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Besides, the party’s ticket from the ed Ajay Bhatt instead Harish Nainital- U S Nagar seat would be he is considered as the bête noir of Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar con- Rawat smelled his chance and the most keenly contested seat in Pritam Singh. stituency, he has an uphill task opted for Nainital as he found this the state. In the 2017 Assembly After the public meeting, Pritam ahead of him, given the intense seat an easier bet than Haridwar. election, despite the presence of Singh accompanied by leaders and opposition from a number of The presence of the BSP candidate a strong Modi wave, Ajay Bhatt hundreds of supporters marched to prominent state Congress leaders in Haridwar and its sway over the had suffered an ignominious the collectorate where he filed his of the region comprising the con- Muslim/ Dalit voters leaves the defeat at the hands of Karan nomination papers. The former min- stituency. seat vulnerable for the Congress,’’ Mahra from Ranikhet Assembly isters- Matbar Singh Kandari, Dinesh The vigorous opposition of said an analyst. constituency. Similarly, Harish Agarwal and Surveer Singh Sajwan Indira Hridayesh for the candida- In Nainital- US Nagar, Harish Rawat who was then chief minis- besides Purola MLA Rajkumar, state ture of Harish Rawat from Nainital Rawat faced opposition not just ter of the state had lost from both Congress vice- president Surya Kant had resulted in an inordinate from Indira Hridayesh but from Haridwar rural and Kiccha Dhasmana, Vijay Pal Sajwan and delay in the release of the Congress the former MP and scion of Assembly seats he had contested. Garima Dassauni were present in the list for Uttarakhand. Indira was Chandra dynasty of Kumaon, K C “There is no doubt that Harish rally. said to be supported by the PCC Singh Bava, former MP Mahendra Rawat stands head and shoulders Former CM of the state and All president Pritam Singh and the in Singh Pal and Terai strongman above Ajay Bhatt in terms of India Congress Committee (AICC) -charge of Uttarakhand Congress Tilak Raj Behed. However, the political stature in the state and general secretary Harish Rawat filed Anugrah Narayan Singh. presence of K C Singh Bava and he would pull out all the stops to his nomination papers at Rudrapur However, the towering stature Tilak Raj Behed during the nom- be triumphant in the electoral bat- collectorate on the day. He was accom- of Harish Rawat helped him over- ination filing of Harish Rawat on tle. On the other hand, Ajay Bhatt panied by the former minister Tilak come the stiff opposition finally. Monday indicated that the wily would have to rely on the party Raj Behed, Sumit Hridayesh, son of Political analysts point out leader has mollified his detrac- organisation and Modi magic to the Leader of Opposition Indira that an astute politician that he is, tors within the party. Interestingly, rise up to the daunting challenge Hridayesh, former MP K C Singh Rawat had kept his options open his bête noire Indira Hridayesh of humbling the redoubtable Bawa aside from a large number of from both Haridwar- the seat he was not present on the occasion, Harish Rawat,’’ said a political Congress leaders and supporters. had won in 2009- and Nainital- US though his son Sumit was there as commentator Jai Singh Rawat. Rawat said that the much-hyped '       & '          &           Nagar till the last minute. her representative. PNS double- engine government had let the people of Uttarakhand down. He added that he has a 21- point blueprint for development of Nainital – Udham R . )" (    /  0  Singh area in his mind. Congress candidate from Almora- Pithoragarh Lok Sabha seat Pradeep   /4/'&4/ informed that a total of six candi- Tamta also filed his nomination dates filed their nomination papers papers accompanied by a large num- he Bharatiya Janata Party state on Monday while four candidates ber of supporters on Monday. He was Tpresident and party candidate had filed their nominations earlier. accompanied by the former Speaker from Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar The BJP candidate, Ajay Bhatt of Uttarakhand Assembly Govind parliamentary constituency, Ajay reached the collectorate to file his Singh Kunjwal, deputy leader of the Bhatt, filed his nomination paper nomination with sitting MP and for- Congress legislature party Karan here on Monday. After filing his mer chief minister Bhagat Singh Mahra, Manoj Tiwari, Hemesh nomination papers, Bhatt also Koshyari as the proposer. They Kharkwal and Mayuk Mahar Braving addressed a public gathering. Apart were accompanied by cabinet min- rain, a big crowd of the Congress from Bhatt and Harish Rawat of the ister Yashpal Arya and local MLAs leaders and supporters gathered at Congress, the Bahujan Mukti Party Rajkumar Thukral and Pushkar Pauri collectorate and attended the candidate Jyoti Prakash Tamta, Singh Dhami. nomination rally of Manish Khanduri. Rashtriya Mazdoor Ekta Party can- Before reaching the collectorate, Former ministers- Rajendra Bhandari didate Aslam Shahi, Republican Bhatt’s procession began from Galla and Mantri Prasad Naithani, Party of India (A) candidate Pramod Mandi amidst slogans in support of Kedarnath MLA Manoj Rawat, Kumar and independent candidate prime minister Narendra Modi, Ganesh Godiyal and former MLA Sukumar Vishwar also filed their the party and its candidate. Ranjit Rawat were present on the occa- nominations on the last day of fil- Passing through various local- sion. In Haridwar, Congress candidate ing the same. ities and the Nainital Road, the pro- Ambrish Kumar also filed his papers The Udham Singh Nagar dis- cession reached the collectorate in the presence of senior party lead- trict election officer and district where Bhatt filed his nomination ers. magistrate Neeraj Khairwal paper. # 1"#"3P  O/
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Adeclared the name of ers of Sana said the candidature Tby Punjab’s sugarcane Kisan Mukti Morcha and Aam notices to gag the voice of the notices were served on the dues after promising to clear Nothing is being done to clear Jadumani Barik as its candidate of Sana in BJD is opposed by growers to another level on Aadmi Party, has started an cane growers up in arms agitating farmers by Dhuri pending payments, SAD on these dues even as the Congress for the Champua Assembly local Minister Badri Narayan Monday, four sugarcane farm- indefinite hunger strike in front against the non-payment of SDM in the area. “It is a dicta- Monday said that it was this government has point blank seat but the BJD and the BJP Patra who is rather projecting ers climbed on the roof of of the sugar mill. their whopping dues pending torial decision on part of the constant backstabbing of the refused to compensate farmers are yet to do it resulting in Kusha Apat while former Dhuri SDM’s office carrying a Meanwhile Thousands of with certain private mill own- government that smacked of farm community that had led by paying them interest on late uncertainty among the aspi- Champua MLA Jitu Patnaik is bottle of petrol to stage a farmers in Punjab staged ‘dhar- ers in the state, AAP on infringement in their right to to farm suicides crossing 900 payments,” he said. rants. lobbying for Reena Barik, who protest for the release of their nas' in their respective districts Monday demanded that the free expression...These dra- figure in the last two years in “Farmers owe around Rs After the visit of Champua is working president of BJD, dues. on Monday to protest against Government should immedi- conian decisions show the anti- Punjab. 400 crore from eight coopera- Independent MLA Santatan Keonjhar unit. One of the farmers, Harjeet ‘anti-farmer’ policies of the ately review its dictatorial deci- farmer face of both the pre- Demanding that all late tive sugar mills...The govern- Mahakud to Naveen Niwas Out of total seven Singh Bugra, said that they had State Government. Besides, the sion and mull a rollback soon- ceding governments changing payments be cleared along ment also failed to expedite some days back, it was specu- Assembly constituencies in the started an indefinite hunger farmers were demanding er than later. hands in power by denying with 20 percent interest, the payments from the seven pri- lated in the political circle that Keonjhar Parliamentary con- strike, and in case the police paddy sowing from first of June “In case the Government their rightful claim on the former minister and SAD vate sugar mills who owe farm- either Sana himself or stituency, the BJP has declared would try to remove them instead of June 20. failed, AAP would be left with pending dues,” he said. Kisan Wing president ers Rs 950 crore,” he said. Meenakshi Mahanta as his the names of six constituencies forcibly, they would consume BKU Ekta president no choice but to ‘gherao’ the He accused the Sikander Singh Maluka said He said that the SAD Kisan protégé may be made BJD except Champua. celphos. Joginder Singh Ugrahan and sub-divisional magistrate Government of confounding that it did not behove a Chief Wing and its associate organi- nominee for the minerals rich Although ShreeManta This is the third such general sectary Sukhdev Singh (SDM),” said AAP MLA and the issue as a major chunk of Minister to give promises to zations would strengthen the Champua seat but situation Kumar Tripathy and Murali protest by sugarcane farmers. Kokary said that in all the dis- the Leader of Opposition in the private mill owners in the farmer unions and not imple- stir to make the “deaf” changed the next day when Kumar Sharma are two strong Already, two protests have tricts, the farmers submitted Vidhan Sabha Harpal Cheema, state were either the kin of ment them. Congress Government listen to Naltu Mahanta , one of the contenders of BJP for the seat, been going on for the release of memorandum to the Deputy adding that sugarcane growers influential leaders of both the “Farmers are paying as the plight of the sugarcane close aids of Sana and hun- but the possibility that Kusha Rs 80 crore of cane-growers’ Commissioners of their district were already over-stressed due SAD and Congress parties, or much as 24 percent interest for farmers. dreds of Sana followers led by might join BJP if he is denied Kusha Apat joined the BJD in ticket in the BJD is not ruled protest against the decision of out. 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Monday filed his nomina- Haryana, two political players— up with Shiromani Akali Dal AAP had in 2014 polls tion papers as the BJD can- ormer DG of Odisha Police    Aam Aadmi Party and Jannayak (SAD). unsuccessfully contested on all didate for Bijepur in FPrakash Mishra, who joined Janta Party—are struggling to AAP’s talks with the fledg- 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana Bargarh district, his second the BJP on Sunday and was      forge an alliance for ensuing Lok ling outfit—JJP—regarding the while JJP will contest for the first seat, for the coming given the party ticket to contest Sabha polls. alliance had hit a roadblock last time in 2019 parliamentary polls. Assembly elections, the BJP from the prestigious Cuttack    Delhi Chief Minister Arvind month with both parties failing The prospective alliance announced its State vice- Lok Sabha seat, on Monday $ 4  Kejriwal’s AAP and Hisar MP to reach a consensus on seat- between the president and spokesperson said he was highly impressed by Dushyant Chautala’s JJP have sharing formula for 10 parlia- AAP and JJP was pushed into Pitambar Acharya as the Prime Minister Narendra   been holding parleys for more mentary seats in Haryana. uncertainty with JJP offering party nominee to contest Modi’s commitment to build a than a month now to form an Both parties are, however, just two seats out of 10 to AAP against Patnaik in the latter’s strong and prosperous    alliance to contest on 10 Lok keen on joining hands to take on in the state. The offer was reject- old Hinjili seat in Ganjam India. Sabha seats in the state but have national parties—BJP and ed by AAP, which had demand- district, “Having watched the prime    so far failed to resolve the dead- Congress –in the polls. ed equal representation to con- for which the BJD supremo minister very closely during my lock on seat – sharing formula. Haryana AAP chief, Naveen test the polls. has already filed his nomi- New Delhi tenure, I thought of (   Jaihind while talking to The The JJP, which had earlier nations last week. getting associated with him Pioneer said, “We will take a expressed willingness to sacrifice Acharya, who is an out- and assisting him in accom- 4$!  final call on forming an a seat to form any pre-poll sider in Hinjili, was earlier plishing his vision,” Mishra, alliance with the JJP in next alliance, is playing hardball, expected to be the BJP’s said here.   three-four days. By March unwilling to give up its status as candidate for the Cuttack Mishra was very uncere- 30, we will announce whether a dominant regional party in Lok Sabha constituency. But view of Hinjili known as a Naveen Patnaik, accom- moniously removed as DGP in twin elections in the AAP will go it alone in polls Haryana. the situation changed after BJD stronghold, from where panied by several western July 2014 by the Naveen third phase on April 24 along or tie up with another politi- Hisar MP and JJP leader Director General of Police the Chief Odisha BJD leaders, filed his Patnaik Government. with five other Parliamentary cal party.” Dushyant Chautala had a day (DGP) Prakash Mishra, who Minister has been elected in the nomination papers at the The State Government also constituencies in the State A meeting is scheduled to before announced that the joined the party on Sunday, was last four elections since 2000 by Padampur Sub-Collector’s registered a fake graft case and 42 Assembly segments. be held this week to discuss names of the candidates for declared as the party nominee vast margins of votes with his office. against him, which, however, The BJD and the Congress the issue. 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Walon from the film Dus, in the he Election Commission is of the view that elections the heightened tension along the release has raised ques- Ever since the movie was movie whose lyrics have been T(EC) is set to increase the should first be held in the the India-Pakistan border. tions,” the Congress said in the announced, the Opposition has given by the two personalities. number of ‘special expenditure “most difficult” parts of the The three special observers observers’ to monitor illegal State so that the force gets ade- are Vinod Zutshi and Noor   01  cash and inducements being quate time to dominate the area. Muhammad and retired IPS *P) ':>':! 9' = : given to voters during the Lok But, the State administra- officer A S Gill. The observers   # <= &  Sabha polls as it has identified tion is learnt to be of the view have been tasked with making about 120 expenditure sensitive that areas which have previ- a real-time assessment of the sit-   1)2)(3 New Delhi: Former Union Minister Sukh Ram on Monday constituencies till now in the (Indirect Taxes and Customs).   1)2)(3 ously witnessed high voter uation by meeting political par- rejoined the Congress along with his grandson Aashray Sharma country. The EC’s special Officials said the Election turn-out should go to polls first ties, district and State authori- he Congress on Monday ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, with the party’s saying his entry expenditure observers also Commission, till now, has iden- he three special observers to avoid a “drag down” effect on ties and other stakeholders to Tfielded Sanjay Nirupam would boost its poll prospects in Himachal Pradesh. reviewed the poll preparedness tified about 120 expenditure Tappointed by the Election other constituencies. enable the poll watchdog take a from the North West Mumbai “For me, it is like home-coming,” said 93-year-old Sukh Ram with the two special observers sensitive constituencies in the Commission (EC) to help it The sources said the EC call on the issue. as it released its tenth list, who returned for the second time to the Congress which he had for the subject, Shailendra country for general elections decide on holding Assembly will now take a comprehensive The J&K Assembly’s six- clearing 26 names for the Lok last left ahead of the 2017 Assembly elections to join the BJP. The Handa (Maharashtra) and and it is awaiting the report of elections in Jammu & Kashmir view before taking the next call year term was to end on March Sabha elections. The announce- Congress had sacked him in 1997 following his conviction in the Madhu Mahajan (Tamil Nadu). some state Chief Electoral on Monday met top officials of on the subject. Since the 16, 2021, but it got dissolved ment of Nirupam’s candidature telecom scam which occurred when he was a Union minister in Earlier, the EC has Officers (CEOs) to identify the CRPF and the State police. Jammu & Kashmir Assembly after a ruling coalition between came on a day he was removed the PV Narasimha Rao Government, but he returned in 2004. appointed two retired Indian more such segments. Sources said since the CRPF is has been dissolved, the EC is the Peoples Democratic Party as the Mumbai Regional Revenue Service (Income Tax) The identified expenditure the principal security agency in bound to hold fresh polls there (PDP) and the Bharatiya Janata Congress Committee chief officers as special expenditure sensitive constituencies are in the State, the observers want- as well within a six-month Party (BJP) fell apart. The (MRCC). Former Union observers for Maharashtra and the States of Telangana, Andhra ed a feedback on how early the period, which will end in May. other State Assemblies and the Minister Milind Deora replaced Tamil Nadu. This is the first Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Assembly polls can be held in The Government is of the Lok Sabha have five-year terms. Nirupam as MRCC chief. time that such observers have Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand and Out of the 26 candidates been appointed for any polls in Uttarakhand, among others, announced by the party on the country. while a similar report from Monday, 25 were for West They said few more such states like Maharashtra and Bengal. Mohammad Alam observers could be appointed by few others are awaited. from Barrackpore, Mita the next week to oversee the An expenditure sensitive Chakraborty from Kolkata work of about 800 Central constituency is identified as a Dakshin, Suvra Ghosh from expenditure monitoring teams seat which is prone to high Howrah, and Pratul Saha from and observers who track black expenditure and corrupt prac- Hooghly were among those money, liquor, drugs and other tices. For such a constituency, named in the list. 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Mumbai North West which was 5, Deora had said that “infight- with Pakistan to discuss the Bharat — has promised to demand that it opens its mar- ccusing West Bengal Chief Abhishek, who is a Lok represented in the past by late ing” was threatening “our base issue of terrorism, undertake boost skill development ket to exports of Indian phar- AMinister Mamata Banerjee Sabha member, has claimed  #   40'3 Gurudas Kamat. in Mumbai” and that the city modernisation of Hindustan through active engagement of maceuticals, agriculture prod- of triggering a constitutional that his wife was chosen by cus- Milind Deora, who has party unit “cannot become a Aeronautics Limited (HAL) private and public sector, acad- ucts and IT services. We will crisis and creating classes of toms officials because of her n a sudden mid-poll develop- replaced Nirupam, is the son of cricket pitch for sectarian poli- and other Ordnance Factories, emia, domestic and interna- continue to expand relations VIPs and non-VIPS, the BJP on profile and rejected claims of Iment, the Congress high com- late Congress stalwart Murli tics, with leaders pitted against proper implementation of tional organisations of repute. with the United States of Monday charged the local BJP leaders that she was car- mand on Monday evening Deora who had been the one other”. OROP and 33 per cent reser- “We will introduce adequate America, including for import Kolkata Police with threatening rying anything in violation of sacked its Mumbai unit presi- Mumbai Regional Congress A day after he said he might vation to women in parliament. skilling programme to suit and of defence equipment” the customs officials who checked laws. He charged a political dent Sanjay Nirupam and Committee (MRCC) president even re-consider “if it is worth In the manifesto released benefit from the changing envi- NCP manifesto said. luggage of Mamata's nephew vendetta behind the airport replaced him with former MP for for a record 22 years from fighting elections or not”, Deora by its senior State leader and ronment. Considering huge Slamming the NDA and TMC MP Abhishek checking. Nehru-Gandhi family loyalist 1981 to 2003. said he was “disappointed” with former Speaker in the State potential of job creation, finan- Government for its “miserable Banerjee's wife at Kolkata air- Rajya Sabha member Milind Deora. Milind, who was a junior “infighting” within the Mumbai Assembly, Dilip Walse-Patil, cial assistance to Micro, Small failure”, the NCP stated in its port. Swapan Dasgupta, who is affil- More than seven weeks after minister in the Dr Manmohan Cong and indirectly blamed city the NCP also promised voters and Medium Enterprises manifesto: “The NDA BJP spokesperson iated to the BJP, asked why the Deora went to town saying that Singh-led UPA government, is party unit president Sanjay structural reforms to drive sus- (MSME) will be increased and Government, in five years, has Shahnawaz Hussain told Kolkata Police entered an area “infighting” was threatening also the Congress candidate Nirupam for contributing to tainable agriculture, a complete restructuring of their loans failed miserably to contain ter- reporters the State Government which falls under the jurisdic- “our base in Mumbai”, AICC from Mumbai South. “sectarian politics” within the loan waiver to all farmers and will be done,” the manifesto rorism. In these five years of seems to be working to protect tion of the customs depart- general secretary KC Venugopal An erstwhile Shiv Sena party set up. In a series of initiative to compliment the said. NDA rule, there have been a family. ment. issued a brief statement that functionary, Nirupam is a two- tweets put on the sorry state of Minimum Support Price Apart from opening talks three terror attacks on military The Chief Minister should He said the TMC chief was read: "Congress president Rahul term Rajya Sabha member and affairs within the Mumbai, (MSP) through a system of with Pakistan during which we and para military forces under tell the people what was being creating classes of VIPs and Gandhi has appointed Milind one-time Lok Sabha member Deora had said: “In a city like incentives and commission will insist on discussing ter- its nose. There has been a crim- brought in those suitcases that non-VIPs with different sets of Deora as president of MRCC. from Mumbai North. Nirupam Mumbai, we need to bring peo- payments. The NCP said it was rorism, the NCP said it “will inal failure of intelligence in pre- the Kolkata Police had to "ter- rules and laws. Mamata The party appreciates the con- had over the past several months ple together. The Mumbai Cong committed to provide ade- continue to be responsive to venting such attacks. No respon- rorise" customs officials to pre- Banerjee is deliberately trying tribution of outgoing president come in for severe criticism for cannot become a cricket pitch quate attention to promote the newly elected Sheikh sibility has been fixed. No one vent them from checking them, to provoke a constitutional cri- Sanjay Nirupam”. Nirupam, a his “ad hoc” style of f*unction- for sectarian politics, with lead- agriculture growth, productiv- Hasina Government in is held accountable”. he said. He also alleged police sis, he added. journalist-turned-politician who ing and his “failure” to take ers pitted against one other”.   P
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Minister who is fighting against Twhich is facing the wrath of hiccups which would be ter Narendra Modi critic Nana in December, 2017, Patole had Rajbhar, who is a Cabinet a Chief Minister,” the disgrun- the Christians for non-inclusion resolved in days to come . While Patole were among those who resigned from BJP and his Minister in the Yogi Adityanath tled Minister had said. in the list of candidates selected the campaign picks up, the party filed their papers, as the nomi- Bhandra-Gondiya Lok sabha Government, slammed the BJP Moreover, Rajbhar had also for the Lok Sabha election, suf- leaders would put up all these nations for the Phase-1 of the seat, citing 14 reasons which for failing to decide on the NDA announced that his party may fered another setback on issues behind them and focus on Lok Sabha polls in Maharashtra include 14 reasons including the seat-sharing with all of its allies Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand. go solo on all the 80 seats in UP Monday as a senior leader of the Sabha election had forfeited his winning the election,” said ended on Monday. increasing number of farmer in UP. “We are fighting for our Then why are we kept waiting,” in the general elections if the party went public and aired his security deposit and had fin- Meyyappan, former president of Seven constituencies in east- suicides, demonetisation and rights. We were called for a Rajbhar added. BJP decided to keep SBSP out displeasure for denying him the ished fourth in the race. Tamil Nadu Youth Congress. ern Maharashtra — Wardha, GST. Before and after his res- meeting with Amit Shah along Further, when asked about of the coalition. The SBSP has Sivaganga seat. Karti, the one and only son He the Congres High Gadchiroli-Chimur, Ramtek, ignation, Patole had criticised with Apna Dal and our chances of joining the four MLAs in the UP Assembly. Sudarshana Nachiappan, a of Chidambaram and Nalini Command has done a tight Nagpur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Modi. Former Shiv Sena MLA demands were asked. Seat- Congress, Rajbhar said his The Minister has been a fre- popular Congress leader, who Chidambaram, is facing inves- rope walking while selecting the Chandrapur, Yavatmal-Washim Suresh Dhanorkar, who was sharing was decided for the party can go “anywhere” as “all quent critic of Yogi Adityanath had represented the Sivaganga tigations by the CBI and the ED ten candidates. “Since our party – will go to polls on April 11 in given the Congress ticket after Apna Dal, but we are still being options are open”. The party’s and has time and again claimed constituency during 1999 to in a series of cases including is too democratic, leaders the first of the four-phased elec- resigned and joined the Rahul kept in the dark. I have given 24 decision to stay with the BJP that his party was not getting 2004 alleged on Monday that he money laundering in the INX express their disappointment tions in the State. Accompanied Gandhi-led party, filed his nom- hours to the BJP to take a deci- will be revealed on Tuesday, the the ‘due respect’. He had also was not considered for the con- Media scam. He had told in public. There is no need to by Maharashtra Chief Minister ination for the Chandrapur seat. sion on our seats else we will go Minister added. attacked the UP Government stituency this time because of reporters that there were no worry as we are all united in Devendra Fadnavis and other He was a last-minute nominee our way,” Rajbhar said. Earlier in February, for renaming the cities of the pressure exerted by senior criminal cases against him and ensuring the victory of the senior leaders from the BJP-Shiv after the party on Sunday hacked The SBSP has demanded a Rajbhar had handed over the Mughalsarai and Faizabad. Congress leader P he faced no case in any court. DMK-led front in the State,” said Sena alliance, Gadkari filed his the name of Vinayak Bangade list of five seats including charge of the backward class- “They say they (the cities) were Chidambaram. “There are only unfounded alle- Meyyappan. nomination papers in his home following huge Opposition. Chandauli, Ghosi, es welfare department to Chief named after the Mughals. They The Congress High gation against me and no courts The Bishop Council of town of Nagpur. Former Union Minister and Ambedkarnagar, Jaunpur and Minister Yogi Adityanath. In have national spokesperson Command had on Sunday nom- has framed charges against me,” Tamil Nadu had expressed their Talking to media persons ex-Chief Minister Sushilkumar either Machlishehar or Lalganj. his letter to CM Yogi, he had Shahnawaz Hussain, Union inated Karti Chidambaram as said Karti while speaking to displeasure over the Congress after filing the nominations, “I Shinde filed his papers from “If Apna Dal was assigned cited non-payment of dues minister Mukhtar Abbas the party candidate from reporters. High Command ignoring the am overwhelmed by the Solapur, while former state seats then why a decision could and discrepancies in scholar- Naqvi, UP Minister Mohsin Sivaganga. The junior C D Meyyappan, senior plea of the Church that com- response from the ordinary Congress President Manikrao not be taken on our demands? ship to students hailing from Raza, three Muslim faces of the Chidambaram who had con- AICC member from the State munity members be included in Nagpur citizens and the party Thakre filed his papers from They (BJP) finalised alliances backward castes as the reason BJP, change their names first,” he tested the seat in the 2014 Lok who was the only leader avail- the list of candidates. workers… I am confident that Yavatmal-Washim. in Maharashtra, Goa, Bihar, behind his decision. He had had said. AGENCIES   &  # 
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During the Nehru era, the Congress                $S collected funds from Indian industrial- +  * . 6 5      -  ists and businessmen and sometimes this   * ) )               landed the party and the Government in trouble. For example, Mundra, an indus-                     ( trialist owning many companies and     5  $   :;    businesses, who had funded the Congress #    $S         + )  in the 1950s, ran into financial problems and signalled to the Government that it    5(      +       was payback time. The Nehru          +           Government obliged him by directing the       $           Life Insurance Corporation to buy his (*                ( companies’ shares at inflated prices. The then Finance Minister, TT *      .  5  )        Krishnamachari, who was obviously act-                     ing on orders from above, lost his job for the party was a more transparent deal the Congress was safe?” Rajiv said, “All denied this charge in Parliament.                    %   when the truth came out in what came and business houses were also permitted they found in the almirahs of the However, the Nehru-Gandhis have never to be known as the LIC-Mundra scandal. to make open donations.” Congress office was 20 lakh.” Nehru been able to explain why Bofors remit-  .          5    ( However, things changed after Indira Indira Gandhi, he says, was in dire then asked Rajiv Gandhi how much ted $ 7.30 million into the account of      )  ,       -   Gandhi engineered a split in the party in need of funds to fight elections and estab- Sanjay had. To which he said, “He (Rajiv) Maria and Ottavio Quattrocchi soon after                    1969. Soon after the break-up, she began lish herself as the undisputed leader of the held his head in his hands and said crores India sent the first tranche of payments relying heavily on the communists and Congress. For this, she depended on loyal and unaccounted crores.” to the company. The Quattrocchis moved          +        5   ( so, naturally, the Soviets came to her res- supporters like Rajni Patel and Vasantrao Two more equally unimpeachable this money around several banks in sev-       +              5 cue. Vasili Mitrokhin, who was in-charge Naik. “Later, when she had established witnesses to this era are former President eral locations and it was finally traced to    S     $ #      5 of the KGB archives, made explosive rev- her supremacy in Indian politics, she R Venkataraman and industrialist JRD the Channel Islands in the UK. elations of the KGB’s activities around the decided that a far better way to collect Tata. In his autobiography, My The Vajpayee Government got the         #    !  <    (  world. He talked about how the KGB funds for the party was through claim- Presidential Years, Venkataraman UK Government to freeze the account             ;=(;>  funded the Congress in the 1971 elections ing cuts from foreign deals. Sanjay recounts a conversation he had with JRD but the Manmohan Singh Government        5         )  and of how they even had moles in her Gandhi perfected and refined this still Tata when the latter called on him in asked the UK Government to withdraw Cabinet. further from 1972 onwards.” August 1987. Venkataraman said their the order, resulting in the         5 ! / #       Many honourable citizens of the Deshmukh said when Indira Gandhi conversation veered round to the state- Quattrocchis eventually getting away  5            + #   S country, who have held key positions in came back to power in 1980, he was ment Rajiv Gandhi had made in with the loot. $S             ( politics, Government, bureaucracy and Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Parliament a few days earlier on the Why did this Italian knock off a com- industry in the post-1970 era, have pro- Home Affairs. “My colleagues told me Bofors bribery scandal. mission when we bought field guns for 3       +          vided us invaluable evidence of how the that in January 1980 itself, Sanjay Gandhi “Tata said that though it was quite our army? Why did Sonia Gandhi ?                  Congress went about the business of called senior officers from certain con- possible that neither Rajiv nor members get the Manmohan Singh Government to +   ,   .     $     funding its activities and election cam- cerned ministries for giving orders, mak- of his family had received any consider- de-freeze the account? These questions paigns. These witnesses to that era say ing deals and clearly and firmly told them ation in the gun and other defence will continue to haunt the Nehru-   $S                that the Congress decided on a new mode how they should be finalised. Trusted deals, it would be difficult to deny the Gandhis.    "   + ;=:;  $ .    ! * of raising funds — via commissions col- senior officers were posted to Ministries receipt of commissions by the Congress. And as if this was not enough, there              6   lected on mega international defence and such as the Defence and also to the That was because he (Tata) felt that since are the Volcker Committee’s conclu- other contracts. A very respected witness Department of Defence Production. 1980, industrialists had not been sions on the “non-contractual beneficia- $                     to this era was BG Deshmukh, who was Even the death of Sanjay Gandhi approached for political contributions ries” of Iraqi oil sales under the United              #    Cabinet Secretary between 1986-89 and in the mid-1980s did not change this and that the general feeling amongst Nations Oil-for-Food Programme, which          5       $S   ( his autobiography — A Cabinet Secretary practice.” them was that the party was financed by said that the Iraqi dictator Saddam             S              Looks Back — is very enlightening. The second unimpeachable witness commission on deals.” Hussein had funded the Congress. Also, Deshmukh says, “The genesis of the is BK Nehru, a distinguished civil servant, Since this was the established mode it seems Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was just Bofors affair lies in the practice initiat- Ambassador and Governor and uncle of of fund collection, Bofors was certain to one of the two nations that had support- ed by Indira Gandhi and further refined Sanjay and Rajiv Gandhi. In his autobi- happen. In this scandal, Rajiv Gandhi and ed Indira Gandhi’s dictatorship during by her son Sanjay Gandhi for collecting ography, Nice Guys Finish Second, he others were accused of taking kickbacks the Emergency!   
 funds for the Congress. Till the middle recalled that at Sanjay Gandhi’s crema- when India purchased field guns for its Do we need to say more? of the 1960s, during the regime of Pandit tion, he asked Rajiv Gandhi “whether the army from the Swedish arms manufac- (The writer is Chairman,     #  !         Jawaharlal Nehru, the collection of funds money Sanjay had collected allegedly for turer, Bofors. Rajiv Gandhi vehemently Prasar Bharati)       !   ,         (   /         &       3
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( In fact, Gopinath reiterated these allega-               tions in a column for The Economic Times last               week as the Jet Airways crisis reached its end-     O      "    ( game. This is not for the first time that Jet  9          (      Airways is faced with an existential crisis. This         could, however, be the first time that Goyal and his airline will not survive unscathed with the            airlines’ very existence in doubt.                 ( This was certainly not how Goyal or Jet    +          Airways employees had thought their silver           ( Jubilee year would come to an end. After all,         ,    the airline faced it all — change in ownership,           ( regulations, Governments and even rivals —                 and survived everything. Jet is the only airline          #       from the mid-1990s aviation boom — when                the Government opened domestic services to        private carriers — to have survived. This despite an almost public humiliation by Vijay /             ( Mallya when the bombastic businessman              spoke of a potential Jet-Kingfisher merger after                Jet laid off thousands of cabin crew amidst a which went bust last year and surrendered its be stuck with expensive last-minute fares today.               payments crisis. Goyal and Mallya had a stake in Alitalia that is currently on life-sup- With many travellers also having paid for    + +            ( famous late night press conference where the port in not a very different situation to Jet 23'3//'%)( hotels and other trip features in advance — and              latter almost lorded over the former. Airways. With Etihad’s losses totalling over $4 other airlines refusing to accept Jet Airways              Yet, the reticent and media-shy Goyal had billion, there has even been murmurs that the 0<<3131313' tickets, and in some cases being unable to can-             ( the last laugh when Mallya came crashing airline will merge with Emirates. '1'3/(31)4# cel their tickets due to egregious fees — they         %       down to earth harder than Icarus. But his bat- That said, Etihad did initially express a are in a lose-lose situation.              ( tle with Mallya is what doomed both men as desire to take control of Jet Airways, or as '313<4>>)/31 So, should the Government and lenders they went for ill-advised decisions to buy Air much as the Government’s Foreign Direct step in? After having lost billions of dollars              Sahara (Goyal) and Air Deccan (Mallya). Investment rules would allow. But Etihad )%)/)/<2 during the collapse of Kingfisher Airlines and +              These financially profligate decisions destroyed demanded that Naresh Goyal step down from learning that a grounded airline is worthless,       O          ( the finances of both the companies. the board of the airline and cut his stake down &'1!)'3/2'; the banks want to protect some amount of their         $         A decade after buying Air Sahara, Jet to under a quarter in perpetuity. On that front, 3'1'3<1'(')$ money to find a suitable buyer for Jet Airways,           / ( Airways was unable to fully integrate the air- they were little different from the Indian banks, which is what the provisional resolution plan                line into its operations, not for any fault of its which have a major exposure to the airline, and )0'1C40) suggested by the banks want. +       #  +    own but the way the airline industry is regu- who demanded the same: For Jet to survive, 2'/;<>2'<< But can the banks find a proper profession-              ( lated in our country. But as Mallya and Goyal Goyal must go. Finally, he did. al to run the airline? With Jet’s pilots refusing              fought, new entrants to the Indian aviation Jet has been unable to pay its staff or even 1)=04); to fly until their dues are cleared, with salaries         #    ( market, particularly Indigo, that flooded the the leasing companies from whom it borrows not having been paid for months, even with market with capacity and lower fares, was what planes. Over the past few years, Jet has been <4(0)23((31 Goyal’s departure, the sun, which features          +      sounded the death knell for Kingfisher at first gradually selling its planes to these leasing <'C)''3/#4 prominently on Jet Airways’ tail logo, is not %               and also likely doomed Jet Airways into a long, companies before renting them back. This shining brightly.            slow decline. allowed them to generate a certain amount of <1)3/(<'1 However, it remains a great asset. With air 5                  One white knight that Jet Airways found cash upfront. But now, with little money in the travel booming in India and airlines such as             /     ( was the Abu Dhabi-based airline, Etihad. Early back and no rescue plan, the airline has failed 0)#'4)3>);< IndiGo suffering severe growth pangs, Jet               ( in 2014, Etihad pumped in money into Jet to make payments and barely 35 aircraft out 1<!)'3/(31) Airways still has potential. The banks must be          4     + Airways and made the Indian airline part of of a fleet of over 140 are at one-time fly. This wary of what to do next but they should be               ( an ambitious global alliance of airlines that means that over a million seats have sudden- 31)%)/ willing to take a haircut on their loans because               ( included the German carrier, Air Berlin; ly disappeared from the Indian market in less /)#<%)/'1) if they do not, the airline might never recov-            +   Italian national carrier, Alitalia; Serbian than a month with cancellations rife. er and the Indian taxpayer will end up hold- national airline JAT; and some other So, while the Jet Airways crisis did not 313'1'=&';)/ ing the can for the airline industry once again,                 ( small airlines across the world. This was all part impact the passengers in the past other than just like they did for Kingfisher Airlines and         .      of a scheme to build traffic through the occasional withdrawal of lounge access and 23(()14&<(31 continue to do with Air India.               its hub in Abu Dhabi to compete with the the end of free meals on board, the spate of The bottom-line is that Jet Airways                +  Dubai-based Emirates airline in a seeming cancellations has meant that commuters are )#'1>

profits for three years to issue of investment, the former may even financial investors bring in funds, er is best suited to run (merely This is done with an aim to enable shares with differential voting rights acquire majority stake, reducing the the promoter gains due to increase because he set up the company) is all existing promoters to get into the (DVR) subject to a cap of 26 per latter to minority. The intent behind in business prospects and phe- an untenable argument. drivers’ seat wherever the majority cent of the total share capital. The issuing DVR is to nullify this out- nomenal growth in his personal Even so, nothing prevents the shares have slipped into the hands lobby group wants the MCA to dis- come. wealth. Then, for him to also strategic investors (albeit with of strategic investors. pense with this caveat. Alternatively, A share having differential right remain in the driver’s seat — in so majority stake) to vest the promot- Letting the promoters have &/<%<#'3<1<1 the Ministry may consider allowing bestows its holder voting power that far as the management and control er with powers by passing necessary shares up to 26 per cent with DVRs companies, who meet certain rev- is greater than what is available to goes — sounds like having the cake resolution in this regard. That — already allowed under the )<('1 enue threshold, to issue shares with an ordinary shareholder. As a result, and eating it too. indeed is the way forward instead Companies Act, 2013 — was bad  O  
   /  / DVR without having to meet the even with lower share in the total Third, in some cases, the pro- of the founder-promoter wanting to enough. To raise the cap to 51 per  4  profitability criteria. equity capital, the promoter will be moter either exits or sells a portion ride piggyback on law-makers and cent as demanded by the advocacy 3      n advocacy group, IndiaTech, IndiaTech has also asked for able to hold on to the driver’s seat of his/her shares at huge premium regulators to indulge in group, would substantially aggra- representing some of the increasing the current cap on shares (major beneficiaries are expected to raking in the moolah (for instance, muscle-flexing. vate the imbalance.        Amost high-profile entrepre- with differential rights from exist- be the so-called ‘unicorns’ — an in Flipkart, one of the co-promot- In their obsession to remain at This could be counter-produc-  3      neurs, has made a submission to the ing 26 per cent to at least 51 per cent acronym for start-ups which have ers sold his stake making billions of the helm, come what may, the pro- tive for none other than the start- '     K Ministry of Corporate Affairs of a company’s post-issue, paid-up a market capitalisation of over $1 dollars). In such a scenario, he has moters of startups want the ups themselves. This because faced $ !  (MCA) and the markets regulator, equity share capital. It has also billion). The idea is flawed. to necessarily get reconciled to Government to even dispense with with the denial of voting rights in   . ! Securities Exchange Board of India sought conversion of ordinary First, a fundamental tenet of reduced or no control over the com- the profitability track record crite- sync with their share holding, (SEBI), seeking a dual-class share shares into equity shares carrying corporate functioning is that the pany. ria. This is bizarre. It means that strategic investors will be disin- "     structure along with differential vot- DVR and equity shares with DVR voting power of an investor has to Fourth, what makes one pre- even when a promoter pushes the clined to pump in capital, thereby  "    ing rights for founder-promoters of into ordinary shares. be proportional to his investment or sume that the promoter alone is best company into losses continuously nipping the chances of their growth  "  .3  start-ups that can encourage the Typically, startups work on an the shares held by him in the com- positioned to run the affairs of the and despite being reduced to a in the bud. 
   '  country’s most valuable compa- innovative idea that holds the pany. This applies to all investors, company in a manner so as to minority shareholder, he/she should To sum up, the idea floated by nies to get listed on the domestic potential for huge business oppor- including the promoter. Yet, any achieve the stated objectives? In have the eternal right to remain in high-profile entrepreneurs is $3 O    stock exchanges instead of overseas tunities. Seeing this, ‘strategic’ attempt to give disproportionate fact, for strategic investors having command and control. flawed. The Government should   " 
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October 1, 2018. duct a recent survey has respondents said they were wife Anita Goyal stepping Regulatory and Development sent to insured, Irdai said. It can be noted that soon Following this, the The Government expects a revealed that 87 percent of more likely to report misbe- down from the board of Jet Authority of India (Irdai) said “Insurers should ensure after taking over the company Corporate Affairs Ministry resolution to the crisis over the women would be likely to haviour in the wake of last Airways. it has been receiving various that all call centres/toll-free after its defaults and appoint- Monday moved the Mumbai next four-five months. leave their job if a gender- year’s public offences, with Naresh Goyal is the complaints and suggestions in numbers responses should be ing a new board last October, NCLT seeking protection for The Government plea was based scandal like sexual women (85 percent) more Founder and Chairman of respect of crop insurance available in state’s official lan- the Government had sought these directors of group entities initially rejected by the harassment, bias in hiring likely to do so than men (76 Jet Airways, a full-service claims. guage other than Hindi and immunity to the newly- as well from any future adverse Mumbai bench but subse- among others occurred at percent), it added. airline that has been flying Irdai, in a circular, said English. Wesbites of insurers appointed six directors of the proceedings as a precautionary quently, which the Government the company they work for. Around 92 percent of for more than 25 years. there is a need for effective should disclose crop insurance group from any legal action measure. challenged in the appellate tri- Job site Indeed in a sur- respondents said they would Referring to the latest implementation of crop insur- related details in the vernacu- against them for the past deeds Meanwhile, IL&FS has also bunal (NCLAT) which had on vey found that 82 percent of be more likely to stay at their developments, Singh, who is ance schemes. lar language for the benefit of of old directors. filed an application seeking October 15 passed an interim men were in agreement and job if their company was the Chairman and Managing Insurance companies farmers,” it said. “We are issuing a direction dispensation from appointing order admitting the govern- said they would likely to quick to respond to a public Director of budget carrier should put in place a robust Among others, widespread that for the past actions of the independent director on the ment plea. leave their job in a similar scandal by fixing errors and SpiceJet, also said it was a system to register all the awareness programmes should suspended directors or any of group companies. The IL&FS group has 348 scenario. communicating internally wake-up call for the coun- requests of individuals loss be conducted for educating the officers of the company and A two-member NCLT subsidiaries and together they It also revealed that close and externally, it said. try’s policymakers to address assessment, and if an individ- farmers on scheme guidelines, the past wrongs of the sus- bench of VP Singh and owe over 94,000 crore to a to 80 percent of respondents It also revealed 95 percent structural challenges that is ual loss assessment is rejected, claim settlement process and pended directors and its offi- Ravikumar Duraisamy sched- clutch of commercial banks said they would be likely to of respondents saying if their making domestic airlines a written rejection letter men- grievance redressal process, it cials, no action should be ini- uled both the matters for mostly state-run lenders and leave their job if a technolo- company was transparent uncompetitive. tioning the reason should be further said. tiated against the newly- detailed hearing on April 12. other financial institutions. gy-based issue such as data about the issue in question breach, product failure, and made attempts to correct among others occurred at it, they would be more likely the company they work. to stay at their job. About 75 percent of Over 80 percent respon- respondents would leave their dents believed that technol- job if issues such as the CEO ogy companies are ethical, or senior leaders expressing however, close to 90 percent political views or contribut- think that technology com- ing to policies against their panies need to be more reg- own political beliefs occurred ulated, it added. at the company for they work “While it is the responsi- for, it added. bility of organisations to Indeed conducted a sur- ensure the integrity and pre- vey of employees across var- vent breaches or untoward ious companies in the tech- activities under their purview, nology sector in the country. no sector is immune to the It was conducted by occasional offence. In such Censuswide with 506 work- cases the company should ers in the technology indus- step up and take ownership of try between December 27, their actions and address the 2018 and January 11, 2019. issue in a transparent and Further it revealed that timely manner, to restore close to 70 percent consid- stakeholder trust,” Indeed ered changing their jobs India head of Engineering depending on the nature of India and site director the scandal, their loyalty to Venkata Machavarapu said.  ( %?? %# ($#) *#%+,-+./0 " %    

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Sleep and agile and responsive to the rapidly changing replace themselves in a controlled fashion. Cancer starts when a sound health go hand in hand, like healthy eat- ecosystems. cell is somehow altered so that it multiplies out of control. A tumor ing habits and exercising are necessary for our Artificial Intelligence (AI): It will change is a mass composed of a cluster of such abnormal cells. Most can- body sleeping adequately is also vital. the way healthcare is delivered. It will augment cers form tumors, but not all tumors are cancerous. Benign, or Our bodies are just like machines with an the services of clinicians who are fewer. AI will noncancerous, tumors do not spread to other parts of the body. n number of ongoing mechanisms inside. After empower individuals to take charge of their own Malignant, or cancerous, tumors crowd out healthy cells, inter- a certain time of working every machine on the health due to increased probability of better diag- fere with body functions, and draw nutrients from body tissues. face of earth needs to be shut down to keep it nosis. It has the capacity to streamline chaotic Cancers continue to grow and spread by direct extension or through going for long and prevent a major failure. and complex clinical processes to improve pre- a process called metastasis, whereby the malignant cells travel dictability. through the lymphatic or blood vessels — eventually forming new   Internet of Things (IOT): It has the abil- tumors in other parts of the body. There are more than 100 types The similar phenomenon works for the ity to integrate various medical technologies and of cancer including breast cancer, skin cancer, lung cancer, colon human bodies as well, if you wish to live longer enable automation with remote control and cancer, prostate cancer, and lymphoma. There is a remarkable and healthy without unnecessary damages to improve workflows around these equipment. advancement in cancer diagnosis, prevention, and treatment. your body manage your sleep well. Within the Wearable technologies are revolutionising mon- Modern diagnostic methods and treatment protocols can signif- sleeping time frame, our body heals the dam- itoring of health. Point of Care (POC) diagnos- icantly improve quality of life and may extend survival. aged cells and restores organs for the next day. tics are disrupting the way diagnostic tests are Ultimately, you are leaving your body for a ser- carried out. 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A good sleep will Robotics may come to the rescue of elders who /! 1!! prostate cancer alone accounting be a great help to improve concentration and here are certain myths evolved regarding Some people feel that it is possible to dread ageing in modern nuclear family setup. for almost 1 in 5 new diagnoses. productivity at work, that will be more reward- Tsleep that needs to be burst to have a prop- cover up the missed sleep nights by sleeping All these technologies are enabling care to be 11 #)  The most common cancers to be ing to you as it will be a great way to provide er understanding of the sleep cycle of your over the weekend. That’s simply not going to delivered in homes and communities thereby #! diagnosed in women are breast, you with a healthy and sound mind. body. 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Even a change in just one base  If you didn’t sleep properly, oping at a fast pace especially depression. when you don’t sleep aptly Coupled with concepts of universal health among the thousands of bases that make up a gene can have a major then you will be paying the among teenagers or the young-  Apart from the disturbed work- you will feel lesser energetic coverage (UHC), risk pooling to make health effect. There are two major types of gene mutations, inherited and penalty for it. Effectiveness sters to party all night. It ing scenario, you will also lead and athletic the next day. You insurance efficient and effective, managed acquired. An inherited gene mutation is present right from the and efficiency at work or stud- sounds great and everyone yourself to unhealthy appetite will definitely feel this change competition to ensure equity, strategic purchas- birth. Since all the cells in the body came from the first cell (zygote), ies will suffer the most. 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Spectator magazine suggested since then has struggled to keep December, a victory that made The Conservative leader May was the “worst prime her party and its allies togeth- her immune from a similar has in the past won praise for minister in our history”. er. challenge for a year, even if she her determination and ability It condemned her “lack of Naturally reserved and had to promise to quit before     to survive what has often felt imagination, inability to lead a reliant on her husband Philip the next scheduled election in like one long political crisis team or solve complex prob- and a few close aides, May 2022. since the 2016 referendum vote lems” -- although it also often says she is just quietly As a result, it is not clear    0/4)( to apply overnight, threatening to leave the European Union. accused the ruling party itself “getting on with the job”. how MPs might depose her havoc in almost every domain But her approach to the for failing to find a better But in the last election, she now if she refuses to quit. he EU announced on of life. May has been seeking endgame, refusing to accept leader. struggled to engage with voters May’s critics are deeply TMonday it has completed to rally support for her twice- MPs’ opposition to her divorce May’s former director of and was dubbed the “Maybot” divided, and their inability to its preparations for Britain rejected deal, but there is spec- deal and agreeing to delay communications, Katie Perrior, after churning out the same unite behind a rival candidate crashing out of the bloc with- ulation that if she fails, she Brexit to try for a third time to wrote in The Times newspaper tabloid also embraced this plan, the EU, embraced the cause answers and speeches over and has foiled previous attempted out a divorce accord, as fears could allow MPs to vote on get it through, has prompted that the prime minister was “a praising May’s “remarkable with the mantra “Brexit means over again. coups. Her finance minister, of a chaotic “no-deal” Brexit what happens next. frustration and anger on all passenger at the time when the resilience in the face of repeat- Brexit”. May’s legacy from her pre- Philip Hammond, condemned grow. The commission outlined sides. country needed a rally driver”. ed humiliations, but saying it Her promise to leave the vious role as interior minister any talk of replacing May as “As it is increasingly like- measures in 13 key areas, from Ministers from both the She backed a suggestion was ‘time to move on’.” EU’s institutions and end free has also been called into ques- “self-indulgent”, warning that ly that the United Kingdom rules on flying and road trans- pro- and anti-Brexit camps in made by some MPs that May “She has lost the backing of movement of workers delight- tion in recent months, with the problem remained what to will leave the European Union port to travel regulations, fish- her cabinet have in recent offer to quit if parliament backs much of the country and now ed eurosceptic MPs, but caused growing criticism of her crack- do about Brexit. without a deal on 12 April, the ing rights and banking -- weeks joined scores of her divorce deal, allowing her party,” the paper said. dismay among many pro- down on irregular migration. “This is not about the European Commission has while stressing that they would Conservative MPs in defying someone else to lead the next May took office after the Europeans. 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G & @ ( &2 secure the women's title after receiving the Praneeth, who had clinched the 2017 top billing following the pullout of Chinese Singapore Open for his first maiden Super top seed and reigning All England champi- Series title, is coming into the tournament    1)2)(3 leg injury at the 2017 Senior on Chen Yufei due to medical reasons. after securing a final spot at the Swiss Nationals and ever since he The absence of Japanese players will also Open and he will look to extend his good ndian ace Kidambi Srikanth has been troubled by small help Sindhu's case. run. Isaid it was irritating to lose injury woes, especially relat- Sindhu had a decent start to the new sea- The other half of the men's singles close quarterfinals in a title- ed to his ankle, which affect- son with a quarterfinal finish at the draw will have HS Prannoy, Subhankar less season and stressed on ed his performance. Indonesia Masters but a first-round exit at Dey, Ajay Jayaram and Parupalli Kashyap. the need to get physically "I'm working on my fit- the prestigious All England Championship Prannoy is coming to the event after and mentally tougher to win ness, I had too many injuries came as a major jolt. competing at the Asia Mixed Team cham- medals at the World in late 2017 and 2018 and so The Indian ace however will draw inspi- pionship and will take on Thailand's Championship and Olympic if I can keep working on my ration from her performance in the last two eighth seed Kantaphon Wangcharoen. Games. fitness then I will have a editions where she had reached the finals and Subhankar, who had stunned Asian Srikanth, who had great chance to win titles," he claimed the title in 2017. Games champion Jonatan Christie of clinched four titles in 2017, said. Sindhu will open against compatriot Indonesia on way to a quarterfinal lost nine quarterfinals "That is what worked for Mugdha Agrey and is expected to face fast- finish at the Swiss Open, will open and two semifinals me in 2017, because I could rising Danish Mia Blichfeldt, seeded eighth, against fourth seed Indonesian while reaching the sustain an hour and half hour. in the quarterfinals. A win is likely to pit her Tommy Sugiarto. finals only once at the But 2018 and early 2019, I had against Chinese third seed He Bingjiao. Ajay and Kashyap, two Commonwealth some injuries and withdrew Youngsters Vrushali Gummadi and Sai careers marred by injuries, will Games in the last 15 from tournaments. Uttejitha Rao Chukka will also be in the fray look to continue their comeback months. Srikanth said he just in women's singles at the World Tour Super with first-round matches against "I think the series of wants to focus on improving 500 event. Chinese Taipei's Wang Tzu Wei and Hong quarterfinals are more irritat- the little things and maintain The tournament will hold a lot of Kong's Lee Cheuk Yiu respectively. ing for me than losing in the his momentum to do well at prominence for third seed Srikanth, who has In doubles, sixth seeds Manu Attri and first round," Srikanth said on the Olympics. endured a title draught for the last 17 B Sumeeth Reddy will lead the challenge the eve of the India Open. "I couldn't produce the months. in men's doubles, after Satwiksairaj "I think I have been con- results that I wanted to but With defending champion and top seed Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty withdrew sistent against a few players still I'm happy with my Shi Yuqi pulling out, Srikanth will be at the with the former still recovering from a and then not able to get that improvement. So I am in that forefront along with former world champi- shoulder injury. win against a few others at process now," he said. on Viktor Axelsen, who had claimed the title Arun George and Sanyam Shukla will quarterfinals and semifinals, "I'm not desperate, I just in 2017 after three back-to-back finals. also be a pair to look out for after they that is what I'm working on want to improve on different The 26-year-old Srikanth, who clinched stunned World No 14 pair of Liao Min — to last the whole week. things, to be able to pull out the title in 2015, will begin his campaign Chun and Ching Heng last week at Hong "Probably, if I can do well crucial points in tough against familiar foe, Hong Kong's Wong Kong. in next 3-4 months before the matches and be more consis- Wing Ki Vincent, and might come across fel- In women's doubles, Ashwini World Championship. If I tent. 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I always play according to the situation most ed on a bright note with a half-cen- Yuvraj's comments came after Pant showed of the time.” tury for his latest franchise Mumbai his heroics with the bat once again and played #    leading up to the World Cup. Hopefully "This time I Indians. a match-winning unbeaten 78 off just 27 balls I get some game time here and can con- needed to increase "When the time comes, I will be for Delhi Capitals against Mumbai Indians in  #   $  tribute to some good performances. the run rate for the the first one to hang my boots," the lung opener between the two sides. And then hopefully the England selec- team, and I took my Yuvraj told mediapersons after MI's "I can't really say about (World Cup) selec- KOLKATA: Iconic all-rounder and tors will be watching them," said Denly, chances, and it came 37-run defeat. tion but Rishabh was outstanding today," 37- Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) head who recently made his Test debut for off today. Especially However India's 2007 World year-old Yuvraj said at the post match media coach Jacques Kallis on Monday said England in the lost series against the in T20, you have to T20 and 2011 World Cup hero did conference. that Andre Russell is one of the most West Indies. do something differ- admit that at times he felt indeci- "He (Pant) had an outstanding season last powerful hitters he has seen. Russell ent. When the sive about carrying on. year as well. He is playing well in Test matches walked in to bat when KKR needed 68   $     bowler cramps you "The last two years, have been as well. To score two hundreds overseas at such off 27 balls against SRH on Sunday and for room, you need up and down (for me). And I could an age (21 years) shows his character. It is impor- the big-hitting Caribbean all-rounder K    to make your own not decide on what to do," said the tant that we groom him well and hopefully he first hit Siddharth Kaul for 19 runs in room." 37-year-old. is the next big thing for us," said Yuvraj. the 18th over and smashed 21 more off NEW DELHI: Lasith Malinga is like- The Delhi daz- Yuvraj said that when he did a Yuvraj said that skipper Rohit Sharma's early Bhuvneshwar in the 19th to steer KKR ly to be available for the next two IPL zler's seven towering self introspection, he found that he dismissal had an effect as they were chasing a home with two balls to spare. "In terms matches for Mumbai Indians after Sri sixes and as many is still enjoying the game just as he big total. of finishing, he is one of the most pow- Lanka Cricket (SLC) softened its stance fours at the did as an U-16 cricketer not think- "Losing Rohit early (was one of the reasons). erful hitters that I have seen," Kallis said. on the participation of the veteran pacer Wankhede Stadium ing about national team selection. de Kock was going well but (we) lost his wick- "It was a good knock. He timed it well. in a domestic ODI tournament. SLC left the Mumbai "The main thing for me was et. (Kieron) Pollard came and quickly lost his And there were issues, the light wasn't had earlier announced that only those Indians bowlers why I played the game when I start- playing for India. I was playing for wicket. We really couldn't get partnerships going. incredible. But it was some of the best traumatised and gave rechristened Delhi Capitals the ed off. I played the game because I U-14s and U-16s. So till the time, The wicket was more of 180-190 wicket, 215 ball striking I have seen in a long time," fresh beginning they longed for. enjoyed playing cricket. When I I enjoy playing cricket, I am going (213) was quite a match-winning score," said said the former South Africa all- Lauding Pant's knock, Mumbai Indians captain enjoyed playing cricket, I was not to play." Yuvraj, who also lauded Delhi's bowling attack. rounder. Rohit Sharma said he would change the team com- bination in the next game.      "First game is always a bit of a challenge for most of the teams. Lot of new players in the squad as well. :  %      !  #  We made a lot of mistakes today, as simple as that. We were pretty much in the game in the first 10 overs KOLKATA: England all-rounder Joe when we were bowling, but the way Rishabh batted,    1)2)(3 Denly is looking at the ongoing Indian you've got to give him credit. Premier League to impress upon the players would be eligible for selection Leading the perennial slow starters, he added, llaying fears about India's pace national selectors and guarantee his in the World Cup squad, who would "The combination might change for the next game. Aspearhead Jasprit Bumrah's shoulder place in this year's World Cup squad. compete in Super Provincial One-Day We want to see what combination the opposition injury, a BCCI official on Monday said Denly's form in white ball cricket for domestic tournament, slated from April plays and then decide. The ball was still coming on there are no major concerns since the Kent in 2018 has 4 to 11. The diktat had forced Malinga well when we batted. We ended up getting 180, still. scans have come clear. brought him on the to make himself unavailable for Nobody went on to get a big score. A vital cog in India's World Cup selectors' radar for a Mumbai Indians' first six matches. "Yuvi batted brilliantly, and there were a few plans, Mumbai Indians' Bumrah landed spot in England's However, according to a report, the SLC cameos. If one of the top three or four had scored awkwardly on his left shoulder while World Cup squad. has changed its stance after a few calls 70-80, things would have been different." fielding during Sunday's IPL contest Denly hopes to get by BCCI. SLC Chief selector Ashantha Delhi skipper Shreyas Iyer said, "To be honest, against Delhi Capitals, causing concern selectors' attention by de Mel said that Malinga's place in the I was really well prepared to take on the captaincy. in the Indian camp. doing well for World Cup bound squad is guaran- I've been leading India A as well as my domestic side. The national team relies heavily on Kolkata teed, so he is free to participate in It's been a great experience so far, we've been bond- Bumrah, who has earned the reputation Knight Riders the IPL. "We have no issues if he ing and training really well. of being the world's best bowler in death in the IPL. "I goes to IPL — the board had given "(Pant) is a really destructive batsman. Over the overs. done in the morning and BCCI was kept When asked why Bumrah was still want to play him a no-objection certificate years I've seen him maturing a lot. He faced a few The Gujarat pacer did not come out in the loop. His scan reports were okay. in Mumbai while the team has already as many already, so he's free to go. Anyway dot balls early on and then suddenly his strike rate to bat in Sunday's match, which added The tests that were done were all those left for Bengaluru, the official said," Since games as I he has been one of our best bowlers was 250. Amazing batsman, great to have him on our to the concerns about his injury. recommended by the BCCI," the official the reports came late and the team has can. It's in one dayers, so there's no question team." "Bumrah had some shoulder scans said. already left, he is travelling separately." important about his place in the team," Mel said.