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BRIEFLY Justice Karnan fails SC to hear challenge on SC verdict in Jaya assets case today Aadhaar Bill’s passage to show up in SC NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Ruling will decide Sasikala stays on Monday agreed to hear in V.K. Sasikala’s detail parliamentarian Jairam back with flock, 7-judge Bench gives Ramesh’s challenge to the political future, him three weeks to passage of the Aadhaar Bill as a explain his defiance Money Bill even as the Centre personal liberty MLA ‘escapes’ said the judiciary could not SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT LEGAL CORRESPONDENT encroach on the legislative KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL procedure in Parliament. ½ NEW DELHI: Not only AIADMK CHENNAI: A week into the NEW DELHI: After briefly toying NEWS | PAGE 12 interim general secretary political turmoil in Tamil with options like issuing a V.K. Sasikala’s political fu- Nadu, there was no word bailable warrant, the Su- ture, but her personal liberty, from the Raj Bhavan on the preme Court on Monday de- Tripartite talks to end along with the legacy of steps to form a stable cided to wait another three Manipur blockade fail former Tamil Nadu Chief government on Monday, weeks for sitting Calcutta C.S. Karnan Minister Jayalalithaa, will even as some intense High Court judge, C.S. NEW DELHI: The economic action was witnessed in Karnan, to explain his defi- blockade in Manipur that has led depend on the verdict the rival camps of the ruling ance of a judicial direction to Judge’s wife moves to the shortage of essential Supreme Court will pro- AIADMK headed by V.K. be present in court. commodities in the State is nounce in a disproportionate SC against Karnan Sasikala and O. Justice Karnan had been likely to continue as the talks assets case on Tuesday. Panneerselvam. asked to be present in court NEW DELHI: The wife of among the the Centre, the Naga At 10.30 a.m., a Bench of While Ms. Sasikala went on Monday. Justice S. Manikumar of groups and the Manipur Justices Pinaki Chandra to the Golden Bay Resort A seven-judge Bench led the Madras High Court government failed last week. A Ghose and Amitava Roy will If so, the Bench would Conduct floor test, A-G tells Governor in Koovathur near here by Chief Justice of India J.S. approached the Supreme senior official in New Delhi said deliver separate judgments refer the appeals to the Chief and stayed back to keep Khehar said Justice Karnan Court on Monday, the talks were “sabotaged.” on appeals filed by the Justice of India for hearing ½ Karnataka government and before another three-judge LEGAL CORRESPONDENT O. Panneerselvam. Mr. her flock of MLAs had not indicated any reason accusing Calcutta High NEWS | PAGE 12 others against the acquittal Bench. Rohatgi, speaking to The together, the Madurai for his non-appearance in a Court judge C.S. Karnan of of Jayalalithaa, Sasikala, J. Il- However, legal experts say NEW DELHI: Attorney-General Hindu, said the floor test, South MLA S.S. Saravanan letter he wrote to the Regis- “continuously harassing” avarasi and V.N. Sudhakaran that merely because there Mukul Rohatgi on Monday combined with the escaped from the resort “in trar General of the Supreme her and her family and Karnataka amends law in the case, which has cast a are separate judgments lis- advised Tamil Nadu judgment of the Supreme disguise” and landed in Court on February 10, after a making baseless charges to allow kambala shadow over Ms. Sasikala’s ted, it does not mean they Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Court in the assets case to Chennai to join the Chief contempt notice was issued against her husband. She campaign for the chief min- would be of a conflicting Rao to hold a composite be pronounced on Tuesday, Minister’s camp. against him on February 8. sought protection from the BENGALURU: Paving the way for ister’s chair. nature. In fact, it may be that floor test in the Assembly. would decide who among Madurai Lok Sabha The Bench also comprised court. She said she and her the conduct of kambala, the The possibility of the two- both judges have concurring This, Mr. Rohatgi pointed the two would become member R. Justices Misra, J. family were aggrieved by traditional buffalo race, the judge Bench delivering split views and would be comple- out, would prove who had Chief Minister. He cited an Gopalakrishnan too Chelameswar, Ranjan Gogoi, the actions and conduct of Karnataka Assembly on Monday verdicts — one setting aside menting each other in their majority in the power tussle SC judgment ordering a backed Mr. Madan B. Lokur, P. C. Ghose Justice Karnan, which passed a Bill to exempt kambala the acquittal and the other separate verdicts. between AIADMK interim floor test in Uttar Pradesh. Panneerselvam. and Kurian Joseph. included “abusive” phone and bullock-cart racing from the upholding it — cannot be general secretary V.K. calls. ambit of the Prevention of ruled out. ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Sasikala and Chief Minister ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Frame charge: A-G Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960. Attorney-General Mukul ½ SOUTH | PAGE 8 Rohatgi advised the Bench to To this, Justice Misra said formally frame criminal con- there were two options avail- Anil Ambani firm to service over 100 U.S. Navy ships tempt charge against Justice able: “One, give him another Ashwin, Jadeja spin Karnan. Referring to Justice opportunity to come and ex- India to win MAHESH LANGA providing logistical support Seventh Fleet involving 100 “Reliance Shipyard has The statement said that Karnan’s February 10 letter, plain himself. Two, issue to the U.S. military within In- vessels operating in the In- been selected after a detailed Reliance Shipyard is the first which stated that the con- bailable warrant against HYDERABAD: Ravichandran AHMEDABAD: Anil Ambani dian territory. dian Ocean. site survey by U.S. Govern- in India to have received tempt proceedings violated him.” Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja group’s Reliance Defence On Monday, the Anil Am- ment representatives in end MSRA Certification to un- the principles of natural But Chief Justice Khehar picked up four wickets each to and Engineering has inked a bani group firm announced Follow-up to LEMOA October 2016,” a Rinfra state- dertake servicing and repair- justice and made disparaging sought to tread with caution. lead India to a comprehensive major contract with the U.S. that Reliance Infrastructure The signing of a MSRA ment said, adding: “This se- ing work for the vessels of remarks about the judiciary, “For the time being, we will 208-run win over Bangladesh on Navy to provide repair and (RInfra)-led Reliance De- agreement is a follow-up to lection by the U.S. Navy is a Seventh Fleet. Mr. Rohatgi said show cause defer the proceedings. Con- the fifth day of the one-off test alteration services for ships fence and Engineering the Logistics Exchange true recognition of the Currently, these vessels notice should now be issued sequences are great. We will at Hyderabad. Bangladesh, of the Seventh Fleet. (RDEL) had signed a Master Memorandum of Agreement world-class facility, pro- visit Singapore or Japan for on the specific charge that it ask him some questions and chasing 459 in their second This would be the first in- Ship Repair Agreement (LEMOA) signed between cesses and the high standard such works. was “calculated to lower the let him respond to these innings, were dismissed for 250. stance of an Indian company, (MSRA) with the U.S. Navy New Delhi and Washington of the capability of Reliance dignity of the judicial questions. Then we will pro- ½ SPORT | PAGE 17 either public or private, to maintain the vessels of its in August 2016. Shipyard at Pipavav.” ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 institution.” ceed.”

Cupid shot down by Cars to become dearer in south Delhi DAMINI NATH In the budget presented by parking charges go up to ₨1.2 Leader of the House Subhash lakh for diesel cars that cost Islamabad High Court NEW DELHI: Buying a car in Arya on Monday, the South more than ₨40 lakh. south Delhi is set to become Delhi Municipal Corpora- Mr. Arya said the Delhi ‘No events at official level, public places’ more expensive, with the tion has proposed to in- government would have to local civic body proposing to crease the parking charges forward the proposal to the MUBASHIR ZAIDI hike the one-time parking paid by those who buy new Centre for a decision. charges as part of its 2017-18 four-wheelers. KARACHI: In a first of its budget. Starting from ₨5,000, the ½ DETAILS ON | PAGE 4 kind verdict, the Islamabad High Court has banned Valentine’s Day events at public places and directed the media regulator to immediately stop advertisements in print and electronic media promoting the day. Justice Shaukat Aziz A vendor carries heart- Siddiqui of the Islamabad shaped bouquets for sale High Court in his order ahead of Valentine’s Day said: “No event shall be in Islamabad on Monday. held at oicial level and at - PHOTO: AFP any public place.” The ruling came on a Several twitterati spoke petition filed by one of the government Abdul Wahid who allowing religious pleaded that Valentines congregations but giving Day be declared ‘un- no space for love. Islamic’. “We #Ban expression of The ruling prompted a #Love ( in public places ) outcry on social media. but all such places are #ValentinesDay was open for expression of trending on Pakistani #Hate #Violence then V twitter with people complain,” said largely mocking the Amira.Yunis @ay_yunis. ruling. Several special Former Information programmes have been Minister and opposition planned for the festival of Pakistan Peoples Party love on private television leader Sherry Rehman channels, FM stations and tweeted “Wow. As if websites. Advertisers #ValentinesDayMorehurt have been forced to pull anyone. Am not a fan out advertisements myself but why deny following the ruling society a harmless fun- despite having booked fest? It’s not like we don't considerable space for the have bigger probz.” events. A former Law Minister Earlier, restrictions of Sindh province have been imposed on Murtaza Wahab also celebrations of tweeted against the Valentine’s Day by local ruling. Murtaza Wahab administrations in certain @murtazawahab1 areas. However, this is the tweeted: “Islamabad High first time a High Court Court u have surely made has banned Valentine’s the Nation laugh.” Day across the country.

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HC verdict on Bad air, stomach ailments making urban youth sick nursery norms likely today A look at trends across India shows that young Delhiites are the worst hit, report maximum doctor visits for air pollution-related diseases NEW DELHI: The Delhi High BINDU SHAJAN PERAPPADAN Survey based on cent rise in cardiologist ap- Court is likely to pronounce appointments booked pointments, 23 per cent rise on Tuesday its verdict on NEW DELHI: Delhi’s polluted air in diabetologist appoint- several pleas challenging the seems to be hitting the city across 35 cities, with ments and 27 per cent rise in the government’s direction where it hurts the most — by focus on top seven gastroenterologist appoint- to private unaided schools to sending more and more cities, including NCR ments,” noted the survey. accept nursery admission youth from the working pop- forms based only on the ulation to the doctors’ oice. Rapid urbanisation neighbourhood criteria. per cent growth. The survey noted that Justice Manmohan had on Comprehensive look The major spike in ap- rapid urbanisation and fast- February 9 reserved judg- A comprehensive look at pointments was seen across paced socio-economic devel- ment on a batch of petitions diseases and trends across the age group of 25-35 years opment was contributing to filed by parents and two the country has shown that and the top three cities that rising incidence of cardi- school groups against the young Delhiites are the saw a growth in appoint- ovascular diseases, chronic Delhi government’s Decem- worst hit, reporting max- ments for pulmonologists respiratory diseases (such as ber 19, 2016, and January 7 no- imum doctor visits for air were Delhi (50%) Mumbai COPD and asthma), diabetes, tifications. As per the noti- pollution-related diseases. (64%) and Bengaluru (80%). hypertension, etc. fication, 298 private schools This, as per the results re- built on DDA land had to ac- leased by healthcare plat- Harmful toxins Additional issues cept nursery admission form Practo as part of the “The air quality in many Additionally, poor dietary forms based only on the dis- second edition of its ‘Annual cities is poor due to pollu- habits, physical inactivity, tance norm. Healthcare Map of India,’ tion. Many people have been smoking and stress are some The court had termed the which highlights some of the seeking medical help for of the major contributors to month-long hearing as “un- key consumer health con- various related problems, the development and pro- precedented” as counter ai- cerns. like breathing diiculties, gression of preventable davits were not called for The report is based on chest pain, etc. It is probably chronic diseases. from the Delhi government. healthcare appointments due to harmful toxins in the Worryingly, the survey During the arguments, the booked across 35 cities, with atmosphere resulting in noted, that young India is not school groups had alleged focus on top seven cities, in- acute respiratory infection young at heart. that the government had cluding Delhi-NCR, (ARI), chronic obstructive “There has been a 40 per “discriminated” among Bengaluru, Mumbai, Kolk- pulmonary disease (COPD) cent growth in cardiologist schools as the neighbour- ata, Pune, Chennai and Hy- and interstitial lung diseases appointments, with hyper- hood criteria had been ap- derabad across nearly 200 (ILD), etc., emerging as ma- tension as the most common plied to only 298 schools and medical specialities. jor health problems,” said symptom. Most appoint- was not mandatory for 1,400 Mahesh P.A., professor, pul- ments booked by people in other schools. The govern- Alarming increase monary medicine, JSS Uni- the age group of 25-35 years.” ment defended itself saying The report is entirely versity, Mysuru. Also registering an “on the that perusal of the allotment based on actual patient ac- He added that respiratory rise” is abdominal discom- letter “clearly and explicitly tions (booking appoint- diseases are no longer re- fort or pain, indigestion, loss shows that lessee school had ments) rather than surveys. stricted to the elderly. Be- of appetite, nausea, and willingly accepted the terms The report noted that air pol- sides respiratory ailments, vomiting, especially in the of allotment and on the same lution-related diseases were spinal cord, cardiac and dia- age group of 25-34 years. This very terms of allotment, the growing at an alarming rate betes-related problems are ailment showed maximum lessee has been enjoying the across India, with visits to also making the Capital sick. rise in Mumbai (26%), Delhi property since time of allot- pulmonologists seeing a 62 “The city reported a 24 per (27%) and Hyderabad (24). ment”. — PTI Never ordered lie detector There will be no seat cuts: JNU V-C tests on suspects, says HC Students challenge the Vice-Chancellor’s claim, continue to occupy the Administration Block STAFF REPORTER passing all decision-making bodies, and were “threaten- STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: Over 250 staf ing” everybody who ques- members of Jawaharlal tioned their style of function- NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Nehru University (JNU) ing. Court on Monday who work at the Administra- “The V-C, in his various clarified that it has never tion Block on Monday had to tweets, refuses to tell teach- ordered lie detector tests sit at the JNU Convention ers and students exactly how for suspects in the case Centre as students “occu- many students will be admit- pertaining to the pied the Administration ted under various pro- mysterious disappearance Block” and did not let the gramme in the upcoming of Jawaharlal Nehru staf enter. academic semester. Instead, University student he is hiding behind some Najeeb Ahmed. UGC Gazette Notification vague phrase of ‘dynamic’ The students have been seats, wherein seats will os- ‘Unhappy’ sitting on protest both inside tensibly be announced as and This, even as the court and outside the building when teachers are available. expressed unhappiness since four days. In other words, the V-C is over the lack of progress They have been demand- putting an end to the system in the probe. ing that Vice-Chancellor M. of annual admissions to A Bench headed by Jagadesh Kumar address M.Phil./PhD programmes,” Justice G. S. Sistani FIGHT FOR JUSTICE: Missing JNU student Najeeb Ahmed's their demands and ofer an the JNUSU said in a state- clarified that it was mother Fatima Nafees. — FILE PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR explanation about the new ment. neither monitoring the JNU admission policy ac- probe nor had it ordered manner it feels but in lie detector test, the Delhi cording to the May 2016 “Massive seat cut” the lie-detector tests, keeping with the law. Police, represented by UGC Gazette Notification. The JNUSU added that as something that falls in the Meanwhile, the court senior standing counsel The students argue that the per the V-C rumours regard- domain of the probe said: “It is very strange Rahul Mehra, told the new policy will lead to seat ing seat cuts are being spread agency. that five to six months court that “they [the cuts. by few students. However, have gone by since he students] can frustrate The V-C did not visit the they added, the impending Plea of suspect [Najeeb] disappeared. our probe, but we too are Administration Block. In- “massive seat cut” is not a fig- The court was hearing Something should have not helpless”. stead, Prof. Kumar sent ment of students’ or teach- the application of suspect come out. Even if senior representatives from ers’ imaginations. Sunil Pratap, a student something bad happened, Status report the administration to meet allegedly involved in it should have come out In a status report filed the students. However, the Negative vacancies brawl with Najeeb. Mr. by now.” before the court, the students did not budge and faculty members to fill up posts. In the next six to eight was mandatory to conduct JNUSU president Mohit Pratap’s lawyer said agency said some continued their protest. the vacancies. Thus, once months, we will try to fill up admissions as per UGC regu- Pandey said the V-C’s team certain media reports had ‘No faith in police’ WhatsApp messages were these vacancies are filled up, close to 300 faculty vacan- lations and that the new ad- had put up a list of “vacan- indicated that the court On Monday, Najeeb’s received by the police and V-C talks to journalists the university will have more cies,” he said. mission policy had been cies” and negative vacancies had ordered lie detector family said they wanted Najeeb’s family that he Speaking to journalists at students than the UGC Gaz- Coming down heavily on framed keeping in mind in various centres on the JNU tests on the nine some other agency to has been spotted in the Convention Centre, Prof. ette Notification cap. the protesting students, the JNU’s socially-inclusive website. suspected students. probe the matter as they Odisha and south-west Kumar said there will be no V-C said the administration policy within the framework This list, which is still had no faith in the Delhi Delhi’s Bijwasan. Teams seat cuts in M.Phil./PhD pro- “Rumours” will continue to put sense of the UGC regulations. available on the website and Right to refuse Police. They said if the were sent to both places. grammes. He added that sev- “A small number of stu- into the small groups of “un- Reacting to the V-C’s has been issued by the JNU The court told the police continue to probe While nothing eral faculty members have dents are spreading rumours ruly” students by talking to statement, the Jawaharlal administration, makes it lawyer that his client can the matter, they will come materialised from over 25 PhD students, while that there will be massive them. However, he said, if Nehru University Students’ clear that there will be no ad- refuse to undergo the test. up with a new story each Bijwasan, the team sent to many others do not have seat cuts. We have also gone that fails, law will take its Union (JNUSU) said the V-C missions in JNU M.Phil/ It also asked the police to month. On refusal of the Odisha is yet to end its even one PhD student. for a special drive to add course. and the administration were Ph.D programmes for some conduct the probe in the suspects to undergo the probe, Mr. Mehra said. The new admission policy, more faculty members to fill He added that the UGC behaving in a “completely ar- years as several “vacancies” he claimed, will encourage up nearly 90 vacant SC/ST had given in writing that it bitrary” manner by by- are in the negative. ‘We are here to celebrate the right to love’ AYAN SHARMA called for by BJP national comprising students, activ- Valentine’s Day in diferent president Amit Shah,” said ists and academics. parts of the country in their NEW DELHI: ‘Love Without Kawalpreet Kaur, the presid- declared efort to conserve Fear’, an event asserting wo- ent of AISA’s DU unit. Moral policing ‘values’ and ‘culture’, but men’s autonomy inside and The event, which took Speaking about the im- such actions are meaning- outside university cam- place amid heavy police portance of free association less. There was a time when puses, was held at Delhi Uni- presence and barricading, between two individuals and sati was considered part of versity’s Faculty of Arts on began with a speech by DU rejecting caste, religion and Hindu culture, but got abol- Monday. Professor Apoorvanand. gender barriers, activist ished later. So we have to Organised by the All India Addressing the crowd, he Aditya Vaibhav said: “Two keep fighting against dis- Students’ Association said: “These days, one has to kinds of people are seen on criminatory practices that (AISA), the event attempted speak of love inside barri- LOVE ALL: ‘Love Without Fear’, the Valentine’s Day these live on under the pretext of to challenge various hurdles cades. One has to understand an event asserting women’s days. The first are the kind culture but actually humili- that a woman faces in society that love knows no boundar- autonomy inside and outside who are out to celebrate love, ate women.” on a regular basis. ies and is known to break the university campuses, was while the second are those Some in the crowd were boundaries of caste and pat- held at DU’s Faculty of Arts who come out to censure it. also willing to point out ‘Anti-Romeo squad’ riarchy.” on Monday. This programme is a re- double standards that prevail “We are here to celebrate Taking a dig at the anti- — PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT minder to the second cat- against women in society. the right to love and the right Romeo squads, which Mr. egory, which includes Citing an example, Shreya to make choices freely. We Shah recently declared squads. Instead, they should groups like the Bajrang Dal Mishra, a DU student DU, strongly reject institutional- ahead of the Uttar Pradesh speak about freedom of men and the Vishva Hindu Par- said: “It is ironic that the so- ised surveillance over a wo- elections, Prof. Apoor- and women to love.” ishad, that we do not accept ciety which deems a woman man that manifests itself in vanand added: “Our culture His speech was followed their moral policing.” mature enough to elect her diferent forms — be it has its roots in love. Anyone by other speeches, street DU student Jatin Verma, representative at the age of 18 curfew timings at girls’ hos- who has to protect Indian plays, songs and poetry recit- who was present at the event, considers her incapable of tels or the ridiculous ‘anti- culture should not propose als. The event saw participa- said: “Many groups end up taking care of herself once it Romeo squad’ recently the idea of anti-Romeo tion by nearly 400 people targeting youngsters on gets dark in the evening.”

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 CITY 3 DELHI Feb 14, Tue Feb 15, Wed Feb 16, Thu RISE 07 00 SET 18 11 RISE 07 00 SET 18 11 RISE 06 59 SET 18 12 RISE 21 27 SET 09 03 RISE 22 20 SET 09 RISE 23 13 SET 10 14 39 Crime cases cross 2 lakh, but rapes, murders see a dip 2016 annual report released by Delhi Police shows 420 of 574 crimes reported daily go unsolved

STAFF REPORTER tion rate compared to crimes registered in 2015. The num- Fewer complaints against NEW DELHI: Of the 574 cases re- ber of heinous crimes – ported in the Capital on a which includes murder, at- daily basis, nearly 420 re- tempted murder, robbery, main unsolved, shows a com- rape and molestation of wo- policemen, shows data parison of figures shared by men — in 2016 was 8,238, the Delhi Police. The figures nearly 3,000 less than the STAFF REPORTER Constables — were this number fell to 1,178 in state that the percentage of corresponding figures in placed under suspension 2016, the report showed. cases solved have gone up 2015 which was 1,1187. The NEW DELHI: Figures released for various “commissions Delhi Police but there has been a dip in police said that 71.67 per cent by the Delhi police show and omissions” in 2016, spokesperson Dependra the total number of heinous of such cases were solved. that there has been a said the Delhi Police’s Pathak said the numbers cases registered, which in- The report says that incid- sharp decline in the annual report. improved because “swift” clude murder, rape and mo- ents of dacoity reduced by number of complaints punitive action was taken lestation of women. 38.67 per cent, murder by 7.37 received against those in Major punishments wherever the complaints According to figures re- per cent, attempt to murder the Delhi Police's own The report added that merited them and leased by the Delhi Police, by 16.10 per cent, robbery by ranks in 2016 compared 437 police personnel “prompt” inquiries were the overall number of crim- 35.72 per cent, riot by 39.23 to the previous year. were awarded “major” conducted in the first inal cases registered in the per cent, kidnapping for That, however, did not punishments, including place. city have coninued to see a ransom by 36.11 per cent and prevent 616 policemen 109 dismissals while rise, crossing the 2 lakh mark rape by 2 per cent. from the 80,000-strong another 129 police Abetting suicide for the first time. In 2016, the Joint Commissionner of force from facing personnel were censured Besides vigilance city saw 2,09,519 cases re- Police (South Western disciplinary and criminal by the Delhi Police, it inquiries, there were gistered under the Indian Range) Dependra Pathak actions. said. several other instances Penal Code which is 9.4 per said strategies such as crime- The vigilance wing, when the blot on Khaki cent more than the previous mapping and identification Vigilance inquiries which keeps an eye on was impossible to ignore. year when 1,91,377 were re- of hotspots with the help of As many as 109 were the conduct of the From abetting the suicide ported under diferent PCR prompted the decline in dismissed from service personnel, was headed by of a woman to a mass categories. registration and improved following Vigilance the current molestation complaint The number of solved the detection rate. inquiries. The list of 616 Commissioner Amulya against one single cases among these are 55,957 This figure when com- —including 36 Patnaik who, even after inspector, several cases (26 per cent) implying that pared to the overall detec- inspectors, 87 SIs, 43 becoming the were reported. the remaining 1,53,562 re- tion rate of 26 per cent ap- Assistant SIs, 138 Head administration Special None perhaps was as mained unsolved. The num- pears paltry. The reason of Constables, 347 Commisisoner, had the significant as the one ber of heinous crimes in the overall numbers remaining charge of vigilance as an which was reported Capital saw a dip, coming low is a huge number of un- As many as 616 extra responsibility. towards the end of the down by 26.36 per cent com- solved cases of theft, burg- year when the satf pared to last year. The an- lary and motor vehicle policemen from the Over 2000 complaints members, including the nual report released on thefts. 80,000-strong force A total of 2,335 Station House Oicer of Monday claims that the po- Last year, 85 per cent of faced disciplinary or complaints were received Adarsh Nagar police lice also showed a better de- vehicle thefts and house by the Vigilance station, dumped the body tection rate as far as these thefts remained unsolved. criminal action department of the Delhi of a man who allegedly henious crimes are con- While 40 per cent of kidnap- while 109 officers Police against its committed suicide in the cerned as it improved by ping cases went unsolved, 65 were dismissed personnel in 2015. There police station in a bid to 12.82 per cent. per cent of snatchings and 40 was a dip last year when save themselves. This impovement is in per cent of extortion cases comparison with the detec- weren't cracked either. An interaction that wasn’t Number of thefts sees alarming rise in 2017 At a press conference, new Police Commissioner keeps his distance SHUBHOMOY SIKDAR more than twice the As many as 11,216 as the number of other are not. The counter point, number of thefts reported thefts registered was as many users have STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: While the annual in the corresponding cases have been 56,385 in 2015. The Delhi experienced, is that there report of the Delhi Police month in 2016 and reported so far this Police oicers also is little follow up in these NEW DELHI: The supposed “me- focuses on crimes that significantly higher than year. This translates attribute the trend of cases from the police and dia interaction” with Police happened in the year that the monthly average that rising numbers to the the app is largely Commissioner Amulya Pat- just went by, a new and year. to 361 cases a day option of reporting theft redundant. naik was anything but an in- alarming trend is being Sample this. In the having been made easier teractive session as the re- seen in the number of whole of 2016, as many as motor vehicle thefts or through the online No upadate on progress cently appointed police chief thefts reported in the city 77,563 thefts were house thefts and procedure. This further reduces the hardly allocated any time for in the current year. reported i.e. loss of burglaries reported in the possibility of these cases the journalists, save for the property. city. The category Scrutinised cases ever being solved. occasional exchange of 15 cases an hour This translates to a includes cases for which What is not available is Several complainants plesantries. As many as 11,216 cases monthly average of 6,463 the police have provided data on how many of these have told The Hindu that In what was a strong indic- have been reported so far thefts which is 4,752 less the option of registering cases have been solved or they never even received a ation of him staying away this year. This translates than the figure reported in online. even scrutnised. The call from any from the media and continu- to 361 cases a day or 15 January 2017. Even in police explanation that a Investigation Oicer for ing the policy of his prede- every hour. That is also January 2016, the figure Year-on-year rise lot of cases that should gathering details. Those cessor and current Central NO CHIT-CHAT: Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik at the the number of “other was 4,861. This was reflected in otherwise be categorised who do are hardly ever Bureau of Investigation Dir- media interaction on Monday. PHOTO: SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY thefts” reported in the city The ‘other thefts’ the year-on-year rise in as those of lost articles get updated about the ector Alok Verma, Mr. Pat- in January itself. This is category is excluding the the numbers last year too listed as thefts even if they progress of the cases. naik, arrived and left soon put forward their questions The seven minutes that after the session. He did not to the numero uno of Delhi the journalists got to spend indulge in a chat with the me- Police, would not be held this with the New Commissioner dia persons who had as- year, said police oicers. Past of Police on the day he took sembled at the mess where a commissioners also made over was significantly more DELHI TODAY “lunch and media interac- presentations on crime stat- than the time allotted to Mother blames hospitals for Talk: `The Past of the Outcaste’ - A artworks by artist Anand Narain at tion” session, as the invite istics while it would merely them at Monday's event. discussion on the book edited by Triveni Art Gallery, Triveni Kala read, was being hosted by the be the distribution of the an- Speaking to journalists Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Yag- Sangam, 205, Tansen Marg, Mandi Delhi Police. nual report this year. later, some senior police of- four-year-old boy’s death ati Chinna Rao. Panelists: Prof. T.K. House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Intially it was expected ficers reasoned that since Oommen, Professor Emeritus, Exhibition: "Emotions & Expres- Speculations put to rest STAFF REPORTER boy, who met with the acci- road. “I was reversing my car Centre for the Study of Social Sys- sions" - solo show of paintings, that after the change of Mr. Patnaik has just taken tems, JNU; Prof. Vijaya drawings & photography by This also put an end to guard, the press conference over and much of what had dent on February 9, and the when someone told me that a Ramaswamy, Centre for Historical Gurdeep Dhiman at the Conven- speculations over whether would be rescheduled. In the happened in the previous NEW DELHI: She went to three mother were hopeful of get- boy was under it. He had gone Studies, School of Social Sciences, tion Centre Foyer, India Habitat the annual press conference, run up to the media interac- year was under a diferent diferent hospitals – one ting some help. “I held him under the car a few seconds JNU; and Prof. Shashi Bhushan Up- Centre (IHC), from 10 a.m. to 8 private and two government- tight and assured him that he ago and that is why I could not adhya, School of Social Sciences, p.m. a trend followed for several tion, there were verbal assur- leader, he was recluctant to IGNOU. Chair: Prof. Sukhdev Exhibition: "World of Watercol- years, will be held or not. The ances from senior oicers face the media. Few found it run centres -- with her bleed- will be fine. He promised me see him. I informed his family Thorat at Lecture Room -I, India ors" - solo art show by Paresh annual press conference, that the excercise meant the convincing and in turn ques- ing four-year-old son, but not to play on the road again," members and together we International Centre (IIC), 6:30 Maity at Lalit Kala Akademi, Ra- which provided journalists same and only the nomen- tioned the significance of the none agreed to admit the boy said a sobbing Basanti. took him to hospital for med- p.m. bindra Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, who succumbed after four The family blames the hos- ical help,” said Rahul. Music: Concert by the Indian Naval Mandi House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. across the city a chance to clature had changed. programme in that case. Symphonic Orchestra, conducted Exhibition: ‘Ether is all that is’ by hours of fight for his life. pital authorities for its son's A case has been registered by Cmdr V.C. D’Cruz at Fountain G. R. Iranna at Gallery Espace, 16 “We went to three hospit- death and wants justice for at the Mukherjee Nagar Po- Lawns, India International Centre Community Centre, New Friends als. If only one of them had him. The boy’s father said the lice Station and the police are (IIC), 6:30 p.m. Colony, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. Actor accused of treated my child, he would cab driver, who hit the boy conducting the investigation. Music: "Les Songes Voyageurs" by Screening: “Romeo and Juliet" Thierry Gregoire at Alliance Fran- English movie screening at Gulmo- Kashmere Gate have been saved. All of them while reversing his car, When asked if the driver har Hall, India Habitat Centre caise De Delhi, 72, Lodhi Estate, 7 graft asked to told us to go to another hos- should have taken him child threatened the mother on p.m. (IHC), 7 p.m. (Mail your listings for this column pital even as his condition de- to a “better hospital”. way to the hospital, DCP Art: "Untouched Nature: The at [email protected]) surrender to CBI murders: staf held teriorated," said Basanti, the North West Milind Dumbere Glimpse of Banaras" solo show of 27-year-old mother of the boy. ‘Didn’t see boy’ said, “The lady in her com- NEW DELHI: TV actor Anuj Sax- STAFF REPORTER check. The driver, Rahul (32), said plaint did not mention this to ena was on Monday asked by A police oicer said Sonu, Hopeful of recovery the boy came under the us and if she wants we will the Delhi High Court to sur- NEW DELHI: The North District who worked at the oice, de- For the first few hours the vehicle while playing on the add it later in the FIR.” render before the CBI on police on Monday said the cided to kill them with the February 17 in connection businessmen brothers in help of his accomplice and with a graft case in which co- Mori Gate were stabbed to colleague Rajendra Pal. accused and senior bureau- death by an employee. The Sonu and Rajendra have crat B.K. Bansal, his wife and employee was allegedly un- been arrested. Sonu worked children committed suicide happy over the advances with the brothers for over a last year. made by one of the victims decade and was one of the towards his female most trusted employees. Bail plea withdrawn colleague. According to the police, Justice Vipin Sanghi is- Accused Sonu, who liked Sonu bought a chopper. On sued the direction after the the woman, told the police the day of the incident, he lawyer for Saxena decided to that could not prevent de- consumed alcohol and withdraw the anticipatory ceased Rajkumar Manchan- called Rajkumar to the bail plea moved by him, da’s “bad behaviour” as his second floor of the godown when the court said it was elder brother Devendra and murdered him. He then “not inclined to grant the re- Manchanda did not oppose called Devendra to the same lief” as the accused appeared it. Thus, Sonu decided to kill floor, claiming he had been to be the “ultimate them. sent by Rajkumar to sum- beneficiary”. The brothers were found mon him, and murdered him However, in view of Sax- murdered at their Ram as well. Sonu attacked one ena’s apprehension that the Bazaar oice. According to brother with an ice pick and same fate as that of Bansal Sonu, Rajkumar allegedly the other with a chopper. might befall him, the court harassed the woman and Sonu allegedly made sure asked CBI to get him ex- forced her to eventually quit that the other servants were amined by an AIIMS doctor the job. Sonu was angry with not in oice at the time. He before he was taken into Devendra over his failure to told them to go to the market custody. keep his younger brother in to buy snacks for “guests”.

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CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 4 | CITY THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 Cars to become dearer in south Delhi The SDMC has proposed to hike the one-time parking charges as part of its 2017-18 budget

DAMINI NATH NEW DELHI: Buying a car in The budget was full south Delhi is set to become more expensive, with the of half-truths and local civic body proposing to lies. The BJP has hike the one-time parking charges as part of its 2017-18 failed to deliver on budget. promises made in In the budget presented by its manifesto and Leader of the House Subhash TAKING CREDIT: Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and Water Minister Kapil Mishra during the Arya on Monday, the South budget speeches release of the DJB’s two-year report card on Monday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Delhi Municipal Corporation Farhad Suri (SDMC) has proposed to in- Leader of Opposition crease the parking charges paid by those who buy a new ‘DJB has become more eicient’ four-wheeler. had deployed sanitation Deputy CM says water utility is no longer embroiled in politics This, however, is not the workers in these colonies. first time such a proposal has STAFF REPORTER been introduced. Similar Boost for education hikes were proposed in the To improve the condition NEW DELHI: In the two years past two budgets as well, said in its schools, Mr. Arya said since the Aam Aadmi Party Mr. Arya. the SDMC was committed to came to power, the Delhi Jal “The proposal afects building permanent struc- Board (DJB) has become those who can aford to buy tures. At present, 84 per cent more eicient and seen the in- expensive cars and tries to of the schools are in perman- fluence of politics reduce, minimise impact on others. ent buildings, while the rest said Deputy Chief Minister We have been proposing this NOT THE FIRST TIME: At present, one-time parking charges are ₨2,000 and ₨4,000 for non- function out of temporary Manish Sisodia on Monday. for the past two years, but the commercial cars that cost up to ₨4 lakh and more than ₨4 lakh respectively. Hikes in these rates structures. “We have seen a Speaking at the release of government has not ap- were proposed in the past two budgets as well, but were not cleared. FILE PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA decline in enrolment in our the DJB’s two-year report proved it,” said Mr. Arya, schools. To boost the quality card, Mr. Sisodia said that the adding that the Delhi govern- of education and attract more water utility was no longer ment would have to forward students, at least one smart embroiled in politics. Instead, the proposal to the Centre for classroom would be intro- he said, it was focused on ex- a decision. duced in each ward. A separ- panding its piped network. ate amount of ₨1 crore has “The DJB was being used Approval not likely been allocated to assess the politically. Both parties [Con- At present, the one-time quality of education,” he said. gress and BJP] were operating parking charges are ₨2,000 The SDMC would also tankers and depriving people and ₨4,000 for non-commer- give students plates and of piped water supply to be- cial cars that cost up to ₨4 spoons for their midday nefit the mafia. Even in colon- lakh and more than ₨4 lakh, meals, which they eat using ies where pipelines had been respectively. Mr. Arya has utensils from home or pieces laid, these groups were not al- proposed increasing the of paper. Mr. Arya also an- lowing the DJB to supply wa- rates and creating more cat- nounced that students would ter,” said Mr. Sisodia. egories based on the price of get four laddoos each on In- cars. Starting from ₨5,000, the dependence Day and Repub- Tanker mafia targeted parking charges go up to ₨1.2 lic Day, as well as dessert and According to Mr. Sisodia, lakh for diesel cars that cost puris as part of midday the DJB had cracked down on more than Rs.40 lakh. meals. the tanker mafia and added Charges for buses, tempos 250 of its own tankers to sup- and trucks have also been in- Opposition not impressed ply water to unconnected to all. “When we were about Under the erstwhile Congress creased. The Congress, however, areas. to give 20,000 litres of water government, the DJB had ad- Given that the municipal ing put on citizens. The in- speech focused on improving erstwhile Congress govern- dismissed these promises, “There may be financial free of charge, other parties ded only 18 colonies in five elections are expected in competent Central and Delhi education and sanitation ser- ment and the current AAP saying that the BJP had failed constraints or limits of the en- accused us of giving freebies years, said Mr. Mishra. April, it’s unlikely that this governments have increased vices. government. to live up to earlier promises. gineering staf, but political and not knowing how to run a Reiterating the DJB’s prom- proposal would be approved the burden, and now the mu- “We tried to improve ser- “The budget was full of issues are no longer hindering government. Two years on, ise of improving quality of by the government. Nonethe- nicipal corporation is doing Attack on Cong, AAP vices in unauthorised colon- half-truths and lies. The BJP work,” he said. the DJB has increased rev- water to bring it up to drink- less, the Opposition said it the same,” said Leader of Op- With this being the last ies. But, the government did has failed to deliver on prom- DJB chairperson Kapil enue by ₨178 crore,” he said. ing standards by December, would not support the move. position Farhad Suri. budget to be presented by the not let us repair or maintain ises made in the manifesto Mishra added that the water In the past two years, the he said that a pilot project to “The Congress is opposed Apart from the parking BJP before elections, Mr. roads and drains,” said Mr. and in the budget speeches of utility had fulfilled the AAP’s DJB has added 308 unauthor- this efect would be launched to any additional burden be- charges, Mr. Arya’s budget Arya hit out against the Arya, adding that the SDMC the past years,” said Mr. Suri. election promise of free water ised colonies to its network. in Malviya Nagar this month. ‘Ola, Uber haven’t tried to contact us’ ‘AAP leaders don’t have time for Delhi’ STAFF REPORTER Gupta added. SOUMYA PILLAI He complained that no NEW DELHI: The average unified transport NEW DELHI: When Uber and Delhiite is ‘disappointed No new college has authority, new buses or Ola made their way into and disillusioned’ at the come up, nor has bus shelters had come up, the Indian market in 2013, AAP government’s ‘utter there been an despite announcements of drivers had hoped for a failure” to fulfil its inducting 1,380 semi low- better life. Four years promises, said Leader of increase in the floor buses, 500 mini- later, they are out on the Opposition Vijender number of seats in buses and 1,000 buses roads, struggling to make Gupta. under the cluster scheme ends meet. the existing ones and 1,000 air-conditioned “I work at least 15 to 17 ‘Questionable integrity’ Vijender Gupta buses under the Premium hours each day so that I Mr. Gupta alleged that Leader of Opposition Bus Service Scheme. can pay the bills and get the AAP, which is about to food on the table. They complete two years, came opened, no teachers were ‘Distant dream’ [Uber and Ola] came in to power on the plank of a functionaries. recruited on a regular He added that despite with huge promises, but corruption-free and The LOP also said that basis. Out of the 500 new the allocation of ₨60 crore, they have cheated us after transparent the Chief Minister, the schools promised in the no Aam Aadmi canteen establishing themselves in administration, but now Deputy Chief Minister and AAP manifesto, only one had been opened. This, the market,” said Sukhpal found itself surrounded by Ministers did not have school came up in even as the AAP’s promise Singh, a driver who has 12 senior leaders of “suicient time for Delhi” Khichripur. No new of regularising cars registered with the “questionable integrity” as they were busy college has come up, nor unauthorised colonies mobile-based cab with several criminal “spreading their political has there been an increase within one year of coming aggregators. cases and inquiries wings outside.” in the number of seats in to power remained a underway against its “No new school were the existing ones,” Mr. “distant dream.” Commuters hassled On Monday, the drivers’ strike against Ola and Uber entered its fourth day, leaving commuters to DCW suggests changes This time, it’s Yellow Line deal with fewer cabs and surge prices. STAFF REPORTER and Samaypur Badli stations. Drivers led by the for Nirmal Chhaya home However, the cascading ef- Sarvodaya Driver MASS PROTEST: Ola and Uber taxi drivers raise slogans during the ongoing strike, which NEW DELHI: The Delhi Metro’s fect could be felt along the Association, meanwhile, entered its fourth day on Monday, at Jantar Mantar. PHOTO: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR STAFF REPORTER problems do not seem to be entire line, the statement gathered at Jantar Mantar nearing an end. On Monday, said. to continue the sit-in take me, I had no option NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commis- for the third time in the last protest. but to pay a higher price. HC notice for taxi sion for Women (DCW), seven days, its services Power trouble “No representatives One of them even said which had identified several faltered again. Along with the power from Ola or Uber have ‘jaana hai toh batao’ (Tell irregularities in the beggar The Yellow Line was hit by problem, there was an inter- tried to meet us to discuss me if you want to go). driver unions on strike home at Nirmal Chhaya a power fault, leading to locking issue between Ja- our demands. This shows They are taking advantage Complex that houses de- trains being delayed. A state- hangirpuri and Model Town how little they value their of the situation,” said Mr. tained foreigners, has made ment released by the Delhi stations, which afected the drivers,” said Ravi Arora. Matter to come up for hearing on February 17 recommendations to the A DCW team had Metro Rail Corporation setting of routes and provid- Rathore, vice-president of Delhi government’s Social first inspected the (DMRC) said, “Train ser- ing target speed to trains. the association. Over-charging complaints STAFF REPORTER Cab aggregator Uber Welfare Department. vices were hit from around 12 “Two trains were short The efect of the strike According to the Delhi At present, the beggar facility last month p.m. to 12.40 p.m due to fail- looped from Viswavidyalaya was visible in DTC buses Traic Police’s helpline, NEW DELHI: The Delhi High had approached the home houses two women — and found the place ure of power supply from to HUDA City Centre in this and on the Delhi Metro, 53 complaints of over- Court on Monday re- court accusing the one from Kenya and another to be unhygienic Delhi Transco (DTL) to DM- period to minimise the im- which ran packed on charging and 12 cases of strained the two taxi striking drivers from Uzbekistan. RC’s substations located at pact,” a DMRC oicial said. Monday. misbehaviour were drivers’ unions on strike Kashmere Gate and Ja- The 48km Yellow Line is reported against auto from interfering with the of blocking its cabs Notice to Delhi Police DCW chief. hangirpuri, leading to trip- among the busiest corridors. Autos have a field day rickshaws on Monday. functioning of app-based On Friday, the DCW had A DCW team had first in- ping of Over Head Electrific- It connects north Delhi’s “I had a horrible But not everyone Uber cabs, whose services staging a dharna near issued notice to the Delhi Po- spected the facility last ation (OHE) two to three Samaypur Badli to Huda City experience. I had to pay seemed adversely afected have been disrupted due Uber’s oice, besides issu- lice and the Foreigners’ Re- month and found the place to times.” Centre in Gurgaon. twice the fare to reach my by the strike. Dhirendra the recent strike. ing notices to them. gional Registration Oice be unhygienic, lacking secur- Last week, a series of oice in Noida. I chose to Kumar, a 33-year-old auto The matter will now (FRRO) in connection with ity and basic facilities. “We Cascading efect glitches on the Blue Line had take the Metro, but it was driver, said his earnings Interim relief come up for hearing on Feb- the complaints about deten- found that the two women Services were afected prompted the Centre to seek packed as other people, had almost doubled in the Justice Rajiv Sahai End- ruary 17. tion of foreign nationals at had only one pair of clothes between Central Secretariat a report from the DMRC. too, decided to do the last four days. “Our law granted interim relief to the beggar home. and undergarments for same,” said Ashweta earnings from railway Uber, which had ap- ‘Public saftey at risk’ around a month. The depart- Lindoo, a resident of CR stations and airport had proached the court against Uber had told the court ‘Resolve security issues’ ment should ensure that Park. almost stopped. the Sarvodaya Driver Asso- that not only its business, “The Social Welfare De- clothes are provided to de- Even as commuters Passengers would get out ciation of Delhi (SDAD) but public safety, especially partment should run the de- tainees. Also, mattresses complained, auto of the stations and book and the Rajdhani Tourist that of women, was being tention home of the FRRO should be changed regu- rickshaws and radio cabs these cabs. These drivers Drivers’ Union, accusing afected by its drivers being and ensure a life of dignity larly,” Ms. Maliwal said. took advantage of the should have understood them of blocking cabs blocked by those on strike. for the detainees. It should mass protest. that if something is so driven by men who had not The cab aggregator claimed also take up the matter with English-speaking staf According to Sushant attractive initially, there joined the strike. that not only were its the L-G to resolve security is- The Commission has also Arora, one auto driver will be some clauses later. vehicles being blocked, but sues there. The matter of the suggested that English- charged him ₨250 for a No one gives you more Unions restrained the mobile devices installed creation of a separate home speaking staf be brought in 10-km journey. “After four money just like that,” Mr. The court also restrained therein were also being for this purpose should be to ensure that foreign nation- SLOW TRACK: Last week, a series of glitches on the Blue Line auto drivers refused to Kumar said. the striking unions from removed. taken up with higher author- als are able to communicate had prompted the Centre to seek a report from the DMRC. ities,” said Swati Maliwal, the issues they face. FILE PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 CITY/STATE 5 Study sounds alarm on honking Birds of diferent feathers Reveals that roads with loud ambient noises are more prone to accidents

SOUMYA PILLAI

NEW DELHI: Excessive honking and loud noises on the road can cause accidents, a re- cent research has found. The study, conducted by Sweden’s Road Safety and Engineering Institute and Delhi-based NGO Citizen- forSafety, showed that stretches with loud ambient noises are more prone to ac- cidents. Prof. Claes Tingvall, the head researcher of the study, said that although the trend was seen across the world, it was more prominent in the Capital. Mathura Road, Kashmere Gate, ITO, Dwarka flyover and Dilshad Garden, the study states, have witnessed a spike in traic movement and decibels. Sample this: the highest noise levels that are recor- ded on Mathura Road reach almost 100 dB, twice the safe levels of 55 dB. WINTER WARMTH: A flock of mynas enjoy a sunny afternoon in New Delhi on Monday. PHOTO: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Health experts said an ex- posure to such levels of noise for eight hours could cause hearing loss.

Health problems galore NDMC to re-evaluate cricket contract bids Further, when a driver is STAFF REPORTER recipient’s academy, by form- management company called son”, the counsel said. exposed to prolonged ambi- “Loud honking also dis- honking. Driving has be- strategies to reduce ing an evaluation committee. IGMA being promoted by an ent noises, his muscles tracts drivers and increases come a stressful business,” accidents. NEW DELHI: After being pulled Dronacharya Cricket Indian cricketer with no ex- Petition disposed of clench and breathing be- stress among them. This said Promod Chaudhury, It was also associated up for “absurd” manner of Foundation, being run by perience in coaching. On Directing the NDMC to comes 0.02mm/sec faster then increases the chances founder of CitizenforSafety. with the ‘Vision Zero’ initi- granting contract for cricket Dronacharya awardee Monday, the NDMC counsel decide the matter in a month, than normal. of a crash,” said Mr. Tingvall. “It has been proved that ative, which is known to coaching at Talkatora Gurcharan Singh, who has told a Bench headed by the court disposed of the pe- Experts said the govern- greener spaces relax have reduced accidents in Grounds here, the New Delhi mentored Kapil Dev, Kirti Justice B.D. Ahmed that the tition. ment should try to imple- drivers, thereby leading to Sweden to almost half in the Municipal Council (NDMC) Azad, Murali Karthik and the civic agency had decided to On Friday, the Bench had ment strict honking rules in fewer accidents. The gov- last two years. on Monday told the Delhi likes and holds an experience consider the bids afresh. The pulled up the NDMC for “il- Honking distracts high traic zones. ernment and enforcing High Court that it will re- of 40 years, had moved Delhi new committee to evaluate logical and irrational” man- agencies should study such Control measures evaluate the bids, including High Court challenging the the bids will necessary have ner in which it had granted drivers and increases ‘Greener spaces needed’ patterns,” Mr. Chaudhury “Apart from good driving that of a Dronacharya Award award of contract to a sports an “outstanding sportsper- the contract. stress among them. “We are an impatient added. and strict enforcement of country. Even if you wait for The Road Safety and En- traic rules, driving ambi- It also leads to a second after a traic signal gineering Institute has been ence plays a major role in hearing loss turns green, you will be involved with the Swedish controlling accidents,” Mr. bombarded with a lot of government in formulating Tingvall added. HC allows eloped couple to live together Kin hunt down driver of SUV that killed couple AKANKSHA JAIN The man was STAFF REPORTER legedly mowed down by a out whether any such num- the owner had provided accused of speeding Renault Kwid. ber had been issued recently. while purchasing the NEW DELHI: A couple who NEW DELHI: The family mem- A passer-by, Amit Kumar, His search took him to vehicle. eloped sometime early detaining the bers of an elderly couple run had given the car a chase. He Renault showrooms in Moti “It was registered in the this month and moved woman illegally over by a Renault Kwid man- also managed to note down a Nagar, Janakpuri and east name of one Shakuntala an anticipatory bail after they eloped aged to hunt down the ac- part of the registration Delhi. Kaushik, a resident of Shah- application fearing cused driver after the police number. Finally, at a Renault show- pur Jat, while the insurance arrest has been allowed hit a roadblock in the case. The couple’s son-in-law, room in south-east Delhi’s papers stated the address as to cohabit as man and by the police, the couple Maya, the daughter of Gopal, said the police ini- Kailash Colony, he con- that of a village near west wife by the Delhi High got to know that they Giriraj and Vimla Devi, said tially registered a case vinced the owners to get the Delhi. We decided to check Court. were being tracked the accident happened on against unknown persons details of the customer. the latter address and found A Bench headed by down. Fearing police February 6, when her parents and claimed that the vehicle the car — a cherry red Kwid Justice G. S. Sistani action, they moved a were on their way to a wed- could not be traced using the Misleading information —parked outside house,” allowed the 19-year-old Sessions court in ding. two digits of a temporary re- Armed with the informa- said a family member. girl, Khushi*, to go with Karkardoma seeking gistration number. tion, he went to the RTO con- The police then arrested her husband Shekhar anticipatory bail. Unsung hero Not willing to give up, Go- cerned. There, he found that the accused, who turned out after they submitted that The court declined Near the Paschim Vihar pal visited the regional trans- vehicle had been insured on to be the owner’s son, Anuj they were now married them the same while metro station, they were al- port oices (RTOs) to find a address diferent from what Kaushik. and willing to stay directing them to together. approach the Kalyanpuri Khushi*’s mother police station. Rani* had lodged a The couple then missing person’s visited the police oicer complaint on January 20 in charge of the case, and German national permitted to travel home alleging that her produced their marriage AKANKSHA JAIN case, who can assure the sound knowledge about DRI had subsequently daughter went to market certificate before him. presence of the the history and culture of challenged this order. but never returned. NEW DELHI: A German respondent”. India and that he had come The high court, HC steps in national booked for to the country many times. however, noted that ‘Threats issued’ Thereafter, the oicer alleged illegal possession HC hears DRI appeal On December 20, 2016, Augustine was granted Rani* told the police asked Rani* to come to of antiques has been The high court was the magisterial court had permission to go abroad that Shekhar had the station but she did allowed by the Delhi High hearing an appeal of the while allowing his travel subject to deposit of ₨15 threatened her to marry not turn up. The high Court to return to his DRI against a magisterial noted that the Consular lakh. of Khushi* with him or court was then informed fatherland while court order that allowed had certified his address in “What is emerging on else he would kill her. about the developments dismissing apprehensions the release of Augustine’s Germany and that the record is that the While investigation in the case. The Bench of the Directorate of passport to enable him to Embassy had airmed that respondent sought into the case was on, ordered that the couple Revenue Intelligence go to Germany. Augustine could be permission to go abroad. Rani* moved the high be produced before it as (DRI) that he might not While the DRI allowed to travel to his Frank Thierfelder, court seeking also the woman’s return to India to face trial. contended that the man native place. German Counsellor and production of her parents. Justice I. S. Mehta was found to be in Consul, filed a certificate daughter. She accused In February, when the allowed Bernd Augustine possession of eight Accused fined on December 19, 2016, Shekhar of having couple appeared before to travel back home after antique articles last year, The court had observed airming the plea of the illegally detained the high court, the latter holding that “the German the latter submitted that that there had to be strong respondent that he is a Khushi*. allowed a meeting Counsellor and Consul is the same had been circumstances to refuse an citizen of Germany and his Meanwhile, based on between the woman and the appropriate guarantor purchased from the undertaking given by presence can be secured,” the missing person’s her family. in the present facts of the market. He said he had a sovereign countries. The the court noted. advertisements issued Names changed*

Rehabilitation: NGT slaps cost on AAP plans stir to question Student hangs Uttarakhand for delayed response demonetisation move self, police STAFF REPORTER tion, which claimed over 100 suspect foul play STAFF REPORTER lives, was implemented. We NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi want to know how much GREATER NOIDA: A student of NEW DELHI: The National Party (AAP) will stage a black money has been un- Galgotia University was on Green Tribunal (NGT) has protest across city markets earthed,” Mr. Pandey said. Monday found dead in her slapped fines on the Ut- from Friday to question how paying guest accommoda- tarakhand government and much black money demon- BJP in line of fire tion here. its agencies for not filing re- etisation has managed to He asked as to why the BJP Darshika Singh lived in sponses on a plea highlight- unveil. was “not asking” for votes in Khusbu Apartment in Sector ing human–wildlife conflict AAP’s plan to hit the Uttar Pradesh by projecting Pie. Her body was found and seeking rehabilitation streets, following a brief hi- demonetisation as one of its hanging from the ceiling fan of villagers living inside Ra- atus after the polls in Punjab achievements. by staf members of the PG in jaji National Park in the and Goa, is being seen as “The people of Uttar Pra- the afternoon. The staf in- State. primarily aimed at the up- desh will hand BJP and Modi formed the police, following The green panel was coming municipal polls. a major drubbing,” he said. which the body was sent for a hearing a plea filed by Ut- At a press conference held post-mortem examination, tarakhand resident Madan on Monday, party convenor ‘Corruption still prevalent’ SP (Rural) Sujata Singh said. Singh Bisht seeking setting Dilip Pandey claimed that Mr.Pandey claimed that up of a committee to look cash crunch had returned the purpose of demonetisa- ‘No suicide note’ into the issue of rehabilita- HANGING FIRE: A plea has sought rehabilitation of villagers living after the polling in western tion, which was to put an end No suicide note was re- tion of the revenue village inside Rajaji National Park in Uttarakhand. FILE PHOTO Uttar Pradesh seats. to corruption and counter- covered from the room, said ‘chaks’ (estates) which lie feit currency notes, had not the police, adding that they within the boundaries of the Swatanter Kumar slammed Forests and SSP of Pauri ‘Cash crunch back’ been addressed. would scan the girl’s cell- national park, known for ti- the authorities for not filing Garhwal district. “The ghost of note ban is “Reports suggest that fake phone which was locked. gers, panthers, elephants their replies and slapped a The NGT passed the or- back to haunt people. Cash currency notes are still en- The police said the phone and other animals. fine of ₨20,000 each on the der noting that on the last crunch is back and ATMs are tering India from Pakistan would prove to be a crucial Uttarakhand government, date of hearing, the State empty. Modiji misled Parlia- via Bangladesh. It shows that link in the probe. ₨20,000 fine imposed State Forest Department, government had sought a ment and the nation,” he al- demonetisation was an ill- They added that they were A Bench headed by NGT Rural Development Min- week’s time for filing replies leged. “Hundred days have planned move that reaped no suspecting foul play in the Chairperson Justice istry, Chief Conservator of but had failed to do so. passed since demonetisa- benefits.” case.—PTI CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 6 | STATE THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Another online fraud worth ₨500 crore suspected in Noida NOIDA: An FIR has been registered nearly two lakh people who were on Jain’ s complaint and the UPSTF against a Noida-based company for promised returns by clicking on web has started a probe. 3 held for rape, murder of minor allegedly duping people of ₨500 links and made ₨500 crore in four The complainant alleged that act- crore, the police said on Monday. months. Webwork Trade Links ors Shah Rukh Khan and Nawazud- 10-year-old girl went missing on Jan 16; trio’s role in two more murders being probed Amit Kishore Jain, a Ghaziabad Private Limited is located at D 57, din Siddiqui are brand ambassadors resident, filed a complaint alleging Sector 2, and has shut operations till of the firm and have featured in its ASHOK KUMAR ing areas, but she could not be The trio kept the minor her up. The three took turns to that the company’s owners duped April 20. An FIR has been filed based advertisements. —PTI traced. rape her for four days and brutal- GURUGRAM: More than a fortnight girl hostage in a ised her, the police said. after a 10-year-old girl was found Black car clue jhuggi-jhonpri in The trio then strangulated her murdered in a water tank at On January 23, a group of boys Sector 43 here and to death and also tried to set her Saraswati Kunj here, the police playing cricket in a ground in body on fire to avoid on Monday claimed to have Saraswati Kunj spotted the body repeatedly gang-raped identification. worked out the case with the ar- and informed the police. The her for four days Aizad worked as a chaufeur rest of all the three accused. girl’s parents are daily-wage la- before strangulating for a private company and used According to the police, the bourers and belong to West his car to commit the crime. trio kept the minor girl hostage Bengal. her to death in a jhuggi-jhonpri in Sector 43 During the course of investig- More cases here and repeatedly gang-raped ation, the police found that the Mr. Saharan said that the three her for four days before strangu- victim was last seen getting in- Accused an acquaintance were being interrogated for their lating her to death. side a black car along with three Deputy Commissioner of Po- possible involvement in two The girl stayed with her fam- persons. One of the suspects was lice (East) Deepak Saharan said more cases of abduction and ily in a JJ cluster near Wazirabad later identified as Aizad Malik, that Mukhtar was known to the murder of minor girls reported village and had gone missing on 26, a native of West Bengal. He victim who regarded him as her in Gurugram over the past two January 16 under mysterious was arrested on February 11 and brother. Mukhtar along with the months. circumstances. purportedly confessed to having two others lured the girl inside The police have not ruled out A case of kidnapping was re- committed the crime along with the car on the pretext of giving sexual assault in the two cases. gistered at the Sushant Lok Po- his accomplices Mukhtar Ali her Rs. 300 in cash. The three al- In another case, a two-year-old lice Station. The police carried (30) and Jalil (22). The two were legedly took her to a JJ cluster in girl abducted from Sadar Bazar out searches in the neighbour- arrested on Monday. Sector 43, gagged her and tied in November is still missing. Money conversion: ED attaches Tandon’s assets

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the basis of a case registered by the entry operator entered into the Delhi Police’s crime branch. a conspiracy to get the cash de- NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Dir- The probe was initiated against posited in the accounts, using ectorate (ED) on Monday provi- Mr. Tandon, the bank manager, which demand drafts were is- sionally attached movable as- an entry operator Raj Kumar sued in fictitious names. The sets worth ₨41.65 crore of lawyer Goel and others. plan was to later cancel the de- Rohit Tandon and the then Ko- “We found that huge sums of mand drafts and get the money tak Mahindra Bank manager cash supplied by Mr. Tandon back in legal tenders,” said the Ashish Kumar in connection were deposited, between oicial. with the alleged conversion of November 15 and 19 last year, in demonetised notes using de- the accounts opened in the 35% commission mand drafts. Rohit Tandon name of firms handled or According to the ED, the bank The attached properties in- owned by Mr. Goel,” said an ED manager charged 35% commis- clude demand drafts, issued in more than ₨3 crore, besides ₨3.65 oicial. sion in advance to help the other favour of fictitious persons, for crore worth drafts in the cus- The ED alleges that a part of accused convert the demonet- ₨34.88 crore. tody of the I-T Department, the deposited cash was also ised notes. The agency has These drafts were earlier in have also been attached under routed online to other bank ac- already arrested him along with the custody of the Income-Tax the Prevention of Money Laun- counts operated at the entry op- Mr. Tandon and the entry oper- Department. dering Act. erator’s behest. “Kamal Jain, the ator for their alleged involve- The proceeds of the demand The ED launched money chartered accountant of Mr. ment. They are currently in ju- drafts with various banks for laundering the investigations on Tandon, the bank manager and dicial custody.

Gurugram heist: Just posing 4 more arrested STAFF REPORTER

GURUGRAM: Four more persons

ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 NORTHERN REGION 7 Protest after cow carcass 71% polling in first phase of rural polls found in Ghaziabad Polling peaceful in Maoist-infested districts of Odisha: police GHAZIABAD: Agitated locals Additional police force was along with members of a called in to control the situ- Hindu outfit on Monday pro- ation as it went worst. The STAFF REPORTER tested and blocked the Mohan traic movement was restored Nagar-Wazirabad road after a after police assured the pro- BERHAMPUR: Centenarian casts vote, Voters sidetracked cow carcass was found at a vil- testers of action against the Maoist threat to come out and lage here. guilty, he said. vote in the first phase of pan- claims never missed City Superintendent of Po- A case has been registered chayat polls in the Naxalite-in- lice Salman Taj Patil said that against unknown persons un- fested districts of south voting since Independence some villagers informed the der the Cow Slaughter Act Odisha. According to the po- head of a local Hindu outfit 1955. Simultaneously one more lice sources, polling was con- STAFF REPORTER Bhupendra Tomar about the FIR has been lodged against ducted peacefully in Maoist in- incident at Sikanderpur village the protestors who kept the fested districts like Malkangiri, in Sahibabad who along with highway blocked under sec- Koraput, Kandhamal, BHUBANESWAR: Mallhi Baral his followers reached the spot tion 7 of the criminal law Nabarangpur, Rayagada, dis- claims to have not missed and started a dharna. amendment act and for viola- tricts without any untoward in- any occasion for casting her The infuriated mob disrup- tion of section 144 of CrPC and cidents. From no place, any in- vote ever since India be- ted traic movement for at Model Code of Conduct im- cident of Maoist violence was came independent. least two hours, he said. posed due to the ongoing Uttar reported. The 102-year-old Mallhi, They were demanding the Pradesh Assembly elections, From the start of panchayat perhaps the oldest living arrest of the slaughterers and Patil said. election process till Sunday, voter in the State, came in a establishment of police post The SP said that a PCR van through posters and banners wheelchair to Kusunpur 102-year-old Mallhi Baral on Sikanderpur road where will be stationed permanently Maoists had threatened voters Primary School under Cut- bovine carcasses have been at Sikanderpur road until the to refrain from voting. Maoists tack district to exercise her came to the polling booth in found a number of times in the establishment of new police had threatened to kill candid- EXERCISING THEIR RIGHT: Voters at a polling booth at Lathi village in Digapahandi block of Ganjam franchise on Monday. a wheelchair. Previously, past, Mr Patil said. post in the area. - PTI ates in panchayat polls. They on Monday. - PHOTO: LINGARAJ PANDA Voting took place across either car or an auto used to had also declared that they 29 districts in the first transport Mallhi to a would chop of fingers of (SOG), and the District Volun- to voters had no impact on reports from District Collect- phase of panchayat polling booth. people who would vote in the tary Force (DVF) were de- polling process. ors,” Mr Senapati said. election. “My grandmother has Body of jawan martyred polls. ployed in three ZP zones of The next phase of panchayat The pollings were held for A resident of Kusunpur been immobile for past Due to Maoist threat and ab- Makangiri district where polls is on February 15. 188 Zilla Parishad seats, 1,506 village under Kurjanga couple of years. She can duction of some election oi- polling was held in the first PTI adds: sarpanchs in gram panchayats gram panchayat, Mallhi has walk one or two steps. At in J&K arrives in Gujarat cials by them, polls were de- phase. At least 71 % of the 58,28,446 and 20,369 ward members many great grandsons and home she used to hear dis- ferred in two Zilla Parishad Apart from it there was in- voters exercised their fran- spread over 29 of the 30 dis- AHMEDABAD: great granddaughters, who cussions about candidates The mortal re- Minister of State for Home (ZP) zones of Chitrakonda tense intelligence based opera- chise in the first phase. “So far, tricts of Odisha. There was no have become eligible for in the election in our area mains of Lance Naik Gopal Pradeepsinh Jadeja, were block, comprising cut of area tions to sanitise these areas we have received information polling today in Deogarh casting votes. and probably she had Singh Bhadoria, who was present at the airport to ofer of Balimela reservoir in from Maoist elements. Border of about 71 % polling in the first district. formed her own opinion,” martyred in a fierce gun- their floral respects to Malkangiri district. Some ban- Security Force (BSF) person- of the five-phased panchayat In Brahmagiri of Puri dis- Wheelchair user said Biseswar Baral, her battle with terrorists in Kul- Bhadoria’s mortal remains ners of Maoists had come up in nel kept a watch on the move- elections. The polling was by trict, three persons were in- She was taken to the grandson. gam district of Jammu and which were kept there for a Muniguda area of Rayagada ment of Maoists at the inter- and large peaceful barring jured in Rahadamalla village nearest polling booth, 300 When Mallihi was Kashmir on Sunday, were while. district calling for a bandh on State border and Maoist-infes- some stray incidents,” State while husband of a woman metres away from her brought to the polling brought here on Monday. Later, the body was taken the day of polling. ted pockets. Election Commissioner (SEC) sarpanch candidate was at- house, on Monday morn- booth on Monday morning, Bhadoria was given a to the soldier’s residence in However, these attempts of In Koraput district, apart Rabinarayan Senapati told tacked in Ghatukuli. In Kendra- ing. she drew attention of all guard of honour after his Bapunagar area of eastern the Naxalites could not stop from troupe deployment in reporters. para district, a woman was in- The centenarian citizen voters who queued up for body reached the part of the city. citizens from coming out and areas of polling, special patrols There was disruption in jured in a bomb blast. In in frail voice whispered voting. When a curious Ahmedabad airport in an In- Bhadoria (33), along with voting. moved aroundto check ulterior polling as some booths wit- Bureshwar panchayat of about her preferred candid- voter asked the centenarian dian Air Force plane. Lance Naik Raghuvir Singh, Security had remained tight motives of Maoist elements nessed violence, snatching of Nuapada district, some ates in ears of her grandson citizen if she would come Gujarat Chief Minister Vi- was killed in a fierce gun- in all the Naxalite-infested and possibility of hostage situ- ballot papers and ballot box unidentified people barged who put stamp on ballots on for voting next time, Mallhi jay Rupani has announced a fight on Sunday in Kulgam areas where polling was held. ations. In Kandhamal and Ray- and other activities, he said. into booth no 12, poured petrol her behalf at the booth. said, “No, this might be my compensation of Rs. 4 lakh to district in South Kashmir. State police oicers, including agada districts also, the Maoist “The Commission will de- in the ballot box and torched it, For the first time, Mallhi last appearance for voting.” the family members of the Four militants were also the Special Operation Group call for poll boycott and threat cide on re-polling after getting Mr Senapati said. soldier and also decided to killed in the encounter. build his memorial to make On learning about his Read his supreme sacrifice as an death, a pal of gloom descen- inspiration for the people. ded the Hirawadi locality in Aam Aadmi Party expresses apprehensions FRONTLINE Several Army oicials and Bapunagar area here where leaders, including Gujarat Bhadoria’s family lives. - PTI over removing of EVMs in Patiala

VIKAS VASUDEVA shocking. Punjab oicials try- create more space in order to it was after opening the room established that EVMs were ing to remove EVM position her supporting staf it came to the notice of those ECIL make 2001,2006 and NEW DELHI: After Delhi Chief machines.” for compiling results...due to present (including AAP can- 2007, which had been used in Minister, Arvind Kejriwal ex- Punjab Chief Electoral of- shortage of space. ADC(D) didate Gurdev Singh) that municipal council elections pressed shock while posting a ficer had ordered a probe Patiala agreed to vacate the there were trunks in the room held in 2015,” it added. video of Electronic Voting after apprehensions were room to create extra space for which had EVMs in them. “On The district election oicer Machines (EVM) on twitter, raised by AAP candidate counting purpose and shift seeing EVMs in the trunk, said that “the very fact that a allegedly being removed from Gurdev Singh regarding shift- the material in the same Gurdev Singh got suspicious notice was issued to all can- a strong room in Punjab's Pa- ing of EVMs at the strong building. Keeping in view the and objected to shifting of didates for undertaking this tiala district, the district elec- room in Nabha located at the sensitivity of the matter, due these EVMs. The shifting was exercise clearly explains the tion oicer’s investigation on Gursevak Singh Physical Col- notice was issued to all can- immediately put on hold.. intent of the Returning Of- Monday revealed that the lege Gymnasium Hall in didates regarding shifting of Later, after checking the de- ficer, which was beyond ul- EVMs in question were used Patiala. material from the above said tails on carrying cases it was terior motives.” in the 2015 municipal council “To undertake counting on room,” district election of- polls. March 11, 2017, in an organised ficer wrote in his reply to the Mr. Kejriwal had tweeted, way, the Returning Oicer, CEO. saying: “This is absolutely Nabha, took an initiative to The reply pointed out that Medical student raped by FB friend on pretext of marriage KOTA: An 18-year-old Dalit last year, once in Kota and A medical examination medical aspirant was raped twice in Jaipur. confirmed the pregnancy. on the pretext of marriage by A case was lodged when a man she befriended on Became pregnant Singh arrived in Kota on Facebook, the police said on She became pregnant as a Sunday. Monday. result and the accused re- He has been booked under The victim, in her com- fused to marry her and was section 376 of IPC, SC/ST plaint, said that she came in even forcing her to abort the (Prevention of Atrocities) contact with Krishanveer child, the oicer said. The ac- Act and a section of POCSO Singh (25), an engineer in cused had eventually Act, as the victim was under- Udaipur, on Facebook and stopped replying to the vic- age at the time of the incid- soon he began visiting her in tim’s calls. ent, Deputy Superintendent Kota frequently, SHO Vigy- The student eventually of Police Chuna Ram Jat said. annagar police station Jai sought help from a local fe- The accused has been de- Prakesh Bainiwal said. male advocate. She called tained but has not been ar- She alleged that the ac- Singh to Kota on Sunday un- rested as the investigation is cused promised to marry her der the guise of agreeing to under way, the DSP said. but raped her in September terminate her pregnancy. -PTI Two undertrials escape from M.P. jail MORENA: Two undertrial pris- ative of Rathore came to apparently in early hours of oners lodged in the district meet him in morning hours. Monday. jail here escaped from the fa- “We came to know about Citing circumstantial cility apparently in early the jail break when a relative evidence, Mr. Mourya said hours of Monday, an oicial of Rathore came to meet him Jat and Rathore broke their said. in the morning. We searched way through the closed ce- Omprakash Jat (36), who is for the prisoner inside but mented entry to reach the awaiting trial in a murder couldn’t find him,” Jailor B.S. staircase which opens into a case, and Anil Rathore (26), Mourya said, adding that small terrace located near an accused in a rape case, they found Rathore and Jat the boundary wall of the jail dug a hole in a closed cemen- missing after taking a head and jumped out. ted entry leading to a stair- count. A complaint has been case to slip out. He said in the head count lodged with the Kotwali po- Alarmingly, the jail au- taken last evening the duo lice, following which a thorities came to know about were found to be present, search is on to trace the duo. the incident only after a rel- which meant they escaped -PTI Separate board for Class V in Rajasthan

AJMER: Class V examinations Devnani told reporters here in Rajasthan will now be on Sunday. conducted by a separate If a student does not clear board starting this year, the exam, he will got one State education minister more chance after a month. Vasudev Devnani has said. Clearing the examination is The examinations will compulsory for advancing start from March 30. As is to the next class, Mr. Devn- the case with the Class X ani said. Students are not boards exams, the questions failed up to Class V at papers for all Class V stu- present. dents will be the same, Mr. -PTI CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 8 | SOUTH THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 All-party peace Kerala college chairman first meeting in Karnataka Cong. counters Kannur today accused in student suicide case

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KANNUR: bribery charge with CD THRISSUR: Rocked by political Nehru College violence with recurrent Chairman P. Krishnadas, clashes and murders in- Party says conversation between BJP leaders has exposed the ‘conspiracy’ named first accused in con- volving CPI(M) and BJP-RSS nection with the death of stu- workers, the leaders of the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT held in 2018. Mr. Kumar is dent Jishnu Pranoy, and four rival parties in the Kannur heard saying the Congress others are said to be ab- district of Kerala view the BENGALURU: The political slug- would have to “keep re- sconding. first all-party peace meeting fest between the ruling Con- sponding till the elections.” The Kerala police charged in the presence of Chief Min- gress and the Opposition Both leaders are heard them with abetment of sui- ister Pinarayi Vijayan here Bharatiya Janata Party in discussing the diary seized cide under Section 306 of the on February 14 as a way out Karnataka, over allegations by the Enforcement Direct- IPC. Other charges against from this endless violence. of Chief Minister Siddara- orate and the Income Tax them include criminal con- A meeting of CPI(M) and maiah paying ₨ 1000 crore to oicials from Congress le- spiracy and harassment. BJP-RSS leaders was con- the party high command, gislator K. Govindraj’s res- The police on Monday vened by the Chief Minister took a dramatic turn on idence, which is claimed to submitted their report at the A file photo of SFI activists protesting the death of Jishnu in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. The Congress re- B.S. Yeddyurappa Ananth Kumar have notes about payments Wadakkanchery Magistrate Pranoy. — PHOTO: THULASI KAKKAT Monday as a precursor to the leased a CD which re- made to the Congress high Court. all-party meet. “We will fully portedly shows that the was “selectively edited” to Ananth Kumar saying that command. Vice-principal Shakthivel, former Minister K.P. port said. The management co-operate with the govern- charge made by the BJP is a miscommunicate its import. “everybody” pays money to The conversation, it ap- assistant professor Praveen, Viswanathan. treated Jishnu’s case “with a ment’s eforts to bring “conspiracy.” It has challenged the Con- the party high command. Mr. pears, was inadvertently examiner Vipin and PRO vengeance,” the report said. peace,” said CPI(M) State The BJP, in turn, claimed gress to release the full Yeddyurappa responds by picked up by a microphone Sajith are the other accused ‘Acted with vengeance’ The role of Jishnu in some committee member M.V. Ja- that the CD — of a conversa- recording. saying nobody, however, during the party executive. in the case. A police team Although the college au- college agitations and his yarajan. The BJP also respon- tion on the issue between “makes diary entries.” Union Minister D.V. went to the houses of the ac- thorities had alleged that protest against some of the ded in the same vein. “We former Chief Minister and ‘Everybody pays money’ It further shows Mr. Ku- Sadananda Gowda is deliv- cused but couldn’t find them. Jishnu was caught copying in management’s decisions have hope in the peace party State president B.S. The recorded conversa- mar saying “the spark is lit ering a speech while the two The team has gone to Tamil the Physics exam on January were reasons for the college meet,” BJP district president Yeddyurappa and Union tion in the CD, released by and it will carry on till the leaders are in a private con- Nadu in search of Mr. Sak- 6, they could not produce authorities’ ire against P. Sathyaprakash said Minister Ananth Kumar — Congress leaders, shows Mr. elections,” scheduled to be versation on the dais. thivel. Sajith is the son of any evidence, the police re- Jishnu.

Show proof of HC notice to ex-SC judge Karnataka amends law to allow kambala caste, Rohith’s who banned jallikattu stayed SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Governor likely to mother told BENGALURU: Paving the way for send Bill on buffalo KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL Justice Radhakrishnan tion which culminated in the the conduct of kambala, tra- race, passed by the SAMUEL JONATHAN ban on the sport. ditional bufalo race, the NEW DELHI: The Supreme said there was no bar Karnataka Legislative As- State Assembly, to GUNTUR: A show-cause notice Court on Monday stayed a on him receiving ‘Frivolous plea’ sembly on Monday passed President for assent has been served by the Gun- Madras High Court notice to award from PETA Justice Radhakrishnan, the Prevention of Cruelty to tur District Collector on Ro- former Supreme Court represented by senior advoc- Animals (Karnataka Amend- Animal Welfare Board of In- hith Vemula’s mother, Rad- judge, Justice K.S. after retirement ate Siddharth Luthra, termed ment) Bill, 2017.The Bill dia had resulted in the filing hika, to prove within 15 days Radhakrishnan, author of a the plea “frivolous.” His seeks to exempt kambala and of 65 non-cognisable ofence her claim that she belongs to 2014 judgment banning citizen like anyone else. In- post-retirement activities as bullock-cart racing from the complaints and an FIR in the Scheduled Caste. Else, jallikattu, for accepting the voking Section 3 (1) of the a private citizen were not in ambit of the Prevention of 2014-15. her caste certificate would ‘Man of the Year’ award from Judges (Protection) Act of anyway related to his judicial Cruelty to Animals (PCA) be cancelled. People for Ethical Treatment 1985, Justice Radhakrishnan functions when he was Act, 1960. Allegation of cruelty In a dramatic twist in the of Animals (PETA). contended that no court or judge. Kambala is currently PETA said the inspection case, the Collector, who sub- A Bench of Chief Justice of any forum could initiate civil The Madurai petition had stayed by the High Court fol- reports contained a sci- mitted before the National India J.S. Khehar and Justice or criminal proceedings contended that the receipt of lowing a petition by the entific assessment of the Commission for Scheduled N.V. Ramana further issued against him for acts done in the award was in violation of People for the Ethical Treat- welfare of bufaloes that Castes in April 2016 that Ro- notice to Salai Chakrapani, a the course of his judicial Article 124 (7) of the ment of Animals (PETA). ’TRADITIONAL SPORT’: A kambala event in progress at Manipal, were forced to participate in hith belonged to the SC com- jallikattu enthusiast, who functions. Constitution. Thousands in the coastal Karnataka. — PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT such events, including evid- munity, ordered a re-en- filed the petition. The Madurai Bench of the In response, Justice districts of Dakshina Kan- ence of diferent forms of quiry. Madras High Court had re- Radharishnan contended nada and Udupi, where kam- the jallikattu agitation in the setback to the welfare of buf- cruelty inflicted on the anim- Student associations said ‘Private citizen’ cently issued notice to that Article 124 (7) only bala is widely held, had pro- neighbouring Tamil Nadu. faloes.” als. “Many of the bufaloes this was under pressure from Justice Radhakrishnan Justice Radhakrishnan on a barred a retired Supreme tested the ban. They argued Governor Vajubhai R. Vala The cruelty inherent in frothed at the mouth, saliv- the BJP-led Union govern- contended that there was no plea by Mr. Chakrapani. Court judge from pleading or that the annual kambala is likely to refer the Bill to the events such as bull and buf- ated heavily, and displayed ment and the TDP govern- constitutional bar on him re- Mr. Chakrapani argued acting in any court or before races in paddy fields were President for his assent. falo races violated the PCA increased respiration rates, ment in the State. ceiving such an award after that bestowing and receiving any authority within India. part of their tradition. The Act, 1960, it said. demonstrating that they Rohith, a research scholar his retirement as Supreme of the PETA award were in- The Article was not connec- sport did not torture anim- PETA criticises move Poorva Joshipura, CEO, struggle, and are anatomic- in the University of Hydera- Court judge. dicative of bias as PETA was ted to the acceptance of an als, they said. The movement PETA, in a press release, PETA India, said three kam- ally unfit to be forced to take bad, committed suicide in a He said he was a private a party to the jallikattu litiga- award. gathered momentum after called the amended Bill “a bala events inspected by the part,” said the statement. hostel room in January 2016.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 NATION 9 Search continues UP rape victim found ‘Why 10-month Mass fraud in Vyapam exam: SC for man-eater detention for leopard in Sariska Court confirms cancellation of MBBS admission given to 634 students dead; SP MLA held suspected theft?’ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SULTANPUR (UP): A woman, who death, police said adding that LEGAL CORRESPONDENT KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL had accused Samajwadi the body has been sent for JAIPUR: Forest oicials are Party MLA Arun Verma of post mortem to ascertain the NEW DELHI: “What kind of a NEW DELHI: Terming their con- searching for a man-eater raping her in 2013, was found cause of death. State are you running,” Chief duct an “act of deceit,” the leopard at the Sariska Tiger dead near her house here, The woman had alleged Justice of India J.S. Khehar Supreme Court on Monday Reserve in Alwar district of police said on Monday, that the local MLA, who is asked the Telangana govern- confirmed the cancellation Rajasthan on Monday, a day adding that Mr. Verma has seeking re—election on SP ment on Monday. of the admission of 634 stu- after it mauled to death two been booked on charges of ticket from Sultanpur, and A visibly shocked Justice dents to the MBBS course persons and injured another murder. others had gangraped her in Khehar asked the question in made through Vyapam test in villages near the national Mr Verma is seeking re- September 2013. The woman a case in which a man was de- in Madhya Pradesh between park. election from Sultanpur and had later withdrawn her al- tained for over 10 months on 2008 and 2012. Following an agitation by is considered close to Chief legation even as some local the suspicion that he stole A Bench of Chief Justice of villagers, the Forest Depart- Minister Akhilesh Yadav. youth were charged for the some sarees from a shop in India J.S. Khehar and Justices ment has issued orders to However, Chief Minister crime. The trial in the case is Hyderabad. Kurian Joseph and Arun shoot the leopard. It dis- Akhilesh Yadav has said the continuing. “Have a heart, will you? A Mishra held in an 87-page patched four shooters from case could be probed by any Police is probing the death person is detained for all this judgment that the action of Jaipur to the wildlife reserve. agency that the victim’s fam- and going through call re- time on the mere suspicion the students was “unaccept- The shooters, assisted by ily wants. cords of the woman. that he stole one or two able behaviour” and did not FACING THE HEAT: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan coming out of a Bhopal court after giving forest guards and Special Ti- An FIR has been re- Mr Verma meanwhile said sarees... and there is not even warrant any interference un- his statement in a defamation case in connection with Vyapam scam. — FILE PHOTO: A. M. FARUQUI ger Protection Force jawans, gistered against the MLA un- he was prepared to face any one credible witness to der Article 142 of the were looking for the feline der Section 302 IPC probe. “It is a conspiracy prove that he committed the Constitution. “If we desire to build a na- icle 142,” the court observed. mafia, power-brokers and of- till late on Monday night. (murder) on a complaint by against me, I am ready to face theft... What will happen to tion on the touchstone of In its 87-page judgment, ficials of the Medical Educa- The residents of half-a- the victim’s family, a senior inquiry by any agency even this country if this is how cit- Rule of law ethics and character and if the Bench said the case high- tion Department and the dozen villages in the area oicer said. CBI,” he said. izens are treated,” the Chief “The actions of the appel- our determined goal is to lighted “mass fraud,” and any State Professional Examina- have been living in fear fol- The body of the 22-year- U.P. Chief Minister Justice asked Telangana lants are founded on unac- build a nation where only the leniency would encourage tion Board was involved in lowing the death of six per- old woman, who has been Akhilesh Yadav, when asked counsel. ceptable behaviour and in rule of law prevails, then we others to follow suit. getting these students sons in the leopard attacks missing since Saturday, was to comment on the incident The Chief Justice, who complete breach of the rule cannot accept the claim of passed through illegal during the last six months. found on Sunday near a said it was condemnable. was sitting on a Bench with of law. Their actions consti- the appellants for the sug- ‘Chouhan should resign’ means. Mr. Chouhan should State Chief Wildlife primary school in Jais- “This is not only unfortu- Justice N.V. Ramana, said: tute acts of deceit, invading gested societal gains... We Reacting to the verdict, the resign immediately,” said Warden G.V. Reddy told The inghpur in Sultanpur, police nate, but highly condem- “Telangana... such a nice into a righteous social order. have no diiculty whatso- Congress demanded the Madhya Pradesh Congress Hindu that there was no pro- said. nable. The family should get State, but look at how you are National character, in our ever in concluding in favour resignation of Madhya Pra- president Arun Yadav. Con- gress so far in finding the justice. Government is ready running it... We will have to considered view, cannot be of the rule of law. Such being desh Chief Minister Shivraj gress leader Ajay Singh said man-eater leopard. Awaiting report to recommend a probe by pass strictures against you. sacrificed for benefits —in- the position, it is not possible Singh Chouhan. the order had substantiated Dog squads and drones Injury marks around her any agency sought by the We have to see that people in dividual or societal,” the Su- for us to extend to the appel- “The ruling has exposed the accusations of a scam. have been pressed into neck suggested prima facie victim’s family,” he said in this country are not harassed preme Court observed. lants, any benefit under Art- that the corrupt network of (With inputs from PTI) service. that she was strangled to Badaun. — PTI like this again.” 24 Maoist cadre lay down arms in Bumper harvest All eyes on Bengaluru’s skies Bihar after SSB STAFF REPORTER persuasion BENGALURU: For the next five days, all roads in the city will SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT lead to the Indian Air Force base in Yelahanka which is NEW DELHI: Twenty-four hosting India’s largest Maoists surrendered in Bi- aerospace and defence expo. har on Monday after the The 11th edition of the event, Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) which begins on Tuesday, persuaded them to do so, an will see the popular Surya oicial said. Kiran Team of the IAF make The SSB, whose prime a comeback to the skies after duty is to guard the Nepal nearly six years. border, is also deployed in Aerobatics teams will take various areas afected by left to the skies twice a day to en- wing extremism (LWE). thral visitors. Visitors can On Tuesday, Maoist look forward to three of the cadres, including few known five teams from the previous names in Bihar — Rambabu edition — Sarang (helicopter GEARING UP: Preparations on for the ‘Aero India 2017’ at the Air Sahni, Bharat Manjhi, Haren- acrobatics) of the IAF, the Force station at Yelahanka in Bengaluru. — PHOTO: PTI dra Das, Shyambabu Sahni Scandinavian Air Show team and Gorakh Sahni — sur- from Sweden and the UK- pliers will be hoping to find eration Army Air Force rendered before the district based Team Yakovlevs, buyers for their innovative (PLAAF). magistrate at Jhapan in Bihar. which employs tight forma- products. Delegates from From traic diversions to In 2016, the SSB apprehen- tions and uses Cold War-era more than 30 countries are banning non-vegetarian food ded 266 Maoists and 245 Soviet aircraft. expected to take a close look in and around Yelahanka, sympathisers during various At the ground level, 72 air- at the wares and innovations civic bodies have been on an operations in Chhattisgarh, craft, some of them repres- being showcased by com- overdrive in the run-up to Bihar and Jharkhand. enting cutting-edge techno- panies from 51 countries. the event. With lakhs of Around 96 kg of explos- logy, will be on display. For perhaps the first time, people and thousands of ives, 162 firearms and ₨48 The business-side of the a Chinese delegation will vehicles expected to con- lakh in cash were recovered event will see various States participate in the event. The gregate near the IAF base, from the Maoists in these SORTING OUT: A vendor sorts oranges at a market in Bhopal on Monday. - PHOTO: PTI vying for investment while delegation comprises five of- the traic police have intro- raids. defence companies and sup- ficers from the People’s Lib- duced diversions. Another acid attack in Bengal, victim critical

STAFF REPORTER According to police, the been detained on the basis senior GRP oicial. The woman (23) of Baruipur, of the complaint lodged by condition of the woman, KOLKATA: In yet another case was attacked at around the woman’s father ,” a po- currently admitted in the of acid attack in West 10.30 pm on Sunday when lice source told The district hospital, had “de- Bengal, a woman received the train was pulling out of Hindu. teriorated” since Monday severe injuries after a man Baruipur station. “A case has been lodged morning. threw acid at her in a mov- “The miscreant jumped under Sections 326 A (acid In September 2016, ing train late on Sunday of the train and fled be- throwing), 307 (attempt to three girl students were at- night. The incident took fore other passengers murder) and 120 B (crim- tacked with acid by place at Baruipur of South could catch him. A local inal conspiracy) against miscreants in Bankura 24 Paraganas district. real estate promoter has unknown persons,” said a district.

Singur stir to figure in Bengal textbooks

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT According to sources in the Board, the issue KOLKATA: The episode of will be dealt in a separate land acquisition at Singur chapter titled ‘Jal Jamin will be part of the West Jangal Jivika’ (Water, Bengal Board text books Land, Forest & from the current Livelihood). academic session, State The chapter will talk Education Minister about land movements in Partha Chatterjee said in India with references to the Assembly on the Tebhaga movement Monday. — a movement led by Asked by a Trinamool sharecroppers and Congress (TMC) guided by by members of legislator in the House undivided Communist whether the Singur party in 1946-47 — will be movement will be included in the chapter. included in the Chief Minister Mamata curriculum at the college Banerjee and other level, the Minister said Trinamool Congress there are no such plans. leaders are likely to “The class VIII history feature in the section books printed by the dealing with the Singur West Bengal Board of agitation. Secondary Education After the Supreme from this year will Court order in August contain Singur land 2016 to return land to movement,” Mr. farmers at the disputed Chatterjee told small car site at Singur, journalists later. the TMC government He said he has spoken decided to include the to the authorities of episode in school Board to ensure that new textbooks. books printed with Meanwhile, the references to Singur are legislators of the Left distributed across the Front and Congress State. The Class VIII walked out from the history book is titled Assembly demanding a Ateet O Oitijyho (Past discussion on “assault on and Heritage). women MLAs” last week.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 10 | EDITORIAL THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 Swimming out of a numerical soup In a reasoned and realistic Budget, the Finance Minister missed a couple of tricks while reducing the income tax rate for the first slab and the corporate tax rate for small companies

Perhaps, he is hoping that the State budgets will all help in making tax evasion more dif- TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 will be suiciently expansionary. Also, the ficult. Perhaps, the government should have BHASKAR DUTTA Reserve Bank claims that the economy will kept the 10% tax slab unchanged, and actu- soon be fully remonetised (but then why ally introduced a new 5% tax slab for those was it ever demonetised?) and this will with taxable income of ₨2 lakh to ₨2.5 lakh. provide another source of demand stimulus. That would have been an exhibition of real Rebel factor, Several commentators have remarked that The Budget proposals reveal that both political courage! Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s budget for revenue as well as expenditure will record The only other notable change in direct minority choices 2017-18 lacks much fizz. But everything has only modest increases during the next fin- taxes is the decision to reduce the corporate to be viewed in perspective. This year’s ancial year. Expenditure is forecast to grow tax rate to 25% for companies with an annual ttarakhand goes to the polls on Wednes- Budget was presented at a time when there at 6.6% over the year, compared with a rise turnover below ₨50 crore. Those above the day for its fourth Assembly elections are several storm clouds hanging over the of over 12% during the current year. Gross threshold will continue to pay the existing since its formation after it was carved economy. We are still reeling from the ef- tax revenue is forecast to increase by 12.2 % rate of 30%. This move may have been taken out from Uttar Pradesh in 2000. The fects of demonetisation, which must have during the next year, significantly below the to compensate small companies that have U earned a prominent place in the record 17% expansion witnessed during the current been adversely afected by demonetisation. electoral fight here has always been between the books as one of the biggest policy induced year. Nevertheless, it is a regressive step. This tax Congress and the BJP, but this time around the bi- disasters of all time. The International Mon- A major reason for the rather conservat- reduction provides quite perverse incent- polar contest has been muddied with rebels from etary Fund (IMF) estimates the efect of de- ive forecasted increase in tax revenue col- ives because companies should be induced both parties expected to act as spoilers. By virtue of monetisation to be a 1% reduction in the lection is that excise duties will contribute to expand, to grow big in order to reap eco- how the two national parties have conducted their GDP growth rate. Even the Economic Sur- very little to the increase. This is in contrast nomies of scale. This may also encourage campaigns, the election is billed as a contest vey admits some adverse efect on the eco- to the current year when higher duties on bigger units to split up so as to enjoy the between Chief Minister Harish Rawat of the Con- nomy, but naturally claims that it will be petrol and diesel provided something of a lower tax rate. gress and Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the much lower. To make matters worse, the in- The Budget has nothing much windfall gain to the government. Since The farm challenge BJP. The Congress has sought to make the polls a troduction of the uniform Goods and Ser- to say about the GST. But this is crude oil process have started climbing up, referendum on the performance and image of Mr. vices Tax (GST), as well as advancing the the government can no longer aford to in- Readers may recall that the Prime Minis- date of the presentation of the Budget by a out of necessity since decisions crease taxes of petroleum products. ter had promised to double farmers’ in- Rawat. The Chief Minister lost his post temporarily month meant that the government did not on the GST remain with the comes within a spell of five years. Roughly a last year with the imposition of President’s Rule, really have firm estimates of either the rate Tax slabs year has passed since the promise was made, before a Supreme Court verdict returned him to of growth of the economy or the amount of GST Council Perhaps, a small act of populism is the de- and it is increasingly clear that the promise power. The BJP has projected Mr. Modi as the face indirect tax revenues that it could hope to cision to reduce the income tax rate for the is nothing but a pipe dream. However, agri- of its campaign, and focussed its attack on Mr. collect during the year. Finally, this was also ulism. It is a workmanlike exercise, devoid first slab from 10% to 5%. This has resulted culture and the rural sector does constitute Rawat. This personality-centric strategy has meant the first time that the Railway Budget was of any frills or fireworks. There are no sops in a discontinuous rate structure, with the a major thrust area in the Budget, with the that issues such as flood and disaster relief and re- being integrated with the general Budget. — the clearest indication being the absence marginal tax rate for the next slab jumping budgetary allocation being increased by as construction, protection of the environment and of any announcement about new train lines! to 20%. While the discontinuity by itself is much as 24%. Agriculture has also been The electoral temptation declining farm productivity in the hills have been His philosophy this time round seems to be not bad and not uncommon — the rate for promised increased credit. Market reforms The political atmosphere, with elections to let the economy grow more or less on its instance in the United Kingdom jumps from in agriculture will also be encouraged. A pushed to the margins. Instead, the OROP issue,de- in several States, including the crucial one of own, with minimal additional interference 20% to 40% for two contiguous slabs — it is somewhat surprising allocation is the one to monetisation — the efects of which are more pro- Uttar Pradesh, being just round the corner, or help from the government. a bad move for a quite diferent reason. Total the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Em- nounced in the plains than in the hills — and ab- was also not propitious for good Budget- The government has achieved the fiscal tax revenue in India is ridiculously low at ployment Guarantee Act, which was the stract promises on employment-centred making. It must have been tempting for Mr. deficit target of 3.5% of GDP that was set for 11% of GDP. It is essential that the tax to GDP flagship scheme of the previous United Pro- development and promotion of tourism have found Jaitley to indulge in some cheap populism in 2016-17. The earlier target of bringing this ratio be increased significantly in order to gressive Alliance government. The Prime more air, as they were the calling cards of Mr. Modi order to counter any negative reaction of down to 3% during 2017-18 has been relaxed, finance increased public expenditure in the Minister as well as many economists have and Mr. Rawat during the campaign. The two voters to the demonetisation. The Election but only slightly. Mr. Jaitley has increased it social sectors and infrastructure, to mention on several occasions attacked the scheme parties have relied on contrasting strategies, with Commission would not have interfered — to 3.2%. This must actually have come as a just a couple of priority areas. This will be because of the leakages and corruption as- the BJP undertaking a door-to-door, grassroots ef- by agreeing to allow the government to disappointment to many who felt that it was possible only if a twin-pronged strategy is sociated with it. Perhaps fears of an adverse fort in the hills and the Congress fielding its cam- present the Budget just before the elections, imperative for the government to choose a carried out. First, there should be no de- political fallout prevented any drastic re- it had signalled that it would treat the budget larger deficit so as to provide a big dose of crease in tax rates. Second, a significantly duction in budgetary support for the paign strategist Prashant Kishor to up its social me- as a routine and necessary piece of govern- fiscal stimulus in order to ofset the contrac- larger share of national income must be scheme. dia pitch. As has all along been the case in ment policy. tion of demand following the demonetisa- brought under the scope of income tax. In- A most welcome proposal in the Budget Uttarakhand, the contest is expected to be close. But the overall impression is that Mr. Jait- tion exercise. However, the Finance Minis- creased computerisation, KYC require- speech was the promise to reform the sys- The second phase of polling in U.P., in Ro- ley has refrained from any overt acts of pop- ter has chosen the path of fiscal prudence. ments, penalties on large cash transactions tem of political funding. The budget has hilkhand, on Wednesday covers constituencies that proposed a ceiling of ₨2,000 on cash dona- have a relatively higher proportion of Muslim CARTOONSCAPE tions to political parties, as well as the intro- voters. Expectedly, the Samajwadi Party-Congress duction of electoral bonds for political fund- combine and the Bahujan Samaj Party have sought ing. Of course, these will not clean up the to consolidate minority support, which is reflected system completely. But, these measures are certainly steps in the right direction. They in the selection of candidates. However, reducing need to be supplemented by other steps the contest in these seats in northwestern U.P. to such as subjecting the accounts of all major merely the question of which party is more secular parties to auditing perhaps by the Comp- would be a disservice to the voters, who make up troller and Auditor General of India’s oice. 17% of the State’s population and who live in a re- The Budget keeps the structure of indir- gion with abysmal socio-economic indicators. ect taxes virtually unchanged. Perhaps, this While many of those engaged in the small-scale and is because the government hopes to intro- unorganised sector have been severely afected by duce the GST during the next financial year, demonetisation, better agricultural productivity in probably by September 1, and the GST will the last year has helped farmers raise income levels. in any case radically alter the structure of in- direct changes. The GST is of course the These developments are expected to have an im- most important development in tax policy pact on electoral choices, continuing the trend of in decades, and successive Central govern- unpredictability in the U.P. elections this year. ments have tried to get this approved by State governments. Many commentators have pointed out that there are many flaws with the structure of the GST, with numer- North Korea lobs ous slabs being the most glaring defect. The Budget has nothing much to say about the GST. But this is out of necessity since de- a missile challenge cisions on the GST remain with the GST Council, in which the Central government n the face of it, the launch of a medium- representative is just one of many members. range ballistic missile by North Korea Perhaps the biggest plus point of Mr. Jait- on Sunday is yet another reckless pro- ley’s budget is that this is not a big-bang Ovocation by its leader Kim Jong-un. Last budget. The demonetisation exercise has year, the Kim regime tested at least a dozen missiles provided enough shocks to the economy — and even vowed to launch an intercontinental bal- time and relative calm are required for the listic missile that could hit the U.S. Each time the economy to be nursed back to health. The tests have triggered angry and anxious responses Budget does provide this. from world leaders, particularly from Japan, South Bhaskar Dutta is a Professor at Ashoka University and the Korea and the U.S. The UN Security Council has University of Warwick. already imposed a host of sanctions on the country. But neither sanctions nor warnings issued by other powers have had any impact on North Korea’s belli- LETTERS TO THE EDITOR cose behaviour. There is a method in Pyongyang’s Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. madness; a hidden pattern behind the aggressive posturing and frequent violation of international law. The latest missile test, the first after Donald Political crisis install a government which will Governance has taken a back seat two warring factions are only Animal rights Trump became the U.S. President, comes at a time protect constitutional provisions, and the common man cannot be proceeding on a path of self- when he was hosting Japanese Prime Minister In Tamil Nadu, time is running out. safeguard democracy and add to the allowed to be kept in suspense. I feel destruction while the Opposition is As any pet lover would attest, Shinzo Abe. This is not the first time North Korea is It seems that the Governor has only majesty of the high oice of the the elected representatives must be waiting to fish in troubled waters. animals show deep sensitivity and two options to settle the dispute Governor. Allowing the drama to go asked to go back to their The slugfest, with no functional natural, god-given instincts which challenging a new U.S. President with a weapons over government formation in a on will only lend credence to the constituencies to serve the people. machinery, will cost the State dear. we have long forgotten (“Looking test. In 2009, a few months after Barack Obama took democratic way. One is asking Chief charge that the Governor is playing Until the Governor comes up with a Suresh B. Sekharan, beyond our own species”, Feb.11). A oice, Pyongyang conducted an underground nuc- Minister O. Panneerselvam to a partisan role at the behest of the concrete solution, the legislators Thiruvananthapuram recent article in The Guardian says: lear blast. Mr. Obama saw it as a provocation and re- continue while the other is to invite Centre. He must immediately should go about their daily work. “You and the elephant both have sponded with the tightening of international sanc- V.K. Sasikala to assume charge convene the Assembly and direct Raghavan, Root cause minds made from the same stuf... tions on the country. afresh. Of course, both factions need the MLAs to make clear their Chennai The same ancient hormones bring Mr. Obama’s hardline approach, however, did to prove their majority on the floor preferences. Extraneous issues such While it is appreciable that about pleasure, anger and stress.” little to alter North Korea’s aggressive weapons of the House either through a secret as the Supreme Court verdict in the The political turmoil in Tamil Nadu preventive action such as greater This is true with other animals, in programme. Mr. Trump is now facing his Obama ballot or open counting. disproportionate assets case may is only causing hardship as the awareness and vigilance is slowing varying degrees. That they cannot The AIADMK party has forgotten a not be a hurdle now as one doesn’t government machinery has come to down the prevalence of child speak our language (or use an moment. North Korea was not one of his top prior- third option which is within its know what the final outcome could a grinding halt. Several important marriages, it is unfortunate that the interpreter!) does not make them ity areas. But it has now stormed into the Presid- reach. The warring sides need to be. The crisis in Tamil Nadu reflects issues have been forgotten as authorities are still reluctant to get any less sentient. ent’s first set of foreign policy challenges. His im- bury the hatchet. Mr. the problem most political parties groupism is the prime issue in the to the root of the problem — One is poignantly reminded of the mediate reaction was marked by measured Panneerselvam can remain the across India face — being tussle for high oice and power. unending poverty and hunger death of wildlife explorer and restraint, in sharp contrast to his response to the re- Chief Minister while Ms. Sasikala personality-centric which creates The claims and counter claims (‘Ground Zero’ page — “Reluctant conservationist Lawrence Anthony cent missile test by Iran, which has been “put on no- can continue as party General problems later. The Governor needs being made by each rival group that mothers”, Feb.11). Framing laws when two herds of wild elephants tice” by his administration. That may be because Secretary. They need to remember to get a government installed they each have the capability to without action and proper he had rescued came to his home in Mr. Trump knows that the stakes are higher as that this is the MGR centenary year. without fear or favour. form the government are only implementation and counselling a game park in South Africa after he North Korea is a nuclear power. As in the case of his Victor Frank A., Parthasarathy Sen, eroding democracy. The uncertain will not fetch any results. Such passed away. He had earlier so predecessors, he doesn’t have many options to ad- Chennai New Delhi political situation can be tackled families and regions must be tellingly observed in his book that only by imposing President’s rule in identified and provided enough there is more to life than “just dress the Pyongyang challenge. Sanctions are The OPS faction appears to be I suspect that most of the MLAs the State and then going in for a opportunities to earn adequately to yourself, your own family and your already in place. The regime is already isolated. banking heavily on the impending who have been moved to a resort of fresh election. Those who are fulfil their basic needs such as food, own kind”. One also finds the War is out of the question as North Korea could dir- Supreme Court verdict in the wealth Chennai are being held against their apolitical would appreciate such a water, shelter and the right to a safe slaughter of animals for meat to be ectly target America’s allies in East Asia with nuc- case, little realising that it will be a will. None of them has been able to step. People are closely watching and healthy environment. the rear end to the noble concept of lear weapons. One less explored and apparently blow against the party as a whole. express his/her opinion. Steps to the situation and will exercise their Rejuvenation of agriculture using animal welfare and actually nixes feasible idea is to get China, which still has some Even if Mr. Panneerselvam retains ensure that they are cut of from the democratic right and choice scientific methods, implementing the latter. leverage over Pyongyang, on board and engage the power, how long will he be allowed rest of the world are sure to work appropriately. There has to be quick water harvesting, sowing of crops The issues need to viewed Kim regime diplomatically, without removing the to rule? The political situation in the against the leadership. The decision to sort out the unsavoury which require less water, support to separately. The present-day gory sanctions. However erratic a regime’s actions may State is very fluid and there is bound credibility of the police is also situation. cottage industries and having self- methods of slaughter — repugnant to be horse trading. Development suspect. help groups will help such to many — could be replaced with seem, the first lesson in international diplomacy is S. Nadarajan, has ground to a halt especially with Raghothaman S., Puducherry communities and also check modern, less painful techniques to deal with nation states as rational actors. Sanc- an agrarian crisis due to the Chennai migration. There need for multiple such as stunning. Any legislation on tions are efective only when they are used in car- unprecedented drought. It seems that no one is concerned and consistent eforts to tackle the animal rights will be efective only rot-and-stick mode. Responding to North Korea’s S. Srinivasan, The drama never seems to end and about where Tamil Nadu is heading situation. In this, NGOs can play a when the collective thinking that provocative posturing with counter-provocations Chennai the onus of proving who has the or what its future is. Corruption and major role. goes into it is sound and sensible. will yield hardly any diplomatic dividend. majority rests with Mr. irregularities are bound to thrive in Nisha Yadav, V. Nagarajan, The immediate remedy would be to Panneerselvam and Ms. Sasikala. such a troubled atmosphere. The Dahina, Rewari, Haryana Chennai

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WORLD VIEW Dark clouds over Finance and façade Donald Trump’s victory is the assault of finance capital on not just social capital but also on American academia industrial capital

The highly unexpected victory of Donald J. Trump — not only winning the presidency but also keeping control of both houses of TABISH KHAIR Congress, and soon taking over the Su- PHILIP G. HANS preme Court as well — is truly a sea change ALTBACH DE WIT for U.S. politics and society. The roots of the Trump triumph, which are similar to the un- Imagine a mythical planet not visited by derlying causes for the Brexit victory in Britain, lie in a nativist reaction to the Little Prince. This is a planet divided globalisation and the changes imposed by the 21st century economy. up into a thousand and one sections While Mr. Trump has been unclear about his policies for higher educa- with walls between them. There are tion, his general orientation is clear enough and has been widely dis- doors in the walls, and windows of cussed. These include building walls (literal or figurative) to keep out im- course. But there is no roof to the planet. migrants, banning Muslims from entering the country or at least Everyone on the planet is afected by subjecting them to “extreme vetting”, tearing up trade agreements and storms that cross the skies, sometimes other elements of a globalised economy, and in general presenting the U.S. devastating this section, sometimes as an unwelcoming environment. With this background, what can be said that. Sometimes the storms alict all the about the likely consequences for higher education and particularly for the sections, but in diferent ways: flood in U.S.’s global competitiveness? one place and hail in another; cyclone on one, landslide in another. Impact on universities Top universities will not collapse, and the U.S. will not seriously sufer in A man-made storm the rankings, at least in the short run. Those universities have suicient ex- The denizens of this planet are pecu- cellence to survive a period of instability. The public research universities, liar: they are mostly unable to look up. already battered by budget cuts by the States for more than a decade, will As such, many of them cannot see signs be afected first and most seriously. The top private universities, but- of a gathering storm. The few who can tressed by their endowments, are less are helpless. What can they do about vulnerable. Further, the federal gov- The prospects of key storms? This is also true of the various ernment does not play a key role with issues in higher education presidents, prime ministers, monarchs them — other than expenditures for and dictators who govern the diferent scientific research, and here future — public good, diversity sections of this planet. Many of these prospects are dim not only because of and equity, academic leaders even believe that the storms are Mr. Trump’s likely attitude towards re- necessary: some good will trickle down. search but because of other pressures freedom — are dark So all they can do is regulate the doors on the federal budget due to promised tax cuts. The longer-term future is and windows of their sections, and the less bright, as challenges in hiring internationally, the impact of research citizens inside them. cutbacks, and other issues catch up. We are living on this planet today. The for-profit higher education industry will prosper. Recently, en- With one diference: most of the storm hanced regulation by the Obama administration and several scandals have clouds circling us are man-made. greatly weakened the for-profits. Enrolments are down dramatically. Mr. Finance capital is the storm, and our Trump will roll back regulations and likely provide a much more welcom- governments can and will do nothing REGULATION NEEDED: “Finance capital is the storm, and our governments can and will do nothing about it.” At Wall Street. PHOTO: AFP ing atmosphere for them. about it. If you are running a national The Obama agenda of college access and completion is likely to be given government but cannot really regulate Xenophobia is inevitable ways. Most of this capital is not even in politics of neo-liberalism. That is why less emphasis. This will mean that grants and loans for students are likely financial speculation and finance cap- the shape of cash, which is cumbersome governments are employed to tax cit- to be reduced, contributing to debt burdens for students. During the cam- ital as the main source of power, what is because national leaders to move. It is sheer numbers, including izens in order to repay financiers and paign, Mr. Trump did make some ofhand proposals concerning low-cost it that you can do? Regulate people — as cannot talk of invisible finance digital money, and many types of debt banks, and governments are also em- tuition and dealing with student debt, but experts are unable to figure out citizens and as foreigners. That is the capital; they can only regulate and credit. ployed to smoothen the paths of finan- if these are coherent proposals, or how they might be paid for. condition, in slightly diferent ways, of Mr. Trump’s victory is the assault of cial speculation. almost every country in the world today. the bodies on the ground finance capital on not just social capital Short- and long-term implications (welfare, public facilities, etc.), which A necessary façade On the international front, the news is all bad for U.S. higher education When liberal capitalism died one argues, as some do, that liberal cap- has long been battered, but this time also In this context, the nationalist poli- competitiveness. Mr. Trump’s continuing anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, Sometime in the 1980s, a strange thing italism was always to some extent state on industrial capital. Mr. Trump might cing of ‘undesirable foreigners’ is a ne- and in general xenophobic stance has already produced negative reactions happened to classical liberal capitalism. capitalism, this signifies a major shift. actually try to ‘bring jobs home,’ but cessary façade — to obscure the lack of overseas. That basic orientation, which was central to Mr. Trump’s cam- It was murdered. No one noticed the We have known since the 19th century what this will lead to is greater curbs on governance of global finance. Xenopho- paign and important to his core supporters, will have an impact on how in- crime. Today, we are living with the that money makes better sense than pro- industrial capital — not only leaving fin- bia is inevitable in such a situation, be- ternational students and faculty view the U.S. as a place to study and work. dead body of liberal capitalism, which is duction or services in capitalist societ- ance capital free, as his Wall Street ap- cause national leaders cannot even talk While it is unclear how “extreme vetting” of Muslims and others will actu- why leftist critiques of it also fail. What ies. Goods and services fluctuate in de- pointments have indicated, but prob- of the real storm — invisible finance ally work, the issue is already informing international dialogue. While Mr. we have today is said to be neo-liberal- mand, but money has to be employed no ably forcing more industrialists to capital; they can only regulate the bod- Trump is already walking back on his blanket commitment to barring all ism, but neo-liberalism is almost as dif- matter what good or service is on ofer. convert industrial capital into financial ies on the ground. The general scepti- Muslims from entering the U.S., much of the rhetorical damage is already ferent from classical capitalism as night Hence, it makes sense, finally, to traic speculation. Demonetisation in India cism of politicians — on which Mr. done. is from day. Actually, neo-liberalism is only in money. Financial speculation is might be a sincere attempt to fight cor- Trump, Turkish President Recep Tayyip It is also possible that the presence of international faculty and leader- partly a misnomer: it has little to do with built into capitalism. ruption, but it will also reinforce the as- Erdogan and so many others have rid- ship, a substantial factor in U.S. higher education’s excellence, will de- liberalism. But when financial speculation takes cendency of finance capital, regardless den to power — arises from the fact that crease. This may not happen at the top universities, although even there Liberalism insisted on the separation over, as it started doing from the 1980s, of what the government wants. politicians only govern people today. the diiculties of obtaining visas and other bureaucracy, as well as broader of the state and the market, and decried an entirely diferent situation comes Maurizio Lazzarato points out in Gov- They cannot govern global finance cap- national policies and orientations, may deter many. Like international stu- government interference in markets. into being. Today, financial speculation erning by Debt that all national govern- ital. Instead, finance capital governs dents, they will more likely look for alternative options, such as Canada, Neo-liberalism believes that govern- far outstrips global trade. Finance cap- ments are basically employed in collect- politicians. New Zealand, Australia, as well as — at least for the moment — continental ments should intervene in markets — ital tyrannises not just social capital but ing taxes from their citizens and cutting Politicians have abandoned much of Europe. The future for H1B visa, as well as for a scholarship programme but only on the side of banks, finance even industrial capital. Most of the cap- on social services, in order to keep pay- actual politics to the economic ideo- like Fulbright, does not look bright. capitalists and lending agencies. Every ital used for such financial speculation ing national and other debts to financial logues of neo-liberalism, and they can- On the campuses, it is likely that political activity and tension will rise. time financial speculation creates a does not need to be invested in produc- organisations. National leaders have not even confess it to ordinary people. Already before the elections, universities have seen an increase in sexist crisis, governments are expected to tax tion or services; it can just be moved come to believe that ‘economics’ is an and racist graiti and actions. After the election, those incidents have in- their citizens and use that money to save around in, as U.S. President Donald independent field, far from politics, Tabish Khair is an Indian novelist and academic who creased. But one can also see an increase in protest against such develop- banks and financial institutions. Even if Trump said about his taxes, ‘smart’ when actually economics is the new teaches in Denmark. ments and against Mr. Trump by students. Given the support for Hillary Clinton in the 18-29 age group and their previous support for Bernie Sanders, one might expect an increase in student activism, similar to movements elsewhere, such as Chile, South Africa, and Hong Kong, and to the reactions to Brexit in universities in the U.K. It is still unclear, but uni- In the hands of the rebels versities and their students might again become centres for protests against the global rise of nationalist populism, as they have been in the past. In Uttarakhand, the dozens of leaders who have walked into the rival Congress and BJP camps Although it is still too early to tell what the short-term and long-term im- plications of this shocking result will be, its implications for both the U.S. on the eve of elections will hold the key to the outcome and international higher education are troublesome. Without question, U.S. leadership in global higher education, both in terms of its excellence 36 months. The Election Commission and its place as the leading host country for international students, is in VIPIN PUBBY later directed the State authorities to jeopardy. In particular, in combination with Brexit and other nationalist stop distribution of cards although over populist trends elsewhere, the prospects of key issues in higher education 10,000 people had registered within 48 — the public good, diversity and equity, internationalisation, and aca- hours of its launch. demic freedom — are dark. Mr. Rawat is waging a lonely battle for Rebels hold the key in no less than 80% the Congress. Few of the senior leaders, Philip G. Altbach is research professor and founding director and Hans de Wit is professor and of the Assembly constituencies in the busy with campaigning in neighbouring director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, U.S. hill State of Uttarakhand where old Uttar Pradesh, have showed up in Ut- rivals Congress and the Bharatiya Janata tarakhand. Incidentally, the Samajwadi Party (BJP) are battling it out for 70 Party, with which the Congress has seats. entered into an alliance in U.P., is also For the Congress, it is a battle to re- contesting 20 seats in the hill State FROM THE ARCHIVES tain power in one of the only half dozen against Congress candidates. The Bahu- States where it is now ruling. The BJP is jan Samaj Party too is contesting all the leaving no stone unturned to wrest seats, but has negligible hold in the area. power in Uttarakhand which has not re- The Aam Aadmi Party could have turned any party with a clear majority found Uttarakhand a ripe ground given (dated February 14, 1967) in the last two elections. The two the bipolar politics in the State, but it Ho Chi Minh’s plea to the oicial North Viet Namese parties have been swapping the seat of decided not to enter the fray. The news agency he demanded that power since the first Assembly elec- party’s State chief and some other lead- to Pope the Americans: (1) end aggression tions in 2002 when the Congress had ers are now contesting as independents. President Ho Chi Minh of in Viet Nam; (2) halt bombing and formed the government. The BJP had North Viet Nam has requested other acts of war against North emerged as the single largest party in The BJP’s prospects Pope Paul to help bring an end to Viet Nam unconditionally; (3) 2007 and the Congress was the single The BJP, which appears to have an PLAYING THE RIGHT CARDS: “The BJP, which appears to have an edge this time, is the Viet Nam war, Hanoi Radio withdraw all their forces from largest party in 2012. In both instances, edge this time, is making concerted ef- making concerted efforts to attract voters.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally reported to-day [February 13]. But South Viet Nam; and (4) allow the the two parties could form government forts to attract voters. Prime Minister in Rudrapur. PHOTO. VIRENDER SINGH NEGI he linked this plea with a violent Viet Namese people to settle their with the help of independent MLAs and Narendra Modi himself addressed at attack on America’s role in the own afairs themselves; and (5) smaller parties. least four major rallies, with party chief war and set out conditions for a recognise the South Viet Namese something degrading in the State’s The BJP is playing down the Amit Shah keeping a close tab on the settlement previously rejected by National Front for Liberation Swapping camps polity. There are several senior leaders issue of demonetisation, and State despite a more stringent test in Washington. President Ho was (The Viet Cong movement). This time, both national parties ex- who have contested from diferent U.P. replying to a message from the President Ho said that “only in pelled dozens of leaders who walked parties or have come back to their ori- is highlighting the ‘surgical The party is playing down the issue of Pope of February 8 which called such conditions can real peace be into the rival camp on the eve of elec- ginal party after testing the waters in strikes’ as one of its major demonetisation, and is highlighting the for peace negotiations. According restored in Viet Nam.” tions. While the BJP has fielded candid- other parties although the main ad- ‘surgical strikes’ as one of its major ates who had been sitting Congress versaries in the State are still the Con- achievements achievements. This would certainly MLAs from 13 seats, the Congress has gress and the BJP. ring a bell in the State, which has a huge given seats to seven candidates who had The unprecedented presence of number of serving personnel and ex- been BJP MLAs. Some of the situations rebels in the field this time has its roots would determine the election outcome servicemen (1.75 lakh families). Also, CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS caused by leaders crossing over are in the attempt of the BJP to topple the in the State, the other issues include the National Security Adviser, Ajit ironic. For instance, in Roorkee, candid- Congress government in March last corruption, unemployment and de- Doval, as well as the new Army chief, >>“1983, the year that turned Indian cricket around” (The Huddle, Feb. 13, 2017) ate Pradeep Batra moved from the Con- year. Nine Congress MLAs, led by monetisation, particularly in the Terai General Bipin Rawat, and the Research erroneously said the manager of the Indian Team then was Hanumant Singh. gress to the BJP and now faces Suresh former chief minister Vijay Bahuguna, area. Corruption as an issue, however, and Analysis Wing chief, Anil Dhas- Actually, it was P.R. Man Singh. Jain who had moved from the BJP to the joined hands with the BJP in an attempt has got diluted with such a large num- mana, belong to the State. Congress. to topple the Harish Rawat government. ber of Congress leaders joining the BJP. Compared to U.P. which sends 80 >>The Sports page report headlined “Kohli’s record double, Saha’s century Interestingly, both the State Congress It was only after high drama and the in- For unemployment, the Congress has MPs to the Lok Sabha, Uttarakhand has bury Bangladesh” (Feb. 11, 2017) said that Saha scored the 4th century of the in- chief and the State BJP chief are facing tervention of the courts that Mr. Rawat come out with the controversial Bero- only five Lok Sabha constituencies. But nings. His was the 3rd century of the innings. The report also said that Rahane party rebels from their respective con- retained the Chief Minister’s post. jgari Bhatta cards despite objections a defeat in the State would lead to fur- missed the 5th century of the innings. It should have been the 4th century of stituencies. Thus Congress chief Kis- Now, in order to accommodate those from the Election Commission. Youth ther demoralisation among the Con- the innings. hore Upadhyay is facing party rebel nine Congress MLAs, the BJP denied make up 57% of Uttarakhand’s elector- gress ranks, while for the BJP, a victory Aryendra Sharma in the Sahaspur con- tickets to its own leaders from their ate and the scheme promises one job would add another State to its kitty in its The Readers’ Editor’s oice can be contacted by stituency, and BJP chief Ajay Bhatt has a constituencies. This led to a chain reac- per household for the unemployed quest for a ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’. Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to Fri- rival in party rebel Pramod Nainwal tion with BJP leaders crossing over to between the ages of 18 and 35 by 2020, day); E-mail:[email protected] from the Ranikhet constituency. join the Congress and vice versa. and a monthly allowance of ₨2,500 for Vipin Pubby is a veteran journalist based in The Terms of Reference for the Readers’ Editor are on www.thehindu.com The term baagi (rebel) is not seen as Apart from the rebel factor, which one jobless member in each family for Chandigarh.

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FROM PAGE ONE Hindu population SC verdict in Jaya Manipur talks sabotaged, says Centre dwindling: Rijiju assets case today Minister says Congress played a political game to derail dialogue with the Naga Council SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: Minister of State Karnataka had appealed Sasikala and the other two VIJAITA SINGH Union Minister of State for were arrested in November against the State govern- for Home Kiren Rijiju said on against the acquittal of the would have to surrender Home Kiren Rijiju blamed last year. ment’s decision to carve out Monday that Hindu popula- accused persons by the within the stipulated time NEW DELHI: The economic the O. Ibobi Singh-led Con- “The talks which were seven new districts, has been tion was decreasing as State High Court for of- laid down by the Supreme blockade in Manipur, which gress government in the held on February 7 were not on for over four months now. “Hindus never convert fences under Section 13 of Court. Further, their prison has led to a shortage of es- State for the deadlock. attended by Mr. Kamei and The UNC operates under the people” and “minorities in the Prevention of Corrup- sentence as awarded by the sential commodities in the “The Congress has played Mr. Stephen as the State gov- patronage of the National So- India are flourishing unlike tion Act, 1988 and Section trial court on September 27, State, is likely to continue in- a political game to take polit- ernment did not permit them cialist Council of Nagaland in some other countries 120-B (criminal conspir- 2014 would revive unless it definitely as the tripartite ical mileage,” Mr. Rijiju told to attend the meeting in (Isak-Muivah), with which around”. acy) of the Indian Penal is modified by the Supreme talks among the Centre, the The Hindu. Senapati district, which has a the Government of India Mr. Rijiju posted this mes- Code. Court. Naga groups and the Ma- On February 3, the first concentration of Naga signed a framework agree- sage on Twitter while react- With Jayalalithaa’s death The trial court had sen- nipur government failed last rounds of the tripartite talks groups. In the absence of a ment in 2015 to find a solu- ing to a news report, in which during the pendency of the tenced Ms. Sasikala, Ms. Il- week. were held in Delhi and the Kiren Rijiju leader, the discussions could tion to the decades-old Naga the Arunachal Pradesh Con- appeals in the Supreme avarasi and Mr. Sudhakaran A senior government oi- Centre said then that “sub- not reach a conclusion,” an issue. gress Committee alleged that Court, charges against her under Section 109 IPC read cial in New Delhi said the stantial progress” was made. endra Garg, Joint Secretary, oicial said. Manipur goes to the polls the Narendra Modi-led BJP would automatically abate. with Section 13 (2) of the talks were “sabotaged”. “Substantial progress has North-east, Union Home on March 4 and 8 and due to government was trying to Section 394 of the Criminal Prevention of Corruption On February 3, the Centre been made on the issues of Ministry, said. Stalemate to continue the ongoing blockade, it has convert Arunachal Pradesh Procedure Code mandates Act — abetment of criminal claimed a breakthrough in economic blockade and cre- The UNC was represented Another oicial said the been kept in the most sensit- into a “Hindu state”. that all appeals – even misconduct of a public ser- ending the blockade, which ation of new districts. Some by its president, Gaidon Centre would not yield to the ive category. An oicial said Mr. Rijiju, who represents against acquittal, as in this vant — to simple imprison- has cut of the State from the issues need more discussion Kamei, and his publicity sec- demands of the UNC again this was the first time elec- Arunachal Pradesh in the case – “shall finally abate ment for a period of four rest of India following the in- at the organisational level retary, Shankhen Stephen, and would not initiate any tions were being held in two Lok Sabha, took to Twitter to on the death of the years each and pay a fine of definite strike called by the and both the Manipur gov- who were brought from an dialogue now. phases there. “Whatever dis- rebut the allegation. accused.” ₨10 crore each. In case of United Naga Council (UNC) ernment and the UNC have Imphal jail to Delhi to attend The economic blockade cussion has to take place will Mr. Rijiju put out another However, the Supreme default, they would further and the blockade of national asked for time. We will meet the talks at North Block. Both imposed by the UNC, a con- be done after the elections one saying India is a secular Court would deliver a ver- sufer imprisonment for an- highways. again on February 7,” Saty- Mr. Kamei and Mr. Stephen glomerate of Naga bodies now,” said the oicial. country. dict on the culpability of other year. “Congress should not the other three accused ac- For the ofence of crim- make such provocative state- cording to the facts as the inal conspiracy leading to ments. India is a secular court finds them. Legal ex- criminal misconduct of a country. All religious groups perts say that references to public servant (Section 120 Jairam takes Money Bill row to Supreme Court enjoy freedom and living Jayalalithaa’s alleged role (B) IPC read with Section peacefully,” Mr. Rijiju posted would be inevitable while 13 (2) of the Prevention of KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL or not is the question,” Chief tional authority and such im- a procedural matter. There on Twitter. discussing evidence and Corruption Act, all three Justice Khehar observed. putations should not be has been a substantive in- facts in the verdict as she were sentenced to simple NEW DELHI: The Supreme But the Bench, which in- made. fraction,” Mr. Chidambaram Constitutional rights was the prime accused in imprisonment for six Court on Monday agreed to cluded Justice N.V. Ramana, Mr. Chidambaram submit- responded. Reacting to this, AIMIM’s the case. months and a fine of hear in detail a challenge by asked why the Rajya Sabha ted that Article 110 of the Asaduddin Owaisi said, In case of conviction, Ms. ₨10,000 each. Jairam Ramesh, MP, to the had suggested amendments Constitution specified the Relook at Article 21 “What have the minorities in passing of the Aadhaar Bill as to the Aadhaar Bill when it grounds on which a Bill Mr. Rohatgi questioned India got to do with minorit- a Money Bill even as the was referred to it as a Money could be declared a Money Mr. Ramesh’s locus standi in ies of other countries. It is Union government said the Bill. Bill. One of these grounds in- filing the writ petition, say- the Constitution which guar- judiciary had no jurisdiction “So by suggesting these cluded withdrawal of money ing no fundamental right of antees rights.” Conduct floor test, to encroach on legislative amendments, did they agree from the Consolidated Fund the petitioner had been Mr. Owaisi further at- procedure in Parliament, to it [Aadhaar Bill] being a of India. violated. tacked Mr. Rijiju and said, where the Speaker was the fi- Money Bill,” Chief Justice Jairam Ramesh Mr. Rohatgi said the “The time has come to “MoS for Home should re- A-G tells Governor nal authority. Khehar asked P. Chidam- Aadhaar Bill concerned the relook Article 21 ... every pe- member that he is a Minister In 1998 the Supreme Court whom to invite to form the “If the Speaker says blue is baram, counsel for Mr. ted. Mr. Chidambaram ar- linkage of Aadhaar facility to tition is coming straight to of India for all Indians, not decided the battle for government,” Mr. Rohatgi green, we will tell her that Ramesh. gued that the petition high- various welfare schemes for the Supreme Court now,” Mr. for Hindus alone, remember power in Uttar Pradesh said. blue is blue and not green,” lighted a substantive which money was with- Rohatgi said. your oath as a Minister.” between Kalyan Singh and He said the fact that Ms. Chief Justice of India J.S. Substantive grievance grievance that “more and drawn from the Consolid- Noting that the Bench may As per the census data, In- his rival Jagadambika Pal by Sasikala is not a member of Khehar shot back. Mr. Chidambaram said the more Bills are now being ated Fund. be prima facie in favour of dia now has 966.3 million ordering a floor test. the legislature would not Attorney-General Mukul amendments were made for passed as Money Bills”. At one point, Justice the government side, Chief Hindus who make up 79.8 “If conducted this week, disable a floor test. Rohatgi said the government “weighty reasons”. “There is a danger that Ramana referred to a 2014 Justice Khehar said the issue per cent of its population, the [T.N.] Governor would “The members would saved ₨30,000 crore to “The petitioner said this is every Bill will be passed as a judgment passed by the Su- presented in the petition was and 172.2 million Muslims also have the benefit of the vote and a resolution would ₨50,000 crore by linking not a Money Bill. The Rajya Money Bill,” Mr. Chidam- preme Court which had held of ‘vital importance’ and who make up 14.23% of its Supreme Court verdict to be passed accordingly,” Mr. thousands of subsidies to Sabha made the amend- baram submitted. that courts had no jurisdic- needed to be heard in detail. population. guide his decision on Rohatgi said. Aadhaar verification. ments and proposed it to the Protesting this submis- tion over procedural matters The court has scheduled Christians make up 2.3 per “Your object may be good Lok Sabha, which did not sion, Mr. Rohatgi said the of the legislature. the case for final hearing cent of the population and but whether it is a Money Bill consider them,” he submit- Speaker was a high constitu- “This petition is not about after four weeks. Sikhs 2.16%. Sasikala stays back with flock at resort Saeed may register JuD as We are fully sovereign, says Mr. Saravanan claimed that neerselvam had then urged being a civil engineer he her to take over as Chief plotted his escape from the Minister saying “people visiting Taiwanese leader well-guarded resort by would accept only her” but a political party: Report coming out wearing a T- she had declined contend- KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE wishes to uplift relations shirt and Bermudas. With ing that Jayalalithaa’s fu- ‘We are determined SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT India, including the 26/11 with India to the same level his arrival the Pan- neral was more important. attacks in Mumbai. India NEW DELHI: Challenging to bridge the gap as its ties with Japan and the neerselvam camp’s According to her, “many NEW DELHI: UN-designated has repeatedly asked Beijing’s One-China policy, a between our goals United States. strength has gone up to persons” were out to split global terrorist Hafiz Pakistan to punish the LeT senior political leader of and realities in Taiwan’s new government eight. “I wanted to leave be- the party and that was why Saeed is planning to modules accused of Taiwan said on Monday that under President Tsai ing- fore Ms. Sasikala came she insisted that Mr. Pan- register his group Jamaat- plotting the attacks on its the country’s freedom is a de Taiwan-India ties’ Wen has launched the “New there,” he told journalists. neerselvam’s Cabinet be ud-Dawa (JuD), the known territory. facto reality in international Southbound policy” which During the course of the sworn in without any delay. front for the terror group The idea of turning JuD afairs. dian delegation, led by Devi aims to energise Taiwan’s day, Ms. Sasikala address- Meanwhile, for the first Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), as a into a political party has Speaking to the media, Prasad Tripathi, visited ties with the ASEAN region, ing her supporters at Poes time since he rebelled political party in Pakistan, been in the policy circle of Kuan Bi-Ling, member of the Taipei in August-September Australia, New Zealand and Garden announced that it against the party leader- an exclusive news report Pakistan for some years. Taiwanese Parliament, said 2016 warming up ties. India. was she who had asked Mr. ship, the Chief Minister has revealed. Most recently, security here that Taiwan had protec- “We are determined to Panneerselvam to urgently went to the Secretariat at The report, authored by analyst Muhammad Amir ted its status as a free coun- build substantive economic Tourism and culture seek an appointment with Fort St. George and had ex- James M. Dorsey of the S. Rana argued in favour of try despite the diiculties ties with India and bridge the Apart from increased bi- the Governor and take oath tensive interactions with Rajaratnam School of the JuD’s transition into a posed by Beijing’s One- gap between our goals and lateral trade, the “New as Chief Minister along various oicials including International Studies and Hafiz Saeed political party. China policy. realities in Taiwan-India Southbound Policy” is also with the same Council of Chief Secretary Girija Azaz Syed, a prominent ties,” Ms. Kuan said emphas- aimed at energising people- Ministers past midnight on Vaidyanathan and some top Pakistani journalist, has organisations, including Challenge for State All-women team ising that Taipei wishes to in- to-people contact in the December 5, 2016 when Jay- police oicers, ostensibly said that the move is aimed the IS. They said the “A major challenge for “Taiwan has been a de vest in the flagship Indian fields of tourism and culture. alalithaa died. She claimed to assert his position. He at preventing the cadre of defections often occurred the state is how to facto and fully independent programmes such as the “More Taiwanese tourists that immediately after Jay- went to the Secretariat the organisation from after the Pakistani military neutralise groups that country from the very begin- “Make in India” and “Smart should be enabled to visit the alalithaa’s death she had shortly after 1 p.m. and re- joining other terror groups launches operations once served its strategic ning. Some countries may City” projects. Buddhist sites in India. sensed a conspiracy to di- mained there till 8 p.m. Be- such as the Islamic State against militants in areas purpose. The most not recognise Taiwan’s inde- “Taiwanese investment in Scholars, researchers should vide the ruling party. sides, issuing orders for (IS). such as South Waziristan,” practised way in a post- pendence, but that has no im- India is aimed at the manu- be supported so that we can Ms. Sasikala’s announce- compensation to the family said the news report which insurgency perspective is pact on our sovereignty and facturing sector which helps appreciate bilateral issues ment stoked a controversy of a girl who was raped and Pressure on group first appeared in Professor to reintegrate them into freedom,” said Ms. Kuan, in generating employment. better,” said Chen Mumin, wondering how she took murdered, he was involved “JuD sources said its Dorsey’s blog. mainstream society,” said who is leading the first all- We will increase our invest- Director of Center for Stud- the decision on who should in discussions with oi- transition to a political The news is significant the news report quoting women MPs delegation from ment in the State of Gujarat,” ies on South Asia and the head the government and cials, who appeared to have party was in part designed as it comes days after Mr. Rana. Taiwan to India. she said. Middle East who is also a what the composition of had a free chat with him. to stop cadres from joining Pakistan detained Saeed, The Ministry of The delegation arrived on part of the delegation. the Council of Ministers Earlier in the day, Ponraj, the Islamic State (IS). upping the pressure on his External Afairs has taken Sunday and held a meeting Major investor The delegation is on a should be when she was former scientific adviser to They said some 500 JuD group that is accused of note of the news report, with Indian members of the Ms. Kuan said Taiwan has three-day visit and will be neither an oice-bearer of late President A.P.J. Abdul activists had left the group carrying out multiple but is yet to comment on India-Taiwan Parliamentary become one of the major in- hosted at an event on Tues- the AIADMK nor held any Kalam, met Mr. Pan- to join more militant cross-border raids into the issue. Association consisting of vestors in India from the day by BJP general secretary Constitutional oice at that neerselvam at his Green- MPs from both sides. The In- Asia-Pacific region and it Ram Madhav. time. She was appointed in- ways Road bungalow and terim general secretary extended support to him. only on December 29, 2016. The Opposition DMK Critics felt her revelation held its high-level execut- J&K govt launches SC hints at end to impasse proved their charge that ive meeting in Chennai un- Shutdown in Kashmir to Ms. Sasikala always func- der the leadership of its e-Prison project tioned as an extra-constitu- working president M.K. over judicial selection tional authority. Stalin. It urged the Gov- PEERZADA ASHIQ The AIADMK leader fur- ernor to ensure a floor test protest Kulgam deaths LEGAL CORRESPONDENT made the remark during the ther claimed that five Min- immediately for a stable SRINAGAR: The Jammu and hearing of a petition filed by isters including Mr. Pan- government to be formed. Kashmir government on PEERZADA ASHIQ NEW DELHI: The Supreme Haryana-based advocate Monday launched the e- Court on Monday hinted that Satya Veer Sharma, who Prison project to enumerate SRINAGAR: Kashmir witnessed the frost between the highest sought transparency in the jail inmates in the State, a complete shutdown on judiciary and the Centre appointment of judges for Anil Ambani firm to where numbers of detainees Monday, as separatists called over the Memorandum of higher courts. A reason for keep swelling during unrest. for a strike to protest against Procedure (MoP) is thawing the rift between the govern- State Minister for Inform- the killing of two civilians and diferences would be ment and the judiciary is the service U.S. navy ships ation Technology Molvi Im- and four local militants in the settled by February-end. clause in the draft MoP that ran Raza Ansari, who inaug- Kulgam encounter on “We will finalise the MoP the government would have The U.S. Seventh Fleet after getting necessary ap- urated the project in Jammu, Sunday. maybe within this month,” the authority to reject a can- looks after the Western Pa- provals from various regu- said, “The information about All shops, business Chief Justice of India J.S. didate recommended by the cific and Indian Ocean. The lators and other govern- jail inmates is currently be- centres and private oices Khehar said. The Bench Supreme Court collegium. vessels will be serviced and ment agencies. ing maintained manually. To remained closed in the Val- repaired from the Reliance Set up in 1997 by Nikhil avoid delays in processing ley. There was thin traic on Defence owned shipyard in Gandhi-promoted Sea King the information and manage the roads. A relative of Kulgam martyr Lance Naik Gopal Singh Pipavav in Gujarat. Infrastructure Ltd, Pipavav all the jails eiciently, the Additional security per- Bhandoria breaks down on seeing the coffin carrying his body The Pipavav shipyard Shipyard was in 2010 al- automation of prison depart- sonnel were deployed in in Ahmedabad on Monday.— PHOTO: VIJAY SONEJI was qualified and approved lowed to build strategic and ment has been started.” volatile pockets of Srinagar to perform complex repair defence vessels. Its name The government has and large parts of south counter on Sunday in Kul- doriya Gopal Singh and Se- and alteration services for was changed to Pipavav De- already digitised records of Kashmir. Kulgam and adjoin- gam, 70 km south of Srinagar. poy Raghubeer Singh, at the the US Navy last month fence and Ofshore Engin- 500 inmates. The project will ing Shopian were sealed. A civilian died later when Badami Bagh Cantonment after a detailed site survey eering Co. Ltd to emphasize digitise 25 district jails, two There were reports of security forces allegedly here. Major-General K.K. conducted by the US gov- its focus on defence ship- Central jails and one sub-jail sporadic protests in north fired at the crowds to dis- Pant, chief of Chinar Corps, ernment representatives in building and ofshore activ- in the State. The second Kashmir’s Palhalan area. perse protesters. laid the wreaths. Paying trib- October last year. ities. phase of the project will fo- Dukhtaran-e-Milat chief utes, an Army spokesman In 2015, the Anil Ambani- According to Reliance cus on videoconferencing Asiya Andrabi was detained Army pays tribute said that to approach a house led Reliance Group took the deal is likely to generate between jails and prison early in the morning. The Army on Monday where the terrorists were over Pipavav Defence, a ₨ 10,000 crore in revenues headquarters, e-court, tele- Seven people, including paid homage to the deceased confirmed to be hiding private shipyard in Gujarat, in the next five years. medication in jails. two soldiers, died in an en- soldiers, Lance Naik Bhan- called for raw courage.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI ELECTIONWATCH | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 UTTAR PRADESH, UTTARAKHAND, PUNJAB, MANIPUR, GOA 13 It’s Rawat vs Modi in Uttarakhand POLLDIARY Karnaprayag poll postponed to March 9 DEHRADUN: While the entire Uttarakhand will go to the As the State goes to the polls tomorrow, Congress plays victim card against BJP for imposing President’s Rule last year polls on February 15, the election to the Karnaprayag Assembly seat will be held on March 9. KAVITA UPADHYAY of the State. He referred to Bahuguna was the Chief The election was postponed after BSP candidate the surgical strikes and im- Minister. After his failure to from Karnaprayag, Kuldeep Singh Kanwasi, died in a DEHRADUN: A total of 628 can- plementation of the one handle the disaster, Mr. road accident on Sunday night. On Monday, the didates are contesting the rank, one pension scheme in Bahuguna was replaced by Election Commission announced that the election Uttarakhand Assembly elec- all his speeches to attack the Mr. Rawat. at Karnaprayag would be held on March 9. “As per tions, where polling in 69 of Congress and woo the voters On March 18 last year, Mr. the notification, the new candidate from the BSP its 70 seats will be held on since a major part of Ut- Bahuguna, along with eight will file the nomination on February 20,” Nitin Wednesday. Polling in the tarakhand’s workforce is em- other MLAs, who were upset Upadhyaya, Deputy Director (Information Karnaprayag constituency ployed with the armed with Mr. Rawat’s leadership, Department), who is on election duty, said. After the has been postponed because forces. Also, the State has rebelled against the party. postponing of the poll in one seat, 628 candidates of the death of the BSP can- over two lakh The political turmoil resul- will contest for 69 Assembly seats on February 15. didate in a road accident. ex-servicemen. ted in the imposition of Pres- — Staff Reporter The BJP, which won all While the cam- ident’s Rule and a five Lok Sabha seats in the paigning saw the new chapter began State in the 2014 elections, is BJP in the ofensive in Uttarakhand Champion’s somersaults in Haridwar again banking on Prime Min- mode, the Congress politics. was mostly playing At the end of it KHANPUR (UTTARAKHAND): In the Khanpur victim. The target Mr. Rawat returned constituency of Haridwar, the contest INFOCUS of Congress vice- to power, more is between Kunwar Pranav Singh president Rahul powerful than be- Champion of the BJP and Mufti ister Narendra Modi for a Gandhi and Mr. fore and with im- Riyasat of the BSP. A former Congress victory in the Assembly elec- Rawat was Mr. mense public sym- MLA, Mr. Champion was among the tions. But the Congress, un- Modi and the “rebels” who pathy for him, but the Congress “rebels” who opposed the der Chief Minister Harish had ditched the party and Congress lost its topmost Harish Rawat government and Rawat, is giving it a tough crossed over to the BJP. leaders. This year, most of revolted against their party in the Assembly last fight. POLL OVERDRIVE: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi (atop the van) during a roadshow at The BJP’s did door-to- them are contesting as BJP March. The political turmoil ignited by the “rebels” Several leaders in the BJP Roorkee in Uttarakhand. — PHOTO: PTI door campaigning, espe- candidates. had resulted in the imposition of President’s Rule have made a claim for the cially in the hill villages. The In 2012, it was a close con- in the State. An inflammatory speech made by Mr. Chief Minister’s post. On the the BJP during the brief spell In the agrarian areas of tion speeches in the State, Congress, however, had a test between the BJP, which Champion against Muslims last year had upset the contrary, in the Congress, the of President’s Rule, is weak Haridwar and Udham Singh targeted Mr. Rawat for al- strong social media cam- won 31 seats, and the Con- community, and in the elections, they have united campaign has been a one- in the Garhwal Hills. How- Nagar districts, the contest is leged corruption. The Prime paign which was being gress, which won 32. How- against him. Among 1.4 lakh voters in Khanpur, man show centred on Mr. ever, it has an upper hand in a triangular one as the Bahu- Minister promised the handled by the team of the ever, three BSP MLAs, three 38,000 are Muslims and 24,000 are Dalits. “Mr. Rawat, the party’s chief min- the Kumaon Hills. With no jan Samaj Party is an import- voters more employment op- party’s poll strategist, Independents and one Ut- Champion is the face of the Hindu-Muslim divide isterial candidate. third force against the Con- ant player in 20 seats of the portunities, improved roads, Prashant Kishor. tarakhand Kranti Dal (UKD) [in Khanpur]. His being in the BJP has made the The Congress, which lost gress and the BJP in about 50 two districts. enhanced tourism potential, Uttarakhand’s biggest dis- MLA had supported the divide more obvious,” said Manoj Kumar from many of its strong leaders seats, the Independents hold Throughout the campaign, and setting up of small-scale aster — the 2013 flashfloods Congress to form a Khanpur. In the 2012 Assembly polls, Mr. from the Garhwal region to the key in 12 to 15 seats. Mr. Modi, who gave five elec- industries in the plain areas — struck when Vijay government. Champion won the seat defeating the BSP candidate. “In 2012, Mr. Champion was in the Congress, and a part of the Muslim and Dalit votes went to him. This time, Muslims will not vote for him; they will vote for the BSP candidate,” Mangta Congress, SP face test in U.P. Phase 2 Hasan from Prahaladpur said. — Staff Reporter MOHAMMAD ALI He repeatedly alleged dur- Just one Muslim BJP candidate in Manipur ing all the three rallies, MEERUT: The campaign ended which attracted huge IMPHAL: Anwar Hussain is the only Muslim candidate on Monday evening for the crowds, that “Akhilesh allied who got the BJP ticket in the elections to the 60- 67 constituencies of western with the Congress only to seat Manipur Assembly. And if the outburst of Uttar Pradesh, where voting hide his failures and Muslim politicians and voters is any indication, it is will be held on Wednesday. incompetence”. clear that the BJP may pay a heavy The districts going to the In the previous Assembly price in the upcoming elections. polls in this phase include elections in western Uttar Manipur has always had some six Saharanpur, Bijnor, Pradesh, the Samajwadi Muslim MLAs. The State once had Moradabad, Sambhal, Ram- Party had won 34 seats, fol- a Muslim Chief Minister: pur, Bareilly, Amroha, Pilib- lowed by the BSP (18), BJP Mohammad Alimuddin. The ruling hit, Kheri, Shahjahanpur and (10) and the Congress (3). Congress is fielding three Muslim Badaun. The SP-Congress alliance candidates this time. Salam Khan, vikas ISTOCK/ GETTY This phase would be a test has projected the “ (de- IMAGES the president of the BJP Minorities of the minority outreach of velopment)” aspect of the Morcha, said: “There are 18 the Congress-Samajwadi Akhilesh Yadav government constituencies with a considerable number of Party alliance and the Bahu- and highlighted the negat- Muslims. There should have been more Muslim jan Samaj Party as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing an election rally at ives and ill-efects of demon- candidates.” The Muslim politicians who were Muslim population in seven Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh on Monday. — PHOTO: PTI etisation and the troubles it denied ticket in these constituencies are spewing GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Muslim boys in the Deoband area of Uttar of these districts comes to has given to the common venom at the BJP. Muslim voters say they are not Pradesh. — PHOTO: R. V. MOORTHY more than 30%. to maintain law and order Badaun and Lakhimpur public. happy with the sidelining of Muslims and may vent While Rampur and and allow thousands of com- Kheri, Mr. Modi spoke about The alliance has tried to their anger in the elections. — A Correspondent Moradabad have more than munal riots in the State”, is the “deteriorating law and woo Muslim voters by re- 50%, the Muslim population that only she can “prevent order” situation in the State, peatedly projecting itself as Shooting the in Bijnore and Amroha the BJP from coming to the infamous Badaun gang- the only political formation Dainik Jagran in the dock for exit polls crosses 40%. power in the State”. She has rape case and the alleged which can stop the BJP. The This phase will be crucial repeatedly stressed that divi- political patronage to crim- alliance saw display of inter- NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Monday breeze in Deoband for BSP leader Mayawati sion of minority votes inals. esting political camaraderie issued orders to poll officers of 15 Uttar Pradesh who tried to experiment yet between the BSP and the SP between Congress vice- districts, in which the first phase of Assembly MOHAMMAD ALI again with a Dalit-Muslim could benefit only the BJP. Modi takes on CM president Rahul Gandhi and elections were held on February 11, to lodge Residents talk of the combination by fielding the The last day of the cam- In Badaun, for instance, SP’s chief Akhilesh Yadav. separate criminal cases against the managing DEOBAND: As campaigning need for employment, largest number of Muslim paigning saw Prime Minister Mr. Modi said that Mr. Yadav It would also test Con- director of Resource Development International ends ahead of the February 15 development, schools candidates, while being as- Narendra Modi attacking had shown only bure din gress trust over Imran and the editorial head of the Hindi daily Dainik elections in this town fam- sured of getting the consol- Chief Minister Akhilesh Ya- (bad days) to the State. He Masood, the controversial Jagran for conducting and publishing an “exit poll”. ous for Darul Uloom Deo- and improved idated Jatav votes for the dav over the issue of law and said that the Chief Minister politician who holds sway in A separate FIR will also be filed by the District band, religion seems to be health facilities party. order and women’s safety, at blew his trumpet with the Saharanpur and its vicinity Election Officer in Lucknow for alleged violations. the last thing in the mind of a mammoth rally in Lakhim- slogan Kaam bolta hai and whom the party gave The cases will be registered under Section 188 of the youth here. In the test among the Samajwadi Mayawati’s gambit pur Kheri. (work speaks), but actually it free hand in ticket distribu- the Indian Penal Code, read with Section 126A and bylanes around the Islamic Party-Congress alliance can- A major thrust of Ms. May- Throughout his speeches was not his actions but the tion. Imran is contesting B of the Representation of the People Act, that seminary, the talk almost al- didate and the incumbent awati’s campaign, besides during his rallies in SP “goonda raj” that spoke from Nakur Assembly seat in attract up to two years’ imprisonment. The Chief way veers to development, MLA, Maviya Ali; Majid Ali highlighting the SP’s “failure strongholds such as Bijnor, louder. Saharanpur. Electoral Officer of the State filed a compliance jobs, schools, health facilities of the BSP; and Brijesh Singh report informing the Commission that FIRs were and upgrade of of the BJP. being registered. As Section 188 of the IPC is a infrastructure. Saith, whose family moved cognisable offence, no court order is required to Despite being in the vicin- to Deoband from Pakistan make arrests, said an EC official. — Special ity of Muzafarnagar, where decades before Partition, is Correspondent Jat-Muslim violence broke an old Congress loyalist. He Where BSP’s Dalit-Muslim stratagem fails out in August 2013, com- said, “Because of the re- munal violence does not newed support for the Con- Communal flare-up to bring together Dalits and seem to be an issue for the gress-Samajwadi Party alli- two years ago still Muslims, Kumar, a labourer, POLLSTAT voters of the Deoband con- ance among the over 1.15 lakh says: “There is no chance of stituency. Development and Muslim voters, Maviya Ali weighs on the that when we are not allowed growth of the local economy, will get the lion's share of minds of the Jatavs to put up loudspeakers in out which is largely agrarian, Muslim votes because of a temples. On the other hand, dominate conversations. pro-Akhilesh wave among OMAR RASHID look over there [points to the From Kamran Rana, a res- Muslims. The BSP’s Majid minaret of a mosque]...a new ident sipping tea at Hotel Al- Ali may end up eating into MORADABAD: Jatavs are con- mosque is coming up. We are falh, opposite the narrow the minority votes and take a sidered the core supporters treated like filth here,” says lane which divides the Darul quarter of the Muslim votes, of the Bahujan Samaj Party Kumar, who is joined by a Uloom Deoband from the but that would not afect Mr. — Mayawati herself belongs group of Jatav women, men rest of the small town, to Ali’s prospects.” to the caste, the largest Dalit and children at the village Birla Sood, a Balmiki com- While Saith highlighted group in Uttar Pradesh. But crossing. Many of them say munity member who works the popularity of Mr. Ali in a village in the Kanth tehsil they would not vote for the with the Deoband municip- among voters belonging to of Moradabad, known for PAST IS PRESENT: Jatav residents of Nayagaon village in Kanth BSP as the party had again ality, residents of this his- all castes and religions, local manufacturing gauze, the subdivision of Moradabad on Monday. — PHOTO: RAJEEV BHATT fielded a Muslim, Haji Nasir toric town talk about the BJP leaders like Amresh Jatavs are standing strongly Qureshi. “It would mean the pointlessness of violence Rana are hopeful of a split in behind the BJP. A communal other side of the land in close pressure from Muslims,” same old story for us,” said a and the need for employ- the Muslim votes and rest dispute two years ago that quarters. says Anil Kumar. Dalit man. ment and development as their hopes on it for a BJP pushed the village to the Anil Kumar, a Dalit la- What troubles the Dalits in The Dalit displeasure to- the agenda for the polls. victory. edge and threatened to po- bourer, recalls the incident in this village is that many of wards the SP is not restricted Communal polarisation “A substantial chunk of larise the region, continues 2014 when local people, their youth still face criminal to communal issues. They TONGUE IN CHEEK has been remarkably absent, Muslim votes are divided on to distance them from mostly Dalits, along with BJP charges in the loudspeaker also blame the government Surendra at least till now, in the cam- caste lines. We have among Muslims, the predominant leaders, clashed with the po- case — 18 persons, including for neglecting their colonies. paigning here. Residents of Muslims Gauds, Ansaris, population in the locality as lice after they removed a four women, were booked The Muslims in the village all religions has this refrain: Quraishis, Shaikhs, Nayees well as the Assembly seat loudspeaker from the then. claim that everything is peace of Deoband lies in the and Dhobis. Muslims are not with a population of 1.75 lakh. temple, allegedly after peaceful and dismiss allega- simultaneous existence of sure who is in the position to “Kanth: the town of love Muslims objected to its in- Allegations of partiality tions of high-handedness. the Darul Uloom Deoband defeat the BJP and that is and peace. Let’s strive for stallation. The Dalits alleged If they blame the SP gov- However, when the intrica- and the Shri Bala Sundari why there would be a strong harmony of com- that the adminis- ernment for partiality to- cies of the loudspeaker issue temple. split. And there lies the pos- munities, diversit- tration was acting wards Muslims, the Dalits are raked up, the communal But in more detailed con- sibility of BJP squeezing ies of cultures, re- on the instruc- are upset that the BSP did not diferences pop up. versations with people of through in the neck-to-neck jection of violence, tions of the stand up for them in the “The use of loudspeaker is this town, it is obvious that contest,” he added. The BJP resolution of con- Muslims, espe- crisis. “No BSP leader came not a big problem on its own, development is not the only is sure of getting the tradi- flict, reconciliation cially the MLA here when our women were but the fact that they are election topic. tional votes of Thakurs, with of diferences and Anis-ur-Rehman, dragged out by the hair and starting a new tradition is a population of over 40,000, freedom of expres- who is the SP can- beaten. The bazaars shut for what we oppose. There were Ground reality a section of the 28,000 Gujjar sion.” This plaque didate this time 13 days. Only the BJP people no loudspeakers at the The ground reality in Deo- votes, and those of other non- outside the Kanth but had won last braved the lathis for us,” says temple earlier. When we band, as in any other con- Yadav backward castes such police chowki time on the Peace young Kuldeep Kumar, [Muslims] start a new tradi- stituency of the State, is as Kashyaps and Sainis. greets you as you head to- Party ticket. Many Dalits among the many booked in tion, they go berserk and defined by local caste calcu- Highlighting the caste wards Nayagaon-Akbarpur. were arrested, so were BJP the case. start objecting. There is a lations and loyalties forged arithmetic, Rana said, “We A broken road with drains leaders, accused of instigat- The Dalits, however, insist mosque in Kanth where the through favours and tradi- are getting the votes of back- running over it leads you to ing the violence. that they had no rift with roof is still not made after ob- tional ideological ailiations. ward caste and non-Yadav the village’s main temple, “The police desecrated the their Muslim neighbours. jections by them,” says According to his horoscope, he is going to win It is in this context that OBCs. All we need is a split nestled among Jatav house- temple. They climbed over it When he was asked for his Qasim, another Muslim this election. You better vote for him! people see a triangular con- in Muslim votes.” holds; Muslims live on the with shoes ... working under view on Mayawati’s strategy youth.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 14 | WORLD THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 UN calls for urgent meet Turmoil in Trump’s National Security Council over North Korea’s Allegations against NSA Michael Flynn, under probe over his Russia links, are a sensitive matter, says White House ballistic missile test DAVID E. SANGER days of the Obama adminis- Ms. McFarland. There is al- UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary ERIC SCHMITT tration, and whether he ways a shakedown period for U.S., Canada to General Antonio Guterres misled Vice-President Mike any new NSC, whose staf is on Monday condemned WASHINGTON: These are Pence about those conversa- drawn from the State Depart- form task force for North Korea’s latest ballistic chaotic and anxious days in- tions. His survival in the job ment, the Pentagon and missile test and called for a side the U.S. National Secur- may hang in the balance. other agencies. working women united international re- ity Council, the traditional Although Mr. Trump sug- President Barack Obama sponse to the “further troub- centre of management for a gested to reporters on Friday replaced his NSA Gen. James OTTAWA: Canadian Prime Minister ling violation” of UN President’s dealings with an that he was unaware of the Jones, a four-star former su- Justin Trudeau and U.S. President resolutions. uncertain world. latest questions swirling preme allied commander in Donald Trump were to participate His statement came ahead Three weeks into the around Mr. Flynn’s dealings Europe, after concluding in a round-table discussion about of an urgent UN Security Trump administration, with Russia, aides said over that the general was a bad fit women in the work force on Council meeting called to council staf members get up the weekend in Florida that for the administration. The Monday, an early sign of discuss Sunday’s missile test in the morning, read Presid- Mr. Trump was closely mon- first years of President cooperation as Mr. Trudeau seeks — nuclear-armed North Pukguksong-2 being test ent Donald Trump’s Twitter itoring the reaction to Mr. George W. Bush’s council to have good relations so that Korea’s first since U.S. Pres- fired in an undated photo posts and struggle to make Flynn’s conversations. There were defined by clashes Canada is not targeted in trade ident Donald Trump as- released on Monday by policy to fit them. Most are are transcripts of a conversa- among experienced bureau- talks. A White House official and sumed oice. North Korea’s Korean Central kept in the dark about what tion in at least one phone cratic infighters — Dick a senior Canadian government The North’s leader Kim News Agency. — PHOTO: REUTERS Mr. Trump tells foreign lead- call, recorded by U.S. agen- Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld official said the two countries Jong-Un “expressed great ers in his phone calls. Some cies that wiretap foreign dip- and Colin Powell among plan to launch a new task force satisfaction over the posses- Russia joined a chorus of in- staf members have turned to lomats, which may determ- them. But what is happening called the United States Canada sion of another powerful ternational criticism of the encrypted communications ine Mr. Flynn’s future. under the Trump White Council for the Advancement of nuclear attack means which launch near the western city to talk with their colleagues, House is diferent, and not Women Business Leaders-Female adds to the tremendous of Kusong. The council was after hearing that Mr. Sensitive matter just because of Mr. Trump’s Entrepreneurs. might of the country”, state to meet around 2200 GMT Trump’s top advisers are Stephen Miller, White CHAOS IN COUNCIL: Donald Trump being greeted by National Twitter foreign policy. Ivanka Trump, the President’s news agency KCNA said on on Monday following a re- considering an “insider House senior policy adviser, Security Adviser Michael Flynn and members of the military Several staf members daughter who has been an Monday. quest by the United States, threat” programme that was circumspect on Sunday at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida last week. — PHOTO: NYT who did not want to work for advocate for policies benefiting Japan and South Korea. could result in monitoring about Mr. Flynn’s future. Mr. Mr. Trump have returned to working women, was involved in Russia, China condemn it China’s Foreign Ministry cellphones and emails for Miller said on NBC that pos- former council staf mem- more decisive than in the their regular agencies, leav- recruiting participants and Mr. Guterres appealed “to spokesman Geng Shuang leaks. National Security Ad- sibly misleading the Vice- bers and others throughout past, but she acknowledged ing a larger-than-usual hole setting the agenda for the round- the international community said it opposes North Korean viser Michael T. Flynn has President on communica- the government. that career oicials were on in the experienced bureau- table. Mr. Trudeau’s close to continue to address this missile launches that violate hunkered down since invest- tions with Russia was “a In a telephone conversa- edge. “Not only is this a new cracy. Many of those who re- cooperation with Mr. Trump and situation in a united man- UN resolutions. igators began looking into sensitive matter”. tion Sunday afternoon, K.T. administration, but it is a dif- main, who see themselves as Ivanka could ease some worries ner”, in an apparent refer- Russia’s Foreign Ministry what, exactly, he told the This account of life inside McFarland, deputy national ferent party, and Donald apolitical civil servants, have among Canadians that the U.S. ence to the United States and called the launch “a demon- Russian ambassador to the the council is based on con- security adviser, said that Trump was elected by been disturbed by displays of President will enact protectionist China, Pyongyang’s ally. stration of contempt for UN U.S. about the lifting of sanc- versations with more than early meetings of the council people who wanted the overt partisanship. — New measures that could hurt the Permanent UN Security Security Council resolu- tions imposed in the last two dozen current and were brisker, tighter and status quo thrown out,” said York Times News Service Canadian economy. — AP Council members China and tions”. — AFP 13 killed in Lahore blast Hamas chooses hard-liner Sri Lanka arrests 550 ‘military claimed by Pak. Taliban as new leader in Gaza deserters’ as part of clean-up GAZA CITY: Hamas has named a oicial also confirmed the LAHORE: An explosion near the The bomber exploded him- Jamaat-ur-Ahrar had also top militant commander as appointment. COLOMBO: Sri Lanka arrested The mass apprehension of separatists but desertion re- Punjab provincial assembly self when successful negoti- claimed responsibility for an its new leader in the Gaza Mr. Sinwar replaces Ismail nearly 550 soldiers in a single 546 soldiers during a sweep mained an issue even after in the Pakistani city of Lahore ations were under way Easter Day bombing in Strip, an oicial media outlet Haniyeh, who served as the day as it reins in the mass on Thursday was “the largest combat had ceased. killed at least 13 people and between police oicials and Lahore last year that killed confirmed on Monday, pla- Prime Minister of Hamas’s desertion that’s plagued the ever”, said brigadier Roshan Oicials say peace time wounded 83 others on the protesters,” Mr. Sukhera more than 70 people in a pub- cing one of the Islamic milit- government following the armed forces since the end of Seneviratne.More than 9,000 desertions were due in part Monday, a senior police oi- told reporters. lic park. ant group’s most hard-line 2007 takeover of Gaza. Mr. the civil war, an oicial said oicers and soldiers took ad- to a reduction in risk-related cial said. A spokesman for Jamaat- Security in Pakistan has figures in charge of opera- Haniyeh is now expected to on Monday. vantage of the amnesty, turn- allowances paid to soldiers, ur-Ahrar, a faction of the vastly improved in recent tions in its core power base. take over as Hamas’ supreme The military has been pur- ing themselves in to avoid and the growth of better pay- Suicide attack Pakistani Taliban, called Reu- years but Islamist groups The appointment of Ye- leader, replacing Khaled suing nearly 43,000 desert- punishment. ing jobs in the private sector. Mushtaq Sukhera, in- ters and claimed such as the Pakistani Taliban hiya Sinwar, who was freed Mashaal, who lives in exile. ers who refused to voluntar- Sri Lanka’s Army, Navy Many have found work in spector general of police in responsibility. and Islamic State still pose a by Israel in a 2011 prisoner Khalil al-Haya, another ily turn themselves in under and Air Force have a com- construction and transport, Punjab Province, said five po- The militant group also threat and have carried out swap, solidifies the takeover political hard-liner, was elec- a government amnesty de- bined strength of just over while police have reported lice oicers were among the warned the Lahore attack was mass attacks. of Gaza operations by the ted as Mr. Sinwar’s deputy. signed to clean up the ranks. 275,000 personnel, but the involvement of deserters dead when an explosion the start of a new campaign Pakistani Prime Minister armed wing of the Mr. Sinwar, who is in his Arrests have begun in desertion has been a serious in gun-related crimes. More rocked a protest organised by against government depart- Nawaz Sharif said the attacks Palestinian group. mid-50s, comes from the earnest since the grace problem throughout its his- than 25,000 security person- Pakistan’s chemists and phar- ments. “You are on our target will not weaken Pakistan’s re- Mr. Sinwar’s selection was southern Gaza town of Khan period expired in December, tory. Soldiers routinely nel were among at least maceuticals manufacturers. across the country,” it added solve in fight against milit- reported by Hamas’s al- Younis and is a founder of ending any hope soldiers had walked of the job during the 100,000 people killed during “It was a suicide attack. in a statement. ancy. — Reuters Resala news site. A Hamas Hamas’s military wing. — AP of avoiding a court martial. 37-year war against Tamil Sri Lanka’s civil war. — AFP

Photo of the year Syrian govt. used chlorine gas in Aleppo battle

UNITED NATIONS: Syrian govern- ment forces carried out at least eight chemical attacks during the final weeks of the battle for Aleppo, killing nine people, among them four children, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. The rights group said it in- terviewed witnesses, collec- ted photos and reviewed video footage indicating that chlorine bombs were dropped from government helicopters during the of- fensive from November 17 to December 13. Around 200 people were injured by the toxic gases used on opposition-con- trolled areas of the northern city, according to HRW. The actual number of chemical attacks could be higher, said the group, adding that journalists, med- ical personnel and other credible sources had repor- ted at least 12 attacks in that period. One of the deadliest bombings hit the neighbour- hood of al-Sakhour on November 20, killing six members of the same family. DEATH OF AN AMBASSADOR: Associated Press photographer Burhan The use of chlorine gas as Ozbilici (left) won the 2017 World Press Photo competition on a weapon is banned under Monday for his image of a gun-wielding off-duty Turkish the Chemical Weapons Con- policeman who shot and killed Russia’s Ambassador Andrei vention, which Syria joined Karlov on December 19 last year.— PHOTOS: AP in 2013 under pressure from Russia. — AFP Damaged spillway triggers mass evacuation OROVILLE (CALIFORNIA): Emer- vices Oice and Depart- gency crews early on ment of Water Resources Monday prepared loads of did not immediately re- rock to be dropped by heli- spond to requests for com- copters to seal a crumbling ment. The water depart- spillway that threatens to in- ment said on Twitter on undate communities along Sunday afternoon that the the Feather River in North- spillway next to the dam was ern California, local media “predicted to fail within the reported. next hour” but it remained Almost 2,00,000 people standing. were ordered on Sunday to The department said au- evacuate from the area be- thorities were releasing wa- low the Lake Oroville Dam, ter to lower the lake’s level the tallest dam in the United after weeks of heavy rains in States, after authorities said A damaged spillway seen in an aerial photo taken over the drought-plagued California. its emergency spillway Oroville Dam in California on Sunday.— PHOTO: REUTERS Overnight, state and local could give way. oicials said the immediate Oicials said the situation chest-high bags of rocks to then loaded into the bags danger had passed with wa- seemed less dire overnight close the hole in the with backhoes. The opera- ter no longer flowing over but Sacramento television spillway. tion to close the gap would the eroded spillway but they station KCRA reported that The NBC ailiate showed begin as soon as it was feas- cautioned that the situation helicopters from around the dump trucks dropping of ible, the station said. continued to remain unpre- state were sent to drop piles of rock, which were The state Emergency Ser- dictable. — Reuters CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 BUSINESS 15 We are preparing a model contract farm law SENSEX GOLD RUPEE BRENT OIL to link farmers with food processing industry 13-02-2017 28,351 13-02-2017 29,950 13-02-2017 67.02 13-02-2017 55.78 17 225 0.14 0.89 Arvind Panagariya, Vice-Chairman, NITI Aayog 10-02-2017 28,334 points 11-02-2017 29,725 ₨/10gms 10-02-2017 66.88 ₨/$ 10-02-2017 56.67 $/bbl BRIEFLY ‘No conflict with founders’ Centre puts onus on States to Britannia’s ‘tough’ third quarter profit rises 5% Infosys chairman Seshasayee says board keen to have all stakeholders’ views set factories’ threshold limit KOLKATA: Food company SOMESH JHA covered under a new law for Britannia Industries Ltd. closed SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT moters are considered by the small factories. However, the the third quarter with a 6% rise board. “The law firm is not NEW DELHI: With labour law re- fate of the proposed Small in its consolidated revenue MUMBAI: Infosys chairman R. appointed to mediate forms back on the Centre’s Factories Bill, 2015 is unclear growth at ₨2,338 crore and a 5% Seshasayee on Monday ac- between the... two parties as agenda, fresh discussions be- as the Labour Ministry note increase in its net profit at ₨220 knowledged that the hand- it is projected. It’s to assimil- gin with trade unions today has no mention about the crore. The company’s managing ling of the severance package ate views of all stakeholders, to push through a long- proposed law. director Varun Berry said: “This paid to former CFO Rajiv including the promoters and pending overhaul of the The Centre has now said quarter has been really tough Bansal – an issue that had to ensure that we have com- Factories Act of 1948. How- that all factories below the considering the way things been raised by some co- mon values within a legal ever, the Labour Ministry threshold limit could be panned out on the economic founders – had seen a “judg- framework.” has tweaked its draft amend- brought under the purview front”. Mr.Berry said the ment” error and said the Talking about his relation- ments to put the ball on con- of the Act through notifica- demonetisation had “impacted” board had agreed to hear ship with the founders, Mr. tentious issues in the domain tions issued by state govern- the positive momentum suggestions made by the Sikka said, “There are no dif- of State governments. ments. “Flexibility has been triggered by a good monsoon founders as the company ferences with promoters. I Instead of increasing the Bandaru Dattatreya given to the States to decide and seventh pay panel benefits. faces the challenge of trans- IRONING IT OUT: No conflict of interest between the promoters meet Murthy four to five threshold limit set for the on the threshold limit,” the Sales dropped by more than forming from a promoter and the directors, says Seshasayee. — PHOTO: SHASHI ASHIWAL times a year. I have a very number of workers in an in- said in a note sent to central Labour Ministry added. 10% in November 2016 driven firm to a professional deeply heartfelt relationship. dustrial unit to be statutorily trade unions on February 2. Labour Minister Bandaru compared to a year earlier. board driven organisation. porters at a press conference Rajiv Bansals. The suspicion Earlier today we were talking covered by the factories law, Earlier, the Centre had Dattatreya will meet central —Special Correspondent The severance pay given here. “In retrospect, I have of his severance pay being about Apple watch. His wis- the Centre is now proposing proposed that the Factories trade unions today to discuss to Mr. Bansal was a “judg- no hesitation in saying that ‘hush money’ is deeply dis- dom and experience are an enabling provision that Law be applicable to all the proposed amendments. ment” error made by the this compensation would turbing,” said Mr. Se- deeply valued which is lets State governments de- factories that employ at least A central trade union Hindustan Motors Q3 company board due to a sub- have been diferent, had the shasayee, who had been viewed as criticism.” cide the threshold over 40 workers – a move that was leader, requesting anonym- loss narrows to ₨3.8 cr. jective element that guided judgment, made in the cir- blamed by some of the Defending Mr. Sikka’s use which a unit will be con- strongly opposed by the ity, said that the unions are the drawing up of severance cumstances, been diferent. founders for lapses of cor- of chartered aircraft for cor- sidered a factory for the pur- central trade unions. likely to oppose the move to KOLKATA: C.K. Birla controlled packages, according to Mr. We had some subjectivity in porate governance at the IT porate travel, Mr. Seshasayee pose of the law. The present Factories Act give flexibility to state gov- Hindustan Motors Ltd narrowed Seshasayee. making this judgment,” said major, even as he denied any said, “I have been asked why “The definition of factory 1948 applies to establish- ernments on deciding the its third-quarter loss to ₨3.8 the company’s chairman, conflict of interest between Vishal Sikka is using corpor- is proposed to be modified as ments with 10 or more work- threshold limit for the crore from ₨12.3 crore a year Judgment error who went on to defend the the firm’s promoters and the ate jets. Roopa Kudva has in the original Bill by giving ers, if the premise is using Factories Act and instead ask ago, saying that its operating “In determining the sever- high compensation paid to board of directors. been at pains to say we don’t powers to the State govern- power and to establishments the Centre to cover all manu- results have been affected by ance package of Bansal when CEO Vishal Sikka and the ap- Infosys has appointed law have a corporate jet. Sikka ments to increase the with 20 or more workers, facturing establishments the adverse market conditions. he left the company in Octo- pointment of Union Minister firm Cyril Amarchand was travelling 60-80,000 threshold limit of workers up without electricity connec- “since manpower of indus- The company which shot into ber 2015, there was a business of State Jayant Sinha’s wife Mangaldas to advise on the kilometres per month. 8% of to 20 and 40 for factories tion. trial establishments is redu- news last week over its judgment by the Board and Punita Sinha as an independ- succession planning, to en- this was on chartered flights. working with and without According to the previous cing as a result of automation announcement on sale of the this amount was agreed to be ent director. sure that views of all stake- It is important to equate the aid of power respect- proposal, Factories with less and advancements in Ambassador brand to Peugeot paid,” Mr. Seshasayee told re- “There will be no more holders including the pro- costs and issues.” ively,” the Labour Ministry than 40 workers were to be technology.” SA, said that the sale will be effective upon fulfilment of certain terms and conditions. Hindustan Motors reported ₨90 lakh income from exceptional L&T, European firm ‘Allow PSUs to sell power on Retail inflation slows items saying that this represented profit on sale of tie up to make missiles to 3.17% in January non-current investments. exchanges without States’ nod’ — Special Correspondent SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ants (6.4%), clothing and SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT cision to implement such a footwear (4.7%), housing policy was made during the NEW DELHI: Retail inflation (5.0%), fuel and light (3.4%), RBI tells banks to treat NEW DELHI: Power Minister monsoon of last year. “And if eased in January to 3.17% on and miscellaneous items banned notes as ‘soiled’ Piyush Goyal on Monday it has taken five months to go the back of a sharp slow- (5.1%),” Madan Sabnavis, called for the “immediate” ahead with it, then I am not down in food price inflation. chief economist at Care Rat- MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of implementation of a policy happy,” he added. “The Growth in the consumer ings said. India (RBI) on Monday asked allowing public sector speed of decision making is price index (CPI) slowed “Clearly the non-food banks to treat the withdrawn power generators like NTPC the essence of good from the 3.4% seen in components have registered currencies in their currency to sell surplus power on ex- governance.” December 2016, extending an increase and going ahead chests deposited since changes without waiting for the streak of easing retail in- would tend to be upward November 9, as ‘soiled.’ The permission from the State Plant renovation flation to six months. The moving,” Mr. Sabnavis ad- regulator said the old ₨500 and governments. Mr. Goyal also said that food and beverages category ded. “Higher global com- ₨1,000 notes will not be “Can we have the policy Piyush Goyal NTPC should not incur any registered an inflation rate of modity prices will get in- reckoned for calculating chest implemented immediately, more expenditure on the 1.3% in January, down from grained in these components balance limit or cash holding that if the State does not say them by reducing the costs renovation of power plants the 2% witnessed in Decem- while food items will be un- limit. “Specified bank notes ‘no’, then even NTPC should and losses to the States. He older than 25 years. He said ber 2016. Food price gains afected.” “Also, as the eco- deposited in the currency be allowed to sell surplus further asked his Ministry of- that he had already asked have also been easing for six nomy is remonetised, some chests, since November 10, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP: The two firms are working together for power on the exchange,” Mr. ficials to speak to the State NTPC to replace 11,000 MW consecutive months. pent-up demand will have 2016, will be considered as part the last six years, says A.M. Naik. — PHOTO SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Goyal asked oicials of his government representatives worth of plant capacity that Inflation in the fuel and returned,” Crisil Research of the chest balance in the Ministry gathered for the In- as soon as possible and get is older than 25 years. light segment slowed to 3.4% said. “The stickiness in core soiled note category but will not NEW DELHI: Engineering and 49 would be with the dian Power Stations Confer- the policy in place soon. Mr. Goyal added that com- in January from 3.7%, while inflation despite continued be reckoned for calculating construction major L&T on European partner. ence 2017 organised by “And with enough power panies will incur only a nom- the housing segment saw in- decline in other parts of the Chest Balance Limit / Cash Monday entered into a joint Commenting on the part- NTPC. “That way, unless the on the exchange, should the inal increase in their capital flation quicken marginally to index is a worry since wage- Holding Limit,” the RBI said. venture with European de- nership, L&T Group Execut- State expressly objects, you States feel a need, then they expenditure if they replace 5.02% from 4.98% over the price negotiations based on a — Special Correspondent fence major MBDA Missile ive Chairman A.M. Naik said have an automatic approval can buy power from the ex- old plants with new ones same period. sticky core can potentially Systems for development of the two companies had been to sell the power.” change, it’s not a big deal,” with modern technology. “The curious part of this lift overall inflation.” missiles in India. working together for the last The Power Minister said Mr. Goyal said. “But more of- “Power companies will inflation rate is that the non- According to Care Rat- Axilor Ventures to L&T will own 51% stake in six years, specially on the de- that he doesn’t expect States ten than not, they will save not incur more than ₨4,000 food components have ings, CPI inflation is expec- double start-up intake the JV named L&T MBDA fence ofset programmes in to object to the policy be- money.” crore per megawatt if they shown higher price in- ted to accelerate 3.5-3.6% in Missile Systems and the rest India. — PTI cause it would only benefit Mr. Goyal said that the de- replace old plants,” he said. creases such as pan, intoxic- the next couple of months. BENGALURU: Axilor Ventures, a business incubator, said it was planning to accelerate its investments in early stage 5.3 lakh taxpayers start-ups. Axilor said it was ‘Online marketplaces ofering looking to double the intake of young ventures for its 100-day explain cash accelerator programme. “We are discounts after inflating MRP’ getting ready for the second deposits wave of start-ups,” said YUTHIKA BHARGAVA which suggested that the de- experienced online e-com- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT chairman of the firm S. partment make it mandatory merce sites listing products Gopalakrishnan. He said that a NEW DELHI: A new survey has for e-commerce firms to put at prices higher than MRP NEW DELHI: More than 5.27 lakh fast growing base of online revealed instances of online product pictures on the site and then discounting the in- out of a total 18 lakh taxpay- consumers, an enabling public marketplaces window- in a manner that the printed flated price. ers, who had been sent di- digital infrastructure, growing dressing the discounts they MRP is visible. However, 25% consumers gital queries by the I-T de- pool of experienced founders ofer by quoting product “Many citizens have com- said they had not experi- partment over large cash and the increase in early stage prices that are higher than plained in multiple local enced anything like this, deposits made in scrapped seed capital are enabling the the maximum retail price circles that sellers at e-com- while 34% were not sure high-value currency notes, second wave.” (MRP). merce sites tend to inflate about it. have filed explanations — Special Correspondent The issue had been re- the MRP of the product so In some cases, consumers about the deposits on an on- peatedly raised at various that the discounts ofered on pointed out that when they line portal within a fortnight communities of online net- them could look attractive to tried to write a review to out- of its launch. Exchange Rates work Local Circles, includ- the buyers,” Sachin Taparia, line the MRP discrepancy is- “The explanation submit- ing the community created Founder at Local Circles sues, some of the leading e- ted by the taxpayer is being Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m on February 13 by the Department of Con- said. “Many shoppers tend to commerce sites rejected analysed in the context of sumer Afairs, following look up products based on those reviews. nature of business and busi- TT TT Currencies Buying Selling which the Ministry sought discounts and end up falling “Consumers also sugges- ness profile in the earlier re- U.S. Dollar 66.82 67.14 inputs from citizens for pos- in the trap only to find that ted many solutions to over- turns ,” the Finance Ministry Euro 71.12 71.46 sible solutions. the MRP on the actual come this problem with the said on Monday, about the e- Pound Sterling 83.70 84.10 More than 10,000 people product received was lower leading one being display of verification exercise for Jap Yen (100 Units) 58.75 59.03 from across 200 districts than what was listed online.” a legible image of the actual large cash deposits made Chinese Yuan 9.71 9.76 participated in the survey He added that 41% of re- product packaging with between November 8 and Swiss Franc 66.64 66.97 conducted by Local Circles, spondents said that they had MRP,” Mr. Taparia said. December 30, 2016. Singapore Dollar 47.01 47.24 Australian Dollar 51.27 51.52 Canadian Dollar 51.05 51.30 Swedish Kroner 7.50 7.53 ‘Renewables obviate need for new coal capacity’ Danish Kroner 9.57 9.61 New Zealand Dollar 48.04 48.28 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT plant load factor (PLF) of Hongkong Dollar 8.61 8.65 coal based plants would be in Malaysian Ringgit 15.01 15.10 NEW DELHI: The energy that the range of 78-80% in 2024– Kuwaiti Dinar 217.78 220.26 would be available from re- 25 and 2025–26.” UAE Dirham 18.19 18.28 newable sources, nuclear With the energy mix set to Bahraini Dinar 177.18 178.12 and gas plants, both existing undergo a radical change in Qatari Riyal 18.40 18.41 and planned, would be the coming years, TERI said Saudi Riyal 17.87 17.87 enough to meet India's en- the Centre would do well to Omani Riyal 173.55 174.47 ergy demand for the next 7-8 take steps to strengthen the Source:Indian Bank years, which means no new grid infrastructure and build investment in coal is needed storage capacity. at least till then, as per a re- “The increasing penetra- port by TERI. tion of solar and wind (which Bullion Rates The Transitions in Indian have inherent high intermit- February 13 rates in rupees with Electricity Sector report pre- CLEANER MIX: Nuclear, gas and renewables will help meet tency and variability) would previous rates in brackets dicts that per capita annual power demand for the next 7-8 years, says TERI. —FILE PHOTO no doubt present a number Chennai power consumption will in- of challenges in respect to Bar Silver (1 kg) 43,245 (42,570) crease from the current 1,075 the targeted 175 GW level by would suice for meeting the planning and operation,” it Retail (1 g) 46.30 (45.50) kWh to 1,490 kWh in 2021-22, 2021-22 and further grow to remainder of the demand for said. “...ensuring requisite 24 ct gold (10 g) 29,590 (29,640) 2,121 kWh in 2026-27 and 275 GW by 2025-26. electricity at the national flexibility in ramping up and 22 ct gold (1 g) 2,811 (2,816) 2,634 kWh in 2029-30. “The results indicate that level during the next 7-8 down, improved forecasting Delhi Under the report’s ‘high the energy that would be years,” TERI said. “This of RE power as well as de- Silver 43,000 (43,050) Standard Gold 29,950 (29,725) renewables scenario’, the available from RE (renew- would in other words mean mand, improved financial Sovereign 24,600 (24,500) country’s renewable energy able energy) sources, storage that no new coal plants health of utilities would be capacity is set to increase to hydro, nuclear and gas plants would be needed and the key factors in this context.”

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 16 | OPEN PAGE THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 Relating to that dreaded ‘F’ word If the words ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’ have a negative connotation, it is precisely because we are operating in a deeply patriarchal society

SNEHA PATHAK ness the verbal equival- fication instead of long- In a country where there is mentum? I am not too sure. ent of a cloudburst. term satisfaction, why extreme poverty, question- We are encouraged to keep eing a feminist today Ever so sadly, but not would a man truly, ing gender roles becomes the ideas of ‘gender equality’ to is as bad as being a surprisingly, not one madly, deeply sup- “pastime” of the middle and ourselves lest we come fan of Shah Rukh woman in the family port the cause of upper classes of women, across as someone who is too BKhan in the year supported my stance, gender equality? So something that exists in the- opinionated and causing Ra.One was released. Con- including the cousin- that the next genera- ory but not in practice. Wo- moms all over India to ex- stant mockery is replaced by sister in question. tion’s mothers are men perpetuate patriarchy. claim, “Isse shaadi kaun exasperated sighs, followed It is a hard label to more equipped to By shying away from the karega?” This is exactly why by collective rolling of eyes. carry. Even after several teach her boys? word ‘feminist’, or worse, not we women need to speak up, And finally people just pre- PSAs (Public Service Why would any- being one, shows the deep and soon enough. We aren’t tend you’re invisible. Announcements) that one who is busy reaches of a male-dominated just supposed to be good But the analogy ends right feminism means belief reaping the benefits world over women. wife material; we are sup- there. (Un)Funnily enough, in the social, political, of a patriarchal soci- The fear of the ‘F’ word is posed to be whoever we Shah Rukh Khan recently and economic equality ety care? Why real. If the word ‘feminism’ want to be. said he doesn’t want to be of the genders, it hasn’t wouldn’t they be sex- or ‘feminist’ has a negative Asking for a safe work en- considered “pro-feminist”. managed to shake its un- ists? It is a ball for connotation, it is precisely vironment isn’t asking for God forbid. fair negative connota- them. I don’t know if I because we’re operating in a too much. Asking for a safe People steer clear of this tion. Why is that? Why am in a position to put deeply patriarchal society, it home environment isn’t ask- label, not because they are do even women bolt at the blame of perpetu- is the society (you and me) ing for too much. Asking for Foucauldians but for two frightening speed from ating patriarchy on to that makes it an ugly, shame- a safe colony, safe city isn’t reasons. One, that they don’t the term feminism? Is it be- their selfish shoulders. ful word to be associated asking for too much. Asking seem to believe in gender cause it doesn’t fall within I don’t know if I would with. us to adjust in such a world equality, and two, because our inherent need to have rallied for change I am a feminist. Does that where we feel constantly un- they are afraid of how people please people? We think if I were in their posi- mean I am going to die a safe is too much. Asking us to would react. About five years the minute we claim to be tion. Power can be spinster surrounded by my keep quiet and not create a ago, during my college days feminists, suddenly we blinding. But then, we many cats? That could be ruckus is too much. And ask- as a coordinator of the wo- would seem to be too in- forget that gender ste- true, but only because being ing us to feel shame when we men’s development cell, I tense, someone who hates reotypes have also neg- a feminist today is con- call ourselves feminists is had helped organise a ‘Re- men with a fiery, self-fuel- atively afected men who sidered being something too much indeed. claim the Night Walk’, and I ling passion, or someone ILLUSTRATION: SREEJITH R. KUMAR are afraid to speak up be- akin to a plague-bearing rat. Except, sadly, we have am still called ‘Triple M’ who isn’t fun, or someone cause of embedded notions Feminism has been chal- given in. In some form or the (short for Mahila Mukti who is the ‘activist type’. And clamours up to give him Never should you threaten that he reached great peaks of patriarchy of masculinity. lenging societal norms, cus- other, in varying degrees, we Morcha) by my cousins. One if you happen to be carrying a demi-god status. Yet, even the masculinity of a man, it in his career because he was We are all so taken by the toms and rules for a long have given them what they peep about how my cousin- jhola, you’re a goner. these men are hard to find. can be dark place to be for only competing with half the roles bestowed upon us from time now. It has gained pop- asked from us. sister should be treated as Usually when a man says For many it may just be everyone involved. population. Since we as hu- generations; questioning and ularity today, but has it It may be time we stopped. her brothers are, and I wit- he’s a feminist, everyone downright emasculating. Warren Bufet once said mans seek short-term grati- challenging them takes time. gained any significant mo- [email protected]

Down memory lane Those summers to remember Cashless all the way ASHA VOMBATKERE ments when I was emotion- ally overcome — imagining Children should play outdoors, going through the rough and tumble; confining them indoors is sad oing down my father working at his SHIRLEY PHILIP memory lane is microscope in the lab, and ASHOK B.B. pockets. A buguri (wooden special. How far imagining that the hoary carved spinning toy) had just completed my research on the rural-urban migration of can I go in time? trees under which I must laying Bryan Adams’ those mesmerising painted women. I myself am a migrant, albeit an urban-rural migrant G moving from Chennai to a small town in Kerala with marriage. Well, as far back as I can re- have stumbled and played Summer of 69 on my colours on it. It was a feeling member! A recent journey were speaking to me. six strings, I slowly to cherish, that spinning col- IThe whole debate on demonetisation and its effects sent my was special. To paraphrase Nearby we observed pre- slipped into memor- ourful buguri with its nail on thoughts whirling back 30 years ago to our annual visits to the P little village of my parents. Inevitably, every activity in the village T.S. Eliot, “In the end was parations for an event. Our ies of our summers of the the hand. When you became my beginning.” guide told us it was for 1990s. Summer holidays the last one to lift the buguri hinged on farming. Paper money was never much in demand in I was born in Dacca, now Saraswati pooja. She said all were the long-awaited fun- and let it spin on the hand us- those days. Dhaka. My parents came to the departments of Dhaka filled months. Nothing could ing the thread, your buguri In my mother's home, everything necessary for our daily India just before Partition University celebrated the stop us from being the had to take a hit from every- consumption was produced at their farm itself. Mangoes, as refugees, with me a tod- festival, in a spirit of reli- naughty, dirty and notorious one — which was a painful bananas, coconuts, jackfruit, paddy, tapioca, yam, beans, eggs, dler. But my parents kept gious amity. Both India and monkeys. Our otherwise part of the game, looking at chicken, cashew nut, milk, pepper, etc., were available free of cost their own, and my memor- Bangladesh have national busy parents were never that beautiful toy getting and in huge quantities. All the processed food like rice powder ies are alive with photos anthems written by Ra- worried about us catching a mauled by everyone. and Kerala-special snacks that line the shelves of bakeries and and spoken references to bindranath Tagore. He is cold or developing some al- Lagori, or building the supermarkets today, were painstakingly prepared at home. people, places and events. “gurudev” in India and lergy playing in mud and wa- stones, was a very skilful There were only a few things that my grandpa used to kada I always had an urge to “guruji” in Bangladesh. ter, or getting sunburnt wan- game. It involved hitting a purchase from Velu chettan's (shop): lentils, potatoes, visit Dhaka, but never got In today’s growing dering in the hills and small pack of stones from a tomatoes, cola and jaggery. The other main shopping was from an opportunity. However, I deserts of hate, divisiveness playing in the open. Those distance with a ball, and one or two shops in the nearest town, which supplied the chatta mundu recently had the good for- and intolerance, it was a were carefree days. again building the pack be- material for men’s shirts and the (blouse), and tune to revisit my birth- memorable oasis of amity, The variety of games we fore getting hit hard from the that bore the fruits. It’s not I feel pity for the children shawl for women of our community. Very little paper money was place when I accompanied love and acceptance where, played was awesome when I opposite group. There was that we had no attraction to- who are being fooled into an required for these purposes. my husband who went to as gurudev famously sang, look back now. We would kanna muchale (hide’n wards them. era of smart gadgets, spoiling The economy was literally a cashless economy. I remember my attend a conference. “the world has not been search for matchboxes and seek), chowka bara, kalla- The 1990s were the time all the fun. They are being grandpa used to walk miles to visit relatives/friends. There were Dhaka is like any large In- broken up into fragments cigarette wrappers, which police, and chinni daandu, when our markets opened subjected to their parents’ very few buses or other automobiles in those days. It made me dian city: beautiful in parts by narrow domestic walls”. came in a wide variety. Each which never required any in- up to globalisation. Tele- expectations in a distant wonder how that little economy was almost throttled due to and sadly dying in others. At least as far as I could see. special picture on them had vestment from our parents’ phone links and modern future. demonetisation recently. There are people every- People went out of their its own value, based on its pockets: Nature provided television sets started arriv- Children perform better When the cash crunch It simply bears testimony where, the traic is chaotic, way to help locate the demand in our own ‘market’. everything. Apart from ing and it was a lot of curios- when they are allowed to set in, we lived with to the fact that the and there is a cheerful dis- places of my earliest Each player would invest in a providing endless joy, all ity for us too. On occasion, breathe fresh air in the open, sweeping changes regard for rules. There are memories. Though I was a few and these were made these games helped each of TVs and video cassette play- than being sufocated inside what we had. Now, ushered in by memorials and monuments foreigner, a Hindu from In- into two or three heaps in- us to sharpen a lot of aspects. ers were hired and played in the luxury of expensive with new cashless liberalisation, that mark the history of the dia, people who we met side a box carved on the This was a need for a grow- the open. The whole village spaces. They develop inex- privatisation and capital of the relatively new treated me with afection ground. After deciding on ing child. would sit and watch a movie. haustible physical agility options, we spend globalisation are here to country. A good number of and acceptance as a daugh- each one’s number, we had to Still, the fun we would get when allowed to play hard. stay. The crass Muslim women I saw wore ter of the land. Again and strike using a flat stone from Chasing fruits playing in the open, playing Their minds absorb better consumerism, higher incomes and standard of living of the the bindi. They said a again people remarked on quite a distance. Under our Once the game was over, it together and fighting to- when you let them train average individual have made him or her a slave to the market. Bengali woman always the entry in my passport beds were our prized collec- was time to wander into the gether, was never forgotten. themselves in a fun-filled What is truly amazing is that all this has occurred within a wears one! Burkhas were showing my birthplace as tions of all the matchbox hills and plantations in The summers of the cur- manner. relatively short span of 20 years. fewer than in India. “Dhaka, Undivided India”, covers. For sure, sometimes search of mangoes, jamun rent decade seem a lot difer- At least I will definitely Undoubtedly, all of us are beneficiaries of a growing economy We were able to locate bringing out the fact that it we got scolded for these by and a wide variety of fruits ent. I have my own doubts if feel sad if I don’t let my kid but we are at a crucial crossroads where the development vs the laboratory building in is politics that divides our mothers. that grew in the bushes, be- children of this generation have that joyous, memorable growth paradox is constantly being debated. Discourses on the Jute Research Institute peoples and lands. I believe There were plenty of side the streams and in the do have that adrenaline childhood I was myself al- adulterated food and their adverse impact on the health of people where my father worked. A the nostalgia was in more games to play apart from forests. I don’t even know- rushing as the summer holi- lowed to have, which defin- in recent years have cornered headlines and prime-time Muslim girl student took us hearts than mine alone, cricket, football and so on. their names to this day. Mon- days near. After all, what itely helped me expand my discussions in the media. All these seem to point to a mindset around the Dhaka Univer- when I reached the end (or The colourful marble game keys had no business in our should they be excited heart, mind and soul to the that is a cross between idealism and pragmatism. Che Guevara sity campus, where I hoped is it the beginning?) of my (goli aata) was a great joy surroundings as we had the about? It’s the same TV, the colours and imaginations of and Margaret Thatcher are at odds in their hearts. to see the house where we memory lane. which always made that sole contract. You could find same PlayStation, and the a beautiful life. I am now a proud cashless customer who uses debit cards, once lived. There were mo- [email protected] lovely gurgling sound in our one or the other in every tree same tuitions, all over again. [email protected] cheques, e-wallets and other such e-savvy techniques for payments and transfers. There is only one little hitch in this whole exercise. When the cash crunch set in, I, like every other citizen of India learned to live with the little I had. Now, however, with a whole lot of cashless options before me, I just purchase and Finally, some work-life balance from a secret chamber purchase…. without realising that at that rate it could make me literally cashless. This was mixing business with pleasure without feeling guilty about it; a good deal for the child, the mother and the grandparents Thanks again to capitalism! [email protected] SHAILAJA RAO cooked deliciousness, As for me, I was not on ing back from oice. When from flying kites to cel- holiday. Mom and dad were she grows up and finds y four-year-old ebrating Sankranthi, as a matter of fact bailing me Mumma didn’t actually go to daughter asked Darshika had the best of out by being babysitters dur- oice and was in thatha’s me once it was times; those ing the 20-day leave. I was house working but not play- Mher winter were the busiest working from home, a ing with her, I am going to be break in her pre-school two weekends concept she doesn’t under- in much trouble. class: “Mumma, holidays ever. stand, so we created an un- Until then, it was business mein kahan jaa?” A getaway But the best holidays conventional “chamber of as usual for me and a holiday would have been an ideal are so because of a per- secrets”. I worked from a for her. She would regale me way to escape the harsh sonal touch, and this I with tales of her day’s adven- winter of the National Cap- owe to her grandparents It was business as tures with amma-tatha once ital Region, I thought, but I — amma and thatha, or usual for the mother I was “back home”. hadn’t planned a holiday yet. mom and dad as she de- As all girls will vouch for, However, faced with work- cides to copy me. Growing and a holiday with being at your parents’ is let- ing mom babysitting issues, Darshika loved the sights and with that began her holi- up, I was in a joint family, so grandparents for the ting your hair down, taking it I decided on a trip to my par- and sounds, and with her day with her grandparents. having grandparents around little daughter easy, times. This was me ents’ in Visakhapatnam. curiosity piqued, her ‘why’ was a given. But in a nuclear working the same deadlines The tricky bit was that it questions progressed from The breather family set-up, it’s a luxury room in dad’s home; the oi- but without a worry about was going to be a long train simple to several per minute. Getting a breather from our kids don’t get enough of. cial answer to her was that it how my child is because she ride, and once I reassured all And answering the question, Gurgaon’s chilly winter was Seeing Darshika run to was being mended and was with family. It was wel- of my sanity in accompany- “Why is the train not going my Christmas present from them, tell her stories and play hence always locked. It was come noise and chitter-chat- ing a four-year-old alone on into the river when we Santa Claus. We were glad to a dozen silly games with like mini-CIA stuf, mom co- ter from her and the most in- a 36-hour journey, we set of crossed the Godavari?”, did get rid of all the extra layers them is sheer unbridled joy. ordinating her sleep and my nocent company my parents for Vizag, post-New Year. get my creative juices flow- we had worn from Delhi, and Likewise, seeing our par- meal timings so we didn’t could ask for, which is a win- I’m a self-confessed train ing! Also, it’s the longest she the pleasant climate was ents being transformed into run into each other at all. win situation. fan as my father was in the has stayed without asking heartening. lovable grandparents is one The locked rooms had This was me mixing busi- railways and trains were on me about Peppa Pig or Baby But it’s also new because of the greatest joys in life. everything I needed and I’d ness with pleasure without our daily conversation TV, so I was thrilled with the she is now discovering it and Their love is unconditional get more food secretly sent feeling guilty about it. When menu. I was armed with stuf technology detox. I get to re-live the beaches, and they are “made for each when she was either feeding I heard her laughter or jib- to keep her engaged, fearing Having successfully com- hills, the zoo, etc., in the pic- other” — she with all the the pigeons on the roof or ber-jabber with her grand- the worst. But the tricky pleted the journey, we ar- turesque city. So from mak- questions and them the an- just playing outside. To keep parents as I went about my tracks weren’t tricky at all. rived in time to celebrate my ing sand castles to visiting swers in their second in- up appearances I’d even ring work, I knew I had found On the contrary, and surpris- mom’s birthday. There she temples, from meeting relat- nings, served with warmth the doorbell post-work to “work-life” balance! ingly, it was lots of fun. happily blew the candles, ives to gorging on home- and utter kindness. show that I was indeed com- [email protected]

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BRIEFLY Shaun Marsh should bat India sees of spirited Bangladesh at No. 6: Langer CRICKET / Mahmudullah’s fifty and Kamrul’s stubborn resistance delay the inevitable

A. JOSEPH ANTONY boundary he cracked of Ash- win a couple of deliveries Ashwin’s HYDERABAD: It’s a pity that his- earlier, or perhaps an even big- tory hails the victor, often ex- ger hit, Mushfiqur’s miscued prize catch cessively, when the van- inside-out drive wasn’t quished have so much to ofer. destined to shore up HYDERABAD: It was R. Bangladesh deserved a dof of Bangladesh’s sagging score- Ashwin’s way of the hat for holding out almost line. It didn’t get further than remembering the world to the very end before suc- mop-topped Jadeja in the cov- record he set in becoming cumbing to defeat and India in ers, who waited for the des- the fastest bowler ever in the Paytm one-of cricket Test cending cherry and clutched it Test history to take 250 match (the first ever in this close to his sunglasses. wickets in 45 Tests, beating country) at the Rajiv Gandhi Mahmudullah made up for the previous record of haun Marsh has valuable international on Monday. his captain’s loss by assuming Dennis Lille in 48 Tests. Sexperience in the In pursuit of 459 for victory, the mantle, shepherding his Ashwin was seen walking subcontinent and should slot into it’s chase petered to a halt 208 side to 202 at lunch. If patience across quietly at the the vacant number six spot in runs short, six minutes after tea is essential for the long haul, presentation ceremony to Australia’s batting order for the was extended on the conclud- the Mymensingh-native ran the Bangladesh captain upcoming tour of India, his State ing day. short of it in the second ses- Mushfiqur Rahman and get coach Justin Langer has said. It was a commendable show sion. He pulled a snorter from a cricket ball autographed Shaun is in a battle with his by Bangladesh, often scofed at Ishant, didn’t come to terms by him. brother Mitchell and hard-hitting as a side incapable of outlasting with the delivery and was held “Yes, Ashwin wanted the all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for the four days. The visitors proved by long-leg Bhuvneshwar. ball to be signed by me as I middle-order position. they could and against the Murali Vijay at first-slip happen to be his 250th world’s No. 1 team. India grassed a chance from Mehedi victim. I am glad to be part notched up its 19th win on the Hasan of Ishant. India of this cricketing history,” Messi must be tied up, trot, its last defeat coming at champed at the bit but Rahim revealed at an the hands of Sri Lanka, back in Bangladesh strived to delay the TELLING BLOW: R. Ashwin snared Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur informal chat at the end of jokes Lucas 2015. inevitable, refusing to descend Rahim in the first session to ensure India stayed on course for the media briefing.. — Much was expected of into the depths of despair. The a comfortable finish.— PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK Special Correspondent Shakib Al Hasan on the final eighth wicket pair of Mehedi morning but his end would and Kamrul Islam held its own have disappointed him more against the home side’s three- than his team. Ravindra Jade- pronged pace battery working ja’s ball rose a little raggedly with the second new ball. Kam- from the rough, even kicking rul weathered the barrage for up a small mushroom of dust. 70 balls to notch up three ! The all-rounder’s edge was faint but it bounced of his pad Antidote to the waiting hands of On an increasingly docile Cheteshwar Pujara at forward pitch, Jadeja proved the anti- short-leg. Shakib briefly stood dote even if the shine was still his ground till the forefinger of not of from the sphere. With a aris Saint-Germain winger fate went up. delivery high on speed, spin PLucas has said the only way Bangladesh again turned to and bounce, the southpaw got to stop Lionel Messi is “to tie him its Man Friday Mushfiqur. A the ball to kick and squeeze out up.” cordon of close-in fielders bay- a catch from Mehedi to “Legally?” he asks. “For me it’s ing for his blood hemmed him Wriddhiman Saha behind the impossible to stop him. You have in but he walked the circle of timber. to tie him up. The tactic is fire without flinching. The bat Taijul Islam took a swipe at preventing the ball getting to in his hand made the diference Jadeja. The mishit went sky- him,” Lucas says. “You must be in his duel with Ishant Sharma, wards with Vijay and K.L. very, very organised.” who towers a couple of feet Rahul converging on the ball. over him. Mushfiqur promptly In the melee, mercifully Rahul despatched over the fine-leg gripped the ball firmly. Guardiola can’t give fence a headbanger the tear- Taskin’s bid to work the ball away unleashed. around his feet misfired as he Aguero guarantees The Bangladesh skipper’s took a rap on the pads. A refer- ANIMATED: K.L. Rahul shares his happiness with the bowler stay was however short-lived. ral sealed his fate and that of Ishant Sharma on the fall of Bangladesh’s top scorer Attempting an encore of the Bangladesh. Mahmudullah.— PHOTO: K.R. DEEPAK

t gives me great option as a captain to have Ithree seamers who have the pace and can Bowlers are the real match-winners, says Kohli bowl reverse swing. We all know Ishant and V.V. S UBRAHMANYAM the match-winners. They India remaining unbeaten in 19 learning experience,” said Umesh can do that. Now Bhuvi has been doing should be given credit for a Tests. Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur that in the last few games — Virat Kohli HYDERABAD: Virat Kohli said it great show,” said Kohli. “It was important to get into Rahim. was a “very good win” consid- “Unfortunately, the contri- rhythm going into the big “It is important that we do ering the “nature of the bution of the pacers goes un- series against Australia,” he well not just for three days in a wicket”. noticed (at home). It is always said. Test (for better results). We ep Guardiola has refused to “I think we bowled really the man-of-the-match and the On what he has learnt as know that it is not easy to do Prule out the possibility that well. Both the pacers and spin- man-of-the-series awardees captain, Kohli said earlier he well in Test given the lack of Sergio Aguero could leave ners showed the kind of qual- who are in focus. It is these used to be relentless when experience among many play- Manchester City at the end of the ity they are made of,” he said. guys [bowlers[ who deserve things were not happening. ers in this squad. Except for a season, but says he wants to keep “Ishant, in particular, was the credit too for chipping in “Now, when wickets are not couple of players, not many the striker. really good today. We needed with vital contributions in the falling, I am more patient as I have played more than 10 that kind of efort to get the context of the game,” he said. realise I just can’t do anything Tests,” said Mushfiqur. Aguero, who has a contract breakthroughs. It is always a “When I was not doing well, during that phase. But, I am “Hopefully, the more Tests until 2020, has been restricted to great feeling as a captain to there were other guys who happy to see the energy levels we play, better will the results brief substitute appearances in have three attacking seamers,” stepped up. They held the are up always in the team,” he be. It was a privilege and hon- each of City’s last two matches, said the Indian skipper. team through. So, it has always said. our to play against the World largely because of the excellent “No matter how many runs been a team efort for India in No. 1 Indian side here,” he said. form of new signing Gabriel Jesus. you score, unless you pick up recent years, with someone Learning experience About the pitch, he said: “It “At the end of the season, I 20 wickets you don’t win stepping up at some stage or “We created the opportunit- was not a typical Indian don’t know,” the City manager matches. This is the reason the other,” said Kohli, asked ies but missed some key mo- turner. Glad that we took the said. why I say they (bowlers) are about his impact as a player on ments in this Test. It is a huge match right into the final day.” Root named Almost flew to join Availability of Shami, Mishra England Test will force selectors’ hand captain Virat in England: Coach AMOL KARHADKAR to be considered for the VIJAY LOKAPALLY first two Tests. NEW DELHI: Not a day passes MUMBAI: Mohammed Shami Under the circumstances when they don’t speak to each and Amit Mishra’s and the varying conditions other, sharing each other’s availability will determine that are likely to be concerns and looking to im- whether the national countered during the prove. For Raj Kumar Sharma, selectors tinker with the four-Test series against every step that Virat Kohli 16-member squad that Australia, the national takes to enhance his stature is a faced Bangladesh for the selectors could well select throwback to the day when he forthcoming Test series the squad for the first two realised he had a “gem” who against Australia. The Tests, to be played in Pune would make great strides in in- M.S.K. Prasad-led panel from February 23 and ternational cricket. Joe Root. — PHOTO: AP will sit down at the BCCI Bangalore from March 4. “I’ve always wanted him to SPECIAL BOND: Kohli with headquarters here on LONDON: Joe Root has been be a better Test cricketer than a coach Raj Kumar Sharma. Tuesday. Abhinav to be retained? named Test captain of Eng- champion of the limited overs Shami hasn’t featured in With India having won land, the ECB announced on brand,” said Sharma, reflecting He bowls to himself to under- India colours since the eight of the nine Tests so Monday. on the success of his student. stand the situation well. “He third Test against England far this season, the only Yorkshire batsman Root, “I’m glad he has not disappoin- visualises where would they last November when he talking point is the reserve previously England’s vice- ted me.” bowl, how would he react; all sufered a right leg injury, opener’s slot. captain, had been the over- Kohli’s double century this comes from his involve- whelming favourite to replace against Bangladesh, his fourth ment with the game. He is al- while leg-spinner Mishra, With Shikhar Dhawan Alastair Cook. in the last 12 Test matches, was ways one step ahead. After my after hurting his knee having been dropped and Root, who made his debut a performance befitting the In- warning, he has desisted from during the third Twenty20 Gautam Gambhir having under Cook, is now widely re- dia captain’s form. But Sharma playing the cut and pull early in against England, was been tried out as a stop-gap garded as England’s leading rates the 235 against England at his innings.” replaced with chinaman opener so far this season, batsman. Mumbai last December as his Sharma, who insists he is bowler Kuldeep Yadav the selectors preferred “It is a huge honour to be best show. “It came against a lucky to have such a humble against Bangladesh. Tamil Nadu captain given the England Test cap- good attack. He had walked in pupil, said, “There are a few It is understood that Abhinav Mukund for the taincy,” the 26-year-old Root at a diicult situation and re- areas I want him to improve in. Shami’s recovery was on Bangladesh Test. The said in an ECB statement. “I sponded so well” said Sharma. I’ll tell him privately, but one track until he had to rush left-handed batsman is feel privileged, humbled and The only time Sharma was can expect him to adapt to the home following the demise likely to be continued with very excited.” concerned about Kohli’s bat- suggestions in quick time.” of his father a fortnight ago. as a back-up to M. Vijay and The ECB added all-rounder ting was in England in 2014. “I Kohli can’t aford not to listen. Since then, he hasn’t K.L. Rahul. Ben Stokes would succeed felt he was slightly low. He is a “My coach is the only person I reported back at the It would be interesting to Root as vice-captain of the confident man otherwise. I al- fear,” Kohli, 28, had admitted National Cricket Academy see if the selectors decide Test side. Cook, England’s all- most flew to join him before recently. in Bengaluru. to prune the squad size time leading Test run-scorer, the last two Tests. But I’m so Ten days from now, Kohli Mishra, on the other from 16 to 15. is set to continue his career in happy he kept his focus in place will walk out for the toss with hand, headed back home If it has to be done, either the five-day game, with Root and emerged a strong player Australia captain Steve Smith also able to call upon the ex- thereafter. He is a rare batsman at Pune, and Sharma is excited. after getting himself Kuldeep or all-rounder perience of senior fast bowlers who never worries about what “It’s going to be a big series. assessed in Hyderabad Hardik Pandya will have to James Anderson and Stuart kind of pitch awaits him.” Virat will need to concentrate ahead of the Test against miss out on joining the Broad, as well as coach Trevor Kohli, adjudged the Man of hard because the Aussies are Bangladesh. He is unlikely squad in Pune next week. Bayliss and assistant Paul Far- the Match at Hyderabad, is ob- good at disturbing you. But I brace. — AFP sessed with visualising his role. know he is waiting for them.”

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 18 | SPORT THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 Dhruv Sunish Kishan blitzkrieg Vikas Krishan advances Irfan sets up West’s win to turn pro CHANDIGARH: Dhruv Sunish got flattens Central NEW DELHI: Former Asian Games past fifth seed Markos gold-medallist and two-time CRICKET / His spell of three for 10 breaks North’s back AMOL KARHADKAR Sohraab Dhaliwal c S. Tiwary b Das Kalovelonis of Russia as the 11, Apoorv Wankhade c Das b Ghosh Olympian boxer Vikas Krishan AMOL KARHADKAR latter retired midway through Iyer along with Ankeet MUMBAI: Ishan Kishan showed 13, Karn Sharma b Dinda 5, Mahesh has revealed that he is plan- the second set in the first Bawne and Priyank Panchal he is not too far behind fellow- Rawat (not out) 17, Extras (nb-1, ning to turn professional by the MUMBAI round of the $15,000 ITF men’s : He may have been re- will now join the India A squad teenager and ’keeper-batsman w-4) 5; Total (for seven wkts in 20 end of this year provided the Futures tennis tournament at leased by his last year’s IPL for the warm-up game against Rishabh Pant, who recently overs) 151. national federation keeps the the CLTA Stadium on franchise, Rising Pune Super- visiting Australians. made the India squad, when it Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-2, 3-78, 4- amateur doors open for him. The scores: Monday. giants. Still, Irfan Pathan had a comes to power-hitting. 94, 5-118, 6-130, 7-151. Speaking from New Jersey Dhruv led 7-5, 3-1 when the reason to smile on Monday. North Zone: Shikhar Dhawan c Kishan’s 36-ball 67 against East Zone bowling: Ashok Dinda (USA), where he has been Russian retired. He will meet The veteran seamer exploded Jadhav b Irfan 3, Gautam Gambhir c Central Zone on Monday kick- 4-0-24-2, Pritam Das 4-0-28-1, training for more than two the winner of the match the explosive North Zone bat- Tambe b Thakur 60, Rishabh Pant c started East Zone’s Syed Sayan Ghosh 4-0-38-2, Biplab months, the former World between qualifier Siddharth ting line-up to set up West Hooda b Irfan 2, Yuvraj Singh c Mushtaq Ali Trophy Samantray 2-0-18-0, Shahbaz Championships bronze- Vishwakarma and Timur Kh- Zone’s thumping eight-wicket Hooda b Irfan 0, Amit Pachhara run Twenty20 championship Nadeem 4-0-30-0, Writtick Chatter- medallist said he has his eyes abibulin of Kazakhstan. victory in the Syed Mushtaq out 5, Parvez Rasool c Pathan b Na- campaign in style. jee 2-0-13-1. set on the professional arena. The results: Ali Trophy Twenty20 cham- yar 5, Mayank Dagar run out 11, Har- East Zone innings: Shreevats “I have plans to turn profes- First round: Yuki Bhambri bt pionship. bhajan Singh c Pathan b Chaudhary The hallmark of the dimin- Goswami run out 15, Ishan Kishan c sional by the end of this year or Kunal Anand 6-1, 6-2; Jui-Chen Hung In fact, Pathan’s spell of 7, Pradeep Sangwan (not out) 10, utive Jharkhand batsman’s in- Dhaliwal b Lomror 67, Ishank Jaggi the beginning of next year. I (Tpe) bt Suresh Dhakshineswar 6-3, three for 10, with the prize Mohit Sharma (not out) 1; Extras nings was his ability to clear (not out) 51, Saurabh Tiwary c Har- want the support of the Boxing 6-2; Dhruv Sunish bt Markos Kalovel- scalps of Shikhar Dhawan, (lb-1, w-2): 3; Total (for eight wkts. in the boundary with élan; he hit preet b Lomror 6, Manoj Tiwary (not Federation of India (BFI). If onis (Rus) 7-5, 3-1 (retired); Sriram Rishabh Pant and Yuvraj 20 overs): 107. seven sixes during a knock out) 10, Extras (lb-3, w-2) 5; Total our BFI President Mr. Ajay Balaji bt Ranjeet Singh 7-6(5), 6-2. Singh, would have impressed Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-24, 3-24, which helped East overhaul (for three wkts in 17.1 overs) 154. Singh is okay with the move, I Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Sri- the sizeable IPL team coaches 4-32, 5-39, 6-57, 7-90, 8-106. Central’s 151 for seven. will seriously consider it. The ram Balaji & Vishnu Vardhan bt Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-112, 3-131. and scouts present in the Pres- West Zone bowling: Irfan Pathan The scores: Central Zone: Na- Central Zone bowling: Ankit Ra- International Boxing Associ- Rishab Agarwal & Niki Poonacha 6-4, ident’s Box along with all three 4-0-10-3, Shardul Thakur 4-0-29-1, man Ojha c Kishan b Ghosh 51, jpoot 3.1-0-22-0, Aniket Choudhary ation (AIBA) has already 3-6, [10-1]; Mateusz Terczynski (Pol) national selectors. Ishwar Chaudhary 4-0-23-1, Ab- Mahipal Lomror run out 1, Ambati 3-0-32-0, Amit Mishra 2-0-21-0, Karn ended the divide between am- & Josse Fco. Vidal Azorin (Esp) bt Pathan’s job was made hishek Nayar 3-0-18-1, Pravin Tambe Rayudu c Kishan b Dinda 0, Harpreet Sharma 4-0-30-0, Mahipal Lomror 4- ateur and professional,” Vikas Calvin Golmei & Rishabh Sharda 6-3, easier by the North batsmen 4-0-23-0, Deepak Hooda 1-0-3-0. Singh c Samantray b Chatterjee 48, 0-31-2, Sohraab Dhaliwal 1-0-15-0. said. — PTI 6-2. who committed hara-kiri and West Zone: Shreyas Iyer lbw Ra- Mohit Mayur & Kaza Vinayak threw their wickets away. sool 30, Parthiv Patel b Sharma 56, Sharma bt Jui-Chen Hung (Tpe) & Fa- While Shikhar Dhawan poked Aditya Tare (not out) 14, Ankeet GENERAL had Mohammed 6-3, 6-4; Primin at one that moved away from Bawne (not out) 4; Extras (w-4): 4; NZ GP: Daruvala Haenle (Ger) & Shane Vinsant (US) bt IN GOOD NICK: Parthiv Patel scored a fluent half century in him to ofer Kedar Jadhav a West Zone’s commanding win. — PHOTO: PTI Total (for two wkts. in 12.4 overs): Kunal Anand & Anvit Bendre 6-0, 6-2; sharp chance in the slips, Pant 108. makes history Adil Kalyanpur & Sasi Kumar Mukund and Yuvraj played extravagant missed of the penultimate ball Parthiv Patel and Shreyas Fall of wickets: 1-80, 2-92. Four athletes suspended bt Vijayant Malik & Sidharth Rawat shots against a moving ball to of the innings, none of the Iyer’s quickfire partnership at North Zone bowling: Pradeep SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT 6-2, 6-3. ofer skiers on the of-side in other batsmen tried to apply the top ensured West overhaul Sangwan 2-0-26-0, Umar Nazir 2.4- Haadin Bava & Shahbaaz Khan bt Gaurav Yadav the circle. themselves. the paltry target with more 0-24-0, Harbhajan Singh 2-0-15-0, KOLKATA: The National Anti- (javelin), Jagseer Markos Kalovelonis (Rus) & Timur Barring Gautam Gambhir, As a result, a target of 108 than seven overs to spare and Mohit Sharma 2-0-24-1, Mayank Doping Agency’s disciplinary Khabibulin (Kaz) 1-6, 6-2, [11-9]; who registered a second suc- was never going to ask ques- make up for the opening day’s Dagar 2-0-12-0, Parvez Rasool 2-0- panel has handed four-year Singh (para- Ishaque Eqbal & Anurag Nenwani bt cessive fifty before being dis- tions of West Zone. loss against Central Zone. 7-1. suspensions to four athletes athlete), Tejvir Jatin Dahiya & Ranjeet Singh 6-2, 6-3; for violating anti-doping Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Sanam Singh (handball) rules. and Subrata Singh bt Aryan Goveas & Jayesh GENERAL Gaurav Yadav (javelin Pungliya 6-1, 6-1. — Special Nandi (swimmer) Festival of untold thrower), Jagseer Singh (para- Correspondent athlete), Tejvir Singh (hand- were handed the sports tales ball player) and Subrata bans Ministry to launch national Nandi (swimmer) were Jehan Daruvala. — FILE PHOTO NEW DELHI: Virender Sehwag weaving handed the punishments fol- panel’s decision to hand four- Poonam floors MANFEILD (NEW ZEALAND): Young magic with 140 characters (as he is lowing three hearings held year suspensions to shot- Indian racer Jehan Daruvala Zimbabwe physical fitness programme known to on Twitter), Shane Warne spin- over the last month. putter Smritikana Manna and tasted his first major success ning words to author an autobiography The disciplinary panel has wrestler Yogesh. It has also of 2017 when he won the COLOMBO: Leg-spinner Poonam SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT and it will be included in their lysis, among others. and the stories that helped shape Virat provisionally suspended announced two-year suspen- Toyota Racing Series’s New Yadav produced career-best report card. We have to under- Kohli’s successes... All this and more will Mangesh Bhagat (kabaddi sions for Jashanpreet Kaur “We are committed to help Zealand GP here on Sunday. figures as India thrashed a FARIDABAD: Injeti Srinivas, the stand the importance of sports unfold as the festival of untold sports player), Inderjeet Singh (shot- (shot-putter). The appeal talented athletes optimise Daruvala’s brilliant lights to hapless Zimbabwe by nine secretary of the Union Sports in our day to day life,” said tales is scheduled to be held in the literary putter), Bharat Bhushan panel has reserved its orders their performance through flag finish made him the first wickets in a Group A match of Ministry and Director General Srinivas. city of India, Pune, on February 21 and 22. Tiwari (power-lifter) and Ma- in some cases. science, performance testing Indian to win a Grand Prix in the ICC Women’s World Cup of the Sports Authority of In- InsideSport, India’s first sports busi- hesh Kale (athletics), for dop- Congratulating the organ- and monitoring, applied re- It has also adjourned the motorsports. Keke Rosberg, Qualifier here on Monday. dia (SAI), announced the im- ness intelligence portal, will organise a ing violations. isers for the Indo-Japanese search and education,” Dr. case of former Common- Sir Jackie Stewart, Sir Jack Asked to bowl first, Poonam pending launch of a national two-day sport-themed literary festival — A gold medallist at the Conclave in collaboration Amit Bhalla, vice president of wealth Games weight-lifting Brabham, Sir Stirling Moss, spun a web around the opposi- physical fitness programme at SporTale. The never-before-seen event Asian championships and an with Tsukuba University and Manav Rachna Educational gold medallist Geeta Rani for John Surtees, and Bruce tion batters to demolish Zimb- the inauguration of the Manav will feature sports stars, editors, writers Asian Games bronze medal- the setting up of the sports sci- Institutions. the want of certain informa- McLaren are some of the illus- abwe for a meagre 60 in 28.5 Rachna Sports Science Centre and authors. There will be 38 luminaries list, Inderjeet’s positive test at ence centre, Srinivas appreci- Dr. Hisashi Sanada, chair- tion from the National Dope trious past winners of this GP. overs. here on Monday. from the field of sports, media, cinema, the National inter-state athlet- The scores: ated the positive contribution Testing Laboratory. Earlier in the weekend of the man Tsukuba Institute of Ja- books and photography. ics championship in Hydera- Zimbabwe Women 60 in 28.5 of the institution. Toyota Racing Series, “We will develop norms for pan, said, “Olympism is more a Sharing the inside stories of their jour- bad last June had come as a Meanwhile, NADA has overs (Mary-Anne Musonda 26; Poo- Daruvala bagged pole position physical fitness. There are 23 The newly set up sports way of life and by using sports neys and trade will be 15 sports stars, major embarrassment ahead stepped up its awareness pro- nam Yadav five for 19) lost to India for Race 1 and the New Zeal- crore children in the country centre will have advanced as a vehicle will help bring nine sports journalists, five novelists and of the Rio Olympics. gramme, holding five such Women 61 for one in nine overs and GP as well. and every student will get a equipment for resistance about a balanced education for four cine stars. — Special Correspondent The NADA appeal panel events in Bengaluru and Delhi (Veda Krishnamurthy 29). — PTI physical fitness measurement training, posture and gait ana- the body and mind.” has upheld the disciplinary in January. Daruvala will now graduate to the FIA F3 European Cham- pionship where some of the TABLE TENNIS world’s best Formula 1 stars Fashion High claims mains event have graduated from. — PTI HYDERABAD: The D.Netto-trained Reddy Prabhakar Reddy & Mr Hope (Kunal Bunde) 4. 2-1/4, 3-3/4 Fashion High (Beuzelin up) won the P.Prabhakar Reddy. Trainer: and 1/2. 1m 06.89s. Rs 12 (w), 7, 46 Sharath Version 2.0 is ready to roll Godolphin Barb Million, the chief D.Netto. and 17 (p), SHP: Rs 158, FP: Rs 516, Q: India without event of the races held here on 4. NILGIRIS PLATE (Div. II), Rs 472, Tanala: Rs 3183. Favourite: RAKESH RAO joint in May 2015 during the goals. “First the India Open, in Monday (Feb. 13). The winner is (1,100m), 4-y-o & over, rated upto Divine Heights. Owner: Dr G.Lak- World championship — April we have the Asian cham- owned by Dr Peddi Reddy 30: Aalishaan (Akshay Kumar) 1, shmi Prasad. Trainer: KSV Prasad NEW DELHI: Sharath Kamal Ver- Sharath underwent the most pionship and in late May to Saina, Sindhu Prabhakar Reddy & Mr P.Prabhakar Rohini (Md. Ismail) 2, Dawning Raju. sion 2.0 is here. Wiser, agonising phase of his career, early June, the World champi- Reddy. Hope (Rohit Kumar) 3, War Lady HO CHI MINH: 1. PRINCE KHARTOUM (G. Naresh) 4. Shd, 1-3/4 and 1/2. 1m 8. PAKHAL CUP (1,400m), 4- stronger and more confident ironically, when holding his onship in Dusseldorf. These India will be PLATE (1,400m), 4-y-o & over, 07.94s. Rs 75 (w), 19, 8 and 6 (p), y-o & over, rated 26 to 50 (Cat. III): of breaking into the world’s career-high ranking of 32nd. three events can help me break without the services of ace wo- rated 46 to 70 (Cat. II): Leading SHP: Rs 26, FP: Rs 333, Q: Rs 141, Secret Art (I. Chisty) 1, Mountain top-30 rankings, the country’s For six weeks, he was con- into the top-30 in the world. If I men’s singles shuttlers Saina Legend (Beuzelin) 1, Miracle King Tanala: Rs 1041. Favourite: Dawning Of Light (P. Gaddam) 2, Gangadhar Nehwal and P.V. Sindhu, and (I. Chisty) 2, Top Contender (Suraj Hope.Owner: Mr Gulam Hussain (G. Naresh) 3, Raja Hindustani (P. most successful table tennis fined to a wheelchair. He spent just have two good weeks, in Narredu) 3, Negress Pearl (Akshay Gulabi. Trainer: SSF Hassan. Trevor) 4. Ns, 5 and nk. 1m 27.20s. Rs player is optimistic, with a another six weeks on crutches. these three months, I can the onus will be on the men’s Kumar) 4. 1, shd and 1-1/4. 1m 26.53s. 5. AMARNATH GUPTA ME- 14 (w), 7, 12 and 39 (p), SHP: Rs 35, reason, to make 2017 a break- He started walking without break the top-30 barrier.” singles and doubles pairs to FP: Rs 95, Q: Rs 68, Tanala: Rs 2068. Rs 7 (w), 6 and 10 (p), SHP: Rs 14, FP: MORIAL CUP (Div. II), (1,400m), through year. support in three months. By The last time Sharath played lead the country’s challenge in Rs 20, Q: Rs 17, Tanala: Rs 39. Fa- 5-y-o & over, rated 46 to 70 (Cat. II): Favourite: Secret Art. Owners: M/s the inaugural Asia Mixed vourite: Leading Legend. Owners: Kalinda (Deepak Singh) 1, Azar- Villoo Poonawalla Racing & Breed- Upbeat after winning the the time he tried to jog, it was A. Sharath Kamal. — FILE PHOTO an international event at Dr Peddi Reddy Prabhakar Reddy & enka (P. Trevor) 2, Green Striker (B. ing Pvt Ltd rep by Dr Cyrus Poon- Team Championship, starting seventh National champion- four months. come for practice, I know it is home, the 2015 Asian Cup at Mr P.Prabhakar Reddy. Trainer: R. Kumar) 3, Dancing Farha (G. awalla and Mr Adar Poonawalla & Jaipur, he defeated three here on Tuesday. D.Netto. Naresh) 4. 2, 3 and 2-3/4. 1m 25.06s. M/s Vijay Racing Farms Pvt Ltd rep ship this month, Sharath is He played his first match in only these 2-3 hours. Initially named in the squad, Rs 63 (w), 14, 7 and 15 (p), SHP: Rs 22, by Mr Vijay Kumar Gupta & Mr top-16 players in the world. 2. MOTHER'S BOY PLATE eager to strike it rich in the up- October, standing but not “Earlier, I practised in the Saina and Sindhu decided to (1,200m), (Cat. II), 3-y-o only FP: Rs 296, Q: Rs 127, Tanala: Rs Susheel Kumar Gupta. Trainer: Lax- coming $150,000 Seamaster moving. It was only in January “That’s very much possible (Terms): Amorous White (P. S. 1970. Favourite: Azarenka. Owners: man S. morning but in the afternoon skip the tournament to pre- Chouhan) 1, Vancouver (Beuzelin) M/s Sreeramulu Bommishetty & ITTF World Tour India Open 2016 that Sharath returned to session, I was only half there, again,” assures Sharath. “I pare for the international 2, Southern Crown (Deep Shanker) T.N.Mehta. Trainer: D.Netto. 9. MOSSY BANKS PLATE beginning here on Tuesday. active, competitive table ten- complaining of tiredness. have the feeling that I am back schedule which includes next 3, Vallee Sceptre (Akshay Kumar) 4. 6. CHARON PLATE (2,000m), (Div. II), (1,200m), 4-y-o & over, Ranked 62nd and seeded nis in the National champion- Now, that doesn’t happen. on track. Like Soumyadeep month’s All England 3/4, 1-3/4 and 2. 1m 12.51s. Rs 10 (w), 4-y-o & over, rated 46 to 70 (Cat. II): rated 26 to 50 (Cat. III): Royal Dy- ship in Hyderabad. [Roy] told me, ‘What I have 5, 9 and 49 (p), SHP: Rs 23, FP: Rs 39, Carolina Moon (A. A. Vikrant) 1, namite (P. Trevor) 1, General Sa- 11th, Sharath is confident of do- “When you see me, I am al- Championship. Q: Rs 32, Tanala: Rs 646. Favourite: Dahilos (I. Chisty) 2, Ashwa Ashoka lute (I. Chisty) 2, Golden Image (A. ing well in the field that has “A lot has changed since ways positive. I am 90 per cent seen you play since October In the absence of Saina and Amorous White. Owner: Mr (Akshay Kumar) 3, Euro Zone (P. S. A. Vikrant) 3, Vijays Triumph two top-10 players — Ger- then. I’ve changed a lot, espe- there, if not 100. Even on a bad (2016), a lot has changed. You Sindhu, Tanvi Lad and newly M.P.Ananta Vatsalya. Trainer: Chouhan) 4. 1/4, hd and hd. 2m (P.Gaddam) 4. 1, 1-1/4 and shd. 1m are more precise.’ A.Vatsalya. 09.71s. Rs 238 (w), 27, 10 and 9 (p), 12.79s. Rs 10 (w), 7, 19 and 41 (p), many’s Dimitrij Ovtcharov cially after the injury. I’ve day, it is 85 per cent. crowned National champion 3. GODOLPHIN BARB MIL- SHP: Rs 37, FP: Rs 1480, Q: Rs 599, SHP: Rs 79, FP: Rs 110, Q: Rs 97, and Belarus’s Vladimir Sam- worked on my physical “So there are not too many “I feel It is nice to see you and Polish open winner Ritu- LION (1,400m), 3-y-o only Tanala: Rs 4618. Favourite: Princess Tanala: Rs 941. Favourite: Royal Dy- sonov, ranked fifth and eighth strengths, hitting the gym for bad days happening because I play like this. So I am playing parna Das will spearhead the (Terms): Fashion High (Beuzelin) Of Dreams. Owner: Mr M.Ra- namite. Owner: Mr Junaid Ali Khan. in the world. This optimism about 14 hours a week, for sure. more confidently. I think I play 1, Palace On Wheels (Suraj makrishna Reddy. Trainer: Trainer: Ravinder Singh. am there for a shorter period challenge in the women’s Narredu) 2, That's My Class (Ak- L.D’Silva. was far from Sharath even less I work more on the fitness part of time. This has helped me well in India in international singles, while the onus in shay Kumar) 3, Hope Is Eternal (P. S. 7. NILGIRIS PLATE (Div. I), Jkt (1): 30%: Rs 278 (230 tkts), than a year ago. and skill. improve quite a bit. In short, events. men’s singles will be on H.S. Chouhan) 4. 3/4, nk and 3-1/4. 1m (1,100m), 4-y-o & over, rated upto 30 70%: Rs 12474 (12 tkts); (ii): 30%: Rs I’m keeping my mind fresh.” 26.07s. Rs 18 (w), 9 and 7 (p), SHP: Rs (Cat. III): Divine Heights (N. 8011 (41 tkts), 70%: Rs 63873 (12 tkts); Following a career-threat- “I have reduced the table “My track record is pretty Prannoy and Syed Modi Grand 16, FP: Rs 54, Q: Rs 24. Favourite: Rawal) 1, Oh Pharaoh (P. Gaddam) Tr (i): Rs 38 (682 tkts); (ii): Rs 50321 ening injury — his right ham- tennis hours, which has helped Looking ahead to the sea- good. Thanks to the Indian Prix Gold winner Sameer That’s My Class. Owners: Dr Peddi 2, Princess (B. R. Kumar) 3, Cannon (one tkt); (iii): Rs 80 (2229 tkts). string gave way from the hip- me focus better. Now when I son, Sharath has set realistic conditions, I am better of.” Verma. — PTI VARIETY THE HINDU CROSSWORD 11930 (set by Incognito) FAITH TODAY'S

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NEW YORK: The New York NEW DELHI: By the looks of it, Knicks’s latest tough week 2017 promises to be a water- ended on a high note on shed year in Indian table ten- Sunday as Carmelo Anthony nis with the ITTF World Tour and company shocked the San India Open beginning here on Antonio Spurs 94-90. Tuesday and the cash-rich six- A win over the second-best team pro league finally making team in the NBA was a wel- its debut in July. come change of fortune for the After June 2010, when India Knicks, who are languishing last hosted a ITTF Pro Tour well out of playof contention event, the Table Tennis Feder- in the Eastern Conference. ation of India (TTFI) has man- In Toronto, Kentavious aged the right to host a newly- Caldwell-Pope scored five of christened World Tour event his 21 points in the final minute which ofers $150,000 in prize- THWARTED: Hardik Singh of Warriors (right) is foiled by as the Detroit Pistons erased a fund. This is a second-cat- Wizards’ Edward Ockenden. — PHOTO: AKHILESH KUMAR 16-point fourth-quarter deficit egory ITTF event, behind the to beat the Raptors 102-101. World Tour Platinum series. UTHRA GANESAN one of them saw S.V. Sunil The results: Pistons 102 bt Rap- This week ofers a good op- send the ball in 30 seconds into tors 101, Knicks 94 bt Spurs 90, Tim- portunity for home-grown tal- CHANDIGARH: Uttar Pradesh the third quarter. berwolves 117 bt Bulls 89, Kings 105 ent to pick up some valuable Wizards (UPW) won its The ball went past Sreejesh bt Pelicans 99. — Agencies ranking points. second game of the competi- and found Mirco Pruijser, who Combined with the favour- tion to stay in the race for a beat Gonzalo Peillat to level able conditions, the Indians knockout spot with a compre- scores. can be expected to pull of a hensive 6-2 victory over Warriors attacked from Under-19 Test: surprise or two. Jaypee Punjab Warriors both flanks. Armaan Qureshi, Holden, Bartlett An indication of the quality (JPW) here on Monday. returning after missing two on ofer here is the fact that This was the second consec- games due to a shin injury, on song Sharath Kamal and Manika utive loss for the host at home troubled the Wizards defence Batra are seeded 11th and 10th. and the result opens up the on the left and Sunil on the In the men’s qualifying leaderboard with all the four right, but was unable to get NAGPUR: England under-19 draw, following the league in bottom teams still in the reck- past Raghunath and Co. opener Max Holden and No. 3 10 groups, the group-toppers oning for a semifinal berth. Akashdeep Singh kept feed- batsman George Bartlett will advance to the main draw. Playing a far more attacking ing the strikers before Ajay scored unbeaten centuries as There will be a one-round game than it has in the past Yadav received one at the top the visitors piled up 311 for one knockout match involving the couple of games, Warriors of the circle and slammed the on the first day of the first runner-up of the 10 groups. earned its first penalty corner ball past Warriors ’keeper ‘Test’ against India at the VCA The five winners along with in the very first minute, for- Tristan Clemons, who had stadium here on Monday. one ‘lucky loser’ will complete cing P.R. Sreejesh to come to been exceptional in the last Electing to bat, the England the main draw of 32. his team’s rescue. three games. openers added 57 before me- In the women’s section, Wizards, on the other hand, Akashdeep got his name on dium-pacer Kanishk Seth re- where there are only 28 was up to the challenge as the the scoresheet with a reverse moved Henry Brook (21). entries, all 12 from the qualify- teams played an open game hit in the 57th minute to extend Bartlett, who joined Holden, ing phase will make it to the while ensuring a tight defence. the lead and seal the win for shared an unbeaten 254-run main draw. The visitors went ahead in his team. stand for the second wicket as Griezmann seals thrilling win for Atletico In the youth (under-21) sec- the fifth minute after P.R. With a three-day break for the visitors dominated the pro- MADRID: Antoine Griezmann Fernando Torres responded Yet, Atletico responded in tion for men and women, apart Aiyappa’s shot into the strik- Warriors before it plays its re- ceedings. Holden stuck 17 sealed a thrilling Atletico Mad- with a sensational looping ef- style as Yannick Carrasco from doubles, there is no qual- ing circle rebounded of Mink maining two home matches, fours in his unbeaten knock of rid comeback from 2-1 down fort into the far corner. crashed home a volley from 25 ifying phase. van der Weerden’s stick and the defending champion will 135 of 259 balls, while Bartlett’s with four minutes remaining to However, for the third yards. Two minutes later Kevin Top seedings (plus Indians): Shamsher Singh made no mis- be hoping to use the rest to re- 132 not out was laced with 18 beat Celta Vigo 3-2 and move to straight game, Atletico failed to Gameiro’s cushioned header Men: 1. Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Ger), take. coup and plan ahead. fours and two sixes, and came fourth in La Liga. convert a spot-kick when was swept home by Griezmann 2. Vladimir Samsonov (Blr), 3. Koki With the match being cru- Wizards, already forced to of 203 balls. Sevilla remains four points Torres smashed the bar mid- for his 16th goal of the season. Niwa (Jpn), 4. Yuto Muramatsu (Jpn), cial for both sides, the teams play two of its home games in The scores: England under-19 311 ahead of Atletico in third as it way through the first-half. The results: La Liga: Atletico 5. Yuya Oshima (Jpn), 6. Paul repeatedly went for field goals Delhi due to the State elec- for one in 87 overs (Max Holden 135 moved within three of leader Celta also hit the post before Madrid 3 (Torres 11, Carrasco 86, Drinkhall (Eng), 7. Benedikt Duda instead of trying to hold on tions, will be hoping to make batting, George Bartlett 132 batting). Real Madrid thanks to substi- the break through Jozabed in Griezmann 88) bt Celta Vigo 2 (Cab- (Ger), 8. Robert Gardos (Aut); 11. and earn penalty corners. full use of home advantage vs India under-19. — PTI tute Joaquin Correa’s winner 10 an entertaining end-to-end en- ral 5, Guidetti 78); Las Palmas 0 lost Sharath Kamal (Ind). There were only three pen- when it travels back to Luc- minutes from time in a 1-0 win counter played in torrential to Sevilla 1 (Correa 80). Women: 1. Doo Hoi Kem (Hkg), 2. alty corners in the game — one know for the next game. at Las Palmas. Madrid rain. Serie A: Cagliari 0 lost to Ju- Lee Ho Ching (Hkg), 3. Georgina Pota for Wizards and two for the The result: Harika struggles An error from Atletico However, John Guidetti ventus 2 (Higuain 37, 47). (Hun), 4. Matilda Ekholm (Swe), 5. host. Warriors was the more Uttar Pradesh Wizards 6 (Sham- ‘keeper Miguel Angel Moya looked to have delivered the Sampdoria 3 (Muriel 82-pen, Huajun Jiang (Hkg), 6. Sakura Mori attacking of the two, earning sher Singh-FG, Ajay Yadav-FG, to advance handed Gustavo Cabral an telling blow when he slotted Schick 83, Mbaye 88-og) bt Bologna (Jpn), 7. Jeini Shao (Por), 8. Ng Wing chances in the first few Akashdeep Singh-FG) bt Jaypee Pun- early opener for Celta. home 12 minutes from time. 1 (Dzemaili 18). —AFP Griezmann. — FILE PHOTO Nam (Hkg); 10. Manika Batra (Ind). minutes of every quarter, and jab Warriors 2 (Mirco Pruijser-FG). TEHRAN: Fourth seed D. Harika battled past a determined Bangladeshi rival Akter Liza Shamima 2.5-1.5 by virtue of winning the first of the two 25- minute rapid tie-break games for a place in the second round of the Women’s World chess championship here on Monday. On Tuesday, Harika will take on Kazakhstan’s Dinara Saduakassova. Padmini Rout, who upstaged Armenia’s Elina Danielian 1.5-0.5 on Monday, faces eighth seeded Chinese Zhao Xue, the 2002 World ju- nior girls’ champion. Locked 1-1 following the classical games, Harika drew first blood by proving stronger with white pieces in the first rapid game. On a day when the live tele- cast of the games was seri- ously hampered after a tech- nical glitch, Shamima enjoyed a better position from the early stages of the second game but failed to capitalise. In this error-filled en- counter, Harika too had her moments but did not find the precise continuation. Eventu- ally, Harika forced the ex- change of queens and drew in 75 moves. — Sports Bureau Gujarat in semifinals

VALSAD: Gujarat defeated Ker- ala by four wickets and entered the semifinals of the Col C.K. Nayudu Trophy un- der-23 cricket tournament here on Monday. Needing 82 for a win on the final day, Gujarat, resuming at 36 for one, survived a testing spell from medium pacer Athif Bin Ashraf. However, Kathan D. Patel (43 n.o.) dropped an- chor to guide his team home. The scores: Kerala 161 & 254 lost to Gujarat 298 & 118 for six in 42.4 overs (Kathan D. Patel 43 n.o., Athif Bin Ashraf three for 52). Narain to compete for Nakajima Racing

CHENNAI: India’s first Formula One driver, Narain Karthikeyan will continue to compete in the Japanese Super Formula championship with the Honda-powered team, Na- kajima Racing. The 40-year old Narain has been competing in Japan since 2014 and it will be the fourth team in as many years for the former Jordan and HRT F1 driver. Narain finished 14th in the championship last year driving for the Toyota- powered Sunoco Team LeMans and had one podium finish. — Sports Reporter

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 20 | LIFE THE HINDU TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2017 NASA selects 3 landing sites for Mars mission Sachin movie to release on May 26 New timeline for our solar system estimated NASA scientists have shortlisted three potential landing A docu-feature on master blaster Sachin Tendulkar Astronomers, who estimated the new lifetime of the solar sites for the upcoming Mars rover mission that is set to titled Sachin: A Billion Dreams, is set to release on nebula, suggest that Jupiter and Saturn formed within the launch in 2020. May 26. Tendulkar himself tweeted the news. first four million years of our solar system’s formation. Adele creates history at Grammys La La Land fails to win Baftas Becomes first artist to sweep the top three categories twice; David Bowie wins four awards landslide in night of diversity MARK BROWN LOS ANGELES: Even though Ad- in the background. She re- ele flubbed one of her live sang the song and earned ap- LONDON: The script predicted performances at the plause and support from the that La La Land would clean Dev Patel charms Grammys, she walked away crowd, though Adele was up at the Baftas. Instead the the belle of the ball. She took teary-eyed. A number of unashamedly old-fashioned home all five awards she was other icons were honoured feelgood musical — an anti- with funny speech nominated for Sunday night, on Sunday, including Prince, dote to the age — came away including album, record and whose tribute was sung by from the 2017 ceremony with LONDON: Dev Patel’s song of the year. Bruno Mars. five awards, including the surprised reaction after She beat Beyonce in the top Mars was also a winner on top prize of best film. he won the Bafta award three categories with her Sunday. He won for produ- It was a good night but far in the best supporting comeback album 25, and re- cing Adele’s album. Adele’s from the juggernaut which actor category for Lion peated her accomplishments other wins included best pop had been widely anticipated. was one of the most from 2012, when the British vocal album and pop solo The prizes were spread strik- adorable moments at the star also won album, song and performance. ingly widely with more than ceremony. record of the year at the Until Adele’s abrupt re- 15 winners including Patel, 26, also earned a Grammys. She’s the first start, Beyonce was the talk of Manchester By the Sea, round of applause for artist in Grammy history to the show. In glittery gown, Fences, Lion, Arrival, Hack- warmly crediting his sweep the top three categor- gilded crown and gold saw Ridge, Jackie, and little co-star Sunny ies twice, and now has a total choker, a pregnant Beyonce Florence Foster Jenkins. Pawar from India as he of 15 Grammys. took the Grammy stage in a Some had tipped La La took the podium to Adele used her speech to lengthy performance of two Land to finally break the accept the trophy for his honour Beyonce and her songs from her critically ac- Bafta record set by Butch performance of a man, Dev Patel groundbreaking Lemonade claimed album Lemonade. Cassidy and the Sundance Saroo Brierley, in search album, which was also nom- Beyonce, who walked into Kid, which won nine prizes of his roots in the Garth younger Saroo in the inated. And backstage, she the show with nine nomina- in 1971. It did not come close, Davis-directed movie. movie. “I’d like to thank said she voted for Beyonce tions, only won two-best mu- Adele had a topsy-turvy evening at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. although those involved can “Wow! that just little Sunny Pawar, who when putting in her ballot for sic video (Formation) and First, she asked that her tribute to George Michael be restarted after she began singing out of hold their heads high with happened. It’s just so did this film with such album of the year. urban contemporary album awards for best film, best dir- overwhelming,” Patel confidence. He truly is a tune. Later, she broke the trophy she received for Record of the Year. — PHOTO: REUTERS (Lemonade). ector for Damien Chazelle, said after accepting the star. Garth Davis, an Praises Beyonce “My intention for the film best actress for Emma Stone, trophy from Felicity incredible director who “But I can’t really accept and album is to create a body best cinematography and Jones. He thanked his is going to be a friend of this award. And I’m very of work that would give voice original music. parents and his team, mine for life and to my humble and I’m very grateful to our pain, our struggles, our ‘Proud to represent India on world stage’ Ryan Gosling missed out saying: “This is a film amazing team who had and gracious, but my artist of doubts, and our history, to on best actor to Casey Af- about family about love the insane task of trying my life is Beyonce. This al- confront issues that make us NEW DELHI: Indian tabla my own country for the fleck for his unforgettable that transcends borders, to get this Indian dude bum you made, the Lemon- uncomfortable,” said Bey- player Sandeep Das, music that is deep-rooted performance in Manchester race, color and anything. with this noodle with ade album, is so monu- once. “This is something that whose collaboration with and in our blood over glitz By the Sea, and Chazelle was You guys are my driving wanky teeth and flufy mental,” Adele said to her Iwant for every child of every Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road and glamour,” Das told pipped to best original force.” hair work in this really fellow singer. race, and I feel that it’s vital Ensemble Sing Me Home PTI over phone from LA screenplay prize by Kenneth He got a resounding hard industry. To you “The way you make me and that we learn from the past,” won the Grammy in the just after his win. “It is not Lonergan for the same film. applaud as he mentioned guys, you are my heroes. my friends feel, the way you she said. World Music category, a complaint but merely a Lonergan told the audi- Pawar, who plays the I’m so grateful.” — PTI make my black friends feel is David Bowie, who died last says it was a proud wish. I hope there is more ence how his 15-year-old empowering. And they stand year from cancer, won all four moment to represent awareness about daughter had woken in tears up for themselves. And I love awards he was nominated for. India on the international traditional music. I was after Donald Trump was is possible to get. disgraceful ... it is a brutality you. I always have.” Blackstar, his final album re- stage. invited to Harvard elected U.S. President, but But controversy was never that extends to keeping out The night for Adele wasn’t leased days before he died, Sing Me Home features University but my alma had since been on five far away from the glitzy, refugee children we prom- all good though. The singer, won best alternative music tunes composed or mater Banaras Hindu protest marches since. “I’m starry ceremony at London’s ised to help.” who had trouble with her live album and engineered al- arranged by diferent University is yet to see very, very proud of her.” Royal Albert Hall. Ken Loach said the world was performance at the last year’s bum, non-classical. The title global artists as it Sandeep Das something of worth in La La Land — a romance Loach, whose gritty, angry I, getting darker and there was Grammys, asked to restart track won best rock song and examines the ever- me.” between an aspiring actor Daniel Blake won the out- a struggle coming between her tribute to George Mi- rock performance. changing idea of home. is third time lucky for us. I Das has been (Stone) and a jazz pianist standing British film award, the rich, the powerful and chael, telling the audience, “I The Color Purple won best Das rues the fact that am very proud of who I performing with Yo-Yo (Gosling) — has proved pop- was most passionate. The 80- the rest of us. “The film- can’t mess this up for him.” musical theatre album, giving classical music is not am and where I come Ma, a respected and ular with many because it is year-old thanked Bafta for makers know which side She stopped and used an ex- Jennifer Hudson her second accorded the respect that from be it culturally or multiple Grammy- about as far from politics and endorsing a truth “that the they’re on.” Later he went pletive after singing some of a Grammy, and earning Tony it deserves in the country musically. I wish there winning cellist, since the worrying about Trump and most vulnerable and poorest further, saying that the “gov- new arrangement of Mi- winner Cynthia Erivo and despite its growing were more inception of Silk Road Brexit and the refugee crisis, people are treated by this ernment had to be removed.” chael’s Fastlove, as videos Danielle Brooks their first popularity in the West. “It acknowledgement from Ensemble. — PTI North Korea and beached government with a contempt — (c) Guardian News & Me- and photos of Michael played Grammy. — AP whales in New Zealand, as it and a callous brutality that is dia Ltd, 2017

STAR TREK Hawking-style Rio splash tech helps convict Grammy winning-singer Al Jarreau dead child abuser rammy-winning vocalist Al Jarreau, known for his work in pop, R&B and jazz, died here. He was 76. He passed OWEN BOWCOTT Gaway on February 12. His death was announced by his manager Joe Gordon, who said that Jarreau had been former church chorister hospitalised for exhaustion two weeks ago. On the advice of his Arendered immobile by doctors, he had cancelled his tour dates and retired from touring, motor neurone disease has reports nytimes.com. Jarreau did not begin a full-time musical been helped to fulfil his dy- career until he was nearly 30. Although he made his initial mark ing wish — to give in the jazz world, Jarreau’s style and his audiences crossed courtroom evidence against stylistic barriers. His music incorporated elements of pop, soul, his abuser using eye-track- gospel, Latin and other genres. He won six Grammys across ing technology. three different categories: jazz, pop and R&B. He was also among In what is believed to be the performers on a Grammy-winning children’s album In the first time Eyegaze equip- Harmony: A Sesame Street Record. In 1981, he had his biggest hit ment has been used for with the song We’re in this love together, which reached No.15 cross-examination in a Brit- on the Billboard pop singles chart. He won his first Grammy in ish crown court, a retired 1978, for best jazz vocal performance, for his album Look to the Anglican vicar has been con- Rainbow. He won his last in 2007, for best traditional R&B vocal victed of three counts of in- performance. The award was shared by Jarreau, George Benson decent assault dating back to and Jill Scott for their collaborative performance God bless the the 1970s. child. Among Jarreau’s best-known recordings was the theme The victim, who was a song for the long-running television series Moonlighting, for young boy when the ofences which he wrote the lyrics to Lee Holdridge’s music. He appeared occurred, recorded his evid- on Broadway as a replacement in the role of the Teen Angel in ence and was then ques- the 1994 revival of Grease. Jarreau’s first marriage to Phyllis Hall tioned by lawyers at ended in divorce. He is survived by his wife, son Ryan, two Bournemouth crown court brothers — Marshall and via video link as he lay in a Appie, and sister Rose Marie hospice bed in Streatham, Freeman. Jarreau cancelled south London. He was a number of concert dates helped by members of an or- in 2010 after experiencing ganisation called Intermedi- heart and breathing aries for Justice. problems during a European The eye-tracking techno- tour. He was hospitalised for logy is similar to the screen 11 days, but resumed his used by Cambridge physicist touring schedule after his Stephen Hawking to commu- release, and had continued nicate. The 47-year-old to perform until recently, THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES: Children play with water at the Madureira Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Sunday. — PHOTO: REUTERS former chorister, who has reports The New York not been identified, used the Times. — IANS technology to recall the at- tacks during his childhood. Although he achieved his aim of getting justice, the Big B, Ranbir Kapoor to star in Dragon John Oliver hatches a plan to educate Trump man did not live to hear the egastar Amitabh Bachchan will be seen in Ranbir outcome of the case. A Met- Kapoor and Alia Bhatt-starrer Dragon. In the film, to be NEIL GENZLINGER atus, he wanted to zero in on revisited problems that have would be buying advertising ropolitan police oicer was Mdirected by Ayan Mukerji, Bachchan will be playing a something bigger: reality been exhaustively docu- on those shows in the Wash- sent to Streatham to deliver pivotal role. “He has given his nod for the film. It’s a full fledged ohn Oliver kicked of his itself. mented elsewhere. ington area. The ads, he said, news of the guilty verdict, role and not a guest appearance. It’s an important role. He will fourth season on HBO By that he meant he But of course Mr. Oliver would seek to impart facts but his errand was cancelled begin shoot this year itself,” sources said without giving details on Sunday night with 25 wanted to address the inabil- had something else up his that Mr. Trump has shown he before he could reach the of Bachchan’s role. This is the first time that the megastar and Jminutes of predictable ity or refusal of Mr. Trump, sleeve. ‘Last Week Tonight’ does not grasp or believe. hospice after the force was Ranbir will be teaming up for a film. The Piku star has worked outrage that built to five his followers and his admin- has in its first three seasons Samples included spots fea- informed that the victim had with Ranbir’s father and actor Rishi Kapoor in films like Amar spectacular minutes of istration to separate the real build a reputation for quirky turing a folksy cowboy, just died. Akbar Anthony, Coolie, Naseeb and Ajooba, among others. brashly original guerilla from the fake. And so Mr. advocacy, whether calling which were designed to re- Cyril Rowe, now 78, was a Dragon is said to be superhero film which has a mythological warfare. Oliver took up four Trump- for letter-writing campaigns semble catheter ads but in- vicar at St Matthias Anglican backdrop and Ranbir’s character has powers to emit fire. The In the first ‘Last Week To- related questions: How did a or — as in his last show of stead related facts about the church in Stoke Newington, Wake Up Sid helmer is reportedly planning a three-film franchise night’ episode since Presid- man with such a contempt 2016, after the election — ur- nuclear triad, the demo- London, where the boy was if the first one succeeds. Bachchan will ent Donald Trump’s inaugur- for or poor grasp of the truth ging viewers to give money graphics of urban areas and in the choir. Rowe, now liv- be next seen in Ram Gopal Varma’s ation, Mr. Oliver devoted his end up as president? Where John Oliver to threatened social causes more. The first such ad will ing in Bournemouth, was Sarkar 3 that releases on April 7. main segment — which is to are his lies coming from? and to support news organ- run Monday on several out- found guilty last Wednesday After that, he has Vijay Krishna say, most of the half-hour Why do so many people be- Oliver had nothing new to isations financially. lets, Mr. Oliver said. It was and is due to be sentenced on Acharya’s Thugs of Hindostan in show — to dissecting what lieve them? And what can be add. He and his former ‘Daily Mr. Oliver kept that tradi- one small, hilarious counter- 10 March.The ofences were which he will for the first time share had transpired since he done about it? Show’ colleague Samantha tion rolling at the end of attack in a landscape that, for reported to police in August screen space with Aamir Khan. ended his previous season The first three have been Bee, on her TBS show ‘Full Sunday’s segment when, liberal-leaning comedians 2015 and Rowe was charged Ranbir, meanwhile, has Jagga Jassos just days after the election. thoroughly picked over by all Frontal’, have taken some of after establishing that Mr. and their fans, has seemed in September 2016. All the in- and the biopic on Sanjay Dutt, “Normally we like to focus sorts of journalistic outlets, the deepest dives into the Trump seems to get much of pretty bleak lately as Mr. decent assaults were com- which will be helmed by this portion of the show on including some conservative surreality of the Trump as- his dubious information by Trump and the Republican mitted against one victim Rajkumar Hirani. — PTI complex, depressing policy ones, and two-thirds of the cendance, so it would have watching morning cable Congress steamroll towards between 1979 and 1981. — (c) issues,” he said. But for the way into Sunday night’s been disappointing if news shows, he announced a new order. — The New Guardian News & Media Ltd, first episode back from hi- show it seemed as if Mr. Sunday’s episode had simply that ‘Last Week Tonight’ York Times News Service 2017 CM ND-ND YK