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DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Hong Kong protests ‘near terrorism’: China Infighting over presidential Protesters apologise after chaotic airport violence; flights resume after two days of disruptions candidate heightens in UNP Reuters the airport for five days, HONG KONG mostly withdrew by China said Hong Kong’s prot­ daybreak. Ranil, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya are in the fray est movement had reached It’s not clear whether the “near terrorism” on Wednes­ ugly scenes have eroded the Meera Srinivasan eyes on the highest office. day, after a night of ugly broad support the move­ COLOMBO Their disagreement now is clashes at the city’s airport ment has attracted in Hong Days after former Sri Lankan manifesting over the draft where demonstrators set Kong, while the city’s falter­ President Mahinda Rajapak­ Constitution of the National upon and detained two men ing economy has also taken a sa named his brother Gota­ Democratic Front, a UNP­led they suspected of being go­ hit in recent months. baya Rajapaksa as opposi­ alliance that the party hopes vernment sympathisers. “We promise to reflect tion presidential candidate, to form with some of its cur­ Flights out of the financial and to improve,” protesters the battle over candidacy rent coalition partners, in­ hub resumed after two days said in one message distri­ within the United National cluding minority parties. of disruptions caused by buted on social­media app Party (UNP) has intensified, Further, while the PM wants thousands of protesters Telegram. with no indication of a deci­ the alliance formed before swarming the terminal at sion yet. Ranil Wickremesinghe their candidate is named, one of the world’s busiest air­ Tricky, says Trump While UNP legislators Mr. Premadasa, according to ports, forcing the cancella­ In addition to Beijing’s con­ point to at least three diffe­ Colombo elite supporting political sources, has been tion of hundreds of City in turmoil: A Hong Kong policeman takes a fall during a scuffle with protesters. * AFP demnation, the People’s Dai- rent positions on who their us,” said Ajith Perera, Minis­ insisting that the candidate departures. ly called for “using the sword party must field, much of ter and a staunch Premadasa be named first. China’s Hong Kong and from British to Chinese rule a peaceful sit­in at the air­ Party’s official People’s Dai- of the law” to restore order, the disagreement in the last backer. “A majority of our With the deadlock persist­ Macau Affairs Office in Beij­ in 1997. port turned violent late on ly, and their harassment of and mainland social media few days is over the clashing MPs is with him, and a ma­ ing, restless supporters of ing called the behaviour at “We’re deeply sorry about Tuesday as protesters con­ the man they believed to be a users lauded the detained re­ interests of party leader and jority of our working com­ Mr. Premadasa organised a the airport no different to what happened yesterday,” fronted and held a man they mainland agent drew China’s porter as a hero. Prime Minister Ranil Wickre­ mittee members want him party rally in the central Ba­ terrorism and said it must be read a banner held up by a believed was an undercover strongest language yet. On Tuesday, U.S. Presi­ mesinghe and deputy leader to contest. Backbenchers dulla district earlier this severely punished. group of a few dozen demon­ Chinese agent. Bus loads of riot police ar­ dent Donald Trump de­ Sajith Premadasa, who are have also decided to support week, giving him centre Ten weeks of increasingly strators in the airport arriv­ Later, the seizure by prot­ rived in response, clashing scribed the volatile situation both presidential aspirants. him,” he told The Hindu. stage, but stopping short of violent clashes between pol­ als hall. esters of a reporter from Chi­ with furious demonstrators as “tricky”, and said China’s At this point, neither seems However, those backing naming him their candidate. ice and protesters have In chaotic scenes that na’s Global Times newspap­ before withdrawing once the government had moved willing to give way to the oth­ the Prime Minister are in no Mr. Premadasa addressed a plunged the city into its would once have been un­ er, a nationalistic tabloid run man was removed.. troops near the border with er, say members with evi­ mood to buy that line of ar­ huge gathering, a day after worst crisis since it reverted thinkable for Hong Kongers, by the ruling Communist Protesters, who occupied Hong Kong. dent anxiety over the delay. gument. A prominent Minis­ Gotabaya Rajapaksa ad­ The third option, for a few ter termed the claim “non­ dressed his supporters, and within the party, is Speaker sense”. “Can he [Mr. promised to reduce income Karu Jayasuriya. Premadasa] get Sinhala­ disparity and build an ex­ Chinese state media Amid growing specula­ Buddhist votes? Can he get port and investment­driven Cathay Pacific fires two pilots tion, all eyes are on Mr. Pre­ urban, middle­class votes? economy. madasa, who will be the Can he draw minority votes? “We need someone like voice support for police youngest in the fray if he Can he draw the youth?” he him to take on Gota,” said The airline is under pressure from China’s aviation regulator manages to secure his par­ asked, making a case for 70­ another supporter. Even se­ People’s Daily calls for ‘sword of the law’ ty’s nomination. “We need a year­old Mr. Wickremes­ nior figures in the UNP, such Agence France-Presse ground staff, without speci­ candidate who can win” is a inghe. “He [Mr. Premadasa] as Finance Minister Mangala Reuters A front­page commentary HONG KONG fying why. Local media re­ popular refrain among his is substance­less,” the Minis­ Samaraweera have openly HONG KONG/BEIJING on the overseas edition of Cathay Pacific said on Wed­ ported that they were ac­ supporters. The 52­year­old ter said, requesting backed a Premadasa Chinese state media called the Communist Party’s offi­ nesday it has sacked two pi­ cused of leaking the travel politician is the son of form­ anonymity. candidacy. on Beijing on Wednesday to cial People’s Daily newspap­ lots, as the Hong Kong car­ details of a Hong Kong police er two­term President Ra­ However, the Minister Meanwhile, a group of ci­ deal with protests in Hong er said on Wednesday Hong rier comes under huge football team that was tra­ nasinghe Premadasa, who could be part of a camp that vil society members is galva­ Kong more decisively after a Kong had reached a critical pressure from Beijing to velling to the mainland. was assassinated in 1993 by seems to be dwindling, with nising around Speaker Jaya­ reporter from one of China’s juncture. “Using the sword clamp down on staff suppor­ Cathay has struggled to an LTTE suicide bomber. Sa­ more members gravitating suriya. Nearing 80, Mr. largest government­backed of the law to stop violence tive of anti­government find middle ground in the in­ jith Premadasa is currently a towards Mr. Premadasa. Jayasuriya is seen as a “sea­ newspapers was caught up and restore order is over­ rallies. The airline needs to submit creasingly bitter standoff Cabinet Minister represent­ soned democrat” by many in overnight clashes. whelmingly the most impor­ “One is currently involved manifests of staff on flights between protesters and ing the southern port town Grassroots machinery activists and intellectuals . Ten weeks of violent tant and urgent task for in legal proceedings. The going to the mainland. * AP authorities. The airline is of Hambantota in “It looks harder now for But party members conti­ clashes between police and Hong Kong!” it said. other misused company in­ now subject to new regula­ Parliament. anyone else, with the grass­ nue question his popular pro­democracy protesters, Another commentary by formation on Flight CX216/ “illegal protests”. tions announced last week “Though he is western­ roots machinery of the party support. The three camps angered by a perceived ero­ a Shenzhen University re­ 12 August,” the airline said in The airline said last week by Beijing’s aviation regula­ educated, Sajith Premadasa rallying around him [Mr. may not converge on the sion of freedoms, are posing searcher, published by the a statement. it had suspended a pilot ac­ tor. The rules require the air­ is very grounded and has a Premadasa],” remarked a se­ “right candidate” for this one of the biggest challeng­ China Daily, said the Cen­ Cathay Pacific Chief Exec­ cused of rioting after alleg­ line to submit manifests of connect with ordinary citi­ nior member. election, but the one thing es for Chinese President Xi tral government should deal utive Rupert Hogg warned edly participating in staff working on flights going zens in a way that no other It is well known that both they agree on is that “time is Jinping since he came to with Hong Kong issues more staff on Monday that they protests. to the mainland or through UNP leader has. We can’t Mr. Wickremesinge and Mr. running out” for the party, power in 2012. decisively. could be fired for supporting It also said it had fired two its airspace. win an election with just the Premadasa have set their as a senior member put it. ELSEWHERE Khamenei Spies are watching our 3 Malaysian Facebook listened to users’ meets Yemen Ministers want rebels scientists, says Kremlin Naik expelled private conversations: report ‘Avoid meetings with foreign colleagues’ Agence France-Presse Reuters It says the transcriptions were made with permission Tehran Agence France-Presse on alert,” said President Vla­ KUALA LUMPUR Guaido warns Maduro on Iran’s supreme leader has Moscow dimir Putin’s spokesman Malaysia’s Cabinet dis­ moves to advance polls Agence France-Presse Messenger app who had opt­ held talks with a senior Ye­ Foreign spies keen to get Dmitry Peskov when ques­ cussed the permanent resi­ San Francisco CARACAS ed to have their voice chats meni rebel official just days their hands on Russian re­ tioned on the decree. dency of Indian Islamic Venezuela’s opposition leader Facebook has paid hundreds transcribed. after the long­running in­ search are monitoring Rus­ preacher Zakir Naik on Juan Guaido warned of contractors to listen to Bloomberg said the con­ tervention against the re­ sian scientists around the Scientific espionage Wednesday, with three Mi­ President Nicolas Maduro on and transcribe snippets of tractors working on the pro­ bels by its regional foes clock, the Kremlin said on “There is such a thing as nisters — M. Kulasegaran, Tuesday that any attempts to users’ conversations, U.S. ject were “rattled” by listen­ Saudi Arabia and the UAE Wednesday, after experts scientific and industrial es­ Gobind Singh Deo and Xa­ bring forward parliamentary media reported on Tuesday. ing to private audio whose suffered a major setback. denounced a new security pionage,” Mr. Peskov said. vier Jayakumar — demand­ elections would end in Facebook acknowledged origin wasn’t disclosed and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decree as a Soviet “It exists 24/7 and is target­ ing his expulsion for his al­ “disaster” for the the transcriptions, which which sometimes contained hosted Houthi rebel spo­ throwback. ing our scientists, especially leged racial remarks. government. AFP were first reported by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s vulgar content. kesman Mohammed Abdul The Kremlin’s comments young scientists.” Naik, who lives in Malay­ Bloomberg, telling the news CEO, at the firm’s annual The contractors also we­ Salam at his Tehran resi­ came after scientists criti­ He noted, however, that sia and faces charges of Twitter to let users conference in San Jose. * AP follow interests, people agency in a statement that ren’t told the reason why dence on Tuesday after cised a Ministry directive some of the decree’s provi­ money laundering and they were made with users’ they were doing the tran­ calling on researchers not to sions “sound excessive”, ad­ hate speech in India, has SAN FRANCISCO UAE­backed Southern Twitter users will be able to permission, but that the Facebook did not respond scribing, the news agency Transitional Council (STC) meet foreign colleagues ding that Russia “should not come under fire for his follow a small number of practice has nonetheless to a request for comment. reported. seized Yemen’s second city one­on­one and requesting be bound by some rules that comments that Hindus in interests by this year end in been stopped. The contractors were test­ Apple and Google have in Aden on Saturday. filed reports after every en­ won’t lead to anything Malaysia had “100 times the same way they follow “Much like Apple and ing the ability of the social recent weeks said they’ve Mr. Khamenei renewed counter — even a cup of good.” more rights” than the Mus­ people, the company said on Google, we paused human network’s artificial intelli­ halted the practice, while his support for the rebels, coffee. The document imposes lim minority in India. Tuesday. They can follow review of audio more than a gence to interpret messages, Amazon gives users the op­ who control the Yemeni “Of course we must be so­ significant red tape on any Muslims make up about certain topics on a curated week ago,” the company and the only users affected tion of blocking the collec­ capital Sanaa and much of mewhat vigilant, because visits by foreigners into Rus­ 60% of Malaysia’s list. AFP said. were those on Facebook tion of their voice by Alexa. the north. foreign special services are sian institutes. population.

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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12705 (set by Neyartha) SUDOKU FAITH 11 Male sheep reportedly with a 4 Metal worker to cook this after base at a meteorological the Frenchman hiding behind Krishna the strategist observation post (7,7) the forest trees is caught (11) 14 Language spoken in the large 6 Language enabling In the Mahabharata, behind every episode we find the and noisy party with no limits transformations is not new Lord’s planning, said V.S. Karunakarachariar, in a discourse. (5) (7) Satrajit was the father of Satyabhama, who married Lord 16 Grovelling with soiled livery in 7 Drawing out the thing Krishna. Satrajit owned the rare gem called Syamantaka gi­ the pig pen (9) embedded in the damaged ven to him by Surya. Satrajit would not part with it . A plot 17 Job location (9) ceiling (9) was hatched to do away with Satrajit, and steal the gem. Sa­ tadhanva killed him, while Akrura and Kritavarma stood 19 Set off to find a good leader 8 Travelling time for the judge for the navy of an African taking part in a medieval guard. When Krishna and Balarama came to know that S a­ country (5) joust (10) tadhanva was behind the murder, they gave chase. Satad­ hanva went up to Mithila (Nepal). However, when they 20 Animal on the ark with seeds 12 Tension influenced by weight caught up with him and killed him, they found that the gem for some trees (5,9) could alter one's appearance was not with him. Krishna returned to Dwaraka, but Balara­ 23 Language of the abdicating (6,5) ma stayed back, and Duryodhana came to him to learn how king upsets the guru allowed 13 Pet shop has pivoted to supply to return at first (6) to use the mace in fighting. Krishna kept checking on Du­ some fertilizer components ryodhana’s progress, and when Duryodhana’s lessons were 24 Measured the short Norse god (10) with a prominent frame (8) complete, He went to Balarama and asked him to return. 15 Brown turns up with a partner Why did Krishna wait for so long to call His brother bac k 25 English writer getting letters to go around the old city, as home? The reason was that only when Duryodhana was a from Simpson's Ayers Rock might be expected (9) address (6) skilled fighter would he dare to challenge the Pandavas, and 18 One settling a score with rage Solution to puzzle 12704 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku war would break out. And the war was necessary to esta­ 26 Formal apology in a clue? Pam seen around the outskirts of ■ ACROSS solved it! (3,5) blish righteousness in the world. Vellore (7) In the same way, Subhadra’s marriage to Arjuna was also 1 Language trouble eases after ■ DOWN 19 West Indian leaders ignored brought about by Krishna. Balarama wanted Subhadra to the entry of the American 1 State of the leading actor the brief bewitching marry Duryodhana, but she wanted to marry Arjuna. Arju­ uncle (8) visiting extended relatives (4) representation of the sea na turned up in the guise of a sanyasi, and Balarama, not re­ 5 Challenge the goal (6) 2 Son climbs up with the floor (7) cognising him, suggested that he stay near Subhadra’s pa­ 9 All of the inert compound sparkling white wine to the 21 Language discovered by Tesla lace. Krishna opposed the idea, aware that if He opposed a found inside an English city European composer (5) before reaching a capital city plan, Balarama would stubbornly go ahead with it. Al l this (8) 3 Language discovered by a from the south (5) eventually facilitated the marriage of Subhadra and Arjuna. 10 Ancient Romans conveying sailor in a retreat between 22 Language of some podiatrists Thus, it was Krishna who did all the behind the scenes work, where it originally was (2,4) Massachusetts and Hawaii (7) (4) and ensured the success of His plans.

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