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He had said, ‘when big claimed that the Congress expressed “shock and anger” ashamed of the statement, I “Bhrastachari No.1.” president Rahul Gandhi. voters in Rajasthan’s 12 Lok and said, “The Prime Minister trees fall the earth shakes’,” chief had admitted in an inter- over Modi’s remarks about am a Gujarati too and come Nearly nine crore voters The BJP had bagged 12 of Sabha seats on Monday. After who insults martyrs by seek- Javadekar said at a Press con- view that his only aim is to Rajiv, saying if politics is not from Gandhiji’s state,” Pitroda will decide the fate of 674 these seats in 2014 with the this phase, polling will come ing vote in the name of their ference. tarnish the image of Modi. repaired, future generations said. “People of this state can candidates, including political Congress winning Sonia’s Rae to an end in the desert State. sacrifices yesterday crossed Also, he accused Rahul Javadekar asserted that will “not forgive us”. Rajasthan lie so much and speak such bigwigs Rajnath Singh, Bareli and Rahul’s Amethi -- Former Olympians his limits by insulting the and Priyanka of abusing Modi dynasts of the Congress were Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot lowly things, this saddens us. Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi the only two constituencies Rajyawardhan Rathore (BJP) sacrifice of a noble man who after he spoke the truth about afraid of the truth and that is accused Modi of defaming Normally the Prime Minister and Smriti Irani, in the fifth where the Congress succeed- and Krishna Poonia gave his life for the country. the former PM. “Yesterday as why the Congress president Congress leaders by levelling of a country speaks for the phase of polling on Monday in ed out of the 80 in the entire (Congress) have locked horns The people of Amethi will soon as the Prime Minister had tried to falsely accuse BJP “baseless” allegations against people”. 51 Lok Sabha constituencies in State. in the Jaipur Rural seat. reply as Rajiv Gandhi sacri- told the truth about Gandhi of corruption in Rafale deal. them. He asked, “Does it NCP leader Jayant Patil seven States. The Bahujan Samaj Party Rathore is a Union Minister. ficed his life for them. Yes family and especially Rajiv “The dynasts are afraid of the behove Modi to “insult” for- said Rajiv ushered in a tech- Voting will take place in (BSP) is contesting on five In Bikaner, Union Minister Modiji, the country never for- Gandhiji, the brother-sister truth. Rahul tried to falsely mer Prime Minister Rajiv who nological revolution in the 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 12 seats -- Dhaurahra, Sitapur, and former IAS officer Arjun gives cheating.” duo started abusing him. For accuse us in the Rafale deal for sacrificed his life for unity and country. “I condemn Modi’s in Rajasthan, seven seats each Mohanlalganj, Fatehpur and Ram Meghwal (BJP) is facing On the other hand, Union a full year, they called an a full year but failed miserably. integrity of the country?” remarks against him. This is in West Bengal and Madhya Kaisarganj. Its ally Samajwadi a tough fight from his cousin Ministers Arun Jaitley and honest Prime Minister a thief, They are worried that BJP’s Claiming that Modi was an insult of not just Rajiv but Pradesh, five in Bihar and four Party (SP) is fighting for seven and Congress candidate Prakash Javadekar tried to now they call him Hitler, mer- record is cleaner than theirs,” “jolted” by the corruption the information technology in Jharkhand. In Jammu and seats -- Lucknow, Banda, Madangopal Meghwal, a for- corner Rahul by asking why chant of death. It is the truth he said. allegations in the Rafale deal, sector which he helped grow. Kashmir, polling will take Kaushambi, Barabanki, mer IPS officer. Two seers -- he should be rattled by cor- being spoken which forces Former Union Minister P Gehlot said the Congress will I hope the Prime place in Ladakh constituency Faizabad, Bahraich and and ruption charges against his them to indulge in abusive Chidambaram and other continue to rake up the issue Minister henceforth will speak and Pulwama and Shopian Gonda. Baba Balaknath -- are con- father and also raked up the politics,” he said. senior leaders of the Congress till the Prime Minister is held what is befitting his post,” Patil districts of Anantnag seat. In Amethi and Rae Bareli, testing the polls from Sikar Rajiv’s comment on 1984 anti- Accusing the Congress hit out at Prime Minister for accountable. Gehlot said Modi said. The Election Commission the SP-BSP alliance has not and Alwar respectively. sikh pogrom. UPA partners and its president Rahul of the remarks on Rajiv, saying it has been continuously level- Former NDA ally and has set up 94,000 polling sta- put up any candidate, leaving In the seven Lok Sabha NCP and others too slammed attempting to tarnish his showed his “desperation” and ling allegations against now in UPA, RLSP leader tions/booths and made elab- the two constituencies for the constituencies spread across Modi for his remarks against image over the Rafale issue, “fear of defeat”. In a series of Gandhis though no one from Upendra Kushwaha too took orate security arrangements. Congress. three districts in West Bengal, the former PM and termed it Modi in a rally in Pratapgarh tweets, the Former Union the family has been a Prime on Modi and said the kind of In the fifth and smallest phase, Union Home Minister it is a four-cornered contest derogatory and shameful. in Uttar Pradesh had said, Finance Minister wondered if Minister in the past 30 years. statement being used by the total 8.75 crore voters will Rajnath Singh is seeking re- between the Trinamool In a series of tweets, Jaitley “Your father was termed ‘Mr any religion sanctioned speak- Indian Overseas Congress PM suggest the culture of decide the fate of 674 candi- election from Lucknow, while Congress, BJP, Congress and said Rahul thinks that Clean’ by his courtiers, but his ing ill of the dead. chief Sam Pitroda said the Modi and the party dates. his colleague at the Centre the CPI(M). The Trinamool “dynast” does not have to life ended as ‘Bhrastachari Former Delhi Chief party is hurt by what the and cadre (RSS) to which he The fifth phase of polling Smriti Irani is again taking on had won all the seven seats answer any question even number 1’ (corrupt number Minister Sheila Dikshit who Prime Minister said. “Why belongs. in 14 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Rahul in Amethi. in 2014.             for the ‘vikaspanthi’, the prior- time, Modi has got through the election lens and ity is the welfare and develop- the ban imposed on Masood that is the reason the Congress     rmed with new terminol- ment of the 130 crore people of Azhar. and its allies are in this condi- Aogy, Prime Minister Nar- the country”. They see everything tion today.    / / endra Modi launched a blis- Referring to Jaish-e-    / / not even give a report card of his tering attack on the Opposition Mohammed (JeM) chief fter whirlwind election- work’’. on Sunday and also sought to Masood Azhar, who has been Aeering tour to Uttar hhattisgarh Chief Minister "The issues on which he drive a wedge among the part- declared as a global terrorist by      Pradesh (UP), Jharkhand and CBhupesh Baghel on Sunday fought 2014 elections remain ners of the “mahagathbandhan” the United Nations (UN), Modi Madhya Pradesh (MP), Chief hit out at the BJP and said that untouched and his key initiatives (the SP-BSP-RLD alliance) in said, “A couple of days ago, the Minister Bhupesh Baghel the party failed to deliver in its — be it Smart city, Swachh Uttar Pradesh. biggest organisation in the     returned back to state late on five-year regime at the Centre Bharat Mission (SBM), employ- Addressing a poll rally here world declared Masood Azhar, Sunday night. and had been fighting the Lok ment to 2 crore people, start-up in eastern Uttar Pradesh, Modi who has claimed hundreds of Baghel extensively cam- Sabha polls on pseudo-nation- , etc— were all unsuccess- said, “After Independence, lives in India, a global terror-     Their rebuttal came paigned in alism. ful. The biggest failure was there have been four types of ist. Are you happy? Is Modi against the backdrop of Modi Amethi Lok Addressing a press briefing Minister Narendra Modi and demonetisation which also governance, parties and polit- working properly? Pakistan, day after PM Narendra saying at a rally in UP’s Sabha con- in Bhopal, Baghel said: "In the said: "BJP party workers are resulted in the death of 125 peo- ical culture — ‘naampanthi’, which was hosting parties for AModi charged the SP with Pratapgarh on Saturday that stituency ensuing Lok Sabha elections, BJP seeking votes in the name of ple." He also claimed that the BJP ‘vaampanthi’, ‘daam aur him, is now compelled to act going soft on the Congress as the SP was “going soft” on the where is neither talking about their past Narendra Modi and 'Modiji' is is losing these elections and damanpathi’ and the fourth one against Masood Azhar. This is part of a “big game” against Congress, though Mayawati Congress five years of work nor their vision seeking votes on the name of the UPA government will come to that has been brought by us, the the impact of India’s growing the BSP, the two “mahagath- was attacking the grand old President for the next five years. Election army's valour." power with Rahul Gandhi as the ‘vikaspanthi’.” prowess.” bandhan” partners blamed party. Rahul Gandhi is locked in a Commission continuously Sharpening his attack prime minister after May 23. He explained that “naam- “But what shall I do with the PM on Sunday for trying He also claimed that the direct fight with BJP’s Smriti speaks against usage of armed against Modi, Baghel who single- The Lok Sabha elections panthi are those who only the ‘mahamilawati’ parties, to create a rift in the alliance. SP had benefitted due to the Irani. Notably after an impres- forces in elections, yet the BJP is handedly led his Congress to are being held in seven phases in indulge in chanting the names who are not ready to accept this BSP supremo Mayawati alliance and “Behenji”had now sive victory in the state the repeatedly violating the model power in assembly polls late last the country. The first four phas- of the members of a family. achievement of India?,” he said the alliance “will understood that the Akhilesh stature of Baghel has surged code. This makes it clear that BJP year in Chhattisgarh, cited var- es were held on 11, 18, 23, and Vaampanthi are those who try asked. In a scathing attack on continue in the future as well”, Yadav-led party and the manifold and he emerged as has nothing to talk about and ious initiatives of the central gov- 29 April. The rest three phases to foist foreign policies on the Opposition alliance in Uttar while SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Congress were playing a “big the star campaigner for the they are fighting these elections ernment and said, "Narendra are scheduled to be conducted India. ‘Daam’ and ‘damanpathi’ Pradesh, the Prime Minister said the PM was “misleading” game” with her. Congress in neighbouring on the name of pseudo-nation- Modi is the first prime minister on May 6, 12, and 19. The are those who rule using said, “The ‘mahamilawati’ par- people. Detailed report on P7 states of UP, Jharkhand and alism." who did not do a single press counting of votes will be held on money and muscle power and ties say since it is election Madhya Pradesh. He also lashed out at Prime conference in five years and did May 23.     !"#$% The official count as per &!%"'"()$"*(!"&((%((% the 2014 census is 40 tigers in s Odisha takes steps to , (((*$$(((%" (""( Odisha as per the State Arecover from Fani devas-  (($ (&"&(% ((( Government. tation, the National Tiger %& "(!" (%" However, the cyclone is Reserve Conservation , (%""%$*" (%(($'"$%%$ apprehended to have caused Authority (NTCA) has decid- (%%(%%(!" ("$"&('$%("$ damage to the habitats as well ed to take stock of damages $!!(" ($$(" as the felines. Now, because of caused to the two tiger reserves %" Fani, the ongoing census by the in the State by the nature’s fury. NTCA, Wildlife Institute of Similipal in Mayurbhanj and India (WII) and Odisha Forest Satkosia in Angul district are areas in the State where royal ties to the people. As is the pro- its strategy, six tigers (three Department has also been put two notified tiger reserves in Bengal tigers have been sight- cedure we are seeking report pairs) were to be brought from on hold. the State. ed in the past. from the State Forest officials Madhya Pradesh. Two felines The NTCA will also seek Member Secretary of The status of these new to give their assessment on the were released in Satkosia, but report on Sunabeda wildlife NTCA Anup Kumar Nayak on locations and prey base will damages, if any, that the Fani resistance from local popula- sanctuary in Nuapada district Sunday said that it would seek also be assessed by the has caused to the wildlife in the tion in buffer villages has and Debrigarh wildlife sanctu- a status report on damage to top tiger conservation body two tiger habitats,” said Nayak. delayed the transportation and ary in Bargarh district of the two tiger reserves from under the Union Environment At present, the State release of the other tigers. Odisha which are proposed to the State Forest Department Ministry. Government is focusing on Moreover, one of the two tigers be accorded tiger reserve sta- shortly. “Presently, the State is grap- increasing the tiger population that was released late last year tus in view of sighting of big There are four more new pling in providing basic ameni- in Satkosia reserve. As part of got killed by poachers. cats in the region.    !     trum and coal blocks, during and “there is a definite collu- Singh said. the 10-year tenure of the Singh- sion of people holding political The former Prime Minister rime Minister Narendra led UPA government.   positions and scamsters who said one man would not do any PModi should be shown exit The former Prime Minister fled the country after defraud- justice to the aspirations and door as his five-year rule has also called Modi’s Pakistan      ing banks”. hopes of the people by impos- been “most traumatic and dev- policy “slipshod”, which he     Singh said the BJP’s “polit- ing the thought process and astating” for India’s youths, said was marred by a series of ical distress” emanates from its will of ‘one person’ on a diverse farmers, traders and every “flip-flops” — from going to       “failed track record” and country like India. democratic institution, his pre- Pakistan uninvited to inviting claimed the party is searching “Representation in India is decessor Manmohan Singh “rogue” ISI to the Pathankot air      for new narratives everyday. very important. A single man said Sunday. base in connection with the “This reflects the bankruptcy of can neither represent all the Singh, in an exclusive inter- probe into a terrorist attack.     a national security vision for desires of 130 crore people of view to PTI, dismissed the Singh, known as the archi- the country.” India and can also not solve the notion that there was a wave in tect of India’s economic reforms       “Five years of Modi variety of problems faced by favour of Modi and asserted that in 1990s, felt the country is Government is a sad story of them. The idea of ‘one man as the people have made up their headed for a slowdown and ! "#  governance and accountability the monolith of knowledge’ minds to vote out the govern- accused the Modi regime of failure. In the year 2014, Modiji cannot be applied to India,” he ment that “does not believe in leaving the country’s economy   $   came to power on the promise said on whether a presidential inclusive growth and is only wor- in “dire straits”. of ‘acche din’. His five years rule form of election is good for ried about its political existence He said people are “fed up”   %  & has ended up being the most democracy. On foreign policy, at the altar of disharmony”. with the daily rhetoric and traumatic and devastating for he said India has always been In one of his most fierce cosmetic change by the current India’s youth, farmers, traders, guided by national interests and attacks on the Modi dispensa- dispensation and there is an National Park instead of chair- marred by a series of flip- tum jump. with the BJP and it thrives on businesses and every democ- not for “image building of any tion, Singh alleged that the past undercurrent against this “illu- ing any meeting of the Cabinet flops- from going to Pakistan “A lie spoken a hundred societal fissures. ratic institution,” he said. individual”. five years only witnessed sion and boastful self aggran- Committee on Security (CCS) in uninvited to inviting the rogue times does not become the “A government which “Our socio-political ambi- Foreign policy entails “stench” of corruption peaking dizement”. the immediate aftermath of the ISI to investigate the Pathankot truth,” he said on Modi’s plank does not believe in inclusive ence has lost cohesiveness. “gravitas”, a sense of diploma- to “unimaginable proportions”, In a bid to counter the BJP’s Pulwama terror attack in which Air Base terror attack. Does it of nationalism, adding that growth and is only worried People are fed up with the daily cy and restraint, sensitivity adding demonetisation was focus on the issues of nation- 40 CRPF personnel were killed. not speak volumes about the terror attacks in Jammu and about its political existence at loud rhetoric of cosmetic towards the concerns of the perhaps the “biggest scam” of alism and terrorism in this elec- He claimed the “gross intel- strategic failures of Modi Kashmir alone have gone up by the altar of disharmony change. There is a sense of deep host nation and ultimately fur- independent India. tion, the former prime minis- ligence failure” in Pulwama Government on national secu- 176 per cent and ceasefire vio- should be immediately shown despair and disillusionment thering the interests of India, Incidentally, the BJP cam- ter sought to question Modi’s speaks volumes about this gov- rity front,” he asked. lations at the border with the exit door,” he noted. amongst the masses. People but “regrettably, this govern- paign in the run-up to the 2014 commitment. ernment’s preparedness to tack- Singh said the Modi gov- Pakistan up 1,000 per cent in He alleged that in the past have made up their minds to ment’s foreign policy is found- elections had centred on vari- He said it was “distressing” le terror.”Let’s not forget that ernment’s record on national the past five years. five years the stench of cor- reject the Modi Government ed upon anything but a mature ous alleged scams, including in to note that Modi was “filming Narendra Modi’s slipshod pol- security is “dismal” as incidents He said that division and ruption has peaked to and the BJP so that the future comprehension of diplomacy”, the allocations of 2G spec- movies” in the Jim Corbett icy on Pakistan has been of terrorism have seen a quan- hate have become synonymous “unimaginable proportions” of India is safe and secure,” he said.   P  Q O'   % ./.000 Q       #101!P   so called mainstream Muslim organizations since 2016 for  ( , been given by the Gujarat gov- give his nod to this? We n what could upset career alleged involvement in radi- New Delhi: With around 2,500 also provide better healthcare ment has made provisions to  ernment to its MLAs, MPs demand proof from you...The Iprospects of several senior calization activities, but new hospitals proposed in next services. double the number of UG and its chosen people...Now, chowkidar has stolen the plot IPS officers in the fray for the Hashim’s movement could not 5 years and thereby creating 2.5 FICCI, jointly with NITI seats in medical education by ccusing Prime Minister even Modiji has written in his of a dead man and did not give top job at the Intelligence be tracked. Sri Lanka million additional jobs in the Aayog, has been working on 2024, but attaining the required ANarendra Modi of “steal- affidavit that these plots were true information about this in Bureau, the government has Thowheed Jamat is believed to health sector, India is expect- identifying innovative alter- number of specialist doctors is ing” a dead man’s plot of land, amalgamated. We made his affidavit. That is why we moved a proposal for granting be a branch of TNTJ and NTJ ed to meet the WHO norm of nate methods of strengthening a five times more difficult the Congress on Sunday alleged enquiries, we found that these repeatedly say that ‘chowkidaar yet another extension to IB was an offshoot of the former. 1:1000 doctor-patient ratio by the number of specialized doc- agenda. He further added that that the PM had submitted plots can’t be transferred or chor hai’,” he alleged. chief Rajiv Jain, who got a six NTJ along with another 2024, said Dr VK Paul, tors in India that can be scaled- 80,000 PG seats will be added wrong information to the sold. So if they can’t be trans- Khera also said the land months extension in January radical group of Sri Lanka Member, NITI Aayog at an up, especially for high burden by 2024, with participation of Election Commission about ferred then how can they be allotment was in 2002 when just before his superannuation. Jamathei Milathu Ibrahim have event here. He however, added diseases and conditions. In private sector healthcare the plot allotted to him in amalgamated,” he asked. Modi was chief minister of During the extended been identified by Colombo that attaining the required continuation to this, FICCI providers. Gandhinagar. Reacting to the allegations Gujarat. He claimed that BJP tenure of Jain, the Pulwama authorities for the serial suicide number of specialist doctors is has partnered with ECHO Manoj Jhalani, AS & MD Congress spokesperson made earlier in April, the BJP leader and advocate Meenakshi suicide hit occurred leading to bombings last month that a five times more difficult (Extension for Community (NHM), Union Health Pawan Khera claimed that had said that four plots pur- Lekhi has also told the Supreme the deaths of 40 CRPF jawans killed over 250 people includ- agenda. Healthcare Outcomes) to Ministry highlighted the Modi was asked which of the chased by four different people Court that no allotments for and forced the country to ing 11 Indians on Sunday Around 80,000 PG seats launch the first of its kind quadruple challenge of quan- plots belonged to him, point- were amalgamated into one on plots had been done post 2000. mount an aerial attack at Jaish Easter. will be added by 2024, with Diabetes Certification Course tity, quality, right skill-mix and ing out that in the first affidavit April 25, 2008, stating that the “They are full of lies. The facility inside Pakistan and Jain’s predecessor participation of private sector for General Practitioners (GP), physical distribution of human in 2002, he said it was plot number of the amalgamated first lie was that I (PM) have also put the two countries to Dineshwar Sharma had turned healthcare providers, said Dr considering the WHO statistics resources for healthcare. He number 411, then said 401/A in plot was different from the sep- ownership of 1/4th of the land, the brink of war. down a government proposal Paul at the launch of certificate of 69.2 million Indians suffer- said, “It is important to empow- the next affidavit, which found arate individual numbers. second lie was amalgamation... In the same period, the for one year extension in the course on ‘Specialist Training ing with diabetes in 2015 and er primary health teams and no mention of number 411. “What is shocking is that the Amalgamation is illegal. Colombo suicide bombings interest of professionalism and To Tackle The Burden of not enough endocrinologists to General Physicians (GPs). The The Congress had earlier also person whose plot has been Present the proof of amalga- occurred and the National in keeping with the career NCDs’ organized by FICCI deliver specialized care. Ministry is working on sever- alleged irregularities in the amalgamated with the PM’s is mation,” the Congress leader Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) chief prospects of his subordinates. here recently. Commenting on the tie-up, al aspects to increase number disclosure which the BJP had the former BJP president Jana said. “Did Jana Krishnamurthy Zaharan Hashim was freely Bypassing the officials in line He added that with the Dr Paul said, “The ECHO of specialist doctors in the strongly rejected. Krishnamurthy. He died in give his consent for this seven roaming in South India with- for promotion can potentially improvement in the ease of model is unique in more than country and is also exploring Khera said that BJP in a September 2007. It was only months after his death...The out any inkling to the IB. lead to resentment amongst the doing business in the private one ways, but what makes this participatory approaches for tweet had clarified that the seven months after it that his country wants to know which Reports suggest that IB officials which can have a bear- healthcare sector, new players program even more unique is engaging private sector like plots were amalgamated. “Four plot was amalgamated with property papers are in your bag had knowledge of the suspi- ing on the overall profession- will enter the sector which the partnership with the indus- contribution for stipends paid plots were amalgamated. These Modi’s. and which address will you be cious activities of Tamil Nadu alism of the covert agency, will not only create new try through FICCI”. He also to DNB students at both pub- are allotted plots which have “Tell, me can a dead man going to,” he asked. Tauheed Jamat as also a slew of sources added. employment opportunities but highlighted that the govern- lic and private hospitals.”PNS ( )*   %#     ( , declassify the documents on  Samba spy scandal, which was later found to be a false case. ith Delhi High Court Advocate Sachdeva said Wissuing notice to the they tried every legal recourse  ( , /  0 1 not be able to take up NEET Centre on the demand for available to prove their inno-  (   because of delay in the train declassification of the Samba cence but all to no avail as the & 1 services”. spy case, the 45-year-old scan- materials of the charges and undreds of students from   .M  On Saturday, the HRD dal in which more than 50 subsequent court martial pro- HKarnataka missed the Ministry had announced the army officials and jawans were ceedings against them were National Eligibility and 3  .4 postponement of the NEET acquitted, may see fresh twist never properly and fully dis- Entrance Test (NEET) on  1 exam in Odisha in view of the and turns. The Delhi High closed either to them or to the Sunday as their train reached  P Cyclone Fani. The NTA had Court has issued notice to court. Justice Vibhu Bakhru Bengaluru an hour after the    1 on Friday announced changes Defence Ministry and Army noted the petitioner’s con- scheduled reporting time for     in some centres owing to the Chief on the petition filed by tention regarding how long the exam. Over 13 lakh stu- Lok Sabha elections and retired officers, who were false- the documents can be kept dents had registered for the  P advised students to download ly implicated, seeking declassi- classified. The judge asked the exam for admission to MBBS   fresh admit cards. fication of the entire files of the Centre to respond to the ques- and BDS courses which was '       As per the official guide- Samba spy case. tion raised in the plea regard- conducted by the HRD 0 1 lines, students appearing for The Samba spy case came Later one of the jawan Though the Army officers in their age of 70s and 80s went ing declassification of the files. Ministry’s National Testing 1 566 NEET were supposed to be into light with the arrest of two caught for spying confessed were found innocent in mid up to Supreme Court to get jus- Advocate Sachdeva argued Agency (NTA) for the first dressed in light clothes with jawans who were arrested for that he falsely gave deposition, 90s, their demands for justice tice and their prestige back, that all major democracies, time. The exam was conduct-   short sleeves worn with sal- allegedly spying for Pakistan in while the other jawan was shot and giving back the lost pres- many times during the argu- including the United State of ed successfully in rest part of     N war/trouser. 1975 from the army unit in dead while trying to cross the tige were not delivered. The ments, the Defence Ministry America and several European the country, officials said. The NEET dress code Samba in Jammu. The case was border in mid 80s. The officers accused the and Intelligence Bureau sub- countries, declassify docu- The 16591- Hampi Express en route barred students from wearing any outfit hav- handed over to Military Intelligence Bureau’s investi- Governments for scuttling their mitted details in sealed covers ments after passage of a spec- Bengaluru reached the city at 2.30 pm due to ing big buttons, brooch/badge and flower. The Intelligence, and based on the gation panel later found that fight for justice in courts by and their cases were dismissed. ified time or a specified event. which hundreds of candidates could not appear NTA had notified candidates will be subjected depositions of the two jawans, the case was totally false and providing sealed covers and not Appearing for the petitioners The High Court in its recent in the exam, they said. Former Karnataka Chief to extensive and compulsory frisking before 168 officers starting from the officers were tortured and false- declaring the Intelligence former Captains Ashok Kumar Order asked Defence Ministry Minister Siddaramaiah took to twitter saying, entering the examination centre using metal unit head Brigadier to jawans ly implicated. The intelligence Bureau’s panel report which Rana and Ranbir Singh and Army to respond within “Mr. @narendramodi, You pat your own back detectors. The answer keys for the entrance in the unit was terminated panel was formed as per the found the spy case was false Rathaur, Advocate Pranav six weeks and the next hearing for others’ achievements but will you also take examination will be available by the night giv- and many were convicted upto orders of then Prime Minister one. Sachdeva argued that Defence of the case is posted for the responsibility for your cabinet min’ incapa- ing students an opportunity to evaluate their 14 years. Rajiv Gandhi. Many Army officers now Ministry and Army should Spetember 3. bilities. Hundreds of students in Karnataka may performance. %'()   ( P  +,$-&.$& .    

   data in this regard. cadre allocation of the success- preference’,” the bench said and September 5, 2017. According to that policy, indicated the preference, he candidates have been denied “For all the aforesaid rea- ful candidates allocated to the disposed of four petitions. The pleas claimed that the the candidates were required to shall be allotted along with the cadres to which they were he Delhi High Court has sons, we are inclined to allow IAS and IPS, according to their For no preference in zones interpretation of Cadre first give their choice in the other such candidates in the otherwise entitled according to Tquashed the Centre’s cadre these writ petitions and to quash merit and by taking into con- and cadres, the candidates had Allocation Policy 2017 adopt- descending order of prefer- order of rank to any of the their preference and the same allocations of IAS and IPS offi- the cadre allocations made by sideration the preferences given to enter “99”. ed by the authorities was unrea- ence from amongst the various remaining cadres, arranged in have been allocated to the less cers of 2018 batch under the the respondents of the IAS offi- by the candidates irrespective of The court’s verdict came on sonable and grossly unfair, zones. Thereafter, the candi- an alphabetical order, in which meritorious candidates. new policy and ordered a fresh cers vide communication dated whether they have filled ‘99’ in four petitions filed by various unjust and arbitrary. dates will indicate one prefer- there are vacancies in his cat- “There can be no gain say- cadre allocation. December 3, 2018, and the IPS any of the zones or cadres. officers challenging the notifi- “The same is violative of ence of cadre from each pre- egory after allocation of all the ing that the common thread A bench of Justices Vipin officers vide OM dated “If a candidate is not able to cation of Central government the principle of equality in as ferred zone. candidates who can be allotted running in the said Cadre Sanghi and Rekha Palli accept- December 19, 2018. We, accord- get any of the preferred cadres allocating the cadres to candi- much, as, the more meritorious The candidates will indicate to cadres in accordance with Allocation Policy, 2017 is to ed the submission of the offi- ingly, direct so,” the bench said. according to his rank, cadre dates of Indian Police Service candidates, who have ranked their second cadre preference for their preference, it had stated. reward merit. The more meri- cers, who had approached the It said the court was allocation in respect of such a (IPS) on the basis of the results higher in CSE, 2017, have been every preferred zone thereafter. The petitioners’ grievance torious candidates are entitled to court challenging the process, inclined to grant relief to the candidate may be resorted to in of the Civil Services denied allocation to cadres for Similar process will continue till was that the authorities have consideration for allocation of that cadre allocation is a mat- petitioners considering that the manner set out in.... ,that is, Examination (CSE), 2017. which they had given their a preference for all the cadres is not allocated the cadres to cadres before the less meritori- ter which would affect their they have approached the court he may ‘be allotted along with They sought direction to preferences, and less meritori- indicated by the candidate. them as per their declared pol- ous candidates are considered. careers for all times to come. at the very earliest and at a stage other such candidates in the the Centre to issue a new list ous candidates have been allo- If a candidate does not give icy of merit-cum-preferences. “This is clear from the It noted that re-allocation when neither the IAS officers order of rank to any of the allocating the respective cadres cated to the said cadres,” the any preference for any of the The bench agreed with the overall scheme/policy ... That of cadres by the authorities nor the IPS officers of the remaining cadres, arranged in to the selected IPS candidates officers’ counsel had argued. zones/cadres, it will be pre- officers that the interpretation principle has been clearly should not take much time as 2018 batch have commenced alphabetical order, in which in the CSE, 2017, purely on the As per the 2017 office sumed that he has no specific and implementation of the breached by the respondents it is done electronically, that is their on-site training which are there are vacancies in his cate- basis of merit and preferences memorandum on cadre allo- preference for those Cadre Allocation Policy, 2017 due to the manner in which through computer program or cadre specific. gory if allocation of all the can- indicated in the online form, by cation policy, the states and zones/cadres and accordingly, resorted to by the respondents they have interpreted and software, and the authorities “We, therefore, direct the didates who could be allotted to correctly interpreting the Office joint cadres were divided into if he is not allocated to any one is unreasonable and arbitrary, implemented the OM dated already possess the requisite respondents to undertake fresh cadres in accordance with their Memorandum (OM) of five zones. of the cadres for which he has since the more meritorious September 5, 2017,” it said. RAIPUR | MONDAY | MAY 06, 2019 chhattisgarh 03 Human-elephant conflict rises as thirsty Chhattisgarh High Court to get new chief justice today jumbos sneak into civilians pockets STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR hhattisgarh Governor CAnandiben Patel will adminis- In summer season, the water sources dry up in the forest and elephants are forced ter oath of office to newly appoint- ed Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh to move out of jungle in search of water which leads to untoward incidents High Court Justice P. R. Ramachandra Menon in a func- STAFF REPORTER n RAIGARH The kin of the deceased per- leads to untoward incidents,” tion at Darbar Hall, Raj Bhawan sons have been given an immedi- Minj told The Pioneer. on May 6 at 11.00 am. ate aid of Rs 25,000 each, Mishra wo villagers were trampled to Loss of elephant habitat due The President of India has added. Tdeath by a wild elephant in to de-forestation is also fuelling appointed Kerala High Court Raigarh district on Sunday morn- A herd of 11 elephants has up the problem, he said. Judge Justice Menon as Chief ing, taking the death toll to five in been spotted in this forest and the Amalendu Mishra wildlife Justice of Chhattisgarh High The office of Chief past three days. elephant which attacked villagers expert based in Surguja who has Court. With onset of Tendupatta on Sunday is part of the same been closely monitoring the situ- The office of Chief Justice of Justice of Chhattisgarh season, the human-elephant con- herd, he said. ation for over two decades said Chhattisgarh High Court had fall- High Court had fallen flict is expected to rise as more On Saturday, a retired army the department is installing radio en vacant recently, after the resig- and more people would be ven- man was trampled to death by an collars to the wild elephants, but nation of Justice A K Tripathi, vacant recently, after turing into the jungle for collect- elephant in Sithra village of it is not sufficient. Chief Justice of Chhattisgarh High the resignation of ing tendu leaves which is used for Raigarh. Earlier, on Friday, two In Surguja five radio collars Court. He was made the Member Justice A K Tripathi, making ‘bidi’. Tendupatta is a villagers were killed by a wild ele- have been attached to five ele- of Lokpal. major source of income for rural phant in neighbouring Jashpur phants, which are in same range. Justice Menon is the senior Chief Justice of households in Chhattisgarh district. Three of them are male and male most judge from Kerala High Chhattisgarh High Court. mainly among tribals. According to UD Minj, MLA elephants have a tendency to Court and has been functioning The latest incidents took Kunkuri there is need to aware stray away from the heard which there since his elevation as Judge. He was made the place in Dharamjaigarh forest deceased identified as Guruwar (Dharamjaigarh) Pranay Mishra people about wild elephant in the makes it difficult to know the Having completed his law Member of Lokpal. division of Raigarh district on Singh Rathiya (54), a native of said. region. exact location of the heard in real degree from Government Law Sunday morning when the vic- Khadgaon village, was attacked Later around 5 km away, the “In summer season, the water time, he said. Tagging collar to College, Ernakulam, Justice Kerala on January 5, 2009. He was tims had gone to collect tendu by the tusker in a nearby forest same elephant attacked Tejram sources dry up in the forest and Matriarch leader of the heard Menon was enrolled on January 8, then appointed as Permanent leaves in the forest. leaving him dead on the spot, Agariya (54) of Semipali village elephants are forced to move out could make the surveillance more 1983. He was sworn-in as Judge of High Court of Kerala In the first incident, the Divisional Forest Officer leaving him dead, he said. of jungle in search of water which effective, he added. Additional Judge of High Court of from December 15, 2010. Baghel announces `11 cr Chhattisgarh is power surplus for cyclone-hit Odisha STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR the devastation caused by state, confirms CEA report the cyclone. hhattisgarh Chief Minister Baghel has already CBhupesh Baghel on instructed Chief Secretary Sunday announced financial Sunil Kujur to lend a help- assistance of Rs 11 crore from ing hand to neighbouring the Chief Minister Relief Fund Odisha and make necessary for cyclone-hit Odisha. arrangements for all sup- Earlier in the day, Uttar port. Pradesh and Tamil Nadu He had also talked to Chief Ministers too his Odisha counterpart announced financial assis- Naveen Patnaik and had tance of Rs 10 crores each for assured him of every possi- the state. ble help. Baghel said The severe cyclonic storm “Odisha is not only our Fani with a wind speed touch- Rescue and relief opera- neighbouring state but the ing nearly 200 kmph made tions have been mounted citizens of there had a close landfall at Puri coast on May 3 on a massive scale in cultural and social relation wreaking havoc in Odisha. Odisha in the aftermath of with us’’. STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR in a statement while quoting within a year has recorded increase The energy sector in the coun- Chhattisgarh State Power Holding by 20 percent. try has been divided into Eastern, entral Electricity Authority Company Limited Chairman Shukla said that CEA, New Western, Northern and Southern and North-Eastern regions. C(CEA), New Delhi has con- Shailendra Kumar Shukla. Delhi under Ministry of Power, firmed in a report that Chhattisgarh The state has also registered Government of India prepares Chhattisgarh state falls under power requirement and supply Western region and in out of the BJP unleashes 14 queries for is a power surplus state and while increase in power demand year after year. But compared to other report for the country. five regions, Western region has comparing to other states, availabil- states, availability of power against In Chhattisgarh the require- been in leading position in power ity of power against demand is demand is higher than the average. ment of power from April 2018 to availability. The shortage recorded higher than the average. The statement further informed March 2019 was 26130 million unit in Eastern region is 0.7 percent, Congress to counter Baghel ``Chhattisgarh as leading state that in April 2018, the demand for against which the availability shown Northern region 1.4 percent, in power availability. The power power in state was 3800 MW which was 26076 Million units. So, as per Southern region 0.1 percent and STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR freedom of expression. availability in the state is recorded rose to 4500 MW within a year by CEA, in state there is no shortage of North Easter region it was 2.8 Kaushik asked why as 99.98 percent,’’ the company said April 2019. Thus the power demand power. percent. Congress had indulged in pol- hhattisgarh BJP while itics when Afzal Guru was Crefuting the Chief declared terrorist and subse- Minister Bhupesh Baghel’s quent capital punishment was allegation of BJP’s nexus with awarded to him. Goods train derail in Dantewada, no casualties Naxalites, Leader of He alleged that Congress Opposition Dharamlal has tradition and culture of STAFF REPORTER n Kaushik on Sunday unleashed glorification of terrorists. 14 questions for Congress. Congress sometimes calls DANTEWADA Kaushik in a statement Osama Bin Laden as Osama-ji said BJP after formation of and Hafiz Saeed as Hafiz-ji, wo engines and three bogies of a government at the centre has which has been stated by party Tgoods train derailed near been working with ‘Zero president to other top leader- Dilmili in Dantewada district here Tolerance’ policy against ter- that Congress which has been ship. The other questions were on Saturday late night. rorism and is stand by its com- in mainstream of country pol- on Batla House encounter No loss to human life was mitment. itics and their leaders have case, relationships with Zakir reported but as the train was in high Dharamlal Kaushik rais- backed the persons having Naik, as how Rs 50 lakh was speed, the bogies after derailment ing questions one by one said, raising anti-national slogans received from Zakir Naik to jumped over the engine. should terrorism be replied in JNU premises in pretext to Rajiv Gandhi Trust when All the goods and passenger with surgical and air strike or freedom of speech. Even already under investigation, as trains movements have also been major loss has been reported except way to Vishakhapatnam from conduct of maintenance of the through talks. Congress party Gandhiji, Nehruji, Indiraji and how terrorism and naxalism affected on the route after the inci- for affecting the normal goods and Kirandul. damage. The railway is making all should clear its policy on it. Rajivji had never done such an had prospered under Congress dent. passenger train movement. Reports After the incident, the railway efforts to restore traffic on the rail The second question was act what Rahul did in name of rule. As per information received, no said that the goods train was on its team rushed for assessment and route after necessary repair. Panel to probe into expiry date injection at AIIMS Naxals torch four construction vehicles STAFF REPORTER n SUKMA

axals torched four vehicles Nengaged in a road construction work in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh on Sunday, police said. n The incident occurred under STAFF REPORTER RAIPUR village (Patan) resident Prakash the fault and pointed out that two Golapalli police station area, where Chandravanshi admitted at AIIMS and his Pharmacists, Kiran and Chitranjan were on ll India Institute of Medical Sciences construction work is underway on A(AIIMS), Raipur has constituted a com- condition became worse after he was duty. Both without counter checking the the road connecting Golapalli mittee to probe the administering of expired administered an injection of expiry date. expiry date of injection had handed it over village to Konta town, Sukma medicine to a patient while two pharmacists The injection was procured from the Amrit the medicine for the patient. AIIMS Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police from capital Raipur, and threat- construction firm, parked there, he have been terminated in this connection. Pharmacy in hospital complex. management has constituted a three-mem- Shalabh Kumar Sinha said. ened workers to leave the place, he said. No one was hurt in the inci- As per the preliminary said. dent. ber doctors’ committee to further probe into A three-member probe committee has During the preliminary enquiry, it was information, a group of ultras Before fleeing from the spot, After being alerted, a team of been asked to submit its report within a found that a total laxity has been shown by the matter. The team members are Professor reached the construction site, ultras torched two poclain security forces was rushed to the week. the pharmacists on duty in the store. Pharmacology Dr Alok Singh, Dr around seven kms from Golapalli, machines, one JCB machine and a spot, the ASP said, adding that fur- As per reports, on April 24, Odragahan Medical Store primary report also accepted Ranganathan and Dr H. Das. which is around 500 kms south truck trailer, belonging to a private ther details are awaited.    ! 8

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   0 / ing out at the Central To make the situation “As a central agency, the Bathinda, Mansa, Fazilka, Government for diverting the worse, the glut production FCI was working under direct Ferozepur, Muktsar, unjab Chief Minister Capt much-needed bales from from was being orders from the Central Hoshiarpur, Amritsar, Tarn PAmarinder Singh on Punjab to Haryana. pushed into Punjab through Government which is acting in Taran and Gurdaspur. Sunday accused the BJP-led the open borders, said the a totally partisan manner to Sinha requested that Central Government of acting He said four lakh bags Chief Minister, adding that create political problems for Punjab be allowed to pur- at the behest of the Akalis to (16,000 bales) had been divert- he had instructed officials to the Congress-led government chase B class bags from the deliberately create shortage of ed from Punjab to Haryana. stop such attempts. in Punjab,” he added. open market to meet the short- gunny bags with an aim of For the first time since tak- The Chief Minister said In fact, the state’s Principal fall. obstructing the procurement ing over, the Congress gov- that the BJP must put an Secretary KAP Sinha also It may be noted that process in order to defame the ernment in Punjab was having immediate end to such petty wrote to Centre’s Secretary Haryana got permission to Congress Government in the problems in procurement, due tactics to promote its electoral (Food and Public Distribution) use B Class Gunny Bags (sub- State in this election period. to the Centre’s politically-moti- prospects. on Saturday warning that if the ject to satisfactory inspection “While Punjab, with its vated actions in depriving the The Punjab Government shortage of bales persists, it by FCI), but the same was glut production of wheat, is state of its much-needed sup- had been repeatedly taking could lead to a law and order denied to Punjab. being made to sweat it out for ply of bags, said Capt up the issue of shortage of situation in the State. This was Sinha’s second gunny bags, the neighbouring Amarinder while accusing the gunny bags with the Centre As of May 3, 105.4 LMT of such letter in four days but Haryana is being supplied BJP-led Central Government and the FCI, said Capt wheat had arrived in the man- with the FCI failing to respond, extra bags by the Centre to of acting at the behest of its Amarinder, disclosing that he dis, with another 15-16 LMT the situation was likely to ensure smooth and stream- allies, the Shiromani Akali Dal personally spoke to the Food expected to arrive by May 6, he aggravate, with a total of 132 lined procurement operations (SAD), to mess up the pro- ernment in Haryana is getting this year,” said the Chief Punjab a step-motherly treat- Corporation of India (FCI) pointed out, adding that a LMT of wheat expected to there ahead of May 12 polling,” curement process at mandis. additional bags to handle the Minister, lashing out at the ment to promote is political chairman DV Prasad a day serious shortage of A class arrive in the Mandis this said the Chief Minister, lash- “In contrast, the BJP gov- excess production of wheat Centre for once again giving interests in this election year. before. bales was expected in season. 35   

   0 / mous damage to the country.” n’t do even a single press con-      He further said, “After ference. All he did was a ormer Union Minister and demonetization, hasty impo- staged interview with an actor, Fthe deputy leader of oppo- sition of the flawed GST was Akshay Kumar, who must sition in Rajya Sabha, Anand another blunder which wiped surely be thinking that perhaps     Sharma on Sunday said that off 2 percent of our country’s PM Modi is even better actor the BJP is shying away from GDP. Instead of creating the than him,” Sharma added. the real issues. promised 2 crore jobs, crores Talking about the recent “Prime Minister Narendra of jobs were destroyed. A large escalation between India and Modi is campaigning contin- number of factories got shut Pakistan, the Congress senior uously while insulting oppo- down, workers were forced to leader said, “It is highly insen- sition and speaking the kind of return to the villages, so many sitive on our PM’s part to talk language that doesn’t suit a people committed suicide. about the preparedness of statesman of his stature at all. Further Narendra Modi even missiles in public. No PM or We want him to account for all smeared the image of India by President of any other country the promises that he made claiming that our economy is would’ve talked about such before 2014 elections,” said running on black money.” confidential matters in public. Anand Sharma who was in The deputy leader of We are supposed to be a Chandigarh on Sunday to opposition in Rajya Sabha responsible nuclear state,” he campaign for Congress Lok also mentioned that he has said. Sabha candidate from been campaigning all over the “Such surgical operations Chandigarh, Pawan Kumar country and all he can see is happened during UPA’s rule Bansal. people feeling betrayed. too but we never made the sac- Sharma lamented, tyr PM of the country. He level. I would like to tell him pened in November 2016, “People have now seen rifice of our soldiers as means “Yesterday, the words he shouldn’t forget that he was that history doesn’t forgive Sharma said, “There’s been through the false promises of to garner votes,” Sharma (Modi) spoke against Late PM assassinated by the terrorists. those who insult the martyrs monumental mismanagement PM Modi. They believed in added. Rajiv Gandhi are unacceptable. He died for India while fight- of the country,” he said while of Indian economy under the him and he has betrayed them Present among others Narendra Modi is known for ing terrorists. PM Modi will talking to the mediapersons watch of PM Modi who has no badly. The ones who suffered were Pardeep Chhabra, making shockingly insulting perhaps be the only PM of here. understanding of economy the most are farmers, youth Chandigarh Congress statements about his opposi- India who will go down in his- Blasting Narendra Modi and through his reckless deci- and the poor,” he said. President and party leaders,  2   tion.” tory as the one who dragged led BJP left, right and center sions and authoritative func- “Another grave issue is Rana Varinder Singh, HS “Rajiv Gandhi was a mar- political discourse to a gutter over demonetization that hap- tioning, he has inflicted enor- that in five years our PM did- Lucky, Sandeep Bharadwaj. olding one-after-another road shows attracting huge Hcrowds to have a glimpse of their “hero”, the SAD-BJP can- didate from Gurdaspur Lok Sabha Sunny Deol on Sunday made it clear that he was here not for vendetta politics, albeit he wanted to usher in multi-faceted development for the con- !$% stituency. “I will not give any importance to score settling but to the developmental issues,” said Sunny Deol while talking with the     , media after attending bhog ceremony of akhand path at Gurudwara Sahib Ghallughara Chamb in Qadian. JP chief Amit Shah on !'  ' P!' ( Notably, Sunny Deol on Sunday held the road-show for BSunday claimed that people the third consecutive day in Gurdaspur constituency. Before of Haryana have rejected the pol- reaching Gurudwara Sahib, he went door-to-door for cam- itics of dynasty and corruption,  Q    #  paigning in Nawan village and appealed the people to vote for which prevailed during the pre- him. vious Hooda and Chautala gov-    0 /I Gurdaspur Sunny Deol, Shah The Prime Minister’s political Addressing people at different places, he assured them of ernments in the state.  ,  , said: “This is incident that hap- will power has given a new multi-faceted development. Shah, while addressing a pened in Pulwama...Pakistan’s boost to our forces and the ene- “I am the son of Punjab and have come to serve the State rally here, also attacked Congress ampaigning for the SAD- terrorists killed 40 of our mies of India now know how to and its people,” Sunny Deol told the villages of Chak Sharif president Rahul Gandhi saying CBJP combine candidate in jawans. And what does minis- remain in their limits. We can village. that his ambition of becoming Punjab’s border area, BJP ter, (Navjot Singh) Sidhu say — go to any extent to save our the Prime Minister would not be national president Amit Shah terrorism doesn't have a coun- nation and its proud country- fulfilled. advised Congress’ star cam- try. You should go across the men,” he said. !     “Rahul baba, your number paigner and state Cabinet Punjab border and live there.” Blaming the Congress won't come to become the PM Gaya Ram’ concept of former Shah said that Rahul Gandhi Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu to “He (Sidhu) was happy to party for putting the national of this country as people have Chief Minister Bhajan Lal. should understand in clear terms “live in Pakistan”, while also hug Pakistan’s army chief. Was security at risk for saving their # #$%!  &! made up their minds to bring Referring to the Chautala that Modi will return as Prime declaring to revoke Article 370, he not aware about the atroci- vote bank, he said that its back the Modi government,” family, Shah said no other qual- Minister and he will not allow if voted to power. ties they made on our soldiers national president Rahul -       Shah said. ified person could stand before that (separate Prime Minister for Hitting out at the cricketer- and on the people living on the Gandhi’s silence on National Referring to the state of grandfather- grandson. As soon J&K) to happen. turned-politician Sidhu for vis- border areas?” he asked. Conference Party’s demand for imachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur on affairs in Haryana, Shah said that as the grandson becomes eligi- The Congress scion is no iting Pakistan and “siding” with Claiming that the national having a separate Prime HSunday claimed that all the four Parliamentary seats would the BJP got the residents rid of ble to vote, he is given the party match for Modi who in office as the neighbours, BJP president security has become stronger Minister of the J&K state “puts be won by the BJP in view of the Modi wave sweeping across three Ds – Damaad, Darbaari ticket for contesting the election, Gujarat Chief Minister for 14 Amit Shah asked him to live in under the Narendra Modi him under dark clouds of the country. and Dealers. Shah said adding that how can years and Prime Minister for 5 Punjab across the border. “If Government, Shah said that the uncertainty. They are yet to Thakur, while addressing mediapersons here made a He said that the residents of a party which only promotes years has not taken even a day’s you like Pakistan so much, BJP-led Central Government’s clear their mind on the status frontal attack on the Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Haryana long tolerated the dynastic politics deliver the leave, he said. why are you living in this side top priority would be to revoke of J&K, which is an important lamented that he has betrayed all norms of decorum, decen- regimes of Hooda-Chautala dur- results in the state on various The BJP chief on Sunday of Punjab?” he asked the Article 370 in Jammu and part of the India”. cy and using vulgar language against a person with the sta- ing which corruption and failure fronts. Continuing his tirade addressed rallies at Sonipat and Congress’ firebrand leader. Kashmir, if voted to power. “On the other hand, BJP tus of the Prime Minister and by doing so he has become a of law and order were matters of against the Congress, he said that Panipat falling in Sonipat and Addressing a rally in “Pakistan now clearly government is clear that no laughing stock in the country. concern for every resident. They it was unfortunate the Congress’ Karnal Lok Sabha constituencies Pathankot in favour of SAD- understands the importance power in this world could sep- Rahul Gandhi is damaging the Congress party himself, he only maligned and tarnished the ally former Jammu & Kashmir respectively in Haryana, where BJP combine candidate from of national security for India. arate J&K from us,” he said. said. Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur fur- image and name of Haryana, the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah the elections to the 10 Lok ther added when Rahul prompts party crowd to shout BJP chief alleged. of National Conference demand- Sabha seats will be held in the visit Haryana again on May 10 Minister Narendra Modi is Kurukshetra on May 8 and at “Chowkidar Chor Hai” slogan, does not he remember one of Shah said that Haryana also ed a second Prime Minister for sixth phase of polling on May 12. to address rallies at Barwala also scheduled to address ral- on the last day of cam- the biggest Bofors Scam of his father and former Prime got ill-fame due to the ‘Aya Ram Jammu & Kashmir. Amit Shah is scheduled to and Charkhi Dadri. Prime lies in Fatehabad and paigning on May 10. Minister Rajiv Gandhi. 4

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'   %    5%2  3 %    % ",    & party compromise has alarmed been unable to get British law- said Sunday that the party end of peace talks in Kabul, But Israel disputed their    '  6    *# %   & 2  many Conservatives, however, makers to approve her divorce would try to “come to an agree- and as the Taliban meet with account of the deaths of a     %'    7 ,))/)+42//51 " $"(% and even May said it was “not deal with the EU. ment if we can” with the the US at separate talks in pregnant mother and her baby, " ((%" *'"$$* ( what I wanted, either.” But suggestions that May’s Conservatives. Qatar. blaming errant Hamas fire. The flare-up came as of Kiryat Gat, police and %" ""$<(' "$%"%( “But we have to find a way government might make a deal But he said Labour would Sunday’s attack started with One 58-year-old Israeli Hamas, the Islamist movement medics said. *((!"$ (((#!(! to break the deadlock — and I that accepts Labour’s demand only agree to a Brexit deal that a massive blast at the police man was killed overnight by a that rules the blockaded A man was also hospi- !*(#(" ($!( believe the results of the local for close economic ties with the included a permanent customs facility in Pul-i-Khumri, about rocket strike on the city of enclave, sought further con- talised in Ashkelon, said police, "  #<%$8 elections give fresh urgency to EU have infuriated pro-Brexit union with the EU to avoid 250 kilometres north of Kabul, Ashkelon near the Gaza border, cessions from Israel under a citing other injuries without this,” she wrote. Conservatives, who are barriers to trade. The govern- sending a huge plume of smoke Israeli police and medics said. fragile months-old ceasefire. providing details.   ,-  The Conservatives are des- demanding May’s resignation. ment wants a looser relation- into the sky. “I instructed the (military) Israel said its strikes were A house near Ashkelon 2!&   - perate to move forward after “We have to make a ship with the bloc that would The explosion was fol- this morning to continue its in response to Hamas and was damaged and other rock- 71 $$$**'(% losing hundreds of positions in change,” former Conservative let Britain strike new trade lowed up by gunmen storming massive strikes on terror ele- Islamic Jihad firing 450 rock- ets hit open areas. #(!!("*(!&($ last week’s local authority elec- leader Iain Duncan Smith told deals around the world. the police compound, accord- ments in the Gaza Strip,” ets or mortars across the bor- The Israeli army said its !"!%"'"$* tions. Labour also suffered LBC radio. “The message was McDonnell also said the ing to Taliban spokesman Netanyahu said at the start of der since Saturday, with Israeli tanks and planes hit some 220 $" (%"#%"8, ( losses as voters punished both loud and clear that, since Conservative Party’s leader- Zabihullah Mujahid. a cabinet meeting. air defences intercepting more militant targets in Gaza in BJ>(>$!$**'6 ! main parties for the Brexit March 29, people have decid- ship machinations have made In a tweet, he said a suicide He said he had also than 150. response. 76%$"$ % $( impasse. ed they are absolutely furious negotiations difficult. bomber had detonated a bomb ordered “tanks, artillery and In addition to the Israeli They included an Islamic  (" (&($((!*($ Almost three years after with the political class.” “We’re dealing with a very inside an armoured personnel infantry forces” to reinforce man killed, an 80-year-old Jihad attack tunnel that $!"( %$*   Britain voted to leave the EU, Labour Party politicians unstable government,” carrier, “flattening most of the troops already deployed near woman was seriously injured in stretched from southern Gaza !%"'"(#> *& $!(6 the date and terms of Brexit are wary about making a deal McDonnell told the BBC. building”. Gaza. a rocket strike on the Israeli city into Israeli territory, it said. $'(%!8 &     1   "    0  mands and cannons fired a 21-gun Sunday, the king bestowed royal  #%# salute. Thais wearing yellow shirts titles on family members who    The weapons launches were a top officials at the presidential hailand’s newly-crowned — the royal colour — and carry- crawled to his throne in a strik-      Grades 1 to 5 the second term likely sign of Pyongyang’s Blue House in Seoul, also urged TKing Maha Vajiralongkorn ing hats and umbrellas to protect ing show of deference to the will commence on May 13, orth Korean state media growing frustration at stalled North Korea to stop commit- was carried by soldiers on a gild- against temperatures reaching 36 monarch, who was joined by his chools in Sri Lanka will re- Colombo Page reported. Non Sunday showed leader diplomatic talks with ting acts that would raise mil- ed palanquin through the streets degrees Celsius filled the streets new Queen Suthida. The queen, Sopen on Monday amidst However, classes of only Kim Jong Un observing live- Washington meant to provide itary tensions and join efforts of Bangkok on Sunday, in front outside with many clutching por- 40, was deputy commander of heavy security, officials said grade VIth and above will be fire drills of long-range multi- coveted sanctions relief in to resume nuclear diplomacy. of crowds who craned to witness traits of Vajiralongkorn and shout- the king’s royal guard before her Sunday, two weeks after the held, according to the Director ple rocket launchers and what return for nuclear disarma- South Korea’s Joint Chiefs the historic event. ing “Long live the King! “It may be marriage to Vajiralongkorn, country’s worst terror attack General of the Government appeared to be a new short- ment. of Staff initially said on The king, Rama X of the my first and last chance to see this,” which was announced days forced authorities to close the Information Nalaka Kaluwewa. range ballistic missile, a They also highlighted the Saturday that the North Chakri dynasty, wore a bejew- 57-year-old street Nattriya before the coronation. During educational institutions. Minister Akila Viraj day after South Korea fragility of the detente between launched a single missile from elled robe and broad-brimmed Siripattana told AFP ahead of the the procession, she marched in Nine suicide bombers, Kariyawasam said that a special expressed concern that the the Koreas, which in a military the site near the coastal town hat with a feather on the second first ceremony of its kind in 69 red and black uniform next to including a woman, carried out security programme will be launches were a violation of an agreement reached last of Wonsan but later said in a of three days of pageantry and years. the palanquin. Thailand’s a series of devastating blasts implemented in school premis- inter-Korean agreement to September vowed to com- statement that “several projec- royal splendour. The 7-kilome- The three-day coronation, monarchy is swaddled in ritual, that tore through three church- es with the commencement of cease all hostile acts. pletely cease “all hostile acts” tiles” had been fired. tre procession brings the public which started Saturday, is the protocol and hierarchy all orbit- es and three luxury hotels on the new school term. Pyongyang’s official against each other in land, air In its updated assessment into close proximity with the 66- first since Vajiralongkorn’s ing around the king, who is April 21, killing 253 people and Special circulars have been Korean Central News Agency and sea. on Sunday, the JCS did not con- year-old monarch for the first adored and revered father was viewed as a demigod. injuring over 500 others. issued by the Education said Kim expressed “great sat- South Korea said it’s “very firm whether the North fired a time, two years after he ascend- crowned in 1950. During the hours-long pro- Following the attack, the Ministry regarding the securi- isfaction” over Saturday’s drills concerned” about North ballistic missile, but said a ed the throne in an increasing- The highlight of Saturday’s cession Thais will have the authorities closed the schools ty of the schools, the report and stressed that his front-line Korea’s weapons launches, call- “new tactical guided weapon” ly assertive reign. sombre ceremonies was the opportunity to “pay homage” to until further notice. said. troops should keep a “high alert ing them a violation of the was among the weapons tested It started around 5pm (1000 King’s anointment with holy the king who will also stop at The second term of school An extensive security pro- posture” and enhance combat agreements to reduce ani- by the North, which also GMT) at the grand palace in water, before he placed the 7.3 several major temples to pray will commence on Monday gramme has been implement- ability to “defend the political mosities between the countries. included 240 millimeter- and Bangkok’s old quarter as trumpets kilogram (16 lbs) golden tiered before large gilded Buddha (May 06) for Grades 6 to 13 in ed by the tri forces, police and sovereignty and economic self- The statement, issued after an 300 millimeter-caliber multiple blared, soldiers shouted com- crown on his head. Early images. all government schools. For special task force. sustenance of the country.” emergency meeting Saturday of rocket launchers. 789 O2  'P **("""( 6 )   &# %%N% (!O *$%%&  ,   cluding arms deals with  ,/   Medical Centre confirmed it Russian companies. had received nine dead bodies. urkey on Sunday dismissed “The US threats of sanc-   /   itary academy where Maduro ment and let the ashes fall to t least nine people were IS claimed responsibility 0$$&($" TUS threats of sanctions if it tions shows that they don’t appeared early Saturday to over- the ground. The armed forces Akilled on Saturday in an for the attack in a statement dis- went ahead with a Russian know Turkey,” Vice President even Venezuelan military see training exercises following “won’t be blackmailed or attack claimed by the Islamic tributed through social media,      missile purchase, saying it Fuat Oktay told Kanal 7 tele- Sofficers were killed on a week of intrigue that saw a bought,” said a second officer State group targeting forces saying it had targeted “Haftar’s would not renege on a pledge vision. Saturday when their helicopter small group of security forces standing nearby. loyal to strongman Khalifa heretical militia” and freed pris- harlie Munger, business to Moscow. “The decision on the S-400 crashed while heading to a state turn against him in the failed Benito Rodriguez fumed as Haftar in southern Libya, offi- oners held on the base. Cpartner of billionaire Warren Washington has warned has been taken. Once a pact has where President Nicolás Maduro attempt by opposition leader he watched the events unfold. cials said. Sebha is controlled by Buffett, said on Saturday the two its NATO ally for months that been signed, one’s word given, appeared alongside troops, days Juan Guaidó to overthrow the “It’s a humiliation,” said IS fighters, “backed by Haftar’s self-proclaimed Libyan are “ashamed” of not having Ankara’s adoption of Russian S- Turkey respects it,” he said. after the opposition called in government. On board the heli- Rodriguez, a demonstrator who criminal groups and merce- National Army, which opposes invested in Google, which has 400 missile technology along- The S-400 purchase is one vain for a military uprising. copter were two lieutenant had joined a crowd of about 150 naries”, launched a dawn assault the UN-recognised Gover- become one of the world’s most side US F-35 fighters would dispute fuelling tensions The Cougar helicopter hur- colonels as well as five lower- protesters gathered near La on a military training camp in nment of National Accord based valuable companies. pose a threat to the jets and between two nations also at tled into a mountain outside ranking officers. The statement Casona, a residence historical- the southern city of Sebha, in Tripoli. A power struggle Buffett’s Berkshire endanger Western defence. odds over US support for Caracas in the early hours of an didn’t say if the chopper was part ly used by Venezuelan presi- which is controlled by Haftar’s between the unity government Hathaway empire, of which The US has said it will halt Syrian Kurdish militias which overcast day in the capital. An of the presidential delegation. dents. The scene highlights the forces, the city’s mayor Hamed and Haftar — who has over the Munger is vice president, a joint F-35 programme with Ankara brands as terrorists investigation was underway. Also in Caracas on Saturday, uphill battle now facing oppo- al-Khayali told AFP “The attack last month launched an offen- recently took a stake in Turkey if it acquires the Russian and Turkish backing for US foe The armed forces in a a protester handed over a writ- nents of Maduro who have left nine dead ... Some of whom sive against Tripoli and forces Amazon and has a $40 billion missile defence system. A US Venezuela. Ankara said the statement said the chopper was ten appeal for the military’s failed to persuade the country’s had their throats slit and others loyal to the GNA — has left the stake in Apple, but has gener- law furthermore provides for first deliveries of the S-400 are heading to San Carlos in support, but a Venezuelan security forces to join efforts to who were shot dead,” he said. country’s vast desert south a ally steered clear of the tech- sanctions on any country con- scheduled for June or July. Cojedes state. That’s near a mil- policeman burned the docu- oust the leader. A spokesman for the Sebha lawless no-man’s land. nology sector. 9($(%" 26       O     P $"(%"%!    and a new type of tactical guid- below that threshold. ed weapons with a range of The Saturday drill followed "%$" orth Korea’s state media around 70 to 240 kilometres” last month’s test-firing of very Nsaid on Sunday that leader (45 to 150 miles). short-range tactical weapons, )J" ((# Kim Jong Un had overseen a The United States and and came days after a senior rocket and tactical guided North Korea have been at log- North Korean diplomat chas- weapons test, after the drill gerheads since the collapse of a tised US Secretary of State   /  raised concerns Pyongyang was Trump-Kim summit in Mike Pompeo for making “fool-     roll back protections for spous- escalating provocations with February, when the two sides ish and dangerous” comments nti-Government protest- es focus on rapes that happen US nuclear negotiations dead- clashed over sanctions and the during nuclear talks. Aers marched in France for itches were still being when a partner is drugged, locked. extent of Pyongyang’s conces- Analysts said Pyongyang a 25th straight week on Wburned at the stake when unconscious or otherwise inca- The North last carried out sions on its atomic arsenal. appears intent on raising pres- Saturday but in significantly Sir Matthew Hale came up pacitated. a missile test in November But despite the latest sabre- sure on Washington. smaller numbers than during with his legal theory that Minnesota is the latest to 2017, before a rapid diplomat- rattling from Pyongyang, “Kim wants to ensure the the yellow vest movement’s rape could not happen within take action. The state ic rapprochement saw tensions Trump insisted that a break- world knows it is upset with the first months or for a May Day marriage. Legislature this week voted to ease on the peninsula and a through was possible. US hardline stance on denu- rally that attracted tens of The 17th century English eliminate the exemption, which series of summits. “Kim Jong Un fully realizes clearisation and will not bow to thousands of participants. jurist declared it legally impos- had prevented prosecutions in A return to missile launch- the great economic potential of  26  %        % 26 826  external pressure,” said Scott Several dozen people sible because wedding vows those cases. es would be likely to infuriate North Korea, & will do nothing  %   7 Seaman of the Eurasia Group. demonstrated at Paris’ Charles implied a wife’s ongoing con- “No longer will this anti- US President Donald Trump, to interfere or end it,” Trump But Ankit Panda of the de Gaulle Airport to denounce sent to sex. quated and shameful law be on but the North’s official KCNA tweeted. carried 16 photos of the peninsula”. Federation of American privatisation plans. Three and a half centuries our books,” Gov. Tim Walz said news agency shied away from “He also knows that I am weapons test on its front page, The two have since dis- Scientists stressed that the pro- Protests were also held in later, vestiges of the so-called as he signed the bill into law on the term in its report, saying with him & does not want to including a picture of a grim- agreed over what that means, jectile launch “does not violate Paris and other cities around “marital rape exemption” or Thursday. “The concept of a Kim had ordered a “strike drill” break his promise to me. Deal looking Kim clutching his but Trump has insisted the Kim Jong Un’s self-imposed France, including Nice, “spousal defense” still exist in pre-existing relationship involving “long-range multiple will happen!” The US leader did binoculars in an observation leaders remain close even after missile-testing moratorium”, Marseille and Lyon, where most states — remnants of the defense should have never been rocket launchers” - which are not elaborate on Kim’s promise. post as well as several images of their follow-up meeting in which “only applied to inter- environmentalists and yellow English common law that part of our criminal statutes.” In not targeted by UN sanctions During Saturday’s drill Kim projectiles shooting skywards. Vietnam broke up without a continental-range ballistic mis- vest protesters joined forces. helped inform American legal Ohio, determined opponents resolutions - and unspecified urged his troops to remember Trump proclaimed that the deal or even a joint statement, siles”. The Interior Ministry traditions. plan to re-introduce a marital “tactical guided weapons”. “the iron truth that genuine North Korean nuclear threat and that Kim would maintain Even so, a statement from counted a total of 2,600 par- Legislative attempts to end rape bill this month, after two Seoul’s defence ministry peace and security are ensured was over after the two sides’ his- his moratorium on long-range Seoul’s presidential Blue House ticipants at three events in or modify those exemptions earlier attempts failed. said Sunday an analysis of the and guaranteed only by pow- toric first summit in Singapore missile and nuclear tests. said it was “greatly concerned”, Paris and 18,900 in all of have a mixed record but have Former lawmaker and launch indicated Pyongyang erful strength”, KCNA said. in June, when Kim pledged to But with negotiations lag- calling it a violation of a mili- France, a low for Saturday received renewed attention in prosecutor Greta Johnson was had tested “240-mm and 300- The state-run Rodong work towards “complete denu- ging, the North appears to be tary agreement signed by both protest marches, according to the #MeToo era. the first to introduce the Ohio mm multiple rocket launchers Sinmun newspaper on Sunday clearisation of the Korean testing the US while staying Koreas last year. 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This Hindu-majority claimed, Malkani argues, the ed communities, who enjoy counted as part of the   ,     =$           politics but without success. district could have then Khairpur state, as big as the political representation despite Christian population, since                At any rate, Sindhi politicians do not become the “little Sindh” in Tharparkar district itself. The having lesser population. The the census of 1941. represent their community. That, howev- India. Had it been converted ruler of Khairpur, viz Mir Faiz Konkani speakers were only The Sindhis, therefore,         ,      =$  <0 "  er, has little to do with their intention. The into a State, it could have sent Muhammed Khan-II, was 22,56,502 in 2011 but have deserve a non-territorial seat in               franchise structure of the two Houses of at least one member each to ready to accede to India but Goa. The Manipuri speakers the Lok Sabha, if not another                         Parliament, under Articles 80 and 81, is the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Jawaharlal Nehru declined the were 17,61,079 in 2011 but in the Rajya Sabha. This can be territorial rather than ethno-lingual. A Sabha, besides having its own offer. Sindh, Malkani informs, have Manipur. The Bodos done through a suitable $              Lok Sabha MP, who is chosen directly, Legislative Assembly. It could had 71 per cent Muslim pop- were fewer still at 14,82,929 Constitutional amendment.        =     represents a constituency (geographical- have Sindhi as the official lan- ulation but the Muslim League but have the Bodoland Questions might immediately                  ly located in a State); whereas a Rajya guage of the State in a script secured only 46 per cent votes Territorial Council in Assam. be raised whether Zoroastrians Sabha MP, elected by the Legislative of their choice. in the 1946 interim elections. While these people are a and Jews also deserve a seat             Assembly, represents the State itself. But On Tharparkar, the Nationalist Muslims like GM “political community,” the each in Parliament. Whether  -@     "   *   Sindhis, having lost their ancient province Congress leadership found Syed and Maula Bux won three Sindhis are not. they do or not, in one’s opin-       5     <    completely during Partition, do not fit itself outwitted and outma- votes per four votes scored by Can a non-territorial ion, they should not impede into either category. They are a scattered neuvered by the Muslim the Muslim League. ethno-linguistic community the prospects of the Sindhis.     $      =$"     lot across Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, League. As KR Malkani The upshot is that have no representation in Jew, Zoroastrians and              *     $  =  Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. describes in his book, The Pakistan got the entire Sind Parliament? Not really. There Syrian Christians took shelter $  1$=$2           The community mostly has two insti- Sindh Story (1984): “The though Hindus were more is the example of the Anglo- in India. Though Zoroastrians tutions viz, a temple of Jhulay Lal, also Tharparkar district had a than a quarter of the popula- Indian community, who can (Parsis) had thrown up stal-             *.-   called Lal Sai temple, and Sindhi Akademis. Hindu majority and the tion. Sindh (or Sindhu) have such a representation in warts like Dadabhai Naoroji,        $=$  ())'  Sindhis are an enterprising community and Congress should have claimed remained only in India’s the Lok Sabha. The President Pherozeshah M Mehta and                     overall, commercially successful. But over it. Indeed, it had traditional- national anthem. A majority of of India, under Article 331 of Madam Bhikaji Cama, they the last 75 years since the Partition, they ly been more a part of Marwar the Hindus became refugees, the Constitution, can nomi- never had a representation as    :          have tried to protect their culture, religion than of Sindh. On the eve of fleeing to Bombay via the sea nate not more than two mem- Parsis. But Sindhis had a place              and language. Even in the sphere of lan- Partition, the Sindh route. Some Sindhis might bers of the Anglo-Indian com- in the scheme of political rep-           * $=$     guage, they had to adopt the local language Government promptly already have been living in munity if it is found that they resentation in India prior to the -$  !   /  =$ of the State they had chosen to reside in and merged Sanghar district with Maharashtra and Gujarat as are not adequately represent- Partition. This article merely play down their identity. Thus, a political Tharparkar district — to can- the colonial Sind province ed. In the outgoing Lok Sabha, asks for their restoration, or               representation remained a pipe dream. So cel out its Hindu majority. But was part of Bombay State the Anglo-Indian seats were semblance of it. The Indian            in a highly caste/community-conscious even then, the case of between 1850 and 1937. occupied by George Baker leadership failed to wrest the Indian politics, they might just lose out for Tharparkar district was on par According to the 2011 and Prof Richard Hay. These Tharparkar district. A seat in all time to come. with that of Sylhet in Assam census, there were 27,72,264 are seats in the Lok Sabha not Parliament for the Sindhis will The demographic profile of the Sindh (now in Bangladesh), where native speakers of Sindhi in corresponding to any actual be a token compensation if not province on the eve of Partition made its the Muslim League had India. The number was under- territorial constituency. also an atonement. ' incorporation into Pakistan inevitable. demanded — and subsequent- standably meagre as they con- Curiously, the head count (The writer is an indepen- But had the Indian leadership been little ly got — part of the district, stituted only 0.23 per cent of of Anglo-Indians is not dent researcher based in New more sincere and tactful, the district of through a plebiscite (Pg 98).” India’s population. But consid- known. They are not enumer- Delhi. The views expressed Tharparkar could have been salvaged for India could also have er those territorially-ground- ated as a separate category but herein are his personal)                       & = 5 % "$6         $($(% $! $$> % & %'$($* , ( %"($(% ! !('$(""""(!        "'%8, (% $!("((%"> &(8 " " #" %$ &$("$ !6"(&"$ "$6%$ $$&%(!8 !!       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Thus, New Delhi must              !   declaration that 40 MLAs of the 0$(("%&$&"$!%(!(($(" not lose time and put in place a     ,    +    "   Trinamool Congress (TMC) are &$%6" ($#&'%% %%%"$'$(" ( concrete plan and strategy to                in touch with him and that they "$*" ( % !('%$%8 " $& " (( ((( deal with terrorism so that it will desert their party once the "((""("%"$!&(" (($(>($((&6 does not raise its ugly head               election results are declared is " '$"(% "$ ( " " $( !('%( *'"$ " " % again.    -    .  +   too much even by his standards. %"$((!(**$"%"$'((%$"$8$ KR Srinivasan  S             Can anyone in the history of $%((*$(!"$%*(&!" ($#(%O"((%"%6 Secundèrabad India’s independence recall a (%(" (%*($#&($("!&>         -      Prime Minister openly admitting "((%('(!*("$" ("($%(("(!& $"%&('!!"($" ((!"$%(%%(%%>        /.                ,  to what, in effect, amounts to $"'" $%$$(" (((%"% (!8 $!&" ($'%%!&'&%8('( 0      S1,02P     Q    horse-trading? And this, from a "%*$""(" "%"($*(%&" "" ( '$(%" (*((&" "A6 ' %'(("(!% person, who claims to be the pro- %""$*(%$'(%6" (*$$*$"(%6 % " ( "("$$6%*%"$%&"%'$> Sir — The Election Commission     ,            tector of the honesty and integri- ((""'"&$"'"(%"$&" (%((%" ($"((!" ((%%&(6" ( of India was once a tall entity.       *         ty of the country. It is by now " ($%6" ($#&'%% %((&(!"$ &"$*'(("$%(!'(!"$((*$"8 But by not taking action against       5    clear that Prime Minister Modi #((" (*$" (%%$'"$%8(!& =+ /)/ leaders, who spew hate speech- and his party are willing to go to " ($&$&(('"$%6"%!%&"$$"(" "  es during election campaigns, it            any extent to hold on to power. has let down the citizens.               *  It is unfortunate that even as Instead, it remained a mute  .   6% 1.6%2        the elections are on, the Prime the democratic process? Azhar as a global terrorist at the move to proscribe Lashkar-e- spectator to this shoddy elec- Minister is talking of horse-trad- Bidyut Kumar Chatterjee United Nations Security Council Tayyeba chief Hafiz Saeed, who tioneering. Had it demonstrat- 7          !      ing. This amounts to making a Faridabad finally paved the way for declar- is already in the sanctions list, ed the will to attend to the vio- $ 5            mockery of the democratic ing the militant mastermind as has meant little. Similar is lations of the Model Code of              process itself. What is even       a global terrorist. Surely, this is Azhar’s case. His terror outfit Conduct by parties and candi-                more worrying is the seeming a diplomatic win for the world, was banned long ago but it con- dates, it wouldn’t have been inaction of the Election particularly for India, which tinued with its heinous acts. looked upon with suspicion. 8 9              Commission of India (EC), Sir — This refers to the editor- had been at the receiving end, To be sure, Azhar’s listing as Amit            ,    which is tasked with upholding ial, “Azhar nailed, finally” (May bearing the brunt of terror a global terrorist will not end Via email     :    ,        ;''    Constitutional values that form 3). China’s lifting of the techni- attacks originating from terrorism at the borders. Many the very foundation of a democ- cal hold on the listing of Jaish- Pakistani soil. terrorists groomed and trained    #/            <+    racy. Is the EC unwilling to save e-Mohammad chief Masood But remember the UN’s by him are roaming freely. 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After 25 years   "   of market leadership, NSE’s no-nonsense image has   =      now taken a severe beating due to allegations by             some brokers as also entities. Three years of inves-           tigations into the allegations that some brokers have gained unfair access to the systems of the coun- *         try’s premier stock exchange reveal that the  P  Q     charge is indeed true. The Securities and Exchange     /      Board of India (SEBI) has now passed an order  /, / /         "  7  against NSE. The penalties imposed are as follows:  < 0/        O      Disgorge an amount of 624 crore (profit ,, ,, - 5 1-52O       from its co-location operations) along with an interest of 12 per cent per annum to the SEBI’s  9,  ,    ,         9, 9              Investor Protection and Education Fund (IPEF). NSE has been barred from accessing the  0,      7 *     < ,, , !       P Q   securities market for six months. (Hence, the Initial Public Offerings (IPO) of NSE can’t go through  ,, ,      for next six months).  ,   /   =5-   P Barred it from floating any new derivative /E/8,/  "Q          products for six months. / age of the income generated from Nifty occurred by enabling certain brokers, exchange has become crucial in the             The regulator has ordered Ravi Narain and 0 ,  trading. Suprabhat Lala, who was admin- who had their co-location servers in NSE game. Smart brokers had figured out that             Chitra Ramkrishna — both former Managing , ,,9  istration head at NSE, was married to premises, to get price information ahead the way to ace the system lay in being the              Director and CEOs of NSE — to disgorge 25 per   , Sunitha Thomas, who is sister of Susan of the rest of the market participants. To fastest one to connect to the lowest load       P  "   Q cent of their salary drawn when they were at the , >  ,  Thomas. Sunitha Thomas and Ravi understand how this has happened, one server. There were allegations that such *          helm of the affairs at the exchange. Varanasi, who was head of trading at has to first understand how the price smart brokers had colluded with co-loca- Barred OPG securities, allegedly the prime  , ,/ NSE, had promoted the company that information is disseminated by NSE. The tion data centre staff of NSE and also took  !      @ ,  , << <   ,           beneficiary of the co-location matter and its direc- designed the algo (Chanakya) for OPG NSE disseminates price information some officials on their payroll, developed tors from accessing the securities market for five   ,  Securities. CBI also found that Sanjay through two types of price feed streams in-house software and took algos assis-               years, while also directing the entities to disgorge   <<   Gupta, the promoter of OPG Security Pvt — one is the broadcast stream or UDP tance of Omnesys, a technology partner =5-      25 crore. , / Ltd, had gained undue access to the serv- stream (User Data-gram Protocol), of NSE, to beat the system.           ,     Ajay Shah of the Indira Gandhi Institute  9/ 6 er architecture of NSE with help of algo which is used by NSE for its VSAT and By front running through unfair       7      of Development Research has also been restrained E  developed by Ajay Shah and may have leased line networks. This multi-broad- access to price information, these few             from holding any position with a stock exchange >  shared part of the proceeds. cast (which everyone can view on TV) privileged co-location brokers earned       @     "   or a listed company for two years.  <, /  NSE got its algo systems audited by is limited to two mbps bandwidth due hundreds of crores of rupees at the cost             “NSE has committed a fraudulent and unfair ,  0  Deloitte two years back as was ordered to NSE leased line network capacity. The of other investors. While NSE started  =5- trade practice as contemplated under the SEBI by SEBI. Audit of NSE’s algorithmic trad- second price feed stream is TBT, which TBT price stream in 2010, its technical (PFUTP) Regulations. It is established beyond  ,  < ing practices found that the systems of actually reflects each and every new order team somehow felt that they could not          96    .  =  % 1.=%2  doubt that NSE has not exercised the requisite due the country’s premier stock exchange price information coming into the generate this stream as a broadcast or diligence while putting in place the Tick-by-Tick ,  09 were prone to manipulation by brokers exchange system. Due to the large size multicast. NSE eventually upgraded its  !            (TBT) architecture,” G Mahalingam, whole-time  /,/ <6 and, in fact, indicated that some brokers of the price information, TBT price technology and converted this TBT              member of SEBI said in the order. ,   ,, may have had unfair access to NSE’s stream was available only to co-location price stream to what is called multicast R   S     It is noteworthy that it was only last year that 9, servers. NSE had then forwarded this brokers of NSE. TBT price information TBT stream sometime during 2014, to %         the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had reg- Deloitte report to SEBI, requesting the was disseminated through TCP/IP blunt the front-running. But in the             istered a case of undue access to NSE systems, regulator to advise further directions in (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet intervening years, a few privileged front      @  ,     against brokerage firm OPG Securities Pvt Ltd and the matter. Protocol) mode. It’s like information is running brokers minted hundreds of             its promoter, Sanjay Gupta, as well as Ajay Shah of The matter of unfair access started delivered to one by one instead of a crores of unfair profits and in the          S     the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development when a whistle-blower from Singapore broadcast. In a broadcast mode, every- process, severely damaged NSE’s repu- %   =5-       - Research, who facilitated Gupta’s exploitation of wrote to SEBI and NSE during 2015, one gets the price information at the tation. Allegations were also made that $                  NSE systems by developing a software called alleging that some brokers have gained same time. When NSE started TBT in the NSE management tried to hush up Chanakya. A case was also registered against unfair access to price and order book 2010, one TBT server of NSE had to serve the matter instead of attacking the issue   6 1 625        unknown officials of SEBI and NSE for corruption. information, while trading on NSE’s algo- several connections of brokers. Since head-on when it first came to their              The SEBI order and the CBI probe laid bare rithmic trading platform. It was then that TBT price information was disseminat- notice. The TBT system was discontin-               NSE’s claim of being a provider of a “transparent” the regulator decided to conduct a spe- ed sequentially, it simply meant that the ued by NSE with effect from December   < and “unbiased trading platform” and brought to cial inspection of NSE, after which it broker, who connected first to the NSE- of 2016, as per reports. *       S5 " the fore the murky dealings of a coterie in the found preliminary evidence that as TBT server, would get the price informa- Due to unfair access to the exchange             exchange. The CBI’s probe revealed that Ajay Shah many as 12 brokers might have got unfair tion ahead of others throughout the day. systems and unfair trade practices fol- ,            collected NSE trade data in 2005-06 under the garb access to NSE servers. The allegations Complications in TBT price stream lowed by some brokers, most small      ,         of doing research while he was employed with the against NSE pertain to members who co- only raised further as demand for co- investors would have lost their hard         =5-      Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE). located their servers on the BKC premis- location servers by members sky-rock- earned money in margin trading and    Ajay Shah, along with his wife, Susan Thomas, es of the NSE. This reduces the time it eted and NSE put up multiple TBT Futures&Options (F&O) trading. SEBI’s          developed NIFTY 50 index, which is the most suc- takes for an order to travel to the servers. This meant that the traffic or load action will go a long way in protecting cessful product of NSE. In an unprecedented ges- exchange, giving them a speed advantage was not necessarily uniform across all the integrity of capital markets in India.     ! "  "# ture, the NSE had been giving Ajay Shah and over those who are at farther places. TBT servers of the exchange. So, connect- (The writer is former Managing    " $ %    & Thomas a hefty annual royalty as a certain percent- Unfair access being referred to ing first to the least-traffic TBT server of Director, Ahmedabad Stock Exchange Ltd) ;                         / 96$!5646                     

tation will be possible only after two Union Territories. access to fertilisers at low price, all buying fertilisers that their soil/crop If short funding continues even to three years. Under the said scheme, manu- of them are beneficiaries of the sub- needs the most, thereby reducing the under ‘real DBT’, this will literally This is not a new idea and has facturers receive 100 per cent subsidy sidy. Furthermore, the subsidy on imbalance in fertiliser use. But for the haemorrhage the farmers. So, the been on the Modi Government’s after fertiliser is delivered to the urea being higher than on non-urea transition to be smooth and to Government will have to make radar for quite some time now. In farmers and his identity viz, the fertilisers, this leads to excessive ensure that the arrangements are sus- adequate provisions and ensure that fact, it was also considered by the Aadhaar, is captured on electronic urea use, thereby creating an imbal- tainable, a few points need to be kept they receive subsidy in full erstwhile UPA dispensation. It was Point of Sale (PoS) machine at the ance in the use of fertiliser. in mind. and well in advance before the sea-   / during the 2012-13 Budget that the dealer’s shop. Termed as DBT, the The subsisting architecture has First, unlike the existing dispen- son starts. then UPA Government had nomenclature is misleading as sub- been in place for several decades now sation wherein subsidy is open- Fourth, the Government should >/ E  3.., !=- announced its intention to link sub- sidy continues to be routed through even as the change from April 2018 ended, the amount needs to be launch the scheme all across the , ('(>'("% sidy payments to manufacturers to the manufacturers. is only with regard to the manner of capped. The cap may be fixed at sub- country at one go as partial introduc- he Ministry of Finance and the sale of fertilisers to farmers by The producers sell urea at disbursing subsidy to manufacturers sidy per unit of nutrient (using the tion in some parts could trigger "!"$*$% NITI Aayog are working retailers. Maximum Retail Price (MRP) con- ie, after sale to farmers from earlier formula under NBS) multiplied by diversion of subsidised fertilisers '(%&$"$*"( Ttowards preparing a roadmap Pilot projects in 10 districts trolled by the Centre at a low level receipt of fertilisers in the district. All nutrient use for a maximum of up to from areas as covered by the subsist- " " ("(%8, (% to directly transfer fertiliser subsidy spread over nine States were to be and get subsidy reimbursement on this will undergo a metaphorical two hectares. To take care of spatial ing dispensation to those brought ("'#'$! to the farmers. The data being used run. After successful implementa- unit-specific basis under the New change when real DBT, involving variations, the threshold for nutrient under real DBT. "$&(!$!(('%( to give 6,000 per year to 120 mil- tion, Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) Pricing Scheme (NPS). transfer of subsidy to farmers, is use may vary, depending on the soil Finally, the most important lion small and marginal farmers to farmers was to be launched in Manufacturers of non-urea fertilis- introduced. type, crop and agro-climatic zone. requirement for the scheme to take " (((!"$#((" ( under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan these districts from April 1, 2013. ers are given “uniform” subsidy (on Under real DBT, manufacturers Second, considering heavy depen- off and run successfully thereafter is (&(%$"$$(" ( Samman Nidhi will be used for this Pan-India launch was contemplated per nutrient basis) under the will sell fertilisers to farmers at full dence on import (over two-third in the political will. For now, this is $$!*(((%8  purpose. The subsidies on fertilisers from April 2014. But the plan did not Nutrient Based Scheme (NBS). cost/market-based price. The effi- nitrogen, 90 per cent phosphate and completely missing as may be seen "O%$%"$"(! along with PM Kisan deposits will move beyond the drawing board. However, since payments are adjust- cient/low cost units will get to 100 per cent in potash), the subsidy per from the fact that since 2012-13, (%" %% serve to give a quasi-universal basic It was in 2016-17 that the Modi ed to actual cost data, effectively, even increase their profits even as ineffi- unit nutrient may be revised to reflect when a comprehensive action plan income transfer to the farmers. Government launched pilot pro- subsidy to them is not uniform. The cient/high cost units will be forced the impact of fluctuations in cost of was initially mooted by the then UPA $(8 " %"% The proposal will be put before jects to link subsidy payment to man- system protects inefficient and high to down their shutters (this will also supplying fertilisers. regime till date, there has been no '"( %' &(!6%$'(> the new Government for approval. ufacturers to sale of fertilisers to cost units even as efficient and low attract fresh investment giving a fil- Third, at present, inadequate movement. Will the new '('"(% To begin with, this scheme will be farmers by retailers in 18 districts cost units get no incentive to improve lip to growth of the industry). budget allocation year-after-year Government crack the whip? "%*$& run on a trial basis in select districts spread over 12 States. From April, efficiency and reduce cost. Further, subsidy can be restrict- results in unpaid dues to (The writer is a New Delhi-based "% "$%!'"(%8 to cover small and marginal farmers 2018, it was launched all across the Besides, since every farmer — ed only to poor farmers. Most impor- manufacturers, whose margins come policy analyst) only. However, full-scale implemen- country and covered 31 States and rich or poor, small or large — has tantly, farmers will use subsidy for under stress.        ! ,

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Other parties like ;/+>>)7)3 7 )7 ;2/7GP 7/;)) Tmade elaborate security SUCI, BSP and PDS have also arrangements for the fifth fielded their candidates in the ,)/07)73/7/0 37);70)/ phase of elections as seven elections. parliamentary constituencies All the seven seats, which  & &   0/ go to polls on Monday. are spread across North 24 ECI Special Police Parganas, Howrah and Hooghly day before Singur, the cra- Observer said all the booths of districts and parts of Nadia dis- Adle of ‘Nano Revolution’ of the seven parliamentary con- trict, will see a four-cornered 2006 — which proved to be the stituencies would be manned contest between Trinamool Trafalgar of the mighty Left by the central forces. The con- Congress, BJP, Congress and the Front in Bengal catapulting stituencies where elections Left Front major CPI(M). Mamata Banerjee to power — would be held are Hooghly, Among the notable candi- goes to vote the a large section Arambagh and Serampore in dates whose fates would be of the voters still wonder Hooghly district, Bangaon (SC) decided on Monday are TMC’s whether the Tata Motor’s ouster and Barrackpore in North 24 Dinesh Trivedi who is pitted from the disputed territory Parganas and Uluberia and against the BJP’s Arjun Singh was a prudent decision. Howrah in Howrah district. who left TMC last month to The entire Singur block On the whole 578 compa- join the saffron outfit, BJP’s seems to be vertically divided nies of CAPF will man 13,290 Locket Chatterjee contesting over whether anti-land acqui- booths on the Monday’s polls from Hooghly and TMC’s sition movement that swerved Khasherbheri another village the fortunes of Bengal and Hooghly and part of it falls in when about 1 crore 16 lakh 91 Kalyan Banerjee. CPI(M)’s the entire rural folk, the main says, “we have been reduced to Hooghly would have become Arambagh parliamentary con- thousand and 900 voters will Alokesh Das is contesting from support base of the Marxists, beggars. Our lands were taken another Jamshedpur in the stituency — both of which decide the fate of 83 candidates Bongaon. towards Mamata Banerjee’s away by the CPI(M). We were vicinity of Kolkata. “Only Didi presently retained by the TMC. Trinamool Congress overdid convinced by the TMC that our did not allow that to happen,” On who will win the elec- itself in driving away the Tatas land would be returned. Yes he says helplessly. tions, locals seem divided say- from the region. they were returned but come “We know that the CPI(M) ing the BJP is practically trying Bifal Bangal a local says and see whether we can cultivate is the best party and they have to feed on the Marxist vote “Tata Nano plant should have it. It is a wasteland now. It seems the best candidate but can they bank. “The BJP may win if the been allowed to function now that we should have survive the massive advertorial people can vote,” says a local because it would have given not allowed the Tatas to stay here so onslaught of the BJP and the refusing to give his name. The only Singur or Hooghly district that our next generation could TMC. Crores of rupees are being reason: “more than anything but whole of Bengal a huge eco- have lived with pride and not on splurged in the elections but no else the people are very angry nomic boost. Today we though the doles of the Government.” one looks up at us,” says Basanti because the voters were not Didi (Chief Minister) is taking For Bireshwar Manna a Manna a woman from Singher allowed to vote in the pan- care of us we are fed up of being local from Beraberi village who Bheri who had given away her chayat elections. Even the TMC dependent upon the had been trained by the Tatas land “looking at the future of my supporters were driven away.” Government like beggars.” to work in the Nano car facto- son. But nothing happened.” Another villager says “it is Binapani Biswas from ry “all hopes have been lost. As of now about 70-80 per- the TMC supporters who are Bajemelia village says, “Didi has Now I work as a courier boy in cent of the Singur acres lie fal- likely to vote for the BJP more done enough for us. She stood Howrah earning Rs 7,000 and low. “The Government won the than the Left this time round.” by us when the CPI(M) forcibly travelling more than 35 km per case from the Supreme Court. However, Becharam Manna took away our land and gave it day. Had the Tatas been there We rejoiced. But now we under- a local TMC leader and MLA to the Tatas,” asserting boast- my salary would have been Rs stand that the court order went says “the people still are with Didi fully “we have taught the 40,000 or so,” he rues. Manna against our interests. It only and will vote for her in hordes.” CPI(M) a lesson. Now Didi is had joined the long walk along stoked the ego of one side. The His voice is echoed by Anjan taking care of us. She is giving to Kolkata organized by the court should have understood Patra a shopkeeper. “TMC will us Rs 2-a-kg rice and bicycles Left Front a few months ago. that a land with 5-10 feet of con- win because the BJP is present to students and Rs 25,000 for He says one car factory that crete cannot be cultivated,” says among the people through the     #        marriageable students.” too by the industry captain like Haridas Malakar of Singur town. whatsapp but the TMC has its &#      %  % #    But Brajo Bera of the Tatas would have revived Part of Singur block is in organsiation intact.” 62 9    ' 5 <  7 / Dausa and Nagaur. While the Congress is con- Two Olympians — Union fident of winning from he fifth phase of Lok Sabha Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Bharatpur and Karauli- Telections on Monday will Rathore of the BJP and Dholpur Lok Sabha con- witness intense battle between Congress MLA from Sadulpur stituencies, which are reserved the Congress and the Bharatiya Krishna Poonia — are up seats, the late entry of the Janata Party (BJP) in the 12 against each other in the Jaipur Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) remaining parliamentary con- Rural Lok Sabha constituency. may hurt Congress’ prospects. stituencies in Rajasthan. While Poonia is confident Also, Modi’s recent rally in Thirteen of the 25 Lok of garnering the Jat votes in the Hindaun, the first by an Indian Sabha constituencies in area in addition to enjoying the Prime Minister in 40 years, can Rajasthan had voted in the support of the traditional change the equations. fourth phase of elections on Congress vote banks such as Alwar will witness a battle April 29. The 12 seats going to the Muslims and the SC/ST between Congress’ Bhanwar the polls on Monday include community, sitting MP Rathore Jitendra Singh, who belongs to Jaipur Rural, Jaipur, is likely to corner the Rajput the erstwhile royal family of Ganganagar, Bikaner, Churu, votes along those from the Alwar, and Mahant Baba Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Alwar, Brahmins and Baniyas. Balaknath of the BJP. However, Bharatpur, Karauli-Dholpur, As the Union Sports cow smuggling and mob lynch- Minister, Rathore has revived ings in the name of cow pro- 0     kabaddi in the constituency tection have definitely affected besides pushing other sports in the saffron party’s image in this the region. Another interesting constituency. Sikar will see a tri- battle will be fought in the angular contest between BJP’s $5=:?- - Jaipur Lok Sabha constituency Swami Sumedhanand Saraswati, where the Congress has field- a confidante of Uttar Pradesh     and all eyes will be on how the ed Jyoti Khandelwal, a Vaishya Chief Minister , ground zero responds. face, against sitting BJP MP Congress’ Subhash Maharia and n eerie silence descends on Gulzar Wani, a grocery store , a Brahmin CPM’s Amra Ram. Athe streets of militancy- owner, who virtually turned contestant. In Dausa, an interesting infested Pulwama district. agitated when asked about the Interestingly, the Congress clash is on the cards between People mill around but are prospects of Monday’s voting, has fielded a woman candidate two women from the Meena guarded in their response. They says “I don’t think that there in Jaipur after 48 years, chang- community — Savita Meena of want to talk about anything but will be any voting in this area. ing the dynamics of the seat the Congress and BJP’s Jaskaur elections. The machines may return which has traditionally been a Meena. In Churu, the Congress Pulwama, known as the untouched,” he said. Brahmin stronghold. has fielded Rafiq Mandelia, its “Anand (delight) of Kashmir” Senior police officials While Prime Minister only Muslim candidate in the for its congenial climate, innu- believe that the voting may not Narendra Modi’s rally has state, who faces a tough fight merable springs and water falls, cross the double-digit mark. instilled confidence among the from sitting BJP MP Rahul hogged the headlines when a The district has hardly BJP supporters in this seat, Kaswan. suicide bomber rammed his car seen any election campaigning Congress too is trying its best BJP has not fielded any into a CRPF convoy on by political parties. to put a dent on the saffron Muslim candidate in any of the February 14, killing 40 para- The National Conference party bastion. 25 seats in Rajasthan. military forces. and the Congress confined In Bikaner, sitting BJP MP Another interesting battle Since then the campaign their political activities to party and Union Minister of State will be seen in Nagaur, where for 2019 Lok Sabha polls has offices. Arjun Meghwal is up against the BJP has formed an alliance revolved around Pulwama and The PDP, which has a his cousin and Congress can- with the Rashtriya Loktantrik terrorism with parties making strong base in south Kashmir, didate Madan Gopal Meghwal. Party (RLP) fileding Hanuman nationalism a key poll issue. is almost missing. Party can- Beniwal on behalf of the NDA On Monday, Pulwama — a didate Mehbooba Mufti has :5 ( *     against Congress’ Jyoti Mirdha, part of the Anantnag Lok preferred to stay away from * P(    who belongs to the influential Sabha seat — will go to polls canvassing.  #% (  ' Mirdha family here.    ! @

*  O.;0   P 5= O P(  -        ,P '    President Rahul Gandhi is $ '"$(% 9!6" ( 7O%'!!"(&%" fighting from Amethi, while his # (% 9! & 6 %%! ($! (%$"(!" ( ahujan Samaj Party (BSP) mother and United Progressive  !"' (*$"%"' 6& 9!6*" ( Bchief Mayawati on Sunday Alliance (UPA) Chairperson !((" ((%"('!!"(8 "(("$, 6 appealed voters in Amethi and Sonia Gandhi is the candidate (% 9!6 $%$#$% 6(&(!" " Rae Bareli parliamentary con- from Rae Bareli. # (% 9!!" ( !'("(!L">"$M&($* stituencies to vote for the She also accused the Prime " (9!%6%&" (L!%$"(%M% $!$*" (" Congress, and accused Prime Minister of trying to use “divide (%!("% $!!(%"!" %8 Minister Narendra Modi of and rule” policy to bring down practicing “divide and rule” the SP-BSP alliance. “Ever since D2,  1   ( !  !!& policy to bring down the SP- we announced our alliance, ""!(%  (* BSP alliance. the Prime Minister has gone %"(9$& She clarified her decision to into a panic mode. His latest !"" $! support the Congress in Amethi comments are nothing but an %!$%")B6 ( and Rae Bareli was not because attempt to break the alliance,” %%(!%$ of any soft feeling towards it but Mayawati told the media at her ($*" ($# was an attempt to “remove” the home.  $(%"%! BJP from the power. “In the four phases of elec- " ($%%"$* The former UP Chief tions, the people has support- %%(P("'% (% are fighting the election for suc- Uttar Pradesh said it was he who Minister maintained that both ed the SP-BSP coalition. It is ("((" ($#(% %5    7 <        # cess of the alliance. It will win had approached Mayawati for the (BJP) disturbing the BJP. This alliance $*" (!" (      5  7 maximum seats.” the grand alliance. and the Congress were the will not only produce a new 8 !!(%%& Yadav said the alliance is all He said the grand alliance two sides of the same coin and Prime Minister at the Centre $(("& ((6 (   , / votes to provide benefit to the about ushering a new era of was required due to the pre- didn’t deserve to return to but also a new government in %!6L )B6 (" ((('"$(%"%(!('(!6NO  SP-BSP alliance. development in Uttar Pradesh vailing situation and circum- power. UP.” Modi on Saturday had %($"%NO ' (* # (% 9!%" ( escribing Narendra Modi He said the Congress lead- by ensuring social justice and stances. “People wanted some- “I have asked my support- attacked the SP-BSP-RLD (!$*" (&$$%!NO%NO%" (("$($* Das a “180-degree Prime ers are saying so because “they it would continue for 2022 thing to glue with and this ers to vote for the Congress in alliance, saying Mayawati knew '$"$8, %%'("8M Minister”, Samajwadi Party know the alliance is winning Assembly elections as well. alliance has given them that.” Amethi and Rae Bareli. The that she had been betrayed by chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday and people are with them.” He said the country is Bitter political rivals SP BJP and the Congress are the the Samajwadi Party, which has  2 ,& 2,   !1 8 P said the country is set to have Some other Congress lead- going to have a new PM this and BSP have come together same. We have not no coalition been working hand-in-hand ""!(%  7%""(0((('("!$$(%"( a new PM who could be from ers have also said that the year and it is this alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elec- with the Congress, but our sup- with the Congress. / " & O%%$# & %!" "" (6 ! the grand alliance his party has party has fielded its own can- which will decide who will be tions after facing drubbing porters will vote for the Addressing a poll rally in $&(%%((*& "&*$" (%!*"(" ((('"$%" (%( forged in UP with Mayawati’s didates in some seats where the that person. Attacking Prime from BJP in 2014 general elec- Congress in Amethi Pratapgarh Lok Sabha con- "(%$!$(" ( %"$8L, (6 !$&(%% BSP and Ajit Singh’s RLD. grand alliance is strong in such Minister Modi, Yadav said tion and in the 2017 assembly and Rae Bareli to defeat the stituency, the Prime Minister (*& "&*$" (%8($(%$" (*"(" % He also dismissed as a a way that the BJP’s vote share demonetisation was a “disaster” elections of Uttar Pradesh. BJP,” Mayawati said in a BSP had said the Akhilesh-led party (('"$%8 " (" (("(%('$("(%("$"8, ( “wrong statement” the report- gets split. In an interview to PTI for the Indian economy. The BJP had won 71 out of 80 press note. kept promising Mayawati of $(" ( %"$888M#  $%" (%""( %%( ed comments made by during his election campaign, “Modiji is 180 degree Prime seats in Uttar Pradesh in 2014 Her announcement has support as prime ministerial ((*$$!"$! 8/ " & %%((#&" ($# Congress leader Priyanka Yadav said, “SP-BSP-RLD Minister he does totally oppo- while SP could manage only come just a day ahead of the candidate, but behind her back  (('"$%*$ (( ' %'$%!((! "7" Gandhi that her party has alliance is working on the site to what he says,” he said. five and BSP was unable to polling in Amethi and Rae they worked with the Congress " 7%"$8(%'$"(%"&&%" !"O% fielded candidates to cut BJP’s ground and it is the people who The former Chief Minister of open its account. Bareli on Monday. 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235.'     / careful to avoid accidental elec-  045&. trocution,” he said, when asked he death toll due to Cyclone if power supply will be restored    , TFani mounted to 34 in in Bhubaneswar, which con- J,   Odisha on Sunday, two days tinued without electricity for , ( ! !(% after it caused widespread dam- the third day on Sunday. 0$(("$! age in the coastal region and According to Chief $'(!*' left hundreds grappling with Secretary AP Padhi, 21 of the %%%"'($*/%AJ'$("$ water shortage and power cuts, 34 deaths were registered in ''$(>""((! !% 8 an official said. Puri district, where the storm Although the official figure made a landfall on Friday, flat- - ,  is 34, many more are feared tening fragile houses, uproot-   ,   dead in the calamity as infor- ing scores of trees, electric ( (*%"( mation from several areas, poles and mobile towers. E  %("(!(!%$!" including the severely-dam- Giving the break up, "$" (($(!" ( aged Khurda district, is still Special Relief Commissioner 0$(("$* !% 6 ' awaited. (SRC) BP Sethi said four deaths % "''$(<8 The number of people each were reported from Jajpur affected by the cyclone has also and Mayurbhanj districts, and     & ( jumped to around 1.08 crore in two from Cuttack, while   #, 14,835 villages spread across at Kendrapara district accounted  % " (*%"( least 11 districts, the official for three casualties. ((!<!%$! said, adding that over 13.41 The massive evacuation, %! %&$((" lakh people had been evacuat- touted as the largest ever ahead '$""(/%AH'$("$ ed in a span of 24 hours ahead of a natural calamity in the !% *$((*! of the disaster. country, played a major role in ( ""$(%(%$%" Chief Minister Naveen keeping human casualties to a ''$'%"$<8N<O Patnaik has already unveiled a minimum, he said, adding ((!" $&  !% $ relief package for those affect- nearly 25,000 tourists had also <!6(% & ( ed by the calamity. been evacuated from Puri, !!%$*"$AFJ# 6 In Puri and in those parts Ganjam and Balasore districts #&"(%")G($(6 of Khurda that had been as a precautionary measure. $&" "' (! $%(% “extremely severely affected”, The State Government had !%&"$%! the families will get 50 kg of mounted a massive restoration &(%8 rice, Rs 2,000 in cash and poly- work across 14,835 villages thene sheets if they are covered and 46 urban areas ravaged by &8   under the National Food the storm, affecting 1.08 crore J,   Security Act (NFSA), Patnaik people, Sethi said. The , (0 "&$((" % said. For the rest of Khurda dis- “extremely-severe” cyclone, one $**((!%%%"'($*/%J trict, categorised as “severely of the “rarest of rare”, unleashed '$("$ !% *$$& affected”, the NFSA families copious rain and windstorm ''$'%"$<"$ (" ( will get a month’s quota of rice, that gusted up to 240 kmph on '6 %""('$"(%"$"$$#8 Rs 1,000 and polythene sheets, Friday, blowing away thatched 4:; Patnaik said. houses and swamping towns  &  Those living in the “mod- and villages, before weakening    Director General (services) els. “There are island observa- 8 &      erately-affected” districts of and entering West Bengal.  Mritunjay Mohapatra told PTI. tories that fed us with data,” , (A)" '(" (( Cuttack, Kendrapara and As the cyclone barrelled hirteen days before cyclone Mohapatra, a veteran in Mohapatra said. 7&" "(( (( % Jagatsinghpur will be eligible through entire coastal Odisha, T‘Fani’ hit the Odisha coast, tracking cyclones, played a Ramesh said data was %**((!$!&(%!("$ for a month’s quota of rice and 11 districts of Balasore, the IMD had an indication that critical role in tracking Fani’s processed under different ''$(N<O" "(!" Rs 500 in cash. Bhadrak, Cuttack, Dhenkanal,    “ICG ships, aircraft and the low pressure in the Bay of progress and accurately pre- weather models by the Indian " ( $"$$<!6$**'% The Chief Minister also Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, shore based remote operating Bengal and the Equatorial dicting its path. Elaborating on Institute of Tropical %!$!8 announced an assistance of Rs Kendrapara, Khurda, re-emptive measures stations relayed warning to Indian Ocean could balloon the formation stage of cyclone Meteorology (IITM), Pune and 95,100 for fully-damaged hous- Mayurbhanj and Puri were Pundertaken by the Indian fishing and merchant mariners into a massive storm and start- ‘Fani’, he said help from other National Centre for Medium   es, Rs 52,000 for partially- severely affected. Coast Guard like alerting the on very high frequency (VHF) ed preparing for the onslaught, institutes of the MoES played a Range Weather Forecasting      damaged houses and Rs 3,200 Assuring that efforts were fisherfolk and merchant marine along the entire east coast,” the the weatherman said. crucial role in predicting the (NCMRWF), Noida. These two ((%$%*((!!$(! for houses that had suffered on to restore electricity supply community resulted in zero Coast Guard said. On April 21, based on data development of the cyclone. institutes have two supercom-  (*$$" (%%"$ minor damage. in the affected areas, Energy loss of life at sea during Cyclone Warnings were also broad- from various sources, the India The National Institute of puters that process data. %*(" ('$"$" Patnaik, who visited the Secretary Hemant Sharma said Fani, the maritime security cast in regional languages for Meteorological Department Ocean Technology (NIOT), The data was further '%%(!6!("$" ('"$* cyclone-ravaged Puri and dis- the power infrastructure was agency said on Sunday. the benefit of local fishing (IMD) forecast that conditions Chennai has over 20 buoys in processed by the Indian ''$(N<O"!%"'" tributed relief to the affected severely damaged in Puri, In a statement, the Coast community. Contingency were conducive for formation the Bay of Bengal and the National Centre for Ocean  %%6$**'%%!$ people, claimed that water sup- Khurda, Ganjam, Jagatsinghpur, Guard said on April 24, when meetings were held with of a low-pressure area in the Arabian Sea that collected data Information Services (INCOIS), !8 %"$&''$(! ply had been restored in 70 per Kendrapara and Balasore dis- Fani was in its formative stages, authorities at Mandapam, Equatorial Indian Ocean and on rainfall, temperatures below Hyderabad that gave predictions %$& (" ($" cent areas of the seaside pilgrim tricts during the cyclone. it started working on risk Puducherry, Chennai, south Bay of Bengal. the sea and above, wind speed, on the extent, depth and dura- %#$"!& "6$'( town and 40 per cent of the The SRC said clearing of assessment of the vulnerabili- Vishakapatnam, Paradip, A low-pressure area is the Mohaptara said. tion of the inundations in the %!8 places in Bhubaneswar. roads and power restoration ties on eastern coast. All the Bubhaneshwar, Haldia and initial stage of the formation of Different satellites provid- low-lying areas due to the “I hope water supply will work was in full swing, while seven Indian Coast Guard Kolkata to chalk out mobilisa- a cyclone. Armed with data ed data and images on clouds cyclone, Ramesh said.  ,#, be fully restored in 321 mobile medical teams had (ICG) stations and six of its dis- tion plans, it added. from different institutes of the in oceanic area for monitoring A similar model is run by   Bhubaneswar shortly and at been deployed with adequate trict headquarters on the east Special community inter- Ministry of Earth Sciences low pressure systems, said Indian Institute of Technology , (""!(% 0$((" least in 90 per cent areas of Puri number of doctors. coast were put on alert. action programmes were con- (MoES), the meteorologists IMD’s Director General Delhi to help the IMD with $!$'(!/%AH town by Monday,” he said. Prime Minister Narendra “No loss of life has been ducted at 13 fishing hamlets deliberated on how low pres- KJ Ramesh. Satellite data was information on inundation. '$(*$" ( (*%"(O% “The government has made Modi is likely to visit Odisha to reported at sea. ICG Disaster with participation of local sure could pan out to be. also used in running the mod- IMD also used its radars at /((*<!*$" $%(**('"(! arrangements to provide review the situation. Modi had Response Teams are assisting community leaders to ensure The IMD and other insti- Chennai, Karikal, Machili-pat- !("$'$(< !% 8 cooked food for free over the spoken to Patnaik on Saturday the state administration in the no fishing boat ventured at sea, tutes of the Ministry of Earth nam, Visakhapatnam, Gopalpur,  ,    next 15 days. We will also take and assured continuous sup- relief operations,” the Coast the agency said. Maritime Sciences ran data through 10 Paradip, Kolkata, Agartala to the up tree plantation on a mission port from the Centre for the Guard said. Rescue Coordination Centres specialised weather models. fullest. “Twelve hours before #,    mode.” Patnaik, however, could rehabilitation work. Around 14 ICG ships and (MRCC) at Chennai and “We realised all the models landfall, we kept sending updates ,! (*%"( not give the details on the sta- Meanwhile, the East Coast four aircraft were tasked daily Mumbai were tasked to update suggested that it was going to on locations to concerned states %$!((!((%($* tus of the ongoing work for Railway (ECoR) resumed oper- at sea to warn fishing and the merchant mariners over turn into a cyclone. So, from every half hour using our radars, /%AH'$("$" (N<O> power restoration in the affect- ations on the Howrah-Chennai merchant marine community Navigational Telex and April 25 we started issuing spe- besides releasing hourly bul- &(! !% "$!%((* ed areas. “We have to be very route on Sunday. since April 24, it said. International Safety Net. cial bulletins,” IMD’s Additional letins,” Ramesh said. !( ""$$#8    ! + 6!8982:;<.    “If the filings are indeed In signs of lower compli- is cut out for the next headwinds in an already of the economy, the tax collec- plateauing, it will be a worry for ance, the ratio of actual filings Government looking at stressed fiscal space. tions corroborate it too. n a first in recent history of tax the fiscal which has seemingly to registered filers was 79 per improving the tax buoyancy — “With the recent inception “Aggregate indirect tax rev- Ifilings, income tax e-filings in shifted its focus to compen- cent in FY2018-19, down from essential to fund the increasing of direct transfers in the budget, enues’ buoyancy has been weak FY2019 have dropped by more satory expenditure,” it said. “Tax 91.6 per cent in the previous fis- transfers in expenditure.” the fiscal could easily be on a along with targets being missed than 6.6 lakh, a trend that ana- filings have surprisingly cal. The compliance ratio was 85 The Government needs to slippery slope unless there is a on direct taxes too. Further, per- lysts said was surprising as tax plateaued in FY2019. This is per cent and 83 per cent in the look at further expanding the rationalization of expenditure,” sistently high borrowing cost base was expected to increase surprising given that post preceding two years. It was tax base (optimally using the it said adding around 55 per for financial institutions and post demonetisation. demonetisation it was expected 79.3 per cent in FY2014-15, data repository from demone- cent of central Government companies (given crowding out According to statistics put that the tax base would contin- which was a decline from 82 per tization and GST). expenditure is fixed in nature by the government sector) will out on Income Tax ue to increase.” cent of FY2013-14. Without a significant and the eventual impact could weigh on the near-term aggre- Department’s e-filing website, However, registered filers The data showed a steady improvement in the tax base, be on further lowering capex. gate demand in the economy,” income tax e-filings in FY 2018- have been on the rise - they rise in filers in the 5 lakh to 10 the medium-term growth path Given the stressed fiscal space, it said. 19 was 6.68 crore, down from grew by 15 per cent to 8.45 crore lakh range with 1.05 crore filings tered filers has continued to see etisation could yield better com- will be at risk, Kotak debt markets are burdened with From a medium-term per- 6.74 crore in the previous fiscal. as on March 31, 2019, the e-fil- in FY2018-19 including 1.02 steady growth.” pliance, especially in the high- said. heavy government and PSE spective, if the Government E-filers in FY 2016-17 were ing website showed. crore of individual taxpayers. “If compliance has been er income brackets.” It said that while it is hoped borrowings, which are likely to does not expand its capital 5.28 crore. Kotak Economic Registered filers were just Kotak said the declining e- weak, the new Government This combined with the that the filings for the assess- keep the yield curve steep in expenditure (higher transfers Research in an April 30 report 2.7 crore at the end of March filings “does beg the question will aim at increasing the filings granular GST filing data will be ment year increase (around FY2020, it added. and muted tax growth), the said: “We are surprised with the 2013 which almost doubled to whether compliance was weak- and collections in FY2020,” it essential in increasing the fil- August when filings are com- Kotak said while a number growth prospects will be under decline in income tax e-filing in 5.2 crore in March 2016 and to er in the latter part of FY2019 said. “A focused utilisation of the ings as well as revenues over the pleted), a relatively muted tax of activity indicators have been doubt given estimated fiscal FY2019.” 6.2 crore in March 2017. given that the number of regis- data on deposits during demon- next few years, it said. “The task filing growth will create further signalling a slowdown in parts multipliers, it added. :  3  #  : 3P  O #%#     =>        "  (  77%##    %   %  P #    ,!,   1 ,&   ( ,  !          capitalist and dishonest busi-   cases and also touch 99 per nessman - all obviously patent- cent. In prevoius years, the  #    ebutting Rahul Gandhi’s ly untrue statements,” the ith an aim to enable the Government had taken Sebi Rcharge that Anil Ambani is statement said. Wfurther recapitalisation approval for recapitalising PSBs a crony capitalist, Reliance The Reliance Group also of public sector banks (PSBs), which had pushed up the Group on Sunday said the said that during the 10-year the Finance Ministry may seek Government’s stakes in these group got over 1 lakh crore of Congress-led UPA regime a relaxation for PSBs in the banks. contracts during the UPA rule between 2004 and 2014, Anil market regulator Sebi’s norms “We have taken permission and the Congress president is Ambani-led Reliance Group for entities requiring promot- from Sebi on having over 75 continuing his campaign of was awarded projects of over Rs ers to have 75 per cent holdings per cent Government share- “calumny, disinformation, dis- 1 lakh crore across diverse in them, according to a senior holding in PSBs in the past and tortion and malicious lies”. infrastructure sectors such as official source if banks are further capitalised   The Reliance Group, react- power, telecom, roads, metro, The Securities and , we will do so again. Already ing to Gandhi’s recent media by a government-led by the Exchange Board of India (Sebi) the government stakes are fter a long hiatus, gold is statements, issued a statement Anil Ambani as a crony capi- Congress party. listing norms mandate that above 75 per cent in many of Alikely to glitter this , $& " ("((((('$'"$<   !" ($"(""$'%( to say that the Congress pres- talist and dishonest. “The Reliance Group takes every listed entity will maintain the state run banks,” the source Akashaya Tritiya and the !(%""$"(%$*$%%$*(%!$(" !%  $((" ($% ident “has attributed no basis Reliance Group said this opportunity to request a minimum public sharehold- said. industry is expecting high dou- (>("((%(%""(!" ( !$%"0!%'(" (*$"$$* to these claims whatsoever, Gandhi, in a “cavalier fashion, Rahul Gandhi to clarify ing of 25 per cent. Asked if individual banks ble-digits volume growth given !((%%$$)B AG(%"(!$$%%$*(%!$(""%(8 0 and neither has he provided has continued his campaign of whether his government, for 10 The Government share- will take permission for exemp- the positive consumer senti- % %((%"$'#(!" *$$!'#("%6$"("(!((*"(8BQ any credible evidence at all to calumny, disinformation, dis- long years, was supporting an holding in many state-run tion from Sebi’s 25 per cent ment and stable prices. $%"0!%%"(/(%$%(,(% /,((""$'"$$&" *( justify his derogatory and tortion and malicious lies”. alleged crony capitalist and banks is currently above 75 per public shareholding norm, the Retail price of gold has %&(P("6%'((*"(6*$$!'#("%!"(8(&(' defamatory campaign”. “He has singled out our dishonest businessman, to use cent. In case of their further source said the Ministry seeks come down to around 31,500 (!',(%((*$(!" "'( '(!(&(' Gandhi, in his recent group chairman Anil D Gandhi’s own words,” the recapitalisation, this will go the approval from the market per 10 grams from around (!'(%8 media statements, has termed Ambani as allegedly a crony statement added. up over 90 per cent in some regulator. 33,700 in mid-February. “We expect robust demand for 2 , 2   , ! gold/gold jewellery this Akshaya Trithiya due to price $   2$   #     stability since the past few months and the improved con-    folio. have been the two stars of tions is because Berkshire is so sumer sentiment since Gudi Buffett, 88, was pressed by Berkshire Hathaway, but on very peculiar. We have a dif- Padwa. Looking at the current illionaire Warren Buffett questions — each greeted with Saturday, Jain answered a ferent, kind of unbureaucratic momentum we expect at least Bon Saturday gave a clue on a torrent of applause — about shareholder question, though way of making decisions,” said 10 percent demand growth who might succeed him to who would succeed him. he did so from the floor. Munger. this auspicious occasion,” run his Berkshire Hathaway Without answering direct- Abel joined the company “But I don’t want to be like All-India Gems & empire, but did not complete- ly, Buffett said Gregory Able, in 1992 in the energy division, everybody else because this has Jewellery Domestic Council ly reveal his hand. 57, and Ajit Jain, 67 — both and for more than a year has worked better. So I think chairman Anantha The world’s third-richest promoted last year to the board overseen all non-insurance you’re going to have to endure Padmanabhan told PTI. man also said at his company’s of directors — would in the activities, while Jain came on us,” he said. Expectations are conserv- annual shareholder meeting near future join him and long- board in 1986 in the insurance Buffett’s departure is like- ative as the general election is that its recent investment in time business partner Charlie division, which he currently ly to open a new era at the com- still on in some parts of the #&" ((&&$*%((%$*'(($(%"" ("$$'(($ Amazon was not a shift in Munger, 95, on the stage to leads. pany, especially with shares of country, which will impact the  #$"!6($$**'(%$*% %"(( !$" ( strategy to focus on Silicon answer shareholder questions. tic what they’ve accomplished,” But who will prevail, or Berkshire considered to be 10 overall demand. !%"&% (!&(%"%!'(($""("$" ($'("%$*" ("$8 Valley firms, which have large- “You could not have two said Buffett, who is known as could they jointly take the to 15 percent above their real It can be noted that the , (% %"(( "("'&!!%(*('" ly remained missing from better operating managers than the “Oracle of Omaha.” For helm? “One of the reasons we value thanks to the billionaire’s Northern and Eastern states are $' (%""(!("("'(($ ' (&&("  $$$*" ( Berkshire’s voluminous port- Greg and Ajit. It’s just fantas- decades, Buffett and Munger have trouble with these ques- presence at the helm. yet to complete the polls. "%8 ? '  %  #  . 10   '# % %    targets. Our ongoing invest- business to achieve our strate-     ments are improving broad- gic goals,” said Akshaya romoters of Vodafone Idea band coverage and capacity, Moondra, CFO, Vodafone Idea.  Pcontributed 17,920 crore enabling us to offer a superior The board of directors on to its 25,000 crore rights issue network experience to our cus- March 20 cleared the 25,000-    ucts like compact SUV Nexon      compared to their commit- tomers as well as enhancing our crore rights issue at a price of and recently launched SUV ment of 18,250 crore follow- ability to win new broadband 12.50 per equity share, a steep uto major Tata Motors Harrier come with bigger 1.5-    ing over-subscription of the customers,” said Balesh 61 per cent discount to the pre- Amay phase out small diesel litre and 2-litre powertrains scheme, the company said Sharma, CEO, Vodafone Idea. vailing market rate. cars from its portfolio as respectively and are expected to -commerce company Sunday. The Capital Raising In a regulatory filing, the demand is expected to slow be upgraded to the next level EInfibeam Avenues said on With this contribution, the lion,” Vodafone Idea said in a Committee of the board of company had said the rights down due to upcoming BS-VI going ahead. Sunday it has terminated ser- promoters’ stake in the coun- statement. directors of Vodafone Idea entitlement ratio has been emission norms that would The company sources the vices of chartered accountancy try’s largest telecom operator The promoter sharehold- Limited at its meeting Saturday fixed at 87 equity shares for make such vehicles expensive, 2-litre diesel engine for Harrier firm S.R.B.C & Co. LLP as one increased marginally to 71.57 ers—Vodafone Group and approved the basis of allotment every 38 shares held by eligi- according to a senior company from Fiat. Pareek said the of the joint statutory auditors on per cent from 71.33 per cent. Aditya Birla Group— had ear- of equity shares to the eligible ble shareholders of the com- official. Zest with a 1.3-litre diesel introduction of BS-VI engines grounds of alleged sharing of “The Company witnessed lier reiterated to the board shareholders including pany on the record date (April Already, market leader engine. will make the compliance unpublished price-sensitive participation from both that they intend to contribute renouncees, to conclude India’s 2, 2019). Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) has “We feel that low demand expensive, particularly for small information. domestic and foreign public up to 11,000 crore and up to largest rights issue offering. The rights issue opened on stated that it would discon- for entry- and mid-size diesel diesel cars. SRBC & Co LLP, an affil- shareholders. The issue was 7,250 crore respectively, “We are pleased to April 10 and closed on April 24. tinue diesel models from April models will not justify the high “Given that these high iate of global auditing firm EY, oversubscribed approximately amounting to total of 18,250 announce the successful clo- According to Citi Research, the 1, 2020, when the BS-VI costs involved in developing a costs will ultimately have to be in a statement issued later in 1.08x and the public partici- crore, as part of the rights sure of India’s largest rights successful completion of the norms kick in, as it expects the new small capacity engine,” passed on to the end customer, the day refuted charges and said pation was approximately 1.2x. issue. issue offering, which witnessed capital raise is positive for the increased cost would put most Tata Motors President the sale of diesel vehicles will it is open to a regulatory “The promoter / promot- “Post allotment, the total participation from promoters company as it could strength- of the diesel cars, especially the Passenger Vehicles Business logically see a decline in the inspection and will respond to er group applied for higher promoter / promoter group along with the strong demand en the balance sheet, remove smaller ones, out of reach of Unit Mayank Pareek told PTI. industry,” he added. With diesel the regulators, as required. than their aggregate rights aggregate shareholding is 71.57 from other marquee existing going concern risks, and help small car buyers. Moreover, around 80 per cars set to become costlier In a regulatory filing, entitlement in line with their per cent versus 71.33 per cent shareholders and new enhance network capacity and Tata Motors currently sells cent of the demand in the said from the next year with the Infibeam Avenues said that the earlier commitment, however, as on the record date (April 2, investors. coverage. its entry-level hatchback Tiago segment is for petrol variants, implementation of stricter BS- board Sunday recommended, due to strong demand from 2019),” the statement said. “This funding along with The new shares are expect- with 1-litre diesel engine, and thus, the additional VI emission norms, major subject to approval of regulatory public shareholders, the final “We are progressing well the monetisation of our stake ed to be listed on the BSE and compact sedan Tigor with 1.05- required investment does not automakers are contemplating authorities and shareholders, allotment to the promoter / on integration and are well on in Indus will allow us to make NSE on or around May 10, litre powertrain and older seem viable, he added. about the future of such vehi- “to terminate company’s joint promoter group was 179.2 bil- track to deliver our synergy the required investments in the 2019. models like the Bolt and the The company’s other prod- cles in their portfolios. statutory auditor S.R.B.C & CO. LLP (Auditor), on the grounds of sharing company’s unpublished price-sensitive /$    +. ;; 'P %    5 % ;!> 1  # information with personal e- mail accounts of their team and       crude oil output fell from 36.9 third-party on multiple occa- million tonnes in 2015-16 to 36    3 # sions leading to breach of trust    on the trend in May. It is pos- rime Minister Narendra million tonnes in 2016-17. The and loss of faith”. sible that FPIs might pause a PModi may have set a target trend of negative growth con- The company, on receipt of oreign investors pulled out bit in view of the election out- to cut India’s oil import depen- tinues in the following years as   3   anonymous third-party infor- Fa net 1,255 crore from the come,” said V K Vijayakumar, dence by 10 per cent but the well as output fell to 35.7 mil- mation shared its preliminary domestic capital markets in chief investment country’s reliance on foreign oil lion tonnes in 2017-18 and to    findings to the Auditor, which just two trading sessions in strategist at Geojit Financial for meeting its energy needs 34.2 million tonnes in the fis- has been verified and con- May after remaining net buyers Services. has jumped to a multi-year 82.9 per cent in 2017-18 to 83.7 cal year that ended on March ll invoices for business- firmed by the Auditor pursuant for the previous three months. Indian capital markets high of nearly 84 per cent, lat- per cent in 2018-19, according 31, 2019, PPAC data showed. Ato-business sales by entities to internal investigation, As per the latest deposito- have been receiving their share est Government data showed. to the oil ministry’s Petroleum The Government is focus- beyond a specified turnover Infibeam said. ries data, foreign portfolio of the capital flows into the Speaking at the ‘Urja Planning and Analysis Cell ing on measures like increasing threshold will be generated “The Board was also not investors (FPIs) pulled out a net emerging markets after leading Sangam’ conference in March (PPAC). domestic production, pro- on a centralised Government erated on a Government por- convinced on the Auditor sum of 367.30 crore from central banks of the world took 2015, the Prime Minister had Import dependence in moting the use of biofuel and portal by September, a move tal,” an official told PTI. explanations, processes and equities and 888.19 crore a dovish monetary stance, said that India needs to bring 2015-16 was 80.6 per cent, energy conservation to reduce aimed at curbing the menace The move will help in conduct leading to unautho- from the debt market during experts said. down its oil import depen- which rose to 81.7 per cent in dependence on imported crude of fake invoices and evasion of curbing Goods and Services rised sharing of company’s May 2-3, taking the total net Vidya Bala, Head - Mutual dence from 77 per cent in the following year, PPAC said. oil. GST, officials said. Tax (GST) evasion through UPSI (unpublished price-sen- outflow to 1,255.49 crore. Funds Research at FundsIndia, 2013-14 to 67 per cent by 2022 The country’s oil con- It changed exploration The revenue secretary is issue of fake invoices. Besides, sitive information),” it added. Markets were closed on said, “In April FPI inflows into when India will celebrate its sumption grew from 184.7 rules multiple times during monitoring the progress of it would make the returns fil- S.R.B.C & Co LLP in a May 1 on account of India were less robust than 75th year of independence. million tonnes in 2015-16 to the last five years to get the elu- implementation of electronic ing process simpler for busi- statement said, “We strongly Maharashtra Day. Prior to this, March, coming on the back of Further, the dependence 194.6 million tonnes in the fol- sive private and foreign invest- or e-invoice project for which nesses as invoice data would deny the allegations against us. FPIs infused a net amount of continuing rise in crude. FPIs can be cut to half by 2030, he lowing year and 206.2 million ment. The previous New an officers’ committee has already be captured by a cen- We have conducted a compre- 16,093 crore in April, 45,981 continued buying selectively in had said. tonnes in the year thereafter. In Exploration Licensing Policy already been set up, they added. tralised portal. hensive investigation and stand crore in March and 11,182 banking and financial services But with consumption 2018-19, demand grew by 2.6 (NELP) was changed to “E-invoice for B2B trans- “Once rolled out, the e- by our findings. We are confi- crore in February in the capi- and specifically in insurance growing at a brisk pace and per cent to 211.6 million Hydrocarbon Exploration and actions will be rolled out in invoice project will allow busi- dent of our position and are tal markets (both equity and sector besides oil and gas and domestic output remaining tonnes. Licensing Policy (HELP) next three-four months in a nesses to simultaneously gen- open to a third party/regulato- debt). utilities, according to data from stagnant, India’s oil import In contrast, domestic out- promising pricing and mar- phased manner. The entire erate e-way bill, if needed,” the ry inspection and will respond “It is too early to take a call NSDL.” dependence has risen from put continues to fall. India’s keting freedom. invoice would have to be gen- official added. to the regulators, as required.”    !  ++ -*5 4,.0,5,6 "# $#% '( $ ) (  * % ) $) +, '&110.= A'27&" FIGURATIVELY   &  A ($$ BF SJ GQ ) ' (%"(" BS S@ G) ($$ (%'$(!$((( B  (%( BF )Q FA (&(&$%%%"""(%" %%(%$ Q ,$""(  BF )@ FH >" $" ("( A)8 J %( A>A BF )H SF $!/$!! % "!$(*&(% S ' (%"("(! BF AB SS *$&$%(((&(%(%$*$ ?" 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U / 8 ,   91 , 7, Terriers something to celebrate in one hopeful punt from Lossl cut iverpool struck late through Divock The visitors' showed no signs of tired- His cross found Salah inside the area, /  ,6 ,   < /9, 8U their final home game before head- United open for the equaliser on the Origi to move back top of the Premier ness early on as Salah twice fired off target but the Egyptian still had plenty to do as he K7/0   E  ing down to the Championship as hour mark. LLeague with a thrilling 3-2 win at at the back post, but Newcastle were cushioned a finish into the far corner on his / 0 N0  Isaac Mbenza levelled on the hour Luke Shaw failed to cut out the Newcastle on Saturday and keep their orchestrators of their downfall when the weaker right foot to move two in front of mark. Danish goalkeeper's clearance and hopes of a first title for 29 years alive but suf- opening goal arrived on 13 minutes. teammate Sadio Mane and Sergio Aguero U,/< /  2 ,0 8 N Chelsea's 3-0 victory over allowed Mbenza a clear run on goal fered a major scare after injury to Mohamed Alexander-Arnold's corner found Van in the race for the Golden Boot. / 9/  <, 9/8,  9 Watford means United fall to slot between De Gea's legs. Salah. Dijk completely unmarked as Rondon Liverpool did not clear their lines from 0 ,  <, ,,   four points outside the top A lengthy delay then ensued as Liverpool lost Salah to a head knock that slipped and the PFA's Player of the Year a corner and the ball broke for Rondon to / 6E/9 0 ,<  four with just one game of a new corner flag was found to will make him a doubt for Tuesday's powered home his fifth goal of the season. fire sweetly past the helpless Alisson Becker.  ,   9 ,, ,8U the season to go. replace the one Mbenza kicked over Champions League semi-final, second leg Newcastle had barely ventured over the Worse was to come for Liverpool as K/ <   ,K  , And failure to beat sta- and snapped in celebration. against Barcelona. halfway line in the first 20 minutes, but lev- Salah was caught on the head by Dubravka tistically one of the worst And the wait at least gave United Newcastle had twice come from behind elled with their first serious attack. as the Slovakian goalkeeper raced from his  ,  0/ teams ever to play in the time to awake from their slumber. through Christian Atsu and Salomon Matt Ritchie's driven cross was turned goal to punch the ball to safety. Premier League will see Rashford and teenager Tahith Rondon to cancel out goals from Virgil van goalwards by Rondon, whose shot was saved He was stretchered off, his hands over U N 9 N / 0 ,6 ,6 , further questions raised Chong, who replaced Sanchez, Dijk and Salah. on the line by the arm of Alexander-Arnold. his face to applause from both sets of sup-  /  9< /,, 8U over the decision to hand forced Lossl into saves low to his left. However, Jurgen Klopp's men piled the A penalty and a red card would likely porters. K E  / 0 Solskjaer a three-year con- Pogba then hit the crossbar for pressure back on Manchester City by mov- have followed for the Liverpool defender had Without two thirds of their prolific tract in March. the second time in the game with a ing two points clear of the champions thanks Atsu not put home the rebound. frontline, Liverpool would have been for- U ,  , 00  0 , The Norwegian has bemoaned curling effort from the edge of the to Origi's header four minutes from time. All of a sudden Newcastle looked the given for thinking their chase of City was  /< 9  9,/ 0/ United's lack of goals of late and area. The title remains in City's hands as they more dangerous side as Ayoze Perez turned up. But, not for the first time this season, , , ,  98 , < 0,8 recalled Alexis Sanchez to his start- But in their desperation for a have two games remaining to Liverpool's Van Dijk before smashing off the crossbar. Origi, who scored a 96th minute winner , 9 , ,   N,  ing line-up for the first time in two winner, United could have suc- one. However, an enthralling first 28 min- against Everton, came off the bench to score months in the search for more fire- cumbed to another stunning defeat However, in a recurring theme of a utes took another twist when Alexander- a vital late goal as he got his head to Xherdan  // 8U power. as De Gea was called on to deny thrilling title race, Liverpool dug deep late Arnold made the most of his reprieve to still Shaqiri's free-kick. K7/0  But the Chilean again failed to Grant a memorable winner. ;9 !(>%"(&"  '   /  Diego Simeone's side finishing as the ("(("E&$ top team in the capital for the second eal Madrid delivered a winning year running. Rresponse to Zinedine Zidane's But more of a concern for Zidane  /  stinging criticism as Mariano Diaz will be the 15-point gap behind scored twice in a 3-2 victory over Barcelona, which would likely be arcelona rested all 11 players that Villarreal on Sunday. even bigger had the already-crowned Bstarted against Liverpool in the An angry Zidane questioned the champions not rested players for the Champions League but paid the price on attitude of his players after last week's Champions League in recent weeks. Saturday as they were beaten 2-0 by 1-0 loss to Rayo Vallecano and react- Zidane warned Madrid's expec- struggling Celta Vigo in La Liga. ed by making more changes, with tant fans on Saturday that much of his Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Luka Modric and Gareth Bale not current squad will still be at the club Philippe Coutinho were all among even included in the next season but this felt like another those left out ahead of the return at squad. exercise in experimentation, inside a Anfield on Tuesday but Barca were not = Instead, youngsters Santiago Bernabeu that looked only unscathed, after Ousmane Dembele like Jesus Vallejo, Brahim a little over half full. hobbled off early in the first half. Diaz and Federico Mariano's display begs the ques- The club later confirmed Dembele Valverde were given tion whether he could have been more sustained a hamstring injury and will chances to impress, along useful during a campaign where his undergo tests on Sunday but it seems it two with a late penalty. with Mariano, who has barely been team have struggled for goals. unlikely the Frenchman will be fit to face Real Valladolid and Girona, both used since joining from Lyon last sum- Madrid six points behind Atletico In that regard, the sight of Vinicius Liverpool in the semi-final second leg. just beneath them, may feel disap-     mer. Madrid in La Liga with two games left. Junior coming off the bench here and Defeat will hardly trouble Barcelona, pointed by Ernesto Valverde's team His two goals, either side of Villarreal stay five points above 18th- making his first appearance in two who wrapped up their 26th La Liga title selection, particularly given his side took helsea moved into third place in the Premier Vallejo scoring his first for the club, placed Real Valladolid, who play at months after recovering from injury last weekend, but victory comes as a six and four points off them respective- CLeague as a quick-fire blitz from Ruben Loftus-Cheek were enough, despite Jaume Costa home to Athletic Bilbao later on will also have been a welcome boost. major boost for Celta, who move five ly this season. and David Luiz inspired a vital 3-0 win over Watford on pulling a late goal back for Villarreal Sunday. Mariano had scored inside two points clear of the bottom three with two The result also means Rayo Sunday. to set up an unexpectedly nervy fin- Madrid would need to win both minutes, prodding in after Santi games left to play. Vallecano are virtually relegated after Maurizio Sarri's side were booed off after a sloppy ish. of their remaining matches and Cazorla had been robbed in midfield Maxi Gomez's smart finish gave they were thrashed 4-1 by Levante ear- first half, but two goals in three minutes from Loftus- The result leaves third-placed Atletico lose both of theirs to prevent by the energetic Brahim. them the lead before Iago Aspas made lier on Saturday. Cheek and Luiz lifted the mood at Stamford Bridge. Gonzalo Higuain added the third and Chelsea are now one point clear of fourth placed Tottenham after their first win in four games in all competitions. If the Blues win their last league game of the sea- A #  *#   %:# P     son at Leicester next Sunday they will be certain to qual- ify for next season's Champions League via a top-four finish.   /     Before heading to Leicester, Chelsea host Eintracht Frankfurt in the Europa League semi-finals on Thursday, aomi Osaka eased con- ayern Munich confirmed that with the tie poised at 1-1 after the first leg. Ncerns about her form and Bveteran French star Franck Finishing in the top four and winning the Europa fitness by coming through a Ribery will end his 12-year spell League would make Sarri's troubled first season a rela- tricky first round against at the club at the end of this sea- tive success. Dominika Cibulkova on Sunday son, and announced that he and Cahill was given a standing ovation by Chelsea fans at the Madrid Open. fellow stalwart Arjen Robben when Sarri sent him on in the final minutes for what Osaka has struggled since will be granted a farewell could be his farewell appearance. splitting with her coach Sascha match next year. Urging his players to "pass, pass, pass", Sarri's Bajin in February while an In a statement on their promptings almost brought a reward when Pedro went abdominal injury forced her to website on Sunday morn- close with a 20-yard blast after a neat link-up with withdraw in Stuttgart eight days ing, the Bundesliga club Gonzalo Higuain. ago, creating doubts about her announced that the It wasn't enough to prevent half-time jeers. challenge at the French Open Frenchman would not extend But Eden Hazard was beginning to warm to his task later this month. his contract beyond June 2019. and the Belgian, without whom Chelsea would be com- But there was little sign of ond one was tougher, and I feel to Sorana Cirstea of Romania. "When I came to Bayern it pletely toothless, helped Sarri's men silence the doubters physical problems during a test- happy that I could win this However, there were no was a dream come true," said in the 48th minute. ing 6-2, 7-6 (8/6) victory over match," said third-seeded Halep. such problems for former US Ribery, 36, who joined in 2008 and When Hazard took a short corner, he collected Cibulkova and afterwards, Former world number one Open champion — and recent- has won eight Bundesliga titles in Pedro's return pass and flicked a cross towards the far Osaka said: "I feel good. I don't Karolina Pliskova saved five ly engaged — Sloane Stephens the 12 years since. post, where Loftus-Cheek rose above Nathaniel Chalobah have much pain in my abs so match points to see off highly- as the eighth seed defeated "It won't be easy to leave, but to head home from close-range. that's always a good sign." rated Ukrainian Dayana Polona Hercog of Slovenia 6-2, we must never forget what we have Champions League in 2013 as well successful decade in the history of Playing with more verve and belief now, Chelsea The Japanese world number Yastremska 5-7, 7-6 (7/5), 6-3. 7-6 (7/4). achieved together." as a host of domestic titles. the club." struck again from another corner three minutes later as one will now face Spain's Sara Unseeded Pauline She now goes on to face for- Robben, 35, confirmed his Bayern announced that they Robben made an emotional Hazard's delivery was met by Luiz with a thumping head- Sorribes Tormo in round two. Parmentier of France defeated mer world number one Victoria impending departure at the end of would organise a "big farewell return from injury and Ribery er past Foster. Meanwhile, French Open Ukrainian sixth seed Elina Azarenka. last year, and it was widely expect- game" for both Ribery and scored in a 3-1 win over Hanover Higuain put the result beyond doubt when he scored champion and two-time Madrid Svitolina, who had been strug- In one of the few ATP ed that Ribery would follow suit, Robben, to be held in 2020. on Saturday. just the fifth goal of his loan spell from Juventus in the winner Simona Halep brushed gling with a knee injury, 6-4, 7- matches played on Sunday, as Bayern prepare for a squad "Franck and Arjen are great The win lifted Bayern four 75th minute. past Russian qualifier Margarita 6 (8/6). Australia's Nick Kyrgios was a 7- overhaul ahead of next season. players, and Bayern Munich have points clear of title rivals Borussia Running onto Pedro's pass, the Argentine striker Gasparyan 6-0, 6-4. US 13th seed Madison Keys 6 (7/4), 6-4 loser to Germany's The two wingers have been a lot to thank them for," said club Dortmund, and put them on the clipped a delicate finish over Foster from a tight angle "It was a good match, even was also a surprise first round Jan-Lennard Struff, a quarter- defining stars in a dominant CEO Karl-Heinz Rummenigge. brink of a seventh successive to cap Chelsea's second half resurgence. if the first set was fast. The sec- loser, going down 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 finalist in Barcelona last month. decade for Bayern, winning the "They helped shape the most Bundesliga title. >

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erming it a 'step ahead', Mithali Raj Tfeels the Women's T20 Challenge will provide a platform to young crick- eters to rub shoulders with the best in the business. Indian woman cricket team stars Mithali Raj, Harmanpreet Kaur and Smriti Mandhana will captain the three sides — Velocity, Supernovas and * Trailblazers, respectively — in the %9    ■    T20 Challenge that begins here on Monday. Four matches will be played among ofra Archer insisted he had received a warm wel- 7    the three teams at the Sawai Mansingh Jcome into the England set-up but stressed he would Stadium with Supernovas taking on have no complaints if he failed in a late bid to make Trailblazers in the tournament open- it into the tournament hosts' World Cup squad. ■ /   been selected, which is brilliant." er. Compared with last year's lone exhi- The Barbados-born fast bowler made his much Maxwell also denied any awkward bition match, the 2019 edition is a talked about England debut in a tense four-wicket teve Smith and David Warner are set moments, saying it had been "business marked improvement. "It is a step win away to Ireland in a lone ODI in Dublin on Sto don the Australian colours this week as usual". ahead," Mithali Raj said at the pre-tour- Friday. for the first time since their ball-tamper- "The way they came in (to the nament press conference. Archer, 24, has made an impact on the Twenty20 ing bans despite struggling with illness. dressing room), we wanted to hear how "It offers an opportunity for our franchise circuit but doubts have been expressed as The pair were welcomed back into they had enjoyed the IPL; wanted to hear young players in domestic cricket to to whether England, top of the ODI rankings, should the national fold last week for a pre-World how Davey enjoyed his time opening the interact with some of the best in the 'parachute' him into their World Cup squad at this Cup camp in Brisbane after serving year- batting with (England's Jonny) Bairstow world. When you get at least two late stage. long suspensions for their part in the (for Sunrisers Hyderabad)," he said. games, you can field several youngsters. Archer showed his quality when he bowled Mark "sandpapergate" scandal in Cape Town. "And they are both superstars. I Competing with overseas players could with juniors and see what they had got Adair with a 90mph yorker to claim his first inter- Both have been hampered by virus- watched both of them go about it (in IPL) benefit them," said Mithali Raj, the < / ,   to offer ahead of the T20 World Cup national wicket. es since returning from the Indian and they were both absolutely brilliant highest run-getter in women's interna-  9  0, in February 2020. Before this match, several England bowlers — Premier League but took part in net ses- over there. tional cricket. "It's an ideal opportunity for David Willey, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood — sions on Sunday ahead of the first of three "There will be no worries about them The India captain hoped by the ,/,  ,, seniors, like us, to play with younger whose places in the World Cup squad could be practice games against New Zealand coming back into the team." With next year there would be a full-fledged     0 players. With the T20 World Cup just threatened by Archer's inclusion were somewhat ret- beginning on Monday. Australia's defence of their World Cup league. "We must understand that to 10 months away, we could assess icent when asked about his imminent promotion to Allrounder Glenn Maxwell said he crown less than a month away, Langer start something different, we need to ,   , which players would perform well the international scene. was confident they will be fit to play. will use the three warm-up games to start small. Last year, we had just one / E ,  0  under pressure," Mandhana said. But the new recruit insisted he had felt no hos- "I assume so. They have been sick the fine-tune his plans. game and this year they have added one Dashing batswoman Harmanpreet tility when joining up with Eoin Morgan's men. last couple of days so, hopefully, they are The team has been in red-hot form, more team and it's a one-leg tourna- ,/   K/ , lauded the selection of venue. "It has "It's been very welcoming. Since I've been here up and running," he told reporters. winning eight one-day internationals on ment. Maybe by the next year we might improved a lot since we last played here I didn't feel any malice at all. It's a really welcom- "But I am pretty sure most of the guys the trot, against India and Pakistan, built have a league." , / , / four-five years ago," she said. "The ing bunch of lads. will be ready to go." The duo have enjoyed on a flourishing opening partnership The 36-year-old batswoman said wicket looks good for T20 cricket. We "I knew most of the guys before coming here and a solid comeback in the Twenty20 IPL, between Aaron Finch and Usman the onus was on players to do well and have seen teams making good scores it's nice to come into a new team with some people with Warner in blistering form, topping Khawaja. they must ensure that. age the BCCI or the franchises to come in the IPL," she said. you know. I'm here with a great team at a great time. the competition batting rankings with A key decision for Langer is whether "Currently, it's like testing waters as forward to start a proper league," The tournament will also see big I'm happy." 692 runs from 12 innings. to retain that combination or move one we need to see how people reciprocate Mithali Raj said. names from around the world with "Anyone would think about it (the World Cup) Coach Justin Langer on Friday of them down to make way for Warner, and how teams perform. It's important Opener Mandhana, captain of players from England, New Zealand, but I'll just try to play well and hope, I guess," said insisted there was "no tension" between who traditionally opens the batting, with for us to perform well to grab eyeballs Trailblazers and the No 1 batswoman Sri Lanka, West Indies and Bangladesh Archer. "I'll try not to set my heart on it. the pair and the rest of the squad, adding: the line-up for Monday's game potential- and attract more people to watch our in the ICC Women's ODI rankings, taking part in it. "If I do well here it will probably put my case for- "They're back in the team now. They've ly answering that question. matches. That will, probably, encour- said it would give seniors chance to play The final is on May 11. ward but I'm not focusing on the World Cup spot."