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NEW DELHI: Indian ROUSHAN ALI Prime Minister Narendra are not shortchanged Modi on Thursday hailed NEW DELHI: The Delhi the media fraternity on the MPOST BUREAU government on Thursday occasion of ‘National Press Highlights announced that it would roll Day’ and said a free press is the “cornerstone” of NEW DELHI: The Union Cabi- out a scheme within three to a vibrant democracy, and his government is fully net on Thursday approved setting »»Currently there are only 50 items which four months wherein 40 pub- committed to upholding its freedom. up of a National Anti-profiteer- attract the highest tax of 28 percent lic services, including driving “A free press is the cornerstone of a vibrant ing Authority under the GST, as it under the GST regime licences, caste certificates and democracy. seeks to ensure that consumers get new water connections, will RC, will be covered under the We are fully committed to upholding free- the benefit of reduced prices under »»If any consumer feels that the benefit reach the doorsteps of citizens. scheme in the first phase,” Siso- dom of press and expression in all forms. May the new indirect tax regime. of tax rate cut is not being passed on, The decision was taken dia told reporters here. our media space be used more and more to Union Minister Ravi Shankar then he can complain to the authority at a cabinet meeting chaired In the second phase, 30-35 showcase the skills, strengths and creativity of Prasad said currently there are only by Chief Minister Arvind more services would be added 125 crore Indians,” the prime minister tweeted. 50 items which attract the highest »»Last week GST council decided to slash Kejriwal. Public services of to the scheme every consecu- He also lauded the “hard work” of media, tax of 28 percent under the Goods tax rates of over 200 items eight departments have been tive 30 days from the day of especially the reporters and camerapersons, and Services Tax (GST) regime and selected under the scheme in the roll-out, till all services are who “tirelessly work” on the ground and bring rates on many things have been cut the first phase. covered. forth various news that “shape” national as well to 5 percent as well. prising state counterparts, had last on which the chairman assumes benefits, it will either direct the “This is ‘home delivery of Giving an example, the dep- as global discourse. November 16 is celebrated “The National Anti-Profiteer- week decided to slash tax rates of charge. The chairman and the four entity to pass on the benefits to governance’, which is being uty chief minister said if a per- the National Press Day in the country as on this ing Authority is an assurance to over 200 items in the GST regime members of the authority have to consumers or if the beneficiary done for the first time in the son wanted to apply for driving day in 1966 the Press Council of India started consumers of India. If any con- as well as lowered tax rates on be less than 62 years. cannot be identified will ask the country,” Deputy Chief Min- licence, he or she would have to functioning as a responsible body overlooking sumer feels that the benefit of tax AC and non-AC restaurants to 5 As per the structure of the anti- company to transfer the amount to ister Manish Sisodia claimed call a designated call centre and the works of the press. rate cut is not being passed on, then percent. profiteering mechanism in the GST the ‘consumer welfare fund’ within while announcing the move. give the details. he can complain to the authority,” The Council had earlier regime, complaints of local nature a specified timeline. He said the AAP govern- After that, the agency Prasad told reporters after the Cab- approved setting up of a five- will be first sent to the state-level The authority will have the ment would hire a private would assign a ‘Mobile Sahyak’, HC notice to Centre,TN inet meeting. member National Anti Profiteering ‘screening committee’, while those power to cancel the registration of agency to implement the deci- who will visit the applicant’s This reflects government’s full Authority to enable consumers to of national level will be marked for any entity or business if it fails to sion, adding that no citizen of residence and get the required govt over farmer’s death commitment to take all possible file a complaint in case price reduc- the ‘Standing Committee’. pass on to consumers the benefit of Delhi would have to stand in details and documents, he said. steps to ensure benefits of imple- tion is not passed on. If the complaints have merit, lower taxes under the GST regime, queues for the services listed However, the applicant will mentation of GST to the common A five-member committee, the respective committees will refer but it would probably be the last under the scheme. have to visit MLO office once to CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has issued man, the minister said. headed by Cabinet Secretary P K the cases for further investigation step against any violator. “Mobile Sayak (facilita- undergo a driving test, he said. notice to the Centre and Tamil Nadu govern- The approval by the Cabinet Sinha, comprising Revenue Sec- to the Directorate General of Safe- According to the anti-profiteer- tors) will be hired through “The Mobile Sahyak will ment on a PIL seeking a compensation of Rs 1 paves the way for the immediate retary Hasmukh Adhia, CBEC guards (DGS). The DG Safeguards ing rules, the authority will suggest the agency that would set up be equipped with all neces- crore to the family of a farmer, who died after establishment of the apex body, Chairman Vanaja Sarna and chief would take about three months the return of the excessive profit call centres. Various certifi- sary machines such as biomet- being allegedly assaulted by a bank’s loan recov- which is mandated to ensure that secretaries from two states, has to complete the investigation and earned from not passing on the cates such as caste, new water ric devices and a camera. For ery agent in Tiruvannamalai district recently. the benefits of GST rate reduction been entrusted to finalise the chair- send the report to the anti-profi- reduction in the incidence of the connection, income, driving home delivery services, the The first bench of Chief Justice Indira Baner- are passed on to consumers. man and members of the authority. teering authority. tax to consumers along with an licence, ration card, domicile, applicant would be charged a jee and Justice M Sundar ordered notice to the The GST Council, chaired by The authority will have a sun- If the authority finds that a 18 percent interest, as also impose marriage registration, duplicate nominal fee which is yet to be Secretary, Union Ministry of Finance and RBI Union Finance Minister and com- set date of two years from the date company has not passed on GST a penalty. RC and change of address in decided,” Sisodia said. Governor, besides other authorities of the state government returnable by November 20. P6 Indian student shot dead Indian Navy seals ‘AN INSIGNIFICANT MAN’ SET FOR PAN INDIA RELEASE Drug menace a at grocery store in USA deal for portable SC snubs plea to stay Kejriwal- bigger challenge than diver detection sonar inspired documentary terrorism in J-K S P VAID MPOST BUREAU OUR CORRESPONDENT filmmakers to put a dis- claimer that the trial in NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy on Thurs- NEW DELHI: The Supreme ink- throwing case was still In today’s day sealed a deal with Tata Power SED for Court on Thursday dis- pending. the supply of portable diver detection sonar missed a plea seeking a stay The bench, however, paper which is fitted on ships to detect underwa- on the nationwide release of refused to direct the Cen- ter threats. The defence ministry said that the movie ‘An Insignificant tral Board of Film Certifi- ... the contract, under the ‘Buy and Make’ Man’, which the petitioner cation to stay the release of CITY category, has been finalised in consonance claimed was based on the the movie. WASHINGTON: A 21-year- man, who is believed to be one with the government’s ‘Make in India’ pol- life of Delhi Chief Minister “The courts have to be COUPLE FOUND DEAD IN NEB SARAI 4 old Indian student has been shot of the four suspects who looted icy for the defence sector. Arvind Kejriwal. The counsel appearing extremely slow to pass any NATION dead allegedly by four armed the gas station and fired multiple Tata Power Strategic Engineering Divi- The movie is set to be for petitioner Nachiketa orders in such situations and robbers, including an Indian-ori- shots one of which hit Jasser. sion (Tata Power SED) has partnered with released on Friday. Walhekar, who had alleg- should allow a creative man CBI ARRESTS FORMER SHIMLA SP 7 gin man, at a grocery store in the Police said a Fresno County Israel’s DSIT Solutions Ltd for manufactur- A bench headed by edly thrown ink at Kejriwal to enjoy in writing a drama, US state of California, according Sheriff’s deputy saw media cov- ing the sonars under technology transfer at Chief Justice Dipak Misra in 2013, alleged that he had philosophy and book of any EDIT to a media report. erage of the incident on Tuesday its facility in Bengaluru. said freedom of speech and been depicted as a convict in kind or project it in on cel- THE NEW EMISSION NORMS 8 Dharampreet Singh Jasser and recognised some similarities The company in a statement said the expression is sacrosanct and the case despite the fact that luloid or theatre,” the bench was on duty at a grocery store between the suspects from the order for the sonars is one of the largest in it should not be ordinarily the trial in that matter was said. INTERNATIONAL next to a gas station in Fresno incident and Athwal, the Madera the world market. interfered with. still pending before a lower “It’s worthy to mention city in California on Tuesday County Sheriff’s Office said. “This is the second contract to be signed The bench also compris- court in New Delhi. that Freedom of Speech and RAPPER LIL PEEP DIES AT 21 11 night when four armed robbers, Madera Sheriff’s detectives by the Indian Navy under the ‘Buy and ing Justices A M Khanwilkar The counsel claimed that Expression is sacrosanct and BUSINESS including an Indian-origin man, were contacted and determined Make (Indian)’ category to boost govern- and D Y Chandrachud the movie had tarnished the the said right should not be barged in to loot the store, local Athwal is the likely suspect in ment’s defence indigenisation effort,” the rejected the plea filed by the image of the petitioner and ordinarily interfered with,” SEBI ORDERS REFUND FOR ROSE VALLEY 13 daily Fresnobee reported. the shooting. defence ministry said in a statement. man. the court should direct the the apex court said. Jasser reportedly hid behind A warrant has been obtained The first contract under this category SPORT the cash counter but was shot for the suspect, and he will was signed earlier this year by the Navy for REVAMPED ISL SET FOR KICK OFF 14 by one of the four robbers while be transferred to the Madera the supply of surface surveillance radar for Concerned over filing of privileged they were leaving the service sta- Department of Corrections, the IN warships. tion after looting cash and goods, report said. “In the last three years, we have commit- the report said. Athwal has been charged with ted the largest private sector investments in documents with PILs: Govt to SC FOR ADVERTISING The incident was reported to murder and robbery. defence manufacturing at Vemagal in Kar- kindly contact at 9810195709 the police yesterday when a cus- “Dharampreet was a com- nataka. For this programme, Tata Power MPOST BUREAU have been forming the basis U Lalit termed the develop- or tomer who had stopped by to buy pletely innocent victim, just SED is committed along with our partner of PILs. ment as “serious” warrant- [email protected] some goods, discovered Jasser’s doing his job when he was sense- DSIT Solutions to deliver a world-class NEW DELHI: The Supreme While the Centre said ing apex court’s intervention. body on the floor. lessly killed during this robbery,” solution to Indian Navy,” Rahul Chaudhry, Court on Thursday took a that such documents includ- The Centre flagged its Originally from Punjab, Jasser Madera Sheriff Jay Varney said CEO of Tata Power SED, said. “serious” note of the Centre’s ing file notings, which other- concern through Attorney FOR SUBSCRIPTION was a student of accounting and Detectives continue to search A Navy official said the induction of the “extreme concern” that vari- wise are protected material, General K K Venugopal when kindly contact at 8800854665 had gone to the US around three for other suspects and any fur- sonar would further enhance the Navy’s ous privileged and sensitive were coming into hands of activist advocate Prashant or years ago on a student visa. ther information related to this underwater surveillance capability in the documents, including Cabi- some through “disgruntled” Bhushan was arguing a PIL [email protected] Police have arrested 22-year- case, the Sheriff’s Office said. field of low-intensity maritime operations. net notes, which are outside employees, a bench compris- relating to AgustaWestland old Athwal, an Indian-origin AGENCIES the purview of the RTI law ing justices A K Goel and U helicopter scam. See P7 ‘Padmavati’ row: Karni Sena threatens to cut Deepika’s nose

MPOST BUREAU that “Rajputs never raise a hand on “I have not watched the movie try’s support symbolises how “this is women, but if need be, we will do as yet, but the Central Board of not about ‘Padmavati’... We’re fight- MUMBAI: The row over filmmaker to Deepika what Lakshman did to Film Certification formulated and ing a much more significant battle,” Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s “Padmavati” Shurpanakha”. Shri Rajput Karni formed by the Bharatiya Janata she added. intensified on Thursday after a Shri Sena chief Lokendra Singh Kalvi Party-led government has seen it On his behalf, Bhansali has clari- Rajput Karni Sena member threat- also said at a press conference that and passed it without cuts. fied through various platforms that ened to chop off actress Deepika they would call for a “Bharat bandh” “But any movie that hurts the the film doesn’t show the Rajput Padukone’s nose amid a call for on December 1. sentiments of any community... a community in a bad light and has “Bharat Bandh” (shutdown) on “We will gather in lakhs, our film is not made to hurt any com- been made keeping all religious sen- December 1 when the film is slated ancestors wrote history with blood munity,” said Congress Spokesper- timents in mind. for pan-India release. we will not let anyone blacken it; son R.P.N. Singh. “Padmavati”, which also fea- The Uttar Pradesh government we will call for Bharat bandh on On the other hand, Deepika said tures Shahid Kapoor and Ranveer has also said in a letter to the Minis- December 1,” Kalvi said. nothing could stop the release of Singh, is yet to be certified by CBFC. try of Information and Broadcasting Also, Union Minister Uma the film. However, the Rajput community to ensure that the prospects of pub- Bharti on Thursday lashed out at “It’s appalling, it’s absolutely has demanded a special screening lic outrage and unrest over “Pad- Bhansali and tweeted: “If we are appalling. What have we gotten of the film for them before it hits mavati” are considered owing to talking about the respect of Pad- ourselves into? And where have the theatres. twisting of historical facts before mavati, then it is our moral obliga- mavati’ are responsible for its story. pur. The party members also set fire distorts history in telling the tale of we reached as a nation? We have While the film is drawing a lot certification of the film by the Cen- tion that we respect every woman. They should have taken care of the to the film’s set in Maharashtra. Rajput queen Padmavati. regressed,” Deepika said. of flak from the political parties, tral Board of Film Certification Disrespect of the actress or actor sentiments and the historical facts.” Various organisations, political The Congress party also said on “The only people we are answer- Bhansali is getting unstinted support (CBFC). of ‘Padmavati’ is uncalled for and During the shooting of the film parties and individuals have stood Wednesday that if there are scenes able to is the censor board, and I from the film community. Earlier on Thursday, Shri Rajput immoral.” earlier this year, a few members up for the Rajput community and that hurt the sentiments of a partic- know and I believe that nothing can Celebrities like Salman Khan, Karni Sena member Mahipal Singh She added: “The director and his of the Shri Rajput Karni Sena had have opposed the release of “Pad- ular community then the same need stop the release of this film,” said the Karan Johar and Javed Akhtar also Makrana said in a self-made video associate as the scriptwriter of ‘Pad- physically assaulted Bhansali in Jai- mavati” over apprehensions that it to be reviewed. actress, adding that the film indus- expressed their support to the film. 2 town mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 DAYINDAYOUT What’s on Around Town SEDIMENT HUES A solo exhibition by Satish Sharma, this series of art works is not only a How irregular synonym of abstract expressionism but also something which can easily be a treat for onlookers. The canvas is the world he paints the abstrac- tion accumulated inside the mind. The works may be categorized into two sections: one consisting of large canvases that uses flat colour, while the other consist of sets of small works that are intensely packed with texture and thick impasto paint. WHEN: November 14 – 23 WHERE: Triveni Kala Sangam SPELLINGS TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm ADD MEANING TO TEXT MESSAGES PERSIAN GULF TO INDIAN OCEAN The exhibition focuses on the cultural links between India and Iran that his- torically dates back to the Indo-Euro- pean period. The interesting exhibition New language constructions are emerging of photohraphs and text is brought by Dr Daryoosh Akbarzadeh, Profes- to fill the gap between what people want to sor of Iranian Ancient and Middle Languages at the Research Institute of express and what they are able to express Iran’s Cultural Heritages, Tourism and Handicraft Organisation. with the tools they have available to them WHEN: November 15 – 21 WHERE: Art Gallery, India International Centre Annexe TIMING: 11:00 am – 7:00 pm WINTER COLLECTION MENU Discover the ultimate in South East Asian coastal food as Chef Veena Arora revisits her most sought after Winter Collection Menu and hand- crafts a prawn treat for sea food lovers this year. Savour every nibble prepared with perfection and experi- ence essence and flavours of variety of prawns along with lobsters and fish, while you enjoy the temple art at The Spice Route. WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: The Imperial f someone thanks you non-linguistic cues such as facial A 2016 study led by Klin TIMING: 12:30 pm – 2:45pm|7 pm – “soooo” much on What- expressions and hand gestures,” found that text messages that end 11:45pm sApp, there is no reason to said Celia Klin, Professor at Bing- with a period are seen as less sin- mark it as a sloppy mes- hamton University, State Univer- cere than text messages that do TRIBUTE TO INDIRA GANDHI Isage. New research has found that sity of New York. not end with a period. To celebrate the 100th birth anniver- “textisms” – emoticons, irreg- “In a spoken conversation, the Klin pursued this subject texts, we found that the period scientists can observe language read text messages in a slightly sary of Smt Indira Gandhi, some of ular spellings and exclamation cues aren’t simply add-ons to our further, conducting experi- can also be used rhetorically to evolving in real time. different way than we read a novel points in text messages – help words; they convey critical infor- ments to see if people reading add meaning,” said Klin. “What we are seeing with or an essay. Further, all the ele- the most promising artists from the convey meaning and intent in the mation. A facial expression or a texts understand textisms, asking The study concluded that electronic communication is that, ments of our texts – the punc- classical music and dance world are absence of spoken conversation. rise in the pitch of our voices can how people’s understanding of a although periods no doubt can as with any unmet language need, tuation we choose, the way that coming together to give a cultural “Textisms” is not a sign that entirely change the meaning of single-word text ( such as yeah, serve a grammatical function in new language constructions are words are spelled, a smiley face treat to delhiites. The event will begin written language is going down our words,” Klin pointed out. nope, maybe) as a response to texts just as they can with more emerging to fill the gap between – can change the meaning,” Klin with the National song by the Mem- the tubes, according to the study It has been suggested that one an invitation is influenced by the formal writing – for example, what people want to express and said. bers of Gandharava Choir. This will be published in the journal Comput- way to add meaning to the words inclusion, or absence, of a period. when a period is at the end of a what they are able to express with With trillions of text messages ers in Human Behavior. in text messages is by using “tex- “In formal writing, such as sentence – periods can also serve the tools they have available to sent each year, we can expect the followed by solo classical dance and “In contrast with face-to-face tisms”– things like emoticons, what you’d find in a novel or an as textisms, changing the mean- them,” said Klin. evolution of textisms, and of the meditative sufiyana music. conversation, texters can’t rely irregular spellings (sooooo) and essay, the period is almost always ing of the text. “The findings indicate that language of texting more gener- WHEN: November 19 on extra-linguistic cues such irregular use of punctuation (!!!), used grammatically to indicate The researchers believe that our understanding of written lan- ally, to continue at a rapid rate, WHERE: Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri as tone of voice and pauses, or Klin said. that a sentence is complete. With with electronic communication, guage varies across contexts. We the researchers said. IANS TIMING: 6 pm onwards Leonardo’s masterpiece sells for $450.3 million

UMA NAIR 30,000 people worldwide, who lined up to see the painting in person at Christie’s free public THE MAN who gave the world the words: exhibitions. Christies states that the winning Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication has bidder held off five other competitors, plac- become the world’s most expensive artist as of ing bids by phone with Christie’s Alex Rotter. Wednesday night at Christies, New York with Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen, Global Presi- a portrait of Jesus Christ called ‘Salvator Mun- dent of Christie’s, opened the bidding at $75 dis’. Leonardo’s ‘Salvator Mundi’ took the art million, pulling in at least 45 bids from cli- Handicrafts from Tihar world by storm at New York as it became the ents on the phone and in the room. After sev- most expensive work of art ever sold at auction. eral minutes of volleyed bids from around the Leonardo da Vinci’s 500-year-old mystical room, the competition settled down to a head- masterpiece, ‘Salvator Mundi’ claimed a place to-head competition between Alex Rotter, Co- in auction history this evening, selling for US Chariman, Post-War and Contemporary Art $450,312,500 (£342,182,751/ €380,849,402) and Francois de Poortere, Head of Department, to adorn IITF Hunar Haat and setting a new auction record for any work Old Masters, New York, each bidding on behalf OUR CORRESPONDENT of art ever sold at auction, after 19 minutes of of clients on the phone. At the $400 million bidding. The winning bid was placed by Chris- mark, De Poortere bowed out, awarding the andloom, furniture, spices tie’s Alex Rotter, Co-Chariman of Post-War last Leonardo painting left in private hands to and confectionery items and Contemporary Art acting on behalf of an a new owner for a final price of $450.3 million made by Tihar inmates will anonymous client. inclusive of fees. be available for the first time It also nearly doubled previous record for Hat the ‘Hunar Haat’ being organised by the most expensive work at auction. This mys- Artist, architect, inventor the Ministry of Minority Affairs at India tical masterpiece was once obscured by over Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a International Trade Fair, Pragati Maidan. painting and thought to be lost to history. painter, architect, inventor, and student of all Organised under the ‘USTTAD’ The historic moment was watched by over things scientific. His natural genius crossed so (Upgrading Skills and Training in Tra- many disciplines that he epitomized ditional Arts/Crafts for Development) the term “Renaissance man.” Today, scheme, the ‘Hunar Hatt’ at hall number he remains best known for his art, 7G and 7H of Pragati Maidan, was inau- including two paintings that remain gurated by Union Minister for Minor- among the world’s most famous and ity Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on admired, Mona Lisa and The Last Wednesday and would go on till Novem- Supper. ber 27. Art, da Vinci believed, was indis- During the inauguration, Naqvi said putably connected with science and that ‘Hunar Haat’ is an impressive gath- nature. Largely self-educated, he ering of master artisans and craftsmen filled dozens of secret notebooks with from “Tihar to Tripura, Kashmir to Kan- inventions, observations and theo- yakumari and Karnataka to Kolkata. ries about pursuits from aeronautics ‘Hunar Haat’ has become a success- to anatomy. But the rest of the world ful mission to provide employment and was just beginning to share knowl- employment opportunities at national edge in books made with moveable as well international markets for thou- type, and the concepts expressed in sands of master artisans, craftsmen and able. These products include handmade carpets and papier-mache of Kashmir; bai, Kolkata, Lucknow, Bhopal and other his notebooks were often difficult to culinary experts. furniture, handlooms, handicrafts, bak- ajrakh print, mutva, Kutch embroidery places of the country. Naqvi said that the interpret. As a result, though he was “While on one hand ‘Hunar Haat’ has ery items, organic oil, spices and grain.” and bandhej of Gujarat; khurja ceramic ministry is working to establish ‘Hunar lauded in his time as a great artist, his provided a platform to master artisans Naqvi said that these artisans have products, clay items, blackstone pottery, Hub’ in all states of the country where contemporaries often did not fully and craftsmen to display their rich heri- brought with them very exquisite pieces dry flowers and traditional handicrafts artisans will be provided training as per appreciate his genius – the combi- tage and skill, on the other hand, these of handicraft and handloom like Assam’s of North-East; batik/bagh/maheshwari the present requirement. nation of intellect and imagination exhibitions are providing domestic and cane, bamboo and jute products; tussar, of Madhya Pradesh; leather products, Union Minister of State for Minor- that allowed him to create, at least international markets for these artisans to Geeja, and Matka Silk of Bhagalpur; brassware of Moradabad and Gota patti ity Affairs Dr Virendra Kumar, Secretary on paper, such inventions as the bicy- showcase their skills,” said the minister. traditional jewellery, Lac bangles and from Rajasthan among much more. Minority Affairs Ameising Luikham, cle, the helicopter and an airplane He further added, “This year’s ‘Hunar jewellery from Rajasthan and Telan- Earlier this Haat was organised at Chairman NMDFC Shahbaz Ali, DG based on the physiology and flying Haat’ is unique from its previous editions gana; kantha products of West Bengal; Puducherry and at Baba Khadak Singh Tihar Jail Ajay Kashyap and other capability of a bat. as for the first time, products made by brocades of Varanasi; lucknawi chikan Marg in Delhi earlier this year. Next, senior officials were also present on inmates of Delhi’s Tihar Jail are also avail- work, zari zardozi from UP; shawls, ‘Hunar Haat’ will be organised at Mum- the occasion. 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No. 011-47777500 3 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp city Parking fee hike lifted due to lax Seize 10-yr-old diesel taxis as they enforcement: EPCA cause air pollution: NGT to Govt OUR CORRESPONDENT Green Tribunal to consider lifting ban on construction today Govt urges EPCA to implement NEW DELHI: The hike in SAYANTAN GHOSH FILE PHOTO/MPOST parking fees to discourage use of private vehicles was ren- NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribu- GRAP in other NCR towns dered "ineffective" due to lack nal (NGT) on Thursday directed the Delhi of public transport and laxity government to submit data of ambient air SAYANTAN GHOSH well. “It needs to be appreci- in acting against illegal park- quality in the national capital and said it ated that unless GRAP is imple- ing, says the EPCA. would consider its ban on construction NEW DELHI: Amid the mented across all NCR towns, The Supreme Court- and industrial activity in the National Cap- blames and counter blames pollution level in Delhi, as well appointed green panel made ital Region (NCR) on that basis. on pollution, Delhi Transport as neighbouring towns, cannot On Thursday, Delhi Transport the observation in a letter to Minister Kailash Gahlot had In the hour-long hearing, the NGT Minister Kailash Gahlot has be brought down. Mere imple- the chief secretaries of Delhi, written to Lt Governor Anil Baijal has voiced concern over 10-year-old die- requested a Supreme Court- mentation of measures within Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and urging him to ‘reconsider’ the sel taxis operating in the national capital appointed environment body Delhi would not be of many Rajasthan directing the imme- hike effected to tackle alarming and directed the AAP government to seize EPCA to implement the effects unless similar measures diate withdrawal of the hike pollution levels them without any delay as they cause air Graded Response Action Plan are adopted in the remaining imposed on November 8. pollution. "It is pointed out that a large (GRAP) in NCR towns along NCR towns as well,” the let- Importantly, the hike, of parking fee is an important number of diesel taxis are being permitted The bench refused to pass any order It had also asked the city government to with Delhi to control air pol- ter read. Criticising the envi- which is a part of the Graded car restraint measure. to ply in the NCT of Delhi contrary to the regarding the construction ban, saying identify the most polluted areas and sprin- lution. The Delhi government ronment body, the Minister Response Action Plan "However, this measure has judgement and directions of the Supreme there was no urgency and no builder would kle water while allowing the non-polluting has also urged the same regard- said: “EPCA has not helped (GRAP), is supposed to be in been made ineffective because Court," the NGT observed. be starting construction activity on Thurs- industries and those manufacturing essen- ing odd-even to the National in the matter by keeping quiet effect even when the air quality of the lack of public transport A bench headed by NGT Chairper- day night. tial goods to operate in Delhi-NCR. The Green Tribunal. with regard to the obligations is 'very poor', not only when it and partly because of poor son Justice Swatanter Kumar observed "We will pass the order on Friday NGT had on November 11 stated that it In a letter sent to the Envi- of NCR towns in this regard.” turns 'emergency'. enforcement of illegal and all these points at the hearing in presence after going through the data," it said. On would not exempt women and two-wheel- ronment Pollution Control The National Capital Region But the EPCA lifted the unauthorised parking," EPCA representatives of the AAP government. November 14, the NGT had expressed con- ers from the odd-even vehicle rationing Authority (EPCA) on Wednes- (NCR) includes the whole of measure on Thursday cit- chairperson Bhure Lal wrote. During the brief hearing, the government cern over the high pollution level, terming plan to tackle pollution. day, Gahlot said: “In the pub- Delhi and many districts of ing "problems" in its effective On Thursday, Delhitold the bench that water was sprinkled it as an "environmental and health emer- Meanwhile, NGT also directed all lic interest, it is requested that Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and enforcement, which has led to Transport Minister Kai- at ITO area according to its direction and gency". The city should "not gift infected Delhi government and private schools as EPCA would do well to advise Rajasthan. parking on the roads, adding lash Gahlot had written to PM 2.5 levels had come down as detected lungs to its children", it had observed. well as colleges to install rainwater har- NCR towns to implement In response to the letter, to traffic congestion. Lt Governor Anil Baijal urg- by the monitoring centre of the Delhi Pol- It had also refused to exempt women vesting systems in their premises within GRAP including Odd-Even the EPCA chairperson Bhure "EPCA (Environment Pol- ing him to "reconsider" the lution Control Committee. Some of the and two-wheelers from the Delhi govern- two months at their own cost. It ordered scheme along with Delhi.” Lal said that they were work- lution - Prevention and Con- hike effected to tackle alarm- lawyers, appearing for builders and indus- ment's odd-even vehicle rationing scheme that any institution that fails to install the The Minister said that ing according to the directions trol Authority) believes this ing pollution levels, holding tries, requested the tribunal to lift its ban and directed it to ensure that over 10-year- rainwater harvesting system within the according to rules, GRAP had of the Supreme Court and the is because of lack of enforce- the move was proving to be on the ground that air quality in the NCR old diesel vehicles be taken off the roads stipulated period shall be liable to pay envi- to be implemented not only agency was much aware of ment and that enhancement counterproductive. had improved. without delay. ronment compensation of Rs 5 lakh. in Delhi but in NCR towns as what is need to be done. Authorities’ steps on air pollution Parents want schools remain SAFAR: Dust storm in West Asia woefully inadequate, says HC shut during smog period precipitated Delhi smog crisis NEW DELHI: The Delhi High The court also put tough were levied on the directions OUR CORRESPONDENT deployed to enforce the ban. Court on Thursday termed questions to the Delhi Pollution of the National Green Tribu- The ban already exists in Pun- OUR CORRESPONDENT scientific assessment report of beings. as "woefully inadequate" the Control Committee (DPCC), nal (NGT) which had also NEW DELHI: Residents of the jab and Haryana but there is the week-long pollution crisis. The 24-hour prescribed efforts made by the Centre as represented by advocate San- ordered that remaining 75 per Delhi NCR region want schools limited enforcement by the NEW DELHI: As Delhi and its "Rest was made up of emis- standard of this variety of sus- well as the authorities in the jeev Ralli, on the number of cent of the amounts collected to be shut between November 1 state governments. As per the neighbours spar over stubble sions from local sources such pended particulate matter is national capital to mitigate the prosecutions it has launched be spent on mitigating air pol- and 20 to protect their children CRPF role defined on its web- burning, a Centre-run moni- vehicular combustion. If exter- 60 ug/m3. poor air quality here. for violation of construction lution in the city. The DPCC from pollution, a survey partic- site, one duty it can be activated toring agency has identified a nal sources did not have any SAFAR, an arm of the The observation by a bench norms, the number of teams it also informed the court that the ipated in by 13,000 respondents for is checking environmental West Asian dust storm as the role, levels of PM2.5 during this Indian Institute of Tropical of justices S Ravindra Bhat and has for inspection and whether quadrupling of parking fare in has revealed. According to the degradation and protection of chief trigger behind the recent period could have been around Meteorology, said particulates Sanjeev Sachdeva came as none any penalties was provided for Delhi has been done away with. survey, conducted by citizens local flora and fauna. smog episode in the region. 200 g/m3," the report stated. from the dust storm, which of the authorities, including the under the Environment Pro- Amicus curiae and senior engagement platform Local- The results were also shared On November 8, the con- The subsequent imposition swept across Iraq, Kuwait, and city municipal bodies, were tection Act. "Where is the will advocate Kailash Vasdev, ass- Circles, around 55 per cent of with the Delhi Chief Minis- tribution of the dust storm of emergency measures such as Saudi Arabia between the last able to show they had com- (to take action)?" it asked the iting the court, submitted that the residents supported the ter Arvind Kejriwal and he was 40 per cent, eclipsing the a ban on the entry of trucks and week of October and Novem- plied with the court's urgent DPCC. apart from the fines, over Rs shutdown. promised to discuss it with role of emissions from stubble construction activities yielded ber 4, entered the upper atmo- directions of last week to bring The pollution control com- 700 crore has been collected as The survey also found that other stakeholders in the burning, which stood at 25 per positive results, the Centre-run spheric layer of Delhi and the down the air pollution. mittee told the bench that fines green cess for bringing to Delhi around 59 per cent people government. cent, the Pune-based System agency said, putting the gains at larger region. "Steps taken are woe- amounting to Rs 50,000 were cars of 2000 cc or larger engine believe that effectively enforc- Stubble burning in the of Air Quality And Weather around 15 per cent in terms of Moreover, stubble burning fully inadequate," the bench levied for every violation of capacity. The bench, thereafter, ing the ban on stubble burn- neighbouring states of Punjab Forecasting And Research percentage. at Punjab, UP and Haryana observed even as the munici- construction norms in the city directed the authorities, includ- ing in neighbouring states can and Haryana has been iden- (SAFAR) said. PM2.5 are ultrafine particu- were very high on November 6 pal corporations and the Delhi and 25 per cent of the amount ing the CPCB and DPCC, to solve Delhi NCR’s pollution tified by NASA Fire Mapper, That was the day pollution lates, up to 30 times finer than and as upper air winds became government assured the court collected was remitted to the inform it about the proposed crisis. The survey also revealed industry experts and the gov- levels peaked with PM2.5 con- a width of a human hair, which North Westerly (towards that they sprinkled water on Central Pollution Control projects on which money that around 69 per cent of ernment as the root cause for centration reaching 640 micro- can lodge deep in the lungs and Delhi), pollutants were strongly the roads as ordered by it to Board (CPCB) for utilisation. would be spent to mitigate air the people suggested that the the poor air quality in Delhi grams per cubic metre (ug/ enter the bloodstream, caus- pumped in, exacerbating reduce dust generation. The DPCC said the fines pollution in Delhi. AGENCIES paramilitary CRPF could be NCR. m3), according to the SAFAR ing irreparable harm to living the situation. Delhi govt to BJP urges LG to seek report on alleged DCW for urgent DUTA opposes proposal Govt wants to tie set up 1,000 intervention of autonomous colleges up with NSIC for mohalla clinics non-utilisation of environment cess of HC in minor SC/ST education OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT leges in a top-down manner. NEW DELHI: The social wel- NEW DELHI: The Delhi gov- rape cases By touting autonomy as a way fare department of the Delhi ernment on Thursday said that NEW DELHI: Delhi BJP on NEW DELHI: Delhi Uni- to improve quality and fur- government has planned to Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- Thursday lodged its protest NEW DELHI: The DCW versity teachers staged a flash ther academic excellence, the tie up with the National Small wal has approved a proposal with the Lieutenant Governor Chairperson Swati Maliwal on protest, continuing their Government wants to abdicate Industries Corporation (NSIC) in which the Delhi State Health Anil Baijal on failure of the gov- Thursday attended the hearing struggle against the proposal its responsibility by refusing for the education develop- Mission (DSHM) will manage ernment in improving the envi- in PIL instituted after Nirbhaya of autonomous colleges. The to allocate adequate funds to ment of the SC/STs of the city, and set up 1,000 mohalla clin- ronment in spite of having Rs gang rape case in Delhi High agitating teachers marched meet thesevere infrastructure said the SC/ST welfare min- ics in the city. Besides, the chief 1,002 crore fund with it col- Court. During the hearing, she to SCOPE building, where deficit and needed increase in ister Rajendra Pal Gautam. minister also allowed Rogi lected as Environment Cess. appraised the court of the bru- UGC was holding an orien- the number of teachers,” said The minister asserted that the Kalyan Samitis (RKS) to hire Delhi BJP president Manoj tal rape of minors that occurred tation programme for all col- in statement. department wants to give train- short-term manpower for hos- Tiwari and Leader of Opposi- in Delhi in the last ten days and lege principals to discuss and The DUTA stronglying to the underprivileged stu- pitals to fill the gaps in health tion Vijender Gupta brought sought urgent intervention of push forward the proposal of believes that the move to forc- dents on small-scale industry services, it said. "This will help into the cognizance of Lieu- High Court in the matter. granting autonomous status ibly convert well-established works. "The minister is keen to hospitals have adequate num- tenant Governor the fact that In response, the High Court to colleges. Delhi University Colleges expand terms with NSIC for ber of staff for services as and during the last 3 years there directed the Delhi Police Com- “The Autonomous College into Autonomous Colleges is future entrepreneurs from SC when required," an official said. have many cases including the missioner to be present on the scheme is being pushed by the a part of the agenda to further / ST sectors to come up in the Kejriwal on Thursday held Schedule Caste Welfare Fund next date of hearing in the government directly through commercialisation. industry," said an official. a review meeting of the DSHM in which Government has mis- did not take any scientific steps to privatize the public trans- Court and come up with a plan the UGC and the university “The brand names of col- "The running module along with Health Minister used the fund allocated for a to improve the environment port system and hence it did for prevention and monitor- administration. The proposal leges will be used to convert structure of courses should be Satyendar Jain, Social Welfare particular purpose and hence in Delhi in spite of having a not take decision to purchase ing of rape cases. The women to grant autonomous status them into teaching shops. extended to six months rather Minister Rajendar Pal Gautam there is possibility that the fund of Rs. 1000 crores avail- DTC buses as a result there are and children of the city have to colleges identified on the “Financial Autonomy” means than three months, which and senior officers. Environment Cess collected able with it, has shocked the only 3500 public buses in Delhi been suffering constantly. It basis of ranking is to incentiv- less government funding should comprise of five months "In the meeting, the chief by the Government has also people of Delhi. whereas it needs 11,000 buses. is a system that has refused to ise commercialization in the and greater reliance on earn- of training and one month minister approved the pro- been diverted on other work. BJP leaders said that simi- The party leaders requested wake up to the screams of three form of self-financing,” said ing through market-friendly of internship," said Gautam. posal to entrust the mission The party leaders said that larly we must take into con- the L-G to seek a report into children who are raped in the a teacher. courses. The cost of education “Once the intern is out from with the responsibility of man- the people of Delhi were suf- sideration the fact that a big non utilization or possible capital every day. She also met “The teaching commu- will steeply increase; every the completion of his training, agement and setting up of 1,000 fering due to heavy pollution factor of sever pollution in diversion of Rs. 1002 crores the Vice-President Venkaiah nity expressed total shock aspect from tuition fees to all the finance formalities and Aam Aadmi Mohalla Clin- during the last 10 days and in Delhi is the scarcity of public collected by it as Environment Naidu and requested him for and dismay at the Govern- hostel facilities and exami- loan amount would be offered ics," the government said in a this situation the information buses. During its initial phase Cess from the Environment formation of a high level com- ment's attempt to bulldoze nations will become means to him immediately so that he statement. MPOST that the Kejriwal Government Kejriwal Government wanted Department. mittee for women safety in the the scheme of Autonomous of generating money,” said a starts his small-scale enterprise capital. MPOST colleges over individual col- teacher. soon after," he said. MPOST Where did you utilise Rs 14,000 crore PLAN TO WAIVE USER CHARGES collected as EDC: HC to Ggn builders AIIMS conducts pilot study to justify proposal OUR CORRESPONDENT dents of Delhi while 222 were outsiders. PIYUSH OHRIE activist Harinder Dhingra, viding proper roads, sewage ers are suffering,” said Ranjith More than 95 per cent of the patients the High Court has directed and providing other key main- Rai, a city resident who resides NEW DELHI: The AIIMS, which plans were accompanied by attendants and GURUGRAM: Taking a the government of Haryana tenance services. in Sector -85. to do away with user charges on diagnos- more than 25 per cent of the patients were strict stance on non utilisa- to collect amount of Rs14, 890 Various resident groups for “Not only should the pri- tic procedures, like blood tests and X-rays, accompanied by two or more attendants. tion of ‘External Development crore from the builders and long have been protesting over vate builders but even the role costing less than Rs 500, has conducted The patients had to make a payment Charge’ (EDC), the Punjab and developers. the huge charges being levied of the government be fixed in a pilot study to justify its proposal. The often in different building, register for the Haryana High Court has ques- In the next hearing that is and no services being provided this issue,” he further added. study comes in the wake of the Union test in another building and get the sam- tioned developers involved slated to be held on December in return. “We have been raising Health Ministry prodding the premier pling or test done. Sometimes they have to in construction activities in 11, the government has been “It’s excellent if the court this issue for a long time and medical institute to furnish information collect the reports as well. Gurugram that where the huge asked to inform the judiciary has stepped into the matter we have been able to keep about reviewing user charges which have The time delay adds to indirect costs amount collected in form of about the steps taken. because there is huge scam this issue relevant because of not been changed in the last 20 years. user charges and then for the investiga- like wage loss to the patients and their EDC has been utilised by the Earlier, a report was pre- involved into this matter. Most the persistence of homebuy- The pilot study revealed that the tions on the scheduled days. According caregivers, room rentals and transport developers. sented to the court which of the builders in their heydays ers who want to know how patients had to spend a substantial amount to the study, a patient from Delhi has to costs, making the provision of health care The High Court has showed that a staggering were in a position to charge their money has been spent. in the form of cost for travel from the point shell out Rs 1,900 on every visit to the All costlier for the patients as well as the state. observed that even after collec- amount of Rs 16, 000 crore exorbitant charges from the Those who have cheated the of residence, cost of food and lodging for India Institutes of Medical Sciences while "It is recommended that charges on low tion of huge amount of money, was collected in form of EDC buyer and not be transparent homebuyers on pretext of sell- self and attendants and loss of income for those from outside the national capital on cost investigations like blood tests, X-rays, the maintenance of the areas by the builders in city since in their dealings. Because they ing them their dream homes the patients as well as for the attendants. an average spend Rs 4,300 per visit. The CT etc (below Rs 500 per test) should be around the residential building 2008. However, majority of feel they could get away; they should be brought to book,” The study also stated that the patients study was conducted among 456 patients eliminated to cut down on book-keeping projects is not up to the mark. the builders have shied away used EDC in some other activi- said Dhruv Bansal of Guru- encountered long queues for dates for pre- who visited the out-patient department of costs, cost to patients and patient harass- On the petition filed by in utilising the amount in pro- ties and today many of us buy- gram Citizens Council. scribed investigations, for the payment of the hospital, out of which 234 were resi- ment," it said. 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017

MURDER OF PRADYUMAN THAKUR Mystery shrouds couple found Ashok Kumar’s dead at residence in Neb Sarai bail plea adjourned Ram Chander was found hanging from the ceiling fan, while his wife Neetu was found on the bed to November 20 ABHAY SINGH grandfather in the same house. Thursday morning, after which OUR CORRESPONDENT Police officials claimed a PCR call was made. A sessions court NEW DELHI: A married cou- that when they questioned “We are shocked to know GURUGRAM: After hearing in Gurugram ple was found dead in the wee the family members, they said that they committed suicide. the bail plea of Ashok Kumar, hours of Wednesday at their that there was no tiff in the rela- No fight happened between the bus conductor who had on Thursday residence in south Delhi’s Neb tionship between husband and them prior to the incident,” been charged with the murder adjourned the Sarai, while their three-month- wife. said Singh. of seven-year-old Pradyuman old baby was found crying in Mukesh, a relative of Police sources said that Thakur by Gurugram police, a hearing of Kumar’s their room. the deceased, stated that on Neetu’s mother was the first to sessions court here on Thurs- bail plea till The incident came to light Wednesday night, the couple enter the couple’s room, after day adjourned the matter till when a neighbor went to check had eaten food together, as she was alerted by the neigh- November 20. November 20 on the baby and found the Ram Chander’s mother-in-law bor after the incessant wailing 42-year-old Kumar has mother lying unconscious on had come to their house. of their four-month-old son been in jail since September 8, with the 16-year-old prime the bed and the father hanging “There was no fight or argu- did not stop. the day Pradyuman was found accused, moments before the from the ceiling fan. ment between husband and Neetu’s mother had tried to murdered in the washroom child was murdered. Soon after the incident, the wife. After eating food they get inside the main gate of the of Ryan International School Kumar’s family were also relatives were informed and went to sleep. The minor child house, but nobody answered in Bhondsi, where he was a present in the court complex, police were called. was sleeping with his parents, her calls following which she student. anticipating that he will be According to police, both Relatives of the deceased outside their residence in Neb Sarai on Thursday PIC/MPOST whereas the three-year-old raised an alarm. The hearing, which was released after having spent over the victims had marks around child was with his grandfather,” “The three-year-old child scheduled to begin in the two months in jail. their neck. Cops are waiting for then hanged himself. We can’t be named. and had two children. the relative added. does not know about his par- morning, was deferred till “I want to reiterate that my the post-mortem to ascertain comment on the exact cause The deceased were identi- At the time of the incident, Another relative of the ents’ death. It was heart- afternoon after the sessions son is innocent. He was tor- the exact reason of death. as we are waiting for the post- fied as Ram Chander and his the younger child was sleep- deceased, Mohar Singh, stated wrenching when we saw the court asked for the case file tured and beaten mercilessly “It might be that the hus- mortem report,” said a police wife Neetu, natives of Agra, ing with his parents and the that the neighbours of the faces of the two children,” said from the legal counsel of the to extract his confession. I will band first killed his wife and official, who did not wish to who got married five years ago elder one was sleeping with his deceased came to the house on Mohar Singh. Central Bureau of Investiga- request that the court free him tion (CBI). The case resumed soon, as he has to take care of again at 2.00 pm in court room the family,” said Ami Chand, Duo nabbed number 6. Kumar’s father. Man found dead in Bindapur, another in Dabri In its reply, the CBI declared Asserting that her husband in Dabri for that even though they could has been wrongly framed, OUR CORRESPONDENT In the second incident, a police received a PCR call tim had shot himself with a pis- am on Thursday. not find any concrete evidence Kanta Devi beseeched author- 29-year-old man was found about the incident. tol, which has been recovered A police team reached Talab to implicate Kumar, it had still ities for the release of her hus- fleeing away NEW DELHI: Two men were dead in a park in Bindapur. A police team reached the from the spot by cops. Wala Park and the victim was not given him the clean chit. band. Kanta Devi added that found dead under mysterious According to police, the house of 52-year-old Surajit Relatives of the victim rushed to the hospital, where “We are yet to receive vital her husband did his best to save with rental car circumstances in south west 40-year-old deceased was Ghosh and found the victim asserted that he was murdered. he was declared brought dead. evidences like chemical reports the boy’s life by carrying him to Delhi, with one of them sus- identified as Manmohan, who in a pool of blood. However, investigation is still The deceased was identified and other inputs. So we cannot the vehicle so as to take him to OUR CORRESPONDENT pected of having committed lived with his family in Maha- He was rushed to the hospi- under process. based on his driving license. give a clean chit to him. When the hospital. One of Kumar’s suicide and the other report- vir Enclave. tal, but declared brought dead. Meanwhile, in the Bindapur A pistol and a spectacle we get all reports and our inves- two sons is the same age as that NEW DELHI: Thieves have edly killing himself at an He was builder by profes- Ghosh, a builder by pro- case, the 29-year-old found in a were also recovered from the tigation is complete, only they of the deceased Pradyuman. devised a new modus operandi acquaintance’s house. sion and was the brother of a fession and resident of Maha- park was identified as Gautam, scene of the crime. can we decide his innocence,” “I knew from the beginning and began taking help from cab In the first case, the 40-year- former Delhi councillor. vir Enclave, is currently under a resident of Bindapur Exten- Police claimed that suspect the CBI said in its reply. that he was innocent. He has aggregator apps to first book old deceased was at the house Police said that the incident suspicion. sion area. suicide as the cause of death. Sources said that the judge never been violent. He has also a cab and then rob the driver. of an acquaintance in Dabri, was reported around 11.30 pm During investigation, According to police, they “We are probing the case from was shown the CCTV footage never raised his hand even on In one such case, a team when he was shot in the temple. on Wednesday, when Dabri Ghosh told cops that the vic- received a PCR call around 5.30 all angles,” said a police official. where Pradyuman was seen his children,” said Kanta. of Crime Branch has appre- hended two notorious crimi- nals, identified as 22-year-old Malviya Nagar theft: Cops Sonu Kumar, a resident of Nephew stabs uncle over monetary dispute, arrested Palam, and Parmod Kumar a resident of Uttam Nagar. keeping eye on criminals OUR CORRESPONDENT 21-year-old Pramod Kumar, the outside and locking his Soon, police arrived at the The accused revealed that The accused had booked a reportedly took a knife from uncle. spot and shifted Ram Avtar to in a fit of rage he first hit his car for a ride on the Ola app, NEW DELHI: A man stabbed the kitchen at his residence and As the injured Ram Avtar Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, uncle, and then attacked him from a number procured on with similar modus operandi his uncle in a fit of rage in Del- stabbed his uncle, 40-year-old began crying for help, the land- where his condition is now said with a knife that he took from fake documents, and robbed hi’s New Ashok Nagar, after Ram Avtar, on Wednesday. lady of the house heard him to be stable. the kitchen. On seeing the the booked Honda Amaze car ABHAY SINGH of criminals,” said a police the two men got into a phys- However, after seeing his and rushed to the spot. “We have arrested the blood, he ran away by lock- at gun-point. official. ical scuffle over a monetary uncle bleeding out, Pramod She unlocked the door to accused nephew. He has been ing the door from the outside. Subsequently, they rented a NEW DELHI: After the shoot- More than five teams dispute. panicked and left the crime find the bleeding Ram Avtar booked for attempt to murder,” Cops arrested him in less than Scorpio car from the Zoomcar ing-cum-robbery of a petrol are working on the case and The accused, identified as scene, bolting the room from informed the cops. said a senior police officer. 24 hours. rental app, on the basis of the pump owner in south Delhi’s sketches have been released. driving licence stolen from the Malviya Nagar, police are now “We are probing the case from Ola driver, taken the Scoprio probing the role of criminals all possible angles,” an investi- Ganja worth Rs car for self service and then fled recently released from jail and gating officer said. Drive-by shooting claims BJP away with it. have the same modus operandi. During investigation, police 1.4 cr seized, The driving licence of the Cops have made a list, sources found that on the day Ola driver, the Scorpio car and which includes names of over of the incident the victim had four including a country made pistol with four 100 criminals active in Delhi. been followed by the assailant leader, two others in Gr Noida live cartridges were recovered Police sources told Millen- for a long time. from possession of the accused nium Post they are studying the “We have found these RAHUL SINGH two women held persons. pattern of similar incidents in details through CCTV foot- After receiving informa- Delhi-NCR areas, where vic- age and our investigation,” GREATER NOIDA: A BJP leader and his tion of their theft, a team of tims were shot at and robbed. said a police source. A senior security guard were shot dead by unknown Crime Branch laid a trap for “It is possible that the police official further claimed bike-borne assailants in Bisrakh area of the accused. accused involved in the cases in that the role of an insider can- Greater Noida on Thursday, with the On November 9, the NCR could be involved in the not be ruled out, as clues have resulting commotion claiming a minor accused were spotted by the Malviya Nagar case. Some cases pointed out to it. girl as well, police said. team at Palam-Dabri Road with the same modus operandi Police said that the incident Police said that the driver of the victim’s near Barat Ghar, Dabri Gaon. from NCR are being checked,” was reported on Tuesday at 10 car lost control and mowed down the girl. The team stopped the car and said a police source. am, when the victim was going The deceased leader was identified as (Left) The spot of the incident; (right) the deceased BJP leader Shiv Kumar Yadav Photo caption single column PIC/PTI arrested the two culprits on the On Tuesday, Kamaljeet to the bank in Malviya Nagar. Shiv Kumar Yadav, a resident of Bahlol- PIC/MPOST spot. Sethi was shot at by an armed When he stepped out of the pur village of Greater Noida and a former Balinath – was travelling towards Ghazi- motive will be clear only after investiga- “They had booked a Scor- assailant and robbed of Rs 13 car, a masked man came from headman of Tigri village under Bisrakh abad in his SUV. tions are complete. We are questioning ZAFAR ABBAS pio car from Zoomcar App and lakh near a bank in Malviya behind and tried to snatch the area. At the time of his death, Yadav was According to an eye witness, there were family members of the deceased and eye- plugged-out the GPS of the car Nagar. bag, which was full of money. BJP’s zonal president from Ghaziabad’s total four assailants, who were travelling on witnesses. Raids will be conducted at all NEW DELHI: Delhi Police and fled away with it. The accused had covered Refusing to part with his Krishna Nagar area. two bikes. As soon as they neared Yadav’s suspected locations to nab the criminals,” have arrested four drug ped- “They also had similarly his face with cloth and the inci- hard-earned money, Sethi “Anjali Tiwari, a 14-year-old girl, also SUV, they began firing bullets on the mov- said Love Kumar, Senior Superintendent dlers, including two women, taken three other cars from dent was captured on CCTV refused to give up the bag and died in the incident when the SUV rammed ing car for around half a kilometre. of Police, Gautam Buddh Nagar. and recovered ganja worth Rs other companies and sold them camera. shouted help. into her,” said Ajay Kumar Sharma, SHO, Balinath died in the incident and Following the accident, hundreds of 1.4 crore in the international in different parts of the coun- “We are looking into crimi- The accused, who was car- Bisrakh police station. Rahispal sustained bullet injuries and has Yadav’s supporters of the leader gathered market in the process. try,” said Joint Commissioner nals with the same body struc- rying a gun, then shot Sethi in The incident occurred in broad day- been admitted to GTB hospital in Delhi. at Fortis Hospital in Noida. Heavy police The arrested persons have of Police (Crime) Alok Kumar ture. Raids are going on and his left shoulder and fled away light around 2 pm, when Yadav – accom- “Prima facie investigation shows that force was deployed at the hospital to con- been identified as Rajesh Kumar on Thursday. police teams are visiting houses with the bag full of money. panied by his security guards Rahispal and it is a case of personal enmity. The actual trol the situation. (48), Md Anwar alias Kutub (44), Hafiza (29) and Bilkis (28). Intelligence regarding Nine-yr-old Man arrested the supply of ganja in Delhi- Murder of 73-yr-old Ggn residents go green as NCR was developed by Delhi falls to her for molesting Police, and they found that some notorious drug peddlers woman: No arrests yet death in south reporter of were involved in the supply of many prefer carpooling large shipment from Barpeta OUR CORRESPONDENT “We have not yet found any in Assam and some districts of property papers. Also, what has east Delhi PIYUSH OHRIE REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE English daily Andhra Pradesh, to Delhi and NEW DELHI: Two days have been stolen from the house is its adjoining areas. passed since the death of a not clear. We are waiting for NEW DELHI: A nine-year- GURUGRAM: Gurugram OUR CORRESPONDENT On November 5, a tip-off 73-year-old woman in south her children who live in other old girl died after she fell from residents may have heaved a was received by ASI Surender Delhi’s Malviya Nagar, but no countries. Now that they come the third floor of her house in sigh of relief from the last two NEW DELHI: A 25-year-old that a large cache of ganja would arrest have been made yet. to Delhi, we will ask them south east Delhi’s Pul Prahalad- days, after the poisonous smog man was arrested in connec- arrive Tughlakabad Metro sta- Police sources now claim about papers and also if any pur area. engulfed the city for a week, tion with the case of molesta- tion in a Swift Dzire car. that her children living abroad other things were missing from The deceased was a stu- have lessened. tion of a reporter of an English Acting on the tip, a trap was have come to India and will the house. Everything will be dent of Class IV in a school in The unhealthy air quality daily at the ITO Metro station, laid near the Metro station at soon join investigation. cleared after questioning,” said Tughlakabad area and was liv- levels still pose a challenge for police said on Thursday. Main Mathura Road, Badar- According to police a police source. ing with her family in Mittal them to breathe freely. The par- The accused, Akhilesh, a tea pur. The car, driven by Rajesh, sources, the post-mortem of Three of Gulia’s five chil- Chowk area of south east Delhi. ticulate matter of 2.5 microns stall worker, who lives at a slum was spotted and stopped for the deceased woman Chan- dren reside in the United The incident was reported was registered on Thursday near the ITO, was drunk at the checking. 50 kg of ganja was dramukhi Gulia was conducted States, while a fourth son lives on Wednesday evening, after at 221-230 micrograms per time of the incident, Pankaj seized from the car and Rajesh on Thursday. in Haryana. the girl’s relatives heard the cubic meters was way above “Few people from our resi- challenge,” said Shikha Rai, a Singh, Deputy Commissioner was arrested. They added that in order During investigation of the sound of her falling from the the safety levels of 60. dential society are doing their city resident. of Police (Metro), said. During interrogation, Rajesh to get vital clues in the case, case, police found that there third floor of the house. Even though the city is bit by using shuttle service and While the residents are He was arrested and will be disclosed that this ganja belongs her children will be questioned was a property dispute going “She had gone to the mar- plagued with poor public trans- urge others also to do the same doing their bit in reducing the produced in the court on Fri- to a major drug dealer and was probably on Friday. More than on between the siblings. ket with the relative, but had portation system, a car free to save innocent lives,” said number of vehicles in a city day, he said. to be delivered to some smaller five teams have been working The call detail records of the returned early as she had to challenge for a week has been Aman Chawla, a city resident. where more than eight lakh The reporter was inappro- dealers in south east Delhi. on the case. relatives are also being scanned go to tuition. As it was dark initiated in the city. The chal- “There may be many things vehicles ply daily, the pub- priately touched and groped by Based on Rajesh’s intel, One of the victim’s sons, by the police team. when she reached the third lenge will run from November that will be bad in Gurugram lic transportation system is the accused when she entered Kutub – a resident of Jaitpur who lived in the same house The deceased was a resi- floor, the girl was unable to 20 to November 26. but there is a strong commu- yet to be strengthened by the the ITO Metro station from in New Delhi – was arrested as the victim, has completely dent of Savitri Nagar area and see anything and fell through According to organisers nity bonding in Gurugram government. the gate on the DDU Marg at on November 6 and 23 kg of denied his involvement in the had been living alone on the a shaft hole on the third floor. there are more than 200 people residential societies. At a time Earlier, 500 buses for city 9.30 pm on November 13, the ganja was recovered from his murder of his mother. first floor. The relatives heard some noise who have enrolled for this ini- when city is reeling under the services were to be introduced police said. possession. The deceased septuagenar- Kuldeep lives on the third and when they rushed to the tiative. Most of them are from effects of deadly pollution the in December this year. How- A case was registered and “Further, Hafiza, residing in ian had been living on the first floor with his family. spot they found her lying in a residential condominiums and citizens of Gurugram have ever it has been extended to investigation was taken up to Taimoor Nagar, New Friends floor of the house. The woman and her fam- pool of blood. A PCR call was office complexes where rather taken an active step in this. March next year. The reach of identify the accused, they said, Colony, and Bilkis were arrested Her son Kuldeep, who lived ily are natives of Haryana. Her made and the girl was rushed than using their own vehi- Having said the government Metro services is also limited adding five police teams inter- on November 8. 24 kg and 23 on the third floor of the build- body was discovered by Kul- to the hospital, where she cle an efficient system of car and the district authorities even though there is a private rogated over 5,000 people in kg of ganja were recovered from ing, said that even he had never deep, who was going to her was declared brought dead,” a pooling options is now being cannot abdicate their respon- metro service that is running in the past two days and traced their possession,” said DCP entered his mother’s room. Yoga classes. police source said. MPOST undertaken. sibilities to tackle this grave the city along with Delhi Metro. him. South East Romil Baaniya. 5 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp nation Govt eyes to indigenously Cong, BJP spar over Rafale deal manufacture most defence OUR CORRESPONDENT department head Randeep Surjewala systems in 6 yrs: Reddy alleged that the government neglected NEW DELHI: The Congress and the interests of public sector Hindu- the BJP continued to exchange barbs stan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). OUR CORRESPONDENT industries, which have pro- over the Rafale aircraft deal on Thurs- He also alleged that Dassault duced a particular technology day with Rahul Gandhi accusing the Aviation, the French manufacturer HYDERABAD: The govern- to tap the export market. prime minister of allegedly changing of Rafale aircraft, refused to transfer ment is considering to indig- “Many industries have the “entire deal” to benefit a business- technology to it and instead entered enously manufacture majority developed lot of technolo- man, a charge debunked by the rul- into an agreement with Reliance of the defence systems that gies and they should look for ing party. Defence. The BJP dismissed the alle- are currently imported, over opportunities outside through The Congress vice president also gation, claiming it was intended to the next five-six years, scien- exports...My feeling is the asked why no questions were posed “divert attention” as party bigwigs tific advisor to defence minis- industry will survive and can to Prime Minister Narendra Modi faced the prospect of being questioned ter, G Satheesh Reddy, said on come out in a big way. on BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay, in the AgustaWestland VVIP chop- Thursday. “The important thing is that whose company his party alleged has per scandal. The government has come no industry, I think, can sur- witnessed a quantum jump in turn- In a statement, Reliance Defence out with many mechanisms to vive continuously with only over since the Modi government came Limited dubbed the Congress’ alle- promote the industries to get supplying to the Indian armed to power. gations as “baseless and unfounded”. them into defence research in forces alone...It’s very difficult. “You ask me so many questions It said its subsidiary formed a joint a big way and come out with Let’s say these industries, which and I answer all of them. I want to ask venture, Dassault Reliance Aerospace, many indigenous products, he are producing for Akash (mis- you, why don’t you question Prime after a bilateral agreement between said. sile), when the orders are over Minister Modi on the Rafale deal. two private companies and “the Indian Reddy was speaking at the what happens to the produc- Why don’t you ask about Amit Shah’s government has no role to play in this”. inaugural session of a conclave tion lines of these industries... son? The company said government on ‘Connecting the Dots in it’s closed,” Reddy said. “Why don’t you question the prime policy of June 24, 2016 allows for 49 Telangana’s Defence & Aero- Therefore, there is a need to minister who changed the entire per cent FDI in the defence sector space Sector’, organised by CII have sustained orders for the Rafale deal to help a businessman?” he under the automatic route without Telangana here. industry on Thursday or these asked. Responding to Gandhi, senior Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi talks with Randeep Surjewala and other party leaders as he arrives for an interaction with any prior approval. He said the government is products which have been BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the office bearers of All India Unorganized Workers Congress, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on Thursday PTI Surjewala had also alleged that very seriously committed for produced we should be able the Congress is reminded of its rule the aircraft was being purchased at the indigenous systems to enter to export them, he said add- when it rakes up such an issue. of the Narendra Modi government,” The Rafale deal was the focus of security while promoting “crony capi- much higher rates than what was the country’s services. ing, “The industries operating “They are finding it difficult to Prasad, who was briefing reporters debate earlier this week as well when talism” and causing a loss to the pub- decided after the completion of the “The way the government in the defence sector need to accept that there has been no case on cabinet decisions, said when asked the Congress accused the government lic exchequer. tender process under the previous is looking today, maybe next have a definite export potential of corruption in the three-year rule about allegations levelled by Gandhi. of compromising national interest and Congress’ communications UPA government. five to six years majority of for ensuring sustained order the systems, which are being and quality.” imported should be produced The government is seriously India for peace, in the country indigenously... working on this mechanism Panel on new coastal force wants Modi’s popularity whichever the mecha- and the export policy in this but will use might nism- Indigenously Designed regard has been simplified to Developed and Manufactured clear the systems which have Coast Guard to be strengthened ‘rises unabated’, Shah to protect itself: (IDDM), or through the ‘Make been produced in the country in India’ programme...most of for export, Reddy said. OUR CORRESPONDENT Prez Kovind them should be produced in “Lots of enquiries have been says after Pew survey the country,” Reddy said. coming for many of the sys- NEW DELHI: A panel com- OUR CORRESPONDENT “On missiles, we should tems produced in the country prising the top internal secu- NEW DELHI: Prime Minis- be completely self-reliant in to be exported to various coun- rity brass of the country has ter Narendra Modi’s popularity JALANDHAR: President Ram about next five years, that is, tries,” he said. Under ‘Make in favoured the strengthening of has risen unabated across the Nath Kovind on Thursday said we should be able to produce India’, we have to see what is the the Coast Guard for a better country and people’s satisfac- while India was fully commit- them in the country,” he said. priority we need to have. We safeguarding of the country’s tion with the economy is at an ted to peace, it would use all According to Reddy, to need technologies which are maritime boundaries, rather “all-time high”, BJP chief Amit its might to protect the sover- support the industry, lot of not there here on Thursday and than raising a new coastal Shah said on Thursday, citing eignty of the nation. schemes have been brought for that we need to tie up with security force. a survey by the Pew Research At a function to present the out, which support the inno- those companies/technologies, The proposal to raise a new Center. According to a survey President’s Standards to the 223 vative research in the country, which are not here, Reddy said Coastal Border Police Force conducted by the American Squadron and 117 Helicopter like Atal Innovation, Technol- adding, “It should not be cre- (CBPF), on the lines of the think tank, more than eight- Unit of the Indian Air Force ogy Development Fund and ating problems to the already Central Armed Police Forces The panel was also of the opinion in-10 Indians say economic at Adampur in Punjab, Kov- Innovative Research Initiative. existing industries which have (CAPFs), like the BSF and the conditions are good in the ind also complimented the air He called upon the Indian grown here.” ITBP, was mooted at a meet- that the Coast Guard should be country despite Modi s deci- warriors for their “impeccable ing convened in August by the strengthened by providing advanced sion to abolish high-value bank turnout and smart movement”. Union home ministry with the notes last November. “India’s rise in the interna- chiefs of these forces. surveillance and security gadgets and “The findings of Pew Global tional system has many dimen- The panel comprising the legal powers to it research are very significant. sions to it. But it draws heavily India, Bangladesh hold directors general of these After Modi Government came from the capabilities and valour forces discussed the matter at a to power, people’s trust in of our armed forces,” he said. recent meeting and concluded by the CAPFs deployed in the At the August meeting, it Government, Democracy and across the length & breadth of The president said citizens joint training exercise that the Coast Guard would be coastal areas, such as the Cen- was proposed that the new confidence that the nation is the country and across demo- slept securely because they the best force to counter ter- tral Industrial Security Force force -- the CBPF -- would in the right direction has gone graphic groups. knew the forces were there to OUR CORRESPONDENT ror and other security threats (CISF) and Border Security guard the maritime fron- up drastically,” Shah said in a His handling of various protect them. along the over-7,000-km-long Force (BSF). tiers closer to the country’s series of tweets. issues also receive a thumbs up “Though we remain firmly KOHIMA: India and Ban- coastline of the country, offi- It was also discussed landmass. The Indian Coast Modi remains the most from people,” Shah said. committed to peace, we are gladesh held the field training cial sources said. whether some personnel of the Guard (ICG) protects the popular national figure in The survey was conducted determined to use all our might exercise - ‘SAMPRITI 2017’ The panel was also of the CAPFs could be sent on a spe- country’s maritime interests Indian politics tested in the among 2,464 respondents in to protect the sovereignty of at the Counter Insurgency opinion that the Coast Guard cial stint to the Coast Guard to and enforces the maritime survey. His popularity is rela- India from February 21 to our nation. Each time we have and Jungle Warfare School should be strengthened by work as external experts. law. The territorial waters of tively unchanged in the north, March 10 this year. had to do so, our valiant men at Vairengte in Mizoram to providing advanced surveil- The recommendations India, including its contiguous has risen in the west and the Shah also extended greet- and women in uniform have strengthen interoperability lance and security gadgets and made by the panel were sent to zone and exclusive economic south and is down slightly in ings to media professionals on risen to the occasion,” an offi- and cooperation between the legal powers to it. the home ministry, the sources zone, come under the ICG’s the east, according to the sur- the occasion of National Press cial release quoted the presi- armies of the two countries. The sources said the panel said, adding that the ministry jurisdiction. vey’s findings. Day and applauded their com- dent as saying. The joint exercise, which ening bilateral ties. proposed that the Coast Guard was expected to hold a fresh It also has a war-time role “PM @narendramodi’s mitment towards their profes- The armed forces “exempli- started on November 6, was The combined exercise be given an effective backup meeting on the matter soon. of assisting the Navy. popularity rises unabated sion. MPOST fied by the air warriors... conducted in a progressive culminated with a valida- secure the values, tradi- manner in which the partic- tion exercise conducted on tions and beliefs embodied in ipants initially familiarised November 15 and 16. our democratic Constitution,” themselves with each other’s The release said that a Aadhaar cards enrolment at Maha, Goa post offices from 2018 he said. organisational structure and scenario of terrorists hiding The 223 Squadron, or tactical drills. in a village was painted for OUR CORRESPONDENT General H C Agrawal said. cards to the residents of the cir- the Tridents, was formed on Subsequently, the training the validation exercise and it The Department of Post cle, he said. May 10, 1982, in Adampur. advanced to various tactical commenced with joint brief- MUMBAI: The residents of had in June this year started an The staffers would issue the It was initially equipped with exercises by the two armies, ings by the company com- Maharashtra and Goa would be updation facility for Aadhaar at Aadhaar cards in addition to the MiG-23 which was later a press release issued by PIB manders of both the armies. able to enrol for Aadhaar cards its 120 post offices across the discharging their postal duties, upgraded to the formidable Defence wing here said. The troops cordoned off at over 1,200 post offices in the Maharashtra and Goa circle. Agrawal said. MiG-29 fighter aircraft. The The final exercise was the village on the basis of two states from next year, a “After starting the upda- The Maharashtra and Goa squadron has a remarkable reviewed by Major General the briefings and a daring senior official said on Thursday. tion facility at our post offices circle of the India Post has operational record. Md Moshfequr Rehman of raid was carried out in the “Those who have not got in June, we are in the process of five regions, namely Mumbai, The president said the Bangladesh Army and Major jungle terrain. The exercise Aadhaar cards, can now get e-procurement through which Aurangabad, Nagpur, Pune squadron is one of the few that General M S Ghura of the ended after the terrorists were their unique identity numbers, necessary devices and equip- and Goa. remains alert 365 days a year Indian Army. neutralised. besides getting (their already ment are being purchased and Since the Aadhaar card is and lives up to its motto of Describing the combined A spectacular demon- issued Aadhaar cards) cor- simultaneously our staff mem- mandatory for availing various ‘Vijyaya amogh-astraha’ (ulti- exercise as an ‘unprecedented stration on room interven- rected or updated at our 1,293 bers are being trained (for issu- government services, its gen- mate weapon for victory). success’, the release said that tion drills was also conducted post offices, out of the total ing Aadhaar cards),” Agrawal eration at post offices, whose The 117 Helicopter Unit, or besides promoting under- jointly by the Indian and Ban- 2,216, from the beginning of said. Almost 4,000 staffers reach is undebatable, will defi- the Himalayan Dragons, was standing between the two gladesh army personnel, the the new year,” Maharashtra and of the postal department are nitely help the common man, raised on February 1, 1971, at armies, it helped in strength- release added. Goa circle’s Chief Post Master being trained to issue Aadhaar Agrawal said. Air Force Station, Bareilly. Centre increases After barring Pappu, EC clears Drug menace a bigger challenge carpet area of Guj BJP ad with word yuvraj than terrorism in J-K: DGP houses under PM OUR CORRESPONDENT J-K from across the border. It The data said that as many Awas Yojana OUR CORRESPONDENT growing frequency. is very clear who is pumping as 12 alleged drug peddlers Gujarat is going to polls on JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir drugs and narcotics into this were arrested under the Public NEW DELHI: The Cen- AHMEDABAD: The BJP has December 9 and 14. DGP S P Vaid said that drug state,” he said without naming Safety Act (PSA) in Jammu and tre on Thursday approved released a video which makes a Earlier, the BJP was barred menace was a “bigger chal- Pakistan. Kashmir this year as compared the enhancement of the car- reference of “yuvraj” to appar- by the EC from using the word lenge” than terrorism in the “I am trying to convince to 27 in 2016. pet area of houses for the ently target Congress vice pres- “Pappu” in an electronic adver- state and that contrabands were everybody, including the police It said that as many as 822 middle income group (MIG) ident Rahul Gandhi, after the tisement, calling it “derogatory”. being “pumped from across the force, about the bad affects. It people were arrested in 608 category under the Pradhan Election Commission barred The BJP had said the script border”. This year, the police (drugs) has the potential to cases of drug peddling and nar- Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban the ruling party from using the of that advertisement did not have arrested 667 people in 542 destroy the society. We have cotic smuggling in 2016, and (PMAY-U). word “Pappu” in an electronic link the word to any individual. cases under the Narcotic Drugs made huge seizures, but there this year 568.94 kg of mar- Under the MIG-I category, advertisement for the upcom- The media committee and Psychotropic Substances is difficulty on the legal and ijuana was seized, five times the carpet area of the houses ing Gujarat polls. under the Gujarat’s Chief Elec- (NDPS) Act for drug peddling de-addiction fronts,” the DGP more than the seizure made has been enhanced from 90 The latest advertisement, toral Officer (CEO) objected and smuggling, an official data said. “It may be recalled that during this period last year in sq.mtr to 120 sq.mtr, while released yesterday on the Face- to the word mentioned in the said. 70 kg of heroin was recovered the Jammu region. under the MIG-II segment, book page of the Gujarat BJP, as a social media slur coined shopkeeper says he will give script of the advertisement “The drug menace is a big- in Uri and 20 kg in Jammu. In 2015, 24.3 kg of cannabis it has been increased to 150 after getting a clearance from to target Gandhi, BJP leaders him any grocery item but he which was submitted by the ger challenge than terrorism. Roughly 100 kg recovered here was seized and 107 kg in 2016. sq.mtr from the current 110 the EC, uses the word “yuvraj” frequently taunt the Congress won’t get their votes as the shop party for approval last month. When I joined, I had came from across (the border),” In the case of poppy straw, this sq.mtr, Union minister Ravi (prince) to target the Congress scion with words like “yuvraj” was burnt down in riots during “Before making any elec- announced an all out war he said, adding that everybody year 5,610 kg was seized against Shankar Prasad told reporters leader. Asked if the advertise- or “shahzada”. the past rule of the Congress. tion-related advertisement, we against drugs and the people needs to make efforts to save 3,268 kg in 2016 and 1,846 kg while briefing them about the ment is the same wherein the In the 49-second video In the video, the shop own- have to submit a script to the running it,” the director general the current and future genera- in 2015, it said. Union cabinet decisions. EC had barred the BJP from which is set at a grocery store, er’s wife says they will vote only committee to get a certificate. of police (DGP) said. tions from this menace. There was a significant drop Under the MIG-I category, using the word “Pappu”, BJP a voice says “Sir, Sir...,” followed for Prime Minister Narendra However, they raised objec- The officer said that the Of the 667 people arrested in the amount of brown sugar a four-per cent interest sub- spokesperson Harshad Patel by the response from the shop Modi. The BJP and the oppo- tion to the word ‘Pappu’, say- police alone cannot fight the in 542 cases, 214 were arrested seized. Last year, 13.1 kg of the sidy is provided to the benefi- said, “I am not aware whether owner’s assistant who says, sition Congress have been tar- ing it is derogatory. They asked menace and there was a con- in 163 cases in the Kashmir contraband was seized against ciaries, whose annual income the advertisement released was “Yuvraj has come.” geting each other’s leaders by us to remove or replace it,” a cern about narco-terrorism. region and 453 in 379 cases in 1.306 kg this year. In 2015, is between Rs 6 lakh and Rs 12 the same one or not.” In his reply to the “yuvraj”, putting up mocking advertise- senior BJP leader had said on “There are a lot of drugs and the Jammu province, the data the police had seized 4.4 kg of lakh, on a loan of up to Rs 9 While “Pappu” is perceived who is not seen in the clip, the ments on social media with a Tuesday. narcotics being pumped into said. brown sugar, the data said. lakh. MPOST 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 CPI defends move Madras HC notice to Centre,TN by its ministers to govt on PIL over farmer’s death skip Cabinet meet OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT Chandy, NCP Hazare condemns police THIRUVANANTHA- nominee in the CHENNAI: The Madras High PURAM: CPI, the second LDF government Court has issued notice to the largest partner in the ruling Centre and Tamil Nadu gov- CPI(M)-led LDF in Kerala, on led by Pinarayi ernment on a PIL seeking a action against farmers Thursday said an “extraordi- Vijayan, attended compensation of Rs 1 crore to nary situation” forced the party the cabinet meet the family of a farmer, who died AHMEDNAGAR: Social Shevgaon and Paithan talukas to take the “unusual” step of after being allegedly assaulted activist Anna Hazare on of Ahmednagar and Aurang- skipping the cabinet meeting and later in the by a bank’s loan recovery agent Thursday condemned the abad respectively, the police over the Thomas Chandy res- day tendered his in Tiruvannamalai district police action against farmers said. ignation issue. recently. in Ahmednagar and Aurang- “The firing on the sugar- CPI ministers E Chan- resignation The first bench of Chief Jus- abad districts of Maharashtra cane farmers is an instance of drasekharan, V S Sunil Kumar, tice Indira Banerjee and Justice and said this reflected the state the state government’s insen- K Raju and P Thilothaman did net yesterday. M Sundar ordered notice to government’s “insensitivity” sitivity towards them,” Hazare not attend the cabinet meeting The land encroachment the Secretary, Union Ministry towards the cultivators. said. yesterday as per a party direc- allegations brought to the fore of Finance and RBI Governor, He also said the BJP-led Instead of resolving the tive asking them “not to attend differences in the ruling LDF besides other authorities of the central government had not farmers’ grievances, pel- the cabinet meet if Chandy with CPI asking its four minis- state government returnable by performed as per its prom- lets were fired at them which took part.” ters to stay away from a Cabinet November 20. The petitioner, S ises and that he would launch should be condemned, he said. Chandy, who was fac- meeting held earlier, if Chandy Rajinikanth, President of Tamil a countrywide movement The anti-corruption cru- ing encroachment charges, attended it. Nadu Progressive Advocate against corruption and to high- sader visited a hospital in resigned yesterday after the Meanwhile, CPI(M) leader Association (Chennai), sought light the farmers’ issues in Feb- Ahmednagar on Thursday to cabinet meeting. and state law minister A K a direction to the state govern- ruary next year. meet the two injured farmers. “Extraordinary situation Balan on Thursday said the ment to take suitable action An agitation by farmers, He said the BJP-led central forced the party to take such CPI ministers’ action was not against those responsible for seeking Rs 3,100 per tonne for government, which had been an unusual step with good the right step. “They kept away the death of the 50-year-old the sugarcane produce, turned promising to eradicate cor- knowledge that it was an from a Cabinet meet that took Gnanasekaran of Bondhai vil- violent in Ahmednagar and ruption and poverty from the unprecedented action,” CPI very important decisions,” lage in that district. When the farmer had asked governments have not taken and Supreme Court rulings Aurangabad districts yester- country, had not been able to state secretary Kannam Rajen- Balan said. The police had said, the for the ID card of the agent, steps to redress the grievances which time and again held that day, with the agitators clash- prove its competence. dran said in an editorial in the “Whatever be the reason, recovery agent of a nation- it triggered an argument dur- of farmers and sought a direc- bank officials were not sup- ing with the police, who burst It had weakened the Lok- party organ ‘Janayugam’ daily, a it was not correct,” Balan said, alised bank had come to the ing which Gnanaseakran was tion to set up a separate cell to posed to indulge in violence to tear gas shells and fired in the pal and Lokayukta by intro- day after chief minister Vijayan reacting to the CPI’s stand. farmer’s house to enquire about allegedly hit in the chest and redress the grievances of those recover the loan amount, the air to disperse the protesters, ducing and promptly passing described the partner’s move as Chandy, NCP nominee in the dues and seize a tractor, he swooned, police said, add- who are unable to repay the petitioner prayed for a direc- officials said. changes in the Lokpal Bill by “unprecedented”. the LDF government led by hypothecated to the bank in ing that he later died. farm loans and facing harass- tion from the Court to pay a Two farmers and some taking advantage of the abso- Chandy, accused of land Pinarayi Vijayan, attended the connection with the loan, on The petitioner submitted ment from banks. compensation of Rs 1 crore to policemen were injured in the lute majority it enjoyed in Par- encroachment for his luxury cabinet meet and later in the November 5. that both the central and state Referring to High Court the family of the deceased. incident, which occurred in the liament, Hazare alleged. MPOST resort, resigned from the Cabi- day tendered his resignation. Omar Abdullah challenges Open to alliance with secular parties but only NATION BRIEFS maintenance proceedings: GOA CM MANOHAR PARRIKAR FOR if we get a respectable share: Mayawati INCREASING PAY OF LEGISLATORS HC seeks Payal’s reply PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on OUR CORRESPONDENT at seat sharing, she said that the “sarv samaj” like in the 2007 Thursday made a strong case for increasing the salary Congress did not approve shar- UP Assembly polls. of legislators in the state, saying they should be paid OUR CORRESPONDENT she has to first establish that LUCKNOW: BSP chief May- ing 25 seats in Gujarat and 10 Following the BJP spec- “reasonably well” as they work round-the-clock. “I am she cannot maintain herself to awati said on Thursday that her in Himachal Pradesh, all which tacular performance in Uttar going to increase the salaries paid to the MLAs from NEW DELHI: The Delhi High be entitled for the relief. party favoured joining hands it had lost in the previous polls. Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha Goa Legislative Assembly. I am the only person who Court on Thursday sought The lawyer also contended with secular parties to check Senior BSP leader S C elections and then the state the stand of Payal Abdul- that their two sons were adults “communal parties” in Lok Mishra held detailed talks with polls, earlier this year, there has bluntly said all the time that if MLAs don’t get lah, estranged wife of former now and therefore, they too Sabha and state polls but only Ahmed Patel of the Congress has been much speculation that proper funds, they will have a reason to start corrup- Jammu and Kashmir Chief cannot seek maintenance. if it gets a respectable number and dejected over the results BSP may enter into an alliance tion,” Parrikar said. He was addressing a function on Minister Omar Abdullah, on In his plea, Omar has of seats to contest. he has now stopped advocat- with parties like the Congress the National Press Day organised by local journalists’ his plea challenging mainte- sought directions to the family She said that even for the ing contesting elections in alli- and the SP in the forthcom- union here. This would not mean that after being given nance proceedings in a family court to first decide maintain- Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh ance, she said. ing polls. a hike in salary every MLA would be clean but at court here. ability of Payal’s plea before it Assembly polls her party leader “Mishra is also unhappy The BSP president also took least there would not be a reason for them to indulge Justice Sangita Dhingra decides the issue of interim Satish Mishra held talks with with the stance of the Sama- the opportunity to inform her Sehgal asked Payal to file her maintenance. senior Congressman Ahmed jwadi Party in this matter...The partymen that her coming in corruption, Parrikar said. He said the members of response by November 24 on He has also challenged Patel but the outcome was not The BSP president who on past experience with the SP has birthday on January 15 will the legislative assembly are always under pressure Omar’s plea claiming that the the family court’s September encouraging. Thursday convened a meet- also not been good,” the former be celebrated as “Jan Kalyan- to meet the increasing financial demands from the petition moved by her and 9, 2016 order issuing sum- “Our party is in favour of ing of senior party leaders to chief minister said. kari Divas” like earlier years people, including donations. their two sons seeking main- mons to him in the mainte- fighting the Assembly and pass directions for the coming She claimed that contesting and valuable gifts will not be tenance from him was not nance case. Lok Sabha elections in alliance urban local bodies polls, which in alliance had not benefitted accepted. GUJ POLLS: AAP RELEASES 2ND LIST OF maintainable. The next date of hear- with any secular party, but only the party is contesting on its her party in the past, therefore “Instead, partymen need to During the hearing, Omar’s ing before the family court is when it gets a respectable num- “elephant” symbol for the first it was better that the BSP con- work hard to strengthen the CANDIDATES FOR 9 SEATS lawyer argued before the high December 9, the lawyers told ber of seats in seat sharing or time, said that any partymen tests the Assembly and Lok party and get the master key of AHMEDABAD: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on court that Payal has her own the high court which, thereaf- else it would go alone,” May- entering the fray as indepen- Sabha polls alone for which power...That will be the most Thursday released its second list of candidates for nine business and a house in the ter, listed the matter for further awati was quoted in a party dents will be expelled. it will work towards increas- valuable present for me,” she assembly constituencies for the upcoming Gujarat elec- national capital and therefore arguments on November 29. release issued here. Referring to recent efforts ing support base among the said. tions, nearly a month after announcing its nominees for e-TENDER No: WBNKDA/58 EE-III/NTKDA of 2017-18 has 11 seats. With this, the Arvind Kejriwal-led party has been invited for the work:- Additional work for roof treat- declared the names of candidates for 20 assembly ment alongwith various ancially works within the Community. Ganga Kumari set to seats out of the total 182 in the state, where elections Market 11B Premises No. 52-0622 Plot No. BD-1318, Action will be held in two phases on December 9 and 14. The Area 11B, New Town, Kolkata. amounting to Rs. 1814998.00 results will be out on December 18. As per the second (Rupees eighteen lakhs fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety be Rajasthan’s first list, the AAP has decided to contest from Gandhinagar eight) only. Date of closing submission of technical and finan- (North), Botad, Katargam, Rajkot (East), Surat (East), cial bid (On-line): 22/11/2017 upto 3 :00 p.m. For details Karanj, Palanpur, Gandhidham and Jamnagar Rural), and corrigendum please visit Website: https://wbtenders. transgender cop gov.in & www.nkdamar.org party spokesperson Harshil Nayak said. Three of these Executive Engineer-III seats -- Rajkot (East), Palanpur, and Jamnagar (Rural) New Town Kolkata Development Authority -- are currently being held by Congress MLAs, while ICA/ T 5477(3)2017 the remaining six are with the BJP. FOOTFALL TRIPLES AT MEGHALAYA’S CHERRY BLOSSOM FESTIVAL SHILLONG: Footfall at this year’s India International Cherry Blossom Festival in Meghalaya has tripled com- pared to last year’s count, making it one of the most popular events for tourists in the state, officials said. The festival was held during November 8-11 at the scenic Wards Lake, dotted with pink and white cherry blossoms, and at the Polo Grounds where tourists OUR CORRESPONDENT tion in 2013. watched shows depicting local culture, and tasted food She passed the examina- and brew of the region. “There were 35,556 adults JODHPUR: Ganga Kumari is tion but her appointment with all set to break the glass ceiling Jalore police was held up after and 1,343 children who visited the Wards Lake during after the direction of the Raj- she was found to be a trans- the four-day festival period, and a total of Rs 3.74 asthan High Court to appoint gender during the medical lakh was collected as entry fees,” state Forest and her as the state’s first transgen- examination. Environment Secretary A Mawlong said. The footfall der police constable. She ticked ‘female’ in the during the festival period has “tripled” as compared Ganga, who appeared for application form as there was to 2016, the first year of the event, he said. The fee West Bengal Pollution Control Board the exam in 2013, has fought a no third gender option. collection amount at the venue, too, more than doubled long battle to claim her right to “I was very disappointed “Paribesh Bhavan”, 10A, Block-LA, Sector-III, Bidhannagar, from Rs 1.4 lakh last year, the official said. Kolkata -700106, India. don the uniform. when despite clearing the In its order on November examination, my appointment NEWS SHOULD NOT HAVE VIEWS OF e-Tender Notice 13, Justice Dinesh Mehta of as a constable was held up by Tender Notice No. WBPCB/B.Cell-03/2017-18 (e-03)(2nd Call) Rajasthan High Court asked the police department only WRITERS: PARRIKAR Open tender is invited by the West Bengal Pollution Con- the city police department to because I am a transgender PANAJI: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on provide the appointment to and the department could not trol Board for consultancy services for planning, Design/ Ganga in six weeks from the reach any decision about my Thursday said news and views should be kept sepa- Drawing, Preparation of DPR, BOQ & Supervision etc. for date of the order along with the appointment with regard to my rate by journalists. Addressing a function organised proposed Haldia regional office-cum-laboratory building notional benefits from the year category,” Ganga said. by journalists here to mark the National Press Day, he with Employees’ residential complex at Mouza : Raghu- 2015. Terming it a case of “gen- Her case was referred to the also said that newspapers should be honest carriers of nathchak, Purba Medinipur der bias”, he said transgenders IGP (Jodhpur Range) for clari- news to the common man. News should not have views maintaining criteria of Green Building design through have equal rights and cannot fication. He latterly referred it of the writers. If you want to give your views you can e-tendering from the eligible & resourceful consultant be discriminated on grounds to the police headquarter for of gender. its opinion but there was no carry it as an analysis, he said. “If something has not having sufficient credential & financial capacity for simi- “I had no option then to conclusion. happened and someone prints it as it has happened, lar nature of work. Details NIT & Tender documents may move the high court for relief The case finally went to then it would amount to biggest disservice,” Parrikar he downloaded from the websites: https://wbtenders. and I am happy that the court the home department, where said. “You should not feel the pressure because a gov. in & http:// www.wbpcb.gov.in/ tenders on & from understood the plight of the it remained undecided since chief minister doesn’t like certain comments. I feel that 16.11.2017 after 17.30 hrs. Bid submission end date third gender and directed 2015. the news are not views, you can always use the inside 11.12.2017 upto 17.30 hrs. the department to give my Ganga now wishes for a appointment,” Ganga said. government job for her trans- pages to express your views,” he said. “I am a person Chief Engineer, A resident of Jkheri village gender sister Geeta, who is who believes in the thinking that ‘I differ with you, but West Bengal Pollution Control Board. in Jalore district of Rajasthan, currently pursuing post gradu- I will fight till the last for your right to differ with me,” ICA/ T 5452(2)2017 Ganga had appeared for the ation and preparing for the Raj- the senior BJP leader said. police recruitment examina- asthan Administrative Services. 7 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp nation Chargesheet filed in Concerned over filing of privileged Bhopal gangrape case OUR CORRESPONDENT A special documents with PILs: Govt to SC BHOPAL: Sixteen days after a investigation 19-year-old woman was alleg- team was set up OUR CORRESPONDENT are annexed. Documents of whether the Chhattisgarh gov- edly gang-raped here, police Enforcement Directorate (ED), ernment was disputing that on Thursday filed a 200- by the Madhya NEW DELHI: The Supreme Cabinet proceedings everyone these documents were not cor- page chargesheet against four Pradesh police to Court on Thursday took a of them are filed. Electronic rect, Venugopal said he was not accused in a city court. “serious” note of the Centre’s copy (of these documents) is appearing on behalf of the state Accused Golu alias Bihari probe the crime “extreme concern” that vari- taken. It is an offence under but for the Union of India. Chadhar (25), Amar alias which triggered a ous privileged and sensitive the Information Technology “Source of document mat- Ghuntu (24), Rajesh Chetram documents, including Cabinet Act,” he said. ters. We are concerned with alias Raju (26) and Ramesh massive outrage notes, which are outside the Bhushan, representing the this case. We are concerned Mehra alias Raju (45) are cur- purview of the RTI law have petitioner, told the bench that with the issue of documents,” rently in judicial custody. Besides, they have also been forming the basis of PILs. the petitioner has received he said, while requesting the The accused had raped the been charged under the IPC While the Centre said that some of these documents court to consider this aspect. woman near the Habibganj sections 323 (punishment such documents including file through the Right to Informa- Venugopal also citied the railway station when she was for voluntarily causing hurt), notings, which otherwise are tion (RTI) Act. instance of the entry register returning home after attending 307 (attempt to murder), 201 protected material, were com- To this, the bench asked at the residence of former CBI a coaching class on October 31, (destroying evidence) and 34 ing into hands of some through Venugopal, “Are anyone of Director Ranjit Sinha which according to the police. (criminal conspiracy), he said. “disgruntled” employees, a these documents disputed?” had came up before the apex The document was submit- Laad said that the reports bench comprising justices A Venugopal said that these court. When the attorney gen- ted in the court of Magistrate of Forensic Science Laboratory K Goel and U U Lalit termed documents were all “copies” eral referred to certain judge- Salu Sirohi. A special investi- (FSL), DNA and other tests the development as “seri- and no original documents ments of the apex court on the gation team (SIT) was set up conducted in connection with ous” warranting apex court’s have been filed. issue of documents, the bench by the Madhya Pradesh police the gang-rape were attached intervention. He said there might be said it was a settled law that a to probe the crime which trig- with the chargesheet. The Centre flagged its con- The government of India is sider it”. place before it the original files some “disgruntled employees” litigant has to come to the court gered a massive outrage. Four The stipulated time for fil- cern through Attorney General extremely concerned that it Venugopal made these sub- pertaining to the purchase of in the departments who were with a clean hand. persons were arrested for the ing a chargesheet in a criminal K K Venugopal when activist is unable to protect its docu- missions when the apex court the helicopter in 2006-2007 by leaking the documents. Venugopal also said crime. The four were charged case is 90 days. The survivor, advocate Prashant Bhushan ments and even the documents was hearing a plea seeking the state. “Have you (Centre) taken though the petitioner has under the IPC sections 376 D daughter of a police couple, was arguing a PIL relating to of investigating agencies are in probe into the alleged irregu- During the hearing, the any action on it? Are these claimed he has received docu- (gangrape), 394 (voluntarily had to make rounds of different AgustaWestland helicopter the hands of others,” the attor- larities in the purchase of an attorney general referred to the marked under official secret,” ments through RTI, the replies causing hurt in committing police stations to get her com- scam. ney general told the bench. Agusta helicopter for VIP use petition filed in the matter and the bench asked. received under the RTI has not robbery), 366 (kidnapping plaint registered as police offi- Venugopal told the bench The bench agreed with sub- by the Chhattisgarh govern- said that internal file notings, Responding to this, the been filed in the court. woman), 347 (wrongful con- cers feuded over jurisdiction. that the government was missions of the top law offi- ment and also the foreign bank like the August 2007 decision of attorney general said, “accord- At the fag end of the hear- finement), 342 (punishment After a public outrage over “extremely concerned” as even cer and said it would consider accounts, purportedly linked the state Cabinet and relevant ing to me, Cabinet note is privi- ing, the bench told Bhushan for wrongful confinement) and the delay in filing an FIR, five the investigating agencies were this issue. to the son of Chief Minister files, have been annexed with it. leged. He (petitioner) does not that it would see the RTI replies 341 (punishment for wrong- police personnel were sus- not able to protect sensitive “Certainly, what you are Raman Singh. “This is a matter of daily say which documents have received by the petitioner and ful restraint), SIT chief Dep- pended, while three others, two documents. saying is serious,” the bench The bench also asked the concern. PIL after PIL are filed been received under the RTI.” asked Bhushan to keep them uty Inspector General of Police of them from the IPS cadre, “This is a serious issue. said, adding, “yes, we will con- Chhattisgarh government to wherein entire CBI documents When the bench said ready. Sudhir Laad said. were transferred. People cannot be deprived of Kotkhai rape case: CBI arrests former Shimla SP open spaces, garden areas: HC OUR CORRESPONDENT was among six people arrested driver; Subash Singh Bisht (42) by the local police. and Deepak alias Deepu (29), NEW DELHI: The CBI on He was allegedly killed both residents of Pauri Garwal; OUR CORRESPONDENT to be a park for general public Thursday arrested D W Negi, by a co-accused at the Kot- Suraj Singh (29) and Lok Jung to walk and also a play area for a former Superintendent of khai police station last month, alias Chotu (19), both hailing MUMBAI: Observing that children. Public has been kept Police of Shimla, taking the triggering a massive public from Nepal. people cannot be deprived of in the dark and did not even number of arrests to nine in the outrage. The minor girl had gone open spaces and garden areas, know that the open space was sensational Kotkhai rape case The CBI, which was later missing after school hours on the Bombay High Court on meant for them. The society that rocked Himachal Pradesh. handed over the probe into the July 4 from Haliala forest in the Thursday directed the Munic- has deprived the public from The CBI had registered two case by the Himachal Pradesh Kotkhai area of Shimla district. ipal Corporation of Greater using the park,” she said. cases on the direction of the High Court, questioned several Her naked body was found Mumbai to ensure that a park The court also rapped the Himachal Pradesh High Court people before arresting Zaidi, a in the forest on July 6 and the in south Mumbai is allowed civic body for failing to take in July this year to probe the 1994-batch IPS officer, the then post-mortem report confirmed to be used by everyone and note of the issue. rape and murder of a 16-year- of Police, posted at Shimla, in Himachal Pradesh Police offi- IGP (South) Manoj Joshi, the rape. The rape case has created not just by an adjacent private “It seems like the corpo- old girl and the second related an on going investigation of a cials, including Inspector Gen- then Deputy Superintendent furore in the state which goes society. ration found ways to help the to the custodial death of an case relating to the custodial eral Z H Zaidi, in connection of Police, and six other police to polls later this year. A division bench of Chief society. Your MCGM officials accused, Suraj Singh, arrested death of Singh. with the custodial death of officials. The case was handed over Justice Manjula Chellur and are in connivance with the soci- by the Himachal Pradesh Negi was produced before Singh, a 29-year-old labourer The Himachal Pradesh to the CBI by the Himachal Justice M S Sonak was hear- ety. This is the sad part. It is Police. the special CBI court which from Nepal. Police had arrested Ashish Pradesh High Court on July 19 ing a petition filed by a social court receiver after carrying not as if the civic body officials The Central Bureau of sent him to agency’s remand Singh, who was a suspect Chauhan alias Ashu (29), a on the state government’s plea worker, alleging that a housing out inspection of the area and turned a blind eye to it. They Investigation spokesman said till November 20. in the rape and murder of a resident of Sharaal village in amid public outburst against society at the Cuffe Parade had said, “The society originally did are fully aware of what is hap- that the agency had arrested The central probe agency minor school girl in the Kot- Mahasu area of Kotkhai; Rajen- the state police. The CBI had illegally usurped a plot sanc- not have direct access to the pening, but still not doing any- Negi, former Superintendent had in August arrested eight khai area of Shimla in early July, der Singh alias Raju (32), a filed two FIRs on July 22. tioned for a public garden and park. It seems like the society thing,” the court said. an open space for the exclusive has created an entrance directly “We direct the corporation use of its residents. to the open space and are using to put up a boundary wall in The petitioner had also it as car park. The society has between the society buildings Navy sends ship to Tanzania, aims to expand presence in IOR alleged that the residents of also appointed private guards.” and the park to ensure that they the society were not allowing The society is using the do not have direct access. The OUR CORRESPONDENT and Pemba Channel in Tanzania, Navy with the naval personnel of Tanza- the general public to have an open space like it is their pri- civic body shall put up a notice spokesperson Capt D K Sharma said. nia who have been trained in India,” access to the park. vate property, Chief Justice board outside the park clearly NEW DELHI: The Indian Navy has After completing the survey in the he said. The bench perused the Chellur said. stating that it is open for pub- sent a ship to Tanzania for a hydro- waters of the African nation, the ship INS Sarvekshak is a specialised sur- original sanction plan and “As per the original sanc- lic during visiting hours,” the graphic survey as part of its efforts will proceed to Port Louis in Mauri- vey ship of the Indian Navy and is fit- also a report submitted by the tion plan, the open area was court ordered. to expand its presence in the Indian tius in December for a survey of the ted with state-of-the-art equipment Ocean Region (IOR). Grand Port. like deep sea multi beam echo sounder INS Sarvekshak on Thursday Sharma said the ship has been sent system, side scan sonars and a fully Cabinet reached Dar-es-Salaam, a major city to Tanzania as part of the Indian Navy’s automated digital surveying and pro- CBI to take over probe in and commercial port of Tanzania. initiative to bolster bilateral relations cessing system. Committee to It will undertake a “pioneer survey” with friendly foreign countries and In addition, the ship carries a of Pemba Island, which will include navies in the Indian Ocean region. Chetak helicopter which would be take decision on Chhattisgarh sex CD case surveys of the Port of Wesha and Kiuyo “The joint survey will be conducted extensively deployed during the survey. OUR CORRESPONDENT Winter session The Chhattisgarh Scindia says schedule: Prasad NEW DELHI: The CBI will government soon take over the probe into not against the Chhattisgarh “sex CD” row had recently allegedly involving a state min- recommended development ister, agency sources said on Thursday. a CBI probe into projects The agency, they said, has the case, where sought case documents from senior Journalist OUR CORRESPONDENT the state police as it has now received the notification from Vinod Verma AHMEDABAD: Senior Mad- the Department of Personnel was arrested by hya Pradesh Congress leader and Training, a prerequisite Jyotiraditya Scindia on Thurs- NADIA ZILLA PARISHAD for the central probe agency the state police day denied the BJP’s allegations Krishnagar, Nadia. E-Tenders have been invited by the before registering a criminal sometime back that he had opposed closure under signed from the bonafied case. of the gates of Sardar Sarovar Contractors for the following works The Chhattisgarh govern- Dam on the Narmada river in at different sites ment had recently recom- The alleged sex video had Gujarat. Scindia, who repre- NIT- 63 / NZP of 17-18: Extension OUR CORRESPONDENT and Upgradation of Chakdaha Bus mended a CBI probe into the sparked a political row in the sents Guna Lok Sabha seat, said Stand under Chakdaha Municipality, case, where senior Journalist state with the Congress and he was not against develop- Nadia and NIT- 64 / NZP of 17-18 (SI-1to5)(2nd Call): Roadworks at NEW DELHI: Amid sugges- Vinod Verma was arrested by the BJP trading charges over ment, but only wanted proper different Blocks in the district of ICA/2331(2)/2017 tions that the winter session the state police sometime back. the issue. rehabilitation of dam oustees Nadia,. Total estimated costs are of Parliament will be a trun- The BJP-led state govern- The matter came to light in Madhya Pradesh before the Rs. 329.56 lakh and 125.62 lakh cated affair, Law Minister Ravi ment had accused the oppo- when Vinod Verma was closure of the gates in months respectively. Last dates of submission of e-tenders Shankar Prasad on Thursday sition Congress of hatching a arrested by the Chhattisgarh of June and July this year. are 08.12.2017 and 05.12.2017 said the Cabinet Committee conspiracy. Police last month from his The former Union minis- respectively. Please see website on Parliamentary Affairs will Chhattisgarh Revenue Ghaziabad residence for sus- ter, who campaigned in the city www.wbprd.gov.in or contact to take a call on the issue. He also Minister Prem Prakash Pandey pected blackmail and extor- on Thursday for the Congress this office. Sd/- District Engineer, reminded National Confer- had said his party has already tion related to a “sex CD”. for the next month’s polls, said Nadia Zilla Parishad ence chief Farooq Abdullah stated that the CD was fake According to the Raipur he is in favour of developmen- ICA/T 5470(2)/2017 that Parliament had passed a and even a local TV channel Police, a case of blackmail and tal projects anywhere in the The Executive Engineer(A-I) WB Tender Notice resolution that entire Kash- in its report mentioned that it extortion was registered at the country. Midnapore(A-I) Division, WB PWD / EE/ HCD/NIT e 15 Of mir, including PoK, is part of has been tampered with. Civil Line police station here His remarks came on a day 2017-2018 E.E.- /HCD/P.W.D. India and the decision is appli- The matter seems to be a following a complaint by one Gujarat deputy Chief Minis- Narampur, Paschim CHAWKBAZAR. HOOGHLY Invites cable on members of Parlia- “political and criminal con- Prakash Bajaj who said that ter Nitin Patel asked Scindia to Medinipur, invites online Tender for the works “Potholes ICA/T 5473(3)/2017 Tenders on behalf of repairing work at Tarakeswar. ment. Abdullah is a Lok Sabha spiracy” and, therefore, it he “was being harassed over apologise to the people of Guja- Chawkdighi Road from 10.00. member. was decided that the premier phone by an unidentified caller rat for “opposing” the Narmada the Governor of West Kmp to 13.00 kmp. in the District Notice Inviting e-Tender No. 36 of 2017-18 At the briefing on the deci- investigation agency should who told him that he had a CD dam project, before canvass- Bengal for different works of Hooghly during the year SE/SWC/PWD, Midnapore invites e-tender for the works sions taken by Union Cabi- probe it, Pandey had said while of his master”. ing in the state. “It is duty of as per Tender ref. No. 2017-2018”. Tender ID (1) Strengthening of Khanyadihi-Khukurdah Road via. net on Thursday, Prasad was announcing the state govern- Raipur Superintendent a leader to support any devel- 2017_PWD_136953_1 Deulia in the Dist. of Purba Medinipur. Estt. Amt. : Rs. asked whether the winter ses- ment’s decision. of Police Sanjeev Shukla had opmental project in any part WBWRDD/EE(AI)/MD/ Bid Submission start date 4,03,88,424.00 (2) Strengthening of Tengua-Basulichak sion will become a ‘casualty’ of Pandey had said the rec- claimed that about 500 “porn” of the country. Scindia family eNIT-10/2017-18 (SI No 13.11.2017 (Online) nd Bid Submission closing date Road from 0.00 Kmp. to 4.80 Kmp. in the Dist. of Purba the busy schedule of the prime ommendation to the CBI for CDs, Rs two lakh in cash, a has always supported develop- 1 2 Call) & Id No. 2017_ 28.11.2017 (Online) upto 2.00pm. minster and other ministers the probe has been made on pen drive, a laptop and a diary ment,” Scindia told reporters WRDD_137640_1. Details Details on NIT & Tender Medinipur. Estt. Amt. : Rs. 3,92,23,373.00. Bid Submission who are holding door-to-door six points including inter- were seized from the journal- here. He alleged the BJP gov- will be available from documents may Downloaded End Date is 09.12.2017 at 12.00 Hours. Tender ID : campaign ahead of the Guja- state conspiracy in making ist’s residence, who was picked ernment in Madhya Pradesh website: http://wbtenders. from http://etender.wb.nic.in 2017_WBPWD_137315_1 & 2. Any Corrigendum/ rat polls. the “fake” CD, a high-level up at 3.30 AM from Mahagun had “failed” to comply with Sd/- Addendum related to this NIT, if published, will be available gov.in. Sd/- Executive Engineer PWD He said the decision on the technical examination of the Mansion Apartments in Indi- the directions of the National in the e-portal only. For details, visit the website - http:// Executive Engineer(A-I) Hooghly Constn Divin schedule of the session will be alleged video, funding to make rapuram by the Chhattisgarh Green Tribunal (NGT) which Chawkbazar Hooghly wbtenders.gov.in Sd/- Midnapore(A-I) Division taken by the Cabinet Commit- it and political and criminal police team with the help of had awarded proper resettle- ICA/T 5466(3)/2017 SE/SWC/PWD tee on Parliamentary Affairs. conspiracy. the Ghaziabad Police. ment of the dam oustees. 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 EDITORIAL The new emission norms Tackling juvenile An analysis by non-profit Centre for Science and Environment finds delinquency active help from the Ministry of Power and Central Electricity Authority he coal-based power sector is he matter of juvenile delinquency is a most complex set to avoid complying with and sensitive issue. It not only impinges upon that DOWN TO EARTH new emission norms, with section of society that is considered to be more pre- active help from the Min- cious than the rest, it raises critical questions on the Tistry of Power and Central Electric- Tmanner in which punishment can be met out that will gain ity Authority, that will come in effect justice and provide rehabilitation, it also puts one in a difficult in December 2017. These new norms position of ascertaining who really is to be blamed. Given that were enacted by the Union Ministry we understand children to have lesser developed minds which of Environment, Forests and Climate are more a result of direct nurture than self-predicament, the Change (MoEF&CC) in December 2015 task of pointing fingers in the right direction towards the true in view of the sector’s massive contribu- criminal becomes a most unnerving aspect. When the horrific tion to air pollution and its huge water Nirbhaya gang-rape case occurred in 2012 aside, the gore of withdrawal. the entire heinous act the most shocking part was the involve- Non-profit Centre for Science and ment of a juvenile. Prior to that, debates on juvenile justice Environment (CSE) calls it a classic case had never attained importance at a national scale. In extreme of one ministry proposing and another crimes of rape and murder—can we categorise a ‘child’ or disposing. ‘teenager’ simply by his/her age, erasing the magnanimity of These new norms were enacted the act which doesn’t correspond to their category of juvenile? by the Union Ministry of Environ- Unlike prisons, juvenile justice homes play a positive role in Of the total ment, Forests and Climate Change rehabilitation. As has been exhibited in the case of the 16-year emissions from (MoEF&CC) in December 2015 in old involved with Ram Singh in rampaging Nirbhaya’s body, view of the sector’s massive contribu- he now works as a cook in a roadside dhaba. Housed at the the industrial tion to air pollution and its huge water ‘Majnu ka Tila’ shelter home, authorities remember the boy sector, the power withdrawal. as undergoing enormous transformation during his time at Of the total emissions from the the home. A young boy who had fled at the age of 11, he fell sector alone industrial sector, the power sector alone into wrong company and worked as a cleaner in the notori- contributes 60 contributes 60 per cent of the PM (par- ous Ram Singh’s bus. A lack of education, complete poverty, ticulate matter), 45 per cent of the SOx and unguided growth during his most tender years, presented per cent of the (sulphur dioxide), 30 per cent of the us with this—a young adult without rationality exhibiting the particulate matter, NOx (nitrogen oxides), and 80 per cent most animalistic tendencies. While we highlight Nirbhaya’s of the mercury emissions. rape accuse juvenile as one, there are many such children who 45 per cent of Though the industry was given two are growing in the shanties and slums across India plunged sulphur dioxide, years to comply, there has been very Heavy industries are major sources of primary air pollutants (Representational Image) into abject poverty, growing with a wrath towards the system little progress so far. The norms come which is eventually reflected in heinous ways. While poverty 30 per cent of into effect from December 2017, but the CEA have consistently objected to these asking all plants to install FGD (flue gas ing one-third capacity should meet PM and its psychological turmoil is harnessing criminality among nitrogen oxides, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is norms and their deadlines. They have desulphurisation) to control SOx emis- norms by March 2019. the lesser privileged, the more privileged aren’t entirely excluded now recommending that plants be given supported the industry in its stiff oppo- sions. CSE’s analysis shows that it is not About 50 per cent of the capac- from the whiplash of juvenile criminality. The Ryan School and 80 per cent another five years (which means the sition to these norms. required for smaller and older units. ity is estimated to be complying with murder of a young seven-year-old boy, still under investiga- of the mercury deadline should be extended from 2017 “The CEA’s own reports show that The plan is heavily back- Most plants NOx norms based on emissions data tion, is now pointing fingers to a 17-year old from the same to 2022) to comply with the new norms. issues raised by the industry such as will do nothing for the next two-three from CPCB and industry experts. The school as the possible face behind the ruthless attack on the emissions CSE, however, has recommended to the lack of technology suppliers, suitabil- years. They will start putting equip- remaining can meet the norms during little boy. Reasons: to delay exams and postpone an impending MoEF&CC and the Central Pollution ity of technology for Indian coal, high ments only from 2020 onwards. There annual maintenance over the next two parent-teacher meeting. From the cruelty of poverty which is Control Board (CPCB) not to accept capital costs, and tariff impact of the is a major risk that in 2020 the sector years by December 2019. not palpable to most of us sitting in air-conditioned rooms, the fresh timelines proposed by power pollution control technology measures will again ask for an extension. About 50 per cent of the capacity the other face of harbouring criminality is etched in an ele- ministry and the CEA. can be easily managed, and are not seri- The CEA plan is not backed by writ- should meet SOx norms by December ment intrinsic to the modern world—the quest to voraciously Chandra Bhushan, Deputy Direc- ous impediments. It is inconceivable ten commitments from power stations 2019 and the remaining, by Decem- outdo one another, even if in the slightest platform of annual tor General, CSE said, “Another five why the CEA and the ministry has still to install new equipment. ber 2020. exams. Our education system, just like it is capable of creat- years to meet these standards is unac- done very little to oversee and push “Our analysis shows that these are ing magic, the human mind unlike machines is also able to ceptable. Power plants have already implementation of the new norms,” said What CSE has proposed achievable. But to ensure that there are garner the most awful thoughts and actions. If we take for wasted two years doing virtually noth- Priyavrat Bhati, Programme Director- CSE recommends that an aggressive no further delays, the environment min- granted a failed education system, then the emphasis comes, ing. It is important to push for ambi- Energy, CSE. timeline needs to be pursued, consider- istry should back these timelines with in modern society, on parenting. The role of parents, as days tious timelines for compliance with the ing the gravity of the problem. It has also penalties and bank guarantees,” said go by, is amplified, because of the horrible things that are har- new norms. The environment ministry Glaring weaknesses proposed that plants located in densely Priyavrat Bhati. bingered in the outside world. Yet, is only parenting enough? needs to come up with a tight imple- The plan submitted by CEA to or critically polluted areas must be pri- “These standards can be met with What about the world that is thriving despite parenting. We mentable deadline and a concrete road- implement the standards by 2022 suf- oritised. According to CSE’s proposal: less than 3 per cent annual increase in are really living in a complex world where each answer is only map for each and every plant to ensure fers from many shortcomings: CEA’s own report suggests that about the electricity tariff for the next three succeeded by some more questions, and some more answers compliance.” There is no clarity on the pollution 65 per cent of the capacity meet PM years. In comparison, in the last five to some more apprehensions. There seems to be no way out He added, “Implementing the new control technology needed by plants. standards. These plants should produce years, electricity tariff in India has of checking our children who are growing with a lowly men- norms will provide significant environ- Most plants have done very little to evidence of compliance by December increased by 8 per cent annually. This tality and exhibiting actions that we as adults would shudder mental benefits–major pollutants from even assess their technology needs or 2017. However, if some of the plants is a low price to pay for a significant gain to perceive. The boy accused of killing Ryan’s Pradhyumn is coal-based power plants such as SOx the investment required, let alone begin exceed the norms by a small margin, in environmental and health benefits,” facing the wrath of larger society and his parents have been and NOx will be cut by 70-85 per cent.” the projects to install pollution control they could do minor retrofits to meet added Bhushan. devastated though they are compelled to fight for the dignity The Ministry of Power (MoP) and equipment. For instance, the CEA is PM norms by March 2018. The remain- (The views are of Down to Earth) of their son. The victim’s parent demands that he be treated as an adult as his murder was “heinous, barbaric, diabolical, dear cold-blooded and rarest of the rare.” Undoubtedly so, yet, it Quote martial THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE EDITOR millenniumpost.in hardly provides a solution. It is unfathomable what could have driven a 17-year old mind to find rationality in this obviously Incidences of gruesome murder for extra-marital relationship either by wife or husband is a concern. Log on to write letters to the ruthless, inhumane act. There are assumptions of underly- Conservation is a state ing mental health conditions which clearly haven’t been well of harmony between Mostly, the faith of peaceful family life is disturbed either by husband or wife and the beckoning of editor or send them to tackled. Treating him as an adult and convicting him, would men and land sexual relationship other than conjugal life is creeping into the society. Women or men allegedly dis- [email protected] hardly rehabilitate him anymore. There is no doubt that his satisfied with their partners amid several differences. Modern civilisation teaches them to be open to You can also send your crime was cruel, but was he the real criminal behind the crime? all physically or mentally. The institution of family is decaying rapidly and they lose the belief simulta- Juvenile justice rattles our ideas of what can be called rational comments to The Editor, criminality and what is subjected crime-making. We must do neously. The extrication from this enjoyment is not possible unless the couples believe the significance Millennium Post, better as a society, our children deserve a better childhood, as of a married life. Moral ethics on this subject is gradually losing as is evident in other subjects also. do parents deserve a more secure parenthood. ALDO LEOPOLD Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah SAMIR CHAKRABORTY Via email Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 Friend turned foe akistan sprang a nasty surprise on its all-weather ally, India brightens hopes for Bonn China, by denying the dragon’s financial assistance to build the $14-billion Diamer-Bhasha dam in the disputed Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir region, where PIndia still stands to declare its claim. A part of the China Paki- The world needs to be invested in India’s climate progress stan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project, the dam is touted to equip the Pakistani economy with crucial support in the ust a few years ago, India relied opment more energy efficient. storage of 6.4 million acre-feet of water and generation of almost exclusively on coal to fuel Financing for clean energy, how- 4,500MW cheaper hydropower. Aimed to benefit people of its rapid development, open- ever, remains a major challenge. the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit Baltistan region, the ing new coal-burning power Solar prices are dropping rapidly, project has been witnessing roadblocks due to its heavy finan- FRANCES BEINECKE plantsJ and increasing coal mining but researchers estimate that India cial requirements, as the Asian Development Bank had earlier and imports. This year, however, in would need $834 billion in financing rejected a proposal to finance the project owing to its sensi- a remarkable turnaround, India can- to achieve all its Paris targets -- a hefty tive location in a disputed area. China, that has emerged to celled plans for an additional 14 giga- sum for any nation, let alone a devel- become Pakistan’s reliable better half in recent times, had put watts of coal power and announced oping country that has not historically forth a proposal to fund the project as a part of the CPEC ini- that it won’t build any new coal plants contributed to climate pollution. tiative. But, surprisingly, Pakistan shot down China’s proposal, for at least a decade -- thanks to a rapid Leveraging India’s limited govern- choosing instead to tread the path of self-financing. Pakistan rise in renewable energy. ment funds to bring in more private officials have proclaimed that China’s strict regulations had As world leaders gather in Bonn for and international investment will be compelled Pakistan to turn its back on its reliable neighbour. the follow-up to the landmark Paris the key and NRDC is working with China, reports claim, sought for ownership of the project, Even on a more Climate Agreement, India is one of experts in India to unlock more invest- which did not suit the sensibilities of the Pakistan authority. individual scale, several standouts in the global emis- ment in clean energy. Green bonds For once, India can be satisfied with Pakistan’s move as one sions picture. This nation of 1.3 bil- dedicated to clean energy could be one that is not jeopardising its own position within the subcon- solar energy is lion people, the third-largest emitter of way to attract private capital. tinent. In Beijing, authorities seemed to have been struck by making a huge climate pollution, is on track to meet Greenko Energy Holdings, one of an unanticipated reaction from Pakistan, who China had so and exceed its Paris commitments. India’s leading clean energy compa- forth believed was comfortably in its kitty. Chinese experts difference in But the challenges India faces as it nies, successfully raised $1 billion with went on to state that as the fate of CPEC remains in jeopardy, people’s lives. It seeks to lift hundreds of millions out of green bonds in July. At the same time, Pakistan would not take the ominous step of striking down has empowered poverty while tackling climate change In addition to developing a cleaner energy supply, India is working to reduce energy greater financing is needed to scale the partnership. However, it did. For its own good and for are immense. The world needs to be demand from appliances and buildings (Representational Image) solutions that bring reliable electric- the good of its much-hated neighbour, India. Pakistan seems rural women invested in India’s climate progress. ity to underserved communities, such to have woken up to China’s domination across Asia, where in the salt flats The need to scale up climate solu- much solar capacity as the three top munity say they can now save money as rooftop solar, microgrids and mini- infrastructural projects have turned into tools for the Chinese tions in India is clear. In New Delhi, US states -- California, New Jersey and to pay for their children’s education grids to provide more localised power. economy to further its dominance by bringing nations under of Gujarat. citizens are suffering through a week- Massachusetts -- combined. India is instead of having to put their profits India has made solid progress on its subservient glance. The case of the Hambantota Port in Sri Leveraging India’s long toxic smog that has closed schools, now home to the world’s largest solar back into diesel fuel. For these fam- its Paris climate commitments. But Lanka is still fresh in public memory, and indeed Pakistan’s cancelled trains and suspended flights. park, with a bigger one in the works. In ilies, solar energy is a ticket out of developing its economy while com- too. China’s inclination towards adopting conniving methods limited government Air pollution, much of it from dirty Paris, India committed to 40 per cent poverty. bating climate change, air pollution, of manoeuvring its way to find a comfortable spot that bur- funds to bring energy used in vehicles and coal-fired non-fossil energy by 2030, and will In addition to developing a cleaner and extreme poverty is an enormous geons its own economy at the cost of the autonomy of others power plants, was linked to the deaths likely hit this target by 2022 -- eight energy supply, India is working to undertaking. No nation can make this has become an open secret, a weapon that could turn on its in more private of 1.6 million people last year. Heat years ahead of schedule. reduce energy demand from appli- uphill climb alone. In today’s world, head to in fact now be lethal for the Chinese. Pakistan has and international waves in India are becoming more Even on a more individual scale, ances and buildings. The government countries, cities, states and regions woken up in time before China was able to pierce the final severe and deadly as global tempera- solar energy is making a huge differ- just launched a new energy-efficient need to work together across borders sword. Though the China-Pak relation was working in favour investment will be tures rise, killing thousands. And cli- ence in people’s lives. I have seen how buildings programme that will sup- to support climate solutions and pro- of Pakistan, especially in countering India’s growth in Asia and the key mate change is boosting the intensity solar energy has empowered rural port investment in about 10 million tect people worldwide from the worst beyond, Pakistan seems to have realised that all that glitters of seasonal monsoon rains. Last year women in the salt flats of Gujarat. LED lights, 1.5 million energy-efficient impacts of climate change. isn’t gold. Pakistan’s assertion of its own autonomy will boost 1,200 people across South Asia died in Through the partnership with NRDC ceiling fans, and 150,000 energy-effi- Only by accelerating climate action its economy that is crumbling under Chinese pressure and massive flooding, including 500 in the (Natural Resources Defence Council), cient air conditioners. A new Energy worldwide will we close the emissions inadequate sovereignty. Pakistan’s timely rejection of China’s Indian state of Bihar. SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Asso- Conservation Building Code, which gap and achieve the promise of Paris bid has saved its economy from a possible unwarranted con- Clean energy holds tremendous ciation) now has a loan programme NRDC is working to implement with -- a safer climate future for us all. IANS trol that could hijack its independence. A dragon, no matter promise to meet India’s complex chal- that replaces fuel-hungry, inefficient partners, has been adopted by eight (Frances Beinecke served as how domestic, could still unleash its lethal fire, turning all- lenges, and solar development in par- diesel pumps with solar-powered states, with 15 more to follow. This Natural Resources Defense weather friends into instant foes. ticular is surging forward. In just a water pumps to use in the salt flats. widespread adoption would make 90 Council’s President from 2006 to few years, India installed nearly as Several women I met in this com- per cent of India’s infrastructure devel- 2015. Views are strictly personal.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp in focus Tough task, but not impossible The upcoming Gujarat election is sure to act as a game changer in national politics

ith just three weeks left for the first phase of the crucial state Assembly elections in Guja- rat, the political situation at NITYA CHAKRABORTY Wground level in this traditional stronghold of the BJP is steadily shifting in favor of the Congress Party which has been out of power for the last twenty-two years. Con- gress Vice President Rahul Gandhi who is single-handedly spearheading the election campaign for the last two weeks is getting big response from all sections of Gujaratis in his meetings and road shows sending alarm signals to the BJP. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken it up as a personal challenge and in the remaining period before the elec- tions, he will be the main campaigner of the BJP in the state covering all the districts in Rahul Gandhi his extensive election tour programme. It is has been also a do or die battle for him as the outcome of the Gujarat elections will set the pace for articulating the the tenor of the political developments lead- most pressing ing to the next Lok Sabha elections in 2019. The sudden change in the political mood economic issues in the conservative Hindutva strong Guja- in his election rat can be attributed to two developments. First, the present Government’s utter fail- speeches. He can ure in social as also on economic fronts is take lessons from now starkly visible and no amount of offi- cial propaganda is able to hide the damages Jeremy Corbyn that have been done by the Prime Minister’s of Britain and decision to implement demonetisation and introduce GST without adequate prepara- Bernie Sanders tion. Gujarat is a land of traders and they of USA. These are experiencing the day to day sufferings from both the measures. Second is certainly two old men are the emergence of Rahul Gandhi as a more most popular in mature and responsible political leader who their respective is talking sense in his campaign meetings and is mentioning the popular issues which For Rahul Gandhi, this is a historic opportunity to prove himself countries among are really affecting the lives of the common the youth due masses. After a long time, the Congress scion Hardik Patel through the circulation of a grammes focused on the demands of their against BJP. That has to be galvanised fur- most pressing economic issues in his elec- has been able to establish a rapport with sex video, indicate the sign of nervousness respective communities, Thakur’s campaign ther in the remaining days of the campaign. tion speeches. He has to take the lead in to the sheer the mood of the common masses. People at the emergence of this strong alliance. The has given his movement wider dimension Rahul Gandhi has to expand the scope preparing a minimum programme reject- strength of are listening to him seriously and this is BJP with its strong base among the traders cutting across all social groups. Congress of the alliance by having an understand- ing neo-liberal ideas that have wrecked the a big factor which has emerged favouring and the middle class never thought that the leadership has to take full advantage of the ing with both NCP and Sharad Yadav led Indian economy. He can take lessons from their pro-people the Congress campaign in the recent days. demoralised Congress would really be in base support of these three streams in the JD(U).These parties have limited bases but Jeremy Corbyn of Britain and Bernie Sand- programmes In the battle between Narendra Modi and a position to give any fight in the Assem- districts where the GOP lacks organisational their support is crucial in marginal seats. ers of USA. These two old men are most Rahul Gandhi, the younger one is scoring bly elections. But now, they are witnessing base as compared to the BJP. The Left, both the CPI and the CPI(M) have popular in their respective countries among as of now. This competition will intensify that the Congress VP is rallying all anti-BJP In the 2012 Assembly elections, the BJP got some supporting base among the work- the youth due to the sheer strength of their in the coming three weeks till polling days forces for fighting the BJP and if that clicks, got 119 seats out of the total of 182 while the ers through their trade unions. This support pro-people programmes. In this birth cente- and the Congress organisation has to convert the arithmetic of the castes will go against Congress got 57 seats. In 2014 Lok Sabha has to be ensured also. So far, the Congress nary year of his grandmother Indira Gandhi this goodwill among the masses into votes the BJP. elections, the BJP got all the 26 seats but this leadership has shown flexibility and wisdom which also coincides with the centenary of through mobilisation in the polling booths. Numerically, the OBCs form the big- outcome was something unusual. Usually, in dealing with allies in Gujarat. This has to the Great November Revolution in Russia in For the country’s GOP, it is a good devel- gest group in Gujarat. The two sub castes of the difference between the BJP and the Con- be expanded to ensure that all the political 1917, Rahul can work on a minimum pro- opment that the Party leaders are now really Thakurs account for 22 per cent of their pop- gress varies from 5 per cent to 10 per cent forces opposed to the BJP, are brought under gramme for the anti-BJP opposition front conscious of the fact that the Party remains ulation. OBCs have been extending support in terms of vote percentage and the shifting the umbrella of the anti-BJP combination. which guarantees rights to food, shelter, too weak to fight the BJP in electoral battle to Alpesh Thakur as he has been focusing on of the loyalties of one caste combination can Rahul Gandhi should act as the leader of the employment, free education, free healthcare, on its own these days and it needs strong immediate economic issues facing the OBCs alter the outcome. In the coming assembly national opposition against the BJP and not and social security for the old and disabled. allies who are positioned to fight the BJP like joblessness and farm distress. Alpesh election, if the Congress can effectively use just as the Congress VP. Such a composite minimum programme can in the state. Rahul has done the right thing has been attending to all local issues and the alliance of OBC, dalits, Patidars and For Rahul Gandhi, this is a historic act as the basis for a broad-based anti-BJP by working out an understanding with the the merger of his forum with the Congress, Muslims, the electoral arithmetic will be in opportunity to prove himself. Gujarat elec- front which will fight the BJP both inside young leaders of the patidars, OBCs and SC, has given the Gujarat Congress a big boost favour of the Congress but that will require tions is sure to act as a game changer in and outside Parliament to bring about the STs as also dalits and this has already created in going to many of the areas of the state tough organisational work by the Congress national politics. Congress has to reinvent change in 2019. IPA panic in the BJP leadership. The efforts of where the Party has little base support. While and the alliance workers. Right now, Hardik its el in terms of its economic programme. (The author is Editor-in-Chief of IPA. the BJP leaders to malign the patidar leader Hardik Patel and Mavani’s agitational pro- and his two friends are in a fighting mood The Congress VP has been articulating the The views expressed are strictly personal.)

tweet More than a medical concern RETWEET Sakib Burza & Kavitha Devdas write about broader implications of antibiotic resistance t is difficult to imagine a world where a minor bacterial infection from a MANOHAR PARRIKAR wound is untreatable and @manoharparrikar Icould possibly lead to death. In the short time that antibiotics have been around, their exces- sive and occasionally irrational usage by humans for medical Best wishes to members of purposes as well as in livestock media, on the occasion of and agriculture has contributed #NationalPressDay. Freedom of In India where to the speeding up of a natu- ral process of evolution and press & responsible journalism are public health mutation in bacteria -- a phe- vital to our democracy, development infrastructure is nomenon known as antibiotic & social inclusion. resistance (ABR). overburdened As a medical humanitarian and there is a organisation, MSF uses antibi- otics at various levels of treat- widespread ment and care. Drug-resistant JAVED AKHTAR shortage of infections are rising rapidly @Javedakhtarjadu across the world in our var- doctors in rural ious projects and should the areas, this gap world run out of effective anti- biotics, typically the poorest Those who call any one “ anti is filled by and most vulnerable will be the pharmacists and hardest hit. nationalist “ at the drop of a hat are non-allopathic The doctor-patient rela- silent about the anti nationals who tionship forms the crux of have made a GODSE TEMPLE . practitioners who any initiative trying to address Antibiotic misuse is a complex socio-cultural problem that is influenced by cost, access, and knowledge (Representational Image) antibiotic resistance. In the cul- Why ??? out of necessity tural context of India, where Since 2015, MSF has been be dispensed. sume antibiotics as if they were Our experience reaffirms dispense medical public health infrastructure is working on antibiotic resis- Both sites included in the not medicines but vegetables. the need within health sys- overburdened and there is a tance in collaboration with audit received over hundreds of Our doctors would encounter tems for better surveillance advice and widespread shortage of doc- the Ministry of Health in West patients per day, with only one patients who described antibi- and data collection of emerg- medication tors in rural areas, this gap is Bengal. As part of this proj- medical doctor overseeing the otics vaguely as "red capsules" ing and existing resistance GUL PANAG with minimal filled by pharmacists and non- ect, MSF worked in the outpa- consultation. Without a doubt, or "white tablets" but with an patterns. Once the evidence @GulPanag allopathic practitioners who tient clinic of a district hospital this affected the quality of the unshakable belief in its need is collected, we must ensure oversight. This is out of necessity dispense med- and two primary health care consultation, given the limited and efficacy. proper systems are in place to facilitated by the ical advice and medication centres, treating acute respi- time allotted to each patient. Antibiotic resistance is not analyse and share this infor- with minimal oversight. This ratory illness in children aged Patients' understanding of and a conventionally distinct dis- mation. Our efforts at patient One year ago, today, I cleared my under-regulated is facilitated by the under-reg- 6 months to 12 years. To bet- expectations for specific types ease and has not captured pub- counselling and community final check to get my pilot’s license! procurement and ulated procurement and ease ter understand the context we of drugs, such as antibiotics, are lic imagination the way other outreach have taught us that of over-the-counter access to were operating in, a baseline hard to manage when pressed critical public health threats antibiotic misuse is not just a Big item ‘checked’ off my bucket ease of over-the- antibiotics. audit of prescribing practices of for time, as observed by a doc- or epidemics have. This means medical issue but a complex list #avgeek counter access to Even among allopathic district hospital doctors as well tor from the hospital. deconstructing and changing socio-cultural problem that is doctors, irrational and over- as health promotion activities Our health promotion popular perceptions and habits influenced by cost, access, and antibiotics prescription of antibiotics are for the local community was teams interacted with local about antibiotics can be tricky. knowledge. common, which is likely to be conducted alongside medical pharmacists, who felt they were How do you break a habit when Patient education is as exacerbated in an opaque doc- consultations. only fulfilling a void in a sys- you cannot describe what the vital as sensitisation of medi- NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON tor-pharmaceutical company Our prescription audit col- tem where the patients demand problem looks like? Discon- cal practitioners and policy- @neiltyson nexus. Antibiograms are often lected and analysed antibiotic antibiotics, and the medi- tented parents who do not makers. We desperately need lacking in public health sys- prescription practices of doc- cal shops supply it. Consider- receive antibiotics for their the new drugs, but we need to tems and found to be expen- tors at the district hospital and ing the shortage of doctors in child's common cold or cough preserve what we already have sive in the private sector. Our PHC level. The audit revealed public health facilities, medical often became suspicious and and how we use them even experience of working on that irrational prescribing of shops provided a convenient angry. As a parent in our clinic more. IANS I'd bet Benjamin Franklin would antibiotic resistance in India antibiotics was widespread. In and quicker shortcut, even if argued, "We've been using (Sakib Burza is Medical have been really good on Twitter. confirmed much of what we many instances, no diagnosis antibiotics were expensive. these tablets since childhood Advisor at MSF Asia; Kavitha already knew but also threw was documented in the med- Reflecting on the tendency without any problems. I came Devadas is PR and Advocacy light on areas which need fur- ical record or prescription, of self-diagnosis, a pharma- here for the medicine, not your Manager at MSF. The views ther investigation. rather only listing the drug to cist remarked that people con- silly advice." expressed are those of MSF.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi |Friday, 17 November, 2017 10 killed as suicide Zimbabwe’s Mugabe resisting bomber hits political army pressure to quit: Sources gathering in Kabul HARARE: President Robert Mugabe is insisting he remains Zimbabwe’s only legitimate ruler and balking at Mugabe, wife, top allies holed up in mediation by a Catholic priest to ‘Blue House’ compound allow the 93-year-old former guer- rilla a graceful exit after a military coup, sources said on Thursday. JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, his A political source who spoke to wife Grace and two key figures from her G40 political faction senior allies holed up with Mugabe are under house arrest at Mugabe’s “Blue House” compound and his family in his lavish “Blue in Harare and are insisting the 93-year-old finishes his presi- House” Harare compound said Mugabe had no plans to resign vol- dential term, a source said. untarily ahead of elections scheduled The G40 figures are cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo and next year. Saviour Kasukuwere, who fled to the compound after their KABUL: At least 10 people responsibility for the attack yet. “It’s a sort of stand-off, a stalemate,” homes were attacked by troops in Tuesday night’s coup, the were killed and nine others Late last month, 30 peo- the source said. “They are insisting the source, who said he had spoken to people inside the com- wounded when a suicide bomb ple, including Fazil Ahmad, a president must finish his term.” ripped through a banquet hall member of Jamiat, were killed The army’s takeover signalled the pound, said. South Africa said Mugabe had told President in a northern neighbour hood and 22 civilians wounded in a collapse in less than 36 hours of the Jacob Zuma by telephone on Wednesday that he was con- of Afghanistan’s capital of suicide bomb attack in western security, intelligence and patronage fined to his home but was otherwise fine and the military said Kabul on Thursday, police and Ghor province. networks that sustained him through it was keeping him and his family, including wife Grace, safe. witnesses said. It was not clear if the pol- 37 years in power and built him into Despite lingering admiration for Mugabe among older African “A terrorist wearing an itician, Atta Mohammad the “Grand Old Man” of African dence in 1980, to go quietly and allow A fighter, both literally and fig- explosives-packed jacket tried Noor, governor of the north- politics. a smooth and bloodless transition uratively during a political career leaders, there is little public affection for 52-year-old Grace, to enter Qasr-e-Naween Hall at ern province of Balkh and a The priest, Fidelis Mukonori, who to former vice-president Emmerson that included several assassination a former government typist who started having an affair with midday in Khair Khana Mina leader of the mainly ethnic has been mediating between Mugabe Mnangagwa. attempts, Mugabe now appears to have Mugabe in the early 1990s as his first wife, Sally, was dying of locality shortly before a polit- Tajik Jamiat-i-Islami party, and the generals who seized power on Still seen by many Africans as a reached the end of the road. kidney failure. AGENCIES ical gathering ended,” Kabul was at the meeting at the time Wednesday in a targeted operation liberation hero, Mugabe is reviled in With the army against him and police spokesman Basir Muja- of the attack. against “criminals” in his entourage, the West as a despot whose disastrous the police — once seen as a bastion of capital he is loathed. Mnangagwa, a former security hid told Xinhua. Islamic State claimed had also made little headway, a senior handling of the economy and willing- support — showing no signs of resis- Zimbabwean intelligence reports chief and life-long Mugabe confi- He said the police inter- responsibility, according political source told Reuters. ness to resort to violence to maintain tance, force is not an option. Similarly, seen by Reuters suggest his exit has dant known as “The Crocodile” who cepted the attacker after iden- to Amaq, its official news The army appears to want Mugabe, power pauperised one of Africa’s most his support inside the ruling party is been in the planning for more than was axed as vice-president earlier this tifying him but the assailant agency. The Taliban denied who has led Zimbabwe since indepen- promising states. crumbling and on the streets of the a year. month, is the key player. AGENCIES detonated his explosive, caus- involvement. ing casualties. “We are proud to be mar- “The bomber struck at tyred because of our country Seoul urges China’s envoy to the front gate of the building. and our rights. This gathering pressure N Korea on n-programme Russia used 150,000 Twitter The victims included seven was for the sake of our country police officers and two civil- to raise our voice,” said witness ians in addition to the bomber. Jan Mohammad. SEOUL: The South Korean government on Among the injured people were The explosion was the lat- Thursday called for the Chinese envoy scheduled accounts to meddle in Brexit seven policemen and two civil- est in a wave of violence that to visit North Korea to pressure Pyongyang over ians,” he said. has killed and wounded thou- LONDON: In a startling rev- Ukrainian conflict swiftly The meeting was held by sands of civilians in Afghani- its nuclear and missile development programme. elation, a group of data scien- started tweeting about Brexit supporters of Atta Mohammad stan this year. Song Tao, the head of the International Depart- tists has found 156,252 Russian in days leading up to the 2016 Noor, Governor of northern Political tensions are up as ment of the Communist Party of China, is set to accounts on Twitter which vote. “From posting fewer than Balkh province, and a senior politicians have begun jockey- visit North Korea on Friday to discuss an outcome mentioned #Brexit and posted 1,000 tweets a day before June member of Jamiat-e-Islami of ing for position ahead of pres- of the Communist Party of China’s 19th Con- nearly 45,000 messages related 13, the accounts -- many of Afghanistan, a major political idential elections expected in to the EU referendum in the 48 which are virulently pro-Putin party, witness Ahmad Farshad 2019. gress that saw President Xi Jinping’s term as the hours around the vote. -- posted 39,000 tweets on June told Xinhua. A spokesman for the party’s Secretary General renewed. “We hope that According to a report in The 23-24,” the report said. Several high-ranking offi- interior ministry said the the visit will serve as an occasion to deliver the Times on Thursday, “Russian Tho Pham, one of the cials, senior members of bomber approached the international community’s concerns about North Twitter accounts posted more report authors, confirmed to Jamiat and members of coun- hotel hosting the gathering Korea’s nuclear threats and North Korea could than 45,000 messages about TechCrunch that the major- try’s parliament were among in the Khair Khana district Brexit in 48 hours during last sow discord”. According to data versity of California, Berkeley, ity of those Brexit tweets were the attendees of the meeting to of Kabul, on foot. The dead respond to it,” Yonhap news agency quoted. AGENCIES year’s referendum in an appar- scientists from Swansea Uni- over 150,000 Russian accounts posted on June 24, 2016, the honour Noor, he said. included seven policemen and ently co-ordinated attempt to versity in Wales and the Uni- who were posting about the day after the vote. AGENCIES No group has claimed two civilians. AGENCIES Rouhani accuses Saudi Arabia of urging Israel to attack Lebanon TEHRAN: Iran’s President take such measures, and this ister in the Saudi capital Hassan Rouhani on Wednes- indicates the immaturity of the Riyadh. day blasted Saudi Arabia for individuals, who have come Iran and Saudi Arabia, two appealing to Israel to launch to power in those countries,” major rivals in the region, have a military attack on Lebanon, Rouhani added. been trading barbs following Press TV reported. Nasrallah claimed on Hariri’s resignation and Sau- It is “shameful” that Saudi November 10 that Saudi di’s interception of a ballistic Arabia has urged Israel to carry Arabia had appealed to the missile fired at a Riyadh air- out military strikes against Israel to launch a military port by the Iranian-backed Lebanon, Rouhani said, refer- attack against Lebanon, in the Houthi rebels in Yemen, both ring to recent remarks of name of fighting Hezbollah, on November 4. Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary and was ready to spend bil- Saudi Arabia accused Iran General of Lebanon’s politi- the Zionist regime (of Israel) lions of US dollars to attain and Lebanon of declaring war cal and paramilitary party to bomb the people of Leba- this objective. against the kingdom, while Hezbollah. non,” Rouhani told a govern- Nasrallah’s comments Iran and Hezbollah blamed “It is very reprehensible ment meeting on Wednesday. came days after Saad Hariri Riyadh for interfering in Leb- and shameful for a Muslim “It is unprecedented in his- announced his resignation anon’s affairs by forcing Hariri country in the region to beg tory for a Muslim country to as Lebanon’s Prime Min- to resign. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp Kolkata-born businesswoman named National mourning after flash UK police body chair flood kills 14 people in Greece

ATHENS: Greece has declared ing fishing boats in a small 55 vehicles. All fire services a day of national mourning harbour. Several people were across the wider Athens area after floods on the outskirts of being treated in a hospital for had been put on alert as more Athens left at least 14 dead, flip- various injuries, including bad weather was forecast. ping over cars, smashing into hypothermia. A section of the highway homes and cutting off traffic. There were fears the death between Athens and Corinth The flash floods turned toll could rise further as rescue was completely knocked out, roads into raging torrents of crews searched flooded homes with cars, trucks and buses mud and debris inundated and streets on the western out- trapped in an inundated houses and businesses. Driv- skirts of Athens. underpass. ers scrambled out of their vehi- The flooding came after a Judicial authorities ordered cles as cars were washed away. severe overnight storm brought an immediate investigation Rescue crews searched base- driving rain to the area. Roads into the deaths and material ment homes for residents who turned into muddy rivers that damage. Investigators would may have been trapped. carried away vehicles, tossing be looking into whether fac- Millie Banerjee More torrential rain is them into piles on roadsides tors such as shoddy or illegal LONDON: An Indian-ori- ing civil service reform, has had expected on Thursday. and against fences and build- construction might have con- gin businesswoman has been a long and varied career in the “This is a very difficult ings. Several walls from yards tributed to the severity of the appointed the new chair of the private and public sectors in moment for our country. We and low buildings collapsed, flooding. UK’s College of Policing by the the UK. mourn the deaths of 14 peo- filling the streets with rubble. Local authorities shut British government. She was the Chair of the Brit- ple in what is a great disaster. The fire department said it schools in the areas of Man- Kolkata-born Millie Baner- ish Transport Police Authority It is the wish of all of us that had received more than 600 dra, Nea Peramos and Meg- jee will oversee the professional for seven years and held several this number does not increase,” calls for help pumping water ara, while the fire department body for everyone in policing non-executive appointments, Prime Minister Alexis Tsip- Twelve of the people killed ern outskirts of Athens that was to have been swept out to sea out of buildings and had res- appealed to the public to and make sure officers and staff including as non-execu- ras said in a televised address, — four women and eight men hardest-hit by the flood. The by the flood. cued 86 people trapped in vehi- avoid the area unless abso- have the skills and knowledge tive director of the UK Cabi- announcing a day of national — were found in or near Man- coast guard recovered the bod- Floodwater carrying debris cles and homes. It said it had lutely necessary in an effort to they need. net Office, the Prisons Board, mourning for Thursday. dra, a small town on the west- ies of two more men believed charged toward the coast, sink- deployed 190 firefighters with reduce traffic. AGENCIES “We are dedicated to pro- the Peabody Trust and media viding access to the best knowl- watchdog Ofcom. edge and skills which sits behind She is currently the chair the bravery, dedication and of NHS Blood and Trans- N Korea’s ‘twisted dictatorship’ cannot hold Aus diplomat dies in compassion shown by police plant and a board mem- on a daily basis. ber of East London NHS “We have ambitious plans Foundation Trust. world hostage to ‘nuclear blackmail’: Trump New York building fall ahead and I intend on work- Rachel Tuffin, interim ing with people across polic- CEO at the College of Polic- WASHINGTON: An Austra- ing to continue building a ing said: Millie brings a WASHINGTON: US Presi- that a nuclear North Korea is a threatening and personal lian UN diplomat has died after professional body that sup- wealth of experience from dent Donald Trump has vowed grave threat to China,” he said. insults as Pyongyang races falling from a seventh floor of a ports all officers and staff,” the private and public sec- not to allow the “twisted dic- “We agreed that we would towards its goal of developing New York City building. Banerjee, 71, said. tors, including several years tatorship” in North Korea not accept a so-called ‘freeze a nuclear- tipped missile capa- Julian Simpson, 30, a Sec- The UK government said in policing. to hold the world hostage for freeze’ agreement like ble of reaching the US. ond Secretary at the UN, died her appointment alongside the Having spent years in polic- to “nuclear blackmail” as he those that have consistently “I called on every nation, on the Lower East Side in the newly-confirmed Chief Execu- ing, Ms Banerjee said in her role pledged a global campaign of failed in the past. We made including China and Rus- early hours of Wednesday, the tive of the organisation, Mike she will work to help staff tackle “maximum pressure” to de- that time is running out and sia, to unite in isolating the Australian reported. Cunningham, will help profes- “ever more complex crime” nuclearise Pyongyang. we made it clear, and all North Korean regime — cut- Simpson had been out with sionalise policing. amid a reduced workforce and Tensions have dramati- options remain on the table,” ting off all ties of trade and his wife and friends before they “Working with Millie greater demand. cally risen on the Korean Trump said. commerce — until it stops returned home to admire the over the last year I have been The College of Polic- peninsula after North Korea During his trip to China, The US president said dur- its dangerous provocation view of the Empire State Build- impressed by the insight she ing, established in 2012, is a in September conducted its Trump said Chinese President ing his address at the national on— and this is the whole ing, which was lit up in rainbow But before his friend could brings from her time leading not-for-profit membership biggest nuclear test, which its Xi Jinping pledged to faith- assembly of South Korea, he key to what we’re doing — on colours to celebrate Australia’s get prepared, Simpson acciden- other public and commercial organisation with a remit state-run KCNA news agency fully implement UN Security “made clear that we will not denuclearisation. We have to gay marriage vote. tally slipped from the seventh- organisations, including the to provide those working described it as a hydrogen Council resolutions on North allow this twisted dictator- denuclearise North Korea,” The Australian said Simpson floor ledge of his Manhattan British Transport Police, said in policing in England bomb. Korea and to use his great ship (in North Korea) to hold Trump said. was playing a “trust game” on building and fell on a landing UK home secretary Amber and Wales with the skills In a televised address to the economic influence over the the world hostage to nuclear The US welcomed the deci- the rooftop deck of the building on the second floor. Rudd. and knowledge neces- nation after his 12-day maiden regime to achieve their com- blackmail.” sion of President Moon Jae-in when the accident happened. Australian Prime Minister Banerjee, honoured with a sary to prevent crime, pro- trip to Asia, Trump said North mon goal of a denuclearised Trump and North Korean to remove the payload restric- The game involved putting him- Malcolm Turnbull described CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in tect the public, and secure Korea was on the top of his Korean Peninsula. supreme leader Kim Jong- tions on missiles to combat the self at risk and relying on one of Simpson’s death as a “shocking 2002 for her work in support- public trust. AGENCIES priority list. “President Xi recognises Un have traded increasingly North Korean threat. AGENCIES his friends to catch him. tragedy”. AGENCIES On Xi’s orders, Spain: Jailed Catalan secession ‘Pak awaits response on offer to host Chinese military activist to run in election set to become BARCELONA: The jailed leader of the main meeting between Jadhav and his wife’ grassroots group pushing for Catalonia to secede ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Faisal said Pakistan was quiet efforts by the US. ‘world class’ from Spain has resigned his post and will run as a today said it was awaiting awaiting India’s response on Pakistan, however, insisted candidate in Dec. 21 regional election. The Catalan India’s response on its offer the offer. that the offer was made purely BEIJING: Less than a month National Assembly says Jordi Sanchez will be a to arrange a meeting between Jadhav, a former Indian on the humanitarian grounds. after President Xi Jinping began candidate in the list headed by fugitive Catalan Indian prisoner on death Navy officer, was sentenced to Jadhav has filed an appeal his second five-year term in leader Carles Puigdemont, who is facing extradi- row Kulbhushan Jadhav and death by a Pakistani military with Pakistan Army chief office setting a new deadline for his wife on humanitarian court in April on charges of Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa to the PLA to complete its mod- tion back to Spain from Belgium along with four grounds. espionage and terrorism. The seek clemency, which is still ernisation, the Chinese mil- members of his ousted Catalan cabinet. Sanchez Pakistan last week said it International Court of Justice pending. itary has taken measures to and another secessionist activist were jailed will allow 46-year-old Jad- in May halted his execution on Last month, the Pakistan become a “world-class” force provisionally Oct. 16 for sedition for their alleged hav to meet his wife, months India’s appeal. Army had said it is close to a in line with his vision, official roles in a secession-related protest that trashed after India had requested Pakistan has repeatedly decision on the mercy petition media reported here. Islamabad to grant a visa to denied India consular access of Jadhav.Pakistan claims its China will basically com- police vehicles in September. Sanchez, 53, can run his mother on humanitarian to Jadhav on the ground that security forces arrested him plete modernisation of its unless he is convicted. Spain called the election grounds. it was not applicable in cases from restive Balochistan prov- national defence and armed after seizing control of Catalonia when lawmakers During his weekly media related to spies. ince on March 3 last year after forces by 2035 and fully build declared the independence on Oct. 27. AGENCIES briefing, Foreign Office Some media reports have he reportedly entered from the army into a “world-class spokesperson Mohammad linked Pakistan’s offer to the Iran. AGENCIES force” by the mid-21st cen- tury, Xi said in his report to the once-in-a-five-years Con- gress of the ruling Communist May knows Brexit will cause damage: Merkel ally Party of China (CPC) held here last month. BERLIN: A key Angela sage that shows us that we have will have the same benefits The CPC CongressMerkel ally in the European still a lot of common interests, as being inside the European endorsed a second five-year Parliament held meetings with and common threats ahead of Union,” he said. “That must term for Xi as head of the party, Theresa May and David Davis us, and that is why it is impor- be clear for everybody. When presidency and the military. and said he is “more optimis- tant to work together.” you are leaving the European Following this, the Central tic” about the possibility of But Mr Weber added that Union, you are losing some of Military Commission (CMC) reaching agreement with the Theresa May was aware that the benefits.” issued a guideline on Novem- UK than before. Brexit “is difficult and will He said Brexit was coun- ber 5 to affirm the absolute Manfred Weber, who is cause damage”. ter to everything that the EU leadership of the party over leader of Angela Merkel’s par- He said that the UK is had been trying to achieve the army, requiring that troops ty’s group in the European Par- “leaving the club” and would for forty years, which the UK be absolutely loyal, honest and liament, told reporters after have to “pay its open bill.” had until recently supported. reliable to Xi, who is also chair- a fifty minute meeting with Any Brexit deal has to be “The whole idea of building man of the CMC, a report by the Prime Minister and Brexit ratified by the European Par- up the European Union, which state-run Xinhua news agency Secretary David Davis: “I am liament, and Mr Weber made was supported by the British said. one of the more sceptical part- Mr Weber praised The- fere in elections in Europe and clear that there are limits to governments, the idea was to The CMC headed by Xi is ners from the European side resa May’s speech at the Lord America. what the UK can achieve. make the lives of European cit- the overall high command of toward the Brexit process, but Mayor’s Banquet on Monday, “I cannot accept a treaty izens better. We are destroy- the 2.3 million People’s Libera- my main message is that I am where she was heavily critical “I want to thank her where a member state out- ing some of the things that we tion Army, the world’s largest. more optimistic.” of Russia’s attempts to inter- because that was clearly a mes- side of the European Union achieved already. AGENCIES The CMC said the armed forces should deeply and com- prehensively implement a sys- tem in which the chairman of Rapper Lil Peep dies at 21 of suspected drug overdose the CMC has overall respon- sibility for the military. The LONDON: Lil Peep, a fast-rising rapper was so amazing.” system was added to the CPC whose emotional tracks charted depres- Chart-topping rapper Post Malone Constitution at the Congress. sion and drug use, has died aged 21. His said Åhr was “a great friend to me and The top priority of main- UK representative confirmed the news a great person. your music changed taining the authority of the to the Guardian. the world and it’ll never be the same”. leadership core is to safeguard Gustav Åhr, who grew up in Long Following a string of self- the CMC chairperson respon- Beach, New York, was reportedly released mixtapes that blended cold sibility system, Xu Qiliang, taken to hospital following an over- trap production with highly emo- vice chairman of the CMC, dose, according to music manager tional, soul-searching “emo” lyri- wrote in the People’s Daily Adam Grandmaison. In a video Åhr cism, and earned him a cult following, on Tuesday. posted online hours before his death, Lil Peep released his debut album Come “In the face of profound and he said he had taken prescription Over When You’re Sober (Part One) in complex changes at home and |drugs and other substances, saying: August this year. abroad, along with fierce ideo- “I’m good, I’m not sick”. His eye-catching dress sense and logical struggles, it’s a funda- The rap world has paid numerous tattoos also earned him mental issue for our military tribute to him, with Diplo attention in the fashion world – he did to maintain its original nature, writing on Twitter that Åhr “had low producer Marshmello writ- ing to him about music, the song catwalk shows for the likes of Vlone, tenet and colour,” Xu said in the so much more to do man he was ing: “Peep was the nicest person. ideas we were going to and Mario Testino photographed him article. AGENCIES constantly inspiring me”, and fel- Hanging out with him, talk- do together and touring for V magazine. AGENCIES 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 Businesses need not deduct GST on Staff oppose Govt demand for more advances gotten for goods supplies surplus from RBI NEW DELHI: The government has exempted businesses from Exporters can deducting GST on advances India Inc’s Q2 profits dip by received for supplying goods manually file in future, a move which will help unblock working capital 1.5%, grew 13% in Q2 FY17 GST refund of firms. The Central Board of MUMBAI: Lower industrial At the same time, the study claims: CBEC Excise and Customs (CBEC) growth and adjustment to the found that net sales growth last month said that businesses GST regime have pulled down slowed down to 7 per cent after NEW DELHI: The govern- with turnover up to Rs 1.5 crore corporate profits by about 1.5 registering a growth of 10 per ment has allowed exporters to are exempt from deducting per cent to Rs 1.03 trillion dur- cent in the same period year- manually file before tax offi- MUMBAI: The Reserve RBI must stand up to it," union Goods and Services Tax (GST) ing the second quarter, against a ago. The agency noted that while cers claims for GST refunds as Bank Employees Union has general secretary Samir Ghosh on advance payment for supply healthy 13.2 per cent rise in the overall performance is skewed it looks to fasttrack clearance opposed the reported move by said in a statement. of goods. year ago period, says a report. due to banks, oil companies, IT of dues to ease liquidity stress the finance ministry to ask the He observed that without The CBEC, through a noti- "Net profit declined by 1.5 and finance which were guided faced by them. central bank to part with more contributing anything to its fication, has now extended this with the Finance Ministry to GST on any advance received as per cent year-on-year to Rs by other exogenous factors, after Now exporters of services surplus from the past year to own reserves, the RBI had over exemption to all businesses, exempt them from deducting payment, in line with the pro- 1,03,438 crore in the Septem- excluding these sectors, earn- who paid IGST and those mak- aid the Rs 2.1-trillion bank the past three years contributed except for those who have opted GST on advances received for visions under erstwhile service ber quarter from ings still depict a ing zero rated supplies to SEZ recapitalization. nearly Rs 2 trillion, which was for composition scheme under supply of goods as this norm tax laws. Rs 1,05,021 crore in GST EFFECT downward trend as units as well as those mer- The Reserve Bank had early almost 100 per cent of its sur- the new indirect tax regime. was not there in the erstwhile "While the issues in respect same period year-ago that of the aggregate chant exporters who want to July transferred Rs 30,659 crore pluses, to government. The composition scheme excise duty or VAT regime. of payment of GST on advances when the bottomline had grown sample in the reporting period. claim refunds for input credit as surplus to government for He also noted that this was can be availed by businesses "In a significant relief to for supply of goods, which was by 13.2 per cent over the previ- Net profit excluding banks, can approach their jurisdic- fiscal 2017, which was almost criticized by many as "impru- with turnover up to Rs 1 crore the industry, the govern- leading to significant working ous year," said a Care Ratings IT, oil & refineries, and finance tional commissioner with their 50 per cent lower than the pre- dent" because such high pay- and they can pay taxes at a ment, through a notification, capital and other challenges, report citing results of 1,241 dropped 4.4 per cent to Rs refund form. vious year. The payout plunged outs leading to low reserves lower rate of 1 per cent, while has done away with GST on appears to be resolved for now, companies. The overall perfor- 45,945 crore in second quarter "Due to the non-availabil- due to the huge expenses would not help RBI meet its for restaurants the rate is 5 per advance received against sup- similar working capital block- mance has been driven by large and the report attributed this ity of the refund module on incurred towards printing constitutional objective of cent. ply of goods. This meets the ages for service providers con- companies that accounted for 71 to the disruptions arising from the common portal, it has new banknotes and paying "securing the financial stabil- "This comes as a huge sigh long standing demand of the tinue," Deloitte India Partner per cent of total net sales. the GST rollout in beginning of been decided by the competent bank interest by way of reverse ity of the nation." of relief for businesses both in industry, particularly by FMCG GST M S Mani said. "They recorded negative the quarter. Profits of compa- authority ... that the applica- repo after the demonetisation "Only this year, RBI has terms of compliance as well as and auto," PwC Leader-Indirect GST, which subsumed over growth in net profit of 7.4 per nies with sales higher than Rs tions/documents/forms per- last November. The RBI still contributed about Rs 13,000 working capital loss," EY India Tax Pratik Jain said. a dozen taxes including excise, cent in the second quarter as 500 crore and the ones below Rs taining to refund claims on holds around Rs 44,000 crore crore to its contingency fund Tax Partner Abhishek Jain said. However, service providers service tax and VAT, was rolled against a growth of about 10.9 100 crore posted year-on-year account of zero-rated supplies in surplus from last year's profit, which government is attempt- Businesses had lobbied hard will have to continue to deduct out from July 1. PTI per cent a year ago," it said. decline during the quarter. PTI shall be filed and processed according to the union. ing to take away," the union manually till further orders," "We observe the incessant noted. the CBEC said in a circular. press reports that RBI is being It can be noted that many The CBEC had last month pressurized to transfer more times in the past,government GST drives up oil demand as vehicle sales zoom started refunds for exporters funds to government in addi- was trying to get more payouts of goods who have paid Inte- tion to the Rs 30,659 crore from RBI so meet its budget NEW DELHI: The introduc- impact of GST on vehicle prices of hybrids," he said. "As the aftermath of demon- rural disposable income and grated GST (IGST) and have already given for FY17 from targets. But in all instances then tion of Goods and Services Tax and sales, especially in the logis- Car prices may fall after five etisation diminishes, businesses discounts offered during the fes- claimed refund based on ship- the surplus of about Rs 44,000 governors rejected it. (GST) has lifted oil demand in tics sector, it said. years once the cess levied to adapt to the GST and diesel car tive season," Verma said. ping bill by filling up Table 6A. crore... Recently there were reports India this year on higher sales of Wood Mackenzie's Asia compensate states for loss of sales sink further, it will be the While the inclusion of crude Now businesses making "The government must that government might ask RBI conventional passenger cars and refining research analyst revenue from introduction of freight sector that will drive and petroleum products in the zero rated supplies or those refrain from its pressure tactics to use a portion of its large forex utility vehicles, Wood Macken- Aman Verma said in a report GST, goes. While this will lend growth in diesel demand," it GST ambit in the future can- who have paid IGST on exports and double-dealing," the All- reserves of about $400 billion zie said on Thursday. that petrol demand is projected support to petrol demand in the said. Passenger car and utility not be ruled out, it will be a or want to claim input credit India Reserve Bank Employ- towards recapitalising state- While demonetisation to increase to 670,000 barrels long term, the tax gap between vehicles sales in the July- Sep- huge challenge given that state will have to fill Form RFD-01A ees Union in a statement on run banks. dampened petrol demand per day (bpd) in 2018, a 7 per conventional cars and electric tember quarter rose 9 per cent governments currently receive and print and approach Chief Thursday. Terming the demand Last month the finance growth to 3 per cent in the Jan- cent increase compared to 2017 vehicles (EVs) will narrow. and 27 per cent year-on-year substantial revenues from petro- Commissioner of Central Tax as arbitrary and imprudent, the ministry announced a whop- uary-March quarter, slowest levels. "As India pushes towards respectively, compared with leum product sales. and the Commissioner of State union noted that the statutory ping Rs 2.1 trillion fund infu- in the past decade, the growth Diesel, the most consumed a wider EV adoption policy, average quarterly growth of 2 GST hasn't been so kind to Tax for refund claim. job of the RBI is to "secure sion plan for state-run banks will recover in the first quarter fuel in India, is estimated to we anticipate EV manufactur- per cent and 18 per cent over hybrid cars as it imposed higher The provisional refund the monetary stability of the over the next three years, most of 2018 to around 9 per cent, grow by 60,000 bpd, 50 per cent ers will face greater cost rivalry the past five years. tax rates which has led to 13 would be sanctioned by the tax nation" and expressed surprise of which would be mopped said the research and consul- higher than 2017 levels, he said. from the current players," he Consequently, petrol per cent rise in prices, affect- officer within 7 days. over the government move as to up from bonds issued to other tancy firm. Crude oil, natural "The GST will boost gasoline said. Wood Mackenzie also fore- demand grew 9 per cent in the ing sales. But the same on pure EY India Tax Partner how this objective could be met cash-rich state-run entities. gas, diesel and petrol are cur- demand in the short to medium cast a boost to freight diesel in third quarter this year. electric vehicles has been cut by Abhishek Jain said till now the if its reserves are drawn down. The government wants RBI to rently exempt from the GST. term, as more conventional pas- the short to long term, thanks to "The strong growth was also around 9 per cent, the greatest refund filing procedure was "Even though aware of this also be a buyer of such recap But petrol and diesel demand senger cars and utility vehicles the removal of obstacles when supported by increased agricul- tax cut among all car and fuel there only for IGST paid by factum, government's arm- bonds by dipping into its forex are indirectly affected by the are sold - much to the detriment trucking between states. tural output leading to higher types. PTI exporters. PTI twisting of RBI is deplorable. reserves. PTI Sebi has new type of FPI Govt removes restrictions on China's January-October PE company SSG investment reporting buys 34.42% of export of all kinds of pulses ODI plummets by 41% Cox & Kings arm in hybrid securities NEW DELHI: The government tration and changes in import BEIJING: China's non-finan- In recent years, China's on Thursday removed export duties depending on domestic cial outbound direct invest- ODI has seen rapid growth. NEW DELHI: Travel services MUMBAI: Market regulator curbs on all varieties of pulses production and demand, local ment fell 40.9 per cent to $86.3 However, noting an "irra- provider Cox & Kings on Sebi has said foreign portfolio to ensure farmers get remunera- and international prices and billion between January and tional tendency" in outbound Thursday said private equity investors should report their tive prices as domestic rates have global trade volumes, he said. October as compared to the investment, Chinese authori- firm SSG Capital Manage- investment in hybrid securi- crashed below MSP in view of Export of pulses will provide same period last year following ties have set stricter rules and ment has acquired 34.42 per ties separately and has asked record production. an alternative market for the a curb on irrational overseas advised companies to make cent stake in its subsidiary Pro- the depositories to make nec- India produced a record surplus production of pulses, investment by the government. investment decisions more metheon Holdings (UK) Ltd. essary arrangements for this. 22.95 million tonnes of pulses he said, adding that it will also Chinese investors spent a carefully since last year, state- Prometheon is the hold- Currently, the daily FPI net in the 2016-17 crop year (July- help the country and its export- total of $86.3 billion on 5,410 run Xinhua news agency ing company of Holidaybreak, investment data and the FPI June) and the government is ers regain markets. enterprises from 160 countries reported on Thursday. which houses brands such as Assets Under Custody (AUC) debt and equity characteristics. targeting to repeat this perfor- “It is expected that pulses and regions during the period, In a document released in Travel Works and Meininger. data are disseminated by the In a circular dated Novem- mance this year. production will be sustained the Ministry of Commerce August, China's central cabi- Holidaybreak is a special- depositories (NSDL and CDSL) ber 15, Sebi said, "In order to “The Cabinet Committee on in the country and our import (MoC) said in a statement. net said overseas investment ist holiday group with market for equity and debt markets. capture FPI investment data in Economic Affairs has given its dependence on pulses will come "Irrational outbound in areas including real estate, leading positions in the UK At present, FPI investments hybrid securities, a third cate- approval for removal of prohi- down substantially,” the state- investment was effectively con- hotels, cinemas, and entertain- and other major European are classified as either debt or gory termed as 'hybrid security' bition on export of all types of is permitted in a limited quan- ment said. tained," it said, while noting ment would be limited, while markets. equity depending on the type of shall be created for the purpose pulses to ensure that farmers tity. Briefing media, IT and Law The decision to remove a slightly milder decrease of investment in sectors such as In a regulatory filing, Cox the security in which the FPIs of capturing and disseminating have greater choice in marketing Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad export curbs will lead to inte- investment and a better indus- gambling would be banned. & Kings said that SSG Capi- transact. FPI investment data in Hybrid their produce and in getting bet- said, “Opening of exports of gration with global supply trial structure. In the Jan-Sept Earlier this month, the tal Management through its While FPIs are permitted to securities." ter remuneration for their pro- all types of pulses will help the chain, helping farmers adopt period, outbound direct invest- National Development and investee company has acquired invest in real estate investment Sebi asked depositories -- duce,” an official statement said. farmers dispose of their prod- good agricultural practices and ment (ODI) dropped 41.9 per Reform Commission released 34.42 per cent stake in Pro- trusts (REITs) and Infrastruc- NSDL and CDSL -- to put in In September this year, the ucts at remunerative prices and achieve better productivity. cent year-on-year. a new draft rule on outbound metheon Holdings (UK) Ltd. ture Investment Trusts (InvITs) place the necessary systems government had lifted ban on encourage them to expand the The government said it has Investment in the first 10 investment, including stipula- Cox & Kings owns 65.6 per which are classified as hybrid for the daily reporting by the export of tur, urad and moong area of sowing”. taken a number of steps to sus- months mainly went to leas- tions on the investment activi- cent of Holidaybreak, while securities, presently, the said custodians of the FPIs and dis- dal. However, exports of these The CCEA empowered the tain high pulses production and ing and commercial services, ties of firms established overseas SSG Capital Management has investments are not reflected seminate on their websites, the varieties of pulses were allowed committee headed by food sec- procured 20 lakh tonnes of manufacturing, wholesale and by domestic companies. 2.72 per cent in Cox & Kings in the daily FPI net investment AUC of the FPIs in debt, equity after taking permission from retary to review the export and pulses directly from the farmers retail, and information tech- Meanwhile, ODI to coun- Ltd. data or the monthly/fortnightly and hybrid securities. agriculture export promo- import policy on pulses and by ensuring minimum support nology sectors. No new proj- tries involved in the multi-bil- Its stock was trading 0.78 FPI AUC data. Hybrid secu- This circular has come into tion body APEDA. Exports of consider measures such as quan- price or market rates, whichever ects were reported in property, lion Belt and Road Initiative per cent up at Rs 252.45 on rities generally combine both effect immediately, Sebi said.PTI organic pulses and kabuli chana titative restrictions, prior regis- is higher. PTI sports or entertainment. has been encouraged. PTI Bombay Stock Exchange. PTI Consumer demand, projects revive country’s quarterly PC sales Ambanis pip Samsung’s Lees to

NEW DELHI: PC shipments in India witnessed 20.5 per cent Mobile phone shipments expected top Forbes Asia rich families list growth in September 2017 quar- ter over the year- ago period to NEW DELHI: India's Mukesh 3.03 million units, helped by to touch 262 million by 2017-end Ambani family is the richest in strong consumer demand and NEW DELHI: Mobile handset shipments in India Asia as its net worth rose $19 bil- special projects, research firm lion to $44.8 billion, toppling the IDC on Thursday said. are likely to touch 262 million units by the end Lees of the Samsung empire, to After excluding large edu- of the year with feature phones continuing to claim the numero uno position, cation projects of over 10,000 dominate the market, a report by CyberMedia Forbes said. units, the market still grew 10.9 Research on Thursday said. CMR estimates the Despite dropping to the sec- per cent year-on-year, IDC said. mobile handset shipments to clock 262 million ond spot, Korea's Lee family still However, the shipments saw its wealth soar by $11.2 bil- could decline in the fourth units by the year-end, with feature phones ruling lion to $40.8 billion this year as quarter due to seasonality and ship position in the PC mar- cent from the year-ago period. the roost with 141.6 million units and smart- shares of Samsung Electronics reduced consumer demand ket with 31.1 per cent share, "Seasonality and online fes- phones accounting for 124 million units, it said. moved up 75 per cent over the after the high-consumer spend- followed by Lenovo (24.1 per tive sales drove positive con- Since the beginning of 2017, mobile handset past year. ing in the third quarter, it added. cent), Dell (20 per cent) and sumer spending throughout the vendors have shipped around 200 million mobile According to Asia's 50 Rich- "Seasonality and online fes- Acer (10.8 per cent). quarter despite declining con- est Families compiled by Forbes, tive sales drove positive con- "It's a proud moment for HP sumer sentiment on the back of handset units in India, it added. The report said Hong Kong's Kwok family, Asia's sumer spending throughout the to have consistently sustained low employment opportunities, the smartphone market recorded 29 per cent richest real estate household that quarter despite declining con- market leadership in the per- income and price levels," IDC sequential growth in the September quarter, controls Sun Hung Kai Proper- sumer sentiment on the back sonal computing industry. We India Associate Research Man- with 37.5 million units shipped on the back of ties, ranked third this year with a of low employment opportu- are at an exciting juncture in ager (Client Devices) Manish net wealth of $40.4 billion. Thai- nities, income and price levels," our journey as we reinvent our- Yadav said. the festive season sales. “While Q4 will see the land's Chearavanont family of Mukesh Ambani's conglomer- Other richest Indian fami- IDC India Associate Research selves on the basis of design, The commercial PC market introduction of several marquee flagship brands, the Charoen Pokphand Group ate Reliance Industries soared lies on the list feature the Prem- Manager (Client Devices) Man- innovation and customer value," saw 1.52 million units being the India market will continue to be driven by the took the fourth spot on the list, on the back of improved refin- jis (rank 11, $19.2 billion net ish Yadav said. On a sequential HP India MD Sumeer Chan- shipped in the third quarter affordable (under Rs 7,000) and value for money with a net worth of $36.6 billion. ing margins and the demand worth), the Hindujas (12th, basis, shipments were up 72.3 dra said. with the share of large edu- (Rs 7,000-25,000) segments,” CMR Head Indus- The Ambanis are the only produced by its telecom arm, $18.8 billion), the Mittals (14th, per cent from the June 2017 During the said quarter, the cation projects increasing to Indian family on the top 10 rich- Reliance Jio, which notched up $17.2 billion), the Mistrys (16th, quarter. consumer segment accounted 50.2 per cent from 45.2 per cent try Intelligence Group (IIG) Prabhu Ram said. PTI est families list in Asia. 140 million subscribers since it $16.1 billion) and the Birlas HP maintained its leader- for 1.51 million units, up 9.5 per a year ago. PTI It noted that shares in was launched in 2016. (19th, $14.1 billion). PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp ‘Over `30,000 cr lined up for NTPC to float tender for buying farm stubble NEW DELHI: Power Minis- ter R K Singh said on Thursday petrochem MSMEs in east’ that state-run NTPC will float a tender to buy farm stubble at Rs BHUBANESWAR: Over Rs said Indian Oil Corporation has 5,500 per tonne for use as fuel 30,000 crore would be pumped already commissioned a 15-mil- at its power plants, a move that in to set up MSMEs in petro- lion metric tonnes per annum will check farmers from burning chemical sector in eastern India oil refinery at the port town at an it -- a key source of pollution. over the course of two years, investment of Rs 35,000 crore. He said this move will help Union Petroleum Minister A new polypropylene unit farmers earn around Rs 11,000 Dharmendra Pradhan said on of 700 kilo tonnes per annum per acre from the sale of stubble/ Thursday. capacity, at a cost of Rs 3,150 straw pellets. Noting that over one lakh crore, is also slated to be com- A large number of farm- employment opportunities are missioned at Paradip Refinery ers particularly in Punjab and likely to be generated in the east- in 2018 to support the polymers Haryana are burning the farm He assured that the use of Singh told reporters that ern region, Pradhan said the and plastics industry, he said. stubble/straw, which causes air farm residue pellets would not camps will be organised under Odisha government should cre- Several other projects and pollution, in the absence of via- result in an tariff escalation for the scheme in villages where ate a conducive eco-system to proposals are lined up at Para- ble alternatives. the thermal power generator, connections would be issued attract investments to promote dip Refinery, and once these go "On an average a farmer NTPC. on the spot. MSME industries in the state. on stream, the port town would gets around 2 tonnes of stub- Singh said that mixing of "If we want to electrify all The petrochemical sector develop into a petrochemicals ble or straw in an acre. NTPC pellets up to 10 per cent of the households then we would have has the potential to generate hub, leading the industrial will bring a tender to buy the total fuel in a power plant is to go out and do it without wait- 22 lakh jobs across the country, growth in Odisha and the east- pellets of this farm residue in possible without affecting its ing for people to come to us and the minister told reporters after ern region, Pradhan said. next few days at a rate of Rs efficiency in terms of gross cal- apply for an electricity connec- inaugurating the Petrochemical Facilities for production of 5,500 per tonne," Singh said at orific value. tion," he said. He informed that Investors Conclave here. aircraft parts can also be set a press conference. The minister launched the all states are on board under the Asking the state govern- next 20 years for industrial units, in the region. Describing petro- Paradip in collaboration with up in the state for which there Power Secretary A K Bhalla Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har scheme and 7 states have already ment to tap the potential of many projects would choose chemicals as a sunrise industry the Odisha government. should be synergy between gov- however told reporters that the Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) Web send their formal proposals good ports as well as coal and other competitive states in the in eastern India, he said Odisha The Petroleum Ministry has ernment, industry and the aca- stubble pellets procured for portal which will help monitor which are being examined. mineral reserves in the state, he region. He said the Centre's is a prospective state with huge also decided to join the SPV fol- demia, he said. Three MoUs power plants may not be used household electrification prog- These states are Uttar said MSMEs would flourish in focus is on development of east- potential for growth in this sec- lowing a request from the state were on Thursday signed by for this season, but the system ress. It will disseminate informa- Pradesh, Bihar, Mizoram, Naga- major port towns like Paradip, ern states, and efforts are on to tor. Pradhan said the Centre's government, but the amount of IOC at the conclave, including will be in place. tion on household electrification land, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, and Dhamra and Gopalpur if proper build a world-class and vibrant Chemicals and Petrochemicals equity would be decided shortly. with Odisha Industrial Infra- On the likely bidders, Singh status (state, district, village- Assam. Singh made it clear that steps are taken. petrochemical eco-system, with Department would participate Stating that Paradip is stra- structure Development Cor- said a new market will be cre- wise), household progress on although electricity will not be Pradhan said unless Odisha an aim to help catalyse invest- through equity with an amount tegically located for investment poration, Institute of Chemical ated under which service pro- live basis, state-wise target ver- free for anybody, connections announces reasonable electric- ments in downstream plastic of Rs 40 crore in a Rs 100-crore in petroleum, chemicals and Technology, Mumbai and MCPI viders will bid after making sus achievement and monthly for the poor would be provided ity tariff and land rates for the parks proposed to be developed SPV, to set up a plastic park at petrochemicals, the minister Pvt Ltd, Haldia. PTI arrangements with farmers. electrification progress. free of cost under scheme. PTI Sebi orders refund for Rose Gig economy values experience ITDC achieves 48% growth in H1 Valley holiday plan investors with up to six-fold rise in fees profit to` 14.18 cr NEW DELHI: In a major holiday membership plans, the Kumar Saha, Shibamoy Dutta NEW DELHI: The gig economy work - 70 per cent projects ana- even in project work, with NEW DELHI: India Tourism crackdown on Rose Valley, reg- latest available records showed. and Abir Kundu -- to wind up values experience handsomely lysed were of less than 6 months women consultants paid 45-50 Development Corporation ulator Sebi has ordered a refund In the balancesheet filed the 'Holiday Membership' plans with an up to six-fold increase of duration. per cent less than male counter- (ITDC) posted a significant of thousands of crores of rupees by the firm for 2012-13, an and refund the money col- in fee levels from 'explorer' to "Three-fourths of projects parts at senior levels. performance in half yearly to the investors who had parked amount of around Rs 5,000 lected from the investors, with 'mature leader' phase, with some were part-time in nature and 60 "As the gig economy gets results of the current financial money in holiday membership crore is reflected under other returns, within three months. charging as high as Rs 74,000 per cent had a remote and work- more organised, we expect to year 2017-18. The total turn- plans of the group as it declared current liabilities that were Within two weeks of per day, says a report. from-anywhere component see issues like the gender pay over in H1 ending September those schemes illegal. refundable liability under the refund, the company and its Gig economy refers to a indicating that organisations gap to get addressed too," Flex- 2017 increased to Rs. 172.49 cr Besides, Rose Valley Hotels membership plan, Sebi said. directors will have to submit labour market characterised are getting more comfortable ing It Founder and CEO Chan- as compared to Rs. 170.94 cr in and Entertainment Ltd and its However, it did not mention a repayment report with proof by prevalence of short term con- in bringing them on-board drika Pasricha said. the corresponding H1 last year. directors have been barred the current liability. of trail of funds claimed to be tracts or freelance work. freelancers for short duration, The report leveraged over The company registered Profit from the markets for four years. According to the regulator, refunded and the receipts from Explorers are those with 16-20 years of professional expe- tight delivery projects," the 22,000 FeeBee benchmarks Before Tax (PBT) at Rs. 14.18 Also, the directors have various plans offered by the investors. 1-5 years of experience while rience command highest pay- report said. According to Fee- collected from over 50,000 cr as compared to Rs. 9.59 cr been restrained from holding firm with a promise of return In case they fail to comply mature leaders have 15-20 years outs, with 50 per cent charging Bee, the fee-benchmarking tool professionals across experi- in the corresponding H1 last positions of directors or key qualify as a Collective Invest- with Sebi's directive, the regula- on their side. over Rs 23,000 per day and 25 from Flexing It, the top four ence levels in India, who have year i.e. 2017-18, an increase management personnel at listed ment Scheme (CIS). After find- tor would initiate recovery pro- According to Flexing It, a per cent charging as high as Rs in-demand management skills worked on projects with MNCs, of 48 % as compared to the last companies. ing the funds mobilisation to ceedings against them. platform for independent con- 74,000. The report noted that sought by companies offering large Indian corporates, start- financial year. The momentum As per the Sebi order, more be an illegal CIS, Sebi ordered Besides, they cannot alien- sultants and flexible manage- organisations are increasingly flexible projects are strategy, ups, non-for-profits, consult- generated in last financial year than 21.9 lakh investors are Rose Valley and its directors ate or dispose of or sell any of ment talent in India and South getting comfortable with co-opt- marketing, HR and IT. ing firms and government-run has also continued in first half believed to have invested in -- Gautam Kundu, Ashok the assets of Rose Valley. PTI East Asia, 'mature leaders' with ing external talent and flexible Gender pay gap is evident enterprises. PTI of this financial year. MPOST CORPORATE KALEIDOSCOPE

GAIL (India) Limited released a video titled ‘A Grey Day at School (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xIcAdHgEmk)’ as part of Hawa Badlo campaign committing to improve the air quality by joined societal efforts, and urge people to sign up as Hawa Badlo warriors. The video Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, formally launched the campaign for the forthcoming 39th All India narrative revolves around a school Principal’s dream of how Public Relations Conference to be held during December 15 to17, 2017 in Visakhapatnam. Member Punjab National Bank Senior Hockey team wins the prestigious 54th Jawaharlal Nehru Senior Hockey air pollution is impacting the lives of children. The video aims to create of Parliament, Visakhapatnam Dr Kambampati Hari Babu and Minister for Agriculture, Horticulture, tournament 2017 by defeating Punjab & Sind bank by 3-0. The tournament was held at MDC, National awareness about the consequences of environmental contamination Stadium, New Delhi on November 14 caused by human activity and motivate people to inculcate air-friendly Sericulture and Agri-Processing Somireddy Chandra Mohan Reddy were also present on the occasion habits such as switching to CNG/electric vehicles, carpooling, and use of public transport

Union Minister (Housing and Urban Affairs), Hardeep S Puri, inaugurated Vigilance Awareness Week-2017 was observed in all field formations including CBEC chairman, Vanjana N Sarna visited GST pavilion at hall No. 18 at NLCIL ED (HR) N.Muthu, CGM R Mohan, and I Nedumaran, DGM HUDCO Build Tech – 2017 at India International Trade Fair and HUDCO HQ in DVC from October 30 to November 4, 2017. An Workshop on ‘Role of CVC & (Education) & Secretary, NLCIL Schools with Neyveli Teachers &School CMD Dr M Ravi Kanth, , explained the highlights of the exhibition Red flags in public procurement’ was organised at DVC HQ Kolkata, on October 31, pragati Maidan in GST Pavilion in 37th IITF 2017, which has embodied the theme of “Goods & Services Tax” in true spirit children during the Children’s Day-2017 celebrations at Lignite Hall, where Ex-Central Technical Examiner(CTE) of CVC Ramachandan Venkataramani Neyveli, on November 14 conducted the workshop

REC and Patratu Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (PVUNL) signed a loan agreement for establishing 3x800 MW Patratu Super Thermal NLCIL CGM / CSR R Mohan while performing the Bhoomi Pooja for the work of Power Project Phase-I in Jharkhand. The project cost of Rs. 18,668 laying paver blocks for roads, roadways and walkways for a length of 900 metres Asian Economic Forum (AEF) and the Government of Miryang, crore is funded in debt: equity ratio of 75:25 and Rs. 14,000 Cr. The at a value of 1.1 crores for Auroville Visitors Center under NLCIL, CSR initiatives Government of Korea signed a MoU to intensify collaboration in loan agreement was exchanged between REC Director (Finance) Ajeet NirviramChakra QC from Fuel Transportation (FT) Department was at Auroville Township, Pondicherry, on November 15. Also seen, NLCIL GM / CSR Miryang’s India Cultural Center, and Nano Technology Center at India Agarwal and PVUNL Chairman Kulamani Biswal. REC CMD Dr P V declared winner at 19th Southern Regional Quality Circles Convention Peter James, Auroville Foundation Under-Secretary Srinivas Murthy, and othe held at NTPC-Simhadri on November 15, 2017. Ramagundam also International Centre in Delhi. AEF Director Dr Praveen Singh signed the Ramesh and NTPC CMD Gurdeep Singh were also present at the event received Best QC Promoting Station in Southern Region officials from NLCIL and Auroville Foundation MoU with Miryang Mayor Park Il Ho 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi |Friday, 17 November, 2017 SERENA WILLIAMS MARRIES REDDIT SHAGUN CHOWDHARY CROWNED BADMINTON COACH PULLELA GOPICHAND CO-FOUNDER ALEXIS OHANIAN ON THURSDAY NATIONAL WOMEN’S TRAP CHAMPION BIOPIC ANNOUNCED ON HIS BIRTHDAY WASHINGTON: Tennis legend Serena Williams will marry Red- NEW DELHI: Shagun Chowdhary bagged a national MUMBAI: A biopic on former badminton player and chief na- dit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Thursday, the media reported. champion crown when she won the women’s trap event at tional coach Pullela Gopichand was announced on his birthday The couple will wed in New Orleans, Xinhua reported citing the 61st National Shooting Championship. Representing on Thursday. Fox Star Studios in collaboration with Abundantia People magazine. The wedding will take place at the city’s ONGC, Chowdhary, the first Indian woman trap shooter Entertainment is set to present the biopic. The film, in Hindi and Contemporary Arts Center. The winner of 23 Grand Slam singles to win an Olympic berth, overcame the challenge from Telugu, will chronicle Gopichand’s exciting journey on and titles has been engaged to Ohanian, 34, since last December. Punjab’s Rajeshwari Kumari to prevail 41-38 in the final. off the court. Happy to play on First target to make play-offs: a testing wicket, Lakmal rocks Indian top Chennaiyin FC says Sanjay Bangar coach Gregory CHENNAI: Chennaiyin order on rain-hit Day I FC coach John Gregory on striking thrice without conced- Thursday said the team had a ing a run in six overs. KOLKATA: Sri Lanka pacer good pre-season ahead of the “The conditions were pretty Suranga Lakmal wrecked the fourth season of Indian Super tough for batting and what didn’t high-profile Indian top-order League adding the first target really help us was we did not in overcast conditions to leave will be to make the play-offs. get an extended passage for play the hosts reeling at 17 for three “The pre-season has been wherein you had 15-20 overs on a rain-affected day one of very good. But it is all about bowled at a batsman in a partic- the first Test on Thursday. what happens on Sunday. ular fashion. It didn’t allow our Lakmal’s sensational spell, We always set targets that batsmen to get into a rhythm,” in which he struck thrice are reachable. The first tar- KOLKATA: India assistant coach felt Bangar. Bangar hoped they without conceding a run in get is a position in the play- Sanjay Bangar said the team looks would bounce back as the match six overs, saw him removing offs,” he said at a press meet forward to playing in challenging progresses. opener Lokesh Rahul on the here, referring to the team’s conditions like it experienced at “We have got all bases cov- first ball of the match after play first game against FC Goa on the Eden Gardens, ending at 17 ered as the game goes into fourth began three and a half hours November 19 at the Jawaha- for three on a rain-hit day one of and fifth day. There would be late due to wet conditions. rlal Nehru Stadium. the first Test against Sri Lanka. dents in the wicket because of the His other two victims were “I have got a fantas- Recalling their Test win against dampness. There will be variable Shikhar Dhawan (8), who tic group of players. It takes New Zealand here last year, Bangar bounce which may come into played a loose shot in testing a few weeks to get a good said the current Indian side thrives play. Both spinners are really conditions to play on to his understanding on the field. on challenges. vital to us. We have got swing stumps, and India captain Virat We have been working hard “We are happy to play on and seam and the pace that is Kohli (0), who was trapped in and played a lot of matches. wickets like this. A team doesn’t required.” front off a ball that came in Results don’t mean a great really want to play on easy con- Both the teams also agreed sharply. deal. I learnt a lot from the ditions. We challenge ourselves to make use of the floodlights Bad-light and rain led to matches that we played in. and most players are open to such to get maximum out of the day multiple interruptions before All starts on Sunday. That is challenges. We want to continue “It was similar to a day-night umpires decided to call off the when it matters,” he added. improving as a team,” said Ban- Test. It didn’t seem to be a day day’s play with just 11.5 overs He said the weather in gar after the day’s play in which Test. At times under such circum- being bowled. Chennai, which has received just 11.5 overs could be bowled stances, playing with a red ball In the second over after rains in the past few weeks due to wet conditions. becomes pretty tough. It’s more tea, skipper Kohli was trapped made it difficult to train and “It was a similar wicket last difficult to pick the red balls.” anticipating an away delivery the team spent a week in Pune, year, after it was relaid. We played Bangar said it’s about grind- when the ball sharply cut back where facilities were excellent. the Test really well and applied ing out of the situation and in. “When we got together ourselves. We are ready for the respecting the condition. Kohli went for the review some six weeks ago, Novem- challenge.” “The amount of times you are but was given out on umpire’s ber 19 seemed a long way Bangar rued that rain inter- going to get beaten plays on your call to bring his innings to an ahead of us. We had suf- ruptions did not help them to mind. The best approach is to for- end with zero from 11 balls. fered a little bit because of consolidate their innings after get the previous ball and accept Cheteshwar Pujara was the weather here in Chen- a bad start. that you got beaten on a number unbeaten on eight after play- nai. We spent over a week in Only one-hours’ play was of occasions. You may not really ing 43 deliveries in an anxious Pune, because of the slightly possible in two curtailed ses- play elegantly but you will have to stay at the crease with Ajinkya better weather and training sions and Sri Lanka made the grind it out as those are equally Rahane at the other end. facilities. It has been a great most of it with Suranga Lakmal important runs.” AGENCIES Bad light and rain meant pre-season for us,” he said. only an hour’s play was pos- The Chennaiyin FC coach sible in the day. said the pre-season training The first session was had offered an opportunity washed away due to drizzle for him to get to know the and wet outfield, and the sec- players and also tell them ond session began at 1.42 pm what the goal was. AGENCIES as play was possible only for 43 minutes. Suranga Lakmal celebrates with teammates after dismissing K L Rahul during the first day of the first cricket Test match at Eden Gardens The post-tea period began on Thursday PIC/PTI at 3.30 pm and there was no change to India’s score in the Lakmal made full use of the Rahul. the Lankan new-ball bowler inches above the middle stump. session but the Lankans added Eden greentop. It was an agonising end for almost cleaned up Pujara with Touring here for a Test the prized-wicket of Kohli in a Relishing the conditions, Rahul’s streak of seven succes- a fuller inswinger following series for the first time since 17-minute session. Lakmal produced an unplay- sive fifties. He was picked in the Rahul’s dismissal. 2009, Sri Lanka have lost 10 Dinesh Chandimal won able delivery that pitched on eleven ahead of Murali Vijay But luckily for the most matches and drawn six as they a fine toss and opted to bowl middlestump line and went but fell to a beauty. dependable India batsman, the search for a maiden win on under overcast conditions as away to take a feather edge of Continuing his dream start, ball which darted back in went Indian soil. AGENCIES Mumbai City FC Revamped ISL set Constant cricket between two gear up for teams can become boring: Arnold Indian Super for kick off, look to

KOLKATA: Former Sri and play, they are doing bet- League S4 sustain momentum Lankan middle-order batsman ter now. You have to believe, Russel Arnold on Thursday try and perform to your MUMBAI: Last year’s semi- endorsed India captain Virat potential.” finalists, Mumbai City FC, are Kohli’s view on scheduling, For India, this series is seen gearing up for the fourth sea- saying that frequent matches as a preparation to their gru- son of the Indian Super League between the teams can lead to elling South Africa tour early (ISL) with their head coach “boredom”. next year when they travel for Alexandre Guimaraes today Kohli said the “overdose” of two months to play three Tests, stressing his side has two of the India-Sri Lanka cricket needs six ODIs and three T20Is. finest goalkeepers in the squad. to be analysed as the islanders “It’s the right way forward. Mumbai City FC kick- are touring for a return series India have depth, they should off their campaign with an in space of three months. look at ways to better their away game against two-time “It’s true... Constant cricket game and the real challenge I-League winners and ISL can become boring and does past and perform to the best is going to come on the road,” debutants, Bengaluru FC, on take the little buzz away. It’s of ability. the 44-year-old said. November 19. about ensuring different oppo- “You got to be realistic. Justifying omission of They are to play their first KOCHI: Optimism will was conceptualised with an sitions to keep it alive,” the India are in a very good space Kusal Mendis in the squad, he home game on November 25 mingle with curiosity when aim to make the global sport former Lankan finisher said at the moment. A lot of other said: “Of late, has been strug- at the Andheri Football Arena. the revamped Indian Super more popular in the cricket- further. teams envy India and the gling with form in all formats. “I cannot say about the League’s fourth season kicks mad nation, getting recogni- Talking about the series, depth they have.” It was like giving him a other teams. I can say that we off here on Friday with more tion from the Asian Football Arnold said Sri Lanka need to There is a big divide break to work on issues, and have the two best goalkeep- teams and home-grown play- Confederation (AFC), it was overcome the demons of the between the two teams, but it’s a good way forward invest- ers in our side — Amrinder ers seeking to cash in on the logical on the part of Bengaluru past to win their maiden Test Arnold strongly hoped they ing in him. SL have given him (Singh) and Arindam (Bhat- euphoria generated by the FC to make the switch. in India. would challenge India after break to refresh himself.” tacharya) — and one new guy country’s maiden FIFA event. Often cited as an example of “Initially the challenge for their success in Pakistan. After his 110 against India like Kunal (Sawant), who is get- The ISL will now be a four- professionalism in Indian foot- them is to forget history. Having suffered a 0-9 in the Colombo Test, Men- ting experienced and learning.I month drill — double the length ball, Bengaluru FC have been India have been a very dif- humiliation against India at dis has been struggling and also (feel) that someday maybe of the previous three editions. the most successful I-League ficult place to travel even for home across the three for- went through 13 innings (we) can see two of the best Defending champions ATK club in recent years, winning better Sri Lankan teams,” he mats, Sri Lanka bounced back without a half-century and goal-keepers in India playing,” and Kerala Blasters, who lost it twice and finishing runner- said.“The initial challenge is to defeat Pakistan 2-0 in a Test was dropped from the ODI Guimaraes told a media con- to the rechristened unit from up once. to forget how intimidating series. side after the second game in ference here. the eastern Indian in last year’s More Indian players, more India have been in the recent “Sri Lankan are here to try Abu Dhabi. AGENCIES “So what we did in this sea- summit showdown, will start teams, more matches and more son is that for our goalkeep- the proceedings at the Jawaha- months - this is already being BCCI SGM on December 1, ing department we have got rlal Nehru Stadium, the venue touted an ISL with a difference. local players because we are for the 2016 final. Another change in the interested to develop them,” Now considered the coun- league is that it has done away five year FTP to be decided quipped the Costa Rican, try’s top-tier league, the winner with the requirement of man- who coached the team last of which will get a direct spot in datory signing of a marquee NEW DELHI: The BCCI will hold its Special General year too. the AFC Cup (Asia’s equivalent player, the rule due to which Meeting on December 1 to discuss a three- point Last season the franchise of Europe’s Europa League), India has been graced by the agenda including the all-important Future Tours lost in the play-off after topping it remains to be seen if it is likes of World Cup winning Programme of the Indian team spanning 2019-2023. the field in the league stage. able to sustain the interest and stars such as Alessandro Del The club had a success- momentum generated by the Piero, Marco Materazzi and It is expected that India will be touring New Zealand in ful pre-season camp in Spain, U-17 World Cup last month. Roberto Carlos. early 2019 and will be interesting to see if a series with where they won four games, Two more teams have been Though the ISL has slashed Pakistan is slotted in that five-year period. On instruc- drew two and lost only one added this season -- the brand the number of highly-paid tions of Committee of Administrators, acting president encounter. They also drew new Jamshedpur FC, backed by foreign recruits, teams like CK Khanna has summoned the SGM to also discuss against top flight Spanish side’s the Tata group, and the highly ATK still have on board for- B team Levante UD. professional Bengaluru FC, mer Manchester United star revocation of Rajasthan Cricket Association and com- On the pre-season campaign, making the switch from the Dimitar Berbatov and Rob- pensation claim of Kochi Tuskers Kerala. AGENCIES the Costa Rican said the overall I- League. bie Keane, an ex-Tottenham result was positive. AGENCIES With the league, which Hotspur forward. AGENCIES sport 15 MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi |Friday, 17 November, 2017 mp WADA rejects Russia’s plea to Sindhu enters quarter-finals; lift suspension ahead of Olympics Saina, Prannoy crash out

SEOUL: Russia moved a step topped the medals table. WADA have demanded closer to being barred from the “We do not have the right to that Russia accept the findings Winter Olympics in February decide who takes part in inter- of the McLaren report and when the World Anti-Doping national competition,” WADA allow access to urine samples Agency declined to lift the sus- president Craig Reedie told stored at its Moscow laboratory pension of Moscow’s national reporters following a Founda- as part of a “road map” back to anti-doping body on Thursday. tion Board meeting in Seoul. compliance. In a blow to Russia, the “The major event-holder The report by Canadian World Anti-Doping Agency has that right. We regret that lawyer Richard McLaren maintained their suspension RUSADA is not yet compli- accused Russia’s secret service of the Russian body, RUSADA, ant. Technically, they have and sports ministry of orches- which was first imposed in improved hugely since compli- trating a plot that included 2015 when evidence emerged ance was removed. But having using a “mousehole” to replace of widespread cheating. set a road map for compliance, dirty samples at the Sochi dop- WADA’s decision comes there are two issues that have ing laboratory. before the International Olym- to be fulfilled and we can’t walk Russia admit failings in pic Committee’s executive away from the commitments their doping system but deny board meet next month to con- we have from that road map.” state involvement, instead sider whether Russia can com- Reacting to the WADA deci- blaming officials at RUSADA pete at the Winter Olympics sion, the IOC said they “will take and the Moscow laboratory. FUZHOU: Defending cham- on Friday. It turned out to be match, Saina trailed Yamagu- second game and never looked before the Hong Kong shuttler in Pyeongchang, South Korea. all the circumstances, includ- “We accept the fact our pion PV Sindhu sailed into a dismal day for Saina and chi one to three in head-to- in the mental frame to make a raced to a two-point lead. The independent McLaren ing all the measures to ensure a national anti-doping system has the quarterfinals but newly- Prannoy, who had clinched the head record with their three comeback, even as Yamaguchi Prannoy tried to stage a report detailed a state-spon- level-playing field at the Olympic failed... (but) we absolutely deny crowned National champions National championship titles at previous results going in the comfortably took control of the comeback but Lee took an 11-9 sored doping conspiracy Winter Games 2018, into consid- a state-sponsored doping sys- Saina Nehwal and H S Pran- Nagpur earlier this month. Japanese favour and the trend proceedings. lead at the interval. from 2011 to 2015, including eration when it decides on the tem,” Russian Olympic Commit- noy crashed out of the China While Saina lost 18-21 continued. The Japanese never looked After the break, Prannoy the 2014 Winter Olympics in participation of the Russian ath- tee president Alexander Zhukov Open Super Series Premier 11-21 against her Japanese Saina, thus, suffered her in trouble after taking the first tried hard to shift the momen- Sochi, Russia, where the hosts letes in Pyeongchang.” said in Seoul. AGENCIES on Thursday. nemesis and fifth seed Akane fourth defeat -- three of them game and did not fall behind tum but never really managed World No. 2 Sindhu Yamaguchi in the women’s sin- in last one month -- against for a single moment in the sec- to achieve that as Lee took the emerged as the lone Indian gles second round, world no. 11 Yamaguchi this year. ond as she sealed the match first game 21-19. Kurds find joy survivor at the event after Prannoy was stunned by 53rd The London Olympic with consummate ease in just Prannoy played his heart she made quick work of Chi- ranked Cheuk Yiu Lee of Hong bronze-medallist, who won 37 minutes. out and took a slender one- in a Swedish na’s Han Yue 21-15 21-13, an Kong 21-19 21-17 in the men’s the title here in 2014, got off Later in the day, world no point lead (11-10) at the break opponent ranked at 104 in singles event. to a good start, taking a slen- 11 Prannoy went down fight- in the second game. football team’s BWF ranking, in a lop- sided For Saina, the match der 11-9 lead but Yamaguchi ing to less-fancied Lee in a sec- But after the break, exhaus- 40-minute women’s singles against Yamaguchi was always fought back to pocket the first ond round clash that lasted 42 tion seemed to have caught up match. expected to be a tricky one game 21-18. minutes. Prannoy as the Indian strug- success Olympic silver medallist considering her inferior head- Down by a game, Saina’s The encounter started gled, enabling Lee to make a Sindhu will clash with another to- head record against the Jap- game started to deteriorate. with both Prannoy and Lee comeback and finally wrap up STOCKHOLM: Weary of war, Chinese qualifier Gao Fangjie anese. Before the start of today’s She lacked momentum in the exchanging quick early points the contest 21-17. AGENCIES persecution, and statelessness, Kurds rejoiced as a Swedish football club founded just 13 Alderweireld years ago by Kurdish immi- Italy sack Ventura, target Ancelotti grants won promotion to the will be out till top division. MILAN: Gian Piero Ventura’s (USD 943,000). Scores of cheering fans Christmas, says reign as Italy coach ended after But FIGC president Carlo ran onto the pitch, dancing a World Cup qualifying fiasco Tavecchio will stay on despite and waving Kurdish flags last during which the four-time mounting pressure on him to week when Dalkurd FF beat Pochettino champions failed to reach next also resign after a defeat which Gothenburg’s GAIS 1-0 to year’s finals in Russia. has left a nation traumatised. earn a seat in next season’s The 69-year-old’s fate was “The federation president Allsvenskan. sealed after a crisis meeting (Tavecchio) informed partici- Midfielder Rawez Lawan, of the Italian Football Federa- pants at the (crisis) meeting... 30, hit the only goal 59 min- tion (FIGC) in Rome, with for- of the impossibility for him to utes into the game at the Dom- mer Chelsea and Real Madrid resign,” a FIGC statement read, narvsvallen Stadium in the coach Carlo Ancelotti among awaiting “a series of proposals” central Swedish city of Bor- the favourites to take over and on how to fix Italian football. lange on October 28. rebuild the Azzurri. Tavecchio later told jour- “Millions of Kurds are Ventura had refused to since 1958. According to reports, Ven- nalists that a new coach would dancing with joy... it’s so won- resign despite a 1-0 aggregate “As of today Gian Piero tura will be paid his salary be named at a special meet- derful to give them this hap- LONDON: Tottenham FC play-off defeat to Sweden on Ventura is no longer the coach until the end of his contract in ing of the FIGC federal coun- piness,” 30-year-old Lawan chief coach Mauricio Pochet- Monday that saw Italy miss the of the national team,” the FIGC June 2018, which amounts to cil which would take place told TT news agency after tino on Thursday confirmed World Cup for the first time said in a statement. approximately 800,000 euros next Monday. AGENCIES the match. AGENCIES his key defender Toby Alder- weireld will be out of football action until Christmas after DEVELOPMENT AND PANCHAYATS DEPARTMENT suffering a hamstring strain. Zlatan will be PANCHAYATI RAJ, PUBLIC WORKS, DIVISION GURGAON The Belgian national is Notice Inviting Tenders currently in the early stages of rehabilitation after sustain- The bids from eligible bidders are hereby invited on behalf of the Governor of Haryana through online bids in the website https://haryanaeprocurement.gov.in for the works PRESS NOTICE ing a hamstring strain against detailed in the table below: Haryana State Roads and Bridges Real Madrid in the Champions back in 2017: Development Corporation Ltd. (HSRBDC) League fixture. (A State Government Undertaking) “We expect he will be out for Bays No. 13-14, Sector-2, Panchkula Ph: 0172-2585264 longer than we did previously,” NOTICE INVITING TENDERS the Argentine told reporters United coach The Haryana State Roads & Bridges Development Corporation, Panchkula here ahead of the North Lon- invites online bids from eligible bidders on the website: https://haryanaeprocure- don derby on Saturday. ment.gov.in For the works detailed in the table given below :- “Maybe (Alderweireld will Sr. Name of work Bid Secu- Time Limit be back), after Christmas. That No. rity (Rs.) (in days) 1. Consultancy Services for the feasibility study and prepa- 30000 75 is the expectation. The injury ration of DPR for construction of 4-lane RUB on Garhi - is in his hamstring. He feels Farrukhnagar at level crossing no. 4B Railway KM 7/5-6 on Gurugram — Farrukhnagar - Jhajjar Road (RD 8755) disappointed and a little bit (SH-15A) in Gurugram District. sad but in the same way he a) Cost of Bid Document for work is Rs. 1,000/- is focused now on trying to h) E-serviee fee is Rs. 1000/- for each work. recover as soon as possible. He c) Last date and time for bid preparation and Hash Submission is 30.11.2017 at is working hard, he is in the 17:00 Hrs. d) For other details. please refer to web portal https://haryanaeprocurement.gov. first stages of his rehab. Always, in and http://hsrdc.in. with this type of injury, we have The Technical Bid of tenders will be opened on 06/12/2017 at 9:00 AM for only L&C to be cautious. We need to Society at par HSR Rate Deputy General Manager-I wait,” Pochettino added. millenniumpost.in Other Term & Conditions: for Managing Director, i Eligible bidders are Bidders registered with Haryana Government. [CI. 3.1] Other State PRDH-Advt. No:-1213/11/143/1718/57805 HSRBDC Gurugram. millenniumpo NO H ALFst TR U THS The Tottenham coach also Dated: 16.11.17 Phone No. 0124-2225955 said he is unsure of playing his Governments, Government of India and other Central and State Government Under- takings who satisfy the Qualification criteria. key quartet — Harry Kane, CHANGE OF NAME ii. In case the day of opening of tenders, happens to be holiday, the tenders will be opened Dele Alli, Harry Winks and I, Asad Ahmed S/o on the next working day. Hugo Lloris — in the upcom- Mohammad Haneef R/o iii.The time and place of receipt of tenders and other conditions will remain unchanged. ing fixture against Arsenal and iv. The undersigned reserve the right to reject a tender or all the tenders without assign- will contact medical staff for 154, Servent Quarter, ing any reason. further assesment and update. South Avenue, Near v. The societies shall produce an attested copy of resolution of the cooperative society duly In the recovery stage, Dele Nirman Bhawan, New attested from the competent authority of cooperative department for issuance partici- Alli (hamstring), Harry Kane MANCHESTER: Manchester United chief Delhi-11 have changed pation in the tenders. (knee), Hugo Lloris (groin) and coach Jose Mourinho said on Thursday Swed- vi. The tender without earnest money will not be opened. my name from Mohammad vii. In case of any dispute. the jurisdiction of court will be at Gurgaon Harry Winks (ankle) have all ish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic will be back in Asad to Asad Ahmed for viii. All material will be arranged by the contractor/society itself. undergone rehabilitation over the side later this year after undergoing a ‘mag- ix. For other term & conditions. see the tender form. the past 10 days and returned nificent recovery.’ all future purposes. 1. Start date of tender submission only for L&C society :- 22.11.2017 from 9:00 AM to full training for the first time The 35-year-old, who suffered knee liga- 2. End date for online submission of tenders only for L&C society :- 05.12.2017 up to 5:00 PM on Thursday. ment damage in April, re-signed for Manches- 3. Opening of tenders only for L&C society :- 06.12.2017 from 11:00 AM “I hope we can count on ter United earlier this season. If tenders not received within approved rates from the L&C Society them for the game but still “He is a lion, he is a fighter, I think that is 1. Start date of tender submission for contractor & L&C society :- 07.12.2017from 9:00 AM 2. End date for online submission of tenders for contractor & L&C society :- 13.12.2017up to 5:00 PM we need to decide, between a good description of him, he has the anger all 3. Opening of tenders :-14.12.2017 from 10:00 AM the medical staff and us,” the the time and that’s the reason why he’s almost 45-year-old said. coming back,” Sky Sports quoted the Portug- Or further details and e-tendering schedule visit website https://haryanaeprocure- “I am happy because, if they ese tactician as saying. ment.gov.in In on behalf of Governor of Haryana. can’t play Saturday, surely they “As we expect, he’s reduced the timing of his ( Dharmbir Yadav) are close to playing on Tuesday recovering and, as we were saying a few weeks PRDH-Advt. No:-1028/11/1016/1718/57829 Executive Engineer, and next weekend. It is not a big ago, he will be back in 2017, which is a magnifi- Dated: 16.11.17 Panchayati Raj, Gurgaon. issue like Toby Alderweireld,” cent recovery,” Mourinho added. AGENCIES Pochettino added. AGENCIES 16 mp Entertainment MILLENNIUM POST | New Delhi | Friday, 17 November, 2017 WHEN THERE IS NO WORK, I CREATE MY OWN: NEHA DHUPIA

MUMBAI: Actor Neha Dhupia says she has survived in the industry for so long TheHindi Medium actor doesn’t because she believes in creating work when there is none. Having made her believe in comparing herself with Hindi film debut in 2003 with Qayamat: City Under Threat, Dhupia went on to work in films like Julie and Sheesha. others. She feels that it will destroy her She then gradually shifted to indie cinema with films such as Ek Chalis Ki put it out there that I am here to do good The 37-year-old actor is looking for- Last Local, Mithya, Phas Gaye Re Obama work and somehow or the other you will ward to Tumhari Sullu. Dhupia says she and Hindi Medium. The actor will next get it,” she says. shares a fantastic rapport with her co-star feature in Vidya Balan-starrer Tumhari Dhupia may have started her career Vidya Balan. Sullu. with films where people took note of her Directed by Suresh Triveni, Tum- Though it has been 15 years for her in glamorous side, the actor is not comfort- hari Sullu, which releases today, is about films, in the last few years Dhupia says she able with the “sex symbol” tag. a happy-go-lucky Mumbai housewife, is trying “new, different things”. “I really feel blessed that the notion Sulu (played by Balan), whose routine “The learning from my entire career has changed today. It’s very disturbing life changes when she unexpectedly is: never compare yourself to anyone when people call me sexy. I hate that lands herself with the exciting job of because it’ll destroy you. You’ve to wake word. People used to call me a ‘sex sym- a night RJ on a radio station. up everyday and keep hustling. I don’t bol’ and I am like please, I am not that Dhupia, who features in the think I’ve lasted so many years because person,” she says. film as Maria, a woman who heads of my crafts or relationships but because “...I don’t think at any point I had a a radio station, calls it “surreal” to play I wake up and hustle,” she says in an ‘sex symbol’ quality because of which the part as it coincided with her own interview. people think I am hot. In my own head podcast show “No Filter Neha”. “If there is something interesting hap- I am not. I don’t suffer from low esteem She is who is known for her pening, I reach out to people. When there but I am a realist and I know who I am,” work in Hindi, Telugu and is no work, I create my own. You have to Dhupia says. Malayalam films. PTI ‘Want ‘Newton’ to break India’s dry Ik Onkar makers to seek spell at Oscars’

NEW DELHI: Newton being unanimously chosen as court aid against censors India’s official entry to the Academy Awards next year, actor Rajkummar Rao hopes that his dark comedy on Indian SYEDA EBA do this by sell- democracy manages to win the golden statuette. Directed ing drugs,” the by Amit Masurkar, the movie featuring Rajkummar in the very time the film- minister fur- title role, has been chosen to represent the country in the makers try and bring ther added. Best Foreign Language category at the awards. forth the prevailing The movie, As it is barely months to the ceremony, the actor says the issues of the society, which was team is working round-the-clock, which includes showing Eeither the censor board or shot in 2015, the film around and acquiring the services of a publicist. the government intervene to was sent to CBFC “The campaign is on. We are try- make the release difficult. After the very next year. ing our level best and hoping for the movies like Lipstick under My But after the board best. The team is already there. A lot of Burkha, PK and Udta Punjab, denied approving screenings are going on in Los Ange- the upcoming film Ik Onkar, it, makers went on les as we speak. There are a huge num- based on the deteriorating con- to approach FCAT ber of films, that are in the running for ditions of Punjab, is stuck in the but gained no positive the Oscars. controversy. We got the certificate from its support to the makers so result. “I really want Newton to break India’s Last year, Udta Punjab, the countries like Australia, Can- as to get the approval certifi- Aviraj Raj Sharma, dry spell at the Oscars. I can’t say, obvi- movie based on a similar stor- ada, and USA. But when we cate from CBFC. In a recently Director of the movie ously, if it will happen or not. But I wish yline, was given 89 cuts by the approached the censor board held press conference, Som- feels that the it does,” Rajkummar says in an inter- CBFC but was cleared by the in India, they didn’t have a valid nath Bharti, MLA, Aam Aadmi corruption view. There were reports that suggested High Court later with only a reason, which was really sur- Party, expressed his disappoint- within the Newton was a rip-off of the 2001 Iranian single cut. What’s surprising prising,” says Talwinder Singh, ment on the ban. “We are living roots of the rul- film Secret Ballot. But the reports were is that the censor board has Producer. under a visionless government. ing body is what quashed with filmmaker Anurag Kashy- straightaway denied releasing He further added, “The All small and big institutions caters to such ille- ap’s timely intervention. this movie at all. But what’s so movie doesn’t disrespect any are working under the Central gal practices. He reached out to the director and controversial about it? community. In fact, through government. I feel sad that a “A statement the producer of the Iranian film to clar- “We have made this movie this film, we are bridging the film like this has been banned from the central ify that Newton bore no similarity with on the reality of Punjab. There gap between two communities from screening in India,” he authority, that bans their project. Rajkummar quipped, “(He) butchered those are many issues, like land - Hindu and Sikh. The CBFC said. the movie showing the people who were saying ‘it’s a copy, it’s a copy’. mafia, drug menace, women didn’t even ask for any cuts. “The Indian government reality, actually gives me “I don’t understand people have so much time in this abuse etc, which have been They just said ‘the film pro- somehow wants to divert a hint that the govern- world. I don’t know why they don’t focus on making their ignored by the concerned vokes communal disharmony’”. people’s mind from all issues ment itself is supporting life better.” Rajkummar was in the capital to promote his officials. We tried to put light After the movie was in society - no jobs, no corruption,” he said. upcoming web-series, ‘Bose:Dead/Alive’, in which he fea- on such problems but some- banned in India for provok- education, and no better envi- Now, the makers are left tures in the title role of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. It where the government does not ing communal disharmony, ronment. So, how will you with only one option, which is premiers on AltBalaji app from November 20. PTI want this to be brought forth. Aam Aadmi Party extended keep the people busy? They to knock the doors of the court. Brett Ratner off ‘Wonder Woman 2’, Mark Schwahn suspended amid sexual harassment probe confirms Gal Gadot LOS ANGELES: Showrun- ‘The Royals’ is produced ner Mark Schwahn has been by Lionsgate Television and LOS ANGELES: Actor Gal was already done before this arti- suspended from his E! drama Universal Cable Productions. Gadot confirmed the reports cle came out.” ‘The Royals’ amid allegations The show tells the story of a that embattled Hollywood A PageSix report had earlier of sexual misconduct. fictionalised version of the producer Brett Ratner will claimed, the 32-year-old star, who “E!, Universal Cable Pro- British royal family. Its actor not be a part of Wonder Woman plays the title role in Patty Jenkins- ductions and Lionsgate Tele- Alexandra Park has also issued sequel. Ratner’s production com- directed film, does not want the vision take sexual harassment a statement indicating that she pany RatPac-Dune Entertainment successful franchise to benefit a allegations very seriously, experienced harassment and backed Wonder Woman as a part of man accused of sexual misconduct. investigate them thoroughly misconduct from Schwahn. its co-financing deal with Warner Recently, Gadot also opted and independently, and take “I have a responsibility as Bros studios. out of attending an award func- appropriate action,” said the someone who was working Talking to US Today, Gadot, tion honouring Ratner. Earlier this studios in a statement to vari- under Mark Schwahn on ‘The without naming Ratner, said, “The month, six women claimed the ety.com. Royals’ to acknowledge these truth is, there’s so many people producer sexually harassed them, “Lionsgate has suspended claims,” Park said in a state- involved in making this movie, it’s including actors Olivia Munn and Mark Schwahn from ‘The Roy- miere in March. In a letter to ment posted on Twitter. not just me, and they all echoed the Natasha Henstridge. als’ as we continue our investi- Variety, 18 women who worked “I am devastated to admit same sentiments. Actor Ellen Page also accused gation.” Created by Schwahn, on Schwahn’s previous show, to myself, to my colleagues, and “Everyone knew what was the the producer of homophobic ‘The Royals’ wrapped up pro- ‘One Tree Hill’, came forward to this industry that I too, have right thing to do. But there was behaviour and that he outed her duction on its fourth season to accuse Schwahn of sexual been exposed to this reprehen- nothing for me to actually come on the sets of 2006 movie “X- Men: in September and is set to pre- harassment. sible behaviour.” IANS and say because (the decision) The Last Stand”. PTI Dwayne’s daughter named Golden Globe ambassador

LOS ANGELES: Actor Dwayne “The honoree will now be everywhere and empower them “The Rock” Johnson’s 16-year-old referred to as the Golden Globe to speak out on issues they are daughter Simone Garcia John- Ambassador and we could not passionate about.” son has been named the Golden think of a better representative The Golden Globe Ambas- Globe Ambassador for the upcom- than Simone to carry on this tra- sador replaces the honorary title ing 75th annual Golden Globe dition, as her values closely reflect Miss/Mr. Golden Globe, which Awards. HFPA president Meher everything the HFPA stands for,” was given to the son or daughter Tatna announced Simone’s name, she added. of the entertainment industry’s reports aceshowbiz.com. Simone said: “I’ve been lucky most respected talents. The 2018 “As we look forward to the 75th enough to grow up in a house- Golden Globe Awards will take anniversary of the Golden Globe hold with strong role models and place on January 7, 2018. Awards, the Hollywood Foreign feel so honoured to represent the She’s an advocate for strong Press Association (HFPA) mem- HFPA for its 75th Anniversary. As females since always. Simone loves bers decided to expand this role to the newly minted Golden Globe spending quality time with her embody the HFPA’s philanthropic Ambassador, I hope to serve as father and being his plus one to efforts year round,” Tatna said. a role model to young people events. IANS