RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 )*%+,-.  !  ( 0 #83 63 -3 #2# 3# (3" 2356# 50 984 .685 .60.34  6# #0 62#-6  #8 8 093: 455 8( 03 -84#- 9> #( 23620 6:23.2 ?#7:42   4"%5; 6 <; =    3   &&! ( $  ! +-$/0+12( +/3   ! "# $%&'&%( &)# %     was reportedly owned by (  34 2356# approach or influence any wit- Mirchi’s first wife Hajra ness in the case. Memon. Ceejay House is con- he trial court on Tuesday Sibal told the Bench, also structed on a plot allegedly Tpermitted the Enforcement comprising justices AS owned by Iqbal Mirchi. The Directorate (ED) to interro- Bopanna and Hrishikesh Roy, ED’s contention is that Patel gate and arrest, if necessary, for- that Chidambaram is in cus- redeveloped Ceejay House in mer Finance Minister tody for last 55 days and the 2005. The ED considers the Chidambaram in the INX High Court had rejected property as “proceeds of crime”. Media bribery case. Armed his bail plea in a “strange way”.     0.# The ED’s move to question with the order, the ED is Chidambaram, 74, was to Patel comes in the wake of expected to take Chidambaram arrested by the CBI on August nother senior Minister the grilling of Mukhtar in its custody on Wednesday. 21 and is lodged in Afrom the earlier UPA Memon, an alleged key person After this development, under judicial custody in the Government landed in trouble who handles various properties even if Chidambaram’s bail corruption case. on Tuesday as the Enforcement of Mirchi in Mumbai. Memon petition in the Supreme Court The CBI had registered an Directorate (ED) summoned is the brother-in-law of Mirchi. in the CBI case is favourably FIR on May 15, 2017 alleging Praful Patel for questioning on Developers Pvt Limited, a In his interaction with the disposed, he might end up irregularities in a Foreign October 18 in connection with company promoted by Patel media, Patel said that the mat- spending Diwali behind bars. Investment Promotion Board an alleged property deal and his wife, constructed ter was under investigation Trial court judge Ajay (FIPB) clearance granted to the between him and Hajra Iqbal, Ceejay House and transferred and the issue is if the “person Kumar Kuhar on Tuesday INX Media group for receiving the wife of late Iqbal Mirchi, an its third and fourth floors to at Ceejay House is linked with evening passed the order allow- overseas funds of 305 crore in erstwhile close aide of Karachi- Mirchi’s wife Hajra Iqbal in me”. The building, according to ing the ED to interrogate 2007 during Chidambaram’s based underworld don 2007 “towards beneficial inter- Patel, was there in 1970. “After Chidambaram in Tihar jail on tenure as the Finance Minister. Dawood Ibrahim. est of Mirchi in the land on my father’s death, there was dis- Wednesday and arrest him if Thereafter, the ED lodged As it readied itself to arrest which the structure is built”. pute in the family among 21 co- necessary. The court said three a money-laundering case in former Union Minister P Patel and his wife own a sig- owners. The Mumbai High ED officials can interrogate this regard in 2017. Chidambaram on Wednesday nificant number of shares in Court was asked in 1978 to take Chidambaram on Wednesday Chidambaram moved the for custodial interrogation in Millennium Developers Private charge and look after the prop- after 8.30 am and asked the jail                  top court challenging the Delhi the INX Media case, the ED Limited. erty,” Patel said. superintendent to make   !"#   "$ % %! High Court’s September 30 prepared the ground for the However, Patel dismissed According to the list of arrangements in this regard. verdict denying him bail in questioning of former Civil the case, saying, “It is an old Mirchi’s properties located in The former Finance Chidambaram in some space will hear on Wednesday the the apex court has literally the INX Media case lodged by Aviation Minister Praful Patel case and since I am on election India and the UK, Ceejay Minister’s judicial custody in available on Rouse Avenue arguments of Solicitor General became useless. The ED will get the CBI. on allegations of quid pro quo tour, I am not privy to the doc- House was constructed in the INX Media corruption court premises. The court, Tushar Mehta, representing maximum 15 days custody of Sibal told the Bench on in a property deal with late uments. But I can tell you that 2006-07 as a joint venture (JV) case, which was filed by the however, said, “It’s not in the the CBI. Citing his attempts to Chidamabaram following Tuesday that earlier the ED had Iqbal Mirchi’s wife Hajra. the allegations against me are between Mirchi and Millenium CBI, ends on October 17. Since dignity of this person that you meet to two crucial witnesses, which he may be remanded in argued before the apex court Official sources said that at false and unsubstantiated.” Developers Pvt Ltd. his arrest on August 21, he has interrogate and arrest him here the agency reiterated that judicial custody till he gets bail that they want custodial inter- its office in Mumbai on Talking to mediapersons The ED probe has revealed till Tuesday spent 54 days in in public view.” The court also Chidambaram should not be in the ED’s case. rogation of Chidambaram, but October 18, the ED would here, he said, “Documents may Mirchi had bought/developed custody — both of the CBI as rejected Chidamabram’s peti- given bail. Justice R Banumathi Senior advocates Kapil later they opposed his applica- record Patel’s statement under have been leaked to media. several properties in India and well as judicial — in nine tion against the production headed Bench will resume Sibal and Abhishek Manu tion filed in the trial court to the Prevention of Money Obviously, you are in posses- abroad from the proceeds of spells. warrant. hearing on this petition on Singhvi, appearing for surrender in the money laun- Laundering Act (PMLA) in sion of some papers which crime generated through var- After the court passed the Chidambaram on Tuesday Wednesday morning and the Chidambaram, told a 3-judge dering case. connection with a deal between may have never been brought ious illegal offences. order, Solicitor General Tushar sought bail from the Supreme ED is expected to make arrest bench headed by Justice R “Bail should be granted to a real estate company promot- to my attention.” The NCP is seeing the Mehta and Special Public Court in the INX Media cor- early in the morning. Banumathi that there were no him (Chidambaram). They ed by him, his wife and late The ED is investigating action against its leader as Prosecutor Amit Mahajan, ruption case saying the CBI After the trial court’s per- allegations against their party (CBI) want to keep me in jail Mirchi’s wife. several property deals, includ- “political vendetta” in the run appearing for the ED, sought wants to keep him in custody mission to the ED, colleague or his family mem- to humiliate him,” Sibal argued The ED documents have ing Ceejay House at Worli in up to the Maharashtra permission to question to humiliate him. The court Chidambaram’s bail petition in bers of having ever tried to before the apex court. revealed that Millennium south-central Mumbai, which Assembly polls. 

                                 0.#             he bestowal of “Bharat          !" TRatna” upon social reform-   #    ers Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai         !  Phhule, and freedom fighter %  & &    ' Veer Savarkar, creation of one crore jobs in five years, making        (  34 2356# Maharashtra “drought-free” in     five years and 5 lakh crore !" #  ! fter women commuters, investment in infrastructure  &  &  ! Atwo-wheelers have been sector are among the promis- #     (  exempted from the odd-even es made by the ruling BJP in its #     )  scheme which will be rolled out manifesto for the State O   " % from November 4 to 15, Assembly polls.      Transport Department offi- In its manifesto “Sankalp  &%      +', cials said on Tuesday, adding Patra” released three days after   $  (   "(      &         that the penalty for the scheme its ally Shiv Sena released its P        % %!    &    &  violation has been hiked from manifesto “Vachan Patra”, the       ' 2,000 to 4,000. BJP has also promised houses Phule, Savitribai Phhule, and CM said. and to set up a solar power grid. Unlike last year, the private to all the homeless in the State freedom fighter Veer Savarkar. The project to link various In a first of its kind imita- ##      CNG vehicles will not be by 2022, pure drinking water to These three great leaders rivers, uninterrupted power tive, the BJP has promised to  $ ! !  exempted from the car each household, to set up a grid deserved to be honoured with supply, education, economic set up an independent author- %    -   rationing scheme this year. for Marathwada to solve water Bharat Ratna as they spent development, health, agricul- ity to repair all kinds of roads. .&     &   “The Delhi Government Besides, the Government Earlier, on Saturday, the problem in the region and to their whole lives for social ture, social welfare, air trans- The ruling party said it would        will engage 2,000 private buses will deploy civil defense AAP Government had provide job opportunities to activities. The Shiv Sena has port, port development, water connect the entire Maharashtra       during the odd-even period to employees to make commuters exempted women from the one crore women by bringing also for some time been supply for irrigation and rural by internet through Bharat Net          bear the the additional load at aware about the scheme. odd-even scheme. them under “Mahila Bachat demanding bestowal of Bharart development are the BJP’s other and Maha Net. #       50 per kilometre. We have also According to the scheme, “Keeping the security of Ghatak” scheme. Ratna upon Veer Savarkar.” focus areas. “We will register all kinds    "  ' met with Uber and are going to vehicles will ply on the road on women in mind, we have Releasing “Sankalp Patra” The promise to bestow In its “Sankalp Patra”, the of labourers at one place and meet other cab operators and alternate days as per the last decided to exempt women along with the party’s working Bharat Ratna upon the Phule BJP also promised to seek bring them under the ambit of & '  # # strictly warned them for not digit of their number plates. from odd-even scheme. All president JP Nadda, Chief couple and Veer Savarkar is financial assistance from the the social security... We will & (  indulging in indiscriminate Vehicles with number plate women driving cars or and Minister Devendra Fadnavis being seen as a move to attract Centre to invest to the tune of undertake a special rehabilita- %  0! )   surge pricing. Uber has com- ending with even numbers: 2, those with women drivers car- said, “On our return to power Dalit and Hindu votes. 1 lakh crore on infrastructural tion programme for the retired  &&   ! #( mitted to us that they will not 4, 6, 8 and 0 will ply on “even” rying children below the age of in the State, we will recom- “The focus of our mani- facilities, to generate solar ener- soldiers, families of martyred &    2   &  permit more than 1.5 times the dates, while vehicles with odd 12 will be exempted,” Delhi mend to the Centre a propos- festo is three-fold — to address gy in next five years that is soldiers and officials who died         regular fare during the period,” numbers 1,3,5,7,9 will play on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal al to bestow ‘Bharat Ratna’ drought, increase availability of enough to supply electricity to during the call of duty,” the BJP       & ' Transport Minister Gahlot said. “odd” dates. had said earlier. upon social reformers Jyotiba water and employment,” the farmers for 12 hours in a day manifesto said. rying a banner reading women of Kashmir disapprove “Kashmiri brides not for sale”, the unilateral decision taken by apparently implying to the the Government of India to statement made by some BJP revoke Article 370 and 35A and leaders of Haryana and UP downgrade and split the State after the abrogation of Article of Jammu & Kashmir. We feel 370. Other protesters were seen betrayed, humiliated and vio- (  34 2356# holding placards which lated as people.” demanded the release of “We demand immediate he Reserve Bank of India '  70 detainees and restoration of release of detainees. We express Thas not printed a single civil liberties. our outrage against the nation- 2,000 note from April 1 he police on Tuesday As they started assembling al media for their false and mis- onward this year. The move is Tdetained a small group of inside the Pratap Park, women leading coverage of ground seen an attempt to curb stock- women led by daughter and sis- cops, along with paramilitary realties in Kashmir,” reads the piling of black money. went in fast gear to print cur- ter of National Conference forces, prevented them from statement. The RBI confirmed this in rency notes of other denomi- president and sitting Member staging sit-in dharna. The cops Meanwhile SMS services response to an RTI reply in nations. In 2017-18, only Parliament Farooq Abdullah in also demanded them to pro- were withdrawan by the State which it said that soon after the 111.507 million notes were Srinagar when they tried to duce permission letter, if any, administration barely hours demonitisation, the Central produced, which was further stage an “unathorised” sit-in issued by the office of District after the postpaid mobile bank printed 3,542.991 million reduced to 46.690 million notes protest against the abrogation Magistrate. phone services were restored 2,000 notes to match with the 2018-19, said the RBI. of Article 370 and bifurcation When these women across the Valley on Monday. demand after the existing Earlier, the RBI had refut- of State into two Union refused to call off the dharna, The decision was taken after 1,000 and 500 notes were ed the reports of withdrawal of Territories. women cops pushed them review of the prevailing secu- cancelled in October 2016. 2,000 notes but many experts Farooq Abdullah’s sister    '         %  inside the police vans before rity situation arising after the As per the RTI reply, the feel that the stopping produc- Suraiya Mattoo, his daughter escorting them to the nearest killing of a truck driver hailing volume of printing of 2,000 tion in the financial year will Safiya Khan, former J&K High Hawa Khan and others were The women arrived at the black arm badges and holding police station. from Rajasthan by a group of notes came down drastically in lead to withdrawal of the high Court chief justice Bashir detained by the police from busy Lal Chowk area on several placards. In a written statement, terrorists in Shopian late on the following year as the bank value note in near future. Ahmad Khan’s wife Professor Pratap Park area. Tuesday morning wearing Safiya Khan was seen car- these women said, “We the Monday evening.    !"#$%!&  

    !           !    ! -   '   #            ! % #@.     )"&  >      ,A;B"!  #    7 )    9  : Army Chief Gen          R     (  34 2356# (  34 2356# Bipin Rawat on Tuesday    &     pitched for greater inclusion of 2 &      3   utting further pressure on he abrogation of special indigenous technology in the @ 5     62  (  34 2356# PVIP squatters, the Lok Tstatus to Jammu & Kashmir armed forces and asserted that     ' 6  &   Sabha Housing Committee under Article 370 is a "decisive India will fight and win the  # C,A;DE    he Lok Sabha Secretariat chairman CR Patil on Tuesday battle" waged by the Narendra next war with home-grown  &     &   Thas sought suggestions issued directions to cut elec- Modi Government to end years solutions.      ' from MPs on changes needed tricity, water and gas supply in of Pakistan-sponsored proxy In his address at the 41st in the present structure of the the accommodation illegally war and terrorism, and it will DRDO Directors Conference, (   Parliament and the scale of occupied by MPs. The com- bring long-lasting peace in India has been facing ter- he also said the development of 4#' 7   renovation required in the new mittee, chaired by BJP MP CR Jammu & Kashmir, Union rorism for many years and weaponry and other systems %   &    scheme of things where Patil, decided to approach Home Minister Amit Shah said there would be very few coun- should be done keeping "future      !   Government is set to remodel Delhi Police to ensure that the at an event of counter-terror tries across the globe who have warfare" in mind."And, if we  )   &   and develop the whole area in ex-MPs vacate the accommo- body NSG's garrison at waged such a long battle against are looking at contours of future        and around it, to be complet- dation allotted to them in Manesar (Gurugram). terrorism. Terrorism is a curse warfare, it may not necessarily     -  )  ed by 2022. Lutyens Delhi. Speaking at the 35th on any civilised society and the be contact warfare. So, there is  9  .    The suggestions were According to the rules, Raising Day celebrations of biggest impediment to devel- realm of non-contact warfare.  '  !   %      sought in a letter sent to the former MPs have to vacate NSG as the Chief Guest here, opment, he said. We need to start looking at    2 &) - &  " Lok Sabha members on their bungalows within one Shah said the recent decision to "Hence our Government is development of cyberspace,   )  )   October 11. According to the The Lok Sabha MPs have Works Department. month of dissolution of the repeal special provisions in J & firm on continuing the zero tol- space, laser, electronic warfare &&      plan, the Government would to email their suggestions with- Describing the whole exer- previous Lok Sabha. As many K will help "completely eradi- erance policy on terrorism and and robotics. And, along with   ) & "  !  also redevelop the 3 km-stretch in a week. They have also been cise as a " dream project" of as over three dozen former cate" Pakistan-supported ter- ensuring victory on terror that Artificial Intelligence (AI),"  ' of the Central Vista spanning advised against sending in hard Prime Minister Narendra MPs are overstaying in their rorism from the Kashmir always," Shah added. Rawat said."And, if we do not from Rashtrapati Bhavan to copies of their responses. Modi, Union Housing and bungalows and flats. Despite Valley. The recent big step of start thinking on it now, it will  (  (  India Gate. The idea to either construct Urban Affairs Minister, several notices, they have not The Minister asserted that repealing Article 370 taken by be too late," he said.He praised 8    The letter said, "... There is a new Parliament building or to Hardeep Singh Puri has vacated their accommodations. his government is firm on the Modi is aimed at completely the Defence Research and %  &    active consideration regarding renovate the present structure, maintained that not a single On May 25, President Ram policy of "zero tolerance" on eradicating terrorism from Development Organisation %  7       ) either renovation of the exist- which is over 90 years old, has tree will be cut while the rede- Nath Kovind dissolved the 16th terrorism and to defeat all its Kashmir and to safeguard the (DRDO) for its achievements in    &      ing Parliament building or been floating since UPA 1. velopment takes place until Lok Sabha with immediate effect forms. country from this scourge, the last few decades and said    &  construction of altogether a The idea was given a fresh push 2022. on the recommendation of the The National Security Shah said. India is making great strides in    &   )  new Parliament building with- under the present Government. A committee of experts Union Cabinet after the Modi Guard (NSG) is an important Shah also lauded the elite research and development. "We         in the given premises." It is also said that the pre- will now evaluate the technical Government was formed for a instrument to achieve this goal, commando force saying it has are confident the services will !      It sought suggestions from sent dispensation would seek to proposals submitted by the second term. With these former he said. impressed the world with its greatly benefit from it," he said.  &    &  the members to "rectify the add new structures to the exist- firms. Financial proposals of MPs not vacating their bunga- "I believe that with the capability to counter any terror "India is one of the largest  F    ' drawbacks or faulty features" ing Parliament building, round only those bidders whose tech- lows, the newly-elected mem- abrogation of Article 370 by attack as he recounted its stel- importers of weapons and causing inconvenience in their in shape, to make it 'Vastu nical proposals qualify will be bers of parliament have been PM Narendra Modi, we have lar operations at Akshardham ammunition, and after 70 years     ./0 day-to-day functioning in the friendly'. opened. As of now there is no staying in transit accommoda- initiated a decisive battle temple in Gujarat and the of Independence, it is not a very 8     existing building. According to sources in the estimate as to how much would tion such as their respective State against years of proxy war and 26/11 attacks in Mumbai in proud statement to make. But in % 4   &  They have also been asked Union Housing and Urban it cost to undertake the entire guest houses or the Western terror acts perpetrated by our 2008. the past few years, it is changing.    )      to suggest features or facilities Affairs Ministry, five Indian project in the area which is the Court, sources said.The panel neighbour (Pakistan) and this "This inspires confidence DRDO is striving to ensure our          which should be provided in architectural firms have sub- nerve-centre of the power has been unable to allot houses step will ensure long-lasting in the minds of the citizens that requirements of services are met %      

he month of Kartika is con- Tsidered to be the most aus- => picious time in the Odia cal- endar. In Kartika, also known (  62#-6J 696# %&' ( as the month of Damodar i.e. 22# J900963 Krishna, some distinct annual rituals are observed. Here are a ack in Haryana for the sec- few of the practices that Bond day in a row, Prime Habisyalis (those who observe Minister Narendra Modi kept these rituals) adhere to. his campaign pitch focused on Refraining from non-veg- national security and took a etarian meals, onion-garlic with ghee, placed inside an festivals, Diwali, is the occasion Anla Nabami, Radha Pada Panchuka swipe at Congress leaders, who, dishes earthen pot and pulled atop an for Odias to pay obeisance to darsana The last five days of Kartika he said, were spreading Odia households are erect pole using a pulley and their ancestors. The ritual called As per tradition, Radha month is called panchaka or ‘rumours’ about the known to make simple-cooked fastened. It is lighted near the Badabadua Daka is held in the Pada darshan is observed every panchuka. For people who Government’s decision to scrap meals, without using onion chaura during the evening and morning and continues till late year on Sukla Nabami, also could not follow the rites for an Article 370. and garlic during this entire burns throughout the night. evening at ‘Bada Danda’ (the known as Anla Nabami, in the entire month, this is the time to He said, “The entire coun- month. It is a custom in many grand road) of Puri and is also holy month of Kartika. fulfil the customs. Many people try is standing with Jammu & families to avoid eating non- Habisa Dalma performed at the villages. This is the only day when visit Lord Jagannath temple in Kashmir with this decision (to vegetarian dishes at this time of Habisa dalma is a variant of people get a chance to look at Puri to pay respects to Lord scrap Article 370). But some the year. the iconic Odia dish, Dalma Holding bunches of jute Goddess Radha’s feet in Vishnu at this time of the year, Congress leaders are spreading devoid of oil, onion, garlic or sticks (Kaunria Kathi) in hand, Sakhigopal temple of Puri, though many devotees (espe- rumours about this decision in  "    *  %    Chaura Puja, any other garnishing, prepared the people set these sticks afire which otherwise remains cov- cially widows) from all corners the country and abroad". AakasadeepaTraditionally especially for the Habisyalis to invoke their ancestors to ered throughout the year. It is of Odisha, flock to Puri and “Bangkok, Thailand, people at the rally. again, these people have decid- women and widows wake up during Kartika month. It is descend from their heavenly called the ‘Odiani’ besa of spend the entire duration of Vietnam… You (Congress) are The Prime Minister said ed to let BJP serve them," he pre-dawn and bathe. They pray cooked using ghee, khamba abode and visit the Earth to Goddess Radha. It is believed Kartika there. free to import abuses from that Chinese President Xi added. Haryana has been wit- in front of the chaura (holy basil aloo (elephant foot yam), kanda bless them. that whoever witnesses the holy wherever you want, say what Jinping during their informal nessing change due to a "dou- planted in small podium or pot mula (sweet potato), pumpkin, The invocation process feet gets Moksha (salvation). Boita Bandana, Bali Jatra you want. But please, don’t summit in Mahabalipuram, ble engine" of development, in front houses) after making saaru (taro/colocasia), raw involves the chanting of prayer On the occasion of Anla Boita Bandanna is observed backstab India that is moving told him that he had watched according to the Prime colourful rangolis using muru- banana, oou (elephant apple), “Badabadua ho, andhaare aasa, Nabami, anla (gooseberry) in on the Kartika Purnima that forward,” PM Modi said. the Aamir Khan-starrer Dangal Minister. ja around it. They then walk grated coconut, grated ginger aalua re jaa! (Oh hon’ble ances- the form of fruit or juice is marks the end of the holy The Prime Minister did not "which showcased excellent "The double engine of around the chaura clockwise for and moong dal. tors, come in darkness and go offered to deities. Married month. It is a colourful and explicitly explain the reference performance of daughters of Modi in Delhi and Manohar nine times to pay respects to Rai back along the lighted path!)”. women offer red bangles, ver- vibrant event that celebrates to the south-east Asian coun- India". "During my recent Lal Khattar in Haryana has Damodar (Radha-Krishna). Badabadua Daaka during The eldest male member of the milion and sacred thread in Odisha’s maritime glory and tries. But it is seen a reference informal summit with Chinese resulted in unprecedented Akasadeepa is a lighted Diwali family chants these lines and front of anla trees for the well- trade relations with foreign to the buzz on social media President Xi Jinping, he said to development of the State," he deepa (earthen lamp) filled One of the biggest Hindu the other members follow suit. being of their spouses. countries. about Rahul Gandhi’s recent me that he had seen 'Dangal' said. trip abroad. which showcased excellent per- In his speech in Thanesar Modi also dared the formance of daughters of India. he said the Centre was making Congress to announce that it I felt really proud of Haryana all arrangements to celebrate ,    *  +  would bring back Article 370 on hearing this," he added. the 550th birth anniversary of when it comes to power if it Praising Chief Minister Guru Nanak Dev, founder of was so convinced that the deci- Manohar Lal Khattar, Modi the Sikh faith, across the world. sion to scrap the provision said: "'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' "The whole country is busy   !! wasn’t in public interest. campaign would not have been with the 550th birth anniver- -. $ The PM who spoke about effective without the support of sary celebrations of Guru the steps that his Government Haryana villages." Playing an Nanak Dev and the Centre is  (  .685 It was informed by the had taken for ex-servicemen emotional card, the Prime making all arrangements to cel-  !      Programme Director, this pro- and defence personnel, told Minister said: "I don't come to ebrate this event across the weeklong training pro- gramme has two important farmers that he had started Haryana for election rallies, I world," Modi said. Agramme on Capacity and integral course module. working on stopping water don't campaign for the BJP in "I am happy that the (  .60.34 by five per cent.” Building-Demand Based Short Course Module-1 deals with flowing into Pakistan that Haryana, I don't ask for votes Kartarpur Corridor (project) is The other Term Course on the class room sessions con- rightfully belongs to the people in Haryana. Haryana itself calls going to complete," he said, embers of the demands include Environmental Accounting on sisting of wide dimension cov- of Haryana and Rajasthan. He me. I can't stop myself from adding that his Government MOdisha State reappointment of SEEA Framework was inau- ering various aspects of said India would not allow its coming here. You have given had got the opportunity to Government Employees’ retrenched, outsourc- gurated at IIFM on Tuesday. Environmental Accounting on water to flow to Pakistan. "For me so much love." rectify, to some extent, the Coordination ing, data entry and The two day event is spon- SEEA Framework. 70 years, the water which Confident of his party’s "political and strategic mis- Committee has submit- contractual employ- sored by Directorate of by the Directorate of Three days class room ses- belongs to India and the farm- return to the second consecu- take" that took place seven ted a memorandum to ees working in differ- Economics and Statistics, Economics and Statistics,. sions would be conducted at ers of Haryana flowed to tive term, the Prime Minister decades ago. "I am hopeful that Chief Minister Naveen Patanik ent department like Water Government of Himachal Govt. of Himachal Pradesh. IIFM and the Module-2 Pakistan. Modi will stop this said the BJP was going to form Parkash Purb will bring joy," with demands, including a Resources, Water Supply and Pradesh, commencing from Out of 15 participants 13 par- consists of two days Field water (from flowing into the Government again in the Modi said. five-per cent hike in their Agricultural Research in the Tuesday will continue till ticipants were registered in this Work programme at World Pakistan) and bring to your State. He said this Diwali should The corridor will connect dearness allowance (DA) as in same departments and intro- Friday at IIFM Bhopal. programme. Heritage site, Sanchi and eco- houses," the Prime Minister be dedicated to "our daughters". Darbar Sahib in Pakistan's the case of Central duction of a permanent pen- The genesis of the pro- This training programme tourism site at Halali said in an election meeting. "We will have two types of Kartarpur with Dera Baba Government staffs. sion system. gramme begins with a request was inaugurated today at IIFM dam and interaction with He said the farmers of Diwali this time. A 'diya' Nanak shrine in Gurdaspur Committee president Committee leaders received from Vinod Rana, and the occasion was graced the villagers, assessing the Haryana and Rajasthan have (earthen lamp) Diwali, and a district in Punjab. It will facil- Lingaraj Mohanty said, “The Biswamohan Mahapatra, Economic Advisor, by Pankaj Srivastava, IFS, cost benefit analysis of “gau- the rights over the water that is 'kamal' (lotus) Diwali. We itate visa-free movement of Central Government recently Srimati Sahu, Kahnu Charan Government of Himanchal Director IIFM, Prof. CS kasth” (conversion of flowing to Pakistan and was not should dedicate this Diwali to Indian pilgrims who will have has hiked the DA by five per Mallick, Mahesh Patnaik, Pradesh to conduct a one Rathore, Dean, Prof. Sandeep cow dung into brikket) on being stopped by earlier Indian our daughters and celebrate to just obtain a permit to visit cent for its employees; and in Laxmidhar Jena, Sefali Das, week training programme for Tambe, Chairperson-MDP machine installed at Anarkali Governments. "Modi aapki their achievements." Kartarpur Sahib, which is locat- line with this we have submit- Sanghamitra Swain and Basant the officials of State. Cell including Programme Gau-Shala to reduce the fuel- ladai ladega (Modi will fight "It's clear, the BJP has ed in Pakistan's Narowal dis- ted a memorandum to the CM Behera were present at the For this programme 15 Directors, SP Singh, Pradeep wood dependency from your battle)," he assured the decided to serve Haryana trict across the Ravi river. requesting him to hike our DA Press meet. participants were nominated Chaudhry, IFS, Asha Khanna forests. 8 03 been living at Ghanagalia Salma, 0 which is now inside the port’s prohibited area. ? His family was shifted to Udayabata village in 2000 by allotment a plot  by the PPT. (  23620 (    2# But he sold the plot to a business man. Later, ich tributes were paid by ational Investigation he built a thached house RCongress workers to the NAgency (NIA) DG Jogesh without PPT permission former President Dr APJ Abdul Chandra Modi has informed and stayed up to 2009. Kalam on his birth anniversary that Bangladeshi nationals are Sources said that  (  .685 crore is being established in on Tuesday. involved in terrorism in Odisha unknown persons are Damoh district. Apart from At Rajiv Bhawan the office and Assam. Paradip Refinery Project coming here and and staying he State Government has this, the existing unit of M/s of State unit of Congress party, The Pioneer published a (IOCL) authority has permit- for 1/2 weeks. They are Ttaken the decision to pro- Procter & Gamble Home many leaders and workers report on January 11 this year ted the Bangladeshi nationals involved in smuggling of nar- vide facilities under the Products Pvt. Ltd. is being assembled on the day and regarding the Bangladeshi infil- to stay permanently inside the cotics and gambling. Industrial Promotion Policy expanded with a capital offered flowers on the portrait tration residing in the Paradip plant boundary. Near Udaybata A resident, Bhanu Maity for the establishment of eight investment of Rs 500 crore in of the former President. area and their involvement in village the boundary wall has told that some unknown youths new industrial units and expan- Raisen district. Along with The Congress leaders crime in slum areas of Paradip been broken. are coming from unknown sion of two industrial units in this, a project is being termed Kalam as a great scien- The Congress leaders who rial to the students of the Bal and Chanakana, Sandhakud, The Paradip Municipality places and staying one or two Raisen, Dhar and Damoh dis- expanded in Mandideep by M tist and a great humanist. garlanded Kalam’s picture Vanita Ashram located at Tilak Bauriapalanda, Musadiha and has constructed a bridge weeks and going out. They tricts of the state. There will be / s HEG Ltd. with a capital The speakers on the occa- included Vice-President Surya Road here. Udaybata villages. for those inhabitants who speak in Bengali and Urdu. a capital investment of Rs investment of Rs 1200 crores. sion said the former Prime Kant Dhasmana, spokesperson The national coordinator of The Kendrapara police had are living inside the boundary The oil refinery is a high 6013.90 crore in the state In the Industrial Minister Indira Gandhi had RP Raturi, Mahanagar President Youth Congress Sonu Hassan arrested five Bangladeshi by illegally occupying IOCL security plant. Highly inflam- through these industrial units. Promotion Policy-2014 (as visualised the potential in a 30- Lal Chand Sharma and others. led the activists. The spokesper- nationals for establishing a land. mable products are here. But Out of these units, two indus- amended 2018), industrial year-old Kalam when she The activists of the Youth son of the Youth Congress Bangaladeshi radio station and More than 30 families are how the plant authorities are giv- trial units will be set up in units will be provided incentive appointed him the director of Congress, celebrated the birth Vikas Negi informed students making fake Indian currency living this way. One inhabitant ing chance for illegal people to Raisen district, three in Dhar assistance of 20 to 40 percent missile programme of anniversary of Kalam by dis- about life and achievements of notes, besides running sex named Bhanu Amity told The stay inside, many ask here, district and one in Damoh on fixed capital investment on the country. tribting cake and teaching mate- APJ Abdul Kalam. rackets at Gupti and Pitapata Pioneer that his grandfather demanding that they must be district. Also, two industrial buildings, plants and machin- villages in May 2012. came to Paradip from indentified by local police and units will be expanded in ery in the first phase. The Given their track record, it Bangladesh in 1976. necessary action be taken against Raisen district. incentive assistance amount is surprising to find that the And since then, they have them. Under the Industrial shall not exceed a maximum of Promotion Policy, a Rs 200 crores. The benefit of Pharmaceuticals and Health employment and export Care Protect Project is being counter will be obtained sepa- set up with a capital invest- rately. ment of Rs 175 crore and The industrial unit will be Personal Care Product Project provided electricity at the rate with a capital investment of of Rs 5 per unit for 5 to 7 years Rs 300 crore in Simrai village from the date of starting com- of Gauharganj tehsil at Raisen mercial production. The bal- district. A Radial Tyre ance amount (if any) of the Manufacturing unit at electricity bill can be obtained Pithampur Smart Industrial by the concerned power dis- Park in Dhar district with a tribution company from capital investment of Rs. 1788 MPIDC Exemption will also be crore 50 lakh, Cement given for 7 to 10 years in elec- Manufacturing project with a tricity charges. capital investment of Rs. 425 On obtaining employment crore 40 lakhs and a Bayer in the industrial unit, native Rod Manufacturing Project residents of Madhya Pradesh with a fixed capital invest- will be provided with training ment of Rs 225 crore will be facility in the allied courses of established at Karondia vil- National Skills Qualification lage. An integrated cement Framework by the Department plant of 2.20 million tonner of Technical Education, Skill per year capacity with a fixed Development and capital investment of Rs 1400 Employment.    !"#$%!&   )

'&  *(P ( ,,- &% L &   #(#  7(#  '## . 9:  &   Q   &      )       & & Washington: Protesting  %   '  -  Turkey’s military offensive in        northeast Syria, US President        Istanbul: President Recep day of its assault against the stretching from Manbij to our Donald Trump has announced !       Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday Syrian Kurdish People’s border with Iraq and ensure sanctions against Turkish offi-        that Turkey’s operation against Protection Units (YPG), which that, in the first stage, one mil- cials, raising of steel tariffs O    & Kurdish militants in northern it sees as a “terrorist” off-shoot lion, and then two million and ending negotiations on a      Syria would not stop until of Kurdish insurgents in its Syrian refugees return to their $100 billion trade deal. &  .)  ' “our objectives have been own territory. homes of their own free will,” Trump has signed an exec- achieved”. “God willing, we will Erdogan said in a televised utive order that empowers his & # #   Turkey is in the seventh quickly secure the region speech in Baku, where he was administration to slap sanc- (( ##  attending a regional confer- tions on Turkey. ();)*6:  O ence. The treasury department !     &   Q He said 1,000 square-kilo- has already placed Turkish 7! K   &&     U metres of Syrian territory had Defence Minister Hulusi Akar,        so far been “liberated from the Interior Minister Suleyman  &        Q separatist terrorist organisa- Soylu and Energy Minister        " Doha: Qatar defended its close tion”. Fatih Donmez on its sanctions        ally Turkey’s controversial oper- Turkey plans to establish a list, while Trump in a letter to  P /  '      !(  !!       !)  Beijing: China on Tuesday ation against Kurdish forces in safe zone stretching across Speaker Nancy Pelosi of the US %   ,AA   ' called on Turkey to stop its northern Syria on Tuesday, say- northern Syria, to which it can House of Representatives has military action in northern ing Ankara had acted against an repatriate many of the 3.6 mil- declared the Turkey issue a   !((  Syria and “return to the “imminent threat”. Turkey has lion refugees that it is hosting national emergency. V   $='##  correct way of political helped Qatar weather the effects from the Syrian conflict. AFP On Wednesday, Ankara 89:;: 9!  8 ,B CE 8  resolution”, with Ankara’s of a two-year regional eco- launched a cross-border assault     &   operation against Kurdish nomic embargo led by Riyadh on Kurdish fighters after the US      .) militants in its seventh day. over claims of support for Iran decided to withdraw troops 7           Turkey launched an and Islamist extremism, denied from Syria, a move criticised by  &     assault last week against by Doha. But Ankara has faced the Republicans, with some ( .3#0    !   ' the Syrian Kurdish People’s widespread condemnation for terming it a “betrayal” of the <= Protection Units (YPG), its deadly incursion, with the QL Kurds. uman Rights Watch ((     which it sees as a US imposing sanctions on “This (executive) order will Kabul: Hundreds of people civilians were killed and 249 Hwarned European coun-     7( “terrorist” offshoot of prominent Turkish leaders Tal Tamr (Syria): Kurdish enable the US to impose pow- were killed or wounded in vio- injured. Children accounted tries on Tuesday against trans- (")"*     Kurdish insurgents in its while France and Germany forces held out in a key border erful additional sanctions on lence related to Afghanistan’s for more than one-third of the ferring foreign jihadist sus-  !       own territory. AFP have halted arms sales. AFP town Tuesday seven days into those who may be involved in recent presidential election sea- victims. pects from prisons in war- &    -    a deadly Turkish invasion of serious human rights abuses, son as the Taliban sought to Despite the high toll, torn northeastern Syria to Iraq.     8O      northeastern Syria that has obstructing a ceasefire, pre- undermine the democratic Afghan security forces said The New York-based   &      caused mass displacement and venting displaced persons from process, a UN agency said on election day was a success watchdog expressed concern      '  reshaped the political map. returning home, forcibly repa- Tuesday. because the Taliban failed to that some countries with sig-   O   & The United States slapped triating refugees or threatening The United Nations pull off any large-scale attacks nificant contingents of prison-   2  sanctions on its NATO ally the peace, security or stability Assistance Mission in that stole the headlines. ers in Syria were seeking to          in a bid to stop an assault in Syria,” Trump said in a Afghanistan (UNAMA) The majority of Taliban move them across the border.   (  that its own troop withdrawal statement. reported that 85 people were attacks involved the use of A Turkish invasion of areas           from the area triggered but Turkey’s military offensive killed and another 373 wound- rockets, grenades and mor- controlled by Kurdish forces         Ankara showed no sign of is endangering civilians and ed in election violence during tars, as well as homemade has sparked deep concern in    & ' relenting. threatening peace, security and the period from June 8 to bombs planted near polling Europe about the potential for Using a dense network of stability in the region, he said, September 30. centres, including schools, the mass breakouts by members of ( #    tunnels, berms and trenches, adding that he has been per- On polling day alone, 28 report found. AFP the Islamic State group. (# 30! Kurdish fighters from the fectly clear with his Turkish ?"% )      Syrian Democratic Forces counterpart that his action is   &  B (SDF) have been mounting a precipitating a humanitarian !       )O   desperate defence of Ras al- crisis and setting conditions for %     01     ! & ! & Ain. AFP possible war crimes. PTI   K   5! &      ' Hong Kong: Hong Kong’s also said that she challenges a homemade, remote-con- #&    ! leader said on Tuesday that “it’s every politician to ask them- trolled bomb intended to “kill       )   totally irresponsible and selves what they would do if or to harm” riot control officers &     unfounded” to suggest the faced by the scale of violence was detonated as they deployed          semi-autonomous Chinese ter- seen in Hong Kong. against renewed violence in          ritory is becoming a police The protests started in June Hong Kong over the weekend. !       ! !' state as her Government grap- over a contested extradition bill Police say the device exploded ples with protests now in their that would have allowed some not far from a police vehicle, but 8( !( ## fifth month. criminal suspects to be sent for no one was injured.   =0$+@  Carrie Lam has defended trial in mainland China and An 18-year-old was to ""    & &  Hong Kong’s 30,000-strong have snowballed into an anti- appear in court Tuesday facing !  )   7& ! &  police force, now widely detest- government, anti-police and a charge of intentional wound- 6!   !  ed by protesters for its riot-con- anti-China movement. ing for a slashing attack Sunday 69      trol methods and nearly 2,600 The protests have increas- with a sharp blade, described as          arrests. ingly ended in violence between a box cutter by Hong Kong '  !   ,B Responding to criticism hardcore demonstrators and media, that cut a police officer’s & &        from visiting US Senators, Lam police. Police on Monday said neck and severed a nerve. AP           )          '     >  &   ?<    ' Jakarta: Indonesian police Luxembourg: EU Brexit nego- closed-door talks, Barnier struck said they have arrested more tiator Michel Barnier said on a cautiously upbeat note. than two dozen suspected Tuesday that a deal with Britain “This work has been intense militants after members of a could be reached this week, but all along the weekend and yes- network linked to the warned more tough talks are still terday because even if the agree- Islamic State (IS) group tried needed. ment will be difficult — more to assassinate a Government British and EU officials are and more difficult to be frank — Minister. racing to reach a deal on Britain’s it’s still possible this week,” The world’s biggest exit terms before a summit of Barnier told reporters. Muslim majority nation is EU leaders starting on Thursday, “Obviously any agreement on high alert ahead of as Prime Minister Boris Johnson must work for everyone — the President Joko Widodo’s sec- seeks to fulfil his vow to take whole of the United Kingdom ond-term inauguration on Britain out on October 31. and the whole of the European Sunday, with some 27,000 As he arrived in Union. Let me add also that it is troops expected to be Luxembourg to brief the other high time to turn good inten- deployed in the capital 27 EU states on the state of the tions into legal text.” AFP Jakarta. AFP    !"#$%!&   .      !)'J&   M 2    'J& J QV 7      $0    0  30 04  &&   ,D)"                        5        &       )!  &        & S            &    $   P  Q             78                !           &             )         $    &   0 0S$ %+     P   Q       ormer Prime Minister of India IK 9 $  ,  &  %       0 0 Gujral was one of the most schol-            %    arly and well-read leaders we have &      ,         had. At a public function organised by this writer, he mentioned that the  -           )    Fbattle of Panipat took place at that location            *      &  only because it was the southernmost loca- )   $       (    tion, which had an open area suitable for warfare. According to him, right from the   S            Khyber Pass to Panipat, the entire terrain was       S          heavily forested where conventional warfare      -          of that period was not possible. A recent news report mentioned that the  % :                Government is planning to build a 1,400     " ;           kilometre-long “great green wall” of India. $ S      If this project receives official sanction and is backed by innovative institutional arrange- ) & S :           ments for its implementation, it would mark  *           a remarkable step forward in greening        $ /    India because we, as a nation, have failed to seize the importance of greening our degrad-      ,:      ed and deforested land. '    ,5    ! The Green India mission was one of the    0 0*  S         eight key missions included in the National   $ &          Action Plan on Climate Change. The pur- to Combat Desertification fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. the Convention on Biological pose of this operation was to protect, enhance (UNCCD) was held in India and The report states, “The level of Diversity (CBD) and the           ;      and restore India’s decreasing forest cover and as a follow-up to that event, India risk posed by climate change UNCCD, there are distinct over- *            $  act on the growing extent of climate change can and should set an example for depends both on the level of laps. Clearly, actions under one .           , ! through a combination of mitigation and other countries that are threat- warming and on how population, convention would have implica- adaptation measures. Unfortunately, the mis- ened with desertification. consumption, production, tech- tions for the other two. The dri-        & &    sion has been grossly under-funded. A The UNCCD is an agree- # # 4355"984 nological development and land vers of change underlying these           < ) report by the Parliamentary Committee, titled, ment to combat desertification management patterns evolve. three conventions are common,  & &       .   & ‘Performance of the National Action Plan on and mitigate the effects of 6 63 Pathways with higher demand namely the increase in human Climate Change (NAPCC) pertaining to drought, based on long-term for food, feed and water, more society’s ecological footprint as *  3.&*4     % ! Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate strategies and national pro- ?55# 6?3 resource-intensive consumption Gandhiji had warned us about  < )   &  P  Q    Change (MoEFCC)’, quotes MoEFCC as stat- grammes, supported by interna- .33 63?#5: and production and more limit- all his life. It is to be considered  .&*   ,         ing that the “budget allocation of 47.80 crore tional cooperation and partner- ed technological improvements whether a comprehensive con- for FY 2017-18 is grossly insufficient. The ship arrangements. It was in 23-232 # in agriculture yields result in vention, which covers climate $ & %        &  committed liability of FY 2015-16 and 2016- 2006 that in order to gather sup- 3?35 3 higher risks from water scarcity change, loss of biodiversity and       &       17 is 89.53 crore, which is more than the bud- port for the convention, the UN # 055: # in drylands, land degradation, desertification, may be far more          )  &  get allocation of FY 2017-18.” declared that year as the and food insecurity.” effective than fragmented Expansion of population and encroach- “International Year of Deserts 6:   It further states: “Many activ- actions being taken under each           ,  ments by humans on forest land and the habi- and Desertification.” ities for combating desertification of these conventions.   &         tat of other species have not only reduced for- The convention has thus far 305 8( 63 can contribute to climate change As far as India is con- ,    $  ,  , , S  '  est cover since independence but has also led been ratified by 190 States and 3P0 .3433 adaptation with mitigation co- cerned, the advance of deserti- to poor forest density even in those areas, the European Union (EU). benefits as well as to halting bio- fication has negative implica- =  3'=4  % -     which are regarded as forest land. The pro- However, on March 28, 2013, 85## # 2 diversity loss with sustainable tions for the country as a whole. &  &  # '       posed “green wall” of India is planned to estab- Canada became the first coun- 63 .0#523O development co-benefits to soci- To that extent, therefore, the >     $  >   <   S  lish a green belt from Porbandar to Panipat try to withdraw from it but 58..:' 63 ety...Preventing desertification is “great green wall”, which is   %  &    )  and would help restore degraded land reversed this arrangement on preferable to attempting to restore being considered, would be an through afforestation, particularly along the March 21, 2017. 3.5#63 degraded land due to the poten- excellent initiative. However,       ?@AAA    Aravalli hill range, which covers Gujarat, In hosting COP14 of the tial for residual risks and mal- just as in the case of acid rain in ) &           Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi. convention, India made a major 8( 63 N-33 adaptive outcomes.” North America, which crosses    ,O*    =         It is well-known that the Aravallis have impact on this expanding prob- The UN system, as is wide- national boundaries and, there- been heavily degraded in several areas, par- lem in different countries of the 455O 4#55 ly known, is currently under- fore, required a regional solu- &      &        ticularly in Haryana, as a result of the nexus world. Prime Minister Narendra 8?#23  funded and is actually facing a tion, it would be important for    S            between politicians and the builders’ lobby. Modi in his address to this con- 3((3 #?3 .#3 serious crisis. For several years South Asian nations to cooper-     &        The establishment of the “green wall” would ference stated: “I call upon the now, there has been a growing ate on activities, which involve provide an effective barrier for dust coming leadership of UNCCD to create (8 20 realisation that the UN system similar initiatives in Pakistan,                   from the deserts in Western India and a global water action agenda, needs to be restructured and Afghanistan and Bangladesh O    )  *  / %         C   Pakistan. It is now well-established that dust which is central to land degra- 8#- (8 reformed, starting, of course, as well. Given that nature & &            from deserts can travel large distances as has dation neutrality strategy.” 63 233 with the composition of the respects no political bound- been seen with dust from Saudi Arabia trav- The Intergovernmental permanent members of the aries, we need to promote com-       S   ) )        elling to northern parts of Europe. This writer Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Security Council, of which India mon solutions to problems that                has always advised officials in the Middle East, recently published a special should have been admitted as a are regional in nature. Terrorism including a former Saudi Oil Minister, report on climate change, deser- member years ago. should give way to terra-ism. “Please convert your oil wealth to soil health.” tification, land degradation, sus- In the case of the UN (The writer is former chair- Recently, the Conference of the Parties tainable land management, food Framework Convention on man, Intergovernmental Panel (COP 14) of the United Nations Convention security and greenhouse gas Climate Change (UNFCCC), on Climate Change, 2002-15) 6     ' %        #  !            !    !        4    & )                !    &      ' .     '           &   - P !                                    .7   ) .              !) & & " ! -    &                  )        ) &     !                            '     ) '  "!  '   )'        (:%A) A)" ?%";) AC          K2 % K6 )   K)%   K  8                 !  "   #  $    !               ' %                        move away from a trite GDP to              &      even grasp the concept of creation and distribution of happiness.             Sir — A large number of climate        L(     M R Narayanan        '        strikes have recently erupted C8 !  ,DE'       Navi Mumbai                !   around the world, directing atten- !          tion to issues such as climate      P 7&    "             (     ) change and global warming. It is  '     &      (   %     (        also interesting to note that many   &          )                  indigenous tribes have been pray-       !)       ' Sir — This refers to the editorial, ing for the protection of the &        #  “Bangla pride” (October 15). The     *          Amazon rainforest as thousands of        &       appointment of former cricket        $        wildfires continue to destroy it.       ' #   &  O team captain Sourav Ganguly as               People often turn to prayer in dif- )   #O &  ' #    the head of the Board of Control ficult times. Such prayers not  9 & O )     !   !)  for Cricket in India (BCCI) is wel- &                only lead to positive results but &   )   & '     &  !  #' 3   come. In fact, he may just be the     (       also strengthen relationships "# )     !   !)        !          person the cricket administration        !       among people. The prayers for the  <  '          &   !       '  #  needs right now to set things               & Amazon and the protests have     !  " ) !     ! )       )   P  right. It’s good to learn that on his attracted the attention of the glob-  '       &   !  " )      #    9 ' priority list are first class players, +        ,  al population. One hopes that such        ' '  who are the foundation for a - )   - %  admirable activities continue to      &      "   strong pool of talent for the nation- .               inspire people around the world. al team. Other issues like the P Senthil absence of an Indian umpire in the                   Via email paid attention to. An eon was the problem with poverty with an parity. We have journeyed long elite panel of ICC and reducing the /             (    spent on identifying the condi- experimental approach. The ran- from exploring the creation of gulf between women and men in  /                   tions necessary for wealth cre- domised controlled field trials wealth to the distribution of income cricket should be given impor- ation. Then an era was spent on (RCTs) adopted by him has to now Nobel prize winner Abhijit tance. Ganguly must also ensure  (          %  ' $    the distribution of income helped find out what works and Banerjee’s treatise on poverty. that financial management in the              Sir — Economists have forever between capital and labour. what doesn’t to fight poverty. Strangely, it is seen that deep- BCCI becomes more transparent.         0        been negotiating between the Finally, Nobel Prize-winning The traditional way of measur- er the democratic mores, as it is in He has his task cut out. twin poles of wealth and pover- economist Angus Deaton delved ing wealth on account of the coun- the US, the sharper has been the Bal Govind                 ty. In 1776, Adam Smith postu- into the cause, spread and mea- try’s Gross Domestic Product turn to the right wing ideology of Noida                  lated that the existence of eco- surement of poverty. But looks (GDP) is misleading. It probably wealth inequality. It may take    P  Q-          nomic prosperity, more than the like Indian-American economist further skews the distribution of ages for the socio-economists,     0 persistence of poverty, must be Abhijit Banerjee has analysed wealth and accentuates income dis- much less the Governments, to %)))"?"B:;%5A";    !"#$%!&   /     ,0 $,- -               '  #   '     -      5D !   $ #!   5  ( (#  !   $  5  E5 !  '     (#5 &  & ! &      L!      L!   (        !      !   )   2  )  !     ##' '  #8 7 0 0 @>  ;      D;         :*       :/   *S     :-  ;      :    $ 3$4=                         E    $,FA  E      ;E       E         F7& )   * ,    %     (         ;   7@  -                 ;  &          1"! *0             * -                 elhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s       ; S /   announcement on offering free public             Dtransport to women has sparked off a debate across the country about the financial per-         formance and pricing of public transport. As cities            across the world struggle to keep the Mass Rapid    ; S   &     Transit System (MRTS) and other modes of pub-              lic transport financially viable, scholars and oper-   "&$          ators alike are trying to arrive at an economical-               ly sound formula for operations.              According to an estimate by the Delhi    ; ,       (  Transport Corporation and the Delhi Metro,            women constitute around 30 to 35 per cent pas-             /   sengers in both buses and the trains. This comes to about 14 lakh women per day on the buses               and 800,000 women per day on the metro. The  S       5   Delhi Government is assuming that the scheme               will see a rise of 50 per cent in female ridership,               resulting in a decrease in the number of vehicles     on the city’s roads and improved safety for those =            vulnerable sections who cannot afford public       3<"4          transport otherwise. )               Impact studies in cities that have experiment-                ed with a free public transport policy indicate tan-        /   gible benefits such as higher ridership, less traf- fic congestion, better air quality, savings on print-            ing, ticket-punching technology and the people <"            engaged in ticket sales. Free public transport be too much of a burden on the State lic transport to the needy and the vulnerable.              promises intangible benefits, too, such as a Governments to then generate funds for operat- Dedicated transport fund: Many experts  <"             stronger democracy, higher citizen participation, ing expenses. have emphasised the need to exempt public bus               better liveability and a vibrant economy. However, the good news is that, though it transport corporations from the motor vehicle tax. G           However, it is easier said than done. Cities like appears impossible at present, there are solutions For many bus corporations, the operational loss-  (      $    Tallinn in Estonia and Châteauroux and Aubagne worth exploring. Given that State Governments es are almost equal to what they pay as motor vehi-    )           in France experimented with free public trans- are finding it difficult to provide even partial sup- 63 93: 8 cle tax. While there is a sound rationale behind     *   ) =     port in the past and achieved positive results for port in the form of subsidies and grants to pub- taxing vehicles that generate huge negative exter-           a while. Sustaining the results beyond a few years, lic transport agencies, relying on budgetary sup- 83#-  (33 nalities like emissions and congestion, imposing however, proved to be a problem. Also, while the port to fund a free transport policy seems very a similar tax on public buses is draconian. On a  E (            combined effect of free service and happier com- difficult at present. Running free public transport 0.5# “per passenger kilometre” basis, public transport    ( E     muters can significantly increase ridership, pub- may or may not be possible but every city must 8 # 8 is more efficient and causes lower emission and                 lic transport can also experience a rebound effect, have at least an affordable transport system. There congestion than private vehicles. Moreover, the ,  =      ( resulting in crowding and poor service quality due are a few strategies for long-term funding and #23#(: tax gets directly passed on to the commuters as    (       to a large demand response. Such a response can cost-cutting that could be explored for achieving part of the fares they pay. Foregoing the tax will           result in a higher tax burden for the transport this. 533 also make fares more affordable and improve the    *  $ *  ! 3*$*!4 agency. Cross-utility subsidy: Although it’s not very 80 3 8( financial accessibility of public transport.              The key to operating a free public transport popular in the country, cross-utility financing is New performance indicators: There is also          ' *   $ is to identify alternate sources of revenue to prevalent in many parts of the world, including 3?303 8 a need to develop new performance indicators for 3'*$4    &    (  finance it. Sustaining a free transport policy in the Europe and North America. (# 3 #' evaluating public transport corporations. These long-term, especially during times of economic There are many ways to enforce a cross-util- indicators must mainstream social and environ-     S            volatility, can be highly strenuous. The city of ity subsidy like imposing a levy on utility use or #( #53332 mental goals. Currently, public transport opera-     5      Châteaurouxin, France could generate returns on cross-subsidising a loss-making utility by a prof- tions in the country are guided primarily by finan-                   public transport in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007. it-making one. The loss-making transport depart- #  023 cial parameters like earnings and cost-per-kilo- &           However, 2008 onwards, the returns declined. The ment of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & 3 metre. Now, more emphasis needs to be placed          city of Hasselt in Belgium had to wind up its free Transport (BEST), for instance, was, for a long on the intangible socio-economic benefits such       <     public transport policy after a few years as the time, cross-subsidised by revenues generated by 8"0#5#: as time savings, improved productivity, lower con-    D*         Government could no longer support its financ- the profitable electricity department. If imple- gestion and improved livelihood opportunities    <         ing. mented in a prudent manner, cross-utility sub- 0.#2:  that public transport enables. Changing the way               So, the big question is, can Indian cities afford sidy can offer a long-term solution for funding 8((3  public transport corporations are assessed will also        ;  ;     free transport for their citizens, given the burgeon- public transport. change the manner in which they operate and the ing population of the country? Targetted subsidy: Grants often fail to ben- goals they prioritise in service delivery.             58-"3 Cities in India face a severe shortage of pub- efit the desired user groups. So, the solution lies While financial performance is critical for    ' ;  lic transport. City peripheries and low-income in introducing selective subsidisation for careful- 850#8 (8 operating public transport, increasing the fare is /             neighbourhoods often remain unserved and even ly identified beneficiaries. It is a difficult thing to (02#- 0.5# not the best solution. The approach to the prob-           if a network of buses and local trains and so on pull off but one can take heart from the fact that lem will change once it is realised that the objec-  5           exists, the frequency of service is low, rendering over 10 million customers in India gave up their 8 tive of operating public transport is not to gen-           <     it ineffective. Free or otherwise, the absence of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) subsidy in erate revenue but to offer affordable services to   )    ; -       public transport results in last-mile connectivi- response to the Government’s plea. If people are citizens. The need of the hour is to find innova-                ty problems for the poor. Addressing the inade- made aware about the purpose of a subsidy, there tive solutions to make public transport affordable     (       quacies of the country’s public transport network will be many who will give it up if they don’t for all. 3          4 will require huge capital investments and consid- require it. At any rate, the Government should (The writer is Area Convenor, Centre for ering the amount of expenditure it entails, it could explore targetted subsidies to offer affordable pub- Sustainable Mobility, TERI) @BDE ,& (                                   E !!  

not write his autobiography and yatra in July to thank the voters for has multi-lingual posters. He does control. Uddhav, too, managed to do would not take any Government post the 2019 success but his real inten- not mention religion or Hindutva that but Aditya, encouraged by his and he had stuck to them till the end tion was to gauge the public mood and instead prefers to raise bread and mother Reshmi, believes that the of his life. for his own debut. butter issues like employment and days of “remote control governance” After the first Shiv Sena- The young Thackeray repre- development. are over and one needs to be in the  #3 8( Bharatiya Janata Party Government sents the changing political sce- He talks about the ban on plas- system. 3 98#- (BJP) was formed in 1995, Balasaheb nario and also the evolving culture tic, beach cleaning and the environ- Above all, the Sena wants to often quipped that he ruled the of the Sena. Much has changed ment. Aditya is more cosmopolitan, strengthen itself on the ground fear-        + 2 * State via “remote control.” Balasaheb’s since the days of Balasaheb. The modern and open to new-age elec- ing that the BJP might subsume the &   & son Uddhav Thackeray surprisingly party’s clout in Maharashtra politics toral politics. He is accused of being party. The family feels that the   ! &%    not only kept the party alive but also Aditya stated the obvious in an has certainly diminished. Politics has comfortable with the Page 3 set but junior Thackeray’s presence in the    &  ow would the late Sena chief followed the “remote control” poli- interview recently, “I chose this elec- changed, the voters have changed he is also trying to appeal to the ordi- next Cabinet would give them some Bal Thackeray have reacted to cy of his father. tion because I thought this was the and the Sena, too, has become a nary youth. control. &      Hthe idea of his grandson However, the 29-year-old Aditya right time.” There is a vacuum in the junior partner in the coalition, as Second, Aditya is emulating his Aditya is poised to win the      Aditya entering electoral politics is different in this sense and he rep- youth leadership in Maharashtra, compared to the earlier days of grandfather by building a base Worli seat, if Dame Luck smiles at       when the Thackeray clan had resents the aspirational which he hopes to fill. dominating the Sena-BJP alliance. among the youth. The senior him, he might even become the   &  scrupulously kept out of it for Maharashtrian youth. His image- As a child, Aditya used to trav- Aditya is experimenting with a Thackeray had a devoted youth fol- Deputy Chief Minister. Though )    decades? He would have chuckled. makers are trying to project him as el with his father and grandfather and different kind of politics, trying to lowing all his life. As long as he was Uddhav says now, “The first step in So far, the family has run a pow- a suave, English-speaking Sena became interested in politics from change the old narrative. The Sena’s alive, every Vijayadasami day, thou- politics doesn’t mean that you have &  ! ! ' erful political party in Maharashtra leader. Nine years ago, Balasaheb then on. “If you have to do some- image has been that of a muscular sands of youth had attended his to become the Chief Minister of the #      without contesting elections. The himself introduced his grandson to thing good for society, politics is the political party and he would have to meeting at the Shivaji Park. Now, State. He has just entered politics, this   &   youngest Thackeray, Aditya breaks the political world in October 2010 way. I have been thinking of my jour- change this if he wants to succeed. Aditya is targeting the millennial vot- is just the beginning.” He would push  &!      that tradition in the forthcoming and also named Aditya the head of ney for the last five years. We did sev- The Sena is no more a rabble-rous- ers. He is being projected as a sen- for his son when the time comes.      ' Maharashtra Assembly elections by the party’s newly-created youth wing. eral agitations. How to serve ing party. sitive, modern, young leader, who is Aditya wants to prove that he is contesting from the Worli seat in The timing is perfect for the Maharashtra better, Shiv Sena style? In the past it used to launch agi- flexible and open to new ideas. not just another son of a powerful .      &  Mumbai. Thackeray scion to make his electoral I have always thought that I should tations against the South Indians, Third, it was the family’s consid- political family but a grassroots      Balasaheb had once told me he debut, with the BJP-Sena alliance join my party legislators”, says Aditya. Gujaratis, Biharis and Muslims. ered decision to support Aditya’s elec- leader in his own right. The !  ' had taken three decisions — he poised to win the Assembly polls this Prior to this electoral contest, he Today, in a bid to woo non- toral plunge. Bal Thackeray could Assembly contest will be his acid test. C   E would not contest elections, would month. had undertaken a Jan Ashirwad Maharashtrian voters, his campaign run the Government through remote (The writer is a senior journalist)    !"#$%!&  1

1 3  *  (  13      '0" - 3 ( 70 he National Conference '  70 sources said. T(NC) on Tuesday Defence PRO in ( condemned the arrest of party wenty days after giving Jammu, Lt-Col 9859 president Farooq Abdullah’s Tbirth to her first child, a 27 Devender Anand said, sister and daughter during a year young mother was killed “Pakistan army initi- week protest in Srinagar, saying such in heavy mortar shelling in ated ceasefire viola- Aafter measures would further alien- Noona Bandi area of Shahpur tion in Qasba and much politi- ate the people and delay along the Line of Control in Kirni sectors at about cal hullabaloo restoration of normalcy in the Poonch on late Tuesday after- 9.30 a.m. by firing the police valley. noon. small arms and mor- have finally It sought the immediate According to ground tars”. He said, “the arrested a revocation of detention of reports, “27-year-old Shamim Indian Army retaliat- mason for political leaders and common Akhtar w/o Mohd Maqsood Mnzoor Hussain and Naseema ed befittingly”. brutally mur- citizens, including Abdullah’s )"%"CA% from party headquarters Sher- was standing in front of her Akhtar. Late afternoon, the Pak dering a kin. ?:)") e-Kashmir Bhavan here. kitchen when she was directly Meanwhile, large number Army also targeted forward Jiaganj school The police on Tuesday A")6))""C The National Conference hit by a mortar shell around of children remained stranded areas of Shahpur and Karmara teacher, his minutes. arrested half-a-dozen women ?"%)A%% leaders expressed regret over 3.45 p.m”. Due to impact of the for several hours inside a local in the forward areas forcing the pregnant wife and an eight- Earlier the police had activists during a march to A";;"A)$:) the continued detention of blast, her head was reportedly school (seminary) run by Sain local residents to stay indoors. year-old son. claimed that the victim an RSS protest the abrogation of pro- political leaders and common blown off, local villagers in the Miran Baksh Educational Trust The local villagers of The mason called Pratik worker also dealt in some kind visions of Article 370 and )6)")"6A) citizens, saying the situation forward area, claimed. in Shahpur area of Poonch. Shahpur—Upper and Lower, Behera had killed the trio out of chit fund business in which bifurcation of Jammu and %")?) had touched the lowest depths Her 20-day-old son, In the wake of intense Gountrian and Islamabad in of personal grudge when he used to accept Kashmir into Union and even the liberty of relatives miraculously escaped any shelling, which started early Poonch appealed to the district victim Bandhu Paul refused to monetary deposits from the Territories. Kashmir, which was reeling of those in grievous injury, as she had Tuesday morning around 9.00 authorities to expedite work on give him a receipt of 24,000 people. Abdullah’s sister Suraiya under “fear psychosis and a public life was under severe kept him on the floor inside the a.m the children could not be bunkers in the area to ensure which he had taken from him The mason was one of and his daughter Safiya, who sense of insecurity” among the threat. “The detention of kitchen. rescued. Local villagers and safety of school going children for some insurance policy, he such depositors who deposited were leading a group of women people. Suraiya Mattoo and Safiya As heavy shelling contin- some parents, later in the after- and local villagers. isknown to have confessed to 24,000 with him but failed to activists, were first detained “Being kin of former Chief Abdullah Khan, respectively ued in the forward areas, noon managed to organise two A Local villager, Shabir the police. procure any receipt for the and later arrested by the Ministers should not entail sister and daughter of Abdullah another couple hailing from ambulances and ferried chil- Rathore claimed, “these vil- “There was grudge and amount. police. political victimisation, leading and the aunt and sister of Qasba village of Poonch sector dren from the forward area to lagers were regularly targeted there was a financial angle,” When Paul refused to The NC said such harsh to curtailment of liberty and Omar Abdullah, reflect the received injuries and was safer locations. “None of the by the Pakistan army but so far Murshidabad SP Mukesh said provide with any receipt an measures would further alien- freedom of movement and sad state of affairs the State is rushed to the nearby hospital. child received injuries during work on bunker construction adding the triple murder had altercation followed and the ate the people and delay speech,” senior NC leaders said in for the past over 70 days,” the The injured were identified as heavy mortar shelling”,official has not started in the area”. taken place in a matter offive mason killed the threesome. restoration of normalcy in in a joint statement, issued statement said. %43-  3- -3- <    5 ,  6   9FFF  P    -3-37  - ( 50 984  03   ( 9859 ( 7#0 he Uttar Pradesh Government is doing he West Bengal Taway with 25,000 home guards, saying ( .3-500 TGovernment is working ajasthan Deputy Chief Minister the State cannot afford the new allowances for the empowerment of Rand State Congress president the Supreme Court has asked it to pay. lleging that Central probe rural women through var- Sachin Pilot on Tuesday said The daily allowance for the home Aagencies have become ious self-help groups, Chief Mandawa and Khinwsar Assembly guards is now 672, up from the 500 puppets in the BJP’s hands, Minister Mamata Banerjee bypolls will be the test of the work before the court order in July. Congress general secretary KC said on Tuesday. done by his party Government and The Government said this would have Venugopal said on Tuesday On the occasion of the claimed it will win both the seats cost the State an extra expenditure of 10 that these agencies were mis- International Day of Rural with “huge” margins. life of people better. We ought to do to 12 crore every month. 3. used against party leaders Women, Banerjee referred The bypolls were necessitated whatever is possible to help people It, therefore, decided not to deploy Home Guards do not have any fixed ahead of polls. to the success of the after Khinwsar (Nagaur) MLA at personal, social and administra- home guards meant for security at police monthly salary and are paid based on the Venugopal was reacting to ‘Anandadhara’ scheme aim- Hanuman Beniwal and Mandava tive level,” he said. stations and traffic signals. The home number of days of duty. Till now they have the arrest of Congress MLA D ing for poverty alleviation Banerjee tweeted. (Jhunjhunu) MLA Narendra Kumar Pilot said it is important for guards are not permanent employees and been expected to work for 25 days but the K Shivakumar in a money through social mobilisation. “We also distribute animals (BJP) were elected to Lok Sabha in every public representative to stay are recruited on a casual basis. government decreased it to 15 days. laundering case by The scheme, initiated in for rearing by them, ensuring May this year. connected with people. Officials said a large number were Uttar Pradesh Director General of the 2012, is implemented by organ- their economic prosperity,” she “The bypolls are the test of the While Congress has fielded for- taken on in April. The Supreme Court in Police OP Singh said this step has been (ED). ising women into self-help added. work of the Government and we are mer MLAs Rita Chaudhary in July, however, meant a hike in the cost of taken due to the extra financial burden on “Whenever there are elec- groups (SHG). The International Day of prepared for that. We will win the Mandawa and Harendra Mirdha in deploying them. the police department following the tions round the corner, the “Today is Rural Women was first seats with huge margin. When the Khimsar, the BJP has given ticket to According to an order issued by Supreme Court order and it is a temporary drama of I-T and ED raids are #InternationalDayofRuralWom observed on October 15, 2008 Congress was in opposition for five Sushila Sigra in Mandawa and is Additional Director General (ADG) BP one. “After the Supreme Court order, the staged. These agencies have en. Our Govt in #Bangla is to recognise the critical role years, we won all bypolls and this contesting the bypolls in alliance Jogdand, “The decision not to deploy police department would have had to bear become a puppet in the hands working for the empowerment and contribution of rural time, we are in the Government and with MP Hanuman Beniwal’s 25,000 home guards was taken on August the extra burden of 10 to 12 crore per of BJP,” Venugopal told of rural women through self- women, in enhancing agricul- there is no reason for not winning Rashtriya Loktantrik Party (RLP) on 28 this year in a meeting chaired by the month. This decision of not giving post- reporters after a meeting with help groups. The scheme tural and rural development, the bypolls,” Pilot told reporters here. Khimsar where Beniwal’s brother Uttar Pradesh chief secretary.” ings is a temporary one, and if and when the party’s election observers Anandadhara has been very improving food security and “The State Government’s first Narayan Beniwal is the alliance The home guards were deployed required they will be called for duty,” the for the December 5 rpt 5 successful in this regard,” eradicating rural poverty. and foremost priority is to make the candidate. through a government order dated April DGP said. Assembly bypolls. Opposition leader and for- mer Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, state Congress -3-  +  president Dinesh Gundu Rao 88 and senior party functionaries attended the meeting. 88-- 3 Elections are due in 15 constituencies after the resig- nation and subsequent dis- ( -5J#K45 (SDM) of Kanchanpur, for the Bru community were the relief camps would be ( 34 CE Muthu Muhammad qualification of 17 MLAs, com- Abhedananda Baidya, said 235 found in the relief camps. closed down from October Meera Maraikkayar prising 14 Congress MLAs and total of 408 people Bru people of 45 families have However, no untoward inci- one 2018 and free ration and ormer President APJ Abdul held special three JD(S) MLAs. Abelonging to 88 displaced been repatriated. dent was reported then. money doled to the displaced FKalam was remembered prayers. Another Congress MLA Bru families staying in six His Panisagar counterpart Mizoram Bru Indigenous families would be discontin- here on his 88th birth anniver- School children and former Deputy Chief relief camps of Tripura have N Darlong said 173 people Democratic Movement leader ued. sary with the late scientist’s also paid floral trib- Minister G Parameshwara is left for their homeland belonging to 43 families have Phillip Apeto had said they However, that phase did family and the district admin- utes and took a under the Income Mizoram since the repatriation left for Mizoram till date dur- were not satisfied with the not bear much fruit. istration paying tributes at his pledge to follow Tax scanner for alleged irreg- exercise began on October 3, ing the ninth round of repa- rehabilitation package and a While the MHA did stop memorial here. Kalam’s ideals. ularities pertainingto medical officials said on Tuesday. triation which is termed as the district council for the the free ration and cash dole The leader’s memorial at An American seats in the Siddharth Group of A total of 4,447 Bru fam- “final” one. Brus under the sixth schedule from October one, 2018, the Pekarumbu was dazzling with Indians Association, Institutions linked to ilies, lodged in the relief camps The repatriation is sched- of the constitution must be Centre restarted it apparently electrical lights and floral Ramanathapuram district as part of honouring the late him. at Kanchanpur and Panisagar uled to continue till November created. due to political reasons as arrangements, as there was a collector K Veera Raghava Rao leader’s services, presented a IT officials also recently sub-divisions of North Tripura 30. Mizoram officials said 22 A memorandum submit- Mizoram assembly election steady stream of visitors includ- paid floral tributes at the prize for Global Peace, which raided Jalappa Group of district, are scheduled to Bru families from various relief ted by three Bru organisa- was nearing. ing school children who paid memorial while Kalam’s rela- was handed over to Institutions related to Congress return to the neighbouring camps have been repatriated tions to Mizoram Home The Centre has approved homage to the former president. tives led by his elder brother Maraikkayar. leader Jalappa’s son. state from where they had on Monday. Minister Lalchamliana had 350 crore for the ninth phase fled since 1997 following eth- The repatriation is being also expressed apprehension of repatriation and the amount nic clashes. carried out though some Bru that the Bru community covers transportation and The Bru community, also organisations are against the would lose their identity if they rehabilitation package expens-  O  P    called Reangs, is among the 21 exercise. return to Mizoram in the pre- es, which include 5,000 per scheduled tribes in the coun- On October 4, posters sent situation. month for each resettled Bru  (  34 2356# try. They are scattered across opposing the repatriation and During the eighth round family in Mizoram and free Assam, Mizoram and Tripura. demand for a separate of repatriation, the Ministry of ration for them for n order to provide better Sub-divisional Magistrate autonomous district council Home Affairs had warned that two years. Itravel opportunities to passengers who travel daily from neighbouring cities       $   mainly to earn livelihood and     %  education purposes the Railways has initiated nine new ‘Sewa Services’ spread across eight States of India. Minister of Railways Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr Harsh Vardhan, MoS Railway Suresh C Angadi   , (4     5",$  (4     and Meenakshi Lekhi, flagged * / $*3 (     1(    off the inaugural run of Delhi   $+    "$  %  6 $  — Shamli train service in a cer- emony held at New Delhi passengers. O    3  new assets in these trains, with Railway station on Tuesday. According to the statement,  #  4 efficient planning and by Indian Railways has always “Inaugural runs of train services enhancing operational strived to provide convenient in the other six states were also 5      capabilities the lie-over rakes of and comfortable service to its initiated with the flagging off by  # # trains are to be used for short users. the dignitaries being received 5 7 # services during the long To provide better travel through video conferencing in 5 stationed time between two opportunities to passengers the respective venues.    services. who have to travel to Speaking on the occasion This will not only increase neighboring towns and cities Goyal said that based on the   4   trips but also earn revenue mainly for livelihood and edu- hub and spoke concept these #  5P from the otherwise stationed cation purposes the Railways trains will provide better rail coaches, he added. Dr Harsh has initiated nine new Sewa connectivity between smaller common passengers will great- Vardhan appreciated the work Services spread across eight and satellite towns and impor- ly benefit from these services,” being done in all areas with a states of India. These daily or six tant cities. “Railway is working he said. special mention of the up-gra- days a week short distance ser- on how to be an effective engine He also shared that dation of stations in the vices will be a boon to the daily of growth in the country. The Railways is not going to use any National Capital Region.    !"#$%!&  8

 (## ( :?5J426 long as the Modi Government ists. H is in power, the issue of Your money is given to the ( 0.# against women had seen a per cent increase in cases of ongress leader Rahul joblessness will continue to media so that they publicise severe spike and promise of abduction besides 11 rapes reg- CGandhi on Tuesday called haunt the country. The prob- Modi,” he alleged. he All India Congress clean drinking water remain istered every day, Deb stated, Prime Minister Narendra Modi lem of joblessness will grow in Maharashtra has the TCommittee women’s wing unfulfilled. adding that the Devendra a “loudspeaker” of certain the next six months,” he opportunity to solve all these president Sushmita Deb called While the BJP-Sena Fadnavis government had not industrialists, and said his claimed. problems by voting for the the BJP manifesto released on Government promised dou- used a single rupee from the strategy was like that of a pick- Criticising the Congress and NCP, he said. Tuesday for the Maharashtra ble-digit growth in agricul- Nirbhaya Fund. pocket who diverts attention to Government’s decision to “We will install a govern- Assembly polls as a repetition ture, the actual rate was a mea- steal. “waive” (slash the rates of) ment which will work for the of old promises. gre 0.4 per cent, which had led On campaign trail in corporate tax, Gandhi said poor, farmers, labourers, and Creation of one crore jobs to eight farmers committing Vidarbha for October 21 such benefits were extended to While the Mahatma have jump-started the econo- small and medium businesses,” in the next five years, suicide every day, she Maharashtra Assembly elec- certain industrialists, but not to Gandhi National Rural my. he added. At a rally at Arvi in providing houses for all by claimed. “The BJP’s manifesto tions, he also targeted the Modi the poor. Employment Guarantee Act The annual budget of Wardha district, Gandhi 2022 and ushering in USD 1 promises one crore jobs over government for “waiving” cor- The Congress leader also (MNREGA), Right to Food, MNREGA is 35,000 crore accused the Modi Government trillion economy are the key the next five years. This is yet porate tax. alleged that the Union land acquisition and laws for and the Modi Government of weakening all pro-poor promises made in the ruling another jumla given sharp rise Addressing a rally in Government was planning to tribals were being amended, cut corporate tax worth 1.25 schemes of the UPA regime, BJP’s “sankalp patra”. in unemployment which has Yavatmal district, Gandhi said privatise National assets such as amendment to the GST act was lakh crore in a single day, including the MNREGA, RTI “It is a classic case of rep- tripled under this Government. the Prime Minister speaks of ports, coal mines, and public not acceptable to the Gandhi said. Act, Right to Food and the land etition of old promises. The In fact every third young per- the moon mission and abro- sector units such as Air India. Government, he said. Referring to Defence acquisition bill.”BJP made fun reason is simple. Promises of son in urban areas is today job- gation of Article 370 in Jammu “Modi is the loudspeaker of “When the poor person Minister Rajnath Singh’s France of MNREGA which had given 2014 remain unfulfilled. This less,” Deb said. She said 2000 and Kashmir, but is silent on (industrialists) Adani and gets money, he starts purchas- visit, he said the latter did a a boost to the economy,” he explains why after five years, factories had shut down and issues such as farmers’ plight Ambani. Just like a pickpock- ing, when the demand increas- puja of the Rafale fighter jet said. BJP-Shiv Sena Government Maharashtra was no longer and lack of jobs. et, who diverts attention of peo- es, manufacturing gets a boost,” (while taking symbolic deliv- The GST’s purpose was to has no concrete achievement to the preferred destination and “The Goods and Services ple before stealing, his (Modi’s) he said, adding that the NYAY ery of the first aircraft). “But finish off small and medium showcase,” she said at a press lagged behind Uttar Pradesh Tax (GST) and demonetisation only job is to divert your atten- minimum income scheme, 35,000 crore were stolen from businesses, the Congress leader conference here. and Jharkhand in ease of doing broke the back of small and tion so that he can pass your proposed by the Congress the jet deal. The media will not claimed.”Don’t let this happen Deb said agriculture sector of business. medium enterprises, farmers, money to a select few indus- before the write about this because it is in Maharashtra. Let’s stop this had worsened, unemployment Crime against women were labourers and poor people. As trialists,” Gandhi said. Lok Sabha elections, would being controlled by industrial- here,” he said. had risen sharply, crimes rising sharply, including a 300  9  0   # %:;    "1(+1 6  

    0.# While Nitesh had joined finally happened today. Kankavli constituency. the MSP with the BJP, while ( 0.# immediately accepted it. the BJP and filed his There is hardly any com- Fadnavis said that Nitesh campaigning for his party can- Pathare is a former MLA from n what came as a snub to the nomination from his new party petition here. The BJP will would win the Assembly polls didate Rajan Teli. “The BJP is ationalist Congress Party Pune. IShiv Sena, the Maharashtra early this month, Sr Rane, his benefit hugely with the Ranes’ with a thumping margin. He, getting strong in Konkan N(NCP) MLC Ramrao Both Wadkute and Swabhiman Party (MSP), head- another son and former MP entry to the party,” Fadnavis however, advised Nitesh, region. My son Nitesh and his Wadkute and former party Pathare were inducted into the ed by former Chief Minister Nilesh and their said. known for his losing his cool supporters joined the BJP ear- MLA Bappu Pathare joined BJP in Mumbai on Tuesday in Narayan Rane, merged with the supporters formally entered Meanwhile, the Shiv Sena on some pretext or the other, to lier. I will merge my party with the BJP on Tuesday, ahead of the presence of the party’s ruling BJP, in the presence of the BJP. leadership has not taken kind- restrain himself and learn to the BJP in the presence of the next week’s Maharashtra working president J P Chief Minister Devendra Speaking at Nitesh’s cam- ly to the MSP’s merger with the remain calm. chief minister Devendra Assembly polls. Nadda. Wadkute, a native of Fadnavis. paign rally, Chief Minister BJP. Sena President Uddhav There had been specula- Fadnavis on October 15,” he Wadkute, a prominent Parbhani district in Undeterred by the stiff Fadnavis heaped praise on Sr Thackeray, who will tion in the State political circles said. Dhangar (shepherd) commu- Marathwada, was earlier chair- resistance from its ally Shiv Rane saying: “Narayan Rane be campaigning in Kankavli that he would join the BJP Having been associated nity leader from Marathwada man of the Punyashlok Sena to the entry of Rane and has a special place in and Savantwadi constituen- along with his two son Nitesh with the Shiv Sena since early region, was appointed member Ahilyadevi Sheli-Mendhi his two sons, the ruling BJP Maharashtra politics. He is cies, is expected to spell out his and Nilesh. His entry to the BJP seventies, Rane had emerged as of the Maharashtra Vikas Mahamandal (Goat and went ahead and allowed the well-versed in many subjects. stand on the MSP’s merger with was being resisted by a senior leader in the party and Legislative Council in June Sheep Rearing Development MSP’s merger with it at an elec- In way, he has been a part of the the BJP. On its part, the its ally Shiv Sena for a very was made the chief minister of 2014 from the governor’s Corporation) before tion rally organised for Sr BJP ever since he went to Sena – notwithstanding its long. Maharashtra, a post he held quota. being appointed as the Rane’s son Nitesh and the BJP Rajya Sabha early last year alliance with Sr Rane — has put He had earlier announced between February 1, 1999 and He submitted his resigna- MLC. candidate at Kankavli with the BJP’s support”. up its candidate against Nitesh that he would join the BJP on October 17, 1999 when the tion on Monday evening to Assembly constituency in “All were waiting for this Rane. In ssence, the fight would October 2. Rane made an Sena-BJP alliance was ruling Legislative Council Chairman Sindhudurg district. (merger) for a long time. It has be between the Sena and BJP in announcement about merging the State. Ramraje Nimbalkar who / P    )  .7  &&  O*  .     P09 - > 2 % K; ( 0.# ( 63 lamming the BJP for moot- IMIM president Sing Bharat Ratna award for AAsaduddin Owaisi has said V D Savarkar, Communist Party Bharat is “not a Hindu Rashtra” of India general secretary D and they will also not let it Raja on Tuesday said the ruling become so. party may even propose the His comments came after honour for Mahatma Gandhi’s RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat last killer Nathuram Godse. week said the Sangh is firm on The election manifesto of its vision that “Bharat is a Maharashtra BJP, released on Hindu Rashtra”. Tuesday said the party will ask Addressing an election the NDA Government at the rally on Monday night in Centre to confer India’s high- Kalyan town of Maharashtra’s est civilian award on Vinayak Thane district for party candi- ( 03 Sena (MNS) leader Rupali Patil Damodar Savarkar, popularly date Aiaz Moulavi, also said the trees were hacked. known as Veer Savarkar. Owaisi said a section of soci- pposition parties in “They have cut the trees “This is biggest irony of our ety wants to paint the entire OMaharashtra have alleged because they believed that the times that while we are all cel- country in one colour, but “we that some trees located on the trees would prove hindrance ebrating the birth centenary of see Hindustan in multiple campus of Sir Parshuram (SP) for the PM rally,” she claimed. Gandhiji, the BJP is seeking colours, it is the beauty of College in Pune were chopped However, Pune BJP unit Bharat Ratna to Savarkar, who Hindustan”. on Monday for Prime Minister president Madhuri Misal, one was an accused in his assassi- “Bharat is not a Hindu Narendra Modi’s October 17 of the trustees of Shikshan nation case,” Raja told PTI here. Rashtra, and Inshallah, we will rally, which will be held on the Prasarak Mandali (SPM) which “The day may not be far off not allow it to become so,” he college ground. runs the SP College, refuted the for BJP to demand Bharat Ratna said. The college authorities on allegations saying chopping of to Gandhiji’s assassin Nathuram Alleging that the Shiv Sena Tuesday denied the allegation trees had no connection with Godse. This is part of their was against the green colour, he saying only certain branches the PM’s programme. agenda,” the CPI leader said. said, “Change your spectacles hanging dangerously were cut and you will see the green for the safety of students who colour in the National flag play there, which has nothing also.” to do with the PM’s event. He said Bharat is unique NCP MP Vandana Chavan because of itssecularism and alleged some ‘subabul’ trees pluralism. There is no other around the ground, where the country in the world as rally will be held, were felled by Bharat and “we are proud the college administration. of it”. “I want to tell those in the “As per the information RSS that we are not living here with us, trees were cut from the on your sympathy. If you stems which is unacceptable,” want to measure the index of alleged Chavan. my happiness or sorrow, you She demanded stringent and we should see what the action against those responsi- Constitution has given to us,” ble for the “cruel act”. Owaisi said. Maharashtra Navnirman   <    !"#$%!&

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13 3  - = ! (    ----  0    O? 3  3 ( 20.#   ( 9859 O/     reland captain Gary ven as Board of Control for IWilson wants his side Cricket in India president    +  to ensure they finish Edesignate Sourav Ganguly "right at the top again" in returned to Kolkata amid a grand  ! P the upcoming 2020 T20 welcome the former Cricket India World Cup qualifying captain said there was no politics ( 9859 tournament, but Nigeria to be read into his getting nom- and Jersey are among inated as the boss of Indian ormer India captain Sourav those chasing a "dream" cricket. FGanguly, who is set to be the appearance on the glob- Soon after landing at the new BCCI president, wants the al stage. NSI Airport the cricketing south- Virat Kohli-led national team to Scotland are the paw said, “there was no political reverse the trend of losing the highest-ranked team in pressure on me; neither is there knock-out games in ICC events. the competition, with 14 any political deal,” behind his get- “India are a good team. I nations vying for six ting the priced post. When asked know they have not won a big places in the opening as to whether he saw a shinning tournament. But they play well in round of next year's political future ahead of him him he said “there is nothing effort … whether I will be suc- big tournaments except the semi- World T20 in Australia, particularly after the 2021 Bengal wrong if any politician wants cessful or not I can’t say but I can finals and the final. Hopefully, where they would join "We know every and in a lot of sports we Assembly elections, he remained good people to join politics. say that I will work to the best of Virat can change it around. He is Bangladesh and Sri team is dangerous in this do punch above our non-committal saying “there was There is nothing wrong if Mr my capability for the cause of a champion player,” Ganguly Lanka in attempting to competition," said weight, especially in no talk with anyone on my polit- Amit Shah or Mamata Didi want Indian cricket.” told reporters here on Tuesday. reach the 'Super 12s'. Scotland captain Kyle cricket and qualification ical future.” good people to join their parties.” Dwelling on his priorities as India have not won an ICC Ireland are the only Coetzer. "It is vitally would be massive for ( 9 6# Incidentally hours before On his future chemistry with the BCCI chief he said “my first event since the 2013 Champions Test team having to go important not only for us our country." being tipped off to be the first BCCI secretary designate Jay priority is the whole lot of first Trophy. The team finished run- through qualifying, as Scotland but for every Nigeria have ead coach-cum-chief selec- cricketer to become a BCCI pres- Shah he said “Jay and I have been class cricketers. It is this pool of ner-up in the 2017 Champions which starts on Friday in team here." reached the final stage of Htor Misbah-ul-Haq is ident Ganguly had a brief meet- very good friends. cricketers from where the top Trophy final after losing to the United Arab qualifying for the first extremely disappointed with the ing with Home Minister Amit Both of us are young and payers emerge. But the remaining Pakistan. Emirates, and will be JERSEY CHASING 'DREAM' time as cricket continues attitude of some Pakistani play- Shah which many critic saw as a both of us have experience and lot of first class cricketers gets In the World Cup earlier this expected to book a sixth The Netherlands, to grow in the African ers, who shy away from proper prelude to his becoming the both of us want to do something very little for them. So it will be year, India were one of the straight appearance in who reached the 'Super country, with their youth training, lack discipline and Board president. for the Indian cricket. So it will my first priority to do something favourites to win the title but the tournament. 10' round in 2014, side booking a spot at don’t adhere to professional stan- On whether there was any be a great inning for both of us. for them. We will work collective- ended up losing the semifinal to "We are here to com- Oman, Hong Kong and next year's Under-19 dards. offer from any political bench for There will not be lack of any ly and change their lives.” New Zealand. pete at the world stage," hosts the UAE will all be World Cup in South Pakistan recently suffered a said Irish skipper Wilson. among the favourites to Africa. whitewash against Sri Lanka in "We have a great record qualify. "It would be a great the three-game T20I series at in the Middle East and But the likes of thing to be at the World home and Misbah remains very the boys are looking for- Nigeria, Jersey and Cup. It would be a great disappointed at the way the top- Q ward to a great tourna- Singapore insist they are history for Nigeria," said ranked side capitulated to Sri ment and ensure we fin- not going to just make their skipper Ademola Lanka in front of home crowds. ( 20.# ish right at the top again." up the numbers as they Onikoyi, after his team “What has disturbed Misbah 5 The winners of each bid to give cricket a took the place of the most in his first assignment njured India opener Smriti ( 0.# weeks. So, I don’t know why the group of seven will qual- boost in their countries. Zimbabwe following as head coach and the chief IMandhana has lost her Baroda Cricket Association first of all ify automatically, with There was already a their suspension by the selector is the reluctance of some number one status after being omestic cricket stalwart and took up (the job) to host Vijay the four remaining spots shock in the Asian ICC. players to follow directions of the toppled by New Zealand’s Dformer India opener Wasim Hazare,” Jaffer said. to be decided in playoffs. regional qualifiers, with "Our juniors will be management and do proper Amy Satterthwaite in the bat- Jaffer on Tuesday slammed the All the Group B matches have Scotland, 11th in the Singapore reaching this at the World Cup next training to keep high fitness ting chart of the latest ICC “unfit” pitches being used in been played in Baroda and Jaffer’s world T20 rankings, stage ahead of Nepal, the year in South Africa, so standards,” one source said. ODI rankings. Vadodara for the Vijay Hazare team Vidarbha won only two of their claimed their first-ever world's 13th-ranked out- we want to do that as “He is unhappy that some Mandhana, who has 755 Trophy. nine matches, losing four. Three of win at a global ICC tour- fit. well." players are just too relaxed and points, slipped to the number Jaffer took to Twitter to vent out their games had no result. They are nament in the 2016 edi- Island team Jersey Singapore, led by take training lightly and are not two spot after she missed his frustration. languishing at the 8th spot in the tion by beating Hong are playing in their sec- Amjad Mahboob, are working on improving their India’s recently concluded “Absolutely unfit pitches to play Elite Group B standings and 13th in Kong, but will be looking ond consecutive qualifi- also debutants at the cricket discipline. He has also not ODI series against South in ‘List A’ matches in Vadodara,” he the combined Group A and B stand- to put the pain of agonis- er, having fallen short qualifying event, while been encouraged by the attitude Africa due to injury. wrote. ings. ingly missing out on the four years ago despite Bermuda will be looking of captain, Sarfaraz Ahmed The 23-year-old suffered      %! Later Jaffer, who is the highest- “And the matches we are playing 50-over World Cup ear- surprise victories over to repeat the heroics of whom he feels shies away from a fracture in her right toe after run scorer in Ranji Trophy, said that on, if you look at the scores, you will lier this year behind Hong Kong and Nepal. their side who famously taking responsibility when the being struck by a ball during In the bowlers’ rankings, the pitch at the Motibaug ground was get to know what kind of wickets we them. "For Jersey, it would reached the 2007 World chips are down.” a net session before the start Jhulan Goswami, Shikha “close to being dangerous”. are playing on. In Bengaluru, Jaipur They had two probably be the biggest Cup. Another source said that of the ODI series against Pandey and Poonam Yadav “Yes, specially the pitch at and Dehradun they are getting good chances to secure a place thing that has happened The qualifiers get Misbah was surprised by the South Africa which India won moved down to be placed Motibaug is close to being danger- pitches to play (on), so its just feels during last year's qualify- in our sporting history," underway on Friday, behaviour of three senior play- 3-0. sixth, eighth and ninth respec- ous. Two-three players were hit by a very sad,” Jaffer said. ing in Zimbabwe, but admitted captain with Scotland facing ers — Wahab Riaz, Imad Wasim, Among others batters, tively. ball and nobody is scoring more than A senior member of the lost to Ireland before rain Charles Perchard. Singapore in the opening and Haris Sohail. skipper Mithali Raj moved Among the all-rounders, 150-160 runs. Vidarbha’s coaching staff believes cut short their tense run "It's a dream of ours Group A game, while “Several times he felt they down to the seventh spot Deepti Sharma has moved “Our tournament was (sup- that the match-referee should submit chase against two-time to potentially play in a Ireland take on Hong were making excuses to shy while her Harmanpreet Kaur down to the third place while pose) to start on 24th (September) a detailed report about the condition world champions the World Cup next year... Kong and the UAE play away from training and proper rose in the rankings to the Shikha Pandey broke into the but then there was rain for two of pitches to the BCCI. West Indies. "We're a small island Oman in Group B. nets. He got the feeling they had occupy the 17th place. top 10. some sort of excuse ready to go easy on their training,” the source said. “Batsman, Haris Sohail has    +     developed a painful habit of making excuses for having some niggling problem or pain when ( 34 2356# Fest for sure!” asked to push himself in training. Talking about the semi- “Another problem which ith the VIVO Pro finals Fazel Sultan Atrachali, confronts Misbah is that most of WKabaddi League Season Captain of U Mumba, said the players don’t appear to have Seven entering its penulti- “The last match with Haryana the cricket discipline to follow mate phase, the semi-finals, was very difficult as Haryana and execute plans on the field all eyes are on the star athletes had played us very recently which are discussed in the dress- who have pushed their teams and they knew our gameplay. ing room.” towards the coveted title. They had strategized accord- The source said at one stage Defending champions ingly to ensure the best result. Misbah even felt that the deci- Bengaluru Bulls have rode on However, it was a very impor- sion of former head coach Pawan Sehrawat’s raiding tant time for me because in Mickey Arthur to keep left-arm 2I )    ! & brilliance all season but they the last season, we qualified to pacer Wahab Riaz out of the will be up against League the playoffs and then could- team was understandable. toppers Dabang Delhi KC, nt go further so I wanted to The long-serving former    &   > ! who have with them another not repeat the same mistake. Pakistan captain is also not brilliant talent in raider Yesterday's game was really pleased that some players are also (  6# a Test match and Rabada, who Naveen Kumar. In the second good because we won such a not displaying the required pro- is South Africa’s leading seam- semi-final, Bengal Warriors tough match so the team is fessional standards. he demoralising defeats at er, only has four wickets from will face an in-form U very motivated and confi- “Two players bluntly Tthe hands of India in the two matches in this series. Mumba side, who outclassed dent. We have strategized informed their team’s head first two Tests has forced South “They got the ball to a strong Haryana Steelers focusing on defence and when coaches that they would reach African paceman Kagiso reverse and they bowled well as unit in the Eliminators. we have a controlled defence for the National T20 Rabada to think if his side can a collective. Their whole attack we perform really well. Even Championship matches in be put under more pressure. put pressure on us in every sin- BATTLE OF RAIDERS Future Kabaddi Heroes Bengal Warriors has a good Faisalabad on the morning of the India’s top-order fired in gle aspect. Their spinners For most parts of this sea- (FKH) programme, has 19 defence but I think we can games. When Misbah came to unison to bury South Africa bowled well and when the ball son, Pawan Sehrawat has consecutive Super 10s this overcome that. We need to know about this he told the under a mountain of runs in was reversing their seamers looked the best Kabaddi play- season (268 points from 21 concentrate on team work head coaches they should be both the Tests, where they could exploit that. We didn’t er in the country, and he has matches), and will be a force and not depend on any one more firm with the players and amassed 500 and 600 in the first really get the ball to reverse and carried that form into the to reckon with. With both the player during the match, ensure they joined their provin- innings in Visakhapatnam and that’s a major weapon of ours,” crucial, knockout stages of raiding departments looking everyone has to support each cial team a day before the match- Pune. he explained. the competition. His 20-point strong, the match will most other and play as a unit.” es,” one source said. “We’ve been put under Rabada is hoping that this performance was vital in likely be won by the defence. Talking about the semi- Misbah is also surprised that immense pressure. I don’t know phase will be over soon. Bulls’ comeback victory finals Joginder Narwal, Arthur and the ex-support staff if we can be put more pressure “It’s never nice to lose, against UP Yoddha in the “WELL-BALANCED” SIDES Captain of Dabang Delhi, didn’t pay enough attention to than that,” Rabada told especially in the manner we’re Eliminators and the defend- Bengal Warriors, said “The season has been developing proper batsmen in all reporters. losing right now but we’re ing champions will once arguably, have been the most tough and the competition formats and didn’t look beyond The 24-old year old pace- going through a transition peri- again be reliant on the High- complete side in Season 7, during the league stage is Babar Azam. man acknowledged that not od. Our team is fresh and Flyer for the raid points with their defence and attack high. The team worked hard “It is not a very happy situ- only Indian batsmen but their young, so the best thing we can against Delhi, especially with firing hand in hand. But they and emerged as table toppers, ation now and one can expect bowlers also outsmarted them. do is look at where we can Rohit Kumar still looking will be facing a U Mumba, we wish to continue the Misbah to take some hard deci- It’s been a long time when improve and remember our troubled by his back injury. often called a defence-reliant momentum and give our best sions as chief selector while South Africa took 20 wickets in strengths and build on them.” Pawan has 328 points from 23 team, who have discovered a 81 points so far) and Sandeep quality match. During my during the semi-finals. We selecting the T20 and Test squads matches this season, includ- new dimension through two Narwal in red-hot form. But school days I played a match have always taken one game for the coming tour of Australia,” ing 17 Super 10s, but the young raiders — Abhishek in K Prapanjan and which ended in a draw and at a time and will do so even he said. raider will be facing a famil- Singh and Arjun Deshwal. Mohammad Nabibakhsh, the after that I played a tied game for our match against Zahid Mahmood, a leg-spin-    /!   iar foe in Delhi’s left corner The duo scored 32 points for Warriors have a great raiding in the knockout stage yester- Bengaluru Bulls. Our aim is to ner who in the past has been Ravinder Pahal. Interestingly, the Mumbai side in their unit to support Maninder. day and it was a great experi- pick the cup this year, and we ignored by the selectors and 8 I  Phil Simmons has man for the job at the right the ‘Hawk’ has a better head- Eliminator round, and with U The eliminator rounds ence to be part of it. I had lost are working towards it.” coaches, is now under the consid- returned to take charge of the time,” said CWI president to-head history against Mumba also peaking at the were testimony to the fact hope of winning but then our Talking about the semi- eration of Misbah who is not sat- West Indies three years after Ricky Skerritt. Pawan in duels (8-7), and will right time, the second semi- that there can be no clear coach motivated me and we finals Nabibaksh, Bengal isfied with the form of current being dismissed in controver- Former West Indies all- take belief from Nitesh final will be a tactical warfare. favourites in a Kabaddi had Rohit bhai's support also Warriors, said “U Mumba put team leggies, Yasir Shah and sial circumstances, Cricket rounder Simmons, 56, was Kumar’s performances for Baldev Singh (averaging 2.59 match. Expect nothing short that kept me going. There up a good game, they were on Shadab Khan. West Indies has announced. sacked in September 2016 for UP against the raider from tackles per match) and Rinku of fireworks as the most were so many exciting point with their defence and Similarly, Misbah is also on In a statement CWI said on “differences in culture and the same position. Narwal have been in good fiercely competed season of moments in the match that in offence. We are preparing for the lookout for some new pace Monday that Simmons would strategic approach” between At the other end, Naveen form for the Warriors and VIVO PKL enters the final the end turned it turned in the semi-finals and practicing bowlers and youngster Naseem be head coach for the next four with the cricket hierarchy Kumar will be keen to launch they will be keen to make life stages. our favour. It was a complete rigorously to make sure we Shah is under his scanner for the years. He led the Windies to the despite their remarkable T20 the wrecking ball onto a leaky difficult for Mumbai’s young The players had a take team effort. Our match with keep the pressure on our Australian tour. 2016 Twenty20 World Cup World Cup triumph. Bulls’ defence. Barring raiders. Maninder Singh’s on the semi-final match: Dabang Delhi KC is going to opponent from the begin- The source said it will also be before being booted out amid Simmons’ success in the Mahender Singh, no defend- injury concerns will be a Talking about the semi- be challenging, they are a ning. The match against U interesting to see whether Misbah tensions with his paymasters. T20 arena however was not er looked convincing in their concern for the Bengal team finals Pawan Hi-Flyer good and balanced team with Mumba will be a neck-to- supports Sarfaraz Ahmed to con- “Bringing Phil Simmons mirrored in Test cricket. game against UP, and in though, especially with Sehrawat, Captain of good quality defenders and neck battle and we will give tinue as a Test captain when the back is not just righting a past During his reign the West Naveen they will be facing a Mumbai corners of Fazel Bengaluru Bulls, said “It was raiders and like the previous our best to make sure we board meets to decide on the cap- wrong, but I am confident Indies won only one of 14 raider of another class. The Atrachali (top scoring a great match yesterday, I one it is going to be a close emerge victorious and tains for the Australian tour. that CWI has chosen the right Tests. PTI 19-year-old, a produce of the defender in season seven with have never played such a high call. 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 9859 the crossbar in the second-half and Bangladesh got their first Manvir mistimed his run to spurn Adil made a goalline clearance. #    opportunity in the 31st minute a header from close range. ndia snatched a 1-1 draw from The result means India move to when Biplo Ahamed sneaked into At the other end, Adil made an the jaws of defeat against much two points from three games after      the box only for Anas to intercept acrobatic clearance to save Ilower ranked Bangladesh to losing their campaign opener to    # at the right time. Gurpreet the blushes after Ziban dent their chances of qualification Oman. Bangladesh, who prior to Four minutes later, Bangladesh got behind the defence and lobbed in a Group E Asian Qualifiers for this game had lost both their       goalkeeper Ashraful was forced the ball past India's tall custodian. the FIFA World Cup tie at the matches against Afghanistan and #  5   into a fingertip save from Manvir Chhetri wasted wide from sub- packed Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Qatar, logged their first point but Singh's looping header as India kept stitute Brandon Fernandes' corner Krirangan here on Tuesday. remained at the bottom of the      7 knocking at the door. in the 76th minute as India threw A first-half strike from Saad five-team group. %  #; # But against the run of play, the kitchen sink at their lesser fan- Uddin in the 42nd minute helped India missed defensive main- Bangladesh nosed ahead three min- cied rivals. Bangladesh take a shock lead stay Sandesh Jhingan and holding    #    utes before halftime. Skipper Jamal The effort paid off as Adil against India, who are 83 places midfielder Rowliin Borges due to Bhuyan swung in a delectable free powered in a header from above them and drew 0-0 against injury and suspension respective- #   4 # #  kick for Saad to nod in past Brandon's corner at the near post Asian champions Qatar in their last ly.  5#   Gurpreet who failed to catch the to send the crowd into raptures. game. Chhetri got a chance to get ball. Chhetri dribbled past two The hosts had a flurry of India ahead in the 5th minute #   After the break, Bangladesh defenders soon after but the 35- chances to peg back with Anas when his first-time volley after > ;  #  missed a golden opportunity to year- old's shot was weak as the sta- Edathodika's shot headed out by receiving a pass from Ashique double their advantage when Sohel dium reverberated with his chants. Mohammad Ibrahim on the Kuruniyan went straight to visiting    4 Rana cut in from the left to set up The packed 65,000 spectators goalline in the second half. It was goalkeeper Ashraful Islam.   # Mohammad Ziban, whose shot were left high and dry in the end only in the 88th minute that cen- India enjoyed the lion's share of was saved well by Gurpreet. as India could not record a win tre-back Adil Khan headed in a goal ball possession and tried hard to 4   #  9 India then fluffed two gilt- which was expected. The result to equalise. open up the Bangladesh defence    edged chances at and just after the means Bangladesh, ranked 187, Bangladesh too, could have but the away side held firm as the hour mark as Anas' header was first remain unbeaten in their last three doubled their advantage as hosts fluffed their lines in the final saved on the goalline by Ibrahim meetings against India, ranked Mohammad Ibrahim's shot found third. and then in the 66th minute, 104.

ball just doesn’t want to go in,” said Portuguese midfielder Danilo. “No 3-52 + 9::;   - , need to do the maths now: we just need to win the next two games to reach Euro 2020.” Yaremchuk pounced from close          range in the sixth minute. The centre forward reacted fastest after Rui Patricio  O ,"<     0) dived to parry Serhiy Kryvtsov’s head- 0  er from a corner, and poke the ball across the line. Yarmolenko added the second when outpaced the Portuguese defence to fin- 3 &      ) !  JJ )     ish a swift counter attack with a low, crisp first-time shot.    @   JJ .   )  Portugal dominated the second half and finally achieved a break-   JJ    &&   @  !  through when Stepanenko blocked a shot with his arm, receiving his march- ing orders before Ronaldo blasted home ( 9#3? the penalty to make it 700 goals for club and country. kraine beat Portugal 2-1 on The goal was his 95th for Portugal. UMonday to clinch a place at Euro The 34-year-old is now just 14 goals 2020 despite Cristiano Ronaldo scoring behind the all-time international record his 700th career goal. of 109 held by former Iran striker Ali Roman Yaremchuk and Andriy Daei. Yarmolenko put Ukraine two goals up While the exact number of goals after 27 minutes. %?     *@    scored by some of the game’s legends is Although Ronaldo scored his land- the subject of debate, Ronaldo is agreed mark goal from the penalty spot in the Ukraine join already qualified Ukraine, have Serbia just a point behind to be the sixth player to reach 700 after 72nd minute and Taras Stepanenko was Poland, Russia, Italy and Belgium at next them with two matches remaning after Austrian Josef Bican, Brazilians Romario sent off, Ukraine held on to secure first summer’s finals, while second-placed they beat Lithuania 2-1. and Pele, Hungarian Ferenc Puskas and place in Group B. Portugal, who are eight points behind “There are days like these, when the German Gerd Muller. 3 ( 8233

orld Champion P :F WV Sindhu made an impressive start to her ( 34 2356# campaign at the Denmark Open, claiming ( 8(# for the game after racist inci- maiden BWF World tour title push- a straight-game win over dents during games against Aing him closer to top 50, Dutch Indonesia’s Gregoria Mariska ngland manager Gareth Kosovo and the Czech Republic Open champion Lakshya Sen says he will Tunjung in the women’s singles ESouthgate said his side in June. look to put up a good show in the competition here on Tuesday. made a statement by deciding “I have to say the officials remainder of the season to break into the Fifth seed Sindhu, who had to complete a 6-0 Euro 2020 were onto everything very world’s top 30. made early exits in China and qualifying win over Bulgaria quickly,” added Southgate. The 18-year-old on Sunday clinched Korea, got back her bearing as she after the match was twice halt- “We reported everything his maiden BWF World Tour title by overcame former World Junior ed by racist chanting. 43 984 # #  immediately when we heard winning the Dutch Open title, beating Champion Gregoria 22-20, 21-18 The visitors led 2-0 things, we had constant com- Yusuke Onodera of Japan 15-21, 21-14, in 38 minutes to keep her 5-0 through early goals from 0 3.53 munication with the fourth 21-15 in the summit clash. record intact against the Marcus Rashford and Ross official and the referee.” “This is the biggest title of my career Indonesian. Barkley when play was first #0#8' # 6#9 On the field, Southgate’s so far. I have reached quarters and a The Olympic Silver medallist stopped and an announcement 43I?3 -32 decision to make five changes semifinals in the past, so it is good to will now face Korea’s An Se Young made to supporters that the from the side beaten in Prague finally win a super 100 tournament. It next. game could be suspended if 8 93 48 on Friday was fully vindicated. will boost my ranking and give me a World Championships Bronze offensive chanting continued. 33 Rashford was one of those chance to play the super 500 tourna- medallist B Sai Praneeth also made Once restarted, England recalled put his Manchester ments,” Lakshya, who rose to world No it to the second round beating the quickly made it 3-0 through 355: .: United woes behind him by 52 this week said. legendary Lin Dan 21-14, 21-17 in Former Commonwealth Barkley before a second stop- 4##- 63 smashing the opener into the “At the beginning of the year, my tar- a 35-minute opening round clash. Games champion Parupalli page as Croatian referee Ivan roof of the net after just seven get was to reach the top 50 and after this It was an impressive week for the The Hyderabad shuttler is like- Kashyap, who had reached the Bebek held discussions with -3 .0 58 minutes before Barkley tapped win I would be close to that. I still have teen shuttler, who displayed superb ly to meet world No 1 and two-time semifinals at Korea Open, failed to players and coaching staff from 43 6?3 #32 home a second at the back post. few events left in the year. If I can do well temperament and skills to outwit his world champion Kento Momota of cross the opening round after los- both sides. The first stage of UEFA’s there, I can go further up. Hope I can opponents. Japan next. He had lost to Momota ing 13-21, 12-21 to Thailand’s

Raheem Sterling then net- 63 433 protocol followed as the game break into top 30 early next year.” “The first round against Nhat at the World Championships in Sitthikom Thammasin in the men’s ted twice either side of half- 8( 3?3:.82: 8 was temporarily stopped and a Lakshya will play the Saarlorlux (Nguyen) was tough, the second match Basel, Switzerland. singles. time before Harry Kane round- warning played over the loud- Open Super 100 (Oct 29-Nov 3) next, was okay but again playing (Ygor) Thailand Open champions National champion Sourabh ed off the scoring to take 63 #0#8 ❝ speaker in both Bulgarian and before participating in two International Coelho was difficult. I had played him Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Verma, who had clinched the England to the brink of quali- English that the match could be Challenge events at the Irish Open before so I was ready for a big match,” Chirag Shetty also made a good Hyderabad Open and Vietnam fication. suspended after monkey chants (November 13-16) and Scottish Open said the 2018 Asian Junior Champion. start to their men’s doubles cam- Open this year, also made an early “We know it is an unac- were aimed at England players. (Nov 21-24). He will also play the Syed “The finals was also a long match paign, beating Korean pair of Kim exit after going down 21-19, 11-21, ceptable situation,” Southgate That warning was not Modi International Super 300 (Nov 26- and I am happy how I performed over- Gi Jung and Lee Yong Dae 24-22, 17-21 to Mark Caljouw of the told British broadcaster ITV. heeded as after Barkley head- Dec 1). all in the week,” he said. 21-11 in 39 minutes. Netherlands. “I think we’ve managed to ed home Kane’s cross, there was make two statements really by a second, longer stoppage in winning the game, but also we play. have raised the awareness of was the right decision. If any- A number of Bulgarian  3#-Q3- - -  everybody to the situation. thing else happened, we would ultras were then ejected from “The game was stopped have taken appropriate action.” the stadium. twice and I know for some peo- A comprehensive victory When play did got back ( :23: ple that won’t be enough, but I was the perfect riposte for underway there were six min-   think we were as a group on Southgate’s men to their shock utes of stoppage time added ustralian captain Tim Paine board with that process.” 2-1 defeat at the Czech and the visitors used it to Ahas addressed speculation  ?0   In a statement, The English Republic on Friday and opens increase their advantage when over whether Steve Smith will Football Association said their up a three-point lead at the top Kane crossed for Sterling to this again lead the team once a ban   35.803 He’s the best keeper in the players “were subjected to of Group A. time apply an easy finish. ends in March, saying he would world. Whether that’s as cap- abhorrent racist chanting” and However, the focus was Southgate’s men could have be fully supportive if it happens ormer Australia skipper tain or not that’s up to the hier- called on UEFA to investigate again on the stands as another scored plenty more in the sec- “one day”. FRickey Ponting believes archy at Cricket Australia to immediately. England match blighted by ond-half against the dispirited Smith skippered the team Steve Smith should get anoth- make that decision. I’ve been Tyrone Mings was one of racism from opposition fans. hosts on a terrible night all until he was suspended for 12 er chance to lead the nation- on record already — when those targeted on his England After several English play- round for Bulgarian football. months over a brazen attempt al team once Tim Paine’s time Tim’s time is up I’d like to see debut. The Aston Villa defend- ers suffered racist abuse in a Sterling’s second arrived under his watch to alter the ball is up. Steve Smith have another go. er believed that stopping the qualifier away to Montenegro midway through the second- with sandpaper in Cape Town against England. day, and if he does, I’ll be fully “It’s the million-dollar ques- “I think he probably feels game did have the desired in March, Southgate had pre- half with Kane again the creator last year. Paine, who will turn 35 in supportive of it,” he told the tion: when Steve Smith’s ban like there’s unfinished business effect of reducing racist abuse pared his side to follow UEFA’s before the England captain Part of his punishment December, on Monday brushed Daily Telegraph. is up will he go straight back there as far as his captaincy’s in the second half. three-step protocol for report- finally got on the scoresheet included a further year-long off questions surrounding the Paine will not play in this into the captaincy or will he concerned. He’s got to want to “The correct steps that ing racist incidents that can himself five minutes from time. exile from any leadership role. Australian side’s future leader- summer’s Big Bash League, not?” Ponting told 7NEWS. do it and obviously then the were taken definitely helped,” lead to matches being aban- England now need just a Calls have grown for Smith to ship. instead joining broadcaster “To be honest I think it’s authorities have to say yes or said Mings. doned. point from their final two qual- take over from Paine when the “I’m enjoying having the Channel Seven’s commentary up to Tim how long he plays. no,” he added. “We made the decision at A section of 5,000 seats at ifiers against Montenegro and ban is lifted, following batting job at the moment... And I cer- team. But he will almost cer- half-time to come out and play the Vasil Levski National Kosovo next month to seal performances that helped tainly hope Steve Smith does tainly retain the captaincy for against Pakistan and New icism of his form during the the game which we thought Stadium was already closed their place at next year’s Euros. Australia retain the Ashes captain Australia again one the home summer Test series Zealand, despite occasional crit- Ashes.