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ith the BJP emerging as Wthe single largest party but missing its target of achiev-     ing majority on its own in and losing the     numbers it got in 2014, alliance is likely to go for a     hard bargain in the Government formation. Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray said it &'' ;6%*.6<; is time to implement “fifty- fifty” formula for power-shar- t is not the kind of Diwali ing. Iwhich the BJP wanted in Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Haryana. Riding high on the Raut on Thursday said his slogan of “over 75 this time” party and the BJP will form the and abrogation of Article 370, $   &&  "  &    P    , "   next Government in      $    .   # &  $  %   ,   %   "   % # -  the saffron party was reduced +      ! Maharashtra, and stressed the   !  ,         "    %    %      , "   to 40 seats with a resurgent two parties will stick to the pre-       , "  #  "      !      "     ! Opposition gaining strength tured mandate notwithstand- protests of 2016 lies shattered decided “50-50” sharing for- due to agrarian crisis and grow- ing, the party’s Chief Minister to an extent this time around. mula. 2014. more seats. “The Opposition ing unemployment. would be sworn in. It will be Barely five months ago in With the early trends sug-  !"# #$% &' (#%!" “I thank the people of won many seats,” he said. In a hung verdict, which only after being sworn in that the election, the BJP gesting the NCP and the Maharashtra for giving a clear Fadnavis also hit out at has opened the doors for back- the backstage managers of the had swept Haryana winning all Congress collectively fairing <   & (  .    mandate to the ‘mahayuti’ Nationalist Congress Party door negotiations and new BJP would become active to get 10 seats. Now its vote share has better than the 2014 polls, 3"     + (grand alliance). No doubt the (NCP) chief , political realignments, several support from the JJP, smaller dipped by over 20 per cent. Raut ruled out the possibility of   L>0+>0M $(   next Government will be ours,” stating the veteran leader said new political possibilities of parties and the Independents to Political observers here felt the Shiv Sena joining hands <    '  (,, ?   $  he said. the Opposition parties would Government formation prove majority on the floor of that after playing the non-Jat with the Opposition parties to =   ( .    “In fact, it is time to cele- ensure a clean sweep in the emerged and the BJP clearly the House. card consistently over a period form the Government. =  $ %&  ( $' @0/A brate and not analyse. But if we election. has the advantage with the Given the fractured verdict, of five years and consolidating “The BJP and Shiv Sena   ,"< =       ' $ look at the result, the BJP had “We suffered only because numbers. a section of the BJP is con- other castes, the dominant will form Government in     in 2014 contested 260 seats and of the rebels, they (Opposition) In the new Assembly, BJP templating whether Chief caste voted “strategically” in Maharashtra,” he told reporters won 122. This time, we fought need not be happy. We only are remains the single largest party Minister this election giving the here. (3  B    O 164 and are likely to get 105. forming the government, they and would stake its claim to is the best bet at this point of Congress and the JJP Asked about the possibili- ' '   ( Our strike is rate better, we won are far from being able to do form the Government. time to lead the party. His rain- significant seats in the Jat belt ty of the Shiv Sena embracing  $ (   6'   @0/A 70% of the seats,” said Fadnavis. that,” he said. However, the biggest riddle bow coalition of non-Jat castes of the State at the cost of the the NCP and Congress to form Noting that he BJP received Fadnavis’s statement came for the party would be to get following the violent Jat BJP. Government, Raut said, “No, He noted that NCP chief As per the results, the BJP 28% of the total votes in the minutes after Sena chief the requisite numbers to get a we fought the polls in alliance Sharad Pawar “using his expe- and the Shiv Sena won 105 2014 Assembly elections, he Uddhav Thackarey said there majority in the 90-member with the BJP. We will go ahead rience” and fanning parts of the seats and 56 seats respectively. said, “This time we have got was a 50-50 deal with the BJP House. In such a scenario, the with the tie-up. There will be state also gave some success to The Opposition NCP and 26.5% of the votes despite con- and it should be clear as to who fledgling Jananayak Janata no change in the pre-decided the Opposition party. the Congress got 54 and 44 testing 164 seats.” should be the Chief Minister. Party (JJP) holds the key.     50-50 formula.” “But we are also winning seats respectively. The BJP contested on 164 In 2014, the BJP had won The JJP — the surprise He said Shiv Sena president seats in good number,” the In his first Press conference of the 288 seats in the state 122 seats in the state and the package this election and the Uddhav Thackeray and Chief member added. after the BJP emerged as the while its ally, the Shiv Sena, Sena 63 — effectively making true inheritors of the legacy of Minister On BJP candidate single largest party in fought on 124. Fadnavis said the -Amit Jat leader Chaudhary Devi Lal     will hold talks on implement- Udayanraje Bhosale trailing Maharashtra, Chief Minister that 15 Independent and rebel Shah-led BJP the “big brother” — would take a call on extend- ing the formula. against NCP’s Srinivas Patil in Devendra Fadnavis on candidates are in touch with in the alliance. ing support on Friday. On the Congress and NCP the Lok Sabha seat Thursday said his party’s strike him. Indirectly hinting at the The traditional alliance Government sources indi- collectively fairing better than bypoll, Raut said the former rate has been the best ever in Sena’s claim for the Chief between the two has since cated that Governor Satyadev     the 2014 polls in the State, Raut “was to face defeat”. the history of the state even Minister’s post, Fadnavis said been stormy, with the Sena Narayan Arya would invite the said the Opposition also needs Bhosale quit the NCP though it won fewer seats com- the Opposition had performed repeatedly attacking the BJP on single largest party BJP to form to be strong in a democracy. recently to join the BJP. pared to the Assembly polls in better and managed to win different fronts. the Government and the frac-   ;6%*.6<; ut of the three sporting      Ostars fielded by the BJP in   the polls, only one managed to           %898:;* seats went to the Opposition, secure a victory for the party.          but the saffron outfit did com- The BJP had fielded         he result of the bypolls for paratively better in Uttar Commonwealth wrestling        Tthe 51 Assembly seats in 11 Pradesh, where it managed to champion Babita Phogat from

 " $"% States, including politically retain seven out of 11 seats. Dadri, Olympic wrestling   && '   $  ( important Gujarat, Bihar and In Madhya Pradesh, medallist Yogeshwar Dutt      Uttar Pradesh, came as wake- Congress wrested its tradi- from Baroda and former up call for the BJP-led NDA on tional Jhabua Assembly seat national hockey team captain       Monday. The BJP conceded from the BJP. In Rajasthan Sandeep Singh from Pehowa.    ground to the Opposition in also, the Congress increased its All three were first-time can-  !"!  # $% *  Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, tally in the State legislature by didates.  &   $  while its ally Janata Dal(U) suf- one after winning the Assembly Sandeep recorded his    $    fered a bloody nose in Bihar. bypolls to Mandawa, while MP maiden election victory from      The BJP lost the prestigious Hanuman Beniwal’s Rashtriya Pehowa seat in Kurukshetra *   $  + Satara Lok Sabha bypoll in Loktantrik Party retained the district and defeated Congress (   (, Maharashtra. However, the Khinwsar seat. candidate Mandeep Singh  $ O (   . %  NDA ally LJP retained the The BJP and its allies had Chathha by a margin of 5,314  & Samastipur (SC) Lok Sabha held nearly 30 of the 51 votes. constituency. Assembly seats, while the                       ! In Dadri, Babita could &  ' ( In Gujarat, influential OBC Congress had won 12 and the secure only third place as an ' ()* leader Alpesh Thakor, who rest were with regional parties. Fatima, who is a Rajya Sabha cornered by the SP. The BSP of the Vidhan Sabha polls Independent Sombir won the !!,-  (  recently joined the saffron Among the States ruled by the member and also wife of con- which contested separately scheduled next year. While the seat. Sombir polled 43,849 37,530 votes and Krishan         party, lost to the Congress can- BJP and its allies, elections troversial SP leader and MP from the SP (unlike 2019 Lok RJD won two seats, one each votes followed by 29,319 of Hooda secured 42,379 votes. '  /0   "     didate. The Congress and the were held for 11 seats in UP, from the constituency Azam Sabha alliance), scored a seat went to All Majlis-e- JJP’s Satpal Sangwan and The most “famous” 10+0    (     BJP shared three seats each in followed by six in Gujarat, five Khan, has scored victory over duck. Itehadil Muslimmeen of 24,502 of Babita Phogat. celebrity candidate of the BJP $ "   O $    the stronghold of the Prime in Bihar, four in Assam and two the BJP candidate. The NDA in Bihar pre- Asaduddin Owaisi, the JD(U), Olympic medallist — Sonali Phogat — who was   "     $ Minister and the BJP president. each in Himachal Pradesh and The BJP has won seven sented very poor show in by- and an Independent. But, in Yogeshwar failed to impress contesting from Adampur L3  * M  The BJP also presented a Tamil Nadu. Assembly seats in UP with elections to five Assembly seg- Samastipur Lok Sabha seat, the voters as he was defeated against Congress’ Kuldeep  L3     M $ (   dismal show in Bihar bypolls, SP candidate from one going to party of Apana ments of the State, seen by NDA constituent LJP com- by Congress’ Krishan Hooda Bishnoi also lost the   where four of the five Assembly Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, Tazeen Dal (Sone Lal) and three seats some as the “semi-final” ahead fortably retained seat. by 4,840 votes. Dutt was polled election. $  $   ! "   #$ %   & ' )*+   %898:;* attempt that has been made to litigation, said the government wriggle out of definition of in July had told the apex court he Supreme Court gross revenue,” said the Bench, that telecom firms have pend- TThursday ruled in favour of also comprising Justices SA ing licence fee outstanding of #   the government on recovering Nazeer and MR Shah. over 92,641.61 crore till date. adjusted gross revenue (AGR) Reading out the crux of In an affidavit filed in the //   of about 92,000 crore from 153-page verdict, Justice top court, DoT said that as per  96,;*%.=%7%898:;* 6.6:&5< telecom service providers Mishra, said: “We have held the calculations, including Bharti Airtel, definition of AGR will prevail” Airtel owes 21,682.13 ndia climbed 14 rungs in the hhattisgarh’s ruling Vodafone, Reliance and allowed the crore as licence fee to the gov- IWorld Bank’s Ease of Doing CCongress on Thursday won Communications and state- DoT appeal and “dismissed ernment and dues from Business ranking to stand at the Scheduled Tribe reserved owned MTNL and BSNL. that of licensees (telcos)”. Vodafone totalled 19,823.71 63rd position and figured Chitrakot Assembly seat in The setback to the telecos All other submissions of crore, while Reliance among the world’s top 10 most restive Bastar region and thus came as the apex court upheld headed by Justice Arun Mishra. the telecom companies are Communications owed a total improved countries for the blanked out the BJP from this the AGR definition formulat- The top court said that rejected and they have to pay of 16,456.47 crore. BSNL third consecutive time on the tribal stronghold region, which ed by the Department of overall revenue has to be taken penalties and interests to DoT, owed 2,098.72 crore and back of faster bankruptcy res- has 12 Assembly seats. Telecom (DoT) and termed as into account for determination the judges said. MTNL, 2,537.48 crore. olution and issuance of con- Congress candidate “frivolous” the nature of objec- of licence fees without “set An advocate, party to the Continued on Page 4 struction permits. Rajman Venzam registered an tions raised by them. off”, as provided in the agree- The rise, which comes on impressive victory over former “The definition of gross ment. the back of a 23-spot jump last legislator Lachhuram Kashyap his first reaction after the result sitting legislator of the Congress revenue is crystal clear in the “The same was defined to year, underscored the reformist of the BJP by over 17,800 votes. was officially announced. Deepak Baij resigned after being agreement. How the adjusted simplify it to rule out the liti- credentials of the Modi gov- The BJP’s tally in the State’s Visibly looking jubilant, elected to the Lok Sabha from gross revenue to be arrived at gation, disputes, and account- ernment that is hard pitching 90-member Assembly has Baghel mocked the BJP and said Bastar seat. is also evident. It cannot be ing myriads. The submission India as an alternative invest- come down to 14 while the “finally I have the Chhattisgarh’s former submitted that the revenue has raised that the term revenue ment destination to China. Congress’s number has surged BJP-mukt (free) Bastar’’. He Chief Minister , not been defined in the con- has to be interpreted as the “India put in place four to record 69 seats. reiterated that his Government who was the star campaigner tract. Once the gross revenue is consideration payable in keep- new business reforms during “I acknowledge the love would continue to work for the for the BJP in the by-poll, said defined, one cannot depart ing with commercial and finan- the past year and earned a place and affection of people of larger welfare of the people of in a statement, “Congress mis- from it and the very meaning cial parlance is what is intend- in among the world’s top ten Chitrakot,’’ Chief Minister the State. The polling in used government machinery to is to be given to the revenue for ed to be avoided. Raising of improvers,” World Bank said. Bhupesh Baghel remarked in Chitrakot was necessitated as win Chitrakot seat at any cost.” the agreement,” said a Bench such submission is a futile Detailed report on P10     ! "#$

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6$>" 6  >+6   %898:;* Production) Subhash Chandra '  '>+? $ and Under Secretary of  '5 %898:;* Yojana (Char Dham seasons. Besides ephemeral slopes and may give rise to   '  $ n a bid to give a fillip to pro- Defense for Acquisition and Highway Development streams, the major perennial large-scale landslides,” said the  Imote defence manufacturing Sustainment of the United arth scientists from Indian Project) is being exe- stream, including river Ganga scientists as they called for its in India through joint ventures, States Ellen M Lord. EInstitute of Technology cuted by the Union may witness such critical issues. proper channelization to avoid  5     the US and India on Thursday Speaking on the occasion, (IIT), Roorkee have raised a red Ministry of Road Such adverse practices are the build-up of pore pressure.    ' held a review meeting here. It Subhash Chandra said that flag over the Modi Transport and unendurable and violation of The report has recom- !!,-F,  was held under the aegis of the while DTTI has been an ongo- Government’s 12,000- crore Highways (MoRTH). It rules and regulations of the mended setting up a panel  ;$ Defence Trade and Technology ing process, both sides were pet project Char Dham aims to connect four river ecosystem needs to be comprising of locals and     Initiative(DTTI)and the now poised to actually achieve Mahamarg Vikas Pari Yojana holy towns in assessed.” experts to monitor the project L   M    Defence Ministry said the two tangible outcomes. The shared (Char Dham Highway Uttarakhand Similar activities in the for sustainable development in   $    countries are poised to achieve values that form the bedrock of Development Project) that them. The project is already —Badrinath, Kedarnath, upper reaches of Uttarakhand the region.    '(  tangible results. stable relations between the two aims to connect the four drawing flak from environ- Yamunotri and Gangotri. will cause siltation problem in To attain safer design dur-   "    $ %<* Giving details of the ninth sides have led to deepening of pilgrimage in the Uttarakhand’s mentalists, NGOs like Citizen The scientists came to major hydroelectric projects, it ing pre- and post-construction '  "   (  $ round of DTTI, set up some defence ties. The Indian fragile mountainous for Green Doon and locals who know about the violations after said. According to the scien- stages, efforts should be under- ' $  (   ( years back to foster trade in Government remains commit- eco-system. too have alleged serious viola- evaluating various stretches tists, no preventive and stabi- taken for better prediction of 6  10 defence, officials said here a sig- ted to continually engage with In their study published in tion of green norms as well as along NH-58, from Rishikesh lization measures were under- extreme rainfall events and nificant achievement of the the US Government and facil- the latest issue of Current rampant cutting of hills mak- to Devprayag and took excep- taken after excavation. accordingly planning needs to  P'. meeting was the signing of itate cooperation between the Science, the scientists said that ing the area prone to landslides. tion that in order to complete However, in a few road-cut sec- be done, said the report adding / (  ‘Statement of Intent’ with defence industries of both the 900-kilometer long all- T Siddique and SP Pradhan the project, the scientific stud- tions, gabion walls have been that the real-time monitoring !!,- ,  respect to key deliverables in nations. Ellen Lord said, “the weather road project which from the Department of Earth ies/reports which ought to be constructed for stabilization; of slope movements should be    ;  $  the near, medium and long US National Defence Strategy envisages widening of National Sciences, IIT, Roorkee too given topmost priority were but these walls are deformed done along highly vulnerable   + < ' + terms. This will assist in bring- envisages strengthening Highway-58, is being executed echoed similar views warning being ignored. Observing that due to inadequate stabilization and risk sections. '3?     ing sustained focus on some of defence alliances and partner- in complete violation of envi- that inadequately performed the excavated materials, includ- measures and maintenance. Also, in rockfall-prone sec- (    $    the projects and signal com- ships. The DTTI has now ronmental norms with several excavation without proper con- ing massive rock blocks, soil The scientists also tions, rock shed may be @ 116  mitment of both sides towards matured enough where its var- irregularities. sideration of eco sensitive ter- and debris have been dumped expressed concern at authori- designed to overcome acci- .     (   continued collaboration on ied activities could be translat- Adoption of unscientific rain may lead to catastrophic in hairpin bends along the ties ignoring scientific norms in dents and frequent blockage of  ;   mutually beneficial issues. ed into accomplishments.” methods, inappropriate dump- events as witnessed during the road, the report cautioned that handling percolation of water the highway and implementing 3    The DTTI is part of the She added that the inter- ing of tones of mud and debris, Kedarnath disaster in 2013. “these dumps are interrupting which was allowed to be col- preventive measures like steel   India-US Bilateral Defence face of the industry with DTTI excavation at steep angles, Launched by the Prime the natural channel of many lected in a roadside ditch. mesh to retain potential falling Cooperation and the meeting would provide necessary fillip allowing wrongful collection of Minister Narendra Modi in ephemeral streams and may “Such careless practices are blocks along with flexible bar-   / . on Thursday was held between to various projects under con- water percolated from the slope December 2016, the Char give rise to an alarming situa- continuously hampering and riers to reduce kinetic energy //&  Secretary (Defence sideration. to the roadsides were some of Dham Mahamarg Vikas Pari tion in subsequent monsoon endangering the health of of these blocks. !!,- &3  % 3   &  (       (E  * F5, $ ,&     '                '.    N    % &&   (;?  3&    5 #$         %898:;* ( $(( ( $  ' (   $O    &&   234  %898:;* % 6+      ' $  earing up to deal with encroachers of Central ;  $    %898:;* New Delhi: Voicing concern over illegal construc- he Centre on Thursday moved the New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday GGovernment land, the Central Public Works  (    '  tions, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed all TSupreme Court seeking extension asked the Jammu & Kashmir administration Department (CPWD) has directed its officials to come     ( aking exception to some the cities in Maharashtra with population of 50 lakh of time for completing formalities to as to how long they intend to continue the up with a list of unauthorised occupants and the quan-   '  5& TUS lawmakers raising or more to get geomapping done of the municipal transfer Assam National restrictions, including internet blockade, tum of land grabbed by them. The CPWD has asked offi- .    doubts about measures to pro- areas in the city. Register of Citizens (NRC) imposed in the Valley following the abroga- cials to submit details by the end of this month. The move tect people of Jammu & Geomapping, or surveying of land and sub sur- Coordinator Prateek Hajela to Madhya tion of provision of Article 370. comes close on the heels of Union Housing and Urban  '&   Kashmir after abrogation of face using GPS, presents a detailed view of a site and Pradesh. The Apex Court, which was hearing a Affairs Ministry deciding to hire a private agency to (   Article 370 giving special sta- the surrounding area including roads, buildings, The apex court on October 18 had batch of petitions challenging the restrictions protect Government land, bungalows and flats from !!,- 5  3 (  tus to the State in August, mountains, rivers, estuaries and pipelines. ordered the Centre and the Assam on movement and communication blockade encroachment. ,   $"; India on Thursday said ques- The top court held that Geomapping can be done Government to transfer Hajela to his imposed in the Valley, said the authorities According to the official, once the list is prepared, E      tioning by the US was a reflec- by satellite, drones or vehicles and once it is done native State Madhya Pradesh within may impose restrictions for national interest a drive will be launched to free the CPWD land from $   (    (  + tion of lack of understanding it would be easy to control illegal constructions. seven days. but they have to be reviewed from time to encroachment. “All additional director generals and other  " about robust functioning of A bench of Justices Deepak Gupta and The counsel for the Centre on time. A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana top officers have been asked to gather details about unau- $ $    (  democratic institutions in Aniruddha Bose further directed the Maharashtra Thursday told the bench headed by told Attorney General K K Venugopal and thorised occupants and quantum of land grabbed by  $    India. government to ensure that sufficient funds are made Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi that Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who were them. Officials have been directed to submit the same India said it was regrettable available to the municipal corporations concerned though the government has taken steps appearing for the Centre and the J&K admin- by October 31,” official also said. The CPWD also sought 9 5.  that a few US lawmakers used and the exercise be completed within a year from to transfer the 1995 batch IAS officer istration respectively, to come out with to know what action has been taken to free land from 6*)/& 6) a Congressional hearing to the date of this order. of Assam-Meghalaya cadre but pro- “clear” reply and find out other methods to encroachment, official added. Earlier this month, the !!,- 6+  question measures to protect It will be obligatory for all municipal corpora- cedural formalities will take some deal with the issue. Mehta told the bench, also Ministry had directed CPWD to deploy private securi-      ( N. ' lives of people in Jammu & tions in the State of Maharashtra where the popu- more time. comprising justices R Subhash Reddy and B ty guards, preferably ex-serviceman in Delhi. As per the  +* @0/O ' $  ' Kashmir. lation is 50 lakhs or more to get geomapping and “You file the application,” the R Gavai, that “the restrictions are being plan, the security agency will have to get their guards ver-   **( % ' Ministry of External geo-photography of the areas under their jurisdic- bench, which also comprised Justices reviewed daily. In around 99 per cent area, no ified from the Delhi Police before their deployment at @/  '   Affairs Spokesperson tion done within a period of one year. PTI SA Bobde and S A Nazeer, said. restrictions are there”. PTI vacant Government bungalows, land and flats. 6   (  +: Raveesh Kumar said here 8 6 :8 the US Congressional hear-   $* < ing on Kashmir was a 6     *<6 reflection of lack of         * O   understanding about  ('  $   robust functioning of '    democratic institutions in   ! !! #         India. &'' 6335 areas when it suddenly devel- pilot and his co pilot, too oped a technical snag and force received minor injuries in the op officers of the Indian landed in Bedar stream”. crash. All the injured officers TArmy, including Northern A High level inquiry has were evacuated to Command Army commander Lt-Gen been constituted by the Hospital in Udhampur. Ranbir Singh, a Major General Northern Command head- Defence Spokesman in heading 25th Infantry Division quarters to ascertain the exact Jammu said, “as army com-  %898:;* and a Brigadier rank officer of reasons behind the crash land- mander was visiting units in 93rd Brigade had a ‘miraculous’ ing. Poonch sector the ALH devel- ith the objective of giv- escape along with six others According to official oped a technical snag and crash Wing a boost to defence when their chopper crash land- sources, “soon after the heli- landed”. He said, “all passengers exports and enhance ease of ed in Bedar stream, in general copter crash landed, locals in the and crew sustained injuries. doing business, Defence area of Mandi, around 2.00 p.m area rushed to the spot to help As per medical investigations, Minister on on Thursday. army officers”. all have sustained blunt and Thursday approved issuance Experienced pilot and his Official sources said, “army superficial injuries but are sta- of two Open General Export co-pilot saved the day for all the commander escaped unhurt ble”. Licences (OGELs) for export officers present on board. with minor facial injuries and The army authorities also of certain parts and compo- According to official was soon up on his feet after saluted local villagers for assist- nents and intra-company have Import-Export certifi- sources, “the Advanced Light undergoing precautionary med- ing army in management and transfer of technology to cate, the Defence Ministry Helicopter,Dhruv was returning ical checkup”. evacuation of the injured in             #    #          & , "  select countries. said adding “the quarterly after completing tour of forward Other officers including time.      , Giving details of the and end of the year reports clearance, officials said the on all the transactions done application for grant of OGEL under OGELs should be sub- , 7$!      & &  will be considered by mitted to DPP for examina- 9  O F63(   '   Department of Defence tion and post-export verifi- Production (DPP) on a case- cation.” & 89 !  &    Chennai: An AIADMK func- ing, to permit to withdraw erected for the wedding of district on September 27 after to-case basis. The OGEL is a The items permitted tionary, arrested in connection them. Jayagopal’s son, was fatally run being on the run for more than one-time export licence to be under OGEL includes com- Guwahati: A CBI court here on tions of the Prevention of with the death of a 23-year-old Allowing the request, the over by a truck that was com- two weeks since granted to a company for a ponents of ammunition and Thursday sentenced an employ- Corruption Act, 1988. woman techie here after a judge dismissed the petitions as ing from behind. the death of Subashree, which specific period (two years fuse setting device without ee of the regional passport office Thakuria was found guilty of hoarding put up for his son’s withdrawn after taking an On October 15, when had triggered an initially). energetic and explosive mate- to four years rigorous impris- amassing assets worth wedding fell on her, withdrew endorsement of withdrawal Jayagopal pleaded that he had outrage. The countries allowed rial; firing control and relat- onment while acquitting her 58,43,860, disproportionate to his bail petition filed in the from the counsel for Jayagopal no role in erecting the hoard- Jayagopal moved the high under the OGELs are ed alerting and warning spouse in a disproportionate her known sources of income, Madras High Court on and Meganathan. ings, the judge had sought to court seeking bail after a lower Belgium, France, Germany, equipment and related sys- assets case. during her posting at the Thursday. In a recent hearing, the know why he went absconding court rejected the relief. Japan, South Africa, Spain, tem; and body protective CBI Special Judge Soneka regional passport office here Apparently anticipating court has orally observed that for 12 days after the incident if In his petition, the former Sweden, UK, USA, Canada, items. Complete aircraft or Bora convicted the lower divi- from November 2006 to rejection of the plea, counsel for a “daughter lost her life in the he had not done anything councillor of a local body Italy, Poland and Mexico. complete unmanned aerial sion clerk/junior passport assis- September 2014. the petitioners Jayagopal and process of welcoming a daugh- wrong. claimed that the banners were However, export of items to a vehicles (UAVs) and any tant Anjali Das Thakuria in the Her husband Munindra Das, his brother-in-law ter-in-law”. Jayagopal, booked by put up by his party cadres along ‘Special Economic Zone’ is components specially case filed by the central agency’s who was acquitted, was accused Meganathan, who are co- On September 12, police on charges of attempt to the arterial road for not permitted. designed or modified for anti-corruption bureau in 2016. of instigating and aiding accused in the case, requested Subashree, who fell on the commit culpable homicide not his son’s marriage out of ‘love For acquiring the licences, UAVs are excluded under He also slapped a fine of Thakuria in acquiring the Justice C V Karthikeyan before road after being knocked off amounting to murder, and affection’ and that he had the applicant is mandatory to this licence. 50,000 on Thakuria under sec- assets. PTI whom the petitions were pend- her two-wheeler by a banner was arrested in Krishnagiri no role in it. PTI chhattisgarh 03 RAIPUR | FRIDAY | OCTOBER 25, 2019 Cabinet okays new industrial policy, Faith on Modi-Shah amendments in urban bodies act duo dwindling: Baghel STAFF REPORTER n producing bio-ethanol from STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR rice, agro as well as food processing units and RAIPUR tate cabinet in its meeting industries producing electric ommenting on assembly Son Thursday night gave vehicles would be on priority nod to the amendments Cresults in Maharashtra list, the minister said. and Haryana where BJP recommended by cabinet Provisions for employment to faced a stiff fight from the subcommittee in the Urban local youth have also been Bodies’ Act. incorporated in the new oppositions, Chief Minister The meeting also gave go industrial policy, he informed. Bhupesh Baghel claimed that ahead to new industrial policy The minister further the people across the country for the state. informed that preparations for are losing faith on Prime The meeting was held at three-day-long Rajyotsava Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister’s official were also reviewed in the Home Minister , residence on late Thursday meeting. the two most important lead- night. On the inaugural function ers of the BJP. Minister Mohammad Congress president Sonia While talking to Akbar briefing news persons Gandhi will be the chief guest reporters after arrival from about the details of the meet- while state Governor and his tour to Jharkhand, Uttar Now the BJP has been Minister said he had positive ing said as per amendment in Chief Minister would be the Pradesh and New Delhi, wiped out from both the discussions with the Union the Urban Bodies’ Act indirect Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel presides over a cabinet meeting on Thursday night. chief guest on second and Baghel greeted newly elected tribal dominated regions ministers , elections would be held for the third day of the function MLA from Chitrakot of the state-- Surguja and Rajnath Singh, Nirmala posts of Mayor and has been slashed to 21 years ties could participate, he policy, the minister informed going to commence on estab- Rajman Benjam and said it Bastar, he further added. Sitharaman and Arjun Chairpersons in urban bodies. and the independent as well as informed. that it would be effective from lishment day of the state on was victory of the develop- About the outcome of Munda and that the meet- The age limit for these posts candidates from political par- Regarding new industrial 2019 to 2021. Industries November 1, he informed. ment issues. his New Delhi tour, the Chief ing will surely deliver fruits. Cong misused govt machinery Implement Supreme Court panel to clinch victory: Raman STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR directives on road safety: Vij ational vice president of ‘‘Will have a NBJP and state’s former STAFF REPORTER n to ensure that school children chief minister Raman Singh RAIPUR related accidents are reduced commenting on the results of meeting to and stern action are taken Chitrakot by-polls alleged that pecial Director General, against minor vehicle drivers the ruling Congress secured contemplate SPlanning Management along with ensuring reduc- victory by misusing and Technical Service R. K tion of accidents related to administration. Vij (IPS) directed to stray cattle by coordinating Talking to reporters on the implement in the state direc- with civic bodies. Raman alleged that the tives and orders of Supreme Vij further issued Congress misused govern- reasons of Court Committee on Road directives for identification of ment machinery for winning safety in letter and spirit. unsafe roads in rural areas, the elections in Chitrakot. He was holding a formation of road safety Replying to a query as to defeat and two-day review meeting of committees in rural areas, who in the BJP will take the Raipur, Durg, Bilaspur, reducing accident prone areas responsibility for the shameful lapses being Sarguja and Bastar range with the help of public works defeat, he said they will have a traffic in-charges and high- department and audit for meeting to contemplate on the way patrolling employees at (danger zones and general ed and data available from less driving, driving without regular analysis and review. reasons of defeat and lapses committed” police headquarters, Nava accident prone zones), steps districts of the state, it was helmet/seat belt, and no He directed to prepare being committed. Raipur on Wednesday. taken to prevent accideents, found that maximum acci- action taken against drivers historical documentation of Notable, Congress’s defeating his nearest rival constituency as Congress’s Sanjay Sharma, Assistant three months district level dents have occured during involved in violation of MVA. all the road accident incidents Rajman Benjam on Thursday BJP’s Lachhuram Kashyap by Deepak Baij vacated the seat Inspector General of Police work plan and action plan 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm. The rea- The maximum loss reported occurred at black/grey spots emerged victorious in the 17,862 votes. The election was after being elected as Member (Traffic) briefed on the status under Motor Vehicle Act. sons found was consumption was of two-wheelers. with preparation of maps in Chitrakot by-election by necessitated in the assembly of the Lok Sabha. of black and grey spots As per analysis conduct- of intoxicants, speeding, care- Vij directed the officials all the districts. Women SHG from Durg gets `10L award for saving rare rice variety A farmer from `1.50 lakh, officials said. Notably, this award is Dhamtari working to given by Protection of Plant save a breed of Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority, which is a brinjal, ‘Niranjan body working under Union Bhata’ also received Agriculture Ministry. “The women SHG from a cash reward of Achanakpur village not only ` saved the germplasm for rare 1.50 lakh rice species like green rice, STAFF REPORTER n black rice and Karhani RAIPUR paddy but also disseminated it to ten states of the India woman self-help group thereby playing a key role in A(SHG) from Patan block its expansion,” Public in Durg district was awarded University (IGAU), Likewise, Leelaram Sahu Relation Officer IGAU with ‘plant genome saviour Agriculture Science Centre a farmer from Dhamtari Sanjay Nayyar said. award’ -which includes cash Durg received the award working to save a breed of Karhani paddy is a rare reward of `10 lakh- for sav- from the Union Agriculture brinjal, ‘Niranjan Bhata’ variety of rice, which is very ing and augmenting rare rice Minister Narendra Singh developed under the direc- useful for diabetic patients Tomar in a programme held tion of Agriculture Science and also contains iron, zinc Congress cadres celebrating victory of their candidate Rajman Venjam in Chitrakot by-polls at party’s state headquarters, type found in the state. at New Delhi, officials Centre Dhamtari also and other medicinal values, Rajiv Bhawan on Thursday. The SHG working under Indira Gandhi Agriculture informed. received cash reward of Nayyar said. Railway alerts passengers Street play, various competitions against carrying fire crackers organised by NTPC SIPAT to mark VAW STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR South East Central vendor is found to carry any STAFF REPORTER n such materials including RAIPUR ailways have alerted Railway in a burning stove, it should be also Rpassengers against carrying intimated. Additional to it s part of Vigilance fire crackers and inflammable message to the smoking in public places is AAwareness Week obser- materials while travelling in banned including in the trains vation by NTPC Sipat a trains during Diwali season. passengers urged and railway stations. street play on ill effect of cor- Carrying such materials while them not to carry Additional to it the ruption in the society was travelling is a crime and materials which have chances performed by the students of extensive checking is carried any inflammable to catch fire like match box, Khamharia, Higher out during this period. lighter, films are also not safe to Secondary School, South East Central Railway materials like gas- be kept during travelling. No Khamharia on Thursday. in a message to the passengers cylinders, passenger is allowed to tamper On this occasion urged them not to carry any with the electrical equipment Ravishankar Kaul, AGM inflammable materials like petrol/diesel, fire- and switch board inside the (HR) was invited as chief gas-cylinders, petrol/diesel, coaches. guest, said a NTPC press fire-crackers and others. If any crackers and others SECR urged the passengers communiqué. vigilance pledge was admin- To spread the message of lance awareness week is being competition, awareness cam- passenger finds any to cooperate with railway Apart from street play, istered to the students and preventive vigilance as well as organised by the Vigilance paign are being organised to co-traveller with such items, employees should be administration for a safe travel essay competition was organ- school staff by the officials of to aware people about the Department, NTPC Sipat. make people aware about the TTE, RPF or railway intimated. Similarly, if any during festival season. ised among the students and vigilance department. impact of corruption, vigi- During this week various corruption free society.   ! "#$  $

 .'5 Q* R    E  ( &    ( '@@       9 4 :   ( :, " 3   Chandigarh: The mance would have been even '&' Even as the BJP has failed time from 33.20 in 2014, the && ;6%*.6<; Congress may be far away better," he said. ;6%*.6<; to emerge as a single largest BJP failed to repeat its 2014 from the halfway mark in Notably, Hooda retained party, the saffron party is set to performance when it had won aryana’s regional outfit, Indian National  ;6%*.6<; Haryana, but the party's per- his stronghold Garhi Sampla- he “overconfident” and form the government for the 47 seats on its own and went HLok Dal (INLD), which won 19 seats in formance in the state polls has Kiloi in Rohtak with a com- T“overenthusiastic” second consecutive term in onto to form its maiden gov- the 2014 assembly elections, has been vir- he vote share of the ruling Bharatiya made former Chief Minister fortable margin. With this win, , which Haryana, the political observers ernment in Haryana. tually wiped out in this election. However, T(BJP) fell by a massive 22 per cent in the Haryana Bhupinder Singh Hooda Hooda now has nine victories had set a target of winning “75 say. BJP’s main challenger- less than 12-month-old Jannayak Janata Assembly polls, the results of which were declared emerge stronger. under his belt, including one plus” seats in 90-member They say that the JJP with Congress which has made Party (JJP) emerged as a key player by win- on Thursday. After his party lost power against former deputy prime Haryana Assembly, failed to 10 seats in its kitty and seven handsome gains in its tally, ning 10 seats in a 90-member assembly. JJP’s The party secured over 58 per cent votes in the in Haryana in the 2014 polls, minister Devi Lal in the Lok even secure a clear majority as independents will now play a managed to get a vote share of party symbol incidentally is the ‘Key’. state in the Lok Sabha polls held five months ago the 72-year-old satrap had Sabha polls.Hooda has been the poll results on Thursday key role in the formation of 28.12 per cent, an increase Interestingly, the original party INLD in May and won all the 10 seats. In this assembly nothing going in his favour. chief minister twice and an MP yielded a hung House. next government in from 20.58 percent in 2014. almost diminished, but the third and fourth polls, it got 36 per cent. The ruling BJP at the Centre four times.This time, the BJP While most of the exit Haryana. INLD’s vote share has declined generations of its founder and Devi Lal sur- Several ministers in the Manohar Lal Khattar- had made alleged irregularities fielded against him Satish polls had predicted a comfort- The BJP and Congress to dismal 2.45 percent from vived by winning their respective seats. led government lost in the elections. While the BJP in the land deals during his Nandal, a former Rohtak dis- able victory for the saffron have already reached out to the 24.75 percent in 2014. "I believe the keys are in the hands of the managed to get 40 seats this time, it had won 47 in tenure a major issue and the trict unit president of the party, the actual poll results independents and the JJP, The vote share of NOTA JJP," Dushyant Chautala said earlier on the 2014 Haryana Assembly polls. Congress veteran was grappling INLD, who switched sides ear- stood in stark contrast, and is which came into existence after was 0.52 percent, SAD 0.38 Thursday as counting trends clearly showed The vote share of the Congress, which has with the cases against him. lier this year. seen possibly one of the most the split in Indian National Lok percent, BSP 4.11 percent and the BJP was set to win less than half the 90 emerged stronger than the last polls but is behind He remained at logger- Hooda had defeated telling political Dal last year. others 27.33 percent. seats and the Congress making rapid gains.” the BJP, is almost the same as it was in the Lok Sabha heads with the party's state unit Nandal twice, in 2009 and embarrassments suffered by The ballot battle in JJP, AAP, LSP, Swaraj Party Dushyant Chautala, the great grandson polls. The party got 28.42 per cent of the total votes chief Ashok Tanwar, who quit 2014 from the constituency, the BJP in the recent past. Haryana was multi-cornered had contested the State of the former deputy Prime Minister late polled in the Lok Sabha election. days after he was replaced by and now he inflicted a third As the electors in Jatland- this time with the BJP, the Assembly polls for the first time Devi Lal and grandson of jailed INLD leader Haryana BJP President Subhash Barala and state Kumari Selja, weeks ahead of shot. Haryana voted for a hung Congress, the Indian National in Haryana. While the region- OP Chautala, who led the newly formed JJP ministers, except two, lost the polls. the polls. Garhi Sampla-Kiloi came assembly, the BJP failed to Lok Dal-Shiromani Akali Dal al players -- BSP, AAP, LSP and in 2018 won from Uchana Kalan in Jind dis- Khattar retained his Karnal seat with a com- Hooda, who had virtually into being 10 years ago after a maintain its winning momen- alliance, Jannayak Janta Party, Swaraj Party-- had thrown the trict by defeating sitting legislator Prem Lata, fortable margin, winning by 45,188 votes over his threatened to snap ties with the delimitation exercise. Before tum in the state while its arch- Aam Aadmi Party, Bahujan hats into the ring, none of them 59, wife of former Union Minister nearest rival Tarlochan Singh of the Congress. BJP’s Congress, too was accommo- that the constituency was rival-Congress, apparently pro- Samaj Party, Loktantra won a single seat in the polls. Birender Singh. JJP contested all 90 assem- outgoing ministers Capt Abhimanyu, OP Dhankar, dated and made state legislature known as Kiloi. duced a resilient comeback Suraksha Party and Swaraj None of these parties had con- bly seats. Ram Bilas Sharma, Kavita Jain, Krishan Lal Panwar, party leader, weeks before the Hooda had won from Kiloi even after struggling due to fac- India in the fray. tested on all 90 seats in the Dushyant, who was MP in 2014, is the Manish Grover, and Krishan Kumar Bedi, all elections, which some state twice, including the 2005 bypoll tionalism and infighting in the From 47 seats in 2014 State state. rising force in Haryana among the politically ended up with humiliating defeats. leaders admit to be a delayed when he was the Rohtak MP party. Assembly, the BJP was restrict- This time, Haryana had diminished Chautala clan of Devi Lal’s state But BJP candidate and Public Health and move. and was handpicked by the While both national parties ed to 40 seats this time. The recorded a low voter turnout of party INLD. The INLD which suffered set- Engineering Minister Banwari Lal won the Bawal "However, both Hooda and high command to be the chief ended short of securing a Congress recorded increase in 68.31 per cent, a sharp decline back in the recent past ahead of Assembly seat. Also Health Minister Anil Vij retained his seat Selja aggressively picked up on minister of the state. majority in the 90-member its previous election tally of 15 from 76.54 in the 2014 assem- election as its leaders shifted to BJP and JJP from Ambala Cantonment. Two sitting the issues like unemployment, In its sweeping Lok Sabha Haryana Assembly, the fledg- to 31 in the poll results declared bly polls. Of the total voters won the lone Ellenabad seat in Sirsa. ministers, Rao Narbir Singh and Vipul Goel, law and order, agrarian crisis, victory earlier this year, the BJP ling party-Jannayak Janta Party on Thursday. exercising their right to Interestingly, the original party diminished, were denied tickets and fresh faces were those relating to economy, had breached even the tradi- led by former Member The INLD which had man- franchise, 69.36 percent were but the third and fourth generations of its brought in. employees issues which res- tional bastions of its opponents. Parliament Dushyant Chautala aged to win 19 seats in 2014 men and 67.12 per cent were founder and Devi Lal survived by winning Outgoing Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu, onated with the people. Then Both Hooda, who fought from emerged as a key player in the could register victory on only women on the polling day i.e. their respective seats. The Chautala clan who who lost to JJP candidate and BJP rebel Ram Kumar the party came out with a Sonipat, and his son Deepender, poll results. one seat. SAD, which had con- October 21. won the elections is Dushyant and his moth- Gautam in the Narnaud constituency in Hisar dis- manifesto, which promised a three-time MP who contested The BJP secured 40 seats, tested on two seats failed to Altogether, 1,169 candi- er Naina Chautala and his uncle and Devi trict by a margin of 12,029 votes, admitted his defeat loan waiver to farmers and had from Rohtak, lost. Congress won on 31, JJP open its account. Former dates, including 105 women, Lal''s grandson Abhay Singh Chautala. during counting. something for other sections as However, in the Assembly managed to grab 10 seats, Minister Gopal Kanda’s Lokhit had entered the fray this time. Dushyant’'s mother Naina Chautala State unit chief Subhash Barala lost the Tohana well and this helped the party," polls Hooda managed to pro- Indian National Lok Dal and Haryana Party won one seat There were a total of 1.83 won from Badhra in Bhiwani district on JJP Assembly seat in Fatehabad district by more than a state unit leader said. tect his stronghold as BJP failed Haryana Lokhit Party won one while seven independents won crore voters including 98.78 ticket. The BJP fielded Devi Lal''s grandson 20,000 votes to JJP’s Devender Singh "Had the party high com- to make inroads in the Jat- seat each and seven indepen- the polls. lakh males, 85.12 lakh females Aditya Devi Lal from Dabwali in Sirsa Babli. Barala quashed mand given charge to Hooda dominated Deswali belt of dents were elected to the Even as BJP’s vote share and 252 transgenders in the district, but he lost the seat to Congress’ Amit rumours of his resignation from his post after his and Selja a few months before Rohtak, Jhajjar and Sonipat dis- House. increased to 36.47 percent this state. Sihag. defeat. the polls, Congress's perfor- tricts. PTI %&  ()+) ,  '   )  * + , - . /

Chandigarh: The ruling strength is 19. tige for the ruling party, Sandhu sented by BJP's Som Parkash. -/0 ,++ Congress won three Assembly The BJP and the LIP have was locked in a fierce poll con- It fell vacant after Parkash was seats, while the Opposition two MLAs each. test with Ayali. elected to the Lok Sabha in the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) In what is being seen as a As the stakes were high for general election held in April- )++ 1 won one in the Punjab bypolls, major victory for the ruling both the parties, the Congress May. He later became a Union the results of which were party in Jalalabad, Congress's did not leave any stone minister. Bhopal: The Congresss victo- in Jhabua from the front, announced on Thursday. Raminder Awla defeated SAD's unturned for ensuring the vic- Congress candidate Indu ry in the Jhabua Assembly promising "development" in While the Congress won Raj Singh Dibipura by a mar- tory of Sandhu, who was the Bala won from Mukerian by bypoll on Thursday came as a the tribal-dominated seat, the Jalalabad, Phagwara and gin of 16,633 votes. political secretary to the chief defeating her nearest rival, big relief for the ruling party in which fell vacant after sitting Mukerian seats, the SAD came Awla polled 76,073 votes minister. Several ministers as BJP's Jangi Lal Mahajan, by a Madhya Pradesh, where its BJP MLA G S Damor resigned up trumps in Dakha. while Dibipura bagged 59,439. well as the local Ludhiana MP margin of 3,440 votes. Government is precariously following victory from the If the Congress managed to Jalalabad was considered to had campaigned for the The seat fell vacant fol- placed. Ratlam-Jhabua Lok Sabha seat cause a major upset to the SAD be a citadel of the Akalis as Congress candidate. lowing the death of Congress Congress candidate and in May. in Jalalabad, considered to be the seat was represented in the On the other hand, the MLA Rajnish Kumar Babbi. former Union minister Kantilal With Jhabua in its kitty, the a stronghold of the Akalis, the Assembly by them since entire Akali leadership had Indu Bala is the widow of Bhuria (68) won from Jhabua, Congress strength in the SAD dealt a blow to the grand 2007. campaigned for Ayali, though Babbi. defeating his nearest rival, BJP's assembly has gone up to 115, old party by handing it a crush- It was last represented by the opposition party had In the 2017 Assembly polls, Bhanu Bhuria (36), by a mar- just one short of the simple ing defeat in Dakha. SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, charged the state government while the SAD and the BJP had gin of over 27,804 votes.With majority mark of 116. On the With these victories, the whose election to the Lok with "highhandedness" and won the Jalalabad and this, the Congress wrested the other hand, the BJP's tally has Congress consolidated its posi- Sabha from the Ferozepur "misuse" of the official machin- Phagwara seats respectively, seat, reserved for tribals, from now gone down to 108. tion with 80 seats in the 117- parliamentary segment ery to influence the voters in Mukerian and Dakha were the BJP, dealing a blow to the The 10-month-old Nath member Punjab Assembly, necessitated the bypoll. Dakha. won by the Congress and the main opposition party. government has been surviving where it enjoys a two-thirds Though the Congress won The seat fell vacant fol- AAP respectively. The bypoll win has helped on the support of two BSP, one majority now.With the addition three seats, its defeat in Dakha, lowing the resignation of The polling took place on the Congress improve its tally SP and four Independent of Dakha, the tally of the Akalis from where the party had field- former AAP leader and October 21 for the four in the 230-member assembly, MLAs. in the House is now 14. ed Chief Minister Amarinder Supreme Court lawyer H S Assembly constituencies and it but the party-led government The Jhabua by-election was As the Bharatiya Janata Singh's trusted lieutenant Phoolka from the state recorded an overall voter still has to bank on a few leg- a litmus test for Nath, who is Party (BJP) lost Phagwara, its Sandeep Sandhu, is being seen Assembly. turnout of 65.57 per cent, islators of other parties for also president of the Congress strength in the House will now as a setback for the CM, who The BJP suffered a setback which sealed the fate of 33 can- stability. in Madhya Pradesh, where the come down to two.The Aam had taken out roadshows for in Phagwara, known as the saf- didates. Kantilal Bhuria's victory party came to power in 2018 Aadmi Party (AAP), the main Sandhu twice during cam- fron party's pocket borough, as The highest polling was came as a shot in the arm for after 15 years. opposition party in the state, paigning. Congress candidate and former registered in Jalalabad at 75.46 Chief Minister Kamal Nath, Nath's leadership came failed to make a mark in the In a blow to the ruling IAS officer Balwinder Singh per cent, followed by 71.64 per who has been helming a wafer- under the scanner when the bypolls. party, SAD's Manpreet Singh Dhaliwal defeated the saffron cent in Dakha and 58.62 per thin majority government since Congress lost 28 of the 29 Lok In the 117-member Punjab Ayali defeated Sandhu from party's Rajesh Bagha by a cent in Mukerian. December 2018 and fending off Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the Congress at pre- Dakha by a margin of 14,672 comprehensive margin of The Phagwara (reserve) attacks from the BJP. in the April-May national elec- sent has 77 legislators. The SAD votes. 26,116 votes. seat recorded a voter turnout of Nath led the electioneering tions. PTI has 13 MLAs, while the AAP's Touted as a battle of pres- The seat was earlier repre- 55.97 per cent. PTI

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Debbie In 2000, the bodies of 58    ' J but Ankara risks little from its address the situation in the zone of attack was made after official who oversees Ukraine Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., clandestine Chinese immi-       allies because of its strategic northeast Syria” where he said it was made very clear to us that policy, until mid afternoon. said she had just walked into grants were discovered in a 5  ," $ $ position, diplomats said. a Turkey-US “ceasefire” accord President (Recep Tayyip) The interview began the room when the Republican Dutch truck at the    $' %3 The issue looks certain to struck last week had Erdogan made the decision to roughly five hours behind lawmakers blew past Capitol southeastern English port '  3 overshadow the meeting in reduced fighting. come across the border,” he said. schedule, after a security check police officers and Democratic of Dover. Two people Brussels, with Turkey isolated Diplomats, however, described US President Donald by Capitol officials, and ended staffers. AP survived. AFP /   8 / among the 29 member states exchanges with Ankara’s Trump has lifted all sanctions on '('  because of its incursion this representatives as Turkey after Ankara agreed to a .!0! -,,!@A6%  month against Kurdish fight- “frank”. permanent ceasefire in Syria as  (   (   ers, considered “terrorists” by But they admitted that the American troops left the <=    + &      $   Ankara but which were key in Turkey’s location at the gates of “blood stained sand”, allowing     the fight against the Islamic the Middle East and next to the Russian and Turkish forces ,O $    State group in Syria. Russia gave it a strategic value to take over the territory con- "       '    ((  NATO Secretary General weightier than the trolled by America and the !     -+  (  Jens Stoltenberg has refused to objections. AFP Kurdish military. AFP   London: A march planned by The route of the march pro-Pakistani separatist will now reportedly end up at Dhaka:Sixteen people includ- groups on Kashmir to coin- Trafalgar Square instead, a <= ing the head of a madrasa cide with Diwali on Sunday requirement imposed due to were sentenced to death by a has been denied permission concerns of violence in the Bangladeshi court on Thursday by the UK authorities to wake of clashes at a previous > for burning alive a teenage assemble outside the Indian demonstration by similar Qamishli (Syria): Kurdish US President Donald girl student for refusing to High Commission here. groups on August 15. forces in northeastern Syria left Trump has praised the agree- withdraw a sexual harassment A day after Prime The Metropolitan Police several positions along the ment reached in Sochi by complaint against him. Minister Boris Johnson told is yet to confirm the details of long border with Turkey Turkey and Russia and rejoiced The gruesome murder MPs in the House of the restrictions, but it followed Thursday, complying with a that US personnel were took place in April when a gang Commons that any kind of various interventions over the deal that sees Damascus, leaving the “long of killers poured kerosene over violence during such demon- last few days, including a Ankara and Moscow carve up blood-stained sand” of Syria, 18-year-old Nusrat Jahan Rafi strations was “wholly unac- diplomatic “note verbale” their now-defunct autonomous leaving just a residual contin- and set her on fire on the roof ceptable”, it emerged on from the Indian High region. gent behind “where they have of the madrasa in the south- Thursday that the groups Commission expressing safe- Russian forces have started the oil”. eastern Feni, some 162 kms behind the protest will have to ty concerns. patrols along the flashpoint The deal signed in the outside the capital Dhaka. steer clear of the Indian mis- On Wednesday, border, filling the vacuum left Black Sea resort by Syria’s two “They (convicts) will be sion area of Aldwych in cen- Conservative Party MP Bob by a US troop withdrawal that main foreign brokers gives hanged by neck until their tral London. Blackman had raised his fears effectively handed back a third Kurdish forces until Tuesday to death,” Women and Children “They will not be allowed of violence during the of the country to the withdraw to a line 30 Repression Prevention Tribunal to assemble outside the High weekly Prime Minister’s Moscow-backed regime of kilometres (19 miles) from the Judge Mamunur Rashid pro- Commission,” a mission Questions session in President Bashar al-Assad. border. AFP nounced the judgement. PTI spokesperson confirmed. Parliament. PTI      &%     )  !&  

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It has been -              %     Tenshrined in our ancient heritage             %2 and has made significant contributions to  : 0           the development of Indian philosophy. For any concept to be accepted, its refutation    3    %             and evaluation were taken into account.   -       ' * %  Reason used to be the sole means of know-                 *   =  $  ing truth and falsity. Sutarka and kutarka were encouraged and debated. This made       8 3%=    '    our ancient seats of learning intellectual- =              ly far more advanced in their approach.  *      >     --  %$  Such critical thinking, along with its unique ecosystem, was a fascinating expe-            %-   8   rience for scholars, who were attracted from                  all over the world.     - S          ' It is a well-known historical fact that when the foreigners invaded India, one of   %2 '     '-       their main targets were our great institu-          '%4  - tions, in addition to those at Takshila and  '    -  6 )    Nalanda. Besides impacting us political- ly, socially, culturally and economically,   3 % &S              they left a critical void of centuries in our            --    intellectual thought. Later, our education- 0       <   %& )   +), al system became a victim of the colonial legacy of the British. Encouraging and --            #/#?   %2 inculcating creativity, logical thinking, rea-     '    2  @"A soning and a sense of inquisitiveness were                 ' more or less alien to the system we inher- in the career of an individual, a sudden agogy. Hence, the need is for a new look the draft National Educational Policy ited from them. The entire emphasis was change and a different pattern of educa- towards training of teachers. (NEP) has also drawn inspiration.                on rote learning. Despite the realisation tion at that level may become difficult for Simultaneously, it has been observed Appropriate modifications to the curricu-         %=      3% of the deficiencies in the system and mea- absorption. It is, therefore, essential that our that at higher levels, following an approach lum have been suggested. According to                sures suggested by various experts and education system be integrated from the which integrates arts, linguistics, and research findings of a US-based partner- education commissions over the decades, foundation stage onwards, in certain spe- humanities besides mathematics along with ship for 21st century, communication, col-             %$     change has been very slow. Even the per- cific core areas, which would encourage science and technology, leads to a deeper laboration, creativity and critical thinking,          .A'@A      centage of gross domestic product (GDP) thinking and inculcate a sense of enquiry learning. This promotes critical thinking known as the 4Cs, will be the core skills  %                invested in the education sector has and inquisitiveness. and one of higher order. Besides, it also required for 21st century education. It has          %0        been abysmally low. Scientific evidence shows that 80 per leads to the development of problem-solv- been established that at the college and uni- Nevertheless, change was inevitable cent of the brain is fully developed by the ing and communication skills. Such a holis- versity levels, habits of mind, such as analy-  6(          6 %2  & and it became more than visible during the age of six, which indicates importance of tic approach for acquisition of knowledge sis, interpretation, precision and accuracy, - $     <2   -         first two decades of this millennium. child care in an appropriate environment would be relevant in present-day context problem-solving and logical reasoning can       4:         ' Today, we can compete with the best with stimulus to the brain. Here lies the as well as future. be as important as content knowledge itself. nations in the world in areas of electron- importance of school as well as pre- Work being done at the PMF for the At the same time, the question before                 %2*  ics, space technology, atomic energy, com- school education. Emphasis on foundation- acquisition of knowledge shows that mem- us is that with the advent of the fourth      3           munication and digital technology — in al literacy and numeracy at the school as orising is like carrying the burden of books; industrial revolution and the arrival of the           - -63  its reach as well as penetration — besides well as pre-school levels is known to aid it does not have much meaning and does Internet of Things and Artificial such like other indicators of development. healthy growth of the cerebral cortex, an not even add to one’s knowledge unless one Intelligence (AI), what would be the  -   %:        There are, however, areas of serious con- area associated with such skills within the comprehends the content. In today’s class- future of critical thinking? In fact, a -(    $      cern as these positive developments can be brain. In this context, the most important rooms, so much of information is already restructured curriculum with focus on 21st    %)         '   %2 attributed to the success of a handful of factor is the teacher, who has to be ade- available with the students that they do not century skills would be even more impor- institutions while a majority of them con- quately equipped with the latest pedagog- expect it from the teachers. Instead of tant for a comfortable interface with the -     *     &         % tinue to lag behind. ical techniques so as to ensure appropri- “what”, they need to be explained “why” fourth industrial revolution technologies.  S               % "B'  '' With more than 50 per cent of India’s ate development of the cognitive skills and “how”, which can satisfy curiosity of Emphasis on collaboration and team work                    population being in the younger age among youngsters in a sensitive manner. students and stimulate critical thinking. would still be essential so that in the hi-tech group, we can be termed as the world’s Accordingly, text books and exercises, The link between critical thinking and future, one can think critically as well as        4*    %      most youthful nation. As we talk of demo- which encourage correlation of concepts education is obvious as one cannot learn independently and not become entirely      %$        --     graphic dividend, we should also assess the besides thinking and questioning, will have without thinking well. For comprehension subservient to AI. The draft NEP, with ref-     &     -     %2 ' extent we are equipping the youth to face to be designed. of content and clarity of concepts, it is, erence to school education, has made no the world and adding to the strength of the A report published by the International therefore, important that students ask ques- mention either of a reduction in the weight        '    % -    country rather than converting them into Labour Organisation (ILO) recently found tions. This is where lies the importance of of school bags or any happiness classes. On        #AC#A 3  ' a burden. For some reason, education at that India had a disproportionately low critical thinking. It consists of techniques the positive side, it has alluded to the use-  2      %2 &       all levels could not be given the priority it number of teachers for school-going chil- of sound and systematic reasoning as well fulness and introduced the concept of crit- deserved. It is good to see that it is now dren. While we do need quantity, the qual- as arguments and counter arguments, ical thinking in higher education. It is to   2   '  %& &    being realised and rectified. Our youth have ity of teachers is perhaps even more besides elements of deductive logic. Work be hoped that the final NEP will take into   * 0       %=     ' to be strong personalities backed and devel- important. The ILO report also revealed books are now available, which help pro- account and focus on some of the issues   -               ' oped by a holistic educational system, that elementary school teachers have a crit- mote critical thinking skills. Irrespective of mentioned here so as to improve the lot of     %        &      which is capable of giving them sufficient ical impact on the earning capacity of stu- the subject, the usefulness of such tech- our youth, so that they can significantly confidence and making them comfortable dents and, hence, the economy. Recent pro- niques has been tried and tested by contribute towards nation building.  &    !!  ; '  %0(3    with latest and futuristic technologies. nouncements, that we have a large num- experts in the stimulation of the brain. (The writer is a former Governor and  &   S > 2       But universities and institutions of ber of educated unemployables, may be a In the contemporary scenario, the a Senior advisor at the Pranab Mukherjee  %    63  &   )     higher education being the very last rung result of poor quality of teachers and ped- importance of critical thinking in view of Foundation)    2  - %0             3  %=               + %     D      %  %2   % =( "( '  %  $ $ '  ( 5, $   $

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lasting pro-Government impression quality healthcare. senior Government officers and He was taken to Max Hospital the medical bureaucracy to monitor on the minds of poor families in both Though, the Government’s Ministers sitting in the State capital. where some preliminary treatment the effectiveness of the scheme. urban and rural areas before the 2019 endeavours to provide affordable For instance, recently, a tubercu- was done. Also, this incident happened general elections. The result was that healthcare to the needy are laudable, losis patient from Uttarkashi district But when the family was told because the health and sanitary infra- the NDA Government returned to the success of any welfare programme became critical and started vomiting about the cost of the treatment, they structure of the State has collapsed power at the Centre with a thumping depends largely on the role played by blood. He was rushed to a hospital in approached me for advice. I contact- resulting in a dengue epidemic. The <53&:=98<*%. majority. the bureaucracy and in this case, the Vikas Nagar but it did not have the ed Vijay Dhasmana, Vice Chancellor hospitals are full of dengue patients ,6%6<,3=<8 While speaking on the first honesty of private hospitals and ben- infrastructure to handle the case. He of Jolly Grant Medical College, and and many people have died. This has anniversary of the AB-PMJAY on efit seekers. was then taken to the Doon Hospital, apprised him of the situation. happened due to the negligence of all <'  ' 3 %1 October 1, the Prime Minister flagged In the past, many such welfare which is part of the Government Consequently, the patient was admit- agencies concerned and the chief cul-   &   it as an employment generation tool schemes were ruined by graft and the Doon Medical College. Unfortunately, ted to a special room in the Jolly Grant prit is the Dehradun Municipal     6  for the next five years as it is expect- best example of this is the deep-root- he could not be admitted there as the Hospital, despite it being full of Corporation. $ "  o make a country of 130 billion ed to create around 11 lakh jobs for ed corruption that unfolded in almost Emergency as well as Intensive Care dengue patients also. Its sanitation employees don’t people a happy and healthy the youth. The Government’s endeav- all States in the National Health Unit (ICU) were both overflowing Shockingly, the AB-PMJAY card collect garbage on a regular basis, the M( ( $ Tnation is a mammoth task that our is to make AB-PMJAY the best Mission. A huge amount of money with dengue patients. was not accepted by any of the private staff remains on strike on one pretext  (    requires access to a robust healthcare healthcare scheme in the world with was looted by the medical fraternity He was then rushed to the hospitals in Dehradun, including the or the other and senior officers do not  ' " system, education, employment and the registration of 46 lakh people. Out and the bureaucracy all over the coun- Indresh Hospital and Medical College, Jolly Grant Medical College. The bother.     industrial infrastructure. The other of this number, around 50,000 peo- try. which is a private hospital but was hospital staff told me that as per the Hopefully, the Central and State element which is very vital in today’s ple have availed of the benefits of the Another case in point is the turned away due to the crowd of Uttarakhand Government’s guide- authorities concerned will take note   (( M scenario is the state of our environ- scheme outside their home districts. complete collapse of the health and dengue patients at the facility. At this lines (this is a BJP-ruled State), they of this and revamp the healthcare sys-  M  5  ment and the stability of natural There are two facets to the sanitary infrastructure in Uttarakhand juncture, his hapless family informed are not authorised to accept the card tem so that the beneficiaries of AB- &    resources like water, air and soil. scheme. The first is to bring more due to the arrogance and lackadaisi- me and I contacted the Agriculture unless the patient was referred by a PMJAY do not have to rush from pil-     (  A few of the NDA Government’s than 10 crore poor and vulnerable cal attitude of Government officers Minister of Uttarakhand Subodh Government hospital. lar to post to get treatment. There is    pro-poor initiatives like the Pradhan families within its ambit by providing and public representatives. The prob- Uniyal, who arranged the man’s My question is, why the red also a crucial need to control the bur- Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY), a cover of 5 lakh per family per year lem there is of systemic failure. First admission to the Doon Hospital’s tapism in emergency cases? All geoning population of the country as    '   better known as Ayushman Bharat for secondary and tertiary hospitali- bureaucratic guidelines run counter emergency section late in the night. empanelled hospitals should be free no amount of welfare schemes and      ( (AB), the Ujjwala Yojana for provid- sation. Second, the Government is to the objectives of the scheme and As he continued vomiting blood, the to admit patients because it is only facilities will be sufficient unless the 5,  (  ing LPG connections and the Swachh going to upgrade 1.5 lakh primary bury the patient in mounds of red hospital staff told his family that he then that the objectives of the AB- numbers are effectively controlled.     Bharat Mission (SBM) under which health centers by 2022 so that the tape. Second, is the insensitivity and needed intensive care as he was crit- PMJAY scheme will be achieved. (The writer is a retired civil         individual toilets were built, made a needy can get comprehensive and lack of integrity among the doctors, ical. The Government could better use servant)   ! "#$  9

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.'' 353 6* Bhegade from Maval (Pune), and Parinay Fuke from Sakoli ailing to live up to the hype (Nagpur) who was trounced by Fand hoopla created by it in Congress leader from eastern the run-up to the election that Maharashtra . it would post a thumping elec- The Shiv Sena ministers toral victory, the BJP-Shiv Sena who were defeated in the polls alliance on Thursday man- are: Vijaybapu Shivtare from aged to retain power in Purandar (Pune) and Arjun Maharashtra by either winning Khotkar from Jalna and or leading in 160 seats out of Jaydatta Kshirsagar from Beed. the total 288 seats in the State Most of these ministers, Assembly polls. including Pankaja, had faced From a combined tally of allegations of involvement in 185 seats that the BJP and Shiv scams made by the Opposition Sena had won when they con- parties in the past five years. tested the 2014 polls separate-   % "         , " The major victors in the ly, the ruling saffron alliance    ,+     "      ! Assembly polls were: Devendra partners were to set end up Fadnavis (BJP, Nagpur South with a winning tally of a max- victory. Lok Sabha polls, which saw the West), Aditya Thackeray (Shiv imum of 160 seats, which is 25 As was expected, the rebels BJP, Shiv Sena and their ally Sena, Worli), (NCP, seats fewer than the two parties belonging to both the ruling win 42 out of 48 seats. Baramati), Prithviraj Chavan had won in the previous BJP and Shiv Sena played a Interestingly, in the current (Congress Karad South), and Assembly polls. spoilsport for the two parties in Assembly polls, the BJP secured (Congress, On its own, the ruling BJP the polls. Admitting that the 25.69 per cent of total votes Bhokar), Santosh Raosaheb was poised to win a maximum presence of rebels in the fray polled, while the Shiv Sena Danve (BJP, Bhokardan), of 104 seats out of the total 164 had affected both the saffron mustered 16.50 per cent votes. Ganesh Naik (BJP, Airoli), seats it had contested, while the alliance partners, a senior BJP The younger Opposition party Dilip Walse Patil (NCP, Shiv Sena was expected a max- leader said in the evening that NCP polled higher percentage Ambegaon) and Chandrakant imum of 56 seats out of the he was in touch with at least 15 (16.72 per cent votes), while the Patil (BJP, Kothurd). total 124 seats it had contested winning rebels. Sonai Gandhi-led party secured Amit Deshmukh and in the polls. On his part, Chief Minister 15.76 per cent votes. Dhiraj Deshmukh, sons of late From the Opposition, the Devendra Fadnavis sought to In what came as embar- Chief Minister Vilarasrao NCP — which fared relatively play down relatively unimpres- rassment for the ruling saffron Deshmukh, were elected on a   ,   %                "      ! better than it was expected sive performance of the BJP in alliance, at least eight BJP- Congress ticket from Latur thanks to mainly to the exten- the polls. “On the contrary to Sena Ministers in the Devendra city and Latur rural con- sive campaigning done by its the perception sought to be cre- Fadnavis Government bit elec- stituencies respectively. founder-president Sharad Pawar ated, our strike rate is much bet- toral dust. While Amit was elected for ,     %     , " — had either won or was lead- ter what it was in the 2014 The biggest jolt that the the third time from Latur city ing in 54 seats out of the 121 Assembly. At that time, BJP had BJP-led Government suffered constituency, Dhiraj — making seats it contested in the polls, contested 260 seats and won was the defeat of late senior BJP his debut — won the polls from Mumbai: Shiv Sena leader The Yuva Sena leader is big win. by allowing malls and restau- while its senior ally Congress 122 seats which was 47 per cent leader ’s Latur rural by a margin of Aaditya Thackeray, who made now likely to make his party, A pass out of the Bombay rants to be open all night. The was set to end up with a win- strike rate. In this election, we daughter and State Minister 1,18,000 voters – that too over history by becoming the first which was rooted in the 'sons Scottish School in suburban Shiv Sena-ruled ning tally 45 seats in the polls. contested 164 seats and won who was an interesting rival 'None Of member of his family to take of the soil' agenda and later Mahim, Aaditya is a graduate Brihanmumbai Municipal Among the smaller parties 103 seats which is 70 per cent trounced by her estranged The Above' option. poll plunge, has marked his embraced the ide- in English Literature from St Corporation has approved the and independents, the Bahujan strike rate,” Fadnavis said. cousin and NCP’s Leader of Dhiraj Deshmukh secured arrival in Maharashtra politics ology, more inclusive and Xavier's College and has a proposal, which is now pend- Vikash Aghadi (BVA) had won The strike rate projected by Opposition in Legislative around 1,31,000 votes, while with a bang and is likely to broad-based. law degree from KC College. ing with the Chief Minister for one seat and was leading in two Fadnavis notwithstanding, the Council Dhananjay Munde in 26,800 votes were cast for play a key role in the next State In run up to the polls, he He has always managed to clearance. seats, while the All India BJP leaders, including BJP Parli constituency of Beed dis- NOTA. Shiv Sena’s Sachin Government and help expand conducted several roadshows, keep himself abreast of civic The young politician also Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen national president Amit Shah trict in Marathwada. Deshmukh, Maharashtra his party. foot marches and raised issues issues and concerns of youth sports a creative side like his bagged two seats. and the chief minister himself, The BJP’s other losing Navnirman Sena’s Arjun The 29-year-old next-gen like cutting of trees in Aarey in the State. The Maharashtra grandfather, father and uncle. The Prahar Janshakti Party had gone to town saying that ministers include: Anil Bonde Waghamare, and 12 other can- Thackeray, whom his party Colony and Mumbai's Government's decision to ban His grandfather, the late won 2 seats, while Krantikari the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance from Morshi (Amravati), Ram didates forfeited their election wants to be the Deputy Chief nightlife and said he wants to plastic is partly credited to his Bal Thackeray, who founded Shetkari Party, Samajwadi Party would win more 220 seats in Shinde who was defeated by deposits. Minister in the BJP-Sena make the constituency a campaign against the wide- the Shiv Sena in 1966, was a and Swabhimani Shetkari Party the State Assembly. The NCP President Sharad Pawar’s Interestingly, 18 of the 35 alliance Government, won "model of development". spread use of the material. cartoonist, an art shared by his bagged one seat each. Among premise was based on the fact grandnephew Rohit Pawar in sitting MLAs and Congress- with a thumping majority He also reached out to In a bid to attract young estranged uncle Raj Thackeray, the independents five emerged that the saffron alliance part- his maiden election from NCP leaders who had switched from Mumbai's Worli con- non-Marathi voters in the followers, he also proposed the the chief of Maharashtra victorious, while at least eight ners had established leads in Karjat-Jamkhed over either the BJP or the Shiv stituency. constituency to romp home a revival of Mumbai's nightlife Navnirman Sena (MNS). PTI independents were heading to 227 Assembly segments in the (Ahmednagar), Sanjay ‘Bala’ Sena were defeated in the polls.

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"joyous and pained", as he defeating his nearest rival by Pawar won The 60-year-old NCP leader took an unassailable lead over 63*E*:6,<6=8,;35; : *%9=% over 1.65 lakh votes — the the seat in was followed by Vishwajit his cousin and Maharashtra ;6E6%&<*;E*<66*,6;8  ,  *%9=% highest victory margin record- Pune district Kadam, who is the State BJP Minister Pankaja Munde in 66*C65;6E;68<6C 9   ,;,9=% ed by a candidate in this election. for a sixth Congress working president, in Parli Assembly seat, which saw On the other hand, Shiv consecutive term. terms of victory gap. the two engage in recrimina- ;6E6%E6,6%<6= %$ *%:=, Sena candidate Dilip Bhausaheb According to the Election Kadam defeated his nearest tion in a high-voltage contest. 6:96%<6= Lande won from the Chandivali Commission (EC) data, Ajit Shiv Sena rival Sanjay Vibhute He also thanked the people &6%6;;6.6% ;5 6: % $ %&:=, constituency in north Mumbai Pawar defeated the BJP's by a margin of 1,62,521 votes in for his "unprecedented victory". &<688&<638,;96< %   ,;,:=, by just 409 votes — the lowest Gopichand Padalkar by a mar- Palus Kadegaon in district On the other hand, Pankaja ,;6<36 victory margin posted by a gin of 1,65,265 votes. of western Maharashtra. PTI Munde dubbed her defeat was in the State Legislative Council someone in the family has "unexpected and inscrutable", said he contested the election been defeated," he said. but said she accepted the peo- on the issue of development, The NCP leader also said ple's mandate humbly. but, without naming anyone he will fulfil all the develop- According to the trends one, he added that "dirty poli- ment-related promises made to IJJ made available by Election tics" was played by the ruling people in the next five years. Commission so far, the NCP party. Meanwhile, reacting to her leader secured 1.22 lakh votes He also observed that peo- defeat, Pankaja Munde said, "I as against 91,413 votes bagged ple of Parli backed him despite accept the mandate humbly. by his BJP opponent. Prime Minister Narendra This is an inscrutable result. I "The people of Parli have Modi, BJP chief Amit Shah and did not expect the result, given given me an unprecedented Chhatrapati Shivaji's descen- the developmental works car- victory. I thank them. Heavenly dant Udayanraje Bhosale cam- ried out during the past five Anna (referring to his father) paigning against him. years and the response I wanted to see me winning. "I am happy. But I am also received from people." How do I tell him that his son sad somewhere, being the elder The BJP leader, who was a has won and that too in Parli?" in the family. Whether they Minister in the first Devendra an emotionally-charged consider me as part of the fam- Fadnavis Government, said she Dhananjay Munde said. ily or not, the blood relation will analyse reasons behind The Leader of Opposition never breaks. I am pained that her defeat. PTI Q"*'#<  =   $    > $?% "  9 %   "  &  P        .     &  !&  , "    &    "      !   /    Mumbai: In the newly-elected Varsha Gaikwad (Dharavi-  0 "     #    288-member Maharashtra Mumbai) also retained their Legislative Assembly, there seats. 2     Nagpur: Maharashtra Chief would be only 23 women, NCP MLA Suman Patil Minister Devendra Fadnavis Latur: The NOTA option has eleven of them sitting legislators. too retained her Tasgaon- defeated his nearest rival, secured second slot in the It is still an improvement over Kavathe Mahankal seat. Congress' Ashish Deshmukh Latur rural Assembly segment, the previous Assembly which The newcomer women leg-       by a margin of 49,344 votes from where late Maharashtra had 22 women legislators. islators are Saroj Ahire (Devlali) from the Nagpur South West Chief Minister Vilasrao The sitting legislators who of the NCP, Lata Sonavane constituency, election officials Deshmukh's son Dhiraj is set to were elected on Thursday were (Chopda) and Yamini Jadhav Mumbai: Some prominent Pichad had joined the BJP few the Shiv Sena before the polls, said on Thursday. went to None Of The Above register a handsome victory in Manda Mhatre (from Belapur), (Byculla) of the Shiv Sena; Opposition leaders who had days before the election. He lost namely, Pandurang Barora and Fadnavis won from this (NOTA) option. his maiden poll outing. Manisha Chaudhari (Dahisar), Shweta Mahale (Chikli), joined the ruling BJP or Shiv to Dr Kiran Lahamate of the Nirmala Gavit, also lost the constituency for the third time, Fadnavis had won twice According to the trends Vidya Thakur (Goregaon), Meghana Bordikar (Jintur), Sena, including Cabinet NCP by 57,689 votes from elections from Shahapur and but with a reduced margin. from Nagpur-West seat in 1999 available till late Thursday Devyani Farande (Nashik Namita Mundada (Kaij), Mukta Minister Jaydutt Kshirsagar, Akole seat. Igatpuri, respectively. He had won from the seat and 2004. Following delimita- evening, Dhiraj Deshmukh, Central), Seema Hiray (Nashik Tilak (Kasba Peth); and have bitten the dust as the Interestingly, Lahamate Barora was an NCP MLA by 58,942 votes in 2014. tion in 2009, he contested and the Congress candidate, has West), Madhuri Misal (Parvati), Congress' Pratibha Dhanorkar Maharashtra Assembly poll was a BJP worker for many and Gavit a Congress legislator. Fadnavis secured 1,09,237 won from Nagpur South-West secured 1,35,006 votes (67.64 Monica Rajale (Shevgaon) and (Warora) and Sulbha Khodke results came in on Thursday. years and had been in the Former Minister votes while Ashish Deshmukh in 2009 and 2014. per cent). Bharati Lavhekar (Versova). (Amravati). Kshirsagar, fighting on Shiv camp opposed to the Pichad Harshvardhan Patil, who got 59,893 votes. Ashish Deshmukh had The 'None of the Above' All eight MLAs are from Two independents — Geeta Sena ticket, was defeated by his family. Irked with State BJP's switched sides from the Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi fought the 2014 Assembly elec- (NOTA) has clinched 27,500 the BJP. Jain (Mira Bhayander) and nephew and NCP candidate decision to induct Vaibhav, Congress to the BJP so that he candidate Ravi Shende bagged tions on BJP ticket from Katol votes (13.78 per cent), rele- Congress MLAs Praniti Manjula Gavit (Sakri) have also Sandip Kshirsagar. Lahamate joined the NCP and could contest from his home 8,821 votes and BSP candidate and defeated his uncle, NCP gating other candidates in Shinde (Solapur City Central), won. Among 3,237 candidates, Vaibhav Pichad, son of for- won the election. turf, Indapur, lost to the NCP's Vivek Handle secured 7,646 leader Anil Deshmukh. He fray from the seat to inferior Yashomati Thakur (Teosa) and there were 235 women. PTI mer NCP Minister Madhukar Two MLAs who had joined Duttatray Bharane. PTI votes. As many as 3,064 votes later quit the BJP. PTI positions. PTI   ! "#$  2

 &55  2    #  % <       2  ( .     %898:;* ity and there is a significant drop in its said. Sonia had appointed Hooda the vote percentage. Claiming that the ver- Congress Legislative Party (CLP) he Congress-NCP alliance put up dict of Haryana is against the BJP, he leader which proved to be a game Ta good show in Maharashtra while also said all parties opposing the BJP changer for the party in Haryana the grand old party surprised the rul- must come together. which was struggling to maintain the ing side in Haryana by giving it a tough In Haryana, the Congress, which party's ground which ruled for maxi- fight and coming up with an increased failed to bag even one seat in the Lok mum number of years in the Jat dom- tally. As trends started pouring in, Sabha polls, won or was ahead in 31 inant state. Congress leaders started discussing of the 90 seats at stake compared to its While former Congress chief that had the party not given up mid- previous tally of 15. The BJP, which had Rahul Gandhi campaigned in both the way apprehending the loss to yet 47 seats in the outgoing 90-member States, leaders lost hope after the only another apparent 'Modi wave', it would house, won or was ahead in 40 seats. rally scheduled for Sonia to address have made a comeback in Haryana and The half-way mark is 46. was cancelled on the penultimate day together with regional parties wrested In Maharashtra, the BJP-Shiv Sena of elections early this week. power in Maharashtra. coalition was on course to retain Following the impressive results, In the first Assembly elections after power albeit with a reduced majority senior Congress leader P the BJP's triumph in the Lok Sabha with the opposition Congress-NCP Chidambaram said party workers Lucknow: Samajwadi Party on Thursday polls in May, the ruling party's electoral alliance putting up a good show. must believe that the BJP can be retained its Rampur assembly seat, which juggernaut met with some resistance Haryana Congress chief Kumari defeated in elections as calm and fell vacant after Azam Khan successfully in Maharashtra and Haryana with a Selja said people has rejected the rul- quiet patriotism can defeat muscular fought the Lok Sabha polls with his wife resurgent Congress performing cred- ing BJP and was ready to "embrace a nationalism. Taking a swipe at the BJP, emerging victorious by a margin of over itably in the northern State. new dawn of justice". Selja was Chidambaram, who is in ED custody 7,000 votes. "It is for the first time in five years appointed couple of months before the in a corruption case, said that miracles Khan's wife and SP candidate Tazeen      "   "  ,  #      #0%  that people have voted against BJP in assembly elections when former Chief can happen if people shed their fear. Fatma won by defeating her nearest rival      -       ' %    &     "         , "& # Assembly relying more on local issues Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had "Congress workers must believe BJP candidate Bharat Bhushan.        ! concerning them. BJP tried to mis- threatened to quit the party if Selja's that the BJP can be defeated in an elec- While Tazeen secured 79,043 votes, guide the voters in local elections by predecessor Ashok Tanwar is not axed tion. Calm and quiet patriotism can Bhushan got 71,327 votes.  %898:;* "Devendra Fadnavis ji and Shah said "I want to congratu- pitching national issues like Article 370 as party chief. defeat muscular nationalism," he said on Congress candidate Arshad Ali Khan Manohar Lal ji both were first late party workers across the and triple talaq. But onions selling at A confident Hooda said he will Twitter. He said he had asked his fam- got 4,182 votes while BSP's Zubair Masood espite the BJP's showing time chief ministers, they did country as in Modi-2, the first 70-80 per kg weighed more on the soon meet Congress president Sonia ily to tweet on his behalf. Khan secured 3,441 votes. Dnot upto the expectations not even have the experience as two elections have been won by electorates' minds than Article 370," Gandhi and top party leaders to strate- Elated over the party's perfor- In Gangoh, the BJP retained the seat in Maharashtra and Haryana ministers. And for 5 years they the BJP. The BJP-Sena yuti quipped a senior Congress leader. gise on forming the Government in the mance in the assembly polls in with its candidate Kirat Singh defeating his Assembly polls, Prime Minister kept working for people's wel- (alliance) has full majority in The party said the poll verdict in state. Sonia already spoke to Hooda Maharastra and Haryana, the leader of nearest rival Congress candidate Nooman Narendra Modi and BJP pres- fare and as a result people have Maharashtra and we won 3 per Haryana and Maharashtra is a moral and given him the go-ahead to work Congress in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Masud. ident Amit Shah on Thursday again put their faith in them," cent more votes and emerged defeat of the BJP and what it stands for. towards forming the Government, Chowdhury Thursday said the so While the BJP candidate secured sought to outline the key pos- Modi said. as the biggest party in Congress' senior spokesperson they said. called "Modi magic" is fast waning. The 68,300 votes, Masud got 62,881 votes. itives even while asserting to "The political pundits who Haryana." Shah also referred to Anand Sharma said that BJP chief Amit "Former Haryana CM Hooda is result of the assembly polls in the two Samajwadi Party candidate Inder Sain form the Governments in both are analysing today's election various decisions of the central Shah's claim of victory in Haryana does already in touch with JJP and states will help to rejuvenate Congress got 57,374 votes while BSP candidate Mohd the States despite Haryana results, Haryana in itself is an government like ending special not hold as the party is short of major- Independents," a source close to him in the days to come, he said. Irshad got 32,276 votes. PTI throwing up a fractured man- exceptional win since these status to Jammu and Kashmir, date. days there have been less criminalizing instant Triple Addressing BJP workers instances of winning again Talaq and giving rights to 40 at the party headquarters in the after completing a 5-year term.. lakh residents of unauthorized  $    evening, Modi pointed out Moreover, BJP's vote share in colonies in Delhi, indicating how the party scripted history Haryana went up to 36 per cent that the BJP's latest wins were in Maharashtra, where "for the from 33 per cent; it shows peo- an endorsement of these steps. first time in 50 years, a Chief ple's endorsement of Govt's Earlier, in his tweet, Shah      9   Minister completed his full work," Modi said. said the (Manohar Lal) Khattar five-year term" and the return Earlier, Modi tweeted: "I government in Haryana has of the party to power shows thank the people of Haryana made every effort for people's   #   people reposed faith in the for blessing us. We will con- welfare under the central lead- Devendra Fadnavis-led State tinue to work with the same ership of (Narendra) Modi. "I Government. "Political stabil- zeal and dedication for the thank people for making the Ahmedabad: The Opposition comeback after trailing in initial ity is a must for a state like state's progress. I laud the BJP the single-largest party Congress and ruling BJP won rounds, and defeated the BJP's Maharashtra," he added. efforts of hardworking and giving it another opportu- three seats each in the bypolls to Jivraj Patel by over 6,400 votes. "Even before Diwali, the @BJP4Haryana Karyakartas nity to serve them," Shah tweet- six assembly constituencies in In Kheralu seat in Mehsana, way people of Haryana and who toiled extensively and ed. He congratulated Chief Gujarat, the results of which the BJP's Ajmalji Thakor defeat- Maharashtra have put their went among the people to Minister Khattar and state were declared on Thursday. ed the Congress' Babuji Thakor faith in BJP, I want to thank elaborate on our development party chief Subhash Barala. The Congress managed to by 29,000 votes. them from the core of my agenda.". Shah said: In Maharashtra, wrest one seat away from the In Radhanpur seat, the BJP's heart," he maintained. BJP president Amit Shah BJP-Shiv Sena is going to form BJP. Alpesh Thakor was defeated by Modi said the people have said the BJP has won the first the govt once again with major- Congress turncoat MLAs the Congress' Raghu Desai by reposed faith in leadership of two elections in Prime Minister ity. We'll work even harder in Alpesh Thakor and Dhavalsinh over 3,800 votes. Fadnavis and Haryana chief Narendra Modi's second term. both states for the welfare of the Zala, who contested on BJP In Lunawada, BJP candidate minister Manohar Lal Khattar. Addressing the party workers, people.     "     ,      '   "9   , "    ! ticket, lost. Jignesh Sevak won against the The results take the Congress' Gulabsinh Chauhan Congress' tally in the 182- mem- by over 11,000 votes. ber House to 72, and that of the In Amraiwadi, the BJP's BJP to 103. Congress's Jashu Jagdish Patel, who was trailing      #+2+2        Patel defeated Zala from Bayad behind Congress' Dharmendra seat in Arvalli district by a mar- Patel initially, managed to come gin of over 700 votes. back and won by over 5,500 Lucknow/Patna: The BJP and one by the Congress. AIADMK in Tamil Nadu wrest- 27,804 votes, defeating BJP's But the ruling party suf- constituency, reserved for Before the results were votes. its allies on Thursday won 26 of Among the states ruled by ed two seats from arch-rival Bhanu Bhuria. fered a setback as SAD's Scheduled Tribes, in declared, Zala had accepted his Prior to the by-elections, the the 51 assembly seats at stake in the BJP and its allies, bypolls DMK and its ally Congress in The Congress lost the seat Manpreet Singh Ayali defeated Chhattisgarh with Rajman defeat and left the counting Congress held Radhanpur and the bypolls across 18 states were held on Monday for the the bypolls. AIADMK won by to BJP in last year's assembly its nominee Sandeep Singh Benzam defeating Lachhuram centre. Bayad seats while the other and the Congress emerged vic- maximum 11 seats in Uttar impressive margins in polls with G S Damor defeating Sandhu by 14,672 votes in Kashyap of the BJP by 17,862 In Tharad seat of four were with the BJP. torious in 12 constituencies Pradesh, followed by six in Vikravandi and Nanguneri con- Kantilal Bhuria's son Vikrant Dakha. votes. Banaskantha, Congress candi- Congress snatched Tharad while Asaduddin Owaisi's Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in stituencies. Bhuria by 10,437 votes. The ruling TRS in BJD candidate Rita Sahu date Gulabsinh Rajput made a seat from the ruling party. PTI AIMIM tasted its maiden elec- Assam and two each in In Kerala, the Congress-led However, the BJP fielded Telangana won the Huzurnagar won the Bijepur Assembly seat toral success in Bihar. Himachal Pradesh and Tamil UDF tasted defeat at the hands Damor in the general elections seat with its nominee S Saidi in Odisha defeating Sanat In bye-elections to two Lok Nadu. of the ruling LDF headed by the from the Ratlam-Jhabua seat, Reddy defeating Congress's N Gartia of the BJP by 97,990 Sabha seats, Prince Raj of the The other states where CPI-M in its strongholds of which he won by defeating Padmavati Reddy. votes, which is the highest-ever Lok Jan Shakti Party won in bypolls were held are Punjab (4 Vattiyoorkavu and Konni, while Kantilal Bhuria. The BJP in Assam won margin in the history of the Samastipur (SC) in Bihar seats), Kerala (5), Sikkim (3), it retained two seats and won The Congress now has 115 three seats with its candidates state's assembly polls. defeating Ashok Kumar of the Rajasthan (2) and one seat from the Marxist bastion of members, one short of simple Bijoy Malakar (Ratabari), Rajen Sikkim Chief Minister Congress, while Shriniwas each in Arunachal Pradesh, Aroor. Thiruvananthapuram majority in the 230-member Borthakur (Rangapara) and Prem Singh Tamang aka PS Dadasaheb Patil of the NCP Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Mayor V K Prasanth won from house. It enjoys the support of Nabanita Handique (Sonari) Golay won from Poklok emerged victorious in Chhattisgarh, Puducherry, Vattiyoorkavu against his near- 4 Independents, two BSP MLAs defeating their respective Kamrang seat by 8,953 votes. Maharashtra's Satara con- Meghalaya and Telangana. est Congress rival K and one SP MLA. Congress opponents. All India The Sikkim Krantikari Morcha stituency over Udyanraje The BJP and its allies held Mohankumar. The ruling Congress in United Democratic Front's (SKM) founder defeated Moses Pratapsinhmaharaj Bhonsle of nearly 30 of these seats, while Another UDF bastion, Rajasthan increased its tally in Rafiqul Islam prevailed over Rai of the Sikkim Democratic the BJP. the Congress had won 12 and Konni, went to the LDF kitty the state assembly by winning Congress's Shamsul Hoque in Front. The Samajwadi Party the rest were with regional with its candidate K U Jenish the bypoll to Mandawa seat Jania. The SKM's alliance partner turned out to be a major gain- parties. Kumar defeating P Mohanraj while MP Hanuman Beniwal's The by-election was neces- BJP tasted its first electoral er in Uttar Pradesh, wresting a Assembly elections were (Cong). Rashtriya Loktantrik Party sitated after sitting BJP MLAs victory in the northeastern seat each from the ruling BJP also held in Maharashtra, where However, the LDF tasted retained the Khinwsar seat. and ministers Pallab Lochan state winning the Martam and the BSP, while the NDA got the BJP-Shiv Sena coalition defeat at Aroor, a CPI(M) Congress's Rita Chaudhary Das (Rangapara) and Tapan Rumtek and Gangtok seats. eight, one less than it held. retained power albeit with a stronghold where UDF's won from Mandawa by a mar- Gogoi (Sonari) and Deputy Sonam TSH Venchungpa The SP wrested Zaidpur reduced majority, and in BJP- Shanimol Usman, who had gin of 33,704 votes while RLP Speaker Kripanath Mallah won from Martam Rumtek, seat from the BJP and Jalalpur ruled Haryana which appeared unsuccessfully contested the candidate Narayan Beniwal (Ratabari) besides Congress defeating his nearest rival Nuk seat from the BSP, while retain- headed for a hung assembly April Lok Sabha poll from won Khinwsar by 4,630 votes. MLA Abdul Khaleque (Jania) Tshering Bhutia of the SDF by ing Rampur. The BJP won with JJP chief Dushyant Alappuzha, won by a margin of Now the Congress tally in were elected to the Lok Sabha. 6,150 votes while Yong Tshering seven seats and its ally Apna Dal Chautala holding the key to 2079 votes. the 200-member assembly has Lepcha beat Delay Namgyal (S) bagged one. government formation. Usman defeated her near- increased to 107, including six In Himachal Pradesh, the Barfungpa of the Sikkim The BJP retained Balha, In the Gujarat bypolls, rul- est rival Manu C Pulickal of the those who had defected to the ruling BJP retained both the National People's Party by 1,010 Gangoh, Manikpur, Ghosi, ing BJP and Congress shared LDF. party from the BSP last month. Dharamshala and Pachhad votes in Gangtok. Iglas, Lucknow Cantt and the spoils winning three seats The UDF won the The BJP has 72 MLAs and the seats. In Pachhad, Reena Former Indian football Govindnagar, while Apna Dal each. OBC leader Alpesh Manjeshwaram seat where M C RLP three. Kashyap defeated her nearest team captain Bhaichung Bhutia, (S) retained Pratapgarh. Thakor, who switched sides Kamaruddin (IUML) won by The ruling Congress con- rival, former minister Gangu who contested from Gangtok The ruling JD(U) suffered from Congress to BJP, lost from 7,923 votes against BJP's solidated its position in Punjab Ram Musafir of the Congress, seat on a Hamro Sikkim Party a setback in Bihar managing to Radhanpur by 3,807 votes to Raveesh Thanthri Kuntar. winning three assembly seg- by 2,742 votes. ticket, managed to bag only 579 win only one of the four seats Congress's Raghubhai Desai. It retained the Ernakulam ments while opposition Vishal Nehria defeated votes. it contested. Bypolls were held Congress candidate Jashu seat as its candidate T J Vinod, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Independent Rakesh Kumar The ruling SKM's tally in in five seats of which RJD won Patel defeated BJP's Dhavalsinh deputy Mayor of Kochi corpo- won one seat. by 6,758 votes in Dharamshala. the 32-member House has now two and AIMIM one. The Zala in Bayad, while in Tharad, ration, defeated his nearest Raminder Awla defeated In Puducherry, the ruling gone up to 19 while the BJP's remaining seat was won by an Congress nominee Gulabsinh rival advocate Manu Roy, the SAD nominee Raj Singh Congress retained the Kamaraj strength in the House is 12. Ten Independent. Rajput prevailed over BJP's LDF-Independent candidate by Dibipura by 16,633 votes from Nagar Assembly seat with its SDF legislators had earlier The results gave the once Jivraj Patel. over 3,750 votes. Jalalabad, considered an Akali nominee A John Kumar defeat- switched to the BJP. mighty RJD a reason to smile, In Kheralu seat, BJP's The LDF's strength has bastion. ing his nearest AINRC rival S United Democratic Party while Hyderabad MP Owaisi's Ajmalji Thakor beat Congress's now gone up to 93, while that Earlier, the segment was Bhuvaneswarane. candidate Balajied Kupar AIMIM gained a toehold in the Babuji Thakor. of UDF 45 in the 140-member represented by SAD chief With this win, the Synrem won the bypoll to state clinching Kishanganj, a In Lunawada, BJP's Jignesh house. Sukhbir Singh Badal, who was Congress's strength in the Shella constituency in Muslim-dominated con- Sevak beat Congress's The defeat in Vatiyoorkavu elected to Lok Sabha in May. assembly has been restored to Meghalaya by over 6000 votes. stituency. BJP rebel candidate Gulabsinh Chauhan while in and Konni comes as a rude In Phagwara, which fell 15 in which the Congress enjoys The bye-election was necessi- Karnjeet Singh won the Amraiwadi, Congress's shock for the UDF which had vacant after sitting BJP MLA the support of the DMK, its tated due to the death of UDP Dharaunda seat as an Dharmendra Patel lost to BJP's won 19 of the 20 Lok Sabha Som Parkash was elected to Lok alliance partner, from outside. president Donkupar Roy, who Independent. Jagdish Patel. seats in the Lok Sabha polls in Sabha, Congress candidate and The bypoll was necessi- had represented the seat for a The JD(U) could win only Prior to the bypolls, the May. former IAS officer Balwinder tated after incumbent legisla- record seven times, earlier this Nathnagar where its candidate Congress held Radhanpur and In Madhya Pradesh, the Singh Dhaliwal defeated BJP's tor V Vaithilingam (Cong) year. Synrem is Donkupar Laxmi Kant Mandal beat Rabia Bayad seats while the other four Congress wrested back its tra- Rajesh Bagha by 26,116 votes. quit following his election to Roy's son. In Arunachal Khatun of the RJD by little over were with the BJP. ditional Jhabua assembly seat Congress's Indu Bala won Lok Sabha from the lone seat Pradesh, Independent candi- 5,000 votes. In a morale booster after from the BJP. Congress candi- from Mukerian by defeating here. date Chakat Aboh, wife of Four of these five seats the Lok Sabha poll drubbing date and former Union minis- BJP's Jangi Lal Mahajan by The ruling Congress won National People's Party (NPP) were held by BJP ally JD(U) and months ago, the ruling ter Kantilal Bhuria won by 3,440 votes. the Naxal-affected Chitrakot leader Tirong Abo. PTI !  ,   ! "#$ +  9 4?           

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GDP make sure that the (finance) &   && %  among the world’s top 10 most growth had slumped to a six- ministry and other govern- improved countries for the year low of 5 per cent in the ment departments will make  %898:;* The other parameters business, enough effort will be third consecutive time on the April-June quarter. enough effort to improve on where the country has done made to improve on this scale, back of faster bankruptcy res- In five years of the Modi that scale as much as we have inance Minister Nirmala well include trading across as it is a “very critical” in a olution and issuance of con- government, India’s ranking done on insolvency,” she told FSitharaman on Thursday borders, registering property, cycle of an industry. struction permits. has improved 79 places — reporters in New Delhi. said efforts will be made to fur- paying taxes, getting electric- “In GST, it is an ongoing The rise, which comes on from 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2019, India saw the biggest jump ther simplify Goods and ity connections and starting a process to understand where the back of a 23-spot jump last which is a record for a major in ‘resolving insolvency’ cate- Services Tax, and expressed business. the difficulties are...We are year, underscored the reformist economy. It has improved its gory, to 52nd rank from 108th, hope that it will help in further However, the improve- also looking at what were the credentials of the Modi gov- rank by 67 positions in the last on the back of implementation improving India’s ranking in ment in the remaining three glitches in using online filing ernment that is hard pitching three years. of the Insolvency and the World Bank’s ease of doing parameters — getting credit, of returns. So, GST is an ongo- India as an alternative invest- Prime Minister Narendra Bankruptcy Code, while its business index. protecting minority investors, ing process in improving. Even ment destination to China. Modi had last year set a target ranking improved substantial- India has jumped 14 places enforcing contracts — are not now for the next meeting, as “India put in place four to break into top-50 countries ly in ‘construction permits’ (to to rank 63rd out of 190 coun- impressive. Sitharaman said and when it happens, we want new business reforms during by 2020. 27th from 52nd) and ‘trading tries in the World Bank’s Doing that the effort will be now to to make sure that several steps the past year and earned a place The ranking is topped by across corders’ (to 68th from Business 2020 report on achieve the target to reaching are taken to simplify compli- in among the world’s top ten New Zealand. India’s ranking 80th). account of significant improve- within top 50 rank. ance,” she said. improvers for the third con- was behind Asian peers On registering property ment in resolving insolvency She added that as there is On income tax front, she secutive year,” the World Bank Singapore (2nd ranked), Hong India figured among the property where it was 154th. and paying taxes, India was and obtaining construction just one rank improvement in said: “At this stage, there may said in its ‘Doing Business Kong (3rd), Korea (5th), top 10 performers on the list for Meanwhile, Finance ranked a lowly 154th and 115th permits. the parameter of starting a not be much to say”. 2020’ report released on Malaysia (12th) and China the third time in a row. India Minister respectively, though these were Thursday. (31st). The US was placed 6th is the only large country this said some categories such as improvements over the previ- two parameters — protecting result, reorganization has enhancing the country’s over- The improvement in rank- on the list. year to have achieved such a resolving insolvency, con- ous year’s ranks of 166 and 121. minority investors (from 7th to become the most likely proce- all competitiveness, the World significant shift. struction permits and trading The finance minister said 13th position) and getting elec- dure for viable companies as Bank said in its report. The economies that across borders, have shown a there can be an improvement tricity (from 22nd to 25th) — measured by Doing Business, While the competition to +    * O?  showed the most notable lot of improvement. in registering property and and remained unchanged in increasing the overall recovery move up the ladder would improvement were Saudi She, however, said the getting electricity connections ‘enforcing contracts’ at 163rd. rate from 27 to 72 cents increase and become much     (  $'  Arabia, Jordan, Togo, Bahrain, ranking based on a survey of which are done at the state “Despite some challenges on the dollar,” the World Bank tougher, India is on the track to Tajikistan, Pakistan, Kuwait, two cities (Delhi and Mumbai) level. in the implementation of the said. be within top 50 of the Ease of  15) -   $  China, India and Nigeria, in such a vast and diverse Promising to remove any reform - particularly regarding Prime Minister Narendra Doing business in the next year     according to the World Bank. nation may not be adequately hitches, she also said the gov- court operations and the appli- Modi’s ‘Make in India’ cam- or two, Simeon Djankov,   "? ' World Bank said India still representative and so in the ernment is working on improv- cation of the law by multiple paign focused on attracting Director of Development Washington: India needs a  F*  lagged in areas such as enforc- coming year Kolkata and ing the GST regime. stakeholders - the number of foreign investment, boosting Economics at the World Bank, fresh set of “bold reforms” in ing contracts where it was Bengaluru will be added to the Compared with last year, reorganizations in India has the private sector, manufac- told PTI in an interview in the next three to four years if New Delhi: India’s jump to the ranked 163rd and registering list of surveyed cities. India’s ranking deteriorated on been gradually increasing. As a turing in particular, and Washington. it wants to be among the top 63rd position on the World 50 countries with ease of Bank’s ease of doing business doing business, a top World ranking is a testimony to the #.     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(*  @ /0 @0/     '; O'  With the current reform Enthused by India’s 14- erman luxury carmaker  %898:;* 5  3  (,*7( & "%O< ' 8 $ agenda that the bank is watch- notch jump on the World GAudi today took the wraps ,<  , $? 0< $ '  (   ing like Insolvency and Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ report, off the eight generation of its ndustry body COAI on  %  3         Banking Code, enforcing con- industry leaders as well as star- executive sedan, the A6 in IThursday expressed deep   (&=98<.<* (    (  "'  tracts, tax reforms being com- tups said it will prove to be a India. The carmaker which disappointment over SC ruling  $ '  &=98<.<*"  $ pleted next year or the year shot in the arm for the coun- has suffered from the negative on telecom revenue definition, &,8 *     $    $ '  * after, India can get within the try by attracting foreign invest- fallout of the “Dieselgate” scam and termed it the last straw in '  $  NB.  $8 5  6&(O top 50, Simeon Djankov said. ments, augmenting business that engulfed its parent contributing to the sector’s  (  " @0/A 6 , 0"@0/" PTI opportunities. PTI Volkswagen has only launched financial distress.           /H0" 0 ( 

the vehicle in a 250hp petrol The Cellular Operators’  "@A,'+  (   (  variant featuring a ‘mild Association of India (COAI)  "@103E6     ' hybrid’s that improves fuel said in a statement that it economy. Speaking at the remains to be seen whether the launch alongside Virat Kohli, industry — which is reeling 4  + ) , 56 Indian cricket team captain under a daunting debt of about and Audi India brand ambas- 4 lakh crore and is sador, Balbir Dhillon, Audi in dire financial straits — will ) 7585  %&%&9  ) India’s new Head, said that car be able to recover from this penetration is still very low in against the Mercedes Benz E- telematics app and new lught setback.  ,6%B<6%*,= “Within this climate, our India at just 22 cars per 1000 Class and BMW 5 series which technology both at the front “The Supreme Court’s forecast of six percent growth and thus he expected demand were both launched last year, and behind. Speaking at the judgment is the last straw in riven by rising spend on in global advertising invest- to pick up in the next few and the range for the new launch, Virat Kohli described contributing to financial dis- DGoogle, Facebook and ment may seem optimistic, months even for the luxury vehicle starts at 54.2 lakhs. It himself as an Audi fanboy and tress and it remains to be seen Amazon, global ad investment but these projections are in line since there was still a lot of features several new digital said that it was great to be asso- whether the industry will be will grow six per cent to $656 with those pent-up demand. technologies including touch- ciated with a brand able to recover from this set- billion in 2020, according to a from the IMF (International The new A6 goes up screen controls, a new Audi that he loved. back. forecast by market research Monetary Fund) and firm WARC. Euromonitor for GDP and The report, however, also consumer spend, respectively,” warns of the possibility of a McDonald added. +"*3 -*! global recession next year. With global growth of six “Weak macroeconomic per cent, 2020 is expected to see indices, waning business con- a marked uptick from the 2.5 -@$  &"  "   fidence and rising geopolitical per cent growth in 2019 but is tensions have increased the down on the 7.3 per cent rise  %898:;* (NFRA) — which is part of the matter. The company will mous complaints. “The com- possibility of a recession in recorded last year, Corporate Affairs Ministry — cooperate with the SEC’s inves- pany intends to defend itself 2020,” James McDonald, according to the report titled roubles continue to mount has been asked to look into the tigation,” Infosys said. vigorously in such a lawsuit,” it Managing Editor, WARC Data, “WARC’s Global Advertising Tfor Infosys as US market matter. Leading exchange BSE Also, Sebi has requested added. said in a statement. Trends”. regulator SEC has initiated a on Wednesday also asked additional information from US-based Rosen Law Firm probe on whistleblower com- Infosys to explain why it did the company concerning the had previously said it was plaints that alleged “unethical not make a disclosure about the anonymous complaints, and preparing a class action lawsuit practices” by top management whistleblower complaint. Infosys will provide the infor- to recover losses suffered by of the Bengaluru-based IT “The company has been in mation as per its request, it Infosys investors in the US. >K major. touch with the Securities and added. Following reports of Back home, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Infosys said it is also “aware whistleblower allegations on and Exchange Board of India regarding the anonymous of a securities class action law- Monday, Infosys had informed INO NI (Sebi) has also sought addi- whistleblower complaints suit” that has been filed against stock exchanges of having tional information from the (anonymous complaints) and the company in federal court in received anonymous whistle-  %898:;* sponding quarter a year ago. company, while the National has learnt that the SEC has ini- the US, based on the gener- blower complaints alleging cer- “Gross revenue for the Financial Reporting Authority tiated an investigation into this alised allegations in the anony- tain unethical practices. TC on Thursday reported a quarter stood at 11,750.16 I37.06 per cent rise in con- crore, representing a growth of solidated net profit at 4,173.72 6 per cent, driven mainly by         crore for the second quarter paperboards, hotels and ended September 30, driven FMCG-others (excluding the       mainly by paperboards, lifestyle retailing hotels and FMCG-others business),” ITC said in a New Delhi: After a day of no Thursday in Delhi, Kolkata, business. statement. change, the prices of petrol and Mumbai and The company had posted a Total expenses for the diesel fell again on Thursday, an Chennai to 73.17 per litre, net profit of 3,045.07 crore in quarter under review rose 4 per Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) 75.82, 78.78, and 75.99, July-September quarter a year cent to 8,455.16 crore from data revealed. The oil market- respectively. The diesel prices ago, the FMCG major said in 8,129.19 crore a year ago. ing companies reported no also fell in the four major met- a regulatory filing. Revenue from FMCG busi- change in the price of petrol ropolitan cities. It fell to 66.06 Its net sales rose 6.16 per ness grew 5.78 per cent to and diesel on Wednesday. per litre in Delhi, 68.42 in cent to 12,759.44 crore during 9,138.13 crore from 8,638.60 According to the IOC web- Kolkata, 69.24 in Mumbai, the quarter under review from crore in the September quarter site, the price of petrol fell on and 69.77 in Chennai. IANS 12,018.61 crore in the corre- a year ago.  ,,   ! "#$

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Slavia goalkeeper Ondrej Kolar Dortmund after the Italians got get, compounding the again but just a minute Substitute with a low left-foot shot to the better of their German vis- misery for a French side later, Napoli restored Batshuayi struck in become the first player to score itors 2-0 at the San Siro with who are only out of the their lead through Lorenzo the 86th minute and put Chelsea in 15 consecutive Champions Lautaro Martinez and Antonio relegation zone in the Insigne in a breathless second level on six points with last League campaigns. Candreva scoring. league courtesy of goal half. year’s semi-finalists at the top of Barca grabbed a second on Marcel Sabitzer set up a difference. Haaland at least had the Group H. 57 minutes when Slavia winger goal and scored a spectacular Memphis Depay consolation of becoming the “It feels huge, which always Peter Olayinka deflected a Luis winner as RB Leipzig came from levelled for the French first player to score six goals in scares me because there’s a lot to Suarez close-range shot into his behind to beat Zenit St visitors on 70 minutes his first three Champions League do. We’re entitled to be excited own net. Left-back Jan Boril Petersburg 2-1 to take a two- but Benfica clinched games. about the way we played tonight,” scored for Slavia five minutes point lead in Group G. their first win when “It’s a great night for said coach Frank Lampard. after half-time. Portuguese champions substitute Pizzi scored Mertens. Napoli are back to Jonathan Ikone’s stoppage- . %4 &         $     ,  , Barca are three points ahead Benfica, without a point after in the dying moments. !        .   /    B  /1

/  <*=86%8*<= Ten minutes from half-time Uruguayan     Giorgian de Arrascaeta tried to chip Gremio  M otshot Gabriel Barbosa scored a brace goalkeeper Paulo Victor who could only /  8<:*% Has Flamengo hammered fellow palm the ball out to Gabriel, but his spec- Brazilians Gremio 5-0 on Wednesday to ulative overhead bicycle kick bounced nter Milan are interested in signing for- secure a place in the Copa Libertadores final harmlessly across the face of goal. Imer Germany star Thomas Muller, who against Argentine holders River Plate. The pressure told on 43 minutes, has lost his starting place at Bayern Bruno Henrique, Pablo Mari and though, as Gabriel found space with a diag- Munich, magazine Kicker reported on Rodrigo Caio also got their names on the onal run and Victor could only palm his Thursday. scoresheet as the Rio de Janeiro giants com- cross-shot into the path of Henrique, who The 30-year-old has often found him- pleted a 6-1 aggregate victory over the 2017 had a tap-in. self on the bench this season behind champions at the Maracana stadium. A minute after half-time Flamengo dou- Philippe Coutinho, who Bayern coach Niko River Plate made a 2-1 aggregate vic- bled the lead as Brazil international Gabriel Kovac prefers in the attacking midfield role. tory over their bitter Buenos Aires rivals — on loan from Inter Milan — rifled high According to Kicker, Inter’s “interest is Boca Juniors on Tuesday despite losing the into the net from 15 yards after a poor clear- intensifying” and the Italian giants could second leg 1-0. ing header from a corner. bring Muller to Milan in the January trans- This year’s final will be played over a ' ""      .  : C  , Gabriel cooly slotted home the spot kick fer window. single match for the first time, on November as Victor dived the wrong way, taking him . %                 ,"  , Mueller made a rare start, only his fifth 23 in Santiago. Rafinha, sporting rugby style head top of the competition’s scoring charts this of the season, in Tuesday’s 3-2 win at Despite being Brazil’s most popular gear, chipped a cross in from deep on the season with seven goals. /  6,8: showing on the ATP since beating Olympiakos in the Champions League on team, Flamengo have only once before won right on 26 minutes and Henrique dashed Mari and Caio got in on the act with Andreas Seppi at the Paris Masters 6- the right wing, helping set up two goals for the Copa Libertadores, back in 1981. River across his day-dreaming marker before headers from set pieces on 67 and 71 min- oger Federer crushed Radu Albot 1, 6-1 four years ago. Robert Lewandowski. are looking for a fifth title. sending a diving header inches wide. utes as Gremio’s defence capitulated. R6-0, 6-3 on Wednesday to win his If Wawrinka beats America’s Tiafoe “I’m trying to concentrate on playing 22nd match in a row at the Swiss in their second-round match, the Swiss football. Slowly all the discussions will come Indoors and earn a quarter-final place pair will clash in the quarters. to an end,” Mueller told reporters in at his home event for the 17th time. Wawrinka, who was a runner-up to Athens when asked about his future at - + +) : )) '& The nine-time champion was ruth- Andy Murray in Antwerp last weekend, Bayern. less in a 22-minute opening set, finish- currently stands at 15th in the race for He has spent his entire career at ing the entire job in 63 minutes in front the season-ending showpiece in Bayern, who he joined as a school-  ;8%%6* round matches. I have the current of 9,000 fans. London with 1,500 rankings points boy in 2000, and club president world No 2 in my pre-quarter, so, He will today face the winner from available between Basel and next week’s Uli Hoeness has made it clear ndia’s leading female squash right now, I am just looking for- Stan Wawrinka and Frances Tiafoe, Paris Masters, the final event of the reg- that no one at the club wants to Iplayer Joshna Chinappa is ward to take it match by match,” who both earned straight-set wins ular campaign. see Mueller leave. working harder than ever as she said. earlier in the day. Six of the eight spots for the ATP It has been a difficult year the world number 12 aims to The Chennai-based player, “It’s a super feeling to know exact- Finals have already been secured. for Mueller, who break back into the top-10 of who has been spearheading ly where the ball is going, what the Sixth seed David Goffin also stayed was told by PSA rankings, starting with a India’s challenge in internation- other guy is doing,” said top seed in the race to London with a 6-4, 6-4 Germany good showing in the World al events for more than a decade, Federer. defeat of 2014 US Open champion coach Championship in Cairo. want to carry on at least till the “I was hitting a lot of winners, those Marin Cilic. Joachim The 33-year old, who 2022 Commonwealth and Asian kind of moments are really rare.” Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania Loew in achieved a career-high rank- Games. Federer’s Swiss compatriot lined up a second-round match with March, ing of world number 10 in “At the back of my mind, I Wawrinka fired 10 aces and 30 winners third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas after alongside 2016, will be competing at still have the Commonwealth to overwhelm fellow veteran Pablo defeating Pablo Andujar 6-1, 6-1. fellow 2014 the World Championship.   $ &&       *3

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 %898:;* gence of Dinesh Karthik and the emer-  353 6* gence of Rishabh Pant also played a part anju Samson has experienced so in him being out of India’s limited overs lated after his years of hardwork finally paid Smany lows in his chequered career set-up in the last two years. Eoff, Mumbai all-rounder Shivam Dube on that he has learned to embrace them. With Kohli being rested from the Thursday said he loves power-hitting and would Back in the Indian team after a four- T20 series against Bangladesh, Samson never give up his aggressive brand of cricket, year gap, Samson is at peace with his is likely to play as a specialist batsman which earned him his maiden call-up to the flaws and doesn’t try to be the “perfect with Pant standing behind the stumps. Indian team. batsman” that he wanted to be for the Like others, Samson too had high Dube was rewarded with a maiden call-up longest time. expectations from himself but not for his “phenomenal” exploits with the India A Samson played his sole match for anymore. He also has no hard feelings team. India — a T20 — in July 2015 when a about getting just one international “I have a bit of natural power and I work on second- string team toured Zimbabwe. game so far to prove himself. that. My father always wanted to make me an He was 19 then. “I don’t have any regrets. As I said aggressive batsman and that became my lifestyle. Since that high, it has been a I have gone through a lot of ups and I love power-hitting,” Dube told journalists soon roller-coaster ride for the wicketkeep- downs. I had lots of high expectations after his selection. er-batsman, who has been dropped about myself that I should have per- “I would like to thank God and my dad. from the Kerala team on disciplinary formed much better than what I did. Specially my dad, who always supported me and grounds. He has not been consistent “... That I should have got into the it was his dream (that I play for India).” enough, has had fitness issues but every team much before, but lately, I under- Dube thanked all his well wishers and said now and then, he came up with an stood that everything has its own time he had positive vibes about his selection after a innings befitting his rich batting talent. and you have to be patient for your turn. successful season, in which he scored 1,012 runs One such knock happened earlier I have been doing that and have in 16 first-class matches so far. this month — an unbeaten 212 — the become a better person in the process. The Mumbai all-rounder, who idolises leg- highest individual score in the history “Have really enjoyed my tough endary South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis, of Vijay Hazare Trophy. times, to be honest. I have understood is known for hitting long sixes and aims to give “You rightly said it has been a who all are with me genuinely and who his 100 per cent on the ground if he gets to fea- roller-coaster ride for me. If you have are not.” ture in the playing eleven. a very safe and easy career there are very As a batsman, Samson feels he is in “I will continue to work hard. I haven’t less things you will learn. I have learnt a really good space. thought about (my goals yet). At the moment, I a lot in the last four to five years. If you “Mentally and technically many am happy. As an all-rounder I need to be there you have failed a lot of times then you changes have happened in the last five with 100 per cent focus and good fitness,” he said. know how to rise up and how to suc- years. I have understood my game a lot Dube, who was picked up by Royal ceed. I have failed a lot of times in my more, a lot abut myself as a person. I Challengers Bangalore for a whopping five life so I know how to stand up and per- have worked on my strengths and not crore, said during his IPL stint last season skip- form. That has been a blessing,” tried to be the perfect batsman that I per Virat Kohli had always backed him. Samson, now 24, said on Thursday. tried be for a long time. I understood “He (Kohli) always helped and supported me. Many including the great Rahul that no one can be a perfect batsman. If I was under pressure or faced any problem, I Dravid rated Samson highly but incon- Now I keep it simple and enjoy my spoke to him (Kohli) and he would always make sistency went against him. The resur- cricket.” me understand.”