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 $ # 456057/ than its 2014 tally. The party could not open its account in damant on his resignation 18 States and Union Territories. Afrom the post of the As crisis beset the Congress president, Rahul Opposition party, its chief Gandhi has conveyed to senior spokesperson Randeep party leaders Ahmed Patel and Surjewala on Monday urged KC Venugopal to look for his everyone to respect the sancti- replacement as he has made up ty of the CWC meeting and his mind not to continue as asked the media not to fall into chief of the grand old party. the trap of “conjectures, insin- Patel is a close confidant of uations, gossip and rumour- the Congress’ first family and mongering”. was one of the most powerful Surjewala said it is a demo- politicians during the 10 years cratic forum for exchange of     "   ()!   * $(    % '    of the UPA rule. After the dis- ideas and taking corrective     +  +%    ' astrous performance of the action. It was a “closed-door” party in the Lok Sabha polls, meeting and any speculation Rahul has cancelled all meet- about it was unwarranted and ings and appointments and uncalled for. He was reacting to %  &   has declined to meet even news reports about happenings elected MPs. at the May 25 meeting, the first Taking responsibility for of the CWC after the Congress’s the drubbing at the hands of humiliating defeat in the par-  '  ( )* the BJP, Rahul on Saturday liamentary polls. offered to resign as party pres- “The Congress party ident at a meeting of the expects everyone, including      logical and illogical analysis to workers are still being beaten Congress Working Committee the media, to respect the sanc- prove their point,” Modi added. up in West Bengal, but shock- (CWC), the highest decision- tity of a closed-door meeting of     Earlier, Modi offered ingly a section of the national making body of the party, but the CWC. Various conjectures, prayer at Kashi Vishwanath media had seen a selective it was “unanimously rejected”. speculation, insinuations,       temple, seeking the blessings of humanism behind such sacri- “He has conveyed that the assumptions, gossip and the Almighty again as he did fices of our party workers.” party will have to find a new rumour-mongering in a section   $"#"4"/ five years ago before assuming “We’d also faced political chief as he won’t change his         P           ! " of the media is uncalled for and the charge as PM. untouchability,” he said, citing mind. It is believed his moth-  ##      $%"&  ' unwarranted. hemistry has beaten arith- Modi appealed to the party the example of Gujarat when a er Sonia and sister Priyanka, “The CWC held a collec- Cmetic in the recent workers to overlook estab- section of film industry had who were earlier advising back his decision. party. Modi. tive deliberation on the per- Parliamentary election, said lished negativity in politics raised strong voices when his Rahul to continue, too have The Congress has mostly At the CWC meeting, In the midst of the disqui- formance of the party, the Prime-Minister designate and continue to adopt positiv- Government had invited a backed his decision. The future been led by members of the Rahul had accused three senior et, several State Congress chiefs, challenges before it as also the , who is going ity. “Our success is the result of senior star (Amitabh course will be decided in some Nehru-Gandhi family except leaders — Ashok Gehlot, including Punjab’s Sunil Jakhar, way ahead, instead of casting to assume the charge as the PM our perfect synergy between Bachchan) for tourism pro- time now,” said a top AICC for the period after former Kamal Nath and P Jharkhand’s Ajoy Kumar, and aspersions on the role or con- for second time on May 30. Government policies and motion. leader. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi Chidambaram — of placing Assam’s Ripun Bora, too duct of any specific individual. “It was not for the first time organisational politics,” he said, In his marathon address, While majority of the was assassinated in 1991. The their sons above the party. offered to resign from their The gist of the deliberations when this political change was asking the party workers to Modi highlighted how for vote- Congress leaders hoped that party did not do well under Priyanka said the entire top posts following the party’s was made public in the CWC seen in Indian politics when the continue with the same so that bank politics the Opposition Rahul will “not abandon the Sitaram Kesri and then sever- brass of the party left Rahul drubbing in the elections. The resolution of May 25, 2019,” the chemistry of social strength the people of the country can parties never showed courage post”, sources close to him said al leaders convinced Sonia alone to fight it out against party won only 52 seats in the Congress leader said in a was clearly visible but shock- get optimum benefits of to look into the pains of the he is determined not to take Gandhi to take charge of the Prime Minister Narendra Lok Sabha polls, just six more statement. ingly, the political pundits were Government schemes. common people. not ready to change their estab- “Work and workers create  lished perception,” he said. a wonder,” said Modi, adding       Modi was addressing party that “with our work we suc- (   workers in thanksgiving func- ceeded in winning the faith of            tion at Deen Dayal Updhyay the people. We have not done          Haskala Sankul (Trade any favour to them but it was           Facilitation Centre) at Bada their rights.”    R      Lalpur here on Monday. Modi went on to highlight                 “We had made a hat-trick the violence let loose against  *         of victories performing party workers in several States,          456057/ remarkably well in 2014, 2017 and said, “Undoubtedly, in  456057/  !" #!  !" #  and 2019 but, unfortunately, achieving the same, our party     n the wake of deaths of 22 the political pundits were not workers faced crises. Several of eads of BIMSTEC group- $ % Istudents at a coching institute ready to change their estab- our workers sacrificed their Hing which includes $%' blaze in Surat on Friday, Delhi lished perception of the last 70 lives in Kerala, Kashmir, West Bangladesh, , Myanmar,    Home Minister Satyender Jain years and sometimes they used Bengal and Tripura and our Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal        on Monday issued directions to and Bhutan would be attend-  !"  &    the chief of Delhi Fire Services ing the swearing-in ceremony  '&(      (DFS) to “take strict action as of Prime Minister Narendra  !    per the fire safety standards and +   *( , Modi on May 30. The Bay of  !     456057/89"/ # guidelines to prevent recur- Bengal Initiative for Multi-      % rence of such accidents” in the Sectoral Technical and n a huge relief for the national Capital. Economic Cooperation (BIM- #$   ICongress in Rajasthan, six The Director (Fire ' ,- ##   STEC) is an international     %  BSP MLAs cancelled their pro- Services) has been asked to organisation of seven nations  ")*+ +   posed meeting with Governor immediately inspect and shut of South Asia and South East   ,  at the last minute and seal coaching centres oper-     Kyrgyz President, cur-        and downplayed speculation     *         ating in highrise buildings rently Shanghai Cooperation     !  about pulling out of the Gehlot     ! "  ##  (     above the fourth floor. The     Organisation (SCO) chair,  -     Government. $%"&  ' Delhi Government further and Mauritius Prime Minister      ! However, the Congress issued notice to all the civic are also invited for swearing-   % faced trouble from within amid Pradesh, thus the news of its the SP cadre in the just con- authorities to enforce the  456057/ in ceremony, according to the speculation of a Rajasthan MLAs seeking appointment cluded general elections. ‘Unified Building Bylaws’ in Ministry of External Affairs.     Minister quitting in the wake of with the Governor sparked Meanwhile, a review meet- coaching centres. ormer Kolkata Police In his 2014 swearing-in-      the party’s electoral debacle. wild speculation. ing scheduled in Delhi to eval- “In the first phase, all FCommissioner Rajeev ceremony, Modi had invited &'"!    Two State Ministers came out BSP MLA Wajib Ali sought uate reasons for party’s drub- coaching centres operating in Kumar is on official leave to Government heads of SAARC        in the open to demand a to downplay the significance of bing in Rajasthan was post- high-rise buildings (more than Varanasi for three days and will which included Pakistan. The     detailed assessment by senior the MLAs’ scheduled meeting poned in the wake of unavail- four floors excluding the stilt not be able to appear for ques- to appear before the CBI for then Pakistan Prime Minister + "     leaders of the party. with the Governor. “It was ability of Congress president floor) shall be inspected by the tioning in connection with the questioning in the case. Nawaz Sharif had attended the / !   % Sources said the six BSP supposed to be a routine meet- Rahul Gandhi. Director (Fire Service),” the Saradha Ponzi scheme, accord- “The CBI was awaiting oath taking of Modi. MLAs were scheduled to meet ing,” he said. Party sources said the order read. ing the letter by the West Kumar’s presence at the However, Bangladesh  () the Governor on Monday in Sources, however, said the meeting would be held on As per the law, Bengal Criminal Investigation agency’s Kolkata office but he Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina     the evening. However, later BSP MLAs changed their minds Tuesday at Sonia’s residence in kitchen/cooking and storage of Department (CID) to the did not turn up (on Monday). would not be attending Modi’s  /0 the Governor was informed on the instructions from the the presence of Ashok Gehlot, inflammable material are not Central Bureau of Investigation The CBI office in Kolkata swearing-in this time too as  1)    that the meeting could not party’s Central leadership fol- Deputy Chief Minister Sachin allowed on rooftops. Multi- (CBI). A CID official delivered received a letter from the West she would be on a three-        proceed due to illness of one of lowing the circulation of appre- Pilot and Congress State storey buildings, hotels and Kumar’s letter to the CBI’s Bengal CID regarding his nation tour close to May 30 . /      the MLAs, Deepchand. ciation letter by UPA chairper- incharge Avinash Pandey. commercial buildings will lose office at Salt Lake in Kolkata on absence,” sources said, adding Liberation War Affairs  2    3 The BSP has extended its son and senior most Congress Senior party leader Ahmed No Objection Certificate Monday. several calls to the West Bengal Minister AKM Mozammel        !  support to the Congress in leader Sonia Gandhi hailing the Patel and Venugopal are likely (NOC) for violation Citing personal reasons, cadre IPS officer went unan- Huq will represent her at the % Rajasthan and Madhya role of BSP workers along with to participate in the meet. of norms. 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$  456057/ proscribed as a global terrorist increasing the threat percep- in which 40 Central Reserve the LoC is likely to see by the UN Security Council. tion, officials in the security Police Force (CRPF) personnel increased infiltration bids, offi- he Balakot air strikes Most of the terrorists now establishment said here on were killed, nearly all the ter- cials said, adding the Indian Tnotwithstanding, over three regrouping in the camps are Monday. ror camps were shut down as Army has taken all necessary dozen terror camps along the from JeM and Lashkar-e- Indicating that after the the Pakistan Army anticipated measures to prevent any mis- Line of Control (LoC) in Tayyeba (LeT). The Indian Balakot strikes, in which the surgical strikes. In fact, many deed by the Pakistani terrorists. Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Army has thus increased vigil JeM major camps were target- terrorists took refuge in the In fact, during the winter (POK) are getting active again. to thwart any Border Action ed and destroyed, notwith- JeM camp in Balakot. months, troops were not with- Post-Pulwama attack, these Team (BAT) action besides standing, the State sponsored With the three dozen odd drawn from the LoC, as in the camps were shifted deep inside infiltration. terrorism machinery of camps now regrouping, the past few years, as a precau- Pakistan fearing retaliation by Mixed teams of terrorists Pakistan is now active again Indian security establishment is tionary measure, they said. India. However, after lying and elite Special Services with the terror camps along the bracing for renewed bids to Moreover, taking note of dormant for nearly three Group (SSG) commandos of LoC reorganising themselves, sneak into Jammu & Kashmir the terror camps across LoC months, the ISI and the the Pakistan Army comprise they said. in the following weeks with the getting active, the Indian Army Pakistan Army are bringing BAT which carries out cross Most of the 40 odd camps Pakistan Army providing cov- has increased patrols all along these terrorists closer to the border raids to ambush Indian along the vulnerable stretches ering fire to the terrorists. the LoC besides further LoC to enable them to infiltrate Army patrols. As it is, the sev- of the long LoC are located not Due to prolonged winter strengthening its multi-tiered to stoke violence in Jammu & eral teams of SSG commandos, more than one to two kms this year and heavy snowfall, anti-infiltration grid. The main Kashmir. along with the Pakistan Army from the border and stationed most of the ingress routes espe- objective is to neutralise the This alarming develop- troops, moved forward towards close to the Pakistan Army and cially in North Kashmir infiltrators within a km or so ment comes even as Jaish-e- the LoC post Balakot air strikes Pakistan Rangers locations. remained blocked due to snow near the LoC if they are suc- Mohammad (JeM) chief by the IAF and remain Following the Pulwama till about a few days back. cessful in coming in, officials Masood Azhar was recently deployed even now thereby suicide attack on February 13 As snow is now melting, explained.    !" #$% 

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The Ranjit Singh sible without the knowledge of Vijay Pratap Singh was back Two people were killed agitators in Kotkapura vil- It may be noted that the code The IG had been posted to incidents, and the subsequent Commission, set up by the then Chief Minister Prakash into the SIT probing into the and many others injured in lage. of conduct formally ended Counter Intelligence after he Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura Captain Amarinder govern- Singh Badal and then Deputy sacrilege cases and the unpro- Behbal Kalan village on Chief Minister Capt on Sunday evening. was shifted out of OCCU on firing, when he was shunted ment to probe the cases, had CM Sukhbir Badal, who also voked incidents of sacrilege & October 15, 2015, when police Amarinder Singh, who also In the orders issued on EC orders for alleged violation out by EC orders. suggested further investiga- held the Home portfolio. The police firing that had rocked resorted to unprovoked firing heads the Home Department, Monday, Home Secretary NS of the model of code conduct, Capt Amarinder had tion into the role of the Badals, Chief Minister has promised Punjab under the SAD-BJP on hundreds of people had, during his election cam- Kalsi said Kunwar Vijay a charge which even the Chief alleged the orders were issued which the SIT was further stringent action, as per the regime. protesting the alleged dese- paign, announced that Vijay Pratap Singh is transferred Minister had stated as incor- at the behest of the ruling BJP probing. law, against those found cul- He was shifted out of the cration of the Guru Granth Pratap would be back to com- and posted as IGP, OCCU rect. – an ally of the Shiromani The chief minister has pable by the SIT.     "   9  #*     P Q    #  7"40/"#7   6%#"6     ; !.  .,=   7"40/"#7 , &. ,! Class X to encourage them to fter losing the Gurdaspur ,&==!6 !>=6 7,,!6  7"40/"#7  .;!6 03 come for “Super-100” pro- Aseat to BJP's Sunny Deol, .6,=%'&.  & increased across the country the postgraduate clinics and he gramme, the spokesman said. Sunil Jakhar has sent his res- and this would be maintained Operation Theaters are air =6' ;6",',, .%6". TGovernment in Haryana /3 !&.- - ! More than 100 students ignation as Punjab Congress he Postgraduate Institute of in future also. In a survey conditioned, he said. will be conducting a written will be enrolled under the pro- chief to party president Rahul *.6. >, 6 TDental Sciences of Pandit conducted by a media house, Dr Tiwari said that this examination on June 10 under =6 '=   6' gramme to undergo the com- Gandhi, taking moral respon- ;6.6 %'!&. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma Post the institute has been found to year, the university has plan to the ‘Super 100’ initiative to pro- , + , . !> plete two years free of cost sibility for the loss. ! 6  , Graduate Institute of Medical be better in providing facilities start seven new fellowship vide free coaching for JEE, 6 , 6 !, &. ,>!6 training for medical and engi- In the letter, Jakhar men- Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak has to patients, he said. programmes to impart super- NEET and boarding facility to ,=6! 6;;,@/ neering competitive entrance tioned that despite support of been ranked third among the Principal, Government specialty training in PGIMS, meritorious students of gov- exams. Equal number of girls party's senior leadership, The Congress leader had Best Dental Colleges in India. Dental College, Rohtak, Dr. Rohtak over and above MDS ernment schools. of boarding and lodging would and boys are proposed to be including Rahul Gandhi, then defeated BJP's Swaran The ranking is based on Sanjay Tiwari said that the courses in Micro-endodon- The students who have also be borne by the govern- enrolled under the scheme. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Salaria by a margin of over 1.93 academic excellence, infra- PGIMS, Rohtak is equipped tics, Implantology, attained more than 80 percent ment. All the district education Notably, a total of 3.64 Chief Minister Amarinder lakh votes. However, Jakhar lost structure, career progression with excellent infrastructure Maxillofacial Prosthetics, marks in class 10th would be officers have been directed by lakh candidates had appeared Singh, he could not retain the the seat this time to actor- and placement facilities. Apart which include ultra modern Maxillofacial Trauma Forensic eligible to participate in the the Directorate of School out of which 57.39 percent seat. turned-politician Deol by a from this, PGIMS Rohtak has dental chairs, two dental oper- Odontology and Maxillofacial entrance test. The last date of Education to appoint the dis- passed in the Haryana Board The ruling Congress in margin of 82,459 votes. also been ranked among the ating microscope, one all Prosthesis and Maxillofacial registration students for this trict Science expert and district Class 10 examination. The pass Punjab won eight out of 13 par- Five years ago, Jakhar, who top best 40 medical colleges in ceramic furnace, two metal implants. programme is May 31. Math expert in their respective percentage has gone up by six liamentary seats in the state, was then Punjab Congress India. ceramic furnace, 11 radio- He added that average Selected students in exam- districts as the nodal officer of points compared to last year’s bucking the pro-Modi trend. Legislature Party leader, had While congratulating the visio graphic unit, three OPD of PGIMS is more than ination will be provided free of the “Super-100” programme. 51.15 percent. Jakhar had won the submitted resignation from administration of University implant units, three digital 5,000 patients per day and cost training for NEET, IIT and The Directorate has also However, the poor show Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in the post after losing the and management of Institute, OPG machines, one state of art approximately 1,000 patients JEE by the State Government, directed to establish contact continued as 1.4 lakh students the bypolls in October 2017. Ferozepur Lok Sabha seat. Haryana Health Minister Anil CBCT and one air-conditioned per day were being provided a spokesman of the with Parents, School Heads failed the exams, while anoth- The seat had fallen vacant However, his resignation Vij said on Monday that with mobile, dental van with two free of cost emergency medical Department said. and students who secured more er 18,000 got compartments in after the death of BJP MP was rejected by then party this achievement, the credibil- dental chairs and all modern treatment in emergency He said that the expenses than 80 per cent marks in class X in the state. Vinod Khanna. president Sonia Gandhi. ity of PGIMS, Rohtak has equipment. Apart from this, all department.  , , -              .,  7"40/"#7 houses and was at 26th Rank     amongst all the States. In unjab Rural Development light of this, the entire Pand Panchayat and machinery of the  7"40/"#7 An official spokesman said Housing and Urban Rural Development that the 7th Economic Census Development Minister Tript Department was galvanized n the run up to upcoming -2019 is being conducted by Rajinder Singh Bajwa on and a big push was given to I7th Economic Census, a Ministry of Statistics and Monday said that Punjab has this scheme. one-day state level training Programme Implementation been ranked three among the He claimed it was a big workshop of the trainers from (MoSPI) to provide dis-aggre- states at the national level achievement going by the Punjab was organised here on gated information on various under Pradhan Mantri Awaas 2018 ranking, he said. Monday. operational and structural Yojana (Gramin). The minister said that, he Inaugurating the event, aspects of all establishments in He said the State was had taken up the matter with Director, Statistics and the country. He further said assigned the target of con- the centre to relax the defin- Planning Department that the fieldwork for the 7th struction of 14,000 houses out ition of Kutcha House so that Chandigarh Harish Nayar said Economic Census will com- of which 13,004 had been more poor people in the state the participants were trained mence in June 2019 in order to completed that was 93 per become eligible under this on the key concepts and defi- complete the task in a time cent achievement. scheme. nitions, processes, digital plat- frame of three months. The construction of Anurag Verma, Financial form and application to be He said that Ministry of remaining houses was at Commissioner, Rural used for the enumeration (data Statistics and Programme advanced stage. Development and Panchayats capture and supervision) in Implementation (MoSPI) has Bajwa said that in said a sum of Rs 1.2 lacs is the field. partnered with Common September last year, the State given to eligible beneficiaries M.L. Sharma, Economic Service Centres, CSC e- had constructed only 1212 under this scheme. Adviser and Planning, Punjab Governance Services India said that the census would Limited, a Special Purpose cover all entrepreneurial units Vehicle under the Ministry of in the state which are involved Electronics and Information      in any economic activities of Technology as the imple- either agricultural or non- menting agency for 7th     $            '$ '  agricultural sector which are Economic Census. An IT engaged in production, distri- based digital platform for data    & bution of goods and services capture, validation, report gen- not for the sole purpose of eration and dissemination will '      - (  own consumption. be used in this Economic The task would provide Census. ! &    detailed information on oper- About 200 participants  7"40/"#7 Celsius, a notch above average, imum settled at 41.9 degrees ed near similar maximum ational and other characteris- from Central and State Govt. said the weather report by the Celsius. temperatures at 40.7 degrees tics such as number of estab- Offices namely Regional he maximum tempera- Meteorological department Similarly, Hisar recorded a Celsius and 40.8 degrees  7"40/"#7 lishments, number of persons Offices of Mohali & Jalandhar Ttures at most places in here. maximum of 41.1 degrees Celsius respectively, up by one employed, source of finance, and their Sub Regional Offices, Haryana and Punjab including In Haryana, sweltering Celsius while Karnal's maxi- degree each against normal. aryana Police has arrested a Poland national from Gurugram type of ownership etc. and this Punjab State-Industries Dept., their common capital heat prevailed in Narnaul mum settled at 40.6 degrees Meanwhile, as per the Hand recovered 345 gram opium and 4.285 kg charas from information would be utilized Punjab State-Economic and Chandigarh hovered above which recorded a high of 44.3 Celsius. MeT Department, no respite is his possession. for micro level planning and to Statistics and District the season's average on degrees Celsius, three notch- In Punjab's holy city of in sight as the weather is like- The arrested accused is identified as Patryak, 28, a resident assess contribution of various Managers & District Monday. es above average. Ambala Amritsar, the mercury rose to ly to remain dry over the next of Poland. sectors of the economy in the Coordinator of CSC also par- Chandigarh recorded a recorded a high of 40.5 degrees 40.2 degrees Celsius while four days in Punjab and Giving details, a spokesman of the Police Department on GDP, he added. ticipated in the workshop. maximum of 39.9 degrees Celsius while Bhiwani's max- Ludhiana and Patiala record- Haryana. Monday said that a team of DLF Phase-1 police station, during patrolling, had spotted two suspicious youth, who suddenly start- ed running away after seeing police. The alert police chased and nabbed one person at a short distance whereas another youth 7     ,  "   . +   + managed to escape after throwing a bag. Upon searching, police has recovered 345 gram opium from arrested accused and 4.285 kg charas from the bag thrown by  7"40/"#7 said.   another accused. The arrested Poland resident failed to produce The Chief Minister will passport and Visa, the spokesman said. uoyed by party’s big victo- preside over five sessions in the During preliminary interrogation, arrested accused revealed Bry in Lok Sabha polls 2019 day-long meetings to review  "#/"# that he had come to India on tourist visa 7-8 months ago, he said. in Haryana, the Chief Minister the AMRUT mission, status of The accused came to know that there are many places in Manohar Lal who is heading smart city project, status of 53-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide here Himachal Pradesh where a large number of foreign nationals the BJP Government in the implementation of his AMonday along with her daughter by consuming poison, come and stay for long periods and intoxicants also becomes avail- state has already begun prepa- announcements. Urban Local a police official said. able on cheap rates. Then he went to Kullu in Himachal Pradesh. rations for the State Assembly Bodies Minister Kavita Jain, Rambagh police station in-charge Mehar Singh said He stayed there in different places. During this period, he came polls due to be held in October senior bureaucrats, Mayor and Santosh Sharma, a housewife, committed suicide along with in contact with Kazi, a resident of Kullu (the accused who had this year. other representatives of the her 28-year-old daughter Shilpa Sharma allegedly out of managed to flee) who is also addicted to drugs. Arrested accused To expedite the develop- city would attend the meeting, depression over some family dispute. is a musician and performs in parties. In Delhi, he has performed ment projects across the state the spokesman added. "While Santosh Sharma died on the spot, Shilpa died while live music in many parties, the spokesman said. ahead of Haryana Assembly On Monday also, the Chief undergoing treatment in a hospital here," he said. When all his money was spent, his partner told him that they election, the Chief Minister will Minister reviewed the progress The station house officer said as per preliminary inves- can earn more money by sale of narcotics in Delhi at an expen- be presiding over several of metro projects in the state. tigation, it was found that there was a family dispute and both sive price to meet their expenses, he said. rounds of meeting on Tuesday After the BJP had won all mother and daughter were under deep depression. The Bodies A case under relevant sections of NDPS and Foreigners Act to review the progress of ongo- 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, are sent for postmortem. Further investigations are on, he was registered against him. Efforts are on to nab another accused ing projects in 18 cities and the Chief Minister Manohar added. and further investigation is under progress, the spokesman said. speed up these projects. Lal had recently said that his In day-long meetings government’s priority will be to which will include five sessions, speed up the development pro- discussion will be held on jects in Haryana, which will go 5     4   9B; AMRUT mission, status of to State Assembly polls in next smart city project, status of three-four months.  7"40/"#7 With the announcement process. nominations would be June CM’s announcements. In the 90-member State of the schedule, the 'Model Sandhu said that the 13 which would also Under the Atal Mission for Assembly, the BJP currently has he State Election Code of Conduct' has come notification and process of fil- be the date for allotting the Rejuvenation and Urban 48 MLAs. TCommissioner, Punjab, into force immediately in the ing the nominations would election symbols to the can- Transformation (AMRUT) Panipat, Kaithal, Rewari, water supply system, strength- Manohar Lal has already Jagpal Singh Sandhu on revenue jurisdiction of these commence on June 4 didates. scheme, the government is Bhiwani, Thanesar, en the drainage system and directed all the MLAs to expe- Monday announced the Municipal Corporations, and June 11 would be the last Voting would be held on undertaking various projects to Bahadurgarh, Palwal, Sirsa and sewerage management, rain dite the progress of various schedule for the elections of Nagar Panchayats and date for filing the June 21 from 8 AM till 4 PM enhance civic facilities in Jind, said an official water drainage management, development works or pro- 2 Nagar Panchayat Talwara Municipal Councils. nominations. and counting of votes would Panchkula, Gurugram, spokesman. urban transport among others jects in their constituencies and Bhadson and bye elec- The Code of Conduct The nominations would be held after completion of Ambala, Jagadhri, Karnal, Projects including are undertaken in these cities and ensure to fix a deadline for tions for 18 wards of local would be in force till the be scrutinized next day while voting process on the Rohtak, Hisar, Sonepat, strengthening of the drinking under AMRUT scheme, he the completion of key projects. bodies on June 21. completion of the electoral the date for withdrawal of the same day.       !" #$% !"       # /           &

 7/" where it won all 26 Lok Sabha the highest vote share of 72.02 seats, was 62.21 per cent. per cent among individual he BJP got the highest vote The Congress' vote share party candidates in the state. Tshare in the country in in Himachal Pradesh Kapoor was followed by Himachal Pradesh and this decreased by 13.77 percentage Anurag Singh Thakur who shows the overwhelming sup- points this time. Compared to polled 69.04 per cent of votes port of the people for the party, 41.07 per cent in 2014, it was in Hamirpur, Ram Swaroop Chief Minister only 27.3 per cent in this gen- Sharma who got 68.75 per has said. eral election. cent of votes in Mandi and BJP candidates retained all The big difference in the Suresh Kashyap who got 66.35 the four Lok Sabha seats in the vote shares of the two parties, per cent of votes in Shimla. state and got over 69 per cent shows the overwhelming sup- Congress candidates were vote share this time, which is port for the BJP, which swept far behind their BJP rivals in all the highest in the country, he the elections riding on the seats in terms of vote share with said. Modi wave, Thakur said. Ram Lal Thakur getting 28.63 Compared to 53.85 per The Congress and the BJP per cent of the votes in cent in 2014, the BJP's vote were locked in direct contests Hamirpur, Dhani Ram Shandil share in the state increased to on all seats in the hill state. 27.3 per cent in Shimla, 69.11 per cent in this Lok BJP's Kishan Kapoor, who Aashray Sharma 25.68 per cent Sabha election.The saffron won with a huge margin of in Mandi and Pawan Kajal party's vote share in Gujarat, 477623 votes from Kangra, got 24.59 per cent in Kangra. 0 *     0 + 

New Delhi: With the govern-      ment of results. However, all of ment deciding not to allow them left for their constituen- newly elected MPs to stay in   "# $#%$" cies by Monday morning. five-star hotels, the landmark   $&$ $ Some MPs who visited Western Court on Janpath has  '  (( " Delhi in the past few days were become a transit hostel for seen at party officers or went many parliamentarians. $$  * " sight-seeing. IANS The Western Court has +   , $ stopped general bookings and will be serving only to new Lok $ $,  Sabha members at least till May    "$ 30 when Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi will take oath  "  for a second time. Also, guest houses of every state and union territory have who requested anonymity. made arrangements for MPs Not a single MP came to who do not wish to stay in the stay in the building after the Western Court. 2014 election results were As many as 33 MPs had announced. checked into the Western At Odisha Niwas, a total of Court till Monday evening and seven MPs are residing - five majority of them were from are from the Bharatiya Janata Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Party and one each from Biju They include Hans Raj Janata Dal and Congress. Hans and Tejasvi Surya, elect- Notably, about 100 rooms ed from North West Delhi and have been made available here Bengaluru South respectively. for the MPs till they are pro- "I am speechless. I am vided with official residences. thankful to Modiji. I am feel- According to an official of ing nice being geared up to the Madhya Pradesh Bhawan, work for the people. I m work- eight rooms were booked till ing on a plan to prioritize Monday evening. work in my constituency," Hans The state has made Raj Hans told IANS. arrangement for 20 newly- There are 80 room sets in elected MPs at two places: one the new building and 20 in the at Chanakyapuri and another at old building of the Western Vasant Kunj, officials said. Court. Assam Bhawan also saw "As of now, we have allot- the arrival of newly-elected ted rooms to 33 MPs. Food is lawmakers. But the officials being provided through ITDC refused to reveal details. (India Tourism Development At Maharashtra Sadan, Corp) canteen. However, liquor about a dozen MPs had come is not allowed," said an official to Delhi after the announce-   .    !" #$%

// '        ()  #     % # #&! ###  $!      *     ##  456057/ added to allow the magistrate to New Delhi: The Centre will ask Forest Rights Act, 2006. grant bail "after hearing the the Telangana and Andhra Experts say the previous New Delhi: India on Monday he new Government will wife", the Government had said. Pradesh Governments to iden- BJP-led administration had successfully test fired an Akash- Thave to bring the contro- The Citizenship tify tribals who allegedly fled backed the movement and the MK-1S missile from the inte- versial Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, 2019 pro- Chhattisgarh due to the Salwa Congress government at the grated test range at Chandipur (Amendment) and Triple Talaq vided for according Indian cit- Judum movement around 15 Centre was seized of it. in Odisha, the Defence Bills once again as they lapsed izenship to Hindus, Jains, years ago and settled there, The Supreme Court Ministry said on Monday. due to the dissolution of the Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists according to officials. banned the militia force in 2011 The surface-to-air anti-air- 16th Lok Sabha and the two and Parsis from Bangladesh, Salwa Judum was a militia after it acquired a notorious craft missile with a strike range legislations not being passed in Pakistan and Afghanistan after that had been deployed as part reputation for allegedly burn- of 25 km and capability to carry the Rajya Sabha due to stiff seven years of residence in of anti-Maoist operations in ing villages, killing people and warhead of 60 kg was test fired Opposition. India instead of 12 years, which Chhattisgarh. It was opera- governments on board and sexually assaulting women after on May 25 and May 27, they The Government may con- is the current norm, even if they tional between 2005 and 2011, verify these cases," a senior offi- terming them Maoist sympa- said. tinue with the contents of the do not possess any document. before it was banned by the cial of the Tribal Affairs thisers. "Defence Research and Triple Talaq Bill but may con- mulgated the ordinance on ordinance was issued. Seeking The legislation was passed by Supreme Court. Ministry said. According to CGNet Swara Development Organisation sider minor changes in the triple talaq twice. Under the to allay fears that the pro- Lok Sabha during the Winter The action came on a com- "Once the verification Foundation, the militia force (DRDO) has successfully test Citizenship Bill taking into Muslim Women (Protection posed law could be misused, Session on January 8 but could plaint of an NGO, CGNet process is completed, we will sit led to the displacement of fired AKASH-MK-1S missile consideration opinions from of Rights on Marriage) the Government has included not be cleared by the upper Swara Foundation, that wrote together and decide the next 5,000 families from from ITR, Chandipur, Odhisa the stakeholders in Assam and Ordinance, 2019, divorcing certain safeguards in it such as house. There has been strong to the ministry claiming that course of action. We will have Chhattisgarh. These families on May 25 and 27," the defence other North Eastern States. through instant triple talaq adding a provision for bail for Opposition to the bill in Assam over 5,000 families had fled to see what political stand the settled in Andhra Pradesh, ministry said in a statement. The Muslim Women will be illegal, void and would the accused during trial. and other Northeastern States. Chhattisgarh due to the con- Chhattisgarh government will which got bifurcated in 2014. It said the Akash weapon (Protection of Rights on attract a jail term of three These amendments were Student organisations, troversial militia force formed take on it... Whether it The NGO claimed these system has combination of Marriage) Bill which made the years for the husband cleared by the Cabinet on political parties and socio-cul- by late Congress leader acknowledges that these were families had been living with- both command guidance and practice of instant triple talaq A Bill to convert the earli- August 29, 2018. While the tural bodies have been protest- Mahendra Karma in mid-2005 families were displaced due to out basic facilities in Andhra active terminal seeker guid- (talaq-e-biddat) a penal er ordinance, issued in ordinance makes it a "non-bail- ing on the grounds that it to counter the Maoists. Salwa Judum," the official said. Pradesh and Telangana, and ance. offence, was opposed by the September 2018, was cleared by able" offence, an accused can seeks to grant nationality to "We received a complaint Another official from could not benefit from the "Seeker and guidance per- opposition parties which had the Lok Sabha in December approach a magistrate even non-Muslims who have come on May 12 stating that a num- Chhattisgarh said that once it Forest Rights Act, which pro- formance have been consis- claimed that jail term for the and was pending in the Rajya before trial to seek bail. In a non- into India up to December 31, ber of tribal families fled to is established that these fami- vides for giving land rights to tently established in both the husband for divorcing his wife Sabha. bailable offence, bail cannot be 2014, thereby increasing the Andhra Pradesh and Telangana lies belonged to the state, a those living on forest land for missions. All the mission objec- is legally untenable. Since the Bill could not get granted by police at the police deadline from 1971 as per the from Chhattisgarh due to Salwa process can be initiated to at least three generations before tives have been met," the The Government had pro- parliamentary approval, a fresh station itself. A provision was Assam Accord. Judum. We have to take all state rehabilitate them under the December 31, 2005. Ministry said. PTI   *     /+  +     /  +   *1   +- + !$  "        J3  !     (  + +    $'                      - %     #  456057/  +     $     /        onths after its big cat relo-  '  New Delhi: The Supreme  /!    Mcation plan in Odisha's Court on Monday dis-      Satkosia Tiger reserve went missed a plea challenging  7 K70% haywire, the National Tiger New Delhi: In a setback to newly present special leave petition. The the Telangana High Court Conservation Authority elected BSP MP Atul Rai, the special leave petition is dismissed as verdict that a person can be     (NTCA) has now decided to Supreme Court on Monday refused withdrawn," the bench said. arrested by the concerned  # :  A  showcase the locals examples of to grant him protection from arrest Earlier on May 17, the apex court authority in cases of Goods 0     other tiger habitats where vil- in a rape case while noting that 16 had refused to grant interim protec- and Service Tax (GST) eva- /   lagers are peacefully co-habit- other criminal cases were pending tion from arrest to Rai who was then sion. # '/ #(  ing with the wild animals. Reserve to Terai Arc landscape tence in buffer or fringe areas. against him. a SP-BSP alliance candidate from The plea came up for    ,    The locals had fiercely comprising of Corbett Tiger "People's involvement becomes A vacation bench of Chief Justice Ghosi Lok Sabha constituency in hearing before a vacation BC;A0 %9 +  opposed the relocation of Reserve in Uttarakhand and more crucial in tiger relocated Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Uttar Pradesh. bench of Chief Justice     7  Sundari, a tigress and Pilibhit Tiger Reserve in sites like Satkosia tiger reserve Bose said it was not inclined to enter- Rai, who was accused of raping Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose and the apex   DB6 7  Mahaveer, a tiger, in the Uttarakhand. where local communities are tain the petition of Rai, who has won a college student from Varanasi had court said it was not inclined to interfere with the April " ! Satkosia forest from Madhya The NTCA preferred to historically dependent on these Lok Sabha election from Ghosi con- then sought interim protection from 18 judgement of the high court.   %7   Pradesh last year. The area had chose the two tiger reverses as forests. Therefore ist quite rel- stituency in Uttar Pradesh by a mar- arrest saying polling in his con- "Having heard counsel for the petitioner and upon      witnessed serious law and order it felt they were "very good evant to ensure role of local gin of more than one lakh votes. stituency was scheduled on May 19. perusing the relevant material, we are not inclined to !  !   ! problem when Sundari alleged- examples of conservation where communities as co-partners in At the outset, the bench asked "It is not a case for quashing. interfere. The special leave petition is accordingly dis-   % ly killed two persons. She has movement of tigers in human conservation instead of just the counsel for Rai about the num- Fight it out. Fight the election and this missed," the bench said. been held captive since then by dominated areas has been mon- passive stakeholders. ber of criminal cases were pending case too," the top court had told him. On April 18, the high court had said it was  *   $ wildlife authorities. For his itored with involvement of local "To achieve this, capacity against him. An FIR was registered against not inclined to grant relief against arrest to the petitioners  $   part, Mahaveer fell to poaching. communities and forest depart- building of local communities The counsel replied that the MP Rai on May 1 on a complaint by a col- who had approached it challenging the summons issued Since then the tiger reloca- ments of both the States have is very important so as to seek had 16 criminal cases pending lege student who had alleged that he by Superintendent (Anti-Evasion) of the Hyderabad GST tion plan has been put on hold successfully ensured the reha- their active participation in against him and he was out on bail took her home on the pretext of Commissionerate under the Central Goods and Services by the NTCA. bilitation of tigers back to for- conservation to achieve the co- in all the cases except the rape case. meeting his wife but sexually assault- Tax Act, 2017 and invocation of penal provisions under Now realising that its relo- est areas." existence agenda while mini- The counsel also said that Rai ed her. The SP-BSP alliance candi- the law. cation plan will not see the light During the tour, the locals mizing man-animal conflicts," had sought that the FIR against him date, who has denied the rape alle- The high court had delivered the verdict which deal- of the day unless locals are will be educated to how to live said the NTCA letter. in the rape case be quashed. gations, has been on the run since the ing with a batch of petitions filed by some private com- engaged in the conservation peacefully with the animals The tigress Sundari was "Sorry, we are not inclined to lodging of the FIR. panies, its top officials and others. plan, the top tiger body last and how they can earn their brought from Bandhavgarh on entertain this petition. Dismiss," the Rai had contended that there was The Government had told the high court that peti- week shot off a letter to the livelihood. June 28 last year while tiger bench said. no provision of anticipatory bail in tioners before it were allegedly involved in incorporat- Chief Wildlife Warden of The move is in keeping Mahaveer was brought from The counsel then sought to Uttar Pradesh and the high court had ing several partnership firms and had claimed input tax Odisha to organise a tour/expo- with the NTCA guidelines Kanha in Madhya Pradesh to withdraw the petition which was on May 8 dismissed his petition seek- credit on the basis of certain invoices, without there sure visit for capacity building which envisage involvement of Satkosia Tiger Reserve in July allowed by the court. ing protection from arrest. being any actual physical receipt of goods. of local community and forest local people in conservation for last year. Mahaveer's carcass was "Counsel for the petitioner seeks Ghosi constituency falls in Mau It had alleged that the fraudulent input tax credit officials of Satkosia Tiger fulfilling the agenda of co-exis- found on November 15. leave of this Court to withdraw the district of Uttar Pradesh. PTI claimed by them was to the tune of 224.05 crore. PTI

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  9"/ # )) clemency from the British             point agenda of insulting hero- Godse on January 30, 1948, less Government in 1910-11.         ic characters and eulogising than a year after India gained ormer Rajasthan education In a series of tweets on      % only one family. In response, independence from Britain. Fminister Vasudev Devnani Monday, Devnani said the State    O!  Rajasthan Education Minister The revision of textbooks on Monday flayed the State Government should take inspi-         Govind Singh Dotasara said the not only drew flak from the )   Congress Government for ration from former Prime #  $0  changes were made by the Opposition but also from a affixing “son of Portugal” to Minister Indira Gandhi who         experts committee. couple of leaders in the ruling RSS ideologue Vinayak had described Savarkar 9    “What can I say? A com- Congress.  9"/ # Damodar’s description in Class as the “byword for daring and mittee of experts have written The panel had recom- X social science textbooks. patriotism.” it based on authenticity and mended the removal of a pic- ays after the National Recently, the Congress The former Prime Minister  /  !  their recommendations. I can ture suggesting self-immolation DDemocratic Alliance Government constituted a text- had called Savarkar “a classical        only say that whatever has under Sati or Jauhar from a (NDA) scripted a resounding book revision committee in the revolutionary and countless  4 !     N$ O  O  been written in the textbooks Class VIII English textbook. victory in the Lok Sabha elec- school education department. people drew inspiration from           have been written based on the It was replaced with that of a tions, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Based on the committee’s find- him”, Devnani said.    L      $ recommendations of educa- hill fort. Sangh (RSS) chief Mohan ings, the department revised a “Former Prime Minister  M 0     tionists,” Dotasara told PTI. “We need to understand Bhagwat said that “Ram ka short biography of RSS ideo- Indira Gandhi recognised and       L   M  In other changes, the com- the practice of Jauhar. Without kaam karna hai, Ram ka kaam logue Vinayak Damodar hailed the legacy of great free-     ;A;C+;;   mittee removed the prefix understanding the sensitive ho kar hi rahega (Ram’s work Savarkar introduced by the dom fighter Veer Savarkar. ‘Veer’ from Savakar’s name in issue, any leader, be it from the needs to be done and Ram’s previous BJP Government. The then Government had personal account to Savarkar The former State Minister the textbooks and it now refers Congress or the BJP, should work will be done).” for the construction of Ram Now, in the textbooks it is issued a commemorative stamp Trust and ordered the Films said calling the freedom fight- to him as Vinayak Damodar refrain from making a state- Bhagwat made the com- temple in Ayodha, and had mentioned Savarkar had on Veer Savarkar in 1970. Division to produce a docu- er “son of Portugal” is an insult. Savarkar who “plotted assassi- ment,” said State Transport ments during his visit to asked the Narendra Modi-led described himself as “son of “Indira Gandhi had donat- mentary on his life,” Devnani He alleged the Congress nation” of Mahatma Gandhi, Minister Pratap Singh Udaipur on Sunday for a government to hasten the Portugal” when seeking ed a sum of Rs 11,000 from her tweeted. Government had the single- who was killed by Nathuram Khachariyawas. “mandir pran pratishtha” pro- process of temple construction. gramme in Pratap Gaurav The Ram Temple has been on Kendra, where he was accom- the BJP manifesto since 2014. $ 6  "' panied by spiritual leader Morari Bapu. #$    &&'() 2$   The programme was first *   & addressed by Morari Bapu.   ' # ( Speaking on the occasion, he    &  &  9" &   said, “Since centuries this coun-   try has been chanting the name 1     of lord Ram. Today the coun-   & Guwahati: Incumbent Pema try is passing through such cir- 1   Khandu will be sworn in as cumstances that we need to   "43& take care of their health and Chief think of doing Ram’s work Lucknow: Rashtriya Swayam- that of their parents and fam- Minister on Wednesday after the too. It makes me happy to see sewak Sangh (RSS) chief ewly-appointed Sikkim ily members, he said. State BJP won the recent Ram’s name written on the Mohan Bhagwat’s support for a NChief Minister PS Golay The Chief Minister also Assembly and Lok Sabha polls. youth’s hands.” grand Ram temple in Ayodhya on Monday announced a five- announced his Ministers and The BJP legislature party in Soon after his address, has evoked a sharp reaction day working week for State MLAs, including himself, will Arunachal Pradesh has elected Bhagwat said, “We should from the Muslim clergy. Government employees. use Scorpio vehicles instead of Khandu as their leader during a remember the message given Maulana Khalid Rashid After taking charge of the Fortuner SUVs which were meeting on Monday. Later, by Morari Bapu. Ram’s work Firangi Mahali, Imam of office at Tashiling state secre- being used by the elected rep- Khandu accompanied by legis- needs to be done and Ram’s Eidgah and a well known Sunni tariat, he also held a meeting resentatives earlier. lator and former Deputy Chief work will be done. Ram resides cleric, said. “It is not right to with top Government officials. “For the time being we Minister Chowna Mein and in our hearts. We all need to be make such statements when the Talking to reporters after have no option but to use state BJP chief and MP Tapir active and move ahead to ful- matter is in the Supreme Court. interacting with senior officials, Fortuner SUVs, but we will use Gao called on State Governor fil our goals.” The mediation process is also Golay said there will be Scorpio vehicles once they are Brig BD Mishra at Raj Bhavan Bhagwat was on a four-day on under the court supervision. five-day working week made available to us,” Golay in Itanagar and staked claim to trip to Udaipur since Friday to “Muslims are waiting for a for the Government employees said. The SKM supremo had form the next Government. attend the RSS-run ‘Sangh decision and the Hindu leaders in Sikkim. earlier accused the SDF gov- Khandu informed the Shiksha Seva II’ training camp. should also exercise patience. “We have fulfilled one of ernment headed by his prede- Governor about the meeting Soon after landing in Such statements will only serve our election promises to reduce cessor PK Chamling for “mis- consisting of 41 elected members Udaipur airport on Friday, to create controversy and panic.” the working week for using public money”. of Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Bhagwat told the media, “Aa Shia cleric Maulana Yasoob Government employees from Golay said the money Assembly from the BJP and gaayi hai sarkar wapas (The Abbas said that since matter is six days earlier to five days,” he saved on using less expensive said 40 members have unani- government is back).” sub-judice, leaders of both com- said. The Government employ- vehicles like Scorpio will be mously elected him as their Even before the Lok Sabha munities should refrain from        $       +2$ 3    $'   ees will get an additional day as used for betterment of the leader in seventh Legislative elections, the RSS had pitched making statements. IANS    $     44+  (  $ ( (  ' holiday which they will use to people of Sikkim. Assembly of the State. IANS *#+ ,-  ' &  &   #7+   && Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh other Bangladeshis and make station on Sunday. “During “During interrogation, they Anti-Terror Squad (ATS) has fake documents (used for iden- interrogation, it was revealed said they had unsuccessfully arrested six Bangladeshi citi- tity) such as Aadhaar cards and that all of them were residents tried to go to Pakistan by   &    zens for allegedly preparing ration cards. Based on these of Bangladesh, who were living crossing the barbed-wire fence. fake passports using false doc- fake documents, they used to in India on the basis of fake doc- Their Pakistan-based accom- uments, an official said on even get their passports made,” uments. A case has been regis- plices had told them to sneak Monday. Asim Arun, Additional tered against them and they into Pakistan with the help of 2 "0! The accused were arrested Director General of Police, UP have been arrested,” Arun said. an electric tester to find out from Agra. “The UP ATS was ATS, said in a statement. He added the data whether current was flowing getting information that some He added the six retrieved from the accused through the fence. Four testers Bangladeshis, living illegally Bangladeshi nationals were revealed that they had also vis- were seized from their posses- in Uttar Pradesh, used to call picked up from the Agra railway ited Punjab and Rajasthan. sion,” the officer said. PTI

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  54" # Tumkur. BJP leaders have pre- were unhappy with the State the BJP for some time, even   R    dicted the collapse of the Government. threatening to resign, along ormer Prime Minister and Congress-JD(S) coalition in The Deve Gowda-Rao with a few other lawmakers. FJD(S) supremo HD Deve Karnataka and an increase in meeting comes amid coalition The Congress has con-   "4" Gowda had a discussion with the saffron party’s tally in the worries and discontent within vened a meeting of its legisla- Karnataka Congress chief Assembly after the Lok Sabha the Congress, with its MLA ture party on Wednesday to he simmering discontent in Dinesh Gundu Rao on poll results, claiming Ramesh Jarkiholi, who has discuss the political develop- TRJD has come to the fore Monday, following the com- that 20-odd Congress MLAs been rubbing shoulders with ments in the southern State. following its rout in Lok Sabha bine’s rout in the just-conclud- election with a senior party leg- ed Lok Sabha election. islator Maheshwar Prasad After the meeting that last- "-01* 2 ,    Yadav on Monday asking ed for over an hour, Rao told Tejashwi Yadav to resign from reporters that Deve Gowda had Bengaluru: Former Karnataka Centre and not for ‘toppling’ on Saturday, he sought to know the post of Leader of asked him to come home to dis- Chief Minister Siddaramaiah the State Government. which article in the Constitution Opposition taking moral cuss various issues. He, howev- The Congress and the Janata on Monday asserted that the “Yeddyurappa has been gave the BJP the right to topple responsibility of the drubbing. er, refused to divulge what tran- Dal (Secular) only managed to JDS-Congress Government saying for the past one year the a State Government. Alleging that parivarwad (($* *  0  "7, (0 ( # 8  spired between the former win one seat each of the 28 in was a ‘strong’ one and ridiculed Government will fall. He will Siddaramiah said the out- (family politics) has cost the #  $0  1 $    "9"1 Prime Minister and him. Karnataka, while the BJP won 25 State BJP president BS continue to say the same for come of the Lok Sabha elec- party most, Maheshwar, RJD 3/, :*   $ 2(#  '$ # “I cannot disclose what seats. The other seat was bagged Yeddyurappa for repeatedly the next four years. I am con- tions, in which the BJP won 25 MLA from Gaighat Assembly  ',, 0' " # 1#( $" $0 (( discussion we had because he by BJP-backed Independent claiming that the coalition fident the Government is seats, was for continuation of constituency in Muzaffarpur 2 $%,  "$  "  ,'(,(($" has said something outright candidate Sumalatha will collapse. strong,” Siddaramaiah said. the NDA Government at the district, claimed the party about the two parties. We will Ambareesh, who defeated Deve In a series of tweets, he Referring to Prime Minister Centre and not for toppling the will break if his demand is not have to take certain decisions Gowda’s grandson Nikhil also said the people’s mandate Narenda Modi bowing to the Government in the State and fulfilled. someone else as LOP) is not back in the 2015 Assembly after discussing with the senior Kumaraswamy in Mandya. was for continuation of the Constitution after being elect- make Yeddyurappa Chief As a party MLA, I would fulfilled, then the legislature polls, if the RJD would not have leaders in our party,” Rao said. Deve Gowda too lost from BJP-led Government at the ed leader of the BJP-led NDA Minister again. PTI request Tejaswhi Yadav to party will break as party’s sev- stitched an alliance with resign from the post of LOP eral legislators are with Kumar’s JD(U). taking moral responsibility of me, Maheshwar Prasad It was because of Kumar 1      #  the Lok Sabha poll debacle and Yadav claimed. that the RJD came to power in appoint any other senior party Asked whether he has the 2015 in the State, he said, 3      : &    ) ##   (  leader hailing from a caste support of two-third of RJD adding but the party supremo other than Yadav to the post of legislature party to avoid dis- again chose to anoint his both   &436 Model Code of Conduct came cussed threadbare in the meet-    2 LOP, failing which the party qualification under anti- defec- sons as Deputy CM and into force for 78 days. ing,” the official said. !")  will have to face crushing defeat tion law, he answered in affir- Minister in Nitish Kumar-led fter almost a month-and- Sources say the Cabinet The Cabinet is also likely to    "57/ in 2020 Assembly elections, he mative saying that he has the Grand Alliance Government Ahalf, the much awaited may finalise the transfer poli- congratulate Prime Minister Thiruvananthapuram: told reporters. support of large numbers of ignoring senior party leaders. Cabinet meeting of the Yogi cy whose nitty-gritty awaits Narendra Modi for the Congress president Rahul hree suspects have been The RJD is the second party MLAs as no one wants to When Nitish Kumar part- Adityanath Government will be Cabinet nod. resounding success in the Lok Gandhi would visit Wayanad in Tarrested in connection with party of the five members board the sinking ship...But ed his ways, RJD chief again held on Tuesday in which the Generally, the deadline for Sabha election. the first week of June to thank the killing of a BJP worker in mahagathbandhan to face the please, dont ask me the names foisted his son Tejashwi and state government is expected to transfer ends on May 31 but Three Cabinet ministers the electorate for his record Amethi two days ago, police heat of resounding defeat in the and numbers at the moment. wife Rabri Devi as LOP in finalise the transfer policy this year the deadline is sure to — Rita Bahuguna Joshi breaking win from this Lok said on Monday. hands of NDA in Bihar. Asked whether he would lower and upper house respec- and take decisions on increase. (Tourism), Satyadeo Pachauri Sabha seat in Kerala, said a Director General of Police Except for one seat of attend the two-day RJD meet- tively. I had opposed the party pending issues. The Cabinet will decide the (Khadi and Gramodyog) and Congress leader on Monday. (DGP) OP Singh said there was Kisanganj won by the ing scheduled to be held on chiefs move to make Rabri A Government official told modalities as generally only 10 SPS Baghel (Animal Leader of Opposition a local-level political rivalry Congress, the BJP, JD(U) and May 28 and 29 to discuss the Devi as the CM in 1997 and The Pioneer here on Monday per cent of the staff are trans- Husbandry) are also likely to Ramesh Chennithala said this between the deceased, LJP combine bagged 39 poll debacle, the rebel MLA had suggested him to appoint that the Cabinet meeting ferred and the policy also con- attend the Cabinet meeting, after the Congress-led United Surendra Singh, 50, and the out of a total 40 Lok Sabha seats said he would not participate in any other senior leader of the would be held at 11 am and was tains many riders. their last in UP. Democratic Front (UDF) met father of one of the accused. in Bihar. the meeting till his demand party as CM but he ignored my likely to continue for an hour The spokesman said the They have been elected to for the first time after register- “We have arrested three Earlier, Upendra (Tejashwi resignation) is met. opinion. There was a time or so. government may also take the Lok Sabha and would be ing a resounding victory in the persons. After the incident was Kushwaha led RLSPs three leg- Maheshwar, who has been when the party was reduced to Many decisions, which decision on wheat purchase taking oath as members of the Lok Sabha polls, winning all reported, as many as seven islators — two MLAs and one seen in close company of Bihar 22 MLAs and four MPs. But were pending because of the and set guidelines for the con- 17th Lok Sabha. but one of the 20 seats people were taken into custody MLC — merged with the CM Nitish Kumar in the recent people in recently held gener- Model Code of Conduct being struction of Purvanchal and Rita Bahuguna Joshi has in the State. and they were thoroughly JD(U) on Sunday following past, said Lalu Prasads affection al elections have thoroughly in force, were expected to be Bundelkhand expressways. been elected to the A source in the know of quizzed,” Singh told reporters the massive drubbings at the for his family cost the party rejected the RJD for carrying taken up on Tuesday, he said. “There are around a dozen Lok Sabha from Allahabad, things said Rahul Gandhi’s here. “Among the seven people, hustings. most and the party (RJD) out ‘parivarwad’ politics, the The last Cabinet meeting issues which need Cabinet Pachauri from Kanpur and visit could be either on there were three who were If my demand (to appoint would not have staged a come- MLA added. was held on March 8 before the approval and these will be dis- Baghel from Agra. Saturday or Monday. linked with the incident.” Rahul won with the high- Amethi Superintendent of est ever margin of victory in Police Rajesh Kumar said those (4 any Lok Sabha election with arrested have been identified as 4,31,770 votes. Ramchandra, Dharmanath and    He defeated his nearest Naseem, while two persons rival PP Suneer of the were absconding. Communist Party of India who Singh, a close aide of     secured 2,74,597 votes while newly-elected Amethi MP Congress president received Smriti Irani, was shot when he   9"  7,06,367 votes. was sleeping in his house at “This huge victory has Baraulia village, 25 km from high-level meeting to review placed more responsibility on the district headquarters, on Athe arrangements being put us and we assure the people that Saturday night. The former in place for the upcoming this victory will not get into village head was referred to a Amarnath yatra in south their heads. They will always Lucknow hospital, but suc- Kashmir Himalayas was held work for people of the State,” cumbed to injuries during here on Monday, an official said. said Chennithala. IANS treatment. The annual 46-day pil- grimage to the 3,880 metre high holy cave shrine is sched- uled to begin from the twin routes of Pahalgam in Anantnag and Baltal in Ganderbal districts on July 1. Principal Secretary Home Shaleen Kabra chaired the meeting which was attended by Divisional Commissioner, Jammu Sanjeev Verma, IGP MK Sinha, IG Traffic Alok Kumar, IG CRPF AV Chauhan and other senior civil and police officers, the official said. The Divisional Commissioner gave a detailed presentation on the arrange- ments being put in place by dif- ferent departments to ensure smooth conduct of the yatra, the official said. The commis- sioner also apprised those pre- sent in the meeting about the number of SRTC busses being made available, halting points set up in Kathua, Samba, Jammu, Udhampur and Ramban districts, langar (com- munity kitchen) points enroute, shelter sheds, accommodation for pilgrims and other related arrangements, the official added. PTI ! #   #    (   ## #

Ahmedabad: Ahead of Rathyatra in Ahmedabad, Special Operations Group (SOG) on Monday detained 47 Bangladeshi nationals from various parts of the city for ille- gal stay, police said. The Ahmedabad SOG had formed five different teams to carry out a search operation, as per an official statement. Patrolling was conducted in different areas of the city dur- ing which as many as 47 Bangladeshis were detained from areas including Chandola lake in Ishanpur, Danilimda, Chirag Park Society, Naroda Patiya, Juna Wadaj etc, and brought to SOG police station, it said. They were detained as they were found to be staying ille- gally in the city without any valid documents. PTI    !" #$% 0  < /  /'  % 8   :0      % 8  8 (7+5(8' 5#)6 1       :    &&           #     Q R 

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The ping the discriminatory Right to ly a guillotine by ballot box. Henceforth, minorities, like oth- 052"  / VVPAT trail found no discrep- Education Act or applying its      -   )           The more disturbing news for Congress ers, must vote as individuals on $35"4&  ancies. Anyway, Chandrababu provisions equally.                $     is that it has been reduced to a fringe party, the issues of the day – national- #/4&/432 Naidu vanished after the TDP’s Above all, Modi must give ((  -        #  -).        with a decent presence only in Punjab and ism, terrorism, farmer distress, rout; Trinamool Congress chief priority to the economy by Kerala. It drew a blank in Arunachal budget and employment among "532/ Mamata Banerjee was chas- securing investments and  (  $  .  # .  ;.#.<    Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, others. The ancien régime, tened. At its working committee increasing the pace of infrastruc-  0       .#.          96  - Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and which pressured citizens to “vote 7555 3#" meeting, the Congress agreed ture development. Agriculture             $ 6 -     Kashmir, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, your caste/community”, while &/@36"#0 not to question the EVMs. needs a rethink outside the dis- Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tripura, lampooning them for doing so, In Jammu and Kashmir, credited paradigm of costly fer- $                +  ( Uttarakhand, Daman Diu, Dadra Nagar has made way for “vote your 3#5/4  /$5 the National Conference won tilisers, pesticides and depleted                   Haveli, Lakshadweep, Andaman & Nicobar nation/issue”. This caused the $35# Anantnag (Hasnain Masoodi), water tables. The growing health       $     P(  Q    Islands and Chandigarh. A comeback would rout of the Samajwadi Party Baramulla (Akbar Lone) and consciousness in society will take a miracle. Meanwhile, the BJP vote share despite its pact with the Bahujan "#/ /"/34% Srinagar (Farooq Abdullah) and make organic farming feasible                    6    rose to over 50 per cent in several States. Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. 75#3 5 the BJP won Jammu (Jugal and remunerative.                 The Left collapsed with the Congress, The Congress won only Sonia Kishore), Udhampur (Jitendra Modi’s victory marks a tec-         -         $ given its deep symbiotic relationship. The Gandhi’s seat, which means 5"4/4BC;< Singh) and Ladakh (J.T. tonic shift in the history of the Leftist stranglehold over the media got Priyanka Vadra (who failed to  6" Namgyal). The People’s republic. Unlike Rahul Gandhi,                    *   huge coverage for Kanhaiya Kumar (CPI, retain Amethi) may not win Rae Democratic Party’s rout is a who embodied elected monar-    -6          $   )  Begusarai, Bihar), who was trounced. But Bareli if Sonia Gandhi vacates it. "#5@ message to the BJP to fulfill its chy and had little to offer the cit-     -  $           public fatigue with the Left’s shrill and neg- With hindsight, it seems /43#50@ promise to abolish Articles 370 izen, Modi wove city and chau-    (          -      ( ative rhetoric caused its fall from 59 seats in amusing that Sonia Gandhi, and 35-A, which only needs a pal together in a grand narrative 2004, 26 in 2009, 10 in 2014 and five in 2019; Sharad Pawar and Telugu "4"@ Presidential order and political of nationalism, national resur-         5 "         recovery is unlikely. Desam Party’s Chandrababu will. In Assembly elections later gence and regeneration. He may                Modi’s success lay in shifting the electoral Naidu were so oblivious of the this year, if a coalition is neces- have seemed presidential but the template away from the Nehruvian paradigm simmering Modi wave that they sary, the BJP must cut a deal spirit was republican. of default Muslim vote bank plus sprinkling proposed a grand Opposition equal to that crafted by the (The writer is Senior Fellow, of castes to fill the electoral kitty towards alliance in the event of BJP-NDA Congress when it gave the Chief Nehru Memorial Museum and )    more inclusive voter participation. The failing to win a clear majority Minister’s post to Omar Library; the views expressed are process began in 2014 but was largely and even wanted the President Abdullah. 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Ghar Me election, and of the reshaping of India.     There are reports that many voters did not even 67/5 tive one. And Modi was feeling the Ghus Ghus Ke Maroonga (I will enter The Congress party will have to        # %  S ( know the name of the Lok Sabha candidate they "R///4/ cracks. The farming community was fac- each and every home and kill them all) aggressively defend the Indian    6( -  6 ( -      ( were voting for; just the lotus symbol on the EVM 543#3  ing diminishing incomes due to falling was his thundering pomposity that Constitution, which is being systemati-               machine was sufficient motivation. Not unexpect- 7 "4"54 procurement and lower prices while sought to resurrect his attenuated 56” cally annihilated by ridiculing its quin-     - !      HG       ( edly, Congress was facing the predictable onslaught ##54@ Modi dilly-dallied on Minimum Support machismo. People whistled and clapped tessential credo. It is an ideological war           4     of acerbic scrutiny marinated with dollops of unre- 5#23#/4" Prices. The agrarian crisis is an alarm- like they once did watching Amitabh where BJP’s enterprise clever- strained sarcasm; is the party now facing an irre- ing reality and a pandemic problem. Bachchan bash up goons in Deewaar. ly disguised through cultural nationalism     0306#96 ;0  3  0 6 36 versible terminal decline? Did NYAY (the India’s storied demographic dividend has The new global authoritarian leader is getting fresh tailwinds. First, the BJP #  9  6  <       )6)+ 030( Minimum Income Guarantee scheme) fail to per- #30 /$/@34 become an onerous liability, as we are is now an elected autocrat who presides trivialised communal harmony by creat- 6#96               ( colate down to the last mile? Was the campaign " 3 432 confronted with an epic catastrophe on over an illiberal democracy. For him the ing the term pseudo-secular, and now the    )6)+         (   strategy flawed ? Was the Congress party unable  #5" #"/ job creation. The macro-economic fun- most marketable weapon is fear; Indian liberal is called an Urban Naxal.     )      *       to answer Modi’s rhetorical fusillade of the Grand 7355#3/4 damentals are a manifestation of an econ- Islamophobia is popular political curren- The Saffron Project is to gradually infil-                   Old Party being soft on terror? Some partially saf- / omy in virtual stagnation. cy. An enemy at the border is usually trate institutions and convert impression-                ( fronised TV anchors could barely conceal their 3#"4/"/34" Demonetisation, which was nothing enough. Modi found one at home too. able Indians through religious chauvin-    #         6 ( -  schadenfreude when mocking the Congress pres- #  #5% but an atrocious hocus-pocus econom- His speech at Wardha, Maharashtra, lam- ism. The Congress faces an arduous chal- 6( -             ( ident Rahul Gandhi’s leadership. For many of us, /45#4" ics and the clumsy execution of Goods basted Rahul Gandhi for contesting lenge given BJP’s propaganda machine,              it was a dark dismal nightmare. We have seen it 0/3#"4/"/34 and Services Tax (GST) had plundered from Wayanad in Kerala because it was social media troll army and the   #              before in 2014. But this one hurt a lot more. / 3/475 the informal economy, pauperising mil- a Hindu-minority parliamentary con- WhatsApp fake news manufacturing The BJP has indulged in asymmetrical warfare lions in its wake. India’s GDP appears stituency. This was scare-mongering, and capabilities. The party is up against a ;@>=H(=B<             3 with a bountiful treasury, chaperoned by a capti- "#@05"#%// manipulated and government data when an “othering” of the fellow Indian. A nasty adversary that has altered the rules                ( vated mainstream media and backed by rent-seek- /53"&5 unpalatable to Modi ( like the job num- Prime Minister takes an oath on India’s of the game. Playing within the BJP’s  .              ing corporate behemoths who are opportunistic 30#""/ bers) have been unceremoniously Constitution to embody its consecrated comfort zone will be like trying to                  accessories with big ticket deals to formalise. The #/&!5 dumped. The latest figures on the auto- principles in his impartial political con- defeat Rafael Nadal on red clay at the     -     ;@>=?<    traditional template of political contestations 4#50/ "5 mobile industry sales show a conspicu- duct; Modi cast them aside, making his French Open. There is only one option;                    stood completely upended by the time the victor "40#" /5 ous downward trend and the manufac- preferred religious choice publicly force your opponent to a surface where     *           ( was formally announced. So where does the 3// " turing sector appears to be in rigor-mor- known. It was dog-whistle politics. As the the ball skids faster and the grass is green.           %   Congress party go from not aggregating even 100 "/ /@% tis. The stressed assets in the banking sec- votes closed in on May 23, it was clear The Congress party will have to rein-     "           Lok Sabha seats in two consecutive elections, while 75#5/33 tor are kissing some dark clouds. Sum Modi's stratagem worked. And how. vent the political discourse, while simul-  )6)+              up against a formidable monstrosity that has made  7""&5% and substance, a rejuvenated and resolute In 2014, there were large billboards taneously maximising its enormous winning elections its raison d’etre? To understand Rahul Gandhi and a faltering economy in Marine Drive, Mumbai that had human talent currently performing at low        that, first we need to know what really happened. //""5 had Modi outwitted, foxed. Then Modi vaingloriously promoted as a productivity on account of bureaucrat-          *    (      ( Modi and BJP president Amit Shah had clear- 7" 5 Pulwama happened. Hindu Hriday Samrat. This time the BJP ic cholesterol in its organisational struc-                   ly recognised the clear and present danger follow- 634% For a man who sold the “develop- chose another Hindutva icon, Sadhvi ture. Internal disorganisation is costing                     ing the Congress party wins in the State elections ment” spiel in 2014, Modi calculatedly Pragya Singh Thakur. The political mes- the party dear, as was expressed by the                 of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan dumped his flaky past promises which saging behind the questionable choice Congress president himself. There is                ( in December 2018. This electoral adversity followed have been nothing but embarrassing sna- was unambiguous; even a terror-accused tremendous energy that needs to be lib-        (         ( the sledgehammer blow in Karnataka when the fus such as 2 crore jobs per annum, the allegedly responsible for a bomb blast that erated for the great struggle ahead. It is                ( Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) formed the govern- obliteration of black money, doubling of killed six persons in Malegaon and time to take bold pragmatic risks, be    )             ment, by checkmating the BJP’s Chanakya. farm incomes and creation of monochro- injured several from the minority com- unpredictable and practise political plas-        (        Rahul Gandhi was seeing stratospheric traction on matic smart cities, among a few. Post the munity was kosher. Modi was legitimis- ticity. There is too much at stake. It is a social media, and his relentless assault on Modi on terror attack at Pulwama and the Balakot ing an orchestrated violent attack, even battle that must be won.                 the Rafale corruption scandal, had created a pop- counter-strike, Modi had found his 2019 proposing to give the controversial can- Rahul Gandhi correctly said that the               ular leitmotif of Chowkidar Chor Hai. Frequent trumpcard; muscular nationalism. This didate a haloed seat in the Parliament. It 2019 election was a battle for India’s soul.         ,           interactions with different sections of people became for him what the Kargil war was was an abject low even by BJP’s polaris- That soul is today splintered into             ( without a pre-arranged script, impromptu press for former PM Atal Behari Vajpayee. The ing standards. But there it was. For smithereens. But the soul is indestruc-              (  conferences and a refreshingly honest politician, heart-stopping capture of Wing Thakur, Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin tible. And it will find its voice again.             who talked compassionate politics, had the toxic Commander Abhinandan and his sub- Nathuram Godse was a patriot. Thakur’s (The author is a national spokesper-            BJP nonplussed. Despite a prodigiously jaundiced sequent release by Pakistan were seized electoral victory from Bhopal on May 23 son of the       media that was sand-bagging Modi, the percep- by Modi as his own superman prowess is perhaps the defining moment of this party. The views are his own.) #   &     :9                                           !   "

around the Indus are known to have of Haryana and Rajasthan that evi- ogous to the ancient Mihran Hakra of water in the area, which may have been pillaged by contractors for brick dence would be attempted to be col- System. The other cities of the changed course due to an earthquake. ballast to build a portion of the Lahore lected to ascertain whether the civil- Saraswati era were Kapishthala That the Sutlej was earlier joined railway in the later half of the nine- isation around the Saraswati was an (Kaithal), Sonaprastha or Sonepat and to the Ghaggar-Saraswati system is 33&"75#554 teenth century. extension of the Indus valley or vice Paniyaprastha or Panipat. also borne out from a legend in the Archaeological evidence shows versa. Reports of the appearance of Mahabharata, where it is mentioned       that Indus was highly prone to floods The mythical Saraswati River, sweet water in certain dry areas of that Vashistha threw himself into the     !    15"" and frequent changes of course. As the which is now extinct, has found Kutch after the earthquake also led to Sutlej to commit suicide. The     ! sister river to the Indus, the Mihran wide mention in the Puranas and a revival of interest in the archaeolo- Saraswati might have been a myth for       iver valleys over the centuries also carried large volumes of water ancient Indian history. The Skanda gy of the Indus Valley and the impact some but satellite imagery clearly     have cradled and nurtured along a course parallel and eastwards Purana mentions that the Kanyakubja of tectonic movements on the river shows that such a river system did Rsome famous civilisations. For of Indus. But over the millennia, the Mahadesh of Bhoja, comprising 36 systems. It is widely believed that the exist in line with the present day       ! obvious reasons, this pattern has Mihran has ceased to exist, so also the lakh villages, extended up to Saraswati river system may have Ghaggar, and had a very wide basin     continued and even today most of the towns on its banks. In later studies, Kurukshetra and Saraswati. In the become dry on account of one such right up to the Rann of Kutch.      large cities continue to flourish on the the Mihran came to be identified with Rigveda, a river course has been men- upheaval. There is sufficient data to Another interesting feature of the  J   ! river banks. Excavations and discov- Hakra as well as the Saraswati (also tioned, which now corresponds to the show that the original course of the ancient history of this area is the spec- eries undertaken by Sir Mortimor extinct). Saraswati and Ghaggar. The Saraswati only to appear again at Barakhera. At Sutlej was to follow a southward flow ulation on the possible linkage  +6   J Wheeler during the earlier decades of Recent (May 2019) excavations has been mentioned as a mighty river Urnai, near Pehova, (ancient from Ropar (Punjab) towards the between the Harappan civilisation        the last century unravelled the secrets reported from Ganweriwala indicate from the pre-Vedic times. By the time Prithudaka), it is joined by the Ghaggar, the two coming together and the Gangetic plain. Is it that the        of the Indus Valley civilisation hith- the town to have been located on the the Manusmriti and the Mahabharata Markanda stream. At Sirsa (ancient near Shatrana in Sangrur district and river Saraswati could provide the    ,% erto lying buried under centuries of banks of old river Hakra, often cited came to be written, it had already Sairishka), it is joined by Drishavadi then flowing towards Kutch. The missing link? Only forthcoming     + history. as the mythical Saraswati. There has developed its present character. Manu or Chitang. sharp bend and a directional change research would be able to decipher We may have known about the been a renewed interest in the recent calls the place where it disappears as The area between the Saraswati at Ropar, which is extremely unusu- this centuries-old secret whether         Indus Valley civilisation much earli- years in river Saraswati, as the depart- Vinasana. The Mahabharata states and Drishadvati is known to be the al considering the flat terrain, may Saraswati was originally joined by         er had the original discoveries by ment of culture has initiated a project that after disappearing, the river sacred land of Brahmavarta, the appear to have been possible on Sutlej or by river Yamuna, both these          Charles Mason, a noted archaeologist for research on satellite imagery to reappeared at three places. It disap- home of the Vedic rishis. After disap- account of a tectonic uplift. This may rivers having changed course cen-        in the 1820s, been given more serious ascertain and chart out the entire pears in sands near the village of pearing, the dry bed reappears south have led to the ultimate drying up of turies ago.      % consideration. It may come as a sur- route of this ancient river. It would be Chalaur and reappears at Bhavanipur. of Rohri and runs parallel to the Indus the Ghaggar-Saraswati system as (The writer is a former prise but some of the Harappan sites in the general area of the present states At Ballchapart, it again disappears, into the Arabian Sea, which is anal- Sutlej was the only perennial source Commissioner of Police, Delhi) ' (    !" #$% $>

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Wsoftening commodity prices have led open the entire equity stake in Reliance The Sensex had hit its all-time high of 40,124.96 dur- India Inc to deliver a six-quarter low rev- possibility Broadcast Network Ltd (RBNL) ing the trade on May 23, the day election results were enue growth of 10.7 per cent for January- that the two to Music Broadcast Ltd (MBL). announced. March period, a report said Monday. nations The move would help in Hemang Jani, Head (Advisory), Sharekhan by From profitability perspective, oper- could strike reducing the loan burden of the BNP Paribas said, “Indian markets end the day on a pos- ating margins also narrowed 0.78 per an agree- Reliance group firms, it added. itive note. The markets continue their upward trend sup- cent to 16.8 per cent during the period, ment some- “This transaction is part of ported by FII (foreign institutional investor) buying in but were up 0.93 per cent on lower com- day. Chinese counterpart, Xi our overall strategy to reduce the past two consecutive trading days. The current gov- modity prices and price hikes, rating Speaking in Tokyo Jinping, next month at a G-20 exposure in non-core busi- ernment wining the general elections by a two-thirds agency Icra said in the report. Monday, Trump said of China, meeting in Japan. nesses and will reduce our of majority will clam the political environment in the The agency analysed the results of “they would like to make a deal. Trump said he knows that debt by an estimated 1,200 country.” 304 listed entities while arriving at the We’re not ready to make a deal.” his advisers think that North crore,” the statement Reliance '+ P++  +5 +2 53    He said slowdown in global growth, US-China trade aggregate. He added, “We’re taking in Korea violated UN Security Capital CFO Amit Bapna said    +* +2 *3D & @ - ( war along with rise in oil prices pose an immediate threat It said for the consumer companies, tens of millions of dollars of tar- Council resolutions when it in a statement. 2  3E& @$  2-  $+  3 + to domestic markets the revenue growth declined to 2.3 per iffs and that number could go fired off short-range missiles RBNL operates under the +   E  + 23@&    (& + “However, post the elections, we now expect the cent for March quarter, 2018-19, down up very, very substantially, very earlier this month. But Trump brand name BIG FM Radio net- K8++     +  market to revert to fundamental issues such as earnings from 9.8 per cent in the preceding easily.” said he sees it differently — and work with 58 stations across the 23 (M"+H    +   growth,” Jani added. quarter, while the same for companies in Still, Trump predicted a that it doesn’t matter anyway. country. MBL will initially      @N From the 30-share pack, 17 scrips gained led by Tata the commodity-linked sectors was 12.4 “very good deal with China Trump said perhaps North acquire a 24 per cent equity stake Steel, YES Bank, NTPC, Larsen and Toubro, Axis Bank per cent as compared to 31 per cent. sometime into the future Korean leader Kim Jong Un of RBNL by way of a preferen- and State Bank of India. The weakness in the consumer- because I don’t believe that was trying to get attention tial allotment for 202 crore. Among sectoral indices, the BSE capital goods, linked sectors was visible in the decline China can continue to pay with the tests. Thereafter, subject to the power, industrials, utilities, metal and realty indices ral- in wholesale dispatches of passenger these really hundreds of billions Trump spoke Monday in receipt of all regulatory lied up to 3.06 per cent. vehicles and two-wheelers and sequen- of dollars in tariffs.” Tokyo alongside Japanese approvals, MBL will acquire all In the broader market, the S&P BSE Midcap index tial decline in same store sales growth of The world’s two largest Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, of the remaining equity stake gained 1.13 per cent and BSE Smallcap 1.77 per cent. quick service restaurants, retail chains economies are in a tense stand- who also believes North Korea’s held by Reliance Capital and On the BSE, 1,793 scrips advanced, while 785 and FMCG companies, its Vice President off over trade. Trump has said recent tests violated UN reso- Reliance Land in RBNL at a total declined and 188 remained unchanged. Shamsher Dewan said. he expected to meet with his lutions. enterprise value of 1,050 crore. "/    *    + .Q67 " 1!CB1  9  9:9;6 +   0 #  456057/   ;AA3*8   However, only one-third of nents of the organisational cul- — to help in building a New the organisations (respondents) ture,” Microsoft India National BHEL, and a New India, have   456057/ Nigam Ltd along with private in India said they have Technology Officer Rohini resulted in the company con- firms Tata Steel, Essar Steel, embarked on their AI journeys. Srivathsa told reporters here. tinuing on the path of ndia’s crude steel output JSW Steel, and Jindal Steel and The study found that India The Asia Pacific study was improved performance. Iremained almost flat at 8.662 Power produced 5.082 MT and business leaders and workers based on response from 1,605 During the year, the com- million tonne (MT) during the remaining 3.58 MT came hold positive viewpoints about the business leaders and 1,585 pany achieved a profit before April 2019, according to official from other producers, it added. AI’s impact on the future of jobs. workers, including 200 business tax (PBT) of 2,058 Crore, data. During April this year, the About 64 per cent of business leaders and 202 workers in compared to a PBT of 1,585 The domestic crude steel production of hot metal was 1.4 leaders and 63 per cent of work- India. Fifteen countries were Crore in the year before, regis- production stood at 8.653 MT per cent down at 5.825 MT, ers believe that AI will either help part of the report including tering a surge of 29.8%. Net during April 2018, according to against 5.907 MT in April to do their existing jobs better or Australia, China, Japan, Korea, profit (PAT) for the year stands a report by the Joint Plant 2018. reduce repetitive tasks. Malaysia, and Singapore at 1,215 Crore, against 807 Committee (JPC), which The output of pig iron When it comes to creating among others. Crore in the previous fiscal, a comes under the Ministry of grew 3.9 per cent to 0.537 MT or replacing jobs, 16 per cent of ICICI Lombard General 50.7% jump. Earning Per Share Steel. in April, compared with about business leaders believe that AI Insurance Company, which (EPS) for FY18-19 is 3.35 as “Crude steel production 0.517 MT in the same month will create new jobs, but 18 per used Microsoft’s AI expertise, against 2.20 in FY17-18, up by stood at 8.662 MT in April a year ago. cent also feel that the technol- showcased a new solution that 52.3%. The topline has also 2019, up by 0.1 per cent over The JPC is the only insti- ogy will replace workers. deploys AI to process vehicle grown by 5.4% to 29,349 April 2018,” the report said. tution in the country that col- The report said that about insurance claims and renew Crore, as against 27,850 Crore State-run Steel Authority of lects data on the domestic iron 85 per cent of businesses pri- policies more efficiently. in the previous year. India Ltd, Rashtriya Ispat and steel sector.       +   +

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This includes people with celiac disease, atty liver disease has emerged as a public health problem in 4           % gluten sensitivity, and wheat allergy. People with FIndia. We are referring to fatty liver that develops in people these diseases have an immune reaction trig- who take little or no alcohol. It is called as Non-alcoholic Fatty #"/9"/4    gered adversely by gluten. There are certain liver Disease (NAFLD). The disease is characterised by increased symptoms that are experienced because of gluten deposition of fat (triglycerides) in the liver. Nearly one in three he human brain and how it memory has been organised in your After learning about NLP and wanted to quit because they showed intolerance, these include diarrhoea, abdominal adults in India has NAFLD. It is strongly associated with obe- functions is perhaps the most mind. Through NLP, we access having attending courses, he me the mirror to my true self which pain, abdominal cramps, bloating, itchy rash and sity, especially central obesity (pot-belly or increased waist cir- Tfascinating of all. But once it those memories multiple times, changed his professional line from I didn’t want to see. It felt like, I delay of growth in children. There are further cumference), and Diabetes. is traumatised, it becomes difficult changing the representative system being in HAL to being a Master in never knew myself. The thing I health consequences like weight loss, fatigue, Fatty liver disease behaves like any other chronic liver dis- to bring it out from that phase. The of it and the rest your brain does the NLP. “The trainers who trained us thought about myself was all turn- anaemia, and certain symptoms of depression. ease in the long run. In about one-third of patients with fatty recent development in the field of work.” she tells you. at HAL said that I had the poten- ing out to be fake — a mirage. In This is because gluten can trigger the immune liver, the disease progresses to cirrhosis (fibrosed or hard liver), counselling is Neuro Linguistic Sometimes, memories are the tial to transform lives and help peo- those five days, I started working on system making antibodies attack the tiny pro- end-stage liver disease (liver failure) and even liver cancer. This Programming (NLP) comes to the worst form of torture. Quoting Dr ple out from their hardships. They that internal Shilpi whom I came jections in the intestine that are responsible for is especially for people who have Diabetes, abnormal liver func- rescue today. John Grinder, the founder of NLP, offered me to join their course. into terms with on the first day. I absorption of vital nutrients as the food passes tion test as tested in the blood or increased fibrosis as measured “The NLP, as the name sug- Verma said: “The NLP is all about They said that I can take it as a part- can say that from that day onwards, by. by Fibroscan. Fatty liver not only increases the chances of liver gests, is a way to communicate with trial and error.” When a case comes time job or an adventure as I was my journey of NLP started,” she tells Going gluten free is a practical and logical disease and liver-related death but also increases the risk of heart the brain, both verbally as well as to them, they never judge as to how you and adds that afterwards she alternative for those suffering from the allergic attack, stroke, high blood pressure and certain cancers of the gut. physically. Most of the time, the they could resolve the issue. They enroled herself for the practition- reactions to gluten. But, the hype surrounding There are multiple metabolic mechanisms that lead to devel- pains and issues that you face are just go to the core of the problem 4/75 0@ er course from various different its claims for weight loss do not have a strong opment of fatty liver. Insulin resistance is at the core of these meta- actually an effect of your memories and understand where the issue places and went for the masters scientific backing. Some people benefit with bolic pathways. All Indians are genetically susceptible to acquir- and belief systems. Through NLP lies.” 32 3 4/+ course along with more different weight loss going gluten free as they tend to avoid ing insulin resistance and developing fatty liver. Certain risk fac- we help to cure them all” says mas- he tells you that when he and "/34%//"4 courses. processed foods altogether, so the diet becomes tors are strongly associated with NAFLD. These are obesity (BMI ter practitioner Yogesh Verma who his wife (Shilpi) counsel their Verma shares how the founders more balanced and nutritious. more than 25 kg/m2), central obesity (waist circumference more has been using this technique for clients, the content is never impor- "/ 05"40" of NLP stumbled upon the pro- There is a myth that consuming gluten can than 90 cm in men and more than 80 cm in women) and Diabetes. last few years to transform himself tant to them, instead, the thing that gramme. “They studied the meth- lead to weight loss, but the truth is only 1-2% Increasing age (more than 40 years), male gender and increased and others. affects the client the most is how 573033@32 ods of the world’s top therapists, of population really need to avoid gluten liver enzymes are also known risk factors of the disease. With an alarming increase in a that thought has been organised in &436/47363 executives and anthropologists and because of underlying medical conditions. What to do if one is diagnosed with NAFLD? number of mental disorders, NLP his mind. That is why there is a rea- came up with NLP. It is the study Weight loss is a matter of creating calorie deficit An ultrasound of the abdomen is done for some diseases or is one of the most effective tech- son for your different attitude and " 7/5$5@3 # of excellent communication — meaning there should be a deficit between the as a health check-up that picks niques to handle them. Some of the behaviour and why people react dif- 3""405 both with your own self and with amount of calories consumed and the amount  $ $  up fatty liver. In some situations, mental problems that NLP can ferently in the same situation or others. NLP is not just a set of tools of calories burned, and this is not dependent on abnormal liver function test resolve are stress issues, stage fright, why you procrastinate even when #5 %//75 and techniques, it is so much more the consumption of gluten. Gluten-free prod- 0 $ " '* (LFT) leads to the diagnosis. nervousness, anxiety, fear, phobia, you know that you have no time to "#"40 /54 5 than that. It is an attitude and a ucts have been advertised like one stop solution One must consult a heavy mood swings or depression, procrastinate. There is a reason why methodology of knowing how to for weight loss but the truth is a well-balanced $ 0, ,  Gastroenterologist for further suicidal tendencies, stammering people are never calm during work 325R 554 5"40 achieve your goals and get results. diet can lead to a healthy weight management. evaluation and advise. Certain and extreme psychological prob- or project presentations or why you #"423#"/34! It is the art and science of excellence In addition, gluten-free products can sometimes ($ " $ $? tests will be done to assess the lems like bipolar disorders, autism have food cravings. All the reasons and transformation, derived from be an expensive and fancy way to burn holes in &$* (  " injury to the liver and severity of and OCD. The NLP even holds the have only one answer: different rep- 05#/$502#3 studying how experts in different your pocket. Always remember that ‘gluten-free’- the disease, namely, LFT, viral capacity to cure physical problems resentative systems and belief sys-  0@/4736 fields obtain their success,” Verma doesn’t mean ‘low calorie’. (,$ ($ markers and Fibroscan (quanti- like cancer, thyroid and others. tems. By understanding your rep- tells you. It should also be taken into consideration fies the fat in liver and the “The NLP works all the way resentative system, you can even 5R5#/43"/4 The NLP, according to Verma, that many people self-diagnose or self-declare ",#  extent of fibrosis). Presence of through your mind (mainly sub- decode the reason behind your 75/# 5 makes you actualise your potential. their gluten sensitivity mostly in the name of fad. Diabetes, hypertension, dyslipi- conscious), belief system and rep- actions and reactions,” Verma You are able to achieve what you But, there are medical protocols to find out (%$$  * demia (high cholesterol/triglyc- resentative system,” Shilpi Verma explains really wanted to achieve. “In reali- whether you are gluten allergic or not. There are ((0  erides) also needs to be checked. another master practitioner tells He recalls how he came to ty you never know your potential. blood tests involving antibodies called IgA/ IgE Other causes of fatty liver like you. know about NLP. “I was at You just build your beliefs thinking test or a biopsy from the small intestine to diag- (( $(0  $ alcohol, drugs, alternative med- “A memory or a bad memory Hindustan Aeronautics Limited already being able to was able to that you won’t be able to achieve nose the condition of gluten allergy. If you notice icine needs to be ruled out. which leaves behind an impact in when I came to know about it. Back help others with whatever I had anything higher or more than what any discomforting symptoms after the consump- ( * ' Treatment: There is no the form of phobia, disease or any then, some trainers used to visit us learnt by then. This motivated me you have. But, once you push your tion of gluten laden foods, always consult a doc- proven drug therapy for fatty disorder is just the way how your for the relaxation sessions. There I to opt for NLP courses,” he says. limits, you realise that you have tor to get the tests done first followed by the right liver disease. The only proven mind has internally represented it came to know about NLP and Shilpi tells you how she didn’t been underestimating yourself. nutritional advice from a qualified nutritionist. measure is weight loss and life to you. For example when a person noticed some internal changes believe in NLP, initially. But later, This is one of the ways how NLP If you are looking for ways to lose excess fat, style modifications. Eating small portions of meals (hypocaloric drowns once, maybe during child- within me. I was more active and her husband convinced her to helps you achieve your goals and be just cutting back on gluten may not lead to diet), less fried food and fast food, less sugar intake and no alco- hood or any phase of his life, then charged up, both physically and attend one of the practitioner pro- successful in your lives,” he says and weight loss. It’s all about incorporating a healthy hol. Regular moderate intensity exercise like brisk walk, jogging, they fear going back into the water, mentally. I got emotionally stable. grammes in Mumbai. “That is tell you that these skills should be lifestyle and balancing your dietary intake cycling, swimming and other such similar activities are strong- or if the person is a swimmer, then I was able to achieve my goals more when I started believing in the tech- learned by everyone for self-devel- along with managing your stress levels. Do not ly recommended. High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) and h loses the confidence and panics easily. My mind was learning more nique. It was a five-day pro- opment and to improve their effec- just fall for any dietary fad circulating around resistance training are particularly beneficial for dissolving excess in swimming pools. It happens just and more skills every day with more gramme.Something happened in tiveness both personally and pro- with non-scientific claims. fat in the body. because of how the thought or the efficiency,” he tells you. those five days. On day one I fessionally. '        "  / Drugs are used if lifestyle modification fails or there is sig- nificant fibrosis in liver as measured by Fibroscan. Drugs that     have some benefit in reversing fatty liver are Vitamin E in non-  Diabetics and Pioglitazone or Liraglutide in Diabetics. Atorvastatin and omega-3-fatty acids have also been tried on such omen should patients. A colicky baby has long bouts of ndian oncologists are increasingly bat- plication that marks a distinguishing avoid eating too Prevention: Maintaining an ideal body weight as per age irritability, fussiness and crying. Itling unscientific miracle treatments for characteristic of a ‘good’ doctor and sets Wmuch vegetable and height is the best way to prevent fatty liver. Judicious eat- There are several home cancer shared widely on social media. him apart from others. To acquire these oil and potato chips during ing, regular exercise, avoiding high sugar and alcohol intake are Recently, Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre clinical and procedural skills, a doctor pregnancy as such a diet may of immense help in avoiding fatty liver. Periodic health check remedies that can help a parent (TMC), the country’s premier cancer undergoes years of rigorous study result in an increased risk of pregnancy com- ups for liver health are recommended. treat a colicky baby, says institute, issued a rebuttal on a and training. Only then do they plications and poor development of the Modifying lifestyle to include judicious hypocaloric diet and strange cancer remedy attrib- acquire adequate knowledge, babies, warns a study. regular exercise not only prevents but is also the only proven ther- ROSHANI DEVI uted to them in a widely circu- discernment and develop skills Foods such as potato chips and veg- apy for fatty liver disease. lated WhatsApp message. The to take the right decision for the etable oil contain omega 6 fats, particular- hen you brought warm water. While your baby message stated that hot patient and adapt to changing ly linoleic acid, and the research suggests that   your baby from lies in the bath gently massage coconut water can destroy practices.” overconsumption of this nutrient can pro- Whome he was sweet the abdomen to help relieve cancer cells of all types. However, today, people on mote inflammation and may be associated and well-behaved. Then sud- any gas. Often, many irrelevant and social media, ‘cure-mongers’, with an increased risk of heart disease.  $ Sattu is a flour consisting of a mixture of ground denly a couple of weeks later, Another great method is widely circulated unscientific reme- ‘quacks’ and ‘diet gurus’ issue med- The finding, published in The Journal pulses and cereals. The dry powder is prepared in the angel started crying and to give a warm compress. Dip dies defer treatment for diseases in ical diktats and people are inclined to be of Physiology, found that eating a diet with various ways as a principal or secondary ingredient of screaming at the top of a towel in warm water patients. There is a need to raise aware- attracted to alternative and unscientific three times the recommended daily intake dishes. its head. Dealing and squeeze out the ness on the fact that people should not be treatments. These leave some confused of linoleic acid might be harmful in preg- Drinking the sattu sharbat helps you stay energetic through- with a colicky excess water. Place influenced by such false claims and mir- and others undertake these measures nancy. For the study, the researchers picked out the day. It can be prepared by mixing sattu with either baby can be frus- the cloth on acle remedies on social media. believing in them. From hoax and fake rats for the experiment and they found three sugar and water or jaljeera, green chillies, trating but there baby’s tummy; Dr KK Aggarwal, President, Heart news on chronic diseases like Diabetes to changes in rat mothers who ate a high linole- black salt and coriander leaves, depend- are many sim- you can also Care Foundation of India, said: “It is the the miracle remedies that offer cure for ic acid diet: Their liver had altered concen- ing on how you want to have it — ple things you gently rub the ability to anticipate, recognise and the these, there is a plethora of news on social trations of inflammatory proteins, their cir- sweet or sour. Sattu sharbat is the can try to tummy. quickness shown in managing any com- media that can be dangerous. culating concentrations of a protein that can perfect drink to battle dehydra- soothe the baby. Help your cause contraction of the uterus during preg- tion and heat stroke. First, wrap baby pass gas. 5 nancy were increased, and a hormone that Sattu has amazing hydrat- the baby in a blan- Place the baby on    U        !M can regulate growth and development was ing properties, hence if con- ket of a cloth proper- his back. Hold the    +     "  !      % decreased. sumed regularly; it can help ly. Reduce loud sounds knees together and gently 2          !    If the effects of high linoleic acid are the restore your skin’s natural and bright lights. Rock your push the legs back towards the           %      ,  !  same in rats and humans, this would sug- glow It also prevents the wear baby massage them to calm tummy. Hold the legs this way    !  /           gest that women of child-bearing age and tear of skin cells. them. Sucking can help relieve for a few seconds. You can do !             ! !  %  should consider reducing the amount of It is good for Diabetes too. It has a low glycemic index that stress and calm the babies. Try this exercise even while mas-              linoleic acid in their diet. keeps our sugar levels in check. The namkeen sattu drink may and give your baby a pacifier. saging the baby.  +         0  !   During the study, the research team fed be a good option for diabetics. Giving the baby a warm PS: Don’t force this exer-   !  !      %     rats for 10 weeks on a diet with high linole- It also helps in weight loss by preventing unwanted hunger bath can be a good remedy for. cise if the baby offfers resis- %L           ic acid, mated them and then investigated calls and also boosts digestion. Fill the bathtub with some tance.    !            !    % the effects of the diet on their pregnancy and developing babies. IANS    !" #$%  ("> .  #%2    73# #

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Parliament election, will force tions, complete official results The progressive Spring tic parties made historic gains head of the European But ALDE and the Greens a dissolution of France’s own showed on Monday, with its party, led by openly gay former in European elections. Commission, the 28-nation also hope to work with the EPP parliament and lure opponents leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski urg- MP and mayor Robert Biedron, “The signs of meanness we EU executive, and shape key and the Socialists to check big to her cause, enlarging her ing a wider victory in the took 6.06 per cent for three see around us heighten our laws, such as on climate change gains by Eurosceptics, pop- base. But there’s one major autumn general ballot. seats while the far-right fear of ‘the other’, the and taxation. ulist and right-wing parties roadblock: French President The PiS took 45.38 per cent Confederation group failed to unknown, the marginalised, The centre-right EPP who could have around 150 Emmanuel Macron. AP of the vote to win 27 of Poland’s cross the five-per cent thresh- the foreigner,” he said in a mes- (European People’s Party) still seats. Though power is set to be 51 seats in the European old required to enter the sage for the World Day of has the most seats, followed by fragmented, the mainstream, * ++  5      +  mining market competition. Parliament compared with European Parliament. AFP Migrants and Refugees. 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US hi-tech firms and other take actions progressively to long dominated by the EPP and broken,” said Margrethe on the Commission, where She said EU voters have multinationals from under- change things.” The Danish the Socialists. :       :  ) ( %      . ,',      &  < "  '      * : $ Paris: French police have custody.   405#"40' &( Labour Party. ,;-. 2      !   '   #   arrested a suspect following a Police had launched a large “I’m Labour through and  O      blast in the city of Lyon that manhunt after a device explod- oters in Sunderland in through but you can’t trust      3&@3 lenge Trump in next year’s wounded 13 people last week, ed Friday on a busy pedestri- Vnortheast England voiced Labour or Conservatives any   ! presidential election. North Interior Minister Christophe an street in the central city. hope on Monday that the more now. They’re just back-      resident Donald Trump Korea’s Kim Jong Un recently Castaner said Monday. Regional authorities said the 13 Brexit Party’s strong showing in stabbing each other,” he said -       Psaid Monday he is not “per- criticized Biden as having a low Castaner announced the wounded suffered mostly European elections would trig- - a comment on the months of   !    sonally” bothered by recent IQ, and Trump told the world development on Twitter. A minor injuries. ger a quick break with the EU, bickering in the British par-  % short-range missile tests that he agreed with the authoritar- statement later from Paris pros- President Emmanuel expressing anger and disbelief liament over Brexit. North Korea conducted this ian leader’s assessment. ecutors, who handle all terror- Macron called the explosion an at Britain’s two main parties. The Brexit Party has said    month, breaking with Japanese The visit was designed to ism-related cases, said a 24- “attack” but no group has The polls delivered major it will seek a better deal with /3 %1   Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, highlight the US-Japan alliance year-old was arrested in claimed responsibility for the losses for both the ruling Brussels than the one negoti- -& "   who is hosting the president on and showcase the warm rela- Lyon and has been placed in explosion yet. AP Conservatives — who have ated by outgoing Prime     ;C four-day state visit full of tions between the leaders. twice delayed Britain’s sched- Minister Theresa May but will "     O pageantry. Trump said he and Abe uled departure from the EU — embrace no-deal if it does not       Standing beside Trump at short-range missiles pose a deliberated over economic       ' # and the main opposition get one. 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The remaining pon while peeing. Weird as it may sound, 75#5"/4/4** that is high in fibre and good fats. utmost importance. A kind man with a great 88 per cent rely on cloth, rags, even hay, but there is absolutely no problem in Indulge in green vegetables, fruits, sense of humour.”    % ash, wood shavings, newspapers, dried doing so as the vagina, GI tract and blad- 5# 54#5@34 soups, seeds and nuts to remain alert and Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit tweeted, “Sad to leaves or plastic. der are separate. A tampon, therefore, 37!#"!5$54 active during periods. know that veteran action director Veeru Devgn Today, the market is brimming never stands in the way of urine or bowel is no more. He was a genius in choreographing '* 16"   with products and disparate ways that movements. Often it is said that it is 7"@!"7!6330 GIVE UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO fights on the big screen when there were no facil- can help you manage your periods with unsafe to wear tampons overnight. One 7"$/4! PERSONAL HYGIENE ities available. My heartfelt condolences to Ajay (( $"  ease. can absolutely do so. All you need to do Pay attention to personal hygiene all the Devgn and the entire family.” is read and follow the guidelines shown 456"5#"40 time, girls. But, make sure you pay extra “RIP Veeru Devgnji. A legend of Hindi cin- " $    DON’T SHY AWAY on the leaflet. You can wear one for as 0#/505"$5 attention during your periods. Tampons ema. Left his mark at a time when ‘pure action’     + Why is it that we celebrate pregnan- long as eight hours. and pads must be changed every four to without VFX was the order of the day. Heartfelt    cy but treat periods in a hush-hush man- eight hours depending on the flow due condolences to Ajay Devgn and Kajol. May his   /   ner? It’s about time we break out of this GO CRAMP FREE to hygiene reasons. Make sure you dis- soul rest in peace. Prayers are with the family,” regressive socio-cultural mindset. Period cramps are the worst, right? pose your sanitary products in the bin Kunal Kohli wrote.  % Periods should no longer be a secret We all experience them accompanied by instead of flushing them. The funeral was held at the Vile Parle West 73  between moms and daughters but can headaches, backaches and thigh pain. Crematorium.      and should be discussed with brothers Opting for herbal period pain relief L*"$  !% &      & !   hen something looks too evidence that the singer has a choices, especially of the young- 7   good to be true, it usu- huge heart for fusion music. She sters, have seen a huge change.”  , B!)CC Wally is. 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She And I would like to follow that. tant to get a live audience when ! ed a short video, mashing up the bizarre thing to imagine. But with says, “Composer, Vishal Mishra And sometimes when you real- it comes to singing because       song with DJ Snake feat Justin me, this ‘too good to be true’ thing and Rhea had originally written ly like two songs from two dif- today, with so many advance- % Bieber’s Let Me Love You and post- did happen and it was surreal,” the song for Veere Di Wedding, ferent genres, why can’t you ments and voice modifications "  ! ed it on Instagram. 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   ■ 34034 task for them after that. all in good form, especially right direction although they "If they don't start well then Babar Azam and Haris Sohail," looked all over the place against ormer Pakistan captain the negativity from series defeats he said. the mighty English. and bowling great Waqar to England and Australia could Pakistan lost the series to "The bowling is moving in FYounis feels Sarfraz seep back in. They have been England 0-4 but managed to put a good direction, with Wahab Ahmed and his boys can pull off losing a few games and need to up 300+ totals on three occa- Riaz coming back into the side an upset this World Cup, much win early so settle nerves." sions. and Mohammad Amir restored. like they did in 1992 by winning Since winning the Waqar said the top four I am intrigued to see how the coveted trophy. Champions Trophy in 2017, looks sorted for Pakistan with Mohammad Amir gets on." "It is 27 years since Pakistan Pakistan have won only two of Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul- "He is a match-winner, there won the World Cup for the first the seven series they have Haq doing well. is no doubt about that. If he gets time and this year feels like it did played. The first of these was "Fakhar Zaman and Imam- some rhythm back, then he 5    (* back then," Waqar was quoted against a dismal Sri Lankan side ul-Haq have also done well so could be the difference for as saying by ICC. and the second was against the top four looks really good. Pakistan. "No one gave us a chance Zimbabwe. Three of the series That issue has been solved. "On the flip side, Shaheen     + 6 +  and we arrived as the underdog. defeats have been whitewashes. "But the biggest issue for me Afridi and Mohammad Hasnain But the momentum came and Despite that, Waqar feels if is the fielding. The fielders are so talented and have long  ■ 456057/ "Most teams used to go we won the whole thing, that is Sarfraz and Co can get their looked out of sorts in the series futures ahead of them. I am hard in the first 15 and the last the beauty of Pakistan cricket. fielding right, they have talent in against England and that could excited to see what they can do." ustralian pace legend Glenn 15, and consolidate in the mid- "I was not part of the team their arsenal to pull it off. shake their confidence. Pakistan will take on West AMcGrath has handpicked dle. But teams like England, because I was injured just before "The positive for Pakistan is "I am sure that will get a bit Indies in their opener on May England as the favourites to lift India are just going hard the the World Cup, but I remember that they have started scoring big better but if the fielders don't 31. the upcoming World Cup but whole 50 overs, and that's the the team coming home. The totals. They have showed they take their chances and catch "That first game against said going by current form, impact T20 cricket has had. So whole country was out on the to do," said Waqar who coached Tests, he has returned with 373 are capable of scoring 300 plus balls and stop the extra 15 or 20 the West Indies will be vital. It India and Australia too are yeah, I don't think I've ever said streets, the lights were on and we Pakistan, besides being credited wickets to his name. and we saw that in their series runs then they could struggle." is will be worth watching that! serious contenders for the title. 'England are the team to beat' or had a trophy parade. with the man who really put the "I think Pakistan arrive as against England. Waqar said he looks for- Both are very exciting teams McGrath, who retired from the 'favourites'," he added. "It was party-mode, it was a reverse into swing bowling. underdogs and they need to start "The batsman have got used ward to watching Mohammad and very unpredictable, you international cricket after win- McGrath, however, was of carnival. Hopefully, that will In 262 ODIs, Waqar has well. If they lose a couple of early to the surfaces very quickly and Amir in action, adding the never know what you are going ning the Player of the the view that India and happen again, but there is work taken 416 wickets while in 87 games, then it will be an uphill have piled on the runs. They are overall bowling is headed in the to get. Tournament in Australia's vic- Australia have the capability to torious 2007 World Cup, said give England a tough fight. going by their recent prowess in "I didn't say they (England)   34034 ODI, Eoin Morgan's men are were going to win the World       & B#  the ones to beat in the show- Cup though! So they are the ashim Amla is still not a piece. favourites and are going to be Hcertainty in the South "England, a very good one- tough to beat in their own con- African playing XI but the day unit. To me they are the ditions, but fingers crossed, senior opener has made a case West Indies (rain affected) and happens after that is for the "T20 is different to fifty- favourites going into this World Australia can do well," he said. for himself with successive will be keen to add to his tally benefit of the team," Amla was over cricket. I had two weeks Cup, so I think they'll do very "The two standouts to me fifties in the warm-up games of 27 ODI hundreds. quoted as saying by the ICC with (batting coach) Dale well," McGrath was quoted as were India and England, with ahead of World Cup opener However with young Aiden website. Benkenstein and spent time in saying by ESPNcricinfo. fingers crossed, Australia doing against India in Southampton Markram in the side, there is The veteran opener wants the nets batting the way a fifty- "Probably! I can't remain well." on June 5. competition as to who would to make every opportunity over cricketer would bat It was biased my whole life. You've got The former lanky right- Amla, one of South Africa's open with Quinton de Kock. count and that was the reason important to have that time. to go on current form. The arm pacer also picked South greatest Test match players, "Scoring runs is always he opted out of a domestic T20 Sometimes it works out; some- England team — the way they Africa, West Indies and Pakistan scored 65 and 51 not out important. Whether I make the competition's knock-out times it doesn't," said Amla, go about it, they have impressed as the teams to watch out for in respectively in the two warm- playing XI or not is not up to rounds to prepare for the World who needs another 90 to reach me. They have scored some big, the World Cup, but predicted up games against Sri Lanka and me. I do what I can do and what Cup. 8000 runs in ODIs. big totals. Australia to make the final. ?1?78%?807!7+%/$/#0$

■ 34034 return. own future. Spurs midfielder Moussa said Sissoko. "Harry Kane in the last The Argentinian has been Sissoko said the players were "We know we can chal- ottenham Hotspur manag- week, Friday and Saturday, linked with Juventus following in a positive frame of mind lenge against every team," the Ter Mauricio Pochettino started to be involved in the the recent departure from the ahead of a final against English Frenchman added. "I am not has said Harry Kane is in a group, it's a very positive sit- Italian giants of Massimiliano rivals Liverpool, five-time scared of Liverpool or any "very positive situation" and uation for him," Pochettino Allegri, but Pochettino insist- kings of European club foot- team. could be fit to face Liverpool said. ed his focus was firmly on ball. "We all need to challenge in Saturday's Champions "We will wait and see how Spurs' first appearance in a "The spirit is fantastic, and we have to give our best League final in Madrid. he is progressing in his prob- European Cup final. every time we were close to be and if we do it, we can beat any England forward Kane has lem." "Today no one is more out but we showed a lot of team. In the past we have been out of action since suffer- The Spurs manager was important than the game that character to win the game," showed it." ing an ankle injury during the equally positive regarding the we have ahead, Tottenham first leg of the quarter-final prospects for the injured trio deserve that we are all 100 per- against Manchester City. of Davinson Sanchez, Jan cent focused on the game. We But Pochettino, speaking Vertonghen and Harry Winks. can make history, we can pro- to reporters on Monday, indi- Meanwhile Pochettino vide our fans the best happi- cated Kane was close to a faced fresh questions about his ness in football," he said. "(& ++       +   C 

■ "#/ The 22-year-old Hurkacz, (. ) who has claimed three wins over efending champion Rafael top-10 players this season, had DNadal got his bid for a no answer to the 2016 French ' record-extending 12th French Open winner, as Djokovic sealed Open title off to the perfect start a second-round spot without by brushing aside German qual- breaking sweat, hitting 27 win- ■ /"4 Bartlomiej Dragowski. After a ifier Yannick Hanfmann, while ners. delay for video review, Icardi world number one Novak talanta won at Sassuolo on missed the penalty. Djokovic was also a comfortable  A  $  ASunday to secure their first A few minutes later in victor in the first round at Earlier on Monday, former ever Champions League spot Ferrara, Kessie rolled in a Roland Garros on Monday. world number one Caroline and Inter Milan joined them penalty to put AC Milan back Nadal, a 17-time Grand Wozniacki collapsed to a 0-6, while ensuring Empoli were in the lead against SPAL. They Slam champion, cruised to a 6- 6-3, 6-3 loss to Russian world relegated after a frantic second held on to win 3-2. 2, 6-1, 6-3 victory on the rebuilt number 68 Veronika half in the San Siro. Back at the San Siro, Salih Court Philippe Chatrier to set up Kudermetova in the first AC Milan ended up fifth Ucan's low cross from the right a clash with another German round. despite winning at SPAL. reached Hamed Traore qualifier — world number 114 The Danish 13th seed had Genoa and Fiorentina stayed in unmarked in front of goal and Yannick Maden — in round two. retired injured from her two pre- Serie A after a nerve-wracked he levelled to lift Empoli out of Nadal had suffered three vious matches in the lead-up to goalless draw. the relegation places and push consecutive semi-final defeats Roland Garros, and fell away The evening started with Inter out of the top four. earlier in the clay-court season, badly after a strong first set. Inter, Atalanta, AC Milan and Five minutes later, Radja but appeared to find his best in "I think she got very lucky Roma battling for the two Nainggolan changed that when an Italian Open title success at the start of the second set and remaining Champions League he pounced on a rebound to sealed with victory over old took advantage of the opportu- spots and Empoli knowing put Inter ahead. rival Djokovic, while his French nities she got," said Wozniacki. that if they won they would In a frantic finish, Empoli Open win-loss record Sixth seed and two- survive. came close several times with now reads 87-2. time Wimbledon Because their ground is Inter centre-back Stefan de "It's always champion Petra being redeveloped, Atalanta Vrij deflecting one shot onto his amazing to play Kvitova was forced had to cede home advantage own bar. here, the new to pull out before and play at Sassuolo where they In added time, with Chatrier is very her scheduled quickly fell behind. Dragowski in the Empoli nice," the second opener against Duvan Zapata levelled attack, Inter rolled the ball seed said. "It's been Sorana Cirstea before half-time. After Sassuolo into the empty net, but Balde an important place with a left arm lost their scorer Domenico had pulled Dragowski back in in my career. injury, but said she Berardi, who received a red the build-up. The goal was "I played a good should be fit for card for his part in the mass disallowed and Balde earned a tournament in Rome which Wimbledon, which starts on brawl that ended the first half, second yellow card. was very important for my con- July 1. Atalanta comfortably sealed Yet the 2-1 win was enough fidence. Now we'll see." "(I'll be out for) two to three third as goals by Alejandro to save Inter and doom Empoli. weeks, so I'll do some fitness Gomez and Mario Pasalic com- #  *    and everything that I can do to pleted a 3-1 win.     Djokovic laid down an early prepare my body for the tennis "It's been an extraordinary The wins of the three marker in his bid to hold all four on the grass," said the Czech. season," Atalanta president teams above them meant Grand Slam titles simultaneous- Dutch fourth seed Kiki Antonio Percassi told Sky Sport. Roma finished sixth despite ly for the second time, powering Bertens looked in fine fettle, "My first hug was for beating visiting Parma 2-1. past Polish youngster Hubert though, beating home player (coach Gian Piero) Gasperini, They also bid farewell to cap- Hurkacz. Pauline Parmentier 6-3, 6-4. for a lifetime. It's already a given tain and local hero Daniele De The 15-time major champi- Elsewhere in the women's that he'll still be here next sea- Rossi who came off to raptur- on impressed in a 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 draw, Australian eighth seed son." ous applause with nine minutes triumph and will face Swiss Ashleigh Barty saw off Milan took a two-goal lead to play. lucky loser Henri Laaksonen in American Jessica Pegula 6-3, 6- at SPAL, with goals by Hakan Earlier on Sunday, round two. 3. Calhanoglu and Franck Kessie, Massimiliano Allegri ended "I was very solid. I'm happy In the men's event, three- but Francesco Vicari and his Juventus career in disap- with my game today," said the time Grand Slam champion Mohamed Fares replied. pointing fashion as the cham- top seed. "It's a long tourna- Stan Wawrinka progressed with Meanwhile at the San Siro, pions were undone by two late ment... But I just want to concen- a 6-1, 6-7 (3/7), 6-2, 6-3 win after a goal-less first half, Inter strikes at Sampdoria to finish trate on my next match." over Slovakian Jozef Kovalik. brought on Keita Balde. The the Serie A season with a five- Twelve months ago, Australian Alex De Minaur, striker broke the deadlock with match winless streak. Djokovic dropped out of the seeded 21st, beat the United a solo goal six minutes later, Despite a poor final few world's top 20 after a shock quar- States' Bradley Klahn 6-1, 6-4, earning a yellow card for rip- weeks they still finished 11 ter-final loss to Marco 6-4, although Georgian 15th ping off his shirt in celebration. points ahead of second-placed Cecchinato and even pondered seed Nikoloz Basilashvili and The home team had a Napoli, who ended their skipping Wimbledon, but he has Russian 12th seed Daniil chance to increase their lead underwhelming campaign instead reclaimed his place at the Medvedev both exited the tour- when Mauro Icardi tumbled beaten 3-2 at Bologna on top of the game. nament. over Empoli goalkeeper Saturday.    !" #$% 0 >4 '-(778!83'7!( >+8 87''2-7>7(    K    OB +  KEY PLAYERS #,=6  &;6              4 H!     ! ,       %              %7   F +   !      +        % "-, F  +             % 7      !         5         !               ■ 456057/ short due to rain on Sunday.         The essence of this match %    + ew Zealand have well increases further given the         Nand truly announced fact that their senior players /  +    !  themselves as a side to be Chris Gayle, Andre Russell        ++ respected at the ICC Men's weren't a part of the recent-  !    Cricket World Cup 2019, ly concluded tri-series in      F after their convincing victo- Ireland. Chris Gayle's form   6  % ry against India on Saturday. during the home series Their new-ball pair of Tim against England and Shai    Southee and Trent Boult Hope's consistency in recent 3       + exploited the conditions to times will act as a huge     %    great effect to get rid of the morale booster for the two-  ;;    ! strong Indian top-order, time World champions.        ! before the all-rounders, The bowling unit has          Colin de Grandhomme and consistently failed to take       %  James Neesham took over. wickets in recent times. The        Trent Boult's rhythm and new ball pair of captain       + accuracy must've surely Jason Holder and Sheldon    !    30/ given ominous signs to all Cottrell have not been able   1<1 the top-order batsmen in to create any opportunities,  AD  % the competition. conceding runs at over run- Ross Taylor continued a-ball in their nine-over    ■ "#0/22 The six-wicket defeat important Numbers 4 and 6 in check him out. Apart from Rahul, the 42 balls. his consistent run in 2019 combined spell against against New Zealand however the tournament proper, have Shakib is recovering from other player who will like to If Hardik is seen as an with a steady 71, whereas South Africa. To add to the he top-order will ideally won't be a big worry for Virat not fully recovered from their a niggle and Bangaldesh coach assert himself in the middle will enforcer at No 5 and Dhoni as Kane Williamson reminded woes, Shannon Gabriel, like an extended session Kohli as he has some bigger respective injuries. Steve Rhodes expects him to be Ravindra Jadeja, who was a finisher at No 6, the second everyone of his batting who left the field after bowl- Tin the middle but injured issues to take care of. While Kedar injured his play a pivotal role in the Tigers' the only saving grace in the first down slot will become all the prowess with a well com- ing the first two balls of the Kedar Jadhav and Vijay Kohli is bound to be a wor- left shoulder during the IPL, campaign. warm-up game. more pivotal in the larger con- piled 67. With most senior ninth over, didn't take the Shankar's lack of game time ried man if Jadhav and Shankar Shankar was hit in the nets by Rohit and Shikhar, who While Jadeja's core text as Rahul, Karthik or players in fine form, the field post the first rain will certainly be a bigger worry are unable to get a decent hit a Khaleel Ahmed short ball. have enjoyed a decent amount strength remains batting, his Shankar, whoever fits in will Blackcaps appear as a settled interruption. He seems to for India ahead of their final against Mashrafe Mortaza's This, however, is a of success against Bangladesh, accurate bowling and razor have to play the role of a sheet unit going into the World have suffered a strain of World Cup warm-up game men before facing a tricky Godsend opportunity for KL won't mind some runs which sharp fielding will keep Jadhav anchor. Cup. They'll, however, hope some sort. The team man- against Bangladesh here on opposition like South Africa in Rahul to score some useful is always a confidence booster on toes once he gets hundred The bowlers did a decent that their wicket-keeper agement and the fans will Tuesday. its tournament opener at runs against an attack compris- ahead of the main event. percent fit. job in the first outing with both batsman, Tom Latham hope that the Trinidad The top heavy Indian line- Southampton on June 5. ing Mortaza, Mustafizur If the conditions in Cardiff An interesting move in the Jasprit Bumrah and recovers quickly from his pacer recovers quickly up flattered to deceive in bowl- India's primary objective Rahaman, Rubel Hossain and remain overcast, playing out a first game was to send Hardik Mohammed Shami being sharp finger injury. before their first game ing-friendly conditions at the during the practice games is to Shakib al Hasan and cement testing first spell of Mustafizur Pandya at No 5 ahead of and economical but a good West Indies will be des- against Pakistan in the tour- Oval as Trent Boult troubled fix their middle-order prob- the No 4 slot. Unless Ravi or Rubel will certainly keep the Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who spell from Kuldeep Yadav is perate to get some match nament proper. them with both swing and lems but the two protagonists, Shastri and Kohli decide to top-order batsmen in good literally struggled in tough bat- likely to keep him in good head practice, after their first (Venue: County seam movement. who are likely to fill in the promote Dinesh Karthik and stead. ting conditions scoring 17 off space after a dismal IPL. warm-up game was cut Ground, Bristol) Q  &      #    R

■ 456057/ "In an era where big bats reaches the knockout stage. the pitches then Jasprit Bumrah, and big scores, with occasional The team that consistently takes Mohammed Shami and ormer Australia skipper Ian monumental battering, have wickets — particularly through Bhuvneshwar Kumar are skilled FChappell believes the Virat proliferated ODIs, there are the middle overs — is the one enough to take full advantage. Kohli-led India has variety in still some seriously good bowl- most likely to lift the trophy," he If, however, the pitches start to their bowling department, mak- ing attacks gearing up for 2019 added. wear and the conditions are dry, ing them a strong contender to World Cup," Chappell wrote in According to Chappell, then Kuldeep Yadav and win the 2019 World Cup. his column in ESPNcricinfo. India — despite not possessing Yuzvendra Chahal are a danger- Chappell said the team "Wicket-taking is going to the "outright pace" like that of ous wicket-taking combina- which has the ability to pick play a crucial role in deciding England and Australia — do tion," said the 75-year-old. ! #  wickets at regular intervals, this World Cup. Despite the have great variety and a trio of "Throw in Hardik Pandya as particularly in the middle overs, modern gung-ho batting style, fast bowlers who can be excep- a handy fast-bowling all- was likely to lift the coveted this is not an easy contract to tional in favourable conditions. rounder and Virat Kohli has     # Cup. fulfil when the tournament "If there's any moisture in plenty of options," he added. ■ "#0/22 angladesh coach Steve Rhodes believes the 5'    .  Bteam is well prepared going into the World Cup and they are happy with the "underdog" title. Bangladesh didn't have an ideal start to their likely to test England, with Roy preparation for the World Cup as their first warm- proving as much in a 46-ball  6  up game against Pakistan was washed out on Sunday. innings that included 11 fours They will now take on India in their second prac- and four sixes. tice match on Tuesday before beginning their tour- Jonny Bairstow was  ■ 456057/ nament campaign against South Africa on June 2. stumped by Rahmat Shah off "One of the things the dressing room feels is qui- Mohammad Nabi for 39. hey missed out on a fairy- etly confident," Rhodes told ICC. "But we are well Roy ended the match in Ttale ending in the previous aware that we are playing against some very good the 18th over of England's edition but New Zealand will teams. We respect the opposition; we don't fear them. reply with a six over midwick- leave no stone unturned to lift But what we have been trying to do is play that down et. their maiden World Cup trophy a little bit, and actually it is great to be an underdog. Earlier, Jofra Archer and this time, says their swashbuck- "Because if we can keep surprising all these big Joe Root took three wickets ling opener Martin Guptill. teams, everybody is going to be commenting about apiece as Afghanistan slumped New Zealand started the what is going on with Bangladesh — 'how do they to 160 all out. warm-up games with a bang, do this sort of thing; how do they keep doing this Fast bowler Archer struck slaying tournament giants India sort of thing?' If we don't get too big for our boots, twice with the new ball to dis- by six-wickets and 77 balls to then we will keep surprising, and we should han- miss Hazratullah and Rahmat spare. dle the pressure a lot better," he added. before ending some late resis-   "I wouldn't say we are One of the key boosts for Bangladesh will be the tance from Nabi. favourites to win the World availability of Shakib al Hasan, the number one all- Opener Noor Ali scrapped  Cup this time but we have rounder, who had missed the series against New his way to 30 before he played named a strong squad. We us. We played some really good Zealand due to a finger injury. on to all-rounder Ben Stokes.  ■ 3 7"34 know it's going to be a tough cricket but unfortunately for us, Shakib recovered from that injury in time for the Asghar tried to drive Root tournament. We are going to we played our worst game in IPL and played an important role in Bangladesh win- over the top but found Roy in ustralia were dealt an injury scare on try our best, do everything we the final." ning their first ever non-bilateral ODI tournament the deep instead. AMonday after top-order batsman can to go and win the trophy we Many of the players who in Ireland, scoring two unbeaten fifties and bowl- Afghanistan lost their next Usman Khawaja limped off the field after missed out on the last time," were part of the 2015 squad ing economically. However, he missed the final with four wickets in a mere seven getting hit on his left knee during their sec- Guptill said. have been replaced by young- a side strain. deliveries, Hashmatullah and ond and final World Cup warm-up match New Zealand have landed sters including former captain The 32-year-old is now fit again in the lead-up Najibullah Zadran carelessly against Sri Lanka here. in the UK with an experienced Brendon McCullum and spin- to the World Cup, and, according to Rhodes, the run out, Gulbadin Naib holing Khawaja suffered a blow on his left and balanced side and the ner Daniel Vettori and Guptill presence of the T20 captain will have a great impact out to Moeen Ali and Rashid knee while fielding and had to be escort- English pitches are likely to suit feels the team needs to gel well on Bangladesh's campaign. Khan steering Root to slip for ed off the ground by the team doctor. big hitters like Guptill, who will together to achieve results like "When he (Shakib) doesn't play, it can cause a a golden duck. Monday's injury scare came after be crucial to the team's success. last edition. few issues. Not only (in) missing the best player that  ■ 34034 wickets with nearly 200 balls to Afghanistan were in dan- Khawaja was forced to retire hurt during Guptill has an impressive "To be honest, it's a com- you have got, but also your balance of the team," said spare. ger of being dismissed for Australia's first warm-up game against record in England. He has pletely different team and it's a Rhodes. ason Roy sealed an England England, two days after under 100 before Nabi, with 44, England on Wednesday, which they won scored 652 runs with a strike- different time, it's four years The Bangladesh coach also heaped praise on Jthrashing of Afghanistan as losing their previous practice helped the last two wickets add by 12 runs. rate of 97.31 which includes an later, so we need to come Mashrafe Mortaza saying, he leads in a warrior-like the tournament hosts cruised match to world champions 68 runs. During the match against England, unbeaten 189 from 155 balls. together and do what we do fashion. to victory in their final match Australia, returned to win- Nabi's defiant hitting, Khawaja sustained a blow on his jaw while New Zealand, considered like last time. We have to make "He (Mashrafe) is very much the person at the before the World Cup. ning ways in convincing fash- which included three sixes, batting but scans later revealed that there perennial dark horses, know sure everybody is gelling well front, very much the person that people respect. He Roy made 89 not out on ion ahead of their tournament kept England at bay before he was no break. how to punch above their and are having some fun wouldn't ask anybody to do something that he could- his Surrey home ground on opener against South Africa at was last man out when a thick The left-handed batsman is now weight. together because that was the n't do or wouldn't try himself," said the Bangladesh Monday as England hammered the Oval on Thursday. edge off Archer carried to uncertain for Australia's World Cup "The tournament (2015 biggest take away from last coach. outsiders Afghanistan by nine A target of 161 was never Bairstow on the boundary. opener against Afghanistan on June 1. World Cup) was really good for time."