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NEARBY Penal law soon No need for ‘Delhi govt.’s job to take India pulls o a diplomatic privacy in care of daily utilities’ NEW DELHI on triple talaq court: SC The Delhi government is at best meant to take care of coup, wins prized ICJ seat Krishnadas Rajagopal the “daily utilities” of the Centre constitutes ministerial panel NEW DELHI National Capital. The real Judges have no need for power to administrate the Faced with defeat, U.K. tried to change voting process, then withdrew Nistula Hebbar privacy inside the National Capital is vested NEW DELHI courtrooms they preside with the President and the Varghese K George The Union government has in, Supreme Court judge, Union of India, the Centre Washington set up a ministerial commit Justice A.K. Goel said, giv informed the SC. India scored a major diplo tee to frame a new law that ing the thumbsup for au DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 matic victory on Monday as would attract penal provi DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD dio and video recording of its nominee to the Interna sions in the case of use of court proceedings. tional Court of Justice (ICJ) triple talaq or talaqebiddat Unlike the legislature, Dalveer Bhandari was re for divorce between Muslim proceedings inside elected after the United King couples, and will be bring The need for a law was felt courtrooms have been a dom withdrew its candidate ing the new Bill in the after it was found that the zealously guarded affair. Christopher Greenwood. winter session of Parlia practice continued even The to and fro between The U.K. chose to with ment. after the SC judgment. lawyers and judges, sub draw after it became clear Top government sources missions made by the ad that it would not win the confirmed that the commit eral decision by a Muslim vocates and questions contest in the General As tee will likely include a high husband to end the mar asked from the Bench have sembly (GA) and it did not profile list of Ministers — riage by utterance of the hitherto been beyond the have adequate support in Home Minister Rajnath word talaq three times. eye of the camera or the the Security Council (UNSC) ordinary member in a race. its exit in the 12th round, Mr. Singh, External Affairs Min A senior official said that ear of a recorder. for its attempts to derail the This is also the first time that Bhandari received 183 of the India thanks ister Sushma Swaraj, Fin the need for a new law was Signalling a paradigm voting process itself. one sitting member of the 193 votes in the GA and se UN members ance Minister Arun Jaitley, felt after it was found that di shift, the Supreme Court ICJ lost out to another sitting cured all the 15 votes in the Law Minister Ravi Shankar vorce by way of talaqebid Bench of Justices Goel and Many firsts member. Security Council after separ India thanked the UN Prasad, Minority Affairs dat was taking place even U.U. Lalit had, in August, This is the first time in over The winning candidate re ate and simultaneous elec members for supporting the Minister Mukhtar Abbas after the SC judgment. mooted the possibilities of seven decades of the United quired a majority in both the tions were held at the UN reelection of its judge to the Naqvi and at least two Minis This, said officials, could having audio and video re Nations, that the U.K. will GA and the UNSC, but 11 headquarters in New York. International Court of ters of State. be because of ignorance of cordings of proceedings in Ī PAGE 11 not be represented in the rounds of voting until last Justice. Narendra Modi The Supreme Court had, the judgment or because the constitutional courts — ICJ; and this is the first time week had ended with India U.K. HELD ON TILL THE congratulated the in August this year, in a ma there didn’t exist a strong the Supreme Court and the OPPORTUNITIES Ī DELHI METRO that one of the five perman winning in the GA and the LAST MOMENT Ī PAGE 10 diplomatic team for jority judgement set aside enough deterrent in the law. high courts. PAGE 4 ent members of the UN Se U.K. winning in the SC. MAY GOVT. PILLORIED ensuring the victory of Mr. the practice of talaqebid DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES curity Council lost out to an With the UK announcing OVER ICJ LOSS Ī PAGE 10 Bhandari. Ī PAGE 10 dat, an arbitrary and unilat CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10

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GURUGRAM personal reasons, said he Ministry of Information and In fact, the jury had selec Mohamed Nazeer A local court here on Tues was yet to procure the copy Broadcasting and the Direct ted the film for screening in Kannur day granted bail to the bus of the order and could not orate of Film Festivals to the festival after viewing the Policemen at the conductor arrested in con comment on the grounds on screen the certified version uncertified version itself. Chakkarakal police station, nection with the murder of which his client was granted of the film S. Durga at the Normally, there would have 15 km from the Kannur sevenyearold Pradyuman bail. Mr. Verma said that the 48th International Film arisen a need for an exemp district headquarters, have Thakur on the premises of legal formalities for the re Festival of India (IFFI) in tion from the Ministry but joined hands with local Ryan International school in lease of Ashok on bail would Goa. for the subsequent certifica residents who have started a Bhondsi. be completed on Wednesday The court issued the dir tion of the film by the CBFC. project to restore farmland Reading out the order, Ad and he would be, in all prob ective while allowing a writ Besides, it was not the claim lying fallow for several ditional District and Sessions ability, set free in the petition filed by Sanal Ku Green light: A still from the of the petitioner that he years. The policemen are Judge Rajni Yadav said that evening. mar Sasidharan, director of lm S. Durga wanted to present the un farming a 2.5acre paddy since the conductor, Ashok the film. certified version. field, and in the process, Kumar, was exonerated by No clean chit He had contended that giving themselves some A dierent beat: Some of the personnel work on their the Central Bureau of Invest Ashok, a resident of Ghamroj despite the selection of his Rajasthan ‘No comment’ time off from stressful law patch in the paddy elds. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT igation and a juvenile had village, was arrested by the film by the jury constituted The court noted, “When and order duties. been apprehended in con Gurugram Police on Septem under the Indian Panorama unrelenting even the uncertified version Farmers of the Mundery planting rice seedlings in allocated. They can also sell nection with the crime, he ber 8 after Class II student Regulations, the Ministry was found to be worthy by panchayat, 6 km from the field, alongside the rice. The police station was granted bail as a right to Pradyuman was found dead had refused to include it in Padmavati will not be re the jury for presentation Chakkarakal, have formed farmworkers. has introduced measures to liberty under the with his throat slit outside a the festival. leased in Rajasthan until there can be no objection an agricultural development “We are joining a give a facelift to its premises Constitution. washroom in the school. the changes suggested by raised to the certified ver committee named ‘Oruma,’ collective project of the and offer a stressfree However, the case turned on U/A certificate Chief Minister Vasundhara sion being screened.” whose aim is to revive local community to revive a ambience to both the ‘Truth has prevailed’ its head after the CBI appre The film had obtained U/A Raje are incorporated into In Goa, festival director paddy cultivation and other culture of cultivation,” said policemen and visitors. Ashok was granted bail hended a Class XI student of certificate of the CBFC the Hindi film. Ms. Raje cla Sunit Tandon said: “It is not agricultural activities on 77 P. Biju, Chakkarakkal Sub The policemen’s against a surety bond of the school in connection without any visual cuts. rified that she had sugges appropriate for me to com acres of land that have not Inspector. involvement in the paddy 50,000. His father Ami with the murder on Novem The Ministry, however, ted that the storyline be re ment.” seen rice seedlings for The policemen will join initiative is part of a Chand, who was present in ber 8. contended that Mr. Sasid viewed by a committee of Actor Kannan Nair who years. An initiative under the farmhands in planting programme to wean youth the court, welcomed the or During the hearing on haran wanted to screen the experts to ensure that the has starred in S. Durga said, Haritha Keralam Mission, seedlings, removal of away from divisive der saying the truth had Ashok’s bail application last uncertified version with the sentiments of Rajputs were “The court is the only hope the project envisions weeds, and other related activities. Kannur has been prevailed. week, the CBI counsel had title Sexy Durga. not hurt. Ī PAGE 7 for people like us. Nude allocating plots of fallow activities during their witnessing violent clashes He said his family had maintained that there was no As the film had been cer [Marathi film also dropped land to groups ready to weekly holidays, he said, between political groups. made preparations to wel incriminating evidence tified as S. Durga, it could from the screening schedule cultivate it. adding that they would find “We have started ‘Oruma’ come Ashok back home. “I against him, but appropriate not be screened in its ori from the Ministry for by the I&B Ministry] film This mission found it relaxing. not just to restore have not seen him for long. I action would be taken by the ginal form as it would viol screening the film at the maker should have also acceptance among different cultivation but also, as the can’t believe he has been set agency in case any evidence ate the provisions of The festival. gone to court.” sections of the community, Their own money name suggests, to build free till I get to see him,” said against him came forth dur Cinematograph Act. Allowing Mr. Sasidhar (With inputs from Prakash including the police. The The police will bear the cost unity among the people,” Mr. Chand, a security guard. ing the ongoing investigation. It also argued that the pe an’s plea, Justice Vinod Kamat in Panaji) personnel began working of cultivating the 2.5acre said E. Narayanan, group Ashok's counsel Mohit titioner had not obtained Chandran observed that the on the fields on Monday, field they have been convener. Verma, who could not attend CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 any exemption certificate Ministry was worried about DIRECTOR HAILS ORDER Ī PAGE 7

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DELHI Timings Winter ware Wednesday, November 22 Police crack Meerut RISE 06:49 SET 17:25 RISE 09:46 SET 20:34 Thursday, November 23 RISE 06:50 SET 17:25 RSS worker’s murder RISE 10:32 SET 21:25 Friday, November 24 RISE 06:51 SET 17:25 Say a customer who owed Sunil Garg money did it; 3 held RISE 11:16 SET 22:16 STAFF REPORTER murder with the help of two plan to kill him. In this, he MEERUT accomplices, Ashu Kapoor was helped by one of Garg’s The Uttar Pradesh police on and Sushil Kumar. All three employees, Sushil Kumar, Tuesday cracked the murder were arrested on Tuesday. and another culprit named mystery of prominent iron According to SSP Saini, Ashu Kapoor,” the SSP said. trader of Meerut Sunil Garg, the trio had also planned to Garg’s murder had sent who was also an RSS worker. get Garg’s family to give Meerut into a tizzy because They said Garg was them a ransom of 20 lakh. he was also a prominent RSS murdered by one of his cus The police recovered the worker of the city. tomers who owed him knife used in the murder money. and mobile phone which Traders’ ultimatum was used to plan it. All traders’ groups in Meerut Body found in sack “Basant Kumar has an had given an ultimatum to The body of Garg, last seen iron welding shop named the State and district admin campaigning for a BJP can Kirti Engineering in istration to arrest the cul didate in the civic body polls Nauchandi area of the city. prits as soon as possible. on Sunday evening, was He used to buy raw iron The main city market had found in a sack on Monday from Sunil and subsequently been shut by the trader bod morning. had bought iron worth sev ies since Monday morning to Meerut Senior Superin eral lakhs of rupees from protest against the murder. tendent of Police Manzil him. But he was yet to pay Given the sensitivity of the Saini told the media that the sum. Sunil had been ask situation, a company of the Garg was murdered by a ing for his money in the past Rapid Action Force had also man called Basant Kumar, few weeks, due to which been deployed to control For warmth: A vendor selling ‘Kangri’ or traditional re pots in Srinagar on Tuesday as cold tightens its grip over the entire who had planned his Basant came up with the law and order. Kashmir valley. * NISSAR AHMAD Kotkhai rape case: residents take to the streets again Staff Correspondent in July, took to the streets CBI’s Shimla office, raised plained that the real culprits submit a chargesheet in 0 SHIMLA DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to again on Tuesday in protest slogans and staged a dharna in the rape and murder case court against the “erring” verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of The residents of Shimla, against the delay by the in on the road. Heavy police have not been nabbed by SIT members. an advertisement before responding to Theog and Kotkhai, who had vestigative agencies in nab force was deployed near the any of the agencies so far. Nine police officers, in any published in this newspaper. Kasturi & Sons Limited, the Publisher & Owner of formed a “Gudiya Nyaya bing the real culprits. Railway Board Building, cluding an IGP, an SP and this newspaper, does not vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement or ad Manch” to seek justice for The members of the or housing the CBI office, to ‘No chargesheet’ DSP, have been arrested by vertiser or for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. In no event can the family of the schoolgirl ganisation, along with avoid any untoward The convener of the forum, the CBI in the case following the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ who was raped and Shimla Nagrik Sabha activ incident. Vijendra Mehra, questioned the custodial death of one of company be held responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for any claims murdered in Halaila village ists, gathered outside the The protesters com why the CBI has failed to the accused, Suraj Kumar. and/or damages for advertisements in this newspaper. Speaker puts onus on political parties Leader of the Opposition issue PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Chandigarh With SADBJP seeking the removal of AAP MLA Sukh pal Singh Khaira as Leader of Opposition in Punjab As sembly, Speaker Rana K. P. Singh on Tuesday put the onus on political parties to decide their leaders in the House. Mr. Singh was replying to a question regarding the de Punjab Speaker Rana mand of SADBJP which Kanwar Pal Singh. * have sought removal of Mr. Khaira as Leader of Opposi Mr. Khaira had described tion after he was summoned it as “a classic instance of by a Fazilka court in a drug political vendetta”. case. On AAP’s demand for en “Leaders of respective hancement in the number political parties are elected of sittings in the House, the by their parties only. As far Speaker said he agreed with as election of the leader of the idea. any political party is con “It ultimately depends cerned, either leader of ma upon the volume of work; jority or leader of minority, how much work you have, Speaker has no role to play,” like government bills, said Mr. Singh. private bills, resolutions “Political parties decide etc., and after considering who is to be their leader in all these, the decision is the House. Speaker is just to taken,” he said. recognise it,” he said. The AAP had sought from the Speaker to enhance the Demand for removal number of sittings in the Earlier this month, a joint House to enable members delegation of the SAD and to raise their issues. the BJP had submitted a The party had said the in memorandum to Mr. Singh, crease in number of sittings seeking immediate removal would help in lessening the of Mr. Khaira from the post chances of disorder in the of the Leader of Opposition. House. Not cowed down by probe agencies: Rabri ‘Come to Patna to question me’ PRESS TRUST OF INDIA PATNA Former Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi, who has so far skipped appearance before the Enforcement Director ate despite numerous sum mons in cases related to be nami property, said on Tuesday that she could not be “cowed down” by the Central investigating agen cies whose “character” she knew well. Former Bihar Chief Minister

Rabri Devi * ‘I know their character’ “Be it ED, CBI or IT (income The ED stepped up after tax) I know their tiriya the Income Tax Department charittar (character). What had questioned RJD chief wrong have we done? The Lalu Prasad’s wife Rabri Centre should give an an Devi and son Tejashwi Ya swer and so should the State dav in connection with the government,” she said while alleged benami assets probe addressing the Rashtriya against them and others in Janata Dal’s national council the 1,000 crore landfor here. hotels case in August. “Let them send any num ber of notices. I am not go Summons ignored ing to get afraid. If they are Notwithstanding several so eager to interrogate me, summons issued to appear then they should come to before it in Delhi, Ms. Devi Patna and question me,” she has so far not appeared be added. fore the ED.

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Two dead at Three more Odisha Durgapur farmers commit suicide Steel Plant Staff Reporter Kolkata Drought, pests, unseasonal rain leading to distress Two workers of the Dur- Staff Reporter gapur Steel Plant in BHUBANESWAR Paschim Bardhaman district died due to gas leak Despite the Odisha govern- late on Monday night. Two ment announcing financial others have been hospital- assistance to compensate ised. crop loss caused by drought, The plant is located pest-attack and unseasonal about 150 km from Kolkata rain, three farmers commit- and is owned by the Steel ted suicide in the State in the Authority of India Limited. past 24 hours. According to the plant Deaths have been repor- officials, the incident took ted in Sambalpur, Bargarh place around 1.15 a.m. on and Sundargarh districts, Monday. Two workers -- taking the total number of Sheikh Hafijul (31) and suicides during the past one A farmer in his eld with damaged paddy crop. * FILE PHOTO Samir Chakraborty (50) -- month to 13. The western BISWARANJAN ROUT were found unconscious Odisha district of Bargarh near the coke oven unit. alone witnessed seven sui- treatment. seasonal rain. They were rushed to the cides during the period. Similarly, another suicide A farmer, identified as DSP hospital where they A farmer, identified as was reported in Sambalpur. Manoj Singh under Hemgir died. Pradeep Khamari of Behera Kanhu Munda, a 45-year-old block of Sundargarh district, “Prima facie it seems village under the Khuntap- farmer of Mundapada village also consumed some poison- that they died due to gas alli panchayat of Bargarh, under Maneswar block of ous substance on Monday leak. The actual reason of consumed poison on the district, committed sui- night. Family members took death can only be determ- Monday. Pradeep had grown cide by consuming pesticide him to Hemgir hospital ined once the post-mortem paddy over one-and-a-half on Monday. where he was declared report arrives,” said the acres which was damaged Family members of the dead. Family members said plant public information by brown planthoppers. He deceased said he took the he had taken loan from dif- officer Chinmoy Samajdar. was taken to the district extreme steps after losing ferent sources for the crop, He added that a commit- headquarter hospital where hope of a good harvest fol- which was damaged due to tee has been set up to he succumbed during lowing a pest attack and un- pest attack. probe the incident.

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5 dead in MUVtanker ‘I am not Vijay Mallya to ee the country’ collision in Kalaburagi Pune builder Deepak S. Kulkarni, accused of 200crore fraud, assures investors that their money would be repayed All victims are from Maharashtra

Shoumojit Banerjee time… A number of negative Breach of Trust) and 420 While dismissing the de Pune stories about our financial (Cheating) of the Indian veloper’s bail plea, Judge J.T. Citybased builder Deepak S. position has distorted the Penal Code (IPC). The first Utpat had observed that Kulkarni, accused of de true picture.” FIR against him was lodged DSK’s application was not a frauding thousands of in The developer’s lawyers on October 28 for nonpay fit case for granting interim vestors in Pune, Mumbai and had earlier told the Bombay ment of the provident fund anticipatory bail. The judge Kolhapur, said on Tuesday High Court that the amount amount to his employees. also pointed to the increas that he had not cheated any due for payment to the de More than 8,000 persons, ing number of complaints by one and assured that all positors exceeded 200 a majority of them senior cit investors. money owed to depositors crore. They said that proper izens, have invested in the The Kulkarnis, who were would be returned. ties owned by the DSK group DSK group’s fixed deposit facing prospect of arrest, The builder has been are worth 10,000 crore. scheme. For the past few then moved the Bombay The mangled remains of the Tata Cruiser that collided with a granted a week’s interim re They said deals for the sale months, many of them have High Court against the Pune tanker on BidarSrirangapatna National Highway on Tuesday. lief by the Bombay High of the properties could not been queuing up outside the court’s order and were gran Court till November 23 to re be completed owing to the DSK group’s offices to re ted interim relief. On Novem Staff Reporter Bheemashankar (42), Ujjwal KALABURAGI pay his investors. city police’s alleged ‘illegal’ trieve their money. ber 9, a third FIR against the (13), Anand (32) and Prajwal Mr. Kulkarni, at a press directions to the Registrar of Till date, more than 3,000 developer was registered at Five persons were killed (15). Three of them died on conference, said, “I am not Claiming innocence: D.S. Kulkarni and wife Hemanti Kulkarni Properties. investors have lodged com Kolhapur’s Rajarampuri sta when the vehicle in which the spot, while two suc like Vijay Mallya to flee the at DSK group’s oce in Pune on Tuesday. * MANDAR TANNU plaints of fraud against the tion after complaints had they were travelling collided cumbed to injuries. country … We [the DSK Yet another FIR developer. On November 8, a earlier been lodged against with a tanker on BidarSrir Prakash, Rohit, Nagaraj and group] are going to return case, and their son Shirish. lished on blogs and other so Last week, a fourth FIR was special court for the Maha him in Pune and Mumbai. angapatna National High Mahantesh are being treated everyone’s dues, be they Mr. Kulkarni said that a cial media networks. lodged against Mr. Kulkarni rashtra Protection of Interest EOW officials have said way near Aurad Cross on for injuries. Fixed Deposit (FD) holders string of ‘negative’ stories Mr. Kulkarni said, “There and four of his managers at of Depositors (MPID) Act in that they would be conduct the outskirts of Kalaburagi The victims, all from Ma or suppliers.” The builder about him were appearing in is a difference between Shivajinagar police station. Pune had quashed the in ing a forensic audit of the ac on Tuesday morning. harashtra, were heading to was accompanied by his wife the media, and urged people ‘cheating’ and not being able The case was registered un terim bail application of Mr. counts of firms owned by Mr. The dead were identified Raktal in Chincholi taluk to Hemanti, a coaccused in the not to heed reports pub to return the money on der Sections 406 (Criminal Kulkarni and his wife. Kulkarni. as Gangadhar (58), attend a wedding. How Pune put India on the world map of tennis The State association’s longterm commitment, promoters’ persistent resolve, and spectators’ keen interest make the city prime venue for top tennis tournaments

G. Viswanath the event, said: “The return The return of 137 352 band, was the sub Mr. Bopanna said, “Indian Pune <> of investments is there for all investments is there stantial number of ATP players know now that the About 2,500 spectators to see. The final will be for all to see. There points the weeklong compet Challenger will happen in turned up at the Mhalunge played between two Indians ition offered: 80 for the win Pune every year. It’s fantastic are 10 Indian Balewadi Sports Complex on — Yuki Bhambri ranked 137 ner, 48 for the runnerup, 29 to see two Indians in the fi November 18 to watch the in the world and Ramkumar players in the main for the semifinalists and 15 nal. More Challengers will doubles and the singles fi Ramanathan, ranked 150. draw [of 32] for the quarterfinalists. help the youngsters to watch nals of the KPITMSLTA There are 10 Indian players Rogerio Santos The ATP and WTA events and learn and bring more $50,000 + Hospitality ATP in the main draw [of 32].” ATP Supervisor for the are the lifeblood of serious people to watch the sport.” KPITMSLTA Challenger Challenger. Mr. Santos attributed the practitioners of the sport. In While Tomslav Brkic of large Indian presence in the dian professionals plying World-class contests Bosnia & Herzegovina and tournament to the resources “The Indian players advised their trade in the ITF Futures Early this year, Pune hosted Ante Pavic of Croatia teamed put in by KPIT, a Punebased us to position a $50,000 + events are thrilled that the Davis Cup match up to beat the Spanish duo of technology company, and Hospitality event and not people with genuine interest between IndiaNew Zealand. Pedro Martinez and Adrian the fillip given to the sport by with a total prize money of in the sport have demon The city will be ringing in the MenendezMarceiras 61, 76 the Maharashtra State Lawn $75,000. The first option en strated their resolve to keep New Year for the sport in In (6) for the doubles crown, Tennis Association. tailed a commitment of Pune on the world tennis dia with the Maharashtra Yuki Bhambri got the better boarding, lodging and trans map. Open, an ATP 250series of Ramkumar Ramanathan Never-say-die spirit port to the players in the Rohan Bopanna, India’s competition that is expected 46, 63, 64 in a 2hour 22 Indian players and European main draw. The second op doubles specialist who was to attract top players. Profes minute battle of the top players who competed in the Top draw: Yuki Bhambri (second from left) after beating Ramkumar Ramanathan (extreme right) in tion would have limited our raised in Pune between 1995 sionals see the event as an ranked singles players of the tournament have backed Mr. the singles nals of the KPITMSLTA ATP Challenger in Pune on November 18.* SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT commitment to prize money. and 2000, says ITF Futures important tournament lead country. Santos’s observation. They The first option was better events are a stepping stone ing to the Australian Open. Ahead of the summit strongly believe that it’s easy Tennis Association (WTA) after one or two editions. In pion, has just completed its for the Indian players in for budding professionals, With these two ATP clash, Rogerio Santos, the to start an ATP event, but dif tournaments in India, which contrast, the Challenger, fourth edition. particular.” and the Challengers give events, Pune has established Association of Tennis Profes ficult to sustain it. Several were begun with much fan with a prize money of $7,200 Kishor Patil, KPIT’s co What mattered most to the them an opportunity to make its place as a major tennis sionals (ATP) supervisor for toprung ATP and Women’s fare and promise, wound up for the men’s singles cham founder, MD & CEO, said, Indian players, ranked in the breakthroughs. centre in the country.

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IN BRIEF Panel: no SC refuses T.N.’s plea for proof against No jail clause in new release of Cauvery water Saseendran Karnataka medical Bill Special Correspondent Court won’t pass interim orders as judgment is reserved: CJI THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Nationalist Congress Party Legislation has penalty, registration cancellation provisions Sri Lankan PM oers Legal Correspondent (NCP) leader A.K prayers at Kollur NEW DELHI Saseendran’s return to the Special Correspondent KOLLUR The Supreme Court on Tues Kerala Cabinet appears a Belagavi Sri Lankan Prime Minister day refused Tamil Nadu’s distinct possibility now After a heated debate and Ranil Wickremesinghe visited plea to direct Karnataka to with the P.S. Antony Com amid strong opposition from Sri Mookambika Temple, forthwith release Cauvery mission, which had in doctors, the State govern Kollur, and offered his water from its reservoirs to quired into the allegation ment on Tuesday tabled the prayers and participated in make good a shortfall of 63 of sexual harassment modified Karnataka Private ‘Shata Chandi Havana’ on tmc ft at Billigundulu. against him, finding no Medical Establishments Tuesday. He was Making an urgent men evidence to prove the (Amendment) Bill, 2017, do accompanied by his wife tion before a Bench led by charge. Mr. Antony submit ing away with the clause on Maithree Wickremesinghe. Chief Justice of India Dipak ted his report to Chief Min imprisonment. It, however, Misra, Tamil Nadu govern Water woes: Tamil Nadu needs water to sustain cultivation in ister Pinarayi Vijayan here includes a clause on penalty Prosecution to move ment counsel G. Umapathy the Cauvery basin. A le picture of Cauvery in Mandya. on Tuesday. and cancellation of registra court against Dileep’s bail said there was an acute Mr. Saseendran had tion in case of noncompli KOCHI shortage of water and asked Justice Misra (as he was Mr. Umapathy that since the resigned on March 26, ance. Even as the Special the court to direct Karnataka then) had reserved its judg judgment was reserved, the barely hours after the The modified Bill em Investigation Team was all set to forthwith release 30 tmc ment on the appeals filed by court would not pass any in Mangalam TV channel powers the government to to submit the chargesheet ft. of water at Billigundulu Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and terim orders. aired an audio clip of his fix uniform package rates for against Dileep in the actor out of the above shortfall Kerala against the final However, the court asked sexually explicit conversa treatment and procedures abduction case, the police are within the next 10 days so as award of the Cauvery senior advocate Fali Nar tion with a woman. under its health insurance likely to approach the Judicial to sustain the cultivation in Tribunal in 2007 on the al iman, who appeared as lead The commission has schemes, but not across all First Class Magistrate Court at the Cauvery basin of Tamil location of the river water to counsel for Karnataka in the said the only inference it categories. It says that hos Angamaly against the actor Nadu. the three States. Cauvery appeals, to enquire could arrive at was that the pitals have to hand over bod for allegedly violating the In September, the Su In the mentioning, Chief with the State as to the audio clip was product of a ies of deceased patients to Free time: CM Siddaramaiah with legislators during a break, provisions of his bail preme Court Bench led by Justice Misra made it clear to ground situation. trap set by the TV channel. next of kin without insisting in the Assembly in Belagavi on Tuesday * P K BADIGER conditions. The move comes on payment of dues. close on the heels of the The Bill has done away Kerala HC permitting the with provisions on imprison actor to travel to Dubai. UAV crashes in Kochi Dalit worker freed ment — which provoked Assembly rejects scribes’ protests from doctors — but Red sanders smuggler, 11 provides for levy of penalty associates held in A.P. ahead of Venkaiah’s visit from bonded labour for noncompliance with the plea to drop jail term CHITTOOR Patients’ Charter and Private The Piler rural police on Medical Establishment’s Special Correspondent Tuesday nabbed Langada It was on a routine surveillance sortie Employer had let loose dogs on him Charter in the schedule to BELGAVI Nazim, a red sanders the KPME Act. Health and The Karnataka Legislative smuggler with international Staff Reporter crashed in the vicinity of Special Correspondent Following a complaint by Family Welfare Minister K.R. Assembly on Tuesday unan links, along with 11 of his KOCHI HHA Tank Terminal Pvt. MYSURU R. Siddaraju, State coordin Ramesh Kumar tabled the imously upheld its earlier aides during raids in An unmanned aerial vehicle Ltd. However, there was no A Dalit worker in Kodagu, ator, Human Rights Forum Bill in the Assembly. resolution imposing a one Rompicharla and KV Palle (UAV), operated by the casualty or damage to prop whose employer let loose for Dalit Liberation, the As year prison sentence and mandals. They seized 12 red Southern Naval Command erty. A Board of Inquiry is dogs on him for quitting sistant Commissioner and Redress mechanism fine of 10,000 on the edit sanders logs, an auto and two in Kochi, crashed here on being constituted to invest work, has been liberated SubDivisional Magistrate of The Bill seeks to reconstitute ors of two Kannada tabloids SUVs at two different Tuesday. igate the cause of accident.” from bonded labour. Madikeri conducted a the Registration and Griev for breach of privilege. locations. The Israelmade Searcher The UAV was part of the Harish, 30, who had quit probe. ances Redressal Authority in Members, cutting across II was on a routine surveil naval air squadron INS working in the Paruvangada The inquiry revealed that each district. The fivemem party lines, opposed the ed A.P. to use drones for lance sortie and crashed Garuda, which comprises Kishen’s coffee beans Harish had been forced to ber authority will be headed itors’ plea on exempting spraying pesticides around 10.25 a.m, shortly the Israeli aircraft Herons godown at Balale village in work in Kishen’s godown by the Deputy Commis them from punishment and AMARAVATI after take off. and Searchers. Kodagu’s Virajpet taluk, was against his wishes. Kishen sioner. The District Health demanded immediate exe Ravi Belagere The A.P. government is ready “The remotecontrolled The crash also raised se allegedly bundled into a had forced Harish to work and Family Welfare Officer cution of the resolution to bear the expenditure for aircraft failed to attain the curity concern as the acci jeep by Kishen and his asso saying he owed him interest will be membersecretary, passed by the House on June pealed to the Speaker to using drones to spray expected height and came dent occurred about one ciate Madhu on August 30 on borrowed money, the in and District AYUSH officer, a 21, 2017, against Ravi Bel consider the plea since the pesticides to prevent the crashing down,” naval offi andahalf hours prior to the and tied up in a shed where quiry said. member of Indian Medical agere of Hai Bengaluru and journalists had approached spread of plant diseases, CM cials said. arrival of VicePresident M. three dogs were reportedly By abducting him and as Association and a woman Anil Raj of Yelahanka Voice. the High Court on the N. Chandrababu Naidu told Venkaiah Naidu at the naval let loose on him. saulting him, the accused representative will be mem matter. the Assembly here on No casualty airport here. Harish had suffered injur had deprived Harish of his bers. The Authority can im ‘No directions from HC’ Defending the House’s Tuesday. Mr. Naidu said According to sources, a ma In March last year, a ies on his head, shoulder freedom to move around, pose penalty of up to While a majority of mem resolution on Tuesday, drones would be used jor tragedy was averted as Heron UAV operated by the and hand. The accused later the SubDivisional Magis 50,000 and cancel registra bers demanded immediate Speaker K.B. Koliwad said extensively in digital soil the plane crashed near a Southern Naval Command took Harish in their vehicle trate said, while issuing a tion for noncompliance, execution of the resolution, there are no directions on mapping using the knowhow bulk liquid terminal on Will crashed into the sea some and left him near Balale hos Certificate for Release from and impose penalty of one a few sought doubling of the the matter from the High provided by the Bill & ingdon Island. An official 30 nautical miles off Kochi pital. The public admitted Bonded Labour on Novem and half times the over punishment and penalty. Court, which had dismissed Melinda Gates Foundation. statement said “the aircraft following engine failure. him to the hospital. ber 14, 2017. charged amount. Only three members ap the writ petition.

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IN BRIEF Verdict today Weather Watch Bihar teachers tasked with ODF patrol Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday in Kopardi Told to stop people from defecating in the open in Muzaarpur and Aurangabad rape case

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT after the midday meals for Shoumojit Banerjee PATNA students in schools,” said a PUNE The Bihar government has schoolteacher from the same The quantum of sentence SAD’s women activists asked schoolteachers in two district. in last year’s Kopardi rape- protest against Khaira districts to make rounds in murder case, in Ahmed- CHANDIGARH their respective urban wards Plea for withdrawal nagar district of Maha- Several activists of the SAD’s and panchayat committee Meanwhile, the Bihar sec- rashtra, is likely to be pro- women wing on Tuesday areas to stop people from de- ondary teachers’ association nounced today with the staged a demonstration here fecating in the open. The has urged the Chief Minister defence counsel concluding demanding immediate teachers have protested the “not to add to the long list of arguments of two of the ac- resignation of AAP legislator government move and said it non-academic work that cused on Tuesday. Sukhpal Singh Khaira was an “insult” to their job. they are supposed to do”. The Ahmednagar district following the issuance of The Bihar government or- A villager in front of a lowcost toilet in Nalanda district of The letter has cited a speech and sessions court will also summons to him by a Fazilka der issued recently for Muz- Bihar. * FILE PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT of Union Human Resource hear concluding arguments court in a drug case. The affarpur and Aurangabad Minister Prakash Javadekar of Special Public Prosecutor protesters vowed to not districts, which are to be de- in other districts to create pressed their resentment in the Rajya Sabha about Ujjwal Nikam on allow him entry into the State clared as Open Defecation awareness. over the government’s de- teachers being over- Wednesday. Assembly on Monday. PTI Free districts by December cision. “It’s an insult to our burdened with non-teaching The 2016 incident, in 31, said that teachers should Minister’s defence teaching job. Can you ima- duties. “Teachers are which a 15-year-old girl be- Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: Skymet (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) Rajasthan: over 900 ITIs make rounds in their areas State Education Minister gine what people would say already struggling with regis- longing to the Maratha set up in last 4 years in the morning and evening Krishnanadan Prasad Verma if you go to them while they tration of students for board community was gang- Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy rain is likely at isolated places JAIPUR and take pictures on their defended the move, saying, are defecating in the open exams these days in the State raped, mutilated and killed, over Andaman & Nicobar Islands and south coastal Tamil Nadu. More than 900 government cell phone to shame the of- “Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is a and take pictures on our mo- and with completing their was compared to the 2012 Cold wave conditions likely to prevail at a few/isolated places and private Industrial Training fenders. The order has been national mission and every- bile phone?” rued Ram- course, but the government Delhi gang-rape case for the over Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, west Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Institutes (ITIs) were set up in sent to the schoolteachers body should take part in it. If nandan Sharma, a school- appears to be hardly extent of its brutality, and Jammu, Punjab, northwest Madhya Pradesh and east Rajasthan Rajasthan in the last four with copies marked to Dis- teachers are being asked to teacher in Aurangabad. bothered about all this. Ask- had triggered a wave of city rain max min city rain max min years, Rajasthan Labour and Agartala...... —.... 30.0.... 18.4 Kozhikode ...... —.... 36.8.... 26.5 trict Magistrates, Sub-Divi- play their role in it and it “How many government ing teachers to stop open de- protests across the State. Ahmedabad...... —.... 30.3.... 17.6 Kurnool...... —.... 33.5.... 23.7 Employment Minister sional Officers, Block Devel- doesn’t hamper their school tasks are we expected to do? fection in their areas is an in- Aizawl ...... —.... 28.0.... 11.8 Lucknow...... —.... 24.2.... 10.8 Jaswant Yadav said on opment Officers and even job, I think there is nothing When elections come we’re sult to their profession,” said Arguments in court Allahabad ...... —.... 26.7.... 12.4 Madurai...... —.... 33.6.... 24.2 Tuesday. Thirtyone new the local police stations. The wrong in it. They are known the first one to be called, Shatrughan Prasad Singh, Bi- Advocate Prakash Aher, Bengaluru...... —.... 29.1.... 20.2 Mangaluru...... —.... 34.0.... 24.1 Bhopal...... —.... 25.3.... 16.2 Mumbai...... —.... 34.7.... 22.4 courses were introduced in district administration has for their intellect and can when exams are to be held har Teachers’ Association counsel for Nitin Bhailume Bhubaneswar ...... —.... 30.0.... 21.4 Mysuru...... —.... 30.0.... 20.2 923 ITIs, he said. PTI created committees of four convince people for ODF in a we are called… government general secretary and former (26), who is accused num- Chandigarh ...... —.... 23.4.... 11.2 New Delhi ...... —.... 24.2.... 10.2 to five teachers to monitor much better way.” social campaigns, census MP. He requested Chief Min- ber 3 in the case, argued Chennai ...... 1.2.... 31.6.... 26.1 Patna ...... —.... 27.5.... 13.5 Coimbatore...... —.... 32.7.... 24.0 Port Blair ...... —.... 32.0.... 25.3 Rajasthan launches free the mission’s progress. Sim- But many teachers from work, pulse polio cam- ister Nitish Kumar to with- that his client was not Dehradun...... —.... 25.1...... 9.0 Puducherry...... —.... 32.4.... 24.5 learning app for exams ilar committees are planned both the districts have ex- paign… we have to even look draw the order. charged with the rape or Gangtok...... —.... 17.8.... 12.0 Pune ...... 12.1.... 30.4.... 20.1 JAIPUR the murder of the minor Goa ...... —.... 34.5.... 24.5 Raipur ...... —.... 31.3.... 21.1 Rajasthan’s Higher and girl and that he did not have Guwahati ...... —.... 29.1.... 18.5 Ranchi...... —.... 26.0.... 15.1 Hubballi...... —.... 29.0.... 21.0 Shillong...... —.... 19.3...... 7.3 Technical Education Minister a criminal past. Hyderabad ...... —.... 32.0.... 20.4 Shimla...... —.... 16.3...... 6.5 Kiran Maheshwari on Tuesday Odisha may go with Godse’s bust removed from “He [Bhailume] has been Imphal...... —.... 26.6.... 12.2 Srinagar ...... —.... 12.9.....-1.7 launched ‘Dishari’ an charged under sections 120 Jaipur...... —.... 25.7.... 11.5 Trivandrum ...... 41.4.... 31.0.... 23.6 educational mobile application (b) [party to criminal con- Kochi...... 21.2.... 32.0.... 24.0 Tiruchi ...... —.... 33.0.... 25.4 rightwing group’s oce Kohima...... —.... 20.3.... 12.6 Vijayawada...... —.... 33.1.... 25.1 that provides free study Jagannath Rasagola spiracy] and 109 [abet- Kolkata...... —.... 29.5.... 21.4 Visakhapatnam ...... —.... 32.6.... 25.6 material for youths preparing Special Correspondent work in their office… This is ment] of the Indian penal Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday for competitive examinations. Staff Reporter ture, taste, juice content Bhopal a clear violation of Madhya Code (IPC). But the case CITIES SO2 NO2 COPM2.5PM10CODE Bhubaneswar The app features interactive and method of preparation. The Gwalior district adminis- Pradesh Sarvajanik Sthan against him is purely cir- Ahmedabad...... 55..4743 ..261 .....— ....* quizzes with questions related The Odisha government is The ‘Odishara Rasagola’ is tration on Tuesday removed (Dharmik Bhawan Evam Gat- cumstantial evidence. Bengaluru ...... 910478 ..... — ...62 ....* In observation made at 4.00 p.m., to mathematics, general mulling applying for geo- softer and light brown in the bust of Mahatma ividhiyon Ka Viniyaman) Ad- There is no medical proof Chennai ...... 9..3441 ....36 .....— ....* Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh recorded an Delhi...... 12..6468 ..331 .....— ....* overall air quality index (AQI) knowledge, current affairs, graphical indication regis- colour, whereas the Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram hiniyam, 2001,” wrote against him,” said Mr. Aher. * score of 421 Hyderabad ...... 17..6241 ....94 .103 .... indicating an unhealthy level of computers, reasoning, and tration for the Rasagola as- Bangalar Rasogolla is white Godse installed at the office Gwalior Collector Rahul Jain The counsel added, Kolkata ...... — ...— .— ..... — .....—.....— pollution. economics. PTI sociated with Shree or off-white. The syrup used of right-wing group Akhil in his three-page order dated “Bhailume has an ailing Lucknow ...... 12..5881 ..347 .....— ....* In contrast, Thiruvananthapuram Jagannath Temple at Puri, in both the variants is also Bharat Hindu Mahasabha. November 21, 2017. mother and a father who is Mumbai ...... 12..1288 ..125 .159 ....* recorded a healthy AQI score of 57 Pune...... 30..1763 ....56 ...83 ....* Two held with 1.20 lakh as it will be easier to sup- different. The administration offi- The administration en- a labourer… he has studied Vishakhapatnam ..6..1244 ....53 ...52 ....* in fake currency notes port the application with cials also sealed the office of trusted the responsibility to hard to overcome his eco- Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) JHANSI historical evidence. Legal opinion the Mahasabha located in remove the controversial nomically challenged back- SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, Two persons were arrested Soon after the West The Odisha government Daulatganj area of Gwalior bust to Sub-Divisional Magis- ground. In view of his age, I making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air with counterfeit currency Bengal government secured had sought opinions of two and deployed heavy police trate Vijay Raj and Additional have pleaded that he be particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues notes with a face value of the GI registration for top law firms having rich ex- force to maintain peace, law Superintendent of Police given the minimum and monuments. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by 1.20 lakh at the Jhansi ‘Banglar Rasogolla’, senior perience in handling patent and order. Dinesh Kaushal. The officials punishment.” reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. railway station here, the GRP Odisha officials got into a cases. broke open the lock on the Advocate Mohan Makas- CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to said. During the routine hurdle to chart out the next Basing on their opinion, ‘No permission taken’ front door of the Mahasabha are, representing Jitendra critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause checking, two youths were course of action for registra- the State Industries Depart- “The members of Akhil office, covered the bust kept Shinde (accused no. 1), re- dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, nabbed with fake currency tion of ‘Odishara Rasagola’. ment has made up its mind Bharat Hindu Mahasabha on a table and took it with quested the court that his nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced notes of 2,000 The West Bengal and in favour of the Rasagola as- had not taken prior permis- them to an undisclosed client be given life sentence lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and denomination to the tune of Odisha variants of the sweet sociated with Shree Jagan- sion for construction and place. They also sealed the in lieu of capital premature death in people with heart or lung disease (Individual pollutant data for various cities are averages for the previous day) 1.20 lakh. PTI are different in colour, tex- nath Temple. carried out unauthorised office, a police officer said. punishment.

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IN BRIEF ‘Don’t make our pain Those opposing Padmavati should a public spectacle’ watch the lm, says Union Minister Hadiya’s father seeks incamera hearing Krishnadas Rajagopal that Akhila would have to an Hazare plans new NEW DELHI swer probing questions of a anti-graft campaign Row continues as Yogi Adityanath says lm director Sanjay Leela Bhansali as guilty as Rajput groups A family’s anguish should not “highly private” nature. A RALEGAON-SIDDHI be reduced to a public spec public questioning would not Blaming the Narendra Modi Press Trust of India tacle or a reality show, father only be mentally disturbing government for failing to New Delhi Film not to of Akhila, aka Hadiya, be to his daughter but would take steps to prevent seeched the Supreme Court also be unsettling for the The censor board has a job corruption, veteran activist be released on Tuesday. family. which it should be allowed to Anna Hazare on Tuesday Akhila’s conversion to Is Mr. Asokan invoked the re do, the Centre said on Tues announced plans for a new lam and subsequent marriage cent judgment of a nine day even as the row over in Rajasthan anti-graft campaign for which to a Muslim man in Kerala judge Bench of the Supreme Padmavati raged on with Ut he sought public Mohammed Iqbal had caused ripples across the Court which upheld the right tar Pradesh Chief Minister participation. In a statement, JAIPUR nation. She is scheduled to be to privacy as a fundamental Yogi Adityanath claiming he said the then United Hindi film Padmavati will personally present before a right under the Constitution. that director Sanjay Leela Progressive Alliance not be released in Ra Bench led by Chief Justice of Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Bhansali was no less guilty government was compelled jasthan until the changes India Dipak Misra on Novem one of the three judges who than the fringe groups ex to pass the Lokpal law but it suggested by Chief Minister ber 27 to testify whether she will hear Akhila on Novem tending threats to him and was “somewhat weakened.” Vasundhara Raje are incor converted under duress or of ber 27, was the author of the actor Deepika Padukone. porated in the Sanjay Leela her own free will. majority verdict in the pri Union Information and Bhansalidirected epic Asokan K.M. has filed an vacy case. “Incamera pro Rajinikanth visits Broadcasting Minister Ra drama. Ms. Raje had made application requesting the ceedings are ordered in a Mantralayam math jyavardhan Rathore said: RAICHUR the suggestions in a letter apex court to interact with range of situations which in “The CBFC has been formed addressed to Information his daughter privately, in an volve personal matters, fam Actor Rajinikanth visited the for a purpose. Let it do its and Broadcasting Minister incamera session, and not in ily matters and also where Sri Raghavendra Swamy Math job,” responding to ques in Mantralayam, Andhra Smriti Irani last week. the open court. He said mem there is security concern or tions by reporters. Rajput activists protesting against the release of Padmavati in Hyderabad on Tuesday. * G. Pradesh, on Tuesday. Mr. Ms. Raje clarified in a bers of the “extremist” Popu sensitivity,” the plea said. Another senior Union RAMAKRISHNA statement here that she lar Front of India was behind Mr. Asokan said the wo Rajinikanth, who reached Minister, Birender Singh, had suggested in her his daughter’s conversion man who “took control” of Mantralayam at 7.30 a.m., said those opposing Pad- are guilty, Bhansali is no less few years ago.BJP legislator In another development, November 18 letter that the and marriage. his daughter is a PFI member had darshan of Manchalamma mavati should first watch the guilty ...” from Goshamahal, Raja as many as 42 people belong film's storyline be reviewed “A family's anguish and called Sainaba A.S. He has Devi and Sri Raghavendra film. Jumping into the issue, Singh, has threatened to ing to the Rajput community by a committee comprising misery caused by the acts of asked the Supreme Court to Swamy. He offered a special Striking a different note, Samajwadi Party MLA Azam burn down theatres if Pad- from Rajasthan were taken historians, film personalit an extremist organisation summon her and question puja and sat in meditation for Mr. Adityanath told report Khan taunted Rajput groups mavati is released in Telan into preventive custody for ies and community repres should not be reduced to a her about the “widespread over 30 minutes in the mutt. ers: “Nobody has the right to for taking umbrage over the gana. Mr. Singh has written staging a demonstration entatives in order to ensure public spectacle or a reality and organised network of Sri Subudhendra Tirtha, take the law into his or her film. He said those who were to Chief Minister K. against the film’s release in that the sentiments of the show,” Mr. Asokan, represen radicalised elements which Peethadhipathi of the own hands. Be it Sanjay protesting against the film Chandrasekhar Rao, request the State. Rajput community were ted by advocate Madhavi Di has developed a deceptive Mantralayam Math, who Leela Bhansali or anybody were the same who pros ing him to impose a ban on (With inputs from Omar not hurt. van, pleaded in the court. apparatus of conversion felicitated the actor, else. If those issuing threats trated before the British till a the film. Rashid) presented a memento to him. The father apprehended centres. Charminar chosen Swachh Bharat icon HYDERABAD Moin Qureshi used Charminar, the historic emblem of Hyderabad, has been chosen as a Swachh daughter’s account: ED Bharat icon by the Union government. The monument is one among the 10 icons The agency les chargesheet in court chosen in the second phase of Devesh K. Pandey proceeds of crime shows the ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’ New Delhi that it was layered in various for comprehensive Meat exporter Moin Qure levels to show the money as development in terms of shi, who is being investig legitimate/untainted trans sanitation and hygiene. ated by the Enforcement fers into the account of Per TDP MPTC member Directorate for money laun nia Qureshi,” said the attempts suicide S Durga director hails Kerala HC order dering, allegedly used the agency. The ED said Pernia’s ANANTAPUR nonresident bank accounts account details also showed of his daughter to receive huge receipts from her Nagamma, a TDP Mandal Press Trust of India excluded S Durga and Ravi interview. For the director, cision. “This is a huge vic funds to the tune of 3.70 former fatherinlaw “after Parishad Territorial Panaji Jadhav’s Nude from the list, who is in Australia for the tory for @sanalsasidharan crore through shell projecting the same re Constituencies member of Director Sanal Kumar leading to controversy and Asia Pacific Screen Awards and restores my faith in our companies. ceived as a gift from London Kundurpi mandal in the Sasidharan on Tuesday resignations of jury chair where he is nominated in democracy. I now look for The agency, in a for setting up her business, district, attempted suicide hailed the Kerala High man Sujoy Ghosh and the best director category ward to attending the fest chargesheet filed against Mr. but she could not provide late on Monday night due to Court’s order to screen his members Apurva Asrani for S Durga, the decision ival to watch the film!” he Qureshi, has identified two any documents on this ac mounting debts. This brings Malayalam film S Durga at and Gyan Correa. could not have come at a wrote on Twitter. HSBC Bank accounts of his count. However, this into focus the nature of farm the ongoing IFFI in Goa, “I am very happy. It is a better time. Jury member Ruchi daughter Pernia, via which amount was found utilised crisis in the district, days after the Information victory of cinema and “This is a victory of all of Narain also expressed happi the alleged online transac by Moin Qureshi in his busi regardless of the social and Broadcasting Ministry Sanal Kumar Sasidharan democracy. People stood us. It is a proof that demo ness over the outcome. tions were made. Money ness of M/s Abdul Majeed position one holds. Ms. dropped the movie from by us and believed in us cracy can’t be killed and law “The judiciary metes out was also sent from the U.K. Qureshi by way of bank Nagamma and her family had the festival. his film from the Indian Pan and it has paid off. The is for the people,” Sanal ad justice. The IFFI festival and the U.S., according to transfers.” raised considerable amounts The director had moved orama 2017 lineup. chairman resigned, other ded. Asrani said he was look audience will get to see an the ED. The agency has alleged of money as loan from court, challenging the Min The Ministry had over jury members also ing forward to attend the amazing set of films,” Narain that the entire proceeds of moneylenders in the run-up istry’s decision to exclude ruled the jury’s decision and resigned,” Sanal said in an festival after the court’s de told PTI. to the MPTC elections. Six entities crime routed and layered The Directorate has listed through shell companies are six private entities — Mishra proceeds of crime under the Dyes and Pharma Chem, Prevention of Money Laun ExIAS ocer Anil Coal Concern, Regal In dering Act, which was used Days of Naidu’s govt. SC reserves orders on plea fotech, S.S. Steel Cast, Intel for meeting “exorbitant ex held for rape lect Personnel Selection Net penses” of Mr. Qureshi and numbered, says Jagan and Platanus Portfolio Man his family members abroad; against lawyers’ verication Press Trust of India agement — as shell compan expensive gifts for govern Staff Reporter for the development of the Jaipur ies through which Pernia’s ment servants; and pay ANANTAPUR State. Without SCS, even if Retired IAS officer B.B. Mo accounts received 3.70 ments of their hotel stays in YSR Congress Party presid we take 60 years, we won’t Over 6 lakh enrolled advocates have submitted forms: BCI hanty has been arrested on crore. “The trail of these various countries. ent Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy be able to develop like Hy charges of raping a 23year said on Tuesday that any derabad. But with SCS, de Legal Correspondent State Bar Councils. old woman in 2013, police government that cheats its velopment can be fast NEW DELHI The Bench however, ex officials said here on Tues own people would witness a tracked,” Mr. Jagan Mohan The Supreme Court on Tues pressed concern that the day. Mohanty was arrested downfall. Reddy opined. day reserved orders on a verification process could on Monday night. Speaking to reporters at batch of petitions challen stall elections to the State He was the chairman of Betamcherla mandal ‘Healthcare dismal’ ging the Certificate and bar councils and said it the Rajasthan Civil Services headquarters village in On the issue of the State gov Place of Practice (Verifica would pass orders on the pe Appellate Tribunal at the Dhone Assembly segment in ernment making people of tion) Rules of 2015 which re titions on November 24. time the FIR was re Kurnool district, Mr. Jagan Andhra Pradesh residing in quires a mass verification of The petitions have alleged gistered. He was suspen Mohan Reddy alleged that Telangana ineligible for lawyers’ credentials to weed that the resolution by the ded by the government Andhra Pradesh Chief Min availing of benefits under out fake practitioners. apex lawyers’ body on Janu and later retired. ister N. Chandrababu Naidu the Arogyasri scheme, he The Bar Council of India ary 13, 2015 titled 'Certificate was in the habit of deceiving said it was “inhuman.” (BCI) submitted before a and Place of Practice (Veri people for political gains, “What happened to the Bench led by Justice R.K. Bench expresses concern fication) Rules 2015’ was un and that the days of the “tyr super speciality hospital Agrawal that the verification process could stall elections constitutional and violative annical government” were promised by Mr. Naidu in was still on and reports have to the State bar councils of the Advocates Act. numbered. Kurnool? Implementation of been received from various “The BCI does not have Mr. Jagan Mohan Reddy promises is as important as State Bar Councils. The BCI The BCI said a highlevel the power to add to the con said house sites would be making them,” Mr. Jagan informed the court that out verification committee has ditions of enrolment as ex given to every journalist on Mohan Reddy said, and ri of over 15 lakh enrolled ad been formed under former pressly laid down under Sec the YSRCP coming to power. diculed the government vocates, over six lakh have Supreme Court judge, tion 24 (1) of the Advocates “Special Category Status over the “dismal” state of submitted verification Justice Anil R. Dave. The Act,” one of the petitions (SCS) is absolutely necessary healthcare in the State. forms. panel has already met with argued.

Fire destroys freebies in Bhopal gas leak survivors Tamil Nadu launch unique campaign Staff Reporter CHENNAI Send images of children pleading for medical care to Modi A fire that broke out in a government building adja Staff Reporter the death of thousands. groundwater were sent cent to the Perungalathur Kolkata The campaign named through Twitter to the two Town Panchayat office gut Survivors of the Union “paanch guhaar” (five re leaders [Mr. Modi and Mr. ted fans, mixies and Carbide gas leak disaster in quests) will focus on the is Chouhan] by a team of cyber grinders worth several Bhopal launched a unique sues of rehabilitation, justice activists from the younger lakhs of rupees, meant for campaign on Tuesday to and adequate compensa generation of survivors,” free distribution to draw the attention of Prime tion. said a release issued by the beneficiaries. Minister Narendra Modi and Led by the Bhopal Group organisations. Sources said that on Madhya Pradesh Chief Min of Information and Action, The campaign which will Tuesday afternoon, smoke ister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. the campaign involves four continue till December 3, billowed from the hall, They sent images of chil other organisations. 2017 — the 33rd anniversary where the stocks had been dren pleading for medical of the Union Carbide gas lying for more than a year, care and rehabilitation to Campaign till Dec 3 leak disaster — will also and the entire building was the Prime Minister and the “Moving images of children carry portraits of the Prime soon engulfed by fire. Chief Minister through pleading for medical care, Minister and the Chief Minis Before the Fire and Res Twitter. social and economic rehabil ter to the areas where cue Services personnel ar On December 2, 1984, itation, adequate compensa groundwater has become rived, several loads of leakage of poisonous gas tion, punishment of the cul poisonous with hazardous stocks were completely gut from the Union Carbide prits and cleaning up of waste released from the ted. chemical plant resulted in lingering poisons in soil and Union Carbide factory. CM A ND-NDE YK

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Himalayan upgrade The elections in Nepal will complete the democratic transition. India must play an enabling role etic to the Madhesi cause, India de This is presented as the democratic clared that unless peace was re front and if the NC manages 60 stored in the Terai, normal seats, it will have better prospects Born to rule movement of goods across the bor of cobbling together a coalition der was not possible, leading to than the UML. Much will depend But only sound political vision will help Rahul shortages of critical items such as on how the Madhesi candidates petrol, diesel, liqueed petroleum fare in the Terai. Gandhi in the faceo with Narendra Modi rakesh sood gas and medical supplies. Instead rom the time he entered politics, and won Amethi of starting a dialogue with the Mad Retrieving lost ground in 2004, Rahul Gandhi knew the leadership of the lections on November 26 and hesis, Mr. Oli accused India of im One of the important challenges FCongress was his for the asking. The only question December 7 in Nepal mark a posing an “ economic blockade ” for the new government will be to was when his mother, Sonia Gandhi, would be ready to Ehistoric moment in its tumul and reverted to the ageold tactic of revive the constitutional amend step down. The inevitable succession from mother to tuous transition from a 240year irting with China to expand sup ment to address Madhesi griev old monarchy to a multiparty ply systems across the Tibetan plat ances; Mr. Deuba had pushed it son is related to the very nature of the Congress. Unfor democracy. eau. through in August but failed to tunately for the party, no one but a member of the The rst general election to be Eventually, his coalition col muster the necessary twothirds NehruGandhi family can hold its potentially fractious held under the 2015 C onstitution, lapsed and Mr. Prachanda pulled majority. Having realised that its

elements together. So, in the absence of some totally it is also the rst time that federal GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO back his support in order to join overt support to the Madhesi cause unexpected twist, the December election process an Nepal will elect seven provincial the Maoist leadership, with both shadow over the 2008 elections. with the NC in July last year. After a in 2015 had hurt IndiaNepal rela nounced will see Mr. Gandhi as Congress president. assemblies. Parliament and the sides resorting to frequent brink Elections for a new CA were tenure lasting 10 months during tions and was being exploited by provincial assemblies will in turn manship. nally held in November 2013, with which he conducted the rst phase the UML, India softened its posi This will formalise his de facto position as the leader of elect a new president and v ice Following elections in May signicantly dierent results. The of the local b ody elections, he tion. For the last year, it has been India’s largest opposition party, which is struggling to president. Coming after the elec 2008, a 601member Constituent Maoists were down to 81 seats and handed over power to NC leader urging the Madhesi leadership to stitch together a nationallevel alternative to the resur tions to the 753 local bodies (muni Assembly (CA) came into being the Madhesis to 40; the older Sher Bahadur Deuba, who became work through the political process gent BJP, under the Amit ShahNarendra Modi combine. cipalities, s ubmunicipalities and with a twoyear mandate to draft a parties, the Nepali Congress (NC) the tenth Prime Ministerin Nepal’s rather than through agitation or The timing of the elevation is signicant. In the period village d evelopment c ommittees) new Constitution for a ‘federal re and the Communist Party of Nepal nine years as a republic. boycott of elections. immediately after the devastating defeat in the 2014 Lok held earlier this year after a 20 public’. The 240yearold institu Unied Marxist Leninist (UML), The antiIndia sentiment gener Sabha election, the Congress did not want to push Mr. year gap, these will complete the tion of the monarchy was abol emerged stronger with 201 and 175 Keeping on track ated in 2015 was exploited by Mr. political process and go a long way ished. Two new political forces seats, respectively. These two The new Constitution provides for Oli in wooing China, which is inter Gandhi to the top: that would have meant exposing him in consolidating hardwon demo emerged, the Maoists with 229 formed a coalition under NC leader a National Assembly of 160 directly ested in expanding its presence as to unattering comparisons with Mr. Modi, when the cratic gains. seats in the CA and the Madhesi Sushil Koirala on the understand elected members (rstpastthe part of its Belt and Road Initiative. BJP was in its most dominant phase. Despite Ms. parties with 80 seats. Dierences ing that the prime ministership post system) and an additional 110 The rst ever visit by a Chinese De Gandhi’s illhealth, Mr. Gandhi seemed in no hurry to Beginnings of political change within the CA led to a stalemate. would pass to UML leader K.P.S. Oli through proportional representa fence Minister, General Chang take up the leadership. That he is taking on the respons Political transition towards multi After 2010, the CA extended its life once a new Constitution was con tion (PR), making for a more man Wanquan, to Nepal took place ibility just before the Assembly election in Gujarat, a party democracy began with the four times till, nally, the Supreme cluded. ageable House compared to the earlier this year, followed by a joint State the Congress has not won since 1985, is a signal to Constitution of 1990, an outcome Court intervened and the CA The devastating earthquake in earlier 601. Further, in order to military exercise. Two major hydel of the rst Janandolan, which in lapsed in May 2012 without having 2015 which caused nearly 10,000 gain a PR seat, a political party projects, West Seti and Budhi the electorate that Mr. Gandhi is ready for the long haul. troduced constitutional limits on completed its mandate. casualties and inicted economic must have 3% of the national vote, Gandaki, were awarded to Chinese The real challenge for Mr. Gandhi is not winning the the powers of the monarchy. After A major problem was that the losses of over $7 billion on an eco which has forced smaller parties to companies though the latter was Congress leadership, but positioning himself as a rock a brief period of three years, the Maoists had come to power too nomy still recovering from a dec consolidate. cancelled subsequently. China is in the way of the Modi juggernaut. When his mother monarchy successfully reasserted soon without having fully dis adelong Maoist insurgency com Once certain that the elections exploring a rail link to Nepal as well chose not to stake claim for the prime ministership in itself largely due to the squabbling armed or demobilised. The rst pelled the political parties to rush were on track, Mr. Prachanda an as opening a new road link at 2004, and instead invited Manmohan Singh to head the among political leaders and ma Maoist government, led by Pushpa through the longdelayed Constitu nounced a tieup with the UML, Rasuwagadhi while expanding the UPA government, he might have assumed that only nipulations by the Palace, leading Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, quickly tion. One reason was that the inter creating a left alliance and extract existing Araniko highway. to frequent changes of govern set about inltrating other state in national community which had ing 63 out of 160 seats. If the Once the new government takes youth and inexperience stood in his way. But in the ment. The current Prime Minister, stitutions, particularly the Army. collectively pledged $4.4 billion of Maoists — Communist Party of charge in Kathmandu, it is likely years since then, Mr. Gandhi betrayed a sense of entitle Sher Bahadur Deuba, who took Eventually Mr. Prachanda’s coali reconstruction assistance made it Nepal (Maoist Centre) —manage to that the new Prime Minister will ment without showing a willingness to be part of the charge in June, is the 25th Prime tion cracked and he resigned in clear that disbursements could win in 35, it will enable Mr. Prac visit India, perhaps in early 2018. A government. At no time was this more evident than Minister in the last 27 years. May 2009. only happen if local systems were handa to emerge as kingmaker, reciprocal visit by Prime Minister when he wanted torn up an ordinance promulgated by A Maoist insurgency erupted in Political leaders were busy play in place so that the relief and re and he could well return to the NC, Narendra Modi, focussing on con his own government to negate a Supreme Court verdict the mid1990s which lasted a dec ing musical chairs instead of ad habilitation funds were not be depending on the deal. The UML is nectivity and project delivery, later on disqualication of legislators on their conviction by ade and claimed nearly 15,000 cas dressing Constitution drafting is siphoned o. hoping to ride the wave that pro in 2018 would help in reviving the ualties. Eventually, in 2005, the sues. In the process, the new The hastily concluded Constitu pelled it to the top position in the positive sentiments generated by a trial court. What he projected as a stand in keeping political parties and the Maoist political forces underwent a pro tion enjoyed the support of the NC, local body elections earlier this his rst visit in 2014, and in keeping with public opinion came across as an arrogant act by a leaders signed an accord which cess of fragmentation. The Maoists UML and the Maoists but left the year. The NC has managed alli with the spirit of the ‘neighbour dynast against a Prime Minister beholden to him for laid the foundations for a more split twice and the Madhesi parties Madhesis and the Janjatis deeply ances with the Rastriya Janata hood rst’ policy. staying in power. More recently, Mr. Gandhi has shown formal agreement under which the also fragmented. Importantly, the unhappy. Mr. Oli was quick to claim PartyNepal (RJPN) — a Madhesi greater political maturity. He has spoken up against the Maoists came over ground and process of rehabilitation of the de the prime ministership in October grouping — as well as the two con Rakesh Sood is a former Ambassador to failings of the Modi government and refused to be joined mainstream politics. It was a mobilised Maoist militants was 2015 but did little to pacify the pro servative factions of the Rastriya Nepal and is currently Distinguished cowed down by trolls on social media. Dynasty might dicult process, given the mistrust concluded, removing the threat of testers in the Terai. Nearly 50 lives Prajatantra Party (RPP), led by Fellow at Observer Research Foundation. between the political parties and intimidation that had cast a were lost in the violence. Sympath Kamal Thapa and Pashupati Rana. E-mail: [email protected] have taken him to the top of the party, but if he is to lead a country of India’s size, he will have to articulate a political vision people buy into. Nothing will be gained by waiting for Mr. Modi to mess up. Mr. Gandhi will need Stepping up to the job to show he is prime ministerial material, not just a re exive critic of Mr. Modi and the BJP’s brand of politics. Rahul Gandhi’s biggest challenge will be to retrieve the cando spirit for the Congress tory. Even though her style was Gandhi needs to get down to the functioning. But he needs to re consensusdriven, she proved she task of not just strategising to win member that the Congress is a Helter Skelter had sharp political instincts. She elections, but of seizing the initiat political party. also worked hard on her speeches, ive and anticipating the big issues, Finally, he will need to reach out Charles Manson’s murderous ways hold out carefully chose her policy inter and this includes in Parliament to other political parties, espe a special caution for the America of today ventions, and today has the respect where he has tended to take a back cially because he requires their smita gupta of the entire political class. seat. He has yet to makes a dier help in 2019, as well as to BJP seni harles Manson, convicted for the brutal 1969 On the ip side, though the Con ence in parliamentary debates ors for better functioning of Parlia murders of nine individuals in California, has gress remains intact — despite with substantive speeches on the ment. His friendship with the Na Cdied a natural death at the age of 83. His passing, n era in the Congress will end some noteworthy departures — it is economy, foreign aairs and other tional Conference’s Omar however, will not diminish the profound inuence he in early December when So at a historical low. The party has key policy issues. He can no longer Abdullah is well known, and he re and the “Manson Family”, a quasicommune compris Ania Gandhi, its longest not just conceded political space aord to give the impression that cently had a much publicised serving president, steps down to but it has been hollowed out ideo he sees politics as a day job — polit lunch with the Rashtriya Janata ing mostly of abused and broken young women, had on make way for Rahul Gandhi and logically. It now rules in six States/ GETTY IMAGES ics today is 24x7 work. Dal’s Tejashwi Yadav; he is also in the popular culture of the 1960s, a troubled decade that the next generation. In 1998, she Union Territory. This includes Hi have to be at the head of a Con touch with the DMK’s M.K. Stalin witnessed an intensifying battle for civil rights, the peak had taken up the position more out machal Pradesh that went to the gressled coalition. He is beginning Rebuilding the party and Kanimozhi. But he is yet to of the antiwar movement, and the “counterculture” as of a desire to preserve the family polls earlier this month, with to get a more favourable public re Mr. Gandhi’s biggest challenge will emulate his mother’s initiatives in sociated with hippies, drug abuse, and free love. Man legacy in the Congress, rather than counting of votes on December 18. ception, not merely because be rebuilding the party organisa being seen to go out of her comfort son and his followers were regarded by some as sym to wield power. She was the dow Worker morale continues to be people are now beginning to look tion and giving the Congress a new zone and approach potential allies. bols of the dark side of this counterculture movement. ager queen who would keep the low, and apart from the initiatives for an alternative but because his storyline with which to take on the After three and a half years of seat warm for her son. But in the like the Professionals’ Congress or speeches appear to be better might of the Modi machine. For the Modi government, there are Their notoriety came in August 1969 when, acting on end, she did much more than that: the Adivasi Congress, and the ap thought out, with a sprinkling of this, he will have to connect with voices of discontent. The attacks Manson’s instructions, four of his followers, three wo she grew into the job, led the party pointment of some new function oneliners that have easy recall. workers at the blocklevel, restore by rightwing elements on men and a man, entered a posh Hollywood Hills home and its campaigns from the front aries, there has been no major or This, in turn, has been a cond condence in them, and be trans Muslims, Dalits and rationalists, and slaughtered a heavily pregnant actress Sharon Tate and ensured the 10 uninterrupted ganisational upgrade. encebooster for Mr. Gandhi and is parent in his selection of both the downturn in the economy, ex — the wife of lm director Roman Polanski— and four of years in power at the Centre — no It is against this backdrop that beginning to get reected in the so party functionaries and candid acerbated by demonetisation, the her friends. One of Manson’s followers, Susan Atkins, mean achievement. the 47yearold Mr. Gandhi is to cial media, a space that the Bhar ates for elections. He has promised haphazard implementation of the scrawled the word “pig” on the front door with Tate’s take over the Congress. Over the atiya Janata Party had been dex to make his new team a mix of the goods and services tax and failure Highs and lows last few months, he has begun to trously occupying. There is a old and the new, but he needs to to create jobs, have resulted in a blood, hinting at Manson’s paranoid delusions about fo In 2004, Ms. Gandhi chose not to sound better on the stump, while ghtback, so much so that BJP ensure that he takes members of gradual change in the national menting a race war by framing AfricanAmericans for become become Prime Minister, campaigning in Himachal Pradesh president Amit Shah warned the the old guard he retains seriously. mood. The time is politically op this killing spree. Manson’s “family” went on to murder lest it give the Opposition a rallying and currently in Gujarat, giving his youth of Gujarat in September “to He has also shown an inclination to portune for Mr. Gandhi: he must a wealthy couple in Los Angeles, Leno and Rosemary point. Instead, she nominated followers hope that he may emerge beware of the Congress’s social me corporatise the Congress and sur take advantage of it. LaBianca, the following day, and they separately killed Manmohan Singh as Prime Minis as the man who can take on Mr. dia propaganda against the party”. round himself with apolitical per a Hollywood stuntman and another acquaintance of ter, earning herself a place in his Modi in 2019, even though that will But beyond the optics Mr. sons in a bid to break the old way of Smita Gupta is a Delhi-based journalist the group. Manson was convicted of rstdegree murder in 1971, but escaped capital punishment after LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. California outlawed the death penalty a year later. Despite the depravity of Manson’s actions, his legacy March to the top post I After much vacillation and changing moods and This requires a much session is a black spot on being the voice of the has been a contested notion. The fact that he achieved As anticipated, the schedule false starts, the grand old aspirations of the people. superior and dierent our democratic system. colonised to a controversial pop culture infamy through a variety of antics during for the the Indian National party is all set to elect its Sadly, for the many and presentation than what he Finance Minister Arun dictator, should make us his trial, and that this spawned an entire genre of “true Congress’s presidential next party president. The talented veterans, the has attempted so far. Jaitley’s retort that the ponder. His term as the elections has been line of thinking is that the Gandhi tag, a mystical term, Condence and pride are ruling party will expose the undisputed head of state crime” books and television movies, has muddied the announced which will result Gandhi family alone can is what still keeps them tied key here. Congress party in the has been marked by crimes recognition of the true horror of his outlook. Manson in the elevation of Congress save the party from sinking. to the dynasty, unmindful of As a central policy on oer session sounds more a against humanity, nancial had a hatred of Jewish people, AfricanAmericans and vicepresident Rahul The reality is that there is no its diminishing charm. by his party, he must work threat than a proper mismanagement and women. Rather than the liberal counterculture move Gandhi (“Decks cleared for free and frank discussion in C.R. Narayanan, out an enlarged, superiorly response to her statement. corruption. Mr. Mugabe’s ment of the 1960s, his bigoted philosophy bears a dis Rahul’s elevation as the party, as one would Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu implemented, high result Parliament is not a platform fairytale saga teaches us a turbing resemblance in some respects with the farright Congress chief”, November expect in a party with a oriented and peoplecentric for mudslinging activities. lesson that absolute power I or altright brand of neofascism that has mushroomed 21). The development is legacy. Any voice of dissent Rahul Gandhi is expected MGNREGA. He must make What people expect is corrupts (‘World’ page – nothing to be surprised is looked upon with disdain. to take over the reins of the 2018 the year of campaign healthy debate and “How Mugabe’s reign came in pockets of U.S. politics recently. Take Dylann Roof, about as the issue has been Ever since Mr. Gandhi was party at a time when both for this. His mother has intellectual discourse on crashing down in a day”, the white supremacist who also murdered, coincident in the pipeline for quite a elevated as the party’s the party and nation are at a been his biggest inuence in key issues of public interest. November 21). ally, nine AfricanAmericans in Charleston, South Caro while now. There is unlikely vicepresident, the party’s low point. The nation is now his political life and Right now, there is worry Sreeraj V.V., lina, in 2015. He too spoke of a “race war” and lapped up to be even asingle fortunes have only burdened with imposed MGNREGA must become about the leak of Aadhaar Malappuram, Kerala altright materials online, indulging in the very same candidate in the fray against declined. His shallow diculties which it did not the manifestation of this details from the apocalyptic raceramblings that Manson did. Manson Rahul Gandhi, which shows remarks betray his ask for three and a half inuence. government’s own website. The Czech winner was known for drawing inspiration from the Beatles how far the culture of inadequacies. Despite all years ago when it voted for M. Balakrishnan, Is it not a serious issue The report on the passing of sycophancy has marred the the wishful thinking within change in good faith. The Bengaluru which should be discussed former tennis champion song “Helter Skelter”, which he interpreted as a de party. In the last general the party, not much can be Congress suered then in the winter session? Jana Novotna comes at a scription of an impending a race war that his band of election, it was battered by done to stop the Modi because of its meekness and Winter session politics Mohan Menon, time when women players white heroes had to survive. This narrative of race hate allegations of largescale juggernaut. its failure in a perception The ‘hijacking’ and/or Arimboor, Kerala are achieving great success is undergoing a revival of sorts in the U.S., and this has corruption. This time L.R. Moorthy, battle. Rahul Gandhi has to delaying the winter session on the global tennis circuit coincided with the vitriolic campaign and administrat round, it will be the looming Mumbai win this battle rst before of Parliament without giving Curtains for Mugabe (‘Sport’ page – “Novotna ive tenor of President Donald Trump. NeoNazis such as shadow of dynastic politics. looking for a chance to us a proper reason is When at the helm of aairs passes away”, November It is time for the Congress to I The elevation was a resurrect the nation. He has improper and smacks of in Zimbabwe, Robert 21). We will miss a champion Richard Spencer appear emboldened by Mr. Trump’s introspect on whether it is foregone conclusion and been honest to his cause, political highhandedness Mugabe had the stature of a who was human but also a winkandnod approach. The legacy of Manson should following internal the “election schedule” is and must remain (“Sonia alleges sabotage of quintessential anti great ghter. serve, if anything, as a poignant reminder to liberal democracy or pulling the only to give it a semblance unwaveringly so. In the winter session”, November colonialist at the beginning. Jayanthy S. Maniam, America that the pillars on which their pluralist demo wool over our eyes. of a democratic process. coming months, he will be 21). Congress president Quite sadly, he evolved into Mumbai cracy was built must never be taken for granted. Bindiya Agnihotri, The Congress has failed to deliberately drawn into a Sonia Gandhi is right when a runofthemill tyrant. The more letters online: Mumbai synchronise itself with debate of ‘him versus Modi’. she says that sabotaging the fall of this leader, from www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

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THE WEDNESDAY INTERVIEW | HARDEEP SINGH PURI ‘By June 2018, you will be able to see Smart Cities’ The Minister of State of Housing and Urban Aairs on building toilets, clearing pollution, and cleaning up real estate

Sobhana K. Nair there is more talk and no I I am not going to comment with this. In the process of work. Which isn’t true; there on the Delhi Chief Minister’s adopting RERA, some State Two and a half months ago, in a surprise appointment, a is work being done on the schemes. I have enough on governments tweaked the former Indian Foreign Service officer was made Minister of State ground. And at least there is my plate. I am very confident provisions for ongoing pro (Independent Charge) of Housing and Urban Affairs. Hardeep talk. At least we are shaming that the measures we have to jects. They diluted the Act Singh Puri, who served as India’s Permanent Representative to people. take at the level of the Min and that was wrong. There the United Nations from 2009 to 2013, has a multitude of pro- istry of Urban Affairs... we are good builders and bad jects to deliver on, including the Prime Minister’s ambitious There is criticism that will be able to take them. In builders. Recently I was in Smart Cities Mission, Housing for All, and Swachh Bharat Mis- excessive emphasis on any case, pressure seems to Mumbai and a set of builders sion. Excerpts from an interview on the challenges ahead: building toilets is have eased a bit with im told me that they are un promoting manual provement in air quality. happy that RERA was chal There are many concerns jects which are scavenging. However, my way of looking lenged in court. The case has regarding the Smart Cities capitalintensive, you need at it is a little different. Now been going on in the Mumbai I Mission, one of the the state to step in. Person We have done more than that the air is slightly cleaner, High Court for the last fort flagship schemes of the ally, I have no doubt that un we can. We have banned it, we must take corrective ac night and we will get a judg Narendra Modi less you do the pricing right, we are taking effective steps tion. ment any time soon. But im government. Around 80% worldclass facilities will not to discourage it, we are buy portantly, by the tenor of the of the funds are spent on be available. Safe transport, ing advanced machines. Cri Do you agree that most of interaction, I think it must be just 2.7% of the area in for example, cannot be sub ticism like this is not con our cities are held to clear to the buyers where my each city. How does this sidised by the state. It is just structive. ransom by real estate Ministry’s sympathy lies. We make cities ‘smart’? not sustainable. For ex speculators? are not against builders, but ample, I was travelling from Recently, the alarming at the same time we can’t be I In an ideal world, where Gwalior to Delhi and a four levels of pollution in Delhi I For 70 years, we didn’t mute spectators. resources are unlimited, you hourlong journey took eight made headlines all over have a regulator. The history could perhaps devise a hours for a variety of reas the world. Other cities are of Indian real estate will be As per a McKinsey Global scheme to ‘smartify’ the en ons. The price of the ticket no better. What is your studied in two parts: pre Institute report, India’s tire area. Clearly it’s not an was 900, obviously heavily solution to tackle and postReal Estate (Regula per capita spending on

ideal world. You have limited subsidised. For comparison, SANDEEP SAXENA pollution? tion & Development) Act, urban infrastructure is resources and you have to in China which has a more ef 2016 (RERA). Real estate was just $17, compared to $116 make a beginning some ficient system, a ticket would authorities or agencies that Mission-Urban. Why is <> Real estate was the I The solution is not to the epicentre of black by China. Does such low where. The present project, cost 4,000. build them, the name of the there such a big disparity epicentre of black swing into action just when money. If you had black allocation worry you? as I understand it, is the start agencies responsible for even when the urban money. The Real you have that problem but to money and you did not feel I of a process. It is not exclus November 19 was World their maintenance and the population is growing at a Estate (Regulation & find a lasting solution. One is like keeping it at home in I agree with you that we ive and it most certainly Toilet Day. You tweeted names of individual super faster rate than the rural to decongest cities. We gunny bags or under your need to spend more on infra Development) Act, doesn’t mean neglecting that 40 lakh toilets have visors. The toilets were not population? made a plan in 2016. My Min mattress, you gave it to a structure. My response on other areas. There are other been constructed against getting maintained because demonestisation and istry cannot take all the builder, who would book a these statistics will not be to schemes like AMRUT (Atal the target of 68 lakh. But no one was taking interest. I Their (rural mission) task is GST are instruments measures; there is a lot that flat for you in his next pro agonise on how much we Mission for Rejuvenation and the question remains: much larger. For the period to clean this up. the Delhi government needs ject. RERA, demonestisation spend and how much more Urban Transformation) who will maintain these What happens when your of 2014 to 2019, the gap in to do. I have spoken to Chief and GST are instruments to we need to spend, but rather which look at providing basic toilets? government’s term ends? the number of toilets was duce viable economic pro Minister Arvind Kejriwal and clean this up. How many to find ways to get more infrastructure. I don’t think found to be 68 lakh, out of positions. If your question is, I have a couple of demands. quarters will it take to clean funds. And the gap is simply there were any claims by the I This is a purely rhetorical I Let me tell you this: this which 40 lakh have been ‘I see so much dirt around’, First, Metro PhaseIV that up? I frankly don’t know. But because we are a $2.5 trillion Smart Cities Mission to cover question. If the private sector government is not going any built and 14 lakh are under then my advice would be to has been pending for three two things will definitely economy and they are $12 the entire city. I suggest you is building toilets, the private where; we are going to be construction. Budgetary al click a picture and upload it years... he should bring in happen — the speculative trillion economy. The least I allow these schemes to un sector will maintain them . around for a long time. I am locations reflect the amount on the Swachh Bharat App. I the proposal and we will bubble that was going on due should be able to spend is fold. Recently, during an inspec sure what we need to do is of work we need to do. To am told there is 75% compli clear it right away. Then to black money shall be five times more than what I tion of toilets, I found devise systems and fix ac morrow, if we have more ance. We are dealing with an there are the DelhiMeerut, broken. And land prices will am spending today to have Do you envisage a greater someone urinating in close countability. I have been told people coming to urban issue which previous govern DelhiGhaziabad corridors get more realistically aligned. comfortable urban spaces for role for private players in proximity to a public urinal. I that by merely drawing up a areas, of course we will need ments have been brushing which need to be cleared. In a growing population. providing urban services, remarked to my Secretary list of public toilets, there has to do more. For now, the under the carpet. The Op so far as buses are con Has implantation of RERA especially in the Smart that I am sure this man is not been vast improvement. It budget is sufficient. position criticised Prime cerned, we are seized of the gone the way you Are you confident that by Cities project? doing so out of choice, but was the first step towards fix Minister Narendra Modi for matter. Of 11,000 sanctioned expected, especially the the time your term comes out of compulsion. The toilet ing accountability. We are As per government speaking about Swachh buses, less than half are ply way States have adopted to an end, there will be I In an ideal scenario, you must not be well maintained. also planning to come up estimates, nearly 75% of Bharat from the ramparts of ing in the city. I can’t buy the Act? visible change on the should have the state and As a result of that one inspec with a toilet template that waste collected by the Red Fort. I think he was buses for them. They have ground? private sector in a happy tion, we have drawn up a list will have specifications for municipal bodies goes to right to do so. When a Prime collected cess worth 800 I By itself there is nothing blend. For much of the infra of all public toilets in the odour levels, water availabil the dumping yard Minister takes up an issue, it crore to purchase buses, wrong in RERA. As per the I I assure everyone that by structure like urban trans NCR (National Capital Re ity, exhaust fans, and so on. untreated. becomes a national andolan. which is lying with them. We Act, if you are taking money June 2018, you will be able to port, especially metro pro gion). We have names of the Today, on lines of satyagrahis are also working with DMRC for a project, you are sup see the physical manifesta In this year’s budget, the I We need to enhance our we have swachhgrahis. (Delhi Metro Rail Corpora posed to keep 70% of it in an tion of Smart Cities. By I have no doubt that unless you do the pricing government allocated capacity. And capacity aug tion) to take urgent steps for escrow account. This clause March 31, 2018, 500 cities <> 13,948 crore for Swachh mentation should not come Is Swachh Bharat more lastmile connectivity. is to ensure that builders will bring all building ap right, world-class facilities will not be available. Bharat Mission-Gramin from the government alone. rhetorical than real? don’t divert money meant provals online. Make a note Safe transport, for example, cannot be subsidised and merely 2,300 crore Others must be encouraged What are your views on for ‘X’ project to any other of this and you can hold me I Rhetoric would mean by the state. It is just not sustainable. for Swachh Bharat to enter too, in order to pro the odd-even scheme? project. You can’t go wrong accountable for it.

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A scientist at the era outbreak. Despite the terrible consequences of its actions, have existed in, for ex enough money being drugs is still complex and conference said she had Saudi Arabia has not halted bombing. There has been no ample, Nazi Germany un spent to find new drugs to costly but there seems to started out believing that meaningful eort from the international community to put der Adolf Hitler and the treat them. The lack of be a lot of money in estab she could work towards pressure on Riyadh to end the war either. Worse, the Trump Soviet Union under Joseph funds often extends to the lishing startups that seek getting a new TB drug, but administration in the U.S. seems to have issued a carte blanche Stalin. When an absolute paucity of inexpensive to eliminate the condi now held that this is “in to Riyadh over its regional interventions, which allowed the ruler exercises power op and effective testing tools. tions that cause infectious feasible” in the current Saudis to impose the blockade. pressively, he is con You are also told that diseases. For instance, “global order”. There are sidered a despot. King while existing drugs for one of the prizewinning organisations such as the Regional power play Louis XIV of France cap these diseases may have ideas was a device that Bill and Melinda Gates The problem is that Saudi Arabia and its allies look at Yemen as tured the essence of abso been prepared in Europe would employ highfre Foundation that pool and a theatre for regional power play. 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But that is not enough to defeat the Houthis, who However, at a recent there are companies will company and get an in have the support of both the country’s Shia community and MORE ON conference in Berlin, I saw ing to invest and scaleup vestor to work on cleaning the loyalists of the deposed President Ali Abdullah Saleh. As a THE WEB 3 that infectious diseases the availability of such the environment. The lat result, the Houthis still remain powerful even as Saudi Arabia were all the rage. Young devices. Another winning ter resonate much better continues to attack Yemen’s cities. From the blockade, it is researchers and entre idea was a new kind of with several governments How are judges elected to evident that Saudi Arabia will not wind down this war. 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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE India thanks the world for its support in ICJ Penal law soon to Modi congratulates External Aairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and her team for campaign to ensure seat for Justice Bhandari deter triple talaq Kallol Bhattacherjee “Congratulations to Ex- Group to the Permanent NEW DELHI ternal Affairs Minister Court of Arbitration had re- “In a recent incident of Modi has been championing Thanking UN members for Sushma Swaraj and her en- nominated Judge Bhandari talaq-e-biddat, it has been the cause of Muslim women, supporting the re-election of tire team at the Ministry of as India’s candidate in June reported that a person in a repeatedly speaking out in its judge to the International External Affairs and diplo- 2017. The Hindu had repor- leading educational institu- party and other public for- Court of Justice (ICJ), India matic missions for their un- ted that the election had be- tion divorced his wife ums for equality and justice on Tuesday said the process tiring efforts that have led to come a contest between through WhatsApp and for Muslim women in this reflected respect for its con- India’s re-election to ICJ. Our Judge Bhandari and Chris- short message service and regard. stitutional integrity and in- gratitude to all the members topher Greenwood of the the wife had to approach At the BJP’s national exec- dependent judiciary. of UN General Assembly as U.K. the police,” said the official. utive meet in In an official statement well as UN Security Council To get elected the ICJ, a “The victims have no op- Bhubhaneswar, just before following Judge Dalveer for their support and trust,” candidate requires a major- tion even after approaching the SC judgment, he had Bhandari’s return to the ICJ Mr. Modi tweeted. ity in the General Assembly the police as there exists no said, “When we speak of so- at The Hague, the Govern- Congratulating Judge and the Security Council. provision in law to take ac- cial justice, our Muslim sis- ment of India expressed ap- Bhandari, he said: “His elec- Acknowledging the long tion against the husband,” ters too should get justice. preciation for the U.K. that tion is a proud moment for contest, the government added the official. We are not questioning the withdrew its candidate at the us.” said, “The U.K. decided to The Centre in its affidavit validity of triple talaq or last moment. Officials said External Affairs Minister withdraw its candidate after during the case before SC want to create conflict the diplomatic campaign be- Sushma Swaraj tweeted, a closely fought electoral (Shayara Bano vs Union of within a community, but hind the victory was “Vande Mataram —India process. We appreciate the India and others) had advoc- want to highlight the need “unprecedented”. wins election to the Interna- U.K. decision.” ated the end of this practice. for justice and end Court of the world: Peace Palace, the headquarters of the ICJ, in The Hague. * AP tional Court of Justice — Jai Prime Minister Narendra exploitation.” Independent judiciary Hind.” Jadhav case “The UN Security Council Council and 183 out of the tional integrity of the Indian lated the team led by Ex- Official sources said the The re-election is also cru- and the General Assembly 193 votes in the General As- polity and independence of ternal Affairs Minister entire election process indic- cial as it ensures India’s con- voted overwhelmingly in sembly. The extraordinary the judiciary in India,” the Sushma Swaraj, who cam- ated the Indian diplomatic tinued influence at the ICJ No need for privacy support of India. Judge support from the UN mem- government said. paigned for Judge Bhandari team’s ability to mobilise UN where the Kulbhushan Dalveer Bhandari received bership is reflective of the re- Earlier, Prime Minister to fill the fifth vacancy for members at short notice. Jadhav case against Pakistan in court, says SC all 15 votes in the Security spect for strong constitu- Narendra Modi congratu- the 2018-2027 term. The Indian National will come up next month.

This was a follow-up to their ure to ensure fair trials. March order to have CCTVs On March 28, the Su- installed inside courtrooms preme Court had directed U.K. govt. pilloried over ICJ loss U.K. held on till and at vantage points within that in at least “two districts court complexes in at least in every State/Union Territ- two districts across States ory (with the exception of Failure to win a seat for the rst time in 71 years seen as Britain’s declining clout the last moment and Union Territories. small States/Union Territor- Dismissing apprehen- ies where it may be con- Vidya Ram peared before the House of vive its economic clout. sions raised that such re- sidered to be difficult to do LONDON Commons alongside other The decision by Britain to Says it will cooperate with India cordings would intrude into so by the concerned High The government of Theresa colleagues at the Foreign Of- withdraw from the contest in the privacy of judicial minds Courts) CCTV cameras May faced criticism domest- fice, faced questions on the the face of almost inevitable Varghese K. George No judge could Washington <> in action, Justice Goel re- (without audio recording) ically on Tuesday from Op- issue, including from Con- defeat, paving the way for have occupied the sponded, “There is no pri- may be installed inside the position parties and mem- servative MP Robert Jenrick, Judge Dalveer Bhandari’s re- The re-election of Justice position after vacy in a court. We are sit- courts and at such import- bers of the ruling who described the result as a election, came on the same Dalveer Bhanadari to the In- ting here for all.” ant locations of the court Conservative Party following “major failure for British dip- day that it was announced ternational Court of Justice two-thirds of the Appearing for the govern- complexes as may be con- Britain’s failure to win a seat lomacy”. Mr. Johnson rejec- that Paris would host the in The Hague on Monday member countries ment, Additional Solicitor sidered appropriate”. on the International Court of ted that criticism, insisting European Banking Authority went down to the wire with voted against him General Pinky Anand sub- Justice for the first time in that it was the “long-stand- and Amsterdam would host the U.K. forced to withdraw UN insider mitted that the government Not under RTI the court’s 71-year history. It ing objective of U.K. foreign the European Medicines its candidate at the very last has “already taken steps” “Monitor thereof may be in comes amid fears of the na- policy to support India in the Agency, following Britain’s moment. of the member countries and the financial outlay of the chamber of the District tion’s loss of international in- UN … I will repeat my con- exit from the E.U. As Monday progressed, it voted against him,” said a the project is under and Session Judge con- fluence at a crucial time for gratulations to the Indian Critics of Brexit have pre- became clear that the U.K. source. preparation. cerned. Location of the dis- its standing globally as it pre- judge.” viously pointed to the loss of would not have nine mem- Around noon, presidents Justice Goel said the gov- trict courts and any other is- pares to exit the European these agencies as yet another bers to support publicly the of the UNSC, UNGA, Mr. Ak- ernment should “not pro- sues concerning the subject Union. Theresa May More exits example of Britain’s loss of proposal to suspend further baruddin and British Per- long matters”. The court may be decided by the re- “Theresa May and Boris Another MP, from the Scot- influence, as well as poten- rounds of voting, sources fa- manent Representative to sought a report from Ms. spective High Courts. We Johnson like to proclaim taining their place on the In- tish National Party, sugges- tial damage to industry. miliar with the develop- the UN, Matthew Rycroft in- Anand in two days’ time on make it clear that the foot- their dream of a ‘global Bri- ternational Court of Justice, ted it was the sign of the ments told The Hindu. formally met to take stock of the progress made so far. age of the CCTV camera will tain’, but here in the real it remains a shocking indict- “sun setting on Empire 2.0”, Brexit damage “Some members who the situation. India made it The Bench had asked not be available under the world, her weak leadership ment of Britain’s declining referring to a phrase that Sir Paul Jenkins, who was the voted for Britain’s candid- clear that it had no intention why the judiciary in India RTI and will not be supplied and his repeated gaffes have international standing that, emerged earlier this year in British government’s most ate, told them that they of backing off. By then, should be considered any to anyone without permis- left our country increasingly for the first time in the his- an article in The Times, senior lawyer till 2014, could not vote for the sus- some members of the UNSC different from the judges of sion of the High Court con- isolated and ignored,” said tory of the court, it will now coined by cynical civil ser- tweeted “Losing the EBA/ pension of the voting pro- had also assured India that other countries who do not cerned,” the Supreme Court Emily Thornberry, the La- be without a British judge.” vants but which has come to EMA are inevitable Brexit cess,” a UN insider said. they would not support the consider recording of pro- had ordered. bour Party’s spokesperson symbolise what many be- damage. Losing our ICJ judge The U.K. had nine of the British proposal to suspend ceedings a violation of pri- The court had ordered on Foreign Affairs. Johnson’s defence lieve are the unrealistic am- is an extraordinary, sad illus- 15 UNSC votes in the previ- voting and institute an un- vacy of court proceedings. that the installation of such “While we congratulate On Tuesday, Foreign Secret- bitions of Britain — following tration how we are shrivel- ous rounds, leading to a precedented conference The Bench has even cameras should be com- our friends in India on main- ary Boris Johnson, who ap- its exit from the E.U. — to re- ling on the world stage.” stalemate though India had mechanism. mulled the possibility of re- pleted within three months. an overwhelming majority An hour before the voting cording tribunal It said the Registrar Gener- in the General Assembly. It was to begin at 3 p.m., Mr. proceedings. als of the respective High wanted to suspend the vot- Rycroft wrote identical let- The court has expanded Courts should hand over a ing process and move to a ters to the presidents of the the scope of a petition filed status report to the Secret- A rm seat on the legal high table conference mechanism that UNGA and UNSC that Mr. by Pradyuman Bisht for in- ary General of the apex has never been used before Greenwood — a sitting judge stalling CCTV cameras in court a month after the in- to break the stalemate. But on the ICJ — would withdraw criminal courts as a meas- stallations are completed. Justice Bhandari has featured in cases from disarmament to climate change this move needed approval from the contest. The pres- by the UNSC in an open vot- idents read out the letter as Kallol Bhattacherjee financial regulation. nomic cases distinguished ing while the voting for the the UNGA and UNSC met at NEW DELHI An official also pointed him. ICJ is through a secret ballot. 3 p.m. for the 12th round of Conductor gets bail in Justice Dalveer Bhandari, the out that Judge Bhandari’s His orders in the Supreme voting. As per rules, voting Indian candidate for the fifth tenure in the ICJ is significant Court left a mark on the right Concerted outreach proceeded simultaneously, vacancy for the tenure from as it coincided with the to food campaign and led to Meanwhile, India’s diplo- with only Mr. Bhandari’s Ryan murder case 2018 to 2027 at the Interna- changing nature of the court the release of higher quant- matic outreach led by Prime name on the ballot. tional Court of Justice (ICJ) at itself as it reaffirmed the ar- ity of foodgrains to the Minister Narendra Modi, Ex- All other permanent The Hague, has been part of rival of new global players people living below the ternal Affairs Minister members of the UNSC — the all the important legal cases like India. poverty line. Sushma Swaraj, Foreign Sec- U.S., Russia, France and that the court has dealt with A Padma Bhushan recipi- His order also helped chil- retary S. Jaishankar and In- China — were understood to during his first term from ent, the Jodhpur-born judge dren from the less privileged dia’s Permanent Represent- have been throwing their 2012. hails from a family of legal sections of society gain ac- ative to the UN Syed weight behind the fifth. So His presence ensures that personalities and has been cess to basic infrastructure Akbaruddin was gathering was Japan, a non-perma- India will continue to remain Dalveer Bhandari part of the judiciary of India in primary and secondary more support for India in ment member. But at least on the legal high table of the since the early 1970s. schools. the General Assembly. some of them were hesitant world at a time when several in some of the interesting Justice Bhandari was elev- As Chief Justice of the “It had become clear that to vote for a suspension of globally significant cases cases on issues of global im- ated as a senior judge of the Mumbai High Court, he was India was moving towards the voting, which stalled the such as the one involving portance such as nuclear dis- Supreme Court of India on known for his order which getting two-thirds of the British plans. former Navy official Kulb- armament, territorial and October 28, 2005. led to more allocation of votes — 128 of them in the Meanwhile, the U.K. said hushan Jadhav against maritime resources, and cli- During his years in the Su- funds for malnourished chil- General Assembly. No judge it will continue to cooperate Pakistan is under way there. mate change-related dis- preme Court, his pro- dren in the most deprived could have occupied the po- closely with India at the UN Judge Bhandari featured putes, global terrorism, and nouncements on socio-eco- regions of Maharashtra. sition on ICJ after two-thirds and globally. ‘Govt. wants to avoid Conductor Ashok’s father Ami Chand in the court. * MANOJ All in order about session: Prasad KUMAR The counsel of the com- clip of his purported conver- debate on graft, GST’ plainant, Pradyuman’s sation with a relative of the Asks Rahul and Sonia if they will attend Parliament or campaign in Gujarat father Barun Thakur, had accused juvenile delinquent opposed the bail to the bus surfaced. Cong. says session delay is a rst Special Correspondent casions, under the term of Minister Modi’s use of an In- conductor on the grounds When asked, the agency NEW DELHI former Prime Minister Indira dian Air Force aircraft while that he was not given a clean refused to disclose the Special Correspondent Minister Arun Jaitley’s state- Union Law Minister Ravi Gandhi and the Congress- travelling for campaigning. chit by the CBI. reason why he was NEW DELHI ment that the sessions had Shankar Prasad on Tuesday supported government of examined. Leader of the Opposition in been deferred for elections described the Congress’s at- Chandra Shekhar, the winter IAF aircraft on poll duty Uncle questioned Om Prakash had been the Rajya Sabha Ghulam even earlier. “He is factually tack on the government for session was held after Christ- “This issue had been settled In a related development, told to appear before CBI of- Nabi Azad and Congress wrong and we reject what allegedly delaying the winter mas. We know how to rein the past when it had been the CBI questioned Ashok’s ficials in connection with leader in the Lok Sabha he has said, that in 2011 a session of Parliament as a spect Parliament. It was the raised in the context of pre- uncle Om Prakash Chopra some development in the Mallikarjun Kharge on Tues- similar situation was there. “chorus of baseless Congress under Indira vious Prime Ministers. Since on Tuesday after an audio case. day accused the govern- We have gone through the allegations”. Gandhi that extended the the Prime Minister is a Spe- ment of trying to delay the record, which is with us, Responding to charges term of Parliament during cial Protection Group (SPG) winter session to evade that at least in this century it levelled by the party’s parlia- the Emergency from five to protectee, he is allowed the questions on corruption has not happened. In 2011, mentary office-bearers, Mr. six years, because she didn’t use of these aircraft. It is sur- Firsttime oenders and GST implementation. to correct the Finance Min- Prasad said, “The love Ravi Shankar Prasad want to face the people,” he prising that this question Mr. Azad said the govern- ister, the date of summoning demonstrated by the Con- said. was not raised during the 16 ment did not want to debate of Parliament — both the gress for Parliament comes Gandhi demanded proof. “Canvassing for polls has years of Indira Gandhi, five to go scotfree in J&K on the exponential rise in Houses — by the President as a pleasant surprise since When the government asked been used as a reason to years of Rajiv Gandhi and the turnover of BJP presid- was on 3 November, 2011. the party has made it a point why there was a question on keep winter session dates Manmohan Singh’s 10 years Around 700 young men the official. ent Amit Shah son’s com- The session formally con- to run away from parlia- the valour of the Indian flexible even in 2008 under as Prime Minister. It is a were slapped with criminal The official said the de- pany, the allegations of cor- vened on 22nd November, mentary debate whenever Army, he walked out.” the UPA I.” problem only when Naren- cases for throwing stones cision was taken after Mr. ruption around the Rafale 2011, and concluded on 30 the chance arose.” He asked if the Congress dra Modi does it,” he said. and damaging public prop- Sharma on his return gave a deal and the faulty imple- December, 2011,” he said. “...The Congress said it Past instances cited was willing to give an under- “Mallikarjun Khargeji said erty in the Kashmir Valley in preliminary report to Home mentation of the GST. Meanwhile, Congress v-p wants to debate demonetisa- Mr. Prasad cited Article 85 of taking that its president, So- that PM Narendra Modi is 2016, after Hizbul Mu- Minister Rajnath Singh. He charged the govern- Rahul Gandhi slammed PM tion and the Goods and Ser- the Constitution that said the nia Gandhi, and its future “Brahma” to know when ses- jahideen commander The Home Ministry has ment with being in per- Modi on the issue. “The vices (GST) tax in Parlia- gap between two sessions of president, Rahul Gandhi, sion will start. His problem is Burhan Wani was killed in also decided to increase its petual election mode, with truth does not go away be- ment, but whenever there Parliament was to be less would attend Parliament and that he comes from a party an encounter with security share in providing ex gratia Mr. Modi extensively cam- cause you hide from it. Modi was a debate scheduled, than six months, and there- not participate in the Gujarat where there is a divine right forces. relief to J&K Police person- paigning in each State poll ji, stop hiding and open Par- they would walk out. They fore, the matter was within poll campaign if the session of one family to the top posi- “Of the 700 youths who nel killed in the line of duty spending thousands of liament so the truth of what would speak outside Parlia- norms. “There are several in- was called during that tion. Thus he comes up with face criminal charges, 40 re- and it will be at par with the crores of public money. you did on Rafale can be ment, not within,” he said. stances where previous gov- period. these metaphors. PM Modi is main in jail. Of them 20 are central armed police force Senior leader Anand heard by the nation,” said a “On surgical strikes [Con- ernments have kept dates of He criticised the Congress the creator of a new rising in the 19-21 age groups,” said (CAPF) personnel now. Sharma contested Finance tweet from officeofRG. gress vice-president] Rahul sessions flexible. On two oc- for making an issue of Prime India,” he said. CM A ND-NDE YK

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For BJP, purple patch of 22 long years Vasava comes under Congress umbrella AHMEDABAD The Congress has stitched together an alliance A strong base, a dominant presence in urban areas and strong Hindutva messaging explain the party’s longevity with Chhotubhai Vasava, who has formed the Bhartiya Tribal Party after Mahesh Langa elections in 2000 and a few brutal riots, the BJP won a leaving the JD(U). The new AHMEDABAD byelections in 2001. The gov landslide, taking 127 seats. party has fielded candidates Calling Gujarat the BJP’s ernment’s image had taken a The State politics thus from Jhagadia, where Mr. strongest bastion may not be beating with charges of cor entered a new phase then. Vasava is the MLA; an overstatement. It is the ruption, poor governance Mr. Modi was alleged to be Dediapada, where he has only State where the party and poor response to a string responsible for the riots, but fielded his son Mahesh; and has never lost an Assembly of natural calamities such as soon after he won the polls, Mangrol, all reserved for the election after first coming to consecutive droughts from he changed gears with a fo Scheduled Tribes. His aide Anil Bhagat is power in 1995. In the elec 1998 to 2000, a massive cyc cus on governance and de contesting on Congress ticket from Ankleshwar, tions in 1998, 2002, 2007 lone in 1998 and a devastat velopment. He started a an unreserved seat. and 2012, its vote share was ing earthquake in 2001. huge exercise to market Gu over 40% and seat tally, jarat as a preferred destina more than 110. Modi’s innings tion for business and invest Hear the clang of coins? With such a record, no Enter Narendra Modi, then a ment after the State received AHMEDABAD poll pundit or political ex party general secretary but international infamy for the Gunvant Rathod, a Bahujan Samaj Party pert can rule out another not even an MLA. Mr. Modi targeting of Muslims during candidate for Jalalpore, went to file his victory for the saffron bri took the reins of Gujarat in the riots. nomination papers with gade. A deep presence in all October 2001 amid the rising Under Mr. Modi, the BJP 5,000 coins of one regions of the State, a strong unpopularity faced by the prided itself as a natural rupee as his security base, a dominant presence BJP. party of governance and deposit. The in urban areas and strong Pin it: Gujarat’s politics has only two main actors now: the BJP and the Congress. * VIJAY SONEJI In February 2002, 59 won all elections, even those candidate said he Hindutva messaging, along Hindu pilgrims returning to the local bodies in 2005 was opposed to with claims of development, 121 of the 182 seats. It formed a compromise candidate. collapse in 1998, and the from Ayodhya were charred and 2010 and the Assembly demonetisation, and are among the factors that the government with Ke However, within a few State went in for simultan to death in a coach of the polls in 2007 and 2012. Even so he decided to has helped the BJP establish shubhai Patel as Chief Minis months, the party split with eous Assembly and Lok Sabarmati Express in a minor split caused by Ke bring the coins. The such a deep presence in Gu ter. However, within six 45 MLAs joining the Vaghela Sabha elections. In its Godhra, triggering large shubhai Patel in 2012 could BJP candidate from jarat. Ever since its arrival, months, Shankersinh Va camp. second straight victory, the scale riots across the State in not damage the BJP Majura seat in Surat, politics in the State has been ghela, who felt sidelined and After a brief spell of Pres BJP took 117 seats and which more than 1,000 electorally. Harsh Sanghavi, went to file his papers on a bipolar, with just the Con ignored, mounted a major ident’s Rule, Mr. Vaghela formed a government with people were killed in “We have never lost an As bicycle, while Sangita Patil, BJP nominee for gress as a major rival. rebellion. formed a government with Mr. Patel as Chief Minister. reprisal. sembly election in Gujarat Limbayat, rode a horse to the Election In the 1995 Assembly elec Mr. Vaghela’s rebellion the Congress supporting In the second half of 2001, In the Assembly elections and will continue that in Commission’s office. tions, when it defeated the forced the party to replace from outside. The arrange the party replaced Mr. Patel held in December 2002 2017 ,” Deputy Chief Minister ruling Congress, the BJP won Mr. Patel with Suresh Mehta, ment ran into its inevitable after losing the local bodies’ against the backdrop of the Nitin Patel told The Hindu. Abracadabra! The magic of votes AHMEDABAD The BJP is using several magicians to campaign for the party in Gujarat. A party leader in Gujarat said the “magic campaign” Page rank: a ‘pramukh’ involved 36 teams of magicians, who will cover 144 constituencies and reach out to 800 villages in for every leaf of voter list the next 20 days. Incidentally, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi BJP volunteers to follow up on each name on the rolls had called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a magician who made money Sandeep Phukan “disappear” from Gujarat through “magic” in the Vadodara past two decades of BJP rule. Yash More, a 23yearold en gineer in a private firm, will be voting only for the Pacication plan: wife out, husband in second time in an election, AHMEDABAD but has already been desig The BJP has found a novel way to minimise the nated a “page pramukh” anti-incumbency mood against the MLA for the (page incharge) by the BJP Mahuva seat in Bhavnagar in the Assembly elections. district. The party dropped Every “page pramukh” is Bhavna Makwana from the assigned one page of the candidate list, but fielded her voter list and he has to fol husband, Raghavji Makwana, low up on each name on it. instead. By doing that, the “I have been assigned one party has ensured that the page of the list for our family stays happy while the electorate gets a polling booth. This has 24 Pumped up: Amit Shah with State BJP chief Jitu Vaghani. new face to vote for. names, and my responsibil The BJP has a well-oiled campaign machinery. * PTI ity is to get them out to the booth on polling day,” says Varanasi. “It is their job to Using a cricketing ana Mr. More, who first voted find out if the voters men logy, Mr. Patel says, “Even a POCKET during the 2014 Lok Sabha tioned in the list continue to Tendulkar can play and de Surendra elections. be voters or have they fend only three stumps at a He say he is not a member changed their location. Are time and not 18. The Con or worker of the BJP, but is they travelling out of the city gress is precisely trying to only helping out a relative on the voting day? They are do that without having who is in the ruling party. responsible for finding out proper groundlevel “As someone who is doing all such information,” Mr. workers.” voluntary work, I can ask Patel says. The Congress says the people to vote for the BJP He says Manjalpur has muchtalkedabout election candidate. But my main task over 1.3 lakh voters, and he machinery will not be of is to get to them to the has the support of 3,000 help this election. “In the booth,” Mr. More says. “page pramukhs” to ensure 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the voters come out in large BJP did not have organisa Birth of the idea numbers. tion in many States, but still Yogesh Bhai Patel, sixtime This is in addition to full won because of the wave. BJP MLA from the Manjalpur time party workers and This time in Gujarat, there is constituency of Vadodara, members who work round an antiBJP wave and people says the party came up with theclock during elections. will vote them out,” says this idea in 2014 when Prime On an average, a “page pra Ami Ravat, a Congress muni Minister Narendra Modi con mukh” will handle 48 cipal councillor in Vadodara tested the Vadodara Lok names, and the BJP has en and a contender for party Sabha seat, along with listed seven lakh volunteers. ticket. It seems he knew we were making a secret video!

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If a candidate was distrib domains of global com regulate the sector mir, police and Army offi It also had the highest uting biryani in Jhansi, an mons, Foreign Secretary S. cials said. number of candidates with other in Gorakhpur was giv Jaishankar on Tuesday Special Correspondent The proposed Space The exchange of fire criminal record. ing out free footballs. called for strengthening Bengaluru Activities Bill, 2017 that will took place in the Handwara Voting for 452 municipal In Moradabad, a candid global treaties to protect The draft of the country’s go before Parliament, also and Trehgam areas of the posts, including 16 Mayoral ate tried to lure voters by dis spacebased assets and pre first Space Law, unveiled on seeks to keep the govern district. Two jawans were posts, will be held in three tributing brass items, while vent militarisation of outer Tuesday, stipulates licences ment out of any liability also injured in the firing. phases starting November Banking on public: BJP workers campaign for U.P. civic polls in in Lucknow, a candidate gif space. for all spacerelated players arising out of harm that 22. the Kaiserbagh area on Tuesday. * RAJEEV BHATT ted wall clocks in his ward. “International coopera and activities. The draft also these commercial activities Counting will be on In Ambedkarnagar, the ADR tion is critical in the space sets out penalties of 1 crore may cause — to people, en December 1. Overall, 20 of the 195 can It is 73% in the case of SP and found, candidates were dis domain as in other global and above and jail terms for vironment, other countries Lalu elected The data on assets were didates across U.P. for the the Congress. tributing free biryani and commons. Our approach violations. or outer space. compiled by Election Watch Mayor posts have criminal Overall, across U.P., 70 liquor. therefore goes beyond na DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD RJD chief of the Association for Demo records against them, 17 of out of 195, or 38% of the can tional considerations. In cratic Reforms, which ana them of a serious nature. didates, are declared crore A good sign fact, it is not an exaggeration cooperation agreements the communications satellite Special Correspondent lyses elections and builds Chaudhary Basheer, an inde patis. Navin Kumar Jain, the The Election Watch also ob to state that international co with more than 40 countries GSAT9, also called SAARC Patna public awareness. pendent candidate from BJP candidate in Agra, was served that voters this year operation is today hard and international organisa satellite, meant to provide Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Four out of 14, or 29%, of Agra, topped the table with by far the richest with assets seemed to consider the cre wired into India’s space pro tions, and called the maiden connectivity and disaster Lalu Prasad was on Tues the BJP’s mayoral candidates six criminal cases under his worth 409 crore, followed dentials of the candidate, in gramme,” Dr. Jaishankar moon mission, Chandray support to countries in day elected unopposed as in U.P. have criminal cases belt. by his party colleague Ab stead of merely focusing on said addressing a conference aanI, a “successful example South Asia. the party’s national presid against them. The BSP None of the candidates in hilasha Gupta from Alla party affiliations. on the space programme of international cooperation The satellite cost around ent for the 10th consecutive comes a close second with Lucknow, reserved for wo habad who declared 58 “People have shown a jointly organised by the In with international 235 crore and had a life term. 21%, or three out of 14 can men this time, has a criminal crore. Brijendra Vyas Dam tendency to back good can dian Space Research Organ payloads”. span of 12 years. Earlier, at the party’s na didates. background. dam Maharaj, the BSP nom didates. It is a good sign,” isation (ISRO) and the Feder “The South Asia satellite Saying India is party to all tional council meet RJD The SP and the Congress The BJP shared the hon inee in Jhansi, was the third said Sanjay Singh, coordin ation of Indian Chamber of is a matter of particular the legally binding instru leaders declared that the shared the third position ours for candidates with the richest with assets worth 37 ator of the Election Watch. Commerce and Industry. pride as it literally raises the ments on outer space, Dr. party would contest the among the major parties: highest declared assets with crore. But how did he come to this heights to which we had Jaishankar said, “India has next election under the 13% of their Mayor candid the BSP. Anil Sharma, coordinator, conclusion? “It was based on Over 200 treaties taken our ‘neighbourhood also noted with concern the leadership of Tejashwi Ya ates have criminal records. Seventynine percent of U.P. Election Watch, said a focused group discussion In line with this, Dr. first’ policy,” the Foreign growing diverse threats in dav, younger son of Mr. The AAP has only one such the candidates fielded by the while there was the usual involving 500 people,” he Jaishankar said India had Secretary said. this frontier and is sensitive Lalu Prasad. candidate. BJP and BSP are crorepatis. display of money power in said. more than 200 international In May, ISRO launched to these challenges.” CM A ND-NDE YK

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Hariri leaves France, bound for Egypt PARIS Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri left Paris on Tuesday bound for Cairo, an airport source said, ahead of his return home to face the crisis sparked by his resignation. Mr. Hariri is due to meet with Egypt’s Robert Mugabe resigns, 37-year-long reign ends President Abdel Fattah alSisi before nally heading back to Lebanon. AFP Sends letter to Zimbabwe’s Parliament as it convenes to debate his impeachment; news greeted with cheers from across the spectrum

Abnormal radioactivity Agence France-Presse resignation... with immedi mbabwe almost unopposed Veterans of the independ celebrations to mark his fad in the Urals: Russia Harare ate effect,” said Speaker since the country won inde ence war — who were also ing power. MOSCOW Robert Mugabe resigned as Jacob Mudenda, reading the pendence from Britain but formerly key Mugabe allies — The demonstrations drew Russia’s meteorological President of Zimbabwe on letter. his efforts to position his wife had compounded mounting citizens of all ages and races, service said on Tuesday it had Tuesday, swept from power Grace as his successor pressure on the former jubilant that Mr. Mugabe’s measured pollution of a as his 37year reign crumbled ‘A voluntary decision’ triggered fury in the military leader, demanding that he fate had been sealed. radioactive isotope at nearly within days of a military “My decision to resign is vol that had underpinned his leave office immediately and In central Harare, a group 1,000 times normal levels in takeover. untary on my part. It arises regime. helping to rally the week of young men tore down a the Ural mountains, the rst The bombshell news was from my concern for the wel end's vast protests. green metal street sign bear ocial data supporting delivered by the Parliament fare of the people of Zimb Succession battle British Prime Minister ing Robert Mugabe’s name reports that an accident had Speaker to a special joint ses abwe and my desire to en It is expected that he will Theresa May said the resigna and smashed it repeatedly on taken place. Reuters sion of the assembly which sure a smooth, peaceful and eventually be replaced by Mr. tion gave Zimbabwe “an op the road. had convened to impeach nonviolent transfer of power Mnangagwa, who had been portunity to forge a new path Such open dissent would Amnesty accuses Mr. Mugabe, 93, who has that underpins national se Grace Mugabe’s chief rival to free of the oppression that have would have been Myanmar of ‘apartheid’ dominated every aspect of curity, peace and stability.” succeed her husband and characterised his rule”. routinely crushed by security YANGON Zimbabwean public life since It capped an unpreceden Mood of euphoria: Members of Parliament celebrate after whose dismissal earlier this The United States embassy forces before this week’s Myanmar’s suffocating independence in 1980. ted week in which the milit Robert Mugabe’s resignation on Tuesday in Harare. * AFP month triggered the army in Harare described it as an shock events. controls over its Rohingya It was greeted on the ary seized control, tens of takeover. historic moment for The majority of Zimbab population amount to streets of the capital Harare thousands of ordinary Zimb took down a portrait of Mr. VicePresident Emmerson Grace has not been seen Zimbabwe. weans, many of whom are “apartheid”, Amnesty with car horns and wild abweans took to the streets Mugabe from the wall of a Mnangagwa. since the start of the crisis. On Saturday, in scenes of young and unemployed, had International said on Tuesday cheering. to call for the President’s room inside the building “We are just so happy that However, under Zimbab public euphoria not seen only known life under Mr. in a probe into the root “I Robert Gabriel Mugabe resignation and Mr. Mugabe where Parliament sat for its things are finally going to we’s Constitution, second since independence, huge Mugabe’s rule, which was causes of a crisis that has sent in terms of Section 96 of the wrestled to remain in power. extraordinary session. An change,” Togo Ndhlalambi, Vice President Phelekezela crowds marched and sang defined by violent suppres 620,000 refugees fleeing to Constitution of Zimbabwe In a highly symbolic other bystander replaced it 32, a hairdresser, told AFP. Mphoko stands to be elev their way through Harare sion, economic collapse and Bangladesh. AFP hereby formally tender my scene, a man in a white shirt with an image of former Mr. Mugabe had ruled Zi ated as head of state. and other cities in peaceful international isolation. Pakistani Minister Dar 50 killed in Nigeria suicide attack Putin meets Assad declared an absconder Bombing at mosque brings the number of people killed in 2017 to at least 278 ahead of Syria talks

He again failed to appear in graft case Reuters where Boko Haram held ter Meet will also involve Turkey and Iran Yola ritory in 2014. Troops Press Trust of India The judge also rejected A suicide bomber killed at pushed them out in early Agence France-Presse Syria, this military opera Islamabad an application by Mr. Dar’s least 50 people at a mosque 2015. The group mounts sui Sochi tion is coming to an end,” Pakistan’s embattled Fin lawyer to grant him exemp in northeastern Nigeria on cide attacks in public places Russian President Vladimir Mr. Putin said, according to ance Minister Ishaq Dar was tion from personal appear Tuesday, the biggest mass such as mosques and Putin said its Army had a transcript published on on Tuesday declared a pro ance in a case filed against killing this year in a region markets. “saved Syria as a state” after the Kremlin’s website. claimed absconder by an ac him by the National Ac facing an insurgency by Is Tuesday’s attack was the meeting with Syrian Presid Mr. Putin will on Wednes countability court after he countability Bureau (NAB). lamist militant group Boko biggest in Nigeria’s northeast ent Bashar AlAssad in Rus day host Turkey’s Recep repeatedly failed to appear Mr. Dar is accused of Haram. “Some of the dead since two schoolgirl suicide sia, as Syrian regime forces Tayyip Erdoan and Iran’s before it in a corruption amassing assets of an ap were in pieces beyond recog bombers killed 56 people take an upper hand over Hassan Rouhani for the first case linked to the Panama proximate value of Pakistani nition,” said Bayi and wounded dozens more rebels and the Islamic State in a series of summits on the Papers scandal. Rs. 831.7 million — dispro Muhammad, a worshipper at at a market in Adamawa last (IS) group. peace process, ahead of par Declaring Mr. Dar an ab portionate to his known the mosque in Mubi who December. It is also the first Monday’s talks came dur allel UNled talks in Geneva sconder, Accountability sources of income. said he only escaped the Shattered remains: The interior of a mosque after Tuesday’s attack on Mubi since armed ing an unannounced “work set for November 28. Court’s Justice Muhammad Also, a showcause notice blast because he was late for suicide attack in Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria. * AP forces recaptured the town ing visit” by Mr. Assad to the Later on Tuesday, Mr. Bashir ordered the National was issued to Mr. Dar’s guar early morning prayers. from Boko Haram in 2014. Black Sea resort of Sochi, Putin informed his U.S. Accountability Bureau antor, who was asked to The government and mil gets. Tuesday’s bombing lice spokesman in Adamawa Boko Haram split in 2016 ahead of a summit between counterpart Donald Trump (NAB) to initiate proceed submit a reply before the itary have said numerous brings the number killed in State, said the death toll is at and the faction under Mr. Putin and the leaders of of his talks with Mr. Assad. ings against Minister and court by November 24 re times since 2015 that Boko 2017 to at least 278, accord least 50 but “there could be Abubakar Shekau is based in Turkey and Iran on Wednes He said that Damascus is in submit a report within 10 garding the Minister’s ab Haram’s eightyear insur ing to calculations by Reu more as those seriously in the Sambisa forest on the day aimed at rebooting the favour of conducting parlia days. Mr. Dar’s lawyer said sence from court. gency is almost defeated but ters. There was no claim of jured could add to the border with Cameroon and Syrian peace process. “As mentary and presidential he is in London for medical The hearing was ad the group continues to at responsibility for the attack. figure”. Chad and mainly targets ci for our joint work in the polls, the Kremlin said fol treatment. journed till December 4. tack civilian and military tar Abubakar Othman, a po Mubi is in Adamawa State vilians with suicide bombers. fight against terrorism in lowing the call. ‘U.K. citizen’s torture in India unconstitutional’ Scottish MP objects to the treatment given to Jagtar Singh Johal, who was arrested earlier this month

Vidya Ram British government and we Tuesday that the Deputy been arrested were using London will work very closely to in High Commission has since “encrypted mobile software/ The British government has vestigate and we will of gained access to Mr. Johal, apps for communication said that it is looking into course take extreme action if who appeared in court last with handlers based in Pak., claims that a U.K. citizen, a British citizen is being tor week. Western countries; were Jagtar Singh Johal, has been tured,” he told the House of Mr. Johal was arrested in trained abroad”. tortured while in custody in Commons on Tuesday. On Jalandhar earlier this month, However, the treatment Punjab, pledging that it Monday, Prime Minister shortly after his wedding given to Mr. Johal has faced would take “extreme action” Theresa May told the BBC’s took place in the city. He is condemnation from U.K. should it emerge that torture Asian Network that the gov accused, according to tweets based groups such as the had indeed taken place. ernment was pursuing the by Captain Amarinder Singh, Sikh Federation U.K., with a Speaking in the House of case “with concern” and the State’s Chief Minister, of #FreeJaggiNow campaign Commons, following a ques would take action if Jagtar Singh Johal. * TWITTER involvement in “targeted building online, and suppor tion from Scottish Member necessary. killings” in Ludhiana, ted by a number of MPs. of Parliament Martin Group for British Sikhs writ Khanna and Jalandhar, Sikh community groups DochertyHughes, Foreign ‘India’s failures’ ing to the Foreign Office call “Breakthrough in targeted lobbied MPs in Parliament Office Minister Rory Stewart Pressure has been building ing for an urgent investiga killings with arrest of 4, con on Tuesday to raise aware said that both Britain and In on the British government in tion into the case and what it spiracy was hatched by #ISI ness of the issue, while Mr. dia took allegations of tor this case, including from par described as a “catalogue of on foreign soil to spread DochertyHughes has writ ture very seriously. liamentarians across the failures” by Indian local and communal disturbances”, he ten to Ms. May seeking a “It is completely unconsti political spectrum, with the State authorities. tweeted on November 7, meeting for her with the tutional, it is offensive to the All Party Parliamentary Mr. Stewart confirmed on adding that the four who had family of Mr. Johal. Pak. madrasas are ‘infested’ with sex oenders However, the issue is seldom acknowledged in public and clerics are rarely prosecuted

Associated Press madrasas are “infested” with Munizae Bano, executive dir Kehrore Pakka sexual abuse. “There are ector of Sahil, the organisa Sexual abuse is a pervasive thousands of incidences of tion that scours the newspa and longstanding problem sexual abuse in the madras pers and works against at madrasas in Pakistan, an sas,” he says. “This thing is sexual abuse of minors. AP investigation has found . very common, that this is In 2004, a Pakistani offi But in a culture where clerics happening.” cial disclosed more than 500 are powerful and sexual ab complaints of sexual assaults use is a taboo subject, it is Blasphemy law against young boys in madra seldom discussed or even ac Pakistan’s clerics close ranks sas. He has since refused to knowledged in public. when the madrasa system is talk, and there have been no It is even more seldom too closely scrutinised, he significant arrests or prosec prosecuted. Police are often says. Among the weapons utions. paid off not to pursue justice Position of power: A Pakistani cleric who allegedly raped a they use to frighten their There are more than against clerics, victims’ fam child, stands outside a court in Kehrore Pakka, Pakistan. * AP critics is a controversial blas 22,000 registered madrasas ilies say. And cases rarely phemy law that carries a or Islamic schools in make it past the courts, be ade, and officials suspect Ministers, aid groups and re death penalty in the case of a Pakistan. In addition, there cause Pakistan’s legal system there are many more within ligious officials. conviction. are 2,0003,000 unre allows the victim’s family to a farreaching system that The fear of clerics and the A tally of cases reported in gistered ones, says Mufti Mo “forgive” the offender and teaches at least two million militant religious organisa newspapers over the past 10 hammed Naeem, the head of accept what is often referred children in Pakistan. The in tions that sometimes sup years of sexual abuse by the sprawling Jamia Binoria to as “blood money”. vestigation was based on po port them came through maulvis or clerics and other madrassa in the city of Kara The AP found hundreds of lice documents and dozens clearly. One senior official in religious officials came to chi. Many of them operated cases of sexual abuse by cler of interviews with victims, a Ministry tasked with regis 359. That represents “barely without scrutiny, ignored by ics reported in the past dec relatives, former and current tering these cases says many the tip of the iceberg,” says the authorities. CM A ND-NDE YK

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21-11-2017 % CHANGE Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 33,478 ddddddddddddddd0.36 WTO: India resolute on food security US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 64.89 ddddddddddddddd0.33 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 30,450 ddddddddddddd-0.81 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 62.45 ddddddddddddddd1.01 Will push back on ‘severe’ curbs on right to give price subsidies at Ministerial Conference next month

ARUN S sources said India would ity purposes. NIFTY 50 New Delhi fight to ensure that at least According to Abhijit Das, PRICE CHANGE At the upcoming meeting of the ‘Peace Clause’ is made head and professor, Centre Adani Ports...... 400.80...... 2.20

Ambuja Cements...... 261.65...... -3.05 the World Trade Organisa the permanent solution, and for WTO Studies, Indian In Asian Paints...... 1160.30...... -6.05 tion’s (WTO) highest de will not accept any ‘terribly stitute of Foreign Trade, the Aurobindo Pharma ...... 708.85...... 2.40 cisionmaking body, India stringent or onerous’ condi prospects of an agreement Axis Bank ...... 546.80...... 1.65 will not agree to severe re tions. However, the ‘Peace on a permanent solution are Import heavy: India imports half of its annual consumption Bajaj Auto ...... 3300.25...... 58.25

Bajaj Finance ...... 1809.75...... 4.50 strictions on its right to give Clause’ is learnt to be diffi not that bright due to three of 27 mn tonnes of petcoke, says the Oil Minister. Bharti Airtel ...... 503.25...... 10.60 price subsidies to farmers cult to invoke even in its cur roadblocks. “First, the U.S. Bosch ...... 19237.50. .. -139.00 through the Minimum Sup rent form because prior to has not been engaging act BPCL...... 511.50...... 7.05 port Price (MSP) to procure using it, the country con ively on the matter till re ‘Boost gas supply to Cipla ...... 616.10...... 11.85

Coal India ...... 273.80...... -4.55 grains from them for food se cerned will have to first ad cently, and if the U.S. does Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2394.15. .... 119.70 curity purposes, according mit that it ‘is breaching’ or ‘is not give its nod, it will be dif Eicher Motors...... 30420.55. .. -219.15 to highlyplaced official about to breach’ the ceiling ficult to arrive at a decision. petcoke banhit States’ GAIL (India)...... 459.95...... -0.40

HCL Tech...... 837.70...... -4.45 sources. entitlement to give product “Second, the European HDFC ...... 1694.50...... 5.30 The WTO’s Ministerial Burden of negotiation: Prospects for a permanent solution on specific domestic support. Union has tried to link the Pradhan urges state oil rms to assist HDFC Bank...... 1846.25...... 8.10 Conference is slated to take subsidies are not that bright, says Prof. Abhijit Das of the IIFT. permanent solution with Hero MotoCorp ...... 3678.75...... 20.15 Reuters place at Buenos Aires in Ar Difficult to invoke outcomes including strin 27 million tonnes of pet Hindalco ...... 261.45...... 0.00 NEW DELHI HPCL ...... 418.70...... 3.15 gentina next month. developments said. Cur support (which is 10% of the Also, the ‘Peace Clause’ can gent disciplines on domestic coke, Dharmendra Pradhan Hind Unilever ...... 1277.35...... 2.85 “Food security and pro rently, an interim mechan value of production). be used only for public stock support given by developing India’s Oil Minister on Tues said, on popular social me Indiabulls HFL ...... 1178.00...... -21.50 tection of lowincome and ism called the ‘Peace Clause’ holding programmes that nations,” he said. day asked state oil firms to dia site Twitter. ICICI Bank ...... 319.90...... 1.35

IndusInd Bank ...... 1648.60...... -0.70 resourcepoor farmers are is in place, per which WTO Peace clause have been in existence on Lastly, most WTO mem boost the supply of gas and The country has banned Bharti Infratel ...... 383.55...... -0.15 top priority items for India members had agreed not to The ‘Peace Clause’ is avail the date at which it was bers are of the opinion that alternative fuels in States use of petcoke and furnace Infosys ...... 966.25...... 5.70 [at the WTO meet], and we challenge developing nations able to developing nations, agreed upon at the Bali Min there should be a commit where petroleum coke and oil in States around New Indian OilCorp...... 396.15...... 3.20 will hold our ground to pro at the WTO Dispute Settle including India, till a per isterial Conference in ment on prohibition of ex furnace oil are banned due Delhi and in the capital city ITC ...... 255.80...... -3.40

Kotak Bank ...... 1029.85...... -10.70 tect our interests to the max ment Mechanism if they manent solution is found to December 2013, and not for ports from public stockhold to high emissions. to rein in pollution. Demand L&T...... 1222.65...... -7.15 imum extent possible,” an of breached the cap of the public stockholding for food new programmes on public ing saying such exports India imports about half for petcoke has doubled in Lupin ...... 837.45...... 11.30 ficial privy to the productspecific domestic security purposes. Official stockholding for food secur would be tradedistorting. of its annual consumption of the past four years. M&M ...... 1416.00...... 8.00

Maurti Suzuki...... 8424.80...... -0.85

NTPC ...... 182.95...... 2.50

ONGC ...... 180.90...... 0.90 PowerGrid Corp ...... 206.60...... -2.20 TRAI moots Reliance Ind ...... 932.55...... 11.70 GSTR3B lings are Low taris slowing new bids for State Bank ...... 330.65...... -2.35 cap removal Sun Pharma ...... 538.05...... 20.90 Tata Motors ...... 424.25...... 1.25 increasing, says GSTN Tata Steel ...... 711.35...... 9.20 for spectrum TCS ...... 2672.95...... -30.50 wind, solar energy projects: ICRA Tech Mahindra ...... 493.85...... 17.05 Special Correspondent ber 20,” the release added. Press Trust of India UltraTech Cement...... 4163.40...... -17.90 NEW DELHI “The trend of taxpayers New Delhi UPL...... 754.50...... 25.60 About 43.67 lakh taxpayers filing their returns on the ‘Capacity addition hit due to migration from feedin tari to bid tari route’ Vedanta ...... 312.90...... -1.00 Telecom regulator TRAI on Wipro ...... 294.00...... -0.35 have filed their October last day continues, though. Special Correspondent YES Bank...... 312.30...... -1.05 GSTR3B returns, according Taxpayers are urged to file ferred by the State utilities Tuesday recommended NEW DELHI Zee Entertainment ...... 540.25...... 7.55 to the Goods and Services their returns early to avoid since the bid tariff level is doing away with caps on Tax Network (GSTN), which lastminute hassles,” said The renewable energy sector significantly lower than the spectrum holding in indi said the number of returns Prakash Kumar, CEO, GSTN. is in the midst of a lull after approved feedin tariffs by vidual bands, and also EXCHANGE RATES being filed was increasing This was happening due the storm, as bidding for State Electricity Regulatory mooted relaxing the over Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on November 21 every month. to “two major reasons,” ac wind and solar energy pro Commissions (SERCs) for all ceiling. CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL The GSTR3B filings for cordinh to Pratik Jain, jects is seeing a shortterm wind power projects. “The The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, in its re US Dollar ...... 64.69...... 65.01 August and September leader, indirect tax, PwC In slowdown, said rating recent increase by about 15% Euro ...... 75.83...... 76.20 stood at 28.46 lakh and dia. “One is greater aware agency ICRA on Tuesday. (i.e. 67 cents/watt) in impor commendation to the gov British Pound...... 85.62...... 86.05 39.33 lakh, respectively. ness and the fact that “With very limited pro ted PV module prices, if sus ernment, said the current Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 57.47...... 57.76 gress on the firm bidding tained, could have an ad limit allowing an operator Chinese Yuan ...... 9.75...... 9.80 “The number of taxpay GSTR3B is a simpler form; Swiss Franc ...... 65.05...... 65.37 ers filing their GSTR 3B re the second is that the GSTN plans by the Stateowned verse impact on the viability to hold up to 50% of the Singapore Dollar ...... 47.72...... 47.96 turns is showing marked im portal has been performing distribution utilities to award of solar power projects with total spectrum available Canadian Dollar...... 50.51...... 50.76 provement month after much better, especially [for] the wind energy projects, Winding down: State utilities prefer the bid tari as it is tariffs lower than 3.5 per within a band in a zone Malaysian Ringitt ...... 15.62...... 15.72 month with about 43.67 GSTR3B and GSTR1,” Mr. this particular sector is fa signicantly lower than the feedin taris for wind projects. unit,” the note added. should be removed. It has Source:Indian Bank lakh of them filing their Jain said. cing near term headwinds “The bidding activity for also suggested raising the GSTR3B returns for October Separately, PTI reported and the capacity addition in is now following a bid based 3.46/kwh in February 2017 award of solar projects has limit for overall holding till November 20, 2017, the that the Centre had set up a the near term remains ad regime since February 2017, & 2.64/kwh in October slowed down in calendar across all bands to 35% BULLION RATES CHENNAI highest so far,” the GSTN 10member panel under versely impacted due to mi given the success of a reverse 2017,” said Sabyasachi year 2017 (till Oct.) as reflec from 25%. The proposals, if November 21 rates in rupees with pre- said in a release. “Around GSTN Chairman Ajay gration from feedin tariff to auction under two rounds of Majumdar, senior vicepres ted in awarded project capa accepted, would provide vious rates in parentheses 56% of registered taxpayers Bhushan Pandey to look bid tariff route,” ICRA said in 1GW each by Ministry of New ident & group head at ICRA city of 3.75 GW as against 7.2 major relief for the soonto Retail Silver (1g) ...... 42.60. ....(43.10) had filed their GSTR3B re into the requirements of fil a note. & Renewable Energy (MNRE) Ratings. GW in the corresponding bemerged Idea Cellular 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,809. ....(2,830) turns for October by Novem ing returns this fiscal. “The wind energy sector with a bid tariff discovery at This option is being pre period of CY 2016.” and Vodafone. RIL sells Air India sets up 5 project 10year bond at 3.66% teams for disinvesment Special Correspondent Mumbai Tasks SBI Caps to chalk out plans for subsidiary companies Reliance Industries has raised $800 million by Aditya Anand the responsibility of prepar selling 10year bonds in the Mumbai ing three and fiveyear busi global markets to refinance Air India has set the ball ness plans for subsidiary its debt, the first such offer rolling for its eventual stra companies to be divested, ing since Moody’s raised tegic disinvestment by set obtaining approvals and no India’s sovereign ratings. ting up five internal project objection certificates from The bonds were priced teams to work towards en the consortium of banks for at 3.66%, the lowest suring that the timelines set the transfer of real estate coupon ever achieved by by the government are met properties and other secur an Indian corporate for a and the objective is achieved ity, apart from assisting and 10year issuance, Reliance in a timebound manner. guiding Air India on other said in statement, adding disinvestment matters. that the proceeds would be Fortnightly reviews The five teams would used to redeem its existing SBI Capital Markets is being Rajiv Bansal work under Director (Fin $800 million 5.875% senior appointed to handhold the ance) V. Hejmadi and fin perpetual fixed rate unse airline during the entire dis facilities) department, sec ance advisor S. Venkat, who cured notes. investment process and the retarial and procedural mat would be responsible for RIL has borrowed heav progress will be reviewed on ters, including formalisation managing the progress on ily in the last two years to a fortnightly basis. of relationship with subsidi disinvestment from time to fund its telecommunica In an order issued on ary companies and prepar time and coordinating with tions rollout. November 18, Air India ing a future business plan for the transaction advisor, legal “This refinancing trans chairman and managing dir the subsidiary companies advisor and asset valuer — all action... helped us achieve ector (CMD) Rajiv Bansal and bilateral slots, besides of whom are in the process substantial savings in in said the five teams headed other commercial arrange of being appointed. Mr. terest cost over the life of by senior AI officials would ments and issues. Hejmadi and Mr. Venkat the notes,” said V. Srikanth, deal with the aspects of Fin According to the order, would apprise the CMD on joint CFO, RIL. ance, HR, P&F (properties & SBI Caps is being assigned the fortnightly progress. Messaging probe: SEBI seeks trading data Regulator enquiring into prescient WhatsApp messages on company earnings Reuters including specific metrics MUMBAI such as net profits, revenues India’s market regulator has and operating margins. asked for trading data on They also included mes companies mentioned in a sages about upcoming bonus Reuters story last week share issues or revenue about prescient messages on guidance. company earnings in social Seven of the companies media chatrooms, a person are part of the benchmark familiar with the matter told NSE index : Dr. Reddy’s, the Reuters on Tuesday. drugmaker Cipla, Axis Bank, The Reuters investigation HDFC Bank, Tata Steel, IT documented at least 12 cases services firm Wipro and Ba of prescient messages about jaj Finance. major Indian companies be The other five were ing posted in WhatsApp Mahindra Holidays and Re groups limited largely to Under the lens: SEBI Chairman Ajay Tyagi had last week said sorts, Crompton Greaves traders and market insiders. that the regulator would investigate the matter. * REUTERS Consumer Electricals Ltd., IT services providers Before and after results Earlier on Tuesday, Eco Ajay Tyagi, Chairman of Mindtree Ltd. and Mastek “The regulator has asked the nomic Times, citing an un SEBI, told Reuters last week Ltd., and India Glycols, a exchange to track the trading named official, reported that that the regulator would in petrochemicals company. data for the companies men the regulator has asked the vestigate the matter. India beefed up insider tioned in the Reuters report exchanges for this data. trading rules in early 2015, before and after their results Indian markets regulator Messages on financials and it expanded what mater were made public,” said an the Securities and Exchange The messages about the 12 ial constitutes “unpublished official at one of the bourses, Board of India (SEBI), the companies with prescient in pricesensitive information” who asked not to be identi National Stock Exchange and formation obtained by Reu to include “any information” fied, as he is not authorised rival bourse BSE Ltd. all did ters involved mostly what that is not “generally avail to publicly discuss the not respond to requests for were characterised as being able” and that could have a matter. comment. upcoming quarterly results, market impact. CM A ND-NDE YK

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘To wait for EV infrastructure’ Sugar production almost Honda Cars cites GST as hurdle for hybrids; working on electric vehicle strategy doubles to 13.73 lakh tonnes Special Correspondent and Services Tax, it (has be and Japan. “The market size CHENNAI come) expensive to manu of Asia Oceania is 7.24 lakh Mills’ association urges govt. to withdraw stock holding limit Honda Cars India Ltd., facture hybrid vehicles in In cars, growing at 11.5%. Last (HCIL), while assessing mar dia. Taxes are high. year, we sold 1.57 lakh cars Special Correspondent ket conditions for the roll Sales of Honda’s hybrid in India. From April to Octo COIMBATORE out of electric and hybrid Accord had slumped to one ber 2017, we sold 1.05 lakh Sugar production during the vehicles, would opt to wait car per month post GST, cars, an increase of 17% and first 45 days of the current Dr. Reddy’s to seek for infrastructure availability from about three or four we hope to maintain the season (October 2017 to Vizag unit reinspection for EVs, an executive said. earlier, Mr. Sen said. growth rate for the next five September 2018) was 13.73 HYDERABAD “In India, we are working “Given the current tax re months,” he said. lakh tonnes as against 7.67 Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories on the strategy. First, we gime, hybrid is not very lakh tonnes during the same plans to approach the U.S. have to set up infrastruc competitive. We have to see ‘Exports triple in 3 years’ period last year. Food and Drug ture,” said Jnaneswar Sen, how transition happens over HCIL exports about 5,000 The Indian Sugar Mills’ Administration (USFDA) for a senior vice president — mar a period of time.” cars to South Africa, Nepal Association said in a press reinspection of its keting and sales, Honda Cars Jnaneswar Sen On electric vehicles, he and Bhutan. It also exports release that higher produc formulation manufacturing India. “Developed countries said three markets — China, the 1.6litre diesel engine to tion is seen in Uttar Pradesh facility in Visakhapatnam started setting up infrastruc price are important.” Japan and Europe — were Thailand and components to and Maharashtra. While the Sugar high: While mills in U.P. produced 5.67 lakh tonnes till next year. The company’s ture some time back. How Briefing reporters, Mr. preparing for the rollout by 15 countries. Export revenue sugar mills in Uttar Pradesh Nov. 15, those in Maharashtra produced 3.26 lakh tonnes. comment comes after the ever, the penetration levels Sen said HCIL would be 201820. has tripled from 443 crore produced 5.67 lakh tonnes FDA had on Monday issued for electric vehicles are low. rolling out six new cars in According to Mr. Sen, In in 201314 to 1,140 crore in till November 15, those in year, has fallen by 100 to With higher production in an Establishment Inspection Here, we will wait for the the next three years. These dia has emerged as the 201617. “Components sale Maharashtra produced 3.26 200 a quintal. This is the current sugar season, Report for the facility while transition.” may include new models largest market for Honda in has been growing at 1520%.” lakh tonnes. mostly for the last year stock sales should improve and explaining that the He added that the car and an upgradation of exist its Asia and Oceania business Rakesh Sidana, AVP and which is sold at a discount as prices should be stable. “inspection has not closed maker was trying to determ ing models from fiscal 2018 region, followed by Indone operating head — marketing Discounted price the new season has com Hence, the government and the site’s status remains ine a suitable product line 19. Asked about the possibil sia. The region includes West and strategy, HCIL, said by The average exmill sugar menced. The government should withdraw the stock unchanged.” up for the Indian market. “As ity of rolling out hybrid Asia, Pakistan, Vietnam, end2017, 12 more dealers price, which was about has extended the stock hold holding limit on sugar infrastructure progresses, vehicles, he said: “After the Thailand and New Zealand, would be added to take the 3,600 a quintal between ing limit on traders by two traders with immediate ef Insolvency law: Centre customer acceptance and introduction of the Goods but does not count in China total network count to 360. March and September this months till December 31. fect, the association said. forms 14member panel NEW DELHI With the rising number of cases under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the ‘Lower import duty on tea Businesswomen score high in south: study government has set up a 14member panel to identify ‘High literacy rate driving entrepreneurship in four southern States, West Bengal’ and suggest ways to address will hit small growers hard’ issues in implementation of SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Incidentally, the north MUMBAI the law. The Insolvency Law eastern states of Arunachal Committee, chaired by ‘Import liberalisation under AFTA will aect their livelihood’ The southern States of Pradesh, Meghalaya and Corporate Aairs Secretary Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Nagaland have lesser num Injeti Srinivas, will take stock Indrani Dutta sociation, wrote in a repres ASEAN Free Trade agree Kerala and Tamil Nadu, ber of women entrepreneurs of the implementation of the KOLKATA entation to Union ment signed by India along with West Bengal, have though the ratio of male to Code, according to an ocial Small tea growers see a ma Commerce Minister Suresh provided for a reduction in the highest number of wo female entrepreneurs communication. pti jor threat in the proposed Prabhu. import duty on tea, Tea As men entrepreneurs in the strongly favours women. move to slash import duty sociation of India secretary country with a majority in “Our objective behind the Home healthcare rm on tea from 100% to 50% by Local populace general P.K. Bhattacharya small and mediumsized report is to understand Portea raises $26 mn 2019. The organised in Pointing out that the small said this was a cause for businesses, according to a where women entrepreneur BENGALURU dustry too said the proposal tea growers were mainly loc concern. study. ship in India stands today, Home healthcare provider under the ASEAN Free Trade als, Mr. Chakraborty wrote Tea Board chairman P.K. The report on the State of how the existing ecosystem Portea Medical on Tuesday Agreement (AFTA) may lead in the letter that the eco Bezbaruah said the move Women Entrepreneurship in Powering women: Most schemes for women entrepreneurs and various government said it had raised $26 million to a surge in imports to the nomic uplift of this rural would harm the Indian tea India by sheatwork, a know enable nancial aid, followed by training, the report said. schemes for women entre in a Series C funding round world’s largest black tea pro populace would be thwarted industry especially the seg ledge hub for women entre preneurs can be better util led by new investors Sabre ducing country. if tea from neighbouring ment that produces medium preneurs, attributes this to States in the country. insurance, livestock, forestry ised and enhanced to en Partners and MEMG CDC. “Small tea growers ex countries like Indonesia and quality tea. the high literacy rate, along The focus of schemes for and lodging, the report said. courage more women to Existing investors Accel, press apprehension that a Vietnam was imported into India’s tea imports rose with overall women’s em women entrepreneurs is start their own ventures,” International Finance reduction in import tariff on India. from 20.2 million kg in 2014 powerment in these States. primarily on financial aid fol ‘Self-financing high’ said Ruby Sinha, founder, Corporation, and Qualcomm tea will adversely affect the “Import liberalisation on (valued at 272.6 crore) to 21 However, in terms of of lowed by training and skill Further, almost 80% of wo sheatwork.com. Ventures also participated. small tea growers com tea under AFTA,” will affect million kg in 2016 (valued at fering the maximum number building of such entrepren men entrepreneurs opt to “With the government’s “With this funding round, we munity, who contribute 45% the livelihood of these 285.4 crore). Between Janu of schemes for women entre eurs, it said. selffinance their businesses overall focus on women’s de will add more depth to our of India’s tea output, now,” people, he contended. The ary and September 2017, im preneurs, Goa, Jammu & The education sector sees with little utilisation of vari velopment, the... environ services,” Meena Ganesh, Bijoy Chakraborty, president organised tea industry too ports were 14.8 million kg Kashmir, Karnataka, Ra the maximum number of ous government schemes ment is fast becoming one in CEO of Portea Medical, said of the Confederation of In apprehends a surge in im (provisional figure) against jasthan and West Bengal women entrepreneurs fol that provide financial aid to which women entrepreneur in a statement. dian Small Tea Growers As ports. Noting that the 15.7 million kg a year earlier. have emerged as the top five lowed by financial services, women entrepreneurs. ship can grow and thrive.”

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S. Dinakar footwork to synchronise CSK and RR’s ‘right to retention’ KOLKATA LANKANS IN INDIA with the length and playing demand faces opposition Cricket is a lot about intent in the ‘V’. and mindset. How a team re tense phase when the ball India will need M. Vijay’s Amol Karhadkar John, and Rajasthan Royals’ acts to different situations seamed around and India expertise in these conditions MUMBAI Ranjit Barthakur pressed for gives us indications about its lost quick wickets and then and should figure out a way For the first time since Lalit the need for both the teams future. dismantled a probing Sri of playing him in the eleven Modi’s stint as the Indian to have the right to retain Dominica, 2011: India, Lankan attack with strokes of abroad. It will be a tough call Premier League czar early players who were on their topranked in Tests and thunder. for the team management on in the IPL sojourn, the roster in 2015. While some already 10 up against a There is not a negative with K.L. Rahul and Shikhar owners of the eight original teams supported the pro struggling West Indies, has bone in his body. Kohli might Dhawan being among the teams met with the BCCI of posal, a celebrity owner of a an opportunity to close out have his faults but does play runs. ficials, the IPL governing champion team opposed the series 20. his cricket with a rather fero Perhaps all three could council members and the the idea, stating all the M.S. Dhoni’s men are set a cious intensity that rubs off play in the eleven if India Supreme Courtappointed teams should be treated gettable target of 180 in 47 on his team. opts for an extra batsman on Committee of equally. overs on the final day of the Kohli and coach Ravi a seaming pitch with one of Administrators. Auction purse and third Test. And India re Shastri are kindred spirits. the them given the role of As explained by the IPL squad size quires 86 more in 15 with They feed off each other. It playing the second new ball. chairman Rajeev Shukla, Last year’s auction purse seven wickets remaining was brave on the part of the India being bullish about who chaired the meeting, was 66 crore. The team when both captains agree for teammanagement to ask for green wickets has a lot to do the objective was to seek owners said the auction the draw. a seaming pitch. Very rarely with the potency of its pace views of all the teams ahead purse be capped between India, content with a does a track in India sport so attack. In Mohammed of the big auction planned 75 crore and 85 crore. Bar series win and betraying a much grass. Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the last week of January ring Kings XI Punjab, which defensive mindset, does not The Indian team compre and Umesh Yadav, the side 2018. stated the squad size should chase down the runs. And hends the challenge it faces possesses speed, movement The Hindu understands be limited to 22 players, the the team’s downfall starts in the coming months, in and incision. that there was little con teams said the number from that point. It is routed conditions that assist seam Shami can be hostile while sensus among the team should be 25 to 27. The max in England and Australia, and swing in South Africa Bhuvneshwar opens up bats owners over major issues. imum squad size now is 27. loses its No. 1 Test ranking. and England. men with his twoway move Retention or right to Women’s IPL Fast forward to Eden Gar It has decided to take the ment. And there is depth — if match? A representative of a dens, 2017: Virat Kohli’s ram bull by its horns by playing Bhuvneshwar is unavailable, In 2014, the IPL had come highprofile team suggested paging side chases the game Tests on seaming tracks at Ishant Sharma steps in. up with a combination of re a women’s IPL, thus bring for most part, seems to be home. The chances are that Predictably, the Indian tention and ‘right to match’ ing a smile to the face of walking on thin ice on last the surfaces for the remain spinners bowled little on a cards, leading to each team CoA member Diana Edulji, day morning, yet, sets up a ing two Tests, in Nagpur and greenish Eden Gardens being able to continue with the former India women’s challenging declaration and New Delhi, may be seamer pitch. Will seambowling all a maximum of six players captain. almost bulldozes its way to friendly too; the thinktank rounder Vijay Shankar come from the previous season. The proposal was victory. has asked for it. in for one of the spinners if While a couple of teams ex quashed citing that the last This time around too India But then, India does have the Nagpur pitch appears pressed there shouldn’t be IPL GC meeting had already is the No. 1 in Tests but the batting worries. Apart from seamerfriednly? any retentions and only discussed organising exhibi response is not timid. Kohli the resilient Cheteshwar Pu All credit to Sri Lanka for right to match, other teams tion matches between three and India rebound, display jara, the rest of the lineup fighting hard till its collapse differed. to four women’s teams dur ing the ruthlessness and the came unstuck in the first in late in the Test. Suranga Lak The number suggested ing the IPL due to the lack of neversaydie attitude of a nings when the conditions mal’s skilful yet lionhearted ranged between one and quality women cricketers. side seeking to dominate. were most testing. bowling showcased the side’s five, as for retention. What happens now? If the final day at the Eden Coping with swing, seam resolve. What happens to CSK The IPL governing coun Gardens turned out to be and bounce is a lot about In the classic at the Eden Brains trust: By opting for a seamer-friendly track in Kolkata, Virat Kohli and Ravi Shastri and RR? cil is expected to meet over one for all ages, Kohli was at picking the line, being tight Gardens, both teams played have given clear indications about Team India’s mindset as it readies for the South Africa tour. Chennai Super Kings, the next fortnight to finalise the heart of it. He survived a around offstump, getting the their part. * K.R. DEEPAK represented by George the rules and regulations. TV PICKS More than 200 players Kashyap in Ramkumar prevails over Grenier IOA calls NBA: Sony Six (SD & HD), 9 main draw Sports Reporter SGM on a.m. BENGALURU OPEN (Cro) bt Adrian Menendez- ISL: STAR Sports 2 (SD & HD), have been tested since BENGALURU Macerias (Esp) 6-3, 1-6, 7-5; Press Trust of India Ramkumar Ramanathan 8 p.m. setback and was forced to Blaz Kavcic (Slo) bt Tomislav Nov. 29 UEFA Champions League: Kowloon clawed his way back from withdraw with a troubled Brkic (Bih) 6-2, 6-7 (0), 7-6 (6); Sony TEN 2, Sony ESPN (SD & P. Kashyap notched up being a set and 24 down to Pedro Martinez (Esp) bt Naoki Press Trust of India 201314: BCCI ocial shoulder. HD), 1 & 1.30 a.m. (Thursday) twin wins in the qualifying defeat Frenchman Hugo Nakagawa (Jpn) 7-6 (5), 6-3; New delhi The results (First round): The Ashes: 1st Test, Sony Six Mario Viella Martinez (Esp) bt rounds to reach the men’s Grenier 46, 64, 63 and Ramkumar Ramanthan bt Hugo The Indian Olympic Associ (SD & HD), 5.30 a.m. ‘We wanted to be dope compliant Vishnu Vardhan 6-3, 6-3; Ant- singles main draw at the enter the second round of Grenier 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Yuki ation has called a Special (Thursday) oine Escoffier (Fra) bt Dal- $400,000 Hong Kong Su the Bengaluru Open Bhambri bt Sriram Balaji 6-3, General Body Meeting here and followed the ICC Code’ winder Singh 6-3, 6-4. per Series, here on Tues $100,000 Challenger tourna 6-3; Elias Ymer (Swe) bt Suraj on November 29 to “dis G. Viswanath he tested positive for ster day. ment here on Tuesday. Prabodh 6-4, 7-6(2); Aleksandr Doubles: Mikhail Elgin (Rus) & cuss and interpret” the eli Mumbai BCCI seeks oids in the inaugural year of Kashyap saw off local Yuki Bhambri — despite Nedovyesov (Kaz) bt Matej Divij Sharan bt Geoffrey Blan- gibility criteria for election While the Union Sports IPL (2008). shuttler Lee Cheuk Yiu 21 being troubled by a groin Sabanov (Cro) 6-4, 6-1; Ante caneaux (Fra) & Jay Clarke to the post of president clarity on Minister Rajyavardhan “From 201112, the blood 13, 2119 after disposing off strain — had an easy outing Pavic (Cro) bt Kaichi Uchida (GBR) 5-7, 6-4, [10-5]; Sumit and secretary general Singh Rathore has clarified samples have been tested at Chinese Taipei’s Kan Chao against Sriram Balaji win (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4; Tsung-Hua Yang Nagal & Ymer bt Jeevan Ned- ahead of the December 14 Pakistan that it’s the prerogative of the WADAaccredited Na Yu 2112, 2110 in his open ning 63, 63. Saketh Myneni (Tpe) bt Zapata Miralles (Esp) unchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar polls. the World Anti Doping tional Dope Testing Labor ing match. suffered yet another injury 7-6(1), 3-0 (retd); Borna Gojo Prashanth 6-4, 1-6, [10-7]. The IOA has already set Special Correspondent Agency (WADA) to decide atory (NDTL) in New Delhi. into motion the process of Mumbai which agency should con Players have been tested electing a new set of office In order to seek clarity duct dope tests and regulate during the domestic bearers and November 29 over India’s bilateral series India’s cricketers at interna matches. has been set as the last date against Pakistan, the BCCI tional and domestic level, “Since the 201314 season Ymer could be the star Sweden wants of filing of nomination pa chief executive officer it’s a matter of fact that the more than 200 cricketers pers. The development will Rahul Johri is set to meet Board of Control for Cricket have undergone incompeti N. Sudarshan able fighting spirit. I read add fuel to speculations Union Sports Minister Ra In India (BCCI) follows a tion and outofcompetition BENGALURU Mike Tyson’s book. People that International Hockey jyavardhan Rathore in New process as advised by the testing. In 1985, when a bunch of talk about his bad stuff but Federation (FIH) president Delhi on Wednesday. International Cricket Coun “I don’t think these high Swedes rolled into town to he had the mentality I have Narinder Batra could con The Hindu understands cil (ICC). numbers have been play a Davis Cup match at always wanted to have on test for the post of IOA that the ministry took cog Since the launch of the touched in other cricket the Cubbon Park, they came the court.” president. nisance of reports about IPL in 2008, the Sweden playing countries.” in, as one writer put it, “like A big source of help in all the BCCI citing the govern based International Doping According to the official rockstars.” Being Swedish, this has been Soderling, his ment’s redflag over play Tests and Management figures available with The the group, which included coach since July. Following a ing Pakistan while discuss (IDTM) has been collecting Hindu, from 201112 season legends Mats Wilander and breakthrough year in 2015, Advani ing the proposed Test and samples of hundreds of In to 201617 season, the NDTL Stefan Edberg, was said to when he became only the ODI leagues mooted by the dia’s domestic cricketers gave ‘Adverse Analytical be modest too. second player ever to come advances ICC. who take part in the senior Finding’ (AAF) only on five More than three decades through the qualifying at all As a result, the ministry tournaments like the Ranji cricketers after testing the later, Elias Ymer is in Good times: Elias Ymer has turned a corner since July, when four Majors, Ymer seemed to knockouts reached out to the Com Trophy, Duleep Trophy, Vi players 1,144 times. And Bengaluru for the $100,000 his apprenticeship began with Robin Soderling. affected by the burden of ex mittee of Administrators jay Hazare Trophy and from 2008 to 2011, 156 Challenger sporting that * V. SREENIVASA MURTHY pectations. This year he has Press Trust of India (CoA) stating that the gov many more tournaments. samples were collected for same sense of Swedish mod turned it around, winning Doha ernment has not issued A BCCI official privy to in an overall figure of 1,300 esty. The World No. 147 isn’t someone to look up to or wanted his two sons to “run two Challengers and improv Pankaj Advani showed no any such diktat. formation on these matters (1147 incompetition and 153 a rockstar yet, but the signs practise with. In the Davis for every ball like Michael ing his ranking from 293. signs of a billiards Since India had not com said: “We wanted to be outofcompetition). are that he will soon be one Cup, I was asked to play the Chang.” In the years since, “It comforts my mind that hangover as he marched mitted to bilateral series dope compliant from 2008 In the case of interna as the Scandinavian nation first singles straight away. Ymer imbibed this quality I have somebody who be through the roundrobin against Pakistan, the when the IPL began and we tional cricketers, the ICC desperately looks to unearth Usually you have to start as and more as he became one lieves in me,” Ymer said stage of the snooker event Pakistan Cricket Board had followed the ICC Code gives to the BCCI the names its next big star since Robin fifth player. But it is what it is of tennis’ most promising ju about Soderling. “I can ask with convincing wins at refused to be a party to the which had an arrangement of cricketers (men and wo Soderling, a former world and I can only focus on niors and even earned a him how he felt when he was World Championships world leagues. With a with IDTM. men) who have been in No. 4 and a twotime Grand myself.” wildcard for the 2015 ATP 21, about the challenges, the here. group of ICC members set For the first four years, cluded in the testing pool, Slam finalist. Born to Ethiopian par Chennai Open. feeling before such and such Advani on Tuesday to meet next week to dis the samples were tested at based on their ICC rankings. “Well it’s been tough,” the ents, Ymer — if his father had “Chang was my father’s fa match etc. So, to have him is scored a 41 win over cuss the proposed leagues, an overseas laboratory. The BCCI, in turn, keeps 21yearold said on Tuesday. had his wish — would have vourite, but I take a lot from special.” Qatar’s Khamis Alobaidli to the CoA is understood to That’s how Pakistan’s Mo the ICC informed of their “I was 17 when I became No. been a runner. But it helped many players,” Ymer said. The coming days will tell secure a spot in the elimin have directed Johri to get hammad Asif was banned whereabouts during match 1 in Sweden and I have been that his father had tennis as “In tennis, it has to be [Ra how much special this turns ation draw of 64, which clarity over the matter. for one year in 2009 after days. No. 1 since then. I never had his other interest and fael] Nadal for his unbeliev out to be. commences in two days. Kolkata match could be the starting point for a new India Preparing a track to get familiar with likely conditions abroad shows a sea change in attitude

changed mindset. The plan is ture rather than wallow in the Indian captain who is calling the It was in Kolkata five years ago England, at Lord’s three years a pack; that’s something almost not just to win, but to get famil past. shots, which in this instance, is that Kohli’s predecessor Ma ago, was made possible by Ishant unIndian and was certainly un iar with likely conditions abroad. “Obviously,” said opener K L good for the team. Victory is im hendra Singh Dhoni got into a Sharma’s 7 for 72 in the second thinkable a generation ago. It is a sea change in attitude. Rahul at the final press confer portant, but not a restricted vic tangle with the groundsman, the innings, after Bhuvaneswar Ku But it is one thing to have such India are preparing for their ence in Kolkata, “we are prepar tory in homespun conditions. In late Probir Sen when he insisted mar had claimed six in the first. bowling, another to have a bat next series in South Africa and ing for the next two years when 2009, when India first became on having a rank turner to play From the first tour in 1992, ting lineup that can overcome a England if the Eden Gardens we play a lot of cricket overseas, the No.1 Test side in the world, England. Sen called the request South Africa have been prepar similar threat from the opposi BETWEEN WICKETS track was any indication. There and we are going to find wickets they did so thanks to clever (or demand) “immoral”. It was ing wickets smug in the know tion. India’s capitulation to Sur suresh menon has traditionally been swing for like this. It is going to be challen scheduling more than allround one of the few cases of a curator ledge that they had the better anga Lakmal when play finally the medium pacers here, but ging for all of us, so we wanted to performances everywhere. They standing up to an Indian captain. fast bowlers, and more of them started in the Kolkata Test omething happened in Kolk now there was seam at the start prepare in that way.” hadn’t won a series in Sri Lanka, Reverse swing played a major too. Javagal Srinath and later Za showed that any plan must in Sata that hadn’t happened in and reverse swing too as the Test Australia or South Africa. role then, with James Anderson heer Khan lacked consistent sup clude proficiency in all depart 261 Tests at home before that. No drew to an exciting close. Spin Adapt rather than tailor India calculated then that the standing out as England won the port to discourage them. ments of the game. Bowling the Indian spinner took a wicket. ners were as much spectators as Skipper Virat Kohli has indicated best way to go forward was to ig Test en route to their first series Now India have a bunch of opposition out is only one half of The two Ravis, Ashwin and those cheering from the stands. often enough that he hopes to nore defeats, however miserable triumph in India in 28 years. bowlers who not only bowl the game; batsmen have to walk Jadeja, bowled only ten overs as This might be an overinter have a team that will adapt to the abroad, secure in the knowledge above 140 kmph but are also ad through the door bowlers open. medium pacers claimed all 17 pretation, of course. Perhaps conditions rather than tailoring that there would be enough Wins powered by pace ept at reverse swing. With exper This Indian team probably has wickets that fell. Kolkata has Kolkata was an aberration, and it the conditions to suit the team. home wins to raise public con Of the 17 Tests India have played ience, they have added to their the most likeforlike choices provided turning points in In will be back to spinning tracks at This is the change in the mind fidence in the team once again. in South Africa, they have won armoury. Bhuvaneswar Kumar, than any in the past. They also dian cricket before, and we Nagpur and Delhi in the remain set, and why the Kolkata draw Spinning out the opposition in just two, both on the back of me for instance, is pacier, and far fit have the luxury of having a team might have just seen another ing Tests. Yet something the could be the starting point for a dust bowls across the country dium pace. At Johannesburg in ter than he was in 2014 when he for home conditions as distinct (such things, of course, are con players have been saying of late new India. was seen as the inevitable con 2006, medium pacers claimed 14 tired easily. Mohammed Shami, from one chosen specifically for firmed only in retrospect). suggests that unlike earlier It might also be another sequence of this shortsighted wickets, and in Durban four Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma away matches. The key, of What is significant is India’s teams, this one looks to the fu pointer to the fact that it is the policy. years later, 12. India’s last win in have the opportunity to hunt as course, is to choose wisely. CM A ND-NDE YK

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CHESS An honour for Vishwanath seeks to Draw keeps Raman Lamba ‘live cricket’ again Praggnanandhaa Kotla home dressing room renamed after him Former ’keeper requests umpiring stint extension joint second

Vijay Lokapally Sports Bureau Gaurav (3) lost to Pablo Ismael KANPUR Tarvisio (Italy) Acosta (Arg, 4); Mohammad He developed “friendship” With most of the top-10 Nubairshah Shaikh (3) lost to with “solitude” and in the boards ending in draws, Teodor Holtman (Svk, 4); Sid process was lost to the world there was no change in the hant Mohapatra (3.5) drew of cricket. fortunes of the leading Indi- with Peng Hongchi (Chn, 3.5); As he explored means to ans with R. Praggnanandhaa Krishna Teja (4) bt Felix Tuo sustain himself, living a retaining his joint second mainen (Swe, 3); Raunak Sadh hand-to-mouth existence at spot with 5.5 points after wani (3.5) bt Henry Li (Irl, 2.5); one point, Sadanand Vish- seven rounds of the World Andrej Sukovic (Mne, 3.5) bt Tarini Goyal (2.5). wanath discovered a new vo- junior chess championship Girls: Aakanksha Hagawane (5) cation and some new here on Monday. drew with R. Vaishali (5); Po friends. The results (seventh round): lina Shuvalova (4.5) bt Praty From the heady days of Open: Kirill Alekseenko (Rus, usha Bodda (3.5); Arpita being hounded by fans, the 5.5) drew with R. Pragnanand Mukherjee (4) drew with pin-up boy of Indian cricket, haa (5.5); Aryan Gholami (Iri, 5 Monika Rozman (Slo, 4); K. To hell and back: Sadanand Vishwanath had to deal with Recognition: Family Members and friends of Raman Lamba at the renaming of the dressing described by Sunil Gavaskar drew with M. Karthikeyan (5); Priyanka (4.5) bt Siranush room at the Ferozeshah Kotla Cricket Stadium. * R. V. MOORTHY. as the key man behind In- personal tragedy and an early end to his international career Aravindh Chithambaram (5) Ghukasyan (Arm, 3.5); Mariami dia’s success at the 1985 before nding his feet again. * FILE PHOTO: K. BHAGYA PRAKASH drew with Liu Yan (Chn, 5); Choladze (Geo, 3.5) drew with SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT his experiences. “He was all the qualities,” Prabhakar World Championship of Shardul Gagare (5) drew with M. Mahalakshmi (3.5); Parnali NEW DELHI not just a great batsman but added. Cricket, Vishwanath faced His brilliance as a wicket- didates invited by the Board Manuel Petrosyan (Arm, 5); Dharia (4) bt Mariana Sofia Years after the Ferozeshah also a wonderful team man Also present was an em- the harsh realities of life as keeper has been docu- in 1995 to become umpires. Harsha Bharathakoti (3.5) lost Silva (Por, 3); Bernal Julia Den Kotla stadium got new dress- and, above all, an excellent tional coach Tarak Sinha, he played his last match in mented with some unbeliev- “I saw it was a nice way to to Jorden van Foreest (Ned, nia Fiqueroa (Chi, 2.5) lost to G. ing rooms and players’ pavil- motivator. Seeing his name who guided Lamba at the 1988. able stuff in 1985 when India get back on the field. Cricket 4.5); S.L. Narayanan (4) drew Lasya (3.5); Saina Salonika (3) ion, the home team’ dress- and picture on the dressing Sonnet Club, and present After toying with the idea won the WCC at Melbourne was a passion and umpiring with Martin Petrov (Fid, 4); bt Ingrid Greibrokk (Nor, 2); ing room was rechristened can push any player to go Delhi wicketkeeper Rishabh of employment overseas, and the Rothmans Cup became an obsession. It Vaibhav Suri (4.5) bt Vincent Francois Marie Magpily (Phi, 2) after former India player beyond his normal limits to Pant, also a product of Son- struggling to float on his when India tamed Pakistan took me to remote corners Keymer (Ger, 3.5); Kumar lost to Rutumbara Bidhar (3). Late Raman Lamba in recog- achieve greatness,” net. All five of his brothers own, he reconciled to a ca- in both the finals. of the country and gave me nition of his services to Delhi Prabhakar, one of the finest and sisters were present on reer again on the cricket His international career, an opportunity to meet so and Indian cricket here on new-ball bowlers in India, the occasion with the eldest, field. He donned the um- however, ended at 26, the many people. I saw some Tuesday. said during the function. Sunita, perfoming the un- pire’s role and served in that age when some begin their young players from close. Popovic plays down The home team would He added how Lamba, veiling. Lamba’s wife Kim, capacity from 1995. cricket journey. They went on to become im- now occupy the ‘Raman himself out of the national currently outside the coun- On Tuesday he retired as pact players later (Virat Lamba dressing room’ while side, motivated him to work try, was unable to attend but an umpire at 55 after the Ch- No one to blame Kohli, M.S. Dhoni, R. Ash- the focus on the visitors would be in the harder on his own sent her message thanking hattisgarh-Odisha match in Vishwanath, who played win, Ishant Sharma). ‘Prakash Bhandari dressing comeback. “He was very and appreciating the ges- the Cooch-Behar (under-19) three Tests, 22 ODIs and 74 “I have seen them all room,’ named after the first particular about his fitness ture. His parents were un- Trophy at Bhilai. First Class matches, de- grow and I love the joy of it Marcelino, Trebar Test cricketer from the city. and even though he was my able to attend due to old age. Was he a case of talent served more. “I shall blame all. The joy helped me over- The Raman Lamba dressing senior, he used to be ahead Others present at the un- gone astray in the world of no one,” he says. come the pain, anxiety, Pune City takes on Delhi Dynamos room plaque with his pic- during our running sessions. veiling included Madan Lal, fame and glamour? Losing In a festival match, he was hardships of being a profes- ture was unveiled in the He was more concerned Ajay Sharma, Hari Gidwani, his parents, he insists, in hit on the back of the head sional player.” ISL presence of his family mem- about my comeback than his Saba Karim and Robin Singh quick succession (1984 and by Imran Khan. “I was never Former India captain Anil bers and close friends in- own and kept pushing me. junior. The Delhi women’s 1985), left him disconsolate. the same batsman again. I Kumble had offered him a Nandakumar Marar cluding the likes of Manoj We both finally made our team was also present, as “It was a difficult period. was never the same backfoot coaching job in Karnataka. PUNE Prabhakar, Madan Lal and comebacks during the 1989 was the State men’s Un- My cricket was not progress- player again. Sachin (Ten- “But I preferred umpiring.” Brazilian striker Marcelino K.P. Bhaskar. Test tour of Pakistan. Had he der-23 side as floral tributes ing and personally I was dulkar) and Mohinder (Am- Vishwanath has reques- and Spanish playmaker Mar- Prabhakar, who was one been alive today, he would were paid to Lamba’s photo- alone. The grief of losing my arnath) were hit too. But ted the Board to give him an cus Tebar were among the of Lamba’s closest friends, have been an excellent ad- graph inside the dressing parents pulled me back,” they hit back. I couldn’t.” extension. “I can live cricket players on Delhi Dynamos was emotional recounting ministrator as well, he had room. said Vishwanath. He was among the 10 can- that way,” he concludes. FC coach Miguel Portugal’s wishlist for Indian Super League 2017. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC SHOOTING The duo, however, signed \ NEW DELHI ROUND-UP \ up for FC Pune City and will CSI apprehensive be on the Balewadi stadium Shardul sizzles with pitch for the home team’s Indian Railways enters Railways 3 (Gagandeep Singh opener against the Dy- Marcelino at a training 2, Ajmer Singh) bt PNB 0; Pool seminals over proxy candidate namos. session. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT B: IAF 1 (Daman) drew withh Indian Railways remained double gold “I wanted to sign Mar- Air India 1 (Arjun Sharma). unbeaten in Pool A with a Special Correspondent de jure president, then he celino and Tebar for my Popovic, who took over NEW DELHI 3-0 win against Punjab Rajesh, Rahul (Malhotra) can be the de team and [even] spoke to from from Antonio Habas, is National Bank in its third star for MTNL With the Archery facto president of the AAI,” them. [But] It was not pos- clear about his preference and final league match of Association of India (AAI) said Ashwini, in her letter. sible because Pune pay for quality over quantity, re- Rajesh Gulia's hat-trick and the 28th Lal Bahadur elections scheduled to be more money. It is proof of ferring to the locals vs for- a three-wicket haul by Rahul Shastri hockey tournament held on December 20 as per Mismanagement Pune’s potential. They have eigners ratio stipulated for saw MTNL register a here on Tuesday to book a the court order, Clean more players with quality, this season. comprehensive 10-wicket Ashwini alleged that due to semifinal slot in the Sports India (CSI), an like striker Emiliano Alfaro. “Quality is important, not win against Bank of Baroda Malhotra’s competition. organisation advocating I respect Pune City.” the number of players. For in a DDCA League match on “mismanagement” AAI did Gagandeep Singh scored transparency and good not hold its elections which Dynamos enter the com- me, all players are locals, Tuesday. In another game, governance in sports petition phase after prepar- because they are here to twice for the winner which Friends Club thrashed were due in November last finished with maximum administration, has year before the Delhi High atory camps in Spain, Qatar play the Indian league. Century Cricket Club by expressed its apprehension and India. “Spain was first Those in better condition on nine points to top Pool A. nine wickets. Court appointed former PNB remained second on that the fielding of a ‘proxy’ Chief Election contact with the squad, for match day will play. I was The scores: the table with four points Bank of Baroda 71 Memorable day: Shardul Vihan, right, with coach Anwer candidate may defeat the Commissioner S.Y. Quraishi me to know the character of very close to fielding seven (Rajesh Gulia four for 21, Rahul * and a win for BSF on Sultan. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT purpose of the polls. to conduct the polls. each player and for them to domestic players due to in- three for 19) lost to MTNL 72 Wednesday would put it on In a letter to Prime know our coaching philo- juries, fortunately now all for no loss (Himanshu Tyagi 43 Sports Bureau “When the Sports par with PNB. the World Championship in Minister Narendra Modi, sophy,” said Portugal, on the are available.” not out); Anand Sports 280 NEW DELHI Moscow”, said coach well-known athlete and CSI Ministry is keen to bring eve of his ISL debut. The Serbian strongly feels However, the bankmen (Raghav Sharma 80, Aditya It was incredible shooting as Anwer. president Ashwini about a strong Sports Bill “In Qatar, and later in that presence of each have the luxury of a better Gupta 56) bt Universal CC 204 the young Shardul Vihan After topping qualifica- Nachappa has alleged that barring politicians from Delhi, both sides were famil- player, foreign or local, goal difference and unless (Abhinav Tej Rana 77); Century won the men’s and junior tion with 139, Shardul had former AAI president V.K. holding positions in sports iar with each other. We have should create a positive in- BSF wins against Delhi XI by club 85 (Samay Batra three for gold medal in double trap in finished sixth in the World Malhotra, who ruled the federations, Capt. improved very much in two fluence on teammates.He a huge margin, PNB would 10, Abhinoor Singh three for the 61st National Shotgun Championship junior event, national federation for four Abhimanyu’s candidature months and now in the also stressed on teamwork go through to the last four. seven, Vipul Choudhary three championship at on decades before resigning on will definitely be against the match [against FCPC] we and deflected the focus on for 35) lost to Friends Club 86 but he was unstoppable this In Pool B, the top two teams Tuesday. day. the ‘PMO’s intervention’ to efforts of the Government,” will become aware of our individuals, including in the league — Indian Air for one (Akashdeep Singh 29 said the letter. The 14-year-old Uttar Pra- Another seasoned double head the All India Council performance level.” match-winners Marcelino Force and Air India — played not out); Madras CC 142 for desh boy beat the World No. trap shooter, Mohd. Asab for Sports (AICS), wants to In his response, Malhotra Ranko Popovic, the Ser- and Tebar. out a 1-1 draw to end their four (Sidhant Sharma 61, 1 Ankur Mittal 78-76 for the settled for the bronze. control the national said, “Everyone is free to bian coach at FCPC, has his “We are happy to have league engagements. Ronem Bisht 36) lost to Telefunken 143 for three men’s gold. The results: federation by fielding Capt. give his/her opinion and priorities chalked out. “I them and other foreigners. While IAF won all its three (Yogesh Nagar 38 not out, In the junior final, Double trap: Men: 1. Shardul Abhimanyu, a Minister from support. I can support want to see how we play Idea is to have a good com- games to finish on nine Rahul Yadav 35); Delhi Colts Shardul beat Shapath Vihan 78 (137)7; 2. Ankur Mittal Haryana holding several whoever I wish to. I am not after a long break. Prepara- petition within the team and points, Air India had five 234 (Gaurav Choudhary 82, Bharadwaj, another young- 76 (137)1; 3. Mohd. Asab 56 portfolios, for the suggesting that I am tion was good, and the play- find balance. It is not pos- with two draws. Both have Rohit Gautam 49; Ishan Arora ster who had made the (137) 8. Junior men: 1. Shardul president’s post in the supporting someone in this ers are excited. After a long sible for Marcelino or Tebar qualified for the next stage four for 44) bt Three Star CC World Cup Final, 77-74. Vihan 77 (137)7; 2. Shapath forthcoming elections. election process, but I can if break, the first match is to take all the load in every of the competition. 175 for eight (Ankit Bisht 47; “I expected him to do Bharadwaj 74 (130); 3. Sehaj “If a busy Minister is the I wish to.” tricky. Everyone is always match, they need support. The results: Pool A: Indian Harsh Pandey three for 30). this. He had shot so well in preet Singh 55 (123). more careful.” We are a team of 25.”

FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12169 (set by Gridman) SUDOKU 13 Writer, with one temporary 2 Throw over the middle of accommodation, is in a sorry greens causes sensation (7) Results of our actions state (8) 3 Damage from mischievous The grass is always greener on the other side. We think that 15 Wild revelry takes gory turn child's broadcast (6) our respective professions are the most challenging. But the (4) truth is that our challenges appear big in our eyes and 4 Desirable cloud for one to be someone else’s challenges seem insignificant. Magnifying 16 Smuggled goods from carton on? (4) our problems and brushing aside the difficulties of others disposed of by group (10) will lead to unhappiness, said M.A. Venkatakrishnan in a 6 Papal appointment of basic 18 Ignoring complexity, one discourse. importance (8) politician with rota, enters There is a Panchatantra story about a washerman, his thus (10) donkey and his dog. The donkey said to the dog, “You are 7 Chennai's top artist gets lucky. You don’t have to carry loads of clothes. All you do is 20 Girl going around the Spanish depression caused by deadly sleep the whole day and keep watch at night.” The dog said: restaurant (4) disease (7) “All you do is carry the load to the river and while the master washes clothes you sleep. Then you come back home, 23 Expose to risk Vendan 8 Current layouts impress carrying the washed clothes and rest again. But I have to be gerrymandering in interior journalist groups (7,8) vigilant all the time.” parts (8) 9 Narrow victory gets father in So the two animals decided to swap duties. That night, 24 Lawful pattern? (6) terrible excitement after the donkey sat up to guard its master’s possessions. A thief point (54) tried to sneak into the house, and the donkey brayed loudly 26 Rest with half a record on to warn its master. The washerman, woken from sleep, scol- business (7) 14 Sew and hoover furiously — in ded the donkey for disturbing him. The dog, meanwhile, 27 National might be a female I any manner (9) Solution to puzzle 12168 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku slept peacefully, while the thief made away with what he hang about (7) had stolen. The next morning, the washerman discovered I ACROSS 17 Designing puts a bit of novelty the theft and scolded the dog for being a useless guard. Thus 1 Get close to squelch re in 28 Praise European Union's record in carpenter's work (8) the animals learnt that each job comes with responsibilities corner (8) with extreme sincerity (6) and difficulties. 5 Reportedly sees limit to Polar 19 Claimed to be in a way 29 In which state one doesn't do We find fault with God for having made someone else’s covering (3,3) curative (7) anything (8) life comfortable, while He has burdened us with problems. 10 Debase revolutionary with a 21 Issue is raising alien with a But it is not so at all. Only the wearer knows where the shoe writer (7) I DOWN title (7) pinches and it is wrong to think that others have it easy 11 A church official’s one while we ourselves suffer. deductive (1,6) 1 Yet one with this educational 22 Shake injured leg after run (6) When something goes wrong in our lives, we blame the 12 Bring out from Felicity’s heart? qualication may be married Supreme One. However, we are the ones to blame, for we (6) (9,6) 25 Charge hospital section (4) face what we do in life because of our own actions.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A good day in the ring for India Karman and Pranjala advance in doubles Rutuja Bhosale fails to capitalise on her chances and bows out in rst round Five host boxers breeze into quarternals MUMBAI OPEN seed, Ana Bogdan of Ro YOUTH BOXING the past, moved well to min mania looked increasingly imise the clinching tactics of Kamesh Srinivasan venomous in outplaying Vic Y.B. Sarangi the Bulgarian and delivered mumbai toria Rodriguez of Mexico GUWAHATI some solid punches to for the loss of two games. Karman Kaur Thandi and Y. emerge as the winner. Ana has dropped a mere India had an extremely suc Pranjala combined smartly A World junior champion three games in all so far in cessful day in the World to get the first win for India, winning three matches. youth women’s boxing in 2015, Sakshi had a tough in the L&T $125,000 WTA championship on Tuesday as time against Russian Indira Mumbai Open at the Cricket The results: Singles (first all of its five boxers in fray Sudabaeva before the Hary Club of India (CCI) here on round): Lu Jia-Jing (Chn) bt advanced to the ana girl managed a 41 Tuesday. Dalma Galfi (Hun) 6-2, 6-2; quarterfinals. victory. In a dramatic thriller, fea Amandine Hesse (Fra) bt Arina Nitu (48kg), Jyoti Gulia Important results (preliminary turing all young players, Rodionova (Aus) 7-6(2), 6-3; (51kg), Sakshi Chaudhary rounds): 48kg: Nitu (Ind) bt aged 19 or less, Karman and Deniz Khazaniuk (Isr) bt Rutuja Bhosale 6-4, 6-3; Ana Bogdan (54kg), Shashi Chopra (57kg) Emi-Mari Todorova (Bul) 4-1; Pranjala converted their 10th (Rou) bt Victoria Rodriguez and Ankushita Boro (64kg) 51kg: Heaven Garcia bt Chae- matchpoint for a 63, 75 vic won Kim (Kor) 5-0, Zhansaya (Mex) 6-1, 6-1. won their respective bouts at tory over Naiktha Bains of Abdraimova (Kaz) bt Indianna the N.C. Bardoloi Indoor Sta Australia and Fanny Stollar Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Courageous display: Jyoti recorded a resounding victory over Heibloem (Aus) 5-0, Jyoti Gulia Injudicious approach: Rutuja Bhosale appeared in a great dium here. of Hungary in the doubles Oksana Kalashnikova (Geo) & Ukraine’s Anastasiia Lisinska thanks to some excellent (Ind) bt Anastasiia Lisinska (Ukr) hurry and her anxiousness cost her the match against Veronika Kudermetova (Rus) bt * prequarterfinals. Karman Jyoti recorded a resound bobbing. RITU RAJ KONWAR 5-0, Giovanna Marchese (Ita) bt Deniz Khazaniuk of Israel. * PRASHANT NAKWE Riya Bhatia & Natasha Palha ing 50 victory over Kittiya Nampai (Tha) 5-0. was strong from the back Ukraine’s Anastasiia Lisin jabs left the Taipei boxer Ankushita used her long court and Pranjala was rock and anxious swings saw Ru but had not followed the 6-1, 6-2; Junri Namigata (Jpn) & 54kg: Sakshi Chaudhary (Ind) bt solid at the net, in scripting a tuja trying to catch up all the procedure of signing a spe Peangtarn Plipuech (Tha) bt ska. Unruffled by the flustered and earned her reach and good footwork as Indira Sudabaeva (Rus) 4-1. memorable victory. time, right from the start, cific form. She was annoyed Valentyna Ivakhnenko (Rus) & Ukraine boxer’s early aggres three standing counts, in she used combinations to 57kg: Cailling Hu (Chn) bt Mad- sion, Jyoti avoided her taller There was a good possibil even though she broke her but channelised her anger to Sabina Sharipova (Uzb) 6-1, cluding two in the first gain an advantage over inai Abdukholiqzoda (Tjk) 5-0, 6-4; Julia Glushko (Isr) & opponent’s punches through ity of a singles win as well opponent three times in the play a better quality game. round. southpaw Cagla. Roma Martinez (USA) bt Emily Priscilla Hon (Aus) bt Hiroko excellent bobbing. The cour this day, but Rutuja Bhosale match. Earlier, in a lively opening Shashi took it easy after “I am happy to have taken Mauermann (Ger) 3-2, Sandu- Kuwata (Jpn) & Prarthana failed to capitalise on a fine match of the day, Amandine ageous Indian landed precise having a firm control over revenge over the Turkey gash Abilkhan (Kaz) bt Madison There was some excite Thombare 6-2, 6-3; Karman shots to tame Anastasiia, the contest and utilised the boxer, who had defeated me Holland (Aus) 5-0, Shashi chance and bowed out to ment, as Rutuja fought back Hesse of France, bounced Kaur Thandi & Y. Pranjala bt whose punches missed the full duration to train herself in the Ahmet Comert tourna Chopra (Ind) bt Wei-Yi Lin Li qualifier Deniz Khazaniuk of from 15 in the second set, back from a sedate start Naiktha Bains (Aus) & Fanyi target very often. for her next bout. ment (title clash in Istan (Tpe) 5-0. Israel in the first round. but it was too little too late in when she trailed 35, to out Stollar (Hun) 6-3, 7-5; Dalila Shashi had a cakewalk Egged on by the vocifer bul),” said Ankushita. 64kg: Ankushita Boro (Ind) bt Rutuja was perhaps in the match. Khazaniuk had wit fourth seed Arina Rodi Jakupovic (Slo) & Irina against Chinese Taipei’s Wei ous local supporters, Assam Nitu beat Bulgarian Emi Cagla Aluc (Tur) 5-0, Rebecca great hurry and her injudi trouble with the chair um onova of Australia in two in Khromacheva (Rus) bt Ksenia Yi Lin Li in a second round girl Ankushita Boro beat Mari Todorova 41. Nitu, who Nicoli (Ita) bt Chelsey Heijnen cious approach cost her the pire and referee, as she tense sets. Palkina (Kgz) & Zhang Ling clash. The Indian’s leftright Cagla Aluc 50. The taller had beaten the same rival in (Ned) 5-0. match. A few loose points sought oncourt coaching Qualifier and second (Hkg) 6-2, 6-0. Fielding- ILeague’s 11th edition launched; set to run concurrently with ISL Brighton Vijender bout holds UTHRA GANESAN premier competition. cial media to complain about serious rift. I think it is prob in March NEW DELHI And, along with Delhi’s re the same. Most of the players ably a bit made up, may be Stoke City The 11th edition of the Hero I turn to the fixtures in I shared his sentiment. he has had a bit of difference Special Correspondent League was officially League, the presence of In with some of the players but Agence France-Presse GUWAHATI launched here on Tuesday dian Arrows — made up of In Constantine to continue? not a major issue,” Das said. Brighton British and Common and, to be played over three dia Under17 and Under19 Asked about reports of rift The ILeague would run Promoted Brighton’s prom wealth supermiddleweight months, will run parallel to players — also meant that between national coach from November 25 till March ising Premier League cam champion Rocky Fielding the more glamorous Indian coach Luis Norton De Matos Stephen Constantine and 6, 2018 with the first match paign continued as it twice has been asked for the Super League as the two would continue to helm the some players, Das indicated of the season played came from behind to earn mandatory defence of his competitions battle for group of Indian youngsters that results had to count for between Minerva Punjab a 22 draw at home to Stoke newlyacquired supermid primacy in Indian football. after their impressive show something. and Mohun Bagan in Ludhi City on Monday. dleweight title against In With three new teams in the Under17 World Cup. India has had an unbeaten ana on November 25. The results: dian ace Vijender Singh, from as many states being “His (De Matos) contract is Eyeing the prize: The players and coaches of the participating 13match streak under Con The teams: Premier League: Brighton 2

* stantine including qualifica according to the latest added to the fray — Gokulam till the end of ILeague. Then teams at the launch on Tuesday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Aizawl FC (Mizoram, defend- (Gross 44, Izquierdo 60) drew tion for the 2019 AFC Asian Commonwealth Boxing Kerala FC, 2nd division we will see and discuss,” ing champion), Neroca FC (Ma- with Stoke 2 (Choupo-Moting Council bulletin. champion Neroca FC and In AIFF general secretary But sharing the same offi the two leagues in the com Cup. nipur), Shillong Lajong FC 28, Zouma 45+1). This fight is scheduled dian Arrows, the official de Kushal Das said on the side cial broadcaster as the ISL — ing years remains unre “It will be a decision of the (Meghalaya), Mohun Bagan AC La Liga: Eibar 5 (Amat 6-og, for March 31 next year in velopment side of the AIFF — lines of the launch. Star Sports — it remains to be solved. technical committee (in and Kingfisher East Bengal Escalante 30, Charles 56-pen, the Copperbox Arena, Lon the 201718 season would be The prize money has also seen how much traction Already there are mur March 2018) but going by his (Bengal), Minerva Punjab (Pun- 71, Enrich 80) bt Real Betis 0. don. Fielding defeated played in 10 states across the been enhanced — the win both the AIFF and the broad murs about lack of promo performance and results, I jab), Gokulam Kerala FC (Ker- Serie A: Verona 2 (Cerci 12, David Brophy to win his country including a return to ner’s purse would be 1 crore caster manage for the I tion and poor scheduling don’t see any reason why he ala), Churchill Brothers FC Goa Caceres 33) lost to Bologna 3 new belt in Liverpool on the national capital that has with the runnerup getting League, specially given the with Minerva owner Ranjit should not be continued. (Goa), Indian Arrows (Delhi), (Destro 22, Okwonkwo 74, September 30. never featured a side in the 60 lakh. fact that a way out to merge Bajaj even taking to the so “I don’t think there is any Chennai City FC (Chennai). Donsah 76).

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IN BRIEF New ‘therapy’ Tracing a universal lm’s for leukaemia identied journey ‘beyond the clouds’ Press Trust of India Los Angeles Stanford scientists have Disney’s Pinocchio art Human emotions have no barriers of language or geography: Majid Majidi identified a molecule that set may fetch $75,000 can be targeted to cure BOSTON Special Correspondent leukaemia — the most com A remarkable oneofakind PANAJI mon form of cancer in set of 120 original Disney Iranian director Majid childhood. watercolour paintings that Majidi, after showcasing Bey- The therapy is similar to tells the story of Pinocchio ond the Clouds at the open but distinct from CD19tar may fetch $75,000 at an ing ceremony of the Interna geted chimeric antigen re auction in the U.S. The series tional Film Festival of India ceptor Tcell therapy, or of highly detailed paintings (IFFI) 2017, said the film had CAR Tcell therapy, in portray the memorable a universal appeal and which a patient’s T cells are characters of the classic 1940 hoped that “the subject res genetically modified to tar Disney movie. The paintings onates with audiences across Sridevi’s get a molecule called CD19 were produced to make the globe after its release.” on the surface of the can stickers that were included in At a press conference at milestone cer cells. boxes or tins of De Beukelaer the IFFI media centre, the This therapy was re Special Correspondent cookies produced and sold in acclaimed filmmaker made it cently approved by the U.S. PANAJI Belgium. PTI clear that the Beyond the Food and Drug Administra Oldest stars in our Clouds was a vindication of Director’s cut: Iranian lmmaker Majid Majidi. * AP Actor Sridevi, who tion (FDA) for the treat his firm view that human celebrates 50 years in the ment of some types of emotions had no barriers of crew of India has been an like Majid Majidi, there is Indian film industry this blood cancers, according galaxy discovered language and geography. amazing experience,” said nothing to think about. What year, inaugurated the to a study published in the The cast and crew of the Mr. Majidi. he brings to the screen is controversyhit Indian journal Nature Medicine. Press Trust of India nearby considering the movie, including actors simply outstanding. I am a Panorama section of the Washington galaxy is more than Ishaan Khatter and Malavika A.R. Rahman’s scores lover of cinema and passion 48th International Film Genetic modification Astronomers have dis 1,00,000 light years across. Mohanan and producers Narrating his “lively” experi ate about it. I would like to Festival of India (IFFI) on The therapy genetically covered some of the oldest A light year is how far Punit Goenka, Shareen Man ences of working with ace portray interesting roles on Tuesday. modifies a patient’s T cells stars in our Milky Way light can travel in one year. Cancer drugs may also tri, Kishore Arora, Reza music director A.R. Rahman, screen and something that “Indian Panorama 2017 to target a different mo galaxy by determining their This is farther than the treat high BP: study Tashakkori and Sujay Kutty Mr. Majidi said, “One of the would challenge me as an is a special selection of lecule called CD22, scient locations and velocities. Just traditional horizon for the WASHINGTON attended the press confer good things about working actor. It was a blessing.” feature and nonfeature ists at the Stanford Univer like humans, stars have a life region of space that is re Drugs designed to halt cancer ence along with Mr. Majidi. with Rahman is that he is su multilingual films. Having sity in the U.S. said. span: birth, youth, adult ferred to as “the solar neigh growth may offer a new way premely talented and very ‘Learning experience’ worked in various The approach is helpful hood, old age and death. bourhood,” which is about to control high blood Human values flexible.” Ishaan Khatter said: “It industries over the last 50 because the cancer cells of Scientists at Georgia State 80 light years in radius. pressure, researchers say. The The roots of Beyond the “Sometimes, it happens, was a great learning experi years, I am really excited some patients who un University in the U.S. fo “The reason my horizon finding by researchers at the Clouds lie in human values, for example, that when we ence to work with all the stal about this segment. It is dergo CD19targeted CAR cussed on old or “senior cit is more distant is that there Georgetown University in the love, friendship and family sat together and he did some warts associated with Bey- my pleasure to declare the Tcell therapy stop express izen” stars, also known as are not a lot of senior cit United Statesby an American bonding. It is the story of a scores, and I said ‘no, I do ond the Clouds. It’s indeed a Indian Panorama 2017 ing the CD19 molecule on cool subdwarfs, that are izens [old stars] in our solar university could offer a real brother and sister, just like not like them. We should do strong team to be working officially opened,” said Ms. their cell surfaces. CAR T much older and cooler in neighbourhood,” said lead advance in hypertension that of Children of Heaven, something new.’ It’s a very with. Mr. Majidi has strong Sridevi. The controversy cell therapy relies on a pa temperature than the Sun. author of the study Wei treatment because although a with the difference being good feeling when someone leadership qualities. It is em over the government’s tient’s own T cells — a type In a study, astronomers Chun Jao, from the Georgia number of high blood that the siblings are grown can listen to criticism and powering in the sense that decision to drop films S of immune cell that can be conducted a census of our State University. “There are pressure drugs are now ups and tackle greater con can accept it. It was a kind of there was so much to learn Durga and Nude from the a powerful killing machine. solar neighbourhood to plenty of adult stars in our available, they work by flicts, with the bustling city discovery of each others feel from all these talented Indian Panorama section, Fifteen of the 21 patients identify how many young, solar neighbourhood, but different mechanisms that are of Mumbai serving as the ings,” he said. people. Everyone worked in leading to the resignation in the study had previously adult and old stars are there’s not a lot of senior cit not suited for all patients. backdrop. Actor Malavika Mohanan tandem with the same goal of jury chief Sujoy Ghosh either relapsed or failed to present. They targeted stars izens, so we have to reach The study was published in “Working with the excep said: “When it comes to to satisfy Majidi sir’s vision as surrounded the inaugural respond to antiCD19 CAR out to a distance of 200 light farther away in the galaxy to the journal Hypertension. PTI tionally talented cast and working with a filmmaker a filmmaker.” function. Tcell treatment. years, which is relatively find them,” said Mr. Jao. A 105 crore Made in India jewellery suite Designed by Nirav Modi, the set has speciallyprocured rubies

Lalatendu Mishra buyer.” The set has 27 Mogak MUMBAI rubies weighing 71.11 carats Wellknown diamond jew and is made of finest of dia ellery designer Nirav Modi monds of D, E, F colour has designed a jewellery set weighing 128.56 carats. priced at 105 crore (over Incidentally, Mr. Modi is $16 million). Studded with the first jewellery designer speciallyprocured rubies from India whose creation from the Mogak mines in had been auctioned at Myanmar and finecut dia Christie’s. monds from across the In 2010, when Mr. Modi world, the set is believed to started his first private be one of the costliest ever salon, he wanted to intro made in India. duce it through a big bang The Gem and Jewellery The necklace in the jewellery unveiling. Export Promotion Council suit. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT “We had developed a (GJEPC), however, does not Hero piece. Christie’s came keep individual jewellery dia,” Nirav Modi, founder to know about it and urged piece data and declined to and creative director Nirav me to put it on auction and it comment. Modi chain of diamond jew fetched 16 crore then. It It took five years to source ellery retail stores and Chair had a base price of 12 crore the rubies for this set called man of Firestar Interna and witnessed aggressive the Mogok Ruby Suite, tional said. bidding.” which comprises a necklace, Mr. Modi said every single a pair of earrings and a Global market piece of jewellery sold at the bracelet. It took two years Firestar International is the stores were designed by for Mr. Modi and his team to parent of Nirav Modi chain, him. The price starts from 2 manufacture this at the com which has stores in key mar lakh onwards. The 105 pany’s facility in Mumbai. kets across the globe. crore set is the costliest one “It was completed just Asked whether the set has ever produced by him. two months back. It has been ordered by some cus Mr. Modi, who set up its been designed by me and tomer, Mr. Modi said, “I have first retail store at Defence manufactured here at our fa created this over a period of Colony, New Delhi in 2014, cility at Kurla in Mumbai. It time and based on my own has now 15 stores, including is completely made in In imagination. We will find a three in India. Blue whales are mostly ‘righthanded’: study

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Agence France-Presse Miami Blue whales, the world’s largest animals, usually fa Charlie Rose vour their right side when they lunge to catch food — a suspended preference similar to right handedness in people, re Blue whales are the world’s Agence France-Presse searchers said. largest animals. * AFP New York But on certain occasions, Charlie Rose, one of Amer while moving upward in The report was based on ica’s most respected broad shallow water, these righties analysis of the movement of casters, an awardwinning will almost always shift to 63 blue whales ( Balaenop- television host and inter their left to keep a good eye tera musculus) off the coast viewer, was suspended on on their favoured prey — of California. Monday after eight women tiny crustaceans known as These giant creatures are accused him of years of krill. The reason for this almost as long as three sexual harassment and un situationspecific choice is school buses and weigh as wanted advances. likely simple: to get as much much as 25 elephants. A bombshell Washington food in their mouths as pos Scientists analysed more Post report said the women sible, said the report pub than 2,800 feeding plunges, were employees or aspired lished in Current Biology. in which whales make sharp to work on the ‘Charlie “To the best of our know turns or rolls when passing Rose’ show and were in ledge, this is the first ex a patch of krill, in order to their 20s and 30s when the ample where animals show eat as many as possible. alleged harassment took different lateralised beha place from the 1990s to as viours depending on the Visual contact recently as 2011. They com context of the task that is Most blue whales veer right plained thatthe advances being performed,” said co in deep water, where it is included lewd phone calls, author James HerbertRead dark and there are a lot of groping and walking naked of Stockholm University in krill, so visual contact is not before them. Sweden. as important. CM A ND-NDE YK

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3-member team to probe Tells SC real power to administer is vested with President, Union of India Staff Reporter allegations against Fortis NEW DELHI GURUGRAM Krishnadas Rajagopal The National Green Tribunal In the wake of reports NEW DELHI (NGT) on Tuesday said that regarding death of a seven The Delhi government is at any person who refused to yearold girl during treatment best meant to take care of pay the environmental com for dengue at Fortis Memorial the “daily utilities” of the Na pensation for violating or Research Institute (FMRI) in tional Capital. The real ders stated by the Tribunal, Gurugram and the hospital power to administrate the would have to pay additional authorities raising a bill of National Capital is vested fines. Further, the green around 18 lakh for her with the President and the panel said that those in viol treatment for over two weeks, Union of India, the Centre ation of the orders would be the Haryana government on opened its innings on Tues asked to appear before the Tuesday constituted a three day before a Supreme Court Tribunal. member panel to look into the Constitution Bench. Smoke billows from a heap of garbage at Shanti Park on allegations by Adya’s parents. The President and the Notices ignored Tuesday despite orders by the NGT against waste burning. Union of India, and not the The Delhi government and * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA CITY Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD local government, is vested the corporations informed with the power to govern the green panel that despite “The Delhi government fore the NGT. We make it Delhi – “a centrallyadmin serving notices to individu and the corporations state clear that they would be li Court dismisses CBI istered area with special fea als who were found to be vi that in terms of the orders able to pay additional costs,” plea for polygraph test tures”, Additional Solicitor Rule of the land: The Centre and the Delhi government are locked in a turf war on who has olating the norms, some of passed by the tribunal, they the Bench said. NEW DELHI General Maninder Singh sub administrative power over the Capital. FILE PHOTO them refused to pay the fine. issued notices to pay envir A Delhi court on Tuesday mitted before the fivejudge A Bench headed by NGT onment compensation vary Earlier orders dismissed a CBI plea to Bench led by Chief Justice of you, how can you exercise executive, exclusive power” vai, saying “don't create dis chairperson Swatanter Ku ing from 1,000 to 5 lakh Earlier, the green panel, in conduct polygraph test on India Dipak Misra. it? To spend money, you to the Delhi government. harmony and then talk mar directed the authorities relatable to different viola several orders had said that nine students of JNU in have to have some in your Mr. Singh argued that about harmony”. to take strict action against tions, depending on the environmental compensa connection with the Govt’s aid and advice pocket,” the law officer Delhi cannot say “I am not a all those who failed to com area. However, some of the tions would be levied on all disappearance of Najeeb The Centre and the Delhi submitted. State but give me the priv ‘Constitution silent’ ply with the regulations noticees refused to pay the those who were found to be Ahmed. Najeeb, a student of government are locked in a Mr. Singh said the “special ileges of a State”. Mr. Singh rejected Delhi gov stated by the Tribunal in the amount. In view of this, we in violation of orders with the university, has been turf war over who has ad status” given to Delhi is as re ernment’s description of the various orders. Further, it direct that any person who respect to construction missing since October 15, ministrative power over the gards the other Union Territ ‘Not a State’ LG as a “viceroy” and a “su directed the authorities to refuses to pay environment activities, plastic ban, park 2016. The Delhi High Court National Capital and ories. This does not elevate As an example that Delhi is prema lex”. Earlier in the prepare a list of all those compensation shall be ing norms and others. The had on May 16 transferred whether the LieutenantGov Delhi to the status of a not a State but a Union Ter day, senior advocate people who have failed to served notice and simultan matter has now been listed investigation in the case from ernor can take unilateral de ‘State’. He said the Constitu ritory under the control of Shekhar Naphade wrapped pay the fine. eously asked to appear be for later this week. the Delhi Police to the CBI. cisions without being bound tion is specific about provi the President and the up a nineday marathon ses by the aid and advice of the sions concerning the States, Centre, Mr. Singh referred to sion of arguments for the CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD elected government of Delhi. and Delhi does not figure in Article 3 of the Constitution. Delhi government, which Mr. Singh said Delhi gov any of these provisions. He The Article mandates that in said the LG can only use his Anticipatory bail to Ryan trustees ernment wants “uncon argued that the Constitution the formation of new States discretion as per a law, the Farmers slam Centre trolled, vertically divided ex is silent about giving coex and alteration of areas, rest he has to follow the aid over pre-poll promises ecutive power”. “But when tensive executive and legis boundaries or names of ex and advice of the Delhi Punjab & Haryana HC directs them not to leave country NEW DELHI the power is not vested in lative powers to the Delhi isting States, a referendum Council of Ministers. The ‘Kisan Mukti Sansad’, the government. The court has to be made to the State “If the executive function SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT family, told reporters that the court. gathering of 184 farmer CHANDIGARH Delhi government should not interpret some legislature concerned. How of the Union over Delhi is re the court has granted anti “We will approach the organisations from across the <> wants uncontrolled, thing which is not there in ever, in the case of a Union tained, it would have been The Punjab and Haryana cipatory bail to the three apex court and file an ap country at the Parliament High Court on Tuesday trustees, with conditions peal challenging the order Street concluded on Tuesday vertically divided the Constitution. Territory, no such referen specifically provided for in with the national president of executive power. Mr. Singh said the Consti dum is made. the Constitution. We are granted conditional anticip imposed. granting anticipatory bail Swaraj India party, Yogendra But when the power tution recognises that the In reference to the Delhi reading into the Constitution atory bail to the three trust after studying the judg ees of Ryan International ‘Will challenge order’ ment,” said Mr. Tekriwal. Yadav, questioning the BJP is not vested in you, Union has so much at stake government’s request for a a power that does not exist. in the affairs of the National “harmonious construction” The Constitution is silent. School in connection with While granting bail to the The CBI, during the re government’s stand on the how can you agrarian crisis. He said that Capital and continuous con between the executive and Therefore, I have the execut the murder case of the three trustees including Au sumed hearing, submitted a the PM has failed to keep the exercise it? To spend trol has to be maintained in legislative powers of Delhi ive power. The LG holds a sevenyearold Pradyuman gustine. F. Pinto, Grace status report in a sealed prepoll promises he made to money, you need almost every subject of gov and the Centre, as envisaged much subordinate position Thakur, student in the Guru Pinto and Ryan Pinto, the cover pertaining to the case. the farmers. some in your pocket ernance and administration. under Article 239AA (4) and compared to the State Gov gram school. High Court has directed Earlier on October 7, in Maninder Singh The law officer argued that its proviso, Mr. Singh quoted ernor,” Mr. Naphade argued Advocate Sushil Tekriwal, them to not leave the coun terim bail to three trustees CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Additional Solicitor General Constitution provides “no the noted jurist H.M. Seer in the morning. representing the victim’s try without permission of was granted by the HC.

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The two men ac Cop suspended Kyi, and labelled her the Scheduled Castes, Sched cused in the case are al The family members said reassurances to the uled Tribes, Other Backward legedly relatives of a person Sagar and Deepak were community as “responses Castes and minority com contesting the municipal goldsmiths. “For the elec that are internationally munities are two initiatives elections scheduled on tion, the district magistrate influenced”. likely to be launched by the November 26. had strictly ordered the po “When a Nobel Peace Delhi government on Decem According to the police, lice to be on the guard and Prize Laureate shows double ber 6. Rajendra Pal Gautam the deceased has been the candidates and their standards after coming into Social Welfare Minister Ra identified as Sagar Sharma family members or relatives power, there is little hope. jendra Pal Gautam said on said the Minister. For stu (28), who ran a jewellery had to submit their licensed She refuses to acknowledge Tuesday that the Aam Aadmi dents whose family income is business. He was allegedly ammunition to the police. the exodus that happened Party government would be under 2 lakh annually, the shot dead with a licensed We have suspended the Sub on August 25 saying half the launching the two initiatives government would pay 100% revolver by Manoj Verma Inspector of Dankaur Police people didn’t join. What she meant for the welfare of stu of the fees. For those whose and Deepak Verma. Manoj chowki who failed to collect doesn’t see is that over dents of SC, ST, OBC and family income is between 2 has been arrested while the ammunitions from their 600,000 people fled the minority communities at an lakh and 6 lakh, the govern Deepak is on the run. possession,” Ms. Suniti ad country, after giving Humanitarian crisis: A resident at a camp for Rohingyas in Kalindi Kunj on Tuesday. * SANDEEP SAXENA event at Chhatrasal Stadium ment would pay 75% of the ded. testimonies of gang rapes, on December 6, with mem fees, said Mr. Gautam. ‘On way home’ Sources said the incident loot and locality fires,” said The Rohingyas living in a ethnic identity. bers of the communities in “Many times, students According to the complaint is a fallout of political Maung Thein Shew, refugee colony near Kalindi “In 2012, they suddenly vited to attend. from these communities are filed by Sharma’s brother, rivalry. According to Rohingya activist based in Kunj in south Delhi said they started picking up youth SC to hear While the SC/ST Depart not able to take competitive Abhimanyu, both of them sources, Sagar was seen on Delhi. lived under constant fear from their homes. I was in ment already had a scheme examinations and prepare were on their way home Monday afternoon entering over the next Supreme Court the fields when I found out plea on Dec 5 to provide coaching to stu well, so we are hoping to give when the incident took the office of Bahujan Sama Political blame games hearing, which could result that my nephew had been dents, the beneficiaries them an opportunity. We place. jwadi Party and the two ac The activists also blamed the in deportation. picked up. I was compelled Press Trust of India would now be placed at re hope to cover 5,000 students “While we were walking cused, who are cousins of a Myanmar government of “How long will we live like to leave right away. Only New Delhi puted coaching institutes in every year,” he said. The Cab home, Manoj and Deepak BJP candidate got infuri playing political blame this? We appeal to the Indian yesterday, two boys from The Supreme Court said on the city. inet note for the scheme had arrived on a bike and took ated. The duo thought games. “If you’re born as a government to not look at us my village were burnt alive Tuesday that it would next been prepared and would be Sagar a little distance away Sagar supports the BSP, member of a minority group as Muslims but as humans. and the government is month hear the plea of two Competitive exams tabled in the Cabinet meet on the pretext of talking to sources added. in Burma, you’re not treated Our villages were burnt and talking of us returning,” Mr. Rohingya refugees who “Earlier, the department ing within a week, he said. him about some work. as human. Minorities are families were torn down. Abdullah said. have approached it against would rent a place and hire In addition, the govern They had an argument ‘No political angle’ portrayed as terrorists,” said We’re half dead and need “They would put the Centre’s decision to de some teachers to hold ment would also be launch which escalated after which However the police have Mr. Shew. some sense of inclusion and restrictions on our marriage port Rohingya Muslims to classes, which were irregular ing an app that will allow Manoj held Sagar from be ruled out any political The refugees have peace now. We request the and visit us for periodical Myanmar. and not that well attended. members of the SC, ST, OBC hind. Deepak then took out angle, saying Deepak and demanded that the Indian government to kill us monitoring, especially once A Bench of Chief Justice Under the new scheme, the and minority communities to his revolver and shot him. Manoj were related to a Myanmar government stop but not deport us,” said a baby is born. We were Dipak Misra and Justices students would study along apply for small loans to set The two then fled the spot,” local BJP leader, who is injecting hate and pitting the Abdullah, a Rohingya being watched like A.M. Khanwilkar and D.Y. side general category stu up their own enterprises. Mr. said Mr. Abhimanyu. contesting the municipal different religious groups refugee living in the colony. criminals,” he added. Chandrachud agreed to the dents at reputed coaching Gautam said that the existing Sagar was rushed to a elections. But the BJP against one another. They Rohingya activists in request of senior advocate centres. The government will loan scheme was riddled nearby hospital, where he leader was also allegedly have also appealed to the ‘Feel safer here’ Delhi also accused the Fali.S.Nariman, who ap bear the fees,” said Mr. with complicated processes, succumbed to injuries. Fol close to the victim. government of India to The refugees reiterated that government of both peared for the Rohingyas, Gautam. which the app would work to lowing the complaint, an “Some people are giving initiate peace talks with they were content with the countries of using the crisis and deferred the matter for The scheme would cover simplify. Paperwork for the FIR has been registered un it a political angle without Myanmar and help resolve minimal resources available for their respective political hearing on December 5. coaching for engineering and loans offered by the Delhi der Sections 302 (murder) any basis. The accused men the issue. “We request the to them in India because objectives. They stressed The apex court had on medical entrances as well as SC/ST/OBC/Minority and and 506 (Punishment for are relatives of the BJP Indian government as the they lived a life with dignity. that although the Supreme October 13 said the Ro Central and State govern Handicapped Finance and criminal intimidation) of leader, but he was also largest democratic icon of They stressed that they felt Court has deferred its hingya refugee problem was mentheld exams for various Development Corporation the IPC. close to Sagar,” said Far the world to be more much safer in a foreign hearing of the case, the of a “great magnitude” and services or posts. Of the be (DSFDC) would be com “We have arrested Manoj mood Ali Pundir, station empathetic towards us and country than in their own judgment will be in the the State would have to play neficiaries, 75% would be stu pleted within a week with but Deepak is still abscond house officer, Dankaur po bring us out of the crisis,” where they’re targeted on favour of the “thousands of a “big role” while dealing dents of government schools the help of the app, said the ing. We have formed teams lice station. Mr. Shew added. the basis of religious and innocent Rohingyas”. with the contentious issue. and 25% of private schools, Minister.

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF How noisy is Delhi? DoE wants parents not to let kids out Issues circular to schools to appeal to parents to restrict outdoor activities Noise averages in 2017 have been higher than permissible levels Staff Reporter NEW DELHI The Directorate of Educa Minimum temperature tion (DoE) has directed all in Capital likely to fall heads of government, gov NEW DELHI ernmentaided and unaided The MeT department has recognised schools under forecast that the minimum its jurisdiction to appeal to temperature is likely to fall to parents to restrain their single digits on November 22. children from undertaking On Tuesday, the minimum and outdoor activities. maximum temperatures were recorded at 10.2°C and 24.2° ‘Worrisome situation’ C respectively, both 2 degrees “All heads are directed to below normal. The forecast appeal to parents of their says the day will be clear. The students about the worri maximum and minimum some air pollution situation temperatures are likely to be prevailing in and across 23 and 9°C. STAFF REPORTER Delhi, and further to re strain their children from undertaking outdoor activ NGT directs Noida to use Damini Nath that the levels have was classified as a residen ities till severe pollution landfill at Sector 123 NEW DELHI breached safe limits. A tial area, the daytime conditions persist,” reads NEW DELHI Data from the Delhi govern senior DPCC official who monthly average was the circular. The NGT on Tuesday refused ment shows that the was involved in drafting of between 58.1 dB(A) to 60.1 Alarming levels of air pol to review its order, directing monthly averages of noise the reply confirmed that the dB(A) — over the standard of lution earlier this month the Noida Authority to use pollution this year have noise levels were unsafe, 55 dB(A). For night time, the had forced schools to re the landfill at Sector 123 as a been higher than permiss but declined to comment area recorded noise levels main closed for a week. No escape: Outdoor activities and exposure to polluted conditions can have longterm temporary place for dumping ible levels, prompting activ further. of 51.7 dB(A) to 58.9 dB(A), The DoE said it issued the detrimental eects on the health of children, states the DoE circular. * FILE PHOTO of waste. A bench headed by ists to question whether any well over the standard of 45. circular after receiving an NGT chairperson Justice measures were taken to Area-specific levels At Mandir Marg and R.K. order from the Special Sec Swatanter Kumar said “no control noise. According to the DPCC re Puram, too, the levels were retary (Environment)cum ‘Continue pollution-control measures’ interference” was required in In a reply to environ port, Anand Vihar had a over the standards. Member Secretary, Delhi its order of October 24 which mentalist Vikrant Tongad’s daytime average monthly Pollution Control Commit prohibited waste dumping at Right to Information query noise level of 66.9 dB(A) to ‘Incomplete reply’ tee (DPCC), Department of Minister writes to Environment Secy, cites MeT forecast Sector 138A Noida. PTI submitted last month, the 68.7 dB(A) and a nighttime Mr. Tongad, however, Environment, Government Delhi Pollution Control average of 63.2 dB(A) to termed the reply incom of National Capital Territory Staff Reporter trol measures taken during continue. Burning of waste New Delhi Committee (DPCC) on Tues 66.6 dB(A). plete, saying that not of Delhi, in compliance with the severe smog days earlier as well as biomass for heat HC: North civic body to day gave its report on the Last year, the CPCB had enough was being done to the directions issued by Measures to control pollu this month should continue by security guards at night compensate fire victims average monthly noise classified Anand Vihar as a control noise pollution. LieutenantGovernor Anil tion, particularly from dust the entire season. should not be allowed, he NEW DELHI levels for five locations — commercial area, for which “The CPCB has said that Baijal in a highlevel meet and biomass burning, added. The High Court on Tuesday Anand Vihar, R.K. Puram, day and nighttime noise the level of noise pollution ing held on November 8. should be continued ‘Temporary phase’ Stringent measures such held the North MCD liable to Mandir Marg, Civil Lines standards are 65 and 55 dB in metros is high. But the throughout winter even “Various meteorological as ban on construction activ compensate the kin of four and Punjabi Bagh — from (A), respectively. Similarly, DPCC reply is incomplete as Outdoor activities though air quality has im forecasts and reports indic ities and entry of trucks men killed in a factory blaze January till October 2017. the CPCB categorised Civil we don’t know the exact “Outdoor activities and ex proved this week, Delhi En ate that this phase is tempor have been rolled back fol four years ago, saying “the While the DPCC report Lines as commercial, mean locations of the monitoring posure to polluted condi vironment Minister Imran ary and ambient air quality lowing the improvement in civic body had failed to stop does not mention the stand ing that its daytime noise sites and the standards to tions can have longterm Hussain directed his depart may once again worsen in air quality. such units operating illegally”. ards to which the data can range of 61.2 dB(A) to 63.7 which we are supposed to detrimental effects on the ment on Tuesday. the coming weeks,” said Mr. However, the National The court directed the North be compared with, using dB(A) was under the stand compare it to,” he said. health of children. There In a letter to the Environ Hussain. He said roadside Green Tribunal has ordered MCD commissioner to carry the Central Pollution Con ard of 65, but its nighttime He added that if the CPCB fore, parents may be re ment Secretary, Mr. Hussain spraying of water to reduce fines of 50,000 and 5,000 out an inquiry to fix liability trol Board’s report on the average of 57.8 dB(A) to 62.7 classifications and stand quested to adopt preventive said though it was hearten dust suspension, mechan for violation of dustcontrol on its officers responsible for sound monitoring for Diwali dB(A) was over the standard ards were to be taken into approach to safeguard their ing to see that ambient air ised sweeping and crack measures at construction the misuse of properties in 2016, where the five areas of 55. account, the levels were al child’s health,” said the DoE quality had improved in the down on polluting and over sites and burning of waste, the Mangolpuri area. PTI were covered, it can be seen At Punjabi Bagh, which most all over the safe limits. circular. past few days, pollutioncon loaded vehicles should respectively. Teachers protest against pay AAP walks out of SDMC meet Najeeb case: court rejects CBI’s polygraph test plea panel recommendations Alleges corruption in Building Department, asks for records Soumya Pillai cords. They said they do not resignation of the SDMC New Delhi have any record of the re commissioner and the Says students’ will is required for test Say it’s ‘lowest hike for incumbent teachers in free India’ The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) constructed buildings. How Mayor. It also demanded that on Tuesday alleged corrup can that be,” he asked. the questions and the lack of Nirnimesh Kumar moved by the investigating New Delhi Staff Reporter late entry into the teaching leges and universities is sub tion in the Building Depart Another question that was replies be looked into. agency and not by any of NEW DELHI profession,” he said. ject to the guidelines issued ment of the South Delhi Mu put before the corporation The south Delhi Mayor, A Delhi court on Tuesday these students and, there Several teachers marched by the Ministry of Finance, nicipal Corporation (SDMC) was regarding the details of Kamaljeet Sehrawat, said dismissed a CBI plea to con fore cannot be outrightly al from Mandi House to Parlia Roll-back demand which makes it compulsory and walked out of the meet the action taken against the that obstructing the func duct polygraph test on nine lowed,’’ the ACMM added. ment Street on Tuesday as DUTA in a statement said for Central universities to ing of the House. sealing orders on illegal tioning of the House was un students of Jawaharlal Opposing the plea, coun part of a protest rally called that according to the HRD generate 30% of finances on Ramesh Matiala, the properties in the Najafgarh called for. “If the opposition Nehru University in connec sel for the students submit by the Delhi University Ministry notification, college their own and the State uni leader of the Opposition in zone in the last two years. was unsatisfied with the tion with the disappearance ted that as per the NHRC Teachers’ Association teachers have been down versities have been allocated the SDMC, alleged that the For this too, there was ap replies they received it of Najeeb Ahmed, who has guidelines, the liedetector against the retrograde re graded at every level and only 50% of central assist nominated member of the parently no record available. should have brought it to the been missing since October test was not authorised by commendations of the 7th even principals have been ance for a reduced period of House, B.S. Joon, had asked notice of the House and I 15, 2016. law and must be regarded il Central Pay Commission. downgraded from the level 39 months,” said the the civic body to present ‘Unsatisfactory’ replies would have asked the de Additional Chief Metro legal unless it was voluntar DUTA president Rajib Ray of a professor to that of an protesters. some details around three The Opposition alleged that partment head to give it a politan Magistrate (ACMM) ily accepted. said that the proposed pay associate professor after the They added that it was months ago, “but it refused repeated reminders were reply then or would have Samar Vishal dismissed the Allowing their plea, the structure will hurt the in completion of their tenure, also the first time that the to present the replies to hide sent to the department to stipulated a time for the op plea, saying that “the stu court said: “If the police ac terests of teachers awaiting which is an indirect way of UGC Pay Review Committee its corruption”. avail the details, but they position to get the details. dents' reply clearly reflects tion of conducting a lie de permanent placements and denying professorship in report had not been made Mr. Matiala said that the have been receiving unsatis Obstructing the House and that they are not willing to tector test is not authorised promotions. “The 7th CPC colleges. public. Opposition has asked for de factory replies. walking out is no way to go go for the lie detection test”. by law and impermissible records the lowest hike for “In one of the most brutal The association said that tails about the number of “The Building Depart about things,” she said. “Since a polygraph test the basis on which it could incumbent teachers in inde assaults on higher education it has submitted a memor buildings that have been re ment is the most corrupt de In the past four years, cannot be done without the be justified is, it is volun pendent India. In a blatant in recent times, the MHRD andum with a detailed DUTA constructed in the areas partment in the SDMC. They 13,772 properties have been consent of the person , this teered which is not the situ antiteacher move, this gov notification threatens to re critique on 7th Pay Revision where demolition drives take money to pull down identified as illegal in south application cannot be al ation in the present case.’’ ernment has decided to duce funds to the Central for teachers to the MHRD were conducted. buildings and sanction con Delhi, out of which 6,568 lowed at this stage,’’ the Earlier also, the students withdraw the advanced and the State universities. and has demanded an im “The municipality is a structions. This is a ploy for have been demolished and ACCM said dismissing the had opposed a Delhi Police PhD/MPhil increments The MHRD notification mediate rollback of the ad government agency. covering up their function 2,134 sealed while there has plea. “One more aspect of plea seeking the court’s per meant to reward higher clearly states that the re verse provisions of the pro Everything that is done ing,” Mr. Matiala alleged. been no action against the matter is that the applic mission to conduct a lie de qualifications and to offset vised pay of teachers in col posed pay structure. needs to have proper re The AAP demanded the 5,070, Mr. Matiala alleged. ation of polygraph test is tection test on them. Cong protests Bhim Army storms Capital against ‘Modi cheated, looted farmers’ sealing of Demands rollback of NSA charges against group’s founder Yogendra Yadav says PM has failed to keep his pre-poll promises to farmers small units Neha Rupeja Staff Reporter New Delhi New Delhi Staff Reporter Members of Dalit rights or The ‘Kisan Mukti Sansad’, New Delhi ganisation Bhim Army pro the gathering of 184 farmer Accusing the Aam Aadmi tested outside Uttar Pradesh organisations from across Party government and the Bhawan at Chanakyapuri the country at the Parlia BJPruled municipalities of here over imposition of ment Street concluded on targeting smallscale in charges under the National Tuesday with the national dustries, the Delhi Con Security Act (NSA) against president of Swaraj India gress on Tuesday pro founder Chandrashekhar party, Yogendra Yadav, tested against the recent Azad after he was granted questioning the BJP govern sealing of industrial units, bail by the Allahabad High ment’s stand on the godowns and shops. Court. agrarian crisis. The protesters, who had Referring to the threat by Residential areas come from all over the coun a Bihar BJP leader of chop The Adarsh Nagar unit of try, including Bihar, Hary Up in arms: Members of Bhim Army protest outside UP ping off the fingers of any the Delhi Congress organ ana, Uttar Pradesh and As Bhawan in New Delhi on Tuesday. * PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN one who points a finger at ised a protest near the old sam, raised slogans of “Jai Prime Minister Narendra bus stand at Tri Nagar Bhim” and “Stand for Dal not come back to our zila of Kawalpreet Kaur. Modi, Mr. Yadav said that where party workers its” outside UP Bhawan. Saharanpur,” said Rohit Raj Social activist Arya ad everyone here is pointing a raised slogans against the Group defence convenor Gautam, the president of the ded, “The fact that hun finger at the PM for his lax sealing exercise. Pardeep Narwal, a JNU stu group’s Rampur Vidhan dreds of policemen have attitude towards the plight Delhi Congress leader dent, said, “Mr. Azad is be Sabha constituency area. been deployed for this of the farmers. Fight continues: The farmers’ protest in the Capital under the banner of ‘Kisan Mukti Sansad’ Chattar Singh said non ing wrongly detained by the protest shows how insecure concluded on Tuesday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR polluting industries that AdityanathModi govern ‘Empty promises’ the government is about the Symbolic protest were allowed to operate ment. We will keep protest “The UP government came protest spreading across the He said that the PM has thousands of farmers raised He does not have time to that Kisan Mukti Abhiyan from residential areas un ing till he is released. It is to power promising sabka vi- country if adequate meas failed to keep the prepoll their fingers in unison as a meet us here. Maybe he is will begin a campaign to en der the Master Plan of not just Saharanpur’s kas [development for all], ures are not taken. This is a promises he made to the symbolic protest against the busy in Gujarat, so we will sure that no crop is being Delhi 2021 were being protest. It is a protest to but it was an empty prom form of State repression that farmers. government policies. “We go there and begin our cam sold below the set minimum closed. strengthen every Dalit who ise. The government is try must be stopped.” “I am pointing my finger are not coming here just paign from there, and if he support price (MSP). He also has been denied his/her ing to destroy the Bhim Khalid Saifi of the #Unite at Mr. Modi, the whole Kisan with demands, but with a has any concern left for the said that the countrywide Curbing pollution rights in the country.” Army since it exposed the dAgainstHate campaign Mukti Sansad is pointing fin solution as well, a well farmers of this country, he campaign will begin on He added that these were “Aggression against Dalits government’s wrongdoings. said: “We will fight till our gers at Modi because he thought, well debated solu should come and meet them November 26 — the day mostly smallscale units has increased since the Yogi Mr. Azad was even denied demands are met and NSA cheated and looted the tion,” he said. there,” he said. when the constitution of that the city government [Adityanath] government medical facilities. What else charges against Mr. Azad are farmers of this country, let Mr. Yadav also said that this country was finalised along with the municipal came to power. Dalit houses should one expect from a rolled back. We fight not just us see how many fingers Mr. Modi does not have time Campaign for MSP and end on January 26 — the corporations were “de are being burnt across the government that is misusing for Dalits, but for the farm they can chop and how to visit the farmers who are On the future course of ac day when the constitution termined to destroy” on country but the government laws made to protect the ers, the women and all other many hands they can cut five minutes away from his tion of All India Kisan San was approved. the pretext of curbing pol is yet to take a stand. This people against citizens?” SCs, STs and OBCs who are off,” said Mr. Yadav. residence and office. garsh Coordination Commit The campaign will begin lution. [the BJP] government will said Delhi University activist being denied their rights.” Responding to his appeal, “Mr. Modi is a busy man. tee (AIKSCC), Mr. Yadav said from Bardoli in Gujarat. CM B ND-NDE YK

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IN BRIEF Wanted man arrested Man shot Shootout in Dwarka, 5 held dead, 3.5 He was on the run since the past year Joint operation by Punjab, Delhi Police to nab accused following a tipo lakh robbed plainant, the accused began Staff Reporter Staff Reporter The police said the flat New Delhi beating them. The victims Staff Reporter NEW DELHI was rented by the man who A 23yearold man with a were admitted to a hospital, New Delhi Five criminals were arrested managed to evade arrest. bounty of 25,000 on his where the woman’s 24year A gas agency employee was Trio held in connection from a residential building “I was walking towards head and his father were ap old son succumbed to injur allegedly shot dead by sus with nine cases near Dwarka Mor metro sta the gate when I saw five po prehended by the Crime ies. Subsequent investiga pected robbers on Monday NEW DELHI tion following an encounter licemen position themselves. Branch on Tuesday, the po tions revealed that Narayan evening, who fled with a Three alleged robbers with the police on Tuesday. This was followed by gun lice said. and his father were ab bag containing 3.5 lakh in involved in over nine cases of The police claimed to have shots. I ran for my lives and Narayan alias Krishna sconding and both were de outer Delhi’s Paschim Vi robbery and snatching were seized huge cache of arms huddled inside a room with and his father Kundu Swami clared proclaimed offenders har, the police said. arrested in northeast Delhi and ammunition from the a few others. We later saw a were on the run for over a by the court. A bounty of and 1.20 lakh was recovered accused. curtain hanging from a win year since the alleged 25,000 was declared on Waylaid by three men from their possession, the Following a tipoff, the dow of the secondfloor flat. murder. The accused had Narayan’s head. Jagannath, who was in his police said. Javed (24), Md. Punjab Police approached We realised that one of the barged into a relative’s “A police team visited the 40s, and his uncle worked Umar (19) and Md. Shahnawaj their Delhi counterparts to accused had managed to give home with a gang and as crime spot, met the com with a gas agency. They (22) were arrested in nab the accused who are the police a slip,” said saulted the family, following plainant and made enquir were on the way to the connection with cases wanted in connection with Mukesh, a security guard which one of the victim suc ies in the locality where the agency owner’s home with registered across Jyoti Nagar, several crimes, including posted at the Delhi Metro cumbed to injuries. accused lived. The team vis the day’s earnings when Welcome, Karawal Nagar, murder, attempt to murder Rail Corporation office loc ited several places in Delhi, their motorcycle was way Sonia Vihar and Harsh Vihar. and carjacking. ated adjacent to the build Across States Haryana and Rajasthan, and laid by three motorcycle The police said the trio were ing. Narayan and his father then conducted raids at different borne men, the police said, nabbed during a drive against Accomplice escapes Lalit, owner of a tea stall fled across Uttar Pradesh, places in an effort to nab the adding that the accused bikeborne assailants in the Deepak, Sumit, Sumit and located adjacent to the build Haryana, Rajasthan and accused,” said Dr. Naik. had covered their faces. district. STAFF REPORTER Kirshan are residents of ing, said, “Police teams ar Punjab before they finally On Tuesday, the team re Mr. Jagannath, who was Haryana, while Tiku lives in rived around 11 a.m. Soon, nabbed on Tuesday, said ceived a tipoff regarding the pillion rider, was hold Duo nabbed with cocaine New Delhi. One of their ac the entire lane was swarm Deputy Commissioner of the whereabouts of the ac ing the bag containing the worth 7.5 crore complice managed to es ing with policemen.” Police (Crime Branch) G. cused. The team rushed to money. The accused tried NEW DELHI cape, the police said, adding However, the family living Ram Gopal Naik. Nala Pusta Road near to snatch the bag from him The Narcotics Control Bureau that no one was injured in in the flat opposite to the “On July 8, 2016, a female Bhalswa landfill and spotted but he resisted, the police has arrested a Venezuelan the encounter. one rented by the accused resident of the JJ colony at the duo. They were over said. One of the accused woman and a Nigerian man, “Both the Punjab Police their neighbours had never Wazirpur reported that she powered and arrested. fired at him and fled with who are allegedly part of an and the accused fired nearly done anything to raise suspi was at home with her son, Narayan allegedly told the bag. He was taken to a international drug racket, and 10 rounds each. Five of the cions. “About four to five of daughter, soninlaw and the police that his father hospital, where he died recovered cocaine worth 7.5 six accused were arrested. them had shifted to the flat others when her relatives, and he ran away after the in during treatment, the po crore, officials said on Eleven illegal arms, one pis nearly two months ago. They Narayan and his father, and cident and hid in different lice said. Tuesday. Brigette D. V. R. tol and over 100 cartridges were always cordial. It was around eight to nine others parts of UP, Haryana, Ra Santoyo (36) from Venezuela have been recovered,” said only after the police arrived barged in around 10 p.m. jasthan and Punjab. and Okoro C. Uka (39) were Deputy Commissioner of Po that we realised something Encounter spot: The accused were arrested from a residential with knives and sticks,” said Efforts are on to trace the apprehended from a hotel in lice (southwest) Shibesh was amiss,” said a building near Dwarka Mor metro station following a shoot Dr. Naik. other accused in this case, HC for Mahipalpur on Monday. PTI Singh. neighbour. out with the police on Tuesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA According to the com the officer added. mapping of Trader Gurugram police told Domestic workers seek State denguehit shot at areas in city intervention for ‘just’ demands Press Trust of India Staff Reporter to le FIR against PVR New Delhi New Delhi The Delhi High Court on A 37yearold businessman These include action against nonpayment of wages, 4day leave Tuesday directed the muni was allegedly shot at by Accused of terminating pact without convincing reason cipal corporations here to unidentified men in Ro ...Employers provide a geographic map hini’s Begumpur after he and in violation of the terms its official statement, denied Staff Reporter <> face various problems on a of the city’s areas usually Staff Reporter GURUGRAM frequently refuse resisted their attempt to GURUGRAM and conditions of the agree the allegations made by regular basis. affected by vectorborne snatch his bag containing A local court here has direc ment. The complainant al complainant company as in Domestic workers from payment to workers “Irregular payment of diseases like dengue. 10,000, the police said. ted the police to register an leged that the accused com correct and baseless. across the city gathered out by stopping access wages by employers, extrac A direction was also is Baldev was returning FIR against M/s PVR Limited, pany had hatched a side the miniSecretariat to the housing tion of more work than sued to the Centre by a home after closing his shop based on a complaint by conspiracy to lure investors ‘Baseless charge’ here on Tuesday, holding a society by levelling agreed upon at the start of Bench of Acting Chief on Sunday when someone Elan Buildcon Limited for so as to increase its share “In 2016, PVR was ap dharna and seeking State in false accusations... employment, and the prac Justice Gita Mittal and called out his name, the entering into an agreement value and worth in the proached by Elan, offering tervention to ensure their Maya John tice of arbitrarily reducing Justice C. Hari Shankar to police added. with the complainant to take global market and never had multiplex space in a project just demands are fulfilled. Gharelu Kamgar Union convener wages are rampant prob place before it a status re a multiplex space on lease any plans to take the multi proposed to be constructed lems that breed overt ex port on whether any steps Resists snatching bid and then allegedly terminat plex on lease. The complain by Elan in Gurugram. The Wage board partite committee/wage ploitation of domestic work have been taken to develop As soon as he turned, two ing it later without a convin ant’s counsel alleged that parties entered into an MoU Holding placards that read, board to regulate salaries ers. Employers frequently the National Capital Region people tried to snatch his cing reason. after PVR sold a 14 % stake based on several representa “We Are Workers, Not and to ensure payment of refuse payment to workers (NCR) as suggested by it in bag containing 10,000, a by overpricing to a USbased tions made by Elan regard Slaves” and “Long Live Do wages to domestic workers by stopping access to the May this year. cell phone and some bank Multiplex space company, it fraudulently ter ing land title and its capabil mestic Workers’ Unity ”, and in accordance with the wage housing society by levelling The directions for map documents, the police According to the counsel for minated the agreement. ity to develop the projects. the domestic workers, rate list issued by the work false accusations. Physical ping of dengueaffected said. the complainant company, In an order dated Novem PVR subsequently dis mostly women, staged a ers’ union. assault by employers is also areas and development of Mr. Baldev did not let go PVR entered into an agree ber 17, Judicial Magistrate covered that Elan had mis demonstration under the ae a common practice. Do the NCR came during the of the bag even after the ac ment with its client on May 6 (First Class) Ravish Kaushik represented facts and was gis of Gharelu Kamgar Union Sexual harassment mestic workers are even hearing some PILs related cused started thrashing last year to take on lease observed that the allegations therefore constrained to ter (GKU). Other demands included en denied weekly rest or leave to unauthorised construc him. One of the accused multiplex space measuring levelled against PVR were minate the MOU on account Some of their major de suring police action in every when sick,” said Ms. John. tions in the city. shot at him, leaving him in 5,000 square feet and Elan very serious and if the ac of nonfulfilment of contrac mands include legal action case of sexual harassment “The memorandum with “Give us a geographic jured, the police added. Buildcon Limited made huge cused company had illegally tual obligations by Elan.This against employers not pay and violence against do 11 demands was submitted to mapping of the areas af The victim managed to investments to deliver the inflated their shares and net is a civil dispute currently ing salaries to domestic mestic workers, and setting City Magistrate Manisha fected by dengue,” the write down the number of project. worth on the basis of agree pending between the parties workers, immediate registra up of restrooms for do Sharma, who met the union court said, adding that the the motorcycle used by the However, the accused ments and had malafidely for breach of contract, in tion of cases by the police mestic workers in all hous and workers at the protest map will help it issue ap accused, the police said, company allegedly termin terminated them, then the cluding misuse of PVR logo. following complaints by do ing complexes. venue. She assured that she propriate directions. adding that efforts were on ated the agreement on same was a criminal offence PVR...intends to file a mestic workers, fourday GKU convener Maya John will convey our demands to The Bench said mapping to nab the accused based September 20 this year which required probe. quashing petition before the compulsory leave every said besides highly exploitat Deputy Commissioner Vinay will help in better monitor on that information. without a convincing reason, When contacted, PVR, in High Court,” it said. month, constitution of a tri ive wages, domestic workers Pratap Singh,” said Ms. John. ing of the affected areas. DELHI TODAY Dengue death: 3member team to Survey on graft in healthcare Talk: Panel discussion on the book “Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister” authored by Sagarika system points towards many ills Ghose. Panelists: Manish Tiwari, probe allegations against hospital former Union Minister and lawyer; Nalini Singh, journalist, MD of TV Live India Pvt.; and Seshadari Chari, Most respondents felt there was a nexus between labs, doctors political analyst. Chair: Wajahat Team visits FMRI; report expected in twothree days Habibullah, former Chairperson, Na Health tional Commission for Minorities, at Bindu Shajan Perappadan Conference Room – I, India Interna Ashok Kumar New Delhi tional Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. GURUGRAM Ministry Talk: Seminar on “The Dragon and In the wake of reports re Close on the heels of Guru the Elephant: Lessons from Chinese garding death of a seven seeks probe grambased Fortis Memorial Reforms for Reforming India’s Agri culture”. Speakers: Prof. Ashok Gu yearold girl during treat Research Institute (FMRI) al lati, Infosys Chair Professor for ment for dengue at Fortis Staff Reporter legedly overcharging the Agriculture, ICRIER, Smriti Verma, Memorial Research Institute New Delhi family of a sevenyearold Consultant, ICRIER. Chair: Ashok K. Kantha, Director, ICS at Conference (FMRI) here and the hospital The Union Health Ministry dengue patient who died re Room, ICWA (Sapru House), authorities raising a bill of has asked the Haryana gov cently at the hospital, a sur Barakhamba Road, 3 p.m. around 18 lakh for her treat ernment to initiate “ur vey conducted about the Talk: “Between prexes and suf ment for over two weeks, the gent” probe into allega common man’s perception xes: Problematising the Moral Code in Indian Aesthetics” a lecture by Haryana government on tions that Fortis Memorial on “corruption” in the Navtej Johar (as part of the Abhyas Tuesday constituted a three Research Institute (FMRI) healthcare system points to Lecture Series) at Seminar Rooms I, member team to look into al Serious charge: Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) in in Gurugram overcharged wards many ills. II & III, Kamaladevi Complex, India International Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. legations by Adya’s parents. Gurugram is accused of overcharging a family for several the family of a deceased To check citizen percep Music: Aarohi – 17. Homage to Gurugram Civil Surgeon items and raising a whopping 18lakh bill. * MANOJ KUMAR sevenyearold dengue tion on the issue, Local Bharat Ratnas of India, Pt. Bhimsen B.K. Rajaura said a team patient. Circles — a community social Bitter pill: To check citizen perception on the issue, Joshi and Pt. Ravi Shanker. Vocal re LocalCircles — a community social media platform — cital by Anand Gandharva Bhate. Vo comprising a Deputy Civil ive, with the post claiming acy behind such an advise Health Secretary Preeti media platform — conducted cal recital by Anirban Das and Dipam Surgeon, a paediatrician and that they were even made to then but now ...we have un Sudan, in a letter to the a survey which received conducted a survey which received over 29,000 responses. Sinha Biswas. Sitar recital by Gaurav epidemiologist was consti pay for the last clothes the derstood that if they...re State Health Department over 29,000 responses. * FILE PHOTO Mazumdar. Accompanying artistes: Bharat Kamat (tabla), Dr. Vinay tuted to look into the matter. girl wore. Union Health Min moved her from ventilator it Principal Secretary, asked Misra (harmonium), Ashoke Mukher “The team visited the hos ister Jagat Prakash Nadda has would have been compuls for an action taken report High-profit business On whether the doctors refers to the hospital labs. jee (tabla), Zakir Dholpuri (har pital on Tuesday to make en sought details into the case ory for them to report the within two weeks. “l re According to the survey, one had suggested using a partic While 3% did not have an monium), Murad Ali (sarangi), Akram Khan (tabla), The Stein Audit quiries. The report is expec for necessary action. death due to dengue on the quest you to urgently initi of the important issues ular lab for the tests, 47% opinion, 10% disagreed with orium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 ted in twothree days,” said According to the post, hospital premises,” said the ate an enquiry into the in raised is the heavy depend said most doctors had asked the suggestion. p.m. Dr. Rajaura, adding that the Adya was first admitted to a post. A friend of the family, cident,” she wrote. ence of the medical system them to do so, while 27% Music: Hindustani vocal recital by team was constituted follow hospital in Dwarka but “they through a series of tweets, The Ministry has asked in the country on pathology said only some had made Level of trust Purna Chandra Chakravarty from Dhanbad, Bihar at C.D. Deshmukh ing the orders from the took the case very lightly like claimed the hospital charged for details of the treatment labs. Being a highprofit the suggestion. None of the To a question on how many Auditorium, India International Health Department officials normal dengue patient is the family for 660 syringes, and the charges levied by business, thousands of doctors had suggested going times had their pathology Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. over telephone. treated and after two days of an average of 40 syringes a the hospital. Ms. Sudan’s pathology labs have mush to a particular lab, according reports been wrong over the Exhibition: “Jatin Das: Artists & her admission to the hos day, and sugar strips, avail letter noted that in case roomed across the country. to 17% of the respondents, past three years, 26% Friends. Over Fifty Years”. A stagger ing 500 portraits exhibition by emin ‘Insensitive’ pital, they suggested that she able at 13 per strip, were “any overcharging, negli “Many people feel that while 9% were unsure. claimed it had happened ent artist Jatin Das at Lalit Kala Earlier in the day, Haryana be shifted her to FMRI”. billed at 200 per strip. gence or malfeasance is these pathology labs have a nearly three times, 6% said Akademi, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Health Minister Anil Vij said Adya was taken to FMRI made out on the part of the tieup with doctors and give Incentives to doctors it had happened over three Exhibition: “Sediment Hues” solo no hospital in the State will but “after a whopping 15 Detailed response hospital, exemplary action them a commission for each Asked if the labs should lose times, 43% said it had never art show by Satish Sharma at Shrid harani Art Gallery, Triveni Kala be allowed to play with the days of helllike situ The FMRI, in a detailed re needs to be taken immedi patient referred,” noted the licenses if found giving in happened, while 25% said Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi health and sentiments of the ation...the doctors hinted sponse to the allegations, ately to reassure the gen survey. centives to doctors for pre they were unsure. House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. people. The matter came to with an MRI analysis that her said all standard medical eral public and to lend cre To a question on how scribing tests, 91% replied in On how much they trus Exhibition: “II Matti II” solo show light after Adya’s father, in a brain was ...damaged and... protocol was followed during dence to the healthcare many times the respondents the affirmative, 5% did not ted the pathology lab they of pottery ceramics by Ratan Kumar at Triveni Gallery, Triveni Kala Facebook post, accused the recovery was not possible,” the treatment and all clinical system.” felt their doctor had ordered agree, while 4% were used, 34% of respondents Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi hospital authorities of over said the post. guidelines were adhered to. The hospital issued a de more tests than were actu unsure. said they stayed vigilant as House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. charging them for several “Secretly, we were advised “An itemised bill spread over tailed clarification stating ally required, 36% said it Of the total, 86% were in the level of trust was low, Culture: Lord Ayyappa Pooja Celeb items and raising a bill of to let her rest in peace and 20 pages was explained and that the “total bill for the happened one to three favour of putting in place a 37% said they had high ration 2017. Sangeetha Katcheri by Madhavi Sitaraman and Vaishnavi whopping 18 lakh, including take her home...we were told handed over to the family at 15day duration of hospital times, 23% said it had mechanism where earnings levels of trust but still stayed Sitaraman, at Sree Dharma Sastha for 2,700 gloves, for her they would not remove the the time of their departure isation was 15,79,322. Of happened over three times, and incentives for doctors vigilant, 20% said they fully Sewa Samajam, Sector – 7, Rohini, 7 treatment. ventilator inside the hospital from the hospital,” said the this, 5,21,433 was paid by 25% said it had never associated with a hospital re trust the labs, while 9% said p.m. (Mail your listings for this column at The family also accused premises...We were not able press statement from the the insurance and the bal happened, while 16% did main completely unrelated they had very low levels of [email protected]) the hospital of being insensit to understand the conspir hospital authorities. ance by the family. not know. to the value of tests he/she trust in the lab. CM B ND-NDE YK

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Sabbaticals: The good, the bad and the ugly Progressive companies win the hearts of their top performers by letting them go, temporarily

Aditya Narayan Mishra of trained hands with the period and hence, the re- for medical treatment, take up such as health insurance and competition, but the commit- placement has to happen social work, pursue a passion, accident cover have to con- cross the world, organ- ment that a performer brings quickly. This further adds to write a book, attend to per- tinue. Another challenge with isations are increasingly to work each day is irreplace- the pressure of finding a re- sonal emergencies in family a long sabbatical, say six Aoffering the gift of flex- able. So, for companies to placement. Secondly, such re- and so on without worrying months, is to accommodate ibility to their employees. have a sustainable future, they placements are risky because about a place and job to re- the employee in a role which A study by the Society of must retain not only the top of the high stakes involved sume after the break. is commensurate with his or Human Resource Manage- performers but also all the with an external stakeholder her capabilities and commen- ment shows that 17% of the or- people who meet expecta- such as a key client, a govern- A huge pitfall surate with the pay. Small organisations in the United tions consistently. When one ment body or a strategic part- Sometimes, sabbaticals are ganisations do not have the el- States allow sabbaticals. We of the good employees wants a ner. misused by people. One could bow room required for a see this as a rising trend in In- long leave either to explore a moonlight during that period successful sabbatical pro- dia, particularly in the last 5 new world of opportunity or Space to reflect of time with another organisa- gramme. years. Most of these are “leave deal with something personal, For employees, it is a great be- tion in a similar area of work Many United States and without pay” and offered to sabbaticals come in handy. By nefit. They do not have to and hence, act against the United Kingdom employees having a strong granting a long vacation, an scratch their heads after they spirit of taking a sabbatical. headquartered multinational performance track record. organisation can win a star complete their switch-off Companies try to mitigate the companies operating in India This is how it works. performer’s heart and ensure period. They have the same risk by drawing up the terms offer such programmes. Many Organisations invest signi- he/she is in for the long haul. job and a workplace that re- of the sabbatical such as eli- large Indian companies and ficant amount of resources in cognises them. The risk of not gibility in terms of duration of mid-sized progressive com- training and development of Filling the void finding a new job is non-exist- employment, level in the or- panies in India, particularly in their employees. The returns Sabbaticals do create unpre- ent and hence, the person can ganisation and performance the services sector, such as IT, on the investments are real- dictability and inject instabil- easily take the bold step of track record; they also define consulting and healthcare ised over a long period of ity into the organisation. Typ- moving away from the din and the period of sabbatical con- have been offering sabbatic- time. As the employee keeps ically, the boss has to find bustle of day-to-day work. sidering these factors. als. This helps the employer performing, there is an in- someone to fill in the role va- Sabbaticals give them the brand stand tall in the crowd creasing acclimatisation and cated by the person going on a space to reflect, the opportun- Hidden costs and attract bright talent. cultural alignment with the sabbatical. Often, the person ity to shape their dreams and There are hidden costs associ- (Aditya Narayan Mishra is beliefs of the organisation. proceeding on a sabbatical craft the path ahead. People ated with a sabbatical. For ex- Chief Executive Officer at CIEL One may be able to spot a pair does not offer a long notice proceed for higher studies, go ample, employee benefits HR Services.) GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK

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IN BRIEF Gone with the wind

Unravelling some bitter truths of our times, Nila Madhab Panda’s Kadvi Hawa links farmer suicides to climate change

Honouring chefs Anuj Kumar It is not that the government Celebrity Chef Sanjeev doesn’t recognise this genre. In Kapoor was the centre of While Hollywood has been churn- fact, in the National Awards, there attraction when he turned up ing out disaster movies for dec- is a separate category of awards for Merit Awards and Market ades, Hindi film industry seems to for films on environment conser- Research’s Food and be breathing a different air. It is vation/ preservation but somehow Hospitality Awards 2017 at not that we were not hit by no Hindi film has made the cut in Holiday Inn in Delhi recently. tsunami or cataclysmic cyclones this category. Of course, there Felicitating representatives on our eastern coast, but some- have been many world class docu- from the food and hospitality how our filmmakers believe that mentaries but perhaps, the creat- sector, Sanjeev Kapoor said: all is well with the environment. ive writers and filmmakers of “We can do any work in any There have been a few instances in Mumbai film industry don’t see field but we should praise it. the past where a sensitive director environment as a mass issue or We must find goodness has brought in environmental is- they don’t have the requisite skill within any work. Food and sues within the realm of a Hindi to weave an ‘entertaining’ story hospitality is a very difficult entertainer. Many summers back, around the issue. area in which we meet the Manoj Kumar’s Shor raised the is- This week Nila Madhab Panda is needs of the guests and sue of noise pollution. In Aruna-Vi- trying to break the mould by provide those experiences to kas’ Gehrayee, the supernatural presenting a film which links them.” thriller acquired its depth and farmer suicide to climate change. “Wah Ji Wah” won in the timeless appeal from its subtle Kadvi Hawa has the rare distinc- fastest growing restaurant hints on how our greed/ ignorance tion of being screened in the In- chain in India category, while is destroying our natural environ- dian Panorama of the ongoing In- Rajinder Da Dhaba emerged a ment. Ashivn Kumar also touched ternational Film Festival of India winner in Most Promising upon this thought in The Forest. in Goa and at a theatre in the same North-Indian Food in Delhi Last year, while most watched week. “More than farmer suicide, category. Chef Ram Avtar was Pink as a feminist narrative, one we are trying to tell the story of awarded as Delhi's Best also saw in Aniruddha Roy Chow- wind,” says Panda, who shot to Executive Chef. dhury film a dark reflection of the fame with I Am Kalam. “Wind is air we are breathing. The defence central to the ecosystem and lawyer played by Amitabh farmer is the most important hu- New book Bachchan wears a rather intimid- man figure that is impacted by it.” In search of moisture: Sanjay Mishra in Kadvi Hawa; Nila Madhab Panda * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT, V.V. KRISHNAN Laxmana Dalmia announced ating mask giving us a sense of so- It is the farmer, he says, who suf- the launch of her oncoming cial and environmental dystopia fers the most from climate change. irony is that the farmer is least re- failure. The son has taken loan bet. However, the limitations unfiltered water is sold in small book “One Soul Many Lives” that is setting in. The writer “A farmer takes loan because of sponsible for climate change be- and the recovery agent of the bank could be overcome if you have the polythene bags tied with a rubber at a function in Delhi recently. doesn’t spell out the pollution is- crop failure. So if the number of cause his carbon footprint is hails from coastal Odisha. His fam- right ‘thought’.” band,” he recalls his tough days of Addressing artists about her sue but the visuals make us relate farmer suicides are increasing, minuscule. When he should be ily is staring at destruction be- Panda explains had he made a reconnaissance. book, Laxmana Dalmia said: to the mornings in Delhi in early natural disaster is one of the im- central to any policy on climate cause of cyclone. “Climate change film on farmer suicide or cyclones He has used dark humour to “This is compilation of 50 winter. portant factors. And the biggest change, his voice is not being is the connecting link, the com- in Odisha it would have lacked make his point. “My experience poems. Each individually heard.” mon villain of their stories,” says novelty as they have been por- tells me that even in the most diffi- interpreted by a unique work Panda, who hails from Odisha. “I trayed before. “By linking the two, cult of situations we find ways to of art by some of India’s Time to act could see the bigger picture be- I have raised the context to the entertain ourselves. In the film, a leading artists. This coffee For those who still deny that cli- cause I am the son of an Odia global level. Now from Chambal to child tells the teacher that there table book as been a labour of mate change is a big issue, Panda farmer and live in Delhi now.” California anyone can identify are only two seasons as it doesn’t love and the poems are an poses a few questions. “Were the Panda feels it is the writing part with it. The Americans, who have rain anymore.” Similarly, the blind expression of the journey of schools closing down because of that keeps the filmmakers away faced a number of hurricanes in old man, portrayed by the talen- my life.” pollution five year back? Has the from mounting such subjects. “Of the last few years will identify with ted Sanjay Mishra, is a metaphor She has collaborated with intensity of cyclones not increased course, there are commercial reas- the plight of people of Odisha.” for our inability to see the writing Artspeaks India and curator in coastal Odisha? Has the increase ons as well. One has to understand The film is shot in Chambal re- on the wall. “When a poor, old, Georgina Maddox and in sea level not threatening to sub- that every film is commercial and gion, near Dholpur because Panda blind man, who has little value in commissioned artworks that merge the coastal areas of Mum- every one aspires that his film re- wanted his audience to feel thirsty his surroundings could ‘see’ it, visually speak of her poetry. bai? My only submission is that covers its cost. In films like Kadvi after watching the visuals. “There why are we acting blind,” asks Each artwork has been time is running out. We should act Hawa, at least two years are spent Panda. specially curated to reflect now or it will be too late.” on research and raising funds and By linking the two, I have The Padma Shri awardee says nuances of Laxmana Dalmia’s Set in the drought prone even then when the film is ready, <> the government is showing in- poems. Those present at the Bundelkhand region, the film tells you are not sure whether it will raised the context to the terest in the film. “We are working event were G. R. Iranna, Veer the story through an old blind find audience. In such a scenario, global level. Now from with the government because on Munshi, Georgina Maddox man who fears that his son might most fimmakers feel that repeat- Chambal to California big policy matters you cannot do and Vidya Shah. commit suicide because of crop ing a police-bandit chase is a safe anyone can identify with it. much without its support.”

criticise and even scorn at his SHORT TAKE A well-timed thriller rustic ways and tastes. He embodies many men out there who have little respect for women and are fuelled by Upendra Namburi’s 8 Hours is a page-turner which follows a power, money and ego. A gusty woman who single-handedly takes on the corporate- ruthless and selfish oligarch in the truest sense, he is def- politician nexus initely not based on any one particular person as as there S. RAVI glomerate with several busi- dealing and corruption are so many out there,” he ness interests which is which takes place at varied quips. Continuing his fascination threatened by a bank of call- levels of the society. Fascin- Staying clear of business for numbers, Upendra Nam- ing in their loans provided to ating indeed it is to read the jargon, the plot takes the buri has come with another the company, thereby mak- constant see-saw battle for reader through comfortably high adrenaline book, 8 ing it liable to go bankrupt or power and financial backing across the domains of bank- Fox Star Studios backs Hours (Westland). The Chief be taken over by a rival between different players ing, finance and company af- Gopichand biopic Innovation and Marketing family. trying to assume control of fairs without becoming tedi- After backing films such as Officer with a leading insur- This backdrop is not unfa- the business. Describing ous and cumbersome. Neerja, Jolly LLB (Part 1 & ance company, for whom miliar to the readers and these aspects to be universal “Contrary to the corporate 2) and M S Dhoni: The writing is a passion, says, thus connects immediately and not just specific to In- setting and backdrop of the Untold Story, Fox Star “Like my previous two books with them. Agreeing, Upen- dian corporates, the writer story, the book is meant for Studios in collaboration ‘31’ and ‘60 Minutes’, in this dra reveals, “It is inspired by states, “corruption, red tape everyone across age and with Abundantia one too I examine the ampli- a host of family-run compan- and political favouritism are gender boundaries. It is es- Entertainment will present fication and effect of time on ies in India which have flour- common ingredients and sentially about a woman the biopic of Pullela our emotions and actions.” ished and perished with the obstacles in business. So is seeking respect for her own Gopichand. The biopic will So much so that each seg- shifting sands of political lar- the deep rooted nexus accomplishments and not be a bilingual in Hindi and ment of the book is marked gesse. The entire setting is between the political and willing to operate on the Telugu and will trace the with a specific time giving reflective of present day cor- corporate worlds which is by Putting in context: Upendra Namburi * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT crutches of her family name journey of Pullela the reader the headiness of porate India portraying the no means recent. In fact the or her femininity. Besides it Gopichand, on and off the the rush. “One can feel the role and influence of last few years have wit- lar has been the malice for successfully managed large ligation to her employees and gives an insight into what mo- court and the shooting is clock ticking with every dia- bankers, investment funds nessed several corporate fail- several decades now. It companies in contemporary close aides thereby underling tivates people in their quest likely to commence in mid logue, thought and emotion and politicians.” ures and even scams.” Hav- could be attributed to sev- India. “She drives home the the strong undercurrent of for power and the choices 2018. rushing through the charac- Characters like Aratrika, ing said that, Upendra is eral reasons and intents, but fire and power of the human morality and ethics, she is they make and the personal- Talking about the biopic, ters. After all, time doesn’t Siddhartha, Rajyavardhan quick to add that there are quite clearly the most im- spirit as she takes on the constantly battling with. ities they become.” Gopichand says in a stop for anyone.” among others bring to fore numerous individuals and pacted are the shareholders father she dreads, a schem- Writing whenever he gets statement, “Badminton is Set in a period of eight the deep link between organisations who stand and the lenders,” he ing uncle, a conniving es- Stockholm syndrome time when travelling in cabs at an inflection point in our hours, this fast paced con- lenders, politicians and the high on their ethical beliefs comments. tranged husband and an ex- Running through the book, or waiting at airport lounges, country and nothing temporary thriller with sev- bureaucracy, the wheeling- and commitment. “We need Upendra’s outlining and lover who haunts her. A one gets a feeling that Arat- Upendra is keen to explore delights me more than to eral layers and intriguing sub so many more of them.” sketching of his characters is strong woman who has en- rika has a mild Stockholm non-fiction genre too. He is see the rapidly growing plots and gut wrenching ac- <> Contrary to the Taking a leaf from the past excellent giving one a feel of countered challenges, mental syndrome. Concurring Upen- currently working on two dif- interest for the sport, tion is an intense saga about corporate setting and as well as recent events like their attributes, emotions and emotional abuse, deceit dra says, “She begins to em- ferent storylines. “While one especially with the youth. I inter-familial conflicts backdrop of the story, that of Satyam and King- and turmoil. A case in point and treachery all of which pathise and even like her is a thriller addressing per- would be proud if by between two dynastic famil- the book is meant for fisher, the story delves at is that of Aratrika. He ac- have fired her ambition, she captor, in this case her father, sonal conflicts and friend- sharing my story as a film, ies. At its centre is Aratrika everyone across age length on siphoning of cor- cepts that she has evolved embraces opportunities with Madhusudhan, the ar- ships, the other is a contem- we can encourage more Reddy, a Chief Executive Of- and gender boundaries porate funds by business- from a host of accomplished zeal and fire.” What is touch- chetypal rags to riches man porary romance,” is what he and more people to pursue ficer of a family run con- men. “This aspect in particu- women who have led and ing indeed is her sense of ob- whom modern society many is willing to reveal. their dreams.”

5 EVENTS WORTH-YOUR-WHILE

PERFORMANCE TAJ MAHAL TALK MUSIC EK BAR Bonjour India Rock Tour Japanese Wine Making Navtej Johar Begum and Jordan Johnson Tribal Gourmet The French Institute in India will present Bonjour Wasabi by Morimoto, the contemporary India International Centre will be holding a talk Pagal Haina will present the Songbird Sessions, Legendary but seldom experienced, the India Rock Tour by Colt Silvers and Last Train. Japanese restaurant at the Taj Mahal Hotel “Between prefixes and suffixes: Problematising an intimate gig series in association with Oddbird Northeast's food story is rich and diverse. Ek Bar, The two French rock bands, will share the stage brings eight masters of Sake, Japan’s traditional the Moral Code in Indian” by Navtej Johar as part Theatre. With the endeavour to focus on artists together with Tanisha Phanbuh and her husband with Indian rock band Superfuzz. The Colt Silvers drink. Led by Rie Yoshitake from the Sake of the Abhyas Lecture Series. The talk will and performance this edition features the mixologist Nitin Tewari, presents a glimpse of hail from the Strasbourg and comprise of vocalist Samurai Association UK, guests will be challenge the predominantly linear and moral experimental band Begum, whose distinct sound this unique culinary culture. The menu includes Tristan, bass player Nicolas, guitarist Florian and introduced to sakes like Junmai Ginjo and convention of the bhava-rasa theory by locating embodies the sincerity of their music. Singer- alu muri, Manipuri paknam, tungrymbai on toast, drummer Julien while Last Train is a rock band. Urakasumi’s Ume-shu among others. in it the possibilities of abstraction. songwriter Jordan Johnson will be there too. baby potatoes, momos among others. Venue: Raasta, Aurobindo Marg, New Delhi Venue: No. 1, Mansingh Road, New Delhi Venue: Kamaladevi Complex, Lodhi Estate Venue: Dhan Mill Compound, Chattarpur Venue: D-17, Defence Colony, New Delhi Time: 9 p.m. Time: 7 p.m. onwards Time: 6.30 p.m. onwards Time: 7.30 p.m. onwards Time: 5 p.m. to 12.30 a.m.

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Band of Large and durable: The Suzuki brothers Intruder

The Suzuki Intruder oers striking design and involving dynamics, thanks to the Gixxersourced underpinnings

Rishaad Mody

Suzuki recently announced that it was moving its focus away from the DSK Benelli to unveil Leoncino in Feb volume segment and training its sights on premium machines in DSK Benelli will launch the Leoncino, its neoretro naked stead. Now, just a month after that motorcycle, in India by February 2018. The bike is currently announcement, we’ve got our undergoing endurance testing for ARAI certification. It is powered hands on the first of these premium by a 499.6cc, liquidcooled and fuelinjected, paralleltwin that new motorcycles. This is the new produces 49.6hp at 8,500rpm and 45Nm at 5,000rpm. This Intruder, and it looks like nothing engine is paired to a 6speed transmission and features a wet you’ve ever seen at this price point. clutch. The engine is housed within a tubular steeltrellis frame and the bike sits on 17inch wheels at either end. Pirelli Angel ST The way it looks tyres will be standard (120/70 R17 upfront, 160/60 R17 at the Based on its big brothers — the In The same 100section front and run — a couple of the test bikes had SPECIFICATIONS swingarm length and a new pivot rear). The fork is a 50mm USD unit, while the rear gets a truder M1800 and M800 — this mo 140section rear from the Gixxer is a minor buzz coming through the angle, which is a result of an offset monoshock with 112mm of wheel travel. ABS is standard and it torcycle is billed as a modern, the maximum size that Suzuki panels. ENGINE Petrol rear shock positioned to stay clear gets a 320 mm twindisc setup with 4piston calipers at the front, sporty cruiser, and it lives up to the could use for this level of power, FUEL TYPE Petrol of the bigger airbox. The tyres and with a 260mm disc (with a singlepiston caliper) at the rear. It is sporty bit by sharing a majority of before sacrificing on both the per Breath control brakes are also shared with the expected to be priced at 5.5 lakh (exshowroom, Delhi). its mechanicals with the Gixxer na formance and efficiency. The result The Intruder borrows the Gixxer’s CUBIC CAPACITY (CC) 154.9cc Gixxer, which means good dynam ked. The Intruder offers a similar is the typical upperbodyobsessed sweet 154.9cc aircooled mill, and MAX POWER (HP @ RPM) ics runs in the Intruder’s genes. At long and flowing design to the bad muscleman look. While the front will only be available with a carbur 14.8hp at 8000rpm low speeds, the bike feels surpris boy M1800, with a head turner of a looks eyecatching and aggressive, ettor for now. The motor is largely ingly light and agile for something headlamp and a long fuel tank the rear is really quite dispropor the same and continues to produce MAX TORQUE (NM @ RPM) that looks so big, and this should which looks substantial, but actu tionate from behind the rider seat. 14.8hp and 14Nm of torque. How 14Nm at 6000rpm make it friendly to handle in traffic. ally holds a litre less than the ever, it does benefit from a revised But the Intruder really impresses ...... TRANSMISSION Petrol Gixxer. Above this lies the informat ...... intake with a bigger airbox, a differ on a winding road with a nicely ive digital instrument display bor The Intruder is designed ently tuned exhaust, as well as an NO OF GEARS 5 stable feel, a willingness to change rowed from the Gixxer, which sits after some huge bikes additional tooth on the rear direction without much effort and within an angular cowl. sprocket. All this is for the benefit DIMENSIONS & CHASSIS generous levels of cornering clear and is remarkably large The front of the fuel tank fea of a stronger midrange punch and WEIGHT (KG) 148kg ance. Braking performance is safe tures enormous extensions that in the esh the Intruder delivers well here. and confident, and we’re thrilled to swoop down to encompass a big The top end feels weaker than LENGTH (MM) 2130mm see that ABS (singlechannel) is a imitation air duct and a large In The funky dualport exhaust the Gixxer between 9,000 and WIDTH (MM) 805mm standard offering. Ride comfort is truder logo. The rear of the fuel does well to boost the Intruder’s 10,000rpm, but that’s probably good and rough surfaces are ab tank tapers down towards a wide presence, but it sticks out too much down to the extra weight — 13kg HEIGHT (MM) 1095mm sorbed well. In most scenarios, the and accommodating rider seat, to the side, and that nice silver fin over the naked Gixxer for a total of Intruder does a great job of proving which is split away from the flat pil ish is going to be prone to getting 148kg. City performance should be WHEEL BASE (MM) 1405mm to be comfortable, yet engaging to lion perch. At the tail, wide and scuffed in traffic or the parking lot. effortless, but the bike does start to GROUND CLEARANCE ride. chunky plastic panels extend a fair Quality levels are decent, but a few run out of breath upwards of (MM) 170mm bit over the rear wheel, while the plastics could use better finishing, 90kph, and we suspect top speed Payout rounded grab handle and sleek LED and the battering effect of our will hover somewhere around FUEL TANK CAPACITY Suzuki has priced the Intruder on lamp add flavour of the bigger In roads on that extensive bodywork 115kph. The engine, otherwise, of (LTS)AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA11 litres par with the rangetopping Gixxer truder, even the Hayabusa. should be considered in the long fers all the Gixxer traits we love, SF SP. At a price point of just under with smooth and eager responses 1 lakh, the Intruder is roughly How it comes together and a refined gearbox. 16,000 more than the Bajaj Well, the Intruder is designed after Avenger Street 150 and about some huge motorcycles, and it too FILMY BITES Ride style 8,000 more than the Bajaj is remarkably large in the flesh. You The Intruder offers a relaxed, feet Avenger Street. Suzuki maintains In the hit Bollywood ﬁlm Kick, Kawasaki Versys out soon could very well mistake it for a front riding position that is accom that they’re aiming at opening a Salman Khan rides the Suzuki 400cc bike, or bigger, and therein modating for tall riders, while the new category — the focus on Kawasaki is launching the Versys 650 in India at 6.50 lakh (ex Intruder. One of the bikes in comes the undoing of the design. low 740mm seat height means it premium positioning is clear here. showroom, Mumbai). The Versys 650 received some value the movie has been The front section, up to the rider will be friendly to riders of all sizes. There’s no doubt that the Intruder additions such as a gearposition indicator and a windscreen that designed to look like a seat, is quite striking and does a It uses a modified version of the is a wellengineered and engaging can be raised or lowered by two inches (in a toolfree operation). compact chariot, good job of hiding away most of the Gixxer’s frame with a brand new motorcycle to ride, but as for how it It continues to be powered by a 649cc, liquidcooled, parallel which has a regular small engine, but there’s not much subframe. The bike sees a substan looks, well, that’s a deeply personal twin motor which produces 68hp at 8,500 rpm and 64Nm of seat in front. Suzuki could do about the relatively tial 75mm increase in wheelbase, decision. Love it or loathe it, you’re torque at 7,000 rpm. The Versys 650 is Kawasaki’s midsize skinny tyres. thanks to a 20mm increase in definitely going to notice it. sports tourer motorcycle.

sticking to the bike you’re used to driving every day, when it comes to races like these,” she says. An ardent traveller, Sudar learnt to ride at the age of eight, on her father’s bike back home. Since then, she has driven to Ooty and Bengaluru, from Delhi to Leh, and explored much of the Karnataka countryside on her trusted Thunderbird 350. A rider family from Bengaluru rode in just for the event. For 33yearold IT pro fessional Bollamma Ma chaiah, her husband Pavan Biddappa, 37, and their 4 yearold daughter Pearl Muthamma, days and nights are spent thinking of two wheelers. In fact, Pearl is be ing taught to ride a 50cc kid’s bike. The highlight of the week end was the unveiling of Royal Enfield’s twin 650cc bikes, the Interceptor INT 650 and the Continental GT 650, for the first time in In dia. Having seen a worldwide Back with a thump unveiling at the EICMA Mo tor Show in Milan earlier this month, the bikes were Gritty dirt tracks and sleek new models were the shown off to the Royal En field Community by CEO highlights of Rider Mania this year Siddhartha Lal and President Meghna Majumdar Rudratej Singh, amid the kind of cheers and applause When 6,500 bikers thunder usually reserved for rock and rumble into Goa over a stars of the generation. weekend, to celebrate a Smilingly brushing off the Racing and much more: At Rider Mania * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT brand that has long been a crowd’s appeals to give the community and cult unto it Looking back Race. The first was a test of a precision. They started with bikes a spin, Lal hinted at pri self, you know you’re at team’s technical knowhow, the front wheel and then cing instead, saying, “Not Dirt-track racing is auto Royal Enfield Rider Mania, requiring squad members to moved to the battery. “By the just prices, but maintenance racing performed on clay- or where the beer flowed as take a bike apart, reassemble time we had taken these out, costs, insurance costs... all dirt-surfaced oval tracks. It freely as the laughter, the it and drive to a finish point everyone was still stuck at that is important to us. It began in the United States dust and the tales of travel to win. The latter ones were their first wheel,” said Amol should be one step up from before World War I and and adventure. Stretched tests of balance and skill, and Nikam. the price of our current 350s, became quite widespread over three days, at Vagator, of course, triggers for a rush and should still be during the 1920s from November 17 to 19, of adrenaline. Trailblazers accessible.” and the 1930s. Rider Mania saw the coming isedbikes display, along with turns, an undulating surface haps, culminating in the race The Bike Assembly event Ilakiya Sudar, a 35yearold “Progressive pricing and together of Royal Enfield rows of food stalls for susten and meticulously curated of champions on the 19th, was won by the Punebased interior designer from Vel accessibility is what we will owners and enthusiasts from ance, and a veritable sea of patches of mud, dust and when the winners of all cat Pune Warriors. A group of lore district, Tamil Nadu, focus on,” agreed Singh, stat the far reaches of the coun likeminded enthusiasts to hay, the track was so challen egories raced each other for four friends, two mechanics won the women’s slow race ing that 2.5 million people try: expert bikers and bond with. ging that the early races on the top spot. and two college graduates, on her Thunderbird 350. are on Royal Enfields in India novices; college gangs, bike the first day saw just one But there’s more to biking the Warriors displayed im “The model and weight of alone, and that their access clubs and even families. Dirt busters biker complete five rounds than just speed and over maculate craftsmanship as the bike is secondary. What ibility is important. There was a dirt track, an The dirt track saw most of without toppling over! The coming obstacles: other skill challenges like Assembly they took apart and put back matters is how comfortable The writer was in Goa at obstacle course, a custom the action. With eight sharp latter days saw fewer mis sets were put to the rack by Wars, Maze Chase and Slow an Electra 350 with surgical you are with it, so I’d suggest the invitation of Royal Enfield

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Padmavati Will Not Be Re­ the Jury for Presentation Chakkarakal, Have Formed Farmworkers

Padmavati Will Not Be Re the Jury for Presentation Chakkarakal, Have Formed Farmworkers