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Mumbai police deny Zakir Naik’s NGO U.S. worried about India-England first permission for challenges ban in Pakistan’s rising ODI to be played in Sunburn concert Delhi High Court missile capabilities Pune on Sunday Page 9 Page 12 Page 14 Page 17 • • BRIEFLY House panel not to summon Foreigners should abide So what’s the big deal about by local laws: CJI NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court PM on demonetisation on Friday stayed the deportation of two Sudanese students who violated visa guidelines, but advancing the Budget, asks SC BJP members prevail pulled them up for not following “We do not understand on Thomas to accept local laws by “vanishing without “What provision what your problem is. You it had no such powers giving addresses.” “We are of law is violated are saying the Budget is accommodating them and they presented usually towards SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT cannot breach the rules. They by this?” March 1 and this year it is on must stay at a fixed place. You February 1… We do not find NEW DELHI: In a stormy meet- [lawyer] just close your eyes LEGAL CORRESPONDENT any justification, tentatively, ing of the Public Accounts and think if somebody does the in what you are saying,” Committee (PAC) of Parlia- same in the U.S., what will NEW DELHI: The Supreme Chief Justice Khehar, who ment on Friday, BJP mem- happen?” CJI J.S. Khehar said. Court on Friday said it found was accompanied on the bers prevailed upon chair- nothing wrong in the govern- Bench by Justice D.Y. person and former Union ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 ment’s move to advance the Chandrachud, said. Minister K.V. Thomas to give presentation of the Union The court said there is his assent to a clarification Sports Ministry lifts Budget in Parliament by al- only a government state- that the committee did not suspension of IOA most a month, on February 1, ment that the Budget is go- have the powers to summon amid the run-up to the elec- ing to be presented on Feb- either Prime Minister Nar- NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry tions in five States. ruary 1. endra Modi or any other has lifted the suspension of the “So what is the big deal in “So what provision of law Minister with regard to any tion. BJP MP Nishikant the statement. An MP Indian Olympic Association with that? It is only the presenta- is violated by this state- issue before it. Dubey had previously writ- present at the meeting said immediate effect after it tion of the Budget. Every- Chief Justice of India J.S. Budget till after the elections ment? What provision of the Mr. Thomas had declared ten to Lok Sabha Speaker BJP MP Kirit Somaiyya ob- removed the corruption-tainted body will get to know a little Khehar told advocate Mano- are over. He said it could con- Indian Constitution is viol- that the PAC was within its Sumitra Mahajan protesting jected to Mr. Thomas talking duo of Suresh Kalmadi and in advance on what the gov- har Lal Sharma. tain sops to influence the ated here?” Chief Justice rights to summon Mr. Modi against the assertion by Mr. about summoning the Prime Abhay Singh Chautala as life ernment is going to do. Any Mr. Sharma, in a PIL peti- voters in the Assembly elec- Khehar asked. as the committee was ex- Thomas. At Friday’s meet- Minister. presidents following widespread problems, everybody will get tion, had sought the post- tions, and was thus a viola- amining monetary policy ing, MPs from the ruling outrage. The Ministry had a due chance to object,” ponement of the annual tion of the poll code. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 and the issue of demonetisa- party strongly objected to ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 suspended the recognition of IOA on December 30 last following its admission of “faux pas” while making Kalmadi and Chautala as life presidents. Bull run India’s note ban has hit ½ SPORTS | PAGE 17 METRO PLUS Nepal hard, says envoy

4 Pages KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE izens living in the far-flung mountain region of Himal NEW DELHI: India’s demonetisa- have nowhere to go with the tion has triggered a serious Indian currency that they financial crisis in Nepal. Not traditionally held as savings just the government but the for diicult times. people are also facing hard- “I am receiving phone ships, said Nepal’s envoy. calls from distant mountain Speaking to The Hindu on areas and people are seeking Friday, Ambassador Deep explanation about the de- Kumar Upadhyay said the monetisation. They are ask- government is facing a ing India to give them an op- severe shortfall of its annual portunity to deposit old stock of Indian currency, due Indian notes,” said Mr. Upad- to the lack of supplies from hyay. the Reserve Bank of India. He informed that the “We have asked for a spe- Nepal Rashtra Bank has cial arrangement for our Deep Kumar Upadhyay asked the Reserve Bank of standard supply of Indian India to make some Nepal- currency and have received the currency situation which specific rules to help the assurances, but frankly we has hit a large number of people hit by the note ban. A bull being trained for jallikattu, as part of the Pongal festival preparation, at Karisalkulam in Madurai district of are worried because of grow- people,” said the envoy. ½ PAGE 12 Tamil Nadu on Friday. Protests were held across the State in support of conducting the sport. — PHOTO: S. JAMES ing public resentment over Mr. Upadhyay said cit- CONTINUED ON Grievance channel for Kejriwal’s ex-aide may join politics SBI levying convenience jawans, says Army Chief JOSY JOSEPH of the good paths for public people will have to be made charge at Delhi Metro service,” he said. accountable for their actions DINAKAR PERI NEW DELHI: Rajendra Kumar, The winner of the prestigi- and I am sure it will happen.” former principal secretary to ous Prime Minister’s Award He said controversial NEW DELHI: Chief of Army Staf Delhi Chief Minister Arvind in Public Administration and former Central Bureau of In- (COAS) Bipin Rawat on Fri- Kejriwal, who has sought an IIT alumni, Mr Kumar vestigation (CBI) DIG San- day asserted that concerns of voluntary retirement from said proving his innocence jeev Gautam had ofered to superseded Eastern Army the Indian Administrative wouldn’t be the end of his let him of the hook if he Commander Praveen Bakshi Service (IAS), said he will legal fight. helped them get Mr Kejriwal would be looked into if they continue to be in public ser- “A person of my standing, legally entangled. were brought to his attention vice and did not rule out the my seniority, a person who B.K. Bansal, the former even as he promised a “sug- Army Chief General Bipin possibility of joining politics. has got the highest award for director general in the Min- gestion and grievance” sys- Rawat speaks in New Delhi Rajendra Kumar. public service in this coun- istry of Corporate Afairs, Other avenues tem to enable soldiers to on Friday. — PHOTO: SANDEEP SAXENA try, a person whom so many who committed suicide after The SBI is levying 2.5 per cent convenience fee to recharge reach him directly. “I need to, I have to, and I sought voluntary retirement, people know, if he can be ma- the CBI arrested him for al- smart cards. Gen. Rawat’s comments ters and subsequently in all must look for other avenues providing public service ligned and haunted like this legedly receiving a bribe, had came after a jawan took to so- formations.” He said every- of public service. I am a sin- through the government was then there are millions of named Mr Gautam in his sui- TCA SHARAD RAGHAVAN & Metro. cial media to air his griev- one, irrespective of their cere believer that the me- closed and he would look for people who, without being at cide note. SIDHARTHA ROY But because of an error on ances with Army’s sahayak rank and file, could put their dium of government new ways to serve the public. the wrong side of the law, are Mr Bansal accused Mr the SBI’s part, the charges are system. concerns in a sealed cover provides one the best way of “Once that is stopped for being haunted and are being Gautam of harassing his wife NEW DELHI: Delhi Metro com- being passed on to unsus- In his first formal interac- and drop in the boxes. “We serving the people, to go on me, much against my wishes, wronged. The fight is theirs,” and daughter, both of whom muters have been paying pecting metro commuters. tion with the press after tak- will ensure that the names the path of public service,” I will look for other avenues he said. had committed suicide more when they electronic- “We had flagged in the sys- ing over as Army Chief, he are not disclosed,” he said. the 1989 batch IAS oicer of public service. There are Asked if those persons earlier. Mr Bansal and his son ally recharge their smart tem all the service charges said: “We will have COAS said in an interview on NGOs, there are many good who are allegedly harassing committed suicide later. cards. being recovered. But inad- grievance and redressal ½ ‘WE RESERVE RIGHT TO Friday. private companies and I may him should be made ac- The State Bank of India vertently convenience fee on boxes at the Army headquar- RETALIATE’ | PAGE 12 Mr Kumar said as he had also consider politics as one countable, he said: “All these ½ SEE ALSO | PAGE 4 (SBI) has erroneously been the Delhi Metro was omit- levying commuters a 2.5 per ted,” said Manju Agarwal, cent convenience charge the bank’s Deputy Managing Corrupt ‘rebels’ when they pay using their Director, Digital Banking SP’s campaign materials have nowhere to go without the ‘bicycle’ debit or credit card. and New Business. in BJP, says Rawat No role: DMRC Error corrected OMAR RASHID family members on it. same for the half-a-dozen While the Delhi Metro Ms Agarwal claimed that KAVITA UPADHYAY “I never thought I would small stores and hawkers Rail Corporation said they the error had been corrected LUCKNOW: On a Thursday be killing time like this in selling SP material had no role in the matter, the 10 days ago. But when it was afternoon, a yellow banner peak election season,” Mr. exclusively near the party DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Har- SBI said they would get the pointed out that The Hindu greets passers-by near the Saxena says. If oice. “I had expected ish Rawat said if the 10 error “fixed.” had in its possession bills of SP headquarters here on demonetisation upset sales, business of ₨5-7 lakh. But former Congress MLAs who Following the decision to January 13 that show a con- Vikramaditya Marg, the future of the “bicycle” is due to this uncertainty, my had rebelled against him win demonetise high value cur- venience charge of 2.5 per pledging that “Arvind under a cloud. The clients have already the ongoing elections in the rency notes in November cent, she appeared Shukla (Pintu), senior party possibility that the symbol blocked orders for 2 lakh State, it would lead to polit- last year, the government dir- surprised. worker, Samajwadi Party” IN A FIX: Vendors selling election material fear huge losses if might be frozen by the banners and flags,” said ical instability. the Samajwadi Party symbol is frozen. — PHOTO RAJEEV BHATT ected all banks to waive “It’s some news. It should will be on an indefinite Election Commission has store owner Dipu Agarwal. “Their victory will mean transaction charges on all not have been charged since hunger strike until the SP the hunger strike. “We have workers but allow them to deterred SP workers and If the symbol is frozen? instability for Uttarakhand electronic transactions till we rectified this mistake party family reunites. full faith that things will get continue. leaders from making big “Well, it will be a big loss. politics. If they win, it will December 31. some 10 days back,” she said. “Mulayam Singh Yadav better,” says Shukla, the Across the street, Sashi campaign purchases. We will then have to figure mean that the public accepts Since January 1, banks “We will get this fixed.” zindabad. Samajwadi Party group’s leader. Kumar Saxena watches the After the SP feud out what to do with the these kind of politicians,” Mr have again begun levying A DMRC spokesperson zindabad. Akhilesh Yadav Minutes later, a group of episode with interest. He snowballed, Mr. Saxena flags and posters” said Mr. Rawat said in an interview. transaction or convenience said it had no role in the de- zindabad,” the banner policemen ask them to runs a store selling SP sufered losses worth ₨2-3 Agarwal. He denied the BJP’s allega- charges on card transactions. cision of the banks to charge declares. But the usually abandon their dharna as accessories — banners, lakh. At least 25 orders While the party is tions of corruption against But PSU banks like the transaction fee from com- bustling street with a they had not sought posters, calendars, photo were cancelled. Around divided, the merchants him. “Those involved in cor- SBI, in keeping with the gov- muters who are recharging steady flow of SUVs and permission and it violated frames, scarves, stickers, 20,000 flags and posters he have not lost hope. Ayushi rupt activities of illegal sand ernment’s push to encourage their smart cards through party workers is witnessing the election model code of badges, flags, practically made for an SP candidate Srivastava, a store owner mining etc. are the turncoats digital transactions, have debit cards. little activity. conduct. After a brief anything that can have from Purvanchal lie in his and an SP oice-bearer, who are now in the BJP,” he continued to waive these “The banks are following A gaggle of SP workers negotiation, the police images of Mulayam, store. believes the father and son said. charges for a number of ser- RBI guidelines in this re- assembles to participate in lodge an FIR against the SP Akhilesh or other Yadav The scene is much the will patch up. ½ DETAILS ON | PAGE 13 vices, including the Delhi gard,” the spokesperson said.

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Trader found dead in Man jailed for Kissing prank: cops blame YouTube car; suicide suspected molesting minor Youths say persons featured in the video were friends; police to verify claim with the women NIRNIMESH KUMAR STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: A court here has STAFF REPORTER ing of the video, were charges of molestation, and Tube was what had made the example of an event manage- NEW DELHI: The body of a 52- sentenced a 57-year-old man apprehended by a crime may only think of booking two youths to come up with ment company allegedly year-old businessman was to two years in jail for mo- NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police branch team from their them under Section 67 of the such ideas. throwing a party at a posh found in his Toyota Corolla lesting a six-year-old girl in have blamed websites for en- Gurugram home on Friday. IT Act, which pertains to restaurant in Connaught car in west Delhi’s Inderpuri north-west Delhi’s Shalimar couraging “obscene activit- However, despite having transmitting obscene mater- Raking in the moolah Place to felicitate those on Thursday. Bagh in 2010. ies” after a video showing a the duo in their custody, the ial in an electronic form. “YouTube pays them whose videos had earned the The deceased has been The court also imposed a youth kissing “random” girls police stopped short of ar- Earlier, a case under the IT around ₨700 for every 1,000 most hits on YouTube. identified as Hemant Dhall, a fine of ₨10,000 on the con- at Connaught Place surfaced resting them after claims that Act as well as for molestation hits their video receives,” “YouTube has been organ- resident of Gurugram. vict, Anil Prakash, and direc- recently. the women who were kissed was registered by the Cyber said Mr. Yadav. ising and day seminars to en- Vijay Kumar, DCP (West), Hemant Dhall ted him to pay a compensa- The police said they would in the video were actually Crime Cell soon after the “The trend is to shoot ob- courage such activities by the said Dhall had left his elec- tion of ₨30,000 to the victim. investigate the roles of their friends and had will- video had gone viral. The of- scene videos to get more hits pranksters. These types of tronics showroom in central business for ending his life. The court held the accused search engines and video- ingly agreed to be a part of ficer said that a raid at the and thereby more money. parties are being hosted by a Delhi’s Karol Bagh in his car Dhall’s colleagues, how- guilty on the basis of the sharing sites, and an event the video. house of the accused led to YouTube and Google are also company namely Menaki around 3 p.m. on Wednesday. ever, claimed that he had medical report and the evid- management company, to as- the recovery of two laptops, a giving them incentives like Communication based in been murdered as there were ence given by the victim and sess their criminal liability in Video goes viral video camera used for re- recognition and certificates Gurgaon and Mumbai on be- Family approaches police some cut marks on his neck. her parents. The convict the making of the video that Ravindra Yadav, Joint CP cording the clip, wireless in parties organised by half of YouTube and Google,” But he did not go home, The police said they would claimed that he was implic- was first shared from a You- (Crime), said his team would mikes, and a trophy awarded them,” claimed the oicer. said Mr. Yadav. prompting his family to file a wait for the autopsy report ated in the case as there was a Tube Channel by the name get in touch with the women by YouTube to Sumit for gar- “They are also hired by A BCA student at a college complaint at the Ranjeet before reaching any money dispute between him ‘Crazy Sumit’. featuring in the video to nering one lakh subscribers. manufactures of games and in Gurugram, Sumit decided Nagar police station the same conclusion. and the victim’s parents. The Sumit Kumar Singh, 20, verify the authenticity of the Delving into the motive apps to advertise for them to make these videos while night. court, however, dismissed and his friend, Satyajeet Ka- claim. If it turns out as behind the video, the police and make new launches suc- he was bed-ridden for two Around 10 a.m. the next Note under scanner the allegations. dian, 25, the two men al- claimed by the duo, the po- said money earned from pop- cessful,” the oicer added. months following an acci- day, his body was found in his The police, however, have legedly involved in the mak- lice may not be able to press ular videos shared on You- Mr. Yadav gave the recent dent three years ago. car on the campus of an insti- sent the suicide note to fin- ‘No grounds for leniency’ tution in Inderpuri. gerprint experts to ascertain Quashing a plea for lenient His wrist was slit, allegedly its veracity. punishment by the counsel with a surgical blade found Preliminary probe has re- for the accused, the court Engineer falls Cop loses leg after being hit by truck One held with near his body. An alcohol vealed Dhall had sufered said: “I am not inclined to bottle was also found in the losses in the recent past be- give benefit of probation to to death from STAFF REPORTER driven container truck hit save his leg. imported cigarettes vehicle. cause of which there had the convict as this was a the policeman from behind. He is currently admitted at worth ₨6 lakh The police said Dhall had been a delay in salary pay- crime against a woman, Noida highrise NEW DELHI: A 56-year-old Delhi He fell down, and his left leg the intensive care unit of the left behind a suicide note in ment to some of his which should be strictly Police head constable lost his came under the vehicle’s hospital. which he blamed losses in his employees. dealt with.” PURUSHARTH ARADHAK leg after being hit by a con- wheels. “We are thinking about the NEW DELHI: A man was held at tainer truck in south Delhi’s “His leg was severed on option of a prosthetic leg for the Indira Gandhi Interna- NOIDA: A 27-year-old software Tughlakabad on Friday. the spot. The weight of the Shishram,” said the oicer. tional Airport (IGIA) here engineer died after he al- The victim, Shishram, was truck was such that the out- on Friday allegedly trying to legedly fell from the sixth going to a tea stall across the come was inevitable,” said a Driver nabbed smuggling in over 500 pack- floor of a residential building Mehrauli-Badarpur Road senior police oicer. The truck driver, Rahisud- ets of foreign cigarettes in Sector 74 here on when the accident Even as the truck driver din, was later nabbed and worth ₨6 lakh. Thursday. happened. The police said he stopped his vehicle and fled, booked for rash driving and The incident occurred The deceased has been was on picket duty in the the policeman’s cries drew causing grievous injury. around 3:00 a.m., when CISF identified as Gaurav area. the attention of his col- A native of Alwar district personnel noticed the “sus- Shrotiya, a native of Ra- leagues, who rushed to his in Rajasthan, Shishram who picious” activities of the pas- jasthan. Hit by speeding vehicle aid. was posted at the Govind- senger, identified as Manoj The police said he had As he was crossing the The victim was taken to puri police station for since K. He was coming from gone to the apartment to road, an allegedly rashly- AIIMS, but doctors could not over a year now. Bangkok, oicers said. meet a woman colleague who lived there and was in an Cops on the trail inebriated condition. He was later seen crossing “The colleague said she re- the green channel with an- fused to meet him and did In sync other person. not open the door,” said The passenger was inter- Bijendra Bhadana, SHO, Sec- cepted in the arrival area and tor 49 police station. four bags containing 520 His body was found packets of a cigarette brand around 10 p.m. by the secur- called ‘Esse’ were seized ity guards of the apartment. from him. —PTI The guards informed the residents, who rushed the victim to a hospital. On Fri- day, he succumbed to injur- ies received in his head and other body parts.

‘No CCTV cameras’ The police said there were no CCTV cameras in the area where the incident happened. “We are investigating if the victim fell from the sixth floor of from some other place. We are also looking into the murder angle,” said FESTIVE FERVOUR: People celebrate Lohri in New Delhi on Friday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Mr. Bhadana. Former volleyball DELHI TODAY

Talk: Dr. C. D. Deshmukh Sarodist Shiraz Ali Khan of tion”, a show of sculptures player killed Memorial Lecture 2017: the Senia Maihar Gharana; by Tarun Maity, at Lalit Kala “Through a Different Lens: Nishaant Singh on Akademi, Rabindra Bhavan, Should India adopt a more pakhawaj and Pt. Arup Copernicus Marg, Mandi STAFF REPORTER reached the hospital, civilisation view of the Chattopadhyay on tabla, at House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. World” by Dr. Shiv Vis- The Stein Auditorium, India Exhibition: “Soul of my the victim had suc- vanathan, social scientist; Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. NEW DELHI country”, a painting show : A former cumbed to his Chair: Soli J. Sorabjee, pres- Art: “Magic Melody- Song by Uma bardhan, at Open volleyball player was injuries. ident, IIC, at C.D. Deshmukh of Love”, an art show by Kis- Palm Court Gallery, India allegedly stabbed to Auditorium, India Interna- hore Roy, at Lalit Kala Aka- Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. death in north-west ‘Accused identified’ tional Centre (IIC), 6:30 demi, Rabindra Bhavan, Screening: Of document- p.m. Copernicus Marg, Mandi ary film “Flames of Free- Delhi’s Rohini on A case in this con- Book reading: Interactive House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. dom: the Ichchapur Thursday night. nection has been re- reading and discussion on Art: “Chromatic Harmon- Declaration” in Kosli and The police said the gistered and a probe Franz Kafka’s masterpiece ies”, an art show by Zargar Odia, with English subtitles, victim, Rohit Kumar, initiated. A hunt is on ‘The Trial (1925)’, at Zahoor, at Lalit Kala Aka- at Gulmohar Hall, India Hab- Amaltas Hall, India Habitat demi, Rabindra Bhavan, Co- itat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. was attacked with for the assailants, who Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. pernicus Marg, Mandi (Mail your listings for this knives and sticks by a have been identified, Music: Baithak with Sarod- House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. column at group of four men fol- said the police. ist Ustad Aashish Khan and Exhibition: “Transmuta- [email protected]) lowing an argument Kumar had been with them. booked by the Delhi The victim was Police in at least four rushed to hospital by criminal cases over passers-by. However, the past decade, said by the time the police the police.

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TÊTE-À-TÊTE ‘I consider politics as a good path for public service’

Rajendra Kumar, an IAS ernment who are misusing mentions the market price oicer of 1989 batch and it. of Rs.70 lakh. The income former principal secretary Are you joining tax oicer says this difer- to Delhi Chief Minister politics? ence is the undisclosed in- Arvind Kejriwal, has sought I need to, I have to, and I come. How ridiculous voluntary retirement from must look for other avenues could it get? Not only that, service after months of un- of public service. I am a sin- this is undisclosed income, expected ordeal, during cere believer that the me- and where did you get it which the CBI arrested him dium of government from? You got it from the so- alleging corruption, and In- provides one the best way called private company that come Tax and Excise De- of serving the people, to go you allegedly favoured. partments accused him of on the path of public ser- How? Because the CBI has other illegalities. vice. Once that is stopped made the claim. We a are A winner of Prime Minis- for me, forcibly, I will look statutory authority, then we ter’s Award for Excellence in for other avenues of public make such stories? He is an Public Administration and service. There are NGOs, Indian Revenue Service of- an IIT alumnus, Mr. Kumar there are many good private ficer, a Class I gazetted spoke to Josy Joseph. companies and I also con- oicer. ■ sider politics as one of the You also have excise Why have you decided good path for public cases against you? to resign? service. There is another case I consider myself one of And your fight is not which has been filed against the biggest beneficiaries of just about proving your- me, for allegedly keeping li- government programmes, self innocent? quor beyond (permissible) excellent educational insti- That is a very small part. limit. The point is that the tutions that the government Please see that a person of liquor at my home was has established, scholar- my standing, my seniority, a within limit. Thus, no case ships they give and it is be- person who has got the could have been applied on cause of all these that even a highest award for public me, so another section was person like me, from a poor service in this country, if he added in that FIR. That sec- family background, could can be maligned and tion has been used only come this far. haunted like this, then there task of investigation of a beaten, but I have been har- seven to eight times in the I always had responsibil- are millions of people who case have absolutely no assed, I have been abused, last 50 years, alleging smug- ity to give back, and in a way without being at the wrong business to harass abused with choicest ex- gling of liquor. To what ex- my trust in the government end of the law are being someone. Each time they pletives. I don’t bother tent are we stretching that helped me come up in haunted, and are being harass or abuse or beat much about it. The beating things? life is very, very high. wronged. The fight is somebody it is not only the up of people, hundreds of Similarly, in the ACB Even after these series of theirs. I am confident that I abuse of the process of law, people they have called, and (Anti-Corruption Branch, incidents, I was hoping and will come out clean. But this but also a much bigger illeg- in each instance they have TIME FOR CHANGE: Rajendra Kumar, former principal secretary to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Delhi government) case, I was confident that at some is not about me. It is about ality committed, which will asked what property they has sought voluntary retirement from service. FILE PHOTO the grant of contract was of point the government will those millions of people have to be answered at a hold, and then told them 2002. In 2012, I was Com- realise that what it is doing who cannot even raise their later day. that it’s Rajendra Kumar’s You mean they wanted ality conducted by the DIG. years, I did not get even a missioner of Transport for a is not correct, not appropri- voice. You spoke of B.K. property. you to name Arvind The point is I don’t under- single I-T notice. In fact, be- few months. They are ask- ate, and may be illegal. In my VRS letter also I Bansal. I wanted to bring It is such a unique situ- Kejriwal? Who told you? stand in which scenario an cause of my mistake I have ing me why I have not can- But when I found out that have mentioned about B.K. in the arrest of former ation, the whole jurispru- Yes, yes. There is an in- oicer of DIG rank can be so got refund sometimes. celled a contract, because they are still continuing Bansal’s case (a senior oi- Air Chief Marshal S.P. dence puts the onus on the spector in the CBI. And the important that the whole Since May 2015, I think I there was an FIR filed in with the same methods, I cial of the Corporate Min- Tyagi, which was criti- prosecution and investiga- DIG himself. CBI is willing to get its have got seven to eight I-T that case. realised that the govern- istry who was accused of cised by the court later. tion to prove a statement. Who is the DIG? name dragged, its prestige notices. You were once awar- ment, which I always con- corruption by the CBI and Why is the CBI or other Here it was going in the op- DIG Sanjeev Gautam. lowered, they are still de- Such stupid questions ded the Prime Minister’s sidered to be inanimate, is his entire family committed agencies going over- posite direction. When the The same oicer who fending him. Either there is they ask. I have a house award. Could your ex- after all run by people and suicide, accusing CBI oi- board? Are they ignor- person says it is his own was accused of harass- something very seriously given to me by a society we perience deter younger there are people in the gov- cials of harassment). ant of law? property, he is told, “You ment by B.K. Bansal in wrong with the organisa- had formed in Greater civil servants? How can a responsible I don’t have much know- prove it is yours.” his suicide note? tion, or may be some indi- Noida. The society got the They should take it as an democratic system force ledge about the case of S.P. Then there is a need to Yes. He told me that ‘look viduals in the CBI are more land on subsidised rates aberration. System is very, somebody to commit sui- Tyagi. But the general im- bring all documents, and, in if you want to get out of it, powerful than the agency from the authority. I got 500 very large. In my VRS letter I cide in such a gruesome pression which I have fact, in two-three cases the you will have to tell us itself. square feet plot in Greater To my friends in civil ser- manner? His wife, daughter gathered in my case, the CBI has filed cases of dis- things which can get him The public mostly Noida at Rs.6.5 lakh, every- vice I would like to say that have mentioned the and son were forced to way my co-accused have proportionate assets just to (Kejriwal) entangled leg- knows about the CBI one got at the same rate my belief in the goodness of Bansal case...how can commit suicide. It is only been treated, and the way harass them. ally’. haunting you. But the In- some 10-12 years ago. The civil service and govern- a responsible system the law, the judicial process many of the other witnesses Their intent was (they Not only this case. There come Tax Department is sub-lease deed also men- ment has not been shaken. which could have determ- have been treated, many of should) name Rajendra Ku- is another case of Sandeep also after you, right? tions the market value of Do what is correct, do what force somebody to ined that he was guilty and them have been severely mar, and the intent with me Sailas, a railway oicer. He I have been filing in- the property, which is for is in the best public interest. commit suicide punished. People who are beaten up. I must put it on and my co-accused was that has written about misbeha- come-tax returns since the the purpose of property tax. For full interview, see entrusted with the diicult record that I have not been we name somebody else. viour, misconduct and illeg- last 27 years. In the first 25 So the same document http://bit.ly/RajendraKumarIntw

Municipal schools Kidding around NDMC passes ‘smart’ budget again to remain closed DAMINI NATH till January 19 NEW DELHI: The New Delhi Municipal Council’s STAFF REPORTER (NDMC) budget for the coming financial year will NEW DELHI: Primary schools focus on making Lutyens’ run by the three municipal Delhi a ‘smart city’, with sev- corporations of Delhi would eral old proposals — includ- remain closed till January 19 ing Wi-Fi connectivity — due to the extreme cold and a smart parking manage- weather conditions. ment system being repeated. On Friday, the North, Being a part of the Union South and East Delhi corpor- Ministry of Urban Develop- ations announced that their ment’s Smart City initiative, primary schools would ex- Lutyens’ Delhi has been try- tend the winter break so that ing to improve services with students don’t have to brave the help of technology for the chill. over a year now. On Friday, Temperature in the Capital NDMC chairperson Naresh dipped to 2.3 degrees Celsius Kumar reiterated this goal this week, forcing schools to when he presented the extend the winter vacations. budget for 2017-2018. On Thursday, the Delhi As per the budget passed government had announced by the council, the NDMC the decision to extend the would spend ₨3,296.25 crore winter break from January 16 in the next financial year and to 19 for its schools. While earn an estimated ₨3,404.51 government schools would crore. remain closed till January 19, some private schools would ‘Inclusive development’ resume classes by January 16. “The basic philosophy be- CLICK HAPPY: Youngsters enjoy a sunny afternoon in the Capital on Friday. hind this budget was good PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA governance and inclusive de- velopment. We will focus on NGT rap for technology intervention, Court against the NDMC’s scale and speed when it decision to allot the project EDMC over comes to implementation,” to a competitor. After this, SDMC focuses on said Mr. Kumar while ad- the NDMC failed to find garbage mess Anti-polythene drive in Gurugram dressing a press conference takers in subsequent at- after presenting the budget. tempts. sanitation, parks STAFF REPORTER ASHOK KUMAR Starting from Satyaprakash. Ever since, After being selected for “The industry was not several self-help groups the Smart Cities Mission, the willing to take up the project STAFF REPORTER initiatives” of the NEW DELHI: The National GURUGRAM: The Municipal Monday, violators and inmates at the Bhondsi NDMC set up a special pur- on the public-private part- corporation. To improve Green Tribunal on Friday Corporation of Gurugram may be fined district jail have been pose vehicle (SPV) to carry nership (PPP) model, so we NEW DELHI: With just a few maintenance of its public rapped the East Delhi Muni- (MCG) will launch a anywhere between engaged in making cloth out projects. This SPV has decided to form a joint ven- months to go for the toilets, the SDMC plans to cipal Corporation (EDMC) special drive against bags. School children, too, already received a grant of ture. After covering the municipal elections, the deploy 300 sanitation and asked why the people polythene bags on Monday, ₨500 and ₨25,000 have been sensitised as ₨194 crore from the Urban NDMC area, the company South Delhi Municipal workers, said Mr. Singh. should sufer for its besides creating awareness part of the campaign to Development Ministry and can go national or even Corporation’s budget for “ill-planning”. about the use of cloth bags. dumping and burning of encourage use of cloth ₨56 crore from the NDMC, global,” said Mr. Kumar. 2017-2018 looks to focus 400 outdoor gyms Slamming the EDMC for waste. Now, we will launch bags. said Mr. Kumar. With regard to public on improving sanitation To make its parks its “apathy” towards the Surprise checks a campaign against the use transport and parking, the services and better, the SDMC would garbage mess, the NGT dir- Sudhir Kumar, sanitary of po ‘Not very successful’ Wi-fi project to be taken up NDMC budget presented a neighbourhood parks. set up 400 outdoor gyms ected the civic body to sub- inspector (Zone 3), said The MCG has now set a In the 2017-2018 budget, mix of old and new propos- and 80 gazebos. mit details of its income that surprise checks would Shopkeepers warned target of supplying 10 lakh Mr. Kumar announced that als. For instance, Mr. Kumar 25 new parking facilities At present, SDMC parks along with money given by be conducted at shops in lythene bags,” he added. cloth bags in the next three the delayed free public Wi-Fi proposed building a multi- While the budget is yet have 121 open gyms. The the Delhi government to as- the area with challans On Friday, the MCG months. Shopkeepers, project would be carried out level parking facility at Khan to be finalised, SDMC SDMC will also set up a certain the reason behind the being issued against those teams conducted surprise however, said that the as a joint venture of the Market, for which the Standing Committee diabetes centre in each of delay in payment of salaries using polythene bags. checks at the Vyapar campaign was not very NDMC and a subsidiary of NDMC had bought land in chairperson Shailender its four zones, said Mr. to sanitation workers. Violators will be fined Kendra and DLF Qutab successful as customers the MTNL. Last year, the 2011. Singh on Friday proposed Singh. “Why don’t you (muni- anywhere between ₨500 Plaza Market. While no did not carry their own NDMC had run into legal Among the new proposals to boost sanitation While the cipal bodies) apply your and ₨25,000, depending on challans were issued, bags and were not willing trouble while executing a were a bicycle sharing services, improve parks Commissioner had mind before doing things? the weight of the seizure, shopkeepers were warned to pay extra for the cloth similar plan. The ambitious scheme that would have 500 and build 25 new parking proposed a hike in Why didn’t you protect the said Mr. Kumar. against using polythene bags they supplied. “The plan to install 18,500 ‘smart cycles for rent and the use of facilities at busy spots. property tax rates, Mr. money allotted to you for The checks will be bags. campaign is successful poles’ that would have LED electric vehicles for last-mile Mr. Singh also proposed Singh rejected this in payment of salaries? You carried out in Sectors 28, The campaign against only in malls where people lights, Wi-Fi routers and connectivity. These electric the setting-up of two LED keeping with the practice can’t make people sufer be- 29, 30, 31, 32, 51, 52, 53 and polythene bags was are ready to pay for cloth CCTV cameras was first an- vehicles will first be rolled screens to “make citizens adopted by BJP leaders of cause of your ill-planning,” 54, among others. “So far, launched over a year ago at bags,” said a shopkeeper in nounced in March 2015. One out first in Connaught Place, aware about the the corporation since said a Bench headed by NGT the MCG teams were the behest of MCG the Sector 15 (Part-II) of the companies that bid for which is set to become achievements and new 2012. chairperson Justice issuing challans for open Commissioner T.L. market. the contract moved the High vehicle-free from February. Swatanter Kumar.

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DDA asks oicial to rejoin ‘if he wishes’ Nursery admission: schools can Agency came under criticism for relieving Director of Public Relations on grounds of disability invite applications in their format

AKANKSHA JAIN dated January 7, 2017, children to choose BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN amounts to gross violation regarding the schools at the cost of their of human rights. What is NEW DELHI: For now, parents neighbourhood. It is own resources as good NEW DELHI: Facing flak over I have been in more unfortunate is that the can fill forms for nursery clarified that the scrutiny schools ate not evenly “relieving” an oicial as the incident took place within a admissions without any of the form is subject to distributed across Delhi. Director of Public Relations service for more few days after the enact- hassle with the Delhi High passing of the order by It also puts the on the grounds of his “disab- than 22 years. But ment of the Rights of Per- Court on Friday allowing this court,” ordered personality profile of a ility”, the Delhi Develop- never has my sons with Disabilities the private schools to Justice Manmohan. school at risk”. The ment Authority (DDA) on (RPwD) Act, 2016, which invite applications on The Bench passed the schools had also urged Friday ofered him to rejoin disability affected seeks to protect the rights their own criteria and in order on petition moved that the existing duty within 15 days “if he so my performance and dignity of persons with their own format. by Action Committee of application forms be wishes”. disabilities.” ’ The forms will also ask Unaided Recognised allowed to be filled to Rishi Raj Bhati, who was Slamming DDA vice- the parents to specify if Private Schools, ensure that the schedule working in the Public Rela- his feelings [sic]”. chairman Udai Pratap they live within one comprising over 290 of the admission process tions (PR) Department of Reacting to this, Dr.Bhati Singh, Mr. Abidi said, “He kilometre or three to five private, unaided schools is not disturbed. The the Delhi Transco Limited said, “They [DDA] are now [Mr. Singh] is completely kilometres or farther from of Delhi which have matter will now be heard (DTL), had taken charge as adding insult to injury by unworthy of the high oice the school, in keeping challenged the December on January 19. the Director (PR) of DDA on saying that the decision to that he holds. He must be with the January 7 19, 2016 and January 7 January 10. relieve me of the post was asked to quit with immedi- guidelines of the Delhi notification of the Judge recuses from case taken with my consent. This ate efect.” government making government making it In the morning, the Sent back within 48 hours is wrong.” “distance” a primary mandatory for private petitions filed by the However, he was repatri- He added that he wanted Protest on January 16 criterion for admissions. schools on public land to private schools were ated to his parent depart- punitive action against the He added that DRG mem- The scrutiny of the admit 75 per cent students listed before Justice V. ment within 48 hours of his oicial responsible for the bers would a dharna outside application forms will, using the neighbourhood Kameshwar Rao. joining allegedly because of humiliation and discrimina- the DDA oice on January 16 however, be subject to the criterion. Advocate Kamal However, Justice Rao his disability. FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS: Dr.Rishi Raj Bhati was denied DDA post tion he experienced. Later, and would write to Prime final order of the court. Gupta, who has filed the recused himself from the Reacting to the incident, because it involved field work. PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT he expressed his anguish on Minister Narendra Modi petition on behalf of hearing saying, “I have a Dr. Bhati said: “After joining social media. “I have been in about the issue. Avoiding ambiguity Action Committee, said, school-going son and the DDA, I met a few senior oi- convenience and may not be cluding physical work/ service for more than 22 Disability rights activist “To avoid any “Accepting the request of matter involves all private cials. During the interac- in the interest of the DDA movement of the oicer in years. But never have I faced Dr. Satendra Singh said: ambiguity, it is directed the private schools, the schools of Delhi.” The tion, however, nobody also [sic]”. various situations [sic],” the any diiculty or has my dis- “This is ridiculous. I can re- that the parents fill the High Court passed an Delhi government and the seemed happy. Within two “The post of Director letter added. ability afected my perform- late to it. Despite being on a form in the prescribed absolutely balanced and schools requested Justice hours, I was told that I (PR) in DDA involves field However, on January 13, ance,’’ said Dr. Bhati. permanent post at the Uni- format and the criteria equitable order.” Rao to hear the matter would be relieved of my work, in which the oicer the DDA had in a letter to Dr. The incident, meanwhile, versity College of Medical mentioned therein by the The schools contended saying they have full faith duties.’’ may have to be present at Bhati, said “the decision to has drawn sharp criticism Sciences, UPSC rejected my respective schools. The that “the January 7 in the Bench but he The relieving letter various sites of DDA like de- go back to his parent depart- from disability rights’ application for the same format of the form shall notification of the Delhi ordered that the petitions handed over to him on Janu- molition sites, parks, sports ment was a mutual one -- organisations. post twice. A battle un- also contain criteria government takes away to be listed before another ary 11 read “continuance of complex, biodiversity parks since the post involved field Javed Abidi, convenor, locked 1,600 posts not only mentioned in the the fundamental rights of appropriate Bench after Rishi Raj Bhati to the post etc. This involves extensive work -- and that it wasn’t the Disabled Rights Group for me but also for doctors impugned notification the parents and the lunch. may put him in probable in- outdoor activities duties in- department’s intent to hurt (DRG), said: “The incident with disabilities.’’ Jain meets L-G after he returns DTC bus fare file

STAFF REPORTER fares, which former L-G the file to the government had raised objections to the predecessor Najeeb Jung asking it to reconsider its proposal, citing poor finan- NEW DELHI: Lieutenant-Gov- had proposed last year. proposal after Finance De- cial condition of the DTC. ernor Anil Baijal returned partment raised some ob- “The government gives the file related to the Delhi For greater good jections,” an oicial said. financial assistance in government’s proposal to The AAP government Had Mr. Baijal given his crores of rupees to DTC and slash fares of DTC and had announced reduction nod, the bus fares would if it faces loss, the govern- cluster buses by 75 per cent, in fares of DTC and cluster have come down to ₨5 in ment will definitely help prompting Transport Min- buses last month in a bid to non-AC DTC and cluster the State bus agency,” an- ister Satyendar Jain to meet encourage people to use buses and ₨10 in air-condi- other oicial said. him on Friday. public transport. tioned buses for one month This is the first proposal At the meeting, Mr. Jain is The file was recently sent on a trial basis. which has been objected by believed to have apprised to the L-G for his approval. the new L-G and sent back the L-G as to why the gov- Monetary woes to the Aam Aadmi Party ernment was in favour of Objections raised According to the oicial, government for the steep reduction in bus “The L-G has returned the Finance Department reconsideration.

Traders promised registration in one day

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NEW DELHI: Even as the con- tours of the GST remain fluid, the Delhi government has eased the procedure for grant of registration to fresh applicants to encourage more traders to contribute towards its kitty of Value Ad- ded Tax (VAT).

Guidelines eased In a circular issued on Fri- day, the Department of Trade and Taxes said that applicant dealers would be granted re- gistration within a day of ap- plying through a mobile plat- form, even as it eased guidelines around the provi- sion of bank details for the purpose. “The provision of providing bank account de- tails at the time of applying for registration under the DVAT and CST Act has been made optional, which will encourage more traders to register,” said Brijesh Goyal, convenor, AAP Trade Wing.

Nakshatra Vatika to open today

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NEW DELHI: A garden along the banks of the Yamuna that represents various aspects of astrology will be opened on Saturday, the Delhi Jal Board said on Friday. The Nakshatra Vatika, which has one part repres- enting the nine planets as per Indian astrology, will be in- augurated by Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, DJB chairperson Kapil Mishra said. Spread over a two-acre area at Geeta Ghat, the park has 27 types of plants that represent 27 stars as per as- trology. The park, which was set up by the DJB’s Horticulture Department, also has a garden of medicinal plants, including traditional herbs used in Ayurveda.

Development plan This project was an- nounced by Mr. Mishra in October 2016 and was part of a larger plan to develop a 5- km stretch of the Yamuna bank. CM YK NOIDA/DELHI 8 | SOUTH THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 Order on rooster fights is clear: SC Surviving drought: Kerala imposes curbs on water use ‘No obligation Chief Justice Khehar and Justices N.V. Ramana and to further spell D.Y. Chandrachud had, on a Ban does not T. NANDAKUMAR writ petition filed by indus- out orders’ trialist Kanumuru Raghu Ra- deter punters THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Faced makrishna Rao against the with a worsening drought LEGAL CORRESPONDENT December 26, 2016 order of K.N. MURALI SANKAR situation, the Kerala govern- the High Court of Judicature ment has imposed curbs on NEW DELHI: The Supreme at Hyderabad for the State of KAKINADA: Despite being the use of water in reser- Court on Thursday refused Telangana and Andhra Pra- banned by the High voirs. It has also stepped up to clarify to the Andhra Pra- desh, stayed the High Court- Court, rooster fights the review and monitoring desh administration that it given authority of police in- were organised in system at the district levels. has not completely stayed spection teams to enter any about 200 venues in District Collectors have the State High Court ban on premises and seize roosters. the East Godavari and been directed to stop the re- rooster fights but only modi- The SC had further issued West Godavari lease of water through canals fied the blanket power be- notice to the State govern- districts of Andhra for irrigation, and keep a stowed on inspection teams ment, the AWBI and the Dir- Pradesh. close tab on the water level in to barge into “any premises” ector General of Police of No organiser missed reservoirs. and seize roosters primed for BLOOD SPORT: Punters engaged in betting during a rooster fight Andhra Pradesh, among oth- the ‘muhurtam.’ Local The assessment of the wa- State Disaster Management itoring the utilisation of fights. in West Godavari district on Friday. — PHOTO: A.V.G. PRASAD ers, on Mr. Rao’s petition. representatives ter situation in terms of Authority. groundwater. The impact of A Bench led by Chief The Supreme Court had dir- attended the events as Litres Per Capita per Day Eforts are on to establish drought on tourism, industry Justice of India J.S. Khehar of India, represented by ations for the fights were on ected them to file their chief guests. (LPCD) is being reported to drinking water kiosks in all and power sectors is being said the January 6 order of senior advocate Siddharth in full swing in the run-up to counter-aidavits in four Neither the court’s the government on a regular wards. The project is expec- closely observed. It would be the court was clear in itself. Luthra, had made an urgent Pongal/Sankranthi celebra- weeks. The petition, filed directive nor basis. “The focus is on ensur- ted to achieve momentum included in the State’s There was no obligation on mention that oicials in the tions. The Board sought a through advocate Sateesh demonetisation ing the availability of drink- with the finalisation of the memorandum to the Centre. the part of the court to fur- State were under the impres- direction to the State oicial- Galla, contended that the seemed to deter the ing water up to the onset of rate contract for installation Isolated showers during ther spell out its orders for sion that the apex court had dom to crack down on the roosters were bred indigen- organisers and the southwest monsoon in of tanks by the Joint Com- the current dry spell are not oicials’ sake. lifted the ban on rooster violators. ously by farmers as a means punters. June,” said Sekhar L. Kur- missioner, Land Revenue. expected to improve the wa- The Animal Welfare Board fights. It alleged that prepar- On January 6, a Bench of of livelihood. iakose, member-secretary, The government is also mon- ter situation.

Trim your fat, get favourite posting, SP tells cops Smog disrupts flights Policemen shedding 5 kg by April can choose their station in Chikkamagaluru across south India

SATISH G.T. said it would be a tough place for more than three SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 10 a.m. At Visakhapatnam In- challenge to burn calories years and should not be ternational Airport, both in- CHIKKAMAGALURU: A district so fast. The SP said he posted to his place of CHENNAI: Flights were disrup- coming and outgoing flights police chief in Karnataka usually keeps a weighing origin. Besides, in most ted across south India on Fri- were delayed as a fog virtu- has come up with a unique scale in his chamber, cases, letters from people’s day morning as smog and fog ally enveloped the city. Devotees at the Ayyappa Temple on Friday.– PHOTO: LEJU KAMAL incentive to make his force wherever he is posted to representatives or considerably reduced visib- The IndiGo Bengaluru- leaner. assess the health of the recommendations from ility. Vizag, IndiGo Hyderabad- The constables and head constabulary. “The staf has senior oicers play a major At the Chennai airport, ar- Vizag-Delhi, Air India constables of four months to reduce role in police transfers, a rival and departure of flights Dubai-Hyderabad-Vizag and Sabarimala sees heavy Chikkamagaluru district weight. I don’t know what senior oicial said. were afected between 6 a.m. IndiGo Delhi-Vizag flights have been ofered a posting they will do, some may go “I have taken up this and 10 a.m. as smog, caused were unable to land and were rush for Makarajyoti to the police station of their for yoga and others may initiative in good faith. If by the burning of discarded diverted to Hyderabad. As in choice by Superintendent prefer jogging or some staf members feel items on the occasion of Chennai, operations re- RADHAKRISHNAN KUTTOOR devotees. Pilgrims have been of Police K. Annamalai, if swimming,” he said. enthused and work to lose Bhogi festival, enveloped the sumed after weather condi- camping in makeshift tents they can reduce by five Under Departmental their weight, it is a good runway. tions and visibility SABARIMALA: The sacred grove at Paandithavalom, Ap- kilogrammes by April. transfer rules, thing. Whether he gets a Sources said 10 incoming improved. of Lord Ayyappa at Sabarim- pachimedu, Marakkoottom, The SP has thrown open Superintendents enjoy transfer or not, he will flights from various destina- In Bengaluru, intermittent ala is set for the Makaravil- Urakkuzhy, Malikappuram ‘registrations,’ and installed powers over the transfer of continue to maintain tions, including Delhi, Mum- fog has disrupted flights at akku festival on Saturday. temple, the copra drying a weighing scale in his ILLUSTRATION: oicials up to the level of fitness even afterwards. bai and Hyderabad, were di- the Kempegowda Interna- Ayyappa devotees are yard, and near the Forest De- oice. “All those willing to DEEPAK HARICHANDAN ASIs. The ‘weight loss’ There is no violation of any verted to Bengaluru. tional Airport for the past camping at the Sannidhanam partment oice at the San- avail of this opportunity ofer applies only to rule. Many private Simultaneously, as many as one month. Flight operations and the surrounding hills to nidhanam for two days. can register their names number of registrations by constables and head companies follow this 25 departures to destinations have been disrupted at least worship the Makaravilakku The celestial star, Makara- along with their current Monday for all stations in constables. The guidelines system, where weight including Bengaluru, Mum- on four occasions at the run- ‘deeparadhana,’ to be per- jyoti, will be sighted in the body weight by the end of his jurisdiction. issued by the department reduction is encouraged bai, Madurai, Coimbatore way. formed at Ponnambalamedu. eastern horizon of the San- this week,” Mr. Annamalai While some constables state that a staf member through an incentive,” said and Delhi were delayed. Op- (With inputs from Almost all vantage points nidhanam on the Makaravil- said. He will compile the are mulling the ofer, one should not continue in one Mr. Annamalai. erations gradually resumed Bengaluru and have been occupied by the akku day. as visibility improved after Visakhapatnam)

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ICSE reschedules Selfie bid on train claims Class X, XII exams Crisis in AMU’s Murshidabad campus NEW DELHI: The ICSE and ISC Odisha student’s life examinations for Classes X and ‘Lack of funds will destabilise the functioning of the off-campus centre inaugurated by President’ XII have been rescheduled in SAMBALPUR (ODISHA): A 20-year- jori area and was waiting for view of the Assembly elections old engineering student died signal. Rajpal climbed on the SUVOJIT BAGCHI to Finance Ministry’s earlier students are upset with us. in five States. on Friday after coming in static train to take a selfie, circular. They are asking if we could The Council for the Indian contact with a high-tension but came in contact with the KOLKATA: Faced If the fund The oicials of Mur- not run it why we started it,” School Certificate Examinations wire while taking a selfie high-tension live wire over- marked for Murshidabad shidabad Centre said lack of he said. A reply from Secret- (CISEC), which conducts the atop a stationary goods train head and died on the spot campus of the Aligarh funds would completely ary, Department of Higher examinations, said on Friday at Baljori area in Odisha’s while his friend sustained in- Muslim University [AMU] is destabilise the functioning Education, Human Resource that the Indian Certificate of Jharsuguda town, police juries, the police said. not disbursed by the end of of the of-campus Centre of Development Ministry, is Secondary Education (ICSE) said. On receiving information, March, it may jeopardise the the AMU as the authority awaited. Class X exam, earlier scheduled His friend also sustained Government Railway Police career of more than 500 stu- may not be in a position to The Centre is built on a to begin on February 27 and end injuries in the incident. (GRP) oicers reached the dents studying in the cam- pay salaries of about 30 fac- 288-acre campus in Jangipur, on March 31, will now The deceased, identified spot and recovered the body. pus. The director of the cam- ulty members and 27 non- a constituency that had commence on March 10 and as Rajpal Gourav Patra of pus, which is oicially called teaching staf. earlier elected Mr. Mukher- conclude on April 21. Koraput, was a second year Injured rushed to hospital the Murshidabad Centre, Following non-payment, if jee and later his son Abhijit. Similarly, the Indian School Diploma student in civil en- The injured student was said the allotted fund would the teachers leave, it would The present MP has huge Certificate (ISC) examination for gineering at the Jharsuguda rushed to Jharsuguda Dis- lapse on March 31, “shatter- afect the students, predom- plans to expand the centre Class XII, scheduled to begin on Engineering School. trict Headquarter hospital, ing dreams” of many. The inantly from the minority which is located in the February 6 and conclude on The injured student has where his condition was campus, located in the community, studying in Muslim-majority district of April 5, will now begin on been identified as Lokesh stated to be stable. erstwhile constituency of three departments. About Murshidabad. January 30 and conclude on Das of Balangir, Patra’s “Inquiry into the incident President Pranab Mukherjee HARD TIMES: A view of the Murshidabad campus of the Aligarh 180 students are studying BA “As these areas [Muslim- April 26. — PTI batchmate. is in progress. We are in the in Jangipur, was inaugurated Muslim University. — FILE PHOTO [LLB] in a five-year integ- majority districts] have little process of recording the in 2014 by the President. rated course, about 80 study- or no access to good quality Seven held for murder Tragic adventure statement of the injured stu- The campus received Rs. no idea if they will receive 47.80 crore] does not reach ing Education while 300, in- education, the Campus was Police said both had gone dent who is undergoing 60 crore of the Rs. 107.80 the rest of the fund by March us by March 31, it would cluding 80 girls, are in the set up here. We also had at Trinamool office to Baljori on Friday morning. treatment,” said Assistant crore marked for the institu- 31 this year. lapse,” he said. Five-Year MBA course at the Mur- plans to start BA and MA in KOLKATA: The West Bengal police A goods train, which was Sub-Inspector of Govern- tion in August 2013. How- “The fund was given un- Plans will come to an end shidabad Centre. social welfare and computer on Friday arrested seven transporting oil, had stopped ment Railway Police Station, ever, the director of the Uni- der the 12th Five-Year Plan. If with the conclusion of 12th “We are under huge pres- applications,” said Dr. persons in connection with the on the railway tracks at Bal- Ramesh Bhainsal. — PTI versity, Dr. Badaruddoza, has the rest of the amount [Rs. Plan on March 31, according sure as the guardians of the Badaruddoza. murder of local don Srinu Naidu inside a Trinamool Congress (TMC) party office at Kharagpur town on Wednesday. J. Banumathi not Bharati Ghosh, Superintendent Mumbai police, BMC say Cost of Ken-Betwa project of Police, Paschim Medinipur, part of Jallikattu said the murder was aimed at creating a law and order ‘no’ to David Guetta’s show Bench, says SC now goes up to ₨18,000 crore situation in Kharagpur town so that other goons could take SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LEGAL CORRESPONDENT JACOB KOSHY cost of the project is about Oicials involved with the advantage of it and seize Rs. 18,000 crore,” said Am- project said that re-evalu- control. Those arrested had a MUMBAI: Thousands of fans NEW DELHI: The Supreme NEW DELHI: The cost of the Na- arjit Singh, Secretary, Min- ations of the cost of resettle- history of enmity with Srinu looking forward to a per- Court issued a clarification tional Democratic Alliance istry of Water Resources, at ment and rehabilitation of Naidu, he said. — Special formance by David Guetta, a on Friday that Justice R. government’s marquee river the sidelines of a conference families resident in the area, Correspondent two-time Grammy award- Banumathi is not part of any interlinking project to trans- on water-related issues here. and re-estimating the cost of winning DJ, were left disap- Bench hearing the Jallikattu fer water from the Ken to the The ECrecords that an ad- the value of the forests that Charges framed pointed, with the Mumbai cases in the apex court. Betwa river has now reached ditional Rs. 5,037 crore would be lost to the dam, as against Abu Jundal Police denying permission to The Supreme Court re- Rs. 18,000 crore, or nearly would be required as part of well as inflation, have led to the organisers, Sunburn, to gistry was compelled to clear double the estimate used by the project’s environmental the escalated costs. “The Rs. NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on hold the event at the Bandra the air after reports by sev- the National Board for Wild- protection plan. 9,000-crore figure was as of Friday framed charges against Kurla Complex on Friday. eral media outlets gave such life to accord clearances to 2008-09 and was being used Lashkar-E-Taiba (LeT) operative The venue of the event, an impression. the project last year. Because Re-evaluation in project documents but Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu first scheduled to be held at Trouble started when a it disturbs the habitat of res- The main feature of the several calculations have Jundal who was part of the the Mahalaxmi Race course, group of lawyers approached ident wildlife and requires project is a 230-km long changed,” said Masood Hus- terrorist outfit’s control room in had to be shifted after the a Bench led by Justice Misra the diversion of forest land in canal and a series of barrages sain, Chairman, National Karachi during the 26/11 Brihanmumbai Municipal on Thursday with an urgent Madhya Pradesh, the project and dams connecting the Water Development Agency, Mumbai attacks. Corporation refused permis- A police officer asks the crowd to leave the venue where the oral plea to pronounce the required a wildlife, forest Ken and Betwa rivers that which is tasked with imple- Ansari was deported from Saudi sion. On Thursday, the French DJ was scheduled to perform in Mumbai. — PHOTO: AP Jallikattu judgment on Janu- and environmental clear- will irrigate 3.5 lakh hectares menting the project. “The Arabia in 2012, where he had French DJ’s show in ary 13, before Pongal com- ance by separate, independ- in Madhya Pradesh and ministry’s techno-appraisal fled to after the Mumbai Bengaluru too was cancelled ‘Performance in Hyderabad is on’ menced on Saturday. ent committees. Going by 14,000 hectares of land in Ut- committee has cleared [an attacks. after the police denied It had so happened that publicly-available records, tar Pradesh’s Bundelkhand. estimate of] about Rs. 18,000 The National Investigation permission. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT support from the government of Justice Banumathi was, at the all committees, except for The key projects are the crore two months ago.” Agency (NIA) had registered a Mumbai Police spokesper- Telangana as such events add to time, accompanying Justice the environment clearance Makodia and Dhaudhan Funding the project has case against Ansari for son DCP Ashok Dudhe said HYDERABAD: Patrons in Hyderabad the soft power of the city. Misra on the Bench when the (EC) committee, relied on dams, the latter expected to now emerged as the next big conspiring to organise terrorist permission was denied as can rest assured; David Guetta is Telangana wants to ramp up its lawyers made their request. documents that estimated be 77 metres high and re- hurdle which, according to activities in various parts of the organisers had failed to set to rock the city on Saturday presence and act like a magnet The mentioning was direc- the project cost to be about sponsible for submerging Union Minister Uma Bharti, India and for “recruiting Muslim fulfil the requisite criteria. evening at Hitex. “The show is for events like Sunburn, ted solely at Justice Misra. Rs. 9,393 crore. 5,803 hectares of tiger habitat would take about seven youths for jihad.” — Special on,” that’s the message of the Sensation, Tomorrowland, NH7 In fact, the Jallikattu case, “The current projected in the Panna Tiger Reserve. years to be ready. Correspondent ‘Very short notice’ organisers of Sunburn event in etc.,” said Vijay Amritraj, local concerning the legality of a “The organisers ap- Hyderabad. “We have absolute partner for the event. January 7, 2016 government proached us at a very short notification, was heard by a notice and did not furnish Bench of Justices Misra and any details about the event, said Mr. Dudhe. The organ- “The organisers had not ob- Nariman. its security and their ar- isers, he added, did not tained permission from the The case was reserved for rangements for traic man- provide the requisite NoCs fire department.” judgment on December 7, agement. Our deployment from other departments, or A spokesperson for the 2016. and other measures for any visa details of the foreigners event said: “The concert has On Thursday, Justice event are dependent on the performing at the concert. been cancelled due to issues Misra had said the request measures undertaken by the BMC oicials said they with traic regulations. made by the lawyers in the organisers. It was not pos- denied permission for the We’re trying to work it out mentioning to pronounce sible for us to deploy bando- Mahalaxmi Race course for tomorrow but nothing the judgement overnight was bast at such a short notice,” event for similar reasons. can be confirmed just yet.” “unfair”.

YK NOIDA/DELHI 10 | EDITORIAL THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 Obama’s act of departure Barack Obama’s farewell speech was an ode to democracy, a playing out of a ritual faith in the Constitution and in the people of the U.S. When a leader and the people renew their faith, democracy comes alive

democracy demands perpetual participa- ity, a sense that economics is not a zero-sum SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 tion. The ritual of citizens’ participation is game. SHIV VISVANATHAN the only perpetual machine that keeps demo- Yet, the changes in technology now cracy as faith and action alive. Living demo- threaten this solidarity. Politics has to create cracy and dreaming democracy helps recre- a new social compact to meet new needs. Mr. ate democracy. The renewal of faith and the Obama did not hide the dangers to demo- Pay heed to U.S. President Barack Obama’s farewell ad- reinvention of citizenship are continuous in a cracy, be it race or terror. Yet he emphasised dress in Chicago this week was an epic event, functioning democracy. the need to avoid paranoia, and insisted on Urjit Patel a drama in political dialogue which people The power of his narrative was moving. It empathy, where one cannot frame every is- sensed as a terrific performance. was as if he had the vision of the founding sue as a struggle between a hardworking eserve Bank of India Governor Urjit Pa- Mr Obama’s farewell address was more fathers in his blood. The audience was middle class and an undeserving minority. tel’s emphasis on the vital importance of than an act of departure. It was an act of re- touched, even moved to tears as acclamation He cited Harper Lee’s great character Atticus protecting domestic macroeconomic sta- newal. Being a talented speaker, he could became a ritual of solidarity. The impact was Finch, who claimed that you never under- bility could not have come at a more cru- combine many messages and performances charismatic, folksy, everyday and one sensed stand a man till you get into his skin, and de- R to create a memorable moment. Through his that no demagogue or dictator could achieve manded that the immigrant empathises with cial juncture. With the Centre in the process of fi- speech he created a magical space, an epi- this music of democracy which one calls the white American whose world is capsizing nalising the Union Budget, Dr. Patel has stressed phany on the power of the people and people trust. The American dream has moved mi- through economic change. It was a powerful the need to ensure that it does not stray from the in power. In this way, an act of departure be- grants, refugees, pioneers, slaves, women to plea for empathy, where citizenship demands path of fiscal consolidation, at a time when the ex- came an act of healing, of community, of organise. that we take on the role of the other. A demo- ternal environment is already adverse and likely to solidarity, a ritual which recharged the U.S.’s cracy which does not empathise with the remain uncertain for the foreseeable future. That faith in democracy. It was an eloquent mo- A path to renewal other becomes a world of stereotypes, which the clamour for a sizeable fiscal stimulus is likely to ment enacted with a full sense of almost op- Mr. Obama recognised that democracy is seeks comfort in sameness. grow louder as budget day nears is a certainty, given eratic power. not a flawless machine, yet it works. He There was a magic to the narrative as the talked of the achievements of his own terms audience responded to the pedagogy of the the signs that an incipient demand slowdown may From President to citizen have been exacerbated by the cash crunch caused and shared his achievements with the people. ideals. He added that democracy is a battle of In his body language, there was an ease There was and is a shared pride in the ideas, but ideas which explore diference on by the withdrawal of high-value banknotes. Within about being in power and there was also an The sincerity and the authenticity achievements of the Obama era. The sincer- the basis of reason. This demanded the con- the government too, the temptation to loosen the ease about his giving up power. A farewell is a ity, the authenticity made one wonder how cession that even an opponent might be mak- purse strings to assuage adverse reaction to the de- ritual where a president becomes citizen of the speech made one wonder this same America became a post-truth soci- ing a valid point. monetisation decision is likely to be high. It is in again. Mr. Obama was clear that for all the how this same America became a ety, allowing someone such as Donald Trump Mr. Obama moved to a poetic sense of the this context that the RBI chief’s reminder to the facts of empire and nationhood, the real hero post-truth society, allowing a to become president. American faith in change, in innovation, hail- Centre that “borrowing even more and pre-empt- of American democracy is the citizen. There The context nibbles at the text but the mes- ing what he called the spirit of the Kitty Hawk ing resources from future generations” cannot be a was humour in the act where he referred to Trump to become president sage sustains itself. A democracy that be- and Cape Canaveral. It is a spirit of innova- short cut to achieving durable long-term “higher his lame duck status. lieves in itself renews itself. People’s faith re- tion based on a rule of law and a faith in hu- growth” is significant. With the general govern- He began his speech easily and informally. steel mills”. He enacted his biography as the creates people’s power. In fact, Mr. Obama man rights. His relationship with the American people biography of all migrants, renewing Amer- showed that even the transition of power is a He warned that this faith is being chal- ment deficit among the highest in the G-20 eco- was not one of demagogic distance or charis- ica’s openness to all oppressed people. For moment to be proud of, emphasising the lenged. But the only answer to this was a re- nomies, Dr. Patel reiterated what several of his pre- matic power but possessed the homeliness him, two magic words sustain the miracle power of institution over the idiosyncrasy of newal of the American spirit of democracy. A decessors including Y.V. Reddy have harped on: and the humility of a conversation. He called America: people and change, both individuals. It is democracy that renews threat to democracy demands more demo- high levels of government borrowing tend to crowd claimed that his conversation with the Amer- working through the institutions of demo- America. cracy. It is a battle which democracy has ex- out private investment and paper over the urgent ican people kept him honest and made him “a cracy. For Mr. Obama, democracy is the force Democracy, he explained, like an easy tended abroad challenging the Islamic State need for more abiding reforms. better president” and “a better man”. of alchemy which sustains both individual preacher, does not require uniformity. It cre- in every front. Yet he realised that terror Specifically, the RBI chief has suggested that gov- A moment of departure is a moment of re- dreams while creating a notion of the com- ates solidarity through diference. He em- must be fought legally otherwise terror turns ernment expenditure be ideally reoriented towards membrance. As applause punctuated liter- mon good. phasised that solidarity and uniformity cre- us into monsters. creating more public infrastructure such as expan- ally every sentence, Mr. Obama recollected Yet democracy, he claimed, for all its vital- ated two diferent worlds of unity. Mr. Obama’s speech was an ode to demo- ded railway networks and urban mass transit sys- that he began his career in Chicago working ity can never be taken for granted. An act of Mr. Obama spelt out the challenges to cracy, a playing out of a ritual faith in the Con- with church groups “in the shadow of closed indiference is an act of betrayal because democracy — a sense of economic opportun- stitution, in the people. It was moving, tems that would help boost productivity even as it poignant and yet easy in its diction. A leader leads to reductions in the oil import bill and CARTOONSCAPE and a people renew faith, and in the very act provides the collateral benefit of improved air qual- of renewal democracy comes alive. ity. And in what could be seen as an expression of assertion of the RBI’s independence of thought, Dr. Rhetoric hides the cracks Patel spoke of the risks that policy interventions in There is power and simplicity to the act be- the form of government guarantees and interest cause there is a faith which binds drama and rate subventions pose. While not directly alluding everydayness. Watching it one knew that no to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announce- Vladimir Putin, Jacob Zuma, Narendra Modi or Theresa May could have pulled this of. ments last month, which included a doubling in There was a magic to it that one responded credit guarantees for micro, small and medium en- to. For a few moments an old-fashioned terprises, the RBI chief said that “large credit guar- America came alive and Mr. Trump and para- antees also impede optimal allocation of financial noid fears of the new society receded. Mr. resources and increase moral hazard.” With such Obama, as Canute, had reversed the tides so guarantees only adding to the government’s liabilit- that America could once again believe in ies and raising the risk premium on its borrowing, democracy. the better solution, he suggested, would be to re- Yet, one must remember that moments of solve constraints such as transaction costs related renewal are moments of erasure. The power to clearances and the taxation bureaucracy. As Dr. of the performance, the easy rhetoric hides the cracks in the regime, the crevices through Patel said, “it is easy and quick to fritter away gains which Mr. Trump broke in. Rituals of farewell regarding macroeconomic stability”. But, as he ad- require rites of critique, and if America is a ded, it would be “hard and slow to regain them”. vital democracy, these will follow soon. Ac- clamation and solidarity in a moment of cul- tural crisis strike an odd note but a presiden- tial farewell is a true American melodrama. One wishes the efect would continue but a Pakistan’s farewell is a closure, the end of an era. The storyteller waits anxiously for the new to vanishing voices unfold. Shiv Visvanathan is director, Centre for the Study of ver the past few days, five Pakistani act- Knowledge Systems, Jindal Global Law School, and the ivists including the poet Salman Haider writer of Theatres of Democracy. have gone missing. The incidents have Oleft the rights groups, already under LETTERS TO THE EDITOR pressure from the military and extremist outfits, alarmed. Nobody has claimed responsibility, and Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. the family members haven’t got any ransom calls. The government says it will find them, but the in- Jallikattu and culture have any misgivings about animals of Tamil Nadu. One would expect When the citizenry of a country served to jawans emerged, there vestigation that started after Haider’s disappear- being treated in a cruel manner. that Chief Minister O. does not have any sense of belonging have been a few more that have ance on January 6 seems to have reached nowhere; At a time when most people are still A.V. Narayanan, Panneerselvam is given enough time and believes that subverting the surfaced (“What’s cooking in the experiencing the after-efects of Tiruchi to function before he is judged. The infrastructure is the best survival BSF?”, Jan.13). The intervention by since then four more have gone missing. Although demonetisation and farmers are government will lose its credibility if strategy, then the government is not the Prime Minister’s Oice should the full facts are not available, the perception that reeling under drought, is jallikattu Jallikattu is not a social evil to be his constitutional position as Chief the only institution to be blamed. not result in a cover-up. The move to the disappearances are somehow linked has gained that essential a sport to be fought fought against tooth and nail but a Minister is continually challenged Things will not change unless fear is give the whole issue a political hue is credence. They were all active social media-based for? It may be called a bull-taming rural sport associated with the by party sycophants who are keen to induced among Indian citizens by unwarranted and the claim that campaigners for human rights and critical of the sport but from what I have seen, it is annual harvest festival of Pongal curry favour with Ms. Sasikala who strictly penalising and punishing more attention is being paid to the military and its support for militancy. They chal- only the participants who get tamed since the Sangam Age. It is has held no position in the party or them for such behaviour. plight of jawans is laughable. Mobile lenged the extremist narrative propagated by the by the bulls. Where is the valour in entertaining as participants display public life. With a shroud of secrecy Ritvik Chaturvedi, apps in the hands of jawans should fundamentalist groups and promoted the idea of a this sport? Are they fighting with grit, determination, will, strength, surrounding Jayalalithaa’s medical New Delhi not be misused at a time when India modern, inclusive Pakistan, largely through Face- bulls face to face? People run behind and even presence of mind. It is an treatment and the disproportionate has a tense relationship with and hang onto a bull for some exaggeration to say that animals are assets case hanging like a sword of We must stop looking at cities as the neighbouring countries. book posts and blogs. Haider was known for his distance. If they are able to do this tortured. As a photojournalist, I have Damocles over her head, Ms. “engines of growth” because these N. Nagarajan, strong stand on rights violations in Balochistan. for a while, they are labelled as covered this sport for nearly 16 years Sasikala would be well advised not engines are adding to pollution at Secunderabad This is not the first time activists and writers crit- heroes. Many are also injured in the at Alanganallur and Palamedu in to assume an additional role as chief unmanageable rates. The ical of the military-terror complex have come un- process, gored and even trampled Madurai district in Tamil Nadu and minister. government must ponder over what Happenings in the armed forces der attack in Pakistan. For years both the security upon. When there are so many have a stock of about 500 Kangayam R. Narasimhan, former President Abdul Kalam said: continue to make news for all the apparatus and militant groups have used force to si- burning issues for political parties to transparencies and negatives. In no Chennai “The developed India will not be a wrong reasons. Most prominent lence critics. Liberal activist and author Raza Rumi, tackle, why harp on this (“Jallikattu frame that I have shot can I find nation of cities. It will be a network have been unappeased veterans who had criticised state support for militants, was ban to stay as Supreme Court refuses animals to have been treated in a Vision for urbanscapes of prosperous villages empowered protesting and demanding pay attacked by an extremist outfit in March 2014. A to be hurried into judgment”, Jan.13)? cruel way. In fact jallikattu results in by telemedicine, tele-education, and parity through OROP, the year later, activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead D. Sethuraman, injuries to participants, which they As a resident of Delhi, I can e-commerce....” controversial appointment of the Chennai take in their stride. completely relate to the writer when R. Swarnalatha, Army Chief, and now, a case that in Karachi after she hosted a debate on Balochistan. he says that our vision of making shows the dismal condition of our This time the victims are social media activists, and R. Krishnamurthy, Chennai Almost all political parties in Tamil Coimbatore urbanscapes better is doomed if our jawans. The government should it is not hard to see the pattern. In Pakistan where Nadu have raised the pitch on the leaders give direct amnesty to New chief ensure the well-being of those who television faces censorship and the print media is subject. The reasons being given by A transfer of loyalty people who construct illegal ensure the security of the nation. under pressure, social media platforms are a thriv- those who want the ban to be lifted buildings (“The city’s bleak future”, At a time when the dust has yet to Prerna Singh, ing space where people express views without fear. are deeply unconvincing. Just Tamil Nadu has been sailing through Jan.13). Delhi has a number of such settle over the ouster of Cyrus New Delhi Whoever is behind the disappearances is targeting because it is a traditional sport, why a stormy period with most of us settlements; some are being run as Mistry and the battle is still being such free debates. This should be a wake-up call to should this sport of torture be watching helplessly as V.K. Sasikala, commercial spaces. As such fought at many levels, choosing N. Doormat row the Pakistani state. Some commentators have encouraged in the 21st century? Can a close personal aide of Jayalalithaa, constructions are illegal, a legal Chandrasekaran, chairman of TCS, taming an animal by a human being has moved on to become the electricity connection is ruled out as the new head of Tata Sons is The thoughtless act by the online already implicated the state, citing the pattern in be called a sport of valour? Man AIADMK’s general secretary which results in the practice of surprising (“TCS veteran picked to e-retailer giant in marketing the disappearances and the military’s track record claiming victory over animal is not (“Transfer of loyalty”, Jan.13). Most stealing electricity from power lines head Tata Sons”, Jan.13). The tea-to- doormats bearing the Indian in dealing with dissent. The Interior Minister has heroism or valour. It is barbarism. of us do not know what role she and junction boxes. software conglomerate has still tricolour, and their subsequent said the government “is not in the business of dis- Bull taming is synonymous with played in politics or whether she has There is also the lack of a common failed to give specific and withdrawal, raises an issue about appearing people”, but he has the responsibility to torture, bloodshed and death. solutions to Tamil Nadu’s problems. collective culture in our cities. A convincing arguments for Mr. how such a retailer of repute can find out what happened to the activists. For dec- Albert P’Rayan, A situation where there has been no visit to any Indian city will have you Mistry’s removal across all Tata even think of doing such things. ades Pakistan tolerated a culture of violence within Chennai regard for the consensus of the witness people breaking queues, subsidiaries in a transparent manner Come what may, promoting/ its society for political and strategic benefits, but people or even its party cadres is violating traic rules, using roads as except stating that the group under marketing products that involve this has backfired. Liberal space is shrinking in the It is to be remembered that the ban unfortunate. public conveniences and generally his leadership deviated from its core sensitivities is not only injudicious wake of challenges from the extremists that be- afects the traditions and sentiments Aribalaji, making it a nightmare. Despite values. but inexcusable. The faux pas has of people. Such races are held in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu eforts by the government to make only brought disrepute to the firm. nefited from the state’s tolerance of violence. The R. Prabhu Raj, North India including Punjab. With things easy, people still turn a blind Bengaluru But how is the government going to government has to take bold measures to check vigil on the Internet in this era of Ms. Sasikala, who has pledged to eye. The Delhi Metro is a case in trace and take action against small these groups and promote free and fearless think- communication, one cannot miss follow in the footsteps of Jayalalithaa point. People do their own thing traders who peddle similar ing if it wants the already vulnerable democratic any act of cruelty being inflicted on to ensure discipline and unity in the despite announcements every few A jawan’s grievance marketing ideas? dynamics to survive. animals. Jallikattu can be termed a AIADMK party, must avoid seconds about platform and After the BSF jawan’s video clip on E.S. Chandrasekaran, safe rural sport. There is no need to assuming the role of Chief Minister escalator etiquette. the “poor quality of food” being Chennai

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 GROUND ZERO 11 The hyena has the last laugh The wildlife conservation story notches another high at Visakhapatnam’s Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, where a striped hyena was born through captive breeding. As two-month-old Ayush prances around, Nikhila Henry recounts the painstaking efort that went into keeping him alive

His play is always a frenzy; his gait a bit awkward. The puppy fat envelops his body, but the stripes are unmistakeable. All of two months, he is ever hungry, fre- quently growling for milk or minced chicken. As he holds the half-a-dozen hospital staf hostage with his demands, the realisation slowly dawns: this prima-donna act is justified, after all. Of a wait spanning over 90 days, Ayush is all that survives. The striped hyena cub made it, unlike his two siblings. Ayush is a living, thriving testimony to captive breeding, only the third success of its kind in India and the first for 40-year- old Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, Visakhapatnam. The zoo’s four-roomed veterinary hospital that also has a rescue shelter for animals has been Ayush’s home for over two months ever since he was born. There he walks around, sure of safety, rarely sticking to the 4x4 feet cage meant for him. On his tender shoulders lies the burden of survival of his species. Striped hyenas or Hyaena hyaena, a mammal of the Carnivora order and Hy- aenidae family, were commonly found in the wild and bushy semi-arid pastoral lands of India, Central Asia, North and East Africa, West Asia and Turkey till two decades ago. One of the three vari- eties of hyenas in the world, it is now just one step away from being en- dangered, two steps away from being critically endangered and three from being extinct in the wild going by the In- ternational Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources’ (IUCN) Red List published in 2016. To be pre- It was impossible to onment was maintained in the hospital Pavane, who resides three kilometres cise, Ayush’s kind is “near threatened” leave the little one. You to prevent infection. “We used to cover away from the zoo, would come every on the extinction charts, numbering our mouths with sterilised masks and night to check on the cub; the other zoo between 5,000 and 14,000 globally in get worried when you are pick up the cubs only with gloved hands staf practically lived in the hospital. “It 1998 — and given that the “near away only to come back to for a month,” she says. was impossible to leave the little one. threatened” categorisation was efected The extreme caution and sanitised You get worried when you are away in 2008 from a “lower risk, near check on him. setting couldn’t prevent another casu- only to come back to check on him,” threatened” status in 2000, striped hy- - S. RAVI BABU, resident zoologist and alty: Ayush’s brother died after 24 days. Babu reminisces. enas could be closer to 5,000 than 14,000 wildlife conservation enthusiast The cub had developed a urinary tract Ayush responded positively to all the in number now. In India, they were mer- infection and was unable to pass urine. love showered on him. “The cub which cilessly hunted down over the years for “In the ultra-sonogram we could see died was dull but Ayush was up and foraging into graves due to lack of a food only one to whose voice Swathi and that his bladder was full. After sufering about in no time and he was always source in their habitat. Which makes Samrat responded, and hence he was in- a lot of pain for two days, he died on hungry,” says Pavane, as the now two- the only cub who survived out of a litter strumental in the early days of gesta- November 28,” Pavane recollects. month-plus hyena tugs at her palazzo of three born to Samrat and Swathi at tion. A small burrow inside the hyena But Ayush was a fighter. Ever since he pants. From drinking 10 to 20 ml of arti- the Vizag zoological park a success moat, which did not face the walkway was brought to the hospital he showed a ficial milk per day during the first week story like no other. for visitors, became Swathi’s home as zest for life, the staf remember. “He of his stay in the hospital, he graduated she carried the cubs in her belly for 90 used to show healthy signs as he had to drinking 20 to 30 ml daily soon. De- A miracle is bred days. “She would go into the burrow and more milk than his brother and respon- prived of Swathi’s milk, its substitute for Swathi and Samrat were the first rest her belly on the lining of sand ded to medication and touch easily,” Ayush came at an exorbitant price. striped hyenas in Vizag zoo brought strewn there for cushioning,” says Tata says S. Ravi Babu, resident zoologist and Royal Canin, which he drank four times from Kanpur Zoological Park in Febru- as he stands near the moat and glances wildlife conservation enthusiast. a day during the first three weeks, cost ary 2015. Though she had conceived at Swathi-Samrat. Doctors at the zoo about Rs.1,400 per 400 gm packet of the twice before giving birth to the latest lit- had given Swathi regular doses of amino Loving care powdered milk. As the brand went of ter in the Vizag zoo, lack of her natural acid and vitamins over and above an in- Experts at the zoo sufered a few the shelves in Vizag, the staf shifted environs, where a hyena yearns to live in crease in food supply of one kilogram of scares through the ex-situ (outside the him to Beaphar Lactol, priced at Rs.670 seclusion during the gestation period, beef per day. She was comfortable, but natural habitat) captive-breeding pro- for a 200-gm pack. The zoological park’s had got the better of her, forcing Swathi that was not enough to keep her away cess. “After his brother died, Ayush re- annual budget of Rs.50 lakh came in to kill the cubs born each time. The zoo from stress for long. “I saw three cubs fused to eat for two days. We were wor- handy. has a footfall of 300 per day, making her soon after they were born. But after a ried,” says Pavane. But Babu had a plan Now, Ayush eats chicken at noon irritable, anxious and more shy than she few hours only two were around. She which worked. The staf placed a along with his milk. The staf started usually is. ate the third,” he says. puppy-shaped toy in Ayush’s cage and feeding him solid food soon after he This time too, it was a tough preg- On November 5, the zoo staf was he took a liking for it. Perhaps, the hole turned two months on January 4. nancy for her. But the zoo staf were not forced to remove the other two cubs in- left by his sibling’s absence was filled, ready to let history repeat. As Ayush cluding Ayush from the mother and se- albeit temporarily. But the joy did not A blow for captive breeding goofs around, unaware of the miracle of cure them in the veterinary hospital, last long as Pavane diagnosed a digest- Wildlife experts look at Ayush’s sur- his own existence, the zoo staf narrate located half a kilometre away from the ive tract infection in Ayush’s system. He vival as not just a victory for the Indira the painstaking efort it took to help him moat. Separation from the mother was administered anti-diarrhoeal drugs Gandhi Zoological Park but for animal survive, right from the date of mating, brought in other challenges for the at once and an anxious wait followed. conservation globally. Though experts June 21 (which is noted in the zoo log- cubs. Their immune system turned generally prefer long-term conserva- book), through the days of Swathi’s weak as they could not feed on the Modern techniques in tion measures such as preserving the three-month gestation period, the deliv- mother’s milk. “The immune system of natural habitat, modern techniques ery on November 4, and the two months cubs is at risk and 90 to 95 per cent of the conservation such as captive such as captive breeding have in the since. time they die of infection. It was a breeding have in the past past saved animal and bird species G. Peddanna Tata, the 50-year-old an- tightrope walk,” says Dr. K. Pavane, a across the globe from near-extinction. imal caretaker who has spent half his young veterinary doctor at the hospital. saved animal species The most well-known case comes from lifetime in the zoological park, was the This, despite the fact that a sterile envir- from near-extinction China, of the Pere David’s deer (Elaphurus davidianus). Now extinct in the wild according to the IUCN’s Red A SURVIVOR’S TALE: “Wildlife experts look at Ayush’s survival as not just a victory for List, the species survives because of a the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park but for animal conservation globally.” (Clockwise timely and successful captive-breeding from top) Ayush; Dr. K.Pavane, veterinary doctor, with the young hyena; Swathi and exercise. From being hunted down to Samrat, Ayush’s mother and father, at the Zoological Park. PHOTOS: K.R. DEEPAK just 120 in China in 1993, the deer’s num- bers went up steadily to 2,000 by 2008. (Lepidochelys olivacea) on the coun- time for an outside-the-site captive- The success stories extend to the world try’s southern and eastern shores has bred animal to adjust to the wild. The of birds. The pink pigeon (Nesoenas also been well documented. soft introduction itself might not suit mayeri) of Mauritius, attractive for its the animals and there is over a 50 per pinkish grey beak and dark brown back, The conservation debate cent chance that they will not make it in was brought back from “critically en- For conservationists, however, the the wild. Conservation in the longer run dangered” in 1994 to the less lethal “en- best captive-breeding experiment (ex can be about a strict monitoring of flora dangered” status in 2013 through cap- or in situ) is one that allows acclimatisa- and fauna in the wild. Modern tech- tive breeding. Its numbers have gone up tion of beasts to the wild, a process not niques, including drone tracking, could from a mere 10 in 1990 to 50 in 1993, 300 many, including the Vizag zoological be employed for it,” says Sumit Banerjee in 2000 and 370-380 individuals in 2011, park, undertake. “The wild is where of Indian Wildlife Club. the Red List indicates. they belong. So the captive breeder While Ayush will not be let into the Closer home, pygmy hog (Porcula should first soft-introduce the being to a wild, the Vizag zoological park authorit- salvania), the smallest wild hog in the cordoned-of wildlife space which can ies are hopeful of turning things around world which is found mostly in north- be monitored, and then breach the cor- going ahead. “We are aiming at releas- ern West Bengal and north-western As- don to allow the animal to drift into the ing animals into the wild. It might take sam, has bounced back from its “critic- wild on its own. Maintaining or increas- time but this is on the cards,” says B. Vi- ally endangered” status in 1996 only by ing the population in the wild should be jaya Kumar, the curator. dint of captive breeding. Up to 75 such a breeder’s ultimate aim,” says Farida As Ayush gets ready for his evening hogs have been bred in Assam by 2015, Tampal, World Wide Fund for Nature- nap, the attention shifts to Kumari, a according to IUCN data. In a similar ex- India’s State director for Andhra Pra- white tigress at the fag end of her gesta- situ exercise, Chennai’s Madras Cro- desh and Telangana. tion period. Indira Gandhi Zoological codile Bank Trust & Centre for Herpet- Others, however, deem ex-situ breed- Park is bracing for another ex-situ ology has been breeding gharials ing as not a viable option for wildlife battle. Will Kumari add to the popula- (Gavialis gangeticus), a fish-eating conservation. “The gene pool of anim- tion of two male and three female white variety of crocodiles found in India, als which are captive-bred become less tigers currently residing in the zoolo- since 1989. The in-situ (in habitat) diverse, reducing the chances of sur- gical park? Maybe. Maybe not. But it’s breeding of olive ridley turtles vival of their species. It also takes a long the efort that counts. CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 12 | NEWS THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017

FROM PAGE ONE SC: What’s the big deal Modi mocked for imitating Gandhi’s pose PM invites wrath an oicial press release said Tyagi, too, commented on the in advancing Budget? that in the past too, there issue, stressing it was a “big for his photo on have been years in which shame” that Gandhi’s picture The court adjourned the The petition has also Gandhi’s photograph has not has been removed from the hearing till Friday next, giv- sought a direction to strip KVIC calendar appeared in the KVIC calen- KVIC calendar in a year ing Mr. Sharma an oppor- the BJP of its ‘lotus’ party dar, KVIC chairman V.K. when the country was celeb- tunity to research his case symbol on the ground that SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Saxena said there is “no rule rating the centenary an- and tidy up his arguments. it violated the model code or tradition” that only Ma- niversary of his first The court had recently of conduct by presenting NEW DELHI: Opposition parties, hatma Gandhi's picture can Satyagraha movement in refused to grant an urgent the Budget after the declar- including the Congress, the be published on these items. Champaran in Bihar. He de- hearing in the case, saying ation of the dates for the Trinamool Congress (TMC), manded that the KVIC chair- that it would come up for Assembly elections in the the Janata Dal-United (JD- Gandhi can’t be replaced man should be sacked for the hearing in due course. five States. U), the Aam Aadmi Party Responding to these com- “tuglakhi” decision. (AAP) and the Communist ments, Congress spokesper- Party of India-Marxist (CPI- son Abhishek Manu Singhvi ‘Stature of PM’ M), slammed and mocked pointed out that while that Aam Aadmi Party leader PAC not to summon Prime Minister Narendra might be true, with pictures Dilip Pandey said, “It won't Modi on Friday, asking him just of the charkha or ordin- be surprising if Gandhi’s im- whether he thought he could ary people occasionally gra- age is replaced with that of Prime Minister replace the Father of the cing KVIC calendars, Modi’s on currency notes. Nation. “Gandhi’s photo had never in The whole thing… brings According to the MP, Mr. the rules overseeing finan- This comes in the wake of the past been replaced by a Supporters of the Nationalist Congress Party stage a protest in Mumbai on Friday down the stature of a prime Somaiyya also objected to cial committees and those the Prime Minister’s photo- photo of the Prime Minister against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s photo on the calendar. — PHOTO: VIVEK BENDRE minister... He has reduced Mr. Thomas talking of sum- concerning calling Prime graph appearing in this or President of the day.” himself to a megalomaniac.” moning oicials of the Fin- Minister/Ministers, the year’s Khadi and Village In- Pointing out that the Nation”. Congress vice-president plunged in, tweeting, “The CPI(M) general secretary ance Ministry with just committee said in a release, dustries Commission “Gandhiji is too great to be “Modiji first likened him- Rahul Gandhi tweeted, a ref- great symbol of ‘charkha’ Sitaram Yechury tweeted, “As days to go for the presenta- “Ministers shall not be (KVIC) calendar and diary, replaced by any one,” he self to Sardar Patel, now he erence to Mr. Modi seeking [wheel] and Mahatma we enter the 70th year of the tion of the Union Budget. called before the Commit- seated in the iconic pose as- pointed out the irony of “a considers himself to be to take credit for the promo- Gandhi now gets replaced by Mahatma's assassination by a Senior BJP MPs Bhupendra tee either to give evidence sociated with Mahatma former RSS (Rashtriya Gandhiji. Because he (Modi) tion of khadi just as he had Modi Babu. In the calendar… fanatic, Modi replaces the Yadav and Nishikant or consultation in connec- Gandhi spinning khadi on Swayamsevak Sangh) prac- has criticised this one per- done after India’s spacecraft of Khadi (KVIC) 2017, Modi Mahatma’s image on a calen- Dubey also raised objec- tion with the examination the charkha. harak” replacing Gandhi on son, Modiji has not likened Mangalayaan landed on replaced Mahatma Gandhiji. dar. #SpinningYarns”, while tions on the same lines. of estimates of accounts.” These parties also took the the KVIC calendar, given himself to him — that is Mars. Gandhiji is the Father of the quoting a Tushar Gandhi In response, Mr. Thomas Opposition parties con- Modi government to task for that it was “RSS ideology Nehruji”. West Bengal Chief Minis- Nation. Modiji what???” tweet on someone stealing reportedly said that he had tinued to claim victory on defending the photograph: if that had killed the Father of “The Mangalayaan efect,” ter Mamata Banerjee also JD(U) spokesperson K.C. Gandhi’s charkha. meant that if there was con- account of the second part sensus in the committee of the clarification that then it could summon the states, “however, [the] MHA report to Prime Minister. He also chairperson, when [it is] AI software purchase asked ruling party MPs to considered necessary but EC reserves its order be cautious about attempts after its [committee’s] de- PMO refutes BSF to “kill the institution” of liberations are concluded, the PAC. may have an informal inter- jawan’s complaint under CBI scanner As things got heated up, action with the Minister.” on Samajwadi symbol Bhratruhari Mahtab of the According to one Opposi- NEW DELHI: The Home Min- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CVC found “serious BJD and P. Venugopal of the tion MP present at Friday’s istry said in a report to the AIADMK intervened and meeting, “the chairperson’s Prime Minister’s Oice on SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau procedural and said the committee should position has been valid- Friday that it found no sub- of Investigation has re- other irregularities” just clarify the rules on the ated, whereas earlier Mr. stance in a complaint by a NEW DELHI: The Election Com- gistered a case against un- in purchase order issue and issue a press re- Thomas spoke of a unanim- BSF jawan that poor quality mission on Friday reserved known oicials of Air India, lease. This was agreed to by ous decision, here the chair rations were given to secur- its order on the Samajwadi German company SAP AG worth ₨225 crore all sides, a source said. was empowered to meet ity personnel posted along Party symbol dispute follow- and IBM, for alleged irregu- Referring to the Speak- ministers on his/her own the border. ing an over four-hour-long larities in the purchase of En- posal (DGS&D) will also be er’s directions related to discretion.” The report asserted “there hearing of the two factions. terprise Resource Planning probed. was no widespread discon- Mulayam Singh said there (ERP) software worth ₨225 In the self-contained note, tent” over food. According to was no split in the party and crore for the national carrier the CVC said it received a Demonetisation has the report there was no so, the Commission lacked in 2011. complaint alleging irregular- shortage of rations at any the jurisdiction to decide on The case was filed follow- ities in the tendering proced- post in the paramilitary the issue, while the Akhilesh ing a recommendation by the ure for procurement of the hit Nepal hard: Envoy forces and quality check was group argued that the major- Central Vigilance Commis- software by Air India. The being conducted regularly. ity in the party’s organisa- sion (CVC), which found airline found that it had selec- The envoy said Nepalis three weeks to help the tional and legislative struc- Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh leaving for the “serious procedural and ted the software, the largest treated higher value Indian people and the government Fresh guidelines issued tures was with the Uttar Election Commission in New Delhi on Friday. — PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN other irregularities in the ERP provider in the world, notes as the standard cur- of Nepal, but still, they A video by BSF jawan Tej Pradesh Chief Minister. procurement as well as the without justifying the need, rency for saving purposes, should try to address the Bahadur Yadav complaining Represented by senior Mr. Dhavan said neither side present along with his amount paid and the extent of since there was already an and the sudden disappear- concerns as it is afecting a about the quality of food had lawyers Rajeev Dhavan and argued about, or wanted, brother Shivpal Yadav, and services rendered.” ERP of Oracle in place. ance of the 500 and 1,000 very large part of Nepal as gone viral, triggering a flurry Kapil Sibal, the Akhilesh fac- freezing of the symbol. represented by senior advoc- The CVC has asked the It was alleged that the said rupee notes had caused well as the government,” he of reactions, with the PMO tion submitted that The Akhilesh faction has ate and former Solicitor Gen- agency to determine whether Oracle system had some dii- hardships. Mr. Upadhyay said. seeking a detailed report. whichever group had the nu- urged the EC to settle the is- eral Mohan Parasaran. any undue benefit had been culties, but no eforts have said India had not shown The envoy said Nepal’s The BSF has also come out merical majority would have sue at the earliest, as the Mr. Parasaran argued that caused to SAP and IBM, and apparently been made to adequate readiness to do diiculties are far more ex- with fresh guidelines to the party symbol, as also up- nomination process in Uttar the Election Commission whether any of the persons either address them or up- the needful since the tensive than some of the maintain quality of food for held by the Supreme Court, Pradesh starts on January 17. lacked jurisdiction to alloc- who dealt with the issue in grade the existing system, November 8 note ban. other countries, who have its personnel. The PMO has and that the Chief Minister The Commission may issue ate the symbol to one of the IBM and other concerned got nor was there any efort to opt “It is already late because complained about the note been told that “there is no had the support of a majority an interim order in case the factions as there was no split any financial or other benefit. for an open tender system for any remedial measure by ban impact on their diplo- discontent over food in any of the party’s legislators and matter is not decided soon. in the party such as SP (Mu- The issue of alleged irregu- the new ERP. Instead, the India will require at least matic missions. paramilitary force.” — PTI delegates. Post-lunch, the Commis- layam) and SP (Akhilesh) larities in validation of the contract was awarded to SAP Speaking to the media, sion heard the arguments of and there was no splinter product by the Directorate and IBM on nomination after the hearing concluded, Mr. Mulayam Singh, who was group. General of Supplies and Dis- basis, it is alleged. We reserve right to retaliate Kandahar Governor to SC stays deportation on Pak. actions: Army chief be be treated in India

DINAKAR PERI KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE juries in the attack, was in a of Sudanese students stable condition. NEW DELHI: Army chief Bipin ‘It’s for women to take NEW DELHI: India has airlifted a India had condemned the LEGAL CORRESPONDENT Khehar said. Senior advocate Rawat on Friday said India prominent Afghan oicial attack as “dastardly” and Colin Gonsalves, appearing awaited Pakistan’s response for treatment after he was “heinous” and Prime Minis- NEW DELHI: The Supreme for the students, said they on maintaining peace in call on combat role’ seriously injured in a Taliban ter Narendra Modi had Court on Friday stayed the faced threat of persecution if Jammu and Kashmir but cau- attack on January 10 that pledged support to President deportation of two Sudanese they are sent back to Sudan NEW DELHI: Women are role in the tasks that are tioned that in case “they act killed 11 persons, including Ashraf Ghani to counter ter- students, lodged at a deten- which is facing a civil war. unlikely to be inducted necessitated. wrongly, we reserve the right five diplomats from the ror strikes from Taliban. tion centre here, back to their into combat units any “If women are willing to retaliate.” United Arab Emirates. “This dastardly terrorist strife-torn homeland for vi- Centre’s response sought time soon if one were to to move out in that Blaming Pakistan for dis- Oicial sources told The attack is all the more con- olating visa guidelines. The Bench sought a re- go by the statement of environment… It is for turbing the secular fabric of Hindu that the governor of demnable as the UAE ambas- A Bench led by Chief sponse from the Centre, rep- Army Chief Gen. Bipin women themselves to the country through contin- Kandahar, Dr. Humayun sador was in Kandahar on a Justice of India J.S. Khehar, resented by Additional Soli- Rawat. take the call… ,” he said, ued proxy war, Gen. Rawat Azizi, was evacuated to India humanitarian mission to lay however, took strong excep- citor General Maninder Speaking on Friday, adding that once women said the Army was willing to following the attack which foundation stone for the tion to the way the two for- Singh and fixed the plea for Gen. Rawat said it was take a decision, the issue go the extra mile to ensure targeted his oicial resid- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan eign nationals had violated being deported to Sudan. further hearing on January for women to decide if can be addressed. — safety of people and their ence where he was meeting a centre for orphans,” said a local laws by “vanishing “In our country, you do not 20. The court reflected how they could play an equal Special Correspondent properties. “We should see high-level delegation from statement issued by the Min- without giving addresses.” listen to the law. We are tough it is to get the crimin- that Jammu & Kashmir re- the UAE that included the istry of External Afairs on Amir Ahmed and Khames asked to listen to more of als, who are Indian citizens, verses to pre-1989 with On comments by Eastern “We have reached out to Ambassador of UAE to Thursday. Ahmed, studying in those who do not listen to deported from of-shore everyone there living in har- Army Commander Lt. Gen. each other...If there is any- Afghanistan. India has provided med- Benglaluru for almost three our law. We are accommod- destinations. mony,” he observed at his Praveen Bakshi that there thing that needs to be invest- Mr. Azizi who was appoin- ical support to a number of years, were required to in- ating them and they cannot “We ask for our criminals first media interaction. was a conspiracy to prevent igated, if it is brought to my ted to his post in 2015, is at terror-attack victims from timate the authorities in ad- breach the rules. They must in other countries and they To ensure peace and tran- him from becoming Army notice, we will look into it,” present undergoing treat- conflict zones in recent vance if they proposed to stay at a fixed place. You don't even return them. Why quillity on the border, Gen. chief, Gen. Rawat said if he Gen. Rawat stated. He added: ment at an undisclosed loca- years. Soldiers from Iraq leave the Karnataka capital. [lawyer] just close your eyes should we be so magnanim- Rawat said, “We are making [Lt. Gen. Bakshi] puts for- “Lt. Gen. Bakshi has been tion in India. According to fighting the IS in Mosul have They are presently lodged at and think if somebody does ous when they don’t bother?” this ofer of peace to the ad- ward his concerns they supportive of me and I will Afghan media reports, Mr. been receiving treatment in a Lampur detention centre the same in the US, what will Chief Justice Khehar ob- versary.” would be looked into. be supportive of him.” Azizi, who sufered burn in- prominent hospital in Delhi. here and are on the verge of happen?” Chief Justice served orally.

From success stories to politics, New Year calendars say it all in the Valley Zakir Naik’s NGO J&K Bank, Hurriyat and Association of Persons of Disappeared Persons have essayed various issues relevant to Jammu and Kashmir moves HC against ban

PEERZADA ASHIQ situation of youth. This is a The APDP, a body of now,” said APDP AKANKSHA JAIN objected to the ban order be- good move,” said Mr. relatives of missing chairperson Parveena ing promulgated with imme- SRINAGAR: New Year Drabu. persons, featured 12 youth Ahangar, whose son also NEW DELHI: Islamic preacher diate efect. calendars have taken However, separatist who allegedly went missing went missing in 1990 from Zakir Naik's Islamic Re- The Centre, however, said political centre stage in supporters accused the in the security forces’ Srinagar’s Batamaloo area. search Foundation (IRF) on it was “pushed” to impose Kashmir Valley. While J&K bank of attempting to custody in the past 27 years. Hurriyat faction Friday moved the Delhi High immediate ban on IRF. Bank showcases successful “mainstream the Kashmiri More than 7,000 youth chairman Mirwaiz Umar Court challenging the imme- “Youths were being radic- youth, Association of youth.” Pictures of netizens allegedly went missing Farooq’s parent diate ban put on it by a alised. Many were in the Persons of Disappeared setting the calendar on fire since 1989. organisation Awami Action Centre’s notification under queue for joining the Islamic People (APDP) features went viral on social media. “We have featured 12 Committee (AAC) the Unlawful Activities Pre- State. There was probability missing persons and the “I am glad that I refused missing youth. This is an highlighted the centre of vention Act (UAPA). of many youths becoming Hurriyat focuses on the to be a part of the calendar attempt to reiterate our their politics: Srinagar’s The IRF challenged the terrorists. What could have historic Jamia Masjid. that has already courted so demand that the traditional Jamia Masjid. notification issued in been a more urgent situation State Finance Minister many controversies. A government should let us “The mosque remained November declaring it an for a nation? Should we have Haseeb Drabu described Union Public Service know about their under siege most of the “unlawful association” and waited for pralay [cata- the J&K Bank calendar as “a Commission (UPSC) whereabouts. We do not time in 2016. We were banning it with immediate strophe],” Additional Soli- move towards social qualifier becomes an icon need any compensation but disallowed even Friday efect. It said the notification citor General Sanjay Jain upliftment.” when he really has public want to know what prayers. The calendar did not give any reasons and submitted. He also referred “The bank calendar has service to his credit,” wrote happened to our boys. If stresses the centrality of the decision was taken to five FIRs against IRF and wide reach in J&K. In a Ruveda Salam, Assistant they are dead where are the mosque to the politics without any material to show Mr. Naik, one of which was UP IN ARMS: Protesters burn Jammu and Kashmir Bank departure from the past, it Commissioner, Ministry of their graves, if they are of Kashmir,” said the any illegal activity. based on a complaint from calendar in Srinagar on Friday. — PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD focused on real life Finance. alive where are they right Mirwaiz. In a petition before Justice the father of a missing Kerala Sanjeev Sachdeva the NGO youth.

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BRIEFLY In parents’ Punjab Congress ‘Uttarakhand will lose if rebels win’ replaces nominees footsteps, son to CHANDIGARH: The Congress on State will face instability if 10 MLAs who rebelled against him are re-elected, says Harish Rawat Friday released its fourth list Having survived the polit- if they are unhappy with the CBI scanner for an How did the Congress has always been that of of 10 candidates for the ical crisis sparked by the ‘re- the functioning of their alleged case of horse-trading development. rise in Manipur coming Punjab Assembly perform in the current term bellion’ of 10 Congress MLAs party, rebel against it and of MLAs. [March 2012- January 2017]? elections, replacing two of its last year, Uttarakhand Chief join some other party, even In the past few months while CM father paves way for leadership succession earlier nominees. The party Minister Harish Rawat tells if this leads to the imposi- All the allegations of cor- I can only speak about the BJP organised several also announced its candidate Kavita Upadhyay that he tion of President’s Rule. ruption being raised my [two-year] term…. election rallies addressed by IBOYAIMA LAITHANGBAM for the Amritsar Lok Sabha has worked under very dii- However, if they lose, against me are false and People had only one ex- central leaders, the Congress bypoll. cult circumstances over the then Uttarakhand will win. baseless. In fact, the people pectation from us — that has organised only one Rahul IMPHAL: A son is set to rise in Punjab Congress president past two years to help the Hence, it is imperative that who were involved in all we help the State recuper- Gandhi rally. Why is that? the politics of poll-bound Capt. Amarinder Singh said State recover from the dev- they must lose. I think the the corrupt activities of il- ate from the impact of the Manipur, following in the the remaining tickets would astating 2013 floods. people of Uttarakhand also legal sand mining, etc, are June 2013 disaster... and we Our workers are striving footsteps of his parents. also be announced at the understand this. [the turncoats, managed the task hard. Besides, I have faith in Manipur’s Congress Chief earliest, reiterating the party’s What do you have to say who are now] in well. my work and I have faith in Minister Okram Ibobi Singh commitment to choosing about the 10 MLAs who Is the pre-poll situation in the BJP. the people of my State. has paved the way for his winnable candidates over rebelled against you, last Uttarakhand a repeat of what How important is it They [the people] are with only son Okram Surjakumar other considerations and year, and joined the BJP? it was during the President’s As the for the Congress to me, I believe. (29), to take a possible lead- sticking to the one-family- Rule? Does it continue to be Uttarakhand Chief win the polls in ership position. one-ticket rule. I have no malice against Harish Rawat versus the Minister for the Uttarakhand? Were you sitting on fast in The district unit of the The party has announced a anyone, but the truth is that BJP’s central leadership? past two years, did New Delhi, on January 5, to Congress in the Khangabok total of 108 candidates for if the 10 turncoats win, then you get enough For the susten- protest against the Assembly constituency has election to the 117-member Uttarakhand will lose. It is the BJP and not the time to ance of democracy, Bhagirathi Eco-sensitive declared the London-edu- Assembly. — Special Their victory would mean Congress that practises the accomplish your goals for it is important that the Con- Zone (ESZ) notification, or for cated, polo-playing ‘scion’ as Correspondent instability for Ut- politics of personal anim- the State? gress must win…. In the hydropower projects to come the party candidate in place tarakhand polit- osity. Our struggle is year 2002, the Congress’ re- up in the Bhagirathi Valley? of Okram Landhoni, his Restrictions on jail ics for the next only towards achiev- No. I had to work under vival at the Centre had be- mother and sitting MLA. Okram Surjakumar visits ahead of polls five to 10 ing a better Ut- extremely diicult circum- gun with its victory in Ut- A very wrong impression Ms. Landhoni, who is years. If they tarakhand. stances. When I took the tarakhand. is being created that I was known to have entered the CHANDIGARH: The Punjab win, it would oath of oice of Chief Min- This time too, the party’s on fast for hydropower pro- fray reluctantly a decade ago, ‘It is in accordance Home department has issued mean that The BJP has been ister in February, 2014, I had path to victory in the 2019 jects. The protest was had won the election to the with the wishes of instructions banning the public raising allegations the task of getting the State Lok Sabha polls will begin against the Centre’s in- Assembly twice from the the party and people mulaqaats (meetings) with accepts the that your out of the 2013 disaster with our victory in justice towards Ut- Khangabok constituency. prisoners in all central, district kind of politi- government was [Torrential rains in June Uttarakhand. tarakhand. We had submit- Khangabok used to be Mr. that I am joining and sub-jails in the State, cians who, playing into the 2013 set of landslides and ted a Zonal Master Plan Ibobi’s home constituency. electoral politics’ three days prior to the polling hands of sand mining, floods in the State, killing at What are the issues that the (ZMP) to the Centre so that Ten years ago he moved to date on February 4. liquor and land least 5,000 persons includ- Congress will focus on few developmental activit- Thoubal, leaving Khangabok The decision follows a mafia. You ing tourists]. during the poll campaign? ies, which the Centre has al- to his wife. made accountable for chal- meeting of senior State are also Later, in March, 2016, I lowed in the ESZ notifica- In Thoubal some politi- lenging the boycott call. government officials with under had to battle the political Our poll campaign is tions of States including cians had objected to his can- Mr. Surjakumar graduated officials of the the Election instability that had risen around the theme of devel- Himachal Pradesh, can pro- didature, terming him an in economics in 2008 from Commission (EC) here, on due to the imposition opment — Satat Vikas ka gress in the Bhagirathi Val- “outsider”. However he won London. He stayed back Thursday evening. of President’s Rule in Sankalp (a promise to- ley too. However, the the election with a comfort- there for a year to work in a Additional Chief Secretary Uttarakhand. If the wards sustainable develop- Centre rejected our ZMP able margin. In the case of private company. (Home) K.B.S. Sidhu on Friday people of Ut- ment). While our fight is outright. The protest was to some politicians who tried Then, after a period of stay said February 4, having been tarakhand want to see also for protecting demo- ask the Centre to recon- their electoral luck in con- in Delhi in 2010, he returned already declared a holiday for my true potential, cracy, which the BJP tried sider the ZMP so that de- stituencies other to Manipur in time polling, would also be covered then they must give to murder last year, the velopmental activities can than their home for the 2012 election by this ban. “In case of any me five more years. main issue for the Congress take place in the Valley. constituencies, campaign. emergency, “mulaqaat” shall voters did not even He said his dream be permitted only with the permit them to is to establish a prior approval of Additional enter the constitu- number of residen- Director General of Police Secular parties ency for tial schools so “stu- (Prisons),” he said. Illegal weapons seized across U.P. electioneering. dents would not — Special Correspondent failed to stop Mr. Ibobi Singh is miss classes even OMAR RASHID roha and Allahabad. Apart the first Chief Min- during the frequent SYL is not a poll issue: from weapons, since January Modi: Owaisi ister of Manipur to strikes and block- Haryana CM LUCKNOW: Since the imposi- 4, the police and flying complete a five-year term ades” in the State. tion of the Model Code of squads have seized more STAFF REPORTER and has been in oice for Evidently seeking to pre- ROHTAK (HARYANA): Haryana Conduct in Uttar Pradesh on than ₨31.6 crore in cash and three consecutive terms. He empt any criticism of his Chief Minister Manohar Lal January 4, the State police ₨87 crore in foreign currency MEERUT: All India Majlis-e-It- was first elected to the State dynastic-style entry into Khattar on Friday said the poll has seized more than 1,750 il- (of 14 nations) across Uttar tehad-ul-Mulsimeen (AI- Assembly in 1985. politics, Mr. Surjakumar campaign in Punjab is the legal weapons, 39 crude Pradesh. MIM) chief Asaduddin In the last elections some said: “I have been a loyal sol- party’s prerogative and bombs and 1,800 cartridges, The recovery of illegal li- Owaisi on Friday hit out at insurgent groups had dier of the Congress and it is whoever is entrusted with this and shut down 40 small quor, a common item distrib- the “brigade of secular “banned” the Congress and in accordance with the responsibility would fulfill it factories manufacturing uted during elections to woo parties” for calling him com- the party’s candidates could wishes of the party and with complete honesty and these banned items across voters, was also high: 36,491 munal and said that “had not do electioneering for se- people that I am joining hard work. the State. litres. they been sincere, Narendra curity concerns. electoral politics.” The issue of Sutlej-Yamuna The single biggest haul During its operations, the Modi would not have be- Mr. Ibobi Singh, who has Mr. Ibobi’s nephew Okram Link canal is not a poll issue came in the communally- police also recovered more come the Prime Minister”. Z-plus security cover, de- Henry is also likely to con- and Haryana has presented its sensitive western U.P.’s than 4 kg gold, 104 kg silver, “Had you been competent, cided not to go to his con- test from the Wangkhei case by clarifying its stand, he Shamli district adjoining 44 silver coins and 372 mo- and had you wanted and had stituency for routine elec- constituency. said. Muzafarnagar, on Thursday BIGGEST HAUL: Police seized 203 illegal weapons in the sensitive bile phones. you had some planning then tioneering. Elections to the 60-mem- The CM said this during a night, when police seized 203 western U.P.’s Shamli district adjoining Muzaffarnagar on The Additional Director the BJP would not have got He said he was more con- ber Manipur Assembly are crafts exhibition as part of the illegal weapons (123 guns Thursday. — PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT General (ADG) Law and Or- so many seats. But you were cerned about the safety of scheduled to be held from 21st National Youth and 80 pistols) and 500 semi- der Daljeet Singh said the only bothered about power,” the voters who would be March 4 to 8. Festival-2017. About 5,000 formed country-made pis- elections. They were expect- linked it to the polls. “Big de- seizures of arms, cash and li- he said. artisans from different States tols, and busted three factor- ing a lot of demand. We are struction could have been quor are “unprecedented” While addressing people are showcasing their talent in ies manufacturing them. not ruling out the gang’s caused during elections,” it when compared to trends in in Kairana which was in con- the festival. Notably, INLD had The police encountered a links to the recent political tweeted. the previous elections. troversy due to alleged submitted an MoU to the gang of arms suppliers near firing [on a BJP leader in The police also recovered For the first time, the Uttar forced exodus, he alleged Governor demanding dismissal Gandarmau and arrested Ghaziabad],” Shamli Super- two cars from the gang. Pradesh police is also main- that more than 12,000 major of the Khattar government for one of them; six escaped. intendent of Police (SP) Ajay Similar recoveries of il- taining vigil and addressing and minor communal incid- its alleged failure in “What the accused has Pal Sharma told The Hindu. legal weapons have been complaints of violation of ents took place during Chief performing the constitutional told us is that they prepared The Shamli Police’s oi- made over the past week in the election code on social Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s responsibility. —PTI the arms keeping in mind the cial Twitter handle also Etah, Muzafarnagar, Am- media. tenure.

SAD, BJP, Cong. colluding against AAP: Kejriwal

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CHANDIGARH: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said that the ensuing As- sembly elections in Punjab is between the AAP and the SAD-BJP-Congress com- bine, as “Badals” have col- luded with Capt. Amarinder Singh to stop the AAP from BJP Panaji candidate Siddharth Kuncolienkar with Union coming into power. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar, before filing nomination “I can see a tsunami in fa- papers in Panjim on Friday. — PHOTO: PTI vour of the AAP, which can- not be stopped by such collu- sion between Akalis and Parrikar ducks Congress”, he said in Jalandhar. Mr. Kejriwal said time is question on CM ripe for Punjabis for bringing a political change in the State PRAKASH KAMAT Opposition has accused Mr. for the future of their wards Parrikar of spending more and to end the nexus PANAJI: A day after Union Min- time in Goa, indulging in between “Badals and Am- ister Nitin Gadkari said a State politics, than in Delhi. arinder”, who have tacit un- Central leader could be ap- The Opposition has also derstanding to contest Pun- pointed Chief Minister if the often dubbed Mr. Parrikar as jab Assembly polls. BJP wins the upcoming As- ‘Super CM’ and his successor “Recently, Manish Sisodia sembly elections in Goa, De- Mr. Laxmikant Parsekar a said that Kejriwal himself fence Minister Manohar Par- “puppet CM”. will ensure fulfilment of all rikar evaded questions on promises made by the AAP. Defends Goa visits the subject. The Akalis and the Congress Asked if he was likely to He has defended his Goa started making a hue and cry, return to State politics, Mr. visits saying he has political so as that I will be the next Parrikar, a former Chief Min- roots in his home State.On Chief Minister.. It seems that ister, said one could cross the Thursday, Mr. Gadkari, the these parties are having a bridge when one came to it. BJP election in-charge of Kejriwal phobia and fear “I can only say that let us Goa, in presence of Chief me,” he said. Mr. Kejriwal re- cross the bridge when it Minister Parsekar said at a iterated that he would not be comes. Gadkariji said what press conference that Prime the Chief Minister of Punjab we (the party) wanted to Minister Narendra Modi and as being propagated by the say,” Mr. Parrikar said here BJP President Amit Shah had SAD and the Congress. on Friday. told him that the party could Mr. Kejriwal said that his Ever since he gave up the appoint a Goan Central first priority would be to Chief Ministership and went leader as a non-MLA Chief eradicate drugs and cut the to Delhi to take charge of the Minister if need be after the supply of narcotics within a Defence Ministry in 2014, the February 4 elections. month. CM YK NOIDA/DELHI 14 | WORLD THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 ‘U.S. worried over Pak. missiles’ Obama’s decision to impose trade curbs on Pakistan entities came out of missile concerns

VARGHESE K. GEORGE ive moves that only increase the risk that nuclear WASHINGTON: The U.S. is in- weapons could be used in a creasingly worried over the regional conflict in Europe, rising range and variety of South Asia or East Asia. Pakistan’s missile capability Working with Congress, the and that the recent decision next administration will of the Obama administration have to navigate these to impose trade restrictions dangers.” on seven Pakistan entities came out of this concern, a Trump’s policy source familiar with the de- The incoming administra- velopments told The Hindu. tion will continue with the The oicial announce- existing U.S. policies to- ment of the decision did not wards India, Pakistan and detail the reasons, but said Asia in general, Defence Sec- there was “reasonable cause retary-designate James Mat- to believe, based on specific tis indicated during his con- and articulable facts”, that firmation hearing before the these entities “have been in- Senate Armed Forces Com- volved in actions contrary to mittee. He complemented the national security or for- Pakistan for its action against eign policy interests of the terror groups that operate United States”. All the entit- within the country, adding ies are linked to Pakistan’s he would push for more ef- missile programme. With fective targeting of groups the addition of these seven, that attack neighbouring there are 47 Pakistani entit- countries. This is in line with ies that are under strict the Obama administration’s watch of U.S. agencies. eforts in the region. What has triggered the Mr. Mattis said he “hesit- FINAL HONOUR: U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to alarm bells in Washington is ates to use phrases such as Vice-President Joe Biden at the White House in Washington on Thursday. — PHOTO: REUTERS Shaheen-III, which has a ‘rebalance’ or ‘pivot’ as they range of 2,750 km. Pakistan imply that we are turning has oicially explained its away from our commitments longest-range missile to date, elsewhere,” but added that tested for the first time in “China’s behaviour has led U.S. ends special treatment 2015, as a capability to strike countries in the region to the Andaman and Nicobar look for stronger U.S. leader- Islands, the farthest Indian ship. If confirmed, I will ex- for Cuban migrants territory from its shores. But amine ways to strengthen the missile also has Israel in our allies and partners, while JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS humanitarian relief will be presidents have long its range, along with several taking a careful look at our FRANCES ROBLES subject to removal, sought to isolate. European countries — own military capabilities in consistent with U.S. law The action came something that the U.S. stra- the region”. WASHINGTON: President and enforcement through a new tegic community finds un- He also pledged to con- Barack Obama said priorities,” Mr. Obama Department of Homeland nerving. tinue with the Obama policy Thursday that he was said in a statement. “By Security regulation and a The entities put under of enhancing a long-term terminating the 22-year- taking this step, we are deal with the Cuban trade restrictions by the U.S. strategic relationship with old policy that has treating Cuban migrants government. include the Islamabad-based India “based on the conver- allowed Cubans who the same way we treat “What we have agreed National Engineering and gence of our interests and arrived on United States migrants from other to is that the past is past, Scientific Commission, and our shared democratic val- soil without visas to countries.” and the future will be its subsidiaries, Air Weapons ues”. “I note that the United remain in the country and The move places a diferent,” said Jeh Complex, Maritime Techno- States and India recently ce- gain legal residency, an finishing touch on Mr. Johnson, Homeland logy Complex and New Auto mented India’s status as a unexpected move long Obama’s eforts as Security secretary. “This Engineering. major defence partner. If sought by the Cuban President to end a half- is us repealing a policy Speaking at an event on confirmed, I would assess government. century of hostility unique to Cuba given the nuclear security, Vice-Pres- what particular areas in the “Efective immediately, between the U,S, and nature of the relationship ident Joe Biden alluded to bilateral security relation- Cuban nationals who Cuba and to establish 20 years ago, which is this concern on Wednesday. ship I should focus on, and attempt to enter the normalized relations and very diferent right now.” “Not just North Korea, but what steps can be taken to United States illegally and diplomatic ties with a — New York Times News Russia, Pakistan and others bolster the overall defence do not qualify for government U.S. Service have made counterproduct- relationship.” U.S. concerned Morocco bans production, sale of burqa Two-state solution ‘only way’ over missing RABAT: Morocco’s ban on the Most women in Morocco, Pakistani activists sale and production of burqa whose King Mohammed VI to Israeli-Palestinian peace full-face Muslim veils be- favours a moderate version JERUSALEM: In a strong mes- The summit in Paris settlements as illegal. The ISLAMABAD: The United States loved of Salafists has sharply of Islam, prefer the hijab sage to Israel and the incom- resolution passed 14—0 after has expressed concern over divided opinions in the headscarf that does not ing Trump administration, this weekend will ask the U.S. declined to use its the disappearance of five North African country. cover the face. dozens of countries are ex- both sides to restate traditional veto power and Pakistani anti-Taliban activ- “The burqa is not an item The niqab, which leaves pected this weekend to reit- their commitment to instead abstained. ists and bloggers who mys- of clothing just like any the area around the eyes un- erate their opposition to Is- Israeli Prime Minister teriously went missing last other... it’s an instrument of covered, is also worn in raeli settlements and call for two-state solution Benjamin Netanyahu has week. oppression, a horrific nega- Salafist circles and in more the establishment of a ruled out a return to the 1967 State Department spokes- tion of women, an insult to conservative regions in the Palestinian state as “the only without agreement by both lines, and many members of man Mark Toner’s remarks half of humanity,” according north, from where thousands way” to ensure peace in the sides. his nationalist coalition op- on Thursday came after to award-winning French- of jihadists have gone to fight region. The draft says that parti- pose Palestinian independ- Pakistan’s interior ministry Moroccan novelist Leila in Syria and Iraq. France is hosting more cipants will airm “that a ne- ence and support expanded asked police to step up ef- Slimani. Writers and intellectuals than 70 countries on Sunday gotiated solution with two settlements. forts to find the missing men, Ms. Slimani, in an opinion have condemned the burqa at a West Asia peace summit, states, Israel and Palestine, Mr. Netanyahu has rejec- who include Salman Haider, piece on news website DIVISIVE MOVE: A Moroccan woman wearing a burqa walking in ban. “No authority in the in what will be a final chance living side by side in peace ted the U.N. resolution and a university professor and Le360, said the burqa ban sig- front the jail of Sale, near Rabat. — PHOTO: AFP world has the right to impose for the Obama administra- and security, is the only way accuses the Obama adminis- rights activist. nalled that Morocco was a dress code on a woman or a tion to lay out its positions to achieve enduring peace”. tration of conspiring behind moving “towards greater dia reports said the interior on Monday started carrying man for their everyday life,” for the region. According to a Israel has settled some Israel’s back. Israel has re- No leads so far equality between the sexes”. ministry order banning the out “awareness-raising cam- wrote columnist Abdellah draft statement obtained by 600,000 of its citizens in the fused to participate in the No militant group has so Another vocal supporter, burqa would take efect this paigns with traders to inform Tourabi, in a view widely The Associated Press on Fri- West Bank and east Jerus- French conference. far claimed abducting the Nouzha Skalli, a lawmaker week. “We have taken the them of this new decision,” shared on social media in day, the conference will urge alem occupied territories The Palestinians, who also activists and no government and former family and social step of completely banning said another website, Media Morocco. Is the burqa for- Israel and the Palestinians claimed by the Palestinians are not invited to this week- department or intelligence development minister, said the import, manufacture and 24. eign to Moroccan culture? he “to oicially restate their for a future independent end’s conference, have wel- agency has said it detained or the ban constituted “an im- marketing of this garment in Le360 said the measure asked. Sure, but “slim jeans commitment to the two-state State. Israel captured both comed the French initiative. arrested any one of the five. portant step in the battle all the cities and towns of the appeared to be motivated by were not the apparel of the solution”. areas in the 1967 war. In recent years, they have Activists rallied against against religious extrem- kingdom,” Le360 quoted a security concerns, “since sultans and our grandmoth- It also will airm that the The summit comes on the campaigned for the interna- the disappearances in the ism”. high-ranking interior min- bandits have repeatedly used ers were not crazy about Vic- international community heels of a U.N. Security tional community to assume city of Karachi late on While there has been no istry oicial as saying. this garment to perpetrate toria's Secret bras”, Mr. “will not recognise” changes Council resolution last a greater role in resolving the Thursday. — AP oicial announcement, me- Interior ministry oicials their crimes.” Tourabi said. — AFP to Israel’s pre-1967 lines month that condemned the conflict. —AP

Israel fired rockets at airbase: Syria Amid Shariat experiment, Indonesia’s secular face slips

JON EMONT cohol — are punishable by was softer than that of the building. The imposition of called a “flagrant” attack. public whipping. oft-maligned form in Saudi Shariat came after Aceh’s Explosions were heard in BANDA ACEH (INDONESIA): Things Aceh began its experiment Arabia, because it welcomed decades-long struggle for in- the capital, and residents in were hopping at Redinesh with Shariat in 2001, after re- alternative schools of Is- dependence with the central the southwest suburbs saw a Cofee Roastery in this sea- ceiving special authorisation lamic thought and accepted government ended in 2005. large plume of smoke rising side city one recent evening. from Indonesia’s central gov- the role of female leaders. Scars remain from the war, as from the area, while video Electronic dance music ernment, which was intent well as the after-efect of the AMMAN: The Syrian army footage downloaded on Zealous enforcer command said on Friday that blared from the cafe’s speak- on calming separatist senti- Indian Ocean tsunami that social media showed flames ers as patrons, some in ment in the deeply conser- Indeed, Banda Aceh, the killed 230,000 people here in Israeli artillery fired rockets leaping from parts of Mezzah at a major military airbase military airport’s compound. ripped jeans and fashionable vative region. Now, Shariat province’s capital, is led by 2004. Today Aceh is one of outside Damascus, and Israel neither confirmed spectacles, sat outside drink- police oicers roam the Illiza Sa’aduddin Djamal, the Indonesia’s poorest warned Israel of nor denied involvement in ing locally sourced cofee province, raiding everything city’s first female mayor. provinces. repercussions for what it these strikes. — Reuters and smoking cigarettes. from hotel rooms to beaches Many activists for women’s In February, the Acehnese But then the Muslim call to in a hunt for immoral rights say they supported her will go to the polls to select prayer sounded, and a wait- activity. candidacy in hopes that she new leaders, but none of the ress hurriedly ushered would be a progressive candidates for mayor or gov- Thailand set to amend Constitution everyone back into the cafe. Conservative direction WORRYING TREND: A female member of the Shariat police force leader. Instead she has ernor are willing to chal- She turned down the music, In the decade and a half insists on inspecting the clothes of girls relaxing in a park in proved to be a zealous, lenge the primacy of Shariat closed the doors and covered since, Indonesia as a whole Banda Aceh, Indonesia. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS hands-on enforcer of Aceh’s law. BANGKOK: Thailand’s military- where he maintains a the windows. It was the has drifted in a conservative conservative moral code. Irwan Johan, a vice ruled legislature on Friday residence, before becoming Maghrib — the second to last direction, and Aceh, once an Women, who wants the na- ations from areas with a his- Last February, Ms. Illiza, speaker for the Acehnese approved constitutional king in December. of the five daily calls to outlier, has become a model tional government to repeal tory of embracing conservat- wearing a black headscarf, Provincial Legislature, said changes desired by the newly The constitution prayer — and outdoor social- for other regions of the coun- certain Shariat-based regula- ive Islam regularly visit to strode into the hall where In- any real debate over Shariat enthroned king that would previously stated that if no ising had to cease. try seeking to impose their tions as violations of the In- see how it has been carried donesian Model Hunt, a was impossible, even though reserve more powers for him. regent was appointed, the Aceh province, on the own Shariat-based ordin- donesian Constitution. out. beauty competition, was un- “a silent majority” thinks the One change made by the head of the Privy Council the northern tip of Sumatra is- ances, alarming those who A recent study found that “They look at how we fa- der way, interrogating government has gone too far. National Legislative king’s advisory body would land, stands alone in having worry about the nation’s more than 442 Shariat-based cilitate an atmosphere of re- cowering models about the “They’re not brave enough Assembly allows King Maha become regent. The formally established Shariat drift from secularism. ordinances have been passed ligiosity,” said Syahrizal Ab- event as news cameras to say anything,” he said Vajiralongkorn amendment effectively keeps law in Indonesia, a Muslim- “Whenever Aceh issues a throughout the nation since bas, head of Aceh’s rolled. about critics of Shariat. Bodindradebayavarangkun to royal power in the hands of majority country with a rel- law, saying it’s the highest or- 1999, when Jakarta gave Department of Shariat, who “Why aren’t you wearing a “Talk about issues of reli- decide whether or not to the king or a trusted atively secular Constitution. der of Shariat, it provokes provinces and districts sub- said he gives visiting delega- jilbab?” she asked one, refer- gion and you could be ex- appoint a regent when he confidante when he is In Aceh, women are required others to do the same thing,” stantial powers to make their tions advice on how to incor- ring to what Indonesians call pelled, or be considered a travels outside the country. abroad. The government said to dress modestly, alcohol is said Andy Yentriani, a own laws. porate Shariat teachings into a head scarf. Shariat police person who isn’t really Vajiralongkorn traveled the changes solely concern prohibited, and numerous former commissioner on In- But for local oicials, the law. Mr. Syahrizal, who is loaded the competition’s Acehnese. Everybody be- frequently to Germany, royal powers. — AFP ofences — from adultery to donesia’s National Commis- spread of Shariat from Aceh considered a moderate, said trophies into a bag and es- came a hypocrite.” — New homosexuality to selling al- sion on Violence Against is a point of pride, and deleg- that Aceh’s version of Shariat corted models out of the York Times News Service

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Tour operators to Normalcy will be hit by new Infosys cuts revenue outlook return in 2-3 service tax norms Company reduces upper end of full-year revenue growth forecast to 8.8% months: Gadkari SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT STAFF REPORTER March 2017 to expand at SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Tour operators will 8-9% in constant currency have to pay a service tax on BENGALURU: Infosys Ltd. cut the terms. IT industry body Nas- CHENNAI: India is going 60 per cent of the amount upper end of its full-year rev- scom had in November re- through a transition period they bill the customer from enue growth forecast to 8.8% vised the industrywide post-demonetisation and January 22, according to a in constant currency terms growth forecast for the full normalcy will be restored in government notification. as Indian software exporters year to 8-10%. two to three months, Minis- Earlier, tour operators of- brace for a more protection- “The company delivered ter for Road Transport and fering a package tour had to ist visa regime in the U.S., the in-line to better numbers for Highways Nitin Gadkari pay service tax on 25 per cent industry’s largest market. Q3,” Morgan Stanley ana- said. FOR THE YOUTH : CEO Kenichi Ayukawa, left, at the unveiling of of the bill amount, on 10 per India’s second-largest lysts wrote in a note to cli- “Demonetisation was es- the IGNIS. — PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA cent of the bill amount if the software services provider ents. “But it has tweaked sential, though it is a tough tour operator only arranged also reported net profit for guidance, indicating a muted one. But the gravity of prob- or booked accommodation the third-quarter ended growth outlook for Q4.” lem has reduced. There are a Maruti unveils IGNIS for a person in relation to a December 31, 2016, rose 7% At the end of December, lot of positive signs,” Mr. tour, and on 40 per cent of from a year earlier to ₨3,708 the total number of employ- Gadkari said. “Within two- the bill amount if any other crore as Infosys shrugged of ees was 1,99,763 people and three months the situation hatchback for millennials tour-related services were the impact of a major project CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM: CEO Vishal Sikka at a press conference to the utilisation stood at 77.8%. will normalise,” he said at the ofered. cancellation that dented announce the third quarter results. — PHOTO: G.R.N. SOMASHEKAR “During the quarter, we pre-budget conclave organ- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT We have taken this challenge “The government has sales by about 1%. Revenue added 77 clients and also ad- ised by The Hindu Business to create newer segments to changed the service tax ap- for the period climbed 8.6% Tata Consultancy Services time. While it raised the ded 2 clients in the $75 mil- Line and the Confederation NEW DELHI: Maruti Suzuki, the fulfil the wishes of our plicable on tour operators,” to ₨17,273 crore, the had announced a strong lower end of the revenue lion plus revenue category, ” of Indian Industry (CII). country’s largest carmaker, customers.” Rajeev Dimri, Leader, Indir- Bengaluru-based company quarterly performance, beat- growth projection to 8.4%, it Chief Operating Oicer U. B. “We are marching towards unveiled its premium urban The premium hatchback, ect Tax, BMR & Associates said in a statement on Friday. ing market estimates with a cut the upper bound. At the Pravin Rao said. a cashless economy and con- compact vehicle IGNIS tar- IGNIS, will come in both pet- said. “With efect from Janu- The Royal Bank of Scot- 11% increase in net profit. end of the second quarter, In- Infosys shares fell 2.49% to verting with the latest tech- geted at ‘millennials’, priced rol and diesel variants with ary 22, 2017, tour operators land, one of Infosys’s top 10 Infosys revised its full- fosys had projected revenue ₨975.15 at the close of trade nology. Even now 10% of toll between ₨4.59 lakh and ₨7.8 the option of auto gear shift would be required to pay ser- clients, had scrapped a pro- year guidance for the third in the 12 months ending on the BSE. collection is digital and in lakh (ex-showroom Delhi). feature. While the petrol ver- vice tax on 60 per cent of the ject due to the impact of Bri- the next three months this The carmaker, which is sion will be powered by a 1.2 total invoice value.” tain’s vote to exit the will go up to 50%,” he said. also among the oldest auto litre engine and priced “The recent amendment, European Union. Banks are flush with de- manufacturers in the coun- between ₨4.59 lakh and ₨6.69 instead of clarifying the is- posits after the demonetisa- try, introduced the new lakh, the diesel one will sue, creates more doubts for Additional headwinds ‘Closely watching U.S. policy’ tion, Mr. Gadkari said. “A re- model at a concert featuring come with a 1.3 litre engine in the industry, specially re- “Taking into account sea- duction in interest rates Swedish DJ Axwell as it the price range of ₨6.39 lakh lated to taxability of the sonal and other additional STAFF REPORTER North American market with most customers would help everyone and in looks to woo the youth, par- to ₨7.8 lakh. (All prices are stand-alone hotel booking headwinds for the quarter, contributes about 62 per waiting to see how any the coming months thrust ticularly those born after ex-showroom Delhi). transaction in the hands of our Q3 revenue performance BENGALURU: India’s second- cent of its total revenue. new regulations may pan would be given to lending at 1988. With this price bracket, tour operators,” Mr. Dimri was broadly in line with our largest IT services Indian IT companies use out. low interest rates.” The company’s managing the car may face competition said. “The tour and travel in- expectations,” said Vishal provider Infosys is short-term visas like the “Of course, visa-related To generate more employ- director and CEO Kenichi from Hyundai Grand i10, dustry has been plagued Sikka, CEO and MD, Infosys. keeping a close watch on H1B to send its employees and immigration-related ment, the Centre came out Ayukawa said Maruti Suzuki Mahindra KUV 100 and with intense inquiries and “Despite the RBS impact political developments in to the U.S. policies may change in the with ‘Housing for all 2022 is ready to “demolish tradi- Maruti Suzuki’s own popular investigations from service of 1% our BFSI grew well. We the U.S., with particular “In terms of the new U.S.,” Mr. Sikka said. “We mission’ and also announced tional categories and think model Swift. tax authorities with respect expect there would be a shift emphasis on the visa administration, the are in a watchful mode interest incentives to boost afresh” to be ready for the “IGNIS is built on a new to services related to book- in spending in the BFSI seg- regulations that the new President-elect himself is and need to wait and see low-cost housing, he said. future. generation rigid platform ing hotel accommodation.” ment. It will move from more administration may an entrepreneur and a how things will happen The Centre accorded the “We are aware that the life embodying Suzuki Total Ef- “This amendment would regulatory and cost-oriented introduce. Donald Trump, business friendly and there,” he added. highest priority for rural in- and priorities of our custom- fective Control Technology be prejudicial to tour operat- to more innovation, techno- who is set to be sworn in innovation-oriented Asked whether tighter frastructure and was work- ers are fast evolving. If we (TECT) for occupant pro- ors and may significantly im- logy and growth oriented. I as President on January person,” Vishal Sikka, visa regulations and fee ing on ways to increase have to keep pace, we must tection,” the company said, pact the financial models of am confident and very op- 20, has already indicated CEO of Infosys told increases would impact growth rates in agriculture demolish traditional cat- adding that it, along with its their business engaged in timistic about the BFSI seg- that the government will reporters. “So I expect Infosys, Mr. Sikka said,“It and the rural economy and to egories and think afresh. Just suppliers, had invested more tour and travel booking,” he ment and our prospects,” introduce some changes that the policies of the is not something that we increase employment poten- like the customer is think- than ₨950 crore towards de- said. A tour operator is “any said Mr. Sikka. in visa regulations and the administration are going are concerned about. We tial, he said. “There is no ing,” he said. velopment of the vehicle, person engaged in the busi- In a seasonally weak immigration process. to be friendly towards have quite a number of doubt (that) India is the fast- Stating that it is often which is 98.5% localised. ness of planning, scheduling, quarter, Infosys’s profit grew The U.S. is the largest business and innovation.” visas and also have est-growing economy. In the asked if Maruti Suzuki is The new model will be re- organising, arranging tours 2.8% sequentially, while rev- market for India’s IT Infosys, which recently increased our local hiring. present situation, there are a shifting focus from its core tailed through the com- by any mode of transport, enue declined by 0.2% from services majors including conducted a survey Ultimately, regardless of lot of problems faced by in- segments towards the pany's premium retail chain and includes any person en- the preceding three-month Infosys and its larger rival among its customers, the visa policies, the right dustries. This is a transition premium category, Mr. Ay- Nexa. For safety, the car gaged in the business of op- period. Tata Consultancy found no discernible thing to do is to have a lot period. I think within the ukawa said, “My response to comes with dual airbags, erating tours,” as per the On Thursday, India’s Servcies. For Infosys, the pattern in their behaviour of rich local talent.” next two months, it will this question is...the challen- seatbelts with pre-tensioner rules. largest IT-services exporter come to normal levels.” ging spirit at Maruti Suzuki. force limiter and ABS.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 16 | BUSINESS THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017

SNIPPETS Number of unemployed Trade deficit narrows in December NITI Aayog to soon set up panel on poverty line NEW DELHI: India’s trade 8.22% in October 2016. 2016 while electrical & NEW DELHI: NITI Aayog, the government’s premier think-tank, will soon deficit narrowed to $10.36 Imports rose by just non-electrical machinery set up an expert committee to arrive at a new poverty line, according to billion in December 2016 0.46 % to $34.25 billion in jumped 7.55 % during the an official. “We have said that we needed an expert committee to look — the lowest in the last December 2016. Gold month to $2.62 billion. in India to climb: ILO three months — as imports shrunk (-) 48.5 % Non-oil imports during at poverty line as most states are not much in sync with each other. We have not formed an expert committee yet but soon we will set up an exports expanded year- to $1.96 billion after December 2016 shrunk expert committee to look at poverty line,” said a senior government Jobless numbers to increase to 18 million by 2018 on-year for the fourth having risen in the 2.98 % to $26.6 billion. official. Pursuant to the decision taken at the first meeting of the consecutive month and previous two months. Non-petroleum exports SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Governing Council of NITI Aayog held under the chairmanship of Prime outpaced imports, In terms of growth, this in December 2016 were up Minister Narendra Modi on February 8, 2015, a Task Force on Elimination government data showed. was the lowest since (-) 5.4 % to $21.11 billion, of Poverty in India was set up by NITI Aayog on March 16, 2015. — PTI NEW DELHI: The number of un- Exports in December 77.44 % in August 2016, while petroleum exports employed people in India is 2016 posted a 5.72% year- while in value terms it was rose 8.22 % to $2.76 expected to rise by 1 lakh in on-year growth to $23.88 the lowest since $1.94 billion. Omega Healthcare to raise headcount by 3,000 2017 and another 2 lakh in billion thanks to a low billion in September 2016. T S Bhasin, the 2018, according to the Inter- base of (-) 14.40 % growth chairman of the apex CHENNAI: Omega Healthcare Management Services Pvt. Ltd., an offshore national Labour Organisa- in December 2015, Imports stable engineering exporters provider of healthcare outsourcing services, plans to increase its tion (ILO). according to data released Japanese financial body EEPC India, said that headcount by 3,000 in the next 24 months.The Chennai-based firm has The ILO predicted that the by the Commerce major Nomura had said a “revival in exports in a operating centres in Tiruchirapalli, Bengaluru, Chennai, Bhimavaram in number of jobless will in- Ministry on Friday. last month that “import large number of key Andhra Pradesh and Philippines employing more than 11,000 people. It crease from 17.7 million in Eighteen of the 30 major volumes have been sectors like engineering in provides services covering medical billing, coding and revenue cycle 2016 to 18 million by 2018 segments, including relatively stable, but we December is due to an management verticals.“We have a major presence in Tamil Nadu with even though the country’s petroleum products, believe a slowdown is improvement in demand Chennai and Trichy operating centres accounting for 7,000 people,” said unemployment rate is expec- drugs and pharma, gems likely in the coming for industrial Gopi Natarajan, Co-founder and CEO, Omega Healthcare. “We are the ted to go down from 3.5 per JOB LOSS: The rising number of people without employment and jewellery, recorded a months as gold imports commodities such as largest providers of white collar jobs in Trichy.Our recent entry in cent to 3.4 per cent in 2017. paints a worrisome picture for the global economy — PHOTO: AP growth in December 2016. and domestic demand metals and iron ore.” Bhimavaram has also proved to be successful,” he said.— N Anand. Globally, the ILO reckons The 5.72% growth in weaken further.” The signs of an uptick that the number of jobless generate enough jobs, let of employment, rising to December 2016 was up Petroleum & crude in the U.S. economy people will increase by 3.4 alone quality jobs,” said ILO more than four in five work- from 2.26% in November imports rose 14.61 % to augured well for exports, Intellect Design to raise ₨200 crore via rights issue million in 2017, in its report Director General Guy Ryder. ers in developing countries,” 2016 but slower than $7.6 billion in December Mr. Bhasin said. on World Employment and said Steven Tobin, ILO CHENNAI: Arun Jain-led Intellect Design Arena Limited, a product Social Outlook for 2017 re- Vulnerable forms senior economist and lead development company operating in the sphere of financial technology leased late Thursday, with Vulnerable forms of em- author of the report. The re- for banking, insurance and other financial services, will soon come out projections based on econo- ployment, which include port has clubbed India in the with a rights issue to raise ₨200 crore. The board of directors had given metric modelling carried out contributing family workers category of emerging its approval. The company is set to initiate the process of securing SEBI in November 2016. The and own account workers, nations. Gopinathan at helm likely to (Securities and Exchange Board of India) approval for the issue. global unemployment rate is are expected to stay above 42 According to S. Swaminathan, Chief Financial Officer, the firm was still expected to rise modestly per cent of total employ- Less than $3.10 a day working out the modalities of the rights issue and indicated that details from 5.7 to 5.8 per cent in 2017 ment. About 1.4 billion The number of workers trigger exit of seniors: Analysts could be out soon. The shareholders, he said, had given their consent to as the pace of labour force people are likely to be en- earning less than $3.10 per raise ₨300 crore. — K.T. Jagannathan growth outstrips job cre- gaged in such employment in day is even expected to in- LALATENDU MISHRA across functions: strategy, ation. 2017, with the number rising crease by more than 5 million K. BHARAT KUMAR project delivery, marketing “Economic growth contin- by 11 million per year, with over the next two years in de- overseas… He led the e-Busi- BSE to open ₨1,500 cr. IPO on Jan. 23, list on NSE ues to disappoint and under- Southern Asia and sub-Saha- veloping countries. Global MUMBAI/CHENNAI: The elevation ness unit when we wanted a perform – both in terms of ran Africa being the most af- uncertainty and the lack of of Tata Consultancy Services new direction for the com- NEW DELHI: Asia’s oldest bourse BSE will open its much-awaited ₨1,500 levels and the degree of in- fected. decent jobs are, among other crore initial public offering (IPO) on January 23.The shares are expected (TCS) CFO Rajesh Gop- pany after Y2K.” clusion. This paints a worri- “In fact, almost one in two factors, underpinning social to list on rival National Stock Exchange (NSE) on or around February inathan as CEO & MD, to According to Mr. Ma- some picture for the global workers in emerging coun- unrest and migration in 3.The IPO, which would open on January 23, closes on January 25, succeed N. Chandrasekaran, halingam, “You need a CEO economy and its ability to tries are in vulnerable forms many parts of the world. according to the Red Herring Prospectus (RHP) filed by BSE with could lead to attrition in with experience in the cor- markets regulator SEBI. The public offer of BSE will see sale of 1.54 crore senior management at the porate oice, while not ig- shares by the existing shareholders through the offer for sale (OFS) company, said some analysts. noring the field, with experi- route. This works out to close to 30 per cent of the total holding. Among “The change comes at a ence in strategy and in the existing shareholders are Bajaj Holdings Investment, Caldwell India RBI union exhorts Patel on autonomy time when TCS’s business protecting the interests of all Holdings and Acacia Banyan Partners and Singapore Exchange. — PTI model is undergoing struc- Rajesh Gopinathan stakeholders. He now leads a SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT dated by the government to utory as well as operational tural changes and the in- team of highly competent ‘co-ordinate RBI cash opera- jurisdiction,” the United dustry faces increased risk of management, a common people and knows how to RBI may cut repo rate by 25 bps in Feb.: HSBC MUMBAI: The association rep- tions’, which it described as Forum of Reserve Bank Of- protectionism,” Kotak Insti- event after a change of take them along.” resenting employees and of- ‘most unfortunate’. ficers and Employees said in tutional Equities analysts guard,” they wrote. Sagar Rastogi and Sudheer MUMBAI: With uncertanity over implementation of GST, rising crude oil ficers of Reserve Bank of In- “Our attention has been a mail to Mr. Patel. The union Kawaljeet Saluja and Jayku- TCS’s stock slumped 3.9% Guntupalli, analysts at Am- prices and the challenging 4 per cent CPI in medium term, Reserve Bank dia (RBI) has written to drawn to a recent news item said that it assumed RBI did mar Doshi wrote in a note to to ₨2,252 on Friday. bit Capital, said that attrition may cut repo rate for the final time by a 25 basis points in the February governor Urjit Patel to up- that Finance Ministry has not ask for the deployment of clients. “TCS has opted for at the senior levels was un- policy, says a report. “We hold on to our expectation of a 25 basis points hold the central bank’s sent a joint secretary to co- the joint secretary in its the right structure for trans- ‘Right choice’ likely. “Since Mr. Gopinathan rate cut in February but caution that this would likely bring the easing autonomy amid allegations ordinate RBI cash ops. If functions; rather that it was ition. The company’s collab- S. Mahalingam, the first is an insider and the TCS cycle to an end, given the pressures in the horizon — implementation of that government is under- true, this is most unfortunate the finance ministry which orative culture and choice of CFO at TCS who was Mr. senior management team the GST bill, rising oil prices, implementation of government employees mining it. The union cited and we take strong exception had imposed itself on RBI personnel to take on the top Gopinathan’s predecessor, has stuck together for dec- housing allowance, and the challenging 4 per cent CPI target for the the example of the incident to this measure of the gov- which it said was ‘absolutely role can aid in making the said that the change augured ades, there is lesser likeli- medium term,” HSBC said. RBI has set a target of achieving consumer that a joint secretary of the ernment as impinging on unacceptable and deplor- transition a success. Would well for the company. hood of exits of valuable em- price index (CPI) inflation of 5 per cent by the Q3 of FY ‘17 — PTI finance ministry was man- RBI’s autonomy and its stat- able’. watch for attrition in senior “Rajesh has experience ployees,” they wrote.

INTERVIEW  SRINIVAS ACHARYA Note ban positive for real estate

K.T. JAGANNATHAN (prices to) drop. But I don’t The demand has to pick up have come outside RBI ac- see the likelihood of a 20– again. It could happen this tion. They have come There is no desperation to 25 per cent drop in prices year itself, if the govern- about due to surplus li- either buy or sell. A sort of unless the seller is desper- ment allows unlimited quidity arising out of de- waiting game is being ate for immediate money. I withdrawal of money de- monetisation. We have a played in the real estate haven’t seen that kind of posited post-demonetisa- very cautious outlook as sector due to demonetisa- desperation in the sellers tion. Release of locked up withdrawal of cash depos- tion, says Srinivas at the moment. The own- money could be a driver ited into banks post-de- Acharya, Managing Dir- ers, too, are playing a wait- for recovery in the real es- monetisation could leave ector, Sundaram BNP ing game. tate sector. We remain cau- very little leeway for banks Paribas Home Finance. tiously positive as the gov- to cut rates further and we Excerpts of an interview: • What will be the long-term ernment has to deal with could see rates moving up. impact of demonetisation? the availability of land and • How is the real estate development of city/town market playing out in the This is expected to be pos- infrastructure to connect wake of demonetisation? itive for real estate sector afordable housing colon- as only the well-organised ies to the places of Currently, not too many would survive. The role of employment. deals are happening. The black money will come general perception is that down drastically as more • Do you think that home there will be a significant and more organised build- loan rates would head price drop in the real estate ers play a larger role. further down? space. People’s expecta- tion of a price drop has • What are the prospects of The recent rate- heightened so much that a demand pick-up in the real reduction an- they are waiting for the estate sector? nouncements

Exchange Rates Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit Hero MotoCorp enters except yen at 4 p.m on January 13 TT TT Currencies Buying Selling Argentina with ‘New Glamour’ U.S. Dollar 67.95 68.27 Euro 72.36 72.70 PIYUSH PANDEY Pound Sterling 82.81 83.21 Jap Yen (100 Units) 59.27 59.56 Chinese Yuan 9.84 9.90 BUENOS AIRES: Pawan Munjal Swiss Franc 67.42 67.75 led Hero MotoCorp, India’s Singapore Dollar 47.62 47.86 largest two wheeler maker Australian Dollar 50.88 51.13 entered the Argentine mar- Canadian Dollar 51.74 51.99 ket with its 125 cc bike ‘New Swedish Kroner 7.62 7.66 Glamour’ — the first ever Danish Kroner 9.73 9.78 global introduction of the New Zealand Dollar 48.41 48.64 company’s product outside Hongkong Dollar 8.76 8.81 the country. Malaysian Ringgit 15.22 15.31 In a bid to increase its Kuwaiti Dinar 221.19 223.69 global footprint and match GOING GLOBAL: Pawan Munjal, MD & CEO, Hero MotoCorp, UAE Dirham 18.50 18.59 rival Bajaj Auto, the company unveiling the motorcycle in Buenos Aires. — PHOTO: KAMAL NARANG Bahraini Dinar 180.14 181.09 has drawn up plans to be Qatari Riyal 18.72 18.72 present in 50 global markets in India and with the intro- seas manufacturing facility Saudi Riyal 18.17 18.17 by 2020. It is already operat- duction of the ‘New Glam- in Colombia.” Omani Riyal 176.45 177.37 ing from 35 nations. our’, the company aims to The company has roped in Source:Indian Bank Pawan Munjal, chairman strategically expand its pres- former Argentine soccer and managing director, Hero ence in the segment globally player Diego Simeone as its MotoCorp said: “Mexico is as the product will be avail- brand ambassador to push its Bullion Rates the next market we are tar- able in 19 countries. products in Argentina. Si- January 13 rates in rupees with geting to grow our presence “The past five years have mone is the second global previous rates in brackets in the region. The idea is to seen brand Hero evolve into sports icon to be signed by Chennai be in Brazil as well but it will a major global player,” Mr. Hero after Tiger Woods. Bar Silver (1 kg) 41,230 (41,370) take some time.” Munjal said. After parting from Honda Retail (1 g) 44.10 (44.30) Hero is targeting to cap- “Our first global launch of in 2010, Hero plans to 24 ct gold (10 g) 29,260 (29,350) ture most of Latin American, a new motorcycle here is re- achieve 10 per cent of its 22 ct gold (1 g) 2,796 (2,804) African and South East Asian flective of the importance of sales from global markets Delhi markets by 2020 before en- Argentina and Latin Amer- and a turnover of ₨60,000 Silver 40,950 (41,250) tering the matured U.S. and ica for us on our global map. crore by 2020. Standard Gold 29,450 (29,250) European markets. South America is an import- (The correspondent was Sovereign 24,300 (24,300) Hero is the market leader ant market for us, a fact in Buenos Aires at the invita- in 125cc motorcycle segment borne out by our first over- tion of Hero MotoCorp.) CM YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 SPORT 17 Telecast schedule (Saturday) Tough tactics Telecast schedule (Sunday) NBA: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, 4.30 a.m. (Sunday); Ranji We may have to play ugly to score runs and take wickets. Touring there Australia vs Pakistan: 2nd ODI: STAR Sports 2 & HD 2, 8.50 a.m.; India Trophy final: Gujarat vs Mumbai, STAR Sports 4 & HD 4, tests you physically and mentally. It puts every area of your skill and vs England: 1st ODI: STAR Sports 1, 3 & HD 1 & 3, 1.30 p.m.; South 9.30 a.m.; South Africa vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test, TEN 3 & Ī resilience under the microscope. To stand up and play well in India is to Ī Africa vs Sri Lanka: 3rd Test, TEN 3 & TEN 1 HD, 1.30 p.m.; I- League: TEN 1 HD, 1.30 p.m.; I-League: TEN 2, 7 p.m.; PBL: STAR announce yourself as a world class team and that is what we want to do. TEN 2, 4.30 p.m.; PWL: Sony ESPN, 7 p.m.; NBA: Sony ESPN, 4.30 a.m. Sports 1, 3 & HD 1, 3, 7 p.m.; PWL: Sony ESPN, 7 p.m. — Nathan Lyon on the forthcoming tour of India (Monday); Australian Open: Sony Six, Sony Six HD, 5.30 a.m. (Monday) Split captaincy doesn’t really work: Dhoni Will India’s approach change CRICKET / ‘What’s brilliant about my relationship with Virat is he’s comfortable saying no to my ideas’ under Kohli’s leadership? AMOL KARHADKAR AMOL KARHADKAR When you’re supposed to shift your batting slot, at times it is PUNE: The first big festival of PUNE: In what was his first me- very diicult to adjust to that 2017 will be followed by In- dia interaction — and possibly I think the wicket- new mindset or change the dia’s first international cricket the last before he hangs up his keeper is always game to the way it needs to be match of the year. boots, whenever he does — on played. I thought I was some- While much of the focus the sidelines of a series, Ma- vice-captain, body who could do that and I during India’s series-opening hendra Singh Dhoni elabor- whether he is was willing to do that for the ODI against England will be on ated on various aspects of his announced vice- team. It is the same as of now, M.S. Dhoni, who, for the first captaincy. if I am supposed to bat at 4, 5, 6, time in more than nine years, Excerpts: captain or not 7 whatever the demand is for will feature in an ODI only as a What prompted you to step the team’s betterment, I am wicketkeeper-batsman and down? ready to bat there. not as the captain, Sunday I am somebody who be- was somebody who always What aspects of captaincy could also provide a hint on lieves that in our set-up, split wanted to improve in gave you fulfilment? whether Virat Kohli would captaincy doesn’t really work. whatever chances he got. He The main job of the captain want to adopt a diferent With the Indian team, one wanted to do well in those strategy to that of his prede- player leading the players in is to make sure that whatever games. And that is the reason is the potential of the player, cessor for the ODIs. all the formats is something why he is so successful right It will be interesting to see if that is very crucial. Now that I he is performing to a 100 per now… cent. If you can achieve some- the team at the Maharashtra can’t be the Test captain, I What’s brilliant is if I go up Cricket Association Stadium don’t think my views should thing between 90 to 110 per with 100 ideas to him, he is cent, you know you’ve done includes three specialist change. Virat took over the comfortable saying no to all of pacers — in addition to Hardik Test captaincy and I wanted really well. You can’t really get them because that’s his re- 150 per cent performance from Pandya as all-rounder — and him to have some time over sponsibility — to pick and either R. Ashwin or Ravindra there and get into the full cap- a player who is 80 per cent. choose what he’s really con- That’s where you have to be Jadeja or if both the specialist taincy role. You know, lim- vinced about. I think that kind spinners are played at the ex- ited-overs format is not a big very practical, very honest. of relationship is very import- You should know ways as to pense of one of the quicks. challenge. That’s why I finally ant because I shouldn’t feel If Kohli sticks to the former decided to move on and give how to handle each and every ‘okay, if I am saying some- individual. option, there would be little to Virat the full captaincy. GOT YOUR BACK: M.S. Dhoni says he will keep a close eye on thing, that should happen’ and choose between his style of How difficult will it be to get what Virat Kohli wants as skipper and offer him suggestions he shouldn’t feel as if whatever There are diferent ways to captaincy in the blue jersey captaincy out of your system? ‘as and when required’. — PHOTO: PTI is coming from my side has to handle everyone — for some it and that of Dhoni. But if he de- I think the wicket-keeper is be implemented. is a kind word, for some it is a cides to play both spinners, it always a vice-captain of the gestions as possible to Virat as thing that’s a big trouble to Did you feel the burden of harsh word. For some it may would mean that Kohli, along side, whether he is announced and when required. The field cope with. leadership was holding you be just an expression with with the management, would IN CHARGE: It will be interesting to see whether Virat Kohli, the vice-captain or not. Field set- positioning is something I Can you talk about your bond back as a batsman? your eyes. expect Pandya to pitch in new India skipper in the shorter versions, continues in his ting is usually given to the have to keep a close eye on. I with Virat? The team is more important You have to figure out what handily, with Yuvraj Singh and typically aggressive mode. — PHOTO: PTI vice-captain or the wicket- can’t just say ‘you go left, you We have been very close, than the individual. I could’ve really works the best, at times Kedar Jadhav — if picked keeper. go right’. I will have to consult right from the start. You know, got maybe a few more runs it is maybe the false confid- ahead of Manish Pandey — to Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Yuvraj Singh, Alex Hales, Sam Billings, Jason Roy, In this scenario, I will have him and tell him, because if it is in Indian cricket, when crick- than I have right now, but it is ence you give the guy because fill in the fifth bowler quota. Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, Ravindra Joe Root, Moeen Ali, Jonny Bairstow, to keep a close eye on what the strategically positioned in a eters get five games, and if about winning. Cricket, I al- that is what is really needed at The teams (from): Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Jasprit Bumrah, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (wk), Liam skipper really wants, his pref- particular place I can become they are out of the side, they’re ways felt, was more of a men- that point. You have to be India: Virat Kohli (capt), K.L. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Umesh Dawson, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, erential field positions. I will a bit of a problem if I start mov- always worried about the two tal game. At times I found indi- clever enough to evaluate Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Ajinkya Ra- Yadav. Jake Ball, David Willey and Chris be there to give as many sug- ing around, but it’s not some- games they didn’t get. Virat viduals can be very rigid. what is needed. hane, M.S. Dhoni (wk), Manish England: Eoin Morgan (capt), Woakes. Suspense COA can nominate Why the disparity, ask embattled oice-bearers Sports Ministry continues on G. VISWANATH the nine-year disqualification plainer is very clear: years with cooling-of breaks.” revokes IOA BCCI representative period, the Committee had oice-bearers who complete One State body to take a Azhar’s INDORE: There is a sense among said, “Such an individual is eli- nine years have no more place, clear line on the issue is the suspension some in the BCCI and State as- gible to contest an oice- but those who have completed Vidarbha Cricket Association. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT candidature for ICC meetings sociations that the Lodha bearer post, unless the consti- nine years as managing com- While incorporating the Committee’s clarification per- tution or bye-laws of the asso- mittee members can contest. Lodha Committee recom- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: With the Indian G. VISWANATH taining to the tenure of man- ciation defines oice-bearers “This is not fair to us. This mendations last September, it Olympic Association (IOA) claiming ț Anurag Thakur’s name has aging committee members is to include the governing body anomaly needs to be ad- amended its by-laws in such a HYDERABAD: The suspense over the that the proposal to appoint Suresh INDORE: The Committee of Ad- not yet been removed from unfair on oice-bearers. / managing committee / work- dressed by the Lodha Commit- way that anyone elected as of- validity of Mohd. Azharuddin’s Kalmadi and Abhay Chautala as life ministrators (COA), likely to the ICC website as India’s Addressing a question on ing committee members.” tee. fice-bearers or managing com- nomination for the president’s post presidents never passed muster, come into existence on Janu- representative whether managing committee A Mumbai Cricket Associ- “Even the managing com- mittee members will not have in the Hyderabad Cricket the Sports Ministry on Friday ary 19, will have the right to members, who have not been ation oice-bearer took excep- mittee members have to be more than three terms of three Association continued as the followed up on its promise of nominate a person for the In- because of the presence of oice-bearers, were subject to tion to this. “The FAQ ex- given a maximum of nine years each. returning officer, it is learnt, revoking its suspension of the body. ternational Cricket Council Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided to put up the candidates’ (ICC) quarterly meetings to be delegates, the ICC shifted the “The government has decided to list only on Saturday morning. held in Dubai in the first week venue to Dubai. revoke the suspension of deemed This was conveyed by him to of February. Last year Shiv Sena activists recognition of IOA with immediate some of the members of the HCA According to an oicial fa- prevented a meeting between Blame it on Srinivasan, says Bindra effect in the light of the corrective and also the ruling group office- miliar with ICC meetings, the the then BCCI president action taken by them in reversing bearers who were seeking quite a COA, which would be deemed Shashank Manohar and the VIJAY LOKAPALLY aside but only aggravated the tional Cricket Council (ICC), its earlier decision making Shri few clarifications on Friday. to have replaced the BCCI, can PCB representatives, Shahryar problems for the Board,” said citing government interven- Abhay Singh Chautala and Shri One group in the HCA has nominate one of its members, Khan and Najam Sethi. NEW DELHI: Former BCCI pres- Bindra. tion, would take action against Suresh Kalmadi life presidents of reportedly raised an objection to any other person or even BCCI The ICC’s board would con- ident I.S. Bindra is disappoin- Bindra was critical of the it. IOA,” the Ministry said in a Azhar’s nomination on the grounds CEO Rahul Johri, who has at- sider constitutional changes ted at the current state of af- Board’s decision to challenge statement. that he is not an eligible voter yet, tended two Chief Executive and also the revised model of fairs in the Board, following the judiciary. “It was an ill-ad- Poor thinking as the HCA has not completed the meetings of the ICC. distribution of ICC revenues the sweeping reforms recom- vised move. You can fight the “Eighty per cent of the rev- Never voted upon formalities to that effect. No longer the BCCI presid- to its members. mended by the Lodha Government but not the judi- enue for ICC is generated from The IOA, in its reply to the But, it was clear that the on- ent, Anurag Thakur’s name has An independent working Committee. ciary. Their word is the law. India. If the Indian Board is show-cause notice from the going election process would be not been removed from the group has proposed changes to There is a way of putting your finished, the ICC would be fin- Ministry had claimed that even completed in spite of Justice ICC website as India’s repres- the ICC constitution for good Seed of destruction diferences across, but it is ished too. Do you think ICC though there had been a proposal Lodha’s clarifications on related entative in the ICC, IDI and governance. “The seed of the Board’s de- silly if you think you can take would have taken any action? from one of its members to make issues on Thursday. IBC Board of Directors. Sharad There have been proposals struction as a sports body lay on the Supreme Court, The It was poor thinking,” Bindra both the former IOA presidents life Meanwhile, Vidyuth Jaisimha, Pawar’s name also figures as an to bring down India’s share in the decision of N. Srinivasan Board should have complied said. presidents at the AGM in Chennai I.S. Bindra. — FILE PHOTO son of late M.L. Jaisimha, has alternate director. Ousted sec- from 22 to 15 per cent over an to defy the judiciary,” Bindra with the reforms and later ap- “There is no leadership. Ex- in December, it did not follow the emerged as a contestant for the retary Ajay Shirke’s name is eight-year cycle (2016 to 2023). told The Hindu. Chennai (in 2013). But we were proached the Court to look at perience has been wiped out constitutional rules or procedure top post, along with Dr. G. also still on the website. It is to be seen if the ICC will “Along with Sanjay Jagdale isolated because Srinivasan the issues,” said Bindra. because of self-inflicted woes. and was never voted upon. Vivekanand. If Azhar’s nomination The quarterly meeting was stick to the method followed and Ajay Shirke, I had advised found support from five other In Bindra’s opinion, the It is time they realise their fol- As such, the appointments were is declared valid, then there will be allotted to Mumbai, but not when N. Srinivasan was the him to step down from his post Board oicials who chose to Board made a blunder by float- lies and work to set things never formalised and the a three-cornered contest. wanting another disturbance ICC chairman. of president at the AGM in stay back in Delhi. He stepped ing the idea that the Interna- right,” he said. suspension was uncalled for. Shakib gets a double Sri Lanka in trouble SCOREBOARD TENNIS South Africa — 1st innings: S. 81-0, Pradeep 27-8-78-4, Mathews Djokovic to meet in record stand JOHANNESBURG: Vernon Phil- the innings, Kaushal Silva and Cook lbw b Mathews 10, D. Elgar c 20-6-52-2, Kumara 25.1-2-107-4, ander and Kagiso Rabada Kusal Mendis put on 47 for the Karunaratne b Kumara 27, H. Amla c Herath 14-0-67-0, de Silva 8-1-22-0. plunged Sri Lanka into famil- second wicket. But, Rabada Chandimal b Pradeep 134, J. Duminy Sri Lanka — 1st innings: D. Kar- Verdasco in opener iar trouble when they both struck soon after tea when he c Mendis b Kumara 155, D. Olivier c unaratne c de Kock b Philander 0, K. took two wickets on the produced a sharp lifting deliv- Chandimal b Mathews 3, Faf du Silva c de Kock b Rabada 13, K. second day of the third and fi- ery which Silva had to play at Plessis c Mendis b Pradeep 16, T. Mendis c Duminy b Rabada 41, nal Test against South Africa and only managed to edge to Bavuma c Silva b Pradeep 0, Q. de Dhananjaya de Silva c Bavuma b at the Wanderers Stadium on wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock c de Silva b Kumara 34, V. Philander 10, A. Mathews (batting) Friday. Kock. Philander c Chandimal b Pradeep 0, 11, D. Chandimal (batting) 3; Extras Sri Lanka was 80 for four The first half of the day be- W. Parnell c Tharanga b Kumara 23, (lb-2): 2; Total (for four wkts. in 28.4 when bad light ended play for longed largely to the visitors K. Rabada (not out) 0; Extras (b-11, overs): 80. the day, still 346 behind South as their bowlers claimed South lb-8, nb-1, w-4): 24; Total (in 124.1 Africa’s total of 426. Africa’s remaining seven overs): 426. Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-47, 3-62, Although Dimuth Karunar- wickets for 88. Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-45, 3-337, 4-70. atne was caught behind of Nuwan Pradeep took four 4-346, 5-364, 6-364, 7-367, 8-378, South Africa bowling: Philander Vernon Philander without wickets to finish with four for 9-425. 9-3-23-2, Parnell 6.4-1-16-0, Olivier scoring of the fourth ball of 78. — AFP Sri Lanka bowling: Lakmal 30-8- 6-2-13-0, Rabada 7-2-26-2. PILING IT ON: Shakib Al Hasan and Mushfiqur Rahim added 359 for the fifth wicket, batting their side into a position of strength. — PHOTO: AFP WELLINGTON: Shakib Al Hasan homme delivery behind Wade, Faulkner script Australia’s win DEFENDING CHAMPS: Novak Djokovic and Angelique Kerber pose stroked the highest individual square for his 30th boundary, with their trophies. — PHOTO: SCOTT BARBOUR/GETTY IMAGES then surpassed Tamim’s re- score for Bangladesh and com- BRISBANE: Australia’s Matthew cord score of 206 with a push bined with Mushfiqur Rahim Wade struck his maiden one- SCOREBOARD MELBOURNE: Defending cham- for a single to mid-of. — in a record partnership on the day century to help secure a pion Novak Djokovic will Watch out for Reuters second day of the first Test 92-run victory over a disjoin- Australia: D. Warner b Amir 7, T. Wade b Faulkner 4, Babar Azam c launch his bid for a record sev- Head c Rizwan b Imad 39, S. Smith c Smith b Cummins 33, Umar Akmal c ț Verdasco v Djokovic against New Zealand at the SCOREBOARD ted Pakistan in the first One- enth Australian Open title Basin Reserve on Friday. Day International here on Rizwan b Amir 0, C. Lynn c Rizwan b Head b Starc 17, Mohammad Rizwan with a mouth-watering first Hasan 16, M. Marsh c Rizwan b Imad c Marsh b Cummins 21, Imad Wasim ț Murray v Marchenko Shakib (217) and captain Bangladesh —1st innings: Friday. round match against Fernando 4, G. Maxwell c Hafeez b Hasan 60, c Warner b Marsh 29, Mohammad Mushfiqur (159) stubbornly Tamim Iqbal lbw b Boult 56, Imrul Pakistan began well by re- Verdasco. ț M. Wade (not out) 100, J. Faulkner c Nawaz b Starc 1, Mohammad Amir c Wawrinka v Klizan denied New Zealand in perfect Kayes c Boult b Southee 1, Mominul ducing Australia to 78 for five Spaniard Verdasco knocked Hafeez b Nawaz 5, P. Cummins run Maxwell b Faulkner 8, Wahab Riaz c conditions as they produced a Haque c Watling b Southee 64, Mah- in the 17th over at the Gabba. compatriot Rafael Nadal out in ț Brown v Raonic out 15, M. Starc b Hasan 10, B. Stan- Starc b Cummins 6, Hasan Ali (not 359-run fifth-wicket partner- mudullah c Watling b Wagner 26, Wade’s unbeaten run-a-ball the opening round last year at lake (not out) 1; Extras (lb-1, w-9, out) 1; Extras (b-4, lb-5, w-5): 14; ship and batted their side into Shakib Al Hasan b Wagner 217, 100, brought up of the final de- Melbourne Park and had ț Federer’s return from injury nb-1): 11; Total (for nine wkts. in 50 Total (in 42.4 overs): 176. a position where it is unlikely Mushfiqur Rahim c Watling b Boult livery of the innings, and match points against Djokovic Matthew Wade. — PHOTO: AFP overs): 268. to lose the game. 159, Sabbir Rahman (batting) 10, Me- Glenn Maxwell’s brisk 60 Fall of wickets: 1-38, 2-47, 3-79, in their recent clash at the Marchenko in his opener, as The previous highest part- hedi Hasan c Southee b Wagner 0; helped the host to recover, stand before James Faulkner Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-13, 3-52, 4-109, 5-129, 6-133, 7-158, 8-163, Qatar Open. the Briton searches for an elu- nership for any wicket for Extras (b-2, lb-6, nb-1): 9; Total (for however, and post 268 for (four for 32) claimed the first 4-67, 5-78, 6-160, 7-170, 8-212, 9-171. Should Serb Djokovic ad- sive maiden title at Melbourne Bangladesh was the 312 by seven wkts. in 136 overs): 542. nine. of his four wickets by dismiss- 9-235. Australia bowling: Starc 8-0- vance, the World No. 2 could Park after five trips to the final. Tamim Iqbal and Imrul Kayes Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-60, 3-145, Pakistan got of to a decent ing Sharjeel. Pakistan bowling: Amir 10-0- 34-2, Stanlake 3-0-13-0, Faulkner 7- face a resurgent Grigor Di- Murray, beaten in four of against Pakistan at Khulna in 4-160, 5-519, 6-536, 7-542. start but there was no signific- To make matters worse, 54-2, Hafeez 7-0-23-0, Hasan 9-0- 1-32-4, Cummins 8.4-0-33-3, Head mitrov in the fourth round. them by Djokovic, including April, 2015. New Zealand bowling: Boult 31- ant partnership in its innings Azhar was forced to retire hurt 65-3, Wahab 6-0-42-0, Imad 10-0- 10-0-28-0, Marsh 6-0-27-1. The Bulgarian won the Bris- last year’s decider, faces a rel- Shakib brought up his 4-121-2, Southee 31-5-144-2, de and Azhar Ali’s side was dis- and, even though he returned 35-2, Nawaz 8-0-48-1. Toss: Australia. bane International last week atively smooth run to the double century, just the third Grandhomme 20-2-65-0, Wagner missed for 176 in the 43rd over. to bat, the match had slipped Pakistan: Azhar Ali c Warner b Man-of-the-Match: Matthew and is in ominous form. quarterfinals where Kei by a Bangladeshi, when he 36-6-124-3, Santner 15-2-60-0, Willi- Azhar and Sharjeel Khan out of Pakistan’s hands by Faulkner 24, Sharjeel Khan c Maxwell Wade. World No. 1 Andy Murray Nishikori or Roger Federer punched a Colin de Grand- amson 3-0-20-0. put on 38 runs in their opening then. —Reuters b Faulkner 18, Mohammad Hafeez c Australia won by 92 runs. will face Ukraine’s Ilya may await. — Reuters

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 18 | SPORT THE HINDU SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 2017 DDCA EC Match poised for an intriguing final day meeting today Abhishek Nayar’s gritty innings helps Mumbai set a target of 312; Gaja scalps six for Gujarat NEW DELHI: The Delhi and Dis- Siddharth Sahib Singh and Vi- trict Cricket Association kas Katyal, who had come in G. VISWANATH Suryakumar Yadav, Lad and jarat had the satisfaction of (DDCA) has conveyed an for praise from Justice (Retd) skipper Aditya Tare. seeing its openers return emergent meeting of its Exec- Mukul Mudgal for assisting INDORE: A twist in the tale of the The Gujarat bowlers, who unbeaten. utive Committee on Saturday him during his stint as the Ranji Trophy final could be on had kept the Mumbai batsmen The scores: to pick the oice-bearers for Delhi High Court-appointed the cards after left-hander Ab- in check on the third day with a Mumbai — 1st innings: 228. conducting the afairs of the administrator at the DDCA. hishek Nayar battled it out for relentless outside-the-of- Gujarat — 1st innings: 328. association. “At the said meeting, we four hours on Friday to enable stump line, continued in the Mumbai — 2nd innings: Akhil DDCA treasurer Ravinder shall also resolve and under- Mumbai set Gujarat a target of same vein when play began Herwadkar c Gohil b Gaja 16, Prithvi Manchanda has submitted a take to implement the Lodha 312. with Mumbai 108 runs up with Shaw c Parthiv b Gaja 44, Shreyas list of 17 members, including Committee recommendations Opener Priyank Panchal seven wickets in hand. Iyer c Parthiv b Gaja 82, Suryakumar some who had come in for cri- and do everything possible to made an unbeaten 34 and his Skipper Parthiv Patel took Yadav c Parthiv b Kalaria 49, Aditya ticism in the past for their way implement the same. partner Samit the second new ball when it Tare lbw b Hardik Patel 69, Siddhesh of functioning. The members “We shall also immediately Gohil scored 8 was due and Gaja sent back Lad c Gandhi b R.P. Singh 15, Ab- will vote to pick the president, circulate the minutes of the as their side fin- Suryakumar, caught-behind. hishek Nayar lbw b R.P. Singh 91, Bal- vice-president, treasurer, gen- meeting after it is formally ap- ished the Then a pull shot ended Lad’s winder Singh Sandhu Jr. c Juneja b eral secretary and proved,” said Manchanda in a fourth day at 47 stay at the crease. Lad had Gaja 20, Shardul Thakur c Karan Pa- joint-secretary. communication to the Lodha for no loss. hooked the previous ball for a tel sub b Gaja 1, Vishal Dabholkar c Manchanda is part of the list panel. — Special In a keen six, but paid the price for being Gohil b Gaja 12, Vijay Gohil (not out) along with Salil Seth, Correspondent tussle between reckless. 0; Extras (nb-5, w-7): 12; Total (in the two West 137.1 overs): 411. Zone teams at Tare’s knock Fall of wickets: 1-54, 2-66, 3-193, the Holkar Sta- Tare, who had escaped on 18 4-238, 5-270, 6-297, 7-323, 8-326, dium here, Gu- when Gaja overstepped, went 9-370. Three Chinese lifters jarat met with on to make an invaluable half- Gujarat bowling: R.P. Singh 29.1- success with century before falling leg-be- 8-83-2, Rush Kalaria 25-11-63-1, the second new fore to Hardik Patel. Chintan Gaja 39-10-10-121-6, Bhar- stripped of Olympic golds THE BLESSED ONE: Chintan Gaja celebrates the dismissal of Shardul Thakur on Friday. After his exit, Mumbai’s in- gav Merai 6-3-16-0, Hardik Patel 28- ball, claimed in the 81st over. BERLIN: China faces a one- weightlifting gold Medium-pacer Chintan — PHOTO: K. MURALI KUMAR nings revolved around Nayar’s 2-89-1, Rujul Bhatt 10-0-39-0. year ban from medallists Cao Lei (75kg), Gaja scalped six in 39 overs, individual enterprise, with Gujarat — 2nd innings: Samit with No. 11 Vijay Gohil for cordon, Nayar struck big Lad’s wicket in the pre-lunch international weightlifting but eventually Mumbai Balwinder Singh Sandhu Jr. Gohil (batting) 8, Priyank Panchal Chen Xiexia (48 kg) and company after having protec- blows to give his team a good session and set about the busi- showed fierce determination playing a cameo role. (batting) 34; Extras (lb-5): 5; Total competitions after three of Liu Chunhong (69kg) after ted Vishal Dabholkar from the total. ness of holding up one end. to take its second-innings total Mumbai lost a couple of (for no loss in 13.2 overs): 47. its athletes were stripped they tested positive for strike in a stand of 44 runs. to 411. Mumbai’s most successful Once again he proved to be a wickets thereafter and this Mumbai bowling: Shardul of their 2008 Olympic gold prohibited substances. Nayar (91, 5x4, 5x6) was de- Once medium-pacer Gaja player with the bat and ball gritty customer when the dashed its hopes of scoring at a Thakur 5.2-1-17-0, B.S. Sandhu Jr. 5-1- medals on Thursday after Lifters from Taiwan, termined to keep Mumbai in made Dabholkar chase a wide from the quarterfinals, Nayar chips were down after the dis- brisk pace. 19-0, Vijay Gohil 2-1-2-0, Abhishek re-tests of samples from Russia and Kazakhstan contention. He clouted five 6s ball to edge to Gohil in the slip came in at the fall of Siddhesh missal of overnight batsman It was a tough day, but Gu- Nayar 1-0-4-0. the Beijing Games. could be upgraded to the The International gold medals, but it is Olympic Committee (IOC) unclear whether they too RACING Sergeant At Arms favoured said it had disqualified failed tests. — Reuters Silver Ikon triumphs MUMBAI: Sergeant At Arms, who our (1) P.S. Chouhan 50.5, 11. Congressional. maintains his winning form since Nightfall (2) Merchant 50.5, 12. ATHLETICS his last victory in the Indian 2000 Ridgewood Star (12) S.J. Sunil 50.5 7 FIGHT HUNGER FOUND- BENGALURU: Silver Ikon (P.P. Dhebe FP: Rs. 364, Q: Rs. 187, Trinella: Rs. 3-3/4, 1-1/4 and Lnk. 1m 14.08s. Rs. 33 Guineas, should not find it diicult and 13. Elsa (7) S. Kamble 50. 1,975 and Rs. 1,393, Exacta: Rs. 13,431 (w), 16, 13 and 94 (p), SHP: Rs. 40, FP: ATION TROPHY (1,200m), up) won the Karnataka Racehorse to take the Ramniwas Ramnarain 1. Glorious Eyes, 2. Othello, 3. Maiden, 3-y-o only 7.15: 1. Art O Owners’ Association Million, the and Rs. 6,332. Favourite: Cadillac Rs. 86, Q: Rs. 31, Trinella: Rs. 1,423 Ruia Gold Cup (Gr. 2), the stellar Sumaaq Sky. Owners: M.R. Stud Farms Pvt. and Rs. 691, Exacta: Rs. 3,122 and Rs. War (1) Dashrath 55, 2. Pathan (8) Three records take a chief event of the races held here on attraction of the evening races here S. Sunil 55, 3. Timeless (4) Trevor Friday (Jan. 13). The winner is Ltd. rep. by Mr. N. Chandrashekar 1,620. Favourite: Massive Dynamics. on Sunday (Jan. 15). 4 FORBES INDIA CUP Rai & Mr. K. Manoj Kumar. Trainer: Owner: M.R. Stud Farms Pvt. Ltd. (2,000m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66, 55, 4. Emotionless (2) Sandesh owned and trained by Mr. B. Rails will be placed 7 metres 53.5, 5. La Magnifique (3) Neeraj Prithviraj. Prasanna Kumar. rep. by Mr. N. Chandrashekar Rai. away from 1400m to 1200m and 13 5.50: 1. Pugnacious (2) Neeraj 60, beating; Kumar shines Trainer: Prasanna Kumar. 2. Uncle Scrooge (3) Trevor 58.5, 53.5, 6. Powerhaus (5) C.S. Jodha The results: 4. SHIVANASAMUDRA metres away from 800m up to the 53.5, 7. Stunner (6) J. Chinoy 53.5 1. ULLAL BEACH PLATE CUP (1,800m), rated 45 to 65: Mys- winning post. 3. Multiglory (5) Dashrath 54.5, 4. 7. FLASHING STAR PLATE June (1) J. Chinoy 52, 5. Sherlock and 8. Windsor Forest (7) Suraj (1,600m), rated 00 to 20: Granada tic Music (S. John) 1, Afore (Arshad Narredu 53.5. (T.S. Jodha) 1, Extremelydangerous Alam) 2, Legacy Dream (Suraj (1,400m), rated 15 to 35, 5-y-o & over: 1 YAWAR RASHID TROPHY (6) Zervan 51 and 6. Frivolous (4) (Suraj Narredu) 2, Karod Pati Narredu) 3 and Sagrada (David Al- Firing Line (Nazerul Alam) 1, (1,400m), Cl. II, rated 60 to 86, 4.30 Sandesh 50. 1. La Magnifique, 2. Timeless, (Srinath) 3 and Noble Princess (Ar- lan) 4. 1/2, 2-1/4 and 2-1/2. 1m 51.56s. Opening Act (R. Marshall) 2, Moher p.m: 1. Mountbatten (4) Vishal 61, 1. Frivolous, 2. Sherlock 3. Art O War. shad Alam) 4. 1/2, 1 and Lnk. 1m Rs. 171 (w), 44, 78 and 15 (p), SHP: Rs. (Arshad Alam) 3 and Indian Fury 2. Star Councillor (2) P.S. (P.P. Dhebe) 4. Snk, 1-3/4 and 1/2. 1m 5 SIR H.M. MEHTA TROPHY 41.97s. Rs. 84 (w), 21, 14 and 21 (p), 250, FP: Rs. 2,277, Q: Rs. 1,854, Chouhan 55, 3. Shadowfax (1) Tre- 8 MOHAMMED RASHEED Trinella: Rs. 6,154 and Rs. 2,434, Ex- 27.75s. Rs. 73 (w), 24, 27 and 31 (p), (1,200m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 66, SHP: Rs. 48, FP: Rs. 259, Q: Rs. 81, vor 54.5, 4. Korol (6) C.S. Jodha 54, 6.15: 1. Ladislaus (1) Trevor 59, 2. BEG & RAHAT BEG TROPHY Trinella: Rs. 732 and Rs. 421, Exacta: acta: Rs. 18,629 and Rs.10,645. Fa- SHP: Rs. 79, FP: Rs. 661, Q: Rs. 293, 5. Celtic Prince (5) A.Gaikwad 53, Trinella: Rs. 7,118 and Rs. 3,051, Ex- Stardom Calling (6) Neeraj 59, 3. (1,000m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, Rs. 1,616 and Rs. 763. Favourite: Ex- vourite: Sagrada. Owners: Mr. 6. Charging Tigress (7) S. Amit 7.45: 1. Desert Rage (1) Ajinkya Vivek N. Rao, Mr. Vittal Belandor & acta: Rs. 1,05,288. Favourite: Hurrah. Alishas Pet (5) A. Imran Khan 58.5, tremelydangerous. Owners: Mr. M. 52.5 and 7. Artistic (3) Sandesh 51. 4. Benezeer (12) C.S. Jodha 58.5, 5. 59.5, 2. Backstreet Bay (10) Mer- Sridhar, Mr. M.C. Ponnappa & Ms. Mr. N.S. Srivatsa. Trainer: Arjun Owners: Mr. S.N. Prasad & Mr. T.S. Preetham. Trainer: Hidayat Khan. 1. Star Councillor, 2. Artistic Magical Dancer (2) S. Amit 57, 6. chant 58.5, 3. Furiosa (7) C.S. Jodha R. Craig Jones. Trainer: Mahmood Mangalorkar. 57.5, 4. Gran Paradiso (13) Parmar 2 Dancing Prince (8) Yash Narredu Khan. 5. KARNATAKA RACE- 8. VIBRANT PLATE (Div. I), RAMNIWAS RAMNARAIN 55.5, 7. Jimbo (10) Parmar 54.5, 8. 57.5, 5. Alpine Express (6) S. Amit 2. VIBRANT PLATE (Div. II), HORSE OWNERS’ ASSOCI- (1,200m), rated 15 to 35: Day RUIA GOLD CUP (Gr. 2) Quixotic (11) J. Chinoy 54.5, 9. Ma- 54.5, 6. Irish Boss (4) Shubham 54, (1,200m), rated 15 to 35: A Heart- ATION MILLION (1,200m), Flower (David Allan) 1, Jayadratha (2000m), 4-y-o only, 4.55: 1. High- duro (7) Zervan 53, 10. Magical 7. Impossible Dream (3) Yash toremember (Chetan Gowda) 1, 3-y-o, (Terms): Silver Ikon (P.P. (I. Chisty) 2, Heaven And Earth land Breeze (1) P.S. Chouhan 57, 2. Memory (3) Suraj Narredu 53, 11. Narredu 53.5, 8. Adams Beginning Island Pearl (Vivek) 2, Fine Barris- Dheb) 1, Land Of Liberty (Arshad (Srinath) 3 and Santorini Secret (A. Sergeant At Arms (3) Sandesh 57 Wings Of Glory (9) S.S. Baria 53 (5) Parbat 52.5, 9. Gloriana (9) San- tor (Rayan Ahmed) 3 and Skybound Alam) 2, Habanero (P. Trevor) 3 and Imran Khan) 4. Not run: Thunder- and 3. St. Andrews (2) Suraj and 12. Irish Bailey (4) P.S. tosh 52.5, 10. Royston Rock (2) S.S. (Nazerual Alam) 4. 2, 2-1/2 and 1-1/4. Air Of Distinction (P.S. Chouhan) 4. squall. 4, Nose and 2-1/2. 1m 14.42s. Narredu 57. Chouhan 51.5. Baria 52.5, 11. Sarah (11) A. 1m 14.75s. Rs. 584 (w), 127, 18 and 53 Not run: Apache Sunrise and Spot Rs. 22 (w), 14, 23 and 27 (p), SHP: Rs. 1. Sergeant At Arms 1. Maduro, 2. Irish Bailey, 3. Al- Gaikwad 52.5, 12. Headlines (12) (p), SHP: Rs. 47, FP: Rs. 8,140, Q: Rs. Light. 10-1/4, 1 and 2-1/4. 1m 13.23s. 62, FP: Rs. 151, Q: Rs. 98, Trinella: Rs. ishas Pet S.K. Jadhav 51.5 and 13. Symphonic LEAPING TO GLORY: Nayana James of University of Kerala sails 2,529, Trinella: Rs. 83,524 (carried Rs. 25 (w), 11, 19 and 16 (p), SHP: Rs. 557 and Rs. 161, Exacta: Rs. 1,900 and 3 LACHMAN K. ADVANI & (8) Altaf Sayyed 49. comfortably to the women’s long jump gold on Friday. over) and Rs. 35,796, Exacta: Rs. 67, FP: Rs. 79, Q: Rs. 64, Trinella: Rs. 6 Rs. 1,384. Favourite: Day Flower. MAYA L. ADVANI TROPHY RADHESHYAM JHUN- 1. Impossible Dream, 2. Gran — PHOTO: M. PERIASAMY 1,13,520 (carried over). Favourite: 216 and Rs. 83, Exacta: Rs. 389 and Owners: Rohan Bloodstock Pvt Ltd (1,600m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, JHUNWALA MILLION (1,400m), Rs. 163. Favourite: Silver Ikon. Paradiso, 3. Gloriana Mistress Of Spice. Owner and rep by. Mr. Haresh N. Mehta and 5.25: 1. Zoom Zoom (3) Vishal 59.5, 4-y-o & over, 6.45: 1. Dancing SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The results: Trainer: Mr. Warren Singh. Owner and Trainer: Mr. B. 2. Sumaaq (6) C.S. Jodha 57.5, 3. Prances (7) A. Imran Khan 59, 2. Day’s Best: Star Councillor Mr. Manav H. Mehta. Trainer: S. Men: 400m: 3. HAVERI PLATE (1,600m), Prithviraj. Padmanabhan. Glorious Eyes (13) Zervan 56.5, 4. Holy Smoke (5) Suraj Narredu 56, 1. Mohan Kumar Marvel (11) Ajinkya 56.5, 5. She’s Double: Glorious Eyes — COIMBATORE: (Madras) 46.55s (NMR), 2. Sanju rated 30 to 50: Rare Rhythm (A. 6. MERCARA PLATE 3. Brahmachari (2) C.S. Jodha 55, 4. Frivolous Three records Imran Khan) 1, Amazing Skill (R. (1,200m), rated 30 to 50, 5-y-o & Jackpot: Rs. 7,627 (73 tkts.); Run- An Ace (4) Roushan 56, 6. Simon Critics Choice (4) Sandesh 55, 5. took a tumble on the third day Sajan (Kerala) 47.52, 3. K. Manish) 2, Raw Gold (Suraj over: Private Paradise (A. Imran ner-up: Rs. 2,209 (108 tkts.); Says (8) J. Chinoy 54, 7. Prince Of Congressional (3) P.S. Chouhan Jackpot: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Treble: (i) 5, 6 Narredu) 3 and Tinderella (P. Tre- Khan) 1, Massive Dynamics Heart (10) Neeraj 52.5, 8. Nelsons 54.5, 6. Airco (6) Zervan 53 and 7. & 7. (ii) 6, 7 & 8. Tanala: 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, of the 77th all-India inter-uni- Muhammed Lubaib (MG, Kottayam) vor) 4. 2, Nk and Snk. 1m 39.61s. Rs. (Srinath) 2, Soviet Union (Vivek) 3 Treble (i): Rs. 1,453 (14 tkts.); (ii): Blood (9) K. Kadam 52, 9. Othello Renee (1) Trevor 51.5. 7 & 8. Super Jackpot : 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & versity athletics meet, organ- 47.62. Javelin: 1. Ashish Singh (Man- 50 (w), 18, 25 and 20 (p), SHP: Rs. 73, and Manta Ray (Rayan Ahmed) 4. Rs. 423 (84 tkts.). (5) Parmar 51.5, 10. Flashing Hon- 1. Critics Choice, 2. 8. ised by Anna University galore) 74.74m, Arun Baby (MG, Kot- (Chennai), at the Nehru Sta- tayam) 70.03, 3. Arvind Kumar Patel dium here on Friday. (VBSPU, Jaunpur) 69.47. Pole vault: Two of the records came in 1. Sonu Saini (Punjabi, Patiala) Women’s T20: the women’s section while 4.85m, 2. A. Ranjith (Periyar) 4.80, 3. Hockey HIM reigns United braces for Liverpool crunch Mohan Kumar of University of Siva (Madras) 4.80m. SPORTS REPORTER For Hockey Bhopal, Priy- LONDON: Manchester United by 10 points and lag five be- ing chances for my it’s Delhi vs Madras, the lone record Women: 400m: 1. Laxman G. Sari anka Dogra scored a consola- has a golden opportunity to hind second-placed Liverpool. teammates.” breaker in the men’s section, (Veer Narmad) 54.85s, 2. Tinkle RAMANATHAPURAM: Hockey HIM tion goal. haul itself into the Premier But victory on Sunday, with In contrast to United, Liver- was easily the best performer Chaudhury (Punjabi, Patiala) 54.89, defeated Hockey Bhopal 6-1 to The results: League title race at the ex- Mourinho calling for United pool — after emerging as title Baroda of the day. 3. Jerin Joseph (MG, Kottayam) win the B-division of the sev- B-division: Final: Hockey HIM 6 pense of bitter-rival Liverpool fans to raise the roof, would be contender thanks to a four- Kumar, who was part of the 55.77. 10,000m: 1. Sanjivini Jadhav enth National sub-junior (Ankita Dahiya 4, Jyoti 2) bt Hockey this weekend, while leader a significant statement of match winning run in Decem- NEW DELHI: Delhi will meet 4x400 relay squad at the Rio (Savithiribai Phule, Pune) 33:33.97s hockey tournament for wo- Bhopal 1 (Priyanka Dogra). Third Chelsea will look to steady its intent. ber —has sufered a dip. Baroda in the final of the Games, was fast out of the (NMR), 2. Meenu (Mangalore) men here on Friday. place play-off: Hockey Coorg 3 nerves at Leicester. Zlatan Ibrahimovic has been A draw at Sunderland in the senior women’s T20 league blocks and, midway through, 34:55.47, 3. Phulan Pal (DDU, Hockey HIM took the lead (Richika Thimmaiah, Padmavathy S. a key figure in United’s recent league was followed by an FA in Nagpur on January 15. left behind the rest of the field Gorakhpur) 36:27.43. Long jump: 1. in the 13th minute through a Madli, G.S. Kavya) bt Hockey Madhya surge and despite his team’s Cup stalemate against fourth- In the semifinals on Fri- for the gold and a new record Nayana James (Kerala) 6.07m, 2. G. field goal from Jyoti. From Bharath 1 (Divya Soni). current position the Swedish tier Plymouth and a 1-0 defeat day, Delhi defeated in the men’s 400m. His timing Karthika (Bharathidasan) 5.96, 3. M. there on, it was Ankita Dahiya A-division: Uttar Pradesh Hockey striker has set his sights on in the League Cup semifinal Karnataka by eight wickets of 46.55s bettered 47.01s set by Uma Maheswari (Madurai Kamaraj) show all the way. Back-to-back 3 (Yogita Bora 2, Mumtaz Khan) bt adding a Premier League first leg at Southampton. and Baroda beat Vidarbha by Lalit Mathur of University of 5.82. High jump: 1. Jinu Maria goals in the 14th and 18th SAI 1 (Lalchenbi Chanu Khundrak- medal to the league titles he a similarly big margin of Delhi in 2015. Manuel (MG, Kottayam) 1.79m minute helped Hockey HIM pam); Hockey Jharkhand 6 (Beauty won in Spain, Italy, France and Coutinho returns seven wickets. Sanjivini Jadhav of (NMR), 2. Jyoti (Punjabi, Patiala) go into half-time 3-0. Dungdung 6) bt Madhya Pradesh United goes into the Old Holland. Manager Jurgen Klopp will The scores: Savitribai Phule University 1.73, 3. Angel P. Devasia (MG, Kot- Hockey Academy 4 (Yogita Verma, Traford showdown in fine “I’m chasing the head hope the return against Karnataka 104 for nine in 20 (Pune) completed a sweet tayam) 1.71. Pole vault: 1. Reshma Ankita ’tricks Sadhana Sengar, Divya Yadav, Sneha fettle after beating Hull in the trophy, the Premier League, Southampton of Brazil for- overs (G. Divya 31, Reema Malhotra double by winning the wo- Raveendran (MG, Kottayam) 3.40m, Ankita’s hat-trick in the 41st Singh); Hockey Haryana 4 (Aman- League Cup semifinal first leg that is my aim,” said ward Philippe Coutinho after three for 11) lost to Delhi 105 for two men’s 10,000m. 2. Sinju Prakash (MG, Kottayam) minute almost sealed the game deep Kaur 2, Reet, Deepika) bt in midweek to extend its win- Ibrahimovic, who has 13 seven weeks out with an ankle in 18.4 overs (Latika Kumari 59 n.o.). Jinu Maria Manuel of Ma- 3.30; 3. Manjuka (Madras) 3.30. Shot for Hockey HIM. She added Hockey Gangpur Odisha 2 (Jiwan Kis- ning streak in all competitions league goals this season. injury provides a timely boost Vidarbha 92 for seven in 20 overs hatma Gandhi University put: 1. Kachnar Choudhary (Ra- one more to make it 5-0. Jyoti hor Toppo); Hockey Odisha 4 (Neha to nine matches. “I try to help the team and for his team, which was held to (D.D. Kasat 31) lost to Baroda 93 for (Kottayam) cleared a new jasthan) 14.27m, 2. Meghana then rounded it of with a goal Lakra, Bimla Barwa, Komal, Soni) bt Jose Mourinho’s sixth- do what I’m best at — scoring a 0-0 draw by United in Octo- three in 19.3 overs. — Special height of 1.79m for the wo- Devanga (Mysore) 13.73, 3. Ruby in the dying moments. Hockey Punjab 0. placed side still trails Chelsea goals, playing good and creat- ber. — AFP Correspondent men’s high jump gold. (Barkathullah, Bhopal) 13.33.

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It’s Shrikrishna vs It’s Delhi vs Sparsh Pherwani Sindhu upstages Saina; Smashers in final Bengal SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Delhi entered the fi- To meet Rockets after the Mumbai team stuns Hyderabad Hunters nal of the Cooch Behar PUNE: The defending champion Trophy (under-19) tourna- and top seed from Tamil RAKESH RAO while H.S. Prannoy main- the second game, she did I’ll be working a lot on it.” ment with a nine-wicket vic- Nadu, S. Shrikrishna, and tained his winning run beating threaten Sindhu’s dominance Their mega-clash pushed tory over host Himachal Pra- Mumbai’s Sparsh Pherwani NEW DELHI: More than the out- Sameer Verma 11-8, 15-13 to by taking three straight points into the background the desh at the Atal Bihari will clash in the sub-junior fi- come of the ‘war’ between seal the tie. to bridge the gap to 8-9. How- straight-game victories of Vajpayee Stadium in Amter nal of the Manisha National Chennai Smashers and Saina, who said over the ever, her rival’s two forehand Sindhu’s teammate P. Kashyap on Friday. Billiards and Snooker Champi- Awadhe Warriors for a place past week that she was only cross-court returns settled the over Wing Ki Vincent Wong In the other semifinal, onship at the PYC Hindu in the final of the Premier Bad- about “60 per cent fit” follow- contest. and Awadhe Warriors’s K. Bengal defeated Assam, also Gymkhana. minton League (PBL), it was ing her recovery from a knee “Saina has been moving well Srikanth over Tommy by nine wickets, at the Bengal The results: Sub-junior: Boys: the ‘battle’ involving P.V. surgery, showed no and I don’t think her Sugiarto. Cricket Academy Ground in Semifinals: S. Shrikrishna (TN) bt Sindhu and Saina Nehwal that signs of any great dis- fitness was a factor. In fact, there was a serious Kalyani. Kreishh Gurbaxani (Mah) 406-203, held everyone’s interest at the comfort. She moved We both couldn’t take setback for Chennai when its The scores: Sprash Pherwani (Mah) bt Digvijay Siri Fort Stadium and on tele- well and often got into a single point easily. previously undefeated mixed Himachal Pradesh 225 in 86.5 Kadian (Har) 274-155. vision screens. positions to execute Knowing that she is so doubles pair of Chris Adcock overs (M.Z. Khan 95, R.V. Kashyap Quarterfinals: Shrikrishna bt In just 27 minutes, Sindhu some well-measured good at the net, I tried and Gabrielle Adcock lost the 47, Harsh Tyagi five for 48, Syed Rayaan Razmi (Mah) 406 (95, 99)– justified the expectations half-smashes and to keep her away from there. opener to the higher-ranked Saqlain Haider four for 47) & 155 in 167, Gurbaxani bt K. Vibhas (Tel) based on form and fitness. cross-courts. Luckily, the shuttle-speed was Savitree Amitrapal and Bodin 50.2 overs (Tyagi five for 42, Haider 289-133, Kadian bt Dhruv Chawla Even before the first shuttle The rallies — going up to 48, consistent and ‘drift’ was not Isara. three for 34) lost to Delhi 276 in 65.1 (Pun) 235-140, Pherwani bt Mehul was stroked, Sindhu showed 32 or 28 strokes — were a true an issue. I was confident of do- The results (semifinals): Chen- overs (Mayank Rawat 86, Jonty Saini (Har) 199-113. the confidence by opting to indication that Saina’s fitness ing well and when the team nai Smashers bt Awadhe Warri- Sidhu 57, Anuj Rawat 36) & 109 for play Trump against her more did not have a big impact on wanted me to play the Trump ors 4-1 [Chris Adcock & Gabrielle one in 23.1 overs (Manoj Kalra 64 not illustrious rival. No doubt, it the outcome. Even Sindhu felt match, I readily agreed,” said Adcock lost to Savitree Amitrapal & out, Ankur Kaushik 39). was a grudge match, and that the players’ fitness was Sindhu. Bodin Isara 11-9, 8-11, 5-11; P. Assam 179 in 106.4 overs (Akash Top juniors for Sindhu handled the pressure “not a factor” in the match-up. After all, Sindhu’s match be- Kashyap bt Wing Ki Vincent Wong Sengupta 37, Jitumoni Kalita 33, Erik better to come out stronger. Sindhu won the match’s came a must-win encounter 11-4, 11-6; Tommy Sugiarto lost to K. Roy 30, Kanishk Seth six for 48) & ITF event For the record, Chennai longest rally — 48 strokes — to for Chennai since it trailed 1-2 Srikanth 12-14, 7-11; (T) P. V. Sindhu 122 in 43 overs (Erik Roy 51, S.S. won 4-1 and will take on Mum- lead 7-5 immediately after the before the fourth rubber. bt Saina Nehwal 11-7, 11-8; Chris Ad- Jaiswal three for 21, Ishan Porel SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT bai Rockets in the final. Rock- interval in the second game. On her part, Saina pointed to cock & Mads Pieler Kolding bt (T) V. three for 28) lost to Bengal 225 in ets caused a sensation, taking After Saina produced an awe- Sindhu’s fitness and said, “Of Shem Goh & Markis Kido 11-3, 12-10]. 89.3 overs (Ankur Paul 85, Mo- KOLKATA: Some top Indian juni- an unsurpassable 3 to minus 1 inspiring cross-court smash to course, Sindhu has had a great Mumbai Rockets bt Hyderabad hammad Irfan Ansari 37, Arif Ansari ors, including two-time Na- lead after winning the two make it 8-9, Sindhu returned 2016 and is very, very fit. I’ve Hunters 3 to -1 (Sung Ji Hyun bt Car- 31, Aravinda Biswas three for 45, tional champion Nitin Sinha Trump contests. Sung Ji Hyun the compliment to keep her just had two weeks on court. olina Marin (T) 6-11, 11-6, 11-5; H.S. Mukhtar Hussain three for 64) & 79 and Parikshit Somani, will fea- STAR SKIRMISH: Chennai Smashers’s P.V. Sindhu got the better upstaged World and Olympic nose ahead. My movements were sluggish. Prannoy (T) bt Sameer Verma 11-8, for one in 15.1 overs (Ankur Paul 53 ture in the ITF juniors event to of Saina Nehwal of Awadhe Warriors. — PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY champion Carolina Marin, Though Saina never led in Once I go back [to Bengaluru], 15-13). n.o.). — Sports Bureau be held on the clay courts of the Dakshin Kalikata Sansad here. I-LEAGUE TENNIS Among the girls, Akansha Wenger hopes Bhan and Rhea Verma are the well-known names from the future plans host country in the absence of Dufy double does it for Bagan Konta’s fairytale finish in Sydney Zeel Desai and Mahak Jain, AMITABHA DAS SHARMA that created more opportunit- Duffy, who skipped won’t influence SYDNEY: Britain’s World No. 10 who will give the grade-3 ies, but failed to capitalise on Johanna Konta beat third- event a miss for the junior KOLKATA: Darryl Dufy’s brace them. pre-match practice Ozil talks ranked Agnieszka Radwanska Australian Open. helped former champion Mo- The visitors enjoyed long with fever, scored in 6-4, 6-2 to win the Sydney In- Players from 14 countries, hun Bagan down Shillong La- periods of possession in both LONDON: Arsene Wenger insists ternational WTA final on including India, will be seen in jong FC 2-0 and secure its halves, but the strikers failed the 21st and 77th Mesut Ozil won’t base his con- Friday. action in boys and girls’ singles second successive win of the to utilise the numerous minutes tract talks with Arsenal solely In doubles, top seeds Sania and doubles competitions for Hero I-League at the Rabindra chances that came the side’s on the uncertain future of the Mirza and Barbora Strycova, the under-18 age group. Sarobar Stadium on Friday. way. On the other hand, the surance goal for the Mariners Gunners manager. playing together for the first The qualifiers will be played Dufy, who had skipped hosts cashed in on Dufy’s op- in the 77th minute as substi- Wenger’s current deal only time, came up short against the on Saturday and Sunday, while practice on the eve of the portunism. In the 21st minute, tute Pronay Halder sent a long runs until the end of the season unseeded combination of the main event will be held match after being down with he made the most of a cross pass to Balwant Singh. and he has yet to reveal Timea Babos and Anastasia from Monday to Saturday. fever, scored once in each half from Kingshuk Debnath, who The latter passed the ball to whether he will extend his 20- Pavlyuchenkova in the final. There will be 24 direct as Bagan netted full points to moved up from defence to find the onrushing Dufy, who year reign at the Premier Mirza and Strycova lost to entries apart from four wild move to the top of the the Scot unmarked in the La- scored past Vishal Kaith in the League club. their unseeded opponents 6-4, cards and four qualifiers in standings. jong territory. Lajong goal. With Wenger’s future still 6-4 in an hour and 12 minutes. each of the singles draws of 32 Bagan, which beat Churchill Lajong pressed for the Bagan has six points, while to be decided, Ozil this week In the men’s section, Gilles FIGHTING DISPLAY: Gilles Muller played some combative tennis each, said Bengal Tennis Asso- Brothers 1-0 in its first outing, equaliser after change of ends, Lajong remains at the bottom said he wants to know whether Muller ended Viktor Troicki’s en route to dethroning Viktor Troicki in the Apia International ciation president Hiranmoy looked far from convincing as but Fabio Pena and Asier with two successive loses. the 67-year-old will still be at two-year unbeaten run with a on Friday. — PHOTO: AP Chatterjee at a press confer- it lacked cohesion. It was actu- Dipanda failed to capitalise. It The result: Mohun Bagan 2 (Duffy the helm if he agrees a new fighting 6-3, 7-6(6) victory to ence here on Friday. ally the youthful Shillong side was Dufy who scored the in- 21 & 77) bt Shillong Lajong FC 0. contract. reach the final. The results: At Sydney: ATP/ Evans bt Andrey Kuznetsov 6-2, 3-6, Ozil and Arsenal teammate Muller, after two years com- WTA Apia International: Women: 6-3.At Auckland: ATP ASB Classic: Alexis Sanchez both have 18 ing up short in the semifinals, Final: Johanna Konta bt Agnieszka Semifinals: Jack Sock bt Steve BASKETBALL months left on their present will face Britain’s Daniel Radwanska 6-4, 6-2. Doubles: Final: Johnson 6-4, 6-3; Joao Sousa bt Mar- deals and are reportedly seek- Evans. Evans, who upset Aus- Timea Babos & Anastasia cos Baghdatis 6-1, 7-5. ing parity with the Premier trian top seed Dominic Thiem Pavlyuchenkova bt Sania Mirza & At Hobart: WTA Hobart Interna- League’s top earners if they in the quarterfinals, accounted Barbora Strycova 6-4, 6-4. tional: Semifinals: Elise Mertens bt Telangana dethrones Railways, meets Kerala are to remain at the Emirates for Russian Andrey Kuznetsov Men: Semifinals: Gilles Muller bt Jana Fett 6-4, 6-0; Monica Niculescu Stadium beyond 2018. — AFP 6-2, 3-6, 6-3. Viktor Troicki 6-3, 7-6(6); Daniel w/o Lesia Tsurenko. — Agencies K. KEERTHIVASAN along smoothly. Barring the first quarter PUDUCHERRY: The women’s which was close (17-14), Ut- semifinal matches held the at- tarakhand had a handy lead in Spurs demolish tention of one and all in the the other three. Though Pun- Zeel to meet Mahak in title round 67th senior National basket- jab’s Talwinderjit Singh Lakers ball championships here on scored with his drive-ins and SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT one in 2014 in Pakistan. 6-2; Len Schouten bt Dostanbek Friday. Between the two excit- lay-ups, he didn’t get support Kuan Yi Pee combined well Tashbulatov (Kaz) 6-2, 7-6(1); SAN ANTONIO: Kawhi Leonard ing matches, it was the one support from others. NEW DELHI: Second seed Mahak with Mananchaya Saangaew Hazem Naow (Syr) bt Nitin Kumar poured in 31 points in just between Telangana and In- It was veteran Pratham Jain sustained her good work of Thailand to cinch the Sinha 3-6, 6-4, 6-3. three quarters of play, and dian Railways that took the Singh’s brilliant performance and outplayed Kuan Yi Lee of doubles title with a 10-4 vic- Doubles: Final: Uisung Park four of San Antonio Spurs’ cake. in the first quarter that set the Chinese Taipei 6-3, 6-2 to set tory in the super tie-break (Kor) & Hua-Chen Yu (Tpe) bt Joshua starters scored in double fig- Playing only its third Na- stage for Tamil Nadu’s win. up a title clash against top against Yasmina Karimjanova Bode (US) & Len Schouten (Ned) 6-3, ures as the team demolished tionals, Telangana played with His two-three pointers, fol- seed Zeel Desai in the ITF of Uzbekistan and Mahak. 6-2. Semifinals: Uisung Park & Hua- Los Angeles Lakers 134-94 at a lot of heart to upstage the de- lowed by few drive-ins, gave grade-2 junior tennis tourna- Chen Yu bt Hazem Naow & Dhruv the AT&T Center on fending champion 74-56 and the team a load of confidence. ment at the DLTA Complex In line for a double Sunish 6-1, 6-4; Joshua Bode & Len Thursday. set up a clash with Kerala, Vineeth Revi Mathew, Rikin here on Friday. In the boys’ section, top Schouten bt Palaphoom Kovapituk- Spurs’s total was a season- which pipped Chhattisgarh Pethani and the youngsters After a good start, the seed Uisung Park of Korea put ted & Tonkla Mulada 6-4, 6-2. high, as were the 72 points 72-70. also came up with laudable Taipei girl was unable to himself in line for a double as Girls: Semifinals: Zeel Desai bt scored by it in the first half In the men’s semifinals, Ut- STELLAR SHOW: Gayathri, who impressed with her drive-ins and performances. match the precision and con- he won the doubles title with Akanksha Bhan 6-1, 6-2; Mahak Jain and the 40-point margin of tarakhand and Tamil Nadu lay-ups for Telangana, tries to get past a Railways player. The results (semifinals): sistency of 15-year-old Mahak Hua-Chen Yu of Chinese bt Kuan Yi Lee (Tpe) 6-3, 6-2. victory. Men: Uttarakhand 78 (Vishesh Quarterfinals: Zeel Desai bt Vic- scripted facile wins. While Ut- — PHOTO: S.S. KUMAR and gave up, quite Taipei. tarakhand dismantled Pun- Bhriguvanshi 20, Trideep Rai 15, Am- exasperated. In an entertaining contest, toria Kalaitzis (Bel) 6-1, 6-2; Akank- Pau Gasol added 22 points jab’s defence in its 78-53 win, Gayathri has been tireless with uted in conversion of baskets. ritpal Singh 12) bt Punjab 53 (Tal- On the other hand, the 17- Uisung Park tamed Jack sha Bhan bt Eunji Oh (Kor) 6-3, 6-1; for Spurs, while LaMarcus Tamil Nadu put Rajasthan in her drive-ins and lay-ups. And Chhattisgarh’s reliance on winderjit Singh Sahi 14). year-old Zeel hardly faced any Draper of Britain. Kuan Yi Lee bt Vaidehi Chaudhari Aldridge and Tony Parker ad- its place with a 108-77 victory. the two were the key to the Poonam Chaturvedi came a Tamil Nadu 108 (Rikin Pethani 20, challenge from compatriot He will play the tall and 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Mahak Jain bt Axana ded 13 each, all in just three Interestingly, it was learnt, victory over the 27-time cropper and though the 6’11” Jeevanantham 24, Vineet Revi Akanksha Bhan, who had the strongly built Len Schouten of Mareen (Bel) 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. quarters of the lopsided game. Telangana’s Ramya, Anusha champion. hoopster did her best, Kerala Mathew 10, Pratham Singh 11, Muin- game but not the conviction in the Netherlands who fought Doubles: Final: Kuan Yi Lee (Tpe) The results: Anto and Gayathri were “un- This is only the second in- stymied her eforts. bek 10) bt Rajasthan 77 (B. Singh 17, her ability, to compete against past Hazem Naow of Syria. & Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) Golden State Warriors 127 bt De- fairly ignored” for selection stance in last three decades Looking for its third title, the Sharath Dadich 21, V. Kumar 15). an opponent ranked No. 37 in The results: bt Yasmina Karimjanova (Uzb) & troit Pistons 107; Dallas Mavericks into the Railways’ team. And that the Railways’ women’s Uttarakhand men were never Women: Telangana 74 (Gayathri the world. Boys: Semifinals: Uisung Park Mahak Jain 6-4, 2-6, 10-4. 113 bt Phoenix Suns 108; San Antonio as one from the Telangana’s team has not reached the final; tested. With Vishesh 24, Ramya 17, Suganya 17) bt Indian It will be a repeat of last (Kor) bt Jack Draper (GBR) 6-1, 7-6 Semifinals: Kuan Yi Lee & Man- Spurs 134 bt Los Angeles Lakers 94; team stated, “Railways loss the last time being the Bhil- Bhriguvanshi and Trideep Rai Railways 56 (Sruthi Menon 14). year’s final at the same venue (4); Len Schouten (Ned) bt Hazem anchaya Sawangkaew bt Lexie New York Knicks 104 bt Chicago has been Telangana’s gain.” wara Nationals in 2014-15. scoring regularly and Amrit- Kerala 72 (P.G. Anjana 20, P.S. between Zeel and Mahak. Zeel Naow (Syr) 6-2, 7-6(8). Quarterfi- Stevens (Ned) & Mihika Yadav 2-6, Bulls 89; New Orleans Pelicans 104 Ramya, with her shooting The other semifinal went to pal Singh standing as a ‘tower' Jeena 20, Pooja Mol 12) bt Chhattis- has won the two matches nals: Uisung Park bt Parikshit 6-3, 10-6; Yasmina Karimjanova & bt Brooklyn Nets 95; Denver Nuggets prowess, has been a huge the wire. The Kerala girls were during ofensive and defensive garh 70 (Poonam Chaturvedi 36, against Mahak in the ITF ju- Somani 6-1, 6-2; Jack Draper bt Mahak Jain bt Mai Napatt Nirundorn 140 bt Indiana Pacers 112. — strength to Telangana, while quicker and each one contrib- rebounds, the team sailed Aakansha Singh 15). nior circuit, the first being the Palaphoon Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-2, (Tha) & Akanksha Bhan 6-3, 6-4. Reuters

PWL GENERAL CHESS Mumbai confirms semifinal spot Kheta Ram targets Amonatov snaps Karthikeyan’s run UTHRA GANESAN but neither that nor the re- turn him around and pin him RAKESH RAO opened cut above her eye instead to the mat. Mumbai’s personal best at SCMM NEW DELHI: A bleeding captain could stop the reigning Jabrayil Hasanov beat Parveen NEW DELHI: It needed something Erica Wiebe kept her un- Olympic champion from Rana 7-0 in the 74kg to remain special from top seed Farrukh beaten record in the competi- Canada from winning her fifth unbeaten. Amonatov to end the winning tion intact and ensured Mum- bout in as many games. With the tie hinging on the streak of overnight leader M. bai Maharathi stayed the final bout, Kadian went ahead Karthikeyan and surge ahead course and booked a semifinal Good start 0-3 at the beginning of the after the seventh round of the spot with a 4-3 win over Delhi Delhi, though, had its best second round. But Oliynik, a Delhi International Open Sultans in the Pro Wrestling start in the competition so far former European champion, chess tournament here on League here on Friday. after David Tlashadze pinned changed his strategy. Friday. Having finished its league Pritam in the 70kg to win in The victory took Amonatov engagements, Mumbai will five minute 40 seconds while Rewarded to 6.5 points and kept him half now have to wait for the other leading 6-2. Instead of going for the big a point away from the trio of ties to get over to know its op- Multiple Olympic medallist points, he kept pushing Kadian Karthikeyan, third seed Dip- ponent in the knockouts. Mariya Stadnik bettered him, out of the competition area tayan Ghosh and Ukrainian Delhi, meanwhile, lost its ending the contest against and was rewarded with three Vitaly Sivuk. Three rounds fourth tie on the trot and, along Carolina Castillo in just two quick points to equalise before remain. with UP, is now out of compet- minutes 42 seconds to double getting behind him success- Playing with white pieces, FOCUSED: Farrukh Amonatov (left) produced something special ition, making their last tie — the lead and a struggling Sak- fully to take a 6-3 lead. Another READY FOR THE FRAY: Indian marathoners (from left) Tsetan Amanatov grabbed a pawn on to beat M. Karthikeyan in the seventh round of the Delhi against each other — of aca- shi managed to edge past a de- takedown in the last 10 Dolkar, Jigmet Dolma, Jyoti Gavate, Mohammad Yunus, Elem the queenside on the 24th International Open chess tournament. demic interest. fensive Sarita 1-3 with not a seconds sealed the matter in move after his king was dis- Singh and Kheta Ram in Mumbai on Friday. — PHOTO: VIVEK BENDRE With her team trailing in the single takedown in the entire Mumbai’s favour. lodged from its home square young N.R. Visakh in 53 moves Mishra (5.5); David Alberto (Ita, 5.5) tie, Erica managed just one bout to put Delhi ahead 3-1. The results: SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT two-month break and hence on the 16th turn. This on the second board while bt S. Nitin (5); Sayantan Das (4.5) takedown of Alina Makhynia The team, however, Delhi beat Mumbai 4-3 (Women: could not prepare as extens- happened after Karthikeyan Sivuk overpowered compat- lost to S. L. Naryanan (5.5); Saptarshi in the 75kg but that was sufered due to the absence of 48kg: Carolina Castillo (Mum) lost to MUMBAI: Kheta Ram is the only ively as I did last year,” said the went ahead with a sequence of riot Valeriy Neverov in 45 Roy Chowdhury (5) drew with Adam enough for a 3-0 victory that Bajrang Punia, the highest- Mariya Stadnik (Del) by fall; 58kg: male marathoner from Rio Army Sports Institute runner. tactics that didn’t amount to moves. Tukhaev (Ukr, 5); Andrei Deviatkin pulled her team level. paid wrestler in the competi- Sarita (Mum) lost to Sakshi Malik 2016 in the fray at the 14th He finished 26th in the Rio much. The results (Indians unless (Rus, 5) drew with Rakesh Kumar Ukrainian Pavlo Oliynik tion — who fought just one (Del) 1-3; 75kg: Erica Wiebe (Mum) Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon, clocking a personal The Indian teenager also stated): Jena (5); Attila Czebe Attila (Hun, came back from a three-point bout and lost — aas his re- bt Alina Makhynia (Del) 3-0. Men: Marathon 2017 (SCMM). best 2:15:26s. The ASI athlete chose not to castle and soon Seventh round: Farrukh 5.5) bt Arjun Erigaisi (4.5); Sahaj deficit to comprehensively placement Surjeet was pinned 65kg: Vikas (Mum) bt Surjeet Grewal The Olympian is hoping to from Rajasthan is the name to thereafter, with the rooks of Amontov (Tjk, 6.5) bt M. Karthikeyan Grover (5.5) bt Sidhant Mohapatra win 8-3 against Satyavrat Ka- by an aggressive Vikas in just (Del) by fall; 70kg: Pritam (Mum) bank on experience to over- watch among Indian men at the boards, the outcome of the (6); Diptayan Ghosh (6) bt N.R. Vi- (4.5); Marat Dzhumaev (Uzb, 5.5) bt dian in the 97kg in the final over five minutes while lead- lost to David Tlashadze (Del) by fall; come shortage of preparation the SCMM on Sunday. result depended on the minor sakh (5.5); Vitaly Sivuk (Ukr, 6) bt Rahul Sangma (4.5); Niaz Murshed bout of the day. ing 15-8. 74kg: Jabrayil Hasanov (Mum) bt for Sunday’s event. Two others who ran with piece-play. After 55 moves, the Valeriy Neverov (Ukr, 5); Nguyen (Ban, 5.5) bt Spencer Masango (Zim, Erica twice took a medical Vikas almost got pinned Parveen Rana (Del) 7-0; 97kg: Pavlo “I trained for a month and him at Rio, Thanachkal Gopi Tajikistan player had the last Huynh Minh Huy (Vie, 5.5) drew with 4.5); Anup Deshmukh (4.5) lost to break, battling with a cotton himself before using all his Oliynik (Mum) bt Satyavrat Kadian want to make that efort count. and Nitendra Rawat have not laugh. Adam Horvath (Hun, 5.5); Niranjan Saptarshi Roy (5.5); Pranav Shetty swab in her nose all through strength to push away Surjeet, (Del) 8-3). After the Rio Games, I took a entered the Mumbai race. Ghosh got the better of Navalgund (5.5) drew with Swayams (5) drew with S. Ravi Teja (5.5).

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Indian pepper may Bush daughters advise Obamas STAR TREK Nawazuddin charged ₨1 for Haraamkhor be a cancer fighter ollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui charged nothing but just a HOUSTON: The Indian long colon, lymphoma, leuk- token amount of one rupee for his latest release Haraamkhor. pepper, widely popular for aemia, primary brain tu- on life after White House BThe Shlok Sharma-directed movie, which also stars spicing up food, may soon mours and gastric cancer. Shweta Tripathi, is based on student-teacher romance. be used as a potential can- Teenagers Malia and Sasha Obama received praise from the 35-year-old twins “Nawaz as well as everyone in the project worked on cer treatment drug, ac- Detoxification enzyme minimal money or no money at all. Ours is a passion project and we did everything we could to get the cording to a new study. Using X-ray crystallo- WASHINGTON: A week before reason the first family have film made. Nawaz loved the script and insisted to The Indian long pepper graphy, researchers were their dad leaves the White given for remaining in Wash- work pro bono on the film understanding the contains a chemical that able to create molecular House, Malia and Sasha ington after Mr. Obama limitations of the budget overall. Nawaz was could stop your body from structures that show how Obama received praise and hands over to President- sweet to only charge one rupee from us literally as producing an enzyme that the chemical is trans- advice from the daughters of elect Donald Trump. a token of his efforts. His support and work is commonly found in tu- formed after being inges- former U.S. President made the film possible!,” Guneet mours in large numbers, ted. PL converts to hPL, an George W. Bush as they exit ‘Make mistakes’ Monga of Sikhya Entertainment according to the study in active drug that silences a the public spotlight. The Bush twins ofered said. Haraamkhor is jointly Journal of Biological gene called GSTP1. The “Eight years ago on a cold words of encouragement and produced by Monga and director Chemistry. GSTP1 gene produces a November day, we greeted advice as the Obama girls Anurag Kashyap. — PTI UT Southwestern Med- detoxification enzyme you on the steps of the White prepare to leave White ical Enter scientists have that is often overly abund- House. We saw both the light House. “Enjoy college. As uncovered the chemical ant in tumours, the study and wariness in your eyes as most of the world knows, we process behind anti-can- said. you gazed at your new did,” the Bush twins wrote, in Harrelson joins Han Solo standalone film cer properties of a spicy “We are hopeful that our home,” 35-year-old twins a joking reference to news ctor Woody Harrelson has been confirmed to appear in Han Indian pepper plant called structure will enable addi- Jenna and Barbara Bush said accounts of the minor scan- Solo standalone movie. The announcement comes a week the long pepper, whose tional drug development in an co-written article pos- SISTER ACT: Former U.S. President George W. Bush’s daughters dals that erupted over their Aafter he was reported to be one of the cast members. suspected medicinal prop- eforts in order to improve ted late Thursday on Time Jenna (left) and Barbara at the White House. — FILE PHOTO: AP alcohol use while in college. Lucasfilm and Disney haven’t revealed Harrelson’s role, though, erties date back thousands the potency of PL for its magazine’s website. “Explore your passions. reported Ace Showbiz. “We couldn’t be more excited to work with an of years. The secret lies in use in a wide range of can- grow from girls to impress- a gap year after graduating Learn who you are. Make artist with as much depth and range as Woody,” said directors Phil a chemical called Piper- cer therapies,” said Dr. ‘Another rarefied club’ ive young women with grace high school, before she en- mistakes — you are allowed Lord and Christopher Miller. “His ability to find both humor and pathos, longumine (PL), which Kenneth Westover, Assist- “In eight years, you have and ease... Now you are rols next year at Harvard to. Continue to surround often in the same role, is truly unique. He is also very good at ping has shown activity against ant Professor of Biochem- done so much. Seen so about to join another rar- College. Younger sister yourself with loyal friends pong,” they said. Harrelson’s other movies are Now You See Me, cop many cancers including istry and Radiation Onco- much,” the Bush daughters efied club, one of former Sasha (15) has another who know you, adore you drama Triple 9, LBJ and The Edge prostate, breast, lung, logy. — PTI wrote. First Children.” couple of years of high and will fiercely protect of Seventeen. He has six more “We have watched you Malia Obama (18) is taking school ahead, which is the you,” they wrote. — AFP films coming out this year, including War for the Planet of the Apes, which is scheduled to be released in July. Biting cold The Han Solo standalone movie In Praise of Air, a poem that will focus on the event before Star Wars: A New Hope, just like blockbuster Rogue One: A Star ‘cleans’ your environment Wars Story. — PTI LONDON: A revolutionary air- entists at the university that towns and cities across the cleansing poem has removed is capable of purifying its world. Professor Joanna Gav- Alec Baldwin to play Trump on SNL more than two tonnes of pol- surroundings through cata- ins, who leads the project ctor Alec Baldwin has revealed that he would return to lution from the environment lytic oxidation. from the University’s School Saturday Night Live to portray the 45th U.S. President Donald in the U.K. as part of a project of English, said: “We all know Trump on January 21, just a day after the inauguration. The Nitrogen oxide removed A that could be used to fight that pollution is a major 58-year-old actor said he is also considering other venues he might pollution in cities across the The poem, which has been problem for the world’s pursue to further portray Trump, reported Ace Showbiz. “We’re going world, a leading British Uni- on display on the University urban areas but so far we as a to play Trump the day after the inauguration. I’m doing SNL the day versity claimed on Friday. of Sheield’s Alfred Denny society haven’t fully adopted after the inauguration,” Baldwin said. “All of this comedy stuff In Praise of Air, the building since May 2014, has any long-term solutions to we do on SNL, Trump is our head writer. world’s first air-cleansing now reached the end of its tackle the problem. Trump just hands it to us in a basket with a poem, was produced by sci- exhibition in Sheield, and “Scientists, such as my col- big bow on it everyday,” he added. The entists and writers at the the project team has estim- leagues in Sheield, are de- actor said in a separate interview that he University of Sheield in the ated that it has removed over veloping technologies to was going to keep appearing on SNL. “I’m U.K. The catalytic poem by two tonnes of nitrogen oxide help clean the environment gonna do SNL as much as I can. And there’s award-winning writer Simon from the surrounding but it’s the arts and humanit- discussions about other venues we Armitage, Professor of Po- environment. ies that can help raise aware- might pursue to further express our SHARP IMPACT: Icicles hang from a house in south Kashmir on Friday. The cold wave etry in the University’s The team now hopes the ness of environmental issues gratitude and admiration for the continued unabated in Kashmir, with Srinagar experiencing its coldest January night in School of English, has been poem and its air-cleansing and inspire people to adopt Trump administration,” Baldwin the past five years on Thursday. Water supply lines remain frozen. — PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD printed on specially treated technology can be replicated pro-environmental beha- told ABC News. — PTI material developed by sci- on billboards and artwork in viour.” he said. — PTI Boy ‘pulls gun’ on A new computer method classmate for chicken nugget to tell namesakes apart NEW YORK: A 12-year-old New WASHINGTON: Scientists have It works on streaming “Non-exhaustiveness” is York City boy has been ac- developed a novel machine- an important aspect for cused of pulling a gun on a learning method that can dif- data that enables name disambiguation be- classmate, demanding that ferentiate between people the identification cause training data can never she gave him her chicken with the same name. of names previously be exhaustive, as it is im- nugget. All individuals are unique, possible to include records Police said the boy first ap- but millions of people share not encountered of all living individuals. proached the girl inside a names. How to distinguish “We can teach the com- McDonald’s in Harlem on between — or disambiguate works on streaming data that puter to recognise names Tuesday and asked her for — people with common enables the identification of and disambiguate informa- one of her Chicken McNug- names has always perplexed names previously not tion accumulated from a gets. When the girl refused, researchers. encountered. variety of sources — Face- police said, the boy followed This conundrum occurs in book, Twitter and blog posts, her as she walked to a nearby a wide range of environ- A key aspect public records, and other subway station and pointed a ments, from the biblio- Existing methods can dis- documents — by collecting gun at her head, demanding graphic to law enforcement ambiguate an individual only features such as Facebook that she gave him a nugget. and other areas. if the person’s records are friends and keywords from Police said the girl Now, scientists from the present in machine-learning people’s posts using the smacked the gun away and Indiana University-Purdue training data, whereas the identical algorithm,” said told the boy to leave her University Indianapolis in new method can perform IUPUI associate professor alone. The girl reported the the U.S. have developed a non-exhaustive classifica- Mohammad al Hasan. incident to school oicials novel machine-learning tion so that it can detect the “Our proposed method is the next day and the boy was method to provide better fact that a new record that scalable and will be able to taken into police custody for solutions to this problem. appears in streaming data ac- group records belonging to a attempted robbery. The new method is an im- tually belongs to a fourth unique person even if thou- The gun was not found, provement on currently ex- person, even if the training sands of people have the and it remained unclear if it isting approaches of name data has records of only same name, an extremely was real. — AP disambiguation because it three diferent persons. complicated task.” — PTI Chinese school allows students to borrow marks from ‘grade bank’ to pass

BENJAMIN HAAS able for advanced students in the international HONG KONG: Many of us have department. been there: hopelessly un- One student, identified prepared for an exam, wish- only as Gui, recently used the ing we had studied more and bank to borrow seven points certain of a failing mark. in order to receive a passing Now, for students at one grade of 60 on a physics test, school in China, success is the newspaper reported, but guaranteed, but it comes at a most students usually need price. only one or two points. A high school in eastern China has set up a “grade ‘Psychological impact big’ bank”, where students who “The diference in learn- would normally fail a test ing between a score of 59 can borrow points to push CREDIT BALANCE: Students must repay borrowed grades with points and 60 points is not them over the line into a even higher scores on a future exam. — REPRESENTATIVE PHOTO: AFP large, but the psychological passing mark. But nothing in impact on students is huge,” life is free, and students must in the final year of school. ies, not to make things dii- said Mei Hong, a physics repay their borrowed grades Students are under so much cult, punish, destroy a teacher at the school. with even higher scores on a pressure to perform, many student’s enthusiasm,” So far, about a quarter of future exam. Students can attempt increasingly hi-tech Huang Kan, a director at the the students in the pilot pro- also do extra work in the methods of cheating. school, told the Yangtse gramme have borrowed from form of lab experiments or Spy cameras and radio Evening News. Mr. Huang the bank. Like a real bank, public presentations to repay devices have been found hid- also lamented the culture in borrowing marks will incur the bank. den in jewellery, spectacles, China where “one test de- interest, and students can re- China’s education system wallets, pens, rulers and termines your life “. pay their debt in instalments. is heavily dependent on just underwear. The ‘grade bank’ at Any students still in debt at a few major exams, with “The purpose of exams are Nanjing No. 1 High School is the end of the semester will entry into college almost en- for students to evaluate, cor- currently only in the pilot get a “red mark” on their re- tirely determined by one test rect and improve their stud- phase, and so far only avail- cord. — The Guardian

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