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SUDIP GETS MISTY-EYED SEEING PARTY SUPREMO LIQUOR BARON DISMISSES IT AS Quick News44 'USUAL INDIAN MEDIA HYPE' ‘Fuel pumps in eight Mallya arrested in states to be shut on We are waiting for UK by Scotland Yard, Sundays from May 14’ gets bail in 3 hours CHENNAI: Beginning May 14, fuel outlets in eight states will be shut every Sunday following justice, says Mamata MPOST BUREAU ster Magistrates’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to con- Court in London and serve oil, a fuel pump owners’ body said here OUR CORRESPONDENT LONDON: Embat- was seen walking out on Tuesday. tled Indian tycoon with his legal team a “We had planned to shut our outlets on Sun- KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Vijay Mallya, who few hours later after days a few years back. But oil marketing com- on Tuesday evening met ailing party colleague has been declared a being granted bail. panies had then requested us to reconsider our Sudip Bandopadhyay at a state-run hospital in proclaimed offender, “It was a volun- decision. Now we have decided to shut the out- Bhubaneswar. was on Tuesday tary action. He will lets on Sundays,” said Suresh Kumar, an execu- She took an evening flight out of Kolkata arrested in London be out in a few min- tive committee member of the consortium of on Tuesday and went straight from Bhubanesh- by Scotland Yard on utes,” said a member Indian petroleum dealers. war airport to meet Bandopadhyay who has India’s request for his extradi- of Mallya’s team at the court, He said the association’s decision was made been receiving treatment at a hospital. He is tion on fraud charges. without giving any further in view of the Prime Minister’s call during his in CBI custody in connection with the Rose The 61-year-old liquor details of the bail conditions. recent ‘Mann ki baat’ programme to conserve valley scam. baron, wanted in India for “Usual Indian media oil to save the environment. MPOST Talking to media persons at Bhubaneswar defaulting on loans, was hype. An extradition hear- airport Banerjee said: “ Sudip Bandopadhyay arrested after he appeared at a ing in Court started today as is our leader and I have come to see him in hos- central London police station expected,” Mallya tweeted soon Prez, ministers may have pital. I will meet Naveen Patnaik if time per- this morning. after getting the bail. mits, and will also visit the Jagannath temple.” The flamboyant business- Mallya, whose now-defunct to give speeches in Hindi Banerjee spoke to Bandopadhyay for 10 man, who once called him- Kingfisher Airlines owes more minutes. She thanked the judges for giving self ‘The King of Good Times”, than Rs 9,000 crore to various her permission to meet Bandopadhyay and was released on bail a few hours banks, had fled India on March NEW DELHI: All dignitaries, including the Tapas Pal, another party MP who has also been later. 2, 2016. He has repeatedly dis- President and ministers, may soon start giving arrested in the same case. She also talked to emotional on seeing Mamata. She had sent Suvendu Adhikari and Manas “Officers from the Met- missed the charges against him. speeches in Hindi if a parliamentary panel’s rec- the doctors attending to her party colleague. Bandopadhyay had expressed his desire Bhuniya to attend the rally to protest against ropolitan Police’s Extradition In January, an Indian court ommendations accepted by President Pranab Talking to newsmen after meeting Bando- to meet Banerjee who had opposed his arrest Bandopadhyay’s arrest. Trinamool Congress Unit this morning arrested a ordered a consortium of lend- Mukherjee are implemented. padhyay she said the doctors had expressed calling it a conspiracy of BJP. She had said that had organised many rallies in the state to pro- man on an extradition warrant. ers to start the process of recov- Mukherjee has accepted most of the rec- concern over his health. He has been in cus- Bandopadhyay was targeted as he had criti- test against the arrest. Vijay Mallya was arrested on ering the loans. ommendations made in the ninth report of the tody since early January. cised the demonetization of high-value notes Banerjee left for Puri later on Tuesday night. behalf of the Indian authori- Senior Indian officials Committee of Parliament on Official Language. Sudip’s condition recently deteriorated and in Lok Sabha and was one of the key persons She will be put up in the state guest house as ties in relation to accusations described his arrest as the first The report was submitted in 2011. he is unable to move. He has been suffering in organising a rally in Parliament to protest she is a guest of the Odisha government. of fraud,” Scotland Yard said. salvo in the case, which will The panel’s recommendation that all dig- from a heart ailment. Banerjee said that Sudip against demonetization which was attended She is likely to visit the Jagannath Temple The Metropolitan Police now involve a legal process in nitaries including the President and ministers, had lost 16 to 17 kgs in the past four months. “ by leaders of all opposition parties including and offer puja on Wednesday morning. She said Mallya was arrested after the UK to determine if Mallya especially those who can read and speak Hindi, We are waiting for justice. Both Bandopadhyay the Left. Banerjee had said: “ Bandopadhy- is also likely to meet Odisha chief minister attending a central London can be extradited to India to may be requested to give their speech/statement and Pal are unwell. Sudipda is bed ridden and ay’s arrest was nothing but political vendetta Naveen Patnaik. The chief minister is expected police station. face charges in Indian courts. in Hindi only, has been accepted, as per an offi- cannot walk.” The veteran TMC leader turned of BJP.” to return to the city on Thursday. He appeared at Westmin- More reports on P5 cial order. P7 RESPECT FOR NATIONAL FLAG, ANTHEM SASIKALA FACTION READY FOR MERGER TALKS WITH OPS NON-NEGOTIABLE: CENTRE TO SC Australia Religion-based abolishes visa reservation not in OPS gets his way, Sasikala SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea programme used country’s interest largely by Indians M VENKAIAH NAIDU faction dumps Dinakaran for policy on anthem, song MPOST BUREAU MELBOURNE: Australia will abolish a popular work In today’s MPOST BUREAU CHENNAI: In a dramatic turn visa used by over 95,000 of events, the K Palaniswami foreign workers, a majority paper NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on cabinet on Tuesday revolted of them Indians, to tackle Tuesday sought a response from the against AIADMK (Amma) the growing unemployment ... Centre in four weeks on a plea seeking Deputy general secretary T T in the country and replace CITY framing of a policy for promoting the V Dinakaran and decided to it with a new programme national anthem and the national song. keep him and his family out of requiring higher English- TIFFIN TIFF: CLASS VI GIRL ENDS LIFE 4 A bench headed by Justice Dipak the party and the government. language proficiency and Misra issued notice and asked the Cen- Emerging from a “consulta- job skills. NATION tre to file its reply on the plea which tive” meeting chaired by Chief The programme known AYODHYA: SC’S BJP JUDGEMENT TODAY 7 also sought to ascertain the feasibility Minister E K Palaniswami, as 457 visa allows business of singing the national anthem and the proper norms and protocol be fixed Finance Minister D Jayakumar to employ foreign workers EDIT national song in Parliament, assem- regarding its playing and singing at offi- declared that the “unanimous” for a period up to four years blies, courts, schools and colleges on cial functions and programmes where decision was taken in tune with O Panneerselvam in skilled jobs where there A NEW POLITICAL PARADIGM 8 working days. The petition filed by those holding constitutional office are the aspirations of the party cad- is a shortage of Australian advocate Ashwini Kumar Upadhyay present. res and people. conviction and sentence in a The sudden announcement workers. “We are an immi- INTERNATIONAL sought directions for taking steps to The apex court, while passing a “A decision has been taken disproportionate assets case in by Jayakumar came after efforts gration nation, but the fact promote brotherhood and national slew of directions, had also observed to fully keep away Dinakaran February this year. for the merger hit a hurdle with remains: Australian work- BRITISH PM MAY CALLS POLLS IN JUNE 10 integrity in the country. that “time has come when citizens and his family from the party Replying to a question, Panneerselvam insisting on his ers must have priority for BUSINESS On February 17, the apex court had must realise they live in a nation and and the government,” he told Jayakumar, however, said the demand for the ouster of Sasi- Australian jobs, so we are refused to go into the debate for mak- are duty-bound to show respect to the reporters on Tuesday night. decision was not linked to the kala, Dhinakaran and their abolishing the 457 visa, the ARE FOREIGN COS LOOTING INDIANS? 13 ing singing of the national song man- national anthem which is a symbol of He claimed it was the desire demand of rebel leader O Pan- family from the party and the visa that brings temporary datory in schools and clarified that it constitutional patriotism and inherent of all party cadres, top func- neerselvam that party general government. Earlier on Tues- foreign workers into our SPORT has “kept alive” such a plea only for national quality”. tionaries, district secretaries, secretary V K Sasikala and her day, mooting a patch-up with country,” said Prime Min- the national anthem without express- The apex court had in February MPs, MLAs, and the Ministers. nephew Dhinakaran be kept the rival AIADMK group led ister Malcolm Turnbull. MRIDUL NAMED EAST BENGAL COACH 15 ing any view on it. clarified that the audience need not A committee will be formed away as a pre-condition for by O Panneerselvam, senior The majority of the visa The apex court had on Novem- stand when the national anthem is soon to run the day-to-day talks for the merger of the rival party leader M Thambidurai holders were from India ber 30 last year ordered cinema halls sung or played in the story line of a affairs of the party, he said. factions. Jayakumar, flanked on Tuesday said it will be in followed by the UK and FOR ADVERTISING across the nation to mandatorily play feature film or part of a newsreel or Dinakaran, who was by several Ministers, said still the party’s interest if both fac- China. “We will no longer kindly contact at 9810195709 or the national anthem before the screen- documentary. expelled from the AIADMK they were prepared to hold tions merge to take forward the allow 457 visa to be pass- ing of a movie when the audience must It is “unfortunate” that someone by Jayalalithaa, was reinducted talks with Panneerselvam. legacy of late Tamil Nadu Chief ports to jobs that could and [email protected] stand and show respect. has to knock the doors of the court by Sasikala and appointed the Senior Ministers includ- Minister Jayalalitha. Ruling out should go to Australians,” The order had come on a PIL filed for ensuring respect for the national party’s deputy general secre- ing Dindigul C Srinivasan, S any change of Chief Minister in he said. He said Austra- FOR SUBSCRIPTION by one Shyam Narayan Chouksey seek- flag and national anthem, the govern- tary just before she proceeded P Velumani, RB Udayakumar, the state for this possible patch lia will adopt a new ‘Aus- kindly contact at 8800854665 or ing directions that the national anthem ment told the Supreme Court on Tues- to Bengaluru to serve the rem- Thangamani, C Ve Shanmu- up, Thambidurai said people tralians first’ approach to [email protected] should be played in cinema halls across day, asserting that respect for them was nant of her jail term after the gam Rajya Sabha MP V Vaithil- from the opposing faction may skilled migration. See P5 the country before a film begins and “non-negotiable”. Supreme Court upheld her ingam were present. be included in the organisation. 41 IAS officers transferred in UP, Farmers now breathe easy as IMD tainted LDA VC shunted out Goel has been made Divisional Com- predicts normal monsoon this year MPOST BUREAU missioner Allahabad replacing Rajan LUCKNOW: The UP government on Shukla, who will be Principal Secretary DHIRENDRA KUMAR in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka Tuesday shunted out tainted Vice Chair- Civil Defence and Political Pension, an even though the forecast was man of Lucknow Development Author- official release said. NEW DELHI: There’s good news above normal last year. ity Satyendra Singh while effecting a DM Basti Prabhu Narain Singh farmers in general and govern- “We have no option but to major bureaucratic reshuffle involving has been made new VC of LDA while ment in particular, the national trust IMD predictions. Given 41 IAS officers in the second such drill Director Administration (Medical and weather forecaster — India Mete- that last year’s predictions of the in less than a week. Health) Arvind Kumar Singh has been orological Department (IMD) IMD were proved right, farmers Singh, who is mired in controversy made DM Basti. has predicted a normal monsoon are hopeful this year’s forecast over alleged corruption in LDA, has Rajiv Rautala, who was on the wait this year with 96 per cent of the will also hold true, which will been put on a wait list by the Yogi Adity- request after he took over the reins of list, has been made DM Gorakhpur long-period average. prove helpful in increasing pro- anath government which completed the state on March 19. replacing Sandhya Tiwari who will Spe- India Meteorological Depart- duction,” said Ganesh Nanote, a one month in office on Tuesday. Among those transferred on Tues- cial Secretary Secondary Education. ment (IMD) Director General farmer from Vidarbha region in In its first major bureaucratic reshuf- day are a number of divisional commis- Secretary, Housing Board, Rudra K J Ramesh said there would In reply to a question as every part of the country would Maharashtra. fle on April 12, the state government sioners and district magistrates. Pratap Singh has been put on the wait be good distribution of rainfall to why IMD refrained from get ‘proportionally’ equal rain- Rejecting private weather had transferred 20 senior IAS officers Resident Commissioner of UP, list while Commissioner Revenue across the country. “The country releasing figures of the forecast, fall distribution. There are some forecaster’s prediction of slightly shunting out Principal Secretary (Infor- Prabhat Kumar has been made Divi- Dheeraj Sahu has been made Housing will receive 96 per cent of Long Ramesh said, “Since we have areas that remain in rain deficit lesser rainfall for 2017 due to mation) Navneet Sehgal and others who sional Commissioner Meerut with the Commissioner. Period Average,” he said. changed the weather forecasting every year, even if the monsoon is high chances of El Nino, an IMD wielded considerable influence under charge of Chairman Greater Noida, Estate Officer Brijraj Singh Yadav Anything between 96 and 104 model, the predictions of rain- above normal, which is a natural official said, “There is no one- the Akhilesh Yadav dispensation. Yamuna Expressway and Yamuna has been made Special Secretary Rural per cent of the LPA is considered fall would be released in later occurrence,” Ramesh said. to- one relationship between El Sehgal was stripped of all key charge Expressway Industrial Development Development while Special Secretary as “normal”. Anything under 96 months and details of monsoon However, the farmers have Nino and Indian monsoon as and replaced by UP cadre IAS officer Authority. Irrigation Yogesh Kumar Shukla has per cent is considered as “below onset would be announced in the expressed satisfaction over the during 34 per cent El Nino years, Avanish Kumar Awasthi, who was Secretary Rural Development and been made Secretary and Estate Officer, normal” and 104-110 per cent of second week of May.” forecast of 96 per cent, which has monsoon rainfall was normal or relieved by the Centre on Aditaynath’s Director Mandi Parishad Ashish Kumar the release added. the LPA as “above normal”. “There is nothing to worry as come amid a continuing drought above normal.” 2 town mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 DAYINDAYOUT Understanding money lowers What’s on Around Town (IM)POSSIBILITIES A group show of paintings and sculp- tures of some of the most celebrated artists of the nation, the exhibition, (im) possibilities showcase how one can one can decipher the word impossibilities to read as i m possibilities. The names OLD AGE ANXIETY showcased in this exhibition has already proved that impossible is nothing and ‘Financial literacy it is a privilege to celebrate their (im) possibilities. helps shape people’s WHEN: April 13 – May 13 WHERE: Creativity Art Gallery, Hauz perception towards Khas VillageTIMING: 11 am – 7 pm risk and uncertainty KOREAN FLOWER EXHIBITION An exhibition of flower arrangements – making them more and fragrances, which will be present- ed by 15 Korean artists. The exhibition confident in tackling will not only show case varieties of Korean flowers used for different occa- whatever problems life sions but will also give provide you with an environment for relaxing yourself in throws at them’ the lap of nature. WHEN: April 17 – 19 WHERE: Korean Cultural Centre India, eople who have better understanding of Lajpat Nagar 4 finance are less likely to be worried about TIMING: 9 am – 6 pm the later stages of their life, a new study has found. FRAMING THE LIVING PIt seems financial literacy – the ability to TRADITIONS understand how money works, enables people A collaborative photography project to accumulate more assets and income during under the aegis of Neel Dongre Awards/ their lifetime, and so increases confidence for the years ahead, researchers said. Grants for Excellence in Photography Additionally, financial literacy seemingly (2017) by India Photo Achieve Founda- engenders a greater perception for risk and tion, will showcase five photographers enables those who have it to face off later-life’s presenting different living traditions like dilemmas with ease. The Art of Making Tanpura in Maha- The findings, from Associate Professor rashtra and Muga & Eri Silk cultivation in Yoshihiko Kadoya of Hiroshima University and Mostafa Saidur Rahim Khan of Nagoya Assam through distinctive artistic styles. University in Japan, stem from a study which WHEN: April 21 – May 2 asked people questions assessing their calculation WHERE: Kamla Devi Complex, IIC skills, understanding of pricing behaviour, and TIMING: 11 am – 7 pm financial securities such as bonds and stocks. Respondents were also asked about their A MUSICAL NIGHT accumulated wealth, assets, and lifestyle – and With dual voice singing ability, Sairam to rate the level of anxiety they felt about life Iyer is all set to enthral the Delhi audi- beyond 65. ence. Sairam’s incredible skill of ef- The study suggests that men, and those with fortlessly switching between male and a higher level of education are more financially clued-in than women, and those with less awareness about financial products, builds a This could be down to married couples funded health care and pensions – all taking the female voices has received accolades education respectively. capacity to compare all available financial options, together planning more-effectively for the future sting out of the post-retirement blues. from musical heavyweights. In addition to The overriding thrust is that the more and changes our financial behaviour – all which due to familial responsibilities. Having dependent children on the other hand strengthen the cultural and social fabric, financially literate earn and accumulate more bodes well for our perceptions of, and actual Age also plays a significant role, with anxiety increased anxiety levels – presumably due to the event promotes Prime Minister’s key during their lifetime – and thus worry less about experiences during our seniority, said Kadoya. levels peaking around 40. The researchers suggest respondent’s worry for their children’s wellbeing project – ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao-Beti growing old. While financial literacy taken alone was that people at this age have the most home and – as well as their own. Khilao’ by donating part of the events It also appears that financial literacy helps seen to reduce anxiety – its affect was further workplace responsibilities, but with less money It is increasingly perceived that a pension proceeds towards the cause. shape people’s perception towards risk and heightened by other factors. and time to support them, increasing anxiety is insufficient for daily expenses without a uncertainty - making them more capable and Married respondents had even lower levels about the here and now – and the journey ahead. backup pool of savings and assets – putting the WHEN: April 25 WHERE: Kamani Audi- confident in tackling whatever problems life of anxiety about growing old than financially As people get older their anxiety levels drop off financially literate at a distinct advantage, torium TIMING: 7 pm onwards throws at them. Financial literacy increases our literate singletons. on gaining access to social security, government researchers said. Capturing the Delhi through the eyes of Yamuna OUR CORRESPONDENT presented and organised by Beenu put in by the whole team and we soul of Rajasthan Rajpoot and Precious Planet Chari- worked like an ensemble to make SHOWCASING the story of Delhi table Trust. this happen.” her jauhar. Her love for nature through the eyes of Yamuna as a The production was based on Shivani Varma is an Indian clas- took her further into the inte- celestial being, displaying the rise text written by Pavan K Varma, sical dancer trained in the classical riors of the state, exploring and fall of empires, the glory and where the narration was done by dance form Kathak. She is a dis- the natural reserves of Ranth- degeneration of cultures, the sup- Begum Syeda Hameed. ciple of renowned danseuse Guru maker Muzaffar Ali including Sufi ambore, Sariska as also to the pression and liberation of millions, Elaborating on the Kathak pro- Shovana Narayan, and an integral festival Jahane-Khusrau and the Pushkar cattle fair. Shivani Varma, an Indian classical duction, Shivani Varma, said, “The member of danseuse Sharmishtha Wajid Ali Shah Festival. “Mirage is a condition dancer presented a stunning Kathak concept and theme was based on Mukherjee’s troupe. Shivani has had the privilege where a layer of water appears performance at the C.D. Deshmukh the river Yamuna, which is an inte- She has been dancing at reputed of having performed at the Open- in the distant but when one Auditorium, India International gral part of this city.” professional platforms nationally ing and Closing Ceremonies of actually goes near it, there is Center. “We wanted to create an impact and internationally for more than the Commonwealth Games held no water to be found. This spe- The audience was spell bound to through this recital wherein the a decade. in India in 2010 and has given cifically happens in the des- listen and watch this elegant depic- condition and environment of Delhi Being a soloist, she has played recitals at several Literature Festi- ert areas pointing at the hot tion of the capital city through a was shown through the perspective leading roles in many classical vals such as those at Agra, Lucknow arid conditions of the place. Kathak performance. The show was of Yamuna. A lot of hard work was projects directed by acclaimed film and Bhutan. Despite the heat, the people of the place are full of vivac- ity, hospitality and mirth. This has touched me to the core. Living in the metro cities we Where have all the amenities but still we are dissatisfied and yearn for more. Even we are running after an illusion to ameliorate Art Meets our lives but in d process we do not live our lives, we do not live in d present. It seems the people of big cities are con- Technique stantly running after a mirage,” said the artist who has partic- OUR CORRESPONDENT ipated in various group and solo exhibitions in esteem gal- leries in India and abroad. he rendezvous of technique, OUR CORRESPONDENT Bringing soul-food for all style, Indian designs, com- art-lovers and connoisseurs in fort and wide variety can be THE LOVE of photography the form of an exhibition titled spotted at the sixth edition and travelling has taken Pri- ‘Mirage,’ at Convention Foyer, Tof Home Expo India, where exhibitors yanka Banerjee all over the India Habitat Centre; Priyanka prove innovation, buyers learn about world and the country. Amidst has brought the soul of Rajas- trends and industries come together her myriad likes for various than through her paintings to for business. It is a culmination of cultures covering the longi- the capital. The exhibition will Indian furnishings, floorings and tex- wide range of tableware, home tex- The key feature of tude and latitude of the coun- open on April 20 till April 23 tiles, accessories shows and Indian tiles, kitchenware, homeware and Home Expo India is the try, of particular interest is her from 10 am to 7 pm. houseware and decoratives show. bathroom accessories are displayed participation of a large absolute love for the state of Organized by the Export Promo- by Indian exporters engaged in man- number of top buyers, Rajasthan. tion Council for Handicrafts (EPCH), ufacturing and exporting of these buying houses, import She has travelled exten- the Expo has been put up as a response products”, informed Rakesh Kumar, houses, chain stores, as a of products made by crafts persons sively across the length and to the industry demand and Interna- Executive Director, EPCH. boutique owners and “Home from central, northern region and breadth of the state, cover- tional trend of organizing sector spe- The major markets for exports interior decorators Total Uttranchal have been set up. Cane ing the pink city of Jaipur, to cific shows enabling better focus on for these products are USA, Can- from leading mar- tag” show and Bamboo products from North the bylanes the lime-stoned specific requirements of buyers and is ada, countries in European Union kets like USA, European amongst east and glass decorative, brass craft, walled city of Jaiselmer, the well recognised by International visi- like France, Italy, UK, Netherlands Union, Far East and African the Inter- home decor, candle stands have been palace city of Jodhpur where tors who can easily spot what they are etc. in addition to UAE, Japan and continents to visit and source national buy- displayed by craft persons from cen- she has captivated the glory looking for instead of getting lost in a Switzerland. at this show including domestic ing community tral region. of Mehrangarh fort of the by myriad of products. Udit Saran Agarwal, President, retail volume buyers. and made it a benchmark “The Handicrafts exports during gone era, or the ruins the city The show opened at world class Home Expo India 2017 informed that EPCH is a nodal agency for pro- event for household items. the year 2016-17 were Rs. 24530.25 of lakes, Udaipur which tell state-of-the art India Expo Centre & about 500 companies in permanent motion, development and increase of The council has thrown light upon crores with overall 13.79% increase many stories, Chittorgarh Mart, Greater Noida.“The fair which marts are exhibiting their collection exports of handicrafts from the coun- specialties of select regions of India in comparison to last year. This year reminds us of the beauty of will be held from April 18 to 20 is a of furnishing, flooring, textiles, fur- try and create brand image of Home, at this show. In this direction, sepa- it is expected to generate huge busi- queen Padmini and tales of must visit as it is one of the leading niture and houseware and decorative lifestyle, fashion. The emphasis laid by rate arenas for products from North ness inquiries,” said the Executive business-to-business shows where a categories under one roof. the Council has popularised this show Eastern Region (NER) and themes Director, EPCH. Although every possible care and caution has been taken to avoid errors or omissions, this publication is being sold on the condition and understanding that information given in this publication is merely for reference and must not be taken as having authority of or binding in any way on the writers, editors, publishers, and printers and sellers who do not owe any responsibility for any damage or loss to any person, a purchaser of this publication or not for the result of any action taken on the basis of this work. 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KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday said it would road to connect Sector V & VI counter BJP’s conspiracy to deploy CBI in Narada sting oper- ation politically. Partha Chatterjee, Trinamool Congress gen- DEBAMOY GHOSH eral secretary on Tuesday said: “It is nothing but a conspiracy and we will fight the matter politically. Mamata Banerjee is KOLKATA: The State govern- a responsible person and is working for the common people ment will set up a Link Road to and so any attempt to malign her will be dealt with suitably. connect two information tech- The legal battle will continue in the court of law.” Mukul Roy, nology hubs – Sector-V at Salt vice-president of Trinamool Congress said: “The very action Lake and Sector-VI at Bantala. of CBI shows it is vindictive. Trinamool Congress has come The work for the 7.5 km- to power with the blessings of the people and no canards can long link road will be super- dent the party’s popularity.” It may be recalled that shortly after vised by the experts from CBI had filed FIR against 12 Trinamool Congress leaders and a Jadavpur University and the senior IPS officer in Delhi, Trinamool Congress supremo had work is expected to be initi- described it as a clear case of conspiracy and said it would be ated soon. fought politically.“There is nothing to worry. It may be mentioned that FIR does not mean they are accused”, she had told party the work of the building infra- leaders and workers on Monday. Meanwhile, CBI said that other structure at Bantala is already than the 13 named in the FIR, there were 15 more under its underway by the state govern- scanner and the investigating agency was keeping tabs on them. ment. The long-standing issues A VIEW OF SALT LAKE SECTOR V In the FIR, CBI said: “The inquiry also revealed that several of toxic wastes, water treatment other unknown persons had also conspired with those named and stench from the tanneries tala. The company targeted to had stalled construction five Urban Development depart- has already set up a campus state government to separate in the FIR in the alleged offences.” would be solved after comple- house around 16,000 profes- years back on the 12 acre land ment decided to connect two there and some other compa- the areas which would be used Meanwhile, Trinamool sources claimed that the FIR was not tion of the work. sionals there. at Bantala over pollution issues. sectors with the direct road nies would come up as well,” by them and the tanneries,” a a good enough reason for the arrest of the concerned persons. Information Technology Tech Mahindra earlier Bantala Special Economic for helping out the growing said the minister. source at the state secretariat CBI had filed FIRs against 20 leaders of different political lead- major Cognizant has already agreed to resume the construc- Zone (SEZ) which was named IT industry. “Good road connectivity is informed. ers including L K Advani, V C Shukla, P Shiv Shankar, Sharad commenced operations on a tion of its proposed campus as ‘Sector-VI’ comes under “Sector-VI is the new IT required as the IT professionals However, the state govern- Yadav, Balaram Jakhar and Madan Lal Khurana in Jain hawala 20-acre plot after having raised there, following measures taken Sector-VI Industrial Town- destination in the state. A link need to reach from one sector ment conducted a series of case in 1991. But not of those named in the FIRs were arrested. the issue of toxic wastes with by the developer to restrict ship Authority. The state Cabi- road to connect Sector-V to to the other. There is almost meetings to expedite the canal Also, the agency had lodged a FIR against its former direc- the authority and decided to pollution from the adjoining net came up with that name in VI was long needed for better 100 acre space in Bantala and segregation work and sewerage tor Amar Pratap Singh for allegedly favouring a controversial expand its operations in Ban- leather tanneries. The company 2014. But this year, the state communication as Cognizant IT firms have requested the treatment plants at Sector-VI. meat seller Moin Qureshi but did not arrest him. Meanwhile, the sources maintained that arrest was required as the agency needed to collect further information. But here the main evi- dence is the video footage lying with the CBI. So, the question ‘Every municipality Work on CM’s dream project Swasthya of tampering with the tapes does not arise. CBI can complete the inquiry and then file charge sheet against those named in the FIRs. It will be a real challenge for CBI to prove before the should award the Sathi likely to be completed by this month court whether those named in the FIRs taking money to extend favours to the “non-existent” firm as shown in the video clip could be tried under the Prevention of Corruption Act. best taxpayers’ OUR CORRESPONDENT and the beneficiaries need not contribute The Trinamool Congress is also exploring the option of chal- to avail the benefit. The Swasthya Sathi lenging the FIR in the High Court. It is learnt that the party has KOLKATA: Chief Minister Mamata cards will have detail information about got in touch with some legal luminaries to discuss the matter. Banerjee’s dream project of introducing the beneficiaries and their names. Group Health Insurance Scheme to cover Distribution of smart cards was started around 3 crore population and issuing in December last year when the Chief IN DEFIANCE WITH POLITBURO Swasthya Sathi cards to the beneficiaries Minister handed over Swasthy Sathi for availing the services is expected to be Crards to 20 beneficiaries. It was learnt, completed within this month. that there will be no cap on the family According to a senior official of the size and parents of both the spouses will CPI(M), Cong state Health department, around 93 per- be covered. All newborns will be covered cent of the work has already been com- teers, civil defence volunteers and vari- whereas all pre-existing diseases will be pleted as 40 lakh families across the state ous other workers would be covered under covered from day one. have already been given the Swasthya Sathi the health insurance scheme. It may be noted that for the first time Card as a result of which, more than 2 Under the Swasthya Sathi scheme, the in the history of Bengal, the state govern- march together, Firhad Hakim at the event crore people are already getting the ben- state government provides basic health ment has decided to give health insur- OUR CORRESPONDENT taxpayer. He paid Rs 2.22 crore efits of the health insurance scheme. coverage for secondary and tertiary care ances to people. as property tax to NDITA. The The Health department officials believe up to Rs 1.5 lakh per annum to each The state government has already tied KOLKATA: State Urban Devel- Forum Project Holding Limited that the remaining 5 lakh families will worker. In case of critical illnesses and up with 700 hospitals both public and pri- file nominations opment minister Firhad Hakim paid Rs 1.55 crore and got the soon be covered under the scheme. A surgeries like cancer, neurosurgeries, car- vate which are brought under the coverage urged all the municipalities to second prize and Institute of total of 3 crore population or 45 lakh fam- diothoracic surgeries, liver diseases and of health scheme. After seeing the success give awards to the best prop- Engineering and Management ilies would be included in the scheme blood disorders, the patients are entitled to of the Bengal’s Group Health Insurance OUR CORRESPONDENT ers of CPI(M) and Congress erty taxpayers in every financial (IEM) paid Rs 1.6 crore and as the Chief Minister had announced in get up to Rs 5 lakh for each patient or their Scheme, the Centre is trying to introduce have realised that if they do year. He made such proposals bagged the third prize. February 2016. She announced that peo- family members. All pre-existing diseases the National Health Protection Scheme KOLKATA: Though the not form an alliance, then after giving away prizes to the “NDITA is giving the best ple working in self help groups, ICDS are covered under this scheme. The state (NHPS) to provide better healthcare facili- CPI(M)’s politburo and the BJP will become second in all best taxpayers at Nabadiganta service to the people coming workers, ASHA workers, civic volun- government will bear the entire premium ties to people. central committee have not yet the municipalities,” political Industrial Township Author- here. They got Rs 38 crore as given the green signal allow- experts opined. ity on Tuesday. property tax in 2015-16, Rs 40 ing the Bengal unit to join The unauthorised alliance “Inspiration for taxpayers crore in 2016-17 and this year’s hands with Congress for the which was formed before the is really necessary. I would cer- target is Rs 45 crore,” the min- Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna: Health forthcoming municipal polls, 2016 Assembly election had tainly like to see that all other ister added. workers of both the parties brought shame for both Con- municipalities take up such It may be mentioned that on Tuesday held a joint rally gress and CPI(M). CPI(M) programmes where highest the 430 acre sector V in Salt dept introduces toll-free number and their candidates submit- got only 26 seats, the low- property taxpayers are awarded. Lake is the first Information ted nominations in Domkol in est in the past three decades This should be followed by Technology hub in Bengal. To OUR CORRESPONDENT has already brought eye sur- Murshidabad. and Congress bagged 44 sets other municipalities as well,” ensure proper infrastructural The people who are availing various geries of poor patients at gov- Anisur Rahaman, CPI(M) which was marginally better the minister said. development, Bengal govern- KOLKATA: To ensure that benefits under the RSBY scheme can ernment-run hospitals under MLA and former Animal than its partner. “If we can present some ment considered it impera- more number of people is the coverage of RSBY. Ear- Resource Development min- The politburo in a written people as the example of good tive to constitute an Industrial covered under the Rashtriya now call at the toll-free number lier, these patients did not get ister led the rally. Adhir statement declared the alliance taxpayers, others would get Township under Section 385A Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY), 1800-345-5384 on facing troubles the insurance coverage under Chowdhury, WBPCC presi- as illegal and rebuked the Ben- inspiration from it,” the min- of the West Bengal Municipal the state Health department RSBY scheme. Now, the poor dent had on Monday said that gal unit. But after that, both ister added. Act, 1993. A notification was has introduced a round the plaints if they face any prob- some grievances among the patients undergoing eye sur- both Congress and CPI(M) Congress and Left fought the However on Tuesday, Nab- issued on January 31, in 2006 clock toll-free number. lems relating to the scheme. people in the districts over the geries can avail the insurance would fight jointly in the by-elections independently adiganta Industrial Township and a new Township Author- The people who are avail- According to the Health availability of the services. To coverage under this scheme. civic polls. and the results were disastrous. Authority (NDITA) awarded ity called ‘Nabadiganta Indus- ing various benefits under the department sources, around address the issues of the people It may be mentioned that There are elections to seven In the Kanthi South Assem- three best taxpayers in the last trial Township Authority’ was RSBY scheme can now call at 62 lakh people have already who were denied services, the West Bengal Clinical Establish- municipalities of which four bly by-election, whose results financial year. Bengal Intelligent set up. Since then, NDITA has the toll-free number 1800-345- been brought under the cov- new initiative has been initi- ment Regulatory Commission are in the hills, namely, Dar- were out last week, both CPI Park Limited at Sector V GP been looking after the develop- 5384 if they face any problems erage of the RSBY. The state ated. People can also call up at (WBCERC) also launched a jeeling, Kalimpong, Kurseong and Congress candidates lost Block took the prize of the best ment of Sector-V. relating to the scheme. The government has set a target the toll free number to know phone number 033-2262-8447 and Mirik and three in the their deposits. While the CPI move was taken by the Health to cover 1 crore people under how they can avail the health where people can lodge their plains, namely, Domkol, Rai- candidate got 17,000 votes, the department to provide various the scheme. services extended by the RSBY. complaints. The office of the gunj and Pujali. Congress nominee got only health facilities to the people in A senior Health depart- People will be able to get commission has made opera- Political experts felt that the 2,270 votes. Another set of 22 bike the remote areas. The Health ment official said that the state the benefits of the scheme at tional at 32 BBD Bag. People unauthorised alliance was inked It was learnt that the polit- department officials believe government is stressing on the the annual cost of Rs 30. The can also register their com- so hastily that this indicated the buro did not approve of the alli- taxis to be introduced in that with the introduction of implementation of the RSBY in patients will get coverage up plaints by visiting the website nervousness of the two parties ance this time too. The two-day the number, people from dif- a better way so that more num- to Rs 30,000 in the state-run and can also step into the office and their insecurity. central committee meeting of ferent parts of the state will get ber of people can get the ben- hospitals. It may be pointed of the commission with health “The question of existence the CPI(M) is now in Delhi and Rajarhat, New Town a platform to lodge their com- efits of the scheme. There were out that the state government related issues. has become more important the matter would be discussed than ideology and the lead- at length. OUR CORRESPONDENT Soon, Pathadisha to have realtime location of state-run buses plying to tourist spots KOLKATA: The state Transport department is gearing up to introduce another set of 22 bike taxis that will serve PRITESH BASU the state Transport department has He further said that buses con- survey has been conducted to ascer- as last-mile connectivity vehicles in Rajarhat and New managed to make real time loca- necting tourist spots in South Ben- tain the possibility of introducing Town respectively. KOLKATA: Realtime location of tion of around 700 buses of West gal districts including Digha in East the buses connecting the tourist It may be recalled that the department had already intro- the state-run buses plying from the Bengal Transport Corporation Midnapore and Gadiara in Howrah spots and religious places in the app. duced around 21 bike taxis for Rajarhat and New Town on city to tourist spots, including some (WBTC) available in the app. At will be included in the app. More- Basically, there is a need for better March 16. The bike taxis were named as K Bike Taxi. The com- religious places in adjoining dis- present there are around 1,100 over, real time location of the buses internet service to ensure proper pany is having a plan to introduce as many as 50 such two- tricts, will be soon made available WBTC-run buses. plying between the city and religious functioning of the GPS system in wheelers for better connectivity in the area. in Pathadisha App. An official of the state Trans- places including Mayapur, Aathpur, the buses. Now, the state government has given clearance to another If everything goes as planned, port department said it would take Jayrambati, Kamarpukur, Furfura Thus, a trail run has been con- firm to operate bike taxis in Rajarhat and New Town areas. then in another four months another four months to include all Sharif and Belur Math will also be ducted to ascertain whether the According to an official of the state Transport department, the the information will be available in the 1,100 state-run buses in the app. made available in the app. internet network is well available in new company will be initially introducing 22 two-wheelers and the app. With inclusion of all the buses run At present information about all the places so that it doesn’t create afterwards the number would gradually increase. The state Transport department by WBTC, the realtime location of some of the buses connecting Dak- any problem after being introduced The official further added that it will help in increasing the has introduced the app in the mid of those plying in adjacent districts shineswar Kali Temple with the city in the app. visibility of the bike taxis in the area as well and it would help March to help commuters get infor- including MillenniumHowrah, Hooghly, Nadia, and Potheros placest have- K alreadyolk beena ttaAll stepsEdition are being taken ttoo com -carry the Ad with in attracting more people to avail the facility. mation on the real time location of North and South 24 Parganas will be made available in the app. plete the task within the next four Suvendu Adhikari, the state Transport minister, will be state-run buses. Since its inception, available in the app. The official further said that a months, the official added. flagging off the new bike taxis at Maidan tent of West Ben- Kolkatta Tel. No. Only. Schedule Date :- 05/04/2017 gal Transport Corporation (WBTC) at 4 pm on Wednesday. Sujit Bose, MLA and Director of WBTC, Debashis Sen, Chandrima Bhattacharya administered oath as MLA CMD HIDCO, and Alapan Bandyopadhyay, Principal Sec- retary of Transport department will also be present at the OUR CORRESPONDENT her and assured to work for programme. them and also thanked Tri- The state Transport department had framed a set of guide- KOLKATA: Chandrima Bhat- namool Congress supremo lines that all the operators of bike taxis will have to follow. tacharya was sworn in as the Mamata Banerjee “for keep- Such guidelines have been framed considering the safety and MLA at a function held in the ing faith on her.” Bhattacha- security of passengers. Assembly House on Tuesday rya is likely to be inducted in Senior officials of the department had made panic buttons afternoon. the Cabinet as the state Law mandatory in the taxi bikes and at the same time the fare will Speaker Biman Bandyo- minister. It may be recalled also be controlled by the transport department. padhyay conducted the oath that Chief Minister Mamata Moreover, riders of the bike taxis will carry an additional taking ceremony. Bhattacha- Banerjee had earlier said helmet that the pillion rider might need to put on while avail- rya won the Kanthi South that Bhattacharya would be Kolkatta Tel.: 033-2215 1850 e-mail : [email protected] ing the service. At the same time, raincoats for pillion riders by-election by defeating her 42,000 votes. tacharya thanked the people made a minister in “the month during the monsoon season will also be provided. nearest BJP rival by over After taking oath, Bhat- of Kanthi South “for voting of Baishak.” TJM/TTL/17/ENG 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 Teenage Assam Train runs over man in Howrah girl flees KOLKATA: A middle-aged person was killed after he was hit by a train near Class VI girl ends life after Howrah’s Bauria Station on Tuesday. The deceased, identified as Bhupendra brothel, lodges Halder, was resident of North 24 Parganas’ Khardah. He was crossing the train track at around 7:15 pm when a Howrah to Patna Jan Shatabdi Express complaint hit him. The local resident said Haldar was a worker at the level-crossing near tiff over tiffin sharing Bauria Rail Station. “I saw the incident. I saw the train -- Jan Shatabdi Express AMITAVA BANERJEE was passing through the main line. He was working there along with the other DARJEELING: A teenage girl workers. All the other left the spot in a hurry but Haldar did not have time to The suicide note found inside a book read: ‘I am leaving the world made a daring escape from move,” said an eye-witness. Police took his body to post-mortem. “We have a red light area in Siliguri to see why he could not move from the spot whereas the other people timely for my best friend. I was being betrayed by everyone and it will be and later, with the help of a moved to safety. We are waiting for the post-mortem report,” said a police priest, she even managed to good for everyone if I quit’, which the cops are now examining lodge a complaint with the officer. The local resident alleged that it was lack of communication between police. Railways’ officials and those workers in the level-crossing. “This incident OUR CORRESPONDENT Few months back, the would not have happened if these people were timely informed about the ar- On Monday night, the victim had been trafficked rival of the train,” said a local shopkeeper. OUR CORRESPONDENT KOLKATA: In a tragic incident, a victim’s family members from Dimapur, Assam to 11-year-old girl committed suicide by Siliguri and was sold off at hanging herself from the ceiling of a room found her room locked a brothel in the red light in her house at Behala following a dis- from the inside. Srestha area of Khalpara. She was pute over sharing of tiffin with her “best confined in a room for days Two held for TMC’s Hanskhali friend” in school. The incident took place was not responding and then was forced into on Monday night. despite repeated knocks flesh trade. Police said the victim Srestha Dey was As she was not willing Block president’s murder a Class VI student of Jodhpur Girls’ High on the door. The kin to entertain customers, she School. A suicide note was found inside broke open the door and had to endure severe torture OUR CORRESPONDENT Biswas who were interrogated Dipankar Biswas, Dulal’s a book in her room. After going through including physical abuse. for long hours. The CID team son had lodged an FIR against the suicide note, investigating officers sus- found her hanging from Finally on Monday night, KOLKATA: The Criminal visited the site along with 13 people including Kar- pect that the girl had some dispute with a the ceiling fan she chanced upon a golden Investigation Department forensic experts and officers tick Biswas. The police said friend and committed suicide. opportunity. Finding the door (CID) has started investiga- of Krishnanagore police sta- Dipankar had identified two On Monday night, the victim’s family of the room ajar and with no tion into the murder of Dulal tion. The forensic experts also of the criminals and a mas- members found her room locked from the Ratnabali Roy, noted mental health one around; the girl managed Biswas, president of Hanskh- collected samples from the sive hunt is on for them. Local inside. Srestha was not responding despite activist said it was most unfortunate that to flee. ali Block of Trinamool Con- crime scene. Biswas was mur- Trinamool leaders held some repeated knocks on the door. The family the parents are giving only protection However, as she was gress and the pradhan of dered inside the party office in BJP leaders responsible for members broke open the door and found to their children and not getting them new to Siliguri, she did not Bagula-I gram panchayat in presence of around 25 party the murder. her hanging from the ceiling fan. Police acquainted to face the challenges of know the way. As luck would Nadia. workers including his son. Biswas, an erstwhile from Parnashree police station went to the world. have it, she chanced upon Biswas was killed by They tried to overpower the CPI(M) leader, joined Trin- the spot and brought down the body and also good in co-curricular activities like “Parents do not bring up their kids a priest to whom she nar- unknown criminals inside assailants and were successful amool Congress after the 2011 sent it for an autopsy. painting and dance. Her mother told properly. By giving gifts and giving them rated the whole incident and the party office on late Sun- in removing the masks from Assembly polls. Because of A police officer said Srestha, who the police that her girl didn’t disclose protection they are actually doing more requested him for help. day evening. Trinamool the faces of two of the crimi- his organisational capa- was a monitor of her class, wrote in the the entire incident that took place in the harm than good. The children leave in a The priest then took her to Congress secretary general nals. But three more crimi- bilities, he roped in many suicide note: “I am leaving the world for school but said that her friends had not dream world and are unable to face the the police, first to the Wom- Partha Chatterjee and party nals who had stayed outside CPI(M) workers. my best friend. I was being betrayed by allowed Srestha to stand with them while actual physical world,” said Roy. en’s police station from where MP Abhishek Banerjee had the party office opened fire There was a threat to his everyone and it will be good for every- eating tiffin. Children should be taught that quar- she was taken to Khalpara gone to Bagula and attended to scare the people and the life and the Nadia district one if I quit.” It is learnt that the school authori- rels with friends are quite natural. “But Police Outpost. the meeting held to condole assailants left the spot. administration had deployed In the suicide note, the victim also ties have decided to suspend classes of this does not mean rejection of the indi- A case has been regis- the death of Biswas. Baner- The police felt that they an armed bodyguard and urged her parents to stay in good health Class VI for the next few days and will be vidual. It means temporary rejection of tered and the police have ini- jee said he would talk to the had crossed the railway track incidentally, the security and regretted that she would not be able holding meeting along with the parents an idea at that particular point of time,” tiated an investigation. The Chief Minister to take strin- situated behind the party personnel had taken a leave to be present at her elder sister’s wedding. of other students of the class on Monday. she said adding: “Parents should take victim has divulged the name gent actions against the per- office and entered the locality on Sunday. CID officers on The police initiated a probe in this Calling the incident “most unfortu- parenting seriously.” Roy said there of one Sumi who has been sons involved in the murder. through a narrow lane. Mean- Tuesday talked to some of the connection and investigating officers are nate”, psychologists felt that parents are should be national suicide policy forcing her into this trade. Meanwhile, two persons while, CID officers said hired Trinamool workers who were tallying her handwriting with the one of responsible for such low frustration level and “lawmakers should realise that The girl, at present, is under- have been arrested in con- criminals had been deployed present in the room when the the suicide note. of children and they should learn how to suicidal tendencies among children has going treatment at the Siliguri nection with the murder of to eliminate Biswas. murder took place. The girl was a good student and was expand it. gone up alarmingly.” hospital. Siliguri, with its close proximity to four interna- tional borders and the gate- Three injured in TMC-BJP clash, two detained 19-year-old college way to the North East, is highly vulnerable to traf- OUR CORRESPONDENT out of their houses in fear. As ficking. Human trafficking is tension prevailed in the area, a growing at an alarming rate KOLKATA: Three persons were police picket has been set up till student dies after these days. injured in a clash that broke out normalcy is restored. According to National between BJP and Trinamool Trinamool Congress leaders Crime Records Bureau Congress at Parui in Birbhum in the district alleged that BJP (NCRB), the crime of human on Tuesday. workers were trying to weaken falling off building trafficking during the year The incident triggered their organisation before the 2014 has increased by 59.7 tension among the local resi- panchayat election which is percent over 2010. dents. Local Trinamool Con- scheduled to take place next The data presented by gress leaders claimed that the year. They also alleged that the the Union government in injured were their party sup- BJP-backed goons were target- Rajya Sabha claimed that as porters. They said some BJP ing some of their leaders who many as 3,856 women and workers attacked them and also were instrumental in strength- children had been trafficked alleged that BJP-backed miscre- ening the party’s organisation from Bengal in 2015 and the ants hurled bombs on the Tri- in the district. number increased to 6,672 namool Congress workers. The After being informed, the in 2016, the highest in the TMC workers said that they police reached the spot and country. were also shot at. REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE brought the situation under The Union government BJP leaders in the district, control. Police have started OUR CORRESPONDENT where the doctors pronounced figures claim that in 2016, a however, alleged that some Trin- They alleged that the Trinamool taken to Bolpur sub-divisional from Choumandalpur village a detailed probe in this con- him brought dead. The body total of 19,223 women and amool Congress affiliated goons Congress goons attacked them hospital. The doctors in the said that they heard the sound nection so far. Police have also KOLKATA: Mystery shrouds has been sent for the post-mor- children had been trafficked attacked their party supporters without any provocation. hospital said that the victims of exploding bombs during a detained two persons for their the death of a college student tem examination. The police from all states and Union Ter- when the TMC supporters were Three persons who received had received splinter injuries clash between the two groups. alleged involvement in creat- whose body was found adja- were awaiting the post-mortem ritories in the country. returning after attending a rally. injuries during the clash were on their bodies. The villagers The local people did not step ing violence. cent to an under-construction report as it will throw light on multi-storeyed building under the cause of his death. After Pradhan Nagar police station hearing about the incident, the Highway robbers attack With announcement of polls, launch of Fight over cultural in Siliguri. family members of the victim The police said that the vic- reached Siliguri. Police were bizmen, snatch Rs 10 lakh tim, Nitesh Tamang (19) who interrogating the friends and Passort Seva Kendra in Siliguri deferred event: One dead, was originally from Pedong in the family members of the OUR CORRESPONDENT Sikkim died after falling from victim. AMITAVA BANERJEE 2017 has been deferred. The revised several injured the fourth floor of the building. According to the prelimi- KOLKATA: A gang of highway robbers attacked some busi- schedule for inauguration shall be However, the police are yet to nary investigation, police sus- nessmen on National Highway 60 in between Binpur and DARJEELING: With the decla- conveyed in due course.” OUR CORRESPONDENT ascertain the real cause of his pect that the victim might have Kusumi in West Midnapore early Tuesday morning and ration of elections to the four Hill Darjeeling, Kurseong, Mirik and death. They are investigating if been drunk at the time of the snatched Rs 10 lakh cash from them. municipalities in the Darjeeling Hills Kalimpong Municipalities will be KOLKATA: One person was killed and around the victim had committed sui- incident. Police also suspect Police said the three businessmen were admitted to Belda in May resulting in the clamping of going to polls on May 14. 15-20 injured after two groups broke into a fight cide or if there was any foul play that the victim was consuming Village Hospital with severe injuries as they were roughed up the model code of conduct, the inau- The PSLK Siliguri office located at on Monday night. behind the incident. alcohol on the fourth floor of by the miscreants. guration of the a Passport Seva Ken- Himachal Vihar at Matigara, Siliguri Police have learnt that the clash broke out over Police said that the victim the under-construction build- Some vegetable sellers were returning from a weekly mar- dra in Siliguri slated for April 18 was is slated to become the third passport a cultural programme at Khirigram under Kotul- had been staying at a rented ing when he somehow slipped ket. They were travelling in a mini-truck when the miscreants put on hold. office in West Bengal. pur police station. house at the Gurung Basti area. and fell on the ground. stopped their vehicle. A letter from Bibhuti Bhushan Applicants who have already One group claimed that the organisers did Three of his college friends used Police were investigating Each of the businessmen had around Rs 1 to Rs 2 lakh Kumar, Regional Passport Offi- received appointments with the not have necessary permission to arrange the to stay with the victim the if there were some other per- as they were returning after having done good business cer, Kolkata stated: “In view Siliguri centre can either undergo cultural event, while their rivals insisted that they house. They were all studying sons at the time of the incident. in the market. The miscreants were aware that they had of the imposition of Model the process at the Calcutta had all the necessary permission. They accused management at a local college. Police are not, however, ruling huge cash with them and attacked them after chalking out a Code of Conduct on account of passport office on any working day the other group of intentionally trying to spoil The friends of the victim told out the possibility of the foul proper plan. announcement of the Munic- or they can wait for the inaugura- the programme. the police that they heard a loud play in the incident. They are The miscreants were carrying choppers and firearms. They ipal General Election 2017 tion of the Siliguri centre, stated The police, however, could not identify the thud in the morning and found also investigating if the victim threatened to kill them if they cried for help. But three busi- in the Urban Local Bodies of officials of the Kolkata Passport deceased. The investigators suspected that the that the victim was lying in a had gone to the building alone nessmen were not ready to give them the bags containing the Darjeeling, Kurseong and Mirik centre. man came there to attend the cultural function pool of blood on the ground. or if there were some other per- money. Thus, the miscreants hit them on the head with the (among others) in the Dar- Till the Siliguri Passport but could not find a way to escape when the fight They informed the matter to the sons. Police are still clueless as butt of a weapon and took away their bags. jeeling district of West Ben- office is not inaugurated, no fresh broke out between the two groups. Pradhan Nagar police station. to why the victim would have Police rushed to the spot after receiving the information gal, the inauguration of Passport appointments for the Siliguri office “At least 35-40 people were fighting each other. Police reached the spot and gone to the building alone at and took the injured persons to the hospital. A probe has been Seva Laghu Kendra (PSLK) Sili- will be issued stated passport offi- Unfortunately the man could not run away from took the victim to the North night. Police have started a initiated in this connection. guri, that was scheduled for 18 April cials, Kolkata. there and he was beaten up,” a police officer said. Bengal College and Hospital detail probe into the incident. A major success: Eco Park’s footfall crosses 75 lakh, says HIDCO OUR CORRESPONDENT Two important things that will add New Town’s slogan more value to the urban garden are repli- KOLKATA: The footfall at Eco Park has is ‘there is never a cas of the seven wonders of the world and crossed the 75 lakh mark according to a a sculpture garden. Both are the initiatives statistics issued by the Housing Infrastruc- dull moment at New of the Chief Minister. Final touches are ture Development Corporation (HIDCO). Town. Here you can being given to the sculpture garden which Exactly 75,01,629 have visited the Eco is likely to be opened within a month. Park renamed as Prakriti Tirtha by Chief keep expecting the A replica of the Ghoom railway station Minister Mamata Banerjee. As comput- unexpected’ of Darjeeling and the toy train are great erised tickets are given to the visitors, the crowd-pullers. Some artwork which were data is preserved and the number of visi- used in the prize winning puja pandals are tors coming to the park daily is monitored. The park has become the most attractive in display at the art museum. Taking cue Banerjee inaugurated the park on destination for both domestic and foreign from the overwhelming enthusiasm of par- December 29, 2012 and it was thrown tourists because of its uniqueness. There ticipants and spectators at the recently con- open to public from January 1, 2013. After are flower gardens and mystic gardens and cluded angling competition at Eco Park, coming to power in 2011, Banerjee urged the new addition will be a hibiscus garden. HIDCO authorities have decided to hold HIDCO officials to develop the park which There is an arena where people can enjoy the second version on April 29. spreads on a 480-acre land and is sur- cycling and also a joggers’ ally. There is a The USP of Eco Park is cleanliness. A rounded by 112 acres of waterbody. zone for other indoor games as well and person littering or throwing soiled papers The Japanese food court, which is a part people can go for boating inside the park. and plastic outside waste bins are fined. of the newly-constructed Japanese garden, wish tank and this is the first-of-its-kind had visited the garden and expressed their dull moment at New Town. Here you can Two restaurants, Café Ekanta renamed by Debashis Sen, chairman of HIDCO said will be thrown open to public from April in eastern India and one of the 500 Japa- satisfaction. keep expecting the unexpected.” This is Chief Minister and a houseboat restaurant the park is closed for visitors on Monday 30. The Japanese garden has a pagoda, a nese gardens worldwide. Japanese experts New Town’s slogan is “there is never a absolutely true for the Eco Park as well. offer mouthwatering dishes. for its upkeep. 5 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp nation Over Rs 4,100 cr earmarked India in touch with UK on for 1,800 fast track courts MPOST BUREAU sion had recommended cre- ation of 1,734 fast track courts Mallya’s extradition: MEA NEW DELHI: After a gap of in the country for disposal of six years, the Centre has once long pending cases for a five MPOST BUREAU the way up to Britain's Supreme again pushed for creation of year period. Court. Under the 2003 Act, the ED to file first chargesheet fast track courts to try heinous The term of scheme on NEW DELHI: India is in touch British secretary of state may crimes such as rape, murder these courts ended on March with the UK on the issue of only consider four issues when and dacoity for which an allo- 31, 2005. The Supreme Court, extradition of Vijay Mallya who deciding whether to order a against Mallya and others cation of more than Rs 4,100 which is monitoring the func- has been declared a proclaimed person's extradition. crore has been made. tioning of these courts through offender, the external affairs They are whether the per- With the 14th Finance the case of Brij Mohan Lal Vs ministry said on Tuesday. son is at risk of the death MPOST BUREAU filed by the CBI in a court in Commission allocating Rs deaths. Union of India, had observed Holding that Mallya's arrest penalty; whether special Mumbai in January. 4144.14 crore, the Centre has They will also settle civil that the scheme should not in London by Scotland Yard arrangements are in place; NEW DELHI: The Enforce- The charge sheet, called now asked states to set up a cases involving senior citizens, be disbanded all of a sudden on Tuesday was in connection whether the person concerned ment Directorate (ED) is set to prosecution complaint in the total of 1,800 fast track courts women, children, disabled and and had directed the Centre with the request by the govern- has previously been extradited file its first charge sheet against ED’s parlance, will detail the for a period of five years. litigants afflicted with HIV/ to continue with these courts. ment to the UK authorities for from another country to the Vijay Mallya and others in the proceeds of crime generated As per the Finance Com- AIDS and other terminal The government had then his extradition, external affairs tion of Mallya, the British gov- UK and the consent of that IDBI bank loan default case. by the accused as investigated mission document, these ailments. approved continuation of ministry spokesperson Gopal ernment had certified India's country to his onward extradi- Officials said the agency under the provisions of PMLA, courts will be set up for a Civil disputes involving 1,562 fast track courts that Baglay said legal process in this request and sent it to a district tion is required; and whether has been preparing the charge the officials said, adding the period of five years. The Law land acquisition and property/ were operational as on March regard is underway in the UK. judge for further action. the person has previously been sheet for quite sometime now same will also be furnished to Ministry had proposed before rent disputes pending for more 31, 2005 till March 31, 2010. "The two governments are The extradition process transferred to the UK by the and it will be filed in a court in the competent court in the UK the Commission that addi- than 5 years will also come in The scheme of central in touch in this context," he from the UK involves a num- International Criminal Court. Mumbai in the next few days. which will hear the extradition tional 1,800 positions created the ambit of these courts, the assistance for these courts added. The 61-year-old liquor ber of steps including a deci- Meanwhile, the govern- The charge sheet, which is proceedings against him. in the lower judiciary be used document said. was extended for a period baron, wanted in India for sion by the judge whether to ment and the ruling BJP quickly expected to be voluminous, The liquor baron was today to man these fast track courts. While the most populous of one year upto March 31, defaulting on bank loans, was issue a warrant of arrest. claimed credit for the arrest of will include statements from arrested in London by Scot- In 2012, the Supreme state, Uttar Pradesh, has been 2011. It was decided that there arrested after he appeared at a In case of a warrant, the the flamboyant tycoon, while numerous executives and land Yard on India’s request Court had directed that 10 granted Rs 488 crore, Maha- will be no central funding central London police station person is arrested and brought congress dubbed the exercise investigation of assets and for his extradition on fraud per cent additional position rashtra has been given Rs 469 for fast track courts beyond this morning. before the court for prelimi- as an attempt to “hoodwink” transactions of the accused charges. of judges be created in the sub- crore for the courts. Gujarat, March 31, 2011. The flamboyant business- nary hearing followed by an the people of India. Minister from both the Kingfisher Air- The agency has attached ordinate courts, which comes Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Kar- A note prepared by the Law man, who once called him- extradition hearing before a of State for Finance Santosh lines (KFA) and the IDBI bank. assets worth Rs 9,661 crore to 1,800. nataka and West Bengal have Ministry on fast track courts self 'The King of Good Times", final decision is taken by the Kumar Gangwar said, “We are The agency is probing this in this case till now and has These courts will have the been earmarked Rs 400 crore, said 32.34 lakh cases were dis- was released on bail a few hours secretary of state. now assessing the facts how we alleged loan fraud case under also obtained a court-issued mandate to try all cases of Rs 338 crore, Rs 306 crore, Rs posed of by these courts, out later. The wanted person has a can bring him back into the the Prevention of Money proclamation declaring Mal- heinous crimes such as mur- 218 crore and Rs 216 crore of 38.90 lakh transferred to Last month, setting in right to appeal to the higher country and start judicial pro- Laundering Act (PMLA). lya an absconder in this der, rape, dacoity, kidnapping, respectively. these. It leaves a pendency of motion the process of extradi- courts against any decision all ceedings against him.” A similar dossier has been PMLA case. human trafficking and dowry The 11th Finance Commis- 6.56 lakh cases. PC: ED making 'wild Private persons from India examining BJP not anti-Muslim, Centre working consequences of allegations' against Karti on schemes for them, says Naqvi Arunachal issued Australia's visa NEW DELHI: Senior Con- alleged FEMA violations of Rs gress leader P Chidambaram 45 crore. OUR CORRESPONDENT share of the development pro- 'official' passports: CBI move: MEA on Tuesday accused the A similar notice has also grammes," he added. Enforcement Directorate of been issued in the case to RAMPUR: Union Minister Naqvi lashed out at the MPOST BUREAU by it. NEW DELHI: India is exam- making wild allegations against Chennai-based M/s Vasan Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Tues- opponents who have been In its FIR, the CBI has lev- ining "consequences" of Aus- his son Karti in an alleged forex Health Care Private Limited day condemned the opposition demanding reservation for NEW DELHI: The CBI on elled the charges of criminal tralia's decision to abolish a violation case. In a statement, for alleged forex violation of Rs parties for terming the BJP as the community, claiming the Tuesday registered an FIR misconduct by public servants, popular work visa used by over the former Finance and Home 2,262 crore. "anti-Muslims", while reject- demand was "not based on to probe the nexus between criminal conspiracy, traffick- 95,000 foreign workers, major- Minister said the ED's press The ED in a statement ing doling out more reserva- legal or constitutional ground". unknown MEA officials and ing, cheating, forgery and ity of them Indians, and said the release issued on Monday did issued on Monday said, "The tion to the community saying He said for the districts hav- agents who allegedly arranged fraudulently obtaining official issue will also be looked at in not refer to any specific act on total amount of contravention the demand has no "constitu- ing domination of Muslims the "official" passports for private passport by furnishing false the context of free trade talks. the part of Karti. identified on different counts tional" merit. The Minister of government has prepared a persons by showing them as information among others. The programme, known as 457 Instead, he said it made the and found to have been com- State (independent charge) for road map to establish polytech- Arunachal Pradesh govern- The alleged criminal con- visa, allows businesses in Aus- "extraordinary and ridiculous" mitted by M/s Advantage Minority Affairs said the Mus- nics, IITs, educational institu- ment officials to facilitate their spiracy was hatched between tralia to employ foreign work- allegation that Karti "appears to Strategic Consulting Private lim community has indicated tion right from primary level trafficking to the US. December, 2016 and March ers for a period up to four years be the controller and ultimate Limited in the sale transaction that they will not let the anti- BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi to higher standards and Garib The conspiracy was hatched this year, the FIR said. in skilled jobs where there is a beneficiary" of certain transac- of shares of Vasan Health Care BJP forces "mislead or befool" in Rampur on Monda Nawaz Skill development cen- to get "official" passports to 12 It is alleged that the 12 shortage of Australian workers. tions of two companies. to overseas investors is around them for "political benefits". tres besides Sadbhawna Man- people on the basis of forged people had applied for non- "The government is exam- "What does 'appears to be' Rs 45 crore." Naqvi said the central gov- "There are schemes being daps (goodwill generating documents showing them immigrant visa for the US and ining consequences of the new mean? It means that the ED is "A show cause notice has ernment is working on pro- launched for backward classes centres) each with an invest- as officials of the Arunachal presented their "official" pass- policy in consultation with all making a wild allegation just been issued to M/s Advantage grammes for establishing and that does not mean Mus- ment of Rs 10 crore. Pradesh government, the ports along with letter purport- stakeholders. This is also a mat- to drag him into the case," the Strategic Consulting Private education and skill develop- lims would not avail the bene- He said Prime Minis- FIR said. edly written by the ministry to ter we will be looking at in the senior Congress leader alleged. Limited, its directors and also ment facilities for the com- fits of the programmes because ter Narendra Modi is touring "Official" passports, with the US Consulate in Kolkata, context of Comprehensive Eco- A show cause notice has to Karti P Chidambaram who munity and trying to get more than 50 per cent of the places within and outside the white cover, are issued to the FIR said. nomic Cooperation Agreement been issued by the ED to Karti appears to be the controller and more industries set up to backward population consists country exploring avenues to government officials if they They were called for visa (CECA) negotiations," External Chidambaram and a firm pur- ultimate beneficiary in these generate more employment of Muslims," he said. attract business and industries are travelling on official interview but only four persons Affairs Ministry Spokesperson portedly linked to him for transactions," it said. MPOST opportunities. "Muslims will get the major in India. assignments. appeared for it on March 14, Gopal Baglay said. Announcing The agency registered the 2017 at the US Embassy here his government's decision to Dynamic fares in FIR against private individu- posing as government officials abolish 457 visa, PM Melcolm NCP rules out Sharad als Raja Kipa, Thupten, Kalden of Arunachal Pradesh, it said. Turnbull said though his coun- NATION BRIEFS Kunseng and Lucky and During the interview, they try was an immigration nation, GOVT EXTENDS CEASEFIRE PACT WITH Rajdhani, Shatabdi unknown officials of the Exter- admitted not being govern- the fact remains that Australian nal Affairs Ministry (MEA) on ment officials and disclosed workers must have priority for NAGA INSURGENT GROUPS acceptable under Pawar's nomination for the basis of a tip off received their real identities. Australian jobs. MPOST NEW DELHI: The Centre has extended a ceasefire LTC: Govt agreement with two insurgent groups in Nagaland Rashtrapati Bhavan for one more year from April 28. The ceasefire NEW DELHI: Dynamic or agreement is between the central government and flexi-fare in Rajdhani and NEW DELHI: The NCP on tial polls and sought to wait to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Reforma- Shatabdi trains will be admis- Tuesday virtually ruled out see if they want to field a con- tion) and the National Socialist Council of Nagaland sible under the Leave Travel possibility of its chief Sharad sensus candidate (along with (Neokpao- Khitovi). “It was decided by the govern- Concession (LTC) allowance. Pawar contesting presidential opposition). ment of India to extend the Suspension of Operation The Department of Person- elections, scheduled to be held "If they decide to field a nel and Training (DoPT) has before July 24. consensus candidate, all par- with NSCN-R and NSCN-NK for a further period issued a directive in this regard Speaking to reporters ties (including opposition) of one year with effect from April 28,” an official to all central government min- here, NCP general secretary will think over it. It depends statement said here on Tuesday. The pact was signed istries. The move comes after D P Tripathi also played down on what their approach is going by Satyendra Garg, Joint Secretary in the Ministry references were received from Congress leader KV Thomas' to be. There is still lot of time, of Home Affairs on behalf of the government of various segments seeking clari- call for merger of the two par- different parties will think over India, and Toshi Longkumer and Imlongnukshi Chang fication on the issue of admis- ties, saying his party is there to it," he added. sibility of flexi-fare while "emerge and not merge". Having assumed the office on behalf of NSCN-R and Jack Jimomi on behalf of booking the tickets of these "Pawar is our party presi- in 2012, President Pranab NSCN-NK. trains for the purpose of LTC. dent, head of our Parliament Mukherjee's term in the Rash- NAVY TO FINALISE A RAFT OF BIG “The matter has been party. Now, there is no question trapati Bhavan is scheduled to examined in consultation with (of Pawar being in the race to get over this July. Tripathi fur- TICKET DEALS BY YEAR-END Department of Expenditure, be the next President). ther dismissed Thomas' call for Ministry of Finance and it has "There could be several a merger, but maintained the NEW DELHI: After years of delay, Indian Navy is been decided that flexi fare other leaders who can con- NCP will "continue to co-oper- all set to sign a deal with a South Korean defence (dynamic fare) applicable in test (the polls)," Tripathi said ate" with the Congress. major for building 12 minesweeping vessels at a cost Rajdhani/ Shatabdi/Duronto responding to a query if Pawar Thomas had on Tuesday of nearly Rs 35,000 crore. Controller of the Navy’s trains shall be admissible for is in the race for the post. suggested that Pawar and TMC Warship Production and Acquisition Vice Admiral D M the journey(s) performed Tripathi noted the ruling chief Mamata Banerjee merge Deshpande said issues between Goa Shipyard and the in these trains on LTC,” the parties are falling short by their parties with the grand old South Korean collaborator in the project have been DoPT said. MPOST 15,000 votes for the presiden- party to take on the BJP. AGENCIES sorted out and the deal should be sealed by the end of this year. The Navy’s existing fleet of six Soviet-ori- gin minesweeping ships will be decommissioned by the Now, Maneka wants father's name end of 2018. The parliamentary standing committee on defence had recently criticised the government on the issue and asked it to make efforts to fill the gap in optional in caste certificates the Navy’s capability. Deshpande said a contract for procurement of Landing Platform Docks (LPD) will also MPOST BUREAU loopholes in the procedures/ be finalised by the end of this year. laws." She said her ministry NEW DELHI: The Woman was working towards plug- PANEL FOR IMPLEMENTING 7TH PAY and Child Development Minis- ging these loopholes. "Keeping COMM IN EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS ter Maneka Gandhi has sought in view the sensitivity of the NEW DELHI: The HRD Ministry has formed a commit- a change in rules that require single/separated mother, we father's name to be mandato- need to make a provision for tee to review the recommendations made by a UGC rily mentioned for getting caste this purpose by changing rules/ panel on implementation of the seventh pay commis- certificates, in case of children guidelines," the letter added. sion in educational institutions. The development comes raised by single or separated Last year, Gandhi had writ- against the backdrop of teachers’ associations of mothers. lems in getting caste certificates ten to External Affairs Minister various universities threatening to go on strike over the Gandhi's move comes days for their children without the Sushma Swaraj asking her to “delay” in implantation after the UGC panel submit- within her approaching HRD name of the father from the reconsider the rule of having minister Prakash Javadekar jurisdictional offices. the father's name mentioned ted its report earlier this year. “Seventh Pay Review with a request to change the Stating that breakdown for getting passports. committee for implementing the recommendations (of rule that requires father's name of marriages and separation Priyanka Gupta, a single the 7th pay commission) in educational institutions, to be mandatorily mentioned of husband and wife is now parent, had initiated a petition universities and colleges has submitted its report to the on a student's degree certificate. a "reality" which cannot be last year on Change.org web- Ministry. I have constituted a committee headed by In a letter to Social Justice ignored, Gandhi added, "What site, asking for passport rules Higher education secretary to study them,” Union HRD and Empowerment Minister we need to appreciate is the fact to be altered so that she was Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters. Thaawarchand Gehlot, Gandhi that women in such situations not required to mention her said she has been approached often do not get their rights husband's name on her daugh- by several women facing prob- and entitlements due to certain ter's passport. 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 Check train delays or face the Kashmir violence: Cabinet asks music: Rail Minister to officials forces to exercise restraint MPOST BUREAU Jawan dies Over 500 railwaymen in accidental NEW DELHI: With a number of complaints being received misfire along over the late running of trains, to be trained abroad on Railway Minister Suresh LoC in Poonch Prabhu has cracked the whip on officials concerned, asking high-speed rail tech MPOST BUREAU them to improve punctuality Meeting was convened against the backdrop of unrest in Kashmir valley rate or “face action”. MPOST BUREAU before the introduction of the JAMMU: An Army Jawan Zonal heads have been service here,” a senior Railway MPOST BUREAU tests. The Cabinet “directed the posted along the Line of Con- asked to deploy a senior- NEW DELHI: Indian Rail- Ministry official involved in police and security agencies to trol (LoC) in Poonch district level officer in the night shift ways has undertaken a massive Mission Raftaar said. JAMMU: Amid a surge in exercise maximum restraint in Jammu and Kashmir died in between 10 pm and 7 am exercise of imparting train- Railways has launched violence in Kashmir, the state while handling law and order an accidental fire from his ser- immediately to monitor the sit- ing to over 500 railwaymen Mission Raftaar, a programme Cabinet on Tuesday expressed situation to prevent loss of vice weapon. uation and address the prob- of zonal railways reveals that rioration by over 4 per cent in on high-speed rail technol- to increase speed of trains in deep anguish over the loss of human lives,” the spokesman A jawan deputed on a for- lems, if any, to prevent delay in punctuality has registered a punctuality between 1-16 April ogy in China and Japan, ahead all busy routes to reduce jour- precious lives and asked the said. ward post along the LoC in train running. sharp drop over Eastern Rail- and directed that very close of running trains at speed ney time between cities. security forces to exercise max- It made a “fervent appeal Mendhar sector of Poonch Besides, Prabhu has also way (-8.9 per cent), North East- monitoring of these divisions ranging from 160 to 200 There will be about 550 imum restraint while handling to all shades of political opin- district received bullet wounds taken note of discrepancies ern Railway (-11 per cent), East should be done by senior offi- kmph in select corridors in railway officials from director- law and order situation. ion to help restore peace and due to accidental fire around between train timings data Central Railway (-10 per cent), cers in the 10 PM-7 AM shift the country. ates concerned, including traf- At a meeting chaired by normalcy in the valley,” he 2150 hours last night, Defence available on national train South East Central Railway (- with immediate effect, the let- Railways has firmed up fic and electrical, who will be Chief Minister Mehbooba added. spokesman Lt Col Manish enquiry system (NTES), the 11 per cent), West Central Rail- ter stated. plans for running trains trained in China and Japan as Mufti here, the Cabinet also The Cabinet also directed Mehta said on Tuesday. official website of Indian Rail- way (-8 per cent) and Konkan According to the instruc- at higher speed of 160 kmph arrangements for such train- “urged the civil society and the state administration to take Sepoy Manmohan Budhani ways, and actual train tim- Railway (-6.9 per cent). tion, besides monitoring over- in the busy trunk routes of ing has been put in place, the parents to counsel the youth to all required measures to tackle (23) later succumbed to inju- ings being experienced by Division-wise analysis of all performance, these officers Delhi-Howrah and Delhi- official said. stay away from violent protests the situation effectively and at ries, he said. He was in the army passengers. punctuality reveals that the should take immediate steps to Mumbai section to reduce While the first batch of which, in spite of maximum the same time ensure that the for two years and is survived by He, in a letter to the officials, performance of 11 divisions minimise asset failure time and travel time between these 40 railway officials are being restraint, can at times lead to general public is not put to any mother Vidhya Bukhari. Bud- has sought immediate correc- including Varanasi, Mumbai, co-ordinate with divisional and metropoles. trained in high-speed rail tech- fatal consequences,” an official inconvenience and their griev- hani belonged to village Awal- tive measures to obviate the Sambalpur, Danapur, Samas- control offices of neighbour- Besides, the public trans- nology at Chengdu in China, spokesman said. ances are addressed. akot Kota Bagh in Nainital problems. tipur, Jhansi, Jabalpur leaves ing divisions to make up for porter has asked SNCF, the 20 officers have already been The meeting, convened The Kashmir valley has district of Uttarakhand. The punctuality rate has much to be desired, according the delay, if any, in their own French railways, to explore trained in Japan and 38 more against the backdrop of unrest been witnessing violent pro- The Defence spokesman deteriorated further to 79 per to the letter written by Rail- divisions. possibilities of running trains are undergoing the training in the Kashmir valley over the tests over the last few weeks, denied reports in a section of cent during April 1-16 period, way Minister office to all zonal The names and mobile at 200 kmph on the Delhi- programme there. last few weeks, reviewed the with the peak being witnessed the media that the soldier died as compared to 84 per cent in heads. numbers of these officers Chandigarh route. The training programme security and law and order sit- on the day of polling for by- in Pakistani firing. the corresponding period last The Railway Minister should be conveyed to Board’s “There is a need for impart- in China is for two weeks and uation and “expressed deep elections to Srinagar Lok Sabha He said there was no fir- year, a decrease of 4 per cent. has expressed his deep con- Punctuality Control on a daily ing training on high-speed in Japan the study course is anguish over the loss of pre- constituency on April 9, when ing from the Pakistani side on Analysis of performance cern regarding further dete- basis, it stated. rail technology to our officials for 20 days. cious lives” in the violent pro- eight people were killed. Monday in Mendhar. Farmer suicides: Heat forces SEC to extend Maha govt too will Mumbai dabbawalas Why were you silent over allegations polling time for 3 civic bodies die a casual death, condemn Pak over of rape: Apex court asks Army warns Sena MPOST BUREAU regions of the state. Jadhav death sentence MPOST BUREAU assaulted before being shot dead While Chandrapur falls MUMBAI: The Shiv Sena on in Manipur. MUMBAI: In view of severe under Vidarbha region, Latur Tuesday hit out at the BJP gov- MPOST BUREAU NEW DELHI: The Supreme When Rohatgi said an heat across Maharashtra, and Parbhani fall under ernment on the issue of farmers Court on Tuesday rapped the inquiry was conducted on the the State Election Commis- Marathwada. suicides, alleging that it terms MUMBAI: Mumbai’s famed Army asking why it had main- allegations of rape, the bench sion has extended the poll Maharashtra has been reel- these deaths as “casual” and if dabbawalas, who deliver tiffins tained silence over allegations shot back, “we would want to timing by one hour for munic- ing under severe heat for the the present trend continued the to over a lakh office-goers with of rape and murder against its know what kind of inquiry you ipal corporation elections last few days, with the temper- state government would also precision daily, on Tuesday personnel in Manipur and ques- have conducted. We would like at three places scheduled atures crossing 40 degrees Cel- one day die a casual death. held a protest against Pakistan tioned the state government for to see the inquiry report also”. tomorrow. sius in many parts of the state. “The dust of schemes and condemned the country not proceeding with these cases The Attorney General also “Voters can exercise their Saharia said that adequate announced by the chief min- for “illegally” sentencing Kulb- which is illegally holding Jad- against them. said that state government had franchise for Latur, Chandra- arrangements will be made for ister in his weekly programme hushan Jadhav to death. hav, who hails from our Maha- The apex court asked the set up commission to inquire pur and Parbhani corporations providing shelter from heat ‘Mi Mukhyamantri Boltoy’ has “Pakistan’s act should be rashtra state,” Talekar said. Manipur government to explain Attorney General said, “these are into these matters but it had no between 7.30 AM and 6.30 PM at all polling stations, besides been flying for the last 25 years condemned by all sections of “Jadhav should be returned whether it was a “sheer helple- allegations only. The question is power to do so. tomorrow,” the State Election facilities for drinking water. and while the then (Congress- the society. India should do to India without any harm,” he sness” on their part or a “tacit whether rape was committed by During the hearing, the coun- Commissioner J S Saharia said The extension of poll tim- NCP) government was mak- whatever it can, to bring Jad- said. “If another surgical strike understanding” that they would the Army personnel”. sel appearing for Manipur told on Tuesday. ing will be also applicable for ing similar claims, Devendra hav back,” Mumbai Dabbawala is needed to achieve this objec- not proceed against the Army The court posed this query the bench that “in cases where The polling hours at the by-elections to be held tomor- Fadnavis as part of opposition Association spokesperson Sub- tive, India should go ahead,” personnel despite there being to Rohatgi after it was told that personnel of armed forces are time of announcement of row for one seat each in Akola was demanding a loan waiver,” hash Talekar told PTI. he added. A military court in serious allegations of rape and there were allegations against two involved, we have stopped from election for three munici- Zilla Parishad and Akot Pan- the Sena said in an editorial in The protest was held out- Pakistan recently sentenced murder against them. Army personnel that they had proceeding ahead”. To this, the pal corporations at Chandra- chayat Samiti in Akola district party mouthpiece ‘Saamana’. side the Lower Parel railway Jadhav to death on charges of “You may have two alleged raped a 15-year-old girl in 2003 bench said, “the reports clearly pur, Latur and Parbhani were in east Maharashtra. Fadnavis will have to give station in central Mumbai, “espionage”. rapists. Why you have kept following which she had com- suggest that the girl was sub- between 7.30am and 5.30pm. The bypolls were necessi- a complete loan waiver now, where around 200 dabbawalas Last week, protesters had quiet,” a bench of Justices mitted suicide. The bench was jected to rape. You are creating He said the decision to tated as these seats have been as demanded by him earlier, if shouted slogans against Paki- formed a human chain against Madan B Lokur and U U Lalit also told that an inquiry com- a stonewall and you do not want extend the poll timing was lying vacant. he takes himself seriously and stan, he said. Pakistan and sought the imme- asked Attorney General Mukul mission report had also indicted to break that stonewall. You have taken in the view of severe A total of 1,284 candidates considers himself to be the “We demand that India diate release of the 46-year-old Rohatgi, who was appearing for some officials of Assam Rifles not tried anything. You have not heat conditions prevailing in are in the fray for 201 seats in same person as he was before, should put national and inter- former Indian Navy official the Army and the Assam Rifles. in a separate case in which a asked the Army to handover the Vidarbha and Marathawada the three civic bodies. it said. AGENCIES national pressure on Pakistan, from Pakistani captivity. Responding to the query, the woman was allegedly sexually custody of the alleged culprits”. Dog feeds on body at Jind WEST BENGAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT Yogi govt’s work in one month NATION BRIEFS CORPORATION LTD (A Govt. of West Bengal Undertaking) mortuary, probe ordered NATIONAL CADET CORPS ORGANISES NOTICE INVITING E-QUOTION showing positive impact: BJP NIQ.NO.. 3/WBTDCL 2017-18(Operations) NAGRIK JAGRUKTA PAKHWADA E-quotation are invited by WBTDCL from MPOST BUREAU sion of loan waiver for small CHANDIGARH: A shock- Police said the dead body reputed contractor for supply installation & commissioning of WiFi Network solution and marginal farmers in the ing video of a dog feeding on had been found on railway at the beaches of Bakkhali. Henry Island LUCKNOW: As the Yogi Adti- first Cabinet meeting, Tripathi a body at the mortuary of the tracks and was brought to the and Frazergunj. yanath government in Uttar said it showed “the BJP does civil hospital in Jind in Haryana hospital on April 16 by the Rail- Details are available in website www. wbtdcl.com and www.wbtender.gov.in Pradesh completed one month what it says”. Formation of anti- surfaced on social media trig- way Police for post-mortem Sd/-Managing Director in office, the BJP on Tuesday Romeo squads, closure of ille- gering outrage and prompting examination. Taking a strict West Bengal Tourism Development Cor- said the welfare schemes initi- gal slaughter houses, electricity the state government to order a view of the incident, Health poration Ltd. Udayachal Tourism Lodge ated by the new dispensation for all and decision to scrap the probe into the incident. Minister Anil Vij on Tuesday DG - Block Sector - II have started “showing positive started realising that finally, they system of interview in group C The latest incident comes ordered an inquiry into the Salt Lake. Kolkata-700091 ICA-T 815(2)2017 impact”. have a government which is and D government jobs have barely four months after three whole incident. The minister “The people of the state have dedicated to their cause. In just won hearts of the people in a disturbing incidents of rats has asked Director (Dental 30 days, the positive works of short time, he claimed. nibbling at dead bodies at hos- Health) in the Haryana gov- NEW DELHI: The National Cadet Corps sensitizes its Notice Inviting e-Tender No. 01 of 2017-18 the government have started “By recognising the good pitals in Kurukshetra and Kai- ernment Dr Parveen Sethi to cadets towards their responsibilities as responsible EE/TD/PWD, Purba Medinipure invites e-tender for the work “Repair showing results,” the party’s work of officers during the thal were reported. In the latest look into the matter and sub- citizens by taking up a host of Social Service and and Construction of surface drain inside the premises of Purba Medinipur spokesperson Shalabh Mani previous SP dispensation, the video, a stray dog is seen feed- mit a report within two days, an Community Development activities. The cadets regu- District Hospital at Tamluk”. Estt. Amt.: Rs. 4496488.00 Tripathi said. Adityanath took Adityanath government showed ing on the body of an uniden- official spokesman said here. A Tender ID: 2017_WBPWD_109216_1 larly participate in rallies and work related to social Bid Submission End Date is 03.05.2017 at 14.00 Hours. For details visit over the reins of the state on that if there is commitment tified person lying in the police officials said that the ' campaigns like Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, safe sanita- the website http://wbtenders.gov.in March 19 after the BJP stormed in leadership they can make mortuary of the civil hospital, body was properly handled and Sd/- to power with a three-fourth bureaucrats work for people,” Jind. The video is believed to the room had been locked a tion, AIDS awareness, cancer awareness and female Executive Engineer, PWD, foeticide. The cadets also spread awareness regard- Tamluk Division majority in the 403-member Tripathi said and warned that have been shot by a passerby, they had no clue how the door Assembly. the days ahead will be tough for who also alerted hospital offi- was opened and dog managed ing Road Safety and Digital Awareness. Referring to the key deci- those involved in corruption. cials about the incident. entry inside. MPOST UP GOVT FOR ‘E-TENDERING’ OF ALL CONTRACTS BJP using its sister-bodies to polarise LUCKNOW: To curb corruption, the Yogi Adityanath government on Tuesday decided that it would award government contracts only through ‘e-tendering’. In two people on communal grounds: Cong other key decisions taken at a meeting of the state Cabinet on Tuesday, the Yogi Adityanth government DOMINICK RODRIGUES on banning beef consumption, also approved Rs 487 per quintal as the minimum said the Goa Government and support price for the purchase of potato and also PANJIM: The political beef its allies should come clear on decided to implement the Prime Minister’s Fasal Bima about beef continued as Goa this issue. Yojana (PMFBY) in the state. “In order to ensure total Congress has charged the BJP- “The issue of cow slaughter transparency, the state cabinet at its meeting chaired led NDA government of using has been settled once and for all by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday de- its frontal organisations to prop and nobody wants to kill cows up its hidden agenda of polaris- which are primarily bred. Being cided go in for e-tendering,”said state power minister ing the people on communal a cattle farmer myself, I do not Shrikant Sharma. grounds – a day after rightwing want to kill cows,” he said. adding HARYANA GOVT APPROVES NEW CRIME Hindu outfit Vishwa Hindu Pari- CALLS FOR BEEF BAN IN GOA that the VHP tirade was basically shad (VHP) called for a beef ban to target the minority communi- RECORD BUREAU SERVICE RULES in Goa, while earlier BJP senior VHP want to divide the united very dangerous to our constitu- ties including primarily Muslims leader and MP Subramaniam people of Goa,” GPCC President tional setup. It is a serious threat.” and Catholics who consume beef CHANDIGARH: The Haryana Cabinet approved new Swamy had commented on Luizinho Faleiro told media, add- Pointing out that under the Goa, and Muslims involved in the beef rules for recruitment to the State Crime Record Bureau national television that “Goa has ing, “The BJP also wants to create Daman and Diu Cow Slaugh- trade in Goa. at a meeting chaired by Chief Minister Manohar a tradition. We have to change a situation of artificial beef short- ter Act, there is prohibition on NCP MLA and former Chief Lal Khattar here on Tuesday. As per the State Crime t h at .” age in the State and has appointed slaughter of cows, Faleiro said Minister Churchill Alemao also Record Bureau Service (Group C) Rules, 2017, the “It is a well-planned and well- an extra-constitutional authority “The question of cow slaughter condemned the VHP statement academic qualification for promotion or absorption to thought out strategy of the BJP at like VHP to prop up their hid- does not arise. Also, we have a on beef consumption ban and the post of Junior Classifier would be Bachelor in Sci- the Centre and the only hidden den agenda. The act of the BJP- government-run Goa Meat Com- said that beef is staple food of agenda behind these statements ruled Central Government on plex for legal slaughter.” minorities where the VHP ence from any recognised university or institution along is to polarize the people of Goa deciding who will eat what or Congress MLA Aleixo Reg- cannot think of stopping its con- with Hindi or Sanskrit in Matric or higher education, an on communal grounds. The BJP who will wear what ot how many inaldo Lourenco, while con- sumption as it would amount to official spokesman said here. and its frontal organizations like children a couple would have – is demning the VHP statement an attack on the minorities. 7 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp nation WHATSAPP PRIVACY POLICY Ayodhya: SC judgement Working on data protection on BJP leaders today MPOST BUREAU

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is likely to pronounce its framework: Govt to SC verdict on Wednesday on a plea seeking restoration of conspir- MPOST BUREAU Salve, appearing for the peti- Sibal, however, said acy charges against senior BJP tioners, told the bench that that bench headed by CJI leaders, including L K Advani, NEW DELHI: A comprehen- there was no regulation in J S Khehar should have for- M M Joshi and Uma Bharti in sive data protection framework place and there should be pri- mulated the questions to the Babri Masjid demolition may be put in place by this year vacy of data or information be deliberated upon by the case. A bench comprising Jus- end and the TRAI is working shared by the users on social constitution bench. tices P C Ghose and R F Nari- on it, the government on Tues- networking or instant messag- The court said that it would man is scheduled to pronounce day told the Supreme Court. ing platforms. deal with the preliminary the judgement. The government told the "It does not look like that objection raised in this regard There were two sets of cases Lucknow. The CBI had clari- court in Rae Bareli. apex court that there would even the government is alive to in its final verdict saying, "once relating to the demolition of the fied that it was not making any The second set of case was be a regulatory mechanism in this problem," hesaid, adding an issue has been raised, it has disputed structure on Decem- submission on the issue of the against unknown 'karsevaks' place on data protection, likely that the "TRAI is focussing on to be addressed. And we think ber 6, 1992. The first involved trial of the VVIPs accused but who were in and around the by Diwali in October, and the net-neutrality. Let them start we shall put the controversy to unnamed 'karsevaks', the trial restricting itself to restoration disputed structure and pulled it Telecom Regulatory Authority on the policy for privacy first". the rest in this regard". of which is taking place in a of the charge of conspiracy down. The trial against them is of India (TRAI) was actively Responding to this, the During the hearing, Salve Lucknow court, while the sec- against them. being held in a Lucknow court. pursuing a framework of this Attorney General said, "The argued that privacy policy of ond set of cases relate to the The apex court had earlier The appeals were filed by nature. TRAI is already in the process. WhatsApp was "unacceptable" VVIPs in a Rae Bareli court. decided to examine the appeal one Haji Mahboob Ahmad Stating this, Attorney Gen- By Diwali, we should have it and suffers from constitutional On April 6, the bench had against dropping of conspiracy (since dead) and the CBI eral Mukul Rohatgi urged a (the new data protection vulnerability as it affects the indicated that they may order charge against Advani, Joshi, against dropping of conspir- five-judge constitution bench, framework)." He said the Cen- tents, including voice and mes- Salve countered him say- freedom of an individual. holding of joint trial of the two Uma Bharti and 10 others. acy charges against 21 accused headed by Justice Dipak tre's stand was "that there is sages, shared on their platform ing "it has been done under He argued that WhatsApp sets of cases by transferring the The clubbing of two FIRs including the top BJP leaders. Misra, to defer the hearing in going to be a regulatory regime cannot be accessed by a third the order of the Chief Justice could not have framed such trial from Rae Bareli to the Luc- was opposed by the counsel for Eight of them have died. the WhatsApp privacy policy to save the data base to guide party. "WhatsApp has an end- of India. The CJI has unbri- policy under the garb of data know court. the accused on the ground that A supplementary charge matter by a couple of months the concept of net-neutrality". to-end encrypted technology. dled power. He is master of sharing. The bench had also said there were different sets of per- sheet was filed against eight so that the government can Rohatgi also referred to We are more concerned about the roaster. He can place any- Senior advocate Sidharth since 25 years have already sons named as accused in the persons but not the 13 who come out with the law on data the privacy aspect and said it. We are very popular because thing before any bench of any Luthra, appearing for Face- passed, in the interest of jus- two cases, the trial of which were discharged for plotting protection. another five-judge bench we protect privacy. We do not strength". book, told the court that they tice, it would consider ordering were at an advanced stage the demolition. "The government is actively would be dealing with it while share content, data or any- "It is a direction, by exercise were in compliance with the time-bound trial on day-to-day at two different places. They Besides BJP leaders Advani, mulling over a comprehen- deciding petitions challenging thing," he said. of discretion, that this matter provision of the Information basis, to be completed prefer- were of the view that joint trial Joshi and Bharti, conspiracy sive data protection frame- the constitutional validity of Sibal also questioned the be placed for hearing before a and Technology Act and the ably within two years. would lead to the beginning of charges were dropped against work," Rohatgi told the bench, Aadhaar scheme. way in which the matter was five-judge constitution bench," 2011 privacy policy and rules. Senior advocate K K Venu- de novo (afresh) proceedings. Kalyan Singh (currently which also comprised Jus- Meanwhile, senior advo- listed for hearing before a con- the court said, adding, "we are The bench, while posting gopal, appearing for Advani The conspiracy charge the Governor of Rajasthan), tices A K Sikri, Amitava Roy, cate Kapil Sibal, representing stitution bench, saying it could not concerned with the issue the matter for hearing on April and Joshi, had vociferously against 13 accused including Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thac- A M Khanwilkar and M M WhatsApp, told the apex court not have been referred to such of net-neutrality. We are con- 27, asked Salve to formulate opposed the proposal for hold- Advani, Joshi and Bharti was keray and VHP leader Acha- Shantanagoudar. that they have an encrypted a bench without hearing the cerned with the points raised the issues to be deliberated ing joint trial and transferring dropped in the case, the trial of rya Giriraj Kishore (both have Senior advocate Harish technology and data or con- issue and framing questions. by the petitioner". upon by it by August 24. their case from Rae Bareli to which is being held at a special since died). INDO-NEPAL TIES Bihar govt's skill devp programme US reaffirms Major Defence to help youth get employment Partner status for India NEW DELHI: The Trump greetings of President Donald DHIRENDRA KUMAR complicated commands with- Administration on Tuesday Trump to the Prime Minister, out any difficulty. reaffirmed the Major Defence the PMO statement said about NEW DELHI: In a bid to “The students learn impor- Partner status granted to India the meeting in which Doval, address unemployment among tant computer tools through as its National Security Adviser Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar youths in Bihar, the state gov- useful and fun activities like H R McMaster met Prime Min- and some other key officials ernment has launched a major creating greeting cards, menu ister Narendra Modi and held were present. skill development programme cards, etc. Students learn con- talks with his counterpart Ajit “NSA McMaster empha- to impart skill training to youths cepts though animated story Doval here. sised the importance of the US- from 15-25 years of age. lines and testing practice exer- During the meeting between India strategic relationship and The scheme christened as cises,” said Singh, who is also Modi and McMaster, views were reaffirmed India’s designation “Kushal Yuva Program” (KYP) BSDM CEO Dipak Kumar Singh the Principal Secretary in Nit- exchanged on how India and as a Major Defence Partner,” has been launched under the 10,” said Dipak Kumar Singh, ish Kumar government. the US can work together to said a statement issued by the ambit of Bihar Skill Develop- who is heading BSDM as its “The BSDM has created a effectively address the challenge US Embassy here. India was ment Mission (BSDM) with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). comprehensive portal to mon- of terrorism and to advance granted the Major Defence objective to contain the migra- Youths enrolled under the itor skill development centre regional peace, security and Partner status by the previous tion of youth of this age group KYP programme would get (SDC), empanelment and train- stability, a PMO statement said. Barack Obama Administration to other cities in hoards. training of soft skills for 40 ing. The BSDM has deployed McMaster, whose trip here in December last year. “The objective behind initi- hours, training of communi- a district level team to ensure marks the first visit by a top offi- Modi recalled his “posi- ating such a scheme is to train cations skills for 80 hours and quality SDC partner and ground cial of the Trump Administra- tive telephonic conversations” youths with some skills which 120 hours of basic computer lit- monitoring. Prior to getting tion, shared his perspective with with Trump that “reaffirmed Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Nepalese President Bidya Devi Bhandari as President will help them in shaping up eracy training. The programme empanelled under KYP, the the Prime Minister on the secu- the importance attached by both Pranab Mukherjee looks on, at the Rashtrapati Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday. Bhandari is on their lives. It will also help in has been designed in such a SDCs have to go through a rig- rity situation in the extended sides to the strategic partnership five-day visit to India PIC/NAVEEN SHARMA creating better employment way that students enrolled with orous check to ensure compli- region, including Afghanistan, and to stepping up India-US opportunities for the youths of the programme get training in ance to BSDM’s norms,” Singh, West Asia and North Korea. engagement across the board”, Bihar who have passed Class computer education and learn a 1992-batch IAS officer, said. The US NSA conveyed the the PMO statement said. MPOST PUSHING FOR HINDI WEST BENGAL STATE LOTTERY Results of Nababarsha Bumper Draw Use Hindi besides regional Hindi may be made compulsory held on 18.04.2017 at 3.00 P.M. at Tarapada Memorial Hall, 37,G. C. languages: Naidu to people till class X in CBSE schools, KVs Avenue, Kolkata-13. • JUDGES PRESENT • GUWAHATI: Union minister added. Emotions could be eas- NEW DELHI: Students of schools affiliated to the Central Smt. Mahua Ghosh M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday ily and effectively shared with Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and Kendriya Vidyalyas Smt. Kuhu Sengupta urged the people to use Hindi others in the mother tongue as may have to compulsorily study Hindi till class X with recom- Smt. Mithu Dutta in their day-to-day life along well as in Hindi, he said. mendations of a Parliamentary panel in this regard getting the 1st Prize : One : ` 1,01,00,000/- (Common to all Series): AA-211896 with the regional languages. 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Development to make serious answer in Hindi. 498 Bangalakshmi Draw, on 28.04.2017. 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 EDITORIAL A new political paradigm Enhancing Reporter’s Notebook Yogi’s rise counters perception that Modi doesn’t want strong peer group t the just concluded meet- ing of the national executive credibility of the Bharatiya Janata Party ecent reports state that the Chief Election Commis- SIDHARTH at Bhubaneswar, 13 Chief sioner Nasim Zaidi wrote to the Centre last month MISHRA AMinisters from the states ruled by the seeking funds for paper trail voting machines before party were present. This should be sig- the 2019 elections. For the uninitiated, the Voter nal enough for the Congress and the RVerified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) devices provide voters other Opposition parties that the rise with a printout of the candidate they have chosen, so as to of the saffron brigade cannot be blamed avoid any confusion. In the letter, Zaidi said that the com- alone on the electronic voting machines mission wanted to deploy the VVPAT machines along with (EVMs). Electronic Voting Machines so that the “transparency of More importantly, the BJP leader- the voting process is enhanced” and “voter’s confidence in The party rightly ship at the meeting said that it did not the process is further strengthened”. He added that the pro- wish to stop at that with party president curement “cannot be delayed any longer”. News of this letter perceives that Amit Shah claiming that victory in four comes at a time when sixteen opposition parties urged the people want a of the five states which went to polls in Election Commission last week to revert to the paper ballot the last quarter was just a milestone and system, claiming the faith of the people in the electronic vot- better life, but not the destination. “We now have 13 ing machines (EVMs) has “eroded”. Representatives of par- also realises Chief Ministers. We can now do it in ties including Congress, BSP, DMK, Trinamool Congress and every corner of the country,” Shah said the Left met top officials of the Election Commission of India that it has a in a terse message to the Opposition, to demand reintroduction of the ballot paper system. They core Hindu which must have been music to the ears have been complaining that the EVMs currently in use are of his party workers. Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BJP president Amit Shah rigged in favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party. One school of constituency to Such phenomenal rise of the BJP in thought believes that political parties raising a hue and cry address. Thus, the past few years cannot also be attrib- However, soon thereafter ques- tion had come to be usurped by a cor- parties, doesn’t wear an Islamic prayer about electoral tampering are behaving like sore losers, con- uted just to the factors of polarisation tions were raised on ‘Modi wave’. The porate entity, which was bound to be cap, but at the same time, takes cor- sidering the BJP’s massive success in recent polls. However, Modi-BJP offers and counter polarisation. If Bharatiya query became stronger after BJP lost rejected by people. The political lead- rective measures to navigate out of his many constitutional experts, including senior BJP leader Hindutva the right Janata Party’s victory in the 2014 Lok Assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar. ership should have the ability to stand Hindu hardliner image by propping up Subramanian Swamy, have argued for a paper trail accom- Sabha polls was successful showcasing This development has been variously the scrutiny of people, as has been done issues of economic and social develop- panying the electronic voting process, which confirms that dilution. He never of Brand Modi, which overshadowed explained. One perception being that by Narendra Modi in the past 10 years. ments. When opponents try to grill the votes have been cast correctly. As discussed in these col- apologises for all other brands even that of his own from debacles in Delhi and Bihar, the People have tried to grill him on Gujarat him, he navigates from one issue to umns, demands for a return to paper ballots are shortsighted Gujarat, doesn’t party, the party’s victories thereafter party decided to strengthen the organ- riot but he has successfully shifted the another. primarily because of the sheer costs and logistical issues have been an example of building on isation and make it more close-knit. focus on development reflected in the Moreover, Narendra Modi as a involved—their printing, transportation, and their safe stor- throw Iftaar the advantage. On the other hand, in the rival parties, coinage of the slogan ‘Sabka Sath Sabka political personality has not stopped age between elections--not to mention booth capturing. In parties, doesn’t The party in the last decade has cre- there has been constant erosion in sup- Vikas’. In the recent times, from devel- evolving. The recent elevation of a a state like Uttar Pradesh, however, one also has to confront ated in Brand Modi an amalgam of port base and loss of political workers. opment, he has moved onto his unique strong leader like Yogi Adityanath as the problem of scale, as lakhs of ballot boxes are required. wear an Islamic Hindu poster boy, development mas- This phenomenon was best model of economic reforms -- demon- Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has put After an election, officials can tally electronically counted prayer cap, but cot, and OBC leader. The 2014 Lok explained by Finance Minister Arun etisation to curb black money. paid to the theory that he did not want votes against paper records, thereby enhancing transparency Sabha polls proved extraordinary for Jaitley at an interaction with people The biggest challenge Brand Modi to promote a strong peer group. The in the system. In fact, the Supreme Court in 2012 directed at the same time, one reason -- a political party, which from intelligentsia at the Nehru Memo- faced was diverting public attention sidelining of senior party leaders like the EC to upgrade the EVMs to include a paper trail. “From takes corrective for long faced isolation, romped home rial Museum and Library last month, away from the 2002 communal riots Lal Krishna Advani and Murli Mano- the materials placed by both the sides, we are satisfied that to a thumping victory under a leader wherein he said, in a reference to the in Gujarat that claimed the lives of har Joshi created the perception that the “paper trail” is an indispensable requirement for free and measures to named Narendra Modi, who was con- Congress party outsourcing its poll more than 1,000 people, mostly Mus- Modi did not want to promote strong fair elections. The confidence of the voters in the EVMs can navigate out sidered a political pariah both nation- management in the ongoing Assembly lims. Initially, Modi’s supporters in leaders. But Yogi’s elevation has created be achieved only with the introduction of the “paper trail”. ally and internationally. The results of polls, “a party leadership which cannot BJP attempted to engage in public complexities in this perception. EVMs with VVPAT (voter-verified paper audit trail) sys- of his Hindu 2017 Assembly polls, especially in Uttar manage its campaign will find it diffi- debate and highlighted the clean chit Another point to mull over is tem ensure the accuracy of the voting system. With intent hardliner image Pradesh, too, is significant as the party cult lead its party to consistent victories given by courts to wash off the stigma. whether Modi’s pro-business persona to have the fullest transparency in the system and to restore demolished the caste-calibrated politi- in the polls.” Then, they changed the track. They has added value to his efforts to connect the confidence of the voters, it is necessary to set up EVMs by propping cal equations in the India’s politically There was a perceptible difference toned down the Hindutva rhetoric and with the youth and urban voters. His with VVPAT system because a vote is nothing but an act of up issues of most significant state. in the role of poll manager Prashant focused on development and good gov- brand value has been helped in no small expression which has immense importance in a democratic The 2014 polls were the first elec- Kishor from 2015 in Bihar to 2017 in ernance. While he was Chief Minister measure by business leaders from Ratan system,” the court said. “If the VVPAT record is verified by economic tions which witnessed both the polar- Uttar Pradesh. In Bihar, he was coor- of Gujarat he was talking about five Tata to Mukesh Ambani singing paeans the voter to be a faithful reproduction of the vote, is stored and social isation of the votes of the majority dinating and implementing the vision crore people of Gujarat but now he is to his policies. This has allowed Modi securely separate from the EVMs, and is publicly audited community and their desire for devel- and strategies of political leaders like engaging 125 crore people of the entire to build his brand as that of a progres- after the election, it provides strong independent confir- developments opment aggregate in support of the Nitish Kumar. On the other hand in UP, country. sive leader who has the ability to deliver mation that the outcome is correct,” says Poorvi L Vora, same candidate. Though a similar phe- he was acting as puppeteer and politi- The party rightly perceives that peo- economic results. And Brand Modi, for Professor of Computer Science at The George Washington nomenon was witnessed in 1984 too cal leaders were playing to his tune. In ple want a better life, but also realises now, is definitely in the bullish phase. University, in a recent column for an Indian news website. when Rajiv Gandhi led Congress to UP, Kishor ended up hawking political that it has a core Hindu constituency to (Sidharth Mishra is President, “A correctly printed VVPAT record indicates merely that the power but then he had the support of inadequacies of the leadership of Con- address. Thus, Modi-BJP offers Hindu- Centre for Reforms, Development & machine correctly understood the vote. It does not indicate the largest minority group as well – the gress and to an extent, the Samajwadi tva the right dilution. He never apolo- Justice and Consulting Editor, Millen- that the vote was correctly recorded or counted. A public Muslims. Party. The role of the political organisa- gises for Gujarat, doesn’t throw Iftaar nium Post. Views are strictly personal.) audit needs to be performed to determine that the VVPAT records are consistent with the declared election outcome,” dear she goes on to add. The ECI had earlier roundly debunked all Quote martial A CLEANER RIVER EDITOR millenniumpost.in allegations of tampering. It presented a detailed explanation about the steps taken to prevent such a thing from happen- Yamuna is just one of the many rivers in India that is at the receiving end of reckless modern Log on to write letters to the ing. As one of the most reputable institutions in this country, Every science consists editor or send them to one is inclined to take the ECI at its word. However, no EVM in the coordination of development. The Damodar river, for instance, has turned black from the use it is put to, can be assumed to be invulnerable to a determined attacker. it is virtually a nature-provided coal washery. While the cleaning up of a grossly polluted [email protected] In fact, many news outlets had reported that the Elec- facts; if the different river remains the most prominent aspect, the disposal of garbage is also a badgering con- You can also send your tion Commission issued a challenge to political parties, and observations were comments to The Editor, technical experts to prove instances of tampering in EVMs. entirely isolated, there cern with solutions waiting to be implemented. It goes without saying that the government Millennium Post, A similar challenge was issued in by the EC in 2009, but that can only begin the major work of cleaning but the maintenance will depend on the proper examination was held under serious restrictions so as to would be no science Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah prevent anyone from carrying out any meaningful attack. If AUGUSTE COMTE coordination of other responsibility-bearing agencies. Via email Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 reports of an open challenge are right, the EC must be serious KIRAN GUPTA about allowing for a complete, unbiased third-party analy- sis under the reasonable supervision of the government. The ostensible purpose of any testing should be for the public to understand the EVM design and its vulnerabilities, besides suggesting technical solutions to the various problem the States must strategise development tests may throw up. None of the previous governments could get around this task. In allowing for open testing, within jus- tifiable limits, the current ruling dispensation could enhance Indian states need to understand that one size indeed does not fit all its credibility among the masses, and leave the opposition with nothing to complain about. But first, it needs to deliver he Modi government has been the necessary funds for the EC as soon as possible. pulling all stops to improve AMIT the ease of doing business KAPOOR rankings since it came into Tpower in a bid to improve India’s image Clear violation as a business-friendly economy and n an unfortunate development, the Pakistan Army said attract global investment. that would not provide India consular access to former In the last three years, the states have Naval officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, who was sentenced to been given a 98-point, 340-point, and death by a military court last week. This announcement 295-point reform agenda to achieve Icomes days after New Delhi had sought a certified copy of the key targets that determine the World chargesheet and the military court order in the case, in addi- Bank ranking. The states have them- tion to consular access to Jadhav. New Delhi has maintained selves been caught up in a frenzy to that it will treat Jadhav’s sentencing as murder if Islamabad Each state needs attract investment. State Chief Min- goes ahead with the execution, claiming that he was abducted to understand isters have been seen making trips to while on a business trip to Iran.Pakistan’s conduct during other nations to woo investors, and this entire affair (failing to inform Indian authorities of his its drivers of almost every major state has picked up detention and refusal to provide consular access to Indian competitiveness the trend of organising an investment authorities) is in clear contravention of Vienna Convention summit on the lines of Gujarat. on Consular Relations, 1963 (VCCR), to which both India and play them up However, Mamata Banerjee’s trip and Pakistan are signatories. “Under the VCCR, the receiv- for prospective to Germany last year to attract invest- ing state (Pakistan in this case) is obligated to facilitate this ment to West Bengal did not yield protection work by (a) promptly informing the competent investors in that any real results. Similarly, Amarinder consulate when one of their nationals is arrested or detained; area. For instance, Singh’s recent visit to Mumbai elic- (b) inform the detained foreign national of his right to con- Punjab was ited demands for first revamping Pun- sular access with his home state; and (c) facilitate the protec- jab’s industrial policy and criticism for Batmakers in Jalandhar (Representational Image) tion work performed by the competent consuls in the form historically an lack of action to revive existing indus- of visits, communications and legal arrangements made for agrarian success tries. Elaborate investment summits in farms. It can also work on reviving its were once known for being a produc- once a production hub for cars attracted the detainee,” writes Yateesh Begoore, a lawyer specialising these states have suffered a similar fate. dying industrial cities of Jalandhar and tion hub for certain industries but failed plenty of low-skilled workers, and when in public international law, in a recent column for an Indian story. So, it Although these efforts are laudable, Ludhiana as sports and cycle industry to reinvent have fallen into oblivion. the firms moved out of the city after the news website. There is little doubt that the entire process of could incentivise Indian states need to understand that linkages already exist in these cities. This brings us to the second point labour began demanding higher wages, trial and sentencing that Jadhav was subjected to reeks of one size indeed does not fit all. West Bengal can work upon develop- of the fallacy in the idea of merely the city failed to re-invent itself unlike impropriety. Civilians should not be tried before military setting up of food First, Indian states are as big as ing a steel cluster owing to its proximity attracting investment. More than busi- New York or London due to a lack of courts, where their rights are not protected. Military tribu- processing units nations across the world. For instance, to neighbouring resource-rich states. ness incentives, industries follow skill. skill in the area. nals are not regarded as independent and employ exceptional Uttar Pradesh’s population that lives The northeastern states can develop a Bengaluru has become an IT hub not Therefore, to ensure economic suc- procedures that violate basic individual freedoms. Since the by playing out below the poverty line equals the entire thriving tourism industry. States with because the Karnataka government cess, states need to understand these Pathankot terror attack, bilateral relations have remained the proximity it population of South Africa. Similarly, port facilities can encourage the devel- offered tax breaks or speedy contracts two things: develop and showcase their rather tense. At this juncture, it is hard to tell what is hap- Bihar, which has the dimensions of opment of export-oriented industries. -- but due to easy access to a pool of tal- drivers of competitiveness and simulta- pening in the Jadhav case definitively. What is evident, how- has to offer with the 16th-most populous state in the The investment summits that states ent in the field. An initial kernel of engi- neously develop a vast pool of talent for ever, is that little or no due process was followed in Jadhav’s high-yielding US (Indiana), is home to a population have put so much faith into fail to fol- neering talent attracted companies like long-term sustainability of its economy. trial, contrary to international law. Unlike Islamabad, New equalling the combined population low such a focused approach. When Infosys and a virtuous cycle of work- The role-reversal of corporates run- Delhi has remained consistent in its assertions that he was farms of the first four most-populous states anything and everything is on the table, ers attracting potential employers and ning after Chief Ministers for setting up not a RAW agent but was kidnapped, and taken to Pakistan. of US. So, quite clearly, strategies that industries do not see how a particular employers attracting potential employ- industries to Chief Ministers wooing Also, Islamabad must contend with the reality of what it work for one state will not necessarily state is unique in its competitiveness. ees developed. the former is a welcome picture in the would mean for Pakistani spies caught in India if they went work for the other. Throughout history, economic suc- Human capital, more than anything Indian business landscape. However, ahead and executed Jadhav. Does Pakistan want to go down Each state needs to understand its cesses of regions have been stories of else, explains economic successes of short-sightedness and a lack of strat- that path? However, the Pakistani civilian administration in drivers of competitiveness and play the rise of particular industries followed regions. A study in the US showed that egy are delaying change across Indian Islamabad seems powerless. It’s the Pakistani military which them up for prospective investors in by reinvention with the times. as the share of the population with a states. IANS is calling all the shots. Under these circumstances, New Delhi that area. For instance, Punjab was his- For instance, both New York and college degree in an area increase by (The writer is chair, Institute may well have to initiate legal proceedings against Pakistan torically an agrarian success story. So, it London were centres of garment pro- 10 per cent, its per capita gross product for Competitiveness, India. before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for violation could incentivise setting up of food pro- duction and trade followed by the rise rises by 22 per cent. On the contrary, Views expressed are personal. of international law. cessing units by playing out the prox- of financial industries when labour an area with a skill-deficit usually loses Chirag Yadav, researcher in the same imity it has to offer with high-yielding became costly. Regions like Detroit that out in the long-run. Detroit, which was institute, has contributed to the piece.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp in focus Hopeless Indian teacher We need teachers with high moral quotient. We have long ignored their potential

CHANDRA he media is abuzz with news charge around Rs 50,000 per month BHUSHAN from Uttar Pradesh prom- per child. Who can afford and why SHARMA ising brighter days. Hope- should we permit such elitist system fully, ‘acche din’ (good to exist which will obviously allure all Ttimes) for education will also come. to reach this figure through whatever But what would that mean? We need means to put their children in these to discuss and analyse the education school. Gujarat has already passed scenario upfront because that should the Gujarat Self Financed Schools be on top of UP Chief Minister Yogi (Regulation of Fees) Bill – 2017, to Adityanath’s agenda. While this dis- check exploitation of learners. Other cussion is in the context of UP here, states need to follow. one can extend the ideas discussed The government order to admit here to the rest of India. 25 per cent of the total class strength Agenda One: Teachers must be of children from the economically well-paid. When I plead for teach- weaker sections is followed by only ers’ salary, I am not demanding a some of the schools. The children sum equivalent to a ‘constable’ or a from the EWS are dumped in one ‘government peon’. I am just asking class and taught by someone who for a minimum decent salary. Those often does not possess the minimum The British in power can themselves decide qualification of a teacher. The objec- systematically what should be the salary of a per- tive of social justice goes for a toss. son who has a family and requires We must ensure that all children sit destroyed to pay school fees. If a teacher does together and study together. Why are the ancient not get a minimum amount to pro- they not mixing? The reason is obvi- vide a decent life to his/her children, ous. The children of the most influ- Indian system then he/she will definitely work extra ential people study in these schools, of education hours, providing private coaching to and they don’t want the EWS chil- make their ends meet. A minimum dren to sit with their children. We because it was salary must be entitled to all teachers. keep praising the Finnish model of self-sustained Agenda Two: Societies survive education but why can we not imple- and thrive on a created image. Indi- ment the Finnish system that all chil- and quality viduals and communities derive their dren from a particular area will go intensive. The power and prestige through eco- the local school and not outside. This nomic power (wealth), social power, will mean children from the Presi- local community and the moral power. Teachers were dent House whether the President’s planned and seen as the custodian of moral power family or the employees’ family will in ancient times. Guru Dronacha- all study in the same classrooms and maintained the rya was not a king but most revered mix. This is actually in practice in system. It was because he was the ‘guru’ and kings Finland. possible to lent their ears to him. Our govern- We have completely demoralised ments don’t even consult university the teaching community and demol- micro-manage professors on academic issues. The ished public funded schools. This was it. The British draft Education Policy committee exactly the British agenda of educa- headed by TSR Subramanian is a Representational Image tion in India. We have given way to could not conquer case in point. Educational systems international agencies and business the Indian survive on this moral strength, not tained the system. It was possible to fice and the custodian of morality. set up an NCTE Review Commit- Dayal Upadhyaya has very perti- houses, where teachers are paid more on economic power. It is such a large micro-manage it. The British could It was so encouraging to hear Prime tee under the chairmanship of Prof. nently mentioned in his four semi- salary than the government-funded mind without sector that we cannot pay the high- not conquer the Indian mind without Minister Narendra Modi remember Md. Akhtar Siddiqui. The report nal lectures on Ekatma Manavwaad University Professors and the rich destroying the est salary to the teaching community. destroying the Indian system of ‘man his teacher on Teacher’s Day. Let us was submitted in April 2016. We (Integral Humanism) delivered in and the affluent send their children Globally, in the best of institutions, making’ education. They successfully entrust teachers with the responsibil- need to implement some, if not all Mumbai during April 22-25, 1965 to these schools. I am not complain- Indian systems more than 80 per cent of the budget converted our system into a degree ity for the moral health of the society, the recommendations. Most of our that we plant trees and nurture them ing. I am concerned because every goes for teachers’ salary. But they are generating system. The aura of the and we will require no campaigns to problems will be solved if teacher without asking for payment but when citizen would like to do the same, meant for the elite and the chosen Indian guruji withered. This was nec- clean our roads and parks, take care education is revamped. they grow they feed us with their but they don’t have the option to few. Especially for large and popu- essary to establish the British idea of of the old or the less privileged. We have a vast army of teach- fruits. We don’t ask plants to pay earn such money. By not halting this lous countries like India, we cannot all-powerful Indian babu. Why in Agenda Three: Our teacher edu- ers, and they can be the builders or us during their growth. Similarly, process we are prodding more and give the highest salary to the teach- all these years of Independent India cation program is in bad shape. We destroyers of our society. We have if we expect our children to grow more people to collect money from ers, because the number would be have we not gone back to celebrating have not taken concrete steps to res- long ignored their potential in giv- and serve the society and the nation whatever means to get an expen- unimaginably high and the burden the teacher through events like Guru cue it. We must be one of the few ing our society a turnaround. On why charge them for their education? sive education for their children. If on the exchequer unbearable. This Purnima? Let us start celebrating the countries where we hear of ‘non- April 3, 2017, Krishna Gopal, the They must be provided education we cannot give the teachers, decent will mean charging the beneficiaries teacher. Every newspaper, every news attending B.Ed’ student. This means Joint General Secretary of the RSS free of cost only then we can expect salary let them work hard and fulfil dearly. We need to invoke the power channel, every government official is a trainee who was exempted from in his 4th Shanti Sharma Memorial them to serve the country in return their dreams. of ‘moral payment’ to the teachers’. always on the lookout for an occa- attending classes by paying the extra Lecture discarded the effort to moni- when their turn comes. Schools first (Prof. Chandra Bhushan The British systematicallysion to denigrate the teacher and the fee. Our teacher training cannot tor teachers by asking them to mark then the institutions of higher learn- Sharma is Chairman, destroyed the ancient Indian sys- teaching community. Let us celebrate be a replica of the Western model. their attendance. Let us use this army ing need to be strictly monitored for National Institute of Open tem of education because it was self- every good teacher and the act of the We need teachers with high moral in the process of nation building, and charging exorbitant fees and dona- Schooling (NIOS), New Delhi. sustained and quality intensive. The teachers. He/she will, under social quotient. In 2015 the Ministry of it won’t cost us a dime. tions. All schools must charge com- The views expressed local community planned and main- pressure, become the idol of sacri- Human Resources Development had Agenda Four: Pandit Deen parable fees. Some of the schools are strictly personal.)

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KALYANI ill the Opposition be able SHANKAR to unite to take on the Just when I joined the BJP in the 2019 polls? This is a million-dollar media celebrating Wquestion as it has been elusive although news of his arrest the opposition wants to make the 2019 whr I hoped for swift polls as one of Prime Minister Modi versus the rest. Disunity in the opposi- extradition, I get to tion suits the BJP. read he's got bail too! The Opposition has realised the #VijayMallya need to come together to fight the BJP, which has expanded in the west and the east. Only in south it is not that suc- cessful so far. In north, it has already MINHAZ MERCHANT saturated. Moreover, the opposition is @MinhazMerchant getting jittery after the stellar perfor- mance of the BJP in the recent five-state Except Congress Assembly elections where the party won and the Left (in two and managed to form the govern- @TheVijayMallya's ar- ment in two other states despite not pockets) the being the number one party. Today the rest in London today fi- others are all BJP is ruling alone or in coalition in 15 nally shows Indian govt states. So ever since the results went the serious about tackling regional parties BJP way, there has been a call for oppo- headed by sition unity. But it is not easy, as, except corporate fraud Congress and the Left, other parties are individuals with confined to regions and headed by sin- king-size egos. gle individuals whose influence may not go beyond their state. Representational Image Such a front will The first move came from Bihar RAMESH SRIVATS be a combination Chief Minister Nitish Kumar recently What must be music to the ears of Pawar, Mamata Banerjee, Nitish Kumar, The Opposition has to spell out what @rameshsrivats when he suggested forming a united the opposition leaders is the latest addi- Farooq Abdullah, and others may not be they offer to the public in place of Modi’s of parties which opposition front while speaking at a tion to the unity move chorus when the willing to work under him. Hindutva and development by build- have no common book release function in Delhi. He BSP supremo Mayawati said in Luc- Rahul Gandhi reportedly held a ing a counter-narrative. The fourth is What's the need to ideology or asked the Congress vice president Rahul know this week: “The BSP now has no meeting with Sharad Pawar recently the communication. This is where the Gandhi, who was sitting in the audience reservations about taking the help of and discussed the move. Pawar may be opposition is lacking as the BJP has been arrest Vijay Mallya? programme and to take the lead in this regard. The West anti-BJP parties in its fight against EVM a good choice if he agrees and other par- able to reach out to the voter much bet- He has anyway spent finding common Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Baner- (electronic voting machine) tampering ties agree to his leadership. The other ter than the opposition parties. most of his life behind jee also attempted opposition unity and the BJP as it is the democracy which two names are Mamata Banerjee and The first test will come in the bars. ground will be during Modi’s demonetisation drive in comes first... we have to keep democracy Nitish Kumar. upcoming Presidential and Vice Pres- difficult but not December. The unity move was taken alive.” This public statement has ignited Secondly, while the arithmetic could idential elections. Will the opposi- #SelfThoo forward during the just concluded bud- fresh hope on forging a united anti-BJP work in favour of the opposition, the tion put up candidates for either post impossible get session, and Rahul had discussions front. In fact, the Congress tried to get chemistry may be a problem. Except knowing that the BJP has the adequate with the left leaders D Raja and Sitaram the SP and the BSP together to form Congress and the Left (in pockets) the number of votes to get its own candi- Yechury. Congress President Sonia Gan- a grand alliance in UP just as it did in others are all regional parties headed dates? So far the opposition has not STEPHEN FRY dhi who had come back after her medi- Bihar but the traditional rivalry between by individuals with king-size egos. given a thought to it. The final hope @stephenfry cal checkup also held a meeting within the SP and the BSP blocked that effort. Such a front will be a combination of of a divided opposition is to wait and the party about how to check the influ- But these are all only initial moves, parties which have no common ideol- watch for the BJP to commit mistakes. ence of the BJP. and there is a long way to go and much ogy or programme and finding com- It should keep in mind that among all It's my fault. Last time The first evidence came on the effi- more needs to be done if it is to be con- mon ground will be difficult but not the states which went to polls post-2014 cacy of Electronic Voting machines cretised. The first thing is who will head impossible. only in Jharkhand the BJP has a slight I was in Britain a refer- which many opposition leaders includ- such a front? Sonia Gandhi had proved The third is the strategy. So far the edge over the combined vote-share of endum gave us Brexit. ing BSP’s Mayawati, Aam Aadmi Party’s herself in 2004 by mobilising the non- BJP bashing or Modi bashing has not the opposition. Secondly, the BJP has Kejriwal and others had complained BJP parties when UPA government was helped the opposition in elections. On already reached saturation point in the Then I went to the US & about. Last week, 13 opposition parties formed. However, she is not in good the contrary, it has resulted in Modi north. One week is long in politics and Trump happened. Now went to President Pranab Mukherjee to health and wants her son Rahul Gandhi becoming stronger. The other plank of will the opposition be able to sustain for I come home and… protest about the EVMs, and they also to take over the party. Unfortunately, secular/communal too seems to have two years? IPA met the Election Commission inform- for Congress, Rahul has no credibility. failed with the Hindu polarisation tak- (The views expressed #sorry ing of their distrust in the machines. Moreover, senior leaders like Sharad ing place in favour of the BJP. are strictly personal.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 OPPOSITION TO BREXIT PLAN BEHIND DECISION EU CALLS FOR TRANSPARENT PROBE Pence reassures Turkish PM: Rumors Japan as North of foul play an effort to Korea threatens British PM Theresa May undermine referendum ‘weekly’ tests TOKYO: US Vice-President ANKARA: Turkish Prime reaching implications of the Mike Pence reiterated his Minister Binali Yildirim said constitutional amendments, we country’s commitment to the on Tuesday rumors of irregu- call on the Turkish authorities security of Japan on Tuesday, calls snap election in June larities in a referendum over to consider the next steps very as North Korea intensified con- the weekend were a vain effort carefully and seek the broadest cerns over its weapons pro- LONDON: British Prime Min- to cast doubt on the result, possible national consensus in gramme with a vow to launch ister Theresa May on Tuesday Dutch, Danish and Irish leaders to after the main opposition party the follow-up to the referen- missile tests “every week”. announced a snap General vowed to apply for the vote to dum,” the spokesman said. The North, which is intent Election on June 8, seeking hold Brexit meeting on Friday be annulled. “We call on all actors to on developing a nuclear- a stronger mandate in talks “The people’s will has been show restraint and on the tipped ballistic missile capa- over leaving the European LONDON: The leaders of the Netherlands, reflected at the ballot box, and authorities to launch transpar- ble of reaching the mainland Union (EU). Denmark and Ireland are to hold a meeting to the debate is over,” Yildirim ent investigations into these United States, defied interna- In an unexpected statement discuss Britain’s exit from the European Union told his parliamentary group. alleged irregularities found by tional pressure Sunday with at Downing Street, May said “Everyone should respect the observers.” a test that failed immediately she was starting the process of on Friday, the Irish government said, in a sign the the outcome, especially the Significantly, the spokes- after launch. calling a vote, less than half- three pro-trade powers plan to coordinate their main opposition”. The EU has man confirmed that neither As fears grow that it may way through the government’s strategy on Brexit. The three countries, which Irish called on the civil authorities Juncker nor the president of also be preparing for its sixth term, BBC reported. Prime Minister Enda Kenny has said are likely to in Turkey to launch a trans- the European council, Donald nuclear weapons test, Vice For- Britain needed certainty, parent investigation into the Tusk, had spoken to Erdoğan eign Minister Han Song-Ryol stability and strong leadership be the most negatively impacted by Brexit, have referendum result granting since his victory. said that its programme would following the EU referendum, a similar outlook on free trade and competition the Turkish president, Recep In contrast, the US presi- only escalate. she said. Explaining the deci- issues and in the past have often allied with Tayyip Erdoğan, sweeping new dent, Donald Trump congrat- “We’ll be conducting more sion, May said: “The country Britain. The 27 EU members that will remain after powers. ulated the Turkish president missile tests on a weekly, is coming together but West- Britain leaves have repeatedly pledged to maintain A spokesman for the Euro- personally on the phone on monthly and yearly basis,” Han minster is not.” There will be pean commission president, Monday in a conversation in told the BBC in an interview, a Commons vote on the pro- a united front in negotiations with Britain and avoid Jean-Claude Juncker, said which they discussed recent threatening “all-out war” if the posed election on Wednesday divisions that could be exploited by London. AGENCIES claims from neutral observ- developments in Syria, the US took any action against it. — opposition Labour Party ers of election irregularities US response to the chemical Arriving in Tokyo for talks has said it will vote with the a success of Brexit and it will standstill’.” eral Election,” she said. Jeremy Corbyn said he wel- had been “examined atten- attack in Syria and “agreed on with Japanese Prime Minister government. The Prime Minis- cause damaging uncertainty “...The Scottish National- The Prime Minister chal- comed the Prime Minister’s tively” in Brussels. “In view of the importance of holding Syr- Shinzo Abe, Pence hailed the ter needs Parliament’s backing and instability to the country”. ist Party had said they would lenged the opposition parties: decision, saying it would “give the observers’ report, the close ian president Bashar al-Assad two countries’ longstanding to hold a vote before the next “So we need a General Elec- vote against the negotiations “This is your moment to show the British people the chance to referendum result and the far- accountable”. AGENCIES security ties. AGENCIES scheduled date of 2020. tion and we need one now. We and ‘unelected’ members of the you mean it — to show you’re vote for a government that will Explaining her change of have at this moment a one-off House of Lords had vowed ‘to not opposing the government put the interests of the major- heart on an early election, May chance to get this done. fight us every step of the way’,” for the sake of it, to show that ity first”. He said: “Labour will N Korea: Ready to react to ‘any mode of war’ said: “I have concluded the only In a statement outside she added. “If we don’t hold you do not treat politics as a be offering the country an way to guarantee certainty and Number 10, May said: “Labour a General Election now, their game. Let’s tomorrow vote for effective alternative to a gov- from US; vows to test missiles on a regular basis security for years ahead is to had threatened to vote against political game-playing will an election — let’s put forward ernment that has failed to hold this election.” She accused the final Brexit agreement, the continue and the negotiations our plans for Brexit and our rebuild the economy, delivered PYONGYANG: North Korea will continue to test missiles on a weekly, Britain’s other political parties Liberal Democrats had stated with the European Union will alternative programmes for falling living standards and monthly and yearly basis, Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol has said. He of “game playing”, adding that they wanted to ‘grind the reach their most difficult stage government and then let the damaging cuts to our schools this risks “our ability to make business of government to a in the run up to the next Gen- people decide.” Labour leader and NHS.” AGENCIES said that an “all-out war” would result if the US took military action. “If the US is planning a military attack against us, we will react with a nuclear pre-emp- At least 29 dead PRE-ELECTION ATTACK PLOT tive strike by our own style and method,” Han said. The country is preparing Deputy PM: Turkey extends state for “any mode of war” triggered by US military action, Pyongyang’s envoy to of emergency by three months as Philippine the United Nations warned on Monday, saying his country would respond to a Weapons found missile or nuclear strike “in kind.” The statement from North Korea’s deputy ANKARA: Turkey extended its state of emergency bus plunges ambassador to the United Nations, Kim In Ryong, followed warnings from US on Monday by three months starting from Wednes- after France attack Vice President Mike Pence to Pyongyang not to test US resolve. “If the United day, its third such extension after a coup attempt into ravine States dares opt for a military action (...) the DPRK is ready to react to any last July, a deputy prime minister said. The decision MANILA: Bus passengers mode of war desired by the Americans,” Kim told a news conference at UN came after the National Security Council advised were screaming in horror as plot arrests: Sources headquarters in New York. “We will take the toughest counteraction against extending it, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtul- the driver repeatedly stepped the provocateurs,” he said. N Korea has taken “self-defensive” measures in mus told reporters in a press conference in Ankara. on the apparently malfunc- response to US threats of military action and these reflect Pyongyang’s deter- tioning brakes before plung- mination to “counter nukes and ICBM in kind,” Kim said, referring to inter- Emergency rule, first imposed in Turkey after an ing into a deep ravine in the abortive military coup on July 15 and then extended northern Philippines, leav- continental ballistic missiles. Pence earlier told a news conference in South in October, enables the government to bypass par- ing at least 29 people dead Korea that “the era of strategic patience is over” after N Korea on Sunday liament in enacting new laws and to limit or sus- on Tuesday in one of the test-fired another missile and fears mounted that it may be preparing a sixth pend rights and freedoms when deemed necessary. country’s deadliest accidents nuclear test. Pyongyang is seeking to develop a long-range missile capable of in years, a survivor and offi- hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five Turkey has formally arrested more than 40,000 cials said. people during the investigation of the coup, which it The rest of the more than nuclear tests, two of them last year. Kim also confirmed that a new nuclear has blamed on Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and 50 passengers were retrieved test was under preparation, saying that the plans had been announced and his followers. More than 100,000 people in total, by rescuers who struggled that “it will take place.” “As far as nuclear test is concerned, it was already with ropes to descend down announced to the public. It is something that our headquarters decided. At a including soldiers, police officers, teachers, judges the 24-meter (80-foot) deep and journalists, have been suspended. AGENCIES ravine to reach the wreck- time where headquarters deem necessary, it will take place,” he said. AGENCIES age in Nueva Ecija province’s PARIS: French authorities an attack to coincide with the Carranglan town, said disas- found guns and bomb-mak- election. Eleven candidates ter-response officer Mark ing materials on Tuesday after will fight the first round on 23 Raymond Cano. Many of the arrest of two men sus- April, with the top two quali- Australia urges the passengers were hospi- pected of plotting an “immi- fying for the run-off on 7 May. WORLD BRIEFS talized with serious injuries nent” attack just days before Last week, photos of the China to rein in and parents separated from presidential polls, sources close two suspects were distrib- POLICE HELICOPTER WITH 12 ON BOARD their children in the confu- to the probe said. uted to the security teams for sion, officials said. “One child The items were discov- far-right candidate Marine ‘reckless’ CRASHES IN EASTERN TURKEY here sat beside her mother. ered during searches in the Le Pen and centrist Emman- ISTANBUL: A Turkish police helicopter with at least 12 The mother was dead,” said southern city of Marseille after uel Macron. “The photos were North Korea people on board, including police officers and judges, Dr. Napoleon Obana of the the suspects — “radicalised” passed to my security service Veterans Regional Hospi- Frenchmen aged 23 and 29 from Thursday,” Le Pen told SYDNEY: China has an obliga- on Tuesday crashed in eastern Turkey, local media tal, where some of the vic- — were taken into custody, AFP, while an aide to Macron tion to use its “enormous lever- reported. The chopper, whose passengers included two tims were taken. TV footage sources said. also confirmed his campaign age” to bring nuclear-armed judges and seven policemen, crashed in the eastern showed a line of rescuers The sources asked not to be team received the pictures. North Korea back from the province of Tunceli, the private NTV television said, and villagers, some holding named because they were not Conservative candidate brink, Australia’s prime minis- without giving details on the cause of the crash. on to a rope to climb up on authorised to speak publicly. Francois Fillon was warned ter said on Tuesday, toughen- a grassy slope with a victim Both men were said to have about the danger on Friday, an ing Canberra’s position on the 108 MILITANTS KILLED IN PAKISTAN’S on a stretcher. A throng of been radicalised in prison. Inte- aide said. escalating crisis. villagers waited in a clear- rior Minister Matthias Fekl said France has been on high Malcolm Turnbull’s ANTI-TERROR OPERATION ing above them to help pull the attack was to be carried out alert for more than two years remarks came after the North’s ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces have killed 108 the victim to safety. Cano in the “next few days” as France following a string of terror latest failed missile test and terrorists in a major anti-terror operation launched in said a preliminary investi- gears up to vote on Sunday in attacks which began in Janu- ahead of a visit to Australia February, the military said on Monday. The operation gation showed that the bus the first round of a two-stage ary 2015, killing more than by US Vice President Mike codenamed “Radd-ul-Fasaad,” or “Reject Discord” in “lost its brakes and plunged presidential election. 230 people. Polls have shown Pence, who is in Asia to signal down the ravine.” Passenger “They had the aim of com- that voters are more concerned Washington’s commitment to English, was launched after a series of terrorist attacks Ralph Raymond Grajo said mitting in the very short term, about unemployment and their regional security. that killed over 100 people nationwide. The regular he saw the driver repeatedly in other words in the very next spending power than terror- “The North Korea regime army and other law enforcement agencies are jointly stepping on the malfunction- days, an attack on French soil,” ism or security, though ana- is a reckless and dangerous conducting the intelligence-based operation. Sharing ing brakes as the wayward he said. The DGSI domestic lysts warn that concerns could threat to peace and stability in results of the operation, army spokesman Maj. Gen. bus was speeding along a intelligence service is said to change quickly in the event of our region and, indeed, in the Asif Ghafoor said at a news conference that about downhill road. AGENCIES suspect the pair of plotting further bloodshed. AGENCIES world,” Turnbull told reporters in Canberra. “The real obliga- 4,500 suspects have also been taken into custody dur- tion — the heaviest obligation ing the operation. — is on China.” 60 ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS KILLED IN US university supports Indian Beijing has “enormous leverage over North Korea” IRAQ’S MOSUL and “the ability... to bring, to pull North Korea back into at BAGHDAD: Iraqi troops killed 60 Islamic State (IS) students post Trump’s travel ban least the position where it is militants in Mosul, including a commander, a senior not threatening to rain down official said on Tuesday. Police forces, backed by Iraqi WASHINGTON/NEW ban Muslim immigrants into devastation on its neighbours,” warplanes and artillery fire, were making progress in DELHI: Against the backdrop the US. “We have welcomed Turnbull said. combating extremists in the al-Farouk area and in the of immigration rules proposed Indian students for over ten “So what we’re now look- vicinity of al-Nuri mosque in Mosul, Efe news reported. under US President Donald years and will continue to ing forward to is action from This mosque is a prime target for the government Trump, the Missouri State do so with the same zeal and China.” A close US ally, Aus- University in the US on Fri- enthusiasm,” Associate Vice- tralia nonetheless enjoys a forces for its symbolic value as it is the site where IS day announced its support for President of the university’s good relationship with China, leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed the caliph- Indian students and said that it International Studies Depart- its biggest trading partner. ate on June 29, 2014. During the last hours of fighting, wants Indian students to “stay ment Stephen Robinette said Beijing is under intense the police destroyed five armoured vehicles, eight on in the university”. in the statement. pressure, particularly from motorcycles loaded with bombs, six anti-aircraft bat- “Missouri State Univer- In January this year, the US, to do more to rein in teries and dismantled three bombs placed in buildings. sity (MSU), a long-established actions with the international Trump signed an executive Pyongyang, which has defied university of mid-west US, students and has been guiding order clamping a travel ban international pressure over its SAUDI BLOCKS 68% OF 900,000 announces that the univer- and supporting them. on nationals of seven countries quest to develop a nuclear- sity values the presence of all “At Missouri State Univer- which comprised Iraq, Iran, tipped ballistic missile capable VIOLATED INTERNET LINKS Indian students. MSU wants sity, there are 2,500 interna- Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia of reaching the US mainland. RIYADH: Saudi communication and IT authority Indian students to be in the tional students, all of whom and Sudan for 90 days. But China has long opposed revealed on Monday that 68 percent of 900,000 university, to be engaged in have been given thorough Several states in the US dramatic action against the violated internet links were blocked last year, Al Ara- university activities, and to be support in every aspect,” the sued the administration North, fearing the regime’s biya local news reported. It said 92 per cent of those successful,” said a statement statement said. Crackdown against the ban, resulting in a collapse would send a flood from the varsity. on illegal immigration was court order which temporar- of refugees across its border links were porn and more than 1,300 linked were with It said that since the deci- one of the prominent prom- ily restrained the imposition and leave the US military on abusive nature against children. The authority also sion on travel ban in Janu- ises of Trump during his elec- of the ban. its doorstep. Yet US threats to interacted with content providers to deal with 52,000 ary, the university has been tion campaign. He had also The matter is still under take unilateral action have rat- links to prevent the availability of porn contents. engaged in one-on-one inter- proposed more than once to judicial consideration. AGENCIES tled Chinese leaders. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp ‘Sydney Opera House under HATE CRIME YET AGAIN IN US AGAINST INDIANS threat of terror attack’ SYDNEY: A leading business organisation in Sikh cab driver assaulted, Australia warned on Tuesday that the iconic tourism and entertainment precinct, the Syd- ney Opera House, is at threat of terrorist attack, a media report said. The warning came after a multitude of vehi- cles were spotted driving up the pedestrian strip turban snatched by riders toward the world-famous landmark, Xinhua news agency reported. NEW YORK: A 25-year- unruly passenger. Many were concerned about the potential of old Sikh cab driver in the US “At that time, I’m so afraid an attack similar to those seen in London, Nice was assaulted and his turban they can do anything to me. and elsewhere around the globe if security was knocked off by drunk passen- They’re gonna kill me.” With not improved. gers, an incident the police was the police on its way, the group Speaking to the local media, Patricia For- rity,” Forsythe said. investigating as a possible hate ran away from the scene with sythe, executive director at the Sydney Business A resident who did not wish to be named, crime. The incident took place Singh’s turban, a primary sym- Chamber said the lack of oversight at the iconic spoke of an incident that occurred earlier in the here early Sunday morning bol of the faith. The incident complex was concerning. year that saw a work van appear out of nowhere and has left Harkirat Singh, an occurred just hours after thou- She said that a new agency was required to and drive down the pedestrian promenade. immigrant from Punjab who sands of Sikhs had gathered at ensure the safety of all those who use the pre- “All of a sudden there’s a van coming behind moved to the US three years Times Square for the ‘Turban cinct. “It is timely that these agencies develop a us and there were people everywhere,” the resi- ago, scared. day’ event organised by a Sikh complete approach to the future development dent said. “They drove the entire length of the “I’m so afraid. I don’t want group to spread awareness of Circular Quay, which would include secu- promenade ... it was scary.” AGENCIES to work,” Singh told the New about the faith. York Daily News. “It’s an insult The report said police on my religion, also. An insult sources described the suspect Russia Metro of my faith. It’s horrible.” as a clean-shaven white His- Myanmar: 285 The report said the New panic man in his 20s, around blast’s alleged York Police Department is 5-foot-9. investigating the incident as a Police say they are only killed, 1,073 injured organiser denies possible hate crime. Mayor Bill seeking one suspect, though de Blasio tweeted in his sup- they’d like to speak to the other masterminding port, saying “Harkirat Singh and a woman - all in their 20s hurling slurs and banging on Then he punched Singh in the three passengers. Singh did during water festival You are welcome here. What - around 5 AM Sunday from the plastic partition in his cab, arm, he said.“After that, he not require a medical atten- MOSCOW: A man detained happened to you was wrong. Madison Square Garden. Singh recalled. picked off my turban from my tion but filed a report with as a suspected organiser of the You did the right thing by call- When they reached their “They’re using bad words, head,” he said. “He wanted to police. He was able to snap a Saint Petersburg metro bomb- ing the NYPD.” destination in the Bronx, they also,” he said recalling that snatch my phone also...It was photo of two of the passengers. ing denied on Tuesday that he Last week, Sikhs in the began complaining that Singh those used expletives and called too horrible.” Harpreet Singh Toor, the chair- helped mastermind the attack, US launched a million-dollar had taken them to the wrong him “Ali Baba.” Singh told the As the men became violent, man of public policy and exter- but did admit indirect involve- awareness campaign aiming address. The passengers were group to pay USD 41.76 and Singh got terrified and began to nal affairs at The Sikh Cultural ment in it. to inform Americans about allegedly drunk and could not find another cab. While the cry, saying he pleaded with the Society, said the theft reflected Russia’s FSB security ser- the Sikh faith amid continu- give Singh a straight answer women gave him the cash man to calm down. prejudice against Sikhs, who vice yesterday said it detained ous incidents of hate crime about where they wanted to go, after Singh called 911, one of “Why are you doing this, often targeted in anti-Mus- Kyrgyzstan-born Abror Azi- against the community. Singh leaving him “confused.” the men got back into the cab brother? We can sit. We can lim bias despite following a mov in a suburb of Moscow said he picked up three men The passengers then began and tried to smash the meter. talk,” he recalled telling the different faith. AGENCIES over the deadly April 3 blast that killed 14 people in Russia’s second city. The FSB alleged Israel: No talks Syria: 23 killed in US led airstrikes Azimov was “one of the organ- US Supreme Court blocks isers” of the attack and had with Palestinian DAMASCUS: At least 23 people were killed in YANGON: A total of 285 peo- “carried out training” of the executions in Arkansas airstrikes in Syria allegedly carried out by the ple were killed and 1,073 others A total of 1,200 suspected 22- year-old suicide inmates on injured across Myanmar dur- criminal cases bomber Akbarjon Djalilov, WASHINGTON: The US Inmates Bruce Ward US-led international coalition in areas under the ing a four-day water festival, who was born in Central Asian Supreme Court on Tuesday and Don Davis, the first two hunger strike Islamic State (IS) terror organisation’s control in media reports said. were also Kyrgyzstan. rejected the state of Arkan- men scheduled to die, had Syria, said a British war monitor on Tuesday. The The deaths were 13 more registered during At a court hearing on Mon- sas’ request to execute the requested a delay last week, JERUSALEM: Israel will not Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 13 than that of last year’s event. day to formally arrest him, first prisoner in a tight sched- citing the need to wait for the negotiate with hundreds of civilians and three IS militants were among those Meanwhile, a total of the water festival Azimov admitted indirect ule of eight death sentences conclusion of a US Supreme Palestinian prisoners who 1,200 criminal cases were “involvement” in the attack before the end of the month, Court case. launched a hunger strike to killed in an airstrike near the town of al-Bukamal also registered during The criminal cases were but denied organising it. “I do the media reported. Both inmates’ lawyers claim press for better conditions, on the Syrian border with Iraq. There were also the water festival, Xinhua related to murder, car acci- not oppose being arrested. But The nation’s highest court that their clients are too men- a government minister said bombings at one of Bukamal’s entrances. AGENCIES news agency reported. dent, drug-use, theft, arm pos- I did not say that I was involved took several hours to reach its tally impaired to face capi- on Tuesday, adding that Among the deaths, 10 were session and group violence in the blast,” Azimov was decision, finally announcing at tal punishment and were not the organiser of the protest in Nay Pyi Taw, 44 in Yan- respectively. quoted as saying by Russian 11.50pm that it had declined to offered proper mental health has been placed in solitary gon, 36 in Mandalay, 26 in This year’s traditional news agencies. lift a stay on the execution of screening. confinement. Sagaing region, 11 in Tanin- Thingyan water festival ran “There was some involve- Don Davis, 54, imposed earlier The state’s highest court If sustained, the strike tharyi region, 37 in Bago from Thursday to Sunday. ment by me, but not direct. I in the day by the supreme court granted a stay on Monday led by Marwan Barghouti, a region, 11 in Magway region, During last year’s water was given an order. I did not of Arkansas. afternoon. Palestinian leader jailed dur- 20 in Mon state, 17 in Rakh- festival, a total of 272 peo- understand that I was tak- The court, in a brief rul- The court issued its ruling ing the second Palestinian ine, 29 in Shan state and 28 in ple were killed and 1,086 ing part in terrorist activity,” ing with no explanation, at the very last minute - media uprising, would be the larg- Ayeyawaddy region. others injured. AGENCIES he said. AGENCIES said it would not lift the witnesses were already seated est in recent years. It could Arkansas Supreme Court’s to document Davis’ execution, heighten Israeli-Palestinian order to stop the executions of reports NBC News. tensions at a time of renewed Libya fishermen found 28 dead migrants in boat offshore two inmates who were to be put He was already moved US attempts to restart stalled to death on Monday night, NBC to the Cummins Unit where peace negotiations. TRIPOLI: Libyan fishermen found the bodies of 28 illegal migrants who ap- News reported. the lethal injection gurney is Israeli rule over the West peared to have died of thirst and hunger after their boat broke down off the The ruling was the lat- located. Davis had even been Bank and east Jerusalem, coast of Sabratha city, a ministry of interior official said on Tuesday. Since est in a series of legal hurdles supplied his last meal. territories captured during that the state has faced since Arkansas Governor Asa the 1967 war and claimed by Libya fell into chaos after Muammar Gaddafi’s fall in 2011, the North African it announced in February its Hutchinson said he was “dis- the Palestinians as part of a country is the main departure point for migrants hoping to reach Europe by plans to execute eight men appointed” by the ruling. future state, reaches the half- sea. More than 150,000 have made the crossing to Italy annually over the past in a 10-day span. But pros- “While this has been century mark in June. three years. Interior Ministry security unit commander Ahmaida Khalifa Am- ecutors surmounted a major an exhausting day for all The Palestinian prison- salam told Reuters the 28 migrants, including four women, had been found roadblock earlier on Monday involved, we will continue ers seek better conditions, when the 8th Circuit Court of to fight back on last minute including more contact with after sunset by the fishermen who towed the vessel to shore. The victims were Appeals overturned a district appeals and efforts to block relatives, and an end to Isra- buried together in a cemetery for illegal migrants, he said. AGENCIES court judge’s ruling to stay all justic for the victims’ families,” el’s practice of detentions of the executions. Hutchinson said. AGENCIES without trials. AGENCIES US ‘Facebook killer’ commits UN: Civilians trapped in Mosul could suicide after brief chase face worst catastrope in Iraq conflict UNITED NATIONS: The fighting in the Islamic CHICAGO: The US man vania State Police. wanted for killing an elderly The FBI had put Ste- State-held Old City of Mosul, where hundreds man in Ohio and then post- phens on its Most Wanted list, of thousands of Iraqi civilians are trapped, could ing a video of the murder on and authorities were offer- turn into the worst humanitarian “catastrophe” Facebook fatally shot himself ing up to $50,000 in rewards in the war against the militants, the United Na- on Tuesday after a brief pur- for information leading tions warned on Tuesday. “If there is a siege and suit in neighbouring Penn- to his capture. sylvania, police said. Steve Stephens was accused of hundreds of thousands of people don’t have wa- Stephens, 37, had been the sub- fatally shooting Robert God- ter and don’t have food, they will be at enormous ject of a nationwide manhunt win Sr in Cleveland, Ohio as risk,” UN humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Lise in the wake of Sunday’s killing the 74-year-old grandfather Grande said in a telephone interview. “We could in Cleveland. was walking home from din- be facing a humanitarian catastrophe, perhaps The incident was the latest ner on Easter Sunday. grisly crime posted on Face- Stephens is believed to have the worst in the entire conflict,” she added. book, reviving questions about videotaped his actions and Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq, was cap- videos posted on the world’s published it on Facebook, along tured by the ultra-hardline Sunni Muslim fight- largest social network, and how with another video threatening ers in mid 2014. Iraqi government forces have – or if – they can be monitored. to kill others and claiming he taken back most of it in a U.S.-backed offensive The footage was eventually had already killed 13 people. taken down. Stephens “was Authorities said Godwin is launched in October, including the half that lies spotted this morning by PSP the only known victim despite east of the Tigris river. The militants are now sur- members in Erie County. After an extensive investigation rounded in the northwestern quarter including a brief pursuit, Stephens shot into Stephens’s claims to have the historic Old City. AGENCIES and killed himself,” Pennsyl- killed others. AGENCIES Indians can visit Russia’s far east without visas MOSCOW: Russian Prime nessmen “will promote growth Minister Dmitry Medvedev of investment and tourist has announced that tourists attractiveness of the far east,” and businessmen from India the prime minister said. The and 17 other countries can visit region will earn more money the country’s far east without from tourist traffic growth, he visas to boost tourism and added. investment in the region. Eighteen countries from Medvedev said on Sunday various regions selected by that businessmen and tourists the reciprocity principle were will not need to undergo the included into the list, Medve- traditional procedure of Rus- ico, UAE, Oman, Saudi Ara- “We are pro actively form- dev said. “This is not because sian visas receipt. bia, Singapore, Tunisia, Turkey ing the modern infrastructure these states are situated at a According to the official and Japan, Tass news agency and creating special regimes in closer or longer distance - we site of the Russian Cabinet, the reported. “I have recently the far east; the law on visits to are appropriately introducing list of 18 countries comprises approved the list of countries, the Vladivostok free port was bilateral agreements on visa- Algeria, Bahrain, Brunei, India, whose nationals can take approved in March,” he said. free travel for those ready to Iran, Qatar, China, North advantage of the preferential Cancellation of visa pro- use such an approach for us,” Korea, Kuwait, Morocco, Mex- regime,” Medvedev said. cedures for tourists and busi- he said. AGENCIES 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 Normal monsoon to boost TCS unperturbed by possible changes to H1-B regime: CEO

WASHINGTON: Unfazed farmers’ income, feels MS by the possible changes to the H1-B visa regime, CEO of NEW DELHI: A normal mon- India’s IT major TCS Rajesh soon in 2017, as predicted by Average monsoons: Analysts Gopinathan has said the cur- IMD, will definitely boost the rent discourse on the issue in farm sector but good prices see farm GDP growing by 3-4% the US is driven by emotions and market opportunities are rather than economy and the equally important to ensure best way to tackle it is through better income for farmers, MUMBAI: A normal monsoon season, as pro- greater engagement. renowned agriculture scientist jected by the Met department (IMD) could help Gopinathan favoured a pol- M S Swaminathan said today. the agricultural GDP grow by 3-4 per cent this icy of engagement with various “Normal monsoon will cer- year, a tad lower than last year’s, says a report. stake holders on the issue of tainly help achieve the produc- The IMD on Tuesday said there would be good H-1B visas in the US. He noted tion goals. Better price for the that the discourse is currently TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan produce and marketing oppor- distribution of rainfall across the country and driven by emotions rather than tunities are equally important,” it will receive 96 per cent of the long period economy. he told PTI. average. “We believe that the agricultural GDP “The best way to tackle that TCS January-March net profit Stating that one should not is most likely to be in range of 3-4 per cent, a is greater engagement. think monsoon in isolation, he tad low compared to 2016-17, if rainfall remains Because the way, some- grows by 4.2% to `6,608 crore said: “You have to think mon- times, companies like us get soon with market together. normal,” an SBI Research said. It said even characterised is very different Farmers try to manage even in case of deficit rainfalls there are instances from the reality of what we MUMBAI: The country’s largest software during bad monsoon if they get better results with good mon- port sowing. However, ade- where agri-GDP has in fact expanded and bring to the table,” Gopinathan, exporter TCS on Tuesday reported 4.2 per good price for their produce.” soon forecast,” he said. quate rainfall in the second half smartly grew in slightly more than normal rain- who is in his mid-40s, said. cent growth in net profit at Rs 6,608 crore for Swaminathan, regarded as The government is hoping a would be important for yields. fall in 2010 and 2011. In 2009, despite a 22 per “Some of these engage- the quarter ended March 2017. The company father of India’s Green Revo- record foodgrain output of over “Although reservoir stor- ments actually help get that lution, said more efforts need 272 million tonnes this year. age exceeds the level in 2016, cent decline in rainfalls, agri-GDP expanded by message out also. People will had reported net profit of Rs 6,340 crore in the to be put to ensure farmers get The target for next year will it may not prove to be ade- 0.8 per cent. The report said the current year’s understand us better for who same period last fiscal as per Indian accounting good price during a normal be decided just before start of quate to shield the crop sector, forecast is majorly important for the farm sec- we are, and I think engage- norms. The Tata Group company, which ac- monsoon. He said that farm- monsoon from June, he added. if monsoon rainfall turns out to tor with initial reports pointing fingers at the El ment, communication and col- counts for more than 60 per cent of the group’s ers have reduced basmati rice Agri-economist and for- be appreciably weaker than the laboration is the best way to overall profit, reported a revenue growth of 4.2 acreage this year due to fall- mer CACP Chairman Ashok IMD’s initial forecast,” he said. Ni o which may happen during the later part of deal with the political lack of ing prices. “So, farmers’ faith is Gulati said: “After suffering Reservoir storage is cur- the year. PTI understanding which comes. per cent at Rs 29,642 crore for the said quarter, determined by both monsoon two droughts, this is the sec- rently at around 31 per cent Democracy ought to deal with up from Rs 28,449 crore a year earlier. and marketing.” ond normal monsoon. I hope of full capacity, in line with the suggests a high likelihood of a “In case the IMD forecast the emotional response that Stating that normal mon- the country will do better. level in 2015. prolonged pause for the policy turns out to be correct, which you see and you have to get been a market that has been footing. So, it has been a mar- soon forecast bodes well for the Hope farmers reap good har- “Notwithstanding the rate. The RBI is likely to focus it should, India would witness a over it and engage positively,” fair, it has been an open, com- ket that has helped us grow in country, Agriculture Secretary vest and get good prices. Hope modest contribution of agri- on liquidity management mea- robust agriculture growth con- Gopinathan said. petitive environment,” Gopina- confidence as we have gone,” Shobhana Pattanayak said that the prices will not collapse the culture to the overall GDP, the sures in the next few policies,” tinuously for two years, reaping He said the US has been a than said, exuding confidence he said but repeatedly refrained the government hopes for “a way they have this year.” monsoon outlook would have he said in a statement. a record 272 million tonnes of “very welcoming market” for that TCS would be able to suc- from having any complaint successive good foodgrain pro- ICRA Ltd Principal Econo- some impact on consumption Industry body Assocham foodgrains (second advance the IT major and has provided cessfully compete in any envi- from the present system or duction” in 2017-18. A lot of mist Aditi Nayar said the vol- sentiment. said that the IMD forecast of estimates) during 2016-17. This it with a fair, open and com- ronment. Gopinathan said TCS the possibility of a new execu- efforts are being put into imple- ume, timing and dispersion “The impact of monsoon monsoon this year is a relief as would have several positives for petitive environment. has competed and has won tive order that would adversely menting certain agri-schemes of monsoon rainfall in 2017 dynamics, as well as other infla- doubts were cast on whether the economy, including modest “All said and done, the against the best in the country. have an impact on his compa- like crop insurance and e-mar- would be quite crucial. tion risks such as goods and the country would get normal inflation and vibrancy in the US has been a very welcom- “We have competed and ny’s performance due to any keting, among others. Higher rainfall in the early services tax won’t be clear for at rains for the second year in suc- GDP,” said Assocham Secretary ing market for us. So you keep we have won against the global action by the Trump Adminis- “The schemes will show part of the monsoon may sup- least a few more months, which cession or not. General D S Rawat. PTI aside the immediate issues, it’s best in this country, on equal tration on H-1B visas. PTI ‘Availability of RBI lets banks’ exposure India Inc’s foreign investments cash-dispensing Note ban shrinks jump 2-fold to $3 bn in March ATMs continues to REITs, InvITs be 10% to worsen’ securitisation in MFIs MUMBAI: The RBI on Tuesday permitted banks It further said banks will not invest more than MUMBAI: Foreign direct investment (FDI) by Indian compa- New Delhi: Cash availability at to invest up to 10 per cent of the unit capital of 10 per cent of the unit capital of an REIT/ InvIT. nies in their overseas ventures jumped over two- fold to USD ATMs across the country has by 79% in H2 of FY17’ an Real Estate Investment Trust (REITs) or Infra- In addition, banks will have to ensure adher- 2.99 billion last month. deteriorated again following a structure Investment Trusts (InvITs). ence to the prudential guidelines on equity Indian firms had made investments of $1.42 billion in their brief improvement in January The banks’ exposure to REITs/InvITs will be investments, classification and valuation of overseas joint-ventures/subsidiaries in March 2016. even five months after demon- KOLKATA: The impact of within the overall ceiling of 20 per cent of the investment portfolio, Basel III Capital require- Investments in March this year were much higher than the etisation, shows a survey. demonetisation on microfi- New Sebi net worth permitted for direct investments in ments for commercial real estate exposures and preceding month, February, at $867.53 million, the Reserve The ATM outage level, nance securitisation volumes shares, convertible bonds/ debentures, units of large exposure framework. Bank data showed on Tuesday. which had improved in Janu- has led to a slump of 79 per cent website equity-oriented mutual funds and Venture Capi- In its first bimonthly monetary policy of Their investment came in the form of equities $1.99 bil- ary and February, is showing in the second half of FY17’. tal Funds (VCFs). “Banks should put in place a 2017-18, the RBI had permitted banks to invest lion, loans of $742.60 million and issuance of guarantee worth deterioration in April. “The decline is to the tune launched Board approved policy on exposures to REITs/ in REITs and InvITs. The move was aimed to help $251.40 million. In a survey conducted by of 79 per cent in the second half InvITs which lays down an internal limit on such revive the cash-starved infrastructure sector. Among major investors include Bharti Airtel with Ltd citizen engagement platform of the FY17’ at Rs 1,650 crore NEW DELHI: Ex- investments within the overall exposure limits in The Securities and Exchange Board of India $765.20 million and Tata International Ltd, $179.22 million. LocalCircles, 43 per cent citi- compared to Rs 8,000 crore in respect of the real estate sector and infrastruc- (Sebi) has put in place regulations for REITs and ONGC Videsh Ltd invested $75.49 million and WNS zens said they could not find the six months of the previ- panding its digital ture sector,” the Reserve Bank said while issuing InvITs and requested the RBI to allow banks to Global Services $53.78 million. PTI cash in ATMs on April 13-16. ous year,” ICRA Head Struc- presence, markets prudential guidelines in this regard. participate in these schemes. PTI This number has worsened tured Finance, Vibhor Mittal regulator Sebi on from the 36 per cent who had told PTI. Tuesday launched faced problems in finding a The bold demonetisation its revamped web- cash dispensing ATM on April measure was announced in Anti-dumping duty likely on a chemical imports from 6 nations 5-8. November, 2016. site having several Over 8,700 citizens from “After two years of rapid user-friendly fea- NEW DELHI: India may anti-dumping duty” to remove if the domestic industry has across India participated in this growth, volumes for micro tures and compat- impose anti-dumping duty of The commerce ministry’s investigating the injury to the domestic been hurt by a surge in below- poll sharing ATM experiences loans securitisation transac- ible with all desktop up to $118 per tonne on import industry. It has recommended cost imports. As a counter- in their areas. tions witnessed a trend reversal and mobile devices. of a chemical used by indus- arm — Directorate General of the duty in the range of $16.91 measure, they impose the duty. The survey further said with around 20 per cent drop tries in applications such as Anti-dumping and Allied Duties — has per tonne to $117.9 per tonne. These duties are in compli- RBI’s move to lift withdrawal observed for the full 2016-17,” The revamped web- corrosion control and paper While the DGAD recommends ance to the rules of the global limits on March 13 could be a recent ICRA study said. site will ensure a bleaching from six countries concluded in its final findings that the the duty, Finance Ministry trade body World Trade a reason as people have been MFIs (including some erst- better user experi- including Korea, Indonesia and chemicals were dumped in India imposes the same. Organisation. withdrawing cash in bulk while MFIs now small Finance ence across various Pakistan. The move is aimed The import of Hydro- The duties also ensure fair from counters and banks have Banks) raised nearly Rs 5,500 devices, including at guarding domestic players and impacted domestic industry. gen Peroxide has increased to trade by providing a level-play- been forced to maintain high crore through the securiti- from cheap imports of ‘Hydro- National Peroxide Ltd and Hindustan 67,300 tonne during April 2014 ing field to the domestic indus- liquidity. sation route in the first six desktop and mo- gen Peroxide’ from Bangladesh, to June 2015 from 17,464 tonne try. They are not a measure to This has led to mainte- months of FY17’. bile, Securities and Taiwan, Korea, Indonesia, Pak- Organic Chemicals Ltd had jointly filed in 2011 -12. The chemical is restrict imports or cause an nance of ATMs and frequent However, as per ICRA esti- Exchange Board of istan and Thailand. an application for the dumping probe used by various industries for unjustified increase in the cost cash replenishment taking a mates only around Rs 1,650 India (Sebi) said in a The commerce ministry’s corrosion control, paper and of products. back seat. crore was raised in the second investigating arm - Director- pulp bleaching. It also has ther- Unlike the safeguard duty, Moreover, people have been half of the fiscal, resulting in statement. PTI ate General of Anti-dumping in India which has impacted Ltd had jointly filed the appli- apeutic uses as an antiseptic which is levied in a uniform withdrawing large amounts total securitisation volumes of and Allied Duties (DGAD) - in the domestic industry. cation for the dumping probe. and antibacterial agent. way, anti-dumping duty varies from ATMs as some banks levy around Rs 7,150 crore for the tisation volumes had increased its final findings has concluded National Peroxide Ltd and The DGAD in a notification Countries initiate anti- from company to company and a transaction fee after four such full year. by 80 per cent to around Rs that the chemical was dumped Hindustan Organic Chemicals “recommends imposition of dumping probes to determine country to country. PTI withdrawals. PTI In comparison, MFI securi- 9,000 crore in fiscal 2016. PTI Volkswagen plans all-electric car for China next year

SHANGHAI: Volkswagen, brand for the VW-Jiang- Europe’s biggest automaker, huai partnership follows an Ola set to zoom out to over plans to launch its first pure- approach taken by Mercedes- electric car in China next year Benz, GM and Nissan Motor LG plans to make as Beijing steps up pressure on Co. Foreign brands are under 1 lakh driver entrepreneurs the industry to promote alter- pressure from Chinese regula- natives to gasoline. tors to help local partners cre- India export hub BENGALURU: Cab aggrega- between April 8 and April 10 The announcement on ate indigenous brands. tor Ola on Tuesday announced where hundreds of autorick- Tuesday comes on the eve of Despite government subsi- that it plans to reach out to over shaw driver partners availed the Shanghai auto show, which dies and other encouragement, NEW DELHI: South Korean sales of the company’s Indian 1,00,000 driver entrepreneurs the opportunity of becoming showcases industry efforts to electric cars have yet to catch consumer electronics giant arm -- LG Electronics India through ‘Auto Driver Partner micro-entrepreneurs by own- create electric models with on with China’s driving pub- LG is looking at making (LGEI), are currently from Melas’ across all major cities ing autorickshaws for the first consumer appeal. General lic due to concern about their India its export hub, bank- exports. and towns in the country. time. Motors Co.’s Buick unit and limited range. Most Chinese ing on good ties between the Last year, LGEI had sales This multi-city programme This initiative that will Ford Motor Co. also have automakers sell plug-in bat- two countries at a time when of Rs 22,000 crore. is an on-ground initiative to kickstart from Bengaluru, announced new electric vehi- tery models but their range is its overseas shipments from “On the other hand ties help thousands of aspiring auto will move to Mumbai, Delhi, cles for China this year. The usually no more than 120 to China are declining. between South Korea and driver partners to take the first Hyderabad, and Pune over the VW model will be the first in 150 kilometers (75 to 95 miles) According to LG Elec- India have improved. All step towards entrepreneurship course of the next few months, a range of electric vehicles in China has the world’s most event of the year, almost every too little to attract most buyers. tronics India Managing Korean (companies) have and achieve their dreams, the the release said. China, said Jochem Heizmann, aggressive electric car goals. global and Chinese auto brand Sales of electric and gas- Director Ki Wan Kim, one started to see India as a stra- company said. Ola Chief Operating Officer head of VW’s China unit. It is Communist leaders are is showing at least one electric oline-electric hybrids fell 4.4 of the main reasons for the tegically important manufac- The OLA Auto Mela will Vishal Kaul said, “with a multi- due to be produced under a promoting them to clean up concept vehicle, if not a mar- per cent from a year earlier to company to look at making turing base not only for India bring together a host of man- city initiative at such scale, we new brand name with a local smog-choked cities and in ket-ready model. Heizmann 55,929 vehicles while sales of India an export hub is due to but for other areas,” Wan told ufacturers, service providers, are enabling access to capi- partner, state-owned Jianghuai hopes of taking the lead in an said VW, which vies with GM SUVs rose 21 per cent to 2.4 tension prevailing between PTI. and financial institutions under tal, consistent revenue as well Automotive Corp. emerging technology. Regula- for the title of China’s top-sell- million. South Korea and China. When asked if LG is one roof, to enable deep dis- as training for aspiring driver “This will be a new coop- tors have jolted the industry ing automaker, expects annual Heizmann said the indus- LG, which has two man- scouting for more global mar- counts and savings for their entrepreneurs.” Ola said Driver eration on pure battery cars,” with a proposal to require elec- sales of at least 400,000 “new try needs to find a way to cre- ufacturing units in India, kets for exports from India, customers and build a large partner Melas help it nurture said Heizmann. trics to account for at least 8 per energy vehicles” the govern- ate electric models that appeal exports to the Middle East he replied in the affirmative customer-base in return, it said micro-entrepreneurship in the “Our challenging target is cent of each brand’s produc- ment’s term for electric or gas- to consumers. He said VW was and countries in the eastern saying it is looking for coun- in a release. ecosystem, creating a steady to come, already next year in tion by next year. oline-electric hybrids by 2020 trying to do that by developing coast of African continent. tries where there is little or no Ola held its first Auto stream of supply to address the 2018, to the market with the At the auto show, the global and 1.5 million by 2025. vehicles for different market Around 10 per cent of manufacturing. PTI Driver Partner Mela-’Ola burgeoning mobility needs of first car.” industry’s biggest marketing The plan to create a new segments. PTI Baasha Mela’- in Chennai the country. PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp Are foreign firms taking too Hind Shipyards sails to first much from Indian partners? operating profit in 35 years VISHAKAPATNAM: For the NEW DELHI: A surge in roy- It had argued that the curbs first time in 35 years, state-run alty outflow has prompted The outflows on would help increase the prof- Hindustan Shipyards today the government to set up an its of domestic companies, reported an operating profit inter-ministerial group to anal- account of royalty mainly in the automobile sec- as well as net profit of Rs 30 yse payment norms and see and fee for tor, prevent depletion of for- crore in fiscal 2017, helped by whether there is excessive pay- eign exchange reserves, protect a massive jump in revenue. n out by Indian companies to for- technical services, interest of minority sharehold- fiscal 2016, the company had eign collaborators. taken together, ers and increase revenue for the reported a net profit of Rs 19 Royalty is paid to a for- government. crore but an operating loss of eign collaborator for transfer are estimated According to industry Rs 45 crore. of technology, usage of brand to be as high experts, it will be very difficult “With the best measures or trademarks. to assess the right quantum of and improved morale, we made “Royalty outflow has surged as 15-18 per cent royalty to be paid by domes- an operational profit of Rs 30 in the recent past and it needs of FDI inflows tic companies to foreign par- crore in fiscal 2017 which is the The shipyard, which was brought to be analysed. So, the govern- over 2009-10 ent firms. first in the past 35 years,” chair- ment has set up this inter-min- The increase in outflow of man and managing director LV under the administrative control of the isterial panel,” an official said. and 2012-13 these payments started after Sarat Babu told reporters here. defence ministry in February 2010, has The panel will be headed the government liberalised the Director for finance by an additional secretary level its of domestic companies, of royalty and fee for techni- of trademark or brand name. FDI (foreign direct investment) and commercial M Nagaraj an order book of over `500 crore at officer of the Department of mainly in the automobile sec- cal services, taken together, are Auto major Maruti Suzuki policy in 2009. explained that the shipyard had present. The shipyard also has offers Industrial Policy and Promo- tor, prevent depletion of for- estimated to be as high as 15-18 pays an average royalty of It had removed the cap and an other income of Rs 15 crore, tion (DIPP). It also has repre- eign exchange reserves, protect per cent of the FDI inflows over around 5.5 per cent of its net permitted Indian companies during the year which helped to build two strategic operating vessels sentatives from departments of interest of minority sharehold- 2009-10 and 2012-13. sales to its parent Suzuki. It has to pay royalties to their techni- it report better numbers. Babu called as Midgets amounting to revenue, economic affairs and ers and increase revenue for the As per available data, roy- begun making payments to cal collaborators without seek- said the overall revenue grew to the Reserve Bank. It will sub- government. alty payment increased to $4.1 Suzuki in rupee instead of yen ing prior government approval. a lifetime high of Rs 625 crore `6,000 crore mit its report by June. According to industry billion in 2012-13, from $1.7 for new models starting with The outflows on account from Rs 593 crore in the previ- The terms of reference experts, it will be very difficult billion in 2008-09. compact SUV Vitara Brezza to of royalty and fee for techni- ous year. The shipyard, which build a five-fleet support ships The revenue of Rs 625 includes scrutiny of the outflow to assess the right quantum of FDI, which is critical to bring down royalty outflows. cal services, taken together, are was brought under the admin- worth Rs 10,000 crore. crore in fiscal 2017 is the high- and the present legal structure royalty to be paid by domestic bridging the widening cur- Telecom companies too pay estimated to be as high as 15-18 istrative control of the defence We will get the technol- est since its inception 75 years dealing with royalty payments companies to foreign parent rent account deficit, grew 22 $15 royalty for every mobile per cent of the FDI inflows over ministry in February 2010, has ogy also with the agreement ago, Babu said, adding since and transfer pricing. firms. The increase in outflow per cent to $35.84 billion dur- line. A single line ideally sup- 2009-10 and 2012-13. an order book of over Rs 500 with the Korean company to be then it has built 179 vessels and Earlier, the DIPP had of these payments started after ing April-December of the ports a single call at a given As per available data, roy- crore at present, Babu said, inked in a few days, he added. repaired 1,950 ships of vari- raised serious concerns over the government liberalised the last fiscal. Before 2009, roy- point of time. alty payment increased to USD adding apart from these, the Babu said the yard has mak- ous types. the increasing outflow of such FDI (foreign direct investment) alty payment was regulated by Earlier, the DIPP had 4.1 billion in 2012-13, from shipyard also has offers to build ing operational losses in the The shipyard was also payments. The department had policy in 2009. the government and capped raised serious concerns over USD 1.7 billion in 2008-09. two strategic operating vessels last 35 years barring the past actively pursing orders for con- proposed re-introduction of It had removed the cap and at 8 per cent of exports and 5 the increasing outflow of such FDI, which is critical to called as Midgets amounting to two years. struction of two cadet training restrictions on such payments permitted Indian companies per cent domestic sales in the payments. The department had bridging the widening current Rs 6,000 crore. The shipyard’s revenue from ships and nine 25 tonne bollard by companies to their parent to pay royalties to their techni- case of technology transfer col- proposed re-introduction of account deficit, grew 22 per Babu said the company shipbuilding stood at Rs 294 pull tugs for the Navy and eight entities. cal collaborators without seek- laborations and was fixed at 2 restrictions on such payments cent to USD 35.84 billion dur- will soon be entering into a crore in 2014-15, which rose to IPVs for the Coast Guard. PTI It had argued that the curbs ing prior government approval. per cent of exports and 1 per by companies to their parent ing April-December of the last deal with South Korean major Rs 593 crore in 2015-16 and to would help increase the prof- The outflows on account cent of domestic sales for use entities. fiscal. PTI Hyundai Heavy Industries to Rs 625 crores in 2016-17. Solar power tariff hits all time low J C Nakra assumes Boeing to lay off hundreds of Rajasthan inks fresh of `3.15 per unit charge as Director engineering employees in US at NTPC auction MoU with HPCL for WASHINGTON: American MPOST BUREAU (Projects) of EIL multinational corporation Barmer refinery Boeing has said that it will lay NEW DELHI: Solar tariffs in off “hundreds of engineering India reduced to yet another MPOST BUREAU employees” in Washington JAIPUR: The Rajasthan gov- ous MoU, the state had to give record low at the NTPC-con- state and other company sites ernment today inked a fresh Rs 3,736 crore interest free loan ducted auction of 250 MW NEW DELHI: JC Nakra has on Friday, the media reported. MoU of Rs 43,129 crore with every year for 15 years, which at the Kadapa Solar Park in assumed charge as Director “We need to reduce our Hindustan Petroleum Cor- would have burdened the state Andhra Pradesh. The project (Projects) of Engineers India employment levels further,” poration Ltd (HPCL) for an finances,” Pradhan told report- has been awarded to the Indian Ltd (EIL) with effect from April John Hamilton, Vice Presi- oil refinery in Barmer district ers after signing of the MoU. arm of French clean energy 12, 2017. dent of engineering at Boeing which will produce BS-VI fuel. Elaborating further about firm Solairedirect SA which In a career spanning about Commercial Airplanes, said The state government will the upcoming refinery project, quoted levelised tariff of Rs 36 years, Nakra has worked in on Monday. have 26 per cent stake in the Pradhan said that HPCL, that 3.15/KWh. NTPC broke The a wide array of domains includ- “We anticipate (Friday’s refinery project while HPCL had to spend Rs 37,230 crore earlier record of Rs 3.30 per ing Projects, Construction & notices) will impact hundreds will have the rest shareholding. under the previous deal, will unit levelised tariff for Rewa Marketing. He joined EIL in of engineering employees. The work for the refinery now spend Rs 43,129 crore. Ultra Mega Solar Power Proj- 1983 as a Mechanical Engineer Additional reductions in engi- will commence in the current “Oil field permission had to ect in Madhya Pradesh. (Construction) in the Ocean neering later this year will be financial year and will complete end in 2020 but we have pro- At current rates, solar Engineering Division. Subse- driven by our business envi- in next four years, Union Oil vided permission to the refin- power generation cost is at par quently, he served in various ronment and the amount of Minister Dharmendra Prad- ery to run for 10 more years. with that of thermal power capacities in Marketing and voluntary attrition,” The Hill Boeing has purportedly cut employees over the past year, han said. Apart from 43,129 crore, generation. Solar power tariff Project Divisions. Nakra is a Mechanical magazine quoted Hamilton as 1,332 engineering and techni- mainly through buyouts and It will be the largest indus- additional Rs 27,000 crore has been declining on account Nakra has steered the mar- Engineering Graduate from saying. cal jobs from its Washington retirements. trial investment in the state, the investment will be made in the of sharply declining prices of keting initiatives of EIL for Punjab Engineering College, The Chicago-based com- workforce since January 2016. The company currently minister said further. refinery, oil field and petro- solar panels, better structur- business development in India Chandigarh (1981 Batch) and pany reportedly offered a The Seattle Times added employs 74,200 people, it Under the new terms and chemical complex. ing of the project that reduces and abroad and has also led also possesses a Post-Graduate round of voluntary buyouts that the aviation company added, and reported $95 bil- conditions, the refinery cost “Overall, Rs 70,000 crore risk for project developers and project management teams Diploma in Management Stud- in January, an offer that was issued an earlier round of lay- lion in revenue last year. has come down to Rs 16,845 worth investment will be made better currency hedging deals for implementation of major ies from Jamnalal Bajaj Insti- accepted by more than 300 offs in March, resulting in 245 President Donald Trump crore, which was Rs 56,040 in next four years, Pradhan that make financing available at projects. tute of Management Studies, engineering and technical staff. involuntary layoffs, includ- had criticised Boeing during crore in the previous MoU said. According to the fresh competitive cost. This is a shot Prior to joining EIL, he Mumbai. According to the Seattle ing 62 engineering staff, in his transition period over the done by the Congress govern- MoU, the refinery will produce in the arm for PM Narendra worked as a mechanical engi- Prior to this, he was hold- Times, all the engineering staff mid-May. cost of its replacement Air ment in 2013, Pradhan said. BS-VI emission norms com- Modi’s vision of providing 175 neer in Jagat Jit Cotton Tex- ing the position of Executive who accepted the proposal will The Washington Exam- Force One programme, call- “It was a direct loss of Rs pliant fuel. The government GW of power through renew- tile Mills (JCT), Fibre Division, Director - In-charge (Projects) permanently leave Boeing on iner said Boeing has ter- ing the price of two new 747s 40,000 crore to the state of Raj- plans to move to BS-VI emis- able sources by 2022. PTI Hoshiarpur from 1981 to 1983. in EIL. Friday. PTI minated more than 9,000 “out of control”. PTI asthan in 15 years. In the previ- sion norms by 2020. PTI CORPORATE KALEIDOSCOPE SAIL spends `64,562 cr on modernisation and expansion work

NEW DELHI: State-run SAIL been completed, the report said NMDC and Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory (DMRL) signed an MOU on Tuesday at NMDC Head has so far spent a total of Rs adding the new facilities are Office, Hyderabad. P K Satpathy, Director (Production), NMDC, and Dr Samir V Kamat, Director, DMRL, 64,562 crore on modernisation under operation and produc- signed the MOU. Dr Narendra Kumar Nanda, Director (Technical), NMDC, and S K Jha, Director (Production NTPC-Telangana Unit-1(800 MW) TG Foundation Concrete work started at 1.30 am on Tuesday. Concreting and expansion programmes, tion ramp-up. & Marketing), MIDHANI, were also present during the occasion of 2140 m3 (cubic meter) will continue for approximately 50 hours which also includes Rs 2,324 At Bhilai steel plant, Uni- crore investment in first nine versal Rail Mill for supply of months of the last fiscal. world’s longest single-piece “Cumulative expenditure 130-metre-long rail along with (by SAIL) for various moderni- rail welding line for produc- sation and expansion packages tion of 260-metre-long rails has till December 2016 has been Rs been completed. 64,562 crore, including expen- “Other facilities like ore diture of Rs 2,324 crore during handling plant part-A, 2nd sin- the financial year 2016-17 till ter machine in sinter plant-3 December 2016,” according to a and coke oven battery -- 11 are latest government report. in regular operation and bal- Steel Authority of India ance facilities viz bar and rod Ltd (SAIL) has undertaken the mill, blast furnace-8, steel melt- modernisation and expansion ing shop-III etc are at advanced of its integrated steel plants at stages of execution,” it said. Bhilai, Bokaro, Rourkela, Dur- The country’s largest steel gapur and Burnpur and special maker had earlier said it steel plant at Salem. reached the last leg of its Rs NBCC (India) Ltd bagged the Hindustan Ratna PSU Awards 2017 In the ongoing modernisa- 70,000-crore modernisation for ‘Excellence in Innovation’. The Award was given away in New tion and expansion, the crude programme but expressed con- Team Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) participated in Inter Power NHPC Limited is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Champaran Delhi by Nitin Gadkari, Union Cabinet Minister for Road Transport steel capacity is being enhanced cerns that post modernisation Sector PSU Bridge Tournament organised by Sutlaz Jal Vidyut Nigam Satyagraha with great fervour and gaiety. K M Singh, NHPC’s Chairman and Highways and Shipping; Manoj Sinha, MoS for Railways; Piyush from 12.8 million tonnes per there would be 60-70 per cent (SJVN) under the aegis of Power Sports Control Board (PSCB) at & Managing Director inaugurated an exhibition dedicated to the life Goyal, MoS with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New and annum (MTPA) to 21.4 MTPA. jump in production capacity, Dehradoon from 27-29 March. Team DVC emerged champion among of Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi, at its Corporate Office at Renewable Energy and Mines. CGM (PMG), Yogesh JP Sharma, The expansion of its plants which is a challenge for the the teams. The prize was given away by P S P Mishra, CMD, SJVN Faridabad received the eminent Award on behalf of the organisation -- Salem Steel, Rourkela, IISCO, PSU as demand for domestic Durgapur and Bokaro -- has steel remained weak. PTI 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017

HYDERABAD KEEN TO GET BACK OJHA, THREE ARRESTED IN GOA FOR BETTING ON IPL INDIAN SHUTTLERS SHOULD TARGET BIG WINS, RAYUDU, SAYS SECY MATCH BETWEEN KOLKATA AND DELHI SAYS GOPICHAND NEW DELHI: The Hyderabad Cricket Association wants to get PANAJI: Three men were arrested from a resort in Goa’s An- HYDERABAD: Indian shuttlers should look for consistency and back the services of Ambati Rayudu and Pragyan Ojha during juna beach village in the early hours of Tuesday, for accepting target bigger tournaments such as All England and World the next domestic season. Newly-appointed secretary T Seshna- bets during the match between Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Championship, said chief national badminton coach Pullela rayan said that the new body wants the two home boys back in Knight Riders. The men has been identified as Kiransinh Va- Gopichand. Gopichand expressed satisfaction over the recent their fold. Rayudu had left after some dispute with the erstwhile ghela, 32, and Jayant Vaghela, 33, both from Ahemadabad, performances of Indian shuttlers, including P V Sindhu and B Sai establishment while Ojha has been a part of Bengal set up. and Narendra Singh of unspecified age from Agra. Praneeth, but said its time to step up to the next level. Maxwell wants to repeat Ranchi show Gayle, Kohli power in Ashes RCB to 213-2 RAJKOT: Swashbuckling West Indies third over. Gayle, who has been out of the top-tier off Kaushik in the 10th over and opener Chris Gayle returned to form with form, meanwhile completed his 10,000 then clobbered Dwayne Smith for another a blistering 38-ball 77-run innings to power runs in twenty20 cricket with a single off six as RCB reached the 100-mark. Royal Challengers Bangalore to a massive Basil Thampi in the fourth over. The West The dashing opener sent Smith out of 213 -2 against Gujarat Lions in their IPL Indies batsman then blasted one over mid- the park again for another six in the fourth match here on Tuesday. off to score his first six of the innings. He ball over long-on as RCB picked 17 runs Invited to bat, Gayle and skipper Kohli then sent young mystery spinner Shivil off the over. In the 13th over, Basil Thampi gave Bangalore a blistering start as they Kaushik for another maximum over long- finally dismissed Gayle when he trapped amassed 45 in the first six overs and then off in the seventh over. Gayle then exploded him leg before to break the partnership. MELBOURNE: Flamboyant went on to forge a 122-run opening part- with successive fours and a six off left-arm Kohli, however, continued to score runs and all-rounder Glenn Maxwell on nership off 76 balls at the Saurashtra Cricket spinner Ravindra Jadeja. He also blasted reached his 28th IPL fifty in the 15th over Tuesday hoped for a repeat of Association Stadium. Gayle’s innings was the last delivery of the over for a maximum with a couple of runs off Kaushik. He then his performance at the Ran- studded with five boundaries and seven but he was brilliantly caught by Brendon blasted a towering six over wide of long-on chi Test against India, if he massive sixes, while Kohli blasted seven McCullum at the long-off boundary. But the in the 4th ball. gets a game in the Ashes series fours and one six in his 50-ball innings. West Indies batsman survived after replays Brief scores: against England later this year. Kohli took the early initiative as he picked showed that McCullum’s hat had touched Gujarat Lions vs Royal Challengers Maxwell, who is currently up a boundary each in the first two overs the boundary line. Bangalore: leading the Kings XI Punjab Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Virat Kohli in action during the IPL match against Gujarat Lions in before picking Dhawal Kulkarni for a spe- Gayle made Lions pay as he brought up RCB: (Chris Gayle 77, Virat Kohli 64). in the Indian Premier League Rajkot on Tuesday PIC/PTI cial treatment, blasting three fours of the his fifty with a massive six over long on into Lions: Thampi (1/31). AGENCIES (IPL), scored his maiden Test century at Ranchi before fol- lowing it up with a top-score Desperate Delhi look to sort of 45 in Australia’s second BCCI firm on Sreesanth’s life ban innings of the fourth Test in Dharamsala. Maxwell, however NEW DELHI: Tainted pacer seemed clueless on the compo- S Sreesanth’s plea for a review batting woes against Sunrisers sition of the Australia squad of his life ban has been “sum- for the Ashes, starting with the marily rejected” by the BCCI, HYDERABAD: Delhi IPL TURNS 10: MATCH PREVIEW first Test at the Gabba this year. which says it will not compro- Daredevils will be aim- The Victorian acknowledged mise on its zero tolerance pol- ing to display more impact pletely turn things around. problems. that given Australia’s tendency icy towards corruption. in their batting department For Delhi, it will be impor- It will be interesting if an to opt for a seam-bowling all- The BCCI has informed as they face a formidable tant to have consistent impact out of sorts Angelo Mathews rounder in the top six for Tests Sreesanth of its decision in a challenge from defend- in their batting. gets a second game. on home soil, his spot is far letter. The letter was sent by ing champions Sunris- They have had force- Delhi’s bowling, compris- from secure. “I’d love to say BCCI CEO Rahul Johri after ers Hyderabad in an ful performances at the start ing skipper Zaheer Khan, that I’d be a good chance, but I the cricketer wrote to the COA IPL encounter, here on of the innings and at the Morris, Shahbaz Nadeem and have absolutely no idea,” Max- appealing for revocation of his Wednesday. end but the two games — Pat Cummins, besides Ander- well was quoted as saying by a ban in the 2013 spot-fixing It will be an arduous vs RCB and KKR that they have son and Amit Mishra have private website. “I don’t know scandal. task for the Daredevils as lost has been primarily due to played a vital role in the team’s which way they’re thinking. “The BCCI has informed they face a team that has both their inability to force the pace success so far. We’ve seen in the past that they him that his life ban stays and current ‘Orange Cap’ holder during middle overs. They need to like to have a medium-pace he won’t be allowed to play any David Warner (235 runs) and Delhi boasts of some come up with another all-rounder at No.6 and if they form of competitive cricket. On Monday, the BCCI ing cricket tournaments orga- required under a penal stat- ‘Purple Cap’ owner Bhuvnesh- of the spirited batsmen in accomplished effort in were to go that way in the first He had also appealed in a local submitted a counter-affidavit nized by the BCCI and/or its ute is much higher than the war Kumar (15 wickets). the tournament in its ranks order to stop an in-form Test, I think that’d be fine.” “But court in Kerala and our legal regarding this issue before Ker- affiliates.” proof required for a disciplin- Both teams met with con- in Sanju Samson, who scored Warner, who has shown a if I was to get an opportunity counsel will be replying,” a ala High Court in response to The Board said the question ary inquiry, it said. trasting fate during their a century the other day, different side to his batting to play a Test at home, I’d love senior BCCI official told PTI a petition filed by Sreesanth. before the Sessions Court was Therefore, on an apprecia- previous encounters with Sam Billings, Rishabh adapting to vagaries of sub- to take it the same way I did in today. The pacer had challenged the whether the petitioner (and tion of the same evidence, one Sunrisers edging past Kings Pant, Corey Anderson and continental pitches. Ranchi and make the most of “The BCCI has always continuation of the life ban other accused) was guilty of may not be guilty of criminal XI Punjab in an exciting last Chris Morris. For Hyderabad, Ashish it. “But I’m not trying to get maintained zero tolerance imposed on him by the BCCI penal consequences under rel- consequences but can be found over finish while Daredevils Though the Delhi bats- Nehra may make a come- my hopes up too much. If it towards corrupt practices. No despite being exonerated by a evant criminal statutes. guilty for violating the internal couldn’t stop KKR from reach- men have been in good form back in place of Barinder happens, it happens,” he added. court has exonerated Sreesanth Delhi court from the charges On the other hand, the disciplinary rules of an organi- ing the target in another final especially Rishabh Pant, Sran, who was taken to task by The dashing right-hander fur- of fixing charges. It was charges of match-fixing against him. question before the BCCI zation, it said. over face-off. this edition’s only centurion Manan Vohra. ther said he would not take of his links with Underworld In a affidavit, BCCI said Disciplinary Committee was Admitting the peti- The points table is at a Sanju Samson and all-rounder Yuvraj Singh would undue pressure on himself to that were dismissed by the “the decision of the Sessions whether the petitioner was tion filed by Sreesanth seek- nascent stage with Sunris- Chris Morris, problem has like to make amends for get back to the side. “I’ll still lower court,” the source said. Court to acquit the petitioner guilty of match fixing, corrup- ing a direction to the BCCI ers on six points from five been consistency. his last match’s failure train and work as hard as I can It was made clear that from criminal charges has no tion and gambling and viola- to allow him play for a Scot- games sitting at the third posi- The slowish pitch at while presence of Moi- to play, but I’m probably not Sreesanth, who intended to impact whatsoever on the deci- tion of the internal disciplinary tish club, the High Court had tion while Daredevils is lying the Uppal with an in- ses Henriques as seamer all- putting as much pressure on play club cricket in UK, won’t sion of the internal disciplin- rules of the BCCI, the Board directed the Union Govern- fourth with four points. form Bhuvneshwar and rounder and Ben Cutting as myself as I probably did in pre- be allowed and the BCCI has ary committee of the BCCI to said. ment and the BCCI to file their In a fast-paced league, a Afghan sensation Rashid the back-up lends the team vious years,” he said. AGENCIES now shut the case. ban the petitioner from play- The standard of proof counter affidavits. AGENCIES couple of matches can com- Khan could pose a few much-needed solidity. AGENCIES BCCI SGM Resolution: Don’t touch ‘Big Three’ model till June Dhoni need not prove KXIP will regain NEW DELHI: The BCCI units on April 27 and 28. should cooperate with the anything to anyone: Warne momentum on Tuesday passed an unan- “A resolution has been BCCI doubles prize money to COA rather than creating hin- imous resolution that they passed at the SGM that we drance to them. NEW DELHI: His finish- limited-overs cricketer. during home would ask the ICC Board to will ask ICC to carry on Rs 1 cr for Australia series win “There were a lot of anti ing skills called into ques- “@msdhoni does not hold on to the ‘Big Three’ rev- with the existing model where N Srinivasan voices that tion by critics, Mahendra have to prove anything to enue model till its Annual Australia, England and India wanted BCCI to strengthen Singh Dhoni on Tuesday anyone, he’s class & a won- games: Vohra General Meeting in London get the lion’s share of revenue. NEW DELHI: The BCCI, at its Special General COA stand and also not give received firm backing from derful player in all formats. in June. We will definitely work out a new Meeting decided to double the incentive of the a notion of infighting to ICC,” spin legend Shane Warne, who MS is also a great captain & HYDERABAD: Kings XI Pun- Any decision on model during London meeting. Indian cricket team from Rs 50 lakh to Rs 1 crore the source added. feels that former India captain inspires!,” Warne wrote on his jab have lost their third match India’s Champions Trophy This was today (Tuesday) unan- for their 2 -1 series win against Australia at home. No member from Tamil doesn’t need to “prove anything twitter page. on the trot but batsman Manan participation will be taken only imously passed by the forum,” The decision was taken reversing the COA’s deci- Nadu Cricket Association or t o a n y o n e”. Dhoni’s strike-rate in Vohra feels there is no need to after the ICC Board Meet- a top official who attended the Saurashtra Cricket Association Removed from cap- the 10th IPL has been a dis- press the panic button just yet ing but most of the members meeting said. sion of paying Indian team members Rs 50 lakh attended the SGM. taincy before the start of the mal 87.14 with an aver- as the side will regain momen- present at the Special Gen- Chaudhary, on his part, for the Test series triumph on a pro-rata basis (as During the last meeting, 10th edition of the ongoing age of shade over 15. He tum during its home matches. eral Meeting of the BCCI only said that protecting India’s per no of matches played). AGENCIES Srinivasan and Niranjan Shah Indian Premier League, Dhoni has managed to hit only two Vohra’s 95-run knock today were against taking any interest will be his primary attended despite being above so far has had a quiet tour- sixes in five games. went in vain against Sunrisers extreme position. objective. was an option, Chaudhary said: of the ICC’s stand and if it 70 years of age. nament for Rising Pune While he is still the undis- Hyderabad last night and the It is learnt that Amitabh “The COA has given a for- “Only poets and philosophers remains rigid, they will then In Tuesday’s meeting, the Supergiant by his stan- puted No.1 keeper-batsman visitors went down by five runs Chaudhary, the joint mula which is beneficial to can answer that question.” revisit the old agreement only 70-plus member was Odi- dards, scoring only 61 in the limited-overs format in a chase of 160. Secretary and Board India. We would take ingredi- However, it was learnt that signed in 2014. sha’s Asirbad Behera. runs in five games. but inconsistent form over It was Punjab’s third succes- representative will put the ents from it also,” the joint Sec- as per the resolution, Chaud- Meanwhile, most of the There were also discus- Warne today took to the past year has led to sive loss but Vohra denied that BCCI’s point of view at the retary said. hary will come back from members were of the opin- sions on the appointment of twitter to back Dhoni, debated if he is still a potent his team is under any pressure ICC’s Dubai Board Meeting Asked if the CT pull out Dubai and apprise the BCCI ion that the Board units Ombudsman. AGENCIES who has been a phenomenal match-winner. AGENCIES as of now. “This is still early stage of the tournament. But we would Afridi gets unique retirement like to get back the winning Sourav Ganguly, Ricky Ponting among star-studded momentum once we are back gift from Indian team to our home ground. Hope- fully, by god’s grace, things NEW DELHI: Despite the political tensions between will happen,” he said after the India and Pakistan affecting bilateral cricket, there is line of commentators for Champions Trophy match. Punjab will be playing no love lost among the players and this time it is the their first home game of the Indian team which presented a Virat Kohli shirt, signed by all the DUBAI: Acclaimed interna- can’t wait!” McCullum on his coverage of all 15 matches, season in Mohali on April 28 players, to former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi on his retire- tional captains including India’s part stated: “Working with supported by production part- against Sunrisers Hyderabad. ment from international cricket. Sourav Ganguly and Australia’s names like Ponting, Ganguly ner Sunset+Vine and equip- Reflecting on the team’s “To Shahid Bhai, best wishes, always a plea- Ricky Ponting are a part of a and Smith is going to be great ment partner NEP Broadcast performance last night, Vohra sure playing against you,” India skipper Kohli wrote stellar line-up of commenta- fun and hopefully we can give Solutions. said it was a good bowling on the shirt. tors named by the ICC for the the viewers a unique insight The eight-team tourna- effort to restrict Hyderabad A Pakistani journalist recently posted a picture of the jersey upcoming Champions Trophy on the action unfolding out in ment, which kicks off with to 160. on Twitter. scheduled between June 1-18. the middle.” host England playing Bangla- “...because the wicket was The jersey had the signatures of Kohli, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Some of the other former “The Champions Trophy is desh at The Oval on June 1, batting-friendly, it was slower Nehra, Jasprit Bumrah, Suresh Raina, Pawan Negi, Mohammed captains in the line-up include a special tournament which I will see a state-of-the-art cov- on one side. Bowlers did their Shami, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, Brendon McCullum of New loved playing in and I am hon- erage, which will include 34 job as well as the fielders,” he Shikhar Dhawan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Hardik Pandya and for- Zealand, Kumar Sangakkara of oured to have enjoyed success cameras at every game, includ- pointed out. “We just lost our mer Team director Ravi Shastri. Sri Lanka and Graeme Smith of in. ing eight ultra-motion Hawk- way in between, in the early The 36-year-old Afridi, who bid adieu toSouth Africa -- all of whom will Now, as a commentator, I Eye cameras, front and reverse stages of the chase. I got a great his 21-year-old career in February, was recently be making their ICC TV debut. am very much looking forward view stump cameras and a opportunity to finish the game, announced as one of eight Champion Ambassadors, along with Shane Warne, Michael to being part of the tournament Spidercam. but I could not do that. I am India’s Harbhajan Singh for the International Cricket Council Slater, Nasser Hussain, Michael and watching the best players In what is a first for cricket pretty sad about this,” Vohra (ICC) Champions Trophy, to be held in the United Kingdom Atherton, Shaun Pollock, San- in the world go head to head,” coverage, six Player Tracking said in the post-match press from June 1 to 18. jay Manjrekar, Ian Bishop, looked forward to the Cham- commentary team.” Sangakkara said cameras will be used in each conference. With seamer Bhu- The other ambassadors announced by the ICC Ramiz Raja, Simon Doull pions Trophy. Winning it on “I am expecting Austra- “Most of the teams have a match while the final at The vneshwar Kumar scalping five are Bangladesh’s Habibul Bashar, England’s Ian Bell, and Athar Ali Khan complete two occasions was a big thrill. lia and England to make the chance of lifting the trophy so Oval on June 18 will have addi- wickets, Sunrisers Hyderabad New Zealand’s Shane Bond, Australia’s Mike Hussey, the list. This year, I am really looking final with Pat Cummins and it promises to be a fascinating tional pictures provided by a put up a superb all-round show Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and South Africa’s On his association, Pon- forward to it being staged in Jason Roy, two guys to stand three weeks of action,” he said. drone camera to supplement after captain David Warner led Graeme Smith. AGENCIES ting said: “As a player, I always England and being a part of the out across the two weeks. I ICC TV will produce live the broadcast coverage. AGENCIES with a 70-run knock. AGENCIES sport 15 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 mp Bengaluru strengthen grip on Bagan take on Maziya Sports in Group E top spot, beat Abahani 2-0 AFC Cup tie

BENGALURU: Bengaluru FC defense meant that Moham- He was played through MATCH PREVIEW took a step further in progress- mad Ziban sneaked past Salam by Eugeneson, and with the ing from the 2017 AFC Cup, Ranjan Singh and Juanan to go keeper at his mercy, he ended Group E as they saw the back one-on-one against the keeper. up hitting it straight at the of Abahani Limited Dhaka But Ralte did superbly and keeper, spurning the chance. defeating the Bangladeshi side came to close his angle down Minutes later, Chhe- 2-0 at the Sree Kanteerava Sta- and eventually make the save. tri raced into the box and dium on Tuesday. With half an hour gone, sliced a shot that had the Nishu Kumar (40’) broke Eugeneson Lyngdoh found keeper beaten, but the Abah- the deadlock in the first half Sunil Chhetri with a well- ani skipper Mamun Miah was and inspired his teammates to worked pass and the skip- on the goalline to hook it away pull another through Serbian per played a one-two with superbly. Marjan Jugovic (82’) to con- Len, before playing another But the second goal demn the Sky Blue Brigade to one-two, this time with Dan- looked inevitable and it did their third successive loss in the iel, but the return pass was hit come in the 82nd minute via tournament. slightly behind him. Marjan Jugovic. The Serbian Last year’s runners-up Ten minutes later, Benga- was on the receiving end of made four changes to the luru had their first goal. Eugeneson’s pass, who in turn side that brushed aside Shil- Nishu Kumar, one of the was played in after good work long Lajong in their previous best performers on the night, by Malsawmzuala. game, in the I-League. Arin- got on the end of Daniel’s After a poor first touch, Glimpse of Mohun Bagan’s last AFC Cup match against Abahani Limited Dhaka dam Bhattacharya, Cameron pass, and after taking a touch, Jugovic eased the Bengaluru Watson, Alwyn George and smashed it past Sahidul. faithful’s nerves with a thump- KOLKATA: With an eye to Marjan Jugovic were out, and Right before the end of the ing shot that hit the post, then the virtual title clash against The AFC Cup in came Lalthuammawia Ralte, half, Juanan forced a double the ground and came out. But Aizawl FC away in the week- Marjan Jugovic (Right) scored the second goal in the 82nd minute to hand Bengaluru FC the victory is a distraction Lenny Rodrigues, Semin- save from Sahidul who man- the assistant referee’s call meant end, Mohun Bagan will take on len ‘Len’ Doungel and Daniel The first real chance of Alam committed himself, chance as he rose the highest aged to keep the Bangladeshi that the goal stood. Bengaluru Maziya Sports and Recreation for the green Lalhlimpuia. the game came twelve min- but couldn’t reach it. Len was from a corner, but his header side in the game. collected a well-fought three in their Group E AFC Cup tie at and maroon Abahani, on the other hand, utes in when Len came steaming in from the right, and was inches high. The second half began slug- points on the night, and remain the Rabindra Sarovar Stadium named a side unchanged to the close to heading the ball his diving header was just a bit In the 25th minute, Abah- gishly, until the hour mark, atop the group irrespective of here on Wednesday. brigade and on one that took the field against into an empty net. Juanan too high. ani had a chance that should when Harmanjot Khabra had what happens on Wednes- Bagan recorded a last-min- Wednesday they Mohun Bagan in their previous had played the ball into the In the very next min- have given them the lead. A a glorious opportunity to dou- day when Mohun Bagan ute win over Minerva Pun- AFC Cup encounter. box and the keeper Sahidul ute, John Johnson had a great lack of communication in ble the lead. face Maziya. AGENCIES jab FC in their last I-League won’t be expected encounter to keep pace on to field all their Aizawl, who has surprised Police arrest seven for murder one and all this time to top key players. So Mridul Banerjee named East Bengal coach the table. far, Bagan have of Panama midfielder With Haitian star for- KOLKATA: Santosh Trophy- Mohun Bagan. ward Sony Norde scoring won one and lost winning Bengal coach Mridul East Bengal’s hopes for the PANAMA: Seven persons have been arrested for their involve- the solitary goal, the Sanjoy the other of their Banerjee was on Tuesday elusive I-League title went up ment in the murder of Panama international midfielder Amilcar Sen-coached outfit are appointed East Bengal coach in smoke after their 0-1 loss on Henriquez, local authorities said. now dreaming of their sec- matches against less than 12 hours after Trevor April 16 to DSK Shivajians -- The suspects, three of whom are reportedly minors, were ond league triumph in two Abahani Limited Morgan stepped down follow- their fourth on the trot. detained in or near the Caribbean port city of Colon, according years’ time. Dhaka at home ing the team’s I-League debacle. East Bengal’s string of losses to prosecutors on Monday, reports Xinhua news agency. The AFC Cup is a dis- The AFC-A license-holder began with Churchill Brothers. Henriquez and at least one other person were killed in a drive- traction for the green and and Bengaluru FC was preferred over former They went on to be beaten by by shooting on Saturday. A third person also suffered injuries, maroon brigade and on away respectively Goan manager Armando Chennai City FC. according to the police. Wednesday they won’t be Colaco, who was tipped to The derby defeat was The prosecution statement gave no motive for the attack and expected to field all their return to the red and gold camp enough for the fans, who laid are believed to have ruled out robbery as a reason. key players. Last year, Maziya on Monday evening. siege at the club last week Henriquez, who was capped 75 times for Panama, had recently So far, Bagan have won were thrashed by Bagan “Mridul is our choice and demanding “Morgan go back”. rejoined his original club Arabe Unido in Panamanian football’s one and lost the other 5-2 in Guwahati but has been appointed coach. He The club gave Morgan top tier. The Pan American Football Federation (Fepafut) con- of their matches against drew 1-1 with Bagan in their has been given a contract till a lifeline till Federation Cup firmed the death on Twitter, saying: “We deeply regret the death Abahani Limited Dhaka at own lair. the Federation Cup,” East Ben- coached Bengal to a record East Bengal are now third but the under-fire English- of our national team player Amilcar Henriquez. God receive home and Bengaluru FC away The visitors’ new coach gal General Secretary Kalyan 32nd title in the Santosh Tro- on the I-League table with 27 man sent the resignation your soul Mickey.” respectively. Sekulovski is keen on playing Majumdar said. phy National Football Cham- points from 16 fixtures, below letter to football secretary Panama’s president, Juan Carlos Varela had condemned Scottish striker Darryl a more passing game. The 56-year-old recently pionship stunning Goa in Goa. title-contenders Aizawl FC and Santosh Bhattacharya. AGENCIES the incident. AGENCIES Duffy has also been in good The team thrives on their form for the hosts along with strong backline with the new Japanese playmaker Yusa addition of Cordos. Chelsea confirm Katsumi. His partner Amdan is also Sanchez, Ozil strike to Fan dies in Argentine Coming to their rivals, physically tough and good in captain Terry Maziya have been regular air. participants in the AFC Cup Skipper Abdulla Assad- football violence since 2013. However, the hulla will also be a player to leave club at end Arsenal away woes Maldivian outfit haveto watch out for being the BUENOS AIRES: A foot- never managed to go top scorer in Maldives over season-end MIDDLESBROUGH: Goals ball fan has died after being The fan, Emanuel past the group stages. the last three seasons. AGENCIES from Alexis Sanchez and Mesut attacked by rival supporters Balbo attacked by LONDON: Chelsea Ozil ended Arsenal’s run of during a match in Argen- announced on Monday that four successive away defeats tina’s top division. Emanuel rival supporters India U-17 team loses against skipper and club legend John with a scratchy 2-1 victory over Balbo was taken to the Emer- during a match Terry will end his 22-year asso- struggling Middlesbrough in gency Hospital in Cordoba in Argentina’s Portugal’s Vitoria de Setubal ciation with the capital football their Premier League clash on after being beaten and pushed top division. He club at the end of the season Monday. off the edge of a stand dur- NEW DELHI: India U-17 World Cup team lost 1 -2 after his contract expires. The Gunners’ performance ing the 1-1 draw between Bel- was taken to Since his debut with the first was far from convincing but grano and Talleres. He was left to Portugal’s Vitoria de Setubal U-17 in their first team in 1998, Terry has worn will still bring some relief to in a coma before being pro- the Emergency practice match of the exposure trip at the Jose Chelsea’s jersey in 713 matches, their beleaguered manager nounced brain died by doctors Hospital in Mourinho Training Center in Lisbon. In a closely- in which he has scored 66 goals, Arsene Wenger. on Monday. “Club Atletico Cordoba after fought match, the Indian colts matched their reports Efe. There was a period after Belgrano is profoundly sad- opponents, but the chances created were seldom In a statement released on Alvaro Negredo scored an dened by the death of Eman- being beaten and the club’s website, Chelsea said: equaliser when Middles- uel Balbo,” Belgrano said in a pushed off the converted into goals. Though the Indian team “John Terry and Chelsea Foot- brough, who have won only statement. “This is not about edge off a stand dominated possession in the opening minutes ball Club jointly announce our four league games this season, giving effective speeches, but of the match, Setubal U-17 created the first goal captain will leave the club at the looked capable of going on to about in-depth action in the during the 1-1 scoring chance of the match in the 16th minute end of the season.” claim their fifth scalp. Arsenal corresponding area,” the club draw between when they rattled the Indian crossbar. However, “Everybody at Stamford are new seven points behind said. “That is the real and true Bridge would like to express fourth-placed Manchester City commitment of this club. Our Belgrano and they could take the lead only in the 38th minute our enormous gratitude to with a game in hand, while condolences to the family and Talleres after Bruno Ventura scored from a penalty kick. John and wish him the very Middlesbrough lie six points friends. Rest in peace, Eman- Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud and Middlesbrough’s Daniel Ayala battle for The half-time scoreline read 1-0 in favour of best of luck for the future,” the from safety and have also uel,” it added. Another fan, Setubal U- 17. After the break, the Indian colts club added. played one game fewer than the ball during their English Premier League match Diego Frydman, also suffered and particularly to the foot- Terry, who spent most of his most of the teams above them. than their previous away game the sort of selection decisions injuries during the clashes, balling family,” AFA said in upped the ante and pressed for the equaliser. career at the London side, said: “It (the top four) is mathemat- at Crystal Palace when they that he usually reserves for cup according to local media a statement. “We will offer Aniket Jadhav’s shot in the 47th minute went “After 22 years there is so much ically still alive,” Wenger said. were caught in London traffic ties against teams from lower reports. The Argentine Foot- all possible collaboration inches over the bar and a minute later his shot to say and so many people to “We knew we needed to win. and arrived shortly before the divisions. The French manager ball Association (AFA) offered with the security services to again flew whiskers wide of the goal. The Indians thank at this great football club. Now we have a little break with kick-off. They reached Mid- announced six changes from condolences to Balbo’s family determine those responsible finally managed to equalise in the 67th minute “From coaches, team-mates the FA Cup (they play Man- dlesbrough’s Riverside Stadium the team that lost 3-0 at Pal- and vowed to work with the for this inconceivable aggres- and staff to the fans who have chester City on Sunday in the with plenty of time to spare, yet ace seven days earlier and, even police to find the attackers. sion, articulating the necessary with Aniket successfully scoring from the penalty given me so much support semi-final) and then we come there was still a lack of direction more significantly, employed “This house rejects all these measures to ensure that inci- spot this time around. India tried to take the lead down the years, I can’t thank back again to the league.” At on the pitch as they searched wing-backs alongside a defen- actions, which are those of dents such as this do not ever but could not find the net, even as Setubal struck you enough. There will be least Arsenal’s trip to Tees- for a route to goal in the open- sive trio for the first time criminals who deal so much happen again in any Argentine in the 85th minute to seal off the match. AGENCIES opportunities for me to speak side began far more smoothly ing stages. Wenger had made since 1997. AGENCIES damage to society as a whole football stadium.” AGENCIES further about this over the coming weeks.” Commenting on his future plans, the 36-year- Essien, Cole banned from playing old said: “I will decide on my ‘My focus in on maintaining fitness’ future in due course, but for now I am committed to help- HYDERABAD: Newly- special tips from Chief national in Indonesia without permits ing the team achieve success crowned Singapore Open coach Pullela Gopichand, Sai this season.” The centre-back champion B Sai Praneeth on Praneeth said: “We are always BANDUNG: Indonesian debuts in the country’s new football association, said they concluded by saying that he Tuesday said he is focusing on focused on next tournaments. authorities on Tuesday banned top-flight Liga 1 at the week- would help the club in obtain- has always had a fantastic rela- maintaining his fitness level His advise for us is to concen- Michael Essien and Carlton end. After calling in the ing the documents. Persib said tionship with the club, which ahead of the upcoming Indo- trate on fitness and practise Cole from playing until they get players and it had sought to process the he said “will continue beyond nesian Open and Australian hard every day.” work permits after their new Persib’s management for ques- paperwork a few days before my playing days”. Open in June. Reacting to a query, he said: club did not obtain the neces- tioning, immigration authori- the stars’ first match on Satur- Terry, Chelsea’s most dec- “I focused on my fitness and “The Indian Badminton Men’s sary documents for the ex-Eng- ties said today the pair would day. AGENCIES orated player, won 14 major in Singapore Open I felt fitter singles they are in top but the lish Premier League players. not be able to play until they honours with the Blues, includ- than before. My focus in on lack of consistency is what we The two were signed with obtained the permits. millenniumpost.in ing one Champions League maintaining fitness level. are working on and now we great fanfare last month by “Today we gave a strong millenniumpo NO H ALFst TR U THS B Sai Praneeth trophy, four English Premier As far as I know, if I am have good results coming in. Persib Bandung, one of the warning to Persib in the form League (EPL) titles, one Europa fit I could play at this level Praneeth title-winning wins in his career over stars Sameer and Ajay played country’s best clubs, in a boost of a letter saying that as long CHANGE OF NAME League, five FA Cups and three (Singapore). I am look- performance has given a big such as former World and finals. Srikanth also won and for Indonesian football as it as Persib had not completed League Cups. The statement ing forward to Indonesian boost to his World Champion- Olympic champion Taufik slowly consistency of players is seeks to bounce back from a the permits, which should be I, Suryakiran Chawdhry added that both the club and Open and Australian Open in ship qualification which will Hidayat and World No.1 Lee increasing.” FIFA suspension and launch a issued by the manpower minis- S/o Sh. Yogendra Singh Terry look ahead to the possi- June,” he said. be decided depending on the Chong Wei. K Srikanth, who lost to new league. try, we are banning Essien and Chawdhry R/o 126, bility of him returning to hold “Obviously winning Super ranking list on April 27. “Beating the legends ... it Sai Praneeth in the sum- But the government-backed Cole from playing,” said Maulia Street Jatwara, Pulmithai, other positions off the field. Series title is a big thing and I “It is a big tournament and always feels great,” said Pra- mit clash of the Singapore Professional Sports Agency Purnamawati, the immigration Delhi-110006. I have “He is, as the famous ban- felt very happy. I am happy that I will try to perform my best,” neeth, who had clinched Open, said: “I hope going found the players did not have chief in Bandung, the city where changed my name from ner reads, our captain, leader, I won. I was waiting for quite a said the 24-year-old. the Canada Open last year forward there will be many the required work permits. the club is based. Persib said legend, and we wish John the long time to win a Super Series. Praneeth burst onto the and reached the finals at more tournaments where The club admitted they they would abide by the ban Suryakiran Chawdhry to very best of luck in the next I could make it in Singapore scene in 2010 after clinching a Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold two Indians will be (playing) in had not finished process- while working to get the per- Suryakiran Chawdry for chapter of his magnificent and I am very happy about it,” bronze at World Junior Cham- in January. the finals. We missed Gopi sir ing the paperwork for the mits. Joko Driyono, the sec- all future purposes. career,” the club said. AGENCIES Praneeth said. pionships and had some big Asked if he received any that day.” AGENCIES pair before they made their retary general of the country’s 16 mp Entertainment MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Wednesday, 19 April, 2017 Raveena seeks change in Actors should not endorse one skin tone ‘OUTDATED’ over another: Sushant CBFC RULES

ctor Raveena Tandon whose upcom- ‘I can count films ing film Maatr has landed in trou- ble with the censor board says it is whose sense of bound by ancient guidelines. “CBFC humour was isA bound by certain laws that were made several years ago ... Time has come for a change as we talk about progressive India. So there is a need vulgar but there for amendment in laws,” she said. “If we get ‘A’ certificate for the film then why was no objection there are so many cuts? It’s like the audience MUMBAI: Reacting on the there everywhere in all sorts of would not understand what we are trying to ongoing debate started by industries and not just Bolly- made. Now with show. It’s time that we change the laws as per Abhay Deol over actors endors- wood,” the actor said. Sushant today’s time,” she said. “The plus-point is CBFC ing fairness cream, Sushant added that if the industry is Maatr, when we believes in (the film’s) message as statistically Singh Rajput said it is inap- welcoming towards the talent crime against women is on the rise. ‘Maatr’ has propriate to endorse such from outside the Bollywood are showing the a strong message and CBFC believes a film like products. Recently, Abhay had families there should not be this should be shown to people, but their hands criticised Shah Rukh Khan, any problem. reality, objections are tied,” she said. At the same time the National Deepika Padukone, Sonam “Nepotism can peace- Award-winning actor said she failed to under- Kapoor, Shahid Kapoor and fully co-exist with the fact are being raised. stand why Central Board of Film Certification John Abraham for featuring in that you also allow new talent (CBFC) raised objections. campaigns that promotes and from from outside to flour- It is surprising,’ “I can count films whose sense of humour sells fairness creams. ish and encourage them. But was vulgar but there was no objection made. Asked about his views on if you don’t allow that (refer- says Maatr’s Now with ‘Maatr’, when we are showing the real- the same Sushant said, “As ring to giving chance to out- ity, objections are being raised and it is surpris- responsible actors, or respon- siders) then there is a problem. leading actor ing,” she said. The film, which deals with the sible citizens we should not Then the whole structure of the issue of rape, is reportedly refused certifica- in anyways endorse or prefer industry will collapse.” tion owing to some gruesome scenes. one skin tone over another.” Meanwhile, the 31-year-old “As far as I know there was no objection Sushant said he feels nepotism actor has confirmed that his for this (the scenes), the objection was to does exist in Bollywood but he most talked about film Paani the language. There is a strong language in has never faced it. with Shekhar Kapoor is not the film. We have tried to show reality in this “All the films that I did and happening.“We were working film as we feel till the time you don’t show the will be doing in the next one together on ‘Paani’ and unfor- reality to people they will remain indifferent and half year are the films that I tunately it did not get made. and the message will get lost,” Raveena said. really wanted to do. I had many “The time I spent with him he Maatr is directed by Ashtar Sayed and options and I had the luxury convinced me that there is not features Raveena as a single mother. It is due to choose. So from personal just one right way of looking for April 21 release, but the actor said she wasn’t point of view I cannot com- or doing things. It depends on aware about the next move of its makers now. plain. “Having said that it is not your perspective as anything “Amol Palekar sir has approached the Supreme like (nepotism) is not there it is could be right or wrong.” PTI Court (over censorship) and even Shyam Bene- gal has submitted his report so we are hoping change will come,” she said. Meanwhile, an offi- Rishi Kapoor asks Kapil, cial from the CBFC said, “They are yet to give Jacqueline trying to recreate certification to the film and they will come out with their decision soon.” PTI Sunil to mend fences Judwaa magic in Judwaa 2

MUMBAI: Actor Jacqueline that’s fun too” said Jacqueline. Fernandez, who is playing Anu Malik will recreate Varun Dhawan’s love interest in the two super hit tracks from ‘Star Wars’ author harassed on Judwaa 2, says that they are try- the older movie – ‘Oochi ing to recreate the same magic hai building’ and ‘Tan tana as the 1997 Salman Khan star- tan’ on which Varun will train: ‘Terrified for my life’ rer did. be seen dancing. “We are hoping to recreate Jacqueline LOS ANGELES: Star Wars: backed away toward the door, the magic (of Judwaa) in Jud- was last The Perfect Weapon (Short hands up. “No thanks,” I said. waa 2. We are gonna try and Story) writer Delilah Dawson, “I’m marrried. He got really do as much justice to the in a series of tweet, shared a aggressive, backing me up...” 1997 Judwaa as possible. Its harrowing experience she had “...The train was stopping, 20 years down the line but on the Atlanta MARTA train. so I got off, hands still up. He we have the same director, it Dawson said she was shar- followed, yelling, “B****, YOU will be exciting,” said Jacque- ing the story to help herself WANT TO FIGHT? I DO. I’M line, who was present at the process it, but also to remind GONNA CUT YOU. The other launch of Raw Raspberry bev- her followers that “this is what ladies on the train gave me MUMBAI: Veteran actor Rishi Sunil was part of the hit erages where she was also made women face every day,” accord- apologetic looks and escaped Kapoor has asked comedians- ensemble of comedians on its brand ambassador. ing to The Hollywood Reporter. out the other door as he fol- actors Kapil Sharma and Sunil Kapil’s popular show ‘The She was responding to “I was riding north from the lowed me, repeatedly threaten- Grover to work together again. Kapil Sharma Show’, until came a query about the pressure airport to the Sandy Springs ing to cut me.” Rishi took to Twitter, where the news that Kapil allegedly she is feeling for Judwaa 2, station. Guy got on my car at She said a man walked up he shared that there is a look- assaulted and abused him in an upcoming action-comedy Dunwoody station. Sat right through the crowd with his a-like of Kapil in the Indian an inebriated state while on a film directed by David Dha- behind me... Started with the teenage daughter and told Premier League (IPL). flight. wan, starring Varun Dhawan usual harassment patter. “Hey, the harasser to leave Dawson “IPL. There is a look-a- In response to Rishi, in a double role as estranged seen baby. You’re looking good. I like alone. After the harasser went like of Kapil Sharma in the Sunil, who featured as Dr twins opposite Jacqueline and in The Flying Jatt your tattoos.” So I said “Nope,” up the stairs, Dawson called the team of Sun Risers Hyder- Mashoor Gulati and Rinku Taapsee Pannu. opposite Tiger Shroff. Other got up, sat in new seat... sleeping guy in his 60s” and police, who walked her to her abad. Anyone finding Sunil Bhabhi on the show, said, “Sir, “It’s such a great team... The than Judwaa 2, her upcom- She said the “only other none of them “said/did any- car. She said she was shaking Grover in any team? Mil jao I am not playing this season concept revolves around great ing projects include Reloaded, people on the car were two thing”. “And he got up and the whole way and was afraid yaaron (be together friends)!” because I am retired, hurt. Best cars, and robberies. It’s interest- Drive and According to women older than me and a followed me, so I got up and that she would get stabbed. PTI Rishi tweeted. regards.” IANS ing and quite glamorous and Mathew. IANS James Arthur I always ask about David Harbour hasn’t read his teases about autobiography the fairness ‘Stranger Things 2’ LONDON: Actor David Harbour has hinted of the pay: Jessica about the arc of his character police chief Jim Hopper in the second season of ‘Stranger Things’. LOS ANGELES: Jesscia Chastain says before accepting any role in the film The 42-year-old actor spoke about the upcom- LONDON: Singer James she always makes sure to ask the producers and concerned people about ing installment of the science fiction-horror web Arthur has revealed that he has how much her male counterpart is getting paid for the same movie. In an series, reported The Independent. not read his first autobiography, interview with Variety, the Oscar-nominated actor spoke candidly about Harbour described the first episode of forth- which was released shortly after how she negotiates her contracts to make sure her wages are on par with coming season as “fun and dark and complex” he won ‘The X Factor’ in 2012. her male co-star. and added how his character has developed since The 29-year-old earlier said “I’m not taking jobs anymore where I’m getting paid a quarter of the first season, while doing an Ask Me Anything that he is planning to release a what the male co-star is being paid. I’m not allowing that in my life. on Mogul. In this bout, Hopper’s character will self-help inspired autobiogra- What I do now, when I’m taking on a film, I always ask about the now battle both his inner and outer demons. phy, but he says he has not read fairness of the pay. He said, “He saved will and has found a his first book, ‘James Arthur, “I ask what they’re offering me in comparison to the guy. I renewed interest in life. So his arc for season two My Story: The Official X Factor don’t care about how much I get paid; I’m in an industry in my mind becomes more about butting up Winner’s Book’, reports female- where we’re overcompensated for the work we do. against the places where his hero fantasy can’t first.co.uk. But I don’t want to be on a set where I’m doing take him. “I haven’t even read that. I the same work as someone else and wouldn’t want it in my Christ- they’re getting five times what I’m mas stocking,” Arthur told The getting,” Chastain said. Sun newspaper when asked “There was something huge about his first book. The ‘Say that I recently turned down. For me, you won’t let go’ singer revealed it wasn’t about the money; it was an last month that he is planning old-fashioned problem of the wage gap. to write a tell-all autobiography I turned it down, and they didn’t come that he hopes will act as a self- back. I remember afterwards I was like, help book for others. “What did I do? Maybe it was a mistake.” “I want to help people to get But it wasn’t, because everyone in the stu- “The places where that hero complex may to know my story, and really tell dio system heard what I did. So what you’re force him to make the wrong decisions. It’s a satis- them in detail what I’ve been doing is creating a reputation: Don’t bring fying, completely different journey in season two.” through. The album says a little Jessica something where she’s not being fairly ‘Stranger Things’ season two airs on Netflix at bit about it but it doesn’t really compensated compared to the male actor. PTI Halloween later this year. PTI tell the full extent,” he said. 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