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he previous hearing. t allikattu) Rules of 2017. J orce to disperse the crowd, f lection after his controver e

ase for nal judgment at c y to Animals (Conduct of t he ruling, the police used t arred from contesting any b

erved when reserving the s nd the Prevention of Cruel a ediate implementation of m ivated.” Mr. Nasheed was t

ipak Misra had orally ob D mendment) Act of 2017 A upporters demanded im s ionable and politically mo t

ight,” Chief Justice of India r nimals (Tamil Nadu A . While Opposition ents d erming their trials “ques t

hat it thinks is a cultural w he Prevention of Cruelty to t dissi een the police and w asheed and eight others, N

ion under Article 29 (1) for t nd activists to strike down a iolent clashes in Male bet v ed the convictions of Mr.

laim constitutional protec c al Treatment of Animals c bdulla Yameen, sparked A ourt late on Thursday nulli c

nto whether a State can i led by the People for Ethi arianism against President t urmoil on Friday, after the t

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ntent behind reverting to i nd tumbled through the a n handholding the ed i rotest against the Centre’s p . hedding over 3% each. s nd ammunition from the a u d

handra Garg told C roposal and argued that the p pened 200 points lower o et the Centre’s full support g u directed him to do so, to d nded in the red, with most e 00 155mm FH 77B guns 4 The Hin- The

airs Secretary Subhash A ustment to the Budget’s j run Jaitley’s speech, A ered to resign, if Mr. Nai o lections was intended to e ll sectoral indices also A nvolved the purchase of i

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s the market absorbs the in A .33% to close at 10,760.60. 2 he BSE Sensex, which T ary Party is scheduled for t he State.” t STT) [paid on all stock ( altning AB (formerly M/s v

The market is adjusting. “ ifty lost 256.30 points or N ent. m elugu Desam Parliamen T ay the BJP had “slighted w he securities transaction tax t artongen Kemi Och For K

oming in, over and above c ax kitty. t n one session. The broader i entre on scal manage C formal meeting of the A layed his anger over the p uja, P.P. Hinduja and M/s. d

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nterest rates due to the slip i JP’s defeat in the Rajasthan B eeting on Friday, at which m Investors were disap “ ased industrialist broth b

ng in anticipation of higher i gainst ination. a aidu even pointed to the N oordination committee c ngs against the Europe i

hat allows gains to be set o t dge with bond yields soar e senior leader said Mr. A aidu chaired the party’s N 005, to end all proceed 2

ering any indexation benet f ebt markets were also on D he same fate. t inister N. Chandrababu M ourt decision of May 31, C

udget. B inting at the BJP meeting h udget for the State,” Chief B he rate of 10%, without of t hallenges the Delhi High c

LTCG) tax on equities in this ( ains exceeding 1 lakh at g overished, he said. He was p or oering “nothing in the f he 69page appeal T

nstruments on all capital i f the long term capital gains o ion,” leaving the State im t ointment with the Centre p owerful they may be.” p

osed an LTCG tax on equity p onths following the return m fter expressing disap A gainst oenders, however a

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tate Minorities Com S ear Ajmer to construct n stay and angement for r o far, he said. Police sus s

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r. Qamaruddin, M he southern State is T vowed ation and had m r evidence. e

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handrasekhar Rao to C r. Qamaruddin said M isiting the historic 13th v ur reached the spot and k

ual Urs at the dargah. n rom Chief Minister K. f asthan for the pilgrims j dditional SP Parveer Tha A

anded over a letter h n the Ajmer town of Ra i o Ajmer during the an t police team headed by A

rom Telangana come f and. Mr. Qamaruddin l (guest house) a rubaat P Ompati Jamwal said. S

cope for allotment of s ent proposes to build m umber of pilgrims n o been recovered, Shimla s

hursday to explore the T he pilgrims. A large t he Telangana govern T port vehicle which has al s

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atch stray dogs,” Mayor c versity Neeraj Tripathi i ames which will be n he process to appoint T

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the SHO said. ar village, d roaching and jumped to p he postmortem report. t ent took place during a d in hat this issue is t hrough his organisation, t s of neutrality, fairness and o sub judice sub he police nabbed Raj Kumar, Raj nabbed police he T

ied as Suresh Sah, of Jag t ur passenger train ap p am Sunder, the police said. police the Sunder, am R urther. We are waiting for f he controversial inci T ng that it is “against the eth i I had said [at the event] “ indus ght legal cases H

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rrested on Friday for Friday on rrested a olice station, he said. p ently, they panicked when r We have registered a “ n the State, according to i he IPS Association has T n how to resolve the “Ram o he Hindu Mahasabha in the t the

esiding in Phagwara were Phagwara in esiding r he jurisdiction of Teghra t ack home, he said. Appa b ead, he said. d he second seniormost IPS t or an intellectual discussion f ases. Mr. Jain, a counsel for c aid. s

hree migratory labourers migratory hree T

he mishap occurred under T ay station to catch a train w eclared him brought d eneral, Home Guards, and G bove the law,” Mr. Singh a eminar as it was being held s ts move to withdraw terror i

AWANSHAHR N am Swarath Paswan said. R ere on their way to the rail w ia Hospital where doctors d hukla is currently Director S e said he attended the H adi Party government for w ials, think themselves c

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n Begusarai district, SHO i istrict of Gopalganj and d y injured toddler to Hami l A ith the criminals and o w truction of the Ram Mandir. s JP, for taking on the Samaj B 1982batch IPS, Mr.

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ix persons were injured, s he deceased were resi T ere inside the house w ai Sri Ram,” the video J eing taken to create an at b ari Shankar Jain, who was H ath. “An alliance has been n

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tar Qureshi. h hat a grand Ram Mandir be t , alking about the pledge T f the RSS were also present o JP under the rule of Naren B aughter Rekha Kumari, her Kumari, Rekha aughter d

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agar PS incharge Muk N ramme, take the pledge g ere being inuenced by the w old reporters. t embers of the Muslim wing m he victims are Ruso Devi, her Devi, Ruso are victims he T

dded. a oot to reach the Siwan f hem away,” said Gautam t hakts, as part of this pro b nterpretation,” Mr. Shukla i ome Hindutva activists and s oth ocials and criminals b aught fire, the police said. police the fire, aught c

s Aslam Ansari, the DM a ridge over Daha river on b ore the neighbours chased f uild b khilesh Pratap Singh said A ion of a mandir. This is mis t part from Mr. Shukla, A the temple. “We Ram t inside a room and the room the and room a inside t i

he injured was identied T hey were crossing the T 0 feet from his house be 5 le, is seen taking a vow to p ng for a forcible construc i vam Samadhan. E ongress spokesperson C ieces of wood in a pot and lit and pot a in wood of ieces p

evi and Munna (the child). D ay bridge, an ocial said. w put family The leak. ylinder c ragged the boy for about d ith half a dozen other peo w is communal biases known. h hown as though we are go s andir Nirman Samasya M

huni Khatoon, Saraswati J illed after they fell o a rail k roke out due to an LPG an to due out roke b tray dogs attacked and s ya Kumar Shukla, along r ng like this. It is being i o the Ayodhya dispute: Ram t political event and made a

olice said on Friday. The fire The Friday. on said olice p ied as Khushboo Nishan, t omen and a child, were w A pack of ve to six “ n the 21second clip, Su I le as he had participated in b e cannot say or do anyth w eld to chalk out a solution h

ihar’s Begusarai district, the district, Begusarai ihar’s B he deceased were iden T ersons, including three p hey said. t al on social media. r As a responsible ocer, “ inar indicated that it was m onduct” and also punisha c

in house their in out broke ire f ospital in Patna. h n the rst accident, four I a was outside his house, z andir in Ayodhya went vi M iolation of the IPS code of v o it. t oor aair, the title of the se d

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as referred to the PMCH w ricts, they said. t ion area when Shaikh Ra t arly construction of e idering what he said prior s hough it was a closed T Ram r. Shukla’s act was a “direct M

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ng that they were not run i wo separate accidents in Bi t riday. F ot give any speech,” Mr. n is presence at the event was h ry 28 by the Akhil Bharatiya a senior IPS ocer in Uttar A

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n 100 metres of the centre. i ation Department, said the c ernment has taken the help v f 66,37,018 students have o inet expansion as the mo b mum of 35 Ministers. i ia. d

ng prohibitory orders with i olio of the Secondary Edu f r. Sharma said the go M ontinue till March 12. A total c ent cannot carry out a Ca m he State can have a max T lection Commission of In E

ector magistrates and issu s er, who also holds the port t for Class XII. nd 82.62 a tarts on February 6 and will s aying that the BJP govern s 013. 2 d the memorandum to the e

ng administrative ocers as i he Deputy Chief Minis T lass X was recorded at 81.18 C ion for Classes X and XII t en a letter to the Governor t ers of State since December t ingh said she has forward S

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xamination halls, dividing e mination centres to have a ere caught cheating; the w n jail,” he said. i emorandum to the Elec m 0 Cabinet Ministers, includ 2 hief Electoral Ocer of C

ents before they enter the d ade it mandatory for ex m ast year, 1,862 students L minations centres will land a eanwhile, has submitted a m ent, in its third term, has m he electorate.” t

heating include frisking stu c he government has T lass XII. C or ensuring copying in ex f he State Congress, T he Chouhanled govern T ndirectly a way to inuence i

he measures to prevent T aid. s lass X and 29,81,327 for C nd those taking contracts a isclosed, sources said. d ansion, if any, is directly or p

aid. s heir activities,” Mr. Sharma t ear’s exam — 36,55,691 for y The police are on the job “ ew Ministers are not yet n raditions. The proposed ex t

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nfair means during the ex u hat the centres have enough t lamp down on cheating in c hief Minister Shivraj Singh C he EC, State Congress presi t

ossible ways and means of p t has also been ensured I education maa’ in a bid to ‘ n the memorandum to I his year, Madhya Pradesh t

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f the rst list, State BJP o JP ticket which was as B ur, is contesting the p

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s the ruling party’s nomi a ndependent candidate for i adampur in a procession P ur bypoll scheduled for Fe p

le her nomination papers e contested the polls as an h ce of the SubCollector at o apers on Friday for the Bije p

n September last year, will i ended from the BJD after p r. Panigrahi reached the M ear, led his nomination y

l Sahu who joined the BJD a embly in 2000, was sus s ahu. S anata Party in October last J

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hursday said the spiritual lead T ibetan spiritual leader Dalai La T

he erstwhile CPI(M)led T n the Uluberia Lok Sabha i n the motion of thanks to o

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he legacy of the CPI(M), t dding that former Congress a othing new. I know how it n

uch option. We are facing s ere are pygmies,” she said, h ade for each other. It is m

rint notes. But we have no p The Congress leaders “ PI(M) are one. They are C

ited funds. The Centre can m The Congress and the “ han G+5 oors. “But this has t he 65storey project has T onths,” NBCC’s chairman m a Sonowal said the twin d ountries,” he said. c

nup Kumar Mittal said. A letion period of 60 p ortheast and neighbouring N I have to manage with li “ er government. h truction of buildings taller s hief Minister Sarbanan C Mamata Banerjee Mamata

tructive criticism”. s ith the CPI(M) to oppose w as not been permitting con h ummanaging director c The project has a com “ ugurate on Saturday. a ose vehicle catering to the p

hat they should do “con t ongress for hobnobbing C f late, though, the GMDA O nd culture of Assam. a ra Modi is scheduled to in d ot set up as a special pur n

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ent ushered in the State by m elhi. D lex. G in construction par p echnology as well as reect t ones but the trade centre z ubbed Advantage Assam – d A model of the twin towers. twin the of model A

or overlooking the develop f arty cannot function in p 0storey apartment com 2 n July this year using green i lobal Investors’ Summit – G uild skyscrapers in tremor b

ress, the Left and the BJP g he Trinamool Congress, the t ironmental clearance to a v he building will commence t ade ahead of the twoday m There is technology to “

hief lambasted the Con c inded them that without m rity had in 2013 granted en o BCC ocials said work on N ng the trade centre was i roject. p

he Trinamool Congress T eaders “pygmies” and re l olitan Development Auth p he agreement for build T hose not to criticise the c ork from July from ork W

o speak. t led trade and commerce, d alled the State’s Congress c hough the Guwahati Metro t uwahati. G

M) when Ms. Banerjee rose ( amata Banerjee on Friday M n Guwahati has G+15 oors i olicy. P entre in earthquakeprone c radyut Bordoloi, who han P

embly along with the CPI s est Bengal Chief Minister W he tallest existing structure T uance of Delhi’s Act East s 5storey twin tower trade 6 ormer Congress minister F

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uake category. q e a hub of trade between b riday inked a deal with Na F arthquakes,” a senior e

one 5, a highrisk earth Z he State, which aspires to t he Assam government on T round builtup area than a ombative Mamata reacts to walkout by Cong., CPI(M) MLAs C

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avy’s rst modern conven N has to un aunched l ear, subject to the Monsoon y riday. F umbai, are expected to be M hey go for normal ret six t Karanj

ear,” a senior ocer said on y azagon Dock Limited, M he Scorpene class is the T eanwhile, the just M rials by the middle of this t corpene submarines when S

ear,” the ocer added. y ember last year. c xpected to complete all e ines are to be booted up this r ines, under construction at r AIP) modules on all the (

aunched into water next l joined service in De aunched in January 2017, is l nd fth Scorpene subma a ourth and the fth subma f ir Independent Propulsion A alvari, K

n. The rst of the class, INS b eep dive trials. The fourth d iddle of this year, while the m ene is expected to be p , which was rawing up plans to install d handeri K

echnology transfer echnology T 2005 contract worth $3.75 a ext year. The fourth Scor n xtensive trials, including e o complete sea trials by the t eanwhile, the Navy is M

aval Group of France under N arine m is undergoing is expected will join the Navy “ 000. 2 “ Khanderi Khanderi Karanj

ioned into service. s er technology transfer from d ubmarine together. s he second Scorpene sub T y this week. l rocured from Russia in July p

ix Scorpene submarines un s ections are welded to put a s which was hich it would be commis w as launched into water ear w indhushastra, S

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ydroponics technique, the h he FTW was inaugurated T hen the project began, the W o need of soil. There are n wo other police ocers of t Dancers performing at the Surajkund International Crafts Mela in Faridabad on Friday.

ollution Control Board. P unlight and water. There is s ased on the soilless B eads Dhruvansh, an NGO. h ucted at the residences of d

eadings are taken from the r lants to grow only on p rganisations. o adhulika Choudhary, who M aids were also con R

dministration and other a hese chemicals,” says t xygen demand (BOD) o Hydroponics permits “ cer said.

hus reduce the content of t eriodic biochemical P ravel. g anga Reddy district R rom him last year, the of f

evelopment Authority, the D resent in the water. They p ediments and pollutants. s ags. The nal layer is of b orcefully taken money f

xcess nitrates and oxygen, e he root systems lter out T hird layer consists of gunny t he Hyderabad Metropolitan t ome police personnel had s

bsorbing nutrients, such as a icrobial decomposition. m ubicles are placed. The c oint eort of Dhruvansh, j erson complained that p

n the water through i ase, over which styrofoam b ,000 sq. ft., the FTW is a 3 elp clean the lake by h owing a court order after a l

everal plants on this FTW S onsume the organic matter c loatable bamboo forms its F etlands Day. Measuring W he step was taken fol T

ystems break down and s reatment wetland (FTW). t ents were seized. m

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pecies. s icroorganisms growing M large amount of gold je A Plants on ‘oating treatment wetland’ clean Nature at work:

nd ashvagandha. a eticulously chosen plant m istrict, a CID ocer said. d

rticial ‘island’ made of a rass, owering herbs, tulsi g ence in West Midnapore d

oating on the surface is an itronella, hibiscus, fountain c ours, besides her resi h

anna, cattalis, bulrush, c han meets the eye. Gently t ukundapur — in the early M

n the FTW include vetivers, o s more to the waterbody i he city — at Naktala and t

nspection will reveal there i leaning agents planted C d at Ms. Ghosh’s houses in e

ayer,” Ms. Choudhary says. l ake in the city. But a closer L he raids were conduct T

onsumed the Neknampur c eld upright by the gravel h xtortion from civilians. e

ppear as if hyacinth has a ptake process), which are u ement in misconduct and v

he plants (the biological t rom a distance, it might F er for their alleged invol h

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even groups formed groups even S or children. The fth group f xecutive director of Delhi’s e uman right. “But should we h osure to faecal bugs and p aught fire, it was detached c ot get votes by just divid n rom loans.” f

ng and dietary supplements i tunting. Gagandeep Kang, s ASH because it is a basic W ave failed at fully cutting ex h mmediately after the wagon I The Prime Minister can “ n their crops and freedom o

oused by 5.54 p.m., he said. d eived nutritional counsell c eclining. d han WASH may be critical to t ents must still focus on m ASH interventions may W ectly related to the price.” r rs just want the full price e

tarted at 5.25 p.m. and was s entions, while a fourth re v f WASH in stunting may be o ence. Second, factors other r s. Kang said govern M iss the link, because the m heir income, which is di t st in 25 years. “The farm e

anchit Tyagi said. The fire S hree individual WASH inter t osed to pathogens, the role p espread to make a die d . ions that it is too early to dis t indu H he farmers is an increase in t ears, with it being the low y

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ilies into seven groups. m . But today, now what those circum k he link between hygiene t old t hings. First, WASH interven t The Hindu The ame as last year. “The only s armers’ income has been f

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ampaign at Cholapuram, Mr. c ant women in Kenya. n er food absorption. p al faeces. Plus, while chlo m hich has come down to w

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ium, antimony, selenium r study by the Indian In A uality Standards, and will Q onstruction material and c ently displayed at the con n Women-protective’ ‘ onstitution. C y veteran actor Zeenat b

m, manganese, copper, ba u orms. n he National Ambient Air t overed vehicles carrying c ures taken should be promi s merated in Article 15 of the u ntimidation filed against him i

ilicon, aluminium, titani s ot complying with the n ion Control Board as part of t rea is prohibited and no un a andatory, and the mea m enal code. p n the basis of gender en o f stalking and criminal o

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ged to make its presence stron a ot a dominant political force in n in the elections and form the go w

ult to forecast which party might c LAs joining its ranks, it has man M eartland. Even though the BJP is h

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uclear energy through foreign n ndia has already received a I ive a new deal. l ry 2015, saying GE would not ac a uyers have already pared the bu b n ouraging a youthful regional leadership to emerge i c

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acilitating IndiaU.S. civil nuclear f nother issue relates to the cost A he new global realities. The deal t ere shelved after it rejected the w er the nuclear agreement was t

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enewable energy projects and in r gain.” a hat takes into account India and t nstead, GEHitachi’s plans I ion until 2029, a good 20 years af t

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s (Russia), ask me the question u ad promised both on nancing h ill require a dierent template w n return. i mmediately, it may not see frui i

counter its strategy of turning every as to nd a way to h roject built by anyone other than p hat the Obama administration t go, is now obsolete and reviving it a n the global nuclear power stage o nd the ground breaking begins a

f a jaded look. If it wants to beat the BJP, the Congress o n the rst beam of the rst power i ew Delhi may not get the support N hey were to herald India’s arrival t t was completed all those years i ontract is nally readied in 2019, c

eply, “When you see the rst nail r hipped from America. As a result, s ent for commercial projects, as m ndia the waivers needed, and I f an IndiaU.S. technocommercial i esh Thakor, Hardik Patel and Jignesh Mevani to free it p

ho passed away last year, used to w ndian orders for both oil and gas I he IndiaU.S. civil nuclear agree t tand on nonproliferation to give s ears. This would mean that even y l tead relying entirely on borrowed leaders such as A s

ashington last June, which led to W mbassador Alexander Kadakin, A s a result of all these changes, A hat had considerably shifted its t onstruct a reactor here at nine c

rat on the failure to identify a youthful leader, and in a

ng his meeting with Mr. Modi in i ions, the longserving Russian t lear energy only by 1.4%. c tart of the ‘payo’ for the U.S. s ional so far) puts the mean time to t

lamed the inability to close the gap with the BJP in Guj b

he big pitch Mr. Trump made dur t us for other foreign collabora c rew by 16%, solar by 30%, but nu g ercial contracts were to be the m nly foreign collaboration opera o

. Many in the party achin Pilot be its public face S

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o a vindication of the Congress tactic of letting a young s perationalising power projects. o as, coal and shale trade into its fo g he energy mix. In 2016, for exam t ocommercial agreements for six n ears over schedule. India’s past y

is al negative vote it may have been, but the verdict A y pace in delivering reactors and d ow mine, export and push oil, n lear power is losing its primacy in c onstruction was already ve c nghouse had begun talks on tech i

988, and has kept a slow but stea 1 n beautiful, clean coal,” and will o ectric power options. That is, nu l rojects in South Carolina, the p oth GEHitachi and ToshibaWest b . pproval ratings in the runup to 2019 a

ent for Kudankulam 1 and 2 in m hat the U.S. has “ended the war t nd ecofriendly solar and hydroe a as halted on the Westinghouse w ies to build a reactor. In 2009, t efeat can mean only one thing: the BJP is slipping in d

ress last week, Mr. Trump said d ith the Intergovernmental Agree w nstable, but innitely less costly u nes meant for India. When work o ompany and the Indian authori c

st. A he two national parties will be in a straight conte t

ca. In his State of the Union ad i ia’s Atomstroyexport, that began s ion, to be kept as backup for the t he U.S., the same reactors as the t ontract between an American c

7, n Gujarat where the BJP scraped through in late201 i

ts existing agreement with Rus i o the lucre of fossil fuels in Amer t uclear power as a “baseload” op n P1000 reactors at two projects in A here is no sign yet of any concrete t

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lso found much more comfort in a ars have dimmed in comparison l iations. More countries now see t he last wrinkles were ironed out, t 15 billion, in building four $

ion in its base. Punjab 2017 was written o as the Akali s nd French projects are. India has a ven the promise of nuclear dol e ust be factored into India’s nego m uns, possibly worth more than r ere inked, and three years after w

ix of opposition parties than on account of any ero m arthquake faultlines, as the U.S. e way from renewable energy, and a house went into major cost over g emoranda of understanding m uclear businesses, and this too n

hich lies along tsunami and w ency has taken a very sharp turn d risis was set o because Westin c oday, nearly a decade since the T taring at major losses over their s lip, more on account of a coming together of a motley b

decade on A otting the southern coastline d econd, Donald Trump’s presi S s in the deal itself. The nancial e uclear companies globally are n ince 2014. However, Bihar 2015 was arguably a mere s

he Trump eect T bout too many nuclear projects a o begin with, there are chang T or its own nancial future. Most f

overnment. The BJP has lost some Assembly elections g

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merging as a panIndian party and the natural party of e

le American companies to build b asthan, Haryana, Karnataka and j hat announcement, is even valid. t ged a decade ago under very dif a er deal in Jaitapur for EDF, which t

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HWRs in more inland sites in Ra P ra Modi and Mr. Obama made d ained steadfast to a deal envis m equirements, which would ena r iations will focus on getting a bet t

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o ress two consecutive terms since the BJP returned t g r plants, the Department of e ent between India and the U.S. m greement, as it stood in January a lier’s capacity and ability, it p ernational Solar Alliance this t

cribing the nature of the agree s ush for indigenous nuclear pow p alls into question whether the c itment to India, and the sup m uel Macron visits India for the In n asthan voters have not given either the BJP or the Con j

nline by 2024. Even as it makes a o ivil nuclear agreement, and it c nergy technology, the U.S.’s com e ued papers and held briengs de s y, while French President Emma l lienated large sections within her own party. True, Ra a

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acity of 6,780 MW, India hopes to p ho was Foreign Secretary at the w tringent, putting intense strain on s ot the future envisioned by those n he commercial contract. With t

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The deal is done,” Sujatha Singh, “ onstructions and the current ca c ould carry. This was certainly w efore deciding to go ahead with b uirements have become more q

reects a general dissatisfaction ome of the lost ground s

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f han, winning all 25 seats. The Congress’s recovery o t

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shared objects such as towels, utensils ( ern coast. Car Nicobar, part of the Nico t on serving tea in ceramic cups. “At s

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are. It is transmitted by ies, and aided c oast of Sumatra, and two hours before c weeping gesture that included his sofa, s

ave limited access to water and health h 0 minutes after the earthquake o the 4 ery lucky,” he adds, his hand making a v

ng conditions among populations that i sunami arrived here at 7 a.m., roughly t ith trachoma and blindness. “Oh, I am w

rachomatis. It thrives in congested liv t orth of the equator. The Indian Ocean n troke, some years after his close call s

ections from the bacterium Chlamydia f hipping route named so for its latitude s ibia and saving his life when he had a t

ospital with treating a fracture of the H rachoma occurs upon repeated in T egree Channel, a minor international D

ge of six in Kimious village.” a rom the Andaman cluster by the Ten f ays. He credits the doctors at B.J.R. d

he Nicobar archipelago is separated T lair is mostly conned indoors these B i, there were no children under the m

n a far corner far a n I obar in 2006. Rendered frail by age, c ood. We found that, due to the tsuna h

ead to irreversible blindness in adult l permanent shelters’ allotted to Car Ni ‘

ymptoms. If they are not treated, they s orks Department’ is one of the 3,941 W he says matteroffactly. s

elfare. “Islands are easily forgotten,” W nd constructed by Central Public a ions in children occur without any t

ience for us. Active trachoma infec r DGHS), Ministry of Health and Family ( lair’s ‘Prototype twin unit designed B

lder on her trips to the island. e rst for India. It was a dierent expe a irectorate General of Health Services D

al population in a remote location was b ort Blair, with backing from the NPCB, P ay of speaking, never fails to visit the w

o reach. An MDA covering an entire tri t irectorate of Health Services (DHS), D r. Shah, who appreciates his gentle D

ealise that the location was so dicult r een Blair’s eyes will only hint at them. d ciences (RPCOS), New Delhi, and the S

lications. Even the twinkle in Aber p ver the course of the project. “I did not o MS), Dr. R. P. Centre for Ophthalmic I

ious, quite like its environmental im v IIMS, who made four trips to the island A ndia Institute of Medical Sciences’ (AI I

phthalmology Department, RPCOS, O TRA) in Nicobar 2010’ survey by the All ( p by the waves is not immediately ob u

st, Professor and Head, Community i or the ‘Trachoma Rapid Assessment f ered debris of plastic garbage washed t

n Car Nicobar,” says Dr. Praveen Vash i or over two years to mobilise support f ights up the pristine coastline. The scat l

r. Shah had to tenaciously follow up D ve even on a January morning, and he magnitude of the trachoma burden t

istrictlevel facilities. d We were shocked and surprised by “ he sun rises as early as quarter past T

ng from 37.5% to 73%. i he visits regularly, is one of two such s ime in the early 1960s. t

hildren in the surveyed villages rang c .J.R. Hospital in Car Nicobar, which B u was wearing when they met some r

ears, with the proportion of infected y orOphthalmology. The airy and clean t hange for the coat that Jawaharlal Neh c

ion rate of 50.8% in children aged 19 t his is where Dr. Shah is Deputy Direc T aid, granted land for this airbase in ex s

edical institution for all the islands. m icobarese leader Edward Kutchat, it is N RA found a very active trachoma infec T

nd Hospital in Port Blair, the referral a s no longer a family station for them. i st risk of developing trachoma. The e

or Indian Air Force ocers. The island f ants of 10 clusters selected for the high t prawl of the G.B. Pant Medical College s

oncerns by examining 7,277 inhabi c dence is inspired by the bustling ami, beachfront residential quarters n

wo teams investigated Dr. Shah’s T erfect. Nevertheless, a measure of con p laimed what used to be, before the tsu c

al outreach began after their return. c ealthcare infrastructure is far from H n Indonesia, a lush jungle has already i

ble water and garbage disposal. a amed for the strategic strait near Aceh n ears after the tsunami. Dr. Shah’s surgi y

he medical team set up slide shows T esettled in Car Nicobar nearly two r and transport, telecom, electricity, pot l n the whitesands Malaka beach, O 19.70%). The trachoma outbreak in Car ( I was so nervous when a prevalence “

ients’ own villages. t lair and elsewhere in the islands and B ndure severe inadequacies in intrais e aterials. m ract (62.6%) and refractive error a ant on the island. t

efore surgery can be performed in pa r ut of overcrowded relief camps in Port o he Andaman and Nicobar Islands T bility to eect repairs with local a lindness in India, which today are cat b he rst Nicobarese ophthalmic assis t

ood blood supply of the eyelid and the g efore evacuation. They were moved b he problems her location poses. t isease as among the leading causes of d d to the tropical weather, and the e ure they took it,” says John James, 44, s

nfection is relatively low because of the i ived for a week without food or water v nstructions to her team, essential given i ive land rights, natural ventilation suit t ed a dosage, we would return to make s ramme of 1963. It no longer lists the g

he centre of the island, where they sur t oman in the habit of providing precise w encespecic locations, gendersensi t oncern for them). The risk of wound c ncluded), and deaths. “If someone mis i riginally the Trachoma Control Pro o

nough thought was given to subsis e ery, since lost working time is a major g eatop were pushed into the forests at T NPCB) since 2008. She is a diminutive ( ps), pregnant women (who were not u ent initiative emanated from what was m

uickly (a point emphasised before sur q s. Tribespeople from Sawai, Arong and e rogramme for Control of Blindness P ourced, natural building materials. Not s bsentee and sick residents (for follow a n 1976. The agship Central govern i

atients can get back to work very P he pooling of backwater in several plac t hah, Joint Secretary in the National S f 10 lakh per unit replaced locally o eticulously maintained registers list M or Control of Blindness was launched f

naesthesia as a daycase procedure. a as cut o by a subsidence of land and w o be taken up immediately,” says Dr. t rom mainland India at an average cost f ound of the MDA programme in 2011. r rom NPCB. The National Programme f

heets imported by large contractors s uick and is performed under local q ana had the highest casualties. Mus k ine specialist, but I knew a survey had c as eventually found for the second w nd Uttar Pradesh (68.1%) — show data a

he operation to treat trachoma is T sunami. The villages of Malaka and Ka t m a surgeon, not a community medi a locks and corrugated galvanised iron b ndia to Car Nicobar. A tablet substitute I 79.1% occurrence), Rajasthan (74.2%) (

ouncil for his lifetime. c icobar Islands lost the most lives in the N ecause they couldn’t bear sunlight. I b einforced cement concrete, aerocon R ad to be transported from mainland h ealth problem in three States — Punjab h

ear term. Blair is the head of their y age of the total population, in India, the t ived in great pain, in darkened homes l reestanding) homes across 11 islands. f in, a broadspectrum antibiotic that c o 1963, trachoma was a major public t

27 sq. km, elects a ‘Captain’ for a ve 1 ence of the devastation. As a percen d rowing inward and eyelids fused. They g uild nearly 10,000 twin (instead of b ricky cold chain for liquid azithromy t ell over half a century ago, from 1959 W

lind curve lind B n their twenties who had their lashes i nesizetsall rehabilitation policy to o ages in Car Nicobar, distributed over l ridge in Kimious stands as forlorn evi b o be commandeered to maintain the t

he Central government adopted a T ow the instructions.” Each of the 15 vil l n Car Nicobar, the disused iron I reat it. Yet I kept meeting young people t ame in handy when refrigerators had c

ne has altered life here. o ost. l he chiefs, and the villagers would fol t and India. l ardly ever seen trachoma, let alone h ashumeri’s familiarity with the area Y

ese people. We only had to explain to r s approximately 1,450 km from main i eneration of ophthalmologists has g nated in Sumatra in 1861. But the last i conomic costs in terms of livelihoods e ejoratively by the islands’ settlers. p

as made easier by the friendly Nicoba w nd ringed by 51 km of silvery beaches, a ater treated] cases in Car Nicobar. My l nd 1941, and another tsunami that orig a hat blindness comes with considerable t friend), although the term can be used (

unctival scarring, for which Blair was j uty Director General, NPCB, adding p y Dr. Shah was exceptional. Our work b st for major earthquakes in 1847, 1881 i he Nicobarese call themselves T holchu

ous trichiasis [sightthreatening con t unities,” says Dr. Promila Gupta, De m r. Vashist says: “The local team led D evastate the islands: patchy records ex d oconut water everywhere they went. c

iring work. t oticed a steady stream of trachoma n he 2004 tsunami was not the rst to T eed without the support of local com c all being welcomed with sweet tender c

ence of infections. It was tedious and r When I held eye camps in 2008, I “ rotection to indigenous ways of life. p Public health initiatives cannot suc “ he B.J.R. Hospital. Team members re t

imultaneously to prevent the recur s in Nicobarese), west of the island. egulation, 1956, and provides some R hoto in his living room. p ashumeri, 34, a cheerful sta nurse at Y a-sip k

rogramme in the village of Sawai ( p lair has Bishop Richardson’s laminated B ersed neighbourhoods were covered p obar (Protection of Aboriginal Tribes) c etimes work till 9 in the night,” says m Öt-

he over 1,500 recipients of the MDA t nto which he also translated the Bible. i 20 mg per kilo of body weight). Dis ( estricted under the Andaman and Ni r n a village to be present, we would so i

uthoring a primer on the Car language, a osage had to be measured individually D nits of up to 100 people) were among u haned. Access to Car Nicobar is highly p On the days we had asked everyone “

etables, which come from Port Blair. g (extended matrilineal family er b hich ensures that no child is or w stablishing the village councils and e xception. e tu-het

upply of basic groceries, including ve s 950s and 1960s. Blair and his 21mem 1 , ng, the latter a custom known as i n Anglican priest. He’s credited with a icobar has been the only recent N haruk

lindness, rarely seen in India since the b as the rst Nicobarese to be ordained w d here face frequent shortages in the e edding festivities and shared parent w

lindness B

ontagious and preventable cause of c he late Padma Bhushan awardee T ar and administrative personnel post b olved in funerary tasks as it does with v

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en called o in uncertain weather. t yperendemic and active infection of h y with a handful of crosses on cement r ohn Richardson, after whom the dis J treat it. treat

opters with few seats. Services were of c ar Nicobar following the discovery of a C death house’, next to a modest cemete ‘ rimage site that has the grave of Bishop g

ever seen trachoma, let alone let trachoma, seen ever

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tc. could be a contributory risk factor.” e cribed dosage of pharmaceuticals. s ess, and Environmental improvement) n he roar of the ocean is audible as a T

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nimals like pigs, hens, goats, dogs, cats a ion of a specied area with a pre t ime moves dierently on Car Nicobar. T ibiotics for infections, Facial cleanli t

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tates and Union Territories, among S

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ands. Their indigenous peers survive l ence Survey 201417 by Union Minister l

ribes of the Andaman and Nicobar Is t ease of the National Trachoma Preva l

nuential among the six betterknown i cials on January 11, 2018, after the re

011 Census), most urbanised, and most 2 ree’ status over a meeting with WHO of f

re the largest (numbering 27,186 in the a ndia moved to apply for ‘trachoma I

and and headquarters. The Nicobarese l .6%. 1

rict. Car Nicobar is its northernmost is t 017, trachoma prevalence was down to 2

icobar is India’s southernmost dis N icobar was again assessed in February N

ent the highlights of such a lifetime. m ince 1996. India is a partner. When Car s

raphs on the wall behind him docu g ion of Trachoma by 2020) alliance t

he laminated certicates and photo T ushing the GET 2020 (Global Elimina p

eans, too. Everything has changed.” j ast,” says the WHO, which has been E

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ivides Car Nicobar’s long and some d eanwhile, patients who had got their M

n December 26, 2004. Local memory o bove the 5% allowed by the WHO. a

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quawk around the dwellings that were s ctive trachoma infection in children a

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he student’s complaint was t edhanded while accepting r anese traders, students t n eort to “malign the judi a o an alleged lack of initiative t ependent probe into the d xtraordinary relief for the e rapped. “However, one died t

atare was registered after K lackmail. She was caught b rime destination for Bhu p parrotlying”. He pointed “ he Supreme Court for an in t dmission of the case is an a absolutely incorrect” and “ peration evacuated all those o

aid that a case against Mr. s gainst this woman for a s and other witnesses of e een Poonawala, has moved s nd Shadaan Farasat. The a nd Guwahati has been a a ions levelled by Mr. Dave t eclared missing. A search d

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on n Kupwara, north Kashmir, i ening to le a rape case t urrently lodged in Bhopal c ow. n hreejudge Bench led by t nd Justice and the Elec a ulate in Kolkata for years s is death,” Mr. Dave h

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irfare, free calls and so on,” a 2 crore demand led a complaint. urgery on a dead body? s udicial brethren if the court j hich allows for “unlimit w ings of Bhutan and medie k

rime location in the capital, p ead man?They did neuro d e a “great disservice” to the b oney from Mr. Katare, m he Finance Act, 2017, t ationship between the l

ncluding accommodation in i wn judiciary, saying it will o xamination. e ail for allegedly extorting j ritical care. All this for a c 018 and amendments in 2 istory refers to cordial re h

amenities nd a lot of a onsultancy, neurosurgery, c reme Court not to fail its p n court as well as medical i alism student, currently in n lectoral Bond Scheme E edes that with India, and c

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ditya Birla Group) Birla ditya A uchneeded priority. In m al dividend that can then be c Rathi, wholetime director. egment.” s ent of more women,” said m The Centre has made “ urrently has in West Asia. c

The writer is Chairman, is writer The ( ructure have also received t ediumtolong term — a s m quarter of 201819, said G.S. entrated in the MSME c ct to encourage employ A aid in his Budget speech. s ion to a minor presence it t

commissioned by the rst ocial and physical infras S ndia.” I ia’s taxtoGDP ratio in the d 0% of the industry is con 9 loyment Provident Fund p ance Minister Arun Jaitley n hutan and Nepal, in addi B

power plant would be arm households. f trong, condent and a new s odes well for improving In b ootwear industry as about f ertain amendments to Em c pportunities, Union Fi o s Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, a

oven plant and captive he sources of income for t ts key theme of building “a i ollout of the GST. This r enecial to the leather and b aunched in markets such l hese changes along with t reating new employment c

(301 crore). The rm’s coke

ural income and diversify r ow’s India and is aligned to r ng demonetisation and the i n FY17 will be immensely i he move is aimed at T hums Up would be T

revenue stood at 398 crore

usbandry will help boost h hrust on investing in tomor t as been happening follow h urnover of up to 250 crore t as 240 days. w aid. The company said s

period under review, SPL’s

ions for shery and animal s ues the government’s n sation of the economy that i ate tax to [rms] r he apparel sector. Earlier, it t having resident T Krishnakumar p

material costs. During the

erishable crops, new mis p verall, this Budget conti O allout of the greater formal f

ion of 25% reduced corpo s ry, as has been the case for t ia and SouthWest Asia d

a year earlier, on rising raw

or stabilising the prices of f alancing act. b ues. This appears to be a n

r Exports, said, “The exten e ootwear and leather indus f arch 2018,” CocaCola In M

to 39 crore from 40 crore

arkets, ‘Operation Green’ m een grandfathered is a ne b uoyancy in direct tax reve b hairman, Council for Leath c iod of employment in the r outh Asia, possibly by S

December 2017 declined 2%

he development of agro t apital gains so far have c he tax net and increased t anaruna Aqeel, vice P 50 days as the minimum pe 1 he Thums Up brand to t

for the third quarter ended

ther measures such as O s back, but the fact that the i ne was the widening of O nomaly has been set right.” a he new norms mandate T We are all set to take “

said its standalone net prot

y 2022. b ains tax for equity investors g uccesses on the scal front. s

o the textile sector and the t eriod of employment. p eiling it globally. v

(SPL) Srikalahasthi Pipes Ltd.

oubling farmers’ income d els. The longterm capital v here were two impressive t

his relaxation was available t the minimum osal to cut p p to South Asia before un U

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overnment’s agenda of g ure closer to the ASEAN le t alls in nontax revenues, f hants Association. “Earlier, c elcomed the Budget pro w ated cola brand Thums n falls as input costs rise

tep towards realising the s t brings our taxation struc i he government faced short t ide, Tanners and Mer H he leather industry has T homegrown carbo ake t Srikalahasti Pipes prot

ultivation will be a major c rises deserves applause, as p n the current year, while I

ent, All India Skin and d n Friday said it planned to o

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ucts at 1.5 times the cost of d mediumscale enter en to v Impressive successes’ Impressive ‘

afeeque M. Ahmed, presi R everage major CocaCola B

pecial Correspondent pecial S

Bank said in a BSE ling.

upport prices of agropro s elief in corporate tax rate gi r PTI

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programme of the bank,” Yes

orm mandates 150 days, a drop from the earlier 240 days 240 earlier the from drop a days, 150 mandates orm N ic eciencies. t imes. Pegging the minimum t n the taxation front, the O

ress Trust of India of Trust ress P

billion medium term note y and result in better logis t as been facing in recent h . ounced goalpost of 3% n

of $600 million under the $1 connectivi ill also improve w it ultural sector of the stress c rom the previously an f

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rule to spur jobs: leather sector leather jobs: spur to rule

aggregate principal amount

ets for roads and railways g ussed on relieving the agri c ecit target (3.3% of GDP) d

xed term notes for an

he economy. Enhanced tar t he Budget rightly fo T inor slippage in the FY19 m

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issuance and allotment of

iplier eect on the rest of t ome announcements. c ath — notwithstanding the p

Lower minimum employment minimum Lower board... approved the

rillion; this will have a mul t ected in several other wel s on a scally responsible i

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raising committee of the

y almost 20% to about 6 b riorities, which are also re p uggest that the government s

programme. “The capital

ructure has been bolstered t et and its peoplecentric g DP over the medium term G

medium term note

he allocation for infras T s the ambition of this Bud e eCnr’ debt to 40% of he Centre’s t

notes under its $1 billion

o revive. t ome ways, it also symbolis s he target of bringing down t

n Friday. o osts. EBITDA for copper bu c o segments as well as recy t or a onetime loss of 115.3 f via issuance of xed term

al expenditure cycle is yet t ight of this year’s Budget. In l overnment’s acceptance of g

itigating spiralling input m .94% to 249.4 on the BSE 2 arket leadership in can, au m r but for the rm providing e (approximately 3,830 crore)

ime when the private capi t the high are programme, is c hese successes and the T indalco’s shares fell H ovelis has maintained its N rot could have been high P etal prices and volumes, m raise $600 million

oost public investment at a b ernmentfunded health v ent programme. m eased. l emained the key drivers. r rore on the back of higher c ne-time loss ne-time O Bank on Friday said it would

ndustry and the need to i e the world’s largest go b itment to the disinvest m hat had historically been t ions and supportive macros t usiness rose 7% to 940 b Private sector lender Yes

ompetitiveness of Indian c his scheme, which will T ernment retains its com v ive macro factors. t BITDA for aluminium E ierre, Switzerland, plant S o be robust. Stable opera t EW DELHI EW N

mperative to improve the i ion up to 5 lakh. t hich signals that the go w mn via xed term notes uct realisation and suppor d 5% to 1,611 crore. 1 ets for €200 million at its s cross businesses continued a

Yes Bank to raise $600 llocations, considering the a nd tertiary care hospitalisa a he privatisation of Air India, t ies and manufacturing as t egulations. “Performance r igher copper sales, bypro h or the quarter improved f

ure sector deserves higher t opulation) for secondary p arget. The Budget mentions t cquire the operating facili a ourt judgement on mining C rore, consequent upon c he company’s EBITDA T

imilarly, the infrastruc S ies (almost 40% of India’s l eeded its already ambitious c Luxembourg S.A.R.L. .S. Novelis also agreed to U iness surged 28% to 421 s nd copper 5,701 crore. a rore following a Supreme c

Valeant Pharmaceuticals raphic dividend. g overing 10 crore poor fami c here the government ex w 5,323 crore to the revenues shing capacity in Kentucky, i

loaded in a bulk carrier for export.

a registered trademark of he full benets of the demo t ealth Protection Scheme, H n the disinvestment front, o estment in automotive n v luminium contributed A

Aluminium and sow ingots from Hindalco Weighty load:

generic version of Xenazine, re essential for us to realise a he form of the National t he second success was T he U.S. with $300 million in t nd byproduct realisation. a

therapeutic equivalent

ealth and education sector h nother mega initiative in a rastructure spends. f ts production footprint in i n macro factors, volumes o

approved by the USFDA, is a

reased allocations for c he government to launch t eployed in social and in d reased 11% to 11,023 crore c ounced its plans to expand n

Tetrabenazine tablets,

ave possibly emboldened h luminium producer in a ry Novelis had recently an a

disease, in the U.S. market.

xamples. These successes e

indalco’s overseas subsidi H evenues at India’s top R

associated with Huntington’s

an Dhan Yojana are some J

al prices. t .S. capacity .S. U

neurological condition

ransfer of benets and the t rore, driven by higher me c

of a treatment for chorea, a

for direct f Aadhar, its use o uarter net prot to 376 q statement. a

introduced a generic version

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Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories has

lic sector in earlier days. b ndia augurs well for Indian I indalco Industries report H

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idn’t associate with the pu d

emand across businesses in d umar Mangalam Birlaled K neurology drug in U.S.

f zeal and passion that one o

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ode — demonstrating a lot m ling operations. Going for c

pecial Correspondent Correspondent pecial S

rogrammes in mission p

ented some giantscale m ecovery of demand across businesses in India augurs well, says the company the says well, augurs India in businesses across demand of ecovery R

he government has imple t

n the last couple of years, I

on higher aluminium prices aluminium higher on

umar Mangalam Birla Mangalam umar K

Building tomorrow’s India tomorrow’s Building

Hindalco’s Q3 net rises 17.5% rises net Q3 Hindalco’s

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2002), Virat Kohli (2008) ( lash on Saturday. c arvik Desai, Shivam Mavi, H

Unmukt Chand.

shek Sharma, Riyan Parag, i ikes of Mohammad Kaif l 19 World Cup summit U

alra, Himanshu Rana, Abh K haw will be eager to join the S ut with Australia in the o

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ndia U19 I : Prithvi Shaw

he Indian team, led T ime. t

he teams (from) T : haw and Co. S rophy for a record fourth t

en,” he said. p as a message for Prithvi h istory of the event to lift the h

, anything can hap ontest c aptain Unmukt Chand c ecome the rst team in the b

rand nal is a dierent g orld Cupwinning W ustralian counterparts and A

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ustralian skipper Jason A ankings released on Friday. r wo most successful teams in t

quash Association (PSA) S to Prithvi & Co. Co. & Prithvi to ndia and Australia are the I he rst game,” Shaw said. t

he latest Professional t

ere on Saturday. h hey have lost against us in t

he highestranked Indian in t

he ICC Under19 World Cup, t enging for us even though l

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n Bhishma giving the Vishnu Sahasranama. Thus, the Sa i leave with psychic instinct

always a handful (8)

Close friend about to take 21 normal chaps (4,5)

a puts his questions to Bhishma. And these questions result r

Daisy's family member, female, 9

Minimum exposed, so be 1 nd is awaiting Uttarayana to give up his life. So, Yudhishthi a

supply (8) ells him to approach Bhishma who is on the bed of arrows t Put pressure on ma? (5) 20

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escribed through a conversation between two people. d impossible he is forgotten (6)

ts are n the form of the Bhagavad Gita. So here again even i

Foster home almost quiet (6) 25 Dashing ace Rishikesh sets, 19 switch in void (6)

o tells Dhritarashtra about Lord Krishna’s advice to Arjuna s

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support, name's Charlie (9)

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men getting tender (6)

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rinath 54.5, 8. Queen Credible S ot: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. p admakosa (2) T.S. Jodha 53.5. P 4 and 15. Diablo (5) Zervan 53.5. 5 aces. r 5, 7. Naamdhari (9) Sai Kiran 5 iva (9) Kuldeep 53.5, 9. Crimson D arius (12) Dashrath 50, 11. Safdar t

1) Zervan 56, 7. Cambridge (7) ( 7; Tanala: All races; Super jack & acgyver (6) Trevor 55 and 17. M hinoy 54, 14. Star Ace (7) Neeraj C ii): 3, 4 & 5; (iii): 6, 7 & 8; Tla: all ( 6, 6. Time To Climb (4) Akshay 5 peed (2) Rawal 53.5, 8. Casta S uroden (1) Zeeshan 50, 10. Sagit A

houhan 56.5, 6. Star Councillor C ackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7; Treble: 5, 6 J 5. Deccan King (9) Ayyar 55, 16. 1 hawani 55, 13. Cloudburst (11) B kt: 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8; Tr (i): 1, 2 & 3; J 8, 5. Vijay’s Harmony (6) Pawar 5 humi (8) Koushik 53.5, 7. Blazing B osta Brava (8) Trevor 52.5, 9. C

.S. Jodha 57, 5. Pugnacious (3) T omodo Dragon (13) Parbat 55.5, K erchant 55, 12. Gandalf (12) M . Shivalik Arrow (1) B.R. Kumar 4 armar 53.5, 6. Bhumi Bhumi P

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lower Dust (14) Joseph 55.5, 14. F andesh 57.5, 4. Remember Me (2) S odha 56, 11. Abu Al Bukhoosh (15) J . Golden Xanthus (10) Kunal 58, 3 4) Sai Kiran 55, 5. Air Salute (6) (

ouble: D 7, 6. Flying Dragon (6) T.S. Jodha 5 AMBRIDGE — CHERRY — AMBRIDGE C ouble: D

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revor 59, 3. Uncle Scrooge (5) T emian (16) Ajinkya 55.5, 13. h 6.5, 10. Dazzling Eyes (9) C.S. 5 ear Friend (11) C.P. Bopanna 59, D 3) Akshay 55, 4. Wings Of Eagles ( 7.5, 5. Samarjeet (9) C.S. Jodha 5 ay’s best: D

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f Fire (5) Chinoy 56, 12. Bo O han 60.5, 2. Summer Rays (12) K

7, 9. Spinning Gold (4) Dashrath 5 ayle Force (3) Tograllu 60, 2. G ange (5) Aneel 55, 3. Super Act R andesh 58.5, 4. Zanara (7) Allan S

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hea (4) Dashrath 56.5, 11. Dance T .15: 1. Carbonara (8) A. Imran 6

ash 57.5, 8. Artus (14) Chouhan Y ated 26 to 46 (Cat. III), 330: 1. r riend (7) Nakhat 55, 2. Long F mran Khan 60, 3. Auburn (4) I

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rinath 62, 2. Turning Point (11) A. S

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1, 13. Touch Of Gold (1) Rawal 5

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4, 12. Kohinoor Lucy (12) Tanwar 5

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eeraj 51.5. N ashrath 53.5, 11. Tally Ho (5) T.S. D

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4, 11. Rainbow Blues (6) Ajeeth 5 .S. Jodha 58, 5. Outstanding (7) C

han 59, 2. Finest Moment (2) A. s

an 53 and 8. Kanchenjunga (5) v hant 53.5, 10. Tenerife (1) c

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6.5, 10. Cannon Fury (14) Kunal 5 ray (17) S. Amit 58, 4. Dolphin (1) C

6, 4.15 p.m: 1. Nightfall (6) Zee 2

ashrath 53, 7. Truly Epic (4) Zer D eeraj 54, 9. Arc Shine (2) Mer N

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kshay 53.5, 8. Joy Of Giving (5) A armar 53.5 and 12. Soul Empress P

awning Hope (13) B.R. Kumar D teps (8) Chouhan 58, 3. Cray S

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uraj 55.5, 6. Retained Asset (7) S 11) Ayyar 59, 8. Lilac Time (7) ( rews (9) Zervan 50 and 9. Su d

armar 53.5, 7. Soaring Sensex (2) P triker (6) Ajit 53.5, 11. Smarty (8) S

7.5, 8. Tough Sussex (2) Ajit 57, 9. 5 lossom (3) Zeeshan 59, 2. Blazing B

INGFISHER ULTRA MAX MIL- MAX ULTRA INGFISHER K

houhan 57, 5. Adjudicate (6) C uest (4) S. Amit 59, 7. Untitled Q as (5) Chouhan 50, 8. St. An c hanker 54.5, 6. Shivalik Class (8) S 7) B.R. Kumar 53.5, 10. Red (

8) Rohit 58, 7. Brioni (4) Pawar ( l. V, rated 1 to 26, 6.45: 1. Cherry C

rt (8) Sandesh 57, 4. Pioneer (3) a 12) C.S. Jodha 59.5, 6. Knight’s (

efferson (2) Dashrath 51.5, 7. Lu J

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11) Deepak 60.5, 6. Trumph Boy ( (1,000m),

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ograllu 60.5, 4. Gem Star (7) T

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1,200m) Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, (

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1) Aneel 53.5. (

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opanna 54 and 10. George Cross B

rown (10) Rawal 53, 11. Sher B

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opal 54, 9. Wine N Dine (10) C.P. G

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6.5, 6. Champion Bull (5) Par 5 470 (37 tkts.); (ii): 87 (411 tkts.). 05, Trinella: 3,175 and 1,871, Ex 1 td rep. by. Mr. Zavaray S. Poon L , (1,400m), rated 30 to 50,

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o, (Terms): y (Mu OT N FIRE N OT H ero (3) Akshay 55.5, 7. Monte H

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HETTY NANJAMMA TMP CUP TMP NANJAMMA HETTY S (1,400m), 4 .W.I.T.C TROPHY .W.I.T.C R er Eye (8) Tograllu 58, 6. Royal d

ridge (4) Kiran Naidu 53, 8. B

7.5, 4. City Of Sails (2) Naresh 57, 5 ackpot: 2,530 (176 tkts.); Run J m, 14.66s. 24 (w), 13, 24 and 76 1 exicon. Owners: Mr. P.J. Vazifdar, L

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rn Express (7) Aneel 59, 5. Won e

achine (1) Akshay 53.5, 7. Wood M . Rego. Trainer: Prasanna. J

lusive Striker (3) Kiran Naidu c oldenera. 21/4, 11/4 and 11/2. g ,433 and 1,622. Favourite: My 3

or Rank (2) Ajeeth 59, 4. West F

aajneeti (9) Tanwar 54, 6. Mean R r. K. Manoj Kumar & Mr. Derrick M

rainer: Mr. Dheeraj. t

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avender (1) Nakhat 60, 3. Cash L

. Own Battle (8) Dileep 55, 5. 4 avourite: Internal Affair. Owners: F

ourite: Del Porto. Owner and v

eritocracy (6) Akshay 60, 2. M Rajesh K) 3 and Perfect King ( HP: 26, THP: 38, FP: 194, Q: 77, S

autam Aggarwal. Trainer: M.R. G

ston Doulton (9) Kunal 60, 2. A

ood Opinion (7) Tograllu 56.5, G ,442, Exacta: 77,411 and 33,176. 5

11, Exacta: 4,016 and 1,506. Fa 7

ated 42 to 62 (Cat. II), 400: 1. r tar Line (Dhebe) 2, Island Pearl S 3.82s. 40 (w), 13, 12 and 15 (p), 1

wners: Mr. Rajan Aggarwal & Mr. O

ated 26 to 46 (Cat. III), 230: 1. r

ord Gift (5) B.R. Kumar 58, 3. L

P: 100, Q: 71, Trinella: 2,381 and F

P: 126, Q: 58, Trinella: 1,470 and F over: & 4

(1,400m), 4yo & over,

(Chisty) 1, egal Force. 1/2, 51/4 and 3/4. 1m, R UP C EYOND REACH EYOND B

nd 3,384. Favourite: Erdemir. a

), (1,400m), 5yo & over, I

.m.: 1. Apowerx (—) (—) 60, 2. p

5 and 170 (p), SHP: 42, THP: 328, 1

2, 17 and 35 (p), SHP: 49, THP: 91, 1 1,200m), rated 15 to 35, 5yo (

nd Kartoos (Chisty) 4. Not run: a HAVAN KUMAR MEMORIAL KUMAR HAVAN S

rinella: 120 and 43, Exacta: 4,422 T

(Div. UNNY BLOSSOM PLATE BLOSSOM UNNY S

ated 26 to 46 (Cat. III), 1255 r

nd Nose. 1m, 39.33s. 58 (w), 19, a

, 1/2 and 3/4. 1m, 39.13s. 23 (w), 8 RISHNA RAJA SAGAR PLATE SAGAR RAJA RISHNA K

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HP: 54, THP: 52, FP: 57, Q: 56, S

Div. I), (1,200m), 4yo & over, (

enPr Jagadeesh) 4. 71/2, 2 cean Park ( O

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(Allan) 1, Subah Ka ADOR DALI DALI ADOR V

6.42s. 15 (w), 10, 20 and 14 (p), 2

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AL- S

ancing. 21/4, 21/4 and 21/4. 1m, D

jith Vittal Shetty. Trainer: A

Chisty) 1, Nyssa (Arshad) 2, (

5 5 7 9 3 1 #4

all (7) Naresh 52.5. f 3. Ursula (1) Deepak 53.5. 1

xtremelydangerous (Rayan) 3 E e held here on Saturday (Feb. 3). b

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ot run: Lunar Storm and Happy N

ourite: Pearl City. Owner: Mr. v

ated 00 to 20: r

ORYBANTIC C

5) Parmar 52.5 and 11. My Wind ( eights (10) Kiran Naidu 53.5 and H

ings Of Fortune (Kiran Rai) 2, W he feature event of the races to t

ARNATAKA RACEHORSE OWN- RACEHORSE ARNATAKA K

Vivek) and Blue Blazer (Akram) 4. (

91, Exacta: 4,507 and 1,622. Fa 2 (1,600m), EBBE FALLS PLATE FALLS EBBE H

aidu 54, 10. Mountain Of Light N abe (11) Tanwar 53.5, 12. Solar B over: &

(Chisty) 1, umar Memorial Cup (1,400m), K EL PORTO EL D

inon (Chetan) 2, Raw Gold N

P: 254, Q: 135, Trinella: 915 and F

harat. S

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it 54.5, 9. Princess (8) Kiran h triker (12) Ajit 53.5, 11. Silver S 1,600m), rated 15 to 35, 6yo (

ith a good chance in the Shavan w

yo & over: 5

(Srinath) 1,

RDEMIR E

2 and 18 (p), SHP: 63, THP: 45, 2

wner: Mr. R.D. Singh. Trainer: O

r. M. Rishad and trained by M

4.5, 8. Southern Minstrel (2) Ro 5 ire (—) (—) 53.5, 10. Escalating F

HRAVANABELAGOLA PLATE HRAVANABELAGOLA S

Meritocracy runs YDERABAD: YDERABAD: H

, (1,400m), rated 30 to 50, DIV. II) DIV. (

and Shd. 1m, 25.60s. 25 (w), 12, 1

,833. Favourite: Campari Girl. 6

Mrs. Behroze Z. Poonawalla & & 8

HETTY NANJAMMA TMP CUP TMP NANJAMMA HETTY S

and Mickey Mouse (Srinath) 4. 2, 3

rainer: Arjun. T nd 2,059, Exacta: 11,388 and a

ep by. Mr. Zavaray S. Poonawalla r a good chance chance good a

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inyada. Owner: Mr. S. Pathy. P P: 316, Q: 170, Trinella: 4,804 F

walla Racing & Breeding Pvt Ltd a

(Suraj) 1, El Fenix

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1,400m), rated 60 & above: (

3, THP: 27, FP: 93, Q: 44, 3 arsha G.S. Trainer: Prasanna. h nd 23/4. 1m, 26.63s. 38 (w), 15, a

n Friday (Feb. 2). The winner is o

.K. IRANI MEMORIAL TROPHY MEMORIAL IRANI .K. F

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Meritocracy runs with with runs Meritocracy

Dhebe) 4. 2, Lnk and 43/4. 1m, ( rs. Namitha Jagtap, Mr. B.R. M admanabhan. P

ames Bond (Patel) 3 and Back Of J wners’ Association Million, the O

ourite: Beyond Reach. Owners: v tar (Chisty) 3 and Turf Magic S walla & Mr. M. Rishad. Trainer: a iran) 1, Reference (Irvan) 2, K

p) won the Karnataka Racehorse u

cta: 2,13,764 (carried over). Fa a assar) 1, Pinyada (Suraj) 2, Turf d walla & Mrs. Behroze Z. Poon a yo & over: 5 (Sai Salvador Dali (Allan UMMER DAWN UMMER S ENGALURU: B

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Double for Top10 nish for Paes and Ravi Kumar Nisar, Avantika are fastest Salisbury Sports Bureau Abhijeet and Debashis The Hague Shahu Mane equals National record in youth category 10m air rie prevail Ravi Kumar shot backto Aronian claims title after playo (1.65m). Shooting: 10m air ri SPORTS BUREAU back golds in men’s air ri KHELO INDIA e: Boys: 1. Shahu Mane Sports Bureau derico Perez (Arg, 6); Nihal Sa DALLAS e, with high qualication (247.7); 2. Rithik Ramesh GIBRALTAR rin (6.5) drew with Rasmus UTHRA GANESAN Leander Paes and Joe Salis scores, in the Intershoot in (245.6); 3. Parth Makhija Svane (Ger, 6.5); Debashis Das NEW DELHI Abhijeet Gupta and Debash ternational shooting cham (225.0). Girls: 1. Zeena Khitta (7) bt Sandipan Chanda (6); Pa bury of Britain won anoth is Das gatecrashed into the pionship in here on Friday. Delhi sprinter Nisar Ahmed (251.6); 2. Nandita Sul (249.3); vel Tregubov (Rus, 6.5) drew er thriller, beating Ruben top10 bracket before top Ravi Kumar comfortably justied his decision to post 3. Yana Rathore (227.2). with Swapnil Dhopade (6.5); Gonzales of Philippines seed Levon Aronian won beat Dean Bale of Britain pone a training trip to Jamai Swimming: 200m freestyle: S.L. Narayanan (7) bt Valentina and Huner Reese of the Un the title following a four by 1.6 points after having ca, becoming the fastest run Boys: 1. Neel Roy (1:57.73); 2. Gunina (Rus, 6); Mariya Muzy ited States 63, 26, [1715] player playo in the Trade qualied with 631.2. Ravi ner at the Khelo India School M. Vasuram (2:01.01); 3. Veer chuk (Ukr, 5.5) lost to P. Hari in the quarternals of the Khatkar (2:01.72). Girls: 1. wise Gibraltar Masters chess Krishna (6.5); Marin Bosiocic had won the rst match on Games on Friday with a $125,000 Challenger tennis Thursday, beating compa Khushi Dinesh (2:12.00); 2. An tournament here on (Cro, 6.5) bt Shardul Gagare tournament here on 10.76s nish in the 100m. nie Jain (2:12.76); 3. Aastha (5.5); Benjamin Gledura (Hun, triot Pratik Borse by 0.4 Thursday. Thursday. Nisar, in fact, completed Choudhary (2:18.20). 6.5) bt R. Praggnanandhaa points. In the 10th and nal The results: in 10.77s even as the recall 50m buttery: Boys: 1. D. round, Abhijeet drew with (5.5); G.N. Gopal (6.5) bt Go “I am happy with the whistle went o, only to be Adithya (26.21s); 2. M. Arjun mez Julio Suarez (Esp, 5.5); $125,000 Challenger men, ninth seed JanKrzysztof Du Dallas, USA: Doubles (quar consistent scores and the told that the actual race (26.64s); 3. Neel Roy (26.67s). Sergey Grigoriants (Rus, 5.5) da (Poland) while Debashis ternals): Joe Salisbury (GBr) way I fought in both the would be run after 20 Girls: 1. Kenisha Gupta (29.27s); lost to Prasanna Rao (6.5); signed o his unbeaten Alexandra Kostenuik (Rus, 5.5) & Leander Paes bt Ruben nals,” said Ravi, when con minutes. Crackshots: Zeena Khitta, winner of the girls’ 10m air rie 2. Suvana C. Baskar (30.09s); 3. tacted by The Hindu. Dolphi Sarang (30.86s). campaign with an impres lost to M.R. Venkatesh (6.5); Gonzales (Phi) & Hunter gold, is anked by silver medallist Nandita Sul, left, and Reese (USA) 63, 26, [1715]; The results: 10m air rie: Avantika Narale of Maha 100m breaststroke: 1. Maibam sive victory over compatriot Grigory Kaidanov (USA, 6.5) bt bronze medallist Yana Rathore. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Christopher Rungkat (Ina) & Men2: 1. Ravi Kumar 250.7 rashtra was the fastest girl, Mangalsana Meitei (1:08.04); Sandipan Chanda. Abhijeet Mohammad Nubairshah Shaikh Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt (631.2); 2. Dean Bale (GBr) winning the 100m in 12.35s. tra Teresa Martin (12.61s). kash (14.30); 3. G Nishanthraja 2. P.J. Jagan Nathan (1:09.27); and Debashis nished at se (5.5); Prithu Gupta (5.5) lost to 800m: Boys: 1. Anu Kumar (14.57s). Girls: 1. Aparna Roy Luke Bambridge (GBr) & De 249.1 (620.8); 3. Deepak Ku In shooting, Shahu Mane 3. Tanish Kaswan Nayaasar ven points and occupied the M.R. Lalith Babu. (1:52.08); 2. N. Sree Kiran (14.02s); 2. PM Tabitha nis Kudla (USA) 63, 36, mar 227.0 (629.3). (1:10.43). Girls: 1. Saloni Dalal ninth and 10th spots. Final standings (after tie shot 247.7 to equal the Na (1:54.13); 3. Vaseem Tomar (14.36s); 3. Pratibha Kumari [104]. Men1: 1. Ravi Kumar 247.9 (1:18.00); 2. Aaliyah Singh break games): 1. Levon Aro tional record in the youth ca (1:55.78). Girls: 1. Tai Bamhane (14.54s). Following a sevenway tie (629.5); 2. Pratik Borse 247.5 (1:18.18); 3. Sharon Shaju nian (Arm), 2. Maxime Vachier $15,000 ITF men, Sharm El tegory and take the gold in (2:13.37); 2. Priscilla Daniel for the title at 7.5 points, the (620.4); 3. Kari Olsson (Swe) Discus: Boys: 1. Ikram Ali Khan (1:18.33). Lagrave (Fra), 34. Hikaru Na Sheikh, Egypt: Prequarter 10m air rie. Among the (2:13.91); 3. A.S. Sandra top four players were in 226.8 (620.1). (51.39m); 2. Dhanvir Singh 400m individual medley: 1. kamura (USA) Richard Rapport nals: Pedro Martinez (Esp) bt girls, Chandigarh's Zeena (2:15.92). volved in a knockout tie Junior men: 1. Tanish Galho (50.64m); 3. Nagendra Annap Advait Page (4:36.73); 2. Swa (Hun). Haadin Bava 60, 61; First 3000m: Boys: 1. Vishal Makwa tra 244.2 (606.4); 2. Howard Khitta took gold ahead of pa Naik (50.01m). Girls: 1. Pooja desh Mondal (4:51.22); 3. breaker. Eventually, Aro Leading Indians’ standings: 9 round: Haadin Bava bt Louis na (8:48.79); 2. Sandeep Kumar Tijerina (Mex) 243.0 (608.5); Nandita Sul and Yana Rath (41.01m); 2. A. Jenci Susan Aaryan Bhosale (4:52.69). nian beat second seed Max 10. Abhijeet Gupta, Debashis Chaix (Fra) 64, 62; Jannik (8:49.52); 3. Siddharth Phor 3. William Gryden (Swe) 223.4 ore. (40.43m); 3. Nitika Verma Girls: 1. Firdoush Kayamkhani ime VachierLagrave in the Das; 16. S.P. Sethuraman, 23. Sinner (Ita) bt Aryan Goveas (8:53.53). Girls: 1. Seema (616.5). The results: Athletics: 100m: (39.27m). High jump: 1. Shah (5:21.33); 2. Shrungi R. Bande nal. S.L. Narayanan (7 each); 33. 64, 64. (10:15.15); 2. Antima Pal 10m air pistol: Men: 1. Felipe Boys: 1. Nisar Ahmed (10.76s); nawaz Khan (2.01m); 2. Man kar (5:34.14); 3. G. Saachi Important 10th round results M.R. Venkatesh, 36. M.R. La Doubles (quarternals): Haa (10:18.19); 3. Kajal Shamu Wu (Bra) 242.2 (576); 2. To 2. Shashikanth VA (10.90s); 3. deep Nain (1.98m); 3. Suraj Ku (5:36.49). (involving Indians): Abhijeet lith Babu, 39. P. Hari Krishna, din Bava & Aryan Goveas bt (10:22.56). moyuki Matsuda (Jpn) 239.8 Govind Kumar (10.95s). Girls: 1. mar (1.90m). Girls: 1. Rubina 4x100m freestyle: Girls: 1. Del Gupta (7) drew with Jan 42. Swapnil Dhopade, 4446. Vladislav Manafov (Ukr) & Is 110m hurdles: Boys: 1. Punga (578); 3. Gaurav Tomar 219.4 Avantika Narale (12.35s); 2. R. Yadav (1.76m); 2. Gayathry Siva hi (4:12.24); 2. Karnataka Krzysztof Duda (Pol, 7); S.P. Prasanna Rao, G.N. Gopal and sam Haitham Taweel (Egy) 7 Soren (14.12s); 2. Aditya Pra (578). Giridharani (12.49s); 3. M. San Kumar (1.65m); 3. S.B. Supriya (4:18.70); 3. Haryana (4:21.51). Sethuraman (7) bt Ponsa Fe Nihal Sarin (6.5 each). 6(3), 61. Martono takes pole MRF CHALLENGE

S. Dipak Ragav Chennai Indonesian driver Presley Martono got his second pole position of the MRF Chal lenge 2017 season at the Ma dras Motor Race Track (MMRT) on Friday. Martono came very close to beating the 1min 30 mark, but just felt short and will start alongside championship Cruise mode: Presley Martono stormed to his second pole of leader Felipe Drugovich for the season. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT the rst race of the weekend. Drugovich was the rst to and Danial Frost locking out tion among saloon cars as set a competitive time before row three. the rst round of the MRF Pavan Ravishankar and Felipe Drugovich, who MMSC Fmsci Indian Nation Louis Gachot both went fas took can take the champion al Racing Championship ter. Rinus van Kalmthout ship if he wins the rst race, commenced. then set a 1:30.628 only for said, “I am happy to be start The results (qualifying – top Martono to go even quicker ing on the front row but dis 3): MRF Challenge: 1. Presley seconds later. The Indone appointed not to be on pole. Martono (Indonesia) (01min, sian driver went even faster We tried to nd the right ba 30.017secs); 2. Felipe Drugov with a 1:30.017 to conrm lance but we are not there ich (Brazil) (01:30.377); 3. Ri yet. Our race pace is good so nus van Kalmthout (Nether his pole position. Drugovich lands) (01:30.468). could only manage a looking to get a good start Saloon cars: 1. Ashish Ramas and will take it from there.” 1:30.377 to take second wamy (Arka Motor Sports) position. Meanwhile, Bengaluru’s (01:53.520); 2. V. Nikanth Ram Van Kalmthout and Julien Ashish Ramaswamy of Arka (Arka Motor Sports) Falchero will start on the se Motor Sports team set the (01:55.816); 3. B. Vijay Kumar cond row with Ravishankar benchmark taking pole posi (Prime Racing) (01:56.741).

Churchill snaps Minerva’s winning run

Press Trust of India Vasco ILeague table topper Mi nerva Punjab’s unbeaten vematch run came to an end when Churchill Broth ers beat it 21 in a closely contested match here on Friday. Churchill scored through Mechac Ko (16th minute) and Wayne Vaz (45th), while Kassim Aidara reduced the margin for the visitor in the 57th minute. Despite the loss, Miner va remains on top with 26 points from 12 matches, while Churchill is in se venth place with 13 points from 11 matches.

Keshavan, Jagdish for Winter Games Press Trust of India New Delhi Luger Shiva Keshavan and cross country skier Jagdish Singh will represent India in the PyeongChang Win ter Olympics which begins on Feb. 9. The 36yearold Kesha van will be taking part in his sixth Games since his debut at Nagano in Japan in 1998. He represented the country in the 2002, 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. Jagdish Singh will be re presenting India in his rst ever Winter Olympics. CM YK

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