India Seeks Access to Jadhav in Science He Has Right to Move Appellate Court and Ile Mercy Petition, Says Sartaj Aziz Set-Up Sought

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NEARBY Reform India seeks access to Jadhav in science He has right to move appellate court and ile mercy petition, says Sartaj Aziz set-up sought

MUBASHIR ZAIDI Jacob Koshy ISLAMABAD New Delhi India on Friday sought con- Heads of India’s top sci- Governor asks Panjab sular access to Kulbhushan entific, administrative bod- univ to review fee hike Jadhav, the retired Navy of- ies have jointly conveyed to CHANDIGARH ficer who has been sen- Prime Minister Narendra Punjab Governor and tenced to death by a Modi that science in India Chandigarh Administrator V. Pakistani military court on needs a major revamp. P. Singh Badnore on Friday charges of spying, and de- They have proposed an asked Panjab University to manded a certified copy of over-arching science and review in a “holistic manner” the charge sheet as well as technology body that mar- all issues including the fee the judgment. ries research and industry, A grab from the video, purportedly shot in Budgam on April 9, hike, over which students had “We have stated that he and will report directly to showing a youth tied to an Army vehicle. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT clashed with the police on [Mr. Jadhav] is an Indian na- the Prime Minister. the campus. tional and as per interna- “The stature of Indian NORTH Ī PAGE 2 tional law and humanitarian science is a shadow of what Army uses civilian as DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD considerations, let us at least it used to be … because of Separatists detained have consular access to decades of misguided in- shield, sparks outrage over call for joint prayers him,” Gautam Bambawale, terventions. We have lost SRINAGAR Indian High Commissioner self-confidence and ambi- ‘Protester’ tied to front of Army vehicle The authorities on Friday in Islamabad, told reporters tion and the ability to re- foiled the separatists call to here after a meeting with cognise excellence Peerzada Ashiq 9, shows an alleged stone- ofer joint prayers for the Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary our laws,” Sartaj Aziz, Ad- amongst our own. In a false Srinagar thrower tied to an Army eight civilians killed in Tehmina Janjua. viser to the Prime Minister Lahore lawyers told sense of egalitarianism, we Two videos, apparently vehicle which is seen driv- Budgam district during the on Foreign Affairs, told re- often chose the mediocre showing a teenage protester ing through village streets. by-poll on April 9. A Verdict copy demanded porters here. at every level,” said the re- being shot in the head from A voice, apparently that spokesman of the Hurriyat “We would definitely go in Mr. Jadhav can appeal not to accept case port, which was vetted by close range and another of an Army personnel, can said security forces detained appeal against the judgment within 40 days to an appel- all the secretaries of India’s showing an alleged stone- be heard on the Jeep’s pub- all senior separatists and but we cannot do it unless late court, or may lodge a Press Trust of India to any foreign pressure. scientific departments and thrower tied to the front of lic address system saying, LAHORE other leaders were placed we have the details of the mercy petition with the “India has declared Jadhav seen by The Hindu. an Army Jeep, that went “Paththar bazon ka yeh haal under house arrest. The charges and the copy of the Army chief within 60 days of The Lahore High Court Bar its son and is putting However scientists and viral on Friday, sparked out- hoga (this will be the condi- authorities also sealed the verdict. So, my first demand the decision by the appellate Association said on Friday pressure on the Pakistani science in India command rage in the Kashmir Valley. tion of stone-throwers).” oices of the Hurriyat was to provide us the details court. If the Army chief re- that it would act against any government for his release. global “goodwill” as well as The police have filed an FIR, The man has since been Conference and the Tehreek- of the charge sheet and the jects the plea, he can file an- lawyer who extended We demand that the Indian those of fellow Indians, and the Army has ordered a identified as Farooq Dar, e-Hurriyat headquarters. copy of the verdict,” he said. other with the President in services to Indian national spy, who is involved in and this was a “positive” probe. while the Army unit in- NATION Ī PAGE 4 Pakistan, he said, had so far 90 days, Mr. Aziz added. Kulbhushan Jadhav, who has playing with the lives of and “a huge support sys- Also on Friday, five per- volved was the 53 Rashtriya DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD denied 13 times India’s re- Defending Pakistan’s posi- been sentenced to death by Pakistanis, not be spared tem” that ought to be har- sons were arrested for the Rifles, officials investigating quest for consular access. tion on consular access, he a Pakistani military court. and the government ensure nessed, the report said. assault on CRPF men in the matter on instructions After Mr. Bambawale’s meet- said India had not provided “The Lahore High Court his hanging,” he said. A major challenge in the Budgam during the April 9 from Chief Minister Me- ing with the Foreign Secret- the facility to many Pakistani Bar Association (LHBA) has Earlier, Pakistan’s top funding of science by the bypoll to the Srinagar parlia- hbooba Mufti said. They ad- ary, Pakistan defended the prisoners, despite repeated unanimously decided to military commanders made government was that mentary seat. The arrests ded that Mr. Dar is a resid- trial of Mr. Jadhav and said requests. cancel the membership of it clear that “no though scientific depart- followed a complaint from ent of Sitaharaan village in he could appeal against the “We expect India to be- any lawyer who offers his compromise” shall be made ments were headed by sci- the CRPF, and a hunt was on Khag tehsil of Budgam. verdict. have responsibly and refrain services to Indian spy on such “anti-state acts.” entists, they could often for six others seen in the (With inputs from PTI) “Due process has been fol- from issuing statements that Kulbhushan Jadhav,” LHBA not take independent de- video. The latest 19-second RAJNATH REJECTS PAK. CLAIM lowed while proceeding will further aggravate secretary-general Amer cisions, according to the video, purportedly also shot CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 against him. All further ac- people-to-people hostility.” Saeed Raan said. OF FAIR TRIAL; INDIAN INTERESTS report. in the Chadoora Assembly INTERVIEW WITH CRPF WILL BE PROTECTED, SAYS METROPLUS WEEKEND Ī 6 PAGES tion in this regard shall also He said the bar had asked segment of Budgam on April CHIEF Ī PAGE 8 be taken in accordance with CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 the government not to yield V.K. SINGH Ī PAGE 9 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8

Giant U.S. bomb kills 36 suspected IS militants ‘AAP, Cong Mayawati’s brother made party vice-president Special correspondent Reuters nearly 9,000 American two sides of Lucknow premo Mayawati on Friday would never contest polls or ACHIN/KABUL troops stationed in Afgh- In a significant decision, in- declared her brother Anand hold office of power. The top U.S. military com- anistan. Nicknamed ‘the same coin’ dicating the possible line of Kumar as the vice-president mander in Afghanistan said mother of all bombs,’ the succession in the BSP, su- on the condition that he DETAILS Ī PAGE 8 on Friday that the decision weapon was dropped in Jatin Anand to deploy one of the largest Achin district of Nangarhar, New Delhi conventional bombs ever bordering Pakistan. The Bharatiya Janata Party used in combat was tactical, Gen. John W. Nicholson, (BJP) views the Aam Aadmi and made as part of the cam- commander of U.S. Forces in Party (AAP) and the Con- paign against Islamic State- Afghanistan, said he was in gress as “two sides of the linked fighters. constant communication same coin.” As many as 36 suspected with officials in Washington, At an interaction with Islamic State militants were On target: This image shows the moment after the ‘mother but the decision to use the the editorial staff of The killed in the strike on of all bombs’ struck Achin district. * REUTERS 9,797 kg GBU-43 bomb was Hindu here, the Leader of Thursday evening in the based on his assessment of the Opposition in the Delhi eastern province of Nangar- carried a statement denying the blast. The strike came as military needs and not on Assembly and the BJP’s har, Afghan defence officials that the group had suffered U.S. President Donald broader political face in the national Capital, said. There were no civilian casualties in the attack. On Trump prepares to dispatch considerations. Vijender Gupta, said the casualties, they said. Friday, Afghan and foreign his first high-level delegation party had plans to crack Amaq, the news agency troops did not allow report- to Kabul, amid uncertainty TRUMP SHOULD CONFRONT down on illegal slaughter affiliated to the Islamic State, ers to approach the scene of about his plans for the PAK., SAYS EX-ENVOY Ī PAGE 10 houses if it wins the municipal corporations elections on April 23. He also said the Con- 60,000 under gress was “mistaken” if it On Meerut hoardings: Chant thinks it was on the road to I-T scanner revival following its per- formance in the Rajouri Special Correspondent Yogi’s name or leave UP Garden byelection. New Delhi FULL INTERVIEW Ī DELHI METRO In the second phase of ‘Op- eration Clean Money’ Hoardings removed; Meerut SSP orders probe (OCM), launched on Friday PM launches to unearth black money, Staff reporter the I-T department will Meerut BHIM-Aadhaar probe over 60,000 indi- Hoardings purportedly put viduals including 1,300 up by the Hindu Yuva Vahini high risk persons for al- (HYV), the organisation application leged excessive cash sales founded by Uttar Pradesh post demonetisation on Chief Minister Yogi Pavan Dahat November 8 last year. Adityanath, came up across Nagpur Over 6,000 transactions the city declaring that Prime Minister Narendra of high value property pur- people should chant Mr Modi launched the BHIM- chases and 6,600 cases of Adityanath’s name if they Aadhaar in Nagpur on Fri- outward remittances shall wanted to live in Uttar day on the occasion of the be subjected to detailed in- Pradesh. 126th birth anniversary of vestigations, an official “Pradesh mein rehnaa Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, and statement said. hain toh Yogi, Yogi kehna One of the hoardings that was put up near the oice of the SSP hoped that the digital plat- The second phase in- hain (If you want to live in and District Magistrate. * PARVEZ KHAN form would be an “eco- volves identification of the State chant Yogi, Yogi),” nomic giant” like the Con- high risk persons through the hoardings said. the incident while the dis- erate things which have the stitution, through which advanced data analytics, The posters with photo- trict administration re- potential to disturb com- Dr. Ambedkar empowered relationship clustering and graphs of Prime Minister moved the hoardings. munal harmony,” Mr. Gaud the common man. fund tracking. Narendra Modi and Mr Mr. Gaud said the local in- said. Mr. Modi said, “Like The high risk categories Adityanath also feature telligence unit of Meerut had The hoardings come days Shiva [a Hindu god], Dr. identified include busi- Meerut district’s HYV pres- been asked to investigate after HYV members barged Ambedkar also drank the nesses claiming cash sales ident Neeraj Sharma who were behind the hoard- into a house and thrashed a poison of hatred all his life as the source of cash de- Panchali. ings and register a case Muslim man and his woman but he did not carry even posits which is found to be Attempts to contact Na- against them. friend on the suspicion of the slightest of bitterness excessive compared to gendra Tomar, the HYV “We heard about these “immoral activity and love neither in the Indian Con- their past profile or in- chief of western Uttar Pra- controversial posters. We jihad.” stitution nor in his dustry norms; large cash desh, were unsuccessful. are trying to find out who The HYV workers video speeches. Today, we are deposits made by govern- Meerut Senior Superin- has done this. There are recorded the entire episode, trying to give a new system ment or PSU employees. tendent of Police J Ravinder clear instructions from the leading to outrage in social on his birth anniversary.” CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 Gaud ordered a probe into State government not to tol- media. DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 5

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DELHI Timings Amarinder Saturday, April 15 Yogi opposes school holidays RISE 05:56 SET 18:47 Governor asks Panjab RISE 22:23 SET 07:58 bans names Sunday, April 16 on plaques on birth anniversaries RISE 05:55 SET 18:47 RISE 23:14 SET 08:38 univ to review fee hike Press Trust of India Monday, April 17 Chandigarh Expresses concern over shrinking academic sessions RISE 05:54 SET 18:48 Chief Minister Amarinder RISE 00:00 SET 09:21 Indeinite hunger strike by students enters 11th day Singh on Friday banned in- Press Trust of India clusion of names of govern- Lucknow SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ment functionaries on There should be no holiday CHANDIGARH foundation stones and in- in schools on birth an- An indefinite hunger strike augural plaques, hours niversaries of great person- against fee hike at Panjab after a video of a Minister alities instead students University, by members of threatening a government should be taught about them the National Students’ Union school principal in Nabha on these days, Uttar Pradesh of India (NSUI), entered the went viral on social media. Chief Minister Yogi 11th day here on Friday. The order was issued Adityanath said on Friday. NSUI leader Manoj Lub- after the video showing His remarks came as he ana said they would soon Cabinet Minister Sadhu addressed a gathering on meet Punjab Chief Minister Singh Dharamsot threaten- the occasion of Dr B. R. Capt. Amarinder Singh and ing with suspension the Ambedkar’s 126th birth an- Governor V.P.Singh Badnore woman principal of the niversary here and flagged over the issue. school, where he had gone concern over shrinking aca- “We want the university Students to meet Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and to lay a foundation stone, demic sessions due to in- Making a point Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a function in to immediately withdraw Governor V.P.Singh Badnore * FILE PHOTO AKHILESH KUMAR triggered a massive public crease in number of such Lucknow on Friday * RAJEEV BHATT the fee hike order. We will outcry. holidays. meet Punjab Chief Minister students’ unions on the On Tuesday, a protest or- “There should be no holi- their contribution towards holidays of which at least 17 Capt. Amarinder Singh and campus to press for a roll- ganised on the campus Minister upset days in schools on birth an- the country, the CM said. are related to the birth an- Governor V. P. Singh Bad- back of the decision. against fee hike turned viol- The Minister was appar- niversaries of great person- Paying tributes to the niversaries of eminent nore to chalk out a solution “The NSUI has separated ent after the students and ently upset over his name alities. Instead special chief architect of Indian personalities. Three shot and to seek proper funding from the JSAC owing to its the police clashed. Twenty- not being at the top on the two-hour programme Constitution, the Chief Min- The previous Samajwadi for the university.” modus operandi which bor- two policemen were in- inauguration plaque. should be held to teach stu- ister said Ambedkar was Party government had de- dead in Buxar (According to PTI, Mr. ders on a political gimmick,” jured, while 52 students The order stated: “While dents about them”, against “playing politics” at clared holidays on birth an- Badnore on Friday asked said Mr. Lubana. were arrested on charges of there was no bar on gov- Adityanath said. the cost of the country and niversaries of former Prime Press Trust of India Panjab University (PU) to re- The JSAC now includes rioting and damage to public ernment functionaries and “220 days academic ses- assured his nobody would Minister Chandrashekhar Buxar view in a “holistic manner” members of the Panjab Uni- property. leaders inaugurating or lay- sion has reduced to only 120 be allowed to flout law in Ut- (April 17), Maharishi Unidentified men shot all issues including the fee versity Students’ Union, Stu- ing the foundation stone of days due to such holidays tar Pradesh. Kashyap and Maharshi dead three persons at Lax- hike, over which students dents’ Front, and Students’ Renewed stir any building or project, the and if the tradition (of such UP Governor Ram Naik Nishadraj Jayanti (April 5), manpur dera village here, had clashed with the police Organisation of India. Other The Panjab University Cam- practice of having their holidays) continued, there also addressed the gathering Hazrat Ajmeri Garib Nawaj the police said on Friday on the campus) students’ body at the univer- pus Students’ Council names inscribed on such will be no day left for teach- and emphasised on follow- Urs (April 26), Maharana All of them died on the The NSUI has also broken sity, including Students For (PUCSC), meanwhile, in- stones or plaques was being in schools,” he said. ing the constitutional obliga- Pratap Jayanti (May 9) be- spot, Superintendent of away from the Joint Student Society and Akhil Bharatiya tends to resume its agitation ing discarded with immedi- The children should be tions, while paying tributes sides on the death an- Police Upendra Kumar Action Committee ( JSAC), Vidhyarthi Parishad, did not if the fee hike order is not ate effect, following expli- motivated to learn about tra- to Ambedkar. niversary of Ambedkar Sharma said. PTI which was formed by the join the committee. withdrawn. cit orders from the CM.” dition of personalities and In UP, there are 42 public (December 6). ‘Lalu son concealed ₹15-cr property in aidavit’ We will approach the Election Commission for action against him: Sushil Modi

Press Trust of India angabad district in 2010 leader alleged. as to where did Mr. Tej Pra- Patna from seven persons, but tap get Rs 53.34 lakh to buy BJP leader Sushil Kumar neither declared it in his To submit memo the land in 2010 when he Modi on Friday accused Bi- election affidavit in the 2015 Mr. Modi, accompanied by was barely 20- year-old. har Minister Tej Pratap Ya- Assembly polls nor fur- Bihar BJP vice-president “Will the Chief Minister dav of concealing ownership nished the same in the an- Devesh Kumar, said: “We dare to sack him (Tej Pra- of a land in Aurangabad dis- nual assets declaration be- will bring it to the notice of tap)? ...CM Nitish Kumar is trict in his election affidavit fore the State government, the EC through a memor- silent in order to save his and annual assets Mr. Modi said. andum annexing the affi- government,” Mr. Modi said. declaration. “It is beyond anyone’s davit that did not mention Meanwhile, the RJD on Mr. Tej Pratap, Health comprehension as to why he the property and loan taken Friday fielded its leaders to Minister in the Nitish Kumar has not declared the prop- against it. We will demand defend its chief and attack government, had purchased erty valued at ₹15 crore in of- the EC to take action.” Mr. Modi “to stop the ficti- land for ₹53.34 lakh in Aur- ficial records,” the senior BJP He also raised questions tious game of exposure.”

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from Bengal govt: Rajnath Press Trust of India Guwahati The GRPF and the State po- Assam Governor greets ‘There is no scope for confrontation in a healthy democracy’ lice have seized demonet- people on Bohag Bihu ised banknotes with the face GUWAHATI Special Correspondent fraud and the Narada videos spects in the State, Mr. Singh value of ₹1.10 crore, nine Assam Governor Banwarilal Kolkata case stating that the “law will said the party will form the gold bars and 1.5 kg brown Purohit greeted the people of While maintaining that there take its own course”. government in the next As- sugar in separate incidents the State on the occasion of is no scope for “confronta- Whether on the issue of sembly polls and the result here. Bohag or Rongali Bihu and tion in a healthy demo- the Rashtriya Swayamsevak of the by-poll at Kanthi Dak- The demonetised notes of Assamese New Year. cracy”, Union Home Minis- Sangh resolution on “jihadi” shin, where the party ₹1,000 and ₹500 denomina- Governor Purohit in a ter Rajnath Singh on Friday activities increasing in West emerged second, was reflec- tions were seized from a message said “Let this Bihu said the Centre is expecting Bengal or the police com- tion of that. vehicle in Paltan Bazar here be a harbinger of a new dawn cooperation from the West plaint against State BJP pres- Contrary to Mr. Singh, yesterday. However, the of warm and harmonious Bengal government. ident Dilip Ghosh for carry- Union Minister for Water Re- driver managed to escape, Railway police with three persons arrested with gold bars in relationship and peace, During his visit to Kolkata, ing armed rallies, the Home sources Uma Bharti, who police said. Guwahati on Friday. * PTI prosperity and progress in Mr. Singh was careful in Minister did not indulge in also visited the State during In another incident, nine the State.” PTI avoiding any direct criticism Rajnath Singh * any criticism of the State the day, accused the Chief gold bars, weighing 15 kg, during a routine checking in Another man, travelling of Chief Minister Mamata government. Minister of indulging in com- were seized from three per- Delhi-bound Rajdhani Ex- by Awadh NE express, was Good Friday observed Banerjee or her government State subject. “The Centre munal politics. sons at Guwahati railway sta- press and the persons, all arrested after 1.5 kg brown in Meghalaya while interacting with party will extend all help to con- Meeting with supporters “It is Mamata Banerjee tion , a GRPF official said. residents of Mizoram, were sugar was seized from his SHILLONG workers and journalists. trol any kind of violence, but During the Karyakarta who is spreading communal- The gold bars were seized arrested, the official said. possession, police said. Good Friday, marking the it is for the State government Samellans, where Mr. Singh ism by indulging in politics crucifixion of Jesus Christ, State subject to ensure that law and order interacted with BJP support- of communalism. You have was observed in Meghalaya Asked to comment on the is maintained,” Mr. Singh ers, there was hardly any to keep in mind that you can- with special prayers in law and order situation in added. mention of the Trinamool not reserve the word (com- churches and faithfuls the State as highlighted by The Home Minister re- Congress or the Chief munalism) only for one com- undertaking fasts. Special several BJP leaders, Mr Singh mained tight-lipped on the Minister. munity,” Ms. Bharti told sermons on salvation and said law and order was a investigations in the Saradha Asked about the BJP pro- journalists. partaking in the Lord’s Supper marked the celebration of the Holy Week which began last Sunday. PTI Left Front seeks poll panel’s assurance on EVMs Press Trust of India Man dies after falling Agartala ing its assurance on fool- of a speech allegedly de- memorandum quoted the from train proof workability of EVMs livered by Mr Deb in a rally at BJP leader as saying. HOWRAH The ruling Left Front in following a public speech by Teliamura town in Khowai The LF demanded “ap- A 51-year-old man from Tripura sought the Election State BJP president Biplab district on April 12 last. propriate action” against Bangladesh, Mohammad Commission’s assurance on Deb that all votes would go “Even if Manik Sarkar Deb by the ECI as he had Abdul Parek, who had gone to Friday over the “foolproof to the BJP even if the voters (Tripura Chief Minister) him- “threatened the democratic Bengaluru to receive workability” of the elec- vote for other political self cast his vote for his party system of the country.” Mr treatment died on his way tronic voting machines to be parties,” LF convener Kha- (CPI-M) it will be recorded in Das claimed that LF would back to Kolkata after he fell used in the 2018 Assembly gen Das told reporters. favour of lotus. You Manik be voted to power with from a train between elections in the State. The LF sent a video CD Sarkar may go to lodge a thumping majority in the 60- Bhubaneswar and Chengail, “We have sent a memor- and the clippings of two case against Biplab Deb if member Assembly elections police said. PTI andum to the ECI today seek- newspapers containing part you have the guts...,” the slated for February next. Poor patients to beneit from modiied ECT: expert It involves passing of small electric currents through brain

Staff Reporter the City Hospital of Berham- shock treatment, involves BERHAMPUR pur, claims that during the passing of small electric cur- The City Hospital in Berham- past four months, 58 men- rents through a patient’s pur is the only government tally ill patients were given brain to reverse symptoms medical institution in Odisha Modified ECT in this district of mental illness. It is a key where Modified Electro-Con- hospital of Ganjam district. treatment method in man- vulsive Therapy (ECT) is be- He said the City Hospital was agement of acute psychiatric ing administered to mentally the only government hos- illnesses. ill patients instead of con- pital in Odisha where Modi- ventional ECT, which at fied ECT was being Only hospital times is a painful process. administered. Over three decades ago, sev- The Mental Healthcare eral countries replaced con- Bill, 2016, which was passed Key treatment ventional ECT with Modified by the Lok Sabha on March Last week, Dr. Sahu joined ECT. Some private medical 27, makes direct administra- as an assistant professor at institutions in Odisha are tion of ECT without anaes- MKCG Medical College and providing Modified ECT. thesia illegal. As per the new Hospital in Berhampur. He “But no government hos- Bill, ECT can only be admin- hopes to start Modified ECT pital in Odisha, except the istered to a patient with use in the medical college hos- City Hospital in Berhampur, of muscle relaxants and an- pital, while it will be re- was using Modified ECT. aesthesia, which is called sumed in the City Hospital Now all hospitals will have to Modified ECT. when a psychiatrist takes up shift to Modified ECT once Bibhu Kalyan Sahu, who his vacant post. the Mental Healthcare Bill was a psychiatrist posted at ECT, commonly known as becomes an Act,” he said. Heat wave intensiies in parts of Odisha Rain likely in coastal areas of the State

Press Trust of India likely at some places in Bhubaneswar coastal Odisha and adjoin- The searing summer heat in ing areas by Saturday due to Odisha intensified on Friday a well-marked low pressure in many parts of the State over the Bay of Bengal. and Titlagarh remained the hottest place at 43 degrees Low pressure Celsius. A low pressure area was The mercury hovered formed yesterday over above 40 degrees C in at southeast Bay of Bengal and least 13 places in the State as its neighbourhood and it entire western Odisha and has become well marked many parts of southern re- low pressure area over the gion sizzled in the blistering same region on Friday, the heat. MeT office here said.

Above 40 deg C To intensify further Balangir town in western The system is very likely to Odisha recorded 42.7 deg C concentrate into a depres- followed by 42.5 at sion during the next 36 Bhawanipatna, 42 in hours and intensify further Malkangiri, 41.9 at Angul, in the subsequent next 24 41.2 at Sambalpur and 41.1 at hours, it said. Hirakud and Talcher, the The system is likely to met office said. move north-northeastwards The mercury stood at 41 during next 72 hours. degrees C at Jharsughda, Under its impact, rain or 40.4 degrees at both Phul- thunder shower is likely to bani and Sonepur and 40 occur at one or two places degrees C at Keonjhargarh over districts of coastal and Sundargarh, it said. Odisha and adjoining in- terior districts of Kand- Maximum temperature hamal, Rayagada and The maximum temperature Kalahandi. in both Bhubaneswar and neighbouring Cuttack city Gusty wind stood at 37 degrees C. Gusty surface wind from The heat wave has so far south-westerly direction claimed one life in the State. with 45 kmph speed and A man died due to sun- gusting up to 50 kmph is stroke in Bargarh district of likely to prevail along and western Odisha, according off the Odisha Coast, the to the office of the Special MeT office said. Relief Commissioner (SRC). Fishermen have been ad- Meanwhile, rain and vised not to venture into the thunder shower coupled sea. with gusty surface wind are

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IN BRIEF CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Left votes moving to Right’ Valley of lowers BJP vote share up by 22% in Purba Medinipur while Left’s share dips by 24%

Suvojit Bagchi Kolkata In the 2016 Assembly polls, the Congress and the UP Governor appoints A 22% surge in the Bharatiya Left had joined hands to bag V-Cs of two universities Janata Party’s vote share in the second spot with about LUCKNOW the Purba Medinipur As- 60,000 votes (34.21%) in Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram sembly bypoll and a 24% dip Kanthi. This number has Naik on Friday appointed in the Left’s share has given come down to 10.21% this Vice-Chancellors of King Trinamool Congress (TMC) year, even as the BJP’s share George’s Medical University chief Mamata Banerjee has gone up. (KGMU) and Madan Mohan reason to be worried. Malaviya Technical University While the TMC emerged ‘Be polite’ (MMMTU) for a tenure of victorious in Kanthi Dakshin The TMC’s share has also in- three years. by a margin of over 42,000 creased marginally from M.L.B. Bhatt, the Head of votes, the BJP’s share has 53.71% to 55.89%, which is Radiology Department at gone up from a little over “formidable” in a four- KGMU has been appointed 15,000 votes in the 2016 As- cornered fight, said analysts. V-C of the university, while sembly elections to nearly Ms. Banerjee has now ap- Prof. Srinivas Singh of 53,000 now. pealed to her cadres to “be IIT-Kanpur took charge as V-C ‘Reason to be worried’: While the Trinamool Congress won in polite” and work closely of MMMTU, a release issued ‘Transfer of votes’ Kanthi Dakshin by over 42,000 votes, the BJP’s share has with the people. Picture perfect: A ilm shoot in the serene Tulip Garden in Srinagar on Friday was in sharp by the Raj Bhawan said. PTI Acknowledging a “transfer gone up from 15,000 votes in the 2016 Assembly elections to Senior Left Front leaders, contrast to the turmoil in the Kashmir Valley, where stone-throwing by protesters is almost a

[of] votes” from the Left to nearly 53,000 now. * FILE PHOTO too, have admitted that daily phenomenon. * NISSAR AHMAD the BJP, West Bengal Chief those in favour of the Left Four girls drown in Minister Mamata Banerjee have an understanding. the first time that Ms. Baner- have switched allegiance in crater in Rajasthan said on Thursday: “I don’t They transfer votes among jee, who is said to interpret favour of the BJP in these SIKAR (RAJASTHAN) think about all this — when each other. The Congress, Bengal’s electoral politics far elections. “A section of those Four girls drowned in a crater ‘Ram’ [BJP] will become CPI(M) and the BJP all do better than analysts, has who were with the Left have Separatists detained over filled with water in Sikar ‘Baam’ [Left] and ‘Baam’ will that…We do not indulge in spoken so clearly about joined the BJP,” said Left district of Rajasthan. be ‘Ram’. I have said earlier such politics.” votes in Bengal moving from Front chairperson Biman “The girls had gone to graze that the BJP and the CPI(M) However, this is probably the Left to the Right. Bose on Friday. call for joint prayers cattle. They started playing near the crater and fell in it. The incident happened near Hurriyat leaders among those put under house arrest the neem ka thana area,” the Portal not in Punjab farmers’ interest: experts police said. Peerzada Ashiq Their bodies have been sent Srinagar to a local hospital for post- ‘Focus should be on direct payment for produce to farmers instead’ The authorities on Friday mortem. The deceased have foiled the separatists call to been identified as 15-year-old Vikas Vasudeva in New Delhi, the Union Ag- Of nearly 10 lakh farmers advocated direct payment offer joint prayers for the Gudda and 18-year-old Chandigarh riculture Ministry in con- in Punjab, he pointed out, for farm produce to farmers. eight civilians killed in Poonam, Nishu and Meena, Even as the Centre is push- sultation with NITI Aayog, around 62% are small farm- Meanwhile, the Ministry Budgam district during the the police said. PTI ing for marketing reforms in had identified nine market- ers with land holdings of less has claimed that e-NAM, bypoll on April 9. the Agriculture Produce Mar- ing reforms to be made in than four hectare and many which has barely completed A spokesman of the Hur- keting Committee (APMC) APMC Acts. The three man- are illiterate. a year since it was imple- riyat said security forces de- Student drowns in lake Acts in various States and datory reforms include en- mented, is already proving tained all senior separatists while clicking selfie Union Territories, and work- abling integration to e-NAM ‘On commission’ beneficial. and other leaders were FARIDABAD (HARYANA) ing towards expansion of all vis-à-vis the provision for e- “These farmers are depend- This, the Ministry said, placed under house arrest. A 20-year-old student India electronic trading trading, unified trading li- ent on commission agents to was evident from the in- Anjuman-e-Share Shiyaan drowned in a lake here portal National Agriculture cence and a single point levy sell their produce. Even if e- creasing number of States chairman Aga Syed Hasanm allegedly while trying to pose Market (e-NAM), experts ex- of market fee. NAM is implemented, they coming on board, traders Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz for a selfie on Friday, the pressed reservations about will have to approach and farmer’s registration, Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik, police said. the success of e-NAM in Govt buys from farmers middlemen. This will defeat and volume and value of Shabir Ahmad Shah, Mo- The incident occurred at Punjab. “The purpose of e-NAM is to the whole purpose of redu- trade being done online. hammad Ashraf Sehrai and Unrest: Security personnels guard a polling station in Budgam Sirohi village when Aayub “e-NAM is not in the in- reduce intermediaries cing intermediaries and “So far, 417 markets from Nayeem Ahmad Khan were district on Thursday. * FILE PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD Khan, a first-year BCA terest of Punjab farmers. The between producers and buy- farmers will continue to be 13 States have joined the on- among the prominent separ- student, along with his three government should instead ers to ensure remunerative exploited,” he said, adding line-portal, which targets in- atists disallowed from at- “Authorities are choking protests broke out after the friends had gone to a nearby focus on mechanisms for dir- prices for farmers. In Pun- that group and cooperative tegration of 585 markets by tending the gathering in genuine voices and shrink- Friday prayers in parts of lake, the police said. While ect payment for farm pro- jab, which predominantly marketing was in interest of March 2018. So far, 39.75 Budgam, where violence ing space for peaceful polit- Srinagar, Sopore and Aayub died, his friends were duce to farmers,” P. S. Rangi, grows wheat and paddy, the marginal and small farmers. lakh farmers and 88,474 erupted during the bypoll ical activities. We are not al- Budgam. In another devel- rescued by tourists present by an agriculture expert and government procures pro- Prof. Sukhpal Singh, the traders have registered, and on April 9. The authorities lowed to mourn even over opment, the Congress has the lake, Station House former consultant with the duce directly at an assured Head of Department of Eco- trade worth ₹15,009 crore also sealed the offices of the martyrs,” said a joint state- submitted a memorandum Officer Preetpal Sangwan Punjab State Farmers’ Com- price. In this scenario, what nomics and Sociology at the has taken place through the Hurriyat Conference and the ment issued by Mr. Geelani, to Governor N.N. Vohra and said. The body has been sent mission, told, The Hindu. benefit will the farmer in Ludhiana-based Punjab Agri- portal,” said a Ministry state- Tehreek-e-Hurriyat the Mirwaiz and Mr. Malik. sought his intervention to for post-mortem, he said. PTI In a recent meeting held Punjab derive?” he said. cultural University, has also ment issued recently. headquarters. Meanwhile, sporadic ensure free and fair polls. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 NATION 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Allahabad HC becomes ‘pilot BHIM-Aadhaar will be project’ for case backlog study an economic giant: PM Could not appear before ED: Virbhadra Singh ‘It will empower the common man like the Constitution’ SHIMLA SC refers to delay in disposal of cases at the cost of gross human rights violations Himachal Pradesh Chief Pavan Dahat Taking a dig at critics, Mr. Minister Virbhadra Singh, Krishnadas Rajagopal to initiate a target specific ex- NAGPUR Modi said he was “astoun- who was to appear before the NEW DELHI ercise, and for the purpose Prime Minister Narendra ded” by the opinions of Enforcement Directorate for The Supreme Court has obtain and analyse the relev- Modi launched the BHIM- many scholars (on demonet- questioning in asked itself why numerous ant data at the first instance Aadhaar (a digital payment isation and cashless disproportionate asset case, orders over the decades with regard to the pendency platform that uses the economy). on Friday said he could not suggesting “action plans” to of the criminal appeals be- Aadhaar number) in Nagpur “Earlier they debated the do so due to his pre- combat staggering backlog fore the Allahabad High on Friday on the occasion of BHIM application and now occupation. Describing as a of cases in High Courts and A ile photo of the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court Court,” Justice Chelameswar the 126th birth anniversary they are debating about the “petty minded” person trial courts have literally ordered. of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, and Aadhaar. Let them do it but former CM Prem Kumar produced no answers and Justice Chelameswar that right to speedy trial and dis- hoped that the digital plat- we are working hard to- Dhumal, he said: “The BJP hardly any results. his client’s appeal against posal of criminal appeals Particulars sought form would be an “eco- wards making India a digital leader tried to frame me by Justice Jasti Chelameswar his conviction was pending under Article 21 of the The Bench directed the HC nomic giant” like the Consti- economy and ‘Digidhan’ is lodging false cases.” PTI ruminated on how the “phe- in the Allahabad HC for over Constitution. Registrar to hand over partic- tution, through which Dr. an important part of it. Very nomenon of mounting pen- a decade without a hearing. ulars of the criminal appeals, Ambedkar empowered the PM Modi launching the soon, the ‘Digidhan’ will be 19 hospitalised after dency and discomfiting Mr. Parashar told the Su- Novel move category-wise and year-wise, common man. BHIM-Aadhar app in Nagpur synonymous with ‘Nijidhan’ chlorine gas leak delay in disposal of cases” preme Court that, with the So, in a novel move, the Su- for the study in four weeks. Showering praise on the on Friday. * S. SUDARSHAN [private property]. VADODARA continue at the cost of gross current backlog at the Alla- preme Court decided to put It sought the High Court to “architect of the Indian Con- “Now you don’t even At least 19 people were human rights violations to habad HC, his client enter- the Allahabad HC under the produce details of the institu- stitution” at a function here, dream that by 2022, every need a mobile phone [for di- hospitalised following the undertrials, convicts — both tains no hope of a hearing of microscope as a “pilot pro- tion and disposal statistics of Mr. Modi said, “Like Shiva [a Indian should have his own gital transactions]. If your leakage of chlorine gas in a who languish behind the his appeal. ject” to investigate how last 10 years, average disposal Hindu god], Dr. Ambedkar house with the facilities of Aadhaar number is linked small village on the city walls of prisons, at times Ordering the HC to com- High Courts deal with pen- time of the appeals, identi- also drank the poison of electricity, water, and with your bank accounts, outskirts, district officials said spend the entirety of their plete the hearing of the ap- dency. The SC said this was fied causes for the delay, hatred all his life but he did nearby hospitals. No one then your thumb impression on Friday. The incident took prison sentence behind bars peal against conviction in a “target-specific” exercise steps already taken and in not carry even the slightest should be homeless. Let us is enough to carry out a di- place on Thursdy night due to while their appeals or bail four months, Justice to study how criminal ap- contemplation for tackling of bitterness neither in the strive to live the dreams of gital transaction. You don’t leakage in the valve of a applications stagnate for Chelameswar, in a seven- peals face years of delay as and accelerating disposals, Indian Constitution nor in Dr. Ambedkar which he en- need to carry a single rupee chlorine gas cylinder, when decades without a hearing — page order, wondered about appellants face “inhuman mechanism in place to over- his speeches. Today, we are shrined in the Constitution,” with you. Even the most ad- the process of chlorination in and victims of crime. the “umpteen occasions” in compulsions” inside jails. see the process and progress trying to give a new system the Prime Minister said. vanced technologies in the a drinking water tank located which the Supreme Court Justice Chelameswar recorded. on his birth anniversary.” “In a large country like world don’t have this sys- in Por village was under way, Bail plea has suggested proposals and called for real-time statistics The Supreme Court said He asked the citizens to ours, it involves a big ex- tem. Very soon, major uni- they said. Those affected The Supreme Court’s third framed guidelines to end from the Allahabad HC and the selection of the Allahabad fulfil the dreams of the free- penditure to print currency versities in the world will after exposure to the gas seniormost judge had found pendency in courts. roped in senior advocates High Court, one of the oldest dom fighters. “They died for and distribute it. If we can come to study the BHIM- began complaining of eye and himself hearing a plea for How the judiciary has Shyam Divan and C.U. Singh High Courts in the country, the nation but we can live save this expenditure, the Aadhaar. This is going to be throat irritation, according to bail by a convict in a murder been, in a sense, inadvert- to assist the Supreme Court. should not be construed as a for the nation. In 2022, India same money can be used for a reference point for a big Vadodara Collector Lochan case. Defence lawyer Dushy- ently responsible for viola- “We are of the view that it comment on its functioning will complete 75 years of its building houses for the change in the world,” he Sehra. PTI ant Parashar apprised tion of the fundamental is imperative for this court or any deficiency thereof. independence. We have a poor,” he asserted. claimed.

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Red signal Daring display Naidu launches CM Connect to selies app to reach out to people on train ‘It will be useful in receiving feedback on any issue’ IANS KOLKATA requested to spare a few Staff Reporter A day after a selfie craze in- VIJAYAWADA minutes and give their feed- side a train led to the back without any bias for the deaths of several youths, Chief Minister N. Chandrab- benefit of State in general the Eastern Railway on Fri- abu Naidu launched a new and their welfare in particu- day appealed to passengers mobile app CM Connect, lar, he said. to be careful, and issued which runs on Microsoft’s Microsoft Corporate Vice guidelines. A railway Kaizala platform, at Secret- President Rajiv Kumar said, spokesman said they had ariat at Velagapudi near here “It is first that a head of State launched several cam- on Friday. is using app and technology paigns to make passengers Mr. Naidu said that the to reach out to the people. I aware of the risks of using app will be useful in receiv- have seen the world. phones while travelling. ing feedback from the public Nowhere such exercise is go- In a horrific turn of directly on any given issue. ing on.” events, a youth fell from a running train between Bali Pulse of people Call centre and Liluah railway stations The app would help the gov- The Chief Minister said a while trying to click a selfie ernment to know the pulse 750-seater call centre would on Thursday night. Four of of the people. Following suc- be inaugurated at Secretariat his friends were hit by an- cess of Kaizala app, which N. Chandrababu Naidu * on April 20. other train while rushing was launched during the The Command and Com- towards the accident spot. Krishna pushkarams, CM Chief Minister directly, he munication Centre also According to eyewit- Connect was developed. Un- said. would be inaugurated at the nesses, the four got down like Kaizala app, the identity Secretariat in first week of at the Bali station and star- of the responder would be Effective planning June. ted running through the kept secret. The app would help in ef- Command and Commu- railway track when a fective planning, improving nications Centre in-charge B speeding train knocked Confidential info and implementation of the Rajasekhar, Planning Com- them down, killing three Talent on show: Nihangs display their skill on horses at Takhat Damdama Sahib on the concluding day of the Baisakhi Mela at People can share the confid- schemes and programmes. mission Vice Chairman Ku- on the spot and severely in- Talwandi Sabo in Bathinda on Friday. * PTI ential information with the The people have also been tumba Rao were present. juring the fourth. Child with eight limbs Severe New UGC vice-chairman soon heatwave successfully treated in Gujarat A search-cum-selection committee interacts with candidates

Iraqi baby gets new lease of life in India Special Correspondent Vikas Pathak the committee, the sources NEW DELHI AHMEDABAD add. Press Trust of India There is no respite from With interactions of candid- With the UGC having NEW DELHI the scorching sun as Gu- ates with a search-cum-se- faced flak from some com- An Iraqi baby born with jarat continues to smelter lection committee taking mittees in the past, the new eight limbs got a new lease with the mercury crossing place on Thursday, the Uni- team at the helm will have of life after doctors success- 45 degree Celsius in many versity Grants Commission its task cut out. fully removed the extra places on Friday. Kandla in is set to have a new Vice- arms and legs through sur- Kutch was the hottest with Chairman soon. Faces flak gery. The seven-month-old 45.4 degrees. The post had fallen va- The higher education regu- Karam was born with a very As many as eight cities cant some months ago. lator faced flak from the TSR rare condition called poly- in the State recorded above The candidates who were Subramanian Committee, melia, a birth defect in 43 degree Celsius, a rise of short-listed for the interac- Jaspal Singh Sandhu which while providing in- which the individual has almost 3-5 degrees com- tion, sources say, included puts for the new education more than the usual num- pared to the corresponding JNU professor Ashwini Ma- as the front runner for the policy argued that the law ber of limbs. Karam with his mother at period of last two years. hapatra, UGC secretary post, though the decision is that created the UGC be al- Doctors at the Jaypee a Noida hospital. * AFP Jaspal Singh Sandhu and likely to take some days. lowed to lapse. Hospital in Noida per- No relief in sight Delhi University professor Also, with UGC chairman The committee’s report, formed the critical surgery In the next stage of the “Severe heatwave contin- Bidyut Chakrabarty, among Ved Prakash having retired, submitted recently to the in three stages. “When surgery, the other two addi- ues in the State and there is others. a search-cum-selection com- Ministry of Human Resource Karam was brought to the tional limbs were also re- no relief in sight till April mittee is set to look for a suc- Development, said the UGC hospital for the first time, he moved from his body. 19,” a senior official in the Front runner cessor for him. had been unable to effect- was just two weeks old and However, as his left leg State government said. Ac- The search-cum-selection Sources say the commit- ively implement its regula- his condition was very crit- was not developed com- cording to the Met depart- committee, sources say, in- tee will have H.R. Nagendra, tions aimed at ensuring the ical. After considering the pletely, doctors performed ment, the mercury will cludes the Secretary (Higher who has done his doctorate quality of higher education risk factors, we decided to another surgery in which hover above 43 degrees in Education), former Kaviku- from IISc Bengaluru in over the years. The report operate on him in multiple the muscles of the removed most parts of the State for laguru Kalidas Sanskrit Uni- mechanical engineering and had itself cited the earlier stages,” said Dr. Gaurav limbs were transplanted to next few days. The State versity (Nagpur) Vice-Chan- has also been associated Hari Gautam Committee re- Rathore, senior consultant his under-developed leg. disaster management au- cellor Pankaj Chande, with Harvard University and port, saying that the report in the Orthopaedics and Along with this, Karam’s thority and civic bodies in Karnataka Central Univer- Imperial College, London, was understood to have con- Joint Replacement Depart- crooked back was also Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Surat sity Chancellor N.R. Shetty on it. cluded that the UGC did not ment of the hospital. treated with pelvic os- and Vadodara have issued and former North Gujarat Former Lucknow Univer- have adequate number of In the first stage, Karam’s teotomy surgery. He also ‘orange alert’, asking cit- University Vice-Chancellor sity Vice-Chancellor D.P. personnel of requisite qual- club feet were treated and suffered from corrected izens to remain indoors Balvant Jani on it. Singh and former Saurashtra ity to be an effective regulat- two limbs protruding out of transposition of the great from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Present UGC secretary University Vice-Chancellor ory force in the higher edu- his stomach were removed. arteries. remain hydrated. Jaspal Sandhu is being seen K.P. Joshipura are also on cation sector. Uma Bharti rules out putting water on concurrent list Staff Reporter district, she said the Teesta solved through discus- was taken in this regard. “We did not have any adverse ef- Kolkata water sharing issue could be sion…The reality is that wa- will consider the views of all fect on India’s relations with Union Water Resources Min- resolved through discussion ter is in the State list and on the stakeholders — the State Bangladesh. ister Uma Bharti on Friday with all stakeholders includ- that basis we will find out a government, Bangladesh “We will not allow any ruled out the possibility of ing the West Bengal solution,” said Ms. Bharti. and the Centre — before tak- politics over Teesta. We have putting water on the concur- government. She also said that the views ing a decision,” said Ms. decided that water will be rent list of subjects of the “I don’t think so at all of all the stakeholders in- Bharti. the basis of our good rela- Constitution. Speaking to [that putting water on concluding the West Bengal gov- She made it clear that the tions [with Bangladesh] and journalists on the sidelines current list will resolve the ernment would be con- Centre would ensure that the not the cause of souring our of a BJP meeting in Howrah Teesta issue]. It can be re- sidered before a decision Teesta water sharing issue relation,” she said. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Cross signals across the Himalayas India must realise that China is no longer willing to remain a status quo power

So far, China’s reactions have China was even then willing to risk ing’s realism has left China in a kind been on predictable lines, though a conlict with India, then the un- of philosophical vacuum. It has led perhaps more incendiary than in disputed leader of the Non-Aligned to an excess of nationalism and na- Blunt pointers the past. Beijing has issued a series Movement, angered by the grant of tionalistic fervour, making China’s of warnings, viz., that the Dalai La- asylum to the Dalai Lama. The objectives clear-cut. The BJP did well in the by-elections, but ma’s visit to Arunachal Pradesh stakes for China are, if anything, China’s policymakers are cau- would cause “deep damage” to greater today, as it seeks to emerge tious by temperament but are the Congress arrested its slide in Karnataka m.k. narayanan Sino-Indian ties, that New Delhi as a global leader. China would like known to take risks. They are would need to make ‘a choice’ in its to ensure that its ‘rear’ remains qui- skilled at morphing the gains fa- y-elections are no more than pointers to the pop- he 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gy- dealings with the Tibetan spiritual escent, rather than troubled, so as voured by each past civilisation and ular mood. They are not irm trend-setters for a atso, was in Arunachal Pra- leader, that India had breached its to devote its energies to attain its adjusting these to modern condi- Bgeneral election. When the winners of polls in 10 Tdesh recently, which has commitment on the Tibet issue, goals. tions. They prefer attrition to force- Assembly constituencies in eight territories are repres- greatly ruled China’s feathers. taking particular umbrage at the ful intervention, a protracted cam- entatives of four diferent parties, there is no one big Any reference to Arunachal Pra- Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister’s The Tawang factor paign to gain a relative advantage. lesson to be drawn from the results. Even so, these will desh (‘Southern Tibet’ as China statement that the State did not Indian commentators keep refer- Currently, China has jettisoned inevitably be interpreted as indicators of the public prefers to call it), in context or out share its borders with China but ring from time to time to the fact the Guiding Principles laid down by of context, has the efect of raising with Tibet and asking India to stick that China had shifted its stand on Deng Xiaoping, “coolly observe..., mood, especially when four of the States, which held temperatures in Beijing. The pro- to its ‘political pledges’ and not Tawang. This may be true, but hide your capacities, bide your by-elections, are due for Assembly elections by the end longed stay of His Holiness in the hurt China-India relations. there is little doubt about the cent- time”. Buoyed by its military of 2018. The Bharatiya Janata Party, which is sitting Tawang Monastery was, hence, the Oicial démarches were rality of Tawang (the birth place of muscle, and with a defence budget pretty after sweeping the elections in Uttar Pradesh and straw that broke the camel’s back. couched in still more intemperate the sixth Dalai Lama) in China’s of $151.5 billion (2017) which is Uttarakhand earlier this year, did well to best the Aam The mild-mannered Dalai Lama language. Some were in the nature GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO scheme of things for this region. much larger than that of all other Aadmi Party in Delhi, and win a seat each in Rajasthan, spoke with unusual candour dur- of a threat, that the visit would es- the idea of an Integrated National During several rounds of discus- nations with the exception of the Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Assam. The ing his visit to Arunachal Pradesh, calate disputes in the border area, Security Concept, relecting the ex- sions on the Sino-Indian border, U.S., China is no longer willing to seeming to be at times even ob- fuel tensions between the two tent of its prevailing insecurities. my counterpart as the Chinese Spe- remain a status quo power, or play victory in Delhi should be especially satisfying for the liquely critical of China, something countries, impinge on China’s ma- This has introduced certain ‘red- cial Representative for boundary by existing rules governing the in- BJP as AAP leader, and Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal he had previously avoided. All jor concerns and core interests, ter- lines’, that China would never com- talks, Dai Bingguo, made it amply ternational order. India must real- attempted to cast himself in a larger-than-life image, pit- these years, he had displayed re- ritory and sovereignty, and thus promise its legitimate rights and in- clear to me that Tawang was non- ise this, and avoid being caught ting himself directly against Prime Minister Narendra markable restraint, despite con- damage India-China relations. terests, or sacriice its “core negotiable. In 2005, China signed unawares. Modi in his campaigns and public statements. That the stant Chinese provocations. On this Chinese oicial media and the national interests”. On more than an Agreement on the Political Para- AAP candidate lost his deposit is a shocker: the party occasion, his statements should, Chinese Communist Party, in turn, one occasion during the current ex- meters and Guiding Principles for The OBOR outlier had won 67 of Delhi’s 70 seats in the 2015 Assembly therefore, have come as a surprise stepped up pressure on the changes, Chinese Foreign Ministry the Settlement of the India-China As it is, China is constantly seeking to China. Chinese government to take action spokespersons had referred to is- Boundary Question (Dai Bingguo ways to isolate India. It is engaged election. As the AAP seeks to extend its reach and in- against India. The China Daily ob- sues concerning Tibet (and South- and I were the signatories) which in building advantageous power re- crease its clout, it seems to be losing out on its home Choice of words served that “if New Delhi chooses ern Tibet) as having a direct bear- stipulated that areas with settled lations, acquiring bases and turf. More than the victory in Assam, or even in Ra- Nothing that the Dalai Lama said to play dirty… Beijing should not ing on China’s “core interests”. populations would not be afected strengthening ties with countries jasthan and Himachal Pradesh, what will be more grati- during his visit can even be re- hesitate to answer blows with Current China-India exchanges, in any exchange. Even before the across Asia, Africa and beyond. fying for the BJP is the second place inish in West motely viewed as accusatory of blows”. Chinese oicial spokesper- hence, need to be examined from ink was dry, China began to dissim- China’s latest One Belt, One Road Bengal. Its candidate was ahead of both the Left Front China, but the words he employed sons have rounded of this kind of the purview of both international ulate as far as Tawang was con- (OBOR) initiative signiies its new and Congress candidates in Kanthi Dakshin in West — “I’ve long forgiven China’s Com- diatribe by airming that issues relations as well as the domestic cerned, even though Tawang is the outreach, extending from the east- munist Government for occupying concerning Tibet have a bearing on situation prevailing in China. It most ‘Indianised’ place in the en- ern extremity of Asia to Europe — Bengal, an indication that the party could grow in op- Tibet”; we support a ‘One China China’s “core interests”. must not be overlooked that the tire Northeast. All this leaves little the China-Pakistan Economic Cor- position to the ruling Trinamool Congress in the years policy’, “all we want is the right to China’s verbal outbursts on this that Sino-Indian conlict of 1962 oc- scope for compromise with regard ridor represents its most signiicant ahead. That must be truly worrying for the Communist preserve our culture, language and occasion do not conform to type, curred soon after China’s dis- to areas like Tawang. strategic aspect — and has the back- Party of India (Marxist), which had held power in the identity”; “the 1.4 billion Chinese even where they relate to the Dalai astrous Great Leap Forward, in Understanding the way the ing of most countries in the region. State for a record 34 consecutive years until 2011. As the people have every right to know the Lama. For China, a visit by the Dalai which a large number of Chinese Chinese mind works is important. India is an outlier in this respect, 2014 Lok Sabha election showed, the BJP is no longer a reality (of Tibet)”, “once they know Lama to Arunachal Pradesh, in- perished, and the Dalai Lama lee- It tends to be eclectic, contextual and perhaps the only major Asian party of the Hindi belt alone, and is now national in the reality they will be able to cluding a sojourn in the Tawang ing Tibet and taking sanctuary in and relational, leaning towards sys- nation that has not yet endorsed judge”, “until now there has been Monastery, one of the holiest of India. In 1962, Beijing had masked temic content and history. Chinese the concept. If as China anticipates character. only one-sided, wrong informa- Tibetan Buddhism, is no ordinary its intentions skilfully, while India, thinking tends to be convoluted that OBOR has the potential to alter If the BJP has cause to celebrate its position at the top tion” — had the efect of a whiplash matter. As it is, China has certain in the absence of any major overt and its methodology obtuse. the status quo across the region of the heap, the Congress can draw some comfort in and was bound to irk China. What deep-seated concerns about in- action by China, was lulled into a Chinese assertiveness is often with most nations accepting a long- having arrested its slide in Karnataka. The party won should have provoked the Chinese creasing political instability in false sense of complacency. rooted in strategic insecurity and a term commitment to China, India both seats in the State, beating back the challenge from even more is that at one point, re- areas such as Tibet, apart from the We need to ensure that there is perceived sensitivity to domestic could ind itself friendless in Asia the BJP, which was on the comeback trail after the re- acting to Chinese objections to his happenings in Xinjiang as well as no repetition of lack of vigil on our tensions. China constantly launts and beyond. turn of former Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa to its Arunachal Pradesh visit, the Dalai other security problems. The Dalai part. In 1959-60, the Dalai Lama its ‘exceptionalism’ and its ‘unique- Lama said, “I am the messenger of Lama’s visit to Tawang at this time had not quite attained the same in- ness’. Chinese exceptionalism fold. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who was under pres- ancient Indian thoughts and val- could, hence, look like a ternational stature that he cur- tends today to be largely historical M.K. Narayanan is a former National sure from sections within his own party, should get ues. I thank the Government of In- provocation. rently enjoys as the most revered and revivalist. A combination of Security Adviser and a former Governor some additional breathing space till the Assembly elec- dia for the support.” Very recently, China had loated symbol of Tibetan Buddhism. Yet, Mao’s utopianism and Deng Xiaop- of West Bengal tion next year. By retaining one seat in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress has shown it cannot be written of despite having lost three successive elections to the BJP. In- deed, if there is one lesson for all parties in this round of Doctors under siege by-elections, it is that there is still everything to ight for in the Assembly elections, whether they are to be held next year or later. Workplace violence against health-care workers can only be checked in the backdrop of improved infrastructure violence against medical profes- cannot be accessed by the general infrastructure, fewer patients per sionals in India is on the rise. public. Examples of the privileged doctor in line with international It is important to relect on how having access to extremely expens- norms so that care can not only be Cool minds the medical profession — always ive care in the private sector, though given but seen to be given. held in respect in our society — has many of these interventions are Doctors should participate in De-escalation, not deal-making, is needed come to such a sorry pass where usually futile, propagates the idea spreading understanding of science to reduce tensions in the Korean peninsula health-care workers need protec- that modern medicine can salvage and society. At present, the public george thomas & tion from the very people they are even the most critically ill provided often does not understand the ith tensions in the Korean peninsula continu- j. amalorpavanathan meant to take care of. It appears enough money is spent. deeper structural problems under- ing to escalate, Beijing took the rather ex- that these attacks are symptomatic There is also a failure to establish lying the apparent failures of the treme step on Friday of warning that some- here have been numerous me- of a larger malaise, manifested in a and propagate a good understand- doctors. Medical practitioners W general increase in violence as a should help highlight these. thing needs to be done to wind down the U.S.-North dia reports of instances of viol- ing of modern science in India. Such Tence against doctors and method of demonstrating power, understanding would encompass Peoples’ committees in hospitals Korea confrontation, saying the “the storm is about to health-care institutions across In- loss of faith in institutions, anger the knowledge that although medi- will be a welcome step. There must break”. The heightened rhetoric of recent days follows dia. In most cases, the proximate against perceived marginalisation, cine in the modern world has be a constant audit of the working REUTERS Washington’s display of naval power with the despatch cause is the death of a patient. All re- and lack of understanding of sci- greatly improved the chances of hours of medical personnel and the of a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group to the waters of the ports suggest that most of these pa- ence and society. The state has individual attention can be given. At survival in many serious conditions, fatigued doctor should not be left in Korean coast. Though U.S. oicials described the move tients could not have been saved failed to stand irm on the rule of present, most doctors are not ad- there are also many situations in the front line to deal with an emo- law. Civil society has been compli- tionally charged public. Social as merely cautionary, President Donald Trump, who with the infrastructure available in vocates for patients. They play which no intervention will succeed. the institution, yet their deaths have cit. Each group in our fractured so- along with governments unwilling workers in crucial departments has made North Korea a key foreign policy concern of Otherwise, there remains a suspi- been seen as a case of neglect by ciety becomes vocal only when its to spend on health care and accept cion that all was not done to save the such as accident and emergency his administration, used the word “armada” somewhat medical personnel. Doctors have interests are afected. Thus doctors, the prevalent view that providing patient and that much more would wards to handle anxious crowds ominously. For their part, the North Koreans have responded to these attacks with an- pillars of the establishment, have public sector health care is a favour have been done had the patient will certainly reduce the stress of threatened nuclear retaliation in the event of any at- ger and anguish, by striking work, failed to ensure the security of the and not a right. Doctors are seen as paid more for an expensive hospital already overburdened postgradu- tack. In late March, the U.S. had commenced installa- demanding more security and even established society by standing up a part of the power structure. When and doctor. The frustration against ates and house surgeons. tion of the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area De- taking to social media with mes- against violence as a method of set- they are attacked, public support their own position in society is ven- Civil society and the medical sages about how the profession is tling diferences. community must together to defence (THAAD) anti-missile system in South Korea in and empathy is lacking. ted by attacking the doctor and the seen as an easy target. The present health-care system facility. mand better health care for our response to missile tests by the North. The agreement, in India has inequity built in. Pa- A divide population. We cannot falter now. in the works since last year, has already increased re- Growing violence tients can see it. The demand by Also, tremendous technological ad- A way out gional tensions, entangling China as well. Washington Violence against doctors is not new. medical professionals for better pay vances in medicine are not available What can be done? An immediate is seen as selish. It has to be George Thomas is an orthopaedic surgeon and Seoul have emphasised that intercepting the The World Health Organisation to the majority in India. Increasing step is to ensure exemplary action at St. Isabel’s Hospital, Chennai and J. North’s advanced development of inter-continental published guidelines on handling coupled with demands for patient privatisation, corporatisation and against violence as a means of set- Amalorpavanathan is former Director, care such as better access, better fa- ballistic missiles was the real objective behind the new workplace violence in 2002. How- commercialisation of medical care tling issues. More long-term meas- Department of Vascular Surgery, Madras ever, the incidence and intensity of cilities, and more personnel so that have ensured that many procedures Medical College, Chennai system. But apprehensive that its own nuclear infra- ures require vastly improved health structure would be inevitably exposed to snooping by the THAAD radar, Beijing has sought to counter Seoul LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. with trade and tourism boycotts. Mr. Trump’s threat of unilateral action against Py- The decline of AAP that people are losing faith be about Dalits, Christians The tree we love to hate canopy of these trees is a C.S. Karnan, has passed an ongyang in the event that China fails to rein in North Caught between the corrupt in the party. (“BJP extends or for that matter, anyone At last, the axe seems to sight to watch. The tree order directing seven judges Korea may partly echo the mood in Washington after Congress regime and the winning streak in with a diferent point of have fallen on the seemai demonstrates how to brave of the Supreme Court, the recent missile strikes in Syria. If the Chinese govern- purported communal byelections”, April 14). view. There is an attempt to karuvelam (Prosopis and survive the hot sun of including the Chief Justice ment views Pyongyang’s growing nuclear capability intentions of the BJP, the V. Subramanian, inject this poisonous venom julilora), the irewood tree tropical India. There are of India, to appear before Chennai with concern, as it professes to, then it must do much to formation of the Aam of hatred in all of us. It is not that is the woodcutter’s large tracts and forests of him on April 28 at his Aadmi Party provided the a ight for any community favourite in Tamil Nadu, these trees providing cover residence in Kolkata is use its leverage efectively. Merely stressing the need for hapless common man a Rise of vigilantism but about the ight to save now orphaned by a High to an otherwise parched baling (“Karnan directs SC a peaceful resolution to the conlict is not enough. Ja- glimmer of hope. It was The death of a man at the the idea of India. Court diktat and whose land. While we are always judges to appear before pan, Washington’s important regional ally, would view looked upon as a party with hands of “cow vigilantes” in Gaurav Vats, demise is being hastened by good at hasty deforestation, him”, April 14). How can a with no less consternation any potential threat to stabil- a diference and which Rajasthan’s Alwar district is Patna some politicians in Tamil we need to scientiically learned and respected ity in its neighbourhood. American air strikes in Syria upheld ethical values in not an isolated event Nadu who are spearheading assess what the botanical judge function in such a last week have raised very valid concerns about their le- public life, boosted by the (Editorial – “Barbarism ■ The activities of self- a campaign for its worth of this species to the manner? Will it not gitimacy under international law. But they also indicate presence of professionals unlimited”, April 7). It is the proclaimed cow vigilantes eradication (“HC judges Indian subcontinent is and encourage ‘lawlessness’? who were joining politics result of continuous hate are disturbing the social release book on ills of whether we are on the right The President of India that the Trump administration may be shifting politic- after sacriicing their highly propaganda that is being order. The majority of the seemai karuvelam”, April side of nature when we start should intervene ally from a populist-driven isolationism to more con- paid jobs. propagated across the people involved in the trade 14). It is said in our loving to hate it. immediately to remove him ventional interventionism. His latest observations on But power seems to have got country. It is also an attempt related to cattle are Dalits scriptures that no plant life, Pushpa Dorai, to save the prestige of the China point to a shift from open confrontation to a pos- the better of the AAP, which to isolate a particular and Muslims. Vigilantes are including weeds, is Nurani, Kerala judiciary. sible constructive engagement. Notable here, for in- had promised good community in order to using the pretext of bestowed on our planet by G. Chittibabu, stance, is a willingness to eschew the previous rhetoric governance and values. serve the vested interests of protecting cows to attack nature without a purpose. 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That would, however, order to cover up its about development and growing so fast that it is Pradesh, I have seen poor The name of the U.K. aircraft carrier is Prince of Wales and not Prince of Whales as mentioned in the penultimate paragraph of a require a spectacular roll-back by Pyongyang of its cur- misdeeds. You can’t fulil economic growth when we becoming diicult to mothers making cradles report, “Rolls-Royce, DRDO to tie up” (April 14, 2017). rent nuclear capability, which includes long-range mis- the aspirations of people by cannot ensure the security control their actions. It is and swings for their merely indulging in and safety of a citizen? We time their activities are children by tying their old It is the policy of The Hindu to correct signiicant errors as soon as possible. Please specify siles that can reach targets in the Paciic. As well as sus- the edition (place of publication), date and page. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 GROUND ZERO 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The interpretation of a malady The poignant story of an Agra family, where six children have the Nalband mutation. Jacob Koshy reports on how a group of scientists linked it to a rare and crippling neurological disease

t’s been two years since Mohammad Nazir, 44, petitioned the government Ithat six of his children be euthanised. Nazir and his wife Tabassum’s desperate plea to terminate the lives of their children was preceded by 15 agonising years of watching six of their eight children debilitated by a malevolent disease that destroys their neurons and steadily wastes away their muscles. Suleim, 19, a once-frisky four-year- old, has legs that have shrivelled to the size of bamboo reeds and are locked into each other at the ankles. Head bloated at the temples and browning teeth, the muscles that control his jaw and throat are flaccid too, making speech impossible. “He understands everything,” says Tabassum, 36. “Look Suleim, who’s come to see...,” she trails off, interrupted by a wail. That’s Shoeb, his 16-year-old brother. He’s lying on a bed in the courtyard and shares his brother’s shrivelled legs though they aren’t yet locked in. Once propped up, Asim, 14, too can continue sitting against the wall. “He’s the sharpest of all and can recite poetry and verses from the Koran,” says Tabas- sum, with one eye out for Kasif, 11, who appears the most reticent and the only one of the boys with dark eyes unlike his siblings whose eyes are a light brown. The quivering limbs and the seizures — early signals of the onset of megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy, aka the neurological disease — have set in but so far he can stretch his limbs out and ease the weight of his body on his palms. Because none of them can stand and there’s no nurse, it’s Tabassum who must attend to everything from taking them to the toilet, feeding and washing them (full-fledged baths are rare). When Nazir comes home for lunch, he helps them with physiotherapy. “Most days it’s me alone… they are heavy. It’s hard for me to lift them,” says Tabassum, who says she’s never left her house for a social function in more than a decade. Nazir was a daily-wage labourer until three years ago and now manages a sweet shop in Agra’s central bazaar. When he’d written that petition in the summer of 2015 it was, he says, because he had neither hope nor money anymore to spend on doctor visits, physiotherapy, acupuncturists and reli- Deviant gene: “For more than 15 years, Nazir and Tabassum have watched six of their eight children debilitated by a malevolent neurological disease called megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy, which destroys neurons gious offerings. The petition worked, to and wastes away muscles.” The family at their home in Agra. (Below) Researchers at the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology lab in New Delhi where DNA samples are prepared for analysis. * SANDEEP SAXENA the extent that local newspapers carried accounts of the family’s predicament. Earlier visits to hospitals in Agra and has about 100 clinicians spread across ease. One, the gene, MLC-1, where the ted in a child in that country. Were you <> We were appalled. A man one to the All India Institute of Medical 30 centres across the country. In 2015, mutation was discovered, has previ- to ask Tabassum or Nazir if they’ve en- who’s sufering to the extent of Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, confirmed that while still wrapping up his doctoral dis- ously been known to play a role in countered anyone in their extended the children suffered from a “rare dis- sertation, Shamsudheen chanced upon neurodegenerative disease. Second, all family expressing the same symptoms wanting his children dead and ease”, and treatment largely consisted Nazir’s story online and got in touch sick children in Nazir’s, and three oth- as their children, they emphatically we were unable to do anything of muscle relaxants and for controlling with him through the newspaper that ers in his extended family, had exactly deny it. about it. the seizures. “We couldn’t understand wrote about him. Around the same the same mutation. “The odds of it not “But that’s not what the family tree Muhammad Arif our fate. Neither my wife’s siblings nor time, Human Welfare Foundation being responsible were infinitely small,” says,” says Scaria, pointing to a Power- Deputy director, Human Welfare Foundation mine had ever seen anything like this in (HWF), a Delhi-based charity, also says Shamsudheen. The results are in Point slide that shows the genetic rela- our families,” says Nazir. To Tabassum, offered to aid Nazir. “We were ap- the process of being published in a tionships among 82 members of the the reason was simple. “My womb is palled,” says Muhammad Arif, a deputy journal. community who live within half a kilo- describes them, they’ve attended wed- cursed,” she laments. But 200 km away, director at HWF, “a man who’s suffering metre of Nazir’s family. “This is Nazir’s dings, where the chances of meeting in Delhi, a group of geneticists read to the extent of wanting his children Genes and the endogamy trap uncle and it shows that there’s a person several extended members of a clan are about the Nazir family online and real- dead and we were unable to do any- Finding mutations isn’t as important to here with the disease… and here and highest and — away from the view of ised that they were peering into a med- thing about it.” Shamsudheen and Arif the CSIR-IGIB as using this to tackle rare here… three more,” says Shamsudheen, guests — collected blood samples to fer- ical jigsaw puzzle. met and agreed to collaborate in rehab- diseases. A July 2016 Current Science ed- pointing to a flow chart with shaded ret potential mutations. In most cases, ilitating the family and then arranging itorial notes that though precise statist- circles that indicated members of the there are no cures and even the world Decoding the mysterious malady to health. for the logistics and medical expenses at ics of rare disease were absent in India, family with and without the disease and over, pharma companies aren’t in- Unravelling the mysteries of the DNA is Over the years, several projects AIIMS. extrapolating U.K. estimates of 1 in 20 their relationships. “So far we’ve seen centivised to spend billions of research the nucleus of research at the CSIR- In- across the world have sequenced scores That also marked Shamsudheen’s implied that there were 60 million Indi- that 28% of the community are carriers dollars on them because the patients stitute of Genomics and Integrative Bio- of genomes, and geneticists know the two-year tryst with Agra where he ans afflicted with such conditions. Sit- of the disease gene.” are too few and the disease too challen- logy (CSIR-IGIB). Nearly a decade ago, sequence of bases that make up a typ- would tag along with HWF workers and ting in the CSIR-IGIB lab, Sivasubbu Neither Dr. Gulati nor the researchers ging. In other cases, once a genetic resident scientists Sridhar Sivasubbu, ical Caucasian, Indian or Chinese gen- knock on several doors, give crash says, “In our conservative estimate, if at CSIR-IGIB have a plausible explana- mutation is identified, it gives doctors 44, and Vinod Scaria, 36, were part of a ome as well as the stretches of genes courses in genetics and cajole the resid- you can prevent an infant with a rare ge- tion for why Nazir specifically is particu- the confidence to recommend drugs team that first sequenced the entire gen- that make up skin colour, the size of ents of Nazir’s neighbourhood for blood netic disorder from being born [through larly unlucky. To Scaria, it only brings to and medicines that they would other- ome of an Indian. Six years after a con- your head, how many fingers you will samples, from where DNA and the prenatal screening], that’s ₹50-80 lakh fore the role of chance in genetics. That wise not. sortium of European and American sci- have and whether you will be tapestry of genetic relatedness in the saved over a lifetime.” A prenatal Nazir has had several children — all After tracing an errant gene in an- entists had first cracked the blueprint of lactose-intolerant. community could be fleshed out. screening is useful because a child with within two years of each other and not other family, it emerged that adminis- the human genome in 2003, the Indian Genes are unevenly distributed in 46 While DNA resides in slimy cells and two mutated copies of the gene will cer- enough time to be aware of the disease’s tering a course of vitamin E dramatic- genome sequencing project had isol- clusters in the cell called chromosomes. must be extracted by concoctions of tainly manifest the disease, according to progression that begins only after they ally improved patients’ quality of life, ated the DNA of a 52-year-old Jharkhand We inherit half our chromosomes from chemicals, isolating genes is largely Scaria. With at least 25,000 endogam- are toddlers — partially explains the Sivasubbu recounts. To further their man and mapped the same. While the each parent. When a sperm fertilises an about harnessing powerful computers ous communities estimated, the team odds. project, the GUaRDIAN programme — human genome provides the ultimate egg, 22 of 23 chromosome pairs carry and writing efficient algorithms to find has so far worked on 500 families and However it is precisely for situations that’s funded by the Council of Scientific reference point of the location and se- one copy of gene each and chance de- out the common stretches of base pairs hopes to find at least 1,000 within the like this that genetic tests — still a fairly and Industrial Research — aims to have quence of genes that define humans, termines which of them is passed on. that are present in all who carry the dis- next year. exotic proposition and accessible only every medical college in every State the promise of indigenous exercises — While most diseases are caused by ease but are absent in those free of it. Disease, as the GUaRDIAN’s quest to a fraction of Indians who can afford with the capacity to conduct genetic bragging rights apart — is to have a refer- several genes going awry, some are the The winnowing process, that can ex- over the years has revealed, shows that the necessary ₹10,000-20,000 for each screening. “In 2008, the dream of se- ence base of how genes in Indian com- result of a single, aberrant one. When tend over weeks, is a laborious trial- economic liberalisation, migration and such test — can be relevant to India. quencing a genome was if we can we of- munities vary from, say, African, West AIIMS professor and paediatric neurolo- and-error exercise. digitisation have only glacially changed fer personalised genome testing and Asian or Caucasian genes and then gist Sheffali Gulati, who specialises in Eventually, the CSIR-IGIB team found the practices of several thousands of The importance of genetic tests today, given that these technologies are study the extent of these variations in the neurological disorders affecting it. Tucked away on the MLC-1 gene on communities that strictly practise endo- The cost of finding a mutation — in the affordable and a service and discovery these genes to understand diseases. children, saw Nazir’s children, the chromosome 21, the researchers in- gamy. On the other hand, it also shows case of Nazir’s family, the genes of two arm is in place, it seems possible,” says A sequenced genome is like the symptoms appeared to fit a pattern of a formally call it the “Agra” or “Nalband” how several Indian communities — anti- affected children were compared to un- Sivasubbu. innards of your computer made trans- rare class of genetic disorders called mutation. Usually when potential genes podes in religion and cuisine — are fre- affected siblings (here, the oldest son parent. Every cell in the human body leukodystrophies. While there are sev- — that may be out of step from their nor- quently closely connected to Turks, Ira- Khubeb, 21, who assists his father at the Between hope and fate consists of strands of nucleic acid called eral forms, leukodystrophies are mal variants by a single letter or an ex- nians, Saudi Arabians and Egyptians in sweet shop) — including the man-hours Possibility is what Nazir sees today. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), which are marked by the brain gradually losing tra letter — are narrowed down, re- the mutations that they inherit and be- and the logistics would be around After the 11-year-old Kasif, Mohammed chains of four kinds of molecular bricks white matter. White matter helps the searchers must test out these queath. According to Scaria, a report ₹2,00,000, according to Sivasubbu, but has had twins — Teeba and Aban — who or nucleotide bases. These bases form brain’s cerebral cortex — the grey matter combinations of base pairs either in lab- from Iran seemed to suggest that the once a specific mutation is known you are eight years old and both have had exclusive pairs with each other and — communicate with one another and cultivated cells (to see if they indeed “Agra mutation” may have been repor- can offer a diagnostic test that, even seizures and the falls and loss of balance their order determines how proteins are the rest of the body. trigger awry cell growth) or in animal commercially, costs about ₹1,000. Such that mark the inception of the disease. made. The creation and execution of models such as zebrafish. relatively inexpensive tests can be used Even so, they are able to go to school every physiological process is determ- Zeroing in on Nalband mutation In the case of Nazir’s family, there <> My womb is cursed. to look for specific genes in an entire and seem to be much better than their ined by proteins functioning stably. The The Nalband community, all Muslim, to were multiple reasons why the ‘Nalband Tabassum community and then expecting at-risk older siblings were at the same age, ac- genome, as the bases, DNA and other which Nazir belongs, is about 5,000 mutation’ was responsible for the dis- Mother of the children couples can be informed by genetic cording to their father. Because the ge- hereditary molecules are collectively re- strong, and spread across Uttar Pra- counsellors. “You further have the op- netic basis of their disease is apparent, ferred to, consists of around 3.1 billion desh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Pakistan. tion of prenatal testing now, where the they’ve been put on prophylactics to base pairs and 20,000-odd protein-cod- The name literally translates to ‘makers unborn child’s genes can be tested,” he protect against the seizures and im- ing genes. Some changes in the base of horse shoes’ though today, a wide says. prove their muscle tone. “This will im- pair sequence, otherwise called muta- range of professions characterise the The researchers, as part of their in- prove the quality of life but they too will tions, could mean vital proteins are ab- members of the community. One of vestigation, have encountered clusters eventually manifest the conditions,” sent or formed in ways that are harmful Nazir’s siblings is a local politician, an- of villages in Maharashtra where hun- says Shamsudheen, who is a regular vis- other relative who lives nearby is an Un- dreds of people — all bearing the same itor to the family, “and so far there’s no ani doctor. Their father was a carpenter. surname — have a disease that strikes therapy or medicine even in early trials <> In our conservative estimate, if Despite the internal social stratifica- men after 35 and makes them immob- that offers a cure.” you can prevent an infant with tions, the family is fairly endogamous. ile. They’ve had people writing to them And then there’s Ulfath, the youngest a rare genetic disorder from Nazir and Tabassum are first cousins from communities in Gujarat, Andhra and a girl of 6. Like her eldest brother, being born [through prenatal and their siblings are married to each Pradesh where family members speak Khubeb, she carries only a single copy screening], that’s ₹50-80 lakh other too. of diseases — such as flaking skin that of the gene and is therefore free of the Shamsudheen K.V., 29, who works peels off and makes wearing most disease. Khubeb is already betrothed to saved over a lifetime. with Scaria and Sivasubbu at CSIR-IGIB, clothes impossible or skins that re- his cousin, in line with practices of his Sridhar Sivasubbu is the institute’s point man for GUaRD- semble the scales of a fish — that have family. The bride-to-be, says Shamsud- Resident scientist at the CSIR- Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology IAN (Genomics for Understanding Rare been plaguing them for generations. As heen, is a carrier. To be sick or healthy, Diseases India Alliance Network), which part of their “odysseys”, as Sivasubbu says Nazir, is “the will of Allah”. 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FROM PAGE ONE INTERVIEW | SUDEEP LAKHTAKIA J&K DGP praises CRPF India seeks consular ‘CRPF jawans play down provocations’ restraint access to Jadhav The reception is not hostile everywhere in Kashmir; at many places people are grateful, says the DG Press Trust of India Srinagar “More active diplomacy is with provisions of the law of Vijaita Singh appears to be more challen- a couple of major operations Jammu and Kashmir DGP therefore needed to arrest the land. New Delhi ging for us. Sloganeering is against militants, there is lot S.P. Vaid on Friday lauded the growing crises in India- Mr. Aziz said the proceed- With 47,000 personnel, the Central Reserve Police Force not an issue for us but the of talk of violence in the air. the restraint shown by Pakistan relations before it ings of this case went (CRPF) is the largest Central force currently deployed in mob is damaging govern- That is the thing on every- CRPF jawans who were becomes even more seri- through different stages Jammu and Kashmir. Largescale violence has erupted in the ment property, stalling one’s mind. But we are pre- heckled by some youth in ous,” said Mr. Aziz. over a period of one year. Kashmir Valley since Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Burhan democratic election process, paring for the tourist season. Budgam on Sunday during He said Mr. Jadhav was ar- Mr. Jadhav’s confessional Wani was killed in an encounter with security forces on July 8, indulging in sabotage and as- the Srinagar parliamentary rested on March 3, 2016 video statement was taken 2016. The Home Ministry has said that 88 Kashmiri youths saulting policemen. There was a proposal by byelections, saying “any when he was operating un- on March 25, 2016, the ini- joined militancy in 2016 and 87 security force personnel were the CRPF to buy more armed force in the world der a pseudonym Mubarak tial FIR was registered in killed in the State in 2016, the highest in eight years. The act- How many CRPF pellet guns? would have retaliated with Patel. Quetta, Balochistan, on ing DG of CRPF, Sudeep Lakhtakia, talks to The Hindu on personnel have been force”. “Kulbhushan Jadhav was April 8 and initial interroga- the current situation in the Valley. injured? Not just pellet guns, we are On Thursday, police re- found in possession of a tion was conducted on May procuring more of law and gistered an FIR on a com- passport issued by the Gov- 2. Detailed interrogation Has the Centre given any ive mob, which is out there <> If the jawans are Since July 8, 2016 after order equipments, body plaint filed by the CRPF ernment of India on May 12, was held on May 22 and a instructions on how to to lynch. ired upon, one Burhan Wani was killed, gears, more vehicles, bullet- over a video clip showing 2015 and valid until May 11, joint investigation team was handle the situation in cannot expect them more than 3500 personnel proof jackets and helmets. some youth beating its 2024. Jadhav confessed that set up on July 12, he jawans. Kashmir? Do you have instructions to use lathis have been injured and also There are 47 battalions he is a resident of Mumbai, explained. to open fire at protesters? one of our commandants – (47,000) of CRPF personnel “We have registered an India, still serving in the In- Mr. Aziz said all state- The instructions are the at many places people are Pramod Kumar was killed. deployed in Kashmir now. FIR in police station Cha- dian Navy and his retire- ments of witnesses were re- same as before. We are hand- The situation will be dealt grateful. There are a handful There was an attack on a doora against the ruffians ment is due in 2022.” corded under oath and in ling it with a lot of patience with on how it shapes out on of dedicated mischievous CRPF convoy in Pampore There was a plan to who heckled the CRPF per- According to Mr. Aziz, Mr. the presence of the accused. and restraint. We have asked the ground. We can negotiate elements, perhaps paid or and another on a CRPF elec- modify pellet guns to sonnel. They will be dealt Jadhav was tried by Field India has rejected the es- jawans to face the chal- accordingly. Either by using whatever. tion party. Five are still contain the damage? with as per law,” Mr. Vaid General Court Martial under pionage charges levelled lenges, play down the pro- tear-smoke shells, if the pro- hospitalised. told PTI. section 59 of the Pakistan against Mr. Jadhav and said vocations and avoid collat- testers go away it’s fine, if Have you identified such We are getting deflectors. “I admire the patience of Army Act 1952 and Section 3 that if the death sentence is eral damage. At the same they don’t, then we calibrate people? Are all protesters paid? The idea is that bullets don’t the CRPF personnel ... any of Official Secret Act of 1923 carried out, New Delhi time be very effective. the response whether to fire spray on the vital parts. It is armed force in the world and he was provided with a would consider it as a pre- pellet guns or live ammuni- In the recent case, where a That’s for the local police to to contain damage and it’s would have retaliated with legal counsel in accordance meditated murder. Anything specific on tion. video surfaced of CRPF answer. We are dealing with being procured. It is not force. It would have led to using weapons at the jawans on election duty in the situation, what is behind available off the shelf. Fifty death of those ruffians,” protesters? Is your force reaching out Budgam, being kicked, the situation is the charter of pieces are on the way. Mr. Vaid said. to the people, especially punched and abused, we the State police. The DGP said an FIR has Army uses civilian as There is a graded response to after the situation identified 10 people who The other challenges? also been lodged following deal with law and order. The deteriorated with Hizb were involved in the act. There has been massive another video showing a challenge is that it escalates terrorist Burhan Wani Three suspects are being in- resurgence of violence Every counter-insurgency security force personnel shield, sparks outrage fast. One will know when the being killed in an terrogated and the State po- since Burhan Wani was operation has become com- shooting directly in the situation has aggravated to a encounter last year? lice are looking out for oth- killed. What does your plex. There are two elements head of a stone-pelting Mr. Dar is said to have told video on Twitter, said, "This volatile one. We have had ers. An FIR is also registered. assessment say? — one is to contain the terror- protestor outside a polling investigators that he had video requires an urgent in- situations when people have We have various schemes un- ist holed up in a building or station in same area. gone to cast his vote and quiry and follow-up. I un- thrown grenades, Molotov der the civic action pro- Which is more difficult to We are bracing up and pre- anywhere else and the other “A case has been re- thereafter was on his way to derstand the outrage the cocktails and even fired at gramme, where we are handle? North or South paring ourselves. I cannot is to control the crowds who gistered in connection with his sister’s house, where a CRPF video (showing pro- us. If the jawans are fired reaching out to the people. Kashmir? gauge whether the violence are pelting stones at us. So that incident also. It is a bereavement had taken testers heckling a jawan) upon, one cannot expect We are organising trips for will be more or less this year. we have to handle law and matter of investigation and place. On his way to his sis- generated. I'm also outraged them to use lathis. It quickly school children and building Challenges are there in both We hope it’s better. Because order as well as participate in action will be taken against ter’s village, he was caught that the video of the youth escalates from a usual incid- infrastructure. Everywhere the areas and they vary from of elections in Srinagar con- counter-insurgency opera- whoever is found guilty,” by Army personnel who on the Jeep won't generate ent of violence to an aggress- the reception is not hostile; day to day. South Kashmir stituency, the viral video and tions. It is not unidirectional. Mr. Vaid said. wanted to enter Beerwah the same anger…. ,” wrote village along with the Mr. Abdullah. polling staff, the officials As internet services were said. restored after a five-day He was then tied to the blackout on Thursday, an- BJP begins campaign to conquer Odisha Army Jeep as the security other video from Budgam convoy moved into the vil- showed a teenage protester lage along with jawans and shot in the head during National executive meeting in Bhubaneswar is part of strategy to expand its footprint after success in local body elections some polling staff, they said. clashes. Mr. Dar told officials he was “There is no huge crowd Nistula Hebbar not only participated in the Khond tribe, Bhima Bhoi released after he was trying to storm an election Bhubaneswar Odia new year celebrations challenged the authority of paraded in 10 to 12 villages. booth nor do these young The senior leadership of the in the State unit headquar- caste hierarchy and is However, sources in the boys carry guns, see video BJP, including Prime Minister ters but also met with booth revered in the State. army, which has promised carefully. CRPF could have Narendra Modi, buoyed by level workers to give them a an enquiry, claimed that he chased away the handful of recent successes in the local pep talk. Leveraging history was picked up from a boys. But without any warn- body polls held in Odisha, More significant are two The second reference to Odia “trouble spot” and was tied ing, 17-year-old Aqeel are gathering at the State references to Odisha’s polit- history is the felicitation of 16 up for barely 100 metres, Ahmad Wani of Chur Capital for the party’s na- ical and cultural history that families, considered des- before being released. Mujroo village has been shot tional executive to be held have been made at events re- cendants of those who in the head at the polling over the weekend. lated to the national execut- fought in the Paika rebellion Omar furious station in Govt High School A series of events and ive — an attempt by the BJP to of 1817 against the British Former chief minister and in Atina Beerwah district of symbolic gestures have been co-opt the tribal versus East India company, by National Conference (NC) Budgam,” said RTI activist planned by the party to help coastal Odisha nuance of Prime Minister Modi in the working president Omar Ab- Raja Muzaffar Bhat. politically and culturally State politics and an effort to Odisha Raj Bhawan on dullah, who shared the (With inputs from PTI) identify the BJP — for long overcome caste categories. Sunday. dismissed as a north Indian The main sabhagraha or “We intend to work upon party — as the main con- hall where the national exec- our strong showing in the tender against the 17-year utive meeting will take place local body polls to issue a 60,000 persons now rule of the Biju Janata Dal’s from Saturday evening on- serious challenge to the Naveen Patnaik government. wards has been named after Naveen Patnaik govern- Even before Mr. Modi’s ar- Bhima Bhoi, termed the ment,” said Union Petroleum under I-T scanner rival in Bhubaneswar on Sat- poet-prophet of the Mahima Minister Dharmendra Pra- New role model: BJP national president Amit Shah pays tributes to Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in urday, party chief Amit Shah Dharma. Belonging to the dhan. Bhubaneswar on Friday, on the eve of BJP’s national executive meeting. * BISWARANJAN ROUT Persons who have under- brought to tax, the state- taken high value purchases; ment said. persons who have used shell Post demonetisation, entities for layering of over 2,362 search, seizure funds; and where no re- and survey actions have Mayawati’s brother gets It’s not easy to resolve sponses were received will been conducted by the ITD also be considered as high during November 9, 2016 to risk, the statement said. February 28, 2017, leading Kashmir issue: Parrikar Among the stated object- to seizure of valuables ‘conditional’ promotion ives of demonetisation was worth more than ₹818 crore, ‘elimination of Black which includes cash of ₹622 ‘There should be minimal discussions on sensitive issues’ Money’. The opportunities crore, and detection of un- Anand Kumar made BSP vice-president, but can’t ight polls created by demonetisation disclosed income of over Special Correspondent happen instead. Discussions customed to New Delhi and is being used by the Income ₹9,334 crore. More than 400 Omar Rashid joining hands with” other Panaji can be spoilers. The media there was “a lot of pressure” Tax Department (ITD) for cases have been referred by LUCKNOW anti-BJP parties in her The Goa Chief Minister and asked me about some issues on him there. widening and deepening of ITD to the Enforcement Dir- In a significant decision, in- “struggle” against the issue former Defence Minister, today morning. I asked the tax base and creating ectorate and the CBI. dicating the possible line of of alleged EVM tampering, Manohar Parrikar, on Friday them: do you want this thing ‘Shivaji is my guru’ deterrence, not seen before, succession in the Bahujan and the BJP in order to “save said the “Kashmir issue” is to happen, or do you want it Mr. Parrikar also said Chhat- and to curb generation of Tax collection up Samaj Party (BSP), supremo democracy in the country”. not easy to resolve and ad- to become news?” rapati Shivaji Maharaj is his black money. This has resulted in a 21.7 % Mayawati on Friday declared Ms. Mayawati said her vocated a “long-term policy” political guru. However, he The complete exercise of increase in the returns of in- her brother Anand Kumar as brother would work for the for it. Multiple opinions said worshipping icons is examining all the doubtful come received in FY 2016-17, the vice-president of the party organisation in a “self- Mr. Parrikar was speaking Open discussions, according not enough. and non-tax compliant ac- 16% growth in gross collec- party on condition that he less” manner. Mr. Kumar is a at a State government-organ- to Mr. Parrikar, bring mul- “I imbibe [Shivaji’s] qual- counts may take more than tion (the highest in the last would dedicate himself to low-profile businessman ised function on Dr. B.R. tiple opinions to the fore ities only as much as I can. I one year but with the help five years) and 14% growth the organisation and never based in Delhi, and is known Ambedkar’s 126th birth an- and may become a have to learn from his qualit- of technology and continu- in net collection (the highest contest polls or hold office of Anand Kumar to handle the BSP’s finances. niversary on Friday. hindrance in decision-mak- ies. There is no point merely ous enforcement action all in last three years), the power. On the radar of the En- ing: “If you want something worshipping.” the liable accounts will be statement said. In a departure from her here on the birth an- forcement Directorate (ED) Sensitive issues to happen, don’t discuss it He added, “It is important earlier strategy, Ms. May- niversary of B. R. Ambedkar. and the Income Tax (IT) De- He also said discussions on too much in the news. When to imbibe at least some of awati also expressed her In her address at the partment over his allegedly sensitive issues should be there is a discussion, one [Dr. B.R.] Ambedkar’s qualit- openness to join hands with sprawling Ambedkar Park, meteoric rise in fortune, the minimal. “There are some person says one thing, while ies. We cannot imbibe Reform in science anti-Bharatiya Janata Party Ms. Mayawati stressed she latter reportedly raided mul- things on which discussions someone else says some- everything. If you did, you (BJP) parties. Ms. Mayawati no longer had any reserva- tiple locations linked to his should be minimal. These thing else.” would become Babasaheb set-up sought made the announcements tions in “taking help of or business last week. things need to be made to He also said he wasn’t ac- [Ambedkar] yourself.”

“…While Financial Advisers Knowledge), as it is tentat- report to Secretaries of De- ively called, will be a partments, in practice a “nimble, empowered board Health crisis looms as cow skinners threaten to quit structure of dual authority and a quality staff.” has effectively emerged, The proposal was part of despite all good intentions- the report jointly prepared Those who lift dead cattle in Meerut don’t want to renew contract owing to growing attacks by vigilantes, dwindling proit …many very important de- by the heads of all of India’s cisions are in suspended an- scientific departments in- Mohammad Ali hide to the leather industry, dead animal, including cows, It hasn’t helped their group of skinners. “In the become an “unprofitable imation and a simple cluding Atomic Energy, Meerut they are left with no incentive in Meerut. It requires them to cause that the mayor of financial year 2015-16, the business”. solution would be to put a Space, Earth Sciences, Sci- Meerut, a major town of west- to lift the animal, let alone dispose of the carcasses in a Meerut, Harikant three cooperatives of an- “If the cow vigilantes do timeline on decision-mak- ence and Technology and ern Uttar Pradesh, seems risk to their lives to do so. place that has been allotted Ahluwalia, has publicly ex- imal skinners who cover en- not like what we do, then ing,” the report emphasised Biotechnology. While they headed for an environmental Ovindra Pal, 51, a cattle for it by the Meerut Municipal pressed his support to the tire Meerut city paid a total the civic body needs to in a section called ‘Ease of submitted this to the Prime and public health nightmare skinner who heads one of the Corporation (MMC). cow vigilante groups. Mr. of ₹11 lakh to the MMC for change the law. Our work is Doing Science.’ Financial Minister in January, the de- as a large number of animal co-operative societies that lift “We have never been so Ahluwalia, who is also a their contract, whose offi- legitimised by the UP Co-Co- Advisers are officers tails of it haven’t yet been skinners have threatened to dead cattle in Meerut, said scared of the cow vigilantes senior BJP leader, told The cial value was ₹8 lakh. The operative Societies Act deputed from the Union made public. The report stop lifting dead animals from that his team of animal skin- as we are these days, under Hindu that he would ask “of- only point of attraction in 1965,” said Sanjay, another Finance Ministry. laid out a broad map on next month if the attacks on ners was attacked three times the Yogi Adityanath govern- ficials to take strict action if this work was the skin of cow skinner. To realise India’s sci- how India ought to prepare them by cow vigilantes do not in the last one week. ment,” said Mr Pal. someone skins a dead cow.” dead cows, which is in great Most of the senior offi- entific ambitions, the sci- itself to be among the top stop immediately. Mr. Pal and his group of Mr. Pal said that cow vi- demand. The skin sells for cials of the MMC, where the ence-heads proposed a new three countries in science While threat to life is one Authorised job cow skinners operating in gilantes had warned him ₹2,000-3,000, while bones BJP is in power, expressed authority reporting to the and technology by 2030 and issue, the other is the monet- The job of skinning dead an- Meerut have decided not to many times to stop skinning fetch ₹300.” Mr. Pal said. apprehension about an en- Prime Minister. SPARK (Sus- ensure that 10% of the top ary impact of a de facto ban imals is authorised by muni- renew their government con- dead cows, and simply bury But of late, with the cow vironmental crisis awaiting tainable Progress through 100 leaders in scientific on skinning. If they cannot cipal laws, which mandate tract for lifting dead animals them instead. But that is not vigilantes not letting him do the city if the skinners stop Application of Research and fields are Indians. skin a dead cow and sell its animal skinners to lift every once it expires in April. acceptable to Pal and his his job, it has increasingly lifting dead animals. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF India’s interests will be Rajnath rejects Pak. Judicial opinion on personal protected: V.K. Singh claim on trial

‘Necessary to safeguard our nationals’ Press Trust of India laws needs review: Jaitley Kolkata Kieran Lobo Home Minister Rajnath Fire breaks out in forest MUMBAI Singh on Friday refuted Stand comes at a time when SC is to hear pleas against triple talaq and polygamy near Mount Abu Minister of State for Ex- Pakistan’s claim of a fair JAIPUR ternal Affairs General V. K. trial being given to retired Legal Correspondent by personal laws in meeting A fire broke out in the forest Singh on Monday said that Navy officer Kulbhushan NEW DELHI constitutional standards. area near Mount Abu in India would ensure the in- Jadhav and said all efforts Finance Minister Arun Jaitley The Bombay High Court Rajasthan on Friday. An terests as well as lives of its were being made to secure on Friday expressed hope in State of Bombay versus Indian Air Force helicopter citizens were protected any- justice for the Indian that the vintage judicial view Narasu Appa Mali had held was deployed to put out the where in the world. national. that personal laws need not that personal law is not ‘law’ blaze, which spread over Speaking to journalists on “I do not agree with conform to Constitutional under Article 13. However, in several kilometres, Collector the sidelines of a seminar on what Pakistan has said. rights would be reviewed in Ahmedabad Women Action Abhimanyu Kumar said. PTI investment opportunities in Kulbhushan Jadhav did not the near future. Group versus Union of India, the Democratic Republic of V. K. Singh get a fair trial,” he told a “In fact, a very surprising the Supreme Court was Ex-J&K Governor Girish Congo held in Mumbai, Gen- press meet here. judicial opinion at that time asked to consider if unilat- Saxena passes away eral Singh said the nation cently awarded the death “All efforts are being — and that’s a judicial opin- eral divorce by talaq and was quite clear on its stand sentence by a Pakistani mil- made to secure justice for ion that still holds up. Hope- polygamy were violative of New Delhi that the allegations against itary court on charges of al- Jadhav. We will do fully, it is reviewed in near Articles 14 and 15. The court Former Jammu and Kashmir former Naval officer Kulb- leged espionage and sabot- everything,” he added. future. When all laws must Beyond barriers: Arun Jaitley with Icon award recipient and rejected the claim, saying it Governor Girish Chandra hushan Jadhav were age activities. India has Pakistan, earlier in the confine to the Constitutional Bollywood director Farah Khan in New Delhi on Friday. * PTI was for the legislature to de- Saxena, whose tenure saw a baseless. demanded from Pakistan a day, said the death sen- rights themselves, personal termine. However, in significant decline of certified copy of the charge- tence to Mr. Jadhav was laws need not. Because they fundamental rights) of the this Article is subject to fun- December 2016, the Alla- militancy in the Valley, died ‘Can’t be clearer’ sheet as well as the judge- based on “credible” and were not laws for that pur- Constitution. damental rights, especially habad High Court had ob- here on Friday morning after “Pakistan’s thinking that he ment in Mr. Jadhav’s death “specific” evidence that pose, so they were ex- If the Supreme Court the right to life and freedom served in a case that triple a brief illness. He was 90. PTI is a spy is false. No spy ever sentence, and also sought proved his involvement in cluded,” Mr. Jaitley said at a agrees that personal laws are of speech and expression. talaq was “cruel” and judi- goes around with his pass- consular access to him. spying and terror activities FICCI Ladies Organisation to be included in the defini- The Centre has argued in cial conscience was New panel to probe port. India has very clearly and that a more active dip- (FLO) event. tion of laws under Article 13, its latest written submissions “disturbed.” Punjab sacrilege cases said we would treat his exe- On U.S. bombing lomacy was needed to ar- Mr. Jaitley expressed his the door would be opened that polygamy and triple CHANDIGARH cution as an act of premedit- Referring to the U.S. bomb- rest the “growing crises” in opinion at a time when a wide for an aggrieved person talaq are not religious prac- Lagging behind Rejecting as “inconclusive” ated murder. We cannot be ing on an Islamic State (IS) Indo-Pakistan ties. Constitution Bench of the to challenge in court a partic- tices but social norms and Conceding that India was the report of the Zora Singh any clearer than this,” the complex in Afghanistan, Pakistan Prime Minister’s Supreme Court is scheduled ular personal law of a reli- customs which can be inter- still lagging behind on issues Commission, the Punjab former Army chief said. “In- General Singh said, “They Adviser on Foreign Affairs to hear a batch of petitions gion as violative of the fun- vened on by the State if they of gender parity, Mr. Jaitley government on Friday dia wants to protect him [the US] have taken action Sartaj Aziz said due pro- challenging whether per- damental rights. In case the are found to be violative of said the country’s current constituted a fresh and we will take all actions against a terrorist organisa- cess of law was followed in sonal law practices like triple challenge succeeds in court, constitutional rights. willingness to embrace re- Commission of Inquiry, that are necessary to safe- tion, which they have the trial of the 46-year-old talaq and polygamy violate the personal law, to the ex- The batch of petitions in- forms and change mindsets headed by Justice (retd) guard our nationals any- already been doing. The Jadhav. the constitutional rights of tent of its inconsistency, cludes a suo motu PIL insti- offers an opportunity to cor- Ranjit Singh, to investigate where in the world.” fight against terrorism is a (With inputs from Muslim women. shall become void. tuted by the Supreme Court rect the picture in the com- cases of sacrilege. PTI Mr. Jadhav, 46, was re- fight for all of us.” Shiv Sahay Singh) itself on whether personal ing years. Article 13 Freedom of religion law practices like triple talaq “In a society, which con- The Centre has in that case The Centre has also asked (talaq-e-bidat), niqah halala ventionally was loaded CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC sought the court to re-open the Supreme Court to de- and polygamy violate dignity against [gender] parity and the debate as to whether termine whether the triple of Muslim women and pro- equality, there has been a Corridors of power personal laws can be talaq, nikah halala and poly- mote gender bias. conscious attempt to cover brought under the ambit of gamy are protected under The courts have in past up the lags which we must Article 13 (laws inconsistent the freedom of religion un- made discordant notes honestly confess still exist,” with or in derogation of the der Article 25, and whether about the immunity enjoyed Mr. Jaitley said. Missing Kerala youth Keep out non-serious who ‘joined IS’ killed parties: MPs’ panel ‘He died in drone attack in Afghanistan’ EC has delisted 255 entities

Press Trust of India did not come from the usual Press Trust of India fied various parties which Kasargod source...I could not get New Delhi have not contested polls Another missing youth from more details,” Mr. Rahiman There is a need to keep non- since 2005 and has ‘delis- Kerala, suspected to have said on Friday over phone. serious parties out of the ted’ 255 of them. joined the Islamic State political system, and to en- The poll panel believes group, has reportedly been 21 went missing sure they do not misuse fa- that most of them exist on killed in a drone strike in Murshid was among the 21 cilities like tax exemption. paper to help people con- Afghanistan. persons from Kerala who re- Their registration should be vert their back money into Murshid Muhammed, a portedly went missing after regulated by law, a parlia- white by accepting native of Padna in Kasargod, travelling to the West Asia mentary panel has said. donations. was killed in a drone attack last year and were suspec- The recommendation of in Nangarhar province in ted to have joined the ter- the committee comes days No power to de-register Afghanistan, said Abdur rorist organisation in Syria. after the Election Commis- While the poll watchdog has Rahiman, an Indian Union But police did not confirm sion wrote to the Income- the mandate to register a Muslim League (IUML) the news saying, “We have Tax department asking it to political party, it lacks leader in Padna. Mr. Rahi- no information about it.” look into the finances of 255 power under electoral laws man said he received the Two months ago, another political parties it has ‘delis- to deregister one. message on Thursday on so- youth, T. K. Hafeesudeen ted’ for not contesting There are over 1,780 re- cial media app, Telegram. (24), also from Padna, was elections. gistered, but unrecognised “The exact date could not killed in a drone attack in The Commission has, political parties in the Follow the leader: A group of villagers on a visit to the national capital walk along Rajpath on Friday. * PTI be known yet...The message Afghanistan. over a period of time, identi- country. Menon wanted Nehru to destroy Pakistan, claims former diplomat Jamsheed Marker terms the former Defence Minister ‘the chief Rasputin’

Kallol Bhattacherjee “India would have attacked NEW DELHI Pakistan, if Krishna Menon would One of Pakistan’s celebrated diplo- have been successful in bringing mats has claimed that Prime Minis- around Nehru,” he said and added, ter Jawaharlal Nehru under the in- “I mean he [Menon] was com- fluence of Defence Minister V.K. pletely Nehru’s man and a rare, evil Krishna Menon would have des- genius and a Rasputin. There were troyed Pakistan. Jamsheed Marker, many Indian Rasputins but he was Pakistan’s longest serving ambas- the chief Rasputin.” sador, described Menon as an “evil Mr. Marker, who belongs to a genius” and said that India planned Parsi family of Quetta entered dip- to demolish Pakistan during the lomacy during the Ayub Khan era Nehru-era. and then served under General Jamsheed Marker Yahya Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ‘Every attempt was made’ General Zia-ul-Haq, and Benazir “The threat was real. The Indians sador of Pakistan between 1965 to Bhutto. His notable assignments made it quite clear that they were 1995 and set a world record. were during the Zia years when he out to break Pakistan in one way or In the interview given to the Her- served as Pakistan’s envoy to Bonn, the other, by hook or by crook. ald of Pakistan, Mr. Marker indic- Paris, Washington DC where his Every attempt was made to demol- ated that the real anti-Pakistan support was significant in ensuring ish and destroy Pakistan,” said Mr. force in the Nehruvian Cabinet was the war against the Soviet Union in Marker, 94, who served as ambas- the Defence Minister. occupied Afghanistan of the 1980s. Follow U.S. action on IS: Togadia

Press Trust of India were returning from election duty pave the way for the construction Jamshedpur in the Valley. of a grand Ram Mandir in Ayod- The Vishwa Hindu Parishad on Fri- When asked about a Pakistani hya,” Mr. Togadia, who was here to day asked the Central government court passing death sentence on participate in some programmes, to follow the example of U.S. bomb- Kulbushan Jadhav on spying said. ing of Islamic State targets in Afgh- charges, Mr. Togadia said, “We Asked about the Supreme anistan to tackle jihadis in the should not hold any talk with Court’s offer to meditate in the Kashmir Valley and elsewhere in Pakistan, discontinue all trade and Ramjanambhoomi-Babri Masjid the country. withdraw the “Most Favoured Na- dispute between the aggrieved “It has sent a clear message to tion” status to it. parties, Mr. Togadia said the ques- terrorists,” VHP’s International tion of mutual agreement arose Working President Pravin Togadia On Ram temple only when the aggrieved parties told a press conference here. He, The VHP also expressed confid- agreed to the proposal. however, said he was sure Pakistan ence that a grand Ram temple was not going to mend its ways and would be built at the birthplace of Law on cow slaughter ban would continue to promote cross- Lord Ram in Ayodhya. The VHP also demanded a na- border terrorism. Mr. Togadia said the temple tional-level law to ban cow Mr. Togadia alleged that the pro- would come up with the help of slaughter, saying failure of the gov- Pakistan forces had recently in- “3Ps” — support of the people, Par- ernment to frame such a law gave dulged in insulting, abusing and as- liament and the Prime Minister. rise to “ugly” incidents involving saulting Army personnel while they “These 3Ps will bring a law to cow vigilantes. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 WORLD SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Resolve North Korea issue before it is too late: China There are fears that Pyongyang may conduct sixth nuclear weapons test today

Reuters Agence France-Presse WikiLeaks is a hostile agency, says CIA chief BEIJING/PYONGYANG WASHINGTON China said on Friday tension In his irst public address as over North Korea had to be CIA Director, Mike Pompeo stopped from reaching an termed whistle-blower “irreversible and unmanage- collective WikiLeaks, whose able stage” as a U.S. aircraft leaking of classiied carrier group steamed to- documents have wards the region amid fears embarrassed the U.S., a the North may conduct a “non-state hostile sixth nuclear weapons test intelligence” agency, which is on Saturday, the 105th an- often helped by Russia. PTI niversary of the birth of state founder Kim Il-sung. Two die after garbage Concern has grown since dump collapses the U.S. Navy fired 59 Toma- COLOMBO hawk missiles at a Syrian air- At least two people were field last week in response to killed and 10 others injured a deadly gas attack, raising here on Friday after a massive questions about U.S. Presid- rubbish dump buried an ent Donald Trump’s plans estimated 40 homes during for North Korea, which has the traditional new year. conducted missile and nuc- A 12-year-old boy and a lear tests in defiance of UN Tense moments: People arrive to pay respects at the statues of North Korea founder 15-year-old girl died at the and unilateral sanctions. Kim Il-sung and late leader Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang on Friday. * REUTERS Colombo National hospital, The United States has where 10 others are at warned that a policy of “stra- lear strategic assets” to the present being treated. AFP tegic patience” is over. U.S. region as the USS Carl Vinson Vice-President Mike Pence strike group with a flag-ship Air China cancels some Kremlin blasts Eurovision will travel to South Korea on nuclear-powered aircraft car- for dropping Russia Sunday on a long-planned rier steamed closer, and said lights to Pyongyang MOSCOW 10-day trip to Asia. it stood ready to strike back. Moscow on Friday denounced China, North Korea’s sole “The Trump administra- Reuters communications team, the decision by Eurovision major ally and neighbour tion, which made a surprise Beijing adding that subsequent Song Contest organisers to which nevertheless opposes guided cruise-missile strike China’s national airline, flights would be scheduled drop Russia from this year’s its weapons programme, has on Syria on April 6, has Air China, has cancelled according to ticket sales. contest, following a row with called for talks leading to the entered the path of open some flights to the North hosts Ukraine. Russia was denuclearisation of the threat and blackmail,” the Korean capital, Regular cancellations incensed with Ukraine for Korean peninsula. “One has North’s KCNA news agency Pyongyang, due to poor Air China’s flights, which banning its contestant, Yulia the feeling that a conflict quoted the military as say- demand but it has not operate on Monday, Samoilova, from entering the could break out at any mo- ing. “The army and people suspended all flights Wednesday and Friday, country because of a concert ment. We call on all parties of the DPRK will as ever there, it said on Friday, began in 2008 but have she gave in Crimea. AFP to refrain from provoking courageously counter those denying a report by frequently been cancelled and threatening each other, who encroach upon the dig- Chinese state broadcaster due to unspecified Spain saves 73 migrants whether in words or actions, nity and sovereignty of the CCTV. problems, CCTV reported. crossing over from Africa and not let the situation get DPRK and will always merci- CCTV had reported that China is North Korea’s sole BARCELONA to an irreversible and un- lessly ravage all provocative all flights run by the airline major ally but it In the past 24 hours, Spanish manageable stage,” Chinese options of the U.S. with between the two cities disapproves of the North’s rescue ships saved 73 Foreign Minister Wang Yi Korean-style toughest were to be suspended weapons programmes. migrants, including one told reporters in Beijing. counteraction.” indefinitely. “Air China did Following repeated pregnant woman, from five “If a war occurs, the result Japan’s Nikkei daily, mean- not stop operation of the missile tests that drew different smuggling boats is a situation in which every- while, said the government Beijing to Pyongyang international criticism, trying to cross the sea from body loses and there can be had discussed how to rescue route, but temporarily China banned all imports Africa to Europe. Four of the no winner,” he added. an estimated 57,000 Japan- cancelled some flights of North Korean coal on boats, carrying migrants who ese citizens in South Korea based on the situation of February 26, cutting off are reportedly from Algeria, ‘Ready to strike back’ as well as how to cope with a ticket sales,” said a person the country's most were intercepted in the North Korea denounced the possible flood of North in Air China’s important export product. Mediterranean Sea. AP U.S. for bringing “huge nuc- Korean refugees.

Indian-origin Trump should confront Pak.: ex-envoy doctor held Says the mother of all problems in Afghanistan is terror sanctuaries in Pakistan for genital Varghese K. George and being successful will Mr. Khalilzad said the final Washington mutilation make us stronger. The IS is solution can only be polit- Close on the heels of the U.S. being defeated in Syria and ical, but the duplicity of Press Trust of India dropping its most lethal non- Iraq and they are trying to Pakistan was the key New York nuclear bomb on an Islamic move to Afghanistan,” the obstacle to a political settle- A 44-year-old Indian-origin State target in Afghanistan, a diplomat said, rejecting a ment then. Recalling that the woman doctor has been ar- former U.S. diplomat urged suggestion that America U.S. had a golden opportun- rested and charged with the Donald Trump adminis- could leave Afghanistan to ity in Afghanistan immedi- performing genital mutila- tration to consider hitting resolve its problems by itself. ately after the overthrow of tion on girls aged 6 to 8, be- terrorist sanctuaries inside the Taliban regime, the lieved to be the first such in Pakistan. Zalmay Khalilzad, Zalmay Khalilzad America’s blunder former ambassador recalled the U.S. a former U.S. ambassador to Speaking at another event in a meeting with Mr. Mushar- Jumana Nagarwala has Afghanistan and Iraq, said view of the U.S. policy on the city, Pakistan’s former raf. “Once I went to talk to been charged with per- the single most important Afghanistan, National Secur- military ruler Pervez Mush- him and he flatly told me forming female genital mu- factor of instability in Afgh- ity Adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. Mc- arraf said the U.S. committed that there is no Taliban in tilation (FGM) on minor anistan is the continuing Master will be travelling to a “blunder” by not turning Pakistan. I said, ‘Mr. Presid- girls out of a medical office sanctuary for Taliban in Kabul, Islamabad and New its military victory in Afgh- ent, the leadership is called in Livonia, Michigan. Pakistan. Delhi over the weekend. “We anistan into a political one the Quetta Shura, and According to the com- “Today, we are talking should not be accepting safe post-9/11. “After 9/11, the Quetta I understand is in Bal- plaint, some of the minor about the mother of bombs. sanctuaries as something Taliban and al-Qaeda were uchistan.” Quetta Shura was victims allegedly travelled The mother of all problems normal. We ought to make defeated in Afghanistan. the Talibani leadership inter-State to have Dr. in Afghanistan is the sanctu- that very very clear to This was a military victory. council that was based in Nagarwala perform the ary (for Taliban inside Pakistan,” Mr. Khalilzad said. This military victory was to Pakistan. Mr. Khalilzad said procedure. Pakistan),” he said. “If you “I hope that the NSA makes be converted into a political due to “a variety of reasons” Dr. Nagarwala, who is an respect the sanctuary and that point clear when he sits one,” Mr. Musharraf said at a the U.S. could not confront emergency room physi- you don’t attack it, you are across the table when he is conference on Pakistan or- Pakistan more strongly on cian, was arrested and was allowing the insurgency to in Islamabad,” he said at a ganised by the School of Ad- the issue then. “They were scheduled to appear in fed- go on.” discussion at the Hudson In- vanced International Studies helping us on some issues, eral court in Detroit. The As part of the Trump ad- stitute, a Washington think of the Johns Hopkins and it was a complicated re- number of girls under 18 at ministration’s ongoing re- tank. “Being in Afghanistan University. lationship.” risk for FGM in the U.S. has quadrupled since 1997. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention es- Woman from Rouhani registers to run in May polls timates 5,13,000 women and girls are at risk of FGM U.K. stabbed in the U.S. Contesting on the platform of ‘more freedom and peace’ The Congress passed a to death law in 1996 making it illegal Associated Press also filed to run for the pres- to perform the procedure Agence France-Presse Tehran idency. in the U.S. on anyone un- Jerusalem Iran’s President Hassan Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line der 18. FGM is punishable A 23-year-old British fe- Rouhani registered on Fri- cleric close to Supreme by up to five years in male tourist was stabbed to day to run in the upcoming Leader Ayatollah Ali Khame- prison, however, it is not a death in Jerusalem on Fri- presidential elections in nei, has announced plans to crime in 26 U.S. States, in- day and her attacker was May. run promising to fight cluding Michigan. arrested, the police said. Associated Press journal- poverty and corruption. The attack took place on ists watched as Mr. Rouhani, the tram close to the Old 68, registered on the fourth Vetting process City, where Christian com- day of the allocated period Registration will remain memorations were under which ends on Saturday open until Saturday, and any way for Good Friday as evening. In 2013, he had re- Iranian national can apply. Jews marked Passover. gistered on the first day. The applicants will then be Israel’s domestic secur- The upcoming vote will vetted by the Guardian ity agency Shin Bet named be seen, among other Council, a clerical body that the attacker as Jami things, as a referendum on Hassan Rouhani will announce a final list of Tamimi, a 57-year-old the 2015 nuclear agreement candidates by April 27. The Palestinian resident of east with world powers, under one of the most important council normally does not Jerusalem. which Iran agreed to curb its economic and political is- approve dissidents or wo- The police was on high uranium enrichment in ex- sues,” he said. men. alert for Passover when change for the lifting of in- Mr. Rouhani also men- The nuclear deal was en- tens of thousands of Jews ternational sanctions. tioned the giant joint gas gineered by the Rouhani ad- pray at the Western Wall in- Running on the platform field, the North Field, Iran ministration and went into side the Old City and some “More freedom and peace”, will be developing with effect in 2016. visit the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mr. Rouhani vowed to re- Qatar. Iran has since resumed mosque compound above main loyal to the 2016 land Earlier on Wednesday selling oil and signed deals it, which the Jews call nuclear deal, and urged all former hard-line President worth billions of dollars to Temple Mount. It is the Iranians to vote. “From now Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and replace its ageing commer- third holiest site in Islam. on, protecting the deal is his close ally Hamid Baghaei cial airline inventory. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 BUSINESS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ‘Fiscal path Cash crunch: RBI, key to India ‘Maintain EPFO interest rate at 8.65%’ credit proile’ Finance Ministry’s suggestion to cut rate to help retain enough surplus opposed by Labour Minister banks trade charges

Press Trust of India Somesh Jha suggestions for discussion in rate is kept at 8.65% after the NEW DELHI NEW DELHI its finance, investment and final estimates. Skewed supply, weak logistics blamed Moody’s Investors Service Labour Minister Bandaru audit committee (FIAC) “The central board has on Friday said India’s Dattatreya has opposed the meeting held on March 27. never asked for any financial credit profile would im- Finance Ministry’s request to “From the date of incep- support from the govern- prove if it followed the cut the Employees’ Provid- tion till date CBT, EPF never ment for managing the funds fiscal discipline path and ent Fund Organisation submitted any proposal to of EPF subscribers. This is set up a fiscal council as re- (EPFO) interest rate to 8.6%, government to compensate clear interference in the commended by the FRBM from the 8.65% recommen- or indemnify any loss caused functioning of EPFO’s central panel. ded by the fund’s central to the Employees’ Provident board and is not acceptable. The Fiscal Responsibil- board of trustees. Fund by deposits in an ap- The central board is compet- ity and Budget Manage- This is the second straight proved bank or investment ent to manage EPF funds and ment Committee in its re- year that North Block has in securities,” the agenda government should stay port had suggested that the urged the Labour Ministry to item of the FIAC meeting away,” BMS General Secret- fiscal deficit, which is the cut the EPFO interest rate to said, countering the Finance ary Virjesh Upadhyay said. difference between ex- keep adequate surplus. Ministry’s views. The EPFO’s The Finance Ministry had penditure and receipts, “The Finance Ministry has FIAC had deferred the pressed for similar argu- should be brought down to recommended keeping the In abeyance: Though EPFO’s central board of trustees has agenda item to be taken up ments last year to overrule 2.5% by 2022-23 from 3.2% interest rate at 8.6% so that okayed the 8.65% rate, Finance Ministry approval is awaited. in the next meeting. the central board of trustees’ in the current fiscal. EPFO maintains adequate proposed interest rate of The recommendations surplus,” Union Labour Sec- terest rate of 8.65% for 2016- “mismanagement” of funds ‘Clear interference’ 8.8% for 2015-16. It had asked offer a medium-term retary M. Sathiyavathy said. 17 in a meeting held on due to its investments. Every EPFO’s income projections the Labour Ministry to keep framework that focuses on “The Labour Minister has December 19. However, the year, the EPFO keeps a por- in December 2016 showed the interest rate at 8.7% “to fiscal consolidation, while raised the matter with the Labour Ministry is yet to no- tion of its income as surplus the recommended interest facilitate maintaining a reas- MANOJIT SAHA distribution of currency had targeting India’s debt-to- finance minister this week.” tify the interest rate due to over its liability. rate of 8.65% would fetch onable rate of interest in case Mumbai earlier been skewed towards GDP ratio as a fiscal an- pending in-principle ap- The Finance Ministry ad- ₹295 crore as surplus. Lower- of decline in the returns on A recent shortage of cash at the poll-bound States, the chor, Moody’s Investors Delay in interest credit proval of the finance vised the Labour Ministry to ing the interest rate to Fin- investment in the coming ATMs in some parts of the situation had not corrected Service India sovereign The latest tussle between the ministry. amend the Employees’ ance Ministry’s recommen- year.” country has put banks and even after the elections had analyst William Foster said. Finance Ministry and the La- The Finance Ministry told Provident Fund and Miscel- ded 8.6% would leave EPFO However, the EPFO’s in- the banking regulator at log- concluded. “An effective imple- bour Ministry has led to a the Labour Ministry in a laneous Provisions Act to with a surplus of ₹522 crore. terest rate remained un- gerheads with lenders citing “If our requirement is, mentation of fiscal discip- delay in crediting interest missive in February that “absolve the government of A senior Labour Ministry of- changed at 8.8% for 2015-16 supply shortages as the say ₹50 crore from RBI on a line within a framework amount for 2016-17 to about EPFO needed to keep ad- India from the conduct of ficial said the income projec- after the Labour Minister main problem and the cent- particular day we don’t get consistent with the FRBM’s four crore active subscribers. equate surplus, failing which business by the Board of tions were based on initial held several rounds of delib- ral bank attributing logist- more than 20%,” said the recommendation and sup- The EPFO’s central board of the government will be liable Trustees in managing the estimates and the actual sur- eration with the Finance ical issues at banks as the manager of a large branch of ported by the set-up of a trustees, headed by Mr. Dat- to compensate for the losses fund.” The EPFO later took plus may easily stand at Minister following protests prime reason. a state-run lender in fiscal council would point tatreya, had approved an in- caused by EPFO in case of up the Finance Ministry’s about ₹500 crore if interest from central trade unions. While currency in circula- Mumbai. to a lower debt burden tion had been increasing over time and would sup- steadily since January, ‘Manage logistics’ port India’s credit profile,” bankers said distribution A senior central bank offi- Mr. Foster said in a Suzuki, Toshiba ally SBI eyes ₹1 lakh cr. in digital drive was skewed towards north- cial, however, denied any statement. ern and eastern States. curtailment of supply. “We Former Revenue Secret- “While there is adequate are infusing money which is ary N.K. Singh-headed for India joint venture Targets 5.2 lakh acceptance touch points in 2017-18 supply of currency in the evident from the fact that panel also recommended Northern and Eastern part currency in circulation num- bringing down the Centre’s Partner with Denso for Li-ion batteries Press Trust of India ing deployment of 25,000 playing a pivotal role in the of the country, supply is not bers are increasing,” the offi- debt-GDP ratio to 40% by NEW DELHI terminals at 12,500 villages process of digitalisation.” adequate in Western and cial, who spoke on condi- 2023 from 49% at present. Reuters The country’s largest lender under a NABARD scheme. Southern states,” said a tion on anonymity, said. The combined centre TOKYO SBI on Friday said it aimed “In FY 2017-18, the bank’s Reduce costs senior official from a large “Banks have to manage lo- and state government debt- Suzuki Motor Corp., to reach 5.2 lakh acceptance ambition is to reach 5.2 lakh Rajnish Kumar, managing private sector bank, who did gistics properly,” the official to-GDP-ratio is at 68.5%. Toshiba Corp. and Denso touch points and collectively acceptance touch points director of SBI said that UPI not wish to be identified. “It said, adding it was possible Rating agencies have of- Corp. on Friday said they do ₹1 lakh crore of transac- which include 4 lakh Digital and Aadhaar Pay were two is not possible for us to banks were prioritising ten red-flagged high debt- would form a joint venture tions in 2017-18 to take for- PoS (Bharat QR and Aadhaar very innovative platforms move the excess currency funds for branches and GDP ratio of India. The gov- to produce lithium-ion bat- ward the government’s di- Pay) and collectively receive that would lead to efficiency notes from one part of the loading less at ATMs. ernment borrows money teries for automobiles in gital agenda. ₹1 lakh crore of transaction and lower costs and provide country to another.” Another central banker from the market to fund India, where auto emission The State Bank of India value,” the bank said. convenience to digital cus- According to RBI data, admitted the Centre and RBI the fiscal deficit, thereby regulations are tightening Powering EVs: The JV will (SBI) said in a statement that The bank’s chairman Ar- tomers. SBI also said that it currency in circulation rose were concerned about the increasing public debt. to deal with pollution supply electric car makers. it had implemented various undhati Bhattacharya said would continue its digital to ₹13.6 lakh crore as on increase in cash withdraw- Moody’s has a ‘Baa3’ rat- problems. initiatives as part of Digital that with the Digital India drive to bring in more innov- April 7, from ₹12.45 lakh als, given that a key aim of ing on India with a positive The three companies be formed this year. India and Digi Dhan Mela initiative pursued collect- ative products and services crore on March 10. While demonetisation was to en- outlook. The FRBM com- said in a joint statement “The battery pack manu- campaigns introduced by ively by the government, for customer convenience. currency in circulation has courage digital modes of mittee also wanted the that they would spend a facturing joint venture... will the government. banks and technology com- OnlineSBI, the lender’s rebounded, the pace of in- payment. ATM cash with- FRBM Act 2003, to be re- total of 20 billion yen realize stable supply of lith- These include adoption of panies, “India is transform- web banking platform, is the crease has slowed down drawals rose in February to placed by a new Debt and ($183.74 million) to set up ium-ion battery packs in In- 110 villages to develop their ing into a digitally em- fifth most-visited financial since the last week of March. ₹1.93 lakh crore from ₹1.52 Fiscal Responsibility Act. the venture, which would dia,” they said. digital ecosystem and target- powered society and SBI is site globally. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 BUSINESS SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘Digital trade zooms 23 times’ Tea exports likely to drop Post-demonetisation, 15,000 institutions have gone cashless, says NITI Aayog after healthy rise in FY16 Special Correspondent NEW DELHI About 15,000 institutions Bumper Kenya crop, lower exports to key markets spur fall have become cashless, fol- Special Correspondent lowing its digi dhan mela ini- Kolkata tiative held across 100 cities in the country with an aim to Tea exports have declined in AC sales to rise sharply, create awareness about di- the first eleven months of says Assocham gital payments, the govern- fiscal 2017 and are likely to NEW DELHI ment think-tank NITI Aayog close at a lower level after Demand for ACs, inverters, said. showing a healthy rise by generators and air coolers is “[A] 100-day-long inform- volume and value in 2015-16. estimated to rise 35-45% ation, education and com- A bumper crop in Kenya and this season compared to last munication campaign, led lower exports to some of the year due to the onset of early by NITI Aayog, was held to key markets were the main summer and a sudden rise in make digital payments a reasons behind this. temperature in most parts of mass movement in India,” As per the latest official India, according to an the Aayog said in a state- statistics, between April and Assocham survey. The survey ment. February 2017, exports, at Downward spiral: Lower exports to Russia, the U.K., observed that the demand “At least 15,000 institu- 206.9 million kg were down Bangladesh and Pakistan led to the slide, the ITA said. for air conditioners (ACs) has tions have gone cashless in by 4% over the previous shot up in the last three these 100 rural and urban period. India exported 232.9 ₹194.4 per kg. Lower exports the period under review, In- weeks in all major cities with cities,” it said. million kg in 2015-16, to Russia (annual exports of dia has increased tea ex- sales expected to increase by breaching the 230-million about 45 million kg), the ports to three high-value 40-45 % this year. PTI Volumes gallop mark for the first time since U.K., Bangladesh and markets — Iran, Germany It claimed that digital pay- Mass movement: More than 15 lakh people attended the melas, which helped enable lakhs to 1980-81. Pakistan were factors that and USA. These are now SMEs raise ₹811 crore ments in the country have open new bank accounts as well as apply for new Aadhaar cards, the Aayog said. led to the slide, according to evolving as a stable market through IPOs in FY17 grown by close to 23 times Earnings rise Sujit Patro, joint secretary, for speciality teas. Exports NEW DELHI since withdrawal of high- demonetisation) compared adding that Immediate Pay- December, 2016,” the Aayog Earnings through tea ex- Indian Tea Association (ITA). increased to the UAE too. Small and medium value of currency notes was to 2,80,000 digital transac- ment Service (IMPS) transac- said. ports are estimated at A bumper crop in Kenya The UAE often serves as a re- enterprises (SMEs) raised a announced in November last tions worth ₹101 crore till tions have gone up from 3.6 The Aayog further said ₹4,225.5 crore during the (a more than 50% rise ac- export destination. staggering ₹811 crore year. November 2016 (January- crore to 6.7 crore during the more than 15 lakh people period under review against cording to latest statistics) All these markets pur- through initial public “Volume of all digital November),” it added. same period. from cities, small towns and ₹4,183.7 crore a year earlier. and Bangladesh, which is chased not only higher oferings in 2016-17, more transactions increased by Aadhaar-enabled pay- “BHIM App has already villages attended the melas, There has been a rise in unit emerging as tea-growing na- volumes of Indian tea than a twofold jump from about 23 times with ments have increased from created a new world record which helped enable lakhs price in dollar terms at tion, aggravated the excess between April and February the preceding iscal. The 63,80,000 digital transac- 2.5 crore in November 2016 by registering 1.9 crore to open new bank accounts $3.04, industry sources said. supply in the international 2016-17 , but also at a higher fund-raising can be tions for a value of ₹2,425 to more than 5 crore in downloads in just four as well as create new In rupee terms, prices stood market. price than the year’s average attributed to reforms taken crore in March 2017 (since March 2017, the release said, months since its launch in Aadhaar cards. at ₹204.2 per kg against Sources said that during of $ 3.04, sources said. by the Centre to encourage the SME sector. Funds raised were used for business expansion plans, working Printo announces Keep GST at 1.25% for gems & ‘E-waybill must for capital requirements and other purposes. PTI Balu Iyer as CEO jewellery, says industry body goods worth ₹50,000’ SpiceJet ofers mobile payment solution Special Correspondent multiple businesses includ- NEW DELHI BENGALURU ing confectionery and Press Trust of India work (GSTN) website, relat- Higher rate to hurt industry, consumers, workers, says GJF New Delhi SpiceJet on Friday said it had Printo, the Bengaluru-based mushroom exports. ing to goods worth more partnered with HSBC India to print retail chain, an- “The Board decided the Special Correspondent sumers and workers. faced by the sector and levy Moving goods worth more than ₹50,000 they intend to MUMBAI provide a platform for nounced the appointment time was right to elevate Ashok Minawala, past not more than 1.25% GST on than ₹50,000 under GST move within a state or out- passengers to make of Balu Iyer as its new CEO. Balu (Iyer) to lead Printo’s All India Gems and Jewellery chairman and high-level gems & jewellery.” will require prior online re- side. payments through mobile Mr. Iyer will succeed Printo growth phase as we focus on Trade Federation (GJF), the committee member, GJF, Mr. Minawala said the gov- gistration of the consign- GSTN will generate e-way- phones. The no-frills airline co-founder, Manish Sharma, doubling our revenue in national body of the gems said, “Keeping in mind the ernment will not see any ment and securing an ‘e- bills valid for 1-15 days, de- has launched a Uniied who will move into the role three years,” said Printo co- and jewellery industry, has unique characteristics of the negative impact on revenue waybill’ that tax officials can pending on the distance to Payment Interface (UPI) as a of chairman of the board of founder Manish Sharma. proposed a Goods and Ser- gems & jewellery sector, the collection as most of the inspect any time during be travelled — one day for payment option on its directors and will oversee Printo said that it had be- vice Tax (GST) rate of 1.25% karigars and small jewellers states have been charging transit to check tax evasion. 100 km and 15 days for more website. This payment digital strategy and M&A. gun regional expansion with for the sector. were kept out of the purview VAT at the rate of 1% on jew- The Central Board of Ex- than 1,000 km transit. “On solution, implemented by An alumnus of IIM- new stores in Chennai, Hy- In its representation to of excise duty. ellery. “Also the job worker cise and Customs has issued generation of the e-waybill HSBC Bank on the SpiceJet Ahmedabad, Mr. Iyer brings derabad and Pune. It ex- the government, the federa- “Therefore, while we wel- should be kept out of pur- draft rules on the Electronic on the portal, a unique e- network, will allow 25 years of experience from pects to extend its footprint tion has said that a rate ex- come GST, we request the view of GST as their tax liab- Waybill that requires re- waybill number shall be passengers to pay online consumer goods company to NCR and Mumbai by the ceeding this level would hurt GST Council to kindly recog- ility is not there in service gistered entities to furnish made available...,” the draft using mobile handsets. PTI Unilever, where he built end of the year. the industry as well as con- nise the practical issues tax and excise,” he said. information to the GST-Net- norms said. Eveready eyes ₹100 crore from appliances ‘Business recovering from negative impact of demonetisation’ Special Correspondent ritanshu Khaitan, EIIL man- Since appliances are ence in the lighting segment, KOLKATA aging director said. mainly discretionary pur- riding on the government’s With the appliances market The product has been test chases, they were impacted thrust toward environment- opening up new frontiers for marketed with a limited by the government’s with- friendly lighting. This fiscal, Eveready Industries India range, and distribution is be- drawal of high-value cur- it expects ₹400 crore from Ltd., the company known for ing expanded following the rency notes. the lighting segment, Mr. its dry cell batteries is now response. Manufacturing has “Just when they had be- Khaitan said. getting a good response to its been outsourced. gun doing well, came the de- Mr. Khaitan said that by ceiling fans. EIIL unveiled items such monetisation drive but the this fiscal, he expected the These are being marketed as mixer grinders, juicers, recovery has been good,” ac- sales contribution from bat- under its own brand name ceiling fans, irons, winter ap- cording to Mr. Khaitan. teries to decline to 61% from and as part of its small appli- pliances like geysers, room 64 % now. ance division, which was un- heaters and, recently, air Portfolio diversification Packet tea, which is being veiled last year. purifiers under its fledgling For some years now, EIIL has hived off, is also seeing a de- “We are seeing very good appliance division. In 2017- been trying to diversify its clining share in EIIL’s traction in our ceiling fan 18, EIIL is targeting a contri- portfolio beyond batteries, turnover, while the share of segment, which is nearly a bution of about ₹100 crore flashlights and packet teas. lighting is projected to in- ₹5,000-crore industry,” Am- from appliances. It now has a major pres- crease from 21% to 25%. U.S. retail sales drop for a second month Consumer prices also ease in March, signalling a loss of economic momentum

Reuters weaker because of calcula- WASHINGTON tion problems that the gov- U.S. retail sales fell for a ernment has acknowledged second straight month in and is working to resolve. March and consumer prices Retail sales last month dropped for the first time in were dragged down by re- just over a year, supporting ceipts at auto dealerships, views that the economy lost which fell 1.2%, decreasing significant momentum in the for a third straight month. first quarter. Sales at service stations But with the labour mar- dropped 1.0%, reflecting ket near full employment, lower gasoline prices. the decline in sales and con- There were also decreases sumer prices reported by the in sales at building material government on Friday is stores, likely as bad weather likely temporary and prob- halted work at construction ably does not change expect- sites. ations that the Federal Re- serve will raise interest rates Pockets of strength again in June. But there were some areas of strength. Sales at electronics ‘Underlying momentum’ and appliances stores recor- “For the Fed, the underlying Well dressed: Receipts at brick and mortar clothing stores ded their biggest rise since momentum is more import- increased by the most in a year. * AP June 2015 and receipts at ant in terms of policy de- clothing stores increased by cisions, and that looks to be slipping 0.1% last month. Ex- down in consumption is the most in a year. strong, supported by a tight- cluding automobiles, gasol- partly blamed on the late Retailers have been hurt ening labour market, rising ine, building materials and disbursement of income tax by declining mall traffic and incomes and high consumer food services, retail sales re- refunds by the government increased competition from confidence,” said Gregory bounded 0.5% after falling as it sought to combat fraud. online retailers, led by Daco, head of U.S. macroe- 0.2% in February. The Atlanta Fed is fore- Amazon.com . conomics at Oxford Econom- These so-called core retail casting GDP rising at a 0.6% In a separate report, the ics in New York. sales correspond most rate in the first quarter. This Labor Department said its The Commerce Depart- closely with the consumer would be the weakest per- Consumer Price Index ment said retail sales spending component of formance in three years and dropped 0.3% in March, the dropped 0.2% last month gross domestic product. follows a 2.1% growth pace in first decline since February after a 0.3% decrease in Feb- Despite last month’s in- the fourth quarter. 2016, as declining costs for ruary, which was the first crease in core retail sales, With job growth averaging gasoline and mobile phone and biggest decline in nearly consumer spending likely 178,000 per month in the services offset rising rents a year. Compared to March braked sharply in the first first quarter, the anticipated and food prices. last year retail sales in- quarter after growing at a slowdown in GDP likely un- In the 12 months through creased 5.2%. brisk 3.5% annualized rate in derstates the health of the March, CPI rose 2.4%, slow- Economists polled by Re- the final three months of economy. In addition, first- ing from February’s 2.7% uters had forecast retail sales 2016. The apparent slow- quarter GDP tends to be increase.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 SPORT 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Pollard showcases his prowess Lions roar to victory MI pulls of a remarkable win over RCB despite being jolted by Badree’s hat-trick Outplay RPS as Tye does the trick Nandakumar Marar SCOREBOARD RAJKOT Gujarat Lions roared to a Royal Challengers Bangalore: seven-wicket victory by out- Chris Gayle c Parthiv b Hardik playing Rising Pune Supergi- 22 (27b, 2x4, 1x6), Virat Kohli c ant. The struggle and self- Buttler b McClenaghan 62 (47b, doubt in its previous two 5x4, 2x6), A.B. de Villiers c Ro- matches in IPL-10 was re- hit b Krunal 19 (21b, 1x6), Ked- placed by confidence as it har Jadhav (run out) 9 (8b), chased down the victory tar- Pawan Negi (not out) 13 (13b), get of 172 with ease at the Mandeep Singh b McClenaghan SCA stadium here on Friday. 0(1b), Stuart Binny (not out) 6 Suresh Raina (35 not out) (4b); Extras (b-4, lb-3, w-3, and Aaron Finch (33 not out) nb-1): 11; Total (for five wkts. in helped Lions cross the line 20 overs): 142. Reaping it rich: Gujarat Lions medium-pacer Andrew Tye (ive with 12 balls to spare. The Fall of wickets: 1-63 (Gayle, 9.2 for 17) bowled with excellent control to notch up the second spring in their steps and all- overs), 2-110 (Kohli, 15.3), 3-115 hat-trick of the day. * AFP (de Villiers, 16.2), 4-127 round excellence coincided with Ravindra Jadeja’s re- (Jadhav, 17.6), 5-127 (Mandeep, SCOREBOARD GUJARAT LIONS V PUNE SUPERGIANT 18.1). turn from injury. Mumbai Indians bowling: Tim The talismanic India left- Rising Pune Supergiant: Dwayne Smith 2-0-10-1, Suresh Southee 2-0-23-0, Harbhajan arm spinner and a local hero Ajinkya Rahane c Raina b Raina 1-0-9-0. played a part, deceived M.S. Singh 4-0-23-0, Mitchell Mc- Praveen 0 (3b), Rahul Tripathi c Gujarat Lions: Dwayne Smith c Dhoni at the crease. After Heroes of Bengaluru: Kieron Pollard treated the Chinnaswamy Stadium crowd to some brilliant hitting after Samuel Badree had Clenaghan 4-0-20-2, Jasprit Finch b Tye 33 (17b, 3x4, 2x6), Chahar b Shardul 47 (30b, 8x4, Bumrah 4-0-39-0, Hardik fast bowler Andrew Tye sent them into raptures with the irst hat-trick of this season. * G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR Steve Smith c Finch b D. Smith 1x6), Brendon McCullum st Pandya 2-0-9-1, Krunal Pandya picked up five wickets, 43 (28b, 6x4, 1x6), Ben Stokes Dhoni b Chahar 49 (32b, 5x4, 4-0-21-1. openers Dwayne Smith (47 N. Sudarshan Pandya (4-0-21-1 & 37 n.o.) It was a good Friday bTye 25 (18b, 2x4, 1x6), Manoj 3x6), Suresh Raina (not out) 35 IPL-10 <> off 30 balls) and Brendon BENGALURU tipped the balance in MI’s fa- for me, but not a Mumbai Indians: Parthiv Patel c Tiwary c Kishan b Tye 31 (27b, (22b, 4x4, 1x6), Dinesh Karthik Not for nothing does Mum- Gayle b Badree 3 (8b), Jos But- McCullum (49 off 32 balls) 2x4, 1x6), M.S. Dhoni lbw b b Tahir 3 (5b), Aaron Finch (not vour by putting together 93 PowerPlay overs, it let MI good Friday for the bai Indians pride itself as be- tler c Gayle b Binny 2 (5b), Rohit kept going. Jadeja 5 (8b), Ankit Sharma c out) 33 (19b, 3x4, 2x6); Extras runs in 57 balls for the sixth bowl 16. Only 41 runs were team. We couldn't ing a champion outfit. Sharma b Badree 0 (2b), McCullum b Tye 25 (15b, 2x4, (lb-1, w-4): 5; Total (for three wicket. scored and 17 of those in a score enough runs in It almost always seems to Mitchell McClenaghan c Stunning catch 1x6), Shardul Thakur b Tye 0 wkts. in 18 overs): 172. single Tim Southee over. Mandeep b Badree 0 (1b), Nitish (1b), Lockie Ferguson (not out) have the right men for the In spite of being in dire the end. Credit to Earlier, Raina opted to field, Fall of wickets: 1-94 (Smith, Rana c Arvind b Badree 11 (16b, 1(1b), Rahul Chahar (not out) 3 right occasions. On Friday it straits, at no point did Pol- The MI bowlers tied Virat Pollard for carrying and set an example on the 8.5 overs), 2-102 (McCullum, 1x4), Kieron Pollard c de Villiers (2b); Extras (w-4, lb-1): 5; Total lard and Krunal seem Kohli (62, 47b, 5x4, 2x6) up his team the way he field with a stunning reflex 11.1), 3-111 (Karthik, 12.5). was Kieron Pollard who b Chahal 70 (47b, 3x4, 5x6), (for eight wkts. in 20 overs): flustered. After having by packing the off-side. His catch at slip to send back Rising Pune Supergiant bowl- smashed a 47-ball 70 to take did. Krunal Pandya (not out) 37 171. scored at less than six per first hits to the fence all came Ajinkaya Rahane. ing: Ankit Sharma 1-0-16-0, his side to a four-wicket win Samuel Badree (30b, 3x4, 1x6), Hardik Pandya Fall of wicket: 1-0 (Rahane, 0.3 over Royal Challengers Ban- over for much of the innings, on the leg — the two fours The third-ball dismissal of Lockie Ferguson 4-0-44-0, they took off with five overs (not out) 9 (4b, 1x6); Extras overs), 2-64 (Tripathi, 5.5), 3- galore at the M. Chin- and a six he hit Southee for. In the 14th over de Villi- Rahane was a setback for Shardul Thakur 3-0-14-1, Ben remaining. The 15th and the (lb-6, w-7): 13; Total (for six 89 (Smith, 9.2), 4-106 (Stokes, naswamy Stadium here. Gayle too couldn’t break the ers and Kohli collected 19 RPS. Stokes 3-0-18-0, Imran Tahir 4- 16th brought 30 runs in all wkts. in 18.5 overs): 145. 12.1), 5-120 (Dhoni, 14.2), 6-167 The victory though looked shackles but he added to the runs off Jasprit Bumrah. But, more surprise was in 0-53-1, Rahul Chahar 3-0-26-1. with Pollard brutal on Pawan Fall of wickets: 1-7 (Buttler, 1.5 (Ankit, 19.1), 7-167 (Tiwary, a long shot when MI was re- misery by eating up deliver- But it wasn’t momentum- store as Tye (five for 17) 19.2), 8-167 (Shardul, 19.3). Toss: Gujarat Lions. Negi. It was a hiding from overs), 2-7 (Parthiv, 2.2), 3-7 duced to seven for four and ies. Harbhajan Singh bowled changing. (McGlenaghan, 2.3), 4-7 (Rohit, proved to be the ace in Rai- Man-of-the-match: Andrew which RCB never recovered. Gujarat Lions bowling: Praveen then 33 for five chasing 143. two overs in the PowerPlay Kohli and de Villiers 2.4), 5-33 (Rana, 7.6), 6-126 na’s bowling pack, as he got Kumar 4-0-51-1, Basil Thampi Tye. RCB seemed to have un- for just seven runs. were gone in back-to-back (Pollard, 17.3). a hat-trick with the first 3-0-21-0, Shadab Jakati 2-0- Result: Gujarat Lions won by PowerPlay problem earthed its own star of the The arrival of A.B. de Villi- overs, the latter caught Mumbai Indians bowling: three balls off the 20th over. 22-0, Andrew Tye 4-0-17-5, seven wickets with 12 balls to day in Samuel Badree (4-1- Earlier, the home side, put ers didn’t bring much cheer brilliantly by a diving Rohit Samuel Badree 4-1-9-4, Stuart The lanky Aussie hustled Ravindra Jadeja 4-0-40-1, spare. 9-4), who was playing his into bat, brought in Chris either. The Pandya brothers Sharma at cover. Binny 2-0-14-1, S. Arvind 4-0- top-order batsmen Rahul first match after being side- Gayle and Badree at the ex- – Hardik and Krunal – were at There was only one 21-0, Tymal Mills 3.5-0-36-0, Tripathi, Ben Stokes and Smith, supported by brisk ger celebrations in the lined for the whole of last pense of Shane Watson and their suffocating best. The more boundary scored off Yuzvendra Chahal 3-0-31-1, Manoj Tiwary with his knocks from Tripathi (33 off stands and put paid to RPS’ season because of a shoulder Billy Stanlake. It’s start how- latter completed his quota at the bat till the end of the Pawan Negi 2-0-28-0. bounce and pace and then 17 balls) and Stokes (25 off 18 hopes. injury. ever played out in the same one shot, conceding a innings and none in the Toss: Mumbai Indians. nailed Shardul Thakur with balls) set the tone for slog- Steve Smith, returning to The leg-spinner almost way it had against Kings XI miserly 21 runs. Even de Villi- last five overs. Man-of-the-match: Kieron Pol- a slow yorker. ging at the end. action after missing the pre- proved the difference with a Punjab in the last match. If it ers being dropped at deep Pollard heroics notwith- lard. Ankit Sharma was his But, Tye’s three-wicket vious game, and new opener hat-trick in his second over had allowed the Kings to mid-wicket by Jos Buttler standing, it is this phase Result: MI won by four wickets other victim. burst sent back Ankit, Tripathi flexed their arms as before Pollard and Krunal bowl 22 dots in the six when on seven didn’t matter. that RCB will rue. with seven balls to spare. A stroke-filled 43 by Steve Tiwary and Shardul to trig- they scored 50 off 24 balls. KKR seeks to preserve the Daredevils keen to build on win against RPS momentum against SRH Kings XI Punjab will be looking to regain control Uthra Ganesan with both bat and ball and was blown away by KKR in NEW DELHI the Daredevils’ batting re- its last outing after two big Narine’s elevation has worked wonders for the host Delhi Daredevils has often mains restricted to the top wins and will be looking to been labelled the most in- AMITABHA DAS SHARMA six or seven. regain control. With an ex- Gujarat Lions (at Rajkot). consistent side in the IPL. plosive batting line-up led by Kolkata PLAYING TODAY The team experimented a Umesh Yadav, who played The team kept its reputation, Glenn Maxwell, it has the fire Kolkata Knight Riders will lot with its playing XI last DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD his first match of this edition failing to chase down 157 in power to regroup. seek to preserve the mo- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD season and, even though it’s against KXIP, has really ad- its opening game (against mentum in its hunt for a KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS v early days yet, leg-spinner Add to it the fact that ded bite to KKR’s bowling. Bangalore) this season and second successive win at SUNRISERS HYDERABAD, 4 Amit Mishra admitted it was mentor Virender Sehwag has The host has a right mix of then winning by a massive 97 home when it meets defend- p.m. looking to get its core players played all his life at this bowlers, who will try to use runs in the next (versus ing champion Sunrisers Hy- DELHI DAREDEVILS v KINGS settled as soon as possible. ground, as has Ishant XI PUNJAB, 8 p.m. the re-laid Eden pitch to the Pune). “Initially everyone tries to Sharma, and the visitor has derabad here at the Eden maximum. Gardens on Saturday. Sony Six, Sony ESPN, Sony Max DD’s first home game on experiment and work out enough inside knowledge of SRH also has some im- Saturday, against Kings XI What would keep the host (SDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD & HD) what could be a good com- the playing conditions. buoyant is skipper Gautam pressive names in its bowl- Punjab, will be a test of bination, check the form and Gambhir’s phenomenal tralian Big Bash League pre- ing line-up. Pacer Bhuvnesh- whether the team can keep mindset, we would also be Shreyas cleared to play form. He has scored 167 runs ceding the tournament has war Kumar (Purple Cap) and the momentum going. That looking to do that. Daredevils got a shot in the in three innings. fetched him the opener’s Afghanistan leg-spinner would depend on whether “(But) too much of experi- arm after Shreyas Iyer was Rashid Khan occupy the top The surprise elevation of role. the bowling unit, arguably mentation can work against cleared to play. two spot in the bowling stats Sunil Narine, who opened While Narine’s new role is one of the best in the com- the team. Sometimes it does The Mumbai batsman with seven and six wickets in with Gambhir and made an celebrated, Gambhir is the petition, can keep firing and happen that, when your practised with the team, but their kitty. 18-ball 37, for the injured real pivot who propelled whether its youth brigade team is doing well, tinkering a decision on whether he Chris Lynn has handed the KKR to two successful “This afternoon game will continues to come good with doesn’t click going forward Strike force: Daredevils will rely on Zaheer Khan and Chris would be considered for the the bat. team management to field chases (it lost the other be a bonus as it will rule out (and) you don’t have too Morris to get early wickets against Kings XI. * R.V. MOORTHY game would be made only an extra bowler or a match against MI batting the dew factor. We unfortu- With the top-order failing much time to plan in T20. later. batsman. first) so far. The KKR bowl- nately could not cope with it to score big, the onus of scor- The sooner we can come up agreed that his team’s ap- Mishra and Shahbaz Nadeem The Mumbai batsman had “His (Narine’s) nickname ing, considered strong point in Mumbai,” SRH coach Tom ing has fallen on the likes of with our playing eleven, the proach would be built would have to lead the at- missed the opening two is all-rounder now. Hope- of the team, has so far been Moody said. Rishabh Pant and Sanju Sam- better. around its bowling. tack. games due to chicken pox. fully he continues (to bat) overshadowed by blistering Skipper David Warner, son, both talented but bat- “As of now, we are making Even in the game against Pacers Kagiso Rabada and Mishra confirmed that way,” said assistant knocks of Gambhir. The who is in good form (third in tling their own demons. sure that everyone is on the RCB, the bowlers did well to Mohammed Shami are yet to Shreyas’s availability. coach Simon Katich. The skipper and Lynn created a the batting stats aggregating Karun Nair, Aditya Tare same level,” said the senior restrict the opposition to play and either is likely to get “Shreyas has been batting in West Indian’s fine perform- record unbeaten opening 139 runs), will hope for a and Sam Billings are yet to player. 150-odd runs. At home, on a a chance. the nets. He is available for ance with the bat in the Aus- partnership of 184 against positive result like his coach. fire, Carlos Brathwaite failed But the veteran also pitch that stays low and slow, KXIP, on the other hand, selection.”

Friends with Indian Umesh now bowls with more izz ‘I have no problem players: Warner The fast bowler has added new dimensions to his bowling bowling anywhere’ Y.B. Sarangi better my line and length. Y.B. Sarangi Press Trust of India ultimate goal is to go out KOLKATA Now I know my strong KOLKATA Kolkata there and win for the Umesh Yadav is a shining ex- points and the areas where I Mustafizur Rahman’s figures Australian opener David country and we will do ample of the adage — ‘prac- need to bowl,” said Umesh, of none for 34 off 2.4 overs Warner says he remains anything to try and beat tice makes a man perfect.’ on his return to action for in Sunrisers Hyderabad In- good friends with Indian each other.” In the last one year or so, Kolkata Knight Riders in dian Premier League match cricketers despite the “There were antics on the fast bowler has evolved IPL-10 where he picked up against Mumbai Indians the bitterness during the and off the field during the from being a bundle of raw four wickets against Kings XI other day posed questions recent Test series for the Test series, but we are also energy to an exceptional Punjab. about the left-arm pacer’s Border-Gavaskar trophy. good friends. practitioner of his craft. Umesh acknowledged the match-fitness and form. Warner, who now Umesh has matured and contribution of head coach “We enjoy laughs, and “I don’t think it has any- captains Sunriders added new dimensions to his Anil Kumble and assistant that brings everyone thing to do with his injury,” Hyderabad in the IPL, bowling with every single coach Sanjay Bangar in his together in international said SRH head coach Tom said: “We always gel very outing, starting from the evolution as a better bowler. cricket,” he said. Moody. well (as individuals). four-match Test series in the “In the last 10 months, our “It was a fantastic series On top of his game: Umesh Yadav is now aware of his strong Mustaizur. * SPORTZPICS/IPL West Indies to the 13-Test coaches Sanjay Bangar, Anil “He has been playing in a “It’s a different feeling for cricket and for fans in points, including the right areas to bowl. * SPORTZPICS/IPL Test series and a One-Day home series. sir have helped me a lot. There was a bit of length when you put both the general with a lot of edge series against Sri Lanka. His Umesh’s best came Steve Smith for leg-before Indian victory. “Sanjay sir told me that problem, and I could not teams on the field. Our of the seats moment.” form has been good. against Australia as he (and the DRS controversy The fact that Umesh, pre- when you run in to bowl, bowl in the areas I wanted,” provided the breakthroughs that ensued) in the second ceded by four spinners, sometimes you run faster “Like any bowler, in this the Bangladeshi said here just when India needed in innings of the second Test to stood fifth with 17 scalps in than required in order to format of the game, he can on Friday, ahead of SRH’s the Bengaluru and Dharam- script a turning point in the the overall list of wicket- bowl faster. Then you risk have an off day with the op- match against Kolkata shala Tests and played a cru- match and enable India takers spoke of the impact disturbing your line and ponents getting on top of Knight Riders. Cash awards given cial role in India’s fightback draw level with the Aussies. he made in the keenly-fought length. You should enjoy him. I still think he is effect- to win the series. The fourth Test was a big- series, in which India badly your run-up which will help ive like he has been in the Depends on pitches past. Principal Correspondent Sudha Shah (30 lakh), Umesh bowled at different ger instance of the team’s de- missed the guile of a crafty bring control to your bowl- Asked about why he has not BENGALURU Shantha Rangaswamy, slots with a fair amount of pendence on Umesh. Mohammad Shami. ing,” said Umesh. “It was not his day in deployed his deadly off-cut- Five of India’s International Pramila Bhat and Mamatha success. Sometimes he got He showcased his reper- “This is all due to my hard With better control over Mumbai. I am sure his day ters yet, the 21-year-old said: women cricketers were Maben (all 25 lakh) and V. wickets by generating re- toire of swing, exploited the work. In the last 8-10 months his trade, the 29-year-old will come shortly.” “Cutters depends on presented with one-time Kalpana (15 lakh) were hon- verse swing with the older bounce, played around with I have been playing continu- must be keen to serve India Mustafizur, too, was not pitches. If the strip is dry cash awards by the BCCI be- oured. Sujatha Sridhar (15 ball and at other times by the length as he dismissed ously (for India). I have well when it travels to play in too concerned about his and it’s a day match — like it fore the Royal Challengers lakh), who was also on the making early inroads with David Warner and Matt Ren- played 14 matches. the pacer-friendly conditions form. is tomorrow — there is a Bangalore-Mumbai Indians list of awardees, was not the new cherry. shaw early in the second in- “I think, the number of of England, Australia and “In the first match, what I chance that you will get to clash here on Friday. present on the occasion. Umesh brilliantly set up nings to open the road for an matches I played helped me South Africa. wanted did not happen. see them.” CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF APRC: Gill to Advani reclaims Asian billiards crown lead MRF’s The champion cueist rallies brilliantly to trump compatriot Sourav Kothari campaign

Press Trust of India break proceedings with Press Trust of India CHANDIGARH breaks of 92, 102 and 81 and New Delhi Sixteen-time World Cham- not letting his opponent MRF on Friday confirmed pion Pankaj Advani won his score a single point. its participation in the 2017 sixth Asian billiards title, de- After the 4-3 lead, Advani FIA Asia Pacific Rally feating Sourav Kothari 6-3 in gave Kothari a chance to Championship (APRC), an entertaining final, here on make a comeback but after which commences at Sharapova slams ITF for Friday. being away from the table for Whangarei on April 28. lack of warning The first session saw over 25 minutes, he could MRF, in association with LONDON Kothari run away with a 3-1 only muster up a 30 break to Skoda, has entered two Maria Sharapova hit out at lead. Advani, taking full ad- only bring Advani back to Race Torque-prepared ITF authorities on Friday for vantage of the break, re- end the frame and be one Skoda Fabia R5 cars to be failing to warn her that a grouped and came out all away from the title. driven by defending APRC drug she had taken had guns blazing to win the next “I’m in seventh heaven champion Gaurav Gill and become a banned substance. five frames to take his sev- since it’s my seventh Asian Ole Christian Veiby of “Why didn’t someone come enth Asian crown overall. He championship. This is a Norway. up to me and have a private had won the 6-red snooker comeback title for me. I’ve The 2017 FIA APRC calendar: conversation, just an official last year. come back to win this after April 28 to 30: Whangarei, to an athlete, which would The ace cueist left the five years,” said Advani after New Zealand; May 26 to 28: have taken care of the spectators awestruck with the win. He will next travel to Canberra, Australia; July 7 to confidentiality problem they the sterling comeback he Doha to compete in the 9: Zhangye, China (#Subject talked about later?” she produced when it mattered Asian snooker championship to confirmation); Aug. 11 to 13: Johor Bahru, Malaysia; asked. “Ultimately the fault most. beginning on April 22. Sept. 15 to 17: Hokkaido, Ja- was mine,” she admitted. AFP Advani was left looking for The result: Pankaj Advani bt pan; Nov. 24 to 26: answers to Kothari’s form in Sourav Kothari 6-3 [54-101 Chikkamagaluru, India. Velavan Senthilkumar the first four frames as the (68), 89(84)-100(100), 100 inishes runner-up latter made breaks of 68, 100 (76)-9, 58-101(99), 100(92)-0, JOHANNESBURG and 99 to lead 3-1. 102(102)-0, 100(81)-0, 100- Peerless: Pankaj Advani again proved that he is the master of the baize in the continent by bouncing back from a 3-1 deicit in the Mohamed Elsherbini beat Advani opened the post- 42, 101(67)-0]. summit clash against compatriot Sourav Kothari * FILE PHOTO Ajax beats Velavan Senthilkumar 11-8, 11-7, 12-10, 11-8 in the final of Schalke the Parkview Open, a squash Sandeep in World Tour event, here on Padma award highlight Reuters Texas Gold for feature event BERNE Thursday. It was the title round Egyptian’s maiden PSA title. MUMBAI: Trainer Hosidar Daji’s (6) Akshay Kumar 54, 9. Firenze Seacrets (11) S. Amit 53.5, 12. European football was of my life, says Vikas ward Texas Gold, who ran third (5) Dashrath 53, 10. Azeeza (8) Domination (7) Ayyar 52.5, 13. in his last start, should make given reminders of its past Sharath Kamal Special Correspondent Bhawani 52.5, 11. Shivalik Skies (1) Franz Ferdinand (3) Sandesh 51.5 Ashwin Achal New Delhi amends in the J D & Peggy Banat- Merchant 52.5, 12. Blavatsky (2) and 14. Cicitalia (4) Neeraj 50.5. on Thursday, with a 2-0 advances walla Trophy, the main event of Shubham 50 and 13. Nightfall (7) 1. FRANZ FERDINAND, 2. CEZ- win for the once-mighty Bengaluru V.M. Sandeep defeated WUXI (CHINA) the penultimate day’s races of the N. Rawal 49. ANNE, 3. DANCING PRINCE Ajax Amsterdam over Mumbai racing season here on 1. ARABIAN STORM, 2. KING OF A. Sharath Kamal made the Discus thrower Vikas Krishan Hooda 6-2, 6-4 in TRAINERS TROPHY (1,000m), Saturday (April 15) evening. KILLEN, 3. IRISES Schalke 04 in one Europa Gowda, who was conferred the semifinals of the Road Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, 8.30: 1. pre-quarterfinals of the Asian Rails will be placed 2 metres wide 7 League game but ugly with the Padma Shri award to Wimbledon Masters un- JOCKEYS TROPHY (1,000m), Romantic Lass (10) Trevor 62, 2. TT championships beating Ro from 1400m to 1200m and there- scenes in the crowd at at Delhi on Thursday, de- der-14 tennis tournament 4 Maiden 3-y-o only, 7.00: 1. Zoom Zoom (12) Ajinkya 60, 3. Kwang Jin 11-5, 11-7, 14-12 in after 3 metres wide upto the win- Alsace (2) Pereira 55, 2. Art O War Locarno (2) Neeraj 59, 4. Speed Lyon delaying another. scribed the occasion as the on the Delhi Gymkhana ning post. The jockeys for Ame the second round on Friday. (7) Dashrath 55, 3. Montecasino Of Sound (3) Dashrath 58, 5. Fri- In other quarterfinal highlight of his life. Club’s grass courts on and Western Lights in the fifth (6) Mosin 55, 4. Morocco (1) K. bourg (11) Jaykumar 57.5, 6. Ainra The results: Second round: race will be declared later. first-leg ties, Anderlecht “I was a little surprised Friday. Kadam 55, 5. Optimum (5) Trevor (7) Sandesh 56.5, 7. Blitzkrieg (9) Koki Nawa (Jpn) bt Soumyajit T M GOCULDAS PLATE 55, 6. Arc Shine (9) Merchant snatched a late 1-1 draw at when I was told that I was S. Amit 56, 8. Rare Silver (6) C.S. Ghosh 11-3, 11-4, 11-5; Lin The victory fetched him, 1 (1,400m), Cl. II, rated 60 to 86, 53.5, 7. Nextstar (4) C.S. Jodha Jodha 55, 9. Royal Sapphire (4) home to Manchester getting the award. I wasn’t Gaoyuan (Chn) bt Harmeet and fellow finalist Denim 5.30 p.m.: 1. Al Shamsheer (1) 53.5, 8. Saffron Flower (8) N. Bhawani 54.5, 10. Super Bolt (1) United while Celta Vigo Desai 11-9, 8-11, 12-10, 11-4; expecting it,” Vikas said, “It Yadav who beat Nishant Bhawani 59, 2. Traherne (4) C.S. Rawal 53.5 and 9. Touch Me Not Nadeem 54.5, 11. Smart Choice (5) Jodha 58.5, 3. Papakura (2) (3) Agarwal 53.5. Agarwal 54, 12. Speedo (8) Parbat beat visitors Genk 3-2. Sharath Kamal bt Ro Kwang was an amazing experience * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY Dabas 6-3, 6-4 in the other Gowda. Dashrath 56.5, 4. Alishas Pet (3) S. 1. OPTIMUM, 2. ARC SHINE, 3. 54 and 13. Samurai (13) Joseph 53. There was a reminder Jin (PRK) 11-5, 11-7, 14-12; Lee — the highlight of my life. To semifinal, a ticket to the UK Amit 53.5 and 5. Streetjammer (5) NEXTSTAR 1. LOCARNO, 2. SPEED OF SOUND, that the hooliganism which Sangsu (Kor) bt Sanil Shetty be in one room with so to train for more than a J. Chinoy 50. 3. SAMURAI under-14 championship, to JEHAN NUMA PLATE (1,200m), once plagued European 12-10, 11-8, 11-6. First round: many accomplished dignit- month or two before Rio, so 1. STREETJAMMER, 2. TRAHERNE Cl. V, rated 1 to 26, 7.30: 1. be held at Wimbledon in 5 A HOYT PLATE (1,400m), Cl. football has still not been Anh Tu Nguyen (Vie) bt G. aries was phenomenal. It I knew it would take a lot to August. J D & PEGGY BANATWALLA Monza (6) Daman 61, 2. Ame (5) 8 V, rated 1 to 26, 9.00: 1. Trev- TROPHY completely eradicated Sathiyan 5-11, 11-7, 7-11, 11-9, was a surreal experience.” do well. I’m still not at a 100 2 (1,600m), 3-y-o only, (-) 60.5, 3. Q’E’D (8) Neeraj 60.5, elyan (5) Neeraj 61, 2. Bay Of Love Sandeepti Singh Rao 6.00: 1. Gloriousus (8) Trevor 57, 4. Pricelessgirl (7) D.A. Naik 60, 5. (3) Nadeem 60.5, 3. Star Scholar when crowd trouble 11-8. PTI Vikas spoke on the side- per cent fitness,” he said. and Sarah Dev will also 2. Texas Gold (5) Neeraj 57, 3. Advance To Contact (11) Merchant (7) Trevor 60, 4. Smoky Haze (10) delayed the start of Olym- lines of a felicitation func- The Mysuru-born, who Timeless Deeds (9) Agarwal 55.5, 59.5, 6. Replica (4) Parbat 59, 7. Daman 59, 5. Abu Al Bukhoosh travel to London after mak- pique Lyonnais’ match at LeBron James conident tion organised by the now resides in USA, said he 4. Collegium (1) C.S. Jodha 53, 5. Winds Of Change (2) V. Jodha 59, (13) G. Amit 58, 6. Frosted (8) ing it through to the girls’ Dragonmoss (10) J. Chinoy 53, 6. 8. Eagle Spirit (9) C.S. Jodha 57.5, home to Besiktas. as NBA playofs begin Karnataka Athletics Associ- intends to work his way Raghuveer 56.5, 7. Wildhorn (9) final. Sandeep faced six Gnostic Eyes (6) Merchant 53, 7. 9. Tennessee (10) Ajinkya 57, 10. K. Kadam 56.5, 8. Aramando (4) J. Dozens of fans spilled LOS ANGELES ation and Indo-German back into international ac- Patagonia (4) Akshay Kumar 53, break-points in the first Paradise (1) Kuldeep 56 and 11. Chinoy 56, 9. Alfonso (12) Agar- onto the pitch, with the LeBron James believes the Sports Club, at the Sree tion. His first major target is 8. Artus (3) N. Rawal 51.5, 9. Western Lights (3) (-) 53.5. wal 55, 10. Sir Song (1) S. Amit 55, game to hold serve but 1. WINDS OF CHANGE, 2. AME, 3. French club saying the sup- Cleveland Cavaliers is ready Kanteerava Stadium here on the Asian Athletics Champi- Daughterofthesun (7) Sandesh 11. Star Ace (14) Sandesh 54.5, 12. tightened his grip there- 51.5 and 10. Medellin (2) Dashrath EAGLE SPIRIT Happy Birthday (late Oscillation) porters were seeking to defend its NBA crown as Friday. onships, to be held at after with Hooda struggling 51.5. DISPLAY HOUSE SPRINT (6) Merchant 54, 13. Coat Of Arms refuge after being pelted the post-season gets The 33-year-old, a four- Bhubaneswar in July. 1. TEXAS GOLD, 2. GLORIOUSUS, 3. with his serve. 6 (1,200m) Cl. III, rated 40 to (11) Kuldeep 52.5 and 14. Secret with objects and fireworks underway this weekend. “We time Olympian, has had to “I will take part in small ARTUS 66, 8.00: 1. Free Speech (1) Flame (2) Akshay Kumar 52.5. The results (semifinals): 1. TREVELYAN, 2. FROSTED, 3. thrown from high up in the have a good chance to win it deal with injury concerns in competitions when I get RONALDO PLATE (1,600m), Cl. Nadeem 60.5, 2. Cezanne (2) N. Boys: V.M. Sandeep bt IV, rated 20 to 46, 6.30: 1. Ir- Rawal 58, 3. Jimbo (6) Nazil 58, 4. HAPPY BIRTHDAY stands. all, but it starts with our recent times. This resulted back to the US, and then 3 Krishan Hooda 6-2, 6-4; ises (10) Daman 59.5, 2. Imperial Hedwig (5) Akshay 56, 5. Zambian Day’s Best: FRANZ FERDINAND Besiktas took the lead opponent in two days. We in him exiting the 2016 Rio take it from there. The Asian Denim Yadav bt Nishant Da- Heritage (12) Tograllu 58, 3. Ara- (12) Vishal 56, 6. Grey Flannel (13) Double: STREETJAMMER — ARA- BIAN STORM after 15 minutes but the have to be very determined Olympics in the qualifica- Championship is my first bas 6-3, 6-4. Sandeepti bian Storm (11) Trevor 54, 4. Care Trevor 55, 7. Merabella (14) G. Girls: Jackpot: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. host replied twice in the but we have to be very smart tion stage. “I was injured the main target. I have about Free (3) C.S. Jodha 54, 5. Cen- Amit 54.5, 8. Sparkling Eyes (9) Singh Rao bt Akanksha Nit- taurus (9) Ayyar 54, 6. Grey One C.S. Jodha 54.5, 9. Wind Craft (8) Treble: (i): 5, 6 & 7; (ii): 6, 7 & 8. last 10 minutes for a 2-1 about our game plan and how whole of last year. I tore my three months to get ready,” ture 6-2, 6-1; Sarah Dev bt (4) Kuldeep 54, 7. King Of Killen K. Kadam 54.5, 10. Dancing Tanala: All races. win. we execute,” he said. AFP quad tendons. I wasn’t able he said. Aditi Narayan 6-1, 6-1 (13) Sandesh 54, 8. Knight’s Quest Prince (10) Mosin 53.5, 11. Super jackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. . The results: Quarterfinals (first leg): Ajax 2 (Klaassen TENNIS 23-pen, 52) bt Schalke 0. REGIONAL ROUND-UP Anderlecht 1 (Dendoncker Morgan, EB players face protest 87) drew with Manchester The scores: SSC 215 in 37.1 United 1 (Mkhitaryan 36). Vision Panchal on song Amitabha Das Sharma the players as they tried to strong contender for the overs (Vision Panchal 76, Bopanna-Matkowski Celta Vigo 3 (Sisto 15, As- NEW DELHI: Vision Panchal’s KOLKATA make their way out of the title before suffering the Yogesh Kumar 58, Parmesh pas 17, Guidetti 38) bt Genk 2 all-round show powered East Bengal coach Trevor club after the day’s prac- string of losses. (Boetius 10, Buffel 67). Swami Shradhhanand Khokhar three for 39) bt RSCC 178 in 38 overs (Mohit Ahlawat Morgan faced one of the tice ahead of the team’s up- Morgan had a lot of diffi- lose in quarterinals Lyon 2 (Tolisso 83, Morel College to a 37-run win over most bitter protests in his coming I-League match culty in getting past the 84) bt Besiktas 1 (Babel 15). Rann Star CC and into the 64, Vikas Dixit 48, Ramesh Prasad three for 28). long coaching career with against DSK Shivajians on crowd of unruly support- Sports Bureau han Bopanna 6-2, 6-4. First pre-quarterfinals of the 27th Marrakech Uddayvir, Rahat win titles the team when around 200 Sunday. ers, who blocked his way round: Matkowski & Bopanna all-India Om Nath Sood partisan supporters laid The fans also targeted demanding an explana- Rohan Bopanna and Marcin bt Marcus Daniell (Nzl) & Mar- CHANDIGARH: Uddayvir Singh memorial tournament. celo Demoliner (Bra) 6-4, 6-3. and Rahat Mangat won the siege to the club on Friday East Bengal goalkeeper T.P. tion. After being allowed to Matkowski lost 6-2, 6-4 to Panchal scored a crucial 76 boys’ and girls’ under-16 demanding his exit. Rehenesh, accusing him of reach his car, the Perth- Dominic Inglot and Mate $15,000 Futures, Jakarta: after his team was eight titles in the AITA Talent Morgan and his players being responsible for the based English coach heard Pavic in the quarterfinals in Semifinals: Justin Barki & down for 95. He added 108 series junior tennis faced the unprecedented three successive losses the some of the fans while try- the Grand Prix Hassan II Christopher Rungkat (Ina) bt for the ninth wicket with tournament on Friday. wrath of the supporters team suffered before falling ing to pacify them. ATP 250 event here. Haadin Bava & Karunuday Yogesh Kumar (58) to take The results (finals): Boys: after the team fell behind behind in the title race. Senior club official Deb- On the ITF circuit, Haadin Singh 6-3, 6-4. Quarterfinals: his side to a decent score. U-16: Uddayvir Singh bt in the race for the I-League Rehenesh had appar- abrata Sarkar, who tried to Bava and Karunuday Singh Bava & Karunuday bt Lin Hy- He returned to pick up two Bhupender Dhaiya 2-6, 6-4, title following a 2-1 loss ently made some foul ges- rescue the coach and the lost in the semifinals of the ung-Chan & Noh Sang-Woo wickets and walk away with 7-5; U-14: Jitin Chetry bt against traditional rival Mo- tures instigating the irate players, also got pushed $15,000 Futures in Jakarta. (Kor) 2-6, 6-4, [10-8]. the man-of-the-match Sarabjot Singh 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. hun Bagan last Sunday. mob. East Bengal, which and shoved by the infuri- The results: Grand Prix Hassan $15,000 ITF women, Sharm El award. Left-arm spinner Girls: U-16: Rahat Mangat bt Chanting “go back Mor- last won the National Foot- ated fans. II Open ATP 250, Marrakech: Sheikh: Semifinals: Laura- Ramesh Prasad took three. Pawandeep Kaur 6-0, 6-0; gan”, the supporters gave ball League (the former The fans later submitted Quarterfinals: Dominic Inglot Ioana Andrei (Rou) & Melanie Mohit Ahlawat top-scored U-14: Vrinda Sharma bt vent to their exasperation name of I-League) in the a charter of demands to (GBr) & Mate Pavic (Cro) bt Klaffner (Aut) bt Kyra Shroff & for RSCC with 64. Pawandeep Kaur 6-0, 2-6, 6-1. by mobbing the coach and 2003-04 season, was a Sarkar. Marcin Matkowski (Pol) & Ro- Dhruthi Venugopal 6-2, 6-2. Ajax’s Davy Klaassen. * AFP

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FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 11982 (set by The Phantom) SUDOKU

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 13 Leaving out a form of exercise? 3 Modern path to progress (6) (8) Listening to discourses 8 9 4 Complaint got from seaside 15 Nothing paid for with resorts (7) Vaishnavite Acharya Nampillai used to give discourses in the permission (7) Srirangam temple. So meaningful and interesting were his 10 11 5 Mockery of judgement to discourses, that Lord Ranganatha Himself wanted to get 17 Enraged, in other words include right for crooked closer to him to listen to the discourses. One day, the Lord provoked (7) leader (8) rose from His serpent bed, and was about to venture out of 12 13 14 the sanctum sanctorum. At the entrance to the sanctum 20 Bottle of jam (8) 6 Con missing the last piece of sanctorum stood Thiruvilakku Pichan — the person in jewellery (4) charge of lighting the lamps. He stopped the Lord and re- 15 16 17 18 22 Excellent lodges being minded Him that in the archa state He should be immobile! regularly chosen for meeting 19 7 About a gunner at heart The Lord then went back in. This may also be taken as an ex- (6) working for artillery (6) ample of Paratantriyam, where even the Lord is bound by 20 21 22 rules and acts in accordance with them, said Kidambi Naray- 23 Carpet currently not available, 14 Avoiding pressure can girl anan, in a discourse. I felt a tad upset (6) hide, at no time returning? However, the Lord did have the experience of listening to 23 24 25 (10) a religious discourse, relishing every moment of it. When 25 Being courteous European Lava and Kusa sang the story of Rama, the Lord listened to carries Italian lady's coat (8) 16 The oldest ateliers were them. Rama wanted others too to listen to the boys. In fact, 26 27 different (8) 26 Travellers by trains often Rama, King though He was, got down from His throne, sat down with His subjects and listened to the boys! accommodated by brokers? 18 Oriental character gets fair Discourses should be delivered in a manner that draws (8) treatment (8) Solution to puzzle 11981 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku people to them. As for those who attend discourses, they 27 Common sense, idiot possesses 19 Fairly loud base during S L E D G I N G S C R A P E too must follow certain rules. They should be keen listeners ■ ACROSS P X O E E O S X perhaps? Just the opposite! audition creates disturbance like Lord Rama. They should be focused listeners like 8 Caught one at leg-gully (6) (6) O U T E D C H I N M U S I C Pareekshit. (7) U R O K G E E L 9 Strange reaction after one S T O P W A T C H U L T R A Although Pareekshit’s days were numbered, he did not becomes chemically ■ DOWN 21 Warrant for arresting leader of E V N I T P I worry about his departure from the world, but listened to D E R I V E Y T T R I U M Suka’s narration. Once Parasara Bhattar was giving a dis- unreactive matter (5,3) mutiny (6) S R N O N S course in the Srirangam temple. He noticed a man peeping 10 A missing supplement found in 1 Opening batsman at sea, H I T C H E S R E S E T S beaten by delivery in this 22 Oil's processed in Philippines I I A E C U O in anxiously. Bhattar asked him what he wanted. The man measure of sugar (8) V I A L S N E V E R M I N D game? (8) to get wax (6) replied that he wanted to listen to the discourse, but was not 11 I love to eat after one (6) E N T D I A T E R A T I O N A L E T R I P S sure if he had the qualification to attend. Bhattar said that 12 What redneck's harbouring is 2 Cryptic from earliest "Times" 24 A worry when men fall out of E I R L W C O S the eagerness to listen was the most important qualification ill-will (6) found in setter's grave! (10) line (4) D E C O Y S A S T H E N I A and asked the man to come in.

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IN BRIEF Srikanth in semiinals Aditi makes Rohana joins Harendra in lead the cut Marin gets the better of Sindhu Press Trust of India Agencies The Sri Lankan veteran produces a sizzling back nine with four birdies Saensomboonsuk. Kapolei (USA) Singapore Stan Rayan Srikanth notched up a Aditi Ashok made her third KOCHI COCHIN MASTERS K. Srikanth and B. Sai Pra- dominating 21-14, 21-16 win successive cut on the LPGA over Shi Yuqi of China. He is from Colombo but neeth advanced to the semi- with a second straight one- finals, while P.V. Sindhu lost ‘Bomb attack, longest 15 Anura Rohana is a very fa- Gupta could not produce Sindhu suffered a 21-11, 21- under 71 that placed her in the last-eight round of the mins of my life’ miliar face in the Indian golf any more birdies after that 15 defeat at the hands of Car- tied-40th after two rounds $350,000 Singapore Open olina Marin of Spain. BERLIN circuit. In fact, the 43-year- and went on to drop another of the LOTTE golf champi- Super Series here on Friday. Dortmund defender Marc old Sri Lankan, who has shot on the 14th. In mixed doubles, B. onship here. Bartra, who was wounded been playing in India for “My driving and tee shots Praneeth battled for 71 Sumeeth Reddy and Ash- In-Kyung Kim and Ariya when three bombs rocked his nearly 20 years, is much were not as good compared minutes to eke out a 15-21, wini Ponnappa lost 21-11, Jutanugarn finished their Bundesliga team’s bus, more at home on the courses to the second round. I found 21-14, 21-19 win over eighth- 21-8 to the Chinese duo of second rounds and were described on Friday his ordeal here than the ones back the hazard a couple of seeded Tanongsak Lu Kai and Huang Yaqiong. tied for the lead at 9-under. as “the longest and hardest 15 home. times,” said the Chandigarh minutes of my life”. “The pain, Rohana produced a beau- player. the panic, the uncertainty of tiful back nine series, that in- “I feel the bogey on the not knowing what was cluded birdies in each of the seventh took away the mo- happening, or how long it last four holes at CIAL Golf mentum from me as I kept would last... they were the Club at Nedumbassery near thinking about it through the longest and hardest 15 here, and his 67 pushed him round. But, I’m still very minutes of my life," he posted from the overnight fifth spot much in contention and a on Instagram. AFP to joint lead with Harendra score of four to five-under in Gupta after the penultimate the final round would give Teenager Arashov gets day’s action in the PGTI me a good chance of two-year doping ban Cochin Masters on Good winning.” LONDON Friday. Three-time winner Honey Kazakhstan teenager Arsan Baisoya produced a flawless Arashov has been banned for “My second shots were coming off very well, they 68 to climb up from 11th to two years after testing tied third where he was positive for the banned were setting up birdies. And apart from the birdies in the joined by former champion substance meldonium, the Mukesh Kumar. International Tennis last four holes, I also came Superb show: Anura Rohana produced some classic golf to go The placings (after third Federation (ITF) announced very close to getting birdies in the 11th, 12th, 13th and into the inal round as a joint leader. round): on Thursday. The 17-year-old 207: Anura Rohana (70-70-67), failed a test at an ITF event in 14th holes,” said the three- under-64 set in 2015. on the sixth that left him time winner on the PGTI Harendra Gupta (70-65-72). Gandia, Spain in last July. Meanwhile, Chandigarh’s with a tap-in birdie. 209: Honey Baisoya (74-67- REUTERS Tour. Harendra Gupta (70-65-72), 68), Mukesh Kumar (70-68-71). “I can smell the title here, the leader after Thursday’s Bogey blues 211: Shivendra Singh Sisodia it’s very close. I hope I have a third round, looked good But a wrong club selection (67-71-73). 213: Raju Ali Mollah good final day, ” said Ro- early on the day. He moved that resulted in a bogey on (72-72-69), Om Prakash hana, who holds the course to two-under for the day the seventh was virtually the Chouhan (69-71-73), Aman Raj record here with an eight- after a brilliant bunker shot start of a disappointing day. (70-70-73).

Button to deputise for Alonso at Monaco Arunachal Festival of Speed set to kick-of LONDON Britain’s Jenson Button will come out of retirement for Suresh Rana and Sunny Sidhu will be the men to watch out for “one race only” to replace K. KEERTHIVASAN Among the other stars in ports Club of Arunachal and of an 8km dirt track and a Fernando Alonso in a McLaren DIRANG (Arunachal Pradesh) at next month’s Monaco the fray, ten-time Raid de Hi- sponsored by the state gov- 1km tarmac. Grand Prix, the British-based The fourth edition of the JK malaya champion Suresh ernment, the championship Formula One team announced Tyre Arunachal Festival of Rana and seven-time Desert will involve three categories World-class action on Friday. Alonso has been Speed promises to be an ex- Storm winner Sunny Sidhu of off-road racing: autocross, allowed to miss the race to citing affair with the newly- will be the men to watch out sprint and hill-climb. Speaking about the import- compete instead for McLaren crowned India Baja champi- for. Divided into three stages, ance of the championship at the Indianapolis 500, with ons, Gaurav Chiripal and Raj National autocross cham- the event will see the parti- for the North-East, Lhakpa both show-piece races taking Singh Rathore, battling it out pion Amanpreet Ahluwalia cipants tackle a 6.8-km dirt Tsering, president of the Mo- place on May 28. AFP for top honours this and INRC regulars Sandeep track on the first day. torsports Club of Arunachal, weekend. Sharma and Sanjay Agarwal In the second stage, they said: “The Arunachal Fest- TV PICKS Against the backdrop of will also aim to make their will face a sterner test as ival of Speed not only gives the picturesque Dirang val- presence felt once again. they will race through a 9- upcoming rallyists in the re- NBA: Sony Six & Six HD, 5.30 ley, accomplished rallyists As many as 30 rallyists km stretch through perilous gion a chance to rub a.m. (Sunday) from across the country will will line-up on Saturday for hills in the midst of lush shoulders with the best in I-League: TEN 2, 2, 4.30 & 7 be seen in action from April the first stage, the autocross. green forests. the country, but also offers p.m. 15 to 17. Organised by the Motors- The last stage will consist fans world-class action.”

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF A Saturn moon may host life Manuscript treasure trove Hydrothermal reactions in Enceladus could provide energy for alien microbes being digitised at BORI Kenneth Chang cluded that not only is there a pool of water near the Could icy moons like Sat- south pole of Enceladus to E-library of Indological texts will be accessible in the future David Bowie’s Lazarus urn’s Enceladus in the outer generate the plumes, but a in virtual reality solar system be home to mi- global ocean that lies be- Shoumojit Banerjee LONDON crobes or other forms of neath the moon’s ice. PUNE Late rock star David Bowie’s alien life? Precious manuscripts in musical Lazarus is set to Intriguing new findings Surprising find Sanksrit and its related lan- become a virtual reality from data collected by NA- In October 2015, Cassini guages, Pali and the experience. The show will be SA’s Cassini spacecraft sug- swooped to within 30 miles Prakrits, are soon to be pre- held at the Victoria and gest the possibility. of the surface of Enceladus, served for posterity with the Albert Museum. IANS Plumes of gas erupting and one of the instruments Bhandarkar Oriental Re- out of Enceladus — a small collected and identified search Institute (BORI) moon with an ocean of li- particles in the plume spray. launching an e-library and quid water beneath its icy It was mostly water mo- commencing a major digit- crust — contain hydrogen. lecules, but scientists also isation process of its treas- Scientists infer a lot from found hydrogen molecules. ure trove in Indology. that: that there are hydro- “Just finding hydrogen Unperturbed by the tu- thermal chemical reactions was a surprise,” said Chris- mult of Pune’s dramatically similar to those that occur at topher R. Glein, a geochem- changing landscape, the In- hot fissures at the ocean bot- ist at the Southwest Research stitute, named after le- Dubai gurdwara toms on the earth. Institute and one of the au- gendary Indologist Page by page: A manuscript is scanned at the Bhandarkar sets world record thors of the Science paper. Ramkrishna Gopal Oriental Research Institute in Pune. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT DUBAI Habitable conditions After considering a vari- Bhandarkar, was set up in A gurdwara in Dubai set a On Earth at least, hydro- ety of ways that could con- 1917 and remains a fixture in this project. Each day, Institute, authorising its world record for serving free thermal vents thrive with mi- tinually generate hydrogen, the city’s histo-cultural fab- around 4,000 pages of the transfer there. Among the breakfast to the maximum crobial life, offering up the the scientists concluded that ric as a veritable research- manuscripts have to be digit- notable publications that number of people from potential that icy moons far hydrothermal reactions ers’ paradise. ised and passed on to an IT have emerged from this diverse nationalities. About away from Earth could be offered the most likely ex- BORI’s venerated walls company in Mumbai special- grand collection is a critical 600 people from 101 habitable. planation for producing that house one of South Asia’s ising in digitisation,” Dr. 19-volume edition of the Ma- countries were present. IANS “That’s just going to be a much of the gas. largest and most invaluable Bapat said, adding that al- habharata, collated with co- tremendous opportunity to Icy home: Scientists theorise that water interacts with rock at Each water molecule con- agglomerations of rare most 12 lakh images of pages pious critical material out of test our theories and see if the bottom of the ocean of Enceladus, producing hydrogen sists of two hydrogen atoms manuscripts. have to be digitised. nearly 1,260 manuscripts. there’s life there,” said James gas that could feed microbes. * NASA and one oxygen atom. Geo- “The move to digitise rare At present, about 12,000 L. Green, director of planet- physical models indicated books began in earnest in extremely rare manuscripts Overcoming controversy ary science at NASA. show that levels of carbon di- other team of researchers that as hot water flows past September last year. The In- and books have been Apart from the ageing pro- This is the latest discovery oxide, hydrogen and meth- using the Hubble Space Tele- the rocks, minerals in the stitute has formed a three- scanned. cess, the manuscripts have by Cassini, a spacecraft that ane measured in the Ence- scope once again spotted rocks were grabbing the oxy- member committee to ex- The Government of Bom- also fallen prey to political is heading into its final ladus plume were out of what appears to be a similar gen atoms and releasing hy- amine its repository of 1.35 bay State had first begun a bickering, most notoriously months after 13 years of ex- equilibrium, an imbalance plume rising from Europa, drogen, the scientists lakh books and 28,000 ma- pan-Indian manuscript col- in 2004, when the Institute IIT Kharagpur and Google ploring Saturn, its moons that could provide an energy one of Jupiter’s big moons reported. nuscripts,” said Shreenand lection project in the was prey to vandalism by work on Bengali texts and rings. On April 22, Cas- source that organisms could that also possesses an ocean There appeared to be Bapat, registrar and curator- mid-1860s, in which emin- the Sambhaji Brigade KOLKATA sini begins a journey that will tap into for food, according beneath an icy exterior. enough energy to support in-charge, BORI. ent scholars like R.G. protesting against American The Indian Institute of take it between the planet to a paper published The tidal forces of Saturn microbes. “This is the first Bhandarkar and German In- scholar James Laine’s book Technology — Kharagpur is and its rings for 22 orbits be- Thursday in the journal pulling and squeezing Ence- time we’ve been able to Laborious process dologists Johann Georg on king Shivaji. working with Google to fore its mission finally ends Science. ladus appear to generate make a calorie count of an While a Zeutschel high-res- Buhler and Lorenz Franz Several manuscripts were develop a Bengali treebank to with a crash into Saturn’s at- In a separate paper pub- enough heat to melt the ice. alien ocean,” Mr. Glein said. olution German scanner has Kielhorn, among others, col- destroyed and Professor help understand grammatical mosphere in September. lished Thursday in The Astro- From additional Cassini ob- been specially procured by lected several thousand Bahulkar was manhandled structure of Bengali texts. IANS Cassini’s findings also physical Journal Letters, an- servations, scientists con- New York Times News Service the Institute at a cost of ₹ 15 manuscripts. allegedly for assisting Pro- lakh, the restoration prom- This treasure trove to be fessor Laine’s research. ises to be a painstaking and digitised was first deposited The move to build a di- laborious process that will at Mumbai’s Elphinstone gital collection has been Sculptor and painter S. Nandagopal passes away continue for the better part College, from whence it was mired in financial stress, of five years. moved to Pune’s Deccan and while baby steps were Special Correspondent member of the artists village. nai, and completed a dip- New Delhi, in 1970 and 1978 The scanning process, ac- College for better preserva- taken since 2011, the digitisa- Chennai Mr. Nandagopal was one of loma in fine arts at the Gov- and the Jindal Stainless Steel cording to Mr. Bapat, poses tion facilities. tion process gained mo- Eminent sculptor S. Nand- the first artists to move in ernment College of Arts and Award for Sculpture, 2002. particular challenges owing mentum only recently after agopal died of a massive car- there. Crafts, Chennai, in 1971. In 1998 and 2000, he was to the age of the manu- 19-volume Mahabharata the Centre approved of a re- diac arrest at his home in the A sculptor and a painter, Mr. Nandagopal was a vo- nominated by the Govern- scripts, some of which are The government collection vised budget outlay for the Cholamandal Artists Village whose finely crafted works cal advocate of the artists vil- ment of India to serve as an more than a millennium old. was permanently housed in same. In 2003, the National here on Friday. He was 71. are internationally recog- lage and of the Madras Art adviser to the National Gal- “A team of four researchers BORI in 1918 with Lord Will- Mission for Manuscripts He was the son of K.C.S. nised, Mr. Nandagopal was Movement. lery of Modern Art, New — Professor Shrikant ingdon [Major Freeman- (NAMAMI) selected BORI as Paniker, considered a lead- born in 1946 in Bengaluru. Mr. Nandagopal was the Delhi. He is survived by his Bahulkar, Dr. Maitreyee Thomas], the then Governor one of the 32 manuscripts ing figure in the Madras Art He graduated in physics recipient of the National wife, Kala Nandagopal, and Deshpande and their two as- of the Bombay Presidency resource and conservation S. Nandagopal Movement, and a founding from Loyola College, Chen- Award, Lalit Kala Academy, daughter Pallavi. sistants — are working on and the first president of the centres across the country.