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BJP Parliamentary Afour-storey commercial Party meeting will precede the complex in Surat on Friday, NDA meeting. killing at least 19 teenage stu- The Union Cabinet on dents at a coaching centre, Friday adopted a resolution many of whom jumped and fell recommending the dissolution to their deaths while some of the 16th Lok Sabha, making were suffocated, officials said. way for formal launch of the - ' . * In a video clip of the inci- + / ' process to form a new ' / ' ! " +, dent, some young students at ' ' " +, Government. President Ram the Takshashila Complex in Nath Kovind accepted the res- Many newcomers and With Finance Minister Sarthana area, where the build- dent. We will not spare those operation to save the stranded ignation of the Council of young faces could be part of the Arun Jaitley having health ing is located, can be seen found guilty,” the deputy Chief students and other occupants Ministers and asked Modi to second innings of the Modi issues, there have been talks jumping off the third and Minister added. of the building. continue in office till the new Government. There is possi- whether he will be part of the fourth floors as onlookers kept Coaching classes at the According to a fire official, Government assumes office. bility that big winners like new dispensation or not. on capturing the scene in their centre were run in a shade built flames started from the ground Modi’s swearing-in is BJP’s Aravind Dharmapuri Sushma Swaraj, who had mobile phones and firefighters on the top floor of the building, floor and reached the top floor, expected to take place before from Telangana, who inflicted won from Vidisha in Madhya still planning evacuation. he said, adding that they “will forcing some students to take the end of this month and con- a drubbing on sitting MP from Pradesh, had opted out from from the outgoing Cabinet, exceedingly well, winning 18 Chief Minister Vijay check if the construction was shelter on the terrace which sultations are on with NDA Nizambabad K Kavitha, the the electoral battle this time on including Rajnath Singh, Nitin and 16 seats respectively. Rupani said at least 19 students illegal”. was covered. leaders for the Cabinet forma- daughter of TRS chief K health ground. Her Cabinet Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Shah is expected to inter- have died in the fire, but Ninteen fire tenders and “Lot of smoke accumulat- tion. BJP president Amit Shah, Chandrasekar Rao, may be colleague Uma Bharti too did Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh act with NDA leaders and Deputy Chief Minister Nitin two hydraulic platforms were ed on the top floor where who came in for high praise part of the new Government. not contest polls. Defence Tomar and Prakash Javadekar share their views on the induc- Patel has put the figure at 20. pressed into service to douse there were AC compressors from Modi for the party’s spec- Another fresh face is Tejasvi Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is are set to figure in the new tion of their nominees in the “As per the information the fire, said an official of and tyres. With no escape tacular show in the LS polls, is Surya, 28, who won from expected to continue with a key Cabinet. Cabinet. received, 20 students have died Surat fire control room. route available, the students got likely to be inducted in the Bangalore South, a seat in the role in the new Government. Senior Minister Manoj Modi is likely to visit in the fire. Many others were Eye-witnesses claimed that trapped on the top floors. The Government, leaving the top past held by late Ananth With Smriti Irani upsetting Sinha, who lost his Ghazipur Varanasi, his home con- injured and shifted to a hospi- there were around 50 students fire was doused in one hour. party post for someone else. A Kumar. Congress president Rahul seat to BSP’s Afzal Ansari, stituency on May 28, to thank tal,” Patel said. in the complex when the fire There were no safety equip- heavyweight portfolio may be Rewards may also be com- Gandhi in his home con- could be brought in the Cabinet the voters there. There after, he Students, mostly teenagers, started. “Around 10 students on ment installed in the building,” awaiting Shah, sources said ing in way of winners from dif- stituency of Amethi, it is via Rajya Sabha route. will set out for Gujarat on died “either due to suffocation fourth and third floor jumped a fire official told the media. though the BJP president has ficult States like West Bengal expected that her victory may Among allies, the Shiv May 29 to meet his 95-year-old or jumping off from the com- off to the ground to save them- Prime Minister Narendra sidestepped queries on this and Odisha, where party has be recognised with an impor- Sena and the JD(U) are likely mother Heeraben Modi. The plex”, he said. selves from fire and smoke,” Modi expressed anguished over saying it was the prerogative of done exceedingly well to help tant portfolio in the Cabinet. to be given Cabinet berths as swearing-in may take place “We have ordered a said a fire official. the fire tragedy. the Prime Minister. it go past 300 tally on its own. A number of senior faces both the parties have done after these visits. detailed inquiry into the inci- Locals helped in the rescue Continued on Page 4 ! " #,7 ,+-3 gave a strong performance in Assembly polls in major States fter a humiliating defeat in such as Gujarat, Karnataka, Athe Lok Sabha polls, top Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders will deliber- and Chhattisgarh during the ate on party losses at a meeting past two years, but failed to !" of the working committee slat- keep the momentum and cap- # $%&#'$%( ed on Saturday in which party italise on people’s disaffection K chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to towards the BJP for a good K offer his resignation. Murmurs showing in the general election. !"+ have already started within the In Madhya Pradesh, the party over taking responsibil- BJP won 28 out of 29 seats; in ity for the poor performance of Karnataka, it won 25 out of 28 the Congress across the coun- seats, and in Chhattisgarh, the P try, with some of its leaders Top party leaders, includ- party won 9 out of 11 seats. $, already sending in their resig- ing UPA chairperson Sonia During 2018 Assembly nations. Gandhi and former Prime elections of Karnataka, the - . Uttar Pradesh Congress Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress and the JD(S) com- chief Raj Babbar and Odisha are expected to attend the bine were able to win 78 and 37 /0 Congress president Niranjan meeting. seats, respectively, while the " Patnaik announced their res- The top Congress leader- BJP got 104 seats. ignations from the post in the ship will deliberate on the rea- Babbar — who lost "# $ wake of the party’s electoral sons for the loss. The party suf- Fatehpur Sikri BJP’s Rajkumar % debacle in their respective fered a devastating defeat for Chahar by a margin of 4,95,065 1 States. The party has convened the second time in a row at the votes — sent his resignation . a meeting of the Congress hands of the Narendra Modi- from to Rahul. “The results are Working Committee, its high- led BJP. It bagged only 52 seats depressing in UP. 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9%$-%# 8 “The climber died at Camp IV after he fell ill near the bal- wo Indians died on Mount cony area while returning from TEverest due to hours-long the summit,” Sherpa said and 2%8 #,7 ,+-3 “traffic jam”, just days after added Bagwan was the leader expedition leaders and the of a two-member expedition. ne of the most wanted man caught on camera Nepal Government claimed Their deaths were attrib- Oactive terrorist comman- Awhile beating a stray dog overcrowding on the world’s uted primarily to a long queue ders in Kashmir Valley, Zakir with stick to death in Delhi has tallest mountain was not a of both ascending and descend- Musa, who was Burhan Wani’s been arrested, police said on worry. ing climbers, forcing many to successor and chief of Ansar Friday. Rajkumar, a resident of Indian climber Kalpana wait for hours at 8,000 metres Ghazwat-ul-Hind, was gunned Fauji Colony in Mukundpur, Das, 49, reached the summit, plus altitudes. down by the joint team of was filmed by neighbours men- but died on Thursday after- A 65-year-old Austrian security forces in South acingly beating the dog on noon while descending as a climber, meanwhile, died on Kashmir’s Pulwama district Tuesday night. As the footage large number of climbers the northern Tibet side of the late on Thursday night. went viral, animal lovers and queued near the top. She was a mountain. Earlier this week, A senior police officer locals were enraged and a com- member of the “Three Women Anjali Kulkarni (India), 55, described his killing as the plaint was filed. Expedition”, Gyanendra and Donald Lynn Cash (USA), “biggest catch” for the securi- Hind, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda. Deputy Commissioner of Shrestha, a liaison officer at the 55, died on the mountain. The dition agency. rock face at 8,790 metres — ty forces chasing top com- Before joining the ranks of a Police (DCP), Outer north dis- Everest base camp, was cited as woman’s expedition agency, Indian climber Ravi which many climbers said was manders in the South Kashmir terror outfit in 2013, he was trict, Gaurav Sharma said on saying by the Himalayan Times. Arun Treks and Expeditions, Thakar died while returning dislodged in the 2015 earth- districts to flush out holed up studying engineering in a pri- the basis of the complaint and Another Indian climber, said she died of “exhaustion”. from the summit last week. quake. In a “traffic jam”, ultras in the area. So far, 87 ter- vate engineering college in a video CD available with the time that he committed the 27-year-old Nihal Bagwan The American climber A “traffic jam” occurs on exhausted climbers are often rorists have been eliminated by Punjab. police regarding the killing an crime. I went to the locality and from Maharashtra, died on his died while descending from the Everest when many climbers forced to wait for several hours the security forces in different He hit the headlines after FIR was registered and learned that earlier too he return from the summit. Babu summit, 15 metres below the vie for the summit at the same for their turn to ascend or operations across the Kashmir threatening to behead sepa- Rajkumar was arrested. killed two dogs,” said Esha, a Sherpa, managing director at Hillary Step, which stands at time and it can be especially descend on a single rope, Valley this year. ratist leaders of the Hurriyat Rajkumar’s neighbours said resident of South Delhi and Peak Promotion Pvt Ltd, said 8,790 metres. “He died of alti- dangerous above 8,000 metres, increasing risks of exhaustion, A household name, Zakir Conference for calling Kashmir the man was a habitual offend- admin of a Facebook page Bagwan breathed his last at tude sickness as he had lost called the “Death Zone”. frostbite or altitude sickness. Musa, was the lone surviving a political dispute instead of a er and thrashed the canine for Save the Dog which posted the Camp IV on Everest on the energy,” said Pasang Tenje The last steep challenge The number of Everest member of the Burhan Wani “religious struggle” to establish barking near his house. video of the incident. Nepal side after he was rescued Sherpa, chairman of Pioneer before the summit occurs after climbers in 2019 may exceed group. He was currently head- an Islamic state. “This was not the first Continued on Page 4 by a group of Sherpas. Adventure, the climber’s expe- the Hillary Step — a vertical last year’s record of 807. ing the Ansar Ghazwat-ul- Continued on Page 4 !" #$% "* ,

#,7 ,+-3 2019-20 by next week. But the courses were conducted before admission process is yet to be a month or at least 10 days he much awaited Delhi announced especially for the before the announcement of TUniversity admissions that UG courses. admission registration process. was deferred due to the Lok “The open day sessions Adopting and adapting to Sabha Elections 2019, is are meant to clear the doubts the digital era, DU has made likely to begin from of the students and helping many changes in the admission Monday onwards. The online them to fill the online regis- process. Emails, Pop-Up and registrations for the all trations forms correctly with- messages will send to every stu- the Undergraduate (UG) out any mistakes. Moreover, in dent to confirm that they have courses, Post Graduate (PG), this session the students are successfully completed with M.phill and PhD will begin also counseled about the cours- the registration: Pop up will from May 27. es, calculation of marks, com- come as the student completes However, the prospective binations of subject and marks his/her registration. Also, per- students especially the fresh to opt for any discipline and sonal SMS and confirmation school pass out candidates the campus and its faculties and process will be started on May honors course. But beginning mail will be sending to the have to hurry up in filling the affiliated colleges. 24 after the declaration of poll the admission process without email Id and on mobile of admission forms as the process As per University sources, results. conducting the counseling ses- applicants. will continue for two week. The keeping the General Elections Unlike the previous years, sions is troublesome for the There are about 67 colleges online registrations will tenta- in the view, the Varsity first the 12th class results have been students and their future,” said that mostly offer UG courses tively start from May 27 and decided to start the admission declared and the DU standing a former member of Academic are affiliated to the DU and the will continue till June 9. process to its under Graduate committee and admission Council (AC) of DU. varsity have a student popula- Moreover, the students are also courses in April elections. committee has also finalized The ‘Open day and coun- tion of about 2 lakhs studying keenly waiting for the ‘open day However, after that it has been and set to release the draft pol- seling sessions’ for the candi- in its faculties and schools ), /!) " 1 % + *'' session’ and ‘counseling days’ in decided that the admission icy for the UG admissions dates applying for UG and PG including colleges. P ! 1 ) , "

#,7 ,+-3 created a separate List this year as percentage by selecting best of list of elective subjects, the var- use the language as both elective List A and B. The List- A is for the four subjects. For instance, a stu- sity has done justice to the stu- and core but the in the mark n a major decision aimed at languages while List- B is for the dent applying for any BA/B dents especially coming from the sheet it should be written core Ihelping the students particu- elective subjects. Com Honors or programme regional states. These are the and electives should along with #,7 ,+-3 Commissioner of shootout, along with Vikas larly for the candidate with Also, this was one of the course (English,Hindi or com- mother tongue (languages) of particular language. Police (DCP), Special Dalal and Cheetah of regional languages in getting long standing demands of the merce), have to choose three many students coming from How marks will be he Delhi Police Special Cell Cell, there was an encounter Najafgarh, that took place at admissions into colleges of Delhi regional states and students to main subject and one elective Manipur, Tamil Nadu ,Kerala, calculated Thas arrested a 20-year-old took place between the Dwarka mor on Sunday University (DU), the varsity give equal weightage and include language to calculate the marks Kashmir and other state who For example if the student is notorious gangster after a Delhi Police Special Cell and Earlier, on Sunday, two administrations has decided to the listed languages in this cat- in which the students can only score good percentage in the applying English honors, an shootout on Friday evening at Dabas on main road Majra suspected criminals were killed allow students with regional egory. “The varsity administra- use English, Hindi, Sanskrit, subject. But till last year the high aggregate of 55% marks or more Delhi’s Khanjawala-Bawana Dabas, Kanjhawala-Bawana following a shootout between languages as optional/elective tion and the standing commit- Punjabi, Bengali, Urdu, Arabic, percentage and marks went in English and combination of road. The accused was one of road at around 7.45 pm on rival gangs near the Dwarka subjects can calculate best of four tee has decided and approved French, Spanish, Italian and wasted and many students liter- three best other subjects from the gangsters involved in Friday. Mor metro station in South percentage. It would help them more than 10 recognised region- Persian. Besides, with no option, ally complained and felt bad for among the following: any lan- shootout between gangsters at “In the incident, West Delhi. in further integration with the al languages such as Tamil, students included any other not including these languages,” guage subjects (core/elective) Dwarka mor on May 19. the accused fired at police in Parveen Gehlot, a resident colleges of DU. Telugu, Manipuri, Malayalam, language from the listed lan- said Ramananda Singh, Former from List-A, Economics, The accused have been which police retaliate and fired of Nawada area, and Vikas The language are included in Dogri, Maithili to name a few as guage, 2.5 marks were deduct- member of Academic Council, Geography, History, Legal identified as Ankit Dabas a on the accused. However, the Dalal had several cases of mur- List A- Assamese, Gujarati, a listed languages which be ed in the overall percentage DU. The draft policy for the Studies, Mathematics, resident of village Sampla in accused and one sub-inspector ders, extortion and robberies Maithili, Oriya, Tamil, awarded equal marks and con- because of which many students admissions 2019-20 is also final- Philosophy, Political Science, district Rohtak. A semi Krishan were injured and registered against them in Malayalam, Telegu, Bodo, sidered as elective subject while failed to meet the cut off per- ized and drafted and is expect- Psychology and Sociology.” automatic pistol along with admitted to Valmiki Hospital,” Delhi and Haryana. The Kannada, Manipuri, Dogri, calculating the best of four sub- centage. ed to be out by the beginning of If s/he inclusion of any live cartridges and a bike, the DCP said adding that one shootout was an outcome of a Kashmiri and Sindhi. These subjects:, said a DU official. “This was one of biggest next week. other subject from List B in the which he was riding, have been another police officer got bul- property dispute. It began at jects can now be used as both To meet the percentage and demand of the students and this Further, as per the draft pol- combination of best three will recovered. let injury on his bulletproof around 4pm when occupants elective and core subjects. The get admission to a particular matter had always risen in the icy, a copy of which is with The lead to a deduction of 1% per According to Sanjeev jacket. of a black car opened fire on a Standing Committee of the DU course and honors, till now, the committee. By approving and Pioneer, while calculating the subject on the aggregate, with a Kumar Yadav, the Deputy Dabas was involved in the white car. has approved the languages and student had to calculate the including these languages in the best of marks, the students can maximum net deduction of 2%. !"#$% %' ($ #,7 ,+-3 who had come to a photostate dent all assailants went under- shop to meet a friend. Mor died ground,” said the DCP adding #,7 ,+-3 he Delhi Police has appre- on the spot. that the juvenile was appre- Thended a 17-year-old juve- The two other accused, hended on May 23, after police y the time boys in Delhi vil- nile in connection with the who were involved in the mur- received specific inputs. Blages attain the age of 14 killing of a 27-year-old gym der of Mohit, has been identi- “The motive behind was years, many of them start pick- trainer cum social media fied as Vikas alias PK, a resident that Mangu, who was killed ing up quarrels with people in celebrity, Mohit Mor in of Bakkarwala and Rohit Malik, earlier, had invested about 30 their area over petty issues which Dwarka’s Najafgarh earlier this a resident of Delhi’s Milakpur. Lakhs in a plot in Mohan also develops personal enmity week. Police said that they have ini- Garden through Mohit. among these youngsters, said The 17-year-old juvenile, a tiated a manhunt to nab all the After Mangu’s murder, criminologists. resident of Najafgarh, was remaining accused. Mohit did not return that They also even prefer new apprehended by Special Cell of According to Sanjeev amount to Mangu’s friends nick names with curiosity to join Delhi Police around 4.10 pm on Kumar Yadav, the Deputy and instead took protection gangs active in Delhi, said Thursday from Dhulsiras Mor Commissioner of Police from Manjeet Mahal gang experts, adding that inclanation near Village Dhulsiras in (DCP), Special Cell, on through Pradeep Solanki and of teenagers towards criminal O67&6*+8&$9+76 Deputy Commissioner of Police Delhi’s Dwarka area. Tuesday, May 21, the gangster Vikas Dalal,” said the DCP. activities is on the rise. In one 9&6*+9**8+68(*:+6-; (DCP), Special Cell. Police have also recovered Sandeep Pehlwan had sent “After the murder of Vikas such incident a 17-year-old juve- +++6++(&*+$* “On May 21, Sandeep one country-made pistol three of his associates includ- Dalal, who was killed in Uttam nile, who while testifying him- +99)(-&&==:-+6-;*& Pahalwan made video call to him and two live cartridges from ing the new recruit, juvenile, to Nagar shootout, Mangu’s self in criminal activities to ,9&7*:8+6877,:' and asked him to come at +(&+(>-+6-;*&*:+6- his possession. Police said that kill Mohit. friends again demanded money members of “Nandu Gang”, *(*76+69:76++9**& Bhukhandi Road in Najafgarh. the clothes worn by him at the “During interrogation, the from Mohit, to which he again ended with a registration of *:)(*(+,*(69:76+ There, he met Sandeep, and time of the incident were also juvenile disclosed that Sandeep refused. Due to this, strong heinous crime against him in +9**(P two of Sandeep associates iden- found. handed over them three coun- enmity grew between them. It national Capital. tified as Vikas and Rohit Malik Mohit Mor, a resident of try made pistol and gave them was due to this reason that The 17-year-old, a new May 24 who during his interro- who were already on a Scooty,” Bahadurgarh, was shot dead on location of Mohit Mor, who Sandeep got murdered Mohit recruit of “Nandu Gang”, was gation disclosed that due to said the DCP. “Sandeep gave Tuesday. He was active on a was sitting in a shop in through Vikas, Rohit and juve- involved in the chilling murder some personal enmity he want- three pistols, one to each and also social-networking app and had Najafgarh area. Rohit and PK nile,” said the DCP adding of Mohit Mor, a social media ed to join some criminal gang in conveyed the address of the lakhs of followers. Three men, fired around 13 bullets on that they are members of noto- celebrity and a gym trainer, in the area. shop where Mohit Mor was of which two were wearing Mohit Mor due to which Mohit rious Jyoti Sangwan-Kapil Delhi’s Najafgarh area on May “One month ago, he came in present and told them to kill helmets, opened fire at Mor died on the spot. After this inci- Sangwan alias Nandu gang. 21. This shows how desperate contact with gangster Sandeep Mohit. On the fateful day, he youngster have become to join Pahalwan alias Silotiya, the along with Rohit and Vikas the gangs and how they are being accused who offered Sandeep to went to the shop on scooty. used by the gangster to fulfill become their gang member. He Mohit Mor was present there and their motive. also asked Sandeep to try and test was sitting on sofa. Rohit and The 17-year-old was him in any criminal act to trust Vikas fired around 13 bullets on apprehended by the sleuths of his abilities in criminal activities,” Mohit due to which he died on Special Cell of Delhi Police on said Sanjeev Kumar Yadav, the the spot,” said the DCP. () *#+

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However, ongress’ revival is a win- B(BJP) five sitting As per the data made avail- Sheila Dikshit of the Congress Union minister Harsh despite the two parties not Cwin situation for the Memberable by the Election by 3,63,971 votes. While Tiwari Vardhan retained his Chandni being able to stitch up an Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in of Parliament (MPs) Commission, the BJP’s vote polled 53.86 per cent votes, Chowk seat by defeating four- arrangement, he was pushed Delhi which is expecting a ! retained their seats with share in the 2019 polls was near- Dikshit, who was CM of Delhi time former MP JP Agarwal of into the contest. He ended up clear-cut divide in the common record margins in Delhi ly 56 per cent. In East Delhi, for 15 years, got 28.89 per cent. the Congress by over 2.27 lakh picking up 26.91per cent votes. vote bank of Congress and ! while two of its candidates Gautam Gambhir of the BJP She had said before the voting votes. While Vardhan polled Brijesh Goyal of AAP garnered Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). ! also won with impressive defeated education reformist that she did not want to contest 52.96 percent votes, Agarwal 16.33 percent of the votes. Buoyed by the thumping margin in “General Election- Atishi Marlena of AAP. but was obeying party orders. secured 29.65 percent. Pankaj The two seats where AAP victory of all the seven BJP Lok 2019”. Gambhir registered his win by Dilip Pandey of AAP came Kumar Gupta of AAP took the candidates came second were Sabha candidates, Union The party had 3,90,391 votes. He polled 55.35 third and polled 13.07 percent third position with a 14.75 per- South Delhi and North West Minister Vijay Goel said, uation for the BJP in the mon voter base among re-nominated five of its sitting per cent of all votes and his of the total votes. cent vote share. Delhi. In South Delhi, Ramesh “Higher polling in Muslim upcoming Assembly polls in Muslims, residents of unau- MPs and fielded two new can- nearest rival was former Delhi The biggest margin of vic- In New Delhi, lawyer Bidhuri was ahead of Raghav dominant constituencies is an Delhi. thorised colonies and a floating didates - singer-turned-politi- education minister Arvinder tory in Delhi was again scored Meenakshi Lekhi of BJP led for- Chadha of AAP by over 3.62 indication of people’s disen- “If Congress wins back its section within the middle class. cian Hans Raj Hans and crick- Singh Lovely of the Congress by West Delhi MP Parvesh mer Union Minister Ajay lakh votes. chantment with the AAP.” “The traditional votes, this will only Eyeing to win back its core eter-turned-politician Gautam core voters of Congress have weaken the AAP. The BJP just voters, the Congress campaign Gambhir. voted for it. It is an ideal situ- needs to consolidate on its was centred round the devel- Delhi BJP Chief ation for the BJP. The stronger core voters,” a BJP leader said opment works of erstwhile Manoj Tiwari retained 9 / :)) ' ;9 the Congress emerges, easier it analysing voting trend and the Sheila Dikshit government and the North East Delhi seat is for the BJP,” said Goel. assembly polls in Delhi are not the Kejriwal’s outfit. by defeating Congress #,7 ,+-3 seven seats polling over 33 I would say youngsters and functionary said their first Citing Muslim votes, he scheduled for this year end. The 2019 poll is a do-or-die veteran and former percent votes while Congress women in Delhi have voted for task is to remove, Arvind said the division of Muslim In Chandni Chowk Lok situation for the Congress after Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit day after Bharatiya Janata was third with a little over 15 BJP in large chunk,” said S P Krjriwal as Delhi Chief votes and that in the unautho- Sabha seat, Shakur Basti regis- its drubbing in Delhi in the by a margin over 3.6 lakh AParty (BJP) swept all seven per cent. According to politi- Arora, an expert on Delhi Minister. rised colonies and slum clusters tered the highest polling at 68.7 2014 Lok Sabha polls followed votes. Parliamentary seats in nation- cal analysis, the outcome of politics. “Delhi assembly elections would ensure BJP’s victory on per cent which is also the by the 2015 assembly polls. BJP’s West Delhi al Capital; political pundits feel 2019- General Election result “People have distanced are just nine months away. all seven seats in the national highest for any assembly seg- This is for the first time that MP Parvesh Singh Verma that even if Aam Aadmi Party would not have been different from the AAP and the reasons AAP will need to figure out Capital. ment in Delhi. This was fol- Congress does not have any broke his own record of 2014 (AAP) had fought together, it even if a seat-sharing agree- behind that are the party’s cul- how to recover quickly from Pertinently, Delhi saw lowed by 68.25 per cent polls in representation in Delhi of winning with the highest would not have made much ment between AAP and tures. The way they make the setback if they want to win moderate voters’ turnout for Ballimaran and 66.94 per cent Assembly or the seven Lok margin in Delhi. This time he difference as BJP polled a Congress had materialised. statements is not liked by the Delhi elections again. These the May 12 Lok Sabha polls, a in Matia Mahal. Notably, these Sabha seats in the national won with a margin 5,78,486 whopping 56 per cent of the “Just before elections, citizens of Delhi. The reason results are an indication that relatively higher voting per- areas are considered Congress capital. votes. total votes polled while the Congress and AAP had start- behind people drifted from people are thinking of reject- centage in certain pockets have strongholds where the BJP has It is for this reason, the Incumbent New Delhi joint tally of AAP- Congress ed negotiations to contest Congress is the campaign by ing the AAP and seeking an raised Congress’ hope for a abysmal presence. In Chandni Congress relied on its old war MP Meenakshi Lekhi also stood at 41 per cent. The gap Delhi seats as allies. After its President Rahul Gandhi alternative in the Congress, major comeback. Chowk, Congress’ Jai Prakash horses and the formidable ones won the seat by a margin of 15 percent is too big for any talks broke down, many polit- against Prime Minister which was not the case in 2014, Compared to the 60 per- Agarwal is contesting against like Sheila Dikshit, Jai Prakash of over 2.5 lakh votes political alliance to overcome. ical observers have also sug- Narendra Modi by calling him not the case in 2015 or even cent polling in Delhi, areas like BJP’s Dr Harsh Vardhan. Agarwal and Arvinder Singh defeating Congress’ Ajay However, Congress would gested that the split in the vote “Chowkidar Chor Hai”,” he 2013 assembly polls,” said an Ballimaran, Shakur Basti, Matia Similar trend was seen in Lovely, Ajay Maken and Maken. be buoyed with its improved in Delhi between the Congress said. expert on Delhi politics. Mahal, Seelampur and North East Delhi where Mahabal Mishra. The AAP, on South Delhi MP show as its vote share and AAP would benefit the “After the talks of alliance In 2014, while both AAP Mustafabad saw 66 to 68 per Muslims appeared to have the other hand, failed to Ramesh Bidhuri and increased considerably and it BJP,” said Dharam Raj Panwar, failed and the result in exit and Congress did not get even cent polling and thus giving voted en masse for Congress pitch strong candidates. Chandni Chowk MP Harsh came second on five Lok a jeen watcher of Delhi polls, most of the AAP leaders one parliamentary seat in Congress advantage in the leader Sheila Dikshit against Barring Atishi, Dilip Pandey Vardhan also retained their Sabha seats while AAP took Politics. and workers were not too Delhi, AAP defeated Congress Chandni Chowk and North BJP’s Manoj Tiwari. Poll per- and Raghav Chadha, the other seats by a margin of 3.67 lakh the position in the remaining “It was always a clear hopeful of their electoral and BJP in the 2015 Assembly East Delhi Parliamentary con- centage stood at 67.4 in four AAP candidates were votes and 2.28 lakh votes two. advantage for BJP in Delhi. prospects,” said an AAP leader elections. In 2017, the BJP stituencies. Similarly, in New Seemapuri, 66.47 in Seelampur unknown to the voters and respectively. As far as percentage of There were votes from the cat- on condition of anonymity. swept the municipal corpora- Delhi, the Congress is hopeful and 65.22 in Mustafabad hence they failed to make Riding high on the votes polled was concerned, egory of 18 to 30 years that Assembly elections are due tion elections. AAP and of getting better of the BJP. assembly segments. Babarpur much impact. Modi wave, the BJP made a BJP pocketed the lion’s share broke away from AAP’s vote this year in Delhi and after the Congress were neck-and-neck In East Delhi, Assembly also recorded 62.14 per cent BJP, which had won all the clean sweep in the of over 56 percent, while base and went to BJP instead recent “General Election- with regard to vote share that segments like Gandhi Nagar, polling. seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi national Capital winning Congress took the second spot of coming back to Congress. 2019” results, AAP and year. With trends now show- Shahdara, Kondli and In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, in 2014, repeated five sitting all seven seats with with 22.5 percent votes, fol- These are young generations Congress have started to draft ing that the Congress vote Trilokpuri saw the highest vot- the BJP had a vote share of 46 MPs, including Manoj Tiwari, massive margins as all its lowed by AAP that was rele- who voted for Narendra their plan to win the Chief share in Delhi has increased, ing where the Arvind kejriwal’s per cent while AAP got 3 per Dr Harsh Vardhan, Pravesh candidates bagged more gated to the third spot with Modi,” he added. Minister’s chair in Delhi AAP should be worried about AAP had eaten into the cent and Congress 15 per cent. Verma, Ramesh Bidhuri and than 50 per cent of votes, nearly 18.5 percent votes. This “Nationalism and securi- whereas BJP has also set the its future electoral prospects in Congress’ vote bank in 2015 In the subsequent Assembly Meenakashi Lekhi. The party while the Congress for is in sharp contrast to 2014, ty are also one of the reasons ball rolling by coining a slogan the National Capital as assem- Assembly polls. polls in 2015, AAP swept the contested the election riding of the first time in five years when AAP came second on all people in Delhi voted for BJP. ‘Abki Baar 60 Paar’. A party bly elections are near. If BJP leaders are to be elections with nearly 55 per PM Modi’s popularity and the fared better than the ruling believed, Congress’ better percent votes. However, the AAP narrative of nationalism after AAP which was relegated to the formance would be an ideal sit- and Congress have the com- Balakot air strike. third spot. # !" #$%

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Amid mounting outrage, end, “I think the government double handed policy is not as compared to previous report- 20 Summit in Osaka, where the Besides Vadra, the agency subjected to “unwarranted, + 5; # 7 the Indian Air Force (IAF) car- will be within its mandate” to something that we can deal ing periods,” he said in a state- US, India, and Japan will hold has also challenged the antici- unjustified and malicious crim- 7 % ried out a counter-terror oper- start a better relationship with with anymore,” Shringla said. ment on the company’s website. a trilateral meeting to pursue patory bail granted to Manoj inal prosecution which on the ation, hitting the biggest JeM its western neighbour. Referring to the national Of total volume, the US contin- their shared vision for a free Arora, an employee of Vadra’s face of it is completely politi- training camp in Balakot, deep “I think it is the desire of sentiment in the aftermath of ues to submit highest number of and open Indo-Pacific,” the Skylight Hospitality LLP and a cally motivated and is # inside Pakistan on February every Indian to have good rela- the Pulwama terrorist attack, requests, followed by India, the White House said. co-accused in the case. being carried out for reasons 26. The next day, Pakistan Air tions with Pakistan. You see our Shringla said there is strong UK, Germany and France, The G-20 Summit meeting Vadra is facing money other than those prescribed $ Force retaliated and downed a relations with Bangladesh, you bipartisan support in India Rosen said. He said that during is slated for June 28 and 29. laundering allegations in pur- under law”. / MiG-21 in an aerial combat and see our relations with Nepal, when it comes to dealing with the second half of 2018, the vol- China is flexing its muscles in chase of a London-based prop- The ED had also alleged ' & / '( captured an IAF pilot, who was Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Maldives, terrorism. “So what happens ume of content restrictions the South China Sea which erty at 12, Bryanston Square that Arora, a close aide of handed over to India. Afghanistan. We have excellent will depend largely on Pakistan, based on local law increased serves as a passage for annual worth 1.9 million pounds. Vadra, was aware of his over- CGDD Shringla said the onus of relationships,” he said. but I think we will have to wait globally by 135 per cent from trade worth USD 3.5 trillion. The trial court, while seas undeclared assets and was the peace talks to improve the Pakistan Prime Minister and watch that space,” he added. 15,337 to 35,972. PTI The US and China are locked granting Vadra relief, had instrumental in arranging 1 ; in a tussle for the commercial directed him not to leave the funds for the purchase of / 1 6 3 *$'! ' #!Q control of the SCS. PTI country without prior permis- Vadra’s London property. 7( , #P'./ ,'! Q " 045 3+%%% from the Pakistani media, with New Delhi: The Supreme AS Bopanna directed Agarwal come to stop such illegal strike,” July. “We hope and trust that #,7 ,+-3 and smooth conduct of firing. some calling it an “emphatic Court on Friday expressed to appear before the investigat- the Bench said. wiser counsel will prevail. The It was a cohesive effort of all the rime Minister Narendra mandate” based on national concern over “illegal” lawyers ing officer of the case against It said due to strike in the Bar Council/concerned Bar BrahMos supersonic cruise three services demonstrating PModi winning a second five- security while others terming it strike paralysing judicial work him pursuant to the notices courts of West Bengal, it has no Associations may look into Amissile was successfully high standards of Inter Service year term drew a mixed response a “global trend” of right-wing in courts of West Bengal and issued to him by the police sta- other option but to entertain the matter with all seriousness,” test-fired by a unit of Eastern Synergy,” the Army said. populists sweeping to victory. granted protection from arrest tion concerned, within a peri- the anticipatory bail plea of the Bench said. Command of the Indian Army The missile was test-fired on Dawn newspaper in a front to BJP leader Praveen Agarwal od of one week from Friday. Agarwal. While directing At the outset, senior advo- from Car Nicobar Islands, the a specially designed target cho- +++7+ page report wrote that Modi in an alleged rioting case. “It is very unfortunate that Agarwal to cooperate with the cate Vinay Navare, appearing Army said. sen at a range of 270 kilometres, won an “emphatic mandate” in The top court said liti- the strike is going on in all the investigation, the Bench said for Agarwal said due to the The exercise, conducted they said. It validated deep pen- 9&68:+*)+*(&- the general elections that saw gants have to suffer due to courts in the State of West “the petitioner shall not be strike in all the trial courts as on May 22, was part of joint etration capability by the super- him pitching national security paralysing of judicial work and Bengal and due to which, ulti- arrested till the next date of well as the Calcutta High training by the Army, Navy sonic cruise missile and accurate Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritu- as an “invincible talisman”. hoped wiser sense will prevail mate sufferers are the litigants. hearing”. Court, the normal judicial and the Air Force. engagement of targets in depth. al leader Dalai Lama has con- The News International and the Bar Council and Bar By such a strike, the entire judi- It sought response from the function was paralysed and “The launch of the Lt Gen MM Naravane, General gratulated Narendra Modi and termed Modi’s win as “dra- Associations will look into the cial function cannot be made West Bengal Government on therefore, he was not in a posi- BrahMos missile involved Officer Commanding-in-Chief the NDA on the “sweeping vic- matic” but added that it only matter with all seriousness. paralysed and the litigants can- Agarwal’s anticipatory bail plea tion to approach either the trial coordination with a large num- Eastern Command, witnessed tory” in the Lok Sabha elections. was a reflection of a global A vacation Bench of Justices not be allowed to be suffered. and posted the matter for fur- court or the High Court for ber of agencies for successful the launch. “I pray you will be successful in trend. MR Shah, Aniruddha Bose and Therefore, as such, a day has ther hearing in first week of anticipatory bail plea. PTI meeting the challenges that lie ahead in fulfilling the hopes and aspirations of the people of ! moral responsibility. bank dacoity at J&K Bank India,” he wrote in a letter. “India Chief Minister Kamal Nath Noorpora, raising of funds for is one of the great ancient civi- --- said the Congress will review the 222 terrorist activities. In the first lizations, a distinctive and fun- reasons of its rout in the State. week of May this year, he was damental feature of which has From Page 1 Of the 29 seats in the Congress- From Page 1 declared as pro-claimed offend- been ahimsa and karuna,” the Odisha Pradesh Congress ruled State, the BJP has won 25 According to police er by NIA special court Mohali Dalai Lama said. PTI Committee (OPCC) president and is leading on three seat, spokesman, Musa fired at the Punjab on May 2, 2019 in the Niranjan Patnaik said, “I have while the Congress managed to security forces when they NIA case. The said case per- sent my resignation to AICC win only one seat, Chhindwara. were involved in search oper- tains to his involvement in president (Rahul) owning Nath’s son Nakul Nath won ation at Batpora in Dadsara serial blasts at Jalandhar Punjab moral responsibility for the from the family bastion. area of Awantipora on late on September 14, 2018, for party’s poor show in both Lok In a statement, Nath said, Thursday night. which a case was registered at Sabha and Assembly polls in “It is true that the results are not Musa was reportedly given Maqsudan Jalandhar Police the State.” as per our expectations but we the offer to lay down his arms Station. The investigation Patnaik said the party accept the mandate and respect and surrender but he refused of the said case was later taken needs to take concrete steps to it....We will review it. Former and retaliated by opening heavy by the NIA. set the organisation in proper Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, fire on the security forces. In Hours after news of his shape by getting rid of oppor- who was defeated by the BJP’s the ensuing encounter, he was killing spread like wildfire, tunists and attracting youths Pragya Singh Thakur in Bhopal killed and the body was protests broke out in parts of into its fold. The Congress Lok Sabha seat, said he accept- retrieved from the site of Srinagar, Pulwama and won only one Lok Sabha seat ed the verdict with humility. encounter. The killed terrorist Shopian forcing authorities on and nine Assembly seats in Senior Congress leader was identified as Zakir Friday to impose restrictions in Odisha. There are also reports Jyotiraditya Scindia, who lost in Rashid Bhat alias Musa of parts of the Valley. After the that Karnataka H K Patil, who his traditional Guna seat Noorpora Tral. body of the terrorist was hand- was tasked to oversee the to the BJP’s Dr K P Yadav, said The terrorist was carrying ed over to his family for the Karnataka Congress campaign he will continue to work for the rocket, grenade launcher, pro- final rights, all educational in December, has quit taking people. jectiles, huge ammunition and institutions across Kashmir war-like stores. Valley were shut down. Mobile According to the police Internet services were snapped records, Zakir Musa had a across the Valley to maintain ### long history of terror crime law and order. Even speed of records since 2013. fixed landline broadband con- From Page 1 An First Information Report As per police records, nections were reduced to pre- “I received this video from (FIR) was registered and inves- Zakir was involved in planning vent uploading of inflamma- social site. It was very disturb- tigation was taken up,” said the and executing a series of terror tory posts and pictures. ing to watch and we were deter- DCP. attacks in the area and many Heavy deployments were mined to make the video pop- “Rajkumar has been arrest- other civilian atrocities. made in capital city Srinagar, ular so that the man could be ed by the police team. During Several terror crime cases south Kashmir’s Pulwama, put behind the bars,” said Esha, interrogation, the accused dis- were registered against him. He Anantnag, Shopian and who was approached by activists closed that when his wife was was also involved in inciting Kulgam districts among other of the People for Animal (an strolling with their pet dog, the youth for terrorist activities, areas. NGO that cares for the canines) dog attacked their pet dog and after they watched the video. “It when his wife tried to protect is the tendency of dogs that they their pet dog, the victim dog Rupani ordered the prin- bark if you tease them. A dog is had bitten his wife. Filled with cipal secretary of the Urban harmless animal and beating anger, the accused Rajkumar, Development department to amounts to cruelty. It has been beat the dog to death,” said the rush to the spot, conduct an defined in the PCA Act that a DCP. inquiry and give a report with- dog can bite the attacker in self “We are sure, Rajkumar in three days. defense,” she said. will be released on bail, but, He expressed grief over According to police, an FIR society needs to be bit polite From Page 1 the incident and declared a has been registered in this case towards the animal as they have “Extremely anguished by financial assistance of 4 lakh under section 429 and section equal right to live on the Earth the fire tragedy in Surat. My each to the family members of 11A of the Prevention of Cruelty as humans,” Esha said. Notably, thoughts are with bereaved the deceased. to Animals PCA) Act at the animal rights activists have families. May the injured recov- Meanwhile, municipal Bhalaswa Dairy police station. raised concern to make PCA er quickly. Have asked the authorities in Ahmedabad “A CD of video recording Act more stringent as that Gujarat government and local ordered closure of all coaching of the alleged beating, subse- would act as deterrence. “We authorities to provide all pos- classes till further orders to quently leading to death of the want proper investigation and sible assistance to those affect- check whether they follow fire dog was obtained by the police. punishment for Rajkumar so ed,” Modi tweeted. safety norms. Further on basis of complaint that no one in future dares to and CD available with the harm animals in a manner police regarding the incident like this,” Esha added. ( !" #$% #,! $

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A total of 724 women can- ror-accused Thakur won against the 2014 Lok Sabha polls have including Vijaywada and !G+ didates contested from across former Chief Minister Digvijay managed to retain their seats Guntur. The YSR Congress the country with the Congress Singh. Other prominent names this general election. party retained the Kadapa and fielding the maximum women to enter Parliament are DMK Kiren Rijiju, Jual Oram, Rajampet seats in the State. renominated sitting MP Telangana, but could only retain ed 23 of its sitting MPs of which emerged victorious with com- at 54 followed closely by the BJP candidate from Thoothukkudi Radha Mohan Singh, Rajnath Assam saw two sitting MPs Mohammed Faizal PP from two, while four of them lost to nine could not retain their fortable margins. Similarly 14 of at 53. As many as 27 out of 41 Kanimozhi Karunanidhi and Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Babul each from the BJP and the Lakshadweep and secured the BJP. The AIADMK had reposed constituencies. BJP had renom- the 15 recontesting BJP MPs sitting women MPs, including BJP’s Rita Bahuguna, who won Supriyo are among over 145 sit- Congress in the fray. While the seat in 2019 as well. The CPI(M) its faith in seven sitting MPs in inated its lone MP from the were successful in Maharashtra, Sonia Gandhi, Hema Malini from Uttar Pradesh’s Allahabad ting BJP MPs from across the BJP duo won, the Congress ones had renominated its MPs from Tamil Nadu, but did not wrest state, Babul Supriyo, who while 15 of the Shiv Sena sitting and Kirron Kher, retained their constituency. Locket Chatterjee, country who have retained lost. The All India United two seats in Tripura, but both of a single seat. emerged victorious. MPs retained their seats. In seats in the Lok Sabha polls, but Bengali actress-turned-politi- their seats. Bihar saw 12 BJP Democratic Front retained its them lost to BJP. The TRS had In West Bengal, the The BJP fielded 16 sitting Punjab, the Congress had field- the likes of Smriti Irani and cian from the BJP, won in MPs successfully retesting their Dhubri seat. The NCP had renominated six of its MPs in Trinamool Congress had field- MPs in Rajasthan and all of them ed three sitting MPs who won Pragya Thakur stole the show Hooghly constituency. 8 (& 0 "67 '&))*& 95 #,7 ,+-3 #'$%E6+: 9&6(**)69 . 5 + 5 $+,%- 3 +:$6D5DDDGD5DDD he NDA may have swept #'$% !" D5DDD #'$% H5HD! 7*+$+ TBihar, nevertheless, the #'$% D" #,7 ,+-3 @ State topped the NOTA charts 3 #+77)B +(7:$ 5DDD +6>+::+(+-$ +7+6+6- ) &!" (5 6-:+ 4 4 52; 9 5 9 in India with over 8 lakh vot- :+-( &!A@ ( #'$% he Lok Sabha this time 7:* :+6+6- / ; 52; # # 5. ers exercising that option in the +**(8+: &!AA ( +:+7)+; Twill have 300 first-term +67&&6* State. It forms 2 per cent of the +:+6+( A5D6"&D6 members, compared to 314 in 3 52; 452; votes polled in the State. 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A ting Rajya Sabha MP from the stituency in the State which saw two-time Rajya Sabha MP, she Congress lost. 30,000 to 50,000 votes cast in the maximum number of vot- voters (0.9 per cent) had opted NOTA secured 1.79 per cent of had unsuccessfully contested in the Lok Sabha election. In Punjab’s Gurdaspur, From the BJP, its chief favour of NOTA while 17 con- ers rejected the candidates. A for NOTA in the 2014 parlia- the total votes polled in the the Lok Sabha polls in 2004 and Congress, DMK and TMC can- Bollywood actor Sunny Deol Amit Shah, Union Ministers stituencies saw over 20,000 total of 19,246 voters in mentary elections. constituency. 2014. Gambhir, who was con- didates also defeated their rivals defeated Congress heavyweight Ravi Shankar Prasad and votes in favour of NOTA. Faridkot went for NOTA, as A high profile New Delhi In 2019 elections, in the testing from East Delhi, to secure a berth in Parliament. and sitting MP Sunil Jakhar Smriti Irani, and from the In States of Uttar Pradesh, per EC data available. constituency in the national key constituency of Varanasi — trounced Congress’ Arvinder In Tamil Nadu, DMK with a margin of 82,459 votes. DMK its leader Kanimozhi Gujarat and West Bengal, 0.84 Over 33,000 NOTA votes Capital, which saw the lowest the seat from where Prime Singh Lovely by a margin of leader and Rajya Sabha MP Actor Ravi Kishan also defeat- are among the prominent per cent, 1.38 per cent, 0.96 per were polled in Himachal turnout, had the second high- Minister Narendra Modi con- over 3.91 lakh. Kanimozhi scripted a win, ed Ram Bual Nishad in winners in the 2019 Lok cent votes were cast in favour Pradesh, where the ruling BJP est number of NOTA votes at tested the elections and won — Controversial BJP candi- defeating her BJP rival by over Gorakhpur by a margin of Sabha election who are sitting of NOTA. The counting was swept the Lok Sabha elections 6,601 accounting for 0.72 per saw 4,037 voters (0.38 per date from Bhopal and Malegaon 3.47 lakh votes in over three lakh votes. Rajya Sabha members. still on for a few seats in each winning all four seats in the cent of their total polling. North cent) opting for NOTA. blast accused, Pragya Thakur, Thoothukkudi constituency. Besides, Uttar Pradesh Shah, 54, was elected to of these States. State. The saffron party won East Delhi saw the highest voter Amongst other key con- defeated Congress’ bigwig In Madhya Pradesh’s Cabinet Minister Satydev the Upper House of Parliament NOTA, which was intro- Mandi, Shimla, Hamirpur, and turnout but received the least stituencies where results had Digvijay Singh to register her Chhindwara, Chief Minister Pachauri, who had unsuccess- in August 2017, making his duced in India following a Kangra with record margins of number of NOTA votes at 4,589 been declared, Amit Shah’s maiden win in a general election. Kamal Nath’s son Nakul won fully fought the 2004 election, parliamentary debut. 2013 Supreme Court direc- about four lakh votes in each of accounting for 0.31 per cent of Gandhinagar constituency saw Prasad, Union Minister his first Lok Sabha poll, defeat- won the Kanpur seat with a He won his first Lok tive, allows voters to express the constituencies. As many as the total votes cast in the con- 14214 (1.11 per cent) NOTA and Rajya Sabha MP, who was ing his BJP rival by 37,536 votes. margin of over 1.55 lakh votes, Sabha election from the their dissent by pressing a but- 33,008 voters chose the NOTA stituency. The percentage of votes and Ravi Shankar Prasad’s in the fray from Patna Sahib In West Bengal’s Jadhavpur defeating Congress’ Sriprakash Gandhinagar constituency by ton saying none of the contes- option. In this way, 0.87 per NOTA votes polled in Chandni Patna Sahib Constituency saw seat in Bihar, defeated sitting constituency, actress Mimi Jaiswal, who had won over a margin of over 5.57 lakh tants are worthy of their vote. cent voters opted for NOTA out Chowk, East Delhi, South Delhi, 5076 (0.52 per cent). The con- MP and Congress candidate Chakraborty scripted a maid- Pachauri in 2004. votes against his nearest rival As per EC’s data, more of the total 38,01, 793 votes and West Delhi stood at 0.52 per stituencies of Kerala’s Wayanad Shatrughan Sinha by a margin en win on a TMC ticket over BJP’s Rita Bahuguna Joshi Congress’ CJ Chavda. than 1.54 lakh voters exer- polled in the state on 19 May, cent, 0.39 per cent, 0.43 per cent, — where Congress scion Rahul of over 2.84 lakh votes, regis- Anupam Hazra of the BJP by a and Keshari Devi Patel also His colleagues in the cised NOTA option in Punjab an election official said. and 0.62 per cent respectively. Gandhi won from — saw 2,155 tering his first victory in a gen- margin of over 2.95 lakh votes. registered their maiden win in Rajya Sabha, Prasad and Irani, where the Congress registered Besides, 8,208 (0.22 per cent) In Jammu & Kashmir, voters (0.2 per cent) pressing eral election. Another actress and TMC the Lok Sabha election from who hold Law and Textile an impressive victory by win- votes were rejected for the about 8,000 voters opted for the NOTA button. In the national Capital, candidate from Basirhat, Allahabad and Phulpur seats, portfolios respectively, also ning eight of the 13 Lok Sabha four Lok Sabha seats of the hill- NOTA button in elections to In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, where the BJP made a clean Nusrat Jahan Ruhi, trounced respectively. Among other win- emerged victorious. seats in the general election. As State, he added. the Baramulla Parliamentary where it was introduced for the sweep of the seven seats, BJP’s Sayantan Basu of the BJP by a ners were LJP chief Ramvilas Irani, 43, who had earli- many as 1,54,423 voters (1.12 The highest 11,327 voters constituency which was won by first time in any parliamentary North West Delhi candidate margin of over 3.50 lakh. Paswan’s brother Pashupati er also served as an the HRD per cent of total votes polled) chose NOTA in Kangra, fol- National Conference’s election, around 60 lakh voters Hans Raj Hans pipped AAP’s West Bengal unit chief of Kumar Paras who won from Minister and the I&B Minister pressed the NOTA option, as lowed by 8,357 in Mohammad Akbar Lone. In had opted for the NOTA option Guggan Singh by a huge mar- the BJP Dilip Ghosh also reg- reserved seat of Hajipur in north in the Modi Government, per election office data. Among Shimla, 8,026 in Hamirpur Baramulla constituency of — equalling about 1.1 per cent gin of over 5.55 lakh votes. But, istered a win over TMC’s Bihar while BJP’s Tejasvi Surya proved herself to be a giant- 13 Lok Sabha seats, it was and 5,298 in Mandi, the official north Kashmir, 7,999 voters of the total votes polled during it wasn’t just BJP candidates Manas Ranjan Bhunia by a triumphed over his Congress killer as she dethroned Faridkot constituency where said. He said a total of 29,032 pressed the NOTA button. those elections across 543 seats. who scored their first-ever win margin of 88,952 votes. rival in Bangalore South. Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by a margin of 55,120 votes, while Prasad, 64, # #,7 ,+-3 All three — Urmila dislodged sitting MP and for- Matondkar, Shatrughan Sinha mer BJP member Shatrughan n terms of winning percent- ** 0*1 23 and Raj Babbar — from the Sinha who fought on a Iage registered by the stars glitzy world that the Congress Congress ticket by a margin of from the glamour world, the fielded, lost. So did Poonam over 2.84 lakh in Patna Sahib TMC fared better than the their respective seats. ' $. 5 1 / 9 1$ won the election by a margin Sinha from SP and Nikhil constituency. BJP with 80 per cent of those Actor Mimi Chakraborty - / 1- 2; of over three lakh votes. Kumar Swamy from JD(S). The TV actor-turned- it fielded winning at the hus- opened her political account on $ $.K %K8 5 Hema Malini, also known Actor-turned-politician and politician had twice fought the tings. The BJP had a strike rate a Trinamool Congress ticket . 5# 2 5 % 5 / 1 K as ‘Dream Girl’, retained her former BJP rebel Shatrughan Lok Sabha election unsuc- of over 70 per cent while the after winning by a margin of / . 5 ; Mathura seat, defeating RLD Sinha, who defected to cessfully in 2004, losing to Congress, the SP and the JD (S) nearly 2.9 lakh votes from the ; # 9 2 &( candidate Kunwar Narendra Congress, lost to Union Congress leader Kapil Sibal in saw 100 per cent losses. prestigious Jadavpur Lok Sabha %2;5 5 Singh by a margin of over three Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Chandni Chowk constituen- Of the five filmstars the seat. It was in this seat that 2 ; + = lakh votes while actor-turned- by over 2.5 lakh votes. Urmila cy and in 2014 suffered defeat TMC fielded, only one Moon party chief Mamata Banerjee N# O politician Kirron Kher won a lost Mumbai North parliamen- at the hands of Rahul Gandhi Moon Sen lost. Sen, a sitting had trounced CPI(M) veteran second term from Chandigarh tary seat to BJP candidate Gopal in Amethi. MP from Bankura, was fielded and noted lawyer Somnath 5- 5 defeating her nearest rival Shetty by a huge margin of Besides the BJP MPs, in Asansol against BJP’s sitting Chatterjee in 1984. Pawan Kumar Bansal of more than 4.5 lakh votes while DMK’s 51-year-old MP and Union Minister Babul Pitted against BJP general stars it fielded, seven won with superstar Ravi Kishan and Sunil Jakhar of the Congress Congress by over 40,000 votes. Raj babbar lost Fatehpur Sikri Kanimozhi also scripted her Supriyo, who was a Bollywood secretary Sayantan Basu, anoth- Jaya Prada and Dinesh Lal Manoj Tiwari and Sufi singer from Gurdaspur seat. Deol Locket Chatterjee, opened seat by a margin of five lakh first win in a general election singer. Supriyo defeated Sen by er actor-turned-politician Yadav ‘Nirhaua’ being the only Hans Raj Hans won from the won the Gurdaspur con- the BJP account from Hooghly votes to BJP’s Rajkumar Chahar. as she defeated her BJP rival around 2 lakh votes in a con- Nusrat Jahan won Basirhat by two losers. Dinesh Lal Yadav, BJP on the Modi magic while stituency by 82,459 votes. by defeating the sitting TMC Actor Prakash Raj con- by over 3.47 lakh in test whose campaign was over 3.5 lakh votes. For her part, alias Nirhaua was defeated by south actor Sumlatha Ravi Kishan, an established MP Ratna De Nag while in tested from the Bangalore Thoothukkudi constituency. marred by violence. Satabdi Roy retained Birbhum SP chief Akhilesh Yadav from Ambareesh who was backed by actor in both Bollywood and Delhi, another Bhojpuri super- Central constituency as an However, Congress leader The four other stars from seat by a margin of 88924 votes Azamgarh seat while Jaya the BJP also won her seat against Bhojpuri film industry, faced star and BJP’s State unit chief Independent and even forfeit- and party’s Rajya Sabha MP B the TMC namely Mimi while Deepak Adhikary alias Prada lost to Azam Khan from Nikhil Swamy of the JD (S). off against Samajwadi Party’s Manoj Tiwari defeated three- ed his deposit. BJP candidate P K Hariprasad lost to young Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan, Dev won Ghatal seat by a mar- Rampur seat. Making his political debut Rambhual Nishad and man- time former Chief Minister C Mohan defeated Congress’s Tejasvi Surya in Bangalore Deepak Adhikary alias Dev gin of over one lakh. Bollywood actor Sunny from BJP, actor Sunny Deol was aged to defend UP CM Yogi Sheila Dikshit by a margin of Rizwan Arshad by more than South constituency by a mar- and Satabadi Roy won from As for the BJP, of the nine Deol, Hema Malini, Bhojpuri pitted against the sitting MP Adityanath ‘s home turf. He over 3.5 lakh votes. 3.5 lakh votes. gin of over 3.31 lakh votes. ' 56 8) & )

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New Delhi: Four new judges of Banerjee were recently part of ment of the four judges. notification said. with bomb blasts at Burdwan The JMB was engaged in the Supreme Court were the three members in-house The names of Justices Bose ndia on Friday declared the *&)*=*L#+7++*@)@ The listing under the First in West Bengal on October 2, recruitment and raising funds administered the oath of office panel headed by Justice SA and Bopanna were earlier IJamaat-ul-Mujahideen )A+-6+68+-( Schedule of the UAPA means 2014 and Bodh Gaya on for terrorist activities, pro- by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Bobde, which gave clean chit to returned by the Centre to the Bangladesh (JMB), accused for E#F$+99)(-=&:**::&: the outfit is now a banned January 19, 2018. curement of explosives chem- Ranjan Gogoi on Friday, taking Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi Supreme Court collegium cit- the terror attack at a cafe in +**+9>+*+9+=6 +>+6 organisation in India, a home According to the Home icals and assembling of their overall number to 31 -- after holding inquiry into the ing seniority and representa- Dhaka in 2016, as a terrorist 1.0L+(9&77**-+6- ministry official said. Twenty- Ministry notification, the JMB Improvised Explosives Devices, the full sanctioned strength of sexual harassment allegation tion of regions as the reasons. organisation. two people, including 17 for- came into existence in 1998 it said. Investigations have also the top court. levelled by a former apex court In its May 8 resolution, the In a notification, the Union ;:&7&*-+9*(&=*::&:(7 eigners, were killed in the with the objective of establish- revealed JMB’s plan of making Justices BR Gavai, Surya woman staffer against him. five-member collegium had Home Ministry said the outfit +6-+(,668+8-6 attack at the Holey Artisan ing an Caliphate through Jehad. permanent bases within ten Kant, Aniruddha Bose and AS The apex court, which was reiterated its recommendation has committed and promoted :+-9+(+*&6+6- Bakery in Gulshan area of The JMB and its formations kilometers along the indo- Bopanna were administered the functioning with 27 judges, to elevate them, observing that acts of terrorism and has been :9:)*76*&=&)*(=&: Bangladesh capital Dhaka on like Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh border in several oath of office by the CJI in court including the CJI has now nothing adverse has been engaged in radicalisation and *::&:(*+9**(6 6-+ July 1, 2016. During a joint India or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen districts of West Bengal, Assam no.1 in the presence of several reached its full strength for the found regarding their compe- recruitment of youths for ter- operation, police killed six of Hindustan and their manifes- and Tripura and plans of other sitting apex court judges. first time since 2008 when tence, conduct or integrity. rorist activities in India. the attackers. tations have committed acts of spreading its network in South Among the 31 judges, the apex Parliament had increased their The collegium, headed by Therefore, the Jamaat-ul- Hindustan and all its manifes- The Bangladesh Police had terrorism, promoted acts of ter- India with an overarching court has three women judges — number from 26 to 31. the CJI, had also recommend- Mujahideen Bangladesh or tations have been inserted in blamed terror group JMB for rorism and have been engaged motive to establish Caliphate in Justices R Banumathi, Indu President Ram Nath ed the names of Justices Gavai Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen India the First Schedule to the the two terror attacks. Security in radicalisation and recruit- the Indian subcontinent, the Malhotra and Indira Banerjee. Kovind had on Wednesday and Kant for elevation to the or Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Unlawful Activities agencies in India have also ment of youths for terrorist notification said. Justices Malhotra and issued warrants of appoint- apex court. PTI !" #$% . 6%765 9'+9%$% 9 " +/ ' here was no sign of reces- Tsion in political bedlam in Bengal. Rather, the post-poll pointed fingers at the CPI(M) Assembly elections they will ) ' '% violence engulfed the State 9'+9%$% wondering how a party that refrain from doing so.” from north to south with had more than 34 percent of Rejecting TMC’s argu- reports of arson, loot, shoot- pset with Trinamool votes could forfeit its deposits ments the CPI(M) leadership outs — mostly involving the UCongress’ biggest defeat in 39 out of 42 seats. said “it was the TMC which > ''% Trinamool Congress and BJP since 2006, Bengal Chief “You can see Assembly brought BJP to Bengal and it — pouring in from all parts of Minister Mamata Banerjee has wise election results and you was Mamata Banerjee who Kolkata: Trinamool Congress father was a better organisa- the State. % called a high-level meeting on will need no rocket science first started communal politics on Friday suspended its Bijpur tional player than him. In North Bengal’s Saturday to discuss possible expert to tell how the Left to appease particular com- legislator Subhrangshu Roy, son “Today I have no qualms in Coochbehar district, tens of At least 15 houses were At Bankura too where BJP’s causes, regarding colossal transferred its votes to the BJP,” munity (read the Muslims). of BJP leader Mukul Roy, for accepting that I have lost to my houses were burnt and many looted at Ichhapore, houses Subhas Sarkar humbled defeat in the Lok Sabha elec- said State Minister and losing Senior leader Sujan anti-party comments. father. He is a real chanakya of TMC party offices were on and shops were looted and ran- CPI(M) and TMC heavy- tions at the hands of the BJP candidate from Bankura Chakrabarty also alleged Subhrangshu has been sus- Bengal politics. Our party has Friday looted and torched by sacked from Jagaddal to weights Amiya Patra and “which does not even have a Subroto Mukherjee. “hundreds of our lower rung pended for six years from the lost and people voted against us. alleged BJP supporters alleged- Bhatpara with hundreds of Subroto Mukherjee a reported sound organisational backup “A national level CPI(M) leaders are in jail on false party, announced TMC secre- We should accept it,” ly as a retaliatory attack from the people taking shelter at gov- saffron worker was fired at. He in the State.” leader was contesting against charges — sometimes in nar- tary general Partha Chatterjee at Subhrangshu said. saffron side after four of their ernment schools to avoid riot- however was saved by a whis- Apart from scrutinising me. In the Assembly polls he cotic cases. Others have fled a Press conference this evening. Mukul Roy, once consid- party members were attacked like situation even as newly per as the bullet grazed past his the Assembly segment wise had polled 70,000 votes from Bengal in the face of violence “He has been constantly ered to be the second-in-com- with sharp weapons. The four- won BJP MP and local strong- ear. In neighbouring con- polling reports being prepared one segment. Then how it and in many cases they have making such statements. Our mand of the Trinamool some had been hospitalised. man Arjun Singh went out stituency of Purulia a youth by the district party leaders the could be possible that he got fallen silent as they are asked party’s disciplinary body after Congress, joined the BJP in The incidents took place at appealing to the people te allegedly a TMC man was shot TMC was likely to find out a only 1 lakh votes in seven seg- to pay fines for doing Left pol- consultation with party supre- November 2017 after a fallout Sitai, Toofanganj and remain silent. in his leg by bike-born assailants face-saving excuse for the con- ments. This is a clear case of itics. This is not so in the case mo Mamata Banerjee has with party supremo Mamata Mathabhanga, sources said. Even as the State political police said claiming the attack- sumption of the electorate. sale of ideology for cash,” a of BJP which is allowed to do decided to expel him,” Banerjee. He is being credited BJP’s Nisit Pramanik has wrest- leadership struggled to recover ers could be BJP workers. According to sources, fuming Mukherjee said. organisational politics in Chatterjee said. for the stellar show of the BJP ed the Coochbehar seat from from the shock of electoral Nearer Kolkata attacks on apart from peddling “massive Chatterjee also a senior Bengal. Subhrangshu, a two-time in Bengal in the just-concluded the ruling TMC. defeat conceding 12 seats to the the opposition parties contin- communal polarisation” as the Minister in the Mamata “Hence in the absence of MLA from Bijpur Assembly Lok Sabha elections. Parts of South Bengal also surging BJP the bureaucracy had ued at Bhangor where houses prime reason for the party’s Banerjee cabinet said “the BJP local leaders a ransacked and constituency which is part of the Meanwhile, the Trinamool continued to simmer with con- a tough time handling the chaot- of CPI(M) supporters were electoral debacle the party is has nothing in Bengal. Their battered Left electorate has Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat, leadership broke its silence after tinuing BJP-TMC clashes ic situation with both the sides bombed and looted by alleged also likely to hold the Left balloon was inflated with the voted for the BJP as they have held a Press conference earlier the poor poll show with Partha spreading far and across attacking each other with TMC men. The victims said responsible for paving the way gas provided by the CPI(M). thought that the will get pro- in the day and hailed his father’s Chatterjee saying, losing elec- Barrackpore constituency. Tens bombs, brickbats and other dan- they were attacked because the for the BJP’s entry in Bengal. The people will be told as to tection from them. The TMC organisational skills and said he tions doesn't mean defeat and of motor bikes reportedly gerous weapons requiring State TMC thought that the Left Already two senior leaders how a party like the CPI(M) is resposnbile for BJP’s entry in had tried to give a lead to his BJP's resounding majority is a belonging to TMC supporters DGP Virendra to rush to the transferred their votes to the Subroto Mukherjee and did this compromising its ide- Bengal and loss of its renais- party from his Assembly seg- temporary phase, which will were torched at Naihati, place and hold peace meetings. BJP. Partho Chatterjee on Friday ology,” he said hoping “in the sance culture.” ment but failed to do so as his soon fizzle out. PTI , %/$ > ) "

Amethi (UP): After uprooting Congress pres- Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party utes the alliance defeat, in part, to proval over the idea of giving "half the coalition. ident Rahul Gandhi from his party bastion, came off worse than its coalition its inability to wean away the non- of the seats" to a partner. The BSP chief not only joined BJP leader Smriti Irani Friday thanked the partner BSP as the caste arithmetic Yadav OBCs, Jats, upper castes and Luck did not favour even the hands with arch-rival SP but also people here for "helping the lotus bloom". by the “gathbandhan” in Uttar Dalits who had switched to the BJP Yadavs' own family. campaigned for one-time sworn Mumbai: The Shiv Sena on Modi, the Sena claimed. Irani defeated the Congress chief and sit- Pradesh failed before a BJP wave in last time. Except Mulayam Singh Yadav enemy Mulayam Singh Yadav in Friday said the massive mandate In Maharashtra, the edito- ting MP by a margin of 55,120 votes. the Lok Sabha elections. He also felt that many benefi- and Akhilesh Yadav, contestants Mainpuri, asking her supporters to the NDA got in the 2019 Lok rial said, senior Congress lead- In a tweet, Irani said, "Ek nayi subah Despite its high expectations ciaries of the central welfare from the family failed to re-enter forget past bitterness. Sabha polls was due to the ers Ashok Chavan and Amethi ke liye, ek naya sankalp. Dhanyawad from the alliance forged with schemes — cooking gas connec- the Lok Sabha But she apparently failed to popularity of Prime Minister Sushilkumar Shinde lost and so Amethi, shat shat naman. Apne vikas per vish- Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party tions, rural housing, toilets and the Akhilesh Yadav won with a ensure that the core BSP voters Narendra Modi and the politi- did Sharad Pawar's grand- was jataya, kamal ka phool khilaya. Amethi this time, the SP got just five seats annual 6,000 allowance to poor comfortable margin of 2.60 lakh transferred to the Samajwadi Party, cal management of BJP chief nephew Parth Pawar. The vic- ka abhaar" (A new morning for Amethi, a new — the same number it won in the farmers — were part of the SP-BSP votes, defeating Bhojpuri star and wherever an SP nominee was field- Amit Shah. tory of Supriya Sule was the only resolve. Thankyou Amethi. You showed 2014 elections. vote bank. BJP candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav ed as a joint candidate. In an editorial in party solace for the NCP, it added. faith in development and helped the lotus But its vote share fell four per- They have shifted allegiance to Nirahua. Mulayam Singh Yadav The alliance had high expecta- mouthpiece Saamana, the Sena It said the Sena also lost bloom). centage points, from 22.35 per cent the BJP, he argued. won in Mainpuri by over 94,000 tions from the elections as the said the opposition raised issues some of its key seats but some In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Gandhi then to a little under 18 now. The SP even lost in the Yadav votes, defeating BJP's Prem Singh joint rallies held all over the state of unemployment, farm distress new faces won as well. had defeated Irani by 1,07,903 votes. In contrast, the BSP which bastions of Kannauj and Badaun, Shakya. drew large crowds. and the people decided Modi The people reposed faith in Later, in a recorded message to the peo- drew a blank last time won 10 of the indicating that even members of But Akhilesh Yadav's wife It also gave strength to was the right man to solve the "chowkidar" whom the ple of her constituency, she thanked them for 38 seats it contested under the seat- these castes had moved to the BJP. Dimple and cousins Dharmendra Mayawati's apparent prime minis- them. Congress had called "chor" blessing a common worker of the BJP and cre- sharing pact this time. This is the second time that an and Akshay did not make it to terial aspirations, now shattered due "People felt the Congress against the backdrop of the ating history which was witnessed by the Adding the lone seat won by the alliance experiment by Akhilesh Parliament. to the poor performance of oppo- got 60 years, why not five more Rafale fighter purchase deal, the country and world. Rashtriya Lok Dal, the third ally, the Yadav has failed. In Firozabad, Akhilesh Yadav's sition parties nationwide. years to Modi," the editorial paper said. "Today, a common worker of the BJP total seats bagged by the Opposition In the 2017 assembly elections, estranged uncle and founder of During an election rally in claimed. Modi's popularity saw a expresses her gratitude to you all. I repeat my coalition are a mere 15 out of the Akhilesh Yadav forged an alliance Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party- Ambedkarnagar, the BSP chief even It also said "Hindutva" won surge since 2014 and the resolve that in the coming five years resolu- 80 in the State. with the Congress against the wish- Lohia, Shivpal Yadav, was relegat- said, "If all goes well, I may have to in West Bengal, adding that par- Opposition did not get an tion of all problems will be extended to every The Bharatiya Janata Party and es of his father and party founder ed to the third spot, securing about seek election form here because the ties that ran a negative campaign inkling of it, it said, adding that village, every purva and every nyay pan- its ally Apna Dal (S) won 64, com- Mulayam Singh Yadav. The SP tally 91,000 votes. road to national politics passes against Modi were shown the neither Congress general sec- chayat-level. It will be my commitment. pared to the 73 they had won in had then come down to 47 from 224 But an SP leader claimed had through Ambedkarnagar." door by voters. retary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Amethi has taken steps towards development 2014, a performance which went in 2012. Shivpal Yadav not parted ways with In 2009, the BSP had won its The opposition camp is in nor the BSP-SP alliance could ," she added. against what the SP-BSP-RLD ‘gath- When Akhilesh Yadav formed the party, he could have easily won. highest ever number of Lok Sabha dire straits because they do not do any damage to BJP in Uttar The recorded message was released in bandhan’ was predicting. a coalition with the BSP this time, Like Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati seats, clinching 20 from UP. In 2014, have a leader of the stature of Pradesh, it said. PTI Amethi by her IT cell team. PTI Analyst Rakesh Pandey attrib- his father openly expressed disap- took a big risk in becoming part of it won none. PTI *'' * = ' ( 599 R * *1:;*<;/ . Kolkata: Gorkha Janamukti traitors of GJM have lost the one led by Bimal Gurung, Morcha leader Bimal Gurung, polls. We would like to take who supported Bisht, and his 2%8 Kashmir valley. Dr Abdullah to label us anti-Nationals and who is in hiding, on Friday this opportunity to thank one time protege Binay / was responding to a question terrorist sympathisers must lis- congratulated Prime Minister Prime Minister Narendra Tamang who supported Rai. ven before attending the that BJP has said that they will ten. 'We are more Indians and Narendra Modi for the Modi. We will request the BJP "Binay Tamang and Anit Eoath ceremony of newly abrogate Article 370 and 35A we are here to strengthen the resounding victory of BJP and leadership and the new gov- Thapa, the newly appointed Gangtok: The Sikkim party soon," Golay said. elected Prime Minister of India, from J&K if voted to power Nation and protect Article 370 hoped that his new ernment to look into our long officiating chairman of Krantikari Morcha (SKM) on Earlier in the day, SKM National Conference president with majority. Exuding confi- and Article 35A'. Government will look into the standing demand of Gorkhaland Territorial Friday said it will meet soon to spokesperson Jacob Khaling Dr Farooq Abdullah on Friday dence after his party won all Commenting on the EVM long standing demand for Gorkhaland," Gurung told PTI Administration (GTA), should decide on the party’s chief Rai said party leaders and gave 'unsolicited' piece of advice three Lok Sabha seats, Dr issue, Dr Abdullah said that the Gorkhaland. over phone. immediately resign from the ministerial candidate, after workers would like to see Golay to him over the issue of 'Article Abdullah told party workers to Election Commission and all Gurung's faction of The BJP, which has won for party and GTA. The GTA unseating five-time Chief lead the next Government in 370 and Article 35A'. prepare in advance for the the political parties must sit Gorkha Janamukti Morcha the third straight time in should be dissolved," Gurung Minister Pawan Kumar Sikkim. "No matter how powerful Assembly polls in the State. together and find a way out. had supported BJP's Raju Bisht Darjeeling, had made no men- said. Chamling of the SDF. "I thank the people of Prime Minister Narendra Modi He said, National “India is a huge nation. has recorded a massive victo- tion of the statehood issue in its Roshan Giri, general sec- SKM supremo P S Golay Sikkim for giving a mandate to has become after winning with Conference will surely form I say that there is something ry against TMC's Amar Singh manifesto but assured a "per- retary of GJM faction of Bimal is likely to preside over the the SKM for serving them... We the majority, but he cannot Government in the State and but the EVM problem must be Rai. manent political solution" in Gurung, in a statement said legislature party meeting hope to live up to their expec- remove Article 35A and Article reiterated his party's commit- sorted out and whatever is pos- In Darjeeling by-election, the hills and scheduled tribe the defeat of TMC and its later in the evening, where tations," Golay told a local 370 from the State of Jammu & ment to grant 'Regional sible should be done.” Neeraj Tamang Zimba of BJP tags for 11 Gorka communities. proxies in the Lok Sabha and the Chief Ministerial news channel, while leading a Kashmir'', said Dr Abdullah Autonomy' to all three regions On Congress debacle, Dr defeated GJM leader Binoy In the Darjeeling hills the assembly by-polls is a clear candidate will be finalised victory procession. here in Jammu while interact- of the state to end discrimina- Abdullah said, “winning and Tamang, who fought as an Lok Sabha polls were more mandate against the regional before its delegation meets The SKM, founded in ing with reporters at the party tion. Labelling himself as 'sol- losing are part of life. Rahul independent candidate with than a political battle between party and its proxies in the Governor Ganga Prasad to 2013, won a slender majority in headquarters. He arrived in dier' of the country, Dr Gandhi after five years will TMC support. TMC and BJP as it became a hills and in favour of a per- stake claim to form the 32-member legislative Jammu to attend felicitation Abdullah said, "we are not 'ene- make a comeback and don’t "We are very happy that fight to the finish between manent political solution in Government. assembly by bagging 17 seats ceremony after winning all mies' but 'soldiers' of the coun- think that people of Amethi will BJP has won and TMC and the GJM's two warring factions - the Hill region. PTI "It will be decided by the against 15 by the SDF. PTI three Lok Sabha seats in try. All those people who tried forget him.” +$)))+$+'$0+$+'*$)& ( ;/

" 7 Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala. It was the secular atti- It was the Left government will not be able to make inroads massive sweep of the Congress tude and policies of the United in the state that gave fodder for in the secular Kerala," he said. led United Democratic Front Democratic Front (UDF) that the communal elements in the Chennithala also favoured Alliance who lost in the hus- probing a charge by the DMK recently held election. Dr (UDF) in Kerala proves that the kept the saffron party at bay... state to destroy the democrat- the Yechury line of CPI(M) and .-,##%3 tings. against Panneerselvam and Mythreyan, who was a close BJP will never make inroads in Three factors led to the ic parties", he said. said the Left should have stuck Though the AIADMK has family in connection with the confidante of late J Jyalalitha the state, senior party leader landslide victory of UDF in The Left wanted to avoid to it. "We are not for weaken- s the formalities, associat- 13 member in the Rajya Sabha, amassing wealth not in rune had told The Pioneer that there Ramesh Chennithala said here Kerala. the Congress and make the ing the secular forces. The Aed with the announcement it is customary that only mem- with their known sources of was no possibility of him get- on Friday. The first one is the step- fight between LDF and the CPI(M) should have taken the of the results of the General bers from the Lok Sabha are income. Though the Tamil ting another term as the EPS- In a 'meet the press' organ- motherly attitude of Narendra BJP. However, the saffron party Yechuri way. Instead of fighting Election 2019, have been com- appointed as Ministers. But Nadu Government tried to soft OPS duo does not like him. ised by the Press Club of Modi government and the anti- saw it as a golden opportunity, the communal forces, they were pleted, politics in Tamil Nadu there are no hard and fast rules pedal the issue, the Madras Many senior members of the Thiruvananthapuram, after the Modi wave. Chennithala said. fighting against us," he said. is agog with speculation about vis-à-vis the membership in the High Court issued a directive to party had been cold shoul- Congress party's stellar perfor- The second is the three- Pointing out that the BJP CPI(M) General Secretary the constitution of the new upper house. Raveendrakumar the DVAC to go ahead with the dered by the present party lead- mance in the state in the Lok year-long misrule of LDF gov- allegedly tried to exploit the Sitaram Yechury had favoured Council of Ministers and the is the junior most member of probe and the report is expect- ership. Sabha polls, he said the UDF's ernment and the third is the beliefs of devotees in the joining hands with like-mind- possible names of representa- the AIADMK in the parliament ed any time. Sources in the AIADMK "secular attitude" had kept the Rahul wave in the state after he Sabarimala issue, he said, the ed parties, including Congress, tives from the State. and there are enough con- But the loyalty of most of told this newspaper that MPs saffron party at bay. decided to contest from Kerala," people however understood to oppose the Sangh Parivar The lone AIADMK mem- tenders for the post from the the AIADMK members in the like S R Balasubramaniam The UDF had won 19 of Chennithala said. the "double standards" of the politics across various states, ber to win from Tamil Nadu in Rajya Sabha itself. Rajya Sabha are said to be with (who is known from crossing the 20 LS seats in the state. The Opposition leader said Sangh Parivar and rejected including West Bengal. the general election is Even if the AIADMK lead- V K Sasikala and TTV from one party to another Chennithala alleged that the policies of both the centre their politics. However, the tactical line Raveendrakumar, son of ers propose the name of Dhinakaran, leaders of the with élan), A the Centre's step-motherly atti- and the state were not accept- "We (Congress) had a con- was opposed as the party was Deputy Chief Minister O Raveendrakumar as the party AMMK. Dr V Maithreyan, the Navaneethakrishnan (former tude and the three years of LDF able to the people of the state. sistent stand. We were with the fighting the Congress in Kerala. Panneerselvam who defeated nominee, there are certain irri- senior most AIADMK member advocate general and close government's "misrule" had Chennithala said it was the devotees and not exploiting The Congress led UDF EVKS Elangovan, the Congress tants which would make the in the Rajya Sabha has been confidante of Sasikala) are the helped the Front emerge victo- Left government that gave fod- the issue. The people of Kerala won 19 out of 20 Lok Sabha leader and former Minister. BJP leaders think twice before sidelined by Chief Minister top contenders for ministerial rious, apart from Rahul der for the communal parties in rejected the exploitation of the seats in the State, leaving just Interestingly, Elangovan is the accepting the name. The Edappadi Palaniswamy and O berths. Both Balasubramaniam Gandhi's candidature. the State. "What was the hurry BJP and Sangh Parivar. one consolatory win for the lone candidate from the DMK- Directorate of Vigilance and Panneerselvam. His services and Navaneethakrishhanan "We have proved that the in implementing the Supreme This result is an indication Left in the Alappuzha con- led Secular Progressive Anti-Corruption (DVAC) is were not used during the remained incommunicado. BJP will never make inroads in Court verdict on Sabarimala?. that the BJP, RSS, Sangh Parivar stituency. PTI !" #$% 1

*+203 9= / :!$ &/ Bengaluru: Shaken by the rout state. ue the government. / ,5 of the ruling Congress-JD(S) "We will continue in the Congress Ministers,ahead combine in the Lok Sabha polls, state and our coalition will con- of the cabinet meeting, met for Lucknow: The results of the Lok the Karnataka Cabinet on tinue under the leadership of breakfast during which they are Sabha polls were a mixed bag for Friday reposed its “faith and Kumaraswamy ji, and all our said to have discussed the need the Yadav clan as except confidence” in the leadership of MLAs are with us," to save the coalition for both Samajwadi Party founder Chief Minister HD Parameshwara said, as he parties, as also about the defeat Mulayam Singh Yadav and his Kumaraswamy, asserting that accused the oppositionBJP of in Lok Sabha polls. !$ son Akhilesh other members of the coalition would continue. trying to destabilise the gov- Congress is likely to con- the family failed to re-enter the As the ruling alliance suf- ernment. vene the CLP meeting next lower house of Parliament this fered a humiliating defeat with "They (opposition) will not week to discuss the same, and time. the BJP painting the entire State be successful and we will not also with an intention to keep its While Akhilesh won with a saffron, winning 25 of the 28 allow them to succeed in desta- flock together amid worries of comfortable margin of 2,59,874 seats, the results are widely bilising the government." dissidence and poaching by votes by defeating Bhojpuri star expected to have a bearing on Continuing his "boycott" BJP. and BJP candidate Dinesh Lal the stability of the if "we didn't want him to lead "We have reposed the faith of the media,Kumaraswamy Stating that Congress Yadav Nirahua, his father Kumaraswamy Government. the Government", but he was and confidence in the leadership did not utter a word though he Ministers met under the lead- Mulayam Singh Yadav won the As voices emerged in the cut short by Congress Ministers, of Kumaraswamy ji as Chief sat along with cabinet col- ership of Siddaramaiah and he Mainpuri seat by a margin of Congress to end the alliance, who asked him to continue in Minister. leagues throughout,as the has also reposed the confi- 94,389 votes defeating BJP's blaming the JDS partnership for the top post, a minister said after This is thedecision taken by Deputy CM briefed about the dence in Kumaraswamy as Prem Singh Shakya. the party's worst ever perfor- the cabinet meeting. all the Ministers today... there is cabinet meeting. Chief Minister, Parameshwara The SP suffered a setback in mance in the Lok Sabha polls, During the meeting, dis- noinstability to this govern- Kumaraswamy had recent- said "at no cost will we allow the Jaipur: A BJP candidate who lost BJP candidate Kailash Kannauj, Badaun and Kumaraswamy had offered to cussions largely focusedon sav- ment, it will continue," ly declared that he was 'boy- conspiracy of the opposition to the Rajasthan Assembly polls Chaudhary won the Barmer Firozabad, where Akhilesh's resign, when some senior ing the coalition and continuing DeputyChief Minister G cotting' the media, apparently destabilise this government to only a few months back made it seat with a margin of 3,23,808 wife Dimple and cousins Congress leaders met him last the Government, amidworries Parameshwara told reporters, upset over the coverage of the succeed." to the Lok Sabha, amid a Modi votes, despite having lost the Dharmendra and Akshay lost to evening, top sources in the of dissidence within and threats flanked by the ChiefMinister Mandya Lok Sabha polls, where However, a Congress wave that has led to a clean sweep assembly polls earlier. the BJP. Government said. of "poaching"attempts by BJP. and other cabinet colleagues. his son Nikhil contestedand Minister who attendedthe cab- for the party in the State. BJP legislator from While Dimple lost by However, they convinced Kumaraswamy also is said Noting that the "informal" lost. inet meeting said they In contrast, two Congress Mandawa, Narendra Khinchar, 12,853 votes to BJP's Subrat him against it and requested to have spoken to cabinet meeting called by the Meanwhile,the Chief impressed upon the CM to MLAs lost the election to the who was given a ticket from Pathak in Kannauj, him tocontinue as the head of AICCGeneral Secretary in- Chief Minister took stock of the Minister also reportedly spoke look into issues raised by party lower House. BJP candidate Jhunjhunu seat won the parlia- Dharmendra lost to BJP's the coalition Government, while charge of Karnataka KC situation after the Lok Sabha to CLP leader and coalition MLAs regarding their con- Kailash Chaudhary from Barmer mentary elections, defeating Sanghmitra Maurya by 18,454 ensuring full cooperation. Venugopal over phone after the election results, he said, "we dis- coordination committee stituencies and governance defeated former party leader Shrawan Kumar of the Congress votes in Badaun and Akshay lost "It (resignation) is a closed- results and requested him to cussed about it at length, and chiefSiddaramaiah over phone, related issues andalso sought Jaswant Singh' son Manvendra by a margin of 3,02,547 votes. to BJP's Chandra Sen Jadon by chapter now," they said. come down to the city for a this "referendum or mandate" is ahead of the informal cabinet- better coordination between Singh who was fielded by the Two Congress legislators, 28,781 votes in Firozabad. The Chief Minister said he meeting soon, to sort out dif- nationally for the government at meeting,during which the latter both parties and the Congress. Krishna Punia and Ramnarayan In Firozabad, Akhilesh's was "mentally ready" to resign ferencesin the coalition. the Centre and not for the assured him support tocontin- Government. PTI The Congress had given Meena, who were fielded from estranged uncle and founder of ticket to Manvendra Singh after Jaipur Rural and Kota respec- Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party he joined it, quitting the BJP over tively were defeated in the Lok Lohia, Shivpal Yadav was rele- growing differences with the Sabha polls. The Congress too gated to the third spot, securing ; / % .(' > ?; state party leadership. fielded five candidates who had over 91,000 votes. An SP leader Manvendra Singh had earlier faced a drubbing in the 2018 said had Shivpal not parted fought the 2018 state assembly state assembly elections but they ways with the party, he would " elections unsuccessfully. all lost. PTI have easily won Firozabad. PTI New Delhi: Former Kolkata on May 17 and the IPS officer an application filed by the IPS 594> Police Commissioner Rajeev should not have filed a fresh officer seeking extension of Kumar on Friday failed to get writ petition. protection from arrest. any relief from the Supreme The bench, also compris- "Is it maintainable (the #,7 ,+-3 Health Ministry. Court which declined to enter- ing Justices B R Gavai and writ petition)? You can go to He further said that it will tain his petition seeking exten- Surya Kant, said that Kumar the high court or the trial he National Health help improve access to cancer sion of protection from arrest can personally approach the court as the courts are func- TAuthority (NHA) and services and ensure financial risk in the multi-crore Saradha chit Calcutta High Court or the trial tional there," the bench told National Cancer Grid (NCG) protection with minimum fund scam. court there for seeking relief in advocate Sunil Fernandes, who have inked a pact to develop uni- prevalence of catastrophic health He was granted protection the case. was representing Kumar. form standards of patient care to spending and impoverishment. from arrest on May 17 by the "A petition under Article When Fernandes said that battle cancer under Ayushman NHA and NCG will jointly apex court for seven days 32 of the Constitution of India courts in Kolkata are not func- Bharat — Pradhan Mantri Jan review existing cancer treat- which was ending today and he cannot be said to be maintain- tioning due to ongoing lawyers' Arogya Yojana (AB - PMJAY). ment packages, pricing of ser- had filed a fresh petition seek- able as the petitioner (Kumar) strike, the bench said, "You are The National Cancer Grid vices, standard treatment working to restrain the CBI from has also filed an application for wrong. The courts are sitting (NCG) is an initiative of the flows covered under AB-PMJAY taking any coercive action extension of time before this there. All judges are sitting in Central Government to create a and plug in necessary gaps to against him. court," the bench said in its courts and they are hearing the network of cancer centres, ensure enhanced quality of can- However, a vacation bench order. litigants." research institutes, patient cer care. Both organisations will headed by Justice Arun Mishra At the outset, the bench "Your client (Kumar) is a groups and charitable institu- work on creating cancer ser- said Kumar's plea was not told Kumar's counsel that a former commissioner of police tions across India. vices/package benefits based on "maintainable" as a bench head- bench headed by the CJI had and he knows the law better Owing to the multi-disci- priority setting tenets such as ed by Chief Justice of India already passed an order in the than many young lawyers. He plinary nature of care required evidence of efficacy, value (cost- Ranjan Gogoi had already matter and later the CJI had can personally go to courts for cancer management, both effectiveness), low harm, passed an order in the matter also declined urgent listing of there," the bench said. PTI NHA and NCG recognize the demand/ burden, medical importance of collaborative necessity, and wide availability. efforts required to strengthen Dr Indu Bhushan, CEO, delivery of cancer services under Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, and ,5 & AB - PMJAY with common NHA said, "NCG's support and objectives to reduce cancer bur- expertise will help in enabling us den, ensure uniform standards to expand our service delivery of patient care towards effective network by actively encouraging " @> and efficient patient-centric care, its member hospitals to empan- said an official from the Union el with AB - PMJAY."

Lucknow: Chief Minister Yogi Lok Sabha election was the first banking on the politics of pos- Adityanath on Friday said the one without any anti-incum- itivity. And the results are in Uttar Pradesh voters rejected the bency against the Government. front of everyone," he said. clan, caste and dynasty-driven Attacking the Opposition, Adityanath claimed that in politics in the State in the Lok Adityanath said, "The claims of the just-concluded polls, the Sabha elections. those who used to say the caste BJP Governments, either at the He said the BJP fought the equations in the state are against Centre or in the State, faced polls on issues of development, the BJP, have been rejected by absolutely no anti-incumbency. Governance and nationalism. the people." "This is the first election in Speaking to reporters here "The voters of the state have which, there was no anti-incum- after BJP's big victory in the state, categorically rejected the politics bency factor against the Centre Adityanath also claimed the of 'parivaarwad' (family), 'vansh- or the State Government," he wad' (dynastic), 'jatiwaad' said. It was because issues aris- (casteism), and have accorded ing out of inflation, shortage of importance to the politics of electricity, law and order prob- development and nationalism," lem, pot-holed roads or farmers' he said. unrest were simply missing, he The Chief Minister said added. PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi had in the very beginning cau- tioned against resorting the "politics of negativity". "The Prime Minister had said irrespective of the poll outcome, we have to fight the polls focusing on development, Governance and nationalism. "There were no place for politics of negativity and the elections were fought under the leadership of the Prime Minister !" #$% 4 4!.#4,#' < :$ ; < < /1 '%-/$$' ( 0 9 ; " 7 " ) & . " ; 5 9 ) 3 2 # 5 ) R "

2)+&P$+) *566 5+&2 he return of Mr Narendra Modi )*$ +S R with a generous mandate for the % S ) - second time makes it necessary to # go into the rest of the phenome- .//0 P+ 2Q non. When he was elected in 2014, 4 5$ . % thereT were experts who felt that the people ( 6 2 had voted with their feet. Even tolerant Indians could not take the gargantuan cor- .//7 ) )*$S ruption presided over by the financially hon- 8 est Dr Manmohan Singh. Being entirely new 6 )*$ ./90 to Delhi and Central politics, Modi was looked upon as a parvenu, who would play : S 00 ; 2 # ./97 out his time rather like a cricket nightwatch- +S man. With demonetisation, many a veteran )*$ ( of the Lutyens establishment was astound- ed. Actually, if an economy is to be modern, it cannot indefinitely run on two sledges, )*$S white and black: the latter had to be eventually eliminated. This did not make the vet- erans more sympathetic to Modi. Instead, in < ) ( order to condemn demonetisation, they inno- 8( 2 + )*$ vated and created a new expression— “infor- 2 = (= + # mal sector” — for the Black economy. The GST was originally initiated by the S $ Manmohan Singh government and yet 6 6 2 when the Modi government introduced it, : ( the tax was repeatedly criticised by Singh’s yearn for overseas, are not for it were, grew up parallel with the speech. He began with accord- Planning Commission’s work party, the Congress. Modi’s Pakistan policy Modi. growth of the computer and ing importance to society with ended with sanctioning the year’s ) was frequently denounced until Balakot. Narendra Modi is a mod- could operate the electronic the slogan Swacch Bharat. Even Plan expenditure. The Finance ;$% However, that he was the first Indian leader erniser of the country and with- machine with aplomb, and he earlier, his election campaign Ministry disbursed the money. 8 6 ( to be invited to address the British Parliament in it. It is true that Jawaharlal did try to introduce its use in theme of 2014 was development, Thereafter, implementation and 2 5$ ( and to be asked for an exclusive lunch by Her Nehru was for his time, a mod- government institutions. But which willy-nilly implied mod- monitoring were entirely the Majesty the Queen at Buckingham Palace ern person. He did think of before he could go far, he lost the ernisation. “Sabka Saath Sabka State’s function. In the bargain, !22S 4 evoked no compliment from the honourable building irrigation dams, facto- 1989 election and went out of Vikas” clearly implies participa- there was over-expenditure, mis- ( )*$S ( Opposition. Instead, the Prime Minister was ries that could build advanced power. In any case, he might not tion of all for the purpose of use of funds and inflation. With P Q accused of destroying institutions. In short, machines, starting Indian have been able to go very far progress. the abolition of the Commission, Mr Modi remained a parvenu in the Lutyens Institutes of Technology as well because he could not motivate One of the first steps Modi inflation has come down quite circle, who hoped he would be marginalised as Management, giant steel men with the same aptitude he took after becoming Prime remarkably. S 6S in the just held general election. In order to plants and so on. When he could move machines. Before we Minister was to abolish the Many reforms were intro- ( make sure that he does not return to power, became Prime Minister, the move to another prime minister, Planning Commission with the duced, especially keeping the the Congress president called him a thief on country was give or take, living we should not forget to record help of a Cabinet resolution. This poor people in mind. It is not " ( an average three times a day. Unfortunately in the 19th century. That India that millions of telephones were was possible because Nehru had that the previous governments # > S for the Congress president and his party, the could catch up and become installed in India during Rajiv set up the Commission by a had not thought of them, but a $ 6 people of India decided otherwise. contemporary was not part of Gandhi’s time. Cabinet decision. Such a large chunk of the money ear- Why have the people of India chosen Mr our thought medium. However, Prime Minister P. V. Herculean economic step was marked was kept back by mid- +S (( Modi for a second term in the face of the most while Nehru did build numerous Narasimha Rao, compelled by taken without going to dlemen. As Rajiv Gandhi in his ( furious opposition that any prime ministe- temples of modernity in a dom- dire financial circumstances as Parliament, perhaps because time had said, only 15 per cent rial candidate has ever faced in independent inantly agrarian society, he did he stepped into power, did bring Nehru was apprehensive that the reached the poor person. Mr India? Every political party in the opposition not bring about a revolution in about an economic revolution. comparatively conservative Modi’s policy has been to ensure ? 6 had one common programme and that was the minds of the people that they From a party wedded to a social- members of the Constituent that all poor people should have to remove Modi from power. Such a unan- needed to modernise and in istic pattern of society, it had now Assembly might not approve of their own bank accounts, where- imous opposition agenda was last seen in turn, could put their shoulder to no choice but to overturn it into such a commission. After all, in monies due to them can be 1977 against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. But modernising the country. In promoting laissez faire. In short, national planning was intro- remitted directly. All in all, it + ( the masses of India perceived Narendra Modi other words, he could not con- he embarked on a path of eco- duced by the Soviet Union in the would be fair to say that through ( as the first leader who had risen from the soil vert modernisation into a mass nomic liberalisation as a step name of Gosplan. Incidentally, the last millennium, India expe- +S 9@A 6 and loved his motherland more than every- movement. towards globalisation. Atal Bihari one of the reasons for the col- rienced popular badshahs and thing else, including his own mother, whom Rajiv Gandhi was brought Vajpayee took liberalisation for- lapse of the Soviet economy was hateful nawabs, benign rajas $ 6 also he loves. The people who have faith in up in a contemporary environ- ward to some extent. His main the excessive powers assumed by and cruel ones and the British # him have not been disappointed. He has ruled ment and had spent time in contribution, however, was intro- Gosplan. rulers. But Narendra Modi is the % S for the last five years and convinced us that England. He then learnt to fly ducing the construction of mod- As the years went by, the first one who truly belongs to the 6 ( he has worked for the people and the coun- aeroplanes; then a transport ern highways, which can be Yojana Bhavan in India began soil of India. A 12-year-old try and not for himself. No previous prime medium of the latest variety. He considered a step towards mod- being misused for manipulating schoolgirl discussing Modi was # B ( minister could be tested on this touchstone. understood machines and cer- ernisation. power over the States. Money quoted saying that the measure + 8( $ # ( Do not think that this faith and sentiment tainly chose more or less the best To come back to Narendra was allotted generously, provid- of love is what one is willing to 2 $ 2 # )*$S are confined only to the Hindus; they passenger aircraft in the Airbus. Modi, he launched modernisa- ed the State Government toed give up for it. And Modi intends extend to quite a number of Christians, An equally good choice was the tion along with preaching its the Central government line. giving himself to India. Muslims and others, in whose veins run sim- Bofors artillery gun, if we over- importance; of all places, from Whether the money allocated (The writer is a well-known S ( ilar blood. Others, including many a Hindu, look for a while the financial the ramparts of the Red Fort in was used or misused depended columnist and an author. Views 6S 6 whose bodies reside in India but whose souls scandal attached to it. Gandhi, as his first Independence Day on the State Government. The expressed are personal.) ( + $ 2 %) 5$ # ( " > + .//@ + 5 3 3 4 8C 3&; ( C 3 ; % . OC 3 4 6 $ 6 .//@ C + 6 &68:((;:(-6* &:7:6&66(*: :(-6* 6-+6 7,+((+-&:*& S K/ 4 K9 K $ K- 0 ) ( ? $6(C D ( ) ) & ) + )) - 2)+& # % ( ( Q # Sir — This refers to the editor- 5L# M& A( Sir — The YSR Congress is all set + E ( ial, “Naya Bharat” (May 24). The 3 52; C to wrest power in Andhra Pradesh. * ' C $ last two months have been a $ $ Remember, in 2003, ahead of the F # $ ( roller-coaster ride, not just for 2 ; &2;( Assembly polls, the then Congress the voters but for mediapersons 1 !"+ C leader YS Rajasekhara Reddy went 6 ( and political pundits, too. ' 5 # on a State-wide march across ( Unfortunately, electoral cam- ; $ undivided Andhra Pradesh to # $ 6 paigns were particularly vicious eventually succeed in unseating where the distinction between % C Chandrababu Naidu of the TDP. ‘personal’ and ‘professional’ was C Looks like this successful playbook + 6S completely lost. $' O 5C was borrowed by his son YS 5 52 : * = 5 Nevertheless, the 2017 Lok C 5 Jaganmohan Reddy against the Sabha electoral verdict has many O C same Naidu again and he won # lessons for the Congress and the 4 with a landslide. ( Gandhis in particular. Party 8 5# % % C With the TDP having burnt 2 +S S leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia $ 4 C bridges with the BJP-led NDA on Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi 1 the issue of special category sta- 6S S need to introspect hard and .. 86+ tus, it will be interesting to see % 6 6 selflessly about why their com- 3 5 which way Jagan will align. Will + bined efforts were not enough to he join hands with the NDA to check the return of Prime protect his party and State inter- Minister Modi. chord among voters across large mandate, Modi has the luxury of ests, go with the UPA led bloc or ) $ 6 P They failed to learn any les- swathes of the country. Trends choosing the right person for the remain non-aligned? G= 6 HQ # son from the 2014 defeat or to are a proof enough that the right job, rather than being Ideologically, Jagan’s roots are in fix responsibility. Instead of Sir — This refers to the editor- Modi wave and the party’s bril- caught in a web of obligations. the Congress and as a daily Bible- " $ 6 raising bread and butter issues ial, “Naya Bharat” (May 24). liant election management swept The focus of the Modi reading devout Christian, would +S # — the agrarian crisis, unemploy- Prime Minister Narendra Modi across geographies, caste lines, Government must now hinge on he be able to get along with a $ 6 C ment and water scarcity — has led his party towards what age, gender and economic status. reforming the many institutions Hindu hardline party like BJP? ; 2 Rahul Gandhi kept harping on looks to be a resounding victo- Now, Prime Minister and bringing reforms in various Jayatheertha SA Rafale. Is it time for the party to ry for a second term in office. Narendra Modi should send out sectors like agriculture and edu- Hyderabad look beyond the Gandhis? His message of nationalism, a strong signal that his second cation among others. P Arihanth national security and Hindu second term will be more inclu- JS Acharya ' ; Secunderabad pride seems to have struck a sive than the first. With a strong Hyderabad **:(*&;&6:G87+'9&7 !" #$% 7 4!.#4,#' '&)+*$ /7% * 1+$)&* 1 % E @ ' $ F' H% ' % ' ' % L L C % # C ""

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He added fur- 3;+33.%$3'# S ther, “But since there is a lot of dust on the ground, $'%=$-%$$-, ( 8 you must ensure that I do not get dirty.” Once the 4/%# soldier left after violating the woman, the peas- #%//%$30,' E 8 ant started laughing and jumped with joy. The #%$3'#%+ wife was utterly shocked at the insensitiveness of + ,.8/3$=;'$C the husband and rebuked him, “How could you D(6 be jumping with joy when I was brutally violat- ;8+7%%%# 8 P% ed in your presence?” The farmer happily %+%9'$ - Q P ) Q ) J answered, “But I got him! His parts are covered '0,//' ,$-, remained obsessed with attacking and their unnatural allies has not been family tree. The disillusionment was # S with dust!” 38,' denigrating him and his party. And in praiseworthy either. Consequently, the inevitable and in the offing. People of : 6 The sad joke, the Marxist philosopher -,%+$-5 the process, issues that affect day-to-day electorate largely refused to perceive the Bihar have eventually given their ver- 6 ./9I ; argues, captures the predicament of the Left today, , 8.%$3'#5 lives of the common man hardly got Opposition and its allies as an alterna- dict. The Left and the Rashtriya Janata 2 ( which is delighted merely by defiling its oppo- ,;+'=,#$ public attention; the ruling dispensation tive. Dal (RJD) have been reduced to non- : % nents without any real gains for itself. Zizek argues %# .+3%$, successfully made it a battle between The history of post-independent entities. 2 further that Leftists have hitherto succeeded only .-%#4, Modi supporters and his opponents, India has been the history of disillusion- Examples from around the world show that a financial morass has pushed $ 6 6 in rubbing the noses of those in power whereas %+$'4,$-,/ thrusting a victimhood upon him ment and disenchantment. First, peo- “the real point is to castrate them.” Despite the which was not there in the first place. ple got disillusioned with the Nehruvian those sliding off the economic ladder to 2 misogynistic tone of the anecdote, one is tempt- $-,/,,M3$#' This trend was captured in a populist dream and Gandhian ideals of Ramrajya a radical opposite, in this case the Right. # D 6 ed to ask if today’s Left in India is undergoing a 8.-3#%/= song used extensively by the BJP dur- in the 1950s and 1960s. Several authors, And while the Left did hold Bengal and 2 similar kind of crisis in its attempt to take down %$-,/,7,/, ing the campaign — “Noon roti including Phanishwar Nath Renu, Kerala for a while, it is its smug machin- 2 opponents? How else would one explain its total #',%= khayenge, Modiji ko jitayenge” (We Shrilal Shukla, Nagarjun, Girish Karnad ery and dependence on it that ironical- 4 $ 6 D decimation from a high of 15 years ago? .-'3.,%# shall survive on chapatti and salt but and Harishankar Parsai took up the ly made it drift away. That lack of empa- ./ The failure of the Left to negotiate and nav- %+$,/#%$30, bring Modi back to power). theme of disenchantment or mohbhang thy and the tendency to link every dis- 2 ) igate between the concerns of the elite — '/;,';+, In the last past five years, India with the political establishment in their tress with a return electoral commit- 6 regarding freedom of expression and tolerance scored well on Ease of Doing Business works. ment are the reasons why the rural pop- )$+)0+&)-8 — and the mundane concerns of the masses has index, whereas it continued to lag This failure gave birth to the rise of ulace has begun looking for a new leadership. Both in politics and life one has )-))-&0& cost it dearly. In the narratives of nationalism ver- behind on the Human Development regional and socialist forces led by Ram $+$2$)+' sus right to free speech and secularism, the mass- Index (HDI) and the Environmental Manohar Lohia and Jayaprakash to choose one’s allies as well as oppo- S es identified with the former. It would be gross Performance Index (EPI). Our abysmal Narayan in the Hindi heartland. But nents wisely. The Left failed to do this, 3+$+& over-simplification to say that the grand narra- performance on the last two indices, Lohia’s and JP’s acolytes did irreparable so did the Congress. The onus now lies $&)$))& # D tive of national security post-Pulwama and which take into factor a country’s per- damage to the cause of socialism in on the triumphant BJP to rebuild the &2-$ % Balakot overrode the issues of health, education, formance in education, health and Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, where politi- education, health and the environment +$)&))+ employment and climate change altogether. environment, barely became an issue cal dynasties were established. The sectors, which are in shambles today. History is evidence that the people of %$5$2 5 There exists no such binary between them as there during the elections. The Opposition fundamental tenets of socialism and sec- $ 2 were no easy choices and alternatives for voters. failed to bring such issues to the pub- ularism were used as a ruse and even- this country are not only quick to for- +)-&))9 Hence, they voted for a Government, which lic sphere except mentioning them in its tually subverted in every possible way give and forget but also quick to be dis- )-)$ 2 illusioned. could at least fulfill their perceived nationalist manifesto mainly because if the perfor- to serve the interests of family. Certain :*'+& aspirations. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suc- mance of the current Government on castes and communities were objectified (The writer teaches English at Deen +)-&)+ cessfully contested the election around the aura these indicators remained dismal, the for years and used merely as tools to Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of $ 6 of the Prime Minister; whereas its opponents record of the Left, the Congress and strengthen the vote-bank and water the Delhi) &) * D 2 0 - ) )-) $20) & 8$5 )*$ ./97 ; 2 ( ,)$ , tainable peace in the subcon- tile snubs from the Indian tional acclaim he would receive possibly with good reason — that ) 5 $ ( tinent. This is possible solely Government, Pakistan has for a successful resolution to the any alternative would have been ? ) )*$ @ through an unwavering com- shown restraint and pragma- ! Kashmir dispute may serve to performed even worse. mitment to dialogue, an offer tism — a message underscored balance the damage from his The BJP seems to have # : G#6:H 8 2 5 A Pakistan has extended — and on Wednesday by Qureshi in " party’s erosion of rights for reli- replaced the Congress — the 2 India has rebuffed — consis- Bishkek, where he put the dia- gious minorities at home. party which dominated Indian 6 % tently. A day before the election logue offer back on the table. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s politics for decades after inde- # #6: )*$ results, a photograph capturing It is too soon to say )B (BJP) election campaign centred pendence — as India’s natural an exchange between Pakistani whether or not Khan was cor- on its vision of India as a Hindu ruling party. Now that the BJP’s 2 "" Foreign Minister Shah rect in predicting that a right- arendra Modi may have country and minorities — par- vision of India has proved so + ( Mehmood Qureshi and his wing Government in India railed against Pakistan, ticularly Muslims — face five popular, Opposition parties will 5 $ Indian counterpart Sushma would be better for peace talks. Ntaking India to the brink years of deepening anxiety about need to reflect deeply on their ) or the world’s largest Swaraj emerged from Bishkek, Much would depend on a of war as he saber-rattled his their place in the nation. But purpose or they are likely to # democracy, the writing is Kyrgyzstan, reigniting opti- change in attitude on the part Hindu nationalist party to elec- Modi’s populist message that he gradually wane away. For Rahul on the wall: Communal mism about a thaw in relations of India, whose hawkish behav- tion victory. But his increased was creating a “strong” India won Gandhi’s Congress, it may 2 F politics in India has triumphed between Pakistan and India. iour has been the main majority could ironically bring the election in the end. This already be too late. S % + in an age that will define the Newspaper reports indicate obstruction in the quest for the prospect of peace talks clos- despite the fact the Indian Prime The challenge now for the 5 $ ) D future of the Republic. that Swaraj shared sweets and peace. er than at any point since the Minister broke a string of key BJP will be to navigate its con- 5 ! 6 $ Despite forecasts of failure acknowledged that past conver- The optimism might not 2008 Mumbai attacks. A campaign pledges, most notably tradictory impulses. It craves $ ) from pundits, who had predict- sations had been bitter. Against be altogether misplaced but it stronger, more electorally safe on the economy, on his way to development but aspires to the + D % S ed that India’s economic chal- this backdrop, there is specu- must be followed by a sincere Modi — so the theory goes — the unexpected result. past. Steps that it has taken to 5 $ lenges would chip away at lation that the meeting could policy shift. India’s failure to no longer needs the spectre of That said, while Modi invigorate its base — notably ( )*$ ( Narendra Modi’s vote bank, the re-establish contact between ensure this will sound the conflict with an arch enemy to undoubtedly failed to meet many moves to remove Indian citizen- ? ultra-nationalist Bharatiya Islamabad and New Delhi after death knell for regional peace. rile his base. of his promises from 2014, vot- ship from potentially millions of ( Janata Party (BJP) is poised to months of plunging relations. (The Dawn) What’s more, the interna- ers may well have believed — alleged illegal immigrants from form Government for another While there may be opti- Bangladesh — if followed ( 2$()2$ five years after a landslide vic- mism, India’s past record does through may result in the polit- tory in the Lok Sabha election. not show it has a genuine ical headache of four million ( The results are astounding desire for peace. stateless people. The coming ( and depressingly show that Even before the Pulwama years will see an attempt to ( religious hatred and sectarian attack, when Prime Minister remould India from a land of politics can be exploited Imran Khan invited an Indian contrasts to a more monolithic, )*$ to lure voters. delegation to the Kartarpur and stronger, Hindu state. Notably, the months lead- groundbreaking ceremony, The lingering possibility of ing up to Modi’s campaign Swaraj was conspicuous by her war with Pakistan may now be were marked by anti-Muslim absence; she also announced a surplus requirement for Modi and anti-Pakistan rants, with India’s boycott of the Saarc after such a strong showing at the India going so far as to escalate summit in Pakistan. polls. If Pakistan can overcome tensions by conducting air In fact, since the Pakistan its need for an existential threat strikes inside Pakistan in order Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has from India, the observation to whip up nationalist senti- assumed power, Prime from Imran Khan, its prime ment. Now that elections are Minister Imran Khan has reit- minister, that a BJP victory over, we hope that Modi will erated his commitment to dia- increases the prospects for peace rein in his rhetoric that had logue with India several times, between the two neighbours encouraged Hindu extremist appealing to Modi to give may well be correct. groups to step up their intim- peace a chance — invitations Gareth Price is Senior idation of minorities. which have repeatedly been Research Fellow, Asia-Pacific And the focus must turn to spurned. Programme, at Chatham House a practical way forward for sus- Despite the string of hos- (The Daily Telegraph) !" #$% ;<

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8%3 domestic equity markets after #,7 ,+-3 continuity of the stable gov- he Indian rupee on Friday ernment. Firm equity markets ndustry body Ficci on Friday Trallied 49 paise to close at would attract dollar inflow Isought reduction in corpo- 69.53 against the US dollar in and rupee therefore would rate tax and abolition of line with a massive surge in get support,” V K Sharma, Minimum Alternate Tax domestic equities following a Head PCG and Capital (MAT) to spur investment as ? / $? ?/?& - decisive mandate for Narendra Markets Strategy, HDFC the BJP-led NDA Government * , "@567A:56#- ). Modi’s BJP in the general elec- Securities, said. gears up for its second term. (' (= / B tions. The Bharatiya Janata The Government had pre- ! ? ?/? . ) B On weekly basis, the Indian Party (BJP) has won over 300 sented an Interim Budget for * /9 % . currency gained 70 paise seats on its own out of 542 2019-20 in February. A full (' !$" #& % !$ ?& helped by a host of domestic seats in the Lok Sabha elec- Budget is likely to be present- ? ? ?/? and global factors like stable tions — a first back-to-back ed in July. political outlook with NDA majority for a single party “The key recommendation Government’s return, sustained since 1984. was that the focus of the gov- fund inflows, lower crude oil Riding a wave of opti- ernment should be to spur prices and strengthening Asian mism, the BSE Sensex shot up domestic investment and in currencies. 623.33 points, or 1.61 per cent, order to retain India’s compet- However, concerns over to end at 39,434.72, while the itiveness globally, corporate ongoing US-China trade tariff broader NSE Nifty surged tax rate cut should be consid- tussle continued to hurt forex 187.05 points, or 1.60 per cent, ered,” Ficci said after its dele- market sentiment. to 11,844.10. gation met Revenue Secretary At the interbank foreign Bond prices advanced for Ajay Bhushan Pandey as part of 7%-3#4$'# Lok Sabha. fastest growing large economies exchange, the rupee opened at a third day as a retreat in oil the pre-budget discussion. “As far as the IMF is con- in the world. It said the coun- 69.75 against the previous eases concern about inflation In the 2015-16 budget, the he IMF is looking forward cerned, we think that the try has carried out several key close of 70.02. It traded in the which will give central bank government had announced Tto working with the new reforms and the future direc- reforms in the last five years, range of 69.81 to 69.50 during comfort to cut interest rate and that the corporate tax rate government of Prime Minister tion should continue to focus but more needed to be done. the day. The Indian unit final- infuse liquidity in economy, he would be gradually lowered to Narendra Modi, a top official on achieving faster and “India has of course been ly settled the day at 69.53, said. 25 per cent from 30 per cent < 9 $<9& '- said Friday, asserting that importantly, more inclusive one of the world’s fastest grow- gaining 49 paise or 0.70 The benchmark 10-year over the next four years and $-& * #, ' 567A:56 India’s reforms and future growth with low inflation,” ing large economies of late, per cent. government bonds yield exemptions available to com- !#+- )% ! < direction should continue to IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice with growth averaging about Foreign institutional dropped 0.15 per cent to 7.23 panies would be phased out. , ' $!<,& < , ' B'9 ) ' focus on achieving faster and said. seven per cent over the past five investors (FIIs) remained net per cent on Friday. In the subsequent years, / ! <9 !<, more inclusive growth with “The IMF looks forward to years,” Rice had said. buyers in the capital markets on Meanwhile, international the tax rate was reduced to 25 <9 low inflation. working with Prime Minister “Important reforms have Friday, buying shares worth oil benchmark Brent Futures per cent for companies with a Prime Minister Modi on Modi’s new government,” Rice been implemented and we feel 2,026.33 crore, according to rose 1.18 per cent to $68.56 a turnover of up to 250 crore. Thursday led his Bharatiya said when asked about the more reforms are needed to exchange data. barrel on Friday. The non-availability of Janata Party to a landmark election results in India. sustain this high growth, “India’s rupee led gains in The weaker oil prices help utilising the scrips towards the victory for a second five-year In March, the International including to harness the demo- Asian currencies as oil prices currencies of major net payment of IGST has led to term in office, winning 303 Monetary Fund (IMF) said graphic dividend opportunity, fell and equity markets surge. importers of the commodity, financial burden on the seats in the 543-member India has been one of the which India has,” he said. Sentiments have improved in such as India and China. importers. % H $=" = $ ?/ ) @9 ) #,7 ,+-3 date to continue its economic ( ( . C reform efforts. #,7 ,+-3 smooth transition to BS-VI, he M*' ?< 'N ' P ' *+ he BJP's landslide victory in "The final budget for the added. Tgeneral election reduces fiscal year ending in March uto industry body SIAM Domestic passenger vehi- New Delhi: Vistara announced policy uncertainty and the final 2020, expected in July, will AFriday expressed hope that cle (PV) sales dropped by 17.07 Friday it has leased six aircraft budget for 2019-20 will indicate give an indication of whether the new Government would per cent in April, the steepest from Singapore-based BOC whether the new government or not the BJP will step up eco- take initiatives to revive growth fall since October 2011, as Aviation to boost its domestic % will step up economic reforms nomic reforms and return to in all consumer goods, includ- weak customer sentiment led growth and will deploy them to I4I J and return to fiscal consolida- fiscal consolidation after mod- ing automobiles. by liquidity crunch, uncer- meet the “sudden drop” in tion path, Fitch Ratings said erate fiscal slippages in recent “With the new tainty revolving elections and capacity in the market. '/$7'/$- Daniel Elwell declined to Friday. years," it said. Government in place, I am industry, he added. high product prices hit sales. Vistara has leased four give a timetable for the The BJP has won more Deviating from the fiscal hopeful that India will soon be Echoing similar sentiments, The sales declined for the Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft to epresentatives from more plane’s return. He hinted it than 300 seats in the latest polls, consolidation path as per the on the path of economic SIAM Director General Vishnu sixth straight month in April to be delivered in May 2019 and R30 countries met with could be several months, say- bettering its performance in Fiscal Responsibility and growth, leading to revival of the Mathur said: “As of now, the 2,47,541 units as against two Airbus A320neo powered Federal Aviation ing that even October — a 2014, and securing a second Budget Management (FRBM) demand cycle for all consumer industry is going through a 2,98,504 units in the year-ago by CFM LEAP 1A engines, Administration officials later return than airlines term for Prime Minister Act, the government in goods including automobiles,” difficult period with a slowdown month. It is the worst dip in PV scheduled for delivery in the Thursday to hear the US expected — might not be Narendra Modi. February's interim Budget Society of Indian Automobile in demand across all segments. sales since October 2011, when second half of 2019, it said in regulator’s approach to realistic. Fitch said the victory of the pegged the fiscal deficit for Manufacturers (SIAM) We hope that initiatives by the sales had dropped by 19.87 per a statement. determining how soon the The meeting is crucial to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in 2019-20 at 3.4 per cent of President Rajan Wadhera said new Government will help cent. At present, the full-service Boeing 737 Max can resume the US agency’s hopes of India's general election reduces gross domestic product (GDP), in a statement. revive the demand.” All major segments, carrier connects 24 destina- flying after two crashes that convincing other regulators policy uncertainty in the near as against the original target of SIAM expects the The industry also looks including two-wheelers and tions, operates over 850 flights killed 346 people. around the world to lift their term and gives the BJP a man- 3.1 per cent. Government to accord priori- forward to working with all commercial vehicles, witnessed a week served by a fleet of 22 Before the meeting, act- bans on the plane soon after ty industry status to the auto concerned ministries for a a decline in sales in April. Airbus A320 aircraft. PTI ing FAA Administrator the FAA does. ,QR ?)R

,323#4 Thursday, adding that Huawei earlier this month. was “deeply tied” to the But Trump also said hina ramped up a war of Communist Party. Thursday there was a “good” Cwords with the United Chinese foreign ministry possibility that the two sides States over Huawei on Friday, spokesman Lu Kang said US will strike a bargain and linked accusing Washington of politicians have spread Huawei to any deal for the first spreading “lies” about the tele- rumours about Huawei without time. com giant thrust to the centre providing evidence. “If we made a deal, I can of their trade war. “These American politi- imagine Huawei being includ- The fiery response came cians continue to fabricate var- ed in some form or some part hours after US Secretary of ious subjective, presumptive of a trade deal,” he said. State Mike Pompeo rejected lies in an attempt to mislead the Trump’s comments direct- Huawei’s denials that the American people, and now ly contradicted Pompeo, who Chinese company works with they are trying to incite ideo- earlier said Huawei and the the Communist government. logical opposition,” Lu said at trade issues were not linked. The Trump administra- a regular press briefing. The chief US diplomat sep- tion has infuriated Beijing by Trump on Thursday again arated the two issues between blacklisting the smartphone said Huawei posed a threat to national security concerns and and telecommunications com- national security. efforts to create a “fair recip- pany over worries that China “You look at what they’ve rocal balanced trade relation- uses it as a tool for espionage, done from a security stand- ship.” Lu said he was not aware and allegations of breaking point, a military standpoint. of the “specifics” of Trump’s sanctions on Iran. Very dangerous,” he told comments and repeated that Huawei has repeatedly reporters at the White House. dialogue must be based on denied it works with the The heated rhetoric comes “mutual respect”. Communist-led government. as trade negotiations have The official Xinhua news “To say that they don’t stalled, with neither side agency said in a commentary work with the Chinese gov- announcing a new date to on Friday that China has “fully ernment is a false statement,” resume talks after they prepared for a protracted trade Pompeo told CNBC on exchanged increases in tariffs war” with the United States. !" #$% ;<<

$9: 3 >A 3 3 1 H@ 8 N, 7%-3#4$'# dropped its dependency on Taiwan and Turkey which have #,7 ,+-3 Iranian oil from about 2.5 bil- stopped importing Iranian oil. 8%3 their intra-day record highs 5.09 per cent, followed by L&T, per cent. ndia has stopped importing lion tonnes a month to 1 mil- Shringla was confident that Thursday morning Bharti Airtel, Vedanta and Tata All 19 BSE sectoral indices ootwear major Bata India Ioil from Iran after American lion tonnes a month, he said. US sanctions would not affect quity benchmark Sensex when counting of votes start- Motors, rising up to 4.60 per traded in the green, led by real- FFriday reported a 69.47 per waivers granted to eight buyers “We do understand that its partnership in developing EFriday shot up over 623 ed. cent. ty, capital goods, industrials, cent jump in standalone prof- expired early this month, New this has been a priority for the Iran’s Chabahar port. points to close at a record high The Bharatiya Janata Party Bucking the overall trend, telecom and auto — gaining as it to Rs 88.26 crore for the Delhi’s envoy here has said, US administration, although it He said the Chabahar port of 39,434.72 as investors felt (BJP) has won over 300 seats on NTPC, HCL Tech, TCS and much as 4.25 per cent. fourth quarter ended March 31, becoming the latest country to comes at a cost to us because is a lifeline for Afghanistan. It assured of policy stability after its own out of 542 seats in the HUL ended in the red. In the broader market, 2019. comply with the US sanctions we really need to find alterna- is a port that provides both a decisive mandate for the Lok Sabha elections — the The Sensex started on a small-cap and mid-cap indices It had posted a profit of Rs on Tehran over its nuclear tive sources of energy,” Shringla humanitarian assistance and Narendra Modi-led BJP in the first back-to-back majority for positive note at 39,076.28 in the outperformed the benchmark 52.08 crore in the January- programme. Indian said at a news conference here supplies to Afghanistan. general elections. a single party since 1984. morning. It shuttled between a Sensex. BSE Smallcap index March quarter of the preceding Ambassador to the US, Harsh Thursday. It is in the interest of both The NSE Nifty also surged Analysts believe the high of 39,476.97 and low of soared 2.43 per cent, midcap fiscal. Vardhan Shringla said India India, he said, has stopped the US and India and all oth- over 187 points to close at a emphatic victory for the Modi- 38,824.26 during the session. It climbed 2.09 per cent and The company’s revenue has also ended oil import from importing oil from both Iran ers concerned to ensure that fresh lifetime high of 11,844.10. led coalition will ensure con- finally settled the day at largecap advanced 1.61 per from operations during the Venezuela despite feeling the and Venezuela. Noting that the lifeline continues to exist, During the week, which tinuation in reform measures 39,434.72, higher by 623.33 cent. Overall, 1,827 stocks quarter under review stood at pinch. the US did talk of trying to he said. The US has exempted remained abuzz with news initiated during the NDA’s first points, or 1.61 per cent. advanced and 695 declined on Rs 679.39 crore, up 7.44 per The US in January maintain price stability, he said India’s development of revolving around the Lok term. The NSE Nifty opened at the BSE. cent from Rs 632.31 crore in imposed sanctions on in the short term, there has Chabahar port from its Iranian Sabha poll results, the 30-share Among the Sensex con- 11,748.00 and hit a high of Asian stocks ended mixed the year-ago period, it said in Venezuela’s most important been reduced price stability. sanctions. BSE Sensex rose over 1,503 stituents, 26 stocks rose and 4 11,859.00 and a low of on Friday as investors global- a BSE filing. global business — producing Iran earlier used to supply State Department points and the broader Nifty counters fell. 11,658.10 during the day. It ly remained cautious over the Bata said revenue from and selling crude oil — as the 10 per cent of India’s oil needs. Spokesperson Morgan Ortagus gained 437 points. ICICI Bank topped the closed at 11,844.10, showing a ongoing trade tussle between operations “was tempered Trump administration ratch- The Trump administra- told reporters that the US want- Both the indices marked Sensex gainers’ chart, spurting rise of 187.05 points, or 1.60 the US and China. down by a below expectations eted up its bid to force social- tion hopes to compel Iran to ed all countries to stop import- performance by the e-com- ist president Nicolas Maduro negotiate a “new deal” that ing oil from Iran. merce channel due to changed out of power. The US reim- would cover not only its “We want the whole world legislation for the industry and posed sanctions on Iran in nuclear activities, but also its to comply with these sanctions, 3 a one-off institutional order in November after pulling out of ballistic missile programme and we’re grateful for our part- the same quarter previous year”. a 2015 nuclear accord between and what officials call its ners and allies that are respect- #,7 ,+-3 SBI customers of Delhi, with the customers. these give better opportunity to “The company has deliv- Tehran and six world powers. “malign behaviour” across the ing them,” she said when asked NCR and Uttarakhand can “We try to do it generally listen to them and find out ered a good profit performance To reduce Iran’s crude oil Middle East. about India’s decision. he country’s largest lender attend this programme in 41 about once in a year on a larg- solutions. SBI said the employ- on the back of conscious efforts export to zero, the US ended on The sanctions have led to Shringla said India depends TSBI will conduct a cus- locations, the bank said. er scale and organise it at all our ees of the bank will also inform taken towards cost and expense May 2 waivers that had allowed a sharp downturn in Iran’s heavily on the Middle East for tomer outreach programme Under this initiative, cus- major centres across the coun- and educate customers about control that contributed exten- the top buyers of Iranian oil, economy, pushing the value of its energy needs and is against next week to address their tomers can interact with the try. We have asked our cus- the features and convenience of sively in increasing the profit including India, to continue its currency to record lows, any further escalation of tension queries and seek suggestions to bank staff to discuss their con- tomers to share their views, using its one-stop platform for margin,” Bata said in a state- their imports for six months. quadrupling its annual inflation in the region. “We would not like improve services. cerns and share feedbacks and expectations and feedback how digital banking and lifestyle ment. The company’s board has Shringla said India has rate, driving away foreign to see any move towards any The ‘Mega Customer Meet’, suggestions on the bank’s prod- we can improve our services,” shopping app — YONO SBI. recommended a dividend of Rs stopped importing oil from investors, and triggering escalation in that area,” he told to be held on Tuesday, is ucts and services, it said in a Gupta told PTI. The state-owned lender 6.25 per equity share for the Iran after the United States protests. Iran insisted the sanc- reporters when asked about the expected to engage with 1 lakh release. SBI Managing Director He also said at times, the said the YONO app, which was year ended March 31, 2019. refused to extend exemption tions were illegal and that it had increased tension between the bank customers across 500 for Retail and Digital Banking concerns of the customers do launched in November 2017, Shares of Bata India Friday from sanctions earlier this attached “no value or credibil- US and Iran after which the locations through 17 local head P K Gupta said this is part of not get fully resolved at the has seen more than 2 crore settled 1.49 per cent lower at Rs month. ity” to the waivers. Trump administration deployed offices across the country. the bank’s regular interaction branches and programmes like downloads so far. 1,346.50 apiece on the BSE. As of late April, India had India joins Greece, Italy, military assets in the region.

SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE NIFTY 50 11748.00 11859.00 11658.10 11844.10 187.05 Script Open High Low LTP ACC 1642.00 1710.00 1638.00 1706.50 LUPIN 754.90 765.35 749.15 762.95 LAKSHVILAS 74.45 75.40 73.00 74.15 SUPREMEIND 1040.00 1056.50 1038.45 1042.05 ICICIBANK 415.50 433.55 412.65 432.50 21.65 RCOM 2.10 2.14 2.01 2.12 TATAPOWER 64.70 68.00 64.70 67.70 LICHSGFIN 530.50 540.00 527.40 538.25 SUDARSCHEM 308.95 330.00 308.55 324.75 ASAHIINDIA 214.30 223.90 214.30 221.00 VEDL 159.00 164.60 155.55 164.40 7.05 JPASSOCIAT 4.90 5.07 4.86 4.93 MERCK 3944.00 3958.65 3671.00 3889.50 GSFC 98.25 103.00 97.15 101.90 SYNGENE 614.10 627.95 613.55 625.00 LEMONTREE 74.75 75.10 74.20 74.50 TATASTEEL 465.00 486.30 458.40 484.25 19.55 SPICEJET 135.00 142.00 133.30 141.55 PHILIPCARB 136.65 144.45 135.90 142.85 NOCIL 128.85 133.20 128.40 132.60 ITDC 246.65 266.00 244.20 258.00 LAOPALA 194.15 217.55 192.40 195.60 BHARTIARTL 340.05 356.00 340.00 353.00 14.20 GRUH 331.00 331.00 302.10 313.30 ULTRACEMCO 4708.55 4805.50 4663.00 4790.00 ADANIGREEN 44.00 44.25 41.65 42.45 SWANENERGY 106.45 108.00 104.25 105.00 REDINGTON 95.00 97.90 95.00 96.90 ZEEL 360.05 380.40 355.75 375.45 15.00 SUZLON 5.50 5.84 5.33 5.71 TITAN 1220.00 1229.35 1195.20 1221.30 CGPOWER 38.20 39.65 38.00 39.20 BLUESTARCO 756.90 774.95 756.70 769.45 ERIS 553.80 553.80 530.00 536.00 LT 1493.00 1549.20 1490.35 1537.00 60.90 RELIANCE 1349.90 1353.50 1316.60 1336.80 BAJAJ-AUTO 3070.00 3096.00 3003.00 3077.30 UFLEX 227.15 251.50 227.15 250.00 JYOTHYLAB 166.15 170.00 163.10 168.80 ANDHRABANK 24.80 25.30 24.40 25.20 M&M 644.75 667.50 637.85 665.70 26.20 SBIN 345.20 356.00 343.50 354.60 PNBHOUSING 823.00 865.00 814.70 862.50 LTI 1772.85 1772.85 1736.30 1749.65 AJANTPHARM 1010.45 1042.90 1007.40 1038.00 ATUL 3804.00 3805.00 3725.30 3727.00 SBIN 344.95 357.00 343.50 356.00 13.80 ICICIBANK 413.90 433.55 413.00 431.50 CEATLTD 991.55 1052.00 979.10 1037.25 WESTLIFE 353.25 360.20 341.00 357.95 NATCOPHARM 514.15 515.25 506.10 514.90 SCHNEIDER 102.45 103.90 100.95 102.45 LT 1491.00 1549.00 1491.00 1543.65 INTELLECT 241.00 254.00 241.00 251.45 EQUITAS 134.50 138.25 134.50 137.00 IBULISL 309.70 309.70 291.95 295.95 GEPIL 906.70 906.70 891.15 892.10 TATAMOTORS 177.00 183.50 175.35 181.70 6.55 YESBANK 140.55 142.85 139.50 141.30 PEL 2174.05 2217.75 2160.00 2198.70 BERGEPAINT 315.95 315.95 308.15 310.40 JBCHEPHARM 373.45 377.00 367.75 373.00 SOLARINDS 1115.20 1196.00 1107.15 1146.00 HEROMOTOCO 2753.00 2845.00 2750.00 2840.00 96.50 IBREALEST 117.80 132.50 117.80 129.90 ABCAPITAL 97.95 98.50 96.30 97.55 JMFINANCIL 89.85 90.35 88.70 89.95 UCOBANK 17.40 17.50 17.15 17.45 INDUSINDBK 1608.70 1658.00 1594.00 1644.95 46.20 STRTECH 152.05 173.95 143.85 168.45 BAJAJFINSV 8015.00 8179.95 8011.00 8163.00 DEEPAKNI 284.85 297.95 284.40 294.95 APLLTD 528.00 530.00 517.00 520.25 JSWSTEEL 279.95 291.50 273.55 283.70 7.75 BANKBARODA 129.50 138.40 128.70 137.05 CUMMINSIND 727.05 757.00 724.30 756.00 NMDC 97.00 98.45 94.65 97.90 LAXMIMACH 5540.00 5620.00 5365.00 5550.00 BPCL 395.00 398.90 386.80 394.90 10.55 BEL 103.00 112.00 103.00 111.65 WELSPUNIND 55.55 58.80 54.25 58.00 PNCINFRA 174.00 180.50 167.90 180.00 RATNAMANI 902.00 924.00 895.00 910.00 BAJFINANCE 3400.00 3475.00 3391.30 3470.00 92.25 DHFL 116.10 122.20 115.15 120.50 IBVENTURES 326.00 330.90 317.00 318.50 MOIL 155.60 160.00 155.15 157.50 NILKAMAL 1168.55 1239.45 1168.55 1221.40 EICHERMOT 20550.00 21047.50 20350.00 20822.25 501.10 ASHOKLEY 89.45 94.90 89.00 93.65 HAVELLS 751.65 754.75 739.90 743.85 INDOSTAR 364.00 397.65 362.80 384.00 EIHOTEL 175.00 175.50 173.50 174.75 MARUTI 6964.95 7120.00 6886.75 7090.00 160.75 ZEEL 362.50 380.30 355.90 375.90 FORCEMOT 1510.05 1597.00 1509.95 1590.20 OIL 185.90 186.50 181.10 183.95 IEX 148.60 150.20 147.70 149.00 GRASIM 892.05 914.55 878.00 907.10 20.55 JETAIRWAYS 146.95 152.90 143.00 148.10 BATAINDIA 1370.00 1373.20 1330.55 1346.50 ICICIGI 1117.20 1145.10 1117.20 1131.00 TATAINVEST 871.05 879.95 861.25 874.85 ULTRACEMCO 4719.00 4817.80 4660.20 4786.75 102.80 INDUSINDBK 1604.00 1657.80 1595.50 1649.85 HINDALCO 193.00 196.45 190.00 195.80 GDL 129.30 145.25 129.00 133.85 FORBESCO 2071.00 2222.95 2071.00 2198.35 HINDALCO 193.00 196.45 190.00 195.65 3.90 JUSTDIAL 744.90 745.00 679.10 690.90 CENTURYTEX 996.75 1037.00 990.30 1033.45 MFSL 414.00 436.35 414.00 428.05 TIINDIA 383.00 399.90 379.10 393.05 AXISBANK 779.45 795.90 778.50 791.65 15.25 GRAPHITE 351.95 395.00 349.55 390.05 GODREJPROP 855.00 895.00 842.05 882.35 DCAL 225.00 241.25 223.50 236.25 ENDURANCE 1159.75 1169.00 1149.30 1160.90 IOC 159.00 159.85 154.30 157.00 2.80 RELCAPITAL 134.90 139.80 132.50 136.60 DBL 602.00 615.45 595.00 615.45 TVSMOTOR 479.55 492.70 479.55 490.85 ASTRAZEN 2238.60 2238.60 2185.10 2191.70 BAJAJFINSV 8013.00 8185.00 7998.30 8157.00 143.70 SUNTV 554.10 561.45 512.30 530.20 COALINDIA 244.00 245.70 241.40 244.60 AMARAJABAT 629.05 643.80 609.20 637.85 MAHLOG 485.00 507.05 485.00 498.55 HDFCBANK 2359.70 2386.15 2340.15 2372.90 40.80 HEG 1640.00 1850.00 1629.50 1813.70 ONGC 175.05 175.40 169.05 174.40 RECLTD 144.50 145.30 142.10 144.50 TIMETECHNO 87.95 88.00 86.30 87.70 TATAMOTORS 178.00 183.40 175.50 182.15 ASIANPAINT 1385.00 1399.00 1377.35 1386.90 JAMNAAUTO 56.85 59.30 54.40 58.90 ALKEM 1675.00 1712.95 1675.00 1712.95 INFRATEL 273.10 280.35 269.80 278.60 4.75 DLF 182.40 193.00 181.00 191.50 ORIENTBANK 97.15 102.65 96.15 101.90 PFC 112.25 116.25 111.30 115.30 BAJAJCON 338.55 339.05 335.10 337.65 GAIL 338.00 342.60 335.15 342.15 4.20 L&TFH 124.40 129.00 124.40 128.10 ADVENZYMES 196.40 207.10 194.45 199.95 BLISSGVS 165.40 169.00 159.15 161.95 MAHLIFE 378.65 394.50 378.65 392.05 IBULHSGFIN 792.00 798.90 774.20 793.00 9.45 RPOWER 7.69 7.89 7.28 7.56 KEC 291.95 310.00 289.10 306.60 CONCOR 492.50 508.00 488.40 505.75 CORPBANK 24.70 24.85 24.05 24.75 ASIANPAINT 1392.00 1400.45 1376.15 1384.00 16.25 INFY* 702.35 711.85 701.25 709.45 M&MFIN 404.30 414.30 402.40 409.75 SOUTHBANK 14.05 14.40 13.90 14.35 JSL 36.60 38.40 36.45 37.95 UPL 1015.00 1024.40 1012.45 1023.75 11.55 ITC 292.00 292.00 287.50 290.15 ORIENTCEM 113.60 124.00 113.45 120.30 HSIL 272.30 289.00 271.15 287.75 CCL 266.95 272.00 262.65 268.55 INFY 703.80 711.75 700.45 709.00 7.95 TATASTEEL 465.90 486.00 458.70 483.50 JISLJALEQS 52.20 56.70 51.75 56.50 TATACHEM 618.40 629.30 618.40 625.00 SHREECEM 21016.90 21016.90 20774.60 20883.50 MAXINDIA 64.50 64.50 61.15 62.50 CIPLA 569.20 572.50 559.45 570.30 5.55 IBULHSGFIN 791.00 799.70 774.50 793.60 RADICO 340.10 364.90 340.10 360.80 SPARC 145.50 148.00 143.00 146.95 CUB 214.00 216.50 210.50 211.50 SHK 154.70 154.70 148.80 153.00 YESBANK 141.00 142.90 139.50 141.10 1.35 DELTACORP 177.05 201.90 176.70 198.55 ENGINERSIN 117.90 120.35 116.20 119.70 COLPAL 1157.95 1166.50 1151.00 1161.80 APLAPOLLO 1678.00 1678.00 1609.55 1631.35 NETWORK18 31.00 33.00 31.00 32.80 ITC 291.50 291.65 287.30 290.95 2.75 MARUTI 6980.00 7120.20 6891.75 7096.15 SBILIFE 678.35 687.95 665.90 682.85 LTTS 1745.55 1760.00 1728.00 1728.30 TRENT 374.00 379.00 368.50 371.90 THYROCARE 444.85 470.00 444.85 464.40 DRREDDY 2650.00 2673.95 2626.20 2662.00 24.70 ADANIPORTS 409.90 415.20 399.50 409.40 CANFINHOME 346.35 368.05 346.00 359.15 J&KBANK 58.60 60.50 57.60 59.90 GSPL 188.20 195.60 185.00 193.95 SIS 897.25 969.95 897.00 937.75 SUNPHARMA 416.70 418.00 411.65 416.40 3.45 PCJEWELLER 104.20 105.90 102.00 104.30 TATAMTRDVR 85.75 87.20 84.65 86.80 AARTIIND 1730.00 1805.00 1730.00 1805.00 BIRLACORPN 610.50 624.00 607.00 620.25 IFBIND 802.85 864.00 802.85 848.00 KOTAKBANK 1510.00 1524.00 1490.00 1510.20 10.45 HINDPETRO 300.10 307.55 298.00 302.60 TIMKEN 675.00 713.00 665.00 704.20 HINDCOPPER 40.60 42.20 40.40 42.00 NAVKARCORP 29.50 30.15 29.50 30.00 GICHSGFIN 258.00 265.80 258.00 265.80 BRITANNIA 2845.00 2867.00 2808.20 2857.90 19.20 PNB 84.55 89.00 84.15 88.15 PVR 1789.85 1789.85 1703.00 1710.45 BAJAJHLDNG 3340.50 3435.00 3328.55 3382.55 KSCL 468.45 489.95 467.60 487.95 MONSANTO 2436.00 2436.00 2400.00 2408.45 POWERGRID 185.65 186.55 184.25 185.75 1.10 INDIACEM 103.80 115.00 103.00 114.25 CIPLA 566.00 572.25 559.95 570.35 AUBANK 696.00 699.75 680.55 685.25 RAJESHEXPO 660.50 664.15 656.50 660.15 TTKPRESTIG 7260.00 7370.00 7235.25 7318.00 WIPRO 283.90 284.20 280.00 283.65 1.45 RELINFRA 116.90 116.90 111.20 112.10 GNFC 297.50 307.25 296.40 305.00 BHARATFIN 1012.90 1035.80 1005.80 1033.00 GPPL 85.70 92.00 85.00 89.50 SONATSOFTW 335.55 340.70 332.00 337.95 BAJAJ-AUTO 3065.00 3098.90 3005.00 3079.35 14.35 BANKINDIA 90.40 98.00 90.00 96.90 ISGEC 500.00 540.00 498.10 525.00 SCI 31.20 33.55 31.05 33.20 MINDACORP 120.10 123.05 118.75 119.65 TEJASNET 188.35 191.00 187.00 191.00 NCC 110.00 115.20 109.30 114.15 INFRATEL 279.00 280.15 270.15 279.50 WABAG 304.40 307.00 299.45 302.00 SANOFI 5464.90 5467.45 5389.00 5396.00 ADANIPORTS 408.45 414.85 399.50 409.30 1.75 AXISBANK 779.00 795.40 779.00 793.65 KANSAINER 428.00 439.00 421.70 434.05 ALLCARGO 107.40 111.30 105.00 109.45 FINCABLES 435.90 461.00 435.65 444.70 HDFC 2125.00 2151.90 2095.00 2123.00 8.60 TCS 2074.00 2074.00 2034.00 2049.65 UPL 1015.00 1023.95 1012.35 1021.25 INDHOTEL 148.75 152.00 148.75 151.50 AIAENG 1719.25 1761.50 1719.00 1761.50 COALINDIA 244.75 245.95 241.40 244.95 0.80 INDIGO 1580.00 1630.00 1568.35 1622.15 JKTYRE 79.50 81.50 78.00 81.00 SUNDRMFAST 515.05 527.20 515.05 526.00 CERA 2844.35 2906.45 2840.00 2900.00 RELIANCE 1348.00 1353.80 1316.50 1338.00 4.10 IOC 158.80 159.90 154.55 156.80 TRIDENT 64.35 65.75 63.95 65.60 EIDPARRY 180.40 187.25 180.40 184.50 OFSS 3468.00 3468.00 3400.00 3416.15 HINDUNILVR 1754.00 1759.80 1727.10 1759.05 5.20 VEDL 160.20 164.55 155.60 163.85 SOMANYCERA 395.35 432.60 395.00 424.50 MINDAIND 350.20 360.00 348.05 351.50 ASTRAL 1243.30 1246.40 1215.35 1237.50 TITAN 1221.00 1229.95 1194.45 1221.30 1.05 KEI 472.80 513.80 468.35 491.95 MOTILALOFS 768.00 799.00 757.10 797.00 AEGISLOG 213.70 215.95 211.00 212.60 ZYDUSWELL 1291.70 1300.00 1261.95 1278.00 HCLTECH 1071.00 1074.00 1054.10 1066.20 -0.20 WIPRO 283.00 284.75 279.95 283.15 INFIBEAM 44.65 46.60 44.65 45.95 PRESTIGE 260.40 267.00 260.40 264.05 MAHSCOOTER 4086.60 4120.50 4070.50 4091.00 ONGC 174.00 175.90 168.80 174.00 -0.15 IDEA 12.85 13.20 12.55 12.85 IPCALAB 920.50 940.80 919.85 935.65 SUPPETRO 202.10 225.55 202.10 210.90 NLCINDIA 64.95 66.70 64.80 66.15 TCS 2070.00 2070.00 2032.25 2050.00 -4.05 DISHTV 31.50 32.30 29.65 31.15 CHAMBLFERT 164.25 171.10 163.20 169.65 GODREJIND 482.50 494.90 478.80 492.50 NIACL 165.50 166.05 163.50 163.95 NTPC 130.50 131.00 128.55 129.50 -0.35 BAJFINANCE 3399.00 3475.00 3391.10 3466.15 DRREDDY 2651.00 2672.00 2628.05 2664.20 SREINFRA 24.20 24.70 23.40 24.05 MAGMA 130.10 131.90 129.40 131.90 TECHM 749.90 749.90 732.05 737.00 -6.30 BIOCON 513.00 535.00 512.90 533.35 GAIL 338.00 342.00 335.40 341.10 CAPPL 387.55 405.00 383.00 398.05 MHRIL 217.50 221.05 216.30 220.00 TECHM 745.50 746.15 732.10 736.00 SOBHA 508.80 532.40 508.80 529.70 PIIND 1100.00 1148.85 1100.00 1142.30 3MINDIA 23500.00 24022.60 23270.70 23906.00 HDFCBANK 2356.00 2385.00 2341.40 2370.00 CHENNPETRO 213.90 218.75 208.60 217.95 LALPATHLAB 1088.00 1088.00 1009.00 1031.50 CENTRUM 30.35 30.35 29.05 29.60 SAIL 49.50 51.90 48.85 51.60 IFCI 10.35 10.85 10.20 10.76 MINDTREE 982.00 984.00 978.25 980.00 DBCORP 198.20 201.00 196.80 200.00 JINDALSTEL 153.25 161.90 150.70 160.95 DCMSHRIRAM 598.00 605.45 592.00 603.35 GODREJAGRO 486.50 514.60 485.35 514.60 GRINDWELL 590.00 601.95 590.00 598.00 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE M&M 645.00 666.00 639.50 663.90 VIPIND 443.00 447.90 437.35 440.30 LINDEINDIA 559.00 559.95 542.00 543.60 NESCO 485.00 490.00 477.25 484.60 NIFTY NEXT 50 27080.00 27626.65 27071.95 27572.65 625.55 BEML 948.90 982.00 944.95 974.00 SRF 2894.65 2921.05 2851.00 2865.05 EMAMILTD 355.45 360.05 354.40 359.50 SCHAEFFLER 5200.00 5200.00 4999.95 5006.00 BANKBARODA 129.40 138.40 128.65 137.50 9.95 ESCORTS 611.70 639.00 609.20 633.50 GLENMARK 562.70 566.05 555.20 559.00 PFIZER 3099.80 3183.00 3061.15 3154.35 AKZOINDIA 1690.00 1723.75 1680.05 1720.55 ASHOKLEY 88.85 95.00 88.85 94.25 5.40 BPCL 396.10 398.70 386.65 395.20 POWERGRID 185.35 186.55 184.40 185.80 TORNTPOWER 245.15 245.65 241.40 241.65 TATAMETALI 603.40 612.60 600.00 608.80 DLF 181.75 193.20 181.50 191.15 10.45 VENKYS 1649.95 1836.10 1633.20 1797.15 ABFRL 193.00 203.50 193.00 202.25 JSLHISAR 78.45 80.80 77.75 79.40 STARCEMENT 114.90 118.50 113.80 116.30 SAIL 49.90 51.95 48.75 51.80 2.75 KOTAKBANK 1503.00 1524.00 1491.50 1510.05 GMRINFRA 16.20 16.90 15.85 16.75 FRETAIL 449.55 464.50 435.00 438.65 ESSELPRO 132.10 132.75 131.40 132.15 BIOCON 511.85 535.95 511.55 535.80 25.20 MOTHERSUMI 115.60 121.50 115.00 118.45 ADANITRANS 227.95 234.00 226.20 226.85 CENTURYPLY 162.50 170.65 161.60 170.45 GSKCONS 7297.00 7350.00 7254.55 7300.00 INDIGO 1570.95 1630.90 1566.65 1618.00 74.10 ADANIPOWER 46.75 47.25 45.00 46.70 BRITANNIA 2855.55 2865.20 2809.95 2846.05 WHIRLPOOL 1392.85 1404.05 1346.90 1378.85 CRISIL 1436.95 1450.00 1428.80 1450.00 MRF 55200.00 57464.80 55000.00 57350.00 2531.70 HINDUNILVR 1760.00 1760.00 1728.00 1749.20 VOLTAS 580.00 585.30 571.50 585.00 GICRE 224.95 230.00 224.00 229.65 GET&D 261.90 269.00 260.00 261.50 HINDPETRO 298.95 307.90 297.10 302.70 13.05 SRTRANSFIN 1071.25 1110.30 1039.15 1106.85 GREAVESCOT 144.80 146.40 142.55 143.95 CARBORUNIV 354.15 367.95 354.15 365.05 ASTERDM 128.30 135.00 128.00 134.10 SRTRANSFIN 1068.00 1111.80 1039.00 1111.80 47.90 FEDERALBNK 103.25 106.05 102.60 105.70 BAJAJELEC 552.00 563.75 542.70 548.50 VGUARD 207.25 211.80 205.60 209.80 GILLETTE 7012.70 7074.00 6940.75 7001.00 ABB 1463.85 1500.00 1444.85 1497.95 60.25 DMART 1307.55 1350.00 1282.00 1336.80 NAVINFLUOR 685.50 710.00 681.00 700.60 PARAGMILK 241.40 246.95 240.35 245.25 GAYAPROJ 174.95 177.15 166.70 169.00 ICICIPRULI 357.00 389.95 350.55 371.10 14.70 BANDHANBNK 619.00 620.85 584.35 597.25 AVANTI 337.85 348.00 330.00 342.60 BBTC 1131.80 1169.85 1124.00 1150.00 ITDCEM 113.40 117.00 113.30 114.45 DHANUKA 368.10 369.35 360.05 363.15 ACC 1651.95 1709.35 1638.00 1706.00 66.20 JSWSTEEL 278.35 291.50 273.75 287.65 ASHOKA 123.40 131.00 123.40 128.45 DEEPAKFERT 135.40 141.95 134.00 140.50 CROMPTON 222.00 225.00 221.40 224.00 TRITURBINE 114.00 114.00 107.05 109.45 L&TFH 124.95 128.95 124.65 128.45 4.95 AMBUJACEM 224.10 233.05 222.70 232.05 TATAGLOBAL 230.95 236.35 228.20 234.30 GUJFLUORO 1025.00 1044.00 985.00 1029.75 COCHINSHIP 366.20 371.80 363.95 369.65 ZENSARTECH 242.65 248.70 242.00 247.10 BHEL 66.80 69.45 66.75 69.10 2.55 RAIN 110.00 116.60 108.35 115.35 MEGH 64.00 67.40 64.00 65.60 MRPL 64.40 64.40 62.50 62.95 SYMPHONY 1168.50 1204.15 1151.40 1188.85 UNITEDBNK 10.89 10.96 10.67 10.81 AMBUJACEM 223.20 232.80 222.55 231.05 8.50 FSL 50.35 54.80 50.35 54.15 MGL 885.20 892.20 866.20 880.85 SHANKARA 515.00 538.25 506.10 517.95 MAHABANK 15.85 16.30 15.75 16.15 INOXWIND 63.75 63.90 62.70 63.45 DABUR 390.00 405.95 388.00 400.00 14.55 UNIONBANK 70.50 75.45 70.05 74.90 EICHERMOT 20600.00 21028.95 20357.00 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own world that we are not aware of the ground realities. And I think many things could be highlighted from villages in ! India,” he adds. The director wanted to explore a space that does not commercialise its subject and at the same time, offers something different. “And sometimes to shoot such films, 5 where even our budget is less, it could take around two to three years,” he says. largely unknown archive of over 50 However, it’ll be surprising to know that love letters from Canadian poet and Massaab, the two-hour-long film, took just Asinger-songwriter Leonard Cohen 21 days to complete even though it faced (1934-2016) to his girlfriend and muse many financial challenges like demoneti- Marianne Ihlen would be auctioned online sation as it went on floors in late 2016. in June. So how do film festivals help in dif- The auction, titled Write Me and Tell Me ferentiating the commercial cinema and Your Heart: Leonard Cohen’s Love Letters to arthouse cinema in India? For Aditya, film Marianne by global auction house Christie’s, festivals are “extremely” important to would take place online from June 5-13. recognise films which do not fit into a reg- “Postmarked from Hydra, Montreal, ular, commercial space. “Not always can New York, Tel Aviv and Havana, and writ- films be made for entertainment purpose, ten during pivotal years in Cohen’s career, right? Here is when the idea of ‘Cinema these poetic letters brim with both biograph- Literacy’ comes to fore. It’s the idea that ical detail and raw emotion, documenting apart from entertainment, these kinds of one of the most captivating love affairs of its films exist too. So a literacy to understand time as well as the transformation of a young cinema needs to be developed in people,” man into a great artist,” Christie’s said. he says and goes on to add that even Marianne was the inspiration for the though such festivals are there, but they famous song So Long, Marianne. here have been talks about how the around. Aditya says that this ing, finding a suitable location the crew would say ‘action’ or ‘replay’ or work only when media talks about them. A highlight from the auction includes Indian education system, syllabus teacher is a reformer who to shoot was even tougher for ‘retake,’ they would!” he says as he bursts “Media attention is important for festivals a letter written in Tel Aviv in September 1960 Tand pedagogy need change. believes that education is a Aditya. “It was difficult because out laughing reminiscing over the time. like these, otherwise people wouldn’t at the start of their relationship. Cohen writes, However, before we even begin to change universal treasure and every- the originality of the concept The Lahiri Lahiri Lahirilo actor tells move beyond the Akshay Kumar and Ajay “It’s hard to write you. The surf is too loud. the system, ‘building’ it is of utmost one has an equal right to it. He had to be maintained. So, I us why he did not choose professional Devgn kind of cinema. They need to The beach is too crowded, and you’re too importance since not everyone has access tries to do his bit to spread zeroed in on Bundelkhand in actors for the film. “More than our low- appreciate all kinds of genres and subjects,” much in my heart to put anything down.” to primary education in the country even quality education even in India’s oldest state, Uttar budget limitations, I wanted to give the says he. It is estimated to fetch $6,000-9,000. today. small villages. Pradesh. Here the problems film a real touch of ruralhood. You can As the film, Maassab is set to be Also on sale is an autographed letter And director Aditya Om’s Maassab is A lot of research went into were more visible. The social, always create fictional characters to pre- screened at the Habitat Film Festival at from February 1967 after his first major per- testimony to the same. A leading actor in making the film’s story reach- economic milieu of the prob- sent something, but taking real people and India Habitat Centre, Aditya talks about formance in New York. the Telugu film industry, Aditya has not able to many. He says, “We lems were very evident. We faces enhances the story’s true essence. why the category — ‘Children’s Films’ — Cohen describes in the letter that he only been associated with cinema but with researched quite a lot about shot the film there and many And there is always a need for new faces is important. “Firstly, you can tell so many “sang in New York for the first time last night, social causes as well. It was when he dug how primary education gets local people were involved. In for realism in cinema as a distinction needs stories through children. They are honest at a huge benefit concert. Every singer you’ve deeper into the matter of how the educa- delivered in the rural areas of the nation fact, none of the children in the film are to be made between commercial and art- and can make people realise even the harsh ever heard of was there performing. Judy tion system needs regularity and more than and came across many pitfalls in the sys- actors, but from the same school where we house ones,” says he. realities with innocence. Nowadays, kids Collin introduced me to the audience, over that, functionality in the country, that he tem. Private education provides more shot,” says he. The issue he would like to touch upon are into movies like Avengers and Iron 3,000 people, and they seemed to know who decided to do his bit to bring about a facilities but has been viewed as a business. It would have certainly been a chal- in his next project, he says, would be man- Man, yes they attract them but even these I was, mostly because of Suzanne (a song by change. The film deals with the state of pri- They indeed created more opportunities lenge to make a film with children who ual scavenging. Aditya talks about why he stories which are told by children them- Cohen).” mary education in rural India. When an and facilities but the pricing rose exorbi- don’t understand the cinematic process digs out stories from rural India more than selves need to be looked at. They don’t L,) education inspector visits a government tantly, which in turn made quality educa- and language. However, he says that the urban cities. He says that it is because in always need superhero films,” says he. school in Bundelkhand, he realises how the tion only a distant dream for the poor and kids became well rehearsed with the ter- the city, it is difficult to find stories that Well, still wondering what ‘Maassab,’ kids are not taught even by the employed affordable only for the urban elite, while minology within six to seven days so it are grounded in the history. “Villages means? The term implies a teacher or a teachers. He discovers that there is no reg- government schools in small towns and vil- wasn’t that difficult, rather turned out to always bring across stories which will portmanteau of ‘master sahab,’ which the ularity in the school’s curriculum. When lages lack quality mentors and infrastruc- be fun. He laughs to tell us that they start- make you think how human life functions students in villages call their teachers, Ashish Kumar, the new teacher walks in, ture. These are the challenges due to excess ed enjoying the shoot so much that there at such places. It makes you think beyond Aditya says as he laughs. he takes charge of the children and the commercialisation.” came a point when they knew when the the urban infrastructure and facilities you (The film will be screened at 11 am on mammoth task of turning the school While digging these facts was challeng- sequence will begin or be cut. “Before even are born with. We are so engrossed in our May 26 at Amaltas.) 41

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They remember those the Vikings would dismantle them I think it frees up my imagination accounts of Ivar being carried into writer’s point of view is that you can’t experiences from other things and and carry them over the mountains because there’s so many occasions battle on a shield and you wonder. change the text of the play, if the then compare their performances. and put them down on the other where you think, “I couldn’t have It suggests that he had difficult writer is insistent, has written a play I prefer they live in this character, side. I said to the production design- made that up.” It’s so surreal to think mobility. But having decided that he this way, you don’t normally get a they become this character. That er, Mark Geraghty, I’d love to show that the things that happened in the had brittle bone disease, we then did discussion among the people who means you are always taking a risk. it but I know we can’t. I thought series actually happened in the real research on it and met people with are making it. My work is totally col- We’ve taken people, really good maybe there was some other way of life. If you’re inventing stuff just that disease and noted their descrip- laborative. I’m changing things all actors off the stage. It’s been won- doing something similar. Well, two from your own head, you’re very tions of what it was like. The whites the time. The show evolves and gets derful. We’ve got an amazing cast. months later, we did it, I was up limited to the things you have in of the eyes turn blue if they are in changed even in the cutting. A good But the leads, that was a big change. there in Wicklow mountains watch- your head. And if you haven’t had danger of breaking a limb. So we editor will change the entire episode, We took a chance on them. The ing a Viking boat being hauled up certain experiences, then you don’t used that, because that was very dra- the meaning of it and can put most amazing thing happened when the cliff-face and then being pulled know but you can read about other matic. things in a completely different we were casting the boys, the sons through a forest for a scene. It was people having those experiences. order. So it’s very fluid. But there is of Ragnar, as grown-ups. We had just unbelievable. So I don’t put any And so it is liberating. When you started, did you know something, of course, stagy about it. quite a lot of people coming in and limits on what I can write or what that it would be such a long story It is on a stage. We talk about it Alex Høgh was one of them, but he we can do. You are retelling history but you and they would fill so many sea- being on a stage. The only signifi- wasn’t going to read for Ivar. It was say that you’re a storyteller as well. sons? cant difference I realised is that you clear from his first audition, what he What’s the appeal or the fascina- Are there any last-minute plot You never know. It’s in the lap have your set and it’s dressed and it rehearsed, that he was very good tion of writing about the medieval changes or scenarios that you’ve of the gods. It depends on if the looks nice. Then the actors come in and absolutely clear. I said, “Can we or ancient times as opposed to had to change to keep it factual? audience is liking it or not. and they’re rehearsing the scene. So just get him to read for Ivar?” He contemporary times? The process begins with read- they are on a stage, they have their hadn’t prepared for that role so we I have written a couple of con- ing and noting of some event. And How many episodes were commis- lines and everything. gave him a few minutes to acquaint temporary things but I don’t feel as remember, this is the dark age. sioned at the beginning? Just one or two years ago, the himself with the lines. Before we comfortable or as excited by doing There’s a lot of speculation. I feel that We were commissioned nine director of photography, said, “Do started, Alex came in and said, “I’ve that. William James, the philoso- Justin, the historical advisor, is episodes. Nine is a magic number. you want to look through the cam- got one question. Is Ivar in pain?” pher, once described a baby’s expe- immersed in this world and has But I had an idea of where I want- era, Michael?” I looked through the I said, “I think he’s in pain most of rience of life as a buzzing, booming access to many more facts than I do. ed to take the story. I was desper- camera. It changes everything. It the time.” When he came in, we chaos, and my sense of contempo- I need reassurance from him. I can’t ate to do the attack on Paris because creates a magic space. The camera weren’t seeing the pain in his per- rary life is just the same. I prefer to remember any sort of last-minute And it was clear there were human ingful sacrifice? So, I invent things I knew how spectacular that was notices things you haven’t noticed. formance, so the cameraman asked have perspective and context when things but yes interesting issues sacrifices. But it was my idea that the like that but they are rooted in a real and how extraordinary it would be It pushes some things away and it him to perform in front of the cam- I write. come up. I knew this place called Vikings would volunteer to be sac- sort of process. to recreate. brings other things in focus. It’s the era and when we watched his per- I have an academic background, Uppsala in Sweden where there was rificed. There’s no recording of And I wanted the Vikings to get most incredibly transformative, formance later, we could see the so the research part of my job is a pagan temple, which is recorded that. It is possible that they simply How did you decide on Ivar’s dis- to North America, which I knew transcending medium. That is what pain in his eyes. I knew it then, that something I delight in. It’s out of that and written about by an Arab trad- sacrificed slaves who were worthless ability? would be a long process. It was is different from theatre. It’s the Alex was the right person to play research, reading, thinking and er. He had described some of the to them. But what’s the point of I needed a lot of drama. The wishful thinking on my part because camera. A good director and a good Ivar. He has been absolutely spec- noodling that the ideas and charac- pagan practices around the temple offering the gods a worthless sacri- most dramatic route would be to more than half of new shows are cameraman are totally vital. Don’t tacular to watch. ters start to emerge. which he found quite disgusting. fice when you could have a mean- have a famous Viking warrior and cancelled. do anything just for the sake of it. (Vikings airs at 11 pm on AXN.) !" #$% '() * +<#

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The collection is named after the singer-turned-designer’s last name: She was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty. The ready- +<9"-+-%9, "9)9 to-wear, footwear, accessories and eyewear are available for sale in Paris’ Le Marais area in a popup store and will debut online from May 29. /-,%%$-,7 %=8-3 -%/% Speaking in the store amid snapping a lot to prove. cameras, she said she felt the time was right The wearable designs channeled an N O to make a move like this. It comes one year oversize, street aesthetic, with garments like after LVMH’s Louis Vuitton named its first cross-over jackets in thick cotton canvas or very country has a sufferer, the people who assign couple from different cultural other films that speak against ever African American designer for a button-down shirt dress in stiff Japanese different culture and discriminatory connotations backgrounds who are spending the taboo. You’ll, at the most, menswear, Virgil Abloh. denim. practice surrounding to this blood and how it the weekend with the man’s see sanitary napkins being She said, “Right now, fashion in gener- “It’s hardcore but still chic. It’s that jux- menstruation, the becomes a metaphor for rela- mother on the occasion of shown but there is a politics of al has been stepping up a lot and been vocal taposition that I really enjoy,” Rihanna said. only commonality tionships. It also looks at an Onam. The woman, in the representation of that blood, about issues — whether it’s subtly or “Knowing me, of course you’re going to Ebeing the taboos. The stigma urban relationship that strug- meanwhile, starts menstruating which I feel is equally important aggressively.” While she said Fenty’s ambi- have streetwear elements that are done in exists in speaking up boldly gles to exist in the tussle and stains her bedsheet. And to talk about. We have never tions are not “political,” they’re infused with a luxury way,” she added. about it or its manifestations, between individuality and tra- her boyfriend’s mother has an talked about menstrual blood the story of “me as an immigrant moving Fenty — not to be confused with the like blood flow. dition where a woman attempts extreme and conservative reac- as it is. Not in the sense of cre- to America. That was a big journey for me. storied LVMH brand Fendi — says it will In Kenya, more than one to define and reclaim her tion to this. The event, and her ating a shock value but just as And to even get here to Paris — it’s some- be based in Paris but will operate online million girls miss up to six autonomy. boyfriend failing to stand up for an ordinary everyday thing,” the thing to celebrate and embrace.” with a “See-Now-Wear-Now” model, for- weeks of schools each year Rhea apprises us that the her rather expecting her to filmmaker adds. The singer already has a track record for going the usual luxury fashion seasonal pre- because they don’t have access story is written by Manjula adjust, creates conflict that So how can we begin nor- embracing diversity in the luxury industry viewed designs. to menstrual products. In India, Padmanabhan under the same builds through the course of the malising something? She feels after she featured some 40 shades of foun- “They were flexible enough to allow me many women are not allowed name. She says, “The original film. She begins to examine her that it’s just by being able to see dation in her hugely lucrative Fenty Beauty to have a different perspective on the way to enter the kitchen or be part story is set in a very different own relationship with her peri- it and talking about it everyday. line in 2017. Many said that revolutionised I wanted to release things,” she said. of any rituals during periods. context. 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f you’re going to earnestly shout “Vive industry that’s going to deliver this bat- le cinema!” the Cannes Film Festival tle against the streaming platforms,” he Iis the place to do it. added. That’s what Quentin Tarantino 7 D Netflix has drawn protesters at the declared from atop Cannes’ red-carpet Berlin Film Festival but France and stairs on his way into the premiere of Once Cannes has been its most challenging Upon a Time in Hollywood, his affection- market despite more than five million sub- ate ode to the film industry. , scribers here. When Netflix content chief The film, aglow with nostalgia for the Ted Sarandos spoke on stage in Cannes halcyon days of 1969 and starring 5 # in 2015, he was heckled. (Harvey Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, encap- Weinstein dramatically came to his sulates what’s now almost extinct in defence.) Amid the uproar over the inclu- Hollywood — a big-budget, film star-led just becoming a franchise-entertainment sion of two Netflix releases in 2017— original epic. It’s Tarantino’s widescreen park. And if those studios, distributors, Bong’s Okja and Noah Baumbach’s The retort to anyone who would argue films and exhibitors don’t find a way forward, Meyerowitz Stories — some festival-goers are diminished in the age of streaming. Netflix will eat them alive.” booed the Netflix logo. Others cheered. And nowhere is the art of films more This year’s festival has been typically Cannes’ Netflix conundrum may only celebrated, and taken seriously, than vibrant in new voices and old masters. It get more pronounced when Disney, Cannes. Vive le cinema! is more or less the hasn’t lacked for exciting breakthroughs WarnerMedia and Apple all later this year festival’s ethos and rallying cry. Along with (Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on roll out their own streaming platforms. the rise of streaming, Cannes has increas- Fire), top-notch genre filmmaking (Bong After premiering the first two episodes of ingly had the pitch of a battle field, one Joon-ho’s Parasite) or Hollywood glitz his Amazon series Too Old to Die Young, where differing visions for the soul of cin- (Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman). But some director Nicolas Refn said, “The studios ema is bitterly contested. believe this year’s Cannes would be bet- are getting ready for ultimate streaming. This time, Netflix is for the second ter if Netflix had a starring role. I think that’s common knowledge.” straight year largely absent from Cannes. Veteran producer Cassian Elwes, That increased competition, though, After the festival, bowing to pressure from whose credits include Netflix’s Mudbound, might also give Cannes more leverage. French exhibitors, declared films needed said keeping Netflix out of the festival is The festival remains an unparalleled French theatrical distribution in order to hurting business. The Cannes market, global stage, one much sought after by compete for the Palme, Netflix withdrew, which runs alongside the festival, is filmmakers. refusing to hold its films off its platform where many movies (finished or in devel- K' + “The streamers are going to have their for the 36-month window, as stipulated by opment) are bought and sold. own survival of the fittest scenarios the French law. “Cannes is in total disrepair. Business tival debuts, closer timed to Oscar season. because how many can you subscribe to?” But throughout the French Riviera is flat and most of the films screening here But missing out on Roma — which won said Tom Bernard, co-chairman of Sony festival, the streaming giant has perpet- are irrelevant in the US marketplace,” the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion and Classics. “As diverse as the distributors are ually loomed just off screen, out of frame Elwes said on Twitter. “Both sides, (mar- became arguably the most critically these days, I think that the streaming ser- but not out of mind. Many of the world’s ket) and festival, need to realise they are acclaimed film of the year — hurt. vices are just as diverse.” foremost filmmakers, from Alejandro co-dependent and figure out a solution Netflix and Cannes have since contin- There are already signs of a thaw. Iñárritu to Pedro Almodóvar, have and quick. Keeping the streamers out is ued discussions with no results. Though Netflix does have one film in Cannes: weighed in. The pluses and minuses of a self-defeating.” they were reportedly not ready in time for Babak Anvari’s Wounds. It’s playing in Cannes without Netflix has been a regu- Netflix still has an acquisitions team Cannes, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman Directors’ Fortnight, a separate but con- lar conversation in beachside soirees and in Cannes. Though it hasn’t announced and Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat current section at Cannes run indepen- throughout the halls of the festival hub, any buys, it may well still. A study con- ). , ' were rumoured possibilities that would dently by the French Directors Guild. the Palais des Festivals. ducted by the Sorbonne captured just how have surely been major gets for the festi- Nicolas Winding Refn, for one, was Many would like to see an end to the vital Netflix has been to festival market- val. ready to declare the dawn of a new era. Cannes-Netflix cold war. “Netflix is doing places. Its researchers found that 39 per O0 !; =; Almodóvar, who premiered his Pain While some television series and made- a great job,” Iñarritu, the head of this year’s cent of Cannes premieres since 2009 have ; ?= ; and Glory to strong reviews in Cannes, is for-TV films have debuted before at jury, said at the outset. “Why not give peo- went on to stream on Netflix, although among those happy to see someone Cannes, his show is the first streaming ple the choice to experience cinema?” most first had theatrical runs. ! / ; 9 standing up to Netflix. He considers the series to premiere at the festival. He called Iñarritu, whose Birdman skewered the Cannes’ loss has been Venice’s gain. ! = = dwindling number of theatres in his it “year zero.” dominance of superhero movies, praised Last year, Netflix withdrew, among other ! P native Spain a crisis. “This is the future, which is stream- Netflix for backing the kinds of films the titles, Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma after the two “Fortunately, we have a different ing,” said Refn. “Now Cannes has changed. major studios have mostly given up mak- sides were unable to find a solution. $ !; P country in France,” said Almodóvar. It has mutated into the future. With that ing. In a recent interview, he went further: Cannes is already under pressure because “France is the greatest defender of the comes limitless possibilities,” he added. “We are all letting this medium die, and many films have lately preferred fall fes- large screen, and I think it’s the French L) !" #$% <( 1!9!#,/ ( Q; R1%'%' ( .,# #,# , *' 75 , ? ■ ;%/3 ■ 487%-%$3 with the former world youth champion Siwach using his afael Nadal and Roger Federer were ix-time world champion height advantage to full credit. Rplaced in the same half of the draw for MC Mary Kom and the Taller by six inches, Siwach the French Open on Thursday meaning the Sseasoned L Sarita Devi who ousted world champi- two longtime rivals could meet in the semi- spearheaded India's Gold rush onship Bronze medallist Rogen finals. at the second India Open box- Ladon and Commonwealth Second seed Nadal is chasing a 12th ing tournament, which con- Games champion Gaurav title in Paris while 2009 champion Federer, cluded on Friday. Solanki in the previous rounds, seeded three, is playing in the tournament Asian Games Gold medal- was full of energy and confi- for the first time since 2015. ist Amit Panghal thwarted a dence. Nadal starts against qualifiers in the spirited challenge from giant To negate this, Panghal first two rounds while 37-year-old Federer, killer Sachin Siwach with a well- opted the waiting game strate- bidding to become the oldest Grand Slam calculated display to clinch the gy, ducking most of his oppo- title winner of all time, faces Italy's Lorenzo Gold by a split 4-1 verdict in the nent's punches and staying out Sonego, ranked at 73. highly-competitive 52kg men's of his range. Top seed and world number one category. "I think he's the tallest Novak Djokovic starts his campaign against Overall, India swept the boxer I faced till date. I fought Poland's Hubert Hurkacz, the world num- medals in four men's cate- with some tall boxers in the ber 43. gories (52kg, 81kg, 91kg and Asian Championship but Djokovic, the 2016 champion, is bid- +91kg) and three in women's Sachin is taller than them," the ding to become only the second man in his- (51kg, 57kg and 75kg) to con- 5'3" Panghal, who won the tory to hold all four Slams at the same time. clude their campaign with 12 of 52kg Gold in Asian Only Rod Laver, who swept to calen- the 18 Gold medals up for Championship beating dar Slams in 1962 and 1969, has previous- Nadal, who won his first title of 2019 Open final where the Japanese star tri- grabs. Hasanboy Dusmatov, said. ly achieved the feat. in Rome last weekend against a weary umphed while the American suffered a India, who had bagged six "You have to have a long If the seedings work out for the quar- Djokovic, is seeded to face Japan's Kei spectacular meltdown. Golds in the inaugural edition reach and play an in and out ter-finals, then 15-time major winner Nishikori in the last-eight. Defending champion Simona Halep, in New Delhi last year, thus game. It takes a lot of effort and Djokovic would face Germany's Alexander In the women's draw, top seed Naomi seeded three, plays Australia's Ajla doubled their Gold count in the stamina," he said, terming it the Zverev who has still to get past the last eight Osaka, bidding for a third successive Tomljanovic in her first round match. continental meet that witnessed toughest bout of the meet. at a Slam. Grand Slam title, opens against world 92 Venus Williams, unseeded this year, a depleted field with a no-show National champion P L Fourth seed Dominic Thiem, the 2018 Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia. begins against ninth seed Elina Svitolina of from Uzbekistan. Prasad and Commonwealth runner-up to Nadal, would face Argentine Three-time champion Serena Williams, the Ukraine. World championship Games Gold medallist Solanki eighth seed Juan Martin del Potro while chasing a record-equalling 24th major, Second seed Karolina Pliskova, the medallist Sarita Devi won her took the Bronze in the 52kg cat- Federer would meet Stefanos Tsitsipas, the begins against Vitalia Diatchenko of Russia. champion in Rome last weekend, starts first Gold in three years beat- egory with another India clean Greek who stunned him at the Australian She could face Osaka in the quarter- against Madison Brengle of the United ing Simranjit Kaur 3-2 by virtue sweep. Open in January. finals in a rematch of their stormy 2018 US States. of a split decision. India had a setback in the Making her debut in 60kg 64kg, when national champion category, Simranjit impressed in Rohit Tokas suffered a knee the first round with some telling twist in the first round and for- blows. feited the bout to former But Sarita Devi did not lose Olympian Richarno Colin, a ground and fought back with a Bronze medallist at the New counter-attacking display as Delhi 2010 Commonwealth she celebrated the win looking Games. upwards, dedicating the Gold to Tokas, who won a Bronze her mother Laishram at the Makran Cup earlier this Khomthonbi, who passed away year, thus had to settle for the last year. fight by former national cham- in front of a boisterous crowd Silver, bettering his Bronze "This Gold belongs to my pion Vanlal Duati of Mizoram at the Karmabir Nabin Chandra medal feat at the last edition of mother. I lost my dad early and to emerge winner by unani- Bordoloi Indoor Stadium. India Open. my mother made me the boxer mous decision. Nikhat Zareen Thapa began with a tight India also could not add that I'm now. This Gold has and Jyoti took the Bronze vigil and was seen in his aggres- their Gold count in the men's come after a long time. I'm medals for an all-Indian finish sive best from second round 75kg final where Ashish Kumar missing her very much at this in the podium. onwards en route to get an pulled out against Filipino moment," Sarita got emotion- Home favourite and world unanimous verdict from the Eumir Felix Delos Santos. al as she spoke about her moth- championship Bronze medalist five judges. The Asian Championship er, who died after suffering Shiva Thapa avenged his last Having moved to the new Silver medalist suffered a fore- from cancer. year's semifinal defeat to weight earlier this year, Panghal, head injury in his semifinal win Olympic Bronze medallist defending champion Manish who had won the Asiad Gold in against Aphisit Khankhokkruea Mary Kom saw off a valiant Kaushik to grab the 60kg Gold 49kg, had a tough first round of Thailand on Thursday. .

■ #%##3#4 said: "It's quite a big cut and I think it's going to need stitch- alaysian badminton play- es." Mer Teo Ee Yi was bloodied The painful defeat put and shaken after his doubles Japan 1-0 up in the tie in the partner accidentally smashed Chinese city of Nanning and on him in the face with his shin the way to a semi-finals meet- during their Sudirman Cup ing with Indonesia. quarter-final defeat to Japan on Men's world number one Friday. Kento Momota and Nozomi The 26-year-old lay prone Okuhara triumphed in their on the court floor for nearly 10 singles matches to give Japan — minutes with a gashed chin, who have never won the blood pouring down his neck, Sudirman Cup — an unassail- with the men's doubles clash able 3-0 lead. against top seeds Japan locked Indonesia booked their at 19-19 in the deciding game. place in the last four with a nar- Teo suffered the injury after climbed off the floor to contin- and Keigo Sonoda, but could row 3-2 win over Taiwan. he and playing partner Ong Yew ue with a large bandage on his not ultimately prevent going Saturday's other semi-final is Sin both dived in an attempt to chin, the Malaysian duo down to a dramatic defeat between the hosts China, who retrieve the same shot, and appeared to have lost their spread over 95 thrilling minutes. are the hot favourites to win the Ong's trailing left leg caught Teo edge. Teo afterwards refused to mixed-team world champi- in the face. They saved a second match blame the attritional three- onship for an 11th time, and Although Teo eventually point against Takeshi Kamura game loss on the injury, but Thailand. Q7 A

June 1. "In the next few days I have to decide on 25-26 players from this squad who will be the most valuable for this competition (King's Cup) and after that, the squad will be cut to 23." Stimac was quizzed on the level of research he had done on India before accepting the job. "I watched almost every ISL game, I have been informed about the young talents from the Indian Arrows. "I recognised through my research about some players who didn't make it into Mr (Stephen) Constantine's squad, for whatever reason. But, I'm here to give them the chance to prove themselves and show everyone how good they are," Stimac said. Stimac said that he has so far focused on evaluating the fitness of the players. "I'm happy with the condition of most of the players, and now I will decide on the ■ #,7 ,+-3 for a place in the team. intensity of training over the next few days, "We all start from zero. Football is like which will be important to see who can cope ewly-appointed Indian football coach that. You don't get anything for the past. You up with the demands. NIgor Stimac in his first press conference get paid for today's job. As successful you "The next few days we will be working on Friday made it clear that all players, are today, tomorrow you get your chance on technical aspects and organisation on the including the star forward Sunil Chhetri, are once again." pitch." on the same pedestal and will have to fight With less than two weeks to go for his The 51-year-old is also impressed with for their place in the team. first assignment, Stimac said that he is con- the attitude of the players in the camp. "We speak every day. I speak with all our cerned about the defence, and the lack of "I expect not only from Sunil (but) from players every day. That's my approach. I need options, particularly at centre-back. Gurpreet , from Jhingan as well to be a role to do that. I need to get information from "Over the next few months, my job will model to young players in a positive way. them," Stimac said on Friday. be to find more competitors for the centre- And not in a negative way because they are "Of course, Sunil (Chhetri) is very valu- back position, which we are short on right the ones who are looked up to. able to our team. He is a role model to these now," Stimac said. "Young players always look at what Sunil young players who are knocking on the The 37-man preliminary squad, which is doing, what Jhingan is doing. So I'm quite door. He has played so many games, he is is undergoing a camp at the Jawaharlal happy with their behaviour until now and so experienced, and has scored so many Nehru Stadium, will be cut short to 23, by I strongly believe that we will work togeth- goals. But as well as others, he needs to fight the time the team leaves for Thailand on er as much as Sunil did before," he said. !" #$% <. ** * ( 6 6 52

■ #,7 ,+-3 dogs but what stands out is how balanced it is. Which means anything he ICC Men's Cricket World can happen on the day which is so Cup 2019 is officially up and exciting." Trunning and all ten skippers West Indies skipper Jason are anticipating 'the most compet- Holder added: "It's a very exciting itive tournament in history'. format. In the past you could play With hosts England kicking off five or six games, and that could be the tournament in less than a week's it. time at the Oval against South "To play every side is great for Africa, the time for talking is almost us. We worked hard with the qual- over. ifiers to get here, that means it is the All ten teams will play each top ten in the world, we want to play other in a new-look round-robin them all and give ourselves a shot. stage, with the top four qualifying "The team that wins will defi- for the semi-finals - a change in for- nitely deserve it." mat that makes this year's edition Sri Lanka's new captain Dimuth more competitive than ever. Karunaratne said: "We have great And Eoin Morgan, Virat Kohli experience in England, we came and the ten tournament skippers here early to get used to the condi- can't wait to get started, with a series tions and we are in good shape, hop- of warm-up matches scheduled ing to do our best. around the country in the next "It is not going to be easy week. though. We are confident and tak- England skipper Morgan said: "I ing it each game one by one." don't think anyone is head and Afghanistan skipper Gulbadin shoulders above anyone else. Naib added: "We are excited to be "These are the ten best teams in here, in front of the cricket world the world, it will be extraordinari- and to play the best teams. ly competitive and some quality "To present Afghanistan to the cricket will be played so we are real- world is great and we are looking ly looking forward to it. forward to it. "Every captain sitting here "There will be a huge audience would lose their left leg to play in a at home in all the different World Cup final at the home of provinces. Cricket is not just a cricket. It's something every one of sport now, in Afghanistan it has us would have dreamed of as a kid. become something else." "We are as best prepared as we who welcomes back both David where in the world. every once I think is great," he said. they won the ICC Champions New Zealand were runners up And finally Bangladesh captain can be. We just want to play that first Warner and Steve Smith as his side "We have plans in place for that, "The way we use our resources Trophy in England in 2017 - is feel- four years ago and skipper Kane Mashrafe Mortaza is confident his game now." look to defend the title they won in and their squad input and output in will be vital, but every team has X- ing confident. Williamson hopes his Black Caps side can spring a surprise. India skipper Virat Kohli added: 2015, said: "Since Warner and Smith terms of the runs they have been factor bowlers that will have a big "All the teams are really bal- side can go one better. "We have got a great bunch of "England in their conditions are the have come back into the set-up they making has been fantastic." say in the successes of the side. anced. I think people are going to He said: "There are a few guys boys, a good mix of seniors and most strong side in this tournament. have been fantastic and contributed South Africa skipper Faf du "I think the bowlers will win it, watch some great cricket," he said. in the squad from the last World juniors coming on. "But all the teams so strong and so much. The morale has been Plessis is hoping to become the first the teams still in it towards the end "Since winning the World Cup Cup which is great. "Cricket is a game that anyone well balanced and the fact we have unbelievable. man to lead the Proteas to a World of the tournament will be the teams in 1992, making the final in 1999 "But four years in between on their day can beat anybody. If we to play every one once, I think this "Once it gets underway, partic- Cup crown, after four semi-final that have done really well with the here in England and then means there are a lot of new play- start well we can hang in there. will be the most competitive World ularly against England, and further appearances. ball." Champions Trophy in 2017, we go ers. "We are confident that we can Cup that anyone will have seen." on for the Ashes, the crowd will play "We are all really excited to try Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz well in England so we are confident "There has been a lot of talk go well, but a lot depends on the Australia skipper Aaron Finch, a part but that is expected every- out this new tournament, to play Ahmed - who led Pakistan when we will do well and challenge." about rankings, favourites, under- start." " " P ' ■ #,7 ,+-3 1/ ustralia seem to have peaked Ajust at the right time, winning each of their last eight One Day Internationals. Not many would have given them a chance until a D3 few months ago, but recent form and arrival of two of their great- 7 est match-winners, Steve Smith and David Warner, makes them ■ +'# '# one of the strongest sides going into the World Cup. ngland captain Eoin The Aaron Finch led side, EMorgan will undergo "a stormed past West Indies in their precautionary X-ray" after injur- unofficial warm-up game at this ing his left index finger in very venue. Steve Smith scored a training, the England Cricket (B well compiled 76 to assert that Board announced on Friday. he's well and truly ready for the Morgan was practising with long English Summer. Usman his teammates at the Ageas Khawaja, who was struck on his Bowl in Southampton ahead of (C helmet by a steep bouncer from his team "is in the best possible England World Cup squad and Saturday's unofficial World Cup Andre Russell, was cleared of any place" and is eager for the World everyone seems excited to see him warm-up against Australia threatening injury after scans Cup to start. perform at the biggest stage. His when he took a blow during revealed that there was no serious The top-ranked ODI side opening spell against Pakistan in catching drills. 3 damage to his jaw. boasts of a strong batting unit the rain-affected game at The "Eoin Morgan took a knock England have dominated which has mounted a series of Oval was another indicator of his to his left index finger fielding ■ #,7 ,+-3 their arch-rivals in recent times, high totals in recent times. With skills and form in white ball this morning. He is going to having won nine out of the ten them facing a strong Australian cricket. The Barbados born pacer hospital after practice for a India had won four consecutive ODI series, including games played between the two bowling attack which believes in promises to pose a serious chal- precautionary X-ray," said a the Asia Cup, before they were handed their first ODI series sides. The hosts had white- fighting fire with fire, the fans can lenge to the Australian top order brief statement from the ECB. ■ +'# '# 3#.,%93#4$-,3/ loss at home since October 2015 by Australia. The outcome washed Australia 5-0, during the expect an exciting contest. which boasts of in form Aaron Morgan, 32, was one of 14 7'/+ .8; ,8$3# posted serious questions on the team's balance going into previous English summer. Finch, David Warner and Steve players preparing at outh Africa captain Faf du !@@%$,/ ,.% , the World Cup. However, a large part of the squad, includ- Captain Eoin Morgan, during his KEY PLAYER Smith. Hampshire's ground, with Joe SPlessis says the team's record ing the skipper Virat Kohli, seem to be in fine form, thanks team's kit launch on Tuesday, Jofra Archer: Much has been (Venue: The Rose Bowl, Root absent on personal busi- of repeated World Cup heart- '%;%/$-,3 C to some stellar individual performances during the recent- sounded confident and said that talked about his inclusion in the Southampton) ness. break will have no bearing on a ,#'/., 3'+%$3'#5 ly concluded Indian Premier League. largely youthful squad at the '8$-%/3.%-%0, Shikhar Shawan, MS Dhoni and Hardik Pandya's recent 2019 tournament. 7'#28$'#,' form come as a great positive. Rohit Sharma, India's open- #/90 92 Since making their World ,0,#9#'.9'8$ ing batsman and vice-captain, and Kuldeep Yadav, the left- / Cup debut in 1992 after decades arm wrist-spinner, were among two of India's key players of apartheid-enforced isolation, %$.-,C%>8%/$,/C that were a bit off-colour during the IPL though. They will 2%/: #.78 ' South Africa have won just one 3#%+%4%3#$/3 want to make amends during the warm-ups. ( of seven knockout matches — a +%#9%3#= #,='8/ New Zealand lost the ODI series to India at home but quarter-final against Sri Lanka =,%/%4' redeemed themselves after clean-sweeping Bangladesh with ■ ,+'8/#, in Sydney four years ago. three resounding wins. The batting unit which revolves ■ ,+'8/#, Captains Day. "We played our They have reached the around the experienced trio of Martin Guptill, Kane last few games against Ireland head of the World Cup, semi-finals four times but have naments are a lot younger and Williamson and Ross Taylor is capable of posting big totals fghanistan might have and Scotland, and he helped me AAustralian great Mark Waugh yet to make a final, with a with those new faces comes against any opposition. Tom Latham's finger injury presents Achanged captains a little a lot. He guided me. He's not has picked his top three ODI bats- match-winning innings from exciting opportunities." opportunity for the uncapped Tom Blundell to justify his under two months before the just another player for me, he's men with Indian skipper Virat South Africa-born all-rounder South Africa have arguably selection in the national squad. World Cup 2019, but the unity still my captain right now. Kohli being the number one Grant Elliott seeing them beat- the toughest start to the group A well-rounded pace attack, quality spinners and gen- and camaraderie in the side is "I want support from him. choice. en by New Zealand in 2015. phase, when they face World uine all-rounders make up a formidable unit for the Kiwis. as strong as ever, Gulbadin Not just him, but [Mohammad] "Definitely Virat Kohli. He's And when the World Cup Cup hosts England in the tour- New Zealand, who had their best ever World Cup campaign Naib, the new captain, said on Nabi, Rashid [Khan] and all the No 1." Waugh told was last staged in England 20 nament opener at the Oval on in 2015 will look to fine-tune things quickly to try and go Thursday. guys who have a lot of experi- cricket.Com.Au. years ago, a dramatic semi-final Thursday. the whole distance this time. Afghanistan Cricket ence. All of us have one goal: we Kohli, who clinched all three tie with Australia saw South England have twice broken Board's decision to remove want to play for Afghanistan major ICC awards earlier in the Africa bow out on net run-rate. the record for the highest one- KEY PLAYERS Asghar Afghan early in April, and play as a team, whoever the year, will hope to lead his coun- But Du Plessis said that even day international in the past Shikhar Dhawan (India): Shikhar Dhawan has been and introduce split captaincy captain is." try to a third World Cup trophy. though he and fellow senior three years. India's most prolific run scorer in ICC tournaments since meant Naib had the honour of Naib has come a long way The Indian captain goes into the players such as Hashim Amla But with conditions promis- the 2013 Champions Trophy . He was India's leading run- leading the one-day interna- since the 2015 World Cup, tournament on the back of 41 and Dale Steyn had endured ing to be ideal for batting, Du scorer at the 2015 World Cup and now, after a good sea- tional side at the World Cup. when he played just the one centuries with a stupendous aver- their fair share of World Cup Plessis believes it is bowlers son with Delhi Capitals, Dhawan looks all set to produce Afghan had, before that, led the match. Now he is captain, and age of 59.57. pain, it would not be an issue who could yet determine the more match-winning performances for India. The left-han- team in their meteoric rise he said he was looking forward For his second pick Waugh plating between the former vice- this time around. destiny o f the World Cup. der who has fond memories at this venue, having scored through the ranks, the latest feat to making the most of the went for England's Jos Buttler. captain and current skipper "You can't control history — And with an attack led by an two hundreds previously, will relish the flat batting condi- being their maiden Test victo- opportunity. Buttler has been in incredible Aaron Finch. I am a firm believer in that," Du outstanding fast bowler in tions. ry against Ireland in Dehradun "I am thrilled to lead the form, scoring a 50-ball century "Aaron Finch at his best is Plessis said at a World Cup cap- Kagiso Rabada, South Africa Trent Boult (New Zealand): Currently ranked second in in March. team in front of the whole against Pakistan in Southampton right up there, so is David tains' press conference in could trouble their opponents' ODI Bowlers' Rankings, Trent Boult will be New Zealand's There was, therefore, world," he smiled. "I remember earlier this month after smashing Warner," said Waugh. London. top-orders. key weapon during the World Cup. His ability to swing the potential for disharmony fol- our last appearance in the 150 from 77 balls against the West "I'll go with David Warner." "All you can try and focus "I think bowlers will win new ball with pace has troubled the best of top-order bats- lowing the captaincy change, World Cup in 2015. I just Indies. After facing a one-year inter- on is what is ahead. If you are this tournament," he said. man in recent years. The left-arm pacer, who was the joint but rather than give way to it, played one game, and I was "Jos Buttler, I'd have him at national ban owing to his role in good enough on the day then "Batters will score runs on good highest wicket taker (22 wickets) in the tournament's pre- Naib said the mutual respect really excited just to be a part No 2 in the top three," Waugh the ball-tampering scandal last great, but if the opposition are wickets, so the team towards the vious edition, will relish bowling with the new ball in English and admiration in team was as of the squad. Now, the ACB said. year, Warner returned to compet- better on the day then that's end will be the team that will conditions. strong as it ever was. have announced me as the For the number three place itive cricket in tremendous form OK," he added. have done well with the ball — (Venue: The Oval, London) "Asghar Afghan is still my captain for this World Cup. It's Waugh settled on fellow country- and finished as the top scorer in "The squad that we have teams that can take wickets on (Live telecast at Star Sports 1 & 2 from 3pm onwards) captain," Naib told the ICC on a big opportunity for me." men David Warner after contem- the recently concluded IPL. here compared to previous tour- flat pitches."

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