, farmers. According to sources, app to broaden the reach of farmers' data and the central officials of the force received the sixth time that the force has infrastructure in the nuclear the new registration has On PM-Kisan portal, the Aadhaar-based enrolment and the programme that aims to government is pursuing with the trophy from Singh, an offi- won this award, the spokesper- and aerospace domain. reached a saturation level, centre has received data of cash transfers, slow internet provide annually 6,000 to them seriously. cial spokesperson said. son said. The CISF DG congratulat- sources said and pointed out total 9.74 crore farmers. The connections in many rural each eligible farmer. About 85 per cent of the The CISF contingent is With a strength of nearly ed Contingent Commander that the scheme intended to minister also launched PM- centres, and messy land records Under PM-KISAN, the farmers data registered under identified by its distinct yellow- 1.70 lakh personnel, the and other officers of CISF for cover 14 crore farmers. Kisan mobile App on comple- have slowed the programme. government provides income the scheme has been Aadhar coloured headgear and had Central Industrial Security their excellent performance As per the Agriculture tion of one year of the imple- "Problems in Aadhaar support of 6000 a year to verified, the rest will be com- 148-members when they Force (CISF) is a Central para- and bringing laurels to the Ministry's data, of the 68 lakh mentation of the scheme. authentication, or the process farmers with a valid enrolment, pleted soon, he added. marched this time at the military that secures 61 airports organization. !! "#$"%"% - R N : O& ?!6 ) 0! "#$ O))+0? ?? Ahmedabad: Using Bollywood to strike While the 1975 multi-starrer ‘Sholay’, ! ! a chord with movie-loving Indians, US labelled a ‘curry western’ by many, is an President Donald Trump on Monday action-adventure film that has stood the hailed the ‘genius’ of the Hindi film indus- test of time, the 1995 Shah Rukh Khan- try and recalled two all-time favourites, Kajol-led ‘DDLJ’ is an out and out Ahmedabad: India embraces free- “India is a country that proud- “India gives hope to all of ‘Sholay’ and ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ romance. dom, liberty, individual rights and ly embraces freedom, liberty, indi- humanity. In just 70 years, India (DDLJ). ‘Sholay’ director Ramesh Sippy said the rule of law, and is admired vidual rights, the rule of law, and become an economic giant, the Addressing the 'Namaste Trump' he was delighted that Trump included the around the globe as people of dif- the dignity of every human being. largest democracy ever to exist and event at the Motera Stadium here, the US film as a creative piece from India in his ferent religions worship side by side “Your nation has always been one of the most amazing asians president said people ‘take great joy’ in speech. “I feel overwhelmed, humbled in harmony, US President Donald admired around the earth as the anywhere in the world,” Trump watching Bollywood films and under- that the US president felt this way. I am Trump said on Monday, lauding the place where millions upon millions said. standing Indian culture through them. delighted that 'Sholay' is included in his country's accomplishments dur- of Hindus and Muslims, Sikhs and The potential for India is “This is the country that produces speech as a creative piece from India. I am ing his maiden State visit here. Jains, Buddhists, Christians, and absolutely incredible, he said while nearly 2,000 movies a year from the hub thankful to him for having mentioned He noted that India has an Jews worship side by side in har- noting that India's rise as a pros- of genius and creativity known as 'Sholay' after 45 years of the film,” Sippy incredible potential and Prime mony,” he said while addressing a perous and independent nation is Bollywood,” he told the gathering of about told PTI. Yash Raj Films, the makers of Minister Narendra Modi is laying packed Motera stadium at the an example for every nation all over 100,000 people packed into the stadium. 'DDLJ', posted on Twitter, “DDLJ the foundations of its future. 'Namaste Trump' event here. the world and one of the out- “All over the planet people take great trumps!” This is not the first effort by Hailing India's diversity, the US “The story of the Indian nation standing achievements of the cen- joy in scenes of bhangra, music and dance, the US president to use popular culture Ahmedabad: The renovated crowd. President said its unity is an inspi- is a tale of astounding progress, a tury. It is inspiring because India romance and drama, and classic Indian to reach out to Indians. Ahead of his Motera stadium here is yet to People were pleased when ration to the world as it is known miracle of democracy, extraordi- has achieved all this as a democra- films like 'DDLJ' and 'Sholay',” Trump said, maiden visit to India, Trump shared a host its first cricket match but Trump praised Modi, remem- for its democracy, tolerance and nary diversity, and above all, strong tic, peaceful and tolerant country, referring to two of the biggest hits in video in which his face was superimposed on Monday the sprawling facil- bering his humble background peace. and noble people. he said. PTI Bollywood history. on the hit movie-character Baahubali. ity became the site of a public as a “chaiwala” (tea seller) and spectacle where US President his inspiring journey to the Donald Trump showered office of Prime Minister. encomiums on India and Though Modi and Trump's Prime Minister Narendra Modi address for 'Namaste Trump' amid a rather delirious event was scheduled to start crowd. after 1.30 pm, people from The jam-packed arena, also across Gujarat started arriving known as Sardar Patel Stadium, at the world's biggest cricket frequently broke into applause stadium since 8 am. as people displayed enthusiasm Though placards and flags for the first visit by any US were not allowed to be taken president to the home State of inside the stadium located in Modi. the Motera area, people were Trumps praise for India, seen wearing masks of Trump his denouncing of the menace and Modi. of terrorism and his try at There was a continuous Hindi during his over 25- stream of people towards the minute- long speech was well stadium since the morning as received by people and punc- parking areas for vehicles was tuated by constant clapping kept some distance away from by the nearly 1.25 lakh-strong the stadium. 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Govindbhai Patel and & enhance the glory of the monu- ble and red sandstones, and up the 22-km-long roadshow eight members of his village in ment,” ASI Agra Circle renowned for its intricate inlay #7"5 /& 0! route US President Donald Sabarkantha district, around Superintending Archaeologist work on the stone surface. Asked %! "#$ ! Trump and his wife Melania 70 km from here, reached P Vasant Swarnkar said. The ASI if the chandelier above the graves % ! ! took to reach Motera stadium Ahmedabad early morning and official said the world heritage had also been refurbished, he ! $ N) for the 'Namaste Trump' event. stood in a queue along the Ahmedabad: A lot of eye- site was also getting ready to wel- said: “Yes, we did refurbish it.” B$ %C &' Many people, including Sabarmati riverfront and wait- brows were raised on Twitter come Trump just like Agra was Taj Mahal, considered one of 5 $! 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Separate stages for and his wife sitting in the mention of Mahatma Gandhi. takes a couple of days,” Swarnkar Obama was scheduled to visit the !#5 Many were left disap- Authorities had earlier said each state were erected at reg- Cadillac armoured limousine, In the book, Trump wrote, told PTI. “After the treatment, it monument during his India L" ! 0 pointed after being refused over one lakh people were ular distance on the route. called The Beast. “To my great friend Prime is cleaned with distilled water. It visit. It is said he could not do so ! ! # entry to the Motera stadium for expected to line up along the Wearing traditional cos- From the Ashram the Minister Naredra Modi, thank was done in the last few due to security reasons. ! #% M "#$ want of passes. But they took roadshow route. tumes, artistes from different convoy then proceeded to you for this wonderful visit.” days.”Asked if the special treat- In 2000, President Bill ) solace in standing along the Artistes from almost all states performed on these 30- Motera stadium. PTI Trump, who reached ment was being given after a long Clinton and his daughter Chelsea Ahmedabad on Monday for the time, he said such works were Clinton had paid a visit to the first leg of his India tour, visit- carried out regularly and its famed monument. ed the Ashram along with wife date was due in coming In all, the Taj Mahal covers (& & & !O 6 P Melania minutes after he land- time.“But, we preponed the an area of 60 bighas and the tered here. After noticing no mud-pack dates keeping in view rain gradually sloped from south mention of Mahatma Gandhi the visit of the US president,” the to north towards the Yamuna in said. When asked if the Beast in the message by Trump, neti- official said. the form of descending terraces. will be used to ferry Trump zens took to Twitter, compar- Swarnkar said the Taj Mahal The monument has some s the city awaits the arrival from the air force station, he ing his note with that of former would be closed to visitors in the wonderful specimens of poly- Aof US President Donald did not divulge details and US President Barack Obama. second half of the day, adding the chrome inlay art both in the inte- Trump for his maiden visit to only said,”There is excitement When Obama visited the tickets would be issued till 11.30 rior and exterior on the dados, Taj Mahal, many residents are about it in people, but let’s wait”. Mani Bhavan - where Gandhi am and it will be cleared of vis- on cenotaphs and on the marble eager to catch a glimpse of ‘the The US Presidential lim- used to stay while in Mumbai itors by noon.According to Agra jhajjhari (jali-screen) around Beast’ — the luxurious ousine, nicknamed the ‘Beast’ - in south Mumbai in 2010, his District Magistrate Prabhu N them, according to the ASI. armoured vehicle of the is based on a Cadillac. It has an note in the visitors' book read: American president. The US 8-inch thick body armour plat- “I am filled with hope and Presidential limousine is ing and bulletproof windows inspiration as I have the priv- expected to be part of Trump’s which insulate the President ilege to view this testament to convoy. However, district from all sorts of threats. Gandhi's life. He is a hero not authorities have kept the details Ever since the assassination just to India but to the world.” on the ‘Beast’ under tight of President John F Kennedy Five years later, in January wraps. who was riding an open top 2015, after visiting the Raj Days ahead of Trump’s Lincoln Continental, the Ghat in Delhi, Obama wrote, visit, a nearly 50-year-old iron United States has pulled out all “What Dr Martin Luther King bridge, which falls on the 13- stops to make every succeeding Jr said then remains true today. km route designated for the presidential vehicle virtually The spirit of Gandhi is very convoy from Kheria Air Force impenetrable. The armoured much alive in India today. And station to Oberoi Amarvilas, luxury vehicle’s doors weigh it remains a great gift to the had caused some hiccups for similar to those on a Boeing- world. May we always live in the district administration, as 757 aircraft. People of Agra are the spirit of love and peace- only ‘light vehicles’ were per- ! ) (& , excited about the visit of Trump among all people and nations.” mitted to cross the bridge. and also curious to see his Congress leader Manish “That restriction on the cerns were “discussed thread- railway tracks, while two flanks ing of members from district ultra-luxe ‘Beast’.“I had seen it Tewari posted an image of bridge for use by only light bare” and there is “no issue” on on either side (up and down administration, MEA, CISF, on TV when President Obama Trump's remarks in the vehicles was kept as a precau- any part, he said. sides) are under the PWD, NSG and US Secret Service had had visited India in 2015. It cre- Ashram visitors' book, saying tionary measure six months Another senior official officials said.Trump, his fami- discussed all concerns thread- ated so much flutter in the “This is a snapshot of the note ago. But, after the announce- said, the district administration ly and the members of the del- bare, and the route was checked crowd when it moved on that someone sent. It ostensi- ment of President Trump’s visit, was asked to check the capac- egation accompanying him, multiple times. Rajpath in Delhi during bly is @realDonaldTrumps we got the strength and capacity of the bridge, and “they had will reach the city on Monday, “So, things are fine and Republic Day celebrations. We note at Sabarmati. No mention ity of the bridge checked mul- given clearance from their side and will move to golf carts from President Trump will have a also want to catch a glimpse of of the Great Mahatma. Does he ( * !& 88 tiple times and it is fine. It has a few days ago”. there to reach the 17th centu- pleasant visit and enjoy the the Beast,” said Rahul Kumar, even know who Mohandas ) ! & a load capacity of 11.4 tonne,” The bridge in the middle is ry monument.“The advanced beauty of the Taj in the a college student who stays in Karamchand Gandhi ( , a senior official said. All con- made of iron and stands over security liaison team, consist- evening,” the senior official Tajganj area. was? PTI !! "#$"%"% .

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Trump's visit to India, the Shiv 84-year old man in the north- Conversely, on the London up on the five-acre land.” Iltija Mufti on Monday said the Trump landed at Ahmedabad about the Situation in Kashmir, Siddaramaiah, who is Sena on Monday said the 36- ern Lombardy region. Bullion Market gold surged to “Besides the mosque on the Government was busy with in Gujarat on Monday for his senior Congress leader and for- Leader of Opposition in hour-long sojourn of the US It was the third death in USD 1,689.31 per ounce --- a alternate land, the board will the visit of US President first visit to India to a grand mer Karnataka Chief Minister Karnataka Assembly, in anoth- president in the country won't Lombardy, where villages have level last seen in January 2013 also set up a cultural centre Donald Trump to India, while welcome by Prime Minister Sidddaramaiah on Monday er tweet hit out at Prime make 'an iota of difference' in been sealed off and security --- as investors snapped up the depicting Indo-Islamic archi- Delhi was ‘burning’ and 8 mil- Narendra Modi and thousands asked the BJP heading the Minister Narendra Modi on the lives of poor and middle- measures enforced to stem the precious metal as a safety mea- tecture and civilisation. The lion Kashmiris deprived of of people who lined the streets Union Government to prove the long wall built near the air- class Indians. spread of the disease. Traders’ sure amid the market turbu- names of trust members and their fundamental rights. and packed into the Motera sta- 'normalcy' by hosting US port in Ahmedabad allegedly to While leaving for India, screens were awash with red lence. other details will be announced She said the legacy of dium there to say ‘Namaste President Donald Trump's event block view of a slum, ahead of Trump has said he is going to at a later date,’’ said Farooqui. Mahatma Gandhi is remem- Trump’. in the valley. Trumps visit. It is time for discuss business with Prime The board chairman fur- bered only during visits by for- The first stop in the Trump If @BJP4India feels @realDonaldTrump to get Minister Narendra Modi, ther said that the centre would eign dignitaries to Sabarmati visit was the Sabarmati Kashmir has returned to inspired from @narendramodi. which makes it clear that his also undertake study and Ashram. Ashram, home to Mahatma Normalcy, & If @BJP4India Inspiration to build decorative trip is aimed at boosting US research in Indo-Islamic archi- ‘Hi Tea' & Namastey Gandhi between 1917 and 1930 feels that there is no govt orches- walls to hide not so decorative trade, the Sena said. tecture. He said that a charita- Trump while Delhi burns & 8 during India's freedom strug- trated violence. Now is the time life!! he tweeted. “There won't be an iota of ble hospital, public library and million Kashmiris remain gle. From Ahmedabad, the to prove the same by hosting The Opposition Congress difference in the lives of the other facilities for common deprived of fundamental rights. Trumps will travel to Agra @realDonaldTrump's event at in Gujarat had accused the poor and middle-class people people would also be set up at Gandhi ji's legacy remembered and then on to New Delhi on Kashmir, Siddaramaiah tweet- BJP—ruled civic body in in India due to Trump's visit. the centre. only at perfunctory visits to Monday evening. ed. Ahmedabadof building the 500- Then where is the question of On February 20, UP Sunni Sabarmati ashram by foreign Meanwhile, a Delhi Police Amid concerns raised by metre long wall to block view of people being appreciative or Central Waqf Board had said dignitaries. His values long head constable was killed and Opposition parties, the a slum colony. enthusiastic of his tour,” an edi- that it did not have the option forgotten,” Iltija tweeted. a deputy commissioner of Government has said efforts Refuting the allegations, torial in Sena mouthpiece to reject the alternative piece of Iltija has been tweeting police injured as clashes over have been made to restore nor- AMC officials had said the Saamana said. land given to it by the Supreme from her mother's Twitter han- the amended citizenship law malcy in Jammu & Kashmir construction of the wall, around “If there is any eagerness Court’s Ayodhya verdict but it dle after the PDP president was broke out in northeast Delhi's which faced months of restric- four feet in height, was approved about Trump's visit, it may be would decide on its use when taken into custody on August Jaffrabad and Maujpur on tions after its special status much beforeTrump's Gujarat in Ahmedabad, where he lands it meets on Monday. 5 last year following abrogation Monday, PTI under Article 370 was scrapped visit was finalised. PTI first,” the Sena said. PTI In a historic verdict on Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute in November, 3%$01456( 2019, the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya. It 170 > Minister Arvind Kejriwal urged Lt "* &0 & made arrangements to present a “live- also ruled that an alternative Governor Anil Baijal and Union Home ly Agra” to the visiting president, seek- five-acre plot be found for a 7"& 7? 1 Minister Amit Shah to restore law and F 07"/& ing to shake off the old tag of ‘city of mosque. Soon after the verdict, order in the wake of violence in parts ghosts’. “During Clinton’s visit the city there were suggestions that “Entry and exit gates of Udyog of northeast Delhi during protests for She also captured the moments in her streets were deserted due to security the Board should not accept the Bhawan, Patel Chowk, Central and against the new citizenship law. mobile phone and even gave her phone arrangements, prompting him to call it land. Based on the SC verdict, Secretariat and Janpath have also been “Very distressing news regarding to a person to get a solo picture clicked. a ‘city of ghosts’. This time the excite- the Centre had asked the UP closed. Interchange facility will be open disturbance of peace and harmony in Trump and Melenia were also ment can be felt in the air,” said Mohit government to allot five acres at Central Secretariat,” said a DMRC parts of Delhi coming in. I sincerely briefed about the history and impor- Kumar, who works at a hotel in Tajganj of land to Sunni Waqf Board. official. However, it is not clear if these urge Honble LG n Hon’ble Union tance of the monument by a guide. area. “I was very young in 2000 when The UP cabinet allotted a metro stations have been closed due to Home Minister to restore law and The US President’s visit to Agra and Clinton visited. We are very excited and land tract on February 5 and Trump’s arrival in Delhi or the CAA order and ensure that peace and har- Taj generated huge excitement among happy that another US President has gave allotment letter of the plot demonstrations. All these stations are mony is maintained. Nobody should be local residents. Some shops even dis- come to our city due to which the civic in Dhannipur village in close to ITC Maurya in Chanakyapuri allowed to orchestrate flagrations (sic),” played their own banners, welcoming amenities have been improved,” he Ayodhya’s Sohawal tehsil to where Donald Trump would be staying he tweeted. Trump to India. said. the Waqf Board earlier this tonight. “I just spoke to the L-G. He has Trump also took to Twitter to Earlier, on his arrival at the airbase, month. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police on assured that more police forces are being express his sentiments about his first over 250 artistes drawn from different Monday also appealed to the people to sent. Violence will not be tolerated by official visit to India. parts of Uttar Pradesh performed the maintain peace and not to believe in anyone. I request people to maintain “First lady and I have travelled ‘Mayur dance’, ‘Rai folk dance’, Dhobia rumours in the wake of violence in parts peace. No solution will come out of vio- 8,000 miles around the world to give a folk dance’ as sonorous sounds of of northeast Delhi during protests for lence,” Kejriwal tweeted in Hindi. message to each citizen of this country ‘bumrasia’ nagada, dholak, mridang, and against the new citizenship law. “The death of a head constable is – America loves India, America respects added to the festive ambience. Beside the Delhi Police personnel, very sad. He was also one of us. Please India, and the people of America will A giant billboard there featuring around eight companies of Central give up violence. Nobody benefits from always be true and committed friends Trump, First Lady Melania Trump and Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and two violence. All problems will be solved of the people of India,” the American Prime Minister Modi greeted the cou- companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) peacefully,” he said in another tweet. leader tweeted in Hindi. ple with a message – ‘Grand welcome have been deployed in the Northeast Baijal on Monday instructed the From the Kheria airbase here, of India’s best friend to the City of Love areas. Police Commissioner to maintain law Trump’s convoy of over 30 vehicles –Agra’. Trump was received at the “Some incidents of violence and and order in the national Capital in the drove to Oberoi Amarvilas hotel near Kheria airbase by Uttar Pradesh arson were been reported in areas of wake of violence during clashes in the Taj Mahal complex, as over 15,000 Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief North East District, particularly in the northeast Delhi. “Instructed school students who lined up on both Minister Yogi Adityanath. areas of Maujpur, Kardampuri, @DelhiPolice and @CPDelhi to ensure sides of the route held US and India “From the airport, the US Chandbagh and Dayalpur. It is appealed that law and order is maintained in flags and cheered the US president as President’s convoy travelled till the to the people of Delhi and particularly North East Delhi. The situation is his motorcade passed by. Oberoi Amarvilas hotel situated near to the North East District to maintain being closely monitored. I urge every- Massive billboards bearing greeting the East Gate of the Taj Mahal complex. peace and harmony and not to believe one to exercise restraint for maintenance messages and pictures of Trump, First From there the President and his fam- in any rumours. It is also appealed to of peace and harmony,” Baijal tweeted Lady and Modi dotted the nearly 13-km ily and members of high-level delega- the media not to circulate any disturb- Delhi Minister and Babarpur MLA convoy route as street roundabouts tion accompanying him moved into ing pictures which may further aggra- Gopal Rai also urged the people in the decked up with US and India flags sym- eco-friendly golf carts to travel into the vate the situation,” said a senior police area to maintain peace in the wake of bolised the US-India friendship. monument premises,” a senior official official adding that the Delhi Police is the clashes over the citizenship law, say- An extensive three-layered securi- said. As per Supreme Court directions, making every effort to restore normal- ing some people were purposely trying ty was in place for his Agra visit, and petrol or diesel-operated vehicles are not cy. to disturb the atmosphere. authorities had got the Taj Mahal permitted within 500 m of the Taj “Section 144 has been imposed in Incidentally, on Saturday night, a premises cleared of visitors by noon, Mahal’s gate. The architectural marvel the affected areas of North East district group of women blocked a carriageway hours ahead of Trump’s visit to the cel- inscribed into the UNESCO World and strict action will be taken against outside the Jaffrabad Metro station ebrated architectural landmark. Heritage Site in 1983 is made of white miscreants and anti social elements,” the against the CAA. Clashes broke out on The last US president to visit the the Makrana marble and red sandstones, senior police official added. Sunday evening between pro and anti- Mughal-era wonder was Bill Clinton and renowned for its intricate inlay “Ratan Lal, Head Constable was CAA groups near Jaffrabad over block- who had come to India in 2000. He had work on the stone surface. attached to the office of the Assistant ing of the road, while similar sit-ins were seen the Taj along with daughter Taj Mahal, considered one of the Commissioner of Police, Gokulpuri launched in several other parts of the Chelsea Clinton. In 1959, then US pres- seven wonders of the world, stands on and he was killed in the clashes today. national Capital including Hauz Rani. ident Dwight David Eisenhower had the bank of Yamuna, and is always high Several police personnel have been The situation escalated after BJP visited Taj along with then prime min- on the itinerary of visiting heads of state. injured in the clashes. The DCP, leader Kapil Mishra called a gathering ister Jawaharlal Nehru. In 2015, the then US President Shahdara, suffered injuries to his head on Sunday. Mishra demanded that From massive billboards bearing Barack Obama was scheduled to visit and hand. He was hospitalised and is police remove the anti-CAA protestors greeting messages to street round- the monument during his India visit. It doing fine,” said the senior police offi- within three days. Since then northeast abouts decked up with US and India is said he could not do so due to secu- cial. Delhi has been on the boil. It has also flags, Agra had waited excitedly to wel- rity reasons. It is one of the most pho- Following the clashes, Delhi Chief been witnessing spurts of violence. come President Trump and authorities tographed sites in the world.

From Page 1 said. ties between the two nations, ing in India, expanding infra- of satellites simultaneously, but He also announced that the He also touched on India’s Modi said the US is now India’s structure, will bring new pos- also is making the world record two countries will firm up cultural diversity and riches as largest trading partner and the sibilities for America. In this by doing the fastest financial defence deals worth USD 3 bil- he highlighted the success of its Indian military is involved in its era of Industry 4.0, the expan- inclusion. lion on Tuesday and that the blockbuster movies like DDLJ biggest war exercise with the sion of the digital economy in “Today the country with US will become India’s premier (Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge) US. India will create many invest- which India has the most defence partner. “US looks for- and Sholay, and its sporting Modi said Trump’s visit is ment opportunities for the US extensive research and devel- ward to providing India the icons like Sachin Tedulkar and a new chapter in the relations. as well,” Modi said. opment partnership is best and feared equipment on Virat Kohli. “A chapter that will become a Industry 4.0 has been America,” he said. the planet,” he said. He highlighted the boom new document of progress and defined as a name for the cur- Referring to military ties, “India and US have natur- in the US economy under his prosperity of the people of rent trend of automation and the Prime Minister said the two al and enduring friendship,” presidency and added that America and India,” he said. data exchange in manufactur- countries have participated in Trump said to a cheering India will soon be home to the Modi said the two coun- ing technologies. Modi also a number of bilateral military crowd. Trump said both coun- biggest middle class as it will tries also share spirit of enter- said we are inspired by a long- exercises. “We can make an tries are working on a “fantas- eliminate extreme poverty in prise and innovation, shared term vision, not just short effective contribution not only tic trade” deal, and observed next 10 years. opportunities and challenges term considerations. in the Indo-Pacific region, but that Modi is a “tough negotia- Addressing the gathering, and shared hopes and aspira- “Our bilateral relations will in the peace, progress and tor”. Modi termed the visit as a “new tions. The Prime Minister grow, our economic partner- security of the whole world,” he The US President also chapter” and said the relations also appreciated Trump ship will expand, our digital said. praised Modi, saying the Prime between the two countries are Administration’s efforts in the cooperation will increase,” he Referring to the key deci- Minister is a “living proof” of no longer just another part- field of health. said. The Indo-US ties are no sions taken by his Government what an Indian can achieve nership but a far greater and The biggest strength longer just another partnership in the recent past, Modi said with hard work as Trump closer relationship. between two people or nations but have touched far greater not only 1,500 obsolete laws referred to his humble back- Welcoming the US is trust, Modi said while quot- heights, and the Trump’s trip have been scrapped to clean up ground as a tea-seller. Modi President to “world’s biggest ing an old adage that “friend- with his family shows this, the statute books, new legisla- praised Trump’s leadership in democracy”, Modi said foun- ship is where trust is unshak- Modi said. tions have been enacted to containing terrorism. dations of new alignments, able”. The PM said today 130 empower society. Trump said as the world’s challenges, opportunities and Highlighting the achieve- crore Indians are jointly build- “Be it the rights of trans- largest economy, India gives changes are being laid. ments of the country, Modi ing a ‘new India’. “Our gender persons, making law hope to all humanity and has “India and the US relations noted that India not only has youth power is full of aspira- against (the practice of) triple become an economic giant. and cooperation will play an the world record of sending the tions. Setting big goals, achiev- talaq to respect Muslim “There is a difference between important role in deciding the maximum number of satel- ing them is becoming the hall- women, extending priority to a nation that rises by coercion course of world in the 21st cen- lites simultaneously, but also is mark of new India today,” he the disabled, giving 26 weeks of and one that rises by setting its tury. I am of the categorical making the world record by said. paid maternity leave -- many people free -- that is India. view that India and the US are doing the fastest financial Modi noted that India not such rights have been extend- India and the US have natural natural partners,” Modi said. inclusion. only has the world record of ed to various sections of soci- and enduring friendship,” he Underscoring the strong “Increasing manufactur- sending the maximum number ety,” he added. !! "#$"%"% ) 4'#! 4 '56!%$ 4"%0 56!%$6 - -!)$3- (" 0 5 R & . 2 ! / 0#! #%.' # # # * ! !#'# $% % $$! 1 ! 0 = * ! ' > P Q " *S 5 1%4+4"# ' * ! ) * ! he agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act ! (CAA), the National Population . ' Register (NPR) and related mat- ters, triggered largely by fears thatT the Union Government will deprive A *!7: $ ! millions of Muslims of their citizenship, is ' B ! ! one of the most confusing agitations that . ( / this writer has witnessed over the past five decades. The CAA has nothing to do with the Indian citizens. It only seeks to provide + * ' ) 0 citizenship to a limited number of people 6 ,)06- ! who have been persecuted in three Islamic B Republics neighbouring India. The premise on which the agitation is being carried on ' > ! is completely baseless and is indicative of * ' the extent of mischief a bunch of malcon- * tents can do when the electorate rejects their agenda. P Q > 755! ' Organisers of the agitation are calling * people to the protest sites by spreading . . P Q ' rumours that the CAA will enable the Government to snatch away their citizenship, when the fact is that the law has noth- P Q ing to do with the people of this country. ) More importantly, anyone, who reads the offence, if the law so provides, 1983, and was granted citizen- Further, unlike citizens by Citizenship Act, 1955, (the entire Act and but their citizenship cannot be ship on April 30, 1983. Despite birth, a naturalised citizen has * P Q ( / not just the 2019 amendment to it), will snatched away from them. The being an Italian citizen in 1980, to swear allegiance to the # C D ' realise how water-tight the citizenship of Act does not provide for it. she illegally entered the elec- Constitution of India. It cannot " ! a natural-born citizen (a person born on They will take their citizenship toral rolls that year and follow- be taken for granted. Every * Indian soil) is under this Act and that in to the gallows. Such is the ing a complaint, her name was Muslim citizen, who is swayed reality, no one has the power to take it away. quality of this citizenship. ?8 /& deleted from the rolls. by the anti-CAA argument, / !!! * ' $ Section 3 of the Citizenship Act, 1955, The citizenship Act offers However, this is another story must ask himself/herself the describes citizens of India “by birth.” It says: other categories of citizenship 1 " @ 7 & for another day. But one may following questions in order to * < “Every person born in India (a) on or like citizenship by registration & 8 8 ask, how is all this relevant? know the quality of citizenship after January 26, 1950, but before July 1, (Section 5) and naturalisation These facts are pertinent he/she enjoys: Did he/she ever 1987; (b) on or after the July 1, 1987, but (Section 6). These are basical- " " .1 because unlike natural-born “apply” for citizenship like O before the commencement of the ly for foreigners who wish to /" /&" citizens, Sonia Gandhi’s citizen- Sonia Gandhi? Was he/she " * Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, settle in India and seek Indian ship is extremely vulnerable. ever asked to swear allegiance and either of whose parents is a citizen citizenship or people of Indian &> & 2 " Being a “naturalised” citizen, to the Constitution of India, ! of India at the time of his birth; (c) on or origin living abroad who want 27 7 her citizenship is subject to sev- like her? So, this is the power after the commencement of the to return to India and live as cit- eral conditions and restric- and quality of the citizenship of ' . S ' Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2003, izens in this country. There is Q/&" 7& tions. Further, if she violates 99 per cent of the citizens where (i) both his parents are citizens of another category — foreigners, any of those conditions, her cit- under the Citizenship Act, 455 ' India; or (ii) one of whose parents is a cit- who marry Indian citizens and 7 "7 >7 izenship can be cancelled. 1955, but the Congress, after its * ! izen of India and the other is not an ille- settle down in the country. " Q/ "8 72 Section 10 of the citizen- decimation in the 2019 Lok O * gal migrant at the time of his birth, shall Sonia Gandhi, the president of ship Act lists out the situations Sabha poll, wants the Muslims be a citizen of India by birth.” the Congress, is an Italian expa- 1 " @& 0 in which a citizen by registra- of India to believe that their cit- ' As can be seen, probably 99 per cent triate who moved to India after 6& *78&F tion or naturalisation can be izenship is as fragile as that of ' ) ! or more of the Indian citizens fall in this her marriage to former Prime 6& ? deprived of his/her citizenship. its party president. 'S category called “citizens by birth” and they Minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1968. It says that if the registration or This is nothing but an belong to all religions — Hindu, Muslim Under Section 5(2), Indian 00 8 27 certificate of naturalisation attempt to spread falsehood and Christian among others. Such people citizenship can be granted to a was obtained by means of and disaffection. It could even ' are also known as “natural born” citizens. person coming via the registra- 1 " @& 0 > fraud, false representation or be seen as an attempt to over- * ! They are distinct from naturalised citizens tion route. There is a similar &7 O the concealment of any mate- throw a duly elected and indeed constitute the highest class of provision under Section 6 (2) rial fact; or that citizen has Government through guile and > citizens (for example in the US, only a nat- for expatriates who apply for & 6& ? shown himself by act or speech subterfuge. Proud natural-born $ ' ural born citizen can be the President). Indian citizenship through &> "7 & to be disloyal or disaffected citizens of India — Hindus, " These citizens (this writer included) do not “naturalisation.” In both cases, 1 towards the Constitution of Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, ' ! “apply” for citizenship. They become citi- citizenship is granted, subject India as by law established; or Jains, Buddhists, Parsis and zens when they first breathe life. They do to conditions and restrictions, "7 " that citizen has, during any war Jews — must disengage them- ' " not make an oath, swearing allegiance to and only after they make the in which India may be selves from this campaign * the Constitution of India because their oath of allegiance. 17&" "/" 7 72 engaged, unlawfully traded or which is dangerous for our every breath is deemed allegiance. Their In the case of Sonia communicated with an enemy; democracy and for our consti- loyalty is taken for granted. They can give Gandhi, as per the law at that > O or that citizen has been ordi- tutional well-being. up their Indian citizenship but no power time, she could have applied for narily resident out of India for (The writer is an author & can deprive them of their citizenship. Indian citizenship five years a continuous period of seven specialising in democracy Among such citizens, those who commit after marriage but she did so years”, his/her citizenship can studies. Views expressed are . % "R rape and murder, can be hanged for the only after 15 years on April 7, be cancelled. personal.) % % " $ / ! ' 7 &6 ' ! " #% " /& ! ! B $# C %$ #. " ! .'! $% 5 ' '# % ! % '# ' ( 2 % !$ % % ' %! ! $'% % S ! $ ! 5 "! % . %#5 " # ' ! !%$ '# %! % % ! '# ! !$ ! #% 0 E5A %. ! #! %5 #% !O ! 5 ! ! $ 5 ! ! "#$5 ) +7 ! +778 67= :!= < K0' #G K & K % K& " ! S ! 8 6 & & 6 % " & $ && # 6 6' &$% ! vends will generate some 'S employment and income for ' * + ,'*+ - ! people associated with the sec- . * / 0 1 + Sir — The Kerala Government #$ 1# G#! # #% tor, the increase in liquor con- must be lauded for its ambitious $ 0 % sumption may also cause a spurt sanitation initiative as it plans to &*#!% 1 %5 %#! in crime. The sale of liquor at 234 '*+ ! set up 12,000 pairs of public toi- 0 ! ! shopping malls will also add to 35 6 / lets on highways. The lack of pub- L % # %'%% ! %%. the problem. This method of lic toilets on freeways causes %M %'' ! ! $% ! G#!. adding on to the State’s revenue 6 78 inexplicable difficulties for people, 5 # ! L %% is against public welfare. especially women and children. %! M % $% !. Yugal Kishore Sharma 95: ! 253 Most often, travellers are clueless. '% 5 ! %! G#! !O ! Faridabad There are either unmaintained !O " 297 public toilets on the way or peo- /#%% $ %! % 277 " S ple have to visit hotels and spend %%5 " # G' ! ! ! ,(*/- money on food simply because *# %% #' 0 they have to use the toilet there. L % #5M ' Sir — Rumours are rife that ) (*/ ;; The land of the Government, ' L! $ !5M " 3#. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi ' 75 ( public sector undertakings (PSUs) G#! % $ %! % $% # 3#! $ ! $. may once again take charge of the ! and cooperative institutions will #'#!! $$#% ! $%! #$$ !# party. But more than once, the be utilised for this purpose. The # #% %% ! ' ' ! ! $ ' 5 % % Congress scion has demonstrat- $ ! Government has decided to $ 5 ! '#! # # P ! ! ? % #P ed that he is unsuited to lead the 73 $ / # ,$/#- ! instruct local self-Government %#! % ! . . $ party. Leaders, too, are toeing the institutions to identify land in ## ! 5 #%$ # same line because they cannot be their areas alongside the State and &#$ 1# G#! G! L! $% % ! % %% %%! 5 seen to be publically writing him national highways. %#'5M % 0 # ? % # %! % $% # . off. But Rahul does not seem to ' The Government has fur- % *# %! $% . 5 ! ! 5 connect with the masses. If the $ ther stated that those agencies % ! !%% %5 # $ ! ! Congress cannot really look / willing to cooperate with the % 0 ! $ #!. beyond the family. why not per- project would be made partners. suade Priyanka Gandhi to step in? / * + There is also an idea to start small But who will bell the cat? 1 # + ( shops and snack parlours along maintain them properly. Other some Haryana cities, the State Srinivas + $ < ' + with these complexes, which can, State Governments can follow Government is looking to Via email in turn, give employment as well Kerala’s template. increase its revenue from liquor + S $ as boost the economy. But the M Pradyu Sir — By ordering that bars sales. While increasing liquor !! ' public will have to use them and Kannur would remain open till late in contracts and the number of !! !:;<7=7 !! "#$"%"% 9 4'#! 4 3 %"&$8/0! "& $ ($/!&6%( ( ) ,3 ( +? * + ) ( 6'") # *6 ( ) ( ( ) 3 , , " % G# G$! ! L + L+ + % # !# &1 ! * + ' ! 2 "'#% "

" !#4 4 R ! 84 # 0 ! & % % % ' " " > * ! < " ,<"- " / + # + S 6 ! <" $A ( < 357: ' 57 5/1&4 ! ! uccessive Governments have remained ) obsessed with accelerating economic growth Swithout caring about how it impacts income > ! distribution, forget any attempt to internalise this ! crucial aspect in development strategies. They believe that the fruits of growth will automati- cally percolate to the lowest strata of society. < " Nothing could be farther from the truth. This is 355: 0 < 357: P ! evident from a piece of research, Time to Care, released by rights group Oxfam ahead of the 50th ! Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum ! (WEF) held in Davos (Switzerland) from January 21-24. According to the study, India’s richest one ? & " < " Q per cent hold more than four-times the wealth 7?" 0 ! held by the 953 million people who make up the &/22 & 07 18 ! bottom 70 per cent of the country’s population. 17 1& "7 Further, the combined total wealth of 63 Indian ""/ " 0 billionaires is higher than the total Union ! 27 1" Budget of the country for the fiscal year 2018- 7 *7& " 19. ! At the global level, too, the report (for cal- 1& $ culations, it draws upon latest data sources avail- 17 B8 <" able, including the Credit Suisse Research 077" leave no stone unturned in ensuring modities. They buy products from and increasing the income earning 6 ! Institute’s Global Wealth Databook, 2019 and 7/. that their tax liability is kept at a bare farmers at a throwaway price — the capacity (for instance, availability of <" Forbes’ 2019 Billionaires List) brings out glaring "& ? minimum (for this, they retain the best minimum support price (MSP) notified credit at concessional rate of interest to inequalities in the distribution of wealth. The &1"7& &/1 talent viz. chartered accountants and by the Government remains mostly on farmers and others engaged in petty world’s 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than & "R" & other financial wizards, paying them paper as its agencies don’t have the occupations, supply of agricultural the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 per cent 00 & 277 extraordinarily high salaries). Big busi- wherewithal to procure their produce inputs such as fertilisers at subsidised 0 of the planet’s population. The 22 richest men in nesses also enjoy pricing power. For — and sell to the consumer at a high rate, free electricity to farmers and so > * ! &? 1 the world have more wealth than all the women 7&0 " "8 instance, those operating in metals such price. Irrespective of whether there is on), much of the promised help either P in Africa. The report notes, “global inequality is as copper, zinc or in hydrocarbon viz. surplus or deficit, Indian markets are does not reach or is cornered mostly by *Q , shockingly entrenched even as the number of bil- &7 7C oil and gas enjoy natural monopoly. so orchestrated that only traders emerge better-off farmers. Even those who gain + > ' . 6 - " lionaires has doubled in the last decade”. / && " Leveraging this, they charge high as the real beneficiaries at the expense from these support measures are at the $ The Governments world over are fully aware &">7 & prices, making windfall gains even as of farmers at one end and consumers receiving end when it comes to inter- ' ! of these glaring inequalities as well as their con- 1 " consumers suffer erosion in purchas- at the other. face with traders for selling their pro- $ sequences. For instance, the WEF’s annual &" ing power. This also applies to banks There is yet another class of rich duce. ! Global Risks Report (GRR) — which was thor- "7 & " who enjoy margins of three-four per who are an offshoot of corruption in Quite clearly, despite mammoth ' ! oughly discussed during the brainstorming ses- *7 "8 7 cent (difference between the average governance systems. This includes cor- sums spent on welfare of the poor or sions at Davos — observes, “inequality under- 7" &7 interest earning and the average cost of rupt bureaucrats, politicians (besides “empowering” them, income inequal- lies recent social unrest in almost every continent, funds) yielding mammoth profit. dubious businessmen) who amass ities increase even during periods of 0 ? although it may be sparked by different tipping Q/ " & Furthermore, there are companies in wealth disproportionate to their known rapid economic growth. Even when, < points such as corruption, constitutional breach- the IT (information technology) and sources of income by siphoning off growth decelerates (for instance, dur- 7: . , . ! es or the rise in prices for basic goods and ser- 17" / IT-enabled sector which use their intel- funds from welfare schemes and diver- ing the current year when it declined - vices”. It also warned, “the downward pressure on "7 /" lectual prowess to post huge profits sion of funds borrowed from public sec- to an 11-year-low of five per cent), then . / the global economy from macroeconomic fragili- & 07 " 7/" year-after-year. tor banks to personal accounts or shell also the inequalities persist as the poor . ties and financial inequality continued to inten- " ? Then, there are enterprises in the companies of which they are the ulti- lose much more than the loss experi- " sify in 2019.” 7 " chemical, petrochemicals and agro- mate beneficiaries. enced by the rich. 74555 ! They also routinely pledge to address these chemicals sectors who have hugely ben- How does the Government address The solution doesn’t lie in more ' inequalities and come out with lofty declarations ?/ "7 efitted from a protective policy environ- income inequalities? Typically, this sops, concessional credit, fiscal incen- at multilateral platforms, including those under " 0 ? ment, with high tariff on imports as well takes the form of giving relief to the tives and so on. There is need for a fun- the auspices of the United Nations to bridge the as licensing and registration require- poor by providing State assistance in damental change in the way our indus- D " gap between the rich and the poor, including by " 1 ments. These companies make money cash or kind. For instance, under the trialists do business and politicians and use of what the GRR terms as “deliberate at the expense of millions of consumers, PM-KISAN, the Government gives bureaucrats conduct themselves. While, " $ inequality-busting policies.” Yet, when it comes " 077 including farmers (for instance, they 6,000 per annum to each of the 145 the former need to shed their overzeal- to action on ground zero, there is acute lack of have to pay a high price for “new” crop million farmers in the country in three ousness for profits, charge less from $A ( < political will on the part of Governments and protection solutions for which domes- installments of 2,000 each. As for help consumers, distribute more to workers < 357: " ! other stakeholders; hence, the business as usual tic substitutes are not available). in kind, it provides Mid-Day Meals to and pay more taxes, the latter must scenario and ever-increasing inequities. The micro, small and medium schoolchildren or free medical services ensure that every rupee is spent for the ! Fundamentally, inequalities are intrinsic to enterprises (MSMEs) may not be so to Economically Weaker Sections in welfare and empowerment of the poor. ! ! the way businesses are planned and orchestrat- well positioned vis-a-vis large enterpris- hospitals. Even as the Government shuffles ed. It all starts with the Government offering a es but ape the latter when it comes to There are umpteen instances of policy choices to attune them for cre- * $ policy environment in which investors are distributing the proceeds of wealth gen- such assistance — both by the Centre ating more jobs and increase income A > offered an opportunity to earn an attractive rate eration. Their owners spend the least and States — entailing a mountain of (by promoting labour-intensive sectors * of return on investment. What that attractive rate on payment to workers thereby boost- burden on the public exchequer. All of such as textiles, apparels, food service, should be is not normally defined (though in cer- ing their retained earnings. They, too, this goes only to help millions barely hospitality and so on), unless the 0 tain sectors like power, it guarantees a minimum get tax bonanza from the Government survive even as a good slice of this is stakeholders change their mindset " return); so any level, howsoever high, can fall in a variety of ways (for instance, spe- siphoned off (the malice continues in towards the majority who are not so !! > . S within the scope of “attractiveness.” A vast cial package under composition scheme substantial measure despite the privileged, inequalities will continue to P $Q ) majority of the businesses pursue the famous of Goods and Services Tax as well as Government’s efforts to prevent it, haunt and as pointed out in the GRR, adage “profit maximisation” to the hilt. They dis- income tax). They may not find a place using the direct benefit transfer mech- even growth will remain vulnerable to , tribute their expenses in such a manner that the in the billionaires’ club but definitely anism). However, it does nothing to the deep divide between the rich and least amount is given to the labour and the bulk earn the multi-millionaire tag. augment their productive capacity and the poor. of it comes back to the owner (or promoter) as Then, there is the trader class, par- prepare them for getting jobs. Even (The writer is a New Delhi-based - “retained earnings.” The owners/promoters also ticularly entities dealing in farm com- where funds are given for empowering policy analyst) / !!"#$%&'( (('' $)A+&,- '$ '&+ &'"&$,+," & $..($', %/".,"#$/&-,!! " ( ",$(,(+ '"' -/!"& 0!++/! ',"A".'0 ..&$$.,!!'"'&1$"&(%& (+! " 2

the early 1960s but it soon re-emerged going to end malaria by 2030. all malaria burden. Several concrete Programme. funding still needed, the Central al and regional perspective because the as a major public health problem. Early Challenges ahead: In 2015, Prime steps are needed to win this fight. Creating awareness: Creating Government nearly trebled the outlay country has the highest malaria bur- setbacks in its eradication coincided Minister Narendra Modi declared the Disease mapping: We must take awareness has been one of the major for the National Vector Borne Disease den outside sub-Saharan Africa. Some with DDT shortages and in the late ’60s country’s commitment to eliminating along the private sector to ensure a col- catalysts to reduce, if not completely Control Programme (NVBDCP) over 1.26 billion Indians are at risk of malar- malaria cases in urban areas started to the disease by 2030. Soon after, in 2016, laborative surveillance method to eliminate, a disease. Advocacy, aware- the last two years. ia and the country shares its borders multiply. In the ’70s its resurgence was India introduced its National Strategic obtain malaria’s exact burden. For this ness and on-ground programmes go Ensuring adequate investment in with several nations aiming for malar- a result of technical, financial and oper- Plan for Malaria Elimination and we need to foster a healthy partnership hand in hand and the public and pri- malaria is imperative to achieving ia elimination, including Bhutan, ational problems. As a result, in 1976, took several measures to end the mal- between the private and public sector vate sector have an equal role in it. To India’s elimination goals. Bangladesh and Nepal. Sri Lanka, a whopping 6.45 million cases were ady. But the biggest challenge remains for mapping the disease in a holistic reduce the burden of malaria it is Implementing the Five Year Plan for which eliminated malaria in 2016, is ((5 0 "#%4 recorded which led to the discontin- as India’s true burden of malaria is manner. If such a mechanism for gath- important to empower communities malaria elimination shall require separated by only a small stretch of sea, uation of eradication efforts. In order unknown. To understand and map ering data is implemented and the true by educating them. An individual has 10,653.16 crore. While the with frequent air travel occurring alaria, is known as the “dis- to control the massive upsurge, the malaria cases and fatalities, India burden is identified, then India will be to first learn to recognise and then pre- Government has increased it’s fund- between the two neighbours. India also ease of poverty” as it often hits Modified Plan of Operation was solely relies on data from Government well-placed to end the disease. vent the disease. To further this effort, ing for the NVBDCP, the Central shares borders with Myanmar where Mthose who have the least launched in 1977 which brought the hospitals. This highlights a big gap in Effective partnerships: it is important that the individual Government-allocated funds for it get a drug-resistant malaria parasite has access to healthcare. Statistics show that situation under control for five-six the realities of its malaria burden when Collaboration between various stake- spread information on malaria in divided for disease control pro- been reported. Successful malaria 80 per cent of cases occur among 20 years. Malaria cases fell to 2.18 million approximately 70 per cent of urban and holders is the key to success. To cite an his/her area. This empowerment will grammes/interventions for six diseases, control in India will enhance elimina- per cent of the country’s population, in 1984 and climbed back to three mil- 63 per cent of rural households use the example, an NGO, Malaria No More, only come with education and self- malaria, dengue, chikungunya, kala- tion efforts across the region and the mostly communities living in remote lion in 1995, with substantial mortal- private sector to seek medical care. In launched a Malaria Action Coalition awareness. azar, lymphatic filariasis and Japanese world. areas. For India, malaria has been a ity reported. However, since 2000, some States malaria has been declared (MAC) in September 2019. The MAC Government’s commitments: encephalitis, creating a paucity of The challenges for the mammoth tricky foe with varying outcomes over India has reduced the number of cases a notifiable disease, this means that pri- acts as a multi-sectoral coordination Modi and the Health Minister have resources. This makes private sector task — private sector partnership, the decades. It has achieved great by more than half and the number of vate sector establishments have to platform, chaired by the malarial State echoed India’s seriousness to end contributions extremely critical to increased domestic funding, surveil- strides in curbing the disease every deaths by more than two-thirds. In the adhere to Government guidelines, of Odisha, with representation from malaria by 2030 on national and bolster the Government’s efforts but lance mechanism, impact on the vul- time the Government has increased WHO’s World Malaria Report 2019, use recommended anti-malarial drugs non-Government technical, research international platforms, including there is a lack of funding from it. nerable population — need to be intensification and on the ground India was lauded for strengthening its and report cases to the authorities. and implementation agencies as well during last year’s Commonwealth However, sustained focus and addressed. Till then there’s no room for implementation of eradication pro- fight against the disease. These con- However, it is yet to be declared a noti- as the private sector, donors, investors Heads of Government Meeting, when increased funding are crucial to boost complacency. grammes. The reverse is also true. certed efforts need to be sustained, fiable disease for many States, which and media partners to support the 52 leaders committed to halve malar- the fight against malaria. Its elimina- (The writer is Co-Founder, Smile Malaria was nearly eliminated in reinvented and amplified if we are amplifies the gap in mapping the over- National Vector Borne Disease Control ia by 2023. With more Government tion in India is important from a glob- Foundation) !! "#$"%"% ( 8 1 0 ! %% 4 , )!9: ; '!! 3.+ 1;: / 2 $ 3# % 95S % ' $! / In the broader market, avirus cases on Monday, tak- BSE midcap and smallcap ing the overall virus cases to and 50 per cent in Air India lakh crore from non-telecom and according to us there is no ndian stock benchmark indices sank up to 1.60 per 763 and making it the world’s SATS Airport Services Private PSUs such as GAIL, Oil India outstanding.” On the Rs 1.83 ISensex on Monday sank cent. Globally, equities bore largest total outside China. he government has Ltd. The last date for putting he DoT has sought Rs and PowerGrid for telecom lakh crore assessment by the nearly 807 points, the second the brunt of worsening trad- Bourses in Shanghai, Tokyo Textended the time till bids is March 17 and interest- T7,608 crore in dues from licences these firms had pri- DoT, GAIL had previously in biggest single-day fall this ing sentiment in the wake of and Hong Kong also closed March 6 for bidders to pose ed bidders for Air India should GAIL India for 2017-18 as the marily acquired for internal a regulatory filing stated that year, tracking sell-offs in glob- rising virus cases on new with significant losses. additional queries regarding have a net worth of Rs 3,500 department appeared to be communication purposes. these were unrelated to the al markets as coronavirus regions other than China. Stock exchanges in Europe sale of its 100 per cent stake in crore. After its unsuccessful not pressing for immediate For GAIL, the DoT terms and conditions of its IP- cases rose exponentially out- South Korea went on high sank in opening trade with Air India. The government has bid to sell Air India in 2018, payment of Rs 1.83 lakh crore assessed an outstanding of Rs II Licence. “Based on the legal side China. Starting off on a alert on Sunday following a Milan’s FTSE MIB plunging issued the first set of clarifi- the government this time has in past dues it had previously 1,83,076 crore towards annu- option sought in this regard weaker note, the BSE gauge sharp jump in coronavirus over 4 per cent after Italy cation on Air India disinvest- decided to offload its entire assessed from the state-owned al licence fee in respect of IP- and facts of the case, the com- plunged to a day’s low of cases, and Italy and Iran took reported its fourth death from ment answering queries of stake. In 2018, the government gas utility. The Department of II Licence. This included inter- pany is of the view, that the 40,306.36 after being caught in their own drastic contain- the virus as the number of interested bidders on the ‘con- had offered to sell its 76 per Telecommunications (DoT) ests and penalty, sources said. amount assessed in provision- a panic selling as investors ment steps. “Demand for safe- people contracting the virus fidentiality undertaking’ listed cent stake in the airline. sent a notice to GAIL soon GAIL and other non-telecom al assessment orders is legally kept fretting over reporting of haven assets spiked as fresh continued to mount. Brent out in the Preliminary Of the total debt of Rs after the February 14 hearing firms felt the October 2019 rul- not tenable,” it had said. The a large number of new virus coronavirus cases in South crude oil futures dropped over Information Memorandum 60,074 crore as of March 31, in the Supreme Court on dues ing of the Supreme Court did DoT had computed dues of cases in South Korea, Italy and Korea and Italy indicated that 4 per cent to USD 56.10 per (PIM) issued on January 27. 2019, the buyer would be owned by telecom companies not apply to them and filed non-telecom PSUs by simply Iran. business impact could be barrel. On the domestic front, The last date for submis- required to absorb Rs 23,286.5 such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone petitions seeking clarification taking all their revenues earned The 30-share index final- higher than thought earlier. investors were eyeing US sion of written queries on crore, while the rest would be Idea, sources privy to the from the apex court. On such as oil and gas operations ly settled at 40,363.23, drop- The Trump-Modi meet is not President Donald Trump’s PIM and Share Purchase transferred to Air India Assets development said. The dues February 14, the Supreme and levying licence fees. ping 806.89 points or 1.96 per providing clues to the market two-day visit to India for fur- Agreement (SPA) was origi- Holding Ltd (AIAHL), the now being sought from GAIL Court rejected telcos’ petition Sources said while the cent — the second biggest regarding trade deal but mar- ther cues on trade front. He nally set at February 11, fol- special purpose vehicle. As a include a penalty for late pay- regarding relaxation in the DoT had sought Rs 48,489 one-day fall in 2020. The ket is hoping for some hint in reached Ahmedabad earlier in lowing which the Department precursor to Air India sale, the ment, they said. payments. To non-telecom crore in past dues from Oil Sensex had plunged over 987 the future,” Vinod Nair, Head the day. of Investment and Public Cabinet in February 2019 The Supreme Court’s orig- firms, it asked to approach India on the surplus band- points on February 1 this of Research at Geojit Financial On the currency front, Asset Management (DIPAM) approved setting up AIAHL to inal ruling in October last appropriate forums for redres- width capacity it had leased to year — the day the Union Services, said. the Indian rupee was down 30 on February 21 issued a set of transfer Rs 29,464 crore worth year led the DoT to demand Rs sal of their grievance. Refusing third parties, Power Grid Corp Budget was presented. While, Further, the IMF also paise to 71.94 per US dollar. 20 clarifications on the queries loans of the national carrier 1.47 lakh crore in unpaid dues to comment on the DoT was slapped with Rs 21,953.65 the broader NSE Nifty sank warned that the deadly epi- Indian markets, which were raised. The additional time and its four subsidiaries— Air on licence fees and spectrum demand, GAIL Chairman and crore liability. Gujarat 251.45 points or 2.08 per cent demic could put an already relatively resilient till now period for submission of writ- India Air Transport Services usage charges from telecom Managing Director Manoj Jain Narmada Valley Fertilizers & to 11,829.40. fragile global economy recov- have also started pricing in the ten queries on PIM and SPA (AIATSL), Airline Allied companies such as Bharti said the Supreme Court on Chemicals faces a payout of Rs All Sensex components ery at risk. Chinese President impact of economic loss due is till March 6, 2020, the Services (AASL), Air India Airtel and Vodafone Idea. February 14 allowing the non- 15,019.97 crore. On February ended in the red, with Tata Xi Jinping on Sunday said the to the spread of coronavirus DIPAM said. Engineering Services Ltd Its demand related to a 14- telecom firms to withdraw 14, the Supreme Court had Steel cracking 6.39 per cent, coronavirus epidemic is the with a steep fall in equity mar- The government in (AIESL) and Hotel year-old dispute regarding the their petition is indicative pulled up the DoT for not followed by ONGC, Maruti, country’s “largest public kets, experts said. January restarted the divest- Corporation of India (HCI). definition of adjusted gross enough that “our case is dif- enforcing its October 24 order HDFC, Titan and ICICI Bank. health emergency”. The death Indian corporates are ment process of Air India and Also non-core assets - revenue (AGR), which the ferent” than telcos’. that gave telcos three months’ Sectorally, BSE metal index toll from the deadly virus expected to witness a disrup- invited bids for selling 100 per painting and artefacts - as well Supreme Court agreed should “We are working on what time to pay dues. Hours later, tumbled nearly 6 per cent, climbed to 2,592 in China on tion in supply chain as the cent of its equity in the state- as other non-operational include all kinds of income appropriate forum should we the DoT sent notices to auto 3.39 per cent and telecom Monday. Seoul stocks ended manufacturing activities in owned airline, including Air assets of the national generated by the telcos. go to for an appeal against the Airtel and Vodafone Idea ask- 3.33 per cent. All sectoral in deep red after South Korea China slows down consider- India’s 100 per cent share- carrier too will be transferred Alongside, the DoT also DoT order,” he said. “We have ing them to clear dues indices closed in the red. reported 161 more coron- ably, they added. holding in AI Express Limited to the SPV. raised a demand of over Rs 3 already paid whatever was due immediately.

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93.55 88.15 92.80 OFSS 2800.00 2847.00 2764.00 2791.60 BAJFINANCE 4840.00 4876.00 4751.20 4816.00 -64.45 INFY 798.00 811.20 792.30 795.25 GRASIM 751.50 751.55 721.85 724.80 SANOFI 7322.00 7468.85 7044.85 7080.00 TCIEXP 910.00 919.00 891.00 891.45 HINDUNILVR 2236.80 2262.00 2210.10 2217.00 -31.25 MFSL 550.00 609.40 549.45 592.25 AVANTI 554.00 570.00 532.60 547.40 SWANENERGY 124.20 143.90 121.80 138.00 GET&D 138.50 138.85 135.20 136.20 BPCL 471.00 475.70 463.00 465.00 -6.75 JYOTHYLAB 133.00 133.55 130.60 130.95 SUNTV 485.00 485.00 465.65 468.95 JAICORPLTD 97.25 98.85 95.20 95.45 ITDCEM 59.00 59.00 55.50 55.50 SBIN 325.75 331.30 321.85 322.80 -4.85 MUTHOOTFIN 907.90 945.00 893.55 934.55 ATUL 5202.30 5261.05 4942.90 4992.65 AMBER 1644.00 1644.00 1537.20 1551.75 CUB 222.80 224.00 220.30 220.30 UPL 586.95 590.75 570.10 575.00 -9.35 ICICIBANK 541.00 541.00 527.70 529.55 PAGEIND 23054.50 23357.60 22950.00 23032.55 APLAPOLLO 2097.00 2144.70 2021.55 2045.25 MMTC 19.30 19.60 18.90 19.00 LT 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836.65 UPL 590.00 590.80 570.80 573.15 GODFRYPHLP 1336.45 1336.45 1263.20 1274.55 BLUESTARCO 841.60 852.00 822.85 826.50 M&M 522.00 522.00 511.10 514.15 -10.70 INDUSINDBK 1174.00 1189.50 1149.75 1170.55 WESTLIFE 477.00 490.05 466.30 482.45 ARVINDFASN 380.00 380.00 358.20 366.00 JBCHEPHARM 533.00 537.70 524.90 537.00 ITC 207.00 207.45 201.80 203.15 -4.30 ONGC 102.90 102.90 97.30 98.00 TORNTPHARM 2233.00 2237.35 2161.20 2175.50 SUNTECK 381.95 388.75 370.85 377.10 SOLARINDS 1220.00 1250.15 1190.00 1190.00 TCS 2156.00 2178.95 2106.70 2112.00 -44.80 AXISBANK 739.90 739.90 723.15 725.80 NTPC 111.30 111.30 108.85 109.75 PNBHOUSING 415.00 416.40 404.00 405.85 PHOENIXLTD 865.00 874.60 857.15 863.40 ADANIPORTS 367.65 371.40 361.50 362.30 -8.55 ITC 207.50 207.85 201.75 203.00 GODREJIND 420.85 423.00 417.75 422.00 BAYERCROP 4262.40 4550.00 4260.35 4467.55 MPHASIS 900.10 903.65 885.00 886.65 BAJAJFINSV 9680.00 9680.00 9448.30 9475.00 -234.70 INFRATEL 248.70 248.70 207.40 215.80 BHEL 34.70 34.75 33.75 33.95 RELINFRA 23.95 23.95 22.50 22.80 VSTIND 4304.30 4369.15 4225.05 4225.05 DRREDDY 3257.00 3257.00 3166.35 3175.00 -80.30 RBLBANK 307.75 307.75 298.35 301.65 DIVISLAB 2168.95 2182.80 2152.00 2158.00 TORNTPOWER 319.25 319.25 309.00 309.80 CARBORUNIV 347.75 347.75 340.20 344.00 AXISBANK 737.95 738.40 723.00 725.50 -18.80 ADANIGAS 189.40 192.90 163.00 164.45 DIXON 4300.00 4300.00 4077.00 4118.40 CROMPTON 288.00 298.90 283.00 285.00 SOUTHBANK 9.70 9.70 9.57 9.58 INOXWIND 37.05 38.70 37.00 37.25 ZEEL 257.00 257.30 248.15 250.20 -6.60 HDFCAMC 3370.00 3390.50 3261.75 3281.40 HEXAWARE 365.00 365.60 360.00 364.10 JKCEMENT 1465.00 1499.00 1457.55 1491.45 NESCO 725.90 743.95 718.25 731.75 HERITGFOOD 352.05 370.10 351.00 351.00 HEROMOTOCO2220.00 2220.00 2175.00 2181.95 -58.30 DMART 2457.00 2457.00 2370.10 2388.35 MOTILALOFS 839.00 839.00 775.65 777.00 SIEMENS 1429.90 1429.90 1368.25 1371.50 ORIENTBANK 41.80 41.80 40.40 40.45 VRLLOG 242.00 244.40 235.00 235.00 HCLTECH 608.00 609.00 591.50 592.15 -15.90 DLF 219.00 219.00 211.25 212.20 IDFCFIRSTB 40.05 40.15 39.15 39.25 IRB 100.00 100.00 92.60 93.35 COROMANDEL 600.05 627.25 600.05 623.70 MOIL 136.10 136.25 133.05 133.95 RELIANCE 1469.75 1477.00 1439.55 1447.10 -38.85 BIOCON 305.00 323.30 303.20 314.15 TIINDIA 510.00 562.90 510.00 544.90 JCHAC 2959.00 2961.00 2683.20 2825.00 GSKCONS 9615.25 9720.40 9525.00 9569.70 MRPL 40.65 41.55 40.50 40.70 GMRINFRA 25.95 26.55 24.30 25.45 GODREJPROP 1110.00 1131.00 1099.65 1099.65 EXIDEIND 180.00 180.00 173.00 173.90 AEGISLOG 248.20 259.40 238.35 240.20 MAHSCOOTER 4714.80 4737.25 4611.50 4612.70 HDFC 2355.00 2365.20 2280.10 2303.85 -65.65 BHARTIARTL 543.90 543.90 527.05 529.80 DEEPAKNI 483.50 489.75 465.15 469.10 BDL 281.00 304.15 281.00 289.10 PERSISTENT 711.80 734.00 711.80 724.65 JSLHISAR 72.05 73.00 69.25 70.50 BAJAJ-AUTO 3077.00 3084.65 2970.05 2978.00 -87.50 ASHOKLEY 83.50 86.20 82.60 84.95 BATAINDIA 1790.90 1806.20 1753.45 1759.45 WHIRLPOOL 2271.00 2275.85 2231.50 2252.90 NIACL 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723.55 -27.75 BRITANNIA 3065.00 3067.00 3008.05 3037.30 M&MFIN 383.00 383.00 362.60 369.15 SHILPAMED 474.00 490.70 474.00 490.70 ITI 83.90 83.90 81.00 81.50 PRSMJOHNSN 66.40 66.40 60.15 60.60 MARUTI 6710.00 6710.00 6439.80 6475.00 -282.60 HINDUNILVR 2249.70 2262.15 2210.80 2216.00 RPOWER 1.87 1.92 1.80 1.83 GUJGAS 287.45 287.45 282.00 285.10 JSWENERGY 63.20 63.40 62.25 63.15 TVSSRICHAK 1592.00 1669.25 1548.50 1560.00 INFRATEL 242.00 242.00 207.50 216.40 -9.80 STAR 511.00 511.00 490.00 494.15 IGL 462.80 464.80 451.70 452.00 CHAMBLFERT 151.85 153.55 148.90 149.00 EMAMILTD 270.00 271.55 263.90 269.60 SKFINDIA 1966.80 1991.55 1952.90 1972.00 EICHERMOT 18700.00 18700.00 17800.10 17995.00 -853.65 NCC 41.65 43.40 40.50 41.35 WIPRO 245.00 247.70 242.50 243.75 LTTS 1750.00 1775.00 1701.15 1710.00 BIRLACORPN 725.00 749.00 671.00 721.55 THERMAX 979.95 980.50 964.60 970.25 ONGC 102.50 102.50 97.20 97.85 -4.95 NAM-INDIA 436.65 440.30 423.00 426.00 NAUKRI 2850.00 2852.00 2695.00 2711.00 MEGH 58.80 60.25 58.05 58.05 IDBI 34.80 34.80 34.05 34.50 LAXMIMACH 3261.00 3261.00 3200.00 3200.00 TATAMOTORS 154.00 155.90 149.60 150.60 -7.90 MANAPPURAM 175.00 181.20 172.55 175.85 RADICO 429.00 433.40 416.10 419.00 RVNL 23.75 23.75 22.85 22.85 AKZOINDIA 2401.00 2403.05 2341.35 2351.95 VARROC 408.10 408.10 390.30 398.70 HINDALCO 186.90 186.90 177.90 179.40 -10.55 MIDHANI 228.60 241.75 226.35 229.65 HEIDELBERG 198.50 201.70 195.50 201.50 CHOLAFIN 332.00 332.00 322.10 324.00 BAJAJELEC 402.40 416.15 401.05 413.80 JISLJALEQS 6.50 6.50 6.10 6.20 TATASTEEL 434.85 434.85 413.35 415.70 -27.85 MGL 1118.00 1132.60 1095.80 1101.80 NAVINFLUOR 1290.00 1290.00 1184.10 1225.00 INFIBEAM 59.70 59.70 57.45 57.45 ASTRAZEN 2865.00 2865.00 2739.50 2754.75 TTKPRESTIG 6000.00 6000.00 5791.50 5812.55 VEDL 139.85 139.95 132.30 133.15 -9.20 WOCKPHARMA 359.00 359.00 337.10 339.05 SHREECEM 24290.00 24600.00 23695.70 23750.00 APLLTD 658.40 658.40 644.00 651.00 VMART 2430.00 2545.00 2430.00 2438.00 ALBK 14.05 14.20 13.80 13.90 JSWSTEEL 277.95 277.95 256.00 261.10 -20.70 HINDALCO 189.00 189.00 178.00 179.40 PCJEWELLER 17.60 18.75 17.15 17.85 EIDPARRY 202.25 204.05 198.00 200.00 JAMNAAUTO 39.50 39.50 38.20 38.95 CENTRUM 19.25 19.35 18.95 18.95 SRTRANSFIN 1348.00 1366.90 1315.50 1344.45 ADANIGREEN 192.00 192.00 185.25 185.85 ABCAPITAL 89.90 89.90 86.60 86.80 PRESTIGE 358.20 365.00 347.00 353.20 TEJASNET 67.25 67.25 63.65 64.15 BAJAJFINSV 9666.00 9675.00 9450.00 9466.60 BERGEPAINT 575.00 575.55 564.65 569.60 SCI 54.95 55.20 52.20 52.60 HFCL 16.95 17.00 16.85 16.95 IFBIND 516.00 523.35 501.50 503.70 BANKBARODA 81.70 82.10 79.70 79.95 ICICIPRULI 493.00 500.65 484.00 484.05 JINDALSAW 88.70 89.00 85.30 85.75 LEMONTREE 62.30 63.70 61.05 63.20 GPPL 77.75 80.20 77.05 77.75 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE IRCON 570.00 586.80 558.30 565.45 KANSAINER 507.00 518.35 499.80 507.10 TIMKEN 1035.00 1040.00 1010.20 1017.00 ECLERX 621.50 632.20 615.60 621.00 NIFTY NEXT 50 28478.80 28599.25 28011.10 28074.80 -595.00 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323.50 303.30 312.30 -2.75 TATAGLOBAL 379.50 379.80 368.00 369.35 LALPATHLAB 1614.15 1647.20 1592.20 1638.55 JSL 41.10 41.85 40.25 40.50 TCNSBRANDS 584.00 587.20 558.55 560.35 PETRONET 266.50 270.45 264.00 265.00 -2.50 KOTAKBANK 1683.00 1683.00 1663.55 1678.70 KEC 345.00 348.75 338.55 343.00 GODREJAGRO 525.40 534.40 517.30 532.50 GEPIL 784.50 787.35 750.00 750.00 DABUR 503.55 513.40 498.50 501.00 -5.15 HDFCLIFE 572.95 578.45 556.00 560.80 JMFINANCIL 121.70 122.00 113.60 114.10 TV18BRDCST 26.65 26.65 25.60 25.70 GALAXYSURF 1711.00 1711.00 1612.00 1621.55 INDOSTAR 281.55 282.75 280.15 280.15 ACC 1419.90 1438.00 1401.00 1409.00 -14.45 COALINDIA 179.30 179.30 173.45 174.65 ADANIPOWER 57.25 57.65 55.85 55.90 CAPPL 351.80 351.80 305.35 317.05 TATAINVEST 902.50 924.00 902.50 909.25 GMDCLTD 58.00 58.10 56.50 56.60 PIDILITIND 1576.00 1583.95 1551.50 1557.80 -17.50 NESTLEIND 16500.00 16549.00 16305.45 16340.10 INOXLEISUR 483.00 509.35 476.00 495.25 FCONSUMER 20.75 20.80 18.55 18.85 IDFC 35.50 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'64&#&$88%64#6" 9 # 5 1 < + / B&7/" >7C The start of the new K- league football season, sched- he deadly coronavirus epi- uled for this weekend, was 2 Tdemic spread further out- also postponed on Monday. side China on Monday with a At the main high-speed surge of infections in South train station in Daegu, a nor- Korea making it the biggest mally bustling city of 2.5 mil- % hotspot abroad, while author- lion people, just a small trick- ities in Europe and the Middle le of commuters were seen. East battled worsening out- A long line of cabs waited breaks. for passengers outside the sta- % The number of fatalities in tion, and the streets were eeri- China also continued to soar, ly still, with masks and gloves with 150 more confirmed standard for the few out and * consecutive day, indicating deaths taking the official death about. stabilisation of the virus sit- toll to nearly 2,600. In Italy, where more than hina has partially eased uation in China. A rising number of new 150 people have been infected Crestrictions in coron- Sunday saw 1,846 people cases and deaths in other parts and three have died, several avirus-hit Wuhan, permit- walk out of hospital after of the world have deepened Serie A football games were ting people who are recovery, much higher than fears about a potential pan- postponed while the Venice infected with the virus or the number of the same day’s demic, with South Korea, Italy Carnival was cut short and stranded to leave for the first new confirmed infections and Iran emerging over the some runway shows were can- time after a month as the which was 409, state-run past week on the frontlines. celled at Milan Fashion Week. death toll climbed to 2,592 Xinhua news agency report- Bahrain and Kuwait also More than 50,000 people in while the number of con- ed. announced on Monday their about a dozen northern Italian firmed cases increased to A total of 24,734 patients first cases of the virus, as towns have been told to stay more than 77,000, officials infected with the coronavirus authorities in the Middle East home, and police set up check- said Monday. have been discharged from sought to clamp down on peo- points to enforce a blockade. People who are not quar- hospital after recovery by the ple travelling and spreading the In Iran, authorities ordered antined and seeking special end of Sunday, the NHC said. disease following eight deaths the closure of schools, univer- treatment or stranded in Meanwhile, the China- in Iran. sities and cultural centres Wuhan can leave in batches, World Health Organisation South Korea has seen a across 14 provinces following according to the local author- (WHO) joint expert team rapid surge in infections since eight deaths — the most out- ity in Wuhan, the city of 11 visited Hubei Province, epi- a cluster emerged from a reli- side East Asia. million, which is the epicen- centre of the ‘COVID-19’ gious sect in the southern city The outbreak in the Islamic tre of the virus. outbreak over the weekend to of Daegu last week. Republic surfaced on China locked down the conduct field investigations, Another 161 infections and Wednesday last week and ( ! 1 &!!& 1 6 (, ( city on January 23, followed the NHC said. two more deaths were report- quickly grew to 43 confirmed by the entire Hubei province The experts visited Tongji ed in South Korea on Monday, infections, prompting neigh- tories in China closed or sub- speeding up elsewhere,” said effects around the world. of the People’s Republic in with over 50 million people. Hospital, the Wuhan Sports bringing the total cases to bouring countries to close their dued due to quarantines, and Charles Gillams, at RJMG Only about 30 percent of 1949. “This is a crisis for us and Wuhan is the provincial cap- Centre that was converted more than 700 people - the borders. Nearly 30 people out- global travel choked. Asset Management. China’s small- and medium- it is a big test,” Xi said in com- ital of Hubei. into a temporary hospital, most outside China. side of China have been con- Stock markets in Asia fell The International sized enterprises have resumed ments reported by state televi- Over 18 cities from the and the provincial centre for South Korean President firmed to have died after con- on Monday following the surge Monetary Fund warned work, an official said Monday. sion. Officials are expected to province have been sealed in disease control and preven- Moon Jae-in over the weekend tracting the virus. Nearly 30 in infections in South Korea Sunday that the epidemic was Chinese President Xi decide Monday whether to the lockdown. tion to learn about the epi- raised the country’s virus alert countries have reported infec- and weekend developments putting a “fragile” global eco- Jinping acknowledged Sunday postpone China’s annual par- No residents were demic prevention and control to the highest “red” level, as tions. The virus is taking an across Europe and the Middle nomic recovery at risk. that the virus had become the liament meeting for the first allowed to leave the city since as well as medical treatment, kindergarten and school holi- increasingly heavy toll on the East. “While the coronavirus is G20 financial chiefs also country’s “largest public health time since the Cultural then, including several hun- it said. days were extended nationally. global economy, with many fac- probably slowing in China, it is voiced concern about its ripple emergency” since the founding Revolution in the 1960s. dred foreigners, mainly stu- They also talked to the dents. officials and experts in the India has evacuated 647 province and briefed NHC Indians and seven Maldivians director Ma Xiaowei on their ! 1 % % 0 by operating two special findings and suggestions, it flights. India is awaiting per- said. mission to airlift over 100 President Xi Jinping more. presided over a high-level !% # % - A number of countries meeting of officials on have evacuated their nation- Sunday to review the progress * after the two countries were departments of the two coun- als. Pakistan, which has over of his government’s efforts to locked in a verbal spat over the tries are keeping communica- * said on Monday. unprecedented move. 1,000 nationals stuck contain the virus. hina on Monday said delay for the special flight from tion and coordination in this Meanwhile, the China- The CPC considers the there, is yet to respond pos- He warned that China’s CIndian and Chinese offi- India to bring the stranded regard. There is no such thing n an unprecedented move, World Health Organisation two sessions as a significant itively to their pleas to evac- coronavirus epidemic is still cials were in “communication” Indians home. as China deliberately delaying IChina on Monday postponed (WHO) joint expert team vis- political events to adopt its uate them. “grim and complex” and over the delay in grant of per- The plane is carrying med- granting flight permission,” it the annual session of ited Hubei Province, epicentre national agenda, including the Meanwhile, the death toll called for more mission to India’s special flight ical supplies to China for relief said. Parliament from March 5 due of the ‘COVID-19’ outbreak annual budgets and formulate climbed to 2,592 with 150 efforts to tackle the country’s carrying medical supplies to operations to Wuhan as well as Meanwhile, over 100 to the coronavirus outbreak, over the weekend to conduct new laws. new fatalities while the total “largest public health emer- Wuhan and to evacuate over to evacuate remaining Indians. Indians stuck in China’s central state media reported as the field investigations, health offi- Chinse analysts said the number of confirmed cases gency”. 100 Indians stuck in the city Indian officials earlier said Hubei province have been anx- country grapples with the cials said. postponement of the two ses- increased to over 77,000, President Xi, who attend- worst affected by the novel the flight was delayed as it had iously waiting for the arrival of deadly virus that has claimed Every year, the NPC and sions is very unusual in the health officials said on ed a meeting here to double coronavirus outbreak that has not received permissions from the special flight from India to over 2,500 lives and infected the top advisory body Chinese history of the Party, which has Monday. efforts in coordinating the claimed over 2,500 lives. the Chinese government. evacuate them. more than 77,000 people. People’s Political Consultative not been seen since the coun- The country’s National prevention and control of India has announced its Chinese Foreign Ministry The Indian embassy in The ruling Communist Conference (CPPCC), which try’s reform and opening-up, Health Commission (NHC) the COVID-19 outbreak, plan to send Indian Air Force’s spokesman Geng Shuang in his Beijing has informed them Party of China (CPC) show- together have over 5,000 mem- state run Global Times report- said it received reports of 409 said the epidemic “has biggest plane C-17 online media briefing last that the delay is due to lack of cases its political clout in the bers in their ranks, meet dur- ed. new confirmed cases of the the fastest transmission, Globemaster with medical sup- Friday denied any delay but did clearance from the Chinese annual Parliament session. ing March to approve the gov- It’s also unknown when the novel coronavirus infection widest range of plies to China and to evacuate not provide any reason for government for the plane. India The country’s top legisla- ernment’s annual agenda two sessions will be resched- and 150 deaths from 31 infection and has been the remaining Indians numbering China not granting the has operated two Air India spe- ture, the Standing Committee including the budget. uled as it depends on how the provincial-level regions on most difficult to prevent and over 100 from China’s coron- required permission for the cial flights to Wuhan, the of the National People’s But the coronavirus out- epidemic prevention and con- Sunday. control”. avirus-hit Hubei province. flight go to Wuhan. provincial capital of Hubei, Congress (NPC), met here break continues to be a major trol work evolves, especially The overall confirmed “This is a crisis for us and It has also offered to evac- On Sunday, the Chinese the epicentre of the COVID-19 and approved a draft decision concern. when there has been no inflec- cases on the Chinese main- it is a big test,” he said. uate nationals from the neigh- embassy in New Delhi said early this month and evacuat- on postponing the NPC’s The NPC and CPPCC tion point of the epidemic in land has reached 77,150 with The meeting, in the form bouring countries, depending “Chinese side always attaches ed 647 Indians and seven annual session due to coron- together constitute the biggest sight yet, Zhuang Deshui, a total of 2,592 fatalities by of tele-conference, was on the space availability. great importance to the health Maldivians. The death toll in avirus, China Global political event in China. deputy director of the Research the end of Sunday, the NHC presided over by Chinese “Competent authorities of and safety of Indian nationals China’s novel coronavirus has Television Network TV Though Chinese officials Centre for Government said. Premier Li Keqiang. the two countries have main- in China, and provided assis- gone up to 2,592 while the reported. claim that the intensity of the Integrity-Building at Peking Hubei province and its Xi acknowledged that the tained communication and tance and convenience for the number of confirmed cases The third annual session epidemic is coming down, the University, told the paper. provincial capital Wuhan, the epidemic will “inevitably have coordination on this matter,” return of Indian citizens”. increased to more than 77,000, of the 13th NPC, one of ruling CPC is averse to expose The proposal to delay the ground zero of the virus, a large impact on the econo- Chinese Foreign Ministry said “The current epidemic sit- officials said on Monday. China’s biggest political events, thousands of its top cadre to the sessions indicates that the cen- continued to bear the brunt my and society” but the in reply to question from PTI uation in Hubei province is Hubei province and its was originally planned to open virus which has not been tral government puts epidem- with 149 death while one effects will be “short-term” over the delay in granting the complicated, and the preven- provincial capital Wuhan, the on March 5 in Beijing. brought under control. ic prevention and control work person died in Hainan and controllable. clearance for the plane. tion and control of COVID-19 ground zero of the virus, con- The death toll climbed to The postponement of the as its top priority, showing its Province, it said. “The epidemic situation The brief reply did not say has entered into a critical stage. tinued to bear the brunt with 2,592 with 150 new fatalities NPC, which is often viewed as highly responsible stance not The NHC also highlight- remains grim and complex, when the flight will be cleared. We are carefully assessing 149 death while one person while the total number of a rubber-stamp parliament for only to the Chinese people but ed that recovered coronavirus and it is now a most crucial The Chinese Foreign ground situation, as prevention died in Hainan Province, it confirmed cases increased to its routine approval of the CPC also to the world, Zhuang told patients have outnumbered moment to curb the spread,” Ministry’s fresh statement came work requires. Competent said. over 77,000, health officials proposals, is regarded as an the daily earlier. new infections for the sixth Xi added. %% Q* R#+, <2 1 $ # # ' + * + * month barring residents from rocketed with the new restric- store did not have the staff to leaving their neighbourhoods tions, with supermarkets and handle smaller orders. ost small businesses in China are yet he lockdown of Guo Jing’s are the most restrictive yet — neighbourhood committees Another supermarket told + 1&0/&" 7 B " 8C The stock market in Milan was down Mto reopen and are struggling with sup- Tneighbourhood in Wuhan and for some, threaten their scrambling to fill orders. AFP it capped its daily delivery more than 4.0 percent on Monday morn- ply chain obstructions after the new coro- — the city at the heart of livelihoods. Most group-buying ser- load to 1,000 orders per day. taly reported Monday its fourth death ing in a broad-based sell-off. navirus epidemic triggered a national shut- China’s new coronavirus epi- “I still don’t know where to vices operate through Chinese “Hiring staff is difficult,” Ifrom the new coronavirus, an 84-year Most of the cases in Italy are in down, officials said on Monday. demic — came suddenly and buy things once we’ve finished messaging app WeChat, which said Wang Xiuwen, who works old man in the northern Lombardy Lombardy, a prosperous region in the Authorities extended January’s Lunar without warning. eating what we have at home,” has ad-hoc chat groups for at the store’s logistics division, region, as the number of people con- country’s north, and can be traced back New Year holiday and ordered the closure Unable to go out, the 29- said Pan Hongsheng, who lives meat, vegetables, milk — even adding that they are wary tracting the virus continued to mount. to a 38-year-old man whom authorities of schools, factories and railways to try and year-old is now sealed inside with his wife and two children. “hot dry noodles”, a famous about hiring too many out- It was the third death in Lombardy, have called “patient one”. halt the spread of the outbreak, which has her compound where she has Some neighbourhoods Wuhan dish. siders for fear of infection. where villages have been put in lockdown Investigators are reconstructing killed more than 2,500 people. to depend on online group- have organised group-buying More sophisticated shops Closing off communities and security measures enforced in a bid minute by minute the man’s movements Some industries have since resumed buying services to get food. services, where supermarkets and compounds have their has split the city into silos, with to stem the spread of the disease, the over the past few weeks — where he slept, operations but only around three in 10 small “Living for at least anoth- deliver orders in bulk. own mini-app inside WeChat, different neighbourhoods region’s health department said. ate, walked — in a bid to trace everyone and medium-sized enterprises were back to er month isn’t an issue,” Guo But in Pan’s community, where residents can choose rolling out controls of varying Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has he could have come into contact with. work, industry ministry spokesman Tian told AFP, explaining that she “no one cares”. packages priced by weight intensity. said that residents could face weeks of “We had the most unfortunate situ- Yulong said Monday. Ongoing transport dis- had her own stash of pickled “The three-year-old does- before orders are sent in bulk In some compounds, resi- lockdown in an effort to sit out the virus. ation possible; the outbreak of an epi- ruptions make it hard for workers to travel vegetables and salted eggs. n’t even have any milk powder to grocery stores. dents have easier access to The president of the Lombardy region demic in a hospital,” infectious disease and has prevented the shipment of raw mate- But what scares her most is left,” Pan told AFP, adding that In Guo’s neighbourhood, food — albeit a smaller selec- Attilo Fontana said 165 people had now expert Massimo Galli told the Corriere rials, he added. Officials pledged finance and the lack of control — first, the he has been unable to send for instance, a 6.5-kilogramme tion than normal — and one tested positive in the region, the worst- della Sera daily. “Unfortunately, in these aid for smaller enterprises on Monday, entire city was sealed off, and medicine to his in-laws — (14.3-pound) set of five veg- woman said her family pays hit zone in Italy. The country now has the cases, a hospital can turn into a fright- including preferential tax treatment for then residents were limited to both in their eighties — as they etables, including potatoes and delivery drivers to run grocery most confirmed cases in Europe. ening amplifier of contagion,” he said. transport, catering and tourism businesses. exiting their compound once live in a different area. baby cabbage, costs 50 yuan errands. “The number is still rising, but we are The 38-year old had not travelled to Key industries dominated by larger every three days. “I feel like a refugee.” ($7.11). Her compound has not sure that the measures taken will prevent China and doctors failed to treat him with firms appeared to be in stronger shape. Now even that has been The “closed management “You have no way to been sealed off either, the 24- it spreading further,” Fontana said. the necessary precautions. Cong Liang, an official at China’s top taken away. of neighbourhoods is bound to choose what you like to eat,” year-old told AFP under con- Eleven towns — 10 in Lombardy and The man initially believed to have economic planning agency, said the steel Guo is among some 11 bring some inconvenience to Guo said. “You cannot have dition of anonymity, though one in neighbouring Veneto — are under given him the virus after returning from industry was operating at nearly 70 percent million residents in Wuhan, a the lives of the people”, Qian personal preferences anymore.” they are limited to one person lockdown, with some 50,000 residents Shanghai later tested negative. capacity while rail freight had almost city in central Hubei province Yuankun, vice secretary of The group-buying model is leaving at a time. prohibited from leaving. “We still do not know who brought returned to normal. that has been under effective Hubei’s Communist Party also more difficult for smaller Some districts have imple- Regional authorities have ordered the coronavirus to Codogno,” Galli said, Small and medium-sized businesses quarantine since January 23 as committee, said at a press brief- communities to adopt, as mented their own rules, such as gathering spots, such as bars, restaurants referring to another small town. account for around 60 per cent of China’s Chinese authorities race to ing last week. supermarkets have minimum prohibiting supermarkets from and discos to close. The spread of the Fontana urged residents to stay calm economy, and the crucial sector is reeling contain the epidemic. Authorities on Monday order requirements for delivery. selling to individuals, forcing virus has disrupted high profile events and stop panic buying, saying “rushing to from the impact of the global public health Since then, its people have allowed healthy non-residents “To be honest, there’s noth- neighbourhoods to buy in bulk including Milan Fashion Week and the stock up on food doesn’t make any crisis. At least six in 10 small firms risked faced a number of tightening of the city to leave if they never ing we can do,” said Yang Nan, or not at all. Venice Carnival while Serie A football sense. There are enough supplies”. running out of cash to cover regular pay- controls over daily life as the had contact with patients, but manager of Lao Cun Zhang “In the neighbourhood matches have been postponed. Operas Schools have been closed as a pre- ments in the next two months, the Economic death toll from the virus restrictions remained on those supermarket, which requires a where I live, the reality is real- have also had to be cancelled at Milan’s caution in Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont, Daily state media outlet reported last week, swelled to over 2,500 in China who live in Wuhan. minimum of 30 orders. ly terrible,” said David Dai, who famed La Scala. Churches are being kept Emilia Romagna and Friuli Venezia citing a survey by a national representative alone. Demand for group-buy- “We only have four cars,” is based on the outskirts of open but all masses have been cancelled. Giulia. body for small business. But the new rules this ing food delivery services has she said, explaining that the Wuhan. !! "#$"%"% ( 8 4 5

-8800 / + >7> Low is wanted by several Singapore’s request to flag Low’s year’s election as a civilian pre- governments for his alleged travels. mier under a new military- hailand’s government mastermind role in plundering Countries receiving flagged scripted constitution which + / /0/ over how to respond to a finan- Tthreatened legal action on billions of dollars from individuals would typically critics say tilted victory to his cial crisis. Monday against a banned Malaysia’s sovereign wealth inform requesting governments party. alaysian Prime Minister Anwar was arrested and opposition party which claimed fund 1MDB. about the fugitive’s where- Future Forward has been a MMahathir Mohamad thrown in jail after being con- Prime Minister Prayut Chan- A Thai government abouts, executing an extradi- thorn on the conservative resigned on Monday in a move victed of sodomy and corrup- O-Cha aided in the cover-up of spokeswoman hit back Monday tion process. establishment’s side since it analysts said appeared to be an tion in a case critics said was Malaysia’s 1MDB graft scandal at Pannika, saying her accusa- But Pannika claimed that scooped up 6.3 million votes. effort to form a new coalition trumped up, but he emerged by harbouring a fugitive tions were “not true”. Thailand’s immigration records The party’s radical anti- and block the succession of from prison to unify a ragtag financier. “This accusation ... con- showed Low passing through military agenda appealed to leader-in-waiting Anwar political opposition into a The stridently anti-military fuses the public,” Narumon the country five times from mostly to millennials or those Ibrahim. potent force against the long- Future Forward Party, the third Pinyosinwat said on Twitter. 2016 to 2018. weary of the conservative roy- The shock move followed ruling government. largest in parliament, was dis- “Concerned ministries are con- She also said two of his alist army’s central role in Thai weekend political drama that Tensions had risen in the solved Friday by a court and its sidering legal action and ... will associates — Tang Keng Chee society. saw an attempt by Anwar’s Pact of Hope coalition after key members banned from hold a formal presser.” and Jasmine Loo — had irreg- But the party was undone rivals within his own “Pact of Mahathir refused to fix a date politics for a decade. Walking to government ularities in their records, and by a $6 million loan from Hope” coalition — which to hand power to Anwar. On Sunday Future house on Monday morning, ex- she accused Prayut’s govern- its billionaire founder, which stormed to a historic election The government’s popu- Forward’s spokeswoman general-turned-premier Prayut ment of “obstructing interna- breached the limit on victory in 2018 — and opposi- larity had also been falling Pannika Wanich held a public appeared jovial when asked tional justice”. party donations from an indi- tion politicians to form a new pm (0500 GMT). won’t have the numbers”. and they lost a string of local conference and accused Prayut about Pannika’s accusations. The gruff former army vidual. government. Shortly before, Mahathir’s Mahathir’s party may now polls, as they faced accusations of allowing fugitive financier “The ministries are inves- chief masterminded a coup Dissolution of the Future That coalition would Bersatu party announced it join hands with the United of failing to protect the coun- Low Taek Jho — commonly tigating and if it’s not true, they against the government in Forward Party came ahead of reportedly have excluded was leaving the ruling coalition Malays National Organisation try’s ethnic Malay Muslim known as Jho Low — and his can sue,” he told reporters. 2014, and was head of a junta a censure debate beginning in Anwar, Mahathir’s presumptive and 11 lawmakers resigned (UMNO) — the lynchpin of majority and not moving fast associates to pass through Since 2016, a “red notice” regime until 2019. parliament Monday against successor and a former oppo- from Anwar’s party, leaving the the forming ruling coalition, enough on reforms. Thailand. was issued by Interpol at He was voted in during last Prayut. sition icon who was jailed for Pact of Hope in tatters and and party of scandal-tainted ex- Their opponents also years on questionable sodomy fuelling speculation efforts leader Najib Razak — and argued the party was becoming charges, blocking his ascent to could be under way to form a other groups to try to form a dominated by ethnic Chinese the premiership. new alliance. government, he said. politicians. 5 Anwar and Mahathir — Anwar was due to see the Anwar had teamed up with Race is a highly sensitive the world’s oldest leader, aged king Monday, with speculation former nemesis Mahathir issue in Malaysia, which is 94 — have a notoriously stormy mounting that he would try to ahead of the 2018 elections to about 60 per cent Muslim but relationship but joined forces to convince him that he had the oust the government of Najib, also home to substantial ethnic oust a corruption-plagued gov- backing of enough MPs to who had become embroiled in Chinese and Indian minorities. = . ernment at the 2018 polls. form a government. the massive 1MDB graft scan- Many were angry, howev- Mahathir, who previously While his role is largely dal, and they led their alliance er, that the democratically served as premier from 1981 to ceremonial, the monarch to victory against a coalition elected government, which + 77 These names were redacted pressure Julian Assange into say- instead and became internation- 2003, had made a pre-election approves the appointment of that had ruled Malaysia for six came to power partly on a by the Western newspapers with ing things that would be al fugitive by breaching his UK pledge to hand power to Anwar the prime minister, who must decades. pledge to push through much- ritain on Monday starts hear- which WikiLeaks initially favourable to President Trump bail conditions in 2012. but has repeatedly refused to fix have the backing of most MPs The pair’s difficult rela- needed reforms, could be Bing Washington’s extradition worked. himself,” Assange’s defence team Yet his campaigning contin- a date. The weekend push to in parliament. tionship has dominated replaced without an election. request for WikiLeaks founder But a falling out with their coordinator Baltasar Garzon said ued in full. form a new government “If he has the majority Malaysia’s political landscape The people “will not agree Julian Assange in a test case of editors prompted Assange to on Thursday. Assange struck a deal with appeared to have fizzled out by then Anwar is the next prime for over two decades. to or cooperate with any ‘back- media freedoms in the digital age release hundreds of thousands of “When Julian Assange Russia’s state broadcaster RT in early Monday, but then minister,” Azmi Hassan, polit- As finance minister and a door’ government formed out and the limits of US justice. files in their original form. refused, he was charged and an 2012 and began airing Skype Mahathir’s office made the ical analyst with University powerful UMNO figure in the of the selfish, self-preservation A ruling against Assange in The US Justice Department extradition request was issued interviews with anti-Western fig- surprise announcement that Technology Malaysia, told AFP. 1990s, Anwar had been tipped agenda of certain MPs”, said a the case could see the 48-year-old said last May that the “human alongside an international arrest ures such as Hezbollah chief he had “sent a resignation let- But he added that “with as Mahathir’s successor for the statement from a group of Australian jailed for 175 years if resources” compromised by warrant.” The White House called Hassan Nasrallah that further ter as prime minister of Bersatu out of (the ruling coali- premiership, but his boss leading activists and acade- convicted on all 17 US Espionage Assange “included local Afghans the allegation “another never- infuriated Washington. Malaysia” to the king at 1:00 tion)... most probably Anwar sacked him after they fell out mics. Act charges and one count of and Iraqis, journalists, religious ending hoax and total lie” but a A political realignment in computer hacking he faces. Each leaders, human rights advocates, judge agreed to add it to the case Ecuador toward the United States stems from his site’s release in and political dissidents from file. saw Assange fall out of favour and 11 ! 2010 of a trove of classified State repressive regimes”. Assange is additionally shad- begin losing his embassy privi- 3 $ Department and Pentagon files His supporters argue that owed by a rape allegation and a leges in 2018. detailing the realities of the US Assange’s prosecution was polit- sexual assault claim that stem The last protections were lift- campaigns in Afghanistan and ical — and personal — from the from his 2010 visit to Sweden. ed last April and Assange was & Iraq. start. He denied everything and dragged kicking and screaming 5/ One video from 2007 “For the sake of press free- called the case a legal pretext for out of the embassy and locked up 0 & misappropriation of company showed an Apache helicopter dom, Julian Assange must be Sweden to extradite him to the in a high-security prison next to assets. He faces up to ten years attack in which US soldiers defended,” the Committee to United States. London’s Woolwich Crown e could have been presi- in prison and a 1 million euro gunned down two Reuters Protect Journalists said in Assange agreed to attend Court where the case will be Hdent of France. Instead, fine. His wife, Penelope Fillon, ;8 reporters and nine Iraqi civilians December. The case was inject- hearings into the charges in heard in two sessions this week former Prime Minister has been charged mostly as an in broad daylight in Baghdad. ed with still more intrigue when London and his legal battles and in May. Francois Fillon is going on accomplice. 87> The jury of seven men The files also disclosed the the defence claimed US President crossed borders yet again. The sex charges no longer trial to face fraud charges after A former lawmaker, Marc and five women took five days secret identities of diplomats Donald Trump promised to issue A UK court ruled in apply because of the statute of he used public funds to richly Joulaud, also goes on trial for arvey Weinstein was con- to find him guilty. and government agents in hos- a pardon if Assange denied February 2011 that Assange limitations and Swedish investi- pay his wife and children for misuse of public funds after he Hvicted Monday at his sex- The case against the once- tile environments — as well as Russia leaked the emails of his could be extradited back to gators’ inability to question work they allegedly never per- allegedly gave her a fake job as ual assault trial, sealing his feared producer was essential- locals who risked their lives by 2016 election rival’s campaign. Sweden to stand trial. Assange about what a top pros- formed. an aide from 2002 to 2007, dizzying fall from powerful ly built on three allegations: cooperating with the United “In August 2017, Donald He secured political asylum ecutor lamented in November The trial beginning while her husband was prime Hollywood studio boss to that he raped an aspiring States. Trump’s administration tried to in Ecuador’s London embassy remained a “credible” claim. Monday is scheduled to last minister. archvillain of the #MeToo actress in a New York City hotel until March 11, but it may be Fillon and Joulaud both movement. room in 2013, that he forcibly quickly suspended until had other parliamentary assis- He was found guilty of performed oral sex on Haleyi &#! %% Wednesday on request from tants. criminal sex act for assaulting and that he raped and forcibly " 02 Fillon’s defence team out of sol- In addition, charges also production assistant Mimi performed oral sex on idarity with a lawyers’ strike cover a contract that allowed Haleyi at his apartment in “Sopranos” actress Annabella against French President Penelope Fillon to earn 135,000 2006 and third-degree rape of Sciorra in her apartment in the % $$ ! Emmanuel Macron’s contro- euros in 2012-2013 as a con- a woman in 2013. The jury mid-1990s. versial pension reform. sultant for a literary magazine found him not guilty on the Three additional women + 8 local Saudis. The move under- Fillon is suspected of hav- owned by a friend of her hus- most serious charge, predato- who said they, too, were scores the limits of a recent ing given jobs as parliamentary band — also an alleged fake ry sexual assault, that could attacked by Weinstein also tes- fficial calls to arrest a Western-style liberalisation aides, involving no sustained job. have resulted in a life sentence. tified as part of an effort by OSaudi female rapper who drive in a society steeped in work, to his wife and two of The magazine owner, Marc The verdict followed weeks prosecutors to show a pattern appeared in a music video conservatism. The statement their children from 1998 to de Lacharriere, pled guilty and of often harrowing and excru- of brutish behavior on his part. have sparked an online back- sparked indignation on social 2013. Altogether, the aide was given a suspended eight- ciatingly graphic testimony The Associated Press does lash with many calling the media, with many tweeting work brought the family more month prison sentence and from a string of accusers who not typically identify people move hypocritical as the king- their support under the hash- "" B &" >C gifts to different constituents. than 1 million euros (USD 1.08 fined 375,000 euros in 2018. told of rapes, forced oral sex, who say they are victims of sex dom invites Western women to tag “Mecca girl represents me”. The Trump plan has been the million). Fillon said last month on groping, masturbation, lewd crimes unless they grant per- perform. In the video, the “I am from Mecca & the ith Israel’s prime minis- centerpiece of that strategy. Once the front-runner in France 2 television that his propositions and that’s- mission, as Haleyi and Sciorra young rapper from Mecca, only thing I find offensive is Wter eager to court the The plan, announced at the the 2017 presidential election, wife’s job was not fake. “She was Hollywood excuses from did. who identifies herself as Asayel your racism, misogyny and votes of the country’s influen- White House in late January Fillon, 65, has denied wrong- my first and most important Weinstein about how the cast- Jurors signaled their strug- Slay, praises what she describes your war on a young woman & tial West Bank settlers, with much fanfare, sides with doing. aide,” he said. “Evidence will be ing couch works. gles with the Sciorra charges as bold women in Islam’s holi- her artistic expression of her President Donald Trump’s Israel on most of the Israeli- The scandal, which made produced during the trial.” The conviction was seen as four days into deliberations. On est city. culture & her people,” said one Mideast plan seemed to be the Palestinian conflict’s main headline in the French media In a 151-page document a long-overdue reckoning for Friday, after reviewing sec- Wearing a headscarf and Twitter user. key to ramping up their sup- sticking points. Beyond grant- just three months before the seen by The Associated Press Weinstein after years of whis- tions of her testimony and sunglasses, she describes the “This is so typical for the port ahead of critical elections ing Israel sovereignty over large 2017 vote, crushed the conser- ordering the case to trial, inves- pers about his behavior turned related evidence, they sent a women as “sugar candy” in the #Saudi government — bring next week. parts of the occupied West vative candidate’s campaign tigative judges said the probe into a torrent of accusations in note to the judge indicating song titled “Mecca Girl”. Western influencers to art- The plan envisions Israel’s Bank, it falls far short of the and allowed centrist candidate showed that Penelope Fillon’s 2017 that destroyed his career they were deadlocked on the But Mecca governor wash the regimes crimes but eventual annexation of its Palestinian dream of an inde- Macron to gain momentum. activities were in line with the and gave rise to #MeToo, the counts but had reached a unan- Khaled al-Faisal has ordered attack real Saudi women who scores of West Bank settle- pendent state. Fillon has been charged traditional role of an elected global movement to encourage imous verdict on the others. the arrest of those behind the try to artistically express their ments — a longtime settler Instead, it calls for giving with the misuse of public funds, official’s partner — but in no women to come forward and After some debate in the court- video, saying in a statement on cultural identities,” tweeted dream. But in the weeks since them limited autonomy over a receiving money from the mis- way equivalent to the tasks of hold powerful men accountable room, the judge ordered jurors Twitter that it “offends the Amani al-Ahmadi, who calls it was unveiled, Benjamin disjointed archipelago of land, use of public funds and the a parliamentary assistant. for their sexual misconduct. to keep deliberating. customs and traditions” of herself a Saudi feminist. Netanyahu has stumbled over and only if they meet a strin- his promises to quickly carry gent set of demands. out the annexation, sparking an Seeing the plan as a green outcry from settler leaders and light, Netanyahu quickly & #! $% $%%# threatening any goodwill he pledged to steam ahead with hoped to gain from the plan. annexation. But a Cabinet “If there is something that meeting announced by his 07" B/&C region similar to predictions larger mammals like sea otters microplastic washing into the that still needs to be done, but for microplastics in drinking undermines the stability of the office never convened, with used to game out responses to is just getting underway. San Francisco Bay from storm these plastics have the ability to water and to perform that test- campaign in Netanyahu’s eyes, Netanyahu apparently reined in iny bits of broken-down major natural disasters such as “This is an alarm bell that’s runoff over a three-year sam- mine harmful chemicals that ing for four years, with the it is attacks from the right,” the by officials at the White House Tplastic smaller than a frac- earthquakes. going to ring loud and strong,” pling period that ended last are in the environment. They results reported to the public. columnist Mati Tuchfeld wrote who balked at his premature tion of a grain of rice are turn- The largest of these plastic said Stacey Harper, an associ- year. Researchers believe the can accumulate them,” said The first key deadline for the in the pro-Netanyahu daily zeal. Netanyahu has since tem- ing up everywhere in oceans, bits are 5 millimeters long, ate professor at Oregon State black, rubbery bits no bigger Mason. law — simply defining what Israel Hayom. “It is not only the pered expectations on his from the water to the guts of roughly the size of a kernel of University who helped organ- than a grain of sand are likely “Everything, as it goes up qualifies as a micro-plastic — fate of Judea and Samaria that annexation vow, fending off fish and the poop of sea otters corn, and many are much ise the conference. from car tires, said Rebecca toward the top, it just gets more is July 1. is on the line. His political fate attacks from hard-liners by and giant killer whales. smaller and invisible to the “We’re first going to pri- Sutton, senior scientist at the and more and the umbrella gets And federal lawmakers, is as well.” Judea and Samaria saying he must first map the Yet little is known about naked eye. oritise who it is that we’re con- institute. They will present wider. And who sits at the top including Sen. Jeff Merkley, an is the biblical name for the West territory with the Americans the effects of these “microplas- They enter the environ- cerned about protecting: what their findings at the conference. of the food chain? We do. Oregon Democrat, and Sen. Bank. Israel heads to the polls beforehand. tics” — on sea creatures or ment in many ways. Some organisms, what endangered Those studying the phe- That’s why these researchers are Lindsey Graham, a South for the third time in less than “We don’t want to risk this. humans. slough off of car tires and species, what regions. And that nomenon are worried about coming together, because this Carolina Republican, last week a year on next Monday. The We are working responsibly “It’s such a huge endeavor wash into streams — and even- will help us hone in ... and the health of creatures living in is a growing problem, and we introduced bipartisan legisla- previous two rounds ended in and rationally,” Netanyahu told to know how bad it is,” said tually the ocean — during determine the data we need to the ocean — but also, possibly, need to understand those tion to establish a pilot research deadlock, with neither his Cabinet earlier this month. Shawn Larson, curator of con- rainstorms. Others detach from do a risk assessment.” the health of humans. effects.” program at the US Netanyahu nor his challenger “To all those chirping in from servation research at the Seattle fleeces and spandex clothing in A study published last year Some of the concern stems Researchers say bans on Environmental Protection Benny Gantz able to secure a outside and even from within Aquarium. “We’re just starting washing machines and are by Portland State University from an unusual twist unique plastic bags, Styrofoam carry- Agency to study how to curb 61-seat parliamentary majori- the government: We did the to get a finger on the pulse.” mixed in with the soiled water found an average of 11 micro- to plastic pollution. Because out containers and single-use the “crisis” of microplastic pol- ty. Pre-election polls show a work, we will complete the This week, a group of five- that drains from the machine. plastic pieces per oyster and plastic is made from fossil items like straws and plastic lution. similar impasse emerging from work.” Israel captured the dozen microplastics researchers Some come from aban- nine per razor clam in the sam- fuels and contains hydrocar- utensils will help when it comes Larson, the conservation- the next vote. West Bank, along with east from major universities, gov- doned fishing gear, and still ples taken from the Oregon bons, it attracts and absorbs to the tiniest plastic pollution. ist at the Seattle Aquarium, said Facing a corruption trial Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, ernment agencies, tribes, more are the result of the even- coast. Nearly all were from other pollutants in the water, Some jurisdictions have also a year of studies at her institu- two weeks after the election, in the 1967 Mideast war. The aquariums, environmental tual breakdown of the millions microfibers from fleece or such as PCBs and pesticides, recently begun taking a closer tion found 200 to 300 Netanyahu is desperate to international community, groups and even water sanita- of straws, cups, water bottles, other synthetic clothing or said Andrew Mason, the Pacific look at the smaller plastic bits microfibers in each 100-liter remain prime minister, a posi- including a string of US pres- tion districts across the US plastic bags and other single- from abandoned fishing gear, Northwest regional coordina- that have the scientific com- sample of seawater the aquar- tion he can use to rally public idents, has long opposed Israel’s West is gathering in Bremerton, use plastics thrown out each said Elise Granek, study co- tor for the National Oceanic munity so concerned. ium sucks in from the Puget support as he fights the charges. settlements, seeing them as Washington, to tackle the issue. day. author. and Atmospheric California lawmakers in Sound for its exhibits. 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These include more focus on concep- tual questions rather than long descriptive ones and making Class X Boards optional for stu- eprosy is an infectious dis- ment is initiated early enough. dents. Yet, children preparing for Boards eginning in the early to mid-40s, many adults may start to ease which is also known as However, if treatment is delayed examination often end up getting overwhelmed Bhave problems seeing clearly at close distances, especially when LHansen’s Disease. It is caused or discontinued mid way, compli- ahead of the examination season. Some students reading and working on the computer. This is among the most by a bacteria called cations may manifest. Sensory loss tend to experience episodes of anxiety and common problems adults develop between ages 41 to 60. This Mycobacterium leprae and main- (usually beginning in the extrem- sleeplessness and even nervous breakdowns. normal change in the eye’s focusing ability, called presbyopia, will ly affects the skin, peripheral ities), permanent nerve damage This condition is compounded by constant continue to progress over time. nerves and the eyes. The initial (usually, again, in the extremities), scrutiny by parents, teachers and inquisitive rel- Initially, you may need to hold reading materials farther away symptoms usually are loss of sen- muscle weakness and progressive atives as well as constant comparisons with to see them clearly. Or you may need to remove your glasses to sation on the affected area of the disfigurement (for example, eye- peers. see better up close. Print in the newspaper or on a restaurant skin along with discolored patch- brows lost, disfigurement of the If you are a student preparing for Boards menu may appear blurred, especially under dim lighting. es on the body or painless ulcers toes, fingers, and nose) are some examination, here is a list of useful suggestions If you already wear prescription glasses or contact lenses to which if left untreated can lead to common complications. In addi- to help you cope with the pressure: see clearly in the distance, these changes in your near vision can permanent disability like disfig- tion, the sensory loss causes peo- Treat Boards like any other exams. Board be corrected by switching to bifocal or multifocal lenses. urement of hands and feet, loss of ple to injure body parts without exams are just another exam based on the syl- Fortunately, people with presbyopia now have many options to sensation and blindness. the individual being aware that labus you have already studied. Train your mind improve their vision. Leprosy is still one of the most there is an injury. This can lead to to internalise the fact that these are just anoth- During these years, schedule a comprehensive eye exami- misunderstood diseases in the further problems such as infec- er exams. You have been there, done that. nation with your optometrist at least every two years to check world and hence poses many tions, poor wound healing and Avoid comparisons with peers. for developing eye and vision problems. Don’t rely on the lim- unique challenges in controlling ulcers. A condition called erythe- Give your mind an outlet. It is recommend- ited driver’s license vision test or other insufficient vision screen- and eliminating it. Leprosy was ma nodosum leprosum (tender ed that you must give yourself short breaks every ings to determine if you have an eye or vision problem. declared as ‘eradicated disease’ in skin nodules accompanied by now and then to indulge in activities that divert Adults over 40 who have the following health or work issues 2005, but India still accounts for other symptoms like fever, joint your mind from studies and helps it to unwind. " " may be particularly at risk for developing eye and vision prob- the maximum number of people pain, neuritis, and edema) is also Learn meditation and mind calming exer- lems: to be affected by leprosy in the encountered as a complication cises to manage stress. Chronic, systemic conditions world; 58 per cent of the total peo- t is important to understand types — paucibacillary and needing immediate attention. Here are a few such techniques that can help such as diabetes or high blood ple globally suffering from leprosy Ithe symptoms and immedi- multibacillary, and hence the Risks of transmission invoke a relaxation response: 4 pressure. are in India. The disease is still ately consult the skin specialist medications also differ. The Leprosy has low transmission Breathing exercises: Taking slow, deep and A family history of glaucoma widespread in many parts of the for diagnosis. Based on the course of the medication is rate. However, people of all age long breaths works in two ways. Firstly, it coun- or macular degeneration. country due to lack of awareness, level of disease progression, the usually for six to 12 months to groups and gender are susceptible ters the shallow breathing that comes with stress- A highly visually demanding socio-economic myths and beliefs doctor will prescribe the appro- completely cure the condition. to develop leprosy. Transmission ful state of mind and helps oxygen fill your : job or work in an eye-haz- and associated stigma. These priate treatment. The medica- Upon successful course occurs only with close contact lungs. Secondly, it helps divert your mind from 7 ardous occupation. commonly lead to delayed care tion and condition varies from completion, the bacteria is com- with the one suffering from lep- the stressful thoughts and helps usher in a more Health conditions related to seeking and treatment comple- person to person and can only pletely eliminated from the per- rosy. The risks also are raised to up relaxed state of mind. high cholesterol, thyroid, anxi- tion. Further major concerns be planned with the initial diag- son’s body and further disease to 10 times to develop and spread Mindfulness: Practicing mindfulness is ety or depression, and arthritis include prevalence of leprosy nosis. progression and damage is leprosy. The major concerns of another very useful way to beat the stress for which you take medica- among children, undetected new Treatment is quite effective averted. But, the damage under- developing and transmitting new response. Mindfulness implies focusing every tions. Many medications, even cases and problems with leprosy if started in the initial stages, gone already is not reversible cases of leprosy especially in India moment on what you are doing, rather than let- antihistamines, have vision side integration. and hence timely diagnosis and with medications. include — reduced functioning of ting stray thoughts creep into your mind. So, if effects. In India, people with leprosy treatment is important. Steroids In such conditions, surgical the immune system due to malnu- you are eating, concrete on every bite; if you are Just like your body, your frequently present in late stages of may be given to minimise pain intervention may be helpful to trition, related illness or ailments bating, focus on every exercise during the bath. eyes and vision change over disease progression and usually and acute inflammation. restore functions like move- and at times, due to genetic con- However, this doesn’t happen overnight You time. While not everyone will with eye complications leading to Majority of the cases can be ment related issues, neurologi- ditions. have to train your mind into practicing mind- ; experience the same symptoms, blindness. treated with antibiotics only. cal prolems, and cosmetic It is very crucial to develop a fulness every minute of the day. the following are common age- Symptoms Depending on the stage, repair. Surgery is usually indi- comprehensive approach to com- Meditation: Meditation is another widely related vision changes: One of the initial symptoms the dosage of the medication vidualised and can restore the bat Leprosy. Some of these include used technique to fight off stress. If you start Need for more light. As you can be excessive nose bleeding may vary. According to WHO, limb and neural functions lost educating public through aware- your day by meditating for a few minutes, you age, you need more light to see and a stuffy nose without reason. Leprosy is classified into two in the course of the ailment. ness campaigns, programmes on will see that your mind is less distracted, less as well as you used to. Brighter Numbness, loss of sustainable livelihood and skill anxious and better focused on the job. Sit on lights in your work area or next to your reading chair will help temperature/touch sensation, pins training for the affected people your table every morning, close your eyes and make reading and other close-up tasks easier. and needles sensations, joint pain, ored skin patches, eye damage encountered problems. (economic mainstreaming), inter- just concentrate on a random point in space- Difficulty reading and doing close work. Printed materials decreased or lost deep pressure (dryness, reduced blinking), loss The complications of leprosy ventions to counter social stigma time. can become less clear, in part because the lens in your eye becomes sensations, nerve injury, weight of eyebrows, loss of digits and dis- depend on how early it is detect- (social mainstreaming). 3$ /4 6 less flexible over time. This makes it harder for your eyes to focus loss, blisters and/ or rashes, large ability, and facial disfigurement ed and effectively treated. Very 66)9) & ! / $ ) on near objects than when you were younger. ulcers (relatively painless), discol- are some of the other commonly few complications occur if treat- + @A&: . + Problems with glare. When driving, you may notice additional glare from headlights at night or sun reflecting off wind- ! shields or pavement during the day. Changes in your lenses in & 1 your eyes cause light entering the eye to be scattered rather than -cigarette users are focused precisely on the retina. This creates more glare. Dry, flaky and rough skin are a he latest findings of India Diabetes Care Speaking about the status of Diabetes exposed to increased Changes in colour perception. The normally clear lens locat- TIndex unveiled that the average HbA1c control in Delhi, Dr Ambrish Mithal, Econcentrations of ed inside your eye may start to discolour. This makes it harder part and parcel of summers. level decreased to 8.47 from 8.76 during Chairman and Head of Endocrinology potentially harmful levels to see and distinguish between certain colour shades. ROSHNI DEVI shares home October to December 2019 as compared and Diabetes at Max Healthcare Hospitals, of metals that are linked to Reduced tear production. With age, the tear glands in your remedies that will help keep to the preceding quarter in Delhi. The over- Delhi said: “We are happy that there is a elevated oxidative DNA dam- eyes will produce fewer tears. This is particularly true for women all HbA1c level decreased to 8.37 marginal dip in the Hb1Ac level age, a new study has found. experiencing hormone changes. As a result, your eyes may feel your skin hydrated during the from 8.52 as compared to the pre- as compared to the last quar- For the study, published in the journal dry and irritated. Having an adequate amount of tears is essen- season ceding quarter in the country. ter. However, this marginal BMJ Open Respiratory Research, researchers tial for keeping your eyes healthy and for maintaining clear sight. The average postprandial glu- reduction in HbA1c can be found that the biomarkers, which reflect cose level, i.e. the average further improved if we exposure, effect, and potential harm, are eeping your skin Fruits and fresh juices can ‘post-meal’ glucose level was avoid the intake of high both elevated in e-cigarette users compared hydrated and smooth help. Make sure to have ample recorded at an alarmingly refined carbohydrate. 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This was a shade bet- ing conventional seam and patches, as New Zealand 35 Krishnappa Gowtham missed one Karnataka bats- Resuming at the overnight rated highly, playing some ndian batsmen’s inadequa- ter than their dismal 165 in the swing bowling in testing con- showed what a Test match snapped seven wickets as man. Overnight batsman score of 375 for 9, the visitors delightful shots during his cies in adverse conditions first innings, which eventually ditions, they are yet to learn the strategy is all about. Karnataka sealed their place in Krishnamurthy Siddharth (98) were dismissed for 426 in 138 knock. Iwere laid bare as they proved to be decisive. art of saving a Test match. If the first innings was the semifinals after thrashing missed out on a well-deserved overs in the second innings, set- In Tangi, Bengal stormed crashed to an embarrassing Trent Boult (4/39 in 22 India had lost the mental about mixing back of length Jammu and Kashmir by 167 century, dismissed by Mushtaq ting an improbable target of 710 into the last four by virtue of 10-wicket defeat against a ruth- overs) and Tim Southee (5/61 battle on the first day itself deliveries with fuller length runs on the final day of their in the 80th over. runs for Andhra. their first innings lead over less New Zealand side that in 21 overs), one of the finest when they saw the moisture on balls, the second saw the pac- Ranji Trophy quarterfinal, here His wicket triggered a col- After being bowled out for Odisha after only one session wrapped up the opening Test in but most under-rated new ball the wicket. ers coming from round the on Monday. lapse as Karnataka kept losing 136 in the first innings, Andhra was possible on the final day just over three days here at pairs in world cricket, showed The toss became a factor wicket and targeting the rib- Resuming the day at 245 for wickets regularly. Srinivas finished at 149 for 4 in 51 overs which was interrupted by bad Basin Reserve on Monday. that when it boils down to play- and not for one session did they cage. The line was disconcert- four, Karnataka added another Sharath (34) held on to one end in their second essay before play light. Starting the day on 144 for ing incisive seam and swing look comfortable. Mayank ing and it stifled them for 71 runs before folding for 316 and took the team across the was called off. Resuming on 361 for seven, four, India were all out for 191 bowling, this batting line-up is Agarwal was the only batsman good. It affected their mindset in their second innings, setting 300-mark before departing in A strokeful half-century by Bengal lost their remaining the hosts a target of 331. the 105th over. Andhra captain K S Bharat three wickets for 12 runs inside Jammu and Kashmir were (55, 69 balls, 6 fours, 1 six) was six overs to set Odisha an bundled out for 163, courtesy the bright spot in the host improbable 456. 7 ! O ! O F >% off-spinner Gowtham’s (7/54) 5 Saurashtra booked team’s second innings. In reply, Odisha were 39 for seven-wicket haul. their spot in the semifinals on The wicketkeeper-batsman, no loss in 10 overs when bad ( 5 Captain Virat Kohli had no It is the acceptance of defeat able to play this kind of cricket. If we would Earlier, Abid Mushtaq the basis of the first innings after who is on the fringes of nation- light stopped play as both the qualms in admitting that India were out- that defines the character of a side, have paid attention to the outside chatter, (6/83) claimed six wickets, their quarterfinal tie against al selection and has been part of teams agreed upon a draw with played by New Zealand in the opening Test the world’s premier batsman said. we would again be at No 7 or 8 in the rank- Parvez Rasool (3/88) took three Andhra ended in a draw on the various India A teams in the two more sessions left on the but said they “can’t help it” if a few want to “We understand that we need ings. We don’t really bother about what peo- and Mujtaba Yousuf (1/44) dis- final day. recent past, showed why he is final day. make a “big deal” out of one loss. to play well to win, also at home. ple are saying on the outside.” “We know we haven’t played well, but There’s no cakewalk at interna- One defeat can’t make a team, if people want to make a big deal out of it, tional level as teams will come and which has been winning games of Test " N ! 'O make a mountain out of it, we can’t help it beat you. You accept it and that cricket, “bad overnight”. “If we have lost & 5 8? ( as we don’t think like that,” the India skip- defines our character as a side.” then we have no shame in accepting - "# " '!# per said at the post-match interaction. If he had given credence to that. It means we didn’t play this game + 1&" “Some people might want it to be the the “outside chatter”, he said well. It doesn’t mean that we have end of the world but it’s not. For us, it’s a the team wouldn’t have been become a bad team overnight. People le Gunnar Solskjaer says Bruno : & game of cricket we lost and we move on and where it is now. might want to change our thoughts, but OFernandes has lifted the mood at Old keep our heads high,” Kohli said. “That’s why we have been it doesn’t work like that.” PTI Trafford, comparing the January signing to a mix between former Manchester United players Paul Scholes and Juan ndian football team head coach Igor Sebastian Veron. IStimac is "impressed" by the talent on dis- O !#'% 5 % , R Fernandes arrived for an initial 55 play in the I-League after he watched two million euros (£46 million) and, while that matches earlier this month. @'' could rise to 80 million euros if a variety He said he's looking forward to watch- & #2 of targets are reached, United look to have ing more matches. struck a good deal. "It was fantastic to witness 2 ( 5 The perfect The Portugal international has @ILeagueOfficial matches in Mumbai execution of plans against impressed in all three United starts to date, and Goa and I'm really impressed with the India has pleased New following up fine displays against Wolves talents," Stimac tweeted. Zealand skipper Kane and Chelsea with a goal and an assist "Looking forward to see more action Williamson but he refused against Watford. in coming days," he added. !54 ! &=>> ,33C to term his team’s 10- Successive wins have lifted United The Croatian was in the stands in wicket win as “bouncing into fifth place in the Premier League table Mumbai earlier this month when the + > National Stadium. back” from their 0-3 deba- as they push for Champions League Indian Arrows played Kolkata giants East Mushfiqur, who cle against Australia. qualification. Bengal (February 17) at the Cooperage ushfiqur Rahim became the became New Zealand came "He's given everyone a boost," Stadium. He also witnessed the match Mhit his third Test the highest run-scorer into the series after their Solskjaer said of the 25-year-old between Mohun Bagan and Churchill double century as for Bangladesh in nightmare in Australia Fernandes. "It means more than just get- Brothers in Margao (February 22). Bangladesh declared Tests, hit an unbeaten and put up a splendid per- ting a player in. You can see the support- The former Croatia World Cupper their first innings with 203, while skipper formance to outclass India ers, they're used to players with that per- handed the Hero of the Match award to a lead of 295 on Mominul Haque made in just over three days. sonality, mentality and quality so he's been Fran Gonzalez as the Mariners extended Monday in their one- 132, after the hosts “Bouncing back isn’t “So it’s about lesson moving forward a big plus. their lead at the top of the I-League table off match against resumed on 240 for a term that we use with- focussing on things that to Christchurch,” he "He's come in from day one, the first with a 3-0 win. Zimbabwe. three. in our group. You can get are important. The roles added. minute, and felt like a presence in the During the launch of the I-League Bangladesh ended Mushfiqur and carried away thinking that give us the best But Williamson also group. First training session, demanding 2019-20 in November last year, Stimac had their innings on 560 Mominul added 222 about results (especially) chance of success and if wants to guard his team the ball. 6* ! ( said "every Indian player in the Hero I- for six in the final ses- for the fourth wicket, when you have a number we do that, the result against complacency as he "Some players take some time in League is a potential candidate for a place sion before spinner while wicketkeeper- of poor ones and some- manifests and I think expects India to come warming up but he felt confident straight lowed by a fine goal at Club Brugge in the in the senior team". Nayeem Hasan then batsman Liton Das times the want (urge) for that’s what we saw in this hard in the second Test, away. Europa League and a clever clipped fin- "I will keep coming to watch the claimed two wickets made 53 to give the a good one can be a dis- game and that was what starting February 29 "He's a bit of a mix between (Paul) ish past Ben Foster on Sunday. matches whenever I can. The players in two balls in the first hosts their highest- traction towards getting was pleasing,” Williamson “The challenge is Scholes and (Juan Sebastian) Veron, to be "I am delighted with the week need to know that each player in the Hero over. ever total against (achieving) it,” said. there in front of us fair. He's got the temperament maybe of Anthony's had," Solskjaer said. "He has got I-League with an Indian passport is one of The visitors Zimbabwe. Williamson said. “It was a really bril- because we know come Veron and a lot of the quality of him and his critics and I am one of his biggest the possible future candidates for the reached nine for two at Mominul declared The Kiwi skipper, liant all-round game for Christchurch we will need Scholesy." probably because I keep demanding dif- national team. It's up to them how they per- stumps on the third the innings soon after who also was the top- us. Guys were really com- to be on our game again. Solskjaer said Fernandes was a "big ferent stuff from him." form for their respective teams," he had day, still needing 286 Mushfiqur reached the scorer for his side with a mitted to their roles on a India is the number one in piece" in the team that United are look- "This today is more than the Anthony said. runs to make 200-run mark after well-made 89, seemed sat- surface that offered the world for a reason and ing to build, while Anthony Martial has we know about," he added. "The skill India, already out of contention for a Bangladesh bat again Ainsley Ndlovu past isfied with the perfor- enough to create a good they have had success all shown that he too can be a key compo- because that is just mind-blowing, some- FIFA 2022 World Cup berth, play Asian on a wearing pitch at extra cover for a mances of each and every balance between bat and around the world,” he nent of the attack. times the skill that he shows. But I want champions Qatar in Bhubaneswar on the Sher-e-Bangla boundary. player of his team. ball. It’s a really important said. Monday's header at Chelsea was fol- more from him and I'll keep at him." March 26. !! "#$"%"% (-

+ 0 & 1 =% , dinson Cavani scored his 200th Paris Saint-Germain goal and EMarquinhos netted twice as the &% Ligue 1 leaders bounced back from their Champions League defeat by Borussia Dortmund to beat 5 Atletico Madrid followed up Bordeaux 4-3 on Sunday, but their surprise win over Liverpool by beat- their victory was marred by ing Villarreal in La Liga on Sunday as Joao Neymar’s late sending-off. Felix marked his return from injury with After losing 2-1 in Germany a first league goal since September. in their Champions League last 16 Felix came off the bench at the Wanda first leg in midweek, PSG’s defen- Metropolitano after almost a month out sive weaknesses were again exposed with an ankle problem and the 20-year-old as South Korean international Hwang looked refreshed as he drove in Atletico’s *3 6 &!+ @ )& Ui-jo gave Bordeaux the lead at the third in an impressive 3-1 vic- Parc des Princes. tory. PSG turned it around thanks to Kieran Trippier was O& P goals by Cavani and Kylian Mbappe also back after recovering either side of a Marquinhos brace, but from a groin injury and he at the other end there was a bizarre was involved in Atletico’s goal credited to the Brazilian defend- second goal as Koke headed ! er Pablo and a Ruben Pardo strike had in. the home side hanging on at the fin- Angel Correa had earlier + 0 & (!# . # ish. cancelled out Paco Alcacer’s $ 0;< The evening concluded with strike for Villarreal. ionel Messi is the “greatest” ("%!","!$()# Neymar being sent off in stoppage Atletico’s inconsistency Lfootballer of all time, ahead time for a second yellow card for grap- this season means of even Diego Maradona, Napoli everything and I don’t want to pling with Bordeaux’s Yacine Adli, ? $ 3 ! ! 5 & 6 &+& ( they are out of the coach Gennaro Gattuso said compare them. Maradona is leaving the world’s most expensive title race, 12 points on Monday ahead of his side’s sacred.” player facing a suspension. adrift of leaders Champions League clash with But Insigne and Gattuso Along with the shortcomings at Barcelona, who Barcelona. agreed that their team have to be the back, it is another problem for thrashed Eibar 5-0 on The 32-year-old Messi careful not to focus only on try- coach Thomas Tuchel to think about, ,@ (?""> Saturday. scored four goals at the weekend ing to stop Messi. even if his team are now 13 points But momentum in Barcelona’s 5-0 win over “We have to be careful with clear atop Ligue 1 from Marseille, who would be timely as Eibar and has now been their whole team, because it's not lost 3-1 to Nantes on Saturday. 3 ! !& ! Atleti bid to consoli- involved in more than 1,000 just Messi,” said Gattuso. Tuchel’s men endured a bad start date their place in the goals in his career, scoring 696 Napoli are enjoying a recent against mid-table Bordeaux, with front in first-half stoppage time, However, Marquinhos netted allowed before Neymar was sent off top four and capi- and assisting another 306. upturn in form after a dreadful skipper Thiago Silva going off hurt using his shoulder to covert Di Maria’s from close range for his second of the for his second yellow at the death. talise on their 1-0 Gattuso was quick to praise start to the Serie A season just before Hwang put the away side free-kick. night in the 63rd minute to make it “They have had quite a difficult advantage against Messi, comparing the Barca star which culminated in the sack- in front on 18 minutes, heading in a Nevertheless, there was still time 3-2. Then, when Ruben Pardo lost week in terms of results and their Liverpool in the to Napoli legend Maradona. ing of Carlo Ancelotti following corner for his sixth Ligue 1 goal. for Bordeaux to equalise at 2-2 before possession, Cavani set up Mbappe to confidence has taken a knock too,” Champions League “He’s the greatest a 4-0 win over Genk that PSG were level in the 25th the interval. score PSG’s fourth, and his 16th in the said Bordeaux’s Laurent Koscielny of last 16 next month. and an example for sent them into the minute, though, as Di Maria’s cross Selected ahead of Keylor Navas in league this season. PSG. Diego Simeone’s side everyone,” said Gattuso Champions League was headed in by Cavani, allowing the goal, Sergio Rico’s clearance from a Pardo made some amends with a “When you lose points and move up to third in La Liga, ahead of the sides’ last-16 knockout stage. Uruguayan to reach a double centu- Marco Verratti back-pass struck Pablo stunning strike for Bordeaux’s third, games then your confidence can level on points with Sevilla, first leg today. Last season’s Serie A ry of PSG goals. and the Spaniard looked on in hor- and the ninth goal Paris have conced- quickly disappear but they are great who earlier struck a superb 3- “He never says any- runners-up have won six He then hit the post from close ror as the ball ricocheted back into the ed in three games altogether. players and they are capable of over- 0 win away at fellow top-four thing inappropriate. He of their last seven games. range before Marquinhos put Paris in net. Icardi then had another goal dis- coming that.” rivals Getafe. AFP does things that only exist on the “Tomorrow (Tuesday), I Playstation, unthinkable things. want a Napoli side that are not “But I saw him (Maradona) afraid,” added Gattuso. 77 Games are counted in the on VHS, or DVD. I never saw “I want to see a team that , 3 & final tally (of the main event). him up close, at a stadium. knows how to battle... You need ndia will host the National Rifle Association “I know the champion he to stand up to Barcelona — you ICommonwealth shooting Commonwealth Games roster. Archery is also anoth- Commonwealth Games are that includes results from the of India (NRAI) President was and I know I missed some- can’t worry. and archery championships in Federation (CGF) announced er optional sport. scheduled from July 27 to Chandigarh 2022 Raninder Singh, who mooted thing wonderful. I regret it. “I want to see a lively team January 2022 and the medals on Monday. “A C o m m o nw e a l t h August 7, 2022. Commonwealth Archery and the idea of the Today I see Messi doing things that plays with joy until the end. from the two events will be The decision was made at Archery and Shooting “The decision confirmed Shooting Championships, as a Commonwealth Shooting that Maradona was doing.” Can Napoli win the Champions counted in the final tally of the the CGF’s Executive Board Championships is set to take that Chandigarh 2022 and further and final legitimate Championships, admitted that Napoli captain Lorenzo League? Never say never.” Birmingham Games, an meeting here from February place in India in 2022 after a Birmingham 2022 will be two ranking of competing nations CGF’s decision was a “unique Insigne was not so keen to It is the first time Napoli unprecedented move 21 to 23. proposal to stage the event separately organised and and territories from the and unprecedented develop- accept that Messi has reached have reached the knockout approved by the CGF. It can be considered a big was approved by the CGF funded Commonwealth Sport respective competitions,” the ment” as well as “truly a game greater heights than 1986 World rounds since a last-16 loss to However, the medals will win for India since it had Executive Board,” the CGF events. “One week following CGF added. changing methodology”. Cup winner Maradona. Real Madrid in 2017, while be added one week after the threatened to boycott the said in a release. the Closing Ceremony of Rarely the sporting world He was also candid in “Messi is the best in the Barcelona are bidding to make conclusion of the multi-disci- Birmingham edition of the The two events will be Birmingham 2022 has seen such an arrange- calling NRAI and IOA’s pro- world today,” said Insigne. “But the quarter-finals for a 13th con- plinary sporting event in Games for dropping shooting, held in Chandigarh in January Commonwealth Games, the ment that the medals of cham- posal as “admittedly against for us Neapolitans, Maradona is secutive season. Birmingham, the an optional sport, from the 2022 while the Birmingham CGF shall issue a medal table pionships held outside major the grain”.