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/ ,- 0 & intelligence agencies. commissioners and senior istered against Acharya under motivated as he is contesting 1 !0/ According to these reports, superintendents of police * " Sections 353, 294, 102, 506 of against the Chief Minister. 0/ “three terror outfits Jaish-e- before embarking on a road Mohammad (JeM), Lashkar-e- journey or choosing a place for +, % % ' !0' 2 Tayyeba (LeT) and Al Badr are a public convention”. 3 1! " planning attacks to disrupt Meanwhile, security forces Central Reserve Police Force 0 & ) ongoing poll process in the remained on tenterhooks on /,, (CRPF), the security forces are ! 0 state”. The main objective Saturday as three different inci- going all out to neutralise the "# ! & 4' behind issuing such an elabo- dents of violence were report- ith the proscribed ter- fighting capabilities of this " 0 ' !$ rate advisory is to prevent any ed from three different places Wrorist group Jaish-e- group. ' ! 0/ terrorist strike on any contest- of Kashmir valley. Mohammad (JeM) flexing its The determined action has 35 ing candidate during election First of all, a mysterious car muscles in Jammu and seen at least 17 JeM cadres ' " rallies. In a span of last 10 days, blast was reported along the Kashmir in the past few killed in encounters since ( more than fifteen terrorists Jammu-Srinagar National months and carrying out sui- Pulwama incident. The overall have been eliminated across Highway, 8 kms from Banihal cide attack in Pulwama on figure of terrorists killed since ( 6 South Kashmir and North near Tethar. February 14 killing 44 then stands at 21. ' 0 56 5 Q5'5" " O" *" +", P . . & 5 M R % ( M Q !0/ Samantsinghar. Following the Supreme Elections were held from 8 Court’s guidelines on “one bar " or the first time, elections to am to 2 pm and counting of the one vote” and the Orissa High ! Fform executive bodies of votes is still continued till this Court’s ruling on this, the State different bar association in report was filed. Bar Council had issued a noti- ( ) Odisha were held simultane- “We are monitoring the fication on February 24 to # ously on Saturday. elections. According to the hold the elections in all bars There are 167 bar associa- feedback available, the results except for those whose " Q tions in the State, including that will start pouring in late in the terms of the executive council of the Orissa High Court Bar evening,” Samantsinghar said, were not over. Q Association, and elections to adding there are over 50,000 The High Court, however, " ,9+ form their respective executive lawyers registered with the earlier this month had made it bodies were held peacefully State Bar Council. Each bar has clear that the annual elections across the State under a “one been provided with of the entire bar associations bar one vote” principle, a list of lawyers with their should be held simultaneous- " ) 2 informed State Bar Council choice of bar to participate in ly on one day and preferably by ,9+ secretary Jajati Keshari the election. March-end every year. : : ! ) enjoying the fruits of power in New Delhi from ) 1998 to 2013 did nothing for getting the tribunal oters in Tamil Nadu have been surprised by award gazetted. The party was squabbling for " Vthe aggressive campaigning launched by money spinning ministries at the Centre,” # Chief Minister Edappadi Palniswamy who is thundered Palaniswamy. " known for his reticent nature and little public At Villupuram where he campaigned for the 35 exposure. Palaniswamy, who hit the campaign PMK candidate, Palaniswamy was at his best trail from Chennai since Wednesday, interacting with the crowd asking them ques- ! 35Q has taken the war to the enemy camp by open- tions. “Please tell me an instance where this *++; 5 0 < & ly challenging Leader of the Opposition MK Government has failed in protecting and pre- 0 0/ Stalin, who heads the DMK, for an open serving the rights of the people of Tamil Nadu. : debate on which the latter attacks him day in and Do you think there is any material in the alle- day out. gations levelled against us by the DMK?” asked
Palaniswamy has taken over from where the Chief Minister to which the crowd roared " Jayalalithaa left. Though he is miles away from back with a big no. the charisma and exuberance of the late leader, Edappadi Palaniswamy hails from Salem and ( " Palaniswamy minces no words while attacking was a Minister in the Jayalalithaa Cabinet for the Opposition claims that his Government was long before he became the Chief Minister fol- 2& ' 0 a failure on all fronts. lowing the Supreme Court upholding the con- “Let Stalin and the DMK tell who got the viction and sentencing of Sasikala in the dis- # Cauvery Water Dispute Tribunal award incor- proportionate assets case. " ) porated in India Gazette. Though the Tribunal Since then he has come of age and has con- delivered the award in 2007, it was our hon- solidated his position, said author and com- 5 ! " P ourable Amma who got it published in the India mentator T Ramakrishnan, who was watching " " $% & ' & () Government Gazette. The DMK which was his performance for the last three days. ( ) *+, -.+/
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Director Chuck Russell Even though the movie and there is more transparency and even goes to the extend of leaves a lot to be desired, the to learn in life. It’s pricing parity justifying the killing and where heart is in the right place. See all because of the across all service the money goes — to feed the this film for the love of the blessings of my providers for the poor when there are floods elephants. parents and the benefit of our and entire villages need to be L % audience, who consumers.
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" % " I got eliminated from Roadies. understand the character. Then, I responded to the Did you ever think of ver since Jadoo ruled the big things and then cries in a convinced your audience then tells you. message and my timing was quitting? Escreen, the concept of aliens corner. Sab ke saamney toh voh they will be able to relate and Sonali Jaffer who is the just right. They told me that they Yes, there was a time when in is no longer an alienated subject bolti hai ki haanji sab ho jayega connect with it. producer of the show, says that were just about to cast someone a month I got rejected many including those on TV. Shows ji par akele mein sochti hai ki “As far as I am concerned, the reason they introduced this else for the role because they times. I thought of giving up like Badi Door Se Aaye Hain vaha toh bol aayi ki ho jayega I am convinced and I believe concept in the show was thought that I was doing Roadies because nothing was cracking was the first one to introduce par sab kuch hoga kese.” that there is life on other planets because it is believed that and it would take time. But my and nothing was working out for aliens on the small screen. The Kaushal says that it has too. The other reason why various planets are involved in rejection came at the right time, me. But then I got selected to play concept was much appreciated been ages since she is getting to people will be able to connect a shaadi. I suppose. This is how I got the a negative lead in Puncch Beat and accepted by the audience. play a positive character on more with the show is each one “For me this alien concept show. and then I realised that there is Then came robots — Karishma small screen. “It’s been ages of us has experience some connected because in Indian Tell us about your character. some potential in me. Kaa Karishma — which again since I am getting to play a siyaapa in a wedding kahin culture we believe that the I play Ranbir. A young As a newcomer, do you have to was a fresh serve for the positive character on television. phupaji naraaz ho jatey to kahin planets are responsible for a college goer. He is a charming, work harder to prove yourself? audience. Though in films I played those taya ji, har koi khush nahin reh shaadi and plays a key role in confident and has attitude. He has got a Yes. I have to work hard because I am Taking this legacy further sweet mummyji wale characters sakta and we have shown same all the siyapas that happen. So, lot of energy around him. He is good at sharing the screen with people who are &tv is launching its new show but on TV even if I got a stories in the show. In my own that is why we came up with almost everything and that gives him an ,. . much more experienced than me — Sriti Shaadi Ke Siyape which positive role eventually show ke wedding a siyapa happened, the the concept of aliens coming edge over others. He is not a love them Jha and Shabir Ahluwalia. But, they are showcases alien turned humans khatam hotey hotey it used to electricity got cut off but from a different planet and leave them kind of a person but enjoys - ,. / very welcoming and very supporting. They in a new light. The weekend become a grey character. So, I thankfully we had a generator trying to help Fancy aunty in healthy flirting. won’t make you feel uncomfortable or dramedy series will go on air am veryxcited to play Fancy so my shaadi took place with resolving the problems,” she What all preparations did you do to . nervous. On day one of my shoot, they from March 16, 2019. The Aunty,” she tells you adding that the generator running,” she tells you. become an actor? made me so comfortable — that whatever story revolves around all the the show is situational comedy I always wanted to be an actor. I used 1.- +. 7 I was doing is good. They create a very siyapas that happen in a typical along with some real life to take part in all of my school plays. When .O 1.- 01 positive and pleasant environment for me Indian shaadi because indian inspired shaadi ke siyape that I was in Class XII, I started doing ads. which helps a lot. weddings are incomplete occur in almost every wedding. During my college, I joined a theatre group . 0 How were your two shows different? without siyapas. She tells you that it is very — Shri Ram in Delhi. I did it for a couple Both Puncch Beat and Roadies Real The show stars Alka Badola difficult to shoot for the show of months. Then, after my college, I shifted 1 Heroes, were very different and meant for Kaushal as Fancy Aunty who since it is the first time she is to Mumbai and I started giving auditions a particular set of audience. But, now I owns a marriage hallalong with being part of such a show. “It everywhere. I got selected for a webseries . 0 O. have got a wider audience. People who her uniquely gifted squad of was very difficult to shoot for —Puncch Beat and that is how it all began. . watch TV are very attached to the show alien turned humans. Tarak the show because maine kabhi How supportive were your parents? and the character they like. I have the Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashma aisey shows kiye nahin hain My parents wanted me to become an responsibility that people who watch fame Bhavya Gandhi will play jahan VFX involved hain. It is engineer. When I told them that I want to Ranbir like him. They have to feel Nanku — a techno expert chef, difficult both in terms of cost be an actor they thought that I was drunk. connected to him. It puts me into a the role of Bijli — a gossip and time and it is difficult for (laughs). They never thought that there is situation, where I have to understand the loving nachaniya cum make-up a producer also to take up this a profession in acting for normal people. depends on you. Whether you decide to character even more and learn how to artist will be essayed by Sheen job,” Kaushal tells you who is an But they never forced me to do anything. work harder or get demotivated and give portray him correctly. Dass, the role of a classy DJ — actor turned producer. They were sceptical about acting as a up. This is the time when you need to join Who has been your inspiration? DJ Virat will be played by Kaushal feels it is not very career, like any other parent. It is obvious the dots and find out where are you When I grew up, I realised that there is so Mishkat Varma and actor difficult to bring connectivity for them to be anxious about me and my lacking. Once you start understanding much nepotism in the industry and it is Rahul Singh will play a pandit with the audience through career. Because acting is not a secure field where are you lacking, then you need to hard for a normal boy like me to make a in the show. such shows. “Audience will when it comes to your future. start working on it. In Mumbai, there is place for myself. During this time, I got Kaushal says that her connect to such shows and it is What challenges did you face? a lot of competition and people are very inspired by Shah Rukh Khan. character hails from Delhi. not that difficult because agar When you are in college you feel you hardworking and good at their job. I realised that this boy was also from “Her husband is a scientist but hum dinosaur dikha kar are the best. But it is like you are just Second, you should be open to Delhi. He also had a dream, he also had Fancy Aunty is an independent audience ko impress kar saktey andhon mein kaana raja. The moment you rejections. I have been rejected so many no one in the industry to look after him woman who runs her business. hain jo ki kisiney nahin dekhe step out of that world and come to times. Kabhi kabhi lagta hai ki arey ismey and eventually he went there, struggled She is fun loving, organised, ki voh exist kartey they ya Mumbai you realise that you are not the toh selection ho jayega ismey toh mere jaisa and today he has reached where he disciplined and a good hearted nahin toh aliens ke sath bhi only one. Noida mein jaisey Krishna hai hi character chahaiye par aisa nahin hota wanted to be. This inspired me a lot. I person The character is full of same hai. The first thing is just toh Mumbai mein aesey hazaron Krishna hai. You will go for an audition and give thought may be there are fewer chances different emotions. She to convince your audience in hain. Then, you realise where do you stand your best, but they will not even call you for me to get into the industry but there pretends to be strong, but there the right way that it is possible and what this realisation does to you, back. 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BJD candidate Minister Badri Speaking to reporters, president.” stituency said. hadrak MP Arujn Charan Narayan Patra, Patnaik may Mohanty said, “I have only “BJD supremo Naveen Mohanty was appointed BSethi, former Jajpur MP lock horns with his tradition- resigned as the Chairman of Patnaik will decide whether to as the OLIC Chairman by Mohan Jena and former MLAs al political rival from this seat, Odisha Lift Irrigation field me as a candidate in the Patnaik on May 24 last year Madhusudan Panigrahi and informed Keonjhar Congress Corporation, but I am still Assembly polls or not,” the five- being accorded the rank of a Prafulla Kumar Jena along with district working president with the BJD as the party’s vice- time MLA of the Basta con- Cabinet Minister. their supporters joined the BJP Ratikant Baral on Saturday. in the presence of Union ticket to contest polls. There are speculations that Minister Dharmendra Pradhan Apart from resigning from apart from Ghasipura, the PCC * % * here on Saturday. the primary membership of the chief may also contest from the = 0/3 Other leaders like Pratap party, the 78-year-old leader Bhandaripokhari Assembly in murder and physical assault.” stituency would virtually wit- Dhal of Bhadrak, Siddhartha also quit as Member of seat in Bhadrak district. However, he accepted ness a three-cornered fight. Panda and Dr Mamata Parliament as well as from the However, he is waiting for Patra’s challenge and said he is Niranjan Patnaik’s son + +- 2 " % Mohanty of Ranapur area too post of party district president. a nod from the All India ready for the electoral fight. Navjyoti Patnaik has been % joined the saffron party. “I wanted to meet Naveen Congress Committee (AICC) “Badribabu is a sitting fielded as the Congress’ candi- iju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen 9 ( & “Joining of senior leaders Patnaik but was not given an in this regard. “The AICC will Minister. I am away from a date for the Baleswar Lok BPatnaik on Saturday expelled three leaders like Arjuna Charan Sethi, appointment. I waited for four decide on this proposal. If the Minister’s post for past 20 years. Sabha constituency. from the party for anti-party activities ahead of " Mohan Jena and others will hours but failed to meet him. party wants me to contest polls In fact, I am ineligible to show the elections. 0 strengthen the BJP. Inflow of At this old age, it was embar- from both the seats, I will fol- my strength in his constituen- “BJD presi- 6 ((' '!'(!: ): **:2 senior leaders to the BJP indi- rassing that I had to wait for so low it,” Patnaik told reporters. cy. But I have requested the dent Naveen cates people’s resolution for a long. I am pained that neither Asked about Badri Patra’s AICC to allow me to test my Patnaik today change in the Government in I nor my son was given ticket open challenge to him, he power and guts,” Patnaik added. expelled Siba stituency in Rayagada. Besides, Kanhu Singh the State,” said Pradhan. to contest in the ensuing polls,” remarked, “I agree that Notably, Patra and Prasad Gouda from the Banki constituency in Cuttack district Earlier on the day, senior Sethi told media. Badribabu is more powerful Prthviraj Kunar are already and K was also expelled from the party. The trio has Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader Bhadrak BJD youth wing than me. I cannot compete declared as the BJD and BJP Ramkrishna been expelled from the party for their indulgence Arjun Charan Sethi had president Durga Prasanna Das with him in committing candidates for Ghasipura. If from the in anti-party activities,” BJD State secretary Bijay resigned from the party as he also tendered his resignation crimes. I am weaker than him Patnaik joins the fray, the con- Gunupur con- Nayak said in a Press release. or his son was not given party from the party. 0 - . R/ 8?@6$ 8&$ , = Lugun (SUCI), Basil Ekka had managed to win in a thin Interestingly, though total Talsara and eight in Bonai * * 4= #" (AAP), Dayanand Bhitria margin from the BJD candi- 12 candidates were in fray but Assembly constituency. While > 1(5$E!:;10&4 8:&4 = (Hindustan Nirman Dal), date. But as of now, the NOTA had secured fourth in Bonai the fight will be #!'"485$("45;0"455!: Justin Lakra (Independent) Congress is in a beeter position position with 15,835 votes. between CPI (M), BJD and CHAMPUA: The 4;!5""4!5:8455 5%45 4> and Udit Chandra Amat than the BJD and the BJP can- This time the voters figure Congress in all other seats it Champua police 4!;' ;4 (Independent). didates, feel political observers have gone to 15,00,932. So would be between BJD, BJP seized Rs 1,95,000 .51 :0!5""4!5:";# -. - Though total 11 candi- and in coming days it would be this time youth voters will play and Congress as in Bonai from a vehicle of 4 #4 -;K(6#;;: dates had filled nominations a tough job for Oram to retain a vital role in result. Congress has put candidate Champua Asse- 5:&& 5'(";7 #+:8( fter withdrawal of nomi- during scrutiny, one was reject- his seat. Sources said in 2014 Similarly, this time there is due to alliance. mbly Congress '4("5# ;!$!:;:-;H7 Anations, eight candidates ed and two more withdrew the total voters in Sundargarh every possibility of triangular In 2014 while Bonai seat candidate Jadu- (6#5:-;7 (6#& 484 are in fray for Sundargarh from the fray. Parliament constituency were fights in all the seven Assembly was won by CPI (M), Rourkela mani Barik here ;' #"(;78( (0#1 Parliament constituency as per According to the political 13,82,552 and number of votes constituency of the district. seat was won by BJP, on Saturday. ;:-; 7KC(6#& 4855 the information revealed by the pundits, this time in polled were 10,08,946. As per the source while in Rajgangpur and Sources said 4: ##6!5: +45)(4"64& Returning Officer-cum- Sundargarh Parliament seat Out of that while BJP can- Rourkela constituency total 10 Raghunathpalli seats were won Jadumani was coming to the nominations in the Champua !5: $ #:; "74! ";;: Collector, Sundargarh, there will be a triangular fight didate Oram had got 3,40,508 candidates are in fray after by BJD, Sundargarh and Champua Sub-Collector’s office Sub- Collector’s office and ##845;)5$ Rashmita Panda. between BJD, Congress and votes, BJD’s Dilip Titkey had withdrawal, it is nine in Talsara seats were won by for filing his nominations when thereafter he would deposit the 5;'4 :& 48+ )(44: They are Jual Oram (BJP), BJP. Last time, while in other got 3,21,679 votes and Raghunathpalli, four in Congress and Biramitrapur police detained his vehicle near cash in the bank. The deposit- #(&! # 5;$454 George Tirkey (Congress), parts of the State, the BJD had Congress’s Hemananda Biswal Sundargarh, 13 in Rajgangpur, seat was won by Samata Kranti Shankarpur village, two km ed cash would be withdrawn in ;" 5#;4! ";!5: 7 Sunita Biswal (BJD), Justin a clean sweep, but Oram of BJP had got 2,69,335 votes. 8 in Biramitrapur, nine in Dal. from the Sub- Collector’s office, phases to meet his poll expens- 554# 5":50# and found Rs 1,95,000 kept in es as per the election code of '54(":5:4 the vehicle. conduct. 4!#;& -; ;(6# =R When Police wanted to Later, the candidate alleged "4 :& 48# '4;;;;455 *, , /@ * ./ , know details about the cash, that he was unnecessarily # 8$:)(4"64&(#5: PNS :; "7 @ = #; "+ ;;4"45("45; #(:45 Barik said he was going to file harassed by police. + +- They said the ticket of ! :7.!4&# "5::;"45;5$&4 #' ;:5'4;0 ' $( !) '#;(":;"4 5$BC4;:&5$#;5 ; Sahu should be cancelled he supporters of a BJD ' ' because of his poor track (5: 5) 4;7 ;55!8 4#5; ?8 ( O8 %" 6 ) & P " '8 (":;"=' ;:50 #5: 6# 6;" 0! :#5 Tticket aspirant for the record; otherwise, they would Paradip Assembly constituen- ' oppose party’s Kendrapada MP BHUBANESWAR: The BJP work for the BJD. The bureau- probe be ordered by the EC. The -4!A45;" 0 ;#; ;! 5:!:855: ' "!88) 05&4 8:("454&&" '#7 cy on Thursday held a demon- candidate Anubhav Mohanty on Saturday alleged before the crats have stood on the way of a team also brought allegations stration before the Naveen '! in the district. Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) free and fair election process,” a that candidatures of some BJD , / , /P* @* . A Niwas protesting the allocation The supporters of Bari BJD that senior bureaucrats and BJP team led by vice-president candidates have not been made * =! )#5A; "+ ;;4"45("45; #(: of ticket to Damodar Rout’s son slogans demanding that the leader and party State secretary senior police officers are work- Sameer Mohanty alleged before invalid despite false affidavits # 45! :7#(55!!8 ;;(":;' ;:50 Sambit Routray for the seat. party cancel the candidature of Bijay Nayak held a rally near ing like BJD workers to help the the CEO. They too alleged that submitted by them. Among !A;# ;(":;"=' ;:50+;5+#4(0 !' Sources said the supporters Sambit. the Chief Minister’s residence party win elections. the officers are collecting election others, party State Secretary ;# 5: )5:#! (":;;" 0A45;" of Santosh Kumar Pattnaik, Earlier in the day, a group demanding that Nayak be allot- “Many IAS and IPS officers fees from mining mafias, corrupt Dr Lekhashree Samantsinghar, 5: ;! 0 ;'"(7 who had come in a convoy of of BJD activists opposed the ted the Assembly ticket for the and forcing District Election persons, contractors and corpo- election cell convenor Ashok more than 70 vehicles, held the candidature of Rajnanagar constituency instead of sitting Officers, Returning Officers and rate houses for the BJD. Tripathy, Jayant Jena and Sahu . 77 /,. ;P ,.* ./ , demonstration and shouted MLA candidate Dhruba Sahu. MLA Debasish Nayak. Assistant Returning Officers to They demanded a CBI Jena were present. PNS $' = # A' ; "+ !%3! /*8 ;;4"45 # = .1 ("45&4 > (3 >/ ( BCG=BC; #(:# (6#8!5: ,R0 1 ) 213 + ' 8;;45 ! :754 ( -85#;# ;(":;' ;:5&4 , empowered and emancipated to always remain conscious Academy President Prof #BB5:87);(":;"=' ;:50 ;#54#5 + +- women, he advised students. not to get swept away by the Sanghamitra Mohanty and 56;" 5: ;:;A45;" 7 He also viewed that the hurry of climbing up the suc- Biotechnology Secretary Dr omen are not merely a first graduating students of the cess-ladder. Success will come Renu Swarup with the Degree . @ , /P * . A Wcreation of the Almighty university would set examples gradually with efforts and not of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) in ! = # but are incarnated beings, said to all other batches of students by ambition, he added. Science and Technology. 5:#8( Governor and Chancellor of down them and other women Jharkhand Governor On the occasion, 40 stu- ; "+ Universities Prof Ganeshi Lal at in the State. Droupadi Murmu and three dents were awarded gold ;;4"45 the first convocation of the “So, how you choose to other noted persons were con- medals and Sauranjeeta Majhi ("45&4 Rama Devi Women’s University build your life and career might ferred with the Degree of and Sthitaprajna Nath Sharma BCG=BC; held here on Saturday. remain as valuable examples. Doctor of Literature (DLitt) on were the best graduates. #(:# 45 Congratulating the first Real education is not simply the occasion. Murmu was hon- Among others, MP Padma ! :7;8 batch students graduating from one that fetches you a job or oured with the D Litt in Shri Raghunath Mohapatra, # A; the State’s first women’s uni- helps you build a career. Humanities and Social Sciences Governor’s Principal Secretary (":; versity, Prof Lal urged the stu- Education that makes you to and it was a first in the country Madhusudan Padhi, former ' ;:50 dents to always remember the think rationally and make in building career and to have path to be chosen and no hes- where a Governor was hon- Utkal University Vice- )5: sacrifices and struggles, the proper decisions in life is prop- a philanthropical bent in their itation in choosing the desti- oured by another Governor. Chancellor Ashok Das, for- :#5"= nobility and stature of the great er education. professional attitude. nation; only work with con- Educationist and social mer Sambalpur University ' ;:5054A freedom fighter Maa Rama The Governor also urged Former Chief Justice of centration and consistency on activist Manorama Mohapatra Vice-Chancellor Priyambada !8 56 Devi. Never compromise on the young women to be pas- India Dipak Misra said there the chosen path would make was conferred with the D.Litt. in Hejmadi, Damodar Acharya, ;" 0 :'6A45;" 05:!8 ";# 5: your sense of worth or self- sionate and indulge themselves should be no anxiety about you ‘The Eventual Achievers.’ Humanities and Social Sciences Jayant Sadangi and Santosh !5(!8 +# ;() ;" 78) #!0+ A#60 respect, and become bold, with devotion and dedication growth, no confusion over the He also urged the students and former Odisha Bigyan Kamila were present. )) :#50A565:) '# (":; "!)4:88) ;7 /.4, /. , 6B*@/ " / @". ,. ,.P ,5 . P $' = # =&+(: ;4&# : 4& ;5$ )(4"6A45: !'5$ #O;5:'5:5 !" # $ % # 45! :75$ #;55:'5:5"5:: +- - ' = = Brahmapur town. &4 # (6#8!5:;;8)("45;!5"5#"485$ ' R Ten forum members ("45;7 he Forum for Ganjam on observed the fast near Bapu’s &P(! ! !) # TFriday observed fast to ' statue at Gandhi Nagar Square ,.,,5,"; ,; . . + P4/ commemorate the first arrival ' ' from 7 am to 7 pm with an *' =4: ;4# 50#4; + +- The next hearing of the of Mahatma Gandhi to ''! ' appeal to the public to eschew &8:" 4 4&; ( "85;"!('! ; case is scheduled on May 11. Brahmapur. Gandhi had come violence, abjure alcohol and 4&44:0#(;5:;4'"6;0#;)5"#4;5 he Mahanadi Water Earlier on March 9, the tri- here along with Gopabandhu other intoxicants, love the 4)"45& :## # 5!;5:5 Disputes Tribunal on bunal had directed both the Das on March 29, 1921 and humanity and preserve the "# ;O :74# 50#45( ;:& 48 T '$'' Saturday directed both Odisha State Governments to resolve addressed a mammoth gather- ' : environment for the future .:;#0&$! :5#(;4& C5485;;(": and Chhattisgarh Governments the water sharing dispute ami- ing at the Barracks Maidan, generation. & 485:5:) 4:)# 5!;14!5:45 to hold talks again to resolve cably deferring its verdict to now known as the Brahmapur Keeping the coming gen- 5:4 (:-"4 :"4 4&5:7# 54!(: the Mahanadi water sharing March 30. A three-member Stadium. world, especially in contempo- eral elections in mind the "#;'"(85$4)#(: dispute amicably. bench of the tribunal had Gandhi had stayed in late rary India, recalled forum mem- forum members also made an !8)45B7 #;#4 ; 5;#:4(;4&2 Hearing an interim peti- directed the Advocate Generals Lingaraj Panigrahi’s house here. bers. Gandhi’s noble preaching appeal to all to vote the candi- #$#5;" ):5#H7 5"#-#0 tion of the Odisha another rounds of talks to find of the two States to resolve the His teachings of nonviolence of love against evil has prompt- date of their own choice to "45; !":)#8:! 5$#-#, 5BC 0#;&"#:#8# Government, the tribunal out an amicable solution to the issue and submit a report in and love for humanity are a ed the forum to commemorate make the democracy more :0;:4# 57 asked both the parties to hold water dispute. two weeks. pressing need of the present day that great event in the history of effective and meaningful. ( ) *+, -.+/ *
D99 * 4 5 +- after committing the murder, - Minister Brajakishore Tripathy, C he fled the scene taking the who might be fielded against ' .5 ! he Additional Sessions mobile phone of the deceased. he impasse over allotment Mohanty. TJudge Ajanta Sadangi, con- The locals after spotting Tof ticket by the BJP for the Though Puri Municipality BHUBANESWAR: The BJP on victing a murder accused for the body informed to the Puri Assembly constituency Chairman Jayant Sarangi and 15 Saturday alleged that the Potato +- - dances by devotees. Earlier, the life, slapped Rs 10,000 penalty police. Bhadan Hansda, broth- still continues. Former MLA Krusnachandra Panda are Mission has completely failed in parents had gone to her temple and in default another three er of the deceased, Krusna Chandra Panda has vir- in the ticket race, but the saf- + +- the State and a whopping Rs 300 he much-awaited famous with garlands and sacred earth- months jail term on Friday. had lodged an FIR with police tually revolted against the party fron brigade does not have faith crore has been looted from the TMaa Budhi Thakurani fes- en lamps to invite the Goddess. The convict Budhhiram the next day. leadership. on them. Party feels that alkangiri became the exchequer in the name of the tival kick-started in a grand After puja, an Ajnamala (gar- Singh of Baisinga area under Police after investigating But after the BJD Tripathy could counter Mhottest place in the State on mission. “The BJD Government way following the goddess’s land) was brought by the par- Mayurbhanj district had killed the case had arrested accused announced Maheswar Mohanty well by reuniting his Saturday by recording a tem- has not set up a single cold store arrival in her parental house at ents. Thousands of devotees Dinabandhu Hansda of Basta Buddhiram. The court after Mohanty as its candidate, the old supporters. perature of 41 degree Celsius. during the last 19 years of its Deshibehera Street here late on witnessed the procession, which area of Baleswar district on crossing examining 29 wit- BJP is looking for a new face to But it is reported that Braja Titilagarh was the second hottest rule. Odisha still imports pota- Friday night. started at 10.30 pm. February 15, 2016 owing to nesses and verifying 19 docu- contest from the seat. has placed a condition to fight place with 40 degree. The tem- to from other States to meets its As per rituals, the Goddess The Goddess reached her previous feud. While he com- ments sentenced the accused Sources said the BJP is in under Samata Kranti Dal perature in Balangir and Angul needs. The Potato Mission ini- was brought from her Temple by parental house at 4 am and was mitted the crime near a pond, for life on Friday. PNS touch with former Union (SKD) founded by him. remained at 39.2 and 39.1 tiated by the Government has her parents, P Durga Prasad and seated in a temporary abode. degree, respectively. failed to deliver. Rather Rs 300 P Devaki, in a grand procession The festival will be conducted The maximum tempera- crore has been looted away organsied amid beating of for a month till April 29, ,. ,AA ./ AA ,A, /. ., . ;"A/; ture in Sonepur and from the State exchequer in the drums, conches, trumpets and according to information. Bhawanipatna was recorded at name of Patato Mission,” alleged 38.8 and 38.2 respectively. BJP State general secretary (!> 88 Similarly Bhubaneswar record- Prithviraj Harichanda at a Press ed a maximum temperature of meet here. 36.4 degrees on the day. He said Minister and offi- + +- the NHRC. This is not conceivable that all Kandhamal DHH. Besides, five other places cers visited foreign countries The commission said it is the 39 patients would have The doctors and others where the temperature soared like Peru, Dubai to gain knowl- he National Human Rights clear from the report of the been given injection at a time were thus prima facie guilty of above 36 degree Celsius are edge about potato cultivation. TCommission (NHRC) on Odisha Government that so that the patients who were violation of the human rights Jharsuguda 38.1 degree, Talcher This way, State funds have Saturday directed the Odisha before the administration of given the injection initially, of these patients, the human 38 degree, Sambalpur 37.9 been looted away, he said. Health and Family Welfare this drug to the patient at the would have developed the reac- body and their right degree, Hirakud 37.1 degree Harichandan further Secretary to pay compensation hospital, not a single tion before the administration to life and health, the com- and Chandbali 36.9 degree. alleged that the State of Rs 10,000 each to 11 victims, sensitivity test was done by the of this drug to the remaining mission said. The Regional Office of the Government has not kept its who suffered side effects after treating doctor and nursing patients and the doctors and Later, the Health and Indian Metrological promise of establishing a cold being administered a staffs. the staff of the hospital must Family Welfare Department Department here predicted that storage in every block. drug by doctors of the The plea taken by the State have noticed that the drug was said the addresses of 11 victims the day temperature is likely to Production of potato is Kandhamal District that such reaction may occur causing reaction in the patients could not be found for which rise by 2 to 3 degrees Celsius decreasing every year. The BJD Headquarters Hospital. even in cases where the skin that even thereafter they con- they could not be paid com- during the next two days. should make a reply in this Earlier, 24 victims were tests is conducted cannot be tinued to give this injection to pensation. Besides, light rain and regard in the public, he paid compensation in the same accepted in view of the fact that other patients and that too The NHRC directed the thunderstorm are likely to demanded. Party secretary Dr incident based on a petition 37 patients in a single day without conducting Health Secretary to ensure occur at one or two places over Jatin Mohanty and Krusham filed by civil society organisa- were affected by the adminis- the sensitivity test is a further payment to the left out victims the districts of Mayurbhanj, Morch general secretary Surath tion Human Rights Watch tration of this drug. act of negligence by and submit a compliance Baleswar and Bhadrak. Biswal were present. PNS Secretary Sangita Swain before The NHRC further said, the doctors and the staffs of the report. # )% ' 8C9< / == == - staying in open field, added sources. ,. hree rooms of a thatched Pallahara Sub-Collector Thouse of one Manikar Naik Ajit Pradhan said after an he Enforcement of Purunapani village in inquiry it was found that TDirectorate on Saturday Pallahara Tehsil were charred Manikar cannot avail the attached hotel Holiday Inn, on Friday night. Government benefits over valued at 120 crore, located in As per sources, clothes, some reasons. the upscale Aerocity area in the &R' 5666 utensils and other domestic Later the Gram Panchayat national Capital, in connection articles were reduced to ashes. Sarpanch gave 20 kg of rice. with a money laundering case + +- After being informed, Batisuan Manikar on Saturday also against alleged aviation lobby- RI Itismita Panigrahi reached approached to the Sub- ist Deepak Talwar. he gruesome story of the the spot and provided relief to Collector and received Rs 2,500 Talwar, who was deported Tkilling of Graham Stuart the family. from the Red Cross fund, from Dubai in January this Staines, an Australian mis- His entire family is now which is insufficient. year and arrested by the agency, sionary working among lepers “beneficially owned” a compa- in Odisha and his two minor ny, Wave Hospitality Private sons, Philip (10) and Timothy Limited, that, the ED alleged, (6), who were burnt to death at R = )() >0 used tainted money to construct Manoharpur in Keonjhar the hotel, next to the Indira January 22, 1999, has gone Gandhi International Airport. celluloid. + +- 5= The multi-storeyed plush The movie has hit the cin- hotel boasts of some of the emas in India on March 29. It ce Odisha para shuttler = R R most expensive boarding and is being screened in APramod Bhagat added == R dining facilities in the Aerocity Bhubaneswar at the Cinepolis another feather to his cap on %, complex that was constructed at Esplanade One in Rasulgarh. the last day of the 5th few years ago for internation- The English language film, Turkish Para Badminton C8<8@C8<8& al and domestic air passengers titled ‘The Least of These: The International ‘ENESCUP 2019’ event in the same tournament coming to Delhi. Graham Staines Story’, stars at Antalya in Turkey held from on Friday. The agency said a provi- Stephen Baldwin as Graham March 24 to 30. He had won two bronze sional order for attaching the Staines, Shari Rigby as his wife, Bhagat bagged a gold medals in the last edition of the property was issued by it under Gladys and Prakash Belawadi as medal at the final of the para same tournament in Konya the Prevention of Money a newspaper editor. Sharman badminton men’s single’s event city, Turkey last year. Last Laundering Act (PMLA). Joshi, of the ‘3 Idiots’ fame, has tigative journalism. “We strug- point of view, we reveal the by beating Japan’s Daisuke month, he clinched two gold The ED is probing Talwar played the role of a journalist in gled a lot on the character of truth,” he said. Fujihara with a score and one silver medals at the in a criminal case of money the film. Baldwin is known for Graham, because we did not find “The film is nowhere con- of 21-19 21-17. IWAS World Games in Sharjah. laundering. his roles in The Usual Suspects any conflict in his life,” Daniel, nected to faith or preaching. However, the badminton He is among the five para The agency alleged that he (1995) and The Flintstones in who directed the film, said. There is a thin layer of faith player from Bargarh dirstict of badminton players to have been “illegally engaged in liason- Viva Rock Vegas (2000). “He was a man who was because it is the story of a mis- Odisha, paired with Manoj shortlisted by the Mission ing/lobbying with politicians, The film, co-written by very much loved and respect- sionary. As a filmmaker, I have Sarkar lost to Indonesian duo Olympic Cell of Sports ministers and other public ser- Aneesh Daniel and Andrew ed in that part of Odisha. We never struggled (with the Dwiyoko Dwiyoko and Fredy Authority of India for Target vants and officials of the Mathews, recounts the facts of decided to look at the film from dilemma) that faith is over- Setiawan, 21-12 11-21 21-12 Olympic Podium Scheme Ministry of Civil Aviation for the case but introduces a fictional a journalist’s point of view. powering my storytelling,” while vying for the bronze (TOPS) in preparation of Tokyo airlines such as Emirates, Air element through Joshi’s inves- From a fictional character’s Daniel said. medal in the men’s double’s 2020- Paralympic Games. Arabia and Qatar Airways for securing undue benefits for them” during the tenure of the 2 UPA government. 5 3 + 0 “He (Talwar) illegally man- aged to secure favourable traf- ( fic rights for these airlines dur- + ( ing 2008-09 at the cost of national carrier, Air India,” the &00'>" " agency said in a statement. C the SP-BSP-RLD alliance and it Investigation revealed that " . + ,, / was believed that sitting MP in lieu of securing favourable Book Award and Sunday Times Tiltman History Prizes. In 2016 E Pravin Nishad would once traffic \rights, these airlines . + ,.;,." . ,", Young British Writer of the he published a history of the again be the alliance candidate made payments to the tune of . ./ , / /, " 7. Year Prize), White Mughals Koh-i-Noor, co-written with from Gorakhpur. Rs 272 crore to Talwar during *"/5A" ",C", (Wolfson Prize for History and Anita Anand. ( The Nishad party is head- 2008-09, it said. + +- SAC Scottish Book of the Year He writes regularly for the ed by Sanjay Nishad, the father “It has been revealed that , - Prize), The Last Mughal (Duff New Yorker, the New York 5 of Pravin Nishad, who had con- Talwar created a web of entities s part of the Temple Trail, Cooper Prize and Vodafone Review of Books and the tested the March 2018 by elec- owned by him and his family uapada district’s Komna AWilliam Dalrymple will Award for Non-Fiction) and Guardian, and is one of the tion to Gorakhpur Lok Sabha members in India and inter- NTehsildar Suresh Kumar travel in and around the city Nine Lives: In Search of the founders and a co-director of . seat on SP ticket and symbol. national offshore havens to Nanda died in a road mishap here to explore the temples with Sacred in Modern India (Asia the Jaipur Literary Festival. He talks with the BJP for an His victory had sent shock launder proceeds of near Nayagarh on Saturday. tourists from all over the world. House Literary Award). has honorary doctorates of let- ishad Party has severed its alliance and party chief Sanjay waves in the BJP as the saffron crime of Rs 272 crore received Nanda’s driver also sustained He will also be travelling to the He recently curated a ters from the universities of Nnascent tie with the SP- Nishad met Chief Minister party had won this seat for con- from foreign airlines,” the state- multiple injuries in Buddhist circuit destinations of major show of Mughal art for Edinburgh, St Andrews, BSP-RLD combine prompting Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow secutive 8 times since 1989. ment said. the accident. Udayagiri, Khandagiri and the Asia Society in New York, Aberdeen, Bradford and the Samajwadi Party on on Friday. Ironically, his son Gorakhpur is a know bastion of “Part of these payments As per reports, Nanda was Ratnagiri followed by a visit to Princes and Painters in Mughal Lucknow, and visiting fellow- Saturday to announce Pravin Nishad is an incumbent Adityanath, who had repre- were made to an account in on his way to Bhubaneswar for the Konark temple. Delhi 1707-1857. Return of a ships at Princeton and Brown. Rambhual Nishad as its candi- Samajwadi Party MP from sented the Lok Sabha con- Bank of Singapore, belonging some election-related works Secretary, Tourism and King: The Battle for This year he was awarded date from the high-profile Gorakhpur and had defeated stituency for five times and to a company Asiafield Limited when his car had a head-on Sports, Vishal K Dev said, “I Afghanistan 1839-42 was pub- the President’s medal of the Gorakhpur seat in Uttar the BJP candidate in 2018 UP earlier three elections were registered in the British Virgin collision with a truck coming would like to thank William for lished in 2012 and won the British Academy. For most of Pradesh. Apart from by-elections with a victory won by his guru Mahant Islands and beneficially owned from the opposite direction on accepting our invitation to Hemingway and Kapuscinski the year he lives on a farm out- Gorakhpur, the SP fielded Ram margin of 21,000 votes. Avaidyanath. by Deepak Talwar,” it added. the Nuagaon-Sorada road in come over and explore the Prizes and was shortlisted for side Delhi with his wife Olivia Kumar from the Kanpur seat Gorakhpur has been the home On March 25 after the These proceeds were “lay- Nayagarh district. temples of Odisha with locals the Samuel Johnson, Duff and his three children, Ibby, and ST Hasan from Moradabad turf of the UP CM and since Nishad Party announced its ered” through a series of inter- Following the collision and tourists. I would encourage Cooper and PEN Hessel- Sam and Adam. replacing Nasir Qureshi. 19898 the party had been win- decision to join the alliance, national money transfers, to between the two vehicles, more and more people to join Ram Bhual Nishad, who ning from this seat. Sanjay Nishad had said at a finally integrate in India in Nanda died on the spot. him in the trail.” was earlier with the BSP, is a “Nishad Party is now the Press conference that, “Our Wave Hospitality Private Nanda, who hails from William said, “I would like two-time MLA from Kaudiram member of the National constitution, youth and farm- Limited, a company benefi- Patnagarh of Balangir, was to thank Odisha Tourism for Assembly seat which he lost in Democratic Alliance and I am ers’ futures are in grave danger. cially owned and controlled by posted as Komna Tehsildar inviting me over. I can’t wait to 2012. He was also a Minister in technically still the MP of the People voted for a ‘jumlebaz’ Talwar and his family mem- from May 2018. return to one of my favourite the Mayawati Government Samajwadi Party,” said Pravin party because of their false bers, in the name He was recently appointed States in India, and explore the and handled the fisheries Nishad, adding so far nothing promises. Modi and Yogi of his son, Aditya Talwar, the as the Additional Returning magnificent temples and the department. is final and decision about my promised many things for ED alleged. Officer for Nuapada district. exquisite cuisines.” Nishad comes from candidature from Gorakhpur Nishad community but noth- “These crime proceeds Police have started investi- William is the author of Badhalganj, Gorakhpur and Lok Sabha seat would be taken ing was done. The Nishad were then utilised in the con- gation into the incident and nine books about India and the wields considerable influence shortly. community will now give full struction of hotel Holiday Inn send the body for post- Islamic world, including City of in the Nishad community. Earlier this week on March support to the SP-BSP alliance in Aerocity, New Delhi,” it mortem. Djinns (Thomas Cook Travel The Nishad Party is now in 25, the Nishad Party had joined in all the State.” said. ( ) *+, -.+/ !# + 4 573 Q ' .%! 8 R Senior Congress leader P 24 MPs (59.5 lakh), Punjab's Nadu's 33 MPs have annual 9 Chidambaram hit out at Prime 13 MPs (51.4 lakh), Haryana's average income of 7.2 lakh. ongress on Saturday Minister for announcing that n analysis of self-declared 10 MPs (42.6 lakh), Two MPs analysed of Goa Calleged mismanagement India had demonstrated anti- Aaffidavits of outgoing Lok Jharkhand's 14 MPs (39.07 have the lowest average annu- diers and play an important of the economy by the satellite missile capability, say- Sabha MPs shows that 19 from lakh), Assam's 13 MPs (32.7 al self-income of 5.3 lakh, fol- role in protecting democracy. Government and that it has ing only a "foolish govern- Andhra Pradesh have an aver- lakh), Uttar Pradesh's 72 MPs lowed by 33 MPs analysed of n a first of its kind initiative, " Elections provide a level suffered due to Prime Minister ment" would make such a dis- age annual self-income of (32.03 lakh), Rajasthan's 20 Tamil Nadu with average annu- Ithe Election Commission playing field as each vote has Narendra Modi's "reckless" closure and "betray" a defence 1.05 crore, the highest among MPs (30.7 lakh) and al self-income of 7.2 lakh. (EC) has reached out to over the same power, no matter who decisions. The party also hit gasping economy, a struggling secret. all MPs in the country. The fig- Telangana's 14 MPs (30.6 Out of 479 MPs analysed, 150 Community Radio stations casts it -the richest of the rich out at for announcing that economy which has also suf- Slamming the announce- ures also reveal an inverse lakh). BJP's Kirron Kher, the 5 (2%) MPs have not given from across the country to help or the poorest of the poor. India had demonstrated anti- fered because of the reckless ment by of A-SAT by prime relationship between educa- lone MP from Chandigarh, their profession in their affi- educate and inform the voters. Community Radio can play an satellite missile capability, say- decision of Prime Minister minister, senior Congress tional qualification and income declared an annual self-income davit. The report said that 40 According to EC, the commu- important role in strengthen- ing only a "foolish Modi," he said at AICC brief- leader P Chidambaram — 106 or 22 per cent of MPs of 1.72 crore. (8%) MPs who have declared nity radio is one the best medi- ing democracy by developing Government" would make ing. questioned the motive of the who are graduates have an The ADR and NEW have their profession as agriculture um to reach the last voter of content in their local dialects such a disclosure and "betray" Sharma said the four government in making the average annual self income of analysed the self-declared affi- and business, have the second the country. and deepening the process of a defence secret. engines of the Indian economy announcement. "The capabili- 41.28 lakh while six MPs davits of 479 out of the 521 sit- highest average annual self- Addressing an event voter education and awareness Congress claimed that — investment, manufactur- ty to shoot down a satellite has who have declared their edu- ting Lok Sabha MPs, which income of 75.24 lakh. As organised by India upto the grass root levels. He Modi has to be held account- ing, exports and capital for- existed for many years. A wise cational qualification as Class were submitted in 2014, prior many as 106 (22%) MPs have International Institute for assured that Community able for destroying tens of mil- mation — were down. "He has government will keep the capa- 5 pass have an average annual to the general elections. 42 declared their educational qual- Democracy and Electoral Radio Stations will now lions of jobs by demonetisation. to answer for a hasty imposi- bility secret. Only a foolish gov- self-income of 1.41 crore. MPs did not declare their ification as graduate. The aver- Management (IIIDEM), in become an integral part of the While former Union Minister tion of a flawed GST model ernment will disclose it and The analysis by the Association income and hence have not age annual self-income of these partnership with Seeking voter education programme. Anand Sharma said that in the which he claimed to be 'one betray a defence secret. Besides, of Democratic Rights (ADR) been included in the report. MPs is 41.28 lakh.There are 6 Modern Applications for Real The workshop was inau- past five years, India's econo- nation, one tax', but it is one why was it done now in the and National Election Watch According to report, MPs who have declared their Transformation (SMART), at gurated by Mr Chandra my is "gasping" instead of "gal- nation, five taxes which middle of an election cam- (NEW) of the affidavits of 479 98(20%) out of 479 MPs have educational qualification as IIIDEM, Dwarka, Deputy Bhushan Kumar, Deputy loping", former Finance excludes 45 per cent of the rev- paign? Only to boost the sag- Lok Sabha MPs submitted declared business as their pro- 5th pass. The average annual Election Commissioner Election Commissioner & DG, Minister P Chidambaram enue, making Indian GST the ging fortunes of the BJP," before the 2014 general elec- fession, and 91(19%) MPs as an self-income of these 6 MPs is Umesh Sinha said IIIDEM on March 25, who sought answers from the prime most burdensome most com- Chidambaram claimed. tions also reveals that Odisha, agriculturist/ farmer. 16(3%) 1.41 crore. Community Radio can play a iterated that Community minister on high unemploy- plex," he said. Following the prime min- one of the poorest States, sends MPs who have declared their It further stated that as vital role in motivating and Radios can play a pivotal role ment rate and job losses, citing Sharma also alleged that ister's speech, several some of the richest MPs to profession as many as 150 MPs aged between mobilising the voters, enlisting in increasing voter enrolment data from the National Sample the country has played with the Opposition parties had com- Parliament. Actor/Filmmaker/ Singer have 46-55 years, have average annu- the underserved voters into the and participation in the Survey Office (NSSO). credibility of the country's data. plained to the Election The ADR-NEW figures the highest average annual self- al self-income of 40.54 lakh electoral roll, mobilising them "Festival of Democracy". He "The government is "Fudging of the data is not Commission alleging violation show that after Andhra income of 106.81 lakh. whereas 54 MPs aged 66-75 to go to the polling booth, edu- said that the tag line of 'No destroying the credibility of going to help. NITI Aayog's job of the model code of conduct. Pradesh, the State's 15 MPs As far as the other south- years, have average annual self cating them about their rights voter to be left behind' was to Indian data by embellishing the is not meant to embellish num- The Election Commission, have the second highest aver- ern states are concerned, income of 16.72 lakh.Only 58 and responsibilities, and mak- ensure that each and every eli- data, fudging numbers and bers and fudge the country's however, said on Friday night age annual self-income of 68.8 Telangana's 14 MPs have aver- (12%) MPs are women. On an ing them an informed and gible voter irrespective of his or inflating figures. The fact is that data. The prime minister and that Modi's address to the lakh. Other States and MPs age annual income of 30.6 average a male MP's annual educated voter. her economic status, class, there has been an monumen- his government has played nation on the successful test- who figure in the top 10 in this lakh, Karnataka's 27 MPs have self- income is 30.54 lakh, He emphasised that every caste or profession under- tal mismanagement of Indian with the credibility of the coun- firing of an anti-satellite missile category comprising states and 26.4 lakh, Kerala's 17 MPs whereas for a female MP, it is voter is the first representative stands the importance of his or economy under his watch. It is try's data. They have dented the did not violate the model code union territories are Gujarat's have 10.6 lakh and Tamil 28.46 lakh. of the country, they are the sol- her vote. not galloping economy but a credibility," he said. of conduct. 99$ ) ) " 6 &
@ on May 12. Besides, May 23 approximately. The first day of ' 2 "; % (the counting day of Lok Sabha May will be a dry day as it'll be : or those downing a peg or polls) will be also observed as a state holiday due to Ftwo daily, it is sure to be a dry day. Maharashtra Diwas. dampener due to dry days Officials of excise depart- Additionally, May 23, election declared by the Election ment said that there are 800 counting day, will also be Commission (EC) prior 48 liquor shops in Delhi and an observed as a dry day. hours on polling day across the average per day sale is esti- There will be three dry he Aligarh district magis- country. During 48 hours mated over 10-14 crore. The days in Goa as the state will go Ttrate has submitted "evi- works, Internet of Things (IoT) before the end of polling in any State Government has set up 14 on poll on April 23 which will dence" to the Election and help connect the nation constituency, sale and distrib- Pradesh, Bihar and West excise team to keep a close eye be observed as a dry day while Commission regarding EEE, the world's largest pro- digitally. "The aim of this agree- ution of spirit based liquor; Bengal will go for voting in all on the sale of liquor. there April 21 and 22 will be Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Ifessional organisation ment is to jointly create jobs and intoxicant or any substance of seven phase which means more Due to polls, there will be dry days. The liquor shops Singh's reported remarks sup- advancing technologyfor bridge the digital divide", said the same nature will be pro- dry day for tipplers. As per EC five dry days In Maharashtra. will be closed on May 23rd as porting the return of Narendra humanity, signed an agreement Harish Mysore, Senior Director hibited in hotels, restaurants, data, 61.29 lakh litre liquor Maharashtra will go to poll in the election results will be Modi as Prime Minister. with the Common Services IEEE India Operations. bars, clubs, shops and any worth 129.86 crore has been four phases, which means that announced. The Election Commission Centers (CSC), an initiative of CEO, CSC Dr. Dinesh other public and private place seized across the country till different cities in the state will "The EC has directed for is examining his reported the Ministry of Electronics and Tyagi said, "Through this part- on dry days declared by the March 30 after the imposition observe dry days on different strict compliance of legal pro- remarks in the light of possible IT (MeitY) to help upskill a nership with IEEE we look to commission. Even, non pro- of model code of conduct. dates. According to EC officials. visions. This system will also be violation of the Model Code of wider base of learners across the strengthen our offering in the prietary clubs, star hotels, Officials said that in Delhi, the rules state that alcohol sale followed on counting day as it Conduct, as holding a consti- Singh, a former Uttar country in core technologies eLearning space for learners restaurants should also not be there will be seven dry days till should be banned in 5 km is also declared dry day under tutional post makes the gover- Pradesh Chief Minister, report- through its Blended Learning across the country, who will all permitted to serve liquor on May 23. In April, there are periphery if the elections are the laws. During the counting nor "apolitical". edly made these remarks to pla- Program (BLP) certificate pro- benefit from our last mile reach. these days even if they are three official dry days — Ram being held in the neighbouring day, sale and serving of liquor The sources said details cate some agitated BJP mem- grams. With the skills attained through issued different categories of Navami (on April 14), Mahavir state. However, no such rule is will not be permitted in shops, and clip of the comments were bers who had gathered outside Under this agreement, these programs we expect that licenses for possession and Jayanti (April 17) and Good applicable if a neighbouring hotels, restaurants and clubs," submitted to the Uttar Pradesh his house over ticket distribu- IEEE will work through CSCs the learners will be able to supply of liquor. Friday (April 19) during which district is going to poll. the EC said in its directive to chief electoral officer Friday. tion. across the country to train the improve their chances of getting Besides, storage of liquor the sale of liquor will be pro- Liquor shops in Mumbai states. Addressing BJP workers at In the 1990s, the Election young professionals in skills hired in the respective new age by individuals should be cur- hibited. The sale of liquor will will be shut on April 27 (6 pm Punjab will go on poll on his Aligarh residence on March Commission had expressed that align with the Digital India domains of technology." tailed during dry days. be banned 48 hours before the onwards), on April 28th the May 19 and there will be com- 23, Singh had reportedly said, displeasure over Himachal initiative of the Government of Common Services Centers Interestingly, more dry days national capital goes to poll and sale of alcohol will be banned plete ban on sale of liquor on "All of us are BJP workers and Pradesh Governor Gulsher India, which in turn will create (CSCs) are a strategic corner- and stringent checks on carry- so, no liquor shop will be open for the whole day due to elec- May 17 and 18. However, this we want the party to win. We Ahmed campaigning for jobs in the emerging fields of stone of the Digital India pro- ing liquor have left revelers from 6 pm onwards on May 10 tions. April 29th will see a has already hit the big, fat want Modiji to become the his son in elections. He had building/managing data net- gramme. dispirited. In fact Uttar and the ban will go on till 6 pm liquor sale ban till 6 pm wedding plans in the State. prime minister." later quit. '6 6 % (P < $
Delhi. during 2008-09 at the cost of beneficially owned by Deepak F The agency said a provi- national carrier, Air India," the Talwar," it added. he Enforcement 7 == sional order for attaching the agency said in a statement. These proceeds were TDirectorate on Saturday 4 property was issued by it Investigation revealed that in "layered" through a series of attached hotel Holiday Inn, under the Prevention of lieu of securing favourable international money trans- valued at 120 crore, located = Money Laundering Act traffic rights, these airlines fers, to finally integrate in in the upscale Aerocity area in ' (PMLA). The ED is probing made payments to the tune of India in Wave Hospitality the national Capital, in con- > Talwar in a criminal case of Rs 272 crore to Talwar during Private Limited, a company nection with a money laun- money laundering. The 2008-09, it said. beneficially owned and con- dering case against alleged ) 4 agency alleged that he "ille- "It has been revealed that trolled by Talwar and his fam- aviation lobbyist Deepak = G gally engaged in Talwar created a web of ily members, in the name of Talwar. Talwar, who was = liasoning/lobbying with politi- entities owned by him and his son, Aditya Talwar, the ED deported from Dubai in cians, ministers and other his family members in India alleged. "These crime pro- January this year and arrest- F public servants and officials of and international offshore ceeds were then utilised in the ed by the agency, "beneficial- 0 1 the Ministry of Civil Aviation havens to launder proceeds of construction of hotel Holiday ly owned" a company, Wave for airlines such as Emirates, crime of 272 crore received Inn in Aerocity, New Delhi," Hospitality Private Limited, Air Arabia and Qatar Airways from foreign airlines," the it said. that, the ED alleged, used most expensive boarding and for securing undue benefits statement said. "Part of these Talwar is in judicial cus- tainted money to construct dining facilities in the for them" during the tenure of payments were made to an tody at present and the agency the hotel, next to the Indira Aerocity complex that was the UPA Government. account in Bank of Singapore, is expected to file its first Gandhi International Airport. constructed few years ago for "He (Talwar) illegally belonging to a company charge sheet against him 0 % * " " = )) % % The multi-storeyed plush international and domestic managed to secure favourable Asiafield Limited registered in before a special PMLA court ) hotel boasts of some of the air passengers coming to traffic rights for these airlines the British Virgin Islands and on Saturday. " " 6 '; : > *7 ! ; *)() " % New Delhi: CPI(M) General parties. A copy of the EC's misuse of the office for further- Secretary Sitaram Yechury on Friday report was also sent to ing electoral objectives," Yechury Saturday wrote to the Election Yechur y. argued. New Delhi: Slamming Rahul Naqvi said in an apparent ref- Commission insisting Prime In his Saturday letter, He said that soon after the Gandhi for his remarks that the erence to Gandhi. Minister Narendra Modi's Yechury said the EC made a speech, the Prime Minister is on Congress, if voted to power, When the Congress was in address to nation over the ASAT "narrow interpretation" of his record to claim that he is a would scrap the NITI Aayog, power, "the anarchy and arro- launch was "a gross violation" of complaint. "chowkidar (watchman) not senior BJP leader Mukhtar gance of the feudal family" the MCC because after his "Since the ECI has confined only on land and air but also in Abbas Naqvi alleged on was at its peak in "criminal mis- speech the PM claimed he was itself exclusively to the issue of outer space". The Prime Minister Saturday that the Opposition use" of constitutional institu- a "chowkidar not only on land 'misuse of official media' I would has often called himself a party was "threatening and tions and now in the and air but also in outer space". request the ECI to direct the offi- chowkidar (watchman) to high- defaming" constitutional insti- Opposition, they are "threat- Yechury's letter to the Chief cial media to treat light his fight against corruption tutions. ening and defaming" these Election Commissioner comes speeches/statements made by and his strong stand on nation- The Union Minority constitutional institutions, he a day after an election commis- leaders of recognized national al security. "The Prime Minister Affairs Minister's remarks alleged. sion team declared that Modi's parties in a similar manner as and other leaders of the BJP are came a day after Congress For the past five years, the address on the successful test-fir- they have treated this speech of actively campaigning saying that president Gandhi said his party Congress has tried to threaten ing of an anti-satellite missile did the Prime Minister," he said. this Government has shown would replace NITI Aayog and defame various constitu- not violate provisions of the The larger issue, he said, was the guts which previous gov- with a "lean" Planning tional institutions such as the model code of conduct. that the PM as a candidate in the ernments did not. What else Commission. Election Commission, the The poll panel had consti- elections is "using" the office of does this mean but a gross mis- The "shehzada" is speaking Central Vigilance Commission tuted the committee to look into the Prime Minister to convey a use of the office of the Prime & % * " ! under the influence of his and now the NITI Aayog, he the PM's speech upon complaint development achieved by sci- Minister for seeking electoral % : * "arrogance of feudal mentality", told reporters. PTI by Yechury and other opposition entists. "This constitutes a gross gains," Yechury said. PTI 2 " & () ) 1
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,. - ) imposed by the US on certain steel and aluminium products, -) ! he Government has again resumption of export benefits Textended its deadline to ,) ) to certain domestic products ,. impose retaliatory customs -!) ) under their GSP programme, duties on 29 US products, - greater market access for its ax offices, for both income including almond, walnut and products from agriculture, Ttax and GST, will remain pulses, till May 2. ,)-) ,! automobile, automobile com- open on Sunday as the depart- A notification of the !( ( ) ponents and engineering sec- ments race against time to Finance Ministry said that ")) , ,) tors. meet the revenue collection tar- implementation of increased On the other hand, the US gets. customs duty on specified ! ,! .% ./ is demanding greater market “As per past practice, all imports originating in the US 0 % )! access through cut in import field offices of CBIC (Central has been postponed from April duties for its agriculture goods, Board of Indirect Taxes and 1, 2019 to May 2, this year. among other issues. These dairy products, medical Customs) will remain open The government has incentives are expected to be devices, IT and communication during the last weekend of the extended this deadline over half withdrawn from May 2. items. India has stated that it current financial year also a dozen times since June 2018, Domestic exporters are jittery would be difficult for them to March 30 and March 31, 2019, when it decided to impose over US' decision to withdraw cut duties on IT products. for assisting the taxpayers in all 31, being Saturday and Sunday, 23, which is 85.1 per cent of the these duties in retaliation to a these incentives as they export As part of the imposition of matters,” CBIC said in an office Income Tax Offices throughout revised estimate of 12 lakh move by the US to impose high goods worth USD 5.6 billion higher import duties, New memorandum. India (including the ASK crore. The apex policy making customs duties on certain steel under GSP programme. About Delhi has notified higher tar- In an office order, the Centres), shall remain open on body for income and corporate and aluminium products. 1,900 items including from iffs on several products. While Central Board of Direct Taxes March 30 and 31 during normal taxes has asked its field offices India is pushing the dates chemicals and engineering sec- import duty on walnut has (CBDT) asked its field offices office hours,” the CBDT said. to “take all possible actions” to as both sides are negotiating a tors avail these sops. been hiked to 120 per cent to facilitate filing of tax-returns The Government has achieve the collection targets. trade package to boost bilater- The government is con- from 30 per cent currently, duty by the taxpayers by opening pegged goods and services tax The Reserve Bank of India al commerce. But earlier this sidering to send a delegation to on chickpeas, Bengal gram additional receipt counters, (GST) collection target at has also asked banks keep their month, the US decided to the US earlier next month to (chana) and masur dal will be wherever required, on March 11.47 lakh crore in the current branches open on March 31, so withdraw export incentives hold discussions on ways to raised to 70 per cent, from 30 30 and 31. fiscal, while the same for direct that all government transac- being provided by them to resolve all trade-related issues. per cent currently. Levy on “The last date for filing tax mop up is 12 lakh crore. tions for financial year 2018-19 Indian exporters for certain Both sides were holding lentils will be increased to 40 belated/revised tax-returns for GST collections in the cur- are accounted for within the goods under Generalised two-track discussions to per cent, from 30 per cent. assessment year 2018-19 is rent fiscal till February totalled same financial year. All elec- System of Preferences (GSP) increase trade in short and India's exports to the US in March 31, 2019. The financial 10.70 lakh crore. tronic transactions, including programme. medium term, and identify 2017-18 stood at USD 47.9 bil- year 2018-19 also closes on With regard to direct taxes, RTGS and NEFT, will contin- Extension of these benefits long-term trade potentials. lion, while imports were USD (March) 31. In view of the the CBDT had collected only ue for the extended time on were part of the negotiations India is pressing for 26.7 billion. The trade balance closed holidays March 30 and 10.21 lakh crore as on March March 30 and March 31, 2019. between India and the US exemption from high duty is in favour of India. ?,++ & @A$ +, 0 & New Delhi: Capital markets they are not executed in normal regulator Sebi slapped Rs 94.5 course of trading, lack basic ,. -+./ US Dollar Line of Credit to ment for diplomats, the commitment to strengthening lakh penalty on 17 entities for trading rationale, lead to mis- Bolivia for financing develop- exchange between diplomatic business ties. The task ahead for indulging in fraudulent trade leading appearance of trading ndia has offered USD 100 ment projects,” according to an academies, mining, tradition- us is clearly cut out. Our polit- practices in illiquid stock in terms of generation of arti- Imillion credit to Bolivia after official statement. al medicine, establishment of ical ties are strong and growing, options segment on the BSE. ficial volumes, and are hence President Ram Nath Kovind Both countries also agreed centre of excellence in IT and bi- but we have to work a lot more, The regulator, during the deceptive & manipulative. held productive and extensive on the need for reform of the oceanic railway project, accord- hand-in-hand to bring our eco- course of investigation between By indulging in such trades, talks with his Bolivian coun- UN Security Council to make it ing to an official statement. nomic partnership to the level April 2015 and September 2015, the entities have violated the terpart Evo Morales here. reflective of contemporary real- “The two countries agreed of our mutual understanding,” found that 81.38 per cent of all Prohibition of Fraudulent and Kovind is on a three-day ities, the statement said. to further expand business ties he said. the trades executed in the stock Unfair Trade Practices visit to Bolivia, the first high- The two sides also signed in pharmaceuticals and health The event was partnered by options segment involved rever- (PFUTP) norms, Sebi said. level visit from India to the Latin eight MoUs in various fields, care; automobiles and engi- Bolivian Chamber and Industry sal of buy and sell positions by Accordingly, a fine of 9 lakh American country since the including academics, space and neering; machinery and textile; groups and the Federation of the clients and counter-parties on Makers Casting, and 8 lakh establishment of diplomatic ties. medicine . and metals and minerals,” it said. Indian Chamber of Commerce in a contract on the same day. on Ashok Investors Trust has President Kovind held “We are happy to have President Kovind also and Industry and the These entities were among been levied by Sebi. Others have wide-ranging talks with his Bolivia as a partner in the addressed the India-Bolivia Confederation of Indian those “whose reversal trades been fined in the range of 5 lakh Bolivian counterpart Morales International Solar Alliance and Business Forum on Friday and Industry. involved squaring off transac- to 6 lakh. The orders are in on a number of bilateral issues welcome the signing of the said that the two countries have The Indian president is tions with significant difference accordance with the Securities such as economy, space and IT. framework agreement estab- their own economic strengths accompanied by top executives in sell value and buy value of and Exchange Board of India's The two leaders also reaf- lishing the bond,” Kovind said and they can complement each of 30 Indian companies repre- the transactions,” Sebi said in announcement in April 2018 on firmed their commitment to in a statement. other in the mutual quest for senting different sectors, includ- similarly worded separate taking action in a phased man- strengthen political and eco- In addition, the two coun- growth and prosperity. ing gold, mining, infrastructure, orders on Friday. ner against 14,720 entities for nomic engagement. tries signed MoUs in the fields “Our joint participation IT, automobile and energy. It further said trades of the fraudulent trade in the illiquid “India offered 100 million of culture, visa waiver arrange- speaks of our deep mutual entities are non-genuine as stock options segment. & "# , ,!
" ! " Beijing: Chinese banks have its annual report filed to the Commercial Bank of China posted profits for 2018 but Hong Kong Stock Exchange (ICBC) -- the country's largest warned that domestic and late Friday. bank -- posted a net profit of global uncertainties could put “The growth drivers of the 297.68 billion yuan in 2018, a downward pressure on the sec- global economy will weaken, 4.1 percent increase. tor in the coming year. international financial mar- China's second largest Bank of China (BOC) kets will remain at risk of fluc- lender by assets, China posted a profit of 192.44 billion tuation, and the functioning of Construction Bank, posted a yuan (USD28.67 billion), up the economy will be subject to net profit of 254.66 billion four per cent from the previous a number of uncertainties.” yuan for 2018, a gain of 5.11 year, which the company cred- The Industrial & per cent. AFP ited to a stable economy and “prudent monetary policy” from the Chinese government. But the sector “will face a complicated operating envi- ronment in 2019”, BOC said in ( ) *+, -.+/ ! 2 (< .! )
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While neither side sented a complete account of tests. hreatening drastic action said closing the border would has presented a complete why the summit collapsed, the The English version of the Tagainst Mexico, President be “an unmitigated economic account of why the summit col- document may help explain it. document, seen by Reuters, Donald Trump declared he is debacle” that would threaten 5 lapsed, the document may help The document’s existence called for “fully dismantling likely to shut down America’s million American jobs. explain it. was first mentioned by White North Korea’s nuclear infra- southern border next week Trump tweeted Friday On the day that their talks House national security advis- structure, chemical and bio- unless Mexican authorities morning, “If Mexico doesn’t in Hanoi collapsed last month, er John Bolton in television logical warfare program and immediately halt all illegal immediately stop ALL illegal US President Donald Trump interviews he gave after the related dual-use capabilities; immigration. immigration coming into the handed North Korean leader two-day summit. Bolton did and ballistic missiles, launchers, Such a severe move could United States through our Kim Jong Un a piece of paper not disclose in those interviews and associated facilities.” hit the economies of both Southern Border, I will be that included a blunt call for the the pivotal U.S. expectation Aside from the call for the countries, but the president repeatedly threatened to close CLOSING the Border, or large transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear contained in the document transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear emphasised, “I am not kidding the border, but this time, with sections of the Border, next weapons and bomb fuel to the that North Korea should trans- ments from Bolton’s approach meant by “final, fully verifiable, weapons and bomb fuel, the around.” a new surge of migrants head- week.” United States, according to the fer its nuclear weapons and fis- and said a “Libya model” would denuclearization,” the source document had four other key “It could mean all trade” ing north, he gave a definite He didn’t qualify his threat document seen by Reuters. sile material to the United be employed only if a deal familiar with discussions said. points. It called on North Korea with Mexico, Trump said when timetable. with “or large sections,” stating: Trump gave Kim both States. could not be reached. The White House did not to provide a comprehensive questioned Friday by reporters A substantial closure could “There is a very good likeli- Korean and English-language The document appeared to idea of North Korea hand- immediately respond to a declaration of its nuclear pro- in Florida. “We will close it for have an especially heavy impact hood I’ll be closing the border versions of the US position at represent Bolton’s long-held ing over its weapons was first request for comment. The State gram and full access to U.S. and a long time.” on cross-border communities next week, and that is just fine Hanoi’s Metropole hotel on and hardline “Libya model” of proposed by Bolton in 2004. He Department declined to com- international inspectors; to halt Trump has been promising from San Diego to South Texas, with me.” February 28, according to a denuclearization that North revived the proposal last year ment on what would be a clas- all related activities and con- for more than two years to as well as supermarkets that He said several times that source familiar with the dis- Korea has rejected repeatedly. when Trump named him as sified document. After the struction of any new facilities; build a long, impenetrable wall sell Mexican produce, factories it would be “so easy” for cussions, speaking on condi- It probably would have been national security adviser. summit, a North Korean offi- to eliminate all nuclear infra- along the border to stop illegal that rely on imported parts, Mexican authorities to stop tion of anonymity. It was the seen by Kim as insulting and The document was meant cial accused Bolton and structure; and to transition all immigration, though Congress and other businesses across the immigrants passing through first time that Trump himself provocative, analysts said. to provide the North Koreans Secretary of State Mike nuclear program scientists and has been reluctant to provide US. their country and trying to had explicitly defined what he Trump had previously dis- with a clear and concise defi- Pompeo of “gangster-like” technicians to commercial the money he needs. The US and Mexico trade enter the US illegally, “but they meant by denuclearisation tanced himself in public com- nition of what the United States demands, saying Pyongyang activities. In the meantime, he has about USD 1.7 billion in goods just take our money and ‘talk.’” 0 > - " > ' & ;7 " <= % A + claimed responsibility for the A 1+ attack. A + areas had been cut off, pre- Taliban assault on a police Taliban insurgents have angladesh security forces venting teams from reaching Acheckpoint led to the stepped up their attacks against Bstopped 29 people, mostly lash floods caused by heavy affected people. deaths of four students on Afghan security targets in Rohingya Muslims, from being Frains have killed at least 35 “The destruction is huge. Saturday in eastern Ghazni recent months. smuggled to Malaysia in rickety people in Afghanistan, washing Over 12 areas in the province province, a provincial official In a separate incident in fishing boats, officials said away houses and cutting off have been badly hit, people said. northeastern Badakhshan Saturday, the latest group pre- access to remote villages across have lost their houses. We’ve Arif Noori, a spokesman province, Taliban insurgents vented from leaving squalid parts of the country, officials only been able to provide them for provincial governor, said overran a district headquarters refugee camps. said on Saturday. with some food and blankets so that 17 others, including 15 late Friday, said Nek Lieutenant Commander Heavy flooding that start- far,” he said. students and two teachers, Mohammad Nazari, a Mahmud Hasan said The official said they have in the overcrowded camps. ed early on Friday killed at least adding that more than 3,000 Aid workers in the north- were wounded when an explo- spokesman for the provincial Bangladesh Coast Guard forces handed over the traffickers to Saturday’s operation 12 people in the northern houses had been destroyed. ern provinces of Faryab and sion, likely caused by rocket governor. “Afghan security found 16 women, seven chil- the police and sent the refugees marked the sixth time since province of Faryab and 10 In Herat, 10 districts and Balkh have also been strug- fire, hit the school in Andar dis- forces retreated from the dren and six men waiting for the back to Kutupalong, the largest November that Rohingya have people in the western province some parts of Herat city were gling to deliver humanitarian trict. The spokesman added Arghanj Khowa district head- boat along the coast of the refugee camp in the been intercepted attempting to of Herat, said Hashmat impacted, said Jailani Farhad, assistance to affected families. that the students killed are quarters to avoid civilian southern Saint Martin’s Island world. get a boat to Malaysia, a more Bahaduri, a spokesman for spokesman for the province’s “We have dispatched our between 10 and 16 years old. causalities,” said Nazari. early Saturday. “Among them 22 About 740,000 of the prosperous Muslim-majority Afghanistan’s National Disaster governor. food and non-food assistance He said that provincial Reinforcements have been are Rohingya refugees from the Muslim minority fled Myanmar nation. Management Authority “Hundreds of houses have for the affected families, but officials are investigating who dispatched to repel the Taliban, Cox’s Bazar camps and the rest for Bangladesh, escaping a Bangladesh security forces (ANDMA). been destroyed and thousands the scale of the disaster is mas- fired the projectile hitting the he added. are Bangladeshis. We have also military crackdown in the last month stopped more than Eight people were killed in displaced,” he said. Mir sive. We need more humani- school during the standoff The Taliban assault began arrested three human traffick- Buddhist-majority nation in 100 people -- mostly Rohingya Badghis province in the west Gulabuddin Miri, director of tarian assistance,” an ANDMA between security forces and Thursday night, killing four ers with a boat,” Hasan told August 2017, and joining some refugees -- from making the and five in Balkh province in the Afghan Red Crescent in spokesman in northern Taliban. police and wounding five oth- reporters. 300,000 Rohingya already living dangerous journey. the north, Bahaduri told AFP, Herat, said access to some Afghanistan told AFP. No one immediately ers, according to officials. 3$ - ) 0 & " D9=0" 7 % $ 3 5" /A A";"+, & > ) C* " % * "A ,." .,5. ( F+ ;#(86 ;; ,. . M - ) ), A A + . # 8#4 9 ,!) !, ) 4 5854&545(!5& n the face of increased threat to ‘Blue !# ! 5.3-magnitude quake jolted central ix baby elephants separated from their parents and 85; # ; ,. + IHelmets’, India has strongly under- -,- "( N AGreece on Saturday, the national Strapped in a muddy pit for days have been rescued "554) 6#8';;4 scored the need of well trained peace- observatory said, with no immediate by park rangers in rural Thailand, officials said on #"4!5 O;#: (& 48# n explosion caused by a gas leak ripped keepers in UN missions, saying that their increased threat to the Blue Helmets, the reports of damage. Saturday. ! 4'5 545714 8 Athrough a factory in China’s Shandong importance cannot be overemphasised. importance of well trained boots on The quake had a depth of around 14 Patrolling rangers chanced upon the struggling herd :!"45" "6 Province, killing five persons and injuring three India’s remarks came after UN ground cannot be overemphasised,” kilometres (8.6 miles) and an epicentre in a national park east of Bangkok on Wednesday after- 4 $5O;"4885;"8: others, the second such incident in about a Secretary General António Guterres on Additional Secretary in the Ministry of in the Gulf of Corinth, some 200 kilo- noon, park superintendent Prawatsart Chantheap told & (85 A":O; week. Friday stressed on the need to make Defence Mala Dutt said at the minister- metres (320 miles) northwest of the AFP. :4 ":(&4 # :80 The explosion happened at 9:35 pm (local peacekeeping missions “stronger and ial. Greek capital, the observatory said. Once the rangers realised the calves, aged between )!&&5$# 85; O; time) on Friday in a workshop of a perlite fac- safer” during the 2019 United Nations He said as a responsible Troop “It was a strong earthquake felt in the one and four years old, could not climb out of the dirty '(4L'!;:;(&5:' 7M tory in the city of Qingzhou. Peacekeeping Ministerial here. Contributing Country, India will con- general area and in Athens as well,” watering hole, some left the forest to bring back dig- Five persons were killed and three were Ministers of defence, foreign affairs tinue to deploy professional troops in the Efthymios Lekkas, head of Greece’s ging tools while others stayed overnight to keep watch A*,",.; , .+ , slightly injured outside the workshop, state-run and high-level officials from more than missions and work towards capacity earthquake planning and protection over the frightened creatures. A, "D ,, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday. 130 member states and intergovern- building of UN missions. agency, told state TV ERT. “Our team arrived with hoes (on Thursday morn- A =1")44645 The private factory owner was held by the mental organisations gathered at the Addressing the Training and “The situation is under control and ing). And we began to dig around the rim (of the mud 1 :;:;$#55$ local police. Initial investigation showed the United Nations headquarters for the min- Capacity Building session in the UN we are monitoring it. There are many pit) to make it less steep,” he said. (:4; 85$ !(;5 accident was caused by a leak in a liquefied gas isterial to discuss and generate the spe- General Assembly hall, Dutt said since the fault lines in the Gulf of Corinth,” he said. After three hours of digging to build a makeshift ;'45;4#; ")5$ tank. Further investigation is underway. cialised capabilities necessary for con- implementation of the UN Peacekeeping Greece lies on major fault lines and ramp, the mud-covered babies managed to stumble !;:4) 4:";::("6; The incident happened barely a week after temporary peacekeeping, with a specif- Capability Readiness System (UNPCRS), is regularly hit by earthquakes, but they out of the pit one-by-one as the rangers cheered them 4584;E!;5N(5:7 one of China’s worst recent industrial blast, in ic focus on performance, protection of India has pledged and deployed units and rarely cause casualties. on. “Go, go, follow each other!” the rangers yelled in # # ;"#! "#"6;== which 78 people were killed and 600 others were civilians and women, peace, and securi- enablers as required by UN. In July 2017 a 6.7-magnitude earth- a video recorded by the national parks department. " :4!);(&=4: injured from a chemical plant explosion in the ty. Presently, India has committed an quake killed two people on the island “Go, children, go!” Prawatsart said the rangers had #;!' 8";#44'5: fertilizer factory in Jiangsu province. “India is a signatory to A4P (Action Infantry Battalion as a Rapidly of Kos in the Aegean sea, causing sig- observed a herd of 30 adult elephants nearby and & 454 ;#'' ;4 Following the accident, the Chinese for Peacekeeping) declaration and is Deployable Battalion, one Engineer and nificant damage. believed the young calves must have been separated 84;E!;=="(8: C(;7 Government has ordered nationwide inspec- ready to play an active role in collective- Signal Company, Force Military Police In 1999, a 5.9-magnitude quake from them. “We believe they were stuck there for at tion of chemical industries to prevent large scale ly achieving the shared commitments Platoon and three Formed Police Units killed 143 people in Athens and the least two days because after they got out their legs were ", /" ,"A"" ,." factory explosions. identified in the declaration. 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He added sixes) completely changed the complex- Indians in an IPL encounter 51 for the opening stand with De ion of the game and help Knight Riders here on Saturday. Kock. ride on Delhi bowlers to take KKR to The talented Rahul was For the home team, it was the a match winning total at slow track of unbeaten on 71 off 57 balls with lesser known Ashwin — Kotla. KXIP reaching the 177-run Murugan, who emerged as the Especially Russell was once again target in only 18.4 overs. This most successful bowler with fig- the star for Kolkata for the third con- was KXIP's second win in three ures of 2 for 25 from his four secutive time and the West Indian all games while MI lost their sec- overs. rounder single handedly fought against ond game. Skipper Ravichandran Delhi to give KKR an upper hand. 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And if they want to do +5$(4 ) !5; here on Sunday. , HFCC well, the RCB would need to look : ): Despite Sanju Samson scoring beyond captain Virat Kohli and AB A", "/ an unbeaten 102 not out, Warner the first 10 overs, Shankar contin- de Villiers. : 5 O;H&&'(!; (69 off 37 balls) helped Sunrisers ued in the same vein, not letting the De Villiers single-handedly 654"6;5 555$;4&; chase down a mammoth 199-run momentum slip even once during kept the game alive till the last over 858"#;;#84;5 target for an impressive five-wick- the run chase. In the end, Rashid against Mumbai Indians, scoring a 7 et win, their first of the season, here Khan hit a four and a six off Jofra brilliant 70 off 41 balls, but lack of / 4#(;#&;;4 : on Friday night in a high-scoring Archer's successive balls to take support at the other end hampered "48'( CCC !5;57 contest against Rajasthan Royals. Sunrisers home in 19 overs. the team's chances. 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A A Sshadowed by David Warner's blistering half- century and the Indian batsman conceded that the Aussie spoilt his party. ,5 P, 0 - )! Samson's (102 not out) ton went in vain as -A;#5 -4(; :&: Warner (69 off 37 balls) helped Sunrisers Hyderabad chase down a mammoth 199-run #55!' 5$;)H"6; target to beat Rajasthan Royals by five wickets '! 9& %' % in an IPL match here on Friday night. #55 !' 5$; :&: After the match, Warner interviewed -A;#5-4(;) H !5;!5 Samson, who said probably a total of 250 might Live on Star Sports 1& 2 HEAD ;; .@ ," . @ / ;./. have saved the Royals from losing the game. A", "/ TO "You destroyed my day. My 100 was not HEAD .=&5:5$"#8'45; #55 45;7 Q(()A455$!;560P 5 + 4 #4 446 GK enough because of the way you batted. The way 09 !' 5$;45! :58: 1(85$;:7 you started the innings we lost the game in the "6;B7K25K 555$;4&KG > !! N(5:((= 4!5: "4!$$(A5; $:#;)5 !(:4!4-$45$ powerplay. We needed some 250 on the board 8"#;05:;A!;# "6;4 '("85&4 5A! :'" !5$$:&4 5)&4 ;; & #4!#& "5 <'**) with someone like you in the opposition. It was )"48 # & ; #55 !' # 85: 4:5 8 $!7 '" &(:;"48&4 #()4(5$:! 5$ special," Samson told Warner. , FCC 5$;)4( 4"48'("5! '65$4 '4 ;45#4&# #(;.$5; 56(5:; The 32-year-old Australian cricketer was 8"#$5;-A;#5-4(;# "5(7 4&"6;57 all praise for Samson, saying he showed the way three overseas players, thereby #:8) 8;:!8# 0 #:"4"# (65$)4!5$(5:((= 4!5: : to bat on a tricky surface. 5A!8;45;#& ;);85 keeping South Africa captain '#51(85$;:##:$455&4 ((0#4'!((:4!45$4' ;45( "We didn't get off to a good start, a seri- 4;"4 "5! 5B#:454& Faf du Plessis in the reserves. !$$(A50#4)4(;E!"65:);(( ;45;01(85$;:#"5Q) '(":7 ous innings from Sanju and full credit to him. 7 ;"4 :5!5)5CB4&& The Super Kings bowlers 5::::##4!(:)A455$#;E!: P"5Q '(":((7:Q;$4 He came out and played really well. 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He showed us how to go about it," said behaves tomorrow. batsmen step up. #4Q;N(5:5 545(0#4 "6 (!));;;5$# Warner. he focus will be on the pitch, which Meanwhile, CSK has started the sea- Veterans Harbhajan Singh, Imran )4(;E!"65:);((74Q$45&4 P!5&4 !5(:!4;48&8( ;45;0 Warner and Jonny Bairstow (45 off 28) set Tcame in for severe criticism after the son with two straight wins and will look Tahir and Dwayne Bravo came up with 5((= 4!5: #4#;$44:'"5:$44: Q#:4'!((4!4&#P7 ,. up the platform for the Sunrisers as they added IPL opener, when Chennai Super Kings to keep the momentum going. impressive performances and will look to 110 in the first 10 overs for the opening wick- take on Rajasthan Royals in their second After beating Bangalore, they rode on do continue the good work. et. home game here on Sunday. a team effort to prevail over Delhi Capitals In contrast, the Rajasthan have lost would be happy with the batting but It will be a contest between Rajasthan's "We know this ground pretty well. We The tournament opener saw Royal in their second outing. both their matches so far and would need expect his bowlers to up the ante. The onus formidable batting line-up comprising know the dimensions well. There has been a Challengers Bangalore being shot out for Not known to make too many to step up if they aim to breach the reign- would be on the bowlers to find ways to Rahane, Buttler, Steve Smith, Ben Stokes breeze from one side for the last two days but 70, a target that CSK achieved in the 18th changes to the playing XI, it remains to ing champions' fortress. contain a mighty CSK batting unit if the and Samson versus a spin-heavy CSK tonight it wasn't there. You have to be calcu- over to win by seven wickets. But the slow- be seen if CSK continue to play with just Rajasthan skipper Ajinkya Rahane Royals want to see a reversal of fortunes. bowling. lative with your batting," he said. =,*+,-
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n May 26, 1877, Surendranath railroads facilitated the civilian leadership to cavalry warfare in India. From being an schedule of his speech could thus be con- Banerjea embarked upon a rail come together and exchange notes. In 1878, assault wing of the army, horses had become a firmed accordingly. He could leave the sta- tour of northern India. He was Banerjea travelled to Bombay and Madras constituent of the power structure. The power tion on the morrow of addressing a public the first Indian political leader to presidencies in pursuit of civil service memo- pyramid of the Mughal Empire was built on speech there. Perhaps in 10 days altogether, take advantage of an expanding randum. He met Vishwanath Mandlik, KT the horses. The rank and pay of commanders he could return to Calcutta from another end Orailway network. His tour revealed how a new Telang, and Pherozeshah Mehta in Bombay. In was consummate with the number of horses of India after addressing a few public meet- public life was unfolding in North-Western Poona, he was the guest of Justice MG they commanded. Bernier speaks of Omrahs ings. One could travel without seriously dis- Provinces (the present day Uttar Pradesh), Ranade. In Madras, he met Dr Dhanaketu — or power elites — holding titles like hazary, turbing the normal business of life. two decades after the 1857 uprising had Raju, Chensal Rao, and Humayan Jan Bahadur douhazary, dehhazary, which meant lord of The year-on-year growth in human and mauled its plains. His immediate objective etc. He met the leading men of the city at 1,000, 2,000, and 10,000 horses respectively. cargo traffic was phenomenal since the mid- was to popularise the protest against lowering Pacheappa Hall in a conclave. The nucleus of Cavalry predominated in the Maratha 1850s when the railway began its operations. of maximum age limit in civil services exami- Indian leadership was thus being created. army under the Peshwas. From Shivaji, By the late 1870s, the network had attained nation. The Secretary of State’s decision was The railroads also took the leaders to new who employed mostly infantry, the composi- a critical mass. By the end of 1879, or 25 aimed at practically excluding Indian aspi- audiences. A Bengali could find an avid listen- tion tilted heavily in favour of cavalry (with years after the railways being introduced in rants from the civil services. A resolution er in Punjab; a Parsi could enthrall the audi- supportive artillery) under the Peshwas in India, some 6,128 miles of railway tracks against the move had been adopted at a large ence in Calcutta; an orator from Andhra could the 18th century. It was a definite sign of the had been constructed by the companies at public meeting of Indian Association at Town charm the audience in Amraoti. This was how Marathas going expansionists. No wonder an expense of nearly £97,872,000. Hall of Calcutta on March 24, 1877. Banerjea new national heroes emerged towards the end they rapidly conquered territories from the Banerjea was fully conscious of the impor- was selected to represent the cause in north- of the 19th century. The heroes of this era did Mughals, who were in terminal decline. The tance of the railways in unifying India. He ern India. It was his idea to take the civil ser- not come on horseback with flaming swords. great era of cavalry was put to an end by the articulated it in a speech at Calcutta’s Town vices agitation beyond Bengal. He felt the They travelled mainly by train and wielded the British in the Third-Anglo Martha War in Hall in March, 1878. “The distance between cause had potential to unite Indians political- microphone, figuratively speaking. 1818. The British crushed the freebooters Calcutta and Delhi is not 1,400 miles but only ly. The tour vindicated his expectations. The Indian National Congress could not called Pindaris, who acted as the irregular a question of 44 hours. The distance between Banerjea’s journey over the spine of the have materialised without the benefit of the cavalry of the Marathas. Calcutta and Lahore is not 1,600 miles but East Indian Railways took him till Lahore, the railways. In the circular notifying the first The horse-borne empires in India had only a question 52 hours. The distance Capital of undivided Punjab. He addressed at Congress at Poona between December 25 and retained speed as an exclusive domain of the between Calcutta and Bombay is not 1,900 least two crowded public meetings there. He 31, 1885, the delegates were advised to reach military. Public life, consequently, was crip- miles, only a question of 61 hours.” Naturally, also helped establish a Lahore Indian Poona railway station. The Poona Sarvajanik pled and stunted throughout the medieval age. with the advent of diesel and electricity Association. It was closely modelled upon the Sabha, organiser of the Congress, made A commoner in India was largely a pedestrian. engines, the duration of travel reduced. But original Indian Association, founded by arrangements from the railway station to the --. .. He might occasionally ride the bullock cart or Banerjea could still cover enormous political Banerjea and Ananda Mohan Bose in 1876. venue, Peshwa’s garden near Parbati Hill. The palanquin. Both were symbols of tardiness. ground with the aid of steam engines. It Downstream, he halted at Amritsar, Meerut, sudden outbreak of cholera, however, pre- - . Planned journeys over longer distance were helped consolidate the Indian public life. Delhi, Aligarh, Lucknow, Kanpur, Allahabad, vented the gathering in Poona. The Congress 7 . not possible. Travellers often sojourned for Statistics was another factor that enriched and Varanasi. Wherever he went, he addressed had to be shifted to Bombay. weeks, months and even years together at a oratory. Figures invaded the domain of facts crowded public meetings and interacted with The railway, by its very nature, promoted a . -. location. The normal business of their life thus in the speeches and writings by Indians in the budding intelligentsia. He also catalysed civil society. In the pre-railway era, horse was - .- remained suspended for that long. the 1870s. Dadabhai Naoroji was the pioneer the formation of several political groups on the fastest means of travelling. But the bulk of The railway came as Promethean Fire for in the field. In his paper titled ‘England’s the lines of the Indian Association. The civil those beasts were employed in aristocratic .1 G the lesser mortals. It delivered speed to the Duties to India’ read before a predominantly service memorandum was endorsed every- occupations like warfare, pageantry, riding, -,7 -. civilian population. The poor were found lin- British audience at East India Association, where. But, more importantly, the tour and hunting. The demand was so great that ing up for cheap tickets of third class. The London, on May 2, 1867, he accused Britain revealed possibilities of civilian politics. Mughals had to import Arab and Persian hors- .1 - trains ran as per a notified time table. This of exploiting India economically. He built his Banerjea’s tour was path-breaking. It pre- es from the Middle East. The animal was hard- -. .0 made planned travels the new norm. Post case on a wealth of data. An excerpt from the saged the synergy between the railways and ly open to regular civilian or commercial use. and telegraph services aided the process. paper illustrates the point. the civilian leadership. The railways liberated The Turks had subjugated India rapidly on 1 - /, Let’s say Banerjea, sitting in Calcutta, could the orators from their provincial limits, and dint of cavalry. Conversant with the use of apprise his hosts in Lucknow or Poona about catapulted them on the national stage. The stirrup, they unleashed the true potential of the date and time of his arrival there. The HHC -,1 - .11- .1 ,K errteyy -. BB =,*+,-
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n the shape of ‘home charges’ may be roughly taken at foreign countries of the world.” alone, there has been a trans- £1,200,000,000 and its gross rev- Dadabhai was gifted in the Ifer of about 100 millions of enue about £87,000,000 giving a matter of figures. He leavened pounds sterling, exclusive of proportion of 7½ per cent of the his speeches with statistics. But interest on public debt, from the income. Of British India, the they were not classroom lectures. wealth of India to that of income is hardly £400,000,000 They were actually lucent with England since 1829, during the and its gross revenue about his political humanism. His last 36 years only. The total terri- make above 450 millions, not to matical dissertation to his audi- £70,000,000 giving 17½ per cent essays and correspondences, torial charges in India since 1829 say anything of the far better ence? They should have known of the income, and yet Sir James however, were heavily statistical. have been about 820 millions. account to which an energetic that Dadabhai was previously a tells the English people that the This was perhaps done con- Supposing that out of the latter people like the English have professor of mathematics. He people of India are not heavily sciously. A listener might lose sum, only one-eighth represents turned this tide of wealth. This turned trade, economics, and taxed, though paying out this interest in a heavily statistical the sum remitted to England by in addition to the wealth of finance into important factors of wretched income, gross revenue speech, but a reader could revisit Europeans in Government ser- England of 450 millions is only political discourse. But where- of more than double the propor- and re-examine the statistics at vice for maintenance of relatives that of the last 37 years. Now from he might have sourced tion of what the people of the leisure. Dadabhai turned price and families, for education of with regard to the long period of these figures? Actually, he left the enormously rich England pay for rise, wages, taxation, tariff, rents, children, for savings made at the British Connexion before 1829, answer in the speech itself. He their gross revenue. lending rates, agricultural out- time of retiring, the sums the total territorial charges in attached four appendices of tabu- “They do not understand yet put, industrial production data, expended by them for purchases India from 1787 to 1829 lated data to his paper. These that their greatest interest is in import and export figures, and of English articles for their own amounts to about 600 million. were based on Parliamentary increasing the ability of the currency exchange rates into consumption, and also sums Taking only one-tenth of this Returns of Indian Accounts. He Indians to buy their manufactur- political talking points. His paid in India for Government remittance for the purpose men- also relied upon the Second ers. That if India were to buy a exposure to British political stores of English produce and tioned above, there is about 60 Customs Report, 1858. pound worth their cotton manu- debates, besides his pedagogical manufacturers — there is then million in principal, which with In his speech at the Bombay facturers per head per annum, background, made him ideally another 100 millions added to interest to the present day, added Presidency Association held on that would given then a trade of suited for the purpose. the wealth of England. In princi- to the acquisitions previous to September 29, 1885, Dadabhai £250,000,000 a year instead of ' pal alone, therefore, there is 200 1787, may fairly be put down for said: “Here are a few figures the present poor imports into 6 P millions, which at the ordinary 1,150 millions.” which will tell their tale. The India of £25,000,000 of cotton F interest of 5 per cent, will now Did it sound like a mathe- income of the United Kingdom yarn and manufacturers from all ) % & ,@@ - -/,0 /, - 0 buuqy K-. =,*+,-
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azaaron Khwahishein Aisi and even Germany, where philosophers study of the form, as it flourished in one ings as being only about the hobnob- an everyday basis in order to get equal is a book that is meant to and writers, including Friedrich Schlegal age or under a particular poet, bing of wine-drinking elitists is rather opportunities. It is heartening to see a be savoured leisurely, and Wolfgang Goethe, wrote various Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi gives a misleading, if not entirely false. The woman appropriate the ghazal — which much like its subject mat- volumes of German ghazals. The con- broad overview of the thematic and his- ghazal has more to offer, the book tells has long been the purview of male poets ter — the ghazal. In spite versational tone of the editor transports torical trajectory of the ghazal, begin- us, than just laments of lovelorn like Ghalib and Mir — to register her Hof being a popular form in its heydays, the reader across historical epochs, ning from the time of Muhammad Quli bohemians. It can accommodate con- dissent against gender politics. the ghazal has now become associated almost seamlessly. The book inculcates Shah, a poet of the 5th century, to the temporary and polemical subject mat- The English translation of each of with connoisseurs of art and a niche an appreciation of the literary form in late 20th and early 21st century, where a ters. The increasing resistance by the ghazals maintains the layered texture audience and has consequently moved the readers without being heavy-handed ‘New Poetics’ is being threshed by con- women writers in developing societies of the original. Prof Rahman has away from the masses. The politicking or launching into effusive praise about temporary poets, such as Farhat Ehsas against the perennial problem of gen- retained the formal brevity and com- around languages, which were the cup- the ghazal — as many other books on and Ishrat Afreen, to name a few. dered violence born out of patriarchal pactness of the ghazals while also being bearers of the poetic form, has done lit- the subject matter tend to do. This means that the uninitiated oppression has been captured in the able to maintain the multiple meanings tle to ameliorate the situation. This The book has been divided into var- reader can appreciate the thematic flexi- ghazal, “Ladkiyaan maaon jaise muqad- of each verse through the use of allu- book, however, has made the subject ious sections, namely: ‘Metaphysical bility and historical resilience of the dar kyu rakhti hain?” (“Why do girls sions and imagery. The titular sher, by accessible for lay readers without com- Beginnings’, ‘Towards Enlightenment’, ghazal. The ghazal has persisted in spite share fates with their mothers?”) by Asadullah Khan Ghalib, is a perfect promising on the nuances and complex- ‘Advent of Modernism’ and ‘Beyond of political and/or religious hostilities, Afreen. It is a poignant rendering of the example of the same: “Hazaaron ities of the poetic form. New Poetics’, in order to elucidate the massive changes in power structures and sexual and physical violence women khwahishein aisi ke har khwahish par Prof Anisur Rahman, who I had the changing dynamics at the socio-cultural even formal innovations as well as intru- have to bear. The following sher is note- dam nikle/Bahut nikle mere armaan lekin good fortune of having as my teacher, level and the corresponding shifts in the sions. But it has managed to consistently worthy: “Auratein apne dukh ki virasat phir bhi kam nikle.” Prof Rahman trans- has translated each ghazal into English thematic preoccupations of the practi- find readers and listeners across the kisko dengi/Sandook mein bund ye lates it as: “Desires in thousands I had, with an air of effortless ease that belies tioners of the form. Thus, various poets globe from the time of its inception in I! ( zewar kyu rakhti hain?” (“Who would for each I would die/With many I had the meticulous attention to detail have appropriated the form according to Arabia, in the early 8th century, till date. these women make the lasting heirs of luck, for many I would sigh.” involved in such a task. The book has their own context and personal predilec- Although today it is most common- #/ )/(/ / their pain/Why do they keep gems and The painstaking attention to detail been prefaced with a detailed introduc- tions. Prof Rahman has maintained his ly identified with love poetry (after all, jewels hidden in a vault?”) makes him a good translator and a com- tion which delineates the simultaneously lucid style even when explaining the the word ‘ghazal’ means ‘talking to the ! It speaks to women across the mendable poet. Prof Rahman excels exciting as well as turbulent historical technicalities of the ghazal such as its lady love’), owing largely to its represen- > 46@@ globe, irrespective of political bound- both as a translator and trans-creator. journey of the ghazal all over Eurasia. refrain (radeef), rhyming words (qaafia) tation in popular culture, especially cin- aries, and is as true of India as it might This is a book for all seasons and all Originating in Arabia, the ghazal and other structural details. ema, the ghazal is far from being apolit- be of anywhere else in the world where moods — be it pensive and ruminative gained popularity in countries like Spain Rather than being an intensive ical. The perception of ghazal gather- a large section of society has to battle on or effervescent and buoyant. 7 A * 3 7$0 "% $" ", %"" %" "% )"&"%, *// 4 (O;)446;)4!4)# AO;" 85(';"#4(4$0#;! 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He %1 1, 9// >!$) 5!. revisits some of the alleged murders # 4&(5$ "#;# and disappearances in other countries /( /%)))! 5#4&;$(4 ;4 : to establish how Sobhraj sometimes ,)5/ /(/ /$$)! ': 0&84!;!#4 4& stole both the passports and identities ! '4'!( &"450((0855"!45 0 of his victims. He then believed that he !4699 ;' 5$ 0;#'=;#& 5:8: was whoever he became. 4! 05:-4;0': O;&5: Sobhraj got away with many of his & (5"5$'#(4;4'# 0$4$# 4 alleged murders because of circum- eral times.” He further tells Koirala, 5;;45"48';;45&4 # 488!5; stantial evidence, lack of witnesses, and “I had good relations with the Taliban 7 4:# ;(&;# 74;(5 his clear-eyed and well-presented pro- and the Al Qaeda. You know, I even #4; (:5;54 (:75: fessions of innocence in court. Sobhraj had a nuclear deal with Saddam 5#4; !5! ;&5(( also took great interest in the law Hussein… Yes I had a business con- :;"4 :7;(;4 5:#:4''($5$ 7 5:865$$!;'' 5"5#; wherever he was accused, reading up tract to supply red mercury to Iraq and ' = !#()4!'4;= !#( on it, and guided his lawyers on the had already made a deal with a Russian ' 5 ;#';;!;5#;2K#5" 5457 conduct of his trials. However, in group. But then 2003 happened.” Nepal, in the later days, he seems to Koirala was hard-pressed to deter- have met his match. The big question mine if Sobhraj meant the “attack on that Koirala asks Sobhraj in this book, Iraq by the USA” or his own 2003 1% 1 however, is: Why did he return to arrest in Nepal. Sobhraj claimed to 0% ) " Nepal at all where murder charges have also been in touch with the CIA, " %%:, *// awaited him, even after three decades? warning them about the possibility of It earned him a life sentence for a mur- 9/11. And that he was in Nepal to 4!(5$#(&4! der going back to 1975, and more cases meet with India’s Intelligence Bureau 854(:T 4!;!"65 were framed as the time went on. (IB), with which he was on good !#:; 48' 4 Koirala writes: “In 2003, there were terms since “it was me who facilitated )!!5" 5# 4; T 4! nearly 190 countries in the world. one country in the world had active fantasy sequence that he calls a ing of some guys from the Taliban with the return of that hijacked Indian ; "#5$&4 855$&!('! '4;5:&4"!; Charles Sobhraj was free and living a cases of murder against him — Nepal.” “dream” about a TV interview he con- a Chinese heroin producer in the Airlines plane from Kandahar”. 5(& $#54T 4!;'555$8!('( happy life in France. He was a celebrity, A would-be biopic on Sobhraj is ducts with the master criminal. Golden Triads. And second one was a And to heap more preposterous- '(;5:54"#"6## #4!O believed to be making a hefty sum of probably less interesting, despite the Wisely perhaps, because what Sobhraj meeting with top brass from India.” ness on the gullible, Sobhraj says: :45$(( ;!(54!"#5$4! $4(;T money from interviews and photo ses- alleged multiple druggings, murders, puts out is uncorroborated. He claims he knew Masood Azhar, “Advani escaped an assassination due ((##'45(4"# sions. He even had a million dollar con- and robberies on the hippie trail of the He says the real reason Sobhraj the man much discussed today as the to my tip.” Koirala who mixes the tale $ 5;;7 #)$$;4);"(;5:5$5 tract with an Indian filmmaker who Seventies, in India, Thailand, Nepal — had come to Nepal — he insisted for mastermind of the JeM, from their with medical talk, a little politics, and 4! ;4!5:4! 45(85$ wanted to make his biopic. His jail term than what is revealed in this book. the first time in 2003, in Sobhraj’s own time in Tihar together: “He introduced his love of trekking in the mountains, )(&;7 #$ ;4''4 !5(;#5 in India was over; the Thai police had Sobhraj tells all, quite casually, but words — was because: “I wanted to me to all the Taliban leaders. That’s does not think Charles Sobhraj will 4!7 4! :4!5(4"64! '45(T closed the cases of the murders. Only Koirala frames the revelations in a organise an undercover business meet- actually why I visited Afghanistan sev- ever be released from jail in Nepal. uvitiut! =,*+,- &94( ( 3
he North Atlantic Treaty II through the breakdown of TOrganization (NATO) that the USSR, the end of the Cold was founded on April 4, 1949 War. Beyond the Cold War, is completing 70 years next NATO has been successful in month. Unlike many other projecting the US, one of its global alliances and treaties, the prime members, as the centre NATO’s coming of age needs to of the unipolar world. It has be saluted despite all its inter- expanded from 12 member nal squabbles and external countries to a tally of 29 as of threats. The organisation has today. Whereas, the 29 members as of today, but Warsaw Pact, NATO’s prime with all the possibilities of the rival, showed its signs of E & Republic of North Macedonia demise too early. entering the bloc, its In fact, seven of its eight **(8 tally may rise up to 30. NATO’s founding members eventually membership is open to “any have joined NATO after the ' 66 other European State in a posi- breakdown of the USSR. Thus, ( P & tion to further the principles of NATO has adjusted itself to the this Treaty (i.e. North Atlantic demands of changing times. & & Treaty) and to contribute A research study on “63 *(8P CC to the security of the North prominent military alliances” Atlantic area”. over the last five centuries 77 " NATO’s primary aim is to conducted by the Washington- P provide a guarantee of securi- based Brookings Institution in ty which is considered the key 2010 shows that only 10 of 9 **(8 to the well-being of all the them survived beyond 40 years. members. Further, its purpose And most importantly, the 7 is to offer freedom and securi- average lifespan of such col- %" ty of its members through lective defence alliances was a political and military means. mere one and a half decade. In % " But then how to achieve such that case, NATO has come of political means for guarantee- age with its own capacity to ing freedom to its constituents reinvent itself through decades. " is the moot point. When it Precisely, today NATO’s comes to political means, biggest single challenge is the )) NATO promotes democratic absence of a concerted leader- values and enables members to ship at the helm of affairs in the consult and cooperate on US. With an unpredictable defence and security related leader like Donald Trump, no cratic strangleholds of Recep ing its economic leverages matists, brushing aside the soldiers in the battlefields of Europeans agree to up their issues to solve problems, build single organisation wherein Tayyip Erdogan. around, Washington has start- new world of NATO painted by Afghanistan since 2003, are game in their own region and trust, and in the long run pre- America has its stake is safe Another catastrophe that ed turning its attention towards the rest. Trump is the first US fighting the monstrous ISIS take on board America’s con- vent conflict. While offering under him. He himself is high- may soon (already) influence the Pacific and to the East; cer- President who viewed the EU and global terror around the cerns over China on trade and military means, the organisa- ly confused as he is not been the strategic vision of the tainly its sincerity towards the as an economic competitor world together and in the past intellectual property”. This kind tion’s basic premises say that it able to steer the country ahead. NATO is the resurgence of transatlantic alliance would rather than a critical partner of shared the burden of bringing of a grand resetting in alliance is committed to the peaceful Simply put, NATO leadership Vladimir Putin in Russia. His suffer in the days to come. America and the NATO. His peace in the Balkans. What dis- between America and resolution of disputes. If diplo- demands a fundamental shift ambitions and the grand pro- Trump is too busy with a recal- troubling anti-NATO and the turbs most of the NATO allies European allies within the matic efforts fail, the alliance in its thinking to rework its ject of reviving Russia may citrant Kim in Pyongyang to anti-Europe antics have forced in Europe is Trump’s public NATO may indicate both sense has the consolidated military alignment with the rest of the obviously disturb NATO’s see that finally peace is the European nations to ques- ambivalence about NATO’s and sensibility for a seven- power to undertake crisis- world, especially with the ris- alignments in the entire achieved in the Korean penin- tion the credibility of America value to the US and his ques- decade old organisation. management operations to ing powers such as India, Europe. And also, a decaying sula and war clouds of a as the pioneer of the West for tioning of America’s commit- Though such possibilities are safeguard its member states. In China, and Brazil. ISIS and Russia’s hyper-active nuclear power comes to an end. the first time since the Second ment towards Article 5 of the too dim, temptations for such 2<* )2) the event of such emergencies, Currently, all big players at war game in the West Asian But then, more than Trump World War. original charter of the alliance. reorientations are not far off. the operations are carried out the top of NATO leadership are region demands NATO’s new engaging with Kim, his entire Today, the confidence level But there are good reasons for Experts say that this septuage- under the collective defence plagued with their own domes- line of thinking both to offer a administration is busy in a of the European public over the which the NATO would sur- narian is due for a metamor- clause of NATO’s founding tic issues: an America largely safety umbrella to its member mega crisis borne out of a pro- US leadership is at its historic vive Trump. It has seen ups and phosis, looking at the changing treaty i.e. Article 5 of the disturbed by Trump’s “make states around and to redesign tracted trade war with Beijing. low. The reasons behind are downs throughout its long political, economic and cultural Washington Treaty or under a America great again” and a its geo-political skills to con- It’s not only about pushing simple: earlier all American span of life. shocks brought by an UN mandate, alone or in coop- vastly divided Republicans and vince its allies that it’s a relevant China towards a sanction Presidents used to encourage a What plagues the NATO is inescapable wave of globalisa- eration with other countries Democrats in the Congress force and can strike back hard regime, but also about alerting longstanding relationship and that all its member countries tion in a “Flat World” and for and respective global organi- and outside, Britain by its when required. the whole West about its secret bond of unity between the US are not equally bothered by maintaining its omnipotence in sations. looming Brexit crisis with Much more than all these, games around the far-reaching and Europe. Only Trump has either the rise of China, a a world crucially influenced by Now, when NATO is turn- Prime Minister Theresa May there are other two critical 5G technology. Only time will diverted from this historic nuclear Pyongyang and a the new realities and horrors of ing 70, the Secretary-General of shortly leaving, France by issues that currently deserves tell, how to stop a rising China journey and as long as he decaying ISIS. Hence, there an Islamic jehad. Nevertheless, the NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, Gilets Janunes protests and attention from NATO leader- with its imperial designs and to remains in power, he may even must come up a “new transat- despite its intricacies within proudly proclaims, “NATO is Emmanuel Macron moving ship: first is an ever-rising readjust America’s priorities damage the alliance further. He lantic bargain” between the and threats ranging from out- the strongest, most successful almost nowhere with his grand China under Xi Jinping, and while staying in on the NATO. publicly claims that the NATO US and NATO’s European side, the international com- alliance in history, because we vision of the remaking of second is a fast emerging insti- Are all its members hope- allies are taking advantage of allies as Stephen Walt of munity should not underesti- have been able to change.” Europe, Germany with an tutional decay of global liber- ful about a Trump the US. But he must remember Harvard Kennedy School of mate NATO’s ability to usher in Though his pronounce- aging and retiring Angela al democracies and in public Administration that may that these are the same old Government argues. And in a changed world. ments are too high, the alliance Merkel, Italy by populists and discourse, a strong approval for restore faith on the NATO and allies that came up to the this, “America agrees to stay on has demonstrated its survival economic showdown, and authoritarian populists across its constituents at this juncture? defence of America after 9/11 in Europe, but at a reduced (The writer is an expert on skill since the post-World War finally, Turkey under the auto- the globe. With China stretch- It seems problematic for prag- terror attack, lost thousands of level of engagement; the international affairs)
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The very strong research and trans- tions, 4 bio-clusters, 2 public national alliances to promote Prime Minister has ubiqui- lation ecosystem across the sector undertakings and over knowledge sharing and dis- tously reaffirmed his belief country and built strong foun- 5,000 extramural research pro- covery, with more than 25 that it is prudent and impera- dations, leveraging the strength jects contribute to this. We have active partnerships which bring tive to reach the lowest rung of of national and international seen a growing transition over in a commitment of scientific the pyramid through science partnerships. With more than these years moving from single collaboration, researcher and technology. 15,000 scientists and 800 insti- investigator to multi investiga- mobility and collective efforts Established in 1986, the tutes and laboratories sup- tor projects, from single insti- to address common national Department of Biotechnology ported, today nearly 10,000 tute to multi institute projects, and global challenges has been a catalyst in spear- biotechnology research fellows from only academia research to As we move forward, our heading innovative solutions and students are supported industry-academia innovation challenge is not just to for developmental challenges. annually. World-class state-of- research and translation. 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Without intervention, That, he said, is just about enough there is a good chance the children here to feed himself, his mother, and her will be brought up in the same poiso- newborn baby twice a day. “But we nous ideology that turned many of can’t eat all the time,” he said. “My their fathers into terrorists. mother explained, we can’t spend so The United Nations has expressed much money on food because we need “alarm” at the situation. Henrietta Fore, to buy stuff for the baby now.” the executive director of Unicef, urged Hamed is one of about 41,000 chil- member states “to take responsibility dren in al-Hol, the largest of three for children who are their citizens or sprawling camps in north eastern Syria born to their nationals, and to take that houses former members, children, measures to prevent children from and prisoners of the Islamic State ter- becoming stateless”. rorist group. The fate of the children Some governments have heeded the who emerged from Isil’s doomed call. The French Government said it caliphate is a matter of humanitarian had evacuated several children. But urgency and critical to international Kurdish officials have told the Telegraph security. And yet the lack of provision that Britain refused to take back British made by world governments, including Isil members or their children in the Britain’s, is striking. camps on the grounds, saying it has full The Telegraph has seen dozens of confidence in the legal and administra- malnourished infants as Isil families left tive system of Rojava, the unrecognised Baghuz, Isil’s last bastion, in the past Kurdish proto-state in northern Syria. few weeks. At least 108 children have Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, already died en route to or soon after claimed that it would have been “too arriving at the camp, mostly from risky” to send British officials to save severe acute malnutrition, pneumonia, Jarrah Begum, although he remained a and dehydration, according to the British citizen after his mother was International Rescue Committee. stripped of her own citizenship. The vast majority of them were However, the al-Hol camp is run by under five years old, and most of those the Syrian Democratic Forces, a babies younger than one. Many are also Kurdish-led Western-backed armed carrying serious injuries from shrapnel. group that Britain is allied to. The casualties included Jarrah Begum, Journalists, including from the Shamima Begum’s newborn son, who Telegraph, and aid workers visit the died of a lung infection last month. be a normal one, I just want to live in a “My mother doesn’t like me to be like woman from the Seychelles, who has camp on a regular basis, safely and Unicef has described the living condi- house and make my job. I don’t want - 1.-0 the other children. She says maybe there become the de-facto guardian of two without incident. Nor is it true, as Hunt tions for those children who reach the to fight, I don’t want to be a warrior.” is a little baby there, like three years old, unaccompanied children in the camp. claimed, that journalists are afforded camp as “extremely dire”. He said he had left Germany when he * /- .-.1 and maybe you’ll hit him. Even though I “I try to give them what I can.” special protection unavailable to the Hamed, who spoke to the Telegraph was five years old, and only emerged 10 - +- don’t like to throw rocks,” he said. “It’s Henri said boys are generally sent UK officials in Syria or in the camps. with the permission of his German from the Islamic State two months ago. not a game. They come, they throw, the by their mothers to run errands in the In al-Hol, the foreign women con- mother and on condition of anonymity, The camp, he said, is a miserable and N . glass breaks,” he said. “In Germany, it is camp market, which children can stantly exchange rumours about which said he bitterly misses his old life in filthy place. “Kids poop everywhere,” -.+ ,1.- not like this, you’re not hitting on cars. access more easily than adults, and put governments might take Isil members Europe. “If there was a school, I’d go to he said. “You have to watch where you If you want to play you go to your up tents. Girls clean or offer to cook. back. For their children, who commit- it,” he said, as he took a pause in his walk. You can’t just sit anywhere, like - .- friends, you have friends, they don’t call The market, in the larger and more ted no crime, the only thing on the tent work to speak to the Telegraph. you can in Germany.” - N.-+.- you anything, you play a bit.” Most chil- loosely regulated section of the camp horizon is more arduous work. “I’d like “But there isn’t one here.” It is not surprising. Adults in the dren have little time for that though. for Syrian and Iraqi citizens, is crowded to...sell stuff. Or you know, build hous- “When I was in Germany, I was section of the camp where Hamed lives . - .0 Adults here told the Telegraph that with small boys hauling hand carts for es,” shrugged Hamed, when asked learning, then in Doula I learnt nothing,” told the Telegraph many of the young . - almost every child from about the age 200 Syrian pounds per errand. what he would like to do when he he said, using the Arabic word for children have chronic diarrhoea. “Play”, of eight upwards is a low-paid labourer Such Dickensian scenes are not grows up. Those are the only careers “State” — the term many Isil families use if there is such a thing, involves picking .-/ - in the camp’s grey economy. “They’re unusual amidst humanitarian crisis. on offer in al-Hol camp. He picked up for the group. “They just teach the on one another or chucking rocks at 1-.+ . already entrepreneurs. I think they And across the Middle East, children his hammer, and went back to hitting Quran... and they teach you that you moving cars. “They call me a dog and wake up and the first thing they think are generally expected to pull their own the tent peg. His blows made little have to fight. But I said: ‘I don’t want to things. They think it is a joke,” said O is: Who am I going to hit up for money weight at an earlier age than in the impact on the stony ground. fight’. I don’t like to fight. I just want to Hamed, when asked about his friends. today?” said Lorna Henri, a 54-year-old West. But the prospects for these chil- ( 6 ( " / =Q = R
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It plans to launch its new ther control TV shows and movies ever knowingly passed on neither end nor middle of the political What may save Mason from being coes uncovered in Pompeii, that town streaming service Disney Plus later from start to finish — from creating an opportunity to bran- spectrum, the kind of cheese that is on first against the wall come the revolu- frozen in time by Vesuvius in AD 79, this year as it challenges Netflix for the programmes to distributing dish his socialist creden- the board — not to mention the bis- tion is how the class question becomes shows a humble family eating a chunk future audience share. them though television channels, tials. For Paul Mason, the cuits and the accoutrements — can yet more pointed when cheese is of hard-looking cheese among the likes Before the takeover, Disney cinemas, streaming services and Left-wingH commentator, broadcaster actually tell you a very great deal. brought together with biscuits. For it of soup and raw beans. While on a already boasted a fearsome cata- other ways people watch entertain- and all-round fuming ideologue, there For, in as much as the suit or dress is the cracker that changes everything. feasting table of the rich — on rich, logue of content, including its clas- ment. Disney would get valuable is no aspect of life, no object, inani- you wear, the house you live in, the Especially today, if it’s a Bath Oliver, golden tablecloths and with slaves in sic cartoons, Star Wars and many of data on customers and their enter- mate or otherwise, to which he can car you drive and the accent you pos- or a mortgage-threatening organic attendance — is evidence of bread, the Marvel characters. tainment-viewing habits, which it turn his attention without frothing at sess can suggest your means and class, oatcake from Daylesford. I don’t honey, olives and a white cheese that After purchasing Fox, it will be can then use to sell advertising. the mouth. As a fog of steam shoots so the cheese you eat is a manifesta- believe Mason would have attacked looks a lot like a soft ricotta. from his ears, you can usually make tion of yourself. “Show me the cheese, the concept of cheese with just bread, Today the proliferation of cheese out words such as “neoliberalism”, and I will show you the man,” some- for that surely is one of the humblest means that the affineurs, the noses, 5 “broken economics”, “revolution”, one once said. I’m not sure who. It meals known to socialism. among us can develop an obsession “postcapitalism”. But as he attempted could even have been me. Historically, cheese does have a with cheese to match the finest wine to defend his dear leader Jeremy If cheese is political, then the posh edge on, say, potage; the latter, snob. Cheese boards in the smartest Corbyn for walking out of a Brexit dis- Tories seems happiest to trumpet their offered to the poorest as a means of restaurants are as hard to fathom as the cussion before it had even begun, credentials. When he wasn’t busy dealing with leftovers from the table of wine list. The board is wheeled up Mason emitted an entirely different pointing at fish counters, former PM a noble. While cheese must be manu- (before the pudding, by the way) and word, not one normally associated David Cameron could often be found factured and stored, it gains a greater the cheese sommelier talks through with a revolutionary rant about the salivating over a cube of something price point. But no one peering into a their Bleu d’Auvergne, Brie de Melun, bourgeoisie: Cheese. oak-smoked in a constituency dairy, or tavern in 15th century Eastcheap Maroilles, Crottin de Chavignol, The benign foodstuff usually gets it talking cheddar with Cotswolds would castigate a hungry traveller and Beaufort, Comté, Stinking Bishop, in the neck from vegans, so how had a cheesemaker and former Blur bassist call him a stuck-up toff because he was Stilton and Laguiole. And not wishing humble morsel made from the pressed Alex James. During the 2017 general eating a piece of cheese with some to look stupid you say, “Three of the curds of milk become a symbol of capi- election campaign, Theresa May head- coarse crust and a pint of ale. soft and two of the hard,” before the talist oppression, a middle-class ed for the British Cheese Awards in While its exact origins are cheese along with a selection of delicate emblem of greed, a manifestation of Somerset and was offered a cube of unknown, it is likely to have been cre- little biscuits, celery, grapes and some the uncaring power of political elites? unusually strong (and stable) cheddar ated by happy accident. There is evi- chutneys are presented with a flourish. By way of explanation for — which she struggled to eat in front dence of cheesemaking in Egyptian But if hard and simple is the cheese Corbyn’s flouncing-out of the meeting of the cameras. The moment was tombs, but its creation might have for the humblest in society, then it because of former colleague Chuka inevitably referred to as her “bacon- occurred if we can imagine a nomadic must be the seeping, gooey, stinkiest Umunna’s presence, Mason wrote on gate”. Former secretary of state for traveller, sat atop his camel with milk cheese that screams wealth. For surely Twitter: “Finally, the elite are going to environment, food and rural affairs, stored by his saddle bags in a container only a rich, hedge-funded, capitalist- realise: Labour is an insurrection Liz Truss made an utter internet sensa- made of the stomach of an animal. An loving toff would dare brandish a piece against neoliberalism, not part of tion of herself after she lamented, po- enzyme in that stomach, rennet, would of taleggio on a train. n Paris, it was Beyoncé and Jay-Z; in reveals that Tate Modern has knocked your cheese and biscuits circuit...” facedly, how Britain imports two-thirds have made the milk separate, into No one but a bruising Tory would Washington, it was Barack and the British Museum off the top UK Because, clearly for Mason, that is of its cheese: “This. Is. A. Disgrace!” curds and whey. So having left camp in suggest eating a morsel of Brie de IMichelle Obama; while, in London, spot for the first time in nine years. what these appalling, privileged elites Before Mason reminded us that the morning with milk, he arrives at Maux, the best sort needing nerves of visitors queued to look at Pablo This success is chiefly down to the do. They sit in well-furnished rooms, cheese and biscuits equal class war, he his destination with cheese, albeit steel to cut off the thick white mould Picasso’s erotic muse or Grayson Perry’s appeal of its critically acclaimed exhi- with fascist central heating, in shiny might have paused to consider how sloshing around in whey. before you find the cream cheese summer picks. Last year the lustre of bition, Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, imperialist shoes, wearing clothes renowned a cheese fan his boss is. By the time of the Roman Empire, within, the acidity of which makes celebrity, whether garnered from fash- Tragedy. The same effect was evident without frays, sitting on well-uphol- Corbyn — a former member of the all- cheese-making was rife. It was a bril- you gag, so must be tempered with a ion and entertainment or history, at the Louvre, where a decision to dis- stered chairs and into their smug party Parliamentary group on cheese, liant way of storing dairy and it could glass of 1962 Pétrus. So cheese really seemed to be the best way to attract vis- play Apeshit, Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s faces goes cheese and biscuits, that no less — once confessed to being “pas- travel. And so cheese would have made is the new political hot potato. And itors to museums and galleries. music video, boosted annual visitor symbol of true oppression. sionate” about the stuff: “The variety of its way across the empire in the same thus I present myself, your ever-so- The Art Newspaper’s annual inter- numbers by a quarter. At the While Mason’s thinly veiled asser- cheese in England is amazing,” he said. way as under-floor heating, straight ’umble restaurant critic. None of that national survey Art’s Most Popular, to Smithsonian’s National Portrait tion that cheese and biscuits are posh “It’s better than French cheese; it’s roads and gladiators. posh Neufchâtel for me, guv’nor — I’ll be published later this week, confirms Gallery in Washington a striking pair may surprise most sentient humans, he sharper, and there’s more variety. I like And while cheese became a ‘ave the cheddar. Extra mature. that the public are most curious about of portraits of the Obamas brought in is also actually quite close to hitting a Somerset Brie, it has a nice taste to it. universal product for rich and Straight up, no biscuits. names they already recognise. It also a million more visitors. nerve. Because while I would argue And Shropshire Blue, the county where poor, the type of cheese you ate ( 6 ( " $<<;
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The finished garment is “Real-life stories of the world’s n extremely rare albino penguin as bill signings, a state police extra tie options” was with people at Kodak, the upstate New quite chic, with a tweedy look from worst superhero,” has been home to Ahas made its debut at Gdansk officer’s funeral, a White House din- the note on Feb. 9, York technology company most green printing on the brown bags. Her recent headlines such as “Florida Zoo in northern Poland. The albino ner, surveying flood damage, and the day of his famous for its photographic roots. daughter, Fran Bertalli, tells the Man Fire Bombs Garage That penguin hatched in mid-Decem- cocktails with legislators at the Illinois official portrait. Dogfish learned from Kodak that Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that Impounded His Car, Hits His ber and has been under veteri- Governor’s Mansion. Despite his heightened levels of acidity and vita- Ferrigno has been knitting and sewing Own Vehicle” and “Florida nary care. In the wild, such an Pritzker, among the nation’s 400 girth, Pritzker min C in certain beers could make since her childhood in Sicily. Last sum- Man Tried to Pay for unusual-looking penguin would richest people, needs sartorial sugges- keeps his ties at them a processing agent for film. That mer, Ferrigno saw someone’s purse McDonald’s With Weed.” be rejected by other penguins tions? He’s not alone. Joseph a proper length, inspired the brewery to design such a made from repurposed plastic bags and The less common, but and would have little chance of Rosenfeld, a fashion and personal style avoiding the long beer. Kodak helped by testing it. started her own bag projects, making no less noteworthy, “Florida survival. But in Gdansk, it has its strategist in New York who’s from the necktie look that Dogfish founder Sam Calagione two purses before the suit. 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Senior Ambani 85!;05:#5!8) 4& intervened just in time to save the younger sibling 655$;' 5$# from the ignominy of a jail sentence. A noble gesture 5" ;:)# 5# '$.$' '! )' indeed, given the huge amount, which also proved a ((!('#;7 point or two about the Indian tradition and value sys- tem where brothers have set examples of love and bonding time and again in history. True, there are ,4! ;!;(( ;5#;4& 4:&4!:454)($;! #"#(:; instances that prove otherwise but what the Ambani brothers established was that sibling rivalry cannot be generalised though they are to be found. Sibling rival- ; "# ;#&4!5: 4# (&4&54# #!85)5$O;;!&& 5$0;; -- ry, for that matter, can be traced to the Biblical story -584("!( (56 of Cain and Abel, the first brothers to appear on earth. )54; 4$55:)45 From that story to the present times, sibling relation- $5$0#"#8(:45 very religion extols the with what selfless service is. True self- to help another. At the time of giving, soul currents begin to rise up to the ship has always been a mixed bag. There are cases of ; $;4 4;4'4 4;; importance of giving of less service is an expression of love. one forgets one’s own needs and point at which we can experience the envy and hatred between brothers reaching up to a 845$'4;=854'!;( one’s self for the good of We know that the greatest love in this wants, as well as one’s comfort and divine light within us. Our medita- dangerous level of animosity, sometimes leading to a 4857.;4'4 4;;; others. There are anecdotes world is a mother’s love for a child. safety, to help someone else. There tions receive a boost, and our soul, bloody feud. But there are heartening instances, too, "45:455#"#)45; from different religions that This feeling of affection is so great are even those who give their own filled with peace and joy, transcends like the present one that vindicate the spirit of the )"4865:' 454 Erelate how someone has found favour towards the child that the mother will lives to save others. Truly selfless peo- to higher states of consciousness. popular and ancient proverb that blood is thicker than & "! ;74854 C with the Lord because he or she has automatically make all kinds of sacri- ple do not expect anything in return Thus, it is through selfless service water. Familial bonds are quite strong and arouse the #$# ;64&:(4'5$ helped one in need. Even if a person fices to see that the child is comfort- for their deeds. The underlying para- that we speed up our progress feeling of being a part of the common descent. The 4;4'4 4;;0#"#8) is not a saint or a holy one, his or her able. She will wake up at all hours of dox of selfless service lies in the fact towards the attainment of inner Indian family system has always been a subject of :!4#(4;;4&4; 4$5 status is raised in the eyes of God due the night to feed the child. She will that while wanting no reward, selfless peace and ecstasy. curiosity and intrigue for the Western scholars of soci- #4""! ;& 854'!;7 to a noble gesture which leads to the give up many of her own activities to service elicits the highest reward — By serving selflessly, we expand ology where deep individualism rules the roost. Of L.; 4$5'(;58'4 5 relief of another’s suffering. care for the child. The mother will the pleasure of the Lord. our hearts from our own self to our course, the Indian family system has also been influ- 4(58555$&!5"45( If we just think about our own spend her money on the child’s needs This benefit may seem to be family, to the community, our coun- enced by the cultural exchanges from the Western )458 0M;: 4846 response to examples of service that rather than on her own. Nobody tells intangible. But for those of us who try, the world, and ultimately, the world, and is undergoing the disintegration owing to 6;#8& 48# 464 we witness, we can get an inkling of the mother to make these sacrifices. are interested in our spiritual devel- cosmos. Selfless service comes from social and economic compulsions, but the emotional :"(5:5( why it such an important quality. We It comes spontaneously from her opment, it is the highest gift we can an understanding that we are all bonding keeps rising at times. Intra-family rivalry, 5 ;5'57 4 0 often read accounts in the newspa- heart. She does not ask for anything receive in life. One reaps the benefits members of one large family of God. particularly between siblings, cannot be said to be a #44; 4$5:4;#;; pers or magazines or watch stories on in return from the child. She gives when one sits in the silence of one’s True selfless service encompasses missing trait in these times but the bonding of the 54&!((!5: ;44:7 television about people who have out of an innate desire to do so. own self and finds the inner door of helping more than our own physical blood relations becomes evident in times of external -; "# ;:;"4 : taken heroic steps to help others. We True selfless service encompasses light, love, and peace open with ease. family; it includes all humanity. It is threat. There is an interesting incident from the ' 45"((:820 are often moved and inspired by helping more than our own physical These treasures flood selfless souls, a noble quality to have feelings of Mahabharata when the Gandharvas attacked and cap- #"#;&4!5:4855 reports of those who have risked their family — it includes all humanity. It filling them with an inner joy and love for all people, both those we tured the Kauravas, including Duryodhana. The )458 K' 45;5: lives to save someone else. We hon- is a high quality to have feelings of fulfillment beyond any we can receive know and those who are strangers. It Pandavas are told of this and there was a view particu- 85 (;5)45K;!$$;= our heroes who have died for their love for all people, both those we from worldly attainments. Sant is one of the goals of spirituality to larly from Arjun and Bhim to let them suffer. But the 5$ (45;#')5 country. We raise to martyrdom know and those who are strangers. It Darshan Singh used to say that the help all humanity develop the quali- elder Pandava, Yudhisthira, intervened saying that it is 4; 4$55:827 those who have tried to help humani- is one of the goals of spirituality for benefit one receives by performing ty of love and service to all. the question of family honour and even though ty and have lost their lives in the humanity to develop the quality of selfless service is as great as one People who have given of them- Kaurava brothers bore animosity to the Pandavas, it process. Service is one of the great love and service to all. The Sufis say receives by putting in an equal selves have helped improve the qual- was an imperative for the latter to come to the rescue acts one can do in this lifetime. that God made human beings to give amount of time in meditation. ity of life on this planet. Throughout of the former and fight the Gandharvas. Matters of the It is rare that the average person love and service to others. If He Leading a life of non-violence, the ages, some have worked tireless- head and heart, thus, are difficult to explain and emo- has to face the choice of giving up his wanted devotion alone, He had truthfulness, purity of heart, and ly to cure diseases or to make dis- tions being an attribute of the heart may not be inter- or her life physically in order to save angels. But human beings are the only humility contributes to the equanimi- coveries and inventions to make preted or predicted with the help of Artificial someone else. But there are numer- form of creation who have the godly ty of mind required for fruitful medi- people more comfortable and safer. Intelligence. What a human being does or has been ous opportunities that offer them- capacity to love and serve others. To tation experiences. But selfless service Others have given their lives for the doing, therefore, cannot be a sure shot predictor of selves to us daily in which we can become a complete human being, we provides the ingredient of grace, freedom and rights of others. Some what he will do. Reasons of the heart are driven by a help someone else. The sacrifice may need to have this ability. which helps open the inner gates. have devoted their lives for the completely different heuristic. The eleventh hour inter- be of our time, of our money, of our When we help someone, our spiritual upliftment of others. Each vention of Mukesh Ambani for the younger brother resources, or of our skills. But there * A.,"A A +. heart expands. It reaches out to of us in our own sphere can use our demonstrated much more than what rationality could is no dearth of chances to give of Selfless service presents to us a para- embrace another as a member of one God-given talents and our knowl- explain and showed the importance of the strength of ourselves for the good of humanity. dox. To truly perform selfless service, human family. This act alone opens edge and skills selflessly to make a family values and relationships. More importantly, it one must act without any desire for a up our soul. As our love for others contribution to make the world a may have a lot more implications for Indian business. 4 ,. A +. I reward or recognition. It is given flows out, God’s love for us can pour better place for all life. % " The first question that arises deals freely, motivated by an innate desire in. 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He is honing his op faith in God, which comes by doing #:5&:8!('( A student is preparing for his final exam skills in order to become as good spiritual practices as instructed by God. $5 5;0)!54&5:= and is fully engrossed in it. However, his and famous as his father, if not bet- In the Gita, Lord Krishna has set out in 5$;&4 ) 4"4(4! mother falls ill and needs a lot of atten- ter. The last example is of an aging great detail what He expects us to do. I #)5 '4 :;4& tion, which means spending time with doctor. Though he is making a lot of began doing what the Lord expects and 714 #5;!:0 her. Yes, the boy’s goal is to do well in money, he is not peaceful. He must, slowly realisations began to come. ; "# ;& 48 #50# exams in order to further his academic therefore, decide what his main goal is. one knows which Meanwhile, I systematically reduced my # (5:;0!; (0 career, but his duty temporarily super- There cannot be more than one main has the highest priority. I involvement with my business. I made + 55:# 5(;: sedes his goal to a certain extent. goal because the main thrust can be on will cite my personal committees of senior employees to over- ;8'(;4& 0 2! 4'5 Therefore, we can say that goal is long- one only. He has to curtail his practice example in this connec- see different aspects of business and to 5::!(;05:$ :: term, while duty is what is required to be hours to do spiritual practices in case tion. I am a businessman involve me only when they were unable "4(4! ;54&4! "$4 ;F taken care of immediately. becoming peaceful is paramount for but I am not entirely to agree upon something. This has -:0)(45:0) 4505: As this article is about goals, let us him. These must take precedence over peaceful. I wish to enjoy worked very well for me. I have plenty of )("67 #&4!5:# see what kind of goals people set for his professional duties. He must keep his sukha or happiness, which time now to pursue my spiritual goal. My $#$5;0' 4!;( themselves. 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Mars predicted that he was destined to earn a influences exercised by other planets. evil is there in his own mind and psyche, ill-disposed off to Mercury makes him position of public eminence and make us Remember, planets are not doers. And which requires correction without fur- restless, argumentative, hypercritical of proud. They banked their prediction on no single planet, no matter how much ther loss of time,” I responded. those who do not come to his terms. It Gajakeshari yoga being formed in the beneficious they may be perceived as, Let us now look at astrological point- also accounts for his foul mouth and lagna — conjunction of benevolent Jupiter can qualify to stand as final determinant. ers to the young man’s personality frame- lying tendency. Mars opposite Pluto and mind signifying Moon. Citing further Planets reflect different energy streams up. Lagna lord Sun, occupying the 11th accounts for his violent temper, makes astrological dictum, they stated that if ever flowing through nature. And we need house identified with fulfilment of him brutal, vindictive and cruel. Jupiter occupies one of the angular houses the support of all these energies in the desires, seen in isolation presents a rosy Venus opposite Uranus and Neptune — lagna 4th, 7th, or the 10th — no harm right proportion to enjoy a successful picture. But its opposition to Uranus makes him a perverse character. He may can be caused by any other evil planet. He life with ease and comfort. Energy makes out an unconventional, eccentric, waste money on pleasure pursuits and did very well till he completed his 10th. imbalance, if any, as reflected in a chart self-willed person having rebellious ten- incur heavy loss through speculative He then forced us send him abroad for may indicate adversities. So, a holistic dencies. He may take pleasure in defying deals. The result is there to see. In fact, he further studies. Thereafter, he has gone look of the chart is required to figure out established societal norms. Here again, seems to have reached a stage where he astray. He did not complete his studies. the personality frame-up of a person and the Sun opposite mischievous Neptune needs medical intervention. The positives He is now demanding money to set up a their related bearing on our future life. A makes him stuck to his self-delusions, in him are no less. But the negatives have business. He gets violent when questioned fractioned look will be misleading. The distanced from ground realities. proved heavy over him, as involuntarily what can he do without acquiring irony of the whole situation is that most Habitually an escapist, he may not they keep playing from the front. The required skill-set? The events in my son’s of the traditional astrologers don’t care acknowledge truth on its first appearance, positives, on the contrary, need to be life so far have created a sense of distrust to look at the implications of Uranus, and continue blindly pursuing his fanci- identified, acknowledged, optimised, and against astrology itself. But recently some- Neptune, and Pluto, as if being far dis- ful dream perceptions till pushed to the consciously used. To be continued. body suggested that someone envious of tant planets may not exercise any influ- wall. If that would not be enough, even ( " the family could have used black magic to ence on our life. They seem to be igno- mind-signifying Moon is placed adverse 9 EE derail him. I wish to check whether it is rant of the scientifically established fact to both Uranus and Neptune. This com- 0++HB **" ** .. possible, and if so, what remedial measure that the universe is a unified organism, bination not only negates the beneficence * 66 0+++H HHBD would you suggest,” the lady submitted. where every point of the space is in of Jupiter and Moon conjunction, it ( > @@+0+++0AA@IAIA,DJ@I+IH=,B,= “If you were in touch with charlatans immediate connect with the rest. rather makes him a daydreamer known '> 7 G& 9 having half-baked knowledge of astrolo- Evidently, the reverberations of energy for his mercurial temperament. E & > 9& 9
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