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follow us: tuesday, october 15, 2019 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 22 pages ț ₹10.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Economics Nobel for Abhijit, two others If the media keeps They were awarded “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty” quiet, terrorism T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan NEW DELHI Contemporaries will end: Doval The Royal Swedish Academy 13 dead in cooking gas of Sciences has decided to recall JNU days cylinder blast in U.P. award the 2019 Sveriges Riks­ Kallol Bhattacherjee ‘The judiciary treats terror cases MAU (U.P.) bank Prize in Economic New Delhi on a par with ordinary crimes’ At least 13 people died and 15 Sciences in Memory of The Jawaharlal Nehru Un­ were injured in an explosion Alfred Nobel, popularly iversity community rejoiced Special Correspondent caused by a leak in a cooking New Delhi gas cylinder at a house here called the Nobel Prize in Eco­ on Monday as Professor Ab­ on Monday. The building in nomics, to Abhijit Banerjee, hijit Banerjee of MIT was de­ National Security Adviser Walidpur collapsed while two Esther Duflo, and Michael clared joint winner of the No­ Ajit Doval said on Monday adjoining houses were Kremer “for their experi­ bel Prize in economics. that the “approach of the extensively damaged. The mental approach to alleviat­ Teachers recollected his judiciary to treat terror explosion occurred around ing global poverty”. campus presence and acti­ crimes on a par with ordin­ 7 a.m., said the police. While Dr. Banerjee and Dr. vism during the last prime ary crimes” was one of the NORTH Ī PAGE 5 Duflo are both affiliated with ministerial tenure of Indira major challenges. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the Massachusetts Institute Gandhi in the early 1980s Quoting the former Brit­ of Technology, Dr. Kremer is when JNU was rocked by stu­ ish Prime Minister, Margaret Skills university to with Harvard University. The dents’ protests. Thatcher, on the need for a come up in Delhi three will equally share the “He was extremely well change in the media policy, NEW DELHI prize money of 9 million read by the time he came to he said: “If a terrorist takes Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Swedish krona (about JNU and had interest in many action and the media is on Monday announced that $916,798/₹6.53 crore). other disciplines,” said Pro­ quiet about it, terrorism will the Delhi Cabinet has cleared “The research conducted fessor Janaki Nair. who was a end.” a proposal to start a Delhi by this year’s laureates has campus friend of the Nobel He was speaking at the in­ Skills and Entrepreneurial considerably improved our laureate during 1981­83. augural session of the Na­ come and depose... It is dif­ University. The concept of ability to fight global pover­ tional Conference of Chiefs ficult for any ordinary citi­ the university, he said, came ty,” the Royal Swedish Acade­ DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 3 of Anti­Terror Squads/Spe­ zen to come to a court of law up as the Delhi government my of Sciences said in a re­ cial Task Forces, organised and depose against dreaded found that students come out lease. “In just two decades, by the National Investiga­ Jaish or Lashkar­e­Taiba ter­ of the formal education their new experiment­based They then showed that viate it,” said the technical investments,” the paper ad­ tries, there is often a stark tion Agency (NIA). rorists... I want to compli­ system with a BA, B.Sc. or MA approach has transformed these smaller questions paper, accompanying the an­ ded. “On credit, growing evi­ difference between the tech­ Union Home Minister ment the NIA on withstand­ degree and do not find jobs. development economics, could be best answered nouncement. “For example, dence indicates that micro­fi­ nology and practices used by Amit Shah was scheduled to ing these challenges.” CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD which is now a flourishing through carefully designed on schooling, strong evi­ nance programmes do not companies in the same eco­ speak at the session, but He also pitched for a field of research.” experiments among the peo­ dence now shows that the have the development ef­ nomy and sector. That is, in opted out due to “unavoida­ strong perception manage­ ple who are the most affect­ employment of contract fects that many had thought developing economies, some ble reasons”. ment in fighting terrorism. Contempt case against Reliable answers ed. This thought process has teachers is generally a cost­ [they would have] when companies use the latest Explaining the challenges “The media is a very impor­ Gurumurthy dropped The laureates have, since the resulted in what are called effective way to improve stu­ these programmes were in­ technology and practices, in investigating terror cases, tant organ to fight terro­ NEW DELHI mid­1990s, sought to intro­ randomised control trials, dent learning, while the im­ troduced on a large scale.” while others use outdated Mr. Doval said, “The ap­ rism. Why do terrorists kill? The Delhi High Court on duce a new approach to ob­ previously used in the pure pact of reduced class size is Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Du­ production methods. proach of the judiciary is to As Margaret Thatcher said if Monday closed the contempt of court proceedings against taining reliable answers sciences and in clinical drug mixed, at best.” flo, who are married to each treat terrorism cases on a a terrorist takes action and CONTINUED ON Swaminathan Gurumurthy, about the most effective trials, to be deployed in the “On health, poor people’s other, have had a long histo­ Ī PAGE 12 par with ordinary crimes; the media is quiet about it, LEADERS RECALL NOBEL editor of weekly magazine ways to combat global pover­ social sciences. investment in preventive ry of conducting research to­ they apply the same bench­ terrorism will end. They do COUPLE’S INDIA WORK Thuglak, for retweeting an ty. Rather than focussing on “As a result, we now have care has been shown to be gether, often collaborating Ī PAGE 13 mark and standards... build­ it for publicity, because then article against a sitting Delhi big­picture questions, they a large number of concrete very sensitive to the prices of with Dr. Kremer as well. INDIAN ECONOMY ON SHAKY ing up the cases... Where do only you can terrorise peo­ High Court judge. divided the issue into small­ results on specific mechan­ health products or services, One of the major findings GROUND: ABHIJIT Ī PAGE 15 you get the eyewitnesses in ple.” ECONOMICS OF POVERTY NATION Ī PAGE 9 er, more manageable and isms behind poverty and giving a strong argument for of Dr. Banerjee and Dr. Duflo terror cases? Very few ... DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD measurable questions. specific interventions to alle­ generous subsidies to such was that in developing coun­ Ī EDITORIAL and secondly, who will dare CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 Restored mobile lines recharge residents of Kashmir ‘FASTags will work as Prosecute LeT operatives, 40 lakh postpaid lines back after 72 days Aadhaar to track vehicles’ U.S. tells Pak. Peerzada Ashiq would die and my son might Gadkari appeals to States to adopt tech Srinagar not come to know about it. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Hundreds of Kashmiris were Who would have performed special correspondent Washington able to reconnect with rela­ my last rites?” Ms. Mukhta, NEW DELHI Pakistan must prevent mili­ tives living outside the State in her 70s, said. Union Minister Nitin Gadka­ tant groups from operating on Monday, as mobile servic­ ri on Monday called FAS­ on its soil and prosecute es were restored for 40 lakh Surgery postponed Tags — a device to make au­ top Lashkar­e­Taiba opera­ postpaid numbers. The Khaliq Rashid, 62, a resident tomatic payments at toll tives along with its leader moves come after 72 days of of the old city, had post­ booths — the equivalent of Hafiz Saeed, the U.S. has communication blackout. poned his heart surgery for Aadhaar for vehicles, which said, ahead of the Financial For Khursheed Joo, a car­ the lack of communication in will allow the government to Action Task Force’s crucial penter from Srinagar’s Bagh­ the Valley. “We postponed track their movement Nitin Gadkari decision on whether or not wanpora, walking several ki­ the surgery because it would across the country. to blacklist the country. lometres to the Deputy have been impossible to get The government has al­ ways. Users of the State Alice Wells, head of the Commissioner’s office to get in touch with the family back ready announced that FAS­ Highways, too, could avoid State Department’s Bureau in touch with his son work­ home in case of any even­ Tags will be mandatory for long queues and benefit of South and Central Asian ing in Qatar had become rou­ tuality or help,” his relatives all vehicles on all National from seamless travel, he Affairs, also welcomed the tine. said. Highways from December 1. said. “Cameras at toll booths arrest on Thursday of the However, on Monday, Mr. For students, who are due On Monday, speaking at will take photos of passen­ top four leaders of the Joo’s wife Mukhta Begum to sit for annual examina­ the One Nation­One FASTag gers in a vehicle, which will Lashkar­e­Taiba/Jamaat­ud was able to talk to her son af­ tions later this month in the conference, the Minister ap­ be useful for the Ministry of ­Dawah (LeT/JuD) on ter more than two months.

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