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The two, how-           # $   on the third consecutive day, ever, did not name Kejriwal. $  %#     Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Singh admitted stubble &     #  "    " & Kejriwal on Saturday sought burning in his State is a con-      Union Environment Minister tributor to the Capital’s pollu- ensing the fast-changing ' $  (    Prakash Javadekar’s interven- tion but at the same time Spolitical equations in   "         tion into pollution-related blamed Delhi’s own large-scale Maharashtra, NCP chief )*+,          problems and work on a con- industrial pollution, traffic Sharad Pawar on Saturday   #        crete plan to deal with the issue overload and excessive con- stepped up efforts to build a “A lot of things will hinge      %     of stubble burning. struction activity to be equal- common strategy with the on what transpires in the meet-    )*+-  .    The Delhi CM noted that ly responsible. Congress leadership to explore ing between Sonia and Pawar,” '   Q        the high level of pollution was Singh also wrote to PM the possibility of supporting the former deputy Chief Minister        #  not only a health hazard for Narendra Modi seeking the Shiv Sena in the Government and senior NCP leader Ajit      Q    '  the citizens, but it also shows               "  Centre’s urgent intervention formation in the State and in Pawar said, indirectly admitting $ Q     (    India in a poor light in the   # $    %  $    into the matter by evolving a the process to checkmate the that there was change in the             eyes of visiting dignitaries. consensus as he said “what is at BJP in its own power game. party’s earlier stand of sitting in     Urging the Centre for col- Javadekar on Saturday said Punjab and Haryana coun- stake goes way beyond our On a day when the Shiv the Opposition. '         lective action to tackle air pol- the agencies of all the States terparts over pollution caused petty political ambitions”. Sena said after the BJP failed in Interestingly enough,          lution, Kejriwal wrote to will have to work to combat due to stubble burning and Both CMs called for a joint its Government formation bid, senior BJP leader Sudhir   '        Javadekar that German air pollution. “Central was trying to project other strategy to address the problem it would go ahead and form the Mungantiwar said the stale-    $       Chancellor Angela Merkel is Pollution Control Board Chief Ministers as villains. of pollution in Delhi and NCR. Government in the “larger mate prevailing between the            in Delhi for official visit and (CPCB) has sent a team of 45 In the letter to the Union “How can a country be interest” of the State, the NCP BJP and Shiv Sena would end     ' # #     he wonders what impression members in National Capital Minister, Kejriwal attached called developed when its camp confirmed that Pawar before November 6. “We will ' 1 2 $    )-3456 would she carry of India with Region (NCR) keeping eye on an affidavit, submitted by the Capital is reduced to a gas had already spoken to Congress form the Government with    '       such high levels of pollution. people and educating them centralchamber, by a series of man- president Sonia Gandhi on our allies in the “Maha-Yuti” "         “Images of international approach to control pollu- government last month in made ones. The prevailing sit- telephone and would meet her (saffron alliance) either on       '   cricketers playing T-20 match tion,” said Javadekar. the Supreme Court in which uation has exposed in the Capital on Monday in an November 6 or 7. We would  Q      "  in Delhi on Sunday wearing Also, he alleged tht numbers of machine/equip- the hollowness of our apparent bid to hammer out a like to form the government in $           mask does not create a good Kejriwal has politicised the ments provided to farmers of claims of being a progressive common strategy to deal with alliance with the Shiv Sena,”    %#        Q image of India,” he said. issue by asking school stu- Haryana and Punjab had and developed nation,” he said. the emerging political situation Mungantiwar    '   Replying to Kejriwal, dents to write letters to his mentioned. in the State. said.    7      8   7     %  R              !      '! '                #         " $                7   9  ()R  !       7                  '         " olitical slugfest intensified  "   7   ( Pin Karnataka on Saturday as        a video purportedly with the         %   voice of Chief Minister BS ongress president Sonia  .    2  Yediyurappa going public CGandhi on Saturday          $   wherein he is heard saying attacked Prime Minister          that the rebel Congress-JD(S) Narendra Modi saying instead ension prevailed in the   !# '      MLAs, who were later dis- of acknowledging slowdown Tnational Capital’s Tis &     # qualified, were kept in Mumbai and looking for solution, he is Hazari court complex on     " # during the final days of the busy managing headlines and Saturday after a scuffle broke     ' (   $:.; <   coalition Government under events and as if Government’s whether it will finally take the out between lawyers and the         %1 the watch of BJP president decisions have not damaged plunge and agrees to the world’s Delhi Police over parking.      # $   =    Amit Shah. He is also heard economy enough, it is now largest trading deal spanning Around 17 vehicles,  %  $    =   " >  lashing out at the party lead- ready to deal body blow to it by 16-Asia Pacific nations. including Police Control Room ?     ership for not recognising “sac- signing the Regional “As a citizen and as a mem- (PCR) vans, prison vans and also burned the prison locker      rifices” by the Congress-JD(S) Comprehensive Economic ber of the responsible opposi- bikes, were vandalised and set room and generator room in P  Q    MLAs for installing the BJP to Partnership (RCEP) agreement. tion, it pains me to see the on fire by lawyers. The lawyers the court complex.       power in the State. Modi is expected to sign the Indian economy under siege. alleged that police had opened According to police, 10    $  With the video going viral, agreement during the RCEP What is even more worrying is fired on them in which two police personnel sustained     L        the Opposition Congress Summit during his ongoing that the government is in com- advocates sustained bullet injuries in the incident. $%&'& '   $  7   " #     reached out to President Ram two-day visit to Thailand. plete denial,” Sonia said. injuries though police denied “Jarnail Singh, Station House   ()       '    Nath Kovind through State The RCEP will result in Sonia also lashed out at the it, saying 10 of its members Officer (SHO), Civil Lines  ' "         Governor Vajubhai Rudabhai untold hardship for farmers, Government over the were hurt in the clash. police station sustained serious $   B     Vala to whom they submitted shopkeepers, and small and WhatsApp snooping contro- Several police personnel injuries and is said to be crit-         $  a memorandum demanding medium enterprises, she versy saying these activities are including Additional Deputy ical.     $  %#   the dismissal of the claimed. Her remarks come as not only illegal and un-con- Commissioner of Police Rajeev Bharadwaj, SHO of             Yediyurappa Government. negotiations to finalise the stitutional, they are also (DCP), North district also Kotwali police station sus-    <     %  #  The memorandum by long-overdue RCEP enter final shameful. sustained injuries in the inci- tained head injury and is   "      '  Karnataka Pradesh Congress stages. All eyes are on India Detailed report on P5 dent. The agitated lawyers undergoing treatment.         Committee (KPCC) said that    2   +,,)        Yediyurappa and Shah, engi- 2 43*  C=       neered and forced resignations    of 15 MLAs and brought down %      $    #   the Congress-JD(S) coalition   Q    D% Government in Karnataka. A   ?        pen drive of Yediyurappa’s  .      video at a BJP core committee        7    meeting on October 27 has also  #              D  been enclosed.     "       Former Chief Minister $   figure) hectare crops have been from Pakistan’s Sindh province     HD Kumaraswamy, who lost affected in the locust attack with and spreading in villages in  $       his post to Yediyurappa in July here is a different kind of farmers left high and dry. Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Barmer,        " #  this year, joined his erstwhile Tintruders coming from The authorities concerned Bharewala, Lathi, Nachana,   (   ally to say that the BJP as a across the borders targeting have sprayed 1.50 lakh litre Suratgarh, Pokhran, Kutch, 9# $ "     party stood exposed by the lakhs of hectare of agricultural disinfectants (ultra low volume Lakhpat, Bikaner and .   .  #   " video .”Now Yediyurappa him- crops. Villages adjoining India (ULV) formulation) in as many Shahgarh.  ? "   $  #" self has spelt the truth,” he said. and Pakistan border spread as 2.36 lakh hectare and Sources said a high-level    .     Kumaraswamy said across Rajasthan, Punjab and kept the entire area under team has visited the affected "2  !  '   ..   Yediyurappa admitted that his Gujarat are witnessing an observation. areas adjoining the India and  . ?=  ?        own national president (Amit assault on the crops by locusts According to the Pakistan border to assess an  L   $ L  Shah) took these 15 MLAs, (tiddis). Despite all efforts by Agriculture Ministry’s Locust outbreak of desert locusts that     $   forced them to resign from the the locust control department, Warning Organisation (LWO) have posed a threat to the   #   "$  Assembly, kept them in Mumbai three to four lakh (estimated bulletin, locusts are flying in crops and farmers.        .    # for two months only to install Minister of State for  ?    " the BJP Government here. Agriculture Paroshottam %   '#     Kumaraswamy, son of for- Rupala has visited Bhuj and         ' "  mer Prime Minister HD Deve other districts in Gujarat to E ' "   Q   " Gowda, said he has decided to assess the damage. The            Q file a petition in court based on Ministry had in May itself     ' ( F12 the contents of the video. warned the State Governments ' " Q        “We have already decided of Punjab, Rajasthan and       D    whatever content is there (in Gujarat to be vigilant as there .&2       that shared video), that we are has been incursion of swarms   going to file before the court, of locusts attack this year. The #  #      Kumaraswamy told reporters Food and %#        during the Meet-the-Press pro- Agriculture Organisation had            gramme organised by the Press also warned of desert   $         Club at locusts attack in      Bengaluru. Rajasthan.     !+ ,- ./01 

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A created problem for the reluctant Chandra Pant has "    Congress party. The BJP on left for Pithoragarh and soon Saturday made official BJP is expected to declare her #" hhath is a announcement of candidature candidature.   Cunique of Chandra Pant, the widow of On Saturday, the chief festival of the former Finance Minister, minister Trivendra Singh ./!"  worshipping the Prakash Pant to be its candidate Rawat confirmed that Chandra "   # sun god and his from Pithoragarh to carry Pant would the candidate of wife Usha. The forward the legacy of the late BJP and she would carry the   beauty and the leader who was popular there. good works started by Prakash !"   importance it On the other hand, the Pant ahead. holds are Opposition Congress was The Pradesh Congress "   unique in its own way. It not participate in the cleanliness banking on the former MLA Committee (PCC) president   only holds religious drive. The in-charge of Sulabh Mahar and its leaders were Pritam Singh said that the importance but it is also International, Uttarakhand, trying to persuade him to party has many leaders who    %            important from the viewpoint Satish Chandra Patel and his contest the election. Given the can contest the election. The 0 "  of cleanliness and protection team played a major role in credentials of former MLA, the Vice President of state he Chief Minister !"    "# of the environment. cleaning the banks of Tamsa Congress was hoping that he Congress party Surya Kant    TTrivendra Singh Rawat " "  !   " # Devotees clean their river. would be able to pose a tough Dhasmana said that the party #" !" has said that only by surroundings, rivers, ponds Other than the members challenge to BJP in the by- would soon declare its preserving environment and  "!"   %&   and lakes. Like in other parts of Sulabh International and elections. candidate. He said that the BJP "1 nature, we can aspire for a safe ' (")*)+,  #  of the country, the festival is Bihari Mahasabha, locals also Mayukh Mahar, a two- has forced Chandra Pant to future. He was speaking on celebrated by the people of participated in the cleanliness time MLA, has represented contest the election as it knows -    the occasion of ‘Rajpur Nature   ( "  -" Bihar and eastern Uttar drive with full vigour. Not Pithoragarh Assembly it has no achievement in last !" Festival- 2019’ organised by #   #  " # Pradesh in Uttarakhand. only cleaning but few families constituency. In 2012, he had two and half years of its rule in    the forest department here on #  !   In the picturesque Doon also celebrated the festival. defeated late Prakash Pant. In the State. Saturday. Appreciating the valley too, this festival is Governor of Uttarakhand the Assembly elections of 2017, He added that the BJP is  "  festival, he said that it creates celebrated with great ,Baby Rani Maurya, has Pant took his revenge when he banking on only sympathy awareness among people single use plastic. The chain preservation of nature. enthusiasm. congratulated the people of defeated Mahar though the factor to garner the votes in  %& about environment and its would be formed by 1 lakh The chief forest Because of its distinctive the State on the occasion of margin of victory of Pant was Pithoragrah.   preservation. people. He appealed that the conservator, Jayraj, said that belief in celebrating Chhath. narrow. After refusal of Mahar, the He said that in recent natural beauty, for which the three-day grand festival is protection of environment, In her message, she said, Considering this, Congress Congress party could pick its 23  "  times, the awareness in the Uttarakhand is known, should being organised for creation cleaning the surroundings to “Along with worshiping the was of the view that Mahar candidate from among the " people about environment be protected. of awareness for environment. maintaining health and sun god, this festival also would be its best bet in spokesperson of Uttarakhand protection and cleanliness After inaugurating the He claimed that the forest hygiene, The Sulabh inspires people to clean and Pithoragarh. Congress Mathura Dutt Joshi,   has increased. festival, the CM also released department has undertaken International too participated protect their surrounding Citing health issues, Mahar former Member of Parliament       The CM said that the a brochure about the birds many initiatives for water in the cleanliness drive rivers, ponds and lakes.” flatly refused to enter the Mahendra Singh Mahra, stalls of local produces would and butterflies found near conservation. organised by Bihari “It is the festival of nature contest which has created former district president ,    encourage the farmers and Rispana River. The Chief Executive Mahasabha at Tapkeshar worship and helps realise the problem for the Congress party. Mukesh Pant and Jagat Singh      help them in sharing their Speaking on the occasion, Officer (CEO) of CAMPA, temple on Saturday. importance of protecting the Incidentally, Chandra Pant who Khati. experiences. 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55 #  ! -P             $ /           this tragic state-of-affairs, the people’s pain and grief,” the that he had expected the      $   Chief Minister said, however, Chief Minister said the crux of Government of India “to have   $ xpressing anguish and that the entire country, the problem was that “we have taken the matter in its able -   Eanger at the unprecedented including Delhi itself as well as persistently and foolishly hands long back, to find a     situation triggered by the the Government at the Centre, refused to rise above political holistic solution to this grave growing air pollution in Delhi, had allowed “this state-of- considerations to launch a problem.” That, unfortunately, "#     Punjab Chief Minister Capt affairs to emerge and sustain, collective search for a had not happened till date,  9      (6   Amarinder Singh on Saturday with our various acts of permanent solution.” despite even the Supreme !" he second convocation wrote an emotional letter to commission and omission.” “The solutions each one of Court expressing its concern   hand faced rebellion as two of Tceremony of Sri Dev Prime Minister Narendra Admitting that stubble us, the so-called stakeholders, on the rapidly deteriorating its leaders who were aspirants " ( Suman Uttarakhand University Modi, underlining the need for fires, supported by the winds have been proffering from situation, he lamented. he ruling BJP took for the ticket of Mayor, filed     was held at the Gopeshar in evolving a consensus on blowing in the wrong time to time are but knee-jerk The Chief Minister Tadvantage of the internal nomination papers. On the Chamoli district on Saturday. tackling the issue, rising above direction, were contributing to interventions that translate recalled that he had personally fighting and indecisiveness on day the district Vice president    Speaking on the occasion, the political affiliations and the toxic levels of air pollution into nothing more than a case suggested to the Prime part of the Congress party for Sanjay Arora quit party and ' (") Governor of Uttarakhand, Baby regional considerations. that prevail today in Delhi, the of ‘too little, too late’ every Minister and other union candidate selection as its joined BSP. Rani Maurya, said that the In his letter, the Chief Chief Minister, at the same time,” he wrote bluntly. ministers, on several occasions, candidate Bela Tolia was He also filed his students should contribute in Minister said, “No Indian, and time, noted that data from The CM further wrote that a separate bonus amount of elected unopposed on the nomination for mayor   development of the society and definitely no person in Punjab, several independent agencies Punjab had tried to enforce the 100 per quintal to facilitate position of district Panchayat election. Another BJP leader country by using their is oblivious to the misery of had pointed out that large- law against stubble burning to stubble management by the president of Nainital. Here, Gaurav Goel too became ith a view to conserve the knowledge. our brethren in the national scale industrial pollution, the the maximum extent possible, farmers. the Opposition Congress was rebel. Wenvironment and She said that the university Capital, whatever many traffic overload, the excessive and was even penalising the “Perhaps your not able to field its candidate. The saffron party has motivate common people to should set up its priorities and around the country might have construction activity taking farmers, “even though it goes Government does not feel that Amid hectic political parleys declared Mayank Gupta as its participate in the upcoming should work in the direction of been led to believe.” Pointing place in Delhi were equally, if against my conscience to punish is the right solution, which which saw both BJP and official candidate. human chain event, preserving environment, out that his own children and not more, to blame. a community that has suffered, would explain its failure to Congress making an all-out Uttarakhand police held a conserving folk arts and culture grandchildren living in Delhi, But, said Amarinder, he and continues to suffer, at the respond positively to my effort to woo the public awareness rally for and rural development. The were currently sharing the took no solace from this data, hands of an ungrateful nation.” request,” he added. independents and keep their %    polythene- free green Doon on governor said that the objective plight of the lakhs of people in nor could this blame game But that, he added, “does not But then, asked the Chief flock together, the Saturday. of attaining education should the national Capital as a result help any of them to “assuage really deter the farmers from Minister, “What is that solution nomination for the second (    , The event which was held not be limited to only getting of the toxic air enveloping the our own guilt in a matter of resorting to burning of the that can end this grave stage of the Panchayat polls with the objective to spread degrees but the students should city, he said the prevailing such serious national paddy straw to keep their problem once and for all?” “Is were done on Saturday.      awareness about the human play a key role in development situation “has exposed the consequence.” pathetic margins from falling it not your government’s task, Though the Congress chain event and to attract as of the nation. Asking the hollowness of our claims of “The harsh truth is that further.” Mr Prime Minister, to search didn’t declare its candidates in many as possible people of the students to get prepared for a being a progressive and while all of us are busy Delhi and Haryana, too, for that permanent solution, in some seats of district   city was inaugurated by the tough completion at global developed nation.” conveniently passing the buck were doing what they could, in consultation with all the other Panchayat Presidents and Director General of Police level she said that the “How can a country be to one another, Delhi’s people their own ways, he pointed out, stakeholders, including Punjab, large number of seats of Block n an important (DGP), Anil K Raturi. responsibility of family, society called developed when its are reeling under excruciating but added that the role of the Delhi and Haryana?” he added. Pramukhs, the ruling BJP Idevelopment, the In his message, he said that and nation is on them. Capital city has been reduced misery, and are facing one of Centre had remained dubious Stressing the need for the released list of all its official Uttarakhand High Court to make Dehradun city The Governor said that to a gas chamber, not by any the worse ever health disasters in the whole affair, even Centre’s urgent candidates. (HC) has directed the State polythene free, the government the teachers should also give natural disaster but a series of in the nation’s, possibly the though the Central intervention, the Chief The saffron party Government and State of Uttarakhand and the practical knowledge to students man-made ones?,” he asked. world’s, history,” he wrote. Government was the biggest Minister concluded, in his declared Bela Toila as its Election Commission to file municipal corporation of and should always strive for Making it clear that he had Observing that “the stakeholder of national letter, “After all, what is at stake official candidate from their replies within four Dehradun in consonance bringing in innovation in the no intent of brushing his hands situation continues to aggravate prosperity. goes way beyond our petty Nainital and Renu Gangwar weeks on the issue of would be forming the 50 km curriculum. She also off Punjab’s responsibility in while we all play ball over the Amarinder further wrote political ambitions.” from Udham Singh Nagar. reservation for the post of long human chain on highlighted the need for new The other candidates of BJP the district Panchayat November 5 to spread research on the ways to prevent are, Champawat-Jyoti Rai, president of Dehradun. awareness about the cause. He migration from the Pithoragarh-Deepika Bora, The commission on further stated that the mountainous areas of the state. Bageshwar-Basanti Dev, recommendation of the State importance of environment In the convocation 012         Almora-Mahesh Nayal, Government had reserved for human civilization and ceremony, the Governor Dehradun- Madhu Chauhan, the post of president of society is crucial and that its handed over gold medals to 45 Tehri Garhwal- Sona Sajwan, district Panchayat,Dehradun preservation and conservation meritorious students. In the Pauri-Shanti Devi, for Scheduled Tribe (ST) is as important as eating food. programme degrees were Chandigarh: The cases of crop Rudraprayag-Amardei Shah, Women. Here the BJP has The DGP said that for the awarded to 600 post graduate residue fire — a major air  #" !"  #" "!" Uttarkashi-Chandan Panwar, declared Madhu Chauhan as protection of our future as and 13916 graduates. She also pollutant in Delhi-NCR — " # "" ! #!"   "*    % Chamoli-Yogendra Semwal. its official candidate. She is well as our present, conferred D Lit on famous saw a 30 per cent rise in wife of senior BJP leader environmental conservation environmentalist Chandi Punjab after the harvest season  "*6( )*4:)   "#"     ' Munna Singh Chauhan. needs to be viewed from Prasad Bhatt, Jagar singer this year compared to last year. "  #      ' (";)% '  = & The reservation status of sensitive eyes. Basanti Bisht and Mahendra The substantial increase 2" #  "!" *  !"  (6( &  Dehradun district Panchayat The awareness rally started Singh Kunwar. was recorded despite Chief The Congress party president was challenged by from the police headquarters In the ceremony, the state Minister Amarinder Singh’s &"#"" *      changed its candidate for the Dehradun resident Mohit and passed through Kanak minister for higher education fervent appeals to the farmers   "<(  *(  ( # coveted post of Mayor, Negi. On Saturday a bench Chowk, Rojgaar Tiraha, Survey and cooperative, Dhan Singh not to go for the quicker Municipal Corporation of of chief justice Ramesh Chowk, Beni Bazaar Chowk Rawat, Garhwal MP Teerath option of getting rid of the crop  #" ,  " " " ! ""    * Roorkee on Saturday and Rangnathan and Justice and ended by moving back to Singh Rawat, Tharali MLA residue by setting those afire.  !   #  "* 5"  declared that Rishu Rana Alok Verma while hearing a the police headquarters. Munni Devi Shah, Vice He even invoked the holy would be its official Public Interest Litigation Apart from the DGP, the Chancellor of the university U celebrations of 550th birth = 8 " 5  .5=85/  !"" candidate. The party had (PIL) filed by Negi said that occasion was attended by many S Rawat and others were anniversary of Sikhism       " earlier declared Shrestha the government and state senior officers of Uttarakhand present. founder Guru Nanak Dev, Rana, the wife of Mayor election commission should police like Director General, beginning November 9, saying Yashpal Rana as its candidate. file reply within four weeks. Law and Order, Ashok Kumar, he had advocated protecting It is learnt the reason behind The on-going process Additional Director General :    natural resources. As per this change was the fear that of election, however, would Administration, V Vinay official records, over 19,860 lakh tonne is remaining. and the study co-author in crop residue burning. the nomination form of continue. Kumar and others. The rally  9  cases of stubble burning have “This time we are Samuel Scott has said. Nearly 1.37 lakh acres of Shresta Rana could get In his PIL, Negi has was also attended by the been reported in Punjab from expecting that there will The study, “Risk of acute panchayat land is under rejected. The party however termed the decision to Uttarakhand Forest October 15 till October 31. overall fall in cases of residue respiratory infection from crop agriculture. The State has also kept its faith on the Rana reserve the post of district Department officials and the  $ The figure is 30 per cent burning throughout the burning in India: Estimating ordered impounding of family as it fielded Rishu who Panchayat president for ST Dehradun District higher than those reported season,” Secretary Agriculture disease burden and economic combine harvesters is the brother of Yashpal women as wrong and against Administration officials.  3 % during the corresponding KS Pannu told IANS. welfare from satellite and functioning without a super Rana. the provisions of period last year, officials said. In neighbouring Haryana, national health survey data for straw management system. The BJP on the other constitution. " Last year, Punjab saw 4,200 cases of stubble burning 2,50,000 persons”, used NASA Even the Shiromani Shimla: Thirteen people in 50,495 cases throughout the have been reported against satellite data on fire activity to Gurdwara Parbandhak "  " Himachal Pradesh died of scrub rice harvesting season that 4,360 in 2018 till October 30. estimate the health impact of Committee (SGPC), " !  typhus, a bacterial infection, so lasts till November 15. The districts of Karnal, living in areas with intense considered a mini Parliament 7"" far this year as compared to 21 Burning of crop residue, a Kurukshetra, Ambala, crop burning by comparing of Sikh religious affairs, has deaths last year, a health official common practice by Punjab Yamunanagar, Fatehabad, Sirsa, them with areas not affected by asked the farmers not to burn !  said on Saturday. As many as and Haryana growers, leads to Hisar, Jind, Palwal and Panipat, crop residue burning. crop residue in the fields. "#1, 1,456 people are suffering from an estimated economic loss of which have 13 lakh hectares The researchers observed It said the preservation of the bacterial infection in the state over $30 billion annually, under paddy cultivation, see that as crop burning increased clean and green environment is ,*86#" so far this year, whereas 1,940 besides being a leading risk high cases of residue burning. in Haryana, respiratory health of foremost significance in  "*" people were affected last year, factor for acute respiratory About 50 per cent of the worsened. Farmers try to view of Guru Nanak Dev Special Secretary (Health) Dr infection, especially among crop in the state has been maximise their yields by celebrations. The SGPC has ,*2 Nipun Jindal said. children, a study at the harvested, an official said. planting the next crop as soon instructed all the managers of 2", During a two-day review International Food Policy Smoke from the burning of as possible after the previous Sikh shrines that they should ( meeting of eight northern States Research Institute (IFPRI) and agricultural crop residue by crop has been harvested ensure strict compliance of and Union territories on the its partner institutes said this farmers in Haryana and Punjab (generally wheat after rice). directions against stubble  #( , Integrated Disease Surveillance year. contributes to Delhi’s poor air, To quickly clear the field burning on the agriculture !  Programme (IDSP) in Shimla, Punjab’s Tarn Taran increasing the risk of acute for the next crop, they burn lands owned by the gurdwaras. the efforts of Himachal Pradesh district, bordering Pakistan, respiratory infection by three- the leftover stubble rather On its part, the Punjab 7"" in effective prevention and reported the highest number fold for those living in districts than using the traditional Government last year supplied control of communicable of farm fire cases at 2,520, with intense crop burning. method of clearing it by hand. 28,609 agro-machines to the diseases, especially in containing followed by Ferozepur (2,269) “Poor air quality is a A new analysis of the air farmers last year for zero scrub typhus, were appreciated, and Sangrur (2,157). recognized global public quality life index (AQLI) by stubble burning on subsidy Jindal said. Pathankot district saw the health epidemic, with levels of the Energy Policy Institute at ranging from 50 to 80 per cent. Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, minimum two cases. airborne particulate matter in the University of Chicago This fiscal, the Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, As per the Punjab Delhi spiking to 20 times the (EPIC) on October 31 showed Government aims to provide Chandigarh, Uttarakhand, Agriculture Department, World Health Organization’s the average citizen living in the 26,000 machines for in-situ Jammu & Kashmir, and Delhi farmers have harvested 110 safety threshold during certain Indo-Gangetic plain region management of paddy straw. participated in the review meeting lakh tonne of paddy and 70 days,” IFPRI Research Fellow can expect to lose about seven The area under paddy held on Friday and Saturday. years of life expectancy. cultivation in Punjab 30 lakh Particulate pollution is high in hectares, a marginal decline Bihar, Chandigarh, Delhi, from last year’s 31.03 lakh Haryana, Punjab, Uttar hectares. Pradesh and West Bengal. Farm organisation It showed a 72 per cent Bhartiya Kisan Union increase in pollution from (Ugrahan) General Secretary 1998 to 2016 in the region that Sukhdev Singh Kokri said the is home to about 40 per cent of farm machines manage only 9 India’s population. To ensure per cent of the total stubble. A zero crop-residue burning, the major portion is set afire in the Confederation of Indian fields alone. Industry (CII) has adopted 1,00,000 acres of farmland in nearly 100 villages in Ludhiana, Barnala and Patiala districts of Punjab and Rohtak, Sirsa and Fatehabad districts of Haryana. It is proactively engaging with over 15,000 farmers to provide farm machinery, organise technical training programmes as well as massive awareness drives in these villages of Punjab and Haryana, a CII statement said. Equipment has been installed to monitor village- level air pollution data as well as to measure the impact of reduced stubble burning. 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All eyes are on India Earlier Congress general WhatsApp snooping contro- whether it will finally take the secretary Priyanka Gandhi versy saying these activities plunge and agrees to the Vadra claimed that if India      - '  3  4 5   6 '7 are not only illegal and uncon- world's largest trading deal signs the Regional stitutional, they are also spanning 16-Asia Pacific Comprehensive Economic   while State of Jammu & Kashmir had shameful. nations. Partnership (RCEP) pact it reorganised the areas of these 14 dis- Sonia had convened a In the address to party will prove to be "farmers' he Centre on Saturday released the tricts into 28 districts. high level meeting of party's general secretaries, State in- destruction agreement" as in Tmaps of newly created Union The names of the new districts were General Secretaries, State in- charges and heads of frontal times of economic slowdown, Territories (UTs) of Jammu & Kashmir, — Kupwara, Bandipur, Ganderbal, charges, heads of frontal organisations, Gandhi said, Indian markets should pro- and Ladakh and the map of India Srinagar, Budgam, Pulwama, Shupian, organisations and depart- "The latest shocking revelation vide maximum help to depicting these UTs. Kulgam, Rajouri, Ramban, Doda, ments to chalk out nationwide that through the Israeli domestic farmers. In a tweet, In a statement, the Ministry of Kishtivar, Samba and Kargil. protests between November 5 Pegasus software acquired by Priyanka Gandhi said, "There Home Affairs said the UT of Ladakh Out of these, Kargil district was   7    -' L 3  4 5   6 '7 and 15 against the Modi the Modi Government, is an economic slowdown in consists of two districts of Kargil and carved out from the area of Leh and Government policies with snooping and spying activities the country. Our policy right Leh while the rest of the erstwhile state Ladakh district. District. Jammu & Kashmir Reorganisation Act, special focus on economic on activists, journalists and now should be such that our of Jammu & Kashmir is in the UT of The Leh district of the new UT of The maps prepared by Survey 2019. crisis, unemployment, farm political persons have taken markets provide maximum Jammu & Kashmir. Ladakh has been defined in the Jammu General of India depicting the new UTs Under the leadership of Prime distress and the "adverse" place." help to our farmers." In this In 1947, the erstwhile state of & Kashmir Reorganisation (Removal of of Jammu & Kashmir, and Ladakh, as Minister Narendra Modi and supervi- impact of the proposed RCEP "These activities are not environment, the RCEP will Jammu & Kashmir had the following 14 Difficulties) Second Order, 2019, issued created on October 31, 2019, along with sion of Union Home Minister Amit agreement. The RCEP com- only illegal and un-constitu- prove to be "farmers' destruc- districts — Kathua, Jammu, Udhampur, by the President of India, to include the the map of India, are released, the state- Shah, the erstwhile State of Jammu & prising the 10-member tional, they are shameful," tion agreement", she said. Reasi, Anantnag, Baramulla, Poonch, areas of the districts of Gilgit, Gilgit ment said. Kashmir has been reorganised as the ASEAN bloc and six other she said. "Far from creating "This will gobble up all the Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Leh and Ladakh, Wazarat, Chilhas and Tribal Territory On the recommendation of new Union Territory of Jammu & countries — India, China, jobs, recent studies now sug- interests of the farmers of Gilgit, Gilgit Wazarat, Chilhas and of 1947, in addition to the remaining Parliament, the President effectively dis- Kashmir and the new Union Territory Japan, South Korea, Australia gest that demonetisation, a India, and their space for sell- Tribal Territory. areas of Leh and Ladakh districts of mantled Article 370 of the Indian of Ladakh on October 31, 2019, the and New Zealand — is messed up GST and subse- ing their produce will be lim- By 2019, the Government of erst- 1947, after carving out the Kargil Constitution and gave assent to the statement said. engaged in negotiations for a quent economic decisions of ited," the Congress general free-trade pact. the Modi Government have secretary claimed. Addressing a meeting at the AICC headquarters, she     +* $    ' alleged that instead of acknowledging the "severe .  ' slowdown" and looking for a      '    $ comprehensive resolution,  9  ! Prime Minister Narendra Modi is too busy "managing '     Nabi Azad said that a resolu- despite the short time they got, headlines and events". @ '3    tion was passed by the MLAs they ensured a good perfor- "As a citizen and as a   screened ormer Haryana Chief unanimously authorising mance by the Congress. member of the responsible   Israeli software for snooping at the FMinister Bhupinder Singh Congress president to elect the Ahead of the Assembly opposition, it pains me to see on activists and journalists he 50th International Film premier Hooda will be the Leader of CLP leader and after being election in Haryana, the the Indian economy under ith Congress chief Sonia through WhatsApp. TFestival of India (IFFI) will movie extravaganza. Opposition in the Haryana briefed by observer Congress high command had siege. What is even more wor- WGandhi criticising of In a tweet, Nadda said the honour southern superstar In its golden jubilee year, Legislative Assembly. Congress Madhusudan Mistri about the replaced Ashok Tanwar with rying is that the government the Government over the Government has already clar- Rajinikanth with a special Icon the festival will screen 50 films president Sonia Gandhi on wishes of the MLAs, she has Selja as the state party chief and is in complete denial," Sonia alleged WhatsApp snooping ified its stand on this issue, of Golden Jubilee award, by 50 female filmmakers to Saturday appointed Hooda as appointed Hooda as the CLP Choudhary as CLP leader with said. controversy, BJP working and asked the Congress pres- Information and Broadcasting acknowledge the contribution leader of the Congress leader. Hooda. Tanwar had later quit "As economic decisions president JP Nadda on ident to clarify who ordered Minister Prakash Javadekar of women in cinema, Javadekar Legislature Party (CLP) in the "By virtue of being appoint- the party. have not damaged the econo- Saturday hit back saying she snooping during the announced on Saturday. The said. State. ed the CLP leader, Hooda will In the 90-member assem- my enough, it is now ready to should reveal who ordered Congress-led UPA regime. Minister also announced cel- Russia will be the partner Congress MLAs had be the Leader of Opposition in bly, the strength of BJP is 40, its deal a body blow to it by sign- snooping on then Union "Mrs Gandhi could ebrated French actor Isabelle country at the festival this authorised party president the newly-constituted assem- ally Jannayak Janta Party (JJP) ing the RCEP — the regional Minister Pranab Mukherjee enlighten the nation about Huppert as the recipient of the year. Sonia Gandhi to name the bly," he said. Azad also hailed 10, Congress 31, Indian free trade agreement of 16 and then Army chief VK who at 10 Janpath authorised Lifetime Achievement Award. Dadasaheb Phalke Award new Congress Legislature Party Hooda and Haryana Congress National Lok Dal (INLD) one, Asian countries," Sonia said. Singh during the UPA snooping on Shri Pranab The festival will be held in winner Amitabh Bachchan's (CLP) leader in the Haryana chief Kumari Selja for their Haryana Lokhit Party one and This will result in untold Government. Mukherjee when he was a Goa from November 20 to 28 selected seven or eight films assembly. efforts in the Assembly polls, seven independents. The seven hardship for farmers, shop- Nadda was responding to Minister in UPA & Gen VK with close to 250 films from will also be showcased at the Announcing this, AICC saying their combination had independents too had extend- keepers, and small and medi- allegations made by Sonia Singh when he was the Army various countries to be movie fest. Haryana in-charge Ghulam worked well for the party and ed support to the BJP. um enterprises, she claimed. that the Government used Chief," Nadda said. +A ' +       (       /        , ()*   '  #          Jammu: As many as 164 recruits, hailing from different parts of   added.   including those involved in Ladakh, were on Saturday Delhi recorded its worst air emergency medical services, inducted into the Army after gainst the backdrop of the quality of the season on Friday ith an aim to rehearse dis- and urban search and rescue at completing a rigorous training Asevere Delhi pollution, as the pollution level touched Waster response mecha- the national and international programme, a defence German Chancellor Angela the 'severe plus' category, nisms and share knowledge, levels, will be discussed, the spokesman said. Merkel on Saturday said that prompting authorities to shut experience and technology, the statement said. The main focus An attestation parade for the looking at the severity of the schools till November 5, ban all National Disaster Response of Shanghai Cooperation induction of the young soldiers situation it would be a good construction activities and Force (NDRF) is hosting the Organisation Joint Exercise on into the Ladakh Scouts regiment idea to replace diesel buses with declare a "public health emer- four-day Shanghai Cooperation Urban Earthquake Search and was held at Regimental Centre in electric ones. She then went on gency". Organisation (SCO) joint exer- Rescue (SCOJtEx) will be to test Leh, he said. to announce Germany's pledge Merkel said that Germany cise. It will be inaugurated by the region's preparedness to The spokesman said the to invest 1 billion Euros over would also like to work with Union Home Minister Amit activate inter-Governmental ceremony conducted in conso- the next five years on environ- India on various segments Shah. interaction for immediate nance with the highest traditions mentally-friendly urban mobil- including healthcare, agricul- This exercise will also pro- response, it said. of the Indian Army was reviewed ity in India. ture and artificial intelligence. vide an opportunity to enhance Discussions will be also by General Officer Merkel, whose visit to the On Friday, India and coordination and cooperation as held on the role of the human- Commanding, Trishul Division, country coincided with one of Germany agreed to deepen it involves multi-agency opera- itarian system, UNDAC, emer- Major General Sanjiv Rai. the worst spells of air pollution efforts to resume stalled nego- tions, the MHA said. gency response and assessment It was attended by a spec- in Delhi/NCR, said : "We have tiations for a free trade agree- There will be participants team, on-site operations coor- trum of civil and military digni- agreed to co-operate on climate ment between India and the from all eight SCO member dination centre local emergency taries, including war heroes of protection and green urban European Union (EU). countries — China, India, management authority and the regiment and parents of the mobility and have earmarked 1 The negotiations for the Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, humanitarian civil-military recruits, he said. billion Euros towards this. pact have been held up since Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and coordination, the statement said. He said the young soldiers Germany would also put in 200 May 2013 as both the sides Uzbekistan. The simulation Representatives from the took oath in unison to serve the million euros to reform the bus failed to bridge substantial exercise will be conducted as per International Search & Rescue nation. PTI sector in Tamil Nadu, she gaps on crucial issues. ,                     # $    '7 the methodology and guidelines Advisory Group, Asian of the International Search and Coordination Centre for Rescue Advisory Group. Humanitarian Assistance, Brazil, =58 5'1->005&>8 5-- ' The exercise will be followed Mongolia and South Africa have &'     by a meeting between SCO been invited as observers. experts and officials of The Ministry said repre- %   9:      / $ Ministries responsible for pre- sentatives from embassies of all      vention and elimination of SCO member nations, heads of New Delhi: Ratul Puri, nephew Carlo Gerosa and Guido in foreign jurisdictions and deported by Indian probe agen- emergency situations. state disaster response forces of Madhya Pradesh Chief Haschke, who have received then brought into India and cies from Dubai as part of the -#. &  During the exercise, the and representatives of other Minister Kamal Nath, is alleged about Euro 28 million, and invested in Hindustan Power probe into the case. role and responsibilities of var- stakeholders shall also be par- to have received kickbacks of Christian Michel James (anoth- Group, whose chairman is Puri," The charge sheet said Ahuja ious organisations and teams, ticipating in this exercise. about Rs 16 crore from firms er middleman in the case), who the agency charged. "assisted" Puri in laundering the New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday linked to purported middlemen had received about Euro 42 mil- The ED has claimed that proceeds of crime through var- announced its candidates for the involved the multi-crore VVIP lion, to influence the contract Puri also received "proceeds of ious jurisdictions by creating, Assembly bypolls in choppers scam, the ED said in for the supply of 12 VVIP heli- crime" amounting to $12,40,890 maintaining and managing the Uttarakhand and West Bengal. its chargesheet on Saturday. copters," it said in a statement. from Michel's companies name- foreign companies which The party's central election The central agency filed its Puri received "proceeds of ly Global Services FZE and belonged to Puri. committee finalised the names sixth supplementary prosecu- crime" amounting to Euro Globe Oil FZE through the "Both have known each for the bypoll on one Assembly Majumder and Premchand Jha tion complaint in the case and 704,134.57 and $1,50,000 from companies of Rajiv Saxena other since long," the ED said. seat in Uttarakhand and three in are the BJP nominees for named Puri and his alleged Interstellar Technologies which were used for the bene- It said a court has taken West Bengal, the BJP said in a Kaliaganj, Karimpur and associate Jaspreet Ahuja. Limited in his foreign entities, fit of Puri. The conversion of the cognisance of the charge sheet statement. Kharagpur Sadar Assembly seats "Investigation revealed that the Enforcement Directorate foreign currencies alleged to and issued summons for Chandra Pant will be the respectively in West Bengal. kickbacks from AgustaWestland (ED) said. have been received by Puri December 18 to Ahuja and party's candidate for Pithoragarh Polling in these four assem- amounting to Euro 70 million "The same money was lay- comes to about 16 crore. Both also sent Puri to judicial custody seat in Uttarakhand. Kamal bly seats is scheduled for was routed through middlemen ered through various companies Michel and Saxena have been till the same date. PTI Chandra Sarkar, Joyprakash November 25. PTI ?     !+ ,- ./01

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The association will economic scenario in both provide a systematic structure   & '&   countries and regulatory devel- attacks in \the city in he had met Union Finance for conducting mutual consul-   () opments" with the RBI gover- November 2008, by laying a Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. tations, advisory work and pol- nor. wreath at south Mumbai's Taj It can be noted that India icy exchanges at ministerial and In a tweet, Mnuchin said Hotel, one of the sites of the has had difficulties paying Iran expert levels and provide tech- he discussed issues related to attacks that had claimed 166 for oil imports during previous nical assistance. the "monetary policy and the lives. rounds of sanctions led by the This collaboration will help financial sector" with Das. He was accompanied by US, and the RBI had played an further develop the successful Mnuchin also had a lun- US Ambassador to India important role for solutions in cooperation in the various cheon meet with top officials of Kenneth Juster and Consul the same. fields covered by the Indo- National Investment and General in Mumbai David J The US has been peeved at German Joint Working Group Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), Ranz, in all the engagements, a Iran for pursuing a nuclear pro- on Vocational Education and the Indian government-pro- \US government spokesper- gramme which it fears is being Training. moted vehicle to support infra- son said. dictated by what it calls as a ter- One declaration of intent structure investments that has He also had a roundtable ror outfit, due to which it has (DoI) is with the Federal received support from a slew of meet with business leaders3 imposed sanctions against Ministry of Education and sovereign wealth funds already. Anand Mahindra, Harsh Tehran. Research (referred to as BMBF) From his Twitter handle, Goenka and Adi Godrej, who It has been asking other for Cooperation in Skill Mnuchin said he discussed head multibillion corporations nations to support it against Development and Vocational both US and India's "mutual each, the spokesperson said. Iran for the same. According to Education and Training, interests in promoting invest- Mnuchin left the city in the reports, India has stopped whereas the second was for   '& > ?   ments" with NIIF brass. evening, the spokesperson said. crude oil imports from Iran as Dual VET initiative marking   () He also paid homage to the He had come to the financial a result of the sanctions earli- Sustainable Growth of Skills victims of the 26/11 terror capital from New Delhi, where er this year. with Siemens Limited, India. 49 , *   /       of the company". With this, Century Ltd ceases to be a sub- ndiabulls Real Estate on sidiary of the company. Earlier, ISaturday said it has sold its the company had disclosed its property in London to a pro- plans to focus on its India busi- moter group firm for 200 mil- ness and pare debt. lion pounds (about Rs 1,830 "In light of continuing crore) as part of its plan to Brexit related issues and uncer- focus on the India business and tainty around it, the London cut debt. property market remains slug- At its annual general meet- gish. The Great Britain pound ing (AGM) on September 28, has also had a sustained depre- 0(    & # the company's shareholders ciation from around the time of had approved a proposal to sell Brexit referendum result," the ) ( B  /0 its London property to pro- company had said in the notice moters for 200 million pounds. for the AGM. Mumbai: Singapore-based 1$   In a filing to BSE, Indiabulls Real Estate had DBS Bank said on Saturday Indiabulls Real Estate said the said that a further loan of that reports claiming    "company's wholly owned sub- about 133 million pounds was that it will acquire controlling sidiary has divested its entire needed to complete the ongo- stakes in Yes Bank 22   stake in Century Ltd, which ing construction at 22, Hanover were false. indirectly owns Hanover Square property in London. "The rumours of DBS  Square property, London to However, it would not like to acquiring a stake in Yes Bank Clivedale Overseas Ltd, an incur this additional debt on its are unfounded and baseless," a arren Buffett's company entity owned by the promoters own balance sheet. DBS spokesperson said. IANS Wreported Saturday that it saw an 11 per cent decline in third-quarter profits because of a smaller increase in the paper . "   value of its investments, even as it sits on a mountain of cash. Berkshire Hathaway said it  #4E " made USD 16.52 billion, or USD 10,119 per Class A share,   final risk assessment report while RBI assessed it as 13,537 in the quarter, down from (RAR). Indian Bank in a dis- crore leading to a divergence of USD 18.54 billion, or USD ithin days of market reg- closure to BSE said "in com- 184 crore. There was diver- 11,280 per Class A share, a year Wulator asking the listed pliance to Regulation 30 of gence in Net NPA also but it ago. PSU banks to report divergence SEBI (Listing Obligations and was higher reported by the Buffett has long said in NPAs as estimated by them Disclosure Requirements) bank at 6,793 crore while Berkshire's operating earnings and RBI immediately to the Regulations, 2015 and SEBI cir- RBI estimated it as 5,973 offer a better view of quarter- bourses, three banks — Indian cular of 31.10.2019, we enclose crore resulting in a higher net ly performance because they Bank, Union Bank and Uco the report of divergence in NPA of 820 crore by the Bank exclude investments and deriv- Bank have done so and more asset classification and provi- on books. atives, which can vary. could follow suit. sioning for NPAs as per Risk There was provisioning By that measure, SBI had on Thursday Assessment Report (RAR) of divergence naturally where RBI Berkshire's operating earnings directed all listed lenders to RBI for the year 2018-19." said provisioning is 7,135 improved to USD 7.86 billion, make disclosures on diver- The Gross NPAs as on crore will bank put 6,131 or USD 4,812 per Class A gences and provisioning with- March , 2019 as reported by crore resulting in divergence of share, from USD 6.88 billion, in a day of receipt of the RBI's Indian Bank was 13,353 crore 1,004 crore. or USD 4,186.05 per Class A share. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expected operating earnings per share of USD 4,299.20 on average. Berkshire Hathaway recorded an USD 8.67 billion paper investment gain during the quarter. A year ago, it reg- istered an unrealised USD 11.66 billion investment gain. Berkshire's revenue improved 2 per cent to USD 64.97 billion. Edward Jones analyst Jim Shanahan said the results look good overall despite the ongo- ing challenges of the US trade war with China and weakness in manufacturing, but it's dis- appointing that Berkshire did- n't find a way to use more of its cash.     !+ ,- ./01 " @       

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You can't impeach a Representatives to approve fied,” Trump said during his will and to thwart American Republican Party and me this young — president who's rebuilt our the process of impeachment address at the democracy. And shifty, Adam because I'm fighting for you, How old are you? Six? military, who's taken care of against him is an attack on “Keep America Great” Schiff and the media are con- they don't like it. This is dif- This young beautiful person our vets with choice and American democracy. rally in Tupelo, Mississippi on tinuing with the deranged ferent. They've never had in front. And this young six- accountability. Nobody The 435-member lower Friday. impeachment witch hunt, this anything like this. And they year-old is smarter. So I think thought those things could be chamber of the US Congress So far only two US is one I never thought I'd be know they can't win,” he said. I'd basically go with her,” he passed,” Trump said. on Thursday passed the mea- Presidents Andrew Johnson involved in, the word Trump scoffed at said. “The Democrats are sure, the third time in the his- and Bill Clinton have been impeachment,” he said. Democrats' claim that he was Earlier in the day, Trump crazed. They're lunatics. In tory of the modern presiden- impeached by the US House Trump said that the so fearful of Democratic fron- told reporters at the White the meantime, we have the cy, establishing rules for open of Representatives but neither "Democrats voted to poten- trunner and former vice pres- House that he cannot believe greatest economy ever. We hearings and the questioning of them were convicted by the tially nullify the votes of 63 ident Joseph R. Biden that he that the Democrats can have a man on the other side, of witnesses by members and Senate, as a result no US Congress, the impeachment million Americans disgracing asked Ukraine to investigate impeach a president when Adam Schiff, who is a corrupt staff by 232-196 votes. president has been removed process is likely to sail themselves and bringing him for corruption. the economy is doing so politician, as you know. He's Democrats enjoy majori- from office using the through the Democratic con- shame upon the House of “Gee, I guess there's only good.“I can't believe they'd a corrupt politician. ty with 233 seats in the House impeachment process. trolled House of Representatives.” one way — let's call up impeach. You have the great- He made up a speech and of Representatives while the In the 100-member Representatives and unlikely The impeachment Ukraine for help,” he said est economy in the history of he read what I said and it was- ruling Republican, from Senate, Trump's Republican to be passed by the GOP- process has started deepening mockingly. our country. n't what I said. It was a terri- which Trump comes, has 197 Party enjoys majority with 53 majority Senate. the bitter political divide in “These people are sick. You have the highest ble thing he said, and many elected representatives. seats and the Democrats have Trump, in his first elec- the US, which over the next And here's the good news: the stock market in the history of people saw that. That's how “They've been plotting to 47 seats. Given the current tion rally, also alleged that the few weeks and months is people get it,” he said. our country. You have the best this whole thing--he started it overthrow the election. composition of the US mainstream American media likely to develop into an The president alleged that employment numbers and as a con,” he said. &&  ,/ 8  " " ,          @A   , ?          cation in the city, which has through the streets in the after- greater autonomy have been " A  " seen 22 consecutive weekends noon, citing safety fears given allowed to stand in the elec- ong Kong police fired tear of youth-led protests. the months of clashes. tions later this month.Beijing      placed by the eight-year war, Hgas and water cannon Hong Kong has been As has happened so often runs Hong Kong under a "one is controlled by 's former Saturday as thousands of pro- upended by the huge, often vio- in the past, protesters simply country, two systems" model n air strike Saturday by Al-Qaeda affiliate.Syrian testers hit the streets, defying lent, pro-democracy protests defied the ban and began mass- that grants the city freedoms Akey ally Russia President Bashar al-Assad's authorities with another which have battered the finan- ing in large numbers despite unheard of on the authoritar- killed six civilians including a forces launched a devastating unsanctioned march as the cial hub's reputation for stabil- the risk of arrest and jail for ian mainland. child in the embattled oppo- military campaign against democracy movement shows ity and helped plunge the city taking part in an illegal assem- But many activists fear sition bastion of Idlib in Idlib in April, killing around no signs of abating after near- into recession. bly.Among those calling for those freedoms are being erod- northwestern Syria, a war 1,000 civilians and forcing ly five months. Beijing has shown no will- people to come out0 on ed by a resurgent Beijing, par-  monitor. The strike hit the vil- more than 400,000 people to Crowds of black-clad ingness to meet protester Saturday was Joshua Wong, one ticularly since President Xi lage of Jaballa in the south of flee their homes.But a cease- protesters, many wearing face demands for greater democra- of the city's most prominent Jinping came to power. he Malian Government the Idlib region, taking the fire announced by the regime's masks despite a recent ban, tic freedoms and police activists who was barred earli- This summer's protests in Tsays at least 54 people are lives of all six from the same major backer Moscow has filled Causeway Bay, a popular accountability -- and activists er this week from standing in which millions marched were dead following a jehadis attack family, the Syrian Observatory largely held since late August, shopping district, and clashes show no sign of leaving the upcoming local elections. sparked by a now-abandoned on the army in the north.The for Human Rights said. though the Observatory says soon erupted with riot police streets."The Government and "Exercising freedom of attempt to allow extraditions to revised death toll from The Britain-based mon- skirmishes persist.On Friday, who had flooded the area. the police have been ignoring assembly has become increas- the authoritarian mainland. Government spokesman Yaya itor, which relies on sources 23 regime fighters, as well as Volleys of tear gas scattered and suppressing the people's ingly difficult as police in HK But as Beijing took a hard- Sangare came a day after the inside Syria, says it deter- 11 jihadists and allied rebels, activists in Causeway Bay and demands so we need to con- holds tighter grip in recent line the movement snowballed. military initially announced at mines who carries out an air were killed in clashes on the Victoria Park -- a traditional tinue the movement to show months. Yet we're not giving up Protesters are demanding least 15 dead following Friday's strike according to flight pat- western edges of the Idlib spot for protest rallies -- as well them we still want what we are our constitutional rights," he an inquiry into the police, an attack in the Menaka region. terns, as well as aircraft and region. Assad last week said as in neighbouring Wanchai, a asking for," 18-year-old pro- wrote on Twitter. amnesty for those arrested and The new violence is expect- ammunition involved. Idlib was the main front district packed with pubs tester Gordon Tsoi, who was Wong is loathed by Beijing fully free elections. ed to further raise tensions in Observatory head Rami remaining to end the civil war, where some of those caught up not wearing a mask, told AFP with state media often brand- Over the months protests the capital, Bamako, where Abdel Rahman said it was the as he made his first trip since were revellers who had gath- as he marched. ing him a "separatist" and a have got increasingly violent, military families have already bloodiest such Russian air 2011 to visit troops in the ered to watch the Rugby World "The entire Government is "traitor" because he campaigns with smaller groups of hard- protested in the streets.Relatives raid in two months since region. Cup final. being controlled by the central for greater autonomy for Hong core activists throwing petrol say that soldiers are not being Moscow announced a truce He spoke as his forces Police were seen making government now, so we have to Kong. bombs and bricks as well as adequately protected on the for the surrounding area on were deploying in Kurdish- multiple arrests throughout come out to protect the free- He denies seeking inde- vandalising pro-China busi- ground as they face an array of August 31.Since then, eight majority areas to the east of the day. doms we deserve," added pendence and says he simply nesses.Police have responded jihadist groups. Friday's vio- other civilians have been killed Idlib to help stave off a dead- The latest unrest came a another 17-year-old protester campaigns for the democratic with ever-increasing arrests, lence took place a month after in Russian air strikes on dif- ly Turkish offensive. Syria's day after China gave its latest who declined to give his name. freedoms and autonomy tear gas and rubber bullet vol- 41 soldiers were killed and 20 ferent dates in the region, he war has killed 370,000 people warning that it would not tol- Police gave permission for Beijing promised Hong Kong leys while crowd beatings of others went missing during two said. and displaced millions from erate any challenge to Hong an evening rally in the city's for 50 years after the 1997 han- people on both sides of the ide- attacks on Malian soldiers tak- The Idlib region, which is their homes since beginning Kong's governing system and commercial district but reject- dover by Britain. ological divide have become ing part in a regional countert- home to some three million in 2011 with the brutal repres- planned to boost patriotic edu- ed an application to march Other people who advocate commonplace. errorism force. people including many dis- sion of anti-Assad protests. 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  iation between the Afghan “Although Pakistan's the country,” it said. laboration with other terrorist In June 2018, the interna- “Although Pakistan's laws government and the Taliban, it National Action Plan calls to Pakistan, it said, experi- groups. Separatist militant tional terror financing watch- technically comply with inter- akistan has "failed to sig- did not restrict the terror ensure that no armed militias enced significant terrorist groups conducted terrorist dog FATF placed Pakistan on national AML/CFT standards, Pnificantly limit" militant group and the Haqqani are allowed to function in the threats in 2018, although the attacks against governmental, its “grey list” for deficiencies authorities failed to uniform- outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba Network (HQN) from operat- country, several terrorist number of attacks and casual- non-governmental, and diplo- across its Anti-Money ly implement UN sanctions (LeT) and the Jaish-e- ing in Pakistan-based safe groups that focus on attacks ties have continued to decrease matic targets in Balochistan Laundering and Countering related to designated entities Mohammed (JeM) from havens and threatening the US outside the country continued from previous years. and Sindh provinces, it said. Financing of Terrorism and individuals such as LeT fundraising and recruiting and Afghan forces in to operate from Pakistani soil The major terrorist groups As a member of the Asia- (AML/CFT) regimes, specifi- and its affiliates, which con- while several terrorist groups Afghanistan. in 2018, including the Haqqani that focused on conducting Pacific Group on Money cally citing concerns over tinued to make use of eco- that focus on attacks outside “The (Pakistan) govern- Network, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and attacks in Pakistan included Laundering (APG), Pakistan Pakistan's failure to fully nomic resources and raise the country continued to oper- ment failed to significantly Jaish-e-Mohammad,” it said. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan agreed to implement interna- implement the UN Security funds. Pakistan committed to ate from its soil in 2018, a limit Lashkar-e-Taiba and The report observed that (TTP), Jamaat-ulAhrar (JuA), tional standards to combat Council ISIL and al-Qaida addressing these concerns as damning US report has said. Jaish-e-Mohammad from rais- the government and military Islamic State's Khorasan money laundering, terrorism sanctions regime. part of an agreed FATF Action The US State Department, ing money, recruiting and acted inconsistently with Province (ISIS-K), and the finance and proliferation FATF noted that UN-list- Plan,” the report said. in its Congressional mandat- training in Pakistan – and respect to terrorist safe havens sectarian group Lashkar- finance.“Pakistan criminalises ed entities, including LeT and FATF had last month ed annual Country Reports on allowed candidates overtly throughout the country. eJhangvi al-Alami (LJA). terrorist financing through its affiliates, were not effec- retained Pakistan on the Grey Terrorism for the year 2018, on affiliated with LeT front organ- "Authorities did not take ISIS-K claimed several the Anti-terrorism Act, but tively prohibited from raising List and warned the country of Friday said even though the isations to contest the July sufficient action to stop certain major attacks against Pakistani implementation remains funds in Pakistan or being action for its failure in com- Pakistani government voiced general elections,” the US State terrorist groups and individu- targets, some of which may uneven,” the State Department denied financial services, it bating money laundering and support for political reconcil- Department said in the report. als from openly operating in have been conducted in col- said. said. terror financing. #   ! #                 #        is in the area." "But it's not just here. Everywhere The Maria Fire erupted as crews around the world, we can see these hor- 7 ,  new wildfire in California grew to continue to battle multiple blazes that rible environmental impacts that count-   Anearly 9,000 acres (3,700 hectares) have broken out across the state in the less people are suffering and dying   on Friday, sending thousands of people last two weeks, prompting massive from." The fires prompted California landmine explosion killed nine children in north- fleeing and further stretching resources evacuations and power cuts. Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a ndian Ambassador to Nepal Manjeev Aeastern Afghanistan on Saturday, an official said, in a state struggling with a spate of wild- Another fire, the Easy Fire, which statewide emergency this week. ISingh Puri inaugurated newly con- amid an increase in civilian casualties in the long-run- fires this season. broke out Wednesday in Ventura The flames have been fed by bone- structed infrastructure at the Shree ning and brutal war. The so-called Maria Fire erupted County and came dangerously close to dry conditions, especially in the lower Mahendra Model Higher Secondary The blast happened in volatile Darqad district of Thursday evening in Ventura County, 65 the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part of the state which has not had rain- School in Khalanga town of the country's Takhar province, when the children stepped on a mine miles (105 kilometers) northwest of Los was almost fully contained on Friday. fall for months. An extreme red flag Darchula District on Saturday.Deputy that had been planted on a road in a Taliban-controlled Angeles, and burned out of control "We're in the middle of a big fight, warning issued for the Los Angeles area Prime Minister and Health Minister village."At 8:30am (0400 GMT) this morning, tragi- through the night, driven by high and we're about a week into this and the this week was lifted Thursday but the Upendra Yadav, Nepali Congress cally, nine schoolchildren were martyred in a landmine winds and threatening 2,300 struc- end is not yet in sight," Ventura County National Weather Service warned that Lawmaker Dilendra Prasad Badu and blast planted by the Taliban," Jawad Hejri, a spokesman tures. Fire Chief Mark Lorenzen told reporters so-called Santa Ana winds could still Mayor of Mahakali Municipality Hansraj for the Takhar provincial governor, told AFP.He said By Friday afternoon, the wind- Friday afternoon."It has been an uphill wreak havoc through Saturday evening. were present during the inauguration cer- the children -- all boys -- were aged from seven to fueled blaze that risked consuming cit- battle ever since." Up in Sonoma In a bid to reduce the risk of wild- emony. 11.No group claimed responsibility for the blast, and rus and avocado orchards as well as County, north of San Francisco, there fires, the state's largest utility company, The new infrastructure, constructed the Taliban did not immediately respond to a request other crops was zero percent con- was some good news as authorities Pacific Gas & Electric, has been shut- with the Government of India's grant for comment.Last month, the United Nations released tained. Authorities said 8,000 people reported that the Kincade Fire, the ting off power to millions of customers assistance of NRs 30 million, is a two sto- a report saying an "unprecedented" number of civil- were under evacuation orders and at largest in the state this season, was 68 in northern and central California, ried building comprising ians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan from July least two structures had been burned. per cent contained. prompting outrage. 13 classrooms, a meeting hall, sepa- to September this year. The figures -- 1,174 deaths and Ventura County Sheriff Bill Ayub The devastating fires that have The blazes come as California is still rate sanitation facilities for boys and girls 3,139 injured from July 1 until September 30 -- rep- said fire crews had been thwarted by exploded across the state this season reeling from the aftermath of the most on each floor. resent a 42 percent increase compared to the same peri- people flying drones in the area. were addressed by teen climate activist destructive wildfire in state history -- the Shree Mahendra Model Higher od last year. The UN laid most of the blame at the feet "Last night and early morning we Greta Thunberg on Friday as she spoke Camp Fire, which destroyed the town Secondary School, established in 1960, of "anti-government elements" such as the Taliban, who had individuals flying small drones in at a rally in Los Angeles to pressure of Paradise and killed 86 people last offers 10+2 programs in Science, have been carrying out an insurgency in Afghanistan the area of the flight operations for the California lawmakers to pass stricter year. Humanities, and Management streams. for more than 18 years. In May, a landmine killed seven fire suppression," he told a media brief- environmental policies. Similar blazes in northern The school, situated in Far-West children and wounded two more in the southern ing. "Today, in California, we can see the California, including in the Napa and Nepal, also provides scholarships to province of Ghazni.A month earlier, seven children "This creates a very significant haz- wildfires happening just around the Sonoma wine regions, killed 44 people deserving and the marginalised stu- were killed and 10 more wounded in the eastern ard for our airborne fire fighting assets corner, wildfires that are being intensi- in 2017 and destroyed thousands of dents.The school has over 2,000 students, province of Laghman when a mortar shell exploded and causes them to land and stop fire- fied by the climate crisis," the 16-year- structures.There have been no fatalities about 50 per cent of whom are girls. while they were playing with it. fighting efforts as long as that aircraft old Swede said. linked to this year's fires.     !+ ,- ./01 !"B

4 /* SPRINGBOKS WIN THIRD WORLD CUP "'  9'   0  Yokohama: (# 3 41 &R    456/R       lready a proven successful leader in Indian Premier ALeague with Mumbai Indians winning four titles under his leadership, Indian limited- overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma is MEIRABA CLINCHES KOREA JR TITLE all set to captain young Men in Blue New Delhi: side which will be without regular +  skipper Virat Kohli (rested), in the first game of the three-match Twenty 20 International series  R  against Bangladesh here at Arun Jaitley stadium (formerly Feroz      Shah Kotla ground) today. Already under much spotlight ookie left-hand Mumbai due to poor weather conditions in Rall-rounder Shivam Dube the National Capital Region, the could make his international match will bring a fresh set of chal- debut today in the first T20 lenge for both the sides, as the vis- game of the three match series. itors will miss the services of world During his pre-match press PCB INVITES CSA FOR T20 SERIES IN PAK number two all-rounder (No 1 in conference on Saturday, stand- Karachi: ODIs) Shakib Al Hasan, who was in skipper Rohit Sharma indi- banned by the ICC for two years cated that one of the two (one year suspended) for not between Dube and Kerala wick- reporting corrupt approaches from et-keeper batsman Sanju an alleged Indian bookie during the Samson might feature in the Indian Premier League (IPL) just series opener. a day before the team was about to The skipper was impressed leave for the tour. with the performance of both For India, it’s a chance to work the youngsters in domestic cir- out a strategy to do well when it cuit and said that depending on bats first. The team management the match day conditions one of has identified this as an issue since the two will get the chance to if the top order fails, the middle play. order does not inspire much con- “We will assess now (the fidence, and team’s batting coach 7  %        $   %            3   # $  '7 conditions) and probably a bit Vikram Rathour mentioned this before the game as well. But during press meet after team’s first       looks a bit tricky in the absence of both (Sanju and Dube) are def- practice session on Friday. &3F**' PERFORMANCE IN TWENTY-20I Shakib and Tamim Iqbal but the initely in the fray. One of them “In the last series, we deliber- presence of seasoned campaigners might definitely play. You might ately batted first in one game "7, %,"  *".%, @ A#)!B   ' C :: !!D like Liton Das, Soumya Sarkar, see in playing XI. All doors are PSG STUNNED BY ROCK-BOTTOM DIJON which we lost. That’s one area we Mushfiqur Rahim and newly open for everyone. Anyone Paris: need to work on. We need to bat form back after a below-par perfor- appointed T20 skipper might come into the playing XI better when we bat first. We chase mance against South Africa and in Mahmudullah Riyad in the batting any moment,” Rohit told pretty well,” explained Rathour. Vijay Hazare tournament. line up and Mustafizur Rahman in reporters. And this is something Rohit In the absence of Virat Kohli, HIGHEST TOTALS the bowling unit give them an out- He also backed India’s first and his young lads would like the the middle order looks a bit inex- -) side hope of producing a big setback. choice wicket keeper Rishabh change in the upcoming three perienced but in form of Shreyas (- ! Pant, which gives a fair indica- games against the Tigers, who are Iyer, Manish Pandey, Sanju Samson, SQUADS tion that Samson may not fig- still in search of a first win against KL Rahul and local lad Rishabh HIGHEST INDIVIDUAL SCORES ure in the XI. India: Rohit Sharma (c), India in the shortest format of the Pant there is still a lot of firepow- -) “We have to back him (- ! Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra game. ers present in the line-up. Chahal, Deepak Chahar, (Rishabh). He has only played The series is going to be the Also, the inclusion of hard-hit- 15-20 T20s. It’s too soon to BEST BOWLING IN AN INNINGS Rahul Chahar, Shikhar first time when these two Asian ting all-rounders like Krunal judge him. There’s still lot of sides will face each other in the Pandya, Washington Sundar and -) Dhawan, Shivam Dube, time left before passing a judge- (- ! Shreyas Iyer, Manish Pandey, bilateral series, previously playing rookie Shivam Dube adds variety ment on Rishabh,” he said. KING’S STRIKE PUNISH MANCHESTER UNITED eight games (three each in T20 and strength to the long line up. B  BB Krunal Pandya, Rishabh Pant, The captain made it clear K L Rahul, Sanju Samson, London: World Cup and Nidahas trophy Even though the pace bowling that the team combination will 2018, while two games were played department looks a bit thin with management has said that it would which at one time soared in the Washington Sundar and depend on the match day con- Shardul Thakur. in Dhaka during 2016 Asia Cup). Khaleel Ahmed, Shardul Thakur prefer to identify the core of the company of Kuldeep Yadav. ditions. And to maintain the unbeaten and Deepak Chahar being the team without much tinkering. With Chahal likely to be pre- Bangladesh: Mahmudullah “A lot has got to do with streak of eight games even after this three frontline seamers, who com- Considering the same, it is time ferred for usually low-slow Kotla Riyad (c), Taijul Islam, how the pitch is going to play. series, the onus will be on the skip- bined have the experience of just 22 for these youngsters, including surface, an off-spinner in Mohammad Mithun, Liton If the pitch is slow, slow bowlers per Rohit Sharma, who would like international T20 games altogeth- spin all-rounder Washington Washington Sundar will be a more Kumer Das, Soumya Sarker, come into the play a lot. If it to continue his ace form after er. The series will give them a Sundar, to make a case for them- useful option than fielding leg spin- Naim Sheikh, Mushfiqur means we have to play three making memorable debut as Test chance to put their case forward for selves. ner Rahul Chahar. Rahhim, Afif Hossain, spinners then we will play three opener against South Africa (529 a place in T20 World Cup squad The series will also provide an The team may not field two spinners. And if there is grass Mosaddek Hossain Saikat, runs in four innings) in the recent- which is scheduled to take place a opportunity for leg-spinner wrist spinners and Sundar’s superi- and we feel there will be some ly concluded three-match series. year from now in Australia. Yuzvendra Chahal to earn back his or batting ability gives him an edge. Aminul Islam Biplob, Arafat bounce, then we might play Sunny, Abu Hider, Al-Amin While his limited-overs opening There are still around 20 place in the Indian side. As for the visitors, they will be with three seamers as well. So partner and local boy Shikhar matches India will play before Getting limited opportunities desperate to find maiden win against Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman everything depends on the con- and Shafiul Islam. Dhawan will also look to find his next year’s tourney but the team this year has put brakes on his career the continental neighbours which ditions,” he said. ,#7 2   $Q <  +

  India B and India C have   team last won their Gold medal. already qualified for the finals    On Saturday, Indian women ll-rounder Axar Patel after India A lost both their ties kipper Rani Rampal’s 48th looked a pale shadow of them- Asmashed a 61-ball 98 and the two teams will face off Sminute strike sealed Tokyo selves as USA took full advan- before leg-spinner Mayank in the summit clash here   boundaries and two sixes. Olympics berth for the Indian tage of their complacency dur- Markande claimed four wick- tomorrow. Opener Natasha McLean women’s hockey team as they ing the first two quarters. ets as India C trounced India B Earlier, Virat Singh (76 pener Priya Punia’s well- also put up a good show, pipped USA 6-5 on aggregate Amanda Magadan (5th, by 136 runs in the third and not out) and Axar Patel (98 not Ocompiled fifty went in smashing a 82-ball 51 as West despite losing 1-4 in the second 28th minutes), skipper Kathleen final one-dayer of the Deodhar out) joined hands after India vain as the Indian women’s Indies posted a competitive leg of the FIH Qualifier here on Sharkey (14th) and Alyssa Trophy here on Saturday. C lost five wickets, sharing team suffered a narrow one- 225 for 7 at the Sir Vivian Saturday. Parker (20th) scored for the vis- Batting first, India C an unbeaten 154 run stand run defeat against the West Richards Stadium on Friday. After thrashing USA 5-1 on iting side. posted a challenging 280 for off 112 balls. Indies in the first ICC Defending the total, off- Friday, it was expected to be a After the change of ends, 5, riding on Axar’s brilliance The spin bowling all- Women’s Championship ODI spinner Anisa Mohammed formality for the Indian women India showed signs of coming and and Virat Singh’s 96-ball rounder Axar was the here. came up with a superb bowl- but they were given a real scare back into game, but USA 76. dominant of the two as Chasing 226 to win, Punia ing performance, claiming five by the USA women, who raced defended in numbers and to They then returned to he dealt in boundaries, smashed six boundaries in her wickets for 46 runs. She was to a 4-0 lead at the halfway mark. keep the hosts at bay as the third dismiss India B for 144 in smashing 13 fours 107-ball innings, while ably supported by Taylor However the partisan fans quarter and locked at 5-5 on 43.4 overs to complete the and three sixes in his Jemimah Rodrigues (41) (2/30) and Shabika Gajnabi went into raptures when Rani aggregate scoreline, it took an drubbing. 61-ball innings. scored a 67-ball 41 at the top (2/25), who snapped two wick- pulled one back to maintain the inspirational strike from Rani in For India B, Baba Singh played the but they didn’t get enough sup- ets each. slender lead till final hooter. the 48th minute from a loose ball Aparajith emerged as the second fiddle, scor- port from lower-order to be India coudn’t score the Indian women have now to reduce the margin and hand top-scorer with a 90-ball ing three boundaries dismissed for 224 in 50 overs required eight runs in the last qualified for back-to-back India the vital lead. 53 but he didn’t get any sup- and as many sixes during his by the hosts. over with Mohammed remov- Olympics having sealed it in Rio The Americans were award- port from the other hand. 96-ball knock. Earlier, Stefanie Taylor ing Ekta Bisht (0) and Poonam de Janeiro after a gap of 36 years. ed a penalty corner four minutes opted to bat first and produced Yadav (0) in the first and final The women’s team first partici- from full time but the decision a captain’s knock, scoring a 91- deliveries respectively to hand pated in the Quadrennial extava- was overturned after India went 7 #8   ball 94 studded with eight West Indies a thrilling win. ganza in 1980 where the men’s % %     for the referral.   9:4 ,   (     and what was the reason they ward.”    &.4; did not want to play and accept Ganguly firmly believed   ust three seconds” is all the D/N Test (in Adelaide). I met that this concept will help Test afael Nadal pulled out of the   “Jwhat it took Sourav him for an hour and the first cricket regain its popularity in RParis Masters with an    Ganguly to convince India cap- question was we need to have the sub-continent at a time abdominal injury just minutes op-ranked Ashleigh Barty tain Viral Kohli into playing a day/night Tests and the answer when lukewarm response dur- before the scheduled start of his  " Tadvanced on Saturday to Day/Night Test match against in three seconds was let’s go ing India’s 3-0 whitewash of semi-final against Denis the final of the WTA Finals Bangladesh, the BCCI president ahead and do that,” Ganguly said South Africa became a cause for Shapovalov on Saturday, and   where she faces defending revealed on Saturday. about meeting Kohli ahead of concern. admitted his participation at the champion Elina Svitolina, a Less than a week after he the selection committee meeting “I know T20 every stand is ATP Tour Finals is in doubt. ndia’s top doubles player player she has never beaten in took reins of BCCI, Ganguly, in Mumbai on October 24. full in every game. But proper Canadian youngster IRohan Bopanna, along with five previous attempts. who had introduced pink ball at The Indian team had previ- management of Test cricket will Shapovalov will face Novak # $      his partner Denis Shapovalov of Barty, like Svitolina, domestic level as the technical ously put down Australia’s bring back crowd. It’s a start for Djokovic in today’s final in the Canada, suffered a narrow defeat dropped the opening set of her committee chairman three years request for a pink-ball Test at the India. I think with this concept French capital. ing for big things here.” against Russian duo of Karen semifinal before beating sec- ago, was successful in changing Adelaide Oval last year, while Test cricket will be back on its Second seed Nadal could Djokovic had beaten Grigor Khachanov and Andrey Rublov ond-ranked Karolina Pliskova the Indian Cricket Board’s suggestion to host West Indies feet.” have secured the year-end world Dimitrov 7-6 (7/5), 6-4 in the first in the quarter-finals to crash out of Czech Republic 4-6, 6-2, 6- stance. in day/night Tests too had got Urging the need for better number one ranking ahead of semi-final, but with an expectant of the Paris Masters. The Indo- 3. India thus will finally play shelved. marketing, he said: “It’s when Djokovic by winning the Bercy crowd waiting in their seats for Canadian duo fought hard for "I felt like the whole match their first ever day/night Test “I really don’t know what you’re forced to come out of title this week. the second last-four match, it was over 80 minutes before losing 5- was an incredibly high level," against a really tough player." versus Bangladesh at Eden happened in the past and what your comfort zone, you actual- “It’s a super sad moment for announced that Nadal was out of 7, 7-6, 8-10 against the Russian Barty said. "I'm just pleased to Belinda Bencic retired in Gardens here from November was the reason but I found him ly find out it’s better than what me,” he said. “I have been enjoy- the tournament. pair to bow out of the ATP get another chance to play out the third set as Svitolina outlast- 22-26, about four years after absolutely acceptable to play you think. 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he heart is a powerful metaphor, evok- ing emotional and psychological well- being, showing caring and compassion. Repeated instances of altruistic behav- iour, of continuing charity, are evidence Tthat people still feel their heart as a representation of their self, of the emotional self, which cannot be reduced to materialistic, biological terms. According to Hinduism, the heart is the connect- ing link between the heaven and the earth. It was the place of Brahman, the supreme cosmic spirit. While details of the brain were unknown in the early Vedic period, thoughts and emotions, and consciousness itself, came from the mind. The ultimate desire was to become one with Brahman and that could come about through connecting .. your heart to the heart of Brahman through duty, service, sacrifice, devotion, and charity. Charity, generosity and specifically the giving of alms are regarded as virtuous in most Indian philosophies and religions. Daana, a Sanskrit/Pali word denoting charity and giving, came from the  heart. Daana traces its roots to Vedic traditions  and can take the form of helping individuals in need, or in the wider form of helping many through public works and philanthropy. Traditionally, Daana implied the relinquishment or giving up of something that was one’s own to  help someone without expecting anything in  return. Related but not as powerful were the con- cepts of Paropkara (benevolent deeds), Dakshina (gift or fee to Guru or someone else), and Bhiksha (alms). Daana was usually given to a person or a small group, but the concept also encompassed wider charitable projects with public benefits. Popular projects included sarais (rest houses), schools and care home, provision of drinking observed that they had the same insecurities as water, and the planting of trees. those with very little. Beyond a point, the wealth The Upanishads (500 BCE) contained some which is meant to give happiness morphs into of the earliest discussions of Daana. In the something else instead of protecting the individ- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, the three characteris- ual from the hardships of life, it often is the rea- tics of a good, developed person are defined as son that the person needs protection. What does self-restraint, compassion or love for all sentient remain, however, is the echo of our actions. Do life, and charity (Daana). Centuries later, the good without the sword of karma hanging over Bhagavad Gita gave a more practical definition of you but because you have a heart that beats with Daana, charity, in action. There were right and compassion. But not everyone believes that shar- wrong forms of Daana. The good, enlightened ing what one has is good. The ability to give does charity was given without expectation of return. not mean the same thing as the propensity to But it was also to be given at the proper time and give; this is a basic human characteristic. place, and to a worthy person. Ego-centric charity India is a poor country where the disparity was one given with the expectation of some between the rich and the poor is stark. We are a return or given grudgingly. The worst form of developing nation with third world problems, but charity was that which was given to an unworthy greed and apathy drive the so-called developed person or at a wrong place and time. nations as much as anywhere else. Researchers The Mahabharata finds repeated mention of have found the dominant belief in India to be the ‘worthy person factor’ in determining the that social development in society is either for value of charity. Vidur, a great scholar and the local communities and families to handle, or else half-brother of the King Dhitarashtra, had lengthy a task for government to do. Altruistic giving for conversations with the King about policies and the love of humanity is said to be one of governance. The Vidur Niti, the oral record mankind’s noblest instincts. This instinct is not passed through generations of the conversations, intrinsic to our molecular biology and is a social- specifically mentions misused charity and poor ly acquired trait, which has resulted in humans utilisation of wealth. Money was misused if chari- being cognitive vastly different to other animals ty were given to the unworthy or if it were denied on the planet. to the worthy. A stone tied to the neck and being There is a difference, important for India, thrown in water was the reward offered for mis- between charity, philanthropy and social invest- used charity. Worth of the recipient and timing of ment. Charity is the voluntary giving of money to the charity were as important as the mere giving. those in need, where the motive is compassion In a more cynical and brutal world, newspa- and the desire is to as immediately as possible, per headlines no longer stun us. Our apathy is so relieve distress. Philanthropy is for the transfor- strong that stories of rape, murder or cheating no mation of society, where there is long-term plan- longer move us. Ponzi schemes bankrupt families, ning by the altruist to identify, tackle and cure the about what and how the money will be used by For some people, this may mean the number of farmers commit suicide. Millionaires are made, ills of society. Philanthropy has a wider societal the organisation you give to. The importance of people whose lives you improve, and how much and some led to prison. ‘Karma,’ we mutter ‘catch- purpose than charity, which is more immediately informed giving cannot be over-stressed. There you improve them by. “Improving lives” could be ing up’. Ingenuous ways to multiply and quadru- ameliorative. Indian philanthropy and charity, are two reasons why a donor might give to a char- thought of in terms of “increasing well-being”, ple wealth and dodge tax are revealed daily. All while lower than the proportionate GDP share as ity. Firstly, the charity might be fulfilling the treating everyone as equally valuable. Other altru- the while, the same people are seen supporting compared with Western countries, is better than donor’s own desires and wishes. Secondly, the ists might want specific defined outcomes, and the latest causes, visiting houses of prayer, and many of our neighbours. The mix of giving, how- charities themselves might have causes that they measures to ensure that those outcomes have washing their sins through giving. Is this truly ever, and the causes for which it is given do differ, support and they active fundraise from donors for been achieved. charity? Is it altruism or merely selfish behaviour? as we also see in the vast differences between giv- these causes. In general, it is seen that donors who Motivations, however, will differ. As we have Compassion and emotion are passé. We live ing in the United States and Britain. give regularly are highly influenced by prior learned, altruistic behaviour is not inherently in in the digital age surrounded by millennials who Whatever be the means of giving and the type knowledge of or affiliation with a charity and are our genes. It has to be learned. Fortunately, our use Emojis and Instagram to express themselves, of altruism a person might want, it seems impor- unlikely to respond to random advocacy or solici- physical frailties and the powers we gained and with them most of us are forgetting life as we tant to be ‘intentional’ in one’s giving. Knowing tation. Prior knowledge and good communication through language and the Cognitive Revolution once knew it. We believe that Facebook and who would like to give to is important; otherwise of its works and impact are highly desirable for a have made us capable of societal structures and of WhatsApp are free. What we are just beginning to we run around doing good, but not doing right. charitable organisation. working together. Altruism may not be in our realise is that in using them, we have begun to Just because something sounds like it is a good And finally, the most important question to genes, but it is very much part of what makes us give up our freedom. In wanting to be connected idea, does not make it so. Each person who wants answer for altruists is what it means to have human beings. all the time, our loneliness gets amplified. to help needs to identify the different spheres of “impact” and why it matters. This is a difficult However, money does not seem to be the glue relationships (and specific people who are in question to answer for different people will have The writer is the co-author of the book, that binds people together. In a series on the lives those spheres) whom they wish to help. different definitions of impact. How to make a Why People Give: Interpreting Altruism, of the super-rich on the History Channel, it was Giving is made easier if you have information difference is a matter of your personal philosophy. along with her daughter Suhasini Vira       buuqy   "#$%&

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ashir Assad’s book comes at an appropriate time, as it provides an insider and subaltern view of Kashmir. He has first hand experience of the developments inB Kashmir for the past 30 years. In his own words, he has lived the ideology of Maududi Islam for three years, after he passed class X. He has been associated with PDP founder Mufti Mohammad Syed. And he has been following the events in Kashmir, as a journalist, colum- nist and social activist. He has addressed the issue of rising extremism in Kashmir and the role of mullahs, Jamat-e-Islami, local bureaucracy and politicians in rid- ing the frenzy, for retaining their social and political relevance and for reaping economic benefits. The ‘conflict entrepre- neurs’ in the media, political elite, self styled authors, specialists and commenta- tors seek fame by writing whatever suits them,without having any understanding of the local language, culture, social psy-    !"#$%& chology, historical-cultural characteristics of Kashmiris. !  " Bashir provides a local and eye-wit- ' %( ness account of the phenomenon of reli- gious extremism in Kashmir. He has aptly )( *+, sub-titled the book “The Conspiracy of Silence”. He prefaces his book saying that “strategy, fear or conviction has bound all the stake holders — mainstream politi- tute just 3% of the Valley Muslim popula- to the jihadi violence, coupled with the take the lead in ideological war and hate and Pandit properties were set ablaze in est opportunity to flee as soon as they cians, separatists, media, civilians, VIPs or tion, but occupy 35% of the government support base among a section of Indian campaign, do not send their children to 1986 in Bijbehara, Anantnag, Shopian found some transport. All the fleeing commoner” in Kashmir not to speak the and private sector jobs. Here I would like media, academia and politicians, is even join militancy. Bashir quotes from the and Sopore. That Pran Nath, Advocate, Kashmiri Pandits believed that they truth. The fact is that the discourse on to point out that these 3% are not indige- more dangerous. findings of a survey conducted across also of Anantnag slapped Mufti on this would return to their homes, soon after Kashmir has been manipulated through nous Kashmiris, but are the descendants Traditional Sufi Islam and Sufi Kashmir, that “not a single mullah or his issue, is news to me. Bashir is right in say- normalcy is restored. But it is now 30 the past 30 years by NGOs-foreign and of the Central Asian Syeds who migrated shrines have been described as un- children participated in protests, demon- ing that “Mufti is the only common link years, that Kashmiri Pandits are still liv- foreign funded Indian ones, many acade- to Kashmir in medieval times. They have Islamic. Arabisation of personal names, stration or stone-pelting”. They use the between 1986 vandalisation and 1990 ing in exile. One older generation has micians and media persons with a craze all through history been more ambitious institutions, local language and culture media to shout against the alleged Indian exodus of Kashmiri Pandits”. However, passed away in their endless and agonis- for foreign jaunts and easy money. Such and power seekers using religion as a has been going on for over four decades atrocities in Kashmir. Revenue, education, this critical juncture of Kashmir history, ing wait for return to their homes. falsehood, fake news, propaganda and pedestal for their rise. They have always now. Wahabis, Tablighees and Jamaatis police and other departments of the State has been left by Bashir as a matter of fur- Meanwhile their houses, landed proper- media lust for TRPs and scoops has only propagated political Islam. Another are competing in establishing mosques have been heavily penetrated by the ther investigation. He has stated that ties, business and educational institutions added fuel to the fire. There has been aspect of the situation is that many and madrassas. Kashmiri customs and Jamat-e-Islami activists. That the teachers Jagmohan assumed office of Governor on have been burnt, looted, occupied and insensitivity to the intricacies of the com- Kashmiri Muslim Imams (of Ahl-e-Itiqad rituals have been replaced by cul- of the Jamat-e-Islami organisation Falah- 19 January 1990 at Jammu. But then how usurped through distress sale and fraudu- plex issue. That explains why beliefs) have since been replaced by fire- ture and mannerisms. Distortion of e-Am Trust were absorbed in the State come, all mosques across the Valley lent mutations, notwithstanding the exis- Doordarshan continued to telecast the brand Imams from Deoband, UP, Bihar Kashmir history, culture and Islamisation education department, only explains the shouted slogans demanding Nizam-e- tence of the State law prohibiting the sale protest movements in the former Soviet and other places in India. of ancient place names has been done a connivance and mindset of the local Mustafa and ouster of Kashmiri Pandits of migrant properties. Only time will tell, Republics in late 1989 and early 1990, at a Bashir explains how the Islamists have massive scale. The concept of Islamic authorities. Retired bureaucrats,who sans their women folk on the night of 19 if and when this gruesome tragedy of this time when Kashmir was simmering. completely transformed Kashmir. That Caliphate and Nizam-e-Mustafa has taken thrived on corruption while in service, January 1990. Again, who organised the hapless minority will be redressed. Bashir is right in describing the cur- even the parents of dead militants show deep roots. As Bashir has put it, seek social legitimacy by taking refuge in house searches in Kashmir around the To conclude, the book by Bashir rent phase of Kashmir conflict as being no sign of grief and instead celebrate their “Radicalism in Kashmir has produced a the mosque and by spearheading the nar- same time. The blame for KPs exodus has Assad is a refreshing and local Kashmiri about three Ms — Mosque, Mullah and death as martyrdom, is indeed alarming mindset that can best be described as rative of religious frenzy. been often laid on Jagmohan, who is Muslim account based on his personal Militant. The uneducated clerics have situation. At some places, they have even finding life in death”. After killing few Bashir Assad has written about the alleged to have provided amenities for the experiences. It is a welcome departure succeeded in injecting jihadism and hate put henna plate on the coffin, in the belief hundred and hounding out the entire role of Mufti Syed, with whom he was flight. But my personal experience and from the usual rhetoric parroted to legit- India/hate Hindu ideology in the minds that the dead militant would apply henna Kashmiri Pandit minority community of associated for some time. When Mufti also of my kith and kin, who are now liv- imise and bolster the separatists and of the youth. What is worse is that the in heaven while meeting the hurs. Bashir over 4,00,000 people, thousands of politi- Syed was PCC President, Jamat-e-Islami ing in Jammu, is that we tried to stay put. extremists. All those interested in moderate, educated Kashmiris are the is right in saying that the current militant cal workers, panchayat members etc. was given five seats in the March 1972 My family left our village at Galwanpora Kashmir affairs will do well to read this silent spectators to such a steep drift in violence is not about independence or lib- belonging to National Conference, elections. Mufti nurtured Jamat and its on 14 May 1990, after our neighbours book. Kashmiri society. The author is right in eration, but is about jihad propagated by Congress and other parties have been Maududi Islam, as he wanted to erode the advised us to leave in the dead of night. The reviewer is a Senior Fellow, Nehru saying that the Mullahs are mainly Wahabis, Jamat-e-Islami, Ahl-e-Hadis etc. killed. Thousands of activists have been popularity of Sheikh Abdullah’s National Same is true of others,who could not even Memorial Museum and Library, New Bukharis, Andrabis, Muftis, Geelanis, The fence sitting Kashmiris provide ideo- forced to give up their political activities. Conference. Bashir has rightly stated that inform their brothers, sisters and neigh- Delhi and editor, Himalayan and Central Naqshbandis, Hamdanis etc., who consti- logical, theoretical and intellectual support It is ironical that the mullahs who with Mufti’s tacit approval, some temples bours about their flight. They used earli- Asian Studies

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he death of Abu Bakr al- on ISIS’ enemies. TBaghdadi, the chief of the Though Baghdadi was Islamic State (ISIS), has widely referred to as a caliph, brought a sigh of relief to the many in the international international community. The media have reported about his monster who has been on a ter- dark background quite often. ror campaign with his army of Once BBC reported, zealots finally had to bow “Baghdadi was a serial rapist, down in front of the superior forcing himself on, among oth- US forces. ers, the captured American On October 26, Baghdadi aid worker Kayla Mueller and blew himself up after being cor- presiding over the mass nered in a blind alley by enslavement of Yazidi women American elite commandos at and underage girls.” Barisha, in the district of However, the negative Harem, Idlib, a northwestern report didn’t diminish his loy- province of Syria. As per the alty among his ardent follow- information released by the US ers. 2016 was a turning point President’s office, Baghdadi for Baghdadi. He had finally '     -- detonated an explosive vest, taken a call for splitting away $ BB killing himself and two of his from the al-Qaeda. The groups children when he faced a cer- disagreed on many issues, the     tain death at the hands of the central point on which they US forces. The high-risk oper- have major differences is the      777 ation was successful because of use of extreme and sadistic way      the close cooperation from of violence on the enemies. Turkey, Syria, Russia, Iraq and All told, one question that    777  the Syrian Kurds. might be intriguing for many Let us track the long and is that why Baghdadi was tak-    arduous journey of Baghdadi in ing shelter in the Idlib province      forming the ISIS empire and its which is a known to be the decline. Under Baghdadi’s stronghold of his rival. Though    < stewardship, the ISIS evolved it has come out that he was from a ragtag group of insur- paying a security fee to his C       gents to an organised Islamic rivals for his stay in their ter- militia. He was referred to as ritory, it can’t be said with cer- “Caliph Ibrahim” by his fol- tainty why did his chose the lowers in the Muslim world. rival area as his safe haven. Baghdadi claimed himself Probably, he was trying to be a descendant of the for rapprochement between Quraysh tribe of Islamic the two jihadist organisations Prophet Muhammed. 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ISIS leader Baghdadi most prized territories — The death of Baghdadi is Russian Defence Ministry aggression might witness a 5(# 757 The militants initially consist- In fact, this group emerged announced the formation of Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest being celebrated across the reacted with skepticism, saying spike both in frustration and in ed of ultra-conservative from the remnants of al-Qaeda the Caliphate, stretching from city, and , so-called ISIS world. Saudi Crown Prince it had no reliable information a show of strength and to raise jihadists, largely drawn from in Iraq (AQI), a local offshoot in Syria to Diyala in capital, in Northern Syria. Mohammed bin Salman, while on the US operation. the sagging morale of the cadre Baathists, the members of late of al-Qaeda founded by Abu Iraq. Henceforth, the self-styled By 2018, the anti-ISIS congratulating President The ISIS on October 31 and sympathisers of the ISIS Iraqi President Saddam Musab al Zarqawi in 2004. But Caliphate, renamed the group operation was shifted to east- Trump for the feat, said the confirmed the death of its around the world. Hussein’s military and intelli- the AQI faded into obscurity as the Islamic State (ISIS). ern part of Syria. During this operation led by the US Special founder and leader Baghdadi His death may temporari- gence apparatus. But later, the for many years after the US In August 7, 2014, a US-led operation, the US-backed Forces was a historic one in and announced a successor, ly disrupt the activities of the group included many youths invasion of Iraq. It started re- operation, named “Operation coalition of Syrian Kurds and fight against extremism. Saudi named Abu Ibrahim al- group, but the jihadists are like- who had a traditional hatred emerging from 2011. And since Inherent Resolve” was Arabs, called the Syrian Arabia said Baghdadi had dis- Hashimi al-Quraishi, who is ly to regroup sooner as pre- towards the West for its alleged then, over the next few years, launched against the Islamists. Democratic Forces (SDF), were torted the image of Islam. largely unknown outside of dicted by terror experts. atrocities against Muslims it took full advantage of the By the very next month, the able to wrest some of the key Egypt appreciated the ISIS circles. However, the ISIS They may attempt revenge across the world. growing instability in Iraq and offensive was expanded to positions from the ISIS. American action, urging for praised Quraishi as “emir of the against the US and its army Under the US forces’ nose, Syria, it has got a golden oppor- Syria. But then in 2015, the US Interestingly, though the “unified action and a compre- believers” and “caliph” of ISIS’ installations across the West the disgruntled Baathists qui- tunity to bolster its rank and conducted nearly 8,000 air ISIS was still hale and hearty, hensive perspective that takes caliphate. Asian region and all possible etly provided the ISIS a large file through deadly attacks and strikes both in Iraq and Syria, on December 19, 2018, into account the security, devel- To step into Baghdadi’s allies of America. cache of weapons, explosive massive recruitment of cadre targeting the insurgents, who President Trump declared that opment and ideological dimen- shoes successfully, Quraishi Though the elite US Delta materials, solid intelligence from around the world. This all were wreaking havoc on vari- it was decimated. With this, he sions” in the fight against will have to have unquestion- Force commandos have put an and meticulous planning to have happened against the ous parts of the world. also indicated his intention to armed groups. able loyalty to the ISIS, proven end to the ISIS leader for now, take revenge on the occupying backdrop of the Arab Spring Surprisingly, in the same withdraw all the 2,000 US Turkish President Erdogan capability to plan strategically the remnants of the ISIS, spread Western forces. Further, the and fallout of the US attacks on year, amid US-led combing troops, supporting the SDF, said Baghdadi’s killing “marked and impeccable religious cre- from Africa to Australasia, will hardcore jihadists, who joined Iraq. operations, the jihadists were from Syria. However, the SDF a turning point in our joint dentials. Despite these prereq- not simply fade away. Worst is the militant ranks for advanc- The jihadist group changed able to expand their network of kept fighting the ISIS and fight against terrorism”. uisites, Quraishi seems to lack yet to come. ing the cause of Islamic its name to the Islamic State of affiliates to almost eight coun- wrested its last territory in Afghanistan, while welcom- experience in the war-field caliphate across the world, Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in 2013. tries, beyond Iraq and Syria. Baghouz on March 23, 2019. ing the US action, stated that and doesn’t have a reputation (The writer is an expert on brought along with them Afterwards, it launched an But by December, the Caliphate This finally brought down the “the death of Baghdadi is the of carrying out deadly attacks international affairs)

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y claiming a right to Syria’s they have the oil.” Three days legal authorisation, knowing the extremists were exploiting itive homemade refineries to Boil, US President Donald later, he went further, declaring their commander-in-chief may the oil to finance its so-called process fuel and diesel and sell Trump has added more com- the oil to be America’s. change his mind as he has mul- caliphate, carved out of large it back to the administration. plexity — as well as addition- “We’re keeping the oil — tiple times in the past,” she said, swaths of Syria and Iraq with The oil was expected to be al US forces and time — to an remember that,” he said in adding that an oil grab is what an army now all but extin- a bargaining chip for the Kurds American military mission he Chicago. “I’ve always said that: many in the West Asia have guished. to negotiate a deal with the has twice declared he was end- ‘Keep the oil.’ We want to keep long suspected is the purpose In 2015-16, the US military Syrian government, which ing so the troops could come the oil. Forty-five million dol- of US wars. carried out an air campaign — unsuccessfully tried to reach home. lars a month? Keep the oil.” Trump also has said he dubbed Operation Tidal Wave the oil fields to retake them Extending the mission to White House officials since wants a US oil company to II, after a World War II oper- from ISIS. secure eastern Syria’s oilfields then have declined to explain enter eastern Syria to invest in ation against oil facilities in The US Defense Secretary happens to fit neatly with the what Trump meant by “we’re restoring oil production. Romania — that destroyed told reporters the mission in Pentagon’s view — supported keeping the oil” or his estimate Private experts, however, say tanker trucks used by the Deir el-Zour includes blocking by some Trump allies in of its value. Pentagon officials that is problematic. extremists to transport oil for potential Russian and Syrian Congress — that a full with- have said privately they’ve been “The modest size of the black market sales and dam- army efforts to probe that drawal now could hasten a given no order to take owner- resource, risk of conflict, and aged many oil facilities. region, east of the Euphrates revival of the Islamic State ship of any element of Syria’s oil legal obstacles to investment “We weren’t going after River, and challenge the group, even after the extremists resources, including the wells from US sanctions make it the militants at all, we were American presence. A few days lost their leader, Abu Bakr al- and stored crude. unlikely that a US oil major going after the money, and by earlier, American officials had Baghdadi, in a US raid. Defense Secretary Mark would find it commercially blowing them up we actually contacted Russian authorities The military acknowledged Esper said on October 31 that attractive to invest in the Syrian weakened them significantly,” to question a massing of Syrian on Thursday that an Army unit he interprets Trump’s remarks oil sector,” said Jason Bordoff, said Katherine Zimmerman, a and Russian forces on the with armored vehicles, includ- about keeping Syria’s oil as director of an energy policy counterterrorism expert at the opposite side of the Euphrates ing Bradley infantry carriers, is meaning that the extremists center at Columbia University. American Enterprise Institute. — a buildup that suggested a now operating in the Deir el- must be denied access to it. “Syria could be a bigger “Denying them access to potential confrontation. Zour oil region. It did not say Syria has been mired in energy supplier than today, resources like the oil is a way In February 2018, a group how many soldiers are being civil war since 2011. Since that but years of mismanagement that we’re going to need to fight of several hundred Russian added there, but officials have time, its oil production has have left the fields in disarray, them,” she added. mercenaries fired artillery near said the eventual force there shrunk from a peak of about -         G      D =:<  -         so it would require a lot of Since then, US-supported American forces in the Syrian likely will be about 500, includ- 400,000 barrels a day to an esti-            G         $ H        political stability and invest- Syrian Kurdish forces have oil region, and the Americans ing roughly 200 who had been mated 80,000 barrels, said Jim           < '   D   (  %            ment to bring them back to controlled the oil, supported by responded by killing many there even before Trump was Krane, an energy expert at      7"  where they were,” said Michael a small contingent of US of them. persuaded to revise his plan for Rice University. Webber, a professor of energy troops. A quiet arrangement Trump himself has a near-total withdrawal, which Russia has expressed out- Washington has proclaimed.” said there is no solid legal argu- said Loren DeJonge Schulman, resources at the University of has existed between the Kurds acknowledged the potential he announced on October 14. rage at Trump’s claim to the oil, For years the US has said its ment the Trump administra- deputy director of studies at the Texas at Austin. and the Syrian Government, for a fight over the oil. Trump has offered varying calling it “state banditry.” military interventions abroad tion can make for claiming Center for a New American Esper has said that secur- whereby Damascus buys the “We’re leaving soldiers to descriptions of the military’s Foreign Ministry spokesman are meant to enhanced peace Syria’s oil. Security who was a senior ing the Deir el-Zour oilfields is surplus through middlemen secure the oil,” he said Sunday. role in eastern Syria. On Major General Igor and security, not to take any Beyond the legal question, Pentagon and White House a legitimate move to block a in a smuggling operation that “And we may have to fight for October 25, he said, “We’ve Konashenkov said grabbing nation’s territory or resources. analysts say the mission is official under then President major source of income for the has continued despite political the oil. It’s okay. Maybe some- secured the oil, and, therefore, the oil belies US claims to be Stephen Vladeck, a nation- fraught with danger. Barack Obama. ISIS and to provide funds for differences. The Kurdish-led body else wants the oil, in a small number of US troops fighting terrorism and “lies al security law professor at the “This is a sensitive gun- “US forces are being sent the Syrian Kurds who are still administration sells crude oil to which case they have a hell of will remain in the area where far from the ideals that University of Texas at Austin, powder barrel of a mission,” with only the shakiest possible fighting ISIS. A few years ago, private refiners, who use prim- a fight.” AP     €axu€!   "#$%&

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