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Also, measures are type attack on the security for- government officials, cyber trict authorities to impose sec- being taken to help residents ces’ convoy or their establish- offensives and the like to gath- tion 144 of CrPc on Sunday. celebrate Eid with traditional ments as Pakistani intelligence er intelligence on scientific Deputy Commissioner, fervour. Despite, taking sever- operatives have stepped up es- developments in space and Srinagar, Dr Shahid Iqbal al measures, the local authori- pionage efforts to extract infor- missile technology, defence Choudhary, told The Pioneer ties have so far failed to contain mation on troop deployment, exercises and simulation facil- that strict restrictions were public anger over poor han- especially the CRPF, and their ities among others. imposed following attempts dling of the situation and movement from different parts The thrust areas for being made by the local resi- forced suspension of network of the country to the Valley. Pakistan-directed espionage dents to assemble in downtown services. Agencies here have alerted include activities of the Indian areas of Srinagar. In Jammu region, Mendhar the paramilitary forces to sen- armed forces and the paramil- He said, “We are keeping a tehsil of Poonch, late Saturday sitise officials connected with itary forces and their deploy- close watch on the ground sit- night, witnessed some tension the troop movement not to ment and movement patterns uation in Srinagar to ensure after vehicles belonging to reveal any information sought besides assessing their future peaceful Eid celebrations on members of the Hindu com- through unauthorized or unse- requirement, procurement of Monday.” munity were allegedly torched cured communication lines. military hardware, ascertaining However, it was not clear by ‘unidentified’ miscreants. Pakistani operatives are the organisational set up, com- whether the authorities will Additional forces, including known to make pseudony- munication network, location allow worshippers to offer jawans of Rapid Action Forces                   mous calls posing as officials of of cantonments, air and naval prayers across all the religious (RAF), have been deployed in army/air force or police to bases, rail movement of army places or put restrictions in the area to contain the public seek information on the and paramilitary units, annu- sensitive areas to prevent large anger. The local residents also “Vehicles with registration administration in Jammu clamp down on network ser- security personnel to get the deployment and logistics of the al exercise programmes of number of people from assem- demanded setting up of secu- number JK02A 07085 and remained busy in making vices in the region. firsthand appraisal of the paramilitary forces. army including simulation bling in places. rity picket to instil confidence JK12A 2608 were set on fire preparations for the Eid cele- District Magistrate ground situation. Last year, the security agen- exercises and war games. On Friday, large number among the members of the using petrol.” brations. Elaborate security Kishtwar Angrez Singh Rana The situation in Kargil cies had issued a detailed advi- Their emphasis is also on of local residents had created minority community. The fire brigade teams and arrangements were made in on Sunday eased the curfew in remained peaceful on Sunday sory to the stakeholders to gathering telephone directory a piquant situation for security Local residents in the area local residents jointly brought vulnerable pockets to ensure no the district from 8 am till fur- with shops and other business remain alert to Pakistani espi- of defence and paramilitary forces as they assembled in told reporters in Mendhar early the fire under control. The local untoward incident takes place ther orders, however, night establishments functioning onage tactics by keeping a units, especially of those Soura and indulged in anti- Sunday morning that we were residents alleged it may be the on the occasion of Eid. curfew shall continue to remain normally and people in large watch on the visa violators, deployed along the Indo-Pak sloganeering over the woken up at 2.00 am due to loud handiwork of section of local The district authorities in from 9 pm to 4 am. number thronging the Main tracing Pak nationals with valid border. issue of revocation of Article sounds of blast. “When we residents, associated with the Rajouri, Poonch, Doda, Director General of Police Bazar Kargil and other markets visas and missing Pak nation- The ISI officials posing as 370 and 35-A besides splitting rushed out of our homes we saw separatists from Kashmir Valley, Kishtwar and Ramban are J&K (DGP) Dilbag Singh vis- in the town for shopping in als besides tracking visiting army, air force and police offi- the State in to two Union vehicles, including coach bus, to trigger tension in the area. expected to ease restrictions on ited Kishtwar and took review view of Eid celebrations. business delegations from cers call the CRPF control roo- Territories. tipper and four wheelers, on fire. In Jammu, Eid celebra- Monday morning to allow wor- of the overall security, law and Normal traffic movement across the border and ms to seek information on Meanwhile, the district One of the bus tyre had blasted tions were marred by palpable shippers to offer Eid prayers order scenario in the district. was witnessed with public fortifying counter intelligence various aspects of troops move- administration in Srinagar after it caught fire,” they said. tension in the region. and soak themselves in festiv- During his visit, the DGP transport and private vehicles apparatus around sensitive ment and deployment, officials chipped in with setting up A senior resident said, On its part, the district ities amid ‘unprecedented’ interacted with public and plying on the roads. defence and scientific research said.     "   #!  $        O               %    

              !     n employee of the Delhi      AMetro Rail Corporation he death toll in Kerala (DMRC) working as a main- Tfloods and massive land- omato employees in tainer in the electric wing, slides mounted to 60 even as ZKolkata on Sunday refused allegedly committed suicide on rain abated on Sunday after to deliver food containing Sunday by hanging himself at pounding the State for days, either beef or pork and said his rented apartment situated in while the situation remained they planned to go on an indef- East Delhi’s Shahdara area and grim in , Mah- inite strike. Employees of the streamed it live on Facebook. arashtra and Gujarat where 97 web- and app-based food deliv- The victim has been identi- people have lost their lives so ery app took to the streets of fied as Shubhankar Chakraborty far due to the monsoon fury. the West Bengal Capital shout- (27), a native of West Bengal’s Union Home Minister Amit ing “Zomato ki dadagiri nahi North 24 Parganas district. The Shah undertook an aerial sur- chalegi (Zomato’s bullying is Facebook live stream that went vey of the flood-affected areas unacceptable)”. viral on social media sites of Karnataka and Maharashtra. The striking employees showed the 27-year-old wearing with a plastic wire around his another friend Rajender Ojha In Kerala, over 2.27 lakh have explained that Hindu the uniform of DMRC and neck. about the incident before reach- people have taken shelter in agents had declared themselves climbing atop a water cooler. He The incident took place ing the suicide spot. When the 1,551 relief camps. Chief uncomfortable handling food looked into the camera a couple on early morning between 8 am two reached the victim’s house, Minister Pinarayi Vijayan with beef, while Muslim riders of times, kissed his company to 8.30 am on Sunday, after the room was found to be shut reviewed the flood situation said they did not want to deliv- identity card twice before ending which Suryakant Das, a friend from inside and when he with senior officials on Sunday                 er food containing pork. his life. Chakraborty has post- of Chakraborty, alerted the peeped into it through a win- and later told reporters that the “The company is not lis- ed on his Facebook timeline, “I nearby Farsh Bazar police sta- dow, he noticed that toll in rain-related incidents safer places, officials said. The Meteorological Department at Kottakal in Nilambur, tening to our demands and quit” and he had also put a pic- tion at around 9.05 am about Shubhankar was hanging, read since August 8 has touched 60. unprecedented deluge since has issued a red alert for Mambad, Edavannappara and forcing us to deliver beef and ture with a cigarette with cap- the incident, said the police. “In the statement. All rivers are in spate in last week has left 31 people Kannur, Kasaragod and attend a review meeting at the pork against our will. tion, “one last time”. He was his police statement, Das said As per the police informa- Karnataka where the UNESCO dead and displaced four lakh Wayanad in view of heavy rain Malappuram collectorate. have a problem is delivering married and according to infor- his friend Akash informed him tion, Chakraborty had a fight world heritage site in Hampi, people in 80 talukas of 17 dis- forecast. Vadakara in Kozhikode beef while Muslims do not mation, his wife and parents live around 8 am that he had seen with his father who visited him on the banks of the tricts in Karnataka. Congress leader Rahul district of Kerala recorded 21 want to deliver pork. at their native place. a live video of Shubhankar in two days ago. However, the Tungabhadra river in Ballari Flight operations at the Gandhi arrived on a two-day cm of rainfall, the highest in the We are not ready to deliv- However, the Delhi Police which he was seen hanging hi- police are working to find out district, has been inundated Kochi international airport visit to Kerala in the afternoon State as of 8.30 am on Sunday, er such things on any condi- said no suicide note was found mself from the ceiling fan hook the reason behind the suicide to after over 1.70 lakh cusec water resumed on Sunday afternoon. and visited his con- followed by Kodungallur in tion. We are forced to deliver at the site of the incident and of the room,” said the police ascertain if he took the extreme was released from a reservoir The airport was shut for two stituency Wayanad, which is Thrissur (19.9 cm) and Perin- such things,” Mausin Akhtar, an the victim was found hanging official. step due to the fight or any on Sunday morning. Tourists in days due to inundation of the among the badly affected. He thalmanna in Malappuram employee, told news agency from a hook in the ceiling Das further informed other reason. Hampi have been shifted to runway area. The India is expected to visit relief camps (13.8 cm). ANI.

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    !                         !      "         !          "         ne of the most dreaded yet ing the summer season. The Jal water across the hospitality on paper. Orapidly approaching dis- Sansthan officials have admit- industry on the one hand and The most common con- asters confronted by the con- ted to the acute water scarcity scores of people struggling to straints people complain about temporary world is a global in many localities and slums meet their daily requirements, when it comes to applying rain shortage of fresh water. within and in immediate out- on the other. water harvesting are the diffi- Although almost all the coun- skirts of Dehradun. In this backdrop, the need culties in installing rain har- tries are being affected by the Distraught residents fre- of the hour remains not just a vesting apparatus, the poor scarcity of usable water since quently complain of having to patchwork solution, but a sys- quality of most of the appara- the last decade, it is certainly walk for kilometres on a rou- tematic and sustainable solu- tus which is available and the the economically backward or tine basis to fetch buckets of tion to the burgeoning water costs involved in its mainte- the developing ones which water from neighborhood crisis. nance. Few people even seem have been impacted the most. water tanks, hand pumps and Besides inculcating aware- concerned about the contam- According to the estimates other sources. ness on water conservation at inated nature of rain water, due provided by the World In the last five years, the net the household level, what is to the high levels of air pollu- Economic Forum, the demand amount of annual rainfall has really a long term solution is tion. However in such cases for drinking water will double also reduced. The primary rea- rain water harvesting. rain water can always be puri- in the next five years, while the son for this is the large scale Technically the process means fied for human use. Even where supply will shrink down by a deforestation that has taken an accumulation and storage of the apparatus can not be afford- considerable margin. place as more residential pro- rainwater for on-site reusing by ed, given economic and main- Due to its unrestricted spi- jects have been coming up. The not letting it flow away and get tenance constraints, then sim- ralling population growth, chronic drying of rivers and wasted. In cities it can be done ple collection tanks, funnels India stands in a particularly lakes has made a huge impact easily by collecting rainwater and pipes can be used for stor- precarious position with on the ground water resources on the roof tops, paved and ing and utilising rain water. regards to the water availabil- as well. unpaved areas of houses, apart- Whenever there is an ity situation. Between 2017 Even the water bodies ment complexes, commercial ample monsoon downpour, we and 2019, many cities in the which are still functional are buildings, an open ground, have the opportunity of storing country have witnessed dis- becoming polluted rapidly, park and office building. the excess rain water and crepancies in water availabili- with litter and sewage water The ambitious Jawaharlal diverting it for better uses. ty as compared to past years. contaminating them. The only Nehru National Urban Right from schools to work- Particularly in cities like option, for many residents to Renewal Mission (JNNURM) places, a proper training in har- Shimla, Chennai and source fresh water for daily use launched by the Government vesting the rain water has to be Bengaluru, several residential remains water tankers. They in 2005, which revolves around provided to people. All con- localities have been experi- are being forced to take water a host of urban development temporary houses must have encing interruptions in regular from private tankers at exorbi- initiatives, had made distinct rooftop, balcony and gardens supply of water for weeks alto- tant prices. guidelines for rain water har- the runoff water and reduce soil ging in low lying regions can be soon rainfall is above the direct clean rain water into equipped with water collection gether. The water tankers which vesting. Similarly recommen- erosion. solved if the water is collected national average, the excess buckets directly. apparatus. Even in Uttarakhand’s pro- are owned by Jal Sansthan and dations on it have been envis- This can be used for irri- safely. rain water can be stored and Despite the benefits of the By relying on nature visional state capital Dehradun, municipal corporation of the aged in the Smart City Mission gating crops even when there Although Tamil Nadu used to replenish the ground technique, rain water harvest- friendly approaches, we can not disproportionate rise in the city are far deficit in number to of 2015. is deficient rainfall. Summer became the first Indian State water. ing is still a less commonly only protect our slowly eroding population and decline in cyclic meet the growing demands of The benefits of rain water water scarcity being experi- where rain water harvesting has It can also be shared by practiced method in ecology but also replenish it rainfall are the two dominating people and their supply is harvesting are several. In an enced annually in Dehradun become mandatory, in several neighbouring states, wherever Dehradun. The Mussoorie further. In a nut shell only factors which have contributed highly skewed. On several ecologically sensitive state like and surrounding towns can be other States like Rajasthan, the water is scarce. Given that Dehradun Development falling upon nature and not to shortage of water, especial- occasions the residents have Uttarakhand, where farmers mitigated as harvested rain Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh when it comes to food cultiva- Authority (MDDA) rule man- running against it, can help in ly during the summer months. also complained about the con- in the mountain villages rou- water is potable, cheap and reli- and others the Government has tion and drinking, the quality dates having rain water struc- restoring the nature and creat- What compounds the taminated and toxic water they tinely grapple with soil erosion able. It can be stored for drink- assured a 50 per cent assistance of water is equally important as tures for all buildings with an ing a greener world around us. problem is the hike in the vol- have ended up receiving form and flash floods, rain water har- ing, washing and gardening. for installing rain harvesting quantity, more sophisticated area of 125 square metres or ume of floating population the tankers. The situation is vesting can benefit a lot because Dehradun being a valley ter- equipment. equipment have been devel- more. However despite that (The author is a retired civil due to high tourist influx dur- grim with a prodigal overuse of it can enable the farmers to save rain, the problems of water log- In cities where the mon- oped like rain saucers, which this is only widely practiced servant)     !) ' *+ '   

                 ! "   t was a sight to see thou- #$ %   Isands of electric lamps light-      ed at the banks of Ganga at &   Har Ki Paidi and earthen    '      from National Botanical lamps being floated on the #     Research Institute, Lucknow waves of Ganga. Amidst devo-   ' & two-day national confer- and Ranvir Singh from GB tional chants, fireworks and    Aence on recent innova- Pant Institute of Technology colorful Holi, Multan Jyot tions in emerging technology were the special guests on the Mahotsav was celebrated at     and science concluded at the occasion. Har Ki Paidi on Sunday. ( ) '#* + & JB Institute of Technology Speaking on the occasion, The festival saw congregation  here. Rawat elaborated on the sta- of thousands of devotees On the concluding day of tus of research in India and its from Delhi, Sonipat, Karnal, the conference, subject experts status abroad. He suggested Panipat and nearby regions Chand of Multan region had Rajiv Trehan from NIT that researchers should also who come every year to offer walked on foot all the way Jalandhar, Vinay Kumar Patel get their research work pub- prayers and earthen lamps in from present day Pakistan from GEPIC Pauri and lished in reputed publica- Ganga. Even the locals played with a message of universal Mahesh Patel from NIT tions. Dudh ki Holi with the people brotherhood to Haridwar and Jalandhar informed the gath- The institute chairman of Multan coming all the way offered a Jyot (lamp) to Ganga ering about their research LD Singhal thanked the invit- from Pakistan. river. Later on this took the works. ed guests presenting them a The festival was celebrat- form of festival and every Earlier, the Sri Dev Suman Tulsi plant and a shawl. He ed with full gaiety and reli- year people of Multan who are Uttarakhand University vice expressed confidence that the gious fervour. After offering Pioneer, president of Akhil nities of India. People offer ical leaders participating in the and a dupli- settled in India come to chancellor US Rawat formal- knowledge shared during the milk to Ganga at Har Ki Paidi, Bharatiya Yuva Multan Jyot small lamps in Ganga river celebrations. Television actor cate of Baba Ramdev were the Haridwar to mark this fest. ly inaugurated the concluding two-day national conference pilgrims mixed milk with Samiti, Mahendra Nagpal said, asking the goddess for fulfill- Amit who is duplicate of main attractions in the People of other communities programme as the chief guest. would definitely help faculty Ganga water and showered “This festival is not limited to ment of wishes.” The evening Amitabh Bachhan, evening Mahotsav." The festi- also gather in solidarity with BS Tomar from ICAR New members, research scholars milky water with water guns only people of Multan but saw duplicates of famous Abhinandan Pathak Modi who val has its roots way back in the Multan pilgrims at Har Ki Delhi, Dilip Kumar Upreti and students. on each other. Speaking to The has encompassed all commu- Bollywood stars and the polit- is duplicate of Prime Minister 1911, when a devotee Roop Paidi and offer prayers.   ' ( (      '  ,-.$&   / #'      Department of Atomic Energy moisturiser, lubricant, solvent,   in conjunction with National transporter, adhesive, packing Union of Journalists at material, healer and pain man-  &' natural way of maintaining Rawatbhata, Rajasthan DAE ager in human mind and body. Agood digestive system is by Site. Dr Parihar says, "Water acts Why water is such an important     drinking one glass of water 10- as a testing agent and solvent in constituent of our lives is 15 minutes before every meal. the bodily laboratory working at explained by the very fact that he Adonia Laser This technique no more remains stomach to assess how much is 70 per cent of human body Tand Wellness a grand ma's tip to heal stress the extent of acid to be released weight is made of water. Centre has installed and reduce acid reflux but is sci- in the stomach to breakdown He suggests that healthy as new equipment to entifically proven with evidence. the food into useful compo- well as sick persons should facilitate safe treat- The water makes stomach nents. increase water intake but major- ment of various con- hydrated and in turn this layer The messages are sent to the ity of the modern population is ditions affecting protects stomach walls from brain from where the response taking lesser water so they face women. Addressing penetrating impact of various messages are sent to the digestive and blood related dis- the media here on chemicals and digestive endocrine glands as to how orders along with body and Sunday, the direc- enzymes. Water also works as much juices and secretions are joint pains. Hence, he suggests tor of the centre, Dr testing agent in the laboratory of to be released." This all happens healthy people should take four Pavleen Khurana human stomach goading other in a jetting process. to five litres of water daily to stay said that the State’s endocrine glands to react and If the penetration of food fit and healthy. One of the other first Femilift release their secretions which occurs in the stomach, instead important property of water is machine has been help in digestion and assimila- of assimilation, it may lead to that it is one of the best natur- set up here. tion of food. erosion of stomach lining and al diuretic helpful in naturally This machine enables 80,000 to 90,000. Even There is also a scientific ultimately causing ulcers in reducing edema. swift and safe treatment today, women generally principle behind keeping lips stomach. So drinking water is If food is eaten in a hurry, that to reduce body weight, one and fat can be further reduced He further suggested that without conducting an hesitate to open up about closed while chewing the food essential for a healthy human it gets suppressed so when water must sip more water while sit- by sipping one glass of hot all the persons should take one operation. Various prob- their health issues due to items. Atmospheric air may being to maintain his health, is drunk before meals, food ting. If obese persons drink water boiling like tea just after litre normal water just after lems like those suffered which gradually such enter through open mouth dur- said Parihar. stays afloat. If air is trapped one to two glasses of normal taking meal. Just after finishing getting up in the morning with- by women post-child- problems may take the ing chewing and reach inside the The principle behind clos- inside, it rises up and gets water 10-15 minutes before the hot water nothing should be out washing mouth, face and birth, recurring infec- form of a serious disorder. stomach along with chewed ing of mouth while eating is that thrown out in the form of burps every meal, it helps them reduce eaten or drunk for next two eyes. Persons weighing more tions, incontinence and At the Adonia Laser food, share the scientists. air should not enter inside the and there is never condition of their solid food intake and hours but after this period any than 60 kilogrammes should other feminine concerns and Wellness Centre such Dr ML Parihar working in mouth while chewing food bloating. reduce chances of stomach ulcer. quantity of water can be taken. take 1.25 litre water. Nothing can be treated effectively disorders will be treated Department of Atomic Energy items. If one keeps the lips and Notably, Parihar is also a It is the natural tendency of Parihar scientifically should be consumed for the next using the Femilift at an affordable rate of explained the science behind the mouth open or talks while eat- researcher in the field of alter- humans that they tend to eat explained that water plays a 45 minutes. Overall, consuming machine. between 15,000 and use of drinking water before all ing, air enters the system and native medical practices and an more when offered free food at very important role in human four to five litres of water daily Such ailments can be 20,000, she said. Dr JS the meals, during a workshop eventually gives rise to gastric alumni of Dev Sanskriti meetings and conferences which health and medical manage- will help a person stay healthy treated in three sittings Khurana was also present held recently for the media by disorders, added Parihar. Vishwavidyalaya. He suggests should be avoided. Overweight ment. Water works as a coolant, and happy, he adds. which may cost between at the Press conference.

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      had directed the officials con- family members of the cerned to ensure swift medical deceased and injured children hief Minister Trivendra treatment for the injured that an investigation of the CSingh Rawat visited school children. A helicopter accident is underway. Strict Kangsali village in Tehri dis- was also provided to ensure action according to the rules trict from where 10 school that the injured children could will be taken against anyone children had died recently in a be transported to the hospital found to be guilty in the road accident. Paying tributes without any delay. Responding mishap. Responding to a to the departed children, he to the demand raised by the demand raised by the family later visted the children injured family members of the members, the chief minister in the mishap and undergoing deceased and injured students said that the State Government treatment at the All India for better medical treatment has demanded of the Central Institute of Medical Sciences facilities in the area, the chief Government that one Kendriya (AIIMS) Rishikesh. minister said that the State Vidyalaya be opened in each Apart from paying homage Government is undertaking development block of the state. to the children killed in the consistent efforts to facilitate The local MLA Vijay Singh accident, the chief minister better health services. The Panwar, district magistrate V also met the family members State Government had Shanmugham, senior superin- of the deceased and injured approached the high court to tendent of police Yogendra children in the village. Earlier, bring back the bonded doctors Singh Rawat and other officials the district administration had who had dishonoured their were also among those present provided ex-gratia of Rs one bond. About a week ago, the on the occasion. lakh to each of the families of government won the case in Later, the CM visited the children killed and Rs the court as a result of which AIIMS Rishikesh to enquire 10,000 financial assistance to about 600 doctors are expect- about the condition of the the families of the children ed to be appointed in the near injured children undergoing injured. During his visit to the future. Rawat said that the treatment. He said that the village, the chief minister pro- government will arrange for entire expense on the treat- vided cheques to the district one more boat ambulance for ment of these children will be magistrate to provide an addi- the Pratapnagar area. The peo- borne by the Government. tional Rs one lakh per family ple of Pratapnagar have been It will be recalled that on of deceased children and Rs most affected by the Tehri August 6, nine school children 50,000 to the families of the dam. Considering this, a lump died on the spot, one died later injured children. Speaking on sum of Rs 88 crore was pro- and 10 were injured when the the occasion, the chief minis- vided by the government for jeep they were travelling in fell ter said that the accident was construction of the Dobra off the road down the moun- unfortunate and had made Chanthi bridge. The bridge is tainside near Kangsali on everyone sad. As soon as infor- expected to be dedicated to the Pratapnagar-Kangsali-Madan mation about the mishap was public by February next year, Negi motor road in received, the state government he said. Rawat also assured the Tehri district. '   (   ) (  " *+,        positive legal and psychologi- cal effects.” =!&. !.!+ 3% &>%' !#.  #%/- &3&%@ !33 + ashmiri Pundits living in He further said, “We KDehradun have welcomed always forget that previously the Government of India’s deci- known as the state of Jammu        sion of scrapping Article 370 and Kashmir does not only from the state of Jammu and comprise of the population of brogation of Article 370 Kashmir. However, they said particular community. We Awill now pave the way for      that the security, political and have citizens in Jammu and real development in Jammu social situation still needs to Ladakh as well, but political and Kashmir and Ladakh, said he state meteorological improve further in order for leadership there used to focus the state Tcentre on Sunday issued developments like resettlement only on a particular commu- president and MP Ajay Bhatt. warning of heavy rainfall of the Kashmiri Pundits. nity. Article 370 helped those Addressing the media here with intense shower at iso- President of Kashmiri politicians with propaganda on Sunday, Bhatt said that the lated places especially in decision taken by the Union Dehradun, Tehri, Pauri,   '# '&  ' Government had fulfilled the Nainital, Chamoli, 1 '   '##  long standing wish of the citi- Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh     ' zens for one nation, one con- districts of Uttarakhand dur- stitution and one flag. This will ing the next 24 hours. #   2      herald in a new era of devel- Overall, the weather is likely     '2  ##& opment in the newly created to remain generally cloudy     &##    union territories of Jammu with possibility of light to      2,  &" and Kashmir and Ladakh. He moderate rainfall and thun-          said that abrogation of Article derstorms at most places in 370 had fulfilled the dreams of the state on Monday. #  '#'    Sardar Patel, Bhim Rao In the provisional capital    # &   Ambedkar, Shyama Prasad of Uttarakhand, few spells of # &   Mookerjee and Atal Bihari rainfall and thunderstorms Vajyapee. Praising the Prime are likely to occur at most Minister Narendra Modi and places on Monday. The max- Sabha, SK Dhar said, “As per to radicalise a separate section Union minister of Home imum and minimum tem- the will of Indians, the gov- there. Now people from all Affairs, Amit Shah he credited peratures are likely to be 30 ernment has scrapped Article over the country are free to set- their will power and commit- degree Celsius and 24 degree 370. It is for the betterment of tle there, which will bring har- ment for the achievement of a Celsius respectively in valley to live in a balanced envi- mony and balance to the place. task that had seemed impossi- Dehradun. ronment. I have completed my However, Indian government ble. He said, “The implemen- residing there for 70 years Questioning the stance of said that now development Narendra Modi’s speech he Meanwhile on Sunday, the graduation from there and will have to deal with some tation of Article 370 had pre- were appointed only to the the Congress party regarding will take place in the real sense said that terrorism will be maximum and minimum there are some people in the resistant activities with iron- vented actual development in posts of sanitation workers. the abrogation of Article 370, in Jammu and Kashmir and eradicated and ease of living temperatures recorded at var- valley who do not consider handed actions, then only Jammu and Kashmir while One could not complain to the the BJP State president said that Ladakh. The various facilities will be enhanced in the region. ious places in the state were themselves a part of India. practical implications of the enabling three families to loot election commission about the Congress has once again and development opportunities The people will also be able to 31.9 degree Celsius and 24.6 They see Indians as tourists and decision will be seen.” the state. About 42,000 people wrongdoings in the elections. proved that it supports the provided to citizens living in avail the benefit of Central degree Celsius respectively in a source of income. The scrap- He also said, “During the died due to terrorism and Corruption could not be inves- separatists and that it speaks other states will now be made Government schemes like Dehradun, 35.5 degree Celsius ping of this article has given massacre of 1990, many insurgency during the past tigated and the facilities pro- the same language as Pakistan. available to the people in this Ayushman Bharat and Ujjwala and 26.2 degree Celsius in opportunity for others also to Kashmiri Pundits had to run three decades. While women vided to the erstwhile state were Stating that the Congress had region too. A conducive envi- among others. BJP State general Pantnagar, 21.4 degree Celsius live and settle in the valley. from their homeland to save did not have equal rights, the benfitting mostly three families. damaged itself by taking such ronment will be facilitated to secretary and MLA Khajan and 15.1 degree Celsius in Although, it will take about their lives. Now is the chance members of scheduled caste The terrorists and separatists a stand, he also appreciated the ensure return of those who Das, state media in-charge Mukteshwar, 24.8 degree four to five years for the prac- to create an atmosphere of and scheduled tribes could not not only ruined the future of few Congress leaders who had were forced to migrate from the Devendra Bhasin and others Celsius and 18.4 degree tical implementation of this balanced environment in the avail of reservation. Members the children but also poisoned supported abrogation of Article region due to terrorism. were present at the Press con- Celsius respectively in New decision but already there are region.” of the Valmiki community their minds.” 370 in national interest. Bhatt Recalling Prime Minister ference. Tehri. ,-       /0   (  +             " & & 23 '   !)+%("&3 ';. /!'3- &3!#)%%'."&!3"%& ecovering about Rs 46 lakh Rof swindled money, the '   3 2'     . Dehradun police have suc-      /'  &32/'%/ ' &(%') - &3 (( )3" ' 29#32 ceeded in arresting seven con ' '      men. In less than a month these      against drug    con men had managed to fool "     abuse is our people under the pretext of    45  he recent case of rape and top priority.” he police increasing the money invested   '  Tmurder of 10 year old girl It is per- Tclaim to have by up to 1.5 times. Out of the in Kotdwar city of Pauri district tinent to completed secu- seven accused arrested by the has resulted in the collective mention rity arrangements police, one is a suspended of the invested amount in 15 Tilakraj, Arun Rana, Sanjay rage of locals against the police here that the for ensuring police man of Delhi Police. days. To make their con believ- Kumar and Ajmer Singh. department and state admin- Anti Drug peaceful celebra- Police have not received any able they in fact returned According to the informa- istration for not taking effective Task Force tion of Eid-Ul- complaints regarding the money to some of the investors tion provided by the police, the measures against the increasing (ADTF) unit Zuha on Monday. recovered money. The arresting as well, which is why they accused had established a com- source of drug usage and alco- of Special The Dehradun -     ( '   .  was done purely on the basis of were able to collects nearly Rs pany in Uma Vihar Colony, hol consumption in the state. Task Force Senior )    police routine investigation 46 lakh in less than a month.” Raiwala under the name of Although, separate depart- (STF), health Superintendent of and human intelligence. He fur- ments in the state have been department, excise department available on internet for such Police (SSP) Arun Giving details about the ther added, working against illegal alcohol and local police work and seize crimes. Mohan Joshi said that force has performing Namaaz.” arrest Dehradun Senior “They were and drug consumption, the the contraband at regular inter- A social activist working been deployed according to the When asked about the ille- Superintendent of Police (SSP) planning to lack of coordination and vals. on such issues in the state has requirement of police station gal slaughter of animals in the Arun Mohan Joshi said, “There run away after knowledge among the enforce- According to official also alleged that it is not pos- and posts. Director General open he said, “If any such are three major problems in collecting Rs ment agents has resulted in less sources, even though police sible for any illegal supply of (law and Order) Ashok Kumar information is received actions Dehradun-- traffic, drugs and one crore, but than mediocre result so far. operate as general enforcement alcohol or drug distribution in said, “We have ensured security will be taken according to the con rackets. In most of the were caught Director General (law and agents, they have little or no the state to happen without the arrangements for the celebration law. Our priority is to maintain fraud cases it is difficult to earlier than Order) Ashok Kumar said, knowledge about some of the knowledge of the police station of Id with peace and proper law law and order.” recover the money even after they expect- “Police force is consistently medicines that are illegal to in-charge concerned. & order in the state. Meetings Superintendent of Police the accused is arrested. So, we ed. Detailed working against drug abuse. consume unless prescribed. It is important to mention with the representatives of (city) Shweta Choubey said, were targeting the units which investigation Police work as a common agent Also, drug distributions at most here that local police have respected communities have “Adequate force has been were already operational and and interroga- so we coordinate with every of the places that intelligence termed the protest by locals of been held and all the SPs and deployed. In fact for the morn- providing deals which are any- tion is yet to department.” unit and local police have iden- Kotdwar from where the victim SSPs have been issued required ing Namaaz as well separate way impossible. It is important be done. We Dehradun Senior tified are being done by minors. girl and the accused hail, as instructions. Traditional norms force has been deployed. As for for citizens to understand that will continue to investigate on Airway Enterprises. They were Superintendent of Police (SSP) Some of these identified places rage against the heinous nature will be followed.” the Qurbani, the use of only there is no possible scheme that other such units in the district.” registering and giving cards to Arun Mohan Joshi said, “We are illegal slums settled at the of the crime. However, local Dehradun SSP Joshi said, traditional places will be can offer you more than 20 per The accused have been the investors under a fake have been consistently working banks of Rispana and Bindal women have stated that they “Local police stations in-charge allowed. There are eight to 10 cent as interest rate. Even 20 identified as master mind scheme named Shishu Yojana against drugs import in the dis- rivers in Dehradun, Deepnagar have been complaining about have been issued instructions such places in the district per cent is next to impossible Joginder Singh who reported- Uttarakhand. Police have trict. In fact we are targeting all and some area of Azad Colony. the increased supply and con- accordingly. They have been including at Gandhigram, but more than that is a clear ly is suspended from Delhi recovered card register, diary, those places where we suspect Some senior police officers sumption of drugs and alcohol informed about Eidgah and Inamullah building and scam. In this case also, they Police, Naresh Sharma, ATM card, cheque book and Rs that people go to consume have blamed the drugs and easy from a long time, but police places where citizens will be Kandoli.” were offering to give 1.5 times Chandan Kumar Arora, 46,01,500. drugs. 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Resigning from the Government has made signifi- announced jointly by JJP senior TLimited (IOCL) has decid- motives in “instigating” legisla- House and asking other MLAs cant progress in ensuring free, leader and former MP ed to expand its existing refin- tors to quit over the Bargari to do the same was just an fair and impartial investiga- Dushyant Chautala and BSP ery unit at Paradip by setting up issue, several Punjab Ministers attempt by Phoolka to divert tions in the Bargari and other national general secretary and a mega petrochemical complex on Sunday ridiculed the resig- public attention away from the related cases,” said the Ministers. Rajya Sabha MP Satish Mishra with an investment of nation “drama” of HS Phoolka progress made by the Congress “What is more, the in New Delhi. “After several 1,00,300 crore and a PX-PTA as a stunt aimed at hogging pub- Government in the State to Congress Government is all set meetings of top leaders of both Complex at over 9,136. 90 lic limelight amidst his dwin- take the Bargari and related to challenge the CBI closure parties, it was decided that JJP crore. dling political presence in the cases to their logical conclusion, report in the Bargari case, which and BSP will contest next The IOCL has now 11 State. they said. is quite evidently submitted Haryana Assembly elections refineries in the country with Phoolka had on Saturday Further, the fact that under the Akali pressure,” said in an alliance,” Chautala said. a combined capacity of 80.7 asked all MLAs, who had raised Congress legislators were freely the Ministers adding that the JJP will contest on 50 and million metric tonne per the Bargari issue in the raising their concerns and ask- Akalis had persistently tried to BSP will fight on 40 assembly annum (MMTPA). It recorded Assembly, to resign. The state ing questions from their own scuttle the probe into these seats in the State. a turnover of 6,05,924 crore Cabinet Ministers — Tript Government showed the inter- incidents and had resorted to all Chautala said that the and a net profit of 16,894 Rajinder Singh Bajwa, nal freedom allowed by the kind of delaying tactics after alliance will win assembly elec- crore in 2018-19. The 15- Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, party and the respect accorded handing over three Bargari tions in Haryana and called it MMTPA Paradip Refinery will Sukbinder Singh Sarkaria and by the Capt Amarinder Singh related cases to the CBI, which a historic day in the history of be expanded to a 25-MMTPA Gurpreet Singh Kangar — government to the institution of was clearly a farce to hide its Haryana politics. unit for which it requires about lashed out at Phoolka for his the Vidhan Sabha, said the own wrongdoings in the matter. He announced that the 4200 acres of land. Both “senseless and provocative Ministers, adding that Phoolka The Ministers said that the alliance would hold a histori- ing BJP government and they and the JJP had joined hands to lost to BJP's bureaucrat-turned- Government and private lands demand” for the resignation of obviously found it difficult to “resignation drama” was just the cal rally on September 25 on want a new revolutionary fight all the 10 Lok Sabha seats politician Brijendra Singh. are available at the site. the legislators. digest such transparency and latest in the long line of antics the eve of birth anniversary of change. in Haryana. This expansion will create “If Phoolka is genuinely openness in the Congress. resorted to by the former AAP former deputy Prime Minister With INLD chief Om The AAP had fought on ,   new employment opportunities concerned about the issue and The Ministers said that it leader to build a public image as Late Devi Lal. He added that Prakash Chautala being in jail four seats while the JJP con- ,'  for nearly 6,000 people. After its implications, he should have was obvious that Phoolka want- a proponent and protector of the the leaders of both parties will in connection with the teacher tested the remaining six. expansion, there would be returned the Padma Shri award- ed to gain political mileage interests of the Sikh communi- decide the place of rally. recruitment scam, his son Ajay However, there was a clean       direct and indirect job oppor- ed to him by the very govern- from the sensitive religious ty. “The people of Punjab had MP Satish Mishra said that Chautala had broken away sweep by the Bharatiya Janata     tunities for over 12,500 people. ment which has pressurised issue of sacrilege, and did not earlier seen through a similar the alliance is approved by from the Indian National Lok Party (BJP) on all the con-   The refinery is now pro- the Central Bureau of want the people of Punjab to game-plan of the Akalis and BSP supremo Mayawati and JJP Dal (INLD) and formed stituencies. ducing products like petrol, Investigation (CBI) into filing a hear the truth about the would easily see through founder Ajay Singh Chautala. Jannayak Janata Party (JJP) Dushyant, son of Ajay    #   diesel, kerosene, aviation tur- closure report in the sensitive progress made by the govern- Phoolka’s theatrics too,’ they He said that the people are last year. In general elections Chautala, had contested Lok bine fuel (ATF), sulphur and Bargari case, which every Sikh ment in bringing the culprits to added. in the state are fed up from rul- 2019, the Aam Aadmi Party Sabha polls from Hisar but had petroleum coke. / *''  0 1*  * && ''     inducting him in party folds and he was considered as one of the strong contender of   party ticket against BJP’s Jayant 77'& Sinha. However, the Congress   5 Vimla Soreng informed Police  party relied on old war horse that Sardha went to school on giving Hazaribag seat to Gopal n a shocking incident, bod- Saturday and did not return. Prasad Sahu. Gopal Sahu who Iies of two young girls were “She was a student of Class 9 at comes from old Congress fam- found hanging from tree at St Mary’s School situated at  $  5 ily with his elder brother Shiv Arani Village under Simdega Virmitrapur. Sardha and Prasad Sahu representing Police Station in Simdega dis- Sunandi were friends. Sunandi’s ith leaders of various Ranchi Lok Sabha seat twice trict on Sunday. On recovering family members have been Wpolitical parties making a was backed by Congress lead- the bodies, police sent them for informed about the incident beeline to join BJP and oppo- ership in Delhi. However, in postmortem and started inves- but till now they have not sition parties in complete dol- Lok Sabha election Gopal tigating the case. approached us, neither have drums, BJP leaders’ claim that Sahu’s security was fortified. Simdega Superintendent they said anything regarding large number leaders from dif- A BJP leader requesting of Police Sanjiv Kumar the reason of death,” he added. ferent opposition camp joining anonymity said, “With induc- informed that prima facie it Meanwhile, in another BJP can become a ‘problem of tion of Pradeep Sahu in BJP, he seems to be a case of suicide but incident, a young girl died in a plenty’. can pose a threat to BJP sitting police is investigating other road accident in Ranchi on On Sunday, at the State BJP MLA from Hazaribag Manish angles too. Saturday night. The accident headquarter five leaders and Jaiswal. Pradeep along with “The girls were identified occurred near Kanatatoli under social worker along with their Jaiswal can become one of the as 18-year-old Sardha Soreng, Lower Bazar Police Station. supporters took the member- strong contenders from daughter of Vijay Soreng and a Officer in charge of Lower ship of BJP at three separate Hazaribag.” resident of Patra Toli under Bazar Police Station, Satish functions. The popularity Pradeep Simdega Police Station and Kumar, said that the incident Among the five leaders enjoys among his supporters Sunandi Bage daughter of Vijay took place on Saturday night who joined BJP, Pradeep was gauged from the fact his Bage resident of Jipatoli, under around at 9 PM when two girls, Prasad a.k.a Pradeep Sahu is joining was held at Harmu           2  3# 3$    3   4(-  6') (7 8 Gunandia Police Station of the both being residents of among the very prominent Maidan in presence of BJP  - )   2'7(9         (( 3 :   district. Police recovered bags Kuraishi Muhalla, Kantatoli faces. Sahu joined the Saffron State unit president Laxman    ;7 ( from the spot which belongs to under Lower Bazar Police camp as renowned social work- Gilua, State Urban the girls. A knife, rope, blade, Station were crossing the road er from Hazaribag region, but more than fifty vehicles Article 370 and 35 (A) of help the party in achieving the cloths and passport size pho- were hit by an SUV. sources said that Pradeep       expressing solidarity to their Constitution which granted target of 65 plus in Assembly tographs were recovered from “It was a hit and run case. reached BJP after serving at leader. special status to Kashmir, there election.” He said “Based on the bags,” said the SP. The SUV (Scorpio) drive drove Congress and contesting  5     However, State BJP leader are many more leaders in last Lok Sabha election results, Kumar said that it I too off after hitting the girls. We are Hazaribag Assembly seat as  5 A B claim that there is no problem pipeline who are set to join BJP. the BJP is leading in 63 early to comment on the issue still trying to identify the vehi- Independent candidate. of plenty. State BJP unit presi- Apart from Pradeep Sahu Assembly segments, if alliance as investigation is under cle,” Kumar said. He informed Pradeep, in last Assembly     5   dent Laxman Gilua said, “The joining the BJP, JMM former partner (AJSU party) Giridih is process and only after receiv- that after being injured, the two election (2014) had contested        leaders who joined BJP today vice president Rajesh Singh, considered that the NDA is ing the postmortem report girls were rushed to Rajendra as Independent candidate from are influenced with the work AJSU party vice president leading in 67 Assembly seg- and complete investigation, Institute of Medical Science for Hazaribag and had secured carried out by Prime Minister (Mahanagar) Kundan Singh ments.” However, the BJP State the reason of death can be con- treatment and where one girl 63,000 votes. Development Minister CP and Hazaribag MLA Manish Narendra Modi. The leaders and State Congress leader Biku president asked the party work- firmed. Officer in charge at lost her life. “Her body has been The Congress in 2019 Lok Singh, Rajya Sabha member Jaiswal. Sources said that in the have joined BJP without any Singh too joined the BJP. ers to work tirelessly in achiev- Simdega Police Station, sent for postmortem. The sec- Sabha election tried to utilize Samir Oraon, BJP state gener- joining of Pradeep his sup- terms and conditions.” Gilua Gilua said, “The joining of ing the target of 65 plus in Ravindra Prasad Singh ond girl is still under treat- the popularity of Prasad by al secretary Deepak Prakash porters reached BJP office in said that after the abrogation of new leaders in BJP fold will Assembly elections. informed that Sardha’s mother ment,” the OC said.   ") "" '(1(  (  (

  5   community, under the banner place around 1509 during the Ravidas ji himself. The Chief by the leader of Opposition  &P  of the Guru Ravidas Jayanti reign of Sikander Lodhi. Minister said that given the Harpal Singh Cheema, said s the Aam Aadmi Party Samaroh Samiti, which has Extending all legal and gravity and sensitivity of the that the act had hurt religious A(AAP) and the Shiromani called for nationwide bandh financial assistance to the matter, it was imperative that sentiments of a large number    5   not found properly main- hostel which was not in work- Akali Dal (SAD) on Sunday on August 13 and announced community to take the matter the central government, led by of followers and others across tained. Out of total nine ing condition as DTH charge indulged in blame-game over observing August 15 as a forward and rebuild the the prime minister himself, the country. “Protests were aking serious note on the CCTV cameras installed in the was not paid. The vice-chair- the demolition of ancient ‘Black Day’. demolished structures at the take all possible steps to held in various parts of Punjab Tcomplaints of the students hostel, only three were found person further said that almost Guru Ravi Dass temple in Taking serious note of the same place, the Chief Minister restore the site to its original by various religious and other of Government Girls College, working. No fire safety equip- 90 per cent girls complained of Delhi’s Tuglakabad area, protests, the Chief Minister has constituted a five-member structure and layout. organizations condemning the Sector -14, Panchkula, the ment was installed in the hos- the substandard quality of Punjab Chief Minister Capt said that while he did not wish committee to meet the reli- Meanwhile, an official act, which is a tantamount to chairperson of the Haryana tel. food is served to the girls stu- Amarinder Singh has sought to comment on the Supreme gious and political represen- spokesperson said that the denigrating the authority of State Commission for Women The Commission suggest- dents. Stale food is also served. the Prime Minister Narendra Court judgement, which had tatives of the Community and Chief Minister had taken cog- religious institutions in the Partibha Suman and its vice- ed the officers concerned to Another concerned was that Modi’s intervention in the led to razing of the religious formulate a comprehensive nisance of the issue amid country,” they said. chairperson Preeti Bhardwaj install bio-metric system, fire students were charged for food matter. structure, he was personally strategy to resolve the issue protests by Dalits at Ludhiana, led a team and inspected the safety equipment and also rec- during vacation, she said, Capt Amarinder has not in favour of demolition of with the Centre. Jalandhar, Phagwara, KEJRIWAL HAS girls’ hostel-I of the same ommended more CCTV cam- adding the Commission found appealed Modi to talk to his monuments or structures of The committee consists Gurdaspur and Amritsar, BETRAYED RAVIDASIA College and interacted with eras to be installed in the it to be highly objectionable, Sikh Union Minister Hardeep such historical importance, of Jalandhar MP Chaudhary where several state highways COMMUNITY: SAD the students residing there. hostel in near future, she said, discriminating and inappro- Puri to resolve tensions trig- connected so deeply with the Santokh Singh, Punjab were blocked, causing hard- Blaming the AAP-led The vice-chairperson adding the Commission has priate. gered among the Ravidas com- sentiments of any communi- Cabinet Ministers — Charanjit ship to commuters. Delhi Government for the Preeti Bhardwaj said the girls also directed the officer con- The commission has munity by the demolition, ty. At the same time, he Singh Channi and Aruna The protesters, led by Sri demolition, SAD’s Doaba shared their issues and prob- cerned to take proper safety directed the officers concerned while extending the legal and appealed to the community to Chaudhary, and Congress’ Guru Ravidas Sadhu MLAs — Pawan Kumar Tinu, lems with the commission and security measures for girls that this practice should be financial aid to Ravidas com- call off their protests as his MLAs from Punjab — Raj Sampardai Society chairman Dr Sukhwinder Kumar and members and the Commission in the hostel. Rapid Action discontinued with immediate munity to pursue matter and Government was ready to Kumar Chabbewal and Sushil Sant Mohinderpal Pandwa, Baldev Khara, besides the for- has directed the officers to Force should deputed from effect. On the occasion, the rebuild Temple at the same extend its full support to them Kumar Rinku. Underlining also blocked the National mer minister Sohan Singh address their concerns without time to time. In addition to hostel warden informed the site. to get the matter amicably the need to uphold the sanc- Highway-1 opposite the Thandal said that the delay. this, patrolling during night Commission that the officials AAP’s Punjab unit severe- resolved with the Central tity of the site, which has Shiromani Guru Ravidas Ravidasia community had She said that according to hours at around hostel areas of PWD (B&R) depart- ly criticized Delhi Government. importance not only for Temple near Chak Hakeem approached Delhi Chief students, no proper safety and should be intensified. ment/electricity division do Development Authority While appealing to the Ravidas community but all village on the Phagwara- Minister Arvind Kejriwal one security measures for the girls Moreover, during inspec- not visit the hostel regularly to (DDA) and the Narendra Prime Minister to step in for Sikhs and Punjabis the world Jalandhar stretch. month back on the issue. have been made in this hostel. tion the Commission found remove the deficiencies faced Modi-led BJP Government at the resolution of the sensitive over, the Chief Minister said SAD leaders said that the Besides, no full-time regular that out of three drinking by the students residing in the the Centre for the demolition issue, Capt Amarinder also that the demolition of the BJP SHALL HAVE TO PAY Ravidasia community was warden is posted here. water coolers installed in the hostel. Normally some girls on the orders of the Supreme personally spoke to the Union temple could trigger serious HEAVY PRICE: AAP engaged in a long battle to save One lady lecturer has been hostel, only one water cooler residing in hostel need med- Court, while the SAD lashed Urban Development Minister unrest in the community, not AAP’s Punjab unit on the temple and the AAP given the additional charge of was found working. Generator ical treatment for which one out at AAP-led Delhi Hardeep Singh Puri to seek re- just in Punjab but in other Sunday severely criticized Government was following in warden who does not reside in was not working which affects doctor should be appointed Government for betraying the allotment of the same site, places too. DDA, which is under Centre’s the footsteps of the erstwhile the hostel campus. Warden the study of students during along with medical check up Ravidasia community by which reportedly belongs to It was essential to resolve control, and Modi-led Central Congress government which does not visit the hostel regu- power cut. Almost all the should be conducted period- refusing to intercede to save the Delhi Development the matter urgently, taking all Government at the Centre for had created the issue. larly. Besides, the lady super- switch boards of every room of ically. the demolition of a 500-year- Authority, to enable the com- the concerned parties, includ- the alleged demolition of the They declared that SAD intendent stays here with her the hostel were found broken The Commission has old temple. munity to reconstruct the tem- ing DDA, into confidence with ancient Guru Ravi Dass tem- would meet party president young boy. and out of order which needs directed the officers of depart- Capt Amarinder chose to ple and along with the Sarovar, respect to the vast pool of legal ple. Coming down heavily Sukhbir Badal on Monday to Bhardwaj said that besides immediate replacement. ments concerned to look into intervene followed by the which have been demolished. and other evidence of proof upon the DDA and the Centre urge him to take up the mat- this, the Commission found One TV connection has the matter seriously and steps state-wide protests by the Legends say that Guru the historic and religious links for the demolition of the his- ter with the Central that the visitor’s register was been installed in the hall of the should be taken immediately. members of the Ravidasia Ravidas visited the sacred of the site with Sri Guru toric temple, AAP MLAs led Government.   ! " #  3

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So is the case out that Tata Global Beverages’ &.%'2 .* &."!&)'")+ 33 !-)!/3!"&"'!3 %3 ')!3 4%'" 2 discriminating Kerala in flood with the ‘biggest gaming app’ Tetley Green Tea’s print adver- relief funds. endorsed by Indian cricket tisement claiming ‘9/10 users the word ‘Active Life’ misleads belonged to the education sec- iness which helps to remain The Centre released Rs team captain Virat Kohli, which prefer Tetley Green one to think that tor, 41 to the healthcare section, fresh and young as misleading 3,000 crore as relief package to was not substantiated with any Tea for an active life’ use of the product two to personal care, four to by implication. Kerala, which witnessed Rs verifiable comparative data. was contrary to the alone would be food and beverage sector and The monitoring body said 10,000 crore losses due to The ASCI noted that Apple video advertise- sufficient to 16 to other categories. that TRZ footwear advertise- floods last year, Congress iPhone XS advertisement was ment which used achieve an The ASCI said that the ment with celebrity Manish national spokesperson Jaiveer misleading by ambiguity and the word ‘recom- ‘Ac t i v e L i f e’.” print and YouTube advertise- Paul’s claim that it was ‘India’s Shergill claimed. implication as the ad featuring mend’ for the same. Of the 231 print ment endorsed by actor Sanjay no 1 kids footwear brand’ was “The BJP is indulging in beautiful shots of the environ- “The users were not and TV advertise- Dutt which claimed that ‘Kapila not substantiated with any politics of favouritism, parti- ment — animals, insects, plants provided with samples of ments investigated by Pashu Aahar’ was organic was market share data of similar sanship even while distributing and landscapes — would lead other brand products to the ASCI, as many as not substantiated with copies of footwear brands to prove that funds to flood-affected States,” consumer to believe that the enable them to have a 132 were found mis- product label, approval and it was in number one leader- he alleged. image quality would be feasi- preference; the leading and violating the composition details. It also ship position in that category Congress leader Rahul "  ' '   ble on the iPhone alone, where- words ‘prefer’ and norms. termed Santoor Aloe Fresh or through a third party vali- Gandhi is currently visiting ((     as in reality, the result would ‘recommend’ are misleading Of these “mislead- Soap’s print advertisement dation. It termed the claim as Kerala to oversee the damage not be achievable without mak- by implication. The use of ing” advertisements, 69 claim of lemon removing stick- misleading by exaggeration. caused by floods in the State, as per the demands of respec- Maharashtra, Karnataka, particularly in his Lok Sabaha tive State Governments. Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Tamil    !!  constituency of Wayanad. To help people affected by Nadu, Odisha and Punjab —   + - Congress leader main- floods and displaced by it, the are under the grip of heavy and .   (        tained that Uttar Pradesh, BJP-led central government consistent rainfall and are       ( )( .( where there were no floods, should release “at least 50 per affected by floods.       was given Rs 200 crore last year cent of the funds in proportion Kerala and Karnataka are  & ' '& /. % as flood-related funds while to what the saffron party had facing a grim situation as death   ? (7="    ( %  & %( Assam got just Rs 250 crore spent on the 2019 general elec- toll due to floods and landslides even though it is affected by tions,” he said. triggered by incessant rains    )  floods year after year. Shergill also said as per the climbed to 83, while over four       '   Q      The northeastern State has “2017 CAG Report on Schemes lakh people were evacuated in (     demanded for more than Rs for Flood Control”, in 17 select- Maharashtra and 19 lost number of Central para-     he Income Tax Department 3,000 crore as funds, he ed States and Union Territories their lives in rain-related inci- Amilitary officers have writ-  !    Thas attached a Rs 300-crore claimed. “After having wit- (UTs), flood management pro- dents in Gujarat. ten to Union Home Minister     bungalow in a posh Delhi nessed an estimated Rs 10,000 jects could not be completed Twelve people have died so Amit Shah seeking his inter- locality and FDI worth crore loss due to floods last due to shortfall of funding far in Maharashtra where water vention to end alleged dis-  !       ! USD 40 million as part of its year, the Central Government from the Centre. level was starting to recede in crimination at the hands of IPS      probe under anti-benami law has merely released Rs 3,000 The Congress on Saturday Sangli and Kolhapur districts, officers in getting their due ser-  "     against Ratul Puri, crore as relief package for last had demanded that “the Central the worst hit by the flood fury. vice benefits.  !  nephew of Madhya Pradesh year’s loss to Kerala,” Shergill Government should declare Maharashtra’s BJP The paramilitary officers !!     Chief Minister Kamal Nath, said, adding the prime minis- that the current flood situation Government has come under have also launched a social and his father. ter should provide required in the country as ‘national dis- criticism for putting pho- media campaign, asserting that  +& !!  Officials said the attached assistance to the state and aster’, ‘national calamity’ or tographs of State Chief Minister despite a recent Supreme Court bungalow is located at 27 A, “shun politics of favouritism.” ‘calamity of severe nature’.” on the flood-relief packets order and subsequent approval cult areas of Jammu & Kashmir, forces on deputation. A number of cadre officers APJ Abdul Kalam Road, in the He demanded that the cen- Shergill said currently nine meant to be sent to the flood- by the Union Cabinet, the Forces’ Naxal-hit States and the Cadre officers have said of the Central Reserve Police Lutyens Delhi zone, and is in tre release flood related funds states of the country — Kerala, hit areas. headquarters are creating imped- Northeast. The cadre officers there are a number of recent Force have approached the SC the name of a firm of the iments in the process of granti- further urged Shah to ensure instances which have”shaken with writ petitions seeking Moser Baer group, owned and ng them organised service ben- that their financial and social their faith” in the fairness of the orders for a fresh cadre review promoted by Ratul Puri’s father efits and sanction of more posts upgrade is granted as this is task being undertaken at their that will enable them more Deepak Puri. in supervisory ranks by reduc- directly linked to their morale. head offices. posts from the Deputy The tainted assets, includ- ing the number of such offices The officers seem to be All the boards, constituted Inspector General (DIG) to ing an FDI amount of USD 40 manned by the IPS officers. running out of patience and are to chart out the process for grant the Additional Director million, have been provision- The officials have urged compelled to make direct rep- of these service benefits to General rank. ally attached under the anti- Shah to take “desirable action” resentations to the minister as cadre officers, in these forces are On July 3, the Centre had benami law and is related to the so that their recruitment rules they are yet to get the service headed by an IPS officer which announced that the cadre offi- case against Ratul Puri and (RRs) are amended and a fresh benefits that have been ordered is a direct conflict of interest, cers of paramilitary forces like Deepak Puri, they said. cadre review is done in line by the apex court and granted according to cadre officials. CRPF, CISF, BSF, ITBP and SSB This is the second such with their status as organised by the Cabinet. In the Border Security will be given the non-func- action by IT Department Central service. Paramilitary forces headed Force, a cadre officer resigned tional financial upgradation against Ratul Puri, who is being The framing of new RRs by IPS officers are reluctant to from the board saying the and will be categorised as an probed on money laundering will allow these officers to have complete the proceedings for directive to not change RRs will organised group A service. charges in relation to the more positions in supervisory according them full service be a “contempt” of the SC The decision had come AgustaWestland VVIP chop- ranks. Presently, majority of the benefits like status as organized order while another officer after a decade-long legal battle pers case. supervisory posts, especially in service and non-functional objected to the manner in waged by the cadre officers Puri is also under the scan- the urban areas are manned by financial upgrade as the move which the proceedings were seeking a level playing field and ner of Enforcement Directorate 67   8 " <(( 7 = >6' the IPS officers even as the cadre will affect the career prospects being done in violation of ending the dominance of IPS and CBI in the VVIP " 8"#   8$ 8(( > =    (.  officers are posted in the diffi- of IPS officers who join these court directive. officers in their senior ranks. copter scam.     <)   

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   +&    However, the delay has left we have decided to notify the  '%9&.60*"4'%!#)!32(' D9 &3#23'!"&4%93%(3 JJ2D+-%(3 /'%3 )3 .!' !"## ! 3%!"3(%' them vulnerable to human-ani- 850 sq km of the protected area 2%- -%' 3"- 3%4 33 . 2"4&!3 . %- s the rehabilitation and re- mal conflict and poaching, as tiger habitat. Unless locals of  %  '3 . #! !2# (33 -9#& '!*# 3% 9-!&;!&"-!#)%&(#")3!&./%!) "&4 ") 3 3!3 "2    literature and culture and bring Asettlement issue of 30 vil- which the State is already wit- the 30 villages living on the !#' !."3& 22"&4,"##3 "2.!3 3 "2 !'073"4 '2 ! ." ."&3 3!3 the best writing of the region to lages in the buffer area of the nessing. Till this date this fringes (buffer he winner of the ninth edi- the world literary map. Madhya Pradesh’s Ratapani year, 23 tigers have died in zone) of the  &# 22#%)!#2%(3 7J"##!4 2#""&4%&3 ('"&4 2A*9(( '%& B%(3 2!&)39!'!' ' #%)!3 . !' &%3 Ttion of the prestigious DSC The DSC prize also Wildlife sanctuary — which is the State. sanctuary are /#!&&"&43%"&)#9. 3 0JJJ2D+-%(*9(( '%& Prize for South Asian Literature encourages writing in region- all set to be declared as tiger Madhya Pradesh Chief relocated, we will be announced at the Nepal al languages and translations, reserve — lingers on, around 12 Wildlife Warden, Dr are not plan- straying striped felines, secur- wildlife sanctuary, 40 km from file remained in cold storage as Literature Festival in Pokhara on and whenever a translated big royal cats frequently stray- U Prakasham told ning to include ing their natural corridors. A Bhopal, and around 12 have in January 2016, the then BJP- December 16. The US $25,000 entry has won the award, the ing out of the 900 sq km of the The Pioneer the 2,000 sq senior official from the NTCA strayed from the area. led state government had said international literary prize prize money has been equally protected area will have to that to begin km of buffer said that striped cats are usu- The State had received an they were not willing to convert focuses on South Asian fiction shared between the author and wait for some more time to get with zone. ally fiercely territorial and mark approval for the same from the it into a tiger reserve. The sce- writing and is open to authors the translator. the designated He also their large home ranges. Many NTCA, 11 years ago. nario changed when the new of any ethnicity or nationality. Speaking about the part- home. said a pro- are straying outside the core “Having good availability government headed by The DSC Prize announces nership, Surina Narula, co- posal seeking higher habitat, resulting in man-ani- of water sources, prey base and Congress leader Kamal Nath, its winner at different South founder of the DSC Prize for re-settlement amount mal conflict and threat of breeding places, the area is agreed to implement the NTCA Asian locations every year. The South Asian Literature said, of Rs 20 lakh has been poaching. favorable for the tiger popula- proposal, albeit halfheartedly. 2016 edition of the DSC prize “We are delighted to partner sent to the National “We have asked the State tion. The facilities will be Madhya Pradesh now was announced at the Galle with the Nepal Literature Tiger Conservation Government to declare the improved after notification as boasts of having maximum Literary Festival in Sri Lanka, Festival to announce the winner Authority (NTCA), up area of about 3,500 sq km of good budget allocation will be number of tigers in the coun- whereas the DSC Prize 2017 of the DSC Prize for South Asian from present Rs 10 lakh. Raisen, Sehore and Bhopal dis- received from the center,” try, having lost this status to was awarded at the Dhaka Lit Literature 2019 in the pic- While a panel set up to tricts for tiger reserve includ- Prakasham said. Karnataka in 2010. In the lat- Fest in Bangladesh. The DSC turesque city of Pokhara in deliberate on higher re- ing Ratapani and Singhori Wildlife activist Ajay est Tiger Census 2018, the Prize 2018 was presented at the December. Both the prize and settlement amount is taking wildlife sanctuaries in Raisen Dubey added, “After being state regained its number one Tata Steel Kolkata Literary the festival share a common its own time to take any deci- and Sehore districts in view of notified as a tiger reserve, the spot recording 526 striped Meet in India. vision to promote and highlight sion, the NTCA has sought a growing tiger population, layers of security in the area will felines. However, dispersing By encouraging best writ- South Asian literature, and there declaration of entire 850 sq km resulting in several tigers stray- be increased.” big cats remain an issue with ing about the region, the prize is a rich literary landscape in protected area and the 2,500 sq ing into Kerva and Kaliasote In 2008, the NTCA had nearly 80 tigers reported dead has played big role in raising Nepal which I hope will bene- km buffer zone as tiger habitat forests of Bhopal. There are 24- given its approval for the ‘in- in past one and a half years in awareness about South Asian fit from this partnership.” to ensure new space for 28 tigers in the Ratapani principle’ change. However, the the State.   ! " #  5 ( '  !& "  )     % (

 L   from officials and locals about the "unfortunate incident" in the     12    ( & ongress leader Rahul hamlet, where several people are CGandhi on Sunday urged believed to be buried in the land-  3432 $( )) ) the state and Central govern- slide which occurred four days ments to provide immediate ago, Leader of the Opposition in assistance to those affected by the Kerala assembly, Ramesh    % at Wayanad and patiently The Malappuram Disaster the floods in Kerala and Chennithala told PTI. heard the woes of the people Management Authority said 11 promised to do everything According to the locals, fter pounding Kerala for who were displaced from bodies have been retrieved so possible to get the people back several houses spreading across Adays, rains abated on their homes following flood- far from Kavalappara in on their feet. a bustling settlement in the vil- Sunday even as the death toll ing and destruction of their Malappuram District. "It is heart-breaking to see lage were completely wiped of in themonsoon fury climbed to dwellings. The official also said that what all the people of Wayanad the scene in the landslide 67 with over 2.27 lakh people Gandhi also visited nearly 50 bodies are suspected have lost. We will do everything occurred four days ago. being sheltered in relief camps Kavalappara, a 10 acre settle- to be buried under the soil. in our power to help them get Some 60 people are feared across the state. ment near Nilambur in “Nearly 50 persons are back on their feet," Gandhi buried alive under the debris of With the recovery of seven Malappuram, which bore the suspected to be buried under tweeted after visiting people the massive landslide. The area more bodies, including four brunt of a massive landslide on the soil. This is the count we affected by floods and land- is now covered by mud and from Kozhikode and one from August 8. got from the taluk authorities. slides in his constituency. slush, making rescue opera- Wayanad on Sunday, the toll Local people said that We are yet to ascertain the "I visited Kavalapara, the tions tough. has gone up to 67, official there was no sign of the 35 odd number of houses that were site of the landslide in Besides Chennithala, sources said. houses after the landslide and destroyed. The whole land- Bhoothanam. Several people Gandhi was accompanied by Congress leader Rahul at least 65 people are suspect- scape has changed,” the official are still trapped and rescue KPCC president Mullappally Gandhi visited a relief camp ed to have been buried alive. told PTI. operations are underway but Ramachandran and AICC more help is required imme- General Secretary KC 8   -       '      (  ( diately", he said. Venugopal.         "I visited M E S MAMPAD Gandhi visited a relief +        COLLEGE RELIEF CAMP, to camp opened at a church in meeting with district adminis- stituency, #Wayanad that has District Collector of Wayanad meet with the victims of the Pothukal near Kavalappara and tration officials, Congress been ravaged by floods. and Congress workers in the flood. I have assured them we interacted with those displaced sources said. I will be visiting relief state regarding the flood situ- will appeal to the State & by floods and landslides. Three Assembly segments camps across Wayanad and ation in his constituency.     ',-$ Central govt. To provide The Congress leader in Malappuram district form reviewing relief measures with This is his second visit to immediate assistance & we assured them all possible help part of his Wayanad con- District & State officials," he Wayanad after the election. Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister funds coming to CMDRF can only be used for will help in any way possible," to come out of the situation. stituency. Gandhi, who won tweeted. Earlier, he had come on a Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday lashed out at the relief purposes. The fund is used for helping the Gandhi said in another tweet. After visiting Kavalappara, with a record margin from the Several people have so far three-day thanksgiving visit “negative” campaigning in social media about the poorest among the poor. Earlier on his arrival at the the Wayanad MP proceeded to hill constituency in the April lost their lives in Wayanad when he addressed road shows Chief Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund (CMDRF) Apart from donations, a portion of the state nearby Karipur airport on Mampad, where he visited a Lok Sabha elections, said dur- and Malappuram districts in and public meetings in the con- and said those who spread hate about the state budget is also allocated for the CMDRF. Sunday afternoon, he drove relief camp being operated at ing his stay he would visit relief the monsoon fury while many stituency. are committing the most “heinous crime”. All the allegations that the Fund was being straight to Kavalappara village the MES College, as also anoth- camps across Wayanad and are feared missing in a major Gandhi chose Wayanad as A campaign has been doing the rounds in used for any other purpose is wrong,” Vijayan in Nilambur district, which er camp, before reaching the review relief measures with landslide. Gandhi had said he his second seat in addition to social media, where videos and messages ask told reporters here. has been ravaged by massive Malappuram Guest House. state government officials. had spoken to Prime Minister party stronghold of Amethi in people not to donate to CMDRF, alleging that He urged the people to isolate those who landslides. At the Guest House, "For the next few days I will Narendra Modi, Kerala Chief Uttar Pradesh, which he, how- the funds will not be used for relief purposes. spread false news at a time when the state was Gandhi gathered details Gandhi will hold a review be based in my Lok Sabha con- Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the ever, lost in the 2019 polls. “The CMDRF is an official platform. The facing a calamity. PTI 3R 5 2  6 1*  .  )?8      M=# special status to Jammu and   &>( Kashmir.   imachal Pradesh BJP pres-   ?# Former Punjab Deputy Hident Satpal Satti on Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal   Sunday said the government + 9   and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin will not relax the law with ''    Owaisi might not have read the '  regard to the purchase of land ,  HP land law carefully before in the state. making the demand, he said, He accused the Congress of # 27' adding that Section 118 of the Jaipur: To spread awareness on misleading people by launch-     Act was entirely different from cruelty against elephants, a ing the Himachal Bachao #' &  Article 370. cycle rally was organised here Campaign and spreading mis- Section 118 in the state law on Sunday on the eve of World information in this reagrd. ''    bars the transfer of land to non- Elephant Day. He claimed that the , 2,  agriculturists, Himachalis or About 130 people includ- Congress tempered with the  '  non-Himachalis without the ing the elderly, youth and HP Tenancy and Land Reforms permission of the the state women participated in the rally Act, 1972, five times in the past.  >( government. organised by the World Animal Satti also distanced the  ## However, sub section 2 (g) Protection, an organisation party from the statement made    gives non-agriculturists the working for animal welfare by state BJP vice-president right to purchase a house or and pledged never to take joy Ganesh Dutt recently.   N land for building a house from rides on elephants. “Views expressed a few the Himachal Pradesh Housing The rally was aimed at days ago by BJP state vice-pres- Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir and Urban Development making people aware of the ident Ganesh Dutt for an Badal and Hyderabad MP Authority without permission. cruelty against elephants used amendment to the Act were his Asaduddin Owaisi that out- The law was enacted to for giving joy rides to those vis- personal. Some sections of siders be allowed to buy land in save forests, tribal customs and iting the iconic Amber Fort in society keep demanding an the state, the BJP president said interests of small farmers, he Jaipur, said Gajendra Sharma, amendment to the Act. Any both leaders might not have said. country head of WAP. such decision may be taken by read state law carefully. He said there was a provi- World Elephant Day is the BJP after proper discussion The BJP chief said it was sion in the Act under which observed across the globe in its state executive,” he said. wrong to equate the state law anyone could buy land in the annually on August 12 to pro- Commenting on the with Article 370 of the state after getting permission mote the preservation and pro- 1(      " *+, . (       3((     demand made by Shiromani Constitution, which gave a from the state government. tection of elephants. PTI !    $  O)P   1  (    P P (  % &  )  # hostile neighbours. there. included Devji Bhai, who had announced in Islamabad that Both Indians and Pakistani Among the Pakistani come with his family from the day’s train would be the last Ahmedabad: In a heartwarm- after coming to know that 42 through knee-deep water for # &  boarding off the Thar Express nationals, who dared to take Pakistan’s Mirpur Khas to visit one to Jodhpur. ing gesture, a police constable people, including 17 children, around 800 metres and moved here at Bhagat ki Kothi railway the train to India amid linger- his relatives in Gujarat. Even as the people of the carried two children on his were stranded there due to them to a safer place.   station voiced in unison the ing uncertainty over the fate of “If we could come here, we two countries dared to take the shoulders and waded through flooding as a result of incessant Jadeja, who hurt his leg in need to continue the interna- its return, included Saifuddin, would also go back,” said Devji international train to reach out knee-deep water in order to downpour in the region. the process, said one of his col- tional train service irrespective who came from Karachi. Bhai. to their relatives in the neigh- move them to safety from When the policemen found leagues helped him by admin-    of the Indo-Pak ties, which, “When I was leaving for “People on both the sides bouring country, the uncer- flooded Kalyanpur village in that the water level was rising, istering first aid to him. The they said, must not be allowed India some of my friends want peace and this train must tainty over its fate bothered Morbi district of Gujarat. they launched a rescue operation police team finally moved all the mid an uncertainty over to hamper the people-to-peo- expressed fear that I might not not fall victim to the tension quite a few of them, prompting A video of the constable's along with local swimmers and stranded villagers to safety. Athe continuance of the ple links between the two be able to return, but I had to between the two nations. This some of the Indians to cut short brave act has gone viral on villagers. In order to shift the "What we have done is just Indo-Pak train services after neighbours. come here to meet my relatives is nothing but politics of ego their stays and return to their social media, earning him praise stranded people from the place, perform our duty. The first Pakistan downgraded its ties “The tension between and I came,” he said. which triggers tension,” he respective countries. from many, including Gujarat they even constructed a thing that came to my mind is with India, 103 Pakistanis these two countries is not new, “I said I would definitely go added. “I had gone to Pakistan to Chief Minister Vijay Rupani. makeshift boat. how to save around 42 vil- reached here on Sunday on but the train service must be and if the train services are The Thar Express which see my relatives on a two Constable Pruthvirajsinh However, Jadeja decided to lagers, including 17 children, Thar Express while 81 Indians allowed to continue. If this train scrapped, I would come back carries 165 passengers per trip, month visa but decided to Jadeja, who is attached to carry two of the stranded chil- stranded at a shelter in left for the neighbouring coun- stops, the relation between on foot,” said a determined brought 103 Pakistani to India return considering the uncer- Tankara police station, rushed to dren on his shoulders to move Kalyanpur village in the district try a day earlier, testifying to people would stop flourishing,” Saifuddin, repeating what he on Sunday, days after Pakistan’s tainty over the fate of the Thar Kalyanpur village on Saturday them to safety. Carrying them as the water level was rising," the strength of the people-to- said Kusum, who married a told his friends in Karachi. Railway Minister Sheikh Express,” said Gautam from along with other policemen on his shoulders, he waded Jadeja said. PTI people links between the two man from Pakistan and moved Saifuddin’s co-passengers Rashid Ahmed on August 9 Jodhpur.   ( P  (  ( 

   true that reading letters written by hand gives a feeling of affin- s social media platforms ity and they are often attached Alike WhatsApp, Facebook to an emotional memory. But or Instagram have almost fast social media communica- phased out traditional letter tion and instant messaging writing, the Department of services also have their own Posts (DoP) has been witness- importance. The question is ing a huge decline in the sale of how do we use those means of postage and other stamps over communication?” the last few years. “It has often been seen Reply to an RTI query that many social media users filed by a Neemuch-based are in a haste to react, especially activist has revealed this trend. negatively, to a post. This impa- Revenue earned by the tience becomes a cause for DoP from the sale of postage stress and emotional turmoil and other stamps dropped by later on, because the habit of 78.66 per cent to 78.25 crore sales revenue stamps, philately and government letters, but giving a quick reaction to in the financial year 2018-19, as (collection and study of postage now private letters are rarely everything is affecting human compared to the previous year, stamps) and other stamps. seen.” relationship,” she said. it said. “However, the sale of “These days, we have to In a bid to encourage the In FY 2017-18, the revenue postage stamps contributes the deliver the letters of different use of postal stamps, the DoP earned from the sale of stamps most in terms of revenue,” he government departments and has been promoting ‘My Stamp’ was 366.69 crore, while in FY said. private companies,” he added. initiative, which aims at pro- 2016-17, the DoP had earned Talking to PTI, a senior Psychologists are also viding personalised postal 470.90 crore from this, it postman posted at the Tilak observing the effects of mod- stamp experience. added. Nagar Post Office in Indore ern communication on people’s The initiative allows one to A DoP official said that said, “There was a time when psyche. have his photograph, logos or besides ordinary postage our bags would be full of letters. Dr Swati Prasad, a profes- photo printed on the stamps stamps, the department also There used to be lots of private sional psychologist, said, “It is after paying the prescribed fee. "(   -  ) ( O 2P(  ''(  ) (  "( '       ! " #  A .   " % ' .'  7(    (4

 $  $    dew consideration to such facts. Out of 28,000 Durga (P   ? 3  ngered by the BJP-led Pujas in the State about 2,200 ACentral Government’s Pujas are organized in Kolkata. Jaipur: BJP lawmaker Diya (descendants of Lord Ram) has faith in Lord Ram. It is our decision to tax KolkataDurga Out of them about 25 Puja Kumari, a member of the erst- was still residing in Ayodhya, request that hearing in the Pujas, Bengal Chief Minister committees have a budget of while Jaipur royal family, the Supreme Court on Friday Ram temple case should be Mamata Banerjee has asked more than 50 lakh and the rest claimed on Sunday that her had put this query to ‘Ram expedited and the court give its thewomen’s wing of her party spend just about 15 lakh or so, family has descended from Lalla Virajman’, the deity and verdict soon.” Trinamool Congress to stage a she said wondering whether Lord Ram’s son Kush, days after one of the parties in the polit- She said that if needed she dharna againstthe Income Tax the Government should bring the Supreme Court sought to ically sensitive Ram will present documents proving authorities who have reportedly all these committees in tax net. know whether anyone from the Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid links of her family to Kush in the served notices on anumber of Amid reports of a lot of ‘Raghuvansha’ was still residing land dispute case. court, but will not interfere in the Durga Puja committees. chit fund money had gone in Ayodhya. A five-judge Constitution Ayodhya case by taking a lead. Tweeting against the cen- into organizing Durga Pujas She said descendants of bench headed by Chief Justice The law suit filed by the tral decision to tax the Puja the IT officials had earlier Lord Ram are all over the world Ranjan Gogoi had asked the deity in the case has also made committeesBanerjee has said issued notices and summoned and the dispute in Ayodhya question to senior advocate K the birth place of Lord Ram as that “the festivals are for all and several Durga Puja organizers should be resolved soon. Parasaran, appearing for ‘Ram co-petitioner and has sought we do not wantany Pujo festi- — an act the TMC promptly “Court has said where are Lalla Virajman’, when he was claim over the entire 2.77 acre val to be taxed,” wondering why read as one aimed at pressur- the descendants of Lord Ram... arguing that the deity and the of disputed land at Ayodhya the political parties that spend ing the local clubs, having Descendants of Lord Ram are birth place both were “juristic” where the structure was razed huge amount of money in the influence on booth-level voters all over the world, including entities and hence, capable of on December 6, 1992. elections should not be taxed. to bend towards the BJP. our family who descended holding properties and insti- Fourteen appeals have “This is an insult to the Banerjee has directed party from his son Kush,” Kumari, tuting lawsuits. been filed in the apex court Pujas ... what about the money women’s wing Banga Janani to the MP from Rajsamand in “We are just wondering if against the 2010 Allahabad spent by political parties on They take ads (advertisements) “These festivals are for all ‘no taxation on Durga pujo and sit on a dawn-to-dusk dharna Rajasthan, said. anyone from the ‘Raghuvansha’ High Court judgment, deliv- elections? Many parties have and sponsors from companies and we do not want any pujo Durga pujo committees.” on August 13 at Raja Subodh She said that her comments dynasty is still living there (at ered in four civil suits, that the tax have tax relief. Why should- who have paid GST,” Banerjee festival to be taxed. This will be Durga Puja is the biggest Mallik Square. were based on manuscripts, Ayodhya),” the bench had said. 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya be n’t the Pujas have income tax said reminding how her a burden on the organizers. festival for the Bengalis with “Organisers, participants genealogy and documents avail- “I have no information. partitioned equally among the relief? What is the income of Government had withdrawn all Govt withdrew tax, which was crores of people taking part in and all people who love Bangla able with the royal family. We will try to find it out,” three parties -- the Sunni Waqf Puja committees? They take taxes from religious festivals earlier there, on Ganga Sagar it, she said adding the may please join,” she said. Curious to know whether Parasaran had responded. Board, the Nirmohi Akhara donations from the people. like Ganga Sagar Mela. Mela. We protest and demand Government should have given anyone from the ‘Raghuvansha’ Kumari said, “Everyone and Ram Lalla. PTI "    $R  !$ 6 17

I personally believe that the losses will stand between 30,000 crore to 40,000 crore. We have urged the Central government to release Rs 3,000 crore immediately as assis- tance, Yediyurappa said. A detailed report alone would give a clear picture, he said, adding that safeguarding people, livestock and providing houses to those affected was the government’s top priority. To a question on whether the floods in Karnataka should be declared a national calami- ty, he said it was upto the Centre to take a decision on the matter “The state government’s priority is to provide relief to to the flood-hit people,” he said. Thirty one people have ;    '(    7      died so far in rain related inci- dents in Karnataka as the flood    was 10,000 crore even as he Belagavi and parts of situation remained grim in the urged the Centre to release Maharashtra bordering state. arnataka Chief Minister B 3,000 crore as immediate aid. Karnataka along with Union A total of 3.14 lakh people KS Yediyurappa on Sunday He was speaking to Home Minister Amit Shah. have been evacuated, of whom said the preliminary estimate of reporters after conducting an “Our preliminary estimate 2.18 lakh are staying in 924 flood related loss in the state aerial survey of flood hit of losses is 10,000 crore, but relief camps.   27     ) ' "       P,   @ ,,, (        ( $ / Q      (   % %  (    Another member of the   When the ‘water year’ Besides, 2.20 lakh cusecs is family said they were not began on June 1 this year, the being discharged from Jammu: The Army has Sanjeev Verma, members of the including rations, assistance dding insult to injury, peo- allowed to enter the cremato- ndhra Pradesh has been a water level at Srisailam was Tungabhadra that will reach launched “Mission Reach Out” civil administration, represen- in transportation of patients to Aple managing a crematori- rium without money. Amajor beneficiary of only 807 feet against the Full Srisailam in the next couple of in Jammu to ensure basic neces- tatives of the J&K Police, CRPF, hospitals, facilitating people to um in flood-ravaged Kodagu “We broke open the gate nature’s bounty this season as Reservoir Level (FRL) of 885 days,” C Narayana sities and essential services are BSF and intelligence agencies, speak to their near and dear district allegedly demanded lock and brought the bodies in. the two major reservoirs on feet with just 32.60 tmc ft of Reddy, Chief Engineer available in the region post the they added. ones through Army exchange 8,000 from a family for the cre- Is such behaviour justified?” the river Krishna Srisailam and water that was way below the (Projects) of the Water abrogation of the provisions of “The prevailing security and creating a safe environ- mation of their two daughters woman crying incessantly asked Nagarjuna Sagar have almost dead storage. Resources Department, said. Article 370 and reorganisation scenario and preparedness of ment for ATMs, banks and killed in a landslip on Saturday. the authorities in the video. been filled to capacity after vir- On Sunday, the level The combined effect of of Jammu and Kashmir, officials security agencies and civil hospitals to function, the A video surfaced on The person who shot the tually being dry for several touched 881 feet with a storage floods in Maharashtra, said on Sunday. administration were discussed spokesperson said. Sunday in which the family video appealed to Simha and months. of 193.41 tmc ft, against the Karnataka and discharges from A high level “Mission during the conference. It During the conference, the members were seen weeping at the Virajpet BJP MLA K G Thanks to copious rains FRL of 215.81 tmc ft. Tungabhadra and Bhima might Reach Out” conference to emerged during the conference divisional commissioner the alleged insensitivity of the Bopaiah to answer to this insen- that are still continuing in the In fact, the storage was result in an inflow of about review the prevalent situation that the situation in the Jammu assured of adequate availabili- crematorium managers for sitivity. As the matter came to upper riparian states of reduced from 202 tmc ft on nine lakh cusecs into Srisailam, in the region was held in the region had been peaceful with ty of all basic necessities and demanding 8,000 for the final the notice of the authorities, an Maharashtra and Karnataka, Sunday as more flood from he said. Nagrota Military Station on no untoward incident taking essential services to meet the rites of Mamata and Nikita. FIR was registered against those bountiful water is flowing in Tungabhadra and Bhima, apart Reddy said the Water Saturday which was chaired by place post the revocation of requirements of the people. “We have lost everything, managing the crematorium, the river, filling up all major from its own inflows from Resources Department initiat- White Knight Corps Article 370 on 5th of August,” He further informed that including my daughters, house tweeted the -Kodagu reservoirs along its course. Maharashtra and Karnataka ed action to consume about Commander Lt Gen Paramjit a Defence Spokesman said. due to normalcy in the region, and property. BJP MP Pratap Simha. Heavy discharges from were expected to keep the flow one lakh cusecs through dif- Singh, they said. The Corps commander the general public had request- Now, they (crematorium Posting the video on his rivers Tungabhadra and Bhima steady in Krishna. ferent systems for the needs of The Corps commander informed about the numerous ed for opening of schools and managers) are demanding Twitter handle, Simha tweeted, are also adding to the flood As much as 7,78,848 cusecs four Rayalaseema districts and lauded the absolute synergy initiatives undertaken by the educational institutes, which 8,000. From where will we “This video has gone viral. surge in Krishna. is being discharged from SPS Nellore district in Andhra between the Army, civil admin- Army under ‘Mission Reach was agreed upon and schools in bring the money? We somehow However, the last rites were per- Consequently, the flood- Srisailam to different irrigation Pradesh and Mahbubnagar and istration and other security Out’. Among these are mobile the city were opened from managed to save our lives by formed at 3 pm. This morning, water is being discharged both channels and downstream Nalgonda in neighbouring establishments in maintaining medical care units with essen- August 10. running away from there. We a cheque for 10 lakh has been from Srisailam and Nagarjuna Nagarjuna Sagar. Telangana. peace, harmony and a con- tial medicines and lady medical The Corps commander lost everything. We are present- given to the family of Mamata Sagar to the irrigation and “Inflows into Srisailam are Surplus water is being ducive environment, the offi- officers, wherever necessary, assured the civil administration ly staying in the relief camp. and Nikita. No one had brought drinking water systems under predicted to continue for the released into Nagarjuna Sagar cials said. providing water in locations of full support to reach out to How will we get 8,000?” a the matter of demanding money their command, bringing cheer next week to ten days as the after power generation in the It was attended by Jammu where the supply was disrupt- the populace to providing all woman is heard crying in the to the notice. After learning to the farmers in the two Telugu flood situation in Maharashtra right and left bank generating Divisional Commissioner ed, provision of essentials, basic necessities. PTI video. about it, an FIR was registered.” states, AP and Telangana. and Karnataka is still continuing. stations. 6 ') (      %  % ( ) Durgapur: The debate over the venue of the meeting. Following induction of new leaders in the the clash, the venue was ran- =(    BJP from other parties came out sacked, and the barricade, in the open on Sunday, as two chairs, tables and microphones, groups of workers of the saffron were broken, police said. Several party clashed in Durgapur area BJP workers were injured in the  of Pashchim Bardhaman district. scuffle and the meeting had to The incident occurred even be cancelled, party sources said. .    as the party’s Bengal unit was The state unit of the saffron    AB preparing its strategy for the party had organised a two-day : 7$ & next assembly polls in the state ‘Chintan Baithak’ from Saturday he world heritage site    at a ‘Chintan Baithak’ here. at Durgapur, where it was THampi along the banks of ,B   '#  The BJP leadership was scheduled to prepare its strate- Tungabhadra River in Ballari #    '& scheduled to address a rally just gy and organisational aspects for district has been inundated a few meters away from the 2021 assembly polls. PTI with authorities releasing over 1.70 lakh cusecs of water from Vijayanagar empire known for a reservoir on Sunday morning. its rich architecture, while an The district administra- Anjaneya temple in front of the tion has asked residents living Kampli Fort has partially sub- along the rive banks to move to merged. safer places as all 33 gates of the Tourists in Hampi have Tungabhadra Dam were been shifted to safer places, opened following heavy inflow officials said. of over two lakh cusecs in the They said all necessary wake of incessant rains in the steps for evacuation of people catchment areas in the Western from low lying areas on the Ghats for the last one week, banks of the river in Ballari and officials said. Koppalk districts have been Water has entered the taken as the discharge from -     " A -    UNESCO heritage site Hampi, Tungabhadra dam is set to be the erstwhile capital of increased further.   ! 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A number of focus on to provide an environ- Another crucial pillar is a While commenting about the preceding Indian companies have, therefore, ment that encourages innova- legal system, which provides an                  10 years (1997-2007), Murthy wrote about been able to do so to great effect.   tion and scientific discovery. environment to incentivise          (   #   @   how India is in the bottom third of the glob- However, the paradigm has now 5 5 5 These four areas are: Human companies both in India and                      ( al knowledge economy, according to the shifted from cheap generic drugs, resources, finance, infrastructure abroad to develop products in World Bank. He went on to explain the nature which are easy to replicate, to     and legal/regulatory framework. our country. A strong patent           .    9      ( of the problem by citing the example of “biosimilars.” These are larger Owing to spatial restrictions, I system is crucial for this. It is                   S Canada — with a population less than three molecules that are derived from 5   will, for the purpose of this arti- no coincidence that the two                  .  ( per cent as that of India’s — had roughly the living cells. This makes it more    cle, restrict my focus to develop- countries, who are pioneers in same number of people engaged in research challenging for firms to develop ing human resources and a bet- the field of scientific research,       (    @      and development (R&D). He also took the and manufacture. This, because     ter legal/regulatory framework. the United States and Israel,                    example of China, which in terms of expen- drugs made from living cells, 5   5 From a human resource also boast of a robust environ-   D     (             diture on R&D, spent close to 1.5 per cent of often consist complex proteins 5   point of view, it is important for ment for intellectual property       (         S     its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) while and chemicals, which can have us to encourage scientific rights. With a clear majority in India spent close to 0.85 per cent of its GDP up to 20,000 atoms.     research. Since it typically bears the Lok Sabha, I would encour-                  ( on R&D. Fast forward to 2017, a full decade It is for this reason that reg- fruits only after years of effort, age this Government to bring    #              later, India’s position is not much better. We ulatory bodies have established  one key step can be to make this changes to India’s regulatory            B         now spend only 0.83 per cent of the GDP on detailed guidelines, which require   pursuit a livelihood worth pur- environment that can allow us R&D. This is among the lowest in the world. complex clinical trials to ultimate- suing. This can be done by sub- to compete with the rest of the               .        Why can this become a problem? 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The marked lack of break- enough on R&D, new medicines     high-tech labs of large companies, proudly stake its claim as a sci-                   through in scientific research for healthcare like biosimilars and other med-    the reality is often different. A entific hub for the rest of the is extremely disconcerting. In the past, India ical devices, diagnostics, patient large number of significant world. If not, we as Indians may     # %               relied on the generic drugs industry to cre- aids and monitoring tools have  breakthroughs in science — soon have no option other than             #  ( ate its niche, to provide employment and to be imported to the country.  5  whether in medicine or other- to look back at scientific behe-                   cheap drugs to its citizens. This has in turn made them more wise — is often borne out of the moths like Aryabhata, CV However, now the scientific landscape has expensive. Therefore, there is   O labour of researchers in libraries. Raman and Homi J Bhabha with      >           undergone a significant change. Generic drugs now a serious risk that India will   The most recent example is that bitter regret that the rich history are typically limited to small-molecule med- be left behind in the field of sci- of “CRISPR-Cas9”, a technology they left behind and the paths ications that are made from synthesised chem- entific progress.   that is being used to change the that they illuminated could not ! %% ( ('( ( icals, which have a fixed chemical structure However, there’s still time to genetic makeup of organisms. be explored further. and this makes them easy to replicate at a arrest this decline. In 2016, This could be one of the most sig- (The author is former 1//9       +   R lower cost. Aspirin, for example, is one such PwC released a report titled, nificant scientific discoveries of president of Jharkhand Pradesh medication whose active ingredient has only ‘Unlocking India’s Potential for our age. 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But there is a larger issue with the monetary         S       ( basis points and concerns have been raised A reason behind the increase in average real policy and the decisions taken by the MPC, which    (         (  regarding a slowdown in global growth. No sur- repo rates is lower inflation this year compared     needs to be addressed adequately. There is        (      prises that world over, we have witnessed central to the previous year. Governor Das himself men- absolutely no justification for high real interest :             bankers reduce interest rates but while their real tioned that inflation is likely to remain benign till    rates at a time when there’s a slowdown in growth      $         interest rates are low, our real interest rates are the third quarter of financial year 2019-20 and  5 along with the NBFC crisis.        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The overlying consensus in this duced by a “modernist” state and a years, had upheld the core princi- ical truths because they believed all Left and the liberal, now entirely regard is that the subject of Pakistan populist left-leaning Government. ples of the Age of Enlightenment: such truths were created to empow- engulfed by concepts such as Studies was concocted as a reaction But here’s the interesting bit: Reason, rationality, science and er the ruling elites. post-modernism, post-structural- to the rising sentiment of ethnic Those, who came up with this empiricism. In 1947, two Left-leaning ism and relativism, among others regionalism in the country; and subject, eventually became its vic- Yet, these books are all vehe- German philosophers and sociolo- were caught in an intellectual quag- largely as a response to the violent tims. Let me explain. The creation ment attacks on these principles. gists, Theodore Adorno and Max mire. manner in which the former East of Pakistan Studies in the 1970s was They claimed that truths, Horkheimer, got the ball rolling The result: A dialogue between 5 Pakistan broke away in 1971 to related to what was emerging in cer- even scientific truths, were all con- with their book, Dialectic of the Left and the Right, which pro- become Bangladesh. tain prominent segments of the structions of power elites. Mental Enlightenment, in which they cri- duces zero synthesis because it    According to a desperate and academia in the US and Europe at illness was a concept, not a truth. tiqued the “Enlightenment pro- largely constitutes monologues,  / &&"2&%3 !3"3 2-, , ,$, bruised state and a new populist the time. Reality was a social construction. ject” as one of the reasons rebounded by echo chambers, con- !2, %"&0J6)!& Government headed by ZA Bhutto, In 1961, the French philosopher Superstitions and “magical think- behind the rise of Nazism in tradictions and anger, that have he subject of Pakistan Studies this happened because a cohesive Michel Foucault published Madness ing” can be as legitimate as scien- Germany. This meant that 19th cen- become a parody of itself. ' - -* ' &6/%9#. was introduced in the early ideology of Pakistan, based on a and Civilisation. In 1962, the tific truths because truth was tury racist and anti-rationalist ideas Pakistan Studies was born in ! * & &%94 3% T1970s. It was first made com- shared Muslim faith which tran- American philosopher Thomas “relative.” that had evolved into becoming the 1970s in an intellectual environ- &!*# %93%2/ &.3 pulsory in schools and from the late scended ethnic identities, had not Khun published The Structure of Noted American journalist and major fascist ideologies in the 20th ment that had become dominated /'% '*"!#/ &&P%'.% 1970s onwards, in colleges and been properly formulated and Scientific Revolutions. In 1966, two author Kurt Andersen, in his 2017 century were now absolved of all by former rationalists turned anti- universities. Over the years, it has ingrained among the people. American sociologists, Peter Berger book, Fantasyland, demonstrated blame. rationalists. It offered “truths” con- -!&4" !39// &) (%' often been lambasted for promot- So, Pakistan Studies set out to and Thomas Luckmann, penned how an attack on rationalism and Therefore, it was only a matter cocted to appease Pakistan’s post- 3 3%/ &) /" ) @ & ing half truths and — from the do just that, even if it had to distort The Social Construction of Reality. science by Left-leaning academics of time till what began as an anti- 1971 existentialist crises. “Truths” "(3 ' )!##&"3! !''"2O2 1980s — even religious and racial and omit certain inconvenient In 1968, the American anthropol- romanticised and then legitimised rationalist onslaught by the acade- formed by respected historians and 6H1 "39// &&92 bigotry. truths. But as a project, it was ini- ogist, Carlos Castaneda, published irrationalism as an “anti-establish- mic left would eventually be a leftist regime but then whole- ".  ' )%9#.29) ! Various Pakistani scholars such tially not really in the hands of bel- The Teachings of Don Juan. ment” pursuit, which then began to embraced by their rightist counter- heartedly embraced by the rightists, as Dr AH Nayyar, Ahmad Salim ligerent politico-religious scribes, These books made a huge influence subjects such as sociolo- parts. Since truth was now relative, who then went on to concoct (!' 3!+ %9&%P !3 and Rubina Saigol, have substanti- even though it would become just impact on the evolution of psychi- gy and anthropology. and no amount of evidence could another “truth”: The Left/liberals  #%2 !2 -!') 3% ated these claims through detailed that during the Zia dictatorship in atry, sociology and anthropology. Anderson quotes the famous prove otherwise, one could spout broke Pakistan. As modern %9')!2 # 222%)" 3"2 studies of Pakistani textbooks. the 1980s. Each one of them was authored by author and intellectual Paul anything and call it the truth with- anthropology would suggest, it’s &%32%-9)  "4 3!2 Indeed, the content in these tomes, Initially, as an intellectual pur- “progressive” men, who were edu- Goodman, lamenting that college out being challenged. ‘their truth’ and you’ll be a spoil- * !93, especially in Pakistan Studies books, suit, it was formed by some noted, cated in some of the finest Western students were no more interested in But those on the Right became sport to deny it. is rather alarming. rationalist historians and intro- educational institutions which, for gathering evidence to tell sociolog- better at using this mindset. The (Courtesy: The Dawn)    '    ! " #

/#   9:;"    9?  *   (      that direc-   as applicable. tion. ORIX Corporation of he Government is working Despite +    cern that the situation could Many homebuyers have moved mbattled IL&FS group has Japan, owner of 49 per cent Ton a set of measures to being an  #  worsen during the coming fes- the Supreme Court and there Eproposed to the National stake in each of seven operat- remove friction points in the election tive season when generally are judgements too. So it’s a Company Law Tribunal ing wind power plants of the economy with a view to ensur- period, /  "'  demand is higher. very complicated arena. But (NCLT) the sale of its wind IL&FS Group, had expressed its ing easy availability of funds to Goods and There would be a separate given the goodwill within the energy business to Japan’s Orix intent to buy out the remaining productive sectors and stimu- Services Tax high level meeting, under the government, amongst the Corporation which will help 51 per cent stake held by IL&FS late overall growth, sources (GST) col-     chairmanship of the cabinet homebuyers and industry, so reduce the debt of the compa- Wind Energy Limited (IWEL). said. lection secretary, in next few weeks to whatever problems are there we ny by 4,800 crore. This intent to buy 51 per However, the strategy jumped 9 he Government on Sunday discuss setting up of a stress will find solutions for them,” Infrastructure Leasing and cent stake was in exercise of being worked out does not per cent in Tsaid it will soon address fund to deal with stalled pro- Puri asserted. Financial Services (IL&FS) said ORIX’s right under the terms of include proposal for reduc- the first issues affecting the real estate jects and bail out lakhs of When asked about cre- in a statement it has filed the an existing MoU wherein tion of GST rates as the gov- quarter sector after industry bodies stuck homebuyers, sources ation of a stress fund, he said proposal to complete the sale of ORIX can match the price ernment believes that taxes while direct taxes rose by 12.9 making tax process simple and and homebuyers met Finance added. a number of issues were dis- its wind energy business, held offered by the highest bidder are already lower than in the per cent, close to the growth in predictable. Minister Nirmala Sitharaman Briefing the media after the cussed, but declined to give under IL&FS Wind Energy for purchasing IWEL’s stake in past, they added. the same period last fiscal. With various initiatives to flag their concerns regarding meeting, Puri said: “Lot of details. Limited (IWEL) to ORIX the wind Special Purpose The set of measures being Corporate tax collection being undertaken by the gov- liquidity crunch, demand slow- useful discussions happened at CREDAI Chairman Jaxay Corporation of Japan, with Vehicle (SPVs). firmed up by the finance min- has also remained stable dur- ernment, it is not difficult to down and stalled projects. the meeting with the real estate Shah said, “We had a great pos- NCLT for final approval. ORIX Corporation decid- istry is based on the feedback ing the quarter, with a growth achieve the growth targets set The Finance Minister on industry. We looked at a num- itive, patient hearing from The proposal has been filed ed to match the offer of the received by Finance Minister rate of 13.3 per cent. in the Budget, sources said. Sunday held two separate meet- ber of issues, clarified a num- finance minister. Government before the Tribunal after com- highest bidder, of approxi- Nirmala Sitharaman during As far as GST revenue col- The first quarter GST col- ings — the first with the two ber of issues and the govern- is cognisant about the matter pleting binding Share Purchase mately 4,800 crore for 100 per her interactions with different lection is concerned, the aver- lection, although slightly sub- apex realtors’ industry bodies ment will be addressing these affecting real estate industry Agreement with ORIX cent of enterprise value, con- stakeholders, including indus- age mop-up has been over Rs dued, is not grim at all, sources CREDAI and NAREDCO, and issues in the days to come.” including the liquidity crunch Corporation and obtaining “in- templating no haircut to the try chambers, bankers and for- 1 lakh crore during the quar- said, adding that second half of the second with homebuyer With these discussions, he and taxation issues. We are very principle” approval from all debt of the SPVs aggregating to eign and domestic investors. ter despite slowdown in indus- the current fiscal would com- associations, to discuss the said, the process of finding hopeful to have some good and lenders for completing this trans- around 3,700 crore. The sectoral meetings with trial activities. GST collection pensate for some of the slow- issues concerning the real estate solutions to some of the prob- tangible results in coming action, subject to NCLT approval. Some of the major lenders the representatives of various soared to Rs 1.13 lakh crore in down witnessed during the sector and steps to be taken to lems that have affected the weeks.” IL&FS said it had already in the SPVs include: Power sectors, including banking, the month of April, the high- April-June period. strengthen the industry. real estate industry has CREDAI President Satish received approval for the sale of Finance Corporation, Bank of MSME and auto, over the last est ever since the indirect tax With regard to GST rate Housing and Urban Affairs started. Magar said the government its wind energy business from Baroda (for working capital few days have highlighted some regime was rolled out on July cut as demanded by the auto Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, The finance ministry also wanted to know about all the Justice (Retd) D K Jain, appoint- and project financing), and of the pain points, sources said. 1, 2017. industry, sources said the gov- Minister of State for Finance tweeted about the two meetings issues affecting the industry. ed by the NCLAT to supervise India Infra Debt Limited — “These friction points will Gross GST collections ernment is of the view that the Anurag Thakur and top offi- -- one with the representatives NAREDCO President the operation of Resolution with debt aggregating to soon be removed with a view to stood at Rs 1.02 lakh crore in rate is already lower than the cials from the departments of of the real estate sector and the Niranjan Hiranandani said: Process of IL&FS group com- approximately 3,700 crore accelerate growth momentum,” July, marginally up from the previous taxation regime. economic affairs, revenue, other with homebuyers. “As you know, the real estate panies, earlier last month. (without interest). an official said, adding these previous month. The July 2019 There is hardly any scope housing, CBDT, corporate The ministry had last week industry is going through a cri- Justice Jain had approved The sale to ORIX will lead would address various common mop-up was, however, 5.8 per for further trimming of the tax affairs and RERA were also pre- held meetings with the finan- sis, as is rest of the whole econ- the sale on the conditions that to resolution of the following concerns of the industry. cent higher than the Rs 96,483 rate as the government has its sent in the meetings. cial market representatives, omy. So we are very glad that the proposal will be placed seven companies of the IL&FS The industry has pressed crore collected in the same own revenue targets for meeting According to sources, rep- foreign portfolio investors and the finance minister and hous- before the NCLT for its Group — Lalpur Wind Energy for steps to ensure availability month last year. obligation for social sector needs resentatives of CREDAI and industry chambers, amid con- ing minister met us on a approval and the bid amount Private Limited, Etesian Urja of credit, lower borrowing cost Sources said there is still a and infrastructure development. NAREDCO said that there is cerns over economic slow- Sunday morning to under- realised from the sale be kept Limited, Khandke Wind and simplification of some of lot of scope for improvement in The slowdown in auto sales “unrest” in the sector because down and the latest Union stand the situation.” in an escrow account. Energy Private Limited, Retadi the policies which could spur GST collections as more than is due to the industry’s resis- of liquidity crunch and poor Budget proposals. “The positive part is that This amount in escrow Wind Power Limited, Wind growth. six months are left for the fis- tance of not launching BS VI sales, and demanded that banks “Whatever problems are the Government understood account will only to be dis- Urja India Private Limited, The government has set 7 cal to end. models in a phased manner, and NBFCs should be encour- there of the homebuyers, stalled that we need to take this thing bursed in accordance with the Tadas Wind Energy Private per cent growth target for the There is going to be thrust rather than the government’s aged to fund projects. projects etc we are exploring forward and we need to do it directions in the proceedings, Limited and Kaze Energy current fiscal and data points of on improvement in compliance policies or current GST rate, They also expressed con- ways to move forward on this. quickly,” he said. pending before NCLT/NCLAT, Limited. the first quarter are in line with and collection efficiency by the sources added. %3-!/ '-"3 8      C   &!-"#!@ ; 77G?88(  !33!) 2/%2  # " 6JJR "&)%&3'!)3    ?"" *9&4!#% (9&.2 D1 ( * ,,,( %(!39#9'"(!3 ' -!&9(!)39'"&4@%9') 2           ('" CE

    Deloitte India, said the move if tressing the need to have he Income Tax Department     and IT, as exclusive “enrolling approved by the government Santi-counterfeiting solutions Ton Sunday said it has agency” for enrollment of sub- he Government is working will give a boost to the manu- along with adequate aware- attached benami assets worth he CSC e-Governance scribers. Ton a proposal to allow 100 facturing sector. ness and monitoring, industry Rs 300-crore bungalow in a TServices India, which man- Tyagi said enrolment per cent FDI in contract man- “It is a welcome proposal body ASPA has claimed coun- posh Delhi locality and $40 ages over 3.5 lakh common ser- process is very simple. Any eli- ufacturing with a view to attract for technology based compa- terfeit products across various million funds brought from a vice centres across the country, gible farmer who wants to join overseas investments, sources nies like Apple,” he said. sectors in India are causing Mauritius-based entity in con- has set a target of enrolling 2 the scheme can visit his near- said. Finance Minister Nirmala losses to the tune of over Rs 1 nection with its probe against crore small and marginal farm- est CSC along with his Aadhaar According to the existing Sitharaman in her Budget lakh crore every year. businessman Ratul Puri, ers under the Pradhan Mantri card and bank passbook or foreign investment policy, 100 speech in July had proposed The Authentication nephew of Madhya Pradesh Kisan Maan-Dhan Yojana by account details. per cent foreign direct invest- relaxation in the FDI norms for Solution Providers’ Association Chief Minister Kamal Nath, August 15. Village Level ment (FDI) is permitted in the certain sectors such as aviation, (ASPA), comprising 60 mem- and his father. The PM-KMY was Entrepreneurs (VLEs), who manufacturing sector under AVGC (animation, visual bers, mainly focuses on adop- Co-operation and authentication solutions like It said a provisional order of launched by Agriculture manage CSCs, will complete the automatic route. A manu- effects, gaming and comics), tion and advancement of Development, Pasricha said track and trace, Nigeria could attachment against Puri’s has Minister Narendra Singh online registration process after facturer is also allowed to sell insurance, and single brand authentication technology and trade in counterfeit and pirat- reduce rate of counterfeiting in been issued under section 24(3) Tomar in the national capital taking all relevant details of products manufactured in retail with a view to attract solutions for brand, revenue ed goods has risen steadily in some key medicines from near- of the Prohibition of Benami on Friday which entitles eligi- farmers. India through wholesale and more overseas investment. and document protection. the last few years globally with ly 20 per cent to 3.5 per cent Property Transactions Act, 1988. ble farmers for monthly pen- “After the authentication retail channels, including FDI in India dipped 1 per “At present counterfeiting trade volumes in fake products within a period of three years. The law was lying inoperative and sion of Rs 3,000 per month. process is completed, the through e-commerce, without cent to $44.36 billion in 2018-19. causes around 1.05 lakh crore now standing at 3.3 per cent of While anti-tampering tech- was enforced from November “I have asked all village enrolled farmer will be Government’s approval. Last year, the Government had losses to India per annum. If total global trade. nologies are used to protect a 2016 by the Modi Government. level entrepreneurs (VLEs) who informed and his PM-KMY “The current policy does relaxed FDI rules for several sec- counterfeiting is curbed by 50 Trade of fake goods caus- product from adulteration or The I-T Department, last run over 2-lakh CSCs in vil- Pension Card with a unique not talk about contract manu- tors, including single brand per cent through proper imple- es loss to the companies and replacing it with a fake product, month, similarly attached Rs lages across India to register at Pension Account Number will facturing and it is not clearly retail, non-banking financial mentation of authentication governments while creating tracking and tracing technolo- 254 crore worth of “benami” least 100 small and marginal be generated. Under the PM- defined in the policy. Big tech- companies and construction. solutions, enforcement, aware- profit for organised crime gies are used to determine equity of Puri, which he is stat- farmers by Independence Day KMY, which was announced in nology companies across the Foreign investments are ness and monitoring, it can gangs, he added. where and when a product, ed to have allegedly received (August 15). All our CSCs will the Budget 2019-20, a month- world are going for this, so considered crucial for India, save more than 50,000 crore There is a wide variety of taking its components into from a suspect in the remain open on Independence ly pension of Rs 3,000 will be there is a need for a clarifica- which needs billions of dollars per annum,” ASPA President technologies available today account, was manufactured AgustaWestland VVIP chopper Day also to complete the target provided to eligible farmers on tion on the matter which for overhauling its infrastruc- Nakul Pasricha told PTI. that support in curbing coun- and its current status in the scam case via shell companies. of registering at least 2 crore attaining the age of 60,” Tyagi Government is considering ture sector such as ports, air- Amongst various sectors, terfeiting, the ASPA president supply chain, he said. Puri, chairman of farmers by Independence Day,” said. positively,” they said. ports and highways to boost counterfeiting is more preva- said. These technologies are Some technologies also Hindustan Powerprojects Pvt CSC CEO Dinesh Tyagi told The scheme is being imple- The commerce and indus- growth. lent in the pharmaceutical applied in the three main areas allow for determining where a (HPP) Ltd, is also being probed PTI on Sunday. mented across the country, try ministry is working on a FDI helps in improving industry, he said adding that of anti-counterfeiting — anti- product is supposed to go. by the Enforcement Directorate The Ministry of including Jammu & Kashmir proposal that would be the country’s balance of pay- the government needs to take tampering, tracking and trac- Thus, tracking and tracing in the 3,600 crore VVIP chop- Agriculture and Farmers’ and Ladakh. Farmers holding finalised soon and sent for ments situation and strength- measures in this regard as it is ing. technologies are used to fight per probe case and the central Welfare has roped in CSC, a up to 2 hectare farm land will Union Cabinet’s approval. en the rupee value against a threat to public health. Giving an example, unauthorised distribution, agency had recently got issued special purpose vehicle under be eligible for the PM-KMY Commenting on the pro- other global currencies, espe- Citing a report of the Pasricha said that with the use which is frequently linked to a non-bailable warrant against the Ministry of Electronics scheme. posal, Rajat Wahi, Partner, cially the US dollar. Organisation for Economic of physical as well as digital counterfeiting, he said. him from a local court here. +   !!  !3!3 #O2 2   5      > $   4 546    ! #%22 2      )%&3"&9 3%  @ 6 5           focussing its resources on high ontinuing with their selling -%9&3@ /%'3 value/complex appeals. Cspree, foreign investors he Finance Ministry’s deci- Reducing the pending litigation pulled out a net amount of    Tsion to significantly under the existing income-tax 9,197 crore in just seven trad- increase the limit for the law would also ensure ing sessions in August due to ndian steel conglomerate income tax department to smoother transition into the unconducive domestic and ITata Steel lost more than 1 appeal disputes in higher new Direct Tax Code,” said S global factors. million pounds a day in the forums will reduce litigation Vasudevan, Partner, However, analysts said the UK last year, according to the and ensure smoother transition Lakshmikumaran and trend may reverse if the company’s annual report. to the proposed direct tax Sridharan Attorneys. Government addresses the tax The Indian steelmaker, code, say experts. Experts opined that one of "     8   )8   ( concerns of overseas investors. which runs the UK’s largest The monetary limit for an the reasons to raise the mone-    : 7   # 1:    According to latest depos- steelworks at Port Talbot in appeal before the Income Tax tary limits could be that the   $ :  B"'  )P   itories data, foreign portfolio south Wales, lost 371 million Appellate Tribunal has been revenue department has fared      8G"4      '    investors (FPIs) withdrew a net pounds in Britain in the finan- increased to 50 lakh from 20 poorly in the appeals filed by it,         (     amount of 11,134.60 from cial year until March end this lakh by the Central Board of which is evident from the      )   equities while pumping in Financial Services, FPIs have Himanshu Srivastava, year as a result of lower pro- Direct Taxes (CBDT). Economic Survey of 2017-18. 1,937.54 into the debt segment been cautious due to slowdown senior analyst manager duction. In case of high courts, the Vasudevan said the survey during August 1-9, taking the in the global economy, with the research at Morningstar, said, The losses mark a hike limit has been doubled to 1 had stated that while the total net withdrawal to US, Euro economies and China “While there has been a from 222 million pounds a crore and in case of Supreme departmental appeals account 9,197.06 crore. posting muted GDP growth marked slowdown in the coun- year earlier, according to ‘The Court, the revised limit for fil- for 85 per cent of the total In the preceding month, numbers. There are fears that try’s economic activity, sub-par Sunday Times’. ing appeal has been increased number of appeals, the depart- FPIs were net sellers in the this slowdown can get extend- monsoon and weak earning As per the annual report, from 1 crore to 2 crore ment was found to have a fail- Indian capital markets (equity ed given the uncertainty on the season, globally, tension the company’s turnover from It is for the second time ure rate of more than 65 per and debt) to the tune of US-China trade agreement, between US and Iran and con- its UK plant rose 1 per cent to that the limit has been raised cent. 2,985.88 crore. Brexit and other geopolitical tinued trade war between US 2.4 million pounds, but the within a year. Frank D’Souza, Partner & Overseas investors have issues. and China too hasn’t augured production fell from 3.6 mil- “The CBDT has once again Leader — Corporate and been on a selling spree ever Given the situation, earn- well for India,” lion tons to 3.2 million after increased the monetary limits International Tax, PwC India, since higher tax on FPIs regis- ings growth is moderating However, “there is still a ray one of the two blast furnaces for the filing of income-tax said the tax administration’s tered as trusts and association while valuation is expanding. of hope for FPIs as the talks are was shut down for mainte- appeals by the Tax Department step to increase the thresholds of persons was announced in As a result, equity is losing its going on that the government nance. before the Tribunal, High for filing of appeals by the rev-  "    <8(   3   the Union Budget for 2019-20, attractiveness as an investment may consider rolling back or Tata Steel spent 56 million Courts and Supreme Court. enue department continues on   ".BCD,    #  CE$(  experts said. class and funds are shifting to providing some relief to foreign pounds during the year to “This will further help in its series of similar measures      7  6       According to Vinod Nair, safe-haven assets like bonds investors from higher sur- extend the furnace’s life by up de-clogging the courts and that it has been undertaking  (   B head of research at Geojit and gold, he added. charge,” Srivastava added. to seven years. also help the Department in over the past 4-5 years.   ! 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Then on Saturday, Trump pretext of providing her a job, least 28 people, including the deceased included two flooding on roads and in neigh- )!'*%-* /#%2"%&!2!)%&%%( NJong Un supervised a "new They were the "North said Kim had expressed in a let- police said. women and children, and trig- women and two children. borhoods, an official said.  ")# 2!2/!22"&4"&('%&3%(!#%)!# weapon" test, state media report- Korean version of a low-cost, ter his willingness to meet and Bhuwan Tamang, 31 and gering flash floods and land- In Chitral district, the The heavy monsoon show- -!##"& !!'"& "4 *%9' %%.%( ed Sunday, the latest in a series high-efficiency retaliation sys- resume negotiations once the Aite Lepcha, 29 from slides in several parts of the colony setup for Chinese engi- ers for the second day also  &4 !"S3 2%9') 3%#.C"& 9!& 2 of launches that US President tem" aimed at "incapacitating US-South Korean exercises are Nagdhunga were arrested from country, officials said on neers working on Lawari tun- caused widespread electricity !4 &), Donald Trump has played down missile defence systems" in the over. Thankot in the outskirt of Sunday. nel was also inundated by flash breakdown in half of Karachi. as Washington seeks to restart South, Kim added. Kim also offered a "small Kathmandu, they added. At least 12 people were floods, the official said. According to the Pakistan   9:   nuclear talks with Pyongyang. In a statement issued by apology for testing the short The duo were taking the killed and over 22 others However, the engineers Meteorological Department    The report carried by the KCNA on Sunday, the North's range missiles," the US leader 20-year-old girl towards India injured in different parts of were evacuated to safer places. (PMD), a total of 150 millime- >%#") "&5!&!.! ! Korean Central News Agency foreign ministry said the South's noted, and said the tests would border from Kakarbhitta in a Khyber Pakhtunkhwa due to At least six people were tres of rain has been recorded #!9&) .!&"& 23"4!3"%&"&3%!& followed Trump's comments refusal to cancel its joint drills end once the military drills wrap suspicious manner by hiding flash floods, landslides and killed when their vehicle fell in in Karachi so far and there is "&)". &3 ' 2%- %& . #"* '!3 # that Kim had expressed a will- with the US had effectively scup- up on August 20. her real identity on the pretext rain-related accidents, said a the Indus river in Kohistan dis- forecast for more rain for )933 )%'.%()!*# )!'4%&.%#!"& ingness to meet once the US- pered any prospect of future talks The pair last met in late June of providing her a job, police spokesman for the Provincial trict. Sunday night. '"3"2 5%#9-*"!( ##"&43 0;+- South Korean exercises are over with Seoul. for brief talks in the added. Disaster Management The passengers were trav- "These are the heaviest '%93 3 - ."!' /%'3 .%&9&.!, and apologised for the slew of "They had better keep in Demilitarised Zone separating Both of them have been Authority (PDMA). elling from Gilgit to lower dir monsoon rains in Karachi since missile tests. mind that this dialogue would be the two Koreas -- and Trump taken into custody and fur- Three people were killed district for Eid vacations when 1992 due to heavy cover over 9%$+$   9 Saturday's launch was the held strictly between (North became the first sitting US pres- ther investigation into the each in Bajaur and Swat dis- they met the accident took the Arabian sea but it will pass   $ North's fifth test in two weeks as Korea) and the US, not between ident ever to step inside the matter has been initiated, trict. One person was killed place at Janchal area. by Monday," Hanif Rajput an ;.-.>   !&.3  it protests the annual military the North and the South," it said. North. police said. each in Dir Lower, Buner, Torrential rains in Karachi official of the PMD said. PTI 923")  /!'3- &3 ! #!9&) . drills under way between Seoul Trump has appeared deter- Shin Beom-chul, an analyst "& 23"4!3"%&2"&3%3 . !3 %(>!"# . and Washington which always mined to secure a denuclearisa- at the Asan Institute for Policy  %'+*"##"%&!"' ("&!&)" ' (('  infuriates Pyongyang. tion agreement with North Studies in Seoul, said Trump's /23 "& %!2(%9&.. !."& "2 Defence officials in Seoul Korea ahead of next year's US downplaying of the launches  4( 8  ** ( . '!#/'"2%&) ##, said Pyongyang fired what presidential elections, despite a were equvalent to endorsing the appeared to be two short-range breakdown in talks since he missile tests. $; $> P:  ballistic missiles Saturday, flying first met Kim in a historic sum- "If Kim felt the missile tests     killed in a landslide triggered ple were evacuated from their pulling stranded people from $: $&9 =   400 kilometres (250 miles) before mit in Singapore in June 2018. could jeopardise the dialogue by torrential downpours in the homes ahead of the typhoon, bright orange inflatable boats, :. .>'"3"2 !3"%&!#'". !22!". splashing down in the sea Even after their abortive momentum, he would refrain. he death toll from municipality of Wenzhou, the official Xinhua news with skies starting to clear as 3 !3"3.% 2&%3* #"  !)* ';!33!)+ between the Korean peninsula second summit in February -- But right now, it's as if North TTyphoon Lekima rose to 33 around 400 kilometres (250 agency reported. Some the storm moved further up !23%*#!- (%'3 '".!-!22 and Japan. and as Pyongyang has continued Korea has a licence to fire short- in eastern China, local author- miles) south of Shanghai, 110,000 people were housed in the coast. /% ')932"& ") & !'#%& -"##"%& KCNA provided no techni- to test short-range missiles -- range missiles," Shin told AFP. ities said Sunday, as rescue national broadcaster CCTV shelters. Lekima had crossed into / %/# !)'%22&4#!&.!&. !# 2#%23 cal specifications but said Sunday Trump has been reluctant to crit- The foreign ministry in teams worked to find more said Saturday. According to Zhejiang Jiangsu province north of /% ', they were a "new weapon" devel- icise the North Korean leader. Pyongyang said Trump's com- than a dozen missing after the A further 12 deaths were authorities, the natural disas- Shanghai and was expected to oped to suit the country's "terrain On Friday the US president ments effectively recognised the storm triggered a landslide announced Sunday but it was ter has incurred economic hit Shandong province later on condition". said he agreed with Kim's oppo- North's "self-defensive rights" and forced more than a million unclear if they were from the losses of more than 15.8 billion Sunday, CCTV reported. )$ The official Rodong Sinmun sition to the war games -- albeit as a sovereign state to conduct people to evacuate. same incident. yuan (USD 2.2 billion). Both provinces have newspaper carried several pho- for financial rather than military "small" missile tests. The monster storm Eighteen people were still On Sunday, footage from already issued a red alert for tos showing a broadly grinning reasons -- and indicated the Leif-Eric Easley, a professor arrived in Wenling city in the missing, according to Zhejiang CCTV showed rescue workers torrential rain.   ( Kim surrounded by his aides as missile launches were not impor- at Ewha University in Seoul, said early hours of Saturday, pack- provincial authorities. on boats navigating through More than 3,200 flights he observed the test. tant. by appealing directly to Trump, ing winds of 187 kilometres "Currently, search and rescue Linhai city, where streets were have been cancelled due to the % 9$ Kim Dong-yub, a researcher "I'll say it again. There have Kim was "trying to drive a per hour (116 miles per hour), work from various regions is completely submerged in typhoon, the state broadcast- at the Institute for Far Eastern been no nuclear tests. The mis- wedge between Washington and with waves several metres still ongoing," they said on muddy water. er reported, as Shanghai, ) Studies, said the weapons were sile tests have all been short- Seoul" as Pyongyang seeks to high hitting the coastline. social media platform Weibo. Local Chinese media Beijing, and other cities likely to be new short-range bal- range. No ballistic missile tests, break the alliance. At least 18 people were More than a million peo- reports also showed teams grounded planes. Colombo: Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, former Sri Lankan defence secretary, was on !9.";# .)%!#"3"%& Sunday named as the presi- ,     dential candidate of the Sri #!9&) 223'"+ Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) party for the election !(3 '. &T)%9/T   scheduled for later this year. Brother of former strong- Aden: A Saudi-led coalition said man President Mahinda Sunday it launched a strike    tions on account of the nego- Rajapaksa, Gotabhaya, 70, apparently against southern sep- tiation underway in Doha, headed Rajapaksa's military aratists in Yemen after they he President of Afghanistan something highlighted by sev- campaign against the the seized the presidential palace in Thas ruled out postponing eral Afghan politicians in Liberation Tigers of Tamil the second city Aden. the country's upcoming elec- recent days. Eelam (LTTE) between 2006 The seizure, decried by the tions because of ongoing peace "Rumours are circulating and 2009. Riyadh-backed Yemeni govern- talks between the US and the that the foreigners want this or He attained super hero sta- ment as a UAE-supported coup, Taliban. that. Our future fate will not be tus among the Sinhala reflects deep divisions between Ashraf Ghani said the vote decided in foreign countries... Buddhist majority of the coun- secessionists and loyalist forces, on September 28 will go ahead the future and fate of this try for ending the three- both of whom have fought Shiite as planned, in his address to the country will be decided here in decades-long civil war with Huthi rebels. nation on Sunday to mark the Afghanistan," he added. the LTTE. "The coalition targeted an Islamic festival of Eid al-Azha, Ghani, who is seeking re- Ending months of specu- area that poses a direct threat to Efe news reported. election, will lock horns with lation, Rajapaksa on Sunday one of the important sites of the "Election is vital... for tak- his Chief Executive Abdullah named his younger brother legitimate government," a coali- ing strong and difficult deci- Abdullah, and 16 other candi- Gotabhaya as the presidential tion statement said, calling on the sions in peace process. dates in the vote. candidate and additionally took separatist Southern Transitional Afghanistan needs to elect a Peace negotiations between over the leadership of the new Council to withdraw from posi- president and to have a new the US and the Taliban are in political party formed by the tions seized in Aden or face fur- government so it can make the eighth round. The talks are Rajapaksa family, the SLPP. ther attacks. powerful and difficult peace working towards an agreement Rajapaksa thus ended his Riyadh-based Yemeni decisions with full authority on the withdrawal of foreign long association with the Sri President Abedrabbo Mansour and dignity," he said. troops and assurances that Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) of Hadi is backed by the coalition According to Efe news, Afghanistan will not be used by which he had been a member — led by Saudi Arabia and its Ghani has cleared doubts about terrorist groups to attack since the mid 1960s, and elect- ally. AFP any delays in holding the elec- another country. ed twice as the president from    ' (  . 1 1")(  3 (   " the SLFP. PTI   '0 >0 % ''     BB7 

    Mina: Around 2.5 million pil- renewal and rebirth. Male pil- with Eid celebrations, includ- Saudi Arabia said 1.85 mil- ernment to oversee each year. grims took part in a symbolic grims will also remove the ing distributing meat to the lion pilgrims from more than The kingdom provides pil- stoning of the devil on white terrycloth garments worn poor. 160 different countries traveled grims with health care and Lahore: A statue of Maharaja status to Jammu and Kashmir will be carried out from next Saturday, marking the final on the hajj and return to their "I came from Sudan to to the kingdom for the hajj this buses for transportation, as Ranjit Singh, who ruled over last week. The suspects week. Once it is repaired it will days of the hajj pilgrimage in usual attire. Mecca where I performed the year. Another 634,000 joined well as meals, snacks and water Punjab for close to 40 years in belonged to Tehreek-Labbaik be opened for the public again." Saudi Arabia and the start of The five-day hajj pilgrim- pilgrimage," Mohammed Saleh from within Saudi Arabia, along the routes of hajj. the early 19th century, was van- Pakistan of radical cleric It took eight months to the Eid al-Adha celebrations for age is required of all Muslims said as he performed the final nearly 70 per cent of them non- Mina is a sprawling valley dalised by two men in this Maulana Khadim Rizvi. complete the statue of the Sikh Muslims around the world. once in their lifetime, if they are rites of hajj in Mina. "We hope Saudi residents of the kingdom. near Mecca where thousands of Pakistani city on Saturday. The Walled City of Lahore ruler sitting on his favourite To mark the completion of financially and physically able all pilgrims will be successful in The hajj is one of the air-conditioned tents are erect- The nine-feet statue, made Authority that is responsible for horse named Kahar Bahar with the hajj, male pilgrims shave to make the journey. their hajj." Others too largest religious gatherings on ed to house pilgrims for the of cold bronze, was unveiled at the matters of the Lahore Fort a sword in hand. The horse was their hair and women trim Muslims around the world expressed a sense of gratitude earth and a massive logistical final leg of the hajj. the Lahore Fort in June on the has expressed shock and vowed a gift from Dost Muhammad theirs to represent a spiritual commemorate the end of hajj to have performed the hajj. challenge for the Saudi gov- AP 180th death anniversary of to repair the statue soon after Khan, the founder of the Maharaja. Singh, the first Eid. Barazkai dynasty. Maharaja of the Sikh Empire, "This is quite unfortunate The statue was built and died in 1839. incident. We will enhance secu- installed by the Walled City of ,       = Police have arrested two rity at the Lahore Fort so that Lahore Authority (WCLA) in men and registered a case no such incident should take collaboration with the UK- against them under the coun- place in the future,” Walled City based Sikh Heritage !   !  try's blasphemy laws. of Lahore Authority spokesper- Foundation, which funded the      The two men were angry son Tania Qureshi told PTI. project. after India revoked the special "The statue's restoration PTI    "  75   

!+) !&& #2*!'' . Mawlamyine: Myanmar troops were found at 11:50 am. The olice fired tear gas on late  '/  deployed to flood-hit parts of total death toll has reached 51 PSunday afternoon to try to ('%-!"'"&42/#". the country on Sunday to help people," the Myanmar fire ser- disperse a demonstration in  &O '#  with relief efforts after rising vices department said on its Hong Kong as protesters took /'%4'!-- 2 waters left thousands stranded Facebook page. over streets in two parts of the and the death toll from a land- Heavy rains pounded other Asian financial capital, blocking  F Islamabad: The Pakistan Media slide jumped to 51. parts of Mon, Karen and traffic and setting up another Regulatory Authority has asked Every year monsoon rains Kachin states, flooding roads, night of likely showdowns with Oslo: The shooting at a in the mosque in Baerum, a media outlets not to air "pre- hammer Myanmar and other destroying bridges and forcing riot police. mosque near Oslo is being suburb of Oslo, on Saturday recorded or live special pro- countries across Southeast people to flee by boat. Protesters hurled bricks at treated as an "attempted act of afternoon, before being over- grammes on Eid-ul-Azha Asia, submerging homes, dis- As the rainy season reach- officers and ignored warnings to terror", Norwegian police said powered by a man who suf- because it "may hurt sentiments placing residents and triggering es its peak, the country's armed leave the Sham Shui Po area Sunday, with the suspect fered "minor injuries" in the of not only our nation but also landslides. forces are pitching in. before tear gas was deployed, Bay area, as a rally was held in Hong Kong has seen nine appearing to harbour far- process. the Kashmiri brethren", the But this year's deluge has "Our regional military police said, calling the march an nearby Victoria Park. weeks of protests with no end in right, anti-immigrant views. Hours after the attack, media reported. tested the government's abili- commands are working to help "unauthorized assembly." Many wore face masks to sight. The movement's demands "We are looking at an the body of a young woman In a notification on Saturday, ty to respond after a fatal land- with the search and rescue Nearby, protesters wearing shield their identities, and a few include the resignation of the attempted act of terror," act- related to the suspect was the regulatory authority said: "In slide on Friday in southeastern process in disaster areas," gas masks gathered outside a had helmets. city's leader, democratic elec- ing chief of the police opera- found in a home also in observance of solidarity with Mon state was followed by Brigadier General Zaw Min police station in Cheung Sha Others just carried back- tions, the release of those arrest- tion Rune Skjold told a press Baerum. Kashmir, Eid-ul- Azha is being heavy flooding that reached the Tun told AFP. Wan, as officers wearing their packs over the black T-shirts that ed in earlier protests and an conference after Saturday's Police said earlier Sunday celebrated with simplicity as a roofs of houses and the tops of "Helicopters will be used to own protective gear looked down have become their uniform. investigation into police use of incident left one man injured. they had tried to question the religious event. Therefore, it is street signs in nearby towns. supply food." The bulk of the at them from a tall wall around "We hope the world knows force against the protesters Skjold said the investiga- suspect, described as a "young requested that no special pro- Hundreds of emergency effort is focused on hard-hit the station. that Hong Kong is not the Hong Banners at the rally in Victoria tion had shown that the man man" with a "Norwegian back- gramme be aired as Eid cele- response workers were still Mon state, which sits on the Across Victoria Harbour, a Kong it used to be," said one pro- Park read "Give Hong Kong back appeared to hold "far-right" ground" who was living in the brations as the same may hurt pulling victims out of the coast of the Andaman sea. large group of mostly young pro- tester, Louisa Ho. "China is to us" and "Withdraw the evil and "anti-immigrant" views. vicinity but he did not want to sentiments of not only our nation muddy wreckage in Paung "This year is the worst," a testers marched down the mid- doing more and more to pressure law," the latter a reference to an The suspect, armed with "give an explanation to police". but also the Kashmir brethren." township on Sunday. resident of Ye township told dle of Hennessey Road, a main Hong Kong, its people and its extradition bill that was the multiple weapons, opened fire AFP IANS "Three more dead bodies AFP. shopping drag in the Causeway organizations." original spark for the protests.    0   ! " #  97

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ohini Richard Marri remembers hair before attending the parliament her early teenage years, when which I would not do earlier. I feel Rshe was 13 and used to cross an more responsible here,” she says. area filled with contaminated sewage Two years ago, the parliament water on her way to school every day tried to take action against an alco- in Uttan village, Thane. She and holic man in the village who would many other children contracted rash- beat his wife and children. The kids es on their legs on a regular basis would also be irregular in school. because of the dirty water and com- Roshni, their tuition teacher and 30 plained to their parents. The sewage children from the parliament visited water had also started getting merged the man’s house and warned him not with the water of a well where people to hit his wife and children, else they washed clothes and utensils. But no would approach the police and take action was taken to clean the area forward the case legally. According to despite many reportings of the prob- the teacher, the trick worked. “The lem. man does not beat his children any- Later, Rohini and a group of more. And now, they are becoming other children discussed regular to school as well.” The chil- the matter at a children’s dren’s parliament had also conducted   ( parliament and in their awareness visits to a police station, a school. They decided to local post office and an orphanage. take things in their own Rohini loves to go out with her hands. With the help of a friends and play. But recently, her par-     teacher, Rohini penned a ents have started asking her to stay petition letter to the local put and study. “We tell them that as municipality with signa- children, it is our right to play,” she 2%)" 3"3 %93 9-!&"3#!)+2)""#"3&% tures of 50 children. The says and her otherwise serious and letter asked the municipal thoughtful face breaks into a smile. -!33 ' %2%/ "23")!3 ."3-"4 3!// !'"& authorities to immediate- Now that she is an adult, she notices 3 '-2%("32 .9)!3"%&-!3 '"!#/'%4' 22!&. ly clean the gutter. “We also that her mother treats her different- wrote that if no action ly. “Earlier, I would be ordered to not "&3 ## )39!#.  #%/- &32!2 was taken, the children themselves miss tuitions and study. But now, my would get on ground to clean the gut- mother says that I must decide what      ter, but bore no responsibility if any I want to do,” she says, agreeing that harm came to them,” says Rohini, the rights of a child and a recently- ately, one word that is being adding that within three days, work- turned adult are different. Parents Lused over and over on all ers had arrived to clean the area. The start allowing them more space as media platforms is ‘civil society’. children also informed their neigh- they start growing up and become Today, if we look at any debate bours to not litter the streets and dis- mature adults. Their own rights and on a news channel or any edi- pose garbage only in designated decisions are also taken into consid- torial in a newspaper, it revolves municipality bins to avoid such con- eration rather than directly imposing around civil rights and society. tamination. something on them. She also thinks But why has this topic become Reflecting on her actions, Rohini that humans are born with intrinsic a top discussion issue? To know says that if adults had intervened, the rights. the answer for this question, we authorities would have still respond- impressed with my confidence. They 2012. She says, “Initially, I thought this their age since elders need to realise Rohini has an aptitude for need to first understand what is ed. “But since nobody was willing to felt that I had become capable of rais- was a place to come and play. But in certain issues too and act according- Mathematics and wants to teach the civil society all about. In simple step forward, the children decided to ing my voice against the wrong and the parliament, we began realising our ly.” subject for which she plans to enrol words, a civilised society is do something on their own. We were for justice. They are now encouraging duties and responsibilities and that Rohini prefers the children’s par- in a teaching course. What are her based on the rule of law and nat- political, communal or by what- eventually appreciated for our actions,” my younger brother to attend the chil- children do play a huge role in bring- liament over her school because she marriage plans? Are her parents ask- ural justice, it is based on self- ever other name, is man. There she says. Even though Rohini’s parents dren’s parliament too.” ing about a change in our society. We feels that only bright and expressive ing her to consider getting married respect and the dignity of the is no problem ahead of a man, were not convinced that the author- Today, Rohini leads the children’s learnt about what is wrong and needs children manage to progress in school, now that she is 18? “No. I will marry human individual. In a civilised who violates human values, ities would pay heed to the children, parliament, which was started by the to be spoken against. We made sure whereas in the parliament, everyone later. In our community, girls marry society, one has a sense of secu- cares only about himself and “they did not stop me. It took a mat- Centre for Social Action (CSA) in we preach what we learnt and also is given a chance. “I feel more confi- at 27-28 years of age,” she says. rity, enjoys one’s rights without who only wants to reach his ful- ter of some time and they were 2010. She had joined the group in make others follow it, irrespective of dent. I also dress neatly and comb my L8  hindrance and does one’s duty fillment and ambitions, irrespec- towards others with a sense of tive of what may happen to oth- responsibility and co-operation, ers. care and good wishes for all. If The current society might we look at our surroundings, have made a marvellous <   can we call the current society progress in various fields but we live in to be civilised? Most emotionally, it is very weak. Man of us would say ‘No.’ Because has not been able to control his / '322944 234'%"&4#! &. ' when there are so many cases of impulsiveness, ambitions, anger rape, murder, child-abuse, wife- and anxiety. There is, thus, a lot -!'"4%#.2*!2"#%3 '%'&!- &3!# bashing, dacoits, violence, etc, of imbalance, created by rapid we can’t call it a civilised society? and great advancement in sci- (#% '2!&. '*2!'%9&.3  %92  With an increase in crime rate, ence and technology on the one litigation cases, an individualis- hand and absence of parallel 3%' / #"&2 )32 tic approach, wherein one does progress in emotional maturity, not even know one’s next-door self-control and ethical abilities f mosquitoes, gnats, black often is confused with DDT, neighbour, it certainly can’t be on the other. This has resulted Iflies and no-see-ums are the insecticide blamed for so called even a society. Massive in many problems that we are driving you buggy, then con- many environmental prob- deforestation, expansion of large facing today. We should, there- sider cozying up to some lems, Leal said. cities, lynchings and using vio- fore, realise that a thorough lavender, marigolds or basil. “DEET is not an insecti- lent gadgets and weapons to hit observance of values is, all Scientists question their over- cide, and it’s a chemical of low people — with such things hap- through the millennia, essential all effectiveness, but many volatility so it lasts longer,” pening all around, how does a to ensure peace, happiness and fragrant ornamental flowers Leal said. “People are not society become civilised? health. And today, it has become and herbs grown around the interested in re-applying Undoubtedly, today, there is a million times more essential home have properties that something every few hours.” better sanitation, civic sense, dis- now that man’s capacity to com- can repel insects. If you do plan to try nat- cipline and etiquette but civili- mit high crimes has increased Insect repellents are divid- ural repellents, then the top ty is a much beyond all of this. unimaginably and unreason- ed into two primary chemical herbs for which there is scien- We may come across many ably. classes: natural and synthetic. tific evidence of mosquito who can be called as ‘sensible,’ Let us, therefore, under- How effective they are deterrence are lemongrass, ever, that some of the volatile Control says. but may lack moral sense, which stand what a ‘civilised society’ depends on the targeted lemon balm, bee balm and oils produced by those plants Insects can be more than is one of the biggest reasons of really is and how important it is insects and the host plants’ lemon thyme, said Gary could be irritating. annoying. Some can be down- an increasing arms race, envi- to follow and inculcate in our- essential oils. Bachman, an extension horti- Most insect repellents right dangerous, transmitting ronmental pollution and popu- selves values if we wish a better “Plant-derived insect culturist with Mississippi State designed for use on the skin viruses (yellow fever, lation growth. Hence, one may world to live in. It would bene- repellents are very volatile University. must be registered by the US encephalitis, dengue fever, have his five senses functioning fit everyone collectively rather compounds that work but Rosemary, lavender, basil, Environmental Protection West Nile disease), bacteria properly but if he does not than just catering to any one per- exhaust themselves very mint, citronella and catnip Agency before they can be (Lyme disease, typhus) or have this sixth sense, which is son. Remember, there is no quickly,” said Walter Leal, a also may help discourage sold in stores. EPA registra- parasites (malaria, sleeping the moral sense or the sense of perfect vacuum in the world. So biochemist and distinguished insect pests, he said. tion means the repellent has sickness). Bug sprays general- human responsibility, then with- if the values leave their place, professor at the University of Ornamental flowers believed been tested and approved for ly are the first line of defense out it, we would not be looked vices will occupy it. And it’s a les- California, Davis. “They’re to be effective at deterring human safety and is effective for long-lasting protection. at as humans; but only as beings. son from history that vices lead good, but they should last for troublesome bugs include when used according to label Does that mean orna- And a society whose members to a downfall of civilisations. We a longer time.” marigolds, alliums, chrysan- directions. mental plants and herbs con- lack humanity is not a civilised must, therefore, remember that The most frequently cited themums, petunias and gera- Synthesised OLE is an taining natural insect repel- society no matter how sophis- all sufferings are due to presence plant-based repellents include niums. effective insect deterrent lents are practical additions ticated and advanced they might of vices and absence of moral, the oil of lemon eucalyptus There are “a lot of plants although “pure” oil of eucalyp- for residential settings? be in terms of their education, human, social and spiritual val- (OLE) and oil of citronella. that if you rub against them tus is not recommended. “It “Botanical repellents are a intellectual development and ues. So, we must learn the DEET (N,N-Diethyl-meta- release vital oils,” Bachman has not undergone validated nice idea, but I don’t think material progress. Hence, it’s knowledge and practise medita- toluamide), on the other hand, said. “I think that’s probably of don’t think there’s much rubbing crushed plant mate- testing for safety and effective- they’re the best solution for important to understand that tion to inculcate values right is a strong synthetic repellent some benefit in repelling chance of keeping trouble- rial onto your clothing or ness and is not registered discouraging insects,” the real problem, underlying all away. Let “now or never” be our considered the yardstick for insects. But if you just have some insects away. You have skin.” with EPA as an insect repel- Bachman said. problems, whether these be slogan. This is the ultimate protection from insects, but those plants sitting in a pot, I to put some effort into it, like Bachman cautions, how- lent,” the Centers for Disease L" labelled as economic, social, solution to the puzzle of life. '  " '   2 L,7

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hreyas Iyer says he is “flexible” bat- 8/%-$ /2 =1%Q& $'/$- Sting at any position as the Indian team management continues its search for a reliable number four bats-  ;;  man. Iyer, who is part of the team tour- est Indies skipper Jason ing the Caribbean islands, could be in Holder expects ‘Universe competition with the likes of K L WBoss’ Chris Gayle to come Rahul and Rishabh Pant over the next good against India in the second two ODIs against the West Indies. ODI which will be his 300th match, “We have got no idea. It’s totally the most by a West Indian. the management’s decision. I can’t go The 39-year-old Gayle will go and say that I want to bat at number past legendary Brian Lara, who four and they would put me in that played 299 ODIs between 1990 and spot. It’s not like that,” Iyer said when 2007, in the match at the Queen’s asked about the problematic position. Park Oval. India could not find an answer to Gayle can also overtake Lara’s their number four conundrum record for the most ODI runs through the World Cup and the (10,405) by a West Indies batsman. search will continue in the remaining He requires just nine runs to over- two games of the three-match ODI haul Lara’s total runs. series. “Three hundred games is a lot “It’s going to be a vacant spot and of games. Some of us in the dress- they are going to definitely try and ing room can’t even imagine that. give chances to all the players in that We just hope he can get us off to a position. Currently, no one is con- really good start on Sunday,” Holder vinced with that position,” the play- said. er said at the pre-match press confer- Gayle struggled in the aban- ence. doned first ODI, scoring 4 from 31 “Personally, I am not thinking deliveries but his opening partner about batting only at No 4. I want to Evin Lewis put up a good show, be someone who is very flexible bat-    )8      scoring an unbeaten 40 off 36 balls ting at any number or if you go into before the match was called off due    I8 -   .4        9)(     any situation you should be able to Caribbean, where he was the third- from T20Is, Iyer said India have the to rains. grab that opportunity and make the highest run-getter in the one-dayers momentum going into this series “Definitely happy to see Evin ourselves down in having a foun- their batting line-up (as possible),” Queen’s Park Oval, Holder said: “It’s best use of it.” with 187 runs in four innings. coming off a 3-0 sweep in the short- get some time in the middle,” dation,” Holder said. he said. normally pretty humid. The wick- Iyer, who has a couple of half-cen- “It’s going to be another two est format. Holder said. “It’s just a matter for us to take “The wickets nowadays are et is a decent one, hopefully the rain turies in the five ODI innings he has opportunities for me to make the best “The momentum is always on our “He didn’t get the runs he was a few balls at first and get ourselves very good for batting. It tends to stays away and it doesn’t get too played so far, is coming into the team use of it. Hopefully this also doesn’t side. The way the team is playing cur- looking for in the T20 format but set and then we take it as the innings play a little bit more in the batsmen’s soggy. The pitch normally is a very after an year and is eager to make the rain off. We are hardly getting any net rently, it’s totally amazing,” he said. it’s good to see him get into form in goes on.” favour, (but) we’ve been doing a good pitch here. most of the opportunities. practice. I am eager to go out there “If one doesn’t perform, the next Guyana and hopefully he can trans- Holder said his bowlers will really good job, especially in the The conditions should be real- Rain interrupted the team’s train- and carry forward the momentum one raises his hand and he takes the fer that performance here as well.” have to be consistent as they look World Cup I thought our bowlers ly good on Sunday. We’ve got to see ing session on the eve of the second which I got from my India A match- responsibility to take the team Early wickets affected West to challenge India’s famed batting did a great job, and (we’ll look to) how the pitch plays, but ideally in ODI on Saturday. But despite the lack es. Looking forward to a good series through and this is what has been Indies’ campaign during their 0-3 line-up. just continue from there and just try one-day cricket, 300 runs is the of practice, Iyer drew confidence finish.” happening throughout the year.” loss against India in the T20Is. “We got to put pressure (on the to be consistent.” benchmark. We’ll see how it all from his India A stint in the Asked about switching to ODIs “I think in the past we have let batsmen) and try to get as deep into Talking about pitch at the plays out.” ,R Q? R    Q % (*

  ,       "It's an amazing feeling team," the former pacer said. when a team has that belief, "It's so infectious." ichael Kasprowicz when you believe you can win Kasprowicz was reluctant    Mbelieves Australia's surg- from anywhere," Kasprowicz to offer an opinion about ing self-belief and pace depth told reporters. whether Mitchell Starc or Josh os Buttler believes Jofra Archer’s “X factor” will help them keep the foot "It's strong and I really Hazlewood should be recalled, Jcan re-energise England’s Ashes challenge, down on this Ashes tour after think Justin has put that in suggesting the incumbent pace- with the paceman in line to make a much- taking a 1-0 series lead. there. men's performance would anticipated Test debut at Lord’s this week. Justin Langer and "They'll all realise that's make it hard to make a change. Australia took a 1-0 lead in the five-match Kasprowicz both played in the the case ... and you'll find the "One of the most exciting series after winning the first Test at Edgbaston 2005 contest between Australia players will be ready for this things is the depth of fast earlier this month by the thumping margin and England, widely regarded game." bowling in Australia right of 251 runs. as one of the greatest Test Kasprowicz, a long-term now," he said. Archer is likely to play in the match start- series ever. Cricket Australia board mem- "There's a lot of great play- ing on Wednesday in place of England’s England dropped the open- ber, also highlighted how Steve ers who weren't able to make record wicket-taker James Anderson, who is ing Test of the 2005 Ashes but Smith's Bradman-like aura the side." sidelined by a calf injury. were undefeated from that would help teammates walk Australia's 17-man tour- “He’s got the X factor,” Buttler said of his point on, holding on for a dra- taller as they pursue a 2-0 lead ing party will have their first fellow World Cup winner. matic 2-1 triumph. and Australia's first Test series look at the Lord's pitch on “In his short international career so far Kasprowicz feels the nature lied from 8-122 on day one will be a big boost when the win in England since 2001. Sunday, having enjoyed some we’ve seen what an impact he’s had. He’s got of Australia's win in then again when in trouble second Test starts at Lord's on "The way he played ... that's sightseeing and football in amazing skills with the white ball, but talk- Birmingham, in which they ral- during their second innings, Wednesday. going to instill belief in the London on Saturday. ing to him he prefers bowling with the red one. “That’s exciting for us, and it’s exciting for ,  ! the world to see him in the Test arena. (2  " P  ?     “He tends to cope with expectation well, 3"  ' " P    he’s a pretty laid-back character who has an +"   Q  immense trust in his game. So if he gets his The key to England’s hopes of victory is  5  source said. chance I expect him to perform really well.” finding a way to dismiss Smith, who now According to the source, PCB Australia won the Ashes opener despite averages nearly 63 in Test cricket.  > ormer Pakistan head coach Mickey chairman Ehsan Mani had spoken to stumbling to 122 for eight on the opening day, Buttler knows Smith well as the two men FArthur was assured by an influen- Imran Khan who is patron-in-chief of with man-of-the-match Steve Smith hitting were teammates at the Rajasthan Royals in  5  tial group of cricketers that he would be the PCB on the matter and the former two centuries. the Indian Premier League this year. retained for another two years after the skipper made it clear that a new team “We played some good cricket at “He’s pretty good, isn’t he?” Buttler said. ormer Pakistan batsman Mohsin Khan World Cup but Prime Minister Imran management set-up must be brought in Edgbaston, but we didn’t play well enough for “What he does is put you under pressure for FSaturday threw his hat into the ring for Khan rejected giving extensions to the after the World Cup. long enough,” Buttler said. a long period of time and puts demands on the national team head coach's job left vacant coaching staff. Arthur also got a shock when the “The challenge is still the same. Every you. after the cricket board decided not to According to a highly reliable local media started reporting that when time you come and play at Lord’s is special, “He’s a fantastic player who can take renew South African Mickey Arthur's con- source, an influential member of the he appeared before the cricket commit- especially in an Ashes Test. advantage of that. He’s been one of the best tract. Pakistan Cricket Board's Cricket tee he had suggested appointing Shadab “There’s no need to panic. We’re 1-0 down players for a while now and that’s the chal- Mohsin, who has remained a chief Committee and some other officials in Khan and Babar Azam as captains for but there’s four matches to go in this series.” lenge of playing Test cricket against Australia.” selector and also the interim head coach of the board had assured Arthur he would white and red-ball cricket. the national team, said at a function here that be getting an extension as head coach Arthur has now apparently con- the PCB could easily find a capable person despite Pakistan's failure to reach the veyed to skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed that from the country to coach the national team. knockout stage of the World Cup. he never said anything against him nor !)  !2N&%3 "&43%#%2 O "I have been offered positions twice "Arthur was very confident after did he give any suggestions to the com- thrice by the previous board set-up but I did these assurances that is why he came mittee on appointing new captains for not accept because I could not work with a down to Lahore and spent quite a few all formats.    corrupt set-up. But I am willing to work with days in anticipation of an extension but "Arthur has communicated to this set-up provided they show respect to he was also disappointed and shocked Sarfaraz that media reports about him ack Leach admitted on their own players," he said. when the PCB announced they were not talking about changing the captain JSunday that he has “noth- Asked if he has applied for the head retaining him or the support staff," the were not correct," the source said. ing to lose” after the England coach's job, Mohsin said since it was a spinner was called up for the requirement he will do it but insisted the second Ashes Test against process was not necessary when appointing Australia at Lord’s. local coaches.   2+ =  Leach is in contention He said Pakistan team does not need a to start in the clash on foreign coach and foreign support staff. Wednesday after "What have these foreign coaches    Sourabh, who had won replacing fellow spin achieved when the board has hired them. two Super 100 titles last bowler Moeen Ali What did Arthur achieve," he questioned. eigning National cham- year at the Dutch Open and in the squad fol- Mohsin said if he is offered any position Rpion Sourabh Verma Russian Open, doesn’t have lowing his team’s by the Board, he would make it clear he capped an impressive week any financial support and first Test thrash- would not compromise on discipline. at the Hyderabad Open with has been playing tourna- ing at Edgbaston, "Sometimes, I feel those people have not a thrilling win over ments on his own. and he is ready to play utilised my expertise as they know I am not Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew in He reached the semifi- with no fear after his earlier corrupt and will not do any hanky panky," the summit clash to claim nals at US Open and quar- than expected role in the said Mohsin who played 48 Tests between the men's singles title here terfinals at Canada Open, series. 1978 and 1986. Sunday. besides winning the Slovenia “It feels like I’ve got noth- Former Pakistan opener Aamir Sohail, The 26-year-old from Open earlier this year. ing to lose and a lot to gain,” who has also served as chief selector in the Madhya Pradesh, who had “I still don’t have any Leach said on BBC radio pro- past, said the Cricket Committee headed by won the Slovenian sponsor or any help from gramme Sportsweek. Wasim Khan had taken the right decision International in May this anybody. Nothing has “I just want to go and do to give marching orders to Arthur and his year, showed great compo- changed since the Nationals, my thing.” support staff. sure as he outwitted World I still pay for the tourna- Leach will be key to the "Yes, it was the right thing to do after No 44 Kean Yew 21-13, 14- ments. But I don't want to task of containing batting . P  1  3 4 9    three years but what is important is to see 21, 21-16 in a 52-minute think about things which I star Steve Smith, who scored what happens now. I think we have enough final clash at the Gachibowli can’t control. I want to stay a century in both Aussie an Ashes warm-up. there but I've just got to — if capable people in our own country who can Indoor Stadium here. fit and focus on my game,” innings last time out to help But this week all the I’m in the 11 — I’ve got to do do a good job with the team," Sohail said. “I am extremely pleased first but I lost focus a bit and Top seeds Ashwini said Sourabh, who had an his side to a 251-run victory focus will be on his bowling my thing and bowl as well as He also noted that the PCB needed to with my performance this tried to quickly complete the Ponnappa and N Sikki ankle issue at Azerbaijan over England. as England hope he can be I can and see what happens. change its priorities. week. I pulled out some match. My opponent also Reddy, however, squandered International in June. The 28-year-old’s last the man to crack Smith. “It’s the same for every "They have asked for coaches qualified crucial matches in the pre- changed his game and it was an opportunity to register a Asked about his future appearance at Lord’s earlier “There has been a focus batter. I want to get every bat- to run so many software programmes to vious rounds and in the difficult to come back. In the maiden women’s doubles events, Sourabh said: “I will this summer saw him score on his supposed weakness ter out. Yes, there’s Steve apply for the coaching positions and the final as well I played well,” third game, I changed my title, losing 17-21, 17-21 to play Chinese Taipei Open 92 as a nightwatchman as against left-arm spin,” he Smith but there’s 10 other funny thing is that what steps does the board Sourabh said. strategy and it worked. Korean combination of Baek (Super 300) and Vietnam England overcame a dismal said. guys as well and I'll be focus- take to educate its own local coaches in such “I was leading in the sec- Overall I am happy with the Ha Na and Jung Kyung Eun Open (Super 100) next in first innings to beat Ireland in “I suppose those stats are ing on all of them.” programmes," he said. ond game after winning the way I performed this week.” in the summit clash. September.”  ' ! " # #  5

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  5  ruguayan forward Luis Suarez once again Uled the attack for FC Barcelona, scoring ierre-Emerick Aubameyang fired two goals in the Spanish team’s 4-0 drubbing Arsenal to a 1-0 win at Newcastle in of Napoli in a friendly that was part of the Ptheir Premier League opener on teams’ pre-season tour of the US. Sunday, providing hope of an improved run In the first half on Saturday, Barcelona had this season for Unai Emery’s side. several clear scoring opportunities, especially The Gunners finished last season in one involving the club’s new signing, French turmoil after blowing their bid for a top- striker Antoine Griezmann. But the Catalan four place with a disastrous spell in the final squad initially seemed to suffer from the weeks. absence of star player Lionel Messi, who did But Arsenal have enjoyed a profitable not set foot on the pitch due to a calf injury sus- close-season, with a host of new signings tained during training earlier in the week. raising morale around the Emirates Napoli also came close to going one up in Stadium. the 45th minute as Fabian Ruiz went within And Aubameyang gave Arsenal fans inches of finding the net just before the half- renewed belief they can get back in the top time whistle saw the teams walk off with a level four this term with a typically predatory defence took the plaudits. scoreboard displaying 0-0 at the Michigan second-half finish to give the north Stadium. Londoners a winning start.    ;:  However, Arsenal had a wretched away record Wolverhampton Wanderers had to set- the second last season, keeping just one clean sheet on tle for a 0-0 draw at Leicester City after VAR half was a their travels, so taking three points with- intervened to disallow Leander show of dom- out conceding was the perfect way to turn Dendoncker’s strike. inance and a over a new leaf. The visitors thought they’d taken the masterclass in Their often-criticised defence held lead six minutes into the second half but offensive play firm, with centre-backs Calum Chambers video replays showed Dendoncker’s initial by the Spanish and Sokratis keeping Newcastle at bay. header struck teammate Willy Boly’s arm league cham- Aubameyang’s strike ruined Newcastle before coming back to the Belgian. pions. manager Steve Bruce’s first match in Both sides struggled to create chances Barcelona charge of the club he supported as a boy. of note, though Wolves might have won kick-started Emery’s decision to leave new signings with better finishing from Portuguese their goalscor- David Luiz, Dani Ceballos and Nicolas forward Diogo Jota. ing exhibition Pepe on the bench was rewarded by a deter- Leicester coach Brendan Rodgers in the 47th mined, if only sporadically cohesive, dis- opted for Caglar Soyuncu to fill the gap left minute with play from his team. by Harry Maguire's 80-million pound ($97 Suarez mak- There were starts for 19-year-old when he tested Martin Dubravka with a Paul Dummett’s under-hit pass to Jetro Dubravka. million) departure for Manchester United. ing the most academy graduates Reiss Nelson and Joe powerful strike after superbly controlling Willems and surging away from inside his Ivory Coast winger Pepe, Arsenal’s 72 Soyuncu had little trouble as both sides nul- of a Willock, but Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac Mkhitaryan’s long pass. own half. million pound club-record signing, and lified each other. Griezmann were absent after two men were arrested It was a warning that Newcastle failed Unfurling a pin-point pass that curled Spanish midfielder Ceballos, on loan from Leicester dominated possession but shot that following a fresh incident after the pair were to heed as Aubameyang put Arsenal ahead over the back-tracking Newcastle defence, Real Madrid, came off the bench for the Jamie Vardy had little involvement until rebounded off the Italian squad’s keeper, Alex the victims of an attempted car-jacking in in the 58th minute. Maitland-Niles found Aubameyang in last 20 minutes. Youri Tielemans' cross shot across the six- Meret. July. Ainsley Maitland-Niles was the space and the Gabon striker took a touch The new boys didn’t make much of an yard box in the 38th. The former England Then, much to the delight of the Barcelona Joelinton made his first Newcastle start provider, making a timely interception of before clipping his cool finish past impact as Arsenal’s much-maligned striker failed to get a touch. fans present at the stadium, Griezmann scored after his club-record 40 million switch from his first goal for his new club in the 55th minute, Hoffenheim and the Brazilian striker taking the lead to 2-0. needed to impress to lift the gloomy The frenzy intensified two minutes later mood on a rainy day in the north-east. , ' Q     : ,  when Suarez found the back of the net for the He had his first sights of goal when he second time following an assist by Frenchman flicked a header just wide from Matt    mer Manchester United Against West Ham, team,” Mourinho said of could win the title last son we did enough in the Ousmane Dembele as Meret looked on help- Ritchie’s cross and then blasted straight at boss was quick to high- two times defending the potential title chal- season before he was transfer window to allow lessly. Arsenal keeper Bernd Leno. ose Mourinho claims light City’s strength in champion had a substi- lengers. sacked in December. us to compete for the A few minutes later, it was Dembele’s turn Jonjo Shelvey went even closer for JManchester City are so depth. tutes bench including “When I looked at “When I said that first position because to join the party in the 63rd minute as he scored Newcastle as the midfielder hit the outside strong the Premier Pep Guardiola’s men new signing Joao the bench yesterday (on second position the pre- though we finished sec- Barcelona's fourth goal, thus crowning an of a post with a stinging strike. League champions could kicked off their bid for a Cancelo, Bernardo Silva, Saturday), the players not vious season (2017-18) ond the distance to first inspired and tireless performance. Henrikh Mkhitaryan squandered a even win the title with third successive title by Ilkay Gundogan and involved, I think even was one of my biggest was very considerable. After the 65th minute, Barcelona coach golden chance to give Arsenal the lead, the their second-string side. thrashing West Ham Aguero, who scored a the ‘B’ team could fight achievements in football “So I don’t feel this Ernesto Valverde brought in Brazilian players unmarked midfielder firing wildly over the Mourinho, working United 5-0 on Saturday penalty after his second- for the title.” I was not having fun with season they can win but Philippe Coutinho and Arthur Melo, as well as bar from 10 yards. as a pundit for Sky Sports thanks to Raheem half introduction. Former Chelsea and the words,” he said. I hope they feel they can Chilean winger Arturo Vidal, in order to give After a quiet start, Arsenal star on Sunday, was asked Sterling’s hat-trick and “Man City, Real Madrid manager “I just was just telling because that will be an them game time in the pre-season friendly after Aubameyang, the joint top-scorer in the who can win the title strikes from Gabriel Jesus Tottenham, Liverpool Mourinho also admitted you what I was feeling. important motivational they joined the squad late owing to their par- Premier League last season, sprang to life this season and the for- and Sergio Aguero. and the Man City ‘B’ he did not believe United “I didn’t feel last sea- push for them.” ticipation in the Copa America. .      "    

6 >   %/!&&!; &"2 ,   afael Nadal is homing #%2 "&2 -"2    9    the match situation and not take Rin on a second straight unnecessary risks by going for ATP title in Canada after   :> &."!O2% !& erena Williams withstood the layer turned coach Rakesh advanced tackles." reaching the Montreal %/!&&!!&. "2/!'3& ' Sdetermined challenge of PKumar is not very happy with However, he refused to blame Masters final without hit- &"2 !/%!#%)'!2 . Czech qualifier Marie Bouzkova the performance of the Pro Kabaddi any particular player and said that ting a shot on Saturday. %93%(3 %&3' !# Saturday, rallying for a 1-6, 6-3, League side Haryana Steelers in this it's the combined responsibility of The top-seeded world !23 '2!(3 '4%"&4.%&"& 6-3 victory to reach the WTA year's edition of the tournament so the entire team to put up a match- number two was handed 23'!"4 32 32"&3 2 -"; Toronto final. far, where the side has just managed winning performance. an extra day of rest when ("&!#2%(3 - &O2.%9*# 2 Williams, seeded eighth in a to win two out of the five games they The tournament is still in the Gael Monfils withdrew  &3 ' , tournament she has won three played up till now. initial stage and with a lot to be from their semi-final —  9&2 . ..9%%( times, will take on home hope %/!&&!!&. !/%!#% The team started the campaign played for; the coach isn't much scheduled to start just Bianca Andreescu in the cham- (   '  on winning note when they beat worried about the results and is hours after the French #%23H;A7;BH;3%3 pionship match on Sunday. 93) )%-*"&!3"%&%(%*"& 7    (  Rakesh's fellow Indian teammate hopeful that once the combination player defeated Spain’s !!2 !&. 2# %%# %( Williams will and newly appointed Puneri Paltan's gets settled the team will get back Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, "&! !'.;(%94 3)%&3 23, be seeking her first “I just needed to coach Ajay Kumar's side 34-24 in into winnings ways and things will 3-6, 7-6 (7/2) in a rain- !!2 !&.%%# %("##&% title since she won be more consistent the first game of the season but then change. delayed quarter-final. (!) 3 /!&"2 ;'4 &3"& her 23rd Grand and not make so lose the momentum and suffer a Rakesh is also excited by the Nadal will aim for his /!"'%(!') #'!&%## '2 Slam title at the many errors and just hat-trick of defeats in the next return of star raider Vikash fifth Canadian trophy on !&. %'!)"%L *!##%2"&3 2017 Australian Open — and her mentally be ready to hit a thou- three games. Kandola, who he thinks will be the Sunday when he faces 3"3# )#!2 , first since the birth of her daugh- sand balls if I needed to,” Williams Talking about what went wrong key component in the raiding unit Daniil Medvedev, who  /!"' !. !'#" '4%3! ter Olympia on September 1 of said. “In the first set, I was going for the side, the former Indian all- and his presence in the line-up will dominated Russian compa- !#+% '"&3 "'D9!'3 '("&!# that year. for a little too much, so I just had rounder, who isn't very happy with also bolster defense confidence. triot Karen Khachanov 6- )#!2 !4!"&23 &%"3!"' Meanwhile 19-year-old to just play a different game.” the team's performance, said that "Vikash is fit to play again and 1, 7-6 (8/6). !&.3!& !'"&+!, Andreescu will be trying to Bouzkova departs Toronto the side has failed to replicate the his return will boost the side. He will Monfils and Bautista, %/!&&!!&. !/%!#% become the first Canadian in 50 having beaten three straight practice form in the mat and poor provide support to Naveen in the rained out on Friday night, )7   '    (   !.+&%)+ .%933 (%9'3 years to lift the trophy. Grand Slam winners in Sloane defensive errors have cost them raiding and his presence will also were delayed a further two  (  8  (    2 .' &) /!"'%(") %#! Bouzkova, 21 and ranked Stephens, Jelena Ostapenko and, matches. give confidence to the defense, as his and a half hours by rain on ! 93!&..%9!'.%4 '; 91st in the world, had said it was in the quarter-finals, reigning "I'm not very happy with the performance can eclipse small mis- Saturday. Meadows this month. ing that he’s played match- !22 #"&* (%' . ( !3"&4 a dream come true to take on 37- Wimbledon champion Simona kind of performance we delivered so takes by the defenders." Although 16th-seeded Medvedev won the es against Nadal’s fellow # .-9&.!&.!#%' year-old US superstar Williams, Halep — who retired injured after far. We have failed to perform Discussing his new role of Monfils out-lasted the first Masters 1000 semi- superstars Novak Djokovic '"3"&23'!"4 32 32"&3 and she made a dream start dropping the first to Bouzkova on according to the plan coaching, Rakesh who previously Spaniard, he rolled his final ever played between a and Roger Federer. '%9&.%(6H,  —breaking Williams three times Friday night. made during the prac- has represented Patna Pirates, U ankle in the process. A pair of Russians to line up “But this is what I have to take the first set in less than Andreescu shot to promi- tice sessions." Mumba and Telugu Titans in the few hours to prepare for a first career meeting with been working for all my half an hour. nence with a victory at Indian The coach particu- league as a player says that it Nadal was too much for the Nadal. life. I would never expect “I won’t be intimidat- But Williams rallied, slashing Wells in March, but this week larly is not very happy (coaching) is a lot more responsible French showman — espe- “It’s extra special, but to play against them (the ed. I want to win every her unforced errors in a second marks her first tournament since with the team's defense job now that what it was before cially with the US Open there is some extra pres- ATP elite), especially in the match I play. Hopefully I set that saw her win the last four she was forced out of the French and feels that the when he used to feature as a coming up at Flushing sure,” Medvedev said, not- finals of a Masters 1000. can do it.” games to force the decider. Open with a shoulder injury. unsettled combi- player. nation is the "As a player, my prime reason job was to perform, why the team rest and plan how -/3/@' -$$ '3 2 '2'22 suffered three to play in the back to back upcoming  5 5  hip surgery that has given his career after a standout week in Czech Karolina Pliskova, defeats. matches. a second chance at age 32. Montreal. the 2016 winner, is third ahead "Our There was ovak Djokovic and Roger Murray, a 2008 and 2011 Fourth seed Dominic of Romania’s Simona Halep and defense has not much NFederer will make late summer Cincinnati champion, will open in the Thiem will hope to keep lifting holder Kiki Bertens of the not been able pressure on hardcourt starts next week as the ATP first round against France’s Richard his hardcourt form after reach- Netherlands. to set up prop- me then. But and WTA Cincinnati Masters gets Gasquet, whom he leads 8-3 in their ing the Montreal quarter-finals. Serena Williams, a 23-time erly because of now, this is a underway with all major names set personal rivalry, taking their past Greek fifth seed Stefanos Grand Slam singkes winner, which we suf- more responsi- to compete. three meetings dating to 2015 and Tsitsipas will need to quickly hopes to continue her fightback fered two defeats. ble job. I am sup- Along to give his resurfaced 2016. improve after losing early in to match fitness, which was on But we are trying posed to dig perfor- right hip a test after seven months of Federer, who turned 38 on Canada. solid display in a victory Friday to work on it, as mance from the estab- singles inactivity will be two-time Thursday, will need to lift his game Japan’s Kei Nishikori take over Osaka in a rematch of their well as trying to lished players as well as champion Andy Murray, with the immediately as he prepares for the US the fifth seeding ahead of 2018 US Open final. improve the mis- motivate and preserve world number 325 entered on a wild Open. Montreal quarter-finalist The 37-year-old American takes that we com- youngsters at the same card. Federer has claimed the Alexander Zverev and Russian will begin her campaign against mitted in the last time." British three-time Grand Slam Cincinnati trophy seven times, most Karen Khachanov. a qualifier. few matches." "A lot of responsibilities champion Murray’s most recent sin- recently in 2015. On the women’s side, After losing the Wimbledon "We need to have come up and I am try- gles match was a January first-round Top seed Djokovic and number Australian Ashleigh Barty, who final against Halep, Williams is avoid repeating the ing to do justice as much as Australian Open loss, after which the three Federer will both be playing for lost the top ranking with a first- keeping her hopes toned down. same mistakes over I can. It's a new start for me Scotsman tearfully said his career the first time since their Wimbledon match exit in Toronto, is seed- Bertens could play Venus and over again and and I am learning every might be over after playing and los- final, won by the Serb after Federer ed atop the table followed by Williams in the second round if the focus should be on tincture bit of this new role," ing in severe hip pain. held two match points. double Grand Slam champion the veteran gets past a qualifier playing according to he signed off. He then underwent a successful Nadal takes the second seeding   <)2      Naomi Osaka of Japan. in her opening match.