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tribunals, quasi-judicial bodies vided in the name of an adult government is working tire- CRYPTIC CLUES PUZZL15386 © Gemini Crosswords 2012 All rights reserved Assam BJP that adjudicate whether some- Ujjwala woman member of a poor family lessly to give it a further impe- cratic Alliance doesn’t command one is an illegal immigrant. the scheme has over 7 lakh bene- and the beneficiary has an option tus,” he said. ACROSS a majority. Those left out of the NRC can ficiaries in Haryana, over 4.3 to avail a connection with a In his statement, Singh said 1 Drowsily giving assent? (7) But this time may be different, appeal their case to a tribunal million in Maharashtra and over 14.2kg or a 5kg cylinder. the credibility of India’s official 4 Penal reform board (5) indicated BJP state spokesper- within 120 days, and then, higher 3.2 million in Jharkhand. Uttar India has over 240 million data has been questioned, and 7 Saucy vessel (4) son Roopam Goswami. “We courts. Pradesh has over 10 million and households. An estimated 100 expressed concerns over attack 8 He’s denied freedom to express his couldn’t bring the legislation last “People out of the NRC have a Bihar over 8.5 million Ujjwala million of them do not have cook- on institutions such as the political views (8) time as we didn’t have the num- fair option of approaching the beneficiaries, the official added. ing gas connections. They rely Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 10 Kind of milk no longer to be seen? (10) 12 Start an uproarious din inside, resulting in bers in the Rajya Sabha. But by foreigners tribunals. But if we The Union cabinet in Febru- on firewood, coal, dung cakes as whose “autonomy is being a brawl (6) November, we should have see FTs are not able to solve the ary last year enhanced the target primary source of cooking, offi- eroded”. “The resilience of the 13 Seaside yarn (6) enough members in the Rajya problem, we will see what more under the scheme from 50 mil- cials said. Most of them are RBI will be tested after its record 15 That’s the last time - I always lose (5,5) Sabha to bring the bill again and we can do,” he said adding it lion to 80 million connections under BPL. These beneficiaries transfer of ₹1.76 lakh crore to the 18 It’s tied up with romance (4,4) get it passed,” he added. seemed that many genuine with a March 2020 deadline. It are identified as per Socio Eco- government, which claims that 19 Restricted sort of diet (4) A third senior leader, Silchar Indian citizens may have been allocated an additional ₹4,800 nomic Caste Census data of 2011, it does not have a plan on what it 20 Spaniard, or anyone else with a present (5) MP Rajdeep Roy, said, “We will left out. “We will make sure no crore to fund the enhanced tar- officials said. will do with this windfall,” he 21 Yet he still plays Shylock, for example (7) bring the bill. It is a matter of genuine Indian is out of the get. said. time.” NRC.” Prime Minister Narendra “India has not been able to DOWN Sarma has said Hindu He also complained that the Modi in May 2016 launched the Economy increase its exports to take 1 Illustrious old money (5) migrants should not be left out of NRC authorities were not shar- PMUY nine months before the economist, advised the govern- advantage of opportunities that 2 Sort of work in which people want to take QUICK CLUES the list. “A small portion of ing data with the government. last assembly elections in Uttar ment to involve experts irrespec- have arisen in global trade due to part? (8) ACROSS DOWN Hindu migrants have been left “We got details that over 1.9 Pradesh in the state’s Ballia dis- tive of political affiliation to geopolitical realignments. Such 3 Chap after a gnu, perhaps, is armed (6) 4 Now it’s gift time (7,3) 1 Metropolis (7) 1 Short-lived fashion (5) out of the list. They had their million people have been trict. The scheme played an avert the crisis. “Our youth, is the state of economic manage- 5 Females devoted to order (4) 4 To present for sale (5) 2 Party political programme (8) own refugee certificates, but that excluded only after the final list important role in BJP’s return to farmers and farm workers, ment under the Modi govern- 6 Turned away from a blow? (7) 7 Absent (4) 3 Slackness (6) was not taken into account. Any- was published even though we power in Uttar Pradesh after entrepreneurs and the margina- ment,” he said. 9 He hopes to find insects on tap (10) 8 Making severe demands (8) 4 Irish wit and playwright (5,5) 10 Impudent presumption (10) way, the BJP is committed to had filed an affidavit requesting over a decade. lised sections deserve better. The former prime minister 11 He will take things as they come, not lean 5 Move lightly and quickly (4) 12 Heavy load (6) passing the Citizenship Amend- for this information,” Patowary ₹8,000 crore were initially India cannot afford to continue blamed the Narendra Modi-led on an inclination (8) 6 Type of early jazz (7) 13 Optical illusion (6) 9 Remarkable (10) ment Bill in the next Parliament said adding how the NRC state allocated for the scheme and the down this path. Therefore, I urge government for the slowing eco- 12 Was displeased the flat-bottomed boat 15 English detective story 11 Eastern US state (8) session,” he told NDTV in an coordination is yet to provide target was to ensure 50 million the government to put aside ven- nomic growth. “India has the came in first (7) writer (5,5) interview. information officially on details connections in three years start- detta politics, and reach out to all potential to grow at a much 14 Plead with an individual to make himself 18 To doubt (8) 12 Curt in manner (7) scarce (6) 19 Suspend from above (4) 14 Renowned (6) The NRC published on Satur- of the inclusion and exclusion. ing from the 2016-17 financial sane voices and thinking minds, faster rate but all-round mis- 16 Keen (5) day was driven by a four-decade- “We will have more clarity once year, officials said. to steer our economy out of this management by the Modi gov- 16 Drain out the bottom (5) 20 Insincere (5) 17 New star rises at Stratford (4) 21 Thin (7) 17 Quick, furtive look (4) long agitation in Assam against the details of the final NRC list A petroleum and natural gas man-made crisis,” he said. ernment has resulted in this illegal immigrants by local com- are scrutinised,” he said – hint- ministry spokesman confirmed Finance minister Nirmala slow down,” he said. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS (15385) munities, which claimed that ing that the government was in the 80 million target would be Sitharaman hit back at Singh’s “The Modi government’s poli- foreigners were threatening the process of compiling data achieved in advance. “GoI [Gov- remarks later in the day. cies are resulting in massive job- CRYPTIC QUICK their language and culture. from the districts. ernment of India] has reim- “‘Instead of indulging in political less growth. More than 3.5 lakh To prove one’s citizenship, a Patowary also said the CAB bursed ₹10,675 crore to oil mar- vendetta, they should consult jobs have been lost in the auto- person had to prove she or her would definitely help a section of keting companies [OMCs]… sane voices?’ Has he said that? mobile sector alone. There will ancestors were in Assam before those out of the NRC but clarified [under the scheme]. The process All right, thank you, I will take similarly be large scale job losses March 25, 1971 – the day a bloody that the central government was of providing connections is his statement on it. That is my in the informal sector, hurting war of liberation began in neigh- in charge of that legislation. underway and the target of 8 answer,” she said while talking our most vulnerable workers,” bouring Bangladesh, driving Days before the NRC was pub- crore [80 million] is likely to be to reporters after addressing tax he said. tens of thousands of refugees lished, chief minister Sarba- reached soon by the OMCs,” he officials in . Asked if the Centre acknowl- into India. nanda Sonowal had hinted at said. Referring to a slew of edges that there is an economic But many local groups and “legislative measures” to Another official requesting announcements made by Sithar- slowdown, Sitharaman said, “I political parties rejected the final address problems in the NRC. anonymity said the government aman on August 23 to achieve a am meeting industries and tak- figure of 1.9 million, saying it was The Citizenship Amendment plans to set a new target after “higher economic growth”, ing their inputs, suggestions on too low. Earlier provisional lists Bill was passed in the achieving the 80 million connec- Singh said: “Budget announce- what they would want and of the NRC, published in July in January 2019 and made eligi- tions. “The idea is to provide free ments and roll-backs have expect from government, I am 2018 and June 2019, had left out ble for citizenship Hindu, Chris- gas connections to every [family shaken the confidence of inter- responding to them. I have 4.1 million people. tian, Sikh, Jain, Parsi and Bud- under the] BPL [below poverty national investors.” The already done this twice.I will do htsudoku Since the final NRC list was dhist migrants from Pakistan, line]. An announcement to this announcements to boost con- it more number of times.” published at 10am on Saturday, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. effect would be based on the sumption and uplift investor and In response to the above state- Fill in all the squares in the grid so that each row, the situation in the state has But it triggered widespread pro- assessment of PMUY after the 8 consumer sentiment included ment by the minister, Congress column and each of the 9X9 squares contains all the been peaceful, said additional tests in northeastern states, crore [80 million] target is met.” rolling back of the surcharge on general secretary Priyanka Gan- director general of police (law especially Assam, and lapsed Officials said state-run OMCs tax on foreign portfolio investors dhi Vadra said in a tweet, “Does digits from 1 to 9. and order) Mukesh Agarwal. with the general elections this have received over 100 million (FPIs) that was announced in the the government accept that DIFFDIFFICDIFFICICUULDIFFICTYUL LTYTYUL LEVETY L EVEL “But the next 48 hours are cru- summer. applications from prospective budget. there is a slowdown or not? The cial for it to settle down,” he said. Abhijit Sarma, president of consumers under the scheme “Domestic demand is FM needs to get over politicking Many people, especially in the the Assam Public Works (APW), and hence there is a scope to depressed and consumption about the state of our economy under-developed hinterlands, a Guwahati-based NGO whose extend the scheme after it growth is at an 18-month low. and come clean with the people SUDOKU>> SCAN THIS SUDOKU UNIT FOR checked their NRC status only petition to the Supreme Court in achieves the current target. Eli- Nominal GDP growth is at a of India. How do they plan to THE SOLUTION AND MANY MORE PUZZLES on Sunday. 2009 was the basis for the apex gible beneficiaries will be chosen 15-year-low. There is a gaping resolve the massive problem Many activists pointed out court ordering an update of the after a proper verification proc- hole in tax revenues. Tax buoy- they have created if they aren’t that considerable sections of the NRC in Assam, said: “Any specu- ess to ensure that they do not ancy remains elusive as busi- even ready to acknowledge it? Bengali-speaking Hindu popula- lation on the Citizenship Amend- already have connections in the nessmen, small and big, are Congress leader and Rajast- tion, which is considered a core ment Bill is premature. We first names of their other family hounded and tax terrorism con- han chief minister Ashok Gehlot vote base of the BJP, have found demand a 100% re-verification of members. tinues unabated. Investor senti- said that the former PM has been htweather themselves out of the NRC. Many the NRC.” Officials said the scheme has ments are in doldrums. These cautioning the government of these communities fled vio- On Sunday, NRC authorities offered the poor clean cooking are not the foundations for eco- about “repercussions” of demon- ALMANAC TEMPERATURE lence and riots in the then East admitted that the number of fuel option as about 86% of the nomic recovery,” Singh said. etisation and GST disasters. “He Today is 2nd September, 2019 IN FOUR METROS Pakistan. applicants published at the final beneficiaries, who have got the Chief economic adviser KV is reaching out to Govt again to ● 2-Muharram 1441 Delhi “Our families barely escaped stage was 36,277 more than what connections at least a year back, Subramanian has ascribed the listen to sane voices and make    ● Bhadrapada, 34°c I 27°c Shukla Paksha, 4 Generally cloudy sky Generally cloudy sky Generally cloudy sky the violence and fled to India. So was published at the draft stage have bought second refills. Their slowdown in GDP growth to a amends for sake of country’s ● Samvat 2076 Mumbai many years later, how can we be in July 2018. average gas consumption is mix of domestic and global fac- economy & people, who are los- with light rain with light rain or with light rain Sunset: Monday 31°c I 25°c drizzle at 06:42 p.m. told we are not Indian?” asked On condition of anonymity, a about 4.8 cylinders per annum, tors and said the economy will be ing jobs....will Govt pay heed?,” Sunrise: Tuesday Kolkata 32-year-old Hari Arja after find- senior NRC official attributed they said. on a high-growth path “very Gehlot tweeted. at 05:59 a.m. 33°c I 27°c ing him and his family excluded the error to digitization prob- Under PMUY, a subsidy of soon”. The official Twitter handle of 34°c I 27°c 33°c I 27°c 32°c I 27°c Moonrise: Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. Chennai from the NRC. lems but said that the error was ₹1,600 for a deposit-free LPG con- Singh said that the govern- the Communist Party of India • • Moonset: Tuesday 35°c I 26°c Senior cabinet minister and spotted before the final list was nection is provided to an eligible ment’s claim of keeping the infla- (Marxist) also posted about the at 09:43 p.m. government spokesperson out on Saturday. Redressal for poor household, besides an tion level under check is at the state of the economy. “Chickens Chandra Mohan Patowary said any further such errors would be interest-free loan to purchase a cost of dwindling income of are coming home to roost! Modi thought it was bat so I didn’t than, replaced ESL Narasimhan. Constitution. The Governor on the state government would dependent on the Supreme stove and refills, officials quoted farmers. “Rural India is in terri- Govt’s disastrous policies such appeal so much, but it was a good The 58-year-old is a physician- behalf of President is to oversee increase the number of foreigner Court, he added. above said. A connection is pro- ble shape. Farmers are not as #Demonetisation & #GST review in the end. So, I think, I turned-politician who took the that everything is in letter and receiving adequate prices and broke the back of the #Economy owe that hat-trick to the cap- political plunge in 1999. She spirit with the provisions laid rural incomes have declined. and then coverup & denial of the tain,” Bumrah told Kohli in an started with the BJP’s south down in the Constitution,” he The low inflation rate that the crisis we are in is driving the interview for bcci.tv. Chennai wing and occupied vari- told ANI. Modi government likes to show- Economy to the brink of abyss.” The Gujarat bowler is steam- ous positions over the years. She Dattatreya thanked Prime case comes at the cost of our ing ahead, having taken 61 wick- was appointed the Minister Narendra Modi and farmers and their incomes, by ets halfway into his 12th Test. He BJP chief in 2014. home minister Amit Shah after inflicting misery on over 50 per Hat-trick hero became the fastest Indian pacer “I chose the BJP despite grow- being appointed the governor of cent of India’s population,” he home (318 runs). That effort had to 50 Test wickets in the Antigua ing up as daughter of a Congress Himachal Pradesh. “They have said. The consumer price index- meant that Bumrah took a five- Test. His pace, accuracy and a leader... The biggest challenge in given this responsibility to me as based inflation fell to 3.15% in for in each away series he has fig- cool head saw former Windies my life was to stay determined the governor of Himachal Pra- July this year compared to 3.18% ured in so far — South Africa, pace great Andy Roberts hail about my decision to join BJP desh and I will work as per the in the previous month and 4.17% England, Australia and now Bumrah as the best Indian fast and make a mark for myself Constitution,” Dattatreya was in July 2018 because of modera- West Indies. He is yet to play a bowler he has seen. without any hurdles,” she told quoted as saying by news agency tion in food prices and fall in fuel Test at home. Kohli has repeatedly picked reporters. ANI. prices. Bumrah finished with a Bumrah as the most valuable Mishra (78) had resigned from (With inputs from agencies) Former union minister and career-best innings haul of 6/27 player in the side, and the team the central government in 2017 spokesperson of the Bharatiya as the West Indies innings was management has carefully man- as minister for micro, small and Janata Party (BJP) Syed Shah- wrapped up on Sunday. Each of aged his workload. After Satur- medium enterprises after cross- nawaz Hussain blamed the his three-in-a-row the previous day’s play, Bumrah said the key ing the age of 75, which is the Man acquitted by Singh-led United Progressive day were off pitched-up deliver- was not getting carried away by BJP’s unofficial age limit to hold Alliance (UPA) government for ies, removing Darren Bravo, a helpful pitch, but show disci- elected posts. A senior leader of “many problems” that the econ- Shamrah Brooks and Roston pline. In Antigua, he advised Ish- Uttar Pradesh BJP, he was the HC of kidnapping, omy was currently facing. “The Chase. Still, he almost didn’t ant Sharma to bowl cross-seam party’s state unit chief earlier. economy has still not recovered have the hat-trick but for skipper as the ball was not moving, and Koshyari replaced Vidyasa- raping of minor from the impact of the wrong Virat Kohli insisting on a review the senior pro finished with a gar Rao in Maharashtra while economic policies of the Manmo- after Chase was ruled not out five-wicket haul. Khan took over in from P IANS

han Singh government. India’s with the bowler barely appealing India can be assured Bum- Sathasivam, the former Chief n [email protected] growth rate is much better than for leg before. rah’s potent mix of skill and Justice of India. other countries despite a global “Actually I didn’t know, I was awareness will power them on in Announcing the names of the NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court slowdown. The Narendra Modi not very sure of the appeal, I bigger battles ahead. new governors, the Rashtrapati has upheld a trial court order Bhavan said: “The above that acquitted a man accused of appointments will take effect raping a minor girl after the Governors from the dates they assume prosecution failed to prove that Kalraj Mishra was trans- charge of their respective offi- he kidnapped her forcefully. ferred from Himachal Pradesh to ces.” In 2017, a POCSO court in the In Loving Memory of be appointed the governor of Khan said his appointment national capital had acquitted Sh. Pawan Kumar Goyal Rajasthan, where he replaced was another opportunity to Kaishar Ali, who was held on the 22-06-1944 - 02-09-2011 Kalyan Singh. Former Union serve the country. “I will try to charges of kidnapping and rap- minister Bandaru Dattatreya serve the people of the state. I ing a minor under Sections 363, Its been a long time since I lost replaced Mishra in Himachal have not received the letter yet 366, 376 of the Indian Penal Code you and I never thought you Pradesh. and have been told by my and Section 6 of the Protection of would go like this. People say Soundararajan, daughter of friends. The role is to ensure that Children from Sexual Offences time heals every pain but I still former Tamil Nadu Congress government functions in accord- (POCSO) Act. miss you every single day. Miss you Papa……. Love Anu unit president Kumari Anan- ance with the provisions of the The girl’s father had filed a complaint against Ali claiming that he had kidnapped his daughter. However, the girl in In Fond Memory of her statements recorded before Mr. S.K. Sharma the Magistrate said she had gone 15.12.1938 - 02.09.2010 with him voluntarily after her last board exam as she liked him We will remember you forever. Not just as a memory but as and they planned to get married. an inspiration for how to live A high court division bench, life to the fullest at all times. presided by Justices Manmohan Saurabh, Kalpita, Aditya, and Sangita Dhingra Sehgal, Arush, Dr. Anand, Mohan, upheld Ali’s acquittal saying Naresh. M- 9810456026. that the element of intention, which is an “essential ingredient in such cases”, was missing, Remembrance and the girl in her statement said Sdn. Manmohan Kaur she went with him of her own Sawhney W/o Late will. S. Amar Singh Sawhney “Though this court is in agree- On 6th Death Anniversary. ment with the contention of the You live in our heart and soul prosecution that the prosecutrix forever. No word can express our feelings of your loss, We was a minor on the date of the remember and miss you every incident, yet the element of mens moment. Fondly Remembered rea (intention), which is an and Deeply Missed by All Family and Relatives. essential ingredient of Sections Management and Staff Amar Travels India. 363/366/376 IPC is missing,” the court said. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 08 nation hindustantimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 htspspotlight t g t NRC FINAL LIST C L A U S E 6 OF ASSAM ACCORD Uncertainty over citizenship Panel member seeks firm steps to safeguard natives Zia Haq

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FINAL LIST Exclusions from the NRC list foment resentment and suffering among Bengali-speaking Hindu communities GUWAHATI: A high-level commit- tee formed by the Modi govern- Dhrubo Jyoti and Sadiq Naqvi zenship amendment bill and ment to protect the ethnicity of

n [email protected] found takers especially among native Assamese will have to rec- those who migrated because of ommend measures that will BARPETA/GUWAHATI: Durga Puja is religious persecution,” he added. “adequately offset the public’s barely a month away, but the fes- The bill promises citizenship to dissatisfaction” with the out- tive mood has been punctured by non-Muslim refugees, who have come of the National Register of the final National Register of Citi- come to India from Bangladesh, Citizens (NRC), a member of the zens (NRC) in the Bengali-domi- Pakistan, and Afghanistan. panel has told Hindustan Times. nated village of Khairabari in But after Saturday’s final NRC The committee’s mandate is to lower Assam’s Barpeta district. list, a perception has taken hold suggest steps to accomplish the This year, Bikash Saha and that large numbers of Bengali- objectives set out in Clause 6 of Dilip Kumar Basak were plan- speaking Hindu people have been the landmark Assam Accord. ning to celebrate the 50th anni- excluded. This perception has This is the first time a member of versary of their neighbourhood been fuelled by comments made the panel, Pallab Bhattacharya, puja with a ~10 lakh replica of by senior BJP leaders them- has spoken on the mandate Gujarat’s imposing Somnath selves, such as state unit chief before the panel in the context of temple as the pandal. But neither Ranjeet Kumar Dass. Dass said an updated citizens’ register families made it to the final citi- many refugees, who came to released on Saturday. “We have n Activists of Sachetan Nagarik Mancha Axom during a silent zen’s register. India before 1971, were not seen that the NRC exercise demonstration against NRC in New Delhi on August 17. SONU MEHTA/HT “It seems like they are deter- n From left: Several members of included and people with sur- hasn’t been to the satisfaction of mined to not accept many of us the Arja family have been names such as “names like Saha, a large number of organisations mittee now,” he said. Bangladesh, from where peo- Bengalis,” said Basak, who runs excluded from NRC. Padma Ganguly, Biswas etc. were inten- and the people. This has made Bhattacharya said a defini- ple have supposedly migrated an iron welding shop. He had sub- Saha looks through her tionally excluded”. our task both complicated and tion of who is an indigenous or unabatedly, does not accept that mitted his father Narayan Chan- documents, in Barpeta on There appeared to be three big onerous,” Bhattacharya said. Assamese person was suggested these are its citizens and, in most dra Basak’s citizenship certifi- Sunday. HT PHOTO reasons for the exclusion. One, The Assam Accord, an agree- in 2012 by the Pranab Gogoi com- cases, there is no cate given at a refugee camp in that many such families only had ment, was signed in 1985 between mittee, which many parties had evidence to suggest that they Coochbehar in 1956. name. cate from 1962 and her a docu- nate the Barak Valley and many their so-called citizenship cards, the then Rajiv Gandhi govern- accepted. belong to that country. It is this Saha, who lives in a small two- “We gave our refugee card, our ment showing her father’s name of them carry the scars of vio- issued at refugee camps, to show ment and the All Assam Stu- Bhattacharya said indigenous complexity that the updated citi- bedroom house inside a slum, has voter ID and our PAN card. We do on the 1971 voter roll. lence from East Pakistan towns as proof of their presence in dents’ Union (AASU), ending a people will also need “protection zens’ register, which weeded out bigger problems. He was dubbed not know if they want to throw “She went for a hearing three and villages where clashes Assam before March 25, 1971 – the six-year mass movement against of their right to land”, meaning 1.9 million residents, sought out a D or doubtful voter five years out all Bengalis. Maybe they do times. We are not worried about erupted even before Partition. cutoff date for citizenship. migrants alleged to have settled possibly that it would recom- to address through a labyrin- ago. Saha has since been fighting not want us here,” he said. the appeal because we have the The University of Delhi sociol- In a report to the Supreme illegally from neighbouring mend measures to put restric- thine bureaucratic process. a case against his designation as HT found similar expressions documents but this is humiliat- ogist Nabanipa Bhattacharjee Court in 2016, state NRC coordi- Bangladesh. tions on who could purchase A tricky question before the D voter in the Barpeta foreigners of exclusion and worry through- ing, and nothing but harass- said the migration into Assam nator Prateek Hajela cited many Clause 6 of the agreement land in the state. The question of panel is a standard definition of tribunal. His dubious citizenship out Bengali Hindu settlements in ment,” she added. was spurred on by the inclusion reasons for not accepting citizen- states that “Assamese people” land isn’t part of the clause 6. who is a native in a state that is a status has meant that his two Barpeta, Guwahati, Hojai, and Three hundred kilometres of Sylhet in East Pakistan follow- ship certificates and refugee reg- would have “constitutional, leg- Although these reference virtual museum of many ethnici- children have also been struck off Silchar. away in Hailakandi, pan shop ing a referendum and partition of istration certificates, key among islative and administrative safe- points were outlined in a public ties and races. Bhattacharya the citizenship rolls. Guwahati’s Panbazar area is a owner Raghunath Das would Assam in 1947 and further bal- them being that the issuing guards, as may be appropriate to advertisement on August 22, said a definition of Assamese/ “We are not sure what to do world away from the slushy mud have nodded in agreement. The looned in the aftermath of com- authority’s offices had closed protect, preserve and promote” Bhattacharya said it is possible indigenous was suggested in 2012 now,” said Saha’s wife, Padma. roads of Khairabari, but surgeon 55-year-old was born to parents, munal riots in 1950. down, making verification their “cultural, social, linguistic that, additionally, it could look by the Pranab Gogoi committee, “What do we have to fear? We Paromita Chakraborty is as wor- who fled violence in East Paki- The Barak Valley – comprising impossible. These documents identity and heritage.” into regions within the state which many parties had have papers. We will appeal,” she ried as Saha. stan and was the fourth of five the Muslim-majority districts of were also found prone to forgery. The Modi government had to where the largest numbers of accepted. “We will work on it and said, waving a sheaf of photocop- Chakraborty hails from a brothers and a sister. His parents Hailakandi and Karimganj and The top court allowed the certifi- reconstitute the committee on alleged “foreigners” had settled look into suggestions, consult all ied documents. respected Hindu family. But on spent most of their life travelling the Hindu-majority district of cate to be used, but after greater July 16 after members of an ear- between 1951 and 1971. tribes and academics.” Pranab Not everyone is as upbeat. the draft list released in June last across the state with the eldest Cachar – was an early hunting scrutiny. lier panel had resigned, protest- “We have to look at these pla- Gogoi is a former speaker of the Across Khairabari, where many year, she found that she and her brother, Chunilal, who was in the ground for the BJP. An over- The BJP appears to be aware of ing the Modi government’s deci- ces and ascertain how have ille- state’s legislative assembly. Hindu Bengali-speaking families sisters’ names were missing. In border force. As a result, they whelming majority of the seats it this. Dilip Paul, a BJP legislator sion to amend the Citizenship gal migrations impacted people Professor Sandhya Goswami, settled down after fleeing riots addition, her husband, Pinaki never got any documents made or won in the state in the early 90s from Silchar said the NRC final Act to grant non-Muslim in these regions in the state. We a political scientist who retired and religious persecution in erst- Bhattacharjee, and their son stayed at a place for long enough came from the region. list was a “flop show” and admit- migrants from Bangladesh citi- do not know what has been the from Gauhati University, said while East Pakistan, the exclu- were also out of the NRC. “We to be included on the voter rolls. Political commentator ted that the party was under some zenship rights. impact on their culture or lan- the citizens’ register could be sion from the NRC has fomented thought it was a clerical error. My “I do not think they ever Sushanta Talukdar said the pressure after many Bengali Hin- The committee has invited guage,” Bhattacharya said. improved upon but it ought not resentment and suffering. husband’s grandfather sold land thought we will need documents refusal of mainstream parties to dus found themselves excluded suggestions from the public for Assam’s “anti-foreigner agita- to be rejected outright. “We can- Hari Arja, for example, had to to the then chief minister Gopi- this badly. When the NRC process deal with the citizenship anxie- from the NRC. “We will bring the the proposed recommendations, tion” in the 1980s, which led to not go on fighting about the num- pawn his wife’s gold earrings for nath Bordoloi in 1951, and their began in 2015, I had no papers of ties of the local population in CAB. Just wait and watch. It is a which will have to be submitted the signing of the Assam Accord, ber and, in my view, anybody ~7,000 to attend a hearing on his family draws lineage from the my own,” said Das. He ultimately Barak left an opening for the BJP. matter of time,” added Rajdeep by September 20. was prompted by historical who has fully assimilated within NRC status in August. He had chief priests of the Kamakhya submitted his school-admission Over time, the party expanded its Ray, the Silchar MP. “Our feedback tells us that the waves of migration from Bangla- Assam’s culture is an Assamese. submitted documents that temple. I utterly fail to under- certificate from 1969 and his base to other pockets in the state. “Since the beginning, the BJP entire people of the state is look- desh. Locals say they feel Of course, this is not the same as showed his grandfather Mahadev stand what happened,” she said. brother’s service record certifi- Though Talukdar is careful to has been promising to protect the ing up to us and the clause 6 com- swamped by illegal migrants. an indigenous person.” Das, who fled to India from then On Saturday, she was relieved cate, but still found himself out of mention other parties such as the interests of Bengali-speaking East Pakistan, was on the 1970 to see that she, her husband and the NRC. “I do not know how to Congress continue to have some Hindus and bring the citizenship voter list, but failed to finally son had made it. But her elderly appeal or what more I can get,” he traction among Bengali speakers. amendment bill but it has prove that he was indeed the mother, 75-year-old Sulekha said. “These communities were suf- betrayed these people. They used Entry errors caused grandson – a consequence of the Chakraborty, had not. Sulekha, Bengali-speaking Hindu com- fering on the question of voting the bill only for polarisation and family taking to the Arya Samaj who hails from Tezpur, had sub- munities comprise over 6 million rights or citizenship. In this con- votes,” said Ripun Bora, state faith and changing their sur- mitted her matriculation certifi- people across Assam. They domi- text, the BJP brought up the citi- Congress chief. mismatch: Official Sadiq Naqvi There were issues NRC exclusion will n [email protected] Four reasons people didn’t make it to list ›with digitisation of GUWAHATI: The total number of not deprive citizens Sadiq Naqvi gal--a birth certificate, another applicants and applications some applications which n Mamata Banerjee n [email protected] certificate issued by the village made public in the final list of the was corrected of their rights or headman, and a school leaving National Register of Citizens is GUWAHATI: The final list of the certificate. higher than the respective fig- subsequently. Mamata intensifies National Register of Citizens Krishna Karmakar said her ures in the July 2018 draft list, SENIOR OFFICIAL entitlements: MEA (NRC) was released on Saturday name not being in the final NRC authorities said on Sunday, HT Correspondent and excluded a little over 1.9 mil- means multiple trips to foreign- attributing the mix-up to an attack on Centre,

n [email protected] lion people. HT takes a look at the ers’ tribunals to appeal her case. error in digitisation of records. issued as applications which got reasons why some people could “They should bring in the Citi- When the NRC state coordina- mixed up with others were highlights Gorkhas’ NEW DELHI: The central govern- not make it to the register: zenship (Amendment) Bill to help tor Prateek Hajela’s office sorted out and applicants were ment said on Sunday said the 1.9 people who are finding it difficult announced the final list on Sat- informed,” said the second offi- million people left out of the BABUL HAJONG to prove their citizenship through urday, the total number of appli- cial. exclusion from list National Register of Citizens A Congress worker, Babul documents,” he said, referring to cants was 33,027,661. In the July A deputy commissioner of one (NRC) in Assam wouldn’t become Hajong, said his wife, Monica, legislation that promises citizen- 2018 draft list, the number stood of the districts in Assam HT Correspondent

“stateless” or “foreigners” until and daughter, Rashika, did not ship to non-Muslim refugees at 32,991,384 — a mismatch of explained that the applications n [email protected] they have exhausted their right to make it to the final NRC list as his from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and 36,277. Similarly, the total num- were first scanned and subse- seek legal remedies. father’s relief eligibility certifi- n People stand in a queue to check their names on the final list of Afghanistan. ber of applications on Saturday quently the names of the family KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minis- The statement issued by the cate, a yellowing frayed docu- the National Register of Citizens in Morigaon on August 31. AFP FILE was 6,837,660, higher than the members on those applications ter Mamata Banerjee on Sunday external affairs ministry was an ment he has laminated and kept TAMEJ ALI July 2018 figure of 6.831 million. were manually fed into the soft- targeted the Narendra Modi gov- apparent response to strong criti- safely, was not accepted. “My ing to give him documents college to work at a pharmacy, is In June, Tamej Ali, a resident of A senior official connected to ware. This process may have led ernment for the second time since cism by global rights groups and uncles and aunts are there in the because his father has been worried that foreigners’ tribu- Goraimari of Assam, was a happy the NRC exercise clarified that to data entry errors, he added. the publication of the final international media, which had NRC. So, I do not understand why marked a Doubtful (D) voter or a nals may not be fair. “They are man. In his large family of 36 peo- the rise in number was not The first official said the National Register of Citizens reported on the uncertain future have they rejected us,” he said. “I suspected foreigner. He is yet to known to declare foreigners even ple, 32 had made it to the draft because of any new application, mix-up did not lead to any (NRC) for Assam, expressing con- of those excluded from the NRC. do not know what to do next,” he get a chance to prove he is a citi- while people have documents,” NRC list and just four – most of the deadline for which was wrongful adjudication of citizen- cern over exclusion of 1.9 million Some 1.9 million people found said. Hajong thinks there will cer- zen before a foreigners tribunal. he said. them children – were out. But August 2015. ship or additional exclusions, names from the final list. themselves out of the final ver- tainly be adverse consequences “I have applied for a passport, but Sayeed said his name not being someone named John Kalita filed He said the number had gone because people had the opportu- After raising the issue of exclu- sion of the NRC published on Sat- for him and his family because of they refused it. I applied for a in the NRC means that problems an objection against their inclu- up due to data entry errors and nity to file claims against their sion of Bengali-speaking people urday after an effort aimed at the exclusion. driving license thrice but they will only grow from here. sion. The family had no idea who digitisation problems. exclusion. on Saturday, the Trinamool Con- ending a four-decade movement Hajong lives in Derapathar, a would not give me because my Kalita is. The family had submit- “There were issues with digi- Any mix-up between two fam- gress (TMC) chief on Sunday against illegal immigrants, but village in the Lanka Circle of father is a D Voter,” he said. CHAMPA GHOSH ted as proof a document that tisation of some applications ilies may have had an impact on expressed shock over exclusion whose outcome left even many of Hojai district, where people say That his father has been KARMAKAR showed his grandfather, Mecher which was corrected subse- the family-tree verification stage of members of the Gorkha com- its original backers dissatisfied. mainly refugees settled there in marked as a D Voter means Champa Karmakar, a housewife Ali, as being included in the 1966 quently,” said the top official on of the NRC, where families were munity. “Earlier I was not aware “Exclusion from the NRC has 1967. The residents belong to com- Ahmed and his two sisters are in Hojai town of central Assam, voter list, but to no avail. When condition of anonymity. “For called for a physical hearing and of the full NRC fiasco. As more no implication on the rights of an munities like Hajongs, Garos, also out of the NRC list because D could not make it to the final NRC the final NRC list came out on Sat- example forms of a family of 10 asked to prove their ancestry and more information is coming individual resident in Assam. For Dalus and Bengali-speaking Hin- voters, declared foreigners and list. Her husband Krishna Kar- urday, the entire family found members and another family of and lineage. in, we are shocked to see that those who are not in the final list dus, who fled post-partition vio- those with cases pending in for- makar heads the Bharatiya Jan- themselves excluded from the cit- 15 members got mixed up and fed When asked how the authori- names of more than 1 lakh Gor- will not be detained and will con- lence in then East Pakistan and eigners tribunals and their ata Party’s IT cell in Hojai dis- izens’ register. “They said there as being from the same family,” ties would deal with complaints kha people have been excluded tinue to enjoy all the rights as came to India before 1966. descendants are automatically trict. Krishna Karmakar said he was a legacy data problem. We added the official. from applicants about possible from the list,” she wrote in a before till they have exhausted all excluded from the NRC. did not know which one of her can go to court but have never A second official said the prob- exclusion from the final list due series of tweets on Sunday. the remedies available under the ABU SAYEED AHMED He said 31 members of his documents got rejected. heard of a foreigners’ tribunal,” lem was rectified after the draft to the above mentioned technical “In fact, names of thousands law,” external affairs ministry Abu Sayeed Ahmed lives in Bar- extended family failed to make it Champa is from Hoogly dis- he said, referring to the quasi-ju- was published in July 2018. “New errors, the official said, “It would and thousands of genuine Indi- spokeperson Raveesh Kumar peta Road town of lower Assam to the final list. trict of West Bengal. She submit- dicial bodies that decide whether application receipt numbers (a depend on the Supreme Court ans, including those of CRPF and said in the statement. and is used to authorities refus- Ahmed, who dropped out of ted documents from West Ben- someone is an illegal immigrant. unique 21 digit number) were and its orders.” other jawans, family members of “It does not make the excluded former President Fakhruddin Ali person ‘Stateless’. It also does not Ahmed, have been excluded.” make him or her a ‘Foreigner’, NRCdiary “Government must take care that within the legal meaning of the Indigenous leaders push genuine Indians are not left out term. They will not be deprived of HOW CAN PEOPLE MUSLIM BODY HITS and justice is meted out to all of any rights or entitlements which ENSURE NO ONE IS LEFT STATELESS, our genuine Indian brothers and they have enjoyed before.” for NRC list in Tripura NOT IN NRC MOVE OUT AT IMRAN AND sisters.” The statement further said: TRIBUNAL: EX-CM UN REFUGEE CHIEF IN LETTER TO GOVT OWAISI OVER NRC Political strategist Prashant “Any decision that is taken dur- HT Correspondent mous council in Tripura under BERLIN: The top UN refugee official has urged India to ensure that no one Kishor, whose Indian Political GUWAHATI: Senior Congress leader of GUWAHATI: An apex body of 21 ing the process of implementa- n [email protected] Article 244 of the Constitution is left stateless by the exclusion of nearly 2 million people from a citizen- Action Committee was roped in Assam Tarun Gogoi on Sunday asked indigenous Muslim organisations in tion of the NRC, will be within the and inclusion of the indigenous ship list in Assam state. Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for by the TMC in June this year for how the government asked the 1.9 Assam on Sunday slammed Pakistan four corners of the Indian law and NEW DELHI: A day after the final Kokborok language in Roman refugees, voiced his concern in a statement issued Sunday in Geneva. He an image makeover drive, also million people left out of the final Prime Minister Imran Khan for his said that “any process that could leave large numbers of people without a consistent with India’s demo- National Register of Citizens scripts under the Eighth Sched- NRC list to move the Foreigners comments on NRC saying he has no used the microblogging site to nationality would be an enormous blow to global efforts to eradicate cratic traditions.” (NRC) was published in Assam, ule of the Constitution in govern- Tribunals for inclusion of their names locus standi on the issue and they express his concern. “A botched statelessness”. He urged India to ensure no one ends up stateless, “includ- Anyone excluded from the a panel comprising members of ment-run schools in the state. as they have not been declared have been living in the state peace- up NRC leaves lakhs of people as ing by ensuring adequate access to information, legal aid, and legal NRC has the right to file an appeal the indigenous Tiprasa commu- Demanding an updation of cit- foreigners. The Assam government fully for generations. Sayed Muminul foreigners in their own country! recourse in accordance with the highest standards of due process.” About within 120 days of receiving a nity from neighbouring Tripura izens’ register in Tripura, Deb- has asked those excluded from NRC to Aowal, president of the apex body of Such is the price people pay when 32.9 million people were included on the list, according to a statement notification of exclusion to the held a demonstration demand- barman said: “We stand opposed appeal to the Foreigners’ Tribunals, indigenous Muslim organisations, also political posturing & rhetoric is Saturday from Assam’s government, leaving out 1.9 million. The Assam designated tribunal. All appeals ing protection of their rights. to the Centre’s intention to bring promising them legal support. asked Hyderabad MP Asaduddin misunderstood as solution for government on Saturday claimed many genuine Indian citizens had been and excluded cases will be exam- The delegation, led by Tripura in the Citizenship Amendment Instead of the Tribunals, Gogoi has Owaisi not to try to incite the people complex issues related to left out of the final National Register of Citizens (NRC), but said they do called for an appellate body headed of Assam with wrong information on ined by the tribunal through a Congress president Pradyot Bill. If that happens, then there not need to panic as they have option to appeal in the Foreigners Tribunal. national security without paying judicial process that will begin Debbarman, demanded a central will be no justice for the indige- by a retired Supreme Court judge to the issue of National Register of attention to strategic & systemic after the appellate period is over. government-funded autono- nous Tiprasa.” hear the cases of those excluded. Citizens. challenges,” Kishore tweeted. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 hindustantimes nation 09 JAWAN KILLED IN Imran, Sanders Asked Pak for immediate SHELLING ALONG Pakistan to grant attack India over LOC IN POONCH consular access Kashmir issue Press Trust of India Imtiaz Ahmad remedial action: Centre n [email protected] to Jadhav today n [email protected] JAMMU: An Army jawan was ISLAMABAD : Pakistan Prime Min- CONVERSION OF SIKH GIRLS Protests held outside Pakistan High Commission in Delhi killed on Sunday as Pakistan vio- Imtiaz Ahmad ister Imran Khan on Sunday lated ceasefire by resorting to n [email protected] asked the international commu- Press Trust of India mortar shelling and small arms nity to recognise the grave threat n [email protected] firing on forward posts and villa- ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday to regional and world peace ges along the Line of Control in said it has granted India consular posed by a nuclear-armed India NEW DELHI: In the wake of forced Poonch district of Jammu and access to Kulbhushan Jadhav “taken over by the Hindu conversion of two Sikh girls in Kashmir, officials said. and Indian officials will be supremacist group, Rashtriya Pakistan, India on Sunday The soldier, manning a for- allowed to meet him on Monday. Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)”. expressed strong concern over ward post, was killed in the firing In a tweet, the Pakistani For- “We are talking about a coun- the incidents and asked the from across the border in Shah- eign Office said this was being try of over a billion people with neighbouring country to take pur-Kerni area of Poonch sector, done in line with the Interna- nuclear weapons taken over by remedial action to stop such an Army official said. tional Court of Justice (ICJ) ver- an extreme ideology. All minori- cases. Further details of the incident dict. The ICJ on July 17 said Paki- ties are now being systemati- External affairs ministry were awaited, he said. stan has violated Jadhav’s rights n Kulbhushan Jadhav cally targeted in India . Kash- spokesperson Raveesh Kumar on The ceasefire violation by Pak- under the Vienna Convention on miris have been under siege for Sunday said that civil society and istan comes a day after Army Consular Relations and sought a death row. In response to Islama- the past 28 days. This is the same people of India have strongly con- Chief General Bipin Rawat review of his death sentence. bad’s conditional offer of consu- RSS philosophy which led to the demned the forced abduction, visited the troops on the LoC in Pakistan announced a military lar access, the Indian govern- massacre of Muslims in the conversion and marriage of the the twin districts of Poonch and court has sentenced Jadhav to ment asked the Pakistani side to Indian state of Gujarat,” Paki- two Sikh girls. Rajouri, and reviewed the pre- death in April 2017 a year after it “provide unimpeded consular stan PM said addressing the In Pakistan’s Punjab province, vailing situation and operational said he was arrested from Balo- access” to Kulbhushan Jadhav Islamic Society of North Amer- a teenage Sikh girl, the daughter readiness of the units of White chistan in March 2016 and “in an environment free from the ica (ISNA) in Houston on Sunday of a priest, was allegedly Knight Corps. charged with involvement in spy- fear of intimidation and repri- via video link. abducted and converted to Islam Jammu-based based Army ing and subversive activities. sal”. The access was asked in PM Imran said the whole of at gunpoint before she was mar- PRO Lt Col Devender Anand said, India has rejected the allega- light of the orders of the ICJ. India is in the grip of an extrem- ried to a Muslim man, her family “At about 1300 hours, Pakistan tions against Jadhav saying he HT last month reported that ist ideology that is threatening alleged in a video. initiated ceasefire violation by was kidnapped from the Iranian Pakistan attached several condi- the very fabric of Indian society. They say she is 18-years old. n Members of a Sikh group raise anti-Pakistan slogan against reports of a Sikh girl’s forceful conversion firing of small arms and shelling port of Chabahar, where he was tions to its offer, including the Democrat presidential candi- The Sikh community in Nankana to Islam at Teen Murti near Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi on Sunday. VIPIN KUMAR /HT PHOTO with mortars in Poonch sector. running a business. In May 2017, presence of its officials during a date Bernie Sanders also Sahib, the birthplace of Sikhism The Indian Army retaliated befit- New Delhi petitioned the ICJ. meeting between Jadhav and expressed concern over the cur- founder Guru Nanak Dev, has The MEA had earlier said that tingly.” According to the officials, Pakistan has downgraded dip- Indian officials and the use of rent conditions in Kashmir, held protests over the incident. it has received a number of repre- India-Pak face off in the firing from across the border lomatic ties with India and sus- audio and video devices to record terming it “unacceptable”, a “The civil society & the people sentations from various quarters was intense. pended bilateral trade in the conversation. This was the media report said on Sunday. of India have strongly con- of civil society and members of Seven people, including five response to the curfew in Jammu reason why the Indian side had Addressing the ISNA, the Ver- demned the recent deplorable Sikh religious bodies about the soldiers and a 10-day-old baby, and Kashmir. insisted on the meeting being mont Senator said the US must incidents of forced abduction, incident in Pakistan. Male over J&K issue were killed and several others India last month effectively held in an environment free from ensure the implementation of conversion & marriage of two NEW DELHI: The deputy chairman man of India’s RS, to raise a point injured in frequent ceasefire vio- turned down Pakistan’s offer for intimidation and reprisal. international laws and should Sikh girls in Pakistan. We have PROTESTS OUTSIDE PAK of India’s Rajya Sabha and the of order that was allowed by the lations by Pakistan along the LoC consular access to Jadhav in its The concept of consular access press for a peaceful resolution reflected these strong concerns HIGH COMMISSION deputy speaker of Pakistan’s Maldives Speaker Mohamed in the two districts since July. current form. Officials told HT entails officials of one country through the UN, leading Paki- with Pakistan and have asked for The MEA response on Sunday National Assembly were Nasheed. He said: “We strongly The chief of Army staff that New Delhi has asked Islama- being able to meet a prisoner in a stan daily, The Express Tribune immediate remedial action,” came even as protests were held involved in a heated exchange on object to the raising of internal (COAS), who was on a two-day bad to provide “unimpeded” con- foreign country without being reported. Kumar said on Twitter outside the Pakistan High Com- the situation in Kashmir while matter of India in this forum... visit to Jammu and Kashmir, on tact with the Indian national on overheard. (With Agency Inputs) The abduction of a teenage girl mission here by a large gathering participating in the South Asian There is a need for Pakistan to Saturday visited forward areas Jagjit Kaur came to light on of Sikhs and others, demanding Speakers’ Summit in the Mal- end cross-border terrorism and along the LoC in Poonch and Thursday after Shiromani Akali that Islamabad take action in the dives on Sunday. all kinds of state support to it in Rajouri districts, and reviewed Dal spokesperson Majinder matter. The exchange was triggered the interest of regional peace and the mission readiness of units, Singh Sirsa shared a video of the People took out a march here when Qasim Suri, the deputy stability.” He also pointed out response mechanism to ceasefire First integrated battle group girl’s family narrating the ordeal on Sunday to protest abduction, speaker of Pakistan’s lower Nasheed and Inter-Parliamen- violations, measures adopted to on social media. forceful conversion and marriage house of Parliament, commented tary Union secretary general deal with Pakistan proxies, coun- The incident led to a furore in of a Sikh girl to a Muslim man in during his speech that the Martin Chungong said the forum ter infiltration posture and prep- to be deployed along border India with several political lead- Pakistan. “oppression” of the Kashmiri was meant only to discuss the aration to deal with violent ers across parties demanding They walked from Teen Murti people cannot be ignored. Sustainable Development Goals. actions on the Line of Control. action against the perpetrators. Bhavan to Pakistan High Com- Suri said the world commu- Quratulain Marri, a member Sudhi Ranjan Sen national border portion of J&K more flexible, allowing faster According to the FIR filed by mission in solidarity with the nity cannot afford to turn a blind of the Pakistani Senate, too raised THE CEASEFIRE n [email protected] Kashmir will see reorganisation mobilisation. The formation of the girl’s family, eight men had girl. eye to the problems of the Kash- a point of order and said the SGDs VIOLATION BY PAKISTAN first followed by others, making the IBGs, among other things, barged into their house in Nan- Protestors raised slogans miris and that Pakistan’s Parlia- were also about human rights NEW DELHI: As tensions simmer on the Indian army a leaner and will drastically cut the time kana Sahib on August 28 and took against Pakistan and demanded ment stands with “all oppressed and again referred to “atrocities COMES A DAY AFTER the 3,323-km-long India- Pakistan meaner fighting unit,” general required to mobilise the strike away Jagjit Kaur at gunpoint. justice for the teenager who was people”. He said the Kashmir being meted out in Kashmir”. ARMY CHIEF GEN BIPIN border, the Indian army is set to Rawat said, explaining the arms of the Army. Each IBG will On Saturday, it was reported allegedly abducted and con- issue should be settled in line Singh accused Pakistan of deploy its first Integrated Battle rationale behind the exercise. be commanded by an officer of the that another girl identified as verted to Islam before being mar- with the UNSC resolutions and “genocide” that led to creation of RAWAT VISITED THE Group (IBG) along the frontier by In contrast with the traditional rank of major general. Renuka Kumari was abducted ried to a Muslim man in Paki- the wishes of the Kashmiris. a separate country and ques- TROOPS ON THE LOC IN the end of this year, Chief of Army and somewhat antiquated fight- The Siliguri-based XXXIII from her college in Sukkur in stan’s Punjab province. This prompted Harivansh tioned Islamabad’s moral right to Staff General Bipin Rawat said. In ing units of the army Corps, each Corps, tasked with protecting the Sindh province of Pakistan. (With Agency Inputs) Narayan Singh, the deputy chair- raise the Kashmir issue. HTC POONCH AND RAJOURI all, the Indian Army plans to form of which comprises at least three Indo-Tibetan border including and deploy 11 -13 IBGs to protect brigades, the IBGs are smaller, Sikkim, is next in line for being its western and eastern borders. meaner, self-contained fighting transformed into an IBS. The A H E A D OF DARBAR MOVE The ministry of defence (MoD) units, including elements of air XXXIII Corps, which moved to its has cleared the reorganisation of power, artillery, amour. The IBG present location in 1962, com- IX Corps, based in Yol in Hima- will encompass 6-8 battalions prises the Black Cat, Kirpan and ‘More officials in Kashmir due to ground situation’ chal Pradesh, to form the IBGs to depending on the terrain where it Striking Lion divisions and an be deployed along the western is deployed and the purpose it is artillery division – an estimated Ravi Khajuria and will open mobile communication tory -- that the practice of bian- border. Raised in 2009, IX Corps is meant for...The composition of 30,000 thousand soldiers. Smriti Kak Ramachandran lines in some areas such as north nual Darbar Move will continue one of the army’s youngest corps the IBGs will vary depending on The XXXIII Corps is likely to be n [email protected] Kashmir’s Kupwara. but this time around it may be a and is part of the Chandimandir, the “task” and the “order of bat- reorganised into five IBGs, each Speculation that the Darbar limited exercise and that is why Haryana-based Western Army tle,” said a senior Army officer tasked differently, a second sen- JAMMU/ NEW DELHI: More officials move-- introduced in 1872 by the the department has sought infor- Command. who did not want to be named. ior officer requesting anonymity will be deployed in the Kashmir then Dogra king Maharaja Ran- mation of officials who are likely This is one of the biggest reor- “The IBGs, on an average, said. The recently raised, Pana- Valley to oversee and execute bir Singh-- in the erstwhile to move to Jammu in November ganisations of the Army and Gen- would comprise 20,000- 25,000 garh, West Bengal-based Moun- administrative functions as the princely state will be suspended 2019,” said another official, eral Rawat is its prime mover. men,”said the officer. While each tain Strike Corps, or Brahmastra biannual Darbar move takes after J&K and Ladakh get desig- requesting anonymity. Restructuring of the combat IBG will be a self-contained fight- Corps, the only strike corps desig- place at the end of October, shift- nated as UTs has been put to rest. Though successive govern- potential of the Indian army will ing unit, it can draw logistical nated to fight along the India- ing the government of Jammu A government circular issued ments in J&K downplayed the happen “selectively from sector support from other formations. China border, will also be and Kashmir from Srinagar to by the estates department con- expenditure incurred on the to sector,” Rawat said. “The inter- The IBGs will be smaller and restructured to form three IBGs. the winter capital Jammu, offi- firmed that the shift to Jammu practice, the cash-strapped state cials aware of the matter said. for the next six months will take spent close to ₹150 crore every At least 5,000 employees of the n Workers carry official documents as part of the biannual darbar place in November. The depart- year on facilitating it, officials valleynotes civil secretariat and 33 govern- move from Jammu to Srinagar on April 27. NITIN KANOTRA /HT FILE ment has sought to know the aware of the details said. “Every ment departments form part of requirement for residential six months the state road trans- the Darbar move but this time Jammu; more officials will be more officials in the Valley com- accommodation in Jammu for port corporation has to provide CONG SHOULD BE ‘ASHAMED’ OF RAHUL’S Kashmiri activist stopped at fewer will people will be sent to deployed in the Valley to ensure pared to the previous years,” officials who will move there around 150 trucks and 50 buses COMMENTS ON KASHMIR: AMIT SHAH Delhi’s IGI airport Jammu , an official familiar with smooth functioning of services said the official. from November to April. for the purpose,” said the second SILVASSA : NEW DELHI: A Kashmiri rights the matter said on condition of in the wake of communication According to the official In the circular, the director, official quoted above. Attacking the Congress, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Sunday that it should be “ashamed” that its leader Rahul Gandhi’s state- activist was stopped by authori- anonymity. restrictions that have been quoted above, the modalities of estates, requested all the finan- J&K Pradesh Congress Com- ties at the Delhi airport and barred J&K will formally become a imposed since August 5, when how the work is allocated will be cial commissioners, principal mittee chief and former MLC, ment was used by Pakistan in its petition to the UN on Kashmir. At a public meeting, Shah said people have supported the from flying abroad, officials Union Territory on October 31, the reorganisation of the state finalised in the coming week. secretaries, commissioner secre- Ravinder Sharma said, “We are Narendra Modi government’s move to nullify Article 370 but familiar with the matter said on which is also around the time was announced in Parliament, Given the restrictions on com- taries and heads of various gov- getting reports from officials some, he added in a swipe at Gandhi, are still opposing it. Sunday. Gowhar Geelani was when the exercise of shifting the together with the stripping of its munication, there is a sense that ernment departments to furnish that this time around it would be “Whatever statements Rahul Gandhi make are lauded in stopped from travelling to secretariat and other govern- special status. the administrative functions in information on officials likely to a limited Darbar move. ” Pakistan. Pakistan has included his comments in its plea. Germany at the Indira Gandhi ment offices from Srinagar to “We usually have a special the Valley should not be ham- go to Jammu. The estates depart- “...Financial and administra- Congress leaders should be ashamed that these state- International airport on Saturday, Jammu takes place. secretary in Srinagar when the pered in the long winter months ment has set September 10 as the tive support for availability of ments,” he said. Gandhi had in a statement spoken about they said. Geelani was travelling According to an official in Darbar moves to Jammu; but ahead. Landlines work intermit- last date for receiving the infor- supplies in winter for works will reports of violence and “people dying” in Kashmir for a programme with German Srinagar, this year, once the seat this year owing to the ground sit- tently in some areas and the gov- mation in the prescribed format. be made,” the first official cited following the removal of provisions of Article 370. broadcaster Deutsche Welle. of administration moves to uation we will ensure there are ernment has announced that it “The circular is self-explana- above said. NCERT to get institute Babri case: Kalyan of importance status THE POLITICAL JOURNEYS OF THE NEW GOVERNORS Singh may face trial Amandeep Shukla ing the Centre and the states in as immunity ends n [email protected] policymaking and its research and suggestions are often the Press Trust of India

NEW DELHI: In a move that’s drivers behind key changes, the n [email protected] expected to boost research in the NCERT’s own institutions do not method and practice of teaching, have the power even to grant NEW DELHI: Outgoing Rajasthan especially at the school level, the degrees,” a senior government governor Kalyan Singh may have Union human resource develop- official said on condition of ano- to face trial for criminal conspir- ment ministry plans to enact a nymity. acy in the Babri Masjid demoli- legislation that would bestow “The research, development tion case as the immunity he has “Institute of National Impor- and training activities of the KALRAJ MISHRA, BS KOSHYARI, T SOUNDARARAJAN, B DATTATREYA, ARIF M KHAN, been enjoying for holding the tance” status on the National NCERT would be boosted with constitutional post will go away Council of Educational Research the INI status,” the official said. Rajasthan Maharashtra Telangana Himachal Pradesh Kerala at the end of his tenure, people and Training (NCERT). However, it is a demand for Kalraj Mishra, who will replace Bhagat Singh Koshyari, who has Tamilisai Soundararajan, 58, who has BJP leader Bandaru Dattatreya, who Arif Mohammad Khan, the new familiar with the matter said. According to HRD officials, which the prestigious organisa- Kalyan Singh as Rajasthan governor, been named as Maharashtra’s 19th been named as Telangana governor, was appointed as Himachal Pradesh governor of Kerala, has been On April 19, 2017, the Supreme consultations have been held tion has waited for nearly a dec- has been a three-time Rajya Sabha governor, is a former Uttarakhand is a gynecologist by profession. Her governor, has been a four-time Lok associated with several parties Court had ordered revival of with the law and other ministries ade. A committee formed by the member and a former Union chief minister. He was the first BJP father, , was an Sabha member from Telangana’s including Bharatiya Kranti Dal, criminal conspiracy charges and once the Prime Minister’s HRD ministry under Prof. minister. He was born on July 1, 1941, chief in Uttarakhand after the state influential chief of Tamil Nadu’s Secunderabad. He has served as Congress, Janata Dal, BSP and the against Bharatiya Janata Party Office gives it the nod, the legisla- Govardhan Mehta in 2010 had at Malikpur in Uttar Pradesh’s was formed in 2000. Koshyari, who Congress unit. Her uncle, H Vasant- minister in both Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP. Born in UP, the 68-year-old leaders L K Advani, Murli Mano- tion can be brought before the recommended that the NCERT be Gazipur district. Mishra won the will replace C Vidyasagar Rao, comes hakumar, is the Congress’s Parlia- and Narendra Modi governments. A Khan has been an active advocate har Joshi and Uma Bharati. cabinet for approval. given the INI status. 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Deori from the Kumaon region, where he ment member from Kanyakumari. science graduate, Dattatreya was for internal reformation in Islam. He It had also clarified that Singh, The NCERT, set up in 1961, is a Former University Grants constituency and served as Union started out as an RSS functionary. She joined the BJP in the late 1990s born on June 12, 1947. He joined the has criticized parties for playing the who was the chief minister of unique institution, which, apart Commission member, Professor minister for micro, small and He has been instrumental in setting when the party had little presence RSS in 1965, and was jailed during “Muslim card”. He had quit the Uttar Pradesh when the Babri from publishing widely used Inder Mohan Kapahy said, “I medium enterprises from May 2014 up branches of RSS’s Saraswati in the state. Soundararajan served the Emergency. He joined the BJP in cabinet after the Rajiv Gandhi Masjid was demolished in 1992, school textbooks, has been at the agree with the proposal to award to September 2017. Mishra joined Shishu Mandir schools in his state. A as the BJP’s South Chennai Medical the 1980s and held various posi- government caved in to the pres- could not be brought in as an the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh Rajput, Koshyari became an MLC in Wing secretary in 1999. Two years tions, including that of state general sure of Muslim clergy and reversed a forefront of educational reforms NCERT the INI status...However, accused to face trial in view of the in 1963. He has been the BJP’s Uttar undivided Uttar Pradesh in 1997, later, she was named as the party’s secretary. He was appointed as BJP’s Supreme Court verdict granting ranging from creating the care must be taken this doesn’t Pradesh unit chief and the party’s in until Uttarakhand was carved out in state general secretary of the Andhra Pradesh chief in 1997. He was alimony to a divorced woman from constitutional immunity granted National Curriculum Frame- reduce to become a routine uni- charge of Rajasthan (2004-06). November 2000. He served as the medical wing in 2001. In 2005, she elected to LS for the first time in the community. He was one of the to Governors under Article 361 of work (NCF) in 1975, 1988, 2000 and versity trouting out degrees.” Mishra was a cabinet minister in UP opposition leader in the Uttara- became the BJP’s state secretary. 1991. He got re-elected in 1998 and youngest MLAs in UP, at the age of the Constitution. 2005 to developing inputs for the INI status has been conferred and held portfolios of public works, khand assembly between 2002 and Soundararajan was elevated to the 1999 and served as Union minister of 26. At the Centre, he has held However, the apex court told National Policy of Education in so far on institutions like the medical education, and tourism 2007. Koshyari was nominated to the post of BJP vice-president in 2007 state. Dattatreya lost the 2004 and portfolios such as civil aviation and the CBI to call Singh as an 1968 and again to he education Indian Institutes of Technology, from March 1997 to August 2000. In Rajya Sabha in 2007, and elected as a and later national secretary in 2013. 2009 polls. He again won in 2014 and energy. He will be taking over from accused as soon as he ceases to be policy currently being framed by All India Institute of Medical Sci- July 2019, he was made Himachal Lok Sabha member in 2014. He was She was made the president of BJP’s was made minister of state (inde- former Chief Justice of India (retired) the Governor. the Centre. ences, National Institutes of governor. jailed during Emergency. Tamil Nadu unit a year later. pendent charge) at the Centre. Justice P Sathashivam. Singh was appointed as the It is a highly ironical situation. Technology and the National Rajasthan Governor on Septem- While the NCERT has been advis- Institutes of Design. ber 3, 2014 for a five-year tenure. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 10 hindustantimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 ON MONDAY

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CHILD-LIFTING RUMOURS Doctor beaten to death in Woman among four MP, Bengal not to implement Assam after worker dies beaten up in 3 days MV Act; Raj to review penalties HT Correspondent THE AMENDED MV ACT will go to jail?” Sharma asked. n [email protected] The state’s Bharatiya Janata Sadiq Naqvi TO PROTEST THE ATTACK, after the murder. HT Correspondent (19) and Chotu Yadav (19) thrash- HAS PENALTIES UP TO Party (BJP) spokesperson, Raj- n [email protected] The Indian Medical Associa- n [email protected] ing the victim. Satna superin- BHOPAL/KOLKATA/JAIPUR: Two 10 TIMES THE PREVIOUS neesh Agrawal, said: “The state THE INDIAN MEDICAL tion’s Assam branch condemned tendent of police Riyaz Iqbal Opposition-ruled states, Mad- government should immediately GUWAHATI: A mob on Saturday ASSOCIATION HAS the murder and said it is the third NEW DELHI : Two men, suspected to said, “Badal Chaturvedi and hya Pradesh and West Bengal, AMOUNTS. THE NEW implement the amended Motor thrashed a 73-year-old doctor to ANNOUNCED A 24-HOUR major assault on doctors serving be mentally unstable, were Chotu Yadav have been arrested said on Sunday they had decided ACT CAME INTO Vehicles Act which was brought death for allegedly delaying the in tea gardens in recent times. It beaten up on suspicion of being under sections 147 (punishment not to implement revised penal- EFFECT FROM SUNDAY after a lot of considerations and treatment of a worker, who suc- WITHDRAWAL OF announced a 24-hour with- child lifters in separate incidents of rioting), 294 (punishment for ties under the amended Motor in view of increasing number of cumbed to his head injuries after drawal of medical services over a period of 24 hours in Uttar obscene acts and words) and 323 Vehicles Act (MVA) for now as accidents and accidental deaths a fall, at a tea estate hospital in SERVICES, EXCCEPT excluding emergency on Sep- Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, (punishment for voluntarily they were very high, even as the over the huge increase in the in the country. But the Congress Assam’s Jorhat, the state police EMERGENCY, ON SEPT 3 tember 3. police said on Sunday. Two per- causing hurt) of the IPC.” Rajasthan government said it fines for traffic violations. “I government is more concerned said on Sunday Jorhat district administration sons have been arrested in con- In a similar incident, a woman would review the fines on Mon- have no problem with steep hike about those party workers who Jorhat police superintendent has ordered a magisterial nection with the case in Madhya was beaten up by a group of day. for drink-driving, etc., but it might be penalised for violations Nimbalkar Vaibhav Chandrak- Dutta died on his way to a inquiry into the murder. Addi- Pradesh’s Satna. locals on suspicions of being a Madhya Pradesh and Rajast- should not adversely affect peo- of the Act.” ant said two attendants adminis- Jorhat hospital after police res- tional Deputy Commissioner In the first incident, a resident child lifter, police said. The inci- han are ruled by the Congress ple who face fines for minor The West Bengal government, tered Somra Majhi, 32, the cued him. Subhan Gowalla has been asked of Bihar’s Samastipur district dent took place near a bus stand and West Bengal by the Mamata offences.” meanwhile, has written to the worker, an injection at Teok Tea “He had head and leg inju- to submit a report in seven days. was beaten up in Pratapgarh dis- in Sikandarpur area of the dis- Banerjee-led Trinamool Con- The minister said that the Centre about its objections to the Estate’s hospital on Dr Deben ries,” said Chandrakant. trict of Uttar Pradesh. People trict on Saturday.Police said gress. The amended MV Act has decision on implementing the amended law and has said that it Dutta’s advice while he was Assam police chief Kuladhar CCPA DEMANDS ACTION familiar with the matter said the Karishma Yadav was talking to penalties up to 10 times the previ- new fines will be taken only after will not implement the new pen- away for lunch. He added Majhi Saikia said he has sent an inspec- AGAINST ACCUSED victim was spotted by villagers people about computer educa- ous amounts. the transport commissioner sub- alty provisions till the central died soon after Dutta arrived and tor general rank officer to Jorhat Meanwhile, Assam Valley Con- at Tilouri crossing of Kunda and tion in Sikandarpur area of the The amended act came into mits his report on the impact of government addresses the started treating him. and directed that strict action sultative Committee of Planta- thrashed him. district when some locals started effect from Sunday. fines in other states in a week’s state’s concerns, according to an “An angry mob soon gathered should be taken. tion Associations (CCPA) has DP Singh, the station house beating her on the suspicion that “There is a steep hike in fines time. “Till then, the older fines official aware of the develop- and started to abuse him [Dutta] In a statement, Teok Tea condemned the incident. officer of Kunda Kotwali police she was a child lifter. While the as per the amended Motor Vehi- will continue,” he said. ments. West Bengal transport first and then thrashed the doc- Estate said a welfare officer at “Mindless and murderous station, said the victim had been police were able to rescue the cles Act which has been imple- MP’s law and legal affairs minister Suvendu Adhikary did tor over allegations that he the tea estate, too, was assaulted assault perpetrated on the Medi- rescued and is undergoing treat- woman, police outpost in-charge mented today. I have asked the minister PC Sharma said the law not respond to phone calls on arrived late. They attacked him when he tried to rescue the doc- cal Officer of Teok Tea Estate ment. In the second incident, a Amarjeet Yadav said action will transport commissioner to visit would be implemented once peo- Sunday. with broken glass pieces,” said tor. It added the crowd became while he was on duty in the 45-year-old man, who is yet to be be initiated, once a complaint is other states to see the impact of ple were made aware of the The senior transport depart- Chandrakant. rowdier when the officer tried to Estate Hospital,” it said. identified, was beaten up in received. the amended act,” said Govind enhanced fines. ment official familiar with the He added that they have so far intervene. The Assam Valley CCPA has Satna district of Madhya Pra- On Sunday, a mob thrashed a Rajput, Madhya Pradesh’s “The amended law says a per- matter said the West Bengal gov- detained 21 people in connection The statement said the mob urged authorities concerned to desh on Friday. A video of the truck cleaner in Himachal Pra- transport minister. son not wearing a helmet while ernment has written to the Cen- with the murder. “They are comprised workers, non-work- apprehend those responsible for incident that went viral, pur- desh’s Kullu district on the sus- The minister said several pub- riding a two-wheeler can be fined tre objecting to the “steep hike” likely to be arrested,” Chandrak- ers and outsiders. the assault and demanded strict portedly showed a group of peo- picion that he was trying to lic representatives have met him ~5,000 and if he fails to pay it, he in penalties that could burden ant said. Teok Tea Estate was closed action against them. ple, including Badal Chaturvedi abduct a child, police said. and expressed their concern can be jailed. How many people the common man.

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(ii) 1. ³F½Fa¶FS 2012 ¸FZÔ À½F. ¸FWZ³ýi I ¸FFÊ ´FS Wb¹FZ W¸F»FZ IZ ´FV¨FF°FÐ ¢¹FF C³FI e ÀFbSÃFF I e ÀF¸FeÃFF ´FiûMZ¢VF³F dS½¹Fc ¦Fib´F IZ õFSF I e SFVF³F-I FOÊ, YSR’s son and Andhra Pra- (iii) À±FF³Fe¹F ¸F°FQF°FF ÀFc¨Fe, dªFÀF¸FZÔ CÀFI F ³FF¸F C»»FZd£F°F Wû, n . HT FILE ¦FBÊ ±Fe? desh chief minister, Y S Jagan- YS Rajasekhara Reddy (iv) mohan Reddy, insists to be the À±FF³Fe¹F IÈ ¿FI Wû³FZ ÀFZ ÀFa¶Fad²F°F £FF°FF I e À½FAd·F´Fi¸FFd¯F°F/´Fd¶»FI ³FûMSe ÀFZ Ad·F´Fi¸FFd¯F°F LF¹FF´Fid°F E½Fa 2. À½F. ¸FWZ³ýi I ¸FFÊ I û ³F½Fa¶FS 2012 ¸FZÔ C³F ´FS Wb¹FZ W¸F»FZ IZ ´FV¨FF°FÐ, C³FIZ õFSF ¸FFa¦Fe ¦FBÊ Ad°FdS¢°F ÀFbSÃFF I e ¸FFa¦F ´FS dI ÀF (v) ÀFS´Fa¨F õFSF ´FiQØF ´FW¨FF³F ´Fi¸FF¯F-´FÂF only heir to the late leader’s leg- Andhra Pradesh contributed À°FS ´FS d½F¨FFS/d³F¯FʹF dI ¹FF ¦F¹FF ±FF AüS CÀF ´FS ¢¹FF I F¹FʽFFWe I e ¦FBÊ ±Fe? acy. He broke away from the significantly to the Congress’s (vi) dI ÀFe VFFÀFI e¹F ÀFaÀ±FF õFSF ´FiQØF ´FW¨FF³F ´FÂF, ÀFa»F¦³F I SmÔÜ Congress to form his YSR Con- return to power at the Centre in 3. ¦FdS¹FF¶FaQ dªF»FZ ¸FZÔ ªFb»FFBÊ 2011 ¸FZÔ À½F. ³FaQ Ib ¸FFS ´FMZ»F IZ I FdR »FZ ´FS Wb¹FZ W¸F»FZ IZ ´FV¨FF°FÐ, ¢¹FF À½F¦FeʹF ´FMZ»F E½Fa C³FIZ 5. VF´F±F dQ»FF³FZ ½FF»FZ Ad²FI FSe A´F³FZ ÀFe»F, VF´F±F I e d°Fd±F, Ad·F´Fi¸FFd¯F°F I S³FZ ½FF»FZ ÀFFÃFe I F ´Fc¯FÊ ´F°FF, VF´F±F-´FÂF gress Party, which was voted to 2004 and 2009. I FdR »FZ I e ÀFbSÃFF WZ°Fb Ad°FdS¢°F ÀFbSÃFF C´F»F¶²F I SFBÊ ¦FBÊ ±Fe AüS ¢¹FF C³F Ad°FdS¢°F ÀFbSÃFF ¸FF³FI ûÔ I F ´FF»F³F ªFeS¸F d³F¿´FFQ³F I F À±FF³F AüS d°Fd±F À´F¿M d»F£ûÔ, dªFÀFÀFZ ¹FW À´F¿M Wû ÀFIZ dI dI ÀF d½FVû¿F ´FiFd²FI FSe IZ ÀF¸FÃF, dI ÀF power in May. The party won 29 seats in the §FFMe §FM³FF IZ QüSF³F dI ¹FF ¦F¹FF? VF´F±FI °FFÊ õFSF dI ÀFI e C´FdÀ±Fd°F ¸FZÔ, dI ÀF dQ³F, dI ÀF À±FF³F ´FS VF´F±F d»F¹FF ¦F¹FF W`Ü “He [YSR] was our leader. state in 2004 Lok Sabha elections. 4. ¢¹FF SFª¹F ¸FZÔ ³F¢ÀFd»F¹FûÔ IZ õFSF ´Fc½FÊ ¸FZÔ dI ¹FZ ¦F¹FZ ¶FOÞZ W¸F»FûÔ I û ²¹FF³F ¸FZÔ S£F°FZ WbE ³F¢ÀF»Fe B»FFI ûÔ ¸FZÔ ¹FFÂFF AFdQ WZ°Fb dI ÀFe Jagan can claim his family leg- The tally increased to 33 in the d³F²FFÊdS°F ÀFa£¹FF ¸FZÔ ¹FF CÀFÀFZ ·Fe Ad²FI ¶F»F ´FiQF¹F I S³FZ IZ I ûBÊ dQVFF-d³FQZÊVF ±û? ¹FdQ WFh °Fû C³FI F ´FF»F³F dI ¹FF ¦F¹FF? ªFeS¸F §FFMe §FM³FF I e ªFFh¨F WZ°Fb ¦FdN°F d½FVû¿F ³¹FFd¹FI ªFFh¨F AF¹Fû¦F, ¸Fb£¹FF»F¹F ªF¦FQ»F´FbS, acy but his political legacy 2009 polls. ¹FdQ ³FWeÔ, °Fû ¢¹FF ´Fc½FÊ IZ ¶FOÞZ W¸F»FûÔ I e ÀF¸FeÃFF I S I ûBÊ I Q¸F CNF¹FZ ¦F¹FZ? (ªFeS¸F §FFMe ¸FZÔ §FdM°F §FM³FF IZ ªFFh¨F WZ°Fb ¦FdN°F d½FVû¿F ³¹FFd¹FI ªFFh¨F AF¹Fû¦F) belongs to the Congress and In the 2014 assembly and Lok ´FidIi ¹FF d½Fd³F¸F¹F nobody else,” said Congress’s Sabha elections held after the 5. ³F¢ÀF»F d½FSû²Fe AFG´FSmVF³F ¸FZÔ AüS d½FVû¿FI S Me.ÀFe.Aû.ÀFe. I e A½Fd²F IZ QüSF³F ¹Fcd³FR FBÊO I ¸FF¯O dI ÀF °FSW A´F³Fe Andhra Pradesh in-charge C D creation of Telangana, the Con- ·Fcd¸FI F d³F·FF°Fe ±Fe? ¹Fcd³FR FBÊO I ¸FF¯O IZ A²¹FÃF IZ I °Fʽ¹F ¢¹FF ±û AüS ¢¹FF ¹Fcd³FR FBÊO I ¸FF¯O IZ °F°I F»Fe³F A²¹FÃF AF¹Fû¦F IZ A²¹FÃF ¸FF³F³Fe¹F ßFe ³¹FF¹F¸Fcd°FÊ ´FiVFFa°F Ib ¸FFS d¸FßFF, ³¹FF¹FF²FeVF, LØFeÀF¦FPÞ C©F ³¹FF¹FF»F¹F, d¶F»FFÀF´FbS õFSF Meyyappan. “YSR’s dream was gress was decimated in Andhra ³FZ A´F³FZ C³F I °Fʽ¹FûÔ I F C´F¹FbÊ¢°F d³F½FÊW³F dI ¹FF? A³Fb¸FFZdQ°F, L.¦F. SFª¹F VFFÀF³F õFSF Ad²FÀFc¨F³FF Ii ¸FFaI ER 3-5/2013/1-7 (´FFMÊ-1), SF¹F´FbS dQ³FFhI - 28/05/2013 to see Rahul Gandhi as the Prime Pradesh and failed to win any 6. 25 ¸FBÊ, 2013 I û ¶FÀ°FS dªF»FZ ¸FZÔ Ib »F dI °F³FF ´Fbd»FÀF ¶F»F ¸FüªFcQ ±FF? ¢¹FF ´FdS½F°FʳF ¹FFÂFF I F¹FÊIi ¸F I e A½Fd²F ¸FZÔ ¶FÀ°FS õFSF ±FF³FF-QS·FF Aa°F¦FÊ°F ªFeS¸F §FFMe ÃûÂF ¸FZÔ dQ³FFhI - 25/05/2013 I û ³F¢ÀFd»F¹FûÔ õFSF I FdS°F dWaÀFF°¸FI §FM³FF I e d½FVû¿F Minister but Jagan is not fulfill- seat.The Congress has been rele- dªF»FZ ÀFZ ´Fbd»FÀF ¶F»F QcÀFSm dªF»FûÔ ¸FZÔ ·ûªFF ¦F¹FF? ¹FdQ WFh °Fû dI ÀF I FS¯F ÀFZ AüS dI ÀFIZ AFQZVF ÀFZ? ¢¹FF BÀFIZ d»F¹FZ ÀFÃF¸F ªFFh¨F WZ°Fb AF¹Fû¦F õFSF ´Fi¹Fû¦F ¸FZÔ »FF¹FZ ªFF³FZ ½FF»FZ ´FidIi ¹FF d½Fd³F¹F¸F d³F¸³FF³FbÀFFS WûÔ¦FZ :- ing his father’s wish.” gated to the political margins in À½FeIÈ d°F ´FiF´°F I e ¦FBÊ ±Fe? 1. AF¹Fû¦F I e I F¹FʽFFWe ÀFFS·Fc°F ø ´F ÀFZ dW³Qe ¸FZÔ Wû¦Fe, ´FS I F¹FʽFFWe I F I ûBÊ AaVF AF¹Fû¦F IZ A²¹FÃF IZ AFQZVF/d³FQZÊVF ÀFZ Meyyappan said the Congress Andhra Pradesh following its Aa¦FiZªFe ¸FZÔ ·Fe dI ¹FZ ªFF ÀFIZÔ ¦FZÜ will hold functions across the bifurcation in 2014. 7. ¢¹FF ³F¢ÀF»Fe dI ÀFe ¶FOÞZ AFQ¸Fe I û ¶Fa²FI ¶F³FF³FZ IZ ´FV¨FF°FÐ C³WZÔ dSWF I S³FZ IZ ¶FQ»FZ A´F³Fe ¸FFh¦F ¸F³F½FF³FZ I F ´Fi¹FFÀF I S°FZ state on YSR’s death anniver- It failed to win any seat in the SWZ W`Ô? À½F. ³FaQ Ib ¸FFS ´FMZ»F E½Fa C³FIZ ´FbÂF IZ ¶Fa²FI Wû³FZ IZ ÀF¸F¹F EZÀFF ³FWeÔ I S³FZ IZ I FS¯F ¢¹FF ±FF? 2. AF¹Fû¦F I F ¸Fb£¹FF»F¹F ÀFa·FF¦Fe¹F AF¹Fb¢°F I F¹FFÊ»F¹F, ¶FÀ°FS (ªF¦FQ»F´FbS) E½Fa I` ¸´F I F¹FFÊ»F¹F, d¶F»FFÀF´FbS W`Ü sary. Lok Sabha as well as the assem- 8. ÀFbI ¸FF IZ °F°I F»Fe³F I »FZ¢MS, ßFe A»FZ¢ÀF ´FFG»F ¸FZ³F³F IZ A´FWS¯F E½Fa dSWFBÊ ¸FZÔ dI ÀF °FSW IZ ÀF¸FÓFü°FZ ³F¢ÀFd»F¹FûÔ IZ ÀFF±F 3. AF¹Fû¦F I F I F¹FFÊ»F¹F ´Fid°FdQ³F SFª¹F VFFÀF³F õFSF §Fûd¿F°F A½FI FVF IZ dÀF½FF¹F ÀF·Fe I F¹FÊ dQ½FÀFûÔ ¸FZÔ ´FiF°F: 10:30 ¶FªFZ ÀFZ Congress has maintained that bly elections in 2014 and 2019. dI ¹FZ ¦F¹FZ ±û? ¢¹FF C³FI F I ûBÊ ÀFa¶Fa²F À½F. ¸FWZ³ýi I ¸FFÊ I e ÀFbSÃFF ÀFZ ±FF? 1:30 ¶FªFZ E½Fa 2:00 ¶FªFZ ÀFZ 5:00 ¶FªFZ °FI £Fb»FF SWZ¦FFÜ AF½FV¹FI °FF ´FOÞ³FZ ´FS A½FI FVF dQ½FÀFûÔ ¸FZÔ ·Fe AF¹Fû¦F IF YSR was one of its tallest leaders, “A true congressman all his ÀFF¸FF³¹F ´FiVFFÀF³F d½F·FF¦F, L.¦F. VFFÀF³F, SF¹F´FbS IZ ´FÂF Ii ¸FFaI ER 3-5/2013/1-7, SF¹F´FbS dQ³FFhI 07/06/2013 õFSF I F¹FFÊ»F¹F £Fb»FF SW ÀFIZ ¦FFÜ who worked for social justice life, he continues to inspire us to and inclusive development. toil for social justice and inclu- AF¹Fû¦F I F ¸Fb£¹FF»F¹F, ÀFa·FF¦Fe¹F AF¹Fb¢°F I F¹FFÊ»F¹F, ¶FÀ°FS (ªF¦FQ»F´FbS) §Fûd¿F°F dI ¹FF ¦F¹FF W`Ü AF¹Fû¦F I F I` ¸´F I F¹FFÊ»F¹F 4. ÀFF¸FF³¹F°F: AF¹Fû¦F A´F³Fe ¶F`NIZÔ SFª¹F d½Fd²FI ÀFZ½FF ´FiFd²FI S¯F, ´FbSF³FF C©F ³¹FF¹FF»F¹F ´FdSÀFS, d¶F»FFÀF´FbS dÀ±F°F I` ¸´F YSR died in an air crash on sive development,” Congress d¶F»FFÀF´FbS ¸FZÔ W`Ü I F¹FFÊ»F¹F ¸FZÔ I Sm¦FF, ´FSa°Fb AF½FV¹FI °FF³FbÀFFS ¶F`NIZÔ SFª¹F IZ A³¹F dI ÀFe À±FF³F ´FS ·Fe ÀF¸F¹F, d°Fd±F AüS À±FF³F I e ´Fc½FÊ September 2, 2009. 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human costs with little benefit themselves, not sufficient. What Modi will ASHOK ultimately be judged by is his willingness to MALIK hirty years after an anti-immigrant movement preserve and indeed enhance the ordinary Kashmiri’s dignity. This calls for a new social rocked the state of Assam, the process of identifying contract between the Indian State and its most Indian citizens and detecting outsiders finally alienated citizens. The historically testy relationship between reached a (partial) conclusion on Saturday. The the Kashmir valley and the Indian State has T been mediated by a political elite defined by National Register of Citizens (NRC) was updated, lose to a month has passed since clientelism. Over 70 years, New Delhi and its excluding over 1.9 million people — 6% of Assam’s population. the Union government bifurcated various arms (including intelligence agen- Jammu and Kashmir and cies) have cultivated state governments and The NRC process took four years, involved the massive deploy- removed Article 370. What do the ruling cliques in Srinagar, as well as key oppo- ment of the bureaucratic machinery, ourtake C tea leaves say? Diplomatically, sition figures. For a certain sort of entrepre- India has much to show for itself. neurial Kashmiri, this has made politics not became one of the most contentious While China and Pakistan responded with just an attractive option but pretty much the political issues in contemporary India, deepened existing cleava- anger, most nations have been cautious. A only game in town. fatigue with Kashmir as a global issue is A February 2006 cable from the American ges in Assamese society, and delivered an outcome with which apparent. The mixing of popular disaffection embassy in New Delhi, republished by Wiki- no one is happy. with Islamist currents and terror networks leaks, told a sad story: has contributed to this. As such, structured “Corruption cuts across party lines and n While it is accepted that a limiting of civil liberties and telecom services was inevitable in The roots of the NRC can be traced back to the Assam move- international opinion seems ready to give most Kashmiris take it as an article of faith the immediate aftermath — to prevent instigation of violence — an early return to normality is ment, when “indigenous” Assamese mobilised sentiment India room. that politically-connected Kashmiris take essential. Admittedly “normality” is a contested expression in Kashmir AP Such patience is not absolute. It is contin- money from both India and Pakistan … against the perceived influx of immigrants, particularly from gent on minimal violence, particularly if wor- Money from Pakistani and Indian intelligence grammes through 43,000 elected panchayat remaining 80% themselves. From the 1950s sened by Indian security forces. Further, agencies and from Saudi and other foreign and municipal representatives. until 1990, however, the state of Jammu and Bangladesh. After a series of agreements, and laws made and while it is accepted that a limiting of civil liber- extremists has further distorted Kashmiri The hope (or gamble) is there is latent Kashmir enjoyed the reverse, receiving 80% unmade, the Supreme Court directed and closely monitored the ties and telecom services was inevitable in the politics, incentivised leaders to perpetuate the demand for public goods and services in local of its funds in the form of a loan from the Cen- immediate aftermath — to prevent instigation conflict, and perverted state and Central gov- communities, and for panchayat-level owner- tral government. Since 1990, when the onset of process of updating the NRC. The political push came from the of violence — an early return to normality is ernment institutions. While this river of dirty ship of their delivery. Such demand perhaps the insurgency exacerbated the state’s finan- Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which saw in the exercise an essential. Admittedly “normality” is a con- money has led to a boom in Kashmiri house- coexists with, but is dwarfed by, larger ques- cial problems, 100% of the state’s budget has tested expression in Kashmir; whatever it hold income and real estate prices, it also calls tions of Kashmiri identity. This contention is been financed by the Central government, of opportunity to fulfil an old promise of deporting immigrants. Its may mean, the release of detained politicians into question whether the Kashmiri elite truly supported by voting statistics. Forty-one per which only 20% is repayable.” assumption was that a majority of those identified as such would is a touchstone. want a settlement to their problems. The min- cent of all voters in the Kashmir valley partici- Much of the money was embezzled, as Given the relative absence of significant ute a deal is struck, some must surely worry pated in the 2018 panchayat election; voting in Kashmir’s crisis became an industry. Habib- be Muslims. It was this combination of an old local identity-based protests and violence — the biggest crowds, in that the funds will dry up.” the 2019 national election was much lower. ullah movingly described how this troubled movement, an overzealous judiciary, and political activism by Soura, are estimated at a manageable 4,000 For common people — the proverbial silent Strengthened village and municipal history had earned “for Kashmiris the con- strong — the government has survived a criti- majority or at least plurality, in the Modi gov- democracy could raise administrative effi- tempt of both Indians and Pakistanis as a peo- a party keen to make electoral inroads in a new region and pur- cal phase. Gradual easing of restrictions has ernment’s reckoning — this has meant little. ciency and empathy, and reduce corruption. ple who could be traded. For the Kashmiris, begun. Yet there is much to do, and India can- Their aspirations have been overshadowed by It is nobody’s argument that these will repair this practice only increased their sense of self- sue its ideological agenda, that led to the NRC. not do it fast enough. For any democracy, civil excessive attention given to the 87 members of the entirety of Kashmiri grievance. However, loathing and their resentment toward those in But the process has had tremendous costs, with little tangible liberties are not merely an external credibility the legislative assembly. Could a deepening of a new beginning may be worth the effort. power”. The true measure of Modi’s new poli- test; they represent a commitment to cher- democracy, and a widening of the stake in the In 2004, in a thoughtful paper published by tics in Kashmir will be to what extent such benefit. At the human level, stories abound of Indians — includ- ished national principles. Indian system, address this? In 2018, pancha- the United States Institute of Peace in Wash- “resentment” and “self-loathing” are ing the old and ill; those with long periods of service to the nation; What does the medium-term hold? Prime yat elections were held in the state for only the ington, DC, the respected civil servant Waja- replaced by a sense of dignity. Minister Narendra Modi’s government has third time in 40 years. Subsequently, the Modi hat Habibullah outlined the political economy Ashok Malik is distinguished fellow, Observer Research and across religious communities and ethnicities — struggling predicated its recent actions on a better deal government promised devolution of welfare of Kashmir. “The Indian government,” he Foundation. He can be reached at to prove their citizenship. Even though the final list has seen the for the Kashmir valley. Countering radical- and developmental finances as well as deliv- wrote, “generally funds 20% of the cost of state [email protected] ism and terrorism are necessary here, but by ery of economic projects and social pro- development, requiring the states to raise the The views expressed are personal number of those excluded dip from 4 million to 1.9 million, politi- cal parties across the board believe that genuine citizens have still been left out. Politically, the issue has deepened the commu- WORKING TOGETHER nal divide not only in Assam, but also other parts of the country where the BJP has promised to kick-start the NRC process. (It is The art of dealing with a different matter that the party itself is not happy with the out- come of the NRC in Assam, for it had expected a higher exclusion conflict in family businesses of Muslims and lower of Hindus.) These divisions will not be easy to heal. The episode has also brought out the perils of an inter- Prepare for conflict when relationships are smooth. ventionist judiciary which prioritised identifying immigrants Dispute suppression is the surest way to serious rift without carefully considering the difficulties in the process. The fate of those excluded is uncertain, for deportation is not feasible JANMEJAYA fort and friction. But a clear progression is SINHA usually visible after that, with tensions gradu- and detention centres would be ethically wrong and a blot on ally building. As this happens, communica- Indian democracy. There have been diplomatic costs too. While tion between members deteriorate. This is the worst possible development because then India has assured Bangladesh that it is an internal matter, there is no vent, and tensions start to build and Dhaka has been concerned about the rhetoric emanating from simmer. Of course, conversations at this stage are uncomfortable, but to suppress them in Indian leaders. On the other side, the benefits are unclear for no the hope of postponing conflict is the worst n Family businesses are complicated because two strands intersect. What underpins a family section of Assamese society is happy with the outcome. India very family has fights. Sometimes strategy. Families then set themselves up for is love, affection and equality of treatment. What underpins the business is hard metrics they are big, sometimes small. far sharper disagreements in the future. Fam- and financial performance. One is a meritocracy, the other is not SHUTTERSTOCK must avoid such experiments in the future. Small fights are to be expected, and ilies must recognise that such disagreements at most times, are easily resolved. are not to be feared or avoided but,in fact, to be land. A family which owns and manages a should be set up before conflicts have sur-

§ E They usually take place between a planned for. business finds performance issues sometimes faced. Doing so once a conflict is underway couple but could also be among other mem- All great companies, whether family or in conflict with other filial requirements. skews the entire process. bers of the family. non-family, require open discussion in differ- Every member of the family desires to be 2. Establish agreed principles in respect to Heed PM Modi’s call But fights between families that own and ent management forums on business. There equivalently and fairly treated. They seek succession, entry into and exit from the family run businesses become more material in will be a management committee and a board roles and want returns from the business for business, wealth sharing and other predicta- terms of their disruption to the business. of directors that provide diverse perspectives. themselves. For most families, a majority of ble issues on which there may be conflict. Their conflicts assume different shapes and These are critical for the success of the com- their wealth is in the business. They want to 3. The family forum must be seen as fair by for dialogue forms, each with its own unique dynamic. pany in the long-term. But typically, these have a say in how it is run. They can also have family members in its constitution, represen- They are generally predictable, over issues bodies only need to worry about the business issues on who runs what parts of the business tation and decision rights for it to be effective Public discourse has become intolerant. such as succession, sharing of wealth and and its performance. While conflicts do hap- and what investments they make. The com- in airing and resolving disputes (nothing decisions related to the business. Conflicts pen in such forums, they are easier to tackle plexity is higher and the basis of decision eval- should be out of the realm of discussion). Respect dissent and be civil may be intra-generational (such as between because discussions are generally based on uation is more complicated — love and fair- 4. The family forum must always involve a siblings or cousins) or inter-generational facts, not emotion, and revolve around the ness versus simple performance. So it is even few independent,neutral advisers from out- (such as between uncles and nephews) or even business. more important for the families to have the side the family to ensure they can get a truly ddressing a Malayalam Manorama media conclave a combination of both. As an interesting aside, In comparison, conflicts in family busi- structures by which they can agree on the unbiased opinion. on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said there divorce and separation between the owner nesses are much more complicated. Here, principles and precedents on how decisions 5. Finally, the family charter must be and the spouse, for some reason, tend to be the there are two strands that we need to recog- are made. They also need to uncover conflicts bespoke and created by the family but be open must be “civility” in public life, for differing streams least disruptive to the business, possibly nise and they create complex disagreements. at an early stage and tackle them before they for discussion and refashioning in every suc- A because there are few cases of couples jointly A family is based on unconditional accept- escalate. ceeding generation. to hear each other’s point of view. He underlined the running businesses. But the other fights ance. What underpins a family is love, affec- This requires family businesses to create The nature of conflict in family businesses importance of dialogue between individuals and organisations, within the family, if allowed to drag on, can tion, fairness and equality of treatment. A special forums where these principles changes with the size and age of the family – and said he was open to constructive criticism. tear apart the businesses. In fact, the Indian family is not a meritocracy. A mother will not can be agreed upon and disagreements aired. where shareholdings fragment and relation- family business landscape has seen very pub- love her smartest child more than her other They also need to define the mechanisms to ships get more distant. We will examine this in A democracy functions best when there is debate; when all lic feuds between members of prominent busi- children. And yet the business of the family is resolve them. It needs agreement from sepa- greater detail later. But for all families, the perspectives are understood and appreciated. And that is why ness families. In this piece, we explore both different. It is judged on hard metrics and rate family members on what rules they biggest lesson is preparing for conflict and the causes for conflict and robust mechanisms financial performance. If it is listed, its share- should create for themselves in respect to having sensitive discussions when relation- the PM’s point about dissent and civility is laudable. But it is also to manage them. holders expect a certain return. They expect family member involvement in business. ships are functioning smoothly. Dispute sup- It is rare that such disputes within a family top-class talent to be hired by the manage- They also need to agree what dividends are pression is the surest way to serious conflicts. a critical intervention because the nature of discourse in India is escalate suddenly. It typically starts when ment to ensure the company succeeds and due to them and how they may exit their share moving in a somewhat opposite direction. It is natural for divi- interests begin to diverge. Initially, they are thrives. So while the business of the family is and do something different with their lives. Janmejaya Sinha is chairman, BCG India. This article not large divergences, and members seldom well served by its board of directors, they We recommend families in business consider was written with support from Varun Govindaraj. This is the sions to exist in society on ideological and political grounds. It is want to highlight the differences as they are essentially deal with the performance of the creating: fourth of a six-part fortnightly series on family businesses. also a feature of electoral politics that these divisions get deep- not that material, and to do so causes discom- company and conformity with the rules of the 1. A conflict resolution mechanism: This The views expressed are personal ened. But with sharp polarisation, the space for dialogue has shrunk. Each disagreement is viewed with suspicion; the cre- dentials of the person expressing a distinct view is questioned; Rajinder Singh hand out. It is only through this that we can truly be there is abuse and slander, and a tendency to ghettoise oneself in We are like the thief in the story. Our free. There once lived a man who kept his money desires cause us to be caught with our hand True happiness lies in connecting with the one’s own echo-chamber. All shades of political landscape are innervoice in a special jar so that no one could steal it. in the jars of the unnecessary. Our belief that source of joy within us – our soul and God. To One day, a thief broke in and found this materialistic things will help us find happi- do so, we must turn our attention from responsible for this, but given the strength and visibility of the heavy stone jar. He shoved his hand into the ness and fulfilment do just the opposite. worldly enticements and listen to our soul. supporters of the ruling party, they are often seen as going on the jar and grabbed as much money as he could. Instead, they keep us bound to this world, By letting go, we gain eternal freedom. By FOR US TO FIND TRUE But when he tried to pull his hand out, he searching for things beyond our reach, while sitting in meditation, free from all worldly offensive as soon as a critical view is expressed. It is time for could not. With a closed fist, he could not get forgetting about what truly matters. We no desires and attachments, we can let go and everyone, including the supporters of the PM, to heed his call and HAPPINESS, WE MUST it through the neck of the jar. He tried again longer have time for our family, our chil- find ourselves free to soar back to God. and again, and failed every time. When he dren, or any pursuit that will fulfil us. How Inner Voice comprises contributions from our readers contribute to a political culture which is open, tolerant and civil. LOOK WITHIN OURSELVES finally let go of the money and his hand was can we end this bondage? The only way to do The views expressed are personal free, only then was he able to wriggle his this is to stop holding on and begin letting go. n [email protected]

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Managing Editor: SOUMYA BHATTACHARYA HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 14 hindustantimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER HOSTILE FORCES ARE NOW SPREADING ILL-HEARTED RUMOURS. world > NORTH KOREA, denying it amassed $2 billion through cyberattacks on banks 7 killed after man stopped by Texas troopers opens fire ANOTHER MASS SHOOTING Lone gunman goes on rampage four weeks America’s gun violence in numbers after 22 killed in El Paso, also in Texas Here are some of the key facts about gun violence in the US Agencies began when Texas state troopers n [email protected] tried pulling over a gold car mid-     Saturday afternoon on Interstate 12% Don’t own a MIDLAND, TEXAS: At least seven peo- 20 for failing to signal a left turn, 42% gun, but live with ple were killed in West Texas Texas Department of Public Live in a someone who does n A satellite image shows Dorian as it is approaching the Bahamas and Florida. AFP after a man stopped by state Safety spokeswoman Katherine house- troopers for failing to signal a left Cesinger said. Before the vehicle hold turn opened fire and fled, shoot- came to a complete stop, the with a gun ing more than 20 people as he driver “pointed a rifle toward the 57% At Category 5, Dorian is the drove before being shot dead by rear window of his car and fired 30% Live in a officers outside a movie theatre, several shots” toward the patrol 1% Own a household authorities said. car stopping him. The gunshots Did not gun with no The dead ranged in age from struck one of two troopers inside respond guns strongest storm this year from 15 to 57, and there was no the patrol car, Cesinger said, to the survey definitive answer yet about tje after which the gunman fled and n A police officer escorts bystanders away from an area Agencies higher ground on the largely flat Bahamas archipelago, hotels motive. Odessa police spokesman continued shooting. Two other investigated for the shooting in Odessa, Texas.  n [email protected] archipelago southeast of Florida. closed, residents boarded up Steve LeSueur said that at least police officers were shot before Power and water outages were homes and officials hired boats to one person who was shot the suspect was killed. Authori-     According to a Pew    MIAMI: Monster hurricane Dorian reported, with crews working in move people from low-lying areas remained in life-threatening con- ties say the trooper was in serious     Research Center 66% people own more than made landfall in the northern some communities as authorities to bigger islands as Dorian dition. Authorities said the gun- but stable condition on Saturday, Below are the major reasons, as per a survey conducted one gun with nearly 25% of Bahamas on Sunday, lashing the warned that all government approached. Bahamas Prime between September man was a white male in his 30s, and the other officers were stable. Pew Research Center survey those owning more than five low-lying island chain with dev- employees will stay indoors. Minister Hubert Minnis warned and October 2018, but police have not released a Reacting to the shooting, US guns astating 290 kph winds, the Millions from Florida to the that any “who do not evacuate are 67% nearly 57% 66% name. The shooting began on Sat- President Donald Trump said on respondents want 62% Miami-based National Hurricane Carolinas kept a wary eye on the placing themselves in extreme urday afternoon with an inter- Sunday that he was speaking gun laws to be 54% Center said. slow-moving Dorian amid indica- danger and can expect a cata- state traffic stop where gunfire with Republicans and Democrats stricter, while only The landfall occurred on tions it would veer sharply north- strophic consequence.” was exchanged with police, set- on possible legislative efforts 38% 11% said they should Elbow Cay, a small island four eastward after passing the Baha- Kwasi Thompson, minister of ting off a chaotic rampage during regarding guns. He said the be more lax. Support miles east of Great Abaco Island, mas and track up the US South- state for Grand Bahama island, which the suspect hijacked a mail shooting had not changed ongo- 30% for gun control has at 12:40 pm local time, the NHC east seaboard. Authorities urged residents to “please, please carrier truck and fired at random ing efforts to prepare a legislative increased among 18 to reported. It said Dorian’s maxi- “Catastrophic conditions” are heed the warning. We have no as he drove in the area of Odessa package on guns. He also said he 13% 29-year-olds after the mum sustained winds - already a occurring in The Abaco Islands more time available.” and Midland, two cities in the did not believe background 8% shooting in Orlando in record for this area - had further and expected across Grand Still, dozens of people were heart of Texas oil country more checks for those buying guns 2016 when 49 people strengthened. Bahama later in the day,” the ignoring evacuation orders, offi- were shot dead at a than 483 km west of Dallas. 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Chief Michael Gerke later said Mass shootings “absolutely 44% people said they According to a 2018 Small Arms There have been 2,000 mass minute pleas for those in low-ly- Atlantic since 1950, when record Over two or three days, the there was only one male suspect. are a homeland security threat” personally know someone who Survey report, there were 120.5 shooting since the Sandy Hook ing areas to evacuate before it’s keeping began improving. slow-moving hurricane could The suspect shot “at innocent that are getting increasing atten- has been “accidentally or firearms per 100 US residents. The school shooting of December 14, too late. “It’s going to be really, really dump as much as 1 metre of rain, civilians all over Odessa,” tion within the federal govern- intentionally” been shot, , next highest on the list of civilian 2012, when 26 people, including Hundreds hunkered down in bad for the Bahamas,” Colorado unleash devastating winds and according to a statement from ment, acting secretary of Home- according to a 2017 Pew survey gun-owning countries was Yemen 20 children, were killed. schools, churches and other shel- State University hurricane whip up a dangerous storm surge, Odessa police. land Security Kevin McAleenan ters as officials recognised there researcher Phil Klotzbach said. said private meteorologist Ryan Sources: Pew Research Center, BBC, Small Arms Survey, Everytown Research, Vox, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The terrifying chain of events said. were not many structures on In the northern stretches of the Maue. shortstories Israel, Hezbollah UK PM TO MPS: ‘100 KILLED IN ME OR CORBYN? HK protesters block airport roads AIR STRIKE ON exchange fire on HONG KONG: Thousands of protest- stiles. Police moved in and made YEMEN JAIL’ Agencies ers blocked roads and public several arrests. n [email protected] transport links to Hong Kong air- Chek Lap Kok, built around a SANAA: More than 100 people are Lebanese border port on Sunday in a bid to draw tiny outlying island in the dying believed to have been killed in an LONDON: British Prime Minister world attention to their fight for days of British colonial rule, is air strike by the Saudi-led military Boris Johnson challenged law- democracy for the Chinese-ruled one of the world’s busiest and coalition on prison in Yemen, the makers to deliver on the Brexit city which is facing its biggest most efficient airports, reached International Committee of the vote and not thwart his plans to political crisis in decades. by a series of bridges which were Red Cross said on Sunday. The take Britain out of the European Planes were taking off and packed with traffic. coalition said it targeted a facility Union on October 31. landing with delays, but trains “If we disrupt the airport, run by the Huthi rebels that Johnson has pledged to deliver were suspended and approach more foreigners will read the “stores drones and missiles”, but Brexit with or without a deal, but roads to the airport impassable as news about Hong Kong,” said one the rebels said the attack had opposition lawmakers - and sev- protesters erected barricades and 20-year-old protester, asking not levelled a building they used as a eral lawmakers from Johnson’s overturned trolleys at the airport to be named. prison. The ICRC rushed to the Conservatives - want to act to rule and in the nearby new town of Black-clad demonstrators tar- scene in the city of Dhamar with out a no deal Brexit when parlia- Tung Chung. Some passengers geted the airport three weeks ago, medical teams and hundreds of ment returns from recess on were forced to walk the last bit of jamming the terminal in some- body bags. “The location that was Tuesday. Previous votes have their journey to the airport, drag- times violent clashes with police hit has been visited by ICRC before,” Franz Rauchenstein, its indicated a majority in parlia- ging luggage behind them. and prompting some flights to be head of delegation for Yemen, ment opposing a no-deal Brexit, The MTR subway station in cancelled or delayed. told AFP from Dhamar. “It’s a n Israeli soldiers unload a tank near the Lebanese border outside the but in a newspaper interview, Tung Chung was closed and dem- Police said on Sunday protest- college building that has been... northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona. AFP Johnson said that backing oppo- onstrators smashed CCTV cam- ers hurled iron poles, bricks and used as a detention facility for a sition Labour leader Jeremy Cor- eras and lamps with metal poles rocks on to the railway track near while.” He said over 100 people Bloomberg ern Lebanon, but “the tactical byn risked there being no Brexit and dismantled station turn- the airport station. REUTERS n Road barriers near the airport were set on fire by protesters. AP were estimated to be dead. AFP n [email protected] events on the ground” were over. at all. “The fundamental choice is In a televised address to the this: are you going to side with TEL AVIV : Lebanese Shia militant Israeli public, Prime Minister Jeremy Corbyn and those who E Y E ON PAKISTAN group Hezbollah exchanged fire Benjamin Netanyahu said his want to cancel the referendum? Trump nominates with the Israeli army along the next steps would depend on fur- Are you going to side with those volatile border on Sunday, fulfill- ther developments. who want to scrub the demo- Govt launches bottled water ing a vow to avenge Israeli strikes “We are consulting about the cratic verdict of the people - and Indian-American to but stopping short of a major next steps. I have ordered that we plunge this country into chaos?,” escalation. be prepared for any scenario,” Johnson told the Sunday Times. HTC & Agencies has so far prepared 500 ml bottles reports said. federal judgeship The shelling had subsided Netanyahu said. “At this time I “Or are you going to side with n [email protected] for the water, which will be Sana was fatally stabbed near within hours with no casualties have an important announce- those of us who want to get on, served to officials at the PM’s a famous Pashto music centre in and the threat of immediate esca- ment: We have no casualties – not deliver on the mandate of the peo- ISLAMABAD: As part of austerity Office, General Headquarters Swat district on Saturday. Her lation into full-blown war even a scratch.” ple and focus with absolute, laser- measures, Pakistan’s ministry of and Parliament House and later brother escaped after commit- appeared to have subsided by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nas- like precision on the domestic science and technology has at offices of different ministries. ting the murder, local police nightfall. The Iranian-backed rallah had said that his group agenda? That’s the choice.” launched its own bottled water said. Hezbollah said it destroyed a mili- would hit back after an apparent Johnson is seeking to renegoti- for government offices. PASHTO SINGER DIES IN Police suspect it to be an hon- tary vehicle, according to Al Israeli attack killed three of the ate his predecessor Theresa Priced at Rs 1 per litre, it will ‘HONOUR KILLING’ our killing, but are yet to ascer- POPE SAYS Manar, the group’s official televi- group’s operatives in nearby May’s Brexit withdrawal agree- be a cheaper alternative to the In another case of suspected hon- tain the real motive. GOT STUCK IN sion channel. Israel’s army con- Syria. Lebanese Prime Minister ment so that Britain can leave the mineral water currently availa- our killing, a Pashto singer was On May 7, a local singer, firmed “a number of hits” on a Saad Hariri asked the U.S. and bloc with a deal. But the EU has ble at government offices, said allegedly murdered by her Meena, was killed in Swat. VATICAN LIFT base straddling its northern bor- France to help defuse tension on ruled out Johnson’s demand to the minister Fawad Chaudhry. brother in the troubled Swat val- According to the police, Meena VATICAN CITY: Pope der and said it responded by firing the border, the country’s state- remove the “backstop” to pre- The Pakistan Council of ley of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakh- was killed by her husband in the n Shireen Mathews TWITTER Francis said on Sunday he more than 100 shells into south- run news agency reported. serve an open Irish border. Research and Water Reserves tunkhwa province, media Banr area of Swat. was late to his weekly WASHINGTON: US President Donald Angelus prayer because T I F F 2 0 1 9 Trump has nominated Indian he had been stuck in a American lawyer Shireen Matt- Vatican elevator and had hews as a federal judge for the to be freed by firemen. Taliban attacks Philippine plane Southern District of California. Italian television net- works that live-stream second Afghan city South Indian films to get spotlight at Toronto fest crash kills nine If confirmed, Matthews will be the Angelus had been the first Indian American woman concerned that the Anirudh Bhattacharyya from Kerala. A bull on the and Asian American woman unprecedented seven- KABUL: The Taliban attacked a sec- n [email protected] loose in a village forms the MANILA: Nine people were killed judge in the South District of Cali- minute delay might have ond Afghan city in as many days crux of the film that brims when an air-ambulance plane fornia, said the National Asian been due to health on Sunday, killing several civil- TORONTO : While mainstream with “kinetic energy”, Bailey crashed at a resort area near the Pacific Bar Association. reasons. It was believed ians and security forces, officials and independent movies from said. “It's a non-stop ride, like Philippine capital on Sunday, Matthews is currently a part- to be the first time the said, even as Washington’s peace the Mumbai film industry a roller-coaster, once the sparking a fierce blaze and send- ner at the San Diego offices of Vatican’s head of state, envoy said the US and the mili- have usually dominated movie gets going. It repre- ing terrified locals fleeing, Jones Day, a top legal firm in the who leads the world’s 1.2 tant group are “at the threshold of global events, this year's edi- sents some of the excitement authorities said. Dramatic video US. According to a White House billion Catholics, has got an agreement” to end America’s tion of the Toronto Interna- that’s coming out of cinema in on social media showed emer- announcement, Matthews had stuck in a lift. AFP longest war. tional Film Festival (TIFF) Kerala,” he said. The princi- gency vehicles rushing toward a previously served as an assistant The attack on the capital of will be offering equal screen pal Hindi film premiering at building engulfed in roaring US attorney in the criminal divi- Baghlan province came hours space to south India. TIFF this year is Los Angeles- flames in Calamba City as sion of the US attorney’s office for W 2: GERMANY after US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad There will be two signifi- based director Shonali Bose’s authorities urged crowds to move the district. She earned her BA said he warned the Taliban dur- cant premieres of southern The Sky Is Pink, which stars away for their own safety. from Georgetown University and ASKS POLAND FOR ing talks in Qatar that “violence films at the 10-day festival Priyanka Chopra, Farhan After dousing the blaze, rescu- her JD from Duke University FORGIVENESS like this must stop.” But he starting September 5. “I'm Akhtar and Zaira Wasim. ers found nine bodies in the School of Law. appeared determined to move glad to see films from the Bose had won an award at smoking ruins - believed to be Mathews joins a growing band WARSAW: German President forward on a deal that plans the south of India being so TIFF with her previous film, those aboard the King Air 350 of Indian-Americans in higher Frank-Walter Steinmeier on withdrawal of some 14,000 strongly represented this n A still from the film, The Elder One, which will have its premiere Margarita With A Straw. light aircraft. “No one will sur- echelons of the US judiciary, Sunday asked Poland’s forgive- remaining US troops in exchange year,” TIFF's co-head Cam- at the Toronto International Film Festival. IMAGE COURTESY:TIFF Completing the quartet is vive this crash. We assume that many of them now featuring on ness 80 years after Germany’s attack triggered World War 2 for Taliban guarantees that eron Bailey said. Geetanjali Rao's animated all confirmed passengers of this short-lists for the Supreme Court. while his Polish counterpart Afghanistan will not be used as a Director ' Lakshadweep into its ambit, Bailey noted it is an “urgent feature Bombay Rose. plane are dead,” local emergency Amul Thapar, a judge on the US denounced Russia’s recent launch pad for global attacks. (The Elder One) is giving it perhaps its first plat- drama pondering gender, sex- There are other films with official Jeffrey Rodriguez said. court of appeals for the 6th cir- “imperialist” aggression against Khalilzad arrived in Kabul on probably the most anticipated form ever before a global audi- uality, violence, and toler- Indian connection, too. Actor Police said two people on the cuit, was on Trump’s shortlists its neighbours. Poland suffered Sunday to brief the Afghan gov- Indian feature, as it will have ence. “It has a really vast ance” and commended it for Dev Patel plays the title role in ground were injured in the crash for the two appointments he had some of the worst horrors of ernment on a deal, which is not its first public screening at scope. It starts in a very small its “realism.” director Armando Iannucci’s and rushed to hospital, but have made to the top court, losing out World War 2: six million Poles died yet final. Both he and the Taliban TIFF, before opening the coastal village and then goes Director Lijo Jose Pelliss- The Personal History of David not reported any fatalities from to Neil Gorsuch and then to Brett in the conflict that killed more confirmed the latest round of MAMI festival in Mumbai. to a big city and takes on sub- ery will showcase Jallikattu, Copperfield, a colour-blind those who were in the resort area Kavanaugh. Sri Srinivasan was than 50 million people, including talks ended. “We are on the verge The sprawling film also jects you don't see as often in described by Bailey as a “bold retelling of Charles Dickens’ when the plane went down. The on President Barack Obama’s 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, of ending the invasion,” said a brings the island territory of Indian cinema,” Bailey said. new voice” in cinema coming classic novel. plane was carrying a patient and short-list for a vacancy on the half of them Polish. AFP Taliban spokesman. AP medical team. 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shortstories GST MOP­UP DIPS SBI CARD TO ISSUE RUPAY Centre looks to cut GST BELOW ₹1 TN IN CREDIT CARDS AUG, BUT HIGHER NEW DELHI: SBI Card will soon launch RuPay credit cards, a THAN LAST YEAR development which will give a rates as car sales slump boost to the homegrown pay- ment network in the fast growing HT Correspondent segment. Presently, the credit DEMAND SLUMP Passenger car sales drop 34% in August, lowest in 18 years n [email protected] card segment is dominated by the US-based payment gateways like NEW DELHI: The goods and services Visa and Mastercard. RuPay is the Amit Panday tax (GST) collection in August first-of-its-kind domestic debit n [email protected] Road to nowhere dropped by 3.8% to ₹98,202 crore and credit card payment network compared to the previous month, n A total of 56.5 mn returns have been filed so far this year. MINT of India developed by National NEW DELHI: The Union government Overall auto sales of six top firms fell 34% in August from a year ago. This is their the lowest monthly collection in Payments Corporation of India has finally decided to bite the bul- worst performance in August in 18 years. five months of current fiscal year, (NPCI), an umbrella organization let on a tax cut for the automobile according to figures released on for operating retail payments and sector, on a day the industry It (the tax cut Sunday. settlement systems. “We will be Passenger Year-on-year I-T return filings reported the worst August for The collection in August was, vehicle sales* decline in Aug proposal) has (launching RuPay-based credit passenger vehicles in 18 years. however, higher compared to the card) soon. There is a last agree- Dispatches to dealerships during got to go to the same month last year. “The reve- -36.1 (in %) ment that is left out at the end of the month plunged 34% from a -34.1 nue in August, 2018 was ₹93,960 NPCI level. I think NPCI is going to Maruti TOTAL GST Council. I will surge to a record year ago, sales data showed, in crore and the revenue during send it any day and we will be Suzuki -16.6 the sharpest decline since Sep- Hyundai Motor wait for the GST August, 2019 is a growth of 4.51% launching some products,” SBI India Card managing director and chief tember 2001. council to take over the revenue in the same Gireesh Chandra Prasad FILING OF TAX RETURNS -24.1 n executive Hardayal Prasad said in The government will take a a final call. month last year,” the finance [email protected] an interview to Press Trust of proposal to reduce the goods and -31.6 Toyota -51.3 ministry said on Sunday. SURGED 41% ON THE Kirloskar  NEW DELHI: India. Expressing confidence that services tax (GST) rate on auto- Mahindra and Honda GST collection in April and Filing of income tax LAST DATE TO 4.9 MN RuPay credit card will be launched mobiles to the GST Council, Mahindra Cars India  , May this year was more than ₹1 returns hit a new record, with a in this fiscal only, Prasad said, “It’s finance minister Nirmala Sithar- Finance lakh crore, but it dropped mar- peak filing rate of 196 returns per FILINGS IN ASSESSMENT just a matter of time. The Rupay aman told reporters in Chennai, minister ginally to ₹99,939 crore in June to second on Saturday—the final YEAR 2019-20 FROM will become very popular and will while briefing them on efforts to Source: -57.8 *Despatches to dealerships bounce back again to ₹1.02 lakh due date for filing, the Central be used in India aggressively. I arrest the economic downturn. Companies Tata Motors are counted as sales. crore in July. Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) THE PREVIOUS YEAR have no doubts on it.”He said Automobiles currently attract Graphic: Sarvesh Kumar Sharma/Mint Gross GST collections in April- said. there is a big “nationalistic the highest tax rate of 28%, apart August 2019 was ₹5.14 lakh crore, There has been a sharp of the fiscal in which the return is segment” which is insisting on from a cess. where all state finance ministers lower truck rentals. Girish Wagh, promote electric mobility should 6.38% up from ₹4.83 lakh crore in increase in filing returns closer to to be filed, with a fine, and the RuPay cards. About one-third of Six top automakers together assemble,” Sitharaman said. “It president of the CV unit, how- not be misconstrued as promot- the year-ago period, it said. and on the due date because of final figure could go up further. the cards being issued by India’s dispatched 171,193 vehicles to is for them to take a call.” ever, said retail sales could have ing electric vehicles at the The Central GST (CGST) col- pre-filled forms and other steps The tax department’s online fil- largest lender State Bank of India dealerships, 34% below the The federal indirect tax body exceeded wholesales by over 25% expense of internal combustion lection in August was ₹17,733 taken by the tax department, ing portal did not witness any dis- are RuPay cards, he said. 259,925 vehicles dispatched in meets next on September 20. in August. engine vehicles. crore while State GST (SGST) leading to 56.5 million returns ruption this year as it has been August 2018. Indian manufactur- Mahindra and Mahindra Mint reported on August 11 “All vehicles will have their was ₹24,239 crore and Integrated filed so far for assessment year trying to make voluntary compli- ers count factory dispatches to (M&M) Ltd reported total passen- that the GST Council is preparing due market share. It is not that we GST was ₹48,958 crore, which 2019-20, CBDT said in a statement ance easier and reduce the inter- dealerships as sales. These num- ger vehicle sales of 13,507 units, for a meeting to be convened after are promoting one segment of the included ₹24,818 crore collected on Sunday. face between taxpayers and offi- bers follow a 31% drop in July. down 32% y-o-y, and a 28% y-o-y the finance ministry decides on industry at the expense of on imports. The cess collection in Filing of tax returns surged cials. Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, drop in commercial vehicle (CV) the extent of benefits to be given another,” said the minister. the month was ₹7,273 crore that 41% on the last date to 4.9 million The department was criticized which makes one in every two sales to 14,684 units. Among CVs, to the auto industry. A report by credit rating included ₹841 crore collected on filings in assessment year 2019-20 by industry leaders after a letter cars sold in the country, posted medium and heavy commercial ICICI Securities said in a agency Icra Ltd, which estimates imports. from the previous year as the attributed to Café Coffee Day domestic sales of 93,173 units, vehicles were hit the most, falling recent report that prospective a 4-7% decline for the overall pas- The total number of the sum- department offered pre-filled founder VG Siddhartha, who was down 36% year-on-year (y-o-y). 69% to 354 units. buyers are deferring purchases senger vehicle segment in FY20, mary of self-assessed return forms as well as guidance to tax- recently found dead, claimed that Sales of Maruti’s small cars fell Tata Motors Ltd posted domes- as automobiles are not currently pointed out that entry-level and number or the GSTR-3B returns payers through social media, he was under pressure from one 40% y-o-y to 64,397 units. Analysts tic passenger vehicle sales of 7,316 a consumer priority. midsize hatchbacks have wit- filed for the month of July 2019 up CBDT said. Since August 27, e-fil- of the private equity investors have pinned hopes on Maruti’s units, a 58% decline y-o-y. “Our “The auto industry continues nessed a price increase of over to August-end totalled 75.80 lakh. ing of returns has risen 32-63% and had faced harassment from a Bharat Stage VI compliant retail sales were 42% more than to be subdued in the month of 10% and 6-8%, respectively, due to Pratik Jain, partner and leader compared to the corresponding tax official. The department has FPIS PULL OUT S-Presso hatchback to be offtake and as a result, the net- August due to several external new regulations and commodity (Indirect Tax), PwC India said: days a year ago, CBDT said. In the refuted the charges. Finance min- launched this month to revive work stock came down by over factors. We are optimistic and prices. Calls for strong measures “Slowdown in GST collections last five days, the tax department ister Nirmala Sitharaman who ₹5,920 CRORE sales during the festive season. 3,000 vehicles. This prepares hopeful of a good festive season to support the industry have been perhaps reflects the economic saw 14.7 million e-filings, a 42% met tax officials in Chennai on IN AUGUST Sales of midsize sedan Ciaz fell dealers well for the festival sea- going ahead,” said Veejay Ram growing as economic indicators realities on the ground. While its rise from the year earlier. Sunday, told reporters that tax NEW DELHI: Foreign 77% to 1,596 units. Although at son,” said Mayank Pareek, presi- Nakra, chief of sales and market- give worrying signs of a sharp 4.5% higher than corresponding The total returns filed so far collection targets for this fiscal investors pulled out a net 8,658 units van sales fell 37%, util- dent (passenger vehicles busi- ing (automotive division) at deceleration in growth. India’s period of last year, it’s much this fiscal, however, is only 4% were realistic and that there was amount of ₹5,920 crore ity vehicle sales rose 3%. ness unit) at Tata Motors. Sales of M&M. economy grew 5% in the June below the target which has been higher than the 54 million filed a no need for any overreach by offi- from the Indian capital “It (the tax cut proposal) has CVs fell 45% y-o-y to 21,824 units Meanwhile, Sitharaman also quarter, its slowest pace in six set, despite the reduction in esti- year ago. Returns could be filed cials to mobilize revenue markets in August even got to go to the GST Council, on poor freight availability and said the government’s efforts to years. mates in the Union budget.” even after the due date till the end receipts. as the government rolled back enhanced surcharge on FPIs last week. The withdrawal from the capital markets (both ₹ is worst-performing Asian M&M to acquire 55% stake in Meru equity and debt) in August is “contrary to the expectation” since the M. Sriram and Amit Panday Private equity firm True Centre last week an- currency in Aug after yuan n [email protected] North, which holds about 80% in nounced revocation of Meru, will see its stake reduce to enhanced super-rich tax Nasrin Sultana and Shayan Ghosh $2.19 billion in August, their big- MUMBAI: Mahindra and Mahindra 35%, managing partner Vishal on foreign and domestic n [email protected] gest sell-off in 10 months since Ltd (M&M) has agreed to buy a Nevatia said. True North first equity investors imposed Money matters in the Budget, said October 2018, data showed. 55% stake in ride-hailing firm invested in Meru in 2007, when it MUMBAI: The rupee has underper- The rupee depreciated by “How capital flows behave in Meru Cabs, expanding the auto- was called V Link Group, and Himanshu Srivastava, 3.65% against the dollar in senior analyst manager formed all its Asian peers except future will be the real testament maker’s presence in the growing used to provide fleet management research at Morningstar. China’s renminbi in August. Aug, while the renminbi of how rupee behaves. Tradition- market for shared mobility. solutions to media houses and The rupee depreciated by slipped 3.70%. ally, in India we have a current M&M will pay up to ₹103 crore corporate clients. 3.65% against the dollar during Appreciation/depreciation account deficit (CAD) and, there- for acquiring the stake which will “Mahindra’s investment will the month, its steepest monthly (in %) against dollar in August fore, there has always been a be done through an issue of new help Meru plan for a new course V­MART PLANS TO decline in six years. The ren- question on the rupee unless shares. In a stock exchange filing of growth. It is the only cab aggre- Chinese renminbi -3.70 RECRUIT 2,000 minbi slipped 3.70% against the there are more capital flows. You on Saturday, M&M also said it gator in India which is cash-posi- dollar. However, it is widely Indian rupee -3.65 need more dollars than what you has an option to buy the remain- n M&M signed an agreement for subscribing up to 55% of equity tive and profitable. Mahindra PEOPLE IN FY20 believed that renminbi’s fall was earn. If capital flows come in any ing 45% stake in Meru from exist- share capital of Meru in tranches. MINT also wants to tap into the sharing -2.21 NEW DELHI: Value fashion and mainly because of China’s Philippine peso form, FDI, FPI, or foreign cur- ing investors for up to ₹98 crore. and rental mobility space with lifestyle products retailer V-Mart reported devaluation of its cur- Malaysian ringgit -1.88 rency bond issuances, the rupee M&M said it will make the first ors on the board of Meru and as Link Automotive Services Pvt. Meru, because auto firms today Retail would hire 2,000 people rency beyond the psychological will strengthen. Whenever capi- tranche of investment in Meru such will control the composition Ltd and V Link Fleet Solutions realize that selling cars is not the and invest ₹115 crore this fiscal to mark of 7 yuan per dollar for the Indonesian rupiah -1.19 tal flows are abundant, the rupee Travel Solutions Pvt. Ltd by the of the board of directors of Meru,” Pvt. Ltd will become units of only way to sustain growth,” expand its footprint, a top first time in more than a decade Taiwanese dollar -0.97 has a tendency to appreciate,” end of October. “After invest- it said. M&M. The Mumbai-based auto- Nevatia said. True North has company official said. The retailer, amid escalating tensions with the said Ashutosh Khajuria, chief ment of the first tranche in Meru, Once the deal is closed, Meru maker is already an investor in invested about $80 million in which mainly operates in tier-II US over trade tariffs. Singapore dollar -0.93 financial officer, Federal Bank. the company will have the right and its subsidiaries including self-drive car rental platform Meru since 2007, and will look to and -III cities, plans to add around On Friday, the rupee hit 71.41 India’s CAD, which is a major to appoint a majority of the direct- Meru Mobility Tech Pvt. Ltd, V ZoomCar India Pvt. Ltd. exit in the next two to three years. 60 stores this fiscal, taking its Hong Kong dollar -0.17 per dollar. The currency had hit contributory factor towards cur- total count to 275. The company also expects the contribution of its all-time low at 74.48 on October Thai baht 0.59 rency exchange rates, widened to its private labels to increase to 11, 2018. The rupee has depreci- Source: Bloomberg $57.2 billion, or 2.1% of gross around 75% of total sales, from ated by 2.29% so far this year and domestic product, in FY19 from Oil firms raise LPG 70% currently. “We have plans to some analysts warn of more pain equities peaked in June and has 1.8% a year ago amid a general Trump imposes more tariffs add 60 stores this year (fiscal) in ahead. Weakness in the rupee is a since fallen by $3.5 billion, while slowdown in the economy. A our network, taking the total reflection of the broader under- the Nifty index has fallen by weak rupee against the dollar price by ₹15.5, cut count to 275,” V-Mart Retail performance of high-yielding around 11% from its June high. makes imports costlier, nega- chairman and managing director emerging markets forex, weak- That said, bond holdings have tively affecting CAD. on China, no deal in sight yet jet fuel rate by 1% Lalit Agarwal told Press Trust of ness in equities, and the effect of risen by $3.1bn in the same Jamal Mecklai, chief executive India. “We would hire around recent policy actions, according period. The risk to rupee ema- officer, Mecklai Financial Servi- Bloomberg Press Trust of India

2,000 people this fiscal to en- to Nomura. Broader risk aver- nates from increased risk aver- ces, also believes that the prepon- n [email protected] n [email protected] hance our back-end support and sion and India’s basic balance def- sion that can lead to a continua- derance of market views are for a manpower,” he said, adding that icit could continue to drive weak- tion of equity outflows, which weaker rupee. WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS: The NEW DELHI : Jet fuel price on Sun- the company presently has 7,000 ness in the rupee, it said. could be accompanied by bond “The rupee is weak because Trump administration slapped day was cut by about 1% to a four- employees. In 2018-19, V-Mart Nomura maintained a cau- outflows,” Nomura said in a there is more demand (for dol- tariffs on roughly $110 billion in month low on softening interna- Retail Ltd had posted a revenue of tious stance and said continued report on August 26. lars) than supply. This is because Chinese imports on Sunday, tional oil prices, according to ₹1,433.75 crore. V-Mart has already Chinese renminbi depreciation Net foreign portfolio inflows of several forces, a large CAD, marking the latest escalation in a state-owned fuel retailers. opened 20 new stores this fiscal and now operates 233 outlets. The will continue to pressure Asian will be an important factor for weak exports and poor senti- trade war that’s inflicting dam- Market-priced or non-subsi- company plans to open new currencies, including the rupee, rupee performance, given the ment. In particular, during the age across the world economy. dized cooking gas (LPG) price was stores in Bihar, Jharkhand, West while growth concerns signalled average quarterly basic balance past few months, FPI sentiment China retaliated. however raised by ₹15.5 per cylin- Bengal, Odisha and north-eastern by the inversion of the US yield deficit of $6.6 billion over the past has worsened because of the tax The 15% US duty hit consumer der, oil firms said in a price notifi- states, besides markets like curve would also imply weaker year, it said. issues in the budget and a general goods ranging from footwear and cation. Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. inflows for India. Foreign institutional investors increase in risk aversion glo- apparel to home textiles and cer- Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) COMPILED FROM AGENCIES “Foreign holdings of India have sold Indian stocks worth bally,” Mecklai said. tain technology products like the price in Delhi was cut by ₹596.62 Apple Watch. A separate batch of per kilolitre or 0.9%, to ₹62,698.86 about $160 billion in Chinese per kl. This is the third straight goods—including laptops and n US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. AP FILE monthly price reduction. cellphones—will be hit with 15% Jet fuel prices were last cut by Realty stocks soar buoyed by govt steps tariffs on December 15. US Presi- warmongering has only grown Chase & Co. note to clients esti- 5.8% or ₹3,806.44 per kl on August dent Donald Trump delayed part stronger, and its countermeas- mating that the latest round of 1. State-owned fuel marketing Bidya Sapam SO FAR THIS YEAR, THE “The industry has been expect- cash-strapped developers a of the levies to blunt the impact on ures more resolute, measured tariffs will increase the average firms revise ATF prices on the 1st and Ravindra Sonavane ing solutions relating to liquidity reprieve, said analysts. holiday shopping. and targeted,” according to a cost per US household to $1,000 a of every month based on average n [email protected] BSE REALTY INDEX HAS infusion and further financial The minister has also hinted at While the Trump administra- commentary by the official Xin- year—up from $600 for duties of benchmark international oil SURGED 13.95%, WHILE incentive for homebuyers and a solution to fund projects stuck tion has dismissed concern about hua News Agency after the tariffs enacted last year. That estimate price in the previous month. MUMBAI: Shares of real estate com- developers. This has boosted due to lack of finance. a protracted trade war, business kicked in. One thing that “White is in the low range because it was In Mumbai, home to the coun- panies continue to rise despite THE BENCHMARK investor sentiment,” said Ram- “An indication from the gov- groups are calling for a tariff House tariff men should learn is based on a duty rate of 10%, before try’s busiest airport, ATF price weak sales of residential prop- 30-SHARE SENSEX IS esh Nair, chairman and chief ernment that it is working on eas- truce and the resumption of nego- that the Chinese economy is Trump increased it to 15%. was cut to ₹61,199.79 per kl from erty, delays and bankruptcies, as executive of JLL India, a property ing liquidity issues and providing tiations between the world’s two- strong and resilient enough to The tariffs are also harming ₹62,712.17. Reduction in ATF investors take hope from consoli- UP OVER 4% consulting firm. solutions for revival of stalled largest economies. resist the pressure brought about the global economy. The Interna- rates will bring relief to cash dation and government initia- “Any measure that will help in real estate projects has given Face-to-face talks between in the ongoing trade war.” tional Monetary Fund in July fur- strapped airlines. tives. So far this year, the BSE 34%, Prestige Estates 34.7% and capital infusion will help the sec- hopes to investors,” said Ajit Chinese and American trade While Trump has repeatedly ther reduced its world growth Simultaneously, oil firms also Realty Index has surged 13.95%, Oberoi Realty Ltd 26.9%. How- tor grow,” he added. Mishra, vice president (research) negotiators scheduled for Wash- said China is paying for his tar- outlook, already the lowest since revised the price of cooking gas or while the benchmark 30-share ever, Indiabulls Real Estate Ltd According to data compiled by of Religare Broking Ltd. ington in September are still hap- iffs, many companies and econo- the financial crisis, amid the LPG. Price of non-subsidized Sensex is up over 4%. fell 22%, Omaxe Ltd 9.4%, DLF IIFL Research, listed developers Mishra said investors favour pening “as of now”, Trump told mists say that US importers bear uncertainty from the trade war. LPG, which consumers buy after The top performers in the Ltd 5.1% and Mahindra Lifespace posted a 20% growth in volume in fundamentally sound stocks such reporters on Friday before going the cost—and some of it is passed China’s retaliation took effect exhausting their annual quota of property pack include leading Developers Ltd 5.6%. the June quarter, while overall as Godrej Properties and Oberoi to Camp David, the US presiden- on to consumers. as of 12.01pm Sunday in Beijing, 12 cylinders of 14.2-kg at subsi- developers such as Godrej Prop- Real estate stocks have soared industry growth remained flat. Realty, which are up by 38.6% and tial retreat. “We’re going to win The non-partisan Congressio- with higher tariffs being rolled dized rates, was hiked to ₹590 erties Ltd, Prestige Estates Pro- because of recent measures On August 23, Sitharaman 26.9%, respectively, so far this the fight,” he said. nal Budget Office in August pro- out in stages on $75 billion of US from ₹574.5. The monthly 25 paise jects Ltd and Oberoi Realty Ltd. announced by Union finance announced a capital infusion of year. China has repeatedly decried jected that by 2020, Trump’s tar- goods. Its target list strikes at the per litre increase in kerosene The previous six sessions saw the minister Nirmala Sitharaman, ₹70,000 crore to recapitalize pub- Abhimanyu Sofat, head of US pressure tactics, with signs iffs and trade war will reduce the heart of Trump’s political sup- price continued for the 26th Realty Index gain 9.44%, led by and consolidation due to regula- lic sector banks, besides an addi- research at IIFL Securities, said that its officials are girding for a level of real US GDP by about port—factories and farms across month in a row. Sobha Ltd (19%). tory reforms and an ongoing tional liquidity support of ₹20,000 homebuyers are increasingly prolonged confrontation. 0.3% and reduce average real the Midwest and South at a time The subsidized fuel in Mumbai So far this year, Godrej Proper- liquidity crunch, said analysts crore to housing finance compa- opting for builders that have an “China’s determination to household income by $580. when the US economy is showing now costs ₹33.27 per litre as com- ties is up 38.6%, Sunteck Realty and real estate consultants. nies. These steps are likely to give ability to execute and deliver. fight against the US economic That followed a JPMorgan signs of slowing down. pared to ₹32.97 a litre last month. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 16 hindustantimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 (WE) SHOULD HAVE WON TODAY AS WELL. IT’S NOT A DIP IN FORM, (BUT) IT’S A DIP IN RESULTS DEFINITELY. > OLE GUNNAR SOLSKJAER, Man Utd boss after the 1-1 draw against Southampton. Wang proves a Barty pooper US OPEN Chinese ousts French Open winner; reigning champ Osaka reaches out to Gauff after third-round victory

Agencies did claim a game, she did so with n [email protected] a couple of exclamation points in the form of aces at 105 mph, NEW YORK: China’s 18th-seeded then that one at 119 mph. Wang Qiang advanced to the US Osaka slumped her shoul- Open quarter-finals on Sunday ders. The crowd roared. It with a 6-2, 6-4 upset of Austra- seemed, fleetingly, that this lian second seed Ashleigh might be a competitive match. Barty, the reigning French Soon enough, Osaka was edg- Open champion. ing ahead—and then pulling n Roger Federer stays on course for semi-final against Djokovic. AFP Wang will face the winner of a away, showing the same poise later fourth-round match and power that carried her to between Croatian 22nd seed the championship a year ago in Petra Martic and US eighth seed a memorably chaotic final Federer eases past Serena Williams, who is seeking against Serena Williams that a 24th career Grand Slam title to ended with spectators booing match Margaret Court’s all- and both women in tears after struggling Goffin, time record. the 23-time major champion got Wang was unsure if she into a lengthy dispute with the would watch the Williams-Mar- chair umpire. tic match, leaving that duty to On this evening, Gauff’s body enters last eight her coach, Thomas Drouet. language was getting worse and “I think that’s my coach’s worse, whether it was a slap of homework,” Wang said. “I just her thigh or raising her racket Agence France-Presse final. Also playing later is Rus- want to enjoy now and my coach overhead as if contemplating a n [email protected] sian fifth seed Daniil Medvedev, will tell me how to play next.” spike or the palms-up glare who won at Cincinnati in the last Wang’s previous coach had toward her parents and others NEW YORK: Roger Federer major US Open tuneup event. been Peter McNamara, who in a courtside guest box to ask advanced to the US Open quarter- Medvedev was fined $9,000 for an died in July of prostate cancer. why they weren’t giving her finals for the 13th time in his past obscene gesture and unsports- Barty, who beat Wang twice more support. Gauff’s dad said 15 attempts Sunday by defeating manlike conduct in a third-round last year in their only prior afterward that his daughter Belgian 15th seed David Goffin victory, his third fine in three meetings, was undone by 39 might not appear on tour again 6-2, 6-2, 6-0. matches at Flushing Meadows. unforced errors while Wang until next year, because of age The 38-year-old Swiss third Federer, who improved to 9-1 made only 14. restrictions on the women’s seed, trying to stretch his men’s in his career rivalry with Goffin, Wang, who had squandered tour that limit how many tour- Grand Slam record title total to is 7-0 lifetime against 78th-ranked four match points in a semi-final naments someone who is 15 may 21, took only 79 minutes to book a Dimitrov but has never faced loss last week at the WTA Bronx enter. Next for Osaka is a match quarter-final berth against the 38th-ranked De Minaur. tournament, enjoyed solid sup- on Monday against 13th-seeded winner of a later match between Five-time US Open champion port at Louis Armstrong Sta- Belinda Bencic of Switzerland Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov and Federer’s Open Era Slam quar- dium. “I love New York,” Wang with a quarter-final berth at Australia’s Alex de Minaur. ter-finals record grew to 56 and he said. stake. “It was great. I thought I had a matched Andre Agassi’s second- Canadian 15th seed Bianca good feeling out here,” Federer best US Open total of 13 quarter- OSAKA OUSTS GAUFF Andreescu advanced to the said. “David didn’t have his best finals—second only to 17 by Naomi Osaka looked across the fourth round by defeating Dan- day either, he was struggling.” Jimmy Connors—in a dominant net after ending Coco Gauff’s US ish 19th seed Caroline Wozni- performance at Arthur Ashe Sta- Open in the third round Satur- n Wang Qiang celebrates after winning her round of 16 match against Ashleigh Barty on Sunday. AFP acki 6-4, 6-4. ON COLLISION COURSE dium. Goffin broke in the third day night and saw the tears wel- The 19-year-old of Romanian Federer’s victory kept him on a game of the match and Federer ling in the 15-year-old Ameri- told her: “You need to let those It’s that sort of maturity off player who is still learning her two-time major champion, heritage won the battle of the semi-final collision course with responded by winning the next can’s eyes. people know how you feel.” the court, and a wise-beyond- way at tennis’ top level. including at the Australian top-rated players remaining in top-seeded defending champion five games to seize the opening set Osaka also saw a bit of herself So Gauff obliged—a rare her-years game on it, that has Gauff pounded serves at up to Open in January—played a role. her quarter of the draw after Novak Djokovic, who plays the in 26 minutes, 11 of the next 13 to in the kid she’d just beaten 6-3, instance of a match’s loser helped Gauff generate all sorts 119 mph but also double-faulted So, too, did her on-target power, exits by Simona Halep and Petra night feature match at Arthur grab command of the affair inside 6-0. So the tournament’s defend- addressing the crowd from the of attention already. She was the seven times. She overcame a which resulted in a 24-8 edge in Kvitova to book a last-16 date Ashe Stadium against three-time of an hour, and 17 of the final 19 in ing champion and No. 1 seed, court. And was appreciative of youngest woman since 1996 to slow start to get within 4-3 in the winners. When it ended, after with US qualifier Taylor Towns- Grand Slam winner Stan stunningly rapid fashion. “I was who is only 21 herself, com- Osaka’s gesture. “She just win two matches at Flushing opening set but also dropped the merely 65 minutes, Gauff began end. Wawrinka, the Swiss 23rd seed. down in the score earlier,” Fed- forted Gauff with a hug and proved that she’s a true athlete. Meadows, her follow-up to a last eight games. Don’t forget: to bawl on the sideline. “You see a lot of young play- Serbia’s Djokovic, a 16-time erer said. “Obviously you have to words of consolation, then For me, the definition of an ath- captivating run to the second The U.S. Open was only the sec- Gauff acknowledged feeling ers doing really well right now Grand Slam champion who has come back. I was too down on encouraged her to address the lete is someone who on the court week at Wimbledon in July. ond Slam for Gauff, who was some jitters at the outset, and and I think it’s really good for captured four of the past five myself. 23,000 or so folks pulling for the treats you like your worst In this much-hyped show- ranked No. 313 at the start of Osaka produced the match’s ini- the game,” said Andreescu. Slam crowns, is 19-5 against “In a way I feel bad about beat- young American in the Arthur enemy, but off the court can be down under the lights, Gauff Wimbledon and is now No. 140. tial seven winners. “You see many fresh faces and I Wawrinka but they have not ing up on a friend like David. I Ashe Stadium stands. Knowing your best friend,” Gauff said often looked exactly like what Osaka’s advantages in age It took all of 10 minutes for think we’re only going to get bet- played since the Swiss defeated hope he has a better end of the how tough it is to lose, Osaka later at her news conference. she is: an immensely talented and accomplishments—she is a Osaka to lead 3-0. When Gauff ter from here.” Djokovic in the 2016 US Open year.” Now is the moment to push, says Nadal

Agence France-Presse rest, although he did withdraw n [email protected] from a tuneup event in Cincin- nati after winning at Montreal. NEW YORK: A rested and healthy “I had the first three or four Rafael Nadal rolled into the US months of the season very hard, Open’s fourth round on Satur- too many issues again, and then day, wishing he had been it’s true that since Barcelona, pushed harder as he charges things have been improving,” after a 19th Grand Slam title. Nadal said. The 33-year-old Spaniard, “I was able to fix a little bit the who won his 12th French Open body and play more or less with title in June, advanced to the freedom of movements. That’s last 16 by defeating 170th- given me the chance to compete ranked South Korean qualifier at the highest level again. Chung Hyeon 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. “So here I am to try my best “I didn’t face a break point. and I’m going to put my 100 per- That’s a positive thing,” Nadal cent to try to be ready for the said. next round.” “And the best thing is without playing great, playing a normal CILIC NEXT n Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc of Monaco (C) lifts the trophy and points to the sky as he dedicates his match, I was able to have a very Next up for Nadal is a Monday Belgian GP win to Anthoine Hubert, a F2 driver who died in a racing accident on Saturday. AP comfortable score. That means matchup against Croatia’s 23rd- a lot of things, positive ones,” he seeded Marin Cilic, the 2014 US added. Open champion. “Now is the moment to push, “The key is play well. That Leclerc wins maiden GP, to make a step forward if I want simple,” Nadal said. “If I’m play- to give me a chance to fight for ing well, I’m going to have hope- the important things. That’s fully my chances to return a what I’m going to try.” couple of points and give me Against Chung, a 2018 Aus- chances. dedicates it to Hubert tralian Open semi-finalist who “Against big servers... chan- has battled injuries, Nadal ces are not a lot, so you need to Associated Press continue, seeing as the left side of played an aggressive game off be ready to expect a very tough n [email protected] his car lifted clean off the ground. the ground and on the serve, one. CORREA STABLE But Renault driver Carlos Sainz winning nearly 90 percent of his n Rafael Nadal celebrates his third-round victory over qualifier Hyeon Chung on Saturday. AFP “But I need to be focused with SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, BELGIUM: Formula 2 racer Juan Manuel Jr. had to abandon following an first-serve points. my serve, as always. I need to be Charles Leclerc just held off Correa, injured in the high early collision. The incidents Nadal, a three-time US Open The injury-nagged star who hardcourts. “For me, personally, in some ready to accept the challenge Lewis Hamilton to win the Bel- speed crash that claimed the caused the safety car to come out champion, said he wished he was forced out of a US Open “You never know what’s bet- way, I will prefer to play the that brings the competition in gian Grand Prix from pole posi- life of Frenchman Anthoine for four laps, and when the race had been able to play a second- semi-final last year with knee ter or worse, no? From here, the match. In some way is true that days like these. tion on Sunday, securing the first Hubert in the opening race of re-started Vettel maintained his round match against injured pain and struggled with a hip main thing, I am happy to be you save energy. So you never “And I hope to be ready to victory of his Formula One career the series’ Belgian round, has lead but with Hamilton starting Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis injury earlier this season where I am. I’m in the fourth know what’s the best thing.” play my highest level, because and ending Ferrari’s long wait for underwent surgery and is to close on Vettel’s Ferrari. stable, according to a state- instead of advance by walkover wanted more than six sets under round, and that’s the main Second seed Nadal is con- that’s what I’m going to need,” a win. Hamilton was within one “Vettel is struggling,” Hamil- ment on his website. The and rest for three days. his belt by now on the New York thing,” Nadal said. cerned about form as much as he added. second of Leclerc on the final lap, ton said on team radio on Lap 10. 20-year-old American-Ecua- but the 21-year-old from Monaco dorian suffered fractures to Six laps later, Ferrari brought held his nerve. both his legs and a minor Vettel in for a tire change, push- “He was catching very quickly spinal injury and is recovering ing Hamilton up to second place. so I had quite a bit of pressure,” in intensive care. “At the Leclerc came in for his tire Johnson breaks record, qualifies for Worlds Leclerc said after his win. current moment, Juan Manuel change exactly midway through He dedicated it to French Correa’s condition is stable,” the 44-lap race, putting Hamilton Press Trust of India World Championships qualify- IAAF World Challenge meet- driver Anthoine Hubert, who the statement read. “He was in front. But Mercedes called n [email protected] ing time is 3:36.00. ings, the second tier of global one died Saturday following a heavy taken by helicopter to a Hamilton in on the very next lap “I was expecting to better my day athletics events. It is the crash during an F2 race held on hospital where he underwent and made a slow stop of 3.6 sec- BERLIN: Asian Games gold medal- national record but did not penultimate leg of the IAAF the same track. Drivers paid their surgery. Juan Manuel re- onds—which may ultimately list Jinson Johnson bettered his expect to win the silver. I will World Challenge meetings this respects on Sunday. mained conscious the entire have cost him the win. own 1500m national record to now go to Colorado Springs, year. Moments after winning, time until his admission to the Bottas came in one lap later as clinch silver at the ISTAF Berlin USA, for further training and On Saturday, Asian Games Leclerc pointed to the sky and operating room.” Ferrari regained the race lead event here on Sunday. Johnson then to Doha for the World gold medallist shot putter Tejin- then to Hubert’s name written on with Vettel ahead of Leclerc. clocked 3 minutes 35.24 seconds Championships,” Johnson, who derpal Singh Toor clinched a sil- the side of his car. Hamilton rian GP, went out on Lap 1. Vettel obeyed team orders to to finish behind Joshua Thomp- has split with his coach of two ver with a best throw of 20.09m in extended his championship lead Tens of thousands of orange- let Leclerc go past him on Lap 27, son of United States at the Olym- years, Jasvinder Singh Bhatia, his last attempt during an ath- because his Mercedes teammate clad Dutch fans watched in disap- and then twice held off Hamilton pic Stadium here. said after the event. letic meet at Decin, Czech Repub- Valtteri Bottas was third, finish- pointment as Verstappen slid before Hamilton passed him on The previous national record “I am very happy. But my ulti- lic. ing ahead of Ferrari’s Sebastian into the barriers, climbed out of Lap 32 to take second place. in the name of the 28-year-old mate aim is to do well in 2020 Tajinder, who was awarded Vettel. Ferrari had not won since his car and walked back to the Hamilton was still seven sec- Kerala runner was 3:37.62, which Tokyo Olympics,” the Army ath- the Arjuna Award this year, has former driver Kimi Raikkonen’s garage. onds behind Leclerc, but ate into he had clocked at the Next Gen- lete said. already qualified for World victory at the US GP last October. The front left wheel of his Red that lead so much that Leclerc eration Meet in Nijmegen in the Johnson plans to do high-alti- championship being the Area Vettel is 21 races without a win Bull was damaged after contact had only a 2-second lead with two Netherlands in June. He also tude training (6000 feet) at the champion following his gold- since last season’s Belgian GP. with Raikkonen’s Alfa Romeo, laps remaining and back markers holds the 800m national record American Distance Project in winning feat at Asian Athletics Leclerc got away cleanly but who started one place behind him ahead of him. (1:45.65). Colorado Springs under Scott Championships in April this Vettel was overtaken by Hamil- on the grid in sixth. Verstappen On the last lap, Alfa Romeo’s With his national record shat- Simmons. year. The 24-year-old Indian has ton at the first turn before getting finished in the top five of every Antonio Giovinazzi crashed out tering effort, Johnson also quali- Johnson had won the 2018 a personal best of 20.75m. The past Hamilton again. Max Ver- other race this season and it was but Leclerc kept his focus. “It was fied for the World Champion- Asian Games gold in Jakarta in event was won by Czech Repub- stappen, winner of two of the past his first retirement since the a difficult race. I got as close as I ships to be held in Doha from 1500m with a time of 3:44.72. lic’s Tomas Stanek with a throw four races and a narrow second Hungarian GP in July last year. could but maybe I needed another n Jinson Johnson (C) improved his 1500m national record. AFP September 28 to October 6. The ISTAF Berlin is a part of the of 20.86m. behind Hamilton at the Hunga- Raikkonen was fortunate to couple of laps,” Hamilton said. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 hindustantimes sport 17

ROUNDUP EX-NZ RUGBY Vihari’s grit a middle-order necessity LEAGUE TRAINER MAN FOR CRISIS The batsman has TOPS TEAM INDIA shown the composure to stick to the SHORTLIST crease when the need arises Press Trust of India

n [email protected] Abhishek Paul 1 and contributed 12 in 38-run n [email protected] stand with Kohli. That was fol- NEW DELHI: Nick Webb, who has lowed by three stands with Ris- worked with New Zealand NEW DELHI: To understand the habh Pant, Ravindra Jadeja and women’s cricket team and Auck- most significant facet of Ishant Sharma in which he land-based rugby league outfit Hanuma Vihari’s five-Test old never looked to get ahead of his Warriors, has topped the three- career, one must start from the partner. man shortlist for the Indian beginning. The 25-year-old’s When others perished, he just cricket team’s strength and con- debut in the fifth and last Test of continued to take fresh stance. ditioning coach’s job. India’s tour of England in 2018 It is in this quality of staying The second and third names in was overshadowed by the bigger back and delivering that Vihari the shortlist are Luke Wood- news of Karun Nair getting seems to be most comfortable in. house and India’s S Rajnikanth, overlooked. He scored a half- “When you are batting at No 6 the last one being the supposed century too in that Oval Test, the intent has to be positive. At choice of some of the top Indian but it was No. 8 Ravindra that position you will be batting players. However, sources in the Jadeja’s unbeaten 86 that was with a batsman and then a know of things said that unless hailed as a more gallant effort. wicket falls and you will be with there is a “miracle”, Rajnikanth Cut to the Boxing Day Test at the wicketkeeper or the lower will not get the job as he came MCG, when Vihari was pushed order,” Vihari said at the end of third in the practical assessment to the top after regular openers the day. at the National Cricket Academy KL Rahul and Murali Vijay His intent was indeed positive in Bengaluru. failed. He was tested by Josh with the way he stood and deliv- “Since the formalities of the Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and ered a straight drive off West appointment will be completed even took a dent on his helmet Indies’ senior-most pacer by CEO, we can’t say Webb has from a Pat Cummins bouncer. Kemar Roach for his first got the job. But obviously he is the But his resilient 8 off 66 balls at boundary. Vihari also oozed top choice and once the terms of the start was lost in the applause confidence when he danced appointment is finalised, he will over No. 3 Cheteshwar Pujara’s down the track against off-spin- be on board,” said a senior BCCI 109. ner Rahkeem Cornwall to official, privy to development. “The management liked the smoke him through mid-off The 32-year-old has also way I was composed wherever I ropes. worked with New Zealand’s first- played, in Australia or England. His nonchalance often class side Central Districts, also Honestly, I think I can deliver in showed through the 16 bounda- known as Stags. a big way. I am looking forward ries hit by him but they were His last assignment was with to the Tests that are coming up stretched far between. In the lull the New Zealand women’s after the World Cup. Now that I periods, he defended with a national team ‘White Ferns’. have tasted international straight bat. It isn’t as if he It is learnt that the selectors cricket, I don’t just want to con- wasn’t challenged but Vihari’s and former Bengal and East Ben- tribute to the team’s success, I effect was in being able to sur- gal football team trainer Ranad- want to dominate like all big vive and make it count. eep Moitra assessed the candi- players do,” Vihari had told dates during practical examina- Hindustan Times in an inter- THE ESCAPE tion. “One of the things that view post the Australia tour. He was even dropped once at weighed in favour of Nick was the first slip when a Cornwall deliv- fact that he has been associated IN THE SHADOWS ery touched his edge but John with a National Rugby League And when Vihari did get the Campbell could not hold. DRS n Hanuma Vihari has made a mark as a gritty batsman in his six-Test career, a gritty half-century on debut in England last year followed by fighting knocks in Australia. AP PHOTO (NRL) team Warriors in New Zea- chance to play the central char- too came to his rescue too when land. He was found to be most acter over two sessions against he was given out leg-before to a HIS INTENT WAS INDEED U-19 DAYS get into the state side and then suitable to take the benchmark West Indies on Saturday, Jas- Holder delivery that nipped If there is one thing has stood further. INDIA TAKE A STRANGLEHOLD that Shankar Basu had set to a dif- prit Bumrah’s six-wicket blitz — back late. He was on 79 off 148 POSITIVE WITH THE WAY out in Vihari’s career since his “After U-19, I worked hard for ferent level,” said the official. including a hattrick — seemed deliveries then, with 13 bounda- HE STOOD AND U-19 days when he was part of close to 4-5 years. Virat (Kohli) HT Correspondent trick on Saturday, the sec- The tests at the NCA were con- to efface the batsman’s toil. It is ries. Vihari made all the India’s 2012 World Cup winning was exceptional to get India call n [email protected] ond day. ducted with U-19 campers being in the shadows of flashier per- reprieves count as well. DELIVERED A STRAIGHT team, it’s his perseverance. Cap- up very early after U-19 but I had The spineless West Indies divided into batches of six players formances by his teammates Not with flamboyance but DRIVE OFF WEST INDIES’ tain Unmukt Chand (246 runs in to really work hard to get NEW DELHI: India decided to need to thank the 45-run each under every aspirant. that Vihari seems to slowly with grit. The next time Vihari SENIOR-MOST PACER six matches), Smit Patel (178), selected for the senior team not impose follow-on after partnership between Shim- “Webb’s communication and grow, a feature that has been the got four runs off bowler was Prashant Chopra (172), Baba because of many reasons,” they skittled out West Indies ron Hetmyer and Jason trouble shooting skills was con- most persistent theme in his more than an hour later, in the KEMAR ROACH FOR HIS Aparajith (171), Vijay Zol (151) Vihari told in the earlier inter- for 117, taking a first-innings Holder as also Rahkeem sidered as the best among the top career since his U-19 days. post-lunch session off Shannon FIRST BOUNDARY were the stars of that campaign view. lead of 299 in the second Test Cornwall and Kemar Roach three. As far as practical knowl- In the current scheme of Gabriel. while Vihari stayed at the back- The hard work Vihari men- at Kingston. West Indies, at the back-end for taking edge went, all three were on par,” things, the India team manage- That marked Vihari’s entry ground with a tally of just 71 in tioned resulted in 752 runs in six who resumed at 87 for seven, them past 100 and save them the official informed. That Webb ment can very well do with the into the nineties, in 187 balls. mark. I’m really happy to get a six matches. matches with an average of 94 in added 30 more before being further embarrassment. is only 32-year-old was also fac- low-key approach of Vihari in From 79 to 90, Vihari took 39 hundred in those conditions,” That was just the start. In the the 2017-18 season. His first- bowled out. The hosts’ col- Mohammed Shami tored in as he will be able to match the middle-order. balls. Vihari had been in this he said. next few years, Vihari emerged class career average had lapse was triggered by Jas- picked two while Ishant the players during training. With Pujara, Rahane and zone before in the first Test in “I knew they would come as the one meant for the long touched 59.79—the highest in prit Bumrah’s six-wicket Sharma and Ravindra Vihari, the Test team seems to Antigua where he fell for 93 but hard in the first session. That is run. He shifted to Andhra Pra- the world at that time, even bet- haul, the paceman becom- Jadeja picked one each. Ish- MALINGA BECOMES TOP have players who cannot only not on Saturday. the best way to get us out early. desh from Hyderabad in the ter than Virat Kohli, Steve ing the third Indian bowler ant, in fact, became the top WICKETTAKER IN T20IS score big, but also buckle down The nervous nineties were They did get an early wicket but 2016-17 season and started Smith and Rohit Sharma. to take a Test hattrick. wickettaker for India out- KANDY: Sri Lanka paceman Lasith and grind it out. Vihari is still a crossed in just 13 balls as Vihari I just wanted to bat patiently, amassing runs in domestic Vihari had finally arrived. He Before him, Harbhajan side Asia surpassing Kapil Malinga became the highest long way from being India’s reached three figures for the wait for the balls which were in cricket. was already turning out for Singh and Irfan Pathan had Dev. India went to lunch at wicket-taker in T20 Internation- go-to man under pressure but he first time in Test cricket. His my area. “If you play in the U-19 Indian India A by when he was asked to taken Test hattricks. 16 for one at lunch with als with his 99th scalp in the first certainly has shown the compo- patience over two days had “I was batting at 82 during team it will somewhat help you join the squad in England for the Bumrah’s early burst had Mayank Agarwal falling to match against New Zealand, sur- sure to stick to the crease when finally paid off. lunch. I was patient, they were have that recognition. But as a last two Tests of the 2018 tour. It reduced West Indies to 22 for Kemar Roach for four. Their passing Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi. the need arises. His 111 off 225 “When I was batting over- bowling really well. We scored player it will not help much was again time for Vihari to five as he picked Darren overall lead stood at 315. Malinga, who quit Test cricket balls on Saturday is a prime night on 42, I didn’t sleep very 400 plus but that doesn’t show because there is a huge gap start from the shadows. The Bravo, Shamarh Brooks and Brief scores (at lunch, Day 3): India in 2011 and played his farewell example. well. My thoughts were on how the way they bowled. It was between U-19, Ranji Trophy or century at Kingston may be the Roston Chase off successive 416 & 16/1 vs WI 117 (S Hetmyer 34, J ODI in July, bowled Colin Munro He came on to the crease after to get a big score and I am happy challenging conditions and I international level. You have to first sign of Vihari emerging out deliveries to claim his hat- Holder 18, J Bumrah 6/27) in the first over to equal Afridi’s the departure of Rahane on Day that I crossed that three-figure really relished it.” grow as a player very quickly to of it. record of 98 wickets. Gunners hang on to hold Tottenham Gymnastics trials put off Agencies n [email protected] Koulibaly own goal due to simmering feud LONDON: Arsenal fought back from two goals down to salvage a hands Juventus Navneet Singh

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Spurs preyed on the Gunners’ n [email protected] paring for the 2020 Tokyo Olym- vacant midfield early on as Chris- pics, the open two-day selection tian Eriksen tapped home at the MILAN: Kalidou Koulibaly handed trials scheduled to be held here end of a flowing counter-attack Juventus a dramatic win with a from Monday to select a six-mem- before Harry Kane’s penalty dou- last-gasp own goal that consigned ber team, including three women, bled the Champions League final- Napoli to a painful 4-3 Serie A for the World Artistic Gymnas- ists’ lead. defeat after his side had battled tics Championships scheduled at However, Arsenal were back from three goals down to Stuttgart from October 4-13 has always a threat going forward level the scores. been postponed. and, after Alexandre Lacazette The Senegal international The world championships is reduced the arrears in first-half shanked in Paulo Dybala’s free- the first major event of the season stoppage time, were well worthy kick under no pressure in the sec- offering Olympic quota places, of a point after the break. ond minute of stoppage time to but top gymnasts who reached Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang hand Juve the three points in Delhi on Saturday were dis- got the equaliser 19 minutes from Turin and put Maurizio Sarri’s mayed to find that the trials have time and Arsenal even had the side top with six points, leaving been cancelled. The reason is the ball in the net again through Napoli with nothing to show for Sports Authority of India (SAI) Sokratis Papastathopoulos, only their Herculean efforts. separately requesting the Indian to see their celebrations cut short “It was a roller-coaster. We lost Olympic Association to consti- by the offside flag. control of the game and got dis- tute a selection panel and conduct A share of the spoils sees Arse- tracted, so they managed to trials to pick a core group of 24 nal maintain a two-point lead equalise, but fortunately in the gymnasts, including 12 women, to over their local rivals with seven end we still won,” said Gonzalo prepare the national squad for n Dipa Karmakar’s fourth-place finish in Rio Olympics brought focus points from the opening four Higuain, who spun Koulibaly the world championships and on Indian gymnastics. REUTERS games to Tottenham’s five. n Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scores his team's second goal in London on Sunday. GETTY IMAGES before slamming home Juve’s other major events in the build up Tottenham’s long wait for an superb second. to the Tokyo Games. (The faction hold the trials so that the national The Singh faction had planned its away win in the Premier League their first serious attack 10 min- first Arsenal goal, but moments third goal of the season. Koulibaly’s blunder undid all that scheduled the trials has the team can take part in the worlds. meeting in Chandigarh on dating back to January also con- utes in as Son Heung-min latched later Lacazette burst through of Napoli’s good work in fighting world body’s backing, but is not “We haven’t got any response. August 24 and the Shetty group in tinues, but they did show some onto Kane’s knockdown and before blasting past his French LIVERPOOL’S RECORD back from the dead with less than recognized by the government.) But we will check again with the Mumbai the next day. FIG inter- resolve after a desperately disap- freed Erik Lamela through on international teammate from a BURNLEY: Premier League leaders half-an-hour left, with goals from SAI’s team division in its international body on Monday,” vened and asked them to end the pointing 1-0 home defeat to New- goal. narrow angle to give the Gunners Liverpool set a new club record of Danilo just 20 seconds after he administrative sanction on Mehta said. dispute and work for the sport castle last weekend with man- Bernd Leno got a weak hand to hope. A wild second period raged 13 straight top flight wins with a came on as a substitute, Higuain August 26 also mentioned that FIG generally doesn’t approve and gymnasts. FIG has also asked ager Mauricio Pochettino com- Lamela’s effort and palmed the from end-to-end as Son saw a shot 3-0 victory at Burnley, maintain- — back at Juventus after loan IOA should inform state Olympic IOA holding the trials. It had both factions to adhere to the IOA plaining afterwards of having an ball into the grateful path of the deflected inches wide and Kane ing their two-point advantage spells at AC Milan and Chelsea -- units so that all Tokyo hopefuls raised objections during trials for Arbitration Tribunal order to unsettled squad. onrushing Eriksen to tap home. struck the inside of the post at one over champions Manchester and Cristiano Ronaldo giving the can take part in the trials. Despite the 2018 Gold Coast Common- hold elections. In a letter on The Argentine had sidelined Leno redeemed himself with a end, while Lloris made a brilliant City. With four wins out of four to reigning champions what looked the trials being cancelled, SAI is wealth Games and eventually August 23, FIG has asked them to Eriksen and Jan Vertonghen in stunning save to prevent Son save to deny Matteo Guendouzi start the season, Juergen Klopp’s like an unassailable lead. yet to send an official communi- IOA had to step back and the fed- hold elections within three the opening month of the season making it 2-0 and also turned a and Sead Kolasinac somehow side head into the international Two goals in as many minutes cation to the gymnasts. A top eration affiliated to FIG was months, warning that the Indian but both returned and the Danish dipping Eriksen free-kick to skewed wide from point-blank break in buoyant mood after from Kostas Manolas and Hir- gymnast said they were told allowed to send the team. body could otherwise face sus- midfielder had a huge impact an safety. However, Leno was help- range at the other. another convincing display from ving Lozano shortly after orally on Saturday, but with no There are two GFI factions. pension. “Cease to fight in the an open and frantic encounter. less to stop Kane continuing his Arsenal, though, were the side the European champions. Ronaldo had made it three official announcement, they have The one headed by Sudhakar court and hold elections within Arsenal boss Unai Emery excellent record in the north Lon- in the ascendancy and got their “The players pretty much brought Napoli back into the to wait till Monday. Shetty is affiliated to the world three months. Failure to so do named the front three of club don derby from the penalty spot reward with an equaliser. played the perfect game. I really game, and Giovanni Di Lorenzo IOA however said it doesn’t body. The other, with Shanti will force FIG to suspend Indian record signing Nicolas Pepe, after a ludicrous challenge by Lacazette had been sacrificed liked the game and it was really sent the away fans wild with a have the jurisdiction to conduct Kumar Singh as president, is rec- federation,” the letter said. Aubameyang and Lacazette Granit Xhaka to clearly chop for Dani Ceballos to bolster the deserved. It’s our most deserved close-range finish to set up a tense trials as the gymnastics world ognised by IOA. The GFI has Indian gymnastics had earned together in his starting line-up for down Son inside the area. To their midfield and that allowed Aub- win of the season — the boys final nine minutes. body, FIG, hasn’t allowed it. ‘’We remained derecognised by the goodwill thanks to Dipa Kar- the first time, but the Gunners credit, Arsenal raised themselves ameyang to move into his played a sensational game,” said But with at least point seem- have no right. We have informed sports ministry since 2011. makar finishing a creditable lacked any balance to their off the canvas to reduce the deficit favoured role through the mid- Klopp. Sadio Mane and Roberto ingly in the bag, Koulibaly made SAI,” said Rajeev Mehta, IOA sec- As the last GFI elections were fourth in the vault event at the attacking intent as Tottenham before the break. dle. Guendouzi was the creator as Firmino found the target after an it a nightmare end for Carlo retary general. Keeping the inter- held in August 2015 and the four- 2016 Rio Olympics. However, the counter-attacked with ease early Hugo Lloris made a fine save his cross was expertly turned own goal from Chris Wood had Ancelotti’s men, who finished on est of gymnasts in mind, IOA has year term has expired, both fac- prolonged dispute threatens to on. The visitors went in front with low to his right to deny Pepe his home by Aubameyang for his ended Burnley’s early resistance. the wrong end of a 4-3 scoreline. sought permission from FIG to tions had announced elections. drag down the sport. HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 18 sport hindustantimes MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 02, 2019 Sharma slips but Yashaswini sheds doubts on the still in contention ski slope, wins gold for Tokyo spot for PGA card UNWAVERING Her love of the mountains, adventure and skiing helps Deswal win at World Cup, secure ninth Olympic berth Press Trust of India n [email protected]

Saurabh Duggal NEWBURGH (USA): Indian golfer n [email protected] Shubhankar Sharma ground it out for an even par 72 that kept CHANDIGARH: Shooting is all about him in contention for a PGA Tour that unwavering focus, a sort of card despite dropping from tied tunnel vision to excel with deci- third to tied 10th in the second mal points making all the differ- round of the Korn Ferry Tour ence. The downside though is at Championship. times it can get too monotonous, Sharma shot 72 to get to six-un- and stressful, especially if the der 138 here on Saturday. going is not too smooth. The Indian needs to finish sole n Shubhankar Sharma GETTY Yashaswini Singh Deswal sixth or better to lock his PGA found the right antidote. A love Tour card for 2019-20. He is six off day. I think over the next two for the mountains, adventure the lead, as Chris Baker with 69 days I’ll try not to think of the out- activities, and skiing helped moved to 12-under, but Scottie come and try and enjoy the proc- Deswal sustain her first passion, Scheffler, at sixth, is just two ess.” He concluded, “I definitely to get back to the range with more ahead of Sharma. feel like I belong here and can focus and strength. India’s Anirban Lahiri has play here.” On Saturday evening, with the already locked his PGA Tour card focus firmly on a Tokyo Olympics but skipped the Tour Champion- KAPUR ENDS TIED 10TH berth, the 22-year-old from Hary- ship to be with his family in Palm JAKARTA: Indian golfer Shiv Kapur ana upstaged multiple Olympic Beach where Hurricane Dorian is finished the week with a two-un- medallist Olena Kostevych of expected to hit in the coming der 70 to sign off Tied-10th at the Ukraine to clinch gold in 10m air days. Bank BRI Indonesia Open here on pistol in the year’s last World Cup Baker shot 69 at the Victoria Sunday. He ended with a four-day in Rio de Janeiro, securing a National Golf Club to take the total to nine-under 279. The Tied- ninth Olympic berth for the coun- 36-hole lead while Lanto Griffin 10th was Kapur’s best finish since try in the process. and Tom Lewis sit two shots off December last year, when he was Having topped the qualifica- the pace at 10-under 134. The sixth at Indonesian Masters. tion rounds with 582/600, Deswal 33-year-old Baker, who turned At the top, Argentina’s Miguel shot 236.7 points in the final to fin- professional in 2008, is in search Carballo made one of the biggest ish atop the podium. of his first PGA TOUR card. comebacks of his career by over- “It’s a great feeling to win an Sharma, starting from the turning a six-shot deficit to win Olympic quota at a world-level tenth, had a bogey on 14th, but the title at the Pondok Indah Golf competition. When I woke up in birdied the 15th to get back on Course. Carballo, who topped the the morning, I don’t know why, I track and turned in an even par. Asian Development Tour (ADT) was very confident of winning the On his second nine he was Order of Merit last year, closed quota place. The feeling that it’s going fine with back-to-back bird- with a flawless five-under 67 to my day struck me again and ies on second and third, before clinch his maiden Asian Tour again before I entered the range. bogeys on fifth and eighth, his title by three shots over Korea’s It helped me carry forward the 14th and 17th holes pegged him Yikuen Chang with his winning momentum till the end, and back. Sharma was not too pleased total of 17-under 271. thankfully I earned a quota with his hitting in the second Overnight leader by six shots, place,” an elated Deswal said over round. “Today (it) actually Naraajie Emerald Ramadhan phone from Rio. n Yashaswini Singh Deswal (centre) topped qualification with 582/600 before shooting 236.7 points in the final of the ISSF World Cup in Rio de Janeiro. ISSF wasn’t that good. I wasn’t hitting Putra of Indonesia dropped five Ukraine’s Kostevych is a it as close as I was yesterday. I shots in last six holes to drop to former Olympic and world cham- This year, at the World Univer- in myself. My former college’s dent of Panjab University, Chan- with my friends, I love to do helped shed anxiety. struggled towards the end of the fourth. He carded 78 and was pion. She is also the world No 1. sity Games, she missed the (DAV College, Chandigarh) digarh. adventure activities. It helps me “When a player competes at round where I was 2-under after fourth at 12-under and finished Deswal is ranked a modest 30. But podium, finishing fourth. After sports sir Amanendra Mann has in breaking the monotony of international level, there are a lot the fifth hole which was my 14th. five shots behind Carballo. Jazz the Indian, like many shooters breaking the junior world record always been there to provide psy- SKIING, MOUNTAINS TO shooting. Skiing is a new adven- of imagined fears that come in “And then just made a few Janewattananond (71) was T-6th emerging in the country, didn’t in 2016, Deswal was seen as a chological support,” said Deswal, RELIEVE STRESS ture sports in my list and for the one’s mind. And adventure bogeys coming in. I’m pretty at 10-under. let pressure get to her. potential force. Somehow, her who took up the sport in 2012. At the beginning of the year, last couple of years it’s a regular sports is a great activity that happy otherwise, I’ve been play- Among other Indians, Rashid “My fight was with myself, so transition to the seniors was not “Ups and downs are part and Deswal’s first target was skiing. feature in my to-do list for win- helps in dealing with such fear. ing alright. I just need two low Khan (70) was T-16 at eight-under, there was no pressure of shooting smooth. And until last year, she parcel of an athlete’s life, and not Somehow, because of her shoot- ters. In 2015 I enrolled for the Yashaswini is regularly into ones on the weekend, and we’ll while first round leader Viraj against the Olympic medallist,” struggled to even remain a regu- being in form for long makes you ing schedule, she couldn’t go for it basic course in skiing, but had to mountaineering and skiing. see what happens.” About his Madappa (69), Chiragh KUmar said Deswal. “I had to prove a lar in the national squad. learn a lot of things. During the in January. However, due to pro- leave it midway. In 2017, I com- These activities helped a lot in missed cut, he added, “I just tried (69) and Ajeetesh Sandhu (68) point that I am capable of pulling “Last year was not good for me rough patches, I kept one thing in longed snowfall, there was pleted it and since then I regu- overcoming all sorts of fear and to put things into perspective. I were T-22 at seven-under and Om it off at a bigger stage. I was yet to and I was struggling to maintain mind—I have to concentrate on enough snow at Auli, Uttara- larly go for skiing at Auli,” said pressure,” said her father SS was just being too hard on myself Prakash Chouhan (72) was make the podium at a world-level form. I missed both the Common- my action and things would auto- khand, and she completed her Deswal. Deswal, a Haryana cadre IPS offi- in the first two events and just T-29th. Khalin Joshi (72), S Chik- meet in seniors. Thankfully, I did wealth and Asian Games. It was matically keep falling into place,” skiing schedule in March. Her family is happy that her cer who is Director General, Indo wanted to enjoy playing golf. “I karangappa (73) and Kshitij it here.” my family that helped me believe added the second year law stu- “Instead of going for outings interest in adventure sports has Tibetan Border Police. did that yesterday and had a good Naved Kaul (70) were T-41st.