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  Centre is examining the Rythu the RJD and the AIADMK triple talaq. Terming triple Owaisi questioned the inten- Bandhu Investment Support staging a walkout demanding talaq as a social evil, he said, the tion of the Government behind Scheme (FISS) of Telangana for the Bill be sent to “Joint Select time has come to abolish it. criminalising triple talaq while  
 
 farmers to tackle the agrarian Committee” for “thorough Defending the Bill, BJP it has supported decriminali- crisis and farmers’ unrest. debates” on the provisions of member Meenakshi Lekhi said, sation of homosexuality. “Why     A high-level meeting was criminal cases against deserter “I will like to ask those oppos- have you decriminalised held by Prime Minister Muslim husbands. ing the Bill that in which ‘suraa’ homosexuality and criminalis-     ()*( +, Narendra Modi at his resi- Introducing the Bill abol- of the Quran is ‘talaq-e-biddat’ ing triple talaq? Because it dence on Wednesday on a ishing instant triple talaq, with mentioned? This is not “he vs would be used against us. fter electoral debacle in wide-ranging farm relief plan. additional provisions for bail she”, these are issues of human Sexual minority got choice in Athree major States — Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, and patch up with spouses, rights violation,” she said. Section 377, then why not reli- Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh BJP chief Amit Shah, and Union Law Minister Ravi “Our constitution talks gious minorities,” Owaisi said. and Rajasthan — in the just- Agriculture Minister Radha Shankar Prasad appealed to about a uniform civil code “If your faith is your faith, concluded Assembly polls, the Mohan Singh too attended the political parties not to weigh and not a uniform religious then my faith should also be Narendra Modi Government is meeting. the historic Bill on scales of pol- code. Do we want to create a my faith. Your (Government) considering several measures to “The Modi Government itics but rather consider pro- society where men have the intentions are not clean... You support farmers in distress as will announce a new set of viding justice to hapless               ! sole right to divorce women can bring your own law, but we pressure mounts for a nation- measures for farmers before the Muslim women. whenever they want, a society will not forfeit our religion,” wide loan waiver scheme ahead end of the winter session (of “Don’t weigh the Bill on the Sumitra Mahajan allotted four where men can change wives Owaisi said. of the general election. Parliament) on January 5,” said scales of politics. The Bill is hours for the debate on the Bill, like clothes,” she asked. While replying, the Law These include a scheme to the sources. about humanity and justice,” he which literally witnessed the Union Minister Smriti Minister said that it was regret- direct income support to farm- Sources said the Central said, urging lawmakers of dif- arguments on political lines, Irani said if Parliament can table that Opposition parties ers for the purchase of inputs Government’s plan is to go ferent parties to speak in one with many Opposition parties enact laws to ban dowry and were creating hurdles in its pas- like seeds, fertilisers, pesti- beyond loan waivers. Under the voice to support the legislation. raising concerns of “unneces- the practice of sati, it can also sage due to “vote bank politics”. cides, labour and other invest- direct income support scheme, Amid a demand by sary jailing of Muslim men” for approve the Bill to ban instant Prasad pointed out that even ments in the field operations of farmers would be entitled to a Opposition parties that the a private issue or tussle between triple talaq. Intervening in the after the Supreme Court judg- farmer’s choice for the crop sea- periodic payment. The amount Bill be sent to a select com- a husband and a wife, while BJP debate, she slammed the ment, as many as 477 cases of son across the country, to pay will be paid on the monthly mittee for study, Prasad said the and Shiv Sena MPs vociferously Congress saying it missed triple talaq have been reported farmers the difference between basis to carry out farming Government has already taken argued on the plight of Muslim opportunities to bring a simi- since January 2017 and cited a the Minimum Support Price activities. Under the scheme, note of concerns expressed by women who face divorce via lar law when it was in power. case where a professor gave (MSP) for their crop and the there is a possibility that an members earlier and amended SMS and WhatsApp messages. She said there were suggestions talaq to his wife over market rate, doubling collater- amount of 2,000-2,500 per the Bill accordingly. Prasad As soon as the House that dowry is a social issue WhatsApp. al-free loans under Kisan farmer per month to be pro- said the Bill has made the resumed at 2 pm after an between two parties. “Still The Muslim Women Credit Cards (KCCs) to 2 lakh vided directly to their bank offence compoundable, mean- adjournment to take up the   "   # $#%      ! Parliament enacted a law (Protection of Rights on and changes in the Pradhan account. If implemented, the ing that the case can be with- Muslim Women (Protection against it. It brought law against Marriage) Bill 2018 was passed Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna scheme will benefit 10-12 crore drawn if the man and his of Rights on Marriage) Bill, Sushmita Deb said the Bill Smriti Irani attacked the (the practice of) sati,” she said. by the Lower House with 245 (PMFBY) crop insurance farmers in the country. estranged wife reach a com- Congress Leader in the Lok will jeopardise the Muslim Opposition for eyeing vote Referring to a verse of the votes in favour and 11 against. scheme to enhance coverage Continued on Page 4 promise, and that only the Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge families and sole aim of the Bill bank by ignoring the plight of Quran, she said the issue of The Bill will now go to the wife and her close relatives can demanded the Bill be referred will lead to sending men to jail. the Muslim women who face instant triple talaq was also Rajya Sabha for approval. file an FRI, ruling out the law’s to a joint select committee of Speaker Sumitra Mahajan hardships at the end of the day dealt by a “khalifa”. When The fresh Bill will super- misuse. both Houses for greater scruti- said a similar Bill was discussed due to instant triple talaq, Mohammad Salim of the CPM sede an earlier Bill passed in the Parliament had earlier ny. He said several provisions and passed by the Lok Sabha which is now banned in many wanted her to name the “khal- Lok Sabha and pending in the unanimously supported laws, of the Bill were “unconstitu- and therefore members can Islamic countries. Intervening ifa” she was referring to, Irani Rajya Sabha. The Bill to make including the one prescribing tional”. AIADMK leader P flag issues during the debate. in the debate on the Bill, Union said she can even take the the practice of instant triple death in rape cases, aimed at Venugopal, TMC’s Sudip She said all of a sudden a Minority Affairs Minister name of Hazrat Sahib but talaq among Muslims a penal giving justice to women, and Bandhopadhyay, AIMIM’s demand cannot be made to Naqvi said acts like murder are would want the Opposition offence was introduced in the the Triple Talaq Bill is also a Assaduddin Owaisi and send it to a committee. against the law but people still leader to chant “Hanuman Lok Sabha on December 17 to step towards justice for women, Supriya Sule (NCP) too made BJP’s Mukhtar Abbas commit such crime and hence Chalisa”. replace an Ordinance issued in the Law Minister said. Speaker similar demands. Congress MP Naqvi, Meenakshi Lekhi and there is provision for punish- She also said the 1986 law September. 

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  Samajwadi Party (SP) for a op Chinese leaders have tions and key party regulations the periphery of the well locat- Wildlife SOS veterinarian,      ministerial berth in the newly- Tbeen forced to undergo a and policies,” it added. ed almost 700 metres from along with forest department  ! " 

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 ()*( +, Celsius, four notches below water supply lines. On was the coldest night of the sea- degrees Celsius, slightly up the season’s average. The max- December 7, 1990, Srinagar son at the town and the cold- from the previous night’s minus orth India and several imum temperature was record- had recorded a low of minus est December night there in the 9.4 degrees Celsius. Nother parts of the country ed at 21.3 degrees Celsius, a 8.8 degrees Celsius. last eight years. Leh, which recorded the reeled under a heavy spell of notch above the normal,” a According to a meteoro- Kupwara in north Kashmir lowest temperature on the cold wave with the minimum Meteorological department logical department official, sev- recorded a low of minus 6.7 Wednesday night at minus temperature dropping to 3.4 official said here, adding the eral weather stations in the degrees Celsius, down from 17.1 degrees Celsius, witnessed degrees Celsius in the nation- humidity oscillated between Valley registered record night minus 6.4 degrees Celsius on a increase of nearly nine al Capital. The temperature in 45 and 100 per cent. temperature. Wednesday. It was the coldest degrees last night, officials said. Jammu & Kashmir dropped to The Met Department has While in Srinagar the mer- of the season at the town and Some water bodies, includ- minus 5.7 degrees Celcius, forecast clear skies along with cury settled a degree down on the coldest December night ing the fringes of the famous while Punjab and Haryana felt the possibility of dense fog on Wednesday night from the there in the last over a decade. Dal lake, have frozen. Water the shivering cold. Friday morning and haze and previous night’s minus 6.7 The night temperature in supply to many residential In Delhi, Palam observa- smoke thereafter. degrees Celsius, Gulmarg and Pahalgam, which serves as one areas of Srinagar and other tory registered a minimum Srinagar experienced the Leh were the only two stations of the base camps for the annu- towns in the Valley too has temperature of 4.9 degrees coldest December night in where the minimum tempera- al Amarnath yatra in south frozen. Kashmir is currently Celsius, while areas under nearly three decades with a low ture increased on Wednesday Kashmir, settled at a low of under the grip of Chillai-Kalan Lodhi Road and Ayanagar of minus 7.6 degrees Celsius, night, the official said. minus 8.3 degrees Celsius on — the 40-day harshest period recorded minimum tempera- while the mercury in most Qazigund in south Wednesday night against of winter when the chances of tures of 3.4 and 5 degrees parts of Kashmir Valley and Kashmir recorded a low of minus 7.9 degrees Celsius the snowfall are most frequent and Celsius respectively. Ladakh region plummeted to minus 6.1 degrees Celsius, previous night. maximum and the temperature “The minimum tempera- below the freezing point result- down from minus 5.9 degrees Gulmarg in north Kashmir drops considerably. ture was recorded at 3.4 degrees ing in frozen water bodies and            %  '     ! Celsius the previous night. It recorded a low of minus 9 Continued on Page 4 %# %#( )"%*+,*-.+   




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   2    after 18 years of formation no purchase the books of private provision to check open loot of 4 4),+(42634 2(7466(*, publishers which are costly        private schools has been made. 4 @+(-4434 ,4 7417, 4 and are inferior in quality than The president of the the books of NCERT.    *(+2*1 AUPA, Niraj Singhal said that (*17,42(3(27+*2,,!7(2" The AUPA further alleges shortly after coming to power, 36*(*-@+(7(2 -42*4 that private school put pressure ismayed at continued apa- the BJP government had 3(74*2@(*17,4!7-3("*2( on the parents to deposit  +2,*)2 Dthy shown by the state assured that the an act to reg- money every year in the name government for bringing in ulate the private schools would 3,+(31*(34%127+3(+( of building fees, Re admission iming to make district public school regulatory be brought up but even after fee, development fees, annual Atuberculosis free by 2024, authority act, the All two years this government like -4434 %2,?(%1- ,3+(23)+,7+2( fees, Principal birthday fees, the district health authorities Uttarakhand Parents previous Congress government 743 @*2(, (2,42,A1 ,@+ environment fees, gymnasium organised a 10-day health Association (AUPA) has has failed to take any step in +(-4434 7(2 charge and many other names screening campaign to list the threatened to hit the path of this direction. which should be stopped. active cases under revised agitation. He said that private schools The association of parents national TB control pro- A meeting of central exec- increase fees every year in those they are, they are for norms of recommending only threatened that if the govern- gramme. Speaking to The Pioneer, TB bacteria are spread through utive of the AUPA was held on gross violation of norms. name sake only. the books of National Council ment continues to ignore their To raise awareness on the district TB officer Ajay the air from one person to Singal added that these schools The association claims that of Education Research and demand of regulatory author- tuberculosis being preventable Kumar said, “Under the revised another when a person with TB have no Parent Teachers the most of the private schools Training (NCERT) as man- ity they would be forced to start and curable, school health pro- national TB control pro- disease of the lungs or throat Associations (PTA) and in are also not following the dated by the Central Board of a massive agitation. grammes and community gramme, a target of covering coughs or speaks. People near- 37%72   meetings are being held 88,553 people has been fixed. by may breathe in these bacte- throughout the week in the dis- We had started the screening ria and become infected. 3 +  trict. As per the active data case drive on December 17 and When asked, the hon- findings in the TB detection within a week up to December ourary secretary, Association of   /  '   00%  survey, as many as 1373 sus- 24, 47 new TB patients were Physicians of India, Dr Sanjay pected TB patients have been listed. By Friday the final list of Shah said, “Many a times little identified out of which 47 have patients will be out.” knowledge about the disease      *(+2*1 /$00/01/ Singh from Rudraprayag to Uttarkashi DSP. been confirmed to have the dis- Regarding the treatment, can be a dangerous thing. It is /2"%/"3$301 Haridwar, V D Dobhal from The police headquarters ease. Ajay Kumar said, “All the new mandatory that people under-  *(+2*1 he police headquarters 0#/$
2/5 PTC, Narendranagar to appointed Naresh Chandra as Whenever a person has patients are being treated as per stand that tuberculosis is not Tissued posting orders to 11 60$1/$70 Haridwar, Manoj Kumar Champawat DSP, Mukesh cough problem for more than DOT treatment free of cost. spread by shaking someone's aking a stern note of the Deputy Superintendents of Thakur from Uttarkashi to Kumar Punetha, B D Juyal two weeks, it is advised that the Also, to help them have a hand, sharing food or drink, Tcomplaint that the school Police ( DSPs) who were /#"%/ Udham Singh Nagar, Dhan and Arvind Singh Rawat as doctor must be consulted. The nutritional diet, Rs 500 will be touching bed linens or toilet is charging admission fee recently promoted from the $0/"300301 Singh Tomar from Pauri to DSPs in Dehradun. Similarly A bacteria causing tuberculosis sent in their bank accounts per seats, sharing toothbrushes. It and term charge from the post of inspectors on Thursday. $020$ 0#/ 46th Battalion PAC and S Gunjyal was appointed DSP generally attack the lungs, but month.” is only through sputum and students of poor parents Similarly some transfers were Harbans Singh from Chamoli and chief security officer, TB bacteria can attack any The district health author- water droplets in air that the admitted under Right to also made of DSP rank officers. to State Disaster Response Uttarakhand High Court part of the body such as the ities team had visited 13,072 infection spreads,” he adds. Education (RTE) in open In the order In the order released, Force ( SDRF). Nainital, Chandra Shekhar kidney, spine, and brain as houses during the survey. A When a person breathes in TB defiance of regulations, the Chandramohan Singh has Rajan Singh Rautela has been Similarly after promotion Kandpal as Circle Officer, well. Not everyone infected total of 64,963 people were cov- bacteria, the bacteria can set- Uttarakhand State been shifted from Dehradun shifted from Champawat to from rank of Inspector, Harish Udham Singh Nagar, with TB bacteria becomes sick ered. Out of the suspected tle in the lungs and begin to Commission for Protection to vigilance department while Pithoragarh, Prakash Chandra Chandra Bhatt has been post- Dhirendra Singh Rawat as so it can be latent TB infection 1373 cases, 794 underwent the grow. From there, they can of Child Rights (SCPCR) Shekhar Chand Suayal has Devli from Haridwar to Police ed as Nainital DSP, P D Joshi Haridwar DSP and Kundan (LTBI) also. If not treated prop- sputum test. Discussing the move through the blood to has directed the manage- been transferred from Training Centre (PTC), as Chamoli DSP and Singh Dev as Bageshwar DSP erly, TB disease can be fatal, say mode of spread of the disease, other parts of the body, such as ment of the Scholars Home Pithorgarh to Dehradun. Narendranagar, Abhay Kumar Kamal Singh Panwar as following their promotions. the medical experts. the district TB officer said that the kidney, spine and brain. school to refund the fees charged from such students. +(37+44   &'( '( 7+2(* *6,33,4 (( *(26     7+2( 246  +2,*)2 %44231*(3 he night of December 24 Thad become a parrot prob- 1*(22(7 lem for the city police when two people from Brahmpuri The chairperson of had picked up a fight over pos- SCPCR, Usha Negi also session of a parrot. directed the district educa- When the neighbours tion officer ( DEO) of could not settle the matter, the Dehradun to cancel the No matter reached the police sta- Objection Certificate ( tion. NOC) granted to the school, The police brought the if such a complaint is parrot to police station and the between two families of Speaking to this corre- received again. bird enjoyed the hospitality of Brahmpuri in Kankhal. spondent, police station in A hearing was held at cops. Later it was sent to forest A family in Brahmpuri charge of the city Kotwali, office of commission on department where officials are had tamed a parrot which had Navin Chandra Semwal said, Thursday on the complaint now considering release of the flown away over a year ago. “We tried our best to resolve of one of a parent Mahendra parrot in the forests. Now it was spotted in the the matter between the two, but Bhatt in which the Scholars The story of the parrot is neighbourhood of that house. ultimately the bird had to be Home School was repre- doing rounds among the peo- Muskan, who claimed to be the handed over to forest depart- sented by its admission in- ple of the town these days while owner of the parrot averred ment. The department would charge and counsel they await news of the parrot that she had reared that parrot release it in the forest area.”  *(+2*1 plus. A project dissemination capacity building programmes plus attracts highest attention Kamaljeet Singh. On pro- being released in the wild. since childhood and even Range officer of the workshop on REDD plus and various income generation in developing country like duction of proof of fee Though the core area of taught him to speak while the Haridwar forest division, DP he land use based climate Himalaya was organised at activities initiated for the local India where local communities, receipts charged by the police is maintaining law and other claimant Vinay Kumar Uniyal said that after medical Tmitigation approach of ICFRE on Thursday. communities. forest dwelling tribal commu- school from students admit- order situation in the city, said that he was having the par- examination of the parrot, it ‘Reducing Emissions from Speaking on the occasion ICFRE consultant VRS nities have high dependency on ted under RTE, the counsel crowd control, traffic manage- rot for the past three years. shall be released in the wild. Deforestation and Forest ICFRE deputy director gener- Rawat gave a presentation on forests for their livelihoods. of the school assured that ment but Haridwar police had Some elderly people tried to Degradation’ (REDD) along al (Research) SD Sharma said National REDD plus strategy ICFRE scientist Sanjay fees would be refunded by to control a parrot which had bring compromise between the !" #  $ with conservation of forest that although the project focus recently released by the Singh presented a framework the school. become the bone of contention two but in vain. carbon stocks, sustainable was in Mizoram, the project Ministry of the Environment, for developing a safeguard !    management of forests and outcome also helped ICFRE to Forests and Climate Change. information system when !"    enhancement of forest carbon develop national REDD plus The strategy will be addressing implementing REDD plus on stocks collectively known as strategy which was released by drivers of deforestation and ground. 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Rawat an agreement with All area posting for benefit of deserves appreciation for The DACP means assured India Institute of Medical Dynamic Assured Career understanding the position of increase in the grade pay of the Sciences (AIIMS), Rishikesh Progression (DACP) has been doctors on the issue. doctors after 4, 9, 13 and 20 for five years was signed to pro- greeted by the association of Fulfilling the long standing years of the service irrespective vide higher level medical ser- government doctors. demand of doctors the state of whether they get promotions vices through Government The state cabinet in its government in the year 2016 or not. As per the clause of Allopathic Hospital, Dhanaulti meeting on Wednesday had had implemented DACP. It mountainous service, the doc- (Tehri district), Primary Health waived off the condition of ser- however had incorporated tors should serve for a period Centre, Raiwala, Primary vice in mountainous areas of clause of compulsory hill post- of 2, 4, 5 and 9 years in hospi- Health Centre, Thano and sub- the state for grant of benefit of ing at every assured increase of tals located in the mountainous centre at Ramnagar Danda DACP. grade pays while implementing areas to be eligible for promo- (Dehradun district) at secre- The President of the the DACP. The doctors were tions at end of 4, 9, 13 and 20 tariat on Thursday. The ser- Provincial Medical Health annoyed at the clause as more years of service. vices will be extended if found Services (PMHS), the powerful than 70 percent of the doctors With government heeding satisfactory. The institute will association of government doc- had become not eligible for to their main demand it is very provide prenatal, child birth tors, Dr D P Joshi said that the DACP benefit by it. The agi- likely that the PMHS would and post natal, youth health, association welcomes the deci- tated doctors were of the view now call off its ongoing agita- family welfare, national pro- sion of the cabinet. that they have served in hill and tion. grammes, emergency medical services, OPD and IPD services free of cost and the state gov- district for five years and upon health, family elfare, emer- Narendranagar by AIIMS with ernment will not pay anything satisfactory services, the peri- gency medical services, OPD the health department. 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They said the second infor- mentation of their demand for this case to 29, police said. by the state special task force "high point of diplomacy for The sources said the polit- mal summit between leadership ‘one rank, one pension”. had made similar promises of at the Centre implemented "During interrogation, he (STF) for the subsequent vio- Pakistan's new Government, ical relationship between the of the two countries is likely to His criticism comes days waiving farm loans before 'one rank, one pension' scheme has confessed to his involve- lence after cow carcasses were along with Afghan (peace) two neighbours has just not be held in the second half of after Congress chief Rahul Assembly elections in Punjab in the real sense, he said. ment in the violence and also found in a field. The inspector developments." only been restored but height- 2019. Gandhi said his party will not and Haryana, but claimed the Apparently countering admitted that he had shot the and a youth had died during He said Prime Minister ened in the past one year. On partnerships with lead- let Modi rest till he writes off party had failed to deliver. Rahul Gandhi's jibe that the bullet which killed the inspec- the violence. Khan in a letter to his Indian At the same time, they said ing powers, the sources said farm loans across the country. While farmers in Punjab “watchman” had himself tor," said Atul Kumar The trio was not named in counterpart Narendra Modi in India was seriously concerned India's ties with the US pro- The recently elected got “nothing”, only 800 farmers turned into a “thief”, Modi said, Srivastava, additional superin- the initial FIR, which had September gave a detailed over China's Belt and Road ceeded on a positive track, Congress Governments in were given token amounts in “Chowkidar choro ko chhorne tendent of police (ASP), seven accused, including two roadmap to move forward Initiative and the way interna- while "significant trust" has Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh Karnataka, he claimed. ko tayar nahi (The watchman Bulandhshahr city. minors, but their names but New Delhi failed to tional norms and standards in also been built with Russia. and Rajasthan have announced Speaking in Hindi, Modi is not ready to let scamsters "We are interrogating him emerged in the case during reciprocate. giving contracts under the pro- The sources said the China- loan waiver schemes. said the Congress had "made a go).” further to elicit other details probe. Faisal said that despite ject were being flouted. Pakistan Economic Corridor The Prime Minister said fool" of the people through its Remembering former and expect other information An FIR against 27 named India's refusal to start a dia- The sources also said India (CPEC) is a direct challenge to the Congress Government loan waiver promises. prime minister Atal Bihari to emerge during the probe. people and 50-60 unidentified logue, Pakistan went ahead expects China to walk the talk India's sovereignty and territo- waived loans worth only The Congress has chal- Vajpayee, Modi said Himachal Based on that information, we people was registered at the with the groundbreaking of the on the issue of giving market rial integrity and that it is for 60,000 crore when it came to lenged such claims in the past, Pradesh was the leader's second will move ahead with the probe Siyana police station for the Kartarpur corridor. access to Indian products. dual use, including for military power in 2009 even though insisting its Governments have home and industries were set up in the case," the ASP said. violence at the Chingrawathi Prime Minister Khan in "The positive development purposes. farmers' debts totalled 6 lakh implemented the loan-waiver in the hilly State at his initiative. A police official said Nat, a police post after cattle car- November laid the foundation is that relations with China have India has been strongly crore. promises in the States and at He said development pro- resident of Chingrawathi vil- casses were found strewn out- stone for the corridor linking returned to the normal track," opposing the CPEC, which is He said a report of the the Centre. jects worth 26,000 crore were lage of Siyana, was held from side nearby Mahaw village. Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in said an authoritative source, part of the BRI, as it passes Comptroller and Auditor Modi said the previous under way in various sectors in Sikandrabad, near the highway One of the main suspects Pakistan's Kartarpur — the while summing up India's through Pakistan-occupied- General had found that lakhs Manmohan Singh-led Himachal Pradesh. that leads to Noida, around among the 27 named in the final resting place of Sikh faith's diplomatic engagement in 2018. Kashmir. On BRI, they said it of people who were not even Congress Government had also He described Himachal 2.30 pm. He works part time as FIR, local Bajrang Dal leader founder Guru Nanak Dev — to Calling Indo-Pacific as a should follow international farmers benefitted from the misled the nation by just allo- Pradesh as the land of brave a driver in Delhi and nearby Yogesh Raj, is still at large, while Dera Baba Nanak shrine in major area of India's interest, norms, ensure transparency then Congress Government's cating a meagre budget for the soldiers who were ever ready to areas and, at other times, he an Army jawan, Jitendra Malik, India's Gurdaspur district to the sources said the country was and most importantly, respect loan waiver scheme. one rank, one pension scheme. make the supreme sacrifice at works locally as a labourer, the has been arrested and remand- facilitate visa-free movement of keen to talk about it with China sovereignty and territorial Modi said the Congress But his own Government the border. PTI official told PTI. ed in custody. PTI Indian Sikh pilgrims. PTI and the issue was likely to fig- integrity of countries. PTI Q*,  R 1 $  $    '       9 .     #    , From Page 1 From Page 1 Experts said top officials “Rescues like these can be exceptionally nerve- appear to have wavered from     616-, other cities “that wish to celebrate New wracking as both the safety of the public and the the political line imposed by Year” to remain open all night “for legal animal need to be kept in mind," the official said, the strongman President. Willy eviving his “Vibrant Mumbai activities of entertainment and celebra- adding, "In a two-hour long wearing rescue oper- Lam, a professor at the Chinese Rnightlife” proposal ahead of the New tion, especially in non-residential areas”. ation carried out with Karnataka Forest Department, University of Hong Kong, Year, Yuv Sena president Aditya Reminding the chief minister about finally the male sloth bear was rescued from the described the meeting as Thackeray has urged Chief Minister the proposal that he had made in deep well." “extraordinary” because the Devendra Fadnavis to permit non-resi- February last year, Aditya wrote in his According to Wildlife officials, "On hearing the leadership is “admitting there dential zones in Mumbai and other cities letter to the Chief Minister: “ I take this distressed cries of the animal, the landowner is tension within its ranks”. to remain open full night for all legal opportunity to drop a small reminder of instantly reported the incident to the district for- “It means some of the activities of entertainment and celebra- the proposal of the BMC, first passed in est department who in turn contacted us." Politburo members have done tions on the New Year Eve. 2013, then approved by the Dr Gowda said, "On arrival, we found the bear or said things contrary to Xi Nearly three years after he submit- Commissioner and now legislated on by struggling at the bottom of the 40-foot deep well. Jinping’s interests,” he added. ted a formal letter to the chief minister the state in 2017, to let non-residential After following the necessary safety measures, our According to Xinhua, the with a request to put in place the laws areas in Mumbai and other cities to team was able to lift the bear from the well. leaders “were also urged to which make Mumbai a “live 24/7” city, remain open 24/7. The proposal for Following that, a complete orthopaedic examina- study the latest speeches given Aditya revived the “vibrant nightlife” pro- Mumbai is awaiting your approval from tion was carried out to assess any internal injuries by Xi” as quickly as possible, posal and requested Fadnavis to allow the Home department for a few months the bear might have sustained owing to its fall. After and will have to “discipline     %
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Operations, said, "There has been a significant which he lauded “democratic increase in the number of such occurrences. The centralism” — one of the inhabited areas on the fringes of the forests usual- founding principles of New Delhi: Some people on Vigyan Bhawan event as he asked Deputy Chief Minister ly have uncovered wells that pose a huge risk to the Leninism in which the top Thursday interrupted Delhi Chief for some silence from the audi- Manish Sisodia, Minister of State safety of wildlife and people. We also urge people leadership is all-powerful — Minister Arvind Kejriwal by imi- ence. for Water Resources Satyapal to address the issue of open wells, to evade any such and called for unity within the tating coughing action as he start- The programme was jointly Singh, and BJP MPs from Delhi accidents in the future." party. ed speaking at an official event organised by the National Mission and workers were also present. Kartick Satyanarayan, Co-founder & CEO, Since he came to power, Xi here, prompting Union Ministers for Clean Ganga and the Delhi Jal Some people started mocking Wildlife SOS said, "Over the years, the natural habi- has waged a campaign against Nitin Gadkari and Harsh Vardhan Board to launch projects to clean Kejriwal by coughing as he began tat of these sloth bears has deteriorated due to corruption, punishing more to intervene. the Yamuna River. his speech. As the heckling increasing human encroachment and their popu- than 1.5 million officials. Some The action ridiculing Kejriwal It was attended by Union became louder, Vardhan and lation in the wild is threatened, putting them under observers however say the crack- for the bouts of coughing he suf- Water Resources Minister Gadkari asked them to stop. the International Union for Conversation for down has targeted his internal fered till 2016, left the AAP leader Gadkari and Environment "Please keep quite. This is an offi- Nature (IUCN) list of vulnerable species." opponents in particular. in an awkward position at the Minister Vardhan. cial event," Gadkari said. PTI ) O      !             From Page 1 operations of farmer's choice for  F One step being considered is the crop season. A high-level "# $#      to pay farmers the difference team of Central Government 7  between the Minimum Support has recently visited the Telangana Price for their crop and the to study the scheme and sub- From Page 1 From Page 1 against normal, while the district. market rate. The price differen- mitted their report to Prime Akhilesh on Wednesday lauded KCR for “striving hard” ‘Chillai-Kalan’ ends on Patiala’s temperature settled Nashik city recorded the  (+2+3+,- tial could be credited directly to Minster Office (PMO). to form a Federal Front of regional parties ahead of the 2019 January 31, but the cold at 4 degrees Celsius. lowest temperature of this the banks of the farmers. The The Jharkhand Government Lok Sabha elections and that he will meet the Telengana CM wave continues even after Pathankot (2.9 degrees season at 5.7 degrees Celsius unjab Chief Minister Capt idea is inspired by the "bhavan- has also recently announced a during his Hyderabad visit next month. But to a question that in Kashmir. The 40-day Celsius), Bathinda (2.5 on Thursday but an early PAmarinder Singh on tar (price difference) scheme" of scheme called as the on including the Congress in any alliance to take on the BJP period is followed by a 20- degrees Celsius), Halwara morning temperature of 1.8 Thursday warned that his gov- the previous Shivraj Singh Mukhyamantri Krishi Ashirwad unitedly, the SP leader expressed displeasure over the SP’s day long ‘Chillai-Khurd’ and (degrees Celsius) Faridkot degrees Celsius was record- ernment will not tolerate any Chouhan-led BJP Government Yojana. Under the scheme, the lone MLA in Madhya Pradesh not being made a Minister a 10-day ‘Chillai-Bachha’. (3.8 degrees Celsius) and ed at Kundewadi agricultur- attempt to create a rift between in Madhya Pradesh. Government will give Rs 5,000 in the Kamal Nath-led Government. The winter this season Gurdaspur (3.2 degrees al research centre in Niphad communities and will deal The third step being consid- per acre to farmers. Farmers who Though the Congress, with 114 seats, emerged as the has been dry so far, although Celsius) too felt intense chill. tehsil, officials said. with anyone trying to disturb ered is to doubling collateral-free have land holdings of less than single largest party in the 230-member Madhya Pradesh there was a spell of early Hisar was the coldest This spell of cold wave the state’s secular fabric with an loans under Kisan Credit Cards one acre will be entitled to avail Assembly, it failed to cross the halfway mark (116) on its snowfall in the Valley in place in Haryana with a will persist for another four iron hand. (KCCs) to Rs 2 lakh and changes of assistance of Rs 5,000. own and enlisted the support of the BSP and the SP, which first and second week of minimum of 2.8 degrees days in the district. In an informal interaction in the Pradhan Mantri Fasal To boost farm sector, the have won two and one seats respectively. However, no MLA November. Celsius, down four notches with mediapersons on the sec- Bima Yojna (PMFBY) crop insur- Modi Government had launched from the Mayawati-led BSP or the SP was given place in the The weatherman has against normal limits. ond day of the three-day ance scheme to enhance coverage Pradhan Mantri Annadata Aay Cabinet. predicted light rain or snow- Ambala recorded a low of Shaheedi Jor Mela, he said and ensure faster settlement of Sanrakshan Abhiyan (PM- Responding to another question, the former UP CM said fall at isolated places in the 4.2 degrees Celsius, Karnal’s that the Sikh religion propa- claims and schemes. There are AASHA) which is indicating as days to polls are approaching all options remain opened valley and Ladakh region on minimum settled at 3.2 gated communal harmony, over 40 million KCC accounts less effective. The new minimum as who will join hands with the SP or not. Thursday. degrees Celsius, the MeT which nobody would be with Rs 2.37 lakh crore out- support price (MSP) for kharif Meanwhile Karnataka Chief Minister H D In Chandigarh, Punjab department said. allowed to disturb. standing. Under KCC guidelines, and rabi crops that provides a Kumaraswamy said the JD(S), an alliance partner of the and Haryana were under Rohtak recorded a low 4 Recalling the supreme sac- the Reserve Bank of India has cost-plus-50 per cent price also Congress in Karnataka, has not yet discussed with the the grip of a cold wave, with degrees Celsius, followed rifice of Sikh tenth master, allowed banks to waive margin seems to be less effective. Despite national party about the seat-sharing formula for the 2019 their common capital by Narnaul 4.5 degrees Guru Gobind Singh’s youngest requirements for loans up to Rs announcing several sops for Lok Sabha elections. The Congress-JD(S) alliance is strong Chandigarh recording the Celsius, Sirsa 4.8 degrees sons — Sahibzada Zorawar 1 lakh. Farmers currently have to farmers, the Government has and it would contest the Lok Sabha polls together, he said. season’s coldest night so far Celsius and Bhiwani 5.2 Singh and Sahibzada Fateh repay both principal and interest failed to capture agrarian crisis The JD(S) leader’s comment came in the wake of at 3.4 degrees Celsius, which degrees Celsius. Singh, and his mother, Mata to be eligible for fresh lending. and farmers' unrest. Congress leader Siddaramaiah in Hubbali on Thursday rub- are is two notches below Dense fog affected nor- Gujri, Capt Amarinder said Sources said that the Centre The results of the recent bishing BJP’s claim that the coalition Government in the normal. mal life at many places in that the peace for which they is also examining the Rythu Assembly polls indicated that Karnataka would collapse due to an internal rift. Adampur in Punjab was the region, including laid their lives would be sus- Bandhu Investment Support farm distress would be a core “There has not been any discussion on this (seat shar- the coldest place in the two Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala, tained at all costs. Scheme (FISS) of Telangana for issue in the 2019 polls. The ing) with the Congress so far. When the discussion has not States with a low of 0.4 Adampur, Halwara, Responding to a question farmers to tackle the agrarian cri- Congress made good on its cam- yet taken place, then there is no question of any fight,” degrees Celsius, followed by Bathinda, Ambala, Hisar, on the recent vandalisation of sis and farmers' unrest. Aimed at paign promise to waive farm Kumaraswamy told reporters when asked if the two par- Amritsar, where the mini- Karnal and Bhiwani. The former Prime Minister Rajiv relieving farmers of debt burden loans almost immediately after ties have reached a seat-sharing formula for the 2019 polls. mum settled at 1 degree cold wave conditions are Gandhi’s bust in Ludhiana, and cease them from falling into taking charge in the three States. He was in the national Capital to meet Prime Minister Celsius, two notches below likely to continue in the two Capt Amarinder warned the the debt trap again, the scheme Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Narendra Modi to discuss issues pertaining to the State. the normal limits, the mete- States over the next few Akalis against repeating such provides a grant of Rs 4,000 per then told the media that his party Siddaramaiah, who is the leader of the Congress-Janata orological department said. days, the weatherman said. incidents while pointing out acre per farmer each season for and others would not let PM Dal (Secular) coalition coordination committee, ruled out Piercing cold gripped In Nashik, in north that there were statues of sev- the purchase of inputs like seeds, Modi sleep or rest until an all- any differences between him and Deputy Chief Minister G Ludhiana too, which record- Maharashtra, the tempera- eral senior Akali leaders also in fertilisers, pesticides, labour and India loan waiver scheme was Parameshwara over portfolio allocation to the newly-induct- ed a minimum of 2 degrees ture plummeted to 1.8 various parts of the state. other investments in the field announced. ed Ministers. 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Government. become ‘Monument Mitras’ On Thursday, Union through the innovative concept Tourism Minister KJ Alphons, of ‘Vision Bidding’, which will at an event here handed over a give them the opportunity to Memorandum of associate their CSR activities Understanding to M/s Resbird with a heritage site if the Vision Technologies for developing Bid is selected,” the official said. the mobile Audio-Video Guide The move to develop such App under the Centre’s ‘Adopt an app was felt to ease the visit a Heritage’ scheme launched in of the tourists to the hotspots June this year. as they will not have to spend During the function, the on guided tours which have Minister also handed over the been found quite expensive Letters of Intent to seven agen- with little time for the tourists 6 #16  2 cies shortlisted to become to do exploring on their own.  : 14 ;   2 ‘Monument Mitras’. The app will give the the Archaeological Survey of (LoI) in five ceremonies to 37 An official from the ,
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Mohammad was made n a bizarre incident, consid- remote border areas of the According to the orders Minority Affairs and Waqf Iered to be the handiwork of north east, the officials said. issued by the Cabinet The allocation of portfolios ture and archeology depart- Minister. some right wing forces, thou- "Assam Rifles is now in the Secretariat here, Deputy Chief was made after Gehlot and ments, while Shanti Dhariwal The portfolios, which are sands of people queued up 4    ' process of occupying number Minister Sachin Pilot has been Pilot held meetings with was assigned urban develop- yet to be allocated, will remain before tens of post offices and of additional locations all given the charge of Public Congress president Rahul ment and housing, law and par- with the Chief Minister for banks to open “zero balance” “I have no idea but some about the reason behind sud- along the Indo-Myanmar Works, Rural Development, Gandhi in New Delhi on liamentary affairs departments. now. accounts after rumour did the people said that Modi den spurt in the number of Border," a Defence release Panchayati Raj, Science and Wednesday. Parsadi Lal was named Among the Ministers of rounds that come January, the Government will give us account seekers but nothing said. Technology and Statistics The decision had been industry Minister, and Master State, Govind Singh Dotasara Narendra Modi Government money. But how much I don’t extra-ordinary caught their The move is aimed at keep- Departments. pending due to reported dis- Bhanwar Lal Meghwal is in was given Education (inde- would be transferring cash in know,” said a person standing eyes.” ing a strict curb on illegal Apart from the Chief agreement between Gehlot and charge of social justice and pendent charge) as well as each such account. at the end of about 250 people Though the police had no trans-border activities like Minister and his deputy, 13 Pilot over allocation of key empowerment department. Tourism and Devsthan People braved biting cold outside a post office at queue about the mischief mon- smuggling of drugs, weapons Cabinet and 10 Ministers of portfolios such as home and Agriculture, animal hus- Departments. Mamta Bhupesh of sub-Himalayan North Coochbehar said. A woman gers, sources said that search- and contraband items, and State were allocated portfolios finance. bandry and fisheries depart- was given Women and Child Bengal and queued up before who had come all the way from es were on to find out such peo- also to check unauthorised by Governor Kalyan Singh late Besides finance and home, ments are with Lal Chand Development Department banks and post offices across Tufanganj said the Government ple. Incidentally Coochbehar is crossing of civilians in the bor- on Wednesday night on the the Chief Minister also kept the Kataria while medical and (independent charge) along Coochbehar, Dinhata and else- would give in excess of 5 lakh. a district bordering Assam der areas, it said. advice of Gehlot. charge of excise, planning, per- health, information and public with Minority Affairs and where to open accounts, In Kolkata PMG Gautam where the BJP has witnessed a The large stretch of the The 23 Ministers were sonnel, general administration relations departments are with Waqf. Arjun Singh Bamnia sources said adding most of Bhattaacharjee said he too had meteoric rise over the past border along the states of sworn in on Monday, a week and information technology Raghu Sharma. Pramod Bhaya was given Tribal Area them were confirmed that their information about people several years — particularly in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, after Chief Minister Ashok department, among others. is the mines Minister. Development Department accounts would get fatter from queuing up before the post the urban regions — with the Manipur and Mizoram is Gehlot and Deputy Chief BD Kalla has been given Vishvendra Singh got (independent charge) as well as January when the Centre offices “as such accounts can be effect that it is threatening the manned by the Assam Rifles, Minister Sachin Pilot took energy, public health engi- tourism and devsthan depart- Industry and Pubic Enterprises would start depositing cash in opened at any postal branches. ruling Trinamool Congress in known as the sentinels of the oath. neering, ground water, art, cul- ment, Harish Chaudhary was Departments. PTI them. Our local managers inquired terms of winnability chances. north east. 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    in the case. It filed two charge sheets also. When there is so much headway, it does not Shillong: Two teams of a pri- in rescuing the miners trapped uation including the road con- ed to be dead on the basis of the make anysense to hand over vate pump manufacturing in the 370-foot-deep illegal dition leading to the mine in a "foul odour" the force's divers the case to CBI," she told here. company, which has volun- mine. "We are deeply con- remote area in the district and had smelt when they had gone However, Kalburgi's son teered to provide equipment to cerned about the trapped min- accordingly report to their inside the mine. Sreevijaya said he was having drain out water from the rat- ers in Meghalaya and are ready office, which will then take a The NDRF battalion based faith in judiciary and whatev- hole coal mine in Meghalaya to help in whichever way pos- call on what equipment are in Guwahati, which is carrying er it did will be in the best where 15 diggers have been sible. We are in touch with the required to launch a rescue out the rescue operation, said interest of his family. "We will trapped for nearly a fortnight, officials of the Government of operation. the statement of its Assistant go by whatever judiciary feels arrived at the site on Thursday. Meghalaya to offer our assis- The search-and-rescue Commandant Santosh Kumar good. At the end of the day we Rescuers from the Indian tance in this regard," Kirloskar operation was suspended on Singh on "foul smell" had been want justice in the case," he Air Force and Coal India are Brothers Ltd said in a statement either Guwahati or Shillong air- Saturday after water pumped "misinterpreted and he was said. On December 11, a bench expected to reach the mine in late Wednesday night. port Friday. out of the mine did not lead to misquoted as saying that foul of justices UU Lalit and Navin East Jaintia Hills district on Indian Air Force Sources in Coal India Ltd a drop in the water level. odour could indicate that the Sinha of the Supreme Court Friday. spokesperson Ratnakar Singh said Thursday officers and sur- On Thursday, the National miners were dead and the bod- had asked the CBI to inform it Superintendent of Police said the National Disaster veyers are on their way to the Disaster Response Force con- ies are beginning to decom- by January first week whether Sylvester Mongtynger said two Management Authority has site. tradicted media reports which pose." The NDRF explained the it would like to investigate the teams from Kirloskar Brothers requested the IAF to airlift A senior Government offi- quoted it as saying that the foul smell could be of the stag- three other cases also. PTI Ltd arrived on Thursday to help rescuers from Bhubaneswar to cial said they will assess the sit- trapped minors were suspect- nant water. PTI 6-6 # ;!6

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When she a rape case allegedly involving tled Congress MLAs expressing “They (BJP) don’t want to sion” if there was political squabble within the ruling gunned down inside their rushed upstairs, she found BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, their anger openly. However in sit in the Opposition and work. instability. He distanced him- coalition about Cabinet expan- home in connection with a Sunita lying in a pool of blood. an FIR has been lodged on court an attempt to douse the fire, By using some wrong means, self from senior Bharatiya sion and portfolio allocation, property dispute early Both sisters were shot dead orders against the victim, her former Chief Minister and they want to form the Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker development of the State was Thursday morning. by unknown person who mother and an uncle for pro- chairman of the coordination Government,” Siddaramaiah Umesh Katti’s claim that 15 getting hampered. Senior police officers escaped after killing them. ducing a forged age certificate to committee Siddaramaiah rub- said. He was reacting to senior disgruntled MLAs from the Another senior BJP leader rushed to the spot upon learn- The victims’ brother Sanjay prove she was a minor. bishes the claim of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parties had fought the by-elec- ruling coalition were in touch KS Eshwarappa said, “Earlier ing about the incident and alleged that they had a property The court ordered regis- Opposition BJP that coalition lawmaker Umesh Katti’s claim tions together and the alliance with him and that the saffron there was fight among the launched a hunt to nab the sus- related dispute with their tration of a case against the Government in Karnataka will that 15 disgruntled MLAs from will remain intact for the 2019 party would form the new MLAs of Congress for the pects. uncle’s family. He suspected three on a complaint by the collapse due to internal rift. the ruling coalition were in Lok Sabha polls as well. Government in Karnataka by position of Minister. Now The bodies were sent for that his cousin living in the father of another rape accused Siddaramaiah has said at touch with him and that the “I don’t know what you are next week. “Neither me, nor though the position of minis- autopsy and a case was regis- same locality might have exe- Shubham, who is in jail, said SP Hubballi in north Karnataka saffron party would form the saying ... (JD(S) wanting to go our leaders have said we will ter is offered, there is issue of tered. As per reports, Lakshmi cuted the killing. Harish Kumar on Thursday. on Thursday that the Congress- new Government in Karnataka alone) is news for me,” the for- carry out operation lotus portfolio distribution. (18) and her elder sister Sunita SSP of Etawah, Ashok He said complainant JD(S) alliance was strong and by next week. Siddaramaiah mer Karnataka Chief Minister (BJP’s election symbol). Siddaramaiah has given the (35) of Panchawali hamlet of Kumar Tripathi, after visiting Harpal Singh had alleged that they would contest the 2019 said, “Nothing will happen, said, adding that the seat shar- Umesh Katti’s statement is not ministership to people who Friends Colony in Etawah were the spot said that the police had the victim, her uncle and moth- general elections together in the Government will not fall. ing formula was yet to be right,” the former Chief are in his good books. Senior sleeping in separate rooms in picked up two suspects from er had procured a forged age one platform. Government will complete its finalised. Minister said. leaders like Shyamanur their home on Wednesday night. the neighbourhood and were certificate to implicate his son He also ruled out any dif- term; there is no problem at all.” The JDs workers are per- “I want to say... let’s think Shivashankarappa have shown Around 3 am on Thursday, grilling them to extract the Shubham in the rape case, said ferences between him and Reacting to the views of turbed by the “big brother atti- about what to be done when his dissent and this shows the their mother heard gun shots truth. Kumar. Deputy Chief Minister G JD(S) leaders that the party tude” of the Congress party Congress-JD(S) Government internal rift in Congress. The and rushed out of her room Efforts were also being The police said the case Parameshwara over portfolio should contest the Lok Sabha and pressurising the leadership falls because of internal squab- coalition Government will fall and first went Lakshmi’s room made to round up the victim’s was registered at the Makhi allocation to newly inducted polls alone, the veteran to contest all 28 Lok Sabha seats ble,” he said. Yeddyurappa said by itself and BJP Government on the ground floor and found cousins, who were absconding. police station on court’s Ministers. However even days Congress leader said both the in 2019 general elections alone. in Vijayapura, “We will not will assume power in future.” her lying in a pool of blood. Investigations are on. December 17 order against the family members for various alleged offences of cheatring %& '   and forgery. 6    !/78 Complainant Singh had moved the court saying the 
 !  school transfer certificate, pur- portedly made by Raebareli       )   school and produced as the age certificate, was forged to frame his son, police said.  4  travelling from New Garia to some fire and there was smoke. Mumbai: At least 14 Nigerian The victim’s uncle is Dum Dum when seconds But our men immediately nationals were arrested for drug presently in jail in connection he riders of Kolkata metro before entering Maidan station swung into action dousing peddling and contraband worth with another case. Trailway had a providential we heard a huge sound and them and it might have taken 21 lakh and a pistol were Harpal Singh’s wife Shashi escape after smoke was detect- watched flame-like things out- some time for them to enter the seized from them, police said and son Shubham are accused ed inside an air-conditioned side. Then the entire AC coach tunnel because they were tak- on Thursday. in the rape case and have been coach of the Kolkata Metro. was filled with fume and we ing all precautions. But the Some of the had illegally in jail since April along with the At least 20 people were could not even breathe,” said a entire thing will be inquired entered India from Bangladesh, main accused, BJP legislator taken ill and 17 of them were passenger. into,” Metro Railway CPRO they said. Kuldeep Singh Sengar. admitted to Calcutta Medical Another passenger said that said. A raid was carried by the Sengar, a four-time MLA, College and SSKM Hospital the windows had literally to be The fire was doused by the Byculla police on the railway was charged by the CBI with with nerve and breathing prob- broken to get some relief and Metro staff using water from tracks of Chinchpokli in raping the girl at his residence in lems after they were rescued the rescuers only came after 30- fire hydrants. Central Mumbai in which they Makhi village on June 4 last year. from inside the coach that 45 minutes after the incident West Bengal Fire Service caught seven Nigerian nation- The girl was again abduct- stood still some 200 metres was noticed. “Frantic calls to the and Kolkata Police Disaster als with narcotics on December ed and raped by a separate away inside the tunnel. authorities yielded no answers,” Management group are attend- 15. group of accused, allegedly The incident happened at angry passengers said. ing, the Kolkata Metro subse-  ,  %    % '     '  =0   3  ; %   6    After interrogation, police including Harpal Singh’s son the Maidan Station. “We were “There could have been quently tweeted.    ! got information about more Shubhan Singh, his driver Nigerian nationals, who are Naresh Tiwari and one Brijesh into drug peddling and hiding Yadav between June 11 and $      at Mira Road in neighbouring June 20, 2017.   -  *
Thane district, said Dinesh But in his complaint, Kadam, senior inspector, Harpal Singh alleged that the  / 9#   Byculla police station. victim had an affair with a man Acting on the information, named Awadesh Tewari, with  '  # a police team later arrested whom she had eloped in     Governments were ‘intelligent’ seven other Nigerians who had September 2017, only to return     616-, with effect from January 1, 7+(, enough not to allow Hindi in fired on cops, injuring four of sometime later. 2019. Government run schools and them, he said. The police recov- After her return, her fam- n a bonanza announced for In addition to bearing the rime Minister Narendra colleges in Tamil Nadu. This has ered drugs worth 21 lakh, a 32 ily had begun persuading his Iits 20.5 lakh serving and expenditure of arising out of PModi’s monthly radio pro- been done with the intention to bore pistol and 41,000 in cash son Shubham to marry her, retired employees in the run the pay hikes promised it, the gramme ‘Mann Ki Baat’ may be keep the North Indian political from the arrested Nigerians, alleged Harpal Singh in his up to the 2019 Lok Sabha State Government will incur a big hit in North India, but it parties at bay from the State,” Kadam said. PTI complaint. PTI polls, the BJP-led Maharashtra an additional expenditure of has not created any impact in said Narayanan Tiruppati , BJP’s Government said on 38,655 crore towards paying Tamil Nadu, according to senior Tamil Nadu spokesman. Thursday that it would imple- revised wage arrears for three BJP leaders in the State. The Video conference held ment the 7th pay commission years to its employees five The response to the Prime by Prime Minister Modi could pay-scale with retrospective equal yearly instalments from Minister’s video conferencing not make any impact among the effect from January 1, 2016 2019-20. with party activists people who attended to the and pay the arrears in five The Devendra Fadnavis (Karyakarthas) in Tamil Nadu same. “This was in contrast to equal yearly instalments dispensation made an too was the same. Though it got the period when the UPA beginning from 2019-2020. announcement to this effect wide publicity thanks to the Government was in power. The The decision will benefit after approving a report on the mass media, the truth is that UPA Government effectively 20.05 lakh serving and retired revision in the pay scales sub- more than 90 per cent of the made use of the Central employees. It will involve an mitted by a high-level com- audience have not followed what Government’s publicity arms additional financial burden mittee, headed former addi- the Prime Minister was telling. like the Press Information of 14,000 on the State exche- tional chief secretary K P “Language is a major issue Bureau, All India Radio and quer every year. The serving Bakshi, at the weekly State in Tamil Nadu. None of us Doordarshan,” said Uma and retired employees will Cabinet meeting here in the could understand Hindi. The Ananthan, a BJP livewire in begin to reap the benefits afternoon. DMK and AIADMK Chennai. %# %#( )"%*+,*-.+ ! < 0 )! &'0,&   0    / *%    0   0 .7#!'*4.'"( 

 
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Mughal      P Q  4>   )    ( Emperor Aurangzeb, commonly known as             :4 #      alamgeer or conqueror of the world, was hum-                    ble enough before Allah to name his wife’s grave as Bibi Ka Maqbara. He did not have 2                    ( the gumption to even call it a mazhar or a dar-                    gah, for that matter.    #                Similarly, it is difficult to think of a masjid without a minaret or several of them. As it is                       well-known, the function of a minaret is to               ?    enable a muezzin to stand as high as possi-                   ( ble before he issues the azaan or the call for new to India and were general- Ganga, still standing. This invaders in 1389 AD stands out               2       worship. The higher he can stand, the greater ly busy establishing their rule at despite India’s independence, as a landmark. the distance his voice or baang would carry Agra. How could Mir Baqi get at the holiest of holy places of the Conquering militias or                       and more would be the worshippers, who the opportunity to visit Ayodhya; Hindus. He went on to say that armies in this 1992 inter-         :4 #         would attend the prayer. In the days where have the Ram temple demolished on his recent visit to Warsaw in Yugoslav conflict destroyed the                   there were no loudspeakers, the height of the and have the huge Babri structure Poland, he saw the cathedral in enemy’s religious symbols and minaret was most crucial. An outstanding constructed — all in a matter of ,O3*, ,71 4 that city as a Roman Catholic built their own to symbolically            ?         ( example of height is the masjid built by two years? In those days, five cen- edifice. When the Russians had mark the territory. For example,   S                  Aurangzeb on the banks of Ganga at Varanasi, turies ago, everything had to be +,4  conquered Warsaw a century or the capital city of what is today                        which has two extremely tall minarets. done manually — breaking, ),+41 more ago, they had converted called the ‘Serb Republic’ of Taking a foreign example, the big mosque building and all. It must have the earlier Catholic cathedral Bosnia and Herzegovina, was                        at Istanbul was earlier a church of Hagia taken longer than two years. 6,2(42 into a Russian orthodox church. ethnically cleansed of all its                 (  Sophia. There, the church was converted into Babar died in 1530 while 3(?(2 4 The poles could not tolerate this numerous historic and newer                     a masjid by raising four minarets as tall as the beseeching Allah, the merciful, to but were helpless. When they mosques, with the Serbs also pinnacle of the dome. In rural Anatolia and save the life of his ailing son +(6 regained independence towards expelling the local Muslims,                 ?  3++5 its wheat lands, most masjids have a single Humayun. the end of World War I, they ostensibly in retribution for cen- # 0            /   minaret. But a minaret was there neverthe- Taking all these circum- 413*, demolished the Russian church turies of Ottoman humiliation.  (    ( 4   (    ( less. Or else, the baang would not carry. stances, — the lack of minaret (56% (,3+( and rebuilt their own. Not only that, the Orthodox When this writer visited Ayodhya, he had and the presence of the name This pattern of behaviour Serbs destroyed about 200                   heard a great deal about the Babri Masjid, as Babri among others — could it -1, -@ was in evidence elsewhere too. Catholic churches in Krajina in            2        if it was some historic piece of architecture. be possible that Mir Baqi did not 12Q(-4 Several wars were fought during Croatia during their four year                This was early in 1991. The writer was sur- forget the King he was beholden +(-34 the 1990s after the collapse of the occupation of the town. This was       0               ( prised at the uncomely sight of this enormous to, and admiring of? He took his Socialist Federated Republic of Serb revenge on atrocities against rough-looking trinity of domes. More surpris- time to build this maqbarah, +( Yugoslavia, particularly the 1991- the orthodox Church by the                   ing was the total absence of anything like a probably larger than any in India, 1995 war in Croatia and Bosnia- Croat Nazi puppet state during                    ( minaret. This made him suspicious enough as a compact building in the lov- ?23,# Herzegovina. This was the World War II. The Catholic to enquire one by one, from three passing ing memory of Zaheeruddin )+,7++3)4 biggest conflict in Europe since Croats had then murdered over           1               Muslim gentlemen, as to whether there was Mohammad Babar. In short, the World War II, causing mas- a 100 orthodox priests and three                        a mehrab or a mimbar inside, or a wuzooh for was the edifice Babri maqbarah (52(6( @ sive terror and brutality with bishops, massacred about 1,000         ;  "         a wash before the prayer. A few minutes ear- rather than a masjid? If so, why 6,2(3* approximately 150,000 deaths Serbs in a town Glina and also 6                   ( lier, the writer was categorically informed by is the Sunni Personal Law Board and several million people razed its orthodox Church of the a skull cap-wearing gentleman that he could making so much song and dance +()3+16- ( forcibly resettled. Although the nativity.              :4 #  )    not go inside, hence the queries. about the edifice and the land on (41+4 Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Similar is the tale of Córdoba                   Whoever the writer talked to, including which it stood? Up to a dozen of Muslims, who fought this war, in Spain. It was originally a      (             two shopkeepers, referred to it as the ‘Babri’ maqbarahs were demolished 6(+,3), (O3 were Europeans of Slavonic cathedral (Cathedral of Our Masjid. The writer had not earlier, or even under the British rule in order to ancestry, they had significant Lady of the Assumption) but was                    later, come across a mosque named after any lay out Delhi’s Golf Course. 2?(3 and irreconcilable differences in conquered by the invading        #             ( individual. His suspicion continued about Incidentally, Sir Arnold  religion. 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All these books have been written in my   $             mother tongue, Maithili, in order to foreground the idea of aesthetic along the lines as suggested by "       1          ancient Indian theoritician, Bharat Muni, in        Q /       ( Natyashastra and later by philosopher   A      %      Abhinavagupta in Abhinavbharati. This article will          make an attempt to contest the formulation of the ? S  R$@2#).S  $ #    )  creative representation of Ramkatha by distin- .              guished Ramayana studies scholar Paula Richman         # %  S    and also dispute the very idea of a nation, as it      (   *+**  1  appeared in the writings of another distinguished 9                /  scholar, a historian of subaltern persuasion, Partha                   Chatterjee. While doing so, this article will aim to establish the fact that dharma (religion) is central    1    (      to the conceptualisation of a nation as it exists out-                  side literature in the works of Mohandas           #   Karamachand Gandhi and Deen Dayal Upadhyay ical assumptions that almost completely lost sight the Ramayana are available in modern Indian lan- rajya, reappears again in the conceptualisation of                 ( respectively. of the importance of harmony and confluence. They guages, disseminating enormously interesting, Integral Humanism by nationalist thinker Deen        )       ( Aesthetic preoccupations have almost always seem to almost exclusively care for conflicts and and sometimes even contradictory narratives of Dayal Upadhyay. He unequivocally attached             held centrestage in our country. As a matter of fact, differences alone. Sitaram Katha, the importance of versions of the utmost importance to the notion of dharma for the )           )    they have charted an extremely impressive trajec- Paula Richman, who tremendously con- Maithili Ramayana appears to lie in the depiction making of a just and responsible nation. Centenary R4%%) 1   !  S    D       tory since the days of Bharat Muni, who wrote an tributed to the spread of Ramayana studies world- of an extremely sensitive but movingly powerful celebrations of Upadhyay and commemorating the ,+      4         enormously engaging, encyclopedic treatise on per- wide, showed a particular kind of perception about character of Sita. She always respected the sancti- 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi across the nation        4   #       forming arts, Natyashatra. His works had a great it that suggested similar kinds of preoccupations ty of human love and marital relationship but never make tremendous sense in the light of their reflec- deal of influence on the literary practices of our with which the aforementioned practitioners of con- lost an opportunity to question Ram and put him tions on the inextricably interlinked relationship         4   9     $ . country due to their highly influential Rasa theo- temporary literature remain occupied. All her major in place whenever it was required. By and large, between religion and nation.           ( ,++    ry that emphasised that pleasure is, of course, a works such as Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of these Ramayana versions emphasise a definite kind Ramayana editions in Maithili were written   (    @ S  E   desirable outcome of artistic performance, but it a Narrative Tradition in South Asia, Questioning of structural, thematic and aesthetic unity with the rather late. The plausible reason for the delay is   !1 $    $9#         should not be understood and interpreted as the Ramayanas: A South Asian Tradition and Sanskrit version of Valmiki and other regional ver- often said to be the enduring dominance of  (   4       )     primary purpose. The main objective actually is to Ramayana Stories in Modern South India: An sions from languages such as Assamese, Bengali and Radhakrishna Kavya since the time Vidyapati                 ( transport the audience to a higher realm; a tran- Anthology are in a significant way defined and deter- others, which so remarkably underline the existence began to write exhilarating songs about the eter-               scendental space where one can effortlessly under- mined by those political persuasions that seem to of a nationalist outlook and an identical sense of nal love of Radha and Krishna. But the upsurge #              go a certain kind of blissful experience about the highlight the North-South conflict. In her opinion, aesthetic experience. of the creative representations of Sitaram Katha          #       essence of one’s own being. A place where one can all four southern languages — Tamil, Telugu, Against a backdrop of debates on issues relat- by those modern poets cited above explains the          (  also reconcile with consciousness that enables one Kannada and Malayalam — do have re-tellings of ed with nationalism between Western scholars, like fact that indigenous cultural traditions enabled to make genuine reflections on the moral and spir- Ramkatha that vehemently challenge the narratives Ernest Gellner and Anthony Smith, as well as the litterateurs of the Mithila region for quite a # 4         itual dimensions of human life. of Valmiki’s Ramayana or Ramcharitmanas of immensely popular interventions made by Benedict long time to resist the impact of a colonial edu-              Later, the 10th century Kashmiri Shaivite lit- Tulsidas. In turn, they perhaps successfully supplant Anderson, Partha Chatterjee chose to discuss the cation system which did not feel reluctant to               ( erary commentator, Abhinavagupta, who wrote the cultural hegemony of North India. genesis and growth of Indian nationalist discourse undermine, rather erase the traces of our civili-  (  (   #         perhaps the finest commentary on Bharat Muni’s Revisiting the already mentioned Maithili during the colonial and post-colonial periods of our sational core embedded in the Ramayana story.     "        2 ( Natyashatra, went on to elucidate the Rasa theo- Ramayanas will enable us to tell a different story. history in his influential books such as The A veteran scholar, Avadhesh Kumar Singh, in              "( ry in terms of the idea of abhivyakti (expression) To begin with, they popularised Sitaram Kavya in Nationalist Thought in the Colonial World: A his book, Ramayana: Through the Ages, made a      ,++             as conceptualised by Anandavardhana in his Maithili as Vidyapati had done with Radhakrishna Derivative Discourse and The Nation and its highly pertinent point when he mentioned that the      2         Dhvanyaloka and the principles of pratyabhijna doc- Kavya among the Maithilis during the late 14th and Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories. What existence of Ramkatha in numerous Indian lan-           (   trine of Kashmir. For Abhinavagupta, an aesthet- early 15th centuries. These writers of Ramayana is very noteworthy in these discussions is that guages acted as the “bridge amongst various region-  2 E %          ic experience was like a spiritual awakening when were the quintessence for Maithili poets in the sense Chatterjee places the Gandhian thought outside the al, linguistic and cultural identities.” I entirely agree an individual is enabled to transcend the limita- that they consolidated during the 19th and 20th scope and parameter of Indian nation and nation- with this perceptive observation and only wish to 2F   P@        tions of one’s own self. It becomes possible for him centuries the cornerstone of what we call nowadays alism. Thus, he separates the concept of nation from add that the different versions of regional Ramayana #               by virtue of a certain kind of contemplation gen- ‘Maithili literary culture’. They are genuinely the idea of religion. His premise as well as percep- drawing upon Avikavi, Valmiki’s Adi Kavya, are               0 erating as it does the sense of pure bliss. Looking admired for their creatively satisfying attempts to tion does not seem to be valid and justifiable in view indeed the cultural expressions of our nationalist                 at the Rasa theory as the foundation of art and lit- showcase the cultural and linguistic distinctiveness of what Gandhi consistently said and successfully thought in diverse ways. Their availability in the              erature, he firmly focussed on the significance of of Mithila along with foregrounding the moving did with the help of religion for the re-awakening majority of modern Indian languages points to the    Q 0 !     .   )  $ harmony for the formulation of an aesthetic expres- character of Sita. of our national consciousness. cultural interconnectedness and, in turn, the per- 9   #   4   P)     sion. Alongside Vidyapati, Sita is often seen as the The production, reception and consumption vasive sense of nation in the pre-colonial India          (  )    Such harmony is conspicuous by its absence uniting force for the otherwise deeply divided of Sitaram Katha, particularly in the Maithili lit- much before the advent of colonial moment. In fact,                from the contemporary literary climate in which, Maithili community. Typically, the Maithili mind- erary canon, strengthen the Gandhian understand- these Ramayana versions embody the quintessence                 for examples, Dalit, feminist and post-colonial lit- set can opt for unpredictably different pulls and ing of dharma and its primacy in the growth story of our collective national consciousness which is   Q 1                ( eratures, have all largely focussed on conflicts along pressures of life. But all the conflicting Maithili traits of a nation. Such inseparable relationship between being so effectively reinforced by the kind of lin- the lines of caste, gender and political categories, and attributes prefer to come together in an unusu- religion and nation, which was so succinctly for- guistic plurality and cultural diversity we have in        (        called the East and the West. The aesthetic con- ally harmonious manner on the issue of Sita. mulated by Gandhi, who thought about the pos- our country.          sciousness for practitioners of these literatures In an arguably multilingual and multicultur- sibilities of an ideal and citizen-centric political order (The writer is Assistant professor of English at           appears to be primarily defined by certain ideolog- al country like India, where different versions of through the emergence of the metaphorical Ram Rajdhani College, Delhi)         1/)+59                                          !     

contracts — forwards, futures, swaps So, it is not for those with limited 4,60,000. In this situation, the assume that the buyer buys 100 TCS retail investors, who dabble in F&O and options. The most common deriv- resources or low-risk appetite. Second, buyer’s entire initial investment (ie put options at a strike price of 1,750 trading, tend to lose a lot of money. ative that one can trade in is future and trading in derivatives needs expert 1,07,240) is lost. Additionally, on May 10. TCS share price is at 1,740. Hence, to dissuade retail investors options (F&O). Further, important knowledge. Trading expertise and he/she will need to pay 3,52,760 He/she paid a premium of 5,000 (at from trading in F&Os, the Securities underlying assets for these F&Os are experience are mandatory with high- (4,60,000 —1,07,240). 50 per put x 100 calls). The expiry date and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)     stocks, commodities, treasury bills risk tolerance. Third, as the movement Situation II: Derivatives trading of the contract is May 2018. On May made few changes in the F&O guide- and foreign exchange. All future con- of derivatives depends on the under- risk with stocks future: Now suppose 28, TCS shares close at 1,800. In this lines. It increased the lot size from 2      3 4 >/  tracts have cash settlement over NSE. lying assets, their progress is deter- the buyer purchased 100 TCS futures case, the put option will expire worth- lakh to 5 lakh. A bigger lot size sim- ,     Any contract is always made mined by movements of the underly- at 1,740 on May 15 and the expiry date lessly. The buyer will lose the entire ply means that traders have to deposit n India, an investor who wants to between two persons but clearing cor- ing asset. Both are like a double-edged is May 28. He/she made an investment 5,000 paid as premium. a larger amount with the brokers. High  &     trade in derivatives, has several poration always takes the opposite posi- sword. Their movements can be quite of 1,74,000. He/she paid an initial It is a known fact that the stock net worth individuals may not feel the         Ioptions at hand. For stocks, one can tion against any order. Thus, there is volatile. They may also have huge margin of 17,400. On May 28, the market is extremely risky to begin with. heat of the higher lot size, but it will def-    R  trade through the National Stock always an opposing party by default in upswings or downward spirals. A price per shares of TCS was 1,800. The The quantum of risk gets multiplied in initely prevent small retail investors     Exchange (NSE) and the Bombay each trade. Unlike forward contracts, trader should accept the fact that buyer would stand to gain (1,800 — F&O trading. Among the many reasons from participating in F&O trading.        Stock Exchange (BSE). On the other in future contract, money transfer takes he/she can lose profits. One can incur 1,740) x 100 or 6,000. that make the market risky is contrac- A study suggested that only two hand, commodity trading can be done place at the time of signing of the deal. loss even with the execution of deriv- Situation III: Derivatives trading tual trading. All F&O scripts come with per cent traders make money in !     through Multi Commodity Exchange Similarly, while entering an option atives. Let us understand trading in risk with index options: Suppose the a time-frame. For example, if one enters intra-day and F&O trading. One has  H   (MCX) and National Commodity and contract, the buyer pays the premium. derivatives with a few examples” buyer purchases 100 Nifty 50 call into a contract on June 1, for that to realise that unlike equity market, 2  H    Derivatives Exchange (NCDEX). With this payment, he/she gets the right Situation I: Derivatives trading options at a strike price of 10,7000 on month’s scrip, his/her contract will in the futures market, money does , " Currency trading can be done on NSE- to exercise his/her option to buy on the risk with future index: Suppose a May 10. Nifty 50 index was at 10,724. expire on the last Thursday of June. not get generated. Hence, if one is SX, MCX-SX. expiration date. On the other hand, the buyer purchased 100 Nifty 50 futures Suppose he/she paid a premium of Unlike equity, where one can hold the earning money, someone is losing it.     The term ‘derivative’ stands for seller of options receives the premium. at 10,724 on May 10. The expiry 10,000 (at 100 per call x 100 calls). position till the desired target is That’s why futures market is also  H  F   contract, whose price is derived from Due to this, he/she is obliged to date is May 28. Total investment The expiry date of the contract is May reached, in F&O, one is under the called a zero-sum market. After     &  or is dependent upon an underlying sell/buy the asset in the situation when amounted to 10,72,400. The buyer 28. On the expiry date, Nifty index clos- obligation to square off his/her position learning this, every trader should first    - asset. It can be a financial asset, such the buyer exercises his/her right. paid an initial margin of 1,07,240. es at 10,678. The call expires worthless. on the stipulated time. figure out whether they are good   # 
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Our petition is In an inter- tional reforms, Union crore through sale of its non- and in fact, the Competition against companies flouting pending in the National im order passed Minister Jayant Sinha said on core assets in various cities in Commission of India has also norms. Company Law Tribunal in March this Thursday. India and abroad. looked into complaints regard- “The Government has (NCLT) and the next date of year, Sebi had Various initiatives to turn- “Air India has also realised ing norms on providing a addressed a majority of issues hearing is in January. If the directed the around the national carrier, a rental income of 314 crore level playing field. raised by us through amend- NCLT does not listen to us we stock exchanges which is staying afloat on a approximately,” he said during The Government ments to FDI Policy will approach the Supreme to appoint a bailout package extended by the Question Hour. Wednesday took a host of announced yesterday. The Court,” Khandelwal said. forensic auditor the previous government, The minister also said steps and barred e-commerce cashback sale, discounts, exclu- He also urged the to verify any including monetisation of real that amount of revenue like- firms from selling products of sive sales, etc. Cannot take Government to introduce a misrepresentation of financials its fresh order dated December However, Sebi removed estate assets are progressing. ly to be generated from mon- the companies in which they place under the new norms. We comprehensive e-commerce and business of Inter Globe 27. the restrictions placed on the Sinha told the Lok Sabha etisation of land and proper- have equity stakes or man- welcome the Government’s policy at the earliest to address Finance Ltd (IGFL) and its sub- With regard to the wrong promoters and directors of that the Government has pre- ties depends on the bid agement control. decision and believe that it the disparities and anomalies in sidiaries as well as any misuse categorisations in the financials IGFL regarding sale of securi- pared a revival plan for Air process and subject to no- “To the extent that it bars should be implemented strict- the sector. of the books of accounts. of IGFL that have been high- ties of IGFL after finding "no India which focuses on build- objection certificates from the (e-commerce) platforms ly,” CAIT Secretary General The Commerce and Besides, the company's lighted in the interim order, prima facie evidence of misuse ing a competitive and prof- authorities concerned. from giving preference to any Praveen Khandelwal told Industry Ministry notifies for- promoters and directors were IGFL has admitted that the of funds". itable airline group. Air India is estimated to particular product,it definite- reporters here. eign direct investment (FDI) permitted only to buy the secu- same were errors. It has offered IGFL is among the firms A comprehensive finan- have a debt worth over ly reduces the ability of plat- He alleged that e-com- policies through press notes. rities of IGFL. However, the no explanation as to why such against whom Sebi initiated cial package, including transfer 55,000 crore. forms to play God between merce firms were openly flout- Press Note 3, which was shares held by them were not errors (as claimed) had crept in action on August 7, 2017 by of non-core debt and assets to In a written reply, Sinha one product and another. ing the Press Note Number 3 of released in 2016, enlists guide- allowed to be transferred for its financials. It also failed to ordering trading restrictions a Special Purpose Vehicle, said the Government remains That’s a good thing from the the FDI Policy. lines for FDI in the e-com- sale, as per the interim order. give any reason as to why the after it received a list of 331 implementation of a robust committed to the disinvest- consumer point of view, as “If the revised norms are merce sector. Following the interim said errors did not come to its suspected shell companies organisational and governance ment of Air India. well as from enabling market not enforced strictly, the out- Tightening norms for e- order, the company was given notice till the time Sebi high- from the government. Pursuant reforms by the board and dif- “In this regard, AISAM forces to operate”, come will be the same as that commerce firms having foreign opportunity to submit its expla- lighted the same, it added. to this, IGFL had moved the ferentiated business strategies has directed to separately Chandreshekhar said. of Press Note Number 3. investment, the government nations and it filed replies in Accordingly, the Securities Securities Appellate Tribunal for each of the core businesses decide the contours of the He also welcomed the Therefore, we are demanding Wednesday barred online mar- that regard. and Exchange Board of India (SAT) that stayed trading of Air India are part of the plan. mode of disposal of the sub- move to prevent e-commerce the formation of a Regulatory ketplaces like Flipkart and In respect of several trans- (Sebi) has confirmed "the restrictions imposed on the “Higher levels of opera- sidiaries — Air India firms from having their prod- Authority empowered to act Amazon from selling prod- actions, IGFL has provided directions issued against IGFL company. tional efficiency by strength- Engineering Services Ltd ucts sold on their platforms, against companies flouting ucts of companies where they insufficient explanation/justi- to the extent that forensic audit However, the regulator and ening management and imple- (AIESL), Air India Air which again is to ensure that norms to monitor the e-com- hold stakes and banned exclu- fication, which is not backed by directed vide interim order stock exchanges were asked to menting best business Transport Services Ltd (AIAT- differential is not created merce sector,” Khandelwal said. sive marketing arrangements independently verifiable doc- dated March 1, 2018 shall con- continue their probe and initi- processes,” are among the SL) and Airline Allied Services between their own products He reiterated CAIT’s that could influence product umentary evidence, Sebi said in tinue". ate appropriate proceedings. major elements of the plan, Ltd (AASL),” he noted. and those of others. demand for the scrapping of price. 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()*( +, gold, he said: “It will also look customs duty with a provision earlier in the session, the 30-share index pared by such companies and provide a level- The new rules could also pull the at that side of it”. of bank guarantee. some gains but finished 157.34 points, or 0.44%, playing field, industry players said on plug on seller entities like Cloudtail and he government is work- The domestic industry has To promote exports, the higher at 35,807.28. The broader NSE Nifty rose Thursday. The changes will mostly affect Appario (that have equity investment ing on an integrated gold demanded a cut in import Minister Arun Jaitley had Gem and Jewellery Export 49.95 points, or 0.47%, to 10,779.80. US-based Amazon and Walmart-backed from e-commerce companies). Tpolicy, which is expected duty on gold to 4 per cent from announced formulation of a Promotion Council (GJEPC) The biggest gainers in the Sensex pack were Flipkart — the two largest players in the “There are some specific points that to be released soon, to promote the current 10 per cent. comprehensive gold policy to has asked for government sup- Reliance Industries, Infosys, NTPC, ONGC, burgeoning Indian e-commerce sector — need greater clarity, especially the fact that growth of the yellow metal The minister said that cur- develop gold as an asset class. port in terms of increasing HUL, PowerGrid, Asian Paints, ITC and HCL as one of the norms bars striking exclu- an entity having ‘equity participation’ by industry and exports of jew- rently, there was no such poli- Government think-tank incentives under the Tech, rising up to 2.10%. On the other hand, sive marketing arrangements that could e-commerce market place entity or its ellery, Commerce and Industry cy despite the fact that India NITI Aayog in August sug- Merchandise Exports from Hero MotoCorp, Bharti Airtel, Tata Motors, Tata influence product prices. group company, is not permitted to sell Minister Suresh Prabhu said. was the largest consumer and gested to the government to India Scheme (MEIS). Steel and Maruti Suzuki fell up to 1.71%. “It (introduction of the new norms) its products on the platform run by mar- “We are pushing for it importer of gold. bring down import duty on Under MEIS, the govern- Global sentiment improved as tensions is an acknowledgement that all the ketplace entity,” said Darshan Upadhyay, (gold policy) as we need an India has the potential to gold from the existing 10 per ment provides duty benefits between the White House and US Fed eased. major foreign players have been consis- partner at Economic Laws Practice, integrated policy. In the next become a “good exporter of cent and also asked it to slash depending on product and Strong consumer spending data in the US also tently violating the spirit of the policy adding that this could result in all ven- few days, we will have a meet- value-added gold”, he added. the GST rate on the precious country. added to the momentum, said Hemang Jani, head from day one. Almost all the clarification dors and suppliers where the marketplace ing of all concerned people to The policy is likely to focus metal from the current 3 per Rewards under the scheme advisory, Sharekhan by BNP Paribas. points mentioned in this policy can be entity (or its group) have insignificant frame the policy on an expe- on promoting the domestic cent. are payable as percentage of With two more trading days to go until the directly attributed to an active violation holding being ineligible for selling their ditious basis. We are looking at gold industry and exports of The NITI Aayog also rec- realised free-on-board value, end of the year, liquidity and sentiment are set by these foreign players,” ShopClues CEO products. all elements of gold in the pol- gems and jewellery, which con- ommended to review and and the MEIS duty credit scrip to drive market in short term, he added. and co-founder Sanjay Sethi said. He Instamojo CEO and co-founder icy,” Prabhu told PTI. tribute about 15 per cent to the revamp the gold monetisation can be transferred or used for Banking stocks fell amid reports that the gov- added that the clarification will “finally Sampad Swain said while the earlier reg- When asked whether it total merchandise outbound and the sovereign gold bond the payment of a number of ernment was likely to infuse 28,615 crore into close the back door that has been bla- ulations were bound by high caps, MSMEs will consider the demand of the shipments. schemes, besides setting up a duties, including the basic cus- seven public sector banks (PSBs) through recap- tantly exploited by these players”. of the country would now get a fair oppor- industry to cut import duty on In February, Finance gold board and bullion toms duty. italisation bonds by the end of this month. Snapdeal too has lauded the move, tunity to come and participate in the dig- The rupee, meanwhile, weakened against the with founder and CEO Kunal Bahl say- ital economy. “This new development cre- US dollar, and was trading at 70.28 a dollar, down ing these changes will enable a level-play- ates a level playing field for smaller play- 0.27% from its previous close. Brent crude futures ing field for all sellers and help them ers... Now, all the micro-merchants of our '*R  /
  
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183.00 183.55 177.30 178.55 BAJAJFINSV 6500.00 6549.90 6355.55 6390.95 ICICIPRULI 324.35 326.95 321.55 323.35 SUPREMEIND 1142.50 1161.40 1125.25 1126.10 RELIANCE 1107.20 1127.00 1104.00 1118.10 19.75 JETAIRWAYS 270.90 274.00 262.95 268.50 ICICIGI 855.00 894.60 828.30 864.55 MANAPPURAM 91.55 92.25 89.40 89.75 COCHINSHIP 381.05 382.80 376.10 377.00 POWERGRID 195.05 199.50 193.50 198.50 3.20 RELIANCE 1105.00 1125.90 1104.45 1120.00 NIITTECH 1120.00 1164.00 1120.00 1149.40 UBL 1378.80 1378.80 1277.40 1364.55 MEGH 60.20 60.85 59.10 59.40 IBULHSGFIN 852.00 856.95 830.10 843.00 12.50 PCJEWELLER 82.70 86.25 81.85 85.00 CANBK 272.00 274.60 270.20 272.05 IRB 161.00 163.85 156.75 158.40 DEEPAKNI 208.30 210.00 208.00 209.25 HINDPETRO 246.00 253.75 241.55 252.55 3.70 INFY 652.10 663.25 649.30 657.35 FEDERALBNK 93.10 94.35 91.10 93.95 VIPIND 515.15 521.55 504.25 506.70 ASTRAL 1083.20 1120.90 1068.10 1116.25 ONGC 147.35 151.40 146.00 148.70 2.10 SUNPHARMA 423.25 424.00 410.60 412.30 MMTC 30.75 31.20 30.05 30.20 ADANITRANS 198.70 200.05 194.50 195.55 FINOLEXIND 539.90 560.90 536.05 550.00 SPICEJET 86.90 86.95 85.50 86.60 INDUSINDBK 1578.00 1592.70 1560.35 1566.35 PIDILITIND 1118.25 1118.90 1101.00 1112.25 OFSS 3600.00 3698.00 3572.05 3669.30 HINDUNILVR 1802.70 1823.00 1793.15 1816.00 24.40 BEML 917.90 922.00 894.65 899.65 ADANIPOWER 51.20 52.00 51.05 51.30 AMBUJACEM 220.10 222.75 215.95 216.75 GRANULES 89.00 89.75 87.05 89.20 ASIANPAINT 1360.05 1384.75 1354.30 1380.05 17.05 DHFL 241.95 243.30 237.55 239.65 M&MFIN 483.00 483.95 458.65 464.75 JSLHISAR 86.20 87.85 85.25 86.95 WHIRLPOOL 1310.85 1339.10 1310.80 1330.00 CIPLA 518.90 521.00 514.00 520.40 6.10 SBIN 295.20 297.50 291.05 291.85 AUROPHARMA 721.25 726.50 710.00 712.75 RAIN 133.25 136.55 130.00 130.45 GUJGAS 683.75 683.75 665.85 669.15 BAJFINANCE 2598.85 2626.75 2570.00 2595.00 27.60 IOC 134.95 135.15 131.10 134.05 SRTRANSFIN 1229.95 1247.45 1214.75 1224.20 PTC 90.00 91.10 88.60 89.70 ADANIGREEN 42.35 42.75 41.30 41.50 TCS 1909.00 1941.70 1872.10 1909.10 19.90 BANKINDIA 103.10 103.50 101.05 101.75 JSWSTEEL 298.70 300.80 292.70 293.25 APOLLOTYRE 234.00 235.00 230.45 231.20 KANSAINER 481.55 483.25 477.00 478.05 NTPC 146.70 149.75 144.20 147.00 1.45 VEDL 200.00 202.10 195.30 195.95 NATIONALUM 63.40 64.35 62.25 62.70 MUTHOOTFIN 500.45 504.50 491.50 494.05 SCI 47.05 47.75 46.50 46.85 HCLTECH 949.00 960.00 942.65 952.10 9.30 BLISSGVS 138.65 147.30 136.80 140.30 HEROMOTOCO 3193.30 3214.20 3118.10 3131.60 JMFINANCIL 88.70 93.60 88.00 91.60 DENABANK 17.00 17.50 16.95 17.10 ITC 279.00 281.65 277.30 279.20 2.55 TCS 1909.90 1940.10 1892.35 1909.45 GODFRYPHLP 865.95 879.70 841.85 870.75 SUNTECK 360.00 362.35 347.00 351.95 TATAMETALI 626.00 629.95 615.50 615.50 REDINGTON 87.50 87.80 86.50 86.50 HINDALCO 221.40 223.90 219.60 220.20 1.60 HEG 3605.00 3745.00 3605.00 3700.70 RBLBANK 564.65 579.40 560.00 575.90 JSWENERGY 68.35 69.10 66.50 66.85 JYOTHYLAB 197.20 205.00 197.20 200.65 IFBIND 859.00 859.00 828.60 834.55 M&M 794.50 802.00 788.10 793.05 5.35 COALINDIA 247.55 252.65 244.00 249.65 JISLJALEQS 67.10 67.75 66.40 66.65 BERGEPAINT 328.00 330.80 324.65 327.05 SYMPHONY 1088.00 1114.00 1080.00 1091.80 MAGMA 111.30 111.50 109.35 110.35 HDFC 1948.45 1955.00 1930.00 1946.30 12.95 TATAMOTORS 173.00 173.30 168.05 168.80 AJANTPHARM 1139.10 1187.35 1127.45 1183.00 NESTLEIND 10850.00 10971.00 10833.10 10936.30 DBCORP 171.55 171.70 167.00 168.00 SHARDACROP 308.50 315.00 300.00 306.00 GAIL 355.00 363.50 352.30 355.70 2.30 BHARTIARTL 322.90 326.15 314.00 316.35 BIOCON 617.30 620.75 610.40 613.35 UCOBANK 20.00 20.85 20.00 20.55 NHPC 26.10 26.30 25.95 26.20 ENDURANCE 1158.60 1199.70 1158.60 1199.70 INDUSINDBK 1577.00 1593.45 1559.70 1564.20 7.75 MARUTI 7645.00 7670.00 7485.35 7505.30 HCLTECH 949.60 959.20 944.00 952.70 RAMCOCEM 637.95 646.35 618.00 640.00 CROMPTON 227.65 228.85 223.65 225.75 KRBL 284.60 289.30 284.60 286.25 LT 1429.20 1434.35 1408.50 1425.00 2.35 RELCAPITAL 215.30 216.60 210.60 214.60 SYNDIBANK 38.90 39.00 37.80 37.90 JAMNAAUTO 63.75 65.25 63.05 64.50 EMAMILTD 407.05 410.70 402.95 405.65 RELAXO 736.10 738.10 720.00 720.00 ESCORTS 695.00 701.95 682.60 685.95 CEATLTD 1284.95 1284.95 1246.50 1274.85 DCMSHRIRAM 350.45 351.70 330.00 331.85 WELSPUNIND 59.20 60.10 59.15 59.50 VEDL 199.65 202.25 195.20 196.70 0.30 HAL 777.05 788.20 777.05 784.05 CGPOWER 44.30 45.05 44.00 44.15 SUVEN 224.95 229.55 222.65 226.15 TATACOMM 505.00 528.00 504.55 522.00 IPCALAB 787.45 789.80 780.50 786.35 UPL 756.00 759.00 745.25 751.10 0.90 HIMATSEIDE 212.00 220.30 212.00 216.60 M&M 795.00 801.00 789.85 795.40 RADICO 399.95 407.25 392.15 399.70 VIJAYABANK 49.15 50.50 49.15 50.10 RALLIS 173.65 174.80 171.70 172.95 BAJAJ-AUTO 2763.90 2764.00 2696.60 2735.45 0.85 TIINDIA 333.40 339.00 330.00 332.00 HINDPETRO 245.55 253.35 241.85 252.05 BALKRISIND 916.80 917.35 895.75 904.00 FORTIS 135.00 136.45 134.20 134.55 UFLEX 274.00 274.50 269.80 270.15 TITAN 896.00 897.80 881.50 889.10 -0.05 PRESTIGE 207.25 212.00 205.30 206.80 ASIANPAINT 1362.50 1385.00 1355.10 1380.00 APOLLOHOSP 1290.00 1290.00 1233.10 1239.55 GSFC 109.75 110.80 108.25 108.80 PIIND 853.00 861.65 846.25 850.00 IOC 134.60 135.20 131.00 134.60 -0.05 IOB 14.75 15.00 14.75 14.85 BEL 90.15 90.90 86.00 86.45 LICHSGFIN 490.00 491.80 475.20 478.15 IDFC 43.45 43.95 42.55 42.85 ADVENZYMES 177.00 185.00 176.50 179.75 WIPRO 327.80 331.35 324.00 325.95 -0.20 SHILPAMED 390.05 391.00 381.35 387.00 ONGC 147.20 150.90 146.10 149.20 CENTURYTEX 909.00 917.00 890.25 896.85 IGL 264.75 268.15 261.45 265.55 LEMONTREE 69.50 69.50 68.30 68.65 COALINDIA 249.50 254.00 243.85 246.65 -0.40 ASAHIINDIA 250.00 250.00 238.50 241.40 LT 1429.00 1433.55 1408.90 1423.30 IDEA 37.50 37.95 37.05 37.10 MARICO 367.45 379.00 367.45 376.70 GUJALKALI 530.60 539.30 520.25 522.40 ICICIBANK 359.50 360.75 354.90 355.25 -0.60 BDL 277.50 278.80 270.10 278.80 PFC 101.00 103.40 99.30 100.80 DABUR 426.00 431.50 422.80 430.60 VENKYS 2400.00 2425.00 2378.55 2384.40 EIDPARRY 210.00 210.70 203.30 204.00 SBIN 296.70 297.60 291.50 293.30 -0.85 ELGIEQUIP 265.00 265.00 253.65 256.40 RECLTD 115.45 118.85 114.30 116.25 ITI 92.80 93.85 91.10 91.65 GNFC 341.50 346.95 337.50 338.90 IDBI 61.10 61.35 61.00 61.10 CUB 186.35 186.50 184.30 185.30 EICHERMOT 23300.00 23383.00 22887.90 22995.00 -86.35 NCC 85.20 86.70 83.50 84.00 TORNTPOWER 259.35 265.05 257.55 259.85 NAVKARCORP 57.50 58.30 55.05 56.00 COFFEEDAY 271.65 275.20 268.10 268.10 PRSMJOHNSN 88.90 89.85 86.10 86.50 KOTAKBANK 1257.25 1258.65 1235.35 1243.00 -5.15 AXISBANK 627.00 627.00 615.50 617.50 FSL 48.95 48.95 46.95 47.10 GSKCONS 7536.15 7641.95 7409.00 7592.65 JSL 32.65 32.90 32.30 32.45 YESBANK 183.00 183.45 177.05 178.70 -0.75 L&TFH 156.00 156.90 152.85 154.20 VGUARD 228.95 236.90 225.85 235.00 EIHOTEL 194.30 197.30 193.05 193.05 SUPRAJIT 214.60 220.00 214.25 217.00 SUNPHARMA 423.00 423.30 410.00 411.80 -1.85 ADANIPORTS 378.50 385.90 373.95 383.60 NAVINFLUOR 707.00 721.35 689.05 692.00 TATACOFFEE 96.80 96.80 95.00 95.25 LUXIND 1404.00 1423.85 1375.00 1377.00 AXISBANK 623.55 626.00 615.60 616.40 -3.10 TATASTEEL 519.00 520.50 506.50 507.80 HINDCOPPER 51.00 51.90 50.10 50.45 GICRE 259.05 265.00 252.60 261.60 FDC 174.50 175.50 172.10 173.15 GRASIM 828.00 828.00 810.80 814.90 -4.35 INFIBEAM 46.90 48.00 45.75 46.75 CHOLAFIN 1224.00 1262.40 1216.00 1227.85 MOIL 169.10 171.00 168.00 168.35 ATUL 3424.00 3470.00 3418.00 3418.00 ULTRACEMCO 4015.00 4020.50 3955.00 3975.10 -21.00 BPCL 360.50 368.50 355.65 364.45 EICHERMOT 23375.00 23375.00 22869.15 23020.05 TIMETECHNO 102.70 104.25 100.10 100.10 ISGEC 5100.00 5100.00 5010.00 5031.00 HDFCBANK 2133.00 2138.20 2098.45 2107.00 -15.35 GRAPHITE 760.00 781.70 760.00 772.75 ABCAPITAL 98.20 98.45 97.85 98.10 GESHIP 322.05 322.80 309.00 311.70 ERIS 663.60 678.50 656.00 663.35 BAJAJFINSV 6500.00 6550.00 6350.00 6381.00 -58.05 JUBLFOOD 1249.90 1254.90 1216.15 1232.20 HINDZINC 272.40 276.35 269.35 274.50 FLFL 400.60 400.60 388.20 394.00 LAXMIMACH* 5770.00 5775.00 5711.00 5712.00 MARUTI 7649.00 7668.85 7479.30 7501.10 -68.00 UJJIVAN 277.60 284.85 270.00 272.35 GMRINFRA 16.25 16.50 15.90 16.00 GSPL 175.70 176.85 173.60 175.45 SKFINDIA 1897.55 1912.05 1885.00 1892.00 DRREDDY 2641.00 2645.00 2581.35 2597.00 -25.30 PNB 78.50 78.80 77.35 77.90 ULTRACEMCO 4019.75 4020.45 3960.00 3986.45 CHAMBLFERT 142.45 143.40 142.00 143.00 GRINDWELL 544.90 552.45 536.00 537.50 BHEL 72.20 72.40 69.50 69.90 DISHTV 37.70 37.80 36.80 37.60 TRIDENT 64.70 65.65 64.45 64.60 JSWSTEEL 299.50 300.65 292.10 293.10 -3.20 MINDAIND 325.90 325.90 319.05 324.05 JAICORPLTD 107.60 113.15 107.05 110.10 LTTS 1691.05 1708.00 1678.80 1681.00 VINATIORGA 1566.00 1613.00 1566.00 1606.90 TATASTEEL 518.00 519.80 504.95 506.50 -6.95 COROMANDEL 445.00 447.00 443.20 445.05 BANKBARODA 119.20 119.40 115.90 116.60 GRUH 314.00 317.35 309.60 312.35 SUNDRMFAST 525.00 533.05 525.00 528.00 BHARTIARTL 323.20 323.70 314.00 316.05 -4.40 PGHH 9708.85 9801.00 9700.25 9772.80 HINDUNILVR 1806.80 1819.00 1791.35 1819.00 DBL 420.65 432.05 416.20 418.70 J&KBANK 36.10 37.10 36.10 36.90 HEROMOTOCO 3208.70 3210.00 3114.65 3129.00 -46.20 ALKEM 1855.45 1880.00 1851.00 1867.90 BAJFINANCE 2630.00 2630.00 2571.00 2581.80 GODREJPROP 682.65 683.20 669.00 673.70 DHANUKA 474.45 474.50 463.50 463.50 TATAMOTORS 172.75 173.40 167.70 168.05 -2.85 BLUESTARCO 644.00 644.00 608.25 612.00 ORIENTBANK 96.70 97.10 94.45 94.85 INFRATEL 262.60 269.00 261.75 266.95 GODREJAGRO 501.00 503.00 497.00 500.05 BPCL 361.00 368.75 354.90 359.00 -7.35 VBL 744.35 749.00 733.60 740.95 KOTAKBANK 1260.50 1263.00 1235.60 1239.35 OMAXE 215.55 216.50 213.10 214.25 LINDEINDIA 683.20 686.00 677.15 681.40 PNCINFRA 145.00 147.00 144.00 145.20 ZEEL 458.00 467.00 451.80 463.60 RNAM 156.05 162.70 156.05 158.10 MAHLIFE 383.00 396.75 381.15 396.00   TIMKEN 542.25 562.45 542.25 560.00 HDFCBANK 2139.80 2139.80 2101.30 2106.10 TORNTPHARM 1762.70 1770.00 1728.35 1740.85 RAJESHEXPO 572.95 575.70 570.05 571.10 JAGRAN 116.25 116.25 111.40 113.05 WIPRO 326.50 331.20 323.35 327.45 JKTYRE 103.50 104.90 103.35 103.65 AMARAJABAT 734.00 739.30 731.00 734.85 GULFOILLUB 823.50 823.50 817.00 820.00 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE REPCOHOME 410.95 416.95 389.00 391.65 SHANKARA 537.65 543.00 521.05 525.15 HSIL 224.70 232.90 224.70 229.65 SHOPERSTOP 510.00 512.00 496.10 503.70 NIFTY NEXT 50 27885.75 27959.85 27739.90 27780.95 55.30 CENTRALBK 35.30 37.55 34.60 36.40 MFSL 449.00 450.15 435.00 435.00 VMART 2615.10 2632.60 2594.00 2594.00 ESSELPRO 104.95 109.00 104.60 105.20 SBILIFE 544.00 605.00 540.35 595.00 20.15 CONCOR 675.00 680.00 659.70 667.35 HFCL 21.30 21.45 20.90 21.10 TRITURBINE 115.00 116.30 111.60 111.90 NAVNETEDUL 105.55 106.00 103.80 105.00 ICICIGI 845.00 898.90 827.95 857.10 28.85 JINDALSTEL 164.05 165.25 157.70 158.45 DIVISLAB 1475.00 1481.80 1448.00 1481.80 SOMANYCERA 332.45 332.45 323.80 323.80 LAKSHVILAS 87.10 87.25 86.50 87.10 OFSS 3585.00 3682.00 3570.00 3676.00 113.70 SBILIFE 554.00 603.00 540.25 589.20 DELTACORP 243.30 246.15 242.60 243.65 GLAXO 1507.25 1518.45 1470.85 1505.00 KALPATPOWR 378.60 381.10 370.50 375.00 LAURUSLABS 380.40 385.00 380.40 382.00 MARICO 370.00 379.00 368.70 378.00 10.25 MAXINDIA 81.00 89.60 78.85 83.55 RAYMOND 841.20 851.75 824.00 826.90 BAJAJHLDNG 2911.90 2984.00 2877.85 2953.15 PERSISTENT 625.50 633.20 625.45 628.00 LAOPALA 220.50 224.00 212.50 219.05 MCDOWELL-N 623.65 634.50 617.15 633.95 14.15 ITC 284.00 284.00 277.60 279.75 CUMMINSIND 792.00 843.00 792.00 830.10 INTELLECT 227.00 227.50 221.30 221.95 GICHSGFIN 257.10 258.70 251.60 252.75 ABBOTINDIA 7551.30 7551.45 7460.00 7465.00 SUNTV 578.00 591.35 577.25 587.70 12.40 KSCL 570.55 588.00 511.00 579.80 INDIGO 1158.00 1169.90 1129.65 1161.50 INDHOTEL 148.40 150.85 146.05 147.25 ITDC 310.00 311.80 302.00 302.00 GHCL 239.05 240.95 233.10 235.30 GODREJCP 804.05 818.50 797.25 815.00 15.70 ASHOKLEY 105.00 105.00 102.90 103.35 MAHABANK 14.21 15.40 14.21 15.07 CENTURYPLY 177.00 177.00 170.00 172.20 TAKE 146.15 152.00 146.15 147.10 TNPL 254.25 254.25 250.20 250.65 DABUR 428.00 432.00 422.35 430.00 7.40 OIL 174.00 175.60 169.50 171.55 IFCI 14.60 15.29 14.51 14.88 GDL 132.00 132.90 129.30 131.00 AUBANK 596.50 604.00 590.15 597.10 LALPATHLAB 933.00 950.00 925.00 940.00 CONCOR 664.80 681.90 658.10 663.80 11.20 INDIACEM 95.00 95.20 92.60 93.15 SAIL 52.75 53.40 51.35 51.65 GODREJIND 526.40 533.00 516.15 530.50 WABCOINDIA 6831.95 6860.00 6666.00 6761.00 BAJAJCORP 364.60 365.20 360.00 360.00 PIDILITIND 1116.25 1123.15 1101.10 1122.00 18.00 TATAPOWER 76.25 77.60 75.60 77.00 MINDTREE 861.00 872.95 853.65 858.45 PFIZER 2910.00 2910.00 2768.10 2772.70 ASTRAZEN 1488.05 1528.60 1488.05 1506.55 SCHNEIDER 101.45 101.80 100.00 100.10 HINDZINC 271.95 277.20 269.60 275.20 3.75 JUSTDIAL 490.90 512.80 490.50 507.70 TATACHEM 706.45 709.90 698.00 703.25 GMDCLTD 87.00 88.80 86.75 87.60 JKCEMENT 732.90 733.00 710.90 724.50 TIFHL 506.30 519.95 503.50 506.00 HDFCLIFE 386.70 394.50 385.60 390.00 5.20 IDFCBANK 44.20 44.20 42.50 43.15 TVSMOTOR 560.10 585.00 546.20 548.55 KEI 360.00 363.00 355.00 355.10 KPRMILL 565.00 568.95 556.50 558.00 NH 199.85 202.80 197.60 198.00 HAVELLS 682.40 692.55 678.00 685.80 8.60 CANFINHOME 296.00 296.00 281.85 288.45 VOLTAS 564.00 564.00 545.75 550.30 FCONSUMER 47.00 47.20 45.70 45.90 IEX 166.05 167.00 160.60 165.00 ZYDUSWELL 1382.00 1393.25 1366.50 1366.50 INDIGO 1139.90 1175.75 1139.90 1169.00 12.75 WESTLIFE 382.00 398.80 377.00 379.75 ALLCARGO 108.00 110.45 106.20 107.00 NOCIL 164.15 165.00 161.00 162.40 ZENSARTECH 235.60 237.15 230.05 231.10 SUDARSCHEM 342.55 342.80 339.15 339.20 ABCAPITAL 97.80 98.40 97.75 98.15 1.05 UNIONBANK 84.00 85.20 83.00 83.75 BHARATFORG 513.00 513.50 497.05 501.00 SOUTHBANK 15.35 15.35 15.10 15.15 AARTIIND 1440.00 1450.00 1420.00 1424.00 PHOENIXLTD 565.00 566.65 558.45 564.90 DMART 1565.00 1578.00 1558.05 1571.00 16.15 SIEMENS 1042.25 1048.85 1023.30 1029.25 ACC 1493.35 1497.50 1456.00 1460.50 MINDACORP 142.00 148.00 141.50 144.10 GET&D 286.20 292.05 277.10 290.00 ASTERDM 151.25 152.00 147.50 148.00 GICRE 257.65 262.50 257.65 260.05 2.60 ICICIBANK 357.30 360.70 354.75 355.40 MRPL 76.00 76.00 74.15 74.40 CADILAHC 343.30 343.30 338.00 338.95 INDOSTAR 344.00 357.45 330.75 346.50 FORBESCO 2359.00 2447.95 2351.30 2351.30 ABB 1310.00 1323.00 1302.45 1306.50 11.20 BANDHANBNK 550.25 555.90 538.00 540.55 DRREDDY 2639.00 2650.00 2583.90 2587.50 JINDALSAW 83.40 84.55 82.35 82.70 NIACL 179.00 179.00 175.05 176.60 SANOFI 6155.90 6288.80 6129.45 6288.80 PGHH 9705.05 9800.00 9705.05 9800.00 76.30 FRETAIL 541.45 547.70 506.35 513.90 HINDALCO 221.10 223.60 220.00 220.65 SJVN 25.55 25.55 24.25 24.75 JBCHEPHARM 299.05 299.15 294.10 297.00 GEPIL 825.65 838.90 825.65 828.75 LUPIN 837.00 841.90 830.10 839.05 5.85 EQUITAS 128.00 128.90 123.20 124.25 GLENMARK 677.30 687.90 663.25 683.40 JUBILANT 718.85 719.40 705.55 708.60 HERITGFOOD 533.00 565.00 529.00 554.80 STARCEMENT 102.20 103.90 100.00 100.50 NIACL 177.10 179.20 174.50 177.00 0.95 DLF 178.95 181.20 175.15 176.05 LUPIN 835.00 841.95 830.55 837.30 PAGEIND 24000.00 24189.20 23721.25 23850.95 CORPBANK 29.15 29.25 28.50 28.95 BAYERCROP 4248.60 4248.60 4204.70 4230.00 ICICIPRULI 326.00 327.55 320.75 323.05 1.60 ENGINERSIN 128.00 128.00 123.00 125.85 PETRONET 223.00 225.00 221.55 222.35 QUESS 644.55 648.75 630.10 630.10 GPPL 103.70 103.75 101.85 102.10 BLUEDART 3176.60 3275.00 3176.60 3270.25 SRTRANSFIN 1224.00 1248.65 1215.50 1224.00 3.95 AVANTI 386.50 396.00 382.00 384.90 BRITANNIA 3090.00 3128.50 3062.00 3079.00 OBEROIRLTY 448.40 459.40 447.10 453.50 AIAENG 1644.95 1711.15 1644.95 1667.10 SCHAEFFLER 5530.25 5619.35 5479.95 5600.00 PETRONET 224.90 225.15 221.60 223.25 0.65 BATAINDIA 1102.65 1135.00 1102.65 1126.00 ABB 1300.05 1323.05 1300.00 1310.95 HUDCO 43.70 43.95 43.05 43.20 ANDHRABANK 29.75 29.75 29.15 29.45 SADBHAV 207.90 208.10 205.30 205.75 NHPC 26.10 26.45 25.95 26.15 0.05 GAIL 354.10 363.35 352.50 356.10 INDIANB 242.70 246.05 237.95 238.70 DCBBANK 160.55 165.00 160.55 163.10 ITDCEM 112.00 113.95 110.60 111.00 MAHLOG 515.30 516.45 507.60 507.60 COLPAL 1303.15 1323.95 1293.00 1302.00 -0.15 IBREALEST 89.60 90.75 86.45 87.00 HEXAWARE 317.30 326.00 317.15 323.95 HSCL 132.60 133.35 130.05 130.35 APLAPOLLO 1122.90 1123.00 1097.80 1115.00 CERA 2380.00 2424.90 2356.40 2424.90 CADILAHC 342.95 343.00 338.00 338.70 -0.70 NBCC 55.50 55.90 53.80 54.00 RCF 64.00 64.50 62.90 63.40 MAHINDCIE 246.90 247.65 241.60 242.30 BOSCHLTD 19650.00 19718.05 19287.30 19356.20 SUPPETRO 209.60 209.60 200.75 200.75 L&TFH 156.40 156.90 153.20 153.80 -0.55 BAJAJ-AUTO 2766.00 2768.00 2701.00 2736.05 MOTILALOFS 660.00 690.00 658.60 675.10 BBTC 1275.55 1291.95 1270.15 1276.95 ECLERX 1073.95 1120.00 1071.85 1114.90 VTL 1028.20 1032.30 1028.00 1028.00 OIL 173.60 175.50 168.55 172.95 -0.65 SUNTV 580.05 590.60 577.85 585.70 CAPF 601.95 601.95 582.20 587.50 NAUKRI 1527.45 1527.45 1475.00 1482.65 BASF 1565.00 1603.45 1548.10 1555.00 CRISIL 1631.25 1637.70 1603.10 1609.40 IDEA 37.70 38.00 36.95 37.10 -0.15 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Palace of Clouds, is a richly woven travellers is more likely to make its travel culture like cheese and truffles. Travelling Spending a holiday stuck in long tapestry encompassing five genera- "   decisions based on the travel posts of their on foot also offers the opportunity to spend queues or crowded streets on a leisure trip tions of an aristocratic family past and  " peers on social media as it has become an sufficient time at any given place, explore is a no-no. While Italy is using phone apps present.  #     authentic source of information. At the same the local culture and reach inaccessible to deal with overcrowding by giving real- The book was launched at the over the years are spot on and it was- ""  time, it is important for them to capture spots. Walking tours at Machu Picchu are time updates, Dubrovnik is experimenting Oxford Bookstore in the presence of n’t really laborious as I consulted my   their best travel stories through photos and a great window to explore the colossal with dispersing cruise timings through the Gita Devi, Maharani of Kapurtala, who forefathers’ files. I also included quotes videos and inspire their circle of friends and mountains, lush vegetation and ecological week. While such measures are being read out extracts. She was effusive in and photographs to make it more per-  colleagues to take up travel. Wi-fi enabled wonders while the forest trails of Japan are undertaken at all major tourist hubs, trav- her praise of the princess as she said, sonal.”  places and hotels are a bliss for such trav- equally resplendent. We expect this type of ellers are modifying their plans to help curb “Rajyashree has brought a treasure Rajyashree also said that the  ellers as it enables them to post live itinerary will feature in the list of more trav- overtourism at an individual level. trove of anecdotes and introduced us House of Bikaner under her father Dr  updates. ellers in the coming year. In 2019, we will see more travellers tak- to a world of elegance, sport and cos- Karni Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner,  ing trips in off-season to ensure visit to their mopolitan culture.” adopted a modern approach and the "! $ ! #)#$ favourite place while not being part of the The book delves into the royal memoir brings out his role in shaping   What drives travellers to pursue their Luxury travel is growing, faster than it chaos. New destinations near the saturat- family’s tales of valour, battles and her personality as an independent &&& travel dream is curiosity. A rising number did in the past five years. Over the next ed ones benefit as a result. coronation, splendour of the royal woman way ahead of her time.   C of them are keen on exploring what’s decade, the growth rate for luxury travel is courts and culture and traditions, Rajyashree tries to relive the old-world @ beyond the frequently visited and found at projected to be at 6.2 per cent, be it on cruis- (+ !(  forts and hunting lodges. The author charm, which may interest readers some of the most remote locations in the es, camps or heritage stays. There are sev- There is no running away from the fact describes her formative years during who are curious to know about # "    world. On the basis of travel-searches eral factors influencing the decision to opt that much devastation has rocked our the sixties when seismic changes in the maharajas. She feels that there has #    made by holidaymakers in 2018, there is an for luxury travel. While the developing oceans, beaches, forests and islands. Since world were taking place and which been a revival of an interest in histo-      & evident trend of rising interest in places nations are at the forefront of the growth most are tourist places, the onus of the sit- were to take her on an adventurous ry and says, “I feel proud to say that   beyond city centres and conventional acceleration curve, an increase in the dis- uation must be borne by the travellers as well journey from her home in Bikaner to even the millennials are now taking up &P tourist spots. To unravel the hidden secrets posable incomes in these countries is as operators. Pollution of different forms has life in London. Her recollection of the initiative to acquire knowledge of and visit the untouched lands are latest favourable to luxury travel. Although cur- started hitting the business as well as non- events gives us a glimpse of a world the past. They are much better L)   trends. Following the footsteps of Charles rency fluctuations in different nations economic aspects of societies, including disconnected with and disrespectful of informed than they used to be once Darwin, a new tribe of travellers is making slightly affected the segment, it has made indigenous tribes, local ecology, ecosystems the Indian masses. So there are upon a time. There was a time when 7       its way to the Galapagos archipelago to expe- the developed nations seek luxury travel at and more. However, the good part is that accounts of several world tours, people said that history doesn’t real-        E rience the endemic species and inhabited further discounted prices, fuelling the there are organisations and operators that African safaris, lavish ballroom parties ly matter, but it does in every way pos- 33  E islands. Similarly, cruising through growth. have highest regards for sustainability. and hunting excursions. sible. 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E and with the new S60 due next will become even more prevalent. Bhargava promised that the com- past year despite problems in have a lower carbon impact on the car industry is coming to India      E year, the luxury segment is defi- Even a ‘Mild Hybrid’ vehicle can pany will bring in ‘Strong Hybrid’ building new compressed natur- nation. and our industry should be wor- 3     nitely going to hot up particular- dramatically enhance fuel efficien- technology among other things in al gas stations. And in 2019, there But while India will have to ried because our neighbour has    
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Leaving Kapilavatsu, Siddharth Gautama thought of going to Rajagraha, the capital of the kingdom of Magadha. The reigning king was Bimbisara. It was a place which great philosophers and leaders of thought had made their headquarters. With this thought in mind, he crossed the Ganges, fearing not her rapid flow. On his way he halted at the hermitage of a Brahmin woman, Saki, then at the hermitage of another Brahmin woman, by name Padma, and then at the hermitage of the Brahmin sage Raivata. All of them entertained him. Having seen his personality and dignity and his splendid Kamlesh D Patel beauty, surpassing all other men, the people of that region were all astonished at his wearing the clothes of a sanyasi. On seeing him, he who was going he importance of healthy elsewhere stood still, and he who was standing there Tsleep cycles cannot be over- followed him on the way; he who was walking gently emphasised. There are also and gravely ran quickly, and he who was sitting at other natural daily cycles in the once sprang up. Some people reverenced him with human body that we can easily their hands, others in worship saluted him with their observe. Being in tune with heads, some addressed him with affectionate words; Nature is an important part of not one went on without paying him homage. Those wellness and all-round good who were wearing gay-coloured dresses were health -- physical, mental and ashamed when they saw him, those who were talking spiritual. So here we explore a on random subjects fell to silence; no one indulged cycle that guides us on the best in an improper thought. His eyebrows, his times during the day to forehead, his mouth,--his body, his hand, his feet, or meditate, do physical activity, his gait,--whatever part of him anyone beheld, that at mental activity and rest.If you once riveted his gaze. After a long and arduous watch your breath you will find journey, Gautama reached Rajagraha surrounded by that it is usually flowing more in five hills, well guarded and adorned with mountains, one nostril than the other. and supported and hallowed by auspicious and Check and see which one of sacred places. On reaching Rajagraha, he selected your nostrils is breathing dominantly at this moment? spinal cord, from the base of the physical work, digesting food, pranayama. The Sushumna nadi is active In the ancient yogic shastras, spine to the brow chakra and is etc. The mind is outward- These two nadis appear to and balance is there between great significance was given to silvery in colour. Chandra nadi focused and the body generates correspond to the two halves of your sympathetic and observing the breathing. The emanates from the left side of more heat. When the left nostril the autonomic nervous system - parasympathetic systems. right nostril was associated with the base chakra, passing (Chandra) is active, the mind is the sympathetic and When you go to sleep by 9 or 10 the Surya Nadi (Sun current) through each chakra in turn in a introverted, and any kind of parasympathetic. Surya o'clock at night, observe the and is also called Pingala. The curving path, finally ending on mental work that requires coincides with the sympathetic right nostril switch to the left. If left nostril was associated with the left side of the brow chakra. concentration can more easily nerves, which stimulate external you get sufficient amount of the Chandra Nadi (Moon Surya nadi emanates from the be done. Chandra nadi flows activities. The parasympathetic sleep, your right nostril will current) and is also called Ida. right side of the base chakra, more during sleep. nerves reduce the heartbeat, automatically be predominant Nadi means 'flow or current'. In passes in the opposite direction When something is not right, constrict the blood vessels, and first thing in the morning. Over the ancient texts it is written up to the right of the brow such as an illness, a switch can slow the respiration so that the millennia these systems have that there are thousands of chakra. Chandra and Surya are occur. If Surya flows more at individual becomes introverted. evolved in us and when the sun nadis in the psychic body of a the pathways of the two polar night, you will become restless The flow of prana in these two rises certain hormonal patterns human being. Like chakras, opposites of life force flowing and find it difficult to sleep. If nadis is involuntary and are triggered. If you follow the they are not located in the within us. Chandra flows when you are unconscious unless yogic rhythm, then your health will physical body, though the These currents operate eating, the digestive process is practices control it. So that is automatically improve. nerves of the physical body are alternately and the current that affected, causing indigestion. why in the olden days people What happens if you stay up late their corresponding physical is flowing at any particular time All our activities are influenced would get up and examine their at nights? When your strength manifestations. The meridians is determined by the flow of by the flow of these nadis, which breathing. If it was not as it and youthfulness start to of Chinese medicine are breath in the nostrils. Ideally, the alternate approximately every should be, they would drink decline, you will be swimming somewhat comparable to nadis. right nostril should be one to two hours. It is possible, some hot water and do things against the current and your Nadis are the subtle channels predominant during the however, to alter the flow like pranayama, walking, etc. decline in health will speak along which the vital forces of daytime and the left at night. voluntarily by using willpower If you are very careful, just volumes. It is good to set a prana flow. Out of the many The impact of these currents on and certain yogic techniques. around sunrise and sunset you pattern early in life, in tune with nadis, fourteen are considered our physiology is directly related For example, if there is work to will witness a slow shift from Nature. a spot at the foot of the Pandava hill, and put up a more important, and of these, to the movement of both the sun be done, but you feel sleepy, you right to left or left to right. And small hut made of the leaves of trees for his sojourn. three are the most important - and moon. When the right can direct the flow of prana to if you happen to meditate at that (The author is the fourth Kapilavatsu by foot is nearly 400 miles distant from ida, pingala and sushumna. nostril (Surya) is active, then the Surya nadi, gaining energy. time, your progress will go like a spiritual guide in the Sahaj Marg Rajagraha. This long journey Siddharth Gautama Sushumna nadi runs within the vital energy is more active for This can be done by Surya Nadi rocket, as it is just the right time. system of Raja Yoga meditation.) did all on foot.          

poverty is our ultimate and fundamental to make different choices about how they goal. Everything the Bank does now, live. We must change how we eat, how we every decision we make, is made with the shop, how we travel, how we measure greatest benefit of the poor in mind. If we "success." have to choose between two or more We must, in Swamiji's words, "focus options in any circumstance, the deciding more on filling our selves than on filling factor is always which will benefit the our shelves." As Mahatma Gandhi poorest of the poor." I have been in many famously said: "There is always enough environments, many functions and many for everyone's need but never enough for conferences where religious leaders are even one man's greed." Ill-informed there merely as tokens. There is a token decisions, from the personal to the Bhagawati Saraswati Christian or two, a token Muslim, a token international, have brought our planet to Hindu, sometimes a token Jew and/or the brink of destruction. We need masses token Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains. of people to make changes in their lives A few weeks ago I had the joy and Relegated to the role of providing and lifestyles. I believe the fastest and blessing to be part of a conference hosted "blessings," the leaders seem to be called most effective way to achieve this is at the World Bank in Washington DC on for little more than photo-ops and through faith based organizations that Religion and Sustainable Development. political correctness. This conference was connect the world's people with the The conference was jointly sponsored by the opposite. Faith leaders and heads of guiding principles, morals and values of the World Bank and 13 other faith-based organizations were the ones to their lives-their own religion. By organizations as varied as governments of whom the other leaders turned and asked, relegating religion and faith to Friday the UK, US, Germany and Norway, World "How can we work together to help evenings or Sunday mornings or our life Vision, Tearfund and McKinsey & Co. eradicate extreme poverty? How can we after death, we are depriving ourselves of Focused on inquiry into the challenges of join hands, utilizing each of our strengths, one of the greatest tools we have to save partnerships between government based to ensure that the Earth we pass onto our our planet. organizations (both multilateral and children is one that sustains life and health Of course there are challenges. bilateral) and faith based organizations, rather than one fraught with toxicity, Religion may be co-opted by those with the conference's goals were to develop drought and natural disaster?" The political or financial agendas. This is true solutions to these challenges as well as to speeches were deep inquiries into about nearly any sector to which one forge partnerships that can work toward prejudices, biases and other challenges of looks. There are stories of doctors raping sustainable development. bridging the gap between the public patients on the operating tables, stories of Additionally, an underlying, sector and faith-based organizations. academic administrators colluding to fundamental element which wove Leaders of prominent financial, political falsify test scores, stories of lawyers through each discussion, each panel and and humanitarian institutions candidly The concept of "separation between become the mantra of those who want to For example, millions of toilets have been swindling their clients out of life savings. each session was the World Bank's examined the personal and organizational Church and State" goes back to Thomas ensure that religion is relegated to houses built by UNICEF and other organizations This does not mean, though, that we don't primary goal of eradicating extreme impediments to collaboration with Jefferson and the First Amendment to the of worship and that religious leaders do that are not being used. Why? For myriad go to the doctor when we are sick. It poverty by 2030. In April, Pujya Swami religious groups. Constitution of the United States. It was no more than facilitate an individual's reasons, varying between village and doesn't mean we don't send our children Chidanand Saraswatiji had been invited By the end of the conference, put into effect in order to provide a safe relationship with God. However, a home, the people don't want to use them. to school. It doesn't mean we fight our to take part in a flagship panel, hosted by friendships had been formed and bridges ground for religious freedom. Its purpose separation between governmental Ending open defecation is no more own legal battles singlehandedly. While Dr Jim Yong Kim, President of the World had been built. Creative approaches to any is to ensure that "No religious Test shall agencies and faith organizations serves achievable by constructing toilets than we must recognize the possibility of Bank, at the opening of their annual problems had been shared. Specific goals ever be required as a Qualification to any neither sector, and certainly does not ending illiteracy is achievable by building corruption, we cannot forego the far spring meetings, along with one leader of had been established. There is still a great Office or public Trust under the United serve the poor of the planet. Embracing schools. The achievement of the greater potential for assistance and each of the major world religions. This deal of work to be done, both within and States." the contributions of religion and religious Sustainable Development Goals requires cooperation from faith based week's conference was open only to between all participants and all sectors. This separation was reciprocal. leaders in order to achieve common goals both the top-down implementation of organizations. approximately 100 leaders, specifically However, strong foundations have been Jefferson wrote: "I contemplate with is not incompatible with the separation of infrastructure and bottom- up change in While we certainly want to maintain invited from across the world. Its mission laid, and powerful seeds have been sovereign reverence that act of the whole church and state. The United Nations' behavior and beliefs. Faith leaders and the founding principle of separation of was to probe the challenges of planted in fertile soil. American people which declared that Millennium Development Goals and the faith based organizations are, church and state, religious institutions can partnerships between Having grown up in America, I was their legislature should 'make no law soon-to-be-implemented Sustainable indisputably, the best suited to help and should be welcomed as partners by bilateral/multilateral organizations with inculcated with a passionate belief in the respecting an establishment of religion, or Development Goals focus on the achieve this change. When 83% of the political, financial and humanitarian faith based organizations and how to importance of separation between prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus improvement of life on our planet for the world's population identify as members of institutions in the service of eradicating overcome these challenges in the service Church and State. We learned in building another wall of separation greatest number of people. The goals are a faith, faith is truly the potential magic poverty, protecting the planet, and of sustainable development and elementary school to be grateful that we between Church & State."In the 240 years rooted in eradicating poverty, protecting wand in our hands. Faith-based ensuring a healthy and sustainable future eradication of severe poverty. lived in a country where religion, faith since the founding of the Republic, the the environment, improving access to organizations have the power to shift for the world's population. World Bank President Kim's sincerity and spiritual belief had no role in the concept has been co-opted by much of education and health care, and ending values and change behavior. Eradication (The writer is the president of Divine and commitment were evident from his functioning of our society. The only society to ensure that the paths of politics open-defecation and the thousands of of poverty and sustainable development Shakti Foundation, Rishikesh. She left opening remarks. He shared (I am prayers allowed in school were to the flag and religion never intersect or overlap. daily deaths attributed to it. These are not require people of every socio-economic America in 1996 and settled in Rishikesh. paraphrasing): "Eradication of extreme of our nation. "Separation of Church and State" has goals achievable only from the top-down. status, culture, creed, color and country, Views expressed here are personal)

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 Bangladeshi cricket officials on Thursday "It was very bowling just 10 balls. has named the two pacers in the 15- Auti,Shubham Ranjane, Eknath Kerkar, lifted a ban on former Australian captain Steve important to Since then, the right-arm pacer is out member squad announced by the Karsh Kothari, Dhrumil Matkar, Tanush Smith playing in the forthcoming Twenty20 keep on the of action. Mumbai Cricket Association on its Kotian, Minad Manjrekar, Tushar Bangladesh Premier League, an official said. continuity. It'll Deshpande has also been out of website on Thursday. Deshpande, Royston Dias. The ruling means Smith, currently serving a be silly of me to one-year ban from international cricket over a ball- completely tampering scandal, is free to play for Comilla change the way Victorians in the next edition of the BPL starting we do things.  2 4 on January 5. Most of these He has signed for the side and is expected to boys are with join up with teammates in mid-January for the sec- us for some ond phase of the BPL as a replacement for time now," 2 2    1 Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik. Constantine The Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) had ini- said.  -1*+-, US Open champion and will tially blocked his participation after other franchises raised objections about Smith, "The other be looking to win a third who was not in the initial players' draft list for the tournament. five boys (from afael Nadal is "confident" major in a row at the "We could not give him permission earlier as other franchises had protested his the list of 28) will also stay with us until January Rhe will be 100 percent fit Australian Open next month. signing," BCB spokesman Jalal Yunus said on Thursday. 2. In case of an injury or anything else happens, when the Australian Open Djokovic ended a two- "Today four franchises emailed us separately saying that they have withdrawn these five boys will need to step up," he added. starts in less than three weeks' year Grand Slam title drought their objections for the greater interest of the tournament," he said. "We are looking forward to the massive time despite enduring yet at Wimbledon in July and has Yunus added that in return other franchises wanted at least one replacement tournament. We hope these 23 boys will do a another tough battle with lost just three matches since. player outside of the players' draft and the BCB had agreed to their demand. good job for us." injuries over the past few He admits that he lost his Australia's ex-vice captain David Warner will also play in the BPL — which con- The Blue Tigers were the first among 23 months. motivation during the difficult cludes on February 8, 2019 — having signed for the Sylhet Sixers as one of their visiting teams to arrive in Abu Dhabi on The Spanish world num- period that followed the 2016 two pre-draft signings. AFP December 20. A 28-member squad had trav- ber two had to pull the plug French Open, where he com- elled to Abu Dhabi and has been practicing in early on his 2018 season and pleted the career Grand Slam, an effort to acclimatize themselves to the con- has not played since a knee but has now found different ditions. problem forced him to retire ways to attain gratification $    Meanwhile, national team's director during his US Open semi-final from the sport. Abhishek Yadav said the continental showpiece against Juan Martin del Potro "I feel I'm not prioritising is a "significant platform" for the side to enter in September. success on the tennis court for 3 :8    top 8 in Asia. He underwent surgery on the sake of the success only as "We are aiming for top-8 status in Asia for his ankle to remove an intra- I used to do that probably up men's and top-3 status in Asia for women's articular loose body in to five years ago," Djokovic  ()*( +, Shirin Godara, representing national teams by 2026. All our programmes November and only resumed said. Haryana, won the 50m rifle 3 positions are designed to achieve this end, and the Asian training two weeks ago. "For me, tennis is more of he young Manu Bhaker was in top women's junior finals with 450.7. Zenab Cup will massively help in our quest," said Nadal will dip his toes a platform now for other Tform in the 10-metre air pistol Hussain (447.6) finished second while Yadav, a former India striker. back into competition at the things and for the values I event, winning both the women's and Ayushi Podder was third with 438.2. He added, "It is a very significant platform Mubadala World Tennis four Grand Slams in 2018, but tough feelings and pains in the want to share, and the mes- junior finals at the national selection tri- Former world number one Heena for players to gain recognition as a lot of peo- Championship exhibition in still added a record-extending body that normally you don't sages I want to share with the als, while Anjum Moudgil topped the 50- Sidhu, who equalled the women's 10m ple connected to continental or global football Abu Dhabi, where he faces 11th French Open crown to have. young generation. metre rifle 3 positions here on Thursday. air pistol qualification world record on watch the event closely for talents. either Kevin Anderson or his collection. "But I have experience in "Ultimately a tennis court Winner of Gold medals at the Wednesday, finished fourth in the "I feel more people out there need to realise Chung Hyeon in his opener on He says he remains moti- all of this and try to be ready for me is a place where I get Youth Olympics, ISSF World Cup and women's air pistol finals with 197.3. that this is our equivalent of the Euros or the Friday. vated to launch yet another for the everyday practices and challenged in every possible Commonwealth Games, Haryana's In the junior finals, the 16-year-old Copa America. This is a big deal. "I started two weeks ago comeback from injury, despite when (I) arrive (at) the match- way emotionally and my char- Bhaker shot a total of 242.1 in the Bhaker shot 244.5. Esha finished second and of course doing the things a career plagued by physical es I don't have to ask myself acter is kind of on the line. I women's 10-metre air pistol final to fin- with 24-4, while Yashsavi Joshi was third, C step by step and I think I have problems. big things at the beginning, treat that as my own person- ish ahead of 13-year-old teen sensation having managed 215.3 at the Dr. Karni GOALKEEPERS: Gurpreet Singh Sandhu, time to be ready for "After the second part of just trying to be positive with al school of life. Esha Singh, who shot 240.4, and Singh Shooting Range. Vishal Kaith, Amrinder Singh Melbourne at my 100 percent," the year, have been tough last every improvement and that "Not many places can trig- Anuradha (219.3). The youth 10-metre air pistol finals DEFEDERS: Pritam Kotal, Sarthak Golui, Nadal told reporters in the year in terms of injuries but way normally you get the ger me in a positive or nega- Bhaker was second in the qualifi- was won by Saumya Dhyani, who shot Sandesh Jhingan, Anas Edathodika, Salam UAE capital on Thursday. that happens and that's part of right point." tive way as a tennis court cation with a score of 579. 241.4, while Vibhuti Bhatia (237.6) and Ranjan Singh, Subhashish Bose, Narayan Das "It's going to be good to my tennis career too," he does." In the women's 50-metre rifle 3 Yashsavi Joshi (215.3 ) finished second MIDFIELDERS: Udanta Singh, Jackiechand have some matches before but added.   +   Djokovic takes on either positions finals, Punjab's Moudgil shot and third respectively. Singh, Germanpreet Singh, Pronay Halder, I'm confident that I'm going to "Just try to stay calm, try Joining Nadal in Abu Karen Khachanov or Dominic a total of 460.6 to finish ahead of Tamil A few days ago, Bhaker claimed the Anirudh Thapa, Vinit Rai, Rowllin Borges, arrive to Melbourne with the to work the right way and Dhabi is the man who replaced Thiem in Abu Dhabi on Nadu's Gaayathri N (457.4) and veter- top positions in the women's 25-metre Ashique Kuruniyan, Halicharan Narzary right situation." when I'm back I know things him at the top of the rankings, Friday and officially kicks off an Tejaswini Sawant (445.7) of sports pistol in both the women's and FORWARDS: Sumeet Passi, Balwant Singh, The 32-year-old retired are not easy, I know at the Novak Djokovic. The Serb is his 2019 season at the Qatar Maharashtra. junior sections. 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Cprime form in the current the slowness of the MCG track fours, while Pat Cummins was the (but) if they haven't got time to to bat long enough to only bat Four overs later, in the 126th Test series against Australia but was something that bogged down pick of the Australian bowlers, bowl Australia out twice, it once, but just yet they haven't over, Pujara got a delivery from there has been no conscious even India's dogged No 3 during taking 3/72 in a back-breaking could be what actually costs got enough runs to do that. Cummins that kept a tad low and effort to silence critics who have the first innings of the third Test. effort of 34 overs. them the game," Ponting told "Obviously they've talked knocked back his stumps as India panned him for his under- "We have to bat like the way At stumps, openers Aaron cricket.Com.Au. long and hard about what they were suddenly reduced to 299-4. whelming performance Down the wicket is behaving and what Finch and Marcus Harris were "I think it's always hard for want to do, it's just a bit baffling Rahane then took charge of Under in 2014. the situation is. On this pitch, unbeaten on 3 and 5 respective- India to push the run rate to us." proceedings and played a breezy "When I play international every batsman has to play a lot of ly. knock, not allowing the cricket, I don't need to silence balls to score runs. If it were a dif- It was a solid batting effort by Australian attack to get on top. anyone. I just need to keep scor- ferent wicket maybe I would the Indians, something that was ward square leg as the batsman In comparison, Rohit was ing runs and that is what I love have scored 140-150 after playing emphasised endlessly by Kohli in 24+,3+26O3 played a wild sweep. A ball later, more sedate and took his time at to do. I don't want to get into all so many deliveries. But in Test his pre-match statements. What 47!P:=4 88K Ajinkya Rahane (34) was lucky the crease, even as Tim Paine tar- such things. My job is to score cricket it is important to read both stood out for the visitors was the when on 32 as Travis Head was geted him with some banter. runs and I will keep scoring runs, situation and pitch when batting," patience they showed in the first - 3",7 1*(* caught napping at short leg when In the morning session, whether it is home or away," said Pujara, who scored 106 off two sessions, which ultimately left ,?( 4123#)+, ( the ball sailed past him. 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