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NEARBY ‘Mughalsarai’ junction Intruder rams car into becomes history today Barpeta hopes NRC will CHANDAULI/LUCKNOW The Mughalsarai Junction will be formally renamed after Abdullah home, shot dead heal its bitter wounds RSS ideologue Deen Dayal Upadhyay on Sunday. NORTH Ī PAGE 6 Relatives stage protests, demand inquiry into Jammu incident Kin of victims on both sides of the agitation await closure DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Peerzada Ashiq Rahul Karmakar Srinagar BARPETA An intruder was shot dead Two memorials some 30 by security forces guarding km apart have for long de­ the private house of former fined the psychological di­ Chief Minister and NC presi­ vide in the Muslim­majority dent Farooq Abdullah in Barpeta, a district that has Jammu’s Bathindi area on Sa­ spawned quite a few agita­ INSIDE turday morning. Dr. Abdul­ tions in post­Independence lah was not in the house dur­ Assam. SECTION 1 ing the incident. Every day, Kalimun Nes­ The incident sparked sa wipes the dirt off the me­ 5Ws — Explainer protests, with relatives of the morial outside her house at Ī page 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC youth demanding an inquiry Khandakar Para village, ColumnWidth into why he had not been ar­ which lists her second son, Ī page 13 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC rested. They even burnt Maidul Islam Molla among Science & Technology tyres and raised slogans, offi­ the four martyrs of the Ī page 14 cials said. 2010 anti­NRC protests. Looking back: Nur Begam holding a photo of her husband CCCCCCCCCCCCCC The incident took place Maidul was 25 when he Marhun Mazad Ali in Barpeta district. * RITU RAJ KONWAR Being around 11 a.m. when the in­ became a ‘martyr’ of an ag­ Ī page 15 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC truder, identified as Murad Bolt from the blue: Security personnel at the residence of Farooq Abdullah after the security itation spearheaded by the others would live without dul’s aunt Abida Begum. Non­Fiction Ali Shah, 25, rammed his breach on Saturday. The lone intruder was shot dead by CRPF personnel.* PTI All Assam Minority Stu­ the burden of the Bangla­ “We are among 40 lakh Ī page 16 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC SUV into the front gate and dents’ Union (AAMSU) deshi tag,” Kalimun Nessa, people excluded from the reached the inner garden of intruder, who continued against a pilot project of the 62, said. list, I hear. But we have SECTION 2 the closely guarded resi­ vandalising everything that 5 militants, civilian National Register of Citi­ faith that the final NRC will Despatches dence, witnesses said. came his way. zens (NRC) in 2010. Still retain faith be an error­free one and Ī page 5 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC Eyewitnesses said that af­ “The intruder breached killed in encounter A high school dropout, Mai­ settle the (illegal immi­ Framed ter ramming his car into the the main gate and went in. The outsider tag dul used to run a small rice grants) issue once and for Ī page 6&7 iron gate, the intruder conti­ He had a scuffle with the du­ special correspondent The police had opened fire and spice mill at home. The all,” she said. CCCCCCCCCCCCCC cordoned off the Kiloora nued to drive within the ty officers there. A duty offic­ Srinagar area on Friday night. In the on hundreds of protestors unit shut down after he Khandakar Para has The Big Story Ī page 8 compound till he reached er was injured. After that, he Five local militants were initial firing, one militants who allegedly tried to died. some 4,000 people, and al­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCC the house. He stopped at the entered the residence; there killed in a night­long was killed. “Four more storm the Deputy Commis­ most every house has one Your Money inner lawns, got down from has been some damage to operation in south militants were found dead sioner’s office in Barpeta on SUNDAY SPECIAL or more members missing Ī page 9 CCCCCCCCCCCCCC the vehicle and entered the the articles over there. Sub­ Kashmir’s Shopian on when the forces concluded July 21 that year. Maidul was from the NRC. Business Abroad main lobby, where he broke sequently, he was shot Saturday. A civilian youth the operation on Saturday hit by a bullet in his chest. Of the 18 family mem­ In adjoining Kumullipara Ī page 12 a glass table and pictures on dead,” Senior Superinten­ was killed and 20 others morning,” the police said. “I would often ask Allah bers he left behind, 16 have village, daily wager Nur Be­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCC the walls, and started climb­ dent of Police Vivek Gupta were injured in firing during DGP S.P. Vaid the why Maidul, the second of made it to the final NRC gum is the only member of SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES ing the stairs leading to the said. protests after the encounter. militants belonged to the my four sons had to die that draft published on July 30. her family not in the NRC. LITERARY REVIEW Ī 4 PAGES bedroom, the police said. (With PTI inputs) The police said the Lashkar­e­Taiba. day. The NRC has made me The two members who (IN SELECTED AREAS) CRPF personnel guarding militants were hiding in a realise he died so that 10 were left out include Mai­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 5 & 6 the residence challenged the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 house when the forces CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10

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Special Correspondent crime. “Nitish ji says he is Bihar that the foundation of New Delhi hurt and is sad. Then why the UPA government had The Rashtriya Janata Dal led did he get the prime accused been rocked following the a protest by all Opposition Brajesh Thakur’s name re­ protest over Nirbhaya’s rape. parties against the alleged moved from the FIR… why This was the first political mass rape at a shelter home did he take this long to act on protest where Mr. Gandhi in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, at Jan­ social audit by TISS?” he shared the stage with Mr Kej­ tar Mantar here on Saturday. questioned. riwal. During Mr Kejriwal’s RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav He said that Bihar was liv­ protest at the Delhi Lieute­ was joined by Congress pre­ ing under ‘Rakshas Raj’, nant Governor’s office, the sident Rahul Gandhi, Delhi drawing upon references Congress had refused to sup­ Chief Minister Arvind Kejri­ from the Mahabharata and port AAP. wal, CPI(M)’s Sitaram Yechu­ the Ramayana. “In Bihar, CPI(M) General Secretary ry, CPI’s D. Raja and Atul Ku­ Raavan is kidnapping Sita ev­ Sitaram Yechury said BJP’s mar Anjan, Loktantrik Janata ery minute. Every minute, a slogan “beti bachao” needed Dal leader Sharad Yadav and Duryodhan is de­robing a reworking. Trinamool Congress’ Dinesh Draupadi,” he said. “We need to change this Trivedi. Coming together: Rahul Gandhi with Tejashwi Yadav, Sharad Delhi Chief Minister Ar­ government... the slogan of Mr. Gandhi said that the Yadav, Sitaram Yechuri and D. Raja during the dharna in New vind Kejriwal said fast track ‘beti bachao’ is now ‘save be­ country had made up its Delhi on Saturday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA courts should be set up to ti from BJP’,” he said. mind against the BJP govern­ award the death sentence to Former JD(U) leader Sha­ ment. Pointing out that the happened in the last four culprits in the sexual assault the accused for such a hei­ rad Yadav said the BJP was Opposition was united on years.” case in the Muzaffarpur nous crime. “I demand that not saving the daughters of the stage, Mr. Gandhi said, shelter. this case be probed in three the country but was busy “On one side is the BJP/RSS ‘Act immediately’ In a 12­minute speech, Te­ months and the accused be saving cows. and on the other is the rest of Mr. Gandhi said Bihar Chief jashwi Yadav accused the hanged,” he said. Defining moment: Ben Stokes’ dismissal of Virat Kohli eased England’s path to victory on the the country. Indians are say­ Minister Nitish Kumar must Nitish Kumar government of He also sought to remind WOMEN JD(U) LEADERS WRITE fourth day of the first Test at Edgbaston on Saturday. * GETTY IMAGES (REPORT ON PAGE 17) ing that they do not like what immediately act against the turning a blind eye to the the JD(U)­BJP government in LETTER TO RABRI Ī PAGE 9

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Man beaten to death on CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC HC sets aside AAP govt.’s suspicion of cattle theft It is kid gloves for fresh offenders minimum wages order Incident in Haryana’s Palwal; one held Tamil Nadu moves to insulate young undertrials from hardened criminals Says it is hurried and invalid

Staff Reporter Akram. S. Vijay Kumar engage the inmates. The Staff Reporter disrupted this course, yet Gurugram Mr. Akram said that a CHENNAI mornings begin with yoga New Delhi again” and referred to a line A man was beaten to death case was also registered The cells look old and and meditation. Post­lunch, In a blow to the Aam Aadmi from Alice in Wonderland allegedly by three brothers against three unknown per­ rudimentary, but something they play volleyball, chess Party government, the Delhi by Lewis Carroll — "The hur­ on suspicion of cattle theft sons on charges of theft. new is happening at the and carrom. High Court on Saturday rier I go, the behinder I get". at Bahrola in Palwal district. Ramkishan and his broth­ Saidapet sub­jail here. “I was so afraid when I quashed its March 2017 noti­ The deceased is yet to be ers stay in a house in the What instantly catches was remanded. Prisons that fication revising minimum ‘Flawed committee’ identified. fields on the outskirts of the the attention of a visitor is we see in movies flashed in wages for all classes of work­ “The flawed committee gave The victim was caught by village. According to the the youthful appearance of my mind. But this is like a ers in all scheduled employ­ a report which was not Ramkishan and his brothers FIR, Ramkishan woke up on its inmates. They are all in hostel. I miss my family and ments, saying the decision based on relevant material, Prakash and Bir Singh in the August 3 morning and saw the 18­24 age group. repent for my mistake,” said was ultra vires the denied fair representation to early hours of Friday when the trio trying to cut the The sub­jail is now a an inmate who was arrested Constitution. the employers as well as the he, along with two others, mosquito nets put over the dedicated facility for fresh for stealing milk packets in A Bench of Acting Chief employees,” the Bench said. was allegedly trying to steal buffaloes. offenders involved in petty Road to reform: Youth held for petty crimes at the Saidapet residential areas. Many Justice Gita Mittal and Jus­ Reacting to the court or­ buffaloes. He was badly bea­ While he managed to crimes such as theft, brawls sub­jail in Chennai enjoying a game. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT offenders are college tice C. Hari Shankar also der, a Delhi government spo­ ten up and later died. A case catch hold of the victim, his and chain snatching. Rather students or office­goers. One quashed a Delhi government kesperson said: “The Delhi has been registered at the accomplices fled. Ramkish­ than remand them to The circular directed parents and kin to sit with man, an MCA student, is notification setting up an ad­ government disagrees with Sadar police station and an then called his brothers regular prisons, where they magistrates in Chennai to the accused in the visitors linked to the ‘free biryani’ visory panel on minimum the High Court verdict and Ramkishan has been and the three tied up the might mingle with hardened remand first time undertrial hall. “We removed the iron attack in Chennai. “I don’t wages, saying both decisions will decide its next step in fa­ arrested. man and thrashed him criminals, the city courts are prisoners, except those mesh that separates them. know why I am here. were taken without suffi­ vour of workers after study­ mercilessly. sending youth to the arrested for heinous or Parents cry and hug their Partymen took me cient material and were in­ ing the order.” Two accused absconding The FIR states that there Saidapet sub­jail. violent crimes including sons,” a prison official said. ostensibly to see DMK valid. The court noted that The decision by the HC “Efforts are being made to were cut marks on the left It all flows from a circular murder and rape to the The Tamil Nadu Prison president M. Karunanidhi in though the revision of wages came on several pleas filed arrest Prakash and Bir hand and neck of the de­ of the Madras High Court. Saidapet sub­jail. About 120 Department has roped in hospital, to be followed by a “is sorely needed”, the “hur­ by various industrial units Singh. Both are abscond­ ceased. The jail authorities were inmates are lodged there. Prisoners Reform biryani. I neither saw him ried attempt” and “contra­ that employ workers on mi­ ing,” said Superintendent of advised to go in for Authorities have simplified Intervention Support nor ate any biryani. I was vening principles of natural nimum wages. Police, Palwal, Waseem LAW NEEDED: CPI(M) Ī PAGE 10 reformatory programmes. the formalities, allowing Mission (PRISM), an NGO, to just a spectator.” justice has unfortunately (With PTI inputs) CM A ND-NDE YK 2006-2018 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -@SridharMuskula [email protected] - THE HINDU https://t.me/pdf4examsNOIDA/DELHI https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Man held for Gokulpuri murder Accused is the boyfriend of woman whose body was found in an almirah on Wednesday

Hemani Bhandari officer said. New Delhi <> He came home drunk and asked for On July 31, he called the Three days after the body of woman’s close friend who money which led to a 25­year­old woman was had been trying to reach her found in an almirah in Gokul­ a fight. In a drunken on the mobile, the police puri, her boyfriend was ar­ state, he said. rested on charges of murder strangulated her The accused said he could on Saturday, the police said. with a dupatta. He not reach her too and that Deputy Commissioner of stuffed the victim’s they should go to her office. Police (North­East) Atul Ku­ body inside the “The friend kept telling mar Thakur confirmed that almirah after tying him that they should check Rahees alias Sahil has been the house first but he dodged The accused, Sahil. her legs arrested. He was being ques­ her. They went to victim’s of­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Investigating officer tioned since Wednesday and fice in Karol Bagh,” the offic­ further investigation is under er added. way, the officer said. He used to take money led to a fight. In a drunken On Wednesday, when Sahil is married with four from her to meet his drinking state, he strangulated her neighbours started talking children and his wife was and gambling needs, the pol­ with a dupatta. Then, he about the foul smell, he aware of the alleged affair, ice said. stuffed the body inside the al­ asked the friend to check the the officer added. mirah after tying her legs,” house. A police officer investigat­ Dead for over 24 hours the officer said. “All this was done to mis­ ing the case said Sahil killed When the body was found, it Chand Bagh in Gokulpuri, lead police,” the investigator the woman for multiple appeared to the police that where the body was found, is said. reasons. she had been dead for more a crowded area, the police During investigation, the “The victim wanted him to than 24 hours. said, adding, “Sahil could not police were allegedly in­ leave his wife. He used to get The investigator said that find a way to dispose of the formed by the woman’s jealous when she spoke to Sahil had killed her on the in­ body. So for the next two friends that he used to often her male colleagues. Also, tervening night of July 30­31 days, he kept planning to threaten to kill her and also the accused had an eye on between 1 a.m. to 4 a.m. hide the crime till the locals thrashed her on her birthday her property in which she “He came home drunk complained of a foul smell party a few days ago in front was living,” the officer said. and asked for money which coming from the house,” the of everyone. Man stabs wife to death in Noida

‘Suspected her of being in touch with former husband’ Press Trust of India Both of are from Bi­ home for the past 12 days. Noida har’s Gaya, they added. He returned on Saturday A woman (28) was The victim’s brother alleg­ and told his wife that he stabbed to death allegedly edly told the police that was leaving for Mumbai by her husband in Harola the accused often assault­ along with their son (3). village on Saturday, the ed Ruby as he suspected Later in the day, he con­ police said. Ruby was her of meeting her former fronted Ruby in Sector 5 stabbed five times in the husband. and stabbed her in front gut by her husband, Raju The police said that Ra­ of his mother­in­law and alias Aslam, they said. ju was not living at their child, the police said.

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But strict laws Three persons, involved in in a shelter home in Bihar’s will scare people.” Nitish more than 500 cases of car Muzaffarpur, hundreds of Madhavi Moira (52), said: Staff Reporter theft, were arrested on citizens protested against “If kids do not understand New Delhi Thursday, the police said on the mass sexual exploita­ our values, then crime will Delhi Commission for Saturday. tion in central Delhi’s Jantar not stop. Hence, strict pun­ Women (DCW) chairper­ They have recovered 10 Mantar on Saturday. ishment is needed. Without son Swati Maliwal on Sa­ cars and 64 car keys from the The protest organised by that, crime will only repeat turday wrote to Bihar accused. the Rashtriya Janata Dal itself.” Chief Minister Nitish Ku­ Deputy Commissioner of (RJD) was attended by Lead­ mar over the alleged sex­ Police (North) Nupur Prasad er of the Opposition in the ‘Teach good values’ ual assault of 34 minor said the accused have been The three accused in police custody on Saturday. Bihar Assembly Tejashwi Nisa Satdaki (42) said that girls at a shelter home in identified as Mohsin (39), As­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Yadav, Chief Minister Ar­ education is far more im­ Muzaffarpur. lam (38), and Shahzad (28), vind Kejriwal, Member of portant than stricter laws. She urged the State all from Uttar Pradesh. said. operandi, Ms. Prasad said the Parliament D. Raja, and “When children are taught government to ensure “Information was received accused used to break the members of other opposi­ good values, they will share that the minors are not Tip­off that criminals involved in cas­ window and open the gate. tion parties including the it with their friends. One pressurised into chang­ The miscreants were arrested es of motor vehicle theft will “Then they used Bluetooth Congress. day, their children will also ing their statements. following a tip­off, the officer come to Timarpur. A car with scanner and other devices to Jawaharlal Nehru Univer­ learn the same good va­ The DCW chief also three occupants was change car locks. They also sity ex­president Kanhaiya lues,” she said. sought details pertain­ The accused used stopped. They were riding a used drill machine to unlock Kumar and ex­vice presi­ Another protester said ing to whether the girls <> stolen car. Also, car opening the steering. The accused Bluetooth scanner dent Shehla Rashid were al­ that parents must teach were being sent to tools along with 52 keys were knew how to make the alarms so present at the protest. their children good values school and whether to change car locks. found inside the vehicle,” Ms. non­functional,” the officer When asked if stricter Immediate action: A woman at the protest march against the to ensure decrease in rape they were being coun­ They also used drill Prasad said. Mohsin allegedly said. Following this, they laws or societal awareness Muzaffarpur shelter home rapes, in New Delhi on Saturday. cases. selled. Ms. Maliwal has machine to unlock told the police that he had in­ gave the cars to their han­ and education would help * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA While many of the prot­ also asked Mr. Kumar the steering and itially come to Delhi with an dlers who then took them to in reducing rape cases, a esters differ on how to com­ about the steps being ta­ knew how to make associate for stealing stereos Meerut, the police said. The protester, Manmeet Rand­ Demanding immediate said, “Even with education, bat increasing rape cases in ken by the State govern­ the alarms non- but he met another person accused have allegedly re­ hawa said: “Strict punish­ action against the accused there is no control. Unless the country, they all prot­ ment to ensure the safe­ functional who encouraged him in car vealed names of others in­ ment and education must of the mass rape, Brij Prij­ the government wakes up, ested with the same enthu­ ty of the girls. Nupur Prasad theft for more money. volved in the crime, they ad­ go hand­in­hand.” pruthy, another protester, nothing will happen.” siasm. DCP (North) Explaining their modus ded. Consumer disputes panel asks post office to compensate man By paying over ₹5.73 lakh, after it was alleged that there were discrepancies in the amount accrued in the savings account

Staff Reporter was alleged that there were laws, he was asked to conti­ maturity amount, he was ad­ count as no further interest carry interest of post office New Delhi discrepancies in the amount nue a scheme for which he vised to extend the PPF ac­ would be payable on his ac­ saving account. Therefore A district consumer disputes accrued in the savings ac­ had to pay an additional count for a further period of count,” read the complaint. we order that the opposite redressal forum has directed count. amount, the interest for five years. [Two years later] Directing the postal de­ party shall pay an interest on the Department of Post to which was denied to him. he was told that there was a partment to pay the sum, ₹5,73,256 at the rate of post compensate a complainant Told to continue scheme “It was stated that when mistake on the part of the the consumer panel said, office saving account from by paying a sum amounting The complainant had al­ the complainant went to the post office and suggested “The excess amount deposit­ the date of deposit made by to over ₹5.73 lakh, after it leged that despite relevant post office for claiming the that he should close the ac­ ed in violation of rule will the complainant.” Interim relief amount to woman in domestic violence case cut

‘Trial court had guessworked her husband’s income’

Nirnimesh Kumar The respondent had The trial court had as­ New Delhi <> not placed on sumed ₹50,000 per month A Delhi court has reduced an as the income of the hus­ record any other interim relief amount of band and on that basis grant­ ₹25,000 to ₹11,500 to a wo­ document to rebut ed an interim relief of man in a domestic violence this admitted ₹25,000 to his estranged case, observing that the trial income of the wife. court had guessworked her appellant. There is “The impugned order husband’s income. no other material dated 01.08.2017 is accord­ The woman’s husband produced on record ingly modified and the ap­ had come in an appeal by the wife... pellantis directed to pay against a Metropolitan Ma­ judge ₹11,500 per month to the gistrate court which had respondentand minor chil­ granted ₹25,000 to the wo­ of the appellant/husband,” dren till they are legally en­ man on her complaint. Additional Sessions Judge titled as interim mainte­ Devender Kumar Jangala nance towards foods, ‘Monthly income’ said. clothing...all inclusive from “In the present case the ap­ “The respondent/wife the date of impugned order pellant/husband has filed on had not placed on record till the final disposal of the record an affidavit admitting any other document to rebut case before the trial court,’’ his monthly income of this admitted income of the the Judge added. ₹23,000 per month which is appellant/husband. There is “The amount if any paid corroborated with the in­ no other material produced in this court or in any other come tax return for the rele­ on record by the respon­ proceeding by the appel­ vant year filed by him. Ho­ dent/wife regarding any oth­ lant/husband as mainte­ wever, the trial court was er income of the appellant/ nance to the respondent/ pleased to enter into guess husband except the bald wife and minor children work considering some en­ averment without any shall be liable to be adjust­ tries in the bank statement proof,” the Judge said. ed,’’ the Judge further said.

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Man kills wife, ‘Mughalsarai’ two children 3 more killed in U.P. rain, junction Press trust of india Dholpur becomes A man allegedly killed his major rivers in spate wife and two minor chil­ history today dren before attempting sui­ cide in Rajasthan’s Dhol­ Fear of floods in several districts; Chief Minister undertakes aerial survey Press Trust of India pur district, the police said Chandauli/Lucknow on Saturday. The incident Press Trust of India raised apprehensions of sev­ The iconic Mughalsarai took place in Kankor vil­ Lucknow ere floods in various parts of Junction will be formally lage in the Baseri police Three more persons were the State. There are 40 sensi­ renamed after RSS ideo­ station area around mid­ killed as rain and thunder­ tive and hypersensitive dis­ logue Deen Dayal Upad­ night, they said. showers continued to lash tricts in terms of floods. Khe­ hyay in the presence of BJP Those killed were Rinki most parts of Uttar Pradesh ri, Sitapur, Bahraich and president Amit Shah, Rail­ (30), Shivanya (3) and on Saturday. Major rivers, in­ Gonda fall in hypersensitive way Minister Piyush Goyal Shubhanshu (1), Sub­In­ cluding Ghaghra and Shar­ category,” he said. and Uttar Pradesh Chief spector of the Baseri police da, were in spate, leading to Minister Yogi Adityanath station Kastur Verma said. fears of floods in several ‘Preventive measures’ on Sunday. districts. “We had already initiated The three leaders will Chief Minister Yogi Adi­ preventive measures and re­ flag off a passenger train tyanath undertook an aerial leased adequate budget fol­ and a goods train with an survey of the flood­hit areas lowing the feedback from all­woman crew, and also

of Lakhimpur Kheri and in­ Flooded Lucknow after heavy rain last week. * FILE PHOTO our MPs, legislators and oth­ launch a smart yard pro­ structed the authorities to er public representatives,” ject at the century­old sta­ remain on high alert and to moderate rains and thun­ pur and Puranpur, said the the Chief Minister, who also tion on the busy Delhi­ provide swift assistance to dershowers at most places. weather department. interacted with the flood­af­ Howrah route. Railway offi­ the needy. The weather office warned fected people, said. cials said it will be the first The three deaths were re­ that heavy rains are likely at ‘Swift action’ He claimed that his go­ time in the country that an ported from Mirzapur, Un­ isolated places. After the aerial survey, Mr. vernment has been able to all­woman crew would run nao and Kanpur. The toll in The Central Water Com­ Adityanath told reporters check loss of human lives a goods train. rain­related incidents in Ut­ mission said major rivers, in­ that he has asked various de­ and properties due to pre­ The station building has tar Pradesh had reached 183 cluding Ghaghra, Sharda partments engaged in flood ventive measures initiated been touched up with saf­ since July 1. and Sai, were in spate and relief operations to coordi­ by it. Mr. Adityanath in­ fron paint at places and flowing above the danger nate with each other as well formed that boat capsizing, signboards with the new Heavy rain warning mark at some places. as with public representa­ snake bite cases as well as name have been put up. The Meteorological Depart­ While Gonda and Shahja­ tives and take swift action in sewer, gas and borewell ment here said the south­ hanpur received 7 cm rain­ extending all possible assis­ deaths have been incorpo­ New project west monsoon has been ac­ fall, 5 cm rainfall was record­ tance to the flood victims. rated among calamities and Upadhyay was found dead tive over the eastern region ed at Gorakhpur, Bhinga, “The excessive rain since prompt relief will be provid­ under mysterious circum­ of the State, leading to light Chhibramau, Hardoi, Farrid­ last fortnight in U.P. has ed to the aggrieved families. stances near the Mughalsa­ rai station in February 1968. The station is also the birth place of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Govt., Oppn. spar over M.P. job offers Shastri. The BJP leaders will Cong. disputes claim of over 1.25 lakh jobs being offered at employment meets launch a project to up­ grade the yard at the sta­ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ment Generation Board der Rozgar Panchayat,” he various government depart­ tion, the officials said. Bhopal Chairman Hemant said. ments for posts such as com­ Union Minister of State The BJP government in Mad­ Deshmukh. But the Congress said the puter operators, survey as­ for Railways Manoj Sinha, hya Pradesh said more than government was fooling the sistants and accountants in U.P. Deputy CM Keshav 1.25 lakh job offer letters ‘Cheques handed over’ youth. the last three years have not Prasad Maurya will also be were issued at ‘Rozgar Pan­ The government also hand­ “Rozgar Panchayat 2018 been taken in service yet, he present at the function. chayat 2018’ held across the ed over cheques of amounts was a sham, another move of alleged. The Mughalsarai station State on Saturday, a claim ranging from ₹1 lakh to ₹2 the State government to fool got a new name after Uttar dismissed by the opposition crore to around 60,000 per­ unemployed youth,” Con­ Sanitation jobs Pradesh Governor Ram Congress. sons for starting their own gress spokesperson Bhupen­ In Saturday’s employment Naik gave his assent to the Over 1.25 lakh persons got businesses during the meets, dra Gupta said. meets, jobs such as sanita­ proposal in June. The job offers in the private sec­ he said. tion worker were on offer Centre gave its in­principle tor during these ‘employ­ “Employment and self­ ‘Not taken yet’ which many of the partici­ approval last year to the ment meets’, said State Skill employment meets were or­ Over one lakh persons who pants declined, the Congress State government’s propo­ Development and Employ­ ganised in all 51 districts un­ have cleared online tests of leader alleged. sal to rename the station.

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‘Odisha Headmaster held for sexual assault resolution on Assam flood situation worsens Council soon’ 1.1 lakh people affected across six districts of the State; death toll rises to 43 Also accused of abetting suicide of 14­year­old student Staff Reporter dent was found dead inside In it, the student revealed PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Press Trust of India BERHAMPUR the school’s computer room. that Sarkar had been sexually Bhubaneswar Guwahati The headmaster of a girls’ high She had a deep wound on her harassing her as well as other A day after a panel recom­ The flood situation in Assam school in Odisha’s Malkangiri left wrist. It was suspected that minor girls. mended formation of a Le­ deteriorated on Saturday district was arrested on Satur­ she had killed herself. Following the arrest, anoth­ gislative Council in Odisha, with two more deaths report­ day for allegedly sexually as­ er student came forward and one of its members said on ed in Sivasagar district, tak­ saulting students and abetting Named in suicide note accused the headmaster of Saturday that the State go­ ing the toll to 43, while nearly the suicide of a 14­year­old girl. Malkangiri Superintendent of sexually exploiting her. vernment was planning to 1.1 lakh people remain affect­ The accused has been iden­ Police Jagmohan Meena said The police have registered move a resolution in the As­ ed across six districts in the tified as Biswajit Sarkar, post­ that a suicide note was reco­ two cases against Sarkar. Pol­ sembly in this regard. State. ed at SSD Girls’ High School, vered inside one of the note­ ice sources said the accused The resolution could be According to the Assam Sikhpalli. books belonging to the de­ may be taken on remand for moved in the coming mon­ State Disaster Management On Thursday, a Class X stu­ ceased. further investigation. soon session of the Assemb­ Authority (ASDMA), two per­ ly, said Manohar Randhari, sons lost their lives in flood­ ruling Biju Janata Dal leader related incidents at Sonari re­ and one of the five mem­ venue circle of Sivasagar. bers of the committee. With this, the total num­ The dates of the mon­ ber of persons losing their soon session are yet to be lives in the two waves of flood announced. this year in different parts of Rain, rain, go away: A woman uses a banana raft to cross a flood­affected area after heavy rain

The committee was set the State rose to 43. in Golaghat on Saturday. * PTI up in 2015 to study func­ The ASDMA said over 1.09 tioning of Legislative Coun­ lakh people are affected at As per the ASDMA report formed an artificial lake on and 10,991 hectares of crop cils in other States. present in Dhemaji, Lakhim­ on day, Golaghat is the worst upstream of Doyang river areas have been damaged, Its members visited sev­ pur, Darrang, Golaghat, Siva­ affected with over 91,000 suf­ and the situation may worsen the ASDMA report said. eral States and recom­ sagar and Charaideo ferers, followed by Lakhim­ if it breaches, which will The authorities are run­ mended formation of a Le­ districts. pur with almost 6,000 peo­ bring more water to Doyang ning 132 relief camps and dis­ gislative Council in Odisha Till Friday, around 87,000 ple affected in the deluge. and Dhansiri rivers. tribution centres in five dis­ on the lines of Telangana, people were affected in the A Golaghat district official Currently, 163 villages are tricts, where 23,504 people he said. six districts. said heavy landslide has under water across the State have taken shelter. An unlikely haven for peacocks NDFB member beaten in Odisha shooting range to death in Meghalaya Had escaped police firing in encounter A firing range boasts of an impressive peafowl population Press Trust of India reached the village under Tura (Meghalaya) Satyasundar Barik the Rongjeng police station Bhubaneswar A member of the National and was caught by locals, Democratic Front of Boro­ Superintendent of Police R. A muster of peacocks danc­ land (NDFB) was allegedly Momin said. A mob gath­ ing with multihued plumage beaten to death by a mob at ered around him and alleg­ amid sounds of gunshots re­ Baringgre in East Garo Hills edly beat him to death, he verberating through the for­ district, the police said on added. est may appear strange. But Saturday. A member of the NDFB a shooting range of Odisha Aita Boro, who escaped was killed in an encounter Police has become an unlike­ police firing in an encounter with the police at Tarasin on ly haven for India’s national at Tarasin on Friday, Friday. bird. A sizeable population of peafowl in Naraj­Siddheswar Firing Range on the outskirts of Bhubaneswar has never A man feeds peacocks at Siddheswar police firing range in felt threatened in the past Cuttack district of Odisha. * FILE PHOTO: BISWARANJAN ROUT two decades, ever since they were taken under wings, ested range, the three birds Kahnu, who picked up the first by a lower­rung police­ almost became friends of Pa­ habit of taking care of the man, then by his family nu Behera. peacocks from his late members and finally by the In the next two years, the grandfather, continues to vi­ local community as a whole. population of the endan­ sit the site every day from his The shooting training site, gered species grew to five house located 2 km away. He which is deemed too danger­ and then the numbers kept feels proud of his grandfath­ ous for movement of hu­ increasing. er who had earned the dis­ mans, boasts of 117 peafowl Amid all this, the Odisha tinction of "Peacock Man of population and stands on a police never abandoned Odisha". He said there were par with other protected their shooting practice. Last 117 peafowl counted at the areas in the region. May, when Mr. Behera firing range in September passed away, the number of 2017. Super cyclone impact peafowl had already crossed “It is not easy to feed It all started in 1999 when 80. these birds twice a day as it the super cyclone ravaged costs ₹500 per day. But the coastal regions. One pea­ Private shooting training those who come to see the cock and two peahens were Of late, a portion of the firing peacocks dancing and hop­ believed to have flown in range has been thrown open ping in free environment from the nearest Chandaka­ to private companies for contribute for the food. In Dampada Wildlife Sanctuary shooting training, but that rainy season, when the num­ and were seen limping in the hasn't affected the birds. ber of visitors comes down, police firing range. They did “Even when a shooting we pay from our pockets — not escape the watchful eyes practice at the firing range all for the protection of the of Panu Behera, a home began at 8 a.m. and conti­ birds,” said Kahnu. guard, deployed at the nued till evening on a day The forest is surrounded shooting range spread over last month, the peacocks by two villages with nearly 54 acres. descended at the feeding 9,000­strong population Showing concern for the points braving the sounds of and a busy road close by. beautiful birds, the home the gunshots,” said Kahnu The villagers have taken it guard began sharing his Charan Behera, 20­year­old upon themselves not to lunch with them. In the for­ grandson of Panu Behera. harm the birds. Odisha gets its first ‘skill museum’ Concept will be replicated at other ITIs Correspondent ern skills and link to future CUTTACK ones. Chief Minister Naveen Pat­ naik on Saturday inaugurated ‘Design Thinking’ the State's first ‘skill museum’ “The era of mere domain skill at the Industrial Training In­ acquisition through ITIs is stitute here. The museum, gone. Now, this is the time to which will run under the aus­ inculcate ‘Design Thinking’ pices of the Odisha Skills De­ to foresee future technologi­ velopment Authority, is cal needs as a skilled profes­ spread over an area of 2,600 sional,” the Chief Minister sq. ft. and showcases several said. ancient and modern equip­ This skill museum concept ment and machinery. will be started in other ITIs as Inaugurating the museum, well, he said, adding that Mr. Patnaik said the facility “ITIs are the hearts of our will boost the aspirations of skills ecosystem where the the youth and hone their trainees are not only exposed skills as it is designed to con­ to domain skills but also life nect ancient skills with mod­ skills".

Man looted JAJPUR (ODISHA) Three persons assaulted a businessman and his two employees and looted about ₹1.50 lakh from them in Odisha’s Jajpur district, the police said on Saturday. The incident occurred near Singhpur bazaar under Binjharpur police station limits on Friday night.

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New Delhi The Ministry of Defence is yet such as Kalaburagi, Koppal, Muralidhara Khajane and Bidar and promised all After Andhra Pradesh Chief to decide on the venue and Bengaluru dates for the next edition of infrastructure facilities. I am Minister Chandrababu Nai­ Aero India 2019, said Defence Karnataka Chief Minister planning a Statewide tour du campaigned against the Minister Nirmala Sitharaman H.D. Kumaraswamy is a and will launch it from North Narendra Modi government here on Saturday. Replying to much relieved man now, Karnataka.” for failing to deliver on the queries regarding reports with the political storm over Targeting the BJP for pro­ promises made under the that the Ministry was the demand for Statehood jecting him as a Chief Minis­ Andhra Pradesh re­organisa­ considering moving the air for north Karnataka blowing ter who had neglected north tion Act, his neighbour Te­ show to Lucknow, the over. Karnataka, thereby trigger­ langana Chief Minister K. Minister said: “There is no However, with the Lok ing the Statehood demand, Chandrashekhar Rao met announcement made yet.” Sabha election round the he said BJP leaders, such as the Prime Minister with si­ corner, Mr. Kumaraswamy is B. Sriramulu and A.S. Patil milar complaints. Stop using charka in ad, keen to shed the image of a I am planning a Statewide tour and will launch it from North Nadahalli, had first raised Mr. Rao submitted 11 let­ actor Mohanlal told “South Karnataka Chief Mi­ Karnataka, said Mr. Kumaraswamy. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the issue. ters explaining 11 demands Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with Prime MALAPPURAM nister,” and has drawn up a to Mr. Modi. Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday. Kerala Khadi and Village slew of development branding me South Karnata­ north Karnataka, he said: BJP driving divide Industries vice-chairman schemes aimed at north ka Chief Minister. But don’t “Continuous drought has led “The BJP wants to keep emo­ A.P. re-organisation Act ion Law Ministry to expedite He also made a request for 21 Shobhana George has threatened to sue actor Karnataka. be surprised if people soon to large­scale migration from tive issues of region and The Chief Minister said that the process of setting up a Jawahar Navodaya Vidya­ Mohanlal if he did not start calling me North Karna­ this dry region. So, job crea­ caste alive until the Lok Sab­ as per the A.P. re­organisa­ High Court in the State. layas. withdraw from a private Large-scale migration taka Chief Minister, consi­ tion for every family is my ha election,” said Mr. Kuma­ tion Act, Andhra Pradesh The Chief Minister also “We met Mr. Modi with textile advertisement in Insisting that the image is a dering the plans I have for priority. I spoke about this in raswamy. and Telangana share the submitted letters demand­ our demands... We hope he which he is shown with a creation of his detractors, the development of the re­ my meeting with the IT­BT He demanded to know High Court in Hyderabad. ing an Indian Institute of will resolve the problems charka. A lawyer’s notice had Mr. Kumaraswamy told The gion.” company heads earlier this what that party had done for However, out of the 20 judg­ Management and an Indian soon,” Karimnagar MP B. Vi­ been sent to Mr. Mohanlal Hindu in an exclusive inter­ Talking about his priori­ week. I requested the com­ the development of north es, only six were from Telan­ Institute of Information nod Kumar, who accompa­ asking him to stop using the view, “A few may have been ties for the development of panies to invest in places Karnataka while in power. gana. He requested the Un­ Technology in Karimnagar. nied Mr. Rao, said. charka, she said. Bangladeshi held at Bengaluru airport BENGALURU Mentally­ill man enters Golden Chariot on track for profitable run Officials at the Kempegowda International Airport caught a Outsourcing ticket sales, help from railways to boost fortunes of luxury train 24-year-old man, allegedly an Kerala House with a knife illegal immigrant from Bangladesh, who was trying K.C. Deepika high haulage charges (₹35 to board a flight to Dubai on Bengaluru lakh as variable haulage an Indian passport. Besides an Claims he wanted to meet Pinarayi Vijayan staying there In the tenth year of its exis­ charge and ₹20 lakh as fixed Indian passport, Iqbal Hussain tence, buoyed with the In­ charge per trip) and tepid Ripon from Habiganj district Staff Reporter He was detained by offic­ dian Railways finally coming occupancy rates (around in Bangladesh had an Aadhaar NEW DELHI ers and later handed over to on board for a revenue shar­ 35%). card and a voter identity card. A 46­year­old man, a native the police. ing model, Karnataka’s luxu­ Earlier this year, the Rail­ of Kerala, was overpowered “He was thoroughly ques­ ry train, the Golden Chariot, way Board finally agreed to a Caught in the crowd, man by security officials when he tioned and it emerged that is gearing up to chug into long­pending demand and dies at actor’s function created a ruckus at Kerala he had come to meet the CM more profitable times. approved a revenue­sharing KOLLAM House in New Delhi on Sa­ in the hope of getting some Ahead of its operational ratio of 56:44 between the One person collapsed and turday. Police said the man, money. He did not mean to season, the Karnataka State Indian Railways and KSTDC. died at an event attended by Luxury on wheels: The Golden Chariot has 44 rooms spread actor Dulquer Salmaan here identified as Vimal Raj of attack anyone or kill him­ Tourism Development Cor­ With a reduction in charg­ across 11 cabin coaches. * FILE PHOTO on Saturday. The deceased, Alappuzha, was mentally self,” police said. They poration (KSTDC) has chart­ es, the government is also Harilal, 46, a native of unfit and sent him to the claimed that the knife in his ed new plans for south In­ hoping to increase the num­ Thiruvananthapuram, was at a hospital for treatment. hand “was one used to cut dia’s only luxury train, with the management of the far been the only channel for ber of trips. mall inauguration event in Holding a knife and a few fruits and vegetables.” No including outsourcing ticket Golden Chariot, but also ticket sales for the luxury Operational between Oc­ Kottarakara, where a large documents in his hand, Mr. Pinarayi Vijayan case has been registered. sales. with planning, publicity and train. “It is proposed to have, tober and March, the train crowed had gathered to see Raj managed to reach the The CPI (M) Polit Bureau Sources in the Corpora­ ticket sales. The KSTDC is along with a fixed compo­ also has shorter trips during the actor. Though Harilal was lawns right outside the main shouting and and demanded has condemned the attempt tion told The Hindu that the hoping to have a new opera­ nent, a revenue sharing mo­ the Dasara season. The rushed to a hospital, the building. He was stopped at to see Kerala Chief Minister to attack Mr. Vijayan within new operator, who will be tor on board in time for the del on ticket sales,” said train’s two tours are Pride of doctors declared him brought the gates by the security Pinarayi Vijayan, who was the premises of the Kerala selected through a tender, Dasara celebrations. sources. The train’s finances South and Southern Splen­ dead. guards. He then started present inside. House. will not only be entrusted The Corporation has so were bleeding due to the dour.

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Misra tells budding lawyers and judges Press Trust of India Patna Under attack from the Op­ position RJD on the Muzaf­ Salman needs court’s The CJI was addressing students at the sixth convocation of National Law University permit to travel abroad farpur sexual abuse case, Press Trust of India vice. Your attitude of service The role of a legal ment,” the CJI said. three women spokesper­ JODHPUR New Delhi <> Salman Khan will have to shall subserve the purpose of professional is that sons of the ruling JD(U) — continue taking permission Chief Justice of India Dipak the court, that is, serviceabil­ of a community ‘Aim high’ Anjum Ara, Shweta Vishwas from the court every time he Misra on Saturday asked ity of the institution,” he builder and a He asked the students to fos­ and Bharti Mehta — on Sa­ budding lawyers and judges said. ter high ambitions to enter turday wrote an open letter travels abroad, it was made society protector. not to get swayed by the “in­ the legal hall of fame and to former Chief Minister Ra­ clear on Saturday by a district Your attitude of and sessions judge hearing a finite distractions” that come ‘Social understanding’ have lots of courage to tran­ bri Devi asking her to expel Rabri Devi plea against the actor’s their way and suggested Justice Misra said it was im­ service shall slate their dreams into from the party those in­ conviction in the blackbuck them to deal with such situa­ portant for budding lawyers subserve the reality. volved in “anti­social and ral trafficking. poaching case, after the tions courageously. to familiarise themselves purpose of the “You should cultivate the immoral” acts. The JD(U) spokespersons actor’s counsel moved an He was addressing law with the undercurrents of va­ court, that is, quality of clarity of thought The three spokespersons also alleged that Rabri Devi application seeking students at the sixth convo­ rious social diversities and serviceability of and intellectual vigour. also asked Rabri Devi not to had failed in her duty to in­ exemption from the cation of National Law Un­ disparities that divide socie­ the institution These are primary qualities give entry into her house to stil good qualities (sanskar) requirement. PTI iversity here. ty. “Unless you do it, you will that budding lawyers must Mani Prakash Yadav, who in her sons — Tejashwi Ya­ CJI Justice Dipak Misra * Dipak Misra Two killed in explosion “You are required to deve­ find it difficult to mature in Chief Justice of India strive to attain,” he said. served as PA of her son, Te­ dav and Tej Pratap Yadav. in U.P. flour mill lop an attitude not to get your role either as a lawyer newcomers would move up vote some time in your ca­ The CJI also said that jashwi Yadav, when he was “The reality is that you SANT KABIR NAGAR (U.P.) swayed away by the infinite or as an administrator. With­ the scale of their profession pacity as lawyers for the while witnessing the confer­ Deputy CM in the Grand Al­ could neither give good Two persons were killed and distractions that come your out having a comprehensive by taking the deprived sec­ well­being of the underprivi­ ment of awards during the liance government, and qualities of a politician to six others injured in an way. Remain firm and coura­ and pragmatic understand­ tions of society along. leged... Welfare of the peo­ convocation he was “slightly who has been jailed and your sons nor could educate explosion in a flour mill in geous,” CJI Misra told the ing of social realities, you “You are the crusaders for ple is the supreme law. perplexed by how the young chargesheeted in an immo­ them on character build­ Pokhar Bhitwa village in the students. may not be able to correlate change in the drive towards “Scaling up in your profes­ minds have worked”. ral trafficking case. ing,” it said. It added that Dharamshighwa police station “The role of a legal profes­ law and social impulses,” he equal rights, liberty and jus­ sion by taking the deprived “Age does not matter. The They referred to a case “some unidentified persons area here on Saturday. The sional is that of a community said. tice. You are going to be the sections of society along young can teach the old. I registered against Mani Pra­ had attacked Tejashwi and explosion took place due to builder and a society protec­ The CJI said the “welfare contributors to the process with you will give a sense of am prepared to be taught by kash Yadav with the Gandhi Tej Pratap on January 1, overheating of a machine, tor. A versatile lawyer must of people is the supreme of imparting justice to the satisfaction which will be a the degree holders today,” Maidan police station for al­ 2008, for passing comments SDM Jasbhir Singh said. PTI also have an attitude of ser­ law” and hoped that the people at large. Always de­ far more greater achieve­ he said. legedly indulging in immo­ against girls. Properties of fraudsters to be auctioned AHMEDABAD The Gujarat government has Sniffer dog detects bomb, decided to auction the 4 held for online ticket racket confiscated properties of firms or individuals who have cial Task Force (STF). The ac­ in a statement. Even if no defrauded investors, so that They used a flaw cused had been exploiting payment was made, the saves CRPF team in Odisha the victims get their money the vulnerabilities of the on­ website would allegedly get a back, said Minister of State in gateway to book line payment system of the fake successful payment for Home Pradipsinh Jadeja tickets for free UPSRTC website to book confirmation. Bomb planted in Rayagada forest could have killed villagers on Saturday. PTI counterfeit e­tickets though Amitabh Yash, IG STF, special correspondent a web application security told The Hindu that the ac­ Staff Reporter Niyamgiri area on Friday. CRPF commandant. BHUBANESWAR Police on the lookout for Lucknow testing software called ‘Burp cused were exploiting “flaws “As the team was moving, “Moreover, the bomb Mangueshi temple priest The Uttar Pradesh police Suite’, the police said. in the payment gateway of A unit of the Central Para­ Mickey of the accompanying could have proved fatal even PANAJI have busted a gang that was the bank”, which have been military Reserve Police had a dog squad sensed something for the villagers, who gather Mangueshi temple priest hacking into the website of Sold at discounted rates now patched up. close shave, as a trained dog suspicious in the jungle. non­timber forest produce Dhananjay Bhave, who was detected a pressure bomb in Mickey led us to a spot, for a living.” accused of molesting two the State’s road transport The gang would then sell Guru Prasad, managing the nick of time as they were where we found a pressure girls in June, could not be corporation and booking these tickets at discounted director of UPSRTC, said the undertaking a combing op­ bomb planted just under the Maoist threat traced, after the additional tickets without payment. after the Uttar Pradesh State rates through networks on hackers had caused it a loss district and sessions court in Four persons, including Road Transport Corporation WhatsApp groups and Face­ of ₹9.42 lakh. The accused eration in Odisha’s Kalahan­ surface,” said Mr. Singh. The Maoist menace conti­ Ponda on Saturday rejected two minors, were arrested (UPSRTC) complained that it book. will face charges for cheat­ di district. “The bomb squad of the nues to cause worry for se­ two anticipatory bail by the Special Task Force of was not receiving payments “Through Burp Suite, a ing, and under Section 66D A team of the fourth batta­ battalion later defused the curity forces in Kalahandi applications filed by him, said the State police on Friday. in accordance with the num­ ‘man in the middle attack’ of the IT Act. With a fleet size lion of the CRPF that is sta­ bomb,” Mr. Singh added. and Rayagada districts. a senior police official in the The two men were identified ber of bookings made on its [technology] was used to of over 11,833 buses, the tioned in Rayagada district, “Left wing extremists Combing operations were South Goa district as Amit Kumar Bharti and website. This had been going tamper with the payment UPSRTC covers over 24.54 which was led by assistant have of late, started planting recently intensified in the headquarters. “He is Mudit Sharma, both from on for several months. confirmation data going to crore km, catering to the tra­ commandant Kuldeep pressure bombs in the for­ area in view of the Martyrs’ absconding,” the official said, Kanpur. The gang was busted after the UPSRTC through the pay­ vel needs of over 10.38 crore Singh, had gone to the Tira­ ests, and the forces have to Week that concluded on Fri­ on request of anonymity. The matter came to light an operation by the U.P. Spe­ ment gateway,” the STF said people, says its website. muhin reserve forest in the tread cautiously,” said the day. NSD teacher Insurance unlikely for Jet passengers 2 Romanians held in Delhi booked for in hotels, Jet Airways also op­ for ATM fraud in Kolkata sexual assault Airline to decide erated a relief flight from Ri­ yadh to Mumbai to bring in were installing skimmer dev­ Staff Reporter on compensation the passengers. Travel insu­ Identified using ices. The fraud came to light New Delhi only after probe rance, like the one sought by CCTV footage from last week when the city pol­ A 61­year­old retired Na­ Mr. Bagga, covers hospitali­ ice received multiple com­ tional School of Drama Aditya Anand sation, loss of baggage and Kolkata ATMs plaints of money being with­ (NSD) teacher has been Mumbai other incidental expenses. drawn from bank accounts booked on charges of sex­ For the 142 passengers who Some travel insurance also Staff Reporter without the authorisation ual assault. had to slide down the emer­ cover passengers against trip Kolkata and knowledge of account The police said no arrest gency chutes of a Jet Airways cancellation, trip curtail­ Two Romanian nationals holders. had been made, and inves­ aircraft, after it skidded off ment and burglary of your were arrested by the Kolkata By August 1, the police tigation was under way. the runway following an home during the trip. police in New Delhi in con­ had received 76 complaints A senior police officer aborted take­off in Riyadh nection with an alleged ATM from bank customers. The privy to the case said that on Friday, the hope of mak­ On Friday, the aircraft skidded off the runway, after the pilots ‘Extraordinary situation’ fraud where ₹20 lakh were By August 1, the police had devices which copied the de­ the complainant ap­ ing claims against their tra­ braked hard to abort take­off after spotting a “barrier”. Sudhakara Reddy, president, siphoned off from bank ac­ received 76 complaints from tails of debit cards were in­ proached the police a few vel insurance appears bleak. Air Passengers’ Association counts. The two persons bank customers. stalled in two unguarded days ago and gave a written Bandra resident Navneet “A reply to my email on mained seated in the lounge. of India, termed the situa­ were brought to Kolkata on ATMs in Gariahat in South statement alleging that Su­ Bagga, a consultant with Del­ claiming my travel insurance The aircraft skidded off the tion as extraordinary. “It’s Saturday. identified as Dumitriu Colin, Kolkata and Mallick Bazar in resh Shetty, who had come loitte, finally returned to from Bajaj Allianz revealed runway after the pilots true that the passengers had “They were arrested in 32, and Oprah Ovidiu Semiy­ Central Kolkata. Apart from to NSD as guest faculty, had Mumbai on Saturday morn­ that such an incident is not braked hard to abort take­off to go through a stressful sit­ New Delhi on Friday. We un, 30, were produced be­ the two unguarded ATMs, touched her inappropriate­ ing a 24­hour delay, during covered,” Mr. Bagga, who in­ after spotting a “barrier”. uation. But insurance have recovered about 20 fore a city court and re­ complaints regarding ATMs ly during a practice ses­ which he had to brave it out jured his hand during the A Jet Airways spokesper­ doesn’t kick in unless there fake debit cards and two manded to police custody of Kotak Mahindra Bank and sion. The police registered in the airport, waiting for evacuation, said. son said that the airline is injury, need for hospitali­ passports from these two for 14 days. Union Bank of India were al­ a case under Section 354 baggage to be retrieved and Jet Airways said that of the would decide on compensat­ sation etc,” he said. Romanian nationals,” Joint Mr. Tripathi said the two so lodged. After investiga­ (Assault or criminal force then share a hotel room with 142 passengers on board ing the passengers only after “Once the probe is Commissioner of Kolkata accused were identified tion the police found that to woman with intent to two others, to find out that flight 9W 523, 77 were ac­ the probe into the incident through, the airline will have Police (Crime) Praveen Tri­ from CCTV footage of the money was withdrawn from outrage her modesty) of his travel insurance claim commodated in a hotel, 40 was completed. to compensate the passen­ pathi said. The two accused, ATMs in Kolkata when they ATMs in New Delhi. the IPC on Thursday. had been turned down. left for home and 36 re­ Besides putting them up gers,” Mr. Reddy said.

‘Can’t deny Heart valve replaced using catheter maternity Chennai doctor advocates non­surgical option for aortic stenosis in the elderly leave for

Serena Josephine M. cause of aortic stenosis.” artery in the leg (transfemo­ third child’ CHENNAI He pointed out that recent ral approach) and delivered Jeyaseeli, 80, was going studies have shown one in 10 to the heart. Similar to co­ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Nainital through a lot. A cardiac pa­ persons aged 75 and above is ronary artery stenting meth­ tient, she had difficulty in affected with the condition. ods, the procedure is per­ The Uttarakhand High walking and breathing. It is here that TAVI serves as formed in a cardiac cath lab, Court has come to the res­ Things got worse in Febru­ an option for the elderly. he explained. cue of a government ser­ ary this year, when she suf­ “The valve sys­ vant who was denied ma­ fered a cardiac arrest during Training programmes tem is used to position the ternity leave for her third a hospital review. She was re­ Dr. Satish, who has done new valve that is then im­ child, terming a State go­ vived, but doctors ruled out complex coronary proce­ planted inside the diseased vernment rule to this ef­ surgery because of age and dures, is among the few per­ aortic valve. The recovery is fect “unconstitutional”. certain other factors. sons licensed to implant the usually dramatic because Hearing a writ petition by Haldwani resident Ur­ Months later, her son, Dr. Sai Satish valves independently in In­ their hearts are now able to Roche Antony, a resident of dia. His first exposure to TA­ pump the right amount of mila Manish, the single­ Karur, is amazed at her re­ genarian underwent the pro­ VI was in 2008 in the Nether­ blood to the entire body. TA­ judge Bench of Justice Ra­ covery. “She suffered from cedure on March 1 and re­ lands. Since then, he has VI usually requires hospitali­ jiv Sharma said denial of aortic stenosis, which is bas­ turned home after two to conducted training pro­ sation for three days to a maternity leave to women ically a narrowing of the aor­ three days of hospitalisation. grammes in India and week,” he said. for their third child under tic valve. She found it diffi­ Dr. Sai Satish, senior inter­ abroad, and several live the Second Proviso of Fun­ cult to take even five to 10 ventional cardiologist, Apol­ demonstrations. ‘Extremely important’ damental Rule 153 of Fi­ steps. But now, she leads a lo Hospitals, who performed Till recently, treatment He has an advice for patients nancial Handbook of the normal life. She is hale and the procedure, said: “More options available included though. “Once severe symp­ Uttar Pradesh Fundamen­ healthy,” he said. than one million cases of Balloon Valvuloplasty, Surgi­ tomatic aortic stenosis is tal Rules, adopted by Utta­ aortic stenosis are diagnosed cal Aortic Valve Replace­ diagnosed, nine out of 10 pa­ rakhand, went against the TAVI procedure every year in India. Half of ment and medical manage­ tients, who do not receive letter and spirit of the Con­ It was a non­surgical option them are due to age­related ment, he said. some form of intervention, stitution. The court in its for treating aortic stenosis — narrowing of the aortic In TAVI, a thin, flexible will die within four years. It July 30 order said the rule Transcathether Aortic Valve valve. Age­related degenera­ tube (catheter) housing the is extremely important to get should be struck down as Implantation (TAVI) — that tion of aortic valve is emerg­ collapsed valve is inserted professional help for valvu­ it went against Article 42 came to her help. The octo­ ing as the most common most commonly through an lar heart disease.” of the Constitution.

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FROM PAGE ONE Higher tariffs Congress plans aggressive strategy on U.S. goods Intruder rams car CWC decides to portray Rafale deal and bank frauds as corruption cases against Modi government from Sept. 18 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT was in debt of Rs 9872 crore Reuters into Abdullah home NEW DELHI and he may flee the country. NEW DELHI The Congress on Saturday How did the Gujarat govern­ India said on Saturday that The police said the intruder The victim’s sister ques­ decided to scale up its cam­ ment (BJP) allow him to leave delayed higher tariffs was not carrying any wea­ tioned the security forces paign on the Rafale deal and the country in January 2018? against some goods im­ pon and it was apparently a action. “Why did they kill multi­crore bank frauds in an How did the Union govern­ ported from the U.S. would “case of forced entry”. Di­ him. He was not a militant,” attempt to portray them as ment and the Gujarat go­ go into force on September rector General of Police S.P. she said. “cases of corruption” against vernment allow Mehul Chok­ 18. Vaid said a case was regis­ “I want to know why he the Modi government and its si to leave the country in New Delhi, incensed by tered and an inquiry was be­ was killed? Where were the failures on the economic 2018 when he was under pol­ Washington’s refusal to ex­ ing conducted into the security guards when he front. ice investigation since 2016,” empt it from new tariffs, breach of security. breached the gate? Why The Congress Working asked Mr. Chidambaram in a decided in June to raise im­ Dr. Abdullah was not pre­ didn’t they arrest him?” Committee (CWC), in the se­ couple of tweets. port tax from August 4 on sent at the house at the time asked Murad’s father. The cond meeting of the party’s In stepping up its cam­ some U.S. products, in­ of incident. The residence is family demanded that the highest decision­making bo­ paign, the Congress decided cluding almonds, walnuts shared by Dr. Abdullah and CCTV footage be made pu­ dy in two weeks, formulated not only highlight to “the is­ and apples, but later de­ his son Omar Abdullah. blic. The deceased, a resi­ an aggressive strategy on As­ sue of corruption” inside layed the move. The incident, however, dent of Jammu’s Poonch dis­ sam’s National Register of Ci­ and outside Parliament but Officials from New Delhi sparked protests, and the fa­ trict, ran a shop near the tizens (NRC) by claiming that also have joint Opposition and Washington, including mily members of the de­ Jammu railway station. the Tarun Gogoi government programmes. Mr. Surjewala U.S. Secretary of State Mike ceased halted traffic at Jam­ Reacting to the incident, in Assam had completed said the party would launch Pompeo and Defence Se­ mu’s Chinore Chowk. Dr. Abdullah told PTI, “It is 80% of the NRC work before a Jan Andolan (public cretary Jim Mattis, are The protesters claimed very unfortunate that such losing power to the BJP two campaign). scheduled to hold a series that the youth was well con­ an incident has happened years ago, and that the “UPA Former Assam Chief Mi­ of meetings including stra­ nected with politicians and and [it] speaks volumes (United Progressive Alliance) nister Tarun Gogoi is learnt tegic talks with their Indian would be seen entering about the security situation had deported 82,728 illegal Gearing up: Rahul Gandhi, right, arriving with Ashok Gehlot and Motilal Vora for the Congress to have stressed that the counterparts in

their residences. in the State. Police must in­ Bangladeshis between 2005 Working Committee meeting in New Delhi on Saturday. * SANDEEP SAXENA Congress should not send September. They demanded an inqui­ vestigate the motive of the and 2013”. out an impression that it Trade differences bet­ ry into the incident. youth.” Manmohan Singh and senior of corruption and the failure by the UPA regime. does not support the NRC, as ween India and the U.S. Toning it down leaders A.K. Antony, P. Chi­ of the government to provide The escape of Mehul it was a “Congress baby” and have been rising since Pre­ A section of senior leaders, dambaram, Ghulam Nabi jobs to our youth,” Mr. Gand­ Choksi, Punjab National a result of the 1985 Assam Ac­ sident Donald Trump took however, told the CWC that Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, hi tweeted. Bank (PNB) scam accused, fi­ cord signed by Rajiv Gandhi. office. 5 militants, civilian Congress should not adopt Ahmed Patel and Ashok Geh­ Congress communication gured in the meeting, espe­ Congress leaders from As­ India, the world’s big­ an aggressive stance on lot, attended the meet. chief Randeep Singh Surje­ cially the assertion made by sam said the party’s reaction gest buyer of U.S. almonds, deportation. However, former Con­ wala, briefing the media, al­ Antiguan authorities that In­ should not be seen similar to in June decided to raise im­ killed in encounter The party announced that gress chief Sonia Gandhi was leged that neither the Prime dian agencies had no ad­ that of West Bengal Chief Mi­ port duties on the com­ Congress workers would unable to attend the second Minister nor the Defence Mi­ verse information against nister Mamata Banerjee. modity by 20%, joining the The police said the encoun­ The killings sparked vio­ help “every Indian citizen” meeting of the newly consti­ nister was disclosing the the fugitive businessman “In the past four years, EU and China in retaliating ter later took place in an lent protests. One youth Bi­ left out from the draft NRC. tuted CWC. “As a team, we price of the jets purchased when it did a background the NDA has deported just against Mr. Trump’s tariff open area as the hiding mil­ lal Ahmad Khan, 24, suf­ Apart from Mr. Gandhi, discussed the political situa­ by this government since the check. 1,822 people. These are not hikes on steel and alumini­ itants took advantage of the fered bullet injuries when who chaired the meeting, tion in the country and the NDA goverbment had paid “On 20­7­2016, an affidavit my figures but the govern­ um. It had also planned to darkness and came out of security forces opened fire most senior leaders, includ­ huge opportunity for the more than three times the was filed before Gujarat HC ment’s reply in Parliament,” impose a 120% duty on the the house. “Arms and am­ to control a violent mob at ing former Prime Minister Congress to highlight issues ₹526 crore an aircraft fixed alleging that Mehul Choksi Mr. Surjewala said. import of walnuts. munition were also seized Ganowpora. A violent prot­ from the site of the encoun­ est erupted in the area im­ ter,” said the police. mediately after the funeral The slain militants were of Arshad Ahmad. identified as Arif Ahmad ‘Anti­lynching law Check mobocracy: Venkaiah Yannar from Pahalgam, Ar­ Militant at funeral shad Ahmad from Ganow­ LeT commander Naveed pora Balpora, Waqar Ah­ Jatt, who escape from the need of the hour’ Says it should not be allowed to derail deliberative parliamentary democracy mad Sheikh from police custody in February Malikgund, Aijaz Ahmad this year, appeared at the Govt. can’t overlook such crimes: CPI(M) Special Correspondent Paul from Lousdanew and funeral of slain Sheikh in New Delhi Umar Malik from Shopian's Malikgund village Special Correspondent Hitting back at the murmurs Malikgund. and offered a gun salute. New Delhi of dissatisfaction from Oppo­ With just a week left in the sition parties on the func­ Monsoon Session of Parlia­ tioning of the Rajya Sabha, ment, CPI (M) general secre­ Chairman Venkaiah Naidu Barpeta hopes NRC tary Sitaram Yechury on Sa­ on Saturday said that “mo­ turday hoped that the bocracy” should not be al­ government would bring in lowed to derail parliamen­ will heal bitter wounds a law to tackle crimes such tary democracy. as mob lynching in this He was speaking at an Like Maidul, her 55­year­old NRC has reassured us that session. Sitaram Yechury orientation programme for husband Majam Ali, who my brother’s death has not Mr. Yechury, however, new Rajya Sabha members.

was transporting goods in a gone in vain. We hope it said that a law alone would that BJP/RSS provides” to “Mobocracy should not Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu posing with new members of the Rajya Sabha on Saturday. * PTI handcart, died of bullet ends the Bangladeshi issue not help if there was no pol­ the accused. “The police be allowed to derail delibera­ wounds in the anti­NRC that has dominated the so­ itical will to implement it. have not arrested many per­ tive parliamentary democra­ upholding rules, and I do get Hindi. “Primarily, Hindi nist Party of India leader agitation. cio­political landscape and “The law in itself is never petrators whose identities cy. A group of MPs rushing emotional if rules are violat­ must be used in both the from Kerala, said that while Nur Begum’s name does stolen our happiness for de­ enough. Existing CrPc has are known and who have into the well of the House ed and the House is disrupt­ Houses. All the booklets dis­ everyone respected and not figure in the final NRC cades,” said Chandra Kanta enough provisions to tackle been caught on camera.” and disrupting the function­ ed. It flows from my concern tributed today should have liked Hindi, it should not be list though her father Bur­ Talukdar, the youngest of this menace. Mob lynching The Home Ministry has ing of the House subverts de­ about Parliament and its been published in Hindi,” imposed on anyone. With han Uddin figured in the Khargeswar’s seven siblings. is patronised by the state it­ started deliberations on mocracy. We need to know standing among the people,” Mr. Yadav said. the debate disintegrating in­ 1951 NRC, as her legacy code Khargeswar died in 1979 self. It doesn’t help that the bringing in a law. Last week, [how] to respect each other he said. to a slanging match between 120­0034­9821 suggests. when protestors tried to government and law enfor­ it held its first meeting with irrespective of being in ma­ Even as the Chairman Loud protests members from north and “They rejected my docu­ prevent Begum Abida, wife cement agencies turn a stakeholders to discuss the jority or minority, and [we] stressed discipline, the This led to loud protests by south India, Rashtriya Janata ments, including one pro­ of former President Fak­ blind eye to it,” he said. broad contours of such a should have healthy respect members ended up having a many MPs from southern In­ Dal (RJD) MP Manoj Jha inter­ vided by the Kumullipara hruddin Ali Ahmed, from fil­ Referring to Union Minis­ law. The Supreme Court on for the mandate of the peo­ heated debate over the Hindi dia. vened. gram panchayat secretary. I ing her nomination for the ter Jayant Sinha, who wel­ July 17 passed a slew of di­ ple,” Mr. Naidu said. language. “We demand that it “This beautiful pro­ may or may not be includ­ Barpeta Lok Sabha seat. comed mob­lynching ac­ rections to provide “preven­ In the absence of a Deputy Bharatiya Janata Party MP should be given in all 22 lan­ gramme should not be re­ ed, but the NRC will for our cused with garlands and tive, remedial and punitive Chairman, Mr. Naidu, who Harnath Singh Yadav de­ guages. Will you be able to duced into a debate on Hin­ people be a rashtriya daleel Co-existence shattered sweets, Mr. Yechury said measures” to deal with of­ has been putting extra hours manded that all the litera­ do it,” L. Hanumanthaiah of di. The country has paid (national agreement) that Ever since it was carved out that such incidents speak fences like mob violence at the helm, said, “I firmly ture provided during orien­ the Congress asked. heavily in the 1970s over the no one can erase,” she said. of Kamrup district in 1983 at volumes of the “patronage and cow vigilantism. believe in discipline and tation should have been in Binoy Viswam, Commu­ language issue,” he said. The youngest of the four the peak of Assam Agitation, ‘martyrs’ was Khandakar Barpeta has been synony­ Motaleb Ali, 20, also of Ku­ mous with migration of Ben­ mullipara. The fourth was galis —Muslims and Hindus Major Gogoi Bid to ensure service Sirajul Haque, 27, of Baniar­ — from Bangladesh. But old­ Kashmir on the boil over para nearby. timers say the area had been likely to an epitome of co­existence parity in Army HQ Desperate for peace until the seeds of division face action “If need be, I would sacrifice were sown during the As­ Article 35A hearing in SC Defence Ministry issues notification my other three sons for a sam Agitation. Special Correspondent correct NRC that ensures They refer to Montu Nag, New Delhi Dinakar Peri peaceful coexistence with­ who became AASU’s first Major Leetul Gogoi who is PDP, NC take out rallies; separatists give call for shutdown NEW DELHI out anyone being suspect­ Bengali Hindu secretary facing a Court of Inquiry In a bid to end the ongoing ed,” Sirajul’s father Kala­ despite coming from East (CoI) ordered by the Army controversy over equiva­ chand, 60, said. Pakistan in 1960 and living after being seen with a lo­ lence between armed forces The AAMSU observes in one of two refugee colo­ cal woman in a Srinagar personnel and their civilian May 26 as its martyrs day. nies — Sonkuchi and Theka hotel is likely to face action counterparts in the Armed The day honours the four — in Barpeta town. He had for violating procedures. Forces Headquarters who died in the anti­NRC spearheaded the Assam Agi­ An official source said he (AFHQ), the Defence Minis­ movement along with oth­ tation in the district in 1979 could be charged for violat­ try has issued a fresh clarifi­ ers who died for the cause of along with Bengali Muslim ing two provisions of the cation. minority rights. “Their leaders Asgar Ali and Abdul Army which prohibit deve­ The Ministry has directed death led to discussions Hai Nagori, now a Congress loping relations with a lo­ that effective July 30, mili­ Nirmala Sitharaman among stakeholders, includ­ MLA. But the camaraderie cal in a disturbed area and tary personnel and civilian ing AAMSU and All Assam snapped a year later with another for violating stan­ counterparts working to­ al equivalence, and directed Students’ Union (AASU), Bengali leaders of AASU de­ dard procedure of staying gether in the service head­ that “local designations as­ and changes in modalities of ciding to form the AAMSU at away from the place of quarters will revert to their signed to both service offic­ the updating exercise, with the landmark Barpeta Road duty. earlier cadre designations. ers and civilian officers in the Supreme Court even­ Howly College in 1980. Sources confirmed that In a letter dated July 27 is­ Service HQs is hereby with­ tually monitoring it,” AAM­ Things were never the same the CoI report is currently sued by the Director, HR, in drawn. Both service and ci­ SU’s cultural secretary Mo­ again. under the Srinagar based the chief administrative of­ vilian officers will use their

niruz Zaman told The “Barpeta never had a 15 corps and is being stu­ Villagers at the funeral procession of two militants in Shopian district on Saturday. * NISSAR AHMAD fice dealing with recruit­ respective cadre designa­ Hindu. communal problem. But so­ died. “It is in court under ment and provisioning of ci­ tions only.” The feeling is similar at mething changed after the legal vetting,” a source Special Correspondent Monday over the issue. status and won’t be tolerated vilians, the Defence However, the AFHQ Ujan Borbori, the village Assam Agitation and politi­ said. Srinagar PDP district president at any cost. All political, so­ Ministry said, “…it is hereby cadre which had created where Khargeswar Talukdar cal parties began cashing­in On May 23, Major Gogoi Jammu and Kashmir’s major Mohammad Khurshid Alam cial and religious organisa­ directed that with effect new functional designations lived. He died in a police on religious and linguistic was detained by the police regional parties — the Peo­ led the protest in Srinagar. tions of the State are united from July 30, 2018, the offic­ did not go back to the pre­ crackdown on another divide. The NRC has given after a scuffle broke out ples Democratic Party (PDP) “PDP president Mehboba in their resolve to fight ers of AFHQ CS of the grade vious ones. group of protestors 31 years us hope of Barpeta return­ when he tried to get into a and the National Conference Mufti’s firm stand as Chief against these ploys and J&K of Director and Joint Direc­ They insisted that this ago. Khargeswar was just 18 ing to the good old days,” hotel with an 18­year­old (NC) — hit the streets on Sa­ Minister on this Article is National Conference will tor shall use cadre designa­ rule should be applicable to when be became the first of Padmanil Sarma, an AASU local woman. Following turday protesting moves to well known and in conso­ fight this battle from the tions of Director and Joint Major­Generals as well, but 855 martyrs of the Assam leaders of 1979 vintage, said. this, the Army ordered a scrap Article 35A, which de­ nance with honour and dig­ front lines.” Director respectively when defence officials said Major­ Agitation against illegal im­ “We hope so too. An er­ CoI to ascertain the facts. fines State subject laws. nity of the people,” said Mr. Protests were also staged posted in Service HRs and Generals were never within migrants that began in 1979. ror­free NRC should spell Army Chief Gen Bipin The Supreme Court is Alam. by the Jammu Kashmir De­ ISOs.” this ambit . This concerns The agitation ended with death for divisive politics, Rawat during a visit to the scheduled to hear three peti­ Leading another protest, mocratic Youth Federation, In January this year, De­ ranks from Major to Briga­ the signing of the Assam Ac­ and that is what Barpeta and State shortly after the inci­ tions challenging Article 35A senior NC leader Ali Muham­ the Tourism Trade Fraterni­ fence Minister Nirmala Sith­ dier and the AFHQ cadre’s cord on August 15, 1985. hopefully the country dent said that action would on August 6. mad Sagar said, “An assault ty, Rahul Gandhi’s Fans As­ araman had cancelled a let­ demand is contrary to the “Though some issues beyond wants,” Mr. Zaman be taken if he was found Separatists have called for on Article 35A was a direct sociation and the All Tribal ter from 2016 which created orders of the Minister, an of­ need to be ironed out, the said. guilty. a two­day shutdown on assault on the State’s special Coordination Committee. the controversy in function­ ficial said.

CM A ND-NDE YK 2006-2018 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -@SridharMuskula [email protected] - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Raje’s Yatra raises political heat India asks U.K. to Amit Shah targets Rahul on NRC issue and Gandhi dynasty; says Rajasthan better off under BJP rule extradite Nirav Mohammed Iqbal president should tell the pe­ But yet to confirm if he is in Britain JAIPUR ople if Bangladeshis should Rajasthan Chief Minister Va­ continue to live in our coun­ PM reviews preparations Vidya Ram for health scheme sundhara Raje on Saturday try,” he said, and affirmed London NEW DELHI embarked on a 58­day “Gau­ that the NDA government The Indian High Commis­ Prime Minister Narendra rav Yatra” (march of pride) would “weed out every fo­ sion in London has handed Modi on Saturday reviewed from the Charbhujanath reign national living illegally over an official request to the preparations for the Temple in Rajsamand dis­ in India”. the U.K. authorities to extra­ launch of the health trict in the run­up to the As­ dite Nirav Modi. protection programme, sembly election due in De­ Congress response Earlier this week, Minis­ Ayushman Bharat. The cember. Flagging off the Taking strong exception to ter of State for External Af­ scheme will provide a health yatra, BJP president Amit the tone and tenor of Mr. fairs V.K. Singh told Parlia­ insurance cover of up to ₹5 Shah launched a scathing at­ Shah’s speech, Pradesh Con­ ment that the request had lakh per family and will cover tack on Congress president gress president Sachin Pilot been sent to London in a di­ over 10 crore poor families. Rahul Gandhi on the NRC is­ said his remarks had dam­ plomatic bag. Official sourc­ Nirav Modi Top officials of the Ministry sue and what the previous aged the dignity of politics es here confirmed that the of Health and Family Welfare, generations of his family had and proved that the BJP had request had now been Times earlier this year, that NITI Aayog and the Prime done for the country. On the road: BJP chief Amit Shah and Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje at the launch of her Yatra nothing to offer to the pu­ passed on to the U.K. Cen­ Mr. Nirav Modi had claimed Minister’s Office were Ms. Raje and Mr. Shah of­ in Rajsamand on Saturday. * PTI blic. Mr. Pilot, who has an­ tral Agency, thereby putting political asylum in Britain in present at the meeting. PTI fered prayers at the temple nounced that he would pose measures in place for action an effort to remain here, before heading to Kankroli in Ajmer on September 30. The BJP president said the ask what the BJP has done one question to Ms. Raje ev­ should it emerge that Mr. Ni­ would suggest that he did Manmohan Singh deftly town where they addressed Mr. Shah said the public National Democratic Al­ [for you],” he told the au­ ery day during the yatra, rav Modi, wanted in connec­ not possess ILR. This would steered nation: Pranab the first public meeting of wanted to know from Mr. liance government had re­ dience from Mewar. asked whether the BJP want­ tion with the ₹13,578­crore lead India down the route of NEW DELHI the yatra. Ms. Raje will use a Gandhi what his “last four leased two­and­a­half­times Mr. Shah raked up the is­ ed to use temples only for Punjab National Bank frau­ seeking his deportation, Former President Pranab modified bus as a “chariot” generations” had done for more funds to Rajasthan in sue of Assam’s National Re­ getting political mileage in dulent Letters of Undertak­ rather than full­blown extra­ Mukherjee, who had served in for the tour of 165 of the 200 the country. “There was a comparison with the pre­ gister of Citizens, alleging the elections. Congress ing scam, is in the U.K. dition proceedings. the Manmohan Singh Assembly constituencies complete lack of develop­ vious UPA regime and that the Congress wanted to workers also staged a protest In June, India received government in various spending 40 days on the ment in a State like Rajasthan brought 116 schemes for the exploit the “illegal Bangla­ against the yatra in Jaipur confirmation from the Choksi’s issue capacities, on Saturday road. during Congress rule,” he people of the State. “Still, the deshis” residing in India as and burnt Ms. Raje in effigy Crown Prosecution Services In addition, while his uncle lauded the former PM for The march will culminate said. Congress has the audacity to its vote bank. “The Congress at the District Collectorate. here that it would be possi­ and co­accused Mehul ushering in political stability and successfully presiding ble to launch extradition Choksi has taken citizenship over the country’s finances proceedings against him of the Caribbean island of during “turbulent times”. He CBI court even without official confir­ Antigua, his location re­ said Dr. Singh had become the Latin America seeks more missions mation of his exact location, mains unknown. India had Finance Minister at a time grants bail to including whether he was in sent three Letters Rogatory when the country had lost its the country. (LRs) in the cases lodged by international credibility in Vipul Ambani the Enforcement Directo­ finance. But with “skill and Diplomats say India must keep its promise to open three more in the region Multiple complications rate, the CBI and the Central deftness”, he steered the India’s discussions with Brit­ Board of Direct Taxes to the economy towards growth, Kallol Bhattacherjee the diplomat said of the dia would open 18 more em­ Special Correspondent ish authorities on the issue U.K. seeking assistance in its Mr. Mukherjee said. PTI New Delhi meeting with the Foreign Se­ bassies on the continent by Mumbai have been complicated by a investigation against fugitive India should respect the pro­ cretary on June 12. 2021. “The Foreign Secretary The Central Bureau of In­ number of issues, including diamond trader in March Two more FIRs filed mise it made in 2010 to open The diplomat said Shashi had spoken about the Indian vestigation (CBI) court here data protection, which have and April, which had been against Mamata embassies in three more La­ Tharoor, Minister of State for focus on Africa and how the on Saturday granted bail to meant that India is yet to as­ forwarded to the Serious GUWAHATI tin American nations, a External Affairs in the UPA ties are getting attention Vipul Ambani, president certain whether or not Mr. Fraud Office. Two more FIRs have been group of Ambassadors has Ministry, announced in the from the Prime Minister’s Of­ (Investor Relations & Cor­ Modi has indefinite leave to In early July, Interpol is­ registered in Assam against urged Foreign Secretary Vi­ Dominican Republic that In­ fice and said he would look porate Affairs) in Firestar remain (ILR) in Britain. sued a Red Notice against West Bengal Chief Minister jay Gokhale. dia would open missions in into our demand for similar International Private Limit­ Extradition proceedings Mr. Nirav Modi and two oth­ Mamata Banerjee and A senior diplomat from that country, Ecuador and missions. A couple of weeks ed, owned by fugitive dia­ would be particularly rele­ ers on the request of the En­ members of a Trinamool The Hindu delegation which went to the region told Uruguay. “These three coun­ later, he said the issue of mantaire Nirav Modi, in vant if Mr. Modi possessed forcement Directorate and Silchar for allegedly creating that these countries were tries have opened diplomat­ opening more embassies in the PNB scam case. an ILR, which would require the CBI on criminal and mo­ disturbance on the basis of awaiting action on India’s news of India planning new ic missions in India, but In­ Latin America is also being The CBI chargesheet India to proceed down the ney laundering charges. The religion, a senior police promise, especially after missions in different parts of dia has not reciprocated the considered,” the diplomat says Mr. Ambani was ac­ extradition route as it had in Red Notice restricts a fugi­ official said on Saturday. A Prime Minister Narendra the world, and we gave him gesture,” he said. said. tively involved in the is­ its attempt to return Vijay tive’s movement in 192 total of five FIRs have been Modi announced plans to copies of media clippings. He said the demand for “India does not have mis­ suance of fraudulent let­ Mallya to the country (he countries, and empowers registered against Ms. open new missions in Africa. We said if you are opening more Indian missions had in­ sions in Uruguay, Paraguay, ters of understanding on has indefinite leave to re­ enforcement agencies to de­ Banerjee in Assam since the “We reminded him [Mr. embassies in other parts of tensified after Prime Minis­ Bolivia, Ecuador, Costa Rica behalf of three firms — So­ main in Britain). tain the person for deporta­ publication of the NRC final Gokhale] of the announce­ the world, then please fulfil ter Modi announced during and El Salvador, though they lar Export, Diamond R US However, media reports, tion or extradition to the re­ draft on July 30. PTI ment of 2010 in view of the your promise to us as well,” his July visit to Africa that In­ have missions in India.” and Stellar Diamonds. including in the Financial questing country. Refugees in J&K await citizenship Sushma in Kyrgyzstan to boost ties

Press Trust of India Kazakhstan. She was re­ fairs Ministry spokesperson, General Assembly in New People who migrated from West Pakistan pin hopes on hearing on Article 35A Bishkek ceived by Mr. Abdyldaev. tweeted. “Walking together York. External Affairs Minister “Taking steps to tap the to take our relationship to The Minister is on a three­ Peerzada Ashiq estimated at between 2.5 Sushma Swaraj held talks huge potential that exists new heights! EAM Sushma nation tour of Kazakhstan, Srinagar lakh and 3 lakh. with her Kyrgyzstan counter­ between our two countries! Swaraj and Foreign Minister Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan The release of the draft Na­ Rajiv Chuni, president of part, Erlan Abdyldaev, on Sa­ EAM Sushma Swaraj and of Kyrgyzstan Erlan Abdyl­ as part of India’s efforts to tional Register of Citizens SOS International, an NGO turday on deepening cooper­ Kyrgyzstan Foreign Minister daev proceed to the restrict­ boost strategic partnership (NRC) in Assam has once fighting for the cause of dis­ ation in trade, energy, Abdyldaev discussed oppor­ ed format meeting in Issyk with the resource­rich Cen­ again turned the spotlight on placed citizens of erstwhile defence, security and other tunities for cooperation in Kul,” he had said in a tweet tral Asian nations. India and the refugee problem in Jam­ J&K who shifted to this part areas. fields of trade and invest­ before the meeting. Kyrgyzstan share multi­di­ mu and Kashmir, with many during the 1948, 1965 and Ms. Swaraj arrived at Issyk ment, defence and security, Ms. Swaraj has interacted mensional relations includ­ representatives of displaced 1971 wars, said the case of Kul in eastern Kyrgyzstan on IT, health, HRD, tourism and with Mr. Abdyldaev on a ing political, parliamentary, people seeking a one­time the displaced population Friday on a two­day visit af­ joint film production,” Ra­ number of occasions, includ­ defence, science and tech­ settlement in the State. should be “looked through ter wrapping up her tour of veesh Kumar, External Af­ ing on the margins of the UN nology and health. Labha Ram Gandhi, the the humanitarian prism”. president of the West Pakis­ “I doubt the sincerity of tan Refugees Action Com­ purpose in Assam. It’s taking mittee, told The Hindu that a Hindu­Muslim colour. In abrogation of Article 35A, J&K, I am held back in a terri­ which defined State subject Voicing concerns: A file photo of members of the West tory that is not mine. I am laws and granted special pri­ Pakistani Refugee Action Committee protesting in New Delhi. from Mirpur [in Pakistan­oc­ vileges in matters of proper­ cupied Kashmir] and wants ty and jobs, was the shortest Assembly. We are fighting for The BJP in J&K has been the right to vote from there,” route to access citizenship our rights since 1947. We are campaigning for full citizen­ Mr. Chuni said. rights in India. Indians and not Bangladesh­ ship rights for West Pakistan Independent MLA Engi­ is, who need to be thrown refugees. neer Rashid, while accusing Long fight out. It’s because of the local These refugees are mainly the Union government of “If Article 35A goes on Au­ governments, a puppet of Hindus, with 80% of them “dislodging Muslims from gust 6 [the day the Supreme Pakistan, that we failed to belonging to the Scheduled Assam”, said: “If the Centre Court will hear multiple peti­ get citizenship rights. This Castes, who migrated during wants foreigners to be identi­ tions filed against it], we will government [the Centre] will Partition from Sialkot to J&K. fied and deported, it must get citizenship rights, includ­ deliver us justice,” Mr. Gand­ By an assessment, their pop­ start with the West Pakistani ing the right to vote for the hi said. ulation of these refugees is refugees in J&K.” NRC must for Bengal, says BJP

Says party will carry out the exercise if it comes to power in the State

Staff Reporter um after an adjournment motion Kolkata over Bangladeshi infiltration into A exercise to update the National West Bengal was rejected in the Register of Citizens (NRC) will be Lok Sabha on August 5, 2005. conducted in West Bengal if the “What happened in the past 13 BJP comes to power in the State, years that you [Ms. Banerjee] have party general secretary Kailash Vi­ made a u­turn and is siding with jayvargiya said here on Saturday. the infiltrators,” he asked. “The NRC will definitely be con­ BJP State president Dilip Ghosh ducted in Bengal if the BJP comes told The Hindu that an NRC exer­ to power here as it is also facing cise was “necessary” in West Ben­ severe infiltration issues,” Mr. Vi­ gal as more than one crore infiltra­ jayvargiya told presspersons at the tors resided in the State. “Earlier BJP State headquarters. He said the Communist Party of India the exercise was required not only (Marxist) used the infiltrators [for in West Bengal but also in all metro political mileage] and now Mama­ cities in the country. Kailash Vijayvargiya ta Banerjee is using them,” he said. The Trinamool Congress organ­ ‘Backing infiltrators’ more concerned about indulging ised a State­wide protest against He criticised West Bengal Chief Mi­ in appeasement policies and vote the detention and alleged assault nister Mamata Banerjee for oppos­ bank politics than the progress of of a delegation of party MPs and ing the NRC update in Assam, and the nation. The prime example of MLAs at the Silchar airport by the accused her of “siding with infil­ such mentality is Ms. Banerjee,” Assam police. Senior party leaders trators” for the sake of votes. he said. He accused the Chief Mi­ led marches against the Centre. “I want to ask Mamata Banerjee nister of double standards on the Minister Subrata Mukherjee said why she is siding with infiltrators. infiltration issue. As an MP, she the protests would continue on Unfortunately some people are flung papers at the Speaker’s podi­ Sunday.

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WHO As Kerala’s paddy­rich Kuttanad reels on the intent of upper caste women vis­ ire on Mathrubhumi and the writer for hind Mr. Hareesh. The State govern­ like a Mound, with Gay Abandon), and PQp q under its worst flood in recent times, iting temples in the narrative set in the “maligning Hindu women and temple ment, too, came out in his support. Wri­ Maoist in his new collection, titled Ap- the region’s most promising storyteller feudal Kerala of yore was taken out of priests.” In the face of threats and on­ ter Benyamin and others, while pan released on July 28. If Modasthitha- is fighting a deluge of religious hate. context and circulated on social media, line abuse, also targeting their parents expressing solidarity, took exception to nayangu… deftly unveils the ways in Award­winning writer S. Hareesh, imputing it to the author. A vilification and young children, Mr. Hareesh and his “apolitical” stance, alluding to an which caste manifests itself in routine whose stories are imbued with an un­ campaign ensued, as Hindutva organi­ his wife shut down their social media ac­ earlier interview in which Mr. Hareesh life, Meesha is an epic tale of a caste­rid­ S. Hareesh, dertone of caste and politics at play in sations and caste groups trained their counts and switched off phones. When had made disparaging observations den society. In the preface, Mr. Hareesh daily life, withdrew his debut novel, the periodical featuring the fourth in­ about the organised Left. The charge calls the world of stories an “autono­ Meesha (Moustache), barely into its stalment of the work was to go to press, was countered by another section that mous republic where characters enjoy storyteller third instalment in the Mathrubhumi Mr. Hareesh wrote to Mathrubhumi, pointed out the subtle delineation of boundless freedom” and, therefore, of­ weekly, after some right­wing groups withdrawing the novel. Explaining what caste, power and politics in his stories. ten behave irrationally, even absurdly, fighting hate did not take kindly to a “misrepresent­ forced the decision, he said he did not making all kinds of statements. “It an­ ed” fragment in it. On Wednesday, the want to waste his life waging protracted What does he write on? gers me when they do so. At times, I feel novel was published by DC Books, the battles for justice and he remained po­ At 43, Mr. Hareesh works as a village as­ they should exercise more caution, but premier imprint in Malayalam, with werless to confront the forces that ruled sistant at Kaipuzha near his native place they are absolutely free beings of an in­ 5,000 copies selling out. That did not the country. The withdrawal triggered Neendoor in central Kerala. Rasavi- dependent republic,” he writes. pass off uneventfully though, as copies another row, as fingers were pointed at dyayude Charithram (The History of Al­ were burnt in Thiruvananthapuram. the publication for arm­twisting the chemy), his first collection of stories, What's in store? The case has reached the Supreme author to mollify the right­wing. It was won him the Geetha Hiranyan Endow­ Aeden, a recent film, was based on three Court, too; on Thursday, it asked coun­ put to rest when the writer took ment Award of Kerala Sahithya Akade­ stories by Mr. Hareesh from Adam. A sel for the petitioner to produce within responsibility for his action. mi. Mr. Hareesh draws on local lores, more popular story, Maoist, is set to get five days the English translation of the customs, histories and the lived life of a visual language in director Lijo Jose “objectionable” portions. What is the govt. stand? people for his measured, often witty, lit­ Pellissery’s newly announced film Cultural activists and political erary expositions. There is an ongoing Jallikkattu. Why the controversy? leaders, mostly from the Left discussion on his stories, Modasthitha- A conversation between two characters and and the Congress, rallied be­ nayangu Vasippoo Malapoley (Lives S. ANANDAN ILLUSTRATION: J.A. 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As the club campaigns wind currently over 10 months. A quadren­ proper recovery, it is tough to envisage of the new season. down worldwide, the mammoth tour­ nial tournament like the World Cup or such a situation. Then, for the likes of nament takes centre stage, eating up all the European Championship or the Co­ Maurizio Sarri, the new Chelsea manag­ What next? Guardiola may have Trials of the time that was left in the name of off­ pa America takes up the 11th month. In er, Pep Guardiola, City’s boss, and put up a brave face season. This isn’t to undermine its im­ the 30 days that’s left, lucrative tours to Mauricio Pochettino of Tottenham, all and said, “We are happy to have 16 portance, for it remains the most covet­ Asia and the Americas are shoehorned of whom believe in drilling their players players out, the most, and that’s a good football ed trophy in all sport, but only to lay to expand the global footprint of big Eu­ during training sessions rather than sign for the club,” but a more humane bare the ways in which the extravaganza ropean clubs. In this, the Premier match­day environments, the reduced schedule will be welcomed by all. Even season throws out of gear most clubs’ prepara­ League appears the hardest hit, as it time hurts. The closing of the English Jose Mourinho, a manager who chides tions for the upcoming season. The year was home to 45% of the players who fea­ transfer window three weeks sooner his players for not being “man enough” 2018 has been no different, with teams tured in the two World Cup semifinals — than usual (August 9 against August 31) feels, “three weeks [off] is the minimum scrambling to find match­fit players Belgium vs. France and Croatia vs. En­ has only exacerbated their plights, as that the body and soul needs, to return with the Premier League in England and gland. Manchester City, Tottenham Hot­ they cannot seek sufficient reinforce­ and think about football again.” The Ligue 1 in France starting next week, spur and Manchester United sent 16, 12 ments in time. This is also an era in players union FIFPRO has been the closely followed by Spanish La Liga, Ita­ and 11 players respectively to Russia and which the high­pressing, albeit physi­ most vocal, demanding a minimum of lian Serie A and the German Bundesliga. all three teams are in the U.S. for their cally demanding, football is in vogue. four weeks’ rest between the last game warm­ups without a single one of them. England striker Harry Kane, who plays a of the season and the start of the next How did it The football calen­ similar style under Pochettino, seemed pre­season. Astonishingly, this year, come about? dar is bursting at its How does it Fully rested and re­ tired to even finish the World Cup and there will just be 26 days between the being introduced in England, starting seams. If a player in matter? juvenated players have there have been calls for him to be given World Cup final and the first day of the 2019­20. The sooner the better. any of the five leagues plays for one of been the cornerstones an extended time off. On the other Premier League. Similar to the rest of the top sides, he is expected to feature of most teams’ successes. For example, hand, Alexis Sanchez, the irrepressible Europe, there is talk of a winter break N. SUDARSHAN

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list or not. * RITU RAJ KONWAR

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enough. The reason why religious but economists in all countries to show that more complex, as the prosperity of a nonconforming thinkers, like Kabir, the nation is progressing. GNP. Average country depends on factors other than railed against rituals was that they per­ national income. The rising value of financial ones. Hence, politicians who ceived how rituals are used, in the name shares in the stock market. These are ri­ give us general figures and averages, of religion, to control, influence and ex­ tuals of prosperity, because if you really whether correct or not, are indulging in ploit people. They also felt that rituals look into them, they mean nothing. Or empty rituals. are worldly matters and have nothing to they mean nothing because they have Of course, figures are not the only ri­ Tabish Khair do with the divine. The priestly classes been turned from actual, though limit­ tuals practiced by politicians in power, is a novelist and academic who insist on rituals, as if god would care ed, indicators into sweeping rituals: the apex of the secular priestly classes. works in Denmark about the colour of your dress, the pos­ empty practices. For instance, it is a ritual to construct a ture of your prayer, the number of your A rise in GNP, the average national in­ highway without making a sustained ef­ Serious religious thinkers have tended beads, etc. Rituals proliferate in reli­ come, or the share market can indicate fort to improve the existing highways, to to distinguish between ritual and reli­ gions because they allow the priestly some types of prosperity, but these are create a super­city without a sustained gion. Some, of course, have distin­ classes to control and exploit ordinary not enough — and they are misleading effort to improve the urban infrastruc­ guished between spirituality and reli­ believers. Instead of being used as an when trotted out in ritualistic fashion by ture in existing cities, to raise the statue

gion too, mostly because they have option, the coffee cup ritual becomes a GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO politicians. In each case, there is a good of a great leader and ignore the best as­ associated religion with rituals. necessity imposed on the ordinary be­ chance that some people might be gain­ pects of his example. Now, rituals have their uses, as long liever, often at great cost. rious ‘priestly classes’ to mislead, con­ sential’ ritual, it falls apart. It is not ne­ ing and many more losing. Take the sit­ These acts and decisions are rituals as we employ them in the full awareness trol and exploit ordinary people. I sus­ cessary; you can do without it. You can uation of Amazon: the company is thriv­ because they are empty and misleading. that they are arbitrary and man­made. Rituals in secular life pect that basically religious people, understand the world in other ways, ing, but, at least in the U.S., it is reputed Just as a ritual in religion moves the This applies to secular matters as well as This much is clear enough about reli­ conditioned to associate belief with ri­ live your life differently. But no, the to offer its workers a very meagre wage practitioner away from the endless im­ religious ones: I like my ritual of a morn­ gion, and explains why so many reli­ tuals, are likely to be misled by rituals in priestly classes claim, you have to prac­ package and unsatisfactory working mensity of faith to a delusive shortcut, a ing cup of coffee with a biscuit or two, gious thinkers — apart from the accredit­ secular life too. tice this ritual — or you will suffer and conditions. To think that the profits be­ ritual in secular life moves citizens’ at­ but I do not assume that this is god­or­ ed priestly classes, whether mullahs or A ritual in secular life is like a ritual in probably be damned for all eternity! ing made by Amazon is percolating tention away from all the real issues and dained or that my day will not com­ pandits — tended to criticise rituals or religion: it is demanding, obsessive, un­ down to its workers is to make a mis­ offers a soupçon of misleading satisfac­ mence unless I have my cup of coffee. blind observance of rituals. But how, avoidable, essential. It is the one thing Rituals of prosperity take. But that is the mistake we make tion. I fear that we Indians might or So, I am not talking of rituals of this sort. you might be asking, do rituals work in that you ‘need’ to do in order to have a Think of the rituals that we are sur­ when we simply note the net value of might not be a spiritual people, but we I am talking of rituals that are made ‘es­ the secular sphere? Because such rituals good life (in this world or the next, or rounded by in ordinary secular life. Amazon or the rise in its shares. Such fi­ do have a certain tendency to indulge — sential’ to either religion or secular life. are not confined to religion. They also both). Or so the priestly classes claim. Think, for instance, of all those eco­ gures play the role of empty rituals. and let others indulge — in empty rituals The matter with religion is clear exist in secular life, and are used by va­ Because when you really look at this ‘es­ nomic figures trotted out by national With countries, the matter is even in religious as well as secular life. Extend NRC to all of India In Cave 16: the Kailasa temple At least three categories of fake Indians can be weeded out A walk through one of the largest rock-cut temples in the world

mother, son, or daughter turned out to be an illegal migrant, I would personal­ ly escort him or her to the nearest de­ tention camp and send a handwritten thank you note to the NRC for weeding out a security threat from my family. What we are truly missing in this G. Sampath whole NRC debate, as pointed out on Rana Safvi is Social Affairs Editor, The Hindu social media by a broccoli­headed so­ is a historian, author and blogger documenting India’s syncretic culture GETTY IMAGES/ ISTOCK PHOTO cialite, is this simple question: “How Before you start vomiting your liberal on earth did 40 lakh blokes cross ov­ prejudices about human rights, let me wide NRC exercise, asking every one of er?” Again, it’s quite possible that they According to a legend cited in the 10th tell you something: there are more India’s 130 crore (minus 40 lakh) resi­ were all, each one of them, nice century book Katha Kalpa Taru, some than 10 million people in the world dents to prove their citizenship, not blokes. But India’s sovereignty, unlike time in the 8th century, the queen of who don’t have any citizenship. In to­ more than 13 crore, or 10%, would the lives of suspected cattle smugglers, the Rashtrakuta ruler Elu made a vow day’s day and age, citizenship itself is a have the paperwork to prove their cre­ is not a plaything. Today, it is illegal mi­ that she would not eat till a magnifi­

great privilege. And Indian citizenship, dentials. That’s a straight 90% reduc­ grants from Bangladesh. Tomorrow, cent temple was built to Lord Shiva, D. KRISHNAN needless to say, is the greatest privi­ tion in the population of India – and all there could be several kinds of non­ci­ and she saw its amlaka (finial). The lege. Why? Because only those who that’s needed to achieve this are a few tizens that India should be prepared to king invited many architects, but none treat for myself, I started at cave 32. pool, Shiva as Ardhanari and Virbha­ have purified their souls by protecting strokes of the pen stipulating stringent weed out. of them was able to fulfil this vow. Fi­ The first thing I saw when I finally dra, Ravana shaking the Kailash par­ cows (not cows of Pakistani or Bangla­ new rules for citizenship. Basically, we nally, an architect named Kokasa from reached cave 16 was a huge rock vat, and the Mahabharata and Ra­ deshi origin) for seven consecutive must do for citizenship what Aadhaar Unworthy of citizenship Paithan completed the task in no time. screen with carvings and a two­level mayana panels. After spending many births are reincarnated as Indian citi­ does for identity: enable the state to I’m no expert but I can name at least This story is narrated by M.K. Dhavali­ doorway with eaves on top. A door on hours looking at these perfections, I zens. That’s why just one in about six exclude people at will. The excluded three categories of fake Indians that kar in Ellora: Monumental Legacy. the lower level leads into the double­ climbed up to the top of the mountain people on the planet enjoys the ho­ 90% can be reclassified as slave labour we can get rid of through a country­ Legend aside, the construction of storey gopuram, which has exquisitely from which the temple is carved. You nour of being an Indian citizen. and put to work under Make in India. wide NRC. On top of the list are urban the temple began during the rule of carved sculptures on the walls. God­ can see the whole complex from there. That is also why my blood tempera­ This is not as idealistic as it sounds. naxals, who spread hatred against pe­ the Rashtrakuta king, Dantidurga (735­ desses Ganga and Yamuna flank the The carving of the temple started ture rises to boiling point when I hear Contrary to popular misconceptions, ople they brand as ‘bhakts’; next are 757 AD). A group of skilled artisans cut entrance gateway. from the top of the mountain but a pit shameless ingrates bad­mouthing the the Indian state has a constitutional people who don’t have the basic pa­ and carved the vertical face of the ba­ The gopuram at the lower level was later dug around the temple on National Register of Citizens (NRC). right to protect itself from the tyranny triotism to publicly and relentlessly salt rock of a hill in Elapura, known to­ leads to the portico. The full glory of the sloping side of the hill, about 106 These creatures are mostly mainlan­ of disobedient citizens by denying proclaim their unconditional love for day as Ellora, near Aurangabad. Unlike this colossal monolith hits you when feet deep at its innermost side, 160 ft ders who are not from Assam, whereas them their identity, citizenship, or our Prime Minister; and lastly, people the Buddhists who made carvings in­ you leave the portico, on either side of wide and 280 ft in length. The temple only authentic Assamese born and both. who don’t know the chemical compo­ side the rock to construct cave tem­ which are the north and south courts stands in the middle of this pit. Its brought up in Assam have a right to an Of course, initially, even I was sition of cow urine. All three are un­ ples, this group cut the rock internally with life­size elephants and a victory highest point is the shikhar at 96 ft. opinion on this issue. shocked to read in the papers that worthy of Indian citizenship and and externally, with exquisite preci­ pillar framing the Kailasa. It is this Secondly, there can be no compro­ former President Fakhruddin Ali Ah­ should be relieved of it forthwith. sion, to build a monolithic rock tem­ iconic image that I had seen many Features of the main temple mise whatsoever on the safety and se­ med’s nephew Ziauddin Ali Ahmed One last thing: I’ve noticed that ple. The result is the magnificent Kaila­ times in photographs. Apart from the gopura, the main tem­ curity of the 130 crore (minus 40 lakh) was a Bangladeshi infiltrator. I was some Maoist sympathisers keep bring­ sa temple, one of the largest rock­cut There are five subsidiary shrines ple has a sabha griha (hall), vestibules genuine Indians. Rohingya­loving, an­ stunned to learn that even ex­MLAs, ing up ‘vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ as if temples in the world. Major work on around the main temple in the circu­ and a Nandi mandap which leads to ti­national jholawalas who are always police officers, army men, and descen­ it’s an argument against the NRC. I the temple was done by King Dantidur­ mambulatory path that runs along the the garba griha (sanctum) with the criticising the government must real­ dants of freedom fighters had turned spent three days rolling on the floor ga’s successor, Krishna I (757­773 AD), side of the hill. This includes a shrine Shiv linga, all of which are profusely ise that the days of taking their citizen­ out to be illegal migrants. But then, laughing at these imbeciles. Contrary although work continued under many dedicated to river goddesses Ganga, carved and with Dravidian shikharas ship for granted are over. this is the biggest lesson of the NRC: to vulgar opinion, the meaning of ‘va­ successive kings for more than a Yamuna and Saraswati, and a yajna­ (towers). A bridge connects the Nandi there walk upon this ancient land a sudhaiva kutumbakam’ is not ‘all the century. shala (hall of sacrifice). mandap to the gopuram. The population problem vast number of aliens pretending to be world is one family’ and it most defi­ However, the main temple is the The stiff climb up the hill was made At present, the NRC covers only As­ Indian citizens. nitely is not a licence for intruders to A treat most impressive. The elephants and worthwhile by the loveliness of the lo­ sam. Just imagine: if it could filter out Alas, not every Indian has the ma­ claim Indian citizenship. The slogan There are 32 caves in Ellora, numbered lions that form the high plinth of the tus on the roof of the sanctum. The lo­ 40 lakh intruders from one State with turity to absorb this lesson. Even me­ was originally coined in 8,700 BCE by according to their age. Temples 1 to 12 main temple signify Rashtrakuta pow­ tus is crowned by a finial with four a population of 3.3 crore, how many dia people, who should know better, Vishwamitra’s younger brother, Icfai­ in the southern side are the Buddhist er and prosperity. Rock steps in the left mythical lions, each facing one cardi­ more non­citizens will it unearth if ex­ have been randomly tweeting about mitra, the father of chartered accoun­ caves. Temples 13 to 29 are the Hindu court lead up to the top where Nandi nal direction. Looking at the magnifi­ tended to the whole of India? how their fourth cousin’s second tancy. ‘ Vasudhaiva kutumbakam’ is caves, and in the northern side are the and a 36­column mandap with a Shiv cence of the temple, I wondered: Was To my mind, this is the quickest so­ daughter’s first husband is missing nothing more than a succinct Upanish­ Jain temples. I knew that if I started at ling are located. There are many beau­ all this made using just a hammer and lution to India’s biggest problem: the from the NRC list. Hello? I don’t know adic formulation of what we know to­ cave 16, the Kailasa temple, I would tiful carvings: of Durga, Mahishasura­ a chisel or was there a divine force at size of its population. If we do a nation­ about you but tomorrow, if my own day as the HUF. never see the rest. So, keeping it as a mardini, Gajalakshmi seated in a lotus work too? The state of statelessness It is to experience the worst imaginable nightmare, not a natural disaster but a man-made malaise

larly under modern conditions, belong­ Can one forget what happened to Ger­ never belonged anywhere in particular, ing to a politically organised man Jews after the revocation of their ci­ new borders liquidated their multiple community has become more impor­ tizenship? Divested of political belong­ belongings, rendering them stateless. tant than other belongings. Our identity ing and social identity, they became as citizens is more basic than other sub­human. Wanted nowhere, they Nowhere to go identities. Why? were rounded up and despatched to ex­ Imagine what might have happened to This is because everything we need termination camps. Ugandans of Indian origin if, after ex­ Rajeev Bhargava or desire, and any reasonable goal we This atrocious state of statelessness pulsion by the brutal regime of Idi is Professor, Centre for the Study of pursue, depends today on our member­ usually occurs when political persecu­ Amin, they were also denied entry into Developing Societies, Delhi ship of a state. We may have moral tion, declaration of war on certain eth­ the U.K., despite holding British pass­ rights as human beings but they are in­ nic groups or economic destitution forc­ ports? The much maligned but truly It is frightfully disturbing to learn that effective or meaningless without social­ es people out of their homeland but the hapless Rohingya, with neither pass­ 40 lakh people, currently living in As­ political recognition within a legal re­ state where asylum is sought or where port nor identity card, are denied effec­

sam, find no place in the draft of the Na­ gime supported by the state. Thus, our THE NEW YORK TIMES they have been managed to temporarily tive citizenship in their homeland, and tional Register of Citizens. Therefore, life, family life, basic liberties, employ­ find work doesn’t eventually recognise subjected to various forms of extortion, they could be deprived of their Indian ment, education, mobility, even every­ term confinement in jails, worse than a can be deported any time with no one them as citizens. Statelessness can also land confiscation, forced eviction, mar­ citizenship and become stateless. Can day security depends on the overall pro­ politically alienated life, worse even having an idea where they must go. occur when new ethnically based bor­ riage restrictions and forced labour on those of us secure in our nationality ev­ tection and support of the state. If we do than living as an oppressed minority. In Their whole social and political exis­ ders are born. The creation of Bangla­ roads and military camps. Yet, they er put ourselves in the shoes of such dis­ not belong to a state, and carry no proof fact, the right to vote or be political is tence is illegal. Socially and politically desh rendered thousands of Urdu­ have nowhere else to go. Many there­ enfranchised people? What is it to be of it (ration card, driving license, Aad­ far from the mind of those threatened dead, they barely exist. A deep existen­ speaking Bihari Muslims stateless in fore experience the nightmare of state­ deprived of citizenship, to experience haar card or passport), we have noth­ with statelessness. For such people are tial insecurity is bred by statelessness. their homeland. Bangladesh stripped lessness. the horror of statelessness? ing. These passive citizenship rights not covered by any law. They can be de­ Statelessness invariably begets an ir­ them of their citizenship but Pakistan Statelessness is not a natural disaster cannot exist without authoritative, ju­ tained merely on the ground that they reversible dehumanisation: criminalisa­ refused to accept them. Living on either but a man­made malaise, a conse­ Citizenship and belonging ridical backing. Nor can active citizen­ are stateless. They can be separated tion is common among stateless people; side of the border but without the requi­ quence of recently formed nation states Citizenship is frequently associated with ship rights that enable us to participate from their family. If their possessions as is involvement in abusive relation­ site ethnicities, suddenly, for no fault of obsessed with borders. True, this is an political rights but it is linked, first and in the making and the remaking of our are taken away, they can’t report the ships and ‘survival sex’; as also is invisi­ theirs, they found themselves stateless. international humanitarian issue, but foremost, to belonging. To be a citizen is political community. In short, it is only matter to anyone. If they have no job, blisation — every act must remain hid­ This has also been the fate of pastoral don’t contiguous states (Myanmar, Ban­ to belong to a particular politically or­ as a member of a particular state (India, there’s no one to appeal to. If they are den from the state and the public. groups, who have no real idea of settled gladesh, India) have a special obligation ganised community — the state, in the Bangladesh, the U.S.) that we are able to hungry, no public distribution system Stateless persons live in perpetual dis­ existence, no permanent home, who to those groups who not long ago lived widest sense. True, it is not the only live well, indeed to live at all. can help them. They can be denied ac­ guise, submerged in complete anonym­ once travelled freely in a region but are as one people in a borderless territory? form of belonging. One can belong to a It follows that to not be a citizen — to cess to basic health services, even as ity. They are truly the wretched of the now confronted with borders they can’t Can a newly erected virtual barrier village, to a language­, religion­ or occu­ be stateless — is to experience the worst they suffer from life­threatening diseas­ earth. Worse still, statelessness often easily cross. And because they thought completely erase centuries­old practice pation­based community. But particu­ imaginable nightmare, worse than long­ es. They are homeless outsiders who paves the way for genocidal violence. of the entire region as their own, and of habitation and mobility? 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A new study of R. Prasad providing the building the roundworm (Caenor­ Weight-loss and diabetes blocks for forming new habditis elegans) and fruitfly In a clinical trial, weight­loss Researchers at the Indian cells. So any reduction in (Drosophila) shows that intervention within six years of Institute of Science Educa­ the PKM2 level severely such traffic jams can be due diagnosis helped nearly half tion and Research (IISER) compromises cancer cells’ to purely physical con­ the individuals having type 2 Bhopal have found that de­ ability to proliferate and mi­ straints, not involving any diabetes achieve remission. pleting the production of a grate. chemical signalling process­ The study showed this is specific protein kinase (p21­ Unlike in normal cells, es. Such stalling of cargo can associated with early and activated kinase 2 or PAK2), the glucose metabolism is happen in neurons afflicted sustained improvement in the by neurodegenerative functioning of pancreatic beta which is normally produced not complete in cancer It was really exciting to see that such traffic jams can happen diseases. cells. in excess in head and neck cells. So the glucose gets among the tiny cargo in the brain, says Parul Sood. cancer, affects a chain of converted into lactate lead­ A recent study shows that events that finally reduces ing to less energy availabili­ it can happen even in nor­ storming to find a way of de­ cargo stalls, it’s a double the growth of head and neck ty in cancer cells. Cancer mal cells. This could be a monstrating this, she had a whammy. The amount of cancer. cells tend to compensate for method adopted by the neu­ “Eureka!” moment: “I quick­ space allowed for the cargo In cancer cells, the PAK2 this by increasing the rate of ron to regulate the flow of ly went through my data to to move has really shrunk.” protein is responsible for in­ glucose to lactate conver­ mitochondria, vesicles con­ see if vesicles rushed Regulating mechanism creased cell proliferation, sion and also by taking up taining neurotransmitters, through the location from This could be a way to reg­ cell migration, invasion into more glucose from the sur­ and the like, along the where a stationary cargo — ulate the traffic down the ax­ the extracellular matrix, co­ rounding environment. length of its axon. The axon the presumed physical block on. Dr Gautam Menon, from lony formation and even re­ “The involvement of is the long arm of the neu­ — mobilised, and they did, The Institute of Mathemati­ Flores people sistance to certain cancer It might be possible to develop inhibitors to target the PAK2 PAK2 protein in other can­ ron, which reaches out to showing that indeed vesicle cal Sciences, a co­author of Examining genetic variation in drugs. The team led by Prof. protien to help treat head and neck cancer, says Sanjeev cers is already known. But the synapse or nerve end­ motion was physically the paper, draws an analogy 32 pygmy population members Sanjeev Shukla from the In­ Shukla (left). the cascading effect of PAK2 ings. The study is published blocked at that location!” to the Mumbai­Chennai living in Flores island in stitute’s Department of Bio­ depletion in compromising in the journal Traffic. Apart from the cargo, highway. “Suppose you are Indonesia, researchers found logical Sciences found the when the PAK2 protein level activity of the signalling the expression of the cancer The researchers compare there are bits of exoskeleton making things in Mumbai they have genomic content PAK2 protein was produced was reduced, the activation pathway getting affected, gene (c­Myc) and cancer­ this to Indian roads. On the floating in the body of the ax­ and sending them down to from both Neanderthals and in excess (overexpressed) in of a certain (beta­catenin) which then led to reduced specific metabolic enzyme road, there are vehicles of on. This includes microtu­ Chennai. Now suppose you Denisovans and from no other several sizes and people bules, which are like roads want more stuff, you don’t archaic lineages. Thus they are 24 of 26 human cancer signalling pathway was inhi­ expression of the cancer (PKM2) was not known,” walking, all moving on the for the cargo to move along. want to send a signal all the not related to the diminutive samples. bited,” says Prof. Shukla. gene,” says Amit Gupta from says Prof. Shukla. “This is hominins H. floresiensis, This pathway is important the Institute’s Department the first study to report this same narrow lane. If one of The cargo can halt for any way up to Mumbai,” he says. dubbed the ‘hobbits’. Interfering with PAK2 as its activation is associated of Biological Sciences and and its role in head and these vehicles should stop reason, it could be that it has An efficient way to regulate When the production of this with downstream target first author of a paper in the neck cancer progression.” for some reason, traffic fallen off a microtubule or this is to park it along the protein was reduced in genes that play an impor­ journal Cell Death & “It might be possible to tends to pile up temporarily. that it has arrived at the end way in different locations, three head and neck cancer tant role in cancer growth. Disease. develop inhibitors to target It eases out once the vehicle of the microtubule, or some and summon the cargo cell lines, the cancer cells “So we hypothesised that the PAK2 kinase to help moves on and the traffic jam other reason, leading to an when needed. This is not a became less viable and had the beta­catenin signalling Cascade of events treat head and neck cancer. is cleared. Similar traffic accumulation of cargo. static accumulation but reduced ability to prolifer­ might be dependent on In a cascade of events, the More studies are needed be­ jams of cargo happen in the Dr Sandhya Koushika of dynamic. ate, migrate, form colony PAK2 protein level and in­ reduced expression of the fore inhibitors are used but axon. TIFR, Mumbai, a co­author, “Many people, especially and even resist cancer hibiting the pathway will af­ cancer gene causes a reduc­ there is a potential,” says and in whose lab the experi­ biologists, are not greatly at­ drugs. These studies fect the expression of a well tion in the amount of can­ Prof. Shukla. Eureka moment ments were performed, ex­ tracted to the idea that you showed the importance of known cancer gene c­Myc,” cer­specific metabolic en­ “The PAK2 protein is also “It was really exciting to see plains, “We found that there may not have classical regu­ Delay and arrest interfering with PAK2 pro­ he says. The c­Myc gene is zyme PKM2 produced. The responsible for chemothe­ that such traffic jams can were particular locations in lation… [where] something A study showed that different tein levels to control head produced in excess in head PKM2 enzyme plays an im­ rapeutic resistance. So it happen among the tiny car­ the cell which were suscepti­ turns on, something turns strains of dengue virus travel and neck cancer. So the re­ and neck cancer and is res­ portant role in increasing might be possible to en­ go in the brain,” says Parul ble to forming these accum­ off and there are changes in from the gut to the salivary searchers set to find the mo­ ponsible for cancer cell the rate at which the glucose hance the efficacy of cur­ Sood, first author of the pap­ ulations. The most suscepti­ levels of protein etc. Here we gland of the Aedes mosquito lecular mechanism behind growth. gets converted into lactate rently available cancer er, who is a research scholar ble regions were those that show it can happen in per­ at different rates. This can at Tata Institute of Funda­ were actin­rich. When you fectly healthy neurons with affect the transmission rate of the role of PAK2 protein in “When we depleted the in cancer cells, which pro­ drugs by combining them mental Research in Mumbai. have concentrations of ac­ no changes in levels of pro­ the disease, as the mosquito cancer growth. amount of PAK2 protein in vides energy and also sup­ with PAK2 inhibitors,” says When the team was brain­ tin, in this region when the teins,” adds Dr Koushika. only lives a few days. The “What we found was cancer cells we found the ports rapid cell division by Gupta. Haitian strain had the slowest progression, and hence caused smaller outbreaks. Dire times for coastal fisheries? Mcr­1 gene seen in K. pneumoniae bacteria Illegal fishing gear, violations of existing regulations common The gene endows resistance against the last­hope antibiotic colistin Aathira Perinchery the resistance gene is trans­ also frequent. The team also Aswathi Pacha mitted among different The fishing industry along a presented these results to the species. But now we have portion of India’s east coast fishing community leaders of Increased prevalence of found this gene in the chro­ could be on the brink of a col­ each village. mcr­1 gene that confers mosome showing that it multidrug­resistance has has evolved and stabilised. How locusts smell lapse. This dire warning “We wanted to initiate dis­ now been reported in Kleb­ Whole genome sequence The mechanism of how an comes as scientists find that cussions among the fishing organism senses different fisheries in coastal Tamil Na­ communities regarding their siella pneumoniae bacte­ studies are needed to un­ smells has been traditionally du and Puducherry use des­ role in fisheries management, ria, increasing the fear of derstand the exact location attributed to a definite set of tructive methods and do not for they adhere to decisions infection by pan drug­resis­ of this gene to decode how neurons that fire when comply with existing regula­ made by their community tant bugs. This gene en­ they are transmitted from stimulated. An experiment on tions, which could stress the leaders,” said Tara Lawrence, dows resistance against last one bacterial species to locusts, published in Nature already over­exploited fish re­ lead author of the study. hope antibiotic — colistin. another,” adds Mr Singh. Communications, finds that sources here. A traditional kattumaram and Some of the recommenda­ A study published in An­ First reported in 2015, the gene had spread to all “The presence of the gene this is not true and the set of Regulations are crucial in a fisherman. * FERAL tions made by these commun­ timicrobial Agents and continents by 2017, says Kashi Nath Prasad (left). in the chromosome also neurons can differ depending India, the world's second lar­ ities are listed in the study – Chemotherapy found that means that Indian popula­ on “distractor smells”. gest fish producer, where lometres of the coasts of Pu­ such as suggesting that boats about 10% of the K. pneu­ partment of Microbiology protein that gives resis­ tion may be harbouring large scale motorisation of tra­ ducherry, Villupuram and stick to their nautical mile li­ moniae bacteria studied at Sanjay Gandhi Postgrad­ tance to all beta­lactam an­ mcr­1 gene for a longer pe­ ditional fishing crafts began Cuddalore districts of Tamil mits – and can be achieved were resistant to colistin. uate Institute of Medical tibiotics. This shows that riod of time and it re­ since the 1950s. Different cate­ Nadu. They attached global with enforcement and could During January–Febru­ Sciences, Lucknow, and the particular isolate was mained undetected.” gories of crafts – traditional positioning systems to ves­ potentially help the marine ary 2016, a total of 200 K. the corresponding author resistant to carbapenems, Further studies by the catamarans, fibreglass boats, sels; these, as well as field ecosystem recover, she adds. pneumoniae isolates from of the work. “Evidence sug­ third­generation cephalos­ group also found that mcr­1 trawlers – have specifications, teams gathered information According to marine biolo­ pus, blood, sputum, and gests that the overuse of co­ porins, aminoglycosides gene was more prevalent in from the fishing gear they of over 3,427 fishing trips over gist Divya Karnad who was urine were studied. Of this, listin in farm animals has and fluoroquinolones (ci­ K. pneumoniae than E. co­ should employ to the distance 7,945 square kilometres of not involved in this study, this 21 were resistant to colis­ given rise to the emergence profloxacin, levofloxacin) li, which is in stark contrast they should head out into the fishing grounds between June work is a critical contribution tin, and further screening of mcr­1 gene. Since this making the treatment very to findings from other Repairing the brain sea. But are these rules 2012 and June 2013. Their re­ to the study of small­scale revealed that four har­ gene is present on a mobile difficult,” says Sanjay countries. While less than Microglia are immune cells in followed? sults, published in PLOS ONE fisheries in India. However, boured mcr­1 gene. genetic element (plasmid) Singh, research scholar at 1% of the E. coli studied the central nervous system on July 11 this year, reveal that the data is a bit dated; since “This gene was first re­ of bacteria such as E. coli the institute and first auth­ was resistant to colistin, it that help remove cellular GPS data there are distinct high­pres­ fisheries are ever­changing, ported in December 2015 and K. pneumoniae, the or of the work. was about 10% in the case debris and dead neurons. A To generate baseline informa­ sure fishing zones and over­ comparisons with the present in E. coli isolated from frequency of transmission of K. pneumoniae. More recent experiment on optic tion on who fishes where in lapping fishing territories bet­ could offer better insight into chicken in China, and by to other bacteria is likely to Evolved gene studies are needed to un­ nerve injury in mice the sea, scientists from the ween traditional, motorised change and adaptation in 2017 it had spread to all be very high.” Interestingly, mcr­1 gene derstand this contrasting demonstrated that activated Foundation for Ecological Re­ and mechanised crafts. Viola­ these fisheries, she wrote in continents and [is] seen in Molecular studies re­ was seen in the chromoso­ behaviour. The team is also microglia prevented the search, Advocacy and Learn­ tions of the Marine Fisheries an email. bacteria isolated from hu­ vealed that one particular mal DNA of the bacteria. looking for this gene in oth­ damage from spreading to ing mapped and quantified Regulations Act (including not “We need many more such mans, chicken and envi­ isolate carried mcr­1 gene “The mcr­1 gene is usually er bacteria causing human neighbouring cells. This could fish catch, fishing gear, craft adhering to fishing limits and systematic studies that collect ronment,” says Prof. Kashi and blaNDM­1 gene. “The found in the plasmid (small infection and its mode of help limit brain and spinal cord and crew details along 120 ki­ using illegal fishing gear) are long­term data,” she added. Nath Prasad from the De­ blaNDM­1 encodes for a DNA in the cytoplasm) and dissemination. injuries. IISER Pune find species can turn invasive in the same ecosystem

R. Prasad “Faced with vagaries of rect selection for dispersal number of flies that travelled controls and this increased searchers looked at what was Invasive species are normally climate change and habitat propensity — ability to leave long distances. activity was seen in the ab­ responsible for the change in considered to come from destruction, there is an in­ the source area. And every When organisms evolve in sence and presence of food. behavioural traits. “Since outside a given ecosystem. creasing possibility for the 3­4 generations, the distance response to selection for After 24 hours, the activity of dispersal is a complex pro­ But a study by researchers evolution of these traits in between bottles was in­ greater dispersal the body the selected flies was signifi­ cess, it is difficult to figure from the Indian Institute of many mobile organisms,” creased by using a longer size tends to become bigger. cantly more than the control out the genes responsible for Science Research and Educa­ says Prof. Dey. If dispersal to tube. This was done to mimic But in a paper published in males but the time spent it. So we looked at the chang­ tion (IISER) Pune have safer environments is the increased habitat Evolution, they found that resting and quality of rest/ es in the levels of the under­ shown that selection process “first line of defence” for or­ fragmentation. selection did not lead to any sleep were the same in the lying metabolites,” says Prof. for dispersal in fruit flies ganisms to cope with adver­ increase in body size in both selected flies and controls. Dey. (Drosophila melanogaster) sities, becoming an invasive Dispersal traits sexes. The studies were car­ The selected flies also ex­ Octopamine, a neuro­ can lead to evolution of traits species even within the same Within 10 generations of se­ ried out using flies from 49­ hibited greater exploratory transmitter, was significantly lection, the dispersal pro­ related to invasive potential. ecosystem might be the ugly Faced with climate change and habitat destruction, there is a 69 generations. tendency. This tendency elevated — 2.2 fold higher — pensity and ability to travel So a native species can be­ fallout. high possibility for the evolution of these traits in many Selection for dispersal is helps the species to survive in the selected flies. “The ele­ long distances was signifi­ come invasive in the same In a study published in mobile organisms, says Sutirth Dey (second from left). likely to be at the expense of in a new environment. In vated octopamine level ex­ ecosystem. June 2017 in Oikos, the re­ cantly greater in the selected fecundity and longevity, but many species, there is a plains the underlying me­ Though the team led by searchers subjected four flies than the controls. The sal propensity in the flies,” “Even when there was no neither was observed. strong relationship between chanism behind the Sutirth Dey from the Insti­ populations, each containing selected fruit flies displayed says Sudipta Tung. “Then we reason for selected flies to exploration and invasion. observed changes in beha­ tute’s Biology Division did about 2,400 flies, to artificial the similar characteristics af­ became more ambitious and disperse [due to presence of Behavioural traits The selected flies exhibit­ vioural traits in the selected not specifically study for in­ selection for increased dis­ ter 20 generations. wanted to check whether the food], they were still dispers­ “But we observed distinct ed greater aggression. even flies,” Prof. Dey says. vasion potential of the flies, persal over 33 generations. “We checked for dispersal flies dispersed even in the ing. So dispersal had become changes in three behavioural though there was no obvious The selected flies showed the experiments they con­ This was done by placing the propensity in the 10th and absence of an external driver constitute,” he says. traits — activity, exploration fitness advantage. The select­ increased levels of cellular ducted did show the flies ac­ flies in a bottle and connect­ 20th generation without for dispersal. Even in the The propensity to dis­ and aggression. And these ed flies did not have to com­ respiration to meet in­ quiring increased aggres­ ing it to another using a long food and water, which was si­ presence of food and water, perse was same in both sexes three traits are closely relat­ pete with native flies either. creased energy demand. sion, exploration and pipe. Only the first 50% of milar to the selection proce­ we found that after 33 gener­ but males dispersed to lon­ ed to the invasive potential of In collaboration with Dr. There was increase in the le­ activity, which together is flies that moved to the se­ dure. The absence of food ations, the selected flies still ger distances than females. a species,” says Tung. Kavita Dorai from the De­ vels of Adenosine triphos­ more likely to make them cond bottle were allowed to and water acted as drivers displayed greater propensity They also found that the se­ The selected flies exhibit­ partment of Physical Scienc­ phate (ATP), which is the more invasive. breed. Thus there was a di­ and led to increased disper­ and ability to disperse.” lected population had larger ed greater activity than the es at IISER Mohali, the re­ energy currency for cells.

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HEALTHLINE RITESH KUMAR Do not miss that run Two new studies look at what happens when even active adults stop exercising or moving around much Gretchen Reynolds rangements” during their two in muscle tissue indicating that weeks of being still. Their blood su­ they might soon begin to lose mus­ t the height of summer, naps gar levels had risen, insulin sensi­ cle mass, and a few had to be re­ at the beach can be alluring tivity declined, cholesterol profiles moved from the study because Aand many of us may find become less healthy, and they had they had edged into full­blown ourselves tempted to take pro­ lost a little muscle mass in their Type 2 diabetes after becoming longed vacations from exercise. legs while gaining fat around their inactive. But two new admonitory stu­ abdomens. For most of the men and women dies involving both older and Thankfully, most of these deran­ who remained in the experiment, younger adults (who temporarily gements were reversed once the their undesirable metabolic chang­ “Those who use high speed Internet tend to sleep 25 cut back on their physical activity) men and women became active es were not fully reversed after two minutes less than their counterparts without such access. indicate that the metabolic conse­ again. But for unknown reasons, a weeks of moving about again. They are also significantly less likely to sleep between the quences of not moving much for a few of the volunteers did not re­ The upshot of these findings is prescribed seven to nine hours.” — Journal of Economic few weeks can be pervasive and turn to quite the same level of exer­ that a few weeks of inactivity could Behaviour and Organization persistent, lingering to some ex­ GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO cise they had engaged in before. leave us less well, perhaps for a tent even after people start moving end in the interest of science, they been active, walking for more than prolonged period of time, with the AROUND THE WORLD around normally again. often have developed heightened 10,000 steps on most days, accord­ And the second health consequences amplified by blood sugar and some early symp­ ing to monitors that they wore for The consequences of sudden inac­ increasing age, says Chris McGlory, Multiple benefits toms of insulin resistance. several days at the study’s start. tivity were more severe and, in a research fellow in kinesiology at An eye out for cholesterol Physical activity is, of course, good But within a day or two of re­ They also had been metabolically their way, poignant in the other McMaster University in Canada, A form of cholesterol found in tears for us and our metabolisms. turning to their normal activities, healthy, testing showed, and free new study, which was published in who led the study of older people. protects the eye from inflammatory Among other effects, contracting their metabolisms usually stabil­ from diabetes, although some had July in The Journals of Gerontology. “It’s not uncommon for older immune responses in mice. The results muscles burn blood sugar as fuel ised and blood sugar and insulin near relatives with the condition. It focussed on overweight peo­ people to become sick or injured of the new study indicate that the and, in response to signals from levels dropped. During the study, the volunteers ple past age 65 who already were at and wind up hospitalised or hou­ molecule or an analogue could be the hormone insulin, also store Many of us, though, are not ro­ simply stopped moving much, cut­ risk of developing diabetes be­ sebound for several weeks, or for Getty Images/iStockphoto utilised as a therapy for inflammatory some of it for future use. Over the bust, young college students, and ting their daily steps to below cause they had high blood sugar. someone who’s younger to just de­ eye disorders or other immune­related long term, these conditions help whether the impacts of becoming 2,000 and sitting for more than But they otherwise were healthy cide to take a few weeks off from conditions. Previous research has shown that a molecule named our bodies to stave off soaring inactive, even for a short period of three­and­a­half additional hours and active, walking about 7,000 or regular exercise and physical activ­ DOCK2 is critical for proper activation and migration of immune cells. In this study, the researchers found that a modified form blood sugar, insulin resistance and time, are likely to be as ephemeral each day, a routine that they conti­ 8,000 steps each day. ity,” he says. of cholesterol called cholesterol sulfate, or CS, inhibited Type 2 diabetes. for us has been less clear. nued for two weeks. Now, as in the other study, they But “if it’s at all possible,” he DOCK2 and blocked the migratory capabilities of isolated But what happens when, as a re­ The researchers then rechecked sat, reducing their steps to below says, “don’t stop moving.” immune cells. Mice lacking an enzyme necessary for sult of choices or circumstances, The first study their metabolisms and body com­ 1,000 a day for two weeks, after Talk to a physical therapist synthesising CS experienced more severe eye inflammation in we do not exercise or move around So for one of the new studies, positions and asked them to return which, for a final two weeks, they about activity options if you have response to ultraviolet light and pollen. Administering eye much for a period of time? which was published in June in to their former activity levels for moved about normally. been injured or are hospitalis ed, drops containing CS alleviated the eye inflammation in the In some past studies with Diabetologia, researchers at the another two weeks, after which Like the adults in the other stu­ he says. And instead of taking a va­ rodents, suggesting that molecules similar to CS could be healthy, active young people, often University of Liverpool in England the tests were repeated. dy, these older volunteers quickly cation from exercise, consider per­ included in topical treatments for keratitis, dry eye disease, and college students, the consequenc­ and other institutions asked 45 The results proved to be consis­ developed worse blood sugar con­ haps building exercise into your other inflammatory eye disorders. The findings have been es have been swift but reversible. adult men and women to abruptly tent if worrisome. Almost all the trol during their two weeks of vacation. The beach can be as en­ published in Science. When these volunteers have taken start sitting more. volunteers had developed what barely moving. Insulin resistance ticing for a stroll as a snooze. NY to their beds and chairs for days on The volunteers had previously the scientists called “metabolic de­ climbed. Some developed changes TIMES Now, bacterial resistance to hand-rubs CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC A multidrug­resistant bacterial species that can cause infections in hospitals is Every ounce counts becoming increasingly tolerant to the A KITE for India alcohols used in hand­wash Getty Images disinfectants. In a new study, analysis n 1859, when Charles Dar­ of bacterial samples taken from two Iwin presented his famed Australian hospitals over 19 years suggests that the species, theory of evolution by nat­ Enterococcus faecium, is adapting to a mainstay of infection ural selection, inherent in control used in health­care facilities worldwide. Treatment­ its essence was the abiding resistant bacterial species such as methicillin­resistant notion of survival of the fit­ Staphylococcus aureus have become an increasing source of Karan Thakur test. To evolve, compete concern for hospital workers over the past several decades. and do better has been the Researchers screened 139E. faecium isolates — or isolated cornerstone of the survival bacterial samples — previously collected between 1997 and of any species. This has also helped ensure that coun­ 2015 from two hospitals in Melbourne, Australia, and studied how well each isolate survived when exposed to diluted tries and societies have created an era that is prosper­ isopropyl alcohol. The findings have been published in the ous and (largely) peaceful than at any other time in his­ journal, Science Translational Medicine. tory. Innovation, progressive disruption and the effective use of intellectual property are the new tools of the Key genes to impede HIV economy this century. For examples, one only has to Researchers have discovered two genes look at Israel or Singapore. In the 21st century, they are that are associated with the restriction clear leaders on their strengths in the fields of scientif­ of HIV by type 1 interferon, a protein ic, industrial and financial innovations. Hence the les­ that inhibits virus replication. The sons for emerging markets are clear — the need to in ­ findings could offer a way to novate and compete globally. manipulate these antiviral genes as Getty Images/iStockphoto India’s case has been a success story of sorts. From a part of a potential treatment for chronic HIV infection, the researchers say. Interferon, sometimes given country that was hardly acknowledged, to becoming a as a drug to patients with HIV, stimulates the production of case study in economic reforms, it has done much to hundreds of genes that help control viral infections. Although improve the health of the economy and its people. As clinicians know that interferon can help reduce HIV replication one of the top growing economies in the world, it now and proliferation, the exact mechanisms behind this effect — stands at the cusp of leapfrogging from an emerging to including which genes it may activate — remain mostly a near­advanced economy over the next decade. But unknown. The report has been published in Science Advances. Basic nutrition: World Breastfeeding Week (August 1­7) is celebrated every year to encourage breastfeeding and improve going forth, many of the paradigms that have held the the health of babies around the world. It commemorates the Innocenti Declaration signed in August 1990 by government Indian economy in good stead may not be efficient in policymakers, the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and other organisations to protect, promote and support the decades ahead. Equally so, providing access to Heart risk for breastfeeding. Breastfeeding, says WHO, is the best way to provide infants with the nutrients they need, which transgenders health care, medical technologies and pharmaceutical recommends exclusive breastfeeding starting within one hour after birth until a baby is six months old. Nutritious products for a billion people is still a challenge, w ith Transgender individuals may be at complementary foods should then be added while continuing to breastfeed for up to two years or beyond. This year, WHO no clear consensus on the best way forward. higher risk for myocardial infarction is working with UNICEF and partners to promote the importance of helping mothers breastfeed their babies within that Improving the environment for innovation and en­ and death due to cardiovascular crucial first hour of life. Picture shows a health­care worker storing donated breast milk at the milk bank of the San Juan de hancing competitiveness, especially in areas such as disease, according to several studies. Dios Hospital in Guatemala City. — A compilation based on WHO material.* AFP/ORLANDO ESTRADA science and technology and health care, will help pro­ Getty Images/iStockphoto This increased risk may be due to the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC hormone therapy (testosterone or pel our economic engine of growth and improve the oestrogen) that transgender patients take for masculinisation health indices of citizens. In an emerging environment or feminisation. The findings emerged from an examination of of protectionism and the rise of the anti­globalisat ion A game-changing diaper? movement, the need to innovate and compete will be­ several studies that followed transgender individuals on hormone therapy. The review focusses on cardiovascular come even more important. Advanced western econo­ events (myocardial infarction, stroke and venous A team at IIT Madras develops a biodegradable, super-absorbent polymer mies, with low single­digit growth rates, are now re­ thromboembolism) and surrogate markers — including blood sorting to protectionist measures. What is troubling is Sanghamitra Deobhanj pressure and lipid concentrations — in transgender patients on synthesis process as eco­ that matching voices are being heard within emerging hormone therapy who may or may not have undergone gender friendly since water has economies like India. The more prudent step would be affirmation procedures. The studies (that the review covered) he use of disposable been used in experiments to enhance capabilities to innovate rather than merely show that transgender women appear to have increased risk for Tdiapers in baby care is instead of synthetic adopt as this changing global mood becomes more cardiovascular events due to hormone therapy. The data are becoming common in ur­ chemicals. perverse. The answer lies in creating a knowledge and unclear for transgender men. It is well­known that oestrogen ban areas. Diapers are also “We have tested our ma­ information technology­based, intellectual property­ therapy for transwomen increases their risk of blood clots increasingly being used by terial as an additive to soil focussed and entrepreneurially­led economy — or a (deep venous thromboses). The study appears in Reviews in the elderly who experience for the growth of some pot­ KITE economy as it were. Endocrine and Metabolic Disorders. uncontrolled urination due ted plants, like chilli , at to certain geriatric health home, and find that it is Reversing research outflow Fatty-acid link to problems. enough if they are watered In the field of health, pharmaceuticals and scientific pre-term birth But there is a downside once every four to five research, the need to protect the intellectual property Pregnant women who had low plasma to all this. Diapers contain days,” said Abathodhara­ of all entities is crucial. We need a multi­fold increase levels of long chain n­3 fatty acids in super­absorbing polymers, nan Narayanan, another in scientific capabilities and infrastructure as well as a their first and second trimesters were or SAPs, which can absorb team member, while com­ regulatory framework to enhance clinical research. at a significantly higher risk of early and retain a large quantity GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO menting on the study. Over the past decade, clinical research, especially clin­ pre­term birth when compared with Getty Images/iStockphoto of liquid. However, they are baby diaper was used for such as solid state nuclear The gel has also been ical trials, has moved away from India to countries like women who had higher levels of these made of synthetic materials comparison. The materials magnetic resonance, fou­ tested for its suitability as a China owing to policy decisions. Reversing this will not fatty acids. The new study suggests that low concentrations of that are non­biodegradable. (chitosan, citric acid and rier­transform infrared scaffolding material in tis­ only help India to innovate and compete with the rest certain long chain fatty acids — eicosapentaenoic acid and Safe disposal of used diap­ urea) were mixed in a spectroscopy and thermo­ sue engineering. The r e­ of the world but also create jobs across the value chain. docosahexaenoic acid (EPA+DHA) — may be a strong risk factor ers is thus becoming a ma­ weight ratio of 1:2:2. The gravimetric analysis. searchers feel it can also Similarly, taking meaningful steps to be in step with for pre­term birth. Pre­term birth is a leading cause of neonatal jor environmental problem. mixture was heated in The scanning electron find applications in agricul­ international best practices, remove barriers and en ­ death and associated with cognitive deficiencies and cardio­ o In order to address the is­ aqueous medium to 100 C microscopy was used to ture, especially as a con­ hance predictability in the patents regimes will help metabolic problems later in life among survivors. The study has sue, scientists from the De­ in a closed container to confirm the presence of trolled releasing agent of been published in the journal, EBioMedicine. grow the innovation paradigm in health access, phar­ partment of Chemistry at form a highly viscous and macro pores in the gel sur­ micro­ and macro­nutrients maceutical developments and medical device manu­ the Indian Institute of Tech­ porous, cross­linked gel de­ rounded by a fibrous net­ to soil. The study also men­ facturing in India. In order to do this, structural re ­ DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE nology, Madras have deve­ noted as CHCAUR (from work of chitosan molecules tions that when applied to forms and increased funding of regulatory agencies loped a biodegradable sup­ chitosan, citric acid and forming an agitated surface. soil, CHCAUR was found to are a must. What is the FOXP2? er­absorbent polymer using urea). The gel was then The team also found that decrease water evaporation India needs to improve competitiveness through a chitosan (a kind of sugar ex­ dried to remove residual the higher water absorption rate significantly. FOXP2 is one of the most famous genes to be discovered paradigm shift in innovation and intellectual property because of its role in language. It is highly expressed during tracted from seafood solvent and powdered for capacity of the gel could be The research team is rights. Its scientists, technology entrepreneurs and brain development and regulates some muscle movements, waste), citric acid and urea. further study. due to the macro porous now working on similar bio­ health evangelists need to have a protective umbrell a aiding in language production. Though found in all animals, a This super­absorbent has It was found that the wa­ structure. degradable polymers as a of a strong patent regime that helps them innovate slight change in the composition of the gene in humans makes capacity — it can absorb ter absorption capacity of substitute for polyurethane without having to look over their shoulders. Steps to it possible for us to have speech. Those with a malfunctioning 1,250g of water for each CHCAUR was about eight Other possibilities and polystyrene packaging make India a KITE leader in health are the need of the FOXP2 have been found to have severe speech defects. FOXP2 gram of the polymer. times more when com­ “In the present form, our materials that do not de­ hour. has also been shown to regulate language­like behaviours in pared to super absorbing material does not absorb grade. So, while the government attempts more structural mice and songbirds. Over the years, its presence has also been A comparison polymers used in commer­ water as rapidly as commer­ Others members in the reforms, it would do well to ensure that the overall used to bolster the theory of natural selection: how a gene that The researchers used chito­ cial diapers. The structure cially available diaper mate­ research team were Ravish­ helps a species continues to linger over generations. However a competitiveness of the health sector improves as item­ san obtained from seafood of this crosslinked polymer rials but it is biodegradable ankar Kartik and Elanchez­ recent study contests this. An analysis of genetic data from a barks on an ambitious mission to provide quality diverse sample of modern people and Neanderthals saw no waste source, and two easi­ gel was analysed using the unlike fully synthetic com­ hian Sangeetha. The results health care to more than a billion citizens. evidence for recent, human­specific selection of FOXP2 and ly available sustainable powder x­ray diffraction mercial super­absorbents,” of the study have been pu­ revises the history of how we think humans acquired language. chemicals — citric acid and method. Its properties were said Raghavachari Dha­ blished in the journal, Car- Dr. Karan Thakur is a doctor and health-care administrator in the The findings have been published in the journal, Cell. — Science urea. Water absorbing ma­ studied extensively by va­ modharan, the lead re­ bohydrate Polymers. — India private sector. The views expressed are personal Daily terial from a commercial rious analytical techniques searcher. 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What are they used for? A searing look at how the vote bank is financed

Uma Mahadevan-Dasgupta sumption during the month of State assembly elections that can­ n 1955, the great Indian sociolo­ not be explained away with the ■ The Disobedient Indian gist M.N. Srinivas published his usual reasons. Such “under­the­ta­ Ramin Jahanbegloo Icelebrated essay, ‘The Social ble contributions”, they suggest, Speaking Tiger Books System of a Mysore Village’, based could be the reason for the persis­ ₹499 on fieldwork that he carried out in tence of red tape and regulation in 1948 in a village which he called the Indian economy. Gandhi appears to many “as a Rampura. This fieldwork, carried spiritual man who tried to out in the year of Gandhi’s death, A high price find a harmonious balance between a contemplative life had influenced Srinivas’s thinking How does the money flow? Follow­ and a life of action.” But as profoundly. It would lead to the ing the trail in Mumbai and Bihar Jahanbegloo argues in his ■ beautiful reflection titled ‘The Re­ Costs of Democracy: elections through ethnographic new book, where he explores membered Village’ two decades Political Finance in India accounts, Lisa Björkman and Jef­ the “philosophy of dissent,” later, when a fire started by anti­ Edited by Devesh Kapur frey Witsoe find that instead of the Gandhi found a balance by war arsonists in a U.S. university and Milan Vaishnav conventional presumption of a submitting “his views to destroyed his material, and Srini­ Oxford University Press simple downward flow from party relentless criticism, ₹750 vas had to reconstruct, through to voter in exchange for votes flow­ sometimes his own, but more memory, the life and dynamics of ing upward from voter to party, often that of other people.” the village. tions. But it seems equally impos­ “Money that changes hands dur­ But that was to come later. In sible to imagine elections without ing the election flows laterally and his 1955 essay, Srinivas used the the all­pervasive role of money. multidirectionally from a wide va­ term ‘vote bank’ for the first time: Where do the funds come from; riety of sources... The relationship “The coming of elections gives what are they used for; what are In the air: ‘Election campaigns are becoming more expensive and sophisticated. Even among wealthy of democratic representation can­ fresh opportunities for the crystal­ the implications of such transac­ candidates from different parties, the wealthiest has the greater chance of winning.’ * RAJEEV BHATT not be understood as a social con­ lization of parties around patrons. tions; how can they be tracked tract, but rather as a dense web of Each patron may be said to have a and regulated; and what are the political polarisation, the question now plays a role not only in na­ 2004 to 2014, Neelanjan Sircar socio­material relations in which ‘vote bank’ which he can place at larger contexts in which the drama of money in politics seems more tional and state elections but also finds that a candidate’s personal money plays just one part.” the disposal of a provincial or na­ of political finance is played out? acute than ever before. While stu­ urban local bodies and wealth is strongly correlated with Finally, Simon Chauchard asks tional party for a consideration Costs of Democracy: Political Fi­ dies have focused on the role of panchayats. electoral success; competitive pol­ what it is that costs so much in In­ ■ Africanistan: which is not mentioned but nance in India is a thought­provok­ political finance in advanced in­ itical parties systematically select dian elections. Studying campaign Development or Jihad implied.” ing and gripping look at the role of dustrialised democracies, the role Regulation issues candidates who are about 20 expenses in Mumbai (in a consti­ Serge Michailof money in Indian elections. In their of money in politics in the deve­ In its seven chapters, Costs of De­ times wealthier than others; and tuency that he calls Savli to protect OUP Role of money introduction, editors Devesh Ka­ loping world could be quite diffe­ mocracy follows the money in in­ even among wealthy candidates the anonymity of his interlocutors ₹795 The formulation ‘vote bank’ pur and Milan Vaishnav remind us rent and needs further research. sightful new ways. Eswaran Sridh­ from different parties, the wealth­ — there is no constituency called In Africa, progress can be would become standard journalis­ that the use of money in elections Particularly so in the world’s aran and Milan Vaishnav point out iest has the greater chance of Savli in Maharashtra), he says that seen across the board, but is tic usage in the discussion of In­ is not new. Even Plutarch, two mil­ most populous democracy. As the that while the Election Commis­ winning. attempts to buy votes are not even it sustainable? The continent dia’s electoral politics in the years lennia ago, commented on the editors point out, since 1991, the sion of India has earned deserved Personal wealth is not the only the most important elements of is, in fact, a powder keg, says to come. While the nature of such phenomenon of buying and sell­ sizes of both economy and electo­ acclaim in ensuring the conduct of source of political finance. In a election expenses. an international affairs expert who has followed ‘vote banking’ may have changed ing of votes – while writing about rate have grown substantially; mo­ fair and equitable elections, there sharp ‘forensic’ study of the con­ Election campaigns are becom­ developments in Africa. “The in the seven decades of post­Inde­ the fall of the Roman republic. reover,the political landscape has are challenges in the regulation of nections between the construc­ ing more expensive and sophisti­ powder is demographics and pendence Indian politics, the role But as Kapur and Vaishnav changed. The 73rd and 74th Con­ political finance. tion sector and Indian elections, cated because they are far more unemployment the of the “consideration not men­ point out, in the 21st century, with stitutional Amendments led to Where do campaign funds using data on cement consump­ competitive. In which case, the detonator,” he writes. Among tioned but implied” nevertheless liberal democracy under stress nearly three million locally elected come from? In a fascinating empir­ tion in both real estate and infras­ concerns go beyond handouts and issues he lists are stagnating remains central. across the world, and with the positions, and increased fiscal de­ ical analysis of the role of personal tructure, in elections in 17 States quid pro quos, to far­reaching agriculture, rural misery, It is self­evident that you cannot weakening of cadre­based parties, volution raised the stakes, which wealth of over 20,000 candidates over 15 years, Kapur and Vaishnav questions about the sustenance of ethnic and religious fault have democracy without free elec­ growing inequality, and increasing has meant that political finance over three national elections from find a contraction in cement con­ democracy itself. lines and regional instability. The immortals Death of a city How Raqqa was brought to ruin by fighters of all hues Ronaldo and Messi were destined to meet and forge new paths, Stanly Johny arena of jihad, divided into redefining boundaries, game after game, says a new biography halves, with believers versus un­ There’s no dearth of literature believers on one side, and nation­ ■ Imagining Lahore Saurya Sengupta on the Syrian tragedy. But alist believers versus takfiri mer­ Haroon Khalid most of them, especially those cenaries on the other.” Penguin/Viking pril 23, 2017. The Santiago published in English, are written Brothers of the Gun doesn’t off­ ₹599 Bernabéu. Real Madrid vs FC from an outsider’s point of view. er any analysis of the geopolitical An anecdotal travelogue Barcelona. El Clásico. The But Marwan Hisham’s book, complexities of the Syrian war. It A about Lahore, this book nd game’s on the wrong side of 92 Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of doesn’t say much on how the an­ begins in the present and ■ minute. The score’s level at 2­2. Lio­ the Syrian War, with beautiful il­ Brothers of the Gun: ti­regime protests turned violent, travels through time to A Memoir of the Syrian War nel Messi rushes into the penalty lustrations by American writer­ where do money and weapons explore the mythological area and sidefoots a cutback to­ artist Molly Crabapple, is the au­ Marwan Hisham and Molly come from for the rebels. But the origins of the city. Through wards goal. The net bulges. A sec­ tobiography of the city which Crabapple book is a helpless Syrian’s story the city’s present, its people, tion of the Bernabéu erupts into had been the de facto capital of One World/ PRH to the world. He describes with monuments and institutions, ₹699 raptures. The rest are struck dumb. the Islamic State for almost four pain how the country was des­ Khalid paints a vivid picture Messi runs towards the Real Madrid years. Hisham, a native of Raqqa, troyed, neglected and aban­ of its past. Today too Lahore, fans, takes off his shirt, and holds it witnessed the descent of the city an Islamist group. Hisham stayed doned. Hisham doesn’t make a the capital of Punjab, often determines which way the aloft in front of them, the name and into the hands of, first rebels and away from the armed rebellion, moral distinction between va­ wind will blow in Pakistan’s number facing the crowd. The cele­ then jihadists. first working in a cafe in IS­con­ rious actors of the war. The re­ political landscape. bration is epochal. He has just won When protests against the trolled Raqqa and then reporting gime comes and bombs the city. Barcelona a crucial league game. Ba’athist regime of Bashar al­As­ as a freelance journalist from the The Americans, the French and Cristiano Ronaldo, of course, sad broke out in 2011 in Syria, city. the Russians all come and bomb could not take this lying down. Just Hisham and his friends, like Hisham writes, the rebels who the city. The IS, which he says as iconic as Messi’s celebration was Two to tango: ‘Ronaldo will forever be the self­centred one. thousands of others, were captured the city from regime “committed a historic blasphemy the parallel image of a frustrated Messi will forever be clawing for Maradona’s pedestal.’ * AFP thrilled and ready to join the ‘re­ forces were directionless. The against our future,” occupies the Ronaldo at the other end of the volution’. They took part in prot­ Free Syrian Army was a loose city. Raqqans, he says, are at the pitch, cursing, stomping the time, they recognised that Ronal­ ests in Raqqa, shouted slogans coalition of different groups and receiving end. Hisham is not an­ ground, berating the general at­ do’s self­belief was a fundamental against President Assad and they were incapable of defending gry. Rather he’s anguished at his mosphere. He had been outdone. part of his character. It was a res­ hoped for his fall, like dictators in the land against Islamist attacks. own plight and that of his fellow August 13, 2017. This time, Camp ponse he drew from within himself Tunisia and Egypt in the previous “Islamists didn’t have to exert Syrians. “We became believers Nou. It’s the first leg of the Spanish to the adversity that had haunted months. But he soon was disap­ much effort to hijack the revolu­ just when we most needed scep­ ■ The Beauty of All Super Cup. The score’s level at 1­1. him from birth.” pointed as the protests turned tion — it was easily given up by ticism. We squabbled when we My Days: A Memoir Ronaldo has his revenge. He nudg­ Messi, on the other hand, is born violent. One of his friends joined the politically uneducated needed solidarity. In the words of Ruskin Bond es his team ahead in the 80 th mi­ into a far more convivial family — a rebel group and got killed by re­ crowds who had started it.” The the hadith, “As we were, we were Viking/ Penguin ₹499 nute. His teammate hands him his supportive father, encouraging gime forces, while another joined revolution had now become “an governed,” he writes. shirt. He lifts it high in the air, name grandmother, et al. But Rosario, his A loved writer known for his and number facing the crowd. Déjà hometown, is ravaged by violence, innumerable stories, essays, vu — this time, enforced by CR7. ■ Cristiano & Leo: The Race to wrought upon the region in the af­ poems and novels looks back Through these incidents Jimmy Become the Greatest Football termath of the Falklands war. at the past to “understand Player of All Time some of the events that Burns treads into the muddy wa­ Amongst this turmoil, Messi stands Just soak it up Jimmy Burns helped define the sort of ters of the Messi­Ronaldo debate in out as a head of calm, confounding Macmillan person I have become.” Thus, Cristiano & Leo . One of the great ₹699 coaches and opponents in equal A veteran ad man on small, big details of doing business each chapter is a chroniclers of football of our times, measure. “The young Messi did not remembrance of times past, Burns’ Diego Maradona biography look, as Maradona had at the same Chitra Narayanan moxed when 10 hours ahead of an attempt to resurrect a (Maradona: The Hand of God) is re­ the two players as cogs in much age, an unwashed urchin, escaped its launch he gets a frantic call person or a period or an garded as one of the best on the larger socio­cultural, political, from a piece of wasteland. His skin few years ago, in The Hindu that Mr. Tata wants to see the In­ episode, “a reflection on the subject. His oeuvre has informed sporting, and financial machines, was lighter, his long hair better ABusinessLine’s pullout devot­ digo Marina that will be on dis­ unpredictability of life.” and provoked endlessly. But this than simply as two prodigiously ta­ groomed,” Burns says. ed to advertising and marketing, play. On his orders the car had time, Burns steps on thin ice. lented and determined individuals. Within two chapters, he deli­ we tried to get chief marketing of­ been electroplated but the engi­ The simplest tropes utilised in neates the borders of their birth, ficers to tell us about a great idea neers struggled to meet the ex­ The great debate juxtapositions of the two are of the growth and eventual coming­of­age that failed, behind­the­scenes acting brief. Watching Mr. Tata In an environment hacked into archetypal sedulous (Ronaldo) and and coming together. Ronaldo will stories of product launches, and inspect the car and hearing the endless interconnected webs of di­ the ever­intrinsically super­able forever be the self­centred one. so on. It was a tough column to ■ Sponge: Leadership Lessons questions he asks, Ambi’s takea­ vide — class, race, region, language, (Messi). While Burns doesn’t go out Messi will forever be clawing for run as the CMOs tended to be I Learnt From My Clients ways are a leader’s ability to vi­ natural resources, the list goes on — of his way to demolish what are ar­ Maradona’s pedestal. The two were circumspect. Ambi Parameswaran sualise an idea and execute it, be one debate seems to preclude all guably lazy simplifications, his su­ destined to meet and forge new Veteran ad man Ambi Para­ Westland passionate and pay careful atten­ others: Messi, or Ronaldo? Burns perlative reportage does go some paths, redefining boundaries, nor­ meswaran’s new book Sponge ef­ ₹350 tion to detail. concedes that comparisons are “fu­ way towards providing two origin malising the supernormal, game af­ fortlessly achieves what we were We also see displays of courage ■ How India Works: Making tile”. He instead, seeks to etch out stories. ter game. trying to do. It is replete with del­ temperamental clients, that’s not and authenticity from CGH’s Jose Sense of a Complex some context for their individual One is Barcelona’s all­time high­ icious insider accounts of agency­ there. Ambi drops hints, but Dominic, fresh thinking from Corporate Culture and simultaneous existences. Beginnings tell a story est goalscorer. The other is Real Ma­ client interactions, the strategy tends to focus on positive learn­ Cadbury’s Anand Kripalu, the im­ Aarti Kelshikar When perspective in discourse is in Ronaldo is born into poverty in Por­ drid’s. Between them, they have and thought behind their market­ ings from even these. portance of respecting everyone HarperCollins short supply, Burns adds some tugal’s harsh Madeira province. An scored over 1,200 goals for club ing moves, the mistakes, the suc­ Each chapter in the book is a from Vinita Bali and many more ₹399 much­needed grounding. alcoholic father, an unhelpful ter­ and country. For 10 years, the two cesses, and the small details that recollection of an encounter — a leadership traits. One of the best Around the world, it is He alternates chapters between rain, and the geo­political isolation have passed the Ballon d’Or among teach us big important things. meeting with a client, the con­ stories is how Pradip Guha, then recognised that an Ronaldo and Messi, breaking type of the Madeira island — Ronaldo has them. Nobody else has come close. After For God’s Sake which text, the action, and finally the CEO at Zee, seeks validation for a understanding of a country’s only at crucial stages; the ‘Enter had to overcome these challenges. Ronaldo is now at Juventus, in Italy, looked at how religion is used in wisdom that Ambi gets out of it, campaign from a chaiwala. A work culture plays a Mourinho’ chapter, for instance, Instead of swimming against the away from El Clásico, and from marketing, and Nawabs, Nudes, supplemented by nuggets from a chatty and absorbing book, what significant part in success at details an important inflection tide, he moulds himself to tackle Messi’s immediate shadow. Noodles that took us on a socio­ great book. The sponge in the tit­ stands out is Ambi’s prodigious one’s job. Indians are no point in the Messi­Ronaldo zeit­ his surroundings with a fierce sin­ As the European league season economic journey of India le is Ambi himself, soaking up in­ memory as he recounts incidents exception. We have some geist. The arrival of José Mourinho gle­mindedness and an inexorable begins, for the first time in nine through 30­second commercials, sights. There are over 25 such en­ that happened early in his career innate strengths and other as Real Madrid coach would go on fortitude. “According to [Pedro] Ta­ years, they will play in separate the former FCB Ulka honcho is counters, with formidable names with vivid detail. negative traits too. For instance, why are we willing to define the contemporary El Clás­ linhas [a youth coach at Nacional, leagues, but it hardly matters. back with a different focus. This like Ratan Tata, K.L. Chugh, Vini­ (Disclaimer: Ambi Parameswa­ to work on holidays? Based ico with his provocative and fire­ one of Ronaldo’s early clubs], the Leagues and the boundaries of na­ time he trains his lens on clients ta Bali, R.D. Aga, and Azim Prem­ ran is an Independent Director of on interviews with brand touchline histrionics. The player’s ‘troublesome tempera­ tion­states can do no justice to and their different management ji among others. The Hindu Group of Publications corporates, Kelshikar narrative is thus, broadly, kept en­ ment’ included a lack of team spi­ them. Neither can words, but styles. If you are looking for juicy Take the story of Ratan Tata Pvt Ltd, which publishes The explores the complexities of gaging. It is far more useful to see rit,” Burns writes. But, “At the same Burns does a pretty good job. tidbits on stormy sessions with and the shiny car. Ambi is flum­ Hindu.) working in India. CM A ND-NDE YK 2006-2018 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -@SridharMuskula [email protected] - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Stokes lands knockout punch, England snatches a thriller The all­rounder’s three on Saturday, including that of Kohli, seal the issue in favour of the hosts; Pandya’s gritty innings not enough to see India through INDIA IN ENGLAND fifth hissed past the outside edge and turned straight to first slip. Shreedutta Chidananda The next ball was a googly, Birmingham thudding into Ishant’s front A morning of oppressive ten­ pad. Chris Gaffaney turned sion ended in heartbreak for down the lbw appeal but India. Ben Stokes, who may Rashid had his man on well lay claim to being the review. world’s finest all­rounder, It was all up to Pandya produced a rousing spell of now. For a while he resisted, seam as England farming the strike and clout­ snatched victory in the first ing Stokes over mid­off, but Test by 31 runs at Edgbaston. he eventually poked at one. Five down overnight, In­ The edge flew to first slip. dia awoke needing 84 for a Alastair Cook clutched the historic win but Stokes’ three ball in his hands like it was a wickets on Saturday — in­ precious object and Stokes cluding that of Virat Kohli — sprinted off in celebration. delivered his side a memora­ ble triumph. SCOREBOARD The pitch may not have England — 1st innings: 287. been spiteful and the target India — 1st innings: 274. may not have seemed impos­ England — 2nd innings: 180. ing, but a run chase in a ma­ India — 2nd innings: M. Vijay jor Test match carries a pres­ lbw b Broad 6 (17b), Shikhar sure of its own; India’s plans Dhawan c Bairstow b Broad 13 unravelled in ninety (24b, 1x4), K.L. Rahul c Bair­ minutes. stow b Stokes 13 (24b, 2x4), This Test will go down as Virat Kohli lbw b Stokes 51 one of the classics, though. (93b, 4x4), Ajinkya Rahane c Bairstow b Curran 2 (16b), R. India and England had tuss­ Ashwin c Bairstow b Anderson led for nine sessions with lit­ 13 (15b, 3x4), Dinesh Karthik c tle to separate them. The Malan b Anderson 20 (50b, tenth proved to be another 2x4), Hardik Pandya c Cook b heart­stopper. Stokes 31 (61b, 4x4), Md. Shami c Bairstow b Stokes 0 (3b), Indefatigable spirit Ishant Sharma lbw b Rashid 11 The home side needed an (15b, 2x4), Umesh Yadav (not early and the great out) 0 (8b); Extras (b­1, lb­1): 2; It’s all over: Ben Stokes dismisses Hardik Pandya, caught by Alastair Cook, second from left, to signal England’s victory.* STU FORSTER/ GETTY IMAGES Total (in 54.2 overs): 162. James Anderson, who must Fall of wickets: 1­19 (Vijay, 5.5 be lauded for his indefatiga­ “We’ll go to bed dreaming NEXT TEST like his , had opted to at Lord’s. If that trial was only 17 deliveries on the third­man boundary; a pred­ overs), 2­22 (Dhawan, 7.3), 3­ ble spirit, claimed Dinesh about getting Kohli out first CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC stand outside his crease, un­ weighing on his mind, it did fourth day. ictable bouncer was fended 46 (Rahul, 14.6), 4­63 (Rahane, Karthik off the sixth ball of thing,” Anderson had said on furled a pair of crisp straight not show. Mohammed Shami, stran­ off and it sailed over the cor­ 21.4), 5­78 (Ashwin, 24.3), 6­ the morning. the third evening. Perhaps ț August 9 to 13, Lord’s drives as the deficit shrank to As Kohli shuffled across gely promoted ahead of Ish­ don for four. 112 (Karthik, 36.6), 7­141 (Kohli, England knew, however, there’s something to be said CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 53. India had looked steady his stumps to flick, Stokes ant Sharma, lasted all of Ishant and Pandya 46.3), 8­141 (Shami, 46.6), 9­ that there was one hurdle for the power of positive overs of the day, Kohli faced since Karthik’s exit. trapped him leg­before with three balls before edging bumped fists; Stokes fumed. 154 (Ishant, 49.6). still to cross: and it was no visualisation. only nine deliveries, with In­ Joe Root desperately need­ one that seamed in. Kohli re­ Stokes behind. India was only 43 away and England bowling: Anderson 16­ minor one. Kohli had proved Anderson and Stuart dia adding 11 to the overnight ed a breakthrough and he viewed, more in hope than Ishant, who had joked on England knew it had little 2­50­2, Broad 14­2­43­2, Stokes 14.2­2­40­4, Curran 6­ Broad did a better job of score. It soon changed, turned to Stokes. The 27­ expectation. As the replays Friday about drawing confi­ margin for error. nearly impossible to dislodge 0­18­1, Rashid 4­1­9­1. for four and a half hours in keeping Kohli off strike than though. year­old is due at Bristol confirmed the decision, he dence from his half­century On came Adil Rashid, for Man-of-the-match: Sam Curran the first innings and was they had in the first innings, Kohli clipped Anderson Crown Court on Monday to walked off disconsolate, pat­ for Sussex, is not one to his first over of the morning. England won by 31 runs to clearly India's best hope — or when he had marshalled the off his hips to complete his answer charges of affray and ting Pandya on the shoulder. shrink away. An edge off Ishant swept his second ball take a 1-0 lead in the five-Test in fact, India’s one hope. tail so well. Off the first seven fifty. Hardik Pandya, who, is set to miss the second Test The India skipper had faced Stokes streaked away to the for two, to loud cheers. The series Kohli colossal but India needs to improve quickly Not feeling deflated, Although the captain’s form will give the team confidence, the resurfacing of old flaws in the rest will cause concern says Ashwin

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DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD able to bat longer than I couraged by for the rest of Virat Kohli felt India had That was a gallant second­ slashed hard but played with would’ve otherwise.” same, old flaws in the rest of the series. not played to potential. innings 141 in a losing cause, a soft bottom­hand, so the Kohli has now scored a India’s batsmen. This is a “I thought we competed “The series is set up nicely as India fell 48 runs short. ball did not carry to the slip Test hundred in every coun­ long series, and it can be a really well throughout the now. The fact we didn’t play At least this time, he cordon. To put the knock in­ try he’s played in, except painful one if they do not game. We made two come­ to our potential at all and would have hoped, India to context, Kohli faced 225 Bangladesh where he has find a way to cope. backs and probably didn’t were still close in the game would emerge victorious. It balls. With the exception of played only one Test. En­ close out the game when the says everything about us as was not to be. Joe Root, no batsman from gland was the last, trouble­ Tough pitch initiative was on our side. a side. If we pull ourselves On Saturday morning, either side played more than some frontier to be con­ “It was quite a tough pitch to That’s something that can together and even play 80­ Kohli departed after having a hundred in either innings. quered and he did it the bat on,” R. Ashwin said, in happen when you are tra­ 85% of the cricket we can, contributed 200 of the “[It feels] just like any old­fashioned way, knuck­ their defence. velling so we are upbeat then it’s going to be a very team’s 436 runs this Test hundred I score,” he told ling down for a hard day’s “I don’t think batsmen about it and not feeling de­ exciting and competitive se­ match (including 22 extras); BBC radio after the match on grind. from both sides were able to flated,” he said. ries,” he said in his post­ India sank to defeat again. Saturday. “Back in the day I There was no white­ball­ make runs with lots of free­ The message in the dress­ match radio interview. used to think about playing style lash through the covers, dom barring the partnership ing room in the morning, as It was a good Test match Monument to discipline in different conditions, diffe­ no raging whip over mid­ between Root and Bairstow India set off with 84 more to to be part of, Kohli felt. Kohli’s first hundred on En­ rent countries, but when you wicket, no frills. It is not easy in the first innings and then score, was to rally behind “Both afternoon sessions on glish soil was a monument to become captain it’s about to get a batsman out when he Virat from our side. It has every batsman that walked day two and three were see­ discipline and a demonstra­ taking your team across the can score without taking been quite a struggle that out. saw battles,” he said. “We tion of his desire to work on line. risks. way so I think we need to “I have been on tours thought on day two lunch­ every last flaw in his batting. Kohli's form will give India give batsmen some space since 2011 and that way this time that we’re in the game He stood outside the crease Larger picture enormous confidence head­ that way.” team has got a really posi­ and then we came close and to negate James Anderson’s “When the focus is on the ing into the second Test at India will be proud of the tive vibe in terms of believ­ then England thought they swing, did not prod at anyth­ larger picture, these things Lord’s, starting on Thursday. way it competed, but only ing that we can pull it off were out of the game and ing outside the off­stump. don’t matter — you are able But it must also cause enor­ one batsman seemed to be from any stage. We have in then came back. That’s why On the occasions that he to bat longer than you mous concern that the doing most of the compet­ the past managed to pull off this was such a good Test did edge behind, he had not would’ve done otherwise match has exposed the ing. some incredible victories. match to be part of.”

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Special Correspondent Zimbabwe all­rounder Ke­ S. Dinakar “The pitch played difficult team, too much hinges on Vi­ Birmingham vin Curran, who passed Chennai from the end which Am­ rat Kohli. The others should England will not forget its away in 2012, stated that the Small targets can be dicey. brose was bowling. There contribute too. They need to 1,000th Test in a hurry. loss of his father had made How do you approach them? was a spot. Some balls get their footwork worked “Fabulous advert for the him stronger as a person. Bide your time or go after climbed while others shot out to counter the swing and game of cricket,” said Joe “I was still young when it the bowling? Pacing the in­ through,” Prasad told The seam movement in En­ Root afterwards. happened, but I’ve got a ve­ nings can be a challenge. Hindu on Saturday. gland,” he said. The England captain felt ry strong family. My older The pressure is on the bat­ Prasad felt, “We should Prasad opined while Kohli Sam Curran, who was de­ brothers (Tom, who has ting side; it is expected to have attacked from the other held firm in the Indian se­ clared the man­of­the­ played for En­ win. And the bowling unit, end, the one from which cond innings at Birming­ match, had a bit of Ben gland, and Ben, who plays with nothing to lose, can go Ambrose was not bowling. ham, India should have at­ Stokes in him. “Whenever for the Northants 2nd XI) — all out on a fourth innings We had a strong batting side tacked from the other end. you watch him operate on we’re all very close, and my pitch that can lend it a fair but missed a trick and paid While defending low scores, the field he has this desire mum’s very supportive of all measure of assistance. the price.” if runs come quickly, the and steeliness within him, our cricket. I think it made Ask former India seam The former India seamer bowling side can panic,” he similar to Ben,” he said. us stronger as a family and bowler Venkatesh Prasad. believed the present Indian said. Curran, the son of former me stronger as a person.” He was part of the Indian team lacked someone such “Despite the defeat, Koh­ team that, pursuing just 120, as Virender Sehwag, open­ li’s form and the bowling of was astonishingly shot out ing the innings, who could R. Ashwin and Ishant Shar­ for 81 by West Indies in the take the attack to the opposi­ ma augurs well for India. Ishant Sharma fined Barbados Test of 1997. tion, disrupt bowling plans The team needs to keep the An attack comprising the and scatter the field. belief,” Prasad said. Press Trust of India have violated Article 2.1.7 of legendary , “Particularly when you But then, much like the Birmingham the code, which relates to Ian Bishop and Franklyn chase a total below 200 as at setback at Bridgetown, the Ishant Sharma was on Satur­ “using language, actions or Rose made serious inroads Birmingham, a Sehwag siz­ Birmingham capitulation day fined 15% of his match gestures which disparage or with only V.V.S. Laxman zler can make all the diffe­ will haunt India for some fee for his animated celebra­ which could provoke an ag­ reaching double figures. rence. He can get the field to time to come. Menacing sight: Curtly tion after dismissing En­ gressive reaction from a bat­ Prasad had an outstand­ spread out which can make Simply put, a solid game­ Ambrose & Co. skittled India gland’s Dawid Malan on the sman upon his/her dismis­ ing Test with an eight­wicket things easier for the other plan and clear role defini­ out for just 81 in a 120­run third day of the first Test. sal during an international Not enough: India had its moments in the first Test but match haul, but ended up on batsmen,” Prasad noted. tions are crucial while chas­ chase at Bridgetown in 1997. The pacer was found to match”. couldn’t cross the finish line. * STU FORSTER/ GETTY IMAGES the wrong end of the result. “In the present Indian ing low scores. * FILE PHOTO CM A ND-NDE YK 2006-2018 Kasturi & Sons Ltd. -@SridharMuskula [email protected] - EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Sindhu had a testing time against the higher­seeded Akane Yamaguchi before sealing her spot in Friday, ousting former seven­ had defeated the Indian in seed He Bingjiao 13­21, 21­16, 21­12, 21­10. the summit clash. * LINTAO ZHANG/GETTY IMAGES time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams in a straight­ set shocker. The 23­year­old CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Sakkari saved two set­points in the second set en route to Sharath likely to meet Sathiyan in quarters Golden show a 6­4, 7­6(2) victory over the former World No. 1, punching her ticket to the semifinals The open draw policy has put the top two ranked Indians in the same half where she will face another unseeded player, Danielle ponents with ease and, with But this has sent a strong Collins. AFP TABLE TENNIS it, set up a quarterfinal clash. message to all players to take Rayan Rozario As per the open draw pol­ the domestic programme Coimbatore icy adopted by the competi­ seriously. Only the other day A. Sha­ tion department of the TTFI rath Kamal jumped ten spots for more than two seasons Domestic weightage to overtake G. Sathiyan in the now, the clash of two titans In fact, a decision to give latest ITTF rankings list. But in the quarterfinal was more weightage to domestic will he do the same when inevitable. ranking points than the they get to meet each other Sharath had participated world rankings was taken at in the AAI 48th all­India in­ in the season opener — North the Executive Board meeting Former Tour de France ter­institutional table tennis Zone at Panchkula — and is of TTFI at Panchkula last winner Ullrich held championship at the Bha­ seeded No.5 here but Sathi­ month. MADRID rathiar University Indoor Meanwhile, in men singles Germany’s Jan Ullrich, the yan, who had not taken part Hall here. 1997 winner of the Tour de in a domestic event this sea­ 86 qualifiers were identified France, has been detained in son, is seeded 16. from 43 groups and the draw Spain’s Balearic Islands for Manav seeded top And that has put them in will be of 128 with a good allegedly forcibly entering his The top seed position ac­ the same quarter of the main spread of byes. neighbour's house and corded to Manav Thakkar in draw. However, out of the 60 threatening him, police said the men’s singles event has paddlers who made the cut Super women: The Indian team that won the gold (blitz), Saturday. The 44­year­old created this peculiar situa­ Early exit from 30 groups four will bow silver (rapid) and bronze (classical) at the Asian Nations Cup was detained for “forceful tion. An early exit of one of the out in the preliminary round chess tournament at Hamadan. Clockwise: Swapnil Dhopade entry and threats” on his Drawing out the best: Sharath Kamal, who overtook The two­top ranked In­ stars may well take the shine as their main draw will be of (coach), Aakanksha Hagawane, R. Vaishali, Dronavalli neighbour. AFP G. Sathiyan in the latest ITTF rankings list, will brace up dians in the world are ex­ off the championship as they 64­eight seeded players join Harika, Eesha Karvade and Padmini Rout. for a quarterfinal clash with the latter. * S. SIVA SARAVANAN pected to get past their op­ are the likely finalists. the remaining 56 players. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Manav excited to be part of Asiad squad He’s a player to watch out for, says Sharath Kamal Arturo Vidal to join Barcelona Rayan Rozario on the Asian juniors [Aug 13­ going to be my first big team tent and is clearly the next BARCELONA Coimbatore 18],” Manav told The Hindu event outside India. I can player to watch out for at the FC Bayern Munich has issued Even as the seniors were here on Friday. learn a lot seeing the seniors senior level,” says Indian a statement confirming the nicely flowing the ball on the But he may have to skip play,” he says. paddler Sharath Kamal. transfer of Chilean table, Manav Thakkar, a the team’s training in China “If he is picked for the international Arturo Vidal to young paddler from Surat, ahead of the Asiad this Youth Olympics FC Barcelona. Karl­Heinz Asiad at this age it means he was quietly watching them month. “I am also looking at the is very good. Rummenigge, the president all from the sidelines. “I will miss it badly but it Youth Olympics. I want to go of the reigning German “He is a PSPB product, He probably wanted to will be a training of sorts in out there and win a medal,” league champion, thanked and obviously a quality pick up a few techniques Myanmar as well. Also, it’s adds Manav, who has the veteran Chile star “for player, who is least scared of from there as it may come in going to add to my advan­ stunned even the best with three great years”. “Arturo his opponents. handy the next few months. tage, if I win a medal there,” his powerful backhand play. Vidal leaves Bayern and “I think in the space of moves to the Spanish top The junior World No. 3 has he quickly adds. The seniors are also hav­ four years he will hit the top flight with immediate effect got three big challenges ing a close look at him. 50 bracket in the world se­ for Barcelona. Both clubs ahead of him — Asian juniors The youngest “He is one who controls agreed to the transfer this (Myanmar) and Asian Games At 18, Manav is probably the the ball well. His anticipation nior rankings,” adds India’s Friday night,” the Bavarian (Indonesia) and Youth Olym­ youngest paddler to repre­ is fantastic and it’s always other star A. Amalraj. club said according to pics (Argentina). sent India at the Asiad. nice to watch him play. But Manav wants to take it Exciting prospect: Manav Thakkar has got big challenges ahead of him and says he will face one

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SUDOKU Drama aside, hopes high ahead of the Asian Games Confusion, suspense and secrecy have marked the selection process COUNTDOWN the country finish eighth in and K. Srikanth and H.S. the medals table. Prannoy in the first 11 — bad­ Stan Rayan There has been a series of minton offers hope of a new impressive performances in high. ourt cases, lack of tran­ various disciplines in the re­ Athletics and kabaddi Csparency, allegations of cent past. And, among the were the only disciplines that favouritism in selecting many bright faces in the 500­ brought two golds in Incheon teams… the signs are all very plus contingent, athletics with hockey, squash, shoot­ clear. A major multi­eventer which fetched the maximum ing, tennis, wrestling, ar­ is close by! number of medals at Incheon chery and boxing bringing and badminton, which got one each at the last Asiad. just a bronze in women’s team event in the last edition, The hockey boost shine the brightest. The big boost for hockey While athletics has many came with the recent Cham­ at the top or close in this pions Trophy silver, after a While almost every other year’s Asian charts like Com­ shoot­out against World country appears to be fine­ monwealth Games champion champion Australia, and that tuning its act and talking stra­ javelin thrower Neeraj Cho­ should make India the favou­ Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku tegy for the 18th Asian pra, the presence of the new rite to retain the men’s gold. Games, which begin in Jakar­ Going for gold: Coach Harendra Singh and the Indian men's hockey team will take heart from under­20 World champion The big names missing will ta and Palembang on August their silver­winning performance at the recent Champions Trophy. * FILE PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR quartermiler Hima Das offers be boxing great M.C. Mary 18, India appears to be still the sport many options. Kom and shooter Jitu Rai, breaking its head over who most every sport. There were ishing 12th at the Asian tion — which is supposed to But the biggest transfor­ both lone gold medallists in should be going in many dis­ strange situations too, like championship, finding a send the entries — being mation, from Incheon to Ja­ their respective sport at the ciplines though the final en­ the equestrian federation’s magical passage to the Asiad aware of it! karta, is in badminton. Whi­ last Asiad. Who will prop up try deadline closed more frequent flip­flops, the swim­ after five higher­ranked Still, despite all the drama chever way one looks at the shooting and boxing? than a month ago. ming federation’s virtually teams opted out. and confusion, India looks sport, from the last Olympics We will be discussing all From athletics and bad­ secret selection trials in Ben­ The handball team got into set to better its 2014 Asiad or the World rankings — these and more in detail in minton to shooting and wres­ galuru and the men’s hand­ the Asiad draw without even gold count which was 11 in a which has P.V. Sindhu and our Asian Games series over tling, controversy has hit al­ ball team, which despite fin­ the Indian Olympic Associa­ total of 57 medals that saw Saina Nehwal in the top 10 the next few days.

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Making his move: Gaganjeet Bhullar turned it on in the third round to go to the top on de Minaur reaches semifinals after Saturday. * QUINN ROONEY/GETTY IMAGES Murray withdraws Press Trust of India form, with three Top­10 fin­ day. I started with two good Agence France-Presse the semifinals when Murray Natadola Bay (Fiji) ishes in last four starts — the birdies and then I kept on Washington withdrew. Gaganjeet Bhullar turned in fourth was T­11. His latest hitting the ball really well Defending champion Alex­ Murray has also with­ yet another steady round of win in Macao last October al­ and the ball was in play ander Zverev outlasted Ja­ drawn from next week’s To­ three­under 69 to overturn a so came in windy throughout the round,” pan’s Kei Nishikori 3­6, 6­1, ronto Masters event. six­shot deficit into a one­ conditions. Bhullar said. 6­4 on Friday to reach the “I’m exhausted after play­ shot lead on a blustery day at “Today my striking was ATP Washington Open semi­ ing so much over the last the Fiji International here on Starting well really, really good. Despite finals while three­time four days, having not com­ Saturday. On Saturday, Bhullar was six the windy conditions, I kept Grand Slam champion Andy peted on the hard­courts for The 30­year­old Indian behind at the start, but he the ball in play, and I holed a Murray withdrew citing 18 months,” Murray said. moved to eight­under 208, got off to a hot start with bir­ lot of really tricky putts to­ fatigue. “I also need to be careful one stroke adrift of Terry Pil­ dies on first two holes to day. Germany’s third­ranked and to listen to my body as I kadaris (71), Andrew Dodt close the gap between him “Like the par save on No. Zverev, seeking his fifth final come back from a long­term (72), Jarryd Felton (71) and and Campbell, whose birdie 9 and No. 10, that were basi­ of the season and third title injury.” Jake McLeod (70). on third kept the distance to cally the game changers to­ of the year after Munich and Overnight leader Ben five shots. day. It wasn’t an easy round Madrid, dispatched seventh de Minaur will next play Campbell had a major melt­ Bhullar first got a share of of golf today. Wind was how­ seed Nishikori, the 2015 either Russian 16th seed An­ down dropping four shots the lead with Dodt with a bir­ ling, it was gusty, especially champion, as he did in last drey Rublev or American De­ between fourth and eighth die on 12th. Another birdie on the back nine.” year’s semifinals. nis Kudla. followed by a double on 16th on 17th gave him sole lead as On Sunday, Bhullar des­ Zverev booked a semifinal Important results: Washington and a bogey on 17th. His five­ others failed to catch up. pite being only one shot against 10th­seeded Greek Open: Quarterfinals Men: Ste­ fanos Tsitsipas bt David Goffin over 77 saw him slip to fifth, Bhullar was successful in ahead, will start as the big fa­ 19­year­old Stefanos Tsitsi­ 6­3, 6­4; Alex de Minaur w/o. two behind Bhullar. staving off danger by saving vourite as the collective pas, who eliminated Belgian Andy Murray; Alexander Zverev Ajeetesh Sandhu, the oth­ some great pars. The others Asian Tour wins of his four third seed David Goffin 6­3, bt Kei Nishikori 3­6, 6­1, 6­4. er Indian to have made the did get birdies but they also closest pursuers are fewer 6­4 in just 74 minutes. Women: Andrea Petkovic bt cut, shot a 72. dropped shots. than his eight on the Asian Australian Alex de Minaur, Belinda Bencic 6­3, 2­6, 7­6 Determined: German Alexander Zverev outlasted Japan’s Kei Nishikori in his quest for a third Bhullar has been in great “I had a great start to the Tour. another 19­year­old, reached (8). title of the year. * AP

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IN BRIEF Tejaswi and Rudi Second holds fort for South Africa-A Savitha Shri Seven batsmen fall to edges; Siraj impresses with his pace even as Saini and Gurbani chip in with two wickets each at the top SA-A IN INDIA dia­A and England Lions at Sports Reporter Worcester. It came as a huge Karaikudi Ashwin Achal boost to his confidence. R. Tejaswi and B. Savitha Courtois wants move to Bengaluru Shri from Tamil Nadu Spain to be with family “Getting Cook out bowled shared the lead with 8.5 LONDON Rudi Second (94, 139b, 12x4) was fantastic. He is a world­ Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut held firm while his South class player and I was de­ points at the end of the Courtois wants a move back Africa­A teammates crum­ lighted,” Siraj, who has 10th and penultimate to Spain for family reasons, bled against India­A on the played three Twenty20 In­ round in the girls’ category his agent Christophe opening day of their unoffi­ ternationals, said. of the 32nd National un­ Henrotay said, following cial Test here on Saturday. The scores: South Africa­A — der­11 chess championship, reports linking him with a The visitors will be disap­ 1st innings: Pieter Malan c Bha­ organised by Chettinad Pu­ move to Real Madrid. The pointed to finish on 246 for rat b Siraj 7 (13b, 1x4), Sarel Er­ blic School, here on Belgian is due to return to eight, on a flat M. Chinnas­ wee c Bharat b Gurbani 47 Saturday. (120b, 7x4), Zubayr Hamza c Chelsea training over the wamy Stadium pitch. Seven Dev Shah from Maha­ Mayank b Siraj 0 ( 3b), Khaya next few days after helping batsmen fell to edges taken rashtra joined overnight his country finish third at the Zondo c Bharat b Saini 24 (51b, leader and Shahil Dey of behind the stumps — a clear 5x4 World Cup and being voted ), Senuran Muthusamy c Sa­ Assam at the top with 8.5 indicator of the indiscipline marth b Saini 23 (76b, 3x4), Ru­ the best goalkeeper in Russia. points in the open Courtois has a three­year­old that was on display. di Second c Bharat b Siraj 94 139b, 12x4 category. daughter and one­year­old India­A fast bowler Mo­ ( ), Shaun von Berg c Vihari b Chahal 15 ( 68b, 2x4), Important results (10th son. AFP hammed Siraj (three for 56) round): Open: Mahendra Teja impressed with good pace Dane Piedt lbw b Gurbani 5 (26b, 1x4), Malusi Siboto (bat­ Mekala (AP) 8 drew with Sha­ and control, and emerged as ting) 13 (32b, 2x4), Beuran Hen­ hil Dey (Asm) 8.5; Shreyash the best bowler on view. dricks (batting) 6 (4b, 1x4); Ex­ Shuvam Patnaik (Odi) 7.5 lost tras (b­4, lb­3, nb­4, w­1): 12; to Dev Shah (Mah) 8.5; Mo­ Good support Total (for eight wickets in 88 hanty Soyamsree (Odi) 8 bt His partners Navdeep Saini overs): 246. Ananmay Sharma (Guj) 7.5; A.R. Ilamparthi (TN) 8 bt Sa­ (two for 47) and Rajneesh 1­12 (Malan, 4.4 Fall of wickets: hib Singh (Del) 7; Chilukuri Sai Gurbani (two for 47) provid­ overs), 2­20 (Hamza, 6.5), 3­70 * Varshith (AP) 7 lost to Tan­ Lone hand: Even as wickets fell around him, Rudi Second batted with poise to come close to a century. G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR (Zondo, 25.2), 4­93 (Erwee, ed good support. may Jain (Pun) 8; P. Muthu 35.1), 5­152 (Muthusamy, 53.1), The trio benefited from (TN) 7 lost to Pawar Harshit Shaun von Berg to cut one to 18th first­class hundred, be­ Siraj, meanwhile, conti­ “Ashish Nehra and Bharat 6­191 (von Berg, 71.4), 7­209 the batsmen’s tendency to (Del) 7.5. the hands of G. Hanuma Vi­ fore he met with a familiar nued the good form he Arun (India bowling coach) (Piedt, 78.2), 8­238 (Second, Aditi makes the cut Girls: B. Savitha Shri (TN) 8.5 needlessly poke outside the hari at slip. end. showed in the recent India­A advised me to keep the ball 84.5). at British Open off­stump. Wicketkeeper K.S. drew with Sinthia Sarkar (WB) Second showed his mates An uppish drive to a Siraj tour of England. consistently in the right India­A bowling: Mohammed LYTHAM ST. ANNES Bharat was kept busy as a re­ 8; R. Tejaswi (TN) 8.5 bt Sagar Aditi Ashok continued to how it is done, playing close outswinger grazed the wil­ The Hyderabad speedster areas, and this has helped Siraj 20­3­56­3, Navdeep Saini Siya (Guj) 7; K. Sindhusree sult, grabbing four catches. battle with links golf but at to his body and shouldering low and landed in Bharat’s has taken 18 wickets in the me,” Siraj stated. 17­5­47­2, Rajneesh Gurbani 15­ (TN) 8 bt K. Ratnapriya (TN) least managed to overcome Star leg­spinner Yuzven­ arms to deliveries outside gloves. Second’s vigil, which last five innings, and looks A month ago, Siraj took 6­47­2, Axar Patel 17­3­35­0, 7; Mythri Maddisetty (TS) 7 one hurdle by making the cut dra Chahal got the lone wick­ off. lasted over three hours, set for plenty more as this se­ the prize scalp of Alastair Yuzvendra Chahal 19­3­54­1. lost to Anupam M. Sreekumar at the Ricoh Women’s British et, when he got five­drop He was poised to reach his came to a meek end. ries progresses. Cook in a match between In­ Toss: South Africa­A. (Ker) 8. Open for the first time in three attempts. This week with two successive rounds of even­par 72, she was tied Lahiri slips to T-16 A special place for Dhoni NRAI to clamp down 41st. Thailand’s Pornanong Phatlum, with a 10­under, S. Dipak Ragav was in the lead. PTI Fleetwood joins the leaders have been with them for a took up the responsibility Tirunelveli long time so it is a good op­ and played as a team. on errant shooters Divij & Sitak pair It was a big surprise for the portunity to see the compa­ “Overall, it was the per­ bows out in quarterfinals KAMESH SRINIVASAN international competition,” boisterous crowd here when ny’s first plant.” fect comeback. It couldn’t WASHINGTON NEW DELHI said the commission. M.S. Dhoni walked on to the Speaking to the official have been better. Divij Sharan and Artem Sitak field before Saturday’s TNPL broadcaster on Chennai When a shooter is selected Taking serious view of the lost 4­6, 6­1, [10­5] to fourth “This is the perfect time match. Super Kings’ remarkable co­ for an international competi­ attendance at the National seeds Jamie Murray and to personally come and con­ While Dhoni at a TNPL meback in the IPL this sea­ tion, he or she has to com­ camp, it was stressed that a Bruno Soares in the doubles gratulate the fans. pulsorily compete in that shooter cannot skip a camp quarterfinals of the ATP­500 event is something that has son, Dhoni said, “It was a big “CSK has some die­hard event. without prior permission. tennis tournament in become customary since the year for us. Washington. league’s inception, it is the “There were a lot of ques­ fans, especially in these The Athletes Commission The erring shooters The results: $2,146,815 ATP, first time the former India tions about the selection and parts of the country. of the National Rifle Associa­ “should be debarred from Washington: Doubles skipper has visited a venue how most of the players “So it is a good time to tion of India (NRAI) has sug­ the National camp for the (quarterfinals): Jamie Murray outside Chennai. were over 30. thank them as they support­ gested stringent measures to rest of the calendar year” (GBr) & Bruno Soares (Bra) bt Dhoni called it a special “Frankly, I didn’t realise ed us even when we were discourage shooters from was the decision of the Artem Sitak (Nzl) & Divij place, saying “it is where In­ that. Everything was a chal­ not part of the IPL for two juggling with the senior and commission. Sharan 4­6, 6­1, [10­5]. dia Cements started and I lenge for us but the players years,” he added. junior competition, without Conceding the impor­ Sizzling show: Tommy Fleetwood didn’t put a foot wrong offering clarity to the Nation­ tance of private coaches, it as he fired a seven­under 63. * AFP al federation about their was categorically specified choice in advance. that the shooters would be BRIDGESTONE INTL. carded a 68 and Australian The case in point was a solely under the care of the Jason Day, who produced a shooter who was selected to National coaches once they Press Trust of India four­under 66 in the compete in a junior World are at the National camp or Akron (USA) afternoon. Cup, but opted to skip it so in international India’s Anirban Lahiri bat­ Tiger Woods moved up as to be available for the se­ competitions. tled to an even­par 70 to slip from tied 14th to tied 10th as lection trials for the senior “If a shooter is not willing Conor McGregor to fight to tied 16th spot after the se­ he added a two­under 68 to team. to submit to the guidance of Khabib Nurmagomedov cond day of the WGC­Brid­ his first round 66. The Athletes Commission the National coach in that WASHINGTON gestone Invitational golf Following on his first said in such case a shooter particular event, then it is Conor McGregor is set to lock tournament here. round score of five­under should inform the NRAI be­ for the NRAI to take action, horns with Russian Khabib Race to Dubai champion, 65, Lahiri is now five­under fore the selection committee which may include debar­ Nurmagomedov in the Tommy Fleetwood had se­ for 36 holes but slipped meeting. ring the shooter from the upcoming Ultimate Fighting ven birdies in his 63 as he from overnight tied seventh “In case the selected next international competi­ Championship (UFC) match. took a share of the lead to tied 16th. Overall, Lahiri shooter does not represent tion,” said the commission. The lightweight division alongside Ian Poulter (62­ had three birdies and three India and skips the interna­ With Moraad Ali Khan as match is set to take place on 67) and Justin Thomas (65­ bogeys for a par round. tional competition after get­ chairman and Anuja Jung, October 6. UFC president 64) at the halfway stage. Dana White took to Instagram ting selected, then he/she Sonia Rai, Vikram Bhatnagar Shubhankar misfires and uploaded a poster for the The trio made the most of should be fined the equiva­ and Ashok Mittal as mem­ upcoming match. In the perfect morning scoring Shubhankar Sharma had lent of the entry fee plus oth­ bers, the commission also picture, the two fighters are conditions, finishing the se­ a miserable day with a dis­ er expenses incurred by the requested the NRAI to post seen facing each other. The cond round on 11­under 129, appointing nine­over 79 that NRAI. The concerned shoo­ its email address on its web­ fight will take place in Las two strokes in front of took him to 11­over 151. He ter should also be debarred site to help shooters have Vegas. ANI American Kyle Stanley, who was last at the 71st spot. Surprise visitor: M.S. Dhoni is a big hit with the players as well as the fans. * R. RAGU from selection for the next quick access. Gaurav Gill takes early advantage West consolidates top position Experienced rallyist says terrain was smooth but lacked the challenge The Australian prevails in tricky conditions with craft and cool ASIA ROAD RACING dia, finished 13th in a grid of RALLY OF COIMBATORE 24 in the Asia Production Sports Reporter 250cc class for his first Rayan Rozario Chennai points this season. However, COIMBATORE Veteran Australian Anthony his compatriot and team­ APRC star Gaurav Gill (Musa West plotted his way to a mate Anish Shetty (20) Sherif) loves challenges. But, brilliant victory — his third in crashed in the eighth of the for once, he found there was the premier SuperSport 12­lap race that Indonesia’s no big skill required to tackle 600cc this season — to con­ Rheza Danica Ahrens won this flat and smooth surface. solidate his top position on for his fifth consecutive win So, he took it a bit easy to fin­ the FIM Asia road racing in this category. ish on top on day one in the championship leaderboard “There was a suspension second round of the MRF­ at the MMRT here on issue and also me being too FMSCI INRC 4W Rally of Saturday. aggressive on the throttle Coimbatore here on The 37­year­old, with a de­ which led to the crash. I Saturday. cade’s experience in the damaged my left toe, but I Gill made 9.7 seconds over World championship, played should be fine for Sunday’s his Mahindra Adventure a waiting game over 16 laps second race,” said Anish. teammate Amittrajit Ghosh on his Yamaha, content at The results (provisional): (Ashwin Naik) in the 22.5km the third position after drop­ SuperSport 600 (Race­1, 16 opening stage, the longest in ping two spots from his pole laps): 1. Anthony West (Webike the INRC calendar in recent start. Ikazuchi, Yamaha) 27:35.304s; years. He further increased 2. Md. Zaqhwan Zaidi (Musashi His craft and cool pre­ Boon Siew Honda) 27:35.629; 3. the margin to finish the day vailed in tricky conditions on a high. In front: Mahindra Adventure’s Gaurav Gill and co­driver Musa Sherif set the pace on the first Taiga Hada (Idemitsu Honda day of the second round on Saturday. * M. PERIASAMY due to light showers along Racing India) 27:36.885. “It was not the usual some sections of the track. Asia Production 250 (Race­1, Coimbatore terrain. It was doesn’t overheat. There are grip over Gill on Sunday re­ na Urs & Srikanth Gowda (Snap 12 laps): 1. Rheza Danica Ahrens smooth and you can see the many other factors involved mains to be seen. Racing). Fastest qualifying lap On the podium: Anthony West, centre, winner of Race­1 in the (Astra Honda) 21:53.4; 2. Mario corners but it lacked the and I feel it’s ok.” The results (after SS2): INRC 3: 1. Aroor Vikram Rao & Suryo Aji (Astra Honda) 21:53.5; West, who earlier in the day, SuperSport 600 class, with Md. Zaqhwan Zaidi (second) and challenge,” said Gill. INRC 1: 1. Gaurav Gill & Musa A.G. Somayya (Falkon Motor­ 3. Reynaldo Chrisantho (Onex­ Amittrajit said his car was set a record for the fastest * sports), 2. Suhem Kabeer & Taiga Hada (third). SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Quite a few drivers said it heating up a bit. “We got to Sherif (Mahindra Adventure) qualifying lap of 01:40.585 to ox TKK) 22:01.9. 37:21.2s, 2. Amittrajit Ghosh & Jeevarathinam (Team Cham­ was a pretty long but Gill was make a few changes to the take pole position, made his Idemitsu Honda Racing In­ gressed, I was able to gener­ Underbone 150 (Race­1, 10 Ashwin Naik (Mahindra Adven­ pions), 3. Chetan Shivram & Ru­ laps): 1. Ahmed Fazli Sham pleased with the length. “It’s set up of the car, just to make dia team. ate more power and then ture) 37:42.8s, 3. Karna Kadur & pesh Koley (Team Chetan move with about two laps (Onexox TKK) 19:02.205; 2. sure it works better. The took my opportunities to good because the drivers can Nikhil V. Pai (Arka Motorsports) Shivram). from the finish to take the “It was a very difficult Md. Helmi Azman (SCK Rapido get to learn the endurance stage was smooth but loose 38:18.5. FMSCI 2WD: 1. K.C. Adith & K. flag ahead of Malaysian Md. race. It took me a few laps to pass the riders in the front,” Hi Rev Honda Racing) part of it, the art of saving as well and there was hardly INRC 2: 1. Karna & Nikhil, 2. Bo­ Suraj, 2. Suraj Thomas & Sob Zaqhwan Zaidi and the 19­ get used to the conditions said West. 19:02.460; 3. Peerapong Lui­ the tyres and on how to any grip.” piah KM & G. Karumbaiah George, 3. Vikram Gowda & year­old rising Japanese star due to the drizzle before Rajiv Sethu (20), also of boonpeng (Team One For All) make sure the machine But will he have a better (Team Champions), 3. Phalghu­ B.G. Sudhindra. Taiga Hada, who represents start. But as the race pro­ Idemitsu Honda Racing In­ 19:02.502. CM A ND-NDE YK