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 4)2"5 Government harassment.” Ambedkar were against dis-      Accusing the BJP of dis- crimination, the SP chief n a new twist to the ongoing criminating on the basis of reli- accused the BJP of practising Ifracas over the Citizenship gion, Akhilesh said those who discrimination on the basis of (Amendment) Act or CAA, understand the soul of the religion. “Every Indian is Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh country are opposed to the against it. Will they (the BJP) Yadav and BSP supremo amended citizenship law. He kill the soul of the country and Mayawati have accepted Home also alleged the BJP is playing create fissures in society for Minister Amit Shah’s challenge with the Constitution as it has votes,” he said. for debate on the CAA. majority in the Lok Sabha. Accusing Uttar Pradesh While Akhilesh is prepared “I am glad that women Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for such an engagement while have taken the lead and youth of using words like “thok diya  "6.647 keeping economic slowdown are protesting in large num- jayega” in his speeches, he said, and development as part of the bers,” Akhilesh said after gar- “This cannot be the language of n the wake of delaying tac- package, Mayawati said her landing a statue of SP leader a politician. “BJP used ‘kabris- Itics adopted by the death- party is ready for a debate on Janeshwar Mishra at a park tan and shamshan’ and ‘Diwali row convicts in the Nirbhaya the CAA on any platform. here on his death and Ramzan’ during poll rallies gangrape and murder case, Meanwhile, AIMIM chief anniversary. for the sake of votes.” Union Home Ministry on Asaduddin Owaisi chipped in, BSP chief Mayawati, who Wednesday approached the telling Shah, “Daadhi wale se along with Akhilesh, had Supreme Court for amending fixing the deadline for filing of karo na” (debate with a beard- skipped the Opposition meet- the 2014 guidelines regarding curative pleas after the rejec- ed man). ing in to oppose the P          the timeline for the execution, tion of review petitions. Addressing a rally in sup- CAA, on Wednesday said her filing of review and curative It also sought a direction port of the CAA in Lucknow party is ready for a debate on petitions and mercy petitions. that “if the convict of death on Tuesday, Shah had dared the CAA on any platform. the petitions related to Assam granting any interim relief to Asserting that the need of sentence wants to file mercy Opposition leaders like “The BSP is ready to accept and Tripura separately as the petitioner opposing the CAA the hour is to lay down guide- petition, it would be manda- Mayawati, Congress leader the challenge thrown by the problem with the CAA in these after four weeks. lines in the interest of the vic- tory for a convict of death sen- Rahul Gandhi, Trinamool Central Government, which is two States is different from rest The petitions concerning tims rather than keeping the tence to do so only within a Congress chief Mamata troubled by the organised of the country. Tripura and Assam as well as rights of the convicts in mind, period of seven days from the Banerjee and Samajwadi Party struggle and agitation all over Senior advocate Kapil the matters related to Uttar the Centre wants the SC to fix date of receipt of death warrant president Akhilesh Yadav to the country against the most Sibal, appearing for some peti- Pradesh, which is going ahead a deadline of seven days for the issued by the competent debate with him on the law on controversial CAA/NRC/NPR, tioners, said the issue be with the implementation of execution of death penalty of court”. a “sarvjanik manch” (public especially by the youth and referred to a Constitution the CAA without framing any condemned prisoners after The MHA submitted that platform). women, for a debate on the  "6.647 judge Constitution Bench will Bench and the NPR exercise be rules, can be dealt with sepa- issuance of the death warrant. the top court should “mandate Picking up the challenge, issue on any platform and any- hear the matter. postponed by a couple of rately, the Bench said. It said the The affidavit filed by the all the competent courts, State Akhilesh said, “I’m ready for where,” Mayawati said in a he Supreme Court on A Bench headed by Chief months. He also urged the earlier cutoff date for citizen- Government also sought clar- Governments, prison author- the debate on CAA. Ask them tweet in Hindi. TWednesday issued notice to Justice SA Bobde restrained all Bench to put on hold the oper- ship in Assam was March 24, ifications with regard to cases ities in the country to issue to fix a place or a forum, with Mayawati had obviously the Centre on pleas challeng- high courts from hearing pleas ationalisation of the 1971 and noted that it has been involving multiple convicts death warrant of a convict their favorite channels and come under pressure to take an ing the constitutional validity on the CAA till it decides in the CAA. extended till December 31, who time their petitions in within seven days of the rejec- anchors, also for a debate on aggressive stance against the of the Citizenship matter. As many as 143 peti- Asserting that it will not 2014 under the CAA. such a way that the execution tion of his mercy petition and development. We Samajwadis CAA after another Dalit leader (Amendment) Act saying it will tioners have approached the SC pass any ex-parte order with- The SC said it will decide of the death warrant could be to execute death sentence are ready for it. But the BJP Chandrasekhar Azad occupied not issue any order to stay the on CAA questioning its con- out hearing the Centre on stay- in-chamber the modalities of delayed indefinitely. The within seven days thereafter should also debate on the issues centre stage in Delhi in mobil- Act without hearing the stitutional validity. ing the operation of the CAA hearing the batch of petitions Nirbhaya case is perfect exam- irrespective of the stage of like economic slowdown, ising protest against the CAA. Government’s argument. The The Bench, also compris- and exercise of the National on the CAA and may fix them ple of such delaying tactics. review petition/curative peti- unemployment, poverty and Meanwhile, asserting that court gave the Government ing Justices S Abdul Nazeer and Population Register (NPR), the for day-to-day hearing after The MHA’s plea sought a tion/mercy petition of his co- death of people due to Mahatma Gandhi and BR four weeks to respond. A five- Sanjiv Khanna, said it will hear court said it will pass order on four weeks. direction from the top court in convicts”.            "6.647 he Interpol has urged Tmember nations to help locate Nithyananda, the self- declared godman who fled last year amid allegations of rape and sexual abuse. A blue-corner notice that makes it obligatory for coun- tries to share information on  6"+4$ any person involved in a crime has been issued by the Interpol Bureau of Investigation (CBI), efore orbiting astronauts against Nithyananda at the the nodal body for Interpol Bon India’s first manned behest of the Gujarat matters in India, seeking a mission to space in December Police. Blue Corner Notice against 2021, the Indian Space Last month, Ecuador Nithyananda, officials said. Research Organisation will denied the presence of the Following this, the Interpol send “Vyommitra”, a “lady fugitive “godman” and said it issued the Blue Corner Notice robot” in the unmanned     !   #  $ %     #   & had rejected his request for asy- against Nithyananda. After Gaganyaan spacecraft.  # ! '     #      #  #     $$ The tableau summarizes The traditions of dance and lum. The Embassy of Ecuador securing the Blue Corner The robot was the centre of        (     # )   +  the broad horizon of music are also displayed near also suggested he had left the Notice, the Gujarat Police is attraction at the inaugural ses-  # #  %, hhattisgarh’s tableau, Chhattisgarh's folk life and this craft. country for Haiti. working to get Interpol to issue sion of the “Human Spaceflight Cdepicting traditional crafts earmarks the art forms of trib- The middle portion shows He was charged with kid- a Red Corner Notice, a global and Exploration — Present Explaining about the role functions in space and also and ornaments, is ready to al society. The art form ranges a tribal girl adorned with tra- napping and wrongful con- arrest warrant, against Challenges and Future Trends” in the mission, she said, “I can interact with the environment mesmerise the audience at from ornaments to idols to ditional ornaments dreaming finement of children to make Nithyananda, source said. here on Wednesday. monitor through module para- control life support Rajpath during the Republic things used in day to day life. about her future. The rear part them collect donations from The Gujarat Police had Vyommitra, a combina- meters, alert you and perform system. Day celebrations in the nation- The front portion of the depicts a storage space for followers to run his ashram. registered an FIR against tion of two Sanskrit words life support operations. I can “It will be simulating al Capital. tableau consists of an idol of paddy beautifully adorned with The Blue Corner Notice Nithyananda after two girls Vyoma (Space) and Mitra perform activities like switch exactly the human functions The tableau was show- 'Nandi' - vehicle of Lord Shiva, Dhokra art. Nearby, boat sailors will help the law enforcement went missing from his ashram (Friend), took everyone by panel operations...” there (in space). It will check cased to the national media by made up of bell metal. This is made up of wrought iron agencies here in collecting in Ahmedabad last year. surprise when she introduced The robot said she can whether the system is right. Defence Ministry during a the best sample of Dhokra depicting the continuous flow additional information from While police continue to herself to the audience gathered also be a companion and con- This will be very useful to sim- press preview at R R Camp here art. of happiness and eternity of life the member countries of the look for him, reports emerged there. “Hello everyone. I am verse with the astronauts, ulate, as if a human is flying,” on Wednesday. The idol embellished with is showcased. Interpol about the suspect’s in December last year that he Vyommitra, the prototype of recognise them and can also he added. Tribal dancers, who will be utmost beauty not only show- Out of 28 states, only 16 identity, location or activities in has created a “Hindu” nation, the half-humanoid, been made respond to their queries. The humanoid, which accompanying the tableau, also cases the spiritual side of folk states, including Chhattisgarh relation to the crime. Kailaasa, with its own flag and for the first unmanned ISRO chairman K Sivan Sivan said was functioning performed Kaksaar dance in life but also depicts tribal's will be able to take part in The Gujarat Police had political setup, on an island Gaganyaan mission,” the robot told reporters the half well, has the human simulation front of the media. love towards living creatures. Republic Day parade. sent a request to the Central near Ecuador. said. humanoid will simulate human system. 

                           "6.647 also figured in the list.    Former Chief Ministers        s the stakes are very high Harish Rawat and Bhupinder    ! "  # Afor the BJP and the Singh Hooda,  #  $! %"$& Congress to regain grounds in Deputy Chief Minister Sachin  !  #(   the Delhi Assembly against Pilot, general secretary      ) ! *# Arvind Kajrwal-led Aam Jyotiraditya Scindia, senior +    (   Aadmi Party (AAP), they too leaders Kapil Sibal and Ghulam  !  L M   have listed star campaigners for Nabi Azad, are also among the ".!   ! / the February 8 elections. star campaigners. The ruling-AAP has listed The other campaigners for     39 star campaigners, including the AAP in the list are Bhagwat  P , Deputy Chief Mann, Pankaj Kumar Gupta,  0 1  # Minister Manish Sisodia, Rajya Durgesh Pathak, ND Gupta,      2  Sabha member Sanjay Singh, Assembly election, has lined up Minister and the party’s poster Ministerial candidate. While Sushil Kumar Gupta, Rajender  +    ( Gopal Rai, Atishi Marlena and a battery of Union Ministers, boy Yogi Adityanath will lead that is the BJP’s usual procedure eral secretary Priyanka Gandhi ers in the national Capital, a Pal Gautam, Imran Hussain,       Raghav Chadha. Chief Ministers and senior the fight with former Chief except in rare cases, the Chief Vadra former Punjab Minister senior party leader said. Baljinder Kaur, Dilip Pandey,      The BJP has rolled out big state leaders to campaign over Ministers Shivraj Singh Minister has poked fun at the Navjot Singh Sidhu and actor- Former Prime Minister Preeti Sharma Menon, Saurabh . #1 O    guns of the party to wrest the next 20 days. Chouhan and Arjun party. turned-politician Shatrughan Manmohan Singh as well as Bharadwaj, Amantullah Khan, L#M     # Delhi from the AAP — draw- The list includes star cam- Munda. Meanwhile, the Congress Sinha are among the star cam- Chief Ministers of Congress- Satyender Jain, Dr Ajay Kumar, # ! !  /  ing up a list of 40 star cam- paigners like Amit Shah, Smriti Most of the campaigners has submitted names of 40 paigners. ruled States Capt Amarinder Kailash Gehlot, Rakhi Birla, 1 O    #  paigners led by Prime Minister Irani, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath for the BJP are from outside star campaigners to the election The decision to include Singh (Punjab), Ashok Gehlot Vishal Dadlani, Prithvi Reddy,    2    Narendra Modi for the high Singh, Dr Harsh Vardhan, Vijay Delhi — a gap the ruling party commission for the upcoming Sidhu and Sinha’s name in the (Rajasthan), Kamal Nath Aman Arora, Shoaib Iqbal,    (#   decibel Assembly elections. Goel and the national presi- is expected to exploit. Earlier, Delhi Assembly polls. Congress list of star campaigner is taken (Madhya Pradesh), Bhupesh Abdul Rehman, Sanjay Bhagat,   2 / The BJP, which could win only dent Jagat Prakash Nadda. Kejriwal had pointed out that president Sonia Gandhi, former considering large number of Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and V Rekha Rani, and Somnath three seats in the 2015 Uttar Pradesh Chief the BJP is yet to name a Chief party chief Rahul Gandhi, gen- Punjabi and Purvanchali vot- Narayanasamy (Puducherry) Bharti.    !!    

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Article 370 and reorganisa- Ladakh, officials said, adding despite the Pulwama incident non-armoured buses. the youth as the jehadi ranks of CRPF vehicles in Pampore # L# (  M  The preparation for the tion of the erstwhile State of approvals for procurement of last year in which 40 CRPF per- “The sanctioned numbers are facing crisis due to the wip- and killed eight uniformed   (     Amarnath Yatra begins in Jammu & Kashmir into two the specialised vehicles are yet sonnel were killed while trav- of bullet-proof bunker vehicles ing out of the terror leadership men of the paramilitary and  !      March and a meeting was held Union Territories — J&K and to see the light of the day elling in a convoy consisting of are badly needed as addition- in the Valley owing to counter- injuring over 20 others. 8  @          !  ( (  #    !/  #  -.!         '  (+34 34    "6.647 . ## !    (#    . (    everyone living in the world as    #AB#!   !  N  #        O one family,” the Minister said.  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( gan of ‘Vasudev Kutumbakam’ across the country. designate Daman as the head- (     (  on Wednesday said the children  %).&+ #  (#   ! @G @: — the whole world is one fam- Addressing media, Union quarters of the merged Union  !   (  !  from there are “nationalists” but    !(#  2       #  ily. This message has gone to Minister Prakash Javadekar Territories of Daman & Diu,   / sometimes get motivated in  (# #(#     (#   ( the whole world from here said this will help the NITS to and Dadra & Nagar Haveli. the wrong direction and those . (     #  ( ###!  #    only,” he added. establish permanent campuses The Cabinet also approved . .  guiding are the “culprits.”  (   ( #   ( ( (  # He later presented Raksha and infrastructures. Blaming a model pact with foreign 33    Rawat had also said the   ///M6 (  ( (( /     ( ( Mantri Padak and commen- UPA Government, he said the countries for recognition of  1   misguided youth have to be ( /J(         > (  # dation cards to NCC cadets and NITS were established in 2009 seafarers’ competency certifi- $ #.# %$.& weaned away by lodging them # !        # (## # !   observed band and cultural were given very low funding cates. This will pave the way for    !  in deradicalisation camps. #  #M     performances of NCC cadets. around Rs 250 crore and this mutual recognition of mar-       ! Dispelling the notion of Praising the parade and had hampered the growth of itime education and training of %& ## #  radicalisation, the Defence various performances of cadets, the institutes. seafarers by the countries +  8   %+8&  Minister said those youngsters blamed. The ones who are where it is happening and who and that is why the country is the Defence Minister said it has “Now with the decision involved. . # =>  “should not be seen in any motivating them in wrong are behind it. The CDS also secular and never became a been able to boost the for granting Rs 4, 371 crore all “The Cabinet has approved K"  #$ #4# other way.” direction are the culprits,” the said radicalisation is happening theocratic state like Pakistan. sense of national pride among NITs can be upgraded with bet- a model MoU with foreign   %.=*"$4& Making this observation Defence Minister added. He in schools, universities, religious “We (India) said we would Indian youth. ter facilities by 2022, he said. countries for unilateral/bilateral    !  # when asked about his opinion made these remarks after places and sites and then there not discriminate among reli- He also said the NCC plays The Cabinet meeting recognition of Certificates of  >(    !   ! on the children from Jammu & attending the Republic Day are people spreading this. “First gions. Why did we do that? an unparalleled role in trans- chaired by Prime Minister Competency of seafarers,” a !       Kashmir being motivated to annual camp of the NCC. we need to get to the nerve of Our neighbouring country has forming the youth into future Narendra Modi approved fur- Government official said.  #/ join the National Cadet Corps In his address during the who is radicalising people. You declared that their state has a leaders. “Today, NCC cadets (NCC), he said, “Youngsters are Raisina Dialogue here last can start isolating these people religion. They have declared can be found in almost every 4  * youngsters only. Sometimes, week, Rawat had said children gradually and then start a themselves a theocratic state. field, including Armed Forces,     the way they should be moti- as young as 10 to 12 years are counter radicalisation pro- We didn’t declare so.” politics and sports. Even Prime  1) vated, people do not motivate being radicalised in Kashmir gramme by identifying people “Even America is a theo- Minister Narendra Modi, who     them. In fact, they are moti- and there is need to isolate who have been radicalised, to cratic country. India is not a is taking our country to newer    !   !   vated in the wrong direction.” those completely radicalised what degree...” he had said. theocratic country. 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 7$.$ The DGP further expressed Akhada and Ganga Sabha pres- confidence that any problems ident Pradeep Jha also assured he second training session faced will be overcome to that coordination among the Tof the police personnel ensure successful completion of religious fraternity, local peo- &   January 2, 2019, Srimati Badra down and lost her right leg. deputed to Kumbh Mela 2021 the Kumbh Mela. ple and visiting devotees will (10) of Angul district has Srimati pulled Pramila force- duty was inaugurated by the In addition to Raturi, the make the Kumbh Mela 2021   '  been chosen for the ICCW fully out of the track and car- Director General of Police Anil DG (Law and Order) Ashok successful.  '    Prahalada Award for helping a ried her on her shoulder for Raturi on Wednesday. Along Kumar, Kumbh Mela inspector Later, those undergoing friend who lost her right leg in 300 metres up to her resi- with the police personnel, rep- general Sanjay Gunjyal and the training were also taken to (P* + a train accident. dence. Thereby she could be resentatives of various Akhadas Kumbh Mela senior superin- the Kumbh Mela control room Soon after a picnic boat saved. and Ganga Sabha were also tendent of police Janmejay building. They were informed present on the occasion. Khanduri also shared their about the police control room, Raturi sought the blessings views with the police person- CCTV network and commu- and cooperation of the religious nel on the occasion. nication system by Haridwar fraternity for the Kumbh Mela Further, Mahant Ravindra deputy superintendent of police to be held at Haridwar in 2021. Poori from Mahanirvani Mukesh Thakur. 8 =>  52$5    # # 4  54    inancial service provider FGEOJIT launched its new branch office at Bokaro Steel  $")7 the samples were collected to City to strengthen its foot- check for adulteration by Sub print and provide services to n order to keep a check on Divisional Officer (SDO) the investors. Ithe quality of food especial- Lokesh Mishra from vendors, India’s prominent stock ly during festivals like shops and manufactures across market analyst and company Dusshera and Diwali, officials the State capital. head Gurang Shah inaugurat- from the Department of The report presented by ed the branch office at City  7"6$ carrying 52 persons sank in a On Wednesday, Chief Health, Medical Education SFL Namkum on Tuesday Center Sector 4. river in Nipania village on Minister Naveen Patnaik con- and Family Welfare visited states that three shops in the Speaking on the occasion hree girls from Odisha January 2, Purnima and Sabita veyed his greetings to Sabita various shops across the State city have used prohibited Shah said, our aim is to advice Tamong 22 children would dived into the river and saved and Purnima for being chosen capital collecting food samples colours espically in items like clients and provide services on receive the ICCW National as many as 12 persons from for the National Bravery from shops and street side boondi laddu. every aspect of savings and all Bravery Awards 2019 at the drowning. As many as 11 pic- Award. food vendors. The shops include types of investments including Rashtrapati Bhavan on the eve nickers had died in the inci- Patnaik also announced However, the reports Jodhpur Mishthan Bhandar Mutual funds, Equities, of Republic Day this year. dent. that a cyclone shelter would be released three months later by in Harmu and Maa Tara Commodities, Insurance and While Purnima Giri (16) On November 27, 2018, constructed at the high school SFL Namkum show that some Sweets in Piska More. others. and Sabita Giri (15) of Srimati along with Pramila where the two are currently shops in Ranchi have used Apart from these samples Kendrapada district would get Munda were crossing a railway studying. He sanctioned Rs artificial colour unsafe for of turmeric powder collected the ICCW Dhruvi ward for track when a stationary goods 1.20 crore for the purpose. humanfrom Ashok Nagar’s Pahelwan their heroic act of saving 12 train suddenly started moving. The two girls would lay consumption. Hotel was also found persons from drowning in a Thoug Srimati successfully foundation-stone for the build- As per the direction of to be harmful for human con- river full of crocodiles on crossed the track, Pramila fell ing, added an official release. Ranchi Deputy Commissioner, sumption.    !!   , 9 Washington: The US Senate agers prosecuting the case and filled earlier with guests, The White House legal of constitutional misconduct plunged into President Donald the White House counsel to actress-and-activist Alyssa team did not dispute Trump’s justifying impeachment.’’ Trump’s impeachment trial “remember where they are.” Milano among them, and actions, when he called The other lead lawyer on with Republicans abruptly “I think it is appropriate at Trump’s most ardent House Ukraine and asked for a Trump’s team, Jay Sekulow, abandoning plans to cram this point for me to admonish allies lining the back rows, the “favour,” which was to investi- retorted, “I’ll give you a trifec- opening arguments into two both the House managers and day that began as a debate over gate Biden as he withheld mil- ta,” outlining complaints over days but solidly rejecting for the president’s counsel in equal rules quickly took on the itary aid the ally desperately the House Democrats’ now Democratic demands for terms to remember that they cadence of a trial proceeding needed as it faced off with hos- impeachment inquiry process. more witnesses to expose what are addressing the world’s over whether the president’s tile Russia on its border. But the In Davos, Trump repeated they deem Trump’s “trifecta” of greatest deliberative body,” actions toward Ukraine war- lawyers insisted the president his attacks on Democratic offenses. Roberts said. ranted removal from office. did nothing wrong. “Absolutely House managers serving as Trump himself claimed he He told them that descrip- “It’s not our job to make it no case,” Cipollone said. prosecutors in the trial, saying wants top aides to testify, but tion of the Senate stemmed easy for you,” Rep. Adam Schiff, the California he’d like to “sit right in the front qualified that by suggesting from a 1905 trial when a sen- Schiff, the chairman of the Democrat, said America’s row and stare at their corrupt there were “national security” ator objected to the word “pet- House Intelligence Committee Founders added the remedy of faces” on the Senate floor dur- concerns to allowing their tes-   0 ' 7 # 0 0 $ 5!8$         tifogging,” because members leading the prosecution, told impeachment in the ing the trial but that his attor- timony.        % # 4 # ,  #    (  should “avoid speaking in a the Senate. “Our job is to Constitution with “precisely neys might have a problem “We have a great case,”    # #  % manner and using language make it hard to deprive the this type of conduct in mind - with it. Trump said on Wednesday at that is not conducive to civil American people of a fair conduct that abuses the power And he said he wants to a global economic forum in started with the setback for House prosecutors on one discourse.” trial.” of office for a personal bene- deliver the State of the Union Davos. Republican Senate leader side, Trump’s team on the Over and over, White House counsel Pat fit, that undermines our as scheduled on February 4 In a press conference Mitch McConnell and the other, in the well of the Senate, Republicans turned back Cipollone, the president’s lead national security, and that even if the trial is ongoing, before returning to president’s legal team, but it as senators sat silently at their Democratic amendments to lawyer, called the trial “a farce.” invites foreign interference in calling the address “very Washington, Trump said his ended near 2 a.M. On desks, under oath to do subpoena documents from the He scoffed that the House the democratic process of an important to what I am doing” legal team was doing a “very Wednesday with Republicans “impartial justice.” No cell- White House, State charges against Trump were election.” in setting his administration’s good job.” easily approving the rest of the phones or other electronics Department, Defense “ridiculous.” Said Schiff: “It is the trifecta agenda. AP He appeared to break with trial rules largely on their were allowed. Department and budget office. Republicans efforts to block terms. As the day stretched deep By the same 53-47 party-line, Democratic motions to imme- With the rules settled, the into the night, lawyerly argu- they turned away witnesses ,  ## O    P  /     diately call witnesses and sub- trial is now on a fast-track. At ments gave way to more with front-row seats to Trump’s poena documents. Instead, issue is whether Trump should pointedly political ones. actions including acting White Davos: US President Donald safe,” he said at the World It said the other nations Trump said he’d like to see be removed from office for Tempers flared and senators House chief of staff Mulvaney Trump said his administra- Economic Forum in Davos, being considered for new aides, including former nation- abuse of power stemming from paced the chamber. and Bolton, the former nation- tion was preparing to add a adding that the names of the rules were Belarus, Eritrea, al security adviser John Bolton, his pressure on Ukraine to Democrats pursued what may al security adviser critical of “couple of countries” to the new countries would be Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Sudan Secretary of State Mike investigate Democratic rival be their only chance to force the Ukraine policy. controversial list of states announced “very shortly”. and Tanzania. Pompeo, and acting chief of Joe Biden and Biden’s son senators to vote on hearing Only on one amendment, whose citizens are subject to The Wall Street Journal The first package of trav- staff Mick Mulvaney, testify as Hunter as Trump was withhold new testimony. to allow more time to file travel bans or severe restric- reported earlier that the el bans and restrictions — witnesses Trump said he’d leave aid to the country, and for After one particularly bit- motions, did a single tions on entry to the United administration planned to targeting mainly Muslim the “national security” con- obstructing Congress’ ensuing ter post-midnight exchange, Republican, Sen. Susan Collins States. add seven countries including majority countries — were cerns about allowing their tes- probe. Roberts intervened, taking the of Maine, join Democrats. But “We are adding a couple Nigeria, Africa’s most popu- announced shortly after timony to the Senate. Chief Justice John Roberts rare step of admonishing both it, too, was rejected, 52-48. of countries to it. We have to lous country, and others in Trump took office in January Tuesday’s daylong session gaveled open the session, with the Democratic House man- As the visitors’ gallery be safe. Our country has to be Africa and Asia. 2017 and outraged his critics. 7  % &        4      P        3:

#     # % #P   Beijing: The death toll from virus that has killed people in Such a declaration, if Chinese New Year and Spring the new coronavirus outbreak China is a novel strain and made, will be seen as an Festival holidays starting Colombo: Gotabaya Rajapaksa gated, but added, “however I died during the fights, but their in China nearly doubled to 17 not seen before. urgent call for a coordinated from January 24. wants a probe into the disap- can’t bring back the dead”. bodies had not been recovered,” with the confirmed infection Common symptoms of international response in view The festival triggers pearances of over 20,000 peo- The President told the UN it said. Rajapaksa told the UN cases sharply rising to 444 on the novel coronavirus strain of fears that millions of biggest mass migration, clog- ple in the country’s brutal civil official that as a result of the official that after the conclusion Wednesday, even as the cases include respiratory symptoms Chinese are travelling at ging road, rail and air net- war with Tamil Tiger rebels, his census carried out by the gov- of the necessary investigations, of the deadly pneumonia such as fever, cough, shortness home and abroad for the works every year. PTI office has said in a clarification ernment at the end of the con- steps would be taken to issue were reported from the US, of breath and breathing diffi- after the Sri Lankan President flict in 2009, it had emerged death certificates and after that Hong Kong, Macao and culties, according to the WHO. declared the missing persons that most of the missing per- the families would be given the Mexico. The Chinese health ? “dead” in a first-ever admission sons had been conscripted by necessary support to rebuild Chinese authorities have authorities announced that to a UN official. the LTTE, the statement said. their lives. warned that the disease could 444 confirmed cases of pneu- Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the “Their families attest to According to the govern- spread further in the ongoing monia caused by a novel former wartime defence secre- being witnesses of their loved ment figures, over 20,000 peo- holiday season during which coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Hong Kong: Hong Kong public concern,” Chan said. tary who played a key role in ones being taken by the LTTE. ple are missing due to various millions travel at home and had been reported in 13 reported its first suspected The man and four family ending Sri Lanka’s nearly 30- However, thereafter they do not conflicts including the three- abroad amid official advi- provincial-level regions in case of the new SARS-like members had taken the high- year civil war with the Tamil have any information as to decade separatist war with sories to people of Wuhan, the country by the end of virus Wednesday in a man speed railway from Wuhan to separatist rebels, told UN their fate. Therefore, as far as Lankan Tamils in the north and the epicentre of illness, not to Tuesday. who arrived in the city from Shenzhen on Tuesday before Resident Coordinator Hanaa they are concerned these peo- east which claimed at least leave the city. Considering its potential Wuhan via the cross-border transferring to another train Singer last week that after the ple are missing,” the statement 100,000 lives. Seventeen people have to spread to different coun- high-speed railway. that brought them to Hong necessary investigations are quoted the Sri Lankan president The Tamils alleged that died due to the virus, state- tries, the World Health Health secretary Sophia Kong. completed steps would be taken as saying. thousands were massacred dur- run China Daily reported on Organisation (WHO) is hold- Chan said the 39-year-old He was put in isolation in to issue death certificates to the “The unfortunate truth is ing the final stages of the war Wednesday. ing a rare emergency meeting man was “preliminarily posi- hospital after tests, but missing persons. that these people had died dur- that ended in 2009 when the The coronavirus is a large Geneva on Wednesday to tive”, but a final test result Wednesday when his relatives The President’s office has ing the battles. Even in the secu- Government forces killed family of viruses that causes consider declaring Wuhan would only be known on showed no symptoms after a said Gotabaya Rajapaksa had rity forces there are about 4,000 Liberation Tigers of Tamil illnesses ranging from the virus as an international pub- Thursday. night at a city hotel they were explained to the UN official that personnel listed as missing. Eelam (LTTE) chief Velupillai common cold to acute respi- lic health emergency, as it did “We decided to announced allowed to leave for the he will have the matter investi- But in reality these people had Prabhakaran. PTI ratory syndromes, but the with swine flu and Ebola. the case (early) due to heavy Philippines. AFP ,# ,        #     !  Davos: Pakistan Prime Minister Trump on Tuesday had said the Imran Khan on Wednesday US is watching the develop- said he has told US President ments between India and Donald Trump that a war with Pakistan over Kashmir “very Iran would have disastrous con- closely” and repeated his offer Cairo: Egypt, Ethiopia and for its large and growing pop- The meeting in Khartoum sequences. to “help” resolve the long- Sudan started US-monitored ulation, also about 100 million. would last two days, he said. Asked whether Trump standing dispute between the talks on Wednesday in the The Blue Nile flows from There was no immediate indi- agreed with him, Khan said the two neighbours. Sudanese capital to try ham- Ethiopia into Sudan where it cation on whether it would US President did not say any- Trump told Khan, whom mer out a draft deal to resolve joins the White Nile near succeed after several previous thing but he probably under- he referred to as “my friend”, their dispute over a Nile dam Khartoum, to form the Nile rounds of talks failed. But at stood what he meant. that he would speak to Prime that Ethiopia is constructing, River. Eighty-five percent of the talks in Washington last “Afghanistan is yet to be Minister Narendra Modi about an Egyptian spokesman said. Nile waters originate in week, the three countries said resolved and Iran would be the ongoing Kashmir issue. The $4.6 billion Grand Ethiopia from the Blue Nile, they had reached a preliminary much bigger (if war starts),” on January 3. The Pakistan Prime Trump is expected to visit India Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which is one of the Nile’s two agreement. Khan said. “If there is conflict between Minister also said he does not in the coming weeks, marking project on the Blue Nile, which main tributaries. The US and World Bank Khan met Trump on the Iran and the Western world it understand why countries try to his first visit after assuming promises to provide much- According to Muhamed are acting as observers at the sidelines of the World will be a disaster — it will cause resolve their differences through office. needed electricity to Ethiopia’s el-Sebai, a spokesman for Khartoum talks after Egypt’s Economic Forum (WEF) sum- poverty in the world — and military conflicts. “What’s going on between 100 million people, has been a Egypt’s irrigation ministry, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi mit here on Tuesday. who knows how long it may go “The moment you start a Pakistan and India … if we can contentious point among the technical and legal teams from last year pleaded with Tensions between the US on. In my opinion it would be military conflict, you don’t help, we certainly will be will- three main Nile Basin coun- the three countries are to “pre- Washington and the interna- and Iran have escalated in the insanity,” Khan said. know where it will finish. It has ing to. We have been watching tries. pare a draft deal” on how the tional community to mediate a wake of the killing of powerful “I spoke to President Trump unintended consequences,” he it very closely and it’s an hon- The issue is critical for dam’s reservoir would be filled solution for the years-long dis- Iranian commander General yesterday and I told him it said. our to be here with my friend,” Cairo as Egypt seeks to protect and how the dam itself would pute. Egypt claims that filling Qasem Soleimani by America would be a disaster,” Khan said. After meeting Khan, Trump had said. PTI its main source of freshwater operate. the dam’s reservoir too quick- ly could significantly reduce its share of the Nile water. A joint / '    # statement after the Washington meeting said the filling should  #   occur in stages during the rainy season, which generally #    runs from July to August, thought it did not give details on how long it would take to be Jakarta: An American journal- Sao Paulo: A frequent and completed.Another two-day ist working for an environ- fiery critic of Brazil’s media, meeting in Khartoum mental website has been arrest- President Jair Bolsonaro is planned for next week, with ed over an alleged visa violation Jerusalem: When French ed at the start of Via Dolorosa in declared Wednesday he would the goal of reaching a final in Indonesia that could send President Emmanuel Macron the Old City’s Muslim Quarter, no longer speak to journalists. agreement. AP him to jail for years, his employ- visited Jerusalem’s Old City on has been part of France’s terri- Bolsonaro made the er said on Wednesday. Wednesday, he also trod in the tories in the Holy Land since the remarks outside his official Philip Jacobson, 30, was ini- footsteps of one of his predeces- 1850s. The rules that have been residence in Brasilia where tially detained last month after sors, Jacques Chirac, by engag- in place “for centuries”, Macron most mornings for the past attending a hearing in Borneo ing in a heated argument with told the Israeli officers, “will not year he has fielded questions involving the local parliament Israeli security. change with me, I can tell you, from reporters and greeted and the Indigenous Peoples The altercation broke out OK? So everybody, respect the fans. “I want to speak with you, Alliance of the Archipelago, when Israeli security forces rules.” Macron will on Thursday but the national journalism Indonesia’s largest indigenous pushed past the French detail attend a ceremony to com- association says that when I rights advocacy group, the web- and were first to enter the memorate the liberation 75 years speak, I attack them,” site Mongabay said. Church of Saint Anne, which is ago of Nazi Germany’s Bolsonaro told reporters. This week, Jacobson was French state property. Auschwitz death camp in what “As I am a person of peace, formally arrested and told he “Everybody knows the rules. was then occupied Poland. I will not give more interviews.” faced up to five years in prison I don’t like what you did in front Wednesday’s tense scenes The move comes after the for visiting Indonesia with the of me,” an animated Macron recalled a 1996 Jerusalem visit by National Federation of wrong visa, it added. loudly told the Israeli personnel, late former president Chirac Journalists said last week He had travelled to the speaking in English, in the crush during which he also lost his cool Bolsonaro’s presidency had country on a business visa, to enter the building, which with Israeli security agents who “significantly affected the free- according to Mongabay. remains French territory under were pressing him to move on. dom of the press in Brazil.” “We are supporting Philip international treaties. “Go out — Chirac heatedly told them It registered 208 attacks — in this ongoing case and mak- outside please!” he added in a their actions were a “provoca- including physical and verbal ing every effort to comply with raised voice in scenes captured tion” and angrily asked: “What — against the media or jour- Indonesia’s immigration author- in video footage that quickly do you want? Me to go back to nalists in 2019, an increase of ities,” said Mongabay chief Rhett spread on social media. The my plane and go back to France, 54 percent compared with the A. Butler. PTI Roman Catholic church, locat- is that what you want?” AFP previous year. AFP    !! *   -     ( /(K#  M1.#   !/(K# K

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cies have become used to being wooed heavily criticised by the Central things should not have come to such with sops and benefits. Whether it is Government. a pass. We need clear, tangible and regularisation of illegal colonies and Both the Centre and the Delhi more-importantly quantifiable results structures or subsidised electricity and Government have been trading charges against efforts undertaken to protect 646$1"51 so on, we just lap it up. over this key issue and blaming each the environment by all stakeholders. 8$. However, do we ever stop to think other for the sad state of affairs in the The city is what we will leave to the what the cost of these sops is and who Capital. future generations and it cannot be   ! # is footing the bill? The answer is that As the common man continued to inhospitable due to pollution that has ( #  ! we the people or the electorate are even- suffer the impact of the pollution reached unmanagable levels and turned   /##  "))2 ("$ tually going to pay for the sops, collec- shrouding the city in a pall of smog, the it into a “gas chamber”, choking and tively. The sole beneficiary in this will judiciary took it upon itself to express killing the people that reside in it.     elhi is heading for polls on be the political party we elect, who will reservations on the efficacy of the The spectre of climate change is (    /6 ## February 8 to elect 70 members be laughing all the way to the seat of scheme in controlling the spiraling pol- looming large and pollution cannot be   ! (  ( Dto the Legislative Assembly and power, for the next five years. lution levels in Delhi-NCR and pulled stopped by turning a blind eye to it. ( (##  needless to say, campaigning by polit- We, as voters, must critically eval- this democratic exercise and which par- also asses what the environment-relat- up the Centre, the Delhi Government Combatting pollution and climate #    ical parties across the national Capital uate the promises being made by the ties have had the smallest carbon ed promises and assurances other and even the neighbouring States of change need a concentrated and sin- is expected to reach a fever pitch soon. Government in power and all the other footprint. This will usher in a positive contesting parties are bringing to the Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh on cere effort by the Government in     (   Like always, this election, too, will wit- contending parties and see what their change in the thinking of the voter table. The subject of pollution in Delhi the environmental crisis caused by power that has the resolve and the firm   (#/  ness a plethora of populist issues commitment is for pressing issues which will in turn compel the parties has been a hotly debated matter, with crop residue burning by farmers. mandate of the people behind it. So this   #  )   being made a poll plank by the candi- such as climate change and the envi- to shun anti-environmental activities the ruling (AAP) The Supreme Court also directed time let us elect the environment. A     ####  dates and their star campaigners as they ronment. And, we also need to look at in the form of excess use of fuel, plas- claiming tremendous success in rein- the Central Government to assess the Government that makes environmen-     (  do the rounds of the city. Populism has the environmental cost of an election. tic and paper during campaigning. The ing in the same with the help of the feasibility of the use of hydrogen-based tal policies its priority will then auto- become an integral aspect of elections This also needs to be audited and made people of Delhi need to question the vehicle rationing initiative the Odd- fuel technology in the Capital to mit- matically get elected.   ## mainly due to the fact that the people public in order to ensure that the peo- Government and ask it what it has done Even Scheme. However, as is the norm igate air pollution. (The writer is an environmental      (# ! / of one of the world’s largest democra- ple realise the environmental costs of to safeguard the environment and in politics, these initiatives have been However, the fact remains that journalist) %    #&    !!    4

4G   4      25421 CAA is a selective Act which Government works. They do jobs. Why so many people are CBI, ED etc) when they are discriminates among people. not even the same thing at the unemployed today. Why the raising the contentious issues. day after Amit Shah Let him tell about the condi- same time. In the something farmers are not getting their They are calling them Aattacked her for spreading tions mentioned in the NPR. they say something and in the due and respect. Why Pakistanis. I want to ask why do disinformation about the Let him mention whether those evening they other something. Government factories like ord- you always bringing in Citizenship Amendment Bill who will be granted citizenship They say date of birth is not nance factory (in Kolkata) are Pakistan. Do you have extra inviting her to an open nation- will have to live as foreigners mandatory. If it is not manda- being shut down… They are love for that country to invoke al debate on the issue, Bengal for the first five years or tory, why is it there in the selling the country… and to its name always?” Banerjee Chief Minister Mamata not.” columns?” she added. hide these all they are raising asked. Banerjee on Wednesday lashed “And if such be the condi- Referring how thousands the issues of CAA.” She said the BJP leaders out at the Union Home tions then he will have to say of Nepali speaking people had Claiming that in order to always were foul-mouthing her Minister for talking big but hes- whether the people will lose been banished from the turn the attention of the peo- for protesting against their itating to come out with the jobs because aliens cannot National Citizenship Register, ple from grim economic sce- polices. “I want to tell the BJP truth about the CAA. work in India… whether the Banerjee said, “People are nario and failed promises she that foul-mouthing me all the Banerjee who led an anti- children will lose their school scared that if CAA and NRC said, “they are setting people of time will not work. Tell us CAA rally in Darjeeling with certificates and whether the cit- are implemented they will be one religion against the other. whether you will withdraw more than a thousand people izens will lose their rights to uprooted. I want to tell the hill They are dividing the people to CAA or not. If CAA is not a referred to Shah’s speech saying property they now people not allow NRC and rule but implementing CAA, mischievous Act then why did “yesterday I heard the Home own.” CAA.” NRC and NPR,” adding those you leave out Assam and Minister making tall speeches Wondering whether most Referring to the rising who are protesting are being Tripura, the States ruled by saying that I am telling lie about of the people in the crowd had inflation and decreasing jobs termed anti-Indians. BJP? Why are these BJP-ruled CAA and National Population the date of births of their par- Banerjee said, “see what they “The students are being states out of the purview of Register… Now if we are lying ents, Banerjee asked, “Do you have made of the Indian econ- beaten up if they raise their CAA?” There would be no let him tell the truth to the peo- have date of births of your par- omy. They promised acchhee voices, the Opposition is CAA, NRC or NPR in Bengal ple. Let him tell whether ents? Is this how a responsible din (good days) but where the harassed by the Agencies (read she insisted. %       #       # ;    '   )#     # #  %, - +/- - %  O   #P " 0)     )   4)2"5 to protest,” one of the women Patna: Poll strategist-turned- #CAA_NRC, why dont you go on #NRC by the Govt but protesters said. Meerut: Defence Minister “The entire world is accept- party is working to fulfil all its politician Prashant Kishor fired ahead and try implementing #CAA is now a legislation eople protesting against the Responding to the allega- Rajnath Singh on Wednesday ing India’s power. We don’t do promises. a fresh salvo at the BJP on the CAA & NRC in the made by Parliament. Respect PCitizenship (Amendment) tions, police said the protesters said religious minorities in politics on the lines of religion “Whenever a political party Wednesday, daring Union chronology that you so auda- the Constitution. Dont worry. Act were allegedly lathicharged had staged a dharna defying Pakistan, Afghanistan and for selfish reasons,” he said. contests elections, it makes Home Minister Amit Shah to ciously announced to the The Supreme Court has agreed by police in a Muslim-domi- prohibitory order imposed in Bangladesh are living a “life of The citizenship law is being various kinds of promises. I was “go ahead and try implement- nation!”, Kishor wrote on his to listen to the voice of dissent. nated area in Uttar Pradesh’s the area and pelted them with misery” and India has fulfilled viewed from a Hindu-Muslim given the responsibility to pre- ing” the Citizenship twitter handle. Just to satisfy the professional Etawah district even as demon- stones. Police said they had to its “moral duty” towards them perspective, but Prime Minister pare the BJP’s manifesto for the (Amendment) Act and the The 42-year-old, whose ego and political frustration strations continued against the use mild force to chase the pro- by enacting the CAA. Narendra Modi speaks of jus- 2019 (Lok Sabha) elections. National Register for Citizens first claim to fame was his han- why creating hue and cry”, legislation in Lucknow and testers away. Addressing a rally in sup- tice, he added. Within seven months of being which the latter had “auda- dling of Narendra Modis spec- state BJP spokesman Nikhil Aligarh. In the video, policemen can port of the Citizenship Singh said the NDA had elected, the BJP has been rapid- ciously announced to the tacularly successful election Anand said replying to Kishors A video of the Etawah be seen entering houses and Amendment Act (CAA) in prepared the citizenship legis- ly fulfilling its promises,” he nation”. campaign in 2014, made the tweet. incident, where policemen can shops. Shatabdi Nagar here, he also lation in its first tenure, but it said.”I want to assure the peo- Kishor, who is the nation- remarks in the backdrop of “You have all the right to be seen using batons and chas- The sit-in was organised in questioned those opposing the could not be enacted. ple of India that our party will al vice president of the JD(U), Shahs assertion at a pro-CAA disagree but selective propa- ing away protesters in the area solidarity with the women National Register of Citizens On the NRC, Singh said, deliver on whatever it promis- is helping Delhi Chief Minister rally in Lucknow that “CAA is ganda on religious lines to suit on late Tuesday night, has also protesting at Shaheen Bagh in (NRC) and said the govern- “The government has had no es. We do not want to cheat the Arvind Kejriwals Aam Aadmi here to stay and it will not be the Congi (sic) style politics of gone viral on social media. Delhi against the new legisla- ment has not discussed it. discussion on the NRC. And people,” he said.”By the end of Party for the upcoming taken back”, countrywide Muslim appeasement must not Violence broke out when tion. Dismissing allegations that suppose it has, then what is the 2022, every house will have a Assembly polls even though his protests by opposition parties be encouraged. The Gazette police tried to disperse the “Police are citing pro- the Centre is pursuing a “divi- problem with having a register pucca roof. Tap water will own party headed by Bihar and others notwithstanding. notification to start the process protesters who were observing hibitory orders to end our sive agenda” through the CAA, of citizens.” reach every household by the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar The Bihar BJP was, expect- of #NPR and implement #CAA a sit-in since Tuesday morning protest. What about the large Singh said the BJP doesn’t do “Shouldn’t there be a reg- end of 2024. PM Modi put Rs has tied up with the BJP to take edly, rankled by the latest out- is published. Won’t be taken in Pachraha area, defying pro- public meetings being held by politics on religious lines for ister of citizens? Shouldn’t there 6,000 each in the bank accounts on the less than a decade old bursts of Kishor, who joined the back at any cost, Anand added. hibitory orders imposed there. ministers,” another protester selfish gains. be a document for people to of farmers,” he added. party. JD(U) about two years ago, got The JD(U) did not react to “Police used force against said. In Lucknow, protesters at “In Pakistan, Afghanistan seek benefits of government The minister said the the “Being dismissive of citi- elevated to the top party post Kishor’s comment. us while we were holding a the Clock Tower (Ghantaghar) and Bangladesh, religious schemes,” he asked the crowd BJP had also taken steps for zens dissent couldnt be the sign within weeks, and has been tak- Party leaders are refraining peaceful protest. Our brothers in old city area of Lucknow minorities are living a life of at the rally. farmers’ welfare.”Farmer broth- of strength of any Govt. @amit- ing a public stand on the burn- from saying anything on the and cousins were beaten up and held a symbolic ‘havan’ with misery. India has fulfilled its Singh said the BJP wants to ers need not worry, we will pay shah Ji, if you dont care for ing issue that has embarrassed poll strategist-politician’s asser- we were abused. We were phys- Hindu women joining moral duty (by enacting the do politics by winning people’s you every single penny for those protesting against the NDA. “There is no move tions in recent times. PTI ically tortured. We have a right them. CAA),” he said. hearts and asserted that the your hardwork,” he said. PTI ! #            #    +      9O (  (  (   (# 0   (  symbols representing it, he said.”       '   (#E  Saxena has written to  .%&# Commerce Minister Shri  "6.647 from a man named Ghisulal Jain by  )   Piyush Goyal seeking his inter- Hemant, who is believed to be a  1" vention so as to expedite the he CBI has taken over the probe member of Rajan gang, officials  "6.647 matter pending with the Tinto an attempt to kill a veteran said. anata Dal (United) leader Vashishtha Narayan Singh Department of Promotion of journalist in 1997 and three other The police had filed Jon Wednesday took strong exception to party col- he Khadi and Village Industry and Internal fresh cases allegedly involving jailed charge sheets in both the cases but league Pavan Varma questioning ‘in publi’ the tie-up TIndustries Commission Trade(DPIIT) which comes gangster Chhota Rajan. Rajan remained absconding, they with BJP for the Delhi Assembly polls by extending the (KVIC) has stepped up efforts under the Ministry of Noted crime reporter in said. alliance beyond Bihar, calling it ‘absolutely’ an act of to prevent misuse of its brand Commerce. Mumbai Baljeet Shersingh Parmar The last case is related to threats indiscipline. and symbol both within the Article 6ter of the Paris functional plane, through - KVIC is fighting cases in was severely injured when motor- issued to the life of builder Shabbir Singh, a Rajya Sabha member and the head of the country and on foreign soil. Convention for the protection self-reliance and sustainability. several countries for violation cycle borne shooters of Rajan N Patel and his son in JD(U)s state unit, asserted that the decision to align with KVIC is proprietor of over 100 of Industrial property of 1883 Ever since the pre-independent of the Khadi Mark Regulations. allegedly attacked him outside a 1996.. the BJP was taken after “due deliberation”. trademarks including the sym- (1967 Stockholm Act) safe- era, Khadi has been considered The regulations issued in 2013 building at Antop Hill on June 12, In November last year, the CBI He further said although the party respected free- bol of ‘Charkha’ in India and guards armorial bearings, flags as the national symbol for by the Ministry of MSME, 1997. had taken over 10 cases, including dom of thought of every member, it was ‘anuchit’ (inap- other countries like Russia, and other State emblems as well Swadeshi. The word marks empowered KVIC to grant The agency has taken over the those of extortion and murder, in propriate) on part of the career diplomat-turned-politi- China, Germany, Australia, as official signs and hallmarks KHADI, KUTIR, “SARVO- ‘Khadi Mark’ registration and Mumbai police FIR in the case filed which Rajan was an accused. These cian to make public his letter to the Chief Minister and UK and Bhutan. of the States party to the Paris DAYA and the logo of Khadi take royalties from any pro- under IPC Section 307 (attempt to cases were registered in a 14-year national president Nitish Kumar. These trademark and sym- Convention. The signs pub- India and Charkha are the ducer using the Khadi Mark. In murder). period since 1992. “I consider his (Varmas) conduct as inappropri- bols have been misused time lished with World Intellectual harbinger of this spirit of continuation, KVIC has issued The agency has registered two These cases include killing of ate and will put forth my views forcefully whenever a and again by private players. In Property Organisation (WIPO) Swadeshi, hence, must be pro- notices against 600 entities in more cases of extortion by alleged trade union leader Datta Samant in party meeting takes place”, Singh told a news channel. an initiative to prevent such under this act are prevented tected at all cost.” India, including a renowned gang members of Rajan and one 1997 in Mumbai in which Rajan’s He also said “if there were any reservations, these ought misuse, KVIC has taken up the from being registered or used Saxena said that due to the garment chain and 3 entities in case related to issuing threats to life, role is suspected. to have been expressed in a party forum. People may matter with the Ministry of as trademarks, across the negligence of earlier the International market for according to the FIRs. Rajan was arrested at Bali air- have their individual opinions and the party respects External Affairs, Ministry of world, without Governments, some private misusing these symbols and The agency has booked Rajan port in Indonesia on October 25, that. But airing these in public is something I do not Commerce and Permanent authorisation. entities managed to register indulging in unfair trade prac- and his henchmen Guru Satam 2015, and deported to India. approve of ”. Mission of India at UN, Geneva Speaking about the initia- these symbols to fulfill their tices in the recent past. and Suresh for allegedly demanding He is an accused in around 70 He also said Varma had ‘absolutely’ committed an seeking International tive, Chairman KVIC VK personal material motives. This “Prime Minister Narendra Rs 20 lakh as extortion money cases in Maharashtra, including the act of indiscipline by sharing on the social media his Trademark protection of sym- Saxena said, “KVIC is one of initiative to prevent wrongful Modi has been endorsing from businessman Devang Bipin J Dey murder case in 2011. After two-page letter to Kumar in which the chief minister bol of ‘Charkha’ under the those unique institutions in use of the trademarks will help Khadi and due to his appeals Parikh in 1995. this, the Maharashtra government was reminded of the unease he had been allegedly article 6ter of the Paris India that links the nation’s reinstate the dignity and pride the sale of Khadi has gone up The other case pertains to had handed over all the cases relat- expressing ‘in private’ over the BJPs ideology and Convention. past, present and future on its attached with Khadi and the manifolds,” Saxena said. alleged demand of 25 lakh in 1998 ing to Rajan to CBI. agenda. 9 D     0    ?   #

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Bengaluru: A 36-year-old be handed over to Mangaluru With the state going to polls in 2021 and man, who is suspected to have police team for further inves-  3   president, there will be five work- Mullappallly has taken a stiff new troika has emerged in the Kerala the Congress led UDF all set to replace the planted the explosive at the tigation..,” Bengaluru (Central) 17$9""17$ ing presidents in Kodikkunnil position that there will not be any ACongress scheme of things with two LDF Government led by the CPM, there are Mangaluru Intentional Airport, DCP Chetan Singh Rathore Suresh, PC Vishnunath, K joint agitation with the CPM. powerful leaders of the party, AK Antony, possibilities of Mullappaly being considered surrendered before the police told reporters earlier in he Kerala Congress which has Sudhakaran, KV Thomas and VD This was after the opposition CWC Member and close confidant of Sonia as the Chief Minister candidate as there is here on Wednesday, officials the day. Tbeen without a proper com- Satheeshan. There will be six vice leader Ramesh Chennithala had Gandhi and KC Venugopal, AICC general bound to be fight between Ramesh said. A team of police officials, mittee will be announcing the list presidents and thirty general sec- taken the initiative for a joint agi- secretary (Organisation) and close associate Chennithala and Oomen Chandy for the CM The suspect has been iden- led by an Assistant of office bearers by this week end. retaries in the list followed by tation with the CPM and other of Rahul Gandhi putting in their weight post. tified as Adithya Rao, a native Commissioner of Police (ACP) While State Congress chief and sixty secretaries. The number of left forces and Oomen Chandy behind the beleaguered KPCC president There is already a suttle whispering cam- of Manipal, police said, adding from Mangaluru arrived in the former Union Minister of State state executive members of the supporting this. Mullappally had Mullappally Ramachandran who was being paign in the corridors of State Congress that that he resembled the one cap- city later to question the sus- for Home, Mullappally party is yet to be decided. stayed out of the meeting. pushed around by the “A” group and “I” an Ezhava leader has not don the mantle of tured on CCTV footage at pect and carry out necessary Ramachandran was adamant for With the advent of Sonia Incidentally the AICC high- group. Chief minister of the Congress since R Mangaluru airport legal procedures. a “One man, One post” rule to be Gandhi back as the AICC pres- command - read Sonia Gandhi - Sources in the Congress told The Pioneer, Shankar who was Chief minister from 1962- The man turned up at the Police sources said, Rao, an implemented in the list of office ident, senior leaders of the party had stood by the position taken that it was the strength of these two leaders 64. DG and IGP office here in the engineering graduate and an bearers, the powerful “A” and “I” had a major say and it was after by the KPCC president and in the that Mullappally had took on both Chandy With the Congress led UDF winning morning, where he was MBA holder, who was taken to group managers of the party much confabulations and inter press conference held at Kerala and Chennithala on the CAA issue and raised nineteen of the twenty loksabha seats in the detained and taken for medical Ulsoor Gate police station in scuttled the move. party discussions, the list is to be house, New Delhi both Chandy the red flag for the joint agitation with the last general elections, the graph of tests and preliminary inquiry Bengaluru for questioning, was The “A” group led by former finalized. However it is learnt that and Chennithala had to bite CPM. Mullappally Ramachandran has gone high done, they said. The suspect subsequently handed over to Chief Minister Oomen Chandy KPCC president Mullappally humble pie and subscribe to the To solve the vexed issue of announcing and the seven term loksabha member who confessed to having planted the Mangaluru police, which is was somehow accommodative Ramachandran was adamant that position taken by the KPCC the list of office bearers, both these leaders has won the parliamentary elections from the bomb at the airport, police said. investigating the case. to the suggestion of the KPCC party leaders with criminal president. In the list of party office had thrown their weights behind the KPCC CPM bastion of Vatakara is keeping his fin- He is reported to have got He was presented before president, but the “I”group led by antecedents will not be accom- bearers also, the KPCC president president and at the same time carefully see- gers crossed. “These are early days to com- information on making the the Additional Chief the Opposition leader Ramesh modated as office bearer which had done his maximum to reduce ing it to that the group managers are not ment on the Chief ministership and my pri- explosive via internet, sources Metropolitan Magistrate Chennithala did not budge for the was met with stiff the number of contenders and offended. mary responsibility is to work among the said. (ACMM) court here and tran- “One man,One post” theory and resistance from the group sources in the Congress party told The support of these two powerful lead- grass root and to strengthen the party “One suspect named sit warrant secured, officials hence the party will once again be managers. The Pioneer that the list would ers who have a major say in the organisational machinery. 2020 we have to face the local Adithya presented before police said, adding that he will be pro- having a jumbo list of office Interestingly in the agitation have been double the present fig- affairs of the Congress party has given a fresh body elections and in 2021 the assembly elec- between 8-9 am, claiming that duced before a court in beares. against the Citizenship ure had not Mullappally taken a impetus to Mullappally who is fast emerg- tions and these two are my present priori- he was responsible for Mangaluru on Thursday to In addition to the KPCC Amendment Act(CAA), strong stand. ing as a major power centre in the state ties”, Mullappally told The Pioneer. Mangaluru incident—he will obtain his custody. PTI     !!    5

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"N9    "! #O#( Cabinet gave a nod for the (Regulation of Employment my is 5 billion pounds. In Police Commissioner and eateries could remain open  &   Mumbai 24X7, Aditya said: and Conditions of Service) Mumbai, there are five lakh Municipal commissioner there,” Bhujbal said. ##   #( #    “Mumbai’s identify is being Act, 2017, allows all establish- people who directly employed would decide where nightlife Earlier this week, at the bi- 0 P %   that of a safe city. In Mumbai, ments to operate around-the- in this service sector. When we would be allowed. “During the annual crime conference,       !#  you can get to see women and clock. say that employment will meeting a lot of suggestions Uddhav, along with his Cabinet women moving around Marine “There would not be any increase because of came in. Like in some of the colleagues and bureaucracts, Palghar: A 14-year-old boy Drive and other places safely at change in the excise rules. The Mumbai 24x7, it is because the railway stations of Mumbai held a meeting with the city allegedly committed suicide at      0 1.30 am. around 2 am or 3 am. Mumbai liquor will be served only up to owners oif these establish- where there is rush for 24 police officers Mumbai 24x7 a Government-run residential The new ‘Mumbai 24x7’ police perform their duty well. 1.30 am in bars and restaurants. ments will have to employ hours, people come and go, proposal. school for tribal children in fter initial resistance from policy — which is a brain But, take the case of tourists We are changing that. We are their staff in three shifts. Going Maharashtra’s Palghar district, Acertain quarters, the child of Shiv Sena leader and coming to Mumbai, they would providing facilities who want to that logic, we will have an the police said on Maharashtra Government on current Tourism and not be in the city for more than eat out, go for shopping or employment potential of 15 Wednesday. Wednesday approved the Environment Minister Aditya 36 hours. To increase the movies. The MVA Government lakh people or at least 10 lakh Sunil Khandvi, resident of implementation of its much- Thackeray — will allow malls, employment and tourism in is a people’s Government. We people in this service sector. Beriste village, was the student discussed ‘Mumbai 24x7’ or multiplexes and eateries in the Mumbai, we came up with the are Government of aspirations. Keeping these establishments of a government-run Ashram ‘Vibrant Mumbai Nightlife’ designated areas to function Mumbai 24x7 proposal in Unlike the BJP Government, open, state revenue will school at Hirve Pimpalpada in policy from the intervening round-the-clock. 2013. We are implementing it we want to encourage the increase through various taxes,”   Mokhada tehsil, a police offi- night of January 26 and 27. State Home Minister Anil after seven years”. youngsters,” the Tourism he said. cial said. At a weekly meeting Deshmukh, who had initial “We will implement this Minister said. Home Minister “I do not think there will be pposing the Maharashtra Government’s Mumbai 24x7 His body was found hang- presided over Chief Minister reservations about imple- policy in malls and mill com- Anil Deshmukh said that that tension for the police. Odecision, senior BJP leader and former Minister Ashish ing from the window grill of Uddhav Thackeray, the State menting the Mumbai 24x7 pounds coming under the the State Government would Currently, the police personnel Shelar said on Wednesday ‘Mumbai Nightlife’ decision taken the school toilet on Sunday. Cabinet gave a go-ahead for the because of security reasons Shops and Establishment Act. ensure that there was no stress do is to track if the establish- by the Uddhav Thackeray dispensation would prove to be a The school superintendent ‘Mumbai 24x7’ policy without and on the ground that bars The malls and mill compounds on the police force. ments are open beyond the ‘killing life’ for Mumbai. told the police that Khandvi tweaking the current excise and restaurants cannot serve are in non-residential areas. “We do not enforce any- stipulated hours rather than Reacting to the State Government’s go-ahead for the had written in the school reg- rules which permit service of liquor, came around after The people do not live inside thing here. If some units are not controlling crime. Now they do implementation of Mumbai 24x7, Shelar said: “The nightlife ister on January 19 that he was alcoholic beverages only till the Aditya — at a meeting held a these places. There are facilities able to keep their establish- not have to do that job and can decision is going to be a killing life for mumbaiks. Two years, going home and would remain existing time limits of 1.30 few days — convinced him that like parking lots, CCTV, deci- ments for all 24 hours, they can concentrate on the job they are 14 persons were killed in a massive fire that broke out in two absent for a few days. am. the policy could be imple- bel limits, solid waste manage- do so. It is not the job of the meant to do. If the establish- pubs. However, the next day he In effect, the new ‘Vibrant mented without tweaking the ment. All the establishments state government to increase ments want more security, they The decision is an effort to regularise massive FSI irreg- was found to have hanged Mumbai Nightlife’ policy will current State excise rules and there are licenced ones. We are the footfalls. We are enabling can employ private security or ularities in the Kamala Mill compound in the name of himself with a bed sheet in the not be applicable to bars, pubs imposing a lot of burden on the giving permission to all these the owners of these establish- hire police security by paying tourism”. “Mumbaikars are already stressed over a number school toilet, the police officer and restaurants serving liquor, city police force. establishments to remain open ments. Mumbai being an inter- money,” Aditya said. of restaurants, bars, ladies bars and pubs existing in the res- said.The reason for committing which will be permitted to Addressing a news confer- for all 24 hours”. national city, we are giving a Public distribution and idential areas. The nightlife decision will increase their incon- suicide was yet to be ascer- serve alcoholic beverages only ence jointly with the State In fact, the Maharashtra 24x7 facility,” Aditya said. civil supplies minister Chhagan venience further. The work burden on the police personnel tained, he said, adding that fur- till the existing time limits of Home Minister after the State Shops and Establishments “London’s nightlife econo- Bhujbal said that Mumbai will increase,” Shelar said. ther probe was on. PTI ; #  4 #  EE #N1 >O  -       0 ment formation in the state. that at the convention, MNS * The public perception was that chief Raj Thackeray embrace   n an apparent effort to indi- the Sena would soft-peddle its the Hindutva path and change      0 Icate that it has not deviated Hindutva agenda as long as it the colour of his party flag. ational Investigation from its Hindutva path after is running the government in Raj had recently met for- he Maharashtra NAgency (NIA) team, inter- forming a Government with the state with the Congress and mer Maharashtra chief minis- TGovernment on rogating Davinder Singh, the Congress and NCP, the Shiv NCP. ter and senior BJP leader Wednesday announced that DySP arrested by the police Sena on Wednesday It may be recalled that Devendra Fadnavis, sparking the historical drama ‘Tanhaji – along with Hizbul Mujahideen announced that its president Uddhav had on November 25, speculation about the possibil- The Unsung Warrior’ would be terrorist Naveed Babu from and Chief Minister Uddhav 2018 – along with his wife ity of the MNS joining hands tax-free in the State till April 30, Jammu-Srinagar National Thackeray would visit Ayodhya Rashmi and son Aditya, had with the Amit Shah-led party. 2020.At its meeting presided Highway on January 11, shift- after the MVA Government visited Ayodhya. On June 16, Meanwhile, talking to over by Chief Minister Uddhav ed him to Jammu along with completes 100 days in office. 2019 year after the Lok Sabha media persons, Raut extended Thackeray, the State Cabinet other arrested terrorists on Announcing the Chief polls, he once again visited invitation to Congress’ former decided to waive State Goods wednesday. Minister’s impending visit to Ayodhya and offered prayers at president Rahul Gandhi and and Services Tax (SGST) on the The NIA team, which took Ayodhya, Shiv Sena MP and the makeshift Ram NCP chief Sharad Pawar to tickets of Tanhaji — The over the probe from the Jammu spokesperson Sanjay Raut Lalla shrine. accompany Uddhav Thackeray Unsung Warrior’ and com- & Kashmir police recently, is tweeted: “Chalo Ayodhya ! CM However, atmosphere has to Ayodhya. “We want that our pensate for the loss from its trying to establish the link #UddhavThackeray will visit changed after he joined hands alliance leaders should also exchequer. “Thank you % #  ;  !#  # #  #   +    %   1212  <= #       >53?    whether Davinder Singh was Ayodhya on the completion of with the “secular” and NCP to come along. Rahul Gandhi Uddhav Thackeray ji for      +   8 ,  +    %      #    #   $     $ regularly transporting HM ter- 100 days in power! form a Maha Vikas Agadhi also visits several declaring #Tanhaji The   $  $  #  #   #  # $   3   $   #   %, rorist Naveed Babu to a rela- @OfficeofUT”. government in Maharashtra. temples”. UnsungWarrior tax-free in tively safe hideout in Jammu In another tweet, Raut said: The perception that has been On her part, BJP national the State of and whether he was also in “Our government has begun gaining ground in the state spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi Maharashtra. @OfficeofUT touch with over ground work- performing its duties in great political circles that in order to had earlier in the day wanted @CMOMaharashtra,” lead ers (OGW’s) active in the vigour. We shall complete five ensure that there is no threat to to know if Chief Minister actor in the film Ajay Devgn ;9 region to facilitate hassle free years in office. After govern- its government in the state the Uddhav Thackeray wouldl also tweeted.      stay of HM commander. ment completes 100 days. CM ruling Shiv Sena is pursuing the take Congress leaders along The martyrdom of Tanaji Last week, police had also Uddhav Thackeray shall go to Hindutva as vigorously as it was with him to Ayodhya. How the Malusare - the Commander of fter losing two soldiers, arrested younger brother of Ayodhya. After seeking bless- doing earlier. So much so that alliance partners of the Sena the Maratha Empire headed by Aone each from the Indian Naveed Babu, studying in ings of Lord Ram, will its erstwhile ally BJP has been react? How will he show his Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj – Army and Jammu & Kashmir Chandigarh. decide on future course of taking pot shots at the Shiv face to them – to the ones who in the bloody battle of Sinhagad police during fierce gunfight in According to highly placed action”. Sena for giving up on its questioned the very existence Fort in Pune with the then Khrew area of Pampore in sources, Naveed’s brother had Uddhav, who had Hindutva agenda for the sake of Lord Ram, even went to the commander of the fort South Kashmir’s Pulwama dis- carved out a safe hideout for his announced after the Supreme of power. Supreme Court stating the Udaybhan Sinh Rathore allied trict on Tuesday, a joint team brother in Bhatindi area of Court verdict in the Ayoidhya Interestingly enough, Raut same,”she said. with the Mughals, holds a spe- of security forces on Jammu and the same was dispute case that he would go came out with a tweet a day Uttar Pradesh’s deputy cial place in the state’s history. Wednesday once again trapped Shahbaz Ahmed and Martyred Anantnag and also took stock likely to be used for once again Ayodhya on ahead of the first grand con- chief minister Dinesh Sharma The governments of Uttar group of terrorists responsible Rifleman Rahul in this opera- of the security in other dis- accommodating terrorists, November 24, 2019, had post- vention of the Raj Thackeray- described Uddhav’s impending Pradesh and Haryana had ear- for killing their buddies, one tion even before bodies of tricts,” DGP Singh said. ferried by Davinder Singh at poned his visit then, owing to led Maharashtra Navnirman visit to Ayodhya as a “political lier exempted ‘Tanhaji — The kilometer away from the these martyrs reached their “We have strengthened the the time of arrest. the impasse in the govern- Sena (MNS). It is speculated stunt”. Unsung Warrior’ from tax. encounter site, and eliminated respective homes.Operation is security measures in Srinagar at least one terrorist. going on at Nagander one ahead of the Republic Day,” he According to ground kilometre away from yesterday added. In the run up to the reports, massive searches were encounter site”. Republic day celebrations, a -  %    #    #    going on in the Khrew area Official sources claimed, high alert has been sounded in after the initial gunfight with security forces were conducting Jammu and Kashmir after terrorists resulted in killing of random searches in the area intelligence inputs suggest of      drive, currently underway at a short span of time. The can- our childhood days, now i fessional manner. We have two soldiers. Due to bad since Wednesday morning to possible terror strikes. Gulshan ground. didates, greeted them with want to help my parents as they allocated district wise quota for weather and poor light condi- track down the foot prints of According to latest intel o realise their childhood Since early morning, aspi- patriotic chants and loud had struggled alot while raising aspiring candidates. Rana said, tions, the search operations the terrorists hiding in the reports, a joint module of Jaish- Tdream of donning ‘khaki’ rants start converging along cheers. “We are feeling proud, my siblings and ensuring bet- “we are following a very trans- were halted and the same were area. Meanwhile, mortal e-Mohammed and Hizbul uniform and serve the mother with their parents and family we are participating in the ter education facilities for us”. parent process. There is no resumed early Wednesday remains of both the soldiers Mujahideen militants have Nation, large number of ‘enthu- friends to attend the rally. recruitment drive despite fac- Senior police officers, scope of any human interven- morning. were dispatched to their native been tasked by their handlers siastic’ young girls from remote Since they are travelling from ing many hardships”. Several supervising the recruitment tion during the recruitment After the fresh contact was places after a formal wreath lay- in Pakistan to carry out das- areas of Jammu region are far off places they prefer reach- candidates, names not being drive told reporters in Jammu, drive and only meritorious established with the hiding ing ceremony in Srinagar. tardly attacks in the run up to queuing up outside Police ing venue at the earliest to disclosed, claimed they want- “the morale of the aspiring can- candidates are expected to terrorists,the security forces Senior police and Army officers the Republic day. headquarters for last couple of avoid any last minute hiccups. ed to serve the mother Nation didates is very high and they make it to the final list”. tightened the cordon and elim- paid their tributes to both the There are inputs that mil- days, braving adverse weather The atmosphere inside the by joining the police force. “I are all keen to serve the police Union government had inated at least one of the ter- martyrs. Interacting with the itants could launch suicide conditions, to participate in the Gulshan ground was electrify- am very optimistic, after clear- force”. earlier announced two women rorists in the ensuing media in Srinagar, DGP attacks on security installa- special recruitment drive aimed ing when group of media per- ing the first round without fac- Briefing media persons, battalions in June 2018 to encounter, official sources said. Dilbagh Singh said, the secu- tions in south Kashmir and at raising two women battal- sons reached the venue of the ing any major hurdle i am set Inspector General of Police enhance the representation of Confirming the elimina- rity has been beefed up in defence positions across the ions. special drive. to participate in the second (Armed) Danesh Rana said, women in the Police force. tion of one of the terrorists, Kashmir. south of Pir Panjal in the So far aspirants from hilly In the first leg, the candi- round”, a NCC cadet from “the current recruitment drive The final sanction was given by twitter handle of the Jammu & “All arrangements have Jammu region. districts of Doda, dates were undergoing physical Bhallessa in Doda district said. is aimed at raising two women the State Administrative Kashmir police posted a mes- been made with regard to secu- According to inputs, ter- Ramban,Kishtwar and twin endurance/standard test. After Another candidate from battalions, one each for Jammu Council (SAC) under the chair- sage which read, “Police & rity measures on ground, the rorist movement has also been border districts of Rajouri, clearing the first hurdle, jubi- Ramban claimed, “i want to and Kashmir divisions”. manship of former Governor Security forces killed one of the security in South Kashmir has traced in areas of Srinagar and Poonch have attended the first lant candidates were allowed to help my family. “We have seen He said, the candidates are Satya Pal Malik in January killers of Martyred SPO been reviewed. We visited Budgam districts. leg of the special recruitment interact with media persons for many ups and downs during being screened in a very pro- 2019.    !! 6  7

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The Tits “plan of action” to boost are closed on Saturdays and Tunveil a scheme on pro- Government could provide tax the economy in the Union Sundays, except for special cir- duction linked benefits to incentives to high-tech manu- Budget to be presented on cumstances. attract hi-tech manufacturing facturing plants in the fields of February 1, Union Minister In separate circulars on in semiconductors, and micro- solar photovoltaic cells, lithium Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday, leading exchanges processors to India, apart from storage batteries, solar electric Wednesday, asserting that eco- BSE and NSE said the markets giving tax incentives to solar charging infrastructure, com- nomic fundamentals remain would be open for trading on electric charging infrastruc- puters, servers, and laptops. very strong. February 1 on account of ture, computers, and servers for For ‘Make in India’, there Responding to a question Union Budget presentation. its thrust in manufacturing of may be investment-linked "!!"<51"!19 $  ( ( 1( #!2   #   about the downward revision of Finance Minister Nirmala global products to reduce income tax exemptions under !   !  2       %2& India’s growth rate by the Sitharaman is to present the imports. Section 35AD of the Income /  $  # 2  ! 2   International Monetary Fund Budget for 2020-21. To make it look more Tax Act and other indirect tax $1   /  ( #  # > (    (IMF), he said the economy is /   # + #  0  %  -  #     # Trading would be con- attractive to MNCs to opt for benefits. $1/ !  ((  $  #    ( on the path of “revival” and    #      +    ; 4 %, ducted during normal hours domestic electronics manufac- Many global semiconduc-   # !      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Earlier also, the govern- microprocessors, and the Information and financial sector and weak rural non-banking financial sectors In 2015, stock exchanges ment had announced schemes Qualcomm, Samsung and Broadcasting minister said at a income growth as the major and weak rural income growth. were open for trading on for setting up semiconductor MediaTek are the names in this briefing after the Union factors for the downward revi- Opposition parties have February 28, Saturday, when plants in the country. segment globally who also Cabinet meeting. sion. been attacking the Government then Finance Minister Arun The National Policy for cater to the telecom segment Asserting that the economy While providing an update over the economic slowdown Jaitley had presented the Electronics, 2019, argues for and their chips are imported by was on the path of “revival”, he on the global economy ahead and its policies. Budget. 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It may be noted year will be divided further in tance and technical expertise in mercial and industrial usage,”  "6=5$2 school for at least three years. I51st position in the 2019 3B, a monthly return form, and here that about one-fifth of the two categories. implementation of the African an IOC press statement said. New Jersey is home to presti- Democracy Index’s global has provided three dates for dif- total GSTR-3B returns were fil- The tax filers from 15 nation’s national LPG promo- LPG coverage in Ghana is he US state of New Jersey will gious institutions such as ranking, according to The ferent categories of taxpayers, ing on the last day (January 20). states/UTs — Chhattisgarh, tion policy. just 23 per cent and customers Tenact a legislation that will Princeton University. Economist Intelligence Unit, a moved aimed at de-stressing “From now on, the last date Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Alhassan Sulemana have to queue up at petrol sta- make college and universities Secretary of Higher which cited “erosion of civil lib- the system. Currently, the last for filing of GSTR-3B for the tax- Daman and Diu, Dadra and Tampuli, Chief Executive, tions with cylinders to get a more affordable for the children Education Zakiya Smith Ellis erties” in the country as the pri- date for filing GSTR-3B is 20th payers having annual turnover Nagar Haveli, Maharashtra, National Petroleum Authority refill. It wants to replicate the of H-1B visa holders, mostly said New Jersey is working to mary cause for the downtrend. of every month. From now of 5 crore and above in the pre- Karnataka, Goa, Lakshadweep, (NPA) of Ghana and L K S Indian model of setting up bot- Indian IT professionals, bringing make college affordable for India’s overall score fell onwards, there will three dates vious financial year would be Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Chauhan, Chief General tling plants where LPG can be a huge financial relief to them. New Jerseyans and the legisla- from 7.23 in 2018 to 6.90 in the — 20th, 22nd and 24th — of 20th of the month. Thus, around Puducherry, Andaman and Manager (LPG Operations), filled in cylinders which are New Jersey Governor Phil tion will expand postsecondary Index that provides a snapshot every month for different cat- 8 lakh regular taxpayers would Nicobar Islands, Telangana and IOC signed the MoU in presence then transported to dealers Murphy on Tuesday signed the opportunities to more resi- of the current state of democ- egories of tax payers. have the last date of GSTR-3B fil- Andhra Pradesh — will now be of Oil Minister Dharmendra who deliver them at customer legislation “S2555”, allowing dents such as dependents of H- racy worldwide for 165 inde- In past, glitches in the ing as 20th of every month with- having the last date of filing pradhan and Michael Aaron, doorstep with a view to expand New Jersey students, who are 1B visa holders. India’s Deputy pendent states and two return filing system of GST out late fees,” the ministry said GSTR-3B returns as 22nd of High Commissioner of Ghana to the coverage to cover at least 50 the children of H-1B visa hold- Consul General in New York territories. Network were reported on the in a statement. The taxpayers the month without late fees. India. per cent of the population. ers, to qualify for in-state tuition Shatru Sinha welcomed the at public institutions of higher legislation, saying in a tweet that education.A majority of H-1B it is an “important initiative for visa holders are Indians and this the Indian community”. F " - +  + legislation comes as a significant Primary sponsors of the relief to them, amidst an envi- legislation include Indian- ronment of stringent immigra- American Democratic Senator  0     -+ . - tion laws and scrutiny under Vin Gopal, Senator M Teresa the Trump administration. Ruiz and Assembly members  .95 (39th),” the Global Talent The GTCI report was  "6.647 obtaining in-principle approval come into force with effect “New Jerseyans deserve Raj Mukherji, Daniel Benson, Competitiveness Index (GTCI) launched by INSEAD, a part- of bourses before issuance of from compliance periods end- equal access to higher educa- and Robert Karabinchak. ndia has moved up eight report noted. ner and sponsor of the United ebi on Wednesday put in securities. ing on or after March 31, 2020. tion, and today we are taking President and CEO of Iplaces to the 72nd position in The country’s highest- Nation’s Sustainable Splace a stricter mechanism The bourses can levy a fine The move is aimed at another step towards making Edison-based health technolo- the 2020 Global Talent ranked sub-pillar is employa- Development Goals (SDGs) to deal with non-compliance of of 25,000 each in cases of non- maintaining consistency and that possible. I’m proud to sign gy company HealthEC Arthur Competitiveness Index that bility, but the ability to match Tent in Davos, Switzerland on listing conditions under which disclosure of dividend distrib- adopting a uniform approach the legislation to help our stu- Kapoor welcomed the legisla- measures and ranks countries labour market demand and Wednesday. stock exchanges will have pow- ution policy in annual reports in the matter of levy of fines for dents achieve their education tion, saying it will tremen- based on their ability to grow, supply stands in contrast to the Switzerland topped this ers to slap penalties and on the websites of the enti- non-compliance with certain goals, pursue a successful future dously benefit the Indian dias- attract and retain talent. country’s poor “mid-level year’s ranking, followed by the up to 50,000 for certain vio- ties. provisions of the listing regu- and live their dreams here in pora in New Jersey. Switzerland topped the list skills”, which result in a United States, its highest posi- lations. The amount would also be lations. their home state,” Murphy said. “Indian diaspora welcomes of 132 countries, followed by mediocre score in vocational tion yet, while Singapore is the At present, a stock applicable in the cases of non- Besides, the exchanges can The legislation exempts this bill since H-1B visa hold- the US and Singapore. and technical skills, the report third most talent-competitive exchange is allowed to charge convening of annual general impose a penalty of 10,000 for dependent students whose par- ers pay enormous amounts of “Although more could be said. country. a maximum amount of 10,000 meeting within a period of five delay in furnishing prior inti- ents or guardians hold H-1B taxes as well as social security done to improve the country’s India’s greatest challenge is Other countries in the top for each violation of listing months from the close of a mation about the company’s visas from paying out-of-state contributions which they are educational system (68th in to address its weak ability to 10 include Sweden at the 4th norms that need to be complied financial year and for not tak- board meeting as well as delay tuition provided they meet never able to use as they return Formal Education), India’s key attract and retain talent, where position, Denmark (5th), the with by companies. ing exchange’s approval before in non-disclosure of record certain criteria, including hav- to India before they are eligible strength relates to growing strengthening the role of Netherlands (6th), Finland According to a Sebi circu- filing request for change of date or dividend declaration, ing graduated from a New to receive benefits. 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ifteen-year-old prodigy Coco             ,   A#   % Gauff set up an Australian FOpen blockbuster with ball,” she said. defending champion Naomi Osaka Djokovic also weathered on Wednesday, as a pumped-up the breeze — which followed Serena Williams took another step heavy rain on Monday, and towards a record-equalling 24th smog from bushfires last week 4'    #       4'B, Grand Slam title. — to beat Japanese wildcard On a day when men’s seeds Tatsuma Ito 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 in 95 3   India’s Divij Sharan and his tumbled, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic minutes. New Zealand partner Artem Sitak pro- strode into the third round to be “They were tough condi- gressed to the second round of the men’s joined by Roger Federer, who dis- tions, pretty windy and it was doubles event but Rohan Bopanna was missed Filip Krajinovic 6-1, 6-4, 6- hard to know where the balls knocked out of the Australian Open here on 1. were going. My serve helped a Wednesday. American teenager Gauff, lot to get me out Sharan and Sitak got the better of the showing a tenacity which is becom- of trouble,” said Portuguese-Spanish duo of Pablo Carreno ing her trademark, clawed her way the Serb. Busta and Joao Sousa 6-4, 7-5 in a thrilling back from a set down to beat the Federer was one hour, 28 minutes encounter. experienced Sorana Cirstea 4-6, 6- barely detained The pair will next face the winner of the 3, 7-5. by Krajinovic, the first-round match between 10th seeds Mate Gauff, who screamed and world number 41, Pavic-Bruno Soares and Ben Molachlan- pumped her fists as she completed as he moved Luke Bambridge. her victory, said her “will to win” smoothly through in 92 min- ;  4'    #  Partnering Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan, had got her through the tough sec- utes in the night match on Rod ,      # #   % Bopanna went down to USA’s Bryan broth- ond-round match at a windswept Laver Arena. ers, Bob and Mike, 1-6, 6-3, 3-6 in a hard- Melbourne Park. In other results, Petra seed Grigor Dimitrov 6-4, 7- fought one hour, 17 minutes contest. “My parents always told me you Kvitova, last year’s runner-up, 6 (8/6), 3-6, 6-7 (3/7), 7-6 Meanwhile on Wednesday Sania Mirza can always come back — no mat- came through 7-5, 7-5 against (10/3). pulled out of the mixed doubles due to a calf ter what the score is,” said Gauff, Paula Badosa of Spain, and And Australia’s John injury. She was supposed to partner com- who beat seven-time Grand Slam China’s Zhang Shuai ousted Millman further trimmed the patriot Rohan Bopanna. champion Venus Williams in round American Caty McNally 6-2, number of high-ranked play- Mirza will, however, play in the women’s one. 6-4. ers when he ended the cam- doubles event. Gauff also beat Williams on her Former US Open champi- paign of Polish 31st seed Sania, who won the doubles title in Grand Slam debut last year at on Marin Cilic won a five-set- Hubert Hurkacz. Hobart International, will team up with Wimbledon, and in another quirk, ter against French seed Benoit But Greek sixth seed Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine for the Australia she faced Osaka in the US Open Paire, and one-time semi- Stefanos Tsitsipas was handed Open today. third round, going down meekly in 4#  ;     #   # #      A     % finalist Milos Raonic beat a slice of fortune when Philipp The duo will face Chinese pair of straight sets. Chile’s Christian Garin in Kohlschreiber withdrew Xinyun Han and Lin Zhu in their women’s Japan’s 22-year old Osaka, beat defending a Grand Slam title for the top of her voice during a testing sec- WIND ‘MASSIVE FACTOR’ straights. injured. doubles first round clash. China’s Zheng Saisai 6-2, 6-4 but second time. ond set against 70th-ranked Tamara Earlier, Australia’s world num- Also, Tennys Sandgren Among eight first-round “It’s unfortunate that this niggling injury briefly lost her cool mid-match, Former world number one Zidansek, before seeing off break ber one Ashleigh Barty raced took the biggest scalp when he matches held over from got aggravated in the Hobart final just as I hurling and kicking her racquet Wozniacki, playing her final tour- points to win 6-2, 6-3. through 6-1, 6-4 against Polona ousted eighth seed Matteo Tuesday, after rain wiped out was getting to the top of my game. It is a lot when she gave up a break in the sec- nament before retiring, came from “She was a really good fighter — Hercog, buoying hopes of a first Berrettini in five sets. half of Monday’s schedule, better now and I intend to give it my best ond set. behind in both sets for a 7-5, 7-5 she did not just let me win,” said home winner since 1978. Sandgren’s fellow Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro, shot in doubles. It’s disappointing to miss out “I was thinking that I really win over Dayana Yastremska of Williams, who can equal Margaret “It was very different end to American Tommy Paul also also retiring this year, upset on the chance to partner Rohan in mixed,” don’t want to play a third set this Ukraine. Court’s all-time mark of 24 Grand end, I think the wind was a massive pulled off a five-set upset Belarusian 11th seed Aryna Mirza was quoted as saying by the Times of time,” explained Osaka, who is Serena Williams shouted at the Slams if she lifts the trophy. factor particularly with the new when he beat Bulgarian 18th Sabalenka in straight sets. India. Agencies 7   #        ")7616$ am very happy to be back as a good test of fitness. The soon as possible and have game was difficult because anchester City defend- minutes and help the team,” they are very strong, a good Mer Aymeric Laporte said Laporte. team.” admits he has returned from “It was very important “It was difficult for me his serious knee injury earli- for me to try to be with the (being out), my team-mates  Top Indian shuttler Saina er than he expected. team, to be involved. It was see me suffering,” he added. Nehwal suffered a second consecu- The Frenchman was a “But now I can help the team tive opening round defeat as she went surprise inclusion in Pep out and give my best.” down to Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldt to Guardiola’s starting line-up City have had problems bring curtains on the country’s cam- against Sheffield United, hav- at the back in Laporte’s paign in the Thailand Masters tour- ing not been involved with absence and his return nament here on Wednesday. the first team for almost five helped City record their first The fifth seeded Saina lost to months. clean sheet in any compe- unseeded Kjaersfeldt 13-21, 21-17, He required surgery after tition since December 15-21 in a hard fought 47-minute suffering a knee injury dur- 29. contest. World number 18 Saina had ing City’s home win against After the match, a 4-0 head-to-head record against the Brighton on August 31. Guardiola admitted number 29 Dane before Wednesday’s Laporte’s comeback in his team had missed match.     # &  0        P ;P !     #P       B, the 1-0 win for City at the 25-year-old and With Saina’s defeat, India’s cam- Bramall Lane lasted 78 described him as the paign came to an end in the BWF minutes and he is now best left-sided central World Tour Super 300 event. Srikanth, who went down to Shesar looking forward to the defender in the world. In the men’s singles, the trio of Hiren Rhustavito of Indonesia 21-12, > rest of the season. Laporte said: “It’s great to Kidambi Srikanth, Sameer Verma 14-21, 12-21, in a match that lasted “Normally it would hear that from this manag- and H S Prannoy, too, faltered in the 48 minutes. 1 *   ##)#    # 4! !# have been later but I er as he is one of the best in first round. This was Srikanth’s third consec- spoke with the manag- the world, if not the best. I Verma lost to Malaysia’s Lee Zii utive first-round exit this season.  45".5" er and tried today am very happy to hear that Jia 16-21, 15-21 in a 39-minute It was curtains for Prannoy too. FIGURATIVELY (Tuesday) and he told but I have to work to stay men’s singles match. The story went He lost 17-21, 22-20, 19-21 to en-man Arsenal slowed Chelsea’s charge for me I would play so I there and keep going.” on similar lines for the fifth seeded Malaysia’s Liew Daren. PTI Ta Champions League place on Tuesday as + #  ##     !  Manchester City kept up their distant pursuit of (@GR!#    !#    Liverpool with victory at Sheffield United on a dra- E  #%##(   &  ("(# N  !( (O)  matic evening of Premier League football.  # @CCQ*CC Fourth-placed Chelsea twice took the lead !    )# #  ( ##>  # ( against Arsenal, who were reduced to 10 men after  !   #   !#4 former Blues defender David Luiz took out     (     :G@:*@B Tammy Abraham when he was through on goal. Jorginho put Chelsea 1-0 ahead from the .4    #     penalty spot in the 28th minute but Gabriel ! )#   4!  ! Martinelli equalised for Arsenal in the second half.  ## #     Cesar Azpilicueta put Chelsea 2-1 up with just (     (9    .( @CCD six minutes remaining but Arsenal levelled only 2 .     # 4    #    +    C+ three minutes later through Hector Bellerin. @DR        The 2-2 draw leaves Chelsea six points . ()# *4    (   - ahead of fifth-placed Manchester United having 6 !#    (@GR!#   played a game extra while Arsenal are in 10th spot, E4!    6    (     seemingly out of the running for a place in the  $  :G@H*@Q 7 # 7    )#          %& % top four.  2   (  !#6   4 Bayern Munich have signed 3) Lyon beat Lille on penalties after back into the game four minutes later   Edinson Cavani wants to join Atletico AGUERO SPARES BLUSHES     :E    ##(   S P    #   (4!#  Real Madrid right-back Alvaro a dramatic 2-2 draw at the Groupama when centre-back Gabriel handled Madrid and is being treated “unfairly” by Pep Guardiola’s City, with defender Aymeric Odriozola on loan until the end of the Stadium on Tuesday to reach their inside the area. PSG, the Uruguay striker’s father said on 1   (#     #:GG: Laporte back in the side, looked as though they season, the two clubs confirmed on sixth French League Cup final, setting Moussa Dembele drilled the spot- Wednesday. Cavani, 32, has fallen out of might rue Gabriel Jesus’s squandered first-half Wednesday. up a possible clash with record eight- kick into the top corner to grab his favour at PSG, where he is competing with penalty but their Argentine hitman Sergio lier this season in a 9-0 defeat by Leicester. The 24-year-old Spain internation- time winners Paris Saint-Germain. sixth goal in five games. Kylian Mbappe, Neymar, Mauro Icardi and Aguero came to the rescue. Watford took the lead against Villa when al will bolster Bayern’s defence, which Renato Sanches dragged what Houssem Aouar appeared to have Angel di Maria for starting spots in attack. Despite the 1-0 win, second-placed City Troy Deeney headed in Gerard Deulofeu’s cross has been left short on cover with cen- proved to be the last penalty of the fired Lyon into the final with a fine A number of clubs are reportedly keen remain 13 points behind runaway leaders but the home side hit back in the second half tre-backs Niklas Suele and Lucas shootout wide to send Lyon through. long-range strike with five minutes on signing Cavani, who has scored a club- Liverpool, having played two games more, and through Douglas Luiz. Hernandez sidelined by knee injuries. This is the final season of the remaining. record 198 goals for PSG and whose contract their bid to defend their title appears hopeless. Tyrone Mings scored a dramatic late winner “We decided to comply with the League Cup after the French league There was another twist in the tale, expires in the summer. Atletico appear to be City’s French central defender Laporte has for Villa deep into stoppage time to end request of our head coach Hansi Flick voted to suspend the competition though, as despite a lengthy delay for the 32-year-old’s preferred choice but the La been out of action since suffering a knee injury Watford’s recent revival under Nigel Pearson. for reinforcements in defence and from next term to ease fixture conges- a VAR review, Lille were awarded an Liga outfit and PSG are yet to agree a fee. at the end of August and he was a surprise inclu- Moise Kean scored his first goal for Everton together we decided on Alvaro tion. injury-time penalty for what appeared “I would like him to play there, (Atletico sion at Bramall Lane. since his arrival from Juventus in the 30th minute Odriozola,” said Bayern chairman Karl- Lyon will bid to lift the trophy for to be an excellent tackle by former coach Diego) Simeone wants him now,” Sheffield United goalkeeper Dean Henderson of their match against Newcastle and Dominic Heinz Rummenigge in a statement. the second time when they take on the Manchester United full-back Rafael on Cavani’s father Luis told Spanish progamme denied Jesus from the penalty spot about 10 min- Calvert-Lewin doubled the lead in the second “We are very happy about his sign- winner of second semi-final between Jonathan Bamba. El Chiringuito. utes from half-time after a foul on Riyad half. ing and would like to thank those in Reims and PSG on April 4 at the Stade Loic Remy, on as a 78th-minute “I think there is a strong chance he will Mahrez. Everton were cruising deep into stoppage charge at Real Madrid for their very de France. substitute, stepped up with a cool go to Atletico. There is also the option to But City made amends when substitute time but threw away the three points, with friendly and cooperative discussions.” Portugal midfielder Sanches gave Panenka finish down the middle of the join the club in June. There are lots of other Sergio Aguero, on for Jesus, tapped in from Kevin Lejeune striking twice. The move helps both parties as visitors Lille a 13th-minute lead with goal to force more spot-kicks. clubs interested but when you give your De Bruyne’s cross in the 73rd minute. Bournemouth, who had lost their previous Odriozola, who was signed from Real a low left-footed strike from outside the But Ciprian Tatarusanu, playing in word to a team, you respect it. Southampton’s 2-0 victory against Crystal four matches, all against relegation rivals, beat Sociedad for 35 million euros ($39 mil- area to score his second goal for the place of usual Lyon goalkeeper “If he is allowed to leave tomorrow and Palace, thanks to goals from Nathan Redmond Brighton 3-1 thanks to goals from Harry Wilson, lion) in 2018, has struggled for game club since joining from Bayern last Anthony Lopes, saved Bamba’s open- Atletico still want him, I think he will sign. and Stuart Armstrong, continued a remarkable an own goal from Pascal Gross and a second- time in Madrid, where Dani Carvajal is August. ing penalty before Sanches’ miss sealed He is a player who needs time to play. PSG turnaround for the club, who hit rock bottom ear- half Callum Wilson effort. preferred in the right-back role. AFP But the hosts were gifted a way Lille’s fate. AFP are treating him unfairly.” AFP *  7    !!

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Since making her international Iand it isn't just Virat Kohli Asked if he was looking at Indian side into a really good A day after being picked as the debut in 2018, she has consistently put  0      # ## % and the Indian boys who are his time with Rajasthan Royals place and leads them excep- injured Shikhar Dhawan’s replacement in in commendable performances to looking to take every opportu- to try some new stuff as it will tionally well," the 30-year-old India’s ODI squad for the assignment established herself as a key member nity to prepare for the show- be the perfect training ground pointed. against New Zealand’s senior team, the of the team. +-988: piece event slated to be held for the World T20, Smith does- Asked about Kohli's ges- 20-year-old Shaw smashed 48 off 35 balls India take on defending champi- later in the year. Run-machine n't sound the sort who likes to ture to ask fans to show him to lay the foundation for the visiting ons Australia in the opening game of Steve Smith is already excited tinker much with his training support during the 2019 World team’s chase. the tournament in Sydney on +; at the prospect of playing ritual. But he does have it on his Cup, Smith feels it was really Wicketkeeper Sanju Samson, who February 21, and the youngster another ICC event at home mind to give his leg-spin skills nice of the India skipper. "In the replaced Dhawan in India’s T20 squad, believes her side will have to be men-  7$$6 after the 2015 World Cup. In a thought. World Cup it was really nice of blazed away to a 21-ball 39, while tally strong against the hosts. fact, he believes that his stint "Ah, don't want to try too Virat to do what he did. He did Suryakumar Yadav hammered 35 off a “I think when it comes to ngelo Mathews struck his highest Test in the IPL with Rajasthan much different. I don't really not have to do that and yeah it mere 19 deliveries. Australia, you got to be the best or you Ascore with an unbeaten double century Royals will have a major role know, maybe a bit more bowl- was a lovely gesture and really Chasing 231 after opting to field, can’t play. That’s the kind of team they on Wednesday as Sri Lanka left Zimbabwe to play in the build-up to the ing perhaps, but then that appreciated that," he smiled. India completed the task with more than AB To make up for “lack of are. My favourite team to play against battling to save the series opener going into mega event Down Under. takes time away from my bat- Kohli, in fact, won the 20 overs to spare at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval. strength”, India opener Jemimah is also Australia. It’s more of a mind the final day at Harare. Speaking to IANS, Smith ting. So yeah, it's a difficult one 'Spirit of Cricket' award for his With the ball, Mohammed Siraj was Rodrigues is working on increasing game than just skills (when you play Former skipper Mathews eclipsed his spoke about the much-debat- but we'll wait and see," he gesture in England. the most successful bowler for India A, her bat speed, which, she hopes, will them on the field),” Jemimah said. previous Test best of 160 and finished 200 ed proposal to have four-day reveals. There have been talks that picking up three wickets for 33 runs in aid in hitting big shots in the upcom- Jemimah, who will be playing her not out after a marathon knock spanning 468 Tests, India skipper Kohli's A chat with Smith can Smith is a natural leader and 6.3 overs, while there were two wickets ing Women’s T20 World Cup. first World Cup, is looking forward to balls, as Sri Lanka declared their first gesture to ask fans to support never move forward without that the national captaincy apiece for Khaleel Ahmed and Axar Patel. The lively 19-year-old is also play in the final of the tournament, innings on 515 for nine. him during the 2019 World discussing Kohli. It looks like could well return to him in the Their efforts helped India A bowl out striving to hone her backfoot skills which will mark an important mile- Zimbabwe, playing their first Test since Cup, the Indian Premier these two will go ahead and near future. But for the bats- New Zealand A for 230 with nine balls ahead of the marquee event, starting stone in her life. November 2018, ended the fourth day on 30 League and how Tim Paine has share all the records between man, Paine is the captain and to spare in the 50-over match. in Australia next month. “I can’t put it in words, how without loss and trailing by 127 runs after done a brilliant job leading them when they hang their someone who is doing a good Quite a few home team players got “I’m working more on my back important it will be for me to be a part Brian Mudzinganyama was drafted in as a Australia in Test cricket. boots. The greatness of Smith job with the boys. off the blocks easily but could not go on foot, developing my back foot more of the Indian team that plays in a concussion substitute for opener Kevin For a man who has domi- though is in his humility. The "Yeah, Tim's done a terrif- to make substantial contributions. Rachin and trying to increase my bat speed. World Cup final. It’s quite exciting. I’m Kasuza. nated batting charts in the moment the talks move ic job. He has led the troops Ravindra top-scored with 49 off 58 balls Because looking at my size, you can really looking forward to it,” she said. Debutant Kasuza, who made 63 in the last few years, Smith's numbers towards the comparison, he really well. Obviously retaining and skipper Tom Bruce made 47 off 55. first innings, suffered a delayed concussion in the shortest format of the decides to highlight how bril- the Ashes in England in twen- India A got their chase off to a brisk after he took a blow to the helmet while field- game definitely has room for liant Kohli has been both as ty-odd years was an exception- start with Shaw and his opening partner ing at short leg on Tuesday. improvement. But the former batsman and leader. al effort and yeah he has led the Mayank Agarwal (29) picking the gaps   O  #P  #  Mudzinganyama became the fourth Australia skipper wants to "Yeah, he is terrific. His bat- team exceptionally well," he at will. Zimbabwean to make his Test debut in this keep playing and improving on ting numbers just speak for said. The visitors had raced to 79 in 9.1  )24". from it, and now we’ve He admitted he match. He was unbeaten on 14 with Prince the go rather than changing his themselves. I think he's an From the Ashes to the overs when Shaw fell to James Neesham. got to look forward to was disappointed not to Masvaure 15 not out at stumps. style of training going into the incredible player in all three ICC's proposal to have four-day The 20-year-old Shaw, who came into the ew Zealand’s veter- the Indian series,” have played in Sydney The 32-year-old Mathews brought up his World T20. formats and I think we will see Test matches on a regular basis match after a 100-ball 150 in a practice Nan seamer Tim Southee was quoted as but said he has moved 10th Test century, his first since December "No real specific training, him break many records. He's from 2023, Smith is a tradition- game, hit five fours and three sixes. Southee is “looking for- saying by stuff.Co.Nz. on. 2018, in the morning session and steadily but just playing a lot more T20 already broken plenty of them alist in the matter and wants Captain Shubman Gill (30) got out ward” to the India chal- Then, coach Gary “It’s disappointing. added to his total with considerable support cricket and just getting the and I see him breaking many the format to stay as it is. after getting his eye in and after that, lenge, leaving behind Stead had said it was You’re gutted ever y from Dhananjaya de Silva and Niroshan right tempo I guess for the more over the years. He has got "I am comfortable with Samson showed his prowess, smoking the disappointment of felt Henry would offer time you’re left out. It’s Dickwella. game is the most important the hunger for runs and does- five days. I like the challenge of two maximums and three boundaries. being dropped for the more pace than an absolute dream to De Silva and Dickwella both scored 63 thing for me. I would love to n't stop getting them. Hopefully a five-day Test match. Mumbai player Suryakumar, who final Test of Australia Southee. play for NZ and every but two quick wickets for Sikandar Raza, be a part of the World Cup, it's he can stop getting them Obviously, there has been a lot can also use the big handle to good effect, series earlier this But the 31-year-old time you do miss out it who finished with three for 62, hastened the obviously at home in Australia. against Australia, that'll be of talk of the four-day Tests, but struck three fours and two sixes to take month. is expected to lead the hurts, but you’ve got to declaration as Mathews reached 200 with a I was involved in the ODI nice. my personal opinion is I like his team close to victory. “It’s about making New Zealand attack respect the decisions sweep to the square leg boundary. World Cup here in 2015 and "As a captain he's already five days. I don't make the deci- Vijay Shankar (20) and Krunal that adjustment. What’s when the five-match and try to help out and With one day remaining, the visitors had the most amazing six- made India the number one sions obviously of how it all Pandya (13) then got the job done as gone is gone and it was Twenty20 series against give back to the team, appear the only team capable of victory weeks of my cricketing career side in the world in Test crick- works out but my opinion is India A took lead in the three-match very disappointing, the India starts at Eden even when you’re not although the pitch looks likely to have the and loved every minute of it. et. From what I have seen he five-days Tests is what it is all series. guys would have learnt Park on Friday. playing.” final say. So yeah would love to be sets really good standards for about," he signed off.