Maoists Behind A.P. Accident, Says NIA

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LS rejects amendments, Railway Minister earlier hinted at Pak.-backed saboteurs clears Finance Bill NEW DELHI Vijaita Singh Finance Minister Arun Jaitley New Delhi invited suggestions from the The National Investigation Opposition for clean and Agency (NIA) suspects that transparent funding of the Kuneru rail accident in political parties, as the Lok Andhra Pradesh was the job Sabha on Thursday cleared of Maoists, a First Informa- the Finance Bill after it tion Report (FIR) registered rejected ive amendments by the agency has said. (including those pertaining to The Railway Ministry had anonymity of donors to earlier said that Pakistan’s political parties) Inter-Services Intelligence recommended by the Rajya (ISI) was involved in a series Sabha. of rail accidents in the past NATION Ī PAGE 10 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD six months, which included the derailment of the Jag- Regal cinema walks dalpur-Bhubaneswar Ex- into history press near Kuneru on Janu- NEW DELHI REPORTONPAGE13 ary 22, in which over 40 Probe continues: Over 40 persons were killed when the After entertaining ilm lovers persons were killed. Jagdalpur-Bhubaneswar Express derailed in January. * PTI for more than eight decades, Regal cinema signed of in Preliminary assessment Gyaneshwari Express, which dent in which 14 coaches of style with a ‘house-full’ last Hills sizzle at 8° above normal “The Central government is was made to derail by re- the Indore-Patna Express de- show of Raj Kapoor’s 1964 of the opinion that the act of moving the fish plates. More railed on November 20, movie Sangam on Thursday derailment is a suspected than 100 people were killed 2016, killing more than 140 night. The cinema hall, which Resorts across north India recorded the highest surges in temperature terrorist act by Left Wing ex- in the accident, which took people and the recovery of a opened in 1932, once hosted tremists and is a scheduled place near Jhargram in the pressure cooker bomb near personalities like then Prime Jacob Koshy the last week of March. temperature counts as a heat offence under the NIA Act,” West Midnapore district. the rail track at Ghorasan in Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, NEW DELHI Other summer getaways wave and seven or more, as a an FIR registered by the NIA The CBI arrested members Bihar on October 1, 2016. his daughter Indira Gandhi Barmer in Rajasthan may in north India, such as severe heat wave. said. of a Maoist-backed group for Mr. Prabhu’s letter sus- and Amitabh Bachchan. have been the hottest place Shimla, also in Himachal The IMD had already A senior NIA official said it the crime. pecting foul play in the acci- DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD in India on Thursday at 43.4° Pradesh, Pahalgam in warned of summer temper- was preliminary informa- dents was sent after Moti Celsius, but the maximum Jammu & Kashmir and atures being higher than nor- tion, and the probe was yet Three cases sent to NIA Paswan, one of three per- temperature surges were re- Dehradun in Uttarakhand all mal in February and “above to be completed and they Based on Railway Minister sons arrested by the Bihar corded in hill-station favour- registered temperatures normal” temperatures in Hi- were exploring all angles. Suresh Prabhu’s letter to police in January for his al- ites Kullu, in Himachal Pra- seven degrees above their machal Pradesh, Ut- Since the area is close to Home Minister Rajnath leged involvement in plant- desh, and Mukteshwar, in historical normals. tarakhand and Jammu & the Maoist-affected zone, the Singh, alleging sabotage in at ing the pressure cooker Uttarakhand. Kashmir. 2016 was the suspicion of their involve- least six train accidents, bomb at Ghorasan, claimed According to figures on What is a heat wave? warmest year in a century, ment cannot be ruled out, three cases were transferred that they had planted the the India Meteorological De- While there are caveats, the according to the IMD, with the official said. to the NIA. bomb at Kanpur, leading to partment (IMD) website, IMD’s dictionary says that if the country 0.91°C warmer The last time Maoists tar- Besides the Kuneru acci- the train’s derailment, at the FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES Children riding cycles on the these towns recorded 32°C a locations’s long-term nor- than the 1961-1990 average. geted a rail track was in West dent, the other cases being behest of the ISI. (IN TABLOID) bed of the Sonegaon Lake and 27.2° C — a searing eight mal is less than or equal to Bengal in 2010, when a investigated for terror links DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES in Nagpur. * S. SUDARSHAN degrees above normal for 40°C, a five-degree rise in CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 goods train rammed into the are the Kanpur train acci- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Nigeria summons Indian envoy over attacks African nation demands tough action against culprits to deter future assaults

Kallol Bhattacherjee Foreign Affairs of Nigeria on going about their studies. findings.” “On behalf of the New Delhi Wednesday where he was That is why we felt we Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister The attack on African nation- asked to explain the incident should register our concern and myself, I want to assure als in Greater Noida took a in which four Nigerians were to you on this occasion, and that there will be an impar- diplomatic turn after Nigeria beaten up by a mob after a to please ask your govern- tial probe,” she said. summoned the Indian envoy local boy was found dead be- ment to take effective meas- MEA spokesperson Gopal and demanded immediate cause of alleged drug ures that this does not occur Baglay stopped short of action against the culprits. overdose. again,” Mr Enikanolaiye was terming the attack racist and The summon, a rare oc- Mr Enikanolaiye, the quoted as saying by a Ni- said the motive behind the currence in India’s bilateral senior-most diplomat of Ni- gerian news outlet. attack was being probed. ties with any African nation, geria, demanded that the “It is clear that such crim- happened even as India gave perpetrators be prosecuted Tough action inal acts are completely un- an assurance that the perpet- so that future attackers are India’s assured of tough acceptable and have been rators would be punished deterred from carrying out action saying that the law of condemned,” he said, reveal- while the Rajya Sabha con- similar assaults. the land would take its ing that the students who demned the attacks. “And we want to see dili- course. External Affairs Min- had been hurt have been re- Reports said Indian High gent prosecution so that it ister Sushma Swaraj, speak- leased by the hospital and Commissioner B.N. Reddy will serve as a deterrent to ing in the Rajya Sabha, said a security has been beefed up was summoned by Perman- those who think they can probe had been ordered and for the African community ent Secretary Olusola Enik- take the law into their hands “once this probe is over, ac- in Greater Noida. anolaiye to the Ministry of and harass students who are tion will be taken as per its SEE ALSO Ī DELHI METRO PAGE 1 Ceiling fans to check Kota suicides

Mohammed Iqbal Jaipur Coming up with an out-of- the-box solution, owners of some students’ hostels in Kota, famous for its coaching institutes for competitive examinations, are fit- ting ceiling fans in hostel rooms with siren sensors and spring devices to check suicides by students. Unable to cope with the pressure of studies, a large number of young boys and girls, who come to Kota from all over the country to join coaching institutes, have taken their own lives in the past few years. Now private hostels, which provide paying guest accommodation to students, have started installing devices in ceiling fans to ensure that the owners are alerted in time and suicide attempts are foiled. While the sensor sets off an alarm, the spring device lowers the fan if a student tries to hang from it. Gajendra Yadav, former president of the Kota Hos- tels Association, said though some hostels were attaching the spring device to the ceiling fans, no bulk orders had been placed. CONTINUED ONĪ PAGE 10

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DELHI Timings Friday, March 31 RISE 06:12 SET 18:38 Dikshit takes charge as RISE 08:40 SET 22:13 Saturday, April 01 RISE 06:11 SET 18:39 RISE 09:30 SET 23:18 U.P. Assembly Speaker Sunday, April 02 RISE 06:10 SET 18:40 RISE 10:23 SET 00:00 A columnist and novelist, he is also a ive-time MLA

Omar Rashid Mr. Dikshit has had a long LUCKNOW record with the BJP. He has Veteran BJP leader Hriday been the district president Narayan Dikshit took charge of BJP in Unnao, before go- as Speaker of the Uttar Pra- ing on to become the State desh Assembly on Thursday vice-president. He was also a after being unanimously member of the BJP’s na- elected to the post. tional executive. Mr. Dikshit was the only one to file his nomination. Electoral career Suresh Khanna, Parliament- He first became an MLA as ary Affairs Minister, pro- an Independent in 1985, be- posed Mr. Dikshit’s name, fore going on to win as a which was seconded by his Hriday Narayan Dikshit being Janata Dal candidate four party colleague Swami escorted to the dais by CM years later. Mr. Dikshit then Prasad Maurya, Lalji Verma Yogi Adityanath and Leader had a tryst with the SP and (BSP), Ram Goving Chaud- of Opposition Ram Govind in 1993 secured a win with hary (SP) and Aradhana Choudhary in the Vidhan the party. In the SP-BSP co- 0 Misra of the Congress among Sabha in Lucknow on alition government, Mr. DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to others. Thursday. * RAJEEV BHATT Dikshit held the post of par- verify and make appropriate enquiries to satisfy themselves about the veracity of Mr. Dikshit, 69, is a five- liamentary affairs and an advertisement before responding to any published in this newspaper. Kasturi time MLA. He secured the spokesperson of the UP BJP. panchyati raj minister. From & Sons Limited, the Publisher & Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch for the Bhagwant Nagar seat in Un- Born in Gram Lauva in 2010 to 2016, he was a BJP authenticity of any advertisement or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s nao in the recently con- Unnao district, Mr. Dikshit, MLC and also the party’s products and/or services. In no event can the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- cluded elections. A few has a Master’s degree in Eco- leader in the Council. ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ company be held responsible/liable in months before the elections, nomics. He spent 19 months Mr. Dikshit is also known any manner whatsoever for any claims and/or damages for advertisements in he was appointed the chief in jail during the Emergency. as a columnist and novelist. this newspaper. Violence against doctors a non-bailable ofence

Himachal introduces amendment bill

Staff Correspondent will be an amendment to SHIMLA the 2009 Medicare Act. Fulfilling the long time demand of the serving doctors Jail term in Himachal Pradesh, the The amended bill has made State government on any offence against the doc- Thursday introduced an tors cognizable and non- amendment bill in the As- bailable with a provision for sembly concerning the upto three years imprison- safety and security of the ment. Section 4 of the 2009 doctors and making any Act had a provision to kind of violence against define any offence as cog- them a non-bailable offence. nizable but bailable. The Hi- State Health Minister Kaul machal Medical Officers As- Singh Thakur presented the sociation had been Himachal Pradesh Medicare demanding for a long time service persons and Medi- that the Act be amended care service institutions and the offence be made (prevention of violence and non-bailable in view of in- damage to property) cidences of violence against amendment bill 2017. This the doctors on duty.

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HC quashes amendment Two killed, 6 injured to poll rules in Kolkata hotel ire Pradip Kumar Das CUTTACK The Orissa High Court on Thursday struck down the The police have arrested the owner and manager of the hotel March-8 amendment brought in by the State gov- Special Correspondent ditioning duct of the five- reached the higher floors,” ernment into the Odisha Kolkata storey hotel. Mr. Chatterjee said. Zilla Parishad Election Amajorfirebrokeoutata Acting on a complaint Rules of 1994. city hotel in the early hours Windows broken lodged by a fire service de- Striking down the of Thursday, killing two per- Personnel from the disaster partment official, the police amendment, a Division sons. Fire brigade officials management group and fire- have arrested the hotel Bench observed the Rules, said 31 people, including fighters broke the glass win- owner, B.S Gujral, and man- Laws or Acts governing a guests and hotel staff, were dows of the hotel to let the ager Gautam Majumdar. particular election shall rescued from the hotel. Six smoke out. “Causalities have Both have been booked not be altered once the persons sustained injuries, occurred because of suffoca- under the WBFS Act as well process of election has of whom four were dis- tion,” a firefighter said. As as IPC sections 304 (causing started. The new clause charged after treatment at many as 10 fire tenders were death by negligence) among provided for appointment the State-run SSKM Hospital. pressed into service to con- other relevant provisions. of agents by every party The fire broke out on the trol the blaze. The incident brought back and the election officer first floor of Golden Park State Fire Minister Sovon memories of the AMRI Hos- could allow the authorised Hotel at Ho Chi Minh Sarani Chatterjee said the fire fight- pital fire in south Kolkata in agents to check the vote around 2.55 a.m. Within ing equipment in the hotel December 2011 when over cast by an elected member minutes, the smoke spread did not work. “From the AC 90 patients died of suffoca- of their respective parties. through the central air-conduct, a lot of smoke and fire tion. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Prakash Kamat gress-led coalition other government officials 120B (criminal conspiracy) Panaji government. have been accused of al- and section 201 (tampering The Enforcement Director- The properties of Mr. legedly accepting a bribe of with evidence) of the Indian ate (ED) on Thursday said it Kamat, a Congress legislator $976,630 in 2010 from offi- Penal Code, and other sec- had attached properties of from Margao, South Goa, in- cials of the U.S.-based Louis tions of the Prevention of former Chief Ministers Di- cludes a plot of 4,047 sq mts Berger consultancy firm, for Corruption Act. gambar Kamat and Churchill in Margao, a residential a water supply project in The Crime Branch has ar- Alemao worth ₹1.95 crore in building near Panaji, and partnership with Japan Inter- rested top officials linked to the Louis Berger bribery fixed deposits amounting national Cooperation the JICA project along with scam, under Prevention of ₹41.35 lakh. Agency (JICA). senior Louis Berger employ- Money Laundering Act A statement issued by the ees. (PMLA), 2002. ED read, “The attached Alemao on bail The FIR was filed after The Goa Crime Branch properties of Churchill Ale- Mr. Alemao is out on bail Louis Berger headquarters and the ED are separately mao, a sitting MLA of Nation- after being in police custody in the U.S. discovered, dur- probing the two politicians alist Congress Party, in- for 15 days and being charge- ing its internal audit, that and other bureaucrats for cludes eight apartments at sheeted by a special court. bribes had been paid to Min- their alleged role in the Fatrade of Varca village, Mr. Kamat has managed to isters and government offi- scam, which happened South Goa, worth ₹75 lakh, evade arrest and his anticip- cials for securing contracts. while Mr. Kamat was the CM as per the registered sale atory bail application is in The ED subsequently star- and Mr. Alemao the Minister value of 2009.” the Supreme Court. He has ted a separate probe in the for Public works in the Con- The two politicians and been charged with section case under the PMLA.

Harsh reality: Children riding their bicycles in the dried up Sonegaon lake in Nagpur on Thursday. * S. SUDARSHAN Govt. diverting attention from real issues: Opposition Goa a disabled-friendly destination now Says will keep raising voice of farmers in the Assembly

Pavan Dahat selves for a debt of ₹50,000 Enable Travel, which provides tours for people with disabilities, launches in Goa Nagpur to ₹2 lakhs and this govern- Braving the scorching heat of ment is not even ready to Special Correspondent form of wheelchair access- Vidarbha, the Sangharsh hear their plight,” he alleged. Panaji ible vehicles, and aids and Yatra (protest march) organ- Mr. Awhad also claimed To make tourism more in- accessories, like ramps and ised by the Opposition that the Opposition visited a clusive across the country, specialised wheelchairs,” Mr. parties in Maharashtra, farmer’s family in Enable Travel, an accessible- Thomas said. “Support ser- reached Nagpur on Chandrapur district on Wed- holiday specialist arm of Cox vices also include specially Thursday. nesday who had committed & Kings Ltd., included Goa to trained manpower such as The parties, including suicide a few days ago, “but its network of 14 disabled- caregivers, sign language in- Asaduddin Owaisi-led AI- no one from the government friendly cities on Wednesday. terpreters, expert guides and MIM, accused Devendra Fad- bothered to visit his family.” Thomas C. Thottathil, vice escorts.” navis-led State government The Leader of Opposition president of corporate com- “Many tourists with disab- of trying to divert attention Opposition leaders during the Sangharsh Yatra at Variety in the State Assembly, munications & CSR depart- ilities are keen on exploring from real issues by fuelling a Square in Nagpur on Thursday. * S. SUDARSHAN Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil, ment of the company in different travel experiences discussion about the “air said the State government Mumbai, said Enable Travel Enable Travel will introduce wheelchair accessible vehicles, and the country has to offer,” conditioned bus” that the gressmen at Variety Square result of which it is trying to would be left with no option has introduced specially de- aids and accessories for disabled travellers. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Karan Anand, who heads the Opposition leaders are using in Nagpur about who first or- spread such rumours.” He but to give a debt waiver to signed travel itineraries for Relationships department at to travel across the State. ganised such Yatras. also accused State govern- farmers as the entire Opposi- people with disabilities in (wheelchair) and Divyanshu information, lack of trans- Cox & Kings, said and added, The march began from He said, “It was [L.K.] Ad- ment of being “insensitive to tion is on the streets to fight Goa. Ganatra (vision), unveiled portation, and disable “It is important to tap this Chandrapur district on Wed- vani, [Atal Bihari] Vajpayee, the problems of farmers.” for them. The initiative aims to the product in Goa on friendly hotel rooms, that largely underserved segment nesday and will conclude in and [Gopinath] Munde who “The anxiety of farmers in “Many of our MLAs were provide carefully crafted Wednesday. prevent people from travel- of travellers by providing Panvel, Navi Mumbai, on began organising such Yatras Vidarbha is turning towards suspended from the as- tours for people with speech, Mr. Sen said, “Enable ling. Each of the itineraries, quality assistance and ser- April 4. in the 1990s. Did they travel a terrible end. Once our state sembly for demanding debt vision, and hearing impair- Travel is a long-term commit- catering to inbound and do- vices that focus on individual Reacting to criticism over in a bullock cart or on top of was sujlam suflam [rich waiver for the farmers. If ments, and for the ment to empower each and mestic tourists, has been cur- needs. Enabling barrier-free the use of an air-conditioned a State-run bus? This govern- State], but now one can see raising farmers’ voice in the wheelchair-bound. every individual to celebrate ated thoughtfully.” travel for people with disabil- bus, Nationalist Congress ment is anxious to see the dead bodies hanging from Assembly is a crime, then we Debolin Sen, who is head- their love for travel. We are As part of its service, En- ities will contribute to a signi- Party MLA Jitendra Awhad huge response that we are trees in every village. Our will keep committing this ing the initiative, and Enable trying to address various bar- able Travel will introduce, ficant increase in inbound asked a small crowd of Con- getting in this march, as a farmers are killing them- crime,” he said. Travel experts Rustom Irani riers like inaccessible travel “quality transportation in the and domestic tourism.”

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Krishnadas Rajagopal quor licences, the State gov- the past 10 years about road Slams Jagan for escalating ‘small’ issue NEW DELHI ernment lawyers led by At- fatalities caused by drunk The Supreme Court on torney-General Mukul driving. Staff Reporter Ganta Srinivasa Rao, who Thursday said it was guided Rohatgi for Tamil Nadu sub- “It cannot be that we do VELAGAPUDI failed to check it. by “overarching issues of mitted, came strictly under not allow you to drink and Amid a heated debate in the public health” while order- the purview of the State gov- drive on national highways Andhra Pradesh Assembly ‘Cancel exam’ Nara Lokesh sworn ing a ban on liquor vends ernments in a federal demo- and allow you to drink and on Thursday, Chief Minister He charged the government in as MLC from operating within 500 cracy. drive on State highways,” N. Chandrababu Naidu with shielding them and de- VIJAYAWADA metres of national and State “Excise laws do not create Justice Chandrachud said. offered a judicial inquiry manded that the examina- Nara Lokesh, son of Chief highways across the country. an indefeasible right to the The judge was responding to into the alleged leakage of tion be cancelled as the Minister and TDP national The ban, pronounced in a States to grant liquor li- senior advocate Rajeev SSC examination paper question paper on Whats- president N. Chandrababu December 15, 2016 judg- cences. There is also no enti- Dhawan’s argument that the (General Science – I). App was circulated to places Naidu, was sworn in as MLC ment, saw liquor trading tlement to get liquor li- court could not impose re- He also took on Leader of as far as Kadiri in Anantapur on Thursday and is likely to bodies, some State govern- Tough ask: States, including Tamil Nadu, have moved the SC cences. It was in public strictions on States based on the Opposition Y.S. Jaganmo- district. be inducted into the Andhra ments and Union Territories for modiication of its order. Picture shows a liquor vend on a interest that we fixed the dis- the Centre’s studies, and han Reddy for what he The issue rocked the As- Pradesh Cabinet. Mr. Lokesh’s move the Supreme Court for highway near Erode. * M. GOVARTHAN tance of liquor vends as 500 should have considered the called “blowing out of pro- sembly with YSRC MLAs en- induction has been in the air a modification of its verdict. metres,” Justice topographical peculiarities portion” a small incident to circling Speaker Kodela Siva for several months now. long hearing — the second case were confined to liquor Chandrachud clarified. of each State. create a scare among Prasada Rao, demanding a One day left consecutive one this week — vends in Tamil Nadu and The ban was imposed to When senior advocate students. statement from the Chief Missing Kerala girls With hardly a day left before for final orders. Punjab, not other parts of In- lessen the visibility and ac- K.K. Venugopal pointed out Mr. Reddy, however, stuck Minister as listed in the found in Chennai the ban sets in on April 1, States and liquor vendors' dia. The December 15 judg- cess to liquor vends from that ‘dry’ States like Gujarat to his demand for a CBI in- agenda on March 28. The KOZHIKODE 2017, a three-judge Bench of associations criticised the ment, instead of confining it- highways to prevent road ac- had more road accidents, quiry and removal of Muni- Treasury Benches rejected The Thamarassery police on Chief Justice of India J.S. court for employing its ex- self to these two States and cidents caused by drunken Justice Chandrachud said cipal Administration Minis- this saying the Chief Minister Thursday traced the two Khehar and Justices D.Y. traordinary powers under without impleading the driving. Justice Chandrachud seamless connectivity ter P. Narayana for the had already clarified on it 17-year-old girls missing from Chandrachud and L. Article 142 of the Constitu- other States, imposed the said the ban was based on provided by highways made “leakage” that happened at the same day on the floor of Ambayathode last week to Nageswara Rao reserved the tion to extend the span of the ban on the latter by includ- detailed studies and reports distances hardly a concern his family-owned Naryana the House. This led to acri- Chennai. The police had pleas of the detracting States ban across the country. They ing the State highways also. submitted by the Central for people to travel to neigh- educational institutions, and monious scenes and slogan conducted searches in Kerala and traders after a two-hour- said the appeals before the Excise laws and grant of li- government authorities over bouring States for liquor. his relative HRD Minister shouting. and Tamil Nadu. The police said the girls were found CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC working in a textile shop. The CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC long-time friends had left SC ‘shocked’ over lack We trapped home on March 24, following Minister: some domestic issues. of toilets in A.P. schools Standing out in the social crowd 5 die while cleaning TV channel A.P. food processing unit Bengaluru police use wit and humour online to deliver lessons in law and safety MOGALTURU Tells Chief Secretary to act promptly Special Correspondent Five youth died while K.C. Deepika instance, came up with a THIRUVANANTHAPURAM cleaning a waste water tank in Press Trust of India in the schools is an imperat- Bengaluru ‘Road accidents score board’ After defending its ‘phone the Ananda aqua food New Delhi ive ... A welfare State cannot Public service notices can be to urge people to use trap’ story for four days, processing unit here on The Supreme Court has ex- remain oblivious to the a blind spot, especially on skywalks and zebra the newly launched Thursday due to an alleged pressed “shock and sur- same. social media where attention crossings. It said: “Fall of ‘Mangalam’ TV channel ad- gas leak, including that of prise” over 1,662 schools in “We express our shock spans are just nanoseconds. wickets: Last year: 42, Last 2 mitted late on Thursday methane and ammonium Andhra Pradesh not having and surprise that out of the But the Bengaluru police months: 15, mostly that it had erred in airing chloride. Another version overhead tanks with run- total number of 2,739 want to stand out in the pedestrians.” the sexually explicit tele- claimed that the youth died ning water facility. schools in the Vizianagaram online crowd. Officials in the Command phone conversation in- due to electrocution. A Bench comprising district, 1,662 schools are Instead of an old- Centre said the social media volving former Kerala Justices Dipak Misra, A.M. yet to be provided with the fashioned lecture on why cell of the police was trying Transport Minister A.K. Hit by low prices, chilli Khanwilkar and M.N. Shant- facility of overhead tanks passwords should never be to reach out to more people. Saseendran on March 26. farmers burn produce anagaudkar said it was ob- and running water,” the shared, their social media “We do it all by ourselves Appearing on its prime WARANGAL ligatory on the part of the Bench said. pages have a bright yellow here,” the official said, time news broadcast, Chilli farmers of Telangana State government to provide It was hearing a plea filed poster with a picture of a adding that some Mangalam’s managing dir- set ablaze their produce at the basic facility of running by Hyderabad-based advoc- toothbrush and the caption: suggestions also come in ector R. Ajith Kumar the Enumamula agricultural water in school toilets. ate J.K. Raju seeking toilet “Treat your passwords like from the public. claimed that it was a “sting market, protesting the low facilities in schools. your toothbrush. Do not Bright idea: A campaign poster put out by the police against Though there are no set operation” and that the price offered by traders, on On welfare state It asked the State Chief share.” The Bengaluru police pointless honking * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT targets, the police time the woman involved in the Thursday. Scores of farmers “We have laid emphasis that Secretary to ensure running are driving home the point messages to suit the context. conversation was a woman staged a protest the girl students do not go to tap water with overhead and innovatively so. common feature on the increasing their engagement For instance, the picture of a journalist, not a citizen demonstration. In an act of school or drop out of the tanks in toilets in schools in social media pages of the with the public, but are also bottle made up of mangled who had turned to the Min- resentment, they burnt the school because of lack of fa- the district promptly and Sharp messaging city’s police, and they have adding a little fun to lessons cars for a “don’t drink and ister for help. The channel, chilli stocks which they cilities. Availability of separ- positively before the next Witty, colourful message scored with netizens. The in law and safety. drive” message will appear he said, was admitting its brought to the market. ate toilets for boys and girls date of hearing. boards are becoming a men in khaki are not just The traffic police, for on weekends. mistake.

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IN BRIEF Naveen in two minds over No electricity in 78% of action against party MP primary schools in Odisha Mercury inching towards 45 degrees Celsius in the State CM asks senior colleagues to examine Panda’s tweets and article CM advocates cashless Staff Reporter grant is used for making transactions at shrines Prafulla Das party for disciplinary action BHUBANESWAR power available to schools,” PANCHKULA BHUBANESWAR against Mr. Panda, sources At a time when the mercury said Mr. Mishra. Haryana Chief Minister All was well in Odisha Chief said Mr. Patnaik has asked is inching closer towards Parents have long been Manohar Lal Khattar on Minister Naveen Patnaik’s some of his senior col- the 45 degrees Celsius mark demanding power connec- Thursday batted for making Biju Janata Dal till February leagues to examine the MP’s in Odisha, lakhs of students tion to primary and upper available facilities for 13, when first phase polling tweets and article. Those in government-run primary primary schools as children cashless transactions at in the panchayat elections seeking action against Mr. and upper primary schools below 10 years study there. religious places. was held. Panda argue that Mr. Patnaik are facing a harrowing time “When smart classes and He also pitched for offering Things started taking a U- had never tolerated such as their schools do not have modern technology are milk and food items to the turn since then with the BJP type of remarks by party electricity connection. prescribed to ease the deities in packets so that it doing well in all five phases leaders in the past. A whopping 40,087 of learning process for all stu- could be further distributed of the polls and replacing the Since his party has the 51,094 primary and up- A labourer beating the heat dents, schools do not even among the needy people. -PTI Congress as the BJD’s main suffered a jolt in the rural per primary schools do not in Bhubaneswar on have basic facilities like rival in the State. polls and the BJP is fast have power connectivity. Thursday. * BISWARANJAN ROUT electricity. During sum- Trinamool, Congress Cracks started appearing emerging as the real chal- Such schools constitute mers, when spending even workers clash in Bengal in the BJD after the party’s lenger, Mr. Patnaik seems to 78.45% of the total number trified schools at 3,349. The 10 minutes without an elec- BAHARAMPUR chief whip in the Lok Sabha Sombre mood: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik comes out of be in two minds about taking of schools. Chief Minister’s home dis- tric fan is difficult, lakhs of Trinamool Congress and rival Tathagata Satpathy, ex- the Assembly in Bhubaneswar on Thursday. * BISWARANJAN ROUT action against Mr. Panda at trict of Ganjam follows with students are forced to carry Congress workers clashed at pressed the fear through a this juncture. Students suffering 2,083 schools functioning on with their studies under the Baharampur municipality series of tweets that the BJP whip had the experience of party leadership. Furnishing a written reply without power. sweltering conditions,” said in West Bengal’s Murshidabad was working hard to divide being suspended from the Although Mr. Patnaik did At arm’s length in the State Assembly on The condition of stu- Ramesh Swain, a parent in district on Thursday but no the BJD in Parliament and BJD and joining another not react to the tweets and It is because Mr. Patnaik had Thursday, School and Mass dents in higher classes is Jagatsinghpur district. one was seriously injured. maybe even in the Assembly. party. the article, his sister and em- kept Mr. Panda away from Education Minister Debi slightly better as only 935 of Meanwhile, the heat TMC workers also attacked Mr. Satpathy tweeted that inent writer Gita Mehta his coterie during the past Prasad Mishra said 20 of the over 6,000 high schools wave conditions in the in- the district Congress office in the BJP wanted an AIADMK- Blames bureaucrats came rushing to few years, and the latter had the 30 districts in the State in the State do not have terior and western districts the town and vandalised it. type split. Mr Panda followed this up Bhubaneswar on March 28 developed close ties with the have more than 1,000 power. of the State continue to af- -PTI Although Mr.Satpathy did with an article in a leading and they held a series of BJP’s central leadership, in- schools each and the stu- “The school manage- fect normal life. The day- Control room to monitor not mention any name, he Odia daily in which he said meetings at Naveen Nivas. cluding Prime Minister Nar- dents have been hit hard ment committees usually time temperature soared teachers’ attendance tweeted that rumours were that bureaucrats were not Mr. Patnaik also held a meet- endra Modi. because of the absence of take care of power con- beyond 43 degrees Celsius BHOPAL afloat of a party MP swinging only running the State goving with his senior party col- Instead of writing about electricity. nectivity in primary in five towns on Thursday. The M.P. government will set the deal for the BJP. His ernment but also the party, leagues at the State Mr. Patnaik’s success, Mr. Tribal-dominated May- schools. But in case of high Balangir and Titilagarh re- up a control room to monitor party colleague in the Lok which many of his senior Secretariat. Panda preferred to write urbhanj district has the schools, the Rashtriya Mad- corded 43.8 degrees Celsius attendance of teachers in Sabha, Baijayant Panda, party colleagues took as a As demand has been about Mr. Modi’s success in highest number of un-elec- hyamik Shiksha Abhiyan – highest in the State. 18,000 government schools. tweeted that his party’s chief serious allegation against growing from within the the recent past. “The number of this control room would be displayed in CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC all government schools,” State Education Minister Vijay Shah said. -PTI Transgenders add dash of colour to Pink City metro stations Drug peddler arrested with 50 grams of smack Vivek Vihar, New Atish Market stations done up with works depicting Rajasthani folk culture, geometric patterns and natural landscape PHAGWARA An alleged drug peddler has Mohammed Iqbal public art initiative, the neglected and deprived mar added. Participating City’s beauty index, but been arrested with 50 grams Jaipur walls have been done up of basic amenities like ac- in the initiative with her also highlighted issues of of contraband smack here, In a novel initiative, with paintings depicting cess to hospitals, team from Bengaluru, social importance. the police said on Thursday. transgenders here picked Rajasthan’snomadic folk schools, and public she has devoted three- Among the artworks is The accused has been up paints and brushes culture, a transgender’s places. “Though a third and-a-half years to the that of a Banjara woman identified as Vinit Kumar of last week to add colour face in geometric pat- category has been added production of a docu- at the New Atish Market Daddal locality. -PTI to the Vivek Vihar and terns, flowers and nat- as part of reservation mentary focusing on the metro station. Painted in New Atish Market metro ural landscape. The com- and gender equality, the transgender community. hues of blue by Shunnal Tractor-trolley falls stations. This, even as munity-based initiative reality is that nobody is Ligade on a wall facing into Ganga, one dead activists generated has offered them a way willing to employ trans- Social importance the busy road, it is a trib- BIJNOR awareness about the to interact with people genders,” said artist Cartist founder-member ute to the desert State’s A woman drowned and four community through through their artistic Poornima Sukumar. Himanshu Jangid told traditions. were injured when a tractor- street plays and other endeavours. Transgenders are con- The Hindu that wall The Cartist public art trolley fell into the Ganga activities outside the two The street plays por- stantly striving to make a paintings at public places initiative was launched river from a boat here, the stations. trayed the lives of trans- mark through knowledge like metro stations not here in association with police said on Thursday. -PTI As part of the Cartist genders, who are often and education, Ms. Suku- only added to the Pink Jaipur Metro. Colourful: Transgenders painting a metro station wall in Jaipur. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS

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Suvojit Bagchi family received a compensa- KOLKATA tion of ₹5 lakh. A year after the collapse of “But will it bring the per- A year on, fate remains uncertain Sunaina Singh to be the central Kolkata flyover, son back,” asks 60-year-old Nalanda V-C nothing has changed on Malti Mali. Her husband, West Bengal government is yet to take a decision on project NEW DELHI Vivekananda Road where Gulab Chandra Mali, ran a Prof Sunaina Singh — Vice- the under-construction small shop in front of a Kali Shiv Sahay Singh Chancellor of English and structure caved in. The temple on Vivekananda Kolkata faulty design and poor raw Foreign Languages vehicles are fast disappear- Road. He was in the shop A year after the material as the cause of the University, Hyderabad — is ing into two giant, black cav- when the bridge collapsed Vivekananda flyover came tragedy. set to be the next Vice- ities — the two ends of the and the scheduled wedding crashing down killing 26 While the State govern- Chancellor of the Nalanda flyover, facing each other — of their only son Vikas was people, the West Bengal ment is toying with the idea University in Bihar. President which are yet to be dis- cancelled. Vikas got a job in government remains unde- of plying two or three Pranab Mukherjee has mantled as the government the Disaster Management cided on the fate of the in- wheelers and lighter appointed Prof. Singh to the is awaiting instructions from Department as well, and complete structure. vehicles on the flyover, the post, and the university a technical committee to re- now pillion rides with Sanjiv A team of experts from structure still stands as an received the official move the remnants. Even Biswakarma to his work- IIT Kharagpur, who were eye sore, a reminder of the intimation on Wednesday, oneofthearmsofapier-cap place. tasked with finding out the tragedy. On Friday, the day sources confirmed. Her name of the flyover, stretched over Struck by tragedy: Jagdish Prasad Kandoi, 75, and Vimla Mr. Biswakarma’s father reason for the collapse, the flyover collapsed in was chosen from three names the balcony of house num- Kandoi, lost their only son. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT succumbed to his injuries have now been roped in to A ile photo of the lyover 2016, local residents will forwarded by a committee. ber 25A, is yet to be from the flyover’s collapse, decide the flyover’s fate. after the collapse. * PTI stage a rally demanding that removed. Churu in Rajasthan. He lost second year undergraduate too. Unanimously, the famil- At least 26 people died the flyover be dismantled. But many things have his only son Ajay Kumar, and student, life changed equally ies demand the removal of when about 300 metres of Engineering, IIT, Kharagpur Anil Roy, a snack vendor, Four women killed in changed in the narrow alleys his daughter-in-law Sarita, in dramatically. Last year, soon the rest of the flyover. the Vivekananda Road fly- told The Hindu. Professor said that “a large slab fell” road accident near here, an erstwhile the flyover collapse. after his father Tapan Dutta Back in the main thor- over came crashing down Gupta, along with other ex- next to one of his customers GUWAHATI world of palaces belonging “My son used to manage died while crossing the fly- oughfare on Vivekananda on March 31, 2016, before perts from IIT, will conduct a few days ago. Four women were killed and to the 18th century zamin- our business,” said Mr. Kan- over, Dhiman told The Hindu Road, Bapi Das, a public the Assembly poll in West a study of the structure to “I want the flyover re- eight, including a minor, were dars of Bengal, adjacent to doi, who is acutely afflicted that he would like to pursue works contractor who has Bengal. ascertain whether the in- moved as (the rest of ) it may injured when a vehicle Vivekananda Road. In one of by arthritis. On the living a career in acting. A year been campaigning for the re- A year later, the investiga- complete structure connect- collapse any time, killing carrying pilgrims from here the bylanes, located in a za- room wall behind him are later, his priorities have moval of the flyover, was tion in the case remains in- ing Girish Park in north more,” Mr Roy said. met with an accident at minder’s courtyard with a photographs of Ajay and Sar- changed as he has been busy arguing with his co-act- complete. Kolkata to Howrah Bridge is After the flyover crash, Chapar in Dhubri district on multitude of tenants, stands ita, between black & white given a job in the State’s Dis- ivists about the exact timing “About one month or two strong enough to withstand the Kolkata Police had Thursday. The police said the a dilapidated building with pictures of Mr. Kandoi’s par- aster Management of the collapse. ago we got a request from the weight of several pressed murder charges vehicle overturned as it tried dimly lit corridors, housing ents. The deaths have com- Department. “Exactly at the time, we the State government to ex- vehicles at one go. against those involved in the to negotiate a curve on the at least a dozen mid-sized pletely changed the life of will observe a minute’s si- amine whether the remain- construction of the struc- way to Mahamaya temple, apartments on each floor. Nikhil, Ajay Kumar’s young- ₹5 lakh compensation lence on Friday, followed by ing structure of the flyover Lacunae aplenty ture. But when the charge considered to be one of the In one such apartment est son.“He left his studies to “I can’t afford to chase an a rally in the area. Our only be retained and completed Five months into the col- sheet was filed in the last oldest Shakti shrines in the resides a 75-year-old timber help me in work,” Mr. Kan- uncertain career in films,” he demand is to remove the or dismantled,” Anand- lapse, Prof. Gupta and other week of June, 2016, the country. -PTI merchant, Jagdish Prasad doi said. said, sitting next to his 89- remnants of the dead apran Gupta, former head experts in August 2016 had murder charges were Kandoi, originally from For Dhiman Dutta, 19, a year-old grandfather. The bridge,” he said. of the department of Civil pointed out lacunae like dropped. Bombay High ED attaches Constitution Bench hearing Artiicial plastic eggs seized seer’s assets Press Trust of India ment. Acting on the basis of Kolkata a complaint made by a wo- Court vexed with on triple talaq from May 11 Artificial plastic eggs were man residing in the Kareya worth ₹11 cr. on Thursday seized from an police station area, the po- egg seller in the city’s Tiljala lice later detained egg-seller Special Correspondent scribes’ dress NEW Delhi Centre wants court to reopen debate on personal laws area after a woman com- Mohammed Shamin Ansari. The Enforcement Director- plained to the civic body and They seized the eggs and ate has provisionally at- Krishnadas Rajagopal consistent with or in deroga- and freedom of speech and consumer affairs depart- sent them for testing. NEW DELHI Is there a dress code, asks Bench tached assets worth ₹11.4 tion of the fundamental expression. The All India crore of Santosh Kumar The Supreme Court on rights) of the Indian Muslim Personal Law Board, Press Trust of India How can journalists Thursday fixed the Constitu- Constitution. on the other hand, has con- Mumbai <> Raul alias Sarathi Baba and come to court his associates, for project- tion Bench hearings from If the Supreme Court tended that the court has no The Bombay High Court on wearing jeans and ing himself as an incarna- May 11 on a batch of peti- agrees that personal laws are jurisdiction to hear pleas Thursday voiced displeasure T-shirt? tion of Lord Krishna and tions challenging whether included in the definition of challenging the practices of triple talaq and polygamy vi- laws under Article 13, the triple talaq, ‘nikah halala’ over journalists covering Manjula Chellur duping his followers. The court proceedings attired in Chief Justice Directorate has attached olate the fundamental rights door will be opened wide and polygamy. jeans and T-shirts, asking if it immovable assets, includ- of Muslim women. for an aggrieved person to The Board said the valid- was ‘Bombay culture’. shirt,” she asked. She then ing one Barimul Ashram A Bench led by Chief challenge in court a particu- ity of the Mohammedan The observation was turned to the counsel for worth ₹9 crore, and bank Justice of India J.S. Khehar lar personal law of a religion Law, founded essentially on made by Chief Justice Man- Mumbai civic body S.S. deposits of ₹2.4 crore. The said the Constitution Bench as violative of the funda- the Holy Quran and sources jula Chellur and Justice G.S. Pakale and asked him if action comes after the would hear the case back-to- mental rights. In case the based on it, cannot be tested Kulkarni when they were there was any dress code for Odisha police filed an FIR back from May 11 and even challenge succeeds in court, on the particular provisions hearing a petition challen- journalists. After Mr. Pakale in August 2015. sit through the weekend fol- the personal law, to the ex- of the Constitution. ging doctors abstaining from responded in the negative, The police had also filed lowing May 11. tent of its inconsistency, The Muslim body called work. The Bench, on seeing Justice Chellur wanted to a charge sheet against the The Supreme Court shall become void. for judicial restraint as the a journalist from a national know if wearing such attire Baba, who is currently closes for summer holidays issues in the petitions before newspaper wearing jeans to court was appreciated. lodged in a Chowdwar jail. on May 10. Muslim body’s view the court fell within the le- and T-shirt, wanted to know The lawyer again responded According to the charge The Constitution Bench The Centre has also asked gislative domain. if there was any dress code with a ‘no’. sheet, the accused claimed will examine if these per- the Supreme Court to de- The batch of petitions in- for them. Noting that journ- The court, however, did that he had supernatural sonal law practices are the termine whether the triple cludes a suo motu PIL insti- alists should maintain de- not pass any direction or powers. On the pretext of “fundamental traits” of the talaq, ‘nikah halala’ and tuted by the Supreme Court corum of the court, Justice guidelines on dress journal- serving the poor, he duped minority religion. polygamy are protected un- itself on whether personal Chellur pointed at him and ists should wear while cover- his followers into making The Centre has sought the der the freedom of religion law practices like triple talaq asked him whether it was ing proceedings. This is the huge donations. He used court to reopen the debate under Article 25, and (talaq-e-bidat), nikah halala part of ‘Bombay culture’. first time that the High Court the donations for acquiring as to whether personal laws whether this Article is sub- and polygamy violate the “How can journalists come has objected to the dress immovable assets and for can be brought under the ject to fundamental rights, dignity of Muslim women to court wearing jeans and T- worn by journalists. his personal benefit. ambit of Article 13 (laws in- especially the right to life and promote gender bias.

BJP will win Gujarat polls: Amit Shah

Special Correspondent GANDHINAGAR Taking part in the Gujarat Assembly proceedings after almost two years, BJP president Amit Shah on Thursday slammed the opposition Congress. He said Gujarat had achieved new heights of development during the BJP regime and that was why the party had won the Assembly polls repeatedly. Mr. Shah is a member of the Gujarat Assembly rep- resenting the Naranpura area of Ahmedabad. In his 40-minute speech to support a resolution brought by a BJP legislator urging the government to take forward the development Assessing damage Rescue workers and oicials inspect the derailed coaches of the Delhi-bound Mahakaushal Express at Mahoba agenda of the party, Mr. in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Over a dozen passengers were injured in the accident. * AFP Shah asserted that the BJP would win the coming As- sembly polls in Gujarat. “You cannot win Several hurt as Mahakaushal Express derails people’s mandate by creating ruckus during the No casualties reported as 8 coaches of Jabalpur-Nizamuddin Express go of rails House proceedings. To win the mandate, one must win Omar Rashid the derailment, the Railways tracks in the accident. The passengers were taken to people’s heart and the BJP LUCKNOW said the total number of the coaches at the rear of the Jhansi. According to Railway has done that,” Mr. Shah More than a dozen people injured was only 13, includ- train were affected in the in- officials, the mangled said. Opposition members were injured after eight ing two women. cident. The train had 23 coaches were cleared from were not present as they coaches of the Jabalpur- Only one peson, a resid- coaches in total. the track by 3 a.m. Around had been suspended for Nizamuddin Mahakaushal ent of Morena, was griev- 6:45 a.m. the remaining creating trouble demand- Express derailed in the early ously injured. After receiving Relief trains sent coaches were dispatched for ing tabling of the Justice hours of Thursday between initial treatment in Mahoba, Medical relief vans and acci- the destination, with five ex- M.B. Shah Commission re- the Mahoba and Kulpahad he was admitted to the dent relief trains were dis- tra coaches attached to the port in the House. stations in the Bundelkhand Jhansi Medical College for patched from Banda and train in Jhansi. According to Mr. Shah, region of Uttar Pradesh. treatment. Twelve passen- Jhansi. The Railway Board before 1995, Gujarat and its The accident took place in gers received minor injuries, The district administra- offered ₹50,000 as ex-gratia people were suffering due the Jhansi-Manikpur section said Amit Malviya, NCR tion with the support of the relief to all seriously injured to large-scale corruption, of the North Central Rail- spokesperson. Railways transported 20 am- while ₹25000 was given to lawlessness and shortage ways (NCR) around 2 a.m. No Eight bogies — four AC bulances to the site, while 15 those with minor injuries. of electricity. But after Nar- casualties were reported. compartments, two general buses were arranged to UP Chief Minister Yogi endra Modi took over as While the police said 52 coaches, one sleeper and transport the passengers to Adityanath also announced a CM in 2001, the party had people received injuries in one SLR — went off the nearby towns. Around 200 similar relief package. transformed the State. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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welcome. While Mr. Peasah had a lenges the viewer to see the multi- lot of foreign student friends from dimensionality of each individual A clean-up act around the world, it was harder to photographed. The stunning col- make friends with Indian students. our portraits also speak to the di- The Supreme Court has signalled there can be To make friends with women stu- verse faces of the continent. These no compromise over air quality dents was almost impossible, as In- nuanced portrayals force the dian men were quick to accuse viewer to move beyond stereo- he Supreme Court’s direction to transport au- Jael Silliman Africans of making advances at types to see each person por- thorities to stop registering vehicles that do not ‘their’ women even if they were trayed; their lives are no diferent meet Bharat Stage-IV emission standards from merely studying together. from our own. T After a teenage boy went missing in Concerned by the racism faced In addition, an exhibition of April 1 sends out the welcome message that short-term Greater Noida on March 26, locals by many African students, Mr. Africans in India was launched last economic considerations cannot supersede public accused ive Nigerian students of Peasah helped organise a peace year that has travelled to Delhi and health concerns. Some automobile companies, notably cannibalism. Residents of the en- march to raise awareness about ra- Vadodara. Curated by an American those manufacturing two-wheelers and commercial clave barged into the home where cism in India. He also helped art collector, Kenneth X. Robbins, vehicles, have sufered a blow as they must now deal the Nigerian students were staying DEEPAK HARICHANDAN launch a campaign to clean Rajku- the exhibition was irst held in 2013 with unsold inventories of the obsolete models. The and searched the fridge for the re- mar Park to show that foreign stu- at the Schomburg Center for Re- 2017 deadline for a nationwide shift to BS-IV had been mains of the youth, who died in a stone. He was rushed to the AIIMS dress racism towards Africans in dents, including Africans, were search in Black Culture, New York. hospital after being found in a trauma centre but was pro- India have been undertaken. also part of the Swachh Bharat ef- It portrays the trading and political repeatedly emphasised in various forums, and reiter- nearby park. Following unsubstan- nounced dead on arrival. There were 42,420 foreign stu- fort and could contribute to the relations between several African ated by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Pet- tiated complaints from the victim’s The aggravated hate crimes dents in India in 2016. The top country’s mission to create a groups starting from the fourth roleum and Natural Gas in its review of the Auto Fuel family, the police charged the stu- against Africans are not limited to sending countries were Nepal cleaner India. While very few fel- century AD, and particularly exam- Policy nearly two years ago. But there was some confu- dents with murder but did not de- Delhi and its environs. Three (21.3%), Afghanistan (10.3%), low students from the University of ines the role that Muslims from sion about whether April 1 was the deadline for the tain them for lack of evidence. It months before the Olivier tragedy, Bhutan, (6.6%), Sudan (4.8%), Ni- Mysore joined the peace march, East Africa played as slaves and manufacture of BS-III models or their sale. Signiicantly, was later reported that the boy a 21-year-old Tanzanian woman geria (4.7%), indicating that after Mr. Peasah appreciated the fact traders in India, with a few — such some automobile manufacturers themselves called for died of drug overdose. This incid- was driving in Bengaluru when a the three SAARC partner coun- that over 40 students came in a bus as Malik Ambar from Ethiopia, ent, followed by further violence mob stopped the car, dragged her tries, Sudan and Nigeria send the from Vikram Nursing School to join who was a prominent noble in the a decisive shift in favour of the higher emission stand- against African students in Noida, out, beat her and stripped of her most students to study in India. it and even provided irst aid back- Ahmadnagar Sultanate in the 17th ard, since they had invested in upgraded technologies marks a new low in the racism shirt. Local papers reported that Students come from many African up support for the walkers. century — rising to become import- over time. But it would appear that two-wheeler and faced by Africans in India. the police stood by while she was countries to India as many univer- Mr. Peasah thinks it is critical ant military generals. commercial vehicle manufacturers made a costly mis- This vicious race crime is a clear beaten and paraded around naked. sities ofer quality education in that proper orientation be given to A much more concerted efort calculation when they hoped for a repeat of the experi- sign of terrible ignorance, arrog- The car was set ablaze. English that is much more reason- African students coming to study must be made by the Indian gov- ence they had seven years ago, when the shift from BS-II ance and the recycling of old Apparently the young Tan- ably priced than in the West. The in India. It is perhaps as or more ernment, and Indian citizens, in- to BS-III norms was carried out with a relaxation of tropes of Africans as “uncivilised”. zanian student was beaten to University of Mysore, for instance, critical for Indian students and tellectuals, and artists to make Indians, with their preference for avenge the death of a woman who has 2,000 foreign students, many members of communities where Africans feel safe in India. The po- deadlines often stretching across months. The Centre “whiteness” and their total lack of had allegedly been run over by a from African countries. African students live to have a bet- lice too, who are often implicated must share some of the blame, because it assured in- information and exposure to Sudanese man less than an hour Thus Indian students have an ter understanding of Africa. This in these racist incidents, must be dustry of a business-as-usual approach on a sensitive is- Africa’s rich cultural heritage and before the attack. The student opportunity to meet African stu- would require discussions and ex- trained, and issues of racism sue such as automotive emissions, even though produ- its contemporary politics, have pleaded with the police for help in- dents and learn about a part of the posure to the many cultures and di- within the force seriously prosec- cers were already equipped and meeting the higher denied Africans in India their basic sisting she had nothing to do with world of which they know little. versity of Africa. uted. Students on Indian cam- norms in the bigger cities. humanity which is demonstrated the fatal accident. In her iled com- This is despite the fact that India To date there are few eforts puses must be made aware of ra- The court’s order means that a little over eight lakh in their accusations of “cannibal- plaint, she alleged that a police- has had trading connections with even among artists and intellectu- cism towards foreign students and ism” — the ultimate denouncement man told her: “You all look alike Africa over the centuries and many als to address this issue of blatant shown that it is no diferent from BS-III vehicles will have to be either upgraded or sold of the “inhuman other”. and you should get the black man people of Indian descent live and racism so rampant in India and the racism faced by Indian stu- abroad. As a total sum, this is a small fraction of the 19 who ran over a woman in the area.” have lived in Africa for centuries. among Indians abroad. The work dents abroad, which India so vehe- crore vehicles on Indian roads today. It is unlikely that A spate of incidents While these monstrous incid- of Bengaluru-based photographer mently denounces. In addition, for the court’s uncompromising approach will have a signi- There have been several atrocious ents hit the headlines, Africans in Engaging is knowing Mahesh Shantaram is an excep- a country of India’s size and given icant impact on reducing air pollution. But the mes- cases of racism in the last year to- India face everyday racism that Nana Peasah, a Ghanaian student, tion. ‘The African Portraits’, a the increasing number of Africans sage it sends out on air pollution is unmistakable. Re- wards Africans in India. Masonda makes them feel very unsafe. The has returned recently to Accra photo exhibition in conjunction coming to India to study and for Ketada Olivier, a young Congolese attitude of the police relects and after studying at the University of with Tasveer, has been mounted in medical tourism, a far wider cul- search reported three years ago estimated that 30% to man who was a French teacher in exacerbates this racial violence Mysore for two years. He was the Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai tural engagement with the contin- 50% of total on-road emissions came from vehicles South Extension, was murdered and discrimination. African stu- international students’ co-coordin- and Kolkata. Mr. Shantaram’s very ent is necessary not only to combat older than 10 years, or about 17% of the leet. The re- while returning home from a party dents are mostly left to protest the ator at the university in 2015-16. He direct and intimate portraits of the malevolent racism, but also to quirement for manufacturers to adjust to the new real- when he tried to get an autorick- hate crimes, and the government, sought to learn about India and African students studying, relax- expand the global horizons of the ity should serve as a reminder that they, and the fuel shaw home and got into an argu- keen to placate the African govern- joined the Rotary Club East of ing, or taking a nap underline the Indian public. companies, must prepare for the next big deadline: an ment with three men who wanted ments, ofers the obligatory sorry Mysore. He also attended the Des- familiarity and everydayness of upgrade to the BS-VI standard by April 1, 2020, leapfrog- to hire the vehicle. He was brutally and promises to look into the incid- tiny International Church, a Pente- their lives. He briely describes pulled out of the auto, assaulted, ent and bring about justice. How- costal Church, where many inter- each of the personalities with re- Jael Silliman is an author, scholar, and ging BS-V. More immediately, the Centre has to ensure and struck on the head with a ever, no serious attempts to ad- national students are made to feel spect and sensitivity and thus chal- women’s right activist that the objective of the Supreme Court’s order is met, and the ‘one fuel, one country’ goal for BS-IV is fulilled. This is crucial to ensure that the catalytic converters of newer vehicles are not afected by lower-grade fuels. Li- quidating obsolete inventory does pose a challenge for Say no to Westinghouse manufacturers, but this can be met through exports, technology upgrades or reuse of dismantled parts. The imperative is to shift to a clean fuel pathway. Assurances notwithstanding, India must not enter into a contract with a bankrupt company

civil nuclear cooperation with In- U.S. presidency and Westinghouse Westinghouse 1000 MWe reactor dia, and Westinghouse is reported perilously in the red, there is little will cost approximately three times to have indicated that it continues to chance that the new American ad- the cost of two 500 MWe India-de- Next steps on GST stand behind the reactor delivery ministration will favourably con- signed heavy-water reactors today, model that it presented in its Tech- sider an Exim Bank loan for an In- and perhaps eight times the cost of The spirit of give and take must continue to nical Commercial Ofer to India and dian nuclear project to be equivalent coal-powered supercrit- looks forward to progress on an technologically executed by a bank- ical power plants. Lastly, not a A. Gopalakrishnan operationalise the new indirect tax regime agreement in 2017. But these assur- rupt U.S. company. Even if the single AP1000 Westinghouse re- ances notwithstanding, India must Trump administration is willing, actor is in operation anywhere in he Lok Sabha has duly given its assent to neces- With Japanese conglomerate not enter into a contract involving the project is deinitely not in the in- the world today. Even when one of sary Central legislation to operationalise the Toshiba announcing that Westing- billions of dollars with an American AP terest of the people of India. the eight reactors of this type which TGoods and Services Tax, nearly 17 years after the house, the American nuclear major company that has already declared are under construction today starts government began discussions on the prospects for a it bought in 2006, has iled for bank- bankruptcy. completion, and it may take an- Potential losses on all fronts operation, we have no guarantee uniied indirect tax regime across the country. It is eye- ruptcy, the road map of the India- other two years to inish all four. From personal contacts, I under- how many years it will take from ing a July 1 rollout for the GST, which will replace the U.S. nuclear deal is in jeopardy. Un- A history of project delays For the reactors envisaged for stand that senior and mid-level then to reach an assured level of re- Westinghouse had taken the con- Westinghouse managers and tech- liability and safety before we can multiple Central and State-level taxes and levies that der the deal, Westinghouse is slated Kovvada, no site work has started to set up six AP1000 nuclear react- tractual responsibility of two pro- yet, and the local population is op- nical staf have already started look- conidently deploy them in India. make doing business in India a compliance nightmare ors in Kovvada, Andhra Pradesh. jects to build four AP1000 nuclear posed to the nuclear power project. ing for other jobs. The company will In view of these diiculties, it is today. The long and winding road for this reform, punc- The National Democratic Alliance reactors in the U.S. Both these pro- Westinghouse going into bank- ind itself hard-pressed to handle best to completely keep away from tuated by political about-turns, has had a fairly straight government, after assuming power jects are delayed by three years or ruptcy causes much larger prob- the completion of the eight AP1000 agreeing to purchase the Westing- trajectory in recent months, following the constitu- in 2014, had stood by the contours more and the costs have escalated lems than just the inancial con- reactors for the U.S. and China that house AP1000 reactors. In fact, the tional amendments last August. The GST Council has of the deal signed under the previ- by 40-50%. It has also been party to sequences. With the bankruptcy it is committed to, let alone compet- current status of world energy tech- managed to thrash out a consensus on several issues re- ous government and a preliminary two Chinese reactor projects for the iling, no creditors will come for- ently take on and complete a new nology does not warrant the inclu- work agreement between Westing- construction of four similar AP1000 ward to lend the approximately $7 two-reactor project in Kovvada. Be- sion and consideration of nuclear lating to the administration and the legislative provi- house and Nuclear Power Corpora- reactors at two sites, and these too billion needed to bankroll the India sides, six-eight years from the start power of any kind in the energy bas- sions for the new tax system within six months. The fact tion of India Limited (NPCIL) to are behind schedule, and costs have project in the irst phase. During the of construction, which competent ket of our nation. that apparently intractable positions held by the States build two reactors in Kovvada was also similarly exceeded much bey- time of the Barack Obama adminis- Westinghouse engineering team as well as the Centre on the sharing of administrative being inalised at the time of the ond the original estimates. In tration, India had hoped to get a will be around to help India start up A. Gopalakrishnan is a former Chairman powers, for instance, have been reconciled without the bankruptcy iling. China, the irst of these reactors was U.S. Export-Import (Exim) Bank these reactors and provide periodic of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board of Council resorting to a majority vote inspires conid- The U.S. embassy in New Delhi to have been set up in 2013. As of loan for the Kovvada project. But assistance thereafter? the Government of India. Email: 2017, none of these reactors is near In terms of capital costs, each [email protected] ence. So does the alacrity with which the Centre has has reairmed the commitment to with Donald Trump assuming the moved to secure Parliament’s nod for four enabling pieces of legislation within a fortnight of the Council’s approval. State Assemblies should do the same to pass LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. the State GST law by holding special sessions if need be. For Indian businesses that have been seeking the re- Banning BS-III vehicles efect is uncharitable to the Association of African China inds a militarily recent past in Vellore and diferent languages. One form, it is now time to come to terms with the ine print The Supreme Court ruling, auto industry. The Students in India, has strong Pakistan to its many patients from abroad can’t expect drivers to know though in public interest, is observation that health reportedly urged Africans to advantage as it forces India lock there for treatment. English. This ‘imposition of and embrace the tax system. The GST Council, meeting a knee-jerk reaction to the hazards are of primary stop making India their to guard two borders, and They will blink at Hindi’ argument that Mr. again on Friday to clear four pending sets of regula- problem of pollution (“SC importance is no answer to destination of study “until Pakistan’s location allows it milestones that are not in Vaiko has brought up is tions, must sign of on which of the ive GST rates will bans sale of BS-III vehicles the massive inancial loss and unless there is proper to access the Indian Ocean English. It will also unnecessary now. It’s only apply to diferent products and services. Clarity on the from April 1”, March 30). We sufered by motor vehicle security”. This is a stain on through Gwadar, a port that inconvenience those who because of this argument applicable rates will help industry alter their account- need not one reform but a manufacturers. The court our international image. China has largely inanced. don’t know Hindi. I hope being thrust on us every ing systems, supply chains and pricing strategies. But parcel of reforms to should have given them The Central and U.P. It will also be a shorter route the Centre will refrain from now and then on us that an some provisions in the GST laws have the industry in a holistically address the substantial time so that governments should work for moving its exports to the introducing Hindi entire generation in Tamil problem of emissions. ready-to-deliver vehicles together to nab the culprits Gulf and to Africa. China surreptitiously. Nadu did not learn an extra tizzy. While the highest GST rate has been pegged at Power plants are also largely could have been sold. The immediately. may be willing to back S. Vaithianathan, language, which is useful. 28%, the integrated GST law has set a ceiling of 40%. responsible for air pollution issue has been R. Sampath, India’s entry to the NSG if Madurai S. Vairamani, Though an enabling provision, it gives the government pollution; thus we must raging for a while, so the Chennai there is a clear route for Karaikudi too much leeway to alter the rate structure in coming make mandatory ultra court had enough time to Pakistan to join too. ■ National highways are years without seeking Parliament’s nod. Compare this supercritical thermal power send the message across. India, China and NSG H.N. Ramakrishna, used by people from more letters online: to the cess ceiling of 15% on luxury cars, for instance, generators in Tier-I cities. V. Lakshmanan, India’s eforts to be part of Virginia, U.S. diferent States speaking www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ Tirupur which are likely to see a 12% cess to start with. On sev- The entire discourse is the Nuclear Suppliers currently on big cities, but Group will continue to be Language barrier eral other fronts, the inal laws haven’t changed much corrections & clarifications: >>A sentence in the Business with lax standards, smaller Attacks on Africans scuttled by China, at least The Centre’s replacement of from their draft versions, despite industry red-lagging page report headlined “80 million EPF retirees may soon get cities are also becoming At a time when India has for now (“The dragon at the English signs on highway healthcare beneits” (March 30, 2017) read: “Workers drawing several provisions. These include the anti-proiteering largely unliveable due to been expressing outrage at NSG high table”, March 30). milestones with ones in salary up to ₹15,000 per month are entitled to medical beneits for clauses to curb ‘unjust enrichment’ of irms, the re- severe pollution. We need hate crimes being Given that China’s One Belt, Hindi is bound to stir a treatment during incidences of sickness, maternity, disability and quirement for branch oices to register separately in robust air monitoring perpetrated against its One Road project runs hornet’s nest in Tamil Nadu death due to injury during work.” Actually, the wage ceiling for ESIC Act coverage was recently increased to ₹21,000 from ₹15,000 each State, and treating all transactions between re- systems and strict people in the U.S. and through Pakistan, the latter (“Vaiko against Hindi enforcement of pollution Australia, it is condemnable is China’s valuable ally. The signages on highways”, per month. lated parties (including head oice and branch oices) >>An “In Brief” headline “Micromax Dual 5 phone priced at abatement guidelines. that Africans are facing a China-Pakistan Economic March 30). This ill-advised as taxable. For the services sector, in particular, compli- ₹20,000” (March 30, 2017, Business page) should be amended to Gagan Pratap Singh, similar situation in India Corridor (CPEC) will be an move is being silently read: “Micromax Dual 5 phone priced at ₹24,999". ance requirements could go up multi-fold. It is still not Noida, U.P. (“Another African national alternative route for critical carried out in roads passing too late for the GST Council to ofer some exemptions or It is the policy of The Hindu to correct signiicant errors as soon as possible. Please specify attacked in Noida”, March oil supply from West Asia, through Vellore, the edition (place of publication), date and page. 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LEFT, RIGHT, CENTRE Is Aadhaar a breach of privacy? Aadhaar is very poorly designed. The technology needs government to stop using U.K. government did in That is how they put Rajat Gupta, ation of Internet adoption, a black biometrics and instead 2010. This would com- former McKinsey boss, and Raj Ra- market for ID documents and un- ixing today; the law can wait for tomorrow use an open smart card pletely eliminate the risk jaratnam, former hedge fund man- necessary wastage of resources by standard. Biometrics al- of foreign governments, ager, in prison for insider trading. telecom companies. It has not pre- Aadhaar is mass surveil- not constrain those in the future low for identification of criminals and terrorists There was nothing in the payload — vented criminals and terrorists lance technology. Unlike who want to take full advantage of citizens even when they using the biometric data- voice recordings of the tapped tele- from using phones. Where we must targeted surveillance, its technological possibilities. How- don’t want to be identi- base to remotely, covertly phone conversations; the convic- absolutely have KYC for the pur- Sunil Abraham which is good and essen- ever, rather than frame the surveil- fied. Even unconscious and non-consensually tion was based on metadata. Smart poses of security, elimination of is Executive Director, LEFT tial for national security lance potential of Aadhaar in a neg- and dead citizens can be identify Indians. cards based on open standards al- ghosts and regulatory compliance, Centre for Internet and and public order, mass surveillance ative tone, I want to propose three identified using biometrics. Smart The Aadhaar (Authentication) low for decentralised authentica- we must use a token issued by Society undermines security. And while modifications to the project that cards, on the other hand, require Regulations 2016 specifies that tion by multiple entities and, there- UIDAI instead of the Aadhaar num- biometrics are appropriate for tar- will reduce but not eliminate its pins and thus citizens’ conscious transaction data will be archived fore, eliminate the need for a ber. This would make it harder for geted surveillance by the state, they surveillance potential. cooperation during the identifica- for five years after the date of the centralised transaction database. unauthorised parties to combine are wholly inappropriate for every- tion process. Once you flush your transaction. Even though the UIDAI databases. This will enable law en- day transactions between the state Shift to smart cards smart cards down the toilet, claims that this is a zero-knowledge KYC requirement forcement agencies to combine and law-abiding citizens. In January 2011, the Centre for In- nobody can use them to identify database from the perspective of We must, as a nation, get over our databases using the appropriate au- When assessing a technology, ternet and Society had written to you. Consent is baked into the “reasons for authentication”, any obsession with Know Your Cus- thorisations and infrastructure like don’t ask, “what use is it being put the Parliamentary Finance Com- design of the technology. If the big data expert will tell you that it is tomer (KYC) requirements. For ex- the National Intelligence Grid. to today?” Instead ask, “what use mittee that was reviewing what was Unique Identification Authority of trivial to guess what is going on us- ample, for SIM cards there is no Even as a surveillance project, can it be put to tomorrow and by then called the National Identifica- India (UIDAI) adopts smart cards, ing the unique identifiers for the re- KYC requirement in most de- Aadhaar is very poorly designed. whom?” The original noble intention Authority of India Bill 2010. we can destroy the centralised gistered devices and time stamps veloped countries. Our insistence The technology needs fixing today; tions of the Aadhaar project will We provided nine reasons for the database of biometrics just like the that are used for authentication. on KYC has only resulted in retard- the law can wait for tomorrow.

Aadhaar protects privacy by design. It uses the best metrics are essential to en- Another design prin- Typical examples are at the time of concerned agency and not with sure uniqueness, a key re- ciple was to issue random lifting ration from a PDS shop, UIDAI. This is the best model of possible technology relating to data protection quirement for this project. numbers with no intelli- opening a bank account to provide keeping data where each data- Additionally, these bio- gence. This ensures that eKYC to the bank or submission of owner has the responsibility of data Since its inception, gital transaction. This has trans- metrics can be used for no profiling can be done Digital Life Certificates by pension- confidentiality and security. Aadhaar has been cri- formed the service delivery in our authentication for finan- as the number does not ers. The basic purpose of authentic- Aadhaar authentication and e- ticised as a project country, conveniencing residents cial transactions, getting disclose anything about ation is to facilitate residents in get- KYC ensures that documents can- which violates privacy. and reducing leakages. Direct bene- mobile SIMs and various the person. The Aadhaar ting service in a digital, paperless not be misused. Physical papers are R.S. Sharma RIGHT India does not have a fit transfer, subscription to various other services using elec- Act has clear restrictions and convenient way. As no informa- amenable to misuse. We know of is Chairman, TRAI. law on privacy. In fact, then chair- services and authentication at the tronic KYC (e-KYC). on data sharing. No data tion is divulged to any agency situations where multiple SIMs are The views expressed man of UIDAI, Nandan Nilekani, point of service delivery are some Another principle of privacy by download is permitted, search is without the consent of the con- issued based on some document, are personal wrote to the Prime Minister as early of the benefits which have accrued. design states that you should collect not allowed and the only response cerned individual, it cannot be con- and the real owner is not even as in May 2010 suggesting that there only minimal data. As UIDAI was which UIDAI gives to an authentica- strued to violate any privacy. aware. On the other hand, e-KYC was a need to have a data protec- In-built privacy creating identity infrastructure, it tion request is ‘yes’ or ‘no’. No per- ensures that the document cannot tion and privacy law. Aadhaar followed the principle of was decided that only a minimal set sonal information is divulged. Purpose of authentication be used for any other transaction. In a digital world, search and ag- incorporating privacy by design, a of data, just sufficient to establish When a biometric-based authen- Besides the minimal data which UIDAI has also built a facility gregation of data have become rel- concept which states that IT pro- identity, should be collected from tication takes place, it is the indi- UIDAI has about a person, it does wherein one can ‘lock’ the Aadhaar atively easy. Aadhaar was designed jects should be designed with pri- residents. This irreducible set con- vidual who must participate in the not keep any data except the logs of number and disable it from any as a digital identity platform which vacy in mind. Collection of biomet- tained only four elements: name, process by submitting his or her authentication. It does not know type of authentication for a period is inclusive, unique and can be au- rics has often been quoted as one of gender, age and communication ad- biometrics, typically at the service the purpose of authentication. The of one’s choice, guarding against thenticated to participate in any di- the means of violating privacy. Bio- dress of the resident. delivery point to prove his identity. transaction details remain with the any potential misuse.

Aadhaar is necessary but we also need a robust data ning Commission study largely achieved by a concerns. We submit ourselves know- fraud. We have a multiplicity of done six years ago on the cerned campaign spear- ingly or unknowingly to personal laws which overlap. Our IT laws privacy and data protection law Public Distribution Sys- headed by the Prime Min- information sought online, even have to be modernised and we have tem found 27 paise reach- ister himself. Similarly, without Aadhaar. In the U.S., there to put the liability on the company I see many people tak- Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ing the citizens. The re- there are States where is a legal battle on to make a case handling the data so that it is not ing what I call a black- who had earlier opposed Aadhaar, maining 73 paise went on PDS has worked compar- for better informed consent. Let me stolen or shared without consent. and-white position on listened to Nandan Nilekani with an payments of salaries, ad- atively well, but not on all give an analogy here. In the case of This century comes with certain Aadhaar. Either they open mind and has emerged as its ministrative costs and cor- fronts. In Odisha, the rice medical emergencies we are re- risks. If we want a risk-free environ- Baijayant Jay Panda CENTRE support or red-flag it. I strongest votary. ruption. MPs are required scheme by the Chief Min- quired to sign a consent form, often ment, as extreme as it may sound, is a Lok Sabha MP and am for Aadhaar but I also feel very to chair a quarterly re- ister has worked well but running into pages. In the U.S., it we have the option to go back to the frequently pens articles strongly about a robust data privacy Plugging loopholes view of their constituencies. I do the same cannot be said about, say, has been decided that it is not stone age. It is like saying ban cars on socially relevant and data protection law. As a matter In my constituency and in other this often and when I ask for an kerosene distribution. enough to sign the consent form; as driving has become risky. Cars issues of fact, a bill to this effect will be in- places which I visit frequently, I see audit, I invariably discover that the While that’s one half of the de- the doctor must explain to the pa- are essential and we create road troduced by me in the Lok Sabha. enormous leakages in social district authorities are faced with bate, it is also true that we are rap- tient the consequences of a medical safety norms to mitigate their risk. Having said that, I have for long schemes. Aadhaar can plug these large number of fake names or fake idly becoming a digital economy. procedure about to be performed. Similarly, we need to take a level- maintained that Aadhaar was the loopholes. I will quote former roll numbers, either for PDS or the We are a nation of billion cell headed approach and ensure that United Progressive Alliance govern- Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who mid-day meal scheme. That’s where phones and yet we have antiquated Safeguards needed ample safeguards are put in place ment’s best idea; they were not en- said that out of every rupee spent Aadhaar can help. Look at how laws for data protection and pri- Similarly, we need to educate for data protection and privacy. thusiastic about it and I wish they by the Indian government, barely 15 Aadhaar assured transparency in vacy. Problems of ID theft, fraud people on the risks involved, and had done more. I am also glad that paisa reaches its citizens. A Plan- LPG allocations. Of course, this was and misrepresentation are real con- highlight examples of ID thefts and As told to Anuradha Raman

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* point was that “leveraging online se- height of the storm, appealed to the members to discuss the curity measures as a way to build trust issue without heat and emotion. She said she did not question with shoppers” would ultimately lead to more sales. Mr. Patel’s right to speak in whatever language he wished. But By the same token, bad cybersecurity practices ought to there were certain “practical technical” difficulties regarding hurt a company, right? Yes, but only if users come to know of simultaneous translation in the various national languages. the security breaches at the companies and brands they have She would later discuss the matter with the party leaders. signed up for, with or without sensitive information. What if the users have no clue? This scenario isn’t an ima- gined one. In India, companies aren’t legally bound to make A HUNDRED YEARS AGO MARCH 30, 1917 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC public such breaches. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC This issue came to the fore a few weeks ago, when fast food Fate of “Asturias” chain McDonald’s India asked users to update its app as a “pre- CONCEPTUAL ACT ONE cautionary measure.” It further said that the app doesn’t store Langue and The hospital ship “Asturias” has been torpedoed (London, sensitive inancial information of its users, and that it is safe to Rabble-rousers beware March 28). The attack took place at midnight. The torpedo use. The McDonald’s statement didn’t come from nowhere. It Parole struck the quarter and damaged the rudder, thence went into came on the back of a blog post by cybersecurity start-up Fal- Linguistics New sections fortify democracy against hate speech the engine room damaging the machinery and extinguishing lible, which had noted that the McDonald’s app is “leaking per- the whole electrical illumination. The vessel had landed nine sonal data for more than 2.2 million of its users which includes Swiss linguist Ferdinand Krishnadas Rajagopal Section 505A provides a popular legal and judicial hundred sick and those on board consisted of the crew, mem- name, email address, phone number, home address, accurate de Saussure sought to dis- punishment of one year concepts about the ambit bers of the Army Medical Corps and a number of nurses. The home co-ordinates and social proile links.” In the end, Mc- tinguish between the sys- The Law Commission of imprisonment, or ₹5,000 of hate speech. distress signals were answered by a patrol boat which towed Donald’s neither rejected the report nor accepted the breach. tem that language repres- India has drafted a new in fine, or both. “Incitement to violence the “Asturias” in and several boats with survivors. ents and the actual law, the Criminal Law In its report, the Law cannot be the sole test for Reasons to worry manner in which it is put (Amendment) Bill, 2017, Commission cautioned the determining whether a CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC In India, there is a relative silence when it comes to public ac- to use. Langue (French for inserting new sections to government that hate speech amounts to hate CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ceptance of cyber breaches by individual companies though ‘language’) is the entire fortify democracy against speech is “considered out- speech or not. Even DATA POINT there is relentless ambient noise about everything from the big system that forms a lan- hate speeches. The Com- side the realm of protect- speech that does not incite Indian debit card hack to the breach at Yahoo. Don’t be fooled guage, including its gram- mission, in its 267th report ive discourse”. violence has the potential by the silence. This is a country that ranked fourth among mar, alphabet, collection on hate speech, said such “Indisputably, offensive of marginalising a certain countries most targeted for Web application attacks, in a re- of words and the manner utterances have the poten- speech has real and dev- section of the society or in- port by content delivery network services provider Akamai in which these are ar- tial to provoke individuals astating effects on people’s dividual,” the report said. Technologies. Juxtapose this with the fact that India has been ranged to create meaning. and society to commit acts lives and risks their health It pointed out that in the adding millions of Internet users every year, who have been Parole (French for of terrorism, genocide, and safety. It is harmful age of technology, the an- more than nudged into the world of digital money in recent ‘speech’) is the individual and ethnic cleansing. Hate and divisive for communit- onymity of the Internet al- months, and you know why Indians have reasons to worry. and actual use of langue, speech is an “incitement ies and hampers social lows a miscreant to easily That isn’t all. Fallible in an earlier post had called the secur- the set of speech acts and to hatred” against a partic- progress. If left un- spread false and offensive ity of Indian payments infrastructure “a joke”. It said: “Vulner- utterances through which ular group of persons mar- checked, hate speech can ideas. abilities in major payment gateways and wallets include mul- language manifests extern- ginalised by their religious severely affect right to life “These ideas need not tiple ways of data leak, monetary loss, private keys leak and ally. This distinction belief, sexual orientation, of every individual,” the always incite violence but more.” This isn’t diferent from many other risk assessments. formed the basis of struc- gender, and so on. Commission warned. they might perpetuate the It does seem some corporates are taking note. In its ‘Path to turalism in linguistics. The Commission has “Hate speech is any discriminatory attitudes Cyber Resilience’ report earlier this year, a result of a survey of proposed Section 153C, word written or spoken, prevalent in the society. 124 Indian companies, consultancy irm EY noted that three- which penalises incite- signs, visible representa- Thus, incitement to dis- fourths of “board members and C-level executives have said ment to hatred, and Sec- tions within the hearing or crimination is also a signi- they lack conidence in their organisation’s level of cyberse- CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC tion 505A, which for the sight of a person with the ficant factor that contrib- curity.” But then, the report also noted how cybersecurity first time makes “causing intention to cause fear or utes to the identification of hardly gets top management attention in India, as it is viewed MORE ON fear, alarm, or provocation alarm, or incitement to vi- hate speech,” it said. merely as an “IT issue”. THE WEB 3 of violence in certain olence,” the report said. The Supreme Court in Making breaches public should be mandatory and is the cases” a specific criminal It said even a speech 2014 had referred to the wake-up call companies need. It would then become a cus- A visit to Sachin's adopted offence. Section 153C pun- that does not incite viol- Law Commission for tomer-facing issue, and the management will be all ears. The village ishes a guilty person with ence has the potential of means to arm the Election more proactive ones will also realise that good cybersecurity http://bit.ly/SachinAdoptedVillage two years’ imprisonment, marginalising a section of Commission to crack can be good marketing. or ₹5,000 in fine, or both. society, thus contradicting down on hate speech.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE Lok Sabha clears Finance Bill Sena MP to Hills sizzle at 8 degrees meet Speaker Five of Upper House’s amendments rejected; Centre accused of riding roughshod over Parliament on lying ban above normal Special Correspondent Special Correspondent of 7.5% of net profit of the in electoral funding has sault on the right of NEW DELHI NEW DELHI The summer months of Historical data, until last three financial years for nothing to do with the Con- individual.” The Shiv Sena on Thursday March-May last year were 2010, on the IMD website Finance Minister Arun Jait- donation to political parties. solidated Fund of India,” Bhartruhari Mahtab of requested Lok Sabha 1.36°C higher than historical says that Shimla’s highest- ley invited suggestions from It had also approved an Mr. Hooda said, observing the Biju Janata Dal sought to Speaker Sumitra Mahajan average, making it the ever maximum temperature the Opposition for clean amendment asking for the that the Finance Minister know since when was there that she ask domestic air- second-warmest since 1901. in March was 25.8 in 2010 and transparent funding of disclosure of donor names through these amendments a provision in the Income lines to withdraw the flying The high temperatures in and Mukteshwar, 28.5 in political parties, as the Lok to political parties. These had made the Rajya Sabha Tax Act, 1961, that the per- ban imposed on its MP the north, according to a 2004. Sabha on Thursday cleared amendments were rejected “incidental.” The govern- son whose House was being Ravindra Gaikwad for the senior IMD official, are due the finance Bill after it rejec- in the Lok Sabha. ment without cleansing the searched, or raided was dis- ongoing budget session. to a confluence of weather Global warming ted five amendments (in- Mr. Jaitley, while respond- system of political funding closed the reason. Mr. Mr. Gaikwad is also conditions such dry south- The stamp of global warm- cluding those pertaining to ing to the debate in the Lok was trying to push it under Mahtab also questioned likely to meet the Speaker westerly winds from Gujarat ing is evident in this year’s anonymity of donors to Sabha, said he had been the carpet, he said. whether political parties in a couple of days. “We blowing to the north and searing March. “When the political parties) recommen- “hearing only adjectives like should run with funding met the Speaker and re- approaching Western Dis- average temperatures are ded by the Rajya Sabha. it [political funding] must be Arun Jaitley Electoral bonds from the corporate sector. quested her to instruct au- turbances (a storm from the rising every year, there will Opposition MPs accused clean, it must be transpar- Trinamool Congress MP “The floodgates would be thorities to withdraw the Mediterranean that brings be more incidents of ex- the government of riding ent. Please give me ideal should put on file the ob- Saugata Roy said he had opened for corporate fund- travel ban,” said Rahul rain to north and northwest treme temperature,” Mr. roughshod over Parliament combination of the two. We jective for conducting sur- suggested that a separate ing for political purposes,” Shewale, Sena MP from India). These are coupled Mohapatra added. North In- over what they termed are willing to consider it. I vey, search and raid, other- law be brought to introduce he said. South Central Mumbai. with an anticyclone, a dia apart, several states — some “draconian provi- will wait for a specific sug- wise there would be no electoral bonds as the pro- He added that political He expressed the hope clockwise spiraling of air Madhya Pradesh, Maha- sions” in the Bill. gestion.” The response accountability. He also de- posal had been included in parties in power might be- that the matter would be that pulls in more warm air rashtra, Chattisgarh, Orissa, The Rajya Sabha’s came after a spirited discus- manded that a new Bill be the “so-called omnibus Fin- nefit from the corporate resolved before the next flowing in from the Jharkhand and Rajasthan — amendments pertained to sion in the Lok Sabha on all introduced for regulating ance Bill.” houses but would such be- session and demanded south-west. recorded severe-heat wave deleting the provisions relat- the amendments. political funding. “We are Mr. Roy said the Rajya nefits accrue to them when that, in the interim, Mr. “By April 1, the heat- conditions because of the ing to powers given to tax- not doubting the intentions Sabha had approved the de- they were out of power. He Gaikwad — the MP from Os- waves will start to subside meteorological confluence. men to requisition books of Checks and balances of the government, but the letion of Clause 51 of Sec- insisted that there should be manabad in Maharashtra [due to the rain],” said M As The Hindu reported account, power to survey Initiating the discussion, manner in which this [chan- tion 132a of the Income Tax transparency with regard to who is at the centre of a Mohapatra, head-meteoro- earlier this week, the IMD is and other such discretion- Congress MP Deepender ging rules for political fund- Act — which deals with political funding and added row for assaulting an Air logist at the IMD’s National already in the process of in- ary powers. The Upper Hooda said there was a ing via finance Bill] is being powers to taxmen for re- that it was necessary to India employee — be al- Weather Forecasting forming States to put in House had also approved need for “checks and bal- done,” he said. quisition of books of ac- make the political system lowed to fly during the cur- Centre. “But these places place comprehensive heat that there should be a cap ances” on taxmen and they “The process of change counts. It was a “direct as- corruption-free. rent session of Parliament. have seen higher temperat- action plans to prepare for ures in earlier years too.” the summer. Minister lambasted over PM holds ‘breakfast pe charcha’ with MPs Maoists behind A.P. remarks on rape victim Asks them to expose Opposition propaganda on OBC panel and GST regime accident, says NIA Special Correspondent of the House to the State Special Correspondent pro-poor and pro-backward disband the OBC Commis- New Delhi government for corrective NEW DELHI communities policies be sion as part of its campaign Shamshul Hoda, a Nepalese accident was “a conspiracy The Rajya Sabha was briefly steps. Prime Minister Narendra highlighted. to end reservation in govern- businessman, who was and conspirators carried it adjourned on Thursday as JD(U) leader Kahkashan Modi, in a breakfast meeting A statement issued by the ment jobs and educational questioned by the NIA in out sitting across the bor- Opposition members pro- Perween raised the matter with BJP MPs from Maha- BJP said Mr. Modi “told them institutions. An MP who at- Nepal, while confirming der.” tested reports that Ra- during Zero Hour, demand- rashtra, Madhya Pradesh [the MPs] that the Opposi- tended the meet said Mr. that he had been asked by a Mr. Rajnath Singh, how- jasthan Minister Gulab ing that the Rajasthan Minis- and Chattisgarh, urged them tion is misleading people Modi had a noted that being Pakistani man, Shafi Sheikh, ever, told the Parliament Chand Kataria had ques- ter be sacked for his re- to expose the Opposition’s about the government’s de- in power should entail more to plant explosives at Ghor- last week that “The Prime tioned a gang-rape victim's marks. Mr. Naqvi said: efforts at “misleading” the cision to accord Constitu- Narendra Modi humility on the part of the asan in Motihari, Bihar, said Minister did not directly integrity, with members de- “Such statements cannot be people on his government’s tional status on the OBCs’ BJP MPs while serving the he was unaware of any such mention ISI’s name in the manding that the Minister justified. It should be con- stand on Other Backward Commission and the GST the masses that the Central people. “MPs thanked Prime plan for the Kanpur and Ku- Kanpur train derailment be sacked. demned if it is true.” Classes (OBCs) and the GST Act”. government is working for Minister Modi for granting neru railway derailments. case” and investigations in Minister of State for Par- Mr. Kataria had regime. “BJP members should the poor,” it said, quoting the Constitutional status to the During an election rally three railway track acci- liamentary Affairs Mukthar wondered why a girl gang- In what is the fourth such study facts and understand Prime Minister. Backward Classes Commis- in Gonda on February 23, dents, where sabotage is Abbas Naqvi assured the raped by eight people had meeting with groups of BJP the Opposition's lies. They Opposition parties have sion, at par with the Sched- Prime Minister Narendra suspected, was yet to be House that the Centre not told her parents on the MPs from various States, Mr. should take this to the been alleging that the BJP uled Caste Commission,” Modi had said the Kanpur completed by NIA. would convey the concerns day of the incident itself. Modi said his government’s people. They should inform government is working to said the MP. Ceiling fans to check Jagdish Tytler refuses to Congress may rehire Kota suicides undergo lie detection test Kishor for upcoming polls Most hostels in the city, situ- institutes on Wednesday, ated in south-eastern Ra- hostel owners deliberated jasthan, are residential units on proposals for enhancing where additional rooms the security of students. CBI has not given any reason for conducting it: counsel Victory in Punjab being cited as reason for the decision have been constructed for These ranged from con- providing paying guest ac- struction of security gates Press Trust of India as to why it was refusing to Smita Gupta sources pushing for rehiring commodation. Many hostel and installing of closed-cir- New Delhi record the statement when New Delhi Mr. Kishor made was that in buildings are occupied en- cuit television cameras to Congress leader Jagdish the witness was ready for it. Poll strategist Prashant Kis- Punjab — unlike U.P. – the tirely by students while their posting security guards at Tytler, who has been given a She also said that the wit- hor may have become a con- Congress has a proper party owners live elsewhere. the entrance and exit clean chit by the CBI in a ness should be given proper troversial figure in the Con- structure, a strong face that Areas where private hos- points. 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, on security if he apprehends gress after the party’s could be projected and fi- tels are functioning include Though the district ad- Thursday told a Delhi court threat to his life. disastrous performance in nally that political decisions Rajiv Gandhi Nagar, Om ministration has taken sev- that he is not ready to un- Meanwhile, the CBI filed a the recent Uttar Pradesh and were made by the political Cineplex, Land Mark local- eral measures to protect stu- dergo lie detection test as it status report before the Uttarakhand Assembly elec- leadership. Mr. Kishor was ity, Skyline Building and dents and issued guidelines amounts to cruelty. court in a sealed cover re- tions, but his services are just the consultant whose Saphalya Building. to prevent incidents of sui- Mr. Tytler’s counsel ob- garding its further probe in likely to be sought for polls expertise was effectively At a talk show coinciding cides, more than a dozen jected to the test, saying the the case. later this year in Gujarat and used. with the beginning of the students committed suicide CBI has not given any reason The case pertains to riots Himachal Pradesh, sources Prashant Kishor In U.P., they continue, the new session at the coaching in the city last year. for conducting it and the Jagdish Tytler * at Gurdwara Pulbangash in in the party told The Hindu. Congress neither had a agency’s plea for the test north Delhi where three The big victory in Punjab promised to waive farm strong face to project nor a was a “gross misuse of law” Verma, a witness in the people were killed on is being cited as the reason loans among other things, proper party structure. Life sentence for 35 and it was filed with “mala case, also told the court that November 1, 1984, a day to rehire Mr. Kishor for two all contributed to the vic- Mr. Kishor’s Rahul fide intention”. he was ready for the poly- after the assassination of more poll-going States. tory. Gandhi-led khat sabhas were Additional Chief Metro- graph test if he is provided then Prime Minister Indira A Congress leader intended to revive a somno- persons in murder case politan Magistrate Shivali with adequate security as he Gandhi. stressed that Mr. Kishor had Party in charge lent party machinery but Press Trust of India Sharma listed the matter for apprehends threat to his life played a key role in the But while Mr. Kishor helped when, at the end of the exer- SHAJAPUR According to the prosecu- April 18 for further argu- as well as to his family. Clean chit party not just winning the identify possible candidates, cise, it was seen as yielding tion, on November 11, 2012, ments on the CBI’s plea for He also said he was ready Mr Tytler, who has denied Punjab election but in the the final choice was made by very little, he advised an A sessions court in the dis- an altercation broke out permission to conduct the to record his statement be- any role in the riots, has impressive number of seats the State’s political leader- electoral alliance with the trict has awarded life im- when owners of adjacent test on Mr. Tytler and arms fore a magistrate. been given a clean chit by it won. He said that the pro- ship. Neither was his advice Samajwadi Party that ended prisonment to 35 persons land objected to erection of dealer Abhishek Verma for The CBI prosecutor, how- the CBI thrice in the case but grammes centred around heeded to take in sacked in disaster. for the murder of four men boundary poles on the land the purpose of further ever, did not agree with the the probe agency has been Captain Amarinder Singh convener of Aam Aadmi Now, there are those who over land dispute at village belonging to Shareefan Bi. probe. proposal of recording Ver- directed by the court to fur- (now Chief Minister) from Party’s Punjab unit, Sucha say Mr. Kishor’s strategy in Khardoun Khurd in Novem- She went home and re- The move came in pursu- ma’s statement and said the ther investigate the matter. “Halke vich Captain” (inter- Singh Chhotepur, or to re- U.P. wasn’t worth the money ber, 2012. turned with 38 others, who ance to the court’s Decem- consent for polygraph test Verma has made several actions at the block level) to place Ambika Soni as cam- spent on him; others say the Additional sessions judge attacked the other party. ber 4, 2015, order in which it should be unconditional. statements to the CBI “Coffee with Captain” (in an paign committee chief with party leadership erred in of Shujalpur sessions court, Rahmat Khan, Azad, Baddu was mentioned that lie de- Advocate Prabhsahay against Tytler that he al- urban setting) to getting Sunil Jakhar: there, the Cap- outsourcing the entire man- Rajiv Karmehe, passed the Khan and Mehmood Khan tection test may be conduc- Kaur, who represented the legedly pressured the wit- farmers to fill up the “Karza tain stood his ground. agement of the party’s State sentence on March 28. were killed on the spot. ted, if required. victims, questioned the CBI nesses in the case. Kurki Khatam” forms that But the key point party unit to a hired poll strategist. Cong. calls Now EC cracks down Carcasses in Bulandshahr Court dismisses for waiver students’ plea of farm loans on astrology too district lead to tension in area Special Correspondent mission advisory issued on Special Correspondent New Delhi Thursday. Najeeb Ahmed disappearance case New Delhi Predictions by astrologers, The EC observed that The locals blocked traic movement and went on a protest Nirnimesh Kumar The Congress on Thursday tarot readers and political despite its notification pro- raised in the Lok Sabha the analysts on results cannot hibiting exit polls from Feb- New Delhi fore a Magistrate for record- Purusharth Aradhak sons in the matter,” Superin- Chauhan and one constable. ing their statements on their issue of severe drought-like be published or broadcast ruary 4 till March 9 evening, Bulandshahr tendent of Police Jagdish The injured cops managed A Delhi court on Thursday willingness or unwillingness conditions in Tamil Nadu by the media, bypassing the some TV channels aired Tension prevailed after al- Sharma told The Hindu. to escape somehow and in- dismissed a plea by nine to undergo a lie detection and demanded loan waiver Representation of the programmes projecting the leged cow carcasses were re- The incident, which formed senior police officers Jawaharlal Nehru University test. for the distressed farmers, People Act provision that number of seats likely to be covered from Araniya in Bu- happened at Lakhanwada about the incident. students opposing the Delhi “There’s no provision un- some of whom are on bars exit polls during the won by political parties in landshahr on Thursday. The village in Bulandshahr dis- Police notices asking them der the Criminal Procedure dharna at the Jantar conduct of elections, ac- the recently concluded As- locals blocked traffic move- trict, came to light when Lathi charge to appear before a court to Code whereby the court of a Mantar here over two cording to an Election Com- sembly elections. ment and went on a protest. some locals went to graze Acting on the information, record their statements over Magistrate may direct any weeks. The protesters thrashed their cow on Thursday senior officers and the per- their willingness or unwill- person to undergo lie de- The protesting farmers cops and damaged a PCR morning. When the locals sonnel from eight police sta- ingness to take polygraph tector test or direct him or are demanding a relief van as well. Three police- noticed the cow was miss- tions reached the spot. They tests in connection with the her to record consent or re- package of ₹40,000 crore. men have been suspended ing, they started a search op- used mild lathi charge to dis- Najeeb Ahmed case. fusal for it,” the lawyer for Not satisfied with the in the matter. Heavy police eration. During the search, perse the crowd. The senior Dismissing their plea, these students had submit- government’s response, force has been deployed in they came upon the car- police and administration of- Chief Metropolitan Magis- ted before the court. the Congress later walked the area following the casses. The incident was re- ficials then addressed the trate of Patiala House courts The Crime Branch of the out of the House in protest. incident. ported to Hindu Yuva Vahini protesters and assured that Sumit Dass asked all them to city police had said that the In its response, the gov- “Five or six carcasses and hundred of activists the miscreants would be ar- appear before the court on lie detection test was re- ernment said several Union were recovered from the reached the spot demanding rested soon. Bulandshahr April 6 to record their state- quired to trace Najeeb Ministers, including Arun spot. We have lodged an FIR arrest of the accused. Senior Superintendent of ments on undergoing the Ahmad. Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Uma into the matter under the However, the protest Police Sonia Singh later sus- test. The police had initiated Bharti, Nirmala Sithara- appropriate sections. We turned violent within pended Araniya police sta- procedures to conduct the man and Radha Mohan have taken action against the minutes. The protesters tion incharge Ashok Kumar, Police notices opposed test after the High Court Singh, had met the dis- cops who didn’t discharge threw stones at the police Sub Inspector Praveen Ku- The students had opposed asked them to explore other tressed farmers, and were their duties properly and and thrashed Khanpur sta- mar and beat constable Sun- the Delhi Police notices avenues of probe since all doing whatever they could have questioned some per- tion incharge Rajveer Singh eel Kumar for negligence. seeking their presence be- other leads had failed. to alleviate their suffering. 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Will meet PM, start security dialogue Krishnadas Rajagopal Appointments Commission The court had assembled NEW DELHI case throughout the summer to fix the date for the Consti- Special Correspondent ters and a large number of For the first time in recent vacation. The reason given tution Bench hearings on N.D. Tiwari improving, NEW DELHI senior officials and repres- legal history, the Supreme then was the pile-up in the May 11. Some of the senior advised complete rest Malaysian Prime Minister entatives of some of the top Court, led by Chief Justice of number of vacancies in the lawyers, like Kapil Sibal, ex- LUCKNOW Najib Razak, who arrived in companies of Malaysia,” India J.S. Khehar, will have High Courts. pressed difficulties in ap- The condition of former Uttar Chennai on Thursday, is ex- said Jaideep Mazumdar, three Constitution Benches However, this time, the pearing for both triple talaq Pradesh CM Narayan Dutt pected to sign several agree- Joint Secretary in charge of functioning simultaneously, importance of the three is- and WhatsApp cases at the Tiwari has improved, after he ments with India and hold a Malaysia, highlighting that along with the usual vaca- sues — triple talaq, privacy of same time. He sought the was admitted to the Ram security-related dialogue, the visit marks the 60th an- tion Bench, in a historic step millions of users on Whats- court to hear the cases one Manohar Lohia Institute of the External Affairs Ministry niversary of bilateral diplo- away from its colonial tradi- App and the plight of mi- after the other rather than Medical Sciences (RMLIMS) said. He landed in Chennai matic ties. The official poin- tion of a prolonged summer grants’ children — have simultaneously. here following complaints of as an acknowledgement of ted out that Malaysian vacation spanning almost pulled the judges back from “This is how we will do it. an infection. He is still the contribution of the large investment to India is two months from May to Break with tradition: The Supreme Court is taking a historic enjoying their holidays. If you do not want these running fever, his son Rohit Indian community in around six billion dollars July. step away from its colonial tradition of a long summer “If we do not hear these hearings to happen, do not Shekhar said. The 91-year-old Malaysia. and India’s investment is 2.5 This year, more than half vacation. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA matters now, the hearings blame us later. It all depends leader was admitted to the The visiting Prime Minis- billion dollars. the number of the 28 Su- will never happen,” Chief on you [lawyers], we are RMLIMS on Tuesday night ter will begin his official visit Mr. Razak attended a preme Court judges will con- come up for hearing before dren of illegal Bangladeshi Justice Khehar told the law- ready. If you are not ready, I and doctors were awaiting by meeting External Affairs civic reception by the Tamil tinue to work after the court the Constitution Benches are migrants born in India can yers assembled in the am very happy to go away reports of his urine tests to Minister Sushma Swaraj in Nadu government on closes for summer holidays the Muslim women’s plea for avail themselves of the bene- courtroom. and enjoy my vacation,” proceed on treatment. He Delhi on Saturday followed Thursday. He will attend the on May 10. a judicial declaration that fit of citizenship of this Chief Justice Khehar put his has been advised complete by delegation-level talks Friday prayers at the Anju- The three Constitution triple talaq practised in the country. Another record foot down. rest, he said. PTI with Prime Minister Naren- man mosque in Chennai be- Benches will have five judges Islamic law is a violation of This is not the first time If Chief Justice Khehar heads When a matter is referred dra Modi in Hyderabad fore leaving for Delhi. each. The Vacation Bench their human rights and dig- Chief Justice Khehar has one of the Constitution to a Constitution Bench, it Two NDFB ultras killed House. His visit ends on The official said that se- comprising two judges will nity; whether WhatsApp’s worked during the summer Bench, he will set another takes a long time for the in Assam encounter April 4. curity and defence will be separately hear urgent cases. 2016 policy to share user in- vacation. In 2015, a Constitu- record for posterity for being court to set up one because KAJOLGAON “Prime Minister of Malay- another area of bilateral dis- formation with Facebook is a tion Bench led by Justice one of the first Chief Justices of the workload and availab- Two hardcore NDFB sia’s delegation will have as cussion during the discus- Triple talaq case violation of citizen privacy; Khehar — he was not CJI then of India to work during his ility of judges like in the case (Songbijit) insurgents were many as 10 Cabinet Minis- sion in Delhi. The three cases which will and thirdly, whether the chil- — heard the National Judicial summer holidays. of demonetisation. killed in an encounter with security forces in Chirang district of Assam on Thursday. Arms and ammunition were Travel goes Nuclear bids on track, recovered from the spot, a Delhi to extend $5 bn to Dhaka police spokesman said. On a tag-less at tip-off, an operation was says Westinghouse launched in Simlaguri against India interested in railway projects and road transportation and maintenance 7 airports a group of insurgents. An ‘Bankruptcy not to afect Asia operations’ exchange of fire ensued. Suhasini Haidar able to send trains from our Bangladesh officials rejec- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Later, two persons were DHAKA western border with ted comparisons of the plan NEW DELHI Varghese K. George debtor-in-possession (DIP) found injured. The doctors India has offered a new line Bangladesh through to the for India’s $5 billion LoC in Domestic and international Washington financing from a third-party declared them brought dead, of credit for $5 billion, its eastern side, but in practice, infrastructure with the re- passengers will not have to Westinghouse’s operations lender to help fund and pro- he said.PTI biggest yet in the neighbour- we will have to wait until cent announcement by face the hassle of getting in Asia will not be affected tect its core businesses. hood, to Bangladesh. The they standardise their track Chinese President Xi Jinping luggage tags stamped by by its decision to file for Asian operations will also BJP seeks action against announcement is expected sizes as some are still on of $24 billion in develop- security personnel at seven bankruptcy in America, the benefit from this financing, CM, protests in Agartala during Prime Minister broad gauge and some on ment aid, with $13 billion major airports as the nuclear power company the company said. AGARTALA Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Delhi metre gauge,” the official more in the private sector Centre has decided to dis- that is in talks to set up six Hundreds of BJP supporters next week, her economic ad- said. for Bangladesh, which continue the practice from reactors in India, said on Reorganisation plan staged a protest at the main viser, Mashiur Rahman, said joined China’s “Belt and April 1. Wednesday. “We are con- “Today, we have taken ac- city police station in Agartala here on Thursday. Ferry services Road initiative” in October “These airports are tinuing with our India bids,” tion to put Westinghouse on on Thursday seeking legal Mr. Rahman said the Ferry services connecting 2016. Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Sarah Cassella, External a path to resolve our AP action against Chief Minister credit would be open-ended Sheikh Hasina Assam, Bangladesh and West “India is a friend and Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi Communications Manager 1000 financial challenges Manik Sarkar and Education and would follow the $1 bil- Bengal and permissions for neighbour, while all other and Ahmedabad,” the CISF of the company told The while protecting our core Minister Tapan Chakraborty, lion offered in 2010, when smaller sums it can absorb” running cruise liners countries including China said in a statement here on Hindu by email. businesses,” said Interim after the Supreme Court Ms. Hasina previously visited and building capacity. between the two countries, are development partners,” Thursday. Ms. Cassella did not re- President & CEO José upheld the order of the High Delhi, and the $2 billion in The two sides are expec- along with several road pro- Information Minister Has- When Civil Aviation Min- spond to a question on the Emeterio Gutiérrez. “We are Court of Tripura to cancel the 2015 during Prime Minister ted to announce a slew of jects, are expected to be sanul Haq Inu said. ister Ashok Gajapathi Raju possibility of the talks focused on developing a employment of 10,323 Narendra Modi’s visit to agreements including one among more than 40 agree- Mr. Rahman, one of the announced the plan in Feb- between the company and plan of reorganisation to teachers over flawed Dhaka. for the reconstruction of a ments to be announced key interlocutors, who vis- ruary, the CISF was wary of Nuclear Power Corporation emerge from Chapter 11 recruitment procedures. seventh India-Bangladesh when Ms. Hasina meets Mr. ited India last year, said the its immediate implementa- of India Ltd. (NPCIL) meet- (bankruptcy) as a stronger Open LoC railway line between Modi on April 8. difference between the loans tion, raising security con- ing a June deadline for company while continuing One critically injured “The $5 billion is an open Agartala and Akhaura, a Officials said the next part from India and China was cerns. “Appropriate meas- conclusion. to be a global nuclear tech- in communal clash LoC; we can use it to en- ₹1,000-crore project. of the plan is to link also cultural. “The main dif- ures have been taken to “Westinghouse’s opera- nology leader.” Ahmedabad hance the level of trade, The 15-km line from Bangladesh to other neigh- ference is, in the case of upgrade the security sys- tions in its Asia and Europe, AP 1000 is the pressur- Three persons were injured, movement, connectivity. Bangladesh to Tripura is sig- bourhood countries. While China, the project is identi- tem to adopt this new sys- the Middle East and Africa ised water reactor design one of them critically, during But where the Indian side nificant as it is part of India’s the plan under the fied first and then the money tem for the convenience of (EMEA) Regions are not im- developed and owned by a clash between two has an interest is in con- larger strategy of assisting Bangladesh-Bhutan-India- comes in. With India, you get passengers,” the CISF said. pacted by the…filings. Cus- the company. Westinghouse communities in Savarkundla nectivity: railway projects, Bangladesh’s infrastructure Nepal initiative has hit a the promise of money first, The new system will help tomers in those regions will has been in talks with the town in Amreli district of road transportation, road while using it to transit to the roadblock over the Bhu- and then they identify the speed up security check continue to receive the high- NPCIL to build six AP 1000 Gujarat on Thursday, the maintenance,” Mr. Rahman “north-eastern” States. tanese Parliament’s refusal projects,” he said. and give CISF personnel quality products and ser- reactors in Andhra Pradesh. police said. The flare-up said. The line is expected to to ratify the network, offi- (The reporter travelled to more time for checking vices they have come to ex- This was the first commer- occurred after a mob A senior Indian official shorten rail routes by as cials are understood to be Dhaka as part of a media del- suspected luggage. The pect in the usual course,” cial agreement to be con- thrashed a man accusing him said lines of credit were part much as 1,000 km once working around it, to link egation hosted by Bangladesh stamping will continue at the company said in a state- cluded under the India-US of raping a minor girl from of India’s “well-thought-out” completed. Bangladesh, India and ahead of Prime Minister other airports till adequate ment. The company has ob- civil nuclear deal singed in another community. -PTI strategy to “give Bangladesh “In principle, we will be Nepal. Sheikh Hasina’s visit) security is in place. tained $800 million in 2008. Chicken replaces 8 arrested for ofering bufalo on AMU menu meat to kites To resume supply via licensed vendors Mohammad Ali Staff Reporter all meals five days a week. Meerut MEERUT After several students com- The police in Moradabad The crisis facing the meat plained against the “bland booked 80 people and ar- industry has affected Al- food”, president of the AMU rested eight of them for of- igarh Muslim University Students Union (AMUSU) fering chicken meat to (AMU), as buffalo meat has Faizul Hasan wrote to the birds. They have been gone off the menu in its hos- Vice-Chancellor, Lt.Gen. charged with animal tels since the Bharatiya (Retd) Zameer Uddin Shah, cruelty and attempt to dis- Janata Party government in informing him about the turb communal harmony the State began a crackdown students’ grievance. by throwing meat in the on slaughterhouses. The Mr. Hasan said it was the sky to hovering kites. university, which earlier State government's respons- All the slaughterhouses used to serve buffalo meat ibility to ensure that legal in the city, on which the at least once a day to hostel slaughterhouses functioned. birds are dependent for residents, replaced red meat After the AMUSU president survival, were closed down with chicken twice a week raised the issue, the AMU is- after the U.P. government on its menu. sued a statement on came to power in the State. Days after meat sellers Thursday: “License holder Subsequently, meat shops across the State went on a vendors will be contacted have shut down. strike in protest, students on Friday to ensure the re- On Wednesday, Iqbal were served vegetables with newal of meat supply.” Husain, a local activist and a meat trader, and his friends saw a bunch of kites hovering in the sky. Meat sellers meet U.P. Then, they bought chicken meat and offered it to the birds. For Iqbal, it was also CM, strike continues a mark of protest against the “illogical way in which Row over action on illegal abattoirs the Yogi Adityanath government had sealed Press Trust of India Siddharth Nath Singh, who slaughterhouses”. Lucknow was present during the The local police termed Representatives of the agit- talks, said Mr. Adityanath as- it a “violation of communal ating meat sellers and ex- sured the delegation that harmony” as the act of porters on Thursday met Ut- stern action would be taken throwing meat in the sky tar Pradesh Chief Minister if any officer acted against a offended local Hindus who Yogi Adityanath here, on the legal and licensed stay nearby and their reli- fourth day of their strike slaughterhouse. gious feelings on the eve of against the crackdown on il- However, the mutton Navratri. legal abattoirs, but there traders’ association was not Iqbal was arrested and was no immediate end to forthcoming on whether the sent to judicial custody on the deadlock. strike would be called off in Thursday. “The birds had “The strike called by the view of the CM’s assurance. gone without food since mutton sellers will continue The All India Meat Associ- slaughterhouses of the city at least till the end of Nav- ation hailed the Chief Minis- were shut down. So it was aratra [April 5]. It may be ex- ter for following his “raj an act of compassion,” said tended further if our de- dharma”. “He is trying to Iqbal’s wife Zahida. mands are not met,” bring the system back on “Unlike what the police Mubeen Qureshi, an office- track and needs to be is saying, my husband bearer of the Lucknow thanked,” Haji Shakeel offered chicken in a Bakra Gosht Vyapar Mandal, Qureshi, a representative of Muslim area where no one told reporters after the the All India Meat Associ- from other religious com- meeting with the Chief ation and the All India Meat munity lives. So there is no Minister. and Livestock Exporters’ As- question of offending Health Minister sociation said. feelings.” CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Bangladesh police storm Pakistani lawyer shot dead Lateef, a relative of Nobel winner Abdus Salam, was an Ahmadi

hideout, ind body parts Agence France-Presse winning physicist Abdus Sa- Awais said he believed his Lahore laam, was killed on his way father was killed for being an A gunman on a motorcycle to a court complex in the Ahmadi, a minority religious Security forces entered building after a shot dead a lawyer from the Nankana Sahib district of group legally declared non- persecuted Ahmadi sect in Punjab, about 100 km south- Muslims by Pakistan in 1974 two-day stand-of with armed ighters central Pakistan on west of Lahore. and long persecuted in the Thursday, police said, in an The al-Alami faction of country. Six Ahmadis were Kurdish leader to begin Agence France-Presse the latest incident. He said attack claimed by an Islamic the banned Lashkar-e- murdered because of their hunger strike Dhaka some of those killed were State (IS)-linked militant Jhangvi claimed responsibil- beliefs last year, according to DIYABAKIR Bangladesh security forces women, and that there could group. ity in a statement sent to an annual report published Selahattin Demirtas, the found the scattered remains also be children among the Malik Saleem Lateef, a rel- journalists. by the community and re- jailed of Turkey’s main pro- of up to eight people, includ- dead. “There was an explo- ative of the 1979 Nobel Prize- Mr. Lateef’s son Malik leased on Wednesday. Kurdish party, plans to begin ing women and possibly chil- sion late yesterday afternoon a hunger strike on Friday to dren, in a “horrific scene” when the operation began. protest “inhumane” when they stormed an Islam- They died due to that explo- conditions at the prison ist hideout on Thursday, po- sion,” he told reporters. “We Ivanka to be ‘President’s adviser’ where he is being held, the lice said. think there were seven to Fierce crackdown: Members of a Rapid Action Battalion party said on Thursday. His Security forces entered eight bodies of different * during an operation in Moulvibazar, Bangladesh. AFP Agence France-Presse Peoples’ Democratic Party, the building after a two-day ages. It’s a horrific scene.” ceived Japanese Prime Min- Washington the second-largest stand-off with armed fighters ity forces were also planning ernment has rejected the ister Shinzo Abe in January, Opposition party, is believed to be from a new Grenade attack to storm a second hideout in claim and instead blamed U.S. President Donald and earlier this month took campaigning against the faction of an extremist group Police came under grenade the town, where authorities the banned homegrown Is- Trump’s daughter Ivanka part in a round-table discus- government’s plan for the government has blamed attack when they raided two believe one or two extrem- lamist organisation, Trump is about to take on sion with Mr. Trump and constitutional changes. AFP for a wave of deadly attacks Islamist hideouts in the ists were holed up, district Jamayetul Mujahideen another title as an unpaid Chancellor Angela Merkel targeting foreigners and reli- northeastern district of police chief Mohammad Bangladesh ( JMB). There has adviser to her father, the during the German leader’s Malaysia sends Kim’s gious minorities. Moulvibazar on Wednesday. Shah Jalal told AFP. Last been a resurgence of extrem- White House announced on visit to the White House. body to North Korea Bangladesh prides itself Militants threw at least eight week, army commandos ist attacks in recent weeks Wednesday. Ivanka’s formal title will KUALA LUMPUR on being a mainly moderate grenades as police cordoned stormed a five-storey build- after a relative lull since five Ivanka, whose husband be assistant to the President. Malaysian Prime Minister Muslim country. But that off the two houses — one in ing in the nearby city of Syl- IS-linked gunmen killed 22 Jared Kushner also works as Mr. Kushner’s title is senior Najib Razak said on Thursday perception has been dam- the Moulvibazar town and het, triggering a violent people at a Dhaka café on a senior aide to the Presid- adviser to the President. that the body of Kim Jong- aged by a series of gruesome another outside the town in three-day stand-off. July 1. ent, will not receive a salary Ivanka Trump * AP In addition to raising nam, half brother of North killings of atheist bloggers, a village called Nasirpur, At least four extremists The IS has also claimed at for her work as a federal em- questions over possible con- Korean leader Kim Jong-un, foreigners and religious both owned by a Banglade- died and another six people, least two of three other in- ployee. Mr. Kushner, a real President,” a White House flicts of interest, the young has been released to North minorities. The head of the shi-origin British citizen. including two police officers, cidents this month in which estate developer, is also un- statement said. couple’s influence on the Korea, bringing an end to a counterterrorism unit Counterterrorism officers were killed when two bombs attackers blew themselves paid. In the couple of months President has fuelled diplomatic spat that Monirul Islam said police be- and the elite SWAT unit then went off on Saturday near a up at security checkpoints, “We are pleased that since her father became broader debate on the ab- escalated over nearly seven lieved the group holed up in stormed Nasirpur hideout at crowd watching the opera- including one targeting an Ivanka Trump has chosen to President, Ivanka, 35, has sence of clear boundaries weeks. Mr. Razak said nine the hideout had blown them- the village and found body tion. The Islamic State group elite security force tasked take this step in her unpre- been a regular presence at between the Trump family’s Malaysians barred from selves up to avoid being parts scattered across two took credit for the twin with tackling Islamist cedented role as first daugh- the White House. She was business dealings and its leaving North Korea had been taken by security forces in rooms, Mr. Islam said. Secur- bomb attacks, but the gov- militancy. ter and in support of the present when her father re- members political activities. allowed to board a plane to leave Pyongyang. Reuters

Netanyahu to approve new W. Bank settlement TrumptomeetXinextweek JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed U.S. President will host his Chinese counterpart at Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Thursday to move ahead Varghese K. George on a plan to create Israel’s unfair trade practices, could source. Since January, the mellowed position towards Washington irst new settlement in the set the tone for the new ad- Trump administration has China. occupied West Bank in more Chinese President Xi Jinping ministration’s policy towards sent conflicting signals with Mr. Tillerson said the bilat- than 20 years despite will visit the U.S. next week, Asia. regard to China. During his eral relations were based on international concern. the White House and the The meeting takes place confirmation hearing in “mutual respect” and “win- Construction in recent years Chinese government an- against the backdrop of January, Secretary of State win” cooperation — phrases has involved expanding nounced on Thursday. heightened threat from Rex Tillerson was strident. that connote U.S.’s willing- existing settlements in the “The President will host North Korea. Mr. Trump be- ness to accommodate Chi- West Bank. AFP President Xi Jinping of China lieves China is not pulling its Moderation in stance na’s position on Tibet, Hong at Mar-a-Lago April 6-7, 2017,” weight behind international “We’re going to have to send Kong and Taiwan. Venezuela’s court grants press secretary Sean Spicer efforts to rein in the auto- China a clear signal that, Mr. Trump was also forced itself legislative powers tweeted. Mar-a-Lago is a cratic regime. first, the island-building to make a hasty retreat after CARACAS private club in Florida Since assuming office in stops and, second, your ac- trying to make Taiwan a bar- Venezuela’s Supreme Court owned by the President. January, the Trump adminis- cess to those islands also is gaining point in U.S. ties with took over legislative powers tration has sent conflicting not going to be allowed,” he China. on Thursday, after ruling that Trump’s Asia policy signals on China. told the Senate Foreign Rela- The White House had reit- the Opposition-majority The first meeting between On the other side, China tions Committee. erated the U.S.’s ‘One-China’ National Assembly was in the two leaders, coming after has activated all its contacts However, his remarks dur- policy after Beijing made it contempt of court in an an election campaign in in the U.S. to make bridges ing his first visit as Secretary clear that no engagement ongoing power struggle with which Mr. Trump constantly with the new administration, of State to Beijing earlier this could begin until that is President Nicolas Maduro. AFP targeted China for its alleged according to an Indian month were widely seen as a clarified. China bans Climate change not due beards, veils in Xinjiang to human activity: Putin Agence France-Presse ‘Global warming had started by 1930s’ Beijing China has announced bans Agence France-Presse no such anthropological on beards and burkhas in Moscow factors, such emissions, and its remote Xinjiang region Russian President Vladimir the warming had already as part of tighter ‘anti-ex- Putin on Thursday said cli- started.” tremism’ regulations that mate change was unstop- He added: “The issue is also prohibit refusing to pable and not caused by hu- not stopping it... because Fusion of cultures: Models display creations by Tibetan watch government propa- man activity as he urged that’s impossible, since it designer Aj-Namo in Beijing on Thursday. * AFP ganda. The new regula- countries to adapt to global could be tied to some global tions, which will come into warming. cycles on Earth or even of force on Saturday, outline One day after visiting the planetary significance. The Tibetan fashion hits prohibitions on growing Franz Josef Land ar- issue is to somehow adapt to “abnormal” facial hair or chipelago in the Arctic, Mr. it.” wearing robes that cover Putin claimed that icebergs Mr. Putin had previously the Beijing runway the whole body and face. had been melting for dec- hailed global warming for The rules also ban ades and suggested that exposing natural resources spreading “extremist global warming was not and transport routes which Outits from Tibet make début ideas”, refusing to watch or mankind’s fault. had long been too expensive listen to government pro- to exploit. Agence France-Presse ditional Tibetan scarves paganda on radio or TV, ‘Need to adapt to it’ On Thursday, while his Beijing around her neck. and preventing children “The warming, it had Finnish counterpart Sauli Face painted yellow and from receiving “national already started by the Niinisto called climate white with long braids drap- Search for a platform education”, according to 1930s,” Mr. Putin said in change a “serious threat” ing her shoulders, a model “Tibetans have many talen- the text of regulations. comments broadcast from for the Arctic, Mr. Putin said in voluminous grey robes ted designers, but there’s no China has for years blamed an Arctic forum held in the that it brings “more propi- walks down the runway — platform to promote them,” exiled Uighur “separatists” northern Russian city of tious conditions for using an image of Tibetan grace in Aj-Namo told AFP on for a series of violent at- Arkhangelsk. this region for economic the heart of China’s political Thursday after her début. tacks in Xinjiang. “That’s when there were ends”. power. It was the first ap- China has 56 officially re- pearance of an ethnic cognised ethnic groups, but Tibetan designer’s creation the vast majority of the at Beijing’s twice yearly country’s more than 1.3 bil- fashion week, now in its lion people are Han. Migrant fruit pickers win court 20th year. Tibetans number roughly Aj-Namo, who hails from 6.3 million, with most living a predominantly Tibetan in China’s western half — the case on unpaid wages area in the southwestern autonomous region of Tibet, province of Sichuan, first as well as the Provinces of Greece asked to pay damages to 42 Bangladeshi nationals made her name as a singer, Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan but has since branched out and Yunnan. Many ethnic Associated Press after demanding delayed into clothing. Today she is minorities live in relatively Athens pay. The European case was known for her eponymous poor areas, where there are A group of strawberry pick- launched after a Greek court Aj-Namo brand and is based scant opportunities for ers from Bangladesh has convicted two of the shoot- in Beijing. At the show, not young people to pursue a won a case against Greece at ing suspects but they were far from Beijing’s vast Great career on the national stage. Europe’s highest human released pending their ap- Hall of the People next to “I hope that thanks to this rights court, after being shot peal. Tiananmen Square, the experience, more ethnic at by employers for demand- Morsed Chowdury, the centre of the universe in minorities, more Tibetans — ing unpaid wages. lead applicant in the Chinese politics, a stream of especially models — will be The Council of Europe’s European case, and the hu- Tibetan and Han Chinese inspired to put themselves Court of Human Rights man rights watchdog Am- models paraded colourful out there,” Ms. Aj-Namo ruled on Thursday in favour nesty International wel- outfits inspired by Tibetan said. of 42 Bangladeshi nationals, A worker at a strawberry comed the decision taken by attire but altered to suit con- Expressions of Tibetan and ordered the Greek state plantation in Greece. * AP the court in Strasbourg, temporary tastes. ethnic pride can be fraught to pay them damages of France. “We are very It was a moving moment in China. Beijing says its €12,000-16,000 ($13,000— curred near the southern pleased and excited by for Aj-Namo, whose face troops “peacefully liber- $17,000) each for having Greek town of Manolada, today’s judgment. The trembled with emotion as ated” the region in 1951, but “failed in its obligations to 260 km west of Athens, Greek court’s acquittal of she took her bow and audi- many Tibetans accuse the prevent the situation of hu- when more than 20 migrant the farmers for the crime of ence members expressed central government of reli- man trafficking, to protect strawberry pickers were forced labour was a great their approval by jumping gious repression and erod- the victims”. shot at and wounded by disappointment to us,” Mr. on the catwalk to wrap tra- ing their culture. The 2013 incident oc- foremen wielding shotguns Chowdury said. 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market watch 30-03-2017 % CHANGE Kotak Mahindra Bank says Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 29,647 ddddddddddddddd0.39 Centre picks ive airlines to US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 64.92 ddddddddddddd-0.02 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 29,250 ddddddddddddd-1.02 ddddddddddddddddddddd ddddddddddddddd open to merger, selling shares Brent oil 52.79 1.46 connect 43 regional airports NIFTY 50 Promoter Uday Kotak’s stake must be cut to 15% by 2020 PRICE CHANGE ACC...... 1418.95...... -4.40 Flights for ₹2,500 connecting these smaller centres may begin as early as April MANOJIT SAHA to bring down the pro- Adani Ports...... 339.30...... 18.30 MUMBAI Ambuja Cements...... 234.00...... 3.35 moter’s stake to 30% by June Asian Paints...... 1070.10...... 2.00 Special Correspondent Kotak Mahindra Bank, 30 and further to 20% by NEW DELHI Aurobindo Pharma ...... 671.70...... 1.45 which plans to sell 6.2 crore December 31, 2018 and to Axis Bank ...... 499.25...... -4.95 Beginning April, passengers shares worth ₹5,300 crore to 15% by March 31, 2020. Bajaj Auto ...... 2822.85...... -8.25

Bank of Baroda ...... 173.65...... 0.15 may be able to fly on as pare the promoter’s stake to On the plan to bring down Bharti Airtel ...... 351.20...... 6.35 many as 128 routes connect- 30.8%, will explore options the promoter’s stake to 20%, BHEL ...... 164.45...... -3.40 ing 70 big and small airports including a merger with an- Mr. Gupta said: “The plan is Bosch ...... 22599.95... -316.35

BPCL...... 640.65...... -2.45 across the country by paying other bank, stake dilution, very similar. First of all, it is Cipla ...... 598.35...... 5.20 ₹2,500 for an hour’s flight. divestment or a combination still about 21 months away, Coal India ...... 289.50...... -4.60 The Centre on Thursday of the three to further re- which is a reasonable dis- Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2613.25...... -20.40 announced a list of routes duce it to 20%. tance. The plan really has to Eicher Motors...... 25658.55..... 602.45

GAIL (India)...... 379.00...... 5.55 awarded to five airlines In an interaction with The Uday Kotak happen in three broad ways Grasim Ind ...... 1068.25...... 10.30 which will operate flights un- Hindu, joint managing dir- which we are evaluating, HCL Tech...... 875.85...... -1.75 der its regional connectivity ector Dipak Gupta said that mandate is to cut it to 30% which are, either some sort HDFC ...... 1519.95...... -2.10

HDFC Bank...... 1466.20...... 37.60 scheme, named UDAN (Ude the three broad options by June. of a merger or a series of

Hero MotoCorp ...... 3231.65...... 7.25 Desh ka Aam Naagrik). were open. This would en- “We are cognizant of that, mergers, or promoter selling Hindalco ...... 190.30...... -1.95 “We will be adding 43 new able the lender to bring we have to do it by June,” down or fresh equity issu- Hind Unilever ...... 919.20...... 6.65 destinations with the launch down promoter’s stake to Mr. Gupta said. “We are eval- ance. As and when, on the ICICI Bank ...... 281.35...... -0.85

Idea Cellular ...... 87.05...... -1.85 of RCS,” Civil Aviation Minis- 20%. To start with, the uating all options on an on- basis of evaluation, we find IndusInd Bank ...... 1422.30...... 24.00 ter Ashok Gajapathi Raju board of the bank had ap- going basis. So, it does not comfort in one or more of Bharti Infratel ...... 336.70...... -0.15 said. “Flying was a rich proved raising of capital have to be necessarily these measures, we will fol- Infosys ...... 1025.50...... -6.35 man’s prerogative earlier, which could take place in through this route. We con- low that. No single one can ITC ...... 282.75...... -0.45

Kotak Bank ...... 865.15...... 7.55 but now it has also become a the next two months by way tinue to work on all other probably make that hap- L&T...... 1557.45...... 0.90 common man’s prerogative.” of equity shares, ADR/GDR options.” pen,” he said indicating a Lupin ...... 1446.95...... -7.40 or any other instruments. This comes amid market combination of all three M&M ...... 1279.85...... 9.20

Maurti Suzuki...... 5956.60...... 12.45 Turbo Megha Airways Raising ₹5,300 crore will speculation of a takeover of strategies would be pursued NTPC ...... 163.10...... -0.85 Low-cost airline SpiceJet, Air Bid winners: SpiceJet, Alliance Air and regional airlines Turbo Megha Airways, Air Deccan and dilute promoter’s stake to rival Axis Bank. The RBI has to reduce promoter Uday ONGC ...... 183.90...... -3.05 India subsidiary Alliance Air Air Odisha Aviation won the rights to operate lights. 30.8%. But the regulatory asked Kotak Mahindra Bank Kotak’s stake. PowerGrid Corp ...... 195.45...... -1.40 along with regional airlines Reliance Ind ...... 1270.65...... 14.00 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD State Bank ...... 291.05...... 2.60 Turbo Megha Airways, Air lines focussed on airports and international aviation Sun Pharma ...... 687.05...... -0.60 Deccan and Air Odisha Avi- that are ready to take flights. Highlights market but an under- Tata Motors ...... 468.40...... -0.65 ation won the rights to oper- The deadline to start operat- developed regional market. ‘Vodafone, Tata Motors DVR...... 281.60...... -2.15 B Dealers use discounts ate flights under the regional ing regional flights is Regional lights may This scheme will stimulate Tata Power ...... 89.90...... -0.10 be introduced from Idea merger Tata Steel ...... 477.50...... -6.90 connectivity scheme under September,” Mr. Choubey growth in the regional avi- April-September TCS ...... 2441.00...... -3.60 which half of the seats on the said. ation market and will con- to hawk BS-III vehicles Tech Mahindra ...... 461.20...... 2.95 plane will be capped at B Airfare for an hour’s nect underserved and un- not special’ UltraTech Cement...... 3988.45...... -10.90

Wipro ...... 515.95...... 3.70 ₹2,500 per hour’s flight. Subsidy on losses journey of about 500 km served airports that really YES Bank...... 1552.15...... 7.20 Some of the inactive air- As per the scheme, the will be capped at ₹2,500 didn’t have flight services,” PRESS TRUST OF INDIA Two-wheeler rebates start at ₹13,500 NEW DELHI Zee Entertainment ...... 532.40...... 1.45 ports that will soon witness Centre will subsidise the Minister of State for Civil Avi- B Fare cap will be Vodafone and Idea Cellular N. Anand offering rebates of ₹20,150 regional flights include losses incurred by airlines applicable on half of a ation Jayant Sinha said. will not get any special CHENNAI on TVS vehicles, while Shimla, Agra, Bikaner, flying out of dormant air- light’s seats Mr. Sinha said the airlines EXCHANGE RATES Gwalior, Kadapa, Rourkela, ports to help airlines charge which had won the first treatment post-merger and City-based dealers are offer- Honda dealers are offering Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit Jharsuguda, Vidyanagar, ₹2,500 for an hour’s flight to B Centre to provide subsidy round of bidding under the the combined entity will ing big discounts on two- discounts of ₹13,500 on except yen at 4 p.m. on March 30 support to airlines by have to comply with exist- CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL Burnpur, Diu, Shillong, passengers. scheme would require a sub- wheelers made by TVS Mo- three variants of Activa, Avi- Kullu, Mysore, Jagdalpur, 80% of the subsidy will be levying cess on non- sidy of ₹205 crore for run- ing rules on revenue, sub- tor Company and Honda ator and Dio, ₹18,500 on US Dollar ...... 64.72...... 65.04 regional routes scriber and spectrum caps, Euro ...... 69.53...... 69.87 Salem, Utkela, and Hosur. collected by charging a levy ning their operations. This Motorcycle and Scooter In- Shine, Trigger, Unicorn 150,

British Pound...... 80.69...... 81.09 government said on The regional airlines will of up to ₹8,500 on each de- B Airlines to get three-year would ultimately lead to the dia to clear their inventories Shine SP, CD110, Neo, Yuga, Japanese Yen (100) .... 58.23...... 58.53 connect these destinations parting flight of domestic air- exclusive rights to creation of 13 lakh seats in Thursday. of BS-III vehicles, which will Livo and Navi and ₹22,000 Chinese Yuan ...... 9.39...... 9.44 Telecom Minister Manoj become unsaleable from on 150R and 250R. Swiss Franc ...... 64.99...... 65.31 with their nearest bigger airlines and the rest 20% will operate regional lights the regional aviation market. Singapore Dollar ...... 46.39...... 46.63 ports such as Delhi, come from the respective DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “This is really about boot- Sinha asserted that the April 1 in the wake of the Su- TVS Motor had already Canadian Dollar...... 48.50...... 48.75 Bengaluru, Chennai, State governments. strapping and creating a ministry will work with preme Court order. commenced manufacture Malaysian Ringitt ...... 14.63...... 14.72 Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, The Centre had asked air- won the bid. Government market which is not a per- sectoral regulator TRAI to The offers close on Fri- and sale of BS-IV vehicles Source:Indian Bank Ahmedabad, and Jaipur, lines to submit their pro- will provide subsidy to air- petual subsidy,” Mr. Sinha ensure policies are in place day, and range between and had urged dealers to li- among others. posed routes along with sub- lines for first three years of said. that balance consumer in- ₹13,500 and ₹22,000. quidate the BS-III stocks by Civil Aviation Secretary sidy amount required to operations when they will “Once the market gets terest with the financial Stockists have been March 31, a spokesman said. BULLION RATES CHENNAI R.N. Choubey said that the operate the regional flight. have exclusive flying rights jump started, it will operate health of the sector. forced to cut prices as the “So far, we have sold March 30 rates in rupees with previous He said if the merging court order strictly bans the about 50,000 BS-IV rates in parentheses first regional flight may likely This was followed by on the selected routes. on a commercial basis as per begin its operations in April. counter-bids from other air- “The scheme has a unique market forces of supply and entities do not adhere to sale and registration of BS- vehicles,” said a spokesman Retail Silver (1g) ...... 45.40.....(45.20) the rules, they would not III vehicles from April 1. for truck maker Ashok 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2,768.....(2,769) “Fortunately, in the first lines and the one asking for market-based design. We demand,” the Minister of round of bidding, the air- the least financial support have a successful national State added. be allowed to proceed. TVS Motor stockists are Leyland.

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IN BRIEF Board moots EPF for ₹10,000 cr. Maruti to sell Ciaz sedan collected so unorganised sector far via IDS-II at Nexa exclusive outlets MANOJIT SAHA Decision deferred on PF for apparel and made-ups sector Mumbai The carmaker sold more than 54,233 units of Ciaz in FY16 With the deadline for Pra- Special Correspondent dhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Special Correspondent channel we expect growth NEW DELHI Yojana (PMGKY), the NEW DELHI will be far higher than what BoM accounts lose ₹25cr The Central Board of Trust- second initiative of the In- Maruti Suzuki, the country’s it has been so far as it will at- to fraud due to UPI bug ees (CBT) of the Employees’ come Declaration largest carmaker, on tract new customers too,” MUMBAI Provident Fund Organisation Scheme, expiring on Fri- Thursday said it will now sell Mr. Kalsi said. In what is possibly the (EPFO) on Thursday recom- day, a paltry sum of its mid-size sedan Ciaz Nexa, with sales of about biggest inancial fraud in mended to the Centre to ex- ₹10,000 crore was de- through Nexa branded out- 1.5 lakh units in the current recent years, NPCI on tend social security benefits clared until Thursday, top lets that were opened almost fiscal, currently accounts for Thursday said ₹25 crore has to more than 61 lakh workers sources in the Income Tax two years ago to sell its about 12% of the domestic been moved out of Bank of in the unorganised sector. Department said. premium products. annual sales of the Guru- Maharashtra (BoM) accounts However, the trustees de- While under the IDS-I “We were waiting for gram-based company. It re- due to a bug in its UPI cided to defer the proposal scheme, ₹55,000 crore Nexa network to reach a cer- tails models such as S Cross, application. All the corrective to amend the Employees’ was collected, the govern- tain size before moving Ciaz Baleno, Baleno RS and Ignis steps have been initiated and Provident Fund and Miscel- ment had not set any tar- to these outlets,” R.S. Kalsi, Maruti expects higher growth through the 250 outlets. Ciaz recovery of the money from laneous Provisions Act for get for IDS-II but expected Executive Director, Market- when it moves Ciaz to Nexa will start retailing through 19 banks where it was making provident fund con- the figures to be better. ing & Sales, Maruti Suzuki Nexa, April 1 onwards. transferred to, is on. “Total tribution optional for em- “The CBDT expected at India said. “With Nexa at February period of the cur- Maruti expects Nexa to loss is about ₹25 crore,” MD ployees in the apparel and least 50 declarations from 250 outlets, covering 90-95% rent fiscal. Since it was intro- contribute about 15% to and chief executive A.P. Hota made-ups sector following each Income Tax range,” of our sales territory, we duced in October 2014, the overall sales by the end of told reporters here. PTI opposition from workers’ said a source, who re- think it is the right time to company has sold more than next fiscal, while by 2020 representatives. quested anonymity. A city move Ciaz to Nexa to get 1.5 lakh units. the channel is likely to ac- Norton unveils new “In an important de- like Delhi, would have more buyers onboard.” “About 52% of customers count for 25% of sales. product to secure Wi-Fi cision, the central board re- about 100 ranges. Maruti Suzuki sold more who walk into Nexa show- On expansion Mr. Kalsi NEW DELHI commended to the central PMGKY, an amnesty than 54,233 units of Ciaz in room are customers who said: “250 is an optimum Norton by Symantec on government to consider issu- scheme, was introduced 2016 financial year, while never had Maruti Suzuki in number... the focus now will Thursday introduced a new ing a notification for extend- following demonetisation. the sales grew 22% to almost their consideration. So when be on service rather than product to protect ing Social Security Benefits 60,000 units during April- we move Ciaz to the Nexa expansion.” consumers’ information to the volunteers of various Securing future: There is no mandatory social security cover from hackers snooping on schemes workers i.e. Angan- for workers in the unorganised sector at present. unsecured wireless (Wi-Fi) wadi, ASHA, Mid-day Meal networks. The Workers under the ambit of EPFO for the scheme funds themselves. cybersecurity irm pointed EPFO,” according to a state- workers. “To be eligible to be con- Meal vouchers to go digital from 2018 out that more than one ment from the EPFO. According to estimates, sidered for exemption under fourth of Indians (27%) there are 14 lakh Anganwadi the Act, the establishments regularly use public Wi-Fi, Unions welcome move workers, 12 lakh Anganwadi would henceforth require It is part of Centre’s push towards digital payments and transactions while 70% said public Wi-Fi D. L. Sachdev, national sec- helpers, 25.5 lakh mid-day compliance with EPFO as an was useful for checking retary, All India Trade Union meal workers and 10 lakh un-exempted establishment Pradeesh Chandran ments in paper voucher move. We are encouraging e-mails, sending Congress (AITUC) and mem- ASHA workers in the for a minimum period of 5 BENGALURU form shall not be accepted our clients to move to cards documents and logging ber of the CBT said: “This is country. years, should employ at least As part of Centre’s push to- beyond December 31, 2017. from paper,” said Suvodeep into accounts on the go. a landmark step taken by the 500 employees and their wards digital payments and Apart from the deadline Das, Vice President-Market- board of trustees. Trade uni- Centre’s notification corpus should be at least transactions, the paper of December 31, the RBI also ing, Sodexo Benefits and Re- Centre cancels ons have been demanding There is no mandatory social ₹100 Crore at the time of meals coupon provided by said the PPI issuers should wards Services. approvals to 8 SEZs social security cover to the security cover for such seeking an exemption,” ac- employers as perquisites to obtain and maintain the de- Sodexo is the largest NEW DELHI entire workforce and this is a scheme workers at present. cording to the statement. their staff will become digital tails of employees from the player in the paper meal The government has step forward in that direc- However, the Centre can is- Besides, the trustees also from January next year. employers and the minimum space with over 11,000 cli- cancelled approvals tion.,” sue a notification to cover decided to allow all banks in- The Reserve Bank of India validity of the prepaid meal ents that includes about 25 granted to eight SEZ The EPFO has proposed any class of establishments cluding private ones to col- has issued Master Directions instruments shall be one lakh daily users. The com- projects, including those of to the Labour Ministry that a with a lower contributory lect contributions from em- on the issuance and opera- year from loading. pany has even partnered Concord India and lower contributory rate of rate under the Employees’ ployers and make payments tion of prepaid payment in- with payment technology Bangalore International 10% of income towards the Provident Fund and Miscel- to employees in addition to struments (PPI) in the coun- Meal vouchers must be Sodexo’s e-card solutions company like First Airport, as no signiicant Employees’ Provident Fund laneous Provisions Act, 1952. SBI, nationalised banks and try to provide a framework issued in electronic form Sodexo, which is one of the Data and Pine Labs to create progress was made by be allowed for scheme work- The EPFO trustees also payGov platforms on a pilot for regulation, authorisation largest paper meal voucher a propriety payment ter- developers to complete the ers as against 12% contribu- approved a new eligibility basis. and supervision of entities According to the new Mas- providers in the country, minal that will accept So- projects. The Board of tion stipulated for the organ- condition for grant of ex- The proposal to increase operating payment systems ter Directions, all paper meal said it was in line with the dexo meal cards. Approval (BoA), headed by ised workers. emption to firms under Em- wage ceiling for social secur- in the country. Master Direc- vouchers like the Sodexo government’s move to power “Through over 30,000 Commerce Secretary Rita However, Mr. Sachdev ployees’ Provident Fund and ity coverage under EPFO to tions consolidate instruc- and Ticket Restaurant will digital payment. propriety terminals the POS Teaotia, in its meeting on said that the trade unions de- Miscellaneous Provisions ₹25,000 a month from tions on rules and regula- have to be issued in elec- “We were preparing this can recognise purchases March 8 cancelled the manded that central govern- Act. Exempted firms are al- ₹15,000 a month at present tions framed by the RBI tronic form like cards which for the last couple of years through our card besides approvals. The 19-member ment and state governments lowed to set up their own could not be taken up for under various Acts including are reloadable. The pro- and have already launched transaction using other card- BoA deals with SEZ related pay for the employer’s share trusts to manage their work- discussion in the meeting banking issues and foreign posed directions also suggest our electronic meal card. like MasterCard or Visa,” said matters. PTI of contribution towards the ers’ EPF accounts as well as held on Thursday. exchange transactions. that the prepaid meal instru- For us, it is a very good Mr. Das. Consumer interest is prime: TRAI

Regulator pitches for revisiting tarif regime to favour customers

Yuthika Bhargava The regulator, in the let- NEW DELHI ter, argued that it is a well Replying to Telecom Com- known fact that low tariff mission’s request to review help in penetration of tele- the tariff regulations to ar- com services in the rural and rest declining government remote areas of the country revenues due to promotional where the teledensity still offers by operators, sectoral stands at 53.27% as com- regulator Telecom Regulat- pared to urban teledensity of ory Authority of India has 170.15%. said that consumer interest It further stated that af- should be at the centre of fordable telecom service and public policy and not rev- consumer interest are some enue maximization for the Right call:TRAI said consumer interest should be at the centre of the key elements of Na- government. of public policy and not revenue maximisation. tional Telecom Policy, 2012, “which surprisingly appear TRAI’s argument sion concluded that such a sion, which is the highest de- to have been overlooked and “The authority would like to regime needs revisiting cision making body in the the maximization of govern- inform you that the tariff reg- solely base on the revenue Department of Telecommu- ment revenue, which is not ulatory regime established numbers of a few recent nications, had in February one of the objectives of the by TRAI since 1999 has pro- quarters. “This has been ar- written to TRAI asking it to NTP, has been given the cen- moted competition in the gued to be the in the larger review existing tariff rules to ter-stage by the Telecom sector and has facilitated all interest of the government ensure financial growth of Commission. TSPs, including new revenues without dwelling the sector. The commission “This is surprising since it entrants in the sector to offer into the benefits accruing to had reasoned that promo- is widely accepted that the competitive tariff to the con- the customers on account of tional offers by a new player consumer interest is critical sumers,” TRAI said in the let- low tariffs and its positive is leading into fall in reven- to good regulation and the ter dated March 29, accessed impact on the overall eco- ues of other telcos, and same cannot be substituted by The Hindu. nomy,” TRAI said. hence resulting in fall in gov- by revenue maximization,” It added that the commis- The Telecom Commis- ernment’s earning. TRAI said. Indian arm of Malaysia’s Govt., NDB ink $350 mn. Petronas to invest $100 mn. loan pact

Special Correspondent Move is aimed at garnering 5% share of lubricants market NEW DELHI India signed its first loan Piyush Pandey global players, plans to add a agreement with the New MUMBAI satellite R&T (research and Development Bank (NDB) Petronas Lubricants Interna- technology) centre to its Pa- for $350 million to be used tional (PLI), a subsidiary of talganga plant that focuses in the development and Malaysian energy giant Pet- on motorcycle lubricants. upgradation of district ronas, is planning a Work on PLI’s £40 million roads in Madhya Pradesh. threefold increase in its in- global research centre in “The objective of the vestment to $100 million Turin, Italy will be com- project is the upgradation (₹650 crore) in a bid to pleted by the end of this of major district roads in garner 5% share of the com- year. The centre will provide the state of Madhya Pra- petitive lubricants market in for technological and tech- desh to improve connectiv- India dominated by Indian nical requirements of PLI’s ity of the interior areas of oil PSUs and global players. business globally. the state with the national The Kuala Lumpur-based Giuseppe D'Arrigo * AFP Mr. Giuseppe was in India and state highway net- firm had already invested to unveil Petronas Sprinta works,” the government $50 million in a lubricant Giuseppe D’Arrigo, man- with Ultraflex, its flagship said in a statement. “The blending plant at Patalganga aging director and chief ex- range of lubricants formu- project would include up- in Maharashtra which was ecutive officer, PLI told The lated to resist engine stress gradation, rehabilitation or expected to commence op- Hindu. “India has huge po- and promote longer life for reconstruction of approx- erations by the first quarter tential and is an important motorcycles. imately 1,500 km of district of 2018. market for us besides Petronas Sprinta lubric- roads to intermediate lane, “The investments of $100 China,” he added. ants will be made available all-weather standards, with million will be over and PLI, with operations in globally in phases from road safety features and above $50 million already in- more than 100 countries March 30, 2017, according to improved road mainten- vested in the Indian market, and ranked among top 10 a company statement. ance and management.” CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 2017 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Aussie friends comment IPL money matters overblown, tweets Kohli resolved amicably Staging associations to get ₹30 lakh before each match Brad Hodge also takes to Twitter to apologise to the Indian skipper G. Viswanath CoA) conducted the meet- and Cricket Association of Mumbai ing very well,” said an offi- Bengal president Sourav Agencies Money matters were re- cial privy to proceedings at Ganguly have invited the NEW DELHI solved amicably at a meet- the meeting. CoA for the IPL matches. India skipper Virat Kohli on ing convened by the Com- Last year the BCCI, under Lehmann hails At the IPL Governing Thursday downplayed con- mittee of Administrators Shashank Manohar, took a ‘Bradman-like’ Smith Council meeting, CoA’s troversial remarks about (CoA) for the Vivo IPL-10 in decision to match the fran- SYDNEY Vinod Rai, Daina Edulji, ditching Australian crick- New Delhi on Thursday. chise’s contribution of ₹30 Australian coach Darren BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, BCCI eters as friends, saying his The lack of conflict lakh towards expenses in- Lehmann has hailed captain GM (Game Development) comments were blown out between the CoA and the curred by the staging Steve Smith as “Bradman- Prof. Ratnakar Shetty and of proportion and he re- BCCI was reflected in what associations. like” following his 499 runs in IPL GC’s Rajeev Shukla mained on good terms with the CoA chairman Vinod Rai For eight years, it was four Tests against India. “He’s (Chairman), Sourav Ganguly some players. said: “We have been heli- $50,000 for each IPL been unbelievable. He’s been and Dr. P.V. Shetty updated The Indian skipper sought coptered into this. We have match, but in January 2016 Bradman-like with the bat themselves on various as- to clear the air on Thursday been asked to do a job.” the BCCI chose to make a but all the stuff behind the pects of the IPL including as he prepares to share a The CoA has agreed to re- match contribution as most scenes has been exceptional,” the opening ceremony. dressing room with Aus- mit the BCCI share of ₹30 associations felt ₹30 lakh Lehmann said. AFP tralian players in the IPL. lakh to the staging associ- was not enough. Jyotiraditya Scindia and “My answer at the post ations before the start of Saurashtra Cricket Asso- Mohinder Pandove did not match conference has been every match. ciation’s Madhukar Worah attend the meeting. blown way out of propor- This is the practice fol- tion,” Kohli posted on his of- lowed by the eight fran- ficial Twitter account. “I did chises, some of whom have not categorically say the a flexible arrangement with whole Australian team but its home association. ‘Fab Five’ to only a couple of individuals. A few associations forgo “I continue to be in good their full share of match terms with the few guys I tickets (10% of the capacity be felicitated know & who I’ve played with of the stadium) and are ICC to bid for cricket at RCB (Royal Challengers compensated with extra Press Trust of India derabad on April 5,” IPL in 2024 Olympics Bangalore) & that doesn’t money. New Delhi chairman Rajeev Shukla LONDON change.” The earlier practice was The IPL Governing Coun- told reporters. The International Cricket Kohli had led RCB to the to remit a consolidated sum cil on Thursday decided Out of the five, four are Council (ICC) Chief Executive final last year with Australian for the specific number of to felicitate five legends — former India captains. Officer Dave Richardson on players Mitchell Starc, Shane home matches (seven or Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav However it was not Thursday confirmed that he Watson and Travis Head. less) 14 days after the con- Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, known why Anil Kumble, and the majority of ICC While Starc will not join RCB Moment to cherish: Indian skipper Virat Kohli being honoured with the Padma Shri by clusion of the IPL final. V.V.S. Laxman and an equal contributor members want the sport to for the upcoming season President Pranab Mukherjee on Thursday. * SANDEEP SAXENA “Now the BCCI money Virender Sehwag — during along with these five dur- be included in the Olympic starting April 5, Watson and will be given before each the opening ceremony of ing Indian cricket’s golden Games. Richardson said that Head will play side by side <> On a lighter note, Hodge’s apology read. I have received has certainly and every match. The meet- the league. phase, has not been in- ICC will this year submit an with Kohli. from this year “My intention was never driven this home,” said ing with the staging associ- “The decision was cluded in the felicitation application for inclusion of In another development, onwards, 30th to harm, criticise or be Hodge, who is due to coach ations lasted 20 minutes. taken at the GC meeting list. the game in 2024 Games. “I former Australia all-rounder March will be derogatory toward anyone. the Gujarat Lions in the IPL. on Thursday that five le- Meanwhile on Diana ‘Excellent meeting’ think a majority of the (ICC) Brad Hodge also took to remembered as They were intended to be “I am deeply apologetic to gends of Indian cricket — Edulji’s request, former members and certainly Twitter to apologise for his light-hearted comments with the country which has “It was an excellent meeting Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav India women’s cricketers, myself think the time is comments that Kohli had World Apology Day the utmost respect to the In- bought me so much joy, and with the CoA and BCCI offi- Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, who will be receiving a right,” Richardson told a pulled out of the Dharam- R. Ashwin’s tweet dian Premier League which I its inspirational leader in cials seated on one side. V.V.S. Laxman and one-time ex-gratia pay- small group of journalists shala Test to save his IPL dia, cricket fans, the Indian have thoroughly enjoyed Virat Kohli, to whom I mean Amitabh Chaudhary (Jt. Virender Sehwag will be ment, will be handed after speaking at the campaign. national cricket team and through the years. The pub- no ill-intention & respect Secretary, BCCI) missed the felicitated during the their cheques during the SportsPro Live conference in “I take this opportunity to particularly Virat Kohli for lic and fans have every right highly as a professional,” he flight and he was on skype. opening ceremony in Hy- matches. London. IANS apologise to the people of In- my previous comments,” to be upset, and the backlash concluded. “Vinod Rai (Chairman,

PCB chief AB to lead till Virat becomes available: Vettori MI hopes for a warns India The RCB head coach says Kohli will join the squad on April 2 Rohit boost of legal action Shreedutta Chidananda breaks now and then, (it will bowling will be assisted by BENGALURU be enough). Physically, I Tymal Mills and Aniket MUBASHIR ZAIDI Virat Kohli will join the Royal think they will be fine.” Choudhary. We have a strong Players have been going through KARACHI Challengers Bangalore camp RCB will begin its IPL cam- batting line-up anyway and Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday, although his paign against SRH — in a re- confident bowlers now. the drills for the last ive days chairman Shahryar Khan, availability for the early peat of last year’s final — in Vettori was also confident on Thursday, warned of games of the IPL season is Hyderabad on Wednesday. It the rivalries from the ill- legal action against India still in doubt, according to is the first of 10 games the tempered series between In- for refusing to play cricket Daniel Vettori. Bengaluru side will play in dia and Australia would not series against Pakistan. “He will come in on April April, a schedule that will spill over, in RCB’s case, into He also ruled out any 2,” the RCB head coach said not allow it to feel its way the IPL. chances of the bilateral here on Thursday, as his side into the tournament. “The ability to compart- series, blaming the Indian commenced training. “We always have a habit of mentalise international Prime Minister for not al- “Between now and then, the starting slowly...[and we cricket and franchise cricket lowing the team to play. BCCI doctors and physio will want to change that this is something players get used At a press conference in speak to us (on his condi- time],” Vettori stated. “(Our to,” he said. Lahore, Shahryar said it tion) and our medical staff squad) is an improvement “So I don’t think it’ll affect seemed that Narendra will get a clearer picture. from last year. New ball the series at all.” Modi did not want India to Right now, we don’t have a play against Pakistan. clear picture on his He said India’s refusal to availability.” play against Pakistan in Should Kohli, who 2014 had cost the PCB $1 suffered a shoulder injury Gayle, Watson and Way to do it: Jasprit Bumrah keenly watches ielding coach million. “Our case is solid. during the third Test against Jonty Rhodes at a practice session on Thursday. * VIVEK BENDRE We will go to court against Australia in Ranchi, indeed the BCCI,” Shahryar said. miss a couple of games, A.B. Mills work out Amol Karhadkar comeback stint with the de Villiers will likely fill in as Mumbai two-time IPL champion. Special Correspondent the Momentum Cup, captain of RCB. BENGALURU The Mumbai Indians’ pre- Friday will see Rohit, Afghanistan “The likely scenario is that South Africa’s domestic paration for the 10th IPL along with Harbhajan Singh, A.B. de Villiers will take over Chris Gayle, Tymal Mills 50-over tournament, season will switch gears on Parthiv Patel, New Zealand stuns India the duties but we’ll answer and Shane Watson were where they are playing Friday with a spree of stars, pacer Mitchell McClenaghan that once we find out if Virat among the key overseas for Titans. Travis Head, including captain Rohit and England big-hitter Jos players in action as RCB who scored an unbeaten Sports Bureau is out,” Vettori said. Sharma, set to join the Buttler, make their maiden CHITTAGONG “Fortunately, we have a began its preparations at century for South Aus- squad’s training camp at the appearance in MI’s training tralia in the Sheffield Afghanistan beat India Un- number of exceptional bats- Plan B in place: Daniel Vettori feels that RCB has the batting the M. Chinnaswamy Sta- Wankhede Stadium. jersey ahead of its season- dium on Thursday. Shield final, is due to der-23 by two wickets in a men who haven’t got many * SUDHAKARA JAIN reserves to cope with any eventuality. For the last five days opener in Pune on April 6. Group A match at the ACC playing chances like Sarfaraz Yuzvendra Chahal, land on Sunday. many domestic players, It would be interesting to Emerging Teams Cup here Khan and Mandeep Singh. Iqbal Abdulla, Stuart Leg-spinner Samuel played 12 Tests in that schedule and then coming to along with promising Carib- see if Rohit is fully fit. Hav- on Thursday. They can fill in (for Kohli).” period, and Rahul nine, but play the IPL. Yet, he still per- Binny, Sarfaraz Khan, S. Badree is part of the West bean Nicholas Pooran, have ing recovered from a thigh Arvind and Harshal Patel Indies squad for home The scores: India u-23 242 for Vettori was not worried forms well like we saw last been going through the surgery, he did make a eight in 50 overs (Hanuma Vi- No worries about fatigue about fatigue, mental or year. were among the Indians series against Pakistan, drills under the watchful comeback during the league training in the nets at the and will fly out after the hari 59, Shubman Gill 46, B. Kohli and K.L. Rahul will physical. “KL (Rahul) too was part eyes of a high-profile sup- stage of the Vijay Hazare Aparajith 38; Naveen ul-Haq both arrive on the back of a “They are accustomed to of the Test squad in the past KSCA ‘B’ ground. final T20. He is sched- port staff, led by head coach Trophy after spending four A.B. de Villiers and uled to join the side in four for 54) lost to Afgh- long home season with In- this,” he said. “Virat has (before this IPL). The most Mahela Jayawardene. months on the sidelines. anistan u-23 246 for eight in Tabraiz Shamsi will ar- Hyderabad on the morn- dia, which began with the played for the country for so important thing is that they Australia’s Mitchell John- However, Rohit pulled out 46.3 overs (Younas Ahmadzai rive after Friday’s final in ing of the season-opener. first Test against New Zeal- long so he’s familiar with the are fit and prepared for this. son joined the preparations of last week’s Deodhar 51, Samiullah Shenwari 50, and in September. Kohli has rigours of the international If we give them small mental two days ago on his Trophy due to a knee niggle. Shahidullah Kamal 42). Steve Smith and Ajinkya Rahane ofer a straight bat! The RPS teammates diplomatically handle queries on the just-concluded Test series Rakesh Rao <> I am ready to take ready to take the reins of this spect for him as an indi- ions, If I want something or NEW DELHI the reins of this IPL IPL team and get into this vidual, as a player and as a they want to say something, Steve Smith and Ajinkya Ra- team and get into tournament.” leader. I am one of his they can come up to me. If hane, opposing captains in this tournament. Rahane was asked biggest fans. This is a new there are opinions coming the final India-Australia Test whether he accepted Smith’s season, a new captain, from all fronts, it can cloud earlier this week, came pre- Steve Smith invitation of have a beer after there’s complete unity and your judgement or what’s go- pared to face the barrage of with his conduct in the series-victory on Tuesday, complete togetherness in the ing on in your mind. questions from the media. series, was an obvious target the soft-spoken batsman team, so wish us well. We “I’ll try to stay as clear as Though Thursday’s event of the scribes. But he proved said, “We had our own get- have a great squad. We have possible. It’s difficult some- was meant to welcome Eng- equal to the challenge. together in the dressing the potential to perform times when you so many land’s all-rounder Ben Stokes room, I was busy there. well.” people around.” —abuyworthRs14.5crore Ready for the IPL “We were enjoying each Personally, Smith saved Stokes, who seems to be for Rising Pune Supergiant — In the background of Virat other’s company. It was a the day when he cut out all enjoying himself, said he did with Smith and Rahane Kohli’s views that some of well-fought series. They diplomacy while responding not expect the IPL auction to presenting the all-rounder the Australians in the team played really well in India. to a question, whether the go the way it did. with a team-shirt, it was were no longer his friends, But for all of us, we played presence of three other cap- “Even if I had just brought more an opportunity for the the RPS skipper was asked good cricket throughout the tains — Dhoni, Rahane and on my base price, I would media to quiz the two with whether he thought one season. I enjoyed the mo- Welcome! Rising Pune Supergiant’s owner Sanjiv Goenka presents the team jersey to Ben Stokes Faf du Plessis — in the squad then also have tried to per- questions relating to the just- among them, the man ment.” in the company of the team skipper Steve Smith and Ajinkya Rahane. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR made it any easier or difficult form exactly the same way. I concluded series that had its offered a straight bat: “The Even as Smith and Rahane for him. would try to win as many share of acrimony. series is done and dusted for repeatedly side-stepped the response to why M.S. Dhoni to do with the question. with Mahi, I have learnt “(When there are) Plenty games for Pune. That’s what Smith, who continued to us. India outplayed us and core questions, team owner was stripped of captaincy, “A lot has been written something new. He is one of of captains floating around, I we play the game for, to win pound India with the bat but won 2-1. For me, I am moving Sanjeev Goenka was not too the response, intentionally about the captaincy. the sharpest brains I have in- think it’s important not to the games. Try and do well lost quite a few admirers on from that now and I am far behind. For instance, his or otherwise, had very little Whenever I have interacted teracted with. 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IN BRIEF AAA okays Vintage Venus eliminates top seed Kerber Asian meet’s Fognini sends Nishikori packing; Nadal stays on track new venue

Agence France-Presse when 13th seed Sock Sports Bureau MIAMI MIAMI OPEN Bangkok threatened to take a strangle- Venus Williams rolled back The Asian Athletics Associ- “It was an interesting hold on the second set. Neuer out for the years to send World No.1 ation has approved match. I was controlling it. I “That was the key of the two matches Angelique Kerber crashing Bhubaneswar as the host had more errors than I like second set, two-love (down), MUNICH out of the Miami Open on city of the Asian athletics and lower first serve percent- 15-40,” said Nadal. “With Bayern Munich goalkeeper Wednesday and advance to a championship and the age than I would like,” said three-zero a player like Jack, Manuel Neuer will be out for semifinal showdown with event’s new dates, July 6 to Venus. you’ll probably be thinking two matches after sustaining Britain’s Johanna Konta. third set. 9, at its council meeting in an injury in training, but Williams, at 36 the oldest “It wasn’t my best game, Bangkok on Thursday. but she deserved to win be- “It was a double positive should be fit for the woman in the field, downed thing. I saved that game and Champions League Kerber 7-5, 6-3, while Konta cause she played really well tonight,” said the German. got the break back (in the showdown with Real Madrid, fought back to beat Ro- next game). The match was Sachin wins In the men’s section, Ra- the Bundeliga giant said on mania’s Simona Halep 3-6, 7- much closer than the result fael Nadal moved into the Thursday. The 31-year-old 6(7), 6-2. says. 400m semifinals with a straight- Germany keeper will be With the local crowd be- “Its like a dream maybe,” sets win over American Jack Special Correspondent sidelined for Bayern’s hind her, Venus, a three-time said the 29-year-old Fognini Sock, while second seed Kei NEW DELHI Bundesliga matches against winner here, clearly believed after becoming the first un- Nishikori was sent packing Augsburg on Saturday and she could topple the German seeded player in 10 years to Sachin Kumar won the after going down 6-4, 6-2 to Hoffenheim next Tuesday. AFP but the first set saw both make the Miami semis. “This men’s 400m with a time of unseeded Italian Fabio players struggle to hold their is a big, big tournament for 50.51 seconds in the all-In- Fognini. serves. me. I’m happy about my per- dia civil services athletics The American broke Ker- championships, at the Bouncing back formance. I’m just trying to ber four times while Willi- be focused on my game and Central Secretariat ground Nadal staved off four break ams failed to hold serve do my best.” on Thursday. twice, but the contest was points to avoid going down a Quarterfinal results: Men: Ra- The results: Men: 400m: 1. more one-sided in the double-break early in the fael Nadal bt Jack Sock 6-2, Sachin Kumar 50.51s; 2. second set. second set, a pivotal game 6-3; Fabio Fognini bt Kei Jayaprakash Shetty 51.47; 3. Venus raced to a 4-1 lead that set the stage for his 6-2, Nishikori 6-4, 6-2. Mayur Kumar Malviya 52.03. before Kerber broke back 6-3 victory on the Crandon Women: Venus Williams bt An- 110m hurdles: 1. T. Balamur- and started to produce some Park hardcourt. gelique Kerber 7-5, 6-3; Jo- ugan 15.73s; 2. P. Damu Rathi- Saurav Ghosal great shots as she battled in Nadal’s poise and shot- hanna Konta bt Simona Halep Old is gold: Venus Williams rolled back the years in her quarterinal match against nam 16.42; 3. Anup Kumar Sen in semiinals vain to save the match. making came to the fore 3-6, 7-6(7), 6-2. Angelique Kerber on Wednesday. * AFP 16.47. Shot-put: 1. Gagandeep Singh 17.09m; 2. Naveen Ku- MONTREAL mar 14.50; 3. N. Shankar 12.93. India’s top player Saurav CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC 4x100m relay: 1. RSB, Chen- Ghosal made it to the nai 44.64s; 2. RSB, Bengaluru semifinals of the Montreal Recognition 45.21; 3. Central Secretariat Open, a PSA world tour event Purav Raja & Divij Sharan lose 45.64. here on Wednesday. Ghosal Veterans: Long jump: 1. Dar- overcame Arturo Salazar of Zheng Saisai beats Ankita Raina in the second round at Quanzhou shan Mahipal Singh 5.74m; 2. Mexico 11-8, 9-11, 9-11, 11-4, Muienuddin Khan 5.65; 3. 15-13 in the quarterfinals. The Sports Bureau in Italy on Thursday. unuday Singh bt Adam Maj- Doubles quarterfinals: Emilie Hardeep 5.54. Shot-put: 1. Leon (Mexico) Indian had a comfortable first In a $15,000 Futures event chrowcz (Pol) & Hugo Francati (Den) & Kajsa Rinaldo Sukhvinder Singh 12.74m; 2. round earlier beating a The top seeds Purav Raja in Jakarta, Karunuday Singh Voljacques (Fra) 6-4, 7-6(9). Persson (Swe) bt Ana Nimesh Desai 12.27; 3. Saleem qualifier Mexican Alfredo and Divij Sharan were made the singles quarterfi- $60,000 ITF women, Quan- Veselinovic (Mne) & Rishika Kilachaparambath 12.19. Avila 11-2, 11-7, 11-3. beaten 6-3, 6-1 by Luke nals beating Jake Delaney zhou: Second round: Zheng Sunkara 6-4, 4-6, [11-9]. Women: 400m: 1. C.S. Sindya Saville and John-Patrick Saisai (Chn) bt Ankita Raina 6-3, Mol 1:02.90s; 2. C. Smitha (Aus) 6-4, 7-5. He also made $15,000 ITF women, Smith of Australia in the first 6-2. 1:06.63; 3. Olivia Roberts India outplays the doubles semifinals with Hammamet, Tunisia: First round of the $75,000 Chal- $25,000 ITF women, Santa 1:09.51. 100m hurdles: 1. Malaysia Pirmin Haenle. round: Irene Burillo Escorihuela Margherita di Pula, Italy: Rupashree Pothall 18.46s; 2. BANGKOK: lenger tennis tournament in & Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers The results: Quarterfinals: Eva Wacanno G. Lavanya 20.03; 3. B.S. Priy- Sandeepti Singh Rao and Mexico. (Esp) bt Angela Fita Boluda $75,000 Challenger, Leon, (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt anka 21.12. Shot-put: 1. Divya Sarah Dev played well to help In the $60,000 ITF wo- (Esp) & Snehadevi Reddy 7-6 Mexico: First round: Luke Ekaterine Gorgodze (Geo) & Sonar 10.91m; 2. Susmita India outplay Malaysia 2-0 in men’s event in Quanzhou, (4), 6-4. Saville & John-Patrick Smith Kamila Kerimbayeva (Kaz) 3-6, Singha Roy 10.30; 3. K. Anitha a play-off match for the Ankita Raina lost in straight (Aus) bt Purav Raja & Divij 6-4, [10-7]. $15,000 ITF women, Herak- Devi 10.10. 4x100m relay: 1. minor placings in the Asia- sets to top seed Zheng Saisai Sharan 6-3, 6-1. $15,000 ITF women, Sharm El lion, Greece: First round: Romy RSB, Kochi 54.22s; 2. RSB, Ra- Oceania World junior in the second round. $15,000 Futures, Jakarta: Sheikh: Second round: Emilie Koelzer & Julyette Maria jasthan 56.77; 3. RSB, under-14 girls tennis Prarthana Thombare and Second round: Karunuday Francati (Den) bt Rishika Sunk- Josephine Steur (Ger) bt Ahmedabad 59.78. Veterans: championship here on Eva Wacanno made the Singh bt Jake Delaney (Aus) ara 6-3, 6-3. Almudena Sanz-Llaneza Long jump: 1. Roshni Gulati Thursday. Honour: President Pranab Mukherjee conferring the semifinals at a $25,000 ITF 6-4, 7-5. Doubles quarterfi- Natasha Palha bt Caroline Fernandez (Esp) & Tanisha Ro- 4.35m; 2. Neelu Mishra 4.10; 3. India will next play Sri Lanka Padma Shri on Deepa Malik on Thursday * SANDEEP SAXENA event in Margherita Di Pula nals: Pirmin Haenle (Ger) & Kar- Romeo (Fra) 6-1 retired. hira 6-1, 6-2. Sarita Kumari 3.63. for the ninth place. Korea, China, Thailand and Australia made the semifinals. Harikrishna The results (play-off): India has acclimatised Consistent Rahul shoots up India bt Malaysia 2-0 bounces (Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Zan Ning Lim 6-1, 6-0; Sarah Dev back in ICC Test rankings bt Sharifah Wan Abdul well for HWL: Marijne Rahman 6-1, 6-3). Press Trust of India Shenzhen Jadeja, Ashwin occupy top two spots in bowlers’ list Shrut Mohan rallies Indian Grandmaster P. The team is geared up to make a good start ANI to enter inal Harikrishna defeated Eng- Smith has successfully de- ANI DUBAI CHANDIGARH: about 27 degrees. But the they are a team that played land’s Michael Adams in fended his No.1 position and VANCOUVER Shrut Mohan rallied to beat girls have gotten used to this with a lot of passion. “We the Shenzhen Longgang K.L. Rahul, who smashed six is currently 61 points ahead Asav Kumar 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-0 The Indian women’s hockey and are ready for the start of have seen them play twice so chess tournament here on centuries in the series of his New Zealand opposite in the under-16 boys’ team’s chief coach Sjoerd the tournament,”stated Mar- we know a little bit about Thursday. against Australia, has number, Kane Williamson. semifinals of the AITA Talent Marijne has asserted that his ijne. them. They typically play the climbed to a career-high series junior tennis team are fully geared up to The three-nation tourna- South American style like Ar- Second win rank of 11th spot in the latest Umesh’s rise tournament at the make a good start in the up- ment earlier in the week gentina and there is a lot of This was World No. 14’s ICC Rankings for Test In the bowling table, Umesh Chandigarh Club on Thursday. coming Hockey World against Canada and Chile had passion. But we must focus second victory in this elite batsmen. Yadav has also a achieved ca- In the final, Shrut will play League Round 2. India plays also helped the team cope on our own game,”he stated. Masters tournament. Incid- The 24-year-old had star- reer-high ranking. The pacer Uddayvir Singh. its first match against Ur- with the weather conditions Skipper Rani also said the entally, both his wins have ted the series in 57th posi- is now ranked in 21st posi- The results (semifinals): uguay on April 1. and get a good rhythm ahead team is upbeat and eager to come against Adams. tion, but has gained 46 tion following his super per- Boys: U-16: Shrut Mohan bt On arriving from a differ- of the HWL. get on with the tournament. Harikrishna moved up places over four Tests follow- formance in Dharamshala. Asav Kumar 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-0; ent climatic condition in Bho- “It is always good to get a “I believe we have had a good to fourth after the seventh ing scores of 64, 10, 90, 51, Umesh took two for 69 and Uddayvir Singh bt Gurustat pal, where the team had few matches before the start. start to this year with a series round. Three more rounds 67, 60 and 51 not out. three for 29 in the match, Singh 6-1, 6-3. U-14: Ajay trained since January 14, to 7 Since this is a short tourna- win against Belarus. Though remain. Rahul is now India’s third earning him a rise of five Singh bt Sidharth Goel 6-4, degrees in West Vancouver ment, every match is import- the results in the two highest-ranked batsman places. 6-1; Sukhpreet Singh Jhoje bt Playing white, which has seen a few spells of ant and there is no reason matches we played here after Cheteshwar Pujara The spin duo of Ravindra Gaurav Kumar 6-2, 6-0. Harikrishna took control at rain in the past week, the against Chile (2-2) and (fourth, down by two places) Jadeja and Ravichandran Girls: U-16: Priyanka Jakhar why we cannot get off to a the midway stage and team has gotten used to the bt Simran Pritam 6-3, 6-2; good start. I have a lot of con- Canada (1-3) didn’t go in our lured Adams into a trap and Virat Kohli (fifth, down Ashwin have retained the Princy Panchal bt Sanya conditions and are geared up fidence in the team and we favour, it helped us get used with a fine rook gambit. It by one place), and is ahead top two bowling spots. Chadha 6-3, 2-6, 6-2. U-14: for a good start, stated Mar- are ready to make a winning to the weather. was enough for him to of Ajinkya Rahane (14th, up In the all-rounders’ cat- Nimrat Kaur Atwal bt Mehar ijne. start,” expressed the “We found it tough initially manoeuvre his way to a by three places) and Murali egory, Jadeja has moved Kohli 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Suryanshi “We had 10 days to accli- Dutchman. as it is cold and rained at winning position. Vijay (34th, down by four ahead of Ashwin into second Tanwar bt Vainavi Thapliyal matise and get used to the Speaking about Uruguay times but the team has gotten He will be up against An- places). place, behind Shakib Al 6-1, 6-0. weather. The difference is as an opponent, Marijne said used to it now,”stated Rani. ish Giri on Friday. K.L. Rahul. * PTI Australia captain Steve Hasan.

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FAITH THE HINDU CROSSWORD 11969 (set by Arden) SUDOKU

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 Slug or ight, Bravo's not tense 3 'Reject Rumba' — odd name (4) for an opera (5) His sudden growth

4 Subject of scam — one goes The demon king Mahabali had to be humbled, but when and 9 10 15 Feeling lazy at home, work's into dubious power sharing how was the Lord going to do this? That was something that advanced (8) mode (9) He would decide. A commentator says that the Lord was lying down in His abode on His snake bed, and He resembled 11 12 18 'Greek Curse' — nice 5 Stick to orders, keep scoring a bamboo plant that had bent down in the dew. He looked composition (8) runs (5) unhappy, because He was wondering how to save the many souls that were helpless, and that were unaware of the path 13 14 15 16 17 19 A new way to decline (4) 6 Prediction on computing power — maybe same or low to liberation. When He heard the cries of Indra, He became alert, said P.T. Seshadri, in a discourse. 22 Harry gets female in sack (5) (6,3) 18 19 Indra was crying out because of the treatment meted out 7 Bent down, and boom! — left to him by Mahabali. Immediately, the Lord shrank His form, 24 Disabled pigs grunt miserably 20 21 for Thailand (5) assuming the form of a boy with a small stature. He went to (9) 22 23 24 25 8 Place to be in when assaulted Mahabali and asked for a gift of land, such that He could measure the gifted land with three steps of His. Mahabali 26 Girl's drunk, taking vehicle for (6) agreed to grant Him His request, and poured water in the a romp (9) 26 27 14 Force changing, showing Lord’s hands, preparatory to gifting the land. The moment indecision (9) the water touched the Lord’s palm, He rose to an unimagin- 27 Woody Keaton, has no time off able height. The One, who, a moment ago, had been short, (5) 16 Destroyed old houses — 28 29 was now of a huge height, whose one step spanned an entire rodents on the rise (9) world. The commentator says that He now looked like a 28 Centrepiece kept exposed, 17 One carrying food in bag to an Solution to puzzle 11968 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku bamboo plant, standing upright, when the rays of the sun turns green (7) island resort (9) W A R S H I P S G A L O S H fall on it. ■ ACROSS E E Y R T R U A We too grow from infancy to childhood, to teen age, to 29 Call the stupid fellow in, he is 1 It's conical shape, in brief (7) 20 Accent is on the shoe (6) E L L I P S E R I G H T O N adulthood. We then age and finally die. So what is the differ- 5 Yahoo may commit fratricide all thumbs (7) V I E P O U S D 21 Angola perhaps on death I N C U R O P U L E N T L Y ence between our growth over the years and the Lord’s (7) throes (6) L T I S B A M growth, apart from the suddenness of the latter’s growth? 9 Leave us, take a left hand ■ DOWN A C E T A L D E H Y D E While we come to this earth and pass through the various A S U E E L S N batsman... (5) 23 Drops said to be spurious (5) D E C O M P R E S S E D stages of life, because of our karma, He comes to this world 10 ...she writes to God, uses a 1 On fast depleting power, what O A O H V G M 24 By the way, the fellow's shy of His own will. He comes to save us. ground cover (9) is left? (6) P O L I T B U R O E Y R I E (5) T D R S O N A T There is no change in any of His auspicious qualities, 11 Flower — perhaps an old lotus I N I T I A L T O S S P O T whether He assumes the form of a fish, a tortoise, a boar or on land... (9) 2 Lower card that is played, 25 Strip it, have a change of O N L Y E E P L a half man half lion form as in the case of the Narasimha 12 ...old painting's back too (5) indicates weakness (9) heart (5) N I G G L E B R I S B A N E avatara.

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blockbuster last-eight clash Special Correspondent Pro Kabaddi became an PROKABADDI LEAGUE Mumbai instant hit with Indian ProKabaddi Season 5 is all sports fans in its very first Sameer Verma’s dream run continues even as other Indians exit set to break fresh ground Nadu, Haryana, Uttar Pra- season in 2014 with 435 mil- with the addition of teams desh and Gujarat have been lion viewers tuned in.” Rakesh Rao from Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pra- primarily chosen for their Uday Shankar, chairman NEW DELHI desh, Haryana and Gujarat. high affinity towards and CEO Star India said: The on-going reality check to Mashal Sports, which was Kabaddi with massive fan “Even for an optimistic like ascertain the depth in coun- chiefly responsible for the bases, significant on-ground me the response we have Westbrook scores a try’s badminton has so far creation of the exciting presence of the sport, and seen for kabaddi is surpris- 57-point triple double produced dismal results in league in 2014 has invited potential commercial value ing. the Yonex India Open bad- Expression of Interest (EOI) to sponsors and advertisers. “Having seen its affinity in ORLANDO minton championship here. for the four additional “Both Haryana and Tamil the country, it would be a Russell Westbrook conjured a On the day of pre- teams, from Corporates or Nadu contribute large num- disservice to the sport if we spectacular 57-point triple quarterfinals, when 10 consortium of persons with ber of players to Pro do not grow it further. double as Oklahoma City matches involved Indians, a net worth in excess of ₹100 Kabaddi, as well as leading “All stakeholders have de- Thunder scored a thrilling only unseeded Sameer crore as on March 31, 2016. public sector teams in the cided to come together to victory over the Orlando Verma continued his march With 12 teams and the country. Along with Uttar expand the league and given Magic here on Wednesday. He and joined P.V. Sindhu and league to be played over 13 Pradesh, these states have a the pace at which this is had 57 points, 13 rebounds Saina Nehwal in the weeks, 130 matches will be rich cultural tradition of growing, it might be just the and 11 assists as the Thunder quarterfinal stage. played. highly popular local kabaddi first in a series of expansions rolled to a 114-106 win in Sameer, upbeat after A release said: “Tamil tournaments. in the coming years.” overtime. The results: Clippers 133 bt scalping World No. 5 Son Wizards 124, Jazz 112 bt Kings Won Ho in the opening 82, Warriors 110 bt Spurs 98, round, led World No. 15 Hu Grizzlies 110 bt Pacers 97, Yun, throughout the first game and then broke away Sunil, Harmanpreet bag Pelicans 121 bt Mavericks 118, Bucks 103 bt Celtics 100, from 9-9 to win 21-17, 21-15 in Hornets 110 bt Raptors 106, 40 minutes. Heat 105 bt Knicks 88, Hawks Sameer, ranked 38th, Asian Hockey honours 99 bt 76ers 92, Thunder 114 stroked freely and controlled bt Magic 106 (OT). AGENCIES the points better. Whenever needed, he moved from of- Named 2016’s ‘Player of the Year’ and ‘Promising Player’ I was yelling to the air, fence to defence with ease says Messi and repeatedly forced the Press Trust of India BARCELONA Hong Kong player to err. Muscat Argentina star striker Lionel Sameer had beaten Hu Forward S.V. Sunil and drag- Messi has asserted his Yun in last year’s All England flick specialist Harmanpreet innocence after being hit with Open to avenge the loss Singh have been named the a four-match international suffered in the Thailand Mas- Asian Hockey Federation’s Moving ahead: Saina Nehwal outplayed Pornpawee Chochuwong to enter the quarterinals. * PTI ban for verbally abusing an ters in February last. Player of the Year and Prom- official, saying his insults He now faces young Dan- INDIAN OPEN Axelsen. In what was a re- Men: Sameer Verma bt Hu Yun ising Player (junior men) for were not at all directed at an ish rival Anders Antonsen, peat clash of the 2015 final (Hkg) 21-17, 21-15; 7-Chou Tien the Year 2016 respectively. official and he was yelling ‘to ranked 26th. Antsonsen, here, Axelsen avenged that Chen (Tpe) bt B. Sai Praneeth The nominations for the air’. ANI rated high by his country- Sindhu had to save a game- three-game defeat with an 21-14, 21-16; 3-Victor Axelsen these awards were made by man Morten Frost, received point in the second before emphatic 21-7, 21-12 win. (Den) bt K. Srikanth 21-7, 21-12; national team coaches from Airport renamed a walkover from World No. prevailing 23-21 in the 40- In mixed doubles, the ex- 6-Ng Ka Long Angus (Hkg) bt Asia. in CR’s honour 12 Marc Zwiebler. minute match. pected defeat of Ashwini Sourabh Verma 21-19, 14-21, 22- Harmanpreet had a stu- S.V. Sunil and Harmanpreet Singh * FILE PHOTOS LISBON In ladies singles, Saina The inconsistency of the Ponnappa and N. Sikki 20. pendous 2016, with the In- The international airport at and Sindhu, in that order, Indians remained a consist- Reddy to fourth seeded Thai Women: 3-P. V. Sindhu bt Saena dian team winning the Ju- ing me with this prestigious year, and we have enjoyed Kawakami (Jpn) 21-16, 23-21; 6- Madeira, the island where won in straight games to set ent factor even in home con- pair of Puttita Supajirakul nior World Cup in Lucknow. award and Hockey India for some memorable victories Saina Nehwal bt Pornpawee Cristiano Ronaldo was born, up a much-awaited clash. ditions! Sourabh Verma, and Sapsiree Taerattanchai He was also part of the their ongoing support,” said in 2016. This award could Chochuwong (Tha) 21-10, 21-17; was renamed in the football Saina, moving better than who held a 19-16 lead in the followed the exit of Shruti senior men’s team at the Rio Harmanpreet. not have been possible if not 1-Carolina Marin (Esp) bt Ritu- megastar’s honour on she did in the first round, decider could not close the Mundada and Anoushka Olympics and the FIH Cham- Sunil played a vital role in for our team work. parna Das 21-13, 21-11. Doubles: Thursday. Five thousand outplayed Thailand’s Porn- match against sixth seeded Parikh to third-seeded Japan- 4-Puttita Supajirakul & Sapsiree pions Trophy at London India’s successful outing at “I would like to thank screaming fans, Ronaldo pawee Chochuwong 21-10, Hong Kong rival Ng Ka Long ese duo of Naoko Fukuman Taerattanachai (Tha) bt Ashwini where India won a historic the FIH Champions Trophy Hockey India for their ef- himself and Portugal’s Prime 21-17 in what was a repeat Angus. and Kurumi Yonao. Ponnappa & N. Sikki Reddy 21- silver medal. in London last year where forts, our coaches and sup- Minister and the President result of this year’s Malaysia B. Sai Praneeth continued India’s challenge also 15, 21-10; 3-Naoko Fukuman & “I am very excited to re- he led the forward-line. port staff too who work with were all in attendance at the Masters final. his up-and-down journey ended in the mixed doubles Kurumi Yonao (Jpn) bt Shruti ceive this award. Awards and Considered one of the us day in and day out as one airport where his bust was Sindhu, facing World No. and bowed to seventh seed where seventh seeds Pranav Mundada & Anoushka Parikh recognition are motivation fastest on the pitch in world big family,” Sunil said. also unveiled. “To see this 87 Saena Kawakami, won the from Chinese Taipie Chou Chopra and Sikki Reddy sur- 21-5, 21-10. for a young player like me to hockey, Sunil has also served “It is always a good feeling airport bear my name is a very first 21-16 but needed to draw Tien Chen in straight games. rendered to the unseeded Mixed doubles: Evgenij Dremin improve. I believe 2016 was as the team’s vice-captain. to be recognised with such special thing,” said Ronaldo. from her reserves in the K. Srikanth, once ranked Russians Evgenij Dremin and & Evgenia Dimova (Rus) bt 7- a great year for Indian “This award is an icing on awards as it only adds to a “Everyone knows I am proud close second game. In what third in the world, was no Evgenia Dimova. Pranav Chopra & N. Sikki Reddy hockey, and I would like to the cake. I believe Indian player’s motivation to of my roots.” AFP was the last match to finish, match to Denmark’s Victor The results: Pre-quarterfinals: 21-18, 21-19. thank the AHF for honour- hockey is growing year by improve.”

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