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Aby a mob in Dwarka's registered and one person has Modi said the Congress has Uttam Nagar on Saturday been arrested for questioning, no faith in democracy and evening after two battery said police. judiciary. “It does not hold dia- thieves who were riding on his The deceased was a resi- logue and stall proceedings in vehicle diverted the ire of the dent of Shahjahanpur and was Parliament, but the new game mob blaming the driver for the living in Vikas Nagar in . they are playing now is dan- crimes. gerous and this must be debat- The victim auto-driver, ed for a bright future of the identified as Avinash Kumar, country.” had picked two passengers, “When their shameless tac- identified as Mani Ram and tics fail, they use the threat of Prakash, from Uttam Nagar. impeachment to bend the Mani and Prakash asked judges to their will. This is a the unsuspecting auto driver to dangerous play. The Congress stop at Mohan Garden for wait is committing a crime by using for sometime, police said.                   impeachment to stop lawful Meanwhile, the auto driver            !" procedures. They are enslaving Avinash went to attend the the country using their power nature's call. When he came   $75702 sands of Vishwa Hindu in the Rajya Sabha,” Modi said.                     $      back, a crowd had already Parishad (VHP) workers and He urged intellectuals to gathered near his auto and s the BJP seeks to rekindle supporters trooped into the analyse this “dangerous game” they were beating Mani and Athe politically sensitive venue of the Dharm Sabha at of the Congress in the interest Prakash for stealing car bat- Ayodhya issue, Prime Minister Ayodhya called by the VHP to of the country. $        teries. on Monday discuss the way forward for the The 200-member As soon as the auto driver accused the Congress of inter- construction of the temple. Assembly is sched- returned to his vehicle, Mani fering in the Supreme Court’s Sibal, a Supreme Court uled to go to polls on and Prakash blamed Avinash       proceedings on the Ram lawyer, also said that he had not December 7. The counting of     %  for the thefts claiming that he Temple-Babri Masjid case, say- appeared in the court since votes will take place on is the kingpin. In the melee, the ing that their Rajya Sabha lead- January 2018 and that neither December 11. thieves placed a stolen battery ers intimidate Supreme Court the Congress nor the BJP are +   .9"529. show some patience,” the seer Government regarding this in Avinash’s auto and con- judges with the threat of party to the court proceedings. ,     remarked. issue on November 23. He vinced the crowd that the auto impeachment if they don’t stall “The Congress is not a party in he Vishwa Hindu Parishad The seers at the Dharm assured me that after driver was the mastermind. the case until after the general these proceedings. Nothing T(VHP) sponsored Dharm Sabha administered oath to December 11, we will sit with The furious crowd immediate- elections of next year. can prevent the court from - -   Sabha did not announce any the crowd and asked people to the PM and will take a decision ly jumped on him and beat him “If a Supreme Court judge hearing the matter. The CJI has date for the construction of take back soil of Ayodhya and on this issue. I am hopeful that to death. does not prepare the time table said it is not a priority matter  .$ Ram Temple, but one of its make pledge that they will not a legislation will come for tem- The two thieves too faced (for hearing cases) as per their for the Supreme Court, and the senior seers claimed that the let die down struggle for mak- ple construction.” the fury of the mob and sus- (Congress’s) political inten- PM has no courage to say any- +     Centre will take some decision ing a grand Ram temple at The Swami further said the tained grievous injuries. tions and wants to hear all to thing against the CJI. Blaming on this issue after results of Ayodhya. Minister had asked us to keep Police said all the three deliver justice on a serious the Congress for making polit-   08#3$" Assembly polls were out on The Dharm Sabha under- patience. “The Government were rushed to hospital where and sensitive issue, such as ical capital won’t help,” Sibal December 11. lined the strong sentiment for will respect our sentiments Avinash was declared brought Ayodhya, then the party’s added. ttacking Prime Minister Amid growing demand for Bill or Ordinance for Ram this is what a senior Minister lawyers, who are Rajya Sabha Modi alleged the Congress ANarendra Modi, Shiv Sena the construction of the Ram Temple by the Centre. told me. I am a devotee of Lord  members, start the game of threatened Supreme Court chief Uddhav Thackeray said if Temple in Ayodhya without Chairman of the Ram Ram and is scaring the judges in the name judges with impeachment the BJP Government was deter- further delay, Ramji Das of Janmabhoomi Nyas Mahant our right,” he said. '(()  of impeachment,” Modi said. when they tried hearing the mined to honour court's order Nirmohi Akhara told VHP’s Nritya Gopal Das, who He further said he also     Senior Congress leader and cases earlier why it promised people during Dharm Sabha on Sunday that presided over the Sabha, said spoke to RSS chief Mohan         Rajya Sabha member Kapil this year. The PM claimed that elections that construction of dates for the same will be that people still have faith in the Bhagwat who “assured me that      Sibal rubbished Prime Congress party’s Rajya Sabha Ram Temple at Ayodhya will announced early next year dur- BJP Governments at the Centre pressure will be mounted on         Minister’s claim saying he members, who are also lawyers, start during their regime. ing Kumbh in Prayagraj. and . the Government for bringing in *            should start a new programme had tried to scare away the apex “The Ram Temple will be Addressing the sabha after “This congregation proves a legislation” in Parliament for         on the lines of “Man ki baat” court judges to ensure the constructed at any cost whether the inauguration marked by the point that people want temple construction. “We want +           titled “jhooti baat” so that peo- hearing in the cases is delayed the Modi Government returns chanting of mantras at the temple at Ayodhya. Till Modi all MPs to be united and the        ple are aware that the state- until after the 2019 to power or not. For some peo- Badey Bhaktmaal ki Bagia, is PM, and Yogi is Chief Bill be passed with 2/3rd       ments he makes on a weekly election. ple, Ram Temple may be a Ramji Das said, “The date for Minister of UP, I am sure that majority,” the Swami said.    !  basis are “inconsistent with Seven Opposition parties 'jumla' but for us it is a matter construction of the Ram they will find a way out,” he The congregation was facts”. led by the Congress had moved of national pride,” he said with- Temple will be declared in the said. This sentiment was also amalgamation of sants, RSS,     Prime Minister’s comment a notice for the impeachment out taking name of Modi while 2019 Kumbh which will be held echoed by Swami VHP and BJP leaders. The      !" on the Ayodhya issue came at of then Chief Justice of talking to reporters here on in Prayagraj.” , who dis- sants took the lead while oth-  "    an election rally at Alwar, Dipak Misra in April this year, Sunday. “It is only a matter of a few closed, “I spoke to a senior ers followed.           Rajasthan, on a day when thou- accusing him of “misbehav- Continued on Page 4 days, and I request you all to Minister in the Central Continued on Page 4      $75702         #  $   %&'( he Special Cell, the anti-ter-       Trorist unit of the Delhi             R ! !    "   Police, on Sunday claimed to    #   O L M have averted a major terrorist      !  strike in the national Capital by arresting three terrorists     #"$   "  ##     $%&  belonging to the Islamic State    %&## $ Jammu & Kashmir (ISJK), an     +  ,  /4$. .4 Shopian district of south fire. In the retaliatory firing, outfit influenced by ISIS ide-           Kashmir during the night two more ultras were shot. ology.       even terrorists, an Army hours to launch an attack on a The group belonged to “The terrorists have been               Sjawan, and a civilian were house where suspected terror- Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) and identified as Tahir Ali Khan, ,-(     killed in separate incidents of ists were hiding. The security Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) out- Haris Mushtaq Khan and Asif           violence in south Kashmir on forces had specific tip-off on fits and all but one slain ter- Suhail Nadaf. Police said the      Sunday amid a massive their presence. rorists were local residents, men, all from Kashmir, were   $# .   counter-insurgency offensive During the initial bout of including Abbas Bhat, who carrying three hand grenades /0  !  launched by security forces. firing, a soldier of 162 had recently taken over as the and two pistols,” said Pramod  + + #2.$5 .42 Separatists have called for a Territorial Army Nazir Ahmad group’s ‘district commander’ to Singh Kushwah, the Deputy  '# ( shutdown on Monday against was hit by bullets along with replace Zeenatul Islam, who Commissioner of Police      iting Pakistan-based Inter-           what they called killing of 18 another soldier. They were has joined Al Badr group in the (DCP), Special Cell. ))* .         1-   CServices Intelligence (ISI)’s  2  3:         Kashmiris in past three days. shifted to hospital for treatment area. The Sunday gunfight was The arrests came days after “nefarious activities” in Punjab Police said that six ultras killed where Ahmad, a resident of the fourth encounter in south the Delhi Police issued an advi-          #    4/   8         and the killings of Indian sol- 2 / in Shopian village were Ashmuji village in neighbour- Kashmir region in a week’s sory on the likely presence of diers by Pakistan armed forces, involved in several heinous ing Kulgam district, suc- time. During these gunfights, two suspected terrorists in the 2  O / Punjab Chief Minister Capt        ;  , , / crimes, including murder of cumbed to his injuries. Sources 12 ultras, including top com- city after the grenade attack at    /    ! Amarinder Singh on Sunday , <           three policemen. said four ultras were killed in manders of HM and LeT, were a prayer hall in Amritsar that         courteously declined neigh- Official sources said a joint the first round of firing. There killed, six each in Anantnag left three people dead and 20 3    4  bouring country’s invitation Prime Minister Imran Khan his refusal, “Always team of security forces cor- was a lull of more than an hour and Shopian districts. others injured. 5$    to attend ground-breaking cer- will perform the ceremony. cherished dream to visit doned off Batagund village in when terrorists again opened Continued on Page 4 Detailed report on P2 6!'(!  emony for Kartarpur corridor Earlier, Pakistan cricketing Gurdwara Kartarpur on November 28; while his legend Imran Khan had per- Sahib. Regret to decline Cabinet Minister Navjot Singh sonally telephoned his friend invite of @SMQureshiPTI Sidhu accepted the request from the cricket days, Sidhu, to @ForeignOfficePk for %  %    &         with “an unalloyed joy”. attend the function — which he Kartarpur Sahib Corridor cer- At the same time, SAD’s had accepted right away con- emony. Cannot go while MP from Bathinda and Union sidering the permission from killings of Indian soldiers & ter-   $75702 Police are taking painstak- island and Pathak said police sible to retrieve the American’s Minister the Indian Government. ror attacks in Punjab continue. ing efforts to avoid any dis- are monitoring to see if there body and that no charges will will attend the function in Later, formal invites was May Waheguru bless us with olice officials had a nervous ruption to the Sentinelese — a is a repeat of an incident after be made against the protected Pakistan, representing the sent to the Indian dignitaries. peace & amity! (sic)” Plong-distance face-off with pre-neolithic tribe whose island two fishermen who strayed tribe. Seven people, including Indian Government along with Amarinder, in a letter to “Since March 2017, the the tribe who killed an is off-limits to outsiders — as onto the island were killed in six fishermen who were her Cabinet colleague and Pakistan Foreign Minister State has neutralised 19 ISI- American missionary, in their they seek Chau’s body. 2006. involved in ferrying Chau to Rajya Sabha MP from Uttar Qureshi, said it is a historic armed and controlled modules, latest bid to locate his body on The death of the 27-year- One week after their North Sentinel, have been Pradesh . occasion, but he regretted his apprehended 81 terrorists and a remote island, police said on old on November 17 has cast a deaths, the bodies of the two arrested. The fishermen have External Affairs Minister inability to be present. seized 79 weapons, numerous Sunday. new spotlight on efforts to Indians were hooked on bam- accompanied the police teams Sushma Swaraj has nominated “My reason for declining grenades of the HG-84 type The police team, who took protect one of the world’s last boo stakes facing out to sea. to the island to help efforts to the two on her behalf after she the invitation was two-fold. made in Pakistan’s Ordnance a boat just off Indian-owned “uncontacted” tribes whose “It was a kind of scarecrow,” pinpoint where Chau was expressed her inability to attend Firstly, not a day passes when factories with Austrian know- North Sentinel island on language and customs remain Pathak said. killed. the same. Indian soldiers are not killed or how, and some IEDs,” the Chief Saturday, spotted men from the a mystery to outsiders. “We are studying the 2006 Anthropologists and trib- The invite was sent by wounded on the Line of Minister claimed in his letter. Sentinelese tribe on the beach Fishermen who took Chau case. We are asking anthropol- al welfare experts who have had Pakistan Foreign Minister Control in Jammu & Kashmir. He pointed that the last where John Allen Chau was last ly used by the isolated tribe to to North Sentinel — which is ogists what they do when they the previous rare contacts with Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Rather than moving towards attack took place in Amritsar seen, the region’s police chief kill Chau as he shouted one of the Andaman and kill an outsider,” the police the Sentinelese have been heav- Qureshi to Sushma, Capt normalcy, these incidents are on last Sunday on a peaceful Dependra Pathak told AFP. Christian phrases at them. Nicobar islands in the Bay of chief added. “We are trying to ily involved with the enquiry. Amarinder and Sidhu, on escalating,” he said. religious congregation in a vil- Using binoculars, officers “They stared at us and we — said they saw the understand the group psy- “Their advice will be behalf of the Pakistan Secondly, the CM claimed lage wherein three men were — in a police boat about 400 were looking at them,” said tribe burying the body on the chology.” important,” said Pathak. “We Government to attend the cer- that Pakistan’s ISI has started its killed and 19, including women metres from the shore — saw Pathak. The boat withdrew to beach. Though Chau’s death is are taking the advice of the emony at Kartarpur on nefarious activities in Punjab. and children, were wounded. the men armed with bows and avoid any chance of a con- The Sentinelese normally officially a murder case, anthro- people in the field to advance November 28 where their Amarinder even tweeted Continued on Page 4 arrows, the weapons reported- frontation. attack anyone who goes to the pologists say it may be impos- this case.”    ()  *( +,- +./0 

.  /   F$8    O 1       +     //$/475     /           '744"4//      $75702      $75702 .447/75$ 22-year-old youth has been Aarrested for allegedly kid- he napping and assaulting a 25- TUniversity on Sunday /4$. .4 year-old woman on Friday. requested the teachers’ associ- The accused abducted the ation not to hold the proposed      $75702 woman from Millennium hunger strike over the resched- Depot Sarai Kale Khan, and uling of the academic calendar hree suspected terrorists !       -       then threw her out of the car and compliance of faculty Tallegedly affiliated with the near UP gate the same day after attendance. terror organisation Islamic grenades with their arrest. An Kushwah stated. Half a dozen OGWs were assaulting her with a glass bot- In a circular issued in State of Jammu & Kashmir underground hideout in the “Based on specific input, a picked up for questioning,” he tle and robbing her phone, mid-November, the (ISJK), an ISIS inspired mod- middle of an apple orchard in trap was laid near Tourist said. police said. administration had said seven ule were arrested on Saturday Awantipora belonging to the reception centre in Srinagar led Police revealed that the The accused was identified years in the varsity were nec- in a joint operation by the ISJK was uncovered and half a by Inspector Satish Rana, Sunil organization ISJK has been as Ram Kaushik (22) and he essary for granting sabbatical Delhi Police Special Cell with dozen over ground workers Rajain & Ravinder Joshi to nab involved in several cases of was arrested from Meerut in a leave to a faculty member. Jammu and Kashmir Police (OGW) were also detained, the three terrorists,” said the attack in Jammu and Kashmir. white Swift Dzire. The woman’s It announced that from Tourist Reception Center, police said. DCP. In July, 2018 three security per- mobile phone was recovered proposals for seminar partici- Srinagar. The three active terrorists “The active terrorists came sonnel were reportedly injured from his possession. sanitation worker at mother and he can drop her at pation, conference travel, pro- Their interrogation were identified as Haris fully loaded with three in a grenade attack carried out According to police, infor- Commonwealth Games her place,” Deputy ject meetings, prestigious fel- revealed that ISJK was planning Mushtaq Khan (24), who was grenades and two loaded by the module in Anantnag dis- mation was received at 1 am on Village, Akshardham. Her Commissioner of Police lowships, including those a major terrorist strike in the a graduate in arts from Jamia sophisticated pistols on a bike. trict. In November 2017, in an Saturday at Sunlight Colony mother also works as sanitation (Southeast) Chinmoy Biswal scheduled during vacations, national Capital. Delhi Police, Milia Islamic University in The swiftness of Police team in encounter, a sub-inspector was police station from Max worker at public toilet at IP stated. would be allowed if teachers Jammu & Kashmir Police and Delhi and is currently pursuing identification of militants avert- killed in the shoot-out and on Hospital in Ghaziabad regard- Park. On Friday, since her “On confirming from her comply with the diktats of the Punjab Police were working his Masters degree, Tahir Ali ed a grenade blast in the heart September 9 this year, a civil- ing the admission of a 25-year- mother was not well, her sister mother and on her mother say- university, the JNU Teachers’ inn tandem after they were Khan (23), and Asif Suhail of Srinagar and it also resulted ian Ahad Ahmed believed to be old woman with physical went to IP Park to perform her ing that she doesn’t know the Association (JNUTA) said. alerted by the security agencies Nadaf (22). in the arrest of three active mil- a police informer was killed. assault. It was revealed that she duties,” DCP stated. accused, victim refused to go “You will be allowed to about terrorist outfits active in “On September 6 this year, itants. Arresting active and It may be recalled that after was admitted at 4 pm on According to police, in the with him. Accused got furious teach, conduct research and the Kahsmir Valley planning two militant of ISIS inspired alive militants in Srinagar is a Dawood Sofi, the social media- Friday. afternoon, when the victim and he started following the reimburse your medical bills if to target and other module of J&K namely Parvaiz precious catch as they carry a savvy head of the ISJK, was “Police team immediately brought her sister lunch, the woman in his car and when she you fall in line and do not ques- areas, sources said. Rashid Lone and Jamsheed plethora of valuable informa- eliminated in Anantnag district reached the hospital and the accused kidnapped her. reached Millennium Depot, tion the diktats of the compe- The Punjab Police was Zahoor Paulwere arrested by tion about their hideouts, of Jammu and Kashmir’, the patient stated that she was “During the interrogation he forcibly put her in his car. tent authority,” the circular already on alert after its Special Cell near Red fort, weapons, and future planning,” then Director General of Police thrown out from the car near of the accused person, he On the way, accused tried to said, according to JNUTA. counter-intelligence wing sug- New Delhi along with arms and DCP added. “In this operation (DGP) SP Vaid had said that UP gate by an unknown person revealed that he had visited IP harass the victim, which she The teachers’ body gave gested that six to seven Jaish- ammunitions. Following one underground hideout fre- “as such there is no infrastruc- and she sustained grievous Park before and had noticed resisted. a call for a 24-hour e-Mohammad terrorists “could which, information was quented by ISJK members was ture of Islamic state or some- injury,” Deputy Commissioner the mother of the 25-year-old Thereafter, accused assault- hunger strike from 10 am on be moving towards Delhi” from received about the ISJK ter- also busted at the sprawling thing like (in the Valley) but of Police (Southeast) Chinmoy woman working as a sanitation ed her with glass bottle and Monday, demanding the the Valley. rorists in Srinagar,” Deputy apple orchard at Awantipora, these days people do get influ- Biswal stated. worker. He approached the even robbed her mobile. He restoration of academic and Police recovered two Commissioner of Police Jammu and Kashmir by Army enced by radical material avail- “During investigation, vic- victim and tried to gain famil- then threw her out of the vehi- institutional functioning of the loaded pistols and three hand (Special Cell) Pramod Singh after an overnight operation. able online”. tim stated that she works as iarity, saying that he knows her cle,” said the DCP. university. &(    ) !     (R

    floated e-tenders for building M/7)89*:-1//08 “These parking lots will Sadar Bazaar for constructing is a heavily congested market 848 4., four multi-level parking lots to 71-3<-*:/17)89*://0/ surely help to decongest park- a multilevel parking, but owing and residential area and its arte- decongest these areas. )1=017-<)1-*/*1<1. 1 ing issues at multiple loca- to space constraints there, they rial roads are heavily he Municipal Corporation of MCG officials said that )/-71-<082 tions in the city. It will also help had to shift their plan to encroached upon by fruit and TGurugram (MCG) is plan- the state Government 0*)01-8/37)89*:-*1 to curb unauthorised parking Kaman Sarai, which is a bit fur- vegetable vendors. ning to construct four multi- has framed a parking policy to <18-)3/.017)89*: on the city roads. Multilevel ther from Sadar Bazaar. Despite being in the MCG’s level parking lots in the city. The stop unauthorised parking on /7)<)/-78-32118 parking space will also provide Sikanderpur Ghosi is situ- scheme of things since the civic civic body has identified four roads. Located within a radius ?)<11-1/1-8/./-1 better facility to the visitors. ated near the Delhi-Gurugram body’s commenced in 2009, locations for constructing mul- of a kilometre of each other, :*8)18*0) Also, the MCG will generate border and the Golf Course multiple proposals for adopting tilevel parking lots including Sadar Bazaar and Kamani Sarai /-7/<80**/31 revenue via shops which will Road and is also connected by multilevel parking at Kaman Kaman Sarai, Kamla Nehru are among the city’s most con- 7)89*:-1/N run inside the parking lots,” the Yellow Line of the Delhi Sarai, Rajiv Chowk, Sadar Market, Sikanderpur village and gested commercial and resi- MCG commissioner Yashpal Metro. It is home to several Bazaar, Huda City Centre Metro Old Veterinary Hospital at Sadar dential spaces. daily footfall of more than Yadav said. paying guest accommodations station, and DLF Phase 3 failed Bazaar. Despite housing more than 9,000 people, Sadar Bazar has In March, the MCG offi- and guesthouses. to get a final nod from the urban The civic body has also 1,150 shops and inviting a no designated parking space. cials had looked at sites near Kamla Nehru Market, too, local bodies department. $    O &R  '  !  '6     &  P          . $      $75702      $75702      $75702 smoke in railway stations. ‘No Smoking’ signages will usty wind speed brought 34-year-old man was ailway stations across the be put as per the law at all rail- Gdown level of noxious pol- Afound murdered in south Rnational Capital will be ‘no way stations as well as railway lutants on Sunday and Delhi’s district’s Ambedkar Nagar. His smoking zones’ as the Delhi police stations, the DCP said. air quality marked an “unusu- body was found lying in the Police manning these stations, Officers of New Delhi, Old al” improvement. Increased basement of an under con- has decided to enforce the law Delhi, Hazrat Nizamuddin, wind speed, favourable for dis- struction building at Valmiki and initiate action against those Anand Vihar, Sabji Mandi, persion of pollutants blew away Temple, near Virat Chowk on found smoking on the railway Sarai Rohilla and Delhi the pollutants and the overall Sunday. station. Cantonment railway police air quality settled in the “poor” The deceased identified as “All police officers of seven have been instructed about it. category, authorities said. Beru (34) was allegedly mur- police stations have been given Sambandh Health The overall air quality dered by his friends after they training on the Cigarettes and Foundation (SHF) Project index (AQI) was recorded at had a quarrel. The accused per- Other Tobacco Products Act Manager Somil Rastogi said as 262, which falls in the “poor” sons are absconding and a (COTPA)”, Deputy Comm- per the Global Adult Tobacco category, according to the search has been initiated to nab issioner of Police (Railway) Survey (GATS 2016-17), 12.4 Centre-run System of Air the accused persons, police Dinesh Kumar Gupta said. per cent of youths aged 15-24 Quality and Weather Control Board (CPCB) data. remains calm. However, the air said. The training was imparted are tobacco consumers. Forecasting (SAFAR). The Ghaziabad, Greater Noida and quality is expected to keep “He has been identified with the assistance of Sambandh “In Delhi, one out of five PM2.5 level (particles in the air Noida recorded “poor” air oscillating between ‘poor’ and by his brother, sister and Health Foundation (SHF) and persons use tobacco and in cap- with a diameter of less than 2.5 quality while Faridabad record- ‘very poor’ for the next three sister-in-law who reside at the Max India Foundation. ital of India, smoking is the pre- micrometres) was recorded at ed “moderate” air quality, the days,” the SAFAR said. behind Virat Cinema Police officers were also admin- ferred form of using tobacco, 124 and the PM10 level was CPCB data said. It may be noted that a AQI Dakshinpuri near Auto istered oath not to consume whereas in the entire country, recorded at 250, it said. According to the SAFAR, between 0 and 50 is considered Market. The family revealed tobacco, he said. chewing tobacco is in maxi- Six areas in the national the improvement in air quali- “good”, 51 and 100 “satisfacto- that the deceased doesn’t reside According to railway mum use,” he said. In last capital recorded “very poor” ty is “unusual” for this time of ry”, 101 and 200 “moderate”, with them for days at end,” police, challans will be issued seven years, the average age of quality air while 21 areas the year. “The major role is 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and Deputy Commissioner of under the COTPA if people do tobacco initiation has reduced, recorded “poor” air quality, being played by late night faster 400 “very poor”, and 401 and Police (south) Vijay Kumar not follow the orders and Rastogi added. according Central Pollution wind speed which otherwise 500 “severe”. stated.     *++ &   ,    !"#   $"%$      $       $75702      $75702 ?18:11*:*?-8=)1-* were scanned. Many auto dri- huge rainbow balloon arch 18-0:/-08</)*! vers and e-rickshaw drivers Aoverlooked Delhi’s Tolstoy four-year-old boy kid- 8<9/)388)/ were thoroughly examined, he Marg, as thousands of mem- Anapped from New Delhi )778*33?8-= + added. After getting informa- bers of the LGBTQ+ commu- railway station was rescued /8)=.<-*?//31)1 tion through sources, an e-rick- nity marched down to celebrate from Sikar in Rajasthan after a )/93*)7731<3)*3 shaw driver was apprehended the 11th Delhi Queer Pride 25-year-old man identified as 971)11-0/-?/ from RK Ashram. He con- Parade. Vidhya Bhusan kidnapped the 28-18*9)8 fessed that he has kidnapped It is the first queer parade child and hid him in a rented the child and kept at the house to be held after the apex court accommodation in Sikar. The age around 25-year-old man of his brother in Sikar, read down the Section 377 in accused has been arrested by was already sitting. The Rajasthan, Gupta said. a historic verdict on September Delhi Police Government accused started talking and On his instance, the kid- 6 this year, legalising consen- Railway Police (GRP). also bought lunch for her. At napped child was safely rescued sual gay sex between consent- According to police, on around 6.45 pm, her son start- from Khatu Shyam Ji Industrial ing adults. November 17 last year, a 27- ed crying and the accused took area, Sikar, Rajasthan, the DCP Amid slogans and placards year-old complainant, resident her son on the pretext that he added. like “Rainbow not Saffron”, freedom to love, the queer masks, most of the participants of , filed a report that she, will give him biscuit but did not During interrogation, “Homosexuality is not a choice community was also sure to be carried rainbow pride flags along with her 4 year son, came come back,” Dinesh Kumar Bhushan said that he has one but homophobia is” and “Love vocal about the new-found and balloons. What resounded to New Delhi Railway Station Gupta, Deputy Commissioner child and wanted another but is love”, the community cele- ‘aazadi’, as was heard in many the most, however, was a sim- from her sister’s house in of Police (Railways) stated. was unable owing to illness of his brated their sexual and gender marching groups. ple, powerful message layered Bawana to go to Jaipur. During investigation, all wife. He intended to shift the identities freely. Donning colourful attires, with many meanings in today’s “At around 9 am, she went CCTVs footage installed at child to Siwan, where his Finally armed with the painted faces, and lustrous India: “Happy Pride”. to waiting hall where one man New Delhi Railway Stations wife lives with his family, he said.

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Capital. The civic agencies on Chief Minister Arvind in view of the "attitude" of the non-existent issues," Gupta tion to an elected Government. Many of the work of the munic- responsible for maintaining Kejriwal and deletion of voters Centre and the Delhi Police said in a statement. Residents are always confused ipal corporation overlap with drains failed every year to syn- from the list in South Delhi over the incident involving the Meanwhile Delhi Congress about to whom they should organised by the PHD Taking about this, Praveen the Delhi Government as both chronise their efforts to desilt Parliamentary constituency. chief minister. president Delhi Pradesh Ajay approach for resolving their Chamber of Commerce, said Kumar Tripathi, former Chief construct and maintain roads drains before the onset of mon- Main Opposition BJP AAP workers had also Maken said that Instead of issues. that Delhi cannot become a Secretary of the Delhi and clean drains, he said. soon, instead keep themselves MLAs, though only four in protested at BJP headquarters discussing important issues All the five civic bodies smart city till the fighting Government said, "Lack of The official further said busy in passing the buck on one numbers will seek to counter and raised slogans for the like the life-threatening rising such as the New Delhi among multiple agencies stops. coordination poses a 'big prob- that corporations collect toll tax another. the ruling party over issues alleged apathy shown by Delhi pollution levels in Delhi, illegal Municipal Council, three "We have a Delhi that lem' in carrying out develop- at the borders, advertisement Drains in the city are main- concerning people. Police and the deafening silence sealing drive, the spread of municipal corporations and belongs to the DDA, a Delhi mental work in the city. revenue and property tax while tained by the Public Works' It may be recalled that a by the Lieutenant Governor nil dengue and the worsening law Delhi Cantonment Board and that belongs to LG sahab, one Explaining it further, he said the Delhi government collects Department (PWD), Irrigation man identified as Anil Sharma, Baijal. Sisodia had attacked and order situation in the even some departments of the Delhi that is of the Delhi Police, that construction permit is excise duty, service tax and and Flood departments of the who worked in the billing sec- Baijal for not speaking over the Capital the special session is Delhi Government perform one Delhi that belongs to the given by the municipal corpo- value added tax on the services Delhi Government and the tion of a private company issue. being called to discuss about similar roles in the areas of their NDMC. You need to bring rations, while DDA allot land and commodities sold. three municipal corporations. based at neighbouring On the other hand, the the chilli power attack on Delhi jurisdiction leading to complete clarity for becoming a smart for the same and it all take long "Running hospitals and Instead of desilting drains Gurugram, threw chilli powder Leader of Opposition in the Chief Minister Arvind chaos and delay in finishing city. There is hardly any coor- time due to improper coordi- dispensaries, managing water before the approaching mon- at Kejriwal outside his office in Assembly, Vijender Gupta, crit- Kejriwal. project in stipulated time. dination among these agencies nation. "Agencies only focus on supply, maintain the drainage soon, authorities remain busy in the Delhi Secretariat on icised the AAP dispensation for In a letter written to Delhi Citing multiplicity of for the welfare of Delhiites and completing their own work . In system, collecting tax, running shifting their responsibilities November 20. convening the session over the Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas authorities as a major roadblock they are fighting among them- one such instance, Delhi Metro schools and constructing roads knowing well that vector-borne On November 22, the Delhi issue. Goel on Sunday, Maken in development and creating a selves. In such circumstances, during construction of tunnel are some of the functions which diseases proliferate during rainy Cabinet decided to convene a "Politically motivated issues demanded the Speaker not to "total confusion" in the nation- converting the present land- reduced the drainage size and is performed by multiple season as water accumulates in one-day Assembly session on such as throwing chilly powder give permission to hold special al capital, Delhi Deputy Chief scape of Delhi into a smarter that affected the overall system agencies in Delhi that ended in part of the city owing to choked Monday to discuss the attack on at the Chief Minister and the sessions of the Assembly to dis- Minister Manish Sisodia , while city would not be possible," in the areas", he said. skepticism and complete drains, said an exasperated offi- the Chief Minister and the so-called deletion of lakhs of cuss personal matters. speaking at a recent event Sisodia said. 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Hannan Mollah, convenor of All India bilateral Indus Waters Treaty In September, the Punjab Chief justices and judges The accident took place near Khadri village Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee with Pakistan, Government and the Jammu & Kashmir from Bangladesh, Myanmar, on the Renuka-Dadahu-Nahan road, 168 km (AIKSCC), an umbrella body of 208 farmers’ and officials said. Governments signed an Thailand, and Bhutan, south of Shimla, around 4.30 pm, said agricultural workers’ organisations, said on The three projects include agreement to resume works on who are here to attend the Superintendent of Police Rohit Malpani. November 29, the farmers would start the Kisan the Shahpur Kandi dam pro- the 2,793-crore Shahpur BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal The private bus was on its way from Renuka Mukti March from different corners of Delhi — ject, Sutlej-Beas link in Punjab Kandi project. Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Ji to Nahan when the driver lost control, broke Bijwasan, Majnu Ka Tila, Nizamuddin and and the Ujh Dam project in Though the work on the Technical and Economic con- the railing of the Jalal bridge and fell 40-feet down Anand Vihar — to Ramlila ground. Jammu & Kashmir, they said. project began in 2013, it was ference, were also present. into the Jalal river, Additional Superintendent of PTI “These (three) projects Indus Waters Treaty. The rest of (DPR) to the Centre for its halted due to certain issues Naidu posted pictures of Police (ASP) Virender Singh Thakur told PTI. were stuck in red tape and the water remains unutilised appraisal, which is expected to raised by the J&K. the event on Twitter, in which Prima facie, the accident happened due to inter-state disputes. But it has and goes to Pakistan,” an offi- be okayed by the Advisory The Punjab Government he can be seen with Modi and the negligence of the bus driver, said Thakur, (+(+   been decided to expedite the cial added. Committee of the Ministry of also submitted a revised cost CJI Ranjan Gogoi. who reached the spot and supervised the res- execution of these projects,” The Ujh dam is a proposed Water Resources for clearance, estimate of 2,793.54 crore Constitution Day is cele- cue operation.        one of them added. hydroelectricity and irrigation they said. and requested the Centre to brated every year on November According to eyewitnesses, the bus was over- Under the Indus Waters multipurpose project in the After the Uri attack in include the project in the pri- 26 to mark the adoption of speeding when it was crossing the bridge, the Noida: A male blackbuck was found dead under Treaty, waters flowing in three Kathua district of Jammu Kashmir in September 2016, oritised list of the Pradhan Indian Constitution by the ASP said. mysterious circumstances in Gautam Buddh of Indus tributaries — the over the Ravi river with a the Government had sought to Mantri Krishi Sinchai Yojana Constituent Assembly in 1949. Four passengers, including three women, Nagar’s Greater Noida on Sunday, Forest depart- Sutlej, Beas and Ravi — have capacity to generate 196 MW use the Indus Waters Treaty to (PMKSY)/Accelerated This is perhaps for the died on the spot, while five critically-injured per- ment officials said. been allotted to India; while the of electricity. put pressure on Pakistan. The Irrigation Benefit Programme first time that PM Modi attend- sons succumbed to their injuries in a hospital, The carcass of the blackbuck, which finds a Chenab, Jhelum and Indus The total water utilisation measures included effectively (AIBP) projects. ed an event in the Supreme the officer added. place in the International Union for waters have been allotted to from this project is 172.8 mil- using India’s share of waters The project, when imple- Court complex. Fifty-one people are injured and have been Conservation of Nature’s list of threatened Pakistan. lion cusec metre (mc), but it that flow into Pakistan. This mented, will enable the up- “Attended the dinner host- shifted to the Nahan medical college. Two of the species, was found in the agricultural fields in Of the total 168 million has the capacity to store 925 also included fast-tracking irri- stream Ranjit Sagar Dam pro- ed by the Chief Justice of India deceased have been identified as Satya Ram (59) the Rabupura area in the morning, they added. acre-feet, India’s share of water mcm of water, the officials gation and hydropower pro- ject power station to act as a on the eve of Constitution Day and his wife, Bhagwanti Devi (52), residents of “It may have died after getting entangled in from the three allotted rivers is said. The estimated cost of the jects by resolving the inter-state peaking station, besides having Celebrations. Delighted to have Jaitak village in Nahan tehsil, the official said. the metal wires set up by farmers in their fields 33 million acre-feet, which project is 5,950 crore. disputes. its own generation capacity of met and interacted with Chief Sirmaur Deputy Commissioner Lalit Jain to keep off Nilgais (an Antelope species), but we constitutes nearly 20 per cent. The Jammu & Kashmir The Centre has also asked 206 MW and irrigation bene- Justices from neighbouring has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the acci- are awaiting the autopsy report for a confirma- “India uses nearly 93-94 Government has forwarded the Punjab government to fit of 37,173-hectare to Punjab countries,” the Vice President dent and asked the Nahan sub-divisional mag- tion of the cause of the death,” Divisional Forest per cent of its share under the the Detailed Project Report prepare a feasibility report of and J&K. PTI tweeted. PTI istrate to submit a report within 20 days. PTI Officer PK Shrivastava said. PTI / 0 &   /  &   2P 3 +   *                 +   ++   &     1 %  %  4546       %  :;22R  : Sunanda Shinde was 36 when her hus- Jaipur: The Congress on Sunday thing on development, he said, Noida (UP): The United only invitee from India, a the invitation Sunday to New Delhi: A 41-year-old Japanese national was band, a ward boy at a south Mumbai hospital was alleged that BJP and Prime adding Modi’s rally in Alwar was Nations on Sunday officially senior UN official said. Gautam Buddh Nagar District stabbed multiple times when he was headed killed by terrorists, who also slayed 165 others dur- Minister Narendra Modi have full of “nervousness”. invited Uttar Pradesh’s Noida “Noida (along with Greater Magistrate Brajesh Narain towards a gurdwara in northwest Delhi’s Siraspur ing the 26/11 Mumbai attack. nothing to talk about develop- Prasada also accused the BJP and Greater Noida to become Noida) has been formally invit- Singh in the presence of allegedly by a group of men who then decamped Ten years on, she feels the Government dis- ment, which is why they are rak- Government at the Centre of fail- a member of its initiative which ed to participate in this show- Shubhro Sen, the principal with his valuables, police said Sunday. criminated while deciding on compensation for ing up caste and religion in their ing to check rise in fuel prices, aims to create 25 model cities case ‘Race to Sustainability’ advisor, India, SDG Initiative, The victim has been identified as Tadayuki the 26/11 martyrs. Sunanda’s husband Bhagan public rallies. which affected every household across the world that will be among 25 global cities to and Ajay Davessar, Advisor to Kurihara, they added. Shinde worked at the Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital. Former Union Minister Jitin in the country. Meanwhile, Raj fully compliant with the sus- become fully compliant with UNGSII India. The incident took place on Friday at around That fateful night, on hearing gun shots, he had Prasada claimed that people Cong chief Sachin Pilot held tainable development goals by the Sustainable Development In September 2015, the 6.30 pm when the victim was walking alone gone to a nearby phone booth to call his wife and had expected the Prime Minister public meetings in Jharapatan in 2025, officials said. Goals by 2025 under the UN UN General Assembly adopt- towards a gurdwara in Siraspur to attend Guru kids when he was shot from behind at the hos- to speak on development issues support of party candidate The twin-cities in Gautam Global Sustainable ed the 2030 Agenda for Nanak Jayanti celebrations, a senior police offi- pital gate. “The Govt should not have discrim- at his rally in Alwar on Sunday, Manvendra Singh and claimed Buddh Nagar district, adjoin- Development Goals (SDG) Sustainable Development that cer said. inated while giving compensation to the fami- but instead of telling that what that the people of the State were ing the national capital, have cities initiative,” Senior UN includes 17 SDGs, otherwise Police said the victim had been on a two- lies of martyrs,” says Sunanda, who now works the BJP Government did for “betrayed” by Chief Minister been selected in the “University Advisor and CEO UN Global known as the Global Goals, a month solo trip and landed in India three days as an ‘ayah’ (maid) in the same hospital. “Kin of Rajasthan, he talked about reli- due to which City” category ahead of Sustainability Index Institute universal call to action to end ago. martyrs from police got petrol pumps besides the gion and other such issues. there is extreme resentment the Mumbai and Bengaluru, which (UNGSII) Roland Schatz told poverty, protect the planet and After stabbing the victim, the group of four compensation amount, a house and jobs. But the This reveals that Modi and electorate against the were also under UN consider- reporters here. ensure that all people enjoy men allegedly looted his mobile phone and cash Govt did not allot petrol pumps to martyrs who the BJP have nothing to say any- Government. PTI ation for the initiative, as the Schatz formally extended peace and prosperity. PTI before fleeing from the spot, the officer said. PTI were from Government hospitals,” she said. PTI $       *** "      /  ***     75 From Page 1 the case. maintain law and order. ADG “We will abide by the deci- He announced that next (Law and Order) Anand Kumar From Page 1 not stay. “I assure the people of     48977 sion of this Dharm Sabha. We most important Dharm Sabha told reporters in Lucknow the “Agar mamla adalat ke paas Ayodhya that Mandir will be will not keep quiet till Mandir will be in Delhi on December Dharm Sabha concluded in a hi jana hai to chunav ke prachar built without help of BJP,” he construction is achieved,” RSS 9. peaceful manner. “We were tak- ke darmyan usey istemaal na said, adding, “The &1  %   Sah Karyawah Krishna Gopal Several sants and seers of ing the help of drone cameras to karein aur bata do ki bhaiyo aur Government should bring an New Delhi: India is better pre- said. Ayodhya participated in the monitor the crowd,” he said. behenon hamein maaf karo ye Ordinance and we will support pared and better organised Earlier, welcoming the sants Dharm Sabha but several The official claimed that bhi hamara ek chunaavi jumla you but build Ram temple. Do since a group of sea-borne ter- VHP’s national vice president seniors also gave it a miss. around 75,000 people are tha. (If you want the court to not play with the feelings of rorists struck at the heart of Champat Rai said the fight for The city is drenched in saf- attending the Dharm Sabha decide the matter why you Hindus”. Mumbai 10 years back, thanks Ram Janambhoomi is on for fron - the colour of Hindu par- while 25,000 people are at dif- made it an issue during elec- Uddhav, along with his to a string of security measures past 500 years. “This issue is ties - with group of supporters ferent temples. However, in the tions. Now you should say to wife Rashmi and son Aditya, including a layered maritime dominating the energy of this chanting Jai Sri Ram on the first half around 27,000 pilgrims the people to forgive you and prayed at the makeshift Ram surveillance, Navy Chief country. Hindu Samaj wants the streets. They danced to the had darshan of Ram Lalla at the admit that it was your election Lalla temple at the Ram Admiral Sunil Lanba has said. Janmabhoomi back. We don’t beats of drums and made a vow makeshift temple at Ram jumla,” Thackeray said adding: Janmabhoomi on Sunday “We have come a long want division of the land and to sacrifice their lives for Ram Janmabhoomi, Kumar said. “ I have come here to remind morning. “When I saw Ram way since then,” he told PTI in want entire land,” he said. Temple. The ADG also denied the people that no one can play Lalla today it seemed that the an interview in his office in He also demanded that Elaborate security has been about threat by terrorist on with the sentiments of the God was staying in jail. It is South Block on the 10th Muslim side should take back made for the meeting with over Ayodhya. He said it was just a Hindus.” very unfortunate that God is anniversary of the 26/11. its case from the Supreme 60 companies of para-military rumour after the Punjab Questioning the BJP he staying in jail and we are enjoy- The Navy Chief said there Court for early solution of forces have been rushed to incident. said, “Why BJP is saying now ing life outside,” he said. has been a paradigm shift in that it will honour court’s ver- The Shiv Sena chief hand- coastal security as vulnerabil- dict in case of Ram Temple. Did ed over to the priest at the Ram ities and risks were fixed and on, the search party was fired it go to court for demonetisa- janmabhoomi a pot full of soil a layered maritime surveil- !   999 upon by the ultra. The fire was tion? But now they are waiting from the Shivneri fort in Pune. lance and security architecture retaliated leading to a brief for court verdict on Ram “My mission of coming to was put in place, making the exchange of gunfire,” he said. Temple. This Government is Ayodhya is successful. It is coastline almost impregnable. From Page 1 was operating as district com- “Consequently one terror- very powerful but it failed to possible due to the cooperation “The country is now better Army’s Srinagar-based mander for Shopian, while ist was killed in the exchange fulfil the aspiration of the of the sants and the people of prepared and better organised,” spokesman Colonel Rajesh Mohd Abaas, Waseem Wagay, of fire,” he added. majority community.” temple city,” he said. Adm Lanba said when asked Kalia confirmed the casualties Umar Majeed Ganai and “Incriminating materials He said that if this Later, the Shiv Sena chief about possibility of terrorists in Shopian encounter. Khalid were with HM. including arms and ammuni- Government does not build and his family members left for taking sea route again to mount “OpHipuraBatagund Mohammad Abass was known tion and an AK-47 Rifle with temple, this Government will Mumbai by a special aircraft. similar attack on India. PTI (#Shopian). Two more #ter- as District Commander of magazines were recovered from rorists killed. Total Six terror- HM for Shopian and Umar the killed ultra. ists killed. Weapons and war- Majed was operating as district Sources said thousands of      your invitation to attend the Responding, Sidhu said, like stores recovered. One sol- commander of HM for people took part in the funer- ground-breaking ceremony at “Good deeds speak for them- dier also martyred. Operation Kulgam,” said the police al of slain Class X student  R ! *** Kartarpur Sahib on November selves, the hand only interprets over,” Kalia tweeted. spokesman. Nouman Ashraf Bhat at his 28. I look forward to meeting their eloquence. Every noble Locals said after the day- “All the six killed terrorists native village of Bolsoo of you on this historic occasion.” act makes way for itself.” break when the news about the were wanted for their com- Kulgam district. From Page 1 Punjab’s local Government, Sidhu added, “It’s a com- encounter spread in the area, plicity in a series of terror Meanwhile, separatist Joint “Both terrorists have since Tourism and Cultural Affairs mendable step by both the hundreds of villagers marched crimes including the attack on Resistance Leaders (JRL) -- been caught,” he added. Minister, who had been advo- Governments (India and towards the encounter site. security establishments and Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Thanking Qureshi for the cating a corridor connecting Pakistan). I used to say that you The security forces fired tear- civilian killings in the area. Umar Farooq and Mohammad invitation, the Chief Minister Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in (India) take a step, and they gas shells and automatic With their elimination, all Yasin Malik -- called for a com- recalled his visit to Pakistan Pakistan’s Kartarpur with Dera (Pakistan) are ready to take weapons to stop protesters. notorious ultras of the belt plete shutdown against the when he had paid his respects Baba Nanak Sahib in Punjab’s two...Now you took a step and During the security forces’ have been successfully elimi- killing of “about 18 Kashmiris at Gurdwara Sri Nankana Sahib Gurdaspur, wrote that his appli- they announced the next day action, several protesters were nated,” said the police in last 3 days and injuring hun- and Gurdwara Sri Panja Sahib cation “for permission to attend that we will inaugurate it.” injured. Among the injured, spokesman. dreds by the indiscriminate where his father Maharaja (the ceremony) is now lodged one civilian Noman Ashraf He said Umar Majeed had use of bullets, pellets and other Yadvindra Singh had recon- with the Ministry of External Bhat succumbed to his injuries. escaped from an encounter in oppressive measures by Indian structed Gurdwara Sri Panja Affairs”. Another youngster Faizan Batamaloo area of Srinagar a occupational forces”. Sahib in 1932. “This day will indeed Ahmad was admitted to hos- few months ago. His picture Police said that a module “A s y o u w i l l s e e f r o m t h e break ground. As our nations pital with a bullet injury. clicked in front of famous inspired by Islamic State was stone laid at Gurdwara Sri take this first step, the A health official in Kulgam Clock Tower in Srinagar had arrested from Kothibagh area Kartarpur Sahib, it was my Kartarpur Spirit can make said they received a 25-year-old gone viral a few days ago. of Srinagar with the assis- grandfather Maharaja pilgrims of us all, venturing youth with firearm injury and In another incident, a tance of Delhi police.” At a Bhupindra Singh who carried out on a journey that breaks a five girl with pellet injury. Jaish-e-Muhammad terrorist naka checkpoint, a party of out flood protection measures the barriers of history and A police spokesman iden- was killed in a brief shootout in Srinagar Police intercepted a from 1920 to 1929 to protect opens the borders of hearts tified the slain ultras as Khrew area of Pampore in motorcycle borne terrorists our Gurdwara which was being and the mind,” he said in his Mushtaq Ahmad Mir, south Kashmir’s Pulwama dis- who were moving through ravaged by floods in the river one-page letter. Mohammad Abass Bhatt, trict on Sunday afternoon. He the Kothi Bagh area. Police Ravi each year,” he said. Sidhu said a “journey Umar Majeed Ganaie, was identified as Waseem, a acting swiftly apprehended Amarinder, in his two- that our people can walk Mohammad Waseem Wagay resident of Pakistan. the motorcyclist and the other page letter, expressed hope that together towards a future of and Khalid Farooq Malik. A police spokesman said two associates. Arms and the Pakistani Prime Minister shared peace and prosperity Intelligence reports said that that on credible input about the ammunition were recovered “will do all he can to bring our for India and Pakistan”. one terrorist was a suspected presence of ultras, a swift from the possession of the trio. two countries together on the Notably, Qureshi, in his foreigner. search operation was launched They have been identified as road to peace and friendship”. letter to Sidhu, had accredit- “It was a combined group jointly by police and security Tahir Ahmad Khan, Haris On the other hand, Sidhu, ed him for the development. of HM and LeT, as per police forces at Bathien area of Khrew Mushtaq Khan and Asif Suhail in his reply to Qureshi, stated, “You remained a steadfast records, Mushtaq Ahmad Mir in Awantipora. Nadaf resident of Rainawari “It is with great honour and partner in this endeavour,” he was affiliated with LeT and “As the searches were going Srinagar. unalloyed joy that I accept stated in November 24 letter.    ()  *( +,- +./0  #

!$%&   .  +    :%        $75702 expressed concern over a He said he tries to learn "decline" in open communica- from whatever youth are doing rime Minister Narendra tion between elders and youths or whatever they are thinking.       PModi said on Sunday he in families, saying the discus- "Some people say that the deliberately kept "politics" out sions generally revolve around youth do not have patience but   $75702 of his monthly radio address dos and dont's and studies. He my belief is that the youth do 'Mann ki Baat' as the pro- said communication would be not have any time to waste. he Election Commission gramme was about the aspira- more effective if people "accept" This is the point which helps Thas brought down the tions of the people and not his instead of "expect" and "dis- the present day youth become limit of cash transactions by or the Government's achieve- cuss" instead of "dismiss". Modi more innovative because they candidates for campaigning ments. Addressing the 50th urged people to maintain a bal- want to accomplish things purposes from 20,000 to episode of the monthly radio ance between rights and duties quickly," PM said. 10,000 per day. This is aimed programme, he said the "appre- as enshrined in the Referring to the at checking the flow of excess hensions" of the people are not Constitution. Constitution Day being money in electioneering. amendments in section 40A(3) parties and candidates. "misplaced" that the pro- "If we respect the rights of observed Monday to mark its In a directive, sent to all of the Income Tax Act in 2017. Like individuals, there gramme could have been used episode, the expectations and nuclear test. others, our rights will automat- adoption in 1949, he said the chief electoral officers, the EC The new changes came should be a ceiling on expen- as a political tool and to dis- aspirations of listeners through "It was matter of great ically get protected and similarly extraordinary pace at which the said that for transactions into being from November 12 diture made by political parties seminate his and his their letters, online comments intrigue to me to see a lone tea if we fulfil our duties, then also document was drafted was an beyond 10,000, the candi- and would have a bearing on during polls, according to a Government's achievements. and phone calls are crystal seller in a remote, snow-clad our rights will get automatical- example of time management dates and parties will have to Assembly polls in , 2015 Election Commission "The fact is, if a leader gets clear, he said. "Modi may come hilly place, who possibly kept ly protected," he said. and productivity to emulate make payment using cross Mizoram, Telangana, Madhya draft document based on the hold of a microphone with and go, but this country will listening to the radio the entire "Today's youth will not do even today. He said the unique cheques, drafts or electronic Pradesh and Rajasthan. 'general agreement' among par- assured listeners to the tune of never let go of its unity and per- day… watching that particular anything which they do not point in the Constitution was means, including NEFT/RTGS, Now, a candidate cannot ticipants. millions, what else does he manence, our culture will effect of the news on radio led believe themselves. And when- that the rights and duties were through the account of the receive a donation or loan in At present, while there is a need? ... When 'Mann Ki Baat' always be immortal," the Prime me to realise and internalise ever they believe in some- very comprehensively detailed. candidate opened for election- cash, in excess of 10,000 from ceiling on campaigning fund commenced, I had firmly Minister said. that this was a medium that thing, they follow that, leaving "A balance between these eering. a single person or entity dur- for individual candidates in decided that it would carry He said in an era of social was truly connected with the everything else," he said. two in the lives of our citizens In April, 2011, the EC had ing campaigning. The election electoral fray, there is no such nothing political, or any praise media, he preferred radio as he masses… and that it was a Referring to a "communication will take our nation forward. If set the daily cash limit to watchdog has been pushing for cap on the money which polit- for the Government, nor Modi realised its potential in 1998 as mighty means of getting gap" between the elders and we respect the rights of others, 20,000. But now it has been greater transparency in elec- ical parties can spend for elec- for that matter anywhere. The a worker of the Bharatiya Janata across," Modi said. The first teenagers in families, he said our rights will automatically get revised keeping in mind the tion-related expenditure by tioneering. greatest bulwark in ensuring Party (BJP). In a remote episode of Mann Ki Baat start- the scope of discussion with protected and similarly if we adherence to my resolve have Himachal Pradesh area, it was ed on the last Sunday of teenagers was limited to stud- fulfill our duties, then also our been you," he said. a tea stall owner who told him October 2014. ies, habits or lifestyle and the rights will get automatically As a run up to each the news of India carrying out Prime Minister also 'dos and don'ts'. protected," Modi said. ;          &=(+  & >+   $75702 clarification on the compensa- happen," Sharma added. likely to pay between 33 lakh tion process. Last month, the victims in to 1.2 crore to each victim as here seems to be no respite "The Government is ought a statement had complained of compensation. -  Tfor the victims of Johnson to give its response. Even if the a lack of transparency and In 2010, Johnson and & Johnson faulty hip implant. Government is yet working patient consultation in the Johnson globally recalled hip Despite having written three out any solution, they should compensation process, includ- implants because more patients letters to the Union Health inform the victims. This will at ing lack of information being were found to require revision Ministry seeking clarity from least satisfy us that the made available regarding the surgeries than normally report- the Government on its com- Government is empathetic with process of compensation, delib- ed for such devices. pensation decision, so far there our condition," Vojhala shared erations of the Arya Committee Last year in February, the is no response. his plight. and the formulation of com- Health Ministry had set up a "We are yet to get response Jyoti Sharma, another vic- pensation norms. committee under former dean   $75702 in the matter. We have sent tim who lives in 's A four-member panel is of Maulana Azad Medical three letters over a month to Gurugram has already lost currently headed by Dr RK College Dr Arun K Agarwal to o popularise khadi in a big the Health Ministry. We can hopes from the Government. Arya, Director, Sports Injury look into complaints about hip Tway, the State-run Khadi decide about our next step She said she doesn't have Centre, Safdarjung Hospital, implant devices. The commit- and Village Industries after the Ministry comes up much expectation from the which also includes Health tee suggested that Johnson & Commission (KVIC) has pro- with its response," Vijay Government. "I am already Secretary Preeti Sudan, Johnson be made liable to pay posed to run a five-coach spe- Vojhala, a victim said. into a legal battle with Johnson Additional Secretary RK Vats, at least 20 lakh to each affect- cial train-Khadi Express. KVIC On October 20, Vojhala and Johnson for the past three Drug Controller General of ed patient, and the reimburse- chairman VK Saxena told The along with 35 other faulty hip years. I will be happy if the gov- India (DCGI) Eswara Reddy. ment for revision surgeries Pioneer that the Commission transplant victims had written ernment offers a solution, but In October, there were should continue until August has sent a proposal to the to the Health Ministry seeking there is no certainty that it will reports that the ministry was 2025. Railway Ministry and he hopped of positive response. Saxena said the train is * + (  proposed to touch 11 railway =  1    station including Porbandar, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Mumbai, 0   and Kolkatta. The sale of Khadi products & ,3%     rose over three-fold in the last -   three fiscals and 'Khadi Express' train will be run to create awareness about the segment, -   -      Saxena said, adding, “the Khadi turnover was 811 crore in New Delhi: The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) 2014-15 and it increased to has refused to share details on the quantum of   $  $75702 In India, organ donation has always 2,509 crore in 2017-18”. black money brought back from abroad, citing been on a lower side and around 5 lakh "We have written a letter to a provision of the RTI Act that bars disclosure n a move aimed at saving donated people die every year waiting for Indian Railways for running a of information that may impede investigation and Iorgans from being wasted due to organs. Lack of knowledge, awareness, Khadi Express train which prosecution of offenders. delay in the transportation process, the infrastructure are some of the reasons would exhibit Khadi products Its response came on an October 16 order Union Health Ministry is in talks with behind shortage of organ donation here, linked with Mahatama Gandhi passed by the Central Information Commission, the Director General of Civil Aviation said the official. in view of his 150th birth asking the PMO to provide details of black (DGCA) for roping in airlines for Nearly 2.2 lakh people await kidney anniversary," the KVIC money within 15 days. speedy transportation.. transplant, of which around 15,000 end Chairman said. Replying to an RTI query, the PMO said a A senior official from the Union up receiving a kidney. At a given point The five-bogie Khadi Special Investigation Team (SIT) has already been Health Ministry said that the talks are of time, about 1 lakh people die of liver Express train would also have formed and its investigation is underway. still in the nascent stage as huge cost diseases in India and only 1,000 get liver the facility to sell the Khadi "As such, disclosure of all the action/efforts during transportation is involved in the transplant. A cadaver or deceased donor products to people and will run undertaken by the Government at this juncture process. "In light of the time sensitivi- can save up to 9 lives, but despite this through all those places in the may impede the whole process of investigation ty of organ transplantation, every sec- organ donation is a neglected issue. The country where Mahatama or apprehension or prosecution of offenders and ond counts. To cut down wastage of official said that at times due to delay in Gandhi had stayed. The train hence would attract the provision of exemption organs and save precious lives, we have transport, organs also get wasted. will be stationed at those sta- under Sectioan 8 (1) (h) of the RTI Act," it said approached the DGCA. We are not sure For instance, a kidney can be kept tions for one day. in response to the RTI application filed by about the private airlines but hope that up to 24 hours; for livers up to 10 to 15 The demand of Khadi whistleblower bureaucrat Sanjiv Chaturvedi. our own Air India might come forward hours; lungs can be preserved for only products has increased as Prime Such investigations come under the purview to do the noble job," he said. six hours once they are harvested and Minister Narendra Modi him- of different Government intelligence and secu- When asked who will foot the bill for the heart the maximum time is four self appealed to the people of rity organisations which have been excluded from for transportation, the official refused to six hours, with most hearts being the country to buy these the ambit of the RTI Act, the PMO said. to give the details saying that the mat- transplanted within four hours. In the clothes, he said. Saxena said the Chaturvedi, an Indian Forest Service (IFoS) ter is still being discussed with con- example of the heart, clearly the donor sale of Khadi products grew at officer, had sought information on the quantum cerned authorities. of the organ when harvested must be an average rate of 6.68 per cent of black money brought from abroad since June In developed countries, flight trans- physically nearer the organ recipient per annum during 2004 to 1, 2014. portation is very common. As, mostly than for other organs. 2014, but it grew at the rate of In its initial reply to the RTI application, the organ availability and requirement is far "Transporting organs within time is 37 per cent in the last four years. Prime Minister's Office had in October last year away, air transportation is the most reli- most challenging. If the transportation The number of sales outlets for said the query was not covered under Section 2(f) able way to ensure the organ and is through roads, a 'green corridor' is Khadi products has been of the transparency law that defines information. patient make it to where they need to created with the help of the police. increased to 1,060 in the last Chaturvedi thereafter moved the Central be when time is critical. Presently, in However, wherever vehicle route is not four years, he said adding exhi- Information Commission which had last month India, aerial transport is available in the possible, aerial corridor is best to reach bitions were organised in 50 ordered the PMO to provide information with- private sector which comes with a huge out the patient in need of the organ," countries on October 2 to cre- in 15 days. PTI cost. the official added. ate demand for such product.   +            

#               '  ( )* ',  - Centre (WCMC), 1,604,000  / * /) 0  * species have been described at             ( * *( /  ( the global level.. According to /)* * - 1 )2( reports, the number of flower- , ' *)( 4 1 - ing plant species endemic to the   $  $75702 and human health as well. growth before it start creating 0)5 *) * 0 /*-,  present political boundaries of The weed was originally havoc on Indian agricultural , ' *)( * ( -  India is 4,900 out of a total of hen researchers from known to be distributed in fields. 7 *) *  ' )* 15,000, i.e. 33 per cent. India is Shivaji University in North Cameroon, Central The second largest an important center of agri-bio- W 0 /*)' Kolhapur, , dur- African Republic, Chad, Sudan, angiosperm family after diversity having contributed ing a survey of plants variety at Ethiopia, Uganda and China. Orchidaceae, many species of 167 species to the world agri- the agricultural fields in drier However, it has now spread its Asteraceae are weeds in culti- Kolhapur. culture and homeland for 320 parts of 's Belgavi tentacles in India too, noted the vated fields as well as forest Hence, this weed should be species of wild relatives of crops. district stumbled upon an exot- researchers in their study pub- areas. Some of them are aggres- eliminated at the earliest, they A latest Government report ic weed 'Ethulia gracilis Delile', lished in the latest issue of the sive invasive weeds and can seri- maintained. has focused on 173 species of they panicked. Current Science. ously affect the native or local India is already battling invasive alien plants in India. They had reasons. This was However, what is a matter plant biodiversity, human health with plethora of alien plant These include the most serious for the first time that a new of serious concern is that the and crop productivity, said the species that is threatening coun- invasives, such as Alternanthera weed 'Ethulia gracilis Delile' of species has been recorded for team of researchers comprising try's biodiversity, accounting for philoxeroides, Cassia uniflora, the Asteraceae family was the first time from India and it Jagdish Dalavi, Sneha 8 per cent of the global biodi- Chromolaena odorata, recorded which has a history of is unknown how it got intro- Bramhadande, Chirag versity existing in only 2.4 per Eichhornia crassipes, Lantana propagating easily and fastly in duced here, said the researchers Narayankar, Suraj Patil, Shrirang cent land area of the world. camara, Parthenium hys- all habitats negatively affecting even as they called for imme- Yadav from Department of According to World terophorus, Prosopis juliflora native flora, crop production diate measures to curb its Botany, Shivaji University in Conservation Monitoring and others.    ()  *( +,- +./0  8 * R+   85         .  /*(                Jaipur: Western Rajasthan's cows has always been an "People here face difficul- Pokhran Assembly constituen- important issue, he said. ties in getting drinking water    3"03.. up to about $ 7,000 million. cy is set for a close fight on " is in my veins and fodder for cattle. The con- Hailing the “right policy” December 7 between a Hindu and the party is going to win stituency lacks healthcare facil- engal Chief Minister Mamata and steady inflow of foreign religious leader fielded by the the election which has been ities and I am focusing on that," BBanerjee has yet another investment senior functionary BJP and son of Muslim ‘peer’ pit- made communal by the he said. feather in her cap. In what could of Merchant Chamber ted against him by the Congress. Congress by fielding a Muslim Mohammad (41) had lost be used as a unique selling point of Commerce S Roy said that The BJP candidate, Pratap candidate against me," the BJP the 2013 assembly elections by the ruling Trinamool the “steady inflow” of foreign Puri, is the head of the Taratara candidate said. from the same seat to BJP's Congress in the coming gener- investment only buttressed the 'math'. The Congress' Shale Religious leaders should Shaitan Singh with a margin of al elections, Mamata’s State has “This means that though fact that the “State is moving in Mohammad is the son of be in politics for its purifica- 34,444 votes. recorded a 175 per cent jump in the Bengal has lesser investment the right direction” insofar as its Muslim religious leader Gazi tion, Puri (51), who hails from Mohammad's father, an foreign direct investment in the in terms of million dollars the industrial policy was concerned. Fakir, who has a large number of the influential Rajput commu- octogenarian, boasts of a strong first quarter of 2018. upswing in terms of percentage “It is a proof of changing followers both within India and nity, said. following in the Sindhi Muslim As per latest reports is remarkable. It is the highest attitude of multinationals vis a across the border in Pakistan. "The people are with the community and has several released by the Department of at about 175 per cent whereas vis the industrial climate in Both Puri and Fakir hold BJP because they have faith in criminal cases against him. Industrial Policy and Karnataka, Maharashtra and Bengal,” said another MCC considerable sway among their the party's policies and in There are an estimated Promotion (DIPP) Bengal has have received a negative official hoping, “Bengal will communities, making the leaders like Narendra Modi," 55,000 Muslim voters and recorded an investment of $ growth. Only AP has recorded soon enter the list of elite Sabarimala: Around 60 pil- police station, which is around Pokhran constituency in he said. 45,000-48,000 Rajput voters in 3,912 million between April positive growth at 21 per cent group of states in terms of grims, who breached the secu- 3.5-km downhill. Hundreds of Jaisalmer district one of the His Barmer-based 'math', Pokhran. It also has around and July 2018 as against a total which is far behind Bengal,” said bringing foreign investment.” rity zone near Sabarimala's protesters have been arrested in State's most hotly contested seats. which holds considerable influ- 35,000 Dalit voters, according FDI of $ 1,410 million in 2017- an official adding the jump in Incidentally the Chief 'vavarunada' area and started this first week of the annual Uttar Pradesh Chief ence in the entire to the candidates. 2018. This is about 175 per cent foreign investment was a direct Minister has for the past sev- chanting prayers despite pro- two-month-long 'Mandala- Minister and senior BJP division, is pulling out all stops Pokhran is one of the two jump in terms of foreign invest- fallout of the Chief Minister’s eral years been travelling to hibitory orders, have been Makaravilakku' season of leader and to win over the electorate, con- assembly constituencies of the ment proposals which have dogged effort towards bringing countries like the UK, detained by the police. Sabarimala, which commenced Congress President Rahul ducting social and religious desert district of Jaisalmer. been converted into reality, foreign capital. Germany, Italy, Singapore etc to Due to previous incidents on November 17. Gandhi will address rallies in activities. The second constituency, State Finance Ministry sources In 2016-17 Bengal had bring foreign investment. “The of violence at the hill-top Earlier, the protesters support of Puri and "We hold drug de-addic- Jaisalmer, will also see a direct say quoting the DIPP which received a foreign investment of improving investment records shrine, the police had imposed detained in similar circum- Mohammad, respectively, on tion camps, provide education contest between BJP candi- functions under Union only $ 320 million which went only show that Mamata strict restrictions on the devo- stances were arrested, taken to Monday, setting the tone for to poor children and work for date Sang Singh Bhati and Ministry of Commerce. up to $ 1,410 million in 2017-18. Banerjee has been able to tees at Sannidhanam. The pro- the Maniyar police camp and the rest of the campaign in the cow conservation, besides con- Congress' Roopa Ram. For the relevant period Incidentally Mumbai has change the negative image of testers were staying back near were sent to judicial custody by region better known for the ducting several other social The BJP chose Sang Singh Andhra Pradesh has received recorded about $ 86,000 million Bengal at world level,” said State 'vavarunada' and chanting the court subsequently. nuclear tests in 1998. activities," Puri said. Bhati over its sitting MLA an investment of $ 9,770 mil- last fiscal that has come down to Minister Subroto Mukherjee. prayers, even as there was an The shrine has been wit- Puri expressed confidence The Congress candidate, Chotu Singh Bhati, while the lion, Maharashtra has received about mere $ 16,000 this year. “If On whether the achieve- imposition of Section 144 that nessing frenzied protest over the that the BJP will win the Mohammad, said his focus Congress has fielded Ram for an investment of $ 16,152 mil- you add the investment propos- ment could work as a USP for prohibits assembly of more decision of the state government Pokhran seat and blamed the was core issues like drinking the second time after 2013. lion while for Karnataka the als that are likely to be imple- the TMC in the coming elections than four people at a spot, to implement the September 28 Congress for making the con- water and other basic ameni- A total of 11 and 18 can- figure is $ 11,802 million. mented in the coming months the TMC leaders said the party police said. verdict of the Supreme Court test "communal" by fielding a ties for people in Pokhran, didates are in the fray in Gujarat has seen an investment then the net foreign investment would try to showcase all the The detained protesters allowing women of all ages to Muslim candidate against him. which has a total electorate of Pokhran and Jaisalmer of $ 2,786 million. for Bengal would jump further achievements before the voters. are being taken to the Pamba enter Sabarimala. PTI Protection of Hindus and 1.94 lakh. respectively. PTI     >  / &  +  "   -     &         22 ?"    :2.5.4.2G5"5.H /* ) *( *)((1-/  /* The protesters sought the ' ( )  '9  ( ) 2( district administration's inter- Ahmedabad: A 2007 Ajmer and 17 others injured in the blast ngry locals blocked the  *)*    /* vention into the matter and dargah bomb blast accused, who that occurred on October 11, ABatote-Kishtwar National 9 *) ' ((1)  * assurance from the Doda was on run since the last 11 years, 2007. After he was apprehend- Highway at Thathri area 0)9 /* ' '* 1  deputy commissioner to imme- was arrested on Sunday by the ed from Bharuch, Nair was Sunday over the death of a diately set up a Special 99 (( *)  ATS from Bharuch in Gujarat. shifted to Ahmedabad for fur- retired Army officer, demand- Investigation Team (SIT) to nail The National Investigation ther investigation, the ATS said. ing arrest of the accused, offi- 99*' *(* 1  down the culprits. They also Agency (NIA), which is prob- He is a resident of Thasara in cials said.  * *( -  demanded a government job ing the case, had announced a Kheda district of Gujarat. Retired Army officer * 9   for the kin of the deceased. reward of Rs 2 lakh on head of "Officials of Gujarat ATS Mohd Hafiz (60) was killed ' /* 1 ) ( The SDM said he tried to the accused, identified as had received a credible infor- and several others were pacify the protesters and Suresh Nair. As per the NIA, mation that Suresh Nair will visit injured in a clash between two by locals at Thathri refused to assured them of arresting the Nair had allegedly supplied a Shukaltirth in Bharuch in near groups at a polling booth in take the body to his native vil- culprits at the earliest but bomb to the planters at the future, following which a close Doda district during the third lage Joura for last rites. They they are insisting on assurance famous sufi shrine in Rajasthan watch was kept at the place," the phase of the Jammu & kept the body on the highway from the DM itself. and was also present at the spot, agency said, adding that Nair was Kashmir panchayat elections demanding assurance from Meanwhile, hundreds of vehi- the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism apprehended from the spot. He on Saturday, police said. the district magistrate," cles remained stranded on Squad (ATS) said in a statement. will be handed over to the NIA, "After post-mortem of the Thathri SDM Mohd Anwar either side of the highway at   %        ,  %               3    Three persons were killed it said. PTI deceased, the villagers joined Banday said. Thathri town since 9 am. 3   >& /  $    !"  (! &     @    O%   + 0@ 0 &          ) "   & .$5   & +        +   Thiruvananthapuram: The O)1';79   The Chief Minister had CPI (M)-led Kerala * **)*' (  *' promised that small traders    P Government lacks a blueprint, ' <  / '( ' would be given an interest-free Agartala: CPI(M) general sec-   while the Centre has been * /*0 /*9 loan of 10 lakh and one lakh retary Sitaram Yechury on meting out a step-motherly would be given as bank loan to  457A >  Sunday called for a unified   .I.0 time compared to that in pre- 1',*- * buy home appliances that were movement for ouster of the vious two terms as big crowds treatment to the the flood-hit  state, hampering rebuilding ;47* 0 *) damaged. However, not one Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir *( )*((1  /* BJP-led NDA from power in ith just three days left can be seen in party meetings efforts, a senior Congress ;' (4#7= >/ such loan has been sanctioned. unit of the BJP Sunday called 9 )  *0 *(  the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Wfor the Mizoram and "large number" of people leader said on Sunday. * */ *-  /* Chennithala added that upon its leaders to gear up for 9 -9 /( ' /* and prescribed a three-pronged Assembly elections, Chief are joining the Congress. The monsoon rains that )9 (*'9*4P agricultural crops on 56,439 the next Lok Sabha polls as * '*)(0 /* *(/ * action plan for it. Minister Lal Thanhawla on When pointed out that began lashing Kerala on May /* /   ''*' hectares were damaged, caus- well as the State Assembly  9 )  )*  /* Addressing an open session Sunday said the Congress is senior Ministers and political 29 led to the death of 417 peo- ing a loss of 1,345 crore. elections, which are expected at the 22nd CPM state open to form a post-poll leaders have left the party in the  1 9 -> ,/ ple. The rains and the conse- been pegged at 40,000 crore, "The primary reason why to be held together. ** ( (* ( conference here he asked the alliance with like-minded par- last two months, he said, "I quent deluge caused unprece- all that has come is a mere funds are not coming is that Chairing a meeting of his people to strengthen the party ties, excluding the BJP and don't see any worker leaving dented destruction and forced 600 crore from the Centre Vijayan went hammer and State leaders in the party head- /*((*9,** (4 and other Left parties in mobi- MNF, if the ruling party falls my party at this stage. But more than a million people to and the State Government tongs against the State quarters here, BJP State presi- !  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Congress workers Ramesh Chennithala, 3,633.72 crore," said sought to coerce them to con- upon the leaders to double tance of cells in coming months Government. such a situation will not arise are very grateful and they are who is also the leader of the Chennithala. tribute a month's salary... their efforts in establishing and the leaders of the cells have Yechury also accused the as the Congress will get full much inspired because these opposition in the Kerala Chennithala said that Instead of asking for help, he contacts with the masses and an important role in the saffron party of spreading hatred majority on its own. corrupt people have left Legislative Assembly, told Vijayan had miserably failed to challenged the employees and apprise them of the works upcoming Lok Sabha elections and intolerance in the country. In Mizoram, support of 21 the party." reporters here that today keep his promises to the flood- it resulted in antagonising done by the Union as well as as well as the assembly elec- "There are three things MLAs is needed to form a At least five Congress (Sunday) marked 100 days of affected people. them," said Chennithala. the State Government, which tions," he said. that have to be done—BJP and Government in the 40-member MLAs have resigned from the the worst-ever flood to have "Around 1.4 million peo- Lashing out at the Centre, the party had partnered with The BJP's State unit chief its ally political parties should Assembly, which is going to Assembly and the party in the hit the State. ple were displaced and Chennithala said Prime the PDP till June this year. asked the leaders to take all be defeated. The number of polls on November 28 and the run-up to the polls and joined "What is most unfortunate Vijayan had said each one of Minister Narendra Modi now Raina also stressed upon the schemes initiated by MPs from the CPM and other counting will take place on either the BJP or the Mizo is that the Pinarayi Vijayan them would be given 10,000. knows that the Bharatiya Janata them to expedite the setting up Prime Minister Narendra Left parties in Parliament December 11. "If like-minded National Front (MNF). government has only talked of Even after 100 days, only 5.9 Party in Kerala was not going of party cells on various issues, Modi to the masses and strive should be increased and an parties come to me and want to Those who have resigned rebuilding a new Kerala, when lakh people have got the to do any wonders electorally saying these cells play an impor- to generate "warm contact" alternative Government with support my leadership, then include state's Home Minister they do not even have a blue- promised money," and hence he has taken an anti- tant role in both the Lok Sabha with the prominent people of pro-people policies should be they may (be) welcomed," R Lalzirliana, former Health print for it. While the loss has Chennithala added. Kerala position. IANS and the state assembly elections. the society. PTI established at the Centre. PTI Thanhawla told PTI during an Minister Lalrinliana Sailo, for- interview when asked if the mer Fisheries Minister Buddha Congress is willing to form a Dhan Chakma and MLA post-poll alliance if it does not Hmingdailova Khiangte.  +              ? 3 1  get a simple majority. Besides, Mizoram Assembly Asked with whom the Speaker Hiphei resigned earli- Congress is comfortable to er this month. Kochi: High rise buildings Western Ghats (Wayanad, was no place in the reservoirs cultural produce were lost agencies such as IMD", it said. mendations. form an alliance, he said, "I Asked about anti-incum- should not be permitted on the Palakkad and Idukki) special to accommodate any more putting the livelihood of farm- The committee was head- It has recommended a don't know at this moment. bency factor as alleged by the steep slopes of the Western attention should be given for excess rain water. ers at risk. ed by Michael Vetha Siromony strategy to rethink operations But certainly not the BJP, cer- opposition MNF, Thanhawla Ghats as the areas are landslide farming vegetables, fruits and "Considering the safety of The report said the flood (Rtd IAS and former of hydel power stations so as to tainly not the MNF. Let the said, "Not all. Only MNF is prone, says a study on the horticulture, said the report dams, the water had to be has opened the vision on what Additional Chief Secretary to maximise power generation, time come." feeling anti-incumbency fac- recent Kerala floods. titled: "Kerala Floods 2018- released from all dams. The the future development is to be. the Government of Kerala). thereby avoiding opening of Refusing to predict a num- tor. They don't have anything The study conducted by a The Disaster of the century". respective district administra- The present development The members of the com- spillways to control flood situ- ber, the senior Congress leader to point fingers at me -- no six-member expert panel The flood was unprece- tions could not take adequate plan, with scant regard to the mittee include Dr Oommen V ations, which needs to be devel- said his party will get a com- scandal, no misuse (of funds). appointed by the dented and rainfall in hilly dis- precautionary steps as they were fragility of the environment, Oommen (Former Chairman, oped, he said. fortable majority. How can they say anti-incum- Institute of Development tricts were three times more, and also deprived of any information needs restructuring to with- Kerala State Biodiversity "The Committee has called "I am quite confident that bency wind is blowing in Studies (RGIDS) emphasised the State was also not prepared regarding the quantum of water stand the frequent onslaught of Board), John Mathai (Former for institutionalising a proper I will continue to be in power Mizoram? It's only their wish- on the need for a new con- for such a mega scale of disas- release, duration and the likely disasters, especially in the light Scientist, National Centre for strategy for opening of the and I will hold the fort for the ful thinking." struction policy on resorts both ter, as it has not experienced a places of inundation, etc", it said. of climate change, it said. Earth Science Studies), major dams with advance Congress (in North East). All On MNF President public and private, especially in flood of this magnitude, except It alleged that lapses were "The deluge exposed the Muhammed Ali Rawther M information to district author- indications are there," he Zoramthanga's comment that the affected hill districts. the recorded one in 1924. many as the dam water scoured various deficiencies in the sys- (Former Director, Kerala State ities concerned, local bodies added. all roads of Mizoram are in "Government may regulate While 483 people and river beds and low-lying areas tem. Flouting and violating the Electricity Board Ltd), and and public, through all sources Mizoram is significant for "ICU", the Chief Minister said: the public from constructing thousands of livestock were were flooded. norms compounded the prob- Thomas Varghese (Former of media", Shiju said. the Congress as it remains the "He is a good speaker. His huge houses and other buildings killed, the disaster incurred "The sea was also rough lems. The lack of coordination Deputy Chief Engineer, "An appropriate water only state under the party's rule mouth speaks a lot. He has a in areas of Western Ghats in gen- immense losses on the state's with high tide and wave setup and timely decision making by Irrigation Department, management system should be in the region compared to as big mouth. I have seen my eral and to have strict restrictions infrastructure, as many roads, not allowing water to flow out; responsible authorities aggra- Government of Kerala). evolved for maximising usage many as five just about two roads. I have travelled my in the ecologically sensitive areas. bridges and thousands of hous- all this added to the flood and vated the flood into a disaster. RGIDS Director B S Shiju of water storage in reservoirs years ago, which included roads. So, who is telling lie and Reclamation of flood plains for es were damaged /washed away. related problems. The ecosys- "Apparently the authorities said analysing the impact of for electricity generation/irri- , Meghalaya, Arunachal who is telling the truth, you can dwelling sites is to be curbed", The report said reservoirs tem damage is beyond an did not give adequate attention flood across the sectors, the gation as well as other domes- Pradesh and . easily differentiate and know. said the panel in its report. were already full in July end assessment", it said. with the seriousness, it deserves Committee has put forth sev- tic purposes", the study said. Thanhawla said there is no Lies do not have legs. They fall In the relatively flat areas of unlike other years and there Large quantities of agri- to, the weather forecasts by eral suggestions and recom- PTI difference in the campaign this on the waste side."    ()  *( +,- +./0  @

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The DMK and the than 300 others injured having  F%A%(('J:  C       '(  last Thursday while hearing a AIADMK blame each other more or less faded, they have  , -'%(('J:  ,-'   @(  habeas corpus petition has for offering voters freebies at one relief that unlike in the pre-  F%&%(('J:        '(   evoked widespread support the time of general election. vious two decades since 1993 from the common man. A During the 2006 assembly Mumbai serial blasts, terror has %    ,  $ "  &      &  . %1%(('J:   :   11   -1(  division bench of Justices N election, the DMK literally not revisited them during the  48977      75      /     ,'%((KJ:          Kirubakaran and Abdul shocked the electorate with past seven years.  !"  F--%((KJ:      -@A @%6  Quddhose, while hearing the free colour television sets and Justice may have unfortu-  $   %K%&%((@J    > -KK   '((  petition filed against the pre- mixies along with eice at the nately not been done to the fam- Security Guard (NSG) has been these nine years. Fortunately ventive detention of a black rate of 1/- per kg. ilies of those killed and injured set up. Similarly, Force One, a for Mumbaikars, there have not  F-'%(--J%K -((     I :5" 2   marketeer last month wanted It paid rich electoral div- in the form of prosecution of the commando force, was raised, been any terror attacks in the Government to furnish all idends to the DMK which Pakistan-based conspirators while the Mumbai since July 14, 2011. towards Chowpatty. Ajmal Kasab may have been in south Mumbai. details like the steps it has taken romped home, though with behind the mayhem, but they Maharashtra Intelligence Though the events that hap- All the targets were within hanged, but the Pakistani- Omble was instrumental in to eradicate smuggling of rice reduced majority. have reconciled with the past Academy (MIA) has come in pened on the night of November a radius of around 4-5 km area based conspirators like Hafeez catching Kasab alive at meant for distribution through But AIADMK leader J and are leading a normal life. being. All police stations across 26, 2008 may have been forgot- in south Mumbai, where the Saeed, the founder of Jamaat- Gairgaum-Chowpatty on the fair price shops (under Public Jayalalithaa paid it back in the “I can never forget as to Mumbai and elsewhere in ten, the tenth anniversary of the state secretariat, business and ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba night of November 26,2008. Distribution System). 2011 assembly election by what happened on that night of Maharashtra now have dedi- 26/11 attacks deserves a recall. commercial hubs, deluxe hotels, and his close aide Zaki-ur- Omble, it may be recalled, had The person detained has offering voters mixies, November 26, 2008 when I was cated Anti-Terror Cells (ATCs). Having sailed from Karachi residences of ministers, bureau- Rehman Lahhvi, the chief oper- held onto Kasab even after he been held for facilitating smug- grinders, table fans, lap tops celebrating my birthday with Quick Reaction Teams (QRTs) shores a few days earlier after crats, diplomats, scientists and ations commander of Lashkar- had been grievously injured by gling of rice meant for distrib- for all high school students my husband, in-laws and a are also in place. The coastal hijacking an Indian fishing ves- businesss big wigs are located. e-Taiba are roaming free. bullets pumped into him by the ution among the Below Poverty and bicycles for girl students. friend at Hotel Taj, but I have security too has been beefed up sel, killing its crew, ten Pakistani Assistant sub-Inspect So are a team of sharp- latter. Omble died he could be Line (BPL) section of the soci- While promising the vot- moved on in life since then. significantly. terrorists at a small fishing bay Tukaram Omble was instru- shooters, map readers, com- rushed to the hospital. ety. Justice Kirubakaran ques- ers that she would continue Now I am preparing to cele- However, former intelli- near Colaba in south Mumbai mental in catching Kasab alive munication experts and physi- Mumbai’s Jewish outreach tioned the propriety of dis- the free distribution of the brate tomorrow,” says Amrita gence official and security ana- on the late evening of November at Gairgaum-Chowpatty on cal trainers including Zarar centre and one of 26/11 targets tributing free rice among all above mentioned goods , Raichand, model-actress and lyst Shirish Inamdar calls for 26, 2008. They divided them- the night of November 26,2008. Shah, Abu al Qama Abu Qahafa, Chabad House --better known in sections of the society through Jayalalithaa offered subsidised chief who hosts TV show continuous vigilance. “The cit- selves into groups of 2 to 3 and Omble, it may be recalled, had Abu Hamza, Muzammil alias the past as Nariman House – will the PDS and said such rice scooties to all working Mummy ka Magic. She is izens need to vigilant about headed to their meticulously held onto Kasab even after he Yousuf and Ibrahim alias Ali, be renamed as Nariman Light should be made available only women in the State during the among hundreds of those who things happenings around planned terror sites. had been grievously injured by who were involved in training House’ on the occasion of the to poor people (holders of BPL 2016 assembly elections and were struck at the 26/11 terror them. They need to follow The sites that they target- bullets pumped into him by the the 10 fidayeens who carried out 10th anniversary of the mayhem. ration cards). walked her way back to Fort sites but survived the attacks. basic security drills and assist ed were They targeted the latter. Omble died he could be terror attack on Mumbai from The event, which comes 10 “Providing freebies to all Saint George. Vaishali Ombale, daughter the police during security world heritage building rushed to the hospital. November 26-29, 2008. months after Israeli Prime people irrespective of their Taking a cue from Tamil of assisant sub-inspector check-ups. They need to check Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj While nine of the ten ter- Meanwhile, on the occa- Minister Benjamin Netanyahu economic status is counter- Nadu, other States too began Tukaram Omble, who was killed below the seats while they go in Terminus (CSMT), Hotel Taj rorists were killed by the secu- sion of the tenth anniversary visited the place, will also mark productive. Such culture has freebie culture upsetting the after capturing the Pakistani ter- buses and trains and report Mahal Palace & Tower, Hotel rity forces during the attack, the 26/11 attacks, several functions the unveiling of a memorial on made people lazy and led to a economies of the exchequer. rorist Mohammed Ajmal Kasab unidentified objects or any Trident, Nariman House, remaining one- --Mohammed have been planned on Monday the Nariman House terrace to situation where migrant work- Though there is general feel- on the night of November 26, suspicious activity to the police. Leopold Café and Cama Ajmal Kasab – was caught in memory of those killed at honour all the victims of the ers from northern States were ing among the people that the 2008, has also come to terms In essence, all of us follow four Hospital, Wadi Bunder. alive by the police at Girgaum various terror targets including terror strikes. expected to perform menial freebie culture has corrupted with life without her martyred Ps -- prepare, protect, prevent While Abdul Rehman, Abu Chowpatty on the intervening Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, The Chabad House was one jobs,” said Justice the minds of the people, no father. “Life would have been and pursue,” Inamdar avers. Ali and Abu Soheb marched to night of November 26-27, 2008. Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, Oberoi of the main chosen targets of 10 Kirubakaran who is known one was willing to bell the cat. much better if my father were to While the nineties when the Leopold Café in Colaba and After 11-month long trial Trident, Jewish Chabad house Pakistani terrorists who sneaked for speaking his mind out The observations made by be alive. But, you cannot change the metropolis witnessed seri- then laid siege at Taj Mahal that saw a trial court sentence and Leopold cafe. into south Mumbai, through whenever he comes across the judges has set the ball certain things in life. We have al blasts that claimed 257 lives Palace Hotel, Abdul Rehman him to death on five counts – As a mark of respect and the Arabian Sea route and dis- injustice and apathy on the rolling again. moved on since the 26/11 and left 713 others injured Chota and Fahad Ullah head- including mass murder, crimi- gratitude to the police and embarked at a Colaba fishing part of powers that be. “The BJP is completely attacks. My sister is now a and two terror acts, the period ed to the Trident-Oberoi Hotel. nal conspiracy and waging war security officers martyred in jetty, barely a stone’s throw away. “It is obligatory in the part against this freebie culture class-I officer and I am doing between 2002 and 2011 proved Nasir Abu Umar and Babar against the nation and two half the 26/11 attack, Mumbai The Chabad House is a par- of the Government to provide and we have been campaign- M.Ed. And things are normal at to be worse for Mumbai – for Imran alias Abu Aakasha tar- years of subsequent incarcera- Police have organised at tially re-built five-storey struc- bare necessities like rice and ing against it,” said Thirupati home,” says Vaishali. there were as many as many as geted Nariman House housing tion, Kasab was hanged to Martyrs' Memorial, Police ture, a grey coloured building at groceries only to the needy Narayanan, party spokesman There have been some pos- nine blasts – including the the Jewish Chabad House, and death in Pune’s Yerawada central Gymkhana, Marine Drive, Colaba in South Mumbai – poor people. But successive . But N Gopalaswamy, former itives in terms of enhanced 26/11 attacks in which 166 peo- trio - Isamal Khan, Abu Ismail prison on November 21, 2012. Mumbai on Monday morning. which had suffered heavy dam- Governments have extended chief election commissioner security mechanism, since the ple were killed and the July 11, and Ajmal Amir Kasab Nine Pakistani terrorists Flower tributes will be paid age owing to an intense firing the benefits to all for political of India said the commission 26/11 attacks. While the Anti- 2006 serial blasts in seven local unleashed terror at CSMT, may have been killed during at the memorial of 26/11 indulged in by the two Pakistani benefits. The peoples’ mind would not be able to do any- Terrorism Squad (ATS) was trains, in which 187 killed and Cama Hospital and its the 26/11 attacks and the lone attacks’ martyr Tukaram terrorists holed up on its premis- itself got changed to expect thing to check this strengthened, a hub of National 824 others injured – during precincts, before proceeding captured gunman Mohammed Omble at Girgaum Chowpatty es during the 26/11 attacks. everything free from the phenomenon. .  &    .$ !   .    $P    )   &  (! !  23R   * 2A Lucknow: A day before VHP’s Dharam Sabha at Ayodhya,   08#3$" as per our assessment the Pradesh but we wish to keep Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath   Congress will do reasonably the channels of communication offered olive branch to sadhus nding over eight months of well in all the three States,” said open with the grand old party”. and approved construction of Esuspense, the Samajwadi a senior SP leader adding “we Congress sources said the offer a 221 metre high Lord Ram   08#3$" Party and the Bahujan Samaj apprehend that the Congress of two seats is ‘ridiculous and statue near the banks of Saryu Party are likely to announce will outrightly reject the offer the party rejects it with the con- river in the temple city. resident of the Pragatisheel their political alliance for the of two Lok Sabha seats in Uttar tempt it deserves’. The announcement was PSamajwadi Party (Lohia) 2019 Lok Sabha elections on made by the CM on late Shivpal Yadav met Governor December 14. The announce- Saturday night in the State on Sunday and ment of the formal alliance capital after finalising the expressed his concern over the may be made either in details of the construction fol- “large and unlawful” gathering Lucknow or Delhi and may be lowing presentation by five   08#3$" of people in Ayodhya. He ques- made jointly by BSP chief companies. tioned the wisdom of the UP Mayawati and SP president Additional chief secretary ith thousands of Hindu government in allowing the Akhilesh Yadav. (Information) Avnish Awasthi Wactivists and Ram Lalla Dharma Sabha in Ayodhya by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad The date has been chosen said here on Sunday that while followers congregating to despite the prohibitory orders (VHP) on Sunday. as Kharmas is commencing the height of the Ram statue Ayodhya for the mega 'Dharm in force in the temple town. “A similar situation had from December 15 and will would be 151 metres, its over- Sabha' calling for immediate Coming out of the meeting, arisen in 1992 and it is for last till January 15 on Makar head umbrella would be 20 nod to construct a grand Ram the former Minister said it was everyone to see what hap- Sankranti. In north India as metres while the pedestal temple, senior Samajwadi a matter of grave concern that pened...the matter is before per the Indian calendar during would be 50 metres. He said the party (SP) leader Azam Khan despite prohibitory orders, lakhs the Supreme Court and every- the duration of Kharmas, no statue will be made of bronze.  & &       447 on Sunday lashed out at the of people were allowed and one should show patience,” he auspicious tasks are under- Awasthi said there will be     > $   BJP and Prime Minister even facilitated by the State said while pointing out that taken during this period. Some a provision for a “modern     /       Narendra Modi calling them Government to gather in the there was a large stretch of land specific activities are strictly museum” inside the base that   2 3     "anti-Muslim". temple town. He added that it on the banks of the Saryu river prohibited and people do not will showcase the history of     Speaking in Bulandshahr was an attempt by some forces which was under government initiate any new tasks and Ayodhya and the entire !" district, the former state min- to stoke communal passions control and that a Ram temple making any new beginning is “Ikshvaku Vansh” right from ister said that if Modi wanted that posed a danger to the har- can be constructed there. “Why not considered favourable. King Manu to the present sta- The artisans , who had Muslims to migrate out of mony in Uttar Pradesh as well this obstinacy to build a Ram The BSP had extended its tus of “Ram Janmabhoomi”. built the Sardar Patel statue in India, he should also let them as the nation. Shivpal Yadav, temple at the spot where Babri support to SP candidates for The proposed museum will Gujarat , were expected to know the way to do it, and along with the party leaders, led mosque was razed,” the PSP(L) byelections to the Gorakhpur also house detailed description build this Lord Ram statue. they would go. a march from the party office on leader said. He also warned that and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats of all the “Avatars” of Lord “For the selection of appropri- By stoking communal Marg to the the BJP and its affiliates should held in March this year and SP Vishnu and will also have ate land for this statue, soil test- passions the ruling party was Raj Bhawan. not do anything that threatened had wrested both the seats arrangements for depiction on ing, as well as wind tunnel test- creating an atmosphere of Shivpal Yadav, who is the the communal fabric and lead from the BJP. Later, in May, SP- the topic “Bharat ke samasta ing, is going on at present,” said fear in the State and the coun- younger brother of Samajwadi to riots and violence. “There supported Rashtriya Lok Dal Sanatan Dharma” using State of the official. try, he said reminding them of Party patron Mulayam Singh are better things for the state candidate had wrested the art techniques. The Government did not similar situations created Yadav, also questioned the and the central governments to Kairana Lok Sabha seats from A representational photo- divulge other important aspects ahead of the razing of the 16th silence of the Yogi Adityanath do rather than going on name- the BJP and also the SP had graph of the statue was also of the statue, such as its possi- century Babri mosque in government on the Dharma changing spree of districts and wrested the Nurpur Assembly shared with the media. ble cost. PNS December 1992. Sabha being held in Ayodhya installing statues,” he added. seat in Bijnor district in the byelection. The Samajwadi Party sources said the alliance would also include the Rashtriya Lok   + +     Dal and (Krishna Patel faction) and two Lok Sabha seats are proposed to be Lucknow: With Ram Temple “This is a huge number a good footfall of pilgrims. The 50,000 of them in Ayodhya students, hundreds of coaching offered to the Congress. Both issue gaining momentum, peo- and can help in reviving the dharamshalas are of poor qual- according to the 2011 Census. institutions have mushroomed in SP and BSP have fielded their ple in Ayodhya believe that reli- economy of the region,” Dr ity. Only good hotels are found The literacy rate of the region the twin cities of Ayodhya- candidates in all 230 Assembly gion can help in reviving the Paresh Pandey of Saket Degree in Faizabad and they are both is around 86.52 per cent which Faizabad. The flourishing coach- seats in – economy of this ancient city as College says. “Why not develop few and expensive,” Dr Pandey is higher than the national lit- ing institutions have proved to be thus damaging the electoral local say Hindu devouts visit this Ayodhya on the lines of Varanasi says. “Imagine having hotels eracy average of 74.04 per cent. ‘good business’ for those who run prospects of the Congress place from far off places across and Allahabad? Ayodhya is as with river facing rooms or rooms “This is basically an agri- them or those who teach in locked in a direct fight with the country but lack of infrastruc- important for Hindus as facing the Ram temple. This will cultural belt, but agricultural them. But they are largely ‘out- incumbent BJP. The BSP fur- ture prevents them to stay back. Varanasi is. The difference is add to religious tourism and peo- productivity has been steadily siders’, lament local residents. ther damaging the Congress Official records suggest Kashi symbolises ‘moksha’ (sal- ple will start flocking to coming down because of “The economy is actually and benefiting the BJP has that over 30 lakh pilgrims visit vation) while Ayodhya sym- Ayodhya,” he says. repeated fragmentation of driven by religion,” says Pradeep entered into alliance with for- Ayodhya annually – this figure bolises ‘karma’- which asks peo- Local residents claim that farmland. Smaller the farm, Pathak. “Every second month mer Chhattisgarh chief min- excludes people who gather at ple to fulfil their ‘putra dharma’ the link between Ram and lesser the yield and this has you have a religious festival in the ister Ajit Jogi-led Janata melas from surrounding areas. and ‘karma dharma’. Ayodhya is so strong that of the adversely affected the economy form of melas stretching from Congress and contesting all the People from across the country But Ayodhya lacks the infra- 6,000 Hindu shrines and tem- of the region,” says Dr Pandey. Magh to Kartik Purnima. These seats in Naxal-infested State. – particularly from Gujarat, structure required for promoting ples said to be in Ayodhya, With reasonably good edu- melas are organised on the banks “We are waiting for the Maharashtra, Bengal and South religious tourism. “The fact is we more than 4,000 are connect- cational institutions in the region, of Saryu river and provide poll results of Assembly elec- India — visit Ayodhya for pay- do not even have proper hotels ed with Ram. Faizabad had a the literacy rate is good. Thriving sources of income for people and tions in Rajasthan, Madhya ing obeisance at local temples. in Ayodhya despite having such population of 167, 544 with on the academic excellence of small traders,” he said. PNS Pradesh and Chhattisgarh and    () *( +,- +./0    5 . "'$).!$/   ! >   = 5    ! >  > >,4(1(0 5 + "  7!    -      4                 /                                 #  S 6  ?      8/  !:                                         "          @                               #  (             ( A               *  +, $& #                       6                  apoleon Bonaparte is sup-                     posed to have taken a leaf out          <:(  (       of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and given his own           ,          sarcastic spin and context by                    statingN that England was, “une nation de                    boutiquiers” (a nation of shopkeepers). 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is that we are getting there. Policies and non-communicable diseases ie dia- eight lakh high-risk pregnancies have adolescents and children receive essen- healthy communities and a healthy programmes of the Government are betes, hypertension and three common been identified from more than 1.6 tial health information and basic ser- nation. The multiple policy decisions designed to propel us towards the goal. cancers (oral, cervical and breast). This crore antenatal check-ups conducted at vices at home. in maternal health and nutrition with The life cycle approach employed by the will not only save lives but also result 13,100 centres across the country. To address issues, like early mar- a focussed approach have got us this far National Health Mission ensures the in productive lives of women, and These pregnancies were periodically riages, poor nutrition and gender and we are hopeful that these will take best possible health outcome for healthy families and communities. monitored to ensure safe birth. inequality, the Government in 2016 had us closer to achieving our targets. The women through their reproductive life- Last year, the Ministry of Health The Pradhan Mantri Matru launched the Mission Parivar Vikas in steady decline in maternal deaths ,   cycle. In April 2015, India was validat- launched ‘LaQshya’, a quality improve- Vandana Yojana provides a cash incen- 146 high fertility districts across seven needs to be sustained and accelerated ed for Maternal Neonatal Tetanus ment initiative for labour rooms, and tive of 5,000 to encourage antenatal States — Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, to achieve the national target of reduc- ndia has registered a 77 per cent Elimination (MNTE) ahead of the maternity operation theatres and a safe check-ups, institutional delivery and Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, ing MMR to less than 100 by 2020. ,  decline in Maternal Mortality Ratio global target of December 2015. The delivery application, mHealth tool, to postnatal care among the marginalised Assam and . This has helped The Government with the   I I(MMR) in the last three decades. elimination of tetanus as a public enable health workers better manage pregnant women and lactating moth- improve access to contraceptive services Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & The Sample Registration System (SRS), health problem means that in India, the the quality of care in labour rooms and ers. This has significantly contributed by introducing new concepts like nayi Child Health is co-hosting the 4th ,  2  N    released in July this year, showed a sig- annual rate of maternal and neonatal deliveries in peripheral areas. Similarly, to rein in maternal and neonatal mor- pahal kits which made family planning Partners’ Forum in New Delhi on  Q      nificant decline in MMR from 556 per tetanus is now less than one per 1,000 a 24-hour call centre was set up in tality. This shall be scaled up to cover information and commodities easily December 12-13 to provide a platform  83      100,000 live births in 1990 to 130 per live births. Telangana to track pregnant women in all districts of the country. Free mater- available for newlyweds. for national and global health leaders, 100,000 live births in 2015. India has The holistic ‘continuum of care’ the tribal pockets so as to ensure that nal, newborn and infant care with pro- Besides, the Centre is putting in healthcare providers, academics, civil 8.7    committed itself to the attainment of approach has been also adopted in the they get antenatal checkups on time. tection from out-of-pocket expenditure place a system to study and find ways society, women, and more than 1,000 /.!   Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) newly launched Ayushman Bharat Innovation, training and better out- is being assured through the Janani to eliminate disparities in maternal partners from over 52 countries. It will     targets by 2030 by ensuring health of scheme to provide universal health cov- reach are helping the Government in Shishu Suraksha Karyakram initiative, health outcomes across India. States are discuss common ideas and strategies     its most vulnerable populations. erage through two key components — bringing down maternal deaths. which ensures free transport, blood, being encouraged to focus on monitor- so that every woman, child and ado-       Increasing institutional deliveries and preventive, promotion and comprehen- Similarly, the Pradhan Mantri diet, service fee and laboratory services ing safe (child) birthing guidelines. lescent is protected from premature reduction in maternal deaths indicate sive primary healthcare through the 1.5 Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan, launched for all mothers and infants. The dedi- Also, the Government has espoused its mortality and can achieve the best pos- 2  !    that we are steadily marching towards lakh health and wellness centres in 2016 for providing free and compre- cated army of community health work- commitment towards building a sible state of health. With collective       achieving the goals of reducing MMR (HWCs), and secondary and tertiary hensive antenatal care services on the ers — over 10 lakh Accredited Social healthy nation by boosting the health energy, we shall be able to ensure that  9   to less than 70 per 100,000 live births in-patient healthcare through the ninth day of every month to women in Health Activists and Auxiliary Nurse budget by 11.5 per cent (52, 800 crore) women of our country are healthy, thus     by 2030 or earlier. Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana. their second and third trimesters of Midwives serving at sub-centers with- in 2018-19 over the previous year’s 47, making for a healthy nation. While there is a lot to cheer, there The HWCs inter alia provide ser- pregnancy at designated Government in villages — ensure a strong primary 352.51 crore. Healthy women are (The writer is Secretary, Ministry of   ! is also a lot to achieve. The good news vices for screening and management of centres, has had a huge impact. Over healthcare platform in which women, imperative to building healthy families, Health & Family Welfare)      ()  *( +,- +./0 9*; 2:, + "  +  ,   #,O =  2    */*65         31 =  9A:5)       / 

 /*9* ( Pathak further said the  )'1 *' ( * ) privatisation of Bhiwandi is successful and hence we have    *(  decided to go in for privatisa- ! *-  ''/   tion of power supply in the two /9*' - ) ' areas, where the bill collection " 9,    9  is very low. “Already a number of com- panies have participated in the tendering process, including   ,8,:. Torrent Power, which manages the powerloom town of fter the success of a pilot Bhiwandi and the best suited Aproject, the Maharashtra one would be picked up,” he Government plans to extend added. the Chief Minister’s agricultural Pathak also said there has solar feeder scheme in the rest been a growth of power con- of the state. sumers from 2.15 crore to 2.45 The pilot project of the crore and to meet this growth, the scheme was introduced last company is taking every effort. year in two places in Ralegan “There was an acute short- online platform, nearly four areas,” Lamba added. Siddhi in Ahmednagar and age of meters recently due to  ' ' * years after a similar exercise Many norms have been Kolambi in Yawatmal. the fact that 16 lakh meters -  was taken in 2014, the official eased to allow more people to “The scheme is a total suc- supplied by two companies, said. participate in the process, cess and will be extended to the one from Hyderabad and the 7 * ) 1 “Three PSU oil companies Lamba said, adding that entire state. This is a game other from UP, were found to have together issued a joint unlike last time, when the changer and solar units will be be faulty and had to be replaced 9 '* *) /  advertisement for dealership minimum qualification set up in the Government land on priority. These two compa- after a gap of around four required was having passed where there is evacuation facil- nies have been blacklisted, he 7    years. Expansion of the petrol Class XII, this time those   $75702 regular basis. After railways, power sec- ity,” Maharashtra State said and added that the legal 0) /*1 * ( pump network is required to having cleared Class X could According to the report, tor reported the second high- Electricity Transmission process was underway for meet growing fuel needs and also apply. ailway projects account for the total original cost of est incidence of overall cost Company (Mahatransco) “recovery of losses,” he said. for the convenience of cus- Only those selected on the Rover 60 per cent of the 358 these 216 projects was overrun. Out of the 110 pro- director Vishwas Pathak said. When asked about the trans- tomers,” Indian Oil Executive basis of online forms will have central sector projects that are 1,65,343.22 crore. The total jects monitored by the ministry Under this programme, mission and distribution losses   .2,75.:.5 Director (Gujarat), SS Lamba to submit documents for fur- facing cost overrun for various anticipated cost of these pro- in the power sector, 45 report- the farmers are supplied power incurred by state discom said Sunday. ther consideration, which saves reasons, with their cost esca- jects is estimated at ed cost overrun of 63,973.82 during the day with the help of Mahavitaran, he said the com- ublic sector firms Indian The three companies seek on unnecessary paperwork, lating by 2.46 lakh crore. 4,12,160.04 crore, which crore. solar generation. pany could reduce it from the past POil, Bharat Petroleum and to add 4,450 retail outlets in Lamba added. A total 216 projects of rail- indicates overall cost escala- The total original cost of When asked about the pri- 17.50 per cent to 14.50 per cent. Petroleum plan to Gujarat, comprising 2,350 of Also, for the first time, a ways are facing total cost over- tion by 149.28 per cent. these 45 projects was vatisation process of power “We do not claim that we add 4,450 retail outlets across IOC, 998 of BPCL and 1,102 of computerised “draw of lots” run of 2.46 lakh crore, as per The ministry monitored 1,78,005.08 crore which esca- distribution for Malegaon and have achieved and met every Gujarat in a bid to expand its HP, he informed. They already and “bid opening” will be held the flash report of the Ministry 350 projects of Indian Railways lated to total anticipated cost of Kalwa-Mumbra sections, he target but to a large extent we network and meet growing operate around 4,000 petrol under an independent agency of Statistics and Programme in July this year. The study stat- 2,41,978.90 crore. said the project is on fast track have performed and brought fuel needs, an official said here pumps in Gujarat. to bring in more transparency, Implementation for July 2018. ed that as many as 65 projects The report stated that out and the tendering process is the power scene to a good posi- Sunday. “With new highways get- he said. The statistics ministry of railways out of the moni- of the 110 power sector pro- underway now. tion as regards supply, distrib- The three oil companies ting added and distance from A candidate can go to monitors central sector projects tored 350 projects reported jects, 36 reported time overrun “The entire process is like- ution and reducing the prob- Sunday launched the process of urban centres growing, we are www.Petrolpumpdealerchayan. envisaging an expenditure of time overrun or delay of 3 (delay) of 1 month to 135 ly to be completed soon,” he lems which were faced earlier,” selecting eligible dealers for also looking to expand our net- In to apply for the outlets, the 150 crore and above each on months to 374 months. months. added. he said. these outlets from a single work in rural and far-flung IO ED informed. 2$$'%! ) ?      2+4%  9*' 56678666!$ /%$( ,) )* ) *' 1'  / ($/" )  !$) '3    (( / ' 0)9*'   3"03.. share of licence and other fees O(* )* P * 9 awaharlal Nehru B *'$! is determined on the basis of * ) *) / ( JPort Trust’s Special 9 )>* (/ )*  the AGR from access services. Economic Zone (SEZ) BSNL revenue market * )  ),* is expecting to rake in ;;1 0 share stood at 1,284.12 crore /* *-*' 900-1,000 crore from ** 9 ) *(4 in July-September. auction of a 300-acre In the previous April-June 0    land parcel meant for ) ' * 2018 quarter, Jio led the chart 9 ( '1 industrial area, a top (/*' on standalone basis with official has said. 7,125.7 crore AGR. However, The land, which the combined AGR of will be auctioned by   $75702 Vodafone and Idea, which were   "39" December-end, falls under the around 3 crore an acre as the in the process of merger, was 670-acre SEZ developed near land use may not be that attrac- eliance Jio has emerged as more than that of Reliance Jio issan’s former chairman the port. tive to buyers and can only be Rthe top telecom service at 8,226.79 crore. NCarlos Ghosn has denied To make the auction used for industrial and manu- provider in terms of adjusted Separately, Vodafone’s allegations of financial mis- process attractive, the JNPT has facturing activities. gross revenue (AGR) at 8,271 AGR was 4,483.69 crore conduct, claiming he had no relaxed certain norms in the A pre-bid meeting has crore for the July-September and that of Idea was 3,743.1 intention of making false SEZ which includes easy exit by been proposed in December. quarter, according to Trai crore. Bharti Airtel’s adjust- reports, Japanese media said transferring assets to another Sources said Taiwanese IT data. ed gross revenue was Sunday. entity. major Foxconn and Dubai- The Telecom Regulatory 6,723.5 crore. The Brazil-born tycoon, Ghosn was sacked as gations, saying Ghosn’s about possible destruction of “We expect not less than based DP World have evinced Authority of India’s (Trai) lat- However, in terms of gross who has not spoken publicly Nissan chairman Thursday, a salaries were paid appropri- evidence by Ghosn, Japan’s 900-1,000 crore from the interest to participate in the est data showed that newly revenue, Vodafone Idea led since he was arrested last spectacular fall from grace for ately, news reports said. Kyodo News reported, quot- largest land pacel in the SEZ auction. merged Vodafone Idea record- the chart with 13,542 crore. Monday, told prosecutors he the once-revered boss whose Local media reported ing unnamed sources. meant for industrial and man- Foxconn emerged as the ed an adjusted gross revenue Airtel followed with 11,596 did not intend to understate arrest and ouster have Sunday that Nissan had Ghosn is being held cus- ufacturing activity,” a top JNPT second highest bidder in the (AGR) — earnings from crore GR and Jio was at third his income on financial stunned the business world. formed a “secret” team ear- tody in a Tokyo detention official told. 44-acre plot for warehousing mobile phone services — of position with GR of 10,738 reports, public broadcaster Prosecutors accuse Ghosn lier this year to probe the centre. JNPT SEZ had received a but lost to DP World. 7,528 crore, followed by Bharti crore. NHK said. and fellow executive Greg alleged financial miscon- On Wednesday, prose- valuation of 13 crore an acre Foxconn, the largest con- Airtel at the third position According to Trai, Jio led Without exercising his Kelly of under-reporting the duct. cutors successfully applied in the auction for a 44-acre plot tract manufacturer of mobile with an AGR market share of AGR market share in 11 out of right to remain silent, Ghosn former chairman’s income by A small team involving to extend his custody for an for warehousing, against a phones and TV panels in the 6,720 crore for the said quar- 22 telecom circles, Airtel in 6 advocated his view to prose- around five billion yen ($44 Nissan’s board members car- additional 10 days as they reserve price of 2 crore. country, had earlier announced ter. and Vodafone Idea in 5 telecom cutors, NHK said, quoting million). ried out its internal probe stepped up their question- However, JNPT is expect- investing $5 billion in The Government’s revenue circles. unnamed sources. Kelly also denied the alle- confidentially on concerns ing. ing the land parcel to fetch Maharashtra. ? 4 -  5 & ?   .  0     5#            $75702       $   

  $75702   he Garhi Winter Show constantly devising strategies ;  4 T2018 was inaugurated on for this market and building in- Sunday at the Lalit Kala shok Leyland, flagship of roads to be closer to our cus-    Akademi Art Galleries of Athe Hinduja Group, inau- tomers. We already have a very @   Rabindra Bhawan, Mandi gurated a new dealership, good equity in the market as House, New Delhi by Adesh Himgiri Automobiles Pvt. Ltd., customers here are already   ,8,:.   $75702 Kumar Gupta, Mayor, North in Greater Noida. The dealer- aware of the robustness and MCD and Uttam Pacharne, ship is located near NTPC reliability of our products he Reserve Bank will hold ix firms, including Ernst & Chairman LKA. The inaugur- Netra, Ecotech II, Malakpur which leads to better margins, Tthe rates for the remainder SYoung LLP and Deloitte al ceremony took place in the which is one of the busiest better profitability and hassle- of the fiscal year ending March Touche Tohmatsu, are in the gracious presence of JS Culture route in the area. It connects free operations. These attrib- 2019 and is likely to go for race for advising the Finance Ministry, Nirupama Kotru, feeder roads with Noida- utes and following the philos- “measured hikes” in FY20 as Ministry on two merger and Rajan Shripad Fulari, Secretary Greater Noida Expressway, GT ophy of ‘Aapki Jeet, Hamari inflation inches up, acquisition (M&A) deals. LKA, and other practicing Road and further connects the Jeet, we have witnessed an Singaporean lender DBS has The four other entities artists, art critics and art lovers busy Delhi-Agra-Aligarh- increase in demand from the said. which have bid for advising on in a great number. Mathura routes. region, achieving a command- Decision on rates will be the deals are ICICI Securities, Around 250 artworks Himgiri Automobiles has ing market share of 30% in the majorly influenced by the IDBI Capital Market and comprising of paintings, sculp- been partners with Ashok M&HCV and ICV segments. movement in oil prices and also Securities, SBI Capital Markets tures, graphics, ceramics etc. by Leyland since 2010. This is With our trusted partners, the currency, which were and RBSA Capital Advisor over 130 artists have been put their 7th touch-point of Ashok Himgiri Automobiles, we are termed as “wildcards” by its LLP. on display. show. All the work here are Prof. Sankho Chaudhuri that Congratulating the partici- Leyland. This modern, 3S deal- certain we will further expand house economists. These firms would be Inaugurating the Winter really beautiful and unique in took shape into what we know pant artists, JS, Culture Ministry, ership (sales, service and our family of customers.” In a report that comes making their presentation Show 2018, the Chief Guest themselves.” today as the LKA RC Garhi. Government of India, Nirupama spares) is spread over 32,000 sq. Present at the inaugura- days after the headline inflation before the Department of Adesh Kumar Gupta congrat- Uttam Pacharne, Garhi studios have given the art Kotru appreciated the efforts of ft. and will cater to the entire tion, Anil Goel, MD, Himgiri print eased to a surprising 3.31 Investment and Public Asset ulated the participating artists Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, world artists such as Gogi Saroj the Akademi in the promotion range of Ashok Leyland vehi- Automobiles Pvt. Ltd., said, per cent for October, the lender Management on November and said, “This is my second in his inaugural address, reit- Pal, Arpana Caur, Subodh of arts. She also promised every cles with 14 (9 Mechanical , 3 “We have seen this brand lowered its consumer price 26, as per a notice on the visit to the Lalit Kala Akademi erated the glorious history of Gupta, Bharti Kher, Dattatraya possible aid from the Culture Accidental, 1 Washing, 1 Wheel grow from strength to inflation (CPI) expectations DIPAM website. and I feel honoured to be here. Garhi Regional Centre of LKA, Apte, Jayant Gajera etc. to Ministry for the same. Alignment) fully-equipped strength, whether it is their for FY19 to 4 per cent from 4.4 DIPAM had last month I congratulate Pacharne for “The Garhi artists’ studio was name a few. At present, over The show will be on for bays. innovative products or their per cent earlier. floated a Request for Proposal his innovative ventures in the established in 1976 when the 350 senior as well as young public viewing till 3rd Inaugurating the dealer- constantly evolving technolo- It can be noted that under (RFP) to engage one advisor field of art since his joining the DDA had allotted a four-acre artists are practicing at the RC December, 2018 from 12 noon ship, Anuj Kathuria, President gies. We are equally thrilled to its medium term inflation tar- from consulting firms/ invest- LKA as its Chairman. Artists land area with an aim to pro- Garhi. I congratulate all the to 8 pm everyday at the Lalit — Global Trucks, Ashok begin our relationship with geting framework, the RBI is ment bankers/ merchant always connect with the nature mote art. It was the profound participating artists in the show Kala Akademi Art Galleries Leyland, said, “North India them and together we will committed to anchor the price bankers for assisting it in the and the same can be witnessed and determined conceptual- and express my hearty greet- (nos.), Rabindra Bhawan, and NCR region is one of our build an even stronger brand rise at 4 per cent with a leeway process of two M&As in the in the artworks exhibited in this ization of well-known artist ings to them.” Mandi House, New Delhi. fastest growing markets. We are in this region.” on either side. energy sector.    ()  *( +,- +./0 01'(;; $$! 

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  :48//70/ withdrawal agreement covers financial matters, citizens’ 1  +  uropean Union leaders on rights, Northern Ireland and 3 #    ESunday approved a historic arrangements for a 21-month +    Brexit deal, holding out hopes post-Brexit transition phase. of close future ties even as one A short political declara- declared Britain’s withdrawal tion that accompanies the text 5  5 4 .    after four decades a “tragedy”. sets out hopes for future secu- The 27 leaders of the bloc rity and trade ties. .  met without Prime Minister But it is not the final stage, !  Theresa May to endorse the as the House of Commons in   0"$5"$ agreement, which sets the stage London must still approve the for Britain exit from the bloc on deal — and many MPs have   58:0$ the 1998 Good Friday ritish Prime Minister March 29. warned they will not back it. Agreement, which ended three BTheresa May has written a “EU27 has endorsed the Until the agreement is he Brexit deal marks a clear decades of sectarian conflict. “letter to the nation” vowing to Withdrawal Agreement and approved, all sides are still Tvictory for Ireland — one When the draft accord was campaign with “heart and Political Declaration on the planning for the potentially dis- no-one in Britain saw coming published earlier this month, soul” for her Brexit deal once future EU-UK relations,” astrous possibility that Britain and one which has raised the Irish politicians across the EU leaders sign off on it this European Council President leaves the EU with no new Irish government’s standing at spectrum lauded it as the best weekend. May, who hopes to Donald Tusk tweeted, as the arrangements in place. home and abroad. possible outcome for the seal the divorce agreement and leaders waited for May to join Media reports in London Ireland is tethered to Republic in contrast to the outline of future ties with them. Arriving for a special on Sunday suggested some of Britain through a common deep divisions in the British Europe at a Brussels summit summit in Brussels, European May’s own ministers were history, enmeshed economies parliament over its merits. Sunday, faces a daunting chal- Commission President Jean- secretly working with EU and a border with the British “The Irish government’s lenge winning the support of Claude Juncker, head of the diplomats on a “Plan B” in case     !     :  %    , !&          :2 province of Northern Ireland key preferences were all reflect- Britain’s Parliament. bloc’s executive arm, said it was parliament rejected the agree-        that held up negotiations for ed in the divorce settlement,” The Sunday Telegraph a “sad day”. ment next month. months. said Etain Tannam, a senior lec- reported that members of her “To see a country like Great But Austrian Chancellor this (agreement) is acceptable.” divided over the decision, but Some British hardliners turer at Trinity College Dublin. own cabinet and EU diplo- Britain...Leave the EU is not a Sebastian Kurz, whose country Tusk said on the eve of the the prime minister said that ,    had argued that Ireland would “Bi-partisan party support mats are secretly working on moment of joy nor of celebra- holds the rotating EU presi- summit that “no-one will have finally leaving could be “a simply follow along in any exit in the Irish parliament for the “plan B” proposals, fearing tion, it’s a sad moment and it’s dency, said: “It is important that reasons to be happy” when moment of renewal and rec-   .  deal — a sentiment that caused government’s Brexit policy has lawmakers will reject the cur- a tragedy,” he said. everyone in the UK is aware Brexit happens, but he said the onciliation”. outrage among many Irish and been noteworthy since the rent deal. But in the letter pub- Michel Barnier, the former that the result that is now terms agreed would “reduce the “To do that we need to get  :48//70/ helped harden resolve. withdrawal process began,” she lished in several newspapers, French foreign minister who available is the result. risks and losses”. on with Brexit now by getting At the centre of the dispute said. In the tug of war of inter- May insisted her agreement negotiated the deal on behalf of “It will certainly not be In London, eurosceptics behind this deal,” she said. omania’s President has wel- was a legal guarantee to keep national interests, Ireland’s gov- would “honour the result” of the bloc, added: “We will renegotiated and there will be in May’s Conservative party The summit risked being Rcomed the Brexit agree- the Irish border open, known ernment now has greater trac- the 2016 referendum — when remain allies, partners and no further room for manoeu- and their Northern Irish allies derailed by a late objection to ment saying it will protect the as the “backstop”, which Irish tion and is earning a reputation 52 per cent backed Leave — friends.” vre.” Dutch Prime Minister warn they will not support the the deal by Spain over the rights of hundreds of thousands Prime Minister Leo Varadkar as a shrewd bargainer -- at the and be “a moment of renew- May, who arrived in Mark Rutte added: “Overall, I agreement, which they argue British territory of Gibraltar. of Romanians in Britain. and his EU allies insisted on same time as Britain’s prestige al and reconciliation”. Brussels on Saturday evening think this is the max that we keeps Britain too close to the Prime Minister Pedro President Klaus Iohannis and Britain eventually and very is on the wane. “It will be a deal that is in for final talks with Tusk and can all do, both Theresa May EU. But in an open “letter to the Sanchez threatened to reject it said Sunday that while most reluctantly agreed to. “The places have changed. our national interest — one Juncker, was due to join the and her government as well as nation” on Sunday, May said it unless his country kept a veto EU members were sad that Ireland was opposed to Britain, not Ireland, is the rel- that works for our whole other leaders later in a highly the European Union. delivered on the 2016 referen- over future changes to EU ties Britain was leaving the bloc, if Brexit and is fearful both of the atively small and isolated coun- country and all of our people, symbolic moment. “No victors here today, dum vote to leave, and was a with “The Rock”, which borders the agreement passes it “will impact on trade with biggest try,” Irish columnist Fintan whether you voted ‘Leave’ or Forged during 17 months nobody winning, we’re all los- “deal for a brighter future”. Spain and which it has long protect Romanians and other economic partner Britain and O’Toole wrote in a column for ‘Remain’,” May wrote on of tough negotiations, the ing — but given that context, Britain remains deeply claimed. Europeans who are in Britain.” any destabilising influence on the Guardian newspaper. Saturday. $ !$ ?P     2   $) 66 )%  'E         4C    1 ! %99"$#  -/*:/      C  +     # O     L#; M  @A     ./2$ "$ inside the country and asked to (P$!Q  !=   /  come back to report to a court -           S President Donald Trump at the next hearing on their asy-   5.,./#8/ tographer saw men, women     !#;     Uhas said migrants at the lum application. and children being treated at an   3.,.0. in bad weather on Saturday in        southern border will not be Trump, who has round 100 Syrians have Aleppo hospital for breathing the latest deadly incident to       K   allowed into America until a announced to end the ‘catch Abeen hospitalised with difficulties. hirty people drowned and affect passenger boats on      $   @K court approves their claims and release’ policy, argues that breathing difficulties in Aleppo, Some were sitting, while Tmore than 60 were feared Africa’s largest lake.  &@      ! individually. those immigrants who were let state media and a monitor said others lay down, breathing dead after a pleasure boat sank Lawn games at the Mutima Trump’s comments came off never come back to the on Sunday, after allegations through with oxygen masks. in Lake Victoria, Ugandan Country Resort, close to the ,   (  in the wake of a caravan of peo- court hearings and it becomes rebels fired “toxic gas” on the The regime controls Aleppo police said Sunday, in the lat- capital Kampala, were pushed    ,  ple — mostly from three Latin very difficult to identify them regime-held city the previous city, but rebels and jihadists are est such incident on Africa’s aside Sunday to make way for *) /     American countries El once they mix up with the day. A rebel alliance in nearby present to the west of the city largest body of water. an open-air morgue where /     Salvador, Guatemala and locals. Idlib denied any involvement in in the country’s last major “Thirty bodies have been police collected the bloated      Honduras — inching closer to “If for any reason it the alleged attack. State news opposition bastion of Idlib. recovered and 27 people res- bodies of victims. Boat rides,         the US-Mexico border with the He said illegal immigrants becomes necessary, we will agency SANA reported “107 But a rebel coalition there cued,” said police spokesperson with drinking, dancing and         intention of illegally entering would be caught and detained CLOSE our Southern Border. cases of breathing difficulties” on Sunday denied involve- Zura Ganyana, adding the boat music, are popular on the lake.        America, a trend that has been and not released inside the There is no way that the United in an updated toll on Sunday. ment. had sunk 150 metres from the “It’s a big party,” said     going on for the past several country, as was the practice ear- States will, after decades of The Syrian Observatory “We at the National lakeshore. Washington Serunjogi, whose       ! decades. lier. abuse, put up with this costly for Human Rights, a Britain- Liberation Front deny the “According to one of the sister Justine Namayanja was In the last two weeks, “We only will allow those and dangerous situation any- based monitor, said a total of 94 criminal, lying regime’s allega- survivors there were more than missing after taking the cruise ' +   approximately 5,000 Central who come into our country more!” he asserted. people were hospitalised, but tions that revolutionaries tar- 90 people on board,” said on Saturday.  J ((, American migrants have legally. Other than that our very Meanwhile, US media on most had been discharged and geted the city of Aleppo with Asuman Mugenyi, director of “Justine had been on three )8)8 ; ;    arrived in the Mexican border strong policy is ‘Catch and Saturday reported that the the 31 cases that remained any missiles and especially not operations for the Uganda cruises before and I knew K         city of Tijuana, just south of Detain’. No ‘Releasing’ into the Trump administration has were not critical. any containing chlorine gas,” it police. something was wrong yester-      California. US... All will stay in Mexico,” reached an understanding with Late Saturday, state media said. Other groups in the area Witnesses claimed the ves- day because she always updat-       K   “Migrants at the Southern Trump tweeted. the leaders of the incoming accused rebels of launching an include the jihadist-dominated sel may have been rushed back ed her WhatsApp and       Border will not be allowed He said all these years ille- Mexican government that attack with “toxic gas” on the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham alliance into service following a reno- Facebook with selfies but last          into the United States until gal immigrants have been tak- would allow migrants applying northern city in what health and the Al-Qaeda-linked vation in order to take advan- night she didn’t,” Serunjogi I    ! their claims are individually ing advantage of the earlier US’ for asylum in the US to remain official Ziad Hajj Taha said was Hurras al-Deen group, neither tage of the profitable end-of- said. Serunjogi said that, like          approved in court,” Trump policy of ‘catch and release’, in Mexico while they await a a “probable” chlorine attack. of whom have commented on year party season. The boat car- many Ugandans, his sister did .    / ! tweeted Saturday. under which they were released court’s decision. On Saturday, an AFP pho- the alleged attack. rying nearly 100 revellers sank not know how to swim. 5      ++,           9) >.      3 =%=%   #"0",:" appointing him Wickremesinghe appointed in the country over the Central (Wickeremesinghe). one ministry to handle both the Bank’s issuance of bonds.   3.4.#2 found that one of the slain mil- %)  ) ri Lankan President “There is some form of higher education and the high- A probe had found itants, Razzaq Baloch, belonged SMaithripala Sirisena on political unrest in the country ways. One of the major issues Mahendran guilty of providing wo persons have been to Kharan district of the restive  724.$ Sunday made it clear that he due to my decision, but I do not of conflict was Sirisena’s oppo- insider information to a deal- Tarrested in Pakistan in con- Balochistan province, it said. would never reappoint ousted consider it as a serious politi- sition to Wickremesinghe’s er linked to his son-in-law. nection with the recent terror Raids were carried out in he US Geological Survey Prime Minister Ranil cal crisis”. The President said nominee to the post of Central “He (Mahendran) is attack on the Chinese consulate different areas of Kharan on Tsays a magnitude 6.3 earth- Wickremesinghe even as he that he and Wickremesinghe Bank governor Arjuna absconding and Ranil here in which seven people, Saturday and Mohammad quake has struck western Iran accepted that the action of had developed serious policy Mahendran, a Singaporean Wickremesinghe knows his including three terrorists, were Aslam and Khosti were taken near its border with Iraq. removing his arch-rival has differences on their approach to national. whereabouts,” Sirisena said, killed, media reports said on into custory, the report said. The earthquake Sunday created “some form of political governance. “I told him adding that he would appoint a Sunday. Balochistan Home night hit near Sarpol-e Zahab unrest” in the country. “The first one was on the (Wickremesinghe) that he special probe on Those arrested are the Minister Mir Saleem Ahmad in Iran's Kermanshah province. Sirisena last month abrupt- sis in the country with both appointment of the Cabinet. I should not be appointed Wickremesinghe’s three years as brothers of Abdul Razzaq Khosa said that Razzaq Baloch’s State television in Iran ly sacked Wickeremesinghe Wickremesinghe and had entrusted a committee of because he is a non Sri Lankan. prime minister, accusing his Baloch, who was one of the name was on the missing per- reported the quake, saying it and replaced him with former Rajapaksa claiming to be the academics to recommend ways He insisted that he government of being corrupt. three militants of the outlawed sons’ list over the past two had magnitude of 6.4. Varying strongman Mahinda Rajapksa legitimate prime minister. to appoint a cabinet based on (Mahendran) be appointed,” The President described Balochistan Liberation Army years. magnitudes are common in the in a controversial move termed Sirisena, addressing the a scientific division of subjects. Sirisena said. Wickremesinghe as a propo- (BLA) which claimed the attack A large number of people immediate aftermath of a tem- by many as unconstitutional. Colombo-based foreign corre- But Mr Wickremesinghe The President said that nent of destructive neo-Liberal on Friday, Dawn news mentioned in the list had gone blor.The earthquake was shal- The controversial action on spondents, said: “There is no ignored those recommenda- Mahendran was responsible economic policies which are reported. aboard for terrorism training, low, which can cause severe October 26 led to a political cri- possibility that I will be re- tions,” he said. Sirisena said that for the biggest financial scam not suitable for Sri Lanka. The investigation agencies he said. damage. ( F    2    :              /         0"$5"$ Northern Mars also dis- dry, arid world today, water is rain appears to consist mostly the mesas and landforms seen plays large areas of smooth believed to have played a key of rocky plateaus, while lower today.   :. 25.5 uropean Space Agency’s land, whereas the planet’s role in sculpting Nili Fossae via terrain comprises smaller The shapes and structures Espace probe Mars Express southern regions are heavily ongoing erosion. rocks, mesas, hills, and more, scattered throughout this image t least 21 people have died has beamed back an image of pockmarked and scattered with In addition to visual cues, with the two sections roughly are thought to have been Aand tens of thousands dis- an intriguing part of the Red craters. signs of past interaction with separated by erosion channels shaped over time by flows of placed by heavy rains that have Planet’s surface — a rocky, This is thought to be the water have been spotted in the and valleys. not only water and ice, but also battered Iraq over two days, the fragmented, furrowed stretch result of past volcanic activity, western (upper) part of this This split is thought to be wind. Health Ministry and United that was shaped by flowing which has resurfaced parts of image — instruments such as the result of material moving Examples can be seen in Nations said on Sunday. wind, water and ice. Mars to create smooth plains in Mars Express’ OMEGA spec- around on Mars hundreds of this image in patches of the sur- Women and children were Lying at the boundary of the north — and left other trometer have spotted clay millions of years ago. face that appear to be notably among the dead, health min- the northern and southern regions ancient and untouched. minerals here, which are key Similar to glaciers on dark against the ochre back- istry spokesman Seif al-Badr hemisphere, the region is an The furrowed, rock-filled indicators that water was once Earth, flows of water and ice ground, as if smudged with told AFP. Some had drowned, example of past activity on the escarpment known as Nili present. cut through the martian terrain charcoal or ink. but others had died in car planet. Fossae, sits at the boundary of The elevation of Nili Fossae and slowly sculpted and erod- These are areas of darker accidents, were electrocuted, or Mars is a planet of two this north-south divide, and surroundings, shown in ed it over time, also carrying volcanic sand, which have been were trapped when their hous- halves. In places, the northern researchers said. the topographic view above, is material along with them. transported and deposited by es collapsed. At least 180 more hemisphere of the planet sits a This region is filled with somewhat varied; regions to the In the case of Nili Fossae, present-day martian winds. were injured, he added. full few kilometres lower than rocky valleys, small hills, and left and lower left (south) sit this was carried from higher Wind moves sand and dust Iraq and neighbouring the southern; this clear topo- clusters of flat-topped land- higher than those to the other areas to lower ones, with around often on Mars’ surface, countries have been hit by graphic split is known as the forms (known as mesas in side of the frame (north), illus- chunks of resistant rock and creating rippling dune fields heavier-than-average rainfall martian dichotomy, and is an geological terms), with some the surface creating a number As with much of the sur- trating the aforementioned hardy material across the planet and forming in recent weeks, resulting in especially distinctive feature chunks of crustal rock appear- of ditch-like features known as rounding environment, and dichotomy. remaining largely intact but multi-coloured, patchy terrain deaths and widespread damage. on the Red Planet’s surface. ing to be depressed down into graben. despite Mars’ reputation as a This higher-altitude ter- shifting downslope to form like Nili Fossae.   ;    ()  *( +,- +./0  ,Q ? 

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For instance, travellers working according to their set     from Barcelona to Beijing are budget, they also try to find alter- 8  cashing in on Argentina’s cheap natives to visit and explore places       currency as the country grabs outside the continent. He said that %(-'!   headlines as a go-to destination. with the spread of social media,      Similarly, Indians are increas- the trends have started pointing ingly opting for cheaper destina- towards a more aware and excit-     tions like Vietnam, Cambodia, ed society which wants to explore     K Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan as much as they can.    while giving costlier places a miss. Giving examples, he said, a few    Such a trend has been termed as places in the Eastern Europe like      “luxury for less” by many travel Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia companies. Balu Ramachandran, and more are preferred in terms of      head of Air and Distribution, budget. He said, “People do cut 5  A! Cleartrip, said that the continuing short their durations of the trip or depreciation of the rupee against choose a less-costly hotel/resort to the dollar has made short haul des- He has observed that around Karan Anand, head relation- beneficiaries” of the depreciation stay in, but do not cut off vacations tinations hotspots for leisure trav- 40 per cent of these bookings are .6(74#7$ ships, Cox and Kings, adds anoth- of the rupee. “Both these locations even outside Asia. We have also O (   )*) 4 ellers. “We have seen 35 to 40 per made less than 15 days before the $#47./7$".0 er place to the list — Turkey. He offer a luxury experience at an observed a high trend in booking 1(*' / * cent growth in bookings for short- trip date, which indicates that a lot said, “This is due to the devalua- excellent price and so have become hotels that are off the city centre,  9* -/ 71 1 haul destinations like Bangkok, of people plan such trips at the last :""3$ /;"4 tion of their currency by 30 per very popular with the well-heeled which are usually much cheaper Singapore, Colombo, Denpasar minute. Around 25 per cent of 57/$."$/037 cent vis-a-vis the dollar.” He point- Indian traveller.” and more affordable. The nearer **' 0 *1) and Sharjah (in 2018 as compared these trips are one to seven days ed out that such places add great By visiting these places, they you are to the center of the city, the / , (7 *1) to 2017’s graph), which is higher of duration. He names Nepal, $7.0#"0",:" value in the low-cost luxury seg- are actually pleasantly surprised by higher is the cost of your accom- 0*) )  compared to the national average Colombo, Bangkok and Phuket in 2.0.$5.$5 ment as they offer cheap deals. all costs — including eating out, modation. So, the location is also 9 *7 of 21 per cent. Travellers are not Thailand, Maldives and Indonesia “There has been a 15 per cent staying in five-star resorts and kept in mind.” *) /* strict about aligning their travel as the most visited destinations $5"$7/.2./:77$ increase in the number of people hotels, enjoying a spa and visiting Adding to this, he gave his own plans with how the value of rupee among Mumbaikars. The thing to opting for this type of travel. various tourist attractions. “These example saying that if he plans a * )(4-* has changed with regard to the be noted here is that a 40 per cent $"#75.;74 Within India, some properties in are turning out to be much cheap- visit to France, he will also try to  ) currency of the destination coun- increase in total bookings of these 4877/.475 also fit the bill,” he added. er than any other value vacations accommodate another places that *)1) try but overall are looking at destinations has been noticed Roshan Dsilva, CEO of in India itself.” is near by. 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Ancient Indian kings employed an army of where he understands love and other feel- visha kanyas (poison maidens), who, according to legends, could take down ings as he grows. But these emotions are any adversary with a single kiss. However, no one can be sure where truth “universal, irrespective of language barri- ends and myth begins about the historicity of these venomous assassins er or any other thing.” and the superhuman-like aura surrounding them. Talking about his character of Veer in Historically speaking, the cloak of mystery concealed the identity of the Alt Balaji show, he says that preparing visha kanyas for too long. But folklore surrounding their existence have for it turned out to be very “intense.” The always fascinated viewers across age groups. Colors’ newest offering, Vish story revolves around a guy and a girl Ya Amrit: Sitaara will be centered around this concept that was once con- ;   J (played by Harleen Sethi) in the city who sidered an extremely powerful way to take revenge.     ( have been hit by their fates so badly that The show is set in Vikralgadh village in Rajasthan and traces the jour-          ney of a girl Sitaara, who is oblivious of her own identity. Abandoned in      /  3 infancy by her mother played by Shilpa Saklani, she is brought up by her K   K    father who is a loyal courtier in the palace. Shilpa explains that the story takes a sharp turn when Sitaara embarks  (    on a journey that forces her to choose between good and evil. She’s a girl L.   Q    of high integrity and is willing to stand by her convictions at all times, and      !/   against all people, even when it means standing up against people who          . C34.$,.//79                  might have cared for her. “The show has been conceived keeping in mind the new wave of con-                    !:#2.2.3 ,.0 cepts that comes with a little element of thrill and keeps viewers on the           edge of the seats. My (onscreen) daughter Sitaara is torn between the        !/ they are now too shattered to move ahead. He feels that the one “advantage or a love for her mother who is evil personified and her own value system        Veer is an ambitious person, who loves plus point” in the digital space is that it let’s which prevents her from doing anything but good. The viewers will love   M,  ! his wife madly. But one fateful night, he you explore the wide array of options and to see this tussle between sin and virtue and see her loses all that he had including the love of have experiences, and that “it connects you choose the path of righteousness going against the his life. This, to Vikrant, is something that to a larger arena around the world” as it wishes of her mother,” says Shilpa who’s famous is true of real life. “It’s indicative of is immediately accessible to everyone. for her role as Ganga in Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi O) - ,* uncertainty, that no matter how much you Giving the example of Mirzapur, he Bahu Thi and has also been a part of shows like plan and step out, there are things which says that the show was available to almost Lavanya, , Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin, and 9)* >*B*(1(P you can’t predict. It’s life that takes you for- 202 countries within one night. So “isn’t Kya Hadsaa Kya Haqeeqat. /  ( (   ward, you don’t take life ahead,” he says. that kind of an exposure humongous?” Visha kanyas were well-known for their The actor was so “overwhelmed” by A recent PIL alleged that some of the beauty and used seduction as their tool to escape         the role that he accepted it instantly. It content on the online portals like Amazon a dangerous situation. They could easily bring     $(,   taught him that life and relationships are Prime Video, Netflix, and Hotstar is empires to their knees. Shilpa says, “When I            not just about physicality and sentimen- obscene and needs to be regulated under met the team and they narrated the story,      F  tality, rather a connect that is beyond the Cinematograph Act of the Indian Penal they actually took me through the # K    debate and even verbal understanding. Code. Vikrant strongly opposes censoring entire journey of how visha kanyas “There are no words to explain a relation- online content as it is a “platform of oppor- came by. I was very thrilled and   ! ship that is deep in its own existence. And tunities to showcase talent” to the world, wanted to be involved in the      that’s how the show portrays the relation which films cannot show, because they are series because it’s a hardcore     between Sameera (Harleen) and Veer,” limited. “We censor the theatre content as well negative role and for 14   adds he. even though this shouldn’t be done. There years of my life I was play-    The actor who shot to fame with the should be proper certification. Even TV has ing positive characters in show, Balika Vadhu, says that the transi- censorship, which is the biggest among all. So every serial so I decid-      tion from that 16-year-old Vikrant to the where do we showcase the hunar?” ed that if I wanted to      current has been a “seamless” one, but he More than censorship of content, the come back after my sab-   ! has “evolved” a lot over the time. actor says, it is the kind of content that is batical, it had to be some- L4     From the show Dharam-Veer, to Motwane. I have never paid attention to going which should be the focus. He rais- thing darker. Also, all other    films like , Dil Dhadakne Do, the platform I was working for. But when es some questions, “Is it really nudity or genres are tried and tested but Death in the Gunj, Lipstick Under My I actually started working in films, it did abusive language, vulgarity or sexually- this one is not. So I wanted to  N     Burkha, web series Mirzapur, the actor has bring a sense of satisfaction because it took indecent stories, that should be banned? tell everyone out there ‘Visha     played numerous critically-acclaimed and a lot of time to understand the way the Shouldn’t the content that promotes kanya hoti hai panga mat lena’.” F      widely-accepted versatile roles. medium worked. But now that I have misogyny and sexual harassment She adds, “The sabbatical was just   ! So how does he choose his roles? Says explored different platforms, I feel that against women be scrutinised more to enjoy and chill. I did Kyunki Saas Bhi 7   he, “Just one thing, the content and the everything is the same as well as different closely? It is also one of the platforms Kabhi Bahu Thi for eight years and I was story are a priority. And the question that in their own way. There are pros and cons from where reality takes a shape.” really tired of acting. I was destiny’s child    who is saying this story? Me. It doesn’t of every media. But yes, I am still explor- He adds, “Even today, there are and had everything that one could     matter how it gets delivered to the soci- ing films.” shows on TV that show women as dream of. Honestly, that’s why I decid-      ety, I just want to be a part of good sto- However, what is the most challeng- working in kitchens and getting ed to turn into a house wife and I was     ries.” ing one among all the three platforms? “It’s tormented every now and then by so happy doing all the household chores One, who has worked for the televi- TV, for sure,” he answers. “Working and their ‘cruel’ mothers-in-law. and turning into someone who would   !: sion, big screen, and now for the digital shooting for it is like a nine to five job, Shouldn’t this come in the spec- make a new kind of a paneer every single       platform, can be called a master of exper- every day, every month. You need to be on trum? Rather the regressive day. I did that for four years and I really   M:   iments and exploration. But for Vikrant, your toes to meet serious deadlines. There content that objectifies enjoyed it. I am coming back with this show  ! it has all been the “same.” He says, “I had are days when you are on the sets for women, I feel, should be cen- now only to make my husband happy.” never thought that I would get a chance almost 24 hours, which is physically and sored.” (The show (The show airs from December 3 to work with Zoya Akhtar or Vikramaditya emotionally tiring,” he adds. begins from November 27.) at 10:30 pm.)   % $"&  ;    ()  *( +,- +./0

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The expected outcome include enhancement of peer learning skills and confidence among children, cre- ave you ever wondered what angst and negativity in a construc- who are performing with them. ation of community change agents it means to be empathetic? To tive manner providing them with an and engagement with communities Hput yourself in another’s shoes outlet through which they can pre- Inculcates leadership skills to build long-term empathy and and actually feel what they are they sent their real-self. Music creates a Music therapy and composition wider participation. are going through? Empathising space for them where they feel safe ,8/#7$.:07/35/ allows children to learn, play and with people allows us to build rela- and are able to actually comprehend compose basic musical concepts. Breaks through socio-cultural tionships which are based on under- their feelings, able to make sense of ":7#",7"$7 The idea is designed to create a broad boundaries standing and acceptance. Loneliness their emotions and gauge their 57$9.$5..4 ambit of empathy builders in the It also gives their thoughts a struc- is the biggest vice in today’s society responses to different situations. community, enable children to make ture and improves their articulation. thics has always been an important priority for peo- and it can be managed with empa- ";/",72$ 2. and co-create music collectively, They are able give their thoughts a Eple across the globe. It consists of a number of good thy. We need to invest in people Maintains peace and harmony /: 742.$27,! engage the community in activities structure, which permits them to attributes such as honesty, forbearance, commitment, around us, link ourselves with oth- The reverberation of notes allows related to empathy and inculcate communicate with the world in a bet- redemption, reliance, charity, patience, intelligence, ers and develop an interface with children to connect on a plane of 270/27," skills of leadership in children. It ter manner. It allows for the develop- serenity, altruism, generosity and so on. However, them. consciousness that is far removed #"$$7#2"$7 allows for the creation of peer edu- ment of their social, cognitive and today, it is widely believed and said that business and Most importantly, we need to from the reality they are facing. The cators who can further the concept behavioural skills. The ultimate ethics do not go together and hence it is not possible for inculcate the concept of empathy in fluidity of music allows them to .$"274"$.$ of music therapy, harmony and objective of combining learning with everyone to follow an ethical path to earn money. children. To enable the develop- immerse themselves in the beat, the .:/4.#07C70.$5 learning. musical therapy is to help children It was quite astonishing when one of the world’s most ment of a child’s emotional quotient rhythm, the tonality and the tempo. connect with one and other, break prestigious business schools released an official statement and help them grow into dignified It allows them to work in harmony .$$/ 2$" Enhances confidence through socio-cultural and econom- saying that they won’t start a business ethics course even and civil adults, empathy needs to be with each other while playing and 0C7/";7"07 Through musical therapy various ic boundaries, and encourage chil- though they have been given a handsome grant by the introduced to them when they are performing. This enables them to activities are designed and pursued, dren to immerse themselves in a government for the said purpose. The faculties explained impressionable and open to learning. become one identity and a part of 74;"4,$  focussed on learning and creating craft, creating a space for them that the business school, which had three expert profes- One of the mediums to facilitate something that is bigger than them. music in a collective manner. These where they learn how to become sors in its staff for the subject, tried their level best for this could be music. It encourages children to connect 227, include writing empathy songs with compassionate, happy and joyful a year to teach it as a part of its regular curriculum but with one another on an abstract a friend, making musical instruments people. they failed to evoke an interest in the students. The Helps express themselves level, allows them to gain insight and performing for the community. (The author is associated with authorities therefore decided not to keep any staff for It allows children to express their and perspective into lives of people The expected outcomes of such ini- an NGO that works for children.) teaching ethics to business management students which clearly shows that most businessmen wish to earn money without being guided or controlled by any principles. There is evidence in society that sooner or later, the money earned without any ethical principles plays havoc in one’s personal, familial and public life. Not only       does it create a parallel economy but it generates an atmosphere of corruption, leading to a moral break-down of the society. This is true not just for businesses abroad but also @/ "$"$9 )% / )9%"/ $)%)/$%3%)$%$$8$'Q%)% nearer home as we are familiar with this wide-spread evil. The recent IT raids on some top business houses and !$)8$"'$/)" ) ) )9% the press criticism of certain government deals presents a gloomy picture before us. Even if we give scope for many here’s a widespread tradition among and Iraq, and the women are held in camps. of the scandals being untrue and much of the criticism many Muslims that it’s better for women But Kosovo authorities claim no citizen has being biased, it can be said that all is not well with busi- Tto pray at home than in the mosque. But joined a fundamentalist group over the past two ness and state deals as far as ethics is concerned. Add to in Kosovo, an old Ottoman-era tradition is years, a development partly attributed to the this, deficit financing, that has become a widely preva- bucking that trend, with religious authorities empowering of women through the creation lent practice. It has had a bad effect on the moral stan- seeking to establish the training of women as of female Islamic teachers. dards of the people, on the currency value as well as the spiritual teachers in mosques. “Extreme nationalism becomes less present economy. The result is that almost all nations to-day are Each day, scores of women gather around when Islam is explained to women,” Ismaili in debt with weak economies and almost all industrial- Agime Sogojeva, a spiritual teacher known as says. ists and rich men are directly or indirectly, dependent a mualime, in the Haxhi Veseli mosque in Funding for about a dozen of the female on the borrowings from banks which makes use of bonds Kosovo’s northern town of Mitrovica. They dis- theologians comes from Turkey’s Directorate or fixed deposits, the savings of the middle class and the cuss the Quran, their rights as women and daily of Religious Affairs, or Diyanet, which assists poor people. Also the planned economy almost every- practices, in a scene unthinkable as little as a the Islamic Community of Kosovo, or BIK, the where is near its exhaustion point and is seeing a severe decade ago. country’s executive for Muslims. resource crunch. Sogojeva is one of some 100 female theolo- These female preachers are active members This shows that even the highly-trained minds can- gians aiming to revive Muslim traditions in in about 800 mosques countrywide, said Resul not sustain an economy in a healthy state if it is divorced Europe’s newest country. They teach at three Rexhepi, BIK secretary general, modernising from the ordinary rules of ethics or principles of spiri- Muslim high schools, at Muslim centres, or they women’s life and increasing their role in soci- tual wisdom. The best thing, therefore, is to observe moral work voluntarily. ety. norms and to base our economy on ethics, for without The move to establish the religious train- “Mualime are good for the whole society,” that there cannot be peace and happiness in the world. ing of women in mosques — where women are he said. allocated places in a separate room from the BIK officials claim that the introduction of men — is seen by some as a way to make the female Muslim preachers in the mosques Kosovo’s approach to Islam more gender-bal- has reduced sexual violence at home, assisted anced at a time when many in the West view women who were raped during the war, Islam as oppressive toward women. helped mothers with their children’s education Although in much of the Muslim world and increased the participation of women in women teach other women, it is more common “The women were not only denied access, declared independence from Serbia in 2008, voting in elections. There are no official figures for that to occur at home or in event halls rather but their contribution was not recognised suf- nearly a decade after a 1998-1999 war against to support such claims. than in the mosques themselves. In some very ficiently,” she said. “We try to break up those Yugoslav forces by ethnic Albanian fighters. During the past decade or so some 1,100 conservative Islamic societies, women are stereotypes, those misconceptions.” Recently, however, it has seen a rise of reli- girls have graduated from three Muslim high generally distanced from mosques for social Kosovo has a strongly patriarchal society giously-inspired violent extremism, with more schools and 300 women from the Faculty of rather than religious reasons. but also a long secular tradition, with religious than 300 Kosovo citizens joining the Islamic Islamic Studies. In Kosovo, there has been a significant identity significantly weakened during decades State group as foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria Enisa Bekteshi, a 21-year old student, says increase in the number of women attending of communist rule. Most of its ethnic Albanian since 2012. A quarter of those were women and it is easier for a female teacher to explain “some mosques in the past 20 years, said Besa majority population is Muslim, but religious children, often forced to follow their husbands delicate issues a woman is reluctant to ask an Ismaili, a 43-year-old professor of English at the expression was generally lax even after the fall into the war zone. About 180 Kosovo citizens imam, a man.” Faculty of Islamic Studies in Pristina. of communism in the late 1980s. The country are still active with extremist groups in Syria L

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But we need to work even the Indian as the best among the one Silver and two Bronze side the earlier five," she reasoned. hard from here on," said the young competitors was a richly deserved medals) were great," said However, Mary distinctly Assamese pugilist. honour to the 35-year-old Mary. remembered that she had won five Simranjit Kaur, who was Manipuri, whose endurance, per- "As far as organization, this one on the trot. "Even Katie Taylor had unlucky to lose in the semifinals, severance and the never-say-die was better than what it was in not done that," she said. agreed with her teammates. attitude is unparallel in history. 2006." Sonia Chahal claimed the "We need to work on strength- Speaking at the official press Asked to compare the win here Silver medal in 57kg, while Lovlina ening ourselves more and the way conference, Mary Kom recalled her with earlier Gold medals, the Borgohain won a Bronze in 69kg. we have competed in the Worlds is participation in the New Delhi Manipuri said it was difficult to Lovlina pointed out how the a good sign for the future of event held in 2006. remember.          3     *D&    New Delhi championship has given Indian boxing," said the Punjab girl. 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Dthan a Gold in the upcoming World Cups have won a dreary contest By inflicting Maurizio Sarri's first to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, says at the Wanda competitive defeat as Chelsea boss to move coach Bisweswar Nandi, who is targeting a podi- Metropolitano when he above their London rivals into third in the um finish for the ace gymnast at the 2019 World headed in his first La Liga Premier League, Tottenham couldn't have Championships in Stuttgart. goal since February with 12 started a big week in better fashion with Dipa made a strong start to her qualifying minutes left, as Atletico a do-or-die Champions League clash bid for the Tokyo Olympics by winning a Bronze prepared to go top of the with Inter Milan and the North London at the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup in table with a long-awaited victory. But Dembele, dropped by coach The frustration spurred Atleti on and derby against Arsenal to come. Cottbus, Germany on Saturday. Instead, Barca produced another Ernesto Valverde for the defeat to Real in the 77th minute they scored, "We need to be humble and recognize "I didn't hope that she would do so well fightback as Dembele, on as a substitute, Betis before the international break, Griezmann's corner drifting its way to the playing like this we can do big things," said given the strong field, which had lot of medal- slid home a cool finish in the 90th minute proved his worth by applying a clinical back post where Costa headed in. Pochettino. lists. But I'm satisfied with the way she per- to earn the visitors a 1-1 draw. finish when it mattered most. But Dembele instigated the come- "Our challenge is to keep going and formed. She had very less time to prepare for Costa almost had it, scoring his first The opening 45 minutes were almost back against Rayo Vallecano last month be consistent. That's our challenge for the   /  /   :     the event and she did very well. I made her cry goal in 18 league games to surely end entirely forgettable, distinguished solely and did the same again here as the ball rest of the season."    >     ?    a lot during the last few months. So very satis- Atletico's winless run against Barca in the by the fact it was the only time this sea- spilled out to the 21-year-old at the back Victory saw Spurs close back to with- fied," Nandi said from Cottbus. league, which stretches back to February son that a first half had failed to witness post. He took one touch inside, before fir- in five points of leaders Manchester City could have had a penalty seconds before "It is a good start but to qualify for the 2010. a single shot on target. ing it into the net. and three points of second-placed Kane's goal when Juan Foyth appeared to Olympics, she will have to win Gold in the next Liverpool. trip Eden Hazard inside the area. 3-4 events of the world cup she participates in. A title challenge is likely to be beyond However, they could have no com- Second or third position won't matter," he Pochettino's men given the relentless plaints as an 18-game unbeaten run in all added. $/ &      > pace being set by City, but just qualifying competitions since the Community Shield The Cottbus meet is part of an eight-event for the Champions League for a in August was comprehensively ended. qualifying system for the 2020 Games, under fourth straight season would be seen "I think we played very badly in which a gymnast will make the cut based on  ■ 4",7 as success given the upheaval as the all directions - physically, mentally, their best three scores. club wait to move into their stadi- technically and tactically," said Sarri. The three events where Dipa might partic- ristiano Ronaldo continued his hot form for Juventus on um and a host of injuries to play- "I knew we had some problems ipate next are World Cups in Baku, Melbourne CSaturday as he and Mario Mandzukic scored both goals ers involved at the World Cup. and with this performance today it and Doha. in the second consecutive game to help the Serie A leaders open Dele Alli is one of nine play- was clear to everybody we have Nandi said: "We haven't decided yet which up a nine-point lead at the top of the table with a 2-0 win over ers in Pochettino's squad to have problems to solve. would be those events. I alone can't take that struggling SPAL. suffered a muscle injury after his "I think in the last three or four decision. We will discuss with SAI, Sports Ronaldo slotted home Miralem Pjanic's free-kick after 29 exertions in Russia, but back fit matches we have started not really Ministry and Gymnastic Federation of India minutes in Turin to join Genoa's Krzysztof Piatek at the top and close to his best, the England inter- very well." (GFI) to take a call about the future events. of the Serie A scoring charts with nine goals, before national headed Spurs in front from Spurs' solitary second-half goal was "But the main target for us is to do well at Mandzukic sealed the three points on the hour mark in a sim- 0     &      > 4+5       Christian Eriksen's free-kick. delivered in style by Son as he accelerat- the World Championship in Germany next year. ple warm up for Tuesday's crucial Champions League visit of "Chelsea are a top side and they have ed past Jorginho and David Luiz before That is an event where even a 3rd or 4th place Valencia. Bustling Ronaldo, 33, also played a role in Juve's second made some great signings but we are a top slotting his 50th goal for the club into the finish can earn you a berth at the Olympics. So The pair also scored both in Juventus' 2-0 win over AC scored by Mandzukic, who was wearing the captain's armband side ourselves," said Alli. far corner. that would be the main target for her," Nandi Milan before the international break, and Ronaldo's strike was for the first time. "At 2-0 we could have sat back but we Kane then somehow fired over with said. his seventh in eight games in all competitions for his new club, Ronaldo latched onto a long ball and pulled it back for didn't. We created a lot of chances - maybe the goal at his mercy and Alli also skewed On Saturday, Dipa scored an average of for a total of 10 goals this season. Douglas Costa, whose shot was cleared into the path of the on another day if we had been more clin- a great chance off target as Sarri bellowed 14.316 on her two vaults. She was 0.412 adrift "Cristiano does things that catch opponents off guard and Croatian, who gobbled up he opportunity to win the match. ical we could have scored more." at his side to regain some composure. off the Gold-medallist Rebecca Andrade, who that's exactly what we need," said coach Massimiliano Allegri. "The opening goal changed the game and I was very angry Chelsea 'keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga The Italian managed to make a differ- finished with 14.728. "Cristiano moves and thinks so quickly, he saw that we were slow to react and allowed Ronaldo to could have done better as he got a hand ence with the introduction of Ross Barkley, "Bronze medal in vault event to finish my Douglas Costa coming out the corner of his eye and go clear," said SPAL coach Leonardo Semplici. to Alli's header and the world's most Pedro Rodriguez and Giroud from the campaign at 2018 Cottibus World Cup. It was pulled the pass back. We need to all improve in that "It's the first time I've seen Ronaldo up close and expensive goalkeeper was questioned bench. overwhelming to compete against some of the sense, being able to think ahead to the next move." my forwards should learn from the attitude that a again as he stood motionless and Harry And it was Giroud who grabbed best athletes in the world!! Aaj ye Bronze bhi SPAL, fighting relegation, were no match for champion like this puts into every game. Kane drilled home from long range to give Chelsea's consolation five minutes from Gold lag raha hai! (Today even the Bronze feels Allegri's reigning champions who are eight points "We need to improve on the details if we want to Spurs a 2-0 lead inside 16 minutes. time when he powered home Cesar like Gold)," Dipa tweeted after her win. ahead of Napoli. avoid being put under pressure." The visitors felt aggrieved as they Azpilicueta's cross at the back post.    ()  *( +,- +./0 ( ) ;8  :   & ,(1 * ? !45  /   /    7@        (*(R4(  ■ $"42/"8$5 ustralia breezed to their Afourth Women's World T20 title, thrashing England by              & *9E8 eight wickets in the final here on Saturday. England faltered with         !45  8 &  @       7+7 the bat after winning the toss, struggling to 105 all out in 19.4 overs with opener Danielle Wyatt (43) being the top-scorer.  ■ /95$79 left-arm spin came in handy Pacer Megan Schutt (2/13), leggie Giorgia during the middle overs after Wareham (2/11) and all-rounder Ashleigh irat Kohli fired the opening the hosts had sped to 68-0 Gardner (3/22) led Australia's clinical effort salvo on the Australia tour with after winning the toss and opt- with the ball. Va match-winning 61, helping ing to bat. Chasing a comfortable target, India win the third T20 International Aaron Finch (28) and Australia raced to victory in 15.1 by six wickets and draw the three- D'Arcy Short (33) then pro- overs with Gardner and captain Meg match series 1-1 here on Sunday. vided a cautious start to the Lanning remaining unbeaten on 33 Kohli's sublime 41-ball knock innings. Their partnership and 28 respectively. and his 60-run unbeaten stand with put pressure on the Indian Interestingly, England had also Dinesh Karthik (22 not out off 18) fielding, shoddy again, and mustered 105 against Australia in gave India the much needed series lev- Rohit Sharma put down a sit- the final of the 2014 edition and elling win ahead of the all important ter off Finch (on 22) at the even on that occasion, the team from Test series beginning December 6 at start of the eight over off Down Under cruised to a famous win. Adelaide. Pandya. With another emphatic win on The captain's perfectly executed Kuldeep Yadav (1-19) then Saturday, Australia extended their dominance in the show- chase in 19.4 overs came after Shikhar provided the much-awaited piece event of the shortest format, lifting their fourth tro- Dhawan (41 off 22 balls) and Rohit breakthrough as Finch was phy in tournament's sixth edition. Australia is also the most Sharma (23 off 16 balls) provided a out caught sweeping at short successful team in ODI World Cup with six titles. flying start to the innings.              3       !45   fine leg. However, Australia had not won a major event since Earlier, Krunal Pandya took It opened the doors to the their World T20 triumph four years ago, making career-best figures of 4-36 as Australia Australian middle order. Saturday's triumph sweeter. were restricted to 164-6 in 20 overs. 5       Glenn Maxwell (13) survived Australia won the opening T20 by an lbw shout via DRS off four runs while the second game was    J C Yadav, but Short and Ben a washout, putting additional pressure McDermott (0) were dis- on India who came here at the back missed lbw off successive balls of winning six T20 series in a row.  ■ /95$79     . !   in the tenth over as Pandya Chasing 165, Dhawan and          ! pegged Australia back. Sharma put on 50 runs off just 28  --    R   R      -@(  !R The quick wickets dis- balls.       .    R            turbed Australia's momen- Both batsmen took the aerial          %(     N     ! tum and they never really route with aplomb and hit seven fours                      recovered, losing wickets at and four sixes between them to leave C 3   /!  G4  /H      regular intervals in the second the Australian bowlers clueless. R.          R3  ! half of their innings. They had        R3  .  %(   .  Mitchell Starc (1-26) had got the held back Chris Lynn (13) but  :       ? !45         breakthrough in the sixth over, trap-              ;  JR       he couldn't provide the requi- ping Dhawan lbw via DRS referral. It   !     ! N    site impetus, run-out in the 18th Their sole loss in the tournament came against India put a momentary break on scoring as               ->KA!   over. in the group stage before they bounced back to beat the no runs were scored off the next eight                   ! 4    In between Pandya also West Indies in the semifinals. balls, resulting in Sharma's dismissal, .  -K6       5         accounted for Maxwell, caught by Lanning, who hit the winning run, said being out- who played on off Adam Zampa (1-  K@   @!'             ! Sharma in the end, as also the played by India did not affect the team's morale heading 22).     !  N   N      vital wicket of Alex Carey (27) into the knock-outs. KL Rahul (14) started off by R"            !R who held the Australian middle "The last two World Cups really hurt and we had to scoring a monster six, and added 41 order together after the initial set- change a few things and move it forward. The group runs for the third wicket with Kohli. backs. embraced it and it was a very satisfying win. The loss India crossed 100 in the 12th over, but ball from Andrew Tye (1-32). six to bring down the asking rate. Marcus Stoinis (25 not out off 15 against India did not rock us — maybe a couple of years the former started struggling for tim- India were in bit of a bother at that Kohli meanwhile reached his balls) played an attacking cameo at before it would have rocked us — but we were very calm," ing and holed out shortly afterwards. stage, but Kohli and Dinesh Karthik 19th T20I half-century off 34 balls and the end, and put on 33 runs with said Lanning. It became a double blow as (22 not out off 18 balls) brought out took India home with two balls to Nathan Coulter-Nile (13 not out) as For her all-round show, Gardner was named Player Rishabh Pant was out for a first-ball their shots. The latter played a perfect spare. Australia finished with a score just of the Match and Alyssa Healy collected the Player of the duck, gloving behind off a slower short foil to Kohli as he struck a four and a This was after Pandya's orthodox above average (151) at this ground. Series award from the great Vivian Richards. (?5> 8   #           (      #"  , Melbourne:        -(      // 2 ,      #   ■ 3"03..    . 0    : year-old said recalling the 2006 second Test          A(  against Pakistan.        /! 0  : ormer India captain Sourav Ganguly is $ "="$/ Ganguly, however, said it's not the end    -% %AK     -(   Fnot surprised at the women's cricket of the road for Mithali.  /N      :   team's decision to drop senior most play- "You should always remember you are              %' er Mithali Raj for its World T20 semifinal / )'8 " best because you did something and   %K1! : N           against England, saying he faced the there's an opportunity again. So I am not 5    K@    same fate when he was at the peak of his too disappointed seeing Mithali Raj being        ,     #  ! career.  ■ $75702 :       / asked to sit out. I have not been disap- 2 .         Mithali, the ODI captain, had two /      , N pointed to see the reactions on the  K1          back-to-back fifties against Pakistan and  #   .       R  :##   ! ground," he said. ,  GKKH %( ! Ireland but was rested for the final league     N     # .  C 4   "But I am disappointed because India game against Australia due to a knee issue 2 3, 4     N       lost the semifinals because I thought they   ,  !    and also didn't feature in India's eight-       N               !R    had the team to go the distance. It happens Abu Dhabi: $      0  2  wicket semifinal loss to England.          %(           as they say there's no guarantee in life."   --       /  "No! I also have also sat in the dugout  7!       N   Commenting on World Cup winning     ,        after captaining India. When I saw Mithali .     :##         !/     former Indian skipper MS Dhoni, who's        .5 ! Raj being dropped, I said 'Welcome to the ,                   R form is on the wane of late, Ganguly said   ''   :          @' group'," Ganguly said.    ,G#  "    H/ 4  /! he still has the power in him to hit big sixes          %!1     "Captains are asked to sit, so just do 3        N 2               and should be allowed to go on a high.          /   it. I have done it in Faisalabad. I didn't play   !     .    "He's a phenomenal cricketer. But just C  ; !         an ODI game for 15 months when I was R                   like everyone else he has to perform. I wish          $ probably the best performer in one-day     # .             , !    him all the luck because we want cham-   $      3   2      4    cricket. It happens in life. The best in the   2 , 4          2 pions to go on a high. I still feel he can hit   "   !45 ? %          !5 , world are at times shown the door," the 46- G   4   H     R    R! the ball in the stands," Ganguly said. C         4 :   5 4   -((   4 :  -1(           4  ! 4            ;  /   &  *7D96 .      --    , 0     '--   >?1>50>,10       !  ■ 58:. vious best of 110 scored against  $   ,  lunch. Australia at the same venue last Caen: 4 ;     2   Buttler was given out lbw on career-best hundred from month while Azam passed his  ,          27 to part-time spinner AHaris Sohail and a maiden previous best of 99, against        !   #     Dhananjaya de Silva, but the deci- century from Babar Azam Australia in Abu Dhabi last          sion was overturned by a review helped Pakistan post a big total month.    2         which deemed the ball was head- to boost their chances of a series- He added an invaluable 186              ;  N    ing over the stumps. levelling win against New runs for the fifth wicket with ! RN             The pair came back to com- Zealand in the second Test in Azam as the two frustrated the                     plete an 89-run fifth wicket stand Dubai on Sunday. New Zealand's attack in the first  R  ,     2    ! that rescued England and became Sohail knocked a snail-paced two sessions. ;  N               the centrepiece of the second 147 in nine hours and 34 min- The Pakistani batsmen ,  N              innings total. utes while Azam made an added 82 between lunch and tea,             Jos Buttler made 64, Stokes 42 unbeaten 127 to steer Pakistan to scoring faster than in any of the               0  - and Ben Foakes an unbeaten 36. an imposing 418-5 declared on pervious sessions.    / N  !         England scored just 11 boundaries, day two at Dubai stadium. Sohail took 309 balls to reach   2 N   ,       with the lower order batsmen New Zealand negotiated three figures and then waved his                sweeping singles and doubles to nine overs without losing a wick- bat toward the dressing room,      !   &        *4     E    !   build the score. et for 24 under lights in overcast apparently pointing to his team- Spinner Perera took a cred- conditions before umpires called mate Azhar Ali, run out after a     ( !"  ■ #"0",:" who at one stage looked in trou- itable 5-88 to pass 100 wickets in off the day with two overs mix-up with Sohail on Saturday. Kolkata:      #  :   ble on 39-4 after more failures by home Tests but Sri Lanka's batting remaining. He was finally dismissed  , :'(    n a day of sublime and ridicu- their top-order batsmen. crumbled in the hour they faced, Openers Jeet Raval was soon after tea, caught behind off               Ilous cricket, Jos Buttler halted a But after the scare, spinner and an England victory inside four unbeaten on 17 with three paceman Trent Boult. In all he           batting collapse while Moeen Ali Lakshan Sandakan made basic days looks near certain. boundaries while Tom Latham faced 421 balls and hit 13 bound- 0   /!;       ,  claimed key wickets to keep blunders that set the tone for Moeen Ali opened the bowl- was five not out. aries.    7 :       England on track for victory in the England to score 230 and set their ing for England and took openers With the Dubai stadium Azam ably supported Sohail              final Test against Sri Lanka. sights on a third straight win. Danushka Gunathilaka for six pitch starting to turn ace leg- and hit 12 boundaries and two   G1-   11 H         The home side were reeling at The left-arm spinner had and Dimuth Karunaratne for 23 on spinner Yasir Shah could be the sixes. He added 58 for the sixth         !2    53-4 at the close of the third day Stokes caught at cover on 22, the spin paradise pitch. key to Pakistan gaining a big first wicket with skipper Sarfraz      6%  / 0   as they chased an unlikely 327 to then at slip on 32, only for replays Jack Leach claimed innings lead. Ahmed who made 30 not out.     !# 5#     avoid suffering only their third to show Sandakan had overstepped Dhananjaya de Silva, who failed to New Zealand, who lead the Medium pacer Colin de      %-            whitewash series defeat on home the bowling line on each occasion. score, while Stuart Broad took a series 1-0 after a narrow four-run Grandhomme has figures of 2-44                  territory. Stokes had to be called back brilliant catch off Stokes to end win in the first Test in Abu Dhabi while left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel,       !, :G@H   Dilruwan Perera took Keaton from his march to the pavilion Angelo Mathews' innings after last week, still trail by 394 runs who took seven wickets in the         ! #  :        Jennings lbw with the first ball of both times. He shook his head in nine balls which produced five with all ten wickets in hand.           first Test, has taken one wicket 3 !  the third day to shake England disbelief as he walked off for runs. Sohail improved on his pre-      !  &   for 91.