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R / 2* 2 2* 2 espite the decision of the top-ranking commander DNational Conference (NC) Aof banned Hizbul and Peoples Democratic Party Mujahideen (HM) and five (PDP), two main pro-election Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) ter- Q " political parties in Jammu & rorists were killed in a post- # Q $ Kashmir, to stay away from the midnight assault on a hideout & poll process, the State Election in Chowgam village of south ' ( Commission on Saturday Kashmir’s Kulgam district on announced a four-phased Saturday. schedule for the crucial munic- A civilian protester was " ipal elections, starting also shot dead by security "# October 8. forces during clashes in the )*+,- . The announcement for the aftermath of fierce gun-battle conduct of the urban bodies’ '- . + that lent a serious blow to ter- . polls comes also against the " &, rorists in south Kashmir region. " backdrop of separatists’ call for The authorities suspended train 0 boycott and terrorists’ direct The Governor administration Former Chief Minister and services in the region and "# $ %% L 2 threat to the prospective can- on August 31 sought post- PDP president Mehbooba snapped internet to prevent & "' ( ' L didates and campaigners. ponement of the hearing of the Mufti recently said the party escalation in the situation. * + &, . The first notification for litigations in the apex court in will not participate in the elec- Official sources said Gulzar 0 the urban local body polls the wake of proposed local tions as the prevailing situation Padder of HM and his four Police said Gulzar was a close “During the search opera- would be issued on September body and panchayat elections. in Kashmir was not favourable. associates were trapped in a res- associate of slain terrorist com- tion, terrorists fired on the 2 0 18 and the voting in the first The court later deferred the She said the party will not con- idential house, which was encir- mander Altaf Kachroo and was search party. Initially the civil- " phase would be held on hearing till January next year. test the election till the cled during the dead of night involved in a series of attacks, ians were moved away from & October 8 from 7 am to 2 pm. The NC was the first Government takes positive following specific input. During including killing of five police the site of encounter to safer # Addressing a Press confer- regional party that announced steps to safeguard the special the heavy exchange of fire, two personnel at Pambay village in locations. 00. 3 " ence, Chief Electoral Officer to stay away from the elections status of Jammu & Kashmir. Army personnel were injured. Kulgam, last year. Turn to Page 4 # Shaleen Kabra said the polls though the party avoided call- Turn to Page 4 4 "# would be held in four phases on ing for a boycott or launching October 8, 10, 13 and 16 this any campaign for it. "" " & & L # # Q & $ # 5 year. The PDP followed suit and &$&05 ! & L "# “The notifications for announced its inability to take " & ,&5 Q phase 2, 3 and 4 will be issued part in the elections. Several "$6 $.$ . "# on September 20, 22 and 24 other political groups with # 6 0 6 & " respectively,” Kabra said, influence in specific pockets ,&5'0/'07 08 278 adding that 17 lakh voters including the CPI(M) and the )*+9 were registered for the polls. Peoples’ Democratic Front also )" “The counting of votes chose to stay away from the "$ $ 3 ( )*+9 would take place on October polls. The Congress remained " 334%* terror groups in the Valley. 20,” he said. indecisive on its stance to con- " $) The Jammu & Kashmir police has . The National Conference test the elections while the "-:; o check terror funding and track set up 30 media cells for catering to the "# and PDP have decided to stay BJP and several Jammu-based "7< Tsuspected businessmen involved in local traditional media like the news- away from the municipal and parties have not resisted the $"%& hawala operations, the Jammu & papers. " & panchayat polls citing the link- poll schedule. # Kashmir police has set up a Financial In addition, Facebook pages and age of the electoral exercise Despite the NC and the & Investigation Unit and is also aggres- Twitter accounts have been opera- # $ with a series of litigations in the PDP’s decision to stay away, the sively using the social media to trans- tionalised by all the 26 districts, five " Supreme Court challenging Governor administration firm- mit counter narratives to the radical ranges and two police zones to reach out % & 0 Q the special status of J&K under ly adhered to its plan to hold thoughts being put forth by the sepa- to the public on a real-time basis. the provisions of Article 35A. the elections. ratist groups and Pakistan-sponsored Turn to Page 4 ' " 2 $& . ) $ ( * O$ O New Delhi: The Government exceeding the record 1 lakh after the over three-hour long " $ : is determined to keep fiscal crore target of revenue mobil- meeting. ; deficit at 3.3 per cent of GDP isation from Government stake With 44 per cent of the on the back of buoyant tax rev- sale in PSUs. budgeted capital expenditure $O 5 enues and expectations of sur- He, however, did not say if estimate for the current fiscal " 4 passing the disinvestment tar- the meeting discussed the year ending March 31, 2019 ) ' get, Finance Minister Arun recent spike in fuel prices that already spent by August 31, the " Jaitley said on Saturday but has led petrol touching a record Government “will end the year ,&" . remained non-committal on high of 81.63 per litre and without any cut”, he said, -&./01 cutting tax on petrol and diesel. diesel to 73.54 a litre. adding that it was extremely $ A day after steps to contain There were expectations necessary to maintain 100 per P Q the widening current account that the Government may cut cent capital expenditure for 2 deficit (CAD) and check fall of excise duty on the two fuels to high growth rate. P ( Q the rupee were announced, ease burden on the consumers “The Government is con- . ( : Prime Minister Narendra Modi but it seems it didn’t want to fident that we will have a = 2 on Saturday continued his two- take chance as it stands to lose growth rate higher than what 2 day review of the economy as 14,000 crore in revenue from we had projected earlier this . he took stock of tax collections a 1 per litre cut in excise. year in the Budget,” he said. 0 = and macro-economic indica- It feels that the country “The inflation is broadly 4 Q tors in analysing performance cannot afford to have a twin under control”. ( : Q of different wings of the deficit problem — a depreciat- On revenue collections, he 0 Finance Ministry. ing rupee and high crude said the impact of anti-black . 2 After the meeting, Jaitley import bill putting pressure on money measures, demonetisa- $ "# 0 exuded confidence of surpass- the country’s current account tion and GST are now visible ing the 7-7.5 per cent GDP deficit (CAD), and a fiscal with “phenomenal” increase ' 2 growth target projected in the slippage. in tax base. “The CBDT is very 0Q last Budget presented on “The Government is con- clear that this year they will be February 1, meeting capital fident and will strictly maintain able to collect in excess of '" 0 " ' " 0 ' expenditure targets, surpassing the 3.3 per cent fiscal deficit budgeted target,” he said. " $ " #1# O P . ( : tax collections projections and target,” Jaitley told reporters Turn to Page 4 4 & 0 1 " . # !" #$ % ! % : . " +,>* 2)%* and deport) action” against state, acting as communication the infiltrators. He asserted link between people holding 0 ? tate BJP has urged the gov- said after detection of refuges their views and also helping Sernment to initiate mea- their facilities including names anti-state forces. ( sures for holding the National in the voter’s list must be delet- He said the members crit- @ "# Register of Citizenship (NRC) ed adding that they should be icized the opposition parties L 3#0 L exercise in Jharkhand while then sent back to the neigh- including the congress and the . = stating that three districts of bouring country. left parties of supporting the ( Santhal Paragana Division Singh stated that State gov- five persons arrested recently : 4 as well as other areas are affect- ernment has already taken up from different parts of the ed by infiltration by the issue seriously and written country for their alleged links . Bangladeshi refugees. to the Centre in this regard. He with the naxals. The BJP asked & 0Q The resolution was passed added that party wants to the opposition to make their Q 3 in the State working commit- incorporate the minorities stands clear cut on the issue. : Q tee held here on Saturday in including Hindus and Sikhs He added that the meeting & A which top leaders including migrating from Bangledesh to also talked on BJP slogan ‘Ajey Chief Minister Raghubar Das, India as citizens of the country. Bharat and Atal BJP’ that aims . L State BJP President Laxman Singh said the working to make India leading country & Q L Gilua, former CM Arjun committee has also condemned of the world and also ensure '" 0 $ Munda, MPs and ministers the urban naxals and urged the that BJP sticks to its principles. ; Q took part. government to take strict He said that BJP would ( '" #" "+ " ( " Informing the media per- action on the issue. He soon come out with a work 4 = ( son about the meeting, MP informed the members were of plan on strengthening its booth 1 # 7 ' 0 1 " Sunil Singh said that party the view that urban naxals management. . want “Three Ds (detect, delete were training people against the Turn to Page 4 (&" '"&- './%(0123405

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Narendra Modi in Delhi with During the interaction, the 57 lakh families in State. 0 cleanliness programmes being Principal Secretary stated that “Utilise every medium to organised across the State in the initiative must be taken up communicate with the public. government programmes,” blocks of their respective dis- schemes from DCs and varied organisations and with utmost seriousness. “The Banners, posters and bill- Barnwal further stated. tricts and organize camps for enquired about the status of the being actively joined by lakhs State government is attempting boards, LED vans must be used Barnwal advised the spreading awareness about the schemes. Barnwal advised the of people. hard to popularize the initiative, to spread awareness about the DPROs to participate in the ongoing schemes. DPROs must senior officials to collect Chief Minister Raghubar ensuring equal participation of government schemes. From meetings of Jharkhand State conduct a meeting with the reviews received from different Das launched the campaign the public. From September 15 October 2 to December 31, Livelihood Promotion Society local cable operators of their communication mediums from at Naya Tola, Dibdih in to October 2, ‘Swacchta Hi every district must conduct a (JSLPS) to establish a direct districts for ensuring the tele- especially those assembled the State Capital exhorting the Sewa’ programme will be programme ‘Sabki Yojana Sabka communication with the rural cast of programmes shown on from LED vans to people of the State to join the observed at every district, hence, Vikash’. The programme has populace. “All Gram Rozgar jhargov.in ,” he asserted. Headquarters for making fur- cleanliness mission under it is the responsibility of each been designed in a way that will Sevaks (GRS) have been Besides, Barnwal gathered ther modification and using it Swachta Pakkhwada which will individual to spend at least an cover up all details of ongoing instructed to visit at least four information about the ongoing for later purpose. run from September 15 to October 2. Addressing the people on '!= ! ;>R ) $*& the occasion the CM said trib- al sisters and brothers pay special care to cleanliness. 5 # 00 2)%* State as well as from the adjoin- “Cleanliness is essential for ing regions coming here with every citizen. This is not a mis- ppreciating the efforts of different eye related problems. sion of the Prime Minister and Athe ophthalmologists of On September 14, after Chief Minister but of every cit- State’s biggest hospital and receiving the consent from the izen. We have to work on mis- 4 , - medical college — Rajendra family member of a deceased, sion mode for cleaning the Institute of Medical Sciences the doctors of RIMS without State before October 2,” he said. fficial car of pro vice chan- (RIMS) for successfully carry- much delay carried out the The CM said that from Ocellor of NP University ing out the cornea transplan- cornea transplantation surgery. September 15 to October 2 the PK Poddar was damaged on tation surgery, Principal Within a few hours of the whole country will celebrate the GLA college campus on Secretary, Department of operation, the patients were ‘Cleanliness is Service’ pro- Saturday. Poddar was there to Health and Family Welfare, shifted to the general ward and gramme. Today all the people '" 0 grace the concluding ceremo- Nidhi Khare congratulated the 4+ were under observation of Dr. in the country are running O ny of the Youth Festival. This entire medical fraternity of - 0 # , " :0,";0 VV Sinha, Head of the campaign of cleanliness in P 4 & incident took place shortly RIMS for achieving this major <0," 0+ 0,": ; 1 Department (HoD), Eye their neighbourhood, streets 0 after 12 in the day. success. During her visit to + 1 " Department. and houses. 1 " The Pro VC said the stone RIMS on Saturday, the The cornea transplanta- Das said that on September hundreds of workers and that smashed the rear window Secretary interacted with the out and expend huge amount the surgery, both Nerulla (17) tion operation was done free of 23 the Prime Minister is com- Minister will give benefit of this school students. screen came from behind. He surgeons as well as the patients. in cornea transplantation,” said and Nisha (16) who had under- cost. In normal circumstances, ing to Ranchi to start Ayushman scheme to 5 beneficiaries and The ‘Swachhta Hi Sewa’ and university’s Financial “RIMS, in yet another Khare during the interaction. gone surgery are responding a patient’s family has to pay up Bharat scheme. “I have come to then this will continue till 57 campaign was actively orga- Advisor (FA) K Ram were then breakthrough, has done a com- Notably, RIMS for the first well. The patients have lost to Rs. 10,000 for cornea trans- invite you to attend the pro- lakh families are not given nized in the State in district on the back seat of the car mendable job and has created time has done cornea trans- their eye sights at a tender age, plantation at any private hos- gramme to be held in Prabhat health insurance. So under- headquarters, sub divisions, when this smashing of screen history by carrying out cornea plantation and has successful- the medical bulletin suggested. pital. Both RIMS (Director) — Tata ground. More than 57 stand this scheme and explain blocks, government schools, occurred but all remained transplantation successfully. ly accomplished the trans- As per the reports, the Dr. RK Srivastava and RIMS lakh families of Jharkhand will to the poor around you,” he said. technical institutions, business unhurt like the bodyguard and This is a landmark achievement plantation without any hassle. hospital administration was (Superintendent) — Dr Vivek get health insurance worth Rs 5 The CM during the pro- establishments, public sector the driver too including these in the hospital’s history. This The doctors’ team was guided attempting hard since long to Kashyap have expressed their lakh. The world’s largest health gramme was flanked with enterprises among others and two PRO VC and FA. will not just boost the morale by Dr. Rahul Prasad and Dr. start cornea transplantation at contentment over this achieve- scheme will begin on September Ministers RC Chandravanshi, lakhs of people participated in The designation plate too of the hospital administration Sunil Kumar. According to the this government hospital, ment and have assured better 23 from Jharkhand. The Prime CP Singh, Louis Marandi and the programme. was blunted by miscreants on but will also be immensely medical bulletin released by the which annually witnesses quite medical facilities to the patients the campus as it is admission useful for those who have to go hospital administration after a number of patients from the in the coming days. season here. Police suspect miscreants’ role here.PRO VC was all praise for the police team there on the campus which did all to steer clear his official car when it was so mobbed by angry students on Saturday. “After wrapping up the Youth Festival I thought to have a word with the students on dharna to reassure them that all eligible students would be admitted and there would be no problem but before I could have said this reassurance the students just got impatient forcing me to return to university office when the car was ghaeroed by slogan shouting '" 0 students and in this melee a O stone was hurled from behind P 4 & which smashed the rear wind 0 1 " screen,” added the PRO VC. 7'

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Bhasin told The SP said police personnel Haryana’s Director General of expressing confidence that they lodged her complaint, and a reporters in Rewari that the attended to the victim proper- Police BS Sandhu. will land in police net soon. All medical examination conduct- sketches of the accused will ly. “The most important factor The victim’s father has said the three accused were known ed. She was kidnapped by three soon be released by police. was to make the victim com- 8 or 10 men may have raped to the victim. Sandhu said the men who arrived in a car and Their antecedents are also fortable to take her statement )%* 2% her but she could identify only Army man — who allegedly was taken to a secluded place being checked for any past in a sensitive way,” she said, three of them. The woman, raped the woman was identi- where she was gangraped after criminal record. She said a adding there was no delay in n the shocking gangrape of a who topped the CBSE Board fied as Pankaj, posted in Kota being offered a drink laced with medical examination had con- this procedure. I19-year-old college girl stu- exam and was felicitated by the — was on leave and expected sedatives, the complainant had firmed rape. The victim’s moth- The case evoked sharp dent in Haryana’s Government, was abducted at to rejoin later in the day. In alleged. The accused later left er had accused police of delay reaction from the Opposition Mahendragarh district three a bus stop in Kanina town on Jaipur, Lt Gen Cherish her near a bus stop in Kanina in acting after a complaint was parties. They demanded the days ago, one of the three Wednesday while she was on Mathson, who heads the South the same day. filed, but Bhasin countered the resignation of CM Manohar accused is an Army man post- way to a coaching class, police Western Command, said the Also on Saturday, the charge. She said police sent out Lal Khattar on moral grounds, ed in Rajasthan and a police said. She was then allegedly Army will help bring the rape “We do not shelter crimi- searching out the accused, and National Commission for raiding teams when they were saying the State had failed to team has been sent to arrest drugged and gangraped at a accused to book. nals. We would facilitate in will make sure that if any Women (NCW) condemned told about the crime. “But the protect its daughters. 2 !% !"#$!%& 4 & ' = 12 0 $ 3 3 !,; *"" &$ " $$$ 2)%* ,;2, HAZARIBAGH: Police recov- Tobacco Products (Prohibition ;- A$3F2)*G'*4H ered the body of one Shambhu of Advertisement and &&** 2 istrict legal service Prasad Rana from Pundi area on has Municipal Corporation Regulation of Trade and "" * DAuthority (DLSA) Ranchi Hazaribag-Barkagaon road. C(CMC) banned the sale of Commerce, Production, Supply 2)* *4- has chosen Anita Kumari as the Postmortem of the body con- tobacco in shops that sell and Distribution) Act, 2003. & ./0< best Para-legal volunteer of firmed a bullet injury on chocolates, chips and other Health department offi- $ #F*G Ranchi district. DLSA Ranchi Shambhu's head. His family has FMCG products. The shop or cials said instructions were &#" informed that Kumari’s name raised finger on one Sanjay establishments caught selling given to shops to put out warn- has also been sent to Jharkhand Kumar who was last seen with both tobacco and FMCG ings on the health hazards due !0 0 3 %% $ Legal Service Authority Shambhu. This incident taken products would face stringent to tobacco products. They were 2 (JHLASA) for the selection of place when police struggling action, including cancellation also asked to put out adver- N % O the best PLV in state. hard to get some lead in murder of their licence, up to six (Prohibition of Advertisement Recently team of health tisements saying that they do $ Kumari who works at legal of police havildar Naga Ram. months imprisonment and a and Regulation of Trade and department, narcotics, disaster not sell tobacco products for "" $ service centre at Rajendra Sources said yesterday fine up to rupees one lakhs, Commerce, Production, Supply management, district admin- those below 18 years. " $ Institute of Medical Sciences evening, sanjay got admitted to informed JP Yadav, Executive and Distribution) Act istration and police depart- Section 4 of the Act pro- 2# ; was provided commendation Hazaribagh sadarhospital with Engineer CMC. (COTPA),” he added. ment officials conducted raids hibits smoking in public places $ " letter, shield and prize during injuries in his hand. He said he Following the advisory Shops selling cigarettes and in several shops in Sector 4 and and section 6 prohibits the sell- $ the conclusion of the five day was returning to town from issued by the Union Ministry of tobacco in the city are now dis- Nayamore for selling tobacco ing of tobacco products with- training programme for newly Tandwa of Chatra with Health and Family Welfare, playing signboards saying products. The owners of the in a radius of 100 metres of $ % selected PLV on Saturday. Shambhu from a bike when few which said tobacco shopkeepers minors will not be sold tobac- shops were slapped with a fine educational institutions and 2 """ 22 The judicial commissioner people opened firing on them should stop selling non-tobacco products. The move comes of Rs 200 each, informed an also prohibits the selling of $$ Navneet Kumar, member sec- near Pundri. He said he had a co FMCG items like toffee, close on the heels of raids con- official. tobacco products to minors, retary JHALSA AK Rai and miraculuous escape but his candy, chips, biscuits, and soft ducted to ensure proper imple- We raided various shops, said the official. 3& 4 3 %% $ 0 $$0 $ additional judicial commis- friend Shambhu went missing. drinks we are on move for its mentation of the Cigarettes hotels, bars and restaurants; it Raids are now being con- ,$ F,GK &',- sioner Sunil Kumar Singh hon- On his information, police strict implementations, he said. and Other Tobacco Products fined 12 shopkeepers found sell- ducted occasionally but in the "@ $ 4% , ored her jointly. DLSA swung into action and finally Tobacco should be sold (Prohibition of Advertisement ing cigarettes and tobacco prod- coming days, the frequency - @ "- ' Secretary Fahim Quirmani was early morning, dead body of exclusive of FMCG products so and Regulation of Trade and ucts in violation of the COTPA would increase. Those who & "" " $ " also present on the occasion. Shambhu was recovered. PNS that children are not exposed Commerce, Production, Supply norms. Beside shops, two youths are found violating norms will $ 4% ,' & to them. Children could get and Distribution) Act were also slapped with a fine (Rs be fined Rs 200 and if the per- "$ "" influenced by tobacco products (COTPA), said an official. 200 each) for smoking in the son is a regular offender, a FIR & ' ++ % when they go to buy chips or Notably, tobacco along public place, he said. will be lodged. && "5 ' & chocolates, said Yadav. with FMGC products is on The officials were also “In case of smoking in $ $ $ “We will conduct special rampant sale (in the same asked to book those found public places, the offender as &*;3A ' $ $ % , - drive to ensure proper imple- premises) on over 3000 shops smoking in public places in well as the person in-charge of "$ '"" ' mentation of the Cigarettes across Chas and Bokaro Steel accordance with Section 21 of the place would be fined”, " " 32#, The coal was from aban- and Other Tobacco Products City township area. the Cigarettes and other added the official. doned mines of Pannak and $! ! 0 $ $P $ he Bermo police continu- Nawadih police stations and $$&" O F G'& Ting anti-coal smuggling being transported to open mar- !" #$ @@@ Yasin Malik has called for boy- 2 F2 G " drive on Sunday seized two ket. However, the police team cott of these elections in the $$$D& tractors loaded with 7 tonnes of nabbed four persons who were From Page 1 State. The JRL in a recent 'L" $' illegal coal and also arrested later identidied as Tilakdhari % ! % Mehbooba had appealed statement described the par- & $$$*$' four persons involved in the Mahto,Subash Saw, Lochan the State Government to defer ticipants of the polls as “col- ' ' 0. illegal trade under the Nawadih Saw,and one other Badri From Page 1 the polls till things get clear on laborators of the Indian Union” &$$ $ ' $" police station here on Saw, while few others managed “It is an essential part of the BJP working system. We want Article 35A. She had appealed and urged upon the people to "' ' $$M Saturday,said Inspector to escape. to intensify the works further. A discussion was also held on the the Centre and the State boycott the upcoming munic- Laxamikant. The accused are belonging issue during the review meeting on each Lok Sabha seat on Governments to clear doubts of ipal elections with the spirit of $ & 0 Inspector Laxamikant said to Nawadih block. sources said Friday,” he said. people related to the appre- denying recognition to the NC, "" $$ the coal seized in two tractors that all four persons who been Asked on party stand on rising fuel prices he said that the hensions in relation to petitions the PDP and other mainstream $ $ " was worth more than Rs40,000. charged sheeted and earlier issue was a matter of concern for all. He said that they were try- seeking abrogation of Article political parties. %4 According to SP,Kartik had gone to jail. ing to find a path in close coordination with the government. 35A & Article 370. A prominent terrorist out- 4 " S,the tractors carrying illegal Superintendent of police He added that revenue earned by the State government as taxes The Joint Resistance fit Hizbul Mujahideen has % 4K) #' coal caught by a police team at Kartik S instructed to all offi- on fuel have been spent on the large number of welfare works Leadership (JRL), an amalgam already issued threat to punish - )';; Bansi more area, a Maoist cer-in charge of Bokaro district undertaken for the citizens. The party members also paid homage of separatist political parties, by sprinkling sulphuric and "% affected area of Nawadih block to concentrate on curbing ille- to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and resolved to comprising Syed Ali Geelani, hydrochloric acid on all the '# of the district. gal coal transportation. follow his path to turn Jharkhand into a model State. Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and contestants and the voters. $&0E "4 "" “The department of rev- $$$ " enue made a detailed presen- % tation where the direct tax !0& $ 3 collections we are already %)& &% $ ahead of the schedule...We can ) $% 32 now see the impact of all the 2 " " anti-black money measures & " )$"& which we had taken, the $2 ' $3 From Page 1 demonetisation and the GST. )$ $$ & On indirect tax side, he There is phenomenal increase 2 said the Goods and Services in the assessee base...In the Tax (GST) is settling down and quantum of advance tax which a pick-up in consumption will has been paid,” he said. 2)%* evening. / However, during clashes with boost collections in coming Almost half of the retail announced easing in overseas The Government had in Talking to media Kumar security personnel, one civilian months. selling price of petrol and borrowing norms for manu- Budget projected direct tax itu Kumar is all set to said that she aims to address was killed. Official sources “We are confident that diesel is made up of Central facturing companies; removed collection of Rs 11.5 lakh crore Rbecome president of immediate problem of lawyers identified the slain civilian as between direct and indirect tax and State taxes. The Centre restrictions on foreign portfo- for 2018-19 fiscal. Advocates Association that leads to delay in filing of Rouf Ahmad Ganie from collections, the Government currently levies a total of 19.48 lio investors (FPI) investment On GST, he said the new Jharkhand High Court secur- cases. She said that she would Anchidora area of south will comfortably meet the tar- per litre of excise duty on in corporate bonds and pro- indirect tax regime is settling ing 417 votes in the election also try to ensure better facili- Kashmir’s Anantnag district. get if not surpass it,” he said, petrol and 15.33 per litre on vided tax benefits on Masala down and “with the kind of held on Friday. Her nearest ties for the lawyers in the new They said Rouf was killed dur- adding the 1 lakh crore dis- diesel. On top of this, States bonds. pick-up in consumption which rival Raj Nandan Sahay is far High Court building coming in From Page 1 ing a law and order situation. investment target will be sur- levy Value Added Tax (VAT). At Saturday’s meeting has taken place, obviously will behind in the race receiving Dhurwa area, she said. Security forces then He was hit by a bullet in his passed. “The primary focus of detailed presentations were have an impact on GST col- 187 votes. At end of the 10th and final engaged the terrorists in an neck. “And on basis of all these Friday’s discussions was with made by Departments of lections in the future months”. The election committee round of the counting for office encounter,” said a police Two more youngsters are analyses, we are optimistic regard to current account Economic Affairs, Revenue, “As far as non-tax rev- was yet to officially announce bearers Mukesh Kumar Sinha spokesperson, adding that five reported to have sustained about our growth rate, our tax deficit and how to narrow it Expenditure and enues are concerned the entire the results till Saturday evening was leading in election for vice terrorists shot dead in the grievous bullet injuries during collection and certainly as far down and possible steps with Disinvestment. programme of divestment and as it felt that some of the votes –president, Navin Kumar for encounter belonged to HM clashes and have been shifted as fiscal deficit is concerned will that regard. Today of course “After those detailed pre- strategic sale for this was also meant for the president were general secretary, Dheeraj and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT) to Srinagar hospital for spe- strictly meet the 3.3 per cent was an internal meeting in sentations, Prime Minister considered. Just the way we cast in the ballot boxes kept for Kumar for treasurer and outfits. cialised treatment. target,” he said. which the Prime Minister took expressed his satisfaction with exceeded the target last year, we the executive posts. Nivedita Kundu for assistant The slain terrorists were Over dozen civilian pro- Asked if fuel prices and the review of various depart- regard to the broad parameters are confident of not only main- “Kumar has established an treasurer. The counting of votes identified as Gulzar alias Saif, testers were injured in clashes duty cuts were discussed, he ments of finance,” Jaitley said. in relation to economy and taining the disinvestment tar- unbeatable lead in the election,” of the 10 executive members of Faisal Ahmad Rather alias between protesters and securi- said the meeting on Saturday After yesterday’s review macroeconomic data which is get this year but may perhaps said election committee mem- the association continued till Dawood, Zahid Ahmad Mir ty forces in the area. The pro- was internal review meeting. meeting, the Government so far emerging this year. be in excess,” Jaitley said PTI ber Mrinal Kanti Roy in the late Saturday evening. alias Hashim, Masroor Molvi testers were trying to disrupt alias Abu Darda, and Zahoor operation to give safe passage Ahmad Lone alias Rehman to the holed up terrorists. ! @@@ cies to monitor businessmen a section of society, especially Bhai — all local residents. Clashes were going on till last involved in financing the the middle class and the edu- Sources said the house reports came in. From Page 1 Kashmiri separatists. cated youth question the hard- where the terrorists were hid- Meanwhile, separatists in Apart from countering the On PM’s directives to put line propositions and violent ing was blown away by the Kashmir called for Kashmir radical propositions and in place a mechanism for inter- agenda of the terrorist groups security forces causing wide shutdown on September rumours articulated by the State coordination on security- and the silence of the separatist death of the trapped terrorists 17 to protest against terrorists inimical forces, the social related matters, a number of groups on such issues due to under debris. and civilian killings and injuries media tools also help in pro- such meetings are being held at their tactical alliances with the The district administra- to civilians during post viding assistance to the public the national and regional level. terrorists tanzeems, an tion imposed restrictions under encounter clashes in in case of any emergency or A periodic meeting between Intelligence official said. section 144 in Kulgam Chowgam Qazigund Kulgam disasters, sources said. the Anti-Terrorist Squads and The security agencies have and its adjacent areas. Train and other areas. Apart from the Jammu the NIA and periodic coordi- further advised the State police services in south Kashmir were In a tweet senior sepa- and Kashmir police, efforts by nation meetings are being to scale up social media pres- also suspended. ratist leader Mirwaiz Umar the National Investigation organised for Naxal-hit States ence to check radicalisation by Meanwhile, clashes erupt- Farooq said, “Joint Resistance Agency (NIA) like registra- by the IB. The Narcotics circulating effective counter ed in several pockets of the sen- Leadership JRL (comprising tion of cases have helped in Control Bureau is organising narratives on dominant issues sitive twin districts of Anantnag of Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz monitoring businessmen N-CORD (Narco Coordination facing the security situation in and Kulgam after people began Umar Farooq & Yasin Malik) involved in financing Kashmiri Centre) meetings for prevent- the Valley. marching towards the calls for valley wide shutdown separatists. ing movement of narcotics The security forces have encounter site. on September 17 Monday Prime Minister Narendra substances in the States. been able to virtually wipe out The authorities deployed against civilian, five terrorists Modi had in the closed-door The measures undertaken the entire leadership of the ter- police and para-military forces killings and injuries to dozens DGPs’ conference organised by the Jammu and Kashmir rorist groups like the Jaish-e- personnel in strength in all the of protesters in forces’ action by the Intelligence Bureau last police have helped in creating Mohammad in the Valley dur- areas to maintain law and order besides cordon and search year advised the security agen- a counter-narrative due which ing the last over one year. to avoid any untoward incident. operations in south Kashmir.” (&" '"&- './%(0123405 '

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334%* to a drastic fall in vector-borne to support the "Swachh Bharat" diseases, he said. campaign. rime Minister Narendra Modi lauded Adityanath Modi said those working " 0 ( PModi on Saturday led the for his Government's efforts. for the cleanliness campaign nation in launching the Cleanliness is playing an would be remembered like “Swachchhata Hi Seva” cam- important role in improving freedom fighters in the times to 334%* paign as he took up a broom to people's living standards, he come and would be known as clean a school named after Dalit said, citing a WHO estimate true heirs of Gandhi. ongress president Rahul icon BR Ambedkar here with that over three lakh lives would Building toilets and putting CGandhi continued his Ministers of his Government be saved by it and also a study in place sanitation measures attack on Narendra Modi on and BJP leaders and workers that cases of diarrhoea would alone would not do, he said, Saturday alleging that it was the participating in similar exercise fall by over 30 per cent. asking people to inculcate Prime Minister’s “blue-eyed across the country. Lack of cleanliness play cleaning habits in their lives. boy” in the CBI who had dilut- In a nearly-two-hour video havoc, especially in the lives of Indian culture has traditional- ed the lookout notice against interaction with people from the poor, pushing them into a ly put an emphasis on cleanli- fugitive businessman Vijay across the country, including cesspool of diseases, he said. ness, he said. After his nearly- Mallya, allowing him to flee the faith leaders, Uttar Pradesh The Prime Minister spoke two-hour-long interaction, country. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath " 4 " % to people in states such as Modi took part in a cleanliness Taking to Twitter, Rahul and noted personalities such as % O P Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, drive on the premises of Baba alleged that it was AK Sharma, Amitabh Bachchan and Ratan 4 &, Bihar, Karnataka, Rajasthan Sahib Ambedkar Higher a Gujarat-cadre officer in the Tata, Modi said the sanitation and Haryana. He also inter- Secondary School in Paharganj. Central Bureau of Investigation coverage in India has increased continue till Mahatma in four years," he said, calling acted with Indo-Tibetan Union ministers and BJP (CBI), who played a crucial to over 90 per cent from 40 per Gandhi's birth anniversary next it a historic day. Border Police personnel leaders and workers across the role in weakening the lookout cent in the four years of month. Adityanath said Uttar involved in cleaning Pangong country also participated in the notice against Mallya. He also Swachchh Bharat Mission. All sections of society and Pradesh, the country's most Lake and its surroundings in exercise following the prime alleged that the same officer "" He said that few would every part of the country have populous and among the most Leh, besides religious and spir- minister's programme. played a key role in the escape have thought that nine crore joined the cleanliness drive, he poor states, would be OFD by itual figures, including BJP president Amit Shan plans of fugitive diamond toilets would be built and 4.5 said, exhorting people to reded- October 2, 2018 as per a base- Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, Sri Sri took part in a cleaning exercise traders Nirav Modi and Mehul # ? lakh villages declared open icate themselves to fulfilling the line survey of the clean India Ravi Shankar, and Mata in Telangana, Home Minister Choksi. defecation free in four years. father of the nation's dream of campaign. He said that his Amritanandamayi. Rajnath Singh in Faridabad, "CBI Jt Director, AK The Prime Minister a clean India. government is working to He also interacted with Law minister Ravi Shankar Sharma, weakened Mallya’s )*2 O launched the "cleanliness is "Had anybody imagined ensure that every family has a Sikh religious figures from Prasad in Patna among others "Look Out" notice, allowing service" exercise to push for that more than 450 districts toilet by October 2019. Patna Sahib gurudwara, while Union Minister for Mallya to escape. Mr Sharma, 334%* for 'allowing' economic greater public participation in would be open defecation free His government had built Muslim custodians of Ajmer Tourism, KJ Alphons launched a Gujarat cadre officer, is the offenders like Mallya and jew- one of his government's cen- (ODF) in four years or that 20 over 1.36 crore toilets since it Sharif and those from a media the cleaning drive near the Sai PM's blue-eyed-boy in the ountering charges of ellers Nirav Modi and Mehul trepiece programmes launched states and Union Territories came to power last year and its group. He praised efforts of Mandir surroundings on Lodhi CBI. The same officer was in CCongress president Rahul Choksi to flee the country. on October 2, 2015 and it will would be open defecation free emphasis on cleanliness has led newspapers and news channels Road here. charge of Nirav Modi & Mehul Gandhi, the CBI on Saturday Party president Rahul Gandhi Choksi's escape plans. defended itself by saying that even said that a Gujarat-cadre Ooops...Investigation! (sic)," there was no question of foul- officer with CBI had let the he wrote on the microblogging play on its part in enabling three escape. $ 0 ( website. liquor baron Vijay Mallya to Earlier, the CBI had clar- Rahul and his party have flee the country. The CBI also ified that the change in the accused Modi and Finance clarified that at the time when Look Out Notice against Vijay @B>C Minister Arun Jaitley of "help- the decision to downgrade Mallya from detain to merely ing" Mallya to flee the country the lookout circular against inform was an "error" since he 334%* after defaulting on bank loans. Mallya was taken, there were was cooperating and there 334%* are part of the committees. ing the formation of these com- The Congress has demanded not sufficient grounds for it to was no warrant against him. The core member committees, AICC General nion Minister of Petroleum Jaitley's resignation over the detain and arrest him. While Mallya is accused of head of five Assembly mittee has the big guns of the Secretary Ashok Gehlot had U& Natural Gas and Skill issue and a probe into how "Decision was taken at owing nearly 9,000 crore to Apolls and Lok Sabha elec- party - AK Antony, Ghulam said with the constitution of Development & Mallya escaped. the appropriate level as a part Indian banks, Nirav and tions next year, Congress pres- Nabi Azad, Ashok Gehlot, these panels, the party is in elec- Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra The 62-year-old tycoon, of process and not individually Choksi too have been charged ident Rahul Gandhi on Mallikarjun Kharge, Ahmed tion mode and will start the Pradhan on Saturday called who is on bail on an extradi- by the officer as alleged," the with defrauding Punjab Saturday appointed former Patel, Jairam Ramesh, P work of putting up a manifesto for a collective introspection on tion warrant since his arrest in CBI said. The agency has National Bank of thousands of Finance Minister P Chidambaram, Randeep and draw strategy for publici- the changing nature of job pro- April last year, is fighting been under scrutiny after crores. Chidambaram as the Surjewala and KC Venugopal. ty and coordination. files and urged those responsi- extradition to India on charges reported emerged that it had "CBI received a complaint Chairman of the Manifesto The 19-member Manifesto The Congress president also ble for fashioning public poli- of fraud and money launder- changed a 2015 Look Out against Nirav Modi and Mehul Committee and Rajeev Gowda committee also includes Jairam appointed office bearers, exec- cy to zero in on the nature and ing amounting to around Circular against liquor baron Choksi from PNB almost a as the convener; former Ramesh, Salman Khurshid, utive committee and five district availability of future jobs. 9,000 crore. Vijay Mallya from 'detain' to month after they had left the Defence Minister AK Antony Manpreet Singh Badal, Shashi congress committee chief of Internet, he said, was Rahul's tweet came days 'inform about movement. country. Therefore the ques- as the Chairman of Tharoor, Sushmita Dev, Rajeev Chhattisgarh. The Congress changing the character of the after Mallya claimed that he The clarifications come tion of any CBI officer having Coordination Committee and Gowda, Bhupinder Singh also appointed state coordina- workplace at a frenetic pace, and the time was ripe to chan- had met Jaitley before leaving at a time when the Congress any hand in their fleeing the Jairam Ramesh as the con- Hooda, Sachin Rao, Lalitesh tors for Odisham West Bengal, and therefore, policy shapers nelize this asset into creation of the country in March, 2016. "I has upped the attack on the country does not arise," the vener and former Commerce Tripathi, Bindu Krishnan, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, need to astutely comprehend gainful employment for the met the finance minister government and on the CBI agency said. Minister Anand Sharma as Raghuveer Meena, Meenakshi Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, the jobs scenario. people endowed with the right before I left," the liquor baron the Chairman of the Publicity Natarajan, Balchandra Madhya Pradesh and Odisha. Inaugurating the 11th type of skills. had told reporters Wednesday His party alleged that "23 man". The Congress party said committee and Pawan Khera Mungekar, Rajni Patil, Mukul Earlier, Congress presi- Global Skills Summit, 2018, On the occasion, the outside the Westminster persons" involved in bank "the possibility of central gov- as the convener. Last month, Sangma and Sam Pitroda. The dent had on Friday cleared the orgainsed by FICCI and the Minister released two knowl- Magistrates' Court in London, frauds to the tune of 90,000 ernment's hand in relocation of the Congress had formed three publicity committee has a mix appointment of nine new Ministry of Skill Development & edge reports titled, 'Future of where his extradition case is crore fled the country during 23 fugitives abroad in past committees - a core group of the senior leaders and the AICC secretaries and a Entrepreneurship, Pradhan said Jobs in India-2.0' and being heard.Jaitley has, how- the BJP rule and dubbed it as four years cannot be ruled committee, manifesto and young party leaders - Anand screening committee for poll- the belief that technology and 'Employer-led Models of Job ever, denied the charges party which is "more loyal to a out" and demanded an impar- publicity committee ahead of Sharma, Surjewala, Manish bound Telangana. Senior innovation were squeezing the Creation- Version:2'. The sum- against him. con-man than to a common tial probe into the issue. the upcoming Lok Sabha elec- Tiwari, Pramod Tiwari, Rajeev Congress leader Bhakt Charan job space was a myth. While mit also witnessed the launch of tions in 2019. Shukla, Divya Spandana, Dass is the chairperson of some jobs were being squeezed, initiatives such the future skills The committees will play Milind Deora, Bhakta Charan Telangana Screening com- a multi-fold increase was being courses by NSDC; digital plat- a major role as they will Dass, Jaiveer Shergill, Pawan mittee, while Jothimani witnessed in many other sectors form for blue collar skilling (> define major strategies for Khera, Kumar Ketkar, VD Sennimalai and Sharmistha due to technological innovation. ecosystem by Betterplace and the general election. Most of Satheesan and Praveen Mukherjee have been made India, he said, was blessed rural e-commerce distribution the senior Congress leaders Chakravarty. Earlier, announc- members of the panel. with intellectual manpower, system by Connect India. 5

8 1 O P 334%* amongst many others similar to them. "Here in our country, the he Election Commission Commission is seized of issues 334%* is held every six years and currently the ticipants will be taken to Kumbh Mela Tplans to implement a slew such as cyber security, securing budget preparation is pegged at and esti- by bus on January 24. Then, partici- of measures to curb the circu- our data so that Cambridge xternal Affairs Minister Sushma mated 4200 crore.) pants will travel from Prayagraj lation of fake news on social Analytica kind of things do not ESwaraj and Uttar Pradesh Chief Those interested in participating (Allahabad) to Delhi by train on the media and paid news in the happen over elections, about Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday in the PBD can register on the same day. The railways will run special run-up to elections. misuse and abuse of social media jointly announced that the 15th ‘Pravasi Pravasi Bhartiya Divas website till Pravasi Bharti train for them," she said. Chief Election Commissioner the rise of all kind of machina- platforms, about fake news, Bhartiya Divas’ will be held in Prime November 15. The external affairs minister also said (CEC) O P Rawat on Saturday tions like data theft, data har- about all kinds of ills that get into Minister Narendra Modi's constituency On the last day of event on Mauritian Prime Minister Pravind said that effective use of media vesting, profiling, targeted com- whether it is management of Varanasi from January 21-23 and January 23, President Ram Nath Jugnauth will be chief guest for the and curbing use of fake news and munication affecting not only electoral rolls, campaign finance, launched a dedicated website for the event. Kovind will confer the Pravasi January 22 main event while Norway paid news were important areas communication but referen- polling process and technology," The participants would also get an Bharatiya Samman Awards. leader Himanshu Gulati and New on which the poll body has been dum world over and changing he said. He said he was sur- opportunity for 'Ardh Kumbh Mela Talking to reporters here, Swaraj Zealand MP Charanjit Singh Bakshi working upon. He also advised the outcome of any process prised to see during Karnataka Snan' in Allahabad and attend the said Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD) is will be special guests at the PBD event media to look at some best prac- which is meant to translate pop- election, in Bengaluru, the Republic Day parade in the National held on January 9 every year, but the to be held on January 21. tices in international media that ular will in (taking) a healthy polling percentage was lowest. Capital, almost coinciding with the next edition of the event has been post- The event is jointly being held by have started bringing out a reg- decision, in (choosing) a healthy "We investigated and we assembly of Non-Resident Indians in poned by a few days after Indian dias- the Uttar Pradesh government and the ular column — what was fake last representative Government. found that because of IT (infor- Varanasi. pora expressed interest in attending the Ministry of External Affairs. week — on the internet, in the That's the potent threat every mation and technology) indus- The ambitious event organized by Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and Republic Adityanath said his government is media and 'fact checker reports'. democracy in the world is fac- try, job hopping was taking the government for the Indian diaspora Day celebrations in New Delhi. making arrangements to showcase the Rawat, speaking on 'chal- ing," Rawat said at the event place and this (incorrect electoral is being projected as the first of its kind - " # So this event will be held around "Athithi Devo Bhava" culture of the lenges to India electoral organised by the Chief Electoral rolls) was happening. Names as the invitees will witness the cultur- '" 8 the dates of the Kumb Mela and the holy city of Varanasi. He said it was a democracy' at a symposium, Officer (CEO) of Delhi. were there but people are not al heritage of Varanasi and of Allahabad >? Republic Day parade. Swaraj said she good opportunity for the state to said the present set of laws are The CEC said the EC was there, that is why polling was just during the ‘Ardh Kumbh Mela.’ The 1 will interact with four Indian missions showcase its culture before the world. "inadequate" to tackle the men- well aware of these issues 52-54 per cent," the CEC said. theme of PBD 2019 is the "Role of Indian @> @A &, to mark PBD on January 9. The main "We will also make arrangements for ace of black money in elec- Diaspora in building a New India". event will be launched by Prime Indian diaspora to witness culture of tions, and noted that Arrangements for the ‘Kumbh Snan’ ‘Sangam’ (where three rivers join each Minister Narendra Modi on January 22. various fields of the country at Pravasi Cambridge Analytica like (holy bath) will be made at the Allahabad other) for the participants. ( 'Ard Kumbh' "After the PBD convention, par- Bharatiya Divas," he said. "machinations" of data theft, data harvesting and fake news pose a potent threat to the elec- &(%$ "%$)#()* +"+%$ ($%(*%"( toral process in the country. The CEC said democracy does not run on whims and it $ 0 $ requires traits such as courage, character, integrity and knowledge that are diminishing and 334%* neuroblastoma patients are occur in older children. are on the "verge of extinction" doing in terms of psychologi- The study included 859 in the country. Rawat under- hile advanced treatment cal and educational outcomes. children younger than 18 who lining a number of issues and Whas prolonged survival Before recent advances in treat- had been diagnosed with neu- challenges that face the electoral of kids with neuroblastoma, a ment, this survivor population roblastoma at least five years body, said clean elections are like paediatric cancer of nerve was much smaller and we were earlier. Their median age at a "well spring of legitimacy" for cells, the bad news is that side not able to analyse these sorts diagnosis was 0.8 years and the leadership and the people of effects may persist or develop of long-term outcomes," said they were followed for a medi- the country and if this was con- months or years after cure in study author Dr Nina Kadan- an of 13.3 years. taminated by the form of psychological Lottick, from Yale University The researchers also found such issues, problems, including depres- School of Medicine. that neuroblastoma survivors the common sion and attention-deficit dis- While the common treat- who developed mental man orders, says a study. ments for neuroblastoma, vin- health/behavioural problems becomes The study published online pelvis, but it most often begins more likely than the siblings of cristine, cisplatin and retinoic tended to require special edu- "cynical" in the journal, Cancer, has in the adrenal glands. childhood cancer survivors to acid, were not associated with cation services and to not go on about the called for a close monitoring It is the third most com- have anxiety/depression (19% these problems, but survivors to college. entire system, and intervention to help such mon tumor in children and the vs. 14%), headstrong behaviour who developed chronic health "Our hope is that these which is an survivors. most common cancer in babies (19% vs. 13%), attention conditions as a result of their findings will help inform area of Neuroblastoma is a solid younger than one. deficits (21% vs. 13%), peer cancer treatment were at strategies for early screening concern. cancerous tumor that begins in The researchers in the conflict/social withdrawal increased risk for the mental and intervention to identify "With the the nerve cells outside the study had compared neurob- (26% vs. 17%), and antisocial health/behavioural issues, the those survivors at highest risk rise of fake brain of infants and young chil- lastoma survivors with 872 behaviour (16% vs. 12%). researchers said. for developing psychological news, with dren. 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)#% ($)((!" D 4 % 0 $ # 0 !3$ ! 00 43 6, " $ ' $$&" $ Q R L$ M 4 *4#* , " ' %* , "' 3 2,F%*4**3G woman and her baby were '"" Akilled when a tree fell on s Tropical Storm Florence yphoon Mangkhut lashed their house and several more Ainundated the Carolinas 00 '( 2& ! Tthe northern Philippines on storm-related deaths were on Friday, President Donald % $ # Saturday, with its powerful reported Friday as Hurricane Trump circled back to his claim &6, $ winds and rain setting off land- Florence slammed into the that the official death toll from ; "" $$&" slides and destroying homes, Carolinas, dousing the eastern a devastating storm a year ear- * $ leaving at least three people US States with torrential rain lier in Puerto ./ B& " dead and six missing, as the and causing rivers to burst Rico was inflated and said the O storm barrelled toward south- their banks. number of dead seemed to rise A BM ern China. Four deaths were con- from double digits to 3,000 B& ; B The most powerful firmed by officials as US media “like magic.” $ A typhoon to hit the disaster- reported another. Public health experts have "" prone Philippines this year Hundreds of people need- estimated that nearly 3,000 slammed ashore before dawn ed to be rescued after becom- perished because of the effects &* in Cagayan province on the ing trapped in their homes by of Hurricane Maria. northeastern tip of Luzon a storm surge of up to 10 feet 4 ' 4 ( >E>@B But Trump, whose efforts $ 3 $ 00 island, a breadbasket that is also & " (three meters) in New Bern, a D to help the island territory 7( 02 & & 3% 0 a region of flood-prone rice town of 30,000 in North 4 4' D recover have been persistently , plains and mountain provinces men who reportedly returned which could still be lashed by Carolina at the confluence of criticised, has repeatedly ques- 3 O " with a history of deadly land- to their coastal village in devastating winds, forecasters the Trent and Neuse rivers. were killed in New Hanover President Donald Trump was tioned that number over the &6/ B & &$ slides. Cagayan to check on their said. Thousands of people in As of 8:00 pm (0000 County when a tree fell on their to visit hurricane-hit areas next last couple of days. & China and the Philippines homes as the typhoon drew the typhoon’s path had been GMT), Florence was down- house, the governor said, while week “once it is determined his “FIFTY TIMES LAST $ B "" A agreed to postpone a visit by closer Friday, sparking con- evacuated. At daybreak in graded to a tropical storm by confirming another death in travel will not disrupt any res- ORIGINAL NUMBER - NO ) Chinese Foreign Minister cerns over possible storm Cagayan’s capital, Tuguegarao, the National Hurricane Center Lenoir County. cue or recovery efforts.” WAY!” he tweeted late Friday. $ Wang Yi that was to start surges. Associated Press journalists (NHC) but authorities warned Local authorities reported As of 8:00 pm (local time), Trump falsely accused B & & 3 Sunday due to the onslaught, Mangkhut’s sustained saw a severely damaged public the danger was far from over, a death in Pender County maximum sustained winds had Democrats on Thursday of " $ which caused nearly 150 flights, winds weakened to 170 kilo- market, its roof ripped apart predicting “life-threatening when downed trees prevented weakened to 70 miles per hour inflating the Puerto Rican toll " " a third of them international, to metres per hour with gusts of and wooden stalls and tarpau- storm surges and strong winds” emergency units from reaching but the NHC warned Carolina to make him “look as bad as be canceled and halted sea up to 260 kph after it sliced lin canopies in disarray. would persist through the a woman with a medical con- residents to be alert for life- possible.” 0P 12% ! travel. northwestward across Luzon Outside a popular shop- night. dition. Local media said she threatening storm surges and He said just six to 18 peo- 0 43 ! $ At least three people died then blew out to the South ping mall, debris was scat- “We are expecting several had suffered a heart attack. “catastrophic freshwater flood- ple had been reported dead -+, O"$$ and six others were missing in China Sea, aiming at southern tered everywhere and govern- more days of rain,” North US media later said a sec- ing.” “Flash flooding will be when he visited two weeks # "") the mountain city of Baguio China and Hong Kong, where ment workers cleared roads of Carolina Governor Roy ond man in Lenoir County extreme and flood waters will after the October 2017 storm "B after ferocious winds and rain residents braced for the worst. fallen trees. Cooper said, describing the died after heavy winds knocked come up quickly and seemingly and suggested that many had destroyed several houses and With the weather easing, Many stores and houses amount of rainfall from the him down as he tried to check out of nowhere,” the governor been added later “if a person $ ) set off landslides, which also officials warned there was lin- were damaged but most resi- hurricane as a “1,000-year on his dogs. said. died for any reason, like old blocked roads to the popular gering danger. dents remained indoors as event.” “Into next week our “This storm is going to “We’re deeply concerned age.” "$ ' vacation destination, said the “It’s still a life and death sit- occasional gusts sent small rivers are going to continue to continue its violent grind across for whole communities which When Trump visited $ " city’s mayor, Mauricio uation,” Defense Secretary pieces of tin sheets and other rise and there will be more sig- our state for days,” Cooper could be wiped away.” Some of Puerto Rico, the death toll at )$$ '&" Domogan. Delfin Lorenzana said by debris flying dangerously. nificant flooding,” Cooper said. said. “The storm is wreaking the worst flooding was in New the time was indeed 16 people. Authorities were verifying phone, citing past drownings in The Tuguegarao airport There had been three con- havoc on our state.” More than Bern, where authorities were The number was later $ the drownings of three people, swollen rivers in mountain terminal was badly damaged, firmed deaths from the storm 760,000 customers in North enforcing a curfew. raised to 64, but the & including two children who provinces after storms have its roof and glass windows and several others were being Carolina were without power Both the Trent and Neuse Government then commis- )$$ ") reportedly died as the typhoon passed. shattered by strong winds, investigated to determine if and 21,000 people were being rivers overflowed their banks, sioned an approached. Storm warnings remained which also sent chairs, tables they were storm-related, he housed in 157 shelters across flooding homes, stores and independent study to deter- They were also checking to hoisted in 10 northern and papers flipping about said. the state. streets and trapping many peo- mine how many died because see what happened to about 70 provinces, including Cagayan, inside, Lorenzana said. The mother and her baby The White House said ple in their houses. of post-storm conditions. 4 4+ * 3 *, report, which cited “a massive missile program. 4 * increase in illicit ship-to-ship Haley said earlier this year he United States has called transfers of petroleum prod- that successively tough Security unisia’s ruling party has Tan urgent meeting of the ucts” for North Korea in vio- Council sanctions resolutions Tsuspended Prime Minister UN Security Council for lation of UN sanctions. adopted unanimously had cut Youssef Chahed in the latest Monday in response to what it It said some products off all North Korean exports, 90 escalation of a row with the says are efforts by some coun- allegedly were off-loaded from percent of its trade, and dis- president’s son that has paral- tries “to undermine and Russian ships, which were banded its pool of workers send ysed key decisions on the trou- obstruct” sanctions against identified in the report. abroad to earn hard currency. bled economy. North Korea. A summary of the experts Many diplomats and ana- The North African country The US Mission report obtained in early August lysts credit the sanctions with is often portrayed as the lone announced Friday evening that by The Associated Press also helping promote the thaw in success story of the Arab Spring the meeting will “discuss the said North Korea has not relations between North Korea of 2011 but more than seven implementation and enforce- stopped its nuclear and missile and South Korea as well as the years after the ouster of long- ment of UN sanctions on programs. And it said North June meeting between time strongman Zine El North Korea.” Korea is violating sanctions by President Donald Trump and Abidine Ben Ali it is still bat- The mission didn’t name transferring coal at sea and North Korean leader Kim Jong tling high inflation and unem- any countries, but US flouting an arms embargo and Un at which they agreed to the ployment and sometimes vio- Ambassador Nikki Haley financial sanctions. denuclearization of the Korean lent social unrest. accused Russia on Thursday of The Security Council ini- Peninsula. Nidaa Tounes announced pressuring an independent tially imposed sanctions on But in July, US Secretary of Chahed’s referral to its disci- panel of UN experts to alter a North Korea after its first State Mike Pompeo accused plinary committee late on report on North Korea sanc- nuclear test in 2006 and has North Korea of “illegally smug- Friday after he delivered a tions that included alleged vio- made them tougher and gling” in refined petroleum stinging attack on infighting lations “implicating Russian tougher in response to further products beyond the annual within the party that he said actors.” Haley said the panel nuclear tests and an increas- quota of 5,00,000 barrels was restricting his govern- should release the original ingly sophisticated ballistic allowed under U.N. Sanctions. ment’s ability to revive the economy. “Secondary political conflicts.. Have disrupted the work ! " of the government, holding it back and blocking the reform process and the decisions necessary to achieve economic growth,” he said in a televised address to a policy confer- Baghdad: The Iraqi parliament solidify new parliamentary prime minister and presides ence. elected the candidate of a pro- alliances. over the formation of the next The ruling party is led by Iran list as speaker on Saturday, Iraq has a proportional government. President Beji Caid Essebsi’s paving the way for the forma- system aimed at preventing a The pro-Iran bloc led by son Hafedh, who has been tion of a government more slide back into dictatorship fol- Hadi al-Ameri’s Conquest battling to oust the premier for than four months after leg- lowing the 2003 ouster of Alliance -- a coalition of anti- months. islative polls. Saddam Hussein. jihadist veterans close to The power struggle previ- The country has been in The lists elected during Tehran -- looked positioned to ously came to a head in July, political paralysis since the legislative polls must first form take the lead Saturday after the when the president himself May 12 ballot, but the election coalitions. The bloc with the election of its candidate, called on Chahed to resign. of a speaker is expected to most members appoints the Mohammed al-Halbusi. AFP

Los Angeles: NASA’s most the globe. The preceding mis- advanced space laser satellite sion, ICESat, launched in 2003 blasted off Saturday on a mis- and ended in 2009. The first sion to track ice loss around the ICESat revealed that sea ice was world and improve forecasts of thinning, and ice cover was dis- sea level rise as the climate appearing from coastal areas in warms. Greenland and Antarctica. Cloaked in pre-dawn dark- In the intervening nine ness, the USD 1 billion, half- years, an aircraft mission called ton ICESat-2 launched aboard Operation IceBridge, has flown a Delta II rocket from over the Arctic and Antarctic, Vandenberg Air Force base in taking height measurements of California at 6:02 am (local the changing ice. time). But a view from space - “Three, two one, liftoff!” especially with the latest tech- said a launch commentator on nology - should be far more NASA television. precise. “Lifting ICESat-2 on a The new laser will fire quest to explore the polar ice 10,000 times in one second, sheets of our constantly chang- compared to the original ing home planet.” The launch ICESat which fired 40 times a marks the first time in nearly second. a decade that NASA has had a Measurements will be tool in orbit to measure ice taken every 2.3 feet (0.7 meters) sheet surface elevation across along the satellite’s path. AFP : (&" '"&- './%(0123405

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he market extended its decline for second Tstraight week with BSE Sensex lossing another 299.18 points to close 38,090.64 and the broader Nifty falling 73.90 points to finish at 11,515.20. The truncated and volatile week saw the stock market enduring initial bitter losses as rupee sta- bilised during late session after initial record lows. The key indices fell sharply for the two sessions during start of the week, marking one month lows to revisit 37K-level impacted by escalating trade war concerns and global slide after US President Donald Trump threatened to impose higher tar- iffs on China, also the negative sentiments on expectation of US Fed rate hike this month. While the rupee crashed to fresh record lows '0D , F 4<. on rising crude, strengthening dollar and widen- '0D %( ing current account deficit, the 10 year-yield < surged, so did the stocks selling pressure. However, the market rebounded and capped the weeks larger losses after an government offi- #$$0 $3 0 ! & cial assurance on measures to support the rupee 8$ !3 ! 1$ after a planned review of the economy by Prime Minister Narendra Modi this weekend. MUMBAI: Air chartered ser- Gujarat from the city's Juhu The assurance led the rupee recovery from vices provider JetSetGo-owned aerodrome with a five-seater record lows, it was further supported by data SkyShuttle on Saturday Bell helicopter, JetSetGo chief released by the Central Statistics Office on cool- announced the launch of its executive and co-founder ing of retail inflation (CPI). shared business jet and chop- Kanika Tekriwal said. per services from Monday. The Mumbai-Bangalore The Delhi-based non- service will be catered by a jet- scheduled carrier, in which liner, she added. cricketer Yuvraj Singh is one of The company wants to use the investors, will fly twice learnings from these routes to daily services to Tarapur in further expand offerings across Maharashtra’s Palghar district the country going forward, and neighbouring Vapi in Tekriwal said. PTI (&" '"&- './%(0123405 . ; 4R &R ' % $ #34, 23

ricket Australia has 4 &EB*O&"2 $ .80 Cresponded positively to India coach Ravi Shastri's request for more warm-up $ * matches ahead of their Test series Down Under later ushfiqur Rahim hit a superb hun- this year. dred under pressure as Bangladesh India only had one Mscored a competitive 261 against practice match ahead of Sri Lanka despite Lasith Malinga wreaking their recent Test series havoc on his international comeback in the against England - which Asia Cup opener on Saturday. they lost 1-4 - and Shastri , 1 + 0 Mushfiqur scored a career-best 144 off believes his side would be 150 balls with 11 boundaries and four sixes, better prepared to tackle days amid high drama over in the first Test match ?" he his sixth hundred in ODIs. Australia if more red-ball the condition of the pitch was quoted as saying by Save 131-run stand with Mohammed cricket was scheduled prior and the outfield, both of ESPNCricinfo. Mithun (63) for the third wicket, the for- to the first Test in Adelaide which apparently left the Australia and India are mer skipper didn't get any assistance from starting on December 6. visitors unhappy. scheduled to play three T20 other batsmen as the wily Malinga showed "We are happy to dis- On Thursday, Shastri matches prior to the that he is still a force to reckon with. cuss options with the BCCI, said he was not averse to the Adelaide Test and Shastri Malinga, who last played against India but we have not received idea of playing practice said India had "requested a in a home series September 2017, took 4/23 any formal notification to games. couple of (warm-up) games on his return. increase the number of tour "Absolutely not. Why in Australia before the Test Opener Tamim Iqbal's heroic act will matches prior to their series would we be? You can only series commenced". also be remembered by one and all as he commencing in Australia," see the results (in the India are slated to tour came out to bat despite having retired hurt a CA spokesperson said. England Tests). Every time Australia for three T20 with a fractured wrist. Tamim allowed In England, even the after the second Test we internationals, four Test Mushfiqur to have one final blast during lone four-day practice have improved. You can matches and three ODIs the slog overs. match against county side still get better. But why from November 21 to Once Malinga and off-spinner Essex was reduced to three can't we be in that position January 18. Dhananjaya de Silva (2/38) reduced Bangladesh to 203/8, Mushfiqur shielded no 11 Mustafizur Rahaman (10) during the 26-run stand. 0 23 ( , Once Mustafizur was out, Tamim removed his hand-cast and came out in $ 334%* order to allow his partner to play the final three overs. : ; $ $ " ising sensation Rishabh Pant, who The Tamim-Mushfiqur pair added an Rscored his maiden Test hundred in invaluable 32 runs in 2.4 overs and it could @B>C ' G: ; H England, will play the first three matches well be crucial in the final context of the "F 0 for Delhi in the upcoming Vijay Hazare match. Trophy, starting September 19. However Malinga's superb effort was be dismissed. However, veteran Ishant Sharma has story of the initial part of the match. Tamim however will not take any fur- been rested after a gruelling England Coming back from semi-retirement with ther part in the tournament as he will be series where he sustained an ankle injury a slight paunch and a shorter run-up, out with a broken wrist. on the fourth day of the fifth Test. Malinga showed his mastery as he bowled The 15-member team will be led by four different deliveries to get his scalps. $ $3 4 ! 3 3 Gautam Gambhir and Dhruv Shorey will D 0 # ( ( Liton Das (0) nicked an outswinger in In the second game of the tournament be his deputy. Gambhir has been handed the slip cordon, Shakib Al Hasan (0) was on Sunday, two times champion will face back the captaincy after a gap of one year. All the performers of last year along castled by his signature inswinging york- Hong Kong in group A opener. Pant, who captained Delhi to Ranji with talented players from U-22 side has er, Mithun skied a slower delivery while Pakistan is placed in group A along Trophy final last year, didn't take up the been picked for the tournament. Mosddek Hossain was done in by a slow with India and Hong Kong and before the leadership role as he is a certainty in the Reasonably experienced players like bouncer. big clash against India on 19th, Pakistan Indian Test squad for the West Indies series, Unmukt Chand, Manan Sharma, Nitish Even Mushfiqur failed to score runs off will like to start on a positive note by beat- starting October 4. Rana and Pawan Negi are all in the squad the slinger who bowled as many as 44 dot ing Hong Kong here on Sunday. With the consistent Shorey also expect- along with youngsters like basmen Lalit balls and didn't concede a single bound- For Pakistan, their strength has always ed to travel to New Zealand with the India Yadav and Hiten Dalal. ary in his 10 overs. been their fierce bowling which consists of A team, the selection committee chaired by Squad: Gautam Gambhir (captain), However the seasoned Mushfiqur got Mohammed Amir, Junaid Khan. But this Amit Bhandari decided to fall back on the Dhruv Shorey (vc), Rishabh Pant (wk), runs off spinners, scoring on both sides of time Pak is laced up with quality batsmen experience of Gambhir, who is no longer Unmukt Chand, Nitish Rana, Himmat the wicket. He used his feet well against left- end, it became difficult for Mushfiqur, who But once Mustafizur was out and like Fakhar Zaman, who is coming into this in national reckoning. Singh, Manan Sharma, Pawan Negi, Hiten arm spinner Malmiga Aponso and off- considerably slowed down in his 90's. His injured Tamim came in for support, tournament after smashing double centu- The only new face in the squad is rook- Dalal, Lalit Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Gaurav spinners Dilruwan Perera and De Silva. hundred came with a glide off Suranga Mushfiqur just cut loose getting 32 runs in ry against Zimbabwe in the last series fea- ie all-rounder Pranshu Vajayran, who bats Kumar, Kulwant Khejroliya, Simarjeet However as wickets fell at the other Lakmal off 123 balls. 2.4 overs before he was the last batsman to turing Pakistan. left handed and bowls medium. 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campaign for the uman civilisation undergoes major the famous debate he had creation of Tamil shifts from time to time. Tamil Nadu with the Buddhist scholar, Mandana Eelam in Sri Lanka is experiencing such a civilisational Misra. Adi Shankara was asked who are the major narra- change, a change in the basic political he was and he said he was Dravida tives in Tamil Nadu’s landscape. Whether the change is shishu or child. Dravida is a com- political discourse. takingH the State to better days or worse is being bination of ‘Thra’ and ‘Vidu’, What did the discussed widely all over the country. We have which means ‘three’ and ‘coast’ respec- DMK do for the seen civilisational changes leading to destruction tively. This means that Dravida is the State when it was as well as reconstruction of societies. Culture, land of three coasts. ‘Aryan’ is not a word wielding power at lifestyle, geography, climate, and ecology all vanish in Sanskrit. Aryaputhra or Aryaputhri the Centre from at one phase only to reappear in another form. were terms used to address men and 2004 to 2013? There were instances of empires and kingdoms women of learning and who possess Karunanidhi’s disappearing without any trace. We have seen the good qualities,” says Dr Swamy. grand nephew, Vedic-era River Saraswati — the banks of which The anti-Hindi agitation in Tamil Dayanidhi Maran, saw a flourishing civilisation and which was said Nadu went out of the Government’s con- was made a to be flowing through North India to discharge trol following the suicide by a person at Cabinet Minister into the Arabian Sea — disappearing from the face Thiruchirappali Railway Station on January with the portfolio of the earth only to be retraced and reinvented 25, 1965, according to N Kalyanasundaram, a of Information Technology and thousands of years later by modern-day scientists. chronicler of Tamil Nadu politics. “This man set Telecommunications, TR Baalu was made The same is the case with River Saradha, the rem- himself ablaze following a quarrel with his wife. Minister for shipping and surface transport, nants of which have been detected in Odisha. Anbil Dharmalingam, the DMK leader, portrayed two of the money-spinning Ministries. In Tamil Nadu, the present-day generation is it as a self-immolation against Hindi and it caught When fight erupted in the family over shar- witnessing the spectacle of a tectonic shift in the up with the people. Dharmalingam was later made ing of the booty, Dayanidhi was removed State’s political skyline. The Dravidian dream a Minister by the DMK leadership for the service and replaced by A Raja, friend of run is coming to an end even as the State is rendered by him,” said Kalyanasundaram, who Kanimozhi, Karunanidhi’s daughter by his under the threat of a rapid regression. The stage was a witness to the suicide. third wife, Rajathi. for the de-Dravidianisation of Tamil Nadu began The word ‘Dravidan’ has an inherent anti-India The family’s fortunes saw a manifold in December 2016 with the demise of feeling in it. The average Tamilian, who grew up in jump during this period. Following the Jayalalithaa, the then Chief Minister and an anti-Hindi and anti-Aryan surrounding, feels disclosures by The Pioneer about the 2G AIADMK chief. Jayalalithaa, a spinster, passed that he/she is not a part of mainland India. The scam, Raja lost his ministership. Both he away without nominating an heir and the result Dravidian regime, which came to power for the and Kanimozhi were arrested and sent to is there for all to see. The AIADMK disinte- first time in 1967 and is since ruling the State Tihar Jail. By that time, Karunanidhi had grated into three to four factions by alternately by way of the two factions, lost much of his bargaining power with 2017, the birth centenary year of has done a lot of damage to the the Congress. The DMK withdrew support MG Ramachandran, the national fabric. CN Annadurai, to the UPA Government in 2013, citing founder of the party. There is during his tenure as a member Dravidian the failure of the Manmohan Singh-led no charismatic leader in the of the Rajya Sabha, is on Government got the Government to save the Sri Lankan Tamils AIADMK and it was record demanding the order stayed by the apex court. from ethnic pogrom by the Army of the known that the party secession of Tamil Nadu “Such schools would lead to the impo- island nation. The Sri Lankan civil war got would soon weaken. from the Union of India sition of Sanskrit and Hindi on Tamil stu- over in 2009 itself, with the Army killing Muthuvel and formation of a sepa- dents,” argued the State in the court. Prabhakaran and his associates. But Karunanidhi, the long- rate country by the name, Sreesailam Unnikrishnan, a Karunanidhi had to give a valid reason to serving chief of the DMK Dravida Nadu. Though Malayalam professor and a revered lin- justify his decision to withdraw support to too left this world early the DMK was forced to guist, says that the Dravidian leaders’ pas- the Congress Government. The real reason August, causing jitters in put the demand on the sion for Tamil has crossed all limits of behind the DMK’s decision to walk out of the party. Karunanidhi, back burner following the sensibility. “They are still led by the argu- the UPA Government was the failure of who was elected president 16th amendment of the ments put forward by Robert Caldwell, an the Congress to save Kanimozhi from the of the party in 1969, had Constitution, the clamour evangelist, who proposed the theory that ignominy of going to jail in the multi- over the past 50 years confor Dravida Nadu is still Tamil was a unique language and part of crore 2G Spectrum scam, which is out of verted the DMK into a family strong in the DMK and some the Dravidian language. There is no scien- the public mind now. enterprise. Nobody other than outfits with a Dravidian tag. tific proof for this theory. All languages The demise of Jayalalithaa and his close family members could Stalin had suggested on March are equally unique. Nobody questions on Karunanidhi within a span of two years has dream of getting any important position 17 at Erode that the Southern States what authority an evangelist spoke about left a big void in Tamil Nadu politics. The in the party or in the Government (whenever the should come together and demand the forma- Tamil,” said Prof Unnikrishnan. strength of Dravidian parties, too, has erod- DMK was ruling the State). tion of Dravida Land. K Thirunavakkarassu, the Interestingly, the children and grandchil- ed over the past two decades because of With his passing away, the General Council of DMK historian, said it was a possibility. “The dren of all Tamil chauvinistic leaders study many reasons. Scientific breakthroughs in the DMK, which had been jampacked with family DMK Constitution is clear on this. The party in high-end public schools where speaking human genome sequencing and DNA stud- loyalists, elected MK Stalin, his second son by his stands for the formation of Dravida Nadu,” he Tamil is an offence punishable with hefty ies have proved beyond doubt that there second wife, as the party president. MK Alagiri, had said following the demand by Stalin. fines. Stalin’s daughter Chenthamarai owns were no Aryans or Dravidians in the coun- his elder son, had made his displeasure known by Most Indians are not aware of the intensity of Sunshine Public School in Chennai where try. “The concept was brought in by the East openly revolting against Stalin and dragging the the anti-Hindi campaign by the Dravidian parties. speaking Tamil would land the students in India Company and the British rulers as part succession issue to the streets. The DMK Trust, Tamil Nadu is the only State in the country which %3,2N2 *O trouble. “This is a part of an attempt to of their plan to turn North India against which controls properties worth thousands of does not have even a single Jawahar Navodaya % *B** make Tamil Nadu a separate country within South India. There is no historical, archaeo- crores all over Tamil Nadu, too, has gone into the Vidyalaya, public schools offering free education India. The Dravidian party leaders would logical, literary or scientific proof for the hands of Stalin and his family. The DMK has to rural poor in the country. While all districts in A334* %3 32 3 claim that the State is a separate entity where Arya-Dravidian divide,” said PG Haridas, become the Congress of Tamil Nadu. With Alagiri, the country have such schools in most backward #*4*'%, 23 there is no Hindi and Sanskrit. Tamil Nadu professor of history, Mahatma Gandhi the former southern chieftain of the DMK declar- regions, Tamil Nadu’s Dravidian parties, the DMK is the only State opposing NEET and does University. He pointed out that Breaking ing his battle royale against Stalin and his cronies, and the AIADMK, have declared such institutions * *B%** not allow Hindi or Sanskrit in schools,” said India, a comprehensive research work the Dravidian major too is in for a major crisis. unwelcome in the State. *B2@ H Raja, National Secretary, the BJP. authored by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan The Dravidian regime in Tamil Nadu began in “The Navodaya Vidyalaya system is a unique The sense of alienation, which is dis- Neelakandan, hit the last nail in the coffin 1967 as a consequence of the anti-Hindi agitation experiment unparalleled in the annals of school 22, * 'A334 cernible among the average Tamilian, is the of the Dravidian theory. which rocked the State in the early 1960s. Political education in the country and provides the best % %3P%3*, balance sheet of the 50-year-long Dravidian Nicholas Kazanas, the Greek Indologist, commentators and authors describe the anti-Hindi residential school system irrespective of a child’s 2 ,A#*4** rule. It is sad to see that the Congress, which expressed his shock over the infatuation of agitation as a manifestation of the anti-Hindu feel- economic condition. This was introduced as a had ruled the State till 1967, stands as a mute the Dravida parties for Dravidian theory. ings, especially the anti-Brahmin feelings preva- part of a new education policy of the Rajiv %32 **23 *#3' spectator to the Dravidian’s resistance to “The whole world is saying that India is lent in the State. 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he significance of Guwahati is exceptional gem. Thanks to its geograph- military skill, especially in naval warfare, he started preserving the place, and from 1943, often reduced to its connection ical location, Guwahati was a big wartime had forced the Mughals back to Delhi, leav- a scholar named Tarini Kanta Sarma start- with Kamakhya Temple, which airbase when Allied Forces were planning ing Assam unconquered. The Battle of ed doing serious research on the debris. is one of the Hindu Shakti to cut off Dimapur from the rest of India. Saraighat, which was fought in 1671 on the In Kalika Purana, we get a reference of Peethas, or its proximity to the At that time, several dead soldiers had been banks of the mighty Brahmaputra, saw Madan Kamdev Temple. The legend says TKaziranga National Park, which has been buried in ordinary graves. Later, in order Lachit’s army defeat Aurangzeb’s even it was here that Madana, the God of pas- given the tag of a World Heritage Site by to give them a dignified burial, their graves though the latter was heavily supported by sion, reunited with his wife Rati. Thus, the UNESCO. But there is a lot more to were relocated to Syllet Military Cemetery, Portuguese gunners. An imposing statue temple walls were decorated with figures Guwahati, the largest city of Assam. The Amaribari Military Cemetery, Nowgong of Lachit Borphukan, along with his war- expressing human passion. Several panels rich history of Ahom kingdom and its sub- Civil Cemetery, and Mohachara Military riors, now stands at the river bed of are bold and candid in expressing physical sequent merging with British Assam adds Cemetery. After the end of the war, more Brahmaputra. The place where the battle relations between man and woman. They a colourful layer to the rich legacy of graves were shifted here from Darjeeling, took place has now been decorated with the also depict various Hindu Gods, animal Guwahati. A combination of mythology Dhubri, Dibrugarh, Shillong, Silchar, and Saraighat Rail Road Bridge. motifs, and floral designs. The roofless tem- and textbook history needs to be looked Cooch Behar to make this a more impor- Guwahati is the child of River ple is enshrined with an Uma-Maheshwar into to get a taste of the many stories that tant place. Today, the place has 486 graves Brahmaputra. The 2,900-km-long river statue where we see Shiva and his wife Uma this place has to offer. that belong to soldiers of the British that covers a basin of 6,51,334 sq km in an emotional state. Though no founda- Legend has it that this land was once Commonwealth and 24 graves that belong comes from Tibet and covers about 728 tion plaque or dedicatory tablet was found known as Pragjyotishpura and was ruled to Chinese soldiers of Ching-Kai-Shek’s km in its journey through Assam, break- in the debris, it is assumed that it was estab- by a demon king named Narakasura, who army. It also has 25 unidentified graves. ing into several big and small river lished by Vanamala Varman Deva of was later killed by Hindu God, Krishna. Those who rest here in eternal peace islands. Considered sacred in Hindu Satasthambha dynasty in the 9th century. King Narakasura’s son Bhagadutta is belonged to prestigious regiments like mythology, the river is described as the Later, it was expanded and completed by believed to have sided with the Kauravas Royal Australian Airforce, Essex Regiments, love child of Brahma and Amogha (queen Pala kings of Bengal. However, no solid evi- in the battle of Mahabharata. Another tale Bengal Civil Pioneers, Royal Indian of king Shantanu) in Kalika Purana. dence has been produced so far. Madan connects Guwahati with Hindu God Airforce, Scottish Rifles, Royal Deccan This river is considered to have mas- Kamdev Temple is now considered a tem- Shiva, who is believed to have come here Horses, King’s own Yorkshire Light Infantry culine fury which can often be destructive. Bhashmakut or Bhashmachala, one learns ple of fertility. Young couples pray here to for meditation after the death of his wife, and Royal Artillery. No wonder, then, that it floods its banks, about the Umananda Shiva Temple. It was fulfill their desire of becoming parents. Sati. When Kama, the God of lust and pas- The most unique feature of this war including areas in Guwahati city, every now established in 1694 by Gadhadhar Singha In Guwahati, near Nehru Park, a small sion, had tried to interrupt his penance, an cemetery is that it houses 11 graves of and then. But Brahmaputra is also the rea- of Ahom dynasty. The original temple was wooden church is a reminder of our colo- angry Shiva had reduced Kama to ashes. Japanese soldiers who had died in 1944 son why Assam is fertile and green. It forms destroyed in the 1897 earthquake. Later, nial past. This is the Christ Church of 1844, Kama’s wife Rati pleaded with Shiva and under the leadership of Lance Corporal the base for Assam’s rich biodiversity. Most the present version of the temple was set one of the oldest buildings of the city. This eventually, a new form of Kama emerged. Miyata Kotsuo. Kotsuo died on September of the national parks and wildlife sanctu- up. Umananda Island is also home to gold- is the third reincarnation of its original form The new form of Kama created the word 13, 1944. In 2012, a team of officials from aries in Assam are also dependent on en langur, a rare species that was brought as the first one was destroyed and second ‘Kamrup’, the most common name by Japan had come here to dig up the graves Brahmaputra. To add to that is the here by a king of Nepal for sacrifice. one badly damaged in the 1897 earthquake. which this part of Assam is known. and collect the remains of their soldiers. immense beauty of the river. An evening Fortunately, they were freed instead. The present version was completed in 1903. Inscriptional evidence suggests that in This is perhaps the only World War II cruise here, along with sumptuous snacks, This cruise takes one through many Another treat is a state museum ded- the 4th century, Pushyavarman and his fam- cemetery in India where along with drinks, and music — both English and milestones of history. On the banks of icated to the unexplored heritage trail of ily ruled Pragjyotishpura, which was Commonwealth soldiers, ‘enemy’ sol- Assamese — is an experience beyond Brahmaputra, several old British bungalows, Guwahati. The collection of stone sculp- watered by the river that was then known diers also rest in peace. words. Umananda, also known as Peacock watch towers, and mosques can be seen. It tures and statues is astounding. Several as Lauhitya, and is today known as Another important tale about Guwahati Island and popularly known as the world’s also boasts of a magical sunset over the hori- collections of Mahishashuramardini Brahmaputra. The last king of this dynasty is related to Lachit Borphukan and his role smallest human-habited river island, is zon when the sky looks like a fountain head Durga from the 10th to 13th century are was Bhaskar Varman. Modern history says is the Battle of Saraighat. Lachit Borphukan often the highlight of such journeys. of melted lava of an active volcano. displayed here with monolithic stone that in 1228, invaders from Burma had was the commander-in-chief of Ahom king Going back to the Shiva and Kama leg- One has not seen much of that if one pillars and iron cannon of Ahom dynasty. established Ahom kingdom here. It lasted in the 17th century. With his outstanding end that gives this river the names has not visited the ruins of Madan Kamdev Set up in 1940, this museum houses one till 1826 when Assam came under the East ,'9."-4-4(& Temple, the massive arena of debris with of the richest collections of artifacts. India Company. It was at that time that stone sculptures and a broken plinth of sev- Last but not least is the temple of Guwahati as a city bloomed and Assam as eral temples. Often referred as the “hidden Kamakhya, a pilgrimage spot of Hindus. a region turned into a coveted area for grow- Khajuraho of Assam”, the temple dates back This temple, too, has been destroyed and ing commercial crops like tea. Guwahati to the 9th century, though no written his- rebuilt several times and by several peo- became all the more significant when tea tory is available. In 1855, an employee of ple. The present one was built in 1665 by became the cash cow of the East India the East India Company named Captain E the king of Cooch Behar of Bengal named Company. Elements of British legacy and Taite Dalton first recorded it as a cluster of Nabanarayan. After the 1897 earthquake, Hindu mythology became one here and give 15 temples inside a deep jungle near it was repaired to a great extent. Festivals modern Guwahati its unique identity. Guwahati and he contributed an article on like Ambubachi when the Goddess goes Guwahati also houses the this in the Asiatic Society Magazine in through her annual menstruation and Commonwealth War Cemetery, which has Calcutta. It created a sensation among schol- Poush Biya when the Goddess gets mar- relics from World War II. It might not be ars, and soon gathered more attention. ried with Kameshwara are celebrated as popular as the war cemeteries in Imphal However, the devastating earthquake of here and draw huge crowds. or Kohima, but every year, it still manages 1897 reduced all temples to rubble, thus Though Guwahati is famous for the to attract thousands of foreign tourists who making the site an endless kingdom of orna- Kamakhya Temple, the city has much come here to revisit history. This small yet mented stone sculptures. From 1901, a local more to offer. 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may not be commanding any sub-nationality to the highest More people in Tamil Nadu major base in the State, but pedestal, cultivation of the have started learning Hindi the damage they could cause ethnic separatism, and divi- through the Dakshina Bharat is a worrisome factor. sive identity politics, the Hindi Prachar Sabha The agitation against the scorning of Indian national (DBHPS) in spite of State hat has happened said Dr Swamy. The hydrocarbon plants, the pride, all of which eventually Government’s hatred of the with Jayalalithaa Congress, which has been opposition against the led to the decline of patrio- national language. “Despite Wand Karunanidhi riding piggyback on either Chennai-Salem Green tism in Tamil Nadu’s public the fact that Hindi is not leaving the centrestage is the the AIADMK or DMK, is a Corridor, the resentment space. The Dravidian parties taught in Government sudden appearance of many pale shadow of what it was in against the Indian Nutrino are too dangerous for our schools in the State, 2017 saw fringe groups funded and the 1960s. The other day saw Observatory, and the oppo- nationhood, democracy and a 1.28 lakh students appearing sponsored by NGOs, the the TNCC headquarters sition towards NEET and the true federal system, and hence for the basic examination Church, and various Islamist becoming a battleground, as Enayam high end port are unacceptable,” said Menon. held by the Sabha,” said S organistions. “There is a the factions owing allegiance proof that something is He is also of the view that the Jayaraj, secretary, DBHPS. rapid regression in Tamil to various leaders scuffled in brewing in Tamil Nadu. If two superstars of Tamil film- There are nearly 11,000 Nadu. What we saw as the the presence of the media. the national parties play dom, Rajinikanth and Kamal Hindi pracharaks working in farmers’ protest in New Delhi The DMK is in for major their cards well, the State Hassan, who have declared the State, he added. staged by Ayyakannu trouble as Alagiri hinted on may see a tectonic shift from their political ambitions, are Tamil Nadu is waiting for Ponnusamy and his associ- September 5 that he will cre- Dravidian politics that has doomed to fail. “One cannot a leader who can connect ates was the manifestation of ate problems for his younger degenerated Tamil Nadu. understand what Hassan says; with them and convince these fringe elements. They brother Stalin, who has Though there are fringe nothing makes sense. Both them that Tamils are equal to offered the international become the party president. parties like the DMDK (led actors are on the wrong side people in other States of the media an opportunity to por- If Stalin antagonises Alagiri, by film actor Vijayakanth), of 60 and do not have time to country. Air-conditioned car- tray India in a poor light,” a specialist in winning elec- MDMK (led by the volatile reach out to the Tamil peo- avans and chartered aircraft said an author who was tions, his dream of becoming Vaiko), and PMK (led by S ple,” said Menon. would not get you the loyalty forced to leave Chennai the CM of Tamil Nadu would Ramadoss, whose only mis- People in Tamil Nadu are and respect anymore. Take a because of her open criticism remain unfulfilled. The DMK sion seems to be to make slowly understanding the cue from the style of late NT of the Jallikattu agitation at has degenerated into a family Raveenthrhan Thuraiswamy, Elangovan, former Union the Left, and Islamists. his son the CM of Tamil frauds being played on them Rama Rao and late Marina Beach in January enterprise and that is the root a close associate of the family Minister and Congress The splinter political out- Nadu), they are all of nui- by the DMK and AIADMK. Rajasekhara Reddy of the 2017. No human rights cause of its weakening. and a political analyst in leader. “Many fringe groups fits are causing concern to sance value only. They are becoming conscious neighbouring Andhra organisation — of which Stalin is controlled by his Chennai. The DMK is not are showing keen interest in leaders of major political par- Political commentator of the fact that the DMK is a Pradesh. Or observe the likes there is no dearth in Chennai wife Durga, son Dayanidhi, free of caste politics, but it an alliance with the DMK. ties. Udhayakumar, the anti- and thinker TM Menon, long- family-owned enterprise of Capt Amarinder Singh of — came to her rescue when and son-in-law Sabareesan. practices it secretly. It is There are 39 Lok Sabha seats nuclear power plant man; time resident of Tamil Nadu where only members with Punjab or Yogi Adityanath of she was issued death threats Since Alagiri’s wife Kanthi through those who are close in Tamil Nadu and it is going Seeman, who claims to be the who watched the Dravidian the DNA of Karunanidhi can Uttar Pradesh or Sachin Pilot by the fringe elements. belongs to the Scheduled to the K-clan that informa- to be a tough job for Stalin to spokesman of Sri Lankan politics for more than four aspire for important posi- of Rajasthan. Tamil Nadu is “If Tamil Nadu has to be Caste, other members of the tion comes out through the satisfy one and all,” said Tamils and Eelam; decades, says that neither the tions. The rest have to be waiting for a change from the saved from the grip of these Karunanidhi clan are yet to iron curtains of Elangovan, who prefers a Thirumurugan Gandhi, and a DMK nor AIADMK are both- content with the crumbs filmi style family-oriented anti-national elements, it will accept her as a member of Gopalapuram. front lead by the DMK — host of others who entered ered about the welfare of the thrown at them by Stalin and dynasty politics and mafia need a dose of nationalism. the family and that is why Though the AIADMK one that includes the the political landscape after people or the progress of the family members. rule. 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s the common populace journey culminates closer home with continues to become more the last chapter being a dedicated guide aware and invested in the to examine if your own country might public sphere, and unprece- be doomed and on the path of decline! dented developments con- Populism is defined as the support Atinue to take place at the highest politi- for the concerns of ordinary people, the cal levels, History Repeating by political quality of appealing to or being aimed risk analyst Sam Wilkin is a timely at ordinary people. One wonders then, intervention to examine the simultane- if the rise of populist politicians appeal- ous growth of the process of political ing to the collective conscience of com- * mobilisation as well as the rise of pop- mon citizenry would bring genuine ulism and the intimate relationship advancement and change. Or are we ' $ between them. With one keen eye on missing something here? history and another on the events hap- Are these populists really the pening around us, the book is a handy messiahs of the common people or guide to ace the political flux of today just another bunch of opportunists and prepare ourselves better for the that bulldozed their way to power and times to come. After all, as Wilkin perks? Is there really an attempt at quips, “The historical patterns covered genuine reform or are the same well- in this book will influence our future, versed tricks being offered again, " but we determine it.” albeit in new packaging? What sort of Since time immemorial, regimes people make a good government? have been burned to the ground, they Which type of government is the have been replaced (for better or best? Can politicians of any hue be worse), popular rebellions have trusted to work selflessly for the wel- become revolutions, great leaders have fare of people? Is their empathy with emerged and exiled, and newer social the common class real? Or is that too classes have come to light. From grand just a well-veiled ruse for self- arrivals to disgraced exits, from coups advancement only? to uprisings, from political intrigue to “Populists often come to power cies, where nations and its people have defined by social scientists fail routine- statesmanship — history is replete with by mobilising politically disaffected endured much more to uphold their ly, several new factors are discovered rich examples of such incidents that non-voters; populists can gain from democratic spirit. and time-tested theories discredited, as have and in several instances, still con- economic turmoil, which discredits So, can we expect clarity from this nations continue to chart their own " tinue to shape the destiny of nations. the parties in power; populists can chaos? Can discontent be turned unique course. But this uncertainty is But what does the toppling of a thrive in a polarised environment, around for good? How can the political precisely why it necessitates the need to government or unrest in the public of a because they find it easy to pick up structures be saved from crumbling? In talk and examine these questions and O particular state with specific local fac- support from across the political this context, the author aptly highlights concepts, which may very well be sig- tors at play mean for other countries or spectrum,” says the book. When the significance of political reforms nificant takeaway points from where the global political scene in general? democracies are plagued with lack of and sound governance in improving the much-needed discussion on politi- $ What is the root cause of political responsiveness (‘representation gap’) the quality of politics and also main- cal discourse today can be taken for- erosion and what conditions facilitate and distrust in political leaders, it taining peace and continuity in the ward and provide insights on how to ' it? Is there a pattern to look for? Is his- becomes easier for populists to make society. The book says, “Some of the engage with the leadership in a whole- tory actually repeating itself every- claims about broken political systems main elements of the quality of gover- some and effective manner. where with just slight variations? and claim votes to win, it argues. nance are the effectiveness of the gov- With humour strewn around aplen- @#4*; Which precious lessons from our past Also, high levels of inequality in the ernment bureaucracy, the quality of ty, this is not a drab political treatise. are awaiting (re-)discovery? society and mobilisation of selective regulation and economic policy, the Instead, it is quite an engaging read for Traversing the hits and misses subgroups of population based on iden- rule of law, control of corruption and all — serious as well as general readers across various forms of regimes and tity markers like caste, language and -.7.)) &807 the maintenance of public order. of the genre. Picking up anecdotes from leadership in places as diverse as colour, pose a serious challenge to sta- -*, . )/ Countries that do well in these areas some of the most riveting events of Thailand, Russia, Iran, Argentina and bility. Also, mobilisation of one group tend to be far less likely to suffer vio- political churning from the recent past, America, the book examines the pat- often results in counter rising of anoth- &-2).)9,, lent revolution (or, indeed any kind of and weaving them in an easy, conversa- terns in rise and fall of the govern- er group and we’re looking at perfect 0 serious political violence).” tional language, Wilkin manages to ments, the unstable conditions that conditions for a full-blown political tur- # 4:66 Indeed, no two countries can pos- deliver an erudite book on politics lead to political turmoil and pave way moil. However, historical evidence also sibly have the exactly same political which covers the past, the present and for the rise of populism. This delightful points out to the resilience of democra- experiences, conditions, and criteria the interesting times to follow.

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Thus from 2009 to 2012, military Vostok-2018, literally meaning “East” modernisation programme had complet- in Russian language, involves 3,00,000 ed a full circle which placed Putin to a Russian and 3,200 Chinese troops, near- more comfortable level to jump into the ly 36,000 tanks, 1,000 aircraft, 80 ships, Syrian quagmire in 2015. Putin’s full- armoured personnel carriers and fledged support to the beleaguered Syrian armoured infantry vehicles. President Bashar al-Assad, in fact, helped First of all, this drill is about sheer him survive till date. With this, the entire show of military might of Russia under war game in the troubled West Asia has Vladimir Putin against an overwhelming taken a new shape as then American aggressive expanding the NATO that has President Obama was not keen on the over the years succeeded in encircling the direct involvement of the US troops on the country. The exercise displays to the ground. From a distant player, Russia has world Putin’s capability of roping in major pushed itself to the centre stage of the most powers of Asia, like China and very volatile war game in the world. Gradually, strategically Mongolia, for Vostok-2018, Putin has turned tables on the US to regain which Russia used to hold solo earlier. role as a key player in deciding the fate of China’s participation in the war game the Syrian regime. proves beyond doubt that the Russia- When we see Russia’s active aggression China relationship has come to a new level or participation in global conflict zones, we of understanding. China’s Ministry of equally need to review how America and National Defence said, “The aim of the its allies spread their vigilantism almost in Vostok-2018 is to strengthen strategic mil- each part of the world. Russia’s advance to itary partnership between the two coun- former Soviet Republics, including Georgia tries and deepen friendship and cooper- and Ukraine, could be called as a come- ation and further boost the two countries’ uppance to the West which had fast capability to deal with security threats in expanded to include the same group of the region”. The exercise is aimed more at 0 4 0 1 @B>C I+ I ?B 1 0 nations once the USSR broke down. traditional than non-traditional security D - 0 >?<& % 1 @B>C 0 Today what bothers Putin more is not threats in the region. the continued encroachment of the West Looking at the broad contours of this Chechnya. Therefore, Putin wanted to join battalion-sized battle groups, one deployed ment in Russia reached up to 72 per cent partnership and seem to get going against on Russia’s periphery, but its serious med- battle preparation, one can say that it is a America’s “global war on terror” as an ally in Poland and one each in three Baltic in 2017. Now, with Donald Trump’s reac- the backdrop of Trump’s invectives against dling in the country’s domestic politics. Is rehearsal against any possible aggression to crush internal Muslim uprising. States of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. tionary policies taking a heavy toll on the two major players in the global scene. it the time for action for Putin? Indeed, by the US and its allies in the region or to But Washington ignored Moscow Meanwhile, the US started bringing back China’s trade with the US, chances are high Thus in June, Chinese leader Xi Jinping Vostok-2018 will send a strong signal to the counter America’s international influence. once and for all, even while preparing for heavy armoured units to Western Europe. that the Communist country will move called his Russian counterpart his “best, NATO and its allies. When the world is Further, one has to understand the an attack on Iraq. And, a wounded Putin Always suspicious of Moscow’s moves, closer to Russia. And this is visible as most intimate friend”. gradually witnessing an ebbing American post-Soviet Russia carefully. It is the West proclaimed his disdain for the West in the Washington and the rest of the Western Russia recently became the 9th largest On the other hand, combat experience leadership, Putin offers an alternative. and its allies that goaded the megaloma- Munich Conference on Security Policy in capitals, particularly the NATO nations, trade partner of China. and modernisation gleaned from the bat- Beyond his war mongering and muscle niac Putin into mass propaganda and 2007: “Only two decades ago, the world alerted their intelligence and spying net- Meanwhile, Putin is also smartly tlegrounds of Georgia and Ukraine will be flexing, he is capable of bringing massive action. When the Soviet Union collapsed was ideologically and economically split, work around Russia and its peripheries. moving into this opportunity and offering far-reaching. The Russian military is still political reform at his home turf so as to during Perestroika and Glasnost of Mikhail and its security was provided by massive But it seems the sudden rise of Putin has China a comfort zone as bilateral trade and in the process of transition and Putin is give an audience to the voices of dissent. Gorbachev, the obvious consensus sur- strategic potential of two superpowers.” He literally failed the vigilantism of the West close cooperation between the two giants desperate to come out of the old style func- It is a big irony that leaders like him are faced on board was that it was a systemic added, “It is the world of one master, one to a great extent. Russia’s alleged intrusion could be equally beneficial than resurfac- tioning of the armed forces. However, always paranoid about their security, failure and triumph of the liberal demo- sovereign dictated by the US. The current into the last US Presidential election has ing Cold War rhetoric between the two. defence experts have mixed opinions tenure and future role in public life. cratic order. And, when the power passed order is ‘unacceptable’ and the time has proved it very well. Thus, Russia is fast turning into the about Moscow’s modernisation of armed Lord Acton rightly said, “Everybody on to Putin from Boris Yeltsin, he des- come to ‘rethink the entire architecture of Besides, much beyond the tradition- largest oil supplier to China as the latter forces under Putin. Dmitry Gorenburg of likes to get as much power as circum- perately wanted a place for Russia within global security’.” al ties between Russia and China, what has has to make fuel available for its billion- Harvard University said, “The moderni- stances allow, and nobody will vote for self- that Western order. Julia Ioffe, an expert on Russia com- been marked is an emerging closer eco- plus population and make hundreds of sation move started in 2009 after Russian denying ordinance.” The same way, Putin Interestingly, Putin was the first for- mented, “Nonetheless, Putin has spent the nomic bonding between the two, where- manufacturing outsourced plants func- military’s lacklustre performance in the would continue to extend his despotic rule eign leader to call George W Bush after decade since that speech making sure that in not only they are trying to come up with tioning. Georgian warfield in 2008. There is fur- as long as he is alive. The international 9/11 in the US, and offer his help in the US can never again unilaterally a strong coalition of like-minded nations, Around the same time, Gazprom, ther improvement in the speed of decision community may experience many more Afghanistan. The most profound reason manoeuvre without encountering friction; but also developing their bilateral eco- Russia’s largest energy major, is building making and communication of decisions Vostok-2018s on the days to come. for Putin’s offer was that around the same and most importantly, it can never depose nomic might to stand up to any econom- a 3,000 km gas pipeline which will be con- to the troops and interoperability among time, Russia was fighting its own war him.” ic crisis in future. The official Xinhua news necting Eastern Siberia to China’s border military branches, followed by the replace- (The writer is an expert on against the radical Islamic separatists in Last year, the NATO dispatched four agency records that China’s direct invest- areas. Thus, both are truly celebrating their ment of Soviet-era equipment that was international affairs)

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hether it is the South Asian a trajectory of never-to-look-back action or process of causing some- of America. It is this deleterious viti- being the sparkling city on Camelot Wfirmament or any other ter- pathway to a coincidental world one to adopt radical positions on ation of the national and patriotic which the global terrorist organi- ritorial nationality, the theme of domination with the replacement of political or social issues.” narrative that the United States sations are attempting to strike mainstreaming the younger gener- Great Britain by the United States of There was a vehicular attack in guards against by relying on psy- against. Also, the entire exercise is ation has always been a pet peeve in America, as the world’s sole sur- Manhattan in November 2017, chotherapists and mentors to wean part of the tenet of “Super terrorism” the Indian and the American poli- viving superpower. which was traced back to a migrant away youngsters from the glare where terrorists strategise to utilise cy mindset. However, the growing In the contemporary context, from Uzbekistan. New York Daily and attraction of rebellious strife. as a true blue utilitarian, the nodes radicalisation has drawn the atten- since the September 11 attacks, the News reported, “Sayfullo Saipov, a Now, it is part of an institutional and inter nodes of the American tion of the security and intelligence American Homeland Security Act 29-year-old from Tampa, Florida, striving in the United States. infrastructural superstructure. It establishment. Radicalisation is the and the Patriot Act were legislated reportedly emigrated to the US The United States Homeland aims to utilise the American web of bane of an ordinary civilisational in order to restore parity with the from Uzbekistan in 2010. The inves- Security committee report in 2016 infrastructure such as its oil depots, narrative. Going by the organic con- ministrations of the non-state actors. tigation is in its early stages, but if reported, “Now at this juncture, the refineries, highways and the trans- ception of the State, if the sinews and The American literary bestseller previous cases are any indication, it homeland faces the highest threat port and communication network the arteries of nation state are titled “Terrorist” has hewn an inter- is likely that Saipov did not come to from the ISIS and fundamentalism through locally trained agents who blocked or the life blood of func- esting narrative upon the rising and this country — legally or illegally, since the September 11 attacks.” The have their origins in the schools and tionalism vitiated, then it is a mat- expanding throes of radicalisation that is still unclear — as a Department of Homeland Security madrasas of the nation despite the ter of worrisome introspection on in the suburbs and the educational violent extremist. Odds are he was has already reminded the security multicultural rubric which America the part of the nation and its pop- institutions of the American nation. radicalised here.” establishment against the threat of takes pride upon. ulation. The narrative of the fictional work This is a matter of worrisome vehicular ramming attacks which In the age of lone-wolf attacks The United States has been an provides a glimpse into the lives of analysis and efficacious introspec- pose a challenge to the institution- gaining prominence, the focus of avid target of terror mongers and a Muslim student and his single tion by the American establishment al effectiveness in tackling terror and counterterrorism specialists has violent Islamic anti-state actors, mother, along with the Jewish men- as the old storyline of pre-radi- the sentient invincibility of the shifted to the phenomenon of rad- especially since America created tor in the high school. Witnessing , D, <> ' , + ,, calised migrants spoiling the United States. What the terror mon- icalisation. After the incidents like Frankenstein in Afghan conun- the racial and social segregation, American Dream is the cause of all gers are attaining to achieve is to the terror attacks in San Bernardino drum along with its interventions in which misguided Muslim young- trouble. How can an ordinary star- point out in a gladiatorial contest, and Manhattan, the challenge is not West Asia since the days of the sters feel in the American schools American homeland. This is what mind game in the United States. The ry-eyed youth takes up cudgels the invincibility theme of the to locate terrorist hideouts in the Persian Gulf conflicts, where the and the sequestration leading them has resulted in the brass tacks of a containment of terror attacks by dis- against the system or the entity of American security and make it rugged caves of Tora Bora. The chal- battlelines were finally drawn with to empty parking lots and Basketball talk about a Mexican wall and the illusioned youths, till the Boston the American establishment after part of a larger jehad to civilisa- lenge is to spot the potential terrorist the radical and Wahabi Islam. The courts, is a theme which has scrapping of the Deferred Action for Marathon attack, speaks volumes getting radicalised in America and tionally vituperate the grandilo- from among the millions of inno- United States of America has been received its much deserved attention Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immi- about the effectiveness and effica- its school and university system? It quent American Dream and its cent civilians loitering around the known since the days of its found- in the contemporary time span. The gration policy, which separates cy of the American security estab- is not a matter of ungainly crimi- spectacularity which is part of the streets of New York City, Boston or ing days in the seventeenth centu- issue of undocumented aliens can be minors from their undocumented lishment in the aftermath of the nalisation due to poverty and soft power approach of the any other city in America. ry to stay away from the entangling taken up here as it is this corpus of alien parents in the form of initiat- plane’s deep dive on Pentagon in impoverishment, but an ideologi- American Foreign Policy. It is this alliances of the world polity. Still, the population from Latin America ing limits on the H1 visas for the September 11, 2001. The Oxford cally driven and madrasa hewn nar- sheen and the larger-than-life one- (The writer teaches International American interventions in Cuba and South Asia which poses a employers in the United States. 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The economic policies of the Narendra Modi Government are also being questioned, but the BJP leaders are maintaining stoic silence. $ $ $3 43 ! Chandrashkhar Rao was running Khis Government with more than two-thirds majority, but he dissolved the Assembly. Now the question is whether this step will prove beneficial for the Chief Minister of Telangana or not. The scenario is reminiscent of how the UK’s PM Theresa May put her majority Government at stake last year tions, the alliance will have an effect Chairman. Though this is also true that parties, which are openly against the BJP, Aam Aadmi Party in Noida. In fact, when she announced the dissolution of on the chances of the ruling party. the party always gives statements didn’t support the Bandh. It was expect- the two leaders have come closer to the House of Commons. She got a big against PM Modi and the BJP on almost ed that the ruling BJD in Odisha would Arvind Kejriwal. Some time ago, when jolt in elections and her party lost the 2&8 00 ! $3 every issue, it nevertheless extends sup- probably go with the Congress, but Yashwant Sinha sat on a dharna at Vijay majority. KCR might just land in the he NCP and Congress leaders, who port to the BJP if the need arises. That Naveen Patnaik bluntly told the party Chowk, Kejriwal told his supporters to same situation; he hopes for the best Tearlier thought that the Shiv Sena is why the Congress is of the view that that he was against the Bharat Bandh. participate in the agitation. but may get the worst. In the next two would not go with the BJP, are now the BJP and Shiv Sena will go together. The TMC also didn’t participate in But can Kejriwal make way into the ' months, the Assembly Elections will be changing their views. They are ready to Earlier, the Congress and NCP were of the agitation, though it gave its moral Opposition bandwagon with the efforts "' held in the State, and the Opposition accept that the Sena would go only with the view that if the BJP and Sena go support. Since the ruling party in West of the Sinha duo? Kejriwal and his party parties have started coming together. the BJP, and three incidents in last separately, they will be wiped out. But Bengal didn’t support the Bandh, no leaders are working towards this goal, The Congress, TDP, and the Left have month have forced them to change their now the picture has changed. effect was seen in the State. In Uttar and are in talks with the Congress. The K $ already formed an alliance. mind. It is now being believed that the Pradesh, the SP and BSP didn’t take problem, however, is that nobody can The Left parties have a stronghold in Shiv Sena and BJP will go into a pre-poll 3 3 3$ $3 !3 part in the Bandh either. 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When the Congress, who were partners of the UPA — are behind the Congress. announced that he will fight on all seats $ $ ' one seat each and gathered good number NCP, and other Opposition parties called openly backing the Congress. In fact, in Haryana. His party is also gearing up of votes in almost a dozen seats. Apart a Bharat Bandh on the issue, the Shiv some regional kshatrapas are in a dilem- 3P 30 $ ! to fight elections in Madhya Pradesh and 2 ' from that, the BSP had won two seats. Sena didn’t support it. ma. They are not very comfortable with ashwant Sinha, who left the BJP Rajasthan. Though this is also true that - The Congress had got 21 and the TDP Before that, during the Monsoon the party as they feel that it is not suit- Ysome time ago, and Shatrughan wherever his party has contested, except got 15 seats. The Congress, TDP, Left Session, the Shiv Sena had supported able for their own regional politics. Sinha, who is not happy with the party, in Delhi, it has created a new record of tie-up is bound to give KCR’s Telangana the Government on the no-confidence That is why almost all big regional are toiling hard to unite the Opposition. getting the lowest votes. This time, the &$$ Rashtra Samithi a big jolt. Although the motion moved by the TDP. In the same kshatrapas kept away from the Bharat That is why they went to Ahmedabad to Congress wants no party to hamper any organisation of the Congress has not session, the party backed the BJP in the Bandh over soaring oil prices. The BJD, meet Patidar leader Hardik Patel and chance of alliance. So, there will be an $ strengthened much since the last elec- election of the Rajya Sabha Vice- TMC, SP, BSP, TDP and other regional also participated in a function of the attempt to persuade Kejriwal anyhow. Q % R

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The ed release. Cardi B’s real name is chain-printed mini dress with clash- ) =5" " Belcalis Almanzar — her stage ing thigh-high boots that she wore name came to be because her sister to her album release party, and the minem has broken the UK chart is named Hennessy. Friends nick- voluminous Cinderella-esque ball- record for consecutive No 1 named Belcalis ‘Bacardi’ and, for gown she wore to Rihanna’s annual Ealbums, beating a record held work purposes, it translated to Diamond Ball (a bespoke number jointly for 36 years by Abba and Led become Cardi B. by fashion pal and American Zeppelin. His album Kamikaze, a sur- Following a stint as a stripper designer, Christian Siriano) were at prise release recently and his second and a career as a social media per- opposite ends of any style spectrum, album in less than a year, is his ninth sonality, Cardi was granted one of and she is known for regularly No 1 in a row — a run stretching back the coveted slots on popular changing her hairstyles, sporting a 18 years to his second collection, The American reality TV show, Love blunt dark bob one day, and tum- Marshall Mathers LP. Eminem put out And Hip Hop. She showcased her bling blonde waves the next. For her a statement alongside the news, say- musical talents during her two sea- 35-minute Coachella set, she kitted ing: “Does this mean I get to call sons on the show and her follower out her growing baby bump in an myself Sir Eminem?” count grew simultaneously — her all-white look complete with pigtails, Kamikaze is also the fourth-fastest Instagram now boasts a staggering paying homage to 90s girlband, TLC. selling album this year in the UK, 22 million fans. She left the show behind Arctic Monkeys, Drake and last year, officially launching her 4 3 !300 & &0$ George Ezra, and outsold the No 2 music career and signing with It was announced a few months ago album, the soundtrack to Mamma stream in 1999 after being mentored Atlantic Records, which also has that the rapper was collaborating Mia! Here We Go Again, by three and signed by Dr Dre, with his debut Ed Sheeran, Rita Ora, and Bruno with Fashionnova, a popular copies to one. The album’s opening album The Slim Shady LP. It remains Mars on its books. American brand famous for its track, The Ringer, also reached No 4 the only one of his albums not to While she’s no doubt been bodycon styles sported by the likes in the singles chart — it features an reach No 1 in the UK, though two of breaking music records, Cardi has of Kylie Jenner and rapper, Blac attack on Donald Trump, describing its singles reached the top five. While simultaneously been breaking down Chyna. While she sings about him as an “evil serpent” — while two that album showcased his cartoonishly fashion barriers — from sitting wearing “bloody shoes” (a refer- other album tracks, Lucky You and violent alter ego Slim Shady, he let his front row at New York Fashion ence to Christian Louboutin’s sig- Fall, also reached the Top 10. own voice come through on the fol- Week with the US Vogue’s Anna nature red soles) and is an avid After garnering a reputation as a low-up, 2000’s The Marshall Mathers Wintour, to launching a fashion wearer of high fashion labels such formidable “battle rapper” in the late LP — regarded by many as one of the collaboration with Instagram as Vetements, Gucci and 1990s, Eminem broke into the main- greatest rap albums of all time. favourite, Fashionnova. While her Balenciaga, the artist regularly goofy humour, straight-talking pairs her designer pieces with high approach, and determined person- street buys, and has previously ality have already won us over, described her high-low fashion mix - here’s why the 25-year-old should as how “people like me stay rich”. also be on your fashion radar. At a listening party for her new album, the star paired her 4 0 ! Fashionnova shorts, which would Just two weeks after Cardi’s first sin- cost around £25, with a shearling- gle, Bodak Yellow, was released, the trimmed Altuzarra jacket which artist hit New York Fashion Week would set you back around £2,000. and was taken in by some of fash- While you’ll have to wait until ion’s most notoriously hard to pene- October for the Cardi B x trate circles. She sat front row at Fashionnova collection, you can Alexander Wang’s show, next to guarantee the rapper will be sporting Anna Wintour and went on to grace the brand in the meantime. the front rows at Christian Siriano, Prabal Gurung and Jeremy Scott. 3 3 # Not content with just watching It’s taken the 25-year-old less than shows, Cardi has also walked the two years to transform from strip- runway herself, modelling in a per, to reality TV star, to record- he organisation that bestows the film” last month. It prompted an Gypsy Sport show, and also part- breaking solo artist and fashion Academy Awards says it is sus- immediate outcry, with many inside nered with MAC Cosmetics for a designer. It’s all been achieved Tpending plans to award a new and outside the film industry wonder- fashion week event last February. through enough self-promotion to Oscar for popular films amid wide- ing how it would affect critically and rival a Kardashian. The rapper has spread backlash to the idea. 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