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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY 2 more Cong. MLAs quit in Karnataka 10 Congress MLAs After situation turns tense, one legislator is escorted by the Police Commissioner to Raj Bhavan join BJP in Goa Special Correspondent Bengaluru High drama as Party strength down to 5 in House The corridors of the Vidhana Soudha on Wednesday wit­ police detain Appointed CM on nessed the unfolding of a popular demand: Gehlot political drama triggered by Minister JAIPUR the resignations of Congress In a surprise remark, legislators K. Sudhakar Special correspondent Rajasthan Chief Minister Mumbai/Bengaluru Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday (Chickballapur) and Housing The Karnataka political cri­ said he was appointed to the Minister M.T.B. Nagaraj (Hos­ CM’s post for the third term kote). It ended with the sis spilled over to the “on popular demand”, as former having to be escorted streets of Mumbai with the villagers across the State had out by the Police Commis­ detention and later forced expressed their opinion in his sioner to the Raj Bhavan, departure of Water Re­ favour during the 2018 amid trading of charges by sources Minister and Con­ Assembly elections. He said the Congress and the BJP. gress trouble­shooter D.K. Another shocker: Goa CM Pramod Sawant greeting former the then Congress president On a day the BJP knocked Shivakumar, who had ar­ Opposition leader Chandrakant Kavlekar and other Congress Rahul Gandhi had selected on the doors of Governor Va­ rived in the financial capi­ MLAs in Porvorim on Wednesday. * ATISH POMBURFEKAR him in view of the strong jubhai Vala over Speaker Ra­ tal to meet the 10 rebel public sentiments. mesh Kumar’s decision to Congress­JD(S) legislators Press Trust of India Congress in the House will on Wednesday morning. Panaji NORTH Ī PAGE 5 hold an inquiry before ac­ be down to just five MLAs. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD cepting the resignations of 11 Mr. Shivakumar was in Political instability in Karna­ The BJP’s strength in the Congress­JD(S) legislators, Mumbai to convince the re­ taka spilled over into neigh­ Assembly has now gone up bel MLAs to return to the Govt. fails to comply with Mr. Sudhakar and Mr. Naga­ bouring Goa on Wednesday, to 27. The Goa Forward Par­ NGT order, forfeits ₹5 cr. raj tendered their resigna­ party fold. The MLAs have with two­thirds (10 out of 15) ty has three MLAs while the NEW DELHI tions. Hopeful still: Karnataka Water Resources Minister D.K. Shivakumar, along with Congress submitted their resigna­ of the Congress MLAs break­ NCP and the MGP have one The National Green Tribunal Soon, theatrics began leaders Murli Deora, left, and Sanjay Nirupam, right, waiting outside a Mumbai hotel where tions to the Speaker and ing away to merge with the each. There are three Inde­ * PRASHANT WAYDANDE has directed that with KPCC president Dinesh the rebel MLAs were put up, on Wednesday. moved to Mumbai, alleged­ ruling BJP. pendents. performance guarantee of Gundu Rao, Social Welfare ly at the behest of the BJP, The group, led by Leader To a question, Mr. Sawant over ₹5 crore deposited by Minister Priyank Kharge and by BJP MLC Ravi Kumar ap­ threatening the stability of of Opposition Chandrakant said no new inductions in the Delhi government be former MLC Nazeer Ahmed proached the Speaker to Power tussle reaches SC the Congress­JD(S) coali­ Kavlekar, met Assembly the Cabinet were on the forfeited as it has failed to blocking Mr. Sudhakar near seek his intervention. They tion government. Speaker Rajesh Patnekar in cards. comply with orders on two the back entrance of the Vid­ also filed a written complaint legal correspondent life of the ruling As Mr. Shivakumar at­ the evening and gave him a Mr. Kavlekar said he and separate matters pertaining han Soudha and restraining with the Speaker’s office. New Delhi dispensation. tempted to breach the pol­ letter, informing him about other MLAs decided to join to pollution caused by dairies him from leaving. They took Mr. Ravi Kumar also ac­ The battle for power in Kar­ A Bench led by Chief Jus­ ice’s security blanket to their split. the BJP as development and illegal banquet halls in him into the chambers of In­ cused the Congress of “tak­ nataka reached the Supreme tice of India Ranjan Gogoi is meet the legislators staying The MLAs include Atana­ works in their constituen­ the city. dustries Minister K.J. George ing away” Chikkodi­Sadalaga Court on Wednesday after 10 scheduled to hear the peti­ in Hotel Renaissance, he sio Monserratte, Jeniffer cies were suffering as they CITY Ī PAGE 3 to convince him to withdraw legislator and Congress whip Congress and Janata Dal tion of the MLAs on was held back and asked to Monserratte, Francis Silvei­ were in the Opposition. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD his resignation. Ganesh Hukkeri, who also (Secular) MLAs jointly ac­ Thursday. wait on the road opposite ra, Philip Nery Rodrigues, “We have seen Mr. Sa­ met the Speaker on Wednes­ cused the H.D. Kumaraswa­ The MLAs said they were the hotel by the Powai pol­ Cleaofacio Dias, Wilfred want’s working style. He is BJP stages dharna day evening. my­led coalition govern­ fed up with the maladminis­ ice led by ACP Milind D’Sa and Nilkant Halarnkar. working for the progress of BJP leaders who had got The situation became ment of scams and tration and inner contradic­ Khetle. Chief Minister Pramod the State. We decided to join wind of this rushed to the tense with the arrival of maladministration. tions within the Congress­JD He was eventually de­ Sawant, who was present hands with him. Being in spot and staged a dharna in former Chief Minister and They also blamed As­ (S) coalition. Their decision tained and taken to the Ka­ when the group reached the Opposition, our develop­ front of the closed doors, Congress Legislature Party sembly Speaker K.R. Ra­ to resign was as per their lina campus of Mumbai Un­ Assembly , said the 10 MLAs ment works were also suf­ urging the Congress leaders leader Siddaramaiah. mesh Kumar of delaying the conscience, they claimed. iversity. had merged with the BJP. fering,” he said. The MLAs to let go of Mr. Sudhakar. acceptance of their resigna­ With the 10 MLAs chang­ joined the BJP uncondition­ Another team of leaders led CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 tions in a bid to prolong the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 ing sides, the strength of the ally, he claimed.

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It seeks to merge 13 labour laws special correspondent spot, an officer said, adding Kolkata that forensic experts would Special Correspondent Broadcasting Minister Pra­ In a freak accident, Rohit now collect evidence. NEW DELHI kash Javadekar said. Pandey, 22, a SpiceJet techni­ Aircraft maintenance engi­ A Bill that seeks to merge The Bill was the second cian, died after he got stuck in neers The Hindu spoke to 13 labour laws into one of four proposed codes the hydraulic door flaps of said such an accident was code on occupational safe­ that aim to merge 44 la­ the main landing gear of a rare. “I have never heard of ty, health and working bour laws, with the Code Rohit Pandey Q400 aircraft he was attend­ such a thing in my 26­year ca­ conditions that would ap­ on Wages Bill, 2019 that ing to at the Kolkata airport had to be broken to rescue reer. Either he did not follow ply to all establishments was approved on July 3 be­ on Wednesday. him but he was declared the SOP or was instructed with 10 or more workers ing the first, Labour and The hydraulic doors “inad­ dead, it said. The accident wrongly by a senior to get the was approved by the Union Employment Minister of vertently” got closed, leaving happened at 1.45 a.m. work done quickly,” a senior Cabinet on Wednesday, State (independent charge) Pandey trapped there, Spice­ A complaint of “unnatural engineer said. paving the way for its intro­ Santosh Kumar Gangwar Jet said in a statement. The death” was filed at the Air­ Hailing from suburban duction in Parliament. said. landing­gear doors of the port police station. A police Mumbai, Pandey was the The Code on Occupa­ Mr. Gangwar added that Bombardier Q400 aircraft team visited the accident breadwinner of the family. tional Safety, Health and the Wages Bill, which cov­ Working Conditions Bill, ers minimum wages and 2019, which would impact other wage issues, would “40 crore unorganised be introduced in Parlia­ The making of Ganesha idols is on in full swing at a workshop in Parel, Mumbai. The torrential workers”, was approved at ment in “two or three rain last week had hampered the work for a brief period. Ganesha Chaturthi falls on a Cabinet meeting chaired days”. September 2. * ARUNANGSU ROY CHOWDHURY by Prime Minister Naren­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC dra Modi, Information and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 World Cup ends in agony for Kohli’s men India can repeal Article 370 at Lose to New Zealand by 18 runs, fail to cross the semifinal hurdle yet again will: Centre K.C. Vijaya Kumar Manchester Special Correspondent A World Cup semifinal New Delhi spread over two days con­ The government informed cluded with minutes that Parliament that “no foreign stretched between agony government or organisa­ and ecstasy. tion has any locus standi” Under dull afternoon in repealing Article 370 in skies masked by low­slung J&K as matters relating to clouds, India suffered an 18­ the Constitution were in­ run defeat to New Zealand at ternal and only for the In­ Old Trafford here on Wed­ dian Parliament to deal nesday. The Men in Blue with. failed to get past the World While responding to a Cup’s last­four stage, like in question on whether re­ the previous edition at Aus­ peal of Articles 370 and tralia in 2015. 35A will in any way violate Chasing New Zealand’s any United Nations regula­ 239 for eight, India stumbled tion or any international right at the start, collapsing obligation of the country, to 24 for four in 10 overs as Minister of State for Home seamers Trent Boult and G. Kishan Reddy said, Matt Henry (three for 37) “Jammu and Kashmir is an bowled incisive spells. Rohit integral part of India. Mat­ Sharma, Virat Kohli, K.L. Ra­ ters relating to the Consti­ hul and Dinesh Karthik fell When the nation gasped: M.S. Dhoni gets run out during the World Cup semifinal between tution of India are internal India and New Zealand at Old Trafford in Manchester on Wednesday. * AP quickly and the remainder of and entirely for the Indian the clash was more about Parliament to deal with. No hitching hopes on Ravindra It boiled down to 52 from feat became inevitable and out on 45 minutes of bad foreign government or or­ Jadeja’s fiery 77 and his 116­ the last five overs, but with India finished at 221. cricket is heart­breaking.” ganisation has any locus run seventh­wicket partner­ Boult dismissing Jadeja and Finally, Kohli’s words standi in the matter.” ship with M.S. Dhoni, who Dhoni being run out, the mi­ from the post­match press HENRY SHATTERS INDIA’S scored 50. racle never happened, a de­ conference lingered: “To go DREAM Ī PAGE 17 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 12 CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Yamuna floodplain water BSF man arrested for stealing storage project on fast track woman’s purse at IGI Airport Swift police action helps recover stolen jewellery from accused Delhi Cabinet approves interdepartmental committee report AAP unhappy over EPCA STAFF REPORTER In one footage, report on transport Staff Reporter NEW DELHI <> NEW DELHI Kumar, sitting next New Delhi The AAP expressed An assistant sub­inspector to the woman, was “disappointment” over the The Delhi Cabinet on Wed­ with the Border Security seen taking away nesday approved an interde­ Force (BSF) was arrested at latest EPCA report on the her purse and partmental committee re­ the Indira Gandhi Interna­ augmentation of public moving to another transport in Delhi asking how port on the Yamuna tional (IGI) Airport for alleg­ was it willing to go with the floodplain natural water edly stealing jewellery from side of the premises Centre’s proposal of storage project. a woman’s purse, the police Sanjay Bhatia implementing only three The Delhi government has said on Wednesday. DCP (Airport) routes of Metro Phase­IV claimed that the pilot project Acting swiftly, the police Naresh Kumar despite the Delhi Cabinet is the first of its kind in the recovered the entire stolen other CCTV footages. It was clearing all the six routes country and has the poten­ jewellery within 45 minutes. personnel on the airport found that he entered a proposed. The EPCA on tial to end the city’s water The accused, identified as premises. washroom with the purse Monday had asked the SC to woes. The project is expect­ Naresh Kumar, is a resident DCP (Airport) Sanjay Bha­ and a few minutes later allow work to begin on the ed to start in a month’s time. of Haryana, currently posted tia said that a police team al­ came out empty handed. three ‘priority corridors’ so In a statement, the Delhi in Siliguri as an ASI. so reached the area after be­ “We recovered the purse that the city is not “deprived government credited Chief The police said, on July 9 ing alerted by the airport from the washroom and got of crucial public transport.” Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s morning, a woman passen­ security staff. Sub­inspector clarity about the suspect. personal monitoring of the The project aims at conserving water in the Yamuna floodplains and creating a mega reservoir ger arrived at the IGI Airport Ajay Mishra with other team Other security personnel at project “on an hourly basis” between Palla and Wazirabad to deal with water shortage in Delhi. * FILE PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA with her husband to board a members promptly reacted the airport were alerted. The for the possible implementa­ flight to Srinagar. After com­ to the situation as several suspect was nabbed just tion of the project during the The project envisages the <> [Progress] of the has been keenly pushing for pleting the security check flights were about to take off when he was about to board ongoing monsoon season. creation of small ponds in pilot project has the project, which is going to formalities with the airline, and there were chances of a flight to Siliguri,” said Mr. The CM has given the Irri­ the floodplains that will been fast-paced be a game changer for Del­ the couple reached Gate No. losing the suspect. Bhatia. gation and Flood Depart­ catch water from an over­ due to hourly hi,” the statement added. 41 and were waiting for He was arrested under ment a month to make prep­ flowing Yamuna during the The interdepartmental boarding. CCTV footage IPC Section 379 (punish­ monitoring by the arations for the pilot project, monsoon, it said. committee report has re­ “After getting details from ment for theft) against an it added. Most of the requisite ap­ Chief Minister commended that an amount Security staff alerted the woman passenger, the FIR registered at PS IGI Air­ provals for the pilot project Government statement of ₹77,000 per acre per year The woman sat on a chair police team minutely port. The stolen items were NGT approvals awaited have been received barring should be paid to the farm­ and kept her purse under it. scanned the CCTV camera recovered from his pocket DELHI TODAY “The project aims at con­ two from the National Green for the quick approvals for ers for leasing out their land She fell asleep, while her footage to identify the sus­ during frisking after which Talk: Discussion on “U.S. - Iran ten- serving water in the Yamuna Tribunal committees, which the project by the Centre,” for the project. husband was away. When pect. In one footage, Kumar, he was held, added Mr. Bha­ sion and India’s stake therein”. floodplains and creating a are expected “very soon”. the statement read. “The farmers will get the she woke up, she found her sitting next to the woman, tia. Speakers: T.N.R. Rao, formerly, mega reservoir between Pal­ “Soon after the Cabinet sum according to the num­ purse, containing gold jewel­ was seen taking away her Kumar had come home Secretary (Petroleum); Prof. K.P. Vijalakshmi, Professor, Centre for la and Wazirabad to deal meeting, Mr. Kejriwal called Land on lease ber of acres of land they give lery worth several lakhs, purse and moving to anoth­ and was returning to resume Canadian, US and Latin American with water shortage in Delhi, up Union Jal Shakti Minister “The pilot project has been the government on lease for missing. After she failed to er side of the premises,” said work. Medical examination Studies, JNU; Dr. Gulshan Dietl, former Professor, Centre for West particularly during sum­ Gajendra Singh Shekhawat. fast­paced due to hourly the pilot project,” the state­ locate the purse, she report­ Mr. Bhatia. confirmed that the accused Asian Studies, JNU; and Dr. John mer,” the government said. The CM thanked the Minister monitoring by the CM. He ment added. ed the matter to the security The suspect was traced in was drunk, said Mr. Bhatia. Cherian, Foreign Editor, Frontline. Chair: Ambassador K.P. Fabian at Conference Room – I, India Interna- tional Centre (IIC), 6.30 p.m. Exhibition: “Vriksha”, an exhibi- tion featuring the work of 30 artists BJP questions infrastructure of AAP, BJP engage in spat at DERC hearing celebrating the eternal power of trees – painting, photographs, drawings, sculptures and ceramics, Accuse each other of hooliganism and violence during the meeting curated by Uma Nair at Main Art Delhi government­run schools Gallery, Kamaladevi Complex, IIC, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Staff Reporter rious RWAs were manhan­ New Delhi Exhibition: “Journey of Life”, a Attacks authorities after ceiling fan falls on student dled and maltreated. They drawings show by Arunkumar Chat- The Delhi Electricity Regula­ were not allowed to present terjee at Art Gallery, IIC Annexe, IIC, Staff Reporter 11 a.m. riwal government, which ₹12,460 crore to education tory Commission (DERC) pu­ their case in the public hear­ New Delhi has committed corruption which is 23.51% of the to­ blic hearing on Wednesday ing,” the leader alleged. Mr. Exhibition: "A traveller in abstract universe" Solo painting show by The Opposition BJP ques­ on a largescale, is responsi­ tal...There are 1,033 schools turned into a political battle­ Gupta, in his petition to the Yashvant Singh at Triveni Kala tioned claims of “world­ ble for this incident,” Mr. Ti­ under the Delhi govern­ ground with AAP and the BJP DERC, demanded the AAP Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. class” infrastructure at Delhi wari alleged. ment, whereas for the 743 accusing each other of hooli­ government to roll back the (Mail your listings for this column at government­administered “Today, a fan has fallen, schools under the North ganism and violence during fixed charges, Power Pur­ [email protected]) schools after a ceiling fan fell tomorrow something else Corporation, the Delhi go­ its proceedings here. chase Cost Adjustment on a student, injuring him, may fall on the children but vernment has allotted only Leader of the Opposition Charges, Surcharge and Pen­ in Trilokpuri here on the Delhi government is not 1.46% from the budget,” Mr. in the Delhi Assembly, Vijen­ sion Trust Surcharge. Wednesday. serious about their securi­ Tiwari alleged. der Gupta, said he had filed a BJP leaders address the media at the party office in New Claiming that the Delhi go­ Delhi BJP chief Manoj Ti­ ty...Education Minister Man­ “I want to ask the Chief complaint at Lodhi Road pol­ Delhi on Wednesday. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA vernment had increased the wari accused the AAP go­ ish Sisodia should apologise Minister...Are not the chil­ ice station against “AAP fixed charges on electricity vernment of having become for this incident,” he said. dren studying in municipal loyalists” since he was “forci­ ting in VIP area adding that “hooliganism of AAP MLAs, bills by six times in just one “a government of scams” schools the children of Del­ bly prevented” from submit­ they were not ready to sit leaders and workers” at the year from ₹20 to ₹125 per even as he questioned the si­ Funds allocation hi,” the leader said. ting his petition before the with the public. DERC public hearing on ta­ connection, he demanded lence of its leaders on the ac­ Mr. Tiwari further attacked “We treat the entire world DERC. riff petitions alleging, “I was that the government com­ cident. “In one of the go­ the AAP government in rela­ as one family but Kejriwal’s AAP spokesperson Sau­ ‘Leader manhandled’ forcibly prevented from sub­ pensates consumers. vernment schools, which tion to the funds allocated to politics is of discrimination. rabh Bharadwaj claimed, “If “At DERC, it all started with mitting his petition before are claimed to be world­ the education sector in com­ Since the BJP is the ruling he has any evidence in the DERC inviting @NitinTya­ DERC. AAP MLA Jarnail Consumers complain class today, a ceiling fan fell parison to those under the party in the municipal cor­ matter, he should show it. In giAAP to speak( first some Singh went to the extent of Some consumers com­ on an innocent child in Tri­ BJP­ruled civic bodies. porations, the AAP govern­ fact, we have proof that De­ first serve basis). And @OP­ snatching the petition from plained that they did not get lokpuri. He is fighting for his “Of the ₹53,000­crore ment does not release funds vinder Kumar Sehrawat mis­ SharmaBJP interrupting my hands and tearing it into enough time to put forth life in GTB Hospital. The Kej­ budget, the AAP has allotted to them,” he alleged. behaved with Rakhi Birla MLA Nitin Tyagi. Then peo­ two pieces. BJP MLAs O.P. their views due to the con­ while Vijender Gupta ple asked BJP to reduce elec­ Sharma and Jagdish Prad­ frontation between repre­ snatched papers from her tric tariffs in BJP ruled states han, Mr. Sehrawat and Anil sentatives from AAP and the and tore it.” In a tweet, Mr. [sic],” Mr. Bharadwaj tweet­ Bajpai were manhandled.” BJP. The DERC will analyse Juvenile held in auditor murder case Bharadwaj claimed that BJP ed. He also alleged that BJP He also claimed that his per­ all suggestions and objec­ MLAs came very late at the MLAs used “filthy language sonal assistant was badly tions received during the DERC hearing but wanted to against woman MLAs of the beaten and his clothes were hearing and consider it He had helped the murderer in carrying out the crime speak first. AAP MLAs prot­ AAP”. torn. while determining new tariff ested against BJP MLAs sit­ Mr. Gupta condemned the “Representatives of va­ rates. STAFF REPORTER The juvenile disclosed er in front of other family NEW DELHI that the auditor’s wife and members,” said a police of­ The police on Wednesday her son had assigned the ficer. apprehended a 17­year­old task to him and another The accused mother­son I was shot at during event, claims AAP legislator boy in connection with the man, Rishab, for ₹1.25 lakh. said they had no remorse as murder of a 43­year­old se­ The two were told that they they swere fed up with the nior auditor whose body were going to kill the audi­ behaviour of the auditor. Prakash Jarwal files formal complaint; says his life is in danger was found murdered at his tor’s brother who used to The police said that the house in Jaitpur of south­ sexually assault his sister­in­ auditor was stabbed around STAFF REPORTER the AAP MLA in Sangam Vi­ sisted that he was shot at. police security, no action east Delhi on July 7. law. They did not know that six times on back and neck. NEW DELHI har. “We verified the claims The MLA added that after was taken. “My life is in dan­ DCP (South­East) Chin­ the victim was actually the On July 5 night, the AAP MLA Prakash Jarwal on of firing from several people verbally informing the pol­ ger. I was attacked on Sun­ moy Biswal said that four husband of the woman. mother­son called the duo Wednesday alleged that who were at the event, but ice, he filed a complaint at day after which I informed persons, including the de­ to their house and asked three shots were fired at him all of them refused to verify Neb Sarai police station. police, but nothing was ceased’s wife and their son, ‘No remorse’ them to hide on the terrace. during an event in south Del­ the fact. We have checked The legislator claimed done,” he said. were nabbed on Tuesday. “The deceased’s son said The victim returned around hi’s Shani Bazaar on Sunday. CCTV footages also but noth­ that he was shot at by an ille­ In the police complaint, “We have detained a ju­ that his father never loved 11.30 p.m. and was drunk. The police have denied ing was found. The matter is gal alcohol distributor who Mr. Jarwal said an AAP work­ venile who helped the cul­ him. He [father] never He slept without having din­ the claim. A police officer under investigation,” the of­ had been chasing him for the er also got death threats by prit in the murder,” said Mr. brought any gift for him and ner. Around 2.30 a.m., the said that a PCR call was re­ ficer added. past three days. Mr. Jarwal al­ the same person over the Biswal. always demeaned his moth­ accused killed the victim. ceived regarding the firing at Mr. Jarwal, however, in­ leged that despite asking for phone. 3 members of gang held Gurugram police return Delhi govt. cracks whip on for stealing U.P. MLA’s bags lost cell phones to owners ‘bogus dealers’ Special Correspondent nience caused to the mobile STAFF REPORTER from Uttar Pradesh’s Hathras. GURUGRAM phone users due to the loss Staff Reporter NEW DELHI The accused lured the driver, Dundahera village resident of their sets, Gurugram Pol­ New Delhi Three men were arrested for alleg­ who was alone in the car, by throw­ Sushma Devi had lost her ice Commissioner Muham­ The Delhi government has edly stealing bags from the car of ing notes of ₹10 and ₹20 on the phone somewhere in her vil­ mad Akil had recently di­ launched a crackdown on an Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA. The­ road. When the driver came out to lage three months ago. She rected the police to alleged bogus dealers re­ vehicle was parked on the premis­ pick up the notes, the accused’s ac­ reported the matter to the immediately lodge non­cog­ gistered under the GST and es of a private hospital in south­ complice managed to lift three lug­ police, but there was no up­ nisable offence report in allegedly involved in issu­ east Delhi, the police said on Wed­ gage bags from the car. date for a long time. such cases and return it the ing fake invoices, accord­ nesday. A complaint was filed by the Le­ However, she was sur­ phones to the owners after ing to an official statement The accused — Gurvayurappan gislator’s personal assistant Rajesh prised to get a call from the finding it with the help of issued by it here on (36), Prasath (26) and P. Surender Kumar Singh on Tuesday. police recently saying that technical surveillance. Wednesday. (25) — all from Trichy in Tamil Na­ The accused revealed that they her phone had been reco­ In­a­first­such instance, The move came after du, are currently residing in Ma­ worked for Murugan and Govin­ vered. Sushma was over­ 65 mobile phones were re­ Deputy Chief Minister dangir area and are members of dan. Both of them used to lure al­ joyed when DCP (Headquar­ turned to their owners this Manish Sisodia directed “note­phenk” gang, the police cohol addicts and unemployed ters) Sashank Kumar Sawan past month. Some of those the Trade and Taxes De­ said. youths from Tamil Nadu and bring handed over the mobile at a were from outside Guru­ partment to take the stric­ them to Delhi. They trained youths function at Old CP office on gram as well. Najafgarh’s Ka­ test possible action against Lured drivers to steal bags from vehicles , the Wednesday. She was among rambir had lost his phone in bogus dealers. In the state­ According to the police, on Mon­ DCP said. Two Apple MacBook, 100 people, mostly from Gu­ Gurugram’s Sector 7 around ment, the department day around 5 p.m., the accused lift­ ₹18,000 cash, foreign currency rugram, who were handed two months ago. He did not identified around 56,000 ed three bags from the car of Hari notes and one countrymade pistol over their lost phones. expect to get his phone back suspicious dealers on va­ Shankar Manohar, the BJP MLA were seized, the police said. In view of the inconve­ so easily. rious risk parameters. A ND-NDE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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60 foreigners detained in Govt. fails to comply with Greater Noida NGT order, forfeits ₹5 cr. Press Trust of India Noida Sixty foreign nationals ‘Did not enforce green norms on illegal banquet halls, eateries’ were detained on Wednes­ day during police searches Shinjini Ghosh waste management rules. It in Greater Noida. They New Delhi is pertinent to note that the were allegedly found to be The National Green Tribunal problem of solid waste man­ staying in the country with­ has directed that perfor­ agement in Delhi is assum­ out valid travel documents. mance guarantee of over ₹5 ing serious proportions due Almost all of those held crore deposited by the Delhi to increasing population.” are from eight African government be forfeited as it “No compensation is countries, including Nige­ has failed to comply with or­ shown to have been as­ ria, Kenya, Tanzania, Zam­ ders on two separate mat­ sessed for the illegal with­ bia, Ivory Coast and Ango­ ters pertaining to pollution drawal of groundwater for la. Twenty­eight of them caused by dairies and illegal swimming pools, except say­ are women, said the police. banquet halls in the city. ing that unlicensed pools “Sixty foreigners staying A Bench headed by NGT A plea in the NGT has were closed or that a report in Greater Noida on invalid Chairperson Justice Adarsh contended that illegal about illegal borewells was or forged documents, and Kumar Goel further directed establishments are causing sent,” the Bench noted. those suspected to have that performance guarantee air pollution in Mahipalpur. The observations came links with drug trafficking, of ₹10 lakh each imposed on on a plea seeking remedial were detained on Wednes­ the three civic bodies also be any jurisdiction.” action against illegal ban­ day,” said Gautam Buddh forfeited as the municipali­ “While the DPCC may quets that are allegedly caus­ Nagar Senior Superinten­ ties have failed to check pol­ take action on ‘polluter ing air pollution in south­ dent of Police Vaibhav lution from dairies. pays’ principle against pol­ west Delhi. Krishna. luting activities of any statu­ “The policy for enforce­ Inspections were con­ ‘Avoiding responsibilities’ tory body, it has no authori­ ment of environment norms ducted at four housing so­ Coming down heavily on the ty to recover compensation for places where social gath­ cieties in Greater Noida’s Pi Delhi Pollution Control for alleged inaction by such ering takes place is neces­ 1, Beta 2 and Dadri. Committee (DPCC), the statutory authorities,” the sary on account of there al­ The searches began at 5 Bench said: “Despite obser­ Bench stated. ready being a high level of a.m. under the 10th edition vations in the earlier order Noting that a report fur­ air pollution. Such gather­ of ‘Operation Clean’, a spe­ as well as repeated orders in nished by the Delhi govern­ ings should not result in cial initiative of the district a large number of cases, the ment on the action taken further deterioration of the police, and continued till 8 DPCC seems to be avoiding against illegal banquets and situation,” said the NGT. a.m., said the police. its statutory responsibili­ restaurants operating in Ma­ In both cases, the NGT During the inspections, ties… and to cover up their hipalpur was “not exhaus­ has warned of “appropriate 3.5 kg of cannabis, six lap­ inaction, is passing the order tive”, the green panel stated: coercive measures” against tops and 114 SIM cards were of imposition of fines on oth­ “There is no comprehensive authorities if the orders are seized. er statutory bodies, without report about compliance of not complied with. ‘Advance timeline for waste­to­energy plant’ NGT order comes on plea alleging unscientific dumping of garbage in Sonipat

Staff Reporter headed by NGT Chairperson level. “We direct the Minis­ waste,” the Bench said. NEW DELHI Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel try of Housing and Urban Af­ The Ministry was directed Following a plea alleging un­ said: “We direct the Haryana fairs to take initiative, in con­ to furnish the report within scientific dumping of gar­ Chief Secretary to take reme­ sultation with the CPCB and two months. bage in Sonipat, the National dial steps so that the timeline other experts, for specifying The directions came on a Green Tribunal has directed of December 2021 for a a mechanism to engage the plea, which alleged that air the Haryana Chief Secretary waste­to­energy plant is ap­ service providers and indi­ pollution was being caused to advance the timeline for propriately preponed.” cate range of rates that may due to unscientific dumping establishment of a waste­to­ Referring to an earlier or­ obviate the need for any of garbage, and was affecting energy plant. der passed by the tribunal, time­consuming process. public health. Directing authorities to the Bench also directed the Service providers may be Earlier, the NGT had furnish another report per­ Centre and the Central Pollu­ identified for waste collec­ sought a report from the Ha­ taining to the allegations tion Control Board (CBCP) to tion, transportation, pro­ ryana State Pollution Control made in the plea, a Bench issue guidelines at the State cessing and disposal of Board and the civic body. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 4 CITY THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Ambedkar University a Students try their luck in ‘divinity trials’ Aspirants judged on musical rendition, viva performance backup option for many Nearly 4,000 Saurav Sinha Students wait for next DU cut­offs to switch university New Delhi cancellations Kejriwal may inaugurate Final ‘divinity’ trials for ad­ after third list RTR flyover next week Nidhi Mishra missions to a few minority NEW DELHI NEW DELHI colleges of Delhi University Staff Reporter Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal On the first day of admis­ held on Wednesday saw stu­ New Delhi is likely to inaugurate the Rao sions at Ambedkar Universi­ dents trying their luck by Tula Ram flyover on July 16. ty, several students turned putting up the best musical Nearly 4,000 students The flyover is expected to up at the Kashmere Gate performance and answering have cancelled their admis­ make commute from south campus on Wednesday. But questions on the “impact of sions to Delhi University’s Delhi and Noida towards IGI for many, enrolling at the Sikhism”. colleges after the release of Airport hassle-free. university is an alternative According to the universi­ the third cut­off on Construction on the 2.7-km- as they wait for the next Del­ ty guidelines, to qualify for The trials held at Kamala Nehru College were judged by a Monday. long flyover, which branches hi University cut­offs. the divinity quota, intro­ university observer, a convener and three professors. So far, a total of 50,989 out of the Munirka flyover, Sarthak Mishra, who duced in 2017, candidates * FILE PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR students had taken admis­ started in 2014. scored 82% in his board ex­ have to be thorough about sion at the college and up ams and took admission in the “elemental aspects” of performance, they were Sundri College said, “I have to 4,061 cancellations had B.A. Economics (Honours) Sikhism as well as its cultural asked questions to test their been preparing the ‘Sorath’ MLA acquitted in case of taken place in the last two at the Ambedkar University misbehaviour with cop aspects. The trials held at Ka­ technical knowledge of mus­ raag for a while now and I days alone, a university of­ (AUD) said, “I wanted to get NEW DELHI mala Nehru College were ic and Sikhism,” said Shuli feel confident about my re­ ficial said. They also said A city court on Wednesday into a North Campus college AUD reserves 85% of its seats for students from Delhi. judged by a university obser­ Chaudhary, who was coordi­ sult.” that 1,165 admission with­ acquitted AAP MLA Sarita under Delhi University, but * FILE PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR ver, a convener and three nating the trials. Prabhjot Singh, another drawals had taken place Singh in a case of alleged I did not get through as the professors. participant who aspires to since the start of admis­ misbehaviour with a Delhi cut­offs were high. So for 87% in his board exams, had elections there. “In Delhi Viva­voce round study B.Com (Honours) at Sri sions. police officer in 2015. The now, I am enrolling myself taken admission in B.sc University, students are 17 in final round When asked what kind of Guru Gobind Singh College This year, there are court noted that Delhi Police, at AUD. But I am hoping that Maths (Honours) at Panna­ more aware about the elec­ While 17 candidates were se­ questions were thrown at of Commerce, said his trials about 63,000 seats up for failed to probe the case the DU cut­offs will de­ lal Girdharlal Dayanand An­ tions as it started in 1954 lected for the final round of them during the viva­voce went well and he played a grab at DU under various against her. PTI crease so that I can take ad­ glo­Vedic (PGDAV) college. and have a long history as divinity trials, only 14 turned round, some candidates said rendition of ‘Malhar’. categories. However, a ma­ mission there.” compared to Ambedkar Un­ up on Wednesday morning. that they were simply asked But for some students, di­ jority of the students ad­ “There is a lot to explore Student politics iversity where elections Participants are judged to leave after their perfor­ vinity was the last route to Missing woman traced mitted have been under in DU as the university has Student politics is another started just a year ago”, she based on performance of re­ mance. But a few others get admission in Delhi Un­ to Bengaluru the unreserved category better options,” Mr. Mishra pull. Jaya Jha, who took ad­ added. ligious musical rendition and were asked about the Sikh iversity. “I had no other op­ GHAZIABAD while only about 3% stu­ A woman who went missing added. mission in B.A. Sociology AUD reserves 85% of its viva­voce, that was given 75% code of conduct, impact of tion to get into the Delhi Un­ dents have been admitted after leaving a note has been (Honours) at AUD, said that seats for students from the weightage. For the remain­ Sikhism on the world, teach­ iversity except the divinity under the EWS and ST ca­ traced to Bengaluru, the Left­out students she wanted to be a “student National Capital Territory. ing 25%, they have to submit ings of Sri Guru Granth Sahib trials which they conduct. I tegories. Admissions under police said on Wednesday. Not securing a berth in politician” but was disap­ The last date for admis­ certificates. and some technical ques­ love to play instruments the third list will go on till She was presumed dead after North campus of DU is pointed with the campus. sions at AUD is Thursday “Students are being as­ tions regarding their art though I am not so keen on Thursday. her car with the note was another reason why some However, she is not willing and the next Delhi Universi­ sessed on the basis of their form. the ideology of Sikhism,” The fourth cut­off list is found near Hindon barrage on are choosing to explore to dump her dream. She ty cut­off list will be re­ calibre, creativity and intel­ Shruti, a BA Psychology said a participant who did scheduled to be released July 6. PTI AUD. Sujeet, who scored said that she would contest leased on Friday. lectual capability. After their (Honours) aspirant at Mata not wish to be named. on July 15. HC dismisses plea against Redress issues in housing societies, L­G urged DDA flats surrendered free metro ride for women BJP delegation calls on Baijal; to hold ‘Mahasammelan’ on the issue due to location, size: Puri Court imposes ₹10,000 as cost on petitioner Staff Reporter lowing the meeting with 4,711 returned within days of draw of lots New Delhi hi­2021. But strong deci­ Mr. Baijal, it had been de­ Staff Reporter A Bharatiya Janata Party sions are expected from cided that the L­G would Special Correspondent ed any specific reasons for New Delhi (BJP) delegation called on the government so that hold meetings with the NEW DELHI surrender. However, some The Delhi High Court on Wed­ Lieutenant­Governor Anil these colonies do not face MPs and office­bearers of Thousands of applicants of of the reasons as reported nesday dismissed a petition Baijal here on Wednesday issues of parking, com­ the Federations of the the Delhi Development are that applicants did not opposing the city govern­ urging him for “immediate munity services, and oth­ Group Housing Societies. Authority’s 2017 housing like the location of the allot­ ment’s proposal to make me­ redressal” of issues being er basic amenities post­re­ “The societies demand scheme surrendered their ted flats and that the size of tro ride free for women. The faced by residents of the development. Today lakhs separate water connec­ flats after allotment, with the allotted flats was small,” High Court noted that it is for Group Housing Societies. of houses are in sham­ tions to the flats instead of some citing dislike of the lo­ the reply stated. the government to decide on There are an estimated bles,” the statement said single connection to the cation and the size of the In order to address the is­ giving concession to a particu­ 1,200 societies in the Cap­ further. entire society. Besides, the homes as the reason, Union sues, the DDA had taken lar class. ride free for women, the court ital housing over 10 lakh Anil Baijal Meanwhile, Mr. Goel an­ issue of appointment of Housing and Urban Affairs some corrective steps, in­ A Bench of Chief Justice observed that though this plea residents. Arguing that so­ nounced that Delhi’s “first auditors by the Registrar Minister of State (Indepen­ cluding starting a free shut­ D.N. Patel and Justice C. Hari has been made, it has not been cieties such as these were immediately. Mahasammelan for Group of the Group Housing So­ dent charge) Hardeep Singh tle bus service from the Shankar while dismissing the argued by the petitioner. in “urgent need of redeve­ In a statement, Mr. Goel Housing Societies” would cieties too should be ad­ Puri told the Rajya Sabha on nearest bus terminal and petition imposed a cost of The Bench said it was left lopment”, the delegation, said that the development be held at the Talkatora dressed,” Mr. Goel said. Wednesday. Metro station at Narela, Si­ ₹10,000 on the petitioner. The open for the authorities to give which consisted of BJP Ra­ of Group Housing Socie­ Stadium on Sunday. Be­ “This is for the first time In response to a question raspur and Rohini Sector 34 HC also rejected petitioner’s or not to give any concession to jya Sabha MP Vijay Goel ties in the city had begun sides addressing the “host such an event shall be held by Amar Singh, Mr. Puri in­ and 35 starting in December plea to reduce fares and to a particular class in metro ride and West Delhi MP Par­ in 1980 and its condition of issues” facing the Group post­independence. The formed the House that of 2018 for the residents. In ad­ make 15 slabs of the ticket fares. vesh Verma, announced had become “deplorable” Housing Societies in Delhi, Mahasammelan would al­ the 12,617 flats offered by the dition, DDA had allotted 23 price instead of existing six. Delhi government Addition­ that they would soon hold in the last forty years. the Mahasammelan would so feature the discussion DDA in the 2017 scheme, shops for daily needs to “Fixation of fares is a statu­ al Standing Counsel Sanjoy a “Mahasammelan” for also feature an open dis­ on the failures of the Kejri­ 4,711 flats were surrendered NAFED at Dwarka Sec­ tory function and the process Ghosh said that the plea was Group Housing Societies. ‘Houses in shambles’ cussion on the Union Bud­ wal government on sever­ within 45 days of the draw tor­23B, Rohini Sector­34 of fixation is complex which premature as currently no such The delegation submit­ “These societies are in ur­ get 2019. al fronts, including pollu­ of lots held in November and Narela G­2 and G­8. It involves consideration of sev­ exemption has been given to ted a memorandum to the gent need of redevelop­ tion, electricity, water, that year. had also handed over porta eral factors, including cost. All the women to travel in the me­ Lieutenant­Governor to ment and it can be done as L­G to hold meetings traffic jams and health­ “In majority of cases, the cabins to Mother Dairy and these factors cannot be deter­ tro and the proposal is still un­ address the issues per the Master Plan of Del­ The statement said, fol­ care,” Mr. Goel added. applicants have not provid­ Safal for outlets at Narela. mined in a PIL (public interest der consideration. litigation),” the Bench said. Mr. Singh, in his petition, The High Court said advo­ challenged the proposal of Del­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC cate Bipin Bihari Singh, the pe­ hi government to make metro titioner, failed to point out any ride free for women saying Now, file and track RTIs to Dust screen illegality in fixation of fares. such a move would create a pa­ Regarding the plea that Del­ rallel arbitrary discrimination hi government be directed not against other poorer sections of East corporation online to take any step to make metro the society. North and South civic body yet to reopen portal

Sidharth Ravi pended due to updation of months to set up a system New Delhi software”. to route online RTI applica­ Online Right to Informa­ The Hindu had earlier tions through the govern­ tion (RTI) applications to reported that the North ment portal. the East Delhi Municipal and South bodies were ap­ While RTI applications Corporation (EDMC) can proached by the Delhi go­ were earlier physically sent now be filed and tracked vernment to reopen the to the municipal corpora­ through the Delhi govern­ portal, but did not take up tion, the delays in transfer ment’s online portal, offi­ the offer over questions of of files slowed down the cials said on Wednesday. sharing the ₹10 application process and affected those The online service re­ fee. The two corporations applying for information, mained defunct for years are yet to fix their RTI the official said. To put an and the EDMC has reo­ portals. end to this, the PIO and the pened it to make it easy for Commissioner, Varsha appellate authorities of all the applicants to get infor­ Joshi, currently in­charge departments have been gi­ mation at a mouse click. of both the civic bodies, ven unique login IDs to di­ An online RTI portal was did not respond to messag­ rectly access the Delhi go­ started by the unified mun­ es in this regard. Earlier vernment portal, track icipal corporation of Delhi this month, she had tweet­ replies and send status in 2011. But it stopped ed that the issue would be reports. working after the trifurca­ fixed in six months time. Though the EDMCs web­ tion of the MCD. In place of site still carries the soft­ the portal, the page to sub­ Routing applications ware updation message, mit the RTI application on A senior official of the the official said that it websites of all three corpo­ EDMC said that the corpo­ would soon be linked to Dust envelops Rajpath on a hot and humid Wednesday afternoon. The maximum temperature rations has the message ration had been working the Delhi government por­ was recorded at 37.2 degrees Celsius, while the minimum temperature settled at 28.2

“submission of online RTI with the Delhi government tal and people can file their degrees Celsius, both a notch above normal. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA application has been sus­ for the last three to four RTI queries there. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Delhi girl bags ICJ ‘Right to sanitation lacks implementation of laws’ Staff Reporter spectives’ at India Interna­ tion is about. But how about are the citizens or a manual internship programme New Delhi tional Centre here, Justice prosecuting people who are scavenger supposed to do?” Retired Supreme Court Lokur said an area that need­ not doing their jobs? Can we he said. Staff Reporter lor degree in Law from judge Justice Madam B. Lo­ ed to be looked at when san­ prosecute them? If we can, The book highlights key NEW DELHI Queen Mary University of kur on Wednesday said there itation is concerned, was they why aren’t we doing it?” issues concerning the reali­ Delhi girl Isha Kanth is London, has earlier was lack of implementation prosecution aspect of the Justice Lokur said. sation of the right to sanita­ one of the two persons in worked in rural Bihar of laws and court orders for law. The other issue that Jus­ tion for all, the scope of the the world to have bagged spreading awareness on the realisation of right to “The laws provide for the tice Lokur highlighted was right, its links with other an internship programme the right to education and sanitation for all in the bureaucrats, the executive to the lack of implementation rights, such as health, gen­ at the International Court women empowerment country. do some things. If they do of laws. “You may have good der equality and environ­ of Justice based in Hague. among children belong­ Speaking at the launch of not do it, what happens? The laws, Supreme Court judg­ ment and issues of specific Ms. Kanth, who is cur­ ing to the marginalised a book titled ‘Right to Sanita­ person goes to court, that is ments, but if the government relevance in Indian context, rently pursuing a bache­ sections. tion in India: Critical Per­ what public interest litiga­ does not implement it, what such as manual scavenging. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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DELHI Timings Minister, IAS Thursday, July 11 RISE 05:31 SET 19:22 Made CM on popular officers named No new taxes in Rajasthan RISE 14:20 SET 01:08 Friday, July 12 in mining scam RISE 05:32 SET 19:22 budget, sops for farmers RISE 15:20 SET 01:47 demand, says Gehlot press trust of india Saturday, July 13 new Delhi RISE 05:32 SET 19:22 Tax relief worth ₹301 crore extended to the people RISE 16:19 SET 02:27 ‘Cong. chief selected me because of strong public sentiments’ The CBI has registered two cases in Uttar Pradesh min­ Special Correspondent tunity by respecting the pu­ ing scam, naming former JAIPUR blic sentiments in his favour. Minister Gayatri Prajapati In a surprise remark, Rajas­ Mr. Gehlot did not make and four IAS officers as ac­ than Chief Minister Ashok any reference to Pradesh cused, and carried out Gehlot on Wednesday said Congress Committee presi­ searches at 12 locations in he was appointed to the dent Sachin Pilot, who was the State, officials said on CM’s post for the third term perceived to be in the race Wednesday. “on popular demand”, as vil­ for the CM's post and was The agency’s FIR names lagers across the State had made the Deputy CM after Prajapati, a former Minis­ expressed their opinion in many days of intense delib­ ter in the Samajwadi Party his favour during the 2018 erations in Delhi following government, and then Assembly elections. the victory of the Congress Principal Secretary in the He said the then Congress in the Assembly polls. Geology and Mining De­ president Rahul Gandhi had partment Jiwesh Nandan, selected him in view of the ‘Highest priority’ Special Secretary Santosh strong public sentiments. While affirming that he re­ Kumar, then District Magis­ “Mera Mukhya Mantri membered the people’s af­ trates Abhay and Vivek, banna banta tha... Log fection for him, Mr. Gehlot they said. 0 chahte the ki Ashok Gehlot hi said his government would Mr. Nandan, a 1987­ DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to CM baney (I deserved to be­ pointment to the CM’s post accord the highest priority batch IAS officer of the U.P. verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of come the Chief Minister. Pe­ was finalised after several to sensitivity, transparency cadre, is presently posted Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot presenting the budget in the State Assembly on an advertisement before responding to Wednesday. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS any published in this newspaper. THG ople wanted that Ashok Geh­ days of lobbying by rival fac­ and accountability in admi­ as an Additional Secretary PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch lot should become CM),” Mr. tions in the State Congress in nistration. in the Defence Ministry, for the authenticity of any advertisement Special Correspondent or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s Gehlot said at a press confe­ December last year, said it “The State budget is based while Mr. Kumar is posted Taking a major step for ₹16,000 crore from coopera­ products and/or services. In no event can JAIPUR the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- rence on the Assembly pre­ was “very clear by name on our resolve to provide as Greater Sharda Sahayak “ease of doing farming”, Mr. tive banks. He said his go­ ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in mises here after presenting who should become the CM good governance. We are go­ Samadesh Region Develop­ No new taxes were levied in Gehlot proposed the esta­ vernment had given “com­ any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in the 2019­20 State budget. and who should not”. He ing to get our rightful share ment Pradhikari in Uttar the budget for 2019­20 pre­ blishment of a ₹1,000 crore plete benefit” of loan waiver this newspaper. Mr. Gehlot, whose ap­ said he was given the oppor­ in Central funds,” he said. Pradesh. sented by Rajasthan Chief fund for farmers’ welfare, to farmers by paying on its Minister Ashok Gehlot in the which would be utilised for own the dues of ₹6,000 State Assembly here on getting remunerative prices crore left over by the pre­ Wednesday, while tax relief for agricultural produces. vious BJP regime. worth ₹301 crore was ex­ Natural farming will also be The Chief Minister also Farmers get major chunk in Madhya Pradesh budget tended to people of the State promoted to reduce input announced ₹927 crore for through various exemptions costs and encourage tradi­ State highways, Janata Clin­ ₹132 crore earmarked for cow welfare; social security pension for elderly, disabled doubled and amnesty schemes. tional methods with an ex­ ics on the lines of Mohalla Mr. Gehlot termed it a penditure of ₹10 crore. Clinics in Delhi, new policy Sidharth Yadav cessfully, Mr. Bhanot said the vious year’s allocation, he has decided to reserve 70% “people's budget”, which for electric vehicles and ex­ Bhopal government has decided to said of vacancies for locals in new had incorporated the aspira­ Various schemes emption to micro, small and Madhya Pradesh Finance Mi­ set up a farmers’ advisory Quoting scriptures to private firms, Mr. Bhanot tions and suggestions of the The budget proposed va­ medium enterprises from nister Tarun Bhanot on Mon­ council, comprising farmers’ stress the importance of said, “Immediately after as­ common people. rious schemes in irrigation, obtaining various permis­ day increased the budgetary representatives. Moreover, cows, Mr. Bhanot proposed suming office, the Chief Mi­ renewable energy, water, sions for the first three years allocation for farmers by under the Krishi Bandhu Yo­ to earmark ₹132 crore for nister had directed that Modified budget transport, animal husban­ of their operations. 145% over the previous year jana, farmers will be trained cow welfare and three mo­ changes be made in the in­ Mr. Gehlot, who also holds dry and health sectors and to ₹22,736 crore. in farming techniques. dels to develop gaushalas in dustrial policy to this effect.” the finance portfolio, pre­ gave tax relief through new Government jobs Presenting his maiden the State. sented the modified budget provisions for exemption in As many as 75,000 vacan­ budget in the Vidhan Sabha Horticulture scheme The government has also Industrial policy for the current fiscal after stamp duty and registration cies in various government here, he said, “Under the To improve the income of Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot decided to hike grant to the As for industrial investment, the Assembly passed the fee, electricity duty, motor departments will be filled to loan waiver scheme, the those involved in horticul­ presenting the budget in the State Waqf Board and Haj he said, the government has vote­on­account of ₹86,906 vehicle tax and irrigation tax provide jobs to the youths,

State government has ture and food processing, Assembly. * A. M. FARUQUI committee as well, he said approved a pilot project for a crore in February this year and amnesty schemes in while 104 types of new med­ waived loans to the tune of the State government has de­ The social security pen­ land pooling scheme and for­ in view of the Lok Sabha mining, commercial taxes icines will be included in the ₹7,000 crore of 20 lakh farm­ cided to launch a horticul­ pherds under the Kisan Cre­ sion for elderly, widows and mulated a new industrial election. The modified bud­ and industry sectors. State government’s free ers in two months. For the ture and food processing dit Card scheme. disabled has been raised to promotion policy. Mr. Bha­ get’s estimates for total ex­ Mr. Gehlot announced a medicine scheme. Loans remaining farmers, ₹8,000 scheme, for which ₹100 For panchayat and rural ₹600 per month from ₹300. not said a new startup and a penditure were ₹2,32,944.01 policy for new and renewa­ worth ₹1 lakh each will be crore will be set aside.” crore has been earmarked. development, ₹25, 015 crore This may benefit more than micro, small & medium en­ crore and those for revenue ble energy projects and set a sanctioned to youths under To resolve farmers’ issues The government has decided has been set aside, which 42 lakh people, he said. terprises policy has also receipts were ₹1,64,004.64 target for disbursement of the Chief Minister's Yuva and implement schemes suc­ to cover fishermen and she­ was 26 % more than the pre­ Stating the government been drafted. crore. short­term crop loans worth Rozgar Yojana. CM reviews power situation MLA’s daughter fears for life as Sidhu yet to take charge after marrying Congress leader was allotted Power Ministry in June Dalit man Vikas Vasudeva PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Chandigarh Bareilly (U.P.) Punjab Chief Minister Ama­ The daughter of an Uttar rinder Singh on Wednesday Pradesh BJP legislator has chaired a high­level meeting alleged that her life is in to review the State’s power danger from her father af­ situation in the prevailing ter she married a Dalit man peak power demand season. and asked the police for State Congress leader security. Navjot Singh Sidhu, who was Sakshi Misra (23), who is allotted the Power and Non­ the daughter of Rajesh Mis­ renewable Energy Ministry ra, the MLA from Bithari after being divested of the Chainpur in Bareilly dis­ Local Government portfolio trict, uploaded a video on on June 6, is yet to assume Amarinder Singh and Navjot Singh Sidhu have been at social media on Wednesday responsibility of his new loggerheads since the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. * FILE PHOTO. and informed about her charge amid a widening rift wedding to Ajitesh Kumar with Capt. Amarinder. longed dry spell, delayed party. (29) last Thursday, police During the meeting, the monsoon and higher power Capt. Amarinder and Mr. said. Chief Minister ordered a consumption in the agricul­ Sidhu have been at logger­ In another video, she crackdown on power theft, ture sector. heads since the 2019 Lok has apprehended threat to particularly in areas border­ Sabha polls. It started with her life from her father, ing Pakistan and Haryana, in Opposition attack Navjot Kaur Sidhu, wife of brother and an associate, a bid to check the huge loss­ While the Opposition par­ Mr. Sidhu, accusing Capt. and urged the Bareilly Se­ es suffered by the Punjab ties, including the Shiroma­ Amarinder of blocking her nior Superintendent of Pol­ State Power Corporation ni Akali Dal and the Aam Lok Sabha ticket from Chan­ ice to extend security to Limited. Aadmi Party, have been tar­ digarh. Later, the Chief Mi­ them. Ms. Misra has also Total power demand in geting the Congress govern­ nister blamed Mr. Sidhu for appealed to the MPs and Punjab rose by 17.8% in June, ment over alleged power not handling his department MLAs of Bareilly to not help and had further increased cuts during the ongoing kha­ well, which he claimed had Mr. Misra as she alleged by 33.3% as of date, com­ rif sowing season, Mr. Sid­ resulted in the Congress’s that her father and others pared with the correspond­ hu’s absence at his Ministry “poor performance” in ur­ were out to eliminate her. ing periods of the previous has given them added am­ ban areas in the general elec­ The BJP legislator could not year, on account of the pro­ munition to target the ruling tion. be reached for comments. U.P. Minister’s vajrasana tip to sleepy drivers To stay alert after heavy meal; advice comes following Yamuna E­way accident Press Trust of India ed that the driver fell asleep. should either take a nap or rience of eight or nine Lucknow The inquiry committee sit in vrajasana for 20 mi­ years,” the Transport Minis­ An Uttar Pradesh Minister constituted by Chief Minister nutes and then go,” the Mi­ ter said. on Wednesday said bus driv­ Yogi Adityanath was asked to nister added. No action can be taken ers should “take a nap or submit its report to the State against the driver as he is practise vajrasana” follow­ government within 24 Route change dead. But if officials check­ ing a heavy meal to avoid hours. When asked why the route of ing duty on the route were dozing off at the wheel. The The Minister said he got the bus was changed, Mr. missing, action will be taken advice came following a bus the “vajrasana tip”, a basic Singh said there were no pas­ against them, he said. accident on the Yamuna Ex­ sitting posture in yoga, from sengers for Ghazipur that Mr. Singh also suggested pressway on Monday in a video made by Sadguru. day but several people were better training for drivers which 29 people were killed. “I was watching a video heading for Agra or Delhi. and regular health check U.P. Transport Minister yesterday and it instructed “The driver of the ill­fated ups. Swatantra Dev Singh said at a that if anyone is driving after bus had joined after three “Apart from this, public press conference here that a full meal, he should take a days of leave. He had a good awareness should also be an inquiry committee report 30­minute break,” the Minis­ track record and was in­ done. The regional manag­ into the Expressway acci­ ter told media persons. volved in only one accident ers should ensure com­ dent on Monday has suggest­ “That is, when he eats, he in the past. He had an expe­ pliance of this,” he said.

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DELHI THE HINDU 6 EAST THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE We will play central role in Odisha to get up to 3 killed in Assam ood, landslides ₹6K cr. in rail budget Over 2 lakh people displaced in 530 villages of 11 districts national growth: Naveen SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ECoR announces 5 surveys for the State GUWAHATI Three people have died in CM elaborates on plan to make Odisha a $1 trillion economy Special Correspondent Bondamunda. ™ood and landslides trig- BHUBANESWAR Five new surveys were al- gered by incessant rain Special Correspondent The total allocation in the so announced in the rail across Assam. Bhubaneswar rail budget-2019 for Odisha budget. These include Raja A person each drowned A vision report titled ‘Eco- will be approximately Athagarh to Kaipadar Road in eastern Assam’s Dhemaji nomic possibilities for Od- ₹5,800-₹6,000 crore, includ- avoiding Bhubaneswar and and Golaghat districts while isha — towards a one trillion ing allocations for various Khurda Road; 10 ™yovers at another was buried under dollar economy’, jointly projects, passenger ameni- Titlagarh, Singapur Road, earth due to landslide in prepared by JSW Group and ties, track renewal and re- Haridaspur, Koraput, Sam- Kamrup (Metropolitan) dis- PwC India, was released by pairs, road overbridges, road balpur, Machhapur, Jajpur trict that covers much of Gu- People at the site of a landslide in Guwahati on Wednesday. Chief Minister Naveen Pat- underbridges, electri–cation Road, Sambalpur City, Sarla wahati, o¦cials said on * PTI naik on Wednesday. and sta— amenities. and Gopalpur Port; chord Wednesday. “Odisha, having huge nat- Giving details of the allo- line from Talcher to Angul A spokesperson of the As- tributaries such as Dikhou, o¦cials said repairing the ural resources, is on its way Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik releasing the ‘Economic cations, East Coast Railway through colliery to avoid en- sam State Disaster Manage- Dhansiri, Jia Bharali and Be- roads would take time be- to achieve this objective possibilities for Odisha — towards a one trillion dollar authorities said on Wednes- gine reversal at Talcher; by- ment Authority said that 11 ki are ™owing above the dan- cause of the extent of the through its investment in economy’ in Bhubaneswar on Wednesday. * BISWARANJAN ROUT day that as many as –ve new pass from Titlagarh-Rahen- of the State’s 33 districts ger level,” the spokesperson damage. friendly policies, infra con- surveys were announced for bata to Sikir; and ™yover at have been a—ected by the said. A woman has been re- nectivity and skilled man- more than double in size by JSW Group chairman Saj- Odisha. Passenger amenities Cuttack for goods train to ™ood with 2,07,098 people Heavy rainfall has also ported missing in West Ka- power,” said Mr. Patnaik at 2050. jan Jindal emphasised the have got an allocation of avoid congestion at Cuttack. displaced across 530 wreaked havoc in Arunachal meng district after their the report release function role of regional economies ₹180 crore, they said. Besides, funds have been villages. Pradesh with three districts house on the bank of a river at the State Secretariat. Od- Huge potential in making India a ten-tril- allocated for laying new rail- – West Kameng, East Ka- was damaged by a ™ash isha will play a central role “The potential of mineral- lion-dollar economy. He New projects way lines and doubling of 13 relief camps meng and Shi-Yomi – su—er- ™ood on Sunday. E—orts in driving national growth as based industries in Odisha, said Odisha is the “hidden The new projects for which lines. While ₹400 crore has National Disaster Response ing the most due to bridges were on to locate her. a manufacturing hub, he along with other sectors like gem” of the country. the funds had been allocated been allocated for Haridas- Force and State Disaster Res- and stretches of strategic Arunachal Pradesh Chief added. agriculture, food process- The report also empha- include ™yover at Baghuapal, pur-Paradeep new line, ₹350 ponse Force teams have roads getting washed away. Minister Pema Khandu on According to a press re- ing, creative industries, sised the unique competi- grant for maintenance of crore has been allocated for evacuated many of the O¦cials said hundreds of Wednesday asked the auth- lease issued on the occa- MSMEs and women entre- tive advantages of Odisha coaches, automatic coach Khurda Road-Bolangir new ™ood-a—ected people. Some vehicles have been stranded orities concerned to coordi- sion, the global economy preneurship, will play an over other States and its washing plants at Bhubanes- line, and ₹250 crore for An- of them have taken refuge in along a 64-km stretch of the nate and work out a State has grown over three times important role in making “potential to become the ex- war and new wheel lathe for gul-Sukinda Road new line 13 relief camps set up in four road to Tawang from eastern emergency mitigation plan in the past three decades, the State a one trillion dollar port hub for metal products Mancheswar Workshop, An- and ₹150 crore for Talcher- districts. Assam’s Charduar. for minimising damage dur- and it is projected to grow economy,” the release said. across the world”. gul Electric Loco Shed and Bimlagarh new line. “The Brahmaputra and Border Road Task Force ing the monsoon season. 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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Uddhav to skip Rehabilitate Tiware dam breach Pandharpur State must not allow new sugar visit with CM victims, Pawar writes to Fadnavis Press Trust of India mills in Marathwada: Raju Shetti Mumbai Highlights NCP­Congress govt.’s efforts during Malin landslide Shiv Sena president Udd­ ‘Farmers should be encouraged for drought­resistant crops likes pulses, oilseeds’ Press Trust of India hav Thackeray will not ac­ Mumbai company Chief Minister Shoumojit Banerjee ing to the plummeting forming the public transport NCP president Sharad Pawar Devendra Fadnavis during Pune groundwater level in Marath­ system of the Nagpur civic has written to Chief Minister the annual Vitthal ‘puja’ in While Chief Minister Deven­ wada and lack of monitoring body by running buses on al­ Devendra Fadnavis, seeking Pandharpur town, sourc­ dra Fadnavis is talking tough of the drip irrigation system. ternative ethanol­based speedy rehabilitation of es close to the former said on those seeking permission Of the 190­odd sugar fac­ fuels, I want to ask him why those affected by the Tiware on Wednesday. to set up sugar factories in tories in the State, Mr. Shetti are these buses out of order dam breach in Ratnagiri, Earlier, there were re­ Marathwada, former MP Ra­ said, 70 units spread across today?” Mr. Shetti said. and basic amenities to them. ports that Mr. Thackeray ju Shetti on Wednesday said the Marathwada and Vidarb­ Mr. Pawar visited the dam would accompany Mr. the State must refuse to en­ ha regions are beyond any Import of maize site on Monday. At least 18 Fadnavis in performing tertain any such proposal in hope of rehabilitation. He accused the Central go­ people died while five went the ‘puja’ on Ashadhi Eka­ the region in the future. “It takes 150 ‘water days’ vernment of operating solely missing in the flood caused dashi on Friday, when the The farmers’ leader told Raju Shetti to run a sugar factory suc­ for the benefit of traders and by the dam breach on July 2 The Hindu pilgrimage undertaken by that the govern­ cessfully. Since, this amount ignoring the interests of due to torrential rain in the Causing devastation: A view of Tiware dam that breached devotees from across the ment should instead encour­ in the city last week. of water is only available in farmers by permitting the region. In his letter, dated Ju­ following incessant rain, in Ratnagiri, on July 3. * FILE PHOTO State culminates. age farmers to cultivate “Given the acute water western Maharashtra dis­ import of four lakh tonnes of ly 9, Mr. Pawar demanded The response from the drought­resistant crops like crisis that grips the Marath­ tricts irrigated by the Krish­ maize at concessional im­ relief to the affected people to the affected families Mr. Pawar said during his Sena came in the wake of pulses and oilseeds, which wada region each year, the na river basin, the idea of es­ port duty rates to meet the through the funds of the through the funds of the visit to the village, he ob­ criticism from Maharash­ are not only conducive to government should banish tablishing sugar mills in demand of poultry feed. Prime Minister, Chief Minis­ Chief Minister, Prime Minis­ served large­scale loss of tra Congress president Marathwada’s climate but all thought of setting up su­ Marathwada must be dis­ “There was no need to al­ ter, and the national disaster ter, and the disaster manage­ lives, property and Ashok Chavan, who would retain moisture and gar mills there. The rainfall couraged by the govern­ low such a large quantity of management. ment and in other ways,” Mr. livestock. slammed Mr. Thackeray aid in recharging pattern in this region is ex­ ment,” the Swabhimani maize to be imported when He said the previous Con­ Pawar said in the letter. Not only crops, the farm over his plan and said his groundwater. tremely volatile and there Paksha leader said. the crop is grown freely in gress­NCP government in “The existing government soil also got washed away by presence will set a new is no guarantee of regular He expressed scepticism the Marathwada region and Maharashtra had helped the schemes were implemented the flooding last week, lead­ precedent. Drip irrigation water supply,” Mr. Shetti over Mr. Gadkari’s views on is a vital economic lifeline of victims of the Malin land­ on priority then. The de­ ing to concerns over the live­ “The official ‘puja’ is al­ Recently, commenting on said, adding the question of the need for sugar factories farmers there. This decision slide. Nearly 151 people were mands of Tiware villagers lihood of local farmers, the ways done by the Chief the approval for new sugar conditional approval does to switch to ethanol produc­ is going to hit them hard. killed in the landslide in Ma­ and affected people should NCP chief said. Minister. Last year, Lord units, Mr. Fadnavis had said not arise. tion if they did not wish to Last year, owing to excess lin village, located in the be considered on the same He said the Chief Minister Vitthal did not wish the that permission would be close down. production, farmers were foothills of the Sahyadri ground,” the former Union should ensure education Chief Minister come to given only to those facto­ Lack of monitoring “While Mr. Gadkari’s idea getting paid well below the mountain range in Pune dis­ minister said. and hostel facilities to chil­ him,” he said, referring to ries which agreed to use He said drip irrigation to cul­ of producing ethanol sounds minimum support price of trict, in July 2014. He asked Mr. Fadnavis to dren whose family members Mr. Fadnavis not going to drip irrigation — a recom­ tivate sugar cane, which was good in principle, it is not a ₹1,400 per quintal. Now, the “The then government properly rehabilitate the af­ died in the incident. “The af­ Pandharpur against the mendation also voiced by made mandatory by the Fad­ transformation that can be Centre is importing by claim­ had undertaken relief work fected families and speedily fected families should be backdrop of Maratha quo­ Union Minister Nitin Gadka­ navis government in 2017, made overnight. While [Mr. ing shortfall in production,” immediately after the Malin re­establish the basic public rehabilitated at a safer loca­ ta stir. ri at a sugar conclave held was rarely implemented ow­ Gadkari] talks about trans­ Mr. Shetti said. tragedy. Relief was provided amenities there. tion, away from the dam.”

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German and the other in som in Gondia district, the It was a joint operation of roads leading out of the dis­ The accused had kid­ Marathi, will be showcased police said on Wednesday. the Local Crime Branch trict. The kidnappers, proba­ napped the boy with the at a three­day conference on The boy, kidnapped on Ju­ (LCB) and the Duggipaar pol­ bly in panic, abandoned the intention of extorting ran­ youth radicalisation in the ly 3, was found abandoned ice, and all five have con­ boy trussed up in a gunny som from his parents, Ms. city later this week. the next day and reunited fessed to their involvement sack near Shenda Putali vil­ Sahu said. Paradies, which was with his parents. in the crime, Vinita Sahu, Su­ lage in Deori tehsil the next The accused were all un­ chosen as ‘Play of the Year’ Vaibhav Prakash Wasnik perintendent of Police, Gon­ day. He was found and reu­ employed young men and in the German state of North (23), Shekhar Dulichand dia, said. The boy, a resident nited with his parents. none of them had any crimi­ Rhine­Westphalia, will be Shende (23), both residents of Ghategaon, was kid­ In their hunt for kidnap­ nal record, she said. One of enacted at the conference of Ghategaon in Sadak Arjun napped from outside the zil­ pers, the LCB and the cyber the accused, Rahul Gavad, is titled, ‘Towards Peace’ tehsil; Pravin Kailash Patil la parishad school, where he cell of the police got some the son of a policeman. between July 14 and 16. The event is organised by the Maharashtra Cultural Centre and Max Mueller Bhavan. The play, written by German playwrights Lutz Hubner and Sarah Nemitz, Real-life lessons: Paradies deals with the life of Hamid, a teenager who is lured by radical deals with the life of Hamid, groups with false promise of riches in the afterlife * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT a teenager who is lured by radical groups with false global impact, and chose to promises of these ideologies youngsters are involved in promise of riches in the write about radicalisation in are. In case of the Islamic terrorist activities and acts afterlife. It is directed by terms of religion and State, where the main topic of extremism not just in Mina Salehpour, the nationalism,” Mr. Hubner is paradise, we thought that Europe or West Asia, but youngest awardee of the told The Hindu. “We wanted for many youngsters, it is a throughout the world. “Even German theatre prize, ‘DER to put the focus on the kind of pop phenomenon, in India, we have the youth FAUST’. motives of a fanatic.” that they are not really taking part in extremist The conference will also The story explores the Muslims; they are just activities like mass killings showcase ‘Y’, a Marathi play mind of a radicalised young looking for adventure, being and lynching. And this is not co­written by Vibhawara man, in the process looking part of a group, fighting for just due to religion, it moves Deshpande and Shrirang at the fears, hopes, desires something, that’s bigger far beyond it.” Godbole (directed by Mr. and emotions of young than them,” he said. The youth, especially Godbole), which talks about people, who want to fight Mr. Hubner said he found those who are unemployed, the vulnerability of youth in and kill for an ideology, Mr. the Indo­German are manipulated into being drifting towards Hubner said. collaboration to be part of extremist groups radicalisation. The play, The play goes a level “extremely rich” and since they are given a sense introduced to audiences in deeper into unravelling why “interesting”. He hoped they of belonging and feel 2017, will be returning to radical ideologies are so would serve as a platform empowered, he said. Pune for the conference. seductive. “We must for discussion and prove “Radicalisation among “After our first understand why somebody stronger than mere them is what inspired us to collaboration, Ms. decides to leave his normal “enlightenment campaigns”. write about it. ‘Y’ is basically Deshpande, Mr. Godbole, life behind. It is easy to The theme of youth a crossroad that the youth and I decided to work on analyse what’s negative in radicalisation, he said, is as find in their life, to either another play together. We these decisions, but we can relevant in Germany today choose radicalisation or an had a workshop about only understand it fully as it is in India. evolved and mature path,” political issues that have a when we know what the Mr. Godbole said he said. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF SC clarifies BJP steps up pressure on on scientist’s civil suit

Speaker to accept resignations Legal Correspondent New Delhi Party leaders The Supreme Court on BJP MP demands Cong. leaders NRC in Karnataka stage dharna, ask Wednesday clarified that protest in the comments made by it NEW DELHI Governor to BJP MP Tejasvi Surya on in a judgment against Kera­ Wednesday urged the Union advise Kumar Bengaluru la police officers and auth­ government to extend the orities for destroying the National Register of Citizens Special Correspondent Special Correspondent career of space scientist to Karnataka as he alleged Bengaluru Bengaluru Nambi Narayanan in the in­ illegal immigrants from The BJP on Wednesday Congress leaders, along famous ISRO spy scandal Bangladesh had become a strongly backed MLAs of the with their counterparts in case would not affect ongo­ security threat to Bengaluru governing coalition who had the Janata Dal (Secular), ing civil suit proceedings and the entire State. Mr. submitted their resignations held a protest in Bengaluru against some officials. Surya said, “They have not and urged Governor Vajub­ Karnataka BJP chief B.S. Yeduyurappa with party leaders on Wednesday, in a public A Bench led by Justice only become a security threat hai R. Vala to advise Speaker protesting against the Karnataka government in Bengaluru on show of strength , against A.M. Khanwilkar said the but also an economic threat * K.R. Ramesh Kumar to ac­ Wednesday. K. MURALI KUMAR the BJP’s alleged attempts civil suit for ₹1 crore com­ as they are taking away the cept the resignations at the Former Chief Secretary K. Jayakumar, right, releasing a pensation filed by Mr. Na­ jobs of locals.” to topple the coalition go­ earliest. remain in power and threa­ cised the Speaker for not ac­ vernment in Karnataka. special volume on the Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple in rayanan against State offi­ Party leaders staged a ten the MLAs who had re­ cepting the resignations at Thiruvananthapuram by handing over the first copy to V. cials would be tried on its A.P. releases White Paper At the protest in the dharna in front of the Mahat­ signed. the earliest. Ratheesan, executive officer of the temple * S. GOPAKUMAR own merits and not be in­ on State finances morning, senior leaders of ma Gandhi statue on the Vid­ Maintaining that the coali­ After the BJP delegation the JD(S) and the Congress fluenced by the September VIJAYAWADA hana Soudha premises in an tion government had lost its met him, the Speaker said he 2018 judgment of the Su­ Ahead of the first Budget launched a scathing attack effort to put pressure on Mr. majority following the resig­ would take a call on the re­ preme Court. The applica­ session, the Andhra Pradesh against the BJP for alleged Special volume on Ramesh Kumar and later nation of several MLAs, the signations after hearing the tion was filed by former government released a White horse­trading, attempted Paper on State finances, in met him in his chambers. BJP leaders appealed to the MLAs concerned. to lay siege to the Raj Bha­ Kerala ADGP Siby Math­ which it accused the previous In a memorandum sub­ Governor to direct the State On the BJP’s plea that he van and were detained. Padmanabhaswamy ews. In its September 2018 government of mitted to the Governor, the administration not to imple­ should ensure that a situa­ Former Chief Minister judgment, the court said misgovernance and financial BJP delegation, led by State ment orders of the govern­ tion wherein the Finance Bill Siddaramaiah and AICC the spy case was a criminal mismanagement. Finance president B.S. Yeddyurappa, ment, such as issuing any may get defeated in the general secretary K.C. Ve­ temple released frame­up based on “some Minister Buggana alleged that instead of ac­ Government Order. House should not arise, the nugopal, along with several kind of fancy.” Over 24 Rajendranath Reddy said the cepting the resignations, the Addressing protesters, Speaker said the govern­ party workers, staged a years after Mr. Narayanan’s State had inherited a huge Speaker had allowed the par­ Mr. Yeddyurappa and other ment would collapse if the dharna on the road. They It has been published by The Hindu career got “smothered” in debt of ₹3.62 lakh crore. ties in the ruling coalition to BJP leaders severely criti­ Finance Bill was defeated. later courted arrest. the infamous case, a three­ Special Correspondent nied by an array of pictures, judge Bench led by then THIRUVANANTHAPURAM on the traditions associated Chief Justice of India Dipak Former Chief Secretary and with the temple, its rich his­ Misra found him a victim of popular poet and lyricist K. tory, its amazing architectu­ trumped­up allegations of 5 killed as two buildings collapse in Bengaluru Jayakumar released a spe­ ral splendour and the many espionage by the police. cial volume in Malayalam on rituals and festivities asso­ In the judgment, the Under­construction structure caves in; basement and first floor of an adjoining residence gave way the Sree Padmanabhaswa­ ciated with it. court ordered Kerala to pay my temple brought out by The collector’s item also him ₹50 lakh as compensa­ Staff Reporter harmed, and have been According to the police, the special publications divi­ has a portfolio of photo­ tion for loss of his funda­ Bengaluru asked to look for alternative six labourers from Bihar and sion of The Hindu here on graphs, including a few rare mental right to live with Five people, including a accommodation. West Bengal were sleeping in Wednesday. ones, from The Hindu photo dignity and self­respect for three­year­old girl, were Narayan, 26, who worked the under­construction Executive Officer of the archives. all these years since his ar­ killed and four others were as watchman, his wife Nir­ building. While two labour­ temple V. Ratheesan re­ rest on November 30, 1994. injured when an under­con­ mala, 20, and their three­ ers Khagen Sarkar, 39, and ceived the first copy from First in Malayalam The court had even struction building in the core year­old daughter Anushka, Shambu Kumar, 38, died, Mr. Jayakumar, who is also The special volume is the agreed with Mr. Narayanan city area collapsed causing who lived in the basement of Fire and Emergency Services the founding Vice­Chancel­ first to be brought in Malaya­ that a mere compensation the basement and first floor the residence Sai Adi Ambal personnel rescued the other lor of the Malayalam Univer­ lam by The Hindu on a reli­ in money could not serve of an adjoining residential were killed. four workers. Civic officials sity, at a simple function or­ gious centre in Kerala. him complete justice. Mr. building to give way. That This building began to tilt said that work on the build­ ganised in the forecourt of The cover price of the Narayanan had argued that building started tilting onto a towards an adjacent apart­ ing had started six months the temple. The temple shot 108­page volume is ₹300. the prosecution launched third adjacent apartment. ment even as residents ago. into fame with the discovery In March 2018, The Hindu by the police had a “catas­ The incident took place watched in horror. Civic officials who were at of ancient treasures in its had come out with a special trophic effect” on his ca­ around 1.55 a.m. on Wednes­ Almost all the buildings the spot said the owner of subterranean vaults. volume, Wealth of Heritage, reer and personal life, be­ day in Pulakeshinagar. More on the road were construct­ the under­construction Titled Samskrithiyude on the temple, the ninth in a sides setting back the Fire and Emergency Services personnel and the NDRF team than 35 people from eight ed with barely any space bet­ building had not adhered to Sambath, the special vol­ series on religious centres in technological advance­ carrying out rescue operations at the site. * SUDHAKARA JAIN households escaped un­ ween them. approved plans. ume has articles, accompa­ South India. ment in space research.

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Santosh Patnaik Both HSL and Mazagon VISAKHAPATNAM are public sectors, while L&T Hindustan Shipyard Limited constructs nuclear­powered (HSL), along with its two pu­ Arihant class submarines at blic sector consortium the Ship Building Centre in partners, is gearing up to the city. submit its bid for the con­ “We will harness the com­ struction of six conventional plimentary expertise of the submarines, for which the three giant organisations,” Expression of Interest (EoI) the HSL official said. notification has been issued HSL, which is strategically by the Indian Navy. located on the east coast in This will be followed by an area of 117 acres in an another EoI for Original agronomic layout with large Equipment Manufacturers HSL will harness the complimentary expertise of the three outfitting quay, hull con­

(OEM). giant organisations, says a senior official. * K.R. DEEPAK struction facility, slipways The Indian strategic and fully covered building partner has to design and Dhatu Nigam Limited (MID­ to the Indian partner will be dock, also has a submarine construct the submarines in HANI) in May to provide a a pre­requisite. repair facility. the country under the Make­ credible domestic alterna­ A senior official of HSL The yard, which was set in­India initiative. tive. This was cleared by the told The Hindu that with ro­ up on 1941 by the Scindia The proposal, taken up Defence Acquisition Com­ bust technical and financial Steam Navigation Co. Ltd, under Project­75 (I), is mov­ mittee. backup, the consortium has rich experience in ship­ ing to the next level after the The Navy is going for the formed by them would be a building, ship repairs and re­ re­election of the NDA go­ second strategic partner mo­ strong contender for the fit of submarines. vernment at the Centre. del to achieve self­reliance ₹45,000­crore deal. At present, INS Sindhuvir Keeping the Navy’s re­ after the project to acquire Informed sources said submarine is undergoing a quirement in mind, HSL 111 Naval Utility Helicopters. that apart from HSL, the Ma­ refit at the yard. formed the consortium with For the OEM to be select­ zagon Dock Shipbuilders Li­ The shipyard was brought Mirror image: A model of Burj Khalifa, a skyscraper in Dubai, being set up at Swarajya Maidan in Vijayawada on Wednesday. It

Bharat Heavy Electricals Li­ ed by the Ministry of De­ mited and Larsen & Toubro under the Ministry of De­ will be the top attraction in the exhibition to be organised on the grounds. * CH. VIJAYA BHASKAR mited (BHEL) and Mishra fence, transfer of technology would also submit their bids. fence from Shipping in 2010. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Truck hits, injures wild elephant ‘Govt. cannot shirk duty towards schools’ Anthrax scare sends officials on Kerala­Karnataka border Kerala High Court says State must restructure schools as required by RTE Act into a tizzy Special Correspondent certificate. elementary education as Jumbo develops compound fracture on right shoulder KOCHI The court said the State mandated. Staff Reporter A Full Bench of the Kerala government could not refuse VISAKHAPATNAM Staff Reporter High Court on Wednesday permission to add Class V to ‘Not tossed about’ Health Department offi­ KALPETTA held that the State govern­ lower primary schools and The court observed that a cials of Andhra Pradesh are A she­elephant sustained in­ ment could not shirk its duty Class VIII to upper primary child was not to be treated as on their toes after two sus­ juries after a truck knocked to establish schools with schools. Restructuring of all “a chattel to be tossed about pected cases of anthrax it down at Ponkuzhi on the Classes I to V within every 1 schools with uniform Classes from one school to another were reported from Mada­ Kerala­Karnataka border un­ km, and Classes VI to VIII from I to VIII was the scheme for the completion of ele­ gada village of Araku man­ der the Wayanad Wildlife within every 3 km, as speci­ envisaged by the Act, which mentary education.” dal in Visakhapatnam Sanctuary on Tuesday. fied in Rule 6 (1) of the Right could not be trampled upon The Division Benches had district. Sanctuary officials arrest­ of Children to Free and Com­ by any State. held that there was no lapse Two persons aged ed truck driver Sameej, 30, pulsory Education (RTE) The HC slammed the Kerala The Bench slammed the in the implementation of the around 30 to 35 years from at Balussery in the Kozhi­ Act. government for the latter’s government for the latter’s RTE Act and that the provi­ Madagada village expe­ kode district, in connection The Bench comprising stand that it was not feasible stand that it was not feasible sion of easy transport of chil­ rienced anthrax symptoms with the incident, which oc­ Veterinary experts examining the she­elephant after Justice V. Chithambaresh, to upgrade existing schools. to upgrade existing schools dren to another school was after allegedly consuming curred around 7.30 p.m. As tranquillising it. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Justice Alexander Thomas or start new schools, and sufficient, instead of esta­ unprocessed meat sold in a a herd of elephants was and Justice Ashok Menon of its obligation under the that the provision of tran­ blishing new schools or up­ weekly shandy about a crossing the Kozhikode­Kol­ officials arrested him later at pound fracture on the right made the observation while Act on the premise that a sportation facilities for stu­ grading existing ones. week ago. legal National Highway 766 Thakarappady and seized shoulder and its ribs might deciding on upgrading is­ child could get a transfer to dents to reach other schools The Full Bench also or­ The officials shifted the inside the sanctuary, the the truck. also be broken, the sources sues related to lower and up­ another school for complet­ would suffice. dered the government to duo to the King George steel rack­laden truck A team of experts led by said. The animal was admi­ per primary schools under ing his or her elementary The court pointed out that deal with the applications gi­ Hospital here after initial rammed the elephant, sanc­ forest veterinary surgeon nistered a revival injection the RTE Act referred to it by education, and that the head the government could not ven by various school man­ treatment at Araku. tuary sources said. Arun Zachariah examined to which it responded well. a Division Bench. teacher or teacher in charge take refuge under Rule 6(4) agements seeking to up­ The hospital authorities Though the truck driver the jumbo and gave first aid A special team was constitut­ The Bench further ob­ of the schools where the of the Rules (Provision for grade their existing schools have sent the samples to did not stop the vehicle after after tranquillising it. ed to monitor the movement served that the State govern­ child had studied should im­ ensuring transport facility) in the light of its observa­ the microbiology depart­ the incident, the sanctuary The elephant had a com­ of the herd, the sources said. ment could not wriggle out mediately issue transfer from establishing schools for tions. ment for tests.

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Bengal port records country’s highest sea level rise in 50 years

Four ports in India recorded a higher last century. Going by the da­ causing gradual loss of coas­ causes melting of ice and gla­ ta from the Ministry of Earth tal land to sea,” the Ministry ciers, but also leads to inter­ sea­level rise than the global average Sciences, four ports — Dia­ said in response to a ques­ nal expansion of water in mond Harbour, Kandla, Hal­ tion by MPs Saugata Roy and oceans and thus a rise in the Shiv Sahay Singh Harbour the rise was almost dia and Port Blair — recorded Anto Antony. sea level. On results of stu­ Swara Bhaskar takes Kolkata Twitter user to task five times higher at 5.16 mm a higher sea level rise than The sea level rise is higher dies on the impact of global MUMBAI Of the major ports in India, per year. The mean sea level the global average. Chennai in West Bengal, particularly warming, the Ministry said Actor Swara Bhaskar reached Diamond Harbour in West rise for Diamond Harbour and Mumbai recorded a sea in the Sunderbans delta be­ heavy rainfall and tempera­ out to the Mumbai Police on Bengal located at the mouth was based on recordings ov­ level rise far below the global cause of the deltaic sediment ture extremes like heat Wednesday after a Twitter of river Hooghly has record­ er the period between 1948 and the national averages at deposition as a result of the waves and shifts in semi­arid user, Deepak Tiwari, made ed the maximum sea level in­ to 2005. This is followed by 0.33 mm per year (1916­ mixing of fresh water and sa­ regions were some recent derogatory comments. The crease, according to data ta­ Kandla port in Gujarat where 2005) and 0.74 mm (1878­ line water, according to ex­ findings which may have lin­ police assured her of prompt bled in the Lok Sabha by the the sea level rise was 3.18 2005) respectively. perts. kages with climate change action. “I am now in the Ministry of Earth Sciences. (1950 to 2005), followed by Sea fury: Rising water levels and coastal erosion pose major “Rising sea levels can exa­ In response to another and global warming. process of filing an official While recent studies re­ Haldia in West Bengal, which threats to people living in coastal areas. * THULASI KAKKAT cerbate the impacts of coas­ question related to global “Studies over Indian re­ complaint with my local veal that sea level rise in the recorded a sea level rise of tal hazards such as storm warming by Lok Sabha MPs gion have shown a warming police station,” she wrote. country has been estimated 2.89 mm a year (1972 to Sea level rise is said to be tional Panel on Climate surge, tsunami, coastal Shivkumar C. Udasi and Ka­ trend of 0.6°C on all India av­ to be 1.3 mm per year along 2005). Port Blair also record­ linked with global warming Change, the global sea level floods, high waves and coas­ nakmal Katara, the Ministry erage basis, mainly contri­ Dalit man killed by upper India’s coasts during the last ed a sea level rise of 2.20 mm and as per the fifth assess­ was rising at an average rate tal erosion in the low lying of Earth Sciences explained buted by maximum temper­ caste in-laws in Gujarat 40­50 years, at Diamond per year (1916­1964). ment report of the Interna­ of 1.8 mm per year over the coastal areas in addition to that global warming not only atures,” the Ministry said. AHMEDABAD A 25­year­old Dalit man was murdered by his wife’s father and other relatives in Varmor Weather Watch village of Ahmedabad district. Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday According to police, Haresh Kumar Solanki was killed by Single tribunal to hear water disputes eight men outside his wife Urmila’s house in the presence of a women’s The Inter­State River Water Disputes Bill also proposes to resolve such conflicts within 18 months helpline team. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tled by negotiations, the Government for amicably Receiving threats after NEW DELHI Central Government consti­ resolving inter­State water plaint: Manisha Gulati The Union Cabinet has ap­ tutes a Water Disputes Tri­ disputes within 18 months. CHANDIGARH proved the Inter­State River bunal for the adjudication Any dispute that cannot be Punjab State Commission for Water Disputes (Amend­ of the water dispute,” said a settled by negotiations Women Chairperson Manisha ment) Bill, 2019 that will press note. would be referred to the tri­ Gulati on Wednesday said help adjudicate disputes re­ There are about a dozen bunal for its adjudication. that after the police lating to waters of inter­ tribunals that now exist to The dispute so referred to complaint against singer Honey Singh for vulgar lyrics, State rivers and river val­ resolve disputes among the tribunal shall be as­ she had been receiving leys. A version of this Bill States on sharing water signed by the chairperson threats on social media. was first introduced in the from rivers common to of the tribunal to a Bench of Lok Sabha in 2017 but it them. The standalone tribu­ the tribunal for adjudica­ BJP MLA dances subsequently lapsed. nal so envisaged will have a tion. with guns in hands The Bill seeks to amend permanent establishment, The Bill can also affect DEHRADUN the Inter State River Water Reality check: A file photo of officials inspecting water level office space and infrastruc­ the composition of the The BJP has issued a notice to Disputes Act, 1956 to in the Cauvery near its entry point in Tamil Nadu. ture so as to obviate with members of various tribu­ Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 17.00 Hrs) its suspended BJP MLA from streamline the adjudication the need to set up a sepa­ nals, and has a provision to Uttarakhand, Kunwar Pranav Forecast for Thursday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall at isolated of inter­State river water tribunal with different any State Government in rate tribunal for each water have a technical expert as places over West Uttar Pradesh and Nagaland, Manipur, Singh Champion, after a video disputes. Benches, and the setting of respect of any water dispute dispute ­ a time consuming the head of the tribunal. Mizoram & Tripura; heavy rainfall at isolated places over Hi­ showing him dancing with strict timelines for on the inter­State rivers and process. Currently all tribunals are machal Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Coastal & South Interior guns in hands during a get­ Adjudication process adjudication. the Central Government is The Bill also proposes a staffed by members of the Karnataka and Konkan & Goa. together went viral. In the A key feature of the Bill is “When any request un­ of the opinion that the wa­ Dispute Resolution Com­ judiciary, nominated by the city rain max min city rain max min video, he is purportedly seen the constitution of a single der the Act is received from ter dispute cannot be set­ mittee set up by the Central Chief Justice. Agartala...... 0.3.... 31.2.... 26.4 Kozhikode ...... 81.4.... 28.2.... 22.0 dancing to a popular Ahmedabad...... —.... 38.4.... 26.5 Kurnool...... —.... 36.2.... 25.7 Bollywood number. Aizwal ...... 30.0.... 22.9.... 19.9 Lucknow...... 20.8.... 29.2.... 24.4 PTI Allahabad ...... 13.3.... 29.2.... 26.0 Madurai...... 0.2.... 40.6.... 25.6 Bengaluru...... —.... 29.6.... 21.1 Mangaluru...... 66.9.... 30.1.... 21.0 OTHER KEY DECISIONS Bhopal...... —.... 32.1.... 24.4 Mumbai...... 7.... 28.3.... 26.2 Bhubaneswar .....17.7...... —.... 25.6 Mysuru...... —.... 29.0.... 19.7 School gets Chandigarh ...... 29.1.... 31.8.... 27.0 New Delhi ...... 0.4.... 37.2.... 28.2 Chennai ...... 4.4.... 39.2.... 26.4 Patna ...... 61.6.... 30.8.... 25.4 Bill to tackle Green light for RPF set to get Death penalty Support for Coimbatore...... —.... 33.0.... 22.0 Port Blair ...... —....31.6.... 25.3 show­cause Dehradun...... 42.0.... 33.7.... 23.0 Puducherry...... 30.6.... 37.0.... 24.6 ponzi scams rural roads Group A status for child abuse transgenders Gangtok...... 3.6.... 20.0.... 18.1 Pune ...... 11.8.... 27.2.... 22.2 Goa ...... 34.8.... 31.5.... 23.9 Raipur ...... —.... 32.7.... 24.8 notice for road Guwahati ...... 50.3.... 28.2.... 24.4 Ranchi...... —.... 31.6.... 24.4 Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Hubballi...... —.... 24.0.... 21.0 Shillong...... 192.4.... 19.7.... 17.8 blockade NEW DELHI NEW DELHI NEW DELHI NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Hyderabad ...... —.... 34.3.... 24.3 Shimla...... 2.2.... 24.5.... 17.0 Imphal...... 6.8.... 23.7.... 26.0 Srinagar ...... —.... 32.2.... 19.7 The Union The Cabinet The Union The Union The Union Jaipur...... —.... 38.0.... 27.6 Trivandrum ...... 3.8.... 29.6.... 23.2 Special Correspondent Cabinet, Committee Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet Kochi...... 10.2.... 31.4.... 24.4 Tiruchi ...... —.... 39.0.... 26.4 Guwahati Kohima...... 2.8.... 22.0.... 17.4 Vijayawada...... —.... 39.1.... 28.5 chaired by on accorded approved an approved the Kolkata...... —.... 34.3.... 28.1 Visakhapatnam ...... —.... 31.4.... 28.4 The Hailakandi district ad­ Prime Economic Organised amendment Transgender (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) ministration in southern Minister Affairs Group A to the Persons Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday Assam has served a 48­ Narendra Modi, on approved the third phase Service status to the Protection of Children (Protection of Rights) Bill, CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE * hour show­cause notice to Wednesday approved of the Pradhan Mantri Railway Protection Force. from Sexual Offences Act, 2019, a previous version of Ahmedabad ...... 42 159 .70 ....69 .....— .... In observation made at Banning of Unregulated Gram Sadak Yojana “Grant of status to RPF will 2012. The Bill, which had which had lapsed when Bengaluru...... 27 .43 .70 ..... — ...96 ....* 4.00 p.m., Ballabgarh, a private school for letting Chennai ...... 7 .24 .52 ....72 .....— ....* Haryana, recorded an its students take part in a Deposit Schemes Bill, (PMGSY­III) under which end stagnation, improve been introduced earlier the Lok Sabha was Delhi ...... 17 .32 .41 ....86 .259 ....* overall air quality index * (AQI) score of 279, road blockade. The stu­ 2019, to tackle the menace 1.25 lakh km of roads in career progression of the but lapsed in Parliament dissolved in May. The Bill Hyderabad ...... 5 ...— .15 ....23 ...32 .... indicating an unhealthy of ponzi schemes in the rural areas will be officers and keep up their when the Lok Sabha was looks at providing social, Kolkata...... 8 .48 .13 ....62 ...86 ....* level of pollution. In dents of Blue Flowers En­ Lucknow...... 9 .22 110 ....53 .....— ....* contrast, Pune, glish Medium Higher Se­ country. The Bill, which upgraded at an estimated motivational level,” an dissolved in May, was economic and educational Mumbai ...... — .23 100 ....19 ...43 ....* Maharashtra, recorded a healthy AQI score of 19. condary School blocked will replace the Banning of cost of ₹80,250 crore by official release said. Earlier approved by the Cabinet empowerment to Pune...... — ...8 .23 ....14 ...14 ....* Vishakhapatnam 13 .50 .45 ....59 .123 ....* Halkandi’s Rabindra Sarani Unregulated Deposit 2024­25. “This would this month, the benefits chaired by PM Narendra transgender persons, a road on Tuesday, where Schemes Ordinance, 2019, facilitate easy and faster were extended to Central Modi, Information and statement said. Sending Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, the school is located, de­ will be introduced in the movement to and from Reserve Police Force, Broadcasting Minister the Bill to the Parliament making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air manding its repairs. Ho­ ongoing session of the Gramin Agricultural Border Security Force, Prakash Javadekar said. again was on the first particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues wever, officials said that Parliament. “SEBI and RBI Markets (GrAMs), higher Central Industrial Security The Bill provides for 100­day agenda of the and monuments. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by the Public Works Depart­ approved deposits will be secondary schools and Force, Indo­Tibetan stringent punishment, Narendra Modi reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. ment had already given a allowed,” Union Minister hospitals,” an official Border Police and including death, for sexual government’s second CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to written assurance to the Prakash Javadekar said. statement said. Sashastra Seema Bal. assault of children. term. critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. school to repair the road by PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, July 31. nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced Further, the chairper­ lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease son of the district’s Child Welfare Committee filed an Contempt plea against IMA, Centre for June strike FIR against the school prin­ cipal for violation of child Legal Correspondent strike by doctors on June 17, in Kolkata. The petition filed The petition said that des­ rights under the Juvenile NEW DELHI 2019. by an NGO, People for Better pite the ‘repeated and clear Justice Act. A contempt petition has The strike was held to de­ Treatment, said that the calls from the highest court Four other schools were been filed in the Supreme monstrate solidarity with strike was in violation of a of the land,’ doctors across also issued show­cause Court against the Indian the junior doctors of West 2014 order by the SC which India have continued to re­ notices for making their Medical Association for call­ Bengal in their protest had “categorically held that sort to strikes, disrupting students participate in the ing — and the Centre for not against assault on two junior doctors should not resort to medical services across the rally. preventing — a nationwide doctors at the NRS Hospital strike under any condition.” country. IAF to adopt ASRAAM Article 370: SC may consider missile for fighter fleet early hearing It is currently undergoing integration Press Trust of India Dinakar Peri der the wing. New Delhi New Delhi The missile was shortlist­ The Supreme Court on The Indian Air Force (IAF) is ed through a tender and Wednesday said it would looking to adopt a new Eu­ MBDA is working with Hin­ consider the plea seeking ropean visual range air­to­ dustan Aeronautics Limited urgent hearing of a PIL pe­ air missile across its fighter on the integration, which tition challenging the con­ fleet. would later do further mod­ stitutional validity of Arti­ The Advanced Short ifications. “HAL is in talks cle 370 which grants Range Air­to­Air Missile of with MDBA for integrating special status to Jammu European missile­maker the missile on the LCA and and Kashmir and limits MBDA has been approved the Su­30MKI as well. It will Parliament’s power to for Jaguar jets. be taken up after the Jaguar make laws for the State. A The IAF was looking to in­ integration,” the source Bench comprising Chief tegrate it on the Su­30 MKIs added. Justice Ranjan Gogoi and and the indigenous Light ASRAAM is widely used Justices Deepak Gupta and Combat Aircraft as well, de­ as a Within Visual Range Aniruddha Bose took note fence sources said. (WVR) air dominance mis­ of the submission of BJP “The ASRAAM has been sile with a range of over leader and lawyer Ashwini chosen for the Jaguar and is 25km. Upadhyay that his PIL be currently undergoing inte­ HAL had built about 145 listed for an urgent hear­ gration. First firing is ex­ Jaguars for the IAF, of which ing. pected by year­end,” a de­ around 120 are in service, “File a memo. We will fence source said. and 80 jets will continue till see,” the Bench said. It would be the first over­ 2025 to 2030. On February 18 this year the­wing­launched missile A plan to get a more po­ as well, he had mentioned in the IAF inventory. All mis­ werful engine has been long the PIL for urgent listing siles are now fired from un­ delayed. for the hearing. 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DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A demographic window of opportunity In India, investing in the laggard States will ensure their role as being the greatest contributors of the future fertility decline, which is good porated in broader development dependency ratio is still low. But news by all counts. policies. this opportunity only lasts for 20 Caution needed Like it or not, India will reign as Population growth in the north to 30 years. For States such as Ker­ the most populous country and central parts of India is far ala and Tamil Nadu which expe­ Supreme Court decision on the Rohingya’s throughout most of the 21st centu­ greater than that in s outh India. rienced fertility decline early, this Sonalde Desai ry. Whether we adjust to this de­ What should we do about the old window of opportunity is already status must protect those fleeing persecution mographic destiny in a way that policies aimed at not rewarding past. he Supreme Court’s decision to examine the contributes to the long­term wel­ States that fail to control popula­ As the United Nations Popula­ question whether illegal immigrants are entitled ast month, the United Na­ fare of the nation or not depends tion growth? These policies in­ tion Fund estimates, over the next Tto refugee status needs to be welcomed, but with tions released the 26th revi­ on how we deal with three critical clude using the 1971 population to 20 years, the window of opportun­ sion of World Population issues. allocate seats for the Lok Sabha ity will be open for moderate caution. It is debatable whether the Centre is right in L Prospects and forecast that India and for Centre­State allocation un­ achievers such as Karnataka, Ha­

claiming that this has emerged as a substantial question will overtake China as the most Population control GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO der various Finance Commissions. ryana and Jammu & Kashmir. As of law in the context of the Rohingya Muslims from populous country by 2027. The on­ First, do we need to adopt strin­ tility Rate (TFR) for the poorest In a departure from this practice, the demographic window of op­ Myanmar. For, it is fairly obvious that those escaping ly surprise associated with this fo­ gent population control policies? women was 3.2 compared to only the 15th Finance Commission is ex­ portunity closes for these States, it persecution in their home country are invariably un­ recast is the way it was covered by History tells us that unless the In­ 1.5 for the richest quintile in 2015­ pected to use the 2011 Census for will open for Uttar Pradesh, Bihar documented. It logically follows that those fleeing con­ the media. Is this good news or dian state can and chooses to act 16. To get to TFR of 1.5, a substan­ making its recommendations. This and other States that are the last to ditions of war or conflict will have to be treated as refu­ bad news? Is it news at all? with the ruthlessness of China, the tial proportion of the population has led to vociferous protests from enter fertility transition. This sug­ Is this news? Not really. We have government has few weapons in among the top 40% must stop at the southern States as the feeling gests that workers of Bihar will be gees first before their cases can be examined in detail, known for a long time that India is its arsenal. Almost all weapons one child. is that they are being penalised for supporting the ageing population and deemed fit for deportation as illegal entrants. It will destined to be the most populous that can be used in a democratic In western societies, low fertili­ better performance in reducing of Kerala in 20 years. be strange if any court holds that no illegal immigrant is country in the world. Population nation, have already been de­ ty is associated with the conflict fertility. entitled to refugee status. That would amount to a per­ projections are developed using ployed. These include restriction that working women face between There is reason for their con­ The focus areas verse denial of the very existence of refugees as a class. existing population and by adjust­ of maternity leave and other ma­ work and child rearing and the in­ cern. Between the 1971 and 2011 In order to maximise the demo­ What the government is perhaps looking for is a deci­ ing for expected births, deaths and ternity benefits for first two births dividual’s desire to enjoy a child­ Censuses, the population of Kerala graphic dividend, we must invest sion holding that it can choose the class of illegal immi­ migration. For short­term projec­ only and disqualification from free life. Not so for Indian couples. grew by 56% compared to about in the education and health of the grants it wishes to treat as refugees; and that it can deny tions, the biggest impact comes panchayat elections for people In India, couples with one child do 140% growth for Bihar, Uttar Pra­ workforce, particularly in States from an existing population, par­ with more than two children in not consume more nor are women desh and Madhya Pradesh. A whose demographic window of that status to any section it deems a threat to national ticularly women in childbearing some States along with minor in­ in these families more likely to move to use the 2011 Census for opportunity is still more than a de­ security or is likely to strain local resources. The court’s ages. Having instituted a one­child centives for sterilisation. work. My research with demogra­ funds allocation will favour the cade away. Staying fixated on the decision to go into the issue, therefore, offers an oppor­ policy in 1979, China’s female pop­ As demographer Judith Blake pher Alaka Basu from Cornell Un­ north­central States compared to notion that revising S tate alloca­ tunity to clarify India’s approach to the refugee ques­ ulation in peak reproductive ages noted, people have children, not iversity shows that it is a desire to Kerala and Tamil Nadu. tion of Central resources based on tion, which has generally been favourable to vulnerable (between 15 and 39 years) is esti­ birth rates and few incentives or invest in their children’s education However, continuing to stay current population rather than entrants, but is stridently hostile to the Rohingya. mated at 235 million (2019) com­ disincentives are powerful enough and future prospects that seems to with a 1971 Census­based alloca­ population from 1971 punishes India is not a signatory to the UN Convention on the pared to 253 million for India. to overcome the desire for chil­ drive people to stop at one child. tion would be a mistake. Cross­ States with successful population Thus, even if India could institute dren. Ground­level research by Richer individuals see greater po­ State subsidies come in many policies is shortsighted. This is be­ Status of Refugees, 1951, and a Protocol adopted in 1967 a policy that reduces its fertility former Chief Secretary of Madhya tential for ensuring admission to forms; Centre­State transfers is but cause current laggards will be the on the subject. However, since Independence it has by rate to the Chinese level, India will Pradesh Nirmala Buch found that good colleges and better jobs for one. Incomes generated by work­ greatest contributors of the future and large adhered to the larger humanitarian principles overtake China as the most popu­ individuals who wanted larger fa­ their children, inspiring them to li­ ers in one State may also provide for everyone, particularly for age­ underlying these instruments. In this backdrop, it is as­ lous country. milies either circumvented the res­ mit their family size. Thus, im­ the tax revenues that support resi­ ing populations of early achievers. tonishing that the present regime is determined to de­ The element of surprise comes trictions or went ahead regardless proving education and ensuring dents in another State. The vary­ Enhancing their productivity will port the Rohingya, in utter disregard of the danger to from the date by which this mo­ of the consequences. As one of her that access to good jobs is open to ing pace of onset and end of demo­ benefit everyone. their lives in Myanmar, and in violation of the principle mentous event is expected. The informants noted, “The sar­ all may also spur even poorer hou­ graphic transition creates intricate It is time for India to accept the UN revises its population projec­ panch’s post is not going to sup­ seholds into having fewer children links between workers in Haryana fact that being the most populous of non­refoulement, the norm that prohibits states from tions every two years. In 2015, it port me during my old age, but my and investing their hopes in the today and retirees in Kerala and nation is its destiny. It must work forcibly returning refugees to conditions that caused was predicted that India would son will. It does not really matter if success of their only daughter or between future workers in Uttar towards enhancing the lives of its them to flee their homes in the first place. It will be am­ overtake China in 2022, but in the I lose the post of sarpanch.” son. Provision of safe and easily Pradesh and children in Tamil Na­ current and future citizens. oral and unjust if this most vulnerable group from 2019 projections it is 2027. The UN Second, if punitive actions accessible contraceptive services du. Myanmar’s Rakhine state, numbering about 40,000 in has revised India’s expected popu­ won’t work, we must encourage will complete this virtuous cycle. Demographic dividend provid­ Sonalde Desai is Professor of Sociology, India now, is denied refugee status. With the Centre tak­ lation size in 2050 downward from people to have smaller families vo­ ed by the increasing share of work­ University of Maryland and Professor and ing a stand against treating them as refugees, a positive 1,705 million in 2015 projections to luntarily. There are sharp diffe­ Population and policy ing age adults is a temporary Centre Director, NCAER-National Data 1,639 million in 2019 projections. rences in fertility among different Third, we must change our mind­ phase during which child depen­ Innovation Centre. The views expressed ruling is needed from the apex court to prevent their This is due to faster than expected socio­economic groups. Total Fer­ set about how population is incor­ dency ratio is falling and old­age are personal forcible deportation. The government’s keenness to de­ port the Rohingya is rooted in the technicalities of its ci­ tizenship law. It defines “illegal immigrant” as any fo­ reigner entering India without valid travel documents, Turning down the heat or overstays a permitted period of stay. It rules out giv­ ing citizenship by registration to such illegal immi­ There is enormous potential in mitigating climate change through forest restoration grants. The amendments it proposes to the Citizenship lent through additional forest and which to remove carbon. If done as the wood is burned. Act do not cover Muslim immigrants and are limited to tree cover by the year 2030. Trees correctly, the green cover increase Besides, some of the trees se­ persecuted Afghan, Bangladeshi and Pakistani minori­ and other vegetation fix carbon as will provide many other benefits: lected for the plantations may rely ties. India should work with the world community on part of photosynthesis and soil too it will improve water quality, store on aquifers whose water becomes the voluntary repatriation of the Rohingya and not bes­ holds organic carbon from plants water in wetlands, prevent soil more and more precious with mirch its fine record of humane treatment of refugees and animals. The amount of soil erosion, protect biodiversity, and greater warming. Such forms of Sujatha Byravan carbon varies with land manage­ potentially provide new jobs. The green cover, therefore, do not mi­ by pursuing the deportation option without relent. ment practices, farming methods, authors estimate that allowing tigate climate change and also do soil nutrition and temperature. land to be converted into forests not improve biodiversity or pro­ uring the run­up to the Pa­ naturally will sequester 42 times vide related benefits. India, there­ Grecian churn ris climate change meeting Enhancing green cover the carbon compared to land con­ fore, needs first to ensure that de­ Greece under Mr. Mitsotakis is set for Din 2015 (COP­21) under the India has yet to determine how its verted to plantation, or six times forestation is curtailed to the United Nations Framework Con­ carbon sink objectives can be met. for land converted to agroforestry. maximum extent. Second, the a period of stability and continuity vention on Climate Change, each In a recent study, the Forest Sur­ GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Another study in Science by area allocated to the restoration of he verdict in Sunday’s Greek elections affords a country decided the level and kind vey of India (FSI) has estimated, will be by restoring forests and af­ Jean­François Bastin and col­ impaired and open forests and rare comfort for Europe’s centrists, who, argua­ of effort it would undertake to along with the costs involved, the forestation on wastelands, with a leagues estimates that it is possible wastelands in the FSI report bly with the exception of Spain in April, have of solve the global problem of cli­ opportunities and potential ac­ modest rise in total green cover. to add 0.9 billion hectares of cano­ should be focussed entirely on nat­ T mate change. These actions were tions for additional forest and tree The FSI study has three scena­ py cover worldwide, potentially ural forests and agroforestry. late ceded ground to populist forces. The conservative later referred to as nationally de­ cover to meet the NDC target . Gi­ rios, representing different levels mitigating up to two­thirds of his­ While using a carbon lens to centre­right New Democracy party of Prime Minister termined contributions (NDCs). ven that forest and green cover al­ of increase in forest and tree cov­ torical greenhouse gas emissions. view forests has potential dangers, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has won 158 out of the 300 seats. India made a number of promis­ ready show a gradual increase in er. For example, 50%, 60% or 70% This would then prevent or delay involving local people and plant­ The left­wing Syriza party of outgoing premier Alexis es that would lead to the reduction recent years, one might use this in­ of impaired forests could be res­ the worst impacts from climate ing indigenous tree varieties Tsipras was left with 86 seats. Critical support for Mr. of greenhouse gas emissions, or crease as part of the contribution tored. The total increase in the car­ change. would also reduce likely difficul­ Tsipras could not be ruled out from MeRA25, the Greek mitigation, and actions to adapt to towards the NDC. Or one might bon sink in these scenarios could ties. Instead of plantations, grow­ wing of Europe’s anti­establishment DiEM 25, of ex­fi­ living in a warmer world, or adap­ think of the additional 2.5­3 billion be 1.63, 2.51 or 3.39 billion tonnes Restoration type is key ing food forests managed by local tation. Many of its described pro­ tonnes of CO 2 equivalent sink as of CO2 equivalent by 2030, at costs Taken together, these studies indi­ communities would have addition­ nance minister Yanis Varoufakis; it has nine seats. But grammes and plans were intended having to be above the back­ varying from about ₹1.14 to ₹2.46 cate that while there is enormous al co­benefits. Once natural forests there is another dimension to this overall sense of polit­ to enable India to move to a cli­ ground or business­as­usual in­ lakh crore . These figures show potential in mitigating climate are established, they need to be ical balance and stability in Parliament. Golden Dawn, mate­friendly sustainable develop­ crease. that the policy has to be at least at change through forest restoration, protected. Protecting and nurtur­ the anti­Muslim party that ranked third in the last elec­ ment pathway. Primarily, by 2030, The additional increase in car­ a medium level of increase to at­ the amount of carbon stored de­ ing public lands while preventing tions, has been convincingly rejected by voters, with there will be reductions in the bon sinks, as recommended in this tain the stated NDC targets. pends on the type of forest resto­ their private enclosure is therefore less than the requisite vote share to enter the legisla­ emissions intensity of the GDP by report, is to be achieved by the fol­ ration carried out. The most effec­ paramount. Active forest manage­ ture. The potential for mischief from hardline national­ about a third and a total of 40% of lowing ways: restoring impaired Natural forests tive way is through natural forest ment by local people has a long the installed capacity for electrici­ and open forests; afforesting was­ A recent study in Nature by Simon regeneration with appropriate in­ history in India and needs to ex­ ist parties was on display only recently. In January, Mr. ty will be from non­fossil fuel telands; agro­forestry; through Lewis and colleagues provides in­ stitutions to facilitate the process. pand to meet climate, environ­ Tsipras’s government narrowly survived a vote of confi­ sources. India also promised an green corridors, plantations along sights into what works well with Vast monocultures of plantations ment and social justice goals. dence after Independent Greeks, a coalition partner, additional carbon sink — a means railways, canals, other roads, on regard to green cover. Locking up are being proposed in some coun­ withdrew support, refusing to back the renaming of the to absorb carbon dioxide from the railway sidings and rivers; and via the carbon from the atmosphere tries, including in India, but these Sujatha Byravan is a scientist who studies former Yugoslavian state as Northern Macedonia. Given atmosphere — of 2.5 to 3 billion urban green spaces. Close to three in trees, ground vegetation and hold very little carbon; when they science, technology and development the influx of immigrants and the refugee crisis, the rul­ tonnes of carbon dioxide equiva­ quarters of the increase (72.3 %) soils is one of the safest ways with are harvested, carbon is released policy ing New Democracy and Opposition Syriza party both have a moral responsibility to consolidate the middle LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ground. Mr. Mitsotakis has assumed charge under rela­ tively benign conditions . Four years ago, Greece was Reining in hate has worked on predictable funds allocated under strengthening the workforce. system in place. Recycling bees. Therefore, using bees bearing the brunt of an international bailout, biting aus­ The law­enforcers being lines: first denial, then POSHAN Abhiyaan was used Governance can be termed must go hand­in­hand with has potential as a control terity measures and a collapsing banking system while mute is what ends up symbolic arrests, later by governments betrays the ‘good’ only when it banishes market, production and job strategy in Sri Lanka, India, on the verge of being ejected from Europe’s single cur­ emboldening the fringe to customary bails, protracted sheer insensitivity of the hunger and starvation. The opportunities. Nepal and Thailand. rency zone. That prospect is way behind, as the general tease, torment and even trials with endless authorities towards the poor must also be valued like Sreenuj C.M., Beehive fences are gaining consensus is that the euro is destined to succeed, for fai­ take a toll on lives (Editorial adjournments and, finally, a malnutrition­afflicted. The the rest of the population Thalassery, Kannur, Kerala popularity in Africa, costing lure would be too costly. page, “The growing power much­delayed conviction, if cascading tendency of a since attaching less value to a fraction of what an Athens last year managed to exit the €86­billion bai­ of the lumpen”, July 10.) at all. Public memory is short transmission of poverty from their lives is one unstated Elephant repellant electrified fence would, The episodes of lynching and a young son lost. Who mother to children reason why their nutritional Elephants are afraid of bees according to an NYT article. lout programme, but conditions in 2019 are far from are a blot on the face of a will compensate his family continues, which is proof needs are not taken care of and there are numerous case Farmers also have a new ideal. Economic growth is at a tepid 2% rateas the pop­ free, democratic India. If for the irretrievable loss? So enough that the as they should be. studies across the world to source of income from ulation continues to be weighed down by reforms to the the new slogan of the far no senior minister or government’s efforts have G. David Milton, show that the world’s largest selling honey besides once generous pension system and spending cuts to the government, ‘Sab ka saath, even the Prime Minister has had only peripheral impact. Maruthancode, Tamil Nadu land­based animal is terrified boosting the role of bees as education and health­care budgets. The roughly 18% Sab ka vikas, Sab ka spoken out consistently to Ayyasseri Raveendranath, of the tiny insect. While a top pollinators. As far as the unemployment rate is by far the highest in the Euro­ vishwas’ is to have any reassure the minorities. Civil Aranmula, Kerala What about recycling? bee sting does not affect the strategy of sound pean Union. Mr. Mitsotakis, the Harvard­educated meaning, quick steps need society must make its Ever since the Union Budget thick hide, it is the stings to amplification is concerned, to be initiated to win back presence felt especially as ■ The inherited laid out the path for electric the elephant’s most sensitive which has been elaborated in former banker, is said to be well regarded in the Brus­ the trust of all who are the Opposition is in disarray. dehumanising poverty vehicular transportation, areas, namely its trunk, the report, “Honour for ‘Plan sels establishment. The inference is that the economic being targeted. Dr. Kuruvilla Varkey, explains the persistence of there has been debate on mouth and eyes, that hurt Bee’ that helped save path of the past four years would not be derailed. The C.V. Aravind, Oddanchatram, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu malnutrition on a large scale. how this will affect the the most. Research has jumbos” (July 10), the fact is concern for Greeks is over whether Mr. Mitsotakis can Bengaluru Children born in automobile industry and its shown that in Africa, placing that elephants are smart and navigate what seems a difficult road ahead without Malnutrition trap impecunious circumstances associated peripheral beehives every 30 m or so is quickly learn that the threat overly adding to their woes. Athens’s strategic Mediter­ ■ Those from the minority The chest­thumping around suffer the most from markets. However, there has effective in keeping 80% of from a recording of buzzing ranean location lends greater heft to the EU’s approach community are beaten up, the vision of a $5 trillion malnutrition. It is all the been little debate on the African elephants away from bees is unreal. Therefore forced to chant a religious economy for India has no more reason for importance of (lithium) farmland. A paper in Current investing in the real thing on the external policy front. Mr. Mitsotakis must lever­ slogan and, then lynched. meaning if it doesn’t touch governments to intervene to battery recycling and the Biology (2018), titled “Wild works best as a few stings age the goodwill he apparently enjoys with Brussels to What response do such the poorest and the deprived provide adequate nutrition issue of tackling solid waste. Sri Lankan elephants retreat reinforce its efficacy. shape an asylum policy underpinned by enlightened incidents evoke in the hearts in a positive way (OpEd page, to all. Funds for food to all If EV technology is to have a from the sound of disturbed Nadikerianda Chinnappa, self­interest and humaneness. As Greece makes a fresh of the right­thinking Indian? “The malaise of yield great returns and help bright and sustainable future Asian honey bees”, has Bengaluru start, its leaders should temper the expectations. Strong and peaceful protests malnutrition”, July 10) The in unlocking the full in India, there has to be a shown that the Asian more letters online: are needed. The government grim fact that only 16% of potential of citizens besides complete product lifecycle elephant is also scared of www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 OPED 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Nehru and the Kashmir quandary Deepening #MeToo The former PM erred in having too much confidence in the sense of justice of his successors A year after an actor inspired women to speak up against harassment, it’s critical to assess the gains and challenges rather than just its symptoms. The Maharaja’s delay in choosing bet­ of the state of it) cannot be comparable to ex­ ween India and Pakistan prompted ploitation of women employees at workplac­ Pakistan to resort to military inter­ es by men in senior positions. vention. That its troops were dressed up in mufti should not distract us Settling personal scores D. Shyam Babu from that fact. Damini Chopra Former Chief Justice of the Bombay High Court, Sujata Manohar (who was part of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah ear­ On a fire­fighting mode bench that penned the Vishakha guidelines lier this month held India’s first After accepting the Maharaja’s in­ In the mid and late­1800s, social movements against sexual harassment at workplaces), Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, strument of accession, Nehru’s main in Europe for equal rights for women threw observed that many women were misusing responsible for the country being de­ task was to secure the safety of Hin­ up the word ‘feminism’, which traces its ori­ the #MeToo movement to shame men on so­ prived of one­third of Kashmir . Ex­ dus, especially in the Valley. Having gins to French. The suffrage movement in cial media and to settle personal scores. Ad­ cept for those who deify Nehru, most accomplished his goal, he had to end Britain in the early part of the 20th century ding allegations of a personal nature dilutes others readily agree to the obvious the war at a time and place of his was another component of women’s fight for the essence of a very powerful and necessary fact that Nehru was not infallible. Ho­ choosing. How else could he have equality across the world. movement. wever, it is ironical Mr. Shah and his achieved it without going to the Unit­ Over the years, this fight has gained mo­ Further, a lot of women anonymously party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, fo­ ed Nations? mentum, often with varying goals depend­ share stories about their harassers but refuse cus on an area of Nehru’s alleged cul­ He was right in his likely assess­ ing on the cultural traditions and the degree to take further legal or police action. This pability — his handling of the Kash­ ment that Hindus wouldn’t be safe in of prevalence of patriarchy in different socie­ raises questions on the ingenuity of their mir question — on which the latter Pakistan and Muslims would be bet­ ties. Various instances have inspired women claims. In a recent example, an aspiring ac­ perhaps deserves their indulgences ter off in India. His assessment was to collectively get together and assert their tor filed a complaint against a noted director, and empathy. proved right during his time. But the rights — to create a combined voice that but then withdrew it. What must one, then, think of A measured handshake: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with fire­fighting nature of Nehru’s ac­ strongly advocates the impending need to Such actions not only allow the men in when one thinks of Kashmir? Is it a Kashmir’s Maharaja Hari Singh in Srinagar in May 1948. * THE HINDU PHOTO ARCHIVES tions in 1947­48 should have been ad­ view them as equal to men. question to go scot­free, but also cast a sha­ stolen land? Or a symptom of Hindu­ ditionally followed up with measures In the current world, there are strong dow on the veracity of the victims’ claims. If Muslim rivalry? Or a case of cross­ Further, if one were to examine There is truth in both explanations. of restoration and rehabilitation, stances that women are taking to support an untoward incident did occur, the sufferer border terrorism? Or perhaps a bat­ Nehru’s actions in solely communal But they also mislead us into believ­ keeping Kashmir’s history and cul­ causes, such as the #MeToo movement that must be willing to follow the proper channel tleground for two nuclear rivals? terms, one wouldn’t be able to vi­ ing that the Kashmir problem started ture in context. started in the U.S. and took down power­ to lodge a complaint and seek support for Kashmir is all these and much sualise a better strategy for the Hin­ after 1947. The fact is that the cross­ Nehru and India had three policy players like Harvey Weinstein and Roy Price the same. It takes immense courage for a sur­ more. However, there are some as­ dus in the State than the one he border terrorism started much be­ options at their disposal during the and is now a force to reckon with in India. vivor to come out in public and relive her or­ pects to the muddle that have been chose. It must surely have crossed fore the Partition of the subcontinent initial years of the problem. They deal, and she must be believed and support­ ignored for far too long. Nehru’s mind that if he liberated when Muslims in British India used were: a) Use the window of oppor­ Why it is needed ed. PoK, it would create a situation to slip into the princely State of Jam­ tunity to relocate Hindus away from The abuse of power by men in high offices In such an atmosphere, false claims by a Nehru, the Kashmiri Pandit where Hindus in Jammu and Kash­ mu and Kashmir in solidarity with the Valley; that would have avoided has been an open secret. Many women few women cast a net of suspicion on all alle­ First, given Nehru’s well­known sec­ mir were further relegated to a mi­ fellow Muslims, who were getting a communal strife though democracy across industries have been subject to lewd gations. Using social media to name and ular credentials, we tend to treat him nority. raw deal from their ruler. Had we would have taken more time to fruc­ remarks, suggestive behaviour and assault — shame an alleged perpetrator just to settle a as less of a Hindu , if not looking at Here, it is not difficult to count the been cognisant of this fact, we would tify; b) Usher in secular and liberal and have often been penalised for rejecting personal score under the garb of #MeToo is a him as an outright anti­Hindu. In benefits of Nehru’s calibrated inac­ have focussed more on good gover­ democracy which would take care of such advances. disservice to women who genuinely need reality, on Kashmir, he acted not only tion. A unified Jammu and Kashmir nance and ensuring basic liberties to the interests of everyone; or c) Put in Tanushree Dutta’s decision, in September the aid of the movement. as a Hindu determined to protect his would have meant that even a bril­ the people in Kashmir. place an autocratic system that 2018, to speak out against her alleged exploi­ To achieve a balance, it is important fairly co­religionists, but as a Kashmiri liant gerrymandering of political to­ Two, after its accession into India, would be managed from New Delhi. ters from a decade ago gave courage to many assess each situation while taking a neutral Pandit. pography would not have helped the Jammu and Kashmir was pushed into The first option (evacuation) was women to be able to openly speak up against approach in dealing with both the parties in­ In 1947, the immediacy of the cri­ Kashmiri Hindus. Hence, the BJP’s adopting democracy whereas it nev­ never attempted as the government bullies who coerce them into compromising volved — the man and women. sis in Kashmir — the procrastination criticism of Nehru’s actions comes er had the institutions, the cultural thought it was not necessary and the situations. This article does not attempt to under­ of Maharaja Hari Singh to join either across as ironical. temperament and the robust civil so­ Centre was supposed to be following Many other women have been empo­ mine the need for women to assert them­ India or Pakistanand Pakistan’s inva­ ciety so essential for democracy to the second option (democracy) but wered by the #MeToo platform to be able to selves. Neither does it aim to question the sion of the state — dictated that Neh­ The Hyderabad parallel take roots and flourish. Recall how de facto ended up following the third take on powerful bullies. A big boon for femi­ legitimacy of all the complainants rallying ru and the Government of India do Prior to 1947, Jammu and Kashmir Hyderabad State (now Telangana) one (direct rule). nism, #MeToo has also given women a tool behind the #MeToo movement. It only aims everything to prevent the impending and Hyderabad State were mirror im­ suffered for decades from left­wing Unfortunately, for Nehru, taking against oppressors in influential positions. to argue that as we propose to create a more genocide of the Hindus in Jammu ages of each other: an autocratic rul­ extremism which was a counter to its possession of Jammu and Kashmir — As sexual harassment is considered a serious equal society, we must not let the oppressed and Kashmir. er from a minority community hav­ feudal set­up. minus the ‘one­third’ — was an end in offence when proven beyond reasonable assume the role of the oppressors. While Wouldn’t a secular Nehru have al­ ing put a heavy yoke on the majority Leaving aside a few honourable itself but not the beginning of a long doubt, the men stand to lose their sources of there are great tools at our disposal, they al­ so acted in a similar way? Indeed. But population. exceptions like the princely States of process of integration. Further, he income as well as public reputation. Social so come with great responsibility. a secular Nehru would have liberated We are far too willing to accept the Travancore, Baroda and Kolhapur, had too much confidence in the su­ media has, thus, been a huge platform in For #MeToo to retain its moral clarity, it is the rest of Kashmir, including Pakis­ gory details of Hyderabad Nizam’s most areas under native rule prior to periority of India’s liberal polity, helping women to be able to express their or­ important that we now look at ways to tan­occupied Kashmir (PoK), as well. misrule but squeamish in shedding a Independence proved to be fallow which he believed Kashmiris would deal as well as find solidarity and support. strengthen the processes at workplaces and Because India could either claim the similar light on Kashmir. This has dis­ for democracy, whereas British India happily embrace. He also had too A corollary to the same is the apparent the legal framework in general, so that cases whole of Jammu and Kashmir or torted our understanding of the enjoyed a whiff of rules­based much faith in the sense of justice and misuse of these tools by some for personal of sexual harassment are speedily settled, nothing. Ignore, for the time being, Kashmir problem in two ways. governance. equanimity of his successors. His agendas. and not left to a ‘she­said­he­said’ aftermath the purported reluctance of Indian One, the current angst among the Understanding the parallels bet­ faith proved to have been misplaced. Many women are choosing to lash out at that extends the trauma of the innocent wo­ Army to proceed further due to the Kashmiri Muslims is explained away ween Hyderabad and Kashmir would ex­lovers and blame them for harassment. men and, sometimes, the men concerned. operational constraints that forced as the people’s anti­India sentiments give us a whole new way of dealing D. Shyam Babu is Senior Fellow, Centre for Consent is imperative in every relationship; Nehru to agree to a ceasefire. or the machinations of Pakistan. with the root cause of the problem, Policy Research. Views are personal however, a mutual relationship (irrespective Damini Chopra is an actor

CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC A case for nutrition counselling FROM ARCHIVES It is a low­cost measure that offers lifelong benefits FIFTY YEARS AGO JULY 11, 1969 Bjorn Lomborg The average cost of counselling ses­ Shireen Vakil sions for each woman was estimated Immigrants to Malaysia at ₹1,177 and ₹1,250 for Andhra Pra­ The Integrated Child Development desh and Rajasthan respectively. Malaysia to­day [July 10] tightened its immi­ Services (ICDS) scheme is one of the Based on previous studies, it is esti­ gration regulations and called on all non­citi­ world’s largest programmes for early mated that counselling leads to a 12% zens above 12 years of age to call at the Immi­ childhood care and development. reduction in stunting. This leads to gration Office before September 15 to furnish Now, a new study suggests that nutri­ better cognitive skills. fresh particulars about themselves. There tion and health counselling delivered are an estimated 700,000 non­citizens under the programme’s auspices is Quantifying the benefits among Malaysia’s 10 million population, one of the best possible investments Quantifying the increase in earnings nearly a quarter million of them are Indians. that can be made by any government. shows that the per unit benefit for The more rigid immigration regulations This timely, non­partisan report is Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan which will come into effect next Tuesday by India Consensus, a partnership comes to ₹71,500 and ₹54,000. [July 15] is part of the emergency declared in between Tata Trusts and Copenha­ What these figures mean is that the country when racial riots broke out on gen Consensus, which has underta­ the investment generates returns to May 13. The regulations known as Essential ken a first­of­its­kind analysis of 100 society worth ₹61 and ₹43, respec­ (Modifications of Immigration Laws) Regula­ government programmes. These tively, for every rupee spent. While tions 1969 were gazetted to­day [July 10] and were identified by NITI Aayog for the analysis will differ for other will remain in force for the duration of the their role in supporting India’s efforts States, these results show that nutri­ emergency. The new regulation requires tra­ to achieve the Global Goals. tional counselling is a phenomenal CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC vellers to leave Malaysia only at authorised The Global Goals have a dizzying investment. It’s relevant to note that DATA POINT points. Under the present regulations, tra­ array of 169 targets, such a long list these figures take into account the vellers are only required to enter the coun­ that no country on Earth can achieve challenges of nutrition counselling: try at such points but could leave from any all of them. That’s why the unique In­ it’s a relatively difficult intervention spot. Authorised points are airports, ports, dia Consensus economic analysis ap­ to implement and ensure that every Johore causeway and immigration and cus­ proach is vital: it adds person is reached. But toms check points at the Malaysia­Thailand new knowledge about even if India’s imple­ border in Kedah and Kelantan. costs and benefits. This mentation problems way, it can be clearer were worse than other which programmes countries studied by re­ A HUNDRED YEARS AGO JULY 11, 1919. achieve the most good searchers, it is unlikely Chamber on Currency Crisis. for every rupee spent. to make the investment Researchers have less impressive. The ta­ The Committee of the Indian Merchants’ identified twelve pro­ keaway point is that, Chamber and Bureau in Bombay, submitting grammes that have phe­ among all the ways that to the Government of India their views relat­ nomenal benefits for ev­ the Indian government ing to exchange and currency questions, ery rupee spent. Among the top is spending money to achieve Global strongly urge the the fixity of exchange with­ programmes is nutrition and health Goals targets, adding additional re­ in gold points and suggest the introduction counselling. sources to nutrition counselling of a token coin, valued at two rupees or would be a phenomenal investment. three, in which the percentage of silver shall Empowering the mother The preliminary results of this ana­ be so small that there may be no appreciable As a behavioural change interven­ lysis show that there are many poli­ loss even when silver is seventy pence. They tion, nutrition and health counselling cies that can achieve amazing out­ also advocate the issue of coins to an unli­ is relatively low cost for every person comes. If India were to spend mited extent. A point which the committee that is reached. It’s important to note ₹50,000 crore more on achieving the desire most to urge is the penalising of In­ that this programme does not pro­ Global Goals, focussing on the most dian Exports by the raising of exchange and vide food, but instead provides infor­ phenomenal programmes identified the undue advantage which it gives to im­ mation to the mother, making it more so far by India Consensus would ports from foreign countries. The commit­ likely that the child will receive more create extra benefits for India worth tee advocates the strengthening of a gold ex­ and better food. And that in turn ₹20 lakh crore — more than the entire change standard, believing that a gold leads to lifelong benefits. Indian public consumption. exchange standard has proved from the be­ Many studies have now demon­ With returns like this at stake, ginning disastrous to the country, and that strated that these benefits can be there are compelling reasons to look in gold standard only lies its salvation. In or­ large. Improving the nutrition and favourably at approaches including der to make gold standard a success, the health outcomes of the children of nutrition counselling. Committee recommend that establishment mothers reached makes this a highly of a gold mint in India on the same terms as cost­effective intervention. those given to the British dominions. Both Two analyses were undertaken in Bjorn Lomborg is president of the the gold standard and paper currency re­ Andhra Pradesh and Rajasthan, look­ Copenhagen Consensus Center. serve should be entirely located in India. ing at a six­year campaign of nutri­ Shireen Vakil heads the Policy and Advocacy Council Bills must be sold meanwhile for tion counselling and hand­washing. unit of the Tata Trusts stated amounts.

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DELHI THE HINDU 12 NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Karnataka row stalls Parliament ‘Martial law’ in Two more Congress Democracy being destroyed in the State, says Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Mumbai: Congress MLAs quit in Karnataka Special Correspondent Says BJP is holding MLAs in captivity New Delhi SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The crowd swelled in the tional personnel to prevent Union Parliamentary Affairs corridors with workers and any untoward incident. Minister Pralhad Joshi on NEW DELHI leaders from both parties Nearly two hours after Wednesday told the Lok Sab­ The Congress on Wednes­ gathered outside. They Mr. Sudhakar was taken into ha that Karnataka Minister day said the Bharatiya Jana­ raised slogans against each the chambers, he was finally D.K. Shivakumar was not al­ ta Party (BJP) government in other while BJP legislators escorted out by Mr. Kharge lowed to enter a Mumbai ho­ Maharashtra had imposed sat on a dharna and tried to and Bengaluru Police Com­ tel because the rebel Con­ conditions similar to “mar­ force their way inside the missioner Alok Kumar amid gress MLAs lodged there tial law” in Mumbai to pre­ chambers. sloganeering against the BJP feared for their safety. vent their leaders from Outside the Vidhana by Congress workers. Mr. Parliament was disrupted meeting rebel MLAs, and ac­ Soudha, former BJP Minis­ Kharge, downplaying the in­ for the third day in a row ov­ cused the ruling party of ter Renukacharya and Ur­ cident, said, “He is not a er the political crisis in Kar­ “dismantling democracy” in ban Development Minister child. I did not drag him but nataka. the country. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury U.T. Khader got into a verbal only requested him to meet The Rajya Sabha was ad­ Congress leader in the spat that threatened to spill the KPCC president and he journed four times. In the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan leged. Questioning the pol­ out of control. Police, who obliged.” Later, Mr. Sudha­ Lok Sabha, the Opposition Chowdhury told pressper­ ice action against Karnataka were taken by surprise, shut kar met the Governor and staged a walkout as they sons that the Congress Congress leader D.K. Shiva­ the gates of the Vidhana handed over his resignation were not allowed to raise the MLAs were “being held cap­ kumar, who was denied per­ Soudha and deployed addi­ letter to him too. issue. tive” by the BJP in a Mumbai mission to enter the hotel Congress leader in the hotel. where the rebel MLAs were Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan On their feet: Opposition members protesting in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday. * RSTV/PTI “The democratic edifice staying, Mr. Chowdhury Chowdhury said democracy of Karnataka has been delib­ said, “It appears that in Karnataka power tussle was being destroyed in Kar­ MLAs lodged in the Mumbai When the House met at gress members forced an ad­ erately dismantled by the Mumbai, especially, for the nataka, and accused the BJP hotel, and said it was on noon for Question Hour, journment within five mi­ ruling regime in order to Congress, a martial law has and the Union government their request that the police Congress members were nutes. The House grab power in Karnataka. In been imposed only to pre­ reaches Supreme Court of hatching a conspiracy to were guarding the premises. again on their feet. reconvened at 3 p.m. a deliberate and predeter­ vent the MLAs who are in overthrow the government “I would like to put this on Deputy Chairman Hari­ mined manner, they have the captivity of the ruling The Speaker’s ploy to stall Secretary. Administration in in the State. record that the MLAs staying Chairman’s plea vansh asked Congress MP P. engineered defection in the party to come forward and their resignation process the State came to a standstill in a hotel in Mumbai have “This is not the way. The Chidambaram to open the ruling party. So now, a num­ talk to Mr. Shivakumar.” was anti­democratic and a since the time Mr. Kumaras­ Slogans raised written to the City Police Question Hour is very impor­ debate on the Budget, but he ber of MLAs have been un­ The Congress leader al­ violation of the Constitu­ wamy took oath as Chief Mi­ As Lok Sabha Speaker Om Commissioner that there is a tant. So much money has refused. der the captivity of the rul­ leged that it was a “gross vio­ tion, the MLAs said. nister, the petitioners al­ Birla did not allow Mr. threat to their life from Shi­ been spent on this. The en­ Then Mr. Harivansh asked ing party,” said Mr. lation” of Mr. Shivakumar’s The petition was men­ leged, adding that the Chowdhury to further speak vakumar,” Mr. Joshi said. tire country is watching us,” Suresh Prabhu of the BJP to Chowdhury, after leading a fundamental right as he had tioned for urgent listing by government had “lost miser­ on the issue during Zero The Rajya Sabha was ad­ the Rajya Sabha Chairman begin the debate. walkout from the Lok Sabha a valid hotel booking but the senior advocate Mukul Ro­ ably before the electorate.” Hour, Congress members journed twice before lunch. said, urging members creat­ Mr. Prabhu spoke for over over the Karnataka Maharashtra government hatgi and advocates Sub­ came to the Well and started Congress members stormed ing the din to allow the 50 minutes amid pandemo­ situation. forced the hotel manage­ hranshu Padhi and Devan­ Hurt by scandals shouting slogans that de­ into the Well after their de­ House to function. nium. “Inducement or intimida­ ment to cancel it. shi Singh before Chief Chief among the various mocracy was being crushed mand for a debate on Karna­ After the lunch break, the The House functioned till tion are being deployed by “We have raised the issue Justice Gogoi on Wednes­ scandals that rocked it were in the State. taka was rejected by House Rajya Sabha was set to start a 4 p.m. It was decided that the ruling regime with the inside Parliament to draw day. Mr. Rohatgi said “time the IMA ponzi scam, in Mr. Joshi, meanwhile, dis­ Chairman M. Venkaiah Nai­ debate on the Union Budget, the debate on the Budget will single objective of capturing the attention of the people,” is of great essence in the which “thousands of people played a letter written by the du forcing an adjournment. but slogan shouting by Con­ be reinitiated on Thursday. power in Karnataka,” he al­ he said. case and the petition should have been cheated of their be heard today or hard­earned money”, and tomorrow.” the JSW land scam, in which The petition has been “land has been given at thro­ ‘FinMin curbs filed by Pratap Gouda Patil, waway rates to industrial­ India can repeal Article 370 at will: Centre Ramesh Jarkhiholi, Byrati ists,” the MLAs said. on media Basavaraj, B.C.Patil, S.T.So­ The petition claimed While responding to a porary provision”. Mr. Red­ that after the Pulwama ter­ mashekar, Arbail Sivaram that, in all, 14 MLAs of the Minister says UN question on whether repeal dy said, “At present, Article ror attack, 93 terrorists had arbitrary’ Hebbar, Mahesh Kumathal­ Congress and the JD(S) have or any country of Articles 370 and 35A will 35A is contained in the Con­ been killed in Jammu and li, K.Gopalaiah, H.D.Vishwa­ resigned. It also mentioned in any way violate any Unit­ stitution (Application to Jam­ Kashmir. Special Correspondent nath and Narayan Gowda. the resignation of MLA has no say ed Nations regulation or any mu and Kashmir) Order, On February 14, 40 CRPF New Delhi Chief Minister Kumaras­ Anand Singh on July 1 and international obligation of 1954 which was added personnel were killed when A day after the Finance Mi­ Special Correspondent wamy, the Speaker and the two other legislators on July the country, Mr. Reddy said, through the Constitution Or­ a car­borne bomber of Jaish­ nistry came out with a Centre have been made par­ 8. The government was in New Delhi “Jammu and Kashmir is an der issued by the President e­Mohammad rammed a statement “clarifying” that ties along with the State of minority in the 222­strong The government informed integral part of India. Mat­ of India under Article 370.” CRPF bus in Pulwama. even the accredited jour­ Karnataka through its Chief Assembly, it said. Parliament that “no foreign ters relating to the Constitu­ The two provisions let the The Minister said that nalists will be allowed in­ government or organisation tion of India are internal and J&K legislature decide the when compared with the side the Ministry only with has any locus standi” in re­ entirely for the Indian Parlia­ “permanent residents” of corresponding period of an appointment, the Edi­ pealing Article 370 in Jammu G. Kishan Reddy ment to deal with. No fo­ the State, prohibits a non­ 2018, the first half of this tors Guild of India called it High drama as police and Kashmir as matters re­ reign government or organi­ J&K resident from buying year has witnessed a reduc­ an “arbitrary decision.” lating to the Constitution G. Kishan Reddy said in a sation has any locus standi property in the State and en­ tion in terrorism by 28%, re­ The Guild on Wednesday were internal and only for written response in the Ra­ in the matter.” sures job reservation for its duction in net infiltration by demanded that the order detain Minister the Indian Parliament to jya Sabha that Jammu and Home Minister Amit Shah residents. 43% and increase in neutral­ be withdrawn with imme­ deal with. Kashmir was an integral part recently told the Lok Sabha Replying to a separate isation of terrorists by 22%. diate effect. He was accompanied by happy with us for some rea­ Minister of State for Home of India. that Article 370 was a “tem­ question, Mr. Reddy said (With PTI inputs) “The Guild has no dis­ former Mumbai Congress son. It does not mean all is pute with the Ministry that presidents Milind Deora and over,” he said, insisting on a journalists should behave Sanjay Nirupam and other meeting. with restraint and respon­ party workers. After three Meanwhile, speaking to HC seeks response from Centre NIA attaches separatist sibility while enjoying their hours of drama outside the the media from inside the access to the Finance Mi­ guest house on the campus, hotel, the rebel MLAs re­ nistry. But a blanket order Mr. Shivakumar was taken fused to meet him. MLA Ra­ on validity of NIA Act in J&K leader’s Srinagar house is not the answer,” it said in to the airport for a flight mesh Jarkiholi said, “We do a statement. back home late in the even­ not want to meet him. We ‘Represents proceeds of terrorism’ “This order is a gag on ing. He was being “forced to are firm and four more will Plea questions the role of the agency in the State media freedoms and can leave under pressure by un­ join our group,” he said. Special Correspondent even result in a further fall known forces”, he said. Another MLA S.T. So­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Khan, Justice Tashi Rabstan, tion of Jammu & Kashmir as New Delhi in India’s global press free­ The police said its action mashekhar said: “Friend­ Srinagar heading a Bench, issued not­ the Parliament of India The National Investigative dom rankings, especially was based on the com­ ship and politics are diffe­ The Jammu & Kashmir High ices to the Union of India lacked legislative compe­ Agency (NIA) has attached as the contagion can easily plaints of the rebel MLAs rent. We will meet you Court has directed the Un­ through its Secretary to Go­ tence of such an enactment, the Srinagar house of Kash­ spread to other Ministries even as it was forced to im­ (Shivakumar) later in Benga­ ion Home Ministry, the Na­ vernment, Ministry of Home which otherwise falls within miri separatist leader Asiya as well,” the Guild said. pose prohibitory orders un­ luru but not today. We will tional Investigation Agency Affairs; Director General, the exclusive legislative do­ Andrabi as “proceeds of ter­ It said that if the Finance der section 144 of the Cr.PC, not be able to see you in an (NIA) and the J&K Govern­ NIA; Investigating Officer main of the State of Jammu & rorism”. This is the first time Ministry feels inconve­ restraining gathering of four embarrassing position. ment to submit its objec­ concerned NIA Jammu & Kashmir,” advocate Salih Pir­ the agency has attached the Asiya Andrabi nienced by journalists’ ac­ or more persons. Please go back. You have tions to a plea questioning Kashmir State; Principal Se­ zada pleaded before the property of a separatist cess to government offices Prior to this, it was hours played a vital role in mould­ the functioning of the NIA in cretary to the government Bench on Tuesday. leader. tachment was done as per then the system could be of drama outside the Mum­ ing our political career.” the State. Home Department, J&K; and The advocate argued that The NIA order pasted out­ provisions of law. improved in discussions bai hotel with Mr. Shivaku­ Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, the Station House Officer of the NIA Act “manifestly en­ side the house of Ms Andra­ “The approval was grant­ with journalists. “The mar staying put, despite Complaint to police father of Haris Mushtaq Kothi Bagh, Srinagar. croaches upon the exclusive bi said the agency had rea­ ed by DGP, J&K as required Guild urges the Finance Mi­ pouring rain and insisting In their complaint to Police Khan, 24, a resident of the Mr. Khan’s son was arrest­ legislative domain of the J&K son to believe that the under the law. Consequent nister, Ms. Nirmala Sithara­ that he be allowed to go in­ Commissioner Sanjay Gopalpora village of Wath­ ed on November 24, 2018 and is thus beyond the legis­ “property represents pro­ to attachment, the property man, to reconsider her de­ side as “he had a room re­ Barve, the legislators had oora in Budgam, who was and was lodged in the Dis­ lative competence of the ceeds of terrorism and has cannot be sold, transferred cision and withdraw it.” served in his name.” claimed they feel ‘threa­ arrested by the NIA, has filed trict Jail, Jammu, “even Parliament, hence liable to been used in furtherance of or otherwise dealt with in BJP supporters, mean­ tened’ and do not wish to a writ petition questioning though the offence was al­ be declared ultra vires.” The terrorist activities of pro­ any manner without the ex­ while, shouted slogans ask­ meet the Minister, who must the NIA Act and its imple­ leged to have taken place at plea also questioned the suo scribed organisation Duk­ press permission of officer ing Mr. Shivakumar to go be “stopped from storming mentation in J&K. Srinagar”. “The NIA Act is moto transfer of cases to the htaran­e­Millat (DeM).” making the order,” the agen­ Lok Sabha back. As Mr. Shivakumar into the hotel.” Hearing the plea of Mr. ultra vires to the Constitu­ Director General, NIA. An NIA official said the at­ cy said. displayed his hotel booking Signed by the 10 MLAs. gives nod to confirmation, a letter from the letter said: “We have the hotel was also being cir­ heard that Mr. Shivakumar arbitration Bill culated that said his reserva­ and others are going to Banks delaying PMAY(U) tion was cancelled due to storm into the hotel. We feel In fierce Opposition battle, Special Correspondent “some emergency.” threatened by the same. We New Delhi “I have come to meet my do not want to meet him. subsidies, admits govt. The Lok Sabha on Wednes­ friends who I have been as­ Kindly request help in the Trinamool wins ESIC post day cleared the New Delhi sociated with for three to matter and do not allow Complaints being addressed: Minister International Arbitration four decades. They are un­ them to enter the premises.” Centre Bill, 2019. The Bill, Special Correspondent from BJP MP T.G. Venkatesh, Dola Sen gets the most votes after efforts at consensus fail which replaces an Ordi­ NEW DELHI the Minister admitted that nance promulgated in The government has re­ “some complaints have Special Correspondent Congress to reach out to the March this year, provides Worker safety code Bill ceived complaints of banks been received about Prim­ New Delhi Congress and the CPI(M) on for the incorporation of the either not sanctioning or de­ ary Lending Institutions The Opposition parties, al­ Tuesday night to avoid an New Delhi International laying disbursement to ap­ (PLIs) not sanctioning of ready in disarray after the election. It proposed that Arbitration Centre (NDIAC) gets Cabinet approval plicants of the Credit Linked credit linked subsidy or de­ Lok Sabha election debacle, the CPI(M) be allowed to for creating an autono­ Subsidy Scheme (CLSS) un­ laying the subsidy under were caught in a keen con­ take the seat. mous regime for institu­ The occupational safety Bill ploy even one worker. The der the Pradhan Mantri CLSS component of PMAY test among themselves for “The Congress refused. tionalised arbitration. will be introduced “in the code also framed rules for Awas Yojana (Urban), Union (U)”. the post of member in the They said that they will win The Bill, moved by Un­ ongoing session.” women workers working Housing and Urban Affairs He added that the Minis­ general council of the Em­ and later resign from the ion Law Minister Ravi “The decision will en­ night shifts. Minister of State (indepen­ try had reviewed the issues ployees State Insurance Cor­ seat,” a senior Opposition Shanker Prasad, has a pro­ hance the coverage of the “Women permitted to dent charge) Hardeep Singh that had arisen with the two poration (ESIC). leader said. vision to declare the NDIAC safety, health and working work beyond 7 p.m. and be­ Puri admitted in the Rajya nodal agencies — National As a norm, a Rajya Sabha Dola Sen The Trinamool has only as an Institution of Nation­ conditions provisions mani­ fore 6 a.m. subject to the sa­ Sabha on Wednesday. Housing Bank and Housing member is selected through 13 members in the House, al Importance. The Minis­ fold,” a government state­ fety, holidays, working Under the scheme, appli­ and Urban Development consensus and no elections with 90 votes and Mr. Bhat­ while the Congress has 46 ter said the Centre will be ment said. hours or any other condi­ cants of economically weak­ Corporation Ltd. (HUDCO) are held for the post. But on tacharya was the runner­up and the two Left parties to­ headed by a chairperson, While the code will be ap­ tion as prescribed by appro­ er section (EWS), low in­ — and put in place a “grie­ Wednesday, Congress’s Pra­ with 46. Mr. Kareem got only gether have seven members. who has been a judge of plicable to all trades, includ­ priate government in res­ come group (LIG) and vance redressal mechan­ deep Bhattacharya, Trina­ eight votes. “This lack of synergy bet­ the Supreme Court or a ing IT establishments and pect of prescribed middle income group (MIG) ism”. mool Congress’s Dola Sen The total votes cast were ween three leading Opposi­ High Court or an eminent service sector, where more establishments. However, can get subsidies on the in­ So far, subsidy of ₹14,482 and CPI(M) candidate Elam­ 156, of which 12 votes were tion parties further shows person having special than 10 workers are em­ only after taking their con­ terest to be paid on housing crore had been disbursed to aram Kareem were in the declared invalid. the state of incoherence we knowledge and experience ployed, it will be applicable sent for night work (sic),” loans. 6.43 lakh beneficiaries un­ fray for the post. Sources said an attempt are in,” a top Opposition in the administration of ar­ to mines and docks that em­ the statement said. Replying to a question der CLSS. Ms. Sen won the contest was made by the Trinamool leader said. bitration.

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF NATO ally status unlikely now Tariff tensions top U.S. U.S. House to vote on diluted Bill on defence cooperation with Delhi agenda in meetings today Sriram Lakshman not accepting delivery of the Washington S­400. United States Trade Representative team to meet officials The U.S. House Committee “It’s always disappointing Congress names whips, Suhasini Haidar committee members on Rules voted on Tuesday when strong bipartisan legis­ GSP decision was only the NEW DELHI NEW DELHI night to send a watered­ lation on India doesn’t get first of many possible puni­ The Congress on Wednesday down version of an amend­ across the finish line. Policy­ In the first such formal en­ tive measures against what named Tamil Nadu MP ment to enhance defence makers should understand gagement since the U.S. de­ he called a “series of pro­ Manickam Tagore and Assam cooperation with India to that we need to boost India cided to withdraw India’s blems” with India. member Gaurav Gogoi (in the full House floor for a as a counter to China and preferential trade status in “We made literally no photo) as party whips. Goa vote. that we can’t let India’s rela­ March, a team from the of­ headway on the issues over MP Francis Sardinha and The new India NDAA tionship with Russia get in fice of the United States the course of months and Kerala member K. amendment, a part the the way,” Mukesh Aghi, pre­ Trade Representative will ar­ months and months,” Mr. Muraleedharan have been House’s version of the Na­ U.S. defence cooperation, which also sought to give In­ sident and CEO of the U.S.­ rive in Delhi on Thursday for Trade ties have been hit due Lightizer said. chosen for the parliamentary tional Defense Authorization although falling short of the dia NATO­equivalent status India Strategic Partnership meetings with officials of the to public comments by Standing Committee on Act (NDAA) FY 2020, replac­ original legislative goal. This for arms sales. Forum, told The Hindu. The Commerce and External Af­ President Donald Trump. ‘Sudden’ changes Finance. Kerala member K. es a significantly stronger comes days after Secretary A source outside Congress original AECA amendments fairs Ministries. Apart from higher tariffs on Sudhakaran will be on the amendment (the “Sherman of State Michael Pompeo tra­ who had worked on the le­ also became a casualty of Officials on both sides System of Preferences (GSP) IT products and services and committee on OBCs, Ravneet Amendment”) that sought to velled to New Delhi to push gislation said India’s plans to turf­related issues between have stressed that the talks status last April. automobile and agricultural Singh Bittu, Punjab MP, on place India on a par with the for stronger U.S.­India ties purchase the S­400 Triumf the House Foreign Affairs are not yet a resumption of The final announcement products, the U.S. is expect­ PSUs and Santokh Singh U.S.’s NATO allies by amend­ across the board. missile shield from Russia Committee and Committee the trade dialogue, but are of the withdrawal came on ed to raise what it calls “sud­ Chaudhary on SC/STs. ing the Arms Export Control The original House made some in the Senate on Armed Services and the “talks about talks”. They will June 1. den” and “unexpected” Act (AECA), a U.S. law that amendment was submitted (and House) wary and came corresponding committees explore steps to resume dia­ In retaliation, India im­ changes in rules and stan­ No martyrdom status for governs the sale of high­end by Brad Sherman, a Califor­ in the way of the original in the Senate. logue as mandated by Prime posed higher tariffs on 28 dards applied in India. Pulwama CRPF victims defence equipment to other nia Congressman who is co­ amendment making it to the AECA is the statute which Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. products, that it had The government’s new NEW DELHI countries. Chair of House India Caucus final package in both legisla­ authorises the Foreign Mili­ U.S. President Donald been holding off on since rules on financial data local­ There is no official Concerns over India’s pur­ and heads the Asia Pacific tive chambers. This view was tary Sales (FMS) program Trump after their meeting last April. isation and e­commerce nomenclature to accord chase of the S­400, turf bat­ subcommittee of the House supported by at least one through which the U.S. sells last month in Osaka. Trade ties have been have upset many U.S. IT and martyrdom status to CRPF tles between the Armed Ser­ Foreign Affairs Committee. person in Congress. arms abroad and the proce­ The conversations in Del­ further hit by a series of e­commerce companies in­ personnel killed in the vices and Foreign Affairs Despite having bi­partisan “It’s hard to go after Tur­ dure is less complicated if hi are expected to lay the tweets and public comments cluding Amazon and Wal­ Pulwama attack in Jammu Committees and some State support and co­sponsors key for the S­400 purchase the purchaser is a NATO ally ground for a meeting bet­ by Mr. Trump, whose latest mart operating in India. and Kashmir, the Rajya Sabha Department opposition are from both sides of the aisle, and allow India a boost in or Japan, South Korea, Is­ ween USTR Robert Lightizer tweet on Tuesday called In­ In May 2019, the decision was informed on Wednesday. Minister Nityananda Rai said likely to have contributed to the amendment did not the same Bill,” a Congres­ rael, Australia or New Zea­ and Commerce Minister Piy­ dian tariffs on American of the Directorate General of the Ministry had issued the watering down of the make it to the House Rules sional aide, who did not land. ush Goyal in the next few products “no longer Foreign Trade (DGFT) to ban The instructions to issue amendment. Nevertheless, Committee — a fate similar to want to be named, told The Sherman amendment weeks, as New Delhi and acceptable”. biofuels went down badly in Hindu “Operational Casualty what passed the Senate and the corresponding amend­ . The NDAA Bills in the House and Warner/ Washington try to pick up In a Congressional hear­ Washington. Certificate” to the next of kin what is being considered by ment in the Senate, submit­ (House and Senate versions) Cornyn amendment in the the pieces of the trade dia­ ing in June, Mr. Lightizer al­ Indian and U.S. experts of the Central Armed Police the House, provides some di­ ted by Mark Warner (Demo­ limit transfer of F­35 aircraft Senate, sought to add India logue that went off the rails so told members of the say it is unlikely that the two Forces and Assam Rifles rection to the executive with crat, Virginia) and John to Turkey unless Turkey can to the list of non­NATO allies after the U.S. announced a House Ways and Means sides will be able to retrace personnel killed in action. regard to bolstering India­ Cornyn (Republican, Texas) provide assurances that it is listed above. review of India’s Generalised Committee, that the U.S.’s their steps to last year,. Rahul reaffirms Amethi connect Centre outlaws outfit for Al­Qaeda releases its pro­Khalistani activities first video on Kashmir Says he won’t abandon the constituency and will continue to visit it ‘Sikhs for Justice’ is based abroad Calls for ‘unrelenting blows’ on Army Special Correspondent shortage of issues. “It is AMETHI more fun doing the work of Special Correspondent gave crucial information to Special Correspondent Congress leader Rahul Gand­ the Opposition. It’s easier,” New Delhi/Chandigarh help ban the group, the offi­ New Delhi hi on Wednesday reaffirmed Mr. Gandhi said in a lighter The Union Home Ministry cial said. Al­Qaeda chief Ayman al­Za­ his personal connection vein. has banned the Sikhs for Jus­ The official said 11 cases wahiri has released a video with Amethi on his maiden Sarvesh Singh, who was tice (SFJ), a group advocating were registered against the asking its cadres to inflict visit to the Uttar Pradesh the chairman of the Con­ secessionist and pro­Khalis­ SFJ in the past four years and “unrelenting blows” on the constituency after suffering gress election committee in tani activities in India. The 39 people were arrested. Indian Army and the go­ a humiliating defeat in the Amethi, said the meeting group was advocating Refe­ The group also funded cer­ vernment in the Kashmir Lok Sabha election. lasted two hours and was at­ rendum 2020, an online tain activities. Valley to “bleed” the econo­ “I am happy to be in tended by over 1,200 peo­ campaign for Khalistan, a “The Union Cabinet on my and make the country Amethi. It feels like coming ple. separate land for the Sikhs. Wednesday gave its clea­ suffer. home,” he tweeted. Mr. Singh said that while Its founder Avtar Singh rance to declare SFJ, a fringe This is the first time Za­ Earlier, addressing Con­ Back in action: Congress president Rahul Gandhi with party there was no discussion on Pannu was seen shouting organisation run by radical wahiri has issued a video Ayman al-Zawahiri gress workers at the Gauri­ workers in Lucknow on Wednesday. * PTI the factors behind his de­ slogans and wearing a T­shirt Sikhs in U.S, Canada, U.K, specific to Kashmir. ganj Guesthouse in Amethi, feat, Mr. Gandhi told the that said “Khalistan Zinda­ etc. as an unlawful associa­ A senior government offi­ rorist killed in May by secur­ Mr. Gandhi assured them nue to raise the shortcom­ come here. I will keep com­ workers that there may have bad, Referendum 2020” at tion under Section 3(1) of the cial said it seemed to be an ity forces in Kashmir, his that though he was elected ings of the Union and the ing here,” he said to loud been “shortcomings” from the India­New Zealand crick­ Unlawful Activities (Preven­ act of desperation on the photo flashed on the screen. MP for Wayanad in Kerala, State governments regarding claps from party workers. both ends, his and the work­ et match in the U.K on Wed­ tion) Act, 1967,” the official part of the outfit in the wake Musa was the founder of the he would not abandon the Amethi in the Lok Sabha. The Congress leader ad­ ers, leading to the defeat. nesday. said. of recent action by security Indian cell of Al­Qaeda, tit­ U.P. constituency and would Mr. Gandhi explained to vised his party workers to Victory and defeat are a part A senior Ministry official Punjab Chief Minister agencies in Kashmir Valley. led “Ansar Ghazwat­ul­ continue to visit it. the workers that it was his start doing the job of the Op­ of life, he told the workers. said the SFJ’s online suppor­ Amarinder Singh said the The video was posted on Hind.” The Al­Qaeda chief “Don’t think that Rahul responsibility to develop position in the constituency. Mr. Gandhi ignored the ters were over 2 lakh but Centre’s decision to declare the As­Sahab channel, an in­ warned terrorists not to fall Gandhi is not yours,” he told Wayanad, but he would also Referring to corruption and workers’ requests to conti­ physically it was only a Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) an “un­ house production of Al­Qae­ into the trap of Pakistan, them in an indoor meeting. give time to Amethi. the state of the economy and nue as party president, Mr. group of eight to 10 people. lawful association” was a da. While Zawahiri did not which he termed a puppet He said he would conti­ “Don’t you think I won’t trade, he said there was no Singh said. The Punjab government “welcome step”. mention Zakir Musa, a ter­ of the U.S. As Pak. Army dithers, PoK family awaits son’s body Location to hand over body not decided

Peerzada Ashiq changing on Wednesday,” Srinagar Shahbaz Ahmed Mirza, De­ The body of an eight­year­ puty Commissioner, Ban­ old boy from Pakistan­Occu­ dipora, told The Hindu. pied Kashmir (PoK), who The family of Abid was found dead four kilo­ Sheikh, a student in PoK, in metres inside Kashmir in a video uploaded online, the Kishenganga river on said the boy had left for Tuesday, was moved over school on July 8 but did not 200 km on Wednesday as return home. They suspect the Pakistan Army kept he fell off the cliff into the changing the site to hand ov­ river and was washed four er the body. km across the LoC in J&K's “The two Armies (India Gurez valley. and Pakistan) established “My only appeal to peo­ contact (on Tuesday) after a ple of India is to help in re­ video was uploaded by the turning the body of my son. family living in PoK’s Mini­ I will be indebted. Our Army marg across the river. The chief should also play a pos­ boy was identified but the itive role,” Nazir Sheikh, the location for exchange kept boy’s father, said in a video. Assam mulls 10 centres for those excluded from NRC

RAHUL KARMAKAR draft NRC published on July GUWAHATI 30, 2018. Another 1.02 lakh The Assam government has people were removed from sent a proposal to the the draft list of citizens on Centre for fast­tracking the June 26. establishment of 10 deten­ “We have sent the propo­ tion centres across the State sal for 10 new centres in va­ to house people who would rious places for NRC­exclud­ be excluded from the final ed people,” Kumar Sanjay National Register of Citizens Krishna, Assam’s Additional (NRC). Chief Secretary (Home and The Supreme Court­mon­ Political) told The Hindu on itored register, being updat­ Wednesday. ed on the basis of its 1951 As per the blueprint, a avatar, has to be published detention centre each by July 31. would be established in Bar­ peta, Dima Hasao, Goalpa­ NRC exclusion ra, Kamrup (Metropolitan), About 40.07 lakh people out Karimganj, Lakhimpur, Na­ of 3.29 crore applicants had gaon, Nalbari, Sivasagar, been excluded from the and Sonitpur districts. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF British envoy resigns after Trump leak Pakistan curbs on news channels slammed U.S. President had called him stupid after Ambassador Darroch termed the administration inept Brazen censorship: media watchdog Stephen Castle “clumsy and inept.” The Pre­ agreement with Britain. London sident described the Ambas­ “I think the reality was Agence France-Presse the authorities in reprisal Kim Darroch resigned on sador as “wacky,” a “very that in light of the last few Islamabad for broadcasting an Opposi­ New Greek Prime Minister promises tax cuts Wednesday as Britain’s Am­ stupid guy” and a “pompous days his ability to be effective A global media watchdog tion leader’s news confe­ ATHENS bassador to the United States fool,” and called Prime Mi­ was probably limited,” Vice­ has slammed Pakistani auth­ rence,” the watchdog said Greece’s new Prime Minister after the leak of his candid nister Theresa May “foolish” President Mike Pence’s chief orities over the removal of late on Tuesday. It went on Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in observations on the Trump for ignoring his advice on of staff, Marc Short, said on three television channels to pin the removal of the Cabinet on Wednesday he administration, a ferocious Brexit, Britain’s plan to leave Wednesday morning in from the country’s air­ channels on the Pakistan would honour a pledge to cut response from President Do­ the European Union. Washington. “So it was prob­ waves, saying the move was Electronic Media Regulatory taxes. Mr. Mitsotakis said a nald Trump and the failure The dispute has cast a sha­ ably the right course.” “indicative of disturbing dic­ Authority, saying “the all­ tax bill would be submitted of the likely next Prime Mi­ dow over ties between Lon­ tatorial tendencies” as pres­ powerful broadcast media by the end of the month. AFP nister, Boris Johnson, to sup­ don and Washington and ta­ Support for Sir Kim sure mounts on journalists regulator” takes its lead port the British envoy. ken center stage in the Tory In response to Sir Kim’s deci­ in the South Asian nation. from the country’s “military U.S., China negotiators Sir Kim submitted his re­ leadership contest to suc­ sion, Ms. May paid tribute to The statement from Re­ establishment”. resume trade talks signation in a letter that said ceed Ms. May as Prime Minis­ him in Parliament and said porters Without Borders WASHINGTON In hot water: Kim Darroch said the situation was making it Top U.S. and Chinese the situation was making it ter, which Mr. Johnson is impossible for him to carry out his role. that the whole Cabinet had (RSF) comes days after Abb­ Maryam interview negotiators held phone talks impossible for him to carry heavily favoured to win. rightly given him its support. Takk TV, 24 News, and Cap­ A senior official with know­ on Tuesday as the world’s top out his role. “Although my During a TV debate on met with withering criticism acceptable” and said during “Good government de­ ital TV all had their broad­ ledge of the case confirmed two economies seek to posting is not due to end un­ Tuesday night, Mr. Johnson, from opponents. the debate that he would pends on public servants be­ casts cut, after screening a the move against the chan­ resolve their trade war, more til the end of this year, I be­ the former Foreign Secre­ “The fact that Sir Kim has keep Sir Kim in his job. ing able to give full and frank press conference with Op­ nels, saying the broadcas­ than a week after they lieve in the current circum­ tary, ignited a firestorm by been bullied out of his job, Mr. Johnson said on Wed­ advice. I want all our public position leader Maryam ters had violated Pakistan’s declared a truce. A White stances the responsible refusing several opportuni­ because of Donald Trump’s nesday that he regretted Sir servants to have the confi­ Nawaz. “code of conduct” and been House official said the talks course is to allow the ap­ ties to say that he would keep tantrums and Boris John­ Kim’s departure, and that dence to be able to do that, Pakistani authorities say warned against airing the “went constructively”. AFP pointment of a new ambas­ Sir Kim in his post until a son’s pathetic lickspittle res­ whoever leaked the Ambas­ and I hope the house will re­ the channels were unavaila­ press conference with Ma­ France says its missiles sador,” he wrote. scheduled departure date in ponse, is something that sador’s messages should be flect on the importance of ble due to “technical is­ ryam Nawaz. were found in Libya January. He also declined to shames our country,” said “run down, caught and defending our values and sues”, but RSF described Ms. Nawaz is the daught­ PARIS Leaked email criticise Mr. Trump, stress­ Emily Thornberry, the Op­ eviscerated.” principles, particularly the outage as an act of “bra­ er of former Prime Minister France confirmed on On Monday, Mr. Trump said ing his good relationship position Labour Party’s sha­ With Mr. Johnson intent when they are under pres­ zen censorship”. Nawaz Sharif — who is cur­ Wednesday its missiles had the White House would no with the White House and dow Foreign Secretary. on Britain leaving the Euro­ sure,” she said. Jeremy Cor­ “Reporters Without Bor­ rently behind bars for cor­ been found at a Libyan base longer deal with Darroch af­ playing down the rift. Within Even Mr. Johnson’s rival in pean Union in October, the byn, leader of the opposition ders (RSF) is appalled to ruption — and her press con­ used by forces loyal to ter the leak of confidential hours, the Ambassador had the leadership race, Jeremy “special relationship” with Labour Party, said of Sir learn that three Pakistani ference featured a judge strongman Khalifa Haftar, emails written by the Ambas­ submitted his resignation. Hunt, the current Foreign Washington is of particular Kim, “the comments made TV news channels have claiming he had been black­ raising fresh questions about sador that had described the Mr. Johnson’s failure to Secretary, described Mr. importance given that Mr. about him are beyond unfair been suspended from cable mailed into convicting the its role in the conflict. AFP Trump administration as back the Ambassador was Trump’s comments as “un­ Tump has promised a trade and wrong.” NY TIMES networks at the behest of former premier. Iran warns U.K. of ‘consequences’ Sri Lanka government News anchor shot dead in Pak. President Rouhani terms seizure of tanker ‘a foolish act’ faces no­confidence vote He was gunned down over personal enmity, say police Agence France-Presse of British Royal Marines. ‘Failed to prevent attacks despite intel’ Press Trust of India cide. “The suspect shot him­ Tehran Iran condemned the de­ Karachi self in the chest,” he said. He Iran’s President Hassan Rou­ tention as an “illegal inter­ Associated Press ing suicide terrorists.” A news anchor of a promi­ was admitted into hospital in hani warned Britain on Wed­ ception,” but Gibraltar offi­ Colombo Voting on the motion is nent Pakistani channel was a critical condition. nesday of “consequences” cials said the cargo was Sri Lanka’s Parliament on expected on Thursday. shot dead over personal en­ over the detention of an Ira­ believed to be destined for Wednesday began debating Anura Dissanayaka, the mity here, the police said on Report sought nian oil tanker off the coast Syria, which is subject to Eu­ a no­confidence motion leader of the Peoples’ Liber­ Wednesday. Sindh Inspector General of of Gibraltar. ropean sanctions. against the government for ation Front, said the attacks Bol News anchor Mureed Police Kaleem Imam direct­ “I point out to the British failing to prevent Easter sui­ occurred because the go­ Abbas had a heated argu­ ed the concerned Deputy In­ that you initiated insecurity ‘Somewhere else’ cide bombings that killed vernment failed to fulfil its ment with some people over spector General to furnish a (on the seas) and you shall Hassan Rouhani Iran denied this, saying that more than 250 people. responsibility. “People have a monetary dispute which report. He also directed the grasp the consequences of it the destination “was so­ The Opposition Marxist no confidence in this go­ escalated into a violent clash Mureed Abbas * FACEBOOK concerned officials to con­ later on,” Mr. Rouhani said capable of carrying two mil­ mewhere else.” Peoples’ Liberation Front vernment,” he said. in the Khayaban­e­Bukhari duct a forensic examination in comments to the Cabinet lion barrels of oil, was halted “The port named in Syria submitted a motion accus­ Minister of Economic Re­ area on Tuesday night, they Abbas sustained multiple of the evidence. broadcast by state TV. on Thursday by the police does not even have the ca­ ing the ruling coalition of forms Harsha de Silva reject­ said. bullet wounds in the chest Chief Minister of Sindh Iran’s President called the and customs in Gibraltar — a pacity for such a supertank­ failing to prevent the April ed the allegation. “If we The accused opened fire, and abdomen, he said. Murad Ali Shah, who was on seizure of the tanker “a fool­ tiny British overseas territo­ er to dock,” Iran’s Deputy 21 attacks despite the “fact knew about it, we would killing the anchor and his The police raided the a visit to Iran, issued direc­ ish act.” ry on Spain’s southern tip — Foreign Minister Abbas that proper information had have taken preventive friend, DIG South Sharjeel house of the suspect and tions to maintain law and or­ The 330­m Grace 1 tanker, with the aid of a detachment Araghchi said on Sunday. been made available regard­ measures.” Kharal said. caught him attempting sui­ der following the incident. Now is the Biden earned over $15 mn Twitter to curb time for peace, hate speech says Ghani after leaving White House against religion Disclosure dents his working class aura Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Kabul Associated Press Washington Now is the “right moment” Washington Twitter is moving to filter for peace in Afghanistan, Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, out inappropriate content President Ashraf Ghani took in more than $15 mil­ based on religion as part of said on Wednesday as he lion since leaving the Oba­ its effort to curb hate once more called on the ma White House, according speech. Taliban to negotiate with to newly released docu­ In a policy update on his government. ments, catapulting the De­ Tuesday, Twitter said it The Taliban has stead­ mocratic presidential candi­ Joe Biden would take down “dehu­ fastly refused to discuss date into millionaire status manizing language” that peace with Mr. Ghani, and denting the working­ Mr. Biden’s disclosure targets specific religious whom it considers a U.S. class aura he’s developed showed that he also made at groups. Examples shown stooge heading an illegiti­ over decades. least $2.7 million in business by Twitter that would be mate regime. But a series Long fond of describing income as part of his public­ removed would be descrip­ of talks in recent days himself as “Middle Class ity tour and writing and tion of members of a reli­ seems to have shifted the Joe” while he took in little took a $425,000 salary from gion as “disgusting” or needle in Afghanistan’s more than his government CelticCapri Corp., the busi­ “filthy animals.” war, with the U.S. and the salary, the former Vice­Pre­ ness entity the Bidens used “After months of conver­ Taliban claiming to have sident stressed his working­ for their post­White House sations and feedback from made significant progress class roots from the very be­ work. the public, external ex­ during a summit in Doha. ginning of his bid for his par­ Mr. Biden and his wife perts and our own teams, “In the past 18 years the ty’s 2020 presidential signed a multibook deal we’re expanding our rules time was not right for nomination. But federal tax with Flatiron Books valued against hateful conduct to peace, for a realistic peace. returns and a financial dis­ at $8 million, according to include language that de­ Today is the right mo­ closure released on Tuesday Publishers Weekly. He humanizes others on the ment,” Mr. Ghani said at an show that since Mr. Biden earned $540,000 as a pro­ basis of religion,” the Twit­ EU anti­corruption confe­ left public office, his income fessor and namesake of the ter safety team wrote. rence being held in Kabul. has surged thanks to a lucra­ University of Pennsylvania’s “Starting today, we will re­ “If we lose this oppor­ tive book deal and constant Penn Biden Center for Di­ quire tweets like these to tunity then the responsibil­ publicity tours that brought plomacy and Global be removed...when they’re ity (for the loss) is big.” in more than $4 million. Engagement. reported to us.” Taliban targets Afghan soldiers’ kin In ‘retaliatory’ attacks, insurgents kill family members and burn down homes

David Zucchino They have continued even Among them was Khano Farooq Jan Mangal as U.S. and Taliban negotia­ Slimanzai, a border police KABUL tors have reported progress officer who said his unit re­ Muhammad Didar Mukhlis in talks. treated from his village, Sli­ Afghan, a sergeant serving at Taliban infiltrators have manzai, during a Taliban of­ a remote Afghan Army base, repeatedly joined govern­ fensive. was pleased when his ne­ ment units, then spiked sol­ Mr. Slimanzai said he ar­ phew invited his wife and diers’ or police officers’ food ranged for a relative to help son to his wedding back with drugs and shot them his wife and children flee home in eastern dead as they slept. In some their home, in their bare Afghanistan. rare instances, government feet, to a dry river bed out­ The sergeant pitched in al­ infiltrators have done the side their village as the Tali­ most $400 to help with the The attacks continued even same to the Taliban. ban approached. nephew’s wedding costs. But as U.S. and Taliban negotiators Equally disturbing for ma­ Less than 30 minutes la­ instead of a wedding, the reported progress in talks. * AP ny Afghans is the Taliban tac­ ter, he said, Taliban fighters event became a murder tic of burning the homes of burned the home and des­ scene. The nephew, Qari ghan National Army,” Mr. Af­ soldiers’ families while the troyed the family’s belong­ Aziz, was among a group of ghan said. men are serving elsewhere. ings, he said. Taliban fighters who killed The killings were the lat­ In Kandahar, an Army Co­ Another effective Taliban the sergeant’s wife and son est in a series of retaliatory lonel, Zahir Jan Abdali, said tactic is dressing in Army or inside Aziz’s home in May. Taliban attacks against the the families of at least seven police uniforms and driving “They attacked my wife families and homes of Af­ soldiers and police officers stolen, explosives­laden and son because I am serv­ ghan soldiers and police had been burned out of their Humvees into government ing in the ranks of the Af­ officers. homes in recent months. outposts. NYTIMES CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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market watch 10-7-2019 % CHANGE IndiGo stock tanks 11% as Sensex dddddddddddddddddddd 38,557 ddddddddddddddd -0.45 Markets set for damp quarter US Dollardddddddddddddddddd68.58 ddddddddddddddd -0.10 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddd 34,870 ddddddddddddddddd0.00 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddd66.39 ddddddddddddddddd3.42 ‘Top­line growth likely to be lowest in a decade’; global concerns to hit IT sector promoters’ feud escalates ASHISH RUKHAIYAR expected to report a muted NIFTY 50 MUMBAI quarter,” it added. Bhatia group’s clarification follows Gangwal’s letter to SEBI PRICE CHANGE With companies all set to re­ In a similar context, Edel­ Adani Ports...... 405.00...... 0.00 leaseresults for the first weiss Securities is of the Lalatendu Mishra Asian Paints...... 1322.95...... 1.95 MUMBAI Axis Bank ...... 769.25...... -16.95 quarter of the current finan­ view that the first quarter Bajaj Auto ...... 2740.40...... -46.00 cial year, market partici­ would be a “soft quarter” The escalating feud between Bajaj Finserv...... 7658.20. .. -197.20 pants appear to be unani­ with the profit of Nifty com­ the Rakesh Gangwal (RG) Bajaj Finance ...... 3429.05. .. -174.05

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Coal India ...... 233.35...... 3.75 According to most broker­ growth to just 3% (18% in groups of InterGlobe Avia­ Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2584.65...... -14.20 ages, the overall slowdown FY19 and 7% in Q4­FY19),” it tion Ltd., (IGAL) that runs Eicher Motors...... 18751.00. .. -287.60 that is affecting consumer said. It added that the top­ IndiGo, resulted in the com­ GAIL (India)...... 144.95...... -2.15 demand will impact a num­ line growth is likely to be the pany’s shares crashing in the Grasim Ind ...... 913.45...... 2.50

HCL Tech...... 1018.90...... -1.85 bers of sectors such as auto­ lowest in a decade if com­ stock market on Wednesday. HDFC ...... 2227.75...... -5.05 mobiles, fast moving con­ modities are excluded. Shares tanked by 19% to HDFC Bank...... 2388.75...... 9.60 sumer goods (FMCG) and Bleak outlook: What stands out is the slowdown’s breadth “What stands out is the ₹1,291 during intra­day trade Hero MotoCorp ...... 2400.00...... -44.10 * REUTERS Hindalco ...... 193.65...... -4.25 consumer durables, while across sectors, says an Edelweiss report. slowdown’s breadth with to its lowest since March Hind Unilever ...... 1718.60...... -21.65 global concerns could see even IT and industrial com­ 2019 to finally close with a Indiabulls HFL ...... 659.60...... -27.50 software majors getting numbers on account of de­ mance single­handedly,” panies, which had posted loss of 10.73% at ₹1,397.75 on ICICI Bank ...... 430.90...... 2.40

IndusInd Bank ...... 1487.25...... -4.85 affected. cent loan growth, better stated Motilal Oswal Finan­ mid­teen profit growth in the BSE. The company’s Bharti Infratel ...... 259.95...... -0.75 Further, analysts are peg­ margins and lower provi­ cial Services in its latest FY19, likely to report mere market cap was wiped out nificant as is evident from Even as the sharp diffe­ Infosys ...... 717.25...... 1.75 ging the overall top­line sioning amid a consistent fall report. 4% and 10% profit growth, by over ₹6,000 crore to the table above, it is only rences between the two pro­ Indian OilCorp...... 148.15...... -3.25

ITC ...... 273.15...... 0.05 growth for the first quarter in bad assets. “Corporate banks will ac­ respectively, in Q1­FY20,” it ₹53,765 crore. 0.53% of IGAL’s consolidated moters is playing out in the JSW Steel...... 254.90...... -7.45 at single digits — a sharp count for the entire growth explained. Edelweiss be­ This forced InterGlobe turnover for FY 2018­19,” it open, material submitted by Kotak Bank ...... 1475.85...... 13.00 moderation from the double Driven by financials in the Nifty... autos will have lieves that cement, retail Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. (IGE), said. Currently the RPTs are Mr. Gangwal to the SEBI L&T...... 1499.55...... -27.05 digit growth in the last finan­ “The Q1­FY20 earnings­re­ another lacklustre quarter. banks and pharmaceuticals the holding company of In­ confined to real estate, simu­ bring to the fore the acrimo­ M&M ...... 621.65...... -11.05

Maurti Suzuki...... 5927.90...... -17.55 cial year. port season will likely be a IT sector profit growth will will be the few sectors where diGo co­founder Rahul Bha­ lation training, GSA commis­ ny that has been building up NTPC ...... 129.05...... -0.50 Banks, however, are ex­ repeat of Q4­FY19, with fi­ come off in this quarter. profit growth would likely tia’s family, to clarify its sion, and crew accommoda­ between the two factions for ONGC ...... 151.65...... -1.75 pected to report healthy nancials driving the perfor­ Consumer sector is also hold up at reasonable levels. stance on the alleged Relat­ tion in Accor Hotel and the the past one year. PowerGrid Corp ...... 205.30...... 0.55

Reliance Ind ...... 1278.85...... -1.25 ed Party Transactions (RPT) total expenses in FY19 was to Sample this letter to the State Bank ...... 354.20...... -5.30 entered with IGAL as le­ the tune of ₹150.2 crore. board on June 12, 2019, by Sun Pharma ...... 392.20...... 5.80 velled by the other co­foun­ Mr. Bhatia on Mr. Gangwal. Tata Motors ...... 151.65...... -4.15 Outward FDI der Rakesh Gangwal in his Defusing anxiety “So, here is a man who Tata Steel ...... 454.80...... -13.65 RBI panel moots change in timings TCS ...... 2108.20...... -25.15 complaint to SEBI on Tues­ The IndiGo management al­ took full advantage of the sit­ Tech Mahindra ...... 674.85...... -1.05 drops to day. so stepped in to defuse the uation and the opportunity Titan ...... 1101.20...... 2.25 Denying the allegations, anxiety of employees. offered to him 14 years ago, UltraTech Cement...... 4480.70...... -18.00 for foreign exchange market $820 million UPL...... 634.85...... -5.20 InterGlobe Enterprises in a “The issues between when he was generously al­ Vedanta ...... 160.00...... -1.50 statement said, “The exis­ them will eventually get sort­ lotted 50% equity; did not Wipro ...... 266.95...... 1.45 Mixed views on extension of timings, says draft report PRESS TRUST OF INDIA tence of RPTs was disclosed ed out, but I want to stress mind that the IGE Group was YES Bank...... 93.00...... 1.65 MUMBAI Zee Entertainment ...... 332.75...... 1.00 at the time of the IPO in 2015 that these issues have noth­ taking the entire economic SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT draft report of the commit­ stakeholders,” it said. India Inc.’s foreign direct in the public domain. Post ing to do with the airline and risk, which at peak exposure EXCHANGE RATES Mumbai tee said. Since the central bank is investment (FDI) in June the IPO, many of the RPTs its functioning,” Ronojoy [between redeemable prefe­ Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit An internal committee of the The report noted that in the process of reviewing fell by over two times from have ceased to exist while Dutta, CEO, IndiGo, said in a rence shares, unsecured except yen at 4 p.m. on July 10 CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL Reserve Bank of India (RBI), there are mixed views on the and rationalising foreign ex­ a year ago to $820.36 mil­ others have been renewed letter to employees. loans, and personal guaran­

US Dollar...... 68.37...... 68.69 which was set up to review benefits of extension of mar­ change regulations to pro­ lion, data from the Reserve on an arms’ length basis as “Our mission, direction tees] was in excess of ₹1,100 Euro ...... 76.67...... 77.03 timings of different financial ket timing. vide flexibility regarding Bank of India showed part of the normal course of and growth strategy remains crore [almost sixfold the IGE British Pound...... 85.31...... 85.72 markets, suggested that the products, participation and Wednesday. business.” unchanged, and firmly in Group’s contractual obliga­ Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 62.75...... 63.04

Chinese Yuan ...... 9.94...... 9.99 foreign exchange market Higher costs positions, both for residents The outward foreign di­ “The IGE Group has en­ place. As such, it is very im­ tion of ₹200 crore in the un­ Swiss Franc ...... 68.87...... 69.20 could function from 9 am to “While the extension of mar­ and non­residents, exten­ rect investment (OFDI) by sured that no entity of the portant that we all remain derstanding with Mr. Gang­ Singapore Dollar ...... 50.21...... 50.45 9 pm At present, the curren­ ket timings is expected to sion of market hours would the Indian firms stood at group should take any ad­ focussed on running a high wal]; happily agreed to the Canadian Dollar...... 52.10...... 52.35

Malaysian Ringitt ...... 16.51...... 16.60 cy market works from 9 am provide benefits such as bet­ complement these policy $2.29 billion in the same vantage under RPTs. With­ performance airline,” he fundamental proposition

Source:Indian Bank to 5 pm. ter pricing of post market measures, the draft said. month the previous year, out exception, IGAL has re­ said. Mr. Dutta added, “Ab­ that the IGE Group will have “Calibrated extension of hours information/data, im­ The panel suggested call according to the RBI data ceived more favourable solutely nothing has really control; obliged himself to BULLION RATES CHENNAI market hours, and to begin proved onshore price dis­ money market timings could on OFDI. treatment from the IGE changed for any of us, I will support the IGE Group in July 10 rates in rupees with previous with, revised market timings covery and a possible shift of be extended till 6 pm instead In May, Indian compa­ Group entities as compared just go about doing my job to maintaining control through rates in parentheses of 9 am — 9 pm, may be con­ offshore volumes to on­ of the 5 pm now, to facilitate nies had invested over to their other customers. the very best of my abilities, a voting rights agreement Retail Silver (1g) ...... 41...... (40.8) sidered to gauge demand shore, there is a view that it liquidity management by $1.56 billion in their over­ The materiality of the tran­ and I know I can count on embedded in the SHA and in 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 3270...... (3264) and potential benefits,” the may entail higher costs to banks. seas ventures. sactions for IGAL is not sig­ you to do the same.” the AoA of the company.” GDP growth rates in Economic Survey, Budget consistent with each other: FM The two use different base figures, says Nirmala Sitharaman Special Correspondent as each of them project the NEW DELHI nominal GDP of Finance Minister Nirmala ₹2,11,00,607 crore for 2019­ Sitharaman on Wednesday 20,” she said, adding that clarified that the Economic the government holds the Survey and the Union Bud­ Economic Survey, which is get project different rates of produced by the Chief Eco­ nominal GDP growth for nomic Advisor, at a “res­ 2019­20 because they use pectful arm’s distance.” different base figures. Ho­ Her explanation for the wever, she added that the lower GDP base being used two rates were consistent in the Budget was that this with each other. was the same number used While the Union Budget in the Interim Budget pre­ presented on July 5 project­ sented in February. ed a nominal GDP growth of “A lower GDP base of 12% for financial year 2019­ Near, yet far: The Centre holds the CEA’s Economic Survey at 2018­19 has been used in the

20, the Economic Survey a ‘respectful arm’s distance’, the Minister said. * REUTERS Budget document as the pegged this figure at 11%. same GDP base was used in Opposition leaders in the and cess rates on petrol and “The growth rate of no­ the interim Budget present­ Lok Sabha highlighted this diesel. minal GDP for 2019­20 in ed in February 2019,” Ms. discrepancy and demanded “The growth rate in the the Economic Survey has Sitharaman said. “Using the why there were so many dif­ nominal GDP for 2019­20 in been projected at 11% over same GDP base ensures ferent numbers being is­ the Budget document has the provisional nominal comparability from Budget sued by the government. been projected at 12% over GDP estimates of to Budget, interim Budget The Opposition also the advance nominal GDP ₹1,90,10,164 crore of 2018­ to regular Budget, and this walked out of the lower estimates of ₹1,88,40,731 19,” the Finance Minister ad­ Budget to last year’s Bud­ House during Ms. Sithara­ crore for 2018­19,” Ms. Sitha­ ded. “The Provisional Esti­ get.” She said that using the man’s reply to the concerns raman said during her rep­ mates of 2018­19 were re­ same base ensures compar­ over the Budget, protesting ly. “The advance estimates leased on May 31, 2019. ability of the deficit ratios the Budget’s announce­ of 2018­19 were released on “Both the projections are used in the July Budget and ment of a hike in the duties Jan. 7, 2019.” consistent with each other the interim Budget. ‘CSO must rethink informal sector estimates’ Current method no longer accurate due to greater automation: Pronab Sen

Special Correspondent they are using technology NEW DELHI instead. All those people The Central Statistics Office who are concerned about (CSO) needs to rethink how the future use of automa­ it estimates the growth of tion and its impact on la­ the informal sector as the bour, well, the automation current method is no longer is already happening.” accurate, former Chief Sta­ One way in which the tistician of India Pronab Sen CSO could better estimate said on Wednesday. the informal sector activity “Using the corporate sec­ is to use employment data, tor data to estimate the ac­ The CSO could better estimate informal sector activity he added. tivity in the non­corporate using employment data, says Pronab Sen. * R.V. MOORTHY Former Chief Economic sector, as is being done, Adviser Arvind Subrama­ works only as long as the dian corporates, especially was an increasing trend of nian again highlighted his technologies being used in the large ones, have seen companies using technolo­ misgivings with the GDP both sectors are reasonably greater technology being gy instead of labour. growth data for the period similar,” Dr. Sen said while used and this is not the case “The data implies that 2011­12 to 2016­17. speaking at a session on for the non­corporate sec­ there are many companies He also said that India GDP data organised by the tor. The CSO needs to reth­ that are replacing many was well placed now to in­ National Council of Applied ink this.” low­skilled workers with a corporate Goods and Ser­ Economic Research. Dr. Sen further said that few highly­skilled, highly vices Tax data to arrive at “However, this is no lon­ the data for the last few paid workers,” Dr. Sen ex­ an expenditure side esti­ ger the case,” he added. “In­ years showed that there plained. “This is because mate of GDP growth. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 16 BUSINESS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Industry jittery as auto sales’ slide continues Provide policy guideline to help auto sector: ALL SIAM seeks measures to save jobs in a sector that employs close to 37 million people ‘Strategy, roll­out plan in place for EVs’ Special Correspondent has happened before,” said jobs will also start going NEW DELHI Rajan Wadhera, president, down,” he cautioned. Special Correspondent mise resources,” he added. With domestic automobile SIAM. He added that the in­ Asked if there have been CHENNAI With regard to the com­ OBC cuts MCLR by up to sales continuing on a down­ dustry doesn’t see this im­ any job cuts over the past Commercial vehicle manu­ mercial vehicle industry, he 10 basis points ward spiral, the industry on proving “as it is linked to the year, he said, “I don’t think facturer Ashok Leyland has said: “In the short­to­medi­ NEW DELHI Wednesday cautioned that if overall GDP figures… the that phase has started, but urged the Centre and indus­ um term, we anticipate con­ Oriental Bank of Commerce immediate concrete mea­ economic survey is talking of we are very close to that. We try bodies to provide long­ tinuance of investment in (OBC) has cut the marginal sures are not taken by the go­ the last quarter of 5.8% can’t survive at this moment. term direction or a policy infrastructure, revival of de­ cost of funds­based lending vernment to help arrest the growth.” Expressing disap­ At SIAM, we support the guideline to help the auto fence mobility spending and rate (MCLR) by up to 10 basis fall, job cuts may soon follow pointment that the indus­ electric vehicle plan of the sector, said its chairman the much needed relief to points (bps) for various in the sector that employs try’s concerns were not ad­ government, but at the same Dheeraj G. Hinduja. the liquidity challenges of tenors effective Thursday. nearly 37 million people. dressed in the Budget 2019, time, we must survive during “It is important that the NBFCs.” For the 3­month, 6­month In June, total vehicle sales particularly the demand to that plan.” government and the indus­ Regarding the company’s and 1­year tenor loans, MCLR in the country declined by reduce GST on automobiles, “… Reduction in the GST, try bodies provide long­ preparedness for the BS­VI, is now 5 bps lower at 8.45%, 12.34% to over 19.97 lakh un­ he added that if the de­ which unfortunately has not term direction or a policy he said it was a steep chal­ 8.55% and 8.65%. Earlier this week, RBI Governor its, as per data released by growth continues, it is bad happened, would have been guideline to the auto sector lenge for both original Shaktikanta Das said he Society of Indian Automo­ for everyone and industry the biggest enabler to start that include policy pro­ equipment manufacturers expected faster transmission bile Manufacturers (SIAM). will need to take “critical” the demand… We have been nouncements such as vehi­ and the ancillary sector to of the three successive repo “measures to stay afloat” making the presentation to cle scrappage, cab code or transform from BS­IV to BS­ rate cuts totalling 75 bps. PTI PV sales drop and “conserve resources” the government saying that bus body code,” Mr. Hinduja VI norms in just three years. Passenger Vehicle (PV) sales “…in the short­term, if we this de­growth affects the said in a message to share­ “Our status of readiness is OYO becomes world’s fell 17.54% to over 2.25 lakh car production stood at over We have not seen such kind don’t arrest it [the decline], GST revenues as well. If we holders. next to none in emission third largest hotel chain units. The PV sales had been 1.69 lakh units last month — of prolonged slowdown ever. the de­growth will continue. de­grow by 20%, the overall “This would provide the conformance and fuel per­ BENGALURU declining for the past 12 the worst since June 2013, There have been patches of It is already affecting us fi­ GST also is less by 20%. We impetus to the Indian com­ formance.” OYO Hotels & Homes on months, barring a slight up­ when it had dropped to over de­growth earlier but that nancially... if we have no are really very concerned. mercial vehicle sector to On the firm’s EV strategy, Wednesday said it had tick in October 2018. 1.64 lakh units. “This is the lasted for one or two quar­ work, then there will be no We need very concrete mea­ transit to the global premier he said that the strategy and emerged as the world’s third Additionally, passenger worst phase of the industry. ters at most. Nothing like this new jobs and the current sures,” Mr. Wadhera added. league and also help opti­ roll­out plans were in place. largest hotel chain, as per room count, as of June 2019. Over a period of six years, OYO has expanded to over NCLT admits 800 cities, nearly 23,000 OYO­branded hotels and plea against Coffee growers’ meet may bring a cuppa cheer for India 8,50,000 rooms, surpassing the scale of traditional and Chennai firm Some important topics for discussion include how to replicate Brazil’s success of domestic coffee consumption established hotel chain Mini Tejaswi brands in the world, the Special Correspondent company said. It has Bengaluru by Prof. Jeffrey D Sachs, di­ problems such as price and countries. At that time, inter­ Chennai presence in 25 destinations The World Coffee Producers’ rector, Center for Sustainable demand creation,” said Mr. national markets were in­ and 85 hotels in U.K. and 68 The Special Bench of the Forum (WCPF) is scheduled Development of the Institute Orduz who is also the presi­ creasingly interested in envi­ hotels across 40 U.S. cities. National Company Law to discuss a range of issues de la Tierra of Columbia Un­ dent of North American sub­ ronmental and social Tribunal (NCLT), Chennai critical to the economic sus­ iversity. Juan Esteban Orduz, sidiary of the Colombian Cof­ sustainability, to the point of Insolvency plea against admitted insolvency pro­ tainability of coffee farmers president, Colombian Coffee fee Growers Federation. demanding social and envi­ RHC Holding dismissed ceedings against New round the globe at its two­ Growers Federation Inc. told As per Vanusia Nogueira, ronment sustainability certi­ NEW DELHI Chennai Township Pvt. day conference that com­ The Hindu that the forum executive director, Brazil fication for coffees. Interna­ The National Company Law Ltd. for default in payment menced on Wednesday. would push for cooperation Specialty Coffee Association tional markets were less Appellate Tribunal on of dues worth over ₹400 WCPF is a not­for­profit between all key stakehol­ — BSCA, the key objective of interested in, and unwilling Wednesday dismissed a crore. The petition was entity that represents over 25 ders, including the New York WCPF was to focus on actions to bear the cost of, or even petition by HDFC to initiate filed by Phoenix ARC Pvt. million coffee­growing fami­ Stock Exchange and consum­ that would eventually im­ discuss, the issue of econom­ insolvency proceedings Ltd. The company is be­ lies across 60 countries. ers, to ensure a sustainable prove the economic condi­ ic sustainability, she said. against RHC Holding, an hind Marg’s flagship pro­ income for farmers, add va­ tion of all coffee producers “Producers would be re­ entity promoted by ject Swarnabhoomi. lue to coffee in producing around the globe. billionaire brothers Direct impact on growers quired to provide environ­ Malvinder Mohan Singh and NCLT noted the case Some of the topics scheduled countries and also increase Till recently, large coffee mentally and socially sustain­ Shivinder Mohan Singh. A was filed before November for discussion and that would Green shoots: The forum will push for adding value to coffee in consumption in producing fairs and expos were all or­ able coffees at whatever price two­member bench headed 10, 2017 and since then, no have direct bearing on over producing countries and also increase consumption. * REUTERS countries. ganised and held in import­ the market dictated, even if by Chairman Justice S.J. change has been seen in 2.50 lakh coffee farmers in ing/consuming countries and that price was below their Mukhopadhaya upheld the the requests for adjourn­ India, include how to repli­ that harm their incomes and duce. One of the key high­ Working on problems had discussion agendas with own cost of production,” ad­ order of the principal bench ment by the firm, except cate Brazil’s success of dom­ how to improve transparen­ lights will be a paper on “The current price crisis af­ topics of interest to these ded Mr. Orduz while explain­ of the National Company Law saying that if more time estic coffee consumption, cy and traceability from “Economic and political ana­ fects all producing countries countries; there were no im­ ing the context under which Tribunal which had rejected were given it would resolve how to protect farmers from seed­to­cup to ensure better lysis to improve small coffee alike. Our goals and objec­ portant coffee fairs or gather­ a global body for coffee grow­ HDFC’s plea. it through settlement talks. current market mechanisms price premium for their pro­ growers’ income” presented tives are to work on main ings driven by producing ers was set up in 2017. 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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Henry’s triple blow stuns the top­order, shatters India’s dream Despite Jadeja’s incredible knock and his gallant century stand with Dhoni, the Men in Blue fall short by 18 runs to crash out in the semifinals

K.C. Vijaya Kumar Manchester The bugles were silenced, drums got discarded and dis­ belief reigned. For the Indian fans, a boisterous morning slipped into an afternoon of melancholy despite Ravindra Jadeja’s incredible knock, as New Zealand stunned Virat Kohli’s men in the World Cup semifinal at Old Trafford here on Wednesday. Efficiency trumped flair and Kane Williamson’s men showed that they could win without a snarl. Pursuing New Zealand’s 239 for eight, India finished with 221 in 49.3 overs. Jadeja’s 77 (59b, 4x4, 4x6) was pulse­pound­ ing but it was fated to end in tragedy while the Kiwis snatched an 18­run victory. Modest targets can be tricky and India needed a so­ lid start but, instead, a night­ mare ensued. Rohit Sharma nibbled at a Matt Henry (three for 37) delivery, the edge was grazed, wicket­ keeper Tom Latham caught Gone with the wind: Virat Kohli gives vent to his frustration after getting dismissed cheaply by Trent Boult. * AP with glee and boom, the World Cup’s most prolific was riding the bounce, failed SCOREBOARD INDIA VS NEW ZEALAND batsman departed. to withdraw his bat and Lath­ am found another welcome NEW ZEALAND (7b), Rohit Sharma c Latham b Joy in waves thud into his gloves. India Martin Guptill c Kohli b Bumrah 1 Henry 1 (4b), Virat Kohli lbw b Joy for the Black Caps came five for three and the fires (14b), Henry Nicholls b Jadeja 28 Boult 1 (6b), Rishabh Pant c de in waves. For the addition of raged. (51b, 2x4), Kane Williamson c Grandhomme b Santner 32 (56b, a single run, India lost two Jadeja b Chahal 67 (95b, 6x4), 4x4), Dinesh Karthik c Neesham wickets. Kohli missed some Magic on the turf Ross Taylor run out 74 (90b, b Henry 6 (25b, 1x4), Hardik from Trent Boult as the left­ Rishabh Pant and Dinesh 3x4, 1x6), James Neesham c Pandya c Williamson b Santner armer’s angle was tough to Karthik tried to resist, the Karthik b Pandya 12 (18b, 1x4), 32 (62b, 2x4), M.S. Dhoni run out counter. The speedster then former driving, the latter Colin de Grandhomme c Dhoni b 50 (72b, 1x4, 1x6), Ravindra got one to straighten and stone­walling and going 20 Bhuvneshwar 16 (10b, 2x4), Tom Jadeja c Williamson b Boult 77 Latham c Jadeja b Bhuvneshwar (59b, 4x4, 4x6), Bhuvneshwar Kohli, who tends to shuffle a balls without a run. Karthik 10 (11b), Mitchell Santner (not Kumar b Ferguson 0 (1b), bit more in his initial tenure, then clipped a four off Boult ing Neesham and Henry for eries for the seventh wicket out) 9 (6b, 1x4), Matt Henry c Yuzvendra Chahal c Latham b did that while trying to wrist and just as the initial nerves sixes and the crowd was but New Zealand could not Kohli b Bhuvneshwar 1 (2b), Neesham 5 (5b, 1x4), Jasprit one to the leg­side. The In­ eased, James Neesham sprin­ alive. A stirring act took be denied. Jadeja’s attempt Trent Boult (not out) 3 (3b); Ex- Bumrah (not out) 0 (0b); Extras dian captain missed, the pad kled magic on the turf. Kar­ shape and when Jadeja to clout Boult proved fatal tras (lb-5, w-13): 18; Total (for (lb-3, w-13): 16; Total (in 49.3 got struck and Boult’s appeal thik sliced Henry and as the etched his 50, besides the and Martin Guptill’s sensa­ eight wkts. in 50 overs): 239. overs): 221. bellowed from the pit of his ball raced beyond backward­ usual Rajput twirl of the bat, tional throw left Dhoni FALL OF WICKETS FALL OF WICKETS stomach. Kohli was adjudged point, Neesham dived to his wicket alliance but India was past seven, the pressure was he gesticulated towards the stranded. The rest wilted and 1-1 (Guptill, 3.3 overs), 2-69 1-4 (Rohit, 1.3), 2-5 (Kohli, 2.4), out, he promptly sought a re­ left, and his left hand reflex­ always behind the Duck­ bound to tell. It did emphati­ commentary box, perhaps, David had indeed quelled (Nicholls, 18.2), 3-134 (William- 3-5 (Rahul, 3.1), 4-24 (Karthik, view and though the replays ively darted out and plucked worth­Lewis par score. And cally when Pandya miscued a an admonition to Sanjay Goliath. son, 35.2), 4-162 (Neesham, 9.6), 5-71 (Pant, 22.5), 6-92 hinted that the ball was going a catch for the ages. India 24 then Pant tried to deposit slog­sweep off Santner and a Manjrekar, who recently Earlier, resuming at the 40.6), 5-200 (Grandhomme, (Pandya, 30.3), 7-208 (Jadeja, 47.5), 8-216 (Dhoni, 48.3), 9-217 over the bails, it was an ‘um­ for four in 10 overs and in left­arm spinner Mitchell patient Williamson tumbled made some critical remarks. overnight 211 for five in 46.1 44.4), 6-225 (Taylor, 47.6), 7-225 (Latham, 48.1), 8-232 (Henry, (Bhuvneshwar, 48.6). pire’s call’ decision and the dire straits. Santner over mid­wicket, ex­ and still held on. India 92 for Jadeja rode his luck as a overs, New Zealand added 28 48.6). NEW ZEALAND BOWLING agitated batsman left. The game is a leveller cept that he found Colin de six, down for the count and few shots teased the fielders runs while losing three wick­ INDIA BOWLING Boult 10-2-42-2, Henry 10-1- At five for two, the queasi­ though and when Pant Grandhomme. India 71 for in walks Jadeja with rebel­ but a massive six off Fergu­ ets with Jadeja’s terrific field­ Bhuvneshwar 10-1-43-3, Bumrah 37-3, Ferguson 10-0-43-1, de ness in the Indian dressing flicked Lockie Ferguson, the five in the 23rd over and the lious ideas. son showed that the battle ing accounting for Ross Tay­ 10-1-39-1, Pandya 10-0-55-1, Grandhomme 2-0-13-0, Nee- room worsened as K.L. Ra­ uppish stroke popped out of crowd yearned for a miracle. wasn’t over yet and a hope­ lor (74) and Latham. Still, Jadeja 10-0-34-1, Chahal sham 7.3-0-49-1, Santner 10-2- hul fell to Henry. The deliv­ Neesham’s hands at short M.S. Dhoni (50) and Pan­ Stirring act gifting partnership enthused New Zealand set a challeng­ 10-0-63-1. 34-2. ery hovering near the off­ mid­wicket! Pant and Hardik dya nudged the scoreboard While Dhoni remained calm, the audience. Jadeja and ing target that eventually be­ INDIA Toss: NZ. MoM: Matt Henry. stump rose and Rahul, who Pandya shared a 47­run fifth­ but as the required rate went Jadeja turned aggressor, loft­ Dhoni added 116 off 112 deliv­ came insurmountable. K.L. Rahul c Latham b Henry 1 New Zealand won by 18 runs. Dhoni’s final bow? ‘The game changed in the first 40 minutes’ ‘It wasn’t a 300­wicket, K.C. Vijaya Kumar picked him in your team?” Manchester The New Zealand skipper Kohli ‘proud of the way the team played through the tournament’ 240 or 250 was ideal’ When M.S. Dhoni trudged looked perplexed and coun­ away following a run out at tered: “He is not eligible to K.C. Vijaya Kumar (Hardik) Pandya was com­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT dra) Jadeja played was as if Old Trafford here on Wed­ play for New Zealand, isn’t Manchester mendable. In hindsight he Manchester he was playing on a different nesday, a question lingered he?” And when the corres­ India’s batting heart was will learn, he is young. When Kane Williamson often does pitch. It was a brilliant in­ in the press box: “Are we pondent persisted, William­ flung aside in the first 10 ov­ I was young I made many a shy half­smile, not for him nings and India showed seeing him for the last time son praised Dhoni: “He is a ers as New Zealand speed­ mistakes. I am sure he will are the extremes of unbri­ what a class side it is and we in the blue shade?” With world­class player and if I sters Trent Boult and Matt reflect on it and become dled joy or soul­numbing had a very good game of speculation over a probable was the Indian captain I Henry pegged away with stronger.” anguish. After marshalling cricket spilling over two retirement swirling in the would have picked him. His wickets and maidens. Virat Kohli was also satisfied New Zealand well and days. air, it was understandable contribution was excellent. Kohli conceded that the with the run rate that Ravin­ springing a shock­defeat Dhoni’s run out that the former captain Is he looking to change his phase when his team was re­ dra Jadeja and M.S. Dhoni upon India in the World Cup We all know the game is a came up for discussion in nationality? We might con­ duced to five for three and maintained through their semifinals here at Old Traf­ fine line. We have seen the post­match media sider him (grins).” then 24 for four, had reper­ partnership: “The way they ford on Wednesday, the (M.S.) Dhoni finish games interactions. Later, when Virat Kohli cussions that lasted through batted together I felt it was skipper was measured in his earlier and to get him run First up, Kane Williamson was probed about any input the World Cup semifinal the perfect tempo. MS (Dho­ words, mixing guarded out with a direct throw was was asked to comment on from Dhoni specific to his ca­ which Kane Williamson’s ni) was given that role of praise with dry wit. excellent. Dhoni’s strike­rate and then reer’s conclusion, the Indian men won at Old Trafford coming in a bad situation Excerpts: A staggered contest the reporter questioned de­ captain categorically said: here on Wednesday. and taking control.” A tough game I think the guys slept pret­ risively: “Would you have “He hasn’t told anything.” “The game pretty much Jadeja’s innings drew It was important to main­ ty well. We were focusing on changed in those first 40 mi­ praise from his leader and tain our vitality and we what we could achieve on nutes and credit to the New Kohli said: “I have been know what a class side India this surface. It wasn’t a 300­ Zealand bowlers, the pres­ Fine innings, but... Jadeja drew praise from skipper Kohli watching him for 10 years is. We thought close to 240 wicket, it was a mid­200 sure they created was im­ who termed the left-hander’s innings ‘his best.’ * REUTERS and this was his best knock. was competitive on a pitch wicket, 240 or 250 was mense and they bowled in At that point (in the slog) we like this and it was an in­ ideal. And then it was a bril­ the right areas,” the Indian out of the tournament,” he perfect spell of fast bowling.” felt that we could close the credible game. We had a liant start with the ball. captain said in the post­ added. game. Jadeja has been an un­ great starting point when The catching philosophy match press conference. Speaking about the dis­ Pant will learn der­stated cricketer but he is we got those wickets and Just watch the ball and “You obviously feel bad missals, Kohli said: “Rohit Asked to comment on Rish­ priceless.” then the rebuilding phase catch it. Just watch it, (per­ about the result and eve­ (Sharma) got a really good abh Pant’s manner of exit Visibly disappointed, Koh­ gets tricky. We had some haps say) ‘someone please ryone wants to win. In hind­ ball, the ball I got was pretty through a shot that was li, though, drew some cheer good deliveries there, some­ catch it’ (grins) and if it is sight you can think different­ decent. Yes in some cases struck straight to a fielder in from the ‘semifinal appea­ times they don’t take the mine then catch it. ly. We are sad but we are not shot selection could have the deep, Kohli became the rance’ and said that he “is edge, but today they took The final devastated. Today we were been better. For the first se­ protective senior: “Look, proud of the way the team (it). Anybody can beat anybo­ not good enough, a bad day ven or eight overs we didn’t Pant is an instinctive player played through the tourna­ The Jadeja special dy, so it is important to put

What’s up? Speculation is rife about Dhoni’s future. * AFP at the knockouts and you are get a ball to drive, it was the and his partnership with ment.” The innings that (Ravin­ your feet on the ground. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE England will need It’s a Federer­Nadal semifinal as scripted to be at its best The Swiss records his 100th win at SW19; Djokovic crushes Goffin; Agut in maiden Slam semifinal Defending champion Australia has proved its credentials WORLD CUP

Press Trust of India BIRMINGHAM England seems primed to win its maiden title but it will N. Sudarshan take a special effort to up­ LONDON stage arch­rival and defend­ More than a decade after ing champion Australia in their momentous Wimble­ the second semifinal here on don final in 2008 — a match Thursday. for the ages that ended un­ Considering the fire­pow­ der semi­darkness — Roger er the host possesses, many Federer and Rafael Nadal current and former players will lock horns again, this have said it is England’s time a round earlier. World Cup to lose, a trophy The two won their respec­ it has not been able to lift tive quarterfinal matches on despite making the final in Wednesday against Kei Nishi­ 1979, 1987 and 1992. kori and Sam Querrey to set On the other hand, Aus­ up their 40th head­to­head tralia has been so consistent meeting on Friday. While Fe­ in the mega event that it is derer came through a tense yet to lose a semifinal, hav­ four­setter 4­6, 6­1, 6­1, 6­4 ing won six and one being a for his 100th win at SW19, dramatic tie against South Nadal doused a spirited chal­ Africa in the 1999 edition. lenge from the service­heavy Not many would have put American 7­5, 6­2, 6­2. their money on Australia as “Well, we have a lot of in­ Sublime: Novak Djokovic lost just six games — his least ever at Wimbledon — during his dismantling of David Goffin.* REUTERS recent as four months ago formation on Rafa and so do but Aaron Finch and his they about us,” said a smiling broke open the contest at 3­3 seven he conceded to Yen­ rally and dealt the killer blow team have made a phenome­ Federer about facing Nadal. in the third set and never Hsun Lu in 2010. He will now with a volley of his own. nal comeback that began “We can all talk tactics for looked back. take on Spaniard Roberto From thereon, the four­time with a rare series win in In­ the next two days or just say “The beginning was bru­ Bautista Agut, who defeated champion won 15 of 17 dia in March. it’s grass court tennis and I tal,” Federer said later. “Kei Argentine giant­killer Guido games, including eight on am going to attack. If he can was smashing returns and I Pella 7­5, 6­4, 3­6, 6­3 to the bounce, to drain the England may have won 10 Impact player: Jason Roy will be key to England’s fortunes defend, it’s good for him or had to make adjustments make it to his maiden Slam Centre Court of all its energy out of its last 12 meetings against Australia. * DAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAGES against Australia but knows it’s good for me. I mean, peo­ and stay with him. I had to semifinal. and with it any lingering sus­ well that the piece of statistic ple hype it up, just like in the get the lead and protect it in The turnaround from Djo­ pense of an upset. counts for little heading into French Open. It was a joy to the second and then start a kovic in the first set was the semifinal, especially af­ play on his court. Now, I’d normal match at one­set all. I high enough to give him the swift. After having broken THE RESULTS ter the Eoin Morgan­led love to play on grass. Let’s served well from there. It first­mover advantage that the defending champion in side’s 64­loss to in the league see what happens.” was a good serving perfor­ can be crucial on grass. the seventh game, Goffin lost Men’s singles: Quarterfinals: 1­ stage. mance against a great return­ But he covers for his his rhythm from 30­0 up. A Novak Djokovic (Srb) bt 21­ Toughing it out ing player.” shortcomings with clever double fault and an unforced But England is back to its David Goffin (Bel) 6­4, 6­0, The eight­time Wimbledon The day’s honours, ho­ changes of pace, court­speed error brought the Serb right 6­2; 23­Roberto Bautista Agut best since that loss to Austra­ champion, though, had to wever, went to World No. 1 and persistence. He ap­ back before a decision by the (Esp) bt 26­Guido Pella (Arg) lia as it beat India and New tough it out against Nishiko­ Novak Djokovic, who dis­ peared to maximise these ta­ umpire to award a point to 7­5, 6­4, 3­6, 6­3; 2­Roger Fe­ Zealand in their final two ri. The Japanese broke early mantled David Goffin 6­4, lents for a fleeting while, go­ Djokovic instead of a replay derer (Sui) bt 8­Kei Nishikori league games. in the first set forcing the 6­0, 6­2. A lot had to go right ing up a break in the first set following a contentious line (Jpn) 4­6, 6­1, 6­4, 6­4; 3­Ra­ The squads: fael Nadal (Esp) bt Sam Querrey son, Steve Smith, Mitchell ran, Liam Dawson, Liam Plun­ Swiss to play catch­up. Fe­ for the 21st seed if he was to and serving at 4­3, before call seemed to throw the Bel­ Australia: Aaron Finch (Capt.), (USA) 7­5, 6­2, 6­2. Starc, Marcus Stoinis, David kett, Adil Rashid, Joe Root, Ja­ Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey, derer pounced in the second threaten Djokovic. At just an bearing the full brunt of the gian off. Mixed doubles: Third round: 1­ Warner and Adam Zampa. son Roy, Ben Stokes, James Nathan Coulter­Nile, Pat Cum­ right at the beginning, just inch under six feet, he Djokovic onslaught. He would save the break Bruno Soares (Bra) & Nicole Me­ Vince, Chris Woakes and Mark mins, Peter Handscomb, Us­ England: Eoin Morgan (Capt.), when Nishikori appeared to doesn’t necessarily intimi­ The six games that Djo­ point with a fine volley but lichar (USA) bt Andy Murray Wood. man Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Moeen Ali, Jofra Archer, Jonny switch off, and maintained date his opponents. His kovic lost were his least ever couldn’t do much when Djo­ (GBr) & Serena Williams (USA) Glenn Maxwell, Kane Richard­ Bairstow, Jos Buttler, Tom Cur­ Match starts at 3 p.m. IST. the lead throughout. He serve­speed doesn’t rank at Wimbledon, bettering the kovic drew him into a long 6­3, 4­6, 6­2. Sagan takes Poland show not accurate gauge of India’s chances Tajikistan stuns Syria the fifth stage INTERCONTL. CUP on the bench in the first Better indicator would be the World Championships half, its two men in attack — TOUR DE FRANCE Amitabha Das Sharma Shadi Al Hamwi and Mo­ ATHLETICS none among the top runners around Poland. Hima and tion and falling standards, AHMEDABAD hammad Almarmour — Reuters from their respective coun­ Vismaya slipped to 23.97 and one wonders about the sup­ Tajikistan brightened its tit­ troubled the Tajik defence a COLMER UTHRA GANESAN tries. Even the top Polish ath­ 24.06 respectively but still posed gains for the Indian le­round chances, shocking lot. Peter Sagan burst into life NEW DELHI letes were missing. completed a 1­2 for India. For athletes in such long camps fancied Syria by two second After Hamvi saw his 13th on the Tour de France Touted as a strong prospect Hima won the 200m in the record, her gold­winning abroad without adequate in­ half goals, in the Interconti­ minute effort saved well by when he claimed the fifth for India at the Tokyo Olym­ 23.65 seconds, far from her performance in Poznan will ternational competitions. nental Cup at the EKA Arena Tajik goalkeeper Rustam Ya­ stage at the end of a 175.5­ pics, Hima Das is currently personal best of 23.10 while not put her among the It’s not just the runners here on Wednesday. timov, Syria kept working km bumpy ride from St. the toast of the nation for V.K. Vismaya was third in top­300 in the world today. whose performances raise Striker Komron Tursunov on the flanks, earning three Die des Vosges on winning back­to­back races 23.75, a personal best. Mohd. “The federation itself is questions. Javelin thrower found the lead before Il­ golden opportunities, but Wednesday. in the first week of July. Anas Yahya was the only one realistic. These competitions Shivpal Singh, who managed homjon Barotov netted the failing to capitalise on them. The three­time World Hima is part of the elite In­ who came close to doing his are mainly in and around the an impressive 86.23m at the second to help Tajikistan Tajikistan came back champion from Slovakia dian quartermilers training best, registering a season’s athletes’ training base in Asian meet, has been slip­ reach six points after two strongly in the second half, beat Belgian Wout van Aert for more than two months in best timing of 20.75 (his re­ Spala and are entered into ping gradually, his last out­ matches. going ahead immediately af­ and Italian Matteo Trentin Spala, Poland, along with a cord is 20.63) in 200m to fin­ for experience. They are not ing being 76.90 in Poland. Vi­ The Tajiks, who had sur­ ter the break. Tursunov in a sprint finish to streng­ few javelin throwers and ish third. part of the official annual ca­ pin Kasana has not prised India in the opener, found the target off a spec­ then his grip on the points shot­putter Tejinder Pal lendar,” an AFI official participated at all during this just need a draw against tacular long­ranger that beat classification as he looks to Singh Toor. However, it is im­ All-India race admitted. time while Davinder Singh DPR Korea to make the final. Syrian custodian Ibrahim secure a record­breaking portant to put things in In the women’s 400m, it was However, it may be noted Kang and Rajinder Singh Syria created a few chanc­ Alma. seventh green jersey. perspective. an all­India race that saw all that the Sports Ministry has have had poor outings in one es in the first half but was Even before Syria could Sagan has 144 points in The most common refrain four time over 54 seconds. Hima Das. approved ₹65.93 lakh for event each. unlucky not to find the net regroup, Tajiks doubled the the points classification for going abroad is quality The best­placed Indian male * BEN HOSKINS/GETTY IMAGES competitions in Spala and A more accurate reflec­ as three of its attempts came lead in the 67th minute with Australian Michael competition that is not possi­ quartermiler was K.S. Jeevan around, probably including tion of India’s chances and off the framework. when Ilhomjon Barotov Matthews in second place ble in India. That, however, with 47.25s. Kunhu Mo­ Tejinderpal Singh Toor could the Czech Republic, for nine standards would be, there­ Tajikistan enjoyed grea­ tapped home an assist from on 97. does not bear out. At Poz­ hammed managed 47.48, a not cross the 20m mark. athletes and two coaches fore, at the World Champion­ ter possession, but could Panshanbe Ehsoni. France’s Julian Alaphi­ nan, there were just a hand­ far cry from even his sea­ At Kutno, the Indians ran during the period 15 June to ships in September­October. not make inroads into the The result: Tajikistan 2 (Kom­ lippe retained the overall ful of Jamaicans and Thai son’s best of 46.47 at the Fed­ amongst themselves and 15 August. Till then, it would do well to Syria box. Despite keeping ron Tursunov 46, Ilhomjon Ba­ leader’s yellow jersey. runners across all events, eration Cup earlier this year. against club athletes from With club level competi­ temper hopes and adulation. its playmaker Firas Alkhatib rotov 67) bt Syria 0.

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TV PICKS Coach Reid keen to work on ICC World Cup: Star Sports Dutee clinches 100m gold 1, 2 & Select 1 (SD & HD), 3 p.m. Wimbledon: Star Sports Se­ Becomes the first Indian to win a sprint gold in a global event ‘collective defending’ lect 2 (SD & HD), 5.30 p.m. Wants to establish his style of attacking hockey IN BRIEF WORLD UNIVERSIADE Press Trust of India Shreedutta Chidananda Napoli Bengaluru National record holder Du­ If Graham Reid’s first three tee Chand became the first months in his role as India’s Indian woman track and Chief Coach have been field athlete to clinch a gold about familiarizing himself Five Brazilians in Copa medal in the World Univer­ with the job, the next four team of tournament siade after she won the 100m will be slightly more crucial. PORTO ALEGRE dash event here. India will have to be in top Five Brazilians have been The 23­year­old Dutee form going into November’s selected in the 2019 Copa clocked 11.32 seconds to win Olympic qualifiers, and Reid America’s team of the the gold as she led the race is aware that there is no tournament by the South from start to finish. Running room for slip­ups. American Football at lane No. 4, Dutee was the First on the agenda, as the Confederation (CONMEBOL). first one out of the eight ath­ Indian men’s hockey team Goalkeeper Alisson, right­ letes to blast off the starting reconvenes for the National back Dani Alves, centre­back camp at the SAI here this blocks and she made most of New ideas: Graham Reid feels Indian needs to get better on Thiago Silva, midfielder it to fend of a late challenge week, is defence. the conversion rate. * K MURALI KUMAR Arthur and forward Everton from Del Ponte (11.33) of With the assistance of featured in the competition’s Switzerland. former Australia defender opportunity for Reid to firm­ rate,” said Reid. “We are get­ best XI, published by Lisa KwaYie of Germany Commanding show: Dutee Chand clocked 11.32 seconds to win a start­to­finish race. Fergus Kavanagh, Reid will ly establish his style of play. ting into the 25 and the circle CONMEBOL on social media. took the bronze in 11.39 se­ * FISU/TWITTER hope to work on ‘collective pretty well; now, we need to The remainder of the team conds in the race run past defending’ — something that Attacking game convert those opportunities comprised Uruguay centre­ midnight Indian time on has become a catchphrase of “I love attacking hockey and into more quality scoring back Jose Gimenez, Peru his. “I have talked about the left­back Miguel Trauco, Tuesday. high­pressing and getting chances. That is the key.” Argentina midfielder Leandro The Odisha runner, A fighter to the core collective defensive mindset the ball off the opponent, Communicating with his Paredes, Chile midfielder whose National record that we need,” he said. which is the smartest way to players has not been a pro­ V.V. SUBRAHMANYAM Arturo Vidal, Colombia stands at 11.24 seconds, thus silver medallist,” she said. Institute of Technology, “Irrespective of whether defend. I would like to have blem for Reid. HYDERABAD playmaker James Rodriguez became the first Indian to Odisha) for all their you are a midfielder or a a passing game, which we “There are players who and Peru striker Paolo win a 100m gold in a global ‘Pull me down, I will come No pressure support,” she said. striker or defender, you have need to work more on. We can speak English, those Guerrero. IANS event. back stronger’. Perhaps, Was there pressure before Dutee’s coach­cum­ to tackle, get the ball off the need to know when to drib­ who can only understand it, She has now become only this tweet by sprinter the final? “Not at all, for I mentor Nagapuri Ramesh opposition, and put pres­ ble as well. The great thing is and those who can’t speak McLaren retains Sainz, the second Indian sprinter to Dutee Chand, after knew that the University of SAI says the gold is the sure on them. That is what that these players have great or follow the language,” he Norris for 2020 season win a gold in a global event winning the gold. people would not say result of lot of efforts at we are focusing on in the skills, but now the question said. “Whatever I have to say LONDON after Hima Das, who “This is truly special anything even if I didn’t Gachibowli Stadium and first week. Later on, we will is how to get them to do it gets translated. Communica­ McLaren will keep the same clinched the top spot in given the backdrop I win any any medal,” the thanks the initiative of the look into the attack and when required,” he said. tion has to be always clear; driver pairing for the 2020 400m in the World Junior entered this event. And 23­year­old athlete said. Gopi Academy­Mytrah what we do with the ball bit If defence is the current so I would like to get some Formula One season after Athletics Championships more so because it gives “But, the desire to come Foundation. more.” area of focus, there is much English lessons started as confirming Carlos Sainz and The next six weeks, lead­ Lando Norris will retain their last year. me the tag of ‘World’ up with something special “In sprints, a champion to work on at the other end well. But it’s not been hard seats next year. “McLaren is Earlier on Tuesday, Dutee which is so important and was there certainly as I am is one who knows when to ing into India’s Olympic Test of the pitch too. “We need to to get my message across to pleased to confirm that qualified for the final with a invaluable for any athlete,” preparing for the Doha accelerate and when to event in Tokyo, will be an get better on the conversion the team.” The Hindu Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris time of 11.41 seconds in the Dutee told from World championship later relax without reducing the will continue as McLaren F1 semifinal, which had made Napoli. “Honestly, I was this year,” says Dutee, who speed. She is really good drivers for the 2020 FIA her the first Indian sprinter expecting a third or a won two silvers in 100m off the blocks. This is the Ankita enters Formula 1 season,” McLaren to make it to the final of fourth place in my second and 200m in the Asiads reason why I made her go Angad bags a bronze said in a statement. AFP World Universiade. On Mon­ appearance in these last year. through the drills of second round day, she had advanced to the Games. But, when I “The focus will be on speeding up to 30m and SHOOTING Pique handed semifinals from the heats qualified for the final, I 100m for sure even as I then relax for 20m with €2.1 million tax bill with a time of 11.58 seconds. decided to give it all and it dedicate this medal to the cones on the track and this SPORTS BUREAU SPORTS BUREAU MADRID was a very close race Achyuta Samanta sir seemed to have worked NAPOLI VERSMOLD (GERMANY) Barcelona’s Gerard Pique will Pat from the President separating me and the (founder of Kalinga really well,” Ramesh said. Angad Vir Singh Bajwa held Ankita Raina, the fourth be forced to pay €2.1 million President Ram Nath Kovind on to his good form to clinch seed, beat Natalija Kostic of to Spain’s tax authorities after the men’s skeet bronze in Serbia 6­1, 7­6(1) in the first his conviction for rights­ congratulated Dutee on her the 30th Universiade on round of the $60,000 ITF image fraud was confirmed, a feat. such gold and a moment of Sports Minister Kiren Riji­ gold for India! Congratula­ legal source told AFP on “Congratulations @Dutee­ immense pride for our coun­ ju also applauded Dutee’s ef­ tions @DuteeChand for win­ Wednesday. women’s tennis tourna­ Wednesday. According to a Chand for winning the 100m try. Please keep up the ef­ forts. “I’ve been passionate­ ning the 100m sprint at the Asian champion Angad, ment on Wednesday. Other results: May 13 decision the country’s sprint at the Universiade, the fort, and look to greater glo­ ly following since my Universiade, the World Un­ who had a world record 60 $100,000 ITF women, Con­ National Court rejected World University Games, in ry at the Olympics,” the childhood but it never came. iversity Games, in Naples,” out of 60 in the final, shot 44 trexeville, France: Doubles Pique’s appeal against the Naples. This is India’s first President tweeted. Finally, for the first time, a Rijiju said in his tweet. in the final and missed a bet­ (pre­quarterfinals): Tamara 2016 sentence which required ter medal by one point. He Korpatsch (Ger) & Diana Mar­ had qualified for the final in the former Spain cinkevica (Lat) bt Nigina Abdu­ international to pay €1.5 Gold for third place with 122 out of raimova (Uzb) & Prarthana million in tax arrears and a Srikanth focused on qualifying for Tokyo 125. “I am upset that I mis­ Thombare 6­2, 5­7, [10­5]. €600,000 fine. The tribunal sed the silver, but happy $25,000 ITF women, Getxo, concluded Pique had faked Rakhi Halder with the qualification,” said Spain: Doubles (pre­quarter­ the handover of his rights Ace shuttler says it has been a great season for him so far Angad. Angad. finals): Valeriya Strakhova images to his Kerad Project Sports Bureau Coming back from ill­ (Ukr) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Ma­ company to pay less tax for S. Prasanna Venkatesan it’s still been a great year. Apia (Samoa) health, when he missed two It will be the last World lalen Morante Oyague & Irati 2008, 2009 and 2010. AFP CHENNAI There are many more tour­ Seasoned Rakhi Halder ag­ World Cups, and competing Cup in shotgun to win Olym­ Urbaneja Salazar (Esp) 6­2, Ace Indian badminton naments coming up, so I’m gregated 214kg to take the in a top competition, it was pic quota places. Thereafter, 7­5. $15,000 ITF women, Hua player K. Srikanth said here looking forward to doing women’s 64kg title in the an impressive performance it will be the Asian cham­ Saniya Sheikh Hin, Thailand: First round: on Wednesday that he’s well,” said the World No. 9. Commonwealth weightlift­ by Angad. pionship for the Olympic Sowjanya Bavisetti bt Ayaka finishes 30th been focusing on the up­ Asked if he feels there’s ing championships here on “I was ill before this, had quota for the Indian shoo­ Okuno (Jpn) 6­4, 6­4. SPORTS BUREAU coming tournaments and been a slump in his form — Wednesday. not trained much and need­ ters in their quest for a berth Doubles (pre­quarterfinals): LONATO (ITALY) qualifying for the Tokyo when compared to 2017 — The Commonwealth ed a break after a hectic sea­ in Tokyo 2020. Patcharin Cheapchandej (Tha) Olympics. and subsequently his confi­ son. Before this competi­ & Zhuoma Ni Ma (Chn) bt Nana Former National champion Championships are being It was the third medal for “There’s a year left (for dence, he said, “I think I’ve tion, I got to prepare the way Kawagishi (Jpn) & Snehal Mane Saniya Sheikh had the best held simultaneously to­ the Indian shooters, follow­ the Olympics). It’s about been doing well. I’m really gether for the youth, junior I wished, on my own and ing the individual silver and 6­0, 6­2; Mana Kawamura & finish, in skeet, among the Himeno Sakatsume (Jpn) bt playing the tournaments be­ confident about how I’m and senior categories. with the right intensity,” team bronze by Elavenil Va­ Indian women, as she fin­ Mio Kozaki (Jpn) & Saumya Vig fore the Olympics and quali­ playing against all the top The medallists: Senior: Wo­ said Angad. ished 30th with 112 in a larivan in women’s air rifle. 6­1, 6­0. fying. I think there are 15 players. So, it’s just about men: 59kg: Davinder Kaur He was pleased with the field of 61 shooters in the The results: €69,280 Challenger, snatch 80kg, clean and jerk tournaments until April next the moments. way he handled the scruti­ Men’s skeet: 1. Nicolas Vasiliou Braunschweig, Germany: Shotgun World Champion­ 104kg, total 184kg (gold); year. I would like to do well, “I haven’t really lost very ny, and hoped that “this (Cyp) 56 (119); 2. Timi Vallone­ Doubles (pre­quarterfinals): ship on Wednesday. 64kg: Rakhi Halder 94kg, probably win some and just easy matches in the past few competition will be a step­ mi (Fin) 54 (121); 3. Angad Vir Nicola Kuhn (Esp) & Daniel Ma­ Saniya had a series of 22, 120kg, 214kg (gold). try to improve,” said Sri­ months. So, it’s about pull­ ping stone to the World Cup Singh Bajwa 44 (122); 17. In­ sur (Ger) bt Jamie Cerretani 23, 23, 22 and 22. Areeba Junior and Youth: 59kg: Su­ kanth after inaugurating the ing off those crucial points in Finland.” dreshwar Sekhon 101. (US) & Sriram Balaji 7­6(1), 6­4. Khan, who had shot 70 out karna Adak 77kg, 101kg, VSR Sports Academy in Mo­ and, if you can get one or of 75 overnight, faltered 178kg (gold) gappair. The 26­year­old K. Srikanth. * M. KARUNAKARAN two of those, it can really with rounds of 22 and 17 on Junior: 64kg: Seram Nirupa­ shuttler, who won four Sup­ change the whole course of the second day, and was ma Devi 85kg, 112kg, 197kg er Series titles in 2017 and and was looking forward to the match. It’s just about 47th with a total of 109. (gold) Vijender looks forward to his got to the World No. 1 rank­ the rest of the year. (owning) those moments Kartiki Singh Shaktawat Men: Junior and Youth: 61kg: ing last year, said it’s been a “I haven’t been playing and you have to keep work­ shot 108 for the 50th spot Jacob Vanlatluanga 112kg, “great season” for him so far, for the last two months, but ing until you get that (right).” 130kg, 242kg (gold). first pro fight in the US among 61 shooters. In junior men’s skeet, Gurnihal Singh Garcha I don’t believe in big talk, says the champion boxer (109), Ayush Rudraraju Y.B. Sarangi need to be more patient. I (107) and Arjun Thakur Small margins of error cost us, says Gayle KOLKATA will rely on my footwork and (104) were placed 31st, Vijender Singh is excited skills as it will be a long duel 32nd and 35th in a field of Believes the ICC should go back to the old format of the World Cup ahead of his first profession­ of eight rounds.” 36 shooters. The result: Junior men’s al fight in the USA and banks Vijender looked forward G. Viswanath skeet: 1. Daniel Korcak (Cze) has not announced his re­ on the support of local In­ to feel at home against the Mumbai 55 (120); 2. Andrea Lapucci tirement and has shared his dians to make his mark 38­year­old American, who (Ita) 54 (121); 3. David James Chris Gayle has turned out in thoughts with the West In­ there. has a win­loss­draw record Sneddon Mcneill (GBR) 41 maroon colours for the West dies skipper Jason Holder. “I The former Olympic and of 13­5­3, including eight (118). Indies in five World Cups, still have the passion for World championships knockout victories, in the starting from 2003 in South West Indies cricket and the bronze medallist was to super middleweight contest. Gursimar and Africa. But the 39­year­old process of playing cricket as make his USA debut in April, “The difference of fighting swashbuckling opener, who well. I will continue to play but had to postpone his fight in the UK and the USA is that Amandeep calls himself the ‘Universe as long as possible and share after receiving a cut on his Vijender Singh. I have received a lot of mes­ Boss’, has not been able to my experience with the eyebrow during sparring. sages from the Indians based share lead show the way for the Carib­ players. They all want me to Vijender used the oppor­ on American Mike Snider at here. bean team in the context of be involved with West Indies tunity to make his debut in the Prudential Centre in Ne­ “I hope many of them will Sports Bureau winning the World Cup. cricket. Contract or no con­ politics. However, he said he wark, on the undercard of be here to support me.” The Hindu Bengaluru Talking to , tract, it doesn’t matter to never quit boxing. Shakur Stevenson vs Fran­ Even as Snider warned Gayle who is the brand am­ Failed mission: Chris Gayle said West Indies believed it had me.” said Gayle, adding that klin Manzanilla, on the Indian of a “rough and Gursimar Badwal and bassador for adda52.com, In­ the wherewithal to qualify for the semifinals. * VIVEK BENDRE the home series against In­ Back in training Saturday. ugly” contest, Vijender gave Amandeep Drall shot iden­ dia’s online poker gaming dia would be close and inter­ “I was back to training soon his familiar reaction. “I don’t tical scores of three­under­ site, said that the West Indies first game against Pakistan, gins of error and that cost esting. after the elections were over Not a problem believe in big talk. I believe par 67 to share the lead on as a team believed it had the everybody was pumped up us.” Eleven years ago, during and trained for one­and­a­ Vijender, who last appeared in doing my job well. the opening day of the He­ wherewithal to qualify for and believed that the team Gayle believes that the ICC the inaugural IPL, the dash­ half months. in a bout against Ernest “A door has opened for ro Women’s Pro Golf Tour the semifinals, but was left would advance to semifinals. should go back to the old for­ ing West Indian was intro­ “I trained with my trainer Amuzu of Ghana in Jaipur in me. I am in the USA for a (Leg 10) at the Bangalore disappointed in the end. We should have gone for the mat of the World Cup. duced to poker by Rohan Ga­ Lee Beard in Manchester for December, 2017, said his co­ fight after eight years. Golf Club on Wednesday. When asked to sum up his kill against Australia and af­ “Twelve teams split into two vaskar and he enjoyed six­seven weeks before meback was not a problem. “Last time I had won a Ananya Datar (68) was team’s display, Gayle said: ter losing this match we went groups from which six teams playing the card game with reaching here on Sunday,” “I have trained hard, gold medal in the World Pol­ one stroke behind the lead­ “Absolutely disappointed a bit flat. We could not find play the Super Six and then Ashoke Dinda and Manoj Vijender told The Hindu done a lot of sparring and ice Games in New York and ers in third. not making the last four. I the gear to come back. When the knockout from quarterfi­ Tiwary. “Now I am addicted from Newark. worked on my technique. I this time I will be the winner The scores (top six after nals,” Gayle said. round one): 67: Gursimar should not be here. But one looks at the overall West to it. I am an amateur now, The unbeaten 33­year­old have concentrated on my as well. I look forward to Badwal, Amandeep Drall; 68: that’s life; in as much as we Indies performance, we beat but would like to play some Indian star, who has re­ basics. I will handle the next achieving my long­standing Ananya Datar; 71: Sonam built the hopes of being in ourselves. We had some four Passion still there professional tournaments. I mained unbeaten in his10 bout with my experience.” dream of tasting success at Chugh, Ridhima Dilawari, Ne­ the semifinals, we could not. or five games that were very The Jamaican, who made his am here to build relationship professional bouts with se­ Throwing light on his ap­ the Madison Square Garden ha Tripathi. Given the start we had in the close. We made small mar­ international debut in 1999, with adda52.com,” he said. ven knockout wins, will take proach, Vijender said, “I sooner than later,” he said. 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BEER-FOOD PAIRING Bira 91 Thomas Hartman, VP, Brewing and Innovations, says that the key thing to note is intensity. “One goes to Britain would want to keep the ¢avour intensity in the beer about equal to the ¢avour intensity In a ve-year partnership with in the dish. Also, either compliment or contrast the International Cricket Council, the the ¢avours in the beer and the dish,” he India-at-heart beer company takes on two says. Here, he o¥ers world cups — now in the UK, and four food pairings. years later, in India BIRA 91 WHITE: Pairs well with lighter dishes, as the beer has Sunalini Mathew dise, oŽer face tattoos). There’s a a delicate balance and beer garden at all India and En- is highly drinkable. We stand under a large tent at gland matches and partnerships Vegetarian: A fresh the British High Commissioner’s with bars and restaurants salad. Also, a dish with residence, in sweltering Delhi screening the world cup in India some herbs, and a weather. The oversized screen and England. Plus there’s the citrus or fruit element. plays out the India-England ‘digital ampli‘cation’ because Non-vegetarian: It is cricket match, the coolers giving you can’t go far without it, espe- excellent with mussels, some relief, the beer a lot more. cially with a product that’s beers. Coming up this month is a brew in Nagpur, a location near clams, oysters, even It’s an irony that’s not lost on meant to be “not too serious”, stout and IPA (India Pale Ale). Indore, Kovur near Rajahmun- crab. most, even if no one articulates with its inverted B and monkey An important part of the dry, and abroad in upstate New BIRA 91 BLONDE it, because the only beer that’s logo. brand story is the India link, York and Belgium. “It precedes SUMMER LAGER: A being served on this little bit of “The intent is to speak the lan- with nationalistic millennials Make in India,” says Ankur, ad- very versatile beer as British soil is Bira 91. guage of this generation of con- consciously picking a product ding that the thought and identi- the clean malty Originally named after the sumers, and also have a really that has its roots here. Bira calls ty is from our soil. In an inter- ¢avours with the Punjabi word for brother, Bira, active conversation with them,” itself “Imagined in India”; they view, he tells us a little more balancing hoppiness the 91 is derived from the coun- says Ankur, of people in their about the partnership. can serve to cut try code you dial for India. An- 20s and 30s, who drink for taste, through fatty or spicy kur Jain, founder-CEO, describes and the enjoyment of an expe- Why cricket, considering dishes, compliment the beer as “smart and fun at the rience. Bira, a craft beer, came at people in their 20s are more roasted chicken, or pair same time, but not pretentiously a time (in 2015) when a new gen- into soccer? well with grain dishes. so.” ‘Can’t be a Delhi-ite,’ I think, eration of drinkers had entered G While it is true that some youn- BIRA 91 STRONG: This as he says it, though the brand bars: they weren’t looking at the ger consumers will be watching beer is all about rich debuted in Hauz Khas Village. alcohol content on the bottle, other sports like soccer, or ten- malty character and From the once-quaint alley- and were perhaps happier drink- nis or basketball, I think cricket yeast aromatics, with a ways surrounding a medieval ing less even if at a higher price. captures the imagination of big body and higher monument and lake in the Capi- Ankur cites the change across most Indians, young or old alcohol. It can stand tal, Bira is now at The Oval, at other categories, like coŽee. — it’s unparalleled. It’s a up to high intensity, Lord’s, at Old TraŽord, as the of- Today, he says, “Premium is fairly obvious choice for rich, or spicy food ‘cial beer being served at the taking away share from the a brand that has aspira- well.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA cricket world cup. The brand mass-market segment. Vol- tions beyond a small Winning formula The Indian craft beer is making its presence felt at the launched in the UK with the umes are going up ‘ve to niche. ICC World Cup; (left) Ankur Jain * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT event, having signed a partner- seven per cent year on year; ship with the International Crick- premium by 20%.” What are you expect to be known as a brand Do you see a future where et Council for the next ‘ve years. He says they went keg-‘rst expecting from it? that’s synonymous with national sport and alcohol will not be This means they’re the exclusive into neighbourhoods, connect- G The main objective is to build culture in some way, and cricket associated? beer poured at this year’s event ing with people. “Over the last awareness for our brand with In- is a great way for that. FACT OF THE MATTER G Hard to say. When it comes to as well as the next world cup, in two or three years we’ve disco- dian consumers. Now, we are at beer there’s been a lot of innova- Beer helped Joseph Priestley India, and other tournaments: vered pillars we’re executing on: best known to 20 or 30 million How would you use digital discover oxygen. He noticed tion around healthier alterna- all formats of the game and some food, music, and now cricket.” consumers, most of them in Del- content you have access to? gases rising from the big tives as well, so if you look at ma- women’s matches as well. The April Fools’ Fest in Delhi hi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune, G These are images and video vats of beer at a brewery and rathons, especially in Germany, Besides the in-stadium brand- this year, for instance, featured and some of the other larger content from the matches that asked to do are sponsored by alcohol-free ing, seen on screen (for those of entertainment (music, comedy) markets. With this type of part- we would have a right to use. To some versions of beers. So there’s a us who weren’t lucky enough to with food and beer. With seven nership we have the potential to give you an example, if you go on experiments. change in the way beer compa- make it there), there’s also what variants, there’s something for be known by almost 100% of con- Twitter, ICC is posting a recap of nies are approaching sporting marketeers call activation: live everyone, and in February this sumers in the country, given that the sixes that have been hit. partnerships overall, which is spaces that bring alive the brand year Boom was introduced, to everybody’s watching the world That’s branded as Bira 91 not out of the realm of possibili- (they serve beer, sell merchan- compete with the lower-priced cup. Over the next ‘ve years, we content. ty in India either.

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GIG DANCE FOOD MUSIC CONCLAVE Rock Double Bill recital Dakshin delights Shradhanjali Academic Pelican Shuffles, a Kolkata-based rock & roll There will be two dance performances at the IIC The all-day Blooms Restaurant is hosting Dakshin IHC, in collaboration with Antardhwani Cultural Today, Oxford University Press is hosting the band, will perform tonight. While they play Double Bill dance recital. The first one will be a delights, a festival dedicated to South Indian Society, is hosting a shradhanjali in honour of third edition of its South Asia Conclave. This originals, they are also known for covering the Kathak recital by Arunima Sengupta Basu, a food. On till July 13, the dishes offered as part of two classical musicians: tabla maestro Prof. Lalji one-day meet will bring together various likes of the Beatles and Coldplay. The band is disciple of Pt. Rajendra Gangani. This will be the festival menu are made with traditional Srivastava and flute player Pt. Bholanath political leaders, academics, civil servants, and Varun Gujadhur on vocals and guitar, Shubhamoy followed by a Bharatanatyam duet by Archana mustard seed seasoning and rich spices. There Prasanna. The will feature a violin recital by journalists to deliberate on crucial issues such as Mitra on bass, and Aditya Dutta on drums. and Chetana, disciples of Guru B. Bhanumati and will also be fresh coconut curries, Nilgiri style Shubham Sarkar, flute recital by Ajay Prasanna, democracy, national security, and economic Venue: The Piano Man Jazz Club, B 6-7/22 Guru Sheela Chandrasekhar. steamed fish, and Malabar chicken curry. and a vocal recital by Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra. growth. Safdarjung Enclave Market. Venue: C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC Venue: Blooms Restaurant, Nehru Place Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre Venue: Shangri-La’s Eros Hotel, Ashoka Road Time: 9 p.m. - 11:50 p.m. Time: 6 p.m. Time: 12 Noon-3 p.m . and 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Time: 7 p.m. Time: 8:15 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

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Joseph Andrews income for the poor, which Take a slow boat down the muddy could be destroyed by the dam. The maximum time we generally waters of the Mekong, ticking off There was a customary stop at spend on boats would be a cou­ an isolated tribal village on the ple of hours. So the prospect of historical sights, mysterious caves and river, where the guide tried to spending two full days on a unusual foods on your list give us a glimpse of a traditional country boat, that too on one of lifestyle. No communication was the mightiest rivers, seemed de­ H ow to reach How to book possible with the villagers finitely appealing. though, as none knew a word of We first heard of the boat trips Luang Prabang can be The cruise can be pre­booked online with English. reached by air from India, many agencies like nagiofmekong.com or on Mekong River, from some tra­ Till now, we had Laos on both with a stopover at Bangkok, mekongsmilecruise.com. The fare is vel blogs; some had found it in­ Kuala Lumpur, or Singapore. US$120­140 per person, which includes sides of Mekong. A little past teresting, while for some others Huay Xai is connected by a meals, and one­night hotel stay enroute. noon, at a certain point, Laos it was a trifle unappealing. Me­ single flto Vientiane. Huay It is said that much better rates can be territory ends West of the river, kong­style slow­boats ply bet­ Xai and Luang Prabang are availed, if you get to the Luang Prabang and Thai territory begins. From ween Luang Prabang and Huay connected by overnight port before 7 am, and here onwards, the Mekong Xai in Laos, taking two days to buses as well. just board a departing boat. forms the natural boundary bet­ cover the 300­odd kilometres ween Laos and Thailand. The (boats are not run on the Me­ Thailand side looks more deve­ kong River in the night, as it is the living quarters at the rear. evergreen forests. There is very boarded the boat at 6.30 am, loped and prosperous than the too risky, with many rocks pre­ An hour after we left, we little habitation on the river, bar­ when the river was still partly Laos side. sent). Speed boats cover the dis­ stopped for a quick visit at the fa­ ring a few stray villages, an indi­ shrouded in mist. Shortly after Extensive banana plantations, tance in one day, but are gener­ Backpacking mous Pak Ou caves, located cator that Laos has the lowest Pak Beng, we saw extensive stretch for kilometres on the ally considered too dangerous, right by the river. It is a Buddhist density of population among road­construction on one side of Laos side of the river. Our guide and were definitely not for us. shrine, which was patronised by Southeast Asian nations. the river, which seemed to be explained that these huge plan­ We decided to go upriver the erstwhile royals of Laos, We left Pak Ou caves at causing ecological damage. Our tations are run by Chinese com­ from Luang Prabang, as it suited housing more than 4,000 idols around 8 am, and the boat did guide told us that it is a road be­ panies, on leased land. The fruit, our itinerary better. We were of the Buddha. The count in­ not stop till it reached Pak Beng ing constructed by China, to however, found no favour with picked up from the hotel and creases every year, as more are around 5.30 pm, manned single­ support the construction of a the locals because of the use of brought to Luang Prabang port, added by devotees, during the handedly by our driver. dam which Laos is planning to pesticides. a few kilometres outside the city, in brown yearly festival. There is a lower Pak Beng is a small riverside build on the Mekong, so that The Mekong has a lot of traf­ before 7 am. It did not seem to and an upper cave, with the lat­ hamlet where all boats stop after they can generate hydro­power fic, be it in terms of speedboats, be a good day for the tour com­ ter being reached by climbing a Day 1, the economy of which and export to China. This means ferrying both locals as well as pany, as there were only six pas­ flight of steep steps. The upper seems to be primarily driven by that the boat trip that we were tourists, cargo boats, and pas­ sengers on board the big boat, cave houses the king’s idols, and tourists halting here, during doing now will not be possible senger boats like ours. Local including us. The seating was was exclusively used by the royal their upward and downward after a few years. markets function right along the comfortable and the boat was water family in days of yore. journey along the Mekong. We Shortly, we started seeing route, something that is bound equipped with two clean, mod­ The steep banks of the river found quite a few eateries, and scores of people wearing straw to change when lifestyles ern toilets. the driver, with his wife being in ger chap seemed to be enjoying are mostly covered with thick guest houses. Next day, we hats, squatting by the side of the change. It did not take us long to real­ charge of cooking and house­ himself, driving his remote­con­ river, and sieving water, in the The boat ride is perhaps the ise that the boat was a family af­ keeping, while the elder son trolled toy car all over our feet! hot sun. They were panning for most unhurried activity you will fair. The owner of the boat was helped around. The cute, youn­ The family lived on the boat, in gold; another humble source of do anywhere in South East Asia. And, it becomes all the more precious when you know it may not be possible for long.

Life’s a boat (Clockwise from below) Cruising down the river, a temple at Luang Prabang

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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE London move by Amazon into Helen Stokes­Lampard, Paris Britain’s state­run health ser­ healthcare following its pur­ Chair of the Royal College of France will stop reimburs­ Nine deer dead in Japan vice is teaming up with Ama­ chase of online pharmacy GPs, said voice­assisted tech­ ing patients for homeo­ after eating plastic zon to provide medical ad­ PillPack last year and a tie­ nology could free up more pathic treatment from TOKYO vice for common ailments up with Berkshire Hathaway doctors’ appointments for 2021, the Health Minister Nine deer have died after such as migraines and flu via and JPMorgan Chase & Co in patients who need them said in an interview, infu­ swallowing plastic bags in the tech giant’s voice assis­ the U.S. aimed at cutting most. “It has the potential to riating manufacturers but Japan’s Nara Park, a wildlife tant Alexa, aiming to help health costs for hundreds of help some patients work out also disappointing doctors group said on Wednesday, more patients at home and thousands of their what kind of care they need who wanted an immediate warning that a surge in cut down on costs. employees. before considering whether halt. tourism may be to blame. The plan is to give patients British Health Secretary Patients get access to to seek face­to­face medical Health Minister Agnes The Nara Deer Preservation — especially the elderly, Matt Hancock said millions information verified by the help, especially for minor Buzyn, a former promi­ Foundation said that masses * NHS. GETTY IMAGES/VETTA * of plastic bags and snack blind and those unable to ac­ of people were already ask­ ailments that rarely need a nent doctor who has A file photo of Snowball tapping her feet. AP cess the internet through tra­ ing Alexa and other voice as­ GP appointment,” she said. vowed to place scientific ri­ packets were found in the Agence France-Presse stomachs of the deer which ditional means — access to sistants about health mat­ tine consultations to life­sav­ gour at the heart of policy, Carolina, noticed he was Washington died between March and information verified by the ters, and he wanted to make ing operations. But it is un­ Affordability an issue said she had made the deci­ making movements to mus­ June this year. AFP National Health Service sure they received the very der strain in the face of “But we must be careful not sion after a damning ver­ Snowball, a sulphur­crested ic she hadn’t seen before. (NHS) by using voice com­ best advice in response. increasing patient demands to create a ‘digital divide’ dict on homeopathy by the cockatoo, shot to YouTube The development was all mands, the government He said the service would and budget constraints. between those patients who national health authority stardom a decade ago for his the more remarkable for the said. be backed by strong privacy can afford it and are able to published in June. uncanny ability to rock out fact that she hadn’t attempt­ rules to protect patient First port of call use it, and those who can’t.” Mr. Buzyn said the re­ to the Backstreet Boys. ed to train him, save for pro­ Cutting health costs confidentiality. A general practitioner (GP), Alexa­enabled devices funds will be phased down Now, Snowball is back af­ viding some verbal encour­ The deal could ease pressure The NHS is a cherished in­ often referred to as “family such as Echo and Echo Dot to 15% from the current ter having taught himself a agement with words like on the NHS by reducing the stitution for many Britons, doctor”, is usually the first range in price from about 30% in 2020 and then to dizzying array of new moves “Good Boy!” as she swayed need to visit a doctor. providing services from rou­ port of call for a person feel­ £50 to more than £200. zero in 2021. that might put you to back and forth and waved New dome over destroyed shame. her hands. His rhythmic body­rolls, Had Snowball lifted his Chernobyl plant unveiled CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CHERNOBYL headbangs, shimmies, and game to another level and Ukraine on Wednesday Neighbour says he killed Splendid portrait many variations thereof taught himself some slick inaugurated a metal dome were documented in a new new moves? encasing the destroyed paper published in Current To answer this vital ques­ reactor at the infamous New Zealand’s ‘First Cat’ Biology on Monday. tion, the scientists played Chernobyl plant. Branded as “This shows for the first him the 1980s classics the world’s largest moveable PM’s feline came under his car time that another species Another One Bites the Dust metal structure, the New Safe truly dances to human mus­ and Girls Just Want to Have Confinement seals the Agence France-Presse ic, spontaneously and with­ Fun, each three times, for a remains of the fourth reactor Wellington out training, just based on total of 23 minutes. at the nuclear plant that was A guilt­ridden neighbour of its own development and The study’s lead re­ the site of the Chernobyl New Zealand Prime Minister social interaction with hu­ searcher, R. Joanne Jao disaster in 1986. AFP Jacinda Ardern revealed on mans,” senior author Ani­ Keehn, a cognitive neuros­ Wednesday that he was res­ ruddh Patel, a psychologist cientist as well as a trained ponsible for accidentally at both Tufts and Harvard dancer, then studied video killing the nation's “First universities, said. footage frame­by­frame. Cat” Paddles while revers­ This is not the first time She confirmed that he ing out of his driveway. Snowball has rendered his had indeed acquired a di­ Paddles * TWITTER Paddles died in Novem­ services for the noble pur­ verse repertoire of 14 dis­ ber 2017, shortly after Ar­ dactyl”, with extra toes that suit of scientific discovery. tinct moves, and two combi­ dern won office, but the full looked like thumbs, also An earlier study by Mr. nation moves. “Here, we’re circumstances of the death once interrupted a phone Patel in the same journal looking at highly complex Thousands of animals were never publicly re­ call between Ms. Ardern confirmed our feathered movements, many of which saved in crackdown vealed, leading to curiosity and U.S. President Donald friend could g roove to the are not part of natural par­ LYON Police across the globe have about who killed the cat. Trump by jumping on a beat — though at the time, rot behavior,” Mr. Patel said, seized thousands of wild The much­loved feline table. his dancing was confined to adding that this suggests animals, including primates was a popular member of Ms. Ardern’s neighbour, head bobbing and lifting his cognitive planning of ac­ and big cats, and arrested the prime ministerial house­ identified only as Chris, said feet, actions long associated tions and the willingness to nearly 600 suspects in a vast hold, with a Twitter account that he was rushing back to with courtship. choose between alterna­ crackdown on illegal wildlife set up in her name, @First­ work from a lunch break in Soon after, Snowball’s tives to respond to a smuggling, Interpol said. The CatofNZ, attracting more his Auckland home when Artist Fin Dac, second from right, working on ‘Magdalena’, a mural in honour of Mexican owner Irena Schulz, who stimulus. operation was carried out in than 11,000 followers. the moggy ran into the path painter Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo in the month of her birth in Guadalajara, Mexico.* AFP takes care of him at a bird “I wish I could dance like 109 countries. Paddles, who was “poly­ of his reversing car. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC sanctuary in Duncan, South Snowball,” he added. For this London pub, charity begins at home Nicki pulls out of Saudi concert

Pub­goers can donate at Rampersad’s Green Vic, which employs homeless, people with disabilities Says she supports the rights of women and LGBTQ community

Reuters from recycled paper and “Every single drink you Reuters the issues, I believe it is im­ LONDON drinks supplied by social en­ buy goes towards a different LOS ANGELES portant for me to make clear Employing the homeless and terprises that donate to charity,” Mr. Rampersad, 35, U.S. rapper Nicki Minaj said my support for the rights of offering beer brewed from charity. said. on Tuesday that she was women, the LGBTQ com­ leftover bread, “The Green He launched the project The drinks menu has ties pulling out of a concert in munity and freedom of ex­ Vic” in London’s trendy Sho­ hoping to enable the average to over 40 different charities. Saudi Arabia next week, cit­ pression,” she said. reditch district is aiming to pub­goer to give to charity For instance, a Brewgood­ ing her support for the rights The U.S.­based Human be the world’s most ethical without having to change er craft lager, for £4.90 of women and the LGBTQ Nicki Minaj Rights Foundation (HRF) last pub. their daily routine. The pub ($6.14), is produced by a non­ community. week urged Ms. Minaj to Open for an initial three employs the homeless and profit organisation that do­ Homosexuality is banned cized last week on social cancel her performance, months, founder Randy those with disabilities. Food nates all its money to clean in Saudi Arabia. media. saying her appearance Rampersad has secured is all plant­based and it water projects in Africa. Ms. Minaj was due to hea­ “While I want nothing would be at odds with the enough funding to buy se­ avoids sending anything to The Toast Ale, at £5.50, is dline the Jeddah World Fest more than to bring my show rapper’s participation in fes­ People walking past the Green Vic, which is aiming to be the cond­hand furniture, soap landfill by recycling and brewed with fresh surplus music festival on July 18, but to fans in Saudi Arabia, after tivities in New York marking world’s most ethical pub, in Shoreditch, London. * REUTERS made by the blind, toilet rolls composting. bread. her plan to appear was criti­ better educating myself on Gay Pride month in June.

Lab­grown Wear this headset for on­the­job training 300­member all­woman burger could HoloLens, which blends digital imagery with real world, caters to firstline workers voyage to fight ocean plastic come cheap Karen Weise connections and are, in the­ Reuters CHILLICOTHE ory, potential customers. In The research will focus on finding tailored solutions MADRID/ZURICH When Toby Bouska Jr. start­ a call with investors this Lab­grown meat, first in­ ed assembling cabs for Ken­ year, Satya Nadella, Micro­ Reuters troduced six years ago in worth semitrucks last year, soft’s Chief Executive, said London the form of a $2,80,000 he learned the ropes by ob­ selling products for firstline More than 300 women will hamburger, could hit su­ serving longtime workers at workers expanded the mar­ join a round­the­world permarket shelves at $10 a the factory. But it wasn’t ex­ ket Microsoft could tap into. voyage launching in October patty within two years, Eu­ actly engaging, and he didn’t to highlight the devastating ropean start­ups said. get much practice doing the Open playing field impact of plastic pollution in Consumers concerned job himself. Emma Williams, a Microsoft the oceans and conduct about climate change, ani­ “It’s them doing the job, executive who develops pro­ scientific research into the mal welfare and their own and you just have to watch,” ductivity tools for various in­ escalating crisis. health are fueling interest said Mr. Bouska, 21, who dustries, like health care and Millions of tonnes of plas­ in so­called clean meat, works at Kenworth’s plant in retail, said there was a big, tic, from food packaging to with the number of asso­ Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. “I’m Workers’ gizmo: Manufacturing operations under way at open playing field. fishing gear enters the sea ciated business start­ups not really good at just sitting Kenworth Truck Co. in Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. * NYT Technology already sur­ each year, leading some ma­ Plastic trail: Marine experts have said that there could be climbing from four at the there watching.” rounds many frontline work­ rine experts to warn that more plastic than fish in the oceans by 2050. * AFP end of 2016 to more than But then his managers manager plans to use them into the corporate life of a ers, but many of these work­ there could be more plastic two dozen two years later, had him train in a new way: to train employees on at company, like training, sche­ ers do not even have a than fish in our oceans by Pacific islands and central Penn. She said the solution according to the Good with a high­tech headset. least two dozen tasks. duling and regular commu­ corporate email account, so 2050. ocean areas where plastic ac­ was to “turn off the tap” on Food Institute market They gave him a Microsoft High­tech devices have nications. The efforts are en­ they create workarounds to The two­year all­female cumulates because of circu­ land and stop the plastic en­ researcher. HoloLens, a device that played a central role in abled by cloud computing, communicate. Team Inc., a voyage comprises scientists, lating currents. tering the sea in the first Plant­based meat alter­ blends digital imagery with white­collar workplaces for which makes it easier to de­ company that performs teachers, filmmakers, pro­ “One of the things that place. The research will fo­ natives are also booming. the real world. When he decades, with a screen in liver information via a smart­ maintenance and repairs at duct designers, photogra­ still gets me is when you are cus on identifying the types It was Dutch start­up wore the headset, it overlaid front of nearly every face. phone app or a mixed­reality industrial sites, realised last phers and athletes. It is or­ 1,000 miles from the nearest of plastic and finding tai­ Mosa Meat's co­founder digital arrows and diagrams Now, companies like Micro­ headset. year that almost half of its ganised by eXXpedition, a human being and then you lored solutions. Mark Post who created the over the parts he was look­ soft see a multibillion­dollar Google is going after the field technicians used perso­ non­profit focusing on ma­ see a toothbrush float past,” “There’s not one silver first “cultured” beef ham­ ing at, helping to guide his opportunity to get more per­ market, as is Salesforce, with nal email accounts and cell­ rine pollution. mission director Emily Penn bullet solution. We need to burger in 2013 at a cost of work. sonal technology, including its acquisition of Quip. phones to communicate, They will collect samples said, adding that 8 million be working from every sec­ $280,400. the HoloLens, in the hands Perhaps no tech compa­ said Tracy Terrell, Team’s from some of the planet’s tonnes of plastic ended up in tor, from every angle. Biotech Foods co­foun­ New opportunity of workers who don’t sit be­ ny, though, is more aggres­ chief information officer. most important and diverse the sea every year where it “We need design of new der Mercedes Vila also After the success with Mr. hind a desk. sive than Microsoft at pursu­ The company’s leaders de­ marine environments to broke down into tiny frag­ materials, we need policy highlighted the impor­ Bouska’s training, Ken­ The new push goes ing so­called frontline or cided that was too risky. build a picture of the state of ments, the same size as change, we need education, tance of moving from lab to worth’s parent company, beyond tools to perform a firstline workers, who do the “We don’t want to be the seas. plankton. we need the arts to be shift­ factory. Paccar, has ordered 50 of the particular task, like a clerk actual production, sales and emailing to Yahoo accounts “There’s a misconception ing mindsets, we need engi­ She said the average cost devices. 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