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NEARBY Indian shot dead in U.S. hate crime Kanpur train accident cross-border plot: PM Gunman, a 51-year-old Navy veteran, shouted ‘get out of my country’ before opening ire in a bar Modi says perpetrators were in Nepal Varghese K. George Washington A brilliant career felled Press Trust of India An apparent act of racial Gonda hatred left an Indian engin- The Kanpur train accident eer dead and another in- by bullets, says relative in which 150 people were jured in Olathe city in Kansas killed was a “conspiracy” Shivratri brings Muslims, in midwestern U.S. on Wed- R.Avadhani talk to the parents daily. His and the perpetrators carried Pandits together nesday night. Ravi Reddy lively nature is what every it out “sitting across the bor- SRINAGAR Srinivas Kuchibhotla (32) Sangareddy/Hyderabad one loved,” Mr. Sharma said. der” in Nepal, Prime Minis- Muslims have cleaned up and had gone to a bar with his A pall of gloom descended At one stage, relatives of ter Narendra Modi said on organised a puja at a temple friend Alok Madasani after on the Praneet Nature Srinivas had to step in to Friday. and a 1,000 specially- the day’s work. He was shot Bounty gated community, keep away television journ- Addressing an election designed ‘Herath’ greeting allegedly by a 51-year-old under the Mallampet gram alists from family members. meeting in Gonda district of Prime Minister Narendra cards have been produced: Navy veteran who shouted, panchayat of Medchal dis- “Thank God, my son sur- Uttar Pradesh, which is Modi at a rally in Gonda this shivratri, Kashmiri “get out of my country,” be- trict, on Friday as news vived the firing. But I feel close to the India-Nepal bor- district on Friday. PTI Pandits and Muslims are fore the act. Kuchibhotla The parents of Srinivas Kuchibhotla (inset) mourn in broke of the tragic killing of sorry for Srinivas Kuchib- der, he touched upon the bonding strongly, and social died later, while Mr. Ma- Hyderabad on Friday. PTI Srinivas. hotla, who was close to my derailment of 14 coaches of want to carry out their media is providing the dasani, who was also hit, has Relatives and locals hur- son,” Jaganmohan Reddy, the Indore-Patna Express, work, is it not necessary platform to relive the past memories. recovered and has been dis- Adam Purinton on murder mans.” He is out of danger. ried to the two-storied father of Alok Madasani and near Pukhraya in Kanpur that more vigil is maintained NORTH Ī PAGE 3 charged from hospital. charges, and the case is be- The shooter told a bar- house of Kuchibhotla Chief Engineer in the Rural Dehat district on November in Gonda?” he asked the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Ian Grillot, a 24-year-old ing investigated as a possible tender, 80 miles away from Madhusudhana Rao, father Water Supply department of 20, and said the probe find- people, urging them to vote white man who took a bullet hate crime. Olathe, that he had shot two of Srinivas. the Government of Telan- ings showed it was a “con- for the BJP. BSF kills ‘female on his chest trying to stop “Middle Easterners.” He “A brilliant career has gana, told The Hindu on spiracy.” “The Kanpur rail “Gonda needs to elect intruder’ in Jammu the shooter, has emerged the Out of danger wanted a place to hide, but been felled by bullets. Such Friday. accident, in which hundreds only those who are full of SRINAGAR hero in the tragic episode “I was just doing what any- the bartender reported him tragedy should not strike “After the shooting, I of people were killed was a patriotism. Only then can The Border Security Force that snuffed out the dreams one should have done,” Mr. to the police. any parents,” said Krish- wonder if we really need to conspiracy and the conspir- we do anything good for (BSF) on Friday said it killed a of the Hyderabad-born Grillot told Kansas City Star namohan Sharma, a close go and work in the U.S.,” ators carried it out sitting Gonda,” he said. female intruder and arrested Kuchibhotla, whose wife is from his hospital bed. “It’s CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 relative. asked Mr. Reddy. across the border... Gonda is a man on the International five months pregnant. The not about where he’s from, THE HERO WHO TRIED TO STOP The parents were incon- adjoining Nepal,” he said. ‘COMMITTED TO FIGHTING Border (IB) at two separate police arrested attacker or ethnicity. We’re all hu- THE SHOOTER Ī PAGE 8 solable. “Srinivas used to CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 “If the cross-border foes CORRUPTION’ Ī PAGE 8 places in the Jammu region. 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Swine lu alert in Jaipur Labour Ministry to discuss revised guidelines at GoM after doctor’s death JAIPUR SOMESH JHA at the next meeting of the Industrial Disputes Act, After the death of a retired NEW DELHI Group of Ministers (GoM), 1947. government doctor due to The Labour Ministry has scheduled for March 8, a “There has been demand swine lu here, the Rajasthan proposed that factories with senior Ministry official said. from the industry to in- government's Medical and up to 500 workers be al- The GoM is headed by crease the threshold limit Health Department has lowed to lay off workers or Union Finance Minister for factories to seek permis- geared up to check the shut shop without seeking Arun Jaitley. sion for retrenchment from spread of the disease and government permission, in a At present, factories with 100 workers to 500 workers. issued alert in the State capital. All government bid to give firms flexibility in up to 100 workers are al- We need to discuss the pro- dispensaries, satellite hiring and firing employees. lowed to go in for retrench- posal with the GoM before hospitals and other The Ministry is set to dis- ment, lay-off or closure taking a final call,” the offi- government health centres cuss the proposed Labour without seeking government cial said. were asked to pay special Code on Industrial Relations permission, according to the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 attention to patients with swine lu-like symptoms.

NORTH Ī PAGE 3 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Soldiers wait at a camp in Panjpora, near Srinagar, on Friday to receive the body of their colleague Ghulam Mohi-ud Din Rather, DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES who was killed in Shopian on Thursday. Three soldiers and a woman were killed in an ambush by militants. (See also page 3) AP IAS oicer held for paper leak Delhi allows Dhaka Bihar Police claim his nephew admitted their involvement use of border roads

Special Correspondent Mr Ram had allegedly staged a violent protest out- Patna Move will aid construction of outposts named several ministers, side the gate of the BSSC and Senior IAS officer and the MLAs and bureaucrats of the even had thrashed its secret- Vijaita Singh The Border Security Force, chairman of the Bihar Staff state. The SIT led by Patna ary, Mr Ram. New Delhi deployed along the Selection Commission Senior Superintendent of Later, Chief Minister Nit- In a rare gesture, India has Bangladesh border, will (BSSC), Sudhir Kumar, was Police Manu Maharaj has so ish Kumar ordered the can- decided to throw open its monitor the construction arrested on Friday by the far arrested over two dozen cellation of the examination border roads to help activities. Special Investigating Team persons. “Many more arrests and a thorough investigation Bangladesh construct bor- India has on multiple oc- of the police in the question can be made as the investig- into the question paper leak. der outposts in Chittagong casions handed over details paper leak scam. ation is still going on,” Mr An SIT of the Patna police hill tracts, known for its in- of insurgent camps operat- Mr Kumar, 1987 batch IAS Maharaj said. was formed to probe it. hospitable terrain. ing from the Bangladesh officer, was arrested along Mr Kumar, known as an Some areas in Chit- soil, particularly in the with four of his family mem- Viral on social media upright and honest officer, tagong, bordering Tripura dense Chittagong Hill Tract bers from Hazaribagh in The question paper for the had earlier told journalists and Mizoram, have no mo- area. neighbouring Jharkhand. examination to appoint gov- that “favouritism and recom- torable roads and India has Following the leads, the Earlier, BSSC secretary ernment clerks and assist- mendations” have been decided to allow the Border neighbouring country has Parmeshwar Ram was arres- ants on January 29 and Feb- norm in the BSSC and that Guard Bangladesh to con- acted against these camps ted and sent to jail in the ruary 5 were leaked and had he used to get recommenda- struct 13 border outposts us- and demolished them. same case. gone viral on social media. tions and request phone ing the road connectivity During his interrogation, The next day examinees calls from politicians. available in the two States. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8

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Jacob Koshy hosted at the Indian Institute Secretary, Ministry of Earth NEW DELHI of Tropical Meteorology, Sciences, told The Hindu. Come June, India will likely Pune and the National unveil its most powerful Centre for Medium Range ₹400 crore sanctioned supercomputer. If its Weather Forecasting at The government has processors operate at the full Noida in Uttar Pradesh. sanctioned ₹400 crore for capacity of 10 petaflops (1 For the first time, colleges the project this year. Most of followed by 15 zeroes of and other research the machine’s computing floating point operations per institutions can log in and power will help in monsoon second), a clock speed a Power drive: India is working to enter the big league of harness its power to address forecasting, using a million times faster than the supercomputing. The picture shows China’s fastest problems, ranging from dynamical model. fastest consumer laptops, it supercomputer, ‘Tianhe.’ XINHUA weather modelling to This requires simulating could earn a place among understanding how proteins the weather for a given the world’s top 10 fastest thanks to the EKA built by exist in Indian academic fold. “The tender [to select month — say March — and supercomputers. the Computational Research institutions: they feature in the company that will build letting a custom-built model Though India has built or Laboratories, which is part the 100s or 200s in global the machine] is ready and calculate how the actual hosted supercomputers of the Tata group. This rankings. we hope to have it [the weather will play out over since the 1990s, it held a ‘top position was lost, though The as-yet-unnamed computer] by June” June, July, August and 10’ spot only once, in 2007, several ultra-fast machines machine will be jointly Madhavan Rajeevan, September. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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DELHI Timings Saturday, February 25 Roopa’s social media RISE 06:50 SET 18:18 Hurdles hurting adoption of infants RISE 05:48 SET 17:09 Sunday, February 26 post exposes faultlines RISE 06:49 SET 18:19 Financial gains from smuggling babies more than that from legal adoption, says NCPCR chairperson RISE 06:31 SET 18:09 Her comments anger State BJP chief Shiv Sahay Singh Monday, February 27 of Child Rights. Kolkata RISE 06:48 SET 18:20 “We are waiting for the Staff Reporter RISE 07:13 SET 19:10 Taking cognisance of the State Commission report. Kolkata fresh instances of infant After the report, we will send In a major embarrassment smuggling in West Bengal, members to West Bengal,” to the West Bengal BJP, its the National Commission for Ms Thacker said. women’s wing president Protection of Child Rights Roopa Ganguly has alleged (NCPCR) and its State coun- ‘Market and demand’ that it was party president terpart have emphasised Ananya Chakraborti, chair- Dilip Ghosh who “advised” that the slow rate of adop- person of State Child Rights her to make Juhi Chow- tion along with hurdles in Commission, also spoke dhury the general secretary the formal adoption system along similar lines. of the women’s wing. Rupa Ganguly. could lead to a rise in such Though she highlighted Ms Ganguly made the re- cases. the criminality of smuggling, marks in a Whatsapp group and general secretary, Pra- Ms. Chakraborti said “there of the party’s women’s wing tap Bandyopadhyay, where Second incident cannot be a market without earlier this week. he has referred to Ms. Chow- This is the second time in the demand”, indicated that Ms. Chowdhury, an ac- dhury as the general past two months that in- hurdles in the formal adop- cused in the child trafficking secretary. stances of baby smuggling tion system result in parents case, is yet to be traced by “Pratap da (Pratap have surfaced in the State. adopting babies through the CID. Three persons have Bandyopadhyay) has signed While about a dozen ba- other means. been arrested so far. a doc (document) where he bies were recovered by the “And you all will be sur- had written Juhi’s name as Criminal Investigation De- To visit Jalpaiguri prised to know that Dilip da gs (general secretary) and partment (CID) of the West Ms Chakraborti said she will (Dilip Ghosh) called me in that’s how I have come to 0 Bengal police in south soon visit Jalpaiguri to ascer- his room and advised me to know Juhi and now I know DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to make her (Juhi Chowdhury) her for five to six months,” verify and make appropriate enquiries to Bengal towards 2016 end, tain the situation. satisfy themselves about the veracity of GS (general secretary),” Ms. stated Ms. Ganguly. an advertisement before responding to now a fresh racket in infant Three persons, including any published in this newspaper. Kasturi smuggling has come to light In the net: Police escort Chandana Chakraborty in Jalpaiguri district. FILE PHOTO AFP Chandana Chakraborty who Ganguly said in the post. On his part, Mr Ghosh & Sons Limited, the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch for the in Jalpaiguri district of north ran Specialised Adoption said, “such apolitical people authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s Bengal. son Stuti Kacker asked. gains from smuggling babies On the recent smuggling Agency homes in Jalpaiguri, Letter from leader (Ms. Ganguly)” do not know products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- “Why are the babies not Reports about sale of ba- were probably more than racket, Ms. Kacker said the have been arrested by the Ms. Ganguly also said that how to speak about party af- ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in being put up for adoption in bies do come up often in the putting babies for adoption NCPCR has asked for a re- CID for allegedly smuggling she came to know about Ms. fairs. “They do not have the any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in the formal adoption country, said Ms. Kacker, through the Specialised Ad- port from the West Bengal babies from adoption Chowdhury through a letter sense about what to say and this newspaper. scheme?” NCPCR chairper- adding that the financial option Agency (SAA). Commission for Protection homes. signed by senior BJP leader what not to say,” he said. Jaundice scare grips CPM cautions ostentatious MP Hectic lobbying to form zilla Cuttack city again Party to come up with guidelines on use of social media parishads in Odisha 75 people hospitalised in Tulasipur Special Correspondent is not allowed,” the general Kolkata secretary said. No party may get majority in at least ive districts Pointing out that social Correspondent few days. The controversy over the media was a public forum, CUTTACK Special Correspondent District Collector N. C. ‘costly accessories’ of party Mr. Yechury said airing griev- Bhubaneswar short of majority. State Election Commission Supply of contaminated Mishra on Friday visited MP Ritabrata Banerjee has ances there was not “the As per the initial outcome on Thursday, results for the drinking water in most parts the affected areas and pushed the Communist party norm”. Hectic lobbying and horse- of the polls, the BJD seems election of panchayat sam- of the city through broken ordered for random Party of India-Marxist [CPI “Anyone in the party has trading have commenced to be in a comfortable posi- itis and zilla parishad mem- pipes has once again sample collection of all (M)] to formulate guidelines the right to make complaints ahead of the formation of tion in at least 16 out of the bers are to be announced on brought the city under the water sources to ascertain on use of social media by Ritabrata Banerjee. against anyone up to the zilla parishads as no party is 30 districts, while the BJP Saturday. In the just-con- grip of jaundice. the cause and source of workers on matters relating general secretary. Such com- sure of getting a majority in has got majority in eight dis- cluded three-tier panchayat Tulasipur area covering jaundice. Most house- to the party. a decision on. plaints should be made at least five districts of tricts. The Congress has se- elections, party symbols at least three municipal holds here entirely de- At a press conference here On the issue of lodging within the party and all such Odisha. cured a majority in one were used for elections to wards of the civic body is pend upon PHD pipelines on Thursday, CPI(M) general complaints or airing griev- complaints will be dealt with The cat and mouse game district. the zilla parishads, while no the worst affected as over 75 for potable water and the secretary Sitaram Yechury ances against any other com- in a time-bound manner as has already begun between Union Petroleum Minister party symbol was used for persons here have been hos- pipelines have broken at said the party will soon rade, Mr. Yechury said such per our constitution,” he ad- the ruling Biju Janata Dal Dharmendra Pradhan has the posts of sarpanches, pitalised for jaundice in last many places. come up with guidelines on complaints should be made ded. On personal issues “like and the BJP, which has already hinted that the BJP ward members and pan- the use of social media both within the party and not on the dress anyone is wear- emerged as the principal op- will try to form the zilla par- chayat samiti members. at the State and national social media. ing”, the party member was position in the rural ishads in more districts. level. “For some months now free to post on social media elections. The three parties have Half posts for women we have been discussing (the platforms, Mr. Yechury said. also started lobbying to get Elections for 91,833 ward New rules issue) in the central commit- Bid to win support their candidates elected as members, 6783 sarpanches As per the new rules, party tee. The social media does Banerjee criticised Both parties have started the chairman of panchayat and samiti members each, members can propagate de- not provide licence to any Meanwhile, the West Bengal making efforts to win over samitis at the block level. and 851 zilla parishad mem- cision taken by the party on party member to violate State Committee of CPI-M on the support of independents While the results of the bers were held in 315 blocks social media, but cannot party disciplinary principles Thursday “criticised” the as well as Congress winners elections for the posts of of the State in five phases. make comments on issues or the party’s principles of MP’s behaviour and “cau- to form the zilla parishads in sarpanches and ward mem- Fifty % of all these posts that the party has not taken democratic centralism. This tioned him”. the districts where they are bers were announced by the were reserved for women.

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After he tested positive, In a rare outpouring of grief for a fallen soldier in strife- From Muslims cleaning up jasthan government's Med- he suffered multiple organ torn Kashmir, thousands of and organising puja at a ical and Health Department failure and was declared civilians on Friday bid a temple to 1,000 specially-de- has geared up to check the dead on Wednesday. tearful adieu to Lance Naik signed ‘Herath’ greeting spread of the disease and is- Medical and Health Min- Ghulam Mohiuddin Rather, cards, this Shivratri Kashmiri sued alert in the State ister Kali Charan Saraf has who was killed in an ambush Pandits and Muslims bonded capital. instructed doctors and by militants on Thursday. and reached out to each para-medical staff to remain Two other soldiers and a other, with social media Flu-like symptoms alert to the symptoms of civilian woman were also providing a rare platform to All government dispensar- swine flu among the pa- killed in the encounter, which relive past memories. ies, satellite hospitals and tients of cough, cold, ca- took place barely 25 other government health tarrh and high fever and im- kilometres from his home. Pandits’ migration centres were asked to pay mediately start their For perhaps the first time special attention to patients treatment. Computer training for since hundreds of Pandit with swine flu-like symp- According to the official girls in Haryana families migrated outside the toms. V.D. Bohra, who resources, the Minister asked CHANDIGARH Valley in the face of raging tired from Sawai Man Singh the Chief Medical and The Haryana government on militancy in the 1990s, villa- Government Hospital here, Health Officers in all dis- Friday said it will provide gers, young and old, of Sum- had visited Hyderabad and tricts to ensure collection of computer training to 840 bal village in Bandipora, 30 some other cities in the samples, availability of girls in urban and semi-urban km away from Srinagar, con- southern States, where he medicines, referral to spe- villages in the State. Under verged on the Nand Kishore felt unwell. His condition cialists and prompt services the scheme, the Haryana temple, located under the deteriorated when he came of intensive care units and Women Development shade of mighty chinar trees back to Jaipur last week. isolation wards Corporation (HWDC) along early in the morning. They Holy day: Devotees ofering prayers on the occasion of Shivratri at the Hanuman Mandir in with the Technical Education Department would provide were carrying brooms and Srinagar on Friday. PHOTO: NISSAR AHMAD computer training for six water containers in hand. months, an official “We have decided to clean Muslim netizens greeted The Kashmiri Pandits’ thored Residue. Missing Kashmiri spokesperson said here.PTI up the premises of the Pandits on the occasion as herath is different from the In another gesture, the temple for the Pandits. We social media provided a rare rest of the country. Unlike government mailed through want them to perform puja platform to recall old Hindus elsewhere, Pandits post offices specially-de- student traced Day temperatures rise with all reverence and memories. here would cook both fish signed herath greeting cards. Special Correspondent across north without any sense of insecur- “I miss water-soaked wal- and meat dishes on the Srinagar unknown reasons. He spent NEW DELHI ity,” said Rashid Dar, a local. nuts that Pandits would offer occasion. Greeting cards three nights in city hospit- Day temperatures across Several locals were seen to Muslims in neighbour- “For the first time in my “Around 1,000 greeting The police on Friday traced als. After proper coun- northern States rose slightly carrying placards. “Let’s cel- hood. For ‘salam’, I would living memory, I heard that cards were delivered to Pan- the missing Kashmir Univer- selling, the student was on a clear day on Friday, while ebrate next Herath (a term visit Pandits the next day some Kashmiri Pandits else- dit families. The card high- sity law student from the handed over to the chief the higher reaches of used by Kashmiri Pandits for after herath,” recalled Ashraf where will not celebrate it a lights the poetry of Lal Ded, outskirts of the city. proctor, Kashmir University, Himachal Pradesh were still in shivratri) together in the val- Kishoo on Facebook. day before. I am not sure equally revered by Muslims Sub-Divisional Police Of- in the presence of his relat- the grip of biting cold. ley,” the placards read, an whether this is about the and Pandits. It carries the ficer (SDPO), Hazratbal, ives and friends,” Mr. Biting cold conditions apparent reference to the re- The tradition lunar calendar being picture of a stone temple of Sajad Bukhari said Aqib Bukhari said. continued unabated in higher Mushtaq Malik was found in A third semester student hills and tribal areas of turn of Pandits to their nat- Those Pandits who stayed uniquely erratic this year or Mansbal that was restored the house of Mohammad and a resident of Shopian, Himachal Pradesh, while the ive places. back followed the tradition about the reinvention of tra- with the help of locals. The minimum temperature The Sumbal area has wit- of keeping water-soaked wal- dition to eventually erase the idea is highlight the rich cul- Rafiq Bhat, a resident of Mr Malik was missing since plummeted in mid and lower nessed growing militancy nuts for Muslim neighbours. differences between Kash- ture the State has nurtured Habak, Nigeen, “where he February 21. His disappear- hills and stayed below 5 this year, with around six en- More than 3,000 families de- miri Pandits and Indian for centuries,” Works Minis- was staying as a tenant.” ance sparked protests on degree Celsius.PTI counters already reported. cided to stay back despite Hindus,” said Nitasha Kaul, a ter and government spokes- “The student revealed the university campus on Scores of Valley-based the militancy. Pandit novelist who au- man Nayeem Akhtar said. that he was under stress for Thursday. HP budget session Two babus shifted over likely to be stormy boat tragedy

Parties to chalk out strategy on Feb 28 Press Trust of India Patna Staff Correspondent recently submitted a de- The Bihar government on SHIMLA tailed chargesheet on the Friday transferred two The last budget session of Congress government’s mis- senior IAS officers of the the Congress government is demeanours, during the Tourism Department, ap- going to be a stormy affair in present tenure, to Governor parently a fallout of the tra- view of the latest round of Acharya Dev Vrat. gic boat mishap in Patna allegations and counter al- last month in which 25 legations on the issue of cor- Forest mafia people lost their lives. ruption and mafia rule in The BJP is already running a While Harjot Kumar the hill State. Both the gov- campaign against the Con- Bamhara has been trans- ernment and the Opposition gress government and Chief ferred to the Mines Depart- are planning to have their Minister Virbhadra Singh for ment, Uma Shankar Prasad legislature party meetings 'patronising' various drug has been shifted to the An- on February 28 to chalk out peddlers, mining and forest imal Husbandry and Fish- their strategies. mafias in the State. The ery Department. The BJP legislature party Chief Secretary and Director meeting will be addressed GeneralofPoliceadmitteda by Leader of the Opposition few days ago that there had in the Assembly Prem Ku- been a sharp increase in the mar Dhumal at the State number of drug and nar- Guest House in Peterhoff. cotic seizures in the State. The party will focus mainly Though the police have on the issue of corruption denied any political patron- and raise the charges lev- age to the drug mafia, the elled against the various manifold increase in its Ministers and MLAs in past trade has raised many four years. The party had eyebrows.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 4 NATION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Youth laying down lives for Canine trouble dogs Valley Fed 30 lakh kg of ofal annually, dogs becoming ferocious

their rights, says Farooq Peerzada Ashiq SRINAGAR Kashmir is finding its stray “They are saying this is our land and we are its rightful owners” dogs too ferocious to tame. Bred on an estimated “30 Peerzada Ashiq lakh kg of offal” or chicken Srinagar Two smugglers arrested waste annually, these with leopard skin National Conference (NC) canines are attacking the JALPAIGURI president and former Chief residents when not able to Two smugglers were arrested Minister Farooq Abdullah on find their food. from Jalpaiguri district of Friday said the “youth of The incidents of dog bites West Bengal with a 10-foot- Kashmir were laying down have increased in the winter long leopard skin, forest their lives for their rights.” months forcing the Srinagar department officers said. Apparently referring to Municipal Corporation The two, who are inhabitants militants and youth who dis- (SMC) to start a fresh animal New trouble: Scores of dog bite cases are registered every of Jaigaon in Bhutan border, rupt anti-militancy opera- birth control programme for month during winters when food gets scarce. - FILE PHOTO were apprehended from a tions, Dr. Abdullah said, stray dogs. dhaba in Odlabari area on “These boys are rendering Dr. Muhammad Salim the reason behind the fero- The SMC has also signed a Thursday night during a raid, sacrifices not to become Khan, the Head of Depart- city of the dogs is the high- Memorandum of Under- they said. MLAs, MPs or ministers. ment of the Community protein offal they are fed standing with the Unem- The leopard skin was being They are giving sacrifices to Medicine at Srinagar’s regularly because of the di- ployed Veterinary Doctors’ smuggled to Siliguri from demand their right. They are premiere Shri Maharaja Hari etary habits of residents of Association to “sterilise 200 Assam via Bhutan. - PTI saying ‘this is our land and Singh Hospital (SMHS), told Kashmir, where mutton and dogs a week”. we are its rightful owners’.” The Hindu, “It's (dog attack) chicken are a staple diet. Man killed in Addressing party workers increasing. The SMHS has According to official fig- Sterilisation celebratory firing at the NC headquarters here, Making a point: National Conference chief Farooq Abdullah addressing party workers at a treated 5,262 cases of dog ures, Kashmir imports ap- “The move will not only PTI BIJNOR he said there was growing meeting in Srinagar on Friday. bites in the last 10 months.” proximately 5.5 crore chick- tackle the growing menace A 44-year-old man was killed anger in J&K because the ens from Haryana and of dog bites, but also during celebratory firing at a People’s Democratic Party prism of law and order,” Mr not condoning violence or political issue in the State is ‘City outskirts worst hit’ Punjab, while around 36 provide employment to the wedding ceremony in (PDP) had “joined hands Abdullah said. turmoil, nor are we support- the outcome of New Delhi’s The situation is worse in the lakh birds are produced loc- youths of the State. Scores of Lindarpur village in the with the communal forces.” “Statesmanship and saga- ing strife. We are seeking overt and covert acts of con- outskirts where the muni- ally. “In a chicken weighing dog bite cases are registered district, the police said on city demanded that New that the root cause of aliena- stitutional impropriety and cipal corporation is not that 1.5 kg, almost half (750 every month, especially in Friday. Full of resentment Delhi should initiate political tion be addressed rather injustice”. active is checking the men- grams) is thrown as offal. winter as the food grows The incident took place on “These young men we see engagement with the alien- than a continuing with the Mr Abdullah said the boys ace. The peripheral hospit- Based on this calculation, scarce,” said Dr. Shafqat Thursday night after the out on the roads today don’t ated youth of the State rather policy of treating the symp- joining militant ranks were als of Directorate of Health Kashmiris annually feed 30 Khan. baraat began its journey and care about their lives, their than resorting to a confront- toms through operational “sacrificing their lives for Services Kashmir receive lakh kg of chicken waste to Dr. Salim Khan, however, some revellers opened fire in livelihood or about their per- ational and aggressive ap- and administrative freedom of the nation.” around 25,000 cases of dog stray dogs,” said Dr. Khan. is not very convinced with air, they said. sonal grievances but are full proach by issuing threats of mechanisms”. bites every year, said Dr. Alarmed by the rising the measures adopted by A bullet hit Chandrapal Saini of resentment and hostility harsh measures,” he said. He also asked New Delhi Pakistan slammed Salim Khan. “In compar- number of dog bite cases, the SMC. “Our dog sterilisa- killing him on the spot, the because of how New Delhi Calling for New Delhi’s en- “to read contemporary his- He said Pakistan “did no ison, the SMHS has received SMC Commissioner Dr. tion programme is grossly police said. has always and continues to gagement with the “alien- tory of the State with ob- justice with Kashmiris.” “We only 10-15% cases,” he Shafqat Khan has launched a inadequate as by the time 50 A case has been registered see and define them through ated and anguished youth”, jectivity, then only will it are asking both the countries added. fresh animal-birth control dogs are sterilised, 1,000 and efforts are on to arrest the accused, they said, adding the narrow, conventional Dr. Abdullah said, “We are realise that the simmering to do justice with us.” According to Dr. Khan, exercise in the city. more are born,” he said. the body has been sent for post-mortem. - PTI In Odisha district, women ofer sarees at shrine to shut out evil eye 2 killed, 30 hurt as tractor trolley overturns Rumours of harm in the coming months are driving mothers in Berhampur to pray for the well-being of their eldest sons PRATAPGARH A woman and a girl were Staff Reporter months some great harm, urban centres of the district. ers have to wear it at the that (February 14), the num- this rumour are from the killed and 30 others injured BERHAMPUR maybe death, is going to hap- As a result, thousands of shrine and then return ber of visitors had gone economically backward fam- after a tractor trolley Blinded by superstition, pen to eldest male child of mothers are thronging the home. above 50,000, he added. Ac- ilies. As most of them are un- overturned in Kunda here on thousands of mothers, any family and through this temple ofTuesdays with a cording to Mr. Panda, Febru- educated or semi-literate, Friday, the police said. whose firstborn is a boy, are special puja at Tara Tarini new saree and food material Crowd management ary 21 was the 16th Tuesday they do not use their logic The incident took place when a group of devotees was rushing to Tara Tarini hill temple with new saree on to be offered as ‘chhancha’ On last Tuesday (February and the number of visitors and easily believe these stor- returning after paying shrine in Ganjam district of Tuesday this ill fate can be (offering) to the temple. 21) around 25,000 visitors on all Tuesdays have been as ies, said J. Suresh, an activist obeisance at Haudeshwar Odisha on Tuesdays. averted. Interestingly, the cost of reached this famous hill high as the crowd seen at the with Humanist and Rational- Nath dham on Mahashivratri These women are offering the saree and the offerings shrine of south Odisha and temple on the four Tuesdays ist Organisation (HRO). Such and the vehicle overturned, new sarees among other 16 weeks and counting has to be borne by the par- most of them were married of the Hindu month of superstition spreads through they said. things to the deity, praying It’s been 16 weeks since the ents of the women, accord- women with children, said Chaitra (between March and word of mouth among the While two Gudia Devi (35) for the well-being of their rumour started in the rural ing to the rumour which has the secretary of Tara Tarini April), when the major fest- downtrodden, who fail to and Madhuri (12) died on the eldest sons. The reason be- areas of Ganjam, and now it now become a belief among Development Board (TTDB), ivals of the shrine are held. use their analytical skill to Beeline for darshan at the spot, other injured were hind this superstition is a ru- has spread to the slums of the people. After offering the Pramod Panda. The majority of the wo- know the truth behind it, he Tara Tarini shrine in Odisha. LINGARAJ PANDA rushed to the hospital. - PTI mour that in the coming Berhampur city and other saree to the deity, the moth- On the Tuesday before men who have fallen prey to added.

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Press Trust of India “I feel that had these Devraj was on hunger strike for quota Mumbai things been avoided, there MNS victor A day after the Brihanmum- would not have been so Press Trust of India They are now on an “in- bai Municipal Corporation much bitterness between injured in Jaipur definite hunger strike” in Azam Khan’s chopper (BMC) elections threw up a BJP and Sena,” Mr. Gadkari The site of an indefinite Sikandara area of Dausa dis- fractured verdict, senior BJP said. attack hunger strike for Special trict. develops snag leader Nitin Gadkari on Fri- Shiv Sena should take care Backward Class quota Gujjar said his marriage BARABANKI day said there was “no op- that relations between the Press Trust of India turned into the marriage was fixed eight months ago Senior Uttar Pradesh Minister Mumbai Azam Khan on Friday had a tion” for his party and the two parties should not de- venue for 26-year-old Devraj and because he did not Saamna An Maharashtra Navnir- narrow escape as his Shiv Sena other than joining teriorate because of . Gujjar, who tied the nuptial want to delay it, he decided man Sena (MNS) leader, helicopter had to make an hands for control of the Mr. Gadkari’s remarks knot here, as he chose not to marry Mamta at the emergency landing in Karand Mumbai civic body. came a day after the BJP celebrating victory in the to leave the protest. protest site. village, near Jahangirabad “The situation now is that scored an emphatic win in civic poll, and eight party Gujjar is one of the 10 He said his family made here, due to technical snag, both parties have no option the Maharashtra civic polls, workers were injured men who are protesting all arrangements for the police said. Mr. Khan later but to come together again,” emerging as the largest party when they were allegedly since February 16 against wedding. left for Lucknow by road. PTI Mr. Gadkari said. “The final in eight of the 10 municipal attacked by a mob in Kurla, the scrapping of quota for “Both marriage and job decision on this issue has to Winners all: Newly elected corporators of the municipal corporations, while finishing police said on Friday. Special Backward Classes in are important in a person’s be taken by Chief Minister corporation with Maharashtra CM in Nagpur. S. SUDARSHAN a close second to the Shiv MNS candidate Sanjay Rajasthan by the High Court life. After Mamta agreed to 5.2 magnitude quake Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena in BMC elections. Turde was returning home in December last year. it, we decided to tie the nup- rocks Manipur after celebrations when NEW DELHI Sena president Uddhav standing) and maturity,” Mr. friendship with us (BJP), The BJP improved its 2012 tial knot at the spot. I will Thackeray. Both are mature Gadkari told a Marathi TV then there has to be a check BMC poll performance by around 100 people armed Selected as lecturers continue my fast unto A medium intensity Saamna with rods and sticks ar- earthquake of 5.2 magnitude and I am sure they will take channel. on the writings in . leaps and bounds, winning The men were selected as death. I cannot betray my rived at his office in Kurla hit Manipur on Friday. The the right decision,” he said. He singled out Sena How will there be friendship 82 seats, just two less than lecturers by the Rajasthan fellows,” he said. Saamna Saamna around 10.30 p.m. on epicenter was in mouthpiece for tar- when , on a daily the Sena. Public Service Commission. Mamta said “I am with Thursday. The mob appar- Churachandpur district. It ‘Understanding needed’ geting Prime Minister Naren- basis, writes insulting things Both the parties are short But after the High Court my husband in his fight. I struck at 5.32 p.m. at a depth “I feel leaders of both parties dra Modi and BJP president about the Prime Minister of the magic figure of 114 ently comprised persons struck down the SBC quota, am proud of him and if our of 20 km, according to the have to take a decision, Amit Shah. and our party president?” he needed to control the civic from rival parties, a police they, like several others, did demands are not met, I will National Centre for showing ‘sujh bujh’ (under- “If there has to be a said. body. official said. not get appointment letters. also join the protest”. Seismology. There were no immediate reports of loss of life or damage to property. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Another earthquake with a Survey for magnitude of 3.5 struck Deep devotion Sikkim around 3.09 a.m. PTI Tripura rail

Jats to intensify quota line gets nod protest in Haryana ROHTAK Syed Sajjad Ali The Jat organisation Agartala spearheading the stir in The Ministry of Railways Haryana for quota in sanctioned a proposal to government jobs and conduct a survey to con- educational institutions for nect Belonia in south them on Friday decided Tripura through an altern- against talking to the ative route from Dharman- government for setting up a agar in north Tripura. It panel to resolve their also approved a fund of ₹43 grievances. The All-India Jat lakh towards expenditure Aarakshan Sangarsh Samiti involved in the survey, and president Yashpal Malik research issues. vowed to intensify the stir. PTI The Office of the Gen- eral Manager, Construc- Leopard carcass found tion, of the Northeastern Frontier Railway (NFR), in Madhya Pradesh SEONI with its headquarters in Carcass of a three-year-old Maligaon received the leopard was found in sanctioned letters from the Wahidabad forest area under Ministry and Railway Seoni range in Madhya Board, a railway official Pradesh on Friday, an oicial said in Agartala on Friday. said. “The carcass was He envisaged commence- spotted by a patrolling team ment of construction work last night. No injury marks this year after completion were found on the feline,” Moment of piety: Devotees taking a bath in the Sangam in Allahabad on Friday on the occasion of the survey. the oicial said. PTI of Maha Sivaratri. RAJEEV BHATT Nine men acquitted in Noida gang-rape case Court pulls up police for not following proper procedure while investigating

Press Trust Of India ter and said no judicial Test the case. secutor Neelam Narang, say- New Delhi Identification Parade (TIP) of “These factors clearly ing she provided valuable, A Noida police officer left the accused was conducted show that due to the negli- substantial and useful help “no stone unturned” to by the investigating officer gent, casual and unprofes- in explaining the lengthy botch up investigation in a (IO). sional investigation conduc- case in a summarised 2009 case of gang-rape of a ted by the IO, real culprits of manner. 24-year-old MBA student Action against IO the case could not be identi- Though the girl had iden- that has led to the acquittal The court held that the IO fied/arrested or subjected to tified all the accused before of nine persons by a Delhi had left “no stone unturned administration of justice,” the court during the record- court on the grounds that for making this case im- Additional Sessions Judge ing of her testimony, the the identity of the real cul- possible to be proved” and Shail Jain said, adding that judge said their identifica- prits could not be proved. directed Noida Senior Super- this was “a classic case” of tion by her was “doubtful” as The court pulled up the intendent of Police to take botched up investigation by the alleged crime was com- police for not following appropriate action against the IO. mitted in the night in a forest proper procedure of law IO, inspector Anil Samaniya, However, the judge was all area where there was no while investigating the mat- for his improper probe in praise for Special Public Pro- source of light. ED notice to Thampi, 3 Holiday Group irms

FEMA violation of ₹288 crore alleged Special Correspondent According to the agency, New Delhi Mr. Thampi — as a person The Enforcement Director- residing outside India — had ate has served show-cause advanced unsecured loans notices on NRI C.C. Thampi to his three companies, of the Holiday Group and which were later on conver- three of his companies for ted into equity in his name alleged violation of the For- and in the name of his fam- eign Exchange Management ily members in these Act (FEMA), involving trans- companies. actions of ₹288 crore. According to the ED, the Land around NCR notices have been served on “By using the said funds, he Mr. Thampi, Holiday City had acquired huge agricul- Centre Pvt. Ltd., Holiday tural land in Palwal, the NCR Properties Pvt. Ltd. and Hol- and Gautam Buddha Nagar iday Bekal Resorts Pvt. Ltd. in UP, through these com- The NRI entrepreneur had panies, which he could not acquired agricultural land in have otherwise purchased the name of his company as he resided outside India. Holiday City Centre Pvt. Ltd The agricultural land has allegedly in violation of the also been proposed for con- FEMA provisions. fiscation,” said an official. Raje sends State BJP chief, Minister to Kota Press Trust of India Kota ter-in-charge of the district’s political affairs and met the Rajasthan BJP chief Ashok party MLAs and workers in Parnami reached Kota on a bid to ascertain facts about Friday to probe into the the row that embarrassed scuffle between party MLA government. The two lead- Chandra Kanta Meghwal ers reached Kota on instruc- and her supporters with the tions of CM Vasundhra Raj police early this week here. Scindia to apprise her of Mr. Parnami arrived with their findings. The issue of State Agricultural Minister brawl had also been raised Prabhu Lal Saini, the minis- in the State Assembly.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Moral economy of a university Its role as a nursery for the availability of eccentricity, and for dissenting imaginations, is under threat of ideas that sustained the sanity ing a skill is an art form, not a job and creativity of a university. None for prefabricated educationists. of these groups would it into a Craft needs a face-to-face en- A signiicant victory rankings evaluation because many counter, a sense of love, a skill, of them were part of an oral rather technique that demands time. The The BJP’s facile win in the Maharashtra civic than a written imagination with its university is the last of the craft sys- dogma of publish or perish. Such a tems and to destroy teaching and Shiv Visvanathan polls marks the continuation of a trend creativity was not restricted to the research as crafts is to destroy a humanities or social science alone. university. The Gurukul and the here could not have been a clearer mandate in the ndians do not have the patience The role the Department of Physics Gharana will be parts of its con- 2017 civic polls in Maharashtra. Except for Thane, to focus on a problem for an ex- at Delhi University played in devel- scious. Twhere the Shiv Sena managed a comfortable vic- Itended period of time. We do oping and anchoring the tory, and Mumbai, where it squeaked ahead of the BJP not think of institutions in the long Hoshangabad science project was Questions of renewal by two seats, the BJP won every city corporation easily. run. We panic when there is a crisis enormous. Such eforts rarely get There is a further banalisation that Of the 1,268 municipal seats, the party won 628, more but when a crisis dims, we lose our mentioned in theories of institu- we are not able to articulate. Know- focus. As a result, we are poor at in- tion-building. In all of them, the ledge should be free but education than tripling its 2012 tally. There could not be a better af- stitution-building. We treat institu- normative and the creative were is not and our politicians with their irmation of support for the party in power at the State tions cosmetically, applying the enacted everyday. populism think education is zero as well as its Chief Minister, who staked his political latest management gloss or creat- The playful power of these intel- cost, where hostels are treated as reputation on the polls. Besides ielding competitive ing a fetish of numbers like the lectual eforts still recharges many langars. No one talks about main- candidates in places where the party had a strong base, ritual of rankings. Today an institu- a new imagination. Both teachers tenance, the renewal, the sustain- the BJP’s strategy to woo viable contestants from other tion such as the university is in and students inevitably know such ability of the university. Its rich- GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO parties in places where it was weak yielded strong re- crisis and yet there is no systematic a community of understanding ness as a commons demands that response, no relexivity, no sense the current assault on the univer- knowledge, each lived an almost cannot be created by mercenaries. we sustain it as a commons, and no turns. The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party of loss. The university relects both sity. In fact, one has to rewrite the ascetic life. They remained le- Love of scholarship went with a commons can survive without di- were reduced to minor players in most of the corpora- a failure of sociological analysis contract between the university gends, exemplars of what a univer- love of the university as a com- versity, dissent and marginality. A tions. In Mumbai, the Shiv Sena has, for the irst time and of storytelling. In fact, in the and society. The recent battles at sity should and could be. Each munity, a way of life. It is a pity that university is a nursery for the avail- since it came to power nearly 25 years ago, seen a close tired eyes of many of my col- Jawaharlal Nehru University, the showed that one could create a these groups have become the stuf ability of eccentricity, for dissent- competitor in the BJP; there is now a chance that the leagues, dedicated teachers, many talk fests, the debates showed that world of knowledge the college of nostalgia because they represen- ing imaginations. To punish it for mayor could be elected from outside the Sena. While who have nursed little under- the public university has the resili- was proud of. Bearers, sweepers, ted the everyday genius of the uni- what it naturally produces is an act the Marathi-dominated areas of the city helped the re- graduate departments, one ence to ight back, to defend the laboratory assistants were proud versity. Because one does not un- of political misunderstanding the already senses the obituary of the moral economy of the university. of these teachers as any student derstand the ecology for future will not condone. gionalist party consolidate support, its reduced win ra- institution. Death by neglect, What was impressive about the was. They all understood that ex- exemplars, one fetishes manage- I wrote this essay because I see tio, of only 37% of the seats contested as opposed to death by illiteracy seems to be the JNU struggle was the solidarity cellence was a mix of integrity and ment theories which commoditise an institution I grew up in sufer over 50% in previous civic polls, suggests that it can no quiet chorus. between faculty and students, a creativity. As a nostalgic friend put education, turning the teacher-stu- through assault and neglect. One longer count Mumbai as an undisputed stronghold. The shared vision of the university as a it, they were characters but they dent relationship into one of an realises that the Indian state, after politics of regional identity and patronage may have Like a plaything critical space for the democratic also had character. arid clientelism, a paisa-vasool hiring a quick consultant reprodu- helped the Sena become the single largest party in In- True we have a report on educa- imagination. Yet, the JNU struggle They were rarely rule-bound or model, good for bargaining in cing the latest fad abroad, has little dia’s richest municipal corporation. But its reduced win tion, virtually shelved before it ap- opened the raw wounds of the uni- procedural. Yet they had a sense of second-hand shops but a misit for interest in education. Its under- peared. As a colleague put it, “The versity. Today, the state believes the normative. They doted on clas- a world of values. It is the values standing of values as something an- ratio is a relection of its dismal performance in ensur- T.S.R. Subramanian Committee re- that the universities should be sics, treated Marx or Shakespeare the university created that upheld cient or revivalist is even more ing civic works, with sanitation, infrastructure, public port is a modest efort with a lot to starved, and in that impoverished as an entire ecology. They taught the university. Values to a univer- lethal. I do not deny the depend- health and education in poor shape in the city. be modest about.” It is more an ef- status, it encourages a few acts to you the pleasure of reading a book, sity were a guarantee of ence of the university on state The BJP will be content with its strong performance, fort to understand the university as be conspicuous consumption. One and they reminded you that demo- competence. funds, but I think one must insist which has followed civic poll victories in Chandigarh a bureaucracy. It has no sense of does not deny that accounting is cracy needed a sense of the classic, that the university as an institution and Madhya Pradesh and in some Legislative Council the university as a knowledge sys- important, but more so are ac- as an everyday benchmark of An element of craft of civil society, as a deining core of tem, or as a community of scholars countability and responsibility. standards. One still remembers the One has to emphasise the com- craft and professionalism must elections in Uttar Pradesh. This may not relect a popu- producing ideas. The university The broader vision of a modern feast of ideas, the playfulness of munity, the craft element in such now produce its own report, a re- lar endorsement of the demonetisation move, as its has become a plaything, either in university is lost as we convert scholarship as one recollects a institutions. Teaching and re- statement of its charging condition supporters argue, but at the very least it suggests that the hands of politicians who see in them to tutorial colleges of the J.P.S. Uberoi literally compering search have a craft element, where and its changing self. One cannot ‘notebandi’ is highly unlikely to hurt the BJP’s prospects it a reservoir of electoral politics or mind. the Friday seminars at Delhi the ritual of learning has to be in- let state and the party or even in- in the ongoing Assembly elections. It is impossible to in the hands of bureaucrats who Such a vision was kept alive by School of Economics or Rajender ternalised in tacit ways emphas- dustry deine the core vision of the not contrast the BJP’s success with the performance of draw their Kafkaesque songlines everyday practitioners. In fact, if Kumar Gupta’s colloquium called ising that the university is a rite of future. This work is the urgent task the Congress in the recent civic polls. Clearly, the BJP around it. What we need today is a one goes to Delhi University, for ex- the Philosoc where a Ramu Gandhi passage, an initiation into a way of before the academe today, to report of the university by univer- ample, one inds the real heroes ine-tuned his erratic genius. learning. The experts of today do deine the values, emphasise the has become the central pole of Indian politics, a posi- sity teachers, people who nurture are a few legendary undergraduate Knowledge became a gift, and it not understand the care, the nur- craft and specify the diference tion the Congress occupied for a long time. This is not students, people who understand teachers. It is around them that le- was gratefully received. Each of turance, the rigour and the gesta- that makes a university a deining only due to the BJP-run Central government’s record. what it means to be a Third World gends are built and values trans- these groups was a ‘commons’ tion period this requires: Writing a institution of a pluralistic society. The party has an able corps of regional leaders, De- academic in a populist era where mitted. Delhi over the last few dec- where books, memories and in- research paper is literally rewriting the Indian university is expected to ades produced a Frank Thakurdas, sights were shared, a hospitality a research paper many times. vendra Fadnavis and Shivraj Singh Chouhan among Shiv Visvanathan is Professor, Jindal them, which allows for it to compete efectively at the be instantly world class on a zero- a Rajender Kumar Gupta, a downed happily with teacups. Learning a craft is not a down- Global Law School and Director, Centre of regional level. The Congress, on the other hand, seems cost system. Randhir Singh, a Dilip Simeon. Small, simple, sparse but cheer- loaded act. It requires a sense of Study of Knowledge System, O.P Jindal One has to begin by challenging Each created a small panchayat of ily conident, it is these panchayats heuristics, of alternatives. Acquir- lacking not just in a strategy to regain national relev- Global University ance but also in its ability to revive itself regionally due to the absence of a cache of regional leaders. Mumbai waits to exhale Shining bright The BJP and Shiv Sena must ind a way to getting the city back on track India can do much more to increase solar power capacity and meet its renewables target hanmumbai Municipal Corporation nicipal corporation often stands city in India. In a recent World Com- (BMC), where both parties were completely eroded. Regaining this petitive Cities report, the World he clearance from the Cabinet Committee on Eco- locked in a bitter exchange of words. trust will be a gargantuan efort. Bank singled out Coimbatore in nomic Afairs for a plan to double the capacity of In the end, the Sena won 84 of the The advantage that the Sena and Tamil Nadu for its stellar growth in Tsolar power installed in dedicated solar parks to 227 seats. The BJP bagged 82. the BJP have is that they run both the job creation, attracting world-class civic and the State governments. companies, and in turn progress 40 gigawatts by 2020, with partial government iscal as- The BMC is important not only because of the sheer size of its Yet, both parties have turned a blind and prosperity. Not long back, sistance, is in line with the goal of creating a base of 100 Sachin Kalbag budget — last year, it crossed the eye towards rampant corruption, Mumbai, which continues to attract gigawatts by 2022. Expansion of solar power capacity is ₹37,000 crore mark, a igure greater among their members as well as the skilled and unskilled migrants in among the more eicient means to meet the commit- here is an apocryphal story of than the GDP of 10 States and four bureaucracy, and have remained si- huge numbers every year, would ment to keep carbon emissions in check under the Paris an army general who was Union Territories — but also because lent while civic institutions continue have been the beacon of growth for Agreement on climate change, and it can provide the Tasked about an improbable of the clout it ensures in the coun- to crumble around them. the country. multiplier efect of creating additional employment, victory in battle. He thought for a try’s inancial capital. Nonetheless, For instance, public transport in while and responded, “I did not win Mumbai needs a complete overhaul. Mandate for change with overall economic dividends. As the International the BMC can be described in three because I was strong; I won because words — an absolute mess. The shrill promises at election ral- If there is one message the Shiv Sena Renewable Energy Agency notes in its report titled RE- my enemy was weak.” lies have not changed much. The and the BJP need to take away from thinking Energy 2017: Accelerating the global energy So it is with Maharashtra Chief Crumbling infrastructure Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & this week’s election results, it is this: transformation, globally, jobs in solar energy have wit- Minister Devendra Fadnavis, as the The two reasons why the BMC has Transport Undertaking, which runs We have been given a mandate for nessed the fastest growth since 2011 among various re- results of elections to 10 municipalit- this reputation is due to the poor the city’s bus services and electri- change, and that change should newable energy sectors. Asia has harnessed the poten- ies, 25 zilla parishads and 283 pan- quality of roads in the city and the city supply in some parts, has not happen quickly to transform the city modernised its leet in decades. Wa- into a global destination for busi- tial the most, providing 60% of all renewable energy chayat samitis come in. The Bhar- complete apathy of the town plan- atiya Janata Party, to which he ning department. In the irst case, ter supply continues to be diverted ness and talent. employment, while China enjoys the bulk of this with a belongs, was faced with a remark- the BMC has a genuine excuse — not from lower and middle-income It is pretty clear what the irst thriving solar photovoltaic and thermal manufacturing ably weak opposition— a Congress all roads in Mumbai are built or group localities to skyscrapers. In- point of dispute is going to be for the industry, besides installations. Apart from measures to party bufeted by inighting, a Na- maintained by it. There is also the stead of investing in public trans- Shiv Sena and BJP — a ierce tussle

scale up generating capacity, India should take a close tionalist Congress Party that’s lost Public Works Department and the GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK PHOTO port, thus reducing the density of over the mayor’s post. Ever since the look at competitive manufacturing of the full chain of its punch, a narrow-agenda-driven Maharashtra State Road Develop- Added to this are haphazard real private vehicles, almost every new commissioner was made the de transport policy at the city and State facto CEO of the city some years ago, photovoltaics and open training facilities to produce Maharashtra Navnirman Sena ment Corporation Limited, which estate development and rampant (MNS). In fact, the BJP’s strongest levels encourages private owner- the mayor’s post and the post of the human resources the industry will need in the years build lyovers and the inner-city rent-seeking, leading to a prohibit- opposition was the Shiv Sena, its alli- highways which eventually connect ive cost of living and a changing so- ship. Mumbai’s parking charges chairperson of the all-powerful ahead. Renewables and new energy storage technolo- ance partner in the State and Cent- to the national highways. These are cial fabric which relects in ghettos have remained constant for years, standing committee have been bit- gies are on course to overshadow traditional fossil fuel- ral governments, and with which it maintained by a Central agency, the along business, religious and caste thus incentivising the use of cars terly contested. This year is not go- based sources of power as the costs decline. had an acrimonious split for the National Highways Authority of In- lines. Burdened by such pressures, rather than public transport. ing to be any diferent. Low-cost inancing channels hold the key to quick civic elections. dia. The lack of coordination among Mumbai has spread itself so thin that Not surprisingly, Delhi, and not augmentation of solar generating capacity. The trend in The biggest battle was for the Bri- these agencies is the real problem. a Mumbai resident’s trust in the mu- Mumbai, is the most competitive [email protected] some emerging economies, including India, has been a reduction in public inancing of renewable energy projects over the last ive years. This has implications for LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. equity in the long run, and electricity regulators should ix tarifs taking into account the reduction in the level- Maharashtra verdict which we in India hardly While most of us lean Humans have caused Footboard travel freak accident in Chennai” ised cost of electricity (the average break-even price The municipal election pay attention to (“Basic towards progress, it is unprecedented damage to It is not uncommon to see and “A footboard journey over a project’s lifetime). Yet, recourse to other funding results in Maharashtra income and mental health Muslim clerics who have the the Earth’s ecosystem and youngsters ‘riding the that waved the green lag for reveal the BJP’s impressive gains”, Feb.24). Hardly any power of ‘interpretation’. there need to be drastic footboard’ and performing death”, both Feb.24). The options, including regulated debt instruments such as performance in the State funds are allocated in the Introducing judicial steps to save our planet. deadly stunts while respective Railway zones green bonds, would be necessary to achieve early, am- despite the rift with the Shiv Budget for this very proceedings will diminish These must include alighting from the local should organise safety bitious targets. Without realistic purchase prices, utilit- Sena and the impact of important aspect of human their signiicance. Finally, concerted eforts to combat trains in an attempt to awareness campaigns to ies could resort to curtailment of renewable power demonetisation. The results wealth. triple talaq is the violation climate change. The mission appear ‘cool’ before their drive home the point that sources on non-technical considerations, afecting in- are a reminder to the Sena In a country such as India, of the principle of natural should be to try to make peers. people travelling on vestments. Tamil Nadu, a solar leader in the country, re- chief that overconidence with a high rate of suicides, justice. The Koran has Earth, the only known Checking inspectors at footboards are only sorted to curtailments last year, a phenomenon that has does not pay at times. The most of the problems that always talked about the planet so far to host life, railway stations should act jeopardising their lives. state of the Congress reveals drive people to despair can need to respect women, stable and safe. Pouring instantly and impose Ramkrishna T.E., perhaps muted industry interest in its recent 500 MW its poor organisational be prevented with children and elders. It is money into projects on stringent punishments to Chennai tender. The funding mix for renewables, therefore, ability to counter the BJP. counselling. Visiting a time that the government extraterrestrial explorations avert such tragedies (Some more letters online: should give climate inancing an important role. At the Chief Minister Devendra psychiatrist is taboo, which goes in for a uniform civil is not the need of the hour. editions, “Three killed in www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ Paris UN Climate Change Conference, developed coun- Fadnavis should now seize is why people sufer in code where regressive Dinathej G., tries pledged to raise $100 billion a year by 2020 for mit- this opportunity and work silence. The Finance and practices of every religion Chennai corrections & clarifications: igation, and more in later years, a promise that needs to towards development. The Health ministries should are eliminated. 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ILLUSTRATION: DEEPAK HARICHANDAN Betraying the oath

The Medical Council of India recently barred 32 colleges across the country. Vidya Krishnan reconstructs how one of those, a Bhopal institute, marshalled doctors on hire, fake patients and life-saving equipment on rent for inspection day

The coffee is bad and the desserts are (page 69).” spection and find nothing at the med- drier than you’d expect, but the Amer Further, in violation of MCI norms for ical college/hospital,” she says. Bakery Hut is nonetheless one of Bho- ventilators/patient ratio, Advanced In- Each year, private medical colleges pal’s popular haunts. Sudhir Singh stitute had just one ventilator for Intens- across the nation submit themselves to (name changed) has strategically taken ive Coronary Care Unit, Medical Intens- MCI inspections — a necessity before a table at the far end that faces the door ive Care Unit and Surgical Intensive they can admit students for five years opening to the kitchen. No one is likely Care Unit, the report notes. and turn them into doctors. The acute to spot him there, and he’s not even scarcity of doctors has led the govern- from Bhopal, but Singh is fidgety, look- Ticking the right boxes ment to floor the accelerator on medical ing around every few minutes to check So, how do colleges get permission to education reforms. The country has 80 on other patrons before leaning forward admit students? Singh offers an experi- doctors per 1 lakh population — a short- to speak in hushed tones. ential account. In his case, it began with age of nearly 5,00,000 doctors. A professor at a medical college affili- a phone call. “Kya aap inspection mein The Hindu tracked down an em- ated to a Raipur university, Singh was in appear hone ke liye available hain? Pack- ployee at Advanced Institute who town in time for an inspection by the them had any serious ailments,” adds age achcha hai (Are you available to ap- worked as a ‘liaison agent’. His respons- Medical Council of India (MCI), the reg- Singh. The inspectors recorded this ex- pear in an inspection? The package is ibilities involved everything between ulatory body for medical education in ercise in great detail for the Health Min- good)” said the voice at the other end. It breaking up a strike by students, work- India. On the MCI team’s inspection list istry’s benefit: “Out of 25.66% indoor was from an agent who provides ‘ghost’ ing as a spokesperson, handling logist- were the RKDF Medical College Hospital patients, many patients did not appear faculty to private medical colleges. Such ics and/or getting the college recog- and Research Centre, and the Advanced genuine. It seems that some workers/ faculty have to appear once or twice a nised. “They tell you that you need X Institute of Medical Science and Re- staff members without any medical ill- year when inspectors from the MCI are number of teachers, staff and equip- search Centre which is on the outskirts ness were lying on the beds. No per- scheduled to visit. There is a rate card ment if you want to teach Y number of of Bhopal. Both have been debarred. sonal belongings, attendant, or medi- for different specialities, Singh says. “At students,” he says. “It is fairly straight- The night before this January 11 meet- cines were there… (page 70 of the MCI a minimum, a doctor can make ₹6 lakh forward. If we need five ventilators for a ing at the cafe, Singh had called saying inspection report).” However, Shai- a year for one inspection. The college 300-bed hospital, we will buy two and “ghost professors”, a euphemism for lendra Bhadoriya, a businessman who shows us as faculty, with a salary of rent the rest for the day,” he adds, draw- academics who materialise at inspec- owns the daily National Duniya and is ₹50,000 per month. For doctors with ing a flowchart of how he went around tions conducted by the MCI for money, the man behind Advanced Institute, super-specialities like neurosurgery, on- fixing the inspection. “Even our photo- had checked into the Rajhans hotel. says: “It is for the doctors to decide cology etc. the rate goes up to ₹12-14 copier was rented,” he adds. “Shehar mein sabko pata hai inspection which patient is sick or healthy. That’s vestigation for corruption and criminal The fee hike hasn’t resulted in any lakh,” he claims. The Hindu further tracked down a weekchalrahahai(Everyone in the city not the job of MCI inspectors.” conspiracy in a 2010 case for allegedly improvement in facilities, claim stu- The phenomenon of ‘ghost’ faculty is vendor who had supplied medical knows it’s inspection week),” he said by The professor’s account, over coffee, taking a bribe of ₹20 million from a dents. “The hostel doesn’t have Indian medical education’s worst-kept equipment to Advanced Institute ahead way of explaining him being so guarded. only corroborates what the Health Min- medical college in exchange for an MCI almirahs. Books aren’t available either. secret. Over interviews, doctors, proof the MCI inspection. One of them, Pra- After all, the Raipur professor claims to istry and court documents have meticu- nod, allowing the college to add more And I don’t understand what miscel- fessors, Health Ministry officials, MCI of- deep Tandon, claims he had stopped have been among those approached to lously recorded over the years — that students. laneous expenses are,” says Tiwari. The ficials and Justice Lodha himself con- supplying to the college due to non-pay- pose as Advanced Institute faculty when vendors stage-manage medical college The permission Bhadoriya’s college MCI report is telling: “Common rooms firm that they were aware of the ment. “They won’t be able to run their the MCI team came calling. inspections in India, ‘ghost’ professors received — in August 2016 — from the for boys and girls: Designated area is a menace. “I hope the setting up of a new college in this city any more,” he says, Every medical college is associated pass off as faculty, and fake patients are Lodha committee to admit students was single big hall without partition and medical commission will reform the adding, “If all the vendors in Bhopal get with a ‘teaching hospital’ — where pa- rounded up ahead of an inspection. conditional on a second physical without furniture (page 71).” sector. We need not for-profit teaching together, we will be able to run a med- tients are admitted and students learn Over the years, a cottage industry has inspection. “Colleges cannot increase their fee hospitals rather than corporate set- ical college better than how it is cur- while treating them. A medical college thrived with a cast of characters that in- Earlier this month, newspapers in midway through the year. We are aware ups,” says Dr. Samiran Nundy, Dean of rently done.” Tandon brags that he must pass a benchmark in terms of includes vendors, academics, patients, Bhopal reported that a part of Bhador- that students are protesting and will be Ganga Ram Institute of Postgraduate could rent or sell any medical equip- frastructure, faculty strength and pa- promoters, and the MCI which for dec- iya’s college had been attached by the taking action against the college man- ment on a two-week notice. tient inflow at the hospital to be recog- ades had turned a blind eye to the Union Bank of India for defaulting on a agement,” says T.R. Thapak, the AFRC <> They tell you that you need X Bhadoriya, however, dismisses the nised by the MCI, upon which it admits practice. ₹39 lakh payment. Just before this, on Chairman. number of teachers, staf and claims. “All of these are baseless allega- a prescribed number of students. The January 24, 2017, all of Bhadoriya’s 150 equipment if you want to tions. It is not just our college. Over 30 Advanced Institute had sought recogni- Enter the entrepreneur first-year students went on strike Virtual colleges? colleges across the country have been tion to enrol 150 students and start a Last year, Bhadoriya decided to set up against an abrupt fee hike. The fee, The Lodha committee’s grant of recog- teach Y number of students. If debarred. The matter is still pending teaching hospital. On January 13, 2017, a the Advanced Institute spread across 25 which had been set at ₹5 lakh per year, nition to 34 medical colleges without we need ive ventilators for a and we have presented our position to damning report on ‘ghost’ doctors, fake acres in Bhopal’s Kolar Road area. was suddenly increased to ₹10 lakh. The physical verification — of which Ad- 300-bed hospital, we will buy 2 the Health Ministry,” he says. patients, life-saving equipment on loan Around the same time, the Supreme agitating students were allegedly vanced Institute was a beneficiary — was and rent the rest for the day. by dubious vendors in 32 medical col- Court, in May 2016, appointed a com- roughed up by college administration. based on “snapshots” uploaded on col- A liaison agent Medical education reforms? leges across India, authored by the MCI, mittee under former Chief Justice Ra- “Why did MCI recognise them? The college websites. “Out of abundant cau- For the academic year 2016-17, the MCI was submitted to the Health Ministry. jendra Mal Lodha with the mandate to lege building was incomplete. There tion, we granted approvals after putting Medical Education and Research, who had received 109 applications, of which The report, which runs into 215 pages, oversee the functioning of the scam- was no faculty. To top that, the adminis- a condition for bank guarantees of ₹2 has taken part in MCI inspections. 18 had been approved at the time the blows the lid off a well-oiled operation tainted MCI. This year, the committee tration hiked our fees by ₹5 lakh. I’d say crore. We also took an undertaking “Sometimes, ‘ghost’ faculty are on the Lodha panel was appointed. The panel which kicks in almost as soon as an en- (and not MCI) was responsible for recog- the college exists only on paper,” says (from the colleges) that all these things same flight I take to inspect hospitals.” invited compliance reports from the trepreneur dreams of opening a private nising medical colleges in India. The Anuj Tiwari of Advanced Institute’s first are in place. Further, they were to be in- In fact, the ‘rot’ within MCI made it rest of the applications (colleges) that medical college. The two Bhopal col- MCI had been in the eye of the storm for batch. (The MCI inspection report says spected again by MCI. This is how con- all the way to the highest echelons of were denied permission. Of them, 34 leges figure among the blacklisted 32. its failure to rein in malpractices in med- about Advanced Institute, “Deficiency ditional approvals were given,” explains power when the 92nd report of the Par- colleges submitted their compliance re- ical education and for allowing private of faculty is 29.23%.”) Justice Lodha. liamentary Standing Committee on ports, which were basically some affi- The modus operandi hospitals and medical colleges flourish Students maintain that there has The claims on the college websites, Health and Family Welfare was released davits and information from their own On January 4 and 5, four inspectors under political patronage. The former been no action by the Directorate of the committee reasoned, could be in- in August 2016. The committee argued websites. Only two made the grade. were in Bhopal. They visited Advanced chief of MCI, Ketan Desai, is under in- Medical Education and Admission and spected later but students had to be im- for dismantling the MCI stating that it “The court-appointed committee has Institute on those two days. News Fee Regulatory Committee (AFRC), mediately admitted so as to not waste was “a matter of surprise that despite taken sweeping decisions without travels fast in the Madhya Pradesh cap- Madhya Pradesh, which had fixed the an academic year. the worst kind of gross unethical prac- proper verification and we are now ital. Days ahead of the inspections, the <> Ahead of the inspections, the annual fee at ₹5 lakh per year, despite In the case of Advanced Institute, the tices happening by way of ghost faculty, challenging those in court as well,” says Advanced Institute administration sent Advanced Institute complaints being made as early as July MCI inspection report pointed out 20 fake patients and hired instruments and Anand Rai, whistleblower in the infam- out buses to round up nearby villagers 2016. In his defence, Bhadoriya says, deficiencies ranging from “no blood substantial amount of money (not ous Vyapam medical education scam in from Vidisha and Betul, saying they administration sent out buses “The college administration wanted fee bank” to “non-genuine” patients admit- white, of course) reportedly changing Madhya Pradesh, who also challenged would conduct a medical camp, claims to round up nearby villagers, recovery from students who hadn’t paid ted across the hospital — in “General hands at the time of inspections, there the Lodha panel’s recommendations to Singh. “Once admitted, these people saying they would conduct a their fee. The AFRC can only decide the Medicine, General Surgery, Orthopaed- is little proactive action on the part of MCI in Supreme Court. were passed off as genuine patients to medical camp. Once admitted, tuition fee. The rest of the fees is up to ics and ENT wards”. It further notes: “In the MCI to deal with this malady”. The MCI has forwarded its report to meet bed occupancy standards.” these people were passed of the college to fix.” While the college fee case of Dr Rajesh of General Surgery, While ‘ghost’ faculties were docu- the Health Ministry. The Lodha panel’s The villagers bussed in were prom- as genuine patients to meet was fixed by the AFRC, Advanced Insti- Preeti Gattani of Obstretics and Gyneco- mented, the scale of “gross unethical tenure, meanwhile, winds up on May 1. ised free food and transport during the bed occupancy standards. tute charged a further ₹1.5 lakh for a logy and Vikas Trehan of Anaesthesi- practices” was “shocking” to Dr. Jay- But as official processes take their own medical camp. “They were stuck in the book bank, ₹1.5 lakh as hostel fee, ₹1 ology, it was observed that there was shree Mehta, the MCI President. “There sweet time, it’s the 5,000-odd students Sudhir Singh, claims to have posed as 'ghost' hospital till the MCI team visited (on professor at Advanced Institute lakh as caution money and another ₹1 false signature in attendance sheet. have been times when our inspectors of the 32 colleges for whom time is tick- January 4-5) and got restless as none of lakh as miscellaneous charges. They were absent during headcounting visit the colleges two days after the in- ing.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 NEWS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE The hero who tried to stop Kansas shooter Indian engineer shot dead in Kansas ‘We’re all humans, so I just did what was right to do and I didn’t want him to potentially go after somebody else’ Press Trust of India the shooter was out of bul- other human being. It’s not it, coming to find his wife is According to officials track- ing. His wife Sunayana and Houston lets, he jumped up to stop about where he [victim] five months pregnant. Some- ing the case and emerging his family are now faced A 24-year-old American, him but Purinton still had was from or his ethnicity. thing was guiding me to do news reports, the shooter with incredible grief and a who is being hailed as a one round left, which he We’re all humans, so I just what I did. Somebody was was asked by the bar man- multitude of expenses,” said hero for trying to stop a used to shoot him. The bul- did what was right to do watching over me. I’m just ager to leave the place when a GoFundMe page started to shooter who killed an In- let went through Mr. and I didn’t want the gentle- very grateful that one of the he started racial slurs raise money for the family dian in Kansas City, said it Grillot’s hand and into his man to potentially go after gentlemen is fine and alive. against the Indians. He went of the deceased. was “actually the right chest. somebody else,” Mr. Grillot It’s terrible what happened out, but returned after 15 Two other campaigns are thing to do”. “I guess I miscounted,” said. to his friend. But I think he minutes, with a gun this raising money for Mr. Ma- Mr. Grillot said in an inter- was watching over us last time. The shooter fled the dasani and Mr. Grillot. Mr. Hid behind a table view from his hospital Alok’s wife pregnant night,” Mr. Grillot said. scene after shooting at Mr. Madasani is from Warangal Ian Grillot hid behind a room, in a video released by Mr. Grillot said he had Grillot who tried to stop and both have been on H-1B table when the 51-year-old the University of Kansas learnt that the wife of Alok Happy to see him him. visas. Originally from Hy- gunman, Adam Purinton, Health System. Madasani, the other Indian He said he hopes the two can Kuchibhotla is possibly derabad, Kuchibhotla was a started shooting, while “I got up and proceeded is five months pregnant and spend some time together the first fatal victim of racial B. Tech in electrical and hurling racial slurs follow- to chase him down, try to that he considers the engin- when he gets out of hospital. tensions that appear to be electronics engineering ing an altercation at Aus- subdue him... I got behind eer his new best friend, ac- “I don’t think it’s going to be on the rise in the U.S. since from Jawaharlal Nehru tins Bar and Grill, killing an him and he turned around cording to a Kansas City at the bar, though,” he said. November 2016, when Don- Technological University. Indian techie and critically and fired a round at me,” he Star report. “It just put the biggest ald Trump won the presid- He had a master’s degree injuring another. said. “He came in here today smile on my face,” Mr. Grillot ential election. from the University of Texas The saviour: Ian Grillot was injured when he tried to stop the He counted the gun- “I was doing what I and it was the greatest said when he saw Mr. Ma- “Srini was the kindest El Paso. Mr. Madasani man who opened ire in a Kansas bar. UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS shots and when he thought should have done for an- thing. I can’t even describe dasani earlier in the day. person you would meet, full graduated from Vasavi Col- of love, care and compas- lege of Engineering and sion for everyone. He never came to the U.S. as a Mas- uttered a word of hatred, a ter’s student at the Univer- Help pours ‘Good at simple gossip, or a careless sity of Missouri-Kansas City. Centre reaches out to family comment. He was brilliant, Both worked for Garmin, a in for victims academics well-mannered and simply communications device an outstanding human be- company. of shooting We will be in touch with the police to monitor follow-up action: MEA and sport’

Rohit P.S. Kallol Bhattacherjee Staff reporter HYDERABAD New Delhi HYDERABAD ‘A brilliant career Families of Srinivas The Centre on Friday News of Srinivas Kuchib- Kuchibhotla, Ian Grillot reached out to the family of hotla’s death following an and Alok Reddy Madasani the NRI engineer who was alleged hate attack in the felled by bullets’ saw an outpouring of finan- shot dead in an apparent U.S. left teachers at his cial support online to meet hate crime in the U.S. alma mater shocked. The Narrating his conversation expenses foisted on them Ministry of External Af- Vidya Jyothi Institute of with his injured son, Mr. by an alleged racial attack fairs spokesperson Vikas Technology located on the Reddy said: “My son and in Kansas City. Swarup said the government city outskirts has decided Srinivas, along with their A campaign for Mr. would provide all possible to hold a condolence gath- American friend, Ian Grillot, Kuchibhotla on the fun- support to the family of ering in memory of its stu- were at the bar. The heavily draiser website Go- Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who dent on Monday. drunk would-be assailant FundMe, organised by his was killed in an attack that “We fondly remember started yelling, ‘get out of friend Kavipriya Mu- left another Indian injured. him as ‘Seenu’ of room my country’. Mr. Grillot thuramalingam, saw over External Affairs Minister number 245. He was a calm alerted the bar owner, who 8,000 people raise more Sushma Swaraj took to social person,” said B.G. Reddy, sent him away. But he re- than $290,000 in just 19 media soon after Mr. one of Mr. Kuchibhotla’s turned with a gun.” hours. Many, including Kuchibhotla and Alok Ma- teachers at the engineering The American shot dead Adam Purinton who those who did not know dasani were shot at a bar in college from where he Srinivas Kuchibhotla, who attacked the Indians in a him, blamed hate and ra- Olathe, Kansas. graduated in 2005 as an was sitting alone. Kansas bar. REUTERS cism for the incident. Sad turn: Srinivas Kuchibhotla and his wife Sunayana Dumala stayed at Overland Park in Kansas Electronics and Electrical “Alok was holding a plate A second campaign was Shocked, says Sushma City. At right is Alok Madasani who sustained bullet injuries. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT & K.V.S. GIRI Engineer. “He was among to have his dinner, saw the legal immigrants and had started by Maggie Grillot, “I am shocked at the shoot- the bright lot and enjoyed shooting and tried to es- all the permission to work sister of Ian Grillot, who ing incident in Kansas in community in the city. Mr. but hospitalised with serious supporting Indian diplomats sport.” cape. Three rounds were in the U.S. wasshotatwhenhewent which Srinivas Kuchibhotla Madasani, who was released injuries. The MEA later as they reach out to the vic- fired at him but two Mr. Reddy, who resides after the shooter. Many In- has been killed. My hearfelt after treatment, met Mr. tweeted the photograph of tims of the attack. Never missed classes whizzed past him and the in Telephone Colony of dians contributed to his condolences to bereaved Joshi at home. Vice-Consul Mr. Joshi meeting with the Charge d’Affaires MaryKay Dr. Reddy said Mr. Kuchib- third one hit a wall and Kothapet in Hyderabad, campaign. The initiative family,” Ms. Swaraj said on Harpal Singh has also Indian representatives in Carlson said, “We are deeply hotla rode his bike to col- pierced his thigh,” Mr. said his son had obtained saw over 3,500 people con- Twitter. reached Kansas from Dallas Kansas on Friday. saddened by this tragic and lege and never missed his Reddy said, quoting his his passport in Warangal tributing $128,444 against She also spoke to the In- to provide support. “They will facilitate in senseless act. Our deepest classes. “He knew how to elder son Madasani and hence it was initially the target of $150,000. dian Ambassador to the U.S., “During the incident a bringing the mortal remains sympathies are with the vic- balance education with his Surender Reddy, who works believed that they hailed The third fundraiser Navtej Sarna, regarding the third person, an American, of the deceased and will be tims and their families. The passion for sport. He was in Dallas. from that city. campaign by Brian Eric case and asked diplomats to who tried to intervene also in touch with local police of- United States is a nation of not the kind to argue with Mr. Grillot, then tried to “The information from Ford, a friend of Ms. Mu- reach out to nationals in received injuries,” MEA ficials to ascertain more de- immigrants and welcomes his teachers or pick up stop the assailant from cre- my elder son and conversa- thuramalingam, said the Kansas. spokesperson Vikas Swarup tails of the incident and people from across the world fights.” ating mayhem. In the pro- tion with Alok says that he proceeds would be split Subsequently, Consul confirmed. monitor follow-up action,” to visit, work, study, and The college would hold cess, he also sustained injur- is safe. We are shocked by between the families of Mr. R.D. Joshi based in Houston News reports from Kansas said Mr. Swarup explaining live,” and promised that the a condolence gathering on ies, Mr. Reddy said. the incident and so are Kuchibhotla and Mr. Ma- reached Kansas to provide revealed that 24-year-old Ian the public outreach. U.S. authorities would con- Monday in memory of its Mr. Alok and Mr. Grillot they in the U.S.,” Mr. Reddy dasani. The campaign assistance and held con- Grillot chased the shooter. The U.S. Embassy said duct necessary investigations student, college’s director tried to pacify the assailant said, adding that he was raised nearly $44,000. sultations with the Indian Mr. Grillot is currently stable that American officials are and prosecute the case. P. Venugopal Reddy said. that the two Indians were trying to go to the U.S. Plan to allow larger Rawat for united eforts BSF kills ‘female Firm on irms to shut shop intruder’ in Jammu ending graft, to curb stone-throwing says PM In May 2015, the Labour Industrial Disputes Act, cit- Ministry had proposed in- ing hard data from Sixth Rashida’s body handed over to Pak. Press Trust of India tegrating three labour laws Economic Census released Army chief had warned of tough action against protesters Gonda (U.P.) — the Trade Unions Act, in 2016. Special correspondent The body of the woman, Buoyed by the success of the Industrial Disputes Act The data shows that Press Trust of India encounters a day earlier in Srinagar identified as Rashida the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Industrial Employ- around 99% of a total of 4.53 Srinagar Kashmir, warned of tough The Border Security Force Begam, was lying near the (BJP) in local body elec- ment (Standing Orders) Act crore non-agricultural es- Army chief General Bipin action against those civilians (BSF) on Friday said it killed fence, the spokesman said. tions in Maharashtra and — into a single code for in- tablishments employed less Rawat on Friday called for who were impeding the a female intruder and arres- She was aged around 50. other States after demonet- dustrial relations. than 100 workers in 2013-14 coordinated efforts by secur- counterinsurgency operated a man on the Interna- The BSF later contacted its isation, Prime Minister Nar- It had then also pro- and were allowed to re- ity forces to deal with the tions in the Valley by resort- tional Border (IB) at two counterpart and a meeting endra Modi on Friday said posed allowing factories trench workers or close problem of stone-throwing. ing to stone-pelting. separate places in the was held at Pargwal sector. at an election rally here with up to 300 workers to without government A week after warning of His statement evoked Jammu region. The woman “The body was handed over that he was committed to retrench workers or close permission. tough action against those sharp reactions from both was identifed as Rashida Be- to the Pakistani Rangers on rooting out corruption. down without seeking offi- “Most of the establish- impeding counterinsur- mainstream parties, includ- gum, a Pakistani national. their request,” said the “Odisha, where there is cial sanction. ments in India needn’t take gency operations in Kash- ing National Conference and A Jammu-based BSF spokesman. so much poverty, starva- However, the Centre had government permission to mir, Gen Rawat asked secur- Congress, and separatists spokesman said that around Another intruder was ar- tion and unemployment put the proposals on the retrench workers or close ity agencies to synergise who insisted the Kashmir 9 p.m. on Thursday, troops rested in Kathua after he and where the BJP did not back-burner after series of their set up. So, the amend- efforts to effectively deal problem cannot be ad- of the 33 Battalion spotted a was “moving in the area sus- even have a foothold to protests from the central ments will only impact a with the problem of stone- General Bipin Rawat dressed militarily. person moving near the IB piciously”, the BSF said. place its flag, people have trade unions on the pro- very small proportion of the pelting during operations, Despite the Army chief’s at Chag Phagwari in Pargwal given so much support that posed labour law reforms. total establishments. But a an Army official said. here, an Army official said. warning, there has been no sector of Akhnoor. “The Tributes paid to jawans everyone is taken aback... The Labour Ministry political call needs to be Gen. Rawat was speaking He also underlined the need let-up in stone-pelting alert troops challenged the Army chief General Bipin even the poor of Odisha may back its latest pro- taken on increasing the at a security review meeting to maintain high vigil. against forces during their person who tried to sneak Rawat on Friday paid rich have come with the BJP,” posal to increase the threshold limit for the I-D at the headquarters of coun- On February 15, the Army operations and three such this side. The troops fired tributes to the three soldiers Mr. Modi said at an election threshold limit for applic- Act,” the official added. terinsurgency units — Kilo chief, while paying tributes incidents have taken place five to six burst, resulting in killed in the Shopian am- meeting here. ability of chapter V-B of the Force and Victor Force — to soldiers killed during two since February 15. the death of the intruder.” bush. “Yesterday, Maharashtra gave its verdict and the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Congress has been wiped off. Be it civic body polls in Delhi allows Dhaka Odisha, Maharashtra and Aga Khan Trust to restore Telangi’s tomb in Delhi Chandigarh or panchayat polls in Gujarat, in three useofborderroads months, wherever there Poor access, crowded surroundings make the restoration challenging but the process is slowly under way were polls, whether the “The BGB will be criss-cross- year and if the need arises BJP had any presence or ing over 100 km of road dis- then the time-frame might Serish Nanisetti cleaning it up only a month on the first floor were walled not, people used their tance in India to ferry con- be extended,” said the New Delhi back,” says Ratish Nanda of up as neighbourhood third eye and ensured its struction material from official. P.V. Narasimha Rao was not the Aga Khan Trust for families coveted the real victory. This means that Bangladesh to Chittagong During talks in Dhaka last the first Prime Minister of Culture (AKTC). estate on the ceiling. my responsibility has in- area. There are no roads week, the BSF is learnt to India from Telangana. There The AKTC, which has A 2014 photograph shows creased,” he said. here and since India has a have handed over a list of 21 was another vazir from restored the Humayun’s a dish antenna as well as a The BJP scored an em- good road network, they insurgent camps. But the Warangal, and he lies buried Tomb complex as well as the water tank on the ceiling. phatic win in the Maha- will use it,” said a senior BSF latter denied the presence in not-so-sepulchral silence Jamaat Khana Masjid, one of The Delhi quartzite arches rashtra civic polls, emer- official. of any such camp. in a warren of houses in the the oldest in Delhi and built still retain inscriptions from ging as the largest party in The proposal was first A press statement issued Nizamuddin Basti in Delhi. during Alauddin Khilji’s time, the Quran carved on them. eight of the 10 municipal mooted during the annual by the BSF after the meet After a 10-minute walk in has been entrusted the task “The task of restoration of corporations, while finish- Home Secretary-level talks said: “DG BSF sought fur- the inner lanes of the road of conserving the the monument will be tough ing a close second to the last year. A 19-member In- ther cooperation from BGB leading to the Nizamuddin monument. and time-consuming as we Shiv Sena in the Brihan- dian delegation, mainly for destruction of reported Auliya Dargah, beside the The outer facade is cannot bring in heavy mumbai Municipal comprising BSF officials, hideouts of Indian Insurgent Baoli gate road, is a low blue octagonal, and features a equipment. The narrow Corporation. which concluded its Dhaka Groups in Bangladesh and door. Inside the small History beckons:: The Dome of Khan-i-Jehan Telangi at ring of eight smaller domes street does not allow vehicles Mr. Modi invoked Lord visit last week informed the safe release of Indian Na- doorway, about 20 feet away, Nizamuddin Basti in Delhi. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT covered with a shell of red to pass, making the removal Shiva on Mahashivratri and BGB that the proposal had tionals whenever abducted is the sole entrance to the sandstone. “We found that of waste material or bringing said people, with their been approved. While six by the insurgents. DG BGB grave of Maqbul Khan or, as sometime around 1388 by his tottering empire. there is sandstone flooring in construction material third eye, could see what BOPs would come across stated that there are no in- he was known, Khan-i-Jehan son Junan Shah, nine years “People were living here six feet below the surface,” difficult,” says Mr. Brar. How was good for them and the Tripura border, another surgent camps/ hideout in Telangi. Born Nagayya Ganna after Maqbul Khan passed till a few days ago. Then explains Neetipal Brar of the monument came to be what is bad. “We do not get seven would be along the Bangladesh and that it does Vibhudu, he changed his away. At his death, he was at Mukhtiar Nizam asked us to AKTC. Three other doorways constructed here and how intoxicated by power. It Mizoram border. not allow her soil to be used name to Maqbul Khan after the height of his power as the restore this place as pieces of have been plastered shut Khan-e-Jahan Telangi came gives us inspiration to work “The proposal has ini- by any entity or element changing his religion. counsellor and minister of the dome were flaking off. over centuries by the to be buried here is not a for the people with full tially been accepted for a hostile to any country.” The tomb was built Firuz Shah Tughlaq’s We began clearing and occupants; even the windows mystery dedication,” he said. 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IN BRIEF U.P.’s erstwhile dacoit den waits to board the development bus Amidst polls, the mood is calm and lazy in Chitrakoot’s Sidhupur village where people never shy away from discussions on caste and basic needs

Omar Rashid When monsoons arrive, our tions here were determined gunned him down along with Manikpur voted on February CHITRAKOOT children stop going to school by diktats — firmans issued his associates in an 23 — both recorded little over Potholes and open drains as the school bus cannot by Dadua, a notorious dacoit. encounter. 60% turnout — no poll lead you to the village square enter the village,” says re- A Kurmi by caste, Shiv Ku- firmans were reported. in Sidhupur in Manikpur As- tired teacher Rajendra mar Patel alias Dadua and his Diktats on voting However, in a section of sembly seat in Uttar Pra- Singh. gang operated in the ravines During elections, Dadua’s the village, where the Jatavs Modi’s voice feebler than desh’s Chitrakoot district. A The Kurmis here are un- along the U.P.-MP border for gang was known to issue and most backward castes that of a mouse: Rahul group of Kurmi (dominant happy with the local BSP almost three decades. In that diktats on voting for a partic- live, Dadua still sends a BAHRAICH backward caste) men, young MLA Chandrabhan Patel, time, Dadua called the shots ular candidate. Veer Singh, shiver of dread, representing Stung by barbs from BJP and old, have gathered after blaming him for neglecting in parts of Bundelkhand, im- Dadua’s son and present SP dominant caste oppression. leaders at former Prime voting on Thursday in the the area’s infrastructure. pacting elections in MLA from Chitrakoot, was “He was not a good man. Minister Manmohan Singh, fourth phase of the As- They say they have voted for Chitrakoot, Banda, Fatehpur, elected to the zila panchayat Anybody who dared to com- Congress Vice President sembly elections. The mood the BJP’s R. K. Patel, a A dalit family from Sidhupur constructs its house after casting Rae Bareli and Kaushambi. unopposed as a result of the plain against him would be Rahul Gandhi on Friday said is calm and lazy but rural Ut- former BSP minister. Both their votes at Manikpur constituency. RAJEEV BHATT He was patronised by all terror his father inspired. beaten up or even killed,” in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, that the voice of PM tar Pradesh is never shy of a R.K. and Chandrabhan are political parties, especially However, today, things are says Bhondi, a Jatav labourer. Narendra Modi was “feebler discussion on development Kurmis. the Modi government for de- The debate seems to re- the SP and the BSP. different, the villagers say, For many of these Dalits, even than that of a mouse.” and caste. In this part of the village, monetisation while lambast- flect a healthy democratic However, his end came and across the region, Dadua though Dadua is long gone, “The voice of the PM is not “Did you not see the which has over a 1,000 ing the SP and the BSP for and political awareness. But under Ms. Mayawati’s regime elicits nothing more than his caste brethren continue of a roaring lion, but even potholes when you came in? voters, young Kurmis praise “casteism.” less than a decade ago, elec- in 2007, when the State STF nostalgia. As Chitrakoot and to be a source of oppression. feebler than that of a mouse,” he said. PTI

Shah quotes Sheila’s Ibobi will go to jail for crimes remark on Rahul ‘I enjoyed challenging term’ AZAMGARH BJP president Amit Shah quoted former Delhi Chief Ansari, whose term as V-P ends this August, says it’s been a learning experience against Manipur: Javadekar Minister Sheila Dikshit’s statement on Rahul Gandhi Nistula Hebbar during his visit to the two Union Minister says CM kept the State backward for 15 years that the latter “is still not NEW DELHI mature and needs some African countries. time”. “If he is not mature, “Everyday is a new day,” In both countries, Vikas Pathak Manipur goes to the polls then why has he been Hamid Ansari said about his Rwanda and Uganda, the IMPHAL in two phases on March 4 forced upon Uttar Pradesh? nine-and-half years as Vice- governments asked for more Raising the pitch against the and March 8 respectively. Is this a political laboratory President (two successive interactions between mem- Congress government in Ma- Prime Minister Narendra or learning ground for terms). However, they came bers of Parliament, a de- nipur, Human Resource De- Modi too was set to address someone?” Mr. Shah asked with challenges that he has mand that he concurred velopment Minister Prakash a rally here on Saturday even at an election rally here. PTI “enjoyed immensely.” with. Javadekar said here on Fri- as the BJP, buoyed by recent Mr. Ansari made these re- “Members of Parliament day Chief Minister Okram civic poll victories and suc- marks to The Hindu at an on- play an important role in Ibobi Singh would “go to cess in the Assam Assembly EC wants action against board press conference on shaping and conveying the jail” for having “committed elections last year, is trying candidates on TV sting Friday as he was returning intent of policy to the crimes against the State”. to topple the Ibobi Singh NEW DELHI from a four-day visit to people. If the government’s “A BJP government will be government. Taking cognisance of a sting Rwanda and Uganda. Looking back: Hamid Ansari interacts with the media on board policy is to promote India- formed here and Ibobi Singh Blaming Mr. Ibobi Singh operation by India Today PTI news channel, allegedly His current term is to end his light while returning from Rwanda and Uganda. Africa friendship, then MPs will go to jail because he has Prakash Javadekar leaves the for the ongoing economic showing candidates in Uttar in August 2017 and, after the need to convey this to the committed crimes against rally venue at Wangoi, blockade by the United Naga Pradesh and Manipur ongoing set of Assembly sponsibility and you live duct of the Rajya Sabha, of people,” he said. Manipur. For 15 years, he Manipur. VIKAS PATHAK Council (UNC) after the claiming to have spent elections, elections to the with the challenges of the which he is the Chairman by “In both countries, a de- has kept the State backward. Chief Minister announced much more than the post of President and Vice- day. It has been a learning virtue of his position as the mand for more parliament There has been no develop- Accusing the State govern- the creation of seven new statutory limit, the Election President are the biggest experience, a challenging Vice-President. to parliament interaction ment here, only corruption,” ment of large-scale corrup- districts, Mr. Javadekar said Commission on Friday events in India’s political cal- nine-and-a-half years, and I It was his role as the came up. We were told that Mr. Javadekar, who is also tion, he alleged that huge the Centre had worked hard ordered legal action against endar this year. have enjoyed it immensely,” presiding officer of the Up- there was not enough of it, a the BJP’s election in-charge bribes were routinely de- to ensure supplies of essen- them and directed that “Everyday is a new day, so he said. One of his main per House of Parliament that view that I am in agreement for the State, said at a rally at manded for appointments to tial commodities like diesel notices be served on them. you live in this kind of a re- challenges has been the con- came into particular play with,” Mr. Ansari said. Wangoi here. posts in the State police. and petrol. Yeddyurappa dares NIA team quizzes Nepal CM on diary furore businessman Hoda Asks him to go before ‘people’s court’ Probe into alleged conspiracy behind six train accidents

Vijaita Singh New Delhi A team from the National In- vestigation Agency (NIA) on Friday questioned Nepalese businessman Shamshul Hoda alleged to be a prime suspect in recruiting Indians to plant explosives on railway tracks at the behest of Pakistan’s ISI. A two-member NIA team visited Nepal and quizzed Facing heat: Members of the BJP Yuva Morcha staging a Hoda, who was arrested at protest against Siddaramaiah on Friday. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY the Kathmandu international airport on his return Special Correspondent Yeddyurappa, who had first from Dubai on February 2 in BENGALURU made charges of pay-offs to connection with a double Sabotage suspected: The Indore-Patna Express derailed near Bharatiya Janata Party State the Congress central leader- murder. Kanpur on November 20 last year. RAJEEV BHATT president B.S. Yeddyurappa ship, said, “I stand A source said that while has challenged Karnataka vindicated”. Hoda admitted that he was October 1 was defused, a low ported earlier, the Nepal po- Chief Minister Siddaramaiah Sources in the BJP said asked by a Pakistani man, intensity explosion took lice have been sceptical of to go before the “people’s more “exposes” of similar identified as Shafi Sheikh, to place at Nakardehi without claims by Indian agencies on court” on allegations that nature related to I-T raids plant explosives on railway inflicting any damage. Hoda’s links to the train de- the diary seized from Con- conducted on some of the tracks in Ghorasahan and railments in Kanpur and gress MLC K. Govindaraj’s serving and retired officials Nakardehi, both in Bihar, he ‘No role in derailments’ Andhra Pradesh. residence during a raid by who are close to Congress did not admit to planting ex- “Hoda admits to knowing of The investigation was Income Tax authorities con- leaders would come out in plosives at Pukhrayan, near a plan to plant IEDs at Ghor- handed over to the NIA after tains details of pay-offs the public domain in the Kanpur, and at Kuneru in asahan and Nakardehi but Railway Minister Suresh made to the Congress cent- months to come. Sources Andhra Pradesh. feigned ignorance over Kan- Prabhu shot off a letter to ral leadership. said the BJP leaders would Over 140 people died pur and Kuneru accidents. Union Home Minister Ra- not resort to any legal action when the Indore-Patna Ex- He said Shafi Sheikh, whom jnath Singh, alleging sabot- ‘I stand vindicated’ to take the diary episode to press derailed at Pukhrayan he met in Dubai, had only age in at least six train acci- “Let the Chief Minister dis- its logical end. Instead, the on November 20 last year asked him to conduct a spec- dents. The Nepal police had solve the Assembly. Let us party was getting ready to and 41 persons were killed tacular incident in India and told The Hindu that they go before the people’s court launch public campaigns to when the Jagadalpur- send him newspaper clip- were not sure of Indian to decide the issue,” Mr. take on the Congress gov- Bhubaneswar Hirakhund Ex- pings as proof,” said a agencies’ claims that Hoda Yeddyurappa told reporters ernment in the State. press derailed at Kuneru in source. was working on ISI’s behalf here on Friday. The national unit of the Andhra Pradesh on January The NIA is yet to complete but they confirmed that the Referring to a private TV BJP is also keen on targeting 21. While an IED, packed in a its investigation into three accused regularly met a channel airing the alleged the Congress central leader- pressure cooker, which was rail accidents — Ghorasan, Pakistani person Shafi contents of the diary, Mr. ship on the matter. planted at Ghorasahan on Kanpur and Kuneru. As re- Sheikh in Dubai. Unfair to see yoga as a set of exercises: PM Actor assault accused Inaugurates 112-foot bust of ‘Adi Yogi’ at Isha Yoga Centre in Coimbatore remanded

Staff Reporter ideas only because they are Staff Reporter Coimbatore ancient. They should have KOCHI Prime Minister Narendra the openness to analyse and Sunil Kumar Surendran Modi on Friday said it was then accept those ideas if alias ‘Pulsar’ Suni, prime unfair to see yoga as just a there was truth in them.” accused in the case of set of exercises, that it Isha Yoga’s founder Jaggi sexual assault on an actor, brought about inner peace Vasudev said that man, in his and co-accused Vijesh and helped one live in har- pursuit of happiness, was were remanded in 14 days mony with nature. looking everywhere but not judicial custody by the Speaking at the Mahashiv- within. “Pain and pleasure, Aluva First Class Judicial aratri celebrations after in- agony and ecstasy etc., are Magistrate on Friday. augurating the 112-foot bust all within man,” he said. Mr. The court will consider of the ‘Adi Yogi’ at the Isha Vasudev complimented the the SIT application for 10- Yoga Centre near here, he PM for “taking to the street day police custody of the said that yoga helped one to promote the ancient sci- accused on Saturday. Since live in peace with himself or Larger than life: The 112-foot bust of ‘Adiyogi’ statue ence [of yoga].” the court remained closed herself, for it ushered har- inaugurated in Coimbatore on Friday. M. PERIASAMY Tamil Nadu Governor Ch. on Friday, the two were mony in body, mind and in- Vidyasagar Rao, Chief Minis- produced before the ma- tellect. a cure, it is a means to adding. “Another Indian vir- ter Edappadi K. Palan- gistrate at his residence “Yoga is a journey from wellness.” tue is to accept truth from iswami, Puducherry Lt. Gov- amidst tight security at me to we,” the PM said. “The people of this coun- whichever direction it ernor Kiran Bedi, and Union 2.40 p.m. Both were sent “There is ample evidence to try, who worship trees and comes, and being open to Ministers Vijay Goel, to the Kakkanad district jail suggest that yoga helps com- animals along with gods, ideas. These are the virtues Bandaru Dattatreya and Pon. after the police reportedly bat stress. It is a passport to lived in harmony with that hold India together. But Radhakrishnan were among requested that they not be health assurance. More than nature,” Mr. Modi said, a select few tend to reject the VIPs present. sent to the Aluva sub-jail. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 WORLD SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE ‘VX nerve agent killed Kim Jong-nam’ UKIP falters, Labour struggles in bypolls Malaysian police say they are probing how the lethal chemical weapon was brought into the country Right-wing populist party loses Agence France-Presse ing something in his face. Kuala Lumpur by-elections in two constituencies He suffered a seizure and North Korean leader Kim was dead before he reached Saudi Arabia’s King Jong-un’s half brother was as- hospital. An autopsy re- Vidya Ram London Salman on rare Asia tour sassinated with a lethal vealed traces of VX — a fast- RIYADH nerve agent manufactured acting toxin that sparks res- Britain’s right-wing populist Saudi Arabia’s King Salman for chemical warfare and lis- piratory collapse and heart U.K. Independence Party will on Sunday begin a three- ted by the UN as a weapon of failure — on the dead man’s (UKIP) suffered a setback as week Asian tour likely to seek mass destruction, the Malay- face and in his eyes. Tiny it failed to win a closely- investment and technical expertise as the world's sian police said on Friday. amounts of the poison are watched by-election, in a biggest oil exporter looks to Releasing a preliminary enough to kill an adult, development that observers diversify its economy. King toxicology report on Kim whether it is inhaled or ab- say highlights the difficulties Salman will visit those Jong-nam’s murder at Kuala sorbed through the skin. it faces in gaining more seats countries as well as Malaysia, Lumpur airport, the police “I am outraged that the in Parliament. China, and the Maldives. AFP revealed the poison used by criminals used such a dan- UKIP, which was instru- the assassins was the odour- gerous chemical in a public mental in the campaign to less, tasteless and highly area,” said Environment Min- leave the EU last year, was A pledge to prevent toxic VX. ister Wan Junaidi Tuanku easily defeated by the La- famine in Africa The news brought con- Jaafar. It “could have caused bour Party in the by-elec- COPENHAGEN demnation from South mass injuries or even death tion in the northern English Paul Nuttal A group of countries pledged Korea, which slammed the to other people.” constituency of Stoke-on- at least $672 million at an use of the nerve agent as a One of the two women ar- Trent-Central. Labour’s win Labour votes.” international donor “blatant violation of the rested after the attack fell ill Gareth Snell beat Paul Nut- He added they had conference on Friday to Chemical Weapons Conven- in custody, the police said, tall, leader of the UKIP, by struggled to win Conservat- prevent a famine in the 2,620 votes, with the Con- ive votes, not only because African countries around the tion and other international adding she had been vomit- Lake Chad Basin. “We have norms.” Experts in the South ing. National police chief servatives and Liberal of their focus on the work- now started an important said on Friday that North Khalid Abu Bakar said on Fri- Democrats coming in third ing class Labour vote, but process,” said Norwegian Korea has up to 5,000 day experts would sweep the and fourth, respectively. because the Conservative Foreign Minister Borge tonnes of chemical weapons busy airport terminal where The UKIP campaign was Party was “delivering a suffi- Brende, whose country stockpiled, including a sup- the Cold War-era attack took riddled with problems — Mr. ciently hard Brexit that pledged 1.6 billion kroner ply of VX. place for traces of the toxin Nuttall himself was involved voters are asking: do we ($192 million) over a three- Kim died on February 13 as well as other locations the in several controversies, need to vote UKIP?,” he year period to tackle “a after being attacked at Kuala women had visited. first over the validity of his said. serious humanitarian Lumpur International Air- “We are investigating how home address in Stoke re- situation” in the region port by two women, who are [the VX] entered the coun- gistered for the election, Vote share falls encompassing Nigeria, seen on CCTV footage shov- try,” he told reporters. and second over comments While UKIP’s vote rose in Cameroon, Chad and Niger. that he made about having Stoke, it failed to make Norway co-hosted the lost “close personal friends” headway in another by-elec- conference with Germany, in a 1989 disaster, where 96 tion in Copeland (its share Nigeria and the UN. AP Baloch leader says he’ll seek India’s help Israel bans Human Liverpool fans were killed. of the vote fell by 9%), as it He later admitted that no lost votes to the Conservat- Press Trust of India we have got a friend,” Mr. U.S. to seek help for the close friends had been ive Party, he added. “The Anti-immigrant protests London Daud said in London on cause of Balochistan’s Rights Watch worker involved. Stoke result indicates that erupt in Pretoria One of the key voices de- Thursday. independence. what the opinion polls are PRETORIA manding Balochistan’s free- “We are confident we will Reuters terisation of HRW which it Significant blow telling us are correct, and Jerusalem Police ired stun grenades, dom has said that he would Policy shift get help from a lot of considers a credible human Still, the loss is a significant that it is difficult for UKIP to rubber bullets and water approach friends like India Pakistan had criticised Modi friends, especially from the Israel has denied a work rights organisation. blow for a party in a con- expand beyond 12% of the cannon on Friday as the latest to seek help for their cause. for his comments on Ba- West and India. We are permit to a Human Rights “Even though we do not stituency that had seen electorate into a broader wave of anti-immigrant protests broke out here, Amir Ahmed Suleman lochistan in his address, happy the Republicans are Watch researcher, accusing agree with all of their asser- strong support for leaving constituency.” while President Jacob Zuma Daud, officially known as seen as indirect support to in power in the U.S.; Maybe the group of doing the work tions or conclusions, given the EU with 69.4% of the The Copeland by-election condemned anti-foreigner His Highness the Khan of the freedom struggle. “In also China can become a of Palestinian propagand- the seriousness of their ef- population voting to leave in saw the Conservatives swing violence and appealed for Kalat, welcomed Prime Min- the last few days, people of friend. We would like to say ists, a move the U.S.-based forts, we support the im- the June referendum. a dramatic victory in a ma- calm. “We don’t have hate! ister Narendra Modi’s inter- Balochistan, Gilgit, to them that they are com- organisation called unpre- portance of the work they The defeat was a failure jor upset for the Labour We don’t have hate!” one vention in favour of Ba- Pakistan—occupied Kashmir ing through the wrong actor cedented and an “ominous do,” acting State Depart- by UKIP to realise that party, which has held the foreign man shouted in video lochistan during his have thanked me, have ex- in this game [Pakistan],” he turn”. Foreign Ministry ment spokesman Mark rather than focusing on the seat for decades. The Con- posted by local broadcaster Independence Day address pressed gratitude, and ex- added. spokesman Emmanuel Nah- Toner said. Labour working class vote, servatives defeated Labour eNCA. The police tried to from the Red Fort last year. pressed good wishes for Earlier on Thursday, Mr. shon said the decision had HRW said it had been it needed to draw voters by 2,147 votes. After the res- keep protesters apart from “India is one of the me,” Mr. Modi had said, in a Daud addressed a seminar been taken because of granted access to Israel and from the Conservative party ult, Labour Leader Jeremy foreigners who gathered to powers of the region, the significant policy shift on entitled ‘Balochistan Re-vis- HRW’s “extreme, hostile the West Bank for three dec- too, John Curtice, professor Corbyn said they would go express alarm about recent biggest democracy in the the region. ited’ within the British Par- anti-Israel agenda which ades and it was “disappoint- of politics at the University further to “reconnect with attacks. Police Commissioner world. The Prime Minister’s Mr. Daud, who has been liament complex, organised was working at the service ing that the Israeli govern- of Strathclyde and a respec- voters and break with the Khomotso Phalane said 136 [Modi’s] was the only voice living in exile in Wales in the by the U.K.—based Demo- of Palestinian propaganda... ment seems unable or ted pollster, told The Hindu. failed political consensus.” people had been arrested in we heard in a long time U.K. for the last few years, cracy Forum, during which in a totally biased manner.” unwilling to distinguish “They seem to have been “Both constituencies, like so the past 24 hours. coming out of the neigh- indicated that he plans to he accused Pakistan of “col- The U.S. State Depart- between justified criticisms naïve about the election and many, have been let down Unemployment in South bourhood and appreciated approach India and other onising” the sovereign state ment said it strongly dis- of its actions and hostile taken the view that to defeat by the political Africa is above 25%. AP the intervention. We know friendly countries like the of Kalat. agreed with Israel’s charac- political propaganda.” Labour all you need to do is establishment.”

Attack comes a day after the jihadists lost the town of al-Bab Agence France-Presse Kano Reuters Turkey’s military said on The leader of Boko Beirut/Istanbul Friday that Syrian rebels had Haram’s main faction, An Islamic State car bomb taken full control of all of the Abubakar Shekau, has ad- killed more than 50 people town, and that work to clear mitted killing the group’s on Friday in a Syrian village mines and unexploded ord- purported spokesman over held by rebels, a war mon- nance was under way. Sous- an apparent plot to oust itor said, a day after the ji- ian is behind rebel lines him, he said in an audio re- hadist group was driven about 8 km north-west of al- cording obtained by AFP. from its last stronghold in Bab, around which Ankara In the 50-minute tape of the area. has long supported the a meeting with the inner The blast in the village of formation of a security zone circle of his militant Islam- Sousian hit a security check- it says would help to stem a ist group, Shekau said he point controlled by rebels wave of migration via Turkey killed “Tasiu” — also fighting under the Free Syr- into Europe. known as Abu Zinnira — ian Army (FSA) banner. The A second blast took place who appeared in several Syrian Observatory for Hu- A Syrian man wounded in the 2 km south of Sousian later video messages. man Rights, a monitor of the blast being wheeled into a on Friday, but it was unclear “You should hear me: I war based in Britain, said hospital in Kilis, Turkey. AP whether it was from a killed Tasiu, hear me well,” more than 50 people died, vehicle bomb or a planted he told the gathering in including over 30 civilians. ing to get back to al-Bab. device such as a mine. There Hausa, which is widely Two rebels contacted by Re- Therefore we have many ci- were reports of casualties spoken across northeast uters put the total death toll vilian casualties.” but no immediate details, Nigeria. Shekau states the at at least 40. The Turkey-backed rebels the Observatory said. date of the meeting — One of the two, a fighter drove Islamic State from the Later, the Islamic State December 18 — and said it with the Sultan Murad Bri- town of al-Bab on Thursday, said in a social media post had been called to discuss gade near al-Bab, said: “It following weeks of street that it was behind the Sous- “those elements grumbling was done on a checkpoint battles near where Ankara ian attack. The group said on over the killing of Tasiu.” but there were a lot of famil- wants to establish a safe Thursday that it had lost All in a day’s work: A cow gets ready to be photographed during a dairy cow beauty pageant in Verden an der Aller in AFP received a copy of ies there gathered and wait- zone for civilians. control of al-Bab. northwestern Germany on Thursday. About 200 bovines competed in 18 diferent categories. AFP the recording earlier this month. The tape appears to have been meant for cir- culation only within the President Trump renews armed Islamist movement. Deconstruction of state is on, says Bannon Shekau’s claim appears attack on media outlets to lend weight to reports of infighting within Boko President’s adviser tells Conservatives that inside White House everything is going according to plan Haram, whose insurgency Glenn Thrush people, it never will repres- has killed at least 20,000 in Jeremy W. Peters well the two get along des- until very recently. Oxon Hill ent the people.” northeast Nigeria since OXON HILL pite the friction that had al- Not too many years ago U.S. President Donald Mr. Trump, who sugges- 2009 and left 2.6 million In an administration hardly ways existed between them. CPAC almost denied Trump a Trump intensified his slash- ted revisiting First Amend- homeless. five weeks old, Stephen Ban- “I can run a little hot on oc- speaking slot because it ing attack on the news me- ment protections for the non’s reputation has taken casion,” Mr. Bannon said, feared he only wanted to dia during an appearance press during the campaign, Leadership plot on almost mythic proportion complimenting Mr. Priebus’ promote himself. As for Ban- before the Conservative refined that attack on Fri- Shekau has been the most as a fire-breathing populist, equanimity. non, he was essentially ban- Political Action Conference day, urging his supporters to visible face of Boko Haram emerging power centre, man And he urged a ballroom ished from the premises (CPAC) on Friday, reiterating use their free-speech rights over the years, claiming at- of mystery. full of activists to stick to- when he was running Breit- his charge that “fake news” to counter hostile press ac- tacks and launching ram- When Mr. Bannon, Presid- gether against the forces that bart News. So Bannon star- outlets are “the enemy of counts from outlets like bling, often barely coher- ent Donald Trump’s chief were trying to tear them ted a rival conference at a the people”. CNN, which he called the ent tirades against the strategist, appeared in public apart. “Whether you’re a hotel down the street and The opening portion of “Clinton News Network”. government in a series of on Thursday for the first populist, whether you’re a called it The Uninvited. the President’s free-range, The President followed videos. time since the President was limited-government conser- Kellyanne Conway, the campaign-style speech his attack on the press with But Abu Zinnira has ac- sworn in, it was to deliver, in vative, whether you’re a White House counselor, ac- centred on a declaration of a far-ranging preview of ted on occasion as de facto his own combative way, a libertarian, whether you’re knowledged the discomfort war on the press — a new Tuesday’s address before spokesman and appeared message of soothing reassur- Power centre: Stephen Bannon (left) with White House an economic nationalist, we that comes with any hostile foil to replace vanquished Congress, offering an unspe- in video recordings, includ- ance to the conservative act- Chief of Staf Reince Priebus in Maryland on Thursday. REUTERS want you to have our back.” party takeover when she ad- political opponents such as cified plan to improve the ing those about the more ivists gathered here for their Despite Mr. Bannon’s as- dressed the meeting. Mr. Hillary Clinton. health care law, ratcheted- than 200 schoolgirls kid- annual assessment known as on election night and is still ing to plan. The “deconstruc- surances, a simmering un- Trump, she said, had to up- “They are very smart, up enforcement of immigra- napped from the town of the Conservative Political Ac- “dead wrong” about what tion of the administrative ease remains among conser- root the political system. they are very cunning, they tion laws and a request for Chibok in April 2014. tion Conference. the Trump administration is state” has just begun. vatives over whether Mr. “Every great movement ends are very dishonest,” Mr. increases in spending that He was always shown in Do not believe the “cor- doing. Inside the White Appearing with Reince Trump will honour his up being a little bit sclerotic Trump said to the delight of will result in “one of the military camouflage, wear- poratist globalist media” that House, Mr. Bannon said, Priebus, the President’s chief promises, given that he was and dusty after a time,” she the crowd. greatest military buildups in ing a turban and with his was “crying and weeping” everything is going accord- of staff, he joked about how not part of their movement said. NYT “It doesn’t represent the all of history.” NYT face covered. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Special Correspondent 25-year power purchase dia,” Minister of New and Re- NEW DELHI agreement period. newable Energy Piyush Wind power tariffs closed at “The level of participation Goyal tweeted following the ₹3.46 per kWh in India's first- in the recent solar and wind auction, which started on ever auction for wind energy auctions points to the coming Thursday and was com- projects as the country aims of age of the industry,” pleted on Friday. to tap renewable energy to Vikram Kailas, MD & CEO of However low tariffs could overcome its power short- Mytrah Energy, one of the bid prove to be a problem for de- Tata Steel Haldia coke ages. winners, said. velopers since the focus will plant gets green nod The bid was called by gov- now have to shift to ensuring NEW DELHI ernment-owned Solar En- ‘Hard-fought auction’ low costs. “Prima facie, the Tata Steel has received ergy Corporation of India for “The auctions have been hard viability would depend on environment clearance (EC) 1 GW of wind capacity. fought and have led to tighter the plant load factors, capital for expansion of its Haldia pricing than one would have costs, and getting long-term coke plant in West Bengal, Mytrah Energy foreseen even a few months debt at competitive rates,” from 1.6 million tonnes per Mytrah Energy, Green Infra, earlier. This speaks to the Girish Kadam, vice president annum (MTPA) to 2.2 Inox and Ostro Energy each growing confidence of the at ICRA said. MTPA, entailing investment of ₹769.45 crore. The won the rights to set up 250 players in their ability to de- “The choice of location is company has to ensure that MW of wind capacity in a liver projects on terms that with the bidder so that they the coke oven plant meets location of their choice and are globally competitive. Ulti- can choose to locate the pro- visible emission standards to sell the energy generated mately, this will pave the way ject where there is enough notiied by the ministry and to state-run Power Trading for the secular growth of the wind resource.” all eluents should be Corporation. Sources say Renewable push: Low tarifs may be a problem for developers Indian renewable energy “Wind is a gift to mankind treated and used for dust that the two states under as they have to ensure low cost. AFP sector.” by environment & the his- suppression and green belt consideration for these pro- “After solar cost reduction toric low cost of ₹3.46 per development. It has also jects are Tamil Nadu and historically low solar tariffs pleted in Rewa in Madhya below ₹3 per unit, wind unit wind power shows our Valley start-up Rover been asked to use Gujarat. achieved in a recent auction Pradesh saw solar tariffs fall power cost down to ₹3.46 per commitment to leverage maximum water from rain Such low tariffs in wind of a total capacity of 750 MW. to ₹2.97 per unit and ₹3.3 per unit through transparent auc- clean energy,” Mr. Goyal said harvesting sources. PTI energy come on the back of The reverse auction com- unit when levelised over the tion. A green future awaits In- in a subsequent tweet. bought by Revcontent

TCS for ‘level playing Indians from Chennai founded Rover ield’ amid visa row Note ban sucked cash like vacuum cleaner: IMF IFCI may NEW DELHI KARTHIK SUBRAMANIAN to such reputed publica- TCS CEO Rajesh Gopinathan sell stakes in CHENNAI tions like Forbes and At- is not “overtly perturbed” Fund cautions authorities on potential build up in banks’ non-performing assets A start-up founded by two lantic,” Mr. Siddharth said. by the proposed overhaul four units Indians in Silicon Valley has “Maybe it will sink in a few of visa regime in the U.S. PRESS TRUST OF INDIA slowdown, the authorities struck gold in a multimillion weeks later when I am by but has sought a “level WASHINGTON should remain vigilant given PRESS TRUST OF INDIA dollar deal. the beach, relaxing.” playing ield” with similar India’s demonetisation led to the potential further build- NEW DELHI Rover, a machine learning- Rover’s content discovery policies for everyone. Mr. huge cash shortages that up of NPAs and elevated cor- State-owned IFCI plans to based content discovery en- engine, Mr. Vijay said, was Gopinathan, who took have “adversely affected” porate sector vulnerabilities, sell stakes in four associate gine founded by Stanford very granular. The engine charge as CEO this week, consumption and like a “va- and ensure prudent support units, including Tourism University graduates studies traits and behavi- said there are political cuum cleaner” it sucked in to the economic sectors af- Finance Corporation of In- Jonathan Siddharth and Vijay oural patterns of users and ramiications that need to Krishnan, has been acquired by virtue of that would re- be dealt with given the cash and then was slowly re- fected by the currency ex- dia, as part of a strategy to by content discovery net- commend superior content shift in demographics and placing the currency, a change initiative,” the IMF focus on its core business work Revcontent. Techno- to what was available. Rev- political elements. “All that senior IMF official has said. said. of term lending. we can ask for is a level- “You’ve heard about so- IMF said the repercus- “We don’t have problem logy website Techcruch cited content’s rivals include Out- playing ield. As long as the called ‘helicopter drops’ of sions from India’s currency with associates...we have RevContent CEO John Lemp brain and Taboola. rules of the game are money with unconventional exchange initiative will likely submitted divestment plan as saying the deal was valued The duo also see their similar, we are conident in monetary policies, so one Cash out: The IMF urged the Centre to continue supply of new persist through the first to the government,” IFCI “north of $30 million” in technology providing suc- our competitiveness,” Mr. way to characterise this de- currency notes. AFP quarter of 2017. Deputy Managing Director cash and in stock. cour to quality journalism. Gopinathan said. PTI monetisation initiative is as a Real GDP growth is pro- Sanjeev Kaushik told PTI. Speaking from their Palo “We always worked on the vacuum cleaner,” Paul A shortages that have ad- the supply of new bank- jected to slow to 6.6% in “Once we get approval, Alto apartment through principle of making Rover to Cashin, Assistant Director in versely affected consump- notes, and if needed con- FY2016/17 and then rebound we will go ahead with the Skype, Mr. Siddharth and Mr. discovery what Google is to IndiGo ropes in former the IMF’s Asia and Pacific tion,” Mr. Cashin said in re- sider extending or expand- to 7.2% in FY2017/18, due to sale in a gradual manner,” Krishnan said they were very search,” Mr. Siddharth said. excited with the major mile- The acquisition will mean United Airlines oicial Department, and mission sponse to a question as the ing targeted temporary temporary disruptions Mr. Kaushik said. NEW DELHI chief of India, told PTI. IMF released its annual exemptions, including on (primarily to private con- The Industrial Finance stone in the journey of the they will reach out to a large Budget carrier IndiGo has “It’s sucking in cash, with- country-report on India. use of old banknotes, partic- sumption) caused by cash Corporation of India (IFCI) company that they co-foun- cross-section of the online roped in former United drawing it from the eco- ularly for rural and remote shortages accompanying the board has already ap- ded as students of Stanford media in U.S. Airlines executive Cindy nomy, and then the vacuum Old banknotes areas. currency exchange initiative. proved divesting the entire University. Mr. Siddharth, a graduate Szadokierski as a consultant cleaner is going in reverse, Given the shortage of cash in “While the financial sys- “These effects are expected 45.5% stake in associate “At this point, we are in of Sri Venkateswara College for its airport operations. slowly replacing cash but as I the market, IMF in its report tem is expected to weather to gradually dissipate by firm Hardicon as per its the process of onboarding of Engineering, and Mr. Szadokierski would be the said, at a fairly modest pace. urged the Indian govern- the currency exchange-in- March 2017 as cash short- plan to exit from non-core our technology to Revcon- Krishnan, an IIT Bombay third executive from United That’s led to a lot of cash ment to continue to enhance duced temporary growth ages ease,” it said. business activities. tent, which would reach out alumnus, are from Chennai. Airlines to be on board with IndiGo after Greg Taylor and Rohit Philip in the recent past. One of the promoters of InterGlobe ‘Bad bank’ to help speed up Aviation– the parent of IndiGo –Rakesh Gangwal has also served at United stressed-assets resolution: Fitch Airlines. Sources said Szadokierski was roped in It may simultaneously require a bank recapitalisation plan by IndiGo as a consultant for airport operations. An PRESS TRUST OF INDIA ness needs. This estimate is Indigo spokesperson MUMBAI declined to comment. PTI unlikely to be significantly The creation of a ‘bad bank’ reduced by the adoption of a will speed up resolution of bad-bank approach, and Icra downgrades IDBI stressed assets in the bank- could even rise if banks are Bank debt instruments ing system, but it will also re- forced to crystallise more MUMBAI quire significant capital infu- losses from stressed assets Rating agency Icra on sion in the state-run banks to than currently expected, the Friday downgraded various meet any shortfall, says a rating agency said. debt instruments of IDBI report. “We believe that the gov- Bank owing to a signiicant The recent economic sur- ernment will eventually be erosion of its common vey mentioned about forma- required to provide more equity tier I (CET 1), tion of a bad bank that will than the $10.4 billion that it following weak inancial purchase stressed assets and has earmarked for capital in- performance of the bank in take them to resolution. Centre may have to provide jections by the financial year the quarter ended “The creation of a ‘bad over $10.4 billion to banks. 2018-19 — be it directly to December. Icra has bank’ could accelerate the state-owned banks or indir- downgraded ratings for the bank’s ₹8,000 crore resolution of stressed assets ing their ability to lend. ectly through a bad bank,” infrastructure bonds in country’s banking sector, It expects the stressed-as- the rating agency said. programme, ₹ 230.50 crore but it may face significant lo- set ratio to rise over the lexi bonds series and gistical difficulties and coming year from the 12.3% Centralised ARC ₹25,742.72 crore senior and would simultaneously re- as at end-September 2016, It said bad bank’s most likely lower tier II bonds quire a credible bank recap- with the ratio significantly form would be that of a cent- programme. ICRA also italisation programme to ad- higher among state-owned ralised asset-restructuring downgraded the rating for dress the capital shortfalls at banks. company (ARC). few other insturments. PTI state-owned banks,” interna- Bad bank’s proponents tional agency Fitch Ratings More capital believe it could take charge said in a report. The rating agency said the of the largest, most complex CHENNAI BULLION RATES It said the country’s banks banking sector will require cases, make politically tough February 24 rates in rupees with previous rates in parentheses have significant asset quality around $90 billion in new decisions to reduce debt, Bar Silver (1 kg) ...... 43,910....(43,055) problems that are putting total capital by financial year and allow banks to refocus Retail (1 g) ...... 47.00...... (46.10) pressure on profitability and 2018-19 to meet Basel III on their normal lending 24 ct gold (10 g) ...... 30,000....(29,730) 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,850...... (2,824) capital, as well as constrain- standard and ongoing busi- activities, it said. Porsche delivers Limited Edition 911 R in India A customer based in Bengaluru bought the car priced at about ₹3 crore

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA MUMBAI Porsche said it has delivered the first Limited Edition 911 R, making it one of the 991 units produced globally. The new 911 R is a purist sports car with naturally aspirated engine and manual transmission, a statement from the company said, adding there is no unit available for sale in the near future. It did not announce the price saying it’s not available for sale, but market sources Privileged class: The company said there will be no unit of the heritage model available for sale said the buyer has shelled in the near future. out close to ₹3 crore exclud- ing taxes. from 1967. Porsche India dir- should. The car has set the 500 hp naturally aspirated Advanced over the past ector Pavan Shetty said the standard for generations engine and six-speed sports five decades, the Porsche 911 911 R epitomises the Porsche after the model was first in- transmission mounted on a is a heritage model. The new brand with the design DNA troduced in the 1960s. six-cylinder, 4-liter engine, 911 R pays tribute to the of a classic 911 while per- He said the two-door was delivered to a Bengaluru road-homologated racing car forming as a racing car sports car, which features a customer.

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IN BRIEF INTERVIEW| BRIAN ACTON Hyundai aims for The best start-ups are formed during a bust double-digit growth We are going to provide commercial services so that businesses can talk to consumers Plans to unveil cars in 3 new segments

Thomas K Thomas limited based on my ability Mumbai Do you see WhatsApp going beyond messaging to do due diligence being in Exactly 8 years after Whats- to things like digital U.S. I don’t have the luxury App started its services on payments in India? of flying to India and vetting Rasna makes foray into February 24, 2009, it now companies. So I do it on per- baked snack segment has 200 million active users ■ I had a great meeting with sonal network basis. But lar- MUMBAI in India, making it the Silicon the Indian IT Minister Ravi ger firms and individuals are Rasna, one of the largest Valley-based firm’s largest Shankar Prasad where we investing in India and they manufacturers of instant market. WhatsApp is now ex- discussed a number of things should. There are some great fruit-based concentrate, has ploring how it can play in the including how WhatsApp businesses being built out of entered the baked sweet digital payments and e-com- can be used for civic engage- India. snack category by merce segments. In an inter- ments, how WhatsApp could introducing Rasna Vitos. view, Brian Acton, Co- be used for e-commerce and Founders usually move According to market Founder, WhatsApp, shared digital transactions and pay- out and do something else researcher Euromonitor, his views on the future ments. All these are in the once they sell out. You sweet and savoury snacks roadmap and India’s start-up space of opportunity for have continued to stay on Shifting gears: Hyundai’s existing SUV ‘Creta’ is a key have grown by 26% between ecosystem. Edited Excerpts: WhatsApp. We want to blend at WhatsApp even after 2010 and 2015, the fastest in volume driver for the company currently. that to our core mission of Facebook acquired it. the packaged food segment. When you started out in connecting users and creat- Why? SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT In 2019, the company Rasna plans to focus the CHENNAI sweet snacks segment on 2009, did you imagine ing a great communications plans to launch a sub-4 ■ kids. Special Correspondent that India could be your experience that’s simple, re- I really truly believe in the Hyundai Motor India Ltd., metre sports utility vehicle largest market one day? liable, trusted and safe. We mission, we want to connect (HMIL) plans to introduce (SUV). Hyundai had show- would continue to research, the world. We have made cars in three new segments cased Carlino in 2016 and ‘FDI inlows zoom 18% ■ We saw the potential. evaluate and figure out what tremendous progress but and is eyeing a double-digit the new SUV will be based to $46 billion in 2016’ What we didn’t foresee was we can build that best serves there is work to do in con- growth in 2017, a top official on this concept. Hyundai’s NEW DELHI the enthusiasm. We saw that the people of India. necting the world. The other said. existing SUV ‘Creta’ is a key Foreign direct investment in we could build a product thing is that it’s one thing to “These three will be in volume driver for the com- India grew 18% during 2016 that has global potential. But You have grown five times build a product and another new segments — family, pany currently. to touch $46 billion, data its an eye opening surprise from 40 million in 2014 to to create a business. I want Sports Utility Vehicle and released by the Department that it has become such an 200 million now. Will you to see this through till it be- hybrid,” said Y.K. Koo, Man- ‘Bullish on India’ Over time, an enterprise might want to build of Industrial Policy and integral part of people’s daily reach a billion users in <> comes a strong sustainable aging Director, HMIL. “We are bullish about the Promotion showed. The life. India in 2 years? some sort of customer service using Artiical business. As part of its strategy of growth in India. India is a country attracted FDI of Intelligence (AI). If you want to talk to that AI rolling out at least two new very important market for $39.32 billion in 2015. The How do you use this user ■ I think it’s achievable. But service, WhatsApp could be the conduit There’s a lot of buzz cars per year, HMIL an- Hyundai and is the third main sectors which attracted base to monetise the limiting factors are Brian Acton around Artificial nounced 10 new products largest market for Hyundai the highest inlows were WhatsApp? smartphone adoption and Co-founder, WhatsApp Intelligence and Virtual over the next four years Motor in global sales after services, telecom, trading, low cost affordable data Reality. Are you using (2017-2020) to accelerate its China and the U.S. Last year, computer hardware and ■ We are going to provide plan. Without these I don’t rely on users telling us. We tech interest revolves around these technologies on software and automobile. domestic growth. The pro- HMIL’s contribution was commercial services so that think we will hit a billion in have to rely on teaching more H1B visas because WhatsApp? Bulk of the FDI came in from posed plan includes roll-out 13.6% and in January 2017, it Singapore, Mauritius, the businesses can talk to con- India in 2 years. Also, users to have good judgment that’s really important to of new segments, new mod- rose to 15%,” Mr. Koo said. sumers. We are having two whenever you look at growth so that we can provide them build the best products with ■ We think ourselves as a Netherlands and Japan. PTI els and upgrades of the ex- On the export front, he different thought lines. One you look at the economic S with tools with which they the best talent. conduit. Over time, you can isting models. said their market share has is – what do large companies curve where at a certain can report things. Some of expect that an enterprise In January 2017, HMIL come down to around 25- India, ADB ink pact for need when they talk to con- point you hit a saturation these tools are already built You have personally might want to build some launched the Grand i10 30% from around 40% due industrial corridor sumers? Typically, that point. We have not hit satur- in and as we get more ma- invested in Indian start- sort of customer service us- facelift and this will be fol- to a slowdown in the South NEW DELHI means that they need some ation point, we are still at the ture in our understanding ups. Do you see the next ing Artifical Intelligence (AI). lowed by the introduction of Africa and Middle East mar- India and Asian Development sort of API to have the con- sweet spot of the curve. we may add more Google or Facebook So if you want to talk to that all new compact segment kets. The company was util- Bank have signed a $375 versation. On the other side capabilities. coming from here? Are AI service, WhatsApp could and the mid-segment sedan ising its capacity to cater the million pact for loans and are small businesses that, There is a debate going on you worried about the be the conduit. car. domestic demand, he said. grants to develop 800-km need pre-built solutions, about fake news. One sees How do you see the bubble bursting? Next year, Hyundai will “During 2016, HMIL pro- Visakhapatnam-Chennai probably something in mo- a lot of fake stuff being concern around H1B visas So you wouldn’t do what showcase its iconic hybrid duced 6.65 lakh cars and Industrial Corridor, which is bile space, that they can use circulated around on under the new U.S. ■ I am terribly excited about Google is doing with Allo, model at the Auto Expo this year, we will produce the irst phase of a planned for things like customer sup- WhatsApp. How are you administration? what’s happening in India. where it offers assistance 2018 in New Delhi and select 6.70 lakh cars. The existing 2,500-km East Coast port. We still don’t know the dealing with this? Booms and busts are part of and information to users? models would be unveiled capacity at Sriperumbudur Economic Corridor. ADB had business model. What we ■ We are in the position of cycles. Some of the best in the future. The second near Chennai will be suffi- last September approved don’t want to build is an ad- ■ It’s a tough question. We caution. We are observing start-ups are formed during ■ We wouldn’t yet jump into half of 2018 will see the roll- cient for the next 3-4 years,” $631 million in loans and vertisment supported are trying to understand it the actions the President is a bust. I absolutely believe a conversation between you out of family concept and he said. grants for the corridor. The product where businesses and develop the right tools taking and reconciling that that the next Facebook or and someone important. We designed car that will be po- HMIL is planning to re- ADB said in a statement that are sending offers or unsoli- to tackle it. We are an en- with our goals. Our goal is to Google could come from don’t want to examine your sitioned above its existing gister 17-18% growth this it approved loans comprising cited messages and really crypted platform and we hire the best and brightest somewhere in India. I myself conversation and ‘oh you are model Eon. Select models year, even as the industry a $500 million multitranche creating negative experience don’t have any means of ex- and for us the H1B pro- have invested in companies talking about a restaurant so will be unveiled in the hy- would be logging a single di- facility. PTI for users. amining content. We have to gramme is important. Lot of in India. I am predominantly let me recommend one’. brid model. git growth, he said. Motherson’s Sehgal is EY Entrepreneur of 2016 Nandan Nilekani gets Lifetime award

K.T. JAGANNATHAN Co-Founder of Infosys CHENNAI Nandan Nilekani gets the Vivek Chaand Sehgal, chair- Lifetime Achievement man of Motherson Sumi Sys- Award for his contribution tems Limited (MSSL), the to the Unique Identification flagship company of Sam- Authority of India – the vardhana Motherson Group Aadhaar initiative, which is (SMG), has been chosen as a pioneering citizen identi- the ‘EY Entrepreneur of the fication programme. Year 2016.’ Mr. Sehgal will R. Dinesh, managing dir- represent India at the EY ector, TVS Logistics Ser- World Entrepreneur of the vices, gets the award in the Year Award ceremony at services category. Rajiv Monte Carlo in June. Memani, chairman, EY In- The EOY is a global busi- dia, lauded the awardees for ness award programme, their role towards a better now in its 18th year in India. working world.

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017 SPORT 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Careless India paints itself into a corner

■ Calculated risk of opting for a ■ The host capitulates in the face of ■ Steve O’Keefe leads the way ■ Australia ends day 298 ahead with turner set to backire on India disciplined Aussie bowling with a six-wicket haul six second innings wickets in hand

Amol Karhadkar O’Keefe, Starc posed ques- 1st Test, Day 2, MCA Stadium, Pune Morne Morkel back for PUNE tions with his raw pace and Tests in New Zealand The calculated risk of opting ability to pitch the ball in the AUSTRALIA — 1ST INNINGS RUNS BALLS 4s 6s Johannesburg for a turner in the series- right corridor in a fiery three- Matt Renshaw c Vijay b Ashwin dddddddd ddd 68 ddddd156 dddddd 10 dddddddd1 Fast bowler Morne Morkel opener against Australia is set David Warner b Umesh ddddddddddddddddd ddd 38 dddddd 77 dddddddd6 ddddddddd has been included in South over spell. to backfire on India, thus put- Steve Smith c Kohli b Ashwinddddddddddd ddd 27 dddddd 95 dddddddd2 ddddddddd Africa’s squad for three Test The good work paved the ting the host in danger of see- dddddddddd ddd dddddd dddddddd ddddddddd matches in New Zealand way for M. Vijay to nick Josh Shaun Marsh c Kohli b Jayant 16 55 3 ing its 19-match unbeaten ddddddddd ddd dddddd dddddddd ddddddddd starting on March 8. Morkel, Hazlewood in his opening Peter Handscomb lbw b Jadeja 22 45 3 streak come to an end. India’s dddddddddddd ddddd dddddd ddddddddd ddddddddd 32, last played in an over after replacing Starc, Mitchell Marsh lbw b Jadeja 4 18 capitulation to Australia’s dis- international match in June who got his rewards in his Matthew Wade lbw b Umesh ddddddddddd ddddd8 dddddd 20 dddddddd1 ddddddddd ciplined attack — unexpec- and since then has struggled second spell. Mitchell Starc c Jadeja b Ashwindddddddd ddd 61 dddddd 63 dddddddd6 dddddddd3 with a persistent back injury tedly led by left-arm spinner Steve O’Keefe c Saha b Umesh ddddddddd ddddd0 dddddd 13 ddddddddd ddddddddd which threatened to end his Steve O’Keefe — first let the In trying conditions and Nathan Lyon lbw b Umeshdddddddddddddd ddddd0 dddddddd1 ddddddddd ddddddddd career. AFP having lost Vijay early, the visitors snatch the advantage Josh Hazlewood (not out) dddddddddddddd ddddd1 dddddd 31 ddddddddd ddddddddd onus was on Cheteshwar Pu- in the afternoon. Captain Extras (lb-6, nb-9) dddddddddddddddddddddd ddd 15 Steve Smith, let off in the field jara to anchor India’s innings. Total (in 94.5 overs) dddddddddddddddddddd dd 260 thrice, then ensured Aus- But Starc bowled a snorter tralia firm grip on the open- Fall of wickets: 1-82 (Warner, 27.2 overs), 2-119 (S. Marsh, 46.4), 3-149 (Hand- that rose sharply off good scomb, 59.2), 4-149 (Smith, 60.1), 5-166 (M. Marsh, 67.4), 6-190 (Wade, 75.4), 7-196 ing Test, ending the day with length and kissed Pujara’s (Renshaw, 78.3), 8-205 (O’Keefe, 81.4), 9-205 (Lyon, 81.5). a 298-run advantage at the gloves on the way to the INDIA BOWLING: Ishant 11-0-27-0, Ashwin 34.5-10-63-3, Jayant 13-1-58-1, Jadeja end of the second day’s play. ’keeper. 24-4-74-2, Umesh 12-3-32-4. With the pitch deteriorat- Two balls later, in an ating as rapidly as the speed of INDIA — 1ST INNINGS RUNS BALLS 4s 6s tempt to stamp his authority ddddddddddd ddd dddddd dddddddd ddddddddd zooming cars just behind the M. Vijay c Wade b Hazlewood 10 19 1 over Starc, Kohli attempted a Maharashtra Cricket Associ- K.L. Rahul c Warner b O’Keefe dddddddddd ddd 64 dddddd 97 dddddd 10 dddddddd1 drive off a wide one. It turned ation stadium at Gahunje, it Cheteshwar Pujara c Wade b Starc ddddd ddddd6 dddddd 23 dddddddd1 ddddddddd to be too wide and too quick will be a gargantuan task for Virat Kohli c Handscomb b Starc dddddddd ddddd0 dddddddd2 ddddddddd ddddddddd Miamiatiali pulls out of for Kohli to time it, instead of- Virat Kohli’s men to maintain Ajinkya Rahane c Handscomb b O’Keefe ddd 13 dddddd 55 dddddddd1 ddddddddd bout against Vijender fering Handscomb a regula- their unbeaten run. India, R. Ashwin c Handscomb b Lyon ddddddddd ddddd1 dddddddd4 ddddddddd ddddddddd KOLKATA tion catch in the cordon. WBO Oriental super however, would have only it- Wriddhiman Saha c Smith b O’Keefe ddd ddddd0 dddddddd2 ddddddddd ddddddddd self to blame if Australia Ravindra Jadeja c Starc b O’Keefe dddddd ddddd2 dddddd 10 ddddddddd ddddddddd middleweight champion Dropped chances Zulpikar Miamiatiali, who was moves to Bengaluru with a 1-0 Jayant Yadav st. Wade b O’Keefe ddddddd ddddd2 dddddd 10 ddddddddd ddddddddd set to fight Asia Pacific super lead. As if the mistakes while bat- Umesh Yadav c Smith b O’Keefedddddddd ddddd4 dddddd 11 ddddddddd ddddddddd middleweight champion After all, in a matter of just ting, which resulted in India Ishant Sharma (not out)dddddddddddddddd ddddd2 dddddddd5 ddddddddd ddddddddd Vijender Singh on April 1, has eight balls, India lost four conceding a 155-run lead, Extras (nb-1) ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd ddddd1 backed out of the bout. The wickets for just one run to the were not enough, India Total (in 40.1 overs) dddddddddddddddddddd dd 105 talks between promoters of Australia spinners to change dropped three catches — all Fall of wickets: 1-26 (Vijay, 6.5 overs), 2-44 (Pujara, 14.2), 3-44 (Kohli, 14.4), 4-94 the two boxers have fallen the course of the game. India off the willow of Smith. While (Rahul, 32.2), 5-95 (Rahane, 32.4), 6-95 (Saha, 32.6), 7-95 (Ashwin, 33.3), 8-98 flat. Vijender’s promoters are Vijay spilled one at leg-slip off (Jayant, 36.3), 9-101 (Jadeja, 38.2). now negotiating with other folded up for just 105, losing its last seven wickets for a Ashwin with Smith on 23, Ab- AUSTRALIA BOWLING: Starc 9-2-38-2, O’Keefe 13.1-2-35-6, Hazlewood 7-3-11-1, boxers to stage a fight. Lyon 11-2-21-1. meagre 11 runs. O’Keefe, the hinav Mukund failed to weaker of the two Australia snatch a one-handed diving AUSTRALIA — 2nd INNINGS RUNS BALLS 4s 6s Wrecker-in-chief: Steve O’Keefe is all pumped after claiming the scalp of Ajinkya Rahane on CoA meeting to be held spinners, was rewarded for chance at mid-on off Jadeja David Warner lbw b Ashwin dddddddddddd ddd 10 dddddddd6 dddddddd2 ddddddddd Friday. K. MURALI KUMAR at Cricket Centre today his consistency with a rich on 29 and a simple chance at Shaun Marsh lbw b Ashwin ddddddddddddd ddddd0 dddddd 21 ddddddddd ddddddddd PUNE six-wicket haul. dent India’s innings — which at second slip to hold an out- slaught, with O’Keefe eventu- forward short-leg off Ashwin Steve Smith (batting)ddddddddddddddddddd ddd 59 ddddd117 dddddddd7 ddddddddd The Committee of Rahul had resurrected along standing one-handed catch. ally winding up the Indian in- with the batsman on 37. Peter Handscomb c Vijay b Ashwin ddddd ddd 19 dddddd 34 dddddddd3 ddddddddd Administrators (CoA) has Moment of madness with Ajinkya Rahane after Off the last ball of the over, nings with Umesh Yadav’s Had India held any of those Matt Renshaw c Ishant b Jayant dddddddd ddd 31 dddddd 50 dddddddd5 ddddddddd scheduled a day-long Three of those came in the Mitchell Starc’s double blow Wriddhiman Saha was caught dismissal in the slips. His ma- chances, Ashwin — who had dddddddddddddddd ddd 21 dddddd 48 dddddddd2 ddddddddd meeting at the Cricket Centre, Mitchell Marsh (batting) in an over in the morning — in no man’s land, offering gical third spell had figures of Mumbai, on Saturday. The same over, O’Keefe’s first struck twice with the new ball Extras (lb-3) dddddddddddddddddddddddddddd ddddd3 CoA will be briefed about the after changing ends post but it also hurt his shoulder. Smith catching practice at 4.1-1-5-6. — and Ravindra Jadeja could Total (for four wkts. in 46 overs) dddddddd dd 143 financial aspects of BCCI’s lunch. K.L. Rahul undid his Two balls later, Rahane first slip. While O’Keefe hogged the well have run through the Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Warner, 0.6 overs), 2-23 (S. Marsh, 6.6), 3-61 (Handscomb, purchase of land in Bengaluru innings full of flair by inex- closed his bat too soon to one From 94 for three, India limelight, Starc lived up to his side. Instead, India is staring 20.6), 4-113 (Renshaw, 34.1). at a cost of ₹50 crore plus for plicably heaving one up in the that held its line and Peter crumbled to 95 for six. And billing by striking at the top. down the barrel just two days INDIA BOWLING: Ashwin 16-3-68-3, Jadeja 17-6-26-0, Umesh 5-0-13-0, Jayant developing its own National air. Not only did the stroke Handscomb lunged forward the tail couldn’t resist the on- Opening the innings with into the five-day match. 5-0-27-1, Ishant 3-0-6-0. Cricket Academy (NCA). Meanwhile, it is understood that another initiative has been taken by a current office-bearer and another ‘We played and missed, Bound to have a bad day: Kumble representative of a full member from the South Zone We seemed to lose the bearing after Rahul’s dismissal, says the India coach to convene an informal they nicked, we caught’ meeting. Special Correspondent batsman’s left shoulder, I guess that’s the sort of wicket it is, says O’Keefe PUNE adding misery to the opener The Law of Averages evens who had overcome his de- Special Correspondent out the events of the past. hydration issues during a I know what I can luck, but knowing Pete and scintillating innings of 64. Pune <> how good he is as a fielder, The Murphy’s Law ensures if do, what I’ve got and anything has to go wrong, it When asked if an earlier in- Steve O’Keefe may have it’s no surprise to us he takes how to go about will. When both these collide jury was the cause for Rahul already played the match- those great grabs.” using what I’ve got on a sporting field, it results playing the audacious shot, winner’s role in the first Test. Touching upon the in a kind of position India Kumble smiled and said, “I The 32-year-old left-arm and we caught them.” change of ends, O’Keefe said: found itself in after the don’t think so. I think the shot spinner’s haul of six for 35 in O’Keefe acknowledged his “We were debating it in the second day’s play of the created the injury not just to 13.1 overs, taking just 24 balls captain’s role in the success. changing rooms. Mitchell opening Test against Aus- him but even to the team. between his first wicket [K.L. “I think the important Starc and I didn’t really care tralia: hoping against hope “He should be okay tomor- Rahul] and sixth [Umesh Ya- thing is I’ve been well backed which end we bowled at. for a dramatic turnaround. row morning,”he said. dav] has put India on the Sindhu accepts up by Steve Smith; I think “You are bound to have a Kumble declined to blame back foot, and O’Keefe was “The idea was Mitch Deputy Collector job he’s a brilliant captain. bad day. This pitch was cer- the turning strip for the col- thrilled about it. would create some foot- HYDERABAD “When you play under a marks for Nathan [Lyon] out- tainly challenging, so we lapse. “It’s amazing how things Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu, captain who shows a lot of side the off stump at that needed a lot more restraint “It is a challenging surface can quickly change over who is the first Indian woman belief in you, it’s amazing end. and showed that if you put which requires application, athlete to win a silver medal here. I was none for 30 off what can happen,”he said. your head down, you could Down for the count: K.L. Rahul injured his left shoulder, aggression and a bit of cau- at the Olympics, has nine [overs], probably didn’t “I think the move was just playing an audacious shot that cost him his wicket. “I think one thing is that make those runs. K. MURALI KUMAR tion as well. accepted a government job to bowl Nathan from that end bowl very well at all in my you’ve just got to be comfort- “It was unfortunate that “You need a mix out of which was offered by the because that’s the end that first six overs,”said O’Keefe. able in your own skin. I know once (K.L.) Rahul got out, we chances even if [they are] half the pressure back on them.” that. And today was not our Andhra Pradesh Govt. Ashwin bowled his overs “And then, it all just what I can do, I know what seemed to lose the bearing,” chances. day,”he said. following her Rio de Janeiro from. So if the Indians are happened really quickly, and I’ve got and how to go about said Anil Kumble, India’s “We dropped Steve Smith Shift of balance “We have to give credit to triumph. doing it why not fall in tow. Sindhu’s mother Vijaya I guess that’s the sort of using what I’ve got.” head coach. on couple of occasions, that Rahul’s reckless shot off Steve the Australian bowlers as confirmed the news about wicket it is. On Peter Handscomb’s “Jadeja probably bowled “We dropped a few has certainly pushed us back. O’Keefe shifted the balance of well. It was one of those days her daughter’s willingness to “We played and missed at two remarkable catches, the most of his overs at [my] end, catches. It has hurt us in the Hopefully, tomorrow morn- the game in Australia’s fa- when you go back and start, take up the offer of a Deputy a lot of balls, and — fortu- spinner said: “You have to so it was just good fortune I past; especially in this game, ing, we can pick up a few vour. ‘Okay, how do we come back Collector’s job. ANI nately for us — they nicked say that we’ve had a bit of guess.” you need to hold your early wickets and then put Besides, it also injured the and pick those six wickets?’” O’Keefe all praise ‘I don’t worry Important we continue the Dabang, Wizards look about for coach Sriram selection’ momentum: Mithali Raj to make maiden inals G. Viswanath Uthra Ganesan I’ve a good coach Special Correspondent CHANDIGARH HIL Pune <> India women’s captain wants team to regroup before WC who’s not afraid to Chennai There was a massive Chennai V.V. Subrahmanyam When Dabang Mumbai takes reached this stage earlier, but tell it to your face Parthiv Patel said that he our strong middle-order connect to Steve O’Keefe’s Hyderabad the field against Delhi became the first team to book and tell it straight was mentally ready for In- which invariably rose to the success; he made it a point to Waveriders in the Hockey In- a semifinal spot this time. dia duty whenever the call Mithali Raj, captain of the In- occasion. Yes, we need to single out former Tamil Nadu bit over the top and dia League here on Saturday comes. dian team which has quali- post bigger totals in an event In the other semifinal, Ut- and India left-arm spinner whenever I was trying to evening, it will hope to carry Parthiv, who replaced fied for the women’s World like the World Cup to win tar Pradesh Wizards takes on Sridharan Sriram’s bowl quick. its form from the league an injured Wriddhiman Cup to be held in England in consistently against stronger Kalinga Lancers in a battle contribution. stage. “It was ordinary bowling Saha as the wicketkeeper- June-July, is just hoping that teams,”Mithali said. between two of the best de- Delhi will bank on all its ex- “Sri has been a big influ- in the first six overs. I'd been batsman for the last three the team doesn’t burn out fensive sides. perience of the big stage even ence. I worked with him in working in the nets with Tests against England and before the mega event. High on confidence Wizards will look to its though it has struggled this Chennai in the ‘A’ series. He some other variations, just made a successful “If you remember, the “Definitely, we hope to have drag-flick battery of V.R. season, knowing well that the knows the conditions. I get to changing the seam and arm comeback, said, “Saha has build-up has always been the same bunch of players Raghunath and Gonzalo Peil- league results do not matter spend lunch time bowling angles. You probably don't been doing a good job, but very good for us in the last who figured in the World lat to score, and the attack of with him. notice it, but for me it made couple of World Cups. This Cup qualifiers as they are now. Akashdeep Singh, Raman- I am always there if the Mithali Raj. FILE PHOTO “And, he knows how to all the difference. team needs me. I had a time too, we had a very good fresh from the victory and Cedric D’Souza’s boys will deep Singh and Ajay Yadav bowl in these conditions. “Sri is like ‘let's go out and good series against Eng- home series against the West the World Cup, you need to high on confidence too,” hope to find their rhythm has been impressive in recent How the (Indian) batters bowl till you feel comfortable land and I know I have to Indies, won the Asia Cup and change gears,”Mithali said. Mithali added. against the one team that has games. think. He has been the with it and then hit it on... be on my toes.” now the World Cup qualifi- “I am glad that the differ- Mithali said that she was destroyed every opposition But the team’s biggest biggest help along with the let's start up with it in the next Leading the Gujarat ers in Colombo. ent combinations we tried in definitely disappointed to over the last month. For that, strength is its goalkeeper P.R. other coaching staff,” said innings’. It worked this time.” team here in the Vijay Haz- “It is important that we the World Cup qualifiers miss the final because of a they have to make sure the Sreejesh, who has single- O’Keefe. O’Keefe was quite sym- are Trophy tournament, continue the momentum worked well. Especially, in muscle strain, but was de- defence remains compact, handedly kept them in the Later, at his media confer- pathetic towards Abhinav Parthiv said, “Keeping and sustain the same kind of bowling I had my own appre- lighted that the team showed and Mandeep Singh, often competition. ence, he said: “I think, Sri is Mukund who dropped Steve against (R.) Ashwin and focus,” said the 34-year-old hensions before the start as great spirit and nerves to win left alone in the attack, has Last year’s runner-up an excellent spin-bowling Smith. (Ravindra) Jadeja on turn- Mithali in an exclusive chat we were without Jhulan Gos- the final. enough support. Kalinga too is raring to go a coach. I've a good coach who “I’m sure we'll go through ing wickets is challenging. with The Hindu. wami and Smriti Mandhana. “Personally, I would just A return to form for cap- step further. Built around tapped me on the head in periods where we don't field Ashwin has so many vari- “It will be great if we re- I didn’t expect our bowlers like to continue my good tain Rupinderpal Singh in Moritz Fuerste, Glenn Turner between sessions; he's not as well as we would like to. I ations, and Jadeja has pace. group before the World Cup to do so well,” said Mithali, form with the bat into the penalty corners will be a bo- and Billy Bakker, Kalinga has afraid to tell it to your face know Abhinav pretty well, “I have worked hard to sort out a few issues like who will be playing her fifth World Cup,” said Mithali, nus. conceded the maximum and tell it straight, which is I’ve spent some time at the both as a wicketkeeper and doing better in the first World Cup. who has 5614 runs from 172 “We can’t afford to make goals but also scored the excellent. academy with him. a batsman. I am at the peak PowerPlay and build a strong “I am pleased with the matches. “Right now I am the kind of mistakes we did in second-highest. “The first six overs, I think “Unfortunately, it just of my game. I don’t worry opening partnership. way Mona Meshram, Deepti enjoying the game and will the league stage. We need to The schedule: Semifinals: I went back to my comfort didn't go his way. It's tough about selection,” Parthiv The run-rate of about Sharma, Devika Vaidya and keep playing as long as I do make sure we don’t miss out Kalinga Lancers vs Uttar Pra- zone, which is what I bowl in when you're 12th man. said. He added, “Opening three was fine in the qualifi- Mansi Joshi performed in Sri that. There are no second on the chances we create,” desh Wizards (4.30 p.m.), Da- Australia. You don't see it on “Fortunately for us, we comes naturally to me and ers. But, against good sides Lanka,”she said. thoughts in this regard as of Rupinderpal said. bang Mumbai vs Delhi camera, but it was just going a held our chances.” that is an advantage.” like England and Australia in “I must give full credit to now,”she concluded. Mumbai has never Waveriders (7 p.m.). 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IN BRIEF POLO A run-feast seems to be on the cards Rathore shines Delhi takes on Tamil Nadu in a much-awaited contest on the opening day in Cavalry’s Vijay Lokapally Cuttack VIJAY HAZARE TROPHY triumph Rishabh Pant is packing his Special Correspondent kit bag. Two precious posses- tance,” said Delhi coach K.P. Ashish Nehra, Pradeep Sangwan, NEW DELHI sions with messages from Bhaskar. Pulkit Narang, Vikas Tokas, I’m staying at Man United, two iconic cricketers make it Navdeep Saini, Sarthak Ranjan, Ravi Rathore scored six says Rooney Tamil Nadu will miss the a treasure. “Always give your services of M. Vijay and R. Himmat Singh, Dhruv Shorey, goals in powering 61st Cav- LONDON best,” signed by Sachin Ten- Ashwin, but the absence of Nitish Rana, Pawan Negi and Kul- alry to a 10 goals to 2 1/2 Wayne Rooney said on dulkar at the back of one bat left-arm seamer T. Natarajan want Khajroliya. victory over Army Service Thursday he was staying with and “Back yourself” from and K. Vignesh due to injur- Tamil Nadu: Vijay Shankar Corps (ASC) in the final of Manchester United following Virat Kohli makes the other ies should hurt the team no (capt.), Dinesh Karthik, B. Apa- the Army polo champion- persistent speculation he bat a piece of great motiva- rajith, B. Indrajith, M. Kaushik, N. ship at the Army Eques- could make a lucrative move less. “Things will happen if tion for the 19-year-old Delhi you perform,”was a realistic Jagadeesan, G.S. Raju, Aswin trian Centre, Delhi Canton- to the Chinese Super League. Crist, M. Mohammad, Antony captain. assessment of the situation ment here on Friday. “Despite the interest which Das, R. Rohit, Rahil Shah, M. Ash- In the other camp, Vijay by Vijay Shankar, who has the has been shown from other win, Sai Kishore, Washington Shankar, a talent worthy of Best player clubs, I want to end recent wily run-getter Dinesh Sundar and S. Radhakrishnan. investment for the future, is speculation”. AFP Karthik to assist him in The schedule: Group A (New Ravi Rathore was adjudged preparing for an engrossing troubled times. Delhi): Baroda vs Railways; Hary- the ‘best player’ of the journey. tournament. He scored 20 Lahiri gets off to best start ana vs Odisha; Punjab vs Team win is important Vidarbha. goals in three matches. of the season Big opportunity Pant looked at the upcoming PALM BEACH (USA) Group B: At Cuttack: Himachal The Quarter Master Gen- Saddled with the responsibil- match pragmatically. “More Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri vs Maharashtra. eral, Lt. Gen. R.V. Kanitkar, ity of guiding a young Tamil registered his best start of than the rigours of captaincy At Bhubaneshwar: Kerala vs presented the trophies to Nadu side in the Vijay Hazare the season with a five-under Plainspeak: Delhi skipper Rishabh Pant feels that team’s victory carries more weightage than and wicketkeeping, I am Tripura. the winners. 65 that put him in tied-third Trophy tournament here, he individual performances. FILE PHOTO keen on seeing the team win. Group C (Chennai): Andhra vs The results (final): place at the end of the first says, “It’s a big opportunity. I It’s not about an individual’s Bengal; Gujarat vs Mumbai; round at the Honda Classic just want the team to go out commence the tournament feast, but the weather may point for Delhi to achieve its excellence.” Madhya Pradesh vs Rajasthan. 61st Cavalry 10 (Ravi here. The Indian, who has and do well. The team will get with one of the most awaited demand the best of fitness, goal — a title to sign off the The teams (from): Delhi: Rish- Group D: At Kolkata: Hyderabad Rathore 6, Navjit Sandhu 2, been giving himself good to experience new things and contest of this tournament at especially from the bowlers, season. “We excel in this abh Pant (capt.), Shikhar vs J & K; Jharkhand vs Karnataka. Anand Rajpurohit 2) bt ASC 2 starts, but none better than do well collectively.” the Barabati Stadium here. on a big field. format and have the youth Dhawan, Gautam Gambhir, At Kalyani: Saurashtra vs Ser- 1/2 (Prithvi Singh Rathore, this one. PTI Delhi and Tamil Nadu The pitch promises a run- Pant remains the trigger and experience to go the dis- Manan Sharma, Milind Kumar, vices. handicap 1 1/2). Punjab takes on Vidarbha Apache Sunrise may score an encore BENGALURU: Apache Sunrise, who Creed (10) Adarsh 53.5 and 10. Fly- MANTIC HELEN Narredu 60, 2. Sagrada (8) A. The team is bolstered by the presence of Harbhajan, Yuvraj won two races in a facile manner, ing Prince (9) Irvan Singh 53.5. GOVERNOR’S TROPHY Ramu 58.5, 3. Star Cracker (3) A. may score an encore in the Gov- 1. KIRAATHAKA, 2. AL FAARIS, 3. (1,600m), 3-y-o, (Terms), Imran Khan 58, 4. Afore (4) Ar- ernor’s Trophy (1,600m), the chief 5 Rakesh Rao air making the new ball SLIGHTLY BLONDE 4.15: 1. Apache Sunrise (1) Suraj shad Alam 57.5, 5. J Gatsby (2) was the prelude to the IPL, the selectors pick the team event of the races to be held here Nazerul Alam 57, 6. Czar Rule (5) NEW DELHI ALTENBURG PLATE (1,600m), Narredu 57, 2. Lycurgus (4) P.P. for the Champions Trophy. bowlers more hopeful in the on Saturday (Feb. 25). R. Manish 54.5, 7. Reference (6) this year the players will be rated 15 to 35, 5-y-o & over, 3.15: Dhebe 54, 3. Nicaragua (2) I. first hour. False rails will be declared on the 3 Srinath 54.5 and 8. Into The Baroda, Punjab and Haryana required to make minor ad- While Assam has a day off, 1. Fractals (5) S. Shiva Kumar 60, 2. Chisty 54, 4. Noble Splendor (5) race day. Spotlight (-) (-) 52. appear to be the front-run- justments when they slip the Punjab-Vidarbha, Hary- Punjab has some exciting Attractive Bay (3) I. Chisty 59.5, 3. Arshad Alam 54 and 5. Track ners in the seven-team GADAG PLATE (Div. II), Danburite (4) R. Pradeep 59.5, 4. Striker (3) K. Mukesh 54. 1. STAR CRACKER, 2. REFERENCE, into slam-bang action begin- ana-Odisha and Baroda-Rail- talent, with players like Gur- 1. APACHE SUNRISE, 2. 3. AFORE league, in Group A, of the Vi- 1 (1,100m), rated 15 to 35, 2.15 Karod Pati (7) Srinath 57.5, 5. One ning from the first week of ways games are scheduled keerat Singh Mann and me- To Note (1) Arshad Alam 56, 6. Tree NICARAGUA p.m.: 1. Rock Steady (9) Noornabi GADAG PLATE (Div. I), jay Hazare (50-over) cricket dium-pacer Sandeep Sharma Lounge (6) S. John 55.5 and 7. Eleg- April. The Champions for the opening day. 60, 2. Wind Striker (5) Janardhan P TUMKUR PLATE (1,400m), (1,100m), rated 15 to 35, 5.45: tournament that commences ant Star (2) K. Mukesh 54.5. 8 Trophy is scheduled soon adding to the team’s 60, 3. Early Bird (8) I. Chisty 59.5, 6 rated 30 to 50, 5-y-o & over, 1. Alaina (2) Antony Raj 60, 2. Is- 1. TREE LOUNGE, 2. ATTRACTIVE at three venues on Saturday. strength. Vidarbha, under 4. Brunesco (2) Anjar Alam 59, 5. 4.45: 1. Frenemee (11) Rajesh Ku- land Pearl (5) Rajesh Kumar 60, after the IPL and the per- Toss, a factor BAY, 3. ELEGANT STAR Fine Barristor (7) K. Mukesh 59, 6. mar 60, 2. Desert Gilt (10) R. 3. Country’s Bloom (8) A. Imran With the IPL not so far formances here could count Punjab, headed by Har- Faiz Fazal, clearly begins as Loveisintheair (10) Rajesh Kumar K. VENKATESH NAYAK ME- Manjunath 57, 3. Odyssey (5) M. Khan 59.5, 4. Duke Of Norfolk (9) the underdog. Ambati Ray- 58.5, 7. Repsol (6) M. Naveen 58, 8. away, many well-known for National selection, if the bhajan Singh and having the MORIAL TROPHY (1,200m), Naveen 56.5, 4. Firing Line (6) Arshad Alam 57.5, 5. Ramon (7) Regency Girl (1) S. John 57.5, 9. 4 players will be keen to get selectors deem it fit. services of Yuvraj Singh and udu is a proven performer rated 30 to 50, 3.45: 1. Papadokia Nazerul Alam 56, 5. Rapid Ad- A. Ramu 57.5, 6. Varsha (11) Bold Runner (4) B. Nayak 55 and (12) Chetan Gowda 60, 2. Tax Free vance (4) P. Surya 56, 6. Leon (1) Srinath 57.5, 7. Zafrina (3) Suraj their limited-over skills right Mandeep Singh, looks and the experience of 10. Spectre (3) Adarsh 54.5. (3) Janardhan P 60, 2. Neymar (6) R. Pradeep 55.5, 7. Wild Wild An- Narredu 57.5, 8. Roaring Thun- in the coming days. Ganesh Satish, former 1. BRUNESCO, 2. FINE BARRISTOR, Form of players stronger. Though things are Ashok Kumar 59, 4. Birchwood (4) gels (9) P.P. Dhebe 55, 8. Cherie der (1) Irvan Singh 57, 9. Admiral 3. REGENCY GIRL Unlike the preceding do- It is also likely that the form getting warmer in this part Karnataka batsman, could T.M. Prashant 58.5, 5. Perfect Leg- Amour (3) Arshad Alam 54, 9. Hatsu (6) R. Manjunath 56.5, 10. mestic seasons when the of the players in the IPL of the country, the toss could come in handy. RAMANAGAR PLATE (1,200m), acy (1) Md. Hesnain 58.5, 6. Dont Ravelnation (7) Srinath 53.5, 10. Bellerophon (10) Jagadeesh 55 Internal Affair (12) I. Chisty 53, Mushtaq Ali Trophy (T20) could become a factor when still be a factor, the nip in the Match begins at 9 a.m. 2 rated 00 to 20, 2.45: 1. Incitatus Trust Anyone (7) Rajesh Kumar 58, and 11. Perfectgoldenera (4) M. (1) A. Ramu 60, 2. Red Admiral (6) 7. Arizona (8) Vinod Shinde 56.5, 8. 11. Tea Wid Me (2) Irvan Singh 53 Kumar 53.5. and 12. Able Master (8) Rajesh Kumar 60, 3. Slightly Romantic Helen (11) Rayan Ahmed 1. ZAFRINA, 2. VARSHA, 3. AD- Blonde (2) Darshah 59, 4. Al Faaris 56.5, 9. Storm (5) Srinath 56.5, 10. Jagadeesh 52.5. 1. RAVELNATION, 2. TEA WID ME, MIRAL HATSU (4) Arshad Alam 58, 5. Angelic Love Dagobert (9) Arshad Alam 56, 11. 3. FRENMEE Day’s best: APACHE SUNRISE (7) Syed Imran 57.5, 6. Cashmere Tamara (2) P. Surya 55.5 and 12. New home-and-away league likely (5) Rayan Ahmed 57.5, 7. Miss Won- Strong Conviction (10) Jaykumar HURRICANE STUD PLATE Double: RAVELNATION - ZAFRINA der (3) Md. Hesnain 57, 8. Kiraath- 54. 7 (1,600m), rated 45 to 65, 5.15: Jkt: 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8; Tr (i): 3, 4 next year, says CEO of FIH aka (8) S. John 56.5, 9. Apollo 1. STORM, 2. DAGOBERT, 3. RO- 1. Secret Dimension (7) Suraj and 5; (ii): 6, 7 and 8. Creative solutions may have to be worked out for Pakistan matches Life Awaits claims Saptharishi Cup Rhythm-

Special Correspondent three month period,” he said Logistical challenge BENGALURU: Life Awaits (Srinath SHP: Rs. 36, FP: Rs. 60, Q: Rs. 25, run: Candice. 2-1/4, Nose and 2- Aman inal CHANDIGARH in an interaction here. up) won the Saptharishi Cup, the Trinella: Rs. 364 and Rs. 209, Ex- 1/4. 1m 27.71s. Rs. 18 (w), 12, 12 and Given that the HIL would ex- main event of the races here on Fri- acta: Rs. 934 and Rs. 485. Favourite: 25 (p), SHP: Rs. 26, FP: Rs. 22, Q: Special Correspondent The new league would day (Feb. 24). The winner is owned Setaglow. Owners: United Racing & Rs. 16, Trinella: Rs. 123 and 88, Kolkata Jason McCracken took pand to seven teams from also signal the end of the by Mr. Ramesh Chandra Mehta & Bloodstock Breeders Ltd rep by. Mr Exacta: Rs. 228 and Rs. 101. Fa- charge as the CEO of the In- 2018 and is eventually look- Mr. Rakshith Shetty and trained by Top-seeded Rhythm Malho- Champions Trophy and the & Mrs. Vijay Mallya. Trainer: Arjun vourite: Erdemir. Owners: Mr. ternational Hockey Federa- ing to be an eight-team Sriram Komandur. Mangalorkar. Rajan Aggarwal & Mr. Gautam Ag- tra rallied to record a hard- Hockey World League that THE RESULTS: tion (FIH) at the same time event, it would be quite a lo- garwal. Trainer: G. Sandhu. fought 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(3) win began only in 2012. gistical challenge for both HI MUDABIDRI PLATE (1,400m), DEVARAYANADURGA PLATE as Narinder Batra became its (Div. I), (1,400m), rated 45 to 65: ALCHEMY PLATE (1,200m), over unseeded Udit Gogoi and the FIH. 1 rated 00 to 20, 5-y-o & over: 4 and reach the under-16 boys’ president and the New Zeal- All of it, however, would CHICAGO (M. Naveen) 1, Campfire TOPAZ (Darshan) 1, Splendid 7 rated 15 to 35, 6-y-o & over: CARDUCCI (Janardhan P) 1, not affect the importance of (S. Shareef) 2, Fioroloco (Darshan) Splasher (P. Surya) 2, El Fenix final of the Sunfeast AITA Su- ander, who has been an elite Asked about Pakistan be- Breaking Away (A. Ramu) 2, 3 and Crazy Pineapple (Sunil Sam- (Jagadeesh) 3 and Thomas More per Series junior tennis tour- umpire, technical official the Hockey India League ing one of the shortlisted Scorching (Rayan Ahmed) 3 and son) 4. 6-1/4, 1/2 and 1-3/4. 1m 29.13s. (N.S. Parmar) 4. 1-1/2, 3/4 and Snk. (HIL) in the annual calendar, Game Guy (Raja Rao) 4. Snk, 3/4 nament on Friday. and an administrator for countries for the men’s com- Rs. 61 (w), 20, 26 and 19 (p), SHP: Rs. 1m 26.59s. Rs. 301 (w), 69, 22 and 30 and 1. 1m 15.93s. Rs. 517 (w), 102, more than 20 years, believed he was quick to add, while petition in the new league — 78, FP: Rs. 436, Q: Rs. 268, Trinella: (p), SHP: Rs. 78, FP: Rs. 2,521, Q: Rs. The results: Boys: Semifinals: 23 and 44 (p), SHP: Rs. 68, FP: Rs. agreeing that the schedule Rs. 1,410 and Rs. 615, Exacta: Rs. 756, Trinella: Rs. 14,245 and Rs. Under-16: Aman Dahiya bt Kabir world hockey is in a good 18 have been selected so far 4,548, Q: Rs. 1,722, Trinella: Rs. 15,263 and Rs. 32,707. Favourite: 4,579, Exacta: Rs. 1,11,803 (carried place right now. might have to be tweaked a — McCracken admitted “cre- 41,764 and Rs. 35,798, Exacta: Rs. Hans 7-5, 6-3; Rhythm Malhotra Moher. Owners: Mr. Naresh Kumar over). Favourite: Summerhill. Own- bit. 1,06,074 (carried over). Favour- bt Udit Gogoi 5-7, 6-4, 7-6(3). One of the ideas close to ative solutions” may have to Pawar & Mr. R.M. Ramaswamy. ers: M/s. Girish Baliga, Sharath M. ite: Real Generous. Owner: Mrs. his heart is the new Home- “We are in discussions be worked out. Trainer: Sharat Kumar. Narayana & Ramesh G. Patel. Under-14: Udit Gogoi bt Girish Jason McCracken. Trainer: V.Lokanath. Sangita Vashisth. Trainer: Imtiaz Chougule 6-3, 7-6(5); Aman and-Away league that is ex- with Hockey India and there MANDYA PLATE (1,600m), rated Khan. “We have to look at the Dahiya bt Rudra Kapoor 6-4, pected to kick off next year. is some talk of moving it to 2 30 to 50: SUPER SMART (Suraj SAPTHARISHI CUP (1,200m), lenge, the Hockey World bigger picture for teams who Narredu) 1, Tinderella (David Allan) LIFE AWAITS DEVARAYANADURGA PLATE 6-2. The new league would have the end of the calendar year. 5 rated 60 & above: League, World Cup, the don’t want to travel to 2, Fiorenzo (P. Trevor) 3 and In- (Srinath) 1, Goldberg (S. John) 2, 8 (Div. II), (1,400m), rated 45 to Under-14 doubles (final): 7-9 teams playing each other We haven’t yet talked to the trepid Warrior (Rayan Ahmed) 4. 65: RACING FIRE (Suraj Narredu) Olympics — basically so Pakistan. There could be Saladin (David Allan) 3 and Super Yashraj Dalvi & Abhishek Ma- at, as the name suggests, Europeans because their Nk, 4-1/2 and Nk. 1m 40.34s. Rs. 49 Success (Suraj Narredu) 4. Not run: 1, Hector (Jagadeesh) 2, Zafran (P. many different events and it neutral venues or some hapatra bt Hasith Srujan & each other’s home over a competitions are also at that (w), 26 and 36 (p), SHP: Rs. 59, FP: Topspot. 1/2, Snk and 1-1/4. 1m Trevor) 3 and Possimpossible was very confusing for the other country as host for Rs. 177, Q: Rs. 142, Trinella: Rs. 481 13.28s. Rs. 33 (w), 16, 23 and 23 (p), (Rayan Ahmed) 4. 1-3/4, Lnk and Aman Dahiya 6-1, 6-2. period of 3-4 months. time. public. Pakistan. Cricket has suc- and Rs. 155, Exacta: Rs. 4,108 and SHP: Rs. 65, FP: Rs. 138, Q: Rs. 78, 1-1/4. 1m 26.10s. Rs. 92 (w), 24, 21 Girls: Semifinals: Under-16: Ru- McCracken insisted the Rs. 3,326. Favourite: Tanoura. Trinella: Rs. 389 and Rs. 235, Ex- and 22 (p), SHP: Rs. 59, FP: Rs. “We are now left with two “Having said that, the HIL cessfully managed to do that. tuparna Chowdhury bt Ishita new competition has been Owner & Trainer: Mr. Rajesh acta: Rs. 1,818 and Rs. 648. Favour- 740, Q: Rs. 278, Trinella: Rs. 1,441 products, the Olympics and has been a great event and We want to have an open Narredu. ite: Life Awaits. Owners: Mr. and Rs. 561, Exacta: Rs. 17,414 and Singh 6-3, 6-0; Sunskrithi Dam- conceptualised to “clean the Rs. 9,951. Favourite: War Envoy. the World Cup, a major attracts the best from all mind. As an ex-international BUGS BUNNY TROPHY (1,200m), Ramesh Chandra Mehta & Mr. Rak- era bt Joshika Premkumar 6-0, slate” and do away with con- Owner: Mr. H. Thambuswamy. event every two years. Now over the world and will con- umpire I have umpired In- 3-y-o only, (Terms): SETAGLOW shith Shetty. Trainer: Sriram Ko- 6-0. 3 mandur. Trainer: S. Dominic. fusion around too many top- we are going to put this new tinue to have the FIH back- dia-Pakistan games and it’s (P. Trevor) 1, Malana (David Allan) 2, 6 STAR OF WINDSOR Under-14: Sunskrithi Damera bt Starry Wind (I. Chisty) 3 and Depth ER- Jackpot: Rs. 2,78,507 (carried tier tournaments. programme. In effect, you ing with a clear window in one of the best things, we do PLATE (1,400m), rated 15 to 35: Mekhala Manna 6-0, 6-2; “We had the Champions Charge (P.P. Dhebe) 4. Not run: In- DEMIR (Srinath) 1, Mission Blue (I. over); Runner up: Rs. 39,787 get three major events run- the calendar,” McCracken not want to miss out on dian Rocket. 3/4, 7-1/2 and Lnk. 1m Chisty) 2, Calico King (K. Mukesh) 3 (three tkts.); Treble (i): Rs. 1,123 Joshika Premkumar bt Saniya Trophy, Champions Chal- ning every year over a two- said. that,” he said. 15.30s. Rs. 20 (w), 12, 14 and 37 (p), and Perfect Prince (A. Ramu) 4. Not (19 tkts.); (ii): Rs. 4,022 (10 tkts.). Masand 7-5, 7-6(5).

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 Lives reviewed, solicitor will 5 ... over promoting anti-terror recuse (3,3) law (4) Essence of karma yoga Krishna’s classic statement on karma yoga runs thus: “To ac- 9 10 15 Calls for internal resistance, watches scene from the top 6 Keeps supporting the mass as tion alone you have a right and never at all to its fruits. Let 11 (5,3,4) they provide the gas (7,8) not the fruits of action be the motive for your action. Neither 12 13 let there be any inclination to refrain from action.” 18 Mountaineers correct tallies It is not renunciation of action, but renunciation of the 14 7 See very big tapes (6) (12) fruits of action that is the essence of the karma yoga taught 15 by Krishna in the Gita, pointed out Srimati Rukmini 21 Not for keeping empty vase in 8 Try air force, once in a while Ramamurthy in a lecture. 16 17 the back (6) (6) But one could also argue that if one does not desire the 18 fruits of a particular act, why not refrain from the act itself? 22 Chemicals in a liquid state (8) The answer to this involves two issues. 19 20 11 Make out without relying First of all, none can stay idle without acting in life and all regularly on preaching the 21 22 24 21 in other words — a port for are compelled to act. Gospel (7) a womaniser (8) Secondly, there is no guarantee for the results of our acts. 23 So the only way to be peaceful and free is to remain de- 24 25 25 It's novel to see tail wagging 14 Ordering caviare is sin (7) tached from the fruits of one’s actions, whatever they may (6) turn out to be. The greater the ego, the greater is the expect- ation; the greater the fall, the greater is the sense of disap- 16 It's dearer because pound is 26 27 26 After many years, not only pointment. absent but effete (8) deposited in bank (8) A farmer ploughs the land, sows the seeds and does Solution to puzzle 11939 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku everything necessary for a promising harvest. But the result 27 Hey Presto! — the missing 17 Geological equilibrium is zero, S B S C L of his act, the nature of the actual harvest, is not in his con- ■ ACROSS cuckoo bird (6) stays in order (8) U L T R A C L A P T R A P trol. R R N A R A S F Other factors are also operative, such as timely rains. If 1 Tense, in agony under a coat (6) B O U L D E R P A N A C H E ■ DOWN A M I L G A R the farmer pins all his hopes on the harvest and does not 4 Skip the feast (8) 19 Given about two lakhs initially N A P H T H A T H E O R E M factor in the impediments to his attainments, he is bound to 9 My hand breaks a banker (4,2) — all white (6) E E T A N I be disappointed if the rains fail. 1 Go up half way with basic T O N S I L L I T I S transport — rickshaws (8) When one merely does what is expected of him, that is 10 After college, two choices E A N I A A C A N A S T A S L E I G H T engage in work for work’s sake alone, with sincerity to which allow free passage (8) 20 Doctor inspected endlessly — 2 Betrayer damaged a plant (8) A I C M N A O achieve perfection and not expect any selfish gains, his work it's infected (6) S O L V E N T A B D O M E N 12 Understood stock market H G N O N U O A becomes karma yoga. involvement — it could be 3 Saw man on Indian lass, P A S T R A M I R U R A L It is widely held that even daily duties performed in this cosmetic (8) panting... (2,3,2,2,6) 23 Strange to give up a right (4) I D C E E spirit can lead one to moksha.

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IN BRIEF Leicester sacks Ranieri TV PICKS ‘I think the best way to beat Ind v Aus: 1st Test, STAR 1, 3 & HD1, 3, 9.30 a.m. Decision stuns the football world La Liga: Sony Six & Six Agence France-Presse HD, 5.30 p.m., 8.40 p.m., 11 p.m. & 1.10 a.m. (Sunday) London stress is to run, sweat a bit’ NBA: Sony Six & Six HD, Claudio Ranieri has been 6.30 a.m. (Sunday). sacked as manager of I-League: BFC vs East Running teaches you patience and gives you strength, says Haile Gebrselassie Leicester City just months Bengal, TEN 2, 7 p.m. after leading the club to a re- RAKESH RAO you strength. When the body markable Premier League NEW DELHI is moving, the mind is doing title triumph, the Midlands Harika forces It is said that children walk to other things. During my two- side has announced. school and run back home. hour training, my mind The Italian’s position had In the case of Haile Gebr- would finish most of my of- come under intense scrutiny tie-break selassie, it was a 10-km run to fice-work. It was almost like this season during a slump SPORTS BUREAU Parvez climbs to the school and back. Every day. doing yoga to keep your that has left the Foxes just a TEHRAN second spot The diminutive Ethiopian mind free of stress. point above the relegation Claudio Ranieri. AFP A nervous D. Harika, facing BENGALURU distance runner would go on “Even today, I think the zone. a must-win situation, got Parvez Ahmed of Karnataka to have a glittering career best way to beat stress is to That follows their startling Players, managers and her act together in a 162- climbed to the second spot, stretching two decades dur- run a bit, sweat a bit and en- title triumph, with Leicester commentators expressed dis- move marathon to draw at the end of the fourth block ing the course of which he joy it.” 5,000/1 no-hopers before the may at the move and nearly level with China’s Tan of six games, in the second became a two-time Olympic For all his achievements, start of the 2015/16 season. all backed Ranieri, who only Zhongyi 1-1 in their wo- round of the Amoeba 10,000m gold medallist, won is it difficult to pick the three “Leicester City Football last month was named FIFA’s men’s world chess champi- National Tenpin bowling four world titles, four world best moments? Club has tonight (Thursday) coach of the year for script- onship semifinal to force championship on Friday. Parvez scored 1,267 pins at indoor titles and had 27 Gebrselassie says: “My parted company with its ing one of the most unbeliev- rapid tie-break games on an average of 211.17. world-record times. 10,000m gold at the Sydney first-team manager, Claudio able stories in football. Saturday. Shabbir Dhankot stayed on Having retired in 2015, A true icon: Two-time Olympic champion Haile Gebrselassie Olympics (becoming the Ranieri,” said the statement. British media aimed criti- After struggling to make top of the leaderboard. Gebrselassie, 43, remains an remains an inspiration for runners everywhere. third man, after Emil “Claudio, appointed City cism at Leicester’s Thai own- good of the chances In the women’s category, inspiration for runners, from Zatopek and Lasse Viren, to manager in July 2015, led the ers, King Power, who said Zhongyi offered in this six- Sabeena Athica (total pinfall amateurs to marathoners what I had planned.” win. They came from far off defend the Olympic 10,000m Foxes to the greatest triumph they had no choice but to hour game, Harika did well 2121) consolidated her lead everywhere. Speaking to The Hindu on places, covering many kilo- title) was the best. Second, in the club’s 133—year history oust Ranieri. The owners to reach a position where over her nearest rival “I don’t see myself as a at the launch of the New metres only to watch me run- would the triumph at the last season, as we were were “snakes”, “brutal”, she had to checkmate her Sumathi Nallabantu (total successful athlete,” he says. Delhi Marathon as brand am- ning. That’s why I always 2008 Berlin Marathon (with crowned champions of Eng- “cruel”, commentators said. rival with a bishop and a pinfall 1995). SPORTS BUREAU “From the beginning, I al- bassador for adidas, Gebr- thought of doing something a world record time of land for the first time. His “I shed a tear last night — I knight in 50 moves, begin- ways wanted to do some- selassie, who now heads the special for them,” he says. 2:03:59) and thirdly, the status as the most successful shed a tear for Claudio, I ning from the 117th move thing new. Most of it that I Ethiopian Athletics Federa- On what fascinated him world record run (of Leicester City manager of all shed a tear for football and I Warriors roar when the last pawn was wanted to achieve, I tion, reflects on his passion about running, the legendary 12:44.39) in the 5,000m in time is without question.” shed a tear for my club,” captured. past Clippers achieved. for setting records. runner says: “Once you start, Zurich in 1995 when I broke The sacking stunned the former Leicester and Eng- Amid mounting tension, LOS ANGELES “If you say, these achieve- “I knew people came to the joy of running remains the previous record by football world and brought land striker Gary Lineker, Harika got back to the ba- Golden State Warriors ments make a successful ath- see me run. It was not with you. It teaches you a lot. nearly 11 seconds (10.91 to be widespread condemnation now a television comment- sics of checkmating with a exploded for 50 points in the BBC third quarter on Thursday to lete, then, yes… I have done enough for them to see me You learn to be patient, gives precise)!” on the owners. ator, said on radio. bishop and a knight. When roar past Los Angeles Clippers Harika came within one 123-113. move of delivering a check- The results: Golden State mate, Zhongyi resigned. Warriors 123 bt Los Angeles Pooja Ghatkar gives India a good start with air rile bronze Clippers 113; Sacramento Kings 116 bt Denver Nuggets 100; Houston Rockets 129 bt Shooting World Cup: Song Buhan, Shi Mengyao and Laetisha Scanlan set World records Sriram Balaji New Orleans Pelicans 99; Cleveland Cavaliers 119 bt Kamesh Srinivasan Narang for the last few mentally. “She used to young Penny Smith of Aus- meets Vishnu New York Knicks 104; Detroit NEW DELHI months, Pooja was ready for struggle in matches. Today, tralia clinched the gold two Sports Bureau Pistons 114 bt Charlotte Pooja Ghatkar gave India a the challenge. she handled the match well, points ahead of London JORHAT Bobcats 108; Portland Trail robust start, winning the wo- However, she was not pre- both in qualification and the Olympics gold medallist and The top two seeds Sriram Blazers 112 bt Orlando Magic men’s air rifle bronze in the pared for a torn ‘blinder’ final,” said Narang. three-time World champion Balaji and Vishnu Vardhan 103. AGENCIES shooting World Cup at the midway through the final, The gold was a foregone Jessica Rossi of Italy, in a 50- set up the title clash in the Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tugh- which forced her to physic- conclusion as Shing Mengyao shot final. $15,000 ITF Futures tennis lakabad, on Friday. ally close her non-focusing ran away with it with a World Colts ‘Test’ ends The results: Men: 10m air rifle: tournament on Friday. On a day when three eye during the shots. record 252.1. in a draw 1. Song Buhan (Chn) 249.5 (WR) The results (semifinals): Sri- World records were set — two The former Asian cham- In men’s air rifle, Deepak NAGPUR 624.4; 2. Peter Sidi (Hun) 249.1 ram Balaji bt Vijay Sundar by China’s Song Buhan and pion, however, put up a Kumar stumbled at the busi- England Under-19 batted out (623.7); 3. Atsushi Shimada Prashanth 6-3, 6-4; Vishnu the final day in making 255, Shi Mengyao, and one by brave fight, with shots of ness end after a spectacular (Jpn) 227.4 (628.2). Vardhan bt Sasi Kumar to draw the second ‘Test’ Laetisha Scanlan of Australia 10.6, 10.8 and 10.7. performance, while Ravi Ku- Women: 10m air rifle: 1. Shi Mukund 7-6(4), 6-1. against the Indian colts. — it was difficult to ignore the “I am happy, but, not that mar slipped early and fin- Time to smile: Pooja Ghatkar along with Shi Mengyao, centre, Mengyao (Chn) 252.1 (WR) Doubles: Sriram Balaji & The series ended 0-0. manner in which Pooja happy,” said Pooja, as she ac- ished eighth. and Dong Lijie. 418.6; 2. Dong Lijie (Chn) 248.9 Vishnu Vardhan bt Primin The scores: England 375 & tackled the Chinese in the cli- knowledged the fact that she Song Buhan of China (417.7); 3. Pooja Ghatkar 228.8 Haenle (Ger) & Shane Vinsant 255 (Bartlett 76, Rawlins 49, max after having qualified in could have fared better. pipped the versatile Peter windstookitawayasRajesh- ing the final by two points. (418.0). Trap: 1. Penny Smith (USA) 6-2, 7-5; Mohit Mayur & Beard 34 n.o., Harsh Tyagi second place with a total of She also acknowledged Sidi of Hungary to the gold wari Kumari slipped from a The final was very de- (Aus) 40 (WR) 68; 2. Jessica Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt four for 67) drew with India 418.0. Gagan Narang’s role in tun- by 0.4 point. perfect 25 in the first round manding with gusty winds Rossi (Ita) 38 (66); 3. Mopsi Rishab Agarwal & Niki Poon- 388 for nine declared. Mentored by Gagan ing her, both technically and In women’s trap, the stiff to 21 and 18 thereafter, miss- and a delayed start, but Veromaa (Fin) 27 (68). acha 6-2, 6-3.

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