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As per this, the Ministry (vendor) who allegedly shipped the DDG said. Jhansi Senior Superintendent Bangladeshi citizens from Agra in Ghaziabad and two locals has paired up 20 best per- hundreds of parcels containing “A bachelor in hotel man- of Police D Pradeep said, “As for allegedly preparing fake — Ahsan Ahmad and Wasim forming cities with the 20 bot- psychotropic drugs to offshore agement from Amity University many as seven Bangladeshi passports. The ATS got infor- Ahmad — were nabbed from tom cities. Prime Minister locations in the garb of sex in Lucknow, Singh had mastered nationals were arrested during mation that some Bangladeshis, Deoband in Saharanpur. In Narendra Modi’s parliamentary stimulation medicines. the technique to disguise iden- routine checking near the bus living illegally in the state, September 2017, three illegal constituency Varanasi will Dipu Singh, 21, son of a tity while making a shipment”, stand in Babina on Friday.” were making fake Aadhaar Bangladeshi immigrants — guide Amritsar whereas retired Army officer, was the NCB said in a statement. Babina — a cantonment and ration cards and were then Mohammad Imran, Ahmedabad will help arrested by the sleuths of the A total of 55,000 psy- town in Jhansi district — using these documents to get Rajidudeen and Mohammad Chandigarh in implementing Delhi zonal unit of the NCB chotropic tablets that includes stands for British Army Base Indian passports made. Firdaus — were arrested from projects under the mission. from Lucknow recently. tramadol, zolpidem, alprazo- in North Asia. Those arrested During interrogation, they the Charbagh railway station Ahmedabad (1st rank), During the searches, lam have been seized as part of were staying at a hotel near the confessed to being residents of in Lucknow. The three Nagpur, Tiruppur, Ranchi, to sign an MoU before respectively, while Bhopal will 12,000 tablets of various psy- this two-month-long multi- bus stand and did not have Bangladesh living in India on brothers were staying in west- Bhopal, Surat, Kanpur, Indore, February 20. According to the share its ideas with Mizoram’s chotropic drugs were seized national operation that was valid documents for staying in the basis of fake documents ern Uttar Pradesh for Visakhapatnam, Vellore, official, cities have been paired capital city Aizawl. from his residence. conducted with cooperation India, the SSP said, adding that and data retrieved from the years. Vadodara, Nashik, Agra, up with those from a similar “The pair of “sister cities “Singh is a major player on from international agencies, the seven belong to Dhaka. accused revealed that they The police said they were Varanasi, Davanagere, Kota, region and culture. will have to sign an MoU the darknet. His listings were NCB Delhi zonal director K P “For some time, they were in had also visited Punjab and originally residents of Jessore Pune, Udaipur, Dehradun and The official said Varanasi, before February 20 to ensure found in one of the biggest and S Malhotra said. Some drugs the business of selling fish oil. Rajasthan. Those arrested were district in Bangladesh, but Amravati are the 20 best per- a holy city, has been paired up expeditious execution of pro- reliable darknet markets like ere seized from Mumbai and During routine probe, no identified as — Habibur had got their Aadhaar cards forming cities, according to with another holy city Amritsar jects and report compliance to Empire Market and Majestic the United Kingdom. criminal cases have been Rehman of Madaripur dis- made on the basis of fake internal rankings. which needs to improve its per- the Smart Cities Mission Garden. He clandestinely Darknet or darkweb refers found against them, but they trict (in Bangladesh), Zakir addresses. They stayed in An official said that under formance under the mission. Directorate,” the official said. couriered hundreds of drug to the deep hidden Internet have been booked under the Hussain of Narayanganj dis- Deoband, where Imran was the 20-20 formula, Ranchi and Smart Cities Mission, “Sister cities” will under- parcels to countries like the platform that is often used for Foreigners Act for illegally trict, Mohammad Kabil of employed as a teacher in a Pune will team up with Shimla launched in 2015, is aimed at take a 100-day challenge from USA, UK, Romania, Spain and illegal activities like sale of staying in India,” Pradeep Khansama district, madrasa. In 2017, the Uttar and Dharamsala respectively, ensuring all-round develop- the day of its announcement to some other European nations narcotics, exchange of porno- added. Kamaluddin of Sylhet district, Pradesh Special Task Force and share ideas with them to ments of a city which has enhance the ranks and perfor- using the darkweb,” NCB graphic content and the like Those arrested were iden- Taizul Islam of Mymensingh (STF) had arrested another improve their performance. advanced facilities for its citi- mance of the bottom 20 cities. Deputy Director General using the secret and layered tified as Mamoon Sheikh, district and Liton Miya of illegal Bangladeshi immigrant The Ministry has issued an zens. Under the mission, 100 select- (DDG) (operations) Rajesh alleys of the onion router (ToR) Milan Sheikh, Aslam Sheikh, Ghazipur district. Similarly, in — Abu Hannan alias Abu advisory for the same and Visakhapatnam and Surat ed smart cities have identified Nandan Srivastava said. to evade surveillance of law Falan Sheikh, Sijer Sheikh, 2018, the ATS had picked up Hana — who was staying in asked the 20 best performing will help Diu and Sharanpur 5,151 projects worth 2,05,018 “Singh initially began his enforcement agencies. Mukul Sheikh and Monu Vaid, three persons, including a India for 15 years. cities and the 20 bottom cities improve their performance crore to be executed. operation with shipping med- Continued on Page 4 police said. In the last few years, Bangladeshi national, for their Continued on Page 4 

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In this National Democratic Alliance outreach and Priyanka’s partic- Ravidas Janmasthan Mandir, meals with them and even amount, 1,500 will be given by event, through their participa- government at the Centre. ipation in the Guru Ravidas and also participated in ‘langar’ spent the night in their hous- the Central government and tion, the defence ministers, “It has been a habit of the birth anniversary celebration at (community lunch). es. The campaign, however, was 1,000 by the state govern- a platform to the youth for that Uttar Pradesh was the defence chiefs and ambas- Congress to oppose the pro- Seer Govardhanpur is a clear The Congress is apparent- not followed up by party work- ment,” Chief Minister Yogi development of skills,” he said. first state in the country which sadors of 70 countries have people schemes of the govern- indication of it. ly trying to win back Dalits in ers who reduced the outreach Adityanath said. The chief minister said had succeeded in giving gov- proved that India will now ment headed by Narendra Guru Ravidas, a Dalit seer, UP and regain lost ground. to a mere photo opportunity. The chief minister was that after the formation of the ernment jobs to more than 2.5 become not only an importer Modi and so it is criticising the poet-saint, social reformer and Dalits, along with Brahmins After the drubbing in the addressing a job fair organised Bharatiya Janata Party govern- lakh youth within three years. but also an exporter in the field CAA,” Maurya said in a state- a spiritual figure who was a part and Muslims, formed the core 2019 Lok Sabha elections, by the Labour Department ment in UP in 2017, the skill “With an investment of of defence, the focal point of ment issued here on Sunday. of the Bhakti movement in the vote base of the Congress till Congress general secretary and Employment Exchange at mission programme was accel- more than 2.5 lakh crore which will be Uttar Pradesh,” The deputy chief minister 15th and 16th centuries, is the decline of the grand old Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay erated. “Through the Labour through Investors’ Summit, 35 Yogi said. hit out at the Congress for tak- held in high esteem by the Dalit party following the rise of taken it upon herself to bring University in Gorakhpur on Department and Employment lakh youth have been linked He said that many compa- ing exception to the Centre’s communities. The devotional Mandal and Mandir issues in Dalits back into the party fold. Sunday. Exchange, we have done three with jobs and employment,” he nies in the country and from decisions, including abroga- songs of Ravidas have had a UP politics in 1990. “Dalits are now complete- “After completion of times more work in just three added. abroad had signed memoran- tion of Articles 370 and 35A lasting impact during the The advent of the Mandal ly disillusioned with the BSP internship, the government years than the previous govern- Besides, the chief minister dums of understanding and various welfare schemes. Bhakti movement. politics and the Ayodhya tem- which has only provided lip will also arrange placement ments were able to do in five said, the government had made (MoUs) for investment in the Referring to the forma- After arriving in Varanasi, ple movement in the early service to the community. for the youth. A HR (human years,” he said. it mandatory to reserve 20 per Defence Manufacturing tion of the trust for the con- Priyanka offered prayers at the 1990s turned the tide against Priyanka has already started resource) cell will be created for “The BJP government cent posts in the police force for Corridor. “This will bring struction of Ram temple in Ravidas temple and met the the Congress. While Brahmins making the right moves by vis- this,” Yogi said. ended the process of interview girls so that they could play a investment of 50,000 crore in Ayodhya, as mandated by the seers. went with the Bharatiya Janata iting Bhim Army chief “Our effort is to open an ITI for non-gazetted posts of class- bigger role in the security of the Uttar Pradesh and five lakh Supreme Court, Maurya said Speaking at a function in Party, the Muslims found Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ and a skill development centre es IV, III and II,” he said. state. youth will get jobs,” the chief that work on the temple would Varanasi on the occasion of refuge in the Samajwadi Party when he was hospitalised in in each tehsil of the state, to give The chief minister said The chief minister said minister said. start soon. Ravidas Jayanti, Priyanka urged and Dalits opted for the Meerut and then demanding the audience to take the teach- Bahujan Samaj Party. proper medical care for him in ings of the saint to the masses. All these three parties were jail. The Bhim Army is proving “He (Sant Ravidas) had emerging on the political hori- to be BSP’s nemesis and if the dreamt of a society, where zon of Uttar Pradesh and their Congress can strike a deal with      P !') there is no discrimination and growth was directly propor- it, the party will benefit,” said where every person is respect- tional to the decline of the a senior party leader. ed. You all should take forward Congress in the state. The Last year, Priyanka was  .5 =*, Gorakhpur was unable to start other states was taken for train- bles. The chief minister said his teachings to the masses, Congress did not have a single the first political leader to visit its own training institute due to ing of police recruits. “Through The chief minister said that through efficient and especially at a time, when there Dalit leader of stature who Sonbhadra where ten tribals hief Minister Yogi lack of land. “Today, not only this we have competed 85,000 that there was no cyber police smart policing, confidence is so much violence and hatred could wield considerable influ- were massacred after a land dis- CAdityanath said that the the police personnel are getting recruitment processes so far station in UP earlier and two could be instilled in the people. in the society. His teachings are ence on the community. pute. The Congress also pro- Bharatiya Janata Party-led state land, but the foundation stone with complete transparency districts had a forensic lab, but “We can take an example of this need of the hour,” Priyanka In 2009, it was Rahul vided financial assistance to the government in Uttar Pradesh of the building is also being and in a time bound manner. their condition was very from Farrukhabad, where a Gandhi said. Gandhi who started a Dalit victims’ kin. would form three women’s bat- laid,” he said. We will complete the remain- pathetic. “Now forensic labs are successful operation was exe- talion of PAC in the state at The chief minister said ing recruitment process very being set up at six locations in cuted by the police by killing a Gorakhpur, Lucknow and that the previous governments soon,” he said. the state and two cyber police criminal and rescuing 23 chil- Budaun. had messed up with the secu- The chief minister said stations have been established dren safely,” he added. ( $!  + & 
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If this formu- Ravidas Nagar came close on the According to police, the of this,” said Abhinav Sharma February 11, and the second Celsius, five degrees below Lbecause of the DefExpo la holds good for the airlines and ahujan Samaj Party supre- heels of a proposal to change the trio were going to take a dip in from Manav Sanrakshan phase extends from March 2 to normal. 2020 that closed on Sunday railways why not for hotel indus- Bmo Mayawati on Sunday name of Basti, a district located Ganga river on the occasion of Samiti. April 3. with industry people and busi- try?” he asked. said if voted to power in Uttar in the eastern parts of the state, Magh Poornima. Due to dense ness chambers believing that The taxis faced the brunt of Pradesh, her party would after Maharishi Vashishth. fog in Allahganj area of the dis- the city generated no less than the rush as Ajay, one of the taxi rename Bhadohi as Sant The Yogi Adityanath gov- trict, an unknown vehicle hit 500 crore in the five days of drivers puts it, travel agencies Ravidas Nagar. ernment in Uttar Pradesh has the motorcycle killing all three the mega event. hired taxis from neighbouring In a statement issued here, changed the name of Allahabad riders on the spot, they said. Assocham Secretary districts of Kanpur, Hardoi, the BSP chief said, “As soon as to Prayagraj and that of Faizabad The deceased have been General Deepak Sood said the Barabanki and Sitapur and still the BSP comes to power (in to Ayodhya. It has also renamed identified as Surjeet (30), his spin-off from the DefExpo could were not able to match the Uttar Pradesh), it will rename the Mughalsarai railway station brother Ramjeet (18) and their be 500 crore on a conservative demand. It is too early to suggest Bhadohi as Sant Ravidas Nagar. after Deen Dayal Upadhyay. neighbour Nagendra (25), who estimate. He told this reporter how the DefExpo gave a boost The previous Samajwadi Party Meanwhile, hitting out at the were all residents of Bareilly. NOTICE that this amount could be much to the economy of Lucknow government had changed its Congress and the BJP, Mayawati A truck driver was burnt more as all walks of life in because hotels and taxis are name due to its casteist men- said these parties were indulging alive after his vehicle rammed I, No .15617887L Rank Lucknow stand benefited from just one facet of this economic tality.” Mayawati accused the in “theatrics” now by visiting into a tree and caught fire at LNK, OM PRAKASH SINGH this five-day exhibition. Sood’s activity. Think about thousands Congress and the Bharatiya temples. around 7:30 pm on Saturday in ,S/O Nageshwar Singh estimates are not off the mark. of hoardings that were put up Janata Party of never honouring The BSP chief’s remarks Hamirpur district. ,Resident at Vill, Chapiya ,Post- All the hotels in the city were across the city. The flex agencies saint-poet Ravidas during their came on a day when Congress ISUAPUR, DISTRICT- booked beforehand and major- and even those people who put tenures and indulging in “the- general secretary Priyanka SARAN, BIHAR. in my serving ity of them were overpriced. The up hoardings on the sidewalks atrics” now by visiting temples. Gandhi Vadra was in Varanasi to document my son name tariff of the room normally of the city have economically Listing the work done by the offer prayers to Sant Ravidas on ADAYANT KUMAR SINGH has available for 10,000, touched gained from the defence expo. Bahujan Samaj Party to keep the the occasion of his birth anniver- been entered which is incorrect the roof during DefExpo 2020 This list does not end here. It memory of Ravidas alive, sary. the correct name of my son is — priced at anything between goes on as it includes the road- Mayawati said, “Sant Ravidas “The Congress, the BJP and ADYANT SINGH. 65,000 and 70,000. side tea seller who did a good Park and Ghat were made in other parties did not give any Officials from around 1,800 business and also the electrician Varanasi, his place of birth, his respect or honour to Sant companies manufacturing who illuminated the road with statue was installed in Varanasi Ravidas during their tenures. But NOTICE defence equipment took part in led lights,” Sood said. and the Ravidas Samman after being out of power, they are this edition of the DefExpo. Assocham President Dr Puraskar instituted. The indulging in various theatrics to I, No .15617887L Rank There was a big crisis of rooms Niranjan Hirandani interjected Santguru Ravidas Rajkiya realise their vested interests by LNK, OM PRAKASH SINGH during the event. “Not to talk to say that even the tourism Mahavidyalay was established in visiting temples and other places’’ ,S/O Nageshwar Singh about big hotels, even the small- industry of Lucknow earned Faizabad. Apart from this, Sant Mayawati said in a tweet in ,Resident at Vill, Chapiya ,Post- er ones were booked. We accom- money during this event. “People Ravidas Polytechnic was estab- Hindi. In another tweet, she said, ISUAPUR, DISTRICT- modated some of our guests in from across the country and the lished in Chandauli. A bridge on “The BSP, on the other hand, has SARAN, BIHAR. in my serving hotels in Kanpur,” a senior offi- globe came here and majority of river Ganga was named after the been the only party which, dur- document my daughter name cial of Hindustan Aeronautics them were visiting this city for saint. Assistance was given for ing its government, gave respect ADITYEE KUMARI has been Limited (HAL) said. the first time. They visited the Sant Ravidas Dharmshala in to him at various levels, which entered which is incorrect the UtP Hotel and Restaurant historic places of the city. And Budaun.” the opposition parties are trying correct name of my daughter Association’s joint secretary this tourist activity added to the The assertion of the former to put an end to. This is highly is ADITI SINGH. Shyam Kishnani said that room income of city,” he said. chief minister of Uttar Pradesh condemnable.”

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Incharge of the Greenwood Apartment in    "   rage over the mishap and Tower protest. surveillance cell of DCP Gomti Nagar Extension on the    blamed the police for failing to Siddiqui was also booked Central pinned down one of intervening night of Saturday In a tragic incident, a 59- put a check on the speed limit for vandalising government the thieves while two others and Sunday. year-old woman was killed of vehicles passing through property and hurling bombs at were also overpowered. The deceased was identi- while her husband suffered Ismailganj crossing. “This is an Satkhanda police outpost dur- Those arrested were iden- fied as Abhishek Singh, a res- grievous injuries after a speed- accident-prone zone but the ing violence in the city on tified as Sikander aka Golu of ident of the apartment (H- ing roadways bus knocked police have yet to chalk out a December 19 last year. Ten oth- Sitapur, Ejaz of Banthra and 1201) in Gomti Nagar police their scooty in Ghazipur police plan to regulate the speed of ers were also detained as they Nadeem of Madiaon. In the station area. As per reports, station area on Sunday after- vehicles,” they pointed out. tried to vitiate the atmosphere marathon effort, the police Singh was playing with his 2- noon. The errant driver They said the police reached by paying visit to the protest recovered Rs 8,500 in cash, a year-old son in the balcony fled the scene, abandoning the the scene around half-an-hour site on Saturday. So far, 50 per- motorcycle and two country- around 12.30 am on Sunday. bus on spot. following the mishap after sons have been arrested for !  made pistols and two shells. While playing, he moved back As per reports, Anand being informed. protesting near the Clock !    +   ($   The police said Sikander unmindfully and fell off. His Srivastava of Vastu Khand in Meanwhile, the body of an Tower since January 17. A had been named in 15 cases of brother Upendra Pratap Singh Gomti Nagar, along with his unidentified 50-year-old man total of 170 notices have been $ $ $ 5   bore, nine magazines, a cell Bihar. Arif told the police theft cases, out of which 10 and other family members wife Rekha Srivastava, was was recovered from Loni river served till now.   3   phone and an Aadhaar card that the recovered pistols were were registered in Sitapur. The rushed him to RML Hospital returning home from Indira in Gosainganj on Sunday. “As many as 143 notices With the arrest of an and Rs 316 in cash from Arif’s bought from Raju and Mohan police said they got a specific where he was declared brought Nagar on Sunday. Around 1:45 Reports said some villagers have been served for violation active member, sleuths of the possession. of Burhanpur in Madhya tip-off about Sikander and his dead. Later, the hospital sent pm when he reached near SBI spotted the body and alerted of prohibitory orders,” the Special Task Force (STF) According to police, Arif Pradesh. He further said that aides’ movement in Banthra a memo to the police, stating branch in Ismailganj, the bus the police. A team, led by sub- Thakurganj SHO said. The claimed to have busted a gang was in contact with other he used to supply the illegal and they were challenged. that Singh was brought dead to hit the scooty from behind. inspector Arjun Singh, reached police said a team was keeping of gun-runners in Uttar gun-runners and he used to pistols through Umar of Naka “Sikander opened fire at the hospital. Subsequently, Eyewitnesses told the police the scene and the body was sent an eye on the movement of Pradesh. The accused, identi- purchase the same for selling and Ejaz of Pandeyganj. Arif the police team but the bullet sub-inspector Baleshwar that the woman fell down and for autopsy. Singh said the Siddiqui. The police also fied as Mohammed Arif of among customers. Arif was used to purchase the pistols hit the bullet-proof jacket of Prasad was sent to the house was run over by the bus. identity of the deceased could claimed that they had adequate Naka, was arrested form directly in contact with those for Rs 15,000-20,000 each and surveillance cell incharge of the deceased for investiga- The police said that the not be ascertained. “Prima evidence of Siddiqui’s Bazaarkhala police station manufacturing pistols in then sold the same in Sanjay Shukla and he escaped tion. Prasad said Singh fell woman died on the spot while facie, the body bore no injury involvement in the December area. The STF sleuths recov- Burhanpur in Madhya Lucknow and neighbouring unhurt,” the police said. down around 12.30 am. “Singh Anand was rushed to RML marks,” he added. 19 violence. ered seven pistols each of .32 Pradesh and Mungher in districts. &%$% '  #%"# )%% !$! +  !      0  .5 =*, )1"*"?=5!"1)"*-+> vacant plot. The police played   0  .5 =*, look to the plants,” Rajan said. are commonly preferred as salads, half delaying tactics in registering a He pointed out that cherry toma- cut fruits can be mixed with fruits for elying tall claims of police, ,/15*"/)0* case in this connection,” he armers in Lucknow are keen on toes have several benefits and it is bound making them tasty. It is considered as Bthieves sneaked into a "0B5.."/"*(" said. The police said they were Fgrowing cherry tomatoes. Director to get very popular in coming days. an excellent appetiser. They are much house and a medical store in ".. 1! +.., scanning the CCTV footage to of Central Institute for Subtropical Cherry tomatoes are similar to common preferred as an ingredient of many Thakurganj and Madiaon in lay their hands on the thieves. Horticulture (CISH) Shailendra Rajan tomatoes but differ in few characteris- Indianised recipes. It goes well with the last 24 hours. Police regis- /)A,*+1* It may be mentioned that said cherry tomatoes have been a com- tics because they are smaller in size. cheese in pizza toppings. Baked cher- tered cases of theft under pub- 5*-">!1*0* traders, under the banner of modity limited to big hotels and They are crunchy with sweet-tangy taste ry tomato is great in taste. With increas- lic pressure. 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We checked the belong- Srivastava on Saturday and “CISH has been testing cherry tive value, mainly rich in antioxidants, Farmers interested in its cultivation his family, had gone to ings and came to know that the demanded that police tomato varieties for the past several particularly in Vitamin C and lycopene. are visiting the institute for under- Allahabad for ‘Terhavi’ of his thieves had made off with Rs patrolling in market areas be years to identify suitable ones for sub- Its antioxidants, combating with body standing production technology. SR mother-in-law. “I left for 50,000 in cash and ornaments intensified in view of the spate tropics and develop package of prac- free radicals help in preventing cancer. Singh is providing the know-how to vis- Allahabad on February 7 worth lakhs of rupees,” he said. in theft cases. “There is a spate tices. Its cultivation has been demon- Bioactive compounds make it suitable itors about crops in greenhouses. In AP, morning after locking all the In Madiaon, Pranav Kumar in theft cases, mostly at shops strated to several greenhouse growers. for heart disease and diabetes patients. special playhouses have been developed doors of rooms and main gate. Pandey, who runs a shop in in the city, and the police have At the institute, it has been successful- Rich lycopene has made it popular in to cater to the requirements of star We returned around noon the Faizullahganj, got a call from failed to curb the menace. ly grown in soil as well as in soil-less Japan as researches have shown them hotels. Seeds of cherry tomatoes are next day and found the lock on fellow shop-owners on Sunday Traders are suffering huge loss- mediums. Vines of red and yellow fruit- good for reducing colon cancer. of these small tomatoes are more than being imported from European coun- the main gate intact. When we morning about the theft. “The es due to theft,” said the traders, laden vines can be seen. 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Presidential Oration, Quiz for can learn “decency and language BJP in protest against the      *+,-+./0 ised for the first time in any ‘Cardicon’ is the annual DM students and Cardiotech etiquettes”. Naqvi was replying to Citizenship Amendment Act, Cardicon. “These devices conference of Cardiological Conclave and case-based a question by reporters here in Naqvi said his party has not put n a shocking incident, a should be available at all major Society of India, UP chapter. interactive discussion of com- Madhya Pradesh about up a board of “no exit” or “no Inumber of students of Delhi establishments. However, This year, it was hosted by the mon problems encountered Congress Lok Sabha member entry”. He said those who have University’s Gargi College nobody knows how to use department of Cardiology, in routine cardiology practice. Rahul Gandhi’s recent remark misunderstandings about CAA alleged that a group of men that in the next six months, the should think with an open mind barged into their campus and youth would hit Prime Minister and get their misconceptions molested, manhandled and Narendra Modi with sticks if he cleared as the new law is not a sexually assaulted them during with the teaching and non- friends, who were accompany- -./R 0 !1  % doesn’t address the issue of threat to any Indian citizen. the third day of their annual teaching staff, on duty. No one ing me, had held my hands so unemployment in the country. Talking to reporters here, Naqvi college fest. came to us and reported any that I don’t get lost in the crowd “The Congress leaders walk assured Indian Muslims that A second year student of such incident. We were taking as there is no cell reception on " ! !  2% , around with an axe in their their citizenship was “100 per Political Science on condition rounds in the crowd. However, the field. Suddenly immense hands and hit their own foot cent protected”. of anonymity, said the incident there is no doubt that it was pressure came from behind   0  .5 =*, gramme along with two ora- ic thyroidectomy, 25 years of with it every time they get a Asked about Muslim lead- took place “around 6.30 pm on very crowded. We were very and my hand got jerked off so tions and one guest lecture,” a thyroid surgery, research and chance. I want to give an advice ers from the Congress-ruled February 6. “I was groped vigilant but we couldn’t see any- I lost my friends for the next he department of Surgery, senior doctor told mediaper- training’. to Congress leaders, specially Madhya Pradesh quitting the thrice, somebody reached for thing of this sort.” “It is a seri- 10-15 minutes, and in those TKGMU, will be celebrating sons. Dr Rajeev Sinha of MLB A senior doctor from the Sonia Gandhi, to send her ‘pap- BJP in protest against the CAA, inside my skirt and the prob- ous incident and I will deliber- minutes, I was molested thrice,” its 108th foundation day on Medical College (Jhansi) will department said that this year, puji’ to a political playschool so Naqvi said, “The BJP is a big lem was I couldn’t move out of ate on it. It is a matter of seri- she said. Another student from February 15. A surgical educa- deliver the Prof SC Mishra more than 69,541 patients that he can learn the ABCD of political party. The BJP has nei- it. I saw that a 30-35-year-old ous concern, but unfortunate- the college said, “Around 3-3.30 tion programme will be organ- oration on ‘Existing controver- attended the OPD in the politics, dignity, decency and ther put up a board of ‘no exit’ man began masturbating while ly nobody has reported it to pm, a large groups of men ised at Scientific Convention sies in the management of department while 8,789 language etiquettes,” he said. nor of ‘no entry’. People come to looking at me, so I ran from me,” she added. started pushing the doors and Centre. ventral hernias’. patients were admitted to the Criticising Rahul Gandhi, the BJP and those who don’t there too,” she told IANS in a According to students of then entered the college. There Vice-Chancellor Dr MLB Dr Abhay N Dalvi of King department. The total number the minister said, “No one with want to stay in the party go choked voice over the phone, the college, the incident hap- were no police personnel or Bhatt will preside over the Edward Memorial Hospital of surgeries performed in the the right mental balance would away.” To another question, the Following the incident, pened when college annual fes- bouncers present at the gate programme while the chief (Mumbai) will deliver the Prof department was 11,266 in the talk about hitting a prime min- Union minister denied that the Rekha Sharma, chairperson of tival ‘Reverie’ was underway. from 3 pm to 4 pm when 300- guest will be former head of the PC Dubey oration on ‘The year 2019-20. ister, who is elected by the pub- BJP failed to convince its Muslim the National Commission for “There were restriction on out- 400 people entered the college. department Dr RP Sahi. The world is surgery – how times “Advanced laparoscopic, lic, with sticks.” Asked about the leaders that the CAA was in the Woman (NCW) said she will siders to get inside the college “The college grounds are scientific programme includes have changed’. endoscopic procedures are exit polls predicting a comfort- country’s interest. send a team to the college on premises during the festival but small, with little place to move two orations and a guest lec- Dr Amit Agrawal of being increasingly performed able victory for the Aam Aadmi “We appeal to those having Monday to talk to the students. the event was open for boys around, and that is when some ture. “We celebrate the founda- SGPGI will deliver the Prof TC in the department. There has Party in the Delhi Assembly misunderstanding about CAA The team will take the matter studying in other Delhi of these men started groping, tion day by a holding a week- Goel guest lecture on ‘From been extensive emergency polls, Naqvi said “What should to think with an open mind and with police also. However, a University colleges. Outsiders molesting and harassing us.” long surgical education pro- scalpel thyroidectomy to robot- work as well,” he added. we comment on exit poll trends? clear their misconceptions. They senior police official said neither may have entered the campus The student also alleged Let the results come out”. should also think why a ‘bogus they have received any complaint using passes given to students that when she approached the Elections to the 70-member bashing brigade’ was spreading nor any PCR call was made by of other Delhi University col- college principal, she respond- 7<*2 0) Delhi Assembly were held on fake information about CAA to the students or the college leges,” they alleged. “A large ed by saying that I should Saturday and the results will be create an atmosphere of fear and authorities regarding the inci- crowd of men entered into have not come to the fest if I felt declared on February 11. To a confusion in a particular com- dent. “College principal Promila campus after breaking the gate so unsafe. Asked about the stu-       query, Naqvi said protests munity,” he said. Notably, BJP’s Kumar also didn’t inform us and started abusing girls. They dent’s allegation that she was A blood donation camp against the Citizenship lone Muslim corporator Usman about any such incident. If any were also passing lewd com- not helped when she reported was organised at Jama Masjid in Amendment Act at Shaheen Patel in the saffron party-ruled complaint will come we will take ments and touching students the matter, Kumar said, “This Khurram Nagar by ‘Masjid Bagh in Delhi did not impact the Indore Municipal Corporation action accordingly,” he said. inappropriately,” said one of is a false allegation. One of the Council’. People from all faiths electoral landscape of the on Saturday announced Contacted by IANS, the the students on the condition of students did come to me, so I and religions joined this cause nation’s capital. He said that his resignation from the principal, however, said, “We anonymity. asked her to stay with and donated blood with enthu- CAA, ban on triple talaq and “changed” BJP, which he said had a huge security arrange- “The field was so massive- me until the situation became siasm. Nearly 100 units of blood abrogation of Article 370 in was indulging in “politics of ment, including police, bounc- ly crowded that there was no normal, but she disappeared collected at the camp will be Jammu and Kashmir were issues hate” over CAA. ers and even commandos along space to move. Two of my suddenly.” handed over to blood banks. Atif Hanif, one of the organisers, said the objective was to promote Parameswar ji by the Sangh communal harmony and nation !%  "+#
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Amita Bajpai. the total poll percentage, the the outbreak was Hubei trade, Srivastava said. 10 million rupees, while the Acting on a tip-off, the Uttar female voter turnout is 62.55 province, the virus has spread “The payment gateways of runner ups will get 7.5 million Pradesh Police had arrested   0 $  and the male voter percentage to almost every province in cryptocurrency like Bitcoins rupees. them and seized from their Colvin Taluqdars’ College has been slightly increased to China as well as around 25 and Litecoin were used by the possession fake high school organised a handwriting and 62.59 percentage including countries in the world, forcing operators to conceal the trans- 9 $ ''' certificates, mark sheets and art competition in the library transgender voter turnout. the World Health Organization actions from regulatory agen- He had married an Indian four voter identity cards. The lawns on Sunday. More than The highest voter turn was to declare it a global emergency. cies,” the NCB DDG said. The woman and got his Indian arrested Bangladeshis— Mohd 150 children participated in recorded in three minority A sizeable number of orders were procured from passport and Aadhaar card Farooq Parmanik, Mohd the fiesta titled ‘Ablaze’. The constituency Ballimaran with countries have evacuated their darknet and routed through made. Abdullah-Al-Mammon, Manik Sardar, Zulfikar, Mohd inter-school art and hand- 71.58 percentages, Seelampur citizens from China and various wicker identities, an alleged key operative of the Mamoon and Mohd Nurul writing competition bears sig- 71.22 per cent and Matia Mahal restricted movement of people WhatsApp and some business- Ansarullah Bangla Team Islam were residents of nificance with several schools 70.38 percentage. While, the and goods to and from China. to-business platforms. The (ABT) — an al Qaeda-inspired Naogaon district of participating. The partici- lowest in Delhi Cantonment India too has put restric- investigation in the case is Islamic extremist group in Bangladesh, police said. The pants sketched and painted 45.36 percent. The Assembly tions on the movement of peo- ongoing as the NCB is looking Bangladesh — was arrested sixth arrested person was Mohd beautiful landscapes. They election was held on February ple to and from China as part at the links of Singh and oth- from Muzaffarnagar in a sep- Shakeel alias Guddu Ansari, a also took a tour of the illus- 8 and the polling began at 8:00 of precautionary measures to ers associated with him, arate case. The names of resident of Dulhipur village. In trious college campus with am and ended around 7:30 pm. contain the spread of the virus. Malhotra added. Imran, Rajidudeen and January this year, a special staff members. Principal The high stake election results Firdaus came to light during court in Lucknow convicted Anoop Raj and headmistress will be declared on February   P'''   P/  ''' his interrogation. Yet another three Bangladeshi natives who of the junior wing Nidhi 11. Exit polls on Saturday pre- Darknet is considered very Pakistan Punjab Minister illegal Bangladeshi immigrant, were arrested in 2017 for living Tandon encouraged the dicted an easy win for the tough to crack by the investi- for Sports Rai Taimoor Khan Abdullah, was arrested from in the country without valid participants. AAP against the BJP and the gators due to its end-to-end Bhatti welcomed the ‘Indian Kuteshara in Muzaffarnagar documents. The three were Congress. However, the BJP encryption, The NCB was part contingent’ at a Lahore hotel. district on August 5, 2017. awarded five years imprison- and the Congress have dis- of a global ‘Operation Trance’, The officials of the Pakistan Abdullah was arrested from a ment and also fined Rs 19,000. missed exit polls prediction. launched in December last Kabaddi Federation welcomed place of worship, where he They were convicted for cheat- year, entailing a joint intelli- and garlanded the Indian play- worked as a preacher. He was ing, criminal conspiracy, 7'./  ''' gence gathering action on ers when they crossed into originally a resident of Momin forgery of valuable security A total of 811 people have international postal, express Pakistan from Wagah border Shahi district in Bangladesh and section 14 of the Foreigners died of the coronavirus infec- mail and courier shipments from where they were taken in but told the locals that he Act. Identified as Mohammad tion in China so far while the containing psychotropic drugs a security convoy to their hotel belonged to Assam and got a Imran, Faridudeen and number of confirmed cases (which can only be purchased in Lahore. All the six previous fake Aadhaar card and a pass- Mohammad Firdaus, the three, has gone up to 37,198, accord- on a doctor’s prescription and editions of the World Kabbadi port made for himself. During natives of Jessore in Bangladesh, ing to latest data released by are barred to be sold over the Champinship took place in interrogation, it came to light were residing at Madrasa Chinese authorities. counter) that are abused as India between 2010 and 2019. that the accused used to get Talimul Quran in Deoband, The Prime Minister also sedatives and painkillers by India have won all six champi- Aadhaar cards, voter ID cards Saharanpur, police said. The conveyed India’s appreciation the drug addicts. onships, defeating Pakistan in and other documents made on trio were apprehended at the for China’s assistance in evac- The latest darknet ring was the 2010, 2012, 2013 and 2014 the basis of false documents. Lucknow Railway Station while uation of Indians from Hubei unearthed as part of this oper- editions. Pakistani organisers The documents were then they were boarding the province. While offering India’s ation, which has international said that teams from Australia, used to get passports made. Six Howrah-Amritsar Express and assistance to China to face the linkages and is spread across England, Germany, Iran, persons including five allegedly had a link with the challenge, Modi also conveyed Singapore and the US and ser- Azerbaijan, Sierra Leone, Bangladeshi nationals were Ansarullah Bangla Team, a condolences at the unfortunate vices of global post offices and Kenya and Canada are also tak- arrested from Dulhipur village banned outfit.  !"# $%&"&# '()*(*(    
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The rights of Schedule interpretation of the apex court lacuna leading to such an State Government is not bound in jobs and promotion him the LJP founder and Union which Paswan holds with the munities are under threat dur- Caste and Schedule Tribes are on the reservation in recruit- interpretation through leg- to make reservations. There is same they have been so far," Minister Ram Vilas Paswan parliamentarians of these com- ing the BJP rule. not secured under the BJP ment and promotion to protect islative resolutions in both no fundamental right which tweeted LJP President Chirag may raise the issue in a meet- munities in which they discuss Addressing a press confer- Government," Wasnik said. the rights of SC, SCT and houses of parliament and set inheres in an individual to Paswan . ing with scheduled castes and the issues related to their wel- ence at the party headquarters "The Congress party OBC. right this lacuna in the claim reservation in promo- Paswan expressed his tribes MPs on Monday. fare. here, Congress general secre- believes that the appointment "A two-member bench of Constitution forthwith," said tions. No mandamus can be party's disagreement with a "I have invited the SC/ST The Congress too dis- tary Mukul Wasnik said the of SC/ST people to govern- the Supreme Court has inter- CPI(M) Polit Bureau, urging issued by the court directing Supreme Court decision that members of Rajya Sabha and agreed with the Supreme party will raise the issue inside ment posts should not be at the preted that Article 16(4) and 16 all States and Centre to file State Governments to provide States are not bound to give Lok Sabha for a get together at Court's decision on the issue of and outside parliament. discretion of governments, but (4-A) are enabling provisions Review Petition against the reservations," a bench com- quota to these communities in my residence 10th February," Reservation in appointments "We respectfully say that it is the fundamental right and there is no fundamental judgment. .4* 5 !   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The simple visual sonnel of the Central paramil- deployed in the Kashmir Valley nol (TNP) and RDX even if electron deficient and act as detection technique makes it itary forces deployed in Jammu CRPF convoy carrying over to travel by air." just a few molecules are pre- electron sink," he said. compatible to be used without & Kashmir. 2,500 CRPF personnel from The letter issued by Under sent, on the scale of parts per "A charge transfer complex calibration. A prototype of the The air travel facility was Jammu to Srinagar through Secretary Santosh Kumar has million (ppm). The senor, a or an association of 2 or more sensor has been fabricated and extended for one year to the road. This had led to criticism been circulated to the para- solution, can be easily carried molecules is formed between demonstrated in the Bengaluru non-entitled following the as non-armoured vehicles were military forces including Assam in public spaces like airports, these electron sources and sink INDIA NANO-2018 expo Pulwama incident on February prone to risks from the terror- Rifles, Border Security Force railway and hotels or sensitive that is non-fluorescent and under a collaborative project 14 last year in which 40 CRPF ists during long exposure of the (BSF), Central Reserve Police areas to counter terrorism. hence the fluorescence intensi- with Tata Steel. " We are also personnel were killed in a ter- convoys on the road. Force (CRPF), Central Developed by Dr CV ty decreases drastically which trying to explore possibilities to ror attack on the paramilitary The air courier facility is Industrial Security Force Yelamaggad, and his team from can be observed visually. The detect other explosives such as convoy by Pakistan-based ter- available from Jammu to (CISF), Indo-Tibetan Border Bengaluru-based Centre for sensing can be done in solution acetonitrile, benzene and ror group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Srinagar and back on official Police (ITBP0, Sashastra Seema Nano and Soft Matter Sciences as well in thin film forms at very toluene etc," said Dr This had led India to conduct duty/transfer/tour and leave Bal (SSB) and National Security (CeNS), an autonomous insti- minute part per billion concen- Yelamagged.Researchers said an aerial raid at a Jaish facility (on termination/commence- Guards (NSG). tute under the Department of trations," he further explained. that with such low cost sensors at Balakot in Pakistan, killing ment at base point at Jammu). Apart from being safe, the Science & Technology, the Selectivity is very perfect. they want society to be a much scores of suicide bombers being The service is also available air courier service for the solution works on the simple Currently, there are many dif- safer place to live. "This is not trained at the terror training from Delhi to Srinagar and jawans and other non-gazetted visual detection technique. ferent kits which are being just a research but in keeping centre. back on official duty /trans- officers of the paramilitary Talking about the concept, used for the sensing of explo- with the societal responsibili- The air courier facility for fer/tour. forces significantly cuts down Dr Yelamaggad, who has been sive materials but they suffer ties. We still need to do a lot of these categories of paramilitary In an order issued recent- on the travel time on both the working on the technique for from major drawbacks such as investigation.If this develop- personnel was granted on ly, the Union Home Ministry routes-from Jammu to Srinagar last 3 years, said, "It employs a large size, need of repeated cal- ment can help save a single life February 21 last after the dead- said, " in continuation of this and back and from Jammu to fluorescent material known as ibration and so on. However, it would be a great win for me," )4!   4!"       
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It said a precautionary measure to in the evening, they added.The personnel had sacrificed their him in the school or visit him younger brother sacrificed his itancy in Kashmir has gone a trapped terrorist to his fam- there has also been a marked prevent any law-and-order sce- authorities had restored 2G lives, Shazia Kousar wife of in their house they threaten me life in the line of duty i com- down ‘remarkably’ since the ily members. Such voice decrease in stone-pelting inci- nario on the seventh death internet services in Kashmir on martyred CRPF head constable and prevent me from meeting pleted all the formalities to nullification of provisions of recording would normally find dents — both during encoun- anniversary of Parliament January 25, more than Naseer Ahmed on Sunday him”. She claimed, “Siraj-ud- ensure compensation, Article 370 in August last year, its way to general masses and ters between security forces and attack convict Mohammad five months after snapping all accused elder brother of her din is greedy in nature and is announced by the Government officials have said. would act as a catalyst on militants as well as on other Afzal Guru, officials said communication facilities in deceased husband of kidnap- doing every thing to grab the and help extended by large According to a report pre- some of the young brains to occasions. The use of tear here. the valley following ping his son and threatening compensation money, deposit- number of common people, pared by security agencies, on pick up the gun. smoke shells, pellet guns was The mobile internet ser- abrogation of Article 370 of the her with dire consequences. ed in the name of my son”. NGO's, celebrities, come in an average five local youths However, after August 5, naturally reduced and the vices were suspended early in Constitution on August 5 last Naseer Ahmad was one of She even accused him of handy to secure future of his have joined militancy every 2019 no such calls were report- number of deaths in law and the morning as the authorities year. the martyred CRPF personnel abusing his authority by influ- children”. month since August 5 last year, ed, partly due to restrictions in order went down to negligible apprehended violence in the Police lodged an FIR from Jammu & Kashmir who encing the bank officials to Siraj-ud Din claimed, after as compared to the earlier rate communication channels and limits. PTI Valley in view of a bandh call against the banned Jammu was travelling in the CRPF con- block her bank accounts. “At Government awarded com- of 14 per month. The report, Kashmir Liberation Front voy targeted by the suicide present, I am staying with my pensation family members of comparing militancy-related         ( (JKLF) on Saturday for calling bomber of Jaish-e- Mohammad parents. My brother-in-law has my brothers wife directed me developments before and after  &      !$% a strike on Guru's death terror outfit on February 14. blocked all my bank accounts. not to stay in touch with her August 5, stated that large anniversary. Despite running from pil- I can not withdraw even pen- and her children. gatherings at funerals of mili- Guru was hanged in 2013 lar to post and making rounds sion money. I lost my husband He said i had advised her tants, which were fertile inside Delhi's Tihar Jail for his of different police stations, in in the Pulwama attack last to invest the money in separate grounds for recruitment of role in the December 2001 search of justice, frustrated year. I wanted to organise a Fixed deposits in her own youths into militancy, have Parliament attack. Shazia Kousar on Sunday tribute ceremony in the mem- name along with her children. become a thing of the past as Two journalists were sum- addressed a press conference in ory of my husband but i am He claimed, since 12-year-old now only a handful of close rel- moned by the police for report- Jammu, where she levelled struggling to organise the son of my younger atives are seen at burial ing the JKLF press release, serious allegations against elder same”. She said, “I appeal to the brother,martyred in the grounds. which had called the strike on brother of her deceased hus- Government of India and Lt- Pulwama attack, was also “There are instances when Sunday and Tuesday — the band. Governor of Jammu & attached with me he used to militants were buried in the death anniversary of the outfit's Shazia identified her broth- Kashmir to deliver justice to me come closer to me whenever i presence of just a dozen of close founder, Mohammad Maqbool er-in-law as a serving police and hand over the custody of visited them. He claimed, when relatives,” the report said. Bhat. officer, Siraj-ud-din, currently my minor son to me”. my nephew started living with Earlier, funerals of terror- The journalists were let serving in Jammu. Narrating “I want to raise my children me, wife of my deceased broth- ists killed by security forces off after five hours of ques- her ordeal after her husband the way my husband wanted er moved an application against attracted large crowd with the tioning. Bhat was hanged and sacrificed his life in the service me to do so”. Paying solemn me in the office of SSP, Rajouri attendance crossing 10,000 at buried inside Tihar Jail in of mother Nation, Shazia tribute to her husband, Shazia in the month of September times. Another trigger for local 1984. PTI Kousar claimed “her brother- Kousar said, “he was a very 2019. .8 3 05  ! -   !  1 /   0"" &    9          ! % &&   Aizawl: The Mizoram Government has placed six     students, who had recently  1& -%  returned from China, under He will also be placed Panaji: A Chinese delegation's home quarantine as a part of under home quarantine after visit to Goa has been put on hold precautionary measures in the being screened at the Lengpui by tourism industry stakeholders Thiruvananthapuram: Dismissing the Adani group. wake of coronavirus outbreak airport, Lalmalsawna said. here in view of the novel coron- allegations that the Capital city of “The State Government will allot more in the neighbouring country, All the six students have avirus outbreak in the neigh- Thiruvananthapuram was neglected in the funds for the development of the airport if officials said on Sunday. returned to returned to bouring country, an official said 2020 Kerala Budget, Tourism Minister the Centre decides to hand over its opera- Blood samples of two Mizoram from China since on Sunday. Kadakampally Surendran on tion to the State Government instead of among the six have been sent January and they have been The delegation, comprising Sunday said crores of rupees have been allo- Adani group. to the National Institute of quarantined at their homes photographers, models, online cated for the city and accused the “If it's given to Adani, why should we Cholera and Enteric Diseases according to the guidelines and offline booking experts and Opposition, including the BJP, was spread- spend money on it,” Surendran asked. (NICED) in Kolkata for test, and procedures to prevent the marketing strategists from China, delegation from the coastal state destination across the world are ing fake news. The Central Government has already the state nodal officer of spread of the novel coron- was supposed to arrive here on participated in a travel mart last from India and China. Surendran was speaking to reporters planned to privatise six airports in the coun- Integrated Disease Surveillance avirus. He said that the state Sunday, Travel and Tourism month in China's Chengdu city. “Goa's tourism industry also here against a campaign against the the State try, including the one here, under the Programme, Dr Pachuau government was closely mon- Association of Goa (TTAG) pres- There were also plans to sees a huge potential from China, Government, alleging “mistreatment” to the Airport Authority of India. Lalmalsawma, told PTI. itoring the students by visiting ident Savio Messias told PTI. market Goa as a tourist destina- but due to the coronavirus scare, capital city in the state budget. Surendran said 1,696 crore has been However, the NICED was their houses regularly. “But, their visit has been tion in China's prominent cities we have to keep our promotion- “Since Pinarayi Vijayan Government allotted for various projects in not satisfied with it and had According to the official, now put on hold in view of the like Chengdu, Shanghai, Beijing al activities in the neighbouring came to power, the city has been witness- Thiruvananthapuram. asked for fresh samples. the State Government has present situation following the and Guangzhou, Messias said. country on hold,” he said. ing a lot of development projects. The BJP “We have allotted 350 crore for the The students did not devel- issued an advisory discourag- outbreak of the coronavirus in “But, the plans have now Goa attracts nearly four lakh makes effective use of social media and have Vizhinjam port. Travancore Titanium has op any symptoms of being ing people to travel to other China. The delegation was part of been put on hold till the coron- foreign visitors annually, includ- been spreading fake news on budget allo- been allotted 21 crore, 100 crore for devel- infected by the coronavirus so countries, especially China and a marketing strategy planned by avirus scare is there. Once it is ing from destinations like the UK cation,” Surendran said. oping Kattakada as a township. Trivandrum far, the epidemiologist said. its neighbouring countries. Goa tourism industry stake- over, we will resume our promo- and USA. The death toll in He ridiculed the Opposition Congress- Spinning Mill, Kerala Automobiles, all He also said that another He said that the State holders to attract visitors from tions in China,” he said. China's coronavirus outbreak led UDF and said, “No one takes them seri- have been allotted fund,” he said. student, who is scheduled to Government also restricted China,” Messias said. Former TTAG president Ralf rose to 811 on Sunday, while over ously.” Asked about lack of funds for the “Under the Kerala Infrastructure return from China, will be import of goods from China Goa has been eyeing Chinese D'Souza, who also runs a chain 37,000 people have been con- international airport here, Surendran said Investment Fund Board (KIIFB) over 3,000 arriving in Aizawl on and other foreign markets to salvage its sagging of hotels in Goa, claimed that firmed as infected with the dead- the government was waiting for the final crore has been allotted for 98 projects in the Tuesday. countries. PTI international tourism industry. A highest footfalls in any tourist ly virus. PTI decision on handing over the airport to district,” Surendran said. PTI +. .:* !  3 -)     %  B&0> (6& .& ! % ;(   2   "&&3  4'('    

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I will keep coming to infighting in the TMC the rul- the Trinamool Congress Government atmosphere peaceful elections were jects that do not fall within his been diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in TrinamoolCongress after its here as many times I am called ing outfit said the murder was for failing to create an atmosphere con- possible. domain,” Chatterjee asked saying “at Mizoram in 2019, a Health department Member of Parliament from upon to do so,” the the part of a saffron conspira- ducive for free and fair elections say- He asked “how can you conduct times I wonder as to why has he official said on Sunday. Ranaghat Jagannath Sarkar was Ranaghat MP said adding “the cy as Biswas an influential ing proliferation of grenade workshops peaceful and free and fair elections if became a Governor in the first place The official said that as many as subjected to 4-hour grilling end of the TMC regime was leader was being readied by his throughout the State was hurting the the situation continues to be so grim if he had so much interest in active pol- 17,171 blood samples were tested out of by the State Crime very much in the vision which party to contest the April-May State’s democratic culture more than and if explosives hidden across the itics. He could well have remained a which 2,927 were found suffering from Investigation Department late is why they are trying to malign 2019 parliamentary elections. anything else. State are not recovered immediately.” Minister. The job he is presently in tuberculosis. Ninety three per cent of the on Saturday evening. He was the political opponents to gain The MLA was shot dead The Governor said that bomb fac- Bengal is scheduled to go in for a does not perhaps suit him.” patients have been successfully treated, he questioned in connection to the political mileage out of even as he was attending a cul- tories did not go well with a State that state-wide civic elections. Apparently The Minister added, “It is good said. Of the 2,927 cases, 38 were detected murder of a TMC MLA Satyajit that.” tural programme last year. had produced a number of Nobel the Governor was making his state- that he is making the work of Dilip in private hospitals, while 12 people were Biswas. Sarkar’s name figured Sarkar enjoys a judicial shield Laureate and literary giants. ment in the backdrop of forthcoming Ghosh (State BJP president) easier diagnosed during a drive conducted by the “This is nothing but polit- among 43 other accused per- against arrest as a Division “At times it pains me when I think municipal polls. because the comments that should oth- Health department in jails and several reha- ical score settling by the TMC sons in the MLA murder case. Bench of the Calcutta High how Bengal — a State which has pro- The Trinamool Congress was erwise have been coming from the BJP bilitation centres, he added. which is known for its vindic- Biswas the local strongman Court has barred the police duced so many Nobel Laureates and prompt to hit back at the Governor office is coming from the Governor’s At least 109 people were also diagnosed tive politics,” Sarkar said adding and TMC MLA from from arresting him till which has been a hub of literary doubting his neutrality. Reacting to his House.” with multi- drug-resistant tuberculosis he would keep on coming to Krishnaganj Assembly seat in February 28 asking him to activities producing giant intellectuals sharp remarks senior State Minister Meanwhile Ghosh who on Sunday (MDR-TB) during the same period. the police station when Nadia district was bumped off report to the police whenever and which has been the epicenter of and TMC general secretary Partho offered special prayers at the Tirupathi In 2018, of the 4,115 blood samples that called upon to do so by the in February last year. called upon to do so. He was democratic movements — is today sit- Chatterjee said that in his long polit- Temple said he did so in order to bring have been tested, 2,499 people were diag- police. Another prominent person questioned at the State CID ting on a pile of gun powder. This does ical career he had never seen a preju- peace, development, prosperity and nosed with TB and out of this 92 per cent “I have supreme faith in whose name figured in the list headquarters at Bhavani not go well with the State’s lofty intel- diced Governor like the present one in not the least a political change in were successfully cured, the official the judiciary. I have been asked of accused is senior BJP leader Bhavan in Kolkata. lectual and democratic traditions,” office. Bengal. added. PTI :      %
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With this decision, the upcoming city              6       ! of Amaravati prematurely ceases to be the sole    H0                ! seat of power as was envisioned by the previous     #  (       "(  Government. 2   "(    1D "       Termed as the Andhra Pradesh  "(                S Decentralisation and Inclusive Development of 0 /+    "              All Regions Act, 2020, the new Bill seeks to relo- cate the secretariat, offices of the heads of the .+0."0?+           "      ! 5* 0.          1        Government departments and Raj Bhavan at Vizag, which is designated as the executive cap- 0*                   "'.0/+-     <( #=   $     "(    ital. By becoming home to the offices of Chief shows that the Parliament has discre- procedure contemplated under Article Article 169(2) of the Constitution Minister, Governor and the entire top-rung of "*-0-+ tionary powers either to accept or reject 368 of the Constitution for deletion of empowers the Parliament to incorpo-                  the official establishment, the port city of Vizag *"1++,0/ the resolution passed by the Assembly. the name of the State contained in rate provisions in the law made under                    would become the new capital of Andhra /+'0.. It cannot be construed that on a reso- Article 168(1)(a) is not required to be Article 169(1) for abolition of the coun-            9    ! Pradesh for all practical purposes. )"+-'> lution passed by the Assembly for abo- followed. It is sufficient if a law is made cil as may deem necessary. It is the pre-                   ! Designated as the judicial capital, Kurnool /+"+!'.> lition or creation of the Legislative under Article 169(1) of the rogative of the Parliament to incorpo-       S     1 1         city will have the State High Court and other /+)1 +-51+ Council the Parliament automatically Constitution. rate a provision saving the Bill passed                ! judicial institutions under the new scheme of accepts the same. Now, the issue that arises for con- by the Assembly and pending before arrangement under the new legislation. The three *+!)."+- In 1985, before the State of Andhra sideration is with regard to the fate of the council at the time of its abolition          1   3    "( 5*-+1           $       ! cities are located in three distinct regions of the Pradesh was split into two and the State pending Bills before the council on its or not. State — Andhra, North Coastal Andhra and "10 .+6:M of Telangana was born in 2014, the abolition by making a law under The Constitution of the country  S                 /+                    Rayalaseema. Initially, the passage of the Bill was Assembly passed a resolution for abo- Article 169(1) of the Constitution. empowers the Parliament to take into deemed only a formality, as the ruling YSR *050* lition of the Legislative Council and the A Parliamentary Committee that consideration the nature of consequen- 2            1     Congress Party commands a strength of 151 out !">'+0*?=+- same was abolished on May 31, 1985 went into the Bills introduced in tial provisions to be incorporated in the E0                   + of 175 seats in the State Assembly. Now, the fate '>/+"+ by making a law called the Andhra respect of creation of Assam and Act while abolishing the council. The                of the Bill referred to the select committee by "+!'.>'> Pradesh Legislature Council Rajasthan councils suggested that the totality of the circumstances may be                  ! the Legislative Council, is in question when the ""0*)"0* (Abolition) Act, 1985. Section 7 of the Center evolve a national policy for cre- taken into account while incorporat-                 State Assembly has passed a resolution for its dis- /+'0.."*- said Act deals with the pending Bills. ation and abolition of Legislative ing such a provision.      "   1         ! solution. There is an argument that the Bill It contemplates that the Bills which Councils in States so that the second It is the prerogative of the would not lapse on dissolution of the council. 1"*!0/+ originate from the Legislative Council chamber does not depend on the Parliament to incorporate the nature of                 +    "!+/+                  We have been witnessing various other State and are pending at the time of aboli- “whims and fancies” of the newly-elect- the provision vis.vis the fate of the Bill Assemblies passing resolutions for abolition or 5* 0. tion of the council, shall lapse and the ed Government and the status of the pending in the council. It is not     9        !     011+)+ 0?+                1    creation of the Legislative Council as required Bills which originated from the council cannot be of a temporary mandatory that a saving provision pro- under Article 169(1) of the Constitution of India. /+-+ 00* Assembly and are pending in the nature depending upon the mood of tecting the Bills passed by the Assembly    !                  Though some of the States had passed resolu- /+ 5* 0. council shall not lapse on its abolition. the State Government. and pending before the Legislative                   tions, they were not pursued. In this background /+'0..0 The then Chief Minister NT Rama Rao Earlier when the law was made Council should contain in the law    9               ! there is a necessity to examine the constitution- -++!+-/"?+ prevailed in pursuing the case with the under Article 169(1) of the made under Article 169(1) of the                 al provisions and the legislations that were made '++*)"+- then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Constitution in relation to the aboli- Constitution.                "(    by the Parliament earlier, abolishing or creating By making a law under Article tion of the council in some States, a The Constitution does not man-              "(    the Legislative Councils pursuant to the resolu- 169(1) the name of the State having a specific provision was incorporated date any such provision to be contained               1  tions passed by the State Assembly. Legislative Council shall be deleted with regard to the fate of the Bills pend- in the Abolition Act. It depends upon $                  ! Article 168 of the Constitution provides for from Article 168(1)(a) of the ing before it at the time of abolition. the persuasion of the State Government                  two Houses, namely the Legislative Assembly Constitution by amendment of Article Such a provision contemplated two and if the Bill is referred to a                   (Lower House) and the Legislative Council 168(1)(a) of the Constitution. The instances. Parliamentary Committee, the recom- (Upper House). However Article 169 enables the Supreme Court in Kesavanand First, the Bills that originate from mendation of the same would decide  2         80H0 O     1     State Legislative Assembly to pass a resolution Bharathi’s case had examined various the Assembly and which are pending the fate of the council.     C  3  )   "      for abolition of the Legislative Council i.e, the provisions facilitating amendments to in the council for consideration shall If the Legislative Council is not                 1 second chamber of the legislature. the Constitution viz. Article 4, Article not lapse on abolition and shall be abolished and it does not agree with the                      The procedure contained in the said Article 169, V and VI Schedules of the deemed to have been passed before Bill passed by the Assembly, the pro-     2              ! shows that the Parliament may by law act upon Constitution and Article 368 of the such commencement by both Houses cedure contemplated under Article 197               " ! the resolution passed by the Assembly. Article Constitution. of the Legislature of the State. Second, of the Constitution may be invoked by                     169(2) contemplates that the law made by the The apex court had held that in the Bills that originate in the council the State Assembly by again passing the  "                ! Parliament under Article 169(1) shall contain case of the amendments which may be and are pending at the time of aboli- Bill and transmit the same to the coun-   2                 such provisions for the amendment of the made in exercise of the powers under tion shall lapse. cil. Irrespective of the decision of the                ! Constitution as may be necessary to give effect Article 4, Article 169, Para 7 of the Fifth This means that if a Bill is passed council, the Bill is deemed to have been to the provisions of the law and also contain inci- Schedule and Para 21 of the Sixth by the Assembly and is pending before passed.                  dental and consequential provisions as the Schedule shall not be deemed to be the council at the time of the abolition (The writer is an advocate in the

umbrella group’s aims included the to be described by some as the new it with a narrative that explained this So where to go from here? The regime allowed greater cultural expres- reiterates the conflicted understanding overthrow of the Pakistani state, and face of Pashtun nationalism. PTM nationalism in the context of Islam. answer may lie in how, decades ago, the sion to the country’s ethnic groups, in of Pashtun nationalism which the imposition of Sharia rule. insists that this perception was engi- This, PTM believes, diverted the core state and Government amicably a bid to bring them within the ambit describes it as being a synthesis of Apart from attacking Government neered by those who were threatened intent of Pashtun nationalism (i.e., resolved the commotion caused by of Pakistani nationalism. Islamic and tribal conservatism. He and civilian targets through suicide by the original “secular” Pashtun gaining rights) and made it to mean Sindhi nationalism which surfaced in Bhutto was particularly successful needs to understand that PTM is try- bombings and assassinations, the TTP nationalism of men such as Khan a way to strive for an Islamic state. the late 1960s, thanks to the intellec- in appropriating the Sindhi national- ing to alter this very perception. PTM also indulged in kidnapping, extortion, Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Interestingly, those at the helm of tual and political efforts of a literary ist narrative in the context of Pakistani has constantly rooted its arguments in robberies and profiteering from the There is enough evidence to PTM today are calling for a military organisation called Bazm-i-Sufia-i- federalism. This became apparent the Constitution. Even though it is flow of drugs through the territories demonstrate that, indeed, a large solution to the militant problem that Sindh, that was headed by scholar and when, in 1975, his Government held largely invested in reviving the classic that it came to occupy. number of Pashtuns were involved in had gripped KP and Fata. Therefore, politician GM Syed. a large conference on Sindhi culture. Pashtun nationalism, its leadership has / 6 ,< The bulk of TTP’s leadership and various Islamist outfits. But PTM has the military operation which kicked off This sentiment attracted thou- Hamida Khuhro’s 1981 book, Sindh often suggested that the only thing that fighters came from various Pashtun often responded to this by lamenting in earnest in late-2014 was applaud- sands of youths across Sindh. through the Centuries, chronicles the keeps Pakistan’s many ethnic groups n January 27, the Peshawar tribes. But from 2015, TTP’s domi- that Pakistan, after “manipulating ed. The militants were driven out but Nevertheless, during the 1970 election, proceedings of the conference. From together as a nation is the Constitution. police arrested Manzoor nance in Fata was greatly reduced Pashtuns” to fight a “holy war” in the areas in which the operation took a majority of Sindhis voted for the PPP, it one can see how, through intellect One wonders, how is this thinking OPashteen, the chief of the through a concentrated military oper- Afghanistan, has usurped their consti- place experienced severe population the Left-leaning party led by Bhutto. and dialogue, Sindhi nationalism was seditious? Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM). ation led by General Raheel Sharif. tutional rights in erstwhile Fata, espe- displacements and destruction of Bhutto, a proud Sindhi, was a feder- neutralised by the Government. More than the establishment, it PTM is a Pashtun human rights out- This war was a continuation of sorts cially after overpowering the TTP. It property. This is when PTM upped the alist and a staunch Pakistani nation- Interestingly, it is also due to this that has to be Khan’s party to intellectual- fit that was formed in 2014 in the erst- of the manner in which various areas also accuses the state of allowing reli- ante and claimed that the Pashtuns of alist. But despite the victory of a fed- a majority of Sindhis see PPP as a ly and politically engage with PTM and while Fata. This area, which was only of Fata in particular and KP in gener- gious militants to operate there. these areas were not only being aban- eralist party in Sindh, Sindhi nation- bridge to the economic and political direct its narrative towards the larger recently made part of the Khyber al, were unceasingly impacted by the PTM is, in fact, a contemporary doned but that they were being treat- alism continued to mushroom. In benefits of federalism. national narrative. The state itself is try- Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, has been tumultuous fallout of the anti-Soviet version of classical Pashtun national- ed as former TTP collaborators. 1972, one year after the acrimonious From 2013, Imran Khan’s PTI has ing to create a new post-Islamist nar- the main theatre of a war between insurgency in Afghanistan in the ism. This nationalism was overshad- The state did win the war. But it departure of the Bengali-majority been popular in KP. Khan presents rative. Despite what some may insist, Pakistan’s armed forces and the mili- 1980s. The insurgency, bankrolled by owed by the rise of political Islam and seems unsure exactly how to formu- East Pakistan, Syed declared Bhutto himself as a Pashtun. PTI thus could the fact is, there is now no dogma in tant Islamist groups that had come to the US and Saudi Arabia and direct- then militancy among various Pashtun late its approach towards PTM. Punjab’s puppet and formed the sep- have (and still can) play the kind of role this context. This should be seen as an dominate Fata in the early 2000s and ly facilitated by Pakistan, was promot- tribes during the anti-Soviet insur- Although still opposed to the classical aratist Jeeay Sindh party. Bhutto’s PPP played in this context. opportunity by PTI to help find a com- onwards. After 2007, the Tehreek-i- ed as a “jihad.” gency in Afghanistan. idea of Pashtun nationalism, the state Julien Levesque, in his essay for the The aim should be to amicably defuse mon ground between PTM’s Pashtun Taliban Pakistan (TTP) rose as a con- PTM’s leadership and supporters PTM claims that “state-backed” is now equally opposed to the militant June 11, 2013 issue of South Asia the resurgence of classical Pashtun nationalism and the state’s evolving glomerate of 13 Islamist outfits oper- are not comfortable with the fact that religious militancy was used to neu- religious dimension that was added to Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, nationalism in the province. post-Islamist narrative. ating near the Pak-Afghan border. The religious militancy in KP had begun tralise Pashtun nationalism and replace it from the 1980s onwards. writes that, as a response, the Bhutto But the problem is that Khan too (Courtesy Dawn)  !"# $%&"&# '()*(*( %  

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Fund-Sr 2-Reg(G) 10.93 17.10 Sundaram Emerging Small 8.92 12.72 HDFC Nifty 50 ETF 1270.02 10.60 III-Reg(G) Sundaram Fin Serv Opp Fund(G) 48.36 27.33 Invesco India Midcap Fund(G) 54.33 17.09 Cap-Sr-II-Reg(G) ICICI Pru Value Fund-15(G) 11.08 10.58 IDFC Equity Opportunity-4-Reg(G) 7.63 6.86 Kotak World Gold Fund(G) 10.53 27.21 IDBI Banking & Financial Services 11.35 17.01 Canara Rob Infrastructure 47.15 12.69 ICICI Pru Bluechip Fund(G) 44.49 10.51 SBI Consumption Opp 122.05 6.84 Sundaram Select Small Cap 11.24 27.01 Fund-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) ICICI Pru S&P BSE 500 ETF 161.74 10.48 Fund-Reg(G) Series-VI-Reg(G) DSP US Flexible Equity 28.35 16.94 Nippon India ETF Nifty Midcap 15067.91 12.67 Kotak India Growth Fund-Sr 7(G) 11.13 10.43 ICICI Pru Bharat Consumption 10.83 6.80 Sundaram Select Small Cap 11.52 26.64 Fund-Reg(G) ICICI Pru Value Fund-8(D) 11.34 12.61 UTI Nifty Index Fund-Reg(G) 79.41 10.43 Fund-3-(G) Series-V-Reg(G) Kotak Infra & Eco Reform Fund(G) 21.26 16.79 SBI LT Advantage Fund-I-Reg(G) 14.19 12.59 IDFC Nifty ETF 125.09 10.37 Franklin India Equity Advantage 82.17 6.69 Tata Banking & Financial Services 21.48 25.88 Aditya Birla SL Global 14.56 16.73 Edelweiss Large Cap Fund(G) 38.55 12.59 Nippon India Small Cap Fund(G) 41.65 10.35 Fund(G) Fund-Reg(G) Emerging Opp Fund(G) Invesco India Contra Fund(G) 51.31 12.57 HDFC Growth Opp Fund-Reg(G) 117.10 10.32 Nippon India Capital Builder 8.05 6.57 Franklin India Feeder - Franklin 37.06 25.65 Axis Capital Builder Fund-1-Reg(G)11.31 16.60 Sundaram Infra Advantage Fund(G)33.16 12.49 ICICI Pru Midcap Fund(G) 99.12 10.32 Fund-IV-D(G) U.S. Opportunities Fund(G) ICICI Pru Value Fund-18(G) 12.41 16.53 Aditya Birla SL Sensex ETF 384.64 12.45 IDBI Midcap Fund(G) 11.34 10.31 Sundaram LT Tax Adv Fund-Sr 9.80 6.48 DSP Equity Fund-Reg(G) 45.46 25.46 Canara Rob Emerg Equities 103.68 16.44 HDFC Sensex ETF 4329.93 12.44 ICICI Pru Value Fund-16(G) 11.37 10.28 IV-Reg(G) BNP Paribas India Consumption 13.59 25.43 Fund-Reg(G) IDFC Equity Opportunity-5-Reg(G)10.67 12.43 UTI MEPUS 114.07 10.17 Sundaram Select Micro 13.23 6.44 Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL Intl. Equity 24.28 16.41 Franklin India Focused Equity 42.98 12.41 Franklin India Technology 179.14 10.16 Cap-Series IX-Reg(G) Sundaram Select Small Cap 16.38 25.22 Fund-A(G) Fund(G) Fund(G) Franklin India Equity Fund(G) 605.57 6.41 Series-III-Reg(G) Franklin Asian Equity Fund(G) 24.94 16.40 Nippon India Focused Equity 48.75 12.33 HDFC Index Fund-NIFTY 110.47 10.15 Sundaram Select Micro Cap-Series 13.30 6.36 SBI Banking & Financial Services 20.56 24.94 SBI Equity Opp Fund-Sr I-Reg(G) 17.42 16.38 Fund(G) 50 Plan(G) VIII-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) L&T Business Cycle Fund-Reg(G) 16.38 16.25 IDBI Equity Advantage 28.84 12.26 IDFC Large Cap Fund-Reg(G) 34.68 10.10 Templeton India Equity Income 47.35 6.34 Sundaram Select Small Cap 16.36 24.81 L&T Emerging Opp Fund-I-Reg(D) 10.23 16.02 Fund-Reg(G) IDFC Nifty Fund-Reg(G) 25.10 10.06 Fund(G) Series-IV-Reg(G) Principal Emerging Bluechip 114.40 15.97 Invesco India Feeder - Invesco 14.11 12.26 ICICI Pru Nifty Index Fund(G) 117.26 10.03 HDFC Focused 30 Fund(G) 76.70 6.32 Invesco India PSU Equity Fund(G) 20.09 24.63 Fund(G) Global Equity Income Fund(G) Aditya Birla SL Intl. Equity 19.61 10.02 UTI LT Adv Fund-IV(G) 10.53 6.28 SBI Focused Equity Fund-Reg(G) 161.39 24.59 PGIM India Midcap Opp 20.09 15.93 IDFC Sensex ETF 424.53 12.22 Fund-B(G) UTI Core Equity Fund-Reg(G) 62.85 6.27 ICICI Pru Smallcap Fund(G) 27.71 24.15 Fund-Reg(G) IDBI Dividend Yield Fund-Reg(G) 11.32 12.19 Edelweiss Emerging Markets 13.82 10.00 HDFC Equity Fund(G) 666.36 6.23 Sundaram Multi Cap Fund-Sr 11.77 24.13 Sundaram Select Focus(G) 196.60 15.92 SBI Magnum Midcap Fund-Reg(G) 78.22 12.17 Opp Eq. Offshore Fund-Reg(G) Sundaram Smart NIFTY 100 Eq 12.01 6.18 II-Reg(G) BNP Paribas Focused 25 10.52 15.90 Nippon India India Opp 11.21 12.15 L&T Infrastructure Fund-Reg(G) 16.20 9.98 Weight Fund-Reg(G) Sundaram Multi Cap Fund-Sr 11.79 23.89 Equity Fund-Reg(G) Fund-Sr-A(G) ICICI Pru Value Fund-13(D) 10.81 9.97 ICICI Pru India Opp Fund(G) 10.63 5.98 I-Reg(G) Canara Rob Equity Diver 148.93 15.79 Edelweiss Eur Dynamic Equity 11.87 12.11 ICICI Pru Value Fund-17(G) 10.94 9.95 UTI LT Adv Fund-V(G) 9.65 5.79 DSP World Gold Fund-Reg(G) 14.49 23.63 Fund-Reg(G) Off-shr Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL MNC Fund-Reg(G) 813.41 9.95 Nippon India Quant Fund(G) 26.65 5.67 Kotak Small Cap Fund(G) 80.80 23.20 Principal Focused Multicap 70.90 15.77 DSP Global Allocation 13.65 12.11 Tata Index Fund-Nifty Plan(G) 73.26 9.85 Principal Tax Savings Fund 210.43 5.57 Axis Focused 25 Fund-Reg(G) 32.12 22.97 Fund(G) Fund-Reg(G) Edelweiss Tax Advantage 42.43 9.85 IDFC Sterling Value Fund-Reg(G) 50.25 5.37 Edelweiss Small Cap Fund-Reg(G) 12.28 22.80 Sundaram Emerging Small 11.56 15.63 SBI Magnum Global Fund-Reg(G) 185.83 12.05 Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL Mfg. Equity 13.37 5.36 ICICI Pru US Bluechip Equity 32.83 22.68 Cap-Sr-VI-Reg(G) Nippon India Capital Builder 10.34 9.73 Fund-Reg(G) Fund(G) DSP India T.I.G.E.R Fund-Reg(G) 94.19 15.59 Fund-IV-A(G) UTI LT Adv Fund-VII(G) 9.09 5.14 Kotak Emerging Equity Fund(G) 43.87 22.68 IDFC Equity Opportunity-6-Reg(G)11.21 15.57 SBI Nifty Index Fund-Reg(G) 103.96 9.67 Principal Personal Tax saver Fund 196.81 5.08 Nippon India US Equity Opp 18.12 22.51 Parag Parikh Long Term Equity 27.98 15.52 Sundaram Global Brand Fund(G) 18.57 9.51 Edelweiss ETF - Nifty 100 291.16 5.05 Fund(G) Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL Index Fund-Reg(G) 118.60 9.50 Quality 30 Invesco India Financial Services 64.03 22.45 PGIM India Diversified Equity 14.59 15.52 IDBI Nifty Index Fund(G) 22.31 9.50 HDFC Top 100 Fund(G) 490.32 5.00 Fund(G) Fund-Reg(G) Nippon India Index Fund - 20.24 9.49 UTI MNC Fund-Reg(G) 206.69 4.95 Axis Long Term Equity 51.53 22.29 ICICI Pru Growth Fund-1(DP) 12.08 15.49 Nifty Plan(G) Nippon India Pharma Fund(G) 161.72 4.93 Fund-Reg(G) Kotak Standard Multicap Fund(G) 38.41 15.45 ICICI Pru Infrastructure Fund(G) 50.90 9.49 Nippon India Capital Builder 7.76 4.81 Baroda Banking & Fin Serv 25.97 22.27 Sundaram Emerging Small 11.59 15.41 IDBI Focused 30 Equity 10.39 9.48 Fund-IV-C(G) Fund(G) Cap-Sr-VII-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) UTI Dividend Yield Fund-Reg(G) 66.79 4.80 Motilal Oswal Midcap 30 28.88 22.20 IDFC Multi Cap Fund-Reg(G) 101.47 15.37 IDBI Small Cap Fund(G) 9.71 9.47 ICICI Pru Nifty Low Vol 30 ETF 92.64 4.76 Fund-Reg(G) Tata Small Cap Fund-Reg(G) 11.38 15.32 Aditya Birla SL Infrastructure 31.73 9.45 JM Large Cap Fund(G) 68.20 4.63 Axis Emerging Opp Fund-1-Reg(G) 14.14 22.00 Aditya Birla SL Focused Equity 64.28 15.27 Fund(G) Invesco India Feeder - Invesco 11.03 4.57 PGIM India Global Equity Opp 21.88 21.96 Fund(G) Sundaram Value Fund-II-Reg(G) 16.57 9.44 Pan European Equity Fund-Reg(G) Fund(G) L&T Focused Equity Fund-Reg(G) 11.81 15.19 ICICI Pru Multicap Fund(G) 303.42 9.44 Sundaram Select Micro 12.90 4.49 Axis Midcap Fund-Reg(G) 42.44 21.95 ICICI Pru Bharat Consumption 11.69 15.17 L&T India Value Fund-Reg(G) 37.09 9.27 Cap-Series X-Reg(G) Invesco India Smallcap 12.00 21.83 Fund-5-(G) UTI-Nifty Next 50 ETF 298.77 9.26 Sundaram Value Fund-VIII-Reg(G) 11.03 4.47 Fund-Reg(G) Canara Rob Equity Tax Saver 72.15 15.16 Franklin India Index Fund-NSE 95.57 9.23 HDFC TaxSaver(G) 514.07 4.38 DSP Midcap Fund-Reg(G) 61.40 21.29 Fund-Reg(G) Nifty(G) ICICI Pru Manufacture in 10.41 4.10 DSP Focus Fund-Reg(G) 26.14 21.16 Invesco India Growth Opp Fund(G)37.48 15.04 Aditya Birla SL Tax Relief '96(ELSS 33.15 9.19 India Fund(G) Motilal Oswal Long Term Equity 19.58 20.95 Nippon India Japan Equity Fund(G)14.42 14.99 U/S 80C of IT ACT)(G) ICICI Pru NV20 ETF 57.84 4.07 Fund-Reg(G) Invesco India Multicap Fund(G) 52.03 14.96 Aditya Birla SL Tax Relief '96(G) 33.15 9.19 DSP World Mining Fund-Reg(G) 8.61 4.05 SBI Small Cap Fund-Reg(G) 57.57 20.95 Edelweiss Large & Mid Cap 34.50 14.91 Aditya Birla SL Global Real 21.59 9.17 SBI Contra Fund-Reg(G) 106.58 4.03 JM Multicap Fund(G) 35.96 20.91 Fund-Reg(G) Estate Fund(G) SBI-ETF Sensex Next 50 331.87 3.97 Invesco India Infrastructure 18.97 20.91 UTI Value Opp Fund-Reg(G) 66.92 14.81 Nippon India Power & Infra 98.94 12.02 Franklin Build India Fund(G) 42.29 9.16 ICICI Pru Focused Equity Fund(G) 29.48 3.91 Fund(G) UTI LT Equity Fund 95.43 14.79 Fund(G) Aditya Birla SL Resurgent India 12.29 9.15 Sundaram Select Micro 9.41 3.88 Motilal Oswal Focused 25 24.71 20.79 (Tax Saving)-Reg(G) Edelweiss Long Term Equity 49.96 11.99 Fund-3-Reg(G) Cap-Series XII-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) Sundaram Mid Cap Fund(G) 501.96 14.72 Fund (Tax Savings)-Reg(G) IDFC Tax Advt(ELSS) Fund-Reg(G)57.14 9.09 ICICI Pru Value Discovery Fund(G)143.73 3.84 Axis Emerging Opp Fund-2-Reg(G) 13.55 20.77 Kotak Bluechip Fund(G) 255.53 14.71 UTI Banking and Financial 102.13 11.97 Sundaram Small Cap Fund(G) 82.08 8.84 Sundaram Select Micro 8.64 3.75 Axis Growth Opp Fund-Reg(G) 12.52 20.15 IDBI India Top 100 Equity Fund(G) 26.21 14.65 Services Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL Nifty Next 50 ETF 292.63 8.78 Cap-Series XIV-Reg(G) Tata Mid Cap Growth Fund(G) 154.10 20.10 Invesco India Tax Plan(G) 55.94 14.63 HDFC Index Fund-Sensex(G) 365.58 11.94 Aditya Birla SL Dividend Yield 167.24 8.77 Sundaram Select Micro 9.76 3.75 UTI Focussed Equity Fund-IV(G) 10.91 19.94 Aditya Birla SL Equity Fund(G) 792.02 14.60 L&T Midcap Fund-Reg(G) 141.77 11.92 Fund(G) Cap-Series XI-Reg(G) UTI Focussed Equity Fund-I(G) 15.13 19.94 Mirae Asset Tax Saver Fund-Reg(G) 19.18 14.57 Mirae Asset Healthcare 11.71 11.90 Aditya Birla SL Frontline Equity 233.52 8.76 DSP Equal Nifty 50 Fund-Reg(G) 9.87 3.49 Axis Bluechip Fund-Reg(G) 32.94 19.61 Tata Value Fund-Sr-2-Reg(G) 10.28 14.53 Fund-Reg(G) Fund(G) Sundaram Value Fund-VII-Reg(G) 8.76 3.49 SBI LT Advantage Fund-VI-Reg(G) 11.61 19.61 Principal Global Opportunities 32.41 14.52 ICICI Pru LT Equity Fund 395.34 11.86 Baroda ELSS 96(G) 46.33 8.76 UTI LT Adv Fund-VI(G) 8.69 3.43 Aditya Birla SL India GenNext 94.68 19.47 Fund(G) (Tax Saving)(G) Principal Dividend Yield Fund(G) 55.98 8.74 ICICI Pru Bharat Consumption 9.95 3.11 Fund(G) SBI Magnum Multicap 52.42 14.52 PGIM India Large Cap Fund(G) 179.38 11.84 Aditya Birla SL Resurgent India 9.95 8.62 Fund-2-(G) Kotak Equity Opp Fund(G) 134.33 19.44 Fund-Reg(G) Sundaram Value Fund-III-Reg(G) 17.78 11.83 Fund-5-Reg(G) Templeton India Value Fund(G) 245.42 2.88 Nippon India Growth Fund(G) 1241.18 19.37 Edelweiss ETF - Nifty Bank 3178.76 14.44 ICICI Pru Growth Fund-2(DP) 12.88 11.81 PGIM India Large Cap 13.09 8.59 DSP Natural Res & New Energy 31.01 2.81 DSP Healthcare Fund-Reg(G) 12.07 19.23 Mirae Asset Great Consumer 38.53 14.37 ICICI Pru Sensex Index Fund(G) 12.78 11.77 Fund-2-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) JM Tax Gain Fund(G) 19.11 19.03 Fund-Reg(G) Tata Index Fund-Sensex Plan(G) 101.41 11.74 L&T Equity Fund-Reg(G) 84.82 8.58 HDFC Capital Builder Value 286.95 2.71 BNP Paribas Long Term Equity 42.98 18.95 DSP A.C.E. Fund-Sr 1-Reg(G) 10.98 14.36 Kotak India EQ Contra Fund(G) 56.60 11.72 Aditya Birla SL Midcap Fund(G) 292.01 8.49 Fund(G) Fund(G) L&T India Large Cap Fund-Reg(G) 29.50 14.36 Mirae Asset Large Cap 54.29 11.72 Principal Multi Cap Growth 147.83 8.48 Tata Digital India Fund-Reg(G) 15.82 2.36 SBI Infrastructure Fund-Reg(G) 16.30 18.66 IDFC Focused Equity Fund-Reg(G) 40.40 14.35 Fund-Reg(G) Fund(G) Franklin India Smaller Cos Fund(G)52.07 2.34 Axis Multicap Fund-Reg(G) 13.11 18.64 JM Core 11 Fund(G) 9.74 14.33 UTI Mastershare-Reg(G) 131.32 11.70 DSP World Agriculture 17.31 8.35 Sundaram Select Micro Cap-Series 8.37 2.34 BNP Paribas Large Cap Fund(G) 99.61 18.64 Tata Value Fund-Sr-1-Reg(G) 10.59 14.33 Nippon India Banking Fund(G) 288.53 11.65 Fund-Reg(G) XV-Reg(G) DSP Tax Saver Fund-Reg(G) 52.90 18.52 DSP 3Y Close Ended Equity 16.48 14.27 Baroda Large Cap Fund(G) 15.59 11.60 SBI Technology Opp Fund-Reg(G) 70.88 8.34 HDFC Equity Opp Fund-Sr 10.34 2.26 DSP Top 100 Equity Fund-Reg(G) 229.63 18.44 Fund-Reg(G) Nippon India Value Fund(G) 76.61 11.60 ICICI Pru Bharat Consumption 10.79 8.33 2-1126D-May 2017(1)-Reg(G) L&T Emerging Opp Fund-II-Reg(D)10.84 18.30 SBI Equity Opp Fund-Sr IV-Reg(G) 16.54 14.16 Tata India Pharma & Healthcare 9.86 11.55 Fund-1-(G) HDFC Infrastructure Fund(G) 15.40 2.18 Kotak India Growth Fund-Sr 5(G) 10.68 18.29 Nippon India Vision Fund(G) 559.04 14.12 Fund-Reg(G) UTI Nifty Next 50 Index 10.35 8.32 Sundaram Select Micro Cap-Series 7.86 2.04 ICICI Pru Banking & Fin Serv 70.29 18.27 Sundaram Emerging Small 10.14 13.91 Tata Large Cap Fund(G) 232.44 11.52 Fund-Reg(G) XVI-Reg(G) Fund(G) Cap-Sr-IV-Reg(G) SBI PSU Fund-Reg(G) 10.40 11.50 ICICI Pru Nifty Next 50 ETF 29.31 8.31 Aditya Birla SL CEF-Global 23.82 1.98 Mirae Asset Emerging 58.96 18.27 Sundaram Rural and 45.19 13.90 IDFC Core Equity Fund-Reg(G) 47.57 11.43 Nippon India Large Cap Fund(G) 35.88 8.27 Agri-Reg(G) Bluechip-Reg(G) Consumption Fund(G) Motilal Oswal Multicap 35 27.70 11.28 Nippon India Capital Builder 8.03 8.20 Sundaram LT Micro Cap Tax Adv 8.24 1.92 Kotak Tax Saver Fund(G) 49.17 18.27 Tata Infrastructure Fund-Reg(G) 57.26 13.89 Fund-Reg(G) Fund-IV-B(G) Fund-Sr V-Reg(G) BNP Paribas Multi Cap Fund(G) 52.08 18.17 SBI Large & Midcap Fund-Reg(G) 240.28 13.77 Baroda Multi Cap Fund(G) 104.05 11.22 Tata Equity P/E Fund(G) 138.46 8.18 Sundaram LT Micro Cap Tax Adv 8.36 1.82 Canara Rob Bluechip Equity 28.17 18.16 SBI Magnum Equity ESG 114.99 13.76 Nippon India Index Fund - 20.20 11.18 IDBI Long Term Value 10.83 8.08 Fund-Sr IV-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) Sensex Plan(G) Fund-Reg(G) Aditya Birla SL Small Cap Fund(G) 32.51 1.81 UTI Equity Fund-Reg(G) 161.19 17.91 Tata India Tax Savings 19.56 13.66 HDFC Mid-Cap Opportunities 56.76 11.17 Nippon India Multi Cap Fund(G) 100.27 8.00 ICICI Pru Dividend Yield 16.04 1.78 UTI Infrastructure Fund-Reg(G) 56.59 17.79 Fund-Reg(G) Fund(G) SBI Healthcare Opp Fund-Reg(G) 128.50 7.92 Equity Fund(G) UTI Focussed Equity Fund-V(G) 10.54 17.78 SBI BlueChip Fund-Reg(G) 42.01 13.65 L&T Tax Advt Fund-Reg(G) 56.79 11.16 Kotak India Growth Fund-Sr 4(G) 9.74 7.79 L&T Emerging Businesses 23.72 1.44 Aditya Birla SL Banking & 31.37 17.76 L&T Large and Midcap 50.56 13.65 Sundaram Emerging Small 8.62 11.12 ICICI Pru Nifty Next 50 25.70 7.78 Fund-Reg(G) Financial Services Fund-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) Cap-Sr-I-Reg(G) Index Fund(G) Sundaram LT Micro Cap Tax 9.81 1.25 UTI Focussed Equity Fund-VI(G) 11.03 17.74 Sundaram Emerging Small 9.75 13.64 PGIM India Euro Equity Fund(G) 14.77 11.05 IDBI Nifty Junior Index Fund(G) 21.87 7.65 Adv Fund-Sr III-Reg(G) DSP Equity Opportunities 242.74 17.66 Cap-Sr-III-Reg(G) ICICI Pru Large & Mid Cap 338.14 11.04 Franklin India Opportunities 75.44 7.58 Sundaram Select Micro Cap-Series 7.39 1.25 Fund-Reg(G) ICICI Pru Global Stable Equity 17.12 13.60 Fund(G) Fund(G) XVII-Reg(G) SBI Magnum Comma Fund-Reg(G) 38.78 17.63 Fund(FOF)(G) Baroda Mid-cap Fund(G) 9.58 11.01 Sundaram TOP 100-Sr VII-Reg(G) 12.73 7.55 Sundaram Value Fund-IX-Reg(G) 8.96 0.67 Axis Capital Builder Fund-4-Reg(G)11.97 17.58 Nippon India Consumption 71.68 13.59 Aditya Birla SL Digital India 59.38 10.99 UTI LT Adv Fund-III(G) 14.03 7.51 Sundaram Value Fund-X-Reg(G) 8.91 0.66 Tata Large & Mid Cap Fund(G) 224.35 17.57 Fund(G) Fund(G) Aditya Birla SL Resurgent India 10.08 7.46 Sundaram LT Micro Cap Tax 7.67 0.57 Tata Resources & Energy 15.48 17.49 IDBI Diversified Equity Fund(G) 23.08 13.58 ICICI Pru Growth Fund-3(DP) 11.11 10.99 Fund-4-Reg(G) Adv Fund-Sr VI-Reg(G) Fund-Reg(G) UTI Mid Cap Fund-Reg(G) 108.40 13.55 ICICI Pru Exports & Services 60.14 10.90 PGIM India LT Equity Fund-Reg(G)14.73 7.44 DSP World Energy Fund-Reg(G) 13.04 -0.01 SBI LT Advantage Fund-V-Reg(G) 11.16 17.46 ICICI Pru Value Fund-14(G) 11.32 13.43 Fund(G) Franklin India Taxshield(G) 586.06 7.43 ICICI Pru Technology Fund(G) 61.42 -1.30 BNP Paribas Mid Cap Fund(G) 35.31 17.39 UTI India Consumer Fund-Reg(G) 28.41 13.34 Sundaram Emerging Small 10.23 10.87 Sundaram TOP 100-Sr VI-Reg(G) 12.94 7.42 Aditya Birla SL Resurgent 8.07 -1.34 ICICI Pru LT Wealth Enhancement 11.88 17.28 Kotak Global Emerging Mkt 17.10 13.32 Cap-Sr-V-Reg(G) SBI Magnum TaxGain'93-Reg(G) 147.46 7.39 India Fund-7-Reg(G) Fund(G) Fund(G) Invesco India Largecap Fund(G) 30.67 10.84 Nippon India Tax Saver (ELSS) 55.93 7.38 HDFC Small Cap Fund-Reg(G) 40.29 -2.09 JM Value Fund(G) 34.87 17.26 DSP Small Cap Fund-Reg(G) 57.61 13.31 Mirae Asset Nifty 50 ETF 122.68 10.75 Fund(G) Aditya Birla SL Pure Value Fund(G) 47.13 -2.99 Kotak US Equity Fund(G) 18.88 17.22 ICICI Pru Bharat Consumption 11.00 13.29 Tata Ethical Fund-Reg(G) 170.21 10.74 Tata India Consumer Fund-Reg(G) 18.43 7.26 UTI Transportation & Logistics 93.03 -3.56 Aditya Birla SL Equity Advantage 449.58 17.20 Fund-4-(G) Tata Nifty ETF 122.55 10.72 IDFC Infrastructure Fund-Reg(G) 14.39 7.15 Fund-Reg(G)  !"# $%&"&# '()*(*( )  3   
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Pandey revenue) growth, we can’t say compensation cess in 2017-18 September 2019. sion in 2018, the LIC in January look ambitious to some but for per cent growth in tax revenue said the revenue growth bud- that this is unrealistic”. and 2018-19 was deposited in In an interview to PTI, he Government may clari- 2019 completed acquisition of Revenue Secretary Ajay is achievable,” Pandey told PTI. geted for current fiscal was cal- In September 2019, the the CFI earlier and this will Revenue Secretary Ajay Tfy the application of the 51 per cent controlling stake in Bhushan Pandey it is achievable The 2020-21 Budget has pegged culated assuming a 12 per cent government announced a cut in now be transferred back to the Bhushan Pandey had said rev- Central Vigilance Commission the bank by infusing Rs 20,800 in an economy that is project- gross tax revenues for 2020-21 nominal GDP growth. base corporate tax for existing compensation fund, the official enues from GST will have to (CVC) oversight over the IDBI crore, making it the lender’s ed to clock a 10 per cent nom- at 24.23 lakh crore, up 12 per However, the nominal GDP companies to 22 per cent from added. Finance Minister increase in order to resolve the bank before it initiates the majority shareholder. inal GDP growth. cent from 21.63 lakh crore in growth came in at 7.5 per cent. current 30 per cent; and for new Nirmala Sitharaman in her issue of compensation pay- process to exit the bank by sell- Following this, the govern- The economy slowing the current fiscal. He said in the current fiscal, manufacturing firms, incorpo- Budget speech said it is decid- ment to states. ing its entire stake to private ment shareholding in the bank down to its slowest growth in Around 6.38 lakh crore is the gross tax revenue is 4 per rated after October 1, 2019 ed to transfer to the GST “Revenue will have to players. has fallen to 47.11 per cent. The 11 years together with a cut in expected to come from per- cent higher than 20.80 lakh and starting operations before Compensation Fund balances increase and for that only we The move is expected to RBI, however, has classified the corporate tax rates led to the sonal income tax in 2020-21, a crore collected in 2018-19 fiscal. March 31, 2023, to 15 per cent in two instalments. are looking at rate rationalisa- prevent a tepid response to the bank as a private sector lender government missing its tax 14.13 per cent increase over However, the government had from current 25 per cent. Under the GST structure, tion, addressing issue of invert- share sale plan, as cumbersome for regulatory purposes. collection target by a wide 5.59 lakh crore earned in estimated an 11 per cent gross The effective tax rate for taxes are levied under 5, 12, 18 ed duty structure and increas- vigilance oversight is seen as a “In my opinion, the IDBI is margin in the current fiscal. 2019-20. tax revenue growth in 2019-20. existing units, after considering and 28 per cent slabs. On top ing compliance. This will big negative by investors who a government bank as the The tax shortfall also led to Besides, corporate tax rev- Explaining further, Pandey surcharges and cess such as of the highest tax slab, a cess is ensure that requirement of feel that the RBI, as a single Centre still is in complete con- slipping on fiscal deficit target enue is budgeted to increase by said, “This year we have shown Swachh Bharat cess and edu- levied on luxury, sin and compensation is less,” Pandey regulator for the sector, is trol of the lender through for the third year in a row. 11.63 per cent to 6.81 lakh a tax revenue growth of 4 per cation cess — which are levied demerit goods and the pro- said. enough to ensure smooth and direct equity and indirect hold- In an interview to PTI, crore in 2020-21, from 6.10 cent. 7 per cent growth we had on top of the income and cor- ceeds from the same is used to He further said the gov- transparent functioning of the ing through LIC, another state- Pandey exuded confidence of lakh crore in current fiscal. to forego on account of corpo- porate tax rates, will be 25.17 compensate states for any rev- ernment is looking at month- banks. run institution. As regards to meeting the tax collection target For current fiscal, the gov- rate tax (cut). So 4 per cent per cent as compared to 34.94 enue loss. ly average GST collection of Presenting the Budget pro- CVC oversight, the 2016 of 24.23 lakh crore for 2020-21. ernment has revised down- (growth) means actually 11 per cent now. The Centre has so far over 1 lakh crore. posals FY21, Finance Minister Supreme Court order makes it Nirmala Sitharaman has said ample clear that officers of that the government will exit private banks are also public     

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In fact, the This would have pushed FPIs to crore capacity expansion at high at over 90 per cent by impetus will also come from ndia and South American whether CVC oversight on the CVC had earlier urged the oreign investors remained maintain a cautious stance on the four largest metro air- fiscal 2023 and that is despite improving connectivity to Ination Chile have started bank for all matters would Prime Minister’s Office to bring Fnet buyers in Indian capital emerging markets like India ports, and also the surging an unprecedented 38,000 lower-tier cities and reducing negotiations for further expan- apply or not. private sector banks under its markets for a sixth straight until more clarity emerges. traffic, the snaky queues will crore capex being undertak- fare difference between air sion of a trade agreement with The CVC is mandated to watch, citing the fact that they month in February, putting in Regarding the future course continue at least till 2023, en by the operators of these and rail. Increasing footfalls a view to boost two-way com- maintain vigilance oversight have been involved in many a net amount of 5,177 crore of FPI flows, Alok Agarwala, warns a report. airports over five fiscals 2020- at airports provide a leg-up to merce and economic ties, an over public sector banks and instances of malfeasance. mainly in the debt segment in head research and advisory, The four largest airports 24,” says the report. non-aero streams such as official said. financial institutions. Private INDBI Bank has been per- the month so far, according to Bajaj Capital, said India could —New Delhi, Mumbai, Despite this unprece- advertising, rentals, food and Both the countries signed sector banks, however, are out petually in losses with the depositories data. Foreign port- continue to attract FPI inflows Bengaluru and Hyderabad dented capex that is debt- beverage and parking, which a preferential trade agreement of its purview, but are subject- lender reporting a loss of Rs folio investors (FPI) put in as “union budget has — handle more than half of funded, ratings are likely to comprise around half of the (PTA) on March 8, 2006 and it ed to statutory audits from the 3,458 crore in the second quar- 6,350 crore in the debt seg- announced plenty of measures the traffic and are operating be stable given the strong revenue of airports already. came into force from August RBI. ter of current fiscal, its 12th ment between February 3-7, to attract the foreign capital.” at 130 per cent of their cash flows expected due to These are expected to 2007. In 2016, India and Chile IDBI, set up in 1964 under successive quarterly loss. the data showed. Finance Minister Nirmala installed capacity. These air- healthy traffic growth, low grow strongly at over 10-12 expanded the scope of the an Act of Parliament, is regard- However, news of the govern- However, FPIs pulled out Sitharaman said certain gov- ports are under a record project risks associated with per cent, also supported by agreement by including more ed as a public financial insti- ment’s exit from the bank has 1,172.56 crore from equities ernment securities will be open 38,000-crore capex but the the capex and improving reg- higher monetisation avenue products. tution. But the government been taken positively by the during the period, resulting in for foreign investors, adding capacity will not come up ulatory environment, notes coming along with current The two countries have has now ceded its management markets as its shares rose 4.32 a total net investment of that the Centre plans to before end-2023, says a Crisil the report. “Capacity at these capex. The other half of rev- again initiated talks for second control in the firm, hence there per cent to Rs 36.25 a piece at 5,177.44 crore. increase investment limit for report. “With the dip in traf- four airports will increase a enue (aero revenue) is an expansion of the trade agree- is confusion about the status of close of trading hours at BSE on On investment in the debt FPIs in corporate bonds from fic growth largely behind, we cumulative 65 per cent to 228 entitlement approved by the ment, the official said. the bank. Friday. segment, Himanshu Srivastava, 9 per cent to 15 per cent. expect congestion at the top million annually (from 138 regulator, providing a pre- The first round of negoti- senior analyst manager research Besides, the government four airports of New Delhi, million now) by fiscal 2023. determined, fixed return over ations with Chile on the second at Morningstar Investment also proposed to remove divi- Mumbai, Bengaluru and However, traffic is expected the asset base and a pass- expansion of India-Chile PTA Adviser India said that it was dend distribution tax (DDT) on Hyderabad, which handle to grow strong at up to 10 per through of costs. Aero rev- was recently concluded. %  (       “largely on the back of RBI companies, and henceforth the more than half of the load, to cent per annum over the enue is also expected to get a “Both sides have decided to maintaining an accommodative tax burden will be shifted to continue till about FY23,” same period. Since addition- bump up during fiscals 2022- hold the next round of the talks stance in its recent monetary recipients at the applicable rate. says the report. Already these al capacities will become 24, when a new tariff order in Santiago in Chile during       policy review, which leaves Agarwala also added that airports are operating at over operational in phases only by for airports is likely. Overall March or in the first half of room for further rate easing.” once coronavirus gets contained 130 percent of installed fiscal 2023, high passenger aggregate cash flows are April,” the official added. Besides, he also added that in China, risk-on sentiments capacity, and the ongoing growth will add to congestion likely to double by fiscal 2024 In a PTA, two trading part-      markets have been over- will again prevail among the healthy traffic growth this till then,” warn the report. and provide a healthy cush- ners significantly reduce or whelmed by the spread of novel investors and emerging markets operating rate is expected to High utilisation will ride on ion against servicing of debt eliminate import duties on cer-  *+,-+./0 country. Sitharaman in her coronavirus and the impact that including India would contin- rise further in the next 12 pent-up demand (accumu- contracted for capex, the tain goods traded between budget for 2020-21 also it could have on the Chinese ue to attract foreign capital. months. lated in 2019 as traffic was report concludes. them. ffences committed under announced that the govern- Obusiness or economic leg- ment will amend the islations should be treated as Companies Act and other laws civil instead of criminal offences to remove the criminality clause 9 
  

   
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SBI had merged five The government has provided Thakur said, “from startups to Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, young entrepreneurs and for- Minister of State for Finance a $5 trillion economy by 2024- of its associate banks - State Rs 2.83 lakh crore for agricul- education, internship to the CII suggested that offences eign investors, CII stated. Anurag Singh Thakur has said. 25, he said. Bigger banks would Bank of Patiala, State Bank of ture, farmer welfare and rural apprenticeship, many which are of a technical nature “For such business and eco- Last year, the government have wider reach, stronger lend- Bikaner and Jaipur, State Bank development. “Doubling farm- announcements have been or those that do not affect pub- nomic legislations which fall announced mega amalgama- ing capacity and better products of Mysore, State Bank of ers’ income is an agenda for the done...So, I think more young lic interest prejudicially should within the domain of arbitration tion of 10 public sector banks and technology to serve cus- Travancore and State Bank of next two years. We have already entrepreneurs, more startups be considered to be decrimi- or civil courts, the government into four to cater to the needs of tomers of New India. Hyderabad and also Bharatiya fulfilled the commitment of we are going to see...We see nalized. should consider decriminalising the aspirational and New India. Last year in August, the Mahila Bank with itself effec- one and a half times of cost of India moving to top three The Confederation of Indian the laws, unless there is an This exercise will create six government announced merg- tive April 2017. The government aims to production of farmers which startup countries in the world Industry’s recommendations in intent of fraud or misdoings,” global sized banks, effective er of United Bank of India and Asked about listing of LIC garner Rs 90,000 crore from the the government had in the next couple of years”. this regard cover 37 laws and Acts CII President Vikram Kirloskar April, and will bring down the Oriental Bank of Commerce as announced in the Budget, listing of LIC and stake dilution promised,” he said. With the With regard to helping the ranging from the partnership Act said. Directors today are fearful, number of public sector banks with Punjab National Bank, Thakur said it will help bring in IDBI Bank in the next fiscal announcement of ‘Kisan Rail’ MSME sector, he said, the gov- of 1932 to the Insolvency and and this impacts corporates to 12 from 27 in 2017. “We have making the proposed entity the in greater transparency, public out of total disinvestment tar- and ‘Krishi Udaan’ to be ernment has asked the RBI to Bankruptcy Code of 2016. negatively since they are resign- successfully done the mergers second largest public sector participation and also deepen get of Rs 2.10 lakh crore. The launched by Indian Railways consider extending debt Hardselling his administration’s ing due to the fear of criminal and recapitalisation of the banks. bank (PSB). It was decided to the equity market. Finance government owns 100 per cent and Ministry of Civil Aviation, restructuring window by pro-business approach, Prime implications of the laws. It has Insolvency and Bankruptcy merge Syndicate Bank with Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stake in LIC, and around 46.5 respectively, for a seamless another year till March 31, Minister Narendra Modi in argued that changing the nature Code (IBC) has been successful Canara Bank, while Allahabad while presenting the Budget per cent stake in IDBI Bank. national cold supply chain for 2021. More than five lakh December had said the govern- of the punishments to make which has brought back more Bank with Indian Bank. 2020-21 on February 1 pro- Terming this year’s Budget perishables, this too will serve MSMEs have benefitted from ment is working to decriminalise them more rationale will also than Rs 4 lakh crore to the Similarly, Andhra Bank and posed to sell a part of govern- ‘Jan Jan Ka Budget’, Thakur said beneficial as it will aid farmers restructuring of debt permitted provision of Companies Act to help reduce litigation and de- banks. Further consolidation or Corporation Bank are to be ment stake in LIC through an every strata of the society has in facilitating smooth and fast by the Reserve Bank of India make it easier to do business in the clog the judiciary. merger will depend on the consolidated with Union Bank initial public offer next fiscal. been taken well into consider- transport of perishable goods, last year, he said.  !"# $%&"&# '()*(*( &   R   
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  coronavirus outbreak. "It is a high-pressure (CEPI), a body established in to arrange a flight following was quoted as saying by According to a report in the The new virus has spread situation and there is a lot 2017 to finance costly biotech- refusal from crew members to bdnews24.Com. Dhaka Tribune, the minister Islamabad: Five persons with symptoms of coronavirus were rapidly since emerging late of weight on us,”said senior nology research in the wake of fly to the affected country, The Government has said said that the government has rushed to hospital after they arrived in Pakistan from a flight last year in China, killing researcher Keith Chappell, part an Ebola outbreak in West according to media reports on that the number of Bangladeshis spent a lot of time for those from China, according to a media report on Sunday. more than 800 people in the of the group from Australia’s Africa that killed more than Sunday. who wanted to return but could intending to return. The suspected patients were on the Air China flight car- mainland and infecting over University of Queensland. But 11,000 people. State-run Biman Airlines’ not be brought back is 171. "However, it is still not rying 177 passengers, which landed in Islamabad on Friday, 37,000. Cases have been the scientist added he took With a mission to speed Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft on Momen also denied reports possible (to bring them back). The Express Tribune reported quoting airport officials. reported in two dozen other "some solace”knowing several up the development of February 1 brought back 312 that some of the stuck The Biman crew members who The five passengers were segregated as their body tem- countries. teams around the world were vaccines, CEPI is pouring mil- Bangladeshis, including 12 chil- Bangladeshi nationals have brought back some 312 peratures registered above normal during thermal scanning Coming up with any vac- engaged in the same mission. lions of dollars into four pro- dren and three infants in the complained of shortage of food Bangladeshis from China are at the airport, the paper said. cine typically takes years, and "The hope is that one of jects around the world and has wake of the deadly coronavirus and drinking water due to the now in effect barred from fly- The suspected cases include four local people and a involves a lengthy process of these will be successful and can put out a call for more pro- outbreak in China, that has lockdown, saying that the ing to other countries,”he said. Chinese national. They were shifted to Pakistan Institute testing on animals, clinical tri- contain this outbreak,”he said. posals. claimed 811 lives and infected Chinese authorities were pro- He said that only a Chinese of Medical Sciences for tests. The death toll in China due als on humans and regulatory But even a timeframe of six The projects hope to use over 37,000 others. viding food and water to the 23 chartered flight could bring to novel coronavirus epidemic rose to 811, while the con- approvals. months looks agonisingly slow new technology to develop “We can’t send any flight. places where the Bangladeshis the Bangladeshi nationals back, firmed cases jumped to over 37,000, the National Health But several teams of with the virus, believed to have vaccines that can be tested in No crew member agrees to go stay. the report said. PTI Commission announced on Sunday. PTI experts are racing to develop emerged from a market selling the near future. PTI 6 (!   1 !  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Its latest gen- year, but his enviable position is to investigate them over on Sunday condemned US Trump’s long-delayed peace that they said can be powered eration has a range of 300 increasingly under threat, and Hunter’s involvement with a President Donald Trump’s proposals were immediately by a "new generation”of engines kilometres (186 miles). rivals -- including a socialist- Buttigieg. are going to Buttigieg, 38, and Ukrainian energy firm while his Mideast peace plan as illegiti- rejected by the Palestinians, designed to put satellites into Islamic Revolutionary leaning senator and a small-city "To not be concerned I Sanders, 78, the two candidates father was vice president. mate, taking advantage of an who have boycotted his admin- orbit. Guard Corps commander mayor -- smell blood in the think would be foolish,”acknowl- who won the most votes in Iowa No evidence of wrongdoing African Union summit to voice istration over its pro-Israel The Guards’ Sepahnews Major General Hossein Salami water. edged Biden-backer Will and are leading in New has emerged. But Trump has solidarity with "the Palestinian stance. website said the Raad-500 mis- unveiled the missile and The 77-year-old moderate is Johnson, a 23-year-old law stu- Hampshire. blasted the Bidens as corrupt, cause". The proposals include giv- sile was equipped with new engines alongside IRGC aero- being eclipsed on the campaign dent from northern Pittsburgh, Biden took a day off the and some Republicans have AU Commission Chairman ing Israel the green light to Zoheir engines made of com- space chief Brigadier General trail by mostly younger candi- said in one of several conversa- trail Thursday, five days before repeatedly labeled the younger Moussa Faki Mahamat told annex settlements in the occu- posite materials lighter than on Amirali Hajizadeh. dates with sharper stump tions voters had with AFP about the primary, to huddle with top Biden’s board position as a con- assembled heads of state that the pied West Bank, the largest earlier steel models. 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He said it was not Small and wingless, the Arabian Peninsula and parts crossed Somali desert, spritzing people dead and around 20 miss- opened fire, the US military con- immediately clear if the incident hopping young locusts are the beyond, and now they are feed- the thousands of locusts cling- ing, police said on Sunday. firmed Sunday. was a deliberate act by an "infil- next wave in the outbreak that ing on Somalia’s fresh vegeta- ing to thorny bushes. On Friday fighters from the The deaths come at a sensi- trator”or an accident. threatens more than 10 million tion. The world’s changing cli- Allied Democratic Forces militia tive time in the 18-year-old "It was not a clash between people across the region with With more rains expected mate brings the risk of more slit the throats of eight people in war, with President Donald the forces. We are investigat- a severe hunger crisis. in the region in the coming cyclones coming in from the Mangina commune, prompting Trump eager to bring troops ing,”Meyakhil said. Leggett also And they are growing up in weeks, the number of locusts if warming Indian Ocean off hundreds of villagers to flee the home and end the longest con- stressed the cause or motive one of the most inaccessible unchecked could grow by up to East Africa, climate experts area. The attack was the latest flict in US history. behind the attack were not places on the planet. 500 times by June, when drier say. With that, the likelihood of massacre blamed on the ADF The incident occurred late immediately known. Large parts of Somalia weather is expected. further locust outbreaks grows. which has carried out reprisal Saturday in Nangarhar province In a tweet, the US Army’s south of this semi-autonomous But that drier weather is The “sort of new nor- attacks on civilians in response to in eastern Afghanistan when US 7th Special Forces Group Puntland region are under astating plague of locusts in any “The world needs to know not necessarily the solution, mal,”Burgeon said. a military crackdown on their and Afghan commandos were (Airborne) said "several”of its threat, or held by, the al-Qaida- of our living memories if we this is where it all begins,”said said Dominique Burgeon, the And that means Kenya, fighters since October. Eastern conducting a "key-leader soldiers had been killed or linked al-Shabab extremist don’t reduce the problem faster Alberto Trillo Barca, a FAO’s emergency and resilience Ethiopia and other East African DR Congo has been wracked by engagement”at a base in Sherzad injured during combat opera- group. than we’re doing at the spokesman for the U.N. Food director. countries that rarely see such militia violence for years, a lega- district. "Current reports indi- tions in Afghanistan. That makes it difficult or moment,”UN humanitarian and Agriculture Organization. The density of the locusts outbreaks and found themselves cy of its two Congo wars in the cate an individual in an Afghan No group immediately impossible to conduct the aer- chief Mark Lowcock said. “In the next three or four is now so high that even nor- largely unprepared for this one 1990s, but the ADF has been uniform opened fire on the claimed responsibility for the ial spraying of the locusts that As an armed Somali weeks, these nymphs, as we call mal moisture can lead to could join “frontline countries”in blamed for most of the recent combined US and Afghan force incident. Last year was the dead- experts say is the only effective policeman stood by, experts on them, will develop wings.” another generation, he said. parts of West Africa and the attacks. "The twelve bodies found with a machine gun,”US Forces- liest for US forces in Afghanistan control. Thursday walked across the dry Then they are expected to “We cannot believe in Middle East, experts say. Those today were victims of Friday’s Afghanistan spokesman Sonny since combat operations officially Somalia has declared the land crawling with the young set off for neighboring Kenya Mother Nature to solve it,”he countries have well-trained ADF attack,”local Mangina police Leggett said in a statement on finished at the end of 2014, high- outbreak a national emergency. locusts and explained the threat and Ethiopia, where a handful explained. monitoring and prevention sys- chief Major Losendjola Morisho Sunday. lighting the challenging securi- Across the region, it has the to come if the world doesn’t act of planes spraying pesticide can Without enough spraying tems in place for more frequent told AFP. AFP Provincial governor Shah ty situation that persists. AFP potential “to be the most dev- right now. only do so much if such to stop the swarms, the already locust outbreaks. AP

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The condition of the district on two government and a few private eral cases, if a patient’s condition dete- Scams, central agency probes, hospitals in some cities is so terrible hospitals. The condition of govern- riorates, they succumb to their illness public protests and anti-cor- that patients prefer to go to private ment hospitals can be gauged from the during the journey. Moreover, shift- ruption agitations have kept hospitals even if they can hardly figures where there’s only one doctor ing a patient in a hilly area is a huge away from a basic health centre. ment's priority and responsibility that the topic alive in all sections of afford the cost of treatment. to attend to more than 150 patients challenge especially during an emer- The patient and his/her atten- proper treatment should be available media, government and in The report paints an abysmal pic- every day. Additionally, they even take gency. It’s worse during winters when dants’ problems do not end here. For to all. Everyone has the right to prop- public and private discussions. ture of the healthcare sector in care of the administrative work. there is snowfall. medicines, they are compelled to wan- er health facilities; especially people liv- There has been enormous Uttarakhand. It ranked 19th out of 21 A resident of Nainital, Rashid Even if one reaches Haldwani, the der from one shop to the other. ing in remote areas. This also means pressure on the government by States which were analysed. According Zuberi’s child developed complica- irony is that the patient has to under- Medicines are rarely available at gov- adequate number of doctors as well as civil rights activists to create a to the report, there has been a decline tions soon after birth. Water accumu- go all the tests again, which results in ernment medical stores. Often expen- capable staff along with proper infra- strong anti-corruption law and in the sector by 5.02 points in the state lated in the baby’s throat and needed a loss of both money and time. sive medicines to treat serious illness- structure. At the centre, the govern- implement it aggressively in 2017-18 as compared to 2015-16. to be removed. Due to lack of prop- Strangely, the hospital authorities pres- es have to be purchased from private ment is running the world’s largest across the country. Certainly, a reason to be worried. er equipment at the government hos- surise the family members or the per- medical stores. Although people have health scheme, Ayushman Bharat However, in this whole An example of this is Nainital. pital, the doctors suggested shifting son accompanying the patient to repeat got some relief from the Jan Aushadhi Yojana. But this scheme cannot be struggle, we tend to forget us. This beautiful hill station attracts mil- the child immediately to the Haldwani the tests and examinations at specified Centres, for most of the expensive called successful unless it reaches all that corruption cannot be dealt From a spiritual perspec- lions of tourists every year. However, Government Medical College, which centres. One can only imagine the con- medicines they still depend on private sections of the society, especially in with activism and political tive, it is said that vices like the city’s healthcare system is hardly is 43.2 km from Nainital. Zuberi said dition of rural areas if it is so deplorable medical stores. rural areas and the economically- awareness alone. Laws and greed, ego, lust, anger and up to the mark. It has become a seri- that he had enough money to afford in the cities. There are many villages in Being healthy is the basic right of weaker people. regulations cannot deter attachment are all born out of ous subject not only for the city but the last-minute shifting and proper the state which are eight to 10 hours any person. It should be the govern- L(3  humans from indulging in fol- body consciousness, that is lies of character and moral val- the false identification of the ues. It is like pruning or cut- self with one’s physical image, +   People facing wildfire ting the stems and branches role and assets. It is this igno- damage should create defensi- that will eventually sprout rance and vice that begin to & 3& ble space around their homes. again and proliferate in more corrupt the soul, its thoughts, 6' -!!% )" Close-in areas should be free directions. Such laws can sure- feelings, actions and habits.       of brush, debris and firewood, ly deter people in high public In that sense, one can say have irrigated sections nearby offices from indulging in that today, almost all human iercer and more frequent and include an abundance of heinous acts of bribery, fraud souls have become corrupt to Fnatural disasters in recent fire-resistant plants. No plant and corruption, shameless, but some extent. Hence, we must years have many homeowners is fireproof, but many are fire- it cannot root out the evil. understand that corruption is re-evaluating their landscaping. resistant. These are plants with So what is it that makes a a soul-deep malady and can be Many are restocking with trees supple leaves without waxy or man corrupt? Is it power, sta- remedied only by spiritual and plants more resilient in the resinous surfaces, said Amy Jo tus, wealth or lack of certain awareness and empowerment. face of storms, fires and flood- Detweiler, a horticulturist with amenities? The genesis of cor- We must awaken our true self ing. Oregon State University ruption is not to be found in and live by values of peace, Scientists link the higher Extension. any external circumstance, it purity, love and joy. Today, we frequency of severe weather Proven fire-resistant plant actually lies in the psyche or do not experience such enrich- events to climate change. There species include daylilies, cone- the character of the human ing qualities because we are are some steps home gardeners flowers, coreopsis, lavender soul. It begins with a desire that always seeking them outside can take. and high-moisture succulents. tempts one to have, acquire ourselves. When we look “Protect your property Lilacs and hedging roses make and grab more money, assets, inwards and become aware of from wind and wildfires by good shrubs for wildfire coun- power and fame to gain hap- our true identity and innate checking tree and shrub species try while hardwood varieties piness. Once it begins, it cre- qualities, we begin to express for winds and flammability like maples, poplar and cher- ates a vicious circle that keeps and experience them in our before using them around the ry are safer choices among feeding itself with more desire lives naturally. A person who home,” said Mark Tancig, a trees. Avoid landscaping using and indulgence. empowers himself this way, horticulturist with the conifers with wood containing This blind chase is sup- experiences contentment in University of Florida Institute flammable waxes, fats or oils. ported by the temporary feel- life. Such a person will never of Food and Agricultural Although fire-resistant ing of being powerful which is fall in the trap of sensory Sciences (UF/IFAS). “Native plant varieties might still be followed by emptiness, insecu- attractions and desires. It’s tree species are more adaptive damaged or killed in wildfires, rity and despair that further only when we are disconnect- to diseases and insects. They their foliage and stems don’t drives a person to commit ed from our innate self that we also tend to be more aerody- significantly fuel the fires’ more such acts of corruption. feel empty inside and get namic, making them a better intensity, Detweiler said. All this begins from the funda- attracted to external objects to bet for surviving high winds,” Some other OSU mental ignorance about the feel happy or important. In Tancig added. Extension precautions include: true identity of self. Because we soul consciousness stage, we Avoid trees with delicate Trimming trees and shrubs believe our self-worth depends are naturally aware of our wood that breaks apart easily in and placing them about 10 feet on money, role, status, fame or virtues and we also understand severe weather. Small species from one another. authority that we strive to cre- the law of cause and effect — that mature below the strongest this race,” Badurek said. Trees those in the West cope with “If mature trees are dam- be damaged or killed by light- Using non-flammable mulch ate more identities based on the law of karma. wind gusts are better choices in with shallow or damaged roots wildfires. Thunderstorms, tor- aged, rotting or dying back, hire ning,” Badurek said. like crushed rock around that. With time, these fabricat- Remember! A soul that is urban and suburban land- are prone to blow over. “Don’t nadoes and flooding cause a certified arborist to prescribe “Lightning can jump from houses and outbuildings. ed means of self-worth fall aware of its spiritual identity scapes than taller ones, said cut the roots of a tree for side- most of the destruction in the preventive pruning or removal trees into nearby homes and Cleaning debris from roofs apart. Due to that fear, we put will never indulge in corrupt Theresa Badurek, another UF- walks, driveways or patios. nation’s interior and then there’s and replacement before the utilities.” To help minimise and gutters. all our efforts in strengthening actions as it knows that they IFAS horticulturist. 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Earlier, India’s batting wilted In a low-scoring final, under pressure as a superb Bangladesh first choked India to a Bangladesh bowling attack shot the meagre 177 in 47.2 overs and then defending champions out for a pal- did well enough to score revised tar- try 177 in 47.2 overs. get of 170 in 42.1 overs under Jaiswal (88 off 121 balls) was Duckworth-Lewis method. once again a standout performer but Once play resumed after rain, not for once did he look like dom- target was revised to 170 and with inating the Bangladesh bowling seven runs to get and three wickets unit whose new ball bowlers in hand, it became a cakewalk for the Shoriful Islam (2/31 in 10 overs) ‘Tiger Cubs’ as they scripted a gold- and Tanzim Hasan Shakib (2/28 in en chapter in their country's crick- 8.2 overs) literally stifled the Indians et history. for runs. India's cricketing battles with The third seamer Avishek Das  !+.'51*+ chase before being knocked Bangladesh have been filled with (3/40 in 9 overs) was the most suc- over, then Shane Watson acrimony since 2015 World Cup cessful bowler in terms of figures rian Lara showed he still has slammed 30 from nine balls, quarter-final at the MCG and it had but it was Shoriful's first spell with Bwhat it takes with a stylish with Wasim Akram being pun- only amplified with the kind of channelised aggression that put the 30 not out as cricketing royalty ished. boorish behaviour that some of the Indians on the back-foot from the helped raise money to aid But despite a valiant effort Bangladeshi players displayed. onset. Australian bushfire relief in a from the Gilchrist XI, Ponting’s On Sunday also, a few players Only 23 came off the first 10 overs charity match Sunday. side won by one run. “All the from both sides nearly came to and India never recovered from the The West Indian legend players have had a ball. They are blows at the end of the game and it for everyone to see as he marshalled earnest with Parvez Hossain Emon Jurel effected a smart stumping to slow start despite a sedate 93-run stroked a series of lofted cover all saying why couldn't we play was India coach Paras Mhambrey, his resources brilliantly and then bat- (47 off 79 balls) and Tanzid Hasan make it 65 for 4. stand between Jaiswal and NT Tilak drives and straight drives, more,” said Ponting. who was seen urging his boys to keep ted responsibly, seeing out India's (17) adding 50 in quick time, primar- With Emon back in the hut due Verma (38 off 65 balls) in 23.2 overs. including two sixes, before retir- “Well done to everyone calm as opposition leading pacer threats from leg-spinner Ravi ily due to former's impressive off- to hamstring injury, it was on skip- Shoriful and Shakib were not ing to give another batsman a involved. Sharing a dressing Shoriful Islam was seen swearing Bishnoi and fast bowler Kartik side play. per Akbar to show composure in the afraid of sledging the Indian batsmen chance in a star-studded room with guys I spent 25 expletives on camera. Tyagi’s spells before reaching the fin- However, things changed once hour of crisis even as left-arm as they bowled full and got the ball Bushfire Bash at Melbourne’s years with.” Even then, credit should go ishing line with ease. leg-spinner Bishnoi (4/30 in 10 seamer Sushant Singh in his second to swing away from the left-handers. Junction Oval. After the game, Cricket Bangladesh's 18-year-old captain There were two things that cost overs) came into the attack and start- and third spell got a couple of wick- The fielding was also agile and top- His captain Ricky Ponting, Australia tweeted that “thanks Akbar Ali, who showed nerves of India dearly. 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First he got Tanzid holed out in Then, it was Emon who again out the Indian innings. was out, also hit 26 as his team from Australia and around the balls, which negated more fancied And then while defending, the num- the deep and then had Mahmudul came back at 102 for 6 as Akbar Once Jaiswal was out, the distinct made 104 for five from their 10 globe, we've raised over Aus$7.7 opponent Yashasvi Jaiswal's 88 off ber of extras (33) bowled did mat- Hassan Joy (8) played on with anoth- finally got hold of Bishnoi’s googlies lack of match-time for other Indian overs. million to support communities 121 balls. ter in the final context of the game. er wrong 'un and Towhid Hridoy was as there was one slog sweep for six. batsmen was evident as seven wick- Adam Gilchrist smacked a and families impacted by the Akbar’s cool quotient was there Bangladesh's chase started in also rapped on the pads and Dhruv With Bishnoi not having an effec- ets fell for only 23 runs. six off the first ball in the run recent bushfires”. *3 A  3 
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He’s a good leader in ground, it is small boundary S107 as India A made 234 for one Daryl Mitchell remained unbeat- Africa, although David Miller leadership qualities when he our side and his actions have wise and scores here haven’t in their first innings in reply to New en on 103 off 222 balls during lifted their hopes with some pow- played through pain and dis- a lot to do with that and last been too high, as people would Zealand A’s 386 for nine declared on which he struck 10 boundaries and erful hitting in making 69 not out comfort during the second night we saw that. He led by like to believe. It is not an easy the third day of their four-day unof- a six. off 53 balls, dominating an ODI against India. example, to show that no ground to bat in the ODIs. We ficial Test here on Sunday. Besides, Glenn Phllips made unbeaten eighth wicket stand of 52 New Zealand were almost matter what the situation is, knew if we get early wickets we Opening the batting along side 65, while wicketkeeper Dane Clever off 32 balls at the end of the rendered a bowler short as you’ve just got to go out there could put pressure on their skipper Hanuma Vihari (59), Gill scored 53. innings. Southee was hit by a stomach and get the job done,” said batting order. scored his runs off 153 balls with the For India, Sandeep Warrier Miller hit four sixes and four bug and bowled through the Bennett. “They have a couple key help of 13 boundaries and one six to (2/50), Mohammed Siraj (2/75), fours. pain to get his side across the “As New Zealanders, that’s players, and once we got them help India A pile up 234/1 in 53 overs. Avesh Khan (2/82) and veteran off- England opening bowlers line. what we pride ourselves on, early, you can put pressure on Middle-order mainstay spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (2/98) Tom Curran and new cap Saqib He picked 2-41 as the getting the job done, whether any batting group doing that. Chesterwar Pujara was giving Gill shared eight wickets among them. Mahmood both gained early Kiwis won the second ODI by we’re fit or not fit. It was a pret- Last night we were fortunate company at the crease on 52 off 99 India A now trail New Zealand movement off a pitch which had 22 runs on Saturday, taking an ty brave effort.” that our plans came off,” said balls at the draw of stumps. A by 152 runs with just a day’s play been under cover all day on unassailable 2-0 lead in the Bennett said they were Bennett. Earlier, New Zealand declared remaining. Saturday because of heavy rain, while the spinners gained some turn.  0  Slow bowlers seldom feature at the Wanderers, with its short zech star Jiri Vesely pro- C  $ +  boundaries, but spin accounted Cduced a dominating show for 27 overs, including 17 in tan- to clinch his first ATP Tour title dem between Rashid and off-spin- in five years with a 7-6 (7-2), ed Gerasimov, who became the continue the momentum in Goransson made timely come- ner Moeen Ali, with the latter 5-7, 6-3 win over Belarusian third Belarusian player to enter future tournament,” Vesely back into the tie-breaker to returning to action for the first Egor Gerasimov in the singles ATP Tour singles final follow- said after the match. complete impressive win. “We time since June. final at the third edition of Tata ing victory over James Earlier in the doubles final were happy winning our first Ali bowled Rassie van der Open Maharashtra at Duckworth in the last-4 clash, pair of Rungkat-Goransson, title, you could see at the end Dussen, who in the previous over Mhalunge Balewadi Stadium made a comeback in the sec- making first appearance at of the match I couldn’t believe had been given out leg before in Pune on Sunday. Velsely had ond set to take the summit the South Asia’s only ATP it but it happened. We had wicket first ball to Rashid, imme- won his last ATP Tour title in clash into the third set. Tour tournament, maintained very tight first round match diately after Bavuma had seeming- 2015 in Auckland. Making a comeback after their dominance that saw after that we played really ly wasted a review, also after Meanwhile, pair of a setback, the former World No them dropping only two sets well,” Goransson said during a being given out lbw. Christopher Rungkat and 35 Vesely scored three back-to- during their campaign in post-match press conference. But because the Ultra Edge Andre Goransson overcame back points to start the decider Pune. When asked about team technology had failed, Van der Grand Slam champion with some exquisite hard-hit- After winning the first coordination, Rungkat added: Dussen was able to seek a review Jonathan Erlich and Andrei ting strokes that left Gerasimov set, Rungkat-Goransson had to “In October last year I asked which showed the ball was miss- Vasilevski 6-2, 3-6, 10-8 to clueless before wrapping up the work hard as the former Andre through social media ing his leg stump. clinch doubles crown for their match to win first title in five Australian Open champion about partnership. I asked The batsman made only five maiden ATP Tour title. years. Erlich won the second set and him whether he's keen to play before he was out. The opening set of singles “I am very happy to come also presented strong chal- tournaments in Asia at the end South Africa hold an unbeat- final saw Vesely facing tough back in India and winning the lenge in the decider along of the year in China and Japan. able 1-0 lead in the series after the challenge from Gerasimov tile. I thank the suporter. It’s with partner Vasilevski. He was excited to come here. second match in Durban was before winning it 7-2 in the been amazing support from However, playing fifth tourna- We started good coordina- rained off on Friday. decider. However, eighth seed- the crowd here. I will look to ment together, Rungkat- tion from there.”