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FIRST COLUMN Uddhav govt’s decision to let Foil gameplan of ‘fascist Why the libraries on anti-CAA protest sites NIA probe Elgaar Parishad forces’ to occupy space are essential to their democratic politics case ‘wrong’: Sharad Pawar in varsities: Aishe Ghosh New Delhi, Agency. New Delhi, Agency. Upset over Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s decision to let the National Investigation Eight weeks into the numerous sit-in protests across India Agency (NIA) take over probe into the Elgaar Parishad against the new citizenship law and the proposed National case from the state police, NCP chief Sharad Pawar Register of Citizens (NRC), the one striking feature is the Friday said that law and order was a state subject. “It was proliferation of public libraries and reading rooms at these sites. not right for the Centre to hand over the investigation into the case to the NIA. But it was even more wrong a feature of many Occupy protests globally. In 2011, the Occupy for the state government to support the transfer of Wall Street protest in New York City’s Zuccotti Park erected a Although this is a first for India, such public libraries have been the case,” Pawar told reporters. “Meetings took place JNUSU president Aishe library, as did many other Occupy sites around the world. Hong Kolkata, Agency. between 9 am and 11 am (in Mumbai) and the Centre Ghosh on Friday described RSS-BJP as Kong’s democracy protesters set up a library, as did the Plaza took the decision (to hand over the case to the NIA) at 3 the “biggest threats to the country” and del Sol protests in Madrid and the Gezi Park protests in Turkey. pm (on January 25),” he said. The NCP supremo further urged students to foil the gameplan of In these protests in India, libraries have come up at various said that the conduct of police and home department “fascist forces” to occupy space in the places in cities as diverse as Delhi, Nagpur, Kolkata, Sikar, Araria universities. The very concept of free discourse in a liberal environment in the after Delhi Police stormed the Dr Zakir Husain library in Delhi’s higher educational institutions is being andJamia Kanpur. Millia Islamia The first on public December library 15. in The these “Read protests for Revolution” came up challenged by BJP, Ghosh told an SFI rally library came up on a pavement adjoining the university, started and gifted us 21 of her books. Other scholars, authors and writers at Jadavpur University (JU) here in support by two current students, Anzar Rahi and Zeeshan Ramiz, and have also visited or called us and sent books to us,” says Rahi. The of its candidates contesting the coming JU a former student, Mohammad Sahil. “The idea came when our library on the sidewalk has received more than 2,000 books, of union elections and to protest against the library was assaulted by the police. Also, in a similar period of which around 700 are kept in the library while the rest have been contentious Citizenship Amendment Act. great turmoil during Partition, our university was started. We distributed to other similar libraries across India. It has inspired can’t start something on that scale but we can certainly start a at least 18 libraries at sit-in protests all over India, he says. One forces and the ABVP had attempted to make library,” says Rahi. such library-cum-reading room has been running for two weeks at Kolkata’s main protest site in Park Circus Maidan. Another one Theinroads fiesty into student JNU several leader times said the since saffron 2017 Unlike a kitchen or a hospital, libraries do not seem like but had retreated in the face of resistance by a necessity in the middle of protests that may be targeted by came up in the city at Khidirpur’s Nawab Ali Park a week ago. The its students. “Don’t yield to them (ABVP) an man who came up with the idea for the library at Park Circus is whose NCP is a key constituent of the Shiv Sena-led inch. If they stare at you, stare back harder. by protesters. Why is that so? “When people protest because Reyaz Mohammad, head of the department of journalism and mass Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government, said, “The Face their challenge head on to save this of their great distrust of traditional institutions and electoral communication at Aliah University. “The protests had gone on for officials handling the case was objectionable. Pawar, the police, but they are often among the first things started Maharashtra government should not have supported country,” Ghosh, whose bandaged head and politics, as often happens today, their choice of participatory and over a month and people like us had stayed on the fringe. Giving the the Centre’s move.” On Thursday, Additional Chief bruised face had made her one of the most anti-authoritarian methods of organising is not an afterthought. idea of a reading room allowed us to intellectually engage with the Secretary (Home) Sanjay Kumar said that “the state recognisable faces of protest against the Instead, the environments that demonstrators are fashioning are people,” says Mohammad. The most famous library in Delhi is at a home department has no objection to the case being attack at JNU, told the gathering of students a major part of what makes participation in protest worthwhile. bus stop shelter in Shaheen Bagh but even at the rather cramped entrusted to the NIA”. On the same day, in a sign of at JU. Singling out RSS-BJP as the “biggest Viewed through this lens, setting up libraries amid the tear gas Gandhi Park in Hauz Rani, a library draws the young and the old. rift between allies NCP and Shiv Sena, NCP leader threats of the country” in the present times, makes perfect sense. Libraries express a set of values that are On a Sunday afternoon, young children lounge around, reading state Home Minister Anil Deshmukh indicated that Ghosh, who has been attending a series of aligned with the deeply held values of the protesters,” answers children’s books. Priyanka, a data analyst who volunteers at the CM Thackeray has “overruled” his party’s stand by anti-CAA protests in the city since February Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina in her book, Hauz Rani library, says, “We started it on January 25, three days withdrawing any objections to the NIA taking over 13, said none should take any step that may Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked after the protests started. It is used both by children and adults. We investigations into the Elgaar Parishad case. Earlier in be of help to them. Protest (2017). “The heart of protest is the well-being of the have around 50-60 children who do drawing between 2 pm and the day, a Pune court passed an order transferring the community, and the heart of a library is the empowerment books 3 pm and then reading sessions between 3 pm and 5 pm. We are case to a special NIA court in Mumbai. Last month, the offer. This started as a constitutional protest, a claiming back of the soon starting tuitions for the children to help them as their exams From paan-stained walls to graffiti Centre had transferred the probe into the case from republic, and books/protest libraries return a measure of power to are around the corner.” At the Shaheen Bagh library, only women the Pune Police to the NIA, a move then criticised by work: How this street art festival is the people,” says writer and author Nilanjana Roy. “If police forces are allowed to borrow books, while men can use the reading room. It is a place always full of people, reading in bright sunlight the Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government. The case transforming this Chennai locality or makeshift lamps hanging from electric cables. They read the the Elgaar Parishad conclave, held at Shaniwar wada in I have seen people spend long hours here reading these books,” Indian Constitution in various languages, or books as varied as the saw students reading as a threat, to fill protest areas with people Pune on December 31, 2017, which the Pune Police had says Surekha Pillai, a PR professional, who has been informally poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Ramachandra Guha’s India After relates to alleged inflammatory speeches delivered at hungry for knowledge, armed with books, was a befitting response. claimed, triggered violence near the Koregaon Bhima helping out the library on a regular basis. “Arundhati Roy came Gandhi (2007) but the most popular book there is undoubtedly journalist Ravish Kumar’s Bolna Hee Hai (2019). war memorial in the district the next day. The police opensearch have claimed the conclave was backed by Maoists. Why Erdogan’s praise of Pakistan and Third Indian tests positive for coronavirus Chennai, Agency. Faded colour, paan stains sprayed all over and peeling walls this was how the slum board tenements attack on India fits into a pattern on board quarantined Japanese cruise of Chennai’s Kannagi Nagar looked like New Delhi, Agency. New Delhi, Agency. international street art festival. Now, Speaking to MPs at a joint session One more Indian has been tested positive for the untilthe facades the area of wasthe buildingschosen for have city’s been first of Pakistan’s Parliament on Friday novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the (February 14), Turkey’s President quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess off hues ranging from a bold red to vibrant Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his the Japanese coast, the Indian Embassy in Japan replacedpurple. The with entire graffiti settlement painted inwas myriad given country’s deep love and affection for a festive look after the slum board was Pakistan, strongly backed its position case of Indian nationals testing positive for the chosen for the “Start Chennai” festival on Kashmir. Erdogan vowed to support confirmeddeadly coronavirus, on Friday. Thiswhich is thehas third claimed confirmed lives his hosts in the face of pressure by the of over 1,100 people in China. On Wednesday, A collaboration between the Greater Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the underlined in his speech. This was the two Indian nationals had tested positive, Indian thatChennai began Corporation in the first (GCC) week andof February. the fourth time that Erdogan addressed government sources said. The Diamond Princess positive and are currently undergoing treatment St+Art India Foundation, the festival which is currently one step away from Pakistan’s Parliament in Islamabad, cruise ship, currently docked off the coast of aims to make art accessible and bring it globalblacklisting watchdog Pakistan. for terrorist “I would financing like Dawn reported. The Turkey-Pakistan at the medical facilities. It added that the health Yokohama, Japan, has 3,711 people on board, condition of all of them has been reported to be to daily spaces. “Normally, people visit to convey the greeting of 83 million friendship goes back to the days of the including 132 crew members and six passengers art galleries to appreciate art. This has brothers and sisters in Turkey… Cold War, when both countries were stable and improving. Japan quarantined the ship who are Indian nationals. as one passenger who had disembarked at Hong restricted access since everybody does Here in Pakistan we never see American allies. However, while the “1 more Indian crew member on not have the means to visit art galleries. ourselves as strangers. We feel at home. founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kong on January 25 was found to be infected with #DiamondPrincess tested positive for #COVID-19 the virus on February 1. Taking into account the We wanted to make art accessible and We are here at home, together with Kemal Ataturk, had a secular vision for and hospitalized for treatment. Earlier, 2 decided to put it in daily spaces which can you…,” Erdogan was quoted as saying his country, Erdogan is the leader of maximum incubation period of 14 days for the more Indian nationals had tested positive. @ coronavirus, Japan has quarantined the cruise ship be appreciated by the general public. by the Pakistani daily Dawn. “Today, an Islamist party and likes to think of IndianEmbTokyo is in contact with all 3, whose Pakistan and Turkey’s relations are himself as a new age Ottoman Caliph at Yokohama for 14 days. The quarantine period conditions are stable and improving,” the Embassy started from February 5 and will end on February admirable for others […] The much- speaking for all the Muslims of the tweeted. In a statement released on the update Mantri Greens residents worried envied Turkey-Pakistan brotherhood world. India’s relations with Turkey 19. Meanwhile, Singapore on Friday reported nine of Indian nationals on board the Japanese cruise new cases of coronavirus, taking the tally to 67. today, is a true brotherhood, have been deteriorating steadily in ship, the Embassy said that apart from the three about demolition after BBMP says strengthened by history and reinforced recent times. This is linked primarily The death toll due to the outbreak in China rose people, no other Indian has developed any to 1,355 while the number of new cases soared by by historical events,” he said. Turkey to Turkey’s support for the Pakistani symptoms of the disease yet. The statement added complex built on encroached land and Pakistan have historically had position on Kashmir, as well as its 14,840 – also a daily record – to a total of 48,206 that the Indian Embassy in Tokyo has contacted cases, Reuters reported. good relations, something that Erdogan backing of Pakistan at the FATF. all the three Indian nationals who had tested “I remember asking him to take an extra shawl, Generally, by February end, winter is on its way out Tiger widows of Sunderbans: In the shadow of mangroves, tale of courage and hope Bengaluru, Agency. Residents of Mantri New Delhi, Agency. assortment of sweetmeats were served at the feast. “We have a lot from correcting her. She lost her husband in a tiger greens apartment in Sampige road, It was an unusually cold February morning when Malleshwaram are worried after the of debt. My son, who is in his early theattack beaming a few yearsconfidence ago, the in verySabitri’s mention face ofstops which us Shanti Das saw her husband for the last time. twenties, is working two shifts a still makes her “feel lost”. “It’s like every other news of Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Days after Saraswati puja, the yearly invocation Palike’s (BBMP) plans to demolish the day as a mechanic in Kolkata to story you will hear here. He went to collect crabs of the goddess of learning in most Bengali Hindu pay off the debts,” says Shanti. A and didn’t come back. I did not even get to see his apartments and Mantri Mall following households, 50-year-old Gopal Das left his village, directions from the Karnataka High body,” says Sabitri. The West Bengal government Joygopalpur, in a boat to hunt for crabs deep in the lane from Shanti’s house takes claims that since 2009, 100,000 women are being Court and Supreme Court. Recently, the forests of Sunderbans. “I remember asking him to five-minuteus to Pushpa walk Biswas’s down thatched a slushy trained to be independent through vocations such Regional Commissioner ruled that the take an extra shawl. Generally, by February end, land on which Mantri Square and Mantri hut. Outside, dusk falls upon the as embroidery, bee-keeping, tailoring, etc. Biswajit winter is on its way out. But that was not the case Sunderbans like black,velvety Mahakur, secretary of Joygopalpur Gram Vikash Greens apartment stand belongs to the this year,” says Shanti (45). Five days later, Shanti BBMP, and directed the civic body to curtain. Pushpa, 48, switches on got a call from an unknown number. “It was the the lone bulb in her one-room take possession of the land.Puttasawamy police. They called to say my husband had been dwelling and holds up a picture Kendra,“We have points to realise out that that financial these independencepeople have no is Gowda, President of the Mantri greens mauled to death by a tiger that morning. million people living in the Sundarbans delta, one apartment complex association said, of her husband, Sisir Biswas, who was mauled to justchoice. the These first step are somein the of process the poorest of rehabilitation. areas of the Just like that, my world came crashing down,” Universitymillion will and become WWF hasclimate estimated change that refugees out of five by death by a tiger about a year ago. “He tried but state. Since most of farmers here grow only one “We all residents are tense since there is says Shanti. According to the West Bengal Forest 2050. Which means, increasingly, human beings no proper communication by the BBMP was a very poor farmer. He just didn’t know how crop a year, they are also jobless for a large chunk Department, 20 people were injured and 24 killed of the are encroaching on forest land. Making to till the land. He was a woodcutter but now of the year,” says Mahakur. or the apartment builder regarding by tigers in the last 18 years in South 24 Parganas, them vulnerable to such attacks. We are in front the case. As we know this property everything is machinised. He went to Kerala to With an income of INR 5000 per month, she where the Sundarban Tiger Reserve is located. of Shanti’s modest single-storeyed house. It looks be a contruction worker but came back withing is the only earning member of her family. “I am has been developed on land purchased However, it’s important tonote that a number like it has been painted recently. Shrubs of hibiscus by National Textiles Corporation in months. There too he almost lost his life in an supporting my son and my parents. My son, who of such deaths are not reported because people dot the small patch of land in front of the house. accident at the site. But death was following him. is a teenager now, is looking for a job in Kolkata. the auction.”According to the BBMP, killed are often hunting illegally in the forests. A A guava tree guards the entrance of the house. A the apartment complex and mall have He went to collect honey from the forest and that’s We have to take care of ourselves, we can’t depend report by National Centre for Coastal Research in half-built toilet stands a little away from the house. when a tiger attacked him,” says Pushpa. At the on the government for help,” says Sabitri, who says been constructed on the land that 2018 points out that West Bengal lost maximum Just a month before the incident, Shanti and Gopal earlier housed Raja Mill, which was sprawling vocational centre of the Joygopalpur she got no compensation from the government. land due to coastal erosion in the country (99 sq had got their daughter married to a boy from Gram Vika Kendra, Sabitri Mondol, 40, is showing “Since most of their husbands go for hunting only marked for industrial purposes at km between 1990 and 2016). Between 1969 and a neighbouring village. The wedding feast was Hanumanthapura village. us the a “kimono” that volunteers from Denmark illegally, they are scared to pursue for any kind of 2009, about 210 sq km of landmass has eroded graced by “hundreds of guests”. Fish, meat and an taught her to make. It’s more of a robe really, but compensation,” says Mahakur. in the region. A report prepared by Jadavpur 2 | English Daily Open Search | NATIONAL | New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 MP CM Kamal Nath asks son to Himachal governor says innovation and install Shivaji statue in Sausar Bhopal, Agency. DAYS AFTER an unauthorised bust of Chhatrapati Shivaji entrepreneurship will tackle job crisis in India was removed from Mohgaon trisection in Sausar in Chhindwara district by the local administration inviting strong criticism from the BJP, Chief Minister Kamal Nath Chandigarh, Agency. thousand have died,” said Dua, at the beginning on Thursday asked his parliamentarian son Nakul Nath to of his address. Going back to developments in the “WE KEEP talking about the unemployment crisis healthcare industry in India, Dua stated that 40 per in the country, but if more of our youngsters cent of the world’s generic medicine is produced in venture into an entrepreneurial journey, not India. “We also control 30 per cent of the generic only will they get employed, they can create jobs molecules globally. Furthermore, every third for ten more people,” said Bandaru Dattatreya, medicine taken by someone in the United States Governor of Himachal Pradesh, who was present of America is produced in India, that is how viable as Chief guest at the inauguration ceremony of the we are in the pharmaceutical market,” added Dua. ICONICA conference- ‘A Global Summit on Next Gen Projecting economic growth in the healthcare Paradigms’- held at Panjab University on Thursday. sector, Dua claimed that Indian healthcare is set In line with the theme of the conference, Dattatreya to grow to a worth of Rs 20 lakh crore by the end highlighted how well the pharmaceutical industry of the year 2020. “The sector is also expected to is performing in India, proving to be a lucrative create 40 million jobs for Indians by the year 2030,” said Dua. Further, talking about the governments install a life size statue at the same place. “As instructed by work in. the chief minister, a life size statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji field“Young for young researchers researchers should and academiciansstrive to take to claimed that the national health protection scheme Maharajji will be installed at a grand ceremony. The entire research from the laboratories to the poor people of flagshipadded one healthcare lakh jobs scheme to the Indian “Ayushman market Bharat”, according Dua cost will be borne by me. Jai Bhavani Jai Shivani,’’ tweeted the society,” claimed Dattatreya, adding, “I am ready to data collected by June 12, 2019. “Still, there are Nath, who is Lok Sabha member from Chhindwara. to give youth crores of money to fund their research many more challenges to be overcome by the Indian Shri Shivrai Yuvashakti Sangathan, a local right-wing and innovative entrepreneurial ideas, so my appeal ways in which the Indian pharmaceutical company healthcare system. For one, though the private organisation, had sought permission from Sausar Nagar to the youth is to apply themselves in this manner is growing and prospering, making its mark across sector is booming, public health care in India is still Palika Parishad to install the bust. While its application and bring progress to the country.” The conference, the world. Dua also stated that the conference could was still pending, the organisation installed the bust on which boasts of more than 900 delegates from states have not occurred at a better time. “Considering the progress and not everyone has equal access to Monday. Using a JCB machine, the civic body removed across the country as well as international speakers fact that the world is in the grip of ncoronavirus now, laggingquality healthcare behind in in terms India,” of said significant Dua. “However, economic if the bust late on Monday . Calling the removal of the bust and panelists, was also inaugurated in the presence there is no better time to discuss next generation academia and industry are strongly tied together, as an insult, BJP leaders, including former CM Shivraj Singh of Dr Dinesh Dua, Chairman of Pharmexcil, the paradigms in healthcare. By today, at least 60,000 is the goal of the ICONICA conference, then we will Chouhan and leader of opposition Gopal Bhargav, tweeted guest of honour at the event. In his address to the people have been infected and more than a progress at accelerated levels,” concluded Dua. the video commenting that there are better ways of dealing audience, Dr Dua provided a detailed analysis of the with the situation. Sabarmati Ashram, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Situation in Indo-Pacific demands Stadium on Donald Trump’s India itinerary greater vigilance: President Kovind Wall on Trump route to mask slum: Civic body to reduce height Ahmedabad, Agency. AFTER THE Indian Express reported that the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation is building a six-feet-high wall, ostensibly to mask a slum area, on the route that US President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi would take on February 24, the AMC has decided to reduce the structure’s height “so that the view is not obstructed”. Pune, Agency Speaking to The Indian Express, municipal n High-quality training commissioner Vijay Nehra said: “We are The present geopolitical situation in the clear that the wall’s height will be four feet. of marine engineers is demands greater vigilance and the crucial for sustained New Delhi, Agency. those having families in the US, mostly from had been kept at six feet in the design by world,Indian andNavy in thehas Indo-Pacific adopted mission-based in particular, the US, at the Motera cricket stadium. On the deployments in the Indian Ocean region, US President Donald Trump will be on his Inadvertently,zonal engineers. the When height this in thewas firstbrought part deployments and presence second day, Trump is expected to visit Delhi to our notice by the Express report, we President Ram Nath Kovind said at the INS where he is expected to wrap up issues instructed that the height should be kept at Shivaji at Lonavala on Thursday. Kovind in our areas of interest of February on the invitation of Prime related to trade and defence deals which he made the remarks after he presented firstMinister state Narendra visit to IndiaModi. inHis the trip last to weekIndia four feet so that the view is not obstructed can showcase in his campaign. Agra in Uttar from the road to the slum. Some six-feet- the prestigious President’s Colour to INS other sister services and friendly foreign aims at rebuilding bonds between the Pradesh was also considered as one of the Shivaji, Indian Navy’s premier technical countries. INS Shivaji has, till now, trained world’s largest democracies and might high columns have already been built, stops for President Trump, news agency which will be cut down to four feet.” Nehra training institute, in a ceremonial parade set the stage for the initiation of a long- PTI reported where he was likely to visit Taj held at Lonavala near Pune on Thursday. Indian and foreign, since its inception. term trade pact starting possibly with an opensearchsaid the wall was “only being rebuilt in place of an existing one that was broken”. Presentation of Colour or Standards is moreAll courses than 2 conductedlakh officers at and INS sailors, Shivaji both are announcement of a limited trade package. said to be an acknowledgement of the recognised by the All India Council for In a statement announcing the India visit The over half-kilometre wall is being Mahal.After However, the visit itwas has announced, not been officiallyTrump, meritorious service rendered by the Technical Education. On Thursday, the of the US President, White House Press built along the road connecting Sardar confirmedhinting at ifa he limited would visittrade Agra. package said, selected units over the years and is done at President’s Colour was received by the secretary Stephanie Grisham last week said, “We want to do something. We’ll see. If we the hands of Supreme Commander of the “During a phone call over the weekend, can make the right deal, we’ll do it.” India Armed Forces. behalf of INS Shivaji during a ceremonial President Trump and Prime Minister Modi is demanding exemption from high duties While the practice of carrying the officer designated as Nishan Adhikari on agreed the trip will further strengthen the imposed by the US on certain steel and sailors of the Indian Navy, and including US-India strategic partnership and highlight aluminum products, resumption of export left behind, the tradition of receiving, a Guard of Honour. Commander Nilesh the strong and enduring bonds between parade comprising 130 officers and 630 Colour,holding which and parading is a flag, the into Colour battle continues has been Koshi George led the parade. During his the American and Indian people.”Donald their Generalised System of Preferences, even today in the Indian armed forces. address, the President also said, “A nation’s Trump will visit Ahmedabad and Delhi on benefitsgreater market to certain access domestic for its products products under from maritime interests are usually also linked his maiden state visit to India. sectors, including agriculture, automobile, and citizens, Kovind said, “Today, the to its economy and the well-being of its auto components and engineering. On the Ingeopolitical his address situation to sailors, in the Navyworld officersand in people. I am told about 90 per cent of our India, Trump, along with First Lady Melania other hand, the US wants greater market trade, by volume, is handled by sea routes. Trump,On the will first be in day Gujarat, of his PM two-day Modi’s visit home to access for its farm and manufacturing Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to greater vigilance. I am aware that the Navy This enhances the role of the Indian Navy, state. They are expected to begin their tour products, dairy items and medical devices has adopted mission-based deployments not just in national security but also in by visiting Sabarmati Ashram in Ahmedabad. Indira Bridge. When The Indian Express the Indo-Pacific in particular demands and cut on import duties on some ICT visited the site late Thursday evening, it in the Indian Ocean region. High-quality economic security, and thus in the wider As a reason behind Ahmedabad featuring products. The US has also raised concerns training of marine engineers is crucial process of nation building. The Navy is on Trump’s itinerary list, the White House found that work had been stalled. “With the wall getting dilapidated, (the construction) for sustained deployments and presence India’s chief instrument of its sea power. statement had mentioned, “It played an Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra in our areas of interest. The future will It is also the guardian of the nation’s important role in Mahatma Gandhi’s life was an attempt by the corporation to overModi thesaid high both trade countries deficit share with a India.common On also see great diversity in the propulsion maritime interests, both military and and leadership of the Indian independence repair the wall. The main objective was commitment to “democracy and pluralism” that the old dilapidated structure should systems, ranging from conventional civilian. The nation is proud of the Navy’s movement.”Later in the day, he will and the visit will go a long way in further to nuclear and electric and hybrid commitment in protecting our maritime inaugurate Motera’s Sardar Vallabhbhai not lead to any safety issues,” Nehra said. cementing India-US friendship. “India Over 500 kutcha houses, with an estimated propulsion. Concepts of maintenance frontiers, securing our trade routes, and Patel Stadium, which is being billed as the and USA share a common commitment to will also undergo a paradigm shift with also extending a helping hand in times largest stadium in the world. Trump, who population of 2,500, are part of the decades- democracy and pluralism. Our nations are old Saraniyavaas slum area along this road. increased requirements on operational of civil emergencies.” Today, INS Shivaji cooperating extensively on a wide range “Two months ago, I had visited the area availability of platforms. INS Shivaji will is spread over 861 acres on the Lonavala addressed the Indian diaspora in ‘Howdy of issues. Robust friendship between our need to impart the requisite skills to all tableland and houses a population of isModi!’ visiting event India in five Houston, months is after expected PM Modi to and discussed with slum-dwellers the nations augurs well not only for our citizens possibility of an in-situ slum upgradation, trainees to prepare them to meet future 6,000, comprising 2,500 persons in share the stage with the prime minister but also for the entire world,” he added. challenges.” INS (Indian Naval Ship) uniform, including trainees and the in a similar event there. The event, named and giving permanent houses. They However, “fundamental” differences and agreed. We have asked them to talk to their Shivaji was commissioned as HMIS (His families. The institution consists of several ‘Kem Chho Mr President’ (How are you Mr India’s increasingly protectionist stance Majesty’s Indian Ship) Shivaji in 1945. The training bodies like Centre of Marine President) in sync with ‘Howdy Modi!’, will word,” Nehra said, adding that he was not establishment has rendered 75 years of Engineering and Technology, Centre see Trump addressing an audience which between the two countries anytime soon, service to the nation by imparting training of Excellence in Marine Engineering, will mostly comprise Gujarati diaspora and communityaware of Trump’s members visit andat the give time. us the final maysay experts. make an agreement difficult to finalise in engineering discipline to personnel School of Basic Sciences and the Nuclear of Indian Navy, Indian Coast Guard, Biological Chemical Defence School. Meerut SHO moved out, Probe ordered: 16-yr-old ‘rape victim’ commits suicide over ‘police inaction’ On Pulwama attack’s anniversary, Rahul Meerut, Agency. Gandhi asks ‘who benefited the most’ A 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped at gunpoint a few weeks ago, hanged herself at New Delhi, Agency. the attack, the BJP build a her house in a Meerut village on Wednesday political narrative around afternoon reportedly due to police inaction. A year after 40 CRPF jawans were patriotism and capitalized on it killed in a car bomb attack in Pulwama, According to the father of the Class XI student, (Meerut) Ajay Sahni sent the concerned during the Lok Sabha elections Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Friday 2019. Meanwhile, Prime the rape accused on January 20. “The FIR was attacked the ruling BJP asking what Minister Narendra Modi said theregistered local police on January refused 25to fileas thethe FIRSHO against called was the result of the inquiry into the the country will never forget Stationthe causes House leading Officer to the (SHO) suicide to of police the minor. lines incident and who was held accountable. my daughter for recording the statement and andThe askedSP has SP(Rural), been directed Avinash to Pandey, complete to findthe also for medical examination at least eight personnel in the Pulwama inquiry in one week. from the attack. Paying tributes to the times only to harass us. The police had also “The FIR alleging rape was lodged by theattack. sacrifice “Tributes of theto the 40 brave CRPF Hejawans also who questioned died in the who attack, benefitted Rahul put pressure on us for a compromise with the the victim, but the medical report did not martyrs who lost their lives accused by taking money as compensation Gandhi on Twitter wrote: “Today as we in the gruesome Pulwama from him,” the father of the girl said in a remember our 40 CRPF martyrs in the attack last year. They were the investigation was being conducted #PulwamaAttack, let us ask: 1. Who complaint with the police. He also alleged that confirmby the local that police, she was but raped. the victim Even thentook exceptional individuals who the accused had made attempted to molest devoted their lives to serving the extreme step on Wednesday. We 2. What is the outcome of the inquiry the younger sister of the victim in December have taken immediate action against and protecting our nation. last year and at that time too, the local police benefitted the most from the attack? India will never forget their the SHO and further action will be taken Govt has yet been held accountable had refused to lodge an FIR. against him after we get the report of martyrdom,” tweeted Modi. After the girl committed suicide, residents intofor the the security attack? lapses 3. Who that in theallowed BJP the SP (Rural),” said SSP Sahni. Speaking Jaish-e-Mohammad had claimed responsibility On Wednesday, the National of the area protested against police inaction to mediapersons, BJP MLA Khatik said for the attack. In response to the attack, India and refused to hand over the body to the on Indian security forces, about 44 CRPF he would take up the matter with Chief launched airstrikes at JeM training camps in against four JeM aides of Pulwama attack police. They relented only after BJP MLA thepersonnel attack?” were In killed one ofwhen the an deadliest explosive-laden attacks Minister Yogi Adityanath. “The action Balakot before dawn on February 26. Gandhi’s Investigationmastermind, in Agencya case of filed conspiring a chargesheet for terror Dinesh Khatik assured speedy action. vehicle rammed one of the buses carrying the acts across the country. against the policeman has been taken and forces from Jammu to Srinagar on February 14. tweet was in apparent reference to how after Meanwhile, Senior Superintendent of Police an inquiry has also been ordered. New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 | DELHI/NCR | | English Daily Open Search | 3 Youth backed young party : 3 in 5 voted AAP in Delhi elections In Shaheen Bagh, turning a new page of protest New Delhi Correspondent. With the support for AAP pouring in from many different Mukesh Kumar Thakur, New Delhi. display at the Shaheen from Anne Frank’s ‘Diary of a Young Girl’, Bagh bus stand under J K Rowling’s ‘The Casual Vacancy’ to life sections, it would perhaps be worthwhile to see how the A twenty-something lad sits quiet with youngest voters in Delhi chose to vote. As evident from the banner of Fatima stories of Karl Marx, Bhagat Singh and George Orwell’s Animal Farm in his Sheikh-Savitri Bai Khushwant Singh’s ‘End of India’. When Lokniti’s election-eve survey in Delhi, among the youngest hand just about 50 metres from the voters’ group, that of 18-25 years, while about three in Phule Library. A asked if they are only accepting books that Shaheen Bagh protest site. Engrossed placard asking people are related to politics and revolution, Satya in the allegory that addresses the issue every three or 33% went with the BJP 7% lesser than their to ‘donate books’ and of creating equal and free space for all, a Facebook page have “We even get 10th standard everyvote share five orin Delhi. 59% ofAlso, them comparing voted for it with the AAP,the 2015 only Vidhan one in he seems to be completely cut off from however helped surge clarifiestextbooks, there’s and no thosesuch specification.facilitating the Sabha elections, the AAP looks slightly more popular among his not-so-quiet surrounding where this section of voters, gaining 2 percentage points. Further, the number of books students preparing for various entrance protesters demanding equal rights to to more than 500, even citizenship are raising slogans like ‘Kaagaz before the service them out for the time being because nahi dikhayenge’, ‘Inquilaab Zindabad’ completed a month of examinations.of the space crunch. However, We we are had displaying to filter with occasional breaks at the sound of its existence. Hinting those which are relevant to this place’s azan from a nearby mosque. However, that the protest there ambience, those which will interest people he isn’t alone. There are many like him is a consolidated one coming here,” he adds. Just as artists have of different ages, some reading, some against any kind of kept the streets and walls of Shaheen inequality, Satya says, Bagh and Jamia talking revolution, they others running their eyes through the attempts to malign the movement in “As students, we chose have also lent their creative hands in takingcovers of notes the books from that specific are displayed books, and at the date to commemorate Rohith’s suicide decking up this library. The artworks Shaheen Bagh’s bus stand-turned-library. Shaheen Bagh saying the protesters here are paid to stage agitation. So, we (which we consider) an institutional on vinyl, banners, and posters that have “It all started after the violence in Jamia in murder of a student on the basis of caste.” covered up all the pillars of the once bus compared to the BJP, the AAP’s lead of 26 points appears to be December last year,” says Satya Prakash, started looking for a way to contribute maximum in the youngest age group, as data shows the gap our capacities to the movement here, and The library has been named after two stand, hence speak volumes how books one of the organisers and also a Masters social reformers both women to respect i.e. education is instrumental in building between the two parties narrowing down as one moves to student in Jamia Millia Islamia University. that is when Asif Bhai came up with the older age-groups. This is despite the BJP getting huge support idea,” the student of Modern History says. the fact that the protest at Shaheen Bagh dissent. “We want people, who come to According to him, the series of events that is also being led and carried forward by Shaheen Bagh to protest and hang around followed including protests, alleged police Mohammad Asif, whom he refers to, was time voters, i.e. the ones between 18-22 years, the BJP’s vote a student of Aligarh Muslim University, women, he says. And this buys the women for even half an hour, draw insight from brutalities on protesters and students on readers here an exemption: While the this library. We are giving them another fromshare young further voters dips inby Lok 4 points, Sabha to 2019. 29%. In Also, fact, theamong AAP the gained first various campuses, led them to think of and is at present in Delhi working on his doctoral research proposal. It was January library doesn’t allow men to borrow books way to register their protest apart from women voting for the party. Among the 26-35 age group, with 17, the death anniversary of Rohith (they can sit and read them there for sloganeering,” Satya says, adding that this women, here started protesting, and we hours), women can take them home for 24 library was an antidote to the allegation amongAAP getting the first-time 54% and womenBJP securing voters, 40%, with the as leadhigh narrows as 68% toof “doingas students something”. used to come “Locals, here to specifically lend our Vemula, when the organisers, including 14 points. Interestingly, this was the age group where the AAP Satya, Asif, Noor, brought in their own hours, by submitting their contact details that all the noise here is “disguised”. “This support. Then the JNU incident happened to the organisers. Looking at the collection library shows that this is not true. They topped with 60% in 2015 and the BJP trailed by 29 points the on January 5. There were also repeated books a bunch of 30-35 and placed them on maximum for any age-group. of the library, one can spot books ranging come, and read here too,” he insists. SC plays party monitor : List candidates BIMSTEC conference: Need to remove narcotics facing cases, explain choice from pharma industry, says Amit Shah New Delhi Correspondent. prosecution mechanism. He stated that India would not Union Home Minister Amit Shah on allow illicit narcotics and Thursday said an effort should be psychotropic substances made to completely remove narcotic trade to happen within its substances from the pharmaceutical boundaries. “We will not industry as it was becoming the new allow drugs from any country choice among abusers and drug cartels. of the world to enter into “A lot of drug abuse today is in the form our country nor will allow it of pharmaceutical tablets. Phentanyl is to go out of the country,” he said to be far more potent that Heroin. added. The Home Minister We should rope in scientists and doctors expressed concern that the and do some research so that we do rate of addiction is showing not need narcotics for pharmaceutical a fast increase a 30 per cent rise in the last 10 years. He Shah was delivering the inaugural termed drug addiction as a purposesaddress at in the the BIMSTEC first place,” conference Shah said. on curse for mankind as it not only kills the addict but also Bhawan. The two-day conference has Bay of Bengal littoral area. “It is thus destroys families as well as the society, combatingbeen organised drug traffickingunder the ataegis Vigyan of very important for all countries to besides fuelling global terrorism and Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) for engage with each other to exchange transnational crimes. In the last 5 ideas, policies and best practices in years, over 1.89 lakh narcotics cases trends in the world. Addressing the order to combat this menace,” he have been registered in India and of sharinggathering, of bestwhich practices had attendees and trafficking from said. The Home Minister assured the them over 2.31 lakh drug smugglers various countries and top police delegates that under Prime Minister have been arrested by the agencies, he New Delhi Correspondent. Narendra Modi’s vision of a drug-free said. Shah also informed that the Home n The order underlined: “On a perusal illicit drug trade a global menace and India, the government has devised a Ministry is about to establish a training Flagging “an alarming increase in the incidence of officerssaid it is froma burning all states, issue that Shah plagues called well laid-out strategy to ensure inter- criminals in politics” and questioning parties for offering of the documents placed on record every nation, especially those in the agency coordination and revamp “no explanation” on “why candidates with pending opensearch and after submissions of counsel, centre for NCB officials at Bhopal. place”, the Supreme Court Thursday made it mandatory it appears that over the last four criminal cases are selected as candidates in the first media pages, details of cases against their candidates general elections, there has been an BJP found favour with migrants in Capital forand political the reasons parties for to selecting publish, includingthem over on others. official Saying social alarming increase in the incidence “winnability” of a candidate cannot be the only reason Vijay Kumar, New Delhi for selection, the bench of Justices R F Nariman and S of criminals in politics. in alliance with BJP. This, too, may have had a role to play At roughly 40% of Delhi’s electorate, migrants (those Ravindra Bhat directed all parties to comply with its JD(U)in tilting candidates the Bihar from migrant Burari voter and towardsSangam Vihar,BJP. As fielded far as order, and told the Election Commission to bring to its who have come to the city from other states) have candidates with criminal cases pending against them UP migrants are concerned, about 20% of the electorate, notice any instance of non-compliance “in contempt of often been touted as an important voting bloc that BJP made some gains, but not as huge as the ones made this Court’s orders/directions”. from contesting elections, had left it to Parliament to make may prove decisive in any poll outcome. While the a law to ensure that people with serious criminal charges among Bihar migrants. This despite as many as 12 rallies Disposing contempt petitions against political parties election this time was far from close, Lokniti’s poll-eve addressed in Delhi by UP CM Yogi Adityanath. Whereas for allegedly disregarding the September 25, 2018 did not enter public life. The Bench said it “was cognisant survey data indicates that migrants, especially from of the increasing criminalisation of politics in India 40% migrants from UP voted for the BJP, an increase of Bihar-Jharkhand (around 7% of Delhi’s electorate) also 8 percentage points compared to 2015, and the lack of information about such criminalisation known as Purvanchalis may have played amongst the citizenry” and “to remedy this information 52% voted for AAP, a modest loss of 3 directionsand Justice of Bhat, a five-judge exercising Constitution powers under Bench, Articles Justice percentage points. Interestingly, BJP Nariman129 and (he142 wasof theone Constitution of the five judges which on deal that with Bench) the gap”, it made the following directions. The Bench had share, thus increasing its seat tally a underlined: “A time has come that the Parliament must and AAP saw their vote share among contempt power of the Supreme Court and enforcement a significant role in boosting BJP’s vote migrants from Punjab and Haryana of its decrees and orders, ruled. The order underlined: make law to ensure that persons facing serious criminal percentage points behind AAP in terms of cases do not enter into the political stream. It is one thing (who form roughly 6% of Delhi’s “On a perusal of the documents placed on record and bit.overall Even vote as share, BJP eventually among migrants finished from 14 electorate) increasing compared to after submissions of counsel, it appears that over the to take cover under the presumption of innocence of the Bihar and Jharkhand it seems to have accused but it is equally imperative that persons who 2015. While BJP saw an 6% rise, AAP last four general elections, there has been an alarming registered a very strong performance, saw a 3% rise in support, which seem to increase in the incidence of criminals in politics. In 2004, enter public life and participate in law making should be securing 47% of their support, as per the above any kind of serious criminal allegation. It is true have come at the cost of the Congress. 24% of the Members of Parliament had criminal cases Lokniti survey. This is a massive gain of 18 Overall, if we club all migrant groups pending against them; in 2009, that went up to 30%; in that false cases are foisted on prospective candidates, but percentage points for BJP compared to the the same can be addressed by the Parliament through together, AAP performed better among 2014 to 34%; and in 2019 as many as 43% of MPs had 2015 polls. Almost all of these gains seem voters born in Delhi than migrant criminal cases pending against them. We have also noted appropriate legislation. The nation eagerly waits for such to have come from AAP’s kitty, which had legislation, for the society has a legitimate expectation to voters. While 55% of the former voted for it, among the that the political parties offer no explanation as to why secured 64% support among this segment in 2015, but latter its vote share was four points lower at 51%. It was candidates with pending criminal cases are selected as be governed by proper constitutional governance. The had to settle for 49% this time. This almost equal splitting voters cry for systematic sustenance of constitutionalism. the reverse for BJP it received 5 points greater support of Bihari migrant vote among BJP and AAP suggests among migrants than non-migrants. Interestingly, petitions which said the September 2018 directions of The country feels agonized when money and muscle the BJP’s gambit of making Manoj Tiwari, the Bhojpuri power become the supreme power. Substantial efforts despite not doing as well among migrants as compared candidatesthe Supreme in theCourt first had place.”The not been order complied came on with. contempt That actor turned politician, its city unit chief in 2016 and the to last time, what seems to have worked in AAP’s favour have to be undertaken to cleanse the polluted stream of face of its campaign this election may have worked and politics by prohibiting people with criminal antecedents is that the city seemed to have had fewer migrant voters by NGO Public Interest Foundation and Delhi BJP leader swayed a sizeable section of Purvanchal voters in BJP’s this time as compared to 2015. In the 2015 survey, the judgmentand lawyer had Ashwini come Kumar on petitions Upadhyay. filed, In amongthat order, others, the so that they do not even conceive of the idea of entering favour. Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had shared the dais with into politics. They should be kept at bay.” proportion of those born in Delhi had been 55%; this Constitution Bench, while saying it could not disqualify Home Minister Amit Shah while campaigning in Delhi for went up to 61% in the 2020 survey. Stunning gender gap: Women voters AAP Catch-all party that brought communities, castes under one net powered AAP’s landslide in Delhi New Delhi Correspondent. The AAP has emerged as Delhi’s catch- all party for the second successive Chanchal Singh, New Delhi gender lines, not even during the years when Sheila Dikshit ruled Delhi. So remarkable is the election with the umbrella coalition of If there is one social demographic that played gender gap this time that it cuts across nearly castes and communities. It has retained all castes and communities, classes and age this characteristic from 2015, albeit second consecutive landslide victory in Delhi, it groups. Keeping the focus just on the voting with some minor dents made by the theis that most of women. significant Not only role did in women ensuring electors AAP’s pattern of castes and communities, for instance, BJP in 2020. An analysis of the caste this time nearly match their male counterparts there isn’t a single community where women and community-wise voting patterns when it came to voting, falling short by just 0.07 voted for BJP more than men. Conversely, there captured by Lokniti’s poll-eve survey percentage points, they also ended up voting shows that AAP has yet again swept voted for it. This massive support for AAP is not a single community where AAP got more among Muslims, who constitute 13% of overwhelmingly in favour of AAP, far more than point lower vote shares, respectively, among support from men than it did from women. The the vote of the Dalit communities and men did, disproving the long-held belief that religious minorities, who together Delhi’s population, is six points higher women as compared to men. widest gap in how men and women voted for than the 2015 elections and comes women vote on the advice of their husbands or AAP can be seen among the lower and middle account for one-third of the city’s total other male members of their family. electorate. Nearly three-fourths (72%) amid protests against the Citizenship wide gender gap ended up giving AAP a massive caste Hindu communities. The AAP’s vote Amendment Act and talk of a possible The gender divide in voting preferences in 25-percentageWhat is also point significant lead isover the factBJP thatamong this share among Dalit women, for instance, was of Jatavs, two-thirds of Balmikis and the 2020 Delhi elections is such that it could be two-thirds of the other Dalit castes National Register of Citizens. This level women voters as compared to just a 6-point lead found to be 25 percentage points more than it of consolidation among Muslims in argued that had women not voted in this election, among men. Five years ago, in the 2015 election, was among Dalit men, and among Jat, Gujjar reposed their faith in the party yet again. the AAP victory wouldn’t have been a landslide favour of AAP is perhaps the highest ever the AAP’s lead over the BJP among women had and Yadav women (combined) 18 percentage in Delhi, even greater than the support but a very narrow one. According to the poll-eve been much lower at 19 percentage points, as points more. Among Brahmin men, while AAP has been some erosion of Dalit support survey conducted by Lokniti-CSDS, available Whilefor AAP these when figures compared are impressive, with there the the Congress used to get among Muslims women had voted more for the BJP than men got 22 points less support than the BJP, among in elections held during Sheila Dikshit’s exclusively to The Indian Express, women were back then and less for AAP as compared to Brahmin women it trailed the BJP by only 7 2015 elections, particularly among the 11 percentage points more likely to have voted Balmiki community. The AAP’s strongest time. In fact, Muslim share in AAP’s men. Lokniti has thus far conducted surveys percentage points. Similarly, while among Dalit overall vote is 20% this time, higher than for AAP in this Assembly election than men, 60% during all state elections held in the national men, AAP led the BJP by 21 percentage points, supporters for the second straight to 49%. The BJP and the Congress, on the other election have been voters belonging to even Dalits. In 2015, it had been 17%, capital since 1998, and never have it witnessed among Dalit women its lead over BJP was a two points lower than that of Dalits. hand, received 8 percentage and 2 percentage such a major divide in voting preferences on the Muslim community, 83% of whom 4 | English Daily Open Search | EDITORIAL | New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 Open Search Here’s a new way to ‘app-roach’ a broken heart EDITORIAL Suresh Subrahmanyan the knot and took your wedded wows, no power on earth could come in the way of the Our Unsafe Campuses An inconspicuous news item caught my beady couple staying married ‘till death do them part’. Though why anyone should stick by The narratives of mass sexual violence directed newspaper. The piece was headlined, ‘Britons one’s spouse if things have gone base over at the women students of Delhi University’s eyecan name when a I roach was riffling after their through ex to mymark morning V-Day’ Gargi College during their college fest, Reverie, V for Valentine’s. My sense of intrigue and For now, let us focus on cockroaches, an curiosity thus pricked, I carefully read through on February 6 shine a light on the impunity apex is a fit subject for another discussion. enjoyed by male mobs. News of the violence the piece, the sum and substance of which was such as ours, along with lizards, beetles, bugs that, if you are dreading the onset of Valentine’s and other nocturnal creatures that infest our in the college took four days to reach the Day because you’ve just split with the erstwhile insect which flourishes in a tropical country mainstream media. The middle-aged, allegedly kitchens and toilets in gay profusion. I say love of your life, fret not. After all, Valentine’s this in the light of the fact that India’s young drunk men entered the college premises without Reverting to our Day is when young lovers are expected to go passes, scaled walls and left with impunity. The news story, one all schmaltzy, buying trinkets and baubles for delicto, only to separate disharmoniously on college administration, the security and the their loved ones. Valentine e-cards are singeing which addresses boysan idle and whim. girls are This frequently has often seen led in to flagrante violent police failed to discharge their duties. Even internet lines all over the world, now that behaviour brought about by irrational envy as arrests happen, no accountability has been sundered hearts as printed cards have become all but extinct. That and sheer bloody-mindedness. Taking a leaf song from the hit Broadway musical of the ‘50s, with lovers’ tiffs. The monies collected will go opposed to kindred towards a worthy cause, namely to fund projects out of England’s HCC, instead of calling the for their failure to prevent a mob of about 100 The King and I, ‘Hello, young lovers wherever pest control chappies, with their noxious spirits, an august you are, I hope your troubles are few,’ could very at a zoo which HCC is associated with. And here menfixed from on the trespassing college administration into the campus. and police The gases, to obliterate the domestic insect well have been the theme song for Valentine’s I was, wondering why anybody in his right mind body that goes by will want to breed cockroaches, of all things. It Day. Reverting to our news story, one which to capture these creatures and keep them in without public comment as well. The assailants the name of Hemsley addresses sundered hearts as opposed to may be a delicacy in China, but seriously. Now molestedrioters created women a nasty and traffic indulged snarl, whichin acts went of kingdom,secure habitats. an enterprising A small contributionNGO can find of ways Rs. Conservation Centre kindred spirits, an august body that goes by the 20 per cockroach, Rs. 50 per lizard and Rs. extreme depravity in the full glare of CCTV name of Hemsley Conservation Centre (HCC) obvious question then arises. Let’s say an (HCC) somewhere Iimpressionable know why Kafka girl wrote has Metamorphosis.been hornswoggled The 100 per rodent, and the Indian equivalent and phone cameras. Their bodies were their somewhere in the United Kingdom, is uniquely of HCC will be in clover. What is more, given weapons and the men knew that they would get in the United addressing those who have just separated from by her two-timing boyfriend, who ups and scoots off with another girl, leaving our poor the relentless reproductive capabilities of away. The idea that women students have rights Kingdom, is uniquely their loved ones. The essence of the scheme these creatures, the lizards will keep eating is that HCC breeds cockroaches (it takes all Jane bereft and feeling sorry for herself. That’s was totally irrelevant to these male mobs. The addressing those who the wrong way to go about things, young Jane. the cockroaches, the rats will eat the lizards, space for a college festival turned into a theatre sorts) for a noble cause. Let’s say you have just and the resident cats will feast on the lizards have just separated acrimoniously told your lover to take a long All you need to do is trot off to HCC’s nearest of macabre sexual violence. The police seem to branch, identify a particularly slithery male and the rats. It will be a unique self-balancing from their loved ones. walk off a short pier. population programme. Imagine how India’s have offered mobs a new “model” of violence Rather than sitting at home, wringing your roach and name it after your ex-boyfriend, the to emulate: On December 15, 2019, the city The essence of the odious John. Experts at the facility will help young lovebirds will vent their spleen over a saw in horror as police entered the Jamia Millia scheme is that HCC you distinguish between a male and female quarrel. The spurned Asha will traipse off to roach, in case you were wondering. You can the nearest branch of the India Conservation campus, assaulted students and destroyed breeds cockroaches handsyourself and in than moping, throwing filled yourself with angst, in front trying of a Centre (ICC), place Rs. 20 at the counter and property. Students studying in a library were tospeeding figure truck out if or arsenic putting is a abullet better through way to your do then pay frequent visits to the centre, where (it takes all sorts) for John the roach will be brought to you in a little wait for cockroach Rajesh to be brought to her, mercilessly tear-gassed. The testimonies of head, like the suicidal Richard Cory in Simon & and she can yell and scream, ‘kutthe, kameene’ a noble cause. Garfunkel’s eponymous song, help is at hand. box. You can feast your angry eyes on him and women students were chilling in depicting call him all the vilest names you can think of. (a strange way to address a cockroach, I grant how the custodians of law directed sexualised You can go to HCC, select a particularly slimy you and a gross insult to our canine chums) to cockroach, and name it after your recently Get it off your chest. For an additional £3, John violence at women’s bodies. The obituary to will be set free, thus enabling you to stamp the her heart’s content at this heel of a boyfriend- estranged partner. All this for a measly £2. turned-roach, Rajesh. What relief, what joy! the Vishakha judgment was written that night. The report helpfully adds, ‘You can name one scurrying insect to oblivion and scraped off the Slogans exhorted the men to shoot “traitors” If her budget runs to Rs. 50 or even Rs. 100, of the centre’s resident cockroaches after your she can watch the rat Rajesh being consumed and guns were directed at Jamia students. No ex to mark Valentine’s Day. Deciding against the victim is a boy, jilted by a glad-eyed Jezebel. floor.The matter The exercise has come can also to the be donenotice in ofreverse Indian if by Billy the cat. I apologise if all this sounds the option of adopting a cockroach, the Centre macabre and Edgar Allan Poe-ish, but needs there were no enquiries. The evidence was on will allow broken-hearted singletons to put it authorities, who are seriously considering adapting the idea to our peculiar needs. Time must. As Poe himself wrote, ‘Sleep, those little nationalaccountability television, was fixed, live nofeeds, arrests photographs, made and all behind them using its ‘name a cockroach slices of death; oh how I loathe them.’ programme.’ A truly novel way of dealing was in our traditional country, once you tied

studenttestimonies, of Jamia medico-legal has got compensation certificates the anddue processin reports to ofensure fact-finding justice teams.has not Yet even not been one initiated. Subsequently, women protestors at Shaheen Bagh and elsewhere took on the task of calling out the police violence and reclaiming The Urdu Press : AAP ka Delhi constitutionalism. The dadis at Shaheen Bagh reclaimed Delhi as a city of and for women and Seema Chishti argues. The editorial in children. They too were demonised by the ruling Inquilab cites these results party. It was barely 20 days since the violence Editorials followed immediately on the win of the Aam Aadmi Party as important because they in Jamia. The entry of assailants armed with (AAP) on February 12. Siasat writes that “the BJP that committed the indicate that voters rejected sledgehammers, stones and sticks in JNU on the folly of trying to blow apart Indian democracy has been rejected by emotional slogans, appeal evening of January 5 was on every TV screen. wise voters”. The editorial speaks of how “BJP leaders, especially Modi to identities including Yet a month later, there were no any arrests nor and Shah had made Shaheen Bagh a target and called its supporters and caste and religion, and fake AAP terrorists”. The newspaper writes that “draping themselves in the nationalism. It writes that university administration. Stones were pelted clothes of nation-lovers, the BJP adopted a new method of rendering the atwas teachers. any accountability Women were fixed attacked at the levelin hostels, of the nation tukde-tukde (sic) but the majority of people are now rejecting this Muslim students targeted, even blind students people preferred attention were not spared. Homes of faculty members to basic problems, development, and nationalthe unity results and reflected harmony.” how It India’s constitutional arrangements in 70 seats. elaborates that “Delhi has given a lesson that the coming times are not Amitopensearch Shah had also expended a lot of energy here.”Munsif speaks of protesting teachers and students thereafter. method. Two hundred and fifty MPs were brought in to upset 70 years of conducive for harvesting hate and dushmani (enmity)”. Sahafat , referring Complaintswere attacked. by The students police flewand dronesteachers over have the the “lessons” in the verdict, especially, lessons for the media. “Godi media to the BJP, has an editorial titled, “All efforts came unstuck”. Roznama not been converted into FIRs. The university (a term for media seen as lapdog/propagandist media) must learn to Rashtriya Sahara writes how “AAP’s victory is very important and it must continues to feel unsafe. There is far more not do one-sided reporting after breaching journalistic standards and continue on its welfare path even after the elections and make it clear trauma on the campus than can be catalogued. doing 24X7 ek raag (monotone).” The newspaper believes they have that welfarism is not just an election stunt but a part of the Delhi model.” Those who stood in support of the JNU students been given a “tight slap”. Those political leaders and godi media should and teachers were demonised. Several teachers, stop propagating hate, the newspaper suggests. “They need to do this horse is tied in front of a buggy, then it will start moving, but if it is tied students, activists, lawyers and citizens who for the betterment of journalism, people and the nation,” the editorial protested against the violence in JNU in various Februarybehind a bug 2 Siasat’s everything editorial will stay(“Unable where to it control was. inflation”) writes, “if a parts of the country were detained, arrested or show-caused. Student protesters have been beaten and molested in custodial detention and yet the courts must be seized with the important Jamia reported violence by the Delhi police on To help her work Februaryquestion of11. traffic There snarls. were reports Protesting of upholders students of Rohini Pande , Charity Troyer Moore not implement the policy. 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Why has the relationship between law woman’s economic engagement is related lakh women are still paid their wages in to her own and her family’s well-being, joint, rather than individual accounts. -Vijay Kumar the continuing decline in rural women’s Fully implementing this policy mandate and society shifted so fundamentally? labour force participation is a cause for need not entail additional budget outlay, and it could have important impacts worrying gender gaps. The Economic on women’s lives in rural areas even concern,Survey acknowledged and both affects this and and reflects highlighted these as it spurs rural economic growth. But that the state should design policies that rural women also need options beyond better involve women in the economy. It MGNREGA. Continuing to improve ease Fashion’s vision quoted the World Bank, noting that “no It mattered that Wendell Rodricks introduced of doing business and addressing rigid country can develop and achieve its full labour market regulations can also minimalism to Indian fashion. When the Goan potential if half of its population is locked designer launched his label in 1989, it was in draw more women into high-potential in non-remunerative, less productive and sectors, such as those supported under an industry that was weighed down by heavy non-economic activities.” embroidery and other ornamentation. Those Assemble in India. Rural women’s relative Unfortunately, when it came to participation in manufacturing has grown allocating funds, the budget relegated fashion sensibilities that it wasn’t until a few compared to men’s, and manufacturing women’s economic participation to stands out as a promising means to pull first organza tunics seemed so alien to Indian secondary importance. Many agricultural, new aesthetic and idiom, one that would inspire young women, in particular, into the social programmes and female-focused economy. And ensuring better support to yearsthe generations later that he that was came finally after able him. to establish But that a initiatives received little attention India’s potential GDP gains through their accounts, and made sure their isn’t why Rodricks’ championing of minimalism achieving economic gender parity were MGNREGA wages would be deposited small and medium-sized enterprises can and were ultimately dismissed to the help new businesses. Ensuring that these matters. More than anything else, when Rodricks “aspirational, but not practical” list. larger than gains in any of the other into their newly opened accounts. We sent out collection after pared-down collection regions they studied. So, in the absence of used a randomised controlled trial to programmes are attuned to the needs and Ignoring India’s declining female labour aspirations of women is not expensive. It whether in his favourite white or in bright neon force participation at a time of economic assess the causal impact of the change, shades, whether made of linen or pineapple for women-targeted programmes, how measuring its effects against a treatment requires a review of individual policies and distress is a mistake. Involving women programme implementation. Is a woman in the economy is not a social cause it is significantly large budgetary allocations group of women who continued under whole new philosophy that didn’t equate India’s important focus could be smarter policy the status quo. This seemingly small likely to face de facto discrimination when fibrerich textile he was and also fashion opening history up Indian with fashion the over- to a growth. In a country where young canand thegender-intentional state be responsive implementation. to women? An change giving a woman digital control of the-top aesthetics of a long-gone aristocracy. To A key example comes from MGNREGA, a her wages had a big impact. Women who registering for a skilling programme or awomen’s source ofeducation efficiency is gains now and at economicpar with joining a job in the garment sector if a put it simply, he took the idea of fashion out of men’s, ignoring that half of the population received digital accounts plus training applying for a loan? Will she have trouble the closets of the rich and famous, and made it been to pay individual workers in their worked more outside their homes, not isn’t participating equally in the economy and secures a buy-in from her family the legacy and inheritance of a wider swathe of means we are missing out on innovation, programmeown bank accounts. whose official policy has long only for MGNREGA, but also in private the population. So it wasn’t much of a surprise entrepreneurship, and productivity gains. When we examined the programme in employment. Importantly, women from recruiter does not first explain the position when, about a decade ago, he got involved with Madhya Pradesh in 2013, we saw that this especially conservative households linked job longer if the government The large potential increases in GDP that deployed migration support to help her conserving and reviving Goa’s Kunbi weave. could accrue to India and countries around policy was typically not implemented, and reported higher economic engagement members? Could she remain in a skilling- The Kunbi saris that he showed as part of his the world, if they could only close their that women’s wages were usually being and an improved ability to move about Spring/Summer collection in 2014 were light, paid into the bank account of the woman’s their communities unaccompanied. labour force gender gaps, are often cited. implementation could make programmes breezy and utterly modern, but their roots in A report by McKinsey Global Institute husband (the household head). Working Surveys conducted three years after we assimilate and function with confidence the garment once worn by women of Goa’s with economists from Harvard Business partnered with the state to implement inreach a new women. city? SuchIt would thoughtful be nice policy if andthe suggests that if women participated in government matches its words with deeds tribal Kunbi community was loudly and proudly the Indian economy at the level men School, the University of Southern the policy showed that the programme proclaimed by Rodricks himself. It’s hard to California and Duke University, we tested and increases funding to programmes do, annual GDP could be increased by targeting women. Until then, policy can imagine anyone else having the courage and 60 per cent above its projected GDP by how women’s activities and well-being patriarchal norms. Husbands in especially the vision to declare that these red-and-white changed when this straightforward alsoconservative began homes to influence reported they restrictive would build on the fact that pulling women into chequered saris, worn by women as they waded policy was put into effect in conservative face relatively lower judgement from their the economy isn’t just a function of budget rests on a variety of assumptions. But the allocations or social sector programmes. 2025.underlying This conclusion striking figure is that undoubtedly women’s areas of northern districts in the state. community when their wives left home shared history. We helped women open their own bank to work for pay than similar husbands in It’s also a matter of thoughtful policy potential to contribute to GDP is huge. design and political will. through flooded paddy fields, are also part of a The same analysis also suggested that accounts, trained them on how to use randomly assigned areas where we did New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 | INTERNATIONAL | | English Daily Open Search | 5 FIRST COLUMN Japan vows to step up efforts In bipartisan bid to restrain Trump, senate on coronavirus testing, containment after first fatality passes Iran war powers resolution Washington, Agency. hands but to reassert Congress’ constitutional The Senate voted Thursday to require prerogatives on matters of war. For decades, lawmakersan increasingly in both assertive parties executive have ceded branch. those President Donald Trump to seek congressional powersTrump viewed with littlethe resolution resistance, as deferring a personal to authorization before taking further military action against Iran, as Democrats joined Japan, Agency. Japan on Friday vowed to forcesafter he with escalated eight hostilities Republicans with to Tehran. try to reinThe step up testing and containment efforts affront,show of andtimidity Wednesday and an attempt urged Republicans by Democrats to in the president’s war-making powers weeks reject it, framing the measure as a dangerous attempt by the Senate to restrain Trump’s bipartisan vote, 55-45, amounted to a rare to “embarrass the Republican Party.” forincluding the coronavirus a doctor and after taxi suffering driver. Japan’sits first acquit him of impeachment charges and “We are doing very well with Iran, and this deathhealth and ministry the confirmation said on Thursday of new that cases, authority just over a week after it voted to a woman in her 80s living in Kanagawa is not the time to show weakness,” Trump wrote on Twitter, adding: “If my hands were nearly six weeks after the president moved Congress’s authority to weigh in on matters had died. She was transferred between tied, Iran would have a field day. Sends a very without authorization from Congress to kill of war and peace. “After many decades of bad signal.” The legislation is sure to pass the prefecture,hospitals as just her to condition the west worsened of Tokyo, and as support for the measure fell short of the a top Iranian security commander. But it was abdicating responsibility under presidents Iran’s most important general. Because such Democratic-led House, where Speaker Nancy a mostly symbolic rebuke of the president, measurescontrolled enjoySenate specialwas required procedures to consider under Pelosia formal said statement it would be of taken administration up “in the coming policy a promised veto by Trump. The House passed the 1973 War Powers Act, the Republican- weeks,”,that Trump but Whitewould House veto itadvisers if it reached warned his in wasJapanese only confirmedmedia said to was have the the woman’s coronavirus two-thirdsa similar measuresupermajority last month needed on to aoverride nearly of both parties it is time for Congress to take after her death. A Tokyo taxi driver, who party-line vote that also fell well short of this so very seriously,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va. it. In briefings with Trump’s national security and the lead sponsor of the measure, said. teamthe administration after the strike had on not the Iranianconsulted general, with the United States was not currently engaged son-in-law, as well as a man in his 20s just desk. The statement described the measure “Weto the need portion a Congress of the Constitution that will fully that inhabitgrants lawmakers in both parties, already angry that as “grounded in a faulty premise” because east of Tokyo and a doctor in Wakayama, the two-thirds margin. Still, indignant at the theCongress Article the I powers,”power to Kaine declare added, war. referring “That’s westernlocal governments Japan, were and also expand confirmed our testing to administration’s handling of a drone strike them before the operation, complained that haveprocedures the virus. and “We treatment will stay of in patients touch with in in any use of force against Iran. In the Senate, in Iraq last month that killed a top Iranian Kaine drafted the resolution in early January as top officials demeaned and dismissed them Republican opponents of the measure official a major provocation that pushed the what our troops and their families deserve.” inwho briefings sponsored for the questioning resolution the insisted president’s that mirroredpotentially Trump’s perilous language, time and arguing be viewed that theby United States and Iran to the brink of war an strategy.the measure Both was Republicans not intended and to tie Democrats Trump’s resolution would shackle the president at a order to prevent the spread of the illness,” unusually large number of Senate Republicans tensions ratcheted up with Iran after the strike Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters, crossed party lines in an attempt to claw back in Baghdad that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, aincluding day after spending a task force 10.3 on billion the disease yen from Tehran as a message of weakness. drew up new measures to deal with it, India offers US dairy, chicken access in bid for Narayana Murthy’s son-in-law Rishi budgetcabinet reserves.secretary Planners Yoshihide will Suga also told keep a Sunak is UK’s new finance minister in close contact with Japan’s military, chief details. He said the number of people New Delhi , Agency. news conference, without giving further elusive trade deal with Trump : Report British Prime Minister Boris Washington, Agency. confirmed to have the virus in Japan had the sources said. But dairy imports risenJapanese to 33, media with reported another 218after on Mr. a cruiseSuga’s but with a 5% tariff and quotas, Johnson Wednesday appointed ship quarantined at a port in Yokohama. not derived from animals that bid for a limited trade deal during US Indian-origin politician and India has offered to partially open wouldhave consumed need a certificatefeeds that they include are remarkstested positive. that a manBoth in Mr. Wakayama, Suga and Healthat the up its poultry and dairy markets in a Infosys co-founder Narayana Minister Katsunobu Kato said there was no Murthy’sminister in son-in-lawhis cabinet. Rishi“The same hospital as the doctor, had also tissues of ruminants. New Delhi President Donald Trump’s first official Sunak as the new finance internal organs, blood meal or pleased to approve the visit to the country this month, people tariffs on very large motorcycles evidencealthough Katothe coronavirus, said that it might dubbed and SARS- that familiar with the protracted talks Queen has been graciously the government needed prepare for that has also offered to lower its 50% CoV-2, was spreading widely in Japan, say.restricted India, dairy the world’s imports largest to protect milk- that was a particular irritant for the livelihoods of 80 million rural appointment of Rt Hon Rishi producing nation, has traditionally made by Harley-Davidson, a tax households involved in the industry. Sunak as Chancellor of the Exchequer,” Downing Street said situation.Separately, some passengers But Prime Minister Narendra Modi in an official press release. Sunak is the second person to join largelyTrump, symbolic who has because labeled few India such the on the cruise ship Diamond Princess, is trying to pull all the stops for the US Johnson’s cabinet, the first being Priti Patel, the Home secretary. “tariff king.” The change would be The 39-year-old is set to move into No. 11 Downing Street, next which has been moored Yokohama, Unitedgoods andStates services is India’s trade second-largest climbed to will be feted in Modi’s home state of justfor the south originally of Tokyo, targeted were set date to startof Feb. 19. rebuilding bonds between the world’s trade partner after China, and bilateral door to the Prime Minister’s Office. In his first public comment, Elderly passengers who have medical motorcycles are sold in India. Trump Sunak said that there was “a lot to get on with”. Earlier in the disembarking on Friday instead of waiting president’s Feb. 24-25 visit, aimed at and attend a reception that the hosts conditions or are in windowless rooms day, in an unprecedented move, Pakistani-origin Sajid Javid a record $142.6 billion in 2018. The have promised will be bigger than the Gujarat, then hold talks in New Delhi resigned as the Chancellor. Sunak previously served as the Chief largest democracies. In 2019, Trump United States had a $23.2 billion goods one organized for former president Kato said. The ship was quarantined suspendedafter Modi put India’s price caps special on medical trade tradehas offered deficit into 2019allow with imports India, ofits U.S.9th Secretary to the Treasury, the second in command to the finance can complete their quarantine onshore, designation that dated back to 1970s, largest trading partner in goods. India minister. He was elected to the parliament in 2015. Born in 1980, he attended the Winchester College before going on to study Barackwill be Obamaenough into 2015.satisfy But U.S. it Trade is far onHong arrival Kong in before Yokohama, it travelled near Tokyo, to Japan on data localization requirements and Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University. Before devices, such as cardiac stents and chicken legs, turkey and produce such from clear whether India’s offers Feb. 3 after a man who disembarked in kneee-commerce implants, restrictions.Trump’s and introduced newtrip as blueberries and cherries, Indian entering politics, the UK-born son of a pharmacist mother and a National Health Service (NHS) general practitioner (GP) father government sources said, and has Representative Robert Lighthizer, who wasmainland diagnosed China. with About the 80% virus, of which the ship’s has restore some of the country’s US trade want that tariff cut to 10%. The Modi workedthe parliamentary for investment under-secretary bank Goldman of state Sachs. in the A Conservative ministry of offered to cut tariffs on chicken legs cancelled plans for a trip to India this now killed more than 1,350 people in government is also offering to allow party MP for Richmond (Yorkshire), Sunak was appointed to India has raised hopes that he would from 100% to 25%. U.S. negotiators week. Instead, he has held telephone reductions and other concessions. The talks with Indian Commerce Minister passengersto Japanese aremedia. 60 or older, with 215 in preferences, in exchangeopensearch for tariff housing, communities and local government as part of a new Piyush Goyal. their 80s and 11 in their 90s, according some access to India’s dairy market, Powerful quake hits off northern Fear, boredom, adventure fill each day on Japan; no tsunami danger quarantined ship with coronavirus cases How months of miscalculation led Tokyo, Agency. the US and Iran to the brink of war the cruise ship quarantined United Arab, Agency. The decision by President Donald Trump to authorize the Lifein a onJapanese the Diamond port with Princess, scores killing of Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful capital of the United Arab Emirates. The Middle East In late September, a plane carrying senior Iranian militarywhile struggling commander, to continue might ultimately funding its deter military future activities Iranian ofaccording cases ofto a interviews new virus, by means The officials touched down in Abu Dhabi, the gleaming experiencingAssociated Press all with these passengers things, and a growing stream of tweets aggression. Yet a recent CIA analysis concluded that Iran, strategy by Emirati leaders to defuse had witnessed a summer of violence, and a meeting under American sanctions, appears no closer to entering the tension. The small but powerful Tokyo, Agency. with the Iranians was part of a quiet direct talks over its nuclear program. hit off Japan’s northern coast on and YouTube videos. At times there’s an almost festive atmosphere, But the fissures in the American-led as when locals on Jet Skis buzz the ship, shouting greetings. Other separate peace avoiding violence that A powerful earthquake anti-Irandimmed a coalition,vision of a exemplifiedrealignment byin times,largest there’s cluster deep of infections worry, like outside on the daysChina. when One new passenger cases of who the could shatter its decades-long effort to Persian Gulf nation wanted to broker a secretivethe Middle Emirati-Iranian East long advocated talks, have not Thursday, but there were no reports illness are confirmed, pushing the total on the ship to 218 the of serious damage or injuries and no in a volatile region. of the Arab states in the Persian measured a preliminary magnitude of 7 became ill-described the initial terror of being whisked to a hospital But the meeting set off alarms danger of a tsunami, officials said. Japan’s present itself as a modern, stable oasis only by Trump, but also by the leaders meteorologicaland was located agency far off saidthe northeastern the quake while covered in protective plastic, but also of the surprisingly mild coast of Japan’s northern main island of symptoms. With the number of illnesses increasing, there’s also a learned about it only after reading reports from U.S. nagging doubt about whether this kind of quarantine works. Some Gulf and Prime Minister Benjamin inside the White House, where officials Netanyahu of Israel. Iranian officials (100 miles) below the ocean’s surface experts question if keeping more than 3,500 passengers and crew ininside such the close vacation quarters cruise might that’s spread gone the seriously viral disease, off-course. COVID-19. Even also miscalculated, believing that after a series of escalatory Hokkaido. It was centered 60 kilometers spy agencies. The Emirati government, a stalwart ally military operations the tanker attacks, the shooting down island that is also claimed by Japan. NHK With another week or more of quarantine to come, the AP looks that had long pushed for a hawkish American approach ofrefrain an American from responding drone, the Saudiconsequentially. oil strikes, rocket“There attacks were public television showed video monitors and east of Etorofu island, a Russian-held toward Iran, was in secret talks with Iranian officials. on bases in Iraq by Iranian-backed militias Trump would during the quarantine, it can seem like Cheryl and Paul Molesky are Nationalby the Trump Security administration Council officials over more met than to discuss two years the still on vacation. The couple from Syracuse, New York, can be seen seemed to be crumbling. The episode came in the midst implications: A united front against Iran carefully built dueling perceptions both in Tehran and in Washington that and shelves shaking at its office in Kushiro in their YouTube videos lounging, often in plush bathrobes, on their balcony, enjoying the sweeping views of a glittering, sun-streaked the other side was a paper tiger,” said Karim Sadjadpour, an on the southeastern coast of Hokkaido. Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International ocean and, on occasion, snow-capped Mount Fuji. “We try to have with the Trump administration’s escalation of sanctions Hokkaido prefectural police said they had of a nine-month period that shook up the United States’ Peace. In the predawn darkness on May 12, mines placed to cause any because of its depth and an upbeat presentation and make sure that our attitude comes and culminating with the two powers in a direct military received no reports of damage or injuries. already combustible relationship with Iran beginning by naval operatives suspected to be members of Iran’s Officialsdistance saidfrom the the quake coast. was unlikely across that, we’re not hurt, we’re not in pain, … we’re actually just enjoying ourselves,” Paul Molesky, a 78-year-old potter, said in an Revolutionary Guard blew holes in four oil tankers anchored in the Gulf of Oman. interview. “It’s been very nice.” confrontation on the brink of wider and bloodier conflict. Donald Trump may stop allowing After Trump’s attacks on Justice Department, William Barr says he will not ‘be bullied’ aides to listen to foreign leader calls New Delhi Correspondent.

Washington, Agency. House already moved to restrict the number of In an extraordinary rebuke of President President Donald Trump said he is considering on the Justice Department had made it to advance his personal interests. The White Donald Trump, Attorney General William or read transcripts of the discussions in the Barr said Thursday that Trump’s attacks administration officials allowed to listen to calls blockingafter a whistle-bloweradministration officialscomplaint from about listening his “impossible for me to do my job” and to his telephone calls with foreign leaders, assertedamong the that president’s “I’m not going most to loyal be bullied allies aftermath of the Ukraine scandal, CNN reported and denigrated by Democrats as nothing inrestrictions December. largelyNational affecting Security careerAdvisor staffersRobert or influenced by anybody.” Barr has been of seven felonies in a bid to obstruct conversation with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr O’Brien now serves as gatekeeper, with new frienda congressional Roger Stone, investigation who was convicted that Zelenskiy led to his impeachment. “That’s what publicly challenged Trump in a way that threatened the president. Trump’s no other sitting Cabinet member has. they’ve done over the years, when you call a whoTrump some said in thehe was White considering House believe a total aren’t ban more than his personal lawyer, but he foreign leader, people listen,” Trump said in a have listened in on his calls. But the president has expressed frustration with the monitoring insufficiently response loyalto a questionto the president. about the removal of radio interview with Geraldo Rivera that was the prosecutors in the department that after details of his calls have prompted scrutiny criticisms “make it impossible for me to broadcastPresidential on Thursday. phone “Icalls may with end thetop practice world “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced do my job and to assure the courts and leaders are routinely monitored by national within the government or occasionally been entirely, I may end it entirely.” Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from by anybody,” Barr said in an interview thereported White concernsHouse National about Securitythe call Council in which last with ABC News. “And I said, whether it’s we’retweeting doing about our Department work with of integrity,” Justice transcripts of his calls with former Australian Congress,is right. newspaper editorial board or Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and former week. Vindman, who returned to the Army, Barr said. He added, “It’s time to stop the securityintelligence aides agencies at the Whiteso that House government as well leaked to the press. Early in his administration, the president, I’m going to do what I think president said they were caught off guard Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto were Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter as top officials at the State Department and Trumpto NSC lawyers.Trump asked Zelenskiy said to investigatehe saw Vindman’s former criminalby the interview. cases.” Hours People after close prosecutors to the I cannot do my job here at the whistle-blower whose complaint prompted officialshelps protect are awarethe president of what should the president foreign that when Vindman was removed from the department with a constant background sentence Stone to seven to nine years countries issue distorted or misleading accounts publishedTrump’s impeachment by the Washington reported Post.that Andmultiple the the fallout from the department’s discussed. Among other purposes, the practice actions as “very insubordinate” and claimed commentary that undercuts me.” Barr’s recommended Monday that a judge of the conversations.Trump said Thursday that remarksbotched handling were aimed of its at sentencing containing the call said Trump had used the conversation recommendation for Trump’s longtime in prison, Trump attacked their request White House officials with direct knowledge of White House “many people in the building started applauding.” as “horrible and very unfair” and as a as many as 25 people within the administration “miscarriage of justice.” 6 | English Daily Open Search | SPORTS | New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 Match-fixing case : Police may summon T-Series’ Krishan, take Sanjeev Chawla to match venues New Delhi, Agency. Chawla absconded to the United Kingdom at the time of order said. The court turned down the 12request days of will Chawla’s suffice advocates the purpose…,” – Vineet the Malhotra and Hemant Shah – that they filing of the chargesheet and Cronje was killed in a plane The Delhi Police Crime Branch is likely to summon Krishan be allowed to accompany Chawla during crashwhile inthe June Tests 2002. were The played ODIs in Mumbaiquestion andwere Bangalore. played in Kumar, brother of slain T-Series founder Gulshan Kumar, as Cochin, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Vadodara and Nagpur, they prepare to question Sanjeev Chawla, the key accused the accused for the period of whole in the same hotels where the teams were staying. He had in the 2000 cricket match-fixing scandal involving late the police remand, saying “accompanying “…while committing the said crime, he (Chawla) stayed South African captain Hansie Cronje. Chawla, who was produced before a Delhi Court on Thursday, was sent to remandaccused willeveryday frustrate with the priorinvestigation”. intimation It, given money, mobile phone and also transferred money 12 days of police custody. Chawla and Kumar, along with however, allowed the counsel to meet the to Cronje’s accounts. He was in regular contact with other others, were part of the 2013 Delhi Police chargesheet accused (Kalra, Kumar and Dara) and many others,” the into the conspiracy to fix matches during the 2000 series to the Investigating Officer of the case. courtat length was to told. unearth The agency,the whole while conspiracy pressing and for 14identify days’ between India and South Africa. While Kumar had been ThePolice next intercepted date of a hearing conversation is May between 14.The remand, submitted that the accused has to be interrogated questioned, Chawla left for the UK before the scandal scandal broke in April 2000, when Delhi came to light. A senior police officer said that along with which it was learnt that the South African allvenues others with involved other inaccused. the scandal Chawla’s in India advocates or abroad. opposed The Kumar, notices will also be issued to other key accused allegedcaptain bookiehad accepted Chawla money and Cronje, to lose in court was told that Chawla needs to be taken to the seven Rajeshand will Kalra confront and allDara of themalias Bittuwith Chawla.asking them to join the matches. Chawla has also been accused of investigation. “We have prepared some questions for them offering money to two England players in theJail Complexremand and during stated the pre-trialthat “as per detention Letter andof Assurance in the event of August 1999. Chawla was produced before Government of India, the accused has to be kept at Tihar We have found during our investigation that the first Test the court after being extradited from the in Mumbai and the first One-Day International in Cochin in UK and was handed over at Heathrow of prison sentence upon conviction.” The court noted, “… 2000 were fixed. Now we will take him (Chawla) to both the accused was granted bail in UK, therefore, the accused the places to re-create the sequence of events. We came to andpermission two Test from matches the court of the for India-South further investigation Africa series. and “… has not remained in custody even for a single day… The know that another accused, Manmohan Khattar, who had Airporttold the in court London on to Thursday be brought that back Chawla to India. was Delhi the Police, main Government of India has assured that the accused would Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhir Kumar Sirohi allowed the It is well settled law that the police does not require any escaped to the US, died of cancer. But there is no official represented by special public prosecutor Atul Srivastava, bepre-trial kept at does Tihar not Jail include Complex the during stage of the investigation pre-trial detention and the confirmation,” an officer said. Meanwhile, Additional Chief police custody sought is not against the spirit of the letter inby thisthe policematter and places the likematter Cochin, is to Jamshedpur,be investigated Faridabad, further. and upon conviction by competent court, but the stage of Varodara, Nagpur, Mumbai and Bangalore are to be visited person involved in the match-fixing case regarding which police to quiz Chawla in their custody for 12 days instead an FIR was lodged on April 6, 2000. The police said that of the 14 days sought, after the Crime Branch alleged Kalra, Kumar and Dara were arrested during the probe but of Government of India dated 22.09.2017.” that he “played the main conduit” for the five one-dayers Therefore, in my considered opinion, police custody of FIRST COLUMN New Zealand’s Lockie Ferguson not Back from the clutches of cancer, Ranji: Manoj Tiwary Kamal Kaniyal hits ton on Ranji debut masterclass revives expecting to make India Test series New Delhi, Agency. Kamal Kaniyal remembers the day when he went for a blood Bengal against Punjab Wellington, Agency. a Noida hospital for further treatment. He doesn’t remember the added. “Not that it’s easy to easy side to make, the New check-upfull conversation and the hisdoctor father advised had with his fatherhis doctor. Umesh He toheard take that him his to Zealand Test side,” Ferguson platelet count was decreasing FastTest squad bowler on Lockie Monday Ferguson for the isseries not they’ve been exceptional for expecting to be picked in New Zealand’s and he would need to travel make any of the sides, but to the Uttar Pradesh city for against India as he recovers from a calf sobeen long, very and settled especially for a long the injury that ruined his debut against tests were done and the report fast-bowling attack, that’s treatment.stated that Hehe was suffering 15, the Australia late last year. Ferguson broke that despite being considered Patiala, Agency. down after bowling just 11 overs in the time.”as more He alsoof a acknowledgedlimited-overs first Test in Perth and has been working bowler at the international On his way back to the his way back to fitness for Auckland from leukemia, cancer of the blood.Kanyal Onslammed Thursday, a hundred three years on pavilion, Manoj Tiwary was applauded inon domesticSunday andcricket. indicated He expects the limited- to play to play the longest form of the overs series against Australia in March after recovering from cancer, even by one of Punjab’s substitutes. The New Zealand’s domestic one-day final level, he was still motivated veteran’s knock of 65 was one of the main was a more realistic target for his international return. debut for Uttarakhand against reasons for Bengal making a comeback into game.been my“Since goal I started to play playing Test “Of course the goal is for me to get Maharashtra in Baramati in a Ranji tie. Kanyal scored 101 off 160 the crucial Ranji Trophy clash. His 107-run professional cricket, it has fourth-wicket partnership with all-rounder balls which had 17 fours in it. “It was the second stage and t I Arnabin hand Nandi in their (51) second helped innings. Bengal On take a day an was told that 47% of my body was affected by it,” Kanyal recalls cricket, because personally while talking to The Indian Express. A young and promising overall lead of 186 runs with one wicket back as soon as possible, but there is so December, Ferguson is realistically I feel that’s the biggest challenge,” he much cricket coming up this year,” he fifth in the pecking order behind the cricketer, who was selected for UP under-14 trials among 40 said. “I am obviously super stoked to be players and later for the under -16 trials among 60 players, when 16 wickets fell on a turning track, told Stuff Media in Auckland on Friday. established trio of Trent Boult, Tim playing red-ball has been a big goal of playing one-dayers and T20s for New could never break into the final squad. Cancer meant the boy Tiwary’sscored a tripleknock hundred could have against put Bengal Hyderabad on “We’ve got a lot of white-ball stuff and SoutheeAustralia andbut trained Neil Wagner with the and national then Zealand,mine. “On I lovethe everyday it momentwasn’t toof beit, but(in the road to the quarterfinals. Tiwary, who Ithere’s head awaya high to thepercentage IPL as well,chance so it’sof Matt Henry. Boult broke his hand in from Haldwani near Nainital, couldn’t do much the next year. Three years ago, Uttarakhand was not a permanent member important with a calf injury, where before they wrapped up a 3-0 sweep it was really frustrating. “But it’s one until Lodha Committee’s recommendation came in and handed lastThumba. month, But had the played Bengal a batsmansimilar innings said that side earlier this week in Mt. Maunganui Perth), I only got through 11 overs, and of 51 against Kerala on a turning track at re-injury, that we be conservative. full membership to the association. It opened the gates for local cricketers too and meant they were no longer at the mercy of “Sunday’s my focus and then I’ll be in the one-day series over India and of those things. When you bowl quick, Thursday’s knock was more challenging. looking to play some first-classopensearch cricket.” should play the first Test that starts Uttar Pradesh, who always gave them a cold shoulder. injuries can sometimes happen.” “We have played two matches on spinning DespiteShubman making hisGill Test vs debut Prithvi last onShaw, Feb. 21 Swagger in Wellington. “It’s not an tracks this season but this pitch was more challenging. I knew that the ball would turn vs Stability, Aggressor vs Stylist and also stay straight on this kind of wicket. IPL 2020 : Royal Challengers So I decided not to commit to the shot New Delhi, Agency. beforeLack judging of leadership the length and flight. led to ball-tampering scandal, Bangalore unveil new logo It’s a classic coming-of-age story. Two promising youngsters, says Ricky Ponting contemporaries and friends, donning similar roles, pitted against Bangalore, Agency. eachand otheroverlapping like and deep typecast into as their rivals. No matter how hard they try, Melbourne, Agency. thecareers. shadows Among would contemporary keep chasing Ponting believes exodus of experienced IPLspeculation franchise over Royalthe change Challengers of identity Bangalore of the Former skipper Ricky and Prithvi Shaw would be fully (RCB) have unveiled their new logo. This ends this leadership crisis had led to the infamous young cricketers, Shubman Gill playersball-tampering left a void scandal in Australian in South cricket Africa andin Bengaluru-based franchise, which had started accustomed to this bracketing. Born earlier this week when all the social media just 62 days apart, labelled as future handles of RCB went blank. Noted RCB players 2018.Bancroft Steve was Smith suspended and David for nine Warner months were of Indian batting when they were and cricket analysts had expressed concern handed one-year bans, while Cameron barelycouldn’t in help their themselves teens, U-19 being World seen after RCB’s social media handles went blank roles in the ball-tampering scandal which Cup heroes in 2018, Gill and Shaw on Wednesday evening, including Twitter by Cricket Australia for their respective andwas Facebook.without a Whilelogo but its Twitterhad Bangalore account in only its as rivals. Everything Shaw does get compared with Gill, and vice versa. read: Royal Challengers, the Facebook account happenedthe experience in the going Cape out Town of our Test team in March, at the Gill understands this and clarifies: “Obviously, our careers started at 2018. “I was a bit worried that with a lot of the same time but there is no fight as such. Both of us have done well name. Speaking on the launch of the new void left with experienced players to be able in our positions. It’s up to the team management, who they will play. visualnew brand identity, identity Sanjeev to give Churiwala, our rampant Chairman lion a same time, that there would be a bit of a It’sThat not both as if possessthere is adifferent fight.” Shaw batting too hasstyles emphasised and personalities the absence feed of of RCB, said “The idea behind the design of the rivalries amongst them. Then, it’s the fait accompli of contemporaries. logo is a commitment to continuously entertain franchise announced a three-year partnership with to say ‘no’ basically,” Ponting was quoted as contemporary makeover. The elements in the sayingthere were by ESPNcricinfo. enough people “If aroundI look at in where that the narrative arc more flourish. Shaw’s batting is all flamboyance thingsteam to got say at ‘no’ Cape to Town,some of I just those don’t guys. think and derring-do. Gill is more watchful and orthodox. Shaw is chatty andidentity engage for withthe club fans was who necessary are the force to effectively behind Royal live Things got completely out of control. That’s anddifferent outgoing. schools Gill of is batting. withdrawn Shaw and hardwired reserved. by Shaw his tough is an upbringing aggressor, Challengersand breathe this Bangalore.” vision and “We celebrate believe the a passion change for in Muthoot Fincorp Ltd, popularly known as Muthoot Gill a stylist. One brings swagger; the other stability. They belong to Blue. The partnership of title sponsor for RCB nothing to do with the team really until the includes the “jersey-front” logo placement, which very much an outsider’s view on it. I had in Mumbai; Gill the privileged boy who had his father’s farm hands will be prominent on the playing and training jersey, cricket and playing bold.” RCB had recently inked announced on Tuesday. to bowl bouncers at him. Their career paths have taken different a new a three-year sponsorship deal ahead of IPL in-stadium integration at home matches, digital and last couple of years around some T20 cricket trajectories too. Shaw made his Test debut six months after the U-19 2020 with Muthoot Fincorp Ltd. The Bangalore based other highly visible media platforms, the franchise and the World Cup last year,” he added. World Cup triumph, celebrated the occasion with a hundred. Gill waited Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuma Vihari save the day Grass at Seddon Park is green, but deceptive after India capitulate on first day of red ball test Hamilton, Agency. New Delhi, Agency. in 2017. In between, there was a rain-affected draw against South Africa. Seddon Park, though The Northern Districts cricket headquarters, Hanuma Vihari saved the it has been a largely result-producing ground, Cheteshwar Pujara and located at the entrance of Seddon Park, is empty isn’tfourth a inningsnightmare have for bred batsmen. a lot of hundreds.In fact, it easesDon’t but for the bored receptionist, who is under the out as the game progresses a reason the third/ illusion that the venue is hosting another India- blushespractice match for India against on New the first day of the three-day New Zealand T20I, and a billboard of Kane be fooled by the colour, says assistant curator Williamson and Virat Kohli holding the trophy. in Hamilton on Friday. On Andrew James McMecking, too. He explains the Zealand XI at Seddon Park The lights, strangely, are lit in almost every rationale: “It’s generally very humid here, so we other room, despite a massive drive to reduce failed to get their scores leave a lot more grass so that it does not break a day when eight Indians power consumption. The receptionist banters: grass).up, so thatThis there dries is out bounce very fastand so pace we throughout struggle to “It’s to keep me awake.” And as an afterthought (93) and Vihari (101*) from the rest of the ground, green carpets like the game. Also, we use the winter grass (rye into double digits, Pujara adds: “I think I need to switch on the floodlights thebe the ones surface that werefor the rolled warm-up out for game India between on the to keep me awake.” disastrous tour of 2003. Word has it that it could keepthe present the surface summer green. has So webeen do thewhat harshest we can The ground, though, is basking under the battedout of trouble for close on a to green five (to keep the grass as green as possible).” That hourspitch with and help bailed on offer India for blazing sun, the grass shining so brightly that India and New Zealand A. But don’t be fooled the reflection almost burns the eyes. The closer byto batsmenthe colour, than says it recenthas ever match been history in its history.on this could have been a factor. He says: “We expect only other batsman to get his score one approaches the square, where the assistant The last game played here was a dull draw with the ball to move around a bit.” That would be took them to 233/5. Another flurry various hues on the square. The one on the ground. Seddon Park has recently been kinder seamers. Ajinkya Rahane (18) was the curator is attending to the pitch, the grass gets quite a transition for the Indian team from the of wickets late in the day saw India thicker and brighter. There are four strips of limited-oversresembling a matchbox leg to the from five-day the distance. format. TheFor into double digits. Four Indians bagged putting up 263 at Stumps on Day 1. Ish the hitherto out-of-touch Joe Root scoring a away dressing room is a lovely but tiny box, ducks, among them opening prospects Sodhi and Kuggeleijn were the pick of extremewith thin right, grass. on On which its side was is played a moderately- the third Zealand could easily have started off on double hundred. Tom Latham compiled one in Shubman Gill and Prithvi Shaw. the bowlers, with 3 wickets each. The T20, is patchy, brown blotches interspersed an entire squad, it could be suffocating. Two red ball sojourn of the tour of New seemingly used. The next is neatly wrapped the first innings, so did Kane Williamson and Wriddhiman Saha and Ravichandran Ross Taylor in the second. The Bangladesh and largehonours tables board. occupy The the list two of corners Test centurions of the room, is greenunder one,a tarpaulin a grass carpetsheet. Onbut thenot extremequite lush left and is Ashwin also failed to get off the mark. West Indies games were one-sided, but one makingheavily populatedthe room lookby Bangladeshi tinier. On the batsmen. wall is Five the India were reduced to 38/4 in the a nightmarish note for Team India, had specialists. knows how implosive their batting units are. morningVihari stretched session itself,across before three thesessions 195- it not been for a fighting partnership Speaking of being implosive, Pakistan lost nine run partnership between Pujara and between Pujara and Vihari, the two Test a deck that’s so green that it’s indistinguishable wickets in the final session to lose a Test here entries, four batsmen. New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 | BUSINESS | | English Daily Open Search | 7 FIRST COLUMN After Supreme Court rap, AGR dues: After Supreme Court rap, Airtel DoT orders telcos to clear dues by 11.59 pm today says will pay 10,000 crore by 20 February New Delhi, Agency. After Supreme New Delhi, Agency. Court rap, the telecom department began their revenues. “We draw contempt against issuing orders, directing companies companies.and he should Let bethe present desk officer on the also next explain date such as Bharti AirtelNSE 4.64 % and Bhartirevenue Airtelrelated will dues deposit to the department 10,000 crore of the ire of the Supreme Court for putting why appropriate action should not be taken Vodafone Idea to clear dues before as part payment for adjusted gross withdraw that dot order or he will go behind Fridayon hold midnight. recovery Theof dues DoT, from which telecom faced balance before 17 March as it needs time to of hearing. Please ask the desk officer to telecommunicationscomplete the exercise by 20of Februarycalculating and dues the the bars by evening. We have to take action companies, started issuing circle or zone- againstthe court him.said. Officer should understand wise demand notices to firms, an order we will complete the self assessment exercise across 22 circles, the company said in a letter where they should stop. It is clear contempt,” seen by PTI said. The order issued on to the DoT on Friday. “We are confident that the telecom operators to appear on 17 March order issued the circle-based Controller Friday by the UP (West) Telecom Circle well before the next date of hearing of the for the hearing. This spells another round of Communication Accounts came after The apex court also asked top executives of asked “all telecom service provider .. The shortly and make the balance payment of trouble for the telcos which have been the telecom department earlier on a copy of Airtel’s letter. battling a mountain of debt and plunging Supreme Court,” the letter said. Mint has seen for no coercive action against telecom crore. This comes immediately after the DoT Fridaycompanies withdrew defaulting its order on statutory that asked dues The company’s total dues are 35,586 revenue streams. It also raises questions payment. The circular was withdrawn dues by end of Friday in order to comply on the survival of Vodafone Idea and the by the telecom department immediately with the October verdict of the Supreme asked all telecom companies to repay AGR to meet the court-directed deadline to pay Court on Friday pulled up Bharti Airtel and competition in the Indian market which couldis dependent see the on risk the ofpositive a duopoly. outcome Vodafone of the view of non-compliance in payment payment of outstanding dues of licence fee Idea’s ability to continue as a going concern afterof dues the by Supreme telecom Court companies. took a Thestrong Court. “You are hereby directed to make the dues. “The order dated 23 January stands Vodafone Idea for not paying their adjusted court and the subsequent agreement with made scathing observations on the conduct modificationDoT for payment application in instalments filed in after the some apex and spectrum usage charges by 11:59 pm of withdrawn with immediate effect,” the DoT gross revenue (AGR) dues to the government said in a separate letter dated 14 February. byof the23 January.telecom Thecompanies Supreme as Courtwell as on the Friday DoT DoT order issued to its field offices 14 February positively,” the DoT letter dated had said on Thursday. Airtel has already subsequently had asked for “immed .. “It is directed to take immediate necessary Steadview Capital and 14 February said. The government has also moratoriumraised $3 billion and otherto repay reliefs, dues. the Jio company paid its against mobile service providers that failed actionthe letter in said. compliance Mint has withseen a the copy judgement of DoT’s withdrawn its 23 January order in which letters. DoT’s move comes after the Supreme over1 trillion in dues for under reporting it had decided not to take coercive action dated 24 October of the Supreme Court,” for ignoring its 24 October verdict that had Tiger Global lead $70 Mn directed the firm to pay DoT by 23 January round in Innovaccer AGR dues on 23 January. New Delhi, Agency. Healthcare data Sensex, Nifty fall for 2nd day Taking Stock : Supreme Court raps telcos for million in a Series C funding round led as banking, auto stocks slide platform Innovaccer has secured $70 New Delhi, Agency. not paying up; Sensex falls below 50-DMA by Steadview Capital and Tiger Global. Dragoneer, Westbridge Capital, Mubadala New Delhi, Agency. andwould Microsoft’s be deploying venture the newfund capital M12 also participatedtowards improving in the round. their existing Innovaccer healthcare Market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty dropped by almost half a percentage point on Friday as banking shares tumbled following digitization processes by strengthening its Falling below their 50-day moving average, the Indian the Supreme Court taking a strong note of non-compliance of after the Supreme Court ordered telecom players to itsin statutory order asking dues. telcosThe equity benchmarks -Sensex and Nifty - closed in the red in a press statement. The latest investment on February 14 as investor sentiment weakened further data activation platform, said the company to30-share pay BSE 1.47 Sensex lakh fell crore by capital secured by the company so far to clear their dues to the government by March 17. India’s for Innovaccer, which has brought the total top court on February 14 asked the top telecom firms to company had bagged $10 million as part of 202.05of its constituents points or 0.49% closing to endwith atlosses. 41,257.74, The withbroader 22 explain why contempt action should not be taken against $120a Series million, B funding has come round after in January a year. Thelast year. them for non-compliance of its order to pay adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of Rs 1.47 lakh crore to the telecom The Supreme court ruling on telecom players NSE Nifty shed 61.20 department. The apex court’s stance weighed on financial It had received the first tranche of the round stocksinstructing also becausethem to of pay their dues exposure by March to the 17 sector. will impact ” worth $25 million from M12, Westbridge, points or 0.50% to settle and Lightspeed in May 2018. Founded in atcounters 12,113.50 retreated. as banking, The Supreme Court on Friday directed the auto, FMCG and energy 2014platform by Abhinav to simplify Shashank, complex Kanav data from Hasija, all the asset quality of banks having decent exposure and Sandeep Gupta, Innovaccer provides a in the sector. Banks stocks will be under pressure and allow organizations to realize strategic top echelons of telecom firms to explain why contempt action crore to the telecom department. The order raised concerns over given high inflation and RBI is unlikely to cut rates points of care, streamline the information should not be taken against them for non-compliance of its the macroeconomic front also as the wholesale price order to pay adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues of 1.47 lakh in the near-term,” said Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services. There was no relief on goals based on key insights and predictions. At present, the company claims to have banks’quarter. exposure The telecom to AGR-hit department telcos, mainly also Vodafonewithdrew Idea its whichorder reported more than 6,000 crore loss for the October-December inflation (WPI) for January stood at 3.1 percent. The their losses into the second consecutive session. In sync its applications running on iPads, tablets, wholesale inflation, measured in terms of a wholesale with the benchmarks, BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices laptops, and the desktops of doctors, RNs price index (WPI), grew 2.59 percent during December also ended lower by 0.79 percent and 0.40 percent, and administrators at more than 500 that asked for no coercive action against telecom companies defaulting on statutory dues payment. IndusInd Bank was the and rose to 2.76 percent in January 2019, according to respectively.For the week, Sensex and Nifty gained 0.3 locations with over 10,000 providers. Based government data. The final tally on D-street on February percent and 0.1 percent, respectively.Top Nifty gainers: outThe of company San Francisco, also claims Innovaccer to serve has more an than top loser among Sensex stocks, dropping by 4.38%. SBI declined 2.41%, HDFC Bank 1.77% and Axis Bank fell by 1.5%. Among 14- Sensex ended 202 points, or 0.49 percent, lower at Yes Bank, Bharti Airtel, UPL, BPCL and HCL Technologies office in India and has over 400 employees. opensearch41,257.74, while Nifty finished with a loss of 61 points, Top Nifty losers: GAIL, Bharti Infratel, IndusInd Bank, others, auto, FMCG and power stocks also closed in the red. or 0.50 percent, at 12,113.45. With this, both extended Eicher Motors and Power Grid Corporation of India. 25 clients. It counts Hartford Healthcare, University of California, Mercy ACO Iowa, Today’sUniNet Healthcare top business Network of news:Nebraska. SC order to telecom firms on AGR COVID-19 to have ‘significant’ impact dues; Microsoft’s Pentagon New Delhi, Agency. on economy : PM Lee Hsien Loong DoT withdraws orderproject on no coercive blocked action Singapore, Agency. temporarily;against telcos WPI The inflation telecom risesdepartment and more sure how long it will take.” On the joint working coercive action against telecom companies committee between Malaysia and Singapore, Mr The ongoing COVID-19 situation will have a hasdefaulting withdrawn on statutory its order dues that paymentasked for no Lee said while the two are separate countries, significant impact on Singapore’s economy for they are “one area” from a public health the next couple of quarters, Prime Minister a strong view of non-compliance with its perspective, noting the high traffic travelling Leenoted Hsien the Loongeconomies said ofon theFriday region (Feb are 14). much The after the Supreme Court on Friday took back and forth between the two countries each current outbreak is “very intense”, he said. He day. As such, Malaysia and Singapore had to work through the problem together, he said. order. The order also directs field offices noting the much bigger role played by China more interlinked now than when Severe Acute Vietnam,he noted. asHe the noted current a similar ASEAN regional chair, approach will also to take “immediate necessary action” in Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) hit 17 years ago, compliance with the October judgment coordinate the group’s response to the virus, of the Supreme Court. Sensex, Nifty fall in the region now. “I can’t say whether we will dropped by almost half a percentage point was taken during the SARS crisis. “For us in for 2nd day as banking, auto stocks slide have a recession or not,” said Mr Lee. “It’s Market benchmarks Sensex and Nifty Singapore, if the region has a problem it’s going possible, but definitely our economy will take a to be very, very difficult for Singapore to isolate hit.”may Theeventually Prime Minister have to noted change that its in aapproach message strong note of non-compliance of its ourselvesthe media andon the to sidelines keep the of problema visit to outsideChangi on Friday as banking shares tumbled to the country last week, he had said Singapore following the Supreme Court taking a ofAirport our boundaries.”MrTerminal 3 on Friday. Lee was Changi speaking Airport to in statutory dues. he Supreme Court on is on the frontlines of the current coronavirus to tackling the virus should the number of Friday directed the top echelons of telecom order asking telcos to pay 1.47 lakh crore confirmed cases continue to grow. ” I don’t think we’ve reached that point situation,now. Accompanied said Mr by Lee, Senior noting Minister the air of travelState Singapore must accept temperature screenings yet,” he said. “But it is an evolving situation. industry has been badly hit, with fewer flights firms to explain why contempt action Every day brings new developments.”While of action in tackling the virus. On whether Singapore, the region and the rest of the world. should not be taken against them for non- numbers are high, recent cases have mostly crore to the telecom department. While Singapore was declared SARS-free in less for Transport and Health Lam Pin Min, he met compliance of its order to pay adjusted been traceable, he noted. He added life here and other measures as the new normal, Mr than four months, the COVID-19 “may not be gross revenue (AGR) dues of 1.47 lakh with various members of the airport’s staff, has to continue, even as the country has to Lee said how long such measures are required so fast”, he said. “It will eventually pass, and including baggage handlers, check-in staff and make “sensible judgements” on the best course depends on how the outbreak develops in we will be back to normal, but I cannot say for immigration officers. FPIs looking to move shops to Singapore to Wholesale inflation jumps escape high taxes after budget proposal to 3.10% in January New Delhi, Agency. Mumbai, Agency. Higher prices of manufactured products

conditions, suchas shifting to a FATF-compliantof moving fund jurisdiction. managers Manyfrom to restructure their pooling vehicles and along with those of key transportation Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) from FPIs also explored the possibility 3.10 per cent in January from a rise of registering new entities in Singapore to hold fuels accelerated India’s annual rate of Mauritius and the Cayman Islands are looking inflation based on wholesale prices to Mauritiusof setting andup thenew Cayman entities. Islands But change the rule to tax indirect transfer of to locations like Singapore, instead 2.59furnished per cent by thein December,Ministry of official Commerce data Indian stocks, after New Delhi proposed to could lead to them being penalised showed on Friday. Similarly, the data per cent in the corresponding period merely tweaking the structure in the financial year so far is 2.50 per cent compared to a buildup rate of 2.49 shares. These FPIs are considering first exiting and Industry showed WPI inflation all investments and then buying those back under the General AntiAvoidance duringfor the January corresponding 2020 to bemonth much ofhigher the their investors about the options that they are of the previous year.” On a sequential through entities registered in Singapore, said Rule (GAAR), they fear. “Many thanprevious the year. rise of 2.76 per cent reported people in the know. The FPIs have informed Categorybe exploring 2 FPIs,to move which to a have FATF a basis, the expenses on manufactured dominant India exposure, might products category, which constitute over the government said only those registered 64 per cent of the WPI’s total weightage, considering, the people said. get a Category 1 status though the “The annual rate of inflation, based under the Securities and Exchange Board of increasedand power to sub-category 0.34 per cent increased from (-)0.25 at a In the budget unveiled on February 1, jurisdictionprocess of setting such asup Singaporea Singapore to on monthly WPI, stood at 3.1 per cent per cent. Furthermore, the prices of fuel fund would be time consuming and costlier. (provisional) for the month of January, from tax here. Category-1 funds comprise Moving only the investment manager to a per cent. The prices of primary and Islands. The exemption was earlier available to 2020 (over January, 2019) as compared food articles though at elevated levels India’sforeign Category-1portfolio investors scheme and would fund be managers exempt FATF country can also enable the fund to get during the corresponding month of the faster rate of 3.42 per cent from (-)1.46 that are from countries compliant with the both categories. The change means, Category-2 to 2.59 per cent (provisional) for the FPIs could end up paying tax of as much as previous month and 2.76 per cent 40% on their returns from transfer of shares declined marginally. The key macro a Category 1 status, but one needs to examine previous year,” the Ministry said in a comprise funds from Mauritius or the Cayman 10-20%to Category on long-term1 if they and comply 30-40% with on certain short- economicJanuary showed inflation an accelerating data comes trend. a day Financial Action Task Force (FATF) rules, such the GAAR risk of having the fund and fund statement on January’s Wholesale Price term capital gains. But, they can get upgraded after the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for as Singapore. Category-2 investors largely manager in different jurisdictions. Index (WPI). “Build up inflation rate 8 | English Daily Open Search | ENTERTAINMENT | New Delhi | Saturday, February 15, 2020 FIRST COLUMN Mahira Sharma gets evicted from Bigg Boss 13 Salman Khan to use his ‘Commitment’ Mumbai, Agency. dialogue from ‘Wanted’ in ‘Radhe: Mahira Sharma was evicted from Bigg Boss Shehnaaz Gill and Paras Chhabra to Your Most Wanted Bhai’? Kaushal had entered the show to promote select a life partner in Colors’ new show 13 on Thursday. Bollywood actor Vicky After interacting with the housemates and his upcoming film Bhoot: The Haunted Ship. that Sharma is the contestant leaving the Post Bigg Boss 13, Shehnaaz Gill and Paras Chhabra will be seen in the show Mujhse listening to their ghost stories, he revealed Shaadi Karoge. The reality show will be on the lines of a swayamvar, where the two will be meeting prospective life partners. The show will be hosted by Maniesh Paul, and it will house along with him. Her eviction comes just gothe on audience air from to February send proposals 17. Shared for a thesesource with indianexpress.com, “Host Salman Khan days before the finale. This week, the entire had hinted at the show when he asked house was nominated for eviction. While Elite Club members Asim Riaz, Sidharth Shukla housemates. With the maximum number and Rashami Desai used their power to save ofto go requests ahead with coming them. in forBoth Shehnaaz of them will Gill themselves,Singh and Mahira Shukla Sharma fought being hard nominated. to protect and Paras Chhabra, the makers decided ParasMahira Chhabra. Sharma Thiswas ledthe toyoungest Shehnaaz contestant Gill, Arti of the season. She entered the house with a lot for taking up the show at the start of her be locked in the house with six suitors of promise and the intent to be the style icon. career. She said, “I have always been a fan of each. Over a period of 13 weeks, they will Bigg Boss. And for years, I have seen people tryother to Bigg find theirBoss life13 housemates partner.” As perto help the was one of the strongest contestants during getting so much love from the show. It would source,Maniesh makers Paul duringare also thetrying auditions to rope ofin She ruled over the kitchen in her stint and be a great way for the audience to know me. Over the years, I have also seen a lot of actors tasks.soon turned From intothe initial‘love’. Thisdays, led Sharma to fans formed saying gettingalso shared cast thatafter she being would on themanage show. to So attract I am the top 12 suitors. Since the housemates athat close she friendship had no existence with Paras apart Chhabra, from Chhabra. which hoping it will do good for me too.” Sharma know Gill and Chhabra, they would be New Delhi, Agency. After two successful contestant would be very different from each able to pick the right suitors for them. allother. the And attention. while each She one said, is “I doing know well every in The show will mostly happen on the same Bigg Boss set.As readers would know, earlier set to impress one and all this year She tried hard to make her own space – her Rakhi Sawant, Malika Sherawat, Rahul Mahajan and Ratan Rajput have attempted a releases last year, Salman Khan is all fights with Sidharth Shukla, Rashami Desai swayamvar on national television. While the ladies chickened out and opted for just a and Shehnaaz Gill brought her the much- their lives, I am sure there will be no one like formalisation of their relationship, Mahajan went ahead and tied the knot with Dimpy too with his most-talked-about film, needed limelight. Later in the course of the me in the house. I will not get intimidated by Ganguly. While the news of the swayamvar might be an exciting one for the audience, it ‘Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai’. The show,Sharma Sharma in an alsoexclusive formed conversation a friendship with others for I have full confidence in myself. I will definitely be heartbreaking for fans of SidNaaz (Shehnaaz Gill-Sidharth Shukla) and film is being touted as the unofficial Shukla.Beforeindianexpress.com entering had Bigg shared Boss the13, Mahirareason know for a fact that wherever I go, people PaHira (Paras Chhabra-Mahira Sharma). Both Gill and Chhabra have been vocal about sequel of Salman’s hit film, ‘Wanted’ with only talk about me.” Bigg Boss 13 will air its their ‘relationship’ with Shukla and Sharma, respectively. It would be indeed interesting Prabhudheva.excitement levels While amongst the announcement the movie finale on February 15. to see how they ditch their connections to find love on Mujhse Shaadi Karoge. of the film has already raised the Mumbai dance group V Unbeatable impresses judges buffs, it is now being said that Salman Laal Singh Chaddha: Aamir Khan shares Kareena might also be seen mouthing his famous, in America’s Got Talent The Champions 2 finale ‘Commitment’ dialogue in the film. According to reports, Salman’s popular Kapoor’s first look as Valentine’s Day gift for fans dialogue, ‘Ek baar jo maine commitment karliby the toh superstar main khud if he ki is bhi allowed nahin tosunta use it. New Delhi, Agency. hoon’ from ‘Wanted’ would be mouthed Aamir Khan has presented his fans with a special Valentine’s Day gift. As ‘Radhe: Your Most Wanted Bhai’ is not anbelong official to producersequel to Boney‘Wanted’, Kapoor. the rights The ofreport the original also added film that and the all itslogistics content of Aamir took to Twitter to release the first look of Kareena Kapoor Khan from their upcoming film Laal Singh usingif they the are dialogue unable to are use now that being popular worked Chaddha. Aamir shared on Twitter, out. However, it also assured fans that safar. #HappyValentinesDay Kareena. will come up with another equally “Paa lene ki bechaini, aur kho dene ka darr… Bas itna sa hai, zindagi ka line,catchy Salman line. Salman and director Khan willPrabhu be seen Dheva I wish I could romance you in every film… comes naturally to me ;-) reunitingstint together with in Disha ‘Bharat’. Patani The in movie ‘Radhe: also Love. a.” Laal Singh Chaddha is an Your Most Wanted Bhai’ after their short New Delhi, Agency. in pivotal roles. After recently helming adaptation of Tom Hanks’ 1994 film ForrestKareena Gump.plays the Aamir role playsthat was the once role stars Randeep Hooda and Jackie Shroff that Hanks played in the movie and After finishing at the fourth spot in America’s Got Talent ‘Dabangg 3’, filmmaker Prabhudheva playedSingh Chaddhaby Robin Wright.has been The directedoriginal Season 14, the Indian dance crew V Unbeatable returned to willSalman be recreating will has also his announced ‘Wanted’ magic another in film won six Academy Awards. Laal the US for America’s Got Talent: The Champions Season 2. the upcoming starrer. Apart from this, They impressed the judges and the audience with their flips, where he will be seen sharing screen by Advait Chandan, who previously turnsmovie and Petta twirls once as again they gotperformed them the in loudest the finale. cheer Their from finale the film titled, ‘Kabhi Eid Kabhi Diwali’ directed Secret Superstar. Reportedly, performance on Rajinikanth’s song “Marana Mass” from the Chaddha.by Viacom It is18 a remakeand Aamir of American Khan wasthe pipeline. last seen Aamir’s in Good last appearance Newwz in the film also stars Vijay Sethupathi space with actress Pooja Hegde for the filmProductions. Forrest Gump.Advait It isChandan being madewill 2019. She has Karan Johar’s Takht in but an official announcement from studioa notch audiencehigher with and bicycles the judges, as their Simon props Cowell, and their Heidi energy Klum, on first time. Bigg Boss 13 the makers is awaited. Aamir had Howiestage left Mandel everyone and Aleshastunned. Dixon. They took their performance on screen was 2018’s Thugs of earlier announced the project and direct it. We have bought the rights Hindostan. Laal Singh Chaddha said in a statement, “I opensearchhave finalised February 12 episode from Paramount Pictures.” Kareena releases on Christmas 2020. my next film and it is titled Laal Singh Inside Kamya Panjabi’s Love Aaj Kal movie review and release wedding reception Sara-Kartik film gets mixed response

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seemingly has had anThe effect finale on the of Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan starrer Bigg Boss 13 is almost here, and this Lovea spiritual Aaj Kalsuccessor is releasing of the original today. TheSaif Imtiaz Ali directorial is being touted as participantsthe popular realityas well. show Recently which India led to a TV’snumber Rajat of Sharmarevelations. visited Sharma the sets grilled of Ali Khan and Deepika Padukone film of the same name. Apart from Kartik her relationship with former BB 13 and Sara, Love Aaj Kal also features television actor Rashami Desai about Randeep Hooda and Arushi Sharma in significant parts. Earlier, during an contestant Arhaan Khan. Rashami said interview with The Indian Express, that she has broken all ties with Arhaan filmmaker Imtiaz Ali had opened up after she came to know that he already abouta fresh the story concept with new of Love characters. Aaj Kal. The “It has a wife and a kid. However, things is not a sequel or a continuation. It is took an interesting turn when the topic of Sidharth Shukla was brought forth. concept, of course, is the same. Two Rashamiways came revealed into the that way she of theirshares a deep New Delhi, Agency. stories,very clear set about in different calling my eras, latest interact movie bond with Sidharth, but his controlling with each other. That’s the reason I was washed their dirty laundry in public as Shalabh Dang hosted their wedding reception on Tuesday. friendship.Sharma continued Both Sidharth to probe and them Rashami about Love Aaj Kal. This story came in my their equation with each other. Sharma After a dreamy wedding, TV actor Kamya Panjabi and husband the same,” Imtiaz had said. Imtiaz Ali is primarily known close friends and family. The wedding festivities of Kamya and mind some years ago, when I was talking to my daughter was also seen interrogating other for helming romantic dramas like Tamasha, Rockstar, Jab The couple tied the knot on February 10 in the presence of (Ida) about the romantic days of my life. Years later, it We Met and Socha Na Tha. Asked whether he would ever participants on their survival strategy had formed a certain narrative. So, I decided to go for it. and various controversies. Bigg Boss 13 break away from the genre, the director said, “I want to Shalabh began over the last weekend with their engagement at a One love story in the film is set in Delhi, now, and the have the ability and the freedom to do anything, any kind Gurudwarawith photos on of theFebruary newlyweds 8 followed at their by weddingHaldi ceremony reception. the next other story takes place in the 1990s. These two are very of film that I feel like as long as it is entertaining people. day. Kamya Panjabi’s fan pages on Instagram are now flooded different from each other. Yet, the essence of what you I will do something that I am most interested in, not finale will be held on February 15. are looking for in a lover or a romantic relationship is because I want to change anything.” Sana Khaan slams ex-boyfriend Melvin Bigg Boss 13: Sidharth Shukla, Asim Riaz or Rashami Louis : He is a compulsive cheater

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New Delhi, Agency. Actor Sana Khaan has come out strongly against Mahira told Paras her ofdream days beforeof being the infinale. the top four is shattered and her ex-boyfriend Melvin Louis, accusing him of After staying locked up inside the Bigg cheating on her. The two, who were quite open Boss house for four months, Sidharth about their relationship in the past, have been Shukla, Asim Riaz, Arti Singh, Rashami criedit will inconsolably. be interesting Now, making headlines lately for their break-up. In a Boss 13. Since it was the longest season Desai, Paras Chhabra and Shehnaaz among the six finalists, long Instagram post, Sana has revealed the reason Gill, have become the finalists of Bigg emerge the winner of behind the split, calling Melvin “a compulsive tothe seeSalman who Khan will hosted finally cheater and a compulsive liar.” “This is his regular in the history of the show, the makers thingCoz there to do were with soeveryone many people for his famewho believedand popularity,” in this relation Sana added n showed in her Instagramso much love post. n planned to have six finalists instead of fans are anything to “This is my first n it has taken a lot of courage from me to come out n speak the truth. of them being the top three contenders of five. Considering the popularity of show. If the predictions Sidharth,for Bigg Boss Asim 13 and trophy Rashami, seem chances strong. arch-rivals Sidharth respect but unfortunately I didn’t get it from where I should have gotten. This man is dirt compulsive liar n this is his regular thing to do with everyone for his fame n popularity. goor Asim. by, it Both will eitherof them of n he is disgusting unfortunately it took me a year to find out coz I believed in him blindly. have given the show a I have taken a stand for myself coz if I won’t no one will. He is a compulsive cheater n a Paras, Shehnaaz and Arti, though look lot of content with their weak at the moment, they are trying This is the original content with no fabrication but be ready for the covers on this. Ps: to catch up too. On Thursday, Mahira cheated on me with multiple girls since may/June which I lately discovered but there is Sharma was evicted. Vicky Kaushal fights. The finale of Bigg one girl tht shocked me the most n I knw her #shameonyou miss I will def tell the world entered the house to promote his upcoming film Bhoot: The Haunted Ship and Boss 13 will be aired on February 15 at 9 pm. Salman has already unveiled ur name so atleast others knw u before they collab with you. Upbringing matters a lot. He announce the name of the contestant who has to leave the show just a couple wanted to marry me and have babies what would he teach my son n daughter???” Owner, Printer, Publisher & Editorthe Vijaytrophy Kumar in the Printed last episode at Aditya of Weekend Graphics, Ka Pratap Vaar. Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, I.T.O. New Delhi-110002 and Published at 1536/108, Ganesh Pura Road Tri. Nagar, New Delhi-110035 RNI No. DELENG/2016/67075 (Phone : 011-27380260 Moble :9210092542 ) E-mail : [email protected] , Websit : www.opensearch.co.in