3 Ultras Die in J&K Encounter, Stray Bullet Kills 11-Year-Old

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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai NEARBY 3 ultras die in J&K encounter, NIA hunts for 5 men from stray bullet kills 11-year-old T.N. who received IS funds They are alleged to have helped people leave for Syria, Iraq

Absconding Prajapati Search party engaged in anti-militancy operation was ired upon in Kupwara Vijaita Singh case. Their names had sur- nabbed in Lucknow New Delhi faced during the interroga- LUCKNOW Peerzada Ashiq stable so far,” he said. The National Investigation tion of Adnan Hassan Absconding for almost a Srinagar The Kashmir Valley has Agency (NIA) is looking for Damoodi, 36, a resident of month, controversial Three Lashkar-e-Taiba milit- witnessed more than 30 en- six men who have gone off Bhatkal in Karnataka and a Samajwadi Party leader and ants and a civilian were counters this year. the radar after their names former Indian Mujahideen former minister Gayatri killed during an encounter As protests near the en- surfaced for receiving and operative, who was depor- Prasad Prajapati was on in north Kashmir’s Kupwara counter sites grow more fre- sending funds on behalf of ted from the UAE last year Wednesday nabbed by the on Wednesday. quent, five civilians have lost the Islamic State (IS) to es- for propagating the ideology Uttar Pradesh police. Mr. A police official said milit- their lives so far, fuelling tablish its presence here. of the IS on social media Prajapati and six others are ants fired upon a search more anger. Thirty-one An official said the ac- platforms. accused of gang-raping a party during an anti-milit- people, including nine se- cused had helped a dozen “It was during Damoodi’s woman and attempting to ancy operation launched in curity personnel and 22 mil- people leave for Syria and interrogation that these rape her minor daughter. He Jugtiyal, Hyhama, Kupwara, itants, lost their lives since Iraq by mobilising funds for names surfaced, but as soon was sent to 14 days judicial over 90 km north of Srin- January this year. them. as we registered a case in custody after being produced agar. The Hindu has accessed January this year, the nine before a POSCO court. “Security forces returned ‘Example of state terror’ the details of eight suspects men went off the radar. We NATION Ī PAGE 6 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD fire, leading to the en- Condemning the killing of from Tamil Nadu who have had been keeping a watch counter. Three LeT militants Fiery end: Flames rise from a house, where militants were thegirlinKupwara,Hurriyat been named in an FIR filed on them for the past one PTI Cop probing Ramjas were killed. Their identity is hiding, after an encounter in Kupwara on Wednesday. faction chairman Mirwaiz by the NIA. They are Haja (Karur) and Mohammed year,” said a senior intelli- being ascertained,” said the Umar Farooq said: “The in- Fakkrudeen (Cuddalore), Thabraze (Chennai). gence official. clash transferred NEW DELHI official. weapons were also re- more than 100 metres away cident is yet another worst Khaja Moideen (Cuddalore), The ninth suspect Nou- Nouman Jaleel, a civil en- The Delhi Police oicer covered from the slain milit- from the encounter site, ac- example of state terrorism. It Shakul Hameed (Chennai), man Jaleel is from Telan- gineer from Hyderabad, was probing the alleged “high- Weapons recovered ants. An 11-year-old girl, cording to the official. indicates how the govern- Ansar Meeran (Chennai), gana. picked up by agencies last handedness” of police The operation was jointly Kaneeza, and a boy, Faisal, “Later, the girl suc- ment forces enjoy impunity Masood Asarudeen Fakkrudeen, Thahir and year and was released after personnel during the recent carried out by the Army’s 41 were injured “as stray bullets cumbed to her injuries. The to kill Kashmiris under the (Tirunelveli), Sadiq Basha Hameed are said to be in being counselled. clashes outside Ramjas Rashtriya Rifles and the hit them.” boy has been referred to garb of combating (Nagapattinam), Mo- Syria, but they have also College has been transferred. CRPF’s 98 Battalion. Three The minors were injured Srinagar and his condition is insurgents.” hammad Sayed Abu Thahir been named in the present CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Additional DCP-I (North) Esha Pandey has been transferred to the special police unit for women and Suspense over U.P., Uttarakhand CMs Uzbek woman gangraped in south Delhi children as its DCP. DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Staff Reporter Anubhav and his friends for not taking their calls. I anyone. Nistula Hebbar take place, with senior lead- president Amit Shah alone. New Delhi New Delhi went to the woman’s house fell semi-unconscious after On Tuesday, she spoke to ers maintaining that “it Home Minister Rajnath A 36-year-old woman from around 2 a.m. on Friday. they thrashed me brutally,” a friend who guided her to Suspense over who would wasn’t supposed to take Singh, considered the front- Uzbekistan was allegedly They forcibly entered the the woman told the police in report the matter to the po- be the next chief minister of place then in any case.” runner for the CM’s post in gangraped by her former house and beat her up for her complaint. lice. Based on her com- Uttar Pradesh and Ut- U.P., when asked whether boyfriend and four of his not taking Anubhav’s phone When she gained con- plaint, the five were booked ‘Decision rests with PM’ tarakhand prevailed even he had been offered the job, friends at her rented accom- call. sciousness, she found her- for gang-rape and causing five days after the poll res- Top sources in the Bharatiya retorted: “Kya faltu baat hai, modation in South Delhi’s self with nothing on her hurt. ults were announced. Janata Party say the decision sab anaavashyak hai (what Masoodpur Village. Fell semi-unconscious lower body. Traumatised, In her statement, the wo- A meeting of the BJP legis- on who would be chief min- useless talk is this, com- Her former boyfriend, “I thought they had come to she went to a hospital but man said she and Anubhav lature party in Uttar Pra- isters in the two States has to pletely unnecessary).” Anubhav Yadav, has been talk to me. But when I left without much medical were together for the past desh, scheduled to be held be taken by Prime Minister arrested. opened the door, he and his help as she could not gather four years but broke up re- DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 on Thursday, is not going to Narendra Modi and party According to the police, friends started assaulting me the courage to speak to cently.

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DELHI Timings Thursday, March 16 Kushwah’s wife iles papers RISE 06:30 SET 18:30 Five killed, 8 hurt in Kanpur RISE 21:56 SET 08:46 Friday, March 17 RISE 06:29 SET 18:31 for Dholpur by-election RISE 22:48 SET 09:23 cold storage explosion Saturday, March 18 Seat fell vacant after her husband’s conviction for murder RISE 06:27 SET 18:31 RISE 23:40 SET 10:02 Many feared trapped in the debris; Army, NDRF carrying out rescue operations Special Correspondent among the 1.82 lakh voters in After filing the nomina- JAIPUR the constituency. tion, Ms. Kushwah ad- Press trust of India The Bharatiya Janata Party Though Dholpur is the dressed a huge public rally KANPUR candidate Shobharani Kush- home turf of Chief Minister outside the Dholpur Muni- Five people were killed and wah, wife of former MLA Vasundhara Raje, as she was cipal Council office in the eight injured on Wednesday, and murder convict B.L. married to Hemant Singh of presence of three Ministers while several others are Kushwah, filed her nomina- the erstwhile ruling family, and a large number of senior feared trapped, after a gas tion papers for the April 9 the BJP had won only one of BJP leaders. leak at a cold storage in Shiv- Assembly by-election in the four seats in the district rajpur area here caused an Dholpur constituency of Ra- in the 2013 Assembly elec- Promise of development explosion in which parts of jasthan on Wednesday. The tion. BJP could only win Ms. Kushwah sought the structure collapsed. seat fell vacant three months from the reserved constitu- people’s support while According to SP (Rural) ago following Kushwah’s dis- ency of Baseri, while promising that she would Rajesh Kumar, the gas leak qualification upon his Dholpur went to BSP, and work hard for development started at the Katiyar Cold conviction. Bari and Rajakhera to of villages in the Storage in the afternoon. In Congress. constituency. the resulting explosion, the Co-accused in fraud case BJP State president Ashok While Mr. Parnami said at roof of the structure Ms. Kushwah is also an ac- Parnami, Jhalawar-Baran MP the rally that the Chambal collapsed. cused, along with her hus- Dushyant Singh, who is Ms. lift project was the Chief Several people are feared band, in a chit fund fraud Raje's son, and a large num- Minister's gift to Dholpur, trapped in the debris, and case registered against their ber of supporters accompan- Mr. Dushyant Singh said the fire brigade personnel along financial company. A large ied Ms. Kushwah when she people of Dholpur were like IN BRIEF with NDRF and Army teams number of complainants filed her nomination papers Ms. Raje’s family members. are carrying out rescue and had alleged that the com- before Deputy District Elec- Health Minister Kalicharan relief operations, Mr Kumar pany had cheated gullible in- tion Officer Manish Faujdar. Saraf, Rural Development said. vestors by promising exor- Both the BJP and the Opposi- Minister Rajendra Rathore bitant returns on fixed and tion Congress are treating and Transport Minister Brought dead recurring deposits. the Dholpur by-poll as a mat- Yunus Khan also addressed Chief Medical Officer Dr B.L. Kushwah was elected ter of prestige in view of the the rally. Ramayan Prasad said the five to the State Assembly on the Assembly election due next B.L. Kushwah's member- seriously injured labourers, Bahujan Samaj Party ticket. year. ship of the State Assembly who were rescued between The aftermath: Rescue and relief work under way after a cold storage building collapsed due The ruling BJP inducted Ms. In fielding Ms. Kushwah, was terminated after he was ‘Chouhan not moving 4 pm and 6 pm, were de- to an explosion in Kanpur on Wednesday. PTI Kushwah along with her sup- the BJP is banking on her convicted and sentenced to to the Centre’ clared brought dead by doc- porters into the party in Feb- community's support, as her life imprisonment on BHOPAL tors at the medical college- Doctors at the hospital around two dozen labourers tion officials said. ruary this year with an eye husband continues to be a December 8 last year in a Scotching speculations that cum-hospital here. have been put on alert as the were having their lunch The DM said rescue work- on her community which popular leader despite his 2012 case of “honour Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Eleven labourers have number of those injured is when the incident ers have been given protect- has a significant strength conviction. killing”. Chouhan Chouhan could been rescued and those with expected to rise, Mr Prasad happened. ive gear, including masks. move to the Centre, a senior minor injuries have been re- said. More labourers could be The district administration member of the State Cabinet leased from the hospital Kanpur District Magistrate still trapped under the will also check if the cold said the party had already after treatment, he said. Kaushal Raj Sharma said debris, district administra- storage had a license. Congress, BJP accuse each other decided that next Assembly elections would be contested under his leadership. over Baba Ramdev’s land deal Unclaimed bag creates Panic after two leopards escape from zoo scare at airport Press trust of india have been asked not to sent wire fence. nab the culprits, DFO (wild- AMRITSAR Palampur Heated exchanges in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly their children alone to A third leopard, which life) Nitin Patil said, adding An unclaimed bag, apparently Staff Correspondent cumbent government would forgotten behind by a Two leopards escaped from school. was injured, had also es- that all out efforts are being Shimla take a relook at the matter passenger, created a scare at the Gopalpur Zoo, 20 km A control room has been caped but was captured made to capture the Heated exchanges were wit- and again register the lease the Sri Guru Ramdass from, here on Tuesday night set up at Gopalpur and the while two others ran into the leopards. nessed in the Himachal Pra- in its name after carrying International Airport here on triggering panic among res- situation was being closely forests. There are 12 leopards in Thursday. However, when the idents in the area. monitored, officials said. the zoo and when attendants desh Assembly on Wednes- out the necessary bag was opened only The administration has The leopards escaped Case registered enter the enclosures in the day on the issue of allotment preconditions. medicines and some clothes sounded an alert in sur- from the zoo after some A case has been registered morning, three leopards of 22 acres to Baba Ramdev’s Some of the Congress were found inside it. -PTI rounding areas and parents miscreants allegedly cut the and investigation is on to were found missing. Patanjali Yogpeeth at MLAs also requested the Sadhupul in Solan district in government to not renew 2009. the lease deed with the Yog- State Revenue Minister peeth since it had openly vi- Kaul Singh Thakur revealed olated the conditions in the that the Cabinet had on Feb- Baba Ramdev memorandum and instead ruary 17 given its nod to re- an orphanage or shelter for consider the lease of land to Mr. Thakur claimed that stray cattle should be con- the Yogpeeth that was the lease deed was signed in structed on the let out land. earlier cancelled by it in Feb- haste during the previous ruary 2013. government and it had the ‘Unnecessary move’ The Congress govern- signatures of someone else The BJP members blamed ment after coming to power and not that of Acharya the government for unne- in December 2012 had taken Balkrishan of the Yogpeeth cessarily cancelling the lease back the land given to the who had further given the to the Yogpeeth earlier Yogpeeth on a 99 years lease power of attorney to which was constructing a by the previous BJP govern- someone else. herbal garden and a branch ment because of certain an- Some multi-storey build- of the Patanjali Yog Centre omalies and undue favours ings and hospitality units on behalf of its Trust. given to the Yog Guru, he were being constructed Leader of the Opposition said. there when the government Prem Kumar Dhumal and took repossession of the other BJP members wanted Necessary formalities land, he said. to know why the govern- The incumbent government The Minister also main- ment was now planning to would remove all irregularit- tained that if the Yogpeeth reinstate the lease deed in ies and carry out the neces- takes back its writ in the favour of Baba Ramdev who sary formalities before final- High Court against the gov- is close to the upper echel- ising the land deal with the ernment for illegally cancel- ons of the Union govern- Yogpeeth, he added. ling its lease deed, the in- ment. Nitish stresses Aadhaar card for availing of govt beneits ‘All anomalies in list of beneiciaries would be removed’

Press trust of india moved. The State govern- State government is installing PATNA ment is making continuous Electronic Point of Sale ma- The Bihar Chief Minister Nit- efforts to prepare Aadhaar chines in 59 Public Distribu- ish Kumar on Thursday em- card for every citizen and for tion System (PDS) outlets in phasised linking beneficiar- this several centres have Noorsarai block in Nalanda ies of all kinds of been opened. The Chif Minis- district as part of a pilot pro- government assistance with ter exhorted public repres- ject. Later, this facility would Aadhaar card for which the entatives to help in publicity be extended in all PDS out- State is making continuous for this purpose. lets across Bihar, he said. efforts. The Minister said that as Mr Kumar informed the EPS machines per 2011 census, a total num- State Legislative Council that Earlier, in reply to a question ber of 55,312 PDS outlets are after completion of Aadhaar of BJP’s Mangal Pandey, Food needed in Bihar out of which seeding, all anomalies in list and Civil Supplies Minister 41,725 are functioning at of beneficiaries would be re- Madan Sahni said that the present.

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colleges soon: Nadda Staff Reporter party, Sankar Das, and a 148 (rioting armed with will not be cowed down by Kolkata leader of the MKP, Kushal deadly weapons). They were such terror tactics,” said Mr. A Central Committee mem- Debnath, were arrested on remanded in 10 days police Ramachandran. Arunachal passes Budget Odisha has got ₹170 crore of Central share of ₹567 crore ber of the Communist Party Tuesday afternoon. custody by a district court. In January, two more lead- for 2017-18 of India (Marxist Leninist) Calls to Nishat Parvez, ers of the party -- Central ITANAGAR Special Correspondent Red Star (CPI-ML [Red Star]) 10 days police custody DIG, CID (Operations) went Committee member The Arunachal Pradesh Bhubaneswar along with a leader of the Speaking to The Hindu their unanswered. Sarmistha Chowdhury and Assembly passed the Budget Union Health Minister J. P. Mazdoor Kisan Parishad counsel Rangta Munshi said Addressing the media at State secretary Pradeep for 2017-18 by voice vote on Nadda on Wednesday as- (MKP) has been arrested in the two were arrested by the Bhubaneswar in Odisha on Singh Thakur -- were arres- Wednesday. Chief Minister sured Chief Minister Naveen connection with the agita- Criminal Investigation De- Tuesday, party national gen- ted by the CID. Mr. Pema Khandu reiterated his Patnaik of releasing the bal- tion in Bhangar. partment (CID) from eral secretary K. N. Ramachandran was also government’s commitment to ance Central share of ₹397 The CPI-ML [Red Star] has Baruipur in South 24 Ramachandran accused the picked up by the State police treat all constituencies crore at the earliest for the been at the forefront of the Paraganas on Tuesday and Trinamool Congress (TMC) in January after he arrived at equally while giving thrust on five new medical colleges at agitation in South 24 have been charged under government of “resorting to the Kolkata railway station. agri-horti sectors. PTI Baripada, Koraput, Balas- Paraganas district against Sections 353 (assault or crim- terror tactics” and said they After resurfacing in Delhi ore, Bolangir and Puri. the setting up of a power inal force to deter public ser- will not get intimidated. within a couple of days, he CBI arrests two in ponzi Mr. Nadda’s assurance grid in the area. A Central vant from discharge of his or “We want to tell the said that the police put him scam case came when Mr. Patnaik met Inside Capital: Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik talking to the Committee member of the her duty), 147 (rioting) and Mamata government that we on a Delhi-bound train. KOLKATA him in New Delhi. media at Parliament House on Wednesday. PTI The Special Crime Branch of Mr. Patnaik informed Mr. the CBI on Wednesday Nadda that works relating to start their admissions from lahandi. As regards the arrested Prayag Group CMD five medical colleges are 2017-18. fourth at Bhubaneswar, he Basudeb Bagchi and his son Two arrested in child theft case in Kolkata continuing in full swing and Highlighting the initiat- assured to consider it Avik Bagchi after their two medical colleges at Bari- ives being taken by the State favourably. interrogation at the CGO complex here. The firm had pada and Koraput were government for strengthen- Hospital staf may be involved, no evidence of traicking angle yet: police mobilised over ₹1,900 crore ready to start their first ing cancer care, Mr. Patnaik Cancer-care centre case, Joint Commissioner of child on the pretext of taking from the public. PTI batch admission from the urged the Union Health Min- The Union Minister men- Staff Reporter <> The accused ensuing 2017-18 session. ister to approve the four ter- tioned that the Central gov- Kolkata remanded in Police (Crime) Vishal Garg him to the doctor for a Bodo groups call off The State had already re- tiary cancer care centres at ernment has already ap- A day after two persons, in- police custody till said: “We are looking into it.” check-up. ceived ₹170 crore as against Capital Hospital, proved a State-level cancer cluding a woman, were ar- He said so far they have not The police released CCTV hunger strike March 24 KOKRAJHAR (ASSAM) the committed Central share Bhubaneswar; VSS Medical care centre at Cuttack at an rested for allegedly stealing a got any evidence to suggest a footage in a bid to identify of ₹567 crore for these College and Hospital, Burla; estimated cost of ₹120 crore. newborn boy from the gov- Vishal Garg child trafficking angle to the the accused. The All-Bodo Students Union Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) and other groups called off colleges. MKCG Medical College and Mr. Nadda also agreed to ernment-run Calcutta Med- case. “The accused were pro- their indefinite hunger strike Hospital, Berhampur and look into the proposal for es- ical College and Hospital, the late on Tuesday night from Earlier in the day, locals of duced in court on Wednes- on Wednesday, its sixth day, Permission sought District Headquarter Hos- tablishment of Regional In- police on Wednesday said Baghmari in North Kolkata. Baghmari said one of day and were remanded in demanding a separate The Chief Minister further pital, Kalahandi. stitute of Paramedical Sci- they were not ruling out the The baby has been returned Prashanta’s relatives worked police custody till March 24,” Bodoland after the Assam urged the Union Health Min- Mr. Nadda said that finan- ences at Bhubaneswar, and involvement of the hospital to its mother, Saraswati at the hospital and hence his said Mr. Garg. A senior po- Home and Political ister to give letters of per- cial assistance of ₹45 crore doing away with the restric- staff in the matter. Naskar. wife was able to get easy ac- lice official said that during Department assured them of mission to the two medical each will be provided for tion on number of attempts The accused, Chinmayee Asked whether they are cess to the premises. interrogation Ms. Bej has holding tripartite talks on the colleges at Baripada and three tertiary cancer centres for students appearing in Bej, and her husband, suspecting the involvement On Tuesday afternoon, “admitted” to stealing the issue. PTI Koraput to enable them to at Burla, Berhampur and Ka- the NEET-UG. Prashanta, were arrested of some hospital staff in the Bej allegedly fled with the child. Probe into exam irregularities ordered Chemistry questions were found in maths paper packets for Plus-II

Press Trust of India packets. Bhubaneswar “The Controller of Examina- tions will also investigate whether Odisha School and Mass Educa- there was any conspiracy,” Mr tion Minister Debi Prasad Mishra Mishra said. on Wednesday asked the Control- He said the Controller of Exam- ler of Examinations of the CHSE inations has been asked to submit to probe into irregularities during a report within two weeks. The the annual Plus-II mathematics official will visit the press where paper. the question papers were printed Mr Mishra said that questions and packed, he said. on chemistry were found in the The irregularities which were mathematics question paper detected across 14 examination packets when they were opened centres had delayed the examina- for distribution among examinees Debi Prasad Mishra tion. However, the centres man- yesterday. aged to conduct the examination Chemistry question papers in hesitate to black-list the printing after providing photo copies of mathematics question paper press if it was found guilty,” Mr the mathematics questions to the packets were found at least in 14 Mishra said adding that the Con- students. examination centres, he said troller of Examinations of the Mr Mishra said that the chem- adding that the press, where the Council of Higher Secondary Ex- istry examination which was question papers were printed, amination (CHSE) will probe un- earlier scheduled for March 16 af- would come under the purview of der which circumstances the ternoon will now be conducted probe. chemistry questions entered into between 2 pm and 5 pm on March “The government would not the mathematics question paper 30.

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Unidentiied group sets ire to Bhansali ilm’s props and costumes in Kolhapur Shoumojit Banerjee Congress seeks Rahul Pune Gandhi’s intervention Shoumojit Banerjee The Bharatiya Janata Party PANAJI Pune (BJP) leader Mukta Tilak was Upset with the Congress’s The set of director-producer formally elected as the inability to form a Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s his- mayor of Pune Municipal government in Goa despite being the single largest torical pageant Padmavati Corporation (PMC) on Wed- party, the Congress was torched in the early nesday, making it the first Legislative Party’s senior hours of Wednesday by an instance of a BJP member’s legislator Vishwajit Rane on unidentified group in election as the mayor of the Wednesday urged party vice Kolhapur district of Maha- civic body. president Rahul Gandhi to rashtra. In January, Mr. Along with Ms. Tilak, Re- intervene. SPECIAL Bhansali was assaulted while publican Party of India (Ath- CORRESPONDENT filming at the Nahargarh Fort awale) leader Navnath in Jaipur by a Rajput outfit Kamble was elected as the Budget session to begin named Karni Sena. There- deputy mayor. The RPI (A) from March 22 after, the production was had supported the BJP in the PANAJI shifted out of Rajasthan. PMC polls. After her appointment on Wednesday Mukta Tilak said her aim is The Budget session of the Reports said the props and Moments after her ap- to oversee Pune’s transformation into a Smart City. MANDAR TANNU Goa Assembly will begin from costumes were damaged, but pointment, the 51-year-old March 22, State Legislature sources said on Wednesday. there was no injury to the Ms. Tilak — a scion of Bal Narayan Peth-Sadashiv Peth The Sena, despite win- They added that the election crew. The incident is said to Gangadhar ‘Lokmanya’ area, where she lives with ning only 10 seats in the of the Speaker will be held on have occurred between 1 and Tilak’s family — said, “my her family. PMC, had fielded Sangeeta the same day, the Governor’s 1.30 a.m. at the picturesque objective is to oversee the While members of her Thosar for the mayor’s post address to the members will Masai Pathar, 10 km from Pune’s transformation into a family, like her nephew Ro- and Vishal Dhanawade for be held on March 23, and the Panhala, when a gang of 20 Charred: A gang of 20 reportedly set ire to the props to gut the 50,000 sq. ft set at Masai Smart City, even if it in- hit Tilak, contested on Con- the deputy mayor’s post. budget presentation will be set fire to the props so as to Pathar in Kolhapur district on Wednesday. ANIL VELHAL volved some tough gress tickets, she chose to The NCP had fielded Nanda held on March 24. SPECIAL gut the set spread on 50,000 decisions.” side with the BJP. Lonkar for the mayoral post CORRESPONDENT sq. ft., the police said. A case that happened because of accuse the director of mis- The director has denied the “The need of the hour is With the BJP sweeping whiletheCongresshad was yet to be registered, they “the illiteracy in the coun- representing Padmini, who is charge. to effect a change in the the PMC with an unpreced- fielded Lata Rajguru for the Goa Nautical Conference said. try”. Filmmakers took to believed to have committed Mr. Bhansali’s Bajirao- city’s traffic [problems] and ented landslide, snaring 98 deputy mayor’s post. to be held on Saturday Following the incident, the Twitter to condemn the jauhar (self-immolation) in- Mastani also ran into trouble enhance the bus transport of the 162 seats, Ms. Tilak’s However, the Sena’s can- PANAJI film’s crew has been attack. stead of falling in the hands after the descendants of the system. Affordable housing victory was a foregone con- didates withdrew their nom- The CII will hold the second provided police protection, Padmavati is based on the of the Sultan after Chittor- Peshwa Baji Rao I criticised is another area which will clusion, as was Mr. inations on Wednesday Goa Nautical Conference on Maharashtra’s Minister of fictionalised epic poem, writ- garh fell to the invaders. The the liberties taken by the dir- receive top priority,” Ms. Kamble’s. morning, before the com- Saturday at a resort at Dona Paula to promote sustainable State for Home Deepak ten in 1540 C.E. by Malik opposition is based on ru- ector in the name of artistic Tilak said. Despite this, the BJP’s saf- mencement of the mayoral development of nautical Kesarkar said. Muhammad Jayasi. The poem mours that Mr. Bhansali has licence. BJP workers pro- Ms. Tilak, wife of Lok- fron ally, the Shiv Sena, poll. tourism. It will also educate The designer duo of deals with the 1303 C.E. siege allegedly implied a romantic tested its screening, taking manya Tilak’s great-grand- along with the opposition Ms. Rajguru, who was State authorities and the Rimple and Harpreet Narula, of Chittorgarh by Delhi Sul- connection between Padmini umbrage at the song Pingaa son Shailesh Tilak, and an NCP and the Congress had backed by the Congress and industry on ‘New Pleasure who worked on the ornate tan Ala-u-din Khilji, who was (played by Deepika Pingaa and the portrayal of MBA with a specialisation in stepped in to queer the BJP’s the NCP, secured 52 votes, Craft Regulations’ notified by period costumes, said they allegedly motivated by his de- Padukone) and Ala-ud-din Kashibai, which they said marketing, won her fourth pitch by propping up can- but was beaten by the BJP’s the Directorate of General were “broken sentimentally” sire for Queen Padmini. Khilji (Ranveer Singh), in a was offensive to the Marathi successive civic election on didates for the mayoral superior numbers, all of Shipping. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT over something unfortunate Outfits opposing the film dream and song sequence. culture. (With PTI inputs) a BJP ticket from old Pune’s elections. whom voted for Mr. Kamble. Man held for murder of Irish woman ‘Submit report on BRICS food scam in 30 days’ Special Correspondent there was a possible sexual ex- rounded up several persons The body bore bruises and Prakash Kamat Rodrigues, in his complaint to gaged for cooking the food reply filed by the Chief Secret- Panaji ploitation angle in the case, the and zeroed in on Vikat, a local the face had cuts inflicted by a Panaji the GSHRC, had submitted and insects were also found in ary was a mere replica of the Vikat Bhagat, an accused from police have yet not pressed petty thief and an ex-convict. blunt object, the police said. The Goa State Human Rights that the contract of food sup- it. inquiry report submitted by Canacona in south Goa, was ar- charges of rape. The body of Commission (GSHRC) directed ply to police personnel posted The GSHRC directed the the Director General of Police rested on Tuesday evening for the victim was found in a field, Bruises on body the Goa Chief Secretary on at the summit was given to a Chief Secretary to submit a to the State Home Depart- the murder of a 25-year-old Ir- around 150 metres from the A case of murder has been re- Wednesday to conduct an in- local caterer, but was sub-let detailed report within 30 ment. The commission has ish woman. Vikat was remain road at Devbag in gistered against Vikat under dependent investigation and to another contractor who days. It also noted that the directed the government not manded in police custody till Canacona on Tuesday morn- Section 302 of the IPC. The po- fix responsibility on the de- clandestinely prepared the Chief Secretary had not con- to make any payment to the March 21 by a local court on ing. lice said they were awaiting the faulting officers in the alleged substandard food in an open ducted an independent in- food contractors till the probe Wednesday. Superintendent of Police, post-mortem report before ₹51 lakh food scam at the place in Verna, South Goa. quiry as directed by the com- is completed. Inspector Filomeno Costa Crime, Umesh Gaonkar told pressing charges of sexual as- BRICS summit last year. The complaint said that mission on October 18 last The hearing was adjourned told The Hindu that though The Hindu that the police sault. Activist and lawyer Aires road side labourers were en- year. The GSHRC also said the to April 18. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 SOUTH 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Siddaramaiah focusses on welfare Please-all budget in A.P. Karnataka CM rolls out measures to establish ‘Ramarajya’ but leaves farmers out Government lays stress on job creation, housing

Nagesh Prabhu when he said: “I am ready to G.V.R. Subba Rao Bengaluru waive 50 per cent of the crop VIJAYAWADA With the Karnataka As- loans if the Centre waives Close to completion of three sembly polls a year away and loans borrowed from nation- years in office, the Andhra a slowdown in the State’s alised and commercial banks Pradesh government has Mani completes 50 years economic growth, Chief Min- (₹42,000 crore).” given a push to welfare, edu- as MLA, House lauds him ister Siddaramaiah presen- cation and rural develop- THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ted a “welfare-oriented and No new taxes ment in its annual budget of The Kerala Assembly on tax-free” budget on Wednes- Other major proposals in- ₹1.56 lakh crore for the year Wednesday paid glowing day. He attempted to reach cluded the formation of 49 2017-18. tributes to veteran politician out to the weaker sections new taluks, development Presenting the budget in K.M. Mani who completed 50 years as legislator. Cutting for the establishment of corporations for the OBC the Assembly on Wednes- across party lines, members what he called “Ramarajya”. communities, one-time in- day, Finance Minister of the House joined Speaker Largely focussing on centive of ₹2 lakh each to Yanamala Ramakrishnudu P. Sreeramakrishnan in strengthening and expand- students of the OBC and said the outlay marked an highlighting Mr. Mani’s ing the scope of flagship minority community who increase of 15.77% compared diligence and prowess as a schemes he had rolled out in get admission in the IIM, the to the previous year. legislator and politician. his earlier four budgets, the IIT and the IISc, construc- The budget had a bagful Chief Minister announced an Reaching out: Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah being greeted by tion of seven lakh houses, of goodies as the govern- KIA ranked best regional increase in the quantity of Minister for Tourism R.V. Deshpande. V SREENIVASA MURTHY and hike in old age pensions. ment focussed on job cre- Good to go: A.P. Finance Minister Yanamala Ramakrishnudu airport again food grains distributed un- Presenting the fifth State ation, housing, and revival before presenting the Budget in Vijayawada. CH.VIJAYA BHASKAR BENGALURU der the Anna Bhagya scheme the honorarium for ASHA SC/ST/BPL families, includ- budget of the ruling Con- of sick industries. Bengaluru’s Kempegowda from 5 kg to 7 kg per unit, workers, members of rural ing free LPG connections. gress, overall his 12th, Mr. Economically Backward ity on goals, strategies as International Airport (KIA) and free electricity under local bodies and anganwadi Despite the agrarian crisis Siddaramaiah refrained from New concept Classes. well as physical and finan- became the ‘Best Regional the Bhagya Jyothi scheme workers, Namma Canteen on and drought situation in the announcing new taxes. The TDP’s poll promise of The Finance Minister said cial targets. Airport in India and Central (up to 40 units). the lines of Amma canteens State, there was little in the Noting that the budget providing unemployment al- comprehensive action Doing away with plan and Asia’ for the second time by in Tamil Nadu in all the budget to boost agriculture. was aimed at ensuring social lowance found place in the would be taken during the non-plan expenditure classi- bagging the SKYTRAX Award on Tuesday. The airport, Sops for weaker sections wards of the Bruhat The absence of crop loan justice and inclusive growth, budget with the government fiscal and beyond to im- fication, the government which saw 22.18 million Among other announce- Bengaluru Mahanagara Pal- waiver came as a huge disap- he said: “Ramarajya cannot earmarking ₹500 crore. prove the lives of women. switched to the system of ex- passengers in 2016, received ments were free laptops for ike, and free supply of pot- pointment to farmers. be built by those who op- It has also proposed to The government came up penditure as revenue and the award at the World students of government and able water in slums. He also Mr. Siddaramaiah used pose the concept of social spend ₹695 crore, for the with a new concept, out- capital, in line with the Airport Awards in Amsterdam. aided colleges, increase in offered many incentives for the issue to target the Centre justice.” first time, to support the come budget, to ensure clar- Centre’s move. The award covered 550 airports worldwide. Kunhalikutty is UDF’s Malappuram candidate BJP leader’s murder: TeamIndus picks Italian, Centre clears special MALAPPURAM Indian Union Muslim League Cong. councillor held assistance to A.P. general secretary P.K. Indian experiments for moon Kunhalikutty will be the United Democratic Front candidate for the Her son, a prime accused, is on the run Spells out modalities of implementation Malappuram Lok Sabha ‘Six more teams can be accommodated, if sponsored’ by-election to be held on Special Correspondent out the murder on the or- Special Correspondent to A.P., which would make April 12. IUML State president Bengaluru ders of Sarojamma and her Special Correspondent global teams. Its lander is modated if sponsored. They NEW DELHI up for the additional Central Syed Hyderali Shihab Thangal The Bengaluru police have son. The police are yet to de- BENGALURU scheduled to take off on the include three Indian, a Per- In a post-U.P. Assembly elec- share the State might have announced his candidature at arrested a Congress Bom- termine whether Manju was Space4Life, a student team Indian PSLV rocket tentat- uvian, a British and a U.S. tion bonanza to Andhra Pra- received during 2015-16 to Panakkad on Wednesday. manhalli Town Municipal part of the gang that killed from Naples in Italy, has won ively on December 28 and proposal. desh on Wednesday, the 2019-20. The assistance will Council member, Saro- Prasad. the contest to send an exper- land on the moon on Janu- Union Cabinet, chaired by be provided by way of re- Student kills self over jamma, for allegedly mur- iment to the moon on the ary 26 next year, carrying its ‘Great potential’ Prime Minister Narendra payment of loans and in- charge of copying dering BJP Councillor Personal enmity: police TeamIndus spacecraft in own cameras and these ex- Former ISRO Chairman and Modi, approved ‘special as- terest for the EAPs signed VARKALA Srinivas Prasad. The police are yet to confirm December this year. periments. member of the three-person sistance measure’ for the and disbursed during 2015- A 16-year-old boy here Prasad was hacked to whether the murder was A second experiment The GLXP contest is for jury, K. Kasturirangan, was successor State of A.P. This 2016 to 2019-20 by the State. committed suicide, allegedly death on Tuesday on Hosur politically motivated or was from the Central University the first private-funded quoted as saying: “The data was done by way of special On the Polvaram project, after being harassed by Road. Sarojamma’s son, carried out for personal at Thiruvarur has also been spacecraft that will land on results from [Space4Life’s] dispensation in funding Ex- it said the Centre would school authorities over an Manju, who is also a prime reasons. chosen. It will be sponsored the moon, briefly roam its experiment have the poten- ternally Aided Projects provide 100% funding for incident of copying during the accused in the case, is on “We are yet to ascertain by Bengaluru-based bio- surface and send pictures tial to dramatically impact (EAPs) and the irrigation the irrigation component. annual examinations. The parents of Arjun, a plus one the run. the motive for the murder. pharmaceuticals company and videos. mankind.” component of the Polav- The A.P. government would student, were summoned to Initial inquiries have re- Biocon Ltd., TeamIndus an- Announcing the results of Dr. Natarajan called them aram project. execute the project. the school. The authorities Four more arrests vealed that there was some nounced on Wednesday. the contest that was opened potentially transformational In a statement here, the However, the overall co- insulted him in front of his Four other men, believed to enmity between the two TeamIndus is itself taking last year, Sheelika Rav- experiments, some of which Centre spelt out the modal- ordination, design issues, parents. On Tuesday, the boy be friends of Manju, were ar- councillors,” Superintend- part in the $20-million ishankar, a senior Tea- had been tested only closer ities for implementation. etc., are to be dealt with by was found hanging in his rested by the Hebbagodi po- ent of Police Amith Singh Google Lunar X Prize con- mIndus official, said six to earth, as on the Interna- The Centre will provide the Polavaram Project house. PTI lice for allegedly carrying told the media. test along with four other more teams can be accom- tional Space Station. special assistance measure Authority. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC A language that ‘smells like earth’ KCR rules Reviving a precious resource out early Pemmaraju’s documentary traces the journey of Dakhani elections

Serish Nanisetti Special Correspondent Hyderabad HYDERABAD Buzdil hai voh jo jeetey ji Telangana Chief Minister K. marney sey dar gaya Chandrasekhar Rao on Mayich tha jo kaam kuch Wednesday ruled out early aur kar gaya. elections to the Assembly. Jab maut aako karney lagi “I am not playing any mujhko salaam. tricks with a view to advan- My valeykum salaam bola cing polls,” Mr. Rao said in aur mar gaya. the Legislative Council (It is a coward, he who while reacting to Congress fears death when still alive; ’Spoken vernacular’: A scene in which a man dressed like a king leader N. Uttam Kumar It was but me who did some- drives his scooter towards Charminar. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Reddy’s charge that the thing else; When death TRS government appeared came to me and did a sa- Untied, a documentary on mented the journey of the to be getting ready for mid- laam; I said valeykum sa- Dakhani by Gautam language that has the smell term polls, going by the laam and promptly died.) Pemmaraju. and freshness of the earth. concessions offered to vari- The audience roars with “The 90-minute docu- ous sections of the people laughter and wah-wah as 90-minute film mentary is nearly ready and in the budget. Mr. Rao was Ghouse Mohiuddin Ahmed, Beginning with that archaic will be released by the end replying to the debate on known by his takhallus (pen image, Mr. Pemmaraju of March,” says Mr. the motion of thanks to the name) Khamakha, delivers fleshes out the story of a lan- Pemmaraju. Governor’s address to both the lines with dead-pan ex- guage that has been reduced Why does he call it a Houses of Legislature. pression. Then, a man to a ‘spoken vernacular’. Us- ‘spoken vernacular’ and not Terming the Opposi- dressed like a king, with bor- ing interviews, poetry read- a full-fledged language? tion’s criticism as hollow, rowed costumes, drives his ing sessions called mazihiya “Earlier, there was literat- he said the parties would puttering Vespa scooter to- shayri and just plain conver- ure, there was poetry, but not get any opportunity to wards Charminar from sations across the sub-con- now the language survives target the government Gulzar Houz. And we are in tinent, including Karachi only in some pockets. New once ‘Mission Bhagiratha’, Huge task: Workers removing silt as part of the repair and maintenance work at Yeleru canal, one of the major sources of water the midst of an engrossing and other places in India, literature or poetry is not be- meant to provide drinking supply to Visakhapatnam. About 14 earth-moving machines and 1,000 men have been deployed for the work. C.V.SUBRAHMANYAM fare promised by ATongue Mr. Pemmaraju has docu- ing written or created.” water, was completed.

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Dolly Shivani set a national record before she turned 3 Ranjani Govind during the month-long transfers. This will be Bengaluru festival. “We will have 300 extended to people as we are J.R. Shridharan Shattered by their son’s Demonetisation has made artists performing for 32 considering Paytm’s too,” VIJAYAWADA death, Cherukuri digital wallets and e-banking days from April 5. We are said Lakshmi Keshava who, Five-year-old city archer Satyanarayana and Krishna part of the popular lexicon. also requesting our canteen along with his committee Cherukuri Dolly Shivani is all Kumari wanted the next gen- As lakhs of people across organisers to put up QR members, is zeroing in on set to take the world by eration to take forward the Bengaluru rely on cashless Codes for e-wallets” said the choices before the music storm next month, not due legacy of the Vijayawada- transactions, several well- Abhijith who decided on this fest. to her shooting expertise, based Volga Archery known mandalis, samitis move after thousands of The Karanji Sri Rama Seva but for her acting skills, as a Academy and took the help and sabhas have introduced requests on the website. Trust at Basavanagudi has a biopic made by a U.S. crew of advanced medical meth- ‘e-hundis’ for this year’s week-long Ramanavami will hit the screens at the ods to bring Shivani to this Ramothsava celebrations, ‘Cash still popular’ music programme, a Full Frame Documentary world. slated to begin in the first Other manadalis and samitis tradition that has been on Film festival in Durham week of April. Music bonanza: A ile photo of Ramanavami celebrations in are also planning to for six decades. “We too are (England), which begins on A ile photo of 5-year-old U.S-based director For a month, mandalis Bengaluru. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY introduce e-hundis. considering the inclusion of April 6. Dolly Shivani. V. RAJU The biopic took shape due to will hold live concerts However, most artists prefer e-wallets to make it easier for Vijayawada-based Shivani the interest of Jamie Dobie, showcasing the best of PayTM QR Codes at our people have to walk nearly cash payments, say the public,” said K.R. drew the attention of the carnation of their only son, the film’s director from New Indian classical music. pandal in the Fort High 300 ft to reach the hundis, organisers. The Anantharaman, Managing world when she created a Cherukuri Lenin, an interna- York, who came to Vijay- Organisers believe that School, which has a seating which are placed on the Seshadripuram Ramaseva Trustee. national record in archery as tional archer and coach, awada make a short film on e-hundis will be a hit as capacity of 10,000,” said front row, to give their Samiti has decided to pay all The Jayarama Seva a 35-month-old kid by haul- who died in a road accident Shivani in 2015. people can easily donate Abhijith Varadaraj of the offerings. “Now, they can the artists by cheque this Mandali in Jayanagar and the ing 200 points in five and in 2010 while returning to Satyanarayana has money with the click of a Chamarajpet Ramaseva donate at their year. The Vani Kala Kendra Sri Rama Bhaktha Sabha at seven-metre distances in the Vijayawada from Hyderabad trained several archers who button or via a swipe on Mandali, one of the oldest in convenience,” Abhijith said. at Basaveshwaranagar is Malleswaram have also compound segment in 2015. after attending a felicitation won medals at the Asian and their smart phones. “For our the city founded by S.V. He is hopeful that donations considering the introduction decided to bring in cashless Her parents, who took the function for Delhi Common- Commonwealth Games, but Ramanavami music fest this Narayanaswamy Rao nearly will increase this year as the of e-wallets. payment options at their surrogacy route for her wealth Games medallists he has a bigger plan for Shiv- year, we will display 50 eight decades ago. mandal is expecting footfalls “This time, we will make venues this year for birth, believe she is the rein- and coaches. ani – the Olympics. prominent cutouts with In the traditional set-up, of up to 1.5 lakh people payments with cashless Ramanavami. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 NATION THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Ex-Minister Prajapati inally Amarinder to take oath nabbed in central Lucknow as Punjab CM today Manmohan Singh, Rahul to attend ceremony New Patna High Court On the run for almost a month, SP leader and six others are accused in a rape case Press Trust of India tional Conference leaders every possible measure and Chief Justice sworn in Omar Rashid surrender. Chandigarh Farooq Abdullah and his son innovative, out-of-the-box PATNA Lucknow Mr. Prajapati’s arrest After steering the Congress Omar Abdullah and former initiatives“. Justice Rajendra Menon was on Wednesday sworn in as Absconding for almost a brings to an end a high- to a stupendous victory in UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Several newly elected the Chief Justice of the Patna month, controversial Sama- pitched drama, which also Punjab, Amarinder Singh Yadav will attend the swear- MLAs including Navjot Singh High Court by Bihar Governor jwadi Party leader and became a part of the UP elec- will take oath as Chief Minis- ing-in,” a party release said. Sidhu, Manpreet Singh Ramnath Kovind at a function former Minister Gayatri tion campaign. ter here on Thursday, a cere- Capt Singh said his gov- Badal, Brahm Mohindra, here in Raj Bhawan. Patna Prasad Prajapati was on To the embarrassment of mony which will be atten- ernment’s priority would be Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa, High Court Acting Chief Wednesday nabbed by the the SP, allegations against ded by former Prime to bring the State’s eco- Rana Gurjit Singh, Pargat Justice Hemant Gupta has Uttar Pradesh police. Mr. Prajapati surfaced in the Minister Manmohan Singh nomy, “which has been Singh, Razia Sultana, O. P. been appointed as the Chief Mr. Prajapati and six oth- middle of the campaigning, and Rahul Gandhi. completely devastated un- Soni are in the race for be- Justice of the Madhya ers are accused of gangrap- with the BJP using it to target Capt. Singh, who turned der the SAD-BJP regime, coming ministers, party Pradesh High Court. ing a woman and attempting Chief Minister Akhilesh 75onMarch11whenAs- back on the rails through sources said. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, to rape her minor daughter. Yadav. sembly results were de- his Deputy Tejashwi Prasad He was sent to 14 days judi- The BJP had accused the clared, will be sworn in as Yadav and others were cial custody after being pro- SP of shielding the leader the State’s 26th chief minis- present on the occasion. PTI duced before a POSCO court. In police net: Gayatri Prajapati in police custody in Lucknow and not taking him into cus- ter along with nine Cabinet Phoolka to be Leader The leader was “arrested on Wednesday. PTI tody despite a court order. ministers. The ceremony 27 hurt in inter-caste around 7.00 am from a loca- Prime Minister Narendra will take place at Punjab Raj clashes over poll result tion in central Lucknow,” a issued against him while the also arrested soon after. Modi even used the phrase Bhavan at 10 a.m. and the of the Opposition spokesperson for UP DGP authorities impounded his On Tuesday, the police ar- “Gayatri Prajapati Mantra” to oath will be administered by BALLIA (UP) Press Trust of India Javeed Ahmed said. passport to prevent him rested the three others in the accuse Mr. Yadav’s govern- Punjab Governor V. P. Singh legislature party. Twenty-seven people were New Delhi injured on Wednesday during The police had last month from fleeing the country. case -- Rupeshwar, Vikas ment of providing patronage Badnore. Sukhpal Singh Khaira an inter-caste clash over the filed a non-bailable warrant The six other accused in Verma and Amrendra Singh to the tainted leader. The State can have a max- Senior Supreme Court ad- was appointed the party’s result of the Assembly against the former Minister the case have already in po- -- after a raid in Lucknow. Mr. Prajapati claimed imum of 18 ministers. The vocate H. S .Phoolka will chief whip. election in village Middha in and six others, including his lice custody. While the UP there was a “conspiracy” to Congress has 77 MLAs in the be Leader of the Opposi- “We will fight for the Fefna area here, police said. security guard, Chandrapal, Special Task Force nabbed Planning to surrender malign him and that he was Assembly. tion in the Punjab As- rights of the people in They said 22 Dalits and five in connection with the case two Ashish Shukla and SSP Lucknow Manzil Saini even willing to go through a “Besides Manmohan sembly with the Aam Punjab and highlight the Thakurs were injured in the on the orders of the Su- Ashok Tiwari from Noida on said the police intercepted NARCO test in the matter. He Singh and Rahul Gandhi, Hi- Aadmi Party MLAs elect- plight of farmers,” Mr. clash following which cross- preme Court. March 6, Mr. Prajapati’s se- Mr. Prajapati after a tip-off said he was planning to sur- machal Pradesh Chief Minis- ing him as leader of the Phoolka said. FIRs were registered. A hut A look out notice was also curity guard Chandrapal was that he planning to render but was arrested. ter Virbhadra Singh and Na- and a four-wheeler was also set afire. The police are probing the matter and no arrest has yet been made. The Fefna Assembly constituency Nuh mini-secretariat gets makeover with display boards, heritage gallery was won by Upendra Tiwari of the BJP, who defeated Ambika Chaudhary of BSP. PTI Plagued by poor public services, it has now become the irst secretariat in Haryana to earn the coveted ISO 9001: 2015 certiication

Ashok Kumar months ago, has now be- coveted certificate. Let alone said effective delivery of pub- to deliver better services,” Haryana DSP attempts NUH come the first secretariat in the quality of services lic services and citizen satis- said Mr. Narwal, one of the suicide, critical For those visiting the Nuh the State to earn an ISO rendered to the public, the faction was one of the major forces behind the change. PANCHKULA Mini-Secretariat, the sudden 9001: 2015 certificate adher- building did not even have pre-requisites for the certific- A Deputy Superintendent transformation over the past ing to the priniciples of qual- drinking water facility for ate, besides clean premises. Similar certificate (DSP) of the Haryana Police couple of months is hard to ity management and improv- visitors. The toilets were “We hired a consultancy After three days of continu- on Wednesday tried to miss. Motivational quotes, ing the efficiency of dirty and the elevators were agency for the purpose and ous assessment, and reviews allegedly commit suicide by display boards, properly processes. dysfunctional. When city the agency representatives across a wide range of de- shooting himself with a revolver after he was named managed records, heritage “I have been to Gurugram magistrate Pradeep Ahlawat met the secretariat officials partments, the ICS, an inde- as an accused in a case of gallery, reading zone, lush and Faridabad on a few occa- mooted the idea of an ISO to collect their feedback, pendent certification and in- triple murder in Hisar district. green lawns, clean corridors sions, but the Nuh secretariat certificate for the building, I gave power-point presenta- spection body, finally “DSP Bhagwan Dass shot and forthcoming staff marks building is far more cleaner suggested to him to get the tions to make them aware approved the certification of himself in the head from a the new identity of the sec- and the services here are basic issues addressed before about the certificate condi- the building. The certificate gun and was critically injured. retariat building situated in more prompt compared to aiming so high. But we have tions and explored the reas- holds good for three years. The incident took place at the one of the most backward those two cities. Stinking toi- now achieved it with the sup- ons for the poor public ser- Encouraged by the suc- police guest house in districts of Haryana. lets, broken window glasses, New identity: Clean corridor of the building. port and dedication of the vices. The agency even cess, Mr. Sharma has now Panchkula where he was In a major image overhaul, unkempt lawns and beggars staff,” said Deputy Commis- conducted a pre-audit before decided to bid for a similar staying. Later, he was the Nuh Mini-Secretariat, roaming inside the premises Feroze Khan, a local resident easier said than done. sioner, Nuh, Mani Ram the International Certifica- certificate for the two hospit- admitted to a hospital in plagued by poor public ser- are common sights in Guru- visiting the Nun “When I took over almost a Sharma. tion Services (ICS) team vis- als in the district to ensure Panchkula,” DCP Panchkula, vices, bad management and gram Mini-Secretariat, but Mini-Secretariat. year ago, it was unthinkable Additional Deputy Com- ited for inspection and gave better services to patients Anil Dhawan said.PTI uncleanliness till a few not anymore in Nuh,” said But the turnaround was for the secretariat to earn the missioner Naresh Narwal useful tips to officials on how and visitors.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 NATION 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Clerics ‘warn’ budding Congress alleges ₹1000 cr singer against show payoftolureMLAsinGoa It’s not a fatwa but an appeal, says Muslim Law Board BJP denies charge, says it does not indulge in horse-trading Court’s poser to BMC on Suvojit Bagchi Kolkata Prakash Kamat Kapil Sharma matter Panaji MUMBAI A leaflet, described as a ‘fatwa’, issued by 46 Muslim The Congress has alleged The Bombay High Court on Wednesday asked the clerics in Assam against bud- that ₹1,000 crore had been Brihanmumbai Municipal ding singer Nahid Afrin has spent by the BJP to lure non- Corporation whether or not triggered a controversy. Congress legislators to form they wanted to pursue The 15-year-old girl, a run- a coalition government in comedian Kapil Sharma’s ner-up in a reality television Goa. alleged illegal construction in show, was taken aback fol- Addressing a press confer- his house or wanted the civil lowing the issue of the leaf- ence late on Wednesday court to look into it. A division let which has argued against evening, AICC secretary Gir- bench was hearing a petition her performing in a musical ish Chodankar alleged that filed by the 35-year-old show later in the month. the BJP’s general secretary in comedian who moved court However, a member of the Goa, Sadanand Shet Tanavde aggrieved by an order dated Muslim Personal Law Board On song: Nahid Afrin (right) is greeted by students on her “knew the details of the April 28, 2016 issued by the of Assam said it is not a arrival in Guwahati on Monday. PTI horse-trading and pay-offs BMC. ‘Fatwa’ but “an appeal” made to MLAs.” given in the form of a notice. shattered,” Ms. Ansari said. crying since she heard about EPF scheme to enable The leaflet, a copy of the incident,” said Ms. An- ‘Congress frustrated’ The Hindu members buy homes which is with , ‘Tough time’ sari, who hails from Uttar When contacted for his re- Hot seat: Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on his irst day in oice on Wednesday. PTI NEW DELHI neither mentioned the name “We had a tough time when Pradesh. sponse, Mr. Tanavde said, The Government will amend of the girl, nor threatened she performed well in In- Since Tuesday, the issue “This is an outburst of frus- On his part Mr. Kunkolienkar has also the backing of 22 MLAs com- the EPF scheme to enable her as was projected by the dian Idol show in 2015. has snowballed into a major tration by Mr. Chodankar Chodankar also objected to worked as a political assist- prising 13 BJP MLAs, three around 4 crore members of media. The girl’s mother Many people called us talking point in Assam, and his party. The MGP, GFP the appointment of two-time ant to Manohar Parrikar MLAs each from the Goa For- the retirement fund body Fatima Ansari said they had Bangladeshis and another while many of State’s Minis- and independents have all Panaji MLA Sidharth when he was the Chief Minis- ward Party and the Maha- EPFO to withdraw up to 90% not seen the ‘fatwa’ or the section, the Maulanas, said ters and MLAs have visited come to BJP on their own.” Kunkolienkar as the pro-tem ter from 2012 to 2014. How rashtrawadi Gomantak Party of their fund for making notice. we are not doing the right the family. “Even Chief Min- He asserted that there was Speaker of the Assembly and can he be fair as pro-tem and three independent down payments while buying “We heard that such a thing by engaging with such ister Sarbananda Sonowal “not a single paisa transac- questioned his neutrality. Speaker?” asked Mr. MLAs. homes, Parliament was leaflet was issued asking our things as music; ‘it is a sin,’ called up to say that the gov- tion in this” and added that “A pro-tem Speaker has to Chodankar. He has to prove his major- informed on Wednesday. The daughter not to perform in they said. And now this has ernment is with us,” said Ms. the BJP does not indulge in be the senior-most member Mr. Parrikar was sworn in ity in the House on amendment will also allow the college. Nahid is occurred —Nahid has been Ansari. such horse-trading. of the Assembly. Mr. as the CM on Tuesday with Thursday. the EPFO subscribers to use their EPF accounts to pay (EMIs) of home loans. PTI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Sukhoi jet JNU suicide: Centre Elderly man, son found Chopper down murdered crashes, 3 JAIPUR orders swift action A 73-year-old man and his civilians hurt son were found murdered in their house in Mansarovar Special Correspondent Jobs for sisters to be considered area here, the police said on NEW DELHI Thursday. A Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft Special Correspondent Their decomposed bodies of the Indian Air Force New Delhi were discovered last night (IAF) crashed near Barmer Union Minister Nirmala after neighbours complained in Rajasthan on Wednes- Sitharaman told the Rajya of a foul smell, SHO day. Three civilians on the Sabha on Wednesday that Mansarover police station ground were injured in the the government had asked Surendra Singh said.-PTI incident but both the pilots the Delhi police to file FIRs managed to eject safely. under the SC/ST Act and Team formed to nab This is the seventh crash abetment to suicide — notorious gangster of a Su-30MKI aircraft since against unknown persons — MUZAFFARNAGAR their induction in 1997. It in relation to the alleged sui- Nirmala Sitharaman The police on Wednesday said was on a routine sortie cide of a Dalit student at a special team has been when it crashed near the Jawaharlal Nehru University. 12 o’ clock the FIR should be constituted to arrest a notorious gangster who Utarlai air base, a senior She told the Upper House filed and a copy should be escaped from Mainpuri jail IAF official said. that she had visited the fam- given to father, guardian recently. The injured civilians are ily of Muthukrishanan and to any number of stu- Several raids were conducted Narayan Ram, his daugh- Jeevanantham, a resident of dents who would want a at the whereabouts of ter-in-law and grandson. Jhelum hostel, who had al- copy of it,” Ms. Sitharaman Murshad Ali, including his The incident occurred near legedly hanged himself out- said. house at Khan Daali village in Shivkar village in the Sadar side the campus. She also said that the the district yesterday, they Out of control: Indian Air Force personnel inspect a Chetak helicopter that crashed while attempting to land in a village near police station area, police “It is true that, within 48 Home Minister would con- said. -PTI Bamrauli Air Base in Allahabad on Wednesday. Reports said the crew escaped unhurt. AFP said. hours, the FIR which was to sider the demand of the stu- be filed had not been filed. dent’s father that the de- But, now, after we all sat ceased’s two sisters – one a there and heard every- nurse and the other a ED attaches 54 additional companies body’s voice — father, guard- private school teacher – be ‘No fair play in ighting terrorists’ ian, student leaders and given jobs. The elaborate assets worth friends of the boy — very statement came in response for Kashmir LS by-polls clearly directed the police, to Opposition members rais- ₹414 crore in Israeli MP justiies disproportionate use of force as per instructions from the ing the matter in the Rajya Special Correspondent Srinagar and Anantnag. hon. Home Minister, that by Sabha in Zero Hour. Srinagar NSEL scam Dinakar Peri Counter Terrorism Confer- the war against terrorists, he As the parties, including NEW DELHI ence 2017 in the Capital. stated, if they connected as To ensure that militants’ do the National Conference Special Correspondent There is no fair play with ter- The quantum of force in countries, cooperating and not derail the election pro- and the Congress, have ex- New Delhi rorists and a country has to fighting terrorists has been generous in sharing informa- cess in Jammu and Kashmir, pressed apprehension over The Enforcement Director- use all its tools to crack an issue of much debate in tion and at the same time an additional 54 companies the security scenario, J&K ate has attached assets down on terrorists to avoid India. are fully convinced that they of paramilitary forces will Director General of Police worth over ₹414 crore of casualties on the part of se- The Indian Army has a are obeying the law as it is be deployed for the smooth S.P. Vaid said: “The police Lakshmi Energy & Foods curity forces, said Avi Di- high attrition rate in its written. conduct of by-polls to the are fully geared to hold viol- Limited in connection with chter, Chairman of the For- counter-terror operations “Because when you are Lok Sabha constituencies of ence-free elections.” the money laundering eign Affairs and Defence which has gone up steadily starting to cross lines and to probe into the National Committee and a Member of in recent times. bypass laws you are getting Spot Exchange Limited Parliament in Israel, justify- into trouble, you are losing (NSEL) scam, in which ing the disproportionate use Initial firing your values…,” he said 13,000 investors were of force in fighting terror. Most causalities on the part speaking to The Hindu. cheated of ₹5,600 crore. “If it is needed, it is au- of security forces tend to oc- With both India and Israel The agency had re- thorised to use an F-16 cur in the initial firing by being victims of terrorism, gistered a case under the fighter jet against a terrorist terrorists. Mr. Dichter said cooperation Prevention of Money Laun- armed with an M-16 rifle. Mr. Dichter referred to has increased over time but dering Act, on the basis of That is the only way. Be- such instances and sugges- added there was scope to ex- an FIR lodged by the Eco- cause, otherwise if you are ted use of heavy force as pand it further. nomic Offences Wing in seeking fair play, may be in long as civilians were not With the threat of the Is- October 2013. trying to catch the terrorist around. However, he cau- lamic State going up sharply It is alleged that the ac- you are going to lose your tioned on the need to stick in India, there is emphasis cused persons induced the own people…,” Mr. Dichter to rules. on both sides to expand the investors to trade on the said in his address at the Countries will always win cooperation. NSEL platform. They created documents like bogus warehouse re- ceipts and falsified the accounts to deceive the investors. “Of the ₹5,600 crore swindled by the accused persons, total liability of LOIL group of companies — consisting three defaulters: LOIL Health Foods Lim- ited, LOIL Overseas Foods Limited and LOIL Contin- ental Foods Limited — was ₹720.30 crore,” said an ED statement.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Safron storm in Uttar Pradesh U.P. has been the epicentre of identity politics, but this election exposed the limits of the politics of social justice

wild charges of discrimination and was clearly aimed at mobilising the giving the impression that it is the most backward castes, notably only party to challenge the patron- non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dal- Gauntlet at Sukma age system practised by the SP and its, to capture the heartland State. Congress. Undeterred by facts, it In pursuit of this agenda, he dis- The Maoist ambush suggests that the state went on to complain that Muslims tributed tickets copiously to non- were the only ones to beneit from Yadav OBCs and to non-Jatavs in re- zoya hasan has a lot more to do to establish its writ the Kanya Vidya Dhan Yojana, un- served seats. Mr. Modi’s assiduous t would be tempting, but dangerous, to see the der which the U.P. government wooing of non-Yadav OBCs and he big verdict in the big State provides assistance of ₹30,000 to Dalits convinced large sections of deadly ambush by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma is out. It highlights several im- each girl student who has passed them to desert the SP and BSP in Idistrict on Saturday as just a desperate act of a fading Tportant trends, which though the 12th board examinations with the 2014 Lok Sabha election and insurgent group. It must, instead, serve as a wake-up speciic to Uttar Pradesh, have im- distinction. It is evident that post- again in the 2017 Assembly call for the security forces to beef up their standard op- plications far beyond it. The spec- truth is having a ield day in U.P. A elections. erating procedures, especially intelligence-gathering tacular political triumph of Prime blithe disregard for facts character- capabilities, in the Maoist heartland in central India. Minister Narendra Modi and the ised the political campaign of the The power of propaganda Twelve personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the BJP in this election. Finally, the stunning victory em- strongest evidence yet of the tec- U.P. has been the epicentre of phasises the importance of propa- were killed in Sunday’s attack, and four others sus- tonic shift in progress since the identity politics for over two dec- ganda and messaging. No one can GETTY IMAGES tained injuries. A road-opening party of the CRPF’s 219 2014 Lok Sabha election; to all in- ades but this election exposed the match up to the appeal and the en- battalion was ambushed about 450 km from the State tents and purposes, the BJP’s refer. Polarisation was actively president Amit Shah immediately limits of the politics of social ergy of Mr. Modi when it comes to capital Raipur. The insurgents used improvised explos- surgence in U.P. consolidates the fuelled by communal appeals, with afterwards and laced with ‘KASAB’ justice. The OBC and Dalit move- non-stop election campaigning, ive devices, country-made mortars and arrows moun- rightward shift in Indian politics Mr. Modi taking the lead in stoking left no scope for misunderstanding ment, which started of as a polit- and the organisational capacity of ted with explosive heads, and made of with some and alters the balance of power to the feeling of discrimination which way the politics of develop- ical voice of the marginalised social the RSS when it comes to relentless weapons and radio sets of the force. Home Minister Ra- its advantage ahead of the 2019 against Hindus, pushing in the pro- ment was going. The mordant dis- groups giving them a sense of parti- propaganda and booth manage- general election. cess a shift towards majoritarian course split U.P., which was once cipation in political afairs, had ment executed in this election by jnath Singh told the Lok Sabha that extremist groups consolidation. The election cam- deined by cultural syncretism and been reduced to the politics of re- 1.4 lakh booth samitis. Demonet- were restless because of the “unprecedented success of Nationalisation of elections paign which started on the high Ganga-Jumni culture, along Hindu- servations with beneits cornered isation is a good illustration of the the forces against them” in 2016, especially in Chhattis- At a broader level, the historic out- note of development then began to Muslim lines. by particular segments of these power of propaganda. Voters in garh where there was a 15% drop in left-wing extremist come represents the nationalisa- traverse the proverbial ground of castes which alienated sub-groups U.P. seem to connect to Mr. Modi’s incidents. However, the precision and scale of the at- tion of State elections which is a polarisation. Not a single Muslim Marginalising Muslims within the wider category. The BJP political messaging and were more tack are an indication that the Maoists continue to hold key element of the BJP’s strategy to was given a BJP ticket. This sent a In the event, many voters were was quick to take advantage of the than willing to forgive the hard- establish its electoral dominance clear message that the BJP would willing to buy into the BJP’s charges discontent of large social segments ships inlicted on them by note- formidable sway in Sukma, their long-time stronghold. across the country. The similarity not ‘appease minorities’, and that of minority appeasement. with old style identity politics. bandi. In 2013 they ambushed a convoy of Congress leaders in in the national and State election Muslims would be shown their Muslims, on the other hand, were Turning the politics of social In the end, a fractured opposi- Sukma district, killing more than 25 persons, including outcomes indicates the re-nation- place. Muslims have indeed been expected to vote en masse for the justice on its head, the Rashtriya tion too helped the BJP. In a three- former Union Minister V.C. Shukla. alisation of elections. What under- shown their place in this election. Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress al- Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)/BJP cornered contest, the BJP had a There have been periodic Maoist attacks in the re- pins nationalisation? Mr. Modi was As in 2014, it was not overt com- liance in order to check the BJP’s crafted a broad-based identity strong advantage. The party’s vote gion. It is estimated that over the last two decades at front and centre in the campaign; munalism or straightforward de- advance but it seems this didn’t politics on the ruins of the old polit- share jumped from just 15% in 2012 least 15,000 people have been killed in Maoist-related thanks to him, the party won a velopment rhetoric; it was a heady quite happen because many ical order which had outlived its to 39.6% in 2017, which was large massive majority in a State election cocktail of both elements couched Muslims reportedly voted for the utility for a critical mass of OBCs. It enough to win more than a three- violence. More than 3,000 of them were security per- without a local face. People voted within a discourse of ‘communal- Bahujan Samaj Party. Nonetheless, mobilised a new bloc of voters by fourths majority against a divided sonnel. And while violence is down from its peak in for Mr. Modi in the State election as ised development’. This mix was the prospect of Muslim consolida- showering attention on the most opposition. The combined vote 2009-10, in 2016 oicial estimates put the toll at 213 ci- though they were voting in a gen- dressed up in the political lan- tion behind the SP was used as a backward among them — the non- share of the BSP (22.2%) and the vilians, 65 security force personnel and 89 Maoists. The eral election. This knocked out the guage of ‘nationalism’ which ap- rallying cry for the polarisation of Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits — SP-Congress alliance (28.2%) adds government has over the past decade taken a patchy ap- earlier trend of regionalisation peals to large parts of U.P.’s elector- Hindu votes. that blunted the politics of BSP and up to over 50%. The Opposition’s proach to bringing the so-called “red corridor” under when people voted in the general ate. The secular parties were While the BJP leadership was SP in one stroke. The terms of en- only hope of taking on Mr. Modi its writ. The only presence of the state consistently vis- election as though they were vot- unable to ofer an efective propagating its mantra of ‘develop- gagement were unmistakably and the ruling party is to unite on a ing in State elections. counter-narrative to this ment for all’, it lost no opportunity driven by identity and motivated common platform and ensure that ible across the region has been of the security forces, Also, people voted for Mr. Modi discourse. to indulge in ‘community-oriented by resentment towards Yadav- the vote is not split since 50% of not of the civil administration. Counter-insurgency op- even though he has not done much In a surcharged political cli- developmentalism’ of its own. It re- Muslim domination under SP rule. voters have not been swayed by erations by the security forces have often been under- to deliver on the promises of devel- mate, the critical issue is not the peatedly attacked the SP govern- The BJP’s idea of community polit- BJP’s ideology of ‘communalised mined by poor intelligence, lagging alertness of the se- opment, and moreover has not project of ‘development for all’, ment for discriminating between ics gained new traction as a large development’, which is an essen- curity forces and the absence of a multi-layered done much for U.P. But the public but the prospect of development Hindus and Muslims even at the number of Hindu voters saw it as a tial part of its growth strategy. political strategy. The Maoists do not survive merely on dissatisfaction with the incumbent for certain groups cleverly articu- level of providing basic facilities more capacious identity which State government was enough to lated in the rhetoric of discrimina- like electricity. The SP government aligns them to a larger narrative ideology; they have a well-oiled machinery providing Zoya Hasan is Professor Emerita, Centre persuade voters to believe the tion against none. The odious com- released detailed data of electricity than the fragmentation inherent in protection to various interest groups in the absence of a for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru Prime Minister’s promise of devel- munal reference to graveyards and provisions during Eid and Diwali caste politics. robust state responsive to the security and welfare University and Distinguished Professor, opment rather than either of the crematoriums in Mr. Modi’s festivals, but it certainly didn’t stop The strategy of reverse social en- Council for Social Development, New needs of the civilian population. Ultimately, any ight two State-based alternatives on of- Fatehpur speech repeated by BJP the BJP from continuing to make gineering that Mr. Shah scripted Delhi against non-state actors will be efective only when the state puts forward its combined might to exhibit what it can — and indeed must — provide to the people. Crimes of apartheid It’s complicated A new UN report should strengthen the global consensus against Israeli policy Turkey and the EU nations can’t aford to wait Netanyahu was in Washington, DC prayer in Israel and East Jerusalem. Israel that Ms. Bensouda would ac- recently to meet U.S. President Don- Matters would be less grave if the celerate her work. Others in Israel till the referendum to de-escalate tensions ald Trump. At that meeting, Mr. Israeli political system allowed said that there was nothing new in Trump seemed to disregard the in- Palestinians rights to make their the resolution, which neither used ntil Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ternational consensus towards the case against apartheid-like condi- the word ‘grave’ to describe the situ- started a high-voltage campaign for next creation of two states. In fact, as this tions. Article 7(a) of the Basic Law ation nor considered Israeli actions Umonth’s referendum on constitutional reforms vijay prashad report and others show, the two- prohibits any political party from to be a war crime. But the new re- state solution has been long viti- considering a challenge to the port does both. If it is acknowledged that give him more powers, relations between Ankara partheid is a powerful word, ated. The Israeli government’s il- state’s Jewish character. Since this that Israel is an apartheid state, and the European Union were relatively stable, though and the United Nations does legal Jewish settlement project in description of the Israeli state then this is tantamount to war not without glitches. Trouble started when Mr. Er- Anot use it loosely. But now, in the West Bank and its virtual annex- renders Palestinians as second- crime (in the 1977 Protocol Addi- dogan’s allies drew up plans to organise campaign ral- a report released on March 15 in ation of East Jerusalem makes it im- class citizens, their voting rights are tional to the Geneva Conventions) lies in European cities to mobilise support among the Beirut, Lebanon, the UN has pro- possible to imagine the establish- reduced to merely an airmation of and to a crime against humanity (in tens of thousands of Turks living in Europe who are eli- claimed that Israel ‘is guilty of the ment of Palestine in that region. their subordination. the 1973 Apartheid Convention and gible to vote in the April 16 referendum. Several crime of apartheid’. This is a very What exists is one state with an Since most of the world’s states the 1998 Rome Statute of the ICC). signiicant judgment, one with im- apartheid system, with Israeli Jews have signed the Convention Against European countries, including Austria, Switzerland portant ramiications for the UN, for in a dominant position over the Apartheid, they are now obliged to India’s reaction and the Netherlands, and some German towns, banned the International Court of Justice Palestinians. The new UN report act to punish instances of To prepare the ground for Prime such rallies, raising security concerns as well as fear of and for the international speaks to this disturbing apartheid apartheid. Two recommendations Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Is-

domestic political repercussions. Mr. Erdogan, how- community. situation not only in the Occupied GETTY IMAGES from the report stand out. First, the rael later this year, Foreign Secret- ever, turned this into a Turkey versus West spat. When In 2015, the UN Economic and Territory of the West Bank and East techniques of suppression and authors ask that the International ary S. Jaishankar will soon go to Is- German towns blocked the rallies, Mr. Erdogan accused Social Commission for Western Asia Jerusalem, but in all of Israel. expulsion. Criminal Court (ICC) investigate the rael. Word comes from the Ministry situation in Israel. The ICC’s Prosec- of External Afairs that it is likely the country of “Nazi practices”. When the Netherlands (ESCWA) was charged by its mem- Palestinians who have Israeli cit- ber-states to study whether Israel A ‘demographic threat’ izenship (ezrahut) do not have the utor Fatou Bensouda opened an in- that Mr. Modi will not visit the Occu- refused landing rights to a plane carrying Turkish For- has established an apartheid re- One reason why the Israeli govern- right to nationality (le’um), which vestigation on Israel’s 2014 bomb- pied Territory, which will be a snub eign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who was on his way to gime. ESCWA asked two American ment is unwilling to consider a one- means that they can only access in- ing of Gaza and on the illegal to Palestine. India’s overall reaction address a referendum rally, Mr. Erdogan called the academics — Richard Falk and Vir- state solution with equal rights for ferior social services, face restrict- settlements in the West Bank. to this report will deine Mr. Modi’s country “fascist” and “a Nazi remnant”. Ties between ginia Tilley — to undertake the all Israelis and Palestinians is what ive zoning laws, and ind them- Second, the report asks that mem- attitude towards Israel. The appear- the Netherlands and Turkey deteriorated rapidly there- study. The report that they have they call a ‘demographic threat’. If selves unable to freely buy land. All ber states allow ‘criminal prosecu- ance of this report — and its strong the 12 million Palestinians — exiles tions of Israeli oicials demon- conclusions — should give Mr. Modi after, with Ankara efectively removing the Dutch am- now produced makes the ‘grave Palestinians — whether those who charge’ that Israel is guilty of and refugees included — would be strably connected with the pause before he shreds decades of bassador. The Turkish government has also hinted that live in Haifa (Israel) or in Ain al-Hil- apartheid not only in the West citizens of this one state, then they weh (Lebanon) — sufer the con- practices of apartheid against the consensus for Palestine from India. it would scrap an agreement reached with Europe last Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem — would dwarf the six million Jews in sequences of Israeli apartheid. This Palestinian people’. year to curb the passage of migrants through Turkey in the Occupied Territory — but also the country. The UN report argues indignity is punctuated with laws When the UN Security Council Vijay Prashad, Professor of International return for inancial help from the EU. within its own boundaries and that Israel is a ‘racial regime’ be- that humiliate the Palestinians. The declared late last year that Israel’s Studies at Trinity College, is the author of The referendum is crucial for Mr. Erdogan’s ambi- against the Palestinian refugees. cause its institutions are premised latest law — the Muezzin Bill — im- settlements in the Occupied Territ- ‘The Death of the Nation and the Future of tious plans to overhaul Turkey’s political system. If he Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin on maintaining a Jewish nation by poses limits on the Muslim call to ory were illegal, there was worry in the Arab Revolution’ gets the reforms approved by a majority of voters, Tur- key would move towards a presidential system. He would then handpick his own cabinet and his Justice LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. and Development Party’s MPs and gain at least two ive- year terms uncontested. It is therefore unsurprising Largely oline still remains a pipe dream. campaign was announced be a success, we need to ■ Maternity beneits facilities to enhance that Mr. Erdogan is turning the diplomatic crisis into a According to Census 2011, In short, Digital India by the government, strange communicate the right The Central government’s opportunities for self- political battle to appeal to nationalist sections of the close to 69% of India’s cannot become a reality messages began to be message. decision to increase paid employment through electorate. But the crisis could have undesirable out- population lives in rural without providing digital circulated on social media. I Prasanth G. Narahari maternity leave for women household industries such areas. A lack of accessibility facilities and enabling found most of them to be Attavar, Mangaluru in the organised sector to 26 as easy credit, free skill comes. European leaders fear that Mr. Erdogan’s out- to efective digital e-literacy in every village. baling given my weeks is a progressive step training in the making of reach could help the anti-Muslim far-right parties in the infrastructure and Gagan Pratap Singh, background — I am an intern Prejudice and learning (Editorial – “Partial cover”, marketable products and continent. In the Netherlands, which went to the polls computing abilities is what Noida, Uttar Pradesh from a medical college in There is an urgent need to March 11). services, help in acquiring on Wednesday, the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, poses a major impediment Mangaluru who was sent to enlist experts to revamp the In this connection, one mobility through the use of has already questioned the “loyalty” of Dutch Muslims in creating a Digital India ■ The use of a personal a few schools on the existing education system must note that the World cycles or scooters and baby of Turkish origin and called for a tough response to Ank- (“On computing ability, computer, irrespective of it outskirts of the city to (“JNU student from TN ends Health Organisation had care centres near their ara. Mr. Erdogan might win short-term political di- rural India lost in the being in a rural or urban educate parents about MR. life”, March 14). The system also recommended homes would help woods”, March 15). Most setting, primarily depends For instance, we walked is impoverished and cannot exclusive breastfeeding of marginalised women retain vidends from this ongoing spat, but in the longer run he rural schools do not teach on one’s interest and into a classroom to tell ensure the holistic children for the irst 24 their jobs after childbirth. is endangering both Turkey’s ties with Europe and the computer education in the attitude and is not related to parents all they needed to development of children, weeks. Women labourers in the prospects of the hundreds of thousands of Turks living curriculum. It is time the the knowledge or capability know but found that those which leaves especially The move should be unorganised sector already in the continent. European countries could also have government made basic of a user. Another reason for in the room had already students from an expanded to the face obstacles in the form of avoided extreme reactions, such as refusing to give computer education low digitalisation is that made up their minds about underprivileged unorganised sectors as a discriminatory wages, lack landing rights to a plane carrying Turkey’s Foreign Min- mandatory and provided a most Indians are habituated what to tell us. They saw us background vulnerable. majority of the working of job security and denial of ister. Such escalation is politically unwise, given the computer in every village to interacting with people as agents of the government Children with educated women force is here. government facilities. school. Even though the rather than machines, trying to reduce the parents generally have a Besides maternity leave, Hence, if the government context in which Mr. Erdogan is running his campaign. penetration of smartphones which is in complete population in the name of robust internal defence mothers need nutritious resorts to inclusiveness in Instead, the Netherlands and other countries could is on the rise, most people contrast to what it is in the an MR campaign. In the mechanism and learn to food and medical facilities, rendering labour rights to have opted for direct engagement with Ankara to avoid are still ignorant about the West. end, we could convince a weather the inadequacies either free or at subsided these women workers, they a showdown. After all, Turkey and Europe need each use of digital transactions Kshirasagara Balaji Rao, few parents about the need embedded in the system. rates. The government would continue to other. The EU is Turkey’s largest trading partner. And and e-governance in rural as Hyderabad to vaccinate their children. Children who do not inherit should ensure these. contribute to GNP. Turkey is a NATO member. Both sides will be tested on well as urban India. The There are no side efects, such a mechanism fall prey Bobbili Sridhara Rao, Rameeza A. Rasheed, Vaccine misconceptions Hyderabad Chennai whether they can turn the focus to more positive as- programme to provide all but a few may develop fever to various maladies. gram panchayats with Soon after the measles which is self-limiting. For Nagarajamani M.V., pects of this complicated relationship. more letters online: optical ibre connections rubella vaccination the MR vaccine campaign to Hyderabad ■ I would also suggest that www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 OPED 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE An exit from Brexit? A battle settled from the start Last-hour promises couldn’t stem anti-incumbency against A second independence referendum for Scotland would open up a new bunch of questions the Congress in Uttarakhand. A BJP romp was inevitable to his Congress rival by a margin of over 49,000 votes in Ranikhet. The rebellion within the State unit of the BJP resulted from the unsuccessful attempt last year to topple the Rawat government. The party had to accommodate all nine Con- gress rebel MLAs, including former Chief vidya ram vipin pubby Minister Vijay Bahuguna. Those denied the party ticket to make way for the Congress In early March, British Prime Minis- The writings on the wall had long been clear rebels joined the Congress. Interestingly, al- ter Theresa May took to the stage in in Uttarakhand, with the Congress led by most 80% of the constituencies in the State Glasgow to address a gathering of Chief Minister Harish Rawat fighting a losing had rebels contesting against their party’s Scottish Conservatives as talk of a po- battle. And so it did not come as too much of candidates. tential second Scottish referendum a surprise when the Bharatiya Janata Party gathered pace. Mrs. May adopted a (BJP) romped home with the highest margin A targeted BJP campaign strategy of attack: lambasting the since the formation of the State 17 years ago. The BJP had several factors going in its fa- Scottish National Party (SNP) for Riding on the Modi wave, it bagged 57 of the vour. It pitched its campaign to target the “tunnel vision nationalism”, includ- 70 Assembly seats in the State, with the Con- youth, who make up more than half the ing in its approach to the EU referen- gress winning just 11. Mr. Rawat, who waged electorate. The party announced several dum. a lonely battle for his party, lost both the schemes for them including unemployment allowance and creation of jobs. It also an- The SNP had been highlighting the In the puzzle: “Leaving the union and joining the EU could prove a logistical nightmare, calling the current open border seats he contested. Even the president of the significance of retaining single mar- State unit of the party, Kishore Upadhyay, nounced many developmental schemes for between England and Scotland into question.” GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO ket access to the EU, but this, she lost his election. A majority of Mr. Rawat’s the State. said, clouded the fact that the U.K. referendum took place last year, whether it would take the highly contract investment from the financial Cabinet colleagues also bit the dust. domestic market was worth “four opinion on independence didn’t troversial step of doing so (particu- services sector, among others. Mr. Rawat had survived an attempt to times more to Scottish firms” than change dramatically from where it larly at a time it has emphasised tak- There are other factors at play too: topple his government last year after a sec- Europe. She then pointed to an ex- was in 2014, when just over 55% of ing back control and parliamentary while all political parties in Westmin- tion of Congress leaders joined hands with ample of what she believed could be the population said they wanted to sovereignty) remains to be seen. It is ster threw themselves into the “no” the opposition BJP. His government survived achieved outside the EU. She noted remain within the U.K. in the inde- thought more likely that it could campaign in 2014, their ability to do only after the intervention of the courts but that Scottish whisky represented just pendence referendum. push to hold the referendum after so is likely to be more constrained it was clear that he had lost popular support. a 1% share of the Indian market, Could that be about to change? Re- Britain leaves the EU, though Ms. this time round, particularly if Brexit The Rawat government faced several allega- thanks to a tariff of 150%. “I am decent polls have suggested a rise in Sturgeon has warned that this would negotiations are under way. Also tions of corruption and maladministration. termined we should do better than support for independence (to around be akin to puncturing a lifeboat after given the electoral impact in 2014 for Even during the attempted coup led by some that for our key industries,” she said. 50%), perhaps spurred by the an- sinking the ship. “I was elected as Labour of sharing a platform with of his colleagues last year, a sting operation “That’s why I led a major trade deleg- nouncement of the U.K. government [First Minister] on a clear manifesto the Conservatives (essentially elect- had allegedly exposed the Chief Minister ation to India last year, and why I was earlier this year that it would have no commitment…the [Prime Minister] is oral oblivion in Scotland), it is ques- himself offering to look the other way in ex- delighted to take the Scottish Whisky alternative but to leave the single not yet elected by anyone,” she tionable whether they would do so change of support to him. The issue is now Association with me.” market and the customs union — noted in a tweet earlier this week. again, particularly under the leader- being investigated under a directive from the That speech — delivered just over a seen as a kick in the teeth by the ship of Jeremy Corbyn. courts. week before Scottish First Minister Scottish government which in The factors at play According to Nighet Riaz, who Nicola Sturgeon’s momentous an- December published a White Paper The biggest question going forward headed “Scots Asians for Yes to an In- Ploughing a lonely furrow nouncement that she would be seek- setting out the case why it was essen- will be public appetite for independ- dependent Scotland” during the first Hardly any senior Congress leader cam- ing Scottish parliamentary approval tial for Scotland to retain unfettered ence. Downing Street has insisted referendum campaign and is cur- paigned in Uttarakhand. Even party vice- for a second referendum on inde- access to it. Dubbing the Westmin- that it does not exist, and there are rently standing for election as a president Rahul Gandhi addressed just a pendence — highlighted one of the ster government’s unwillingness to certainly factors that may make Scots councillor in Pollokshields, one of couple of election rallies, which too did not challenges facing Scotland, which engage on this issue as a “brick wall cautious about leaving the union, the most ethnically diverse wards of evoke much response. In an effort to woo the PTI will have to weigh up EU and U.K. of intransigence”, Ms. Sturgeon this such as the impact of the low oil Glasgow, while opinion on the EU large number of youth in the State, Mr. Uttarakhand has the distinction of con- membership should a new referen- week set out the case for a second price environment on the Scottish referendum was mixed within the Rawat announced an attractive but contro- tributing a disproportionately large number dum on independence go ahead. referendum. economy. Leaving the union and local community, there is a real con- versial ‘Berojgari bhatta’ (unemployment al- of personnel to the defence forces and other Her focus on the single market — joining the EU would also be a logist- cern about the future. “On the door- lowance) card promising one job per house- paramilitary forces. It also has a large num- More about market access rather than E.U. membership — is ical nightmare, calling the current step, we are hearing people asking, hold for those unemployed between the ages ber of retired personnel from these forces While Scotland voted decisively in fa- perhaps indicative of her awareness open border between England and ‘What does Brexit mean for us, our of 18 and 35, by 2020. settled in the State. The BJP’s campaign tar- vour of remaining in the EU (62% of that it is the risk of losing this rather Scotland into question. The West- jobs, our mortgages, and our day-to- The scheme also provided for a monthly geted the roughly 1.75 lakh such households, Scots voted to remain, against 55.8% than full-blown membership that is minster government is likely to play day living?’” She believes the cam- allowance of ₹2,500 for one jobless member which makes up a substantial vote bank in of Northern Ireland, 47.5% of Wales, likely to rile voters. on those concerns as well as high- paign for a second referendum is of each family for 36 months to all such card- the small hill State. The party pitched the and 46.6% of England), Brexit was as Exactly what question voters light the potential for industries such likely to gather momentum. holders. successful surgical strikes and never failed to divisive of the “yes” and “no” camps could face in a second referendum as the Scottish drinks industry within “Everything we were promised [in The Election Commission later directed mention the contribution of the State to- of the 2014 Scottish referendum as it on independence remains to be a U.K. unshackled by EU member- the first referendum] did not materi- the State authorities to stop the distribution wards the defence forces. The acceptance of was of communities across the U.K., seen. Ms. Sturgeon believes a refer- ship, with links to fast-growing Com- alise: we were told we would be of cards although over 10,000 people had re- the demand for ‘One Rank, One Pension’ says John Curtice, professor of polit- endum between autumn next year monwealth countries, and beyond. listened to, we were an important gistered within 48 hours of its launch. (OROP) also gained popular goodwill for the ics at the University of Strathclyde and spring 2019 would be ideal: by However, winning that argument part of the union, but we have been However, such last-hour promises failed party. and a noted pollster. this stage the shape of the Brexit ne- may prove tricky, given the already disregarded and ridiculed on the to cut much ice with the electorate, which The performance of the BJP in Ut- “Although a lot of people may gotiations is likely to be somewhat existing concerns about the future of same lines as before and during the turned out in huge numbers at Prime Minis- tarakhand is likely to have an impact on the have voted to remain in the EU, they clearer, enabling voters to make a sectors such as banking in a Britain referendum… we voted against ter Narendra Modi’s three major public ral- party’s fortunes in the neighbouring hill weren’t doing so with an enormous more informed choice. While the outside the EU. An independence Brexit and we are now getting lies in Uttarakhand. This, despite the fact State of Himachal Pradesh where elections enthusiasm that says we must stay U.K. government has the power to campaign is likely to emphasise the dragged out of the single market.” that the State unit of the BJP was in bad are due later this year. above everything else,” he adds. It’s block the referendum from happen- opportunities that remaining within shape and facing internal rebellion. In fact, one reason why even after the Brexit ing under current legislation, the single market could have to at- [email protected] State BJP president Ajay Bhatt eventually lost Vipin Pubby is a Chandigarh-based journalist

FIFTY YEARS AGO MARCH 16, 1967 A lost opportunity P.M.’s talks with Opposition leaders

How the Maternity Beneit Bill fails to The meeting which the Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, enable gender parity had with the leaders of the Opposition parties on the eve of the Fourth Lok Sabha failed to reach any agreement on several Veena Venugopal issues, particularly on the choice of the Speaker. It is learnt On March 9, a day after Interna- that the Communist Party (Marxist), the Praja Socialist Party, tional Women’s Day, Parlia- the Jan Sangh and the Samyukta Socialist Party whose leaders ment cleared the Maternity Be- attended this morning’s [March 15, New Delhi] meeting have neit (Amendment) Bill. Union informally agreed to the choice of Mr. Tenneti Viswanatham, Labour Minister Bandaru Dat- who has been elected to the Lok Sabha from Andhra, as the tatreya called it his “humble gift candidate for Speakership. The Swatantra Party, whose leader, to women.” Mr. Masani, attended the meeting, seems to be in favour of Mr. The Bill extends the period of Kunte, former Speaker of the Bombay Assembly, who has paid maternity leave for women been elected as an Independent candidate from Maharashtra.

GETTY IMAGES working in the organised sector But it is expected that the Swatantra may not object to Mr. Ten- to 26 weeks from the current 12. neti Viswanatham since all other Opposition parties seem to This is applicable to all organisations that employ 10 or more be agreed on him. people. Although on the face of it this is a Bill that will beneit women employees, in its implementation it is likely to ad- A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 16, 1917 versely impact women in the workplace. The gender ratio in A successful session corporate India is already highly lopsided. In 2015, women ac- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC counted for only 21% of the jobs at the entry level to managerial The Ninth Session of the Nambudiri Yogashema Sabha, the position, according to a report, From Intention to Impact, CONCEPTUAL FAQ representative association of the Nambudiris of Malabar, published by Catalyst, a non-proit organisation. Even as HR Cochin and Travancore was held at Trichur on Sunday and managers strive to increase the gender diversity in their organ- Modernism/ Comparing budgets Monday last in a huge pavilion put up for the occasion. The isations, they are wary about the added costs of hiring young, Arts & session was attended by about five hundred Nambudiris from fertile women. This extension of maternity leave to six months China’s arms spending versus that of the U.S. and India the different parts of Kerala. There were also a number of visit- will efectively double these costs and this is likely to result in Literature ors. Mr. Cherumukku Vaideekar Vasudevan Somayachipad much fewer women being employed in the corporate sector. Josy Joseph beefing up its military cap- operations and strategic presided. In progressive countries, at least a part of the maternity Modernism was the broad abilities in both conven- capabilities. However, Mr. Karur Damodaram Nambuduripad, the President of the movement in Western arts What is new about the costs are borne by the government. In India, this is entirely Chinese defence budget? tional and unconventional China would also be draw- Reception Committee, in an interesting speech welcomed the passed on to companies. There is both a direct as well as an in- and literature that gathered arenas. Most China observ- ing its lessons from the col- assembly. direct cost to long maternity leaves. “We have to also consider pace from around 1850 to On March 6, China an- ers believe that the total lapse of Soviet Union, last some 40 years. that, especially when teams are small, the cost of the absentee nounced its official defence spending by the country is which stretched its re- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC employee is borne by other employees, not so much in money, It was marked by a deliber- budget for 2017. With a rise significantly more than the sources in an arms race but in terms of working additional hours to make up for the ab- ate rejection and question- of 7%, the official spending official budget. It is well with the U.S. DATA POINT sence,” the HR head of a large organisation said. “Therefore, ing of past styles and prior on defence would be 1.044 known that much of the when we make a hiring decision, we have to think about the representations of human trillion yuan ($151.43 bil- Chinese spending on dual- What about India? impact that having several young women in a team will have life, emphasising instead lion, or about ₹10 lakh use capabilities is not ac- For 2017-18, Finance Minis- on the overall productivity of the team and the hidden costs innovation and experi- crore) in 2017, a spokeswo- counted as military ter Arun Jaitley has alloc- that the organisation has to bear.” mentation in terms of man for the National spending. ated ₹3,59,854 crore Also, India’s leaking pipeline – the number of women who forms, materials and tech- People’s Congress an- (roughly $53.5 billion) to quit their jobs between junior and middle levels – is 50%, com- niques to create works that nounced in an effort to dis- Would it be instructive to the Ministry of Defence, pared to the average of 29% in Asia. This also implies that the better reflected modern so- pel global concerns about compare China’s defence which is a third of the number of women who avail their maternity beneits and yet ciety. Ezra Pound’s reitera- lack of transparency in budget to that of the U.S.? Chinese defence budget. do not resume their jobs is rather high, adding to the cost con- tion to ‘Make it New!’ was Chinese defence spending. Observers were surprised Some part of the Indian cerns of their recruiters. the standard of the move- The figure was omitted a by the increase in defence budget would be spent in That said, some of the other provisions in the Bill are encour- ment’s approach towards day earlier from the annual spending, especially given catching up with the mod- aging and if implemented well, will help young mothers stay in what it saw as the culture budget report released by that American President ern infrastructure and mil- the workplace. For example, organisations which employ of the past. Those three the Ministry of Finance. Donald Trump proposes a itary capabilities across the more than 30 women (or 50 people, whichever is less) will words are indeed assumed The modest budget in- 10% increase in military border. However, much of now have to provide a crèche. The mother is allowed to visit to sum up most of what crease was surprising, es- spending, though the U.S. New Delhi’s plans to the crèche four times during the day. Also, mothers who adopt modernism stands for. pecially since President Xi has wound up most of its counter China’s growing babies are entitled to 12 weeks of paid maternity leave. Jinping, who chairs the major foreign operations, military strength is shelved Central Military Commis- and the growing tension already. India’s first Moun- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Forgotten fathers CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC sion, is undertaking a com- between the two countries. tain Strike Corps, meant Where the Bill fails utterly though, is in its complete negli- MORE ON prehensive overhaul of the Pentagon’s budget, pro- for China operations, is gence of the roles of fathers. Not only is this a lost opportunity military to turn it into a posed in the last week of now scaled down, the IAF to make some provisions for gender parity, it also works as a THE WEB 3 nimble, modern force. February, is $603 billion. is struggling to meet the double whammy against women, by heaping all parental re- While China inhabits a far huge shortage of fighters, sponsibilities exclusively on her. It further pushes the argu- On South India and its Is the figure reliable? more complex neighbour- and the Navy does not even ments of both comparative costs of hiring women versus men, many women Carnatic The officially announced hood, it is nowhere near have enough capital budget as well as ties women down to the primary role of being child- singers figure may not fully reflect the U.S. in terms of military to pay for committed care providers and not professionals in the workplace. http://bit.ly/CarnaticMusicSouthIndia the Chinese spending in capabilities, expeditionary liabilities.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Congress rocks RS over Goa, Manipur NIA hunts for 5 men Opposition members raise voice against ‘stealing of mandate’ in both States, demand removal of Governors from T.N. for IS links Special Correspondent and Manipur, the BJP had in- the elections in a democracy some years back his party, New Delhi stalled its governments should be accepted and re- despite getting 30 seats in He had alleged at a press Kashmir Valley but they The Rajya Sabha failed to through their Governors spected by all. He also de- the 81-member Assembly, conference that the NIA was were caught at the Nagpur function on Wednesday, “after violating the Constitu- manded that the House ad- was not invited to form the forcing him to become a wit- airport. after the Congress forced tion and the Supreme Court opt a resolution against the government; instead, the ness against a few suspects, “All this while they were three adjournments, vocifer- judgment.” role of the two Governors. JMM with 17 seats had who were arrested from Hy- available and evidence was ously protesting against the He, therefore, demanded If the Congress protested formed the government derabad in July for alleged being collected against “stealing of the mandate” in “that the Governors of Goa against the “undemocratic” along with some other activities supporting the IS. them. As soon as a case Manipur and Goa. and Manipur be removed manner in which the BJP had parties. Fakkrudeen and his family was registered against Its contention was that it and Congress Chief Ministers formed governments in Goa In 1998 too, when the Va- became citizens of Singapore them in January this year, was not invited to form the be allowed to take oath in and Manipur, the latter main- jpayee government was six years ago. all of them have slipped off government even though it both States.” tained that all democratic formed, he said, the then In November 2013, he, the radar. At least two left had emerged as the single norms were followed. President had also spelt out along with his wife and three the country in the past two largest party in the two House adjourned the option of an alternative children, went to Syria, but years,” said the official. States, albeit short of a ma- With the BJP not conceding Jaitley’s explanation coalition to be taken into ac- came back to India as he An FIR filed by the NIA jority. any ground and the Congress Crying foul: Opposition members protest in the well of the Finance Minister and Leader count in government could not establish any con- said: “A group of nine per- Congress MPs, who raised sticking to its line, the House Rajya Sabha in New Delhi on Wednesday. PTI/ TV GRAB of the Rajya Sabha Arun Jait- formation. tact with IS operatives there. sons — eight hailing from the issue as soon as the was adjourned finally for the ley, rejecting all allegations “When the alternative co- In Syria, he is reported to Tamil Nadu and one from House met for the day, dayataround3.10p.m. MLAs to form the govern- a Zero Hour mention after of wrongdoing, pointed out alition has a clear majority have stayed with some Telangana — and some stormed the well, shouting Earlier, citing rulings of ment and prove its majority his notice under rule 267 that the Governor had only and they have written to and Chechen Mujahideen. other unknown persons, slogans, even as Leader of the Supreme Court’s Consti- in the House. If it had failed seeking the setting aside of two options — that of inviting presented themselves before with the intention to fur- the Opposition Ghulam Nabi tution benches, the Congress to get the requisite numbers, the business was converted, the single largest party or the the Governor, there is no Untraceable since 2014 ther the activities of Daesh/ Azad stressed that despite stressed the Governor was then the BJP could have been Congress Deputy Leader alternative coalition. scope of inviting a minority On January 22, 2014, he left Islamic State, a banned ter- the Congress emerging as the bound to invite the party called, the party said. Anand Sharma said the Citing the example of in a democracy,” Mr. Jaitley Chennai for Syria through rorist organisation in India, single largest party in Goa with the largest number of Raising the issue through people’s mandate through Jharkhand, he recalled that explained. Turkey and has been un- hatched a criminal conspir- traceable since. Damoodi had acy in Chennai and other earlier funded three men parts of the country by from Hyderabad who had at- forming a terrorist gang tempted twice to flee India. which raised and received In Manipur Cabinet, From footballer to Chief Minister They first tried to go to funds, organised camps, Syria through Bangladesh recruited and trained some and Afghanistan. When they persons, and facilitated allies get lion’s share A former Congressman, Biren Singh joined BJP just ive months before polls were caught, a second at- their travel to Syria to join tempt was made to go to the the IS.” Shiv Sahay Singh 1993”, he said. From 1993 to berth he refused to accept it. Congress MLA’s defection helps BJP Imphal 2002, he said that he was as- He left the Congress to Nongthombam Biren Singh, sociated with the regional join the BJP in October 2016, Special Correspondent Singh beingappointed as who on Wednesday was newspaper called Naharlogi hardly five months before Suspense over U.P., Kolkata deputy Chief Minister. The sworn in as the first Bhar- Thoudang (Responsibilities of the 2017 Assembly polls. N. Biren Singh was sworn in lawmaker from Uripok con- atiya Janata Party ( BJP) Chief Youth). as the first BJP Chief Minis- stituency is the former Dir- Minister of Manipur, is a During his stint as the ed- Dark horse in the BJP Uttarakhand CMs ter of Manipur at Raj Bhavan ector General of Police, Ma- politician who has donned itor of the paper, he also had Though relatively new in the in Imphal on Wednesday. nipur. Three others many hats. a brush with the law when he party, his elevation as the The party’s parliamentary safe pair of hands in terms Having come to power legislators of NPP, L. Jay- A graduate from Manipur was arrested for publishing a leader of the BJP legislature board had on Sunday even- of administration and also with the support of three re- antakumar, N. Koyisi and L. University in Arts, Mr. Singh statement in April 2000 party on Monday has been ing passed a resolution leav- does not represent a numer- gional parties and a dissid- Haokip, have also been in- hails from Luwangsangbam which the police claimed was because of a host of factors ing the choice of CMs in ically dominant social group ent member from the Con- cluded in the Cabinet. Mamang Leikai, a rural area “anti-national and seditious”. including the defeat of BJP both States to Mr. Shah. which could be an advant- gress, the new government in Imphal East district and heavyweights like Thounao- “That is the reason why age in a situation where has accommodated its dif- An important ally has been representing Once an aide of Ibobi jam Chaoba Singh, a veteran central observers [also ap- there are competing com- ferent allies in the Cabinet, Naga People’s Front’s Losi Heingang Assembly constitu- He was once considered a politician and BJP State pres- pointed during Sunday’s munity interests to take care even if it meant fewer berths Dikho, an MLA from Mao, ency in the district since close aide of Okram Ibobi ident. Just before the polls K. meeting of the parliament- of. for the BJP. was given a Cabinet berth. 2002. New role: Biren Singh was Singh. He was the spokesper- Joykishan, a prominent BJP ary board] Venkaiah Naidu Mr. Maurya, hailing from The party has four members The 56-year-old politician, sworn in as the Manipur CM son for the Manipur govern- leader switched sides and and Bhupendra Yadav have a non-Yadav OBC back- Two for BJP in the House. Karan Shyam, who has been a national-level on Wednesday. PTI ment between 2007 to 2012 joined the Congress. not been despatched to Luc- ground that came out in Of the nine Cabinet berths the only MLA from Lok Jan- footballer, served in the cent- and later spokesperson for Politicians and people cut- know yet to ascertain the huge numbers to support including that of Chief Min- shakti Party and Congress ral paramilitary forces and was handed the portfolios of the Congress. ting across party lines in Ma- views of the MLAs on who the BJP in these polls, has ister, BJP MLAs were given MLA from Andro constitu- also worked as an editor of a Irrigation and Flood Control However things started nipur, describe Mr. Biren should be their leader,” said the advantage of a com- only two posts. The only ency T. Shyamkumar who local newspaper. along with Youth Affairs and changing after 2012, when in Singh as a very accessible asource. munity base that the party other legislator from the BJP has defected to the BJP, Speaking to The Hindu, Sports,” he said. the last term of the Congress and friendly person. would like to see attached to to get a Cabinet berth was were also among the list of Mr. Singh said his foray into government, he could not “I assure the people that Front runners it beyond these polls. prominent party leader T. Ministers. It was the defec- active politics began in June Served in BSF make it into Mr. Ibobi Singh’s our team will bring good gov- Besides Mr. Rajnath Singh, “It is rather ironic that Biswajit Singh, an MLA from tion of Mr. Shyamkumar, 2001, when he along with Speaking about life before Cabinet. Sources in the Con- ernance to the people of Ma- front runners for the CM’s States where the mandate Thongu constituency. who was expelled by the other leaders started the politics, he talked about his gress say that in the last nipur,” he told journalists. post in U.P. include Union was unclear like Goa and The National People’s Congress during the day, Democratic Revolutionary love for sports and journal- quarter of 2016, he and cer- His first task will be clear- Minister for Telecommunic- Manipur, have already seen Party (NPP) which was set that had tilted the balance in People’s Party. Subsequently ism. “I got into the BSF tain others lobbied for a Cab- ing the blockade on the Na- ations Manoj Sinha and the installation of a govern- up by former Lok Sabha favour of the BJP. he joined the Congress. through sports quota and inet reshuffle. In the re- tional Highways which has State BJP chief Keshav ment, but not where Speaker P.A. Sangma, go- In the 60-member House, “After joining the Congress sports, particularly football, shuffle, only three Cabinet crippled the State for over Prasad Maurya. everything is clear,” said a four berths in the Cabinet, the Congress won 28 seats in 2003, I was Minister of remains my first love. I ministers could be dropped. four months, following cre- Mr. Sinha is considered a party leader. with Yumnan Joykumar and the BJP 21. State for Vigilance. Later, I served the BSF from 1979 to When offered a Cabinet ation of new districts. Bigger role Kejriwal, Mayawati up the ante against EVMs ‘Attacks on Indians for PHCs in isolated incidents’ health policy Delhi CM claims 25% of AAP votes may have gone to SAD-BJP; BSP chief threatens to take EC to court

Press Trust of India Staff Reporter Kejriwal claimed that around said that her party would be Case discussed in detail, says Sushma New Delhi NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW 20 to 25% of its votes may hitting the streets in Uttar The government on Wed- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind have been transferred to the Pradesh to protest against Special Correspondent nesday approved the Na- Kejriwal on Wednesday SAD-BJP coalition as the EVMs and their alleged tam- New Delhi tional Health Policy, which joined Bahujan Samaj Party EVMs were tampered with. pering. She too had an ex- The recent hate attacks proposes to provide “as- (BSP) chief Mayawati in cast- “The poll result is beyond planation for why she wasn’t against members of the In- sured health services to ing doubts over the working understanding and raises a mentioning the results in dian community in the U.S. all” in the country. of Electronic Voting Ma- big question mark on the re- states like Goa and Manipur were isolated actions of a Government sources chines (EVMs) after his liability of EVMs as political or even Punjab in her (where few individuals and do not said the Union Cabinet, party’s poor show in Punjab. analysts across the spectrum BJP didn’t fare well). represent the sentiment of chaired by Prime Minister Ms. Mayawati went a step had predicted a landslide “Had they done the same the American people to- Narendra Modi, gave its further and announced in win for AAP,” he said. Mr. in other States they would wards India, External Affairs nod to the policy which Lucknow that her party Kejriwal refrained from men- not have been able to give a Minister Sushma Swaraj said had been pending for the would be taking the Election tioning Goa, where his party proper reply to questions on Wednesday. last two years. Commission of India (ECI) to drew a blank. raised by people and would Speaking in the Lok court over alleged tampering have been caught easily,” she Sabha , Ms. Swaraj said the Sushma Swaraj arrives in the Minister to speak today of EVMs and observe a Raising suspicion Ballot battle: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal and AAP leader Sanjay said, adding they did not in- government has discussed Lok Sabha on Wednesday, Union Minister J.P. Nadda “black day” every month Mr. Kejriwal claimed that in Singh addressing the media in New Delhi. V. SUDERSHAN dulge in tampering in smaller such attacks at the highest three months after a kidney is likely to make a suo motu over what she termed the some of the booths in Pun- States as they had to keep levels of diplomacy with the transplant. R.V. MOORTHY statement in Parliament on “murder of democracy.” jab, the number of votes AAP ning victory in 2015 polls in in tampering. The same something for their defence. U.S. and has been assured of Thursday, elaborating on The Aam Aadmi Party got was even less than its vo- Delhi, Mr. Kejriwal said that would explain the victory of “They got this victory an investigation into the Ms. Swaraj said the U.S. the salient features of the (AAP), headed by Mr Kejri- lunteers deployed there, it may have got to do with JD(U)-RJD in Bihar. Even then through tampering of EVMs causes behind the incidents. had condemned these at- policy. wal won 20 seats in the 117- adding that it has raised sus- BJP’s ‘over-confidence’ that BJP was very sure of winning and this win smacks of dis- “People-to-people con- tacks at the highest levels. Health Ministry sources member Assembly with a picion of foul play. Asked it would clinch a victory. “So the State,” he said. honesty, fraud and murder tacts are the foundation on “The Government has taken said that in a major shift, vote share of 24.9%. Mr. what explains AAP’s stun- they may not have indulged Ms. Mayawati in Lucknow of democracy,” she alleged. which the India-U.S. stra- up this issue with the U.S. the policy increases the tegic partnership has been Government at very high gambit of sectors covered built. Broad sections of the levels and conveyed our in the Primary Health American society have ex- deep concerns. We have Centre (PHC) level and en- Voting machines are pressed their deep sorrow called for necessary meas- visages a comprehensive Clear all doubts on EVMs, over these incidents reas- ures to ensure the safety of approach. sures us that despite these [the] Indian diaspora and “For example, till now, foolproof, says expert individual incidents, the expeditious investigation the PHCs were only for im- Quraishi tells poll panel American society values the into these incidents.” munisation, ante-natal people-to-people engage- The response came after Devesh K. Pandey check-ups and others. A demonstrate how they can ment between our two a series of attacks on Indi- New Delhi major policy shift is that ‘It will be good if subsequent elections have paper trail’ be tampered with. One hun- countries,” said Ms. Swaraj ans in the U.S.. In the first at- now it will also include It is impossible to hack the dred EVM samples were ran- in her statement. tack in Kansas on February screening for non-commu- Nistula Hebbar machines. “That would re- Electronic Voting Machines domly collected from 10 22, an IT professional, nicable diseases and a New Delhi quire two million machines, (EVMs) used by the Election States for the purpose. None A warm welcome Srinivas Kuchibhotla, was whole lot of other aspects,” Former Chief Election Com- as of now one million should Commission, owing to the of the claimants were able to Ms. Swaraj, who made her shot dead. It also left his col- according to a senior missioner S.Y. Quraishi has have been manufactured. It technology used and the ad- prove that the machines first appearance in Parlia- league injured. On March 2, official. asked the Election Commis- would be good if subsequent ministrative processes that could be hacked. ment three months after she Harnish Patel, a U.S. na- sion of India (ECI) to “pro- elections be held with have been put in place for underwent a kidney trans- tional of Indian origin was Upgrade of hospitals actively and aggressively” VVPAT machines,” says Mr. their secure handling, says C- No modification possible plant, was greeted by her shot dead in South Carolina. The source said that under counter the doubts raised by Quraishi, who has authored DAC Director-General Rajat Mr. Moona says: “EVMs do colleagues with a spontan- The third attack on March 4 the new policy, there leaders of various political the book The Undocumented Moona, who is part of the not have any communication eous applause. injured Deep Rai. would also be a bigger fo- parties regarding tampering Wonder: The Great Indian Technical Expert Committee device. They don’t have even cus on upgrading of district of Electronic Voting Ma- Election. on EVMs. an antenna and therefore, hospitals. chines (EVM). Bahujan Samaj Party chief Dr. Moona says the allega- any device from outside can- The health policy, which Speaking exclusively to S.Y. Quraishi Mayawati and Delhi Chief tions made by political not be connected to them has been pending for the The Hindu, Mr. Quraishi says Minister Arvind Kejriwal parties are unsubstantiated wirelessly. To say that they past two years, aims to while there can be no doubt raised doubts over the EVMs have questioned the credib- and the claims are being can be modified is a com- provide assured health ser- about the integrity of the but kept quiet when they ility of EVMs after massive made only for publicity. “Our pletely false claim.” vices to people as an elections being held under won, instead of eating their losses in the recent polls. EVMs are the best in the On the claims that some “entitlement”. the aegis of the ECI, the mes- words. It’s the voter who “When you win, EVMs are world. No other such device University of Michigan re- A Cabinet note, which sage should be conveyed to needs to be conveyed the right. When you lose, EVMs comes close to our machines. searchers had demonstrated had been given earlier, the people, more than the facts.” are wrong. This shows that We have verified them sev- how they had “hacked” the however, had not talked political parties. He added that the ECI had there are some defects in eral times,” he says. EVMs used in India, as repor- about making health a “The ECI should commu- also undertaken, before the you [Mayawati],” Union Min- Following similar allega- ted by the BBC in 2010, Mr. “fundamental right” as it nicate it to the people so that Supreme Court, that the ister M. Venkaiah Naidu tions, the Election Commis- Moona says: “We had invited would have “legal con- there is no doubt among the 2019 general elections would said. “You should gracefully sion had in 2009 invited them, but they could not sequences” but proposed people. All political parties be held using Voter-Verified accept the people’s man- those who had expressed re- prove it. None of the allega- assured health services. at one time or another have Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) date,” he added. servations about the EVMs to tions were provable at all.” CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 NEWS 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF New Delhi gets busy with VIP visits ‘Put an end to Prime Ministers of Malaysia, Bangladesh and Australia expected to travel in March and April bottom trawling’ Suhasini Haidar Saudi government had on trade and investment as ter, Nitish Kumar, has op- NEW DELHI earlier proposed his visit to well as further enhancement posed. Sri Lankan leader for ishermen talks After months of “go-slow” India at the end of February, of defence and strategic ties, Australian Prime Minister Farooq to contest LS due to the Assembly elec- at the beginning of his mega sources said. Turnbull will make his first Kallol Bhattacherjee tions, the government is pre- 7-nation tour to Malaysia, In- visit to India in the “first NEW DELHI bypolls from Srinagar paring for a series of incom- donesia, Japan, China, etc. Water-sharing deals half” of coming April, offi- The fishermen issue SRINAGAR ing and outgoing visits of which will end in the Mal- Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasi- cials on both sides told The between India and Sri Formally announcing a pre- Hindu poll alliance, the National leaders in the next few dives, but New Delhi had not na’s visit, on April 7-10 has . Lanka has a better chance of Conference and the Congress weeks, with Malaysian Prime confirmed dates due to the been much anticipated after The big ticket item both resolution if left to the fish- on Wednesday decided to Minister Najib Razak, ongoing Assembly polls in she put it off twice, in countries have been pursu- erfolk on both sides, said R. field Farooq Abdullah from Bangladesh PM Sheikh Has- five States. December 2016 and Febru- ing is a free trade or Compre- Sampanthan, Leader of the Srinagar and Ghulam Ahmad ina, and Australian PM Mal- ary this year, due to hensive Economic Coopera- Opposition in Sri Lankan Mir from Anantnag for the colm Turnbull expected to Tight schedule “scheduling difficulties”, un- tion Agreement, that is Parliament, on Wednesday. Lok Sabha byelections. At a travel to New Delhi in March While dates in April are now derstood to be because she already more than a year be- He said the governments joint press conference, NC and April. being discussed, diplomats Sheikh Hasina had wanted to have a “sub- hind the deadline set by Mr. should ensure an end to bot- working president Omar Officials confirmed that on both sides confirmed, stantive agreement” on wa- Modi and former Australian tom trawling while leaving R. Sampanthan Abdullah said, “The alliance is discussions are also being they may be postponed to ited Kuala Lumpur. The ter sharing. PM Tony Abbott. the issues of daily import- not a compulsion but a held for a possible visit of October, given both the Malaysian Prime Minister While officials would not Meanwhile, Mr. Modi’s ance to the fishermen. Sumanthiran has now be- strategy to emerge as Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Saudi King and Prime Minis- visited India in January 2010 confirm whether a break- “outgoing” calendar is also “There is no space for vi- come a government Bill in winners in the by-polls.” Aziz to India, but as he is ter Narendra Modi’s busy when both countries signed through was expected on filling up, with visits planned olence in dealing with the the Sri Lankan Parliament. currently wrapping up one schedule for the next few a Strategic Partnership either the Teesta water to Sri Lanka, followed by a fishermen’s issue between Various provinces of the Central govt. hikes DA tour to Asia this month, he months. agreement and then in agreement that has faced visit to Germany and Russia the two countries. As far as country have given their by 2% from January 1 may not be able to carry out Mr. Razak is expected to December 2012 for an resistance from the West for Inter-governmental Com- India is concerned, it must consent to the Bill which is NEW DELHI a visit again until “later this be in Delhi for a visit from ASEAN-India Summit. Bengal government or the mission meetings and the St. ensure that bottom trawling likely to be adopted by the The Centre on Wednesday year”. March 30-April 4 that comes Mr. Razak’s trip is expec- Ganga barrage agreement Petersburg forum respect- is stopped as this has devast- end of the month. increased dearness allowance Sources said that the two years after Mr. Modi vis- ted to see announcements which the Bihar Chief Minis- ively. ated Sri Lankan fishing com- “Fishing is an issue of and dearness relief to 4% munities, and fishermen on livelihood and issues related from existing 2% from both sides should hold dia- to this should be left to the January 1, 2017, benefiting logue to resolve territorial fishermen on both sides. 48.85 employees and 55.51 and fishing issues of daily The governments has a role lakh pensioners. The MoP may have OPS meets CEC to stake significance,” Mr. in enforcing rules that will statement said that the Sampanthan, Leader of the help in ensuring sustainable combined impact on the Tamil National Alliance fishing practices,” Mr. exchequer would be (TNA), said in a chat with Sampanthan said on the ₹5,857.28 crore per annum security clause claim for AIADMK symbol The Hindu and ₹6,833.50 crore in the . sidelines of a conference on Financial Year 2017-18. PTI counter-terrorism that was SC Collegium seems willing to add it ‘Sasikala’s appointment as party general secretary invalid’ Trawling Bill held in Delhi. Kharge set to become Mr. Sampanthan’s com- Sri Lanka also has hun- Legal Correspondent of India. Chief Justice B. Muralidhar Reddy Mr. Panneerselvam said ments about the bottom dreds of bottom trawlers, next PAC Chairman NEW DELHI Khehar has repeatedly given NEW DELHI Sasikala’s appointment as trawling comes in the back- especially in the Northern NEW DELHI The Supreme Court Col- positive signals — once in A delegation led by former AIADMK general secretary drop of his party’s push to Province, that will be The Congress’s floor leader in Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun legium may have arrived at a open court and the other at Tamil Nadu Chief Minister was invalid since she was ban the bottom trawlers banned once Bill is passed. Kharge, is all set to become consensus with the Union a function last week — that O. Panneerselvam called on not elected as per the party from the waters around Sri The issue is at the centre of the next chairman of the government’s proposal to in- he would have the MoP final- Chief Election Commis- constitution. Lanka which will be intro- political controversy in Sri Public Accounts Committee clude the contentious “na- ised soon. sioner Nazim Zaidi here on “We want to explain to duced in the Colombo’s Par- Lanka as it is believed that (PAC). Mr. Kharge will tional security” clause in the Sources recently indic- Wednesday, and staked the CEC why the symbol liament on March 17. banning the practice will in- succeed his party colleague draft Memorandum of Pro- ated that the national secur- claim for the AIADMK’s should be granted to us be- The Bill which was intro- crease pressure on India to K.V. Thomas, who will cedure (MoP) for appoint- ity clause was no longer a “two leaves” symbol. fore the filing of nomina- duced by TNA MP M.A. do the same. complete his third term as ment of judges. roadblock. Under Chief His group had sought a tions for the R.K. Nagar con- Chairman of PAC on April 30. The clause, which gives Justice Khehar’s immediate meeting with the CEC to stituency begins on The chair of the PAC, given to veto power to the govern- predecessor, Justice T.S. claim that the appointment Thursday,” said a Mr. Pan- an MP of the main Opposition ment to reject a name re- Thakur had time and again of V.K. Sasikala as AIADMK neerselvam loyalist. ED notices to Geelani, party, will also entitle Mr. commended by the Col- made strong observations general secretary was illegal O. Panneerselvam The Panneerselvam fac- Kharge to a Cabinet rank. PTI legium, has been a bone of against perceived govern- and in violation of the party tion sent its reply as sought contention, delaying the fi- ment inaction. constitution. dium chairman by the CEC to the submis- Malik on cash seizures nalisation of the MoP. Addressing the media Madhusudanan select the sions made by Sasikala re- 7,059 Indian nationals The clause may find a Thaw in strained ties after the meeting, Mr. Pan- party candidate and allot us cently. AIADMK Rajya Sabha Devesh Pandey Kashmir. The case involving lodged in foreign jails place in the new memor- However, in the past two neerselvam said, “Amma the ‘two leaves’ symbol,” he member V. Maitreyan sent a New Delhi Mr. Malik was detected in NEW DELHI andum, provided the gov- months of Chief Justice [Jayalalithaa] had always said. 61-page reply to the EC. The Enforcement Director- 2002 when the police seized As many as 7,059 Indian ernment revert to the Col- Khehar’s taking over, there been against family rule. The EC had asked the ate has served notices on $1 lakh from one Mushtaq nationals are lodged in legium with specific and has been a perceptible thaw. However, the Sasikala group April 12 byelection OPS group to reply to two Kashmiri separatist Ahmed Dar and his wife foreign jails, the Lok Sabha detailed objections against a Though both the judiciary has again established family The R.K. Nagar seat fell va- Sasikala’s submission sent leaders S.A.S. Geelani and Sahazia Rasool. They al- was informed on Wednesday. name under the national se- and the government have rule by nominating [her cant after Jayalalithaa’s on March 10. The EC had re- Yasin Malik in connection legedly disclosed that they In a written reply, Minister of curity clause. maintained that the pen- nephew] Dinakaran.” death on December 5. turned the reply given by with separate cases of al- had got the currencies in State for External Affairs dency of the MoP would not “We asked the Election Sasikala has nominated the Mr. Dinakaran stating that it leged seizure of foreign cur- Nepal, through one Altaf V.K. Singh said that due to strict provisions of privacy Little progress stand in the way of judicial Commission to allow officer- party’s deputy general sec- should rightfully be sent by rency worth $1.1 lakh. Qadri of All-Parties Hurriyat laws, the U.S., Canada, The MoP draft was handed appointments, an amicable bearers appointed by the retary and her nephew, Sasikala. In both the cases, under Conference. Australia and many countries over to the collegium in Au- resolution in that issue then AIADMK general sec- T.T.V. Dinakaran, as candid- The OPS faction has ex- the Foreign Exchange Man- The notice to Mr. Geelani in Europe do not share gust 2016. But no progress would clear the air on the retary, Jayalalithaa, to con- ate for the April 12 byelec- plained in detail the devel- agement Act, most of the pertains to the alleged information about Indian was made in resolving the procedure for appointments tinue until a new person is tion. Jayalalithaa’s niece opments that preceded documents were pur- seizure of $10,000 from his nationals lodged in their differences till J.S. Khehar of judges to the higher appointed to the post. We Deepa Jayakumar is also in Sasikala’s appointment as portedly damaged in the residence by the Income- prisons. PTI took over as the Chief Justice judiciary. urged the panel to let presi- the fray. general secretary. 2014 floods in Jammu and Tax Department in 2002.

BJP wins one BJP win raises hope of more seat in Dadri murder accused Uttarakhand Staff Reporter Dehradun Kin believe that new govt. will help them get ‘justice’ With the result of the Lo- haghat seat being an- Mohammad Ali would get justice and get bail nounced on Wednesday, Meerut and also that the cow, which the BJP’s tally in the Ut- we consider our mother, tarakhand Assembly elec- With a BJP government as- killed by Akhlaq would get tions rose to 57. Re-polling suming charge in Uttar Pra- ‘justice’,” he said. was held in the Karnk- desh soon, Bishahra village arayat booth in the con- in Dadri is again talking of Cow slaughter case stituency as an EVM had the September 2016 killing Last year, the Greater Noida malfunctioned on the ori- of Mohammad Akhlaq. police registered a case of al- ginal day of polling. Puran Akhlaq was lynched over leged cow slaughter against Singh Fartyal won the seat, rumours of cow slaughter. Mohammad Akhlaq, his defeating the Congress The families of the murder wife, Ikraman, mother, candidate by 834 votes. accused believe that a BJP Mohammad Akhlaq Asghari, brother Jaan Mo- In the final tally, the BJP government will not oppose hammad, daughter, has 57 seats and the Con- bail for those lodged in jail. and Gaurav. Mr. Kumar ex- Shaishta, and son, Danish, gress 11. Two seats went to “The Samajwadi Party pressed hope that the “in- under the U.P. Cow Protec- Independents. The Con- government was biased vestigative agencies will now tion Act, 1955. gress has been left without against us in the way the look at the case in a fresh Later, the Allahabad High a leader in the State after case of cow slaughter was way and not be biased Court granted immunity the outgoing Chief Minis- handled by the investigative against the innocent chil- from arrest to them till the ter, Harish Rawat, was de- agencies. That is why a false dren and oppose their bail.” “conclusion of police invest- feated in Haridwar Rural case has been filed against Sanjay Rana, a local BJP igation” in the alleged cow and Kichha. our children for doing some- leader whose son and slaughter case. The court In the BJP, the current thing in which the entire nephew are among the ac- had refused to stay the ar- challenge is that of decid- crowd took part. Cow is an cused, said people expected rest of Jaan Mohammad. ing a Chief Minister. emotional matter, and if that the BJP’s victory would BJP leaders like Sangeet Sources said Chaubat- someone kills a cow, then it “lead to justice in both the Som and Yogi Adityanath takhal MLA Satpal Maharaj, is bound to make a Hindu’s cases”. had raised the issue of cow Pithoragarh MLA Prakash blood boil,” said Om Kumar, “Residents of Bishahra slaughter and the SP’s al- Pant and Doiwala MLA an electrician and father of voted for the BJP in the hope leged bias towards “cow Trivendra Singh Rawat two of the accused, Saurav that their innocent children killers”. were being considered. ‘Disallow lawmakers from Raj Babbar ofers to practising other professions’ resign

Press Trust of India Petition in SC seeks to impose curbs on lawmakers New Delhi Uttar Pradesh Congress Legal Correspondent lawmakers. Many legislators restricting our legislators to chief Raj Babbar has NEW DELHI who double up as advocates practice other professions as offered to resign, taking A petition has been filed in are even retainers of big cor- similar to the restriction immoral responsibility for the the Supreme Court seeking porate bodies entities, giving posed on public servants poll debacle in the State, to ban legislators from prac- rise to a situation of conflict and members of the judi- amid demands for struc- tising other professions, in- of interest between their ciary... many lawmakers tural changes and fixing re- cluding as advocates. constitutional duties as a le- hold corporate retainership sponsibility in the party. The petition, filed by ad- gislator and a lawyer meant and defend their lawbreaker Mr. Babbar also echoed vocate Ashwini Kumar Upad- to vouchsafe client interests. clients in courts. It is not Rahul Gandhi on the need hyay, said the restriction im- “We cannot curb corrup- only immoral, unethical but for making structural posed on public servants tion without having a uni- also violation of the Rule 49 changes to strengthen the and judges against engaging form policy relating to con- of the Bar Council of India party, but defended the in other jobs should apply to flict of interest and Rules,” he said. Congress vice-president. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Security high as Pakistan ‘Trump should speak up begins irst census in 19 yrs against racial crimes’ ‘Spirit of fascism Sikh soldier says attacks are encouraged by political climate rampant in Europe’ Around 1,18,000 ‘enumerators’ will gather data from across the nation in 70 days ISTANBUL Varghese K. George didn’t bring any attention. Reuters Washington Turkish President Recep Karachi/Peshawar “I went on medical rota- Tayyip Erdogan on The spate of violence against tion at several military Wednesday said the “spirit of Fast-growing Pakistan, estim- people of Asian descent in bases, without any problem. fascism” was rampant on the ated to be the sixth-largest America will pass, but the When I was going to full- streets of Europe, comparing country by population, Donald Trump administra- time active duty in 2008, I the treatment of non- kicked off its first national tion must take a stronger had to apply for accommod- Europeans there to that of census in 19 years on Wednes- and more vocal position on ation. There began the the Jews in World War II. day, a delay caused by a lack this issue, said Lt. Col. whole campaign,” Mr. Kalsi “Turkophobia is mounting. of funds, political squabbling Kamaljeet Singh Kalsi, said. His request was gran- Islamophobia is mounting. and too few available troops whose campaign for allow- ted by the U.S. Secretary of They are even scared of to oversee security. ing Sikh turban in U.S. milit- Defence, and Mr. Kalsi was migrants who take shelter...” Around 1,18,000 “enumer- ary uniforms met with suc- deployed in Helmand, Afgh- he said. AFP ators” in 63 districts began cess recently. anistan, in 2011. the 70-day data-gathering In 2001, Mr. Kalsi was the Four-star general of U.S. 30 killed in Damascus campaign, flanked by police first Sikh to join the U.S. mil- Marine Corps John R. Allen suicide attack and soldiers, under the order itary after new uniform re- was Mr. Kalsi’s commander DAMASCUS of the Supreme Court, which strictions in early 1980s in Afghanistan. In July 2016, A suicide bomber detonated had set a March deadline. The barred turbans and beards. Mr. Allen was a special his explosives’ vest inside security officials, including Mr. Kalsi’s petition for an ex- speaker at the Democratic Justice Palace, the main judicial building in the Syrian 200,000 military personnel, emption was granted after National Convention, ques- capital on Wednesday, killing will be present to protect 50 members of Congress, a Lt. Col. Kamaljeet Singh tioning Mr. Trump’s policy at least 30 people, state census teams but also to en- petition signed by 15,000 Kalsi. AFP towards minorities and his media said. The bombing was sure households can enter people and the White House strategy for fighting the Is- the latest in a spate of attacks data without being supported him. The changes paign supported by the Sikh lamic State. A group of veter- targeting government- intimidated. announced recently allows Coalition and an array of ans drawn from all ethnic controlled areas in Syria and Electoral seats in religious accommodation to American civil rights groups, and religious origins stood its capital. AP Pakistan’s Parliament are as- be granted at the brigade the attacks on immigrants behind Mr. Allen, showcas- signed using population dens- level. “The process will be and minorities disturbs him. ing the U.S. military as the ‘Kim’s identity confirmed ity data, and with rural popu- First since 1998: (Clockwise) Census oicials collect information from residents in Peshawar; simpler and faster. And “As a six year old, my grand- symbol of the diverse Amer- using child’s DNA’ lations fluctuating due to and Quetta; an oicial in Lahore marks a house after inishing the process. REUTERS, AFP there is a presumption of ap- mother witnessed all her ica. Mr. Kalsi stood right be- KUALA LUMPUR urbanisation, powerful feudal proval,” Mr. Kalsi told The family members being killed hind his former com- Malaysia used a DNA sample landlords and political famil- as census teams visited Hindu on the phone from in 1947, in Lahore. She came mander, in the frame. from one of Kim Jong-nam’s ies fear losing influence. “We homes. A counter gathered New Jersey. to India as an orphan, as a “These are the people who children to confirm the made all the arrangements the census data inside build- Gilgit-Baltistan to be Overlapping with the U.S. refugee. I always remember fight for America,” the gen- identity of the assassinated for a smooth, safe and trans- ings while police and soldiers military’s new accommoda- that and I feel bad when eral said. half-brother of North Korea’s parent process of population stood guard outside. “Today tion policy that will allow people are put down be- The current turmoil will leader Kim Jong-un, Deputy declared a Province census,” said Javed Iqbal at we are just asking for the ID Sikhs, Muslims, Jews and cause they are refugees. The pass, believes Mr. Kalsi, who Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid the census department in Pe- card of the head of the family Press Trust of India tional amendment would African Americans to join its recent refugee ban by the was himself the target of a Hamidi said Wednesday. Islamabad Investigators “confirmed the shawar, the capital of the and marking the houses,” a be made to change the ranks has been the spate of Trump administration, and racial attack in 2001 after identity of the body... based volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa counter told Reuters outside Pakistan is planning to de- status of the region, racial crimes against them in attacks on people of Indian the 9/11 terrorist attack. “I on the sample obtained from Province. a house in the port city of clare the strategic Gilgit- through which the $46 bil- the recent weeks. Mr. Kalsi descent remind me of my was at a shopping mall in his child”, he said. AFP Karachi, declining to be Baltistan region as its fifth lion China-Pakistan Eco- said the campaign ran by own grandmother’s story,” California and four men star- Count of transgenders named as he said counters Province, a move that may nomic Corridor passes. President Trump has con- Mr. Kalsi, who came to the ted abusing me. They were Mohammad Yunus sued The census will for the first were strictly instructed not to raise concerns in India as it Gilgit-Baltistan is treated tributed to this. “These vi- U.S. as toddler, said. His making fun of my turban over unpaid dues time also count Pakistan’s speak to the media. “A day borders the disputed as a separate geographical cious attacks are encouraged father was an Indian Air and started hitting me. But DHAKA transgender community, after, we will visit again and Pakistan-occupied entity by Pakistan. It has a by the current political cli- Force officer and he was thankfully, the cops arrived Staff at a Bangladeshi though members in Peshawar get further details of famil- Kashmir. regional Assembly and an mate in the country, running born in the Kanpur Air immediately and they were company set up by were surprised to be given ies.” Pakistan’s Minister for elected Chief Minister. It is through the entire election Force Base. all arrested,” recalls Mr. Mohammad Yunus are suing forms without a separate Chief Statistician Asif Ba- inter-provincial coordina- believed that China’s con- cycle. The administration Kalsi, who is now an active the Nobel laureate over column for transgender jwa told local Dawn News tion Riaz Hussain Pirzada cerns about its unsettled needs to speak out strongly Great military heritage reserve in the U.S army. Mr. allegedly unpaid dues, their people. “We have been wait- channel that Afghan refugees told Geo TV on Tuesday status prompted the move, against this,” Mr. Kalsi said. Mr. Kalsi said it was the Kalsi is associated with the lawyer said on Wednesday. that a committee headed which could signal a his- They say Grameen Telecom ing for the process to begin would be counted in the “I can guarantee you that “great military heritage” of Truman National Security (GT), which holds a roughly but it hurt us as there is no census, confirming a move by Advisor of Foreign Af- toric shift in the country’s after the changes in uniform the Sikh community and Project in Washington DC, one-third stake in separate column in the form,” strongly opposed by leaders fairs Sartaj Aziz had pro- position on the future of policy, more Sikhs, more faith that motivated him to combining his passion for Bangladesh’s largest mobile- said Farzana Riaz, president of sparsely populated Ba- posed giving the status of a the wider Kashmir region, Muslims will join the milit- join the U.S. Army in 2001. matters related to national phone operator, had a legal of Trans Action, a trans rights lochistan Province where the Province to Gilgit-Baltistan. Dawn newspaper had ary,” Mr. Kalsi said. While He went to the medical security and civil rights — a obligation to share profits group. Parts of Peshawar ethnic Balochs fear being He also said that a constitu- quoted experts as saying. the proud Sikh is excited school and in the initial soldier for America and the with its employees. AFP were cordoned off by police turned into a minority. about the victory of the cam- years, turban and beard Sikh faith.

Agence France-Presse Prologued coalition-building process likely after results Washington Reuters Mr. Rutte, who has called The White House has ac- The Hague the Dutch vote a quarter-fi- knowledged that U.S. Pres- The Dutch tested their own nal before a French semi-fi- ident Donald Trump paid tolerance for immigration nal and German final said a $38 million in taxes in and Islam on Wednesday in Wilders victory would be felt 2005, a rare peek into the an election magnified by a well beyond the President’s finances that furious row with Turkey, the Netherlands. was leaked to the U.S. first of three polls in the media. European Union (EU) this 20% threshold Mr. Trump reported an year where nationalist “I think the rest of the world income of $150 million 12 parties are seeking will then see after Brexit, years ago, and paid an breakthroughs. after the American elections overall tax rate of around The centre-right VVD again the wrong sort of pop- 25%, according to a leaked party of Prime Minister ulism has won the day,” he summary of part of his tax Mark Rutte (50) is vying with A child casts her mother’s said. return. the PVV (Party for Freedom) ballot paper in The Hague on Unlike the U.S. or French The document also of anti-Islam and anti-EU Wednesday. presidential elections, there shows that he wrote off firebrand Geert Wilders (53) will be no outright Dutch more than $100 million in to form the biggest party in leading candidates, the out- winner under its system of business losses to reduce Parliament. As many as 13 come was unpredictable. proportional representation. his tax burden. The White million voters began casting “Whatever the outcome Up to 15 parties could win a House described it as a ballots at polling stations of the election today the seat in Parliament and none “large-scale depreciation across the country that was genie will not go back into are set to reach even 20% of for construction”. to close at 2000 GMT. the bottle and this patriotic the vote. But the two-page partial With as many as four out revolution, whether today or Experts predict a coali- return does not reveal the of 10 voters undecided a day tomorrow, will take place,” tion-building process that source of Mr. Trump’s in- before voting and a tight Mr. Wilders said after voting will take many months once Jurassic welcome: Japan’s second robot-run hotel ‘Henn na Hotel’ (’Strange Hotel’) opened on Wednesday in Urayasu, near Tokyo. come, the key question margin of just 4% between at a school in The Hague. the final tally is known. Picture shows dinosaur robots, acting as receptionists, greeting a hotel employee. REUTERS that has fuelled demands for him to disclose his tax history in line with stand- Russian spies ard practice for U.S. ‘Israel has imposed an apartheid regime’ Madhesi front UDMF Presidents. indicted over Leak to media takes back support The White House con- Yahoo hack UN agency’s report accuses nation of strategic fragmentation of the Palestinians firmed late on Tuesday the details of Mr. Trump’s Reuters Reuters Israel imposes apartheid, It has 39 members in the House 2005 taxes just before Washington Beirut with Palestinians divided David Cay Johnston, a The U.S. government on A UN agency published a re- into four groups oppressed Press Trust of India Constitution, setting aside Pulitzer Prize-winning in- Wednesday unsealed port on Wednesday accusing through “distinct laws, Kathmandu the issue of State delin- vestigative journalist, and charges against two Rus- Israel of imposing an policies and practices”. An alliance of Madhes-based eation for the time being. He MSNBC revealed the short sian spies and two criminal “apartheid regime” of racial It identified the four sets political parties on Wednes- said the government would filing. On Wednesday, Mr. hackers for allegedly pilfer- discrimination on the of Palestinians as: day withdrew its support to form a commission to final- Trump attacked the re- ing 500 million Yahoo user Palestinian people, and said Palestinian citizens of Israel; the Prachanda-led Nepal ise the issues relating to pro- porter on Twitter, ques- accounts in 2014. The in- it was the first time a UN Palestinians in East Jerus- government after it failed to vincial demarcation before tioning his account of how dictments, announced at a body had clearly made the alem; Palestinians in the meet a seven-day ultimatum holding the provincial he obtained the document. news conference in Wash- charge. West Bank and Gaza Strip; to fulfil their demands that elections. “Does anybody really ington, represent the first The report commissioned and Palestinians living as included endorsement for The UDMF on March 7 believe that a reporter, time the U.S. government by the UN Economic and So- refugees or in exile. the revised Constitution had issued the ultimatum to who nobody ever heard of, has criminally charged cial Commission for Western Institutionalised segregation: Palestinian children playing near ESCWA hoped the report Amendment bill. address their concerns that ‘went to his mailbox’ and Russian officials for Asia (ESCWA) concluded “Is- the Israeli settlement of Sosya, near Hebron. AFP would inform further delib- The United Democratic include re-demarcation of found my tax returns? cyber-offences. rael has established an erations on the root causes Madhesi Front (UDMF), the provincial boundary and @NBCNews FAKE NEWS!” The contents of at least apartheid regime that dom- people”. Israeli officials did tablished on the “basis of of the problem in the United which has 39 lawmakers, liberal citizenship policy Appearing with MSNBC 30 million accounts were inates the Palestinian people not immediately respond to scholarly inquiry and over- Nations, among member withdrew support. among others. It has been host Rachel Maddow, Mr. accessed and at least 18 as a whole”. a request for comment. whelming evidence, that Is- states, and in society, Mr. The government, how- demanding government’s Johnston said he did not million people who used UN Under-Secretary Gen- Mr. Khalaf was speaking at rael is guilty of the crime of Khalaf said. ESCWA also ever, continues to enjoy a endorsement for revised know the source of the other service providers eral and ESCWA Executive an event to launch the report apartheid”. “However, only hoped it would prompt majority as it has the sup- Constitution Amendment leaked return, which was were also victimised, the Secretary Rima Khalaf said at ESCWA’s Beirut headquar- a ruling by an international action. port of more than 320 mem- bill and withdrawal of the placed in his mailbox. government charged. the report was the “first of ters. ESCWA comprises 18 tribunal in that sense would It was authored by bers in the 601-member decision to conduct local But Johnston suggested The officers of the FSB its type” from a UN body Arab states in Western Asia, make such an assessment Richard Falk, a former UN Constituent Assembly. polls in May. IT said that it a member of Mr. Trump’s were identified as Dmitry that “clearly and frankly con- according to its website. The truly authoritative,” it added. human rights investigator for Meanwhile, in a meeting could not support the gov- entourage — possibly even, Dokuchaev and his super- cludes that Israeli is a racist report was prepared at the The report said the “stra- the Palestinian territories, with UDMF leaders, Prac- ernment as it had been pre- he speculated, the Presid- ior, Igor Sushchin. Both state that has established an request of member states, tegic fragmentation of the and Virginia Tilley, professor handa urged them to parti- paring to hold local level ent himself — anonymously men are in Russia, the gov- apartheid system that perse- Mr. Khalaf said. Palestinian people” was the of political science at South- cipate in the upcoming local polls without addressing the delivered the tax docu- ernment said. cutes the Palestinian The report said it had es- main method through which ern Illinois University. polls after amending the issues raised by them. ments to him. 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15-03-2017 % CHANGE Exports climb for a Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 29,398 dd -0.15 ‘Bad loans slowing, remain a challenge’ US Dollar dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 65.69 dddd 0.20 Goldddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 28,650 dd -0.87 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 51.68 dddd 1.86 The core problem of NPAs is with large corporates in steel, power, infra and textile sectors, says Jaitley sixth straight month

Special Correspondent problems faced in the infra- against bankers for some bad NIFTY 50 NEW DELHI structure, power and textile loans, a few MPs stressed on Trade deicit widens to $8.9 bln. in Feb. PRICE CHANGE Union Finance Minister Arun sectors. the need to restore the con- ACC ...... 1420.40...... 5.00 Jaitley said the resolution of A presentation was made fidence of bankers and en- Special Correspondent Adani Ports...... 310.30...... 1.05 banks’ non performing as- to the MPs on various meas- able them to take commer- NEW DELHI Ambuja Cements ... . 233.00...... -0.70

Asian Paints ...... 1064.05...... -7.35 sets (NPAs) remained a chal- ures undertaken by the Gov- cially viable as well as India’s goods exports rose Aurobindo Pharma . 678.00...... 15.80 lenge even though the rate of ernment and the Reserve rational decisions. for a sixth consecutive Axis Bank ...... 511.70...... 0.80 increase of such bad loans Band for tackling NPAs. “One of the members said month in February even as Bajaj Auto ...... 2873.10...... 6.40 had slowed in the last that the Chief Vigilance Of- the trade deficit widened Bank of Baroda ...... 166.50...... 5.50

Bharti Airtel ...... 363.20...... 2.10 quarter of the current finan- ‘Criminal action’ ficer of the Public Sector due to a jump in the value of BHEL ...... 166.90...... 5.55 cial year. “Apart from recovery pro- Bank be made a part of the imports of gold and oil. Bosch ...... 22784.75.....193.30 The idea of a ‘bad bank’ ceedings, criminal action bank’s credit committee and Exports, which grew BPCL ...... 636.50...... -0.20 for such assets was still un- must be taken against the big the Board of the bank should 17.5% year-on-year to $24.5 Cipla...... 600.20...... 0.00

Coal India ...... 292.70...... -2.25 der discussion, Mr. Jaitley wilful defaulters and their take a call first about the de- billion, increased due to Exports grew on higher Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2739.60...... -1.40 said, even as the Centre was photographs may also be cisions taken by their offi- higher shipments of engin- shipments of engineering Eicher Motors ...... 24133.40.....132.15 considering multiplication of published. A member also cials rather than investigat- eering goods and petroleum goods. GAIL (India) ...... 375.30...... -0.50 the oversight committee suggested that under the ing agencies directly acting products among others, ac- Grasim Ind ...... 1048.55...... 14.65

HCL Tech...... 842.90..... -10.70 mechanism set up by the Re- Uphill task: The government is taking sector-speciic SARFAESI (Securitisation on the basis of their own in- cording to data released by out of 30 major export items HDFC...... 1426.10...... 1.95 serve Bank of India (RBI) to measures to deal with bad loans, says Arun Jaitley. and Reconstruction of Finan- formation,” according to a the Commerce Ministry on recorded positive growth in HDFC Bank...... 1416.60...... 5.90 process cases referred by dif- cial Assets and Enforcement Finance ministry statement. Wednesday. February, adding that going Hero MotoCorp...... 3401.10...... 43.65 ferent banks. porates, though few in num- down thereafter,” the Fin- of Security Interest) Act, the Some members also sug- by the current trend, India's Hindalco ...... 190.85...... 0.45 Chief Economic Adviser bers, predominantly in the ance Minister said. focus should be on catching gested allowing state govern- Hind Unilever ...... 900.50..... -13.25 Gold imports surge goods exports for 2016-17 ICICI Bank ...... 285.15...... -2.10 (CEA) Arvind Subramanian, steel, power, infrastructure The government, Mr. Jait- big wilful defaulters,” ac- ments to bid for stressed as- Imports went up 21.76% to could touch about $270 bil- Idea Cellular ...... 113.10...... 10.05 who had floated the idea of a and textile sectors. They had ley said, is taking sector-spe- cording to an official state- sets and keeping a close eye $33.4 billion during the lion. However, due to the IndusInd Bank ...... 1348.35...... -5.85 ‘bad bank’ to take over expanded their capacity dur- cific measures to deal with ment, which listed some of on the functioning of private month owing to a surge in prevailing uncertainty in Bharti Infratel ...... 308.90...... -1.15 stressed assets in the Eco- ing the boom period (2003- bad loans and the steel sec- the suggestions made by the asset reconstruction com- Infosys ...... 1011.95..... -22.85 gold and oil imports. This global trade, exporters

ITC ...... 268.20...... 1.10 nomic Survey for 2016-17, 08), but could not face the tor is on the recovery path, members of Parliament. panies, whose performance led to the trade deficit should further diversify the Kotak Bank ...... 844.15...... 8.00 said earlier this week that onslaught of global financial while several decisions have Taking cognisance of in- ‘is not up to the mark in widening to $8.9 billion last product basket with more L&T ...... 1548.90...... -9.20 the government must some- crisis and consequent slow- been taken to help resolve vestigative agencies’ actions many cases. month, from $6.5 billion in focus on high–tech items Lupin...... 1449.85...... 2.90 times consider bailing out M&M ...... 1323.55...... -2.45 February 2016. However, where India’s share in global

Maurti Suzuki ...... 6137.35...... 4.95 large corporate borrowers the trade shortfall was nar- trade is low, he said. NTPC ...... 158.65...... -0.95 even at the risk of being rower than the $9.84 billion Gold imports in February ONGC ...... 190.70...... -1.20 charged of crony capitalism posted in January 2017. surged 147.6% to $3.48 bil- PowerGrid Corp ...... 192.95...... -0.70 Banks against farm loan waiver in U.P. in order to surmount the Shipments of engineering lion, and pearls & precious Reliance Ind...... 1304.95...... 15.45

State Bank ...... 277.35...... 2.70 NPA problem. goods shot up 47.3% to $6.6 stones imports increased Sun Pharma ...... 705.85...... -2.35 RBI Deputy Governor MANOJIT SAHA cipline and raise hope for done in a way which does billion, while petroleum 9% to $2.2 billion. Oil im- MUMBAI Tata Motors ...... 473.45...... 3.70 Viral Acharya has said that a more waiver by other not disrupt credit discip- products’ exports jumped ports jumped 60% to $7.68 Tata Motors DVR ... . 286.45...... 4.35 piece-by-piece approach Bankers plan to write to the States. line among them. 27.6% to $2.46 billion. billion. Tata Power ...... 85.05...... 1.40

Tata Steel ...... 479.05...... 6.50 won’t fix the NPA problem finance ministry voicing re- “We feel that in case of a Readymade garments rose Incidentally, the global TCS...... 2498.30..... -69.20 which needs an urgent servations over possible im- [farm] loan waiver there is One-time settlement 5% to $1.6 billion, while Brent prices ($/bbl) and Tech Mahindra...... 479.65...... -0.20 solution. plementation of a pre-poll always a fall in credit dis- She said SBI had an- chemicals increased 11.3% to Gold ($/troy oz) increased UltraTech Cement ..4017.45...... 18.50 promise of the Bharatiya cipline because the people nounced a one-time settle- $1.3 billion and gems & jew- by 67.14% and 2.89% re- Wipro ...... 494.80...... -6.55

YES Bank...... 1529.05...... -2.70 Public debate Janata Party (BJP) to waive who get the waiver have ex- ment (OTS) scheme worth ellery shipments went up spectively in February 2017 Zee Entertainment . 525.60...... 2.95 “Several possible alternat- farm loans in Uttar Pradesh pectations of future waivers ₹6,000 crore in the tractors 2.3% to $4 billion. vis-à-vis February 2016 as ives exist and the issue is be- if voted to power. as well. As such future segment to speed up loan Drugs & pharmaceuticals per World Bank commodity ing debated on public plat- The BJP, which won elec- loans given often remain recovery. The bank had exports, however, shrank price data. EXCHANGE RATES forms,” Mr. Jaitley told MPs tions in the State, had unpaid,” Ms. Bhattacharya also announced such OTS 4.1% to $1.2 billion. Non-pet- Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on March 15 at a consultative committee promised a waiver of loans said on the sidelines of an schemes in education and roleum and non-gems & Coal imports CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL meeting on the NPAs, refer- given to small and marginal Arundhati Bhattacharya event organised by the CII. SME segments. jewellery exports in Febru- Non-oil imports during Feb- US Dollar ...... 65.50...... 65.82 ring to the ‘bad bank’ farmers. BJP president “Today, the loans will “We do give OTS in re- ary rose 20.1% to $18 billion. ruary were up 13.65% to Euro ...... 69.58...... 69.92 proposal. Amit Shah said the party exposure, bankers said. come back as the govern- spect of many loans which S.C. Ralhan, president of $25.7 billion. Coal imports British Pound...... 79.84...... 80.24

Japanese Yen (100) ..... 57.15...... 57.43 A few MPs said the Centre would honour its promises. The State has a 9.3% ment will pay for it but are outstanding for a long the country's apex body for went up 33% to $1.6 billion, Chinese Yuan ...... 9.47...... 9.52 must ‘go ahead’ and estab- According to bankers, market share in agricultural when we disburse loans time and people may have exporters, Federation of In- while chemicals imports Swiss Franc...... 64.92...... 65.24 lish a Public Sector Asset Re- the Indian Banks’ Associ- credit and about 45% of its again then the farmers will had some difficulties.” She dian Export Organisations, rose 22.5% to $1.4 billion. Singapore Dollar ...... 46.37...... 46.60 habilitation Agency (PARA) ation will take up the mat- total exposure is in the wait for the next election said the recovery due to Canadian Dollar ...... 48.68...... 48.92 said continuous growth in Electronic goods imports Malaysian Ringitt ...... 14.70...... 14.79 mooted by the CEA, but said ter with the department of rural areas. Bank of Baroda expecting another waiver,” OTS scheme in these seg- exports for the last six rose 12.2% to $3.4 billion.

Source:Indian Bank such an agency should only financial services in the fin- is the leading bank at the she said. ments had been fairly months was due to the com- Machinery imports contrac- consider those NPAs where ance ministry. State-level and its branch Ms. Bhattacharya, how- good. mitment of the exporting ted 29% to $2.3 billion. sector specific reforms do The magnitude of the network is as high as the ever, said the bank had not In 2014, banks had community to deliver even Exports during April-Feb- BULLION RATES CHENNAI not help, and called for tak- problem, if the proposal is country’s largest lender received any proposal to raised opposition to a sim- during such challenging ruary 2016-17 went up by March 15 rates in rupees with previous rates in ing tough action against wil- implemented, can be seen State Bank of India (SBI). waive off farm loans in Ut- ilar scheme for Andhra Pra- parentheses times of global trade slow- 2.5% to $245.4 billion. Non- ful defaulters, including from the fact that U.P. Arundhati Bhattacharya, tar Pradesh. She said desh and had written to the down that has affected ex- petroleum and non-gems & ......

Retail Silver (1g)...... 42.80.... (43.30) naming and shaming them. ranks third in India in chairman, SBI, said such though it is important to finance ministry expressing ports of many countries in- jewellery exports during ...... “The core problem of terms of agricultural credit schemes disturb credit dis- support farmers it has to be their concerns. cluding China. April-February 2016-17 rose 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,714.... (2,739) NPAs is with very large cor- He pointed out that 23 2.2% to $ 179.1 billion. SBI to raise Fed raises interest rates as job ₹15,000-cr. in equity gains, inlation spur conidence

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI U.S. central bank lifts target overnight rate by 25 basis points State Bank of India (SBI), the country’s largest Reuters what,” the Fed said in lan- lender, will raise ₹15,000 Washington guage that reflected a crore equity capital The U.S. Federal Reserve stronger sense of the eco- through a follow-on public raised interest rates on Wed- nomy’s momentum. Fresh offer, qualified institutional nesday for the second time economic forecasts released placement, global deposit- in three months, a move with the statement showed ory receipt or through on spurred by steady economic little change from those of any other instrument, ac- growth, strong job gains and the December policy meet- cording to the bank. confidence that inflation is ing and gave little indication The board cleared the rising to the central bank’s the Fed has a clear view of proposal to raise ₹15,000 target. how the policies of Donald crore on Wednesday, the The decision to lift the tar- Janet Yellen Trump’s administration may bank said in a notification get overnight interest rate by impact the economy in 2017 to the exchanges. 25 basis points to a range of “symmetric,” indicating a and beyond. “The central board of 0.75% to 1% marked one of possible willingness to allow “It relieves some of the the bank at its meeting the Fed’s most convincing prices to rise at a slightly fears we’ve had that perhaps held of 15.03.2017 has ac- steps yet in the effort to re- faster pace. the Fed was going to raise corded approval for raising turn monetary policy to a Further rate increases rates faster in the future. equity capital upto ₹15,000 more normal footing. would only be “gradual,” the They’ve chosen not to signal crore during FY 2017-18 by Fed said in its policy state- that,” said Brad McMillan, way of FPO/ rights issue/ No acceleration ment, with officials sticking Chief Investment Officer at QIP/ADR/GDR and any However, the Fed did not to their outlook for two Commonwealth Financial. other mode of combina- flag any plan to accelerate more rate hikes this year and The Fed’s projections tion of these, as may be de- the pace of monetary tight- three more in 2018. The Fed showed the economy grow- cided at the opportune ening. Although inflation is lifted rates once in 2016. ing by 2.1% in 2017, un- time subject to approval of “close” to the Fed’s 2% tar- Business investment “ap- changed from the December government” and RBI. get, it noted that goal was pears to have firmed some- forecast. ‘BJP poll wins credit positive for India’

Party’s overall gains come despite economic hit from note ban, says Moody’s

Special Correspondent nominate a local chief minis- ives of other parties to push NEW DELHI terial candidate to represent through policy measures,” The BJP’s electoral wins in the party, but instead fo- according to the note. the recent Assembly polls cused on the leadership of “Next year, 69 seats in the are a credit positive for the Mr. Modi himself. By con- upper house, including 10 Indian sovereign as they trast, the 2012 Uttar Pradesh from Uttar Pradesh and one show broad-based popular election outcome reflected from Uttarakhand, will come support for the Centre’s eco- popular support for indi- up for re-election. If the BJP- nomic and institutional re- viduals in the Samajwadi led coalition increases its form agenda, according to Party and Bahujan Samaj seat tally to or closer to an global credit rating agency Party,” Moody’s said in an is- outright majority, passage Moody’s Investors Service. suer comment on and implementation of addi- The BJP’s solid overall Wednesday. tional reforms will be easier.” gains come despite the neg- “In addition, collabora- ative economic hit from de- No immediate gains tion between the central gov- monetisation in late 2016 The polls relect strong “The ruling party will not ernment and new BJP-led and, although securing an support for Modi’s national immediately benefit from its states could improve, par- Upper House majority in policy agenda. electoral gains. The changes tially circumventing impedi- Parliament may take time, a in the upper house will only ments to reform at the fed- partnership between the a positive outlook, it said the occur in 2018 when some eral level on politically Centre and the States under State elections had yielded members’ terms expire. Cur- sensitive issues like land and BJP could help circumvent substantial gains to the gov- rently, the National Demo- labor reform. This would federal hurdles to reforms in ernment and reflect strong cratic Alliance led by the BJP support state-led reform mo- areas such as land and la- popular support for Prime and its allies hold about 30% mentum — BJP-led States like bour laws, Moody’s noted. Minister Narendra Modi’s na- of the total seats in the upper Gujarat and Rajasthan have While Moody’s maintains tional policy agenda. house. Therefore, the ruling already amended some land its lowest investment grade “Unlike rival parties in Ut- party will continue to rely on and labour laws,” according rating of Baa3 for India with tar Pradesh, the BJP did not alliances with representat- to Moody’s.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘Post polls, all political parties Ease norms for foreign must support labour reforms’ investors: Zoomcar CEO ‘Exploring opportunities in South Asian markets’

Panel to inalise labour code for easing retrenchment norms, says Dattatreya Special Correspondent exploring opportunities in KOLKATA some South East Asian mar- Somesh Jha panel of Union Ministers led Greg Moran, CEO and co- kets like Vietnam, the Philip- NEW DELHI by Finance Minister Arun founder of self-drive car- pines and Indonesia and in Jet Airways’ lyers can The Centre will aggressively Jaitley will meet next week to rental service start-up Zoom- African countries like Nigeria book Uber on airline app push for labour reforms fol- finalise the labour code on car, said the Centre could at- and Kenya. MUMBAI lowing the recent state elec- industrial relations aimed at tract investment to India “by The Bengaluru-based Jet Airways has entered into tions, said Bandaru Dat- easing retrenchment norms. trying to make it easier for company is now in 17 cities a pact with ride-hailing tatreya, Labour and foreigners to invest in the with a fleet of 3,000 cars of service provider Uber to help Employment Minister. Wage code country.” which 2,000 are its own. It the airline’s passengers book “After the state election “The Ministers have cleared “Prime Minister Modi has has recently introduced a fa- a cab while reserving tickets results, all political parties the code on wages. The first done a decent job of making cility ZAP, whereby a new on the Jet Airways app. should step forward to sup- phase of discussions on in- it easy to set up industry Greg Moran car owner can rent out his/ Madhu Kannan, chief port development, including dustrial relations code has here but things could be bet- her car on the Zoomcar plat- business oicer, Uber India labour reforms,” Labour already happened. We will ter,” he said while talking to connectivity was a roadblock form when it is idling, with and Emerging markets said, Minister Bandaru Dattatreya again meet next week to take The Hindu after unveiling a for technology-based com- Zoomcar managing all the ‘Through this partnership, The Hindu Jet Airways’ guests across 29 told at the Inter- it forward,” Mr. Dattatreya new car-share facility for panies like Zoomcar. formalities and helping the cities will be able to request national Vision Zero Confer- Poll illip: Getting higher numbers in the Rajya Sabha will said. vehicle–owners. In 2013, the U.S.–based, owner cut his vehicle owner- their Uber when they book ence on Occupational Safety facilitate more labour reforms. The proposed labour code He said the areas where Greg Moran and his friend ship cost. their light. That removes and Health organised here. on wages aims to bring about attention was needed to fa- David Back founded India’s any last-minute hassles.” “It should be given prior- ults in Uttar Pradesh, Ut- The NDA has 74 out of 245 uniformity in the definition cilitate foreign investors first self-driven car rental Utilisation rates ity instead of playing polit- tarakhand, Goa, Punjab and members in the Rajya Sabha of wage in various labour were “visa, tax abatements company Zoomcar, allowing “Utilisation rates for private WNS buys HealthHelp ics. Our government has Manipur will help the Na- at present. Getting more rep- laws and make national min- for start-ups, and improved users to rent cars. cars in India are very low at for $95 million given top priority to labour tional Democratic Alliance resentation in the Upper imum wage mandatory for facility for setting up busi- While his partner left for around 10% and Zoomcar MUMBAI reforms for employment Government to increase its House following the state all establishments. The code ness. An investor also wants the U.S. later, Mr. Moran dug will create a truly hyper local NYSE–listed Business Process generation and safety and share of seats in the Rajya election results will help the on industrial relations seeks a 3-5 year policy framework his heels in and has not only product,” he said, adding Management (BPM) irm working conditions for work- Sabha. The NDA has a major- NDA Government facilitate to relax retrenchment norms in place which provides clar- tasted success but has had there were 100 cars in this WNS (Holdings), has ers and we will keep pursu- ity in Lok Sabha but lacks further reforms, Moody’s In- for companies and provide ity on certain infrastructure several rounds of financing, asset-light model and this announced the acquisition of ing them intensively.” the numbers for a majority vestors Service had said. skills to retrenched workers, and taxation issues.” the last being from an arm of would be the future growth Houston, Texas based The recent election res- in the Rajya Sabha. Mr. Dattatreya said a among other measures. He hinted that broadband Ford Motors. The firm is now path for the company. HealthHelp, an industry leader in care management, for $95 million. “Consideration for the New MD for transaction is $95 million UBHL appeals against Centre unveils plan for export infra excluding adjustments for Murugappa cash, debt and working winding up verdict capital,” according to a Group arm The ₹600 crore-scheme is aimed at strengthening India’s trade competitiveness statement from WNS, a company which has its K.T. Jagannathan addressing quality and certi- view the progress of the ap- headquarters in Mumbai. ‘Firm can make a settlement ofer’ Special Correspondent Chennai NEW DELHI fication measures.” proved projects in the India Cements offers Special Correspondent Justice Budihal R.B. said The ₹295 billion Mur- The Centre on Wednesday Scheme and will take neces- Bengaluru Replacing ASIDE sary steps to ensure achieve- stock option for staff UBHL could make a “fair ugappa Group has an- unveiled a scheme to create A Division Bench of the one-time settlement” offer, nounced top-level changes export-related infrastructure The scheme replaces a cent- ment of the objectives of the CHENNAI Karnataka High Court asked while hearing UBHL’s plea in a couple of its leading and boost the competitive- rally sponsored scheme — Scheme.” India Cements Ltd. has come counsel for Vijay Mallya’s against a February 7 single- companies. ness of India’s shipments. Assistance to States for creat- Commerce Secretary Rita out with a stock option United Breweries (Holdings) judge order for winding up N. Srinivasan, Group Dir- The scheme would have a ing Infrastructure for the De- Teaotia said the scheme scheme for its employees by to seek instructions on how the company on a petition ector (Finance), has been budgetary allocation of ₹600 velopment and growth of Ex- would provide assistance for offering 18.35 lakh shares to much UBHL could deposit filed by a consortium of appointed as the Executive crore, with an annual outlay ports (ASIDE). setting up and upgrading in- certain selection grade for taking up its appeal banks, led by the State Bank Vice-Chairman and Man- of ₹200 crore per year, and it Commerce Minister frastructure projects with employees. The scheme will against an order for winding of India. aging Director of would be implemented from Nirmala Sitharaman said: overwhelming export link- come into effect on April 1, 2017, and the option will vest up the company for failing “UBHL is a commercially Cholamandalam Invest- FY’18 till FY’20, according to “The focus is not just to cre- ages — like border haats, with the employees on April to pay liabilities to unse- insolvent company and is ment and Finance Com- a Commerce Ministry Nirmala Sitharaman ate infrastructure but to land customs stations, qual- 1, 2018. Upon exercising this cured and secured creditors unable to meet its admitted pany Ltd (CIFCL). His ap- statement. make sure it is professionally ity testing and certification option, the employees will be as per its corporate guaran- financial obligations and pointment will take effect “The objective of the pro- gaps in export infrastruc- run and sustained. There labs and cold chains. She allotted assigned equity tee extended to Kingfisher square up its admitted liabil- from August 19 when the posed scheme — Trade Infra- ture, creating focused export will be an (inter-ministerial) said last and first mile con- shares at ₹50 a share on the Airlines. ity towards the petitioning current Managing Director structure for Export Scheme infrastructure, first mile and Empowered Committee nectivity projects related to face value of ₹10 (including a Chief Justice Subhro creditors,” the single-judge Vellayan Subbiah com- (TIES) — is to enhance export last mile connectivity for ex- (chaired by the Commerce export logistics will also be premium of ₹40). Kamal Mukherjee and had said in his ruling. pletes his term in office. competitiveness by bridging port-oriented projects and Secretary) to periodically re- considered.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Manohar quits eight months into term as ICC chief Veteran administrator cites personal reasons for resignation, says decision has ‘nothing to do with ICC issues or BCCI’

G. Viswanath elected as the first independ- $290 million, was not accept- The Supreme Court bench Mumbai ent chairman of the ICC, for able to the CoA. had said: “Let us get the facts Shashank Manohar resigned atwo-year term, ín May At their meeting on Febru- clear. We have nothing to do as chairman of the Interna- ‘Man of few words, 2016. ary 25, the CoA had dis- with the ICC. tional Cricket Council (ICC) “The ICC has confirmed it cussed the ICC’s financial “We are also concerned on Wednesday to bring to an has received an email from but excellent deeds’ model with Rahul Johri (BCCI that India, as a country, end a long innings in cricket chairman Shashank Manohar CEO), R.P. Shah (former GM, should get the best deal, it Johri in Colombo to meet administration. He had had a Special Correspondent tendering his resignation. The BCCI Committee of Ad- Commercial, BCCI), Dr. M.V. should get the money. Sup- other board chiefs meeting with Committee of Mumbai “The ICC Board will assess ministrators (CoA) was Sridhar (GM, Cricket Opera- posing there is a loss, a big MUMBAI Administrators (CoA) chair- The BCCI has expressed the situation and next steps looking forward to a long- tions, BCCI) and Adarsh Sax- loss of money, that has to be man Vinod Rai and member surprise at Shashank Man- It’s understood that the BCCI before making a further an- term cooperation between ena (Cyril Amarchand taken care of. Vikram Limaye here on Tues- ohar’s decision to step CEO Rahul Johri is in nouncement,” said an ICC the ICC and BCCI with Mr. Mangaldas, attorney, BCCI) day evening. down as ICC chairman. “The issue is how it should Colombo for a meeting with press release. Manohar at the helm of af- and resolved that “the BCCI the cricket boards of Sri “Mr. Manohar’s contri- fairs. be taken care of in the best Not specifying a reason for should take all steps neces- possible manner.” Lanka, Bangladesh and his abrupt decision to vacate Keeping CoA informed bution to Indian cricket is “The BCCI wishes him sary to protect the interests Zimbabwe to discuss ICC’s invaluable. the very best for his future Manohar’s resignation has the prestigious post, Mano- Manohar sent an email to the of BCCI, including engaging proposed constitutional and “He is a man of few endeavours,” the Board surprised many, especially har told The Hindu, “Hon- ICC on Wednesday, but he in- with other ICC member financial changes that would words, but excellent deeds. said in a statement. after he had initiated sweep- estly, my resignation has formed Rai and Limaye of his countries and garnering be placed before the ICC Shashank Manohar. ing constitutional and finan- Board at Dubai on April 26 nothing to do with the ICC or decision to leave the ICC be- their support for the BCCI’s JACK DABAGHIAN/GETTY IMAGES cial changes in late 2015. and 27. The Bangladesh its issues or the BCCI. It’s fore the start of the meeting. position on the proposed Cricket Board is part of the purely a personal decision. The CoA chairman had Manohar that the topic of was nominated to the CoA they will not be able to sup- changes.” “The Big Three (India, ICC’s Working Group along Personal reasons have to re- been keen to meet Manohar discussion was the “constitu- and therefore not in full port the proposals worked Australia and England) with England and Wales main personal. I told my wife during the first Test between tional and financial changes” grasp of the goings-on in the around the theme of ‘equity’. Making it clear should not bully the ICC” Cricket Board, Cricket about my decision on India and Australia at Pune, proposed by the ICC’s special ICC, Limaye had voted Especially the prospect of The CoA gave clear hints that was his famous statement. Australia, Imran Khawaja Monday evening.” but the latter had other en- working group that had re- against the governance and it would not go with the pro- It’s being speculated that (Associate Member, aheavy cut from a previously After being elected as gagements, which led to the ceived an overwhelming 7-2 revenue-sharing model. proposed net revenue of posed financial changes and Manohar resigned because Singapore) and hence it support during the ICC would be difficult for it to BCCI president for the meeting being put off for During the course of the $445 million (gross revenue the Supreme Court’s obser- the proposals may not re- Board meeting in Dubai in withdraw its signature. second time in October 2015, three weeks. It is learnt from meeting, Rai and Limaye of $570 million less an ex- vations on March 6 on the ceive two-thirds support at the first week of February. Shashank Manohar was the the Nagpur-based lawyer sources privy to what went conveyed categorically to penditure of $125 million), ICC’s revenue sharing model the next ICC Board meeting fifth member of the Working resigned from the post in on during the meeting Inducted as an ICC Board Manohar that “since the CoA over the 2016-2023 cycle, to has only compelled it to scheduled in Dubai on April Group. G. VISWANATH May 2016 to be subsequently between Rai, Limaye and member four days after he is only a temporary body,” the proposed net revenue of strike a better bargain. 26 and 27. Players clash as Aussie game turns ugly SYDNEY Acricket match in Australia i has turned ugly with a An intense Test with high stakes in the o ng batsman shoulder-barging a celebrating bowler, knocking him over and sparking an Showers predicted on days three and four; spinners likely to come into the picture as match progresses on-field clash. S. Dinakar Footage from the incident rather close look at the pitch low. Both teams will not want shoulder injury behind and is game with R. Ashwin and RANCHI last weekend shows a on Wednesday. to bat last here. set to play his 50th Test. Ravindra Jadeja holding the On an emotional roller- paceman for Yackandandah in From a batting perspect- India could continue with joint No.1 ranking in Tests. coaster for most part, India Victoria State running Might play better ive, use of feet and shot selec- afour-man attack unless it Will the strangely subdued and Australia have faced off towards the Eskdale batsman The pitch might play better tion will be crucial to success. decides to pick an additional David Warner come out with a in two volatile matches that after bowling him out. than it looks — images of the Judgement of length is vital as spinner in either Jayant Ya- different game-plan against tested both nerve and skill. The celebration wasn’t track have been doing the it is this attribute that guides dav or Kuldeep Yadav for Ashwin? The action could be appreciated with the Pitches have been demand- rounds on Twitter — since it footwork. Karun Nair. gripping. batsman dropping his ing, and duels fierce. may not be very dry. Spells of If the ball turns, then the The teams (from): shoulder into him, knocking The low-scoring Tests, rain in the city leading up to Maxwell has the edge batsmen need to remember India: Virat Kohli (capt.), M. Vijay, him to the ground. high on both intensity and the Test have meant the sur- The Aussies might choose That prompted a fielder to that the real game is square of K.L. Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, verbal spats, have been ultra face had to be periodically between Glenn Maxwell and charge at the batsman and the wicket. They need to Ajinkya Rahane, Karun Nair, R. Ash- competitive. And situations kept under covers. The cur- Marcus Stoinis for the slot va- push him over with fellow keep the good deliveries win, Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R. have thrown up heroes. ator, resultantly, hasn’t really cated by the injured Mitchell fielders rushing in to break away and wait for opportun- Jadeja, Umesh Yadav, Ishant This dramatic and rather been able to prepare a bone Marsh. up the melee. ities to essay the cut, pull and Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Abhinav ill-tempered Border-Gavas- dry wicket. Maxwell has the edge for the sweep. Mukund, Kuldeep Yadav and kar series — rival captains and Showers have been fore- he brings with him the X- Bhuvneshwar Kumar. India will seek runs from Australian cricketers visit celebrated batsmen Virat cast on day three and four of factor and has this ability to Australia: Steve Smith (capt.), its skipper Virat Kohli. His city-based NGO Kohli and Steve Smith were the Test. If it rains, then this disrupt attacks. Left-handed David Warner, Matt Renshaw, RANCHI caught up in a behavioural will have a direct bearing on duels with the Aussie spin specialist batsman Usman Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Members of the Australian storm — is on a razor’s edge how the surface plays. duo of Nathan Lyon, who Khawaja is also in the frame. Glenn Maxwell, Mathew Wade cricket team visited Yuwa, an going into the third Test be- Lack of adequate sunlight seems to have recovered well And Pat Cummins should (wk), Pat Cummins, Josh Hazle- NGO based in the city that ginning here on Thursday. and the covering up of the from a sore spinning finger, replace the mercurial wood, Nathan Lyon, Steve O’ provides a platform through With the scores 1-1 in the surface will slow down the and Steve O’Keefe should be Mitchell Starc. Cummins has Keefe, Marcus Stoinis, Usman team sport for young women four-Test series, the stakes engrossing. Kohli has to play Khawaja, Mitchell Swepson, to gain confidence to make a breaking up of the wicket. speed and aggression and are high. Both teams will seek Yet, as the match pro- his natural, aggressive game, may do some damage during Ashton Agar and Jackson Bird. change in their world. The be decisive and look to play players took time out from to grab Ranchi’s first ever gresses, spinners are increas- his short bursts. Umpires: Ian Gould (England) and than ‘leave’. their preparations for the Test by the scruff. ingly likely to come into the The Aussies will be up Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand). third Test to interact with Much focus has been on picture. There is a possibility Opener Murali Vijay — he against the top bowling com- Third umpire: Nigel Llong (Eng- some young girl athletes Spin twins: Nathan Lyon and Steve O’Keefe hold the key to the surface. Smith and Aussie that, like in Bengaluru, the practised on Wednesday — bination — in these condi- land). from Jharkhand. PTI Australia’s fortunes in the third Test. K.R. DEEPAK coach Darren Lehmann had a bounce on this track might be appears to have put his tions — of the contemporary Match starts at 9.30 a.m. Smith rubbishes ‘I think about what I say, don’t regret anything’ Kohli’s allegations It’s time we focused on the series, says the India captain

Special Correspondent umpires. “What they basic- Special Correspondent be given the opportunity to The India captain lauded RANCHI ally said was they wanted to RANCHI captain the side. Cheteshwar Pujara and Steve Smith and Virat Kohli see cricket as the winner in Virat Kohli was his feisty self “As long as you are honest Ajinkya Rahane’s batting in will meet match referee this Test match, that both while answering questions with yourself, work hard on the second innings of the Richie Richardson on teams should play within from the media here. adaily basis, you are answer- second Test. “I saw Pujara Thursday morning, before the rules of the game,” the On what he had said dur- able to no one.” opening up his stance which the start of the third Test, was an apt adjustment for Australian captain said. ing and after the Bengaluru Asked whether he had and the focus will be on him to give himself more Queried on the pitch Test, the India captain made specific allegations player behaviour. Yet, Smith space to play the ball. here, Smith said: “The pitch noted: “I think about what I against his counterpart Steve has already termed Kohli’s Ajinkya, again, getting inside looked a little bit drier than say. I don’t regret anything I Smith without adequate allegations that the Aussies the line of the ball and not it was yesterday. Only a have said. “But, at the same proof, Kohli replied: “If no deliberately misuse DRS as playing through the covers,” quick look but I think it’ll time, it is very important not charges were pressed against “complete rubbish.” Kohli said. play reasonably well on the to be stupid and go on about me, how are they allega- Smith said: “Perhaps I first day. I don’t think there the same thing on a daily tions?” Kohli emphasised “But I think those two might be able to ask a few will be a great deal of basis because there is a lot of that the series was not about guys stepped up their game questions [to Kohli] tomor- bounce. I think it’ll shoot cricket to be played. It’s time individual battles but about and found a way to score row. We’ll see what the quite low and then from we focused on the remainder teams facing one another. runs on a difficult wicket.” mood is like at that time. there, it’ll break up as the of the series.” “Honestly, Ashwin didn’t Kohli refused to make pre- Virat obviously stuck by his game wears on.” Kohli said: “It is not the look at his second innings dictions about the surface in comments. From my point He said off-spinner first time in my life that performance in Bengaluru as Ranchi. “I have not come of view I think they are com- Nathan Lyon was set to play. people have spoken about areply to Lyon’s eight-wicket across a cricketer who can pletely wrong.” “His finger has healed nicely me, certainly not the last haul in the first. We don’t look at the pitch and predict On Wednesday, Smith over the last week or so. I’m time. I must have done a few look at any of these competi- correctly as to what will hap- Team theme: Virat Kohli emphasised that the series was not about individual battles but about met Richardson and the two sure he’ll be fine.” things right in my career to tions,” he said. pen,” he said. two sides facing each other. K.R. DEEPAK Dhoni — the catalyst for Jharkhand’s cricket revolution

S. Dinakar long way from the time harness. Dhoni’s story is the RANCHI when traditional power stuff of dreams; from being a There is a cricket revolution centres ruled the cricketing ticket collector who boarded ‘Blindly following Mahi isn’t the way to go’ happening in Jharkhand. scene in India. one of the crowded trains in You can see it in the bill- these parts, he became In- Jharkhand is a wonderful Shayan Acharya “One M.S. Dhoni has sending kids to me won’t boards across the city, ad- dia’s legendary captain. Dur- Chennai example. And Dhoni has helped Jharkhand find a help. The parents must real- vertising the mushrooming ing his journey, the man been an inspiration. There are many things that place on the cricket map. It’s ise that to make a cricketer, cricket academies. called Mahi broke through Ranchi’s cricket boom has differentiate Chanchal Bhat- time we bring out more strict discipline is necessary,” several barriers. On them are not just the been triggered and sus- tacharya and Keshav Baner- youngsters to keep the mo- Banerjee said. images of the iconic Ma- tained by his immense And his explosive ways jee. But then, there is also mentum going,” Banerjee Bhattacharya admits that hendra Singh Dhoni but also achievements. with the willow fired the The Hindu something that binds the told . even though quite a few of lesser stars such as Saur- imagination of many aspir- two. And that is M.S. Dhoni. abh Tiwary. First name on lips ing cricketers of his State. The senior coach will miss academies have come up in Ranchi, other parts of the It is fitting that Ranchi is Dhoni might be far away Today, Jharkhand has so The two senior coaches Ranchi’s debut, as he is in State still need a lot more. staging its inaugural Test from Ranchi, captaining the many cricketers with poten- from Ranchi are the ones that Vellore with his ailing wife. when Jharkhand’s fortunes State in the Hazare tourna- tial, from Ishan Kishan to helped Jharkhand get its first Meanwhile, Bhattacharya, The only major cricket fa- in the domestic arena are at ment, but his presence can Ishank Jaggi, from Rahul international icon. While who will be present at the cility in Ranchi is the JSCA In- an all time high. The side, be felt in different ways. Shukla to Shahbaz Nadeem. Banerjee was the first to in- venue on all the five days, ternational Stadium. But one bucking the odds, reached From the taxi driver to the spire Dhoni to take up cricket said: “Now everyone wants needs to be at least a first di- the semifinals of the Ranji man in the hotel lobby, Sense of belief during his days at the Jawa- to emulate Mahi. But we also vision player to avail it. Trophy and has progressed Dhoni bhaiya is the first Not to speak of fast bowler har Vidya Mandir, Bhat- must realise that blindly fol- “A lot of young cricketers to the last four stage in the name on many lips. Varun Aaron, who became tacharya honed his skills at lowing Mahi won’t make are on the verge of making it the club and State level. things easy.” ongoing Vijay Hazare one- Chanchal Bhattacharya, the second cricketer from big. But for most, it’s not day competition. Dhoni’s first coach, who vis- Jharkhand to represent In- As the small town gears On normal days, Banerjee, possible to spend heavily. The boys from the small ited the ground on Wednes- dia. “Dhoni gave us all a up for its Test debut, Baner- who is still associated with The State board should en- towns are staring at the big, day, spoke about the wicket- sense of belief,” Aaron said. jee and Bhattacharya feel Jawahar Vidya Mandir, re- sure that the game is spread bold lights of the city as keeper-batsman’s desire, Dhoni has been the torch- Captain Marvel: The talismanic M. S. Dhoni is a hit that the State’s real chal- ceives around 10 to 15 re- to different corners,” Baner- cricket spreads its wings in commitment and immense bearer for his State, its everywhere, especially in his hometown Ranchi. PTI lenge has just begun. quests from parents. “Only jee said. the country. We have come a ability that he was able to brightest shining star. CM A ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 16 SPORT THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Superb win for Leicester Prajnesh and Vishnu SA buoyed in cruise mode as Kiwis Beats Sevilla 2-0; Juventus sails into the last eight, defeating Porto lose Boult AGENCIES Sriram Balaji overcomes Siddarth Agence France-Presse LEICESTER Wellington From heroes to zeros and Principal Correspondent Kit Wong (HK) 6-2, 6-1; Vishnu New Zealand bowling BENGALURU Shakespeare has a back again, Leicester City’s Vardhan bt Dakshineshwar spearhead Trent Boult has surprise package remarkable roller-coaster Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Suresh 6-2, 6-1; Sami Reinwein been ruled out of the (Ger) bt Paramveer Singh Ba- LEICESTER ride took another twist as a Vishnu Vardhan broke little second Test starting in Wel- jwa 6-3, 3-6, 6-1. Leicester City manager Craig superb 2-0 victory over sweat in reaching the lington on Thursday, lifting Hadin Vava bt Rishab Agar- Shakespeare believes his Sevilla put it in the quarterfi- quarterfinals of the $15,000 South Africa’s chances of wal 6-4, 6-4. team can become the nals of the Champions ITF Futures tennis tourna- going one up in the series. Champions League’s surprise League on Tuesday. ment at the KSLTA here on Siddarth Rawat bt Suraj Boult pulled up lame package after it eliminated Down 2-1 from the first-leg Wednesday. Prabodh 7-6(4), 7-6(3); Kar- during South Africa’s Sevilla to reach the last month in Spain — when unaday Singh bt Mukund Sasi second innings in the first quarterfinals. “We have to be it was also careering towards Impressive wins Kumar 7-6(4), 6-3; Sriram Bal- Test in Dunedin to be the aji bt Siddarth Vishwakarma delighted with the relegation — Leicester rolled Prajnesh trounced Hong second senior player to be 6-2, 7-5. performance in knocking back the clock to last sea- Kong’s Hong Kit Wong 6-2, sidelined after Taylor Doubles: Chandril Sood & Lak- Sevilla out. But we’re in there son’s Premier League title 6-1 while Vishnu recorded suffered a calf tear. Neither shit Sood bt Vasisht Cheruku & on merit. We might just be heist as goals by skipper Wes an equally impressive 6-2, side had finalised its line- the surprise team,” S.D. Prajwal Dev 3-6, 6-3, Morgan and Marc Albrighton 6-1 win over Dakshineshwar up on Wednesday for what Shakespeare said. AFP [10-7]; Vishnu Vardhan & Sri- put it in the last eight in its Suresh. ram Balaji bt Jui Chen Hung should be a seamer- first crack at Europe’s elite friendly Basin Reserve Brazil’s Marta takes Sriram Balaji had to over- (Tpe) & Hong Kit Wong 7-5, competition. wicket, but South Africa Swedish nationality come a stiff second set chal- 6-1. Europa League aristocrat captain Faf du Plessis said STOCKHOLM lenge by Siddarth Vish- Jeson Patrombon (Phi) & Vi- Sevilla’s dream of a first ap- wakarma before going the absence of Boult and Five-time World Player-of- jay Sundar Prashanth bt Tejas pearance in the Champions Taylor would hurt New the-Year Marta said on through 6-2, 7-5. Chaukulkar & N. Kaliyanda Wednesday she would League quarterfinals turned The results (second round): Poonacha 6-7(2), 6-1, [10-4]. Zealand. continue to play for Brazil sour as Samir Nasri was sent Pumped up: Wes Morgan celebrates after scoring Leicester’s irst goal. The English champion Singles: Vijay Sundar Prash- C. Alexander & R. Sami (Ger) “If you lose two key internationally after taking off shortly before Steven stunned Sevilla to enter the quarterinals AP anth bt Mohit Mayur 6-2, 6-3; bt C. Amorudh & P. Vignesh players like that you defin- Swedish nationality. N’Zonzi’s 80th-minute pen- Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Hong 7-5, 6-3. itely feel you’re a little bit “I feel Swedish too, and I’m alty was saved by Leicester and it was from a Riyad CHAMPIONS LEAGUE light,” he said. super happy that’s done keeper Kasper Schmeichel. Mahrez free kick that it took “For a new (batsman) now,” Marta told the media The Dane, also saved a the lead with skipper Mor- coming in it’s important for while showing off her brand penalty in the first-leg in gan bundling the ball into Sevilla keeper Sergio Rico. bala’s penalty gave it a 1-0 Bhambri advances us to put pressure on him new joint nationality papers. which a dominant Sevilla the Sevilla net with his thigh Sevilla went desperately and not make him feel AFP home win over Porto which could have won by a in the 27th minute. in search of a goal but Nasri played the second half with To meet Nikola Milojevic comfortable. From a bowl- landslide. Ahead on away goals the got himself needlessly sent 10 men on Tuesday. ing perspective Boult is a It can look forward to a situation played perfectly off in the 74th minute after The Italians never looked Sports Bureau 3-6, 7-6(3), [10-5] victory. huge loss.” Shenzhen potential clash with the likes into Leicester’s hands as it squaring up to Vardy and like relinquishing its 2-0 lead The results: With the first Test of Barcelona or Real Madrid. sat deep and broke quickly bumping foreheads. from the first- leg of the last Yuki Bhambri beat Stefano drawn, Wellington is effect- $150,000 Challenger: Irving It looked ominous for with Jamie Vardy’s pace al- Nasri received a second 16 tie in Portugal despite al- Napolitano of Italy 7-5, 6-2 in ively the start of a two-Test (US): Qualifying singles (third Champions League debutant ways a threat. yellow card while Vardy, an lowing the visitor plenty of the first round of the series which du Plessis said Leicester in the early ex- Sevilla upped the ante in irritation all night to Sevilla, $75,000 Challenger tennis and final round): Andrey heightened the need to get possession in the first half. Rublev (Rus) bt Ramkumar changes as Sevilla sought the the second half and came was cautioned. tournament in China on a result. Porto’s lingering hopes Ramanathan 3-6, 6-3, 6-2. away goal that would have within a coat of paint of Sevilla was handed a life- Wednesday. German Cup: Dortmund ended when Maximiliano put it in complete control of equalising in the 54th line almost immediately Pereira stopped Juve striker In the pre-quarterfinals, Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): sails into last four Purav Raja & Divij Sharan bt the tie. minute when Sergio Es- though when Schmeichel Gonzalo Higuain’s goal- Yuki will play Nikola Milo- BERLIN Leicester keeper cudero’s swirling effort from clattered into Vitolo and the jevic of Serbia. But Ramku- Brian Baker & Nicholas Monroe Shahzad and Christian Pulisic set Borussia bound shot with his hands Schmeichel made a great 30 metres beat Schmeichel referee awarded a penalty. mar Ramanathan lost in (US) 3-6, 7-6(3), [10-5]. Dortmund on its way to a and was sent off, leaving Dy- save to keep out Nasri’s sting- but struck the underside of N’Zonzi was handed the task three sets in the third and fi- $75,000 Challenger: Shen- Kamran comfortable 3-0 win over bala to dispatch the penalty zhen (China): Singles (first third-tier Sportfreunde Lotte ing shot, but Sevilla the crossbar. of putting Sevilla back into with aplomb three minutes nal qualifying round of the round): Yuki Bhambri bt recalled on Tuesday that took it into struggled to find the passing It proved a pivotal mo- the tie but his weak kick was before halftime. $150,000 Challenger in the Stefano Napolitano (Ita) 7-5, the semifinals of the German rhythm that had over- ment as a minute later the saved by Schmeichel. The results: Leicester City 2 US. Press Trust of India 6-2. Cup. whelmed its opponent in the ball dropped kindly for Marc (Morgan 27, Albrighton 54) bt The Indian duo of Divij Lahore The result (quarterfinals): first-leg. Albrighton just inside the Dybala converts penalty Sevilla 0 (Leicester won 3-2 on Sharan and Purav Raja $15,000 ITF women: Sharm El Sportfreunde Lotte 0 lost to A well-organised Leicester penalty area and he was al- At Turin, Juventus coasted aggregate); Juventus 1 (Dybala knocked out the second Sheikh (Egypt): Singles (first Pakistan on Wednesday re- Borussia Dortmund 3 (Pulisic worked tirelessly and looked lowed time and space to dis- into the Champions League 42-pen) bt Porto 0 (Juventus seeds Brian Baker and Nich- round): Sai Samhitha bt Laura called opener Ahmed 57, Schurrle 66, Schmelzer dangerous from set pieces patch a left-foot shot past quarterfinals as Paulo Dy- won 3-0 on aggregate). olas Monroe of the US for a Deigman (GBr) 6-2, 6-4. Shehzad and Kamran Ak- 83). AFP mal in separate squads for the four-match Twenty20 AAI finally adopts and three-match ODI series Sports Code Allora should make amends Federer, Nadal set a date in the West Indies starting KOLKATA later this month. After defying the National MUMBAI: Allora, who ran second Dashrath 53.5, 9. Mocassin (3) Mosin 53, 10. Dancing Prince (12) Both batsmen earned Sports Development Code in her last start, should make Ajinkya 53.5, 10. Nembe Greek (9) N.Rawal 52.5, 11. Rock In Rio (1) Djokovic also advances from the ‘group of death’ their recalls on the back of (NSDC) for years, the Archery amends in the Kailashpat Sing- C.S.Jodha 53.5 and 11. Sassy Lass Dashrath 50.5 and 12. Alpine Ex- solid performances in the hania Trophy, the feature event of (4) Akshay 53.5. press (3) Sandesh 50. Association of India (AAI) on the races to be held here on 1. KOTOR, 2. DAUGHTER- 1. ALPINE EXPRESS, 2. FREE Agence France-Presse recently held Pakistan Su- Wednesday adopted the code Thursday evening. OFTHESUN, 3. GENTILLESSE SPEECH, 3. CYCLONE Indian Wells per League (PSL) where and paved the way for Rails will be placed 2 metres away RUNNING STAR PLATE DIV.II RUNNING STAR PLATE DIV.I they played for opposing from its original point from Rafael Nadal and Roger Fe- regaining its recognition from (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to sides in the final. 1400m to 1200m and 4 metres 4 7 derer booked a mouthwater- the Government. 46, 5-45: 1. Beneficial (13) Trevor 46, 7-15: 1. Angel Girl (9) Trevor from 1000m upto the winning The squads will be led 59, 2. Knight’s Quest (1) Parmar 60, 2. Flag Flying (13) Raghuveer ing fourth-round clash at the “The amendments included post. by Sarfraz Ahmed, who all the age and tenure related 54, 3. Slam Dunk (4) Hanumant 59.5, 3. Orla (2) Ajinkya 59, 4. Top ATP Indian Wells Masters on ASTRAL FLASH PLATE Wizard (4) Dashrath 56.5, 5. Furi- will also keep wickets, with clauses — such as 70 years as 54, 4. Ice Angel (6) C.S.Jodha Tuesday, where five-time (1,400m), Cl. III, rated 40 to 53.5, 5. Arvan (2) Roushan 53, 6. osa (1) S.Sunil 55, 6. Pacific Dunes the first T20 in Barbados the upper age limit, 12 years’ 1 champion Novak Djokovic 66, 4-15 p.m: 1. Uncle Scrooge (6) Noble Chieftain (11) Ayyar 52, 7. (11) Santosh 55, 7. New England on March 26. The remain- term, cooling off period etc. Parmar 59, 2. Cezanne (7) Ajinkya Zabrok (10) Vishal 52, 8. Azeeza (5) C.S.Jodha 54.5, 8. Kings Baron also advanced from the — relating to a candidate’s 57, 3. Chizzler (2) Sandesh 57, 4. (3) K.Kadam 51.5, 9. Flower Dust (12) Bhawani 52.5, 9. Thunder “group of death”. ing three matches will be eligibility to be an office- Bounty Queen (3) Daman 56.5, 5. (8) Nazil 51.5, 10. Panatela (7) Down Under (7) J.Chinoy 52.5, 10. With the three superstars played in Port of Spain on Merabella (5) S.Sunil 55, 6. Wind Bhawani 51.5, 11. Shalom (12) Abbeyroad (8) S.J.Sunil 52, 11. March 30, April 1 and 2. bearer,” said a key office- Auroden (6) Sandesh 51.5, 12. drawn in the same quarter, Craft (4) K.Kadam 55, 7. Dancing Neeraj 51.5, 12. She’s A Tiger (9) The one-dayers are bearer of the AAI. Lord (1) Trevor 52.5 and 8. Saw- Santosh 51.5 and 13. Impossible Shape The Scape (3) Nazil 51.5 only one — at most — can grass (8) C.S.Jodha 51.5. Dream (5) Pradeep 51. and 13. Triple Threat (10) Pereira make it to the semifinals. scheduled for April 7, 9 and 1. SAWGRASS, 2. CHIZZLER, 3. DAN- 1. SHALOM, 2. SLAM DUNK, 3. ICE 51.5. The weeding out will start 11 in Guyana. CING LORD ANGEL 1. NEW ENGLAND, 2. ANGEL GIRL, 3. FLAG FLYING in earnest when Federer The limited-over series MADRAS RACE CLUB CUP DI- KAILASHPAT SINGHANIA meets Nadal in the round of will be followed by three V.II (1,200m), Maiden, 3-y-o TROPHY (1,200m), Cl. II, rated P A D’AVOINE TROPHY Mouthwatering clash: Roger Federer will take on Rafael Nadal 2 5 (1,400m), Cl. IV rated 20 to 16 in a reprise of the Aus- Tests for which a squad will only, 4-45: 1. Art O War (10) Par- 60 to 86, 6-15: 1. Nascar (1) 8 in the round of 16 in a reprise of the Australian Open inal. AP mar 55, 2. Baby Face (2) N.Rawal Raghuveer 60, 2. Valentino (3) 46, 7-45: 1. Rashun (8) C.S.Jodha tralian Open final in January be announced later. 59.5, 2. Arsenal (10) Zeeshan 58.5, 55, 3. Lord Commander (7) Parmar 58, 3. Papakura (6) that saw the Swiss star claim The squads: C.S.Jodha 55, 4. Morocco (5) A.Gaikwad 54.5, 4. Incentio (7) 3. Hunting Pleasure (2) Trevor Janeiro Olympics last year en Women: Fourth round: Karo- T20: Sarfraz Ahmed (capt.), Pereira 55, 5. Optimum (9) Dashrath 53.5, 5. Ancient Glory 57.5, 4. Marvel (14) Ajinkya 57, 5. an 18th Grand Slam crown. route to singles silver. lina Pliskova bt Timea Bacsin- Man United charged with Simona (6) S.J.Sunil 56.5, 6. Ven- Three-time Indian Wells Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Ak- Sandesh55,6.ToweringStorm (5) Neeraj 52.5, 6. Allora (4) Tre- The results: Men: Third round: szky 5-1 retd.; Garbine lack of player control (4) S.Sunil 55, 7. Imperial Beauty vor 52, 7. Alishas Pet (2) C.S.Jodha tura (4) S.Kamble 56.5, 7. Royal mal, Mohammad Hafeez, Classic (13) Neeraj 55.5, 8. Elsa (7) champion Nadal was the Malek Jaziri bt Taylor Fritz 6-4, Muguruza bt Elina Svitolina 7-6 LONDON (3) Bhawani 53.5, 8. Manzanita (1) 51.5 and 8. Governor General (8) Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Bhawani 55, 9. Centaurus (12) first to go through, defeating (5), 1-6, 6-0; Anastasia Manchester United has been Dashrath 53.5, 9. Shamwari (8) Sandesh 51.5. 3-6, 6-3; Jack Sock bt Grigor Fakhar Zaman, Imad Wasim, Pereira 54.5, 10. Aeolus Maximus fellow Spaniard Fernando Pavlyuchenkova bt Dominika charged with failing to J.Chinoy 53.5 and 10. Turning 1. ALLORA, 2. NASCAR, 3. GOV- Dimitrov 3-6, 6-3, 7-6(7); Don- Shadab Khan, Mohammad Point (6) Trevor 53.5. ERNOR GENERAL (11) Dashrath 54, 11. Jeena (9) Verdasco 6-3, 7-5. Cibulkova 6-4, 3-6, 6-2. control its players during Vishal 53.5, 12. Bay Of Love (3) ald Young bt Lucas Pouille 6-4, Nawaz, Hasan Ali, Sohail Tan- 1. LORD COMMANDER, 2. SHAM- IBRAHIM A RAHIMTOOLA Federer edged American Svetlana Kuznetsova bt Car- Monday’s 1-0 FA Cup WARI, 3. OPTIMUM K.Kadam 52, 13. Rapid Girl (1) 1-6, 6-3; Kei Nishikori bt Gilles vir, Wahab Riaz, Rumman TROPHY (1,000m), Cl. III, Steve Johnson 7-6(3), 7-6(4) quarterfinal defeat at 6 Sandesh 52 and 14. Samurai (5) Muller 6-2, 6-2. oline Garcia 6-1, 6-4; Caroline Raees, and Usman Shinwari. MADRAS RACE CLUB CUP DIV.I rated 40 to 66, 6-45: 1. Free Parmar 52. in a match in which neither Wozniacki bt Madison Keys 6-4, Chelsea, the FA has said. 3 (1,200m), Maiden, 3-y-o only, Speech (6) Daman 62, 2. Rider On 1. HUNTING PLEASURE, 2. Rafael Nadal bt Fernando ODI: Sarfraz (capt.), Shehzad, The charge relates to an 5-15: 1. Alsace (1) Tograllu 55, 2. The Storm (4) Parbat 62, 3. The SAMURAI, 3. RAPID GIRL player was able to break. Verdasco 6-3, 7-5; Roger Fe- 6-4; Kristina Mladenovic bt Akmal, Hafeez, Azam, Malik, incident in the 35th minute of Kotor (8) Sandesh 55, 3. Lucky Lu- Civilian (10) Joseph 59, 4. Arabelle Day’s best: LORD COMMANDER Djokovic made it past derer bt Steve Johnson 7-6(3), Lauren Davis 6-3, 6-3. Zaman, Asif Zakir, Wasim, the match at Stamford ciano (2) Nirmal Jodha 55, 4. Ser- (9) Jaykumar 58, 5. Cyclone (2) Double: SHALOM – NEW ENGLAND dangerous Argentine Juan 7-6(4); Nick Kyrgios bt Alexan- Venus Williams bt Peng Shadab, Mohammad Asghar, eno (11) Trevor 55, 5. Artus (7) Neeraj 56, 6. Queen Credible (5) Jackpot: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8. Treble: (i) Martin del Potro, who Bridge. United has until Parmar 53.5, 6. Daughterofthesun A.Gaikwad 55, 7. Hirohama (7) 5, 6 & 7. (ii) 6, 7 & 8. Tanala: All der Zverev 6-3, 6-4; Novak Shuai 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; Elena Ves- Hasan Ali, Mohammad Amir, Friday evening to respond to (10) J.Chinoy 53.5, 7. Gentillesse K.Kadam 54.5, 8. Lady Danehill races. Super Jackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 shocked the Serb star in the Djokovic bt Juan Martin del Po- nina bt Angelique Kerber 6-3, Riaz, Fahim Ashraf, and Jun- the charge. REUTERS (6)Neeraj53.5,8.Loire(5) (11) Trevor 53.5, 9. Quixotic (8) &8. first round of the Rio de tro 7-5, 4-6, 6-1. 6-3. aid Khan. AFP

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 Love affairs involving relationships (4) extremely excitative emotions Ideal student 9 (8) 6 Break into a new state (6) The great Vaishnava Acharya Ramanuja learnt from his 10 11 13 At the end, singer to scream 7 Spinner was irst to retire with father in his early years, and was later sent to Yadava head off? This might help a model (5) Prakasa of Tirupputkuzhi, a village near Kanchipuram, for maintain pitch! (6) further lessons. Yadava Prakasa explained the Upanishadic 12 13 15 Surplus gold managed by head 8 A true mix-up between statement tasya yathaa kapyaasam pundareekam evam ak- of the eatery (10) partners' identities (7) 14 shinee as a comparison of the Supreme One’s eyes to a mon- 16 Members of colony like to key’s behind. Ramanuja shed tears when he heard this inter- 15 16 17 drink a bit of neat tequila (4) 9 America rejected proposal pretation. He was hurt by Yadava Prakasa’s disrespectful 19 Movie initially felicitated in after commencement, 18 comparison, said Kidambi Narayanan, in a discourse. And ludicrous mix-up (4) causing hurt (6) yet, ideal student that he was, he did not offer his alternate 19 20 21 20 Enhancing programme code 14 Half-inished Indian politician explanation with pride, but explained humbly to his guru before appraisal (10) 22 allowed leading ex-minister what he felt the correct interpretation was. Yadava Prakasa 23 Sailor's net cast away (6) to take over irm (10) had taken the word kapi to mean monkey. But Ramanuja 23 24 25 25 Broadcasts special cricket said that there was an alternate meaning, which was the cor- series played between 26 17 Adjacent member in hub rect one in this context. He said kapi also meant Sun. What Australia and England (8) 27 28 region broken (9) the statement from the Upanishad meant was that the Lord’s 27 Newspaper introduced eyes were like lotuses that bloom when the Sun was up, said excellently detailed redesign, 18 A vehicle featuring in Ramanuja. gaining patronage ultimately, animated Pixar ilm's trailers 29 Ramanuja’s explanation of the Upanishadic statement as a result (9) (8) satyam, jnanam, anantam, Brahma was also different from 28 Desolate criminal taking drug Solution to puzzle 11955 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku Yadava Prakasa’s. Ramanuja said that satyam meant that (5) 19 Desperate trick to get under Brahman was there always. He is today as He was yesterday, ■ ACROSS 29 They deliver notes, send pics & foreigner's skin (7) S N A P U P T E R R I F I C U L R I E N N and will be the same in future. Jnanam indicates that Brah- share moves with Snapchat, 21 With end nowhere in sight, R O A R I N G P E T I T E man does not change like the waxing and waning moon. 1 A gripping cryptic clue might S C O H L E E primarily (4,10) Gay accelerated and breathed have this hint of surprise to M E T E O R T R A I N I N G Anantam means geographical boundaries do not limit Him. ■ heavily (6) B I R Y S T increase fun on cracking (7,7) DOWN He is the same everywhere. These three qualities define 2 International valuers jostling to A P P O R T I O N M E D I A Brahman, said Ramanuja. 22 Really stylish act (6) R Y P B O 10 In return, Stanford University acquire upcoming home (9) T I B E T R E P R E S E N T Thus it is clear that Ramanuja was an ideal student, one admits Indian college 3 Cook feast with some Indian 24 Looks for man captivated by V N P W I L who did not hesitate to come up with the right explanation, vegetables at large fair (8) W I S T E R I A G L A S S Y members (5) looks (5) L W O L H S U but one who did so without any pride. Yadava Prakasa, how- 4 Accountant attempts to gain T E D I U M K E T C H U P ever, was unhappy with his pupil contradicting him, and 11 Theatre at mental asylum for self-esteem in classes (10) 26 Endlessly uttered profanities, G N P E E E E tried to kill Ramanuja, but the latter was saved by Lord surgery (9) 5 It's about preserving energy in raised ights (4) D E F E C T O R R E S O R T Varadaraja of Kanchipuram and His Consort Perundevi.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Jharkhand in semis Bengal gets past Maharashtra Dhoni delights with a match-winning six Majumdar and Chatterjee orchestrate a dramatic win after a sedate start Rakesh Rao counter-attacking 74-ball 95 ery to spare. Bengal bowling: Ashoke Dinda NEW DELHI and Nikhil Naik’s 52-ball 63, Earlier, Maharashtra lifted 10-0-56-0, Kanishk Seth 10-0- Bengal stayed on target des- itself from a slow start with 55-0, Pragyan Ojha 10-0-58-1, Putting mind over matter, Sayan Ghosh 10-0-61-2, Aamir Anustup Majumdar and pite losing an early wicket. some aggressive batting in At one stage, Maharashtra the second half of the in- Gani 9-0-70-2, Manoj Tiwary 1- Sudip Chatterjee played 0-14-0. pivotal roles in Bengal’s dra- appeared to have regained nings. If the first 25 overs Bengal: Shreevats Goswami matic four-wicket over Maha- some control when skipper saw 108 runs for three wick- Kedar Jadhav won leg-before ets, the second 25 resulted in lbw b Jadhav 74, Abhimanyu rashtra on way to the semi- Easwaran c Naik b Mundhe 6, finals of the Vijay Hazare decisions to send back the 210 runs, with the last 10 well-set duo of opener overs producing 109 runs. Agniv Pan b Kazi 47, Manoj one-day cricket tournament Tiwary lbw b Jadhav 40, Sudip Shreevats Goswami and skip- Maharashtra’s rally re- Westbrook edges closer here. Chatterjee (not out) 60, Anus- per Manoj Tiwary. These set- volved around Tripathi’s 116- to Robertson’s record The gritty Bengal side tup Majumdar c Shaikh b NEW YORK backs left Bengal worried at run fifth-wicket stand with chased down an imposing Mundhe 66, Kanishk Seth b Kazi Naik. But it came on a day Russell Westbrook edged target of 319 in the final over. 187 for four in 32.5 overs. 2, Aamir Gani (not out) 6; Ex- when Bengal’s fifth-wicket closer to Oscar Robertson’s The effort was rewarded But once Majumdar (66 tras (b-1, lb-7, w-11): 19; Total long-standing triple-double with a place in Thursday’s off 59 balls) joined Chatter- partnership proved decisive. (for six wkts. in 49.5 overs): record after leading clash against M.S. Dhoni-led jee (60 not out off 50 balls), The scores: 320. Oklahoma City Thunder to a Maharashtra: Ruturaj Gaikwad c Jharkhand here. Bengal quickly moved to Fall of wickets: 1-25, 2-106, 3- comfortable 122-104 win over Chatterjee b Ghosh 43, Ankit For the record, this was cruise mode. 162, 4-187, 5-304, 6-314. Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday. Bawne lbw b Ojha 14, Naushad the highest run-chase at the Their 117-run fifth-wicket Westbrook brought up his Shaikh run out 3, Kedar Jadhav Maharashtra bowling: Nikit stand off 96 balls turned the remarkable 33rd triple- Ferozeshah Kotla ground, b Gani 44, Rahul Tripathi c Dhumal 7-1-47-0, Shrikant match on its head and double of the season with 25 surpassing Mumbai’s effort Majumdar b Ghosh 95, Nikhil Mundhe 8-0-51-2, points, 19 assists and 12 in the 2007 edition of the brought the team to the Naik c Majumdar b Gani 63, Shamshuzama Kazi 7.5-0-47-2, rebounds. competition. threshold of victory. Shrikant Mundhe (not out) 20, Rahul Tripathi 3-0-15-0, Jag- Other results: Cavaliers 128 Mumbai had scored 301 Though Majumdar and Shamshuzama Kazi (not out) dish Zope 8-0-61-0, Satyajeet bt Pistons 96; Pelicans 100 bt for four in its chase of Delhi's new-man Kanishk Seth fell in 20; Extras (b-1, lb-3, nb-4, Bachhav 10-0-61-0, Kedar Trail Blazers 77; Knicks 87 bt 297 for five. the closing overs, Aamir w-8): 16; Total (for six wkts. in Jadhav 6-0-30-2. Pacers 81; Warriors 106 bt Customary inish: M.S. Dhoni smashes a six over long-on to take Jharkhand to a six-wicket win After Maharashtra scored Gani did not let Chatterjee 50 overs): 318. Toss: Maharashtra. 76ers 104. AGENCIES over Vidarbha on Wednesday. KAMESH SRINIVASAN 318 for six in 50 overs, made down and struck the win- Fall of wickets: 1-47, 2-56, 3- Bengal won by four wickets, possible by Rahul Tripathi’s ning boundary with a deliv- 96, 4-148, 5-264, 6-288. with one ball to spare. India loses to Japan, Kamesh Srinivasan HAZARE TROPHY 8, Ravi Jangid run out 62, Ak- NEW DELHI shay Karnewar lbw b Nadeem 4, bows out Rajneesh Gurbani run out 22, NEW DELHI It was a Dhoni show in the team, in an attempt to bring Akshay Wakhare (not out) 7; Ex- end! Japan inflicted a second Dhoni to the middle! tras (w-10): 10; Total (for nine defeat on India to knock it out The expectant crowd Kumar Deobrat and Saur- Gritty Chandimal lifts Sri Lanka wkts. in 50 overs): 159. of the race for qualification in which waited all day, and en- abh Tiwary got out after Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-9, 3-9, 4- the Asia Oceania Junior dured Vidarbha’s slow bat- scoring 17 each, setting the 18, 5-42, 6-80, 7-87, 8-148, (under-16) Davis Cup team ting under the hot sun, was Bangladesh had reduced the host to 70 for four at one stage stage for Dhoni, with 44 re- 9-159. tennis tournament at the treated to some magic as the quired from just over 15 Jharkhand bowling: Monu Ku- AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE by the third umpire as TV re- DLTA Complex on Wednesday. former India captain put the overs. mar 9-1-27-2, Varun Aaron 10-1- Colombo plays on whether Mehedi India, which had lost to Hong finishing touches to Kong and beaten New Dhoni was watchful and 41-1, Rahul Shukla 10-1-29-1, Dinesh Chandimal scored an Hasan had caught him Jharkhand’s six-wicket vic- happy to push for the Pratyush Singh 3-0-15-0, unbeaten half-century for Sri cleanly were inconclusive. Zealand in earlier matches, tory with a six over long-on will now play for the ninth singles, twos and the odd Kaushal Singh 10-0-34-1, Shah- Lanka against Bangladesh in in the Vijay Hazare Trophy place, starting with a match three, giving Ishank Jaggi (41 baz Nadeem 8-1-13-1. Colombo on Wednesday SCOREBOARD against Malaysia. quarterfinals at the Palam n.o., 61b, 4x4, 1x6) the strike. Jharkhand: Pratyush Singh b after the tourists made a The results (league): Japan bt ground on Wednesday. When Satish came on to Thakur 33, Ishan Kishan b dream start to their 100th Sri Lanka — 1st innings: D. Kar- India 3-0 [Keisuke Saitoh bt It was a bonus, as the fans bowl, Dhoni, who had Thakur 35, Kumar Deobrat c & b Test. unaratne c Mehedi b Mustafizur Sashank Theertha 6-4, 6-3; were resigned to the possibil- scored 12 off 26 balls till Wakhare 17, Saurabh Tiwary b Recovering from 70 for 7, U. Tharanga c Soumya b Me- Fumiya Yoshino bt Sacchitt ity of Jharkhand not requir- Jangid 17, Ishank Jaggi (not out) then, launched into a rous- four, the home side reached hedi 11, K. Mendis st Mushfiqur b Sharma 6-2, 6-2; Tomoya ing Dhoni’s services as a 41, M.S. Dhoni (not out) 18; Ex- ing six to bring the curtains 238 for seven before bad Mehedi 5, D. Chandimal (bat- Ikeda & Fumiya Yoshino bt batsman. tras (b-1, lb-2, w-1): 4; Total (for down on the match. light stopped the opening ting) 86, A. Gunaratne lbw b Rithvik Choudary & Sashank Ravi Jangid’s 62 (87b, 8x4, four wkts. in 45.1 overs): 165. It was worth the wait for day’s play on a turning pitch Roy 13, D. de Silva b Taijul 34, N. Theertha 6-4, 6-2]. 1x6) provided substance to the spectators, one of whom Fall of wickets: 1-68, 2-73, 3- at the P. Sara Oval, owing Dickwella b Shakib 34, D. Perera Vidarbha’s challenge. managed to sneak to the 101, 4-116. mainly to Chandimal’s pa- c Soumya b Mustafizur 9, R. TV PICKS Ganesh Satish (35) and Ra- middle before the innings Vidarbha bowling: Akshay tient 86 not out. Herath (batting) 18; Extras (b-1, jneesh Gurbani (22) were the was over, touched Dhoni’s Karnewar 10-1-25-0, Akshay India vs Australia: 3rd Test, Chandimal shared a 66- lb-12, w-6, nb-2): 21; Total (for other batsmen who ensured feet and managed to get an Wakhare 10-1-43-1, Rajneesh STARSports1,3&HD1,3, run stand with Dhananjaya seven wkts. in 83.1 overs): 238. the fans could wait and hope autograph as well! Gurbani 3-0-11-0; Ravi Jangid Fall of wickets: 1-13, 2-24, 3-35, 9.30 a.m. to catch a glimpse of Dhoni. 9-0-39-1, Ravikumar Thakur de Silva and then added 44 Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh: The scores: Vidarbha: Faiz Fazal 4-70, 5-136, 6-180, 7-195. Pratyush Singh (33) and 10-3-25-2; Abhishek Chaurasia and 43 runs with Niroshan 2nd Test: TEN 3 & TEN 1 HD, c Dhoni v Aaron 2, Jitesh Bangladesh bowling: Ishan Kishan (35) gave 3-0-13-0, Ganesh Satish Dickwella and Rangana 10 a.m. Sharma c Shukla b Monu 7, Mustafizur 15-5-32-2, Roy 15-2- 0.1-0-6-0. Herath to halt what had been Europa League: TEN 1, 2 & Jharkhand a robust start and Ganesh Satish lbw b Kaushal 35, given out lbw on 38 off left- He then top-edged Taijul 47-1, Mehedi 15-2-58-2, Taijul a procession to the pavilion. TEN 1 HD, 1.30 a.m. (Friday) once they departed, the Siddesh Wath run out 0, Ambati Toss: Vidarbha. arm spinner Shakib Al Hasan Islam, also a left-arm spin- 14-2-34-1, Shakib 20.1-3-43-1, NBA: Sony Six & Sony Six HD, crowd started appealing Rayudu c Tiwary b Monu 2, Ab- Jharkhand won by six wickets Chandimal, who faced 210 but the decision was over- ner, to fine leg on 46 but was Mosaddek 4-0-11-0. 5 a.m. (Friday) along with the Vidarbha hishek Chaurasia lbw b Shukla and 29 balls to spare. balls and hit four fours, was turned following a review. given a benefit of the doubt Toss: Sri Lanka.

Prannoy, Kerala downs Railways Sameer Hat-trick by Jobby; Punjab-Mizoram match drawn advance M.R. Praveen Chandran Press Trust of India Panaji Basel Jobby Justin’s hat-trick de- Defending champion H.S. railed Railways in a group-B Prannoy, Sameer Verma match of the 71st Santosh and Subhankar Dey ad- Trophy football champion- vanced to the second ship at the GMC stadium, round of the Swiss Open Bambolim on Wednesday. Grand Prix Gold badmin- Kerala, which fell behind ton tournament here. in the 17th minute, re- The results: covered to post a 4-2 win. H.S. Prannoy bt David Jobby was on target in the Peng 21-15, 21-18; Sameer Verma bt Gergely Krausz 21- 21st, 46th and 63rd minutes. 10, 21-16; Subhankar Dey bt At Vasco, former champi- Alexander Roovers 17-21, 21- ons Punjab and Mizoram 17, 21-15; Sourabh Verma lost played out a goalless draw. to Rasmus Gemke 21-14, 21- Kerala struggled initially 23, 12-21; Lakhanee Sarang to find its rhythm and the lost to Kanta 11-21, 5-21. defence looked shaky as Railways pressed forward. An error by defender Lijo, Ghosal in who lost the ball to Trump card: Jobby Justin, right, celebrates one of his Soosanayakam, just outside three goals. the box resulted in the open- quarters ing goal. Rajesh had no diffi- minute, made amends in the Sports Bureau culty beating goalkeeper SANTOSH TROPHY next minute when he scored LONDON Midhun with a stiff off a free-kick by Deepak Saurav Ghosal, Mahesh grounder. proceedings in the second Kachhap. Mangaonkar, and Vikram The goal galvanised Ker- half. Jobby headed in a Though Railways pressed Malhotra moved into the ala. It took just four minutes corner from Sreesan to in- hard in the dying minutes, quarterfinals of the for Kerala to find the equal- crease the lead in the 63rd Kerala managed to hold on. Wimbledon Club Squash iser. Jobby headed in a well minute. Usman underlined Kerala coach V.P. Shaji Squared Open, a $25,000 directed floater from Nishon Kerala’s supremacy by nod- said: “The team still has to PSA event on Tuesday. ding in a Jishnu Balakrish- Xavier. improve a lot, especially in The results: Pre-quarterfi- Railways conceded a free- nan cross from the right in the defence. We conceded nals: Saurav Ghosal bt Olli kick when its captain Rajib the 71st minute. two easy goals,” he said. Tuominen (Fin) 11-4, 11-9, Boro handled the ball just However, Kerala lowered The results: Kerala 4 (Jobby 11-8; Mahesh Mangaonkar bt outside the circle. The res- its guard and allowed Rail- Justin 21, 46, 63; Usman 71) bt Ivan Yuen (Mas) 11-6, 12-10, ultant free-kick was banged ways to claw back. Railways 2 (Rajesh 10-12, 10-12, 11-7; Vikram in by Jobby. Rajesh, after messing up Soosanayakam 17, 86). Malhotra bt Mohamed Reda Kerala dominated the an easy chance in the 85th Mizoram 0 drew with Punjab 0. (Egy) 11-8, 11-4, 11-2. All set for Goa sailing week The fortnight-long event will be overseen by chief National coach A. JOSEPH ANTONY pick up, mostly accompan- ard, Radial, 4.7 and Topper by chief National coach Ian PANAJI ied by the afternoon high classes. Since so many sec- Bunny Stewart of Australia. The Zuari river’s estuary as it tide, gusting to a modest 10 tions are in the fray, the Consequently, most of the merges with the Arabian Sea knots. starts will be staggered but country’s cream of yachts- presents a picturesque set- “The beautiful, clean wa- where the number of entries men, who are with the AYN, ting for the second edition of ter not only provides for is low, they may be com- will not be seen in action the Goa International Sailing good sailing, (showcasing bined,” said Col. Kanwar, here. also the Commanding Of- Week that gets underway on the sport closest to nature) This multi-class regatta ficer of the Army Yachting Thursday. As though escort- but offers a panoramic view will however provide the Node (AYN), Mumbai. ing it on its last leg are the to the public,” Principal Race platform for promising sail- Cidade de Goa and Dona Officer Col. Satish Kumar The Yachting Association ors such as Mohammad Israj The Hindu Paula beaches on the right. Kanwar told . of India’s (YAI) national Ali. The 25-year-old from the The lofty ridge on the left “It will be a windward-lee- camp kicked off in Mumbai EME Sailing Association is serves as a shield of sorts, ward loop for the board surf- on Wednesday, in prepara- raring to have a go in coastal protecting this playground ing categories and Hobie 16, tion for next year’s Asian conditions, where wind, tide from the wrath of the sea. while it will be a trapezoid Games. The fortnight-long and current throw up so So much so that the winds course for the Laser Stand- programme will be overseen many more challenges. CM A ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 LIFE THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE India hosts world’s oldest algae fossil New ind in the Chitrakoot region of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh may rewrite evolution timeline

Agence France-Presse Advanced tools — such as Miami synchrotron-based X-ray Scientists in India have un- tomographic microscopy — covered a pair of 1.6 billion- allowed scientists to observe year-old fossils that appear regularly recurring platelets to contain red algae, which in each cell, which they be- may be the oldest plant-like lieve are parts of chloro- life discovered on Earth. plasts, the organelles within Until now, the oldest plant cells where photosyn- known red algae was 1.2 bil- thesis takes place. lion years old, said the paper Distinct structures at the in the journal PLOS Biology. centre of each cell wall are Scientists often debate the Salient discovery: An X-ray tomographic picture of fossil red algae, tinted to show detail, also apparent, and are typ- question of when complex found in a 1.6-billion-year-old rock. STEFAN BENGTSON/REUTERS ical of red algae. life began on Earth, but they The fossils were dis- generally agree that large itus of palaeo-zoology at the said. No DNA remains in the “You cannot be a hundred covered in sedimentary multicellular organisms be- Swedish Museum of Natural fossils to be analysed but the percent sure about material rocks in the Chitrakoot re- came common about 600 History. material structurally re- this ancient, as there is no gion of Uttar Pradesh and million years ago. sembles red algae, embed- DNA remaining, but the Madhya Pradesh. The earli- This discovery could lead No DNA remains ded in fossil mats of cy- characters agree quite well est traces of life on Earth — in experts to rewrite the tree of “The ‘time of visible life’ anobacteria inside a 1.6 with the morphology and the form of single-celled or- life, said lead author Stefan seems to have begun much billion-year-old phosphorite, structure of red algae,” said ganisms — go back some 3.5 Bengtson, Professor Emer- earlier than we thought,” he a kind of sedimentary rock. Professor Bengtson. billion years. Science unravels Woman with Down Syndrome spiders’ giant appetite presents weather on French TV The arachnids are great at pest control A Twitter fan described it as “a magical television moment” Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse who paid tribute to her flaw- Paris Paris less delivery, as did her fans The world’s spiders eat 400- Melanie Segard, a 21-year-old on Twitter. 800 million tonnes of in- woman with Down Syn- “A magical television mo- sects every year — as much drome, broke new ground ment,” said one. “Bravo, meat and fish as humans for the disabled on Tuesday Melanie, we are all equal,” consume over the same by presenting the weather said another. period, a study has found. FILE PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK forecast on French national Ms. Segard tweeted, In the first analysis of its television. “That’s it, I’ve done it, I’m fi- kind, researchers used data a role spiders play in keep- Ms. Segard provided a nally a weather girl,” adding: from 65 previous studies to ing pests and disease-carri- summary of the weekend “I am different, but I can do estimate that spiders on ers at bay — especially in weather on France 2, achiev- lots of things.” Earth weigh a total of 25 mil- forests and grasslands ing a personal goal that she Down syndrome is the lion tonnes. where most of them live. hopes will also boost aware- Melanie Segard. UNAPIE/ most common genetic form Taking into account how “We hope that these es- ness for people with Down GLORYPARIS/AFP of intellectual disability. much food spiders need to timates and their significant Syndrome. Also known as trisomy 21, survive, the team then cal- magnitude raise public She soared to prominence and drawn a following of the condition is caused by culated the eight-legged awareness and increase the after an advocacy group, UN- thousands on Twitter. the presence of an extra, or creatures’ annual haul of in- level of appreciation for the APEI, launched a campaign France 2 TV heard of the third, copy of chromosome sects and other important global role of ahead of World Down Syn- buzz and gave her a chance. number 21. Humans nor- invertebrates. spiders,” the study authors drome Day on March 21, en- mally have 23 pairs of chro- “Our estimates... suggest wrote. titled “Melanie can do it.” In the limelight mosomes, which together that the annual prey kill of For context, the study On her Facebook page, Before her broadcast, the contain up to 25,000 pro- the global spider com- points out that humans con- Ms. Segard announced that channel showed her re- tein-coding genes. munity is in the range of sume about 400 million her dream was to present hearsing her lines and being Last month, Madeline Stu- 400-800 million metric tonnes of meat and fish the weather, and vowed to made up for the cameras. art, a 20-year-old Australian tonnes,” they wrote in the every year, while whales do it if she scored more than Ms. Segard, shy and model with Down Syn- journal The Science of feed on 280-500 tonnes and 1,00,000 “likes”. clearly moved by the event, drome, took part in a fash- Nature. seabirds about 70 million Within 10 days, she had was flanked by the channel’s ion show in New York and This showed just how big tonnes of seafood. picked up 2,00,000 “likes” forecaster, Anais Baydemir, debuted her own label.

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