VOL 14 ISSUE 3 ● / DALLAS ● JAN 17 - 23, 2020 ● ENQUIRIES: 646-247-9458 www.theindianpanorama.news More pizza, fewer vegetables: Trump Punjab passes anti-CAA resolution administration further Assembly terms new law 'inherently discriminatory', seeks its repeal undercuts Obama school-lunch rules

WASHINGTON (TIP): The U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken another whack at former first lady Michelle Obama's signature achievement: Establishing stricter nutritional standards for school "What is happening in this country? We need to learn from history. In the 1930s, the same breakfasts and lunches. And on her happened in Europe. First, they were against communists, then they were against Jews. This birthday. contd on page 28 is religious cleansing."- Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh

A resolution against the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was moved in the Punjab Assembly on the last day of the two-day special session on Friday, Jan 17 Photo / Courtesy Tribune / Manoj Mahajan to be New Indian CHANDIGARH (TIP): The Punjab of is based". Jews from the ambit of citizenship Assembly on Friday, January 17, 2020 The resolution, which termed the CAA under the CAA, the resolution asked for Ambassador to US, adopted by voice vote a resolution as divisive and violative of Article 14 of a repeal of the Act "to avoid any Says Report seeking immediate repeal of the the Constitution, was introduced in the discrimination on the basis of religion Prior to his current Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, House by Cabinet Minister Brahm in granting citizenship and to ensure assignment in describing the legislation "inherently Mohindra, and witnessed extensive equality before law for all religious Colombo, Sandhu discriminatory" and a "negation of the discussion. Pointing to the omission of groups in India." was Deputy Chief of secular fabric on which the Constitution Muslims and other communities such as cond on Page 28 Mission at Embassy of India in Washington D.C. from Trump Legal Team to add July 2013 to January Sikhs to be Counted as Separate 2017. Photo/ Jay Starr and Dershowitz for Mandal-on assignment Ethnic Group in US Census 2020 Senate Trial Ken Starr and a third lawyer named to the WASHINGTON (TIP): Taranjit Singh Sandhu, current High team, Robert Ray, were independent counsels Commissioner of India to , who investigated President Bill Clinton will bethe new Indian Ambassador to Ken Starr investigated the , according to media President Bill Clinton reports. He will succeed Ambassador and wrote the report that led to his , who will take impeachment. charge as Foreign Secretaryin New Photo Sarah A. Delhi on January 29. Miller/Tyler Morning The file relating to the appointment Telegraph, via of Taranjit Singh Sandhu as India's Associated Press Ambassador to the US has been cleared by the competent authority but the WASHINGTON (TIP): President Trump govt is yet to make an official plans to add former independent counsel Ken announcement about it, reports ANI. On January 6, 2020, a follow-up meeting at San Diego State University with the U.S. Census Starr and the celebrity lawyer Alan Dershowitz Bureau leadership was conducted as part of an on-going series of meetings since 2010 contd on page 28 asking for the Sikhs to be recognized as a separate ethnic group (STORY ON PAGE 6) contd on page 28 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 2 NY NJ CT FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 Indian American Dr. Samin K Sharma wants Indian patients to benefit from advanced medical sciences First time Two heart valves replaced simultaneously without surgery Dr. Jitendra Singh Makkar, Interventional and Electrophysiology Connected heart wire to pacemaker wire using HOT-CRT Technology Director of the Hospital and Dr. Kush Kumar Bhagat, successfully saved the life JAIPUR (TIP): The advancement of of a heart failure patient. medical science has proved to be a boon for Dr Kakkar said that it is unique in itself two patients for the first time in India. For to connect the fourth wire directly to the the first time in the country, without heart wire when the three wires of the performing open surgery, the medical pacemaker do not benefit. This helps in experts have succeeded in changing two normalizing the heartbeat by making the heart valves simultaneously. equal current reach to all parts of the In another case at the same time, doctors heart. have saved the life of a heart failure patient Dr.Makkar said a 67-year-old Shakuntala by connecting the pacemaker's wire to the Devi of Bharatpur had been suffering from heart wire using HOT-CRT technology. The wizards. L to R: Dr K Kumar, Dr J Makkar, Samin K Sharma, Dr Ravindra Singh Rao heart problem for a long time and the Renowned cardiologist Dr. Samin K. Photo / courtesy: Janardan Kulshrestha condition of heart failure had increased so Sharma, Director, Interventional Lady patient from Nagpur was admitted conscious after 90 minutes procedure, and much that the heart's performance was Cardiology, Mount Sinai Health System to a private hospital (Eternal Heart Care she was later able to walk, and now she is reduced to 15 to 20 percent. The three wires and President Mount Sinai Heart Network, Centre) with complaints of chest pain and hale and hearty after over 45 days of of the pacemaker did not work, so to save NY USA, and Chairman of Eternal Heart shortness of breath. The patient monitoring of health by herself at Nagpur, her life, by adopting HOT-CRT technology, Care Centre, recently told media in Jaipur, underwent an open-heart Surgery in 2012 Rao, who has done over 500 single valve the fourth wire was connected to the both of these cases have happened in India when both the aortic and mitral valves replacement by TAVR, said. heart's main wire, which is called His for the first time at EHCC, whereas in were replaced. However, they became "TAVR is a very successful process for bundle. This has happened for the first abroad such cases are rare. Dr. Samin said dysfunctional later- the replaced valve correcting stenosis of valves - the USA- time in the country. Electrophysiology that it is his endeavor that the modern started leaking and the Aortic valve based Food and Drug Administration Cardiologist Dr. Kush Kumar Bhagat said techniques of treatment being adopted in became stenotic, an abnormal narrowing (FDA) has recently approved it for low-risk that the vein of the patient in which the America should be made available to the in a blood vessel or tubular organ or patients as well, Rao said. New procedure third wire of the pacemaker had to be common patients in Jaipur too so that they structure, according to Dr Rao. offers faster recovery, low mortality, and placed was very weak and the installation do not have to go a foreign country for Since she had open-heart surgery in past, lower risk of complications such as stroke of wire there would not have been treatment. therefore, the risk of performing another or kidney problems, he, who showed digital beneficial for the pacemaker. The fourth Dr. Ravindra Singh Rao, director of the surgery was too high. Hence both the display of procedure said. With an wire was therefore connected to the heart TAVI and Structural Heart Disease of the aortic and mitral valve have been replaced experience of performing 500 TAVRs by the HOT-CRT (His Bundle) technique. Eternal Hospital, said a 78-year old woman, by going through groin artery and vein by across the country including 100 at EHCC, Now the patient is healthy. This process who was suffering from narrowing of Transcatheter DVR Invasive procedure for I can say the process is beneficial for a took 1 to 2 hours. heart valves after open heart-surgery has the first time in India, Dr Ravindra Singh lower risk to high-risk patients and (The story has been contributed by Dr Yash got a new lease of life when the valves were Rao, director and noted specialist of TAVR superior than open heart surgery, he said. 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Under 'Chalo Consulate', the first informal meeting was organized with Group Photo of Consulate officials with GOPIO delegates at the first 'Chalo Consulate' launch on Jan. 13th GlobalOrganization for People of Indian informed them about PRAMIT (Pravasi consulate is able to monitor/replyeach (GOPIO), thanked the Consul General Origin (GOPIO) on January 13, 2020. Mitra), a web application launched to and every Call/Queries received within for the opportunity tointeract with him Around 30 members ofGOPIO office strengthen response management one business day, it is very simple and and his officials and appreciated the bearers visited the Consulate and system of Consulate. PRAMIT is an e user-friendly webapplication. On an Q&A session on PRAMIT. At the end of discussed various works and initiatives Governance solution which isdesigned average, the Consulate handles 800 1000 the meeting, GOPIO officials presented of theConsulate. in house by CGI, New York. PRAMIT is a applications/applicants per day. In last Consul General with two First Day In his opening remarks, Consul dashboard based centralized monitoring oneyear, through PRAMIT, the Covers released by the USPostal Service General described the workings of andresponse system for calls as well as Consulate has handled around 16000+ at the First Convention of People of various wings ofConsulate as well messages form users. At present message queries as well asprocessed Indian Origin in New York in 1989. around 4000+ miscellaneous service The Consulate in a press note said it applications (Aug Dec 20 19) and invites Community Organizations to answered/replied around 32,000+ calls participate in "Chalo Consulate". They (April Dec 2019). should send their request to Mr. Thomas Abraham, Chairman [email protected]

GOPIO officials presenting the First Day Covers released by the US Postal Service at the First Global Convention of People of Indian Origin in 1989 in New York where GOPIO was formed. From l. to r. Inderjit Singh, Lal Motwani, Consul General Sandeep Chakravorty, Dr. Thomas Abraham, Ashok Nichani and Harbachan Singh Indian Consulate officials with GOPIO delegates Mayor de Blasio is pushing for NYC's Kennedy Seeks to Spread Awareness First Lady Chirlane McCray to become of New ‘PayMySuffolkTaxes.com’ HAUPPAUGE (TIP): In July of 2019, Brooklyn borough president, insiders say Comptroller John Kennedy unveiled a dim prospects for landing another new resource for county residents to pay elected office himself. If McCray their taxes online, as part of a continued becomes borough president, that would initiative to modernize the Comptroller's let the de Blasio family stay in the public office. Suffolk County residents with spotlight - and provide a needed delinquent taxes can now pay online, paycheck. using the new system termed "Citizen "It keeps him somewhat relevant or Self Service", through either the somewhat involved in politics," an dedicated website Suffolk County residents with delinquent taxes can now pay online, using the new insider told the Daily News. "It doesn't "www.PayMySuffolkTaxes.com" or system termed "Citizen Self Service", through even look like they're trying to hide it too through the Taxpayer Quick Links at either the dedicated website First Lady Chirlane McCray at a musical event much." www.SuffolkCountyNY.gov/comptroller "www.PayMySuffolkTaxes.com" or through "McCray is not going for the /home. The system allows a payment the Taxpayer Quick Links at (TIP): Mayor de progressive base," an insider said. "She's using a credit card or online check and www.SuffolkCountyNY.gov/comptroller/home ", says Kennedy Blasio is pushing his wife as the next going after the moderate, mostly black, payments are processed within 24 to 72 borough president of Brooklyn, insiders central Brooklyn vote" - which hours. Kennedy previously touted the pay your bills at any time of the day will say - and he's even dangling support for comprises Adams' own base. new system saying, "In the 21st century, be one less thing folks have to worry incumbent beep Eric Adams' mayoral Spokespersons for de Blasio and for there's no reason why you should have to about." The Comptroller's office is run in exchange for Adams' Adams' mayoral campaign both denied drive all the way out to an office or put responsible for the collection of endorsement of First Lady Chirlane the meeting took place and said there's something in the mail to pay your taxes. delinquent taxes, combined with the fees McCray. no deal between them. Especially for the average working man and interest owed to the ten townships in De Blasio's push comes as he's facing (Read full story on or woman who works a 9 to 5 job, being the county. (Read full story on the end of his administration in 2021 and www.theindianpanorama.news) able to log on to a website where you can www.theindianpanorama.news) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 4 INDIANS ABROAD FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

Indian American Saurin Patel Appointed Two Indian-Origin Women to Texas Governor's Broadband Appointed Judges in New York Development Council NEW YORK (TIP): NYC Mayor de Blasio on Jan 2 has made 28 judicial appointments and reappointments for the New Year, including two Indian- origin women attorneys as judges to the criminal and civil courts. Judge Archana Rao has been appointed to the Criminal Court while Judge Deepa Ambekar was reappointed to the Civil Court in New York. Judge Archana Rao was first appointed as an Interim Civil Court Judge in January 2019 and has been serving in Criminal Court. Prior to her appointment, she served with the New York County District Attorney's Office Saurin Patel, M.D. of Austin is Chief for 17 years, most recently as the Bureau Medical Officer for Access Physicians Chief of the Financial Frauds Bureau. Judge Archana Rao (R)has been appointed to the Criminal Court while Judge Deepa Ambekar DALLAS (TIP): Texas Governor She is a graduate of Vassar College and was reappointed to the Civil Court in New York Greg Abbott has appointed Indian received her J.D. from Fordham American Saurin Patel, M.D. along University School of Law. Aid Society, Criminal Defense Division. Family, Criminal and Civil Court are with 14 others to the Governor's Judge Deepa Ambekar was first She is a graduate of the University of part of the New York State Unified Court Broadband Development Council for appointed as an Interim Civil Court Michigan and received her J.D. from System. Family Court judges hear cases terms set to expire on August 31, 2024. Judge in May 2018 and has been serving Rutgers Law School. related to adoption, foster care and Saurin Patel, M.D. of Austin is Chief in Criminal Court. Prior to her "These appointees will represent New guardianship, custody and visitation, Medical Officer for Access Physicians, appointment, she served with the New Yorkers proudly and work tirelessly to domestic violence, abused or neglected where he leads clinical program York City Council as a Senior Legislative provide oversight of our courts," said children, and juvenile delinquency. The design, physician management, Attorney and Counsel to the Committee Mayor Bill de Blasio. "Their work is City's Criminal Court handles technology and innovation, auditing, on Public Safety. Judge Ambekar also essential in ensuring that we are misdemeanor cases and lesser offenses and more. He provides oversight for served as a Staff Attorney with the Legal creating a fairer city for all." and conducts arraignments. the company's telemedicine services, and is a telemedicine care provider, as well, regularly seeing and consulting Indian American Princeton Professor Indian American Monica with patients via telemedicine. Prior to his career in medicine, he worked in Adya named Dean of the hedge fund industry. He is a Mona Singh named Fellow of Rutgers School of member of the Society of Hospital Business-Camden Medicine, the American College of Association of Computing Machinery Physicians, and the Travis County Adya will become the first Medical Society. Patel received a PRINCETON, NJ(TIP): woman to serve Bachelor of Business Administration Princeton computer science as dean of the in Finance from The University of professor Mona Singh has been Rutgers-Camden Texas at Austin and a Doctor of named one of the fellows of the business school Medicine from UT Southwestern Association for Computing Medical School. Machinery in recognition of her significant contribution to Indian Doctor Salma computing and information CAMDEN NJ (TIP): Monica Adya, a Suhana Selected for technology. This year, the noted business education innovator and a association named 58 new fellows scholar in the area of IT workforce issues, American Academy of from research centers, companies has been appointed as dean of the Rutgers Neurology Award and universities around the world. School of Business-Camden by Phoebe A. Singh, a professor of computer Haddon, chancellor of Rutgers University- MANGALORE science and the Lewis-Sigler Camden. (TIP): Dr. Salma Institute for Integrative Genomics, When the appointment becomes effective Suhana, who is was recognized "for contributions to March 30, Adya will become the first woman currently pursuing computational biology, to serve as dean of the Rutgers-Camden Superspeciality spearheading algorithmic and business school. Neurology at S S machine learning approaches for As dean, Adya will develop the academic Institute of characterizing proteins and their and administrative operations of the Medical Sciences interactions," the association said. Rutgers-Camden business school, which has and Research Singh's research focuses on 1,488 undergraduate and 451 graduate Centre, Davangere, interpreting genomes at the level of Singh, who received her doctorate in students. Established in 1988, the school has has won the American proteins and her group develops computer science from the Massachusetts 52 full-time faculty, 49 part-time faculty, and Academy of Neurology's data-driven methods for predicting Institute of Technology, joined the Princeton 25 staff members and is the first business faculty in 1999 prestigious 2019 International and characterizing protein school in southern New Jersey to earn Scholarship Award. She has been interactions, specificity and networks - in both healthy and disease contexts. international accreditation. Adya, 53, awarded the scholarship in Her recent work has identified genes and mutations that play a role in cancer currently serves as chair of the management recognition of her study on Cerebral development, an important first step to guiding new treatments. department at Marquette University's Venous Thrombosis. A native of Singh, who received her doctorate in computer science from the business school. In this position, she led the Mangalore, Dr Salma completed her Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined the Princeton faculty in 1999. growth of four undergraduate majors and MBBS at Fr Muller Medical College Among other honors, she is a fellow of the International Society for two master's programs. She developed and and Hospital in Mangalore and has Computational Biology. She received a Presidential Early Career Award for launched an online master's program in won two gold medals from the Rajiv Scientists and Engineers and the Rheinstein Junior Faculty Award from the supply-chain management and a master's Gandhi University of Health Sciences. School of Engineering and Applied Science. program in management, as well as a (Read full story on The association will formally recognize the 2019 fellows at its annual awards forthcoming interdisciplinary sports www.theindianpanorama.news) banquet on June 20, 2020, in San Francisco. management minor. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 5 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 6 US FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

Indian American ASPIRE PAC Issues Doctor Arrested on Ex-congressman Chris Wave of Endorsements Charges of Illegal including Indian Distribution of Adderall Collins sentenced to 2 American Candidates ALEXANDRIA, VA. (TIP): A Fairfax medical doctor of Indian years on insider-trading, origin was arrested January 8 on charges of illegally diverting Adderall. false-statements charges According to allegations included in the affidavit in support of the criminal Then-Rep. Chris complaint, Dr. Gurpreet Singh Bajwa, Collins (R-N.Y.) speaks 48, of Oakton, operated a medical to reporters as he practice in Fairfax. During a 21-month leaves the courthouse after a September period between January 2017 and 2019 pretrial hearing September 2018, Bajwa allegedly in his insider-trading issued approximately 15,000 controlled case in New York. substance prescriptions to more than Photo/courtesy Seth 1,000 patients-a total of more than 700 Wenig -AP prescriptions per month. Several local pharmacies had flagged Bajwa and and , would no longer fill prescriptions from among others, have been endorsed by ASPIRE him. The Virginia Department of NEW YORK(TIP): ASPIRE PAC, the Health Professions had previously political arm of Asian American and suspended his medical license in 2012 Pacific Islander Members (AAPI) of for issues related to his prescription Congress, issued a wave of practices. endorsements for the 2020 elections Beginning in summer 2018, two NEW YORK (TIP): A federal judge on Collins said he particularly regretted including Indian American PRITESH undercover law enforcement officers Friday, Jan 17, sentenced former the impact the case would have on his GANDHI (TX-10), PRAMILA JAYAPAL posed as patients and made congressman Chris Collins to 26 months son, who is scheduled to be sentenced (WA-07), RAJA KRISHNAMOORTHI (IL- appointments to see Bajwa. At each in prison for his part in an insider- next week. "I have destroyed the 08), SRI KULKARNI (TX-22) AND visit, Bajwa allegedly prescribed the trading scheme and lying to the FBI. reputation of my son," he said. HIRAL TIPIRNENI (AZ-06). undercover officers a 30-day supply of "You had a duty to meet and you Collins's attorneys cited his age, 69, With this announcement, ASPIRE has Adderall-despite the undercover betrayed that duty," U.S. District Judge years of public service and track record endorsed nineteen House and Senate officers not having a need for the Vernon Broderick said as he handed as a businessman who saved hundreds of candidates so far for the 2020 cycle. medication. One of the officers told down the sentence. jobs in New York in asking Broderick to ASPIRE endorsed four AAPI Bajwa that she was a fitness model and Collins tearfully apologized to his sentence Collins to probation, home candidates seeking to flip House seats needed Adderall for her workouts, family and his constituents, detention and community service. But from red to blue thus far. They are which is not a legitimate use for the acknowledging that he tipped off his son prosecutors asked for a much longer Pritesh Gandhi (TX-10), Sri Kulkarni substance. The undercover officer also to confidential information that a small sentence, 46 to 57 months in prison, (TX-22), Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23), and asked Bajwa to prescribe her extra pills Australian biotechnology company's arguing that the New York Republican Hiral Tipirneni (AZ-06). that she could give to a "friend" and he new therapy for multiple sclerosis had had violated a public trust and that the ASPIRE has endorsed several readily agreed. Bajwa is charged with failed a critical clinical trial. Collins's loss of status and money was not enough incumbents, including Tammy illegal distribution of Adderall, a son and several others used the of a penalty. Duckworth (IL-Sen), (HI- Schedule II controlled substance. He information to avoid more than $700,000 After a more-than-three-hour hearing, Sen), TJ Cox (CA-21), Pramila Jayapal faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in in losses. Collins also admitted that he Broderick said Collins was "highly (WA-07), Andy Kim (NJ-03), Raja prison if convicted. later lied to the FBI about the incident. unlikely to be a recidivist" but that he Krishnamoorthi (IL-08), "I stand here today a disgraced former still considered the former (CA-13), (CA-33), Stephanie Indian American Los congressman," said Collins, who was one congressman's crime significant. Insider Murphy (FL-07), Gregorio Kilili Angeles-Area Physician of President Trump's first supporters in trading creates the perception for Camacho Sablan (CNMI), and Mark Congress. "I cannot face my investors that the financial markets are Takano (CA-41). Sentenced to Two Years constituents. What I have done has rigged, he said. (Read full story on (Read full story on for Medicare Fraud marked me for life." www.theindianpanorama.news) www.theindianpanorama.news) LOS ANGELES (TIP): Kain Kumar, a former Los Angeles-area physician was sentenced Jan 6 to 24 months in Sikhs to be Counted as Separate prison and three years of supervised release for engaging in a multi-faceted Medicare fraud scheme and for illegally prescribing thousands of Ethnic Group in US Census 2020 opioid painkillers and muscle relaxers. WASHINGTON (TIP): The United in the United States", said Baljeet Singh, opportunity to have an accurate count of Kain Kumar, 56, of Palmdale, , States 2020 Census will include coding President of Sikh Society of San Diego. Sikhs in the United States to better serve was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Philip for Sikhs, which means that Sikh "This historic announcement is the the community's needs," said U.S. Census Gutierrez of the Central District of Americans will be counted as a separate result of decades of advocacy by Deputy Director Ron Jarmin. California, who also ordered Kumar to pay ethnic group. On January 6, 2020, a UNITED SIKHS at the national level on "Working with UNITED SIKHS, we $509,365 in restitution, $494,900 in asset follow-up meeting at San Diego State behalf of the Sikh community. Being understand how this change affects the forfeiture, and a $72,000 fine. Kumar University with the U.S. Census Bureau involved in this civic engagement will national Sikh community, leading the pleaded guilty on April 4, 2019, to one count leadership was conducted as a part of an help ensure an accurate count of Sikhs Census to add a separate ethnicity code," of health care fraud and one count of on-going series of meetings since 2010 in the United States. Census data will said Shagufta Ahmed, National distribution of hydrocodone. As part of his asking for the Sikhs to be recognized as a help in tracking and measuring hate Partnership Program Communication guilty plea, Kumar admitted that from separate ethnic group. This crimes against the community. It will Directorate, Census Bureau. February 2011 until May 2016, he defrauded announcement is a milestone for also ensure equal and accurate In order to be properly counted in the the Medicare health care benefit program America's Sikh Community, it will allow representation of Sikhs. This is useful in 2020 U.S. Census, UNITED SIKHS is by prescribing unnecessary home health Sikhs to be counted and coded in the providing access to members of educating the national Sikh community services in exchange for the payment of decennial U.S. Census that is conducted Congress and other essential to write in "Sikh" under the ethnicity illegal kickbacks to him from a La Verne, every 10 years. government services for the needs of the portion. The 2020 U.S. Census is active, California-based home health agency "The Sikh community's efforts have community," said Jasmit Singh, and the forms are to be mailed out called Star Home Health Resources Inc. come to fruition. This has paved the way Advocacy Director, UNITED SIKHS. starting mid-March. (Read full story on forward nationally not only for the Sikh "A separate code recognizes the (Source: UNITED SIKHS) www.theindianpanorama.news) community but also for other ethnicities unique identity of Sikhs and gives us an THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 US 7

Indian Origin Ambassador Shringla Honored Clearwater Anesthesiologist with Special Congressional Agrees to Pay $102,126 to Resolve Civil Healthcare Fraud Recognition at Farewell Reception Allegations TAMPA (TIP): United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced Jan 7 that Dr. Jayam Krishna Iyer has agreed to pay the United States $102,126.98 to resolve allegations that she violated the False Claims Act while practicing as a pain management physician. These civil claims are related to Iyer's guilty plea to criminal health care fraud in 2018, which involved her billing Medicare for office visits when the patient was not present for the visit and for issuing prescriptions for Schedule II controlled substances. The settlement arises from a lawsuit filed by the United States styled United States v. Jayam Krishna Iyer, M.D., et al., Case No. 8:18-cv-446-WFJ-JSS (M.D. Ambassador Shringla, Ambassador Amit Kumar, CGI in Dr. Swati Kulkarni, Members of Congress, Embassy Officials, and IAICC Members Fla.). In 2017, the United States WASHINGTON (TIP):United States impact made during his short tenure luck on his new assignment. Attorney's Office's Civil Division Representative, Mr. Joe Wilson, a with the US Government, private and Ambassador Shringla thanked Mr. opened a civil investigation into member of the India Caucus, hosted a public sectors and Indian American Wilson, Members of Congress, and Mr. whether Iyer had prescribed medically farewellbreakfast for Ambassador community. Kumar and said that he is looking unnecessary prescriptions for opioids Harsh V. Shringla, in association with Mr. Wilson, honored Ambassador forward to their continued support in in violation of the False Claims Act. the Indian American International Shringla with a Special Congressional his new role. Ambassador Shringla also Separately, on August 24, 2018, Iyer Chamber of Commerce (IAICC) on Recognition, spoke about the special noted the special role played by IAICC in pleaded guilty to one count of criminal January 9 at Capitol Hill in Washington relationship between India and the US the India-US relations and appreciated health care fraud based on her DC. and said that he is looking forward to Mr. Kumar's efforts in opening more fraudulent claims for office visits. As At the farewell, Senator Cindy Hyde- working with Ambassador Shringla in chapters across the US. Notably, part of the criminal plea agreement, Smith, Representatives Ted Yoho, his new role. On behalf of IAICC, Dr. Ambassador Shringla was the Chief Iyer agreed to forfeit $51,521 paid by Michael Guest, and Dr. Neal Dunn along Nandini Selvam, President of Women in Guest at the launch of IAICC's New Medicare as a result of the fraud and to with Ambassador Amit Kumar, Deputy Business & Leadership, presented a tie England States Chapter on December 6, pay restitution. She was sentenced to Chief of Mission, Embassy of India, to Ambassador Shringla. 2019 in Boston, Massachusetts. serve six months in federal prison. Iyer Dr.Swati Kulkarni, Consul General of Members of Congress recognized Both Ambassador Amit Kumar and Dr. also agreed to surrender her Florida India in Atlanta, and Mr. KV Kumar, "India as a great friend of the US," and Kulkarni thanked Ambassador Shringla medical license, as well as the DEA President & CEO, IAICC,congratulated noted the excellentprogress made by for his excellentleadership and said they registration which had permitted her Ambassador Shringla, who will assume Ambassador Shringla in India-US will look forward to his guidance from to prescribe controlled substances for charge as the 33rd Foreign Secretary of relations during his tenure. They . Officers from the Indian her patients, and to not reapply for a India on January 29 in New Delhi, alsoappreciated Mr. Shringla for his pro- Embassy, members of IAICC, and staff DEA registration for 20 years. Iyer India. Mr. Kumar commended active and consistent engagement with members from Capitol Hill were also further agreed to permanent exclusion Ambassador Shringla for thepositive the US Congress and wished him good present during the farewell. from Medicare, Medicaid, and all other federal healthcare programs. On February 20, 2019, the United States sued Iyer under the False Claims Act to U.S. Supreme Court takes up presidential collect civil damages and penalties based on her admissions as part of her criminal plea. Electoral College dispute "By using all of the tools available to WASHINGTON (TIP): The Supreme rules of the road for presidential electors law enforcement, including civil Court will take up appeals in two cases - for the upcoming election and all future enforcement, we in the Middle District from Washington state and - elections," said Lawrence Lessig, a of Florida will continue to target involving electors who decided to vote in lawyer for the faithless electors medical professionals who flood our the Electoral College process for sanctioned in Washington and Colorado. streets with dangerous opioids without someone other than Democrat Hillary Colorado Secretary of State Jena regard for the health and welfare of Clinton in 2016 even though she won the Griswold, a Democrat, said she hopes the their patients," said U. S. Attorney popular vote in their States. justices will let states enforce their laws. Maria Chapa Lopez. The court will decide whether "Unelected and unaccountable "Writing prescriptions for controlled Electoral College voters are required to presidential electors should not be substances without examining patients support the presidential candidate who allowed to decide the presidential - as alleged in this case - indicates that a wins a State. As the 2020 presidential as they see fit or whether states can election without regard to voters' choices health care professional is more race heats up, the Supreme Court agreed impose restrictions including with and state law," Griswold said. concerned with profits than patients," on January 17 to hear a dispute involving penalties. The case is expected to be The dispute involves the U.S. said Special Agent in Charge Omar the complex U.S. presidential election argued in April and decided by the end of presidential election system set out in Pérez Aybar of the Office of Inspector system focusing on whether Electoral June. President Donald Trump is the U.S. Constitution in which the General of the U.S. Department of College electors are free to break their seeking re-election on Nov. 3, with a field winner is determined not by amassing a Health and Human Services. "Today's pledges to back the candidate who wins of Democrats seeking their party's majority of the national popular vote but settlement reaffirms our commitment their state's popular vote, an act that nomination to challenge him. His by securing a majority of the electoral to ensuring that physicians fulfill their could upend an election. administration did not take a side in votes that are allotted to the 50 U.S. states professional obligation to serve their The justices will determine if such so- either case. "We are glad the Supreme and the District of Columbia. patients' health needs as well as called faithless electors have the Court has recognized the paramount (Read full story on appropriately bill government health discretion to cast Electoral College votes importance of clearly determining the www.theindianpanorama.news) care programs." THE INDIAN PANORAMA 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 AS I SEE IT

By Rajesh Ramachandran A New Nationalism: Leaderless It is impossible to expect the Masses are Offering Resistance cynics among Congress, Marxist or AAP leadership to seize the moment and turn it into a platform to the Politics of Polarization remain in power. They fail to see this as a moment of for social transformation and a transformation, the crack of a new dawn. new nationalism. But someone Muslims constitute around 27% of West Bengal's population, and in Kerala nearly 45% of the population ought to. From the flags, the comprises minorities (Muslims and Christians). This posters and the slogans, the huge chunk of minority votes had even led cynical politicians to sponsor an attack on temple traditions, leaderless masses are putting forth thinking that the minorities would be very happy to see a Hindu temple getting targeted. Some of these politicians, a platform to counter the Sangh who even do namaz, with their heads covered, for Parivar's Hindutva nationalism. campaign photographs, are only practicing the old identity politics of vote blocks when they oppose CAA- olitics is like diabetes, most of us inherit it. So is the NRC. In fact, they are the biggest hurdles for social case with all those young and not-so-young women integration, always protecting the worst practices among Pwho have been hitting the streets, shouting slogans, the minorities, patronizing their regressive and often writing graffiti, holding placards and getting detained by criminal priests and vote-contractors. For them the anti- voters and vote contractors as a shortcut to power. the police. The eruption of idealism could not have CAA-NRC protests and debates are a godsend to project It is impossible to expect the cynics among Congress, happened without these young people not having been themselves as Muslim messiahs. This politics is Marxist or AAP leadership to seize the moment and turn brought up the way they have been. It is, thus, not just a counterproductive and anti-modern. it into a platform for social transformation and a new youthful rebellion against authority, but a considered Those who have come out to register their protests in nationalism. But someone ought to. From the flags, the uprising of the middle classes against a perceived the big cities are the inheritors of Gandhian nationalism posters and the slogans, the leaderless masses are putting divisive, dangerously communal agenda. Many of the - seeking a composite nation and peaceful coexistence. forth a platform to counter the Sangh Parivar's Hindutva parents of those young women may even have voted for This is obvious from the portraits of Gandhi and all nationalism. The dominant discourse always creates its the BJP in the last two elections (as some of them posted heroes of the national movement adorning the protest counter. These masses are hugging the National Flag and on social media), but they had brought up their children to sites in Delhi, and Bengaluru. The professional singing the Anthem to break away from the silos of be modern citizens, wanting to be proud of a nation that politicians had all along kept Gandhi and anti-colonial identity politics. They are creating a new inclusive tries to treat all its citizens as equals. Many do not realize martyrs away from their iconography, creating a new nationalism as opposed to Hindutva nationalism, that these parents might have turned against the UPA myth for the minorities meant only to sharpen the unconsciously recreating the anti-colonial Indian identity when their pride in the nation got deeply hurt during the differences, build walls and seal people in silos. Hence, the shaped by the revolutionaries, the martyrs and Gandhi - Commonwealth Games fiasco, only to be confronted by an National Flag, the Gandhi portrait, the martyrs and the the biggest martyr for the cause of the composite nation. unending series of scandals. Ashfaq-Bismil hyphenation are great points of departure Unfortunately, mainstream politicians seem to be Hence, the protests of these young people are far more in Muslim politics, if at all one should call it by that name, oblivious to this grand opportunity. significant than those of the professional protesters. The as is the leadership by women at Shaheen Bagh. Congress believes in power by default, as happened in atrocious attack against JNU students shook the To have a new Dalit leader, by the name of 2004, when people decided to vote the NDA out; the conscience of the nation primarily because of the total Chandrashekhar Azad, who twirls his moustache like the Marxists are happy building a women's wall with purdah- abdication of responsibility by the Vice Chancellor - their martyrs for effect, is a throwback to the politics of clad women against temple traditions; Mamata Banerjee paterfamilias - and the brazen way in which masked inclusive nationalism, which appeals to the middle is busy securing scared Muslims in vote block silos; AAP outsiders came in droves to 'teach the students a lesson' classes. It is wrong to claim that the middle classes, who has not even ventured to visit the protest sites, lest some and walked out shouting obscenities while the Delhi are mostly upper caste, are too greedy to make a change. If of its votes swing back to the BJP.There are no takers yet Police patiently watched with the streetlights the middle classes are ready to hit the streets for their idea for what is getting built by the protesters, primarily young conveniently switched off. But the protests at JNU are not of an inclusive citizenship, apprehending a national middle-class women, who are rediscovering Gandhi and as important as the ones in the streets of Delhi, Mumbai, register of citizenship and the possibility of detention his disciples like Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. Muslim Bengaluru or Chennai because these are - unlike in JNU, centers for minorities and thereby a Nazi State, they are women, who wrap themselves in the Indian flag in the Kerala or West Bengal - not organized by politicians who expressing their disgust for an exclusivist agenda and are biting Delhi cold, are yet again defeating the two-nation desperately seek Muslim votes. The professional also offering to share power with the minorities. This theory.They must win. politicians, even in this frantic melee, are only hoping to possibility is a great opportunity for inclusive politics and (Rajesh Ramchandran is Editor of The Tribune) fuel the fears of the Muslims to secure their votes and a new breed of politicians who would stop using minority GUEST COMMENT Quiet, for now: On trade deal between US and China The trade deal between the U.S. and China allows President Trump growth scenario. China is to buy $200 more wary of guarantees on IP questions over government control of to claim some success billion in goods and services in the protection and alleged forced technology China's state-owned firms and industrial coming two years - purchases in 2017, transfers; the last two have been among subsidies - at the core the bilateral dispute he phase one trade deal U.S. were valued at some $187 billion. The the more contentious aspects of the trade - are not expected to be resolved until after President Donald Trump and proposed increase in exports is believed dispute, as seen in the attacks on Chinese the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections. In TChinese Vice-Premier Liu He to be unprecedented in U.S. trade history telecom manufacturer Huawei. parallel is the agreement to revive an signed on Wednesday; Jan 15 is but a and caused speculation on the impact Separately, Washington has invoked erstwhile Obama-era mechanism for temporary truce that leaves the key these steep targets could have on China's provisions on threats to its national economic dialogue that was abandoned issues of the trade dispute unresolved. other trading partners. This has been an security to punish adversaries, an under the Trump administration. The The pact that Mr. Trump has touted as a important area of concern for the exceptional measure in the international step signals hope just as Washington's step toward creating a fairer and American farming sector ever since trading arena. Crucially, the timing of decision this week to withdraw the tag of reciprocal partnership still leaves intact China imposed retaliatory tariffs on the package enables Mr. Trump to claim a currency manipulator upon Beijing, nearly three-fourths of punitive tariffs soyabean imports from the U.S. But some success in narrowing the trade accusing it of artificially devaluing the slapped on China since the onset of the Beijing has promised to open its markets deficit with China ahead of his renminbi to gain competitive advantage. trade rift in 2017. Even so, the limited in dairy products, poultry, fish and allied November re-election bid. The new forum could set the tone to terms the two largest economies agreed sectors. Whereas China has given Mr. Trump has said that negotiations address sensitive issues that have dogged upon sets the political stage for further assurances to remove barriers for on a phase two agreement would begin Beijing's relations with the U.S. and its bilateral negotiations and to stem a American banking, insurance and other immediately and even hinted that he allies after China joined the WTO. further deterioration in the global financial services, Washington would be could travel to Beijing. However, (The Hindu) THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 PERSPECTIVE 9 A Nation Losing Democratic Steam hese are bewildering times The enactment of the CAA and the for members of civil society scheme to confirm citizenship Tin countries bordering through the National Register of India, who are no longer able to Citizens is part of the plan. By Kanak Mani Dixit appeal to New Delhi on the Hunger for political power platform of reason, pluralism and even humanity. When New Delhi Of course, India's population of appeared arrogant or tone-deaf in 200 million-plus Muslims will not the past, there were ways to make be going anywhere. India is their yourself heard, but today there is a homeland, and they have no extra- silencing within that weakens not territorial magnet similar to Israel only the spirit of India, but the vis-à-vis the Jewish people. One prospects of peace in South Asia. searches, therefore, for an While the first term of Prime explanation as to why Indian Minister saw society has thus been led to the adventurism, from demonetization cliff's edge. This seems to be "In a world increasingly within to blockade without, his re- motivated by nothing more than a elected government seems intent hunger for political power using defined by populist on changing the face of India religion and ultra-nationalism as ultra-nationalism, seen in through majoritarian intolerance tools. Mr. Modi and Mr. Shah have under the banner of Hindutva. essentially lined up behind the ascent of figures like While putting fear in minority Beyond the undermining of India's pluralism, the CAA signals Muhammad Ali Jinnah's two- Donald Trump, Rodrigo communities, this trajectory is also New Delhi's low regard for neighboring countries nation theory, leaving India's accelerating India's economic Muslims emotionally drained and Duterte and Jair decline and weakening New Delhi's international influence. fearful. Bolsonaro, India with its A geopolitical folly In a world increasingly defined by populist ultra- ancient-civilisational and nationalism, seen in the ascent of figures like Donald Trump, While the adoption of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Rodrigo Duterte and Jair Bolsonaro, India with its ancient- modern-Gandhian December has triggered India-wide dissent, it began as an act civilisational and modern-Gandhian heritage should have heritage should have of geopolitical folly. For domestic appeasement, Home been framing the democratic response to myriad pressing Minister Amit Shah and Mr. Modi brought forth a Bill that issues, from global warming to nuclear weaponization. A been framing the essentially accused three selected countries of discrimination confident, egalitarian-minded India would also have been democratic response to against their Hindu, Jain, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist and Parsi leading the discourse on international migration and minorities. In one stroke, New Delhi distanced itself from the challenging China for its internment camps for Uighurs and myriad pressing issues, friendly state establishments of and Kabul and for using facial recognition technology for surveillance. from global warming to deepened the divide with Islamabad. Instead, we have a regime whose topmost leader terms Muslim Even discounting the fact that residents of glass houses immigrants as 'termites' fit to be dumped into the Bay of nuclear weaponization. must resist the urge to throw stones, this was an unexpected Bengal; which keeps Rohingya refugees away with threats of A confident, egalitarian- accusation. While no South Asian country is free of deportation; and which is itself rushing to catch up with majoritarian discrimination, the concern of New Delhi's Beijing in building internment camps and using facial minded India would also rulers was clearly not the well-being of the minorities of recognition and drones to control dissent. have been leading the Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who have been in fact Looking at India from the outside, we see a ruling been made more vulnerable by the Act. The Indian authorities establishment that values mythology more than history and a discourse on international did not engage in sustained international effort to address the society losing its scientific edge, its great universities being migration and challenging issue, such as through the Special Rapporteur run to the ground. India under Mr. Modi is losing democratic China for its internment on Minority Issues. The appropriate approach here would steam, with its weakened courts, progressively politicized have been to join the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees, and to military,and a police force and investigating agencies that are camps for Uighurs and for be open to foreigners of any faith or persuasion who seek willing instruments of powerbrokers. Many of us have been using facial recognition refuge. To cherry-pick among non-citizens on the basis of there, done that. religion was crass. The genie that has been released through the enactment of technology for Now, the human rights community and intelligentsia in the the CAA must be forced back into the bottle, taking into surveillance. Instead, we neighboring countries are left in an awkward position when consideration the sheer scale of human tragedy possible in challenging the CAA's selectivity - their interest is to promote the subcontinent. And, while the ongoing countrywide dissent have a regime whose inclusion within rather than demand that India become an against the CAA by lay-citizens has been spontaneous and topmost leader terms 'equal-opportunity' host for Muslims as well. Nevertheless, heartfelt, it may not be enough to challenge a party that has one must challenge India's Home Ministry as to why the CAA just been elected with an overwhelming majority for a five- Muslim immigrants as ignored the larger number of Muslims of different sects year term. 'termites' fit to be enduring sectarian strife. These include Ahmadiyya and Shia, Seeking greater federalism particularly Hazara, of Pakistan and Ahmadiyya and Bihari dumped into the Bay of Muslims of Bangladesh. And why ignore the Sri Lankan One used to regard India's Central government as the Bengal; which keeps Tamil refugees in India and the vulnerable Rohingya of protector of citizens when the States went renegade, but what ? happens when the Centre goes rogue? Devolution of power Rohingya refugees away The adoption of the CAA is just a waystation on the and authentic federalism is clearly the solution for human with threats of Hindutva highway,which considers not just modern-day India dignity and social justice in a country as vast and diverse as deportation; and which is but all of the notional 'Jambudvipa' as the Hindu homeland. India. Here, as a former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Modi Those galloping along this highway believe in a selective could have set an example as the great federalist Prime itself rushing to catch up rendering of a Hindu subcontinent overrun by invaders from Minister. Instead, he has presided over a further with Beijing in building the northwest. This exclusivist project seeks to paint the Centralization of governmental power, with the Hindutva variegated belief system of 'Hinduism' with a broad agenda part and parcel of this process. internment camps and ideological brushstroke. Faith has been turned on its head, And therefore, it is vital to recognize the institutional using facial recognition becoming less a quest for spiritualism. Many godmen, god- resistance to the CAA emerging from the States run by non- women, gurus and babas have boarded this Hindutva wagon, BJP parties. Amidst the gloom, one sees in the State-side and drones to notably the mahant of Gorakhnath temple who is now also the reaction not only an immediate response to the CAA, but the control Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister. glimmer of possibilities of a longer-term restructuring of the The Indian establishment has thus super-charged its social Indian state towards governance that is more accountable to dissent." engineering campaign, specifically targeting the country's the people. The centripetal force represented by Narendra Muslim citizenry.The campaign started with the revocation of Modi requires a centrifugal counter from the States of India. the autonomous status of Jammu and Kashmir, followed by (Kanak Mani Dixit, a writer and journalist based in , is the Ayodhya verdict that privileged mass belief over evidence. founding editor of the magazine 'Himal Southasian') THE INDIAN PANORAMA 10 SOUTH ASIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

Lahore journalist remanded in FIA Adoption offers pour in for baby found custody over ‘anti- state’ Facebook posts in bloody plastic bag in Singapore bin LAHORE (TIP): A Lahore court has SINGAPORE (TIP): An abandoned granted the Federal Investigation baby rescued from a bin in Singapore has Agency (FIA) a three-day physical aroused widespread sympathy, drawing remand of a journalist whom the several offers of adoption, according to agency has accused of sharing “anti- authorities and media in the city-state state” content on Facebook, it was wrestling with low birth rates. reported. Aside from adoption enquiries Azharul Haq Wahid, who has received by child protection services, at remained associated with Channel least six women have written to local Five and the ‘Khabrain’ Urdu daily The New Paper saying they wanted newspaper, was arrested by the FIA on to care for or adopt the baby. January 16 and an FIR was registered “I am willing to do anything for the against him, Dawn news said in a baby,” Shahirah Slamat, 34, said in the world after South Korea and one of While the child’s birth parents, who report. comments published by the paper. the lowest fertility rates globally. have not been named by authorities, The FIR states, “During scrutiny of “I feel so jealous when I see people Latest data show the number of births were mostly criticised on social media, social media it wasa found that anti- pregnant. My sister has five in Singapore fell to an eight-year low in some said more understanding was state and defamatory material against children...We want a child so much.” 2018. “Oh why people abandon their needed considering the stigma the public functionaries and state Rubbish collectors found the crying babies? We are in need of a population surrounding single mothers. departments is being uploaded baby last week in a bloody plastic bag growth, so don’t abandon the babies and “We should step up efforts to support through a Facebook ID” in the name of while clearing rubbish from a bin at the I’m more than happy to adopt one if the them and reduce stigma rather than Wahid. foot of a trash chute on a local housing conditions are right,” social media user judge these women and young girls who The FIA presented the journalist estate. Leong Lim said in a Facebook post. may not be far from being children before Judicial Magistrate Yasir A local politician said the baby could The Ministry of Social and Family themselves,” said another Facebook user Arafat on Friday. The counsel for the have been crushed by a compactor if it Development (MSF) said in response to Abirame Subramanian. agency requested physical remand of were not for the cleaners’ intervention. Reuters’ questions on Wednesday that Baby abandonment is rare in the city- Wahid, saying it needed to further In the wake of the incident, many have several people had enquired about state, which has a population of about 5.7 interrogate him for “sharing anti-state lamented the rare case of abandonment adopting the baby, which was in stable million. There were 17 such cases from material on Facebook”. in the wealthy island nation which has condition. Police said investigations into 2009 to 2019, according to the MSF. It was unclear what the “anti-state” the second-fastest ageing population in the incident were going on. Reuters content contained. The suspect also shared an “offensive, edited” version of the Army boot on Pak TV Once-submerged island 86 Pak Islamists get country’s national anthem on his Facebook page, the lawyer said, adding show; anchor banned ready for Rohingya 55-yr jail over that a raid had been conducted at the journalist’s residence after obtaining for 60 days for refugees blasphemy protests search warrants. minister’s fiasco DHAKA (TIP): A Bangladeshi island ISLAMABAD (TIP): A Pakistani After hearing all arguments, the ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistani TV regularly submerged by monsoon rains court has sentenced brother and court sent Wahid into FIA’s custody on anchor and his news programme was is ready to house 100,000 Rohingya nephew of a radical Islamist party chief a three-day physical remand, with the banned by Pakistan’s media watchdog refugees, but no date has been along with 84 others to 55-year prison agency directed to produce him again for 60 days on Thursday for letting a announced to relocate people from the terms each for taking part in protests in on January 20. Meanwhile, the Lahore cabinet minister to display an army crowded and squalid camps where 2018 over the acquittal of Aasia Bibi, a Press Club issued a statement on boot during the talk show to ridicule the they've lived for years, officials said Christian woman in a controversial Friday saying its office-bearers opposition. Thursday. blasphemy case, according to a media “strongly condemn” Wahid’s arrest. Federal Minister for Water Resources Flood protection embankments, report. The press club demanded Prime Faisal Vawda appeared on Kashif houses, hospitals and mosques have The anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Minister Imran Khan to ensure the Abbasi’s programme ‘Off the Record’ on been built on Bhasan Char, or floating Rawalpindi was hearing a case against journalist was immediately released ARY News and used a military boot to island, in the Bay of Bengal, officials the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) and the FIA issue an apology, saying heap scorn on the Pakistan Muslim said. “Bhasan Char is ready for workers who held violent protests and journalists would otherwise stage League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan habitation. Everything has been put in clashed with the police over the arrest of countrywide protests. IANS People’s Party (PPP) for voting in favour place,” said Bangladesh refugee, relief party chief Khadim Hussain Rizvi in of the recently passed Army Act in and repatriation commissioner Mahbub 2018, Dawn news reported. Musharraf challenges Parliament. Alam Talukder. Those convicted include TLP chief treason case verdict Senior PPP leader Qamar Zaman The island is built to accommodate Khadim Hussain Rizvi's brother Ameer Kaira and PML-N leader Javed Abbasi, 100,000 people, just a fraction of the Hussain Rizvi and nephew Mohammad ISLAMABAD (TIP): Pakistan’s self- who were co-participants, walked out in million Rohingya Muslims who have Ali, the report said. The court handed 86 exiled former dictator Pervez protest as the show host just grinned fled waves of violent persecution in workers and supporters of the TLP with Musharraf on Thursday challenged in and failed to stop Vawda’s antics. their native Myanmar. a prison sentence of 55 years each in a the Supreme Court a special tribunal’s Taking cognizance of the incident, About 700,000 people came after case pertaining to rioting and resisting verdict that found him guilty of high Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory August 2017, when the military in against the police, the report said. treason and handed him a death Authority (PEMRA) took action against Buddhist-majority Myanmar began a Additionally, the court on Thursday sentence, according to a media report. the news programme and its anchor harsh crackdown against Rohingya in ordered the convicts to collectively The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz citing violation of media laws and response to an attack by insurgents. submit Rs 12,925,000 and directed (PML-N) government led by former banned Kashif Abbasi and his show for Global rights groups and the U.N. called authorities to seize their moveable and prime minister Nawaz Sharif had filed 60 days. the campaign ethnic cleansing immoveable assets. After the verdict the treason case against the former Vawda in a show with Hamid Mir of involving rapes, killings and torching of was announced late on Thursday night, army chief in 2013 over the imposition Geo News on Wednesday defended his thousands of homes. the convicts were escorted to Attock jail of an extra-constitutional emergency action as a “mirror to opposition, Foreign media have not been in three vehicles under tight security. in November 2007, which led to the especially the PML-N, for opposing and permitted to visit the island. Saleh In November 2018, over 2,000 people, confinement of a number of superior vilifying army”. Noman, a Bangladeshi freelance including the chief of a radical Islamist court judges in their houses and However, the minister agreed his journalist who recently visited, party, were booked under terrorism and sacking of over 100 judges. The special action was extreme and showed described a community emerging there. other charges of rioting, attempting court in Islamabad on December 17 ignorance that it was against the laws of “I saw a market with about 10 grocery murder and hurling threats in different last handed down the death penalty to PEMRA. He said Prime Minister Imran shops and roadside tea stalls. Some were parts of Punjab during the three-day the 74-year-old retired general, now Khan “disliked the boot thing” in the selling fish and vegetables,” he said. — protests following the acquittal of based in Dubai. show. PTI AP Christian woman Bibi. — PTI THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 11 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 12 INDIA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 NIA TO PROBE CASE OF J-K DSP CAUGHT WHILE Nirbhaya convicts hanging on FERRYING 3 TERRORISTS

NEW DELHI (TIP): The Feb 1: Fresh death warrants National Investigation Agency will probe a case in which a NEW DELHI (TIP): ADelhi court juvenile, was released from a senior Jammu and Kashmir on Friday issued fresh death reformation home after serving a police officer was arrested while warrants against the four Nirbhaya three-year term. ferrying three terrorists out of convicts and set a new date for their Expressing happiness over the the Valley, an official spokesman hanging: February 1, 2020 at 6 am. move, victim Nirbhaya’s father said on Saturday. Additional Sessions Judge Satish said, “We are happy that the Davinder Singh, posted as the Kumar Arora was hearing a plea by chances of hanging of the deputy superintendent of police, was arrested last one of the convicts, Mukesh Singh, convicts have increased. We have weekend along with Naveed Babu, self-styled district who asked that his execution be been assured that as soon as they commander of banned Hizbul Mujahideen, a new postponed from January 22. (convicts) file mercy pleas, these recruit Atif and an advocate Irfan Mir. Authorities at Delhi's Tihar Jail will be rejected.” The four were caught with arms and ammunition sought the issuance of fresh death The 23-year-old physiotherapy while they were travelling in a car near Qazigund on warrants against the convicts intern, who came to be known as the national highway in south Kashmir. earlier in the day. Nirbhaya, was gangraped and After receiving orders from the Union Home Public Prosecutor Irfan Ahmed assaulted on the night of Ministry, the NIA had re-registered the case and told the court that a mercy plea filed December 16, 2012, in a moving started the investigation, the spokesman said. Mukesh Singh had been rejected by bus in south Delhi. She died of President Ram Nath Kovind on her injuries a fortnight later in a Amazon to create one million Friday. Singapore hospital. Mukesh Singh and five others The brutality of the crime jobs in India by 2025: Bezos gangraped a 23-year-old Delhi shook the nation, leading to paramedic student -- now known as The Nirbhaya gangrape-murder case country-wide protests and a NEW DELHI (TIP): Nirbhaya, or "fearless" -- in convicts. change in India’s rape laws. World's largest online December 2012. It was a display of Six persons — Mukesh Singh, shopping platform Amazon brutality so unhinged that Indians, She has appealed to Prime Vinay Sharma, on Friday announced plans left shaking with fury, poured into Minister Narendra Modi "with Singh, Pawan Gupta, Ram Singh to create one million new the streets to demand justice. folded hands" to hang them on and a juvenile — were named as jobs in India over the next The victim soon died of her January 22, and broke down in an the accused. The trial of the five five years as it firefights injuries. interview as she tore into adult men began in a special fast- comments from Commerce On Friday, Nirbhaya's mother political parties for using track court in March 2013. The Minister Piyush Goyal on Asha Devi expressed displeasure Nirbhaya's death for their own prime accused, Ram Singh, the firm not doing a favour with the delay in the hanging, and gain. allegedly committed suicide by to the country by making the said the convicts were getting One of Nirbhaya's rapists killed hanging himself in Tihar Jail investments. what they wanted. himself in jail and another, a days after the trial began. Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, in a statement on Friday, said the company plans to create one million new jobs in India over the next five years. CAA stir: Delhi Police chief MHA calls meet to discuss NPR The new jobs - created both directly and indirectly— will be across industries, including IT, skill granted powers to detain nder NEW DELHI (TIP): The Ministry of Home Affairs development, content creation, retail, logistics, and (MHA) has convened a meeting of Chief Secretaries manufacturing. National Security Act and the Director Census on Friday to discuss the These jobs are in addition to the seven lakh jobs modalities for the 2020 Census and the National Amazon's investments have enabled over the last six NEW DELHI (TIP): Amidst recent unrest in the Population Register (NPR). years in the country. national capital, the Delhi Police Commissioner has Officials said the meeting would be chaired by Union The statement comes a day after Goyal said the US- reportedly been granted emergency detention powers Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai. The meeting based company was not doing a favour to the country under the National Security Act (NSA), 1980, beginning will discuss the modalities for the house-listing phase by the investments, and questioned how the online from January 19 to April 18. of the Census and the NPR, to be carried out from April retailing major could incur such "big" losses but for However, a news flash from has 1 to September 30, they said. its predatory pricing. quoted Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) sources as Bengal CMMamata Banerjee has already announced saying that the order giving detention powers to Delhi that representatives from her state would not attend the JP Nadda likely to be elected Police Commissioner under NSA is a routine one, meeting. which is renewed from time to time. The notification for the house-listing and NPR BJP president on Jan 20 The NSA allows preventive detention of an exercise came amid furore over the contentious CAA. individual for months, if the authorities are convinced The ministry officials said most states have notified NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP working president J P that the individual is a threat to national security, and provisions related to the NPR, which is a register of Nadda appears set to be elected as its next national law and order. residents of the country. president on January 20, succeeding Amit Shah, with The development comes against the background of It is being prepared at the local (village/sub-town), the party on Friday announcing the schedule for aggressive protests against the Citizenship sub-district, district, state and national levels under election to its top organisational post. Amendment Act (CAA) in New Delhi and the provisions of the Citizenship Act, 1955, and the In a statement, senior BJP leader Radha Mohan forthcoming assembly elections, scheduled for Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and Issue of Singh, who is in charge of the party''s organisational February 8. National Identity Cards) Rules, 2003. poll process, said that nominations for the national Instances of violence have also been reported from The rules have a provision for fine of up to Rs 1,000 president''s election will be filed on January 20, and a university campuses located in the national capital, on those violating it. The data for the NPR was last contest will take place the next day if required. including the prestigious Jawaharlal Nehru University collected in 2010 along with the houselisting phase of Party sources have said that Nadda, who has (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia University. the Census 2011. Updating of this data was done in 2015 decades of organisational experience, is likely to be A group of masked people armed with sticks and by conducting a door-to-door survey. elected unopposed, as has been the convention in the rods attacked students and teachers and damaged While updating the register in 2015, the government organisation. property on the JNU campus on January 5, prompting had asked for details like Aadhaar and mobile Top party leaders, including Union ministers, from the university administration to call in the police. numbers. across the country are expected to arrive at the BJP At least 35 people, including JNU Students Union headquarters on Monday to file nominations in (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh, were injured in the support of Nadda''s candidature. violence. The election of a new president will bring to end Similarly, on December 15, violence erupted during a incumbent Shah''s tenure of over five and a half years protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) during which the BJP expanded its footprints across in south Delhi's near Jamia Millia Islamia. Protesters the country like never before and enjoyed its best torched vehicles and clashed with the police. phase in electoral contests despite suffering a few The Police had allegedly resorted to baton charge and setbacks in state polls. fired tear gas shells to disperse the crowd. They entered With Shah joining the Modi 2.0 government as home the university campus and cracked down on students. minister, the BJP began the exercise for electing his Violence was also reported from other parts of Delhi, successor as the party has the convention of ''one including east Delhi's Seelampur and Jafrabad areas in person one post''. December last year. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 INDIA 13 Howdy, Modi-style event in the works for Donald Trump in Ahmedabad NEW DELHI/WASHINGTON Isro’s communication satellite (TIP): US President Donald Trump may hold an event similar to Prime GSAT-30 placed in orbit Minister Narendra Modi’s successful “Howdy, Modi!” in NEW DELHI (TIP): India’s latest Houston last September when he communications satellite, GSAT-30, to enhance visits India next month, people television, telecommunications and broadcasting familiar with the matter said on services was launched successfully by the European condition of anonymity. commercial launcher Arianespace early on Friday. learns that it is GSAT-30, the Indian Space Research now almost certain that the visit Organisation’s (Isro) first mission of the year, will happen in February, although blasted off onboard Arianespace’s Ariane 5 launch the dates are still being worked on. vehicle at 2:35am from the Ariane Launch Complex The people cited in the first in Kourou, a French territory in the northeastern instance said the visit will be a coast of South America. stand-alone one, extend across three After a flight lasting a little more than 38 minutes, days, and will involve Trump the GSAT-30 separated from the Ariane 5 upper stage visiting one Indian city apart from in an elliptical Geosynchronous Transfer Orbit. New Delhi. That Indian city will likely to be preceded by a visit by US Still, the two countries have “#GSAT30 successfully separated from the upper hold a Houston-like event, one of Trade Representative Robert made progress, the second person stage of #Ariane5 #VA251” Isro tweeted. the people said. Ahmedabad will Lighthizer to finalise the trade deal. said. “Our first priority is Over a few days, the on-board propulsion system likely be the city, this person added, A second person familiar with the restoration of GSP and the will conduct a series of orbit-raising manoeuvres to although it is yet to be finalised. matter said that the trade talks are remaining issues will be worked place the satellite in Geostationary Orbit. During the Prime Minister Modi is also headed in a positive direction and out later.” final stages of its orbit raising operations, the two expected to participate in the event. should be completed within a As a welcome gift to Trump, New solar arrays and the antenna reflectors of GSAT-30 Americans of Gujarati origin are month or 45 days. India’s commerce Delhi is expected to approve the will be deployed. likely to join the Howdy Trump minister Piyush Goyal and the purchase of another six Apache Equipped with 12 C and 12 Ku band transponders, show, the first person said, adding USTR have been in constant touch, attack helicopters from Boeing. the 3,357kg satellite has a mission life of 15 years and that the event is being seen by the this person added. Indeed, on the defence front, ties will join the 19 communication satellites that are US President’s handlers as a good India wants the Generalized between the two countries have currently operational. walk-up to this year’s US elections, System of Preferences, which warmed. The United States especially given the number of provides duty free access to the US renamed its Pacific military Gen Rawat calls for US-style Gujaratis in the US. The Indian to around 3500 products from India command as the Indo-Pacific diaspora is an important vote bloc, to be restored. In the summer of Command in a nod to the growing approach to tackle terror especially in the US and the UK. In 2019, just a few days after Prime importance of the region and ties the latter, for instance, they played a Minister Narendra Modi began his with India. The administration significant role with the vote almost second term, the Trump also elevated India’s status to that shifting en masse from Labour to administration terminated India’s of a NATO ally for purposes of Conservatives. eligibility for the preferential trade trade in sensitive defence-related Trump and Modi are expected to system. The US President has also technology. sign a short-term trade deal that routinely railed against India’s The US cleared the sale of 24 MH- could grant the US companies more tariffs, termed it “tariff king”, and 60R Multi-Mission helicopters — access to Indian markets and his administration has put Romeo Seahawks — for an restore to India trade benefits together a thick book of grievances estimated cost of $2.6 billion in withdrawn last summer. They will against India on trade — high April 2019, and 13 MK 45 anti- also discuss a longer-term trade tariffs (Harley Davidsons, for surface and anti-air naval gun pact that could include a Free Trade example, the president would systems, along with ammunition Agreement. mention frequently), trade and related add-ons, worth about According to the people cited in imbalance, lack of market access, $1.02 billion later in the year in the first instance, Trump’s visit is and other such. November. Source: HT NEW DELHI (TIP): Newly appointed Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Bipin Rawat, on Thursday called for a US-style approach to tackle terrorism, like they did after the 9/11 attacks. RSS chief bats for two-child norm, says Speaking at the Raisina Dialogue 2020, Gen Rawat said, “Terrorism is here to stay as long as there are states which use terror as policy and till there are Kashi and Mathura not on Sangh agenda proxies who provide weapons. We have to bring an LUCKNOW (TIP): Batting for generations. He also said the policy end to terrorism and that can only happen the way population control and emphasising of having a small family was a Americans started after the 9/11 terror attacks.” the relevance of having small gesture of patriotism. “They said let’s go on a spree on global war on terror. families to draw equal benefits of National Family Health Survey To do that you have to isolate the terrorists and development, Rashtriya figures show that the country has a anybody who is sponsoring terrorism has to be taken Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) chief population size of 1.37 billion. After to task,” he added. Mohan Bhagwat said the two-child PM Modi’s call for population Gen Rawat was part of a panel discussion on the norm should be introduced in the control, the Niti Aayog was evolving nature of counterterrorism. The consensus country. entrusted to formalise ideas that among the speakers was that threat of terrorism was The RSS chief also denied that can then be proposed to the Prime pervasive and continues to warrant international the contentious issues of Minister’s Office over the issue. attention and greater cooperation within the reclaiming the Kashi and Mathura Independence Day speech from the Bhagwat also declared in the intelligence community. shrines were on the Sangh’s agenda. ramparts of the Red Fort last year. meeting that the Sangh did not have “Anyone sponsoring terrorism has to be taken to Bhagwat was addressing a special The PM had laid stress on the the reclamation of disputed task,” the CDS added. On being asked by the session -- ‘Jigyasa Satra’ -- of Sangh need for population control while religious sites at Kashi and moderator of the discussion if he was referring to volunteers during his four-day stay having a word of praise for those Mathura on its agenda. “In fact, the Pakistan, he said, “I am referring to any such at Moradabad on Thursday. who had smaller families. He had Sangh never had the issues of Kashi country.” The RSS chief ’s opinion on delved, at length, on population and Mathura on its agenda and On Pakistan, Gen Rawat said, “You have to bring population control appears to be in control during his speech saying neither will it have them on its about accountability. Denial that they (Pak) are sync with Prime Minister Narendra population explosion would cause agenda in future,” the RSS chief victims of terror is not an answer. Time has come to Modi’s appeal during his many problems for future told the gathering. take the bull by its horns.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA 14 BOLLYWOOD FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 KAREENA AND SAIF TO BE PAID RS 1.5 CR FOR 3 HRS FOR PROMOTING A DIAPER mong Bollywood’s most popular families, Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Atheir cute munchkin, Taimur Ali Khan always manage to make heads turn when they step out together. Tiger Shroff takes on A day back, the good looking Pataudi’s returned from their New Year’s vacay to Mumbai. 3D Muqabla Challenge Now, as per the buzz around B-Town, Saif and Kareena might have consented to promote a iger Shroff gave a shoutout to leading diaper brand that approached the power Varun Dhawan, Shraddha Kapoor, couple owing to the popularity of their cute little TPrabhudeva and Remo D'Souza, as munchkin, Taimur Ali Khan. he took the Muqabla Challenge. As per a report in Mid-Day, Kareena and Saif He shared a video of him and his were approached repeatedly by a leading brand of instructor Paresh Shirodkar grooving on diapers. However, they had previously said no to the chartbuster from Street Dancer 3D on it. Now, the power couple may have rethought his Instagram stories and wrote, "Love about the same and might have accepted the offer this song," followed by a heart emoji. to promote the baby product. The report further Interestingly, when Varun introduced stated that the first appearance of Kareena and the Muqabla Challenge along with Saif for promotions will take place today and for choreographer , he said the same, they are being paid a whopping Rs 1.5 that it was "open to only fans". The actor Crore for 3 hour show. had shared a video of the two of them A source told the daily, “The head honchos of matching steps to the song and written, the brand were eager to get Saif-Kareena on "#MuqablaChallenge with masterji board and have been in talks with them for over a @ganeshacharyaa. Bohot kiya masti, ab year. While their star power was the primary dikhao thodi chusti. This is open to only driving factor, one of the reasons for reaching out fans remodsouza @shraddhakapoor to the couple was their son Taimur Ali Khan's @norafatehi #streetdancer3d releasing 24 popularity that cuts across age groups. Although th January." the duo had turned down the offer earlier, they Prabhudeva's iconic number Muqabla did a rethink when the brand officials persisted has been recreated for Street Dancer 3D. over the past few months. It was only recently While Varun was not originally a part of that they decided to lend their face to the product. the song, he requested to feature in it as They are expected to take home a fat pay cheque he did not want to miss out on the chance of Rs 1.5 crore for a three-hour appearance to match steps with the legendary today.” dancer. KARTIK AND CANNOT TAKE THEIR EYES OFF EACH OTHER artik Aaryan and Sara Ali Khan could not take their Keyes off each other as they posed for the paparazzi outside Maddock Films' office on Saturday night. The two stars had a meeting before the release of Imtiaz Ali's Love Aaj Kal sequel. AKSHAY KUMAR’S GOOD While Kartik wore a white shirt with a navy blue blazer, trousers NEWWZ CROSSES RS 300 and white sneakers, Sara looked resplendent in a simple white CRORE MARK WORLDWIDE ethnic outfit and no makeup. kshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor Khan-starrer, The Love Aaj Kal sequel, , has crossed the Rs 300 crore tentatively titled Aaj Kal, will see A(gross) mark at the global box office, producer Kartik and Sara together on the big has announced. Taking to Twitter, Karan screen for the first time and fans are called the film "The goof-up which is creating a laugh super excited. In a recent interview, riot around the GLOBE!!" Kartik said that he, too, was eager to Good Newwz is a screwball comedy about two couples be paired with Sara ever since she who experience a mix-up at a fertility clinic, after their expressed her desire to go on a coffee sperm is exchanged. While Akshay and Kareena play date with him on Koffee With Karan. the sophisticated Batras, Kiara Advani and Diljit "Jab se Sara ne Koffee With Karan Dosanjh play the louder Batras. pe bola hai, tab se main wait kar together. I think since then, there pehle hi yeh chalu hua hai. I love The film has made Rs 190 crore in India, after 18 days raha hoon ki hum dono kab ek has been a lot of curiosity about our these a lot and I hope ki sablog… of release. It marked Akshay Kumar's fourth film of the movie mein dikhenge. I think woh pairing and I hope we will live up to They won't be disappointed! (Never year to hit the Rs 100 crore mark at the box office, tab se apne aap mein ek curiosity that)," he said. has it happened before that fans following Kesari, Mission Mangal and Housefull 4. The hai. Bohot zyada curiosity rahi hai He added, "The kind of fan created a moniker like SarTik even actor will next be seen in the action thriller and I hope ki we will live up to that. frenzy…SarTik jo ek word create before seeing a pair together on , which is the latest instalment in director (Ever since Sara Ali Khan took my hua hai, it's something which has screen. I love these a lot and I hope 's cop universe, whose previous name on Koffee With Karan, I am never happened before the film. Ek that everyone…They won't be instalments include the two films and waiting for us to be seen in a film frame mein screen pe dekhne se disappointed!)" . THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 HOLLYWOOD 15 BLACK WIDOW NEW VIDEO: IT IS NATASHA VS TASKMASTER

new clip of Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black AWidow is out. The video of the Scarlett Johansson starrer offers more of the sister banter that takes place between Natasha and Yelena. And most importantly, it gives us a glimpse of the bad guy, Baywatch preview: Taskmaster. The timeline of the movie is Priyanka’s Hollywood unclear. It is being reported that the movie’s events take place debut is finally here before Avengers: Infinity War. But what is it that happens in her side riyanka Chopra's Hollywood debut of the world that forces Natasha Baywatch arrives in India tomorrow, aka Johansson to go back to her Pwhich is a little later than when the past. What kind of new demons film released in the US. will she be dealing with here? For Priyanka, who is presently in that, we will have to wait a bit. for promotional duties for Baywatch, has The teaser has the Red Guardian an excited lot of fans waiting to see her (David Harbour) delivering solid share screen space with Dwayne 'The punches, literally and figuratively. Rock' Johnson. It, therefore, becomes clear that The 34-year-old actress is playing the Harbour’s character is not merely main antagonist in the big screen placed in the film to offer support adaptation of the popular Nineties TV to Natasha’s character, but will show Baywatch. Priyanka plays the most likely be providing most of villainous character Victoria Leeds while the comic relief in the Marvel flick. The Rock will be seen featuring as Mitch Apart from Scarlett Johansson Buchannon, the character originally and David Harbour, Black Widow played by David Hasselhoff. also features Florence Pugh, Mitch Buchannon headlines the William Hurt and Rachel Weisz lifeguard squad, also comprising Zac among others in pivotal roles. Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Helmed by Cate Shortland, Black Rohrbach and Ilfnesh Hadera. Baywatch Widow will release on May 1. originals Pamela Anderson and David Hasselhoff will have cameos in the Seth Gordon-directed film. VANESSA HUDGENS AND AUSTIN BUTLER BREAK UP AFTER OVER 8 YRS OF DATING

I HUNG UP MY GUNS: ROBERT DOWNEY JR ON IRON MAN

t’s the start of something new for birthday in August 2019. “Happy obert Downey Jr may be appearing In an interview with Extra TV, where Vanessa Hudgens: She and boyfriend birthday to my love, my other half, my in Scarlett Johansson-led Black he appeared alongside his producer-wife Iand Austin Butler have split after constant inspiration and supporter. My RWidow as Tony Stark aka Iron Susan Downey, the 54-year-old actor was more than eight years of dating, a best friend. My everything. 28 is going to Man but the Hollywood superstar insists asked whether he will be donning the source confirms to PEOPLE. be ??????,” she wrote on Instagram. that his Marvel journey has ended once suit of armour in a future Marvel movie. Their reps could not be reached for The pair had been long distance as and for all. Anything could happen… As far as I’m comment. The Bad Boys for Life actress, they filmed projects in different Downey Jr amassed fame and fan- concerned, I hung up my guns and I’m 31, and the Once Upon a Time… in countries. Hudgens has starred in a following after his appearance as Iron good to let it go. I also think that Marvel Hollywood actor, 28, first got together in number of Netflix Christmas movies Man in 10 Marvel Cinematic Universe is on this journey now, they’re trying a 2011. Fans first speculated about a recently, shooting The Princess Switch: (MCU) movies. bunch of other stuff and you know, I’m breakup when neither Hudgens nor Switched Again in the U.K. in November He ended his stint with 2019’s excited for them to see how all that goes,” Butler posted photos celebrating 2019. And Butler will play Elvis Presley Avengers: Endgame, though he will be Downey Jr said. Christmas and New Year’s Eve together. in an untitled biopic that’s currently in coming back for one last time for Black The actor will next appear in Dolittle, Hudgens did publicly celebrate his pre-production. Widow, which is set in the past. which is set to release on January 17. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 16 THEATER FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 2nd Lunar New Year Celebration by NJSO By Mabel Pais "I want everyone to enjoy this event. It's not just for Asian communities-it's for everyone in New Jersey. So, I wanted to combine Western music and Eastern music." - Xian Zhang, NJSO Music Director (Xian is a) "dynamic podium presence" (and praised for her) "technical abilities, musicianship and maturity" - The New York

Times Xian Zhang, conductor NJSO Special event features cultural festivities, entertainment and fine dining Xian Zhang conducts blending Eastern PEKING UNIVERSITY ALUMNI CHORUS and Western musical traditions Jan 25 at NJPAC in Newark Miya Yvette Menscher and Wesley Chu Yang Meynen co-host

he New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO) for the 2nd time Tpresents a Lunar New Year Celebration welcoming the Year of the Rat on Saturday, January 25 at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark. The event includes an NJSO performance, led by Music Director Xian Co-host Miya Yvette Menscher Zhang, and a pre-concert cultural festival. A post-concert gala dinner is available as an add-on to the concert and festival. The cultural festival begins at 6 pm in NJPAC's Prudential Hall lobby.Festivities designed for the whole family include STARRY ARTS GROUP CHILDREN'S CHORUS Photos / Courtesy NJSO. traditional Chinese music performers, BIZET "Au fond du temple saint" from has praised her for her "technical calligraphy demonstrations, crafts and "The Pearl Fishers" abilities, musicianship and maturity"- more. TRADITIONAL "Kangding Love Song" continues her acclaimed leadership of the The concert, which begins at 7:30 pm, PUCCINI "O mio babbino caro" from NJSO. The Orchestra presents classical, blends Eastern and Western musical "Gianni Schicchi" pops and family programs, as well as traditions. The program opens with the MASCAGNI "Regina Coeli" from outdoor summer concerts and special Orchestra performing Li Huanzhi's "Cavalleria Rusticana" events. Embracing its legacy as a "Spring Festival Overture." VERDI "Sempre libera" from "La statewide orchestra, the NJSO is the The Orchestra welcomes the Peking Traviata" resident orchestra of the New Jersey University Alumni Chorus, Starry Arts LEHAR "Lippen Schweigen" from "The Performing Arts Center in Newark and Group Children's Chorus, soprano Chiara Merry Widow" regularly performs at State Theatre New Taigi, tenor Dashuai Chen and bass Hao Co-host, Wesley Chu Yang Meynen GALA EVENT TICKETS Jersey in New Brunswick, Count Basie Jiang Tian for selections from Verdi's guests. Center for the Arts in Red Bank, "Nabucco" and "La Traviata," Bizet's "The Tickets may be purchased at Jade VIP Dinner Ticket Richardson Auditorium in Princeton, Pearl Fishers," Puccini's "Gianni njsymphony.org or by calling 1. Admission includes the pre-concert Mayo Performing Arts Center in Schicchi," Mascagni's "Cavalleria 800.ALLEGRO (255.3476). Discounted festival, champagne reception, concert Morristown and bergenPAC in Rusticana," Lehar's "The Merry Widow" Student tickets are available at and dinner seating (tax-deductible to the Englewood. Partnerships with New and Wang Lipang's Overture to "Dream of njsymphony.org/students in advance. extent allowed). Jersey arts organizations, universities the Red Chamber," as well as the Learn more at njsymphony.org/LNY. Ruby Dinner Ticket and civic organizations remain a key traditional "Kangding Love Song." CONCERT PROGRAM Admission includes the pre-concert element of the Orchestra's statewide Miya Yvette Menscher and Wesley Chu festival, concert and dinner (tax- identity. Yang Meynen co-host the concert. Lunar New Year Celebration deductible to the extent allowed). In addition to its lauded artistic Zhang says: "I want everyone to enjoy Sat, Jan 25, at 7:30 pm | NJPAC in Sponsorship and dinner table packages programming, the NJSO presents a suite of this event. It's not just for Asian Newark are also available. For more information, education and community engagement communities-it's for everyone in New XIAN ZHANG conductor please contact Laura Bessey, NJSO programs that promote meaningful, lifelong Jersey. So, I wanted to combine Western Manager of Special Events, at engagement with live music. Programs music and Eastern music. This whole CHIARA TAIGI soprano [email protected] or 973.735.1729. include school-time Concerts for Young year I wanted to plan to bring other DASHUAI CHEN tenor Learn more at People and the NJSO Youth Orchestras elements of art into music, and we bring HAO JIANG TIAN bass njsymphony.org/LNYgala. family of student ensembles, led by José opera into the Lunar New Year program. PEKING UNIVERSITY ALUMNI NJSO & XIAN ZHANG Luis Domínguez. NJSO musicians annually We will have a fabulous soprano from CHORUS perform original chamber music programs Rome who speaks Chinese. I think STARRY ARTS GROUP CHILDREN'S NJSO, named "a vital, artistically at community events in a variety of settings [audiences] are going to be wowed." CHORUS | Rebecca Shen, director significant musical organization" by "The statewide through the NJSO Community TICKETS MIYA YVETTE MENSCHER co-host Wall Street Journal," the NJSO embodies Partners program. WESLEY CHU YANG MEYNEN co-host that vitality through its statewide Connect with NJSO: Concert tickets include both the NJSO NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY presence and critically acclaimed performance and pre-concert festivities. ORCHESTRA performances, education partnerships Website: njsymphony.org Discounted children's tickets are LI HUANZHI "Spring Festival and unparalleled access to music and the Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: available in select sections. Overture" Orchestra's superb musicians. @NJSymphony Gala event tickets include a post- VERDI "Sperate o figli" from "Nabucco" Music Director Xian Zhang-a "dynamic YouTube: @NewJerseySymphony concert dinner with Zhang and special VERDI "Va' Pensiero" from "Nabucco" podium presence" 'The New York Times" Email: [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 17 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 18 WORLD FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020

Ukraine PM offers to quit over leaks Iran can take fight beyond its denigrating Prez KIEV (TIP): Ukraine's Prime borders, says Khamenei Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk on Friday tendered his resignation after a DUBAI (TIP): The Revolutionary leaked audio recording apparently Guards can take their fight beyond Iran's revealed him criticising President borders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Volodymyr Zelensky. Khamenei said on January 17, A voice sounding like Honcharuk's, responding to the US killing of a top but not officially confirmed as his, general and to unrest at home over the says President Zelensky, a TV accidental downing of an airliner. comedian and businessman who was In his first Friday prayers sermon in elected last April, only has a eight years, he also told thousands of "primitive" understanding of Iranians who chanted "Death to economics, reports the BBC. America" that European states could not "To remove any doubts in our be trusted after they launched a nuclear respect for and trust in the President, I agreement dispute mechanism. have written a resignation letter and The measure could lead to UN submitted it to the president with the sanctions being reimposed. “Resistance right to hand it to the Parliament," must continue until the region is Honcharuk, 35, made the completely freed from the enemy’s announcement on his official tyranny," Khamenei said, in a reference Facebook page. to the United States that renewed his call "He is a man in whom Ukrainians for U.S. troops to leave neighbouring Iraq have expressed unprecedented and the wider Middle East. confidence. And he has every right to He said Iran’s its missile attack on US Agencies Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif evaluate the effectiveness of every troops in Iraq earlier this month was a ‘Trump a clown who will betray has said that Tehran was ready to hand member of his team." The presidential "blow to America's image" as a over the remains of the Ukrainian office said Zelensky had received the superpower, as he led prayers in Tehran Iranians’ passengers who were killed in the resignation and would consider it, for the first time since 2012. TEHRAN: Iran's supreme leader said January 8 downing of an airliner. Zarif reports Xinhua news agency. ‘Plane tragedy should not cloud President Donald Trump is a “clown” made the remarks during a phone call The controversial audiotape was who only pretends to support the Iranian with his Ukrainian counterpart Vadym uploaded to an anonymous YouTube Soleimani’s sacrifice’ people but will “push a poisonous Prystaiko on Thursday, the state-run channel on Wednesday evening. He called the accidental downing of a dagger” into their backs, as he struck a IRNA news agency said in a report. On Honcharuk was apparently Ukrainian airliner a “bitter” tragedy defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in his part, Prystaiko appreciated Iran for discussing the national budget with Friday but said it should not overshadow Tehran in eight years. AP the speedy declaration of responsibility some other government ministers and the “sacrifice” of top commander Qasem ‘Ready to hand over passengers’ for the incident and its cooperation in all finance chiefs. — IANS Soleimani killed in a US drone strike. — remains’ stages. IANS China birth rate hits lowest level since 1949 BEIJING (TIP): China’s birth rate He believes that China’s population is punished for having three children, even and promote economic development, with dropped last year to its lowest level since over-estimated, and according to his work, though some areas have reduced punitive exceptions for rural families whose first- the Communist country was founded in the real population “began to decline in measures. born was a female, and for ethnic 1949, adding to concerns that an ageing 2018”. According to official figures, China’s China has signalled that it might end minorities. society and shrinking workforce will pile population stood at 1.4 billion by the end of limits on family size as a draft of the new The measure was mainly enforced pressure on a slowing economy.To avoid a 2019, increasing by 4.67 million from the Civil Code—due to be introduced at the through fines but was also notorious for demographic crisis, the government year before. annual session of the rubber-stamp forced abortions and sterilisations. relaxed its one-child policy in 2016 to allow While China’s limit on family sizes parliament in March—omits all mention The result was dramatic: fertility rates people to have two children, but the change could be removed altogether eventually, of “family planning”. dropped from 5.9 births per woman in 1970 has not resulted in an increase in the demographer The one-child policy was introduced by to about 1.6 in the late 1990s. The pregnancies. In 2019, the birth rate stood at He said citizens top leader Deng Xiaoping to curb replacement level for a population is 2.1. 10.48 per 1,000 people, down slightly from are still being population growth This could pose a problem for the the year before, according to data from the economy in the future, as the country’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) workforce continued to shrink last year. released on Friday. The number of births The NBS said there were 896.4 million has now fallen for three consecutive years, people aged between 16 and 59 -- its still, there were 14.65 million babies born population of working age—a drop from in 2019. He Yafu, an independent the 897.3 million in 2018. demographer based in southern This marks the eighth consecutive year Guangdong province, said the number of of decline, and the workforce is expected to births was the lowest since 1961, the last decline by as much as 23 per cent by 2050. year of a famine that left tens of millions “The demographic problem is a slow, dead. He said there were around 11.8 long-term one,” He told AFP. million births that year. He noted that ageing Japan, which saw US-based academic Yi Fuxian, senior rapid growth in the 1980s, has seen almost scientist at the University of Wisconsin- zero percent growth in recent years. Madison, told AFP that even though China’s economy grew by 6.1 per cent in China has abolished its one-child 2019, its slowest pace since 1990 as it was policy, there has been a shift in the hit by weaker demand and a bruising trade mindset of the population, with war with the United States. people now used to smaller “Because China’s education families. levels have been going up, in the He added that a higher cost of short term, the population issue should living is also a factor, noting that not impact growth too much,” he said. daycare is expensive and “But in the long run, if the trend inconvenient in China, posing continues, it would pose a huge drag on another deterrence. economic growth.” — AFP THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 WORLD 19 ‘Already independent’, Taiwan Prez tells China

Hong Kong airline made Japanese woman take pregnancy test HONG KONG (TIP): A Hong Kong airline forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test before allowing her on a flight to a Pacific island popular with mothers seeking US POLICY INTACT: CHINA citizenship for their babies. Midori Nishida, 25, was escorted to a A Chinese official said on public toilet at Hong Kong airport and Wednesday that Beijing would told to urinate on a strip in November not change its policy of annexing before being granted permission to board her Hong Kong Express flight to Taiwan through its "one country, the US territory of Saipan. two systems" framework She had declared in a questionnaire at check-in that she was not pregnant China would continue to insist but airline staff nevertheless on “92 Consensus” that requested she undergo a “fit-to-fly” assessment designed for women with a acknowledges the self- body size or shape resembling a TAIPEI (TIP): China must rethink its Beijing regards Taiwan as its territory governing island and the pregnant woman. hardline stance towards Taiwan, and has vowed to one day seize it, by mainland as part of a single The test result came up negative. President Tsai Ing-wen said on force if necessary, especially if it “It was very humiliating and Wednesday,as she warned the island was declares independence. Chinese nation, he said frustrating,” Nishida told the Wall already independent and that any But in her first interview since Street Journal. invasion would be “very costly” for Saturday’s re-election, Tsai told the BBC Wednesday. “We are an independent She grew up on Saipan and her Beijing. there was no need to formally announce country already and we call ourselves family have lived on the island for Tsai won a second term over the independence because the island already the Republic of China, Taiwan.” Modern more than 20 years. weekend with a record 8.2 million votes, runs itself. Taiwan has been run separately from the The airline apologised to Nishida an outcome that was seen as a forceful “We don’t have a need to declare mainland for the last 70 years. “We have and said the practice had been rebuke of China’s ongoing campaign to ourselves an independent state,” she said a separate identity and we’re a country discontinued when contacted by AFP. isolate the self-ruled island. in the interview, which aired on of our own,” Tsai said. — Agencies “We have immediately suspended the practice while we review it. We’d like to apologise for the distress caused,” the airline said in a France’s Louvre shut by Russian Parl backs Putin’s statement. Hong Kong Express said it had taken pick for PM “action on flights to Saipan from pension strikes (TIP): The Russian Parliament February 2019 to help ensure US (TIP): The Louvre museum in Paris shut down on overwhelmingly backed President Vladimir Putin’s immigration laws were not being Friday after striking workers blocked the entrance, management surprise choice for prime minister on Thursday after what undermined”, in response to concerns said, in the latest protest against plans to overhaul France’s one daily called a January Revolution, a major political raised by the island’s authorities. pension system. overhaul that some say could set Putin up as leader for life. “We recognise the significant Hundreds of disappointed visitors massed in front of the The State Duma, the lower House of Parliament, gave its concerns this practice has caused,” it entrance to the world’s most visited museum, some hurling backing to Mikhail Mishustin, a 53-year-old with almost no said. insults at the striking workers, according to an AFP reporter at political profile, endorsing his nomination with 383 votes of Saipan is a popular destination for the scene. 424 cast. Nobody voted against him. There were 41 women wanting to give birth on US The blockade came as union leaders seek to widen opposition abstentions. Mishustin, who has headed the country’s tax soil to secure American citizenship for to the pension reforms, which have triggered the longest service and played ice hockey with Putin, said he would their child. transport strike in France in decades. name his cabinet in the near future. In 2018 nearly 600 babies were born The unions are looking for a second wind as the movement Putin signed a decree appointing him prime minister to tourists in the Northern Mariana starts to flag, with the proportion of workers at national railway soon afterwards. His elevation is part of a sweeping shake- Islands, which sit just north of , operator SNCF falling to 4.6 percent on Friday. up of the political system announced by Putin on also a US territory—a figure greater On Thursday, around 187,000 people took part in a sixth day of Wednesday, which led to the resignation of Dmitry than the number of babies born to nationwide protests against the overhaul, according to the Medvedev as prime minister along with his government. locals. interior ministry, well below the 452,000 who turned out for The changes are widely seen as giving Putin, 67, scope to Of those some 575 were born to similar demos on January 10. extend his grip on power once he leaves the presidency in Chinese mothers, according to data The overhaul aims to forge a single pensions system from the 2024. — Reuters from local health authorities. country’s 42 separate regimes, which offer early retirement and The influx followed the introduction other benefits to public-sector workers as well as lawyers, Prince Harry back to work in 2009 of a visa-waiver programme to physical therapists and even Paris Opera employees. LONDON (TIP): Prince Harry today went back to work, attract Chinese holidaymakers, a Critics say it will effectively force millions of people to work taking on his first royal duties since a pivotal summit with scheme that made the islands the only longer for a smaller pension. Queen Elizabeth II on his future role in the royal family. US territory where Chinese citizens The Louvre, which received 9.6 million visitors last year, was Harry is expected to carry on as normal, with no enjoy visa-free entry. already forced to close some galleries last month due to the immediate plan to be reunited with his wife Meghan, who But in recent years Saipan has strike. went to Canada after the couple released a bombshell stepped up measures to curb birth Management said Friday that ticket holders would be statement last week announcing their wish to step back tourism by requiring airlines to carry reimbursed, and that the doors could open again later in the day from royal duties. He is set to carry on meetings into next out screenings. — AFP if the strikers disperse. — AFP week, Britain's Press Association reported. — AP THE INDIAN PANORAMA 20 THEATER FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 Auschwitz: Remembering Our Ways Forward "Auschwitz did not start with the gas chambers. Hatred does not happen overnight: it builds up slowly among people. It does so with words and thoughts, with small everyday acts, with prejudices..." - Luis Ferreiro, Director of Musealia "Auschwitz and the Shoah are not just another single, dramatic event in the linear history of humanity. It is a critical point in the history of Europe, and perhaps the world." - Dr. Piotr M. A. Cywiski, Director of the

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Holocaust Survivors Posts and barbed wire at Auschwitz "While we had all hoped after the Holocaust surrender of its armed forces and the end of World War that the international community would come II in Europe. together to stop genocide, mass murder, and "Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away." traces the ethnic cleansing, these crimes continue. And development of Nazi ideology and tells the there are more refugees today than at any transformation of Auschwitz from an ordinary Polish town known as O?wi?cim to the most significant Nazi time since the Second World War. So my hope site of the Holocaust-at which ca. 1 million Jews, and for this exhibit is that it motivates all of us to tens of thousands of others, were murdered. Victims make the connections between the world of included Polish political prisoners, Sinti and Roma, the past and the world of the present, and to Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, and those take a firm stand against hate, bigotry, ethnic the Nazis deemed "homosexual," "disabled," "criminal," "inferior," or adversarial in countless other ways. In violence, religious intolerance, and nationalist addition, the exhibition contains artifacts that depict the brutality of all kinds." - world of the perpetrators-SS men who created and Freight-CarSelection-RampDeath-Gate-at-Auschwitz. operated the largest of the German Nazi concentration Bruce C. Ratner, Chairman of the Museum's Photos / Courtesy MJH-NYC and extermination camps. (Museum Of Jewish Heritage - MJHNYC.ORG) Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt will be speaking about his chambers. Pelt reconstructed this symbol of the Board of Trustees curation of the exhibit and a number of artifacts that architecture of Evil as an expert witness in the case he Sheen Center, in collaboration with the didn't make it into the exhibit. His talk will be followed against the British Holocaust denier David Irving. The Museum of Jewish Heritage (mjhnyc.org), up with a conversation and audience Q&A. professor at the University of Waterloo, Canada, is the Tpresents historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, the Vitor Gonçalves (accordion) and Sam Sadigursky main curator of the exhibition "Auschwitz. Not long ago. curator of the current exhibit "Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. (clarinet) will provide a musical interlude during the Not far away." which will travel through 14 destinations Not Far Away." at the museum. The Museum's exhibition talk. over Europe and the US during 7 years. was produced in partnership with the international Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt is one of the main authorities https://youtu.be/GC67hwr8slA exhibition firm Musealia and the Auschwitz-Birkenau on the history of Auschwitz. From 1997-98, he presided Sam Sadigursky (clarinet) lives in New York and likes State Museum in Poland. over the team that developed the master plan to preserve to play with people like Fred Hersch, Brad Mehldau, This Talk will take place at the Sheen Center for the Auschwitz camp and participated as an expert Darcy James Argue, Matt Mitchell, Pablo Mayor, Jamie Thought and Culture (Loreto Theater) at 18 Bleecker witness in the famous case against the British historian Baum, Gabriel Kahane, Lucia Pulido, and many others. Street, New York on January 26, 2020 at 3 p.m. and author David Irving (London, 1998-2001), a Holocaust He's released four albums of his own music for New The Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial denier. Dr. Van Pelt, born in Haarlem (Netherlands), has Amsterdam Records, a collaborative album with Laurent to the Holocaust on May 8, 2019 opened the most published widely on the camp, including the award- Coq called Crosswords, and "Follow the Stick" for BJU comprehensive Holocaust exhibition about Auschwitz winning "Auschwitz, 1270" to the "Present" (1996) and Records. He was recently named a "Rising Star" on ever exhibited in North America. The groundbreaking "The Case for Auschwitz" (2002). Throughout his career, clarinet by 'Downbeat Magazine," and was most recently exhibition has been curated by an international team of he has served as a historical advisor on films such as the onstage clarinetist for the Broadway show "The experts led by historian Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt. "Auschwitz: The Nazis" and "The Final Solution" (2005) Band's Visit," which won ten Tony Awards and the For the first time, 74 years after the liberation of by Laurence Rees, and co-curated "The Evidence Room," Grammy for their cast recording. Auschwitz, a traveling exhibition dedicated to the exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2016. Performance Date: January 26 Time: 3:00 PM Event historical significance of the camp was being presented One of the world's leading experts on Auschwitz, Category: Talk to a U.S. audience. The exhibition's May 8 opening Robert Jan van Pelt, in the video below, shows us the Venue: The Loreto Theater marked the anniversary of VE Day or Victory in Europe worst architectonic creation: the chute used to lower Presented by: The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture Day, 1945, when the Allies celebrated Nazi Germany's Zyklon B (cyanide-based pesticide) into the gas DON’T CRY By Mabel Pais reminder of the valuable lessons we can learn from our hen a contemporary teen activist is on the nation's past. It is a story of courage and the bravery of brink of giving up the fight for justice, she a handful of young, black students who used their Wfinds inspiration in the story of the Little Rock voices to influence change during a turbulent time. Nine's battle for acceptance following the integration of Combining video projection, original music, spoken Little Rock Central High School. word, poetry, and prose, "Warriors Don't Cry" is a Inspired by Dr. Melba Patillo Beals's searing memoir collaboration between The Bushnell Center for the "Warriors Don't Cry," this production is a catalyst for Performing Arts and TheaterWorksUSA. deeper discussion about social responsibility, civil Recommended Ages: Grades 6 to 12 A scene from "Warriors Don't Cry." discourse, social media, community engagement, and Performance Dates: January 31 Time: 11 a.m. Photo/ courtesy Sheen Center freedom. February 1 Time: 2:00 p.m. "Warriors Don't Cry" (book) is a 1997 memoir by Event Categories: Family, Theater the box office of The Sheen Center for Thought & Melba Pattillo Beals, detailing the integration of Little Venue: The Loreto Theater Culture at 18 Bleecker St, New York, NY 10012, Monday Rock's Central High School following the landmark Presented by: TheaterWorksUSA & to Friday: 12pm-5pm & one hour before performances. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (Mabel Pais writes on Social Issues, Spirituality, the Arts and Education.book. It is, at times, a difficult but necessary For tickets to both events, call (212) 925-2812 or visit Entertainment, and Health & Wellness) THE INDIAN PANORAMA 21 WOMEN FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 WAYS TO END A BAD FOOD CORNER RELATIONSHIP FOR GOOD Honey Garlic ometimes we find ourselves in Chicken relationships that make us Ingredients Smiserable more often than they make us happy, relationships Chicken Breasts - 2, boneless, skinless that we know in our hearts are not Garlic - 1 tblsp finely minced right, yet still have a hold on us. If Garlic Powder - a pinch you're feeling stuck in a dead-end Butter - 4 to 5 tsp relationship that keeps drawing you Chicken Stock - 1/4 cup back in, here are some research- Honey - 3 tsp based strategies you may not have Soy Sauce - 1/2 tsp considered to end it for good and get Salt as per taste on with your life: Black Pepper Powder as per taste Stop making excuses Method for his bad behavior Place the chicken breasts in a bowl. Sprinkle salt, garlic powder and pepper. “People show us who they are all Toss well to combine. the time, we just have to be brave Heat butter in a pressure pan. enough to listen. Stop making Add the chicken and cook until browned and slightly excuses for him, and suddenly you crisp. can see your relationship far more Pour the chicken stock and stir. clearly – and whether you still want Combine the garlic, honey and soy sauce. to be part of it.” to stop defending the decision you stopped seeing because he didn’t Add this to the pan and stir until the chicken is evenly If a friend told you her boyfriend made way back when and start like them, or interests you no longer coated. was doing and saying the things considering a new decision based had time for? People who socialise Cover with a lid and pressure cook for 10 minutes. your boyfriend does to you, what on what’s happening now.” recover more quickly from a break- Switch off the flame and allow the pressure to reduce. advice you might give her? Now Don’t think of yourself as having up, and being with friends who are Serve with rice. turn that advice on yourself. made a mistake; think of yourself fond of you feels good.” Sometimes it’s easier to see the as making the right decision to truth when we imagine it’s someone leave something that doesn’t work Set new relationship else’s truth. for you. What could be more right standards than that? Don’t waste more time “Choose behaviours that have defending your mistake Remember who you hurt you in the past, and begin each used to be sentence with: ‘I will not go out with “No one wants to be proved a man who… doesn’t do what he wrong, which is why so many of us “Women are also more likely than says he will / makes me feel stupid / choose to stick with a bad men to make changes during a refuses to talk about the future / relationship rather than admit we relationship, and it’s easy to forget never has any free time.’ […] Always made a bad choice. But staying in an you were once an independent bear in mind that it’s far easier to unhappy relationship for five years person with an enjoyable life. Now choose well in the first place than is a mistake – and staying in it for a is the time to review those changes. attempt to change a person six lifetime is a catastrophe. Far better Perhaps there are friends you months down the line.”

ge is just a number, but there's no shame in wanting your skin to INSTANT ANTI-AGING BEAUTY SECRETS Alook a little more plump, dewy, and line-free. We asked makeup artists, at hiding sun spots. dermatologists, and other experts to spill the top tricks and tips they have to FAKE CHEEKBONES reverse some of the earliest signs of Grab your favorite highlighter, aging—fast. These are the ways you can bronzer, and/or contour kit: it's time to look and feel your best at any age. define that jawline and give yourself the high cheekbones of your dreams. CHOOSE LIGHTER LIPSTICK Highlight the areas you want to bring Dark shades can be unflattering on out. Highlighting with a powdery mature skin because lips get thinner shimmer highlighter on dry wrinkled with age, explains makeup artist Matin areas will emphasize it, but using a Maulawizada, who works with moisturizing balm to increase the feeling celebrities like Angelina Jolie. 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THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 HEALTH 22 LONELINESS AS DANGEROUS AS SMOKING OR OBESITY: STUDY oneliness rivals smoking and obesity in its impact on Lshortening longevity and has become a public health concern, especially for the older adults, say researchers. With older adults increasingly moving into senior living or retirement communities, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine sought to identify the common characteristics of residents who feel lonely in these BEETROOT: WHY YOU environments. The new study, published in the SHOULDN’T AVOID IT journal 'Aging and Mental Health', found that people's experience of here is no denying that fruits and vegetables are living with loneliness is shaped by a extremely essential for maintaining one's number of personal and Thealth. environmental factors. From keeping away our hunger pangs to improving Age-associated losses and our overall immunity, regular consumption of fresh inadequate social skills were veggies and fruits is always recommended. considered primary risk factors for One such vegetable that is indeed helpful is beetroot, loneliness. The feeling of loneliness was Other protective factors were which is loaded with numerous nutrients and other "Some residents talked about the frequently associated with a lack of acceptance of aging and comfort essential health-enhancing properties. loss of spouses, siblings and friends purpose in life. with being alone. If you tend to keep away from including vegetables as the cause of their loneliness. Others expressed a sense of "not To reach this conclusion, like beetroot in your daily diet, here are some reasons Others mentioned how making new being attached, not having very researchers conducted individual why you shouldn't. friends in a senior community much meaning and not feeling very interviews of 30 adults of ages 67-92, Packed with essential nutrients like folate, Vitamin cannot replace deceased friends hopeful" or "being lost and not part of an overall study evaluating B9, potassium, iron, vitamin C among others, they grew up with," said Alejandra having control". the physical, mental and cognitive beetroots are known to help increase blood flow in the Paredes, a research fellow in the The research team also found that functions of 100 older adults living body, enhance exercise performance and are also Department of Psychiatry at wisdom, including compassion, in the independent living sector of a effective in regulating blood pressure levels. University of California San Diego seemed to be a factor that prevented senior housing community in San In fact, a glass of beetroot juice — a source of School of Medicine. loneliness. Diego. dietary nitrate — could dramatically lower as well as reduce heart attack risk, said a 2017-study published in the Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology. LOSE TONGUE FAT TO IMPROVE This Protein May Help Cut Flab COMMON SLEEP DISORDER Without Moving a Muscle osing weight is an effective n good news for couch potatoes, here comes a treatment for Obstructive protein that can help them cut flab without high- LSleep Apnea (OSA), and now Iintensity gym or even a brisk walk around the researchers have found that park. The catch is: It is not yet available as pills but improvements in sleep apnea occurs naturally in the body. symptoms appear to be linked to the Called 'Sestrin', the protein might harness the reduction of fat in the tongue. benefits of a good workout without ever moving a Using magnetic resonance muscle, say researchers from University of Michigan. imaging (MRI) to measure the effect While studying a class of naturally-occurring of weight loss on the upper airway protein called Sestrin, they found that it can mimic in obese patients, the study, many of exercise's effects in flies and mice. published in the American Journal The findings could eventually help scientists combat of Respiratory and Critical Care muscle wasting due to ageing and other causes. Medicine, found that reducing Researchers have previously observed that Sestrin tongue fat is a primary factor in accumulates in muscle following exercise," said lessening the severity of OSA. Myungjin Kim, research assistant professor in the “Most clinicians, and even Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology. experts in the sleep apnea world, Kim, working with professor Jun Hee Lee and a have not typically focused on fat in team of researchers wanted to know more about the the tongue for treating sleep apnea,” protein's apparent link to exercise. said study researcher Richard Schwab from University of Pennsylvania in the US. PAGE SPONSORED BY “Now that we know tongue fat is a risk factor and that sleep apnea DR. SATISH AND GITANJLI ANAND improves when tongue fat is reduced, we have established a DR. SATISH ANAND unique therapeutic target that Former Chairman, Board of we’ve never had before,” Schwab determine if reducing tongue fat average, over six months. Trustees, AAPI National added. would improve symptoms and to Overall, the participants’ sleep E-Mail: A 2014 study led by Schwab further examine cause and effect. apnea scores improved by 31 per [email protected] compared obese patients with and The new study included 67 cent after the weight loss without sleep apnea, and found participants with mild to severe intervention, as measured by a that the participants with the obstructive sleep apnea who were sleep study. GITANJLI ANAND condition had significantly larger obese—those with a body mass Before and after the weight loss Former President, India tongues and a higher percentage of index greater than 30. intervention, the study Association of Long Island tongue fat when compared to those Through diet or weight loss participants underwent MRI scans (IALI) without sleep apnea. surgery, the patients lost nearly 10 to both their pharynx as well as E-mail: The researchers next step was to per cent of their body weight, on their abdomens. [email protected] THE INDIAN PANORAMA 23 SCIENCE & TECH FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 CHROME OS TO SOON SUPPORT ANDROID-INSPIRED GESTURE CONTROLS ndroid Police reported that Chrome OS 80, a version of Athe operating system currently in beta, will support a GOOGLE TO PHASE OUT gesture-based navigation system which will make the OS more usable TRACKING COOKIES WITHIN by tablet users. In an Android 10-like fashion, TWO YEARS Chrome OS is getting a collection of oogle on Tuesday announced it would begin gesture controls with which people phasing third-party cookies out of its Chrome can use to navigate the system sans Gweb browser, following in the steps of keyboard. As a result, a wider range competitors Safari and Firefox. of handheld mobile devices will However, unlike those two companies that banned actually be able to effectively use cookies outright, Google will phase out their support the Google-made OS. for cookies "within two years," Justin Schuh, director This feature is currently in beta at engineering for Chrome, wrote in a blog post. as part of an upcoming system "Some browsers have reacted to these concerns by version, Chrome OS 80. Those with blocking third-party cookies, but we believe this has 80 enabled will be able to swipe up to unintended consequences that can negatively impact return to the home screen, drag up both users and the web ecosystem," he continued. to open the overview screen, and that some "freak out when you try to demonstrates the company's Google cited user concerns about cookies including swipe right from the left edge of the use them." intention to optimize the operating privacy and data collection, pledging to replace them display to go back. A quick, short As this ability is still in beta, system for tablets and hybrid with new technical solutions. swipe from the bottom of the screen Google has time to refine its laptops -- an important goal Cookies allow companies to track patterns of will pull up the application dock. performance ahead of a public considering that devices of the specific users and are often used for targeted Though the gestures work with release. In any case, the integration future may all have folding displays advertising. most apps, Android Police states of gesture controls with Chrome OS instead of physical keyboards. In Tuesday's blog post, Google argued that banning them immediately would encourage other bad behavior in its place, like fingerprinting, a cookie-less method used to identify web users. This Planet Is During the two year period until it drops services for third party cookies altogether, Google will use some new methods to block cross-website tracking. Flinging Comets At Chrome will require that cookies designated for third party use can only be accessed using secure connections starting in February. Earth ‘Like A Sniper’ he Jupiter Shield Jupiter takes things VERIZON LAUNCHES theory proposes that Tthe biggest planet in that come nowhere PRIVACY-FOCUSED SEARCH the solar system acts like a near Earth and huge shield in space, flings them our ENGINE CALLED ONESEARCH deflecting dangerous debris way, meaning it is away from Earth. New e've all searched online for things we'd rather Oldest material on research now suggests that also a threat. not have associated with ourselves forever. it may actually be doing the WEmbarrassing medical symptoms, deep dives opposite by actively flinging dangerous objects into the into the world of true crime in the wee hours, or even Earth discovered inner solar system. that pair of shoes you looked at once but decided not to According to New York Post, the Jupiter Shield buy. Now Verizon wants to offer a search engine that cientists analysing a meteorite have discovered theory has been falling out of favour for years. One of won't tie that information to you. the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They its leading critics is space expert Kevin Grazier, who The service, called OneSearch, launched Tuesday Sfound dust grains within the space rock - which has published several papers explaining why he thinks with the declaration that it won't store records of what fell to Earth in the 1960s - that are as much as 7.5 billion Jupiter is a "sniper rather than a shield." you search, create profiles of your usage or share your years old. Grazier's two latest papers, according to Gizmodo, search data with advertisers. The search engine also The oldest of the dust grains were formed in stars could put the Jupiter Shield theory in serious jeopardy. gives "unbiased, unfiltered" results, Verizon said, that roared to life long before our Solar System was "Actually, I wouldn't say that it's in jeopardy-I would meaning everyone sees the same results for the same born. say that it has been laid to rest," Mr Grazier tells search terms. Finally, OneSearch search results can A team of researchers has described the result in the Gizmodo. "Our simulations show that Jupiter is just as "self-destruct" after a set period of time, which could journal Proceedings of the National Academy of likely to send comets at Earth as deflect them away,and be useful on shared devices. Sciences. we've seen that in the real solar system." With OneSearch, "you can search the internet with When stars die, particles formed within them are The science and technology website goes on to increased confidence, knowing your personal and flung out into space. These "pre-solar grains" then get explain that asteroids and comets hitting the earth can search data isn't being tracked, stored or shared with incorporated into new stars, planets, moons and be dangerous, even triggering mass extinctions. advertisers," said Michael Albers, head of consumer meteorites. Grazier has collaborated with NASA's Jet Propulsion product at Verizon Media. "They're solid samples of stars, real stardust," said Laboratory and the University of Southern lead author Philipp Heck, a curator at 's Field Queensland to demonstrate how icy bodies, in orbit Museum and associate professor at the University of beyond Jupiter and Neptune, can be turned into Chicago. potentially Earth-threatening comets by Jupiter. A team of researchers from the US and Switzerland He and colleague, Jonti Horner, admit that Jupiter or analysed 40 pre-solar grains contained in a portion of even Saturn can still act as shields, adding that these the Murchison meteorite, that fell in Australia in 1969. gas giants mostly protect Earth from objects caught "It starts with crushing fragments of the meteorite between them. For found in the outer solar system, down into a powder," said co-author Jennika Greer, however, Jupiter performs a dual role. from the Field Museum and the University of Chicago. "It takes things that threaten Earth and flings them "Once all the pieces are segregated, it's a kind of away,clearing space near our planet,"Jonti Horner said paste, and it has a pungent characteristic - it smells like to Gizmodo, explaining how Jupiter works as a shield. rotten peanut butter." "On the flip side, though, it takes things that come This whiffy paste was then dissolved in acid, leaving nowhere near Earth and flings them our way, meaning only the stardust. it is also a threat." THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 BIZ & FINANCE 24 Soaring food, energy prices send India inflation to 5-yr high

NEW DELHI (TIP): India's annual retail inflation has accelerated to its highest level in more than five years, boosted by surging food and oil prices, increasing the likelihood of an extended pause in the central XI STRIKES OPTIMISTIC TONE bank's interest rate cuts. The pick-up in inflation to 7.35 percent in December AFTER RIDING OUT TRADE adds to the challenges faced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is trying to revive slowing economic growth. WAR WITH TRUMP Retail food prices, which make up nearly half of the fter he warned last year about threats to the India's inflation basket, increased 14.12 percent in Communist Party’s rule and “changes unseen December from a year earlier, against 10.01 percent in Ain 100 years,” Xi began 2020 touting November. Some vegetable prices, including prices of “extraordinary Chinese splendor and Chinese onions that are a staple in Indian cooking, have strength.” “In the face of severe and complex domestic increased more than four-fold since June. and foreign situations and various risks and Volatile crude oil prices amid tensions between the challenges, we have been able to move forward firmly,” United States and Iran are likely to add to price the Chinese president told party leaders last week. pressures in India, the world's third-biggest oil Problems and challenges remain for Xi, but the importer, analysts say. phase-one deal the world’s biggest economies plan to "If oil and vegetable prices continue to remain high sign on Wednesday in Washington gives him reason to then inflation will hover near 6 percent," said Rahul accentuate the positive. While party leaders still face a Gupta, head of research for currency at Emkay Global slowing economy, surging debt and new challenges in Financial Services. Hong Kong and Taiwan, the trade agreement has at Oil briefly rose above $70 a barrel this month for the least given them some certainty that Xi can manage first time since September, and while they have since lower. Trump’s penchant for diplomatic brinkmanship. eased, prices remain elevated compared with last year. Five economists polled by Reuters after the release of “China’s leaders are just happy to have a deal The inflation rate was above the 5.54 percent posted in inflation data estimated core inflation in the range of instead of wasting so much energy on arguments and November and higher than the 6.20 percent forecast in a 3.7 percent - 4.2 percent in December compared with 3.4 publicity,” said Charles Liu, a former economic Reuters poll of economists, remaining above the percent - 3.6 percent in the previous month. The negotiator with China’s United Nations delegation Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) medium-target of 4 government does not publish core inflation figures. and founder of Hao Capital, a private-equity fund. percent for the third-straight month, the data released "The RBI's concerns over second-round effects from “They are more confident than ever in how to handle by the Ministry of Statistics on Monday showed. food inflation and the recent rise in inflation President Trump because his behavior is almost Retail inflation touched 7.39 percent in July 2014, expectations mean the easing cycle has ended," said becoming a known quantity.” according to Refinitiv data. Darren Aw, Asia economist at Capital Economics, “Now you can pretty much see that whatever bluster The RBI kept its policy interest rate on hold last Singapore. there may be, it doesn’t necessarily come with a bite,” month, after cutting it by 135 basis points since He said he expected the RBI to hold interest rates Liu said. The deal will reportedly commit China to February 2019, citing inflationary pressures. when it meets for its next policy review from February buying some $200 billion of U.S. goods, as well as Growth is forecast by the government to grow at an 4 to 6. respecting intellectual property rights and not 11-year low of 5 percent in 2019/20 fiscal year ending in Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will present manipulating its currency. The agreement puts off March. the annual budget for 2020/21 on February 1, and is more sensitive discussions such as the state subsidies Economists say that rising headline and food widely expected to increase spending on infrastructure and market protections that China has relied on to inflation would soon feed into core inflation - stripping and cut taxes, which some economists fear could nurture a growing club of global corporate out food and fuel prices - which has remained much further stoke inflation. champions. MICHAEL PATRA NAMED RBI BAJAJ AUTO LAUNCHES UN lowers India growth DEPUTY GOVERNOR CHETAK ELECTRIC SCOOTER AT forecast; expects momentum NEW DELHI (TIP): The government has appointed STARTING PRICE OF RS 1 LAKH Michael Debabrata Patra, considered as a monetary to pick up in 2020 policy hawk, the Deputy Governor of the Reserve NEW DELHI (TIP): Two-wheeler automobile DP growth in India and few other large Bank of India (RBI). manufacturer Bajaj Auto launched the much-awaited emerging countries may gain some momentum Patra, who is currently looking after the Monetary Chetak in its new electric avatar. The company has Gthis year after the global economy recorded its Policy Department as the Executive Director, has been priced its new electric scooter starting from Rs 1 lakh. lowest growth of 2.3 per cent in 2019 due to prolonged appointed to the post for three years. The bookings of the new Chetak will begin from trade disputes, a UN study said on Thursday while The post was lying vacant after Viral V Acharya January 15 and the deliveries will commence by the end lowering its current and next fiscal forecasts for the resigned in June 2019. Patra is likely to retain the of February, the company said in a statement reported Indian economy. Monetary Policy Department, which was handled by by PTI. The new Chetak will be initially available in According to the United Nations World Economic Acharya, as the Deputy Governor. Before Acharya, Bengaluru and Pune. The company had initially Situation and Prospects (WESP) 2020, a growth rate of Urjit Patel who later became the Governor was unveiled the new Chetak back in October last year. 2.5 per cent is possible in 2020, but a flare up of trade looking after this crucial department as Deputy The automaker has announced two variants of the tensions, financial turmoil, or an escalation of Governor. The RBI, headed by Governor Shaktikanta Chetak – Urbane and Premium. The Chetak Urbane geopolitical tensions could derail a recovery. Das, can have a maximum of four deputy governors. N will come with drum brakes and will be priced at Rs 1 In a downside scenario, global growth would slow to S Vishwanathan, B P Kanungo and M K Jain are the lakh (ex-showroom), while the Chetak Premium will just 1.8 per cent this year, it added. other Deputy Governors working of the central bank. feature disk brakes and will be sold at Rs 1.15 lakh (ex- It lowered its GDP growth estimate for India to 5.7 Patra, who joined the central bank in 1985, is showroom). In addition to this, the customers will also per cent in the current fiscal (from 7.6 per cent currently a member of the Monetary Policy get a home-charging station. forecast in WESP 2019) and lowered its forecast for the Committee (MPC) — which sets the benchmark rates next fiscal to 6.6 per cent (from 7.4 per cent earlier). It — as the ED of the Monetary Policy Department. Patra has also forecast a growth rate of 6.3 per cent for the has played a key role in the RBI’s views on the macro- fiscal beginning in 2021. economy, the new inflation targeting framework and The report pegged India’s GDP growth rate for the the liquidity framework. previous fiscal at 6.8 per cent. According to the UN study,one in five countries will see per capita income stagnate or decline this year, but listed India among few countries where the per capita GDP growth rate could exceed 4 per cent level in 2020. A prolonged weakness in global economic activity may cause significant setbacks for sustainable development, including the goals to eradicate poverty and create decent jobs for all. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 25

Shree Ganeshaya Namah

Bejan Daruwalla is world's most famous astrologertoday. He appears regularly on world wide TV shows. Bejan who has been a professor in English, hasauthored a number of books on astrology. India'sPrime Minister Narendra Modi , on March 29, 2012,lunched one of Bejan's books, '2012- End of theWorld? Bejan contributes to a number of journals andnewspapers in many parts of the world which includeBerkley Communications Bejan Daruwalla is available for astrological (London) Times of India(Delhi, Mumbai, consultations. He can be reached at , Chennai) and The IndianPanorama ( [email protected] and on phone New York and Texas). Bejan's predictionshave mostly been correct and 011-91-8141234275 people the world overrely on his predictions. www.bejandaruwalla.com

The Indian Panorama brings you Weekly and Birthday Horoscope from the World's most trusted astrologer Bejan Daruwalla. Latest correct prediction: Modi's historic victory Weekly Horoscope January 20 - January 26, 2020 ARIES:Ganesha says there will be fireworks LEO: There could be emotional, SAGITTARIUS: You continue making and celebrations; anyway, the summer has set sentimental and maudlin moments in this soft progress. A fine blend of work and pleasure in and the heat is on. You are more ambitious phase. You will express deep feelings of love. will be spontaneously attained. There is both than ever and you re-examine your own image, There will be deep bonding and many progress and pleasure as you will have many your global self-image and your public image. intimate moments with loved ones. Old profitable journeys and associations. You carefully study and evaluate them as you friends will appear out of the woodwork too. Relationships / public relations / interactions want to put your best foot forward. You want At work, you should guard against letting will be the main thrust now. There will be to realise your true potential. communication deteriorate. You need to be some fresh, new bonding and partnerships; TAURUS: There will be global expansion at gentler and more understanding with perhaps even an engagement leading to work and, possibly, a new romance. There may colleagues. marriage. be a marriage or an addition to the family VIRGO: Your communication and CAPRICORN: There is bonding, romance even as you soldier on with your manifold interactive skills will be severely tested. and passion. The changes within you are both duties. You learn the value of building There will be many emotional gains in this genuine and deep-rooted as you work with relationships and dazzle your superiors with period. Warm and fulfilling relationships will efficiency and understanding. The results will your talent and intellect. If you are an be a source of comfort and will motivate you be nothing short of pleasing to use a mild entrepreneur, the world can be your oyster as to greater productivity. Ganesha blesses you. word and you are encouraged to push ahead you are determined to make your dreams come This is a period of innovation, creativity and full throttle. Your life is humming happily true. original ideating. Your soul-searching has set away. Ganesha blesses you. GEMINI: You are flying high and how! You you will well and truly on a deeply spiritual AQUARIUS: The good times continue, and strive to conquer many new peaks. Your self- and fulfilling path. you make rapid progress. This is a hectic and appraisal of last period sets you on the path of LIBRA: You find yourself getting more out demanding period. You know what is required true creativity. The focus is on family, of life as you make waves socially and are and are determined to deliver the goods. children, pets, hobbies and interests, romance amiable, even-tempered and calm. You have Decisive, position, action is the main thrust. and thrills. Those in the media make their enormous and self-confidence, energy, Your approach to life is positive and you presence felt with an extra dollop of creativity, enthusiasm, determinations and the courage spruce up your image and your self- dash and josh! You are innovative and original to face life squarely. You will be focused and confidence. You display rare insights along in your approach and may come up with some efficient and will be able to achieve a lot. This with determined, creativity, imagination and winning ideas, true brilliance and ingenuity. is a fine, pleasant period that helps restore style. CANCER: You will have to exhibit different your spirits and boost your confidence. PISCES: The growth trajectory continues. people-skills and will have to be diplomatic; do SCORPIO: You display panache, a touch of You are aware that this is the right time to not offend anyone with unnecessary bravado. class in all that you undertake. You have make the world your oyster and you This phase will throw up a mosaic of many proved your worth and can expect rewards experience a strong desire to put in that extra colours and there will be new partnerships and recognition. Ganesha is preparing you for effort. New projects / ventures are taken up in and tie-ups, new and old bonds, and several greater challenges and triumphs. This is one this spirit and handled with flair. You are full great and profitable associations. Ganesha is of the best phases for you in a long time. You of renewed spirit and vigour, sure of yourself, with you laying the foundation for solid will make rapid progress and scale new ready to go at full strength, all set to hit the growth ahead. heights. pinnacle of glory. Ganesha is happy for you.

Birthday Horoscope January 20 - January 26, 2020

JAN 20: Ganesha says extra energy and they'll be made worse by an unwillingness home. Likewise, family time is more drive ensure that this will be a day of to bend. Your insightfulness comes in satisfying than socializing. accomplishment. The overall financial handy re a job or finance. JAN 25: Lunar aspects can have you picture is bright and maybe includes a JAN 23: If you're not off on an outing, getting caught up in a whirl of windfall of sorts. your mind will be dwelling happily on disconcerting activities. Do whatever you JAN 21: Good news travels fast, and faraway places or distant goals. can to maintain order and stability. today it might be about a job dream Disagreement can generate stimulating JAN 26: Focus on getting things done coming true or your health. Confidence is debates. early on your own and limit contact with merited. But avoid waste, excess. JAN 24: Don't schedule travel. You'll find others. There's a good chance later that JAN 22: If relationship problems crop up, far greater satisfaction staying close to they will just limit you. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 SPIRITUALITY 26

hiva is the Lord of the Lord. Lord Shiva, Mahadeva is perhaps the Smost complex of Hindu deity. He is the Auspicious one (Shiva), The terrific one (Rudra), Lord of the Dance THE MEANING BEHIND (Nataraja), Lord of the universe (Vishwanatha), He is the Destroyer and the Transformer. He is limitless, transcendent, unchanging, formless and EVERY SYMBOLS OF SHIVA also the one without beginning or without end. Shiva’s third eye represents the “SHIVA” means the auspicious one. It rejection of desire. Even a normal man is humanly impossible to explain Shiva, must have Samta(balance), Sadhuta just as it is impossible to explain the (purity of character) and Doordrishti universe yet let’s make an attempt. (broader vision). He must not fall prey to From simple human intellect, he is the desires arising out of women(other than one from whom the Brahman emerges, wife), money(other than that which is in whom it stays and within whom it earned by sweat and purity), fame(other goes back. than that which arises out of sattvic Here Brahmman is not mere the actions. Universe but is the one who is the base From the Yogic point of view, it is said and cause of the universe. Brahmman that when the pineal gland or ‘third eye’ holds the universe. Shiva is reasons of is awakened, one is able to see beyond all causes. He must not be seen as a space-time into time-space. It raises the Human-God. That’s a wrong notion. frequency on which one operates and Scriptures call him the Nirgun Brahman moves one into a higher consciousness.. and the Sagun Brahmman with more research it is being realized that it is essentially a spiritual antenna Shiva exists in 3 states the mystical third eye of ‘lord Shiva’. For NIRGUN: In this state he is formless, many eons, the third eye has been seen as and the whole universe and creation lie a way to reach higher levels of in the pervasiveness of Shiva. consciousness while still being present SAGUNA: In the Saguna state Shiva is in a physical body. the entire universe and his “ansh” is The purpose of this third eye is the key present in the tree, the insect, the here, which opens the door to the animal, male, female and the whole metaphysical interpretations that creation. In this state though all forms ancient wisdom talks about. The pineal arise out of him yet, no form can gland is also responsible for secreting describe him. two extremely vital brain fluids related NIRGUN-SAGUN: In the Nirgun-Sagun to our mental health. Those are state Shiva is worshiped as the melatonin, which is the hormone that Shivalingam. The word Shivalingam has induces sleep, and serotonin, which is been derived from Sanskrit roots Shiva the chemical that helps to maintain a (Lord) + Lingam happy, healthy balanced mental state of (Mark/Chinha/Symbol). Hence, mind, among other functions. Shivalingam is the mark of lord within its creation. Everything in the world Half Open Eyes arises out of a dome/a ball/ a pindi. Be it If you have noticed, these eyes are not a tree which comes from a seed which is completely open. The half-open nature of round, a child which comes from a cell the eyes conveys that the cycle of the which is round, all heavenly bodies are universe is still in process. When he round, the minutes of cells are round opens his eyes completely, then a new and our very earth is round. Everything cycle of creation begins, and when he being round is a mark of the Lord/Shiva. closes them, then the universe is Since Shiva can’t be comprehended, we This symbol has higher meaning than is also how Shiva has got his name destroyed until the next phase of worship his mark or we worship the just the element itself. It represents how Gangadhara, which means “Bearer of creation. The half-eyes show that whole Brahmman in a Shivalingam. Shiva is in its transcendental aspect in the river Ganga”. Sanatana Dharma creation is an eternal cyclic process that nature and that his presence is higher refers to the river as having the capacity has no end or beginning. The Meaning Behind than material presence. The ash is not a of bringing fertility, and that Lord Shiva Symbols of Lord Shiva normal one, but instead the ash from a is not just a god of destruction, but also a The Snake Around the Neck cemetery. It corresponds to the Hindu conveyor of purity and peace. The snake coils three rounds on the Symbolism has found its way since the philosophy of life and death, that the neck of Shiva, and that represents time start of the Vedic following. As one of death is the ultimate reality of life. The Third Eye in its most accurate form: the past, the the holy trinity, Shiva has many symbols Everything, in the end, is converted into Lord Shiva is often depicted with a 3rd present and the future, and the coiling that are associated with him. Whenever ashes, and since Shiva is the God of eye and called Triyambhkam, Trinetra signifies the cyclic nature of it. And him we find these elements, we immediately destruction, the ash represents that etc. The third eye is a symbol for Shiva wearing the snake shows that Shiva is think of the Lord himself. Here are the everything, in the end, can be reduced to devotees to develop the sight of immune to the wrath of time and death. symbols of Lord Shiva: destroyed and that the lord goes beyond knowledge. Our 2 eyes are not always They also represent dormant energy the circle of life and death. sufficient to judge things and know known as Kundalini Shakti that resides The Moon Crescent realities. within him. – Ardha-Chandrama Matted Hair/Jata The symbol of matted hair is that PAGE SPONSORED BY From a scientific and philosophical Shiva is the Lord of Wind or Vayu, that point of view, the moon on Shiva’s every moment, all living beings breathe ARISH K. SAHANI forehead depicts control on time in terms him. It represents Shiva as the of nature. The waxing and waning of the Pashupatinath, the Lord of All Living Serving Since 1972 moon was used to calculate the days and Beings. Please Call or Write for Your Insurance Needs months in earlier times. Thus, the Moon symbolizes time and The Ganga Arish K Sahani (Father) Lord Shiva wearing the moon on his In Hindu dharma, Ganga is the most head denotes that Shiva has complete sacred river. Legend has it that the river Shiv Sahani (Son) control over time and is beyond the has the source in Shiva and that flows measure of time and is eternal. Control from the matted hair of Shiva. Priya Sahani Sood (Daughter) on time and the moon is important to Symbolically, it is represented by the jet control nature. An example that I can of water smothering out of the head of 7 1 8 - 2 7 1 - 1 9 0 6 quote here is the high tides and the low Shiva and falling on the ground. The [email protected] tides that arise due to the gravity of the legend also has it that Shiva himself moon. Hence, it is Chandrashekhara allowed that water to flow to humans “If Hindus don’t maintain Hinduism, who shall save it?” alone who can control time. through an outlet in the river to traverse the earth. The water is thus considered “If India’s own children don't cling to their faith, who shall guard it?” Body smeared with ashes to be pure and has purifying nature. This “Indians alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one.” THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 CLASSIFIEDS 27

for advertisement in The Indian Panorama Please call at 646-247-9458 Visit website for more news, views and reviews www.theindianpanorama.news THE INDIAN PANORAMA 28 TURN PAGE FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 contd from page 1 Taranjit Singh Sandhu to be... Trump Legal Team to add Starr... More pizza, fewer vegetables... Prior to his current assignment in Colombo, Sandhu to his defense team for the Senate impeachment trial On Friday, January 17, USDA Deputy Under was Deputy Chief of Mission at Embassy of India in that gets underway in earnest next week, turning to two Secretary Brandon Lapp's proposed new rules for the Washington D.C. from July 2013 to January 2017. He veterans of politically charged legal cases to secure his Food and Nutrition Service that would allow schools to served as Consul General of India in Frankfurt from acquittal. cut the amount of vegetables and fruits required at September 2011 to July 2013. He served in the Ministry of Mr. Starr, whose investigation into President Bill lunch and breakfasts while giving them license to sell External Affairs from March 2009 to August 2011, as Joint Clinton led to his impeachment for perjury and more pizza, burgers and fries to students. The agency is Secretary (United Nations) and later as Joint Secretary obstruction of justice in 1998, will be joined by Robert responsible for administering nutritional programs (Administration) heading the Human Resource Division. W. Ray, his successor as independent counsel who that feed nearly 30 million students at 99,000 schools. High Commissioner Sandhu was at the Permanent negotiated a final settlement with Mr. Clinton that Lipps said the changes will help address what he Mission of India to United Nations, New York from July included a fine and law license suspension, according to described as unintended consequences of the 2005 to February 2009. He was First Secretary (Political) a person briefed on the plan. regulations put in place during the Obama at Embassy of India, Washington, D.C. responsible for Mr. Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor administration. For example, when schools were trying liaison with the United States Congress from 1997-2000. emeritus who became famous as a defense counsel for to implement innovative solutions such as grab-and-go Sandhu has earlier served as the Head of the Political high-profile defendants like O.J. Simpson, will have a breakfast off a cart or meals in the classroom, they Wing in the High Commission of India, Colombo from more limited role than the two former independent were forced to give kids two bananas to meet minimum December 2000 to September 2004. counsels, presenting oral arguments at the Senate trial federal requirements. In a distinguished career spanning nearly thirty "to address the constitutional arguments against But Colin Schwartz, deputy director of legislative years after joining in 1988, impeachment and removal," the legal team said in a affairs for Center for Science in the Public Interest, says Sandhu's various assignments have included working statement. that the proposed rules, if finalized, "would create a in the former Soviet Union (Russia) from 1990 to 1992 as The built-out team, which will be led by the White huge loophole in school nutrition guidelines, paving the Third Secretary (Political) / Second Secretary House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, and Mr. Trump's way for children to choose pizza, burgers, French fries (Commercial). Following the breakup of Soviet Union, personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, faces the dual challenge and other foods high in calories, saturated fat or sodium he was sent to open a new Embassy in Ukraine. He of preserving the president's support among in place of balanced school meals every day." served as Head of Political and Administration Wings Republican senators and presenting his case to the He says that limiting the variety of vegetables could in Indian Embassy in Kiev from 1992 to 1994. On his wider public watching on television during an election make french fries even more central to students' diets. return to India, he served as Officer on Special Duty year. As long as Senate Republicans stick with Mr. He says the potato lobby has been pushing for this (Press Relations), Ministry of External Affairs from Trump as expected, his accusers will not be able to change, and that the potato industry was behind a 1994 to March 1997. He was responsible for liaison with muster the two-thirds vote required for conviction. change that happened quietly last March making it foreign media in India. Born on 23 January 1963 in a In choosing Mr. Starr, Mr. Dershowitz and Mr. Ray,the easier to substitute potatoes for some fruit in weekly family of educationists, Sandhu studied at The president in effect assembled his view of an all-star breakfast menus. Lawrence School, Sanawar and graduated with History television legal team. While best known to the general Trump administration rule could end free school Honors from St. Stephens' College, Delhi. He pursued a public in the 1990s, all three have made the rounds of lunches for about 500,000 children master's degree in International Relations at the Fox News and other media outlets lately to defend Mr. Kam Quarles, the chief executive of the National Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Sandhu is Trump and accuse House Democrats of pursuing a Potato Council, said, "Potatoes are a nutrient dense married to Mrs. Reenat Sandhu, who is Ambassador of partisan witch hunt, appearances that appealed to the vegetable, which contain more potassium than a India to Italy. They have two children. president, who complains that many of his allies do not banana and 30 percent of the daily value of vitamin C defend him vigorously enough. along with 3 grams of protein, fiber and carbohydrates Punjab passes anti-CAA... Senator Kevin Cramer, Republican of North Dakota, that school children need to perform their best at What is happening in this country? We need to learn said he was pleased with the team. "I was encouraged by school." from history.In the 1930s, the same happened in Europe. it," he said. Under the Obama administration, the nutrition First, they were against communists, then they were For Mr. Trump's most combative supporters, though, guidelines for schools that participated in the National against Jews. This is religious cleansing. they may not provide the sort of defense Mr. Trump has School Lunch Program shifted, requiring cafeterias to Concluding the debate, Chief Minister Capt sought. Stephen K. Bannon, the president's former chief increase their offerings of fruits and vegetables, serve Amarinder Singh termed the "divisive Act" as a tragedy strategist who has been hosting a daily radio show and only skim or low-fat milk and cut trans-fat from the that he was "unfortunate to witness in his lifetime". podcast on impeachment with a group that often menu altogether. They also required dramatic cuts in "What happened in Germany under Hitler in 1930 is coordinates with the White House, said the addition of sodium in school cafeteria food. happening in India now. Germans did not speak then, Mr. Dershowitz and Mr. Starr brought impressive legal The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 standards and they regretted it, but we have to speak now, so that power to Mr. Trump's team. were a key initiative in Michelle Obama's fight against we don't regret later," he asserted."Where will all those But he expressed concern that "there are no fire childhood obesity. The act, built around people, who you brand as non-citizens, go? Where will breathers," as he put it. "It's very conventional in its recommendations from a panel of experts convened by the 18-lakh people declared illegal in Assam go if other makeup and approach. But this is not playing on C- the Institute of Medicine and updated with key changes countries refuse to take them? Has anyone thought Span. The senators are not the jury; the American from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, aimed about it? Has the Home Minister even thought about people are the jury. I strongly believe you need some of to foster the kind of healthy changes at school that what has to be done with the so-called illegal people? the fire breathers from the House, like Matt Gaetz, Jim many parents were also trying to encourage at home. Where will the poor people get their birth certificates Jordan, Mark Meadows and Lee Zeldin." These included: making sure kids were offered fruits from?" asked the Chief Minister, declaring that "we all Mr. Trump initially wanted some of those and vegetables each day, increasing whole grains, and have to live together as citizens of secular India in our congressmen, among his most stalwart House tailoring portion sizes and calorie counts to maintain a own interest."People of all faiths have harmoniously Republican allies, to be on the defense team, but healthy weight. lived together in this country all these years, and Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican What's for lunch? What kids are eating - and where, Muslims have given their lives for this country,said the majority leader, rejected the idea. Other advisers to Mr. when and why - in eight schools across the country. Chief Minister, citing the example of Indian Army Trump also expressed concerns about having members The Trump administration has been chipping away at soldier Abdul Hamid, who received the Param Vir of the House involved with a Senate trial. Those House those Obama-era rules. First, just days after Chakra posthumously for his actions during the Indo- members, who are familiar with the testimony provided Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue assumed his role, Pak war of 1965, just like many others. by witnesses during the impeachment inquiry, are he announced the USDA would be slowing the Earlier Finance Minister Manpreet Badal, who expected to help behind the scenes, and to help defend implementation of the aggressive sodium standards as started the debate, said that before dividing people on the president on television, people familiar with the well as Obama-era rules for whole grains and sweetened communal lines, the country must learn from Punjab's plan said. Mr. Trump's team is also preparing for the milks, citing food waste and nonparticipation as key experience which paid the price with ten lakh lives possibility that witnesses will be called in the trial, rationales for the shift. (Read full story on during the Partition. 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beautiful city encircled by pine trees, Shillong is the capital of AMeghalaya. It derives its name from Lei Shyllong, an idol worshipped at the Shillong Peak. Standing as tall as SHILLONG: THE ABODE 1496 meters, Shillong provides a relief from the heat across the country. This hill station is known for its picturesque sights and traditions. The soothing climate makes Shillong suitable to visit in all seasons. The light drizzles and the OF CLOUDS cooling gentle wind adds to the joy of visiting this hill station. This place is also known as the ‘Scotland of the East’. One can find descendants of the Khyrim, Mylliem, Maharam, Mallaisohmat, Bhowal and Langrim tribes. Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is the home to numerous waterfalls. The exciting mountain peaks, crystal clear lakes, breathtakingly beautiful golf courses, museums and the zoo are the key reasons why people visit Shillong. Apart from the natural beauty, Shillong also acts as the gateway to Meghalaya, the state famous for heavy rainfalls, caving, tallest waterfalls, beautiful landscapes and amazing people and culture. Shillong in particular has been in limelight for its jovial people and their culture. Interestingly,Shillong has a very westernised culture and it has a very young feel to it. Shillong is also famous as the music capital of India, as many prominent musicians have hailed from this place. Many music events keep happening throughout the year, making it a very lively place. Places to Visit Mawlynnong events held in the premises of the museum and scholars, writers, Mawlynnong is a small village situated musicians and lyricists from all over the around 90 km from Shillong in the East country participate in them. Khasi Hills, Meghalaya and is also Elephant Falls known as God's own Garden. It was declared as the cleanest village in Asia in Named after an Elephant like stone at 2003 by Discovery India which certainly its foot, the Elephant Falls are amongst which makes it one of the most popular the most popular falls in the North-East, tourist destinations in the Indian state. situated next to Shillong. It is a tourists' Mawlynnong village is a community- paradise with three layers of the falls based ecotourism initiative where the accessible to the layman from different entire community made collective efforts vantage points. The Britishers named in making and maintaining the this fall so owing to the presence of an cleanliness of the village. elephant-shaped rock on one side of the Mawlynnong offers some of the most fall. However, the stone disintegrated picturesque natural beauty with lush and was washed away due to an green valleys, crystal clear water in the earthquake in 1897. Elephant Waterfalls river, an abundance of flowering orchids is a superb place for spending some time hanging from the trees and extremely in the midst of nature while capturing clean roads which makes this small the incredible moments for your village a worth visiting destination for keepsake. tourists visiting Meghalaya. The breathtaking Elephant falls were Don Bosco Museum referred to as 'Ka Kshaid Lai Pateng Khohsiew' by the local Khasi people, Hailed as Asia's largest Museum of which means 'The Three Step Waterfalls', Indigenous Cultures, the Don Bosco as these falls consist of three Museum is the house of the beautiful mesmerising falls in succession. The culture and tradition of North East first of the three waterfalls are tucked India. It is conveniently located in the between the dense trees and are very Mawlai area, near the Police Bazaar. broad. The second waterfall reduces to With its seven storeys, it rises into the thin strands of water and is almost skyline of Shillong and flaunts 16 laid negligible in winters due to the receding out galleries that showcase artefacts, water levels. The third and the most paintings, figures significant to the visible waterfall is the tallest with clear Northeastern culture. Not only do these water flowing like a sheet of milk on the provide a feast to the eyes of the visitors, dark rocks in the backdrop. but also give an insight into the lifestyle Shillong Peak of the North-Eastern people. The significance of Don Bosco At the height of 6449 ft and 1965 m Museum is prominent from the fact that above sea level, Shillong Peak is the it has been toured by the eminent people highest point of Shillong. It offers a from Rajya Sabha as well as the princess breathtaking panoramic view of the of . The museum is more of an entire city, the Himalayas, its waterfalls institution with its own research wing, as well as of the Bangladesh plains. A publications, newsletters and cultural telescope is available for tourists to get a from the Shillong Peak itself. Regional organised there. The Shillong Peak is calendar. Another striking fact about bird's eye view. Trekking up to this semi- tales tell that the patron deity situated at the air force base and features Don Bosco museum is that it is built in a circular Shillong Peak is highly 'Leishyllong' resides in the hills and a radar station of the Indian Air Force. hexagonal shape, which is why it is recommended for the best views but it is protects the city from all evils. The U Due to security reasons, heavy checking referred to as Shillong's architectural often bounded by heavy fog. Shulong site at the top of the peak is is done at the gates, and tourists are pride. Often, there are competitive It is said that Shillong gets its name sacred and every spring, a ritual is asked to deposit their cameras. THE INDIAN PANORAMA 30 SPORTS FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 India vs Australia: All-round India level series 1-1 in Rajkot

ROME RANKING SERIES VINESH PHOGAT WINS GOLD, ANSHU GETS SILVER ROME (TIP): A dominant Vinesh Phogat won her first gold of the 2020 season at the Rome Ranking Series event after teen sensation Anshu Malik settled for a silver in 57kg competition. Vinesh downed two tough Chinese rivals on her way to the 53kg gold medal bout in which she overpowered Ecudor’s Luisa Elizabeth Valverde 4-0. Vinesh won by technical superiority against Khrystyna Bereza (10-0) and Lannuan Luo (15-5) before getting the better of Qianyu Pang (4-2). If the win against Ukrainian Bereza was about spectacular double-leg attacks, the quarterfinal win over Luo was much tougher than what the scoreline suggested. Luo was a strong opponent who led 5-2 at the end of the first period but Vinesh turned it around with smart point-scoring moves in the second period. RAJKOT (TIP): India produced a through the midwicket fence. But Twice she threw Luo with moves from between the much-improved allround India’s only sore point was when Sharma tried to follow it up legs when the Chinese was holding her from the performance on Friday to avenge that their middle-order with a sweep, he was trapped in back. The two wrestlers, both having immense upper- their humiliating defeat in the faltered again with front. body strength, jostling for upper hand from standing series opener and draw level with Shreyas Iyer bowled for Kohli was straightaway into the position was a sight to watch. Fighting a measured Australia. The 36-run win has now seven and Manish Pandey battle against Zampa. Their contest bout against Pang, Vinesh was in control in the set up a mouth-watering decider at started with a flighted delivery semifinal. With two take-downs in each period, she Bengaluru on Sunday. out for two which Kohli crisply drove to the led 4-0 and conceded points only towards the end of The hosts’ triumph was built covers to open his account. The the fight. around their imposing total of 340 being put into bat. With Kohli early nerves were settled with a The 18-year-old Anshu lost to Nigeria’s Odunayo after KL Rahul displayed his scoring a breezy 76-ball 78, the glorious drive off Cummins for his Adekuoroye in the final bout. The Jind wrestler was versatility coming down at No 5 and foundation had been laid. But at first four. And in the following over very dominant till the final, beating American Jenna blasting a spectacular 52-ball 80, 249/3 in 40 overs, there was still a lot of Zampa, Kohli hit another Rose Burkert, Grace Bullen of Norway, and 2019 which became the deciding factor. of work to be done. India had Rahul boundary when the leg-spinner world champion Linda Morais of Canada en route Backed by a vociferous Rajkot to thank for the late fireworks that tried to bowl a googly but pitched it the final. crowd at the Saurashtra pushed the total close to 350. short. After being dismissed four Association Stadium, India cleared In the first ODI, the opener had to times in ODIs by the leggie, the Eng ride on Stokes, Pope ton the test of character after being come in at No 3. Here Rahul was India captain was careful to not crushed by 10 at the pushed further down to No 5. From make the mistake of trying to force PORT ELIZABETH (TIP): Ben Stokes and Ollie Wankhede Stadium three days ago. his job of consolidation, he faced things. He chose his shots well to Pope both scored centuries as a dominant England Opener Shikhar Dhawan laid the the challenge of playing the complete a run-a-ball half-century. took a firm grip on the third Test against South foundation with a 90-ball 96 and finisher’s role here. Rahul While Kohli was fluent, to Zampa’s Africa, declaring on 499 before reducing the hosts to back in his familiar position at No 3, responded with a scintillating 52- credit he didn’t allow the India No 3 60 /2 at the close of the second day. Virat Kohli, played another sublime ball 80, receiving rave reviews for to break free. The moment Kohli South Africa trail by 439 runs and will need to bat knock of 76-ball 78. the way he batted out of his comfort tried to open up against the leggie, for much of the weekend to stay in the contest and But the performance of the zone and adapted to the situation. It he perished. His lofted shot in the avoid going 2-1 behind in the four-Test series. Dean innings came from Rahul, who later provided proof that he was getting 44th over, didn’t clear the fence and Elgar, 32 , and nightwatchman Anrich Nortje took two catches behind the to the level of the top three in the Ashton Agar relayed the ball before will return on Day 3, chasing down England’s first- and Aaron Finch, as India line-up. going over the ropes for Mitchell innings score of 499/9 declared, after spinner Dom bounced back. With the cushion of Most importantly for India, the Starc to complete the catch. It was Bess removed opener Pieter Malan (18) and Zubayr extra runs, India’s spinners Bengaluru batsman neutralised the the fifth time Zampa got Kohli. Hamza for 10 in fading light and left South Africa in Ravindra Jadeja and Kuldeep Yadav, impact made by leg-spinner Adam India were 276/4. a perilous position. came into their own and struck Zampa who bowled superbly,and an To the packed house’s delight, An unbeaten 135 from 22-year-old Ollie Pope, his twice each to snuff out Australia’s equally strong effort from pacer Pat Rahul, who till then was content to maiden Test ton, and 120 from Ben Stokes helped chase. Cummins. The leg-spinner prized play second fiddle to his skipper, England achieve the fourth highest Test innings After Jadeja sent back Finch and out Sharma, Virat Kohli and took charge. score at Port Elizabeth. Pope displayed his potential Marnus Labuschagne, Yadav Shreyas Iyer to underline his ability He shifted gears effortlessly. With as he came in at 39 not out overnight, sped to his 50, dismissed Alex Carey and the well- to bowl against the best players of Starc to bowl three of the last five, survived two scares before getting to 100 and then put set Steve Smith in the 38th over. spin. Cummins also bowled his the visitors would have been fairly the South African bowlers to the sword. Smith had kept the chase alive heart out on the docile wicket. The confident of restricting India. But He and Stokes put on 203 for the fifth wicket, while with an innings of 98 (102 balls, 9 burly fast bowler gave nothing away Rahul waded into Australia’s best Pope also featured in a 59-run stand with Sam Curran fours, 1 six) before he was played on. in his first eight overs, and only death bowler. and then a 73-run partnership for the ninth wicket in Marnus ‘Test sensation’ some brilliant hitting by Rahul in In the 46th over, he started the just 52 balls with tail-ender Mark Wood. Labuschagne made 46 (47 balls) on the penultimate over of the innings onslaught with a booming hit into his ODI debut and put on 96 with saw his runs conceded column bloat the stands over cover; 15 runs came Smith for the third wicket before to 50 plus. off that over. Rahul brought the holing out in the deep off Jadeja. India’s top-order looked house down again in the second last Shami had set the tone for India’s determined to cash in on the docile over by Cummins by launching him defence, by removing dangerman track. But, Zampa bowled with into the stands past backward point David Warner for just 15. He precision. Brought into the attack, to finish with six fours and three returned to take two more in his in the 12th over, he provided the sixes. eighth over. breakthrough when Sharma looked India’s only sore point was that Earlier, Rohit Sharma and to attack him in his second over. A their middle-order faltered again Dhawan provided a strong start ball before, the India opener went with Shreyas Iyer bowled for seven with an opening stand of 81 after down on one knee and smashed him and Manish Pandey out for two. THE INDIAN PANORAMA FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 ADVERTISEMENT 31 THE INDIAN PANORAMA 32 ADVERTISEMENT FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020