: % ! ; ! ; ; ,'"/,.=>?@ # ()(#) * "#$% &' + #, &- $<&6 27 %687"7O .29.<5 %=6 "<6'=7 ! " # " "# $!#% %# %# % .%"& =&5<62 2 9"7 <6=67 27=6*>* 8 # &#%%# *0*?,,# ?? @" " =ABC=DE =?B ! # . %& '(
% 627"8"6 rammed the explosive-laden SUV into a convoy of CRPF n atrocious suicide attack buses at Lethpora, 17 kilome- Akilled 43 Central Reserve ters from Srinagar at around Police Force (CRPF) personnel 3.15 pm. The major impact of $ $ in highway village of Lethpora the blast was on a bus packed in south Kashmir on Thursday with off-duty troopers while the bang of the blast that it shat- as a suicide bomber rammed four other buses in tow were tered windowpanes of the explosive-laden SUV into a also badly damaged. At least, houses in a diameter of 5 km %% 79.2 The JeM was involved in Srinagar-bound convoy. This is two personnel deployed for and it was heard in many parts the Pathankot airbase terror the biggest attack on security road safety and not part of the of Srinagar city. Sources said he deadly car bomb attack strike on January 2, 2016,” the forces in three decades of insur- convoy, were also killed. that more than hundred kg of Tcarried out by the Jaish-e- official said. gency in Kashmir. Pakistan- Sources said more than a explosive has been used in the Mohammad on a convoy of the Last such attack was based Jaish-e-Muhammad out- couple of dozen personnel were attack. Central Reserve Police Force recorded on November 2, 2005 fit claimed responsibility for the wounded in the attack. The attack was carried out (CRPF) on Thursday in when a suicide bomber blew up attack saying a 21-year-old Most of the personnel died at a time when security forces Pulwama district in Jammu & his car at Nowgam, near the local terrorist Adil Dar carried on the spot even as many had upped the ante against Kashmir is similar to terror private residence of then Chief out the attack. injured were evacuated to hos- ultras in the Valley especially in strikes in Afghanistan, Syria Minister Mufti Mohammad Gory pictures of splattered pital for treatment. the south Kashmir region. and some other trouble-torn Sayeed, killing three cops and body parts of the slain troop- Attacker Dar hails from The attack is also parts of the West-East. six civilians. ers, blood-soaked tattered Kakapora village, 5 km from significant in the wake of Intelligence had informa- Another major car bomb clothes and mangled vehicles the blast site. He had joined the preparations for the tion about the attack for the last strike was registered on Oc- went viral soon after the after- JeM outfit in April last year. He upcoming Assembly and par- one year but no counter-mech- tober 1, 2001 when terrorists tr- noon attack that signals major is second Kashmiri suicide liamentary polls. Several top anism could be put in place. iggered a car bomb outside the shift in terrorists’ tactic in bomber who carried out attack officials of the State led by Chief Officials in the security old Legislative Assembly Co- Kashmir. The all-time high on security forces. Afaq Shah, Secretary BVR Subramanyam establishment said attack of mplex in Srinagar in which 38 fatal casualty figure even sur- 21, had blown himself off out- are scheduled to hold a crucial such magnitude and sophisti- persons were killed while three passed Uri attack on Indian side the XV corps headquarters meeting in New Delhi on cation on Thursday has been terrorists were also neutralised. Army on September 18, 2016 in year 2000. February 18 to decide poll unseen before in the Valley The first “human bomb” was when 19 soldiers were killed by Sources said that Dar had possibilities in the embattled which is a marked shift in the used on April 19, 2000 in a group of LeT fidayeen. recorded a video before State. terror tactic in Jammu & which two soldiers were killed Large scale condemnation embarking on the suicidal path The security forces blocked Kashmir amid a clear admin- in the suicide car bomb at the has poured in against the and it was uploaded by his out- traffic on the national highway istrative and Intelligence failure. Army headquarters at attack. Home Minister Rajnath fit almost simultaneously with after the blast leading to major # $ $ %& '( )* + “The initiative always lies Badamibagh area in Srinagar. Singh is likely to visit Kashmir the attack’s timing. Such was chaos on the highway. with the terrorists and the Sources in the security on Friday to assess the situation security and intelligence com- agencies and counter-terror in the aftermath of the attack. O ''"()* O*."P,.",'"$."''"()* O-#,'",*$2('" ./ O(*"$."''"()* munity have clearly failed in experts said the planner for the Official sources said that an +$,* #"-" #"-"67%8, (* ($ ."/*#''! "(* **2 " . assessing such an attack before- terror strike could have been of alert has been sounded in the ,.,+("/0,'$* ! '$-+" 2#" ..,'#$/ !0 #-/$*2(",#"', ) !*2:"" , hand. It also indicates the capa- Pakistani military background Valley to check the escalating (* .- ',.",'"$. /*'*"(" .$ %",-$0.-" .'"'', " '+*$" #"-" bilities and capacities to execute who had put in a well-engi- situation. "''"()0,"($2(,*2 :"" *",,"($2(.,2 *$ - ''")(* ($' .,'$(' "--# terror attacks in a repeated neered system to maximise Sources said that 21-year- *#$/$",(#$'+$,* ," *' ,$('*' "'* 0+$"2*$',+. ,'+,'* ,#$,#('$$*$"''"(),.* P' 7%",-$," fashion by the JeM continue impact and inflict maximum old local Jaish cadre Adil Dar !* " PL "$ .$"*. $(*$*2' :#$.PL ": "' ! "++ '2#'#$PL $" )" " . (* .- "/"('PL"."$ ""$ with impunity. damage. / *$ Central Government employ- Minister to the L-G. In case of . 0 ees and for setting up of difference of opinion between enquiry commissions. the L-G and the Chief Minister, R!R While the court left it for a the view of the L-G should pre- larger Bench to conclusively vail and the Ministry of Home R decide who will have control Affairs can issue a suitable ! over administrative services in notification,” he said. Delhi, the Bench of Justices AK Justice Sikri noted all trans- 79.2 Sikri and Ashok Bhushan fers and postings for Grade III 79.2 " unanimously ruled the the and IV DASS (Delhi " ! n a major setback to the AAP power to appoint enquiry com- Administration Subordinate est Bengal Chief Minister IGovernment in Delhi, the missions would rest with the Service) are done by the WMamata Banerjee on two-judge Bench of the Centre as “there is no ‘State Secretary (Services), while Thursday said Opposition par- Supreme Court on Thursday Government’ in the Union those for Grades I and II are ties will meet in the national $% agreed that the Centre should Territory and the State done by the Chief Secretary. Capital during the last week of &" ' have the final word on posting Government (for this purpose) this month to finalise how to ' $ and transfer of bureaucrats in shall mean the Central collectively take on the Modi ()*+ the national Capital adminis- Government”. Government in the Lok Sabha , - . tration, but their disagreement In its 202-page verdict, P " polls. - " ,- on finer details resulted in a the court, however, held that She said one round of split verdict and the matter got the elected Delhi Government meeting with top Opposition ! referred to a larger Bench. will have the right to appoint 79.2 ple to elect AAP candidates in defined the power Delhi has, it’s leaders, including Congress AAP supremo had struggled The Bench, which was public prosecutors to all the seven Lok Sabha seats in not unlimited. The Centre, the chief Rahul Gandhi, NCP’s hard to become the called upon to decide on six decide land revenue matters erming the Supreme Delhi to help the party achieve Lieutenant Governor, and the Sharad Pawar, TDP’s N Chief Minister of Delhi vexatious issues pertaining to and also to appoint or deal with TCourt’s verdict on the con- full-Statehood for Delhi. Home Ministry handle Chandrababu Naidu and Delhi and that he is continuing to !"#$# . a long-running feud between electricity commission or tentious issue of control of While the AAP used pop- many things in the Capital. CM Arvind Kejriwal struggle. " /."0 the Central and the national board. services in the National Capital ular Bollywood dialogue So fighting is no solution, among others, has already Earlier in the day, Kejriwal Capital Governments, gave an On the most contentious Territory (NCT) as anti-con- “tareekh pe tareekh” to describe make changes if needed,” Sheila taken place while next crucial said the Congress had “more or *( N" unanimous verdict on the issue, Justice Sikri said, “The stitution and anti-democracy, a split verdict after four years said. round is scheduled for less” declined to have an 2 ()*+O remaining five counts and transfers and postings of sec- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind of litigation, the BJP promptly Rebutting her advice, February 26-27. alliance in Delhi for the general 5 () ruled that the Delhi retaries, heads of departments Kejriwal said it is an injustice accused Kejriwal of “declaring Kejriwal said, “I respect Sheilaji. Batting for Aam Aadmi election. He also said the BJP Government’s Anti-Corruption and other officers in the scale to the people of Delhi and that a war on the Supreme Court” I appeal to her not to make Party (AAP), she said Kejriwal would benefit in a three-cor- ! Branch (ACB) cannot probe of Joint Secretary to the the AAP Government will seek and said it is considering filing such comments. We don’t even is keen on an alliance with the nered poll contest in the N." the Centre’s employees in cor- Government of India and legal remedies. contempt of court proceedings have 10 per cent of the power Congress in Delhi for the national Capital. " 2 ruption cases. above can be done by the Soon after the court’s ver- against him. that her Government had. upcoming parliamentary polls Also, Mamata said it is Out of six contentions Lieutenant Governor and the dict, Kejriwal accused the BJP- Advising Kejriwal, Delhi Didn’t she have the power to and it is for Congress to recip- wrong to ask her about being issues, the Delhi Government file submitted to him directly.” led Government at the Centre Congress Pradesh president transfer officers? Still, in the last rocate. the PM face of the alliance and won in three and lost to the “For other levels, including of creating hurdles in the func- and former Chief Minister four years we have done more “Kejriwal wants an alliance said that all the leaders of O 6 Centre on two critical aspects DANICS officers, files can be tioning of the AAP dispensa- Shiela Dikshit said fighting is work than her Government did with the Congress in Delhi,” Opposition parties were qual- ' ."'! of investigating power to probe routed through the Chief tion and appealed to the peo- no solution. “Constitution has in 15 years,” he said. said Mamata, adding that the ified to lead the country. $ 1 . $ 0 . $ % % ."728"6. sayers, palmists, and even visit- pointed that there are no psy- BJP MLA Parkash remind- Underlining that the state pointed that the people give his approval and set up a ing deras. chiatrists because of which peo- ed Finance Minister Manpreet did not need such “baseless dis- flocked to pandits, and indicat- House panel to look into it. “We larity begins at home! If MLAs debated on the BJP ple visit these “babas and Badal that the House had earli- cussion” and resolutions, ed at Sharma while showing his will get the inquiry conducted,” AAP MLA Prof Baljinder Cyou want to end supersti- MLA Som Parkash’s non-official tantriks” to get their problems er passed a resolution to give Rs Congress MLA Nathu Ram writ to point that the Akali said the Speaker. Kaur extended an invitation for tions and beliefs, forget the resolution, “to recommend to the solved. five lakh grant to those villages called upon all MLAs “to decid- MLA wear religious thread on her marriage during the enactment of laws, rings and State Government to enact a law SAD MLA Pawan Kumar who would have a common ed by themselves as the people his wrist, and added that Vidhan Sabha session. Speaker yagas! Just set your own mind in Punjab on the pattern of Tinu added that the issue is relat- cremation ground. Objecting to look upon us...All we need is to Sharmas are also pundits — ; Rana KP Singh “off the record” in order. Maharashtra Government to ed with the illiteracy and there the same, Congress MLA Raja put our heads together and which failed to go down well % informed the House about her The message was heard prevent exploitation of a partic- was a need to provide quality sci- Amarinder Singh Warring said deliberate issue concerning our with the SAD leader. Responding to AAP MLA wedding and read out the invi- loud and clear without the ular class of society due to grow- entific education. He listed out that such grants should not be youth, farmers, and all sections”. Raising objection, Sharma Sarabjit Kaur Manuke’s issue tation officially. chants of touch-wood in the ing superstitions and beliefs in the Ministers, without naming given as it would set a wrong pointed that no one had the right regarding young schoolgirls suf- AAP leader, who is going Assembly on Thursday after- the State so that effective steps them, who believed in these example. ; to ridicule other’s religion and fering from infections and dis- to tie a knot with party youth noon, as the Punjab MLAs in can be taken against such inci- superstitions, in clear indication “We should be the role mod- < beliefs. Losing his cool, Sharma eases due to poor hygiene, wing convener from Majha one voice did not agree to a res- dents in the society”, for nearly towards Navjot Singh Sidhu and els...people follow us...let us all said something about Nagra’s Education Minister OP Soni region Sukhraj Singh Bal, then olution for enacting a law to three hours. Charanjit Singh Channi. resolve not to follow such peo- Following the heated wife, following which the announced that sanitary napkins personally extended the invi- check growing superstitions Many of them called upon “People follow them...they ple and remove these discrimi- exchange of words between the Congress and SAD MLAs would be provided to the school tation to all the House mem- and beliefs in the state. others to set an example and lead should set an example,” he said natory practices, rather than Congress MLA Kuljit Singh exchanged barbs. girls, above six years, free of cost bers. Besides setting their own from the front to either act while adding that things would promoting them,” he said. Nagra and SAD’s NK Sharma, As the two sparred and con- in the schools. Chief Minister Capt mindset in order before asking against such people who pro- not improve till education is Congress MLA Gurkirat the House has decided to hold an tinue to level allegations against Amarinder Singh extended others not to be superstitious, the mote superstition, or ban such strengthened. Singh Kotli demanded that the “inquiry” into the properties of each other, charged-up Nagra “Rs 10 crore has been sanc- greetings to her on the behalf legislators, cutting across the advertisements. Congress MLA Kuljit Singh government should ban the the two leaders in past 12 years. went on to demand an inquiry tioned for the same and tender- of all Congress MLAs and party lines, also stressed on AAP MLA Gurmeet Singh Nagra said that all MLAs have advertisements on television and During a debate on resolu- into the huge empire Sharma has ing process has been done. The wished her bright and happy improving the standards of edu- Meet Hayer stressed that there been empowered to act against newspapers. Cabinet Minister tion discussing to enact a law built over the past 12 years, and sanitary napkins will be provid- future, to which, Prof Baljinder, cation besides providing psy- was a need to make the people such self-styled godmans, seers, Balbir Singh Sidhu accused against superstition, the two also into his own assets. ed to the girls above six-seven shyly chuckling, asked him to chiatrists in state hospitals to stop aware and that would only be and others. “We have to take this SGPC of not fulfilling its role of leaders come face-to-face over On this, the Parliamentary years in schools soon,” said Soni. certainly attend her wedding such superstitious malpractices possible if we strengthen the edu- upon us...but we indulge in pol- promoting Sikh teachings the religious practices they fol- Affairs Minister Brahm reception on February 19 at of blindly following the sooth- cation and health sectors. He itics for votes,” he added. among the people. low. Mohindra asked the Speaker to Amritsar. # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-).
Q /0, /1R == % F
."728"6. ADEN/Bhiwani as per revised construction of approaches line. This plan is not feasible struction of service road, he work has already been allot- " .!"$% A ' " plan. within Railway boundary as because of the fact that there said. ted to the contractual agency 6** aryana Chief Minister In a letter written to Union per the revised site plan. are roads parallel to the track The Chief Minister said for the construction of RUB 5 O" " ! HManohar Lal has urged Finance Minister Piyush Goyal, The Chief Minister said on both the sides, he said. that a U-type RUB would be as per original approved ' -) the Union Government to Manohar Lal on Thursday said that the Railways have Manohar Lal further said more suitable for this site. drawings. Since the scope or C < finalize the proposal for the that the State Government is approved a plan for the con- that for safe movement of traf- After another joint inspection alignment of work of con- ! construction of U-Type ready to bear any additional struction of above mentioned fic, service roads need to be Railway Authorities were struction of RUB by Railways ' C !" Railway under Bridge (RUB) in cost on account of utility shift- RUB after joint inspection on constructed at ground level to approached for approval of would remain the same there O lieu of proposed RUB in the ing charges and to execute any May 2, 2018. In this proposal, cater to traffic moving parallel the revised drawings. should not be any hitch in O !. already closed LC no. 34 at lease agreement with Railways RUB is to be constructed along to railway line. Sufficient land But the officers of accepting the revised pro- Charkhi Dadri under for the land to be used for the with approaches in a straight width is not available for con- Railways are hesitant as the posal, he added. 2 ! =A "#$% & ?" " .!"$% A C *- 5 *- **
."728"6. and officials of GRP and $ Commando Wing of State Additional Director 6 !C "8%& aryana Police has pro- Police Force with immediate General of Police, Railways ! ."728"6. every day through draw of lots. = Hmoted 235 Police Officers effect. and Commando, Ajay Singhal He said that more than " # nion Minister of one lakh farmers had attend- ! $ % UAgriculture and Farmers’ ed the Agri Leadership % & & Welfare Radha Mohan Singh Summit held in Rohtak from % !! (& ) will inaugurate the fourth edi- March 24 to 26, 2018, which " .!"$. 5 " tion of Agri Leadership Summit constitutes about 10 percent of ; on Thursday said that out of at the proposed International Haryana's total farmer’s pop- 6*))6*-) D !" the total, 206 police officers Fruit and Vegetable Terminus ulation. have been promoted in GRP in Ganaur at district Sonipat on Dhakhar expressed hope 8 ! Haryana whereas 29 officers February 15. that this year more farmers 6*-) D ; have been elevated to the high- The three-day Summit is would participate in the 6*)) D !9 er ranks in Commando Wing being organised from Summit. 6 of Haryana Police. February 15 to 17. He said that in the three- + )))6*( )))! Divulging the details about Giving details, Haryana day agri summit, Ambassador promotion in GRP Haryana, Agriculture and Farmers’ of countries namely Israel and 0 % Singhal said that 7 Constables Welfare Minister, OP Dhankar Brazil, Vice Chancellor of -". ' $ 6 have been promoted to the on Thursday said that the Agricultural and Veterinary 6 ! 6" & rank of Head Constables, 8 President Ram Nath Kovind Sciences Universities of C 6*) ! Head Constables to the rank of will be the chief guest at the Haryana, Punjab, ()))D! Assistant Sub Inspectors (ASIs) concluding ceremony. Apart Uttarakhand, Himachal *() ! and 2 ASIs have been promot- from this, Haryana Chief Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar ,(?)) ed to the rank of Sub Minister, Manohar Lal and Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, ! Inspectors. Similarly, 189 EASIs other Ministers of State and agricultural scientists, have been elevated to the rank Cabinet, MPs, MLAs, officers MPs and MLAs who have of ESIs after completion of 30 of Haryana State Agricultural interest in agriculture, pro- ! years service. Marketing Board and agri- gressive farmers and stake He said that 5 Head cultural scientists will also be holders belonging to the agri- Constables and 24 ASIs have present on the occasion, he culture sector, will participate also been promoted to the said. and share their views in dif- rank of ASIs and Sub Dhankar said that this ferent sessions. Inspectors respectively in year, the initiative of honour- The Minister also Commando Wing. ing persons performing better appealed to the people to par- Singhal also congratulated in the agri leadership will be ticipate in the Agri Leadership all the police officers and added done by giving away ‘Haryana Summit in maximum number that it will boost their morale Kisan Ratna’ award. and get information about the that would go a long way in fur- Apart from this, farmers most advanced techniques in ther improving the law and participating in the Krishi agriculture, horticulture, fish- order situation in the state. Mela will be given rewards ery and animal husbandry.
! " # $ % S ' " (
Q vrq hq iyvurq i 8uhqh Hv h s hq iruhys s 8H`F Q vrpu Gq T8P % D Ay Trp !8 9hxuv Hh t 8uhqvth u %! Ury I &!#%"'#& hq vrq h 6h Vwhyh Qiyvphv Gq Qy I !! QuhrDD Dq vhy 6 rh Qhpuxyh Ch hh @qv ) 8uhqh Hv h 6DS TVS8C6SB@ s Sr @h) 8hyph Shpuv 7uihrh I u) Gru Xr) Hihv : 6urqhihq Tu) 7hthy r : 8urhv 8r hy ) Fuhw hu 9ryuv Pssvpr) I % 7ruvq Byhi 7uhh 7huhq Tuhu ahsh Hh t Ir 9ryuv ! Qur) # #$$ 8vphv Pssvpr) A" Trp % IPD96 Bhh 7qu Ihth ! " VQ Qur) !#'&(' : #'&(( Gpx Pssvpr) #u Ay Thuh h Tuvt 8r r Ahvhihq Shq Gpx!!% % Uryrur) $!!!"#%##"#$ # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). *
+,- $2 +4 Q ' ( )%
."728"6. ""%'""'"7"6<6"%<27.".." % % ."728"6. issue with the Government of Agreeing with Phoolka, same time, he made it clear that law to check superstitious prac- iscontented by the ='2.6 5<=6L2'%<6"7M India” regarding appointing Chief Minister said that the SAD was “not opposed to elec- tices in the state, Cabinet DSpeaker’s decision to reject "278"72<77<2 =. "' he issue of alleged “politi- the Gurudwara Election elections were not being held tions, rather it welcomes any Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu their calling attention notice Tcisation” of the Sikh’s mini Commissioner and holding deliberately since past three democratic process”. asserted that the SGPC has regarding Jallianwala Bagh and ."C76$92.<=82C278 parliament, Shiromani the elections to elect SGPC’s years and it was the right of Coming to Phoolka’s res- been “completely politicised” national martyrs, AAP legisla- "7G<82"6" <7 Gurudwara Parbandhak new executive body at the ear- every body in Punjab to elect cue, Cabinet Minister Navjot and has remained a puppet in tors staged a walkout in protest Committee (SGPC), rocked liest. their representatives in the Singh Sidhu said that renowned few hands. He also accused the accusing the Speaker of “den- the Punjab Vidhan Sabha on During the Zero Hour, Sikh body. advocate would go down in his- SGPC of not effectively per- igrating the honour of the sloganeering. After a brief over the matter but only before Thursday. So much so, that a Dakha MLA HS Phoolka On this, SAD MLA NK tory for the service he had ren- forming its role of promoting martyrs”. protest, they staged a walkout. assuming power two years ago,” Congress’ senior legislator even raised the issue pointing that he Sharma objected urging the dered for the Sikhs. “They Sikh masters’ teachings. AAP MLA Aman Arora “By rejecting the proposals he said, adding that they all declared to contest polls to the had received a reply to his let- Speaker to make it clear were the ones who were talk- Congress MLA Kuljit pointed that he had submitted without citing any plausible were tight-lipped now. Sikh body. ter from the Prime Minister “whether Phoolka is still a ing about honouring him, and Singh Nagra also accused the three-four “important” calling reasons, the government and He further said that with With majority of legislators which stated that the term of member of the House...whether now they are upset because he SAD of taking control over the attention notices but the same the Speaker have denigrated the the connivance of the govern- accusing the Badals-led the SGPC’s current house he has withdrawn his resigna- has shaken their foundation,” SGPC. have been rejected without honour of the great martyrs ment machinery, the SAD-BJP Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of stands completed in December tion”. Soon, AAP MLAs said Sidhu. Congress MLA Harminder giving any logical reason. who made supreme sacrifices government had inked MoUs taking control of the Sikh body 2016, and the House should opposed Sharma’s assertion, With the SAD-BJP MLAs Singh Gill even declared that “I have submitted a reso- in the freedom struggle and with the some top-notch pri- and “deliberately delaying elec- pass a resolution urging the coming out in open support of continued to raise slogans, the party would surely contest lution to urge the government thousands of innocent who vate thermal plant players after tions”, the House authorised the Centre to hold elections and Phoolka. Phoolka stressed that every the SGPC elections claiming to write to the British lost their lives in the Jallianwala shutting down the government Chief Minister Capt Amarinder appoint gurudwara election Amidst hullabaloo, Capt Sikh wanted that the SGPC that “we are better Sikh than Government for an apology on pogrom,” said Arora while talk- thermal plants at Bathinda, Singh to take up with the commissioner soon. Amarinder moved the resolu- should be freed from the pol- you”. the Jallianwala Bagh massacre ing with the media outside the due to which, he said, there Centre the issue of expediting Phoolka, who has resigned tion to authorise him to take up itics. Later, talking informally on the completion of 100 years House. was a huge financial dent of the process of holding SGPC as AAP and had also submit- the matter with the Centre, AAP MLA and the Leader with mediapersons outside the and having names of iconic He added that he had also 2,800 crore of rupees annual- elections. ted his resignation twice with which was passed by the House of Opposition Harpal Cheema House, the Chief Minister martyrs like Sardar Bhagat submitted a notice regarding Rs ly. The House, including the the Vidhan Sabha Speaker right away. said that the Akali Dal mem- termed the delay in SGPC Singh and Sardar Udham Singh 31,000 crore food scam involv- Arora expressed surprise Congress, and Aam Aadmi Rana KP Singh, also requested However, SAD MLA bers were crying foul on the elections as “wrong and unfair” in government’s office ing the erstwhile SAD-BJP over the state government’s Party (AAP) legislators, passed the Chief Minister to meet the Bikram Majithia alleged that resolution for having early for the people of Punjab. records...but the same have government which was also stoic silence. To add salt to a resolution “authorising the Union Home Minister to take the House is facing a constitu- elections to the SGPC as they “There was unanimity in been rejected,” said Arora. rejected. “I wanted the scam to injuries, he said that the motion Chief Minister to take up the up the matter. tional crisis as it was totally had grabbed the Sikh body for the House on the issue as the As the Speaker did now be thoroughly probed and moved by AAP was too reject- unclear “who is in AAP, and political gains. elections are over due by three allow them to speak further, those behind it brought to jus- ed by the Speaker, saying that who is in rebel party...It seems Later, during a discussion years. Only the Akalis and BJP AAP MLAs jumped into the tice. Even the Congress’s who’s the matter is related to the gov- % (*+ it is Congress’ “B-team”. At the on a resolution to formulate a were not in favour,” he said. well of the House and started who had been crying hoarse ernment policy. , , &
."728"6. phones to the youth. Party legislator Simarjeet Singh SAD protest on the issue Bains said. Chandigarh: As the SAD " $ aptain de Phone” were up evoked sharp reactions from Notably, Punjab Cabinet in on Thursday raised objection & & Cfor grabs at a stall set up leaders of other parties. January approved modalities for Dakha MLA HS Phoolka outside Punjab Vidhan Sabha Congress MLA Rana Gurjit for providing smartphones to taking part in the House &% ! building by the SAD legisla- Singh said that the Akalis were youth in the state. It said that proceedings despite submit- & tors, who were distributing it indulging in antics as general graduating students of gov- ting his resignation twice, ,& free to all MLAs, including the elections were round the cor- ernment schools, colleges and Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana Congress, arriving to attend ner. “People are not going to be technical institutions will be KP Singh made it clear that # the budget session. impressed by such things. covered in the first phase of the he was still a member of the &) & )# ! “It is absolutely free. It What were the Akalis doing scheme. House. has full charge, free roaming, when they were in power in the The Cabinet proposed that “Let me make this clear and can even connect you state for 10 years (2007-2017),” students would be required to that Phoolka’s resignation !! # directly with the CM saab,” said he asked. submit self-certification stating was not in proper format, and SAD MLA Bikram Majithia AAP MLA Kultar Singh that they do not already pos- he has been issued notice for ! while doling out dummy Sandhwan said that the Akalis sess a smartphone. February 20. His resignation phones having Capt were indulging in dramatics The government said that is still under consideration resolution demanding early Amarinder’s picture, leaving and were not bothered about the first batch of smartphones and action would be initiat- elections to the SGPC on the the Congress party MLAs problems being faced by the would be distributed in March. ed on it as per the rules,” said directions of Chief Minister embarrassed. people in Punjab. The Congress had promised to the Speaker. Capt Amarinder Singh. This SAD was taking a dig at “SAD leadership did noth- provide smartphones to He added, “Till the time is proved from the fact the Chief Minister Capt ing for the state in its rule of 10 around 50 lakh youth before no decision is taken on his Chief Minister endorsed the Amarinder Singh’s pre-poll years. With what face are they Assembly elections in February resignation, he is very much resolution promptly”. promise to give free smart- raising such issues,” Lok Insaf 2017. the member of the House.” Citing tenth schedule of Earlier, SAD had asked the Constitution, Majithia Phoolka to clarify whether he said that he should be dis- has resigned as MLA or not. qualified but “it seems that 0 " 2 SAD MLA Bikram Majithia, the Congress is deliberately addressing the media, asked not doing so as part of a deal Phoolka to tell why he was with him. Is Phoolka above ."728"6. ment’s firm commitment to restore the water treatment ponds will be provided in 125 villages house at Ludhiana would be completed by meeting the Congress the Constitution that he can quality of the state’s rivers, said that he had by June 30, 2020, and 350 cusecs of water would September 30, 2019, he announced. Ministers secretly in the continue in the assembly unjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh already constituted a Committee under the be released from Mukerian Hydel Channel into “The STPs established by the Government Vidhan Sabha and even tak- after voluntarily giving up his Pon Thursday announced a comprehensive chairmanship of the Chief Secretary, with the the Holy Bein,” he said. and the polluting industries would be moni- ing directions from them membership of AAP?”. action plan to check pollution of waters in Rivers concerned Administrative Secretaries as mem- Capt Amarinder informed the House that tored online, through CCTVs to be installed before moving the resolution. Later Chief Minister, Beas and Satluj, besides steps to restore the water bers for regular monitoring of the measures to urban and rural treated sewage would be used at some select locations by December 31, 2019. “Phoolka should tell responding to a media query quality of the state’s rivers. control pollution of the river water. for irrigation and three Common Effluent An effective Management Information System whether it is ethical and on the continuance of certain At the same time, AAP MLA Kultar Singh He assured the House that the State Treatment Plants for the dyeing industries in to monitor the progress of various works and moral on his part to attend AAP members who had Sandhwan stressed to make the state machin- Government would make all out efforts to check Ludhiana would be commissioned by January measures initiated by different departments to the Vidhan Sabha after resigned, said that they con- ery, including the Punjab Pollution Control river pollution in a result-oriented and effective 31, 2020. check river water pollution was being devel- resigning from AAP as well tinue to be members till their Board (PPCB), effective. manner. Upgradation of existing CETPs of tanner- oped,” he added. as the member of the State resignations are accepted. Sandhwan moved the calling attention Listing some of the major steps initiated by ies and leather complex in Jalandhar would be Sandhwan demanded stringent action assembly,” he asked. “I had also resigned from motion to draw the Chief Minister’s attention the State to check river water pollution, he said done by March 31, 2020, he said, adding that against the factory owners and industry honchos Majithia also accused the Parliament in 1984 but towards polluted rivers and drains in the state. that 11 STPs had already been installed in 19 Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs) would be set who were contributing to the pollution in the that Phoolka conferred with continued to be a member for Responding, the Chief Minister said that towns, and 12 new STPs would be installed in up for the dairy complexes of Ludhiana and waters of Sutlej, Beas and other rivers in the area, Congress Minister two months as his resignation given its seriousness, the State Government 10 towns by December 31, 2020. Jalandhar, along with a Bio Gas Plant for the thus saving precious lives of the people, who Sukhjinder Randhawa in the had not been accepted,” he would also take up the issue with the Centre. “One STP was being upgraded and would dairy complex at Jalandhar, by September 30, were subjected to drink water which was not fit central hall, and “moved a recalled. PNS Capt Amarinder, reiterating his govern- be made functional by December 31, 2019, 2021. Modernisation of the existing slaughter for human consumption. 3 & )$ % & % &
granddaughter of architect of ing to the Election assembly elections in Haryana. former Chief Minister modern Haryana, Chaudhary Commission. After being denied BJP’s tick- Bhupinder Singh Hooda is well hiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Bansi Lal and daughter of For the ensuing Lok Sabha et, his younger brother Rajbir known, the faction-ridden BSabha constituency, one of senior Congress leader Kiran polls, the current MP Singh Lala had contested as an Haryana Congress had in 2014 the biggest constituencies of Choudhary had finished at the Dharambir Singh is seen as a independent and caused the polls put up a united face and Haryana in terms of area, had third spot. frontrunner for the BJP’s tick- BJP nominee Gunpal to forfeit many senior party leaders come into existence in 2008 as The Bhiwani- et from the constituency. his deposit and finished at including Hooda himself had a part of the implementation of Mahendragarh Lok Sabha con- While Dharambir Singh poor sixth spot. Former addressed a rally seeking votes the recommendations of the stituency covers the major part had earlier expressed his inter- Minister and Congress’ nomi- for Shruti. Delimitation Commission of of Bhiwani district and the est to contest 2019 assembly nee Kiran Chaudhary had got The election campaign in India constituted in 2002. entire Mahendragarh district in elections from Tosham assem- over 58,000 votes to win the 2014 Lok Sabha polls had also The delimitation process Haryana. It was created by bly segment in Haryana instead Tosham assembly seat. taken an ugly turn when Kiran had led to the inclusion of merging four assembly seg- of Lok Sabha polls, he had Dharambir is considered as Choudhry was attacked by Ahirwal voters in the Bhiwani- ments namely Ateli, recently taken a u-turn over his an arch-rival of Bansi Lal clan, three youths in Narnaul and Mahendragarh constituency Mahendragarh, Narnaul and MLA from Nangal Choudhry previous statement. having defeated former Chief had received head and chest changing the caste equation in Nangal Chaudhry of the erst- at that time. Earlier, it was also specu- Minister Bansi Lal, his son injuries. After being pelted the electoral contest that was while Mahendragarh parlia- Aam Aadmi Party’s Lalit lated that he is unhappy with Surender Singh in assembly with stones during the election earlier restricted to Jat candi- mentary constituency and five Agarwal, farmers’ leader the current Manohar Lal polls and his granddaughter campaign, she had charged dates only. assembly segments including Master Sher Singh of the CPI Khattar led BJP Government in Shruti Choudhry in the last BJP’s Dharambir Singh of con- BJP’s Dharambir Singh, Loharu, Badhra, Dadri, and BSP’s Ved Pal Tanwar were Haryana over their handling of Lok Sabha polls. spiring to hurt her. who had quit the Congress Bhiwani and Tosham of the also in the fray from the par- the Jat reservation issue. Congress is likely to again Eyeing the Congress’ tick- before 2014 Lok Sabha polls, erstwhile Bhiwani Lok Sabha liamentary seat. Dharambir was recently repose its faith on Shruti et from the seat, Shruti had trounced his nearest rival, constituency. BJP’s Dharambir was quoted saying that he is ready Choudhry, who is carrying Choudhry has already begun Rao Bahadur Singh of Indian According to the political polled 4.04 lakh votes (39.26 to contest the parliamentary forward the political legacy of her campaign for 2019 gener- National Lok Dal with a mar- analysts, Bhiwani- percent), INLD’s Rao Bahadur polls if the BJP gives him a tick- her grandfather and former al elections and has been gin of over 1.29 lakh votes in Mahendragarh is a rural con- Singh got 2.75 lakh votes (26.70 et again from the Bhiwani- Chief Minister Bansi Lal. addressing public meetings in Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok stituency with more than 3.75 percent) while Congress’ Shruti Mahendragarh constituency Her mother, Kiran the constituency. Sabha seat. lakh Jat voters, over 2.9 lakh Choudhry had finished at third seat. Choudhry, the Congress legis- The INLD, Haryana’s main Interestingly, Dharambir, Ahir voters and around 1.50 place securing 2.68 lakh votes Notably, it was due to lature party leader and promi- opposition party may go with who had jumped into the poll Brahmins. (26.02 percent). made Congress’ nominee nent Jat leader from the late a sitting MLA for the con- fray after resigning from the In the past two elections in Political experts credit the Shruti Choudhry to slip to (./-0 Bansi Lal family is presently an stituency while the Jannayak post of MLA from the Sohna the constituency, the political “Modi wave” in 2014 for the the third position in the trian- MLA from Tosham assembly Janta Party and Aam Aadmi assembly segment in parties have focused to woo victory of Dharambir Singh. gular electoral battle on the 12 seat in Haryana. Party are busy chalking out Gurugram, had managed to get both Jat and Ahir voters. Even though INLD’s Rao parliamentary seat in 2014 Shruti Choudhry had ear- their seat sharing arrangement the BJP’s ticket within 24 hours In 2014 parliamentary Bahadur Singh, an Ahir leader general elections, say political 1334 lier defeated INLD chief OP to contest on 10 seats of Lok of quitting the Congress. polls, the constituency had was backed by the voters of analysts. Chautala’s son Ajay Chautala in Sabha in Haryana. Dharambir, a Jat leader is a witnessed a triangular contest Ahir community who domi- BJP’s Dharambir had led in 2009 Lok Sabha polls on Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj known party-hopper and had with Congress fielding its out- nate Mahendragarh, he could six assembly segments namely Bhiwani-Mahendragarh par- Party which has made an previously been with the Indian going MP Shruti Choudhry, not manage to win the parlia- Dadri, Nangal Chaudhry, Choudhry had managed to get Dharambir’s clout in the liamentary seat to register her alliance with Loktantra National Lok Dal as well. BJP relying on Congress’ turn- mentary seat. On the other Narnaul, Mahendragarh, Ateli lead in two assembly segments Bhiwani-Mahendragarh belt maiden victory in the electoral Suraksha Party (LSP) of BJP In 2014 general elections, coat Dharambir Singh, a Jat hand, strong anti-incumbency and Bhiwani. While INLD’s including Loharu and Tosham. that the BJP had to taste humil- battle. rebel MP Raj Kumar Saini is the outgoing MP and Congress leader and INLD fielding Rao factor, infighting in the nominee had led in Badhra The constituency has more iating defeat in Tosham assem- While her mother Kiran also scouting for probable can- nominee Shruti Choudhry, Bahadur Singh, who was an Congress besides Modi wave segment, Congress’ Shruti than 15.74 lakh voters, accord- bly segment seat in 2014 Choudhry’s differences with didate. # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-).
! $ !
=.2"7";."728"6. accused involved in the gang 9 night, the victim along with Surmu of Khanpur, Ajay of rape case and the probe would her male friend were moving in Tibba, Saif Ali of Tibba in hree more persons, includ- be completed within 60-days a car and when they reached Ludhiana and one juvenile from Ting a juvenile, were held on under the supervision of near Issewal village, three bike- Basti Changran in Kathua. Thursday in connection with Inspector General of Police borne youths forcibly stopped the gang rape of a 21-year-old (Ropar Range) V Neerja,” said them and committed the crime. woman near Issewal village in Punjab Director General of He said that the accused Ludhiana, taking the total num- Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta have been identified as Sadiq Ali ber of those nabbed in the case while talking to the mediaper- of Hakimpur in SBS Nagar, to six people. sons on Thursday. Jagroop Singh of Ranga Patii in “Police have arrested six Gupta said that on February Ludhiana (arrested on Feb 12), # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). &
$ !$. " ( * $*".,"2' $+ 4 5 5! ".)"$'*. New Delhi: A day after the last session of the current Lok Sabha, %( & + & - , the Road Safety Network has . . written to the Union Minister of brave security personnel shall I pray for the speedy recovery secretary is rushing back to Road Transport and Highways 79.2 not go in vain. The entire of the injured.” Delhi,” a Home Ministry * .- "'* +*#$. 2$*-"($*,,(*# '$",:"" ,-"$'$. Nitin Gadkari to bring nation stands shoulder to shoul- Union Home Secretary Rajiv official said. Ordinance on Road Safety. ressure mounted on the der with the families of the Gauba, who reached Bhutan on Minister of State for Home The Motor Vehicles PGovernment to teach a les- brave martyrs. May the injured Thursday on an official trip, is Affairs Kiren Rijiju said the 79.2 terrorist attack in Pulwama, tyrs today in Pulwama. We Amendment Bill, 2017 that son to Pakistan after 43 CRPF recover quickly,” said Modi. rushing back to Delhi after cut- “cowardly” terror attack in J&K. Thoughts and prayers salute our brave jawans and sought to carry out the much- jawans were killed by the ter- “Spoke to Home Minister ting short his visit in view of the Jammu & Kashmir will not go ondemnation poured in with the families of martyrs and extend our solidarity and con- required overhaul of the Motor rorists in a terrorist attack in Rajnath Singh Ji and other top terror attack in J&K, officials said. unpunished and it will be Cfrom across the country wishing an early recovery to dolences to their families. Our Vehicles Act of 1988 had Jammu & Kashmir’s Pulwama. officials regarding the situation Gauba had reached avenged in “all way possible”. against the terror attack in those injured. The entire nation prayers for those injured. We received the assent of the Lok The political compulsion in in the wake of the attack in Thimpu for a Home Secretary- “We will definitely give Pulwama district in Jammu & stands united in the fight wish them a speedy recovery/”. Sabha on April 10, 2017 and view of the forthcoming Lok Pulwama,” the PM added. level dialogue with his befitting response to this cow- Kashmir on Thursday. against the forces of terror and Priyanka cancelled her was introduced for considera- Sabha polls may force the Modi Home Minister Rajnath Bhutanese counterpart. He ardly attack. It will not go President Ram Nath evil,” he tweeted. Press conference in the wake of tion and passage in the Rajya Government to take urgent Singh on Thursday evening spoke to Union Home Minister unpunished. We will avenge in Kovind said the entire nation Congress president Rahul the terror attack. She expressed Sabha in the Winter Session of steps avenge the attack. Prime spoke to Jammu & Kashmir Rajnath Singh after the terror all way possible,” Kiren Rijiju, stands united in the fight Gandhi condoled the killing of her deepest condolences to the 2017. However, after the failure minister Narendra Modi while Governor Satya Pal Malik and attack. “In view of the terror Union Minister of State for against the forces of terror and CRPF personnel and termed the families of the security per- to get the Bill passed, the net- condemning the attack clearly took stock of the situation in attack in Pulwama, the home Home, said in a tweet. evil. “Strongly condemn the terror attack as cowardly one. sonnel killed in a terror attack work has urged the said that “ sacrifice made by the State after the deadly attack General Secretary Priyanka in Pulwama, Jammu and Government to take the extra- these jawans will not go in vain.” on a CRPF convoy by terrorists, Gandhi Vadra urged the Kashmir. “I can very well ordinary measure of issuing an Dropping clear hints that officials said. He also cancelled Government to take concnrete understand the pain and grief ordinance to save lives. the the Centre would take all his political engagements in steps to ensure such terror of losing a loved one in the “The Government had some swift action to avnegt eht Bihar Friday will visit Jammu attacks do not happen in future. family,” she said in a statement. committed to bringing a strong ekilling of the jawans, RSS & Kashmir along with top NCP Chief Sharad Pawar con- Not only the Congress road safety law since 2014 and chief Mohan Bhagwat said a security brass. demned the terror attack. party, but the entire country is many statements of the Minister response is expected from the He called up the Governor, “I am deeply disturbed by standing shoulder to shoulder indicated his commitment to Modi Government.” who apprised him about the the cowardly attack on a with the families of the brave reduce road casualties. Since his Speaking to the media in prevailing situation in the State. #CRPF convoy in J&K in which soldiers, she said. “But, we must efforts in Parliament to pass the Nagpur, Bhagwat said, “It is a Singh also spoke to Union many of our brave CRPF men also reflect and be concerned Motor Vehicles Amendment cowardly act, we strongly con- Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba have been martyred and a large about the high number of casu- Bill has failed to garner support, demn it. We expect action in and Director General of CRPF number wounded, some criti- alties in Kashmir. We demand we urge the Minister to bring response to this incident.” RR Bhatnagar and gave them cally. My condolences to the that this government take con- Ordinance in interim period on “We have tolerated a lot necessary instructions, a Home families of our martyrs. I pray crete steps to ensure such ter- this important issue so that and are still doing so, as seen Ministry official said. The min- for the speedy recovery of the ror attacks don’t happen in the lives can be saved,” said Ashim from today’s incident,” he said. istry is also closely monitoring injured,” said Rahul. future,” Priyanka said. Sanyal of Consumer Voice. “They will get a reply (to the the situation. Mourning the death of NCP chief Sharad Pawar He said regrettably India has attack),” Bhagwat said. In a tweet, Singh said, CRPF jawans, West Bengal on Thursday condemned the the dubious distinction of being Condemning the terror “Today’s dastardly attack on Chief Minister Mamata attack on CRPF personnel in world number one in road crash attack, the Prime Minister said,” CRPF in Pulwama (J&K) is Banerjee said, “Saddened that Jammu and Kashmir’s deaths and every year nearly 1.5 “Attack on CRPF personnel in extremely painful and disturb- 13 CRPF jawans became mar- Pulwama in which 30 CRPF lakh people are killed in road Pulwama is despicable. I strong- ing. I bow to each and every personnel were killed. He also crashes and another five lakh are ly condemn this dastardly CRPF jawan who has sacrificed $ $ 0 1 extended condolences to their severely injured, many of them attack. The sacrifices of our his life in service to the nation. families. disabled for life. PNS . +/ & 012 , 0 #
79.2 used by the army besides para- sources said. military forces. Moreover, As regards appointing a $ 6 ndia and Russia will sign an almost 100 per cent Indian Major General, most probably Iinter-governmental agree- contents, including metallurgy from the infantry, to oversee 79.2 Defence Ministry letter to the in Ministry was intimated about ment on Friday for a joint ven- :* ' '#$//*' besides other items needed for the project at Amethi, they said auditor watchdog forcing it to CAG’s reluctance/refusal to ture to manufacture the icon- (*# '$,'*-" #2"('#$' rifle manufacturing will figure he will be able to guide the ormer Finance Minister P redact the commercial aspect of carry out the redaction of price ic Kalashnikov rifle, popularly (* (%"", )*$2 in the proposed contract as part management about the nitty FChidambaram on Thursday the deal from the purview of information, on account of dif- known as AK-47, at ordnance +*+#"$) * ", of ‘Make in India’ of the present gritty of the rifles needed by the slammed the CAG report on the audit. ficulties in comprehension and factory in Amethi, Uttar NDA Government, they said. Army. Giving an example, they the Rafale deal as “useless”, say- According to lack of precedence of redaction Pradesh (UP). The contract %<@G"'*$. " ( Once this project takes off, also said some docks manu- ing the institution has allowed Chidambaram, the some of the of commercial details in the worth over Rs 12,000 crore is 2"('*$ -'''"$ $".,6 80(* '$"(' the plan is to manufacture 12 facturing warships in India for itself to become a “joke”. The pages in CAG copy brings to Audit Reports. However, for more than seven lakh rifles, *$'*$=BCCC($*$,2*$-*$'" , lakh more AK-23 rifles for the the Navy have a retired Rear report contains no useful light the hidden aspects of the Ministry strongly reiterated which will replace the currently ")$2,($+"('(#$$ '#,. para-military forces. Currently, Admiral with experience in information or conclusion and deal that explain matters relating their stand for redaction of used INSAS rifles by the Army. $2,/' $- the army and the para-military ship building as the head and its motive is to hide the truth, to number, pricing, delivery etc. commercial details in MMRCA Prime Minister Narendra forces import AK series of rifles this has proved successful. the senior Congress leader said Reading out an extract case on the grounds of securi- Modi will inaugurate the pro- from Bulgaria and Romania. Incidentally, India inked a at AICC Press briefing. from the Preface of the CAG, ty concerns and the said ject at the factory on February Major General will head the Kalashnikov rifles, officials said During negotiations last contract on Tuesday for buying He reiterated his party’s Chidambaram quoted it saying Agreement vide their letter 28, and President Vladimir project, officials said on this weapon has proved its year for the deal, the Adani 73,000 Sig Sauer rifles manu- demand for a joint parliamen- Defence Ministry on January dated February 6, 2019. Putin is likely to announce Thursday while giving details mettle for the last 60 years as it group was proposed by Russia factured by a US company on tary committee probe into the 15, 2019 had requested CAG Accordingly, commercial details handing over at least 1,000 about the ambitious project. is rugged, almost defect proof, given the fact that India want- fast track basis. These rifles will deal, saying only it can call for Office to redact commercial in the Audit findings of the readymade rifles through video The two countries will also ink easy to handle, requires little ed to involve private sector in be inducted within a year and all relevant records. The CAG details of MMRCA in the Audit MMRCA contract have been conferencing. an agreement to explore pos- training, easy to carry and manufacturing state of the art the total deal is worth over Rs is not God, he said, apparently Report citing reference to a par- redacted,” Chidambaram quot- The AK-203 rifles, the lat- sibilities to export rifles pro- adaptable to all kinds of oper- weapons, However, the Indian 700 crore. Most of the rifles will rejecting the ruling BJP’s con- ticular Article of the Inter- ed the Preface of CAG copy. est in the series of the AK-47 duced in Amethi to friendly ations. The proposed rifles to Government rejected the offer be issued to frontline troops tention that the national audi- Governmental Agreement. He further went on to rifle, will be manufactured foreign countries, they said. be manufactured will be 7.62 and opted for a joint venture deployed on the LoC with tor’s report should be the final “This Office had taken up comment the CAG’s Report is under a transfer of technology Elaborating upon the rea- mm and will replace the cur- between Ordnance Factory Pakistan and Line of Actual word on the contentious issue. the issue with MoD vide letter significant not for what it has pact with Russia and an Indian son for opting for AK or rent 5.56 mm INSAS rifles Board (OFB) and Russia, Control facing China. Chidambaram cited a dated February 5, 2019, where- said but for what it has not said. . $ P . 5 79.2 ( he Supreme Court on TThursday grilled Amrapali Group CMD Anil Kumar 79.2 more than 500 didn’t file Sharma for Rs 94 crore of Income Tax Returns. homebuyers’ money being xpressing concern that the Saying that the CAG report shown in his bank account and Ereal estate sector had must be the point of reference, also warned that it would send recently come under severe Naidu wanted the industry to him to jail for his “reluctance” scrutiny by the Apex court and promote digital transactions in disclosing the identity of a statutory Consumer rights and enhance transparency and person, who had bought com- bodies due to some unethical ethical facet of the sector. pany’s shares worth Rs 140 practices followed by certain Considering that the real crore from the multi-national players, Vice President M estate sector contributes 7.9 per firm JP Morgan. Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday cent to the GDP of the coun- The top court gave Sharma called upon the industry bod- try and provides employment one last opportunity to return ies to institutionalise a code to more than 50 million peo- Rs 6.55 crore of homebuyers’ conduct and a self regulation ple, he said that a transparent money, which he had trans- mechanism to curb unethical and predictable regulatory ferred to his daughter, by if it’s not then we will take it fraud. How does the office practices in the segment. regime was essential to February 28 and sought expla- over,” the bench told advocate boy and a small time contrac- Addressing the young strengthen the real estate mar- nation of Rs 94 crore shown in Nikhil Nayyar appearing for tor have Rs 140 crore money to entrepreneurs and profession- ket by creating greater confi- his bank account. Royal Golf Link Projects Ltd. purchase shares of Amrapali,” ( ( 0 . O -. %$ P als at the 3rd YouthCon orga- dence in the consumers. It also appointed a valuer to The bench also restrained the bench said. nized by realtor’s body Naidu said that the sector ascertain the exact value of Royal Golf Link from alienat- The court asked Sharma CREDAI here, Naidu pointed was essential for healthy, inclu- 5,229 unsold flats including ing its properties till further about Atul Mittal, to which out that the sector had come sive and equitable growth of the those booked by Amrapali for orders. It also asked the valuer Sharma very reluctantly replied 16 Q R 6 ! under severe scrutiny by the economy. The Vice President just Rs 1, Rs 11 and Rs 12 and to explain the transaction made that he was one of the relative apex court and statutory con- added that programmes like asked the valuer to submit its by JP Morgan Real Estate fund of company’s statutory auditor. sumer rights bodies due to AMRUT, HRIDAY and the pio- report by the next date of and Amrapali Group and how It asked Sharma to explain as some unethical practices fol- neering initiatives like 100 hearing. it sold the real estate firm’s how does Rs 94 crore of home- 4 # lowed by certain players. Smart Cities, Housing for all by A Bench of Justices Arun shares to two little known buyers’ money was shown in Naidu said that the grow- 2022 and PMAY present a great Mishra and UU Lalit also companies ‘Neelkant’ and his account and told him that 79.2 +$,. '" *: They also did not imple- ing NPA in real estate had not opportunity for the sector. He brought ‘The Royal Golf Link ‘Rudraksh’ for Rs 140 crore. if it is company’s money then "$"((#,.' $ . ment 10 per cent reservation only affected banks but also wanted organisations like the City Projects Pvt Ltd’ under its The bench noted that it should be returned by JP’s Delhi unit observed %:$" *$ - '*2 for economically weaker sec- dried up bank loans to the sec- CREDAI to take lead in impart- scanner and sought its share ‘Neelkant’ and ‘Rudraksh’ com- February 28. B“Black Day” on Thursday, (*--'' !G@M2$"#.,N' tion, “obstructed” Ayushman tor from 63 per cent in 2013 to ing the skill-sets required for holding pattern, names of pro- pany was owned by Chandan The court said that if any marking fourth anniversary of +*+," ! Bharat scheme, and blamed the 17 per cent in 2016, thereby new employment opportunities. moters and balancesheet. The Kumar, who was a peon in the facts are suppressed by the the AAP Government, and *$)$,+*,' prime minister for its own accentuating the stress. Naidu said that it was court was informed by the office of statutory auditor of company or its promoters it “purified” Jantar Mantar with ""($*,,' "'* " failures, Tiwari said. “You owe as much to your heartening to note that the real forensic auditors that land for Amrapali and Vivek Mittal will be viewed seriously and Ganga jal, where the ruling "+'" '$# #+'*' Union Minister Vijay Goel customers and the workers as estate sector was showing signs the project were purchased by was his relative. would be considered as “aggra- party hosted Opposition lead- and BJP MPs Ramesh Bidhuri, you do to creditors and sup- of revival due to measures like Amrapali and in all possibility Counsel for JP Morgan vated contempt”. ers in its ‘Tanashahi Hatao, #+(*- !+*, Parvesh Verma, Udit Raj and pliers. More than financial via- RERA and GST. it appears to be a front com- said that there was one more On February 11, the apex Loktantra Bachao Rally’ tar- several other senior Delhi unit bility, it is social obligation and Pointing that the Supreme pany of the embattled real person as director in the court had taken strong excep- geting the Modi government. sacred Ganga jal because yes- leaders attended the protest trust that is at stake”, he said. Court has acknowledged Right estate firm. ‘Neelakant’ and his name was tion to two prime properties of Delhi BJP president Manoj terday an alliance of sinful event at Janar Mantar. Quoting the recent report to Shelter as a Fundamental “We want to know, who Atul Mittal but his relation with Amrapali, including a five-star Tiwari accused the Arvind persons with negative thinking Goel said that except vic- of CAG on real estate sector, Right, he said “we have a mas- paid the money for the land others is not known. hotel, finding no bidders in an Kejriwal Government of com- was seen here,” Tiwari told tory in Delhi election, the Vice President said that 95 sive task at hand” He said and how much money. Who “We will seek information auction and said that prima mitting 74 “frauds” with Delhi reporters. Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party per cent of the real estate there was a shortage of 19 mil- are the promoters in the com- from Amrapali CMD Anil facie it looks like “cartelisation people, saying BJP workers The AAP Government in could not secure votes more developers, builders and agents lion housing units in India and pany and who are the share- Kumar Sharma about Atul is at work”. The top court said will expose the AAP all across Delhi has committed “frauds” than even NOTA in other did not have mandatory PAN. 96 per cent of those affected by holders. We also want to know Mittal and send him to jail that it is “shocking and dis- the national Capital in the run by not fulfilling its 70 poll States. “The people of the He also pointed to surveys this shortage were people what is the present valuation of straightaway if he do not dis- turbing” that bankers are not up to the upcoming polls. promises and also by “mis- country have learnt lesson from from the sources like CREDAI belonging to economically the land. If it is honest invest- close his identity and rela- coming forward to finance the “We have come here to leading” voters, saying their the results of his Government and RERA and said that out of weaker sections and middle ment we will not touch it but tions. This is a serious kind of properties. purify Jantar Mantar with the votes have been deleted. in Delhi,” he said. around 3000 entities surveyed; income groups. # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). & 7
1-.11-- 67 8 R99 Srinagar: Chronological list of taking refuge in a Government ians were killed. Army Cantonment in Jammu. all major terror attacks on secu- building. Two-day encounter 24 June 2005 — Nine The assailants were also killed. rity forces in Jammu & Kashmir ends with killing of three sol- army soldiers were killed in a 17 November 2001 — in the last two decades: diers including two officers car bomb triggered by terrorists Terrorists storm a security 26 August 2017 — Three and the two assailants. One on the outskirts of Srinagar. forces base in Ramban (then Jaish terrorists storm District civilian was also killed. 4 August 2004 — Nine part of Doda district), killing 10 Police Lines Pulwama, killing 5 December 2014 — Six CRPF jawans were killed in a security forces. Four terrorists eight security force personnel, heavily-armed terrorists storm terrorist attack on their camp at were also killed. before the assailants were shot an Army camp at Mohra in Uri. Rajbagh in Srinagar. One ter- 1 October 2001 — dead. Ten soldiers were killed in the rorist was also killed in retalia- Terrorists trigger a car bomb 29 November 2016 — gun battle with the intruders, tory action. outside the old Legislative Three terrorists storm Army who were all shot dead. 8 April 2004 — 11 per- Assembly Complex in Srinagar. artillery camp at Nagrota in 24 June 2013 — sons were killed in a grenade 38 persons were killed while Jammu, killing seven soldiers, Terrorists ambush a bus carry- attack by terrorists on a PDP three assailants were also elim- before the assailants were elim- ing unarmed Army personnel at rally at Uri in Baramulla district. inated. inated. Hyderpora in Srinagar. Eight The PDP was demanding open- 10 August 2000 — 18 September 2016 — soldiers were killed in the attack. ing of the Srinagar- Terrorists hurl a grenade at Four Pakistani terrorists storm 19 July 2008 — Ten sol- Muzaffarabad Road. Residency Road in Srinagar. As an Army camp at Uri in diers were killed when terror- 22 July 2003 — Eight sol- the security officials assem- Baramulla district, killing 18 ists triggered an IED planted by diers, including a Brigadier, bled at the spot, they triggered soldiers, most of them were in the roadside at Narbal on were killed in a terrorists attack a car bomb, killing 11 persons sleep. The assailants were also Srinagar-Baramulla highway on their camp at Akhnoor. and a photojournalist. killed. The incident led to on the outskirts of the city. Several other senior Army offi- 19 April 2000 — The reprisal surgical strikes inside 2 November 2005 — A cers sustained injuries in the "human bomb" was used for the the Pakistan occupied Kashmir suicide bomber blew up his car attack. first time in Kashmir insur- by Indian Army. at Nowgam, near the private 28 June 2003 — 12 sol- gency. Two soldiers were killed 25 June 2016 — residence of then Chief diers, including an officer, were in the suicide car bomb at the Terrorists open indiscriminate Minister Mufti Mohammad killed in a suicide attack by ter- Army headquarters at firing on a CRPF bus, killing Sayeed, killing three cops and rorists on Sunjwan Army camp. Badamibagh area in Srinagar. eight jawans at Pampore on six civilians. Two terrorists were neutralised. 3 November 1999 — Srinagar-Jammu National 20 July 2005 — A suicide 14 May 2002 — In one Terrorists storm the Highway. car bomber blew his vehicle by of the biggest strikes on an Badamibagh Army headquar- 3 June 2016 — Terrorists ramming it into a vehicle of Army installation, 36 persons ters, killing 10 soldiers includ- target a CRPF bus at Pampore, security forces. Three security were killed by three terrorists ing Defence Public Relations 0 $ $ 0 1 " killing two personnel before force personnel and two civil- who stormed the Kaluchak Officer Major Purshottam. PTI / " $$ 0 #6+ 34 %& O . P Srinagar: Former Jammu & CRPF soldiers are reported to of our security personnel have Kashmir Chief Ministers, have been killed & injured in an been martyred and several 56 &* Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba IED blast. I condemn this have been injured. No words Jammu: Jammu & Kashmir and Divisional Civil and Police Mufti condemned the killing of attack in the strongest possible are enough to condemn the Governor Satya Pal Malik has Administration to immediately Srinagar: The scene of devas- badly blown up that officials feel As soon as the explosion at least 43 CRPF personnel in terms. My prayers for the gruesome terror attack. How directed immediate enhance- review the security manage- tation and destruction caused it may take some time to iden- took place, people started run- a terrorist attack in Pulwama injured & condolences to the many more lives will be ment of surveillance and review ment of all important installa- on Thursday by the suicide car tity them. This was the first sui- ning for safety. The shopkeep- district on Thursday. families of the bereaved," snuffed out before this madness of the security management of tions and establishments, an bomb attack, that killed at least cide car bomb strike in Kashmir ers at Lethpora market, which The CRPF personnel were Abdullah tweeted. ends?" Mehbooba tweeted. all important installations and official spokesperson said. 43 security personnel, sent chills since the 2001 attack on the J&K is less than 300 metres from the killed when a Jaish-e- The vehicle was blown up Several other mainstream establishments in the State, in Malik has conveyed his grief down the spine of unsuspecting Legislative Assembly that left 41 scene of the attack, downed Mohammed terrorist rammed on the Srinagar-Jammu high- politicians took to social media the aftermath of a major terror and sincere sympathy to the locals who witnessed the blood persons, including three suicide their shutters and fled. an explosive-laden vehicle into way in the district's Awantipora to condemn the attack. attack on a CRPF convoy, killing families of the brave soldiers, bath in Pulwama district's attackers, dead. The scene of the incident is the bus they were travelling in. area. "Very sad news coming at least 18 personnel in Pulwama who lost their lives in the attack, Awantipora area, about 20 km More than 2,500 Central not very far from the "Terrible news coming "Disturbing news coming from Lethpora , any form of on Thursday. and prayed for an early recovery from here. Reserve Police Force personnel, Commando Training Centre from the valley. A number of in from #awantipura . Twelve killing must be condemned by He has also said such terror of the injured, he added. The explosive used in the many of them returning from at Lethpora, which was stormed one and all," People's attacks will not deter the resolve Expressing serious concern attack was so strong that the leave to rejoin duty in the by Jaish-e-Mohammad terror- Conference leader Imran of our security forces and peo- on the attack, the governor has blast was heard from 10-12 km Valley, were travelling in the ists on December 31, 2017, Ansari said. ple. The Governor strongly con- observed that the forces respon- away, including some parts of convoy of 78 vehicles when the killing five CRPF personnel. The Jaish-e-Mohammed demned the attack on a Central sible for insurgency in Jammu Srinagar adjoining the Pulwama suicide bomber rammed his The Jammu-Srinagar has claimed responsibility for Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Kashmir are desperate and district, locals said. vehicle into a bus carrying 39- Highway has been witness to the incident, officials said. convoy in Pulwama, in which at frustrated and just want to prove Body parts of the terrorist, 44 jawans, officials said. several terror attacks on the The casualties are likely to least 18 personnel were killed their presence. identified as Adil Ahmad, and There was nothing at the security forces. CRPF bore the go up. and many injured. Visibly, it seems to be guid- the CRPF personnel killed in scene of the incident to suggest brunt of an attack at Pampore, Several people were injured He has urged all the securi- ed from across the border as the attack were strewn on the which type of vehicle was used less than seven kilometres from in the terror attack, which ty forces' commanders to terror group JeM has claimed Jammu-Srinagar Highway, to carry out the attack except the Lethpora, in June 2016, losing reduced the bus to a mangled enhance surveillance on every the responsibility, the Governor where the incident happened. mangled heap of iron of the bus eight jawans while 22 others sus- heap of iron. PTI front and directed the District said. PTI Some of the bodies were so that was the target. tained injuries. PTI & %& 3/8 ) )
&<&"" Subhankar Chakrabarty, partner of the LF has however Pradip Bhattacharya and oth- gone silent in the past few he Bengal Pradesh ers preferring a softer line. weeks after initial curiosity TCongress leadership has “How shall we convince about the Congress. According once again claimed that there our grassroots workers about to inside sources a majority of is no possibility of any alliance the alliance after almost seven the LF leaders are not averse to with the Trinamool Congress years of sustained struggle leaving a few seats for the in the State. However, they have against the TMC highhand- Congress or going for a “friend- not ruled possibilities of elec- edness?” a PCC member said ly fight” in some seats like that toral adjustments with the Left adding “our workers are get- of Adhir Chowdhury, but in Front if a proposal comes from ting targeted, by the general they are in favour of the other side. Trinamool, many leaders have going it alone. “It is clear that there is no this issue.” been forced to join them. “The recent Brigade rally possibility of any alliance with Mitra had earlier said that Even during the Left rule we has shown the kind of support the TMC in Bengal as we there was no question of any did not face this kind of per- base we still have in Bengal. have been continuously fight- alliance with the Trinamool as secution from the ruling party. The TMC does not allow our ing against them in the State. “no proposal has come from So it will not be possible for voters to vote but they allow the Our workers will simply not that side.” The PCC seems to the two parties to work togeth- BJP to vote in many places pro- take the alliance and may not be vertically divided over the er in near future.” jecting them as the biggest come out for campaigning or issue with leaders like The leaders however said Opposition party. By any stan- even go hostile during the Behrampore MP Adhir that “there are two options: dards our Brigade rally was elections if any alliance is Chowdhury, AICC member either go it alone or consider a much bigger than that of the imposed from above,” a senior OP Mishra, former Minister pre-electoral understanding TMC. Most of the workers PCC leader said adding “even Manoj Chakrabarty, former with the Left Front if any pro- want to go it alone,” said a our PCC president Somen MP Deepa Dasmunshi oppos- posal comes from that side.” CPI(M) central committee Mitra had gone on record on ing the alliance and those like The CPI(M), the biggest member. ! !! Gorakhpur(UP): The main accused in the hooch tragedy in neighbouring Kushinagar district, which left nine people dead, has been arrested in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan, police said. The accused, Harendra Yadav, is a native of Bihar and was arrested Wednesday evening. He is likely to be brought to Kushinagar on Friday, Kushinagar SP RN Mishra said. As many as nine people died last week after consuming spurious liquor in an area under the Tarya Sujan police station limits. After registering a case against unidentified people on February 8, police had arrested two people, Rajendra Jaiswal and Hari Nishadand, the SP said. During interrogation of the duo, it surfaced that one Harendra Yadav of Gopalganj, Bihar who is the main accused has escaped soon after the incident. Police traced Yadav's loca- tion using his mobile phone. He was arrested in Rajasthan's Bhilwara, the SP said. PTI # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). & 9
!7% Q % R( 9- * & R 9 ( R( '='"2 for the Lok Sabha polls, the Shiv next 48 hours, its candidates Sena formally linked the would start campaigning for the Mumbai: NCP leader coming Morigaon: Six illegal immi- ndulging in hard bargaining impending LS poll tie-up with polls. While the Shiv Sena lead- Dhananjay Munde took a jibe Lok Sabha grants from Bangladesh, all '='"2 Lok Sabha polls. Iwith its senior saffron ally the seat-sharing arrangements ership has agreed to re-consid- at the BJP and Shiv Sena on polls. members of a family, were At the meeting held earli- over an alliance for the Lok for the State Assembly polls er its earlier oft-repeated stand Valentine's Day, calling them "Could arrested early on Thursday in ithin days after Sharad er in the afternoon, the NCP is Sabha polls, the ruling Shiv Sena which in the normal course are of not contesting the Lok Sabha the "best couple" who contin- there be a Assam's Morigaon district, a WPawar agreed to recon- understood to have finalised on Thursday told its ally that it scheduled to be held in October polls in an alliance with the BJP, ue to be together despite con- best couple senior police officer said here. sider his earlier decision not to the names of a majority of its was prepared to have an elec- this year. the Amit Shah-led party is not stant bickering. than this? The family went missing contest the Lok Sabha polls, the candidates for the Lok Sabha toral tie-up with the latter, pro- Significantly enough, the ready to ink the seat-sharing The BJP and Sena are in They are still together despite four months ago after the NCP on Thursday announced polls. “We (NCP and Congress) vided the Amit Shah-led party Shiv Sena gave a 48-hour ulti- deal on the dotted line as sug- alliance in Maharashtra as well everyday bickering between Supreme Court rejected their that its president Pawar would have come to an informal agreed to accept the 1995 matum to the BJP for coming gested by the Sena. as at the Centre. them for the past five years," plea challenging a Gauhati High contest the Lok Sabha polls understanding about the shar- Assembly poll seat-sharing for- out with a seat-sharing offer for While the BJP has offered However, the Uddhav Munde said in a tweet with Court order, which declared from Madha constituency in ing of seats for the Lok Sabha mula and offered the Chief the Lok Sabha polls. The Sena 50: 50 seat sharing formula and Thackeray-led party has been #Valentinesday. them as illegal migrants, Deputy western Maharashtra. polls. Currently we are in Minister’s post to it. is understood to have conveyed a Rajya Sabha seat, the Sena has frequently taking potshots at its "...How much do they love Superintendent of Police Talking to media persons talks with other constituents Seeking to have its pound of to the BJP leadership that if no chosen to link the LS poll tie-up saffron partner in the last few each other, don't they?" said the (Border), Morigaon, D R Bora, after Pawar confabulated with of Mahaghatbhandan. We flesh in the proposed seat-shar- decision is taken on the alliance with the seat-sharing arrange- years. It is also uncertain if they Leader of Opposition in the said. senior party leaders and office intend to announce the list ing arrangement with the BJP for the Lok Sabha polls in the ment for the State Assembly. would form alliance for the state Legislative Council. PTI The apex court had also bearers on the preparations of all Mahaghatbhandan directed them to surrender for the Lok Sabha polls, senior candidates little over a week before police, the DSP said. NCP leader Praful Patel said: from over now,” a senior NCP "The arrested immigrants, “At the previous meeting, we leader said. )-) & including two women, were had requested Pawar saheb to Pawar, who was elected to declared 'foreigners' by the contest from Madha con- the Rajya Sabha for the first Foreigners Tribunal here and the stituency. He has accepted our time in April 2014, had earli- ) , & Gauhati High Court also upheld request and will contest the Lok er been elected to Lok Sabha the decision. Sabha polls from Madha con- for seven terns. Of the seven Ahmedabad: Almost 17 years of 2017. The compensation victims remained unidentified "The family then stituency”. Lok sabha terms, Pawar had after the Godhra train burning will be paid from the Chief till date, a cumulative com- approached the Supreme Court, Patel expressed confidence represented his home con- incident, the Gujarat Minister's Relief Fund. pensation of 260 lakh would which rejected their petition and that the Congress-NCP stituency of Baramati for six Government on Thursday The Godhra train burning be paid to the kin of the asked them to surrender," Bora alliance-led terms, while Madha con- announced compensation of incident had led to one of the remaining 52 victims, the told reporters. Mahaghatbhandan would win stituency sent him to the lower five lakh each for the families worst riots in the country in release said. The immigrants who 35 out of total 48 seats in the Parliament once in 2009. of 52 victims. which around over 1,000 peo- The high court had direct- were arrested on Thursday have In an official release, the ple, mostly of minority com- ed the State Government as been identified as State Government said the munity, were killed in Gujarat well as Railways to pay com- Amez Ali, Sirazul Hoque, Somet decision has been taken as per in 2002. pensation to the kin of those Ali, Golap Ali, Yumuri Begum the Gujarat High Court order Since seven out of the 59 killed in the tragedy, it said. PTI and Robisa Begum, he said. PTI ! "# !!#
Ahmednagar: Social activist Anna Hazare was on Thursday admitted to a hospital here after complaining of weakness due to lack of blood supply to his brain, doctors said. Hazare, 81, last week broke his week-long fast over his demand for appointment of anti-corruption watchdogs. "Anna is suffering from weakness and other health issues due to lack of blood supply to his brain," Dr Bapu Kandekar, who examined the activist, said. Hazare, who lives in Ralegan Siddhi village in Ahmednagar district, com- plained of some health problems and was brought here in the morning, his aide said. PTI # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). & : !"$!%&''( )%* ! ; : % ! ; ; 2 : "(,; 2++(#) 7 : ) / ; & , + % $% 5 ! #>+%? * # * ; 7" " ( 9 ( ( +% "
* 0 >*'0? # +1 irst, let’s get the obvious out of the *'0 @44 * way. Government-formation after the 2019 general election will # " ( depend on the numbers. Not ide- ology, not alliances and certainly % Fnot personal chemistry between political ( leaders; these will be played out during the election. It’s when the votes are counted that, depending on the tally of various polit- +% = ! 8@A ical parties/groupings, it will be decided 3% # 0 + who will lead the next Government of India. Naturally, the issue itself will be ren- +% 3% B% . dered moot if any of the three players in +% ( the fray — broadly the BJP-led National " . % 1 Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Congress- led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and +% ( the still amorphous Third/Federal Front ! ) comprising non-BJP/non-Congress region- +%S ! " al parties — win 272 seats on their own. That, however, according to every credi- ! % ble, independent opinion poll, is unlikely. +%S We are not arguing that it can’t happen by ) the time polling day comes along. Just that as of today the consensus among pollsters -$ # +% is that it won’t. In fact, apart from pollsters and large * - ! % sections of the media, there is another ! group of people whose assessment is sim- ilar and who are planning their next +% # +%S $ moves factoring this in. These are the Thackeray last week can fairly Third/Federal Front as funda- Samajwadi Party, Trinamool 0 C 0 + 7 0 + smaller parties in and around the NDA or, be surmised to be a part of this mentally unstable. Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, . +% as we term them, the potential jokers in the effort. Only the Akalis are out Interestingly, however, Telugu Desam Party, Rashtriya post-poll pack. of this matrix. And that’s nearly all of them have in Janata Dal, National There should be no misunderstanding because despite the tempta- ..<2 5<6 recent weeks established infor- Conference and Bahujan Samaj 5 +% ! " ( about what is being said. These parties, tions, the Shiromani Akali Dal . '"6 mal contacts with the NDA’s Party are currently doing most ! % which bring a different play to the 2019 leadership, which is the Badal current allies, hinting at a joint of the running — that perhaps national electoral game, will quietly fall in family, shares a close personal %"62 "6 post-poll strategy if the BJP needs most to fine-tune its " behind the BJP as purportedly old and relationship with the Narendra alone is unable to win 272 seats strategy to deal with the emerg- % D R S trusted allies or as regional parties resort- Modi-Amit Shah-Arun Jaitley "="G'<6 or come reasonably close to that ing jokers in the pack. " ing to that old trope of offering issue-based troika and the party still faces ."75<6. magic number of seats in the For, the choices for these support to the party ruling at the Centre residual voter resentment for its forthcoming general election. parties are actually more than * 5 in the interest of the State if Prime Minister decade of alleged misrule in .6'"27 So, what a block of parties, for the three main players in Narendra Modi leads his party back to Punjab. So it is not expected to %"G6 27. including but not limited to the the fray. They could back a power. But they also recognise that’s not the win more than a couple of Lok Shiv Sena, Janata Dal-United, Modi-led Government if the kind of certainty it was a year ago. So, they Sabha seats, if that, in 2019. 56"G!.G<= YSR Congress, Telangana BJP numbers are good. They ! seem to be preparing a Plan B. For currently non-NDA Rashtra Samithi, could back a non-Modi BJP-led There are two clearly discernible parties such as the Biju Janata "&"'<2 AIADMK/Rajinikanth, Biju government if the BJP is the : < , (% prongs to this political-electoral strategy. Dal, Telangana Rashtra Samithi, 8
+ about 19 hours to reach Doklam and stop the developed the required infrastructure ic hurdles. According to reports, most feel threatened because of China. These HF H8 H8 3488(83 3483( Chinese troops from constructing a road in the along the border areas uniformly as it times the concerned Ministry was include Japan, South Korea and absence of a motorable route. In view of this mis- presumed China could use it for its own unable to use the allotted funds because Vietnam. The United States, too, wants 8B 348B(8G # ( erable situation, the Cabinet Committee on designs. Second, even as infrastructure of sluggish or zero construction activ- to check the increasing strength of # Security approved a revised budget of 3,482.52 was developed, it had to be defended ities along the border areas. The mon- China. Analysts claim that smaller crore to construct 73 strategic roads along the and maintained, involving both human itoring system, too, was faulty. In nations like Maldives, Sri Lanka, and # S Indo-China border on November 10, 2018. These and monetary resources. However, this China, its Army controls the border Bangladesh among others also feel 0 roads had been approved in 2005 and meant to defeatist policy was abandoned in 2006 while in India, the Army, the Assam defenceless but are in no position to ( be completed by 2012. But the project missed and the Cabinet Committee on Security Rifles, Border Security Force (BSF) and challenge China. India can try to 6) * several deadlines and is now expected to be com- decided to develop the border areas and the ITBP share vigil duties. The pres- infuse confidence among them too. + pleted by 2020. Construction agencies claim that construct new roads, bridges and tun- ence of multiple agencies delays the (The writer is member, United Uur vr vhqrryrrpvs r yvuur7vyy inclement weather, difficult terrain and rig- nels. work. It appears that the present Services Institute of India and Institute HryvqhBhrAqhvhqurX yq7hx maroles of Government procedures are respon- In case our infrastructure was in Government has earmarked several for Defence Studies and Analyses) > R & + = E
than “a symbolic gesture.” radical clerics just before Pakistan’s ‘The Egalitarianism of the Prophet American historian, Gail Minault, The idea behind these changes creation in 1947, the authors decid- (PBUH)’.) and Oxford University’s Faisal Devji, was to replace names of cities that ed to call the State Bank Baitul maal. However, at the core of Islamic completely deconstructed Dhulipala’s were named by India’s former Daechsel wrote that the urge was Socialism, Islamic Democracy or thesis by remarking that a bulk of Muslim and British rulers. But the to do away with the Western-sound- Musawaat-i-Muhammadi was still Dhulipala’s sources included populist fact is, many such cities were found- ing State Bank but, in this pursuit, socialism and democracy as modern newspapers, activists, ideologues ed by these rulers. So, renaming them the clerics did not offer an immedi- ideas developed in the West. Just as and even fringe groups, who were in accordance with India’s ancient ate Urdu translation but an Arabic basic parliamentary dynamics and more or less operating indepen- Hindu past requires the engineering one to conjure up a link between modern banking were at the core of dently from the actual founders of 2 of some convoluted histories and Indian Muslims and ancient Islamic terms such as Majlis-i-Shoora and Pakistan. What’s more, as Minault myths to rationalise the change. Arabia. This practice of replacing Islamic Banking during the reac- put it, most of the sources that drive n his 1984 paper, ‘What’s in a As Emmerson would put it, it names of ideas, roads and cities that tionary Gen Zia dictatorship. Dhulipala’s thesis belonged to a sin- name?’ (Journal of Southeast has nothing to do with reality but have Western origins with those con- Recently, the Pakistan Tehreek- gle dominant sect of Islam (in India). IAsian Studies), Stanford rather it is an expression of power jured from Arabia’s ancient Islamic e-Insaf (PTI) regime and Prime More likely than not, the term University’s Donald Emmerson of the namer — in this case the rul- past, has been rather frequent in Minister Imran Khan have repeat- Riyasat-i-Madina is probably noth- wrote that “names are rooted neither ing Hindu nationalist party, the Pakistan ever since the 1970s. first Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Assembly, a PPP ideologue, S Rashid edly used the term “Riyasat-i- ing more than what Musawaat-i- in reality nor custom but express Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Take for instance, the idea of Khan. The rationale behind it was Ahmad, moved the Assembly to Madina” (or the State of Madina). Muhammadi or Majlis-Shoora were. instead the power of the namer.” The practice of changing names socialism. In the Foundation Papers that Islam was inherently an egali- induct the word socialism in the The emergence of this term can be It is a way of saying that we admire Emmerson was talking about how of cities and roads has also been of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), tarian system and the socialism country’s Constitution that was still vaguely traced back to the 1940s, the entirely secular idea of the States and Governments in the quite common in Pakistan. Markus the word ‘socialism’ largely appears. being advocated by Pakistanis was being authored. when some Muslim activists in Scandinavian welfare state, but this West name regions that were once Daechsel, in his book, Politics of Self- The party was conceived as a social- actually the socialism of the welfare The Opposition was livid. Rashid India began to propagate the cre- idea was present in an ‘early Islamic under their domain. Expression, wrote that names in this ist party in 1967. However, after state based on this egalitarianism. then offered to add the prefix ‘Islamic’. ation of a Muslim-majority country State’, so it is inherently Islamic and Reshmi Lal, in an April 2016 arti- context meant more than the things being critically attacked from the By the time the PPP came to But the opposition disagreed, despite that would resemble ‘Islam’s first not secular. But it is. This can be cle for The National, paraphrased they were meant to designate. right by religious groups, the party power in December 1971, conserv- the fact that PPP MNA Kausar Niazi state’ in the seventh century. masked with a term that conjures up Emmerson to understand why many Daechsel was discussing the added the prefix Islamic to the word ative Opposition groups were not pointed out that the clerics were okay Even though Indian authors images of an Arab religious past, but Governments in former British fascination certain Indian Muslims socialism. The term ‘Islamic- convinced by the term Islamic with the term ‘Islamic Democracy’ such as Venkat Dhulipala (in his 2015 not the fact that with the core idea colonies changed the names of cities. had for giving “Islamic-sounding Socialism’ was not new, as such, hav- Socialism as well. During a heated but not with ‘Islamic Socialism’. A book Creating a New Madina) claim of the Western welfare state lies the For example, Lal explained the recent terms” to Western economic and ing been used by scholars such as G debate between the treasury bench- compromise was reached when the that, indeed, the idea of Pakistan was insistence that faith must be separat- spree of changing the names of political ideas. For example, in a Ahmad Parvez and Khalifa Abdul es and the right-wing opposition in Government offered the term formulated as such, his claims have ed from politics. some cities in India as nothing more pamphlet distributed by a group of Hakim and even by the country’s a March 1973 session of the National Musawaat-i-Muhammadi (literally faced severe rebuttals. For example, (The Dawn) # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). ! <
)- / , $& 6 2 < F=G , =*>?>> F ) '$ 0 %"62 biggest partner by sales in an alliance that Ghosn built into # $ enault profits fell sharply the world’s top-selling auto Rlast year, the French group. $ automaker said on Thursday, Last month he resigned as releasing its first annual results CEO of Renault, having E since the shock arrest in Japan already been stripped of his of former boss Carlos Ghosn. chairman titles at Nissan and . Meanwhile, Renault’s new Mitsubishi. . . "$ chairman Jean-Dominique He has been in a detention & ". L+ . '='"2 Senard, elected after Ghosn centre in Tokyo for three ' 9:;<= & . '='"2 resigned, arrived in Japan months with little prospect of ;::> $' ash-strapped Jet Airways Thursday for talks with partner release before a trial that could 6) $% . ? @A") ." . 9:;< ) Con Thursday said its board he Reserve Bank on Nissan in a bid to smooth take months to materialise. has approved bank-led resolu- TThursday said it has imposed relations which grew strained Renault’s new chairman tion plan (BLRP), entailing 3.5 crore penalties on three under Ghosn’s leadership. Senard, who is to have a series conversion of lenders’ debt public sector banks, including Renault’s net profit for of talks with top Nissan offi- into equity, making them the PNB and OBC, for violation of 2018 plunged 37 percent from cials, told reporters before leav- largest shareholder in the air- various banking norms. a record 5.1 billion euros ($5.75 ing for Japan he intended to line. The monetary penalty on billion) the previous year, hit by “re-establish confidence, trans- The provisional restruc- the banks has been imposed for shrinking profits at Nissan and parency and loyalty” between turing plan (BLPRP) has been non-compliance with various changes in exchange rates in the partners. 79.2 crore as compared to 6,042.58 carried out by lenders, led by directions issued by the RBI on some emerging countries. He is due to join Nissan’s crore in the same quarter last State Bank of India, under the monitoring of end use of funds, “This decline came main- board in April, but the question truggling carrier Jet Airways fiscal, it added. Reserve Bank of India’s exchange of information with ly from Nissan’s contribution, of overall chairmanship of the SThursday reported a stand- Aircraft fuel expenses February 12, 2018 circular. other banks, and on restructur- down 1.282 billion, which Nissan-Renault group remains alone net loss of 587.77 crore stood at 2,387.72 crore as “The BLPRP currently ing of accounts, the Reserve notably benefited in 2017 from a bone of contention, with the for the third quarter ended compared to 1,840.08 crore estimates a funding gap of Bank of India said in a statement. a one-off gain of 1.021 billion,” Japanese fearing conflicts of /%. M . . % "+ December 31. in the corresponding period 8,500 crore (including pro- A penalty of 1.5 crore has Renault said in a statement. interest and anxious to avoid . N" 2 .$ The company had posted a last year, while aircraft and posed repayment of aircraft been imposed on Oriental Bank Nissan on Tuesday slashed any hegemonic rule by anoth- . = . ") standalone net profit of 165.25 engines lease rentals were at debt of 1,700 crore) to be met of Commerce (OBC) and 1 its full-year forecast as its nine- er Ghosn-like figure. 0" " / 6 "/ 6 crore in the same quarter pre- 730.35 crore as against by appropriate mix of equity crore each on Punjab National month net profit dropped 45 Senard, quoted by Kyodo 9:;:&9:9: $ 0$ == vious fiscal, Jet Airways said in 583.67 crore. infusion, debt restructuring, Bank (PNB) and Bank of India. percent. news agency on arriving in a regulatory filing. Domestic revenue stood sale/sale and lease back/ refi- The RBI, however, added The results came as Japan, said it was “too early” to The carrier said revenue at 2,560.44 crore, down from nancing of aircraft, among that the fines have been Renault, Nissan and the third discuss the joint chairman- from operations during the 2,749.05 crore in the same other things,” the airline said in imposed due to deficiencies in partner in their alliance, ship. quarter under review stood at quarter last fiscal, while the a filing to exchanges. regulatory compliance and is Mitsubishi Motors, seek to Renault last month 6,147.98 crore as against same for international opera- The BLPRP contemplates not intended to pronounce turn the page after Ghosn’s announced record sales of 3.9 6,086.20 crore in the year-ago tions was also down to conversion of lenders’ debt upon the validity of any trans- arrest in Tokyo in November. million vehicles in 2018. period. 3,587.54 crore as against into 11.40 crore shares of 10 action or agreement entered Ghosn is accused of under- Operating margins fell 6.3 per- Total expenses in the third 3,337.15 crore, the filing each by allotment of equity into by the banks with their reporting millions of dollars in cent to 3.61 billion euros, or 6.3 quarter shot up to 6,786.15 added. shares to the lenders. customers. salary as head of Nissan, the percent of revenues. ) , 56+666 + 0 ( , 2 $C ) " ? A" # " ? A # & , (3 &&& " ? A" D . . ! ""3:? . ( .: %( O . O% 6 D P .$9@0. 6 79.2 investors. The Government 79.2 ond-largest sector for has decided to retain approxi- 79.2 employment generation. The 79.2 he Government has raised mately 10,000 crore as its raders’ body CAIT on trading community like other T10,000 crore by addition- divestment proceeds,” the min- oncerned over mounting TThursday urged Prime sectors also earnestly wish to odi Enterprises Group al offering of Bharat-22 istry said in a statement. Ccane arrears ahead of Lok Minister Narendra Modi to have direct interaction with Mcompany Indofil . $. Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) The proceeds from the ETF Sabha polls, the Government move foreign trade under you on various core issues,” Industries Ltd, a 2500 crore on Thursday. sale would help the Government on Thursday hiked the mini- the administrative control of CAIT Secretary General giant in crop protection and 79.2 Committee on doubling of The additional ‘on-tap’ move towards meeting the mum selling price of sugar by the External Affairs Ministry Praveen Khandelwal said in speciality chemicals, on Farmers Income was the chief offering of Bharat-22 ETF was 80,000 crore disinvestment tar- 2 per kg to 31 to help millers so that the Commerce the letter. Thursday announced its Joint evitalising Rainfed guest and lunched the Rainfed opened for a single day with a get set for the current fiscal. clear farmers’ dues. Ministry can focus solely on He also complimented Venture with world’s leading RAgriculture Network (RRA Atlas. base issue size of 3,500 crore With the successful Bharat- The minimum selling price domestic trade. Modi for bringing internal polymer additives manufac- N) in collaboration with The objective of the con- and an option to retain over- 22 ETF offering, the (MSP) is the rate below which In a letter to the prime trade under the Ministry of turing company, Italy-based National Rainfed Area vention is to find pragmatic subscription. Government has mopped up the mills cannot sell sugar in minister, the Confederation Commerce and creation of a Reagens, with a consolidated Authority (NRAA), Ministry of solutions by kicking around The issue was over-sub- approximately 46,000 crore by the open market to whole- of All India Traders (CAIT) department for it. group turnover of Euro 230 Agriculture and Farmers ideas pertaining to rainfed agri- scribed 10 times and received way of disinvestment. salers and bulk consumers like also sought his interaction Khandelwal suggested million. The new venture, Welfare, Government of India culture, build a consensus and bids for 4,00,000 crore till The Government has so far beverage and biscuit makers. with the trading community. that foreign trade should be Indo-Reagens Polymer & National Institute of emphasize on different policies 7pm. Bids will pour in till raised 22,900 crore through Industry body ISMA had “The retail trade in India put under the charge of the Additives Pvt Ltd will start Agricultural Extension and programmes at the Centre 8pm, the Finance Ministry said. the Bharat-22 ETF. While recently said cane arrears stood accounts for about 42 lakh Ministry of External Affairs manufacturing and offering Management (MANAGE) and States. The focus is to “The Bharat-22 ETF issue 14,500 crore was raised in at around 20,000 crore at the crore annual turnover and as it is well in touch with the Green Stabilizer range from organised a National identify rainfed agriculture as received overwhelming November 2017, another end of January. after agriculture, the sec- rest of the world. their unit at Ankaleshwar. Convention on ‘Revitalising an issue of national importance. response from all categories of 8,400 crore was raised in The venture will also begin Rainfed Agriculture — Apart from an inaugural investors including retail June 2018. offering state-of-the-art spe- Restructuring Policy and and a plenary session, the cialty additives from Reagens Public Investments to address thought-provoking convention units in Europe from 1st April Agrarian Crisis at the India witnessed various theme-based 2019. The JV will also be con- International Centre (IIC), sessions such as Agroecology structing a new a state-of-art New Delhi on Thursday. and Living Soils — The Policy technology plant in Gujarat More than 450 farmers, Problem, Alternative Industrial Development policy makers, researchers, aca- Budgetary Framework for Corporation’s Special demicians, and civil society Rainfed Agriculture, Draught Economic Zone in Dahej in practitioners participated in Animal Use in Rainfed 2019 to offer all green polymer the two-day convention. Ashok Agriculture — Potential and additives to the Indian Polymer Dalwai, CEO, National Rainfed Policy Imperatives and processing industry. Area Authority and Chairman, Evolving Appropriate Seed Systems for Climate Resilient Agriculture to Stimulate Growth, spread over two days. # &#% %#( "% #%( )*+,-). ! << + ) -! , ;:& " @/:3/*A/3 *: 9=HI # and institutional investors will hold 3.36% and LM =D0G= % 21.72%, respectively. During the April- 79.2 released earlier this week, too Batteries and flashlights maker Eveready December 2018 period, the company reported ! declined marginally to 2.05% in Industries on Thursday reported a multi-fold a net profit of 152.94 crore on a revenue of nflation based on wholesale January over the previous decline in standalone net profit to 19.71 lakh 1,329.32 crore. It had a net profit of 122.32 flow and fresh weakness in the Iprices fell to a 10-month month on continued decline in in the third quarter ended December 31, hit by crore on a revenue of 990.26 crore in the cor- A ! BC rupee against the dollar also low of 2.76% in January over food prices, including vegeta- cost of separation workers at Chennai plant. The responding period of the previous fiscal. impacted domestic market sen- the previous month on soften- bles and eggs. company had posted standalone net profit of '='"2 Bank and Hero MotoCorp, timents, brokers said. ing prices of fuel and some The WPI data further 20.94 crore in the same quarter last fiscal, % LM rising up to 3.17%. Foreign portfolio investors food items, according to gov- revealed that wholesale based Eveready Industries said in a regulatory filing. B=NM>= ontinuing its fall for the Selling was more pro- sold shares worth a net 676.63 ernment data released on price inflation for ‘fuel and Total income during the period under review sixth straight session on nounced in oil and gas, IT, crore, while domestic institu- Thursday. power’ segment fell sharply to stood at s 387.81 crore as against 373.8 crore Hinduja Group flagship company Ashok CThursday, the bench- metal, PSU and state-run oil tional investors bought shares The Wholesale Price Index 1.85% as against 8.38 per cent in in the year-ago quarter, it added. Eveready Leyland Thursday reported 21.44% decline in mark BSE Sensex dropped 158 marketing company stocks that worth a net 713.10 crore (WPI)-based inflation stood at December 2018, due to easing in Industries said it incurred 23.21 crore in the its standalone net profit at 381 crore for the points led by losses in IT, metal dragged the key indices into the Wednesday, provisional data 3.8% in December, 2018, and prices of motor fuel and LPG. voluntary retirement scheme for workmen third quarter ended December 31, 2018, impact- and energy stocks amid sus- negative territory. showed. 3.02% in January 2018. WPI Also, there was decrease in (VRS) at its manufacturing facility at ed by pricing pressure and higher input costs. tained foreign fund outflow Energy stocks cracked as Market extended losses as inflation stood at 2.74%in inflation in manufactured Tiruvottiyur, in Chennai. The company said it The company had posted a net profit of 485 and lacklustre global cues. fresh concerns about rising investors continued to focus on March 2018. products basket in spite of received 25 crore during the quarter, as per pay- crore during the October-December period of The 30-share index, after crude oil prices resurfaced, domestic cues while assessing Inflation in kitchen essen- higher in some items like sugar ment terms of the sale agreement. During the 2017-18. Revenues also declined to 6,325 crore shuttling between 35,799.42 and with Brent crude oil futures global developments, said tials like potato, onion, fruits, and apparel. third quarter, the company said its battery vol- during the third quarter, as against 7,191 crore 36,109.10, finally settled 157.89 zooming 1.26%, to USD 64.41 Vinod Nair, head of research, and milk softened in January The Reserve Bank, which ume grew by 6.2%. The turnover for lighting seg- in the same period of previous fiscal, Ashok points, or 0.44%, down at per barrel, after Saudi Arabia, Geojit Financial Services. over the previous month, the mainly factors in retail inflation ment for the quarter stood at 88.1 crore, down Leyland said in a regulatory filing. Total indus- 35,876.22. It had lost 840 points world’s top crude exporter, Moderation in Wholesale data revealed. based Consumer Price Index around 11%, partially due to supply constraints try volume for the quarter was lower by 7% due in the previous five sessions. said it would cut crude exports Price Index (WPI) in January However, the rate of price (CPI), had cut the key lending as well as unit price decrease in bulbs, it said. to high base last year. Ashok Leyland manag- The broader NSE Nifty and its production. provides an insight about the rise in the food basket, as a rate by 0.25% this month. ing director Vinod K Dasari said the company lost 47.60 points, or 0.44%, to Shares of state-run oil mar- slowdown in the economy and whole, rose to 2.34% in the The decline in inflation =MN had achieved BS6 compliance across its entire end at 10,746.05. Intra-day, it keting companies — IOC and earnings growth, he added. month under review compared may provide further head- L range of engines on test beds. “Coupled with the shuttled between 10,718.75 and BPCL — fell up to 4.19%. Mixed leads from most to a deflation (-0.07%) in the room to the central bank to cut modularity of vehicles we are planning from 10,792.70. The broader markets out- other Asian bourses also accel- previous month. interest rate (repo) in coming Adani Gas reported a 13% rise in consoli- 2020, it presents exciting opportunities for dif- Top losers in the Sensex performed key indices with the erated the selling pace, but a The retail inflation, months, experts said. dated net profit to 47.21 crore for the December ferentiating Ashok Leyland’s offerings to the cus- pack include Bharti Airtel, BSE mid-cap index rising higher opening of European 2018 quarter, on the back of strong volume tomers,” he added. Infosys, Asian Paints, RIL, Coal 0.52%, and the BSE small-cap shares helped trim losses to growth in its city gas distribution business. It had India, HDFC Bank, HDFC, gaining 0.17%. some extent. $ 7 ,5 ! A posted a consolidated net profit of 41.81 crore LM TCS, ONGC and M&M, falling Sector-wise, the BSE oil Japan’s Nikkei fell 0.02%, in the corresponding quarter a year ago, the =CD up to 3.09%. and gas index emerged as the Shanghai Composite was down 4 R ) B company said in a statement. Revenue from On the other hand, Yes worst performer by losing 0.05%, and Hong Kong’s Hang operations rose to 484.84 crore from 348.74 United Breweries Ltd (UBL) on Thursday Bank was the biggest gainer, 2.11%, followed by IT down Seng shed 0.21%. Taiwan was New Delhi (PTI): IT firm Larsen & Toubro lnfotech on crore in the third quarter of the previous fiscal. reported an over twofold increase in standalone rallying 30.73%, after the com- 1.28%, teck (1.14%), PSU also down 0.02%, while Korea’s Thursday announced acquisition of Germany’s Nielsen+Partner The company, part of the Adani Group, listed profit to 109.17 crore for the December 2018 pany said that the RBI had not (0.78%), consumer durables Kospi rose 1.11% and for EUR 28 million (approx 224.15 crore). “The company, on stock exchanges in November last year in a quarter, on volume growth, higher realisations found any divergence in the (0.42%) and FMCG (0.06%). Singapore Straits Times gained through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Larsen & Toubro lnfotech bid to become the largest city gas distribution and cost control. It had posted a profit of 47.38 asset classification and provi- While, bankex, auto, capi- 0.06%. GmbH, Germany, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire (CGD) company in India and unlock its value crore during the corresponding period of the sioning done by the lender dur- tal goods, healthcare, realty, In Europe, Paris CAC 40 Nielsen+Partner Unternehmensberater GmbH headquartered in for the existing shareholders. As part of the list- previous fiscal. Total income during the third ing 2017-18. infrastructure and power rose 0.66% and Frankfurt’s Hamburg, Germany, along with its identified subsidiaries in ing process, it allotted equity shares to the exist- quarter of the current financial year stood at Other gainers include, Tata indices managed to end in the DAX gained 0.48% in their Luxembourg, Switzerland, Thailand, Singapore and Australia and ing shareholders of Adani Enterprises Ltd in the 3,190.5 crore, up 22.19%, as compared with Motors, Sun Pharma, IndusInd green, rising up to 0.78%. early session. London’s FTSE branch office in Belgium,” Larsen & Toubro lnfotech said in a ratio of 1:1. Following the listing, promoters will 2,610.9 crore in the year-ago quarter, UBL said Bank, Bajaj Finance, ICICI Sustained foreign fund out- was up 0.16%. regulatory filing. hold 74.92% stake in Adani Gas, whereas retail in a regulatory filing. New Delhi|PTI
SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE NIFTY 50 10,786.10 10,792.70 10,718.75 10,746.05 -47.6 Script Open High Low LTP MANAPPURAM 106.7 108.95 104.1 108 MGL 871.7 878.6 860.75 865 GODREJAGRO 478.25 481.45 478 480 YESBANK 186.35 224 186.35 222.6 53.15 YESBANK 185.95 223.7 185.95 221 HEXAWARE 370.55 373.75 362.6 366.3 PIDILITIND 1,127.00 1,130.00 1,110.20 1,113.75 ASTRAL 1,158.10 1,159.40 1,120.00 1,125.00 IBULHSGFIN 623 668 623 660.05 41.15 ICICIBANK 340.7 346.5 336.25 343.1 EXIDEIND 207.5 210.25 204.2 210 TATAGLOBAL 182.1 189.85 182.1 189.15 LINDEINDIA 428.1 437 425 429.35 ZEEL 414.5 439.9 406.5 435 26.8 DHFL 105 131.15 104 127.9 WESTLIFE 346.1 353 342.6 345 AARTIIND 1,450.00 1,450.00 1,400.00 1,401.30 INDHOTEL 141.5 141.5 135.95 137.35 JSWSTEEL 269.4 282.5 264.05 281.1 9.9 IBULHSGFIN 618 667.6 618 657.15 STRTECH 214 221.9 212.25 219.35 CASTROLIND 151 152.1 147.25 148.1 HUDCO 38.75 38.75 37.55 38.4 TATAMOTORS 155.95 161 153.8 159.45 4.45 EICHERMOT 20,288.00 20,697.90 19,910.00 20,024.80 IBVENTURES 275.85 300.35 274.6 297.75 DABUR 439 444.3 437.6 440.45 HSCL 110.05 110.7 107.9 108.95 SUNPHARMA 432 444.9 428.65 440.85 9.6 CGPOWER 22 29.95 21.4 29.05 CANBK 220 226 218.3 224.05 ATUL 3,380.00 3,430.70 3,352.00 3,352.00 SCHAEFFLER 5,437.40 5,475.00 5,353.00 5,370.00 ADANIPORTS 342 352.2 340.05 347.55 5.9 RELIANCE 1,240.25 1,242.70 1,218.10 1,225.50 KOTAKBANK 1,298.10 1,303.10 1,272.75 1,288.35 AVANTI 320 326.5 316 321.9 DCMSHRIRAM 348 354.95 346.7 353 INDUSINDBK 1,491.90 1,530.80 1,476.05 1,518.15 19.7 TITAN 1,048.00 1,060.00 1,032.00 1,044.70 AUROPHARMA 748.25 756.7 745 749.1 SUZLON 3.37 3.55 3.26 3.52 MAHINDCIE 221.8 223 216 220.75 RELCAPITAL 140 151 133.4 147.6 DRREDDY 2,626.00 2,676.60 2,618.40 2,669.30 TATACOMM 498.7 503.5 490.5 502.9 EIDPARRY 191.5 195.5 188.95 190.7 ICICIBANK 339.85 346.85 336.15 343.95 4.2 LT 1,222.00 1,232.00 1,202.30 1,227.20 FEDERALBNK 81.95 82.15 80.15 80.4 CERA 2,234.90 2,290.00 2,224.15 2,272.65 MERCK 3,222.80 3,236.00 3,161.20 3,170.00 HEROMOTOCO 2,755.20 2,891.65 2,725.10 2,785.40 33.95 ZEEL 413 439.6 406.6 433.3 SPARC 160.5 168.1 155.45 167 TRIDENT 64 64.2 61.05 61.7 SUNDRMFAST 510.75 511.5 502.4 505.2 LT 1,219.00 1,231.75 1,201.10 1,228.00 11.35 BAJAJHLDNG 3,142.55 3,175.85 3,131.30 3,150.00 SPICEJET 77.45 78.4 76.6 78.05 JSLHISAR 79 81.15 78 78.85 PIIND 898 903.95 889.6 900 BAJFINANCE 2,579.95 2,622.00 2,556.90 2,614.00 23.45 SBIN 268.5 268.65 264 267.05 PHILIPCARB 142.65 144.75 135.55 140.85 MPHASIS 1,030.15 1,049.00 1,030.00 1,048.00 TAKE 115.65 117.65 111 113.65 VEDL 150.5 153 149.15 152 1.3 ASHOKLEY 78.9 87.05 77.75 84.5 HCLTECH 1,067.95 1,069.75 1,057.70 1,064.65 MEGH 51.7 52.65 51.2 51.5 GODREJPROP 722.4 727.75 710.5 724.05 ULTRACEMCO 3,454.00 3,503.75 3,426.65 3,495.50 23.25 SUNPHARMA 431.5 442.55 428.85 440.65 ADANIPOWER 37.1 37.55 35.15 37.15 ALBK 41.05 43.75 40.7 43.25 KEI 339.95 346 338 339.55 HINDPETRO 217.2 222.6 213.35 220 1.4 TATAMOTORS 155.8 160.95 153.6 159.65 RAYMOND 693.8 708.35 688.6 704 ENDURANCE 1,287.95 1,293.90 1,260.00 1,260.00 GRANULES 85.5 86.2 84.7 85.75 GRASIM 714 723.5 710.1 721.55 4.4 AXISBANK 704.05 706.45 693 694.75 COLPAL 1,247.00 1,257.00 1,239.50 1,245.75 TV18BRDCST 31.25 32.75 30.5 32.6 TATACOFFEE 83.15 83.2 82.1 82.9 DRREDDY 2,648.70 2,674.95 2,616.00 2,660.00 11.3 MARUTI 7,054.00 7,106.50 6,989.70 7,017.05 BAJAJFINSV 6,180.00 6,180.00 6,024.55 6,034.85 EIHOTEL 194 194.9 186.75 188.3 SUPRAJIT 185.3 192.55 176 186 ITC 277 280.2 277 278 1.15 RELINFRA 110.8 119.65 109.9 117.3 BALKRISIND 828 837.3 822.55 834.3 SREINFRA 26.15 26.7 24.8 26.3 WELSPUNIND 50 50.1 48.2 49.55 UPL 814.3 824.5 811.65 819.45 2.25 BATAINDIA 1,260.10 1,282.65 1,248.85 1,257.95 GNFC 266 269.15 254.8 255.9 SWANENERGY 96 97.85 95.65 97.1 GMDCLTD 72.5 76.35 69 73.9 MARUTI 7,036.70 7,111.20 6,990.00 7,039.90 11.65 ADANIPORTS 341.1 351.75 340.6 349.1 CANFINHOME 261.5 268.9 247.1 266.35 BOMDYEING 105 107.85 103.85 105.25 GUJALKALI 473.05 473.05 452 453 NTPC 131 133.3 128.1 131.25 0.15 COALINDIA 217 219.65 212 217 MINDTREE 895.45 906 889.25 897 INFRATEL 295.1 303.2 293.65 298.7 ISEC 191 196 190.9 196 BAJAJ-AUTO 2,820.00 2,875.00 2,811.25 2,823.00 -0.95 TATASTEEL 481.25 485.95 475.5 482.5 BRITANNIA 2,900.00 2,941.20 2,900.00 2,938.00 MARICO 348 350.25 343.3 345.4 ADANIGREEN 32.95 33.6 31.7 32.15 JYOTHYLAB 184 184 178 178.5 AXISBANK 706 706.4 692.6 697 -0.5 IOC 129.9 129.9 123.6 124.65 LICHSGFIN 441.4 449.7 439.95 447.05 CADILAHC 319.3 323.3 316.55 319.05 GICRE 219 228.95 216.75 226 THERMAX 1,079.00 1,079.00 1,011.50 1,014.25 POWERGRID 177.5 178.85 172.5 176.35 -0.2 M&M 642 645 632.45 634.25 BIOCON 639.5 645.95 635 645 DELTACORP 222.4 230.1 222 226 COCHINSHIP 345 347.6 341.85 343 BAYERCROP 4,269.80 4,300.00 4,259.15 4,268.45 SBIN 268 268.35 263.65 267.5 -0.7 BAJFINANCE 2,589.95 2,620.75 2,559.60 2,607.15 RAJESHEXPO 569.5 573.35 557.5 561 GRUH 248.5 249.5 244.35 247.25 CHAMBLFERT 166.35 168.8 163.05 163.85 UCOBANK 17.1 17.4 16.75 17.4 ITC 278 280 276.9 277.9 ITI 91.45 94.1 90.55 91.85 COFFEEDAY 265 275 262.25 275 SHREECEM 15,653.10 15,704.05 15,285.05 15,703.50 CIPLA 542.9 556 537.4 542.1 -1.4 ZENSARTECH 213.75 213.75 208 212.95 HEG 2,168.00 2,320.00 2,113.95 2,250.65 MOTHERSUMI 131.35 135.9 131.35 135.15 KEC 236.7 242 236.1 239.55 GLAXO 1,380.00 1,396.00 1,361.40 1,396.00 EICHERMOT 20,160.00 20,588.10 19,900.00 20,100.20 -58.5 ALLCARGO 105 107.4 104.1 105.5 JETAIRWAYS 224.35 230.4 212.1 225.8 CENTURYTEX 726.05 744.4 719.15 735.9 GODFRYPHLP 861.05 880.7 861.05 875.2 PGHH 10,125.00 10,125.00 10,005.75 10,050.00 TATASTEEL 482 486.35 475.4 482.5 -1.5 GESHIP 278.15 279.7 272.75 274 JINDALSTEL 140.75 143.15 136.1 142.5 VIPIND 434 434 411.9 423 GSFC 90.4 91.65 87.4 90.8 MOIL 153.95 153.95 150 150.9 THYROCARE 497 501.6 491 491 ONGC 133.5 134.2 127.6 132.95 -0.45 ONGC 134 134.1 127.9 132.1 INDIACEM 80.3 83.55 78.65 82.95 PNBHOUSING 910.2 925.05 892.15 910 TEAMLEASE 2,919.35 2,939.70 2,875.00 2,876.00 TECHM 805.8 811.75 800.4 805.9 -3.8 BLUESTARCO 589.5 592.75 582 582 HDFCBANK 2,140.00 2,140.00 2,107.10 2,109.75 ICICIGI 895.25 915 895.2 904.05 JAICORPLTD 86.15 88.8 85.55 87.75 ISGEC 4,950.00 4,950.00 4,811.00 4,845.00 GET&D 281.2 285 277.7 279.35 WIPRO 376.4 378.4 373.95 375.1 -2.35 SUNTV 553.45 587.55 545.15 580.65 BOSCHLTD 18,000.00 18,475.00 17,988.00 18,107.00 AMARAJABAT 739 747.15 734.55 739.7 HIMATSEIDE 170 172.1 166.4 169.8 TCS 2,060.05 2,075.00 2,033.05 2,049.00 -16.4 ASTERDM 152 153.5 150 151.05 NATIONALUM 49.8 49.8 46.25 48.1 BANDHANBNK 478 483.65 473.15 478 RNAM 120.2 164 120.2 158.95 UFLEX 222.15 222.15 212.8 214.45 GEPIL 750 762 733.25 762 TITAN 1,063.95 1,063.95 1,030.50 1,042.25 -8.7 GRAPHITE 418 450.45 415 443.65 GODREJIND 499 499 472.6 489.8 RCF 54.75 54.75 53.1 53.6 ASAHIINDIA 255.5 258.55 255.3 255.5 BDL 230.1 230.2 224 224 HCLTECH 1,070.00 1,070.00 1,057.05 1,060.75 -9.4 PCJEWELLER 64.4 69 62.35 67.75 RAIN 100 100.75 90.55 93.05 TORNTPOWER 236.05 240.9 234 234.75 DCAL 183 199.85 180.4 183.9 NILKAMAL 1,299.50 1,300.00 1,282.20 1,290.00 HINDUNILVR 1,796.00 1,798.50 1,777.00 1,782.35 -16.6 INFY 753 753 738 739.8 SRTRANSFIN 1,042.35 1,054.70 1,039.60 1,052.00 SOUTHBANK 12.98 13.35 12.86 13.23 WELCORP 98.5 98.75 94.4 95.75 JCHAC 1,696.00 1,715.00 1,688.05 1,691.85 KOTAKBANK 1,302.00 1,302.25 1,271.55 1,285.70 -12.6 UJJIVAN 263.75 281.35 251.85 279.05 GLENMARK 596.55 614.7 589.95 613.9 MFSL 379.95 394.55 379.9 386.4 JMFINANCIL 75.2 76.65 73.4 76.1 GSKCONS 7,470.10 7,545.00 7,470.10 7,509.95 M&M 640.7 642.4 632.3 634.45 -7.05 JSWSTEEL 270.9 282 264.25 281.5 M&MFIN 374 391 373.9 387.25 FRETAIL 445 445 435.7 439.75 TATAINVEST 836.8 841.85 832.8 833.2 MAHABANK 12.9 13.1 12.81 12.87 HDFC 1,921.00 1,929.25 1,893.85 1,905.45 -25.05 HEROMOTOCO 2,776.00 2,889.00 2,730.05 2,778.85 TATAELXSI 880.9 887.95 874.25 883.65 JBCHEPHARM 308.45 316.1 307.55 312 3MINDIA 20,802.00 21,400.00 20,755.00 21,251.00 PRSMJOHNSN 70.6 70.9 69.25 70.9 RELIANCE 1,241.00 1,241.00 1,218.00 1,229.10 -16.85 HINDUNILVR 1,794.50 1,796.45 1,775.90 1,782.20 TVSMOTOR 486 496.95 480.5 495 MMTC 24.15 28.7 24 27.9 NLCINDIA 63.55 65 62 64.3 IEX 161 162.4 157 161.4 BAJAJFINSV 6,119.00 6,140.45 6,025.00 6,045.00 -82.65 INDUSINDBK 1,502.00 1,529.00 1,478.00 1,517.40 WIPRO 378 378.3 374.3 375.05 IDFC 35 35.8 34.5 35.6 RALLIS 150 152.5 148.95 150.25 SCHNEIDER 86.85 86.9 84.1 84.85 COALINDIA 217 219.7 211.4 217.1 -3.15 NBCC 50.05 50.5 47.1 48.9 AMBUJACEM 205.45 206.95 203.2 205.35 ICICIPRULI 307.95 307.95 301.5 303 VIJAYABANK 40 40.6 39.25 39.9 NESCO 436.15 442.65 436.15 440.05 HDFCBANK 2,140.00 2,140.00 2,105.60 2,112.00 -31.45 VEDL 150.9 153.2 149.2 151.8 OIL 173.65 173.7 169.75 171.15 WABAG 288.35 302 288.35 293 LALPATHLAB 975 1,031.90 975 1,000.05 LAOPALA 208 210.5 200.5 201.35 HINDZINC 248 250.1 245.5 247.5 GREAVESCOT 118.2 118.4 116.6 117.8 ASIANPAINT 1,417.65 1,423.15 1,396.50 1,402.00 -22.15 L&TFH 123 127.75 120.05 127.2 IBREALEST 67.5 68.9 67.15 68.3 VMART 2,502.00 2,502.00 2,381.70 2,405.00 JISLJALEQS 51.05 56.6 50.45 55.6 TATAPOWER 64.55 67.85 64.55 67.6 SHANKARA 395.1 405.15 373.15 405.15 J&KBANK 39.5 40 39.1 39.3 INFY 751 753 737.25 740.35 -14.55 WABCOINDIA 6,149.90 6,149.90 6,051.10 6,051.10 TECHM 802 811 800.45 805.35 ADVENZYMES 155.1 166.1 155.1 158.65 HEIDELBERG 148 148.7 145.5 148.65 INFRATEL 304 304 293.5 297.6 -6.7 ZYDUSWELL 1,266.00 1,282.00 1,252.00 1,272.20 PNB 69.5 72.6 68.7 72.25 HFCL 21.5 21.65 21.05 21.6 SOBHA 451.05 451.05 435.95 444.1 MINDACORP 127.2 128.3 125.3 126 GAIL 316.5 316.8 306.8 308.1 -7.4 ESCORTS 617.95 649 616.7 644.1 JUBILANT 712.35 731 712.3 726.4 LUXIND 1,167.00 1,224.00 1,158.00 1,192.05 BHARTIARTL 309 309.9 296.5 301.85 -8.7 KALPATPOWR 340.75 343.1 337.45 338.65 BPCL 327.9 327.9 312.2 315.1 ABCAPITAL 78.2 79.05 77.55 78.55 ASTRAZEN 1,825.00 1,842.05 1,801.00 1,822.15 FORBESCO 1,950.00 1,998.00 1,925.00 1,955.35 HINDALCO 197.6 198.55 190.3 192.05 -6.15 HINDPETRO 219.4 222.4 213.5 220.5 QUESS 660 662.7 640.3 645 SCI 35.6 35.6 34.9 35.15 BPCL 326.1 328.2 312.05 317.55 -11.9 BASF 1,260.15 1,280.00 1,245.00 1,263.05 DISHTV 32.15 34.15 31.2 32.2 SUVEN 232.1 234 223.8 225.95 DHANUKA 377 426.6 374 400 TEJASNET 137 138.8 136.4 136.4 IOC 129.5 129.65 123.55 124.9 -5 POWERGRID 177 178.3 173.05 174.85 GICHSGFIN 225.1 234.45 225 232.2 CAPPL 330.2 333.75 327 327.25 CORPBANK 24.2 24.8 24 24.3 PARAGMILK 202.1 205.6 201 203.5 IBULISL 232.15 249.4 216 244.5 LAKSHVILAS 58.45 59.05 55 57 JAGRAN 95.05 96 94.05 94.5 NCC 82.9 87.05 81.45 86.5 BAJAJELEC 459.5 461.6 438.1 447 AUBANK 574.35 579.7 574.35 575.1 NIACL 170.45 174.1 165 172.5 REPCOHOME 358.1 375 327.85 352.85 KAJARIACER 511 520.95 504.7 520.95 MOTILALOFS 576.2 595.25 575.5 590.1 FINOLEXIND 501 501 493 499.9 SCRIP OPEN HIgh LOW LTP CHANGE CIPLA 545 555.05 538.35 542.8 CRISIL 1,635.00 1,645.00 1,617.10 1,625.00 SYNGENE 598.1 604.25 578 585 BAJAJCON 351 354.3 345.6 350 NIFTY NEXT 50 25,767.90 25,977.95 25,758.40 25,945.70 118.75 UPL 815.1 824.6 811.7 820.05 LTI 1,782.10 1,785.45 1,763.05 1,774.85 MINDAIND 272.45 280 271.35 279 JKCEMENT 685.95 707.15 685.55 701.45 ASHOKLEY 78.5 87.1 77.75 83.5 4.6 GAIL 315.15 316.7 306 307.65 CHENNPETRO 208.5 214.8 207.35 212.2 CUB 183.8 185 178.45 182.85 BLUEDART 3,033.00 3,089.95 3,021.75 3,089.95 IDEA 30.45 31.95 29.8 31.95 1.5 HINDALCO 197.85 198.65 190.4 191.7 FSL 42.85 43.25 42.3 42.7 SADBHAV 172.05 172.05 166.2 167.8 ECLERX 984.85 1,022.95 980.05 1,012.00 SUNTV 554.4 587 544.8 578.45 24.85 JUBLFOOD 1,276.90 1,319.20 1,271.50 1,312.70 VGUARD 188.05 188.95 184.5 186.1 SKFINDIA 1,965.00 1,981.00 1,965.00 1,965.00 GDL 100 103.25 99.45 99.55 L&TFH 123 127.8 120.1 127.05 3.95 TCS 2,064.00 2,075.00 2,033.15 2,044.65 DCBBANK 175.75 178.55 175.75 177.05 TTKPRESTIG 7,768.20 7,784.00 7,626.00 7,630.15 INDOSTAR 325.55 329 323.1 329 GICRE 219.05 229.9 219 225 6 UBL 1,402.00 1,414.90 1,388.00 1,403.95 MRPL 63.3 64.75 62.9 64.75 SBILIFE 566.2 570.5 564.1 570 NAVKARCORP 40.95 40.95 39.7 40.1 DLF 157 164.25 156.65 162.05 4.1 ABB 1,267.00 1,275.00 1,237.65 1,256.45 FORTIS 133.15 134.8 133 134.35 DENABANK 10.8 11.2 10.76 11 GPPL 78.4 78.7 77.4 77.75 DMART 1,429.00 1,473.40 1,416.55 1,462.00 33.2 PEL 2,189.00 2,241.20 2,160.00 2,207.10 SUPREMEIND 1,038.00 1,114.10 1,008.45 1,035.00 LEMONTREE 72.75 74 70 71 TIFHL 414.2 424.05 414.2 419.85 LUPIN 793.05 812 790.5 808.65 17.25 NTPC 131.5 132.85 128.25 130.8 TIMETECHNO 80 90.65 80 84.5 ANDHRABANK 23.25 23.9 23.1 23.55 GULFOILLUB 892 892 878 884 MOTHERSUMI 133.55 136 132.05 135.4 2.45 SAIL 46 46.6 45.15 46.25 FCONSUMER 43.5 43.75 42.2 43.3 PTC 72.4 74.4 72.4 73.55 MAHLOG 425.2 437.95 425 437.95 CONCOR 483 502.9 481.95 497.75 8.75 BANKINDIA 81.5 83.9 80 83 ABFRL 211 214 209.9 212.85 CARERATING 944.9 962.4 942.4 953.05 MAHLIFE 378.05 380 372.05 372.65 BHEL 60.25 62.8 60.15 62 1 BHARTIARTL 310 310 296.85 301.05 CUMMINSIND 714 716.75 696.25 702.2 NOCIL 119.55 119.95 115.75 118.9 APLAPOLLO 1,068.00 1,120.00 1,056.00 1,120.00 GRINDWELL 513.65 523.95 507.05 523.95 MRF 55,600.00 56,600.00 55,315.00 56,500.00 903.2 RPOWER 10.4 11.15 10.15 10.6 ENGINERSIN 111.5 113.75 108.8 113.7 GSPL 161.9 161.9 156.75 159 AEGISLOG 191.05 194.3 187.75 192 SUPPETRO 206.2 206.2 202.65 205 LICHSGFIN 438.15 449 438.15 448 6.25 MAXINDIA 76.8 77.15 76.6 76.6 GMRINFRA 14.5 14.85 14.1 14.75 NAVINFLUOR 622.2 632 618.6 625 BALMLAWRIE 170 170 163.65 164 VTL 996.25 1,008.10 985 1,008.10 BOSCHLTD 17,988.00 18,503.00 17,901.00 18,126.00 217.55 LUPIN 797.7 812.3 790.65 810.85 LTTS 1,520.00 1,527.90 1,503.00 1,512.75 INTELLECT 169.7 169.7 160.25 163.2 KANSAINER 454.15 460 447 455 GREENPLY 128 130.5 128 130.5 BANKBARODA 102.4 104.4 101.25 103.6 1.2 NESTLEIND 10,600.00 10,791.20 10,405.40 10,615.00 NIITTECH 1,301.05 1,313.00 1,290.15 1,308.00 DEEPAKFERT 117.6 119.3 114.45 118 DEEPAKNI 211 222 211 220.1 APARINDS 615.05 617.5 615 615 PEL 2,182.00 2,243.00 2,160.90 2,210.00 19.3 BEML 754.65 787.5 750.75 783.6 GODREJCP 682 688 676.85 681.45 KRBL 311.95 328.8 309.65 318.6 LAURUSLABS 331 340.75 326.45 335.75 MHRIL 190.45 191.5 189.1 190 MCDOWELL-N 515.05 525.9 511.7 524 4.35 BANKBARODA 103 104.3 101.3 103.6 ULTRACEMCO 3,450.05 3,509.00 3,433.95 3,500.00 FINCABLES 372.15 379 371.65 376 OBEROIRLTY 456 461.5 454 461.5 PHOENIXLTD 576.9 583.25 576.9 577.4 ABB 1,260.00 1,275.95 1,233.50 1,260.05 9.85 PAGEIND 24,350.00 24,553.45 23,800.05 23,964.50 GRASIM 714 723 710.95 723 JAMNAAUTO 49.1 51.95 48.65 51.35 CCL 274.95 281 265.8 272 SOLARINDS 960 960 949.7 960 SAIL 45.9 46.55 45.1 46.35 0.35 JUSTDIAL 483.5 498.1 480.75 490.1 KTKBANK 109.8 116.05 108.8 115 PNCINFRA 140.05 142 135.6 139 THOMASCOOK 210.7 217.05 207.45 215 RATNAMANI 855 868 835.05 868 ICICIPRULI 304.8 305.85 301.1 304.75 2.2 BAJAJ-AUTO 2,824.00 2,872.25 2,805.70 2,827.00 OMAXE 210.7 210.85 209.3 210.85 JINDALSAW 77.3 78 76.5 76.9 SYMPHONY 1,180.30 1,200.00 1,165.80 1,180.00 TIINDIA 348.8 348.8 332.6 340 SRTRANSFIN 1,042.00 1,055.50 1,034.00 1,049.60 6.9 KSCL 510.15 514.8 469.3 483.1 AJANTPHARM 973 997 957.25 987.8 PERSISTENT* 646.55 670 640 656.3 EVEREADY 202.8 205 198.3 202.3 IOB 12.18 12.34 12.07 12.23 HDFCLIFE 358 361.7 353.55 361.5 2.25 IDFCFIRSTB 44 45 43.45 44.6 SUNTECK 353.95 357.55 337.05 340.9 SUDARSCHEM 301.05 311.1 298.35 310 GHCL 220.1 228 220 228 SANOFI 6,280.00 6,322.60 6,250.00 6,252.05 BRITANNIA 2,915.00 2,949.00 2,900.00 2,940.60 17.2 BEL 75 76.4 72.55 74.65 NHPC 23.8 24.25 23.25 23.5 CHOLAFIN 1,204.40 1,207.50 1,190.50 1,200.00 REDINGTON 72.3 75 72.3 74.95 AKZOINDIA 1,694.90 1,719.90 1,694.90 1,700.00 SBILIFE 569.9 574.5 564.9 573 3.15 WOCKPHARMA 393.85 408.75 375 406.35 JPASSOCIAT 5 5.25 4.91 5.16 TORNTPHARM 1,784.20 1,792.25 1,765.10 1,771.10 TATAMETALI 600.25 602 592.5 593 NAVNETEDUL 105.3 105.95 102.6 104.9 BANDHANBNK 478.3 484.6 473.6 479.5 2.35 EDELWEISS 128.1 136.85 119.7 131.65 HAVELLS 703.45 704 690 695.85 HINDCOPPER 44 45.95 43.5 45.15 SONATSOFTW 334.95 336.6 330.25 330.25 SOMANYCERA 328 337.1 320 323 JKLAKSHMI 300.25 308.5 300.05 305 ICICIGI 895.1 914.95 891.05 908 4.25 HDFC 1,920.20 1,927.75 1,894.50 1,901.15 GILLETTE 6,468.90 6,500.00 6,357.00 6,423.55 CENTRALBK 28.4 28.85 28.15 28.8 ESSELPRO 106.2 109.75 105.5 109.75 NAUKRI 1,643.85 1,698.00 1,640.60 1,681.50 CENTURYPLY 161.65 166.05 161.6 163.7 INDIGO 1,137.10 1,183.95 1,137.10 1,166.80 4.65 OFSS 3,814.95 3,814.95 3,471.50 3,632.80 CEATLTD 1,055.00 1,095.90 1,054.00 1,090.00 PRESTIGE 198.6 199.65 195.3 196 BLISSGVS 147 151.8 146 147.05 IGL 271 284.2 271 281.8 IPCALAB 756.9 762.9 743.55 754 HERITGFOOD 457.95 461.15 440 450 DABUR 438.5 444.4 437 441 1.5 TVSSRICHAK 2,250.00 2,260.20 2,205.00 2,205.00 DLF 157.5 164.1 156.7 162.25 SIEMENS 980 992 977.6 987.5 IFCI 12.1 12.5 11.82 12.46 LAXMIMACH 5,498.00 5,589.00 5,498.00 5,569.40 SUNCLAYLTD 2,490.00 2,525.00 2,439.95 2,469.00 NIACL 170.5 174.4 169.3 172.6 0.3 RCOM 5.74 5.75 5.21 5.54 FORCEMOT 1,372.00 1,380.00 1,350.25 1,366.80 GUJFLUORO 882 894.55 868.45 875 ITDCEM 106.7 106.9 104.4 105 ELGIEQUIP 257.5 260.25 256.95 259 SIEMENS 978 991.95 975.55 983.85 1.1 RECLTD 119.15 123 116.7 120.35 RADICO 413.05 413.75 401.15 406.3 SYNDIBANK 31.5 32.9 31.2 32.4 FLFL 430.8 432.9 426 428.2 ERIS 623.65 627.5 615 615 BIOCON 638.45 644.4 634.1 640.15 0.5 EQUITAS 111.2 116.5 109.5 115.7 MUTHOOTFIN 510 529 510 526.4 HSIL 229.35 232.6 227 227.9 SJVN 25.75 25.95 25.6 25.65 SHARDACROP 324.25 324.25 320 320 BEL 75.1 76.45 72.5 74.5 0 PFC 101.6 102.3 99.4 101.1 NATCOPHARM* 639.7 639.7 601 606.8 CROMPTON 200.05 211.55 195.85 206.05 GUJGAS 124.5 124.5 119 121.4 ITDC 256.9 256.9 250.5 250.5 ABCAPITAL 78.5 79 77.5 78.5 0 BHARATFORG 475.1 482.95 466.25 477.9 ORIENTBANK 82.25 85.65 81.5 84.55 EMAMILTD 358.25 361.3 352.9 358 MONSANTO 2,550.00 2,560.00 2,541.00 2,542.00 SHILPAMED 357.7 361.45 357.7 360 AUROPHARMA 747 757 744.55 748.95 -0.75 KPRMILL 529.1 538.2 528.7 537.95 INFIBEAM 34.35 35.95 33.2 35.45 NMDC 94.7 94.7 92.05 93.15 TNPL 201.1 214 192.1 205.5 VBL 762 779.05 762 776.1 GODREJCP 681.5 688.55 675.8 680.5 -0.9 SHOPERSTOP 506.2 506.8 493.2 497.9 ACC 1,352.10 1,370.85 1,352.00 1,361.10 PVR 1,475.30 1,505.30 1,434.00 1,486.30 JKTYRE 86.4 88.55 85.65 88 HAL 623 649.9 621 621 COLPAL 1,243.00 1,258.10 1,240.10 1,247.30 -1.7 TRITURBINE 104.2 105.75 104.2 105.1 DMART 1,433.90 1,470.00 1,418.00 1,461.85 IDBI 43 45.95 43 45.15 RAMCOCEM 604.05 610 596.4 605.1 TRENT 341.1 344 340 342.8 SHREECEM 15,556.00 15,650.00 15,250.00 15,565.00 -40.35 ORIENTCEM 65.8 66.75 65 65.6 DBL 399 413.7 386.3 411 BERGEPAINT 299.55 301.2 294.25 299.8 PFIZER 2,930.05 2,987.50 2,930.05 2,983.10 NETWORK18 32.95 34.4 32 34.25 MARICO 348 350.25 343.1 346 -1.2 SHRIRAMCIT 1,537.05 1,572.00 1,527.70 1,566.95 IDEA 30.9 31.85 29.8 31.4 MRF 55,455.00 56,500.00 55,254.90 56,500.00 JSL 31 31 28.05 28.65 INOXWIND 64.95 65.3 63.25 64.2 NMDC 94 94.1 91.95 93.05 -0.45 STARCEMENT 88.25 94 86.85 93.9 UNIONBANK 69.45 71.65 68.5 71.05 AIAENG 1,650.70 1,666.80 1,640.00 1,666.80 CYIENT* 597.05 602.65 595.2 598.2 ASHOKA 111.95 113 110.85 111.35 TVTODAY 324.7 324.7 316.9 323 CADILAHC 319 323.3 315.7 319 -1.8 VOLTAS 505 518.8 501.65 513.45 MCX 668 682.5 664.95 680 ADANITRANS 210.2 216.2 207.25 214.25 RELAXO 764.95 767.65 745.6 763.5 HATSUN 666 666.75 650 652 HINDZINC 249 250.45 245.2 247.6 -1.9 SRF 2,176.60 2,280.00 2,176.60 2,244.00 HDFCLIFE 355 361 354.05 359.8 VINATIORGA 1,631.05 1,640.80 1,610.00 1,625.00 APLLTD 533.15 544.9 528.15 535.15 NH 195.25 197.5 192.25 192.3 PGHH 10,100.05 10,149.95 10,020.90 10,050.00 -79.85 BHEL 60.05 62.75 60.05 62.2 TATACHEM 563.2 569.2 555.4 568.75 CENTRUM 29.3 31.9 29.3 31.9 INOXLEISUR 250.05 262 250.05 261.1 DBCORP 177.8 180 177.8 178.45 AMBUJACEM 205.95 207.55 203.1 204.3 -1.65 RBLBANK 551.95 555.35 545.55 551 PETRONET 220.85 221.8 216.4 216.9 NBVENTURES 100.4 100.8 94.9 96.7 ABBOTINDIA 7,600.00 7,666.10 7,511.00 7,586.95 SHK 159.1 159.1 156.75 156.75 ACC 1,368.00 1,374.85 1,350.35 1,357.00 -14.4 STAR 403 413.75 400.25 409 TATAMTRDVR 80.1 84.5 80.1 83.95 BBTC 1,194.00 1,206.00 1,180.00 1,198.15 KNRCON 203.05 205 200.05 205 TIMKEN 534.45 543 534 537.7 HAVELLS 703.45 704.8 689.25 693.5 -9.95 MAGMA 86.9 86.95 85.15 85.15 ASIANPAINT 1,419.65 1,422.45 1,397.05 1,399.45 BHARATFIN 927.1 960 922.25 949.6 MANPASAND 80 81.45 75.9 77.9 IFBIND 718.3 725.8 700 709.7 PIDILITIND 1,130.05 1,131.90 1,111.10 1,112.00 -17.65 SIS 756.7 766.9 756.7 762.5 INDIGO 1,149.90 1,181.65 1,140.00 1,170.00 CONCOR 509.85 509.85 485.45 497.7 GALAXYSURF 905 907.15 885 886.05 ALKEM 1,829.90 1,839.95 1,808.50 1,816.95 OIL 173.1 173.65 169.1 170.3 -2.8 GAYAPROJ 155 157.95 153 156 DIVISLAB 1,639.00 1,648.20 1,615.75 1,638.90 APOLLOTYRE 197.1 204.2 197.1 202.75 WHIRLPOOL 1,389.90 1,405.00 1,350.00 1,358.20 BIRLACORPN 449 460 448.85 452.6 PETRONET 220.1 222.1 216.45 216.8 -4.1 KIOCL 125 125 123 123.8 INDIANB 216.05 234.2 215.35 228.65 VENKYS 2,120.00 2,138.00 2,053.95 2,061.25 JSWENERGY 65.4 65.85 64.6 65.5 COROMANDEL 444 453.9 438.4 446.1 SFL 1,275.00 1,285.00 1,270.00 1,279.95 NHPC 23.8 24.35 23.25 23.5 -0.5 APOLLOHOSP 1,146.60 1,170.10 1,128.00 1,148.60 IRB 120 124.65 118.9 123.6 HONAUT 21,229.50 21,750.00 21,226.00 21,708.25 FDC 159.1 160.25 154 154.85 CARBORUNIV 346 350 344.45 346 OFSS 3,781.00 3,855.60 3,471.05 3,630.05 -185.4 < # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-).
01 1R ! ! . 0 &%5 31330
BM . , F / (+(+ "$"$"(L <7<7 She said she should be giv- told the Times. Q& R M ing birth “any day now”. “I applied to marry an pregnant Bangladeshi- “I’ll do anything English-speaking fighter ABritish teenager, who fled required just to be able to between 20 and 25 years old,” *?- London in 2015 to join the come home and live quietly she said. Islamic State terror group in with my child.” Begum said she Ten days later she married .6"7 Wednesday’s attack. . ! Syria, says she is not the same had two other children who a 27-year-old Dutch man who “The main root of terror- “silly” girl now, but wants to died in infancy from malnu- had converted to Islam. resident Hassan Rouhani ism in the region is America MGCC return to the UK as she is wor- trition and illness. She has been with him Pvowed revenge on and Zionists, and some oil- % % ried about the health of her Begum and two of her fel- since then, and the couple ' 0 . Thursday against the “merce- producing countries in the "*$ % % O unborn child. low Bethnal Green academy escaped from Baghuz — the - "0 nary group” behind a suicide region also financially support % A Shamima Begum, 15, was students, Kadiza Sultana and group’s last territory in eastern bombing which killed 27 peo- the terrorists,” he added. L ,)) one of three British schoolgirls Amira Abase, made headlines Syria - two weeks ago. 9"6 "9 ence, saying it signaled a shift ple in southeastern Iran and Rouhani was speaking at who ran away from their when they flew from Gatwick Begum said her husband in regional priorities. accused the US and Israel of Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport homes in the UK in 2015 to be to Turkey in February 2015, who had fought for ISIS, sur- S Secretary of State Mike “In a room of some 60 for- supporting “terrorism”. before leaving for the Russian jihadi brides, causing much then entered Syria. rendered to Syrian fighters UPompeo said on Thursday eign ministers, an Israeli prime “We will certainly make resort of Sochi for a summit concern in the country on the Begum and Abase were allied to the US-supported at a security conference in minister and the foreign min- this mercenary group pay for with his Russian and Turkish impact of online radicalisation, both 15, while Sultana, anoth- Syrian Democratic Forces Warsaw that Iran is the top isters of leading Arab countries the blood of our martyrs,” the counterparts Vladimir Putin ! especially among the youth. er Bangladeshi-British, was 16. (SDF) weeks ago and that she threat in the Middle East and stood together, and spoke with official IRNA news agency and Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Speaking from a refugee They had told their parents had not seen him since. confronting the country is key unusual force, clarity and unity quoted the Iranian president the future of war-battered camp in Syria, Begum, now 19, they were simply going out for She is now one of 39,000 to reaching peace in the entire against a common threat of the as saying in response to Syria. has lost two children, told the the day. Begum said Sultana people in a refugee camp in region. Iranian regime,” Netanyahu " " % A Times newspaper that she was was killed in an air strike on northern Syria. Pompeo met with Israeli said before his meeting with Pence is attending along with marks a culmination of his call ' 6 nine months pregnant and Raqqa, the stronghold of the Asked whether her Prime Minister Benjamin Pompeo. representatives from numerous to unite the world against wanted to return to the UK for ISIS. experiences of living in the Netanyahu before the opening “I think this marks a Arab countries. But France and Israel’s arch-enemy of Iran. He’s her baby. But Begum expressed no one-time IS stronghold of session at the conference and change, an important under- Germany are not sending long boasted that Israel has She said she remained regrets about fleeing from the Raqqa had lived up to her aspi- said “pushing back” against standing of what threatens our Cabinet-ranked officials, and clandestinely developed good scared her unborn baby would UK. “I’m not the same silly lit- rations, Begum said: “Yes, it Iran was central to dealing future.” The U.S. And Poland are European Union foreign poli- relations with several Arab O % become ill in the refugee camp tle 15-year-old schoolgirl who did. It was like a normal life. with all the region’s other prob- sponsoring the conference, cy chief Federica Mogherini is states, despite a lack of official 6 ! after she fled the jihadists’ last ran away from Bethnal Green The life that they show on the lems. “You can’t achieve peace which they say is aimed at pro- staying away. Russia and China ties. On Wednesday, he met remaining enclave in Baghuz, four years ago,” she said. propaganda videos - it’s a nor- and stability in the Middle East moting peace and security in the aren’t participating, either, and with Oman’s foreign minister, F eastern Syria. “I don’t regret coming mal life. without confronting Iran. It’s Mideast but appears to be main- the Palestinians, who have Yusuf bin Alawi, and at “That’s why I really want to here,” she said. “Every now and then there just not possible,” Pompeo said ly focused on isolating Iran. Iran called for the meeting to be Thursday’s opening session he "- 5 get back to Britain because I After arriving in Raqqa, are bombs and stuff. But other alongside Netanyahu. has denounced the gathering as boycotted, also will be absent. was seated next to the foreign know it will be taken care of - she stayed at a house with other than that...” She said that see- The Israeli leader lauded an American anti-Iran “circus” For Netanyahu, a longtime minister of Yemen, as repre- health-wise, at least,” she said. newly arrived brides-to-be, she ing her first “severed head” in the participation of high-profile aimed at “demonising” it. opponent of the 2015 Iran sentatives of Kuwait, Qatar and 7 6 a bin “didn’t faze me at all”. Arab dignitaries at the confer- US Vice President Mike nuclear deal, the gathering others looked on. ! Q0 3!/,+0+% %! &%+,'( '3' +%&4('!+0+( +'/
London: British Prime party who claim she is moving Party said a motion to be voted Minister Theresa May was in the wrong direction in on in Parliament later effec- scrambling on Thursday to efforts to overcome the impasse tively rules out the threat of avoid another defeat on her blocking a deal. Britain leaving the European Brexit plans amid opposition Hard-line pro-Brexit law- Union without an agreement from members of her own makers in May’s Conservative on departure terms and future relations, a move they say undermines Britain’s bargain- ing position. “Conservative MPs (mem- bers of Parliament) really ought not to be associated with any- thing, express or implied, which seems to take ‘no deal’ off the table,” said Brexit-back- ing Conservative lawmaker Steve Baker in a tweet. AP " = %
2 "'""
he Taliban said on Wed- Tnesday its negotiators would next week meet the top US and Pakistani officials including Prime Minister Imran Khan during a key round of talks in Islamabad as part of the ongo- ing Afghan peace talks. Neither Washington nor Islamabad immediately confirmed the announcement by the Taliban. On the “formal invitation of the government of Pakistan, another meeting is scheduled to take place between the negoti- ation teams of the Islamic Emirate and the US on 18th of February, 2019 in Islamabad,” Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement. The Taliban’s delegation would also meet Prime Minister Khan, the statement said. Mujahid said the regular round of talks was already scheduled to be held on February 25 in Qatar. He said that in the meeting with Khan, Taliban would have “compre- hensive discussions about Pak- Afghan relations and issues per- taining to Afghan refugees and Afghan businessmen”. &%& <* # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). : &
2 ) !" ,'&-- (')%( ' +,!00%&/6"!++"' ! +,'7&%+, + $" +3%(*0%" ("'+,'(%%0+ % #& ! &# & ! &0 ('-' +!&/%(" '( /'0,!"'"!0+'&!&/+%*0!)%&"!&'60 0 0(' " % f a recent survey is anything to go by, then we will be clued into music on the move or in our mindsphere I most of our waking hours. “India is a music-loving society with consumers ! spending almost 21.5 hours every L' week listening to melodies and songs against the global average of 17.8 hours. Helping to satisfy this love for music is the audio OTT (over-the-top) industry which is at an inflection point today,” said Blaise Fernandes, President and M& CEO, The Indian Music Industry (IMI). ! According to a report by Indian L2 Music Industry (IMI) and Deloitte, the Indian audio OTT industry is !!!' valued at $280 million with rev- enues from it contributing to 67 per cent of the total recorded audio OTT industry not just in India but vices. The expected growth in smart- physical sales of CDs showing a steep drop awareness in the country. It examines suc- M! music revenue in India. Audio in south Asia as a whole. phone users to 829 million in 2022 from from 35.5 million in 2013 to 0.4 million cessful initiatives in countries like China ' OTT includes delivery of digital “If a Despacito can become a hit in just 404 million at the end of 2017, high- units in 2017. Audio OTT platforms will to curbs piracy and encourage more & music content over the internet to India, if K-Pop can cross geographical lights a digital revolution, where an be a key driver of growth in the future – users to subscribe. the consumer by independently boundaries, then the scope for music increasing number of people will shift to digital revenue has already shown an FDI and FII represent major sources hosted applications that procure from India is infinite, with different digital platforms to consume music. increase from $74.4 million in 2016 to US of investment for the audio OTT indus- content from music labels, publish- regional languages poised to dominate As at the end of December 2018, $102.1 million in 2017. try in India, with investors like Tencent, ers and other distributors. Digital local and international markets driven by there were nearly 150 million music The report also examines the impli- Tiger Global, Liberty Media, and Xiaomi ! music revenues as a percentage of the reach of audio OTT platforms,” said streaming users in India, while seeming- cations of piracy with $250 million lost investing over $300 million in the audio Indian music industry revenues Fernandes. ly large are numbers make for the online each year on account of it. It evaluates the OTT industry. have shown steady growth from 51 The report also highlights the con- video audience. This indicates a signifi- anti-piracy measures in India by music The report also examines the various per cent in 2013 to 78 per cent in 2017. tribution of the recorded music industry cant growth opportunity with audio labels, regulatory bodies, government challenges faced including piracy. There The launch of various Indian audio to the growth of audio OTT platforms OTT platforms emerging as the preferred and other stakeholders to curb this major is a need for free-market licensing norms OTT platforms like JioSavaan, Gaana, with all major stakeholders, from lyricists, medium to consume music in the coun- source of money leakage. India’s recent to help sustain the digital ecosystem, where Hungama, Wynk and Vodafone-Idea, as music composers, performers to film pro- try, and the audio OTT market valued at approval for accession and ratification of content owners and creators are sufficient- well as international platforms like Apple ducers, actively creating for and licens- over US $280 million in January 2018, World Intellectual Property Organisation’s ly remunerated, in order to sustain and Music, Amazon Music, Google Play and ing content to the digital platforms to poised to show strong growth in the next (WIPO) internet treaties to protect the encourage investments in content. It is the impending arrival of Spotify offer boost music consumption, further dri- few years. intellectual property rights of artists and then that India can take a major position immense potential for the growth of the ving the growth for music streaming ser- The writing is already on the wall with content owners reflects the level of IPR in the global recorded music space. O& & " $ fficers of the Board of ODirectors of the Academy of * / % > Motion Picture Arts and the Sciences (AMPAS) have sent a letter to members trying to allay out. President John Bailey, Vice ? & concerns about the decision to NThe four winning speech- Presidents Lois Burwell, Sid !@% $ " hold four Oscar presentations es will be included in the broad- Ganis and Larry Karaszewski, away from the live broadcast on cast. Nancy Utley, Treasurer Jim ! & February 24. NIn future years, four to six Gianopulos and Secretary David & ) “As the Academy’s officers, different categories may be Rubin. &>1 & $ 6& we’d like to assure you that no selected for rotation, in collab- Just before the email went OP> & P award category at the 91st Oscars oration with the show producers. out to members, it was shared ceremony will be presented in a This year’s categories will be that an open letter to AMPAS #& #% & manner that depicts the achieve- exempted in 2020. President John Bailey had been & % >) ments of its nominees and win- This change in the show sent, signed by more than 40 !> P ners as less than any others,” the was discussed and agreed to by high-profile cinematographers letter read. the Board of Governors in and directors, from Spike Lee $ $ “Unfortunately, as the result August, with the full support of and Quentin Tarantino to Roger & & >P!! of inaccurate reporting and the branch executive committees. Deakins and Emmanuel Lubezki. O!P& &! social media posts, there has Such decisions are fully deliber- Many have called for the been a chain of misinformation ated. Academy to reverse course on ! & ! #>P that has understandably upset The letter states that show the matter, but given that it was L 3 & & many Academy members. producers have “given great con- a board decision, the only way to “We’d like to restate and sideration to both Oscar tradi- reverse it would be to convene explain the plans for presenting tion and our broad global audi- the body for another meeting in % the awards, as endorsed by the ence. We sincerely believe you the next seven days. Academy’s Board of Governors.” will be pleased with the show, It was earlier reported that The officers then went on to and look forward to celebrating the AMPAS was to hand out four 6 break down how these presenta- Dolby Theatre, and included in Make-Up and Hairstyling, and winners announced by presen- a great year in movies with all awards during commercial & ' A tions will work: the broadcast. Live Action Short — were ters, and included later in the Academy members and with the breaks in the hope of trimming N All 24 Award categories N Four categories — volunteered by their branches broadcast. Time spent walking to rest of the world.” the show’s run time. are presented on stage in the Cinematography, Film Editing, to have their nominees and the stage and off, will be edited The letter was signed by L ! %*3%(+ -"')(!0'( " The new generation Toyota Camry is a very serene car being &= ."7'26" L5 2 both comfortable and economical at the same time A !9 amoji Film City is in the But you know what sets apart The rear seats recline a fair amount, O 2 Guinness Book of World an experienced athlete from an enough in fact, to catch a snooze RRecords as the largest film set inexperienced one is how they quite easily. The central armrest has in the world, and it is truly massive. expend energy, particularly in <7"7" 2G a very zippy touchscreen con- However when you are driving longer sports. If a tennis match goes troller and you can also fit option- !M around inside it in the new Toyota to five sets, you do not want to lose ."'6G al screens on the headrests. The Camry, space becomes a relative because you are out of juice. That <6=2 front seats are very comfortable as thing. That is because the Camry is where the Camry shines, thanks well and being equipped with in- & itself is such a large, spacious vehi- to its fourth generation Toyota <76<"7 seat ventilation. The car, like all cle, both at the front and the back. Hybrid system. The Japanese car- 9".. Toyota’s does not come with either In fact, on the size front, this car is maker has definitely made a name Apple CarPlay or Android Auto as big as German executive sedans for itself in hybrid technology and 2 %"G and the infotainment system suf- " such as the Audi A6 and the this car uses the same system that G<=9."%<96 fers as a result but hooking up your N< BMW 5 series. you see on the new Prius. As the device via Bluetooth or using the But size is not the Camry’s Toyota engineers themselves tell <=6."6 latest versions of the Mirror Link party piece because Toyota assures you, it is not just about the battery system which some of the latest % us that this new vehicle is actually technology, this car uses Nickel 2 = 278!2 Android devices are compatible engaging to drive. And that would Metal Hydride cells (NiMh) instead .<9 .". with work just fine. " /%"0 be a nice change indeed, because of Lithium-ion cells which are "62 62C278 mode at higher speeds. battery was running low, the engine Are there any negatives about since the Camry was introduced in heavier. But the new Power Control Indeed on Hyderabad’s excel- kicks in as well. All this happens so the Camry? Well, to start off it isn’t India a decade and a half ago, Unit (PCU) is in fact a very fast <G<7 lent Outer Ring Road, you can eas- quickly and so quietly that you have what one would call handsome. ! Toyota has sold a shade over 11,000 computer that is constantly evalu- ily set the Camry to cruise control no sensation that the engine has The front end of the car seems " of them. But, when they first ating driving styles and power "6G%<96 and watch the displays tell you what engaged. And despite the fact that extremely busy with far too many brought it, it almost always was a requirements and decides what "*))&'%. power source the car is using. The the Camry has a big 2.5 litre petrol elements and while darker shades car to be driven around in, and source the car needs. Sure, at low displays often show that the car is engine, thanks to the hybrid sys- of paint hide the busy nature of the while the Camry has always been city speeds you can enable the full driving solely on battery power at tem, the car can easily deliver over side profile that is also very busy. very comfortable, calling it an ‘EV’ mode that has the car function 100 kmph. However, when you hit 16.5 kilometres per litre without Also, while the car is more engag- engaging and driver-oriented car as a fully electric vehicle but at a flyover or if the trying too hard. If I drove the car ing than previous versions of the are not adjectives that you would speeds above 50 kmph to be even more economical I’m Camry, it isn’t what I would call an use with previous versions of the you can’t do that. sure, I could have pushed the exciting drive. It is however ". car. However that does mileage even higher. supremely comfortable and given "!" So what about this iteration? not mean the car On the inside, the Camry is as Toyota’s excellent build quality, the Well, the eight-speed eCVT trans- can’t run in full mentioned above quite spa- Camry like other stablemates will mission is clearly tuned towards electric cious indeed. be mechanically bulletproof. And economy but when you do put your thanks to the hybrid system it foot down, this thing can move. scores over most other rivals (save ! Think of this car as more of an ath- the Honda Accord) in terms of fuel lete towards the middle of his or her economy. But here is the thing, as career, someone who still has nice and as practical as the Camry explosive speed but would rather is, if I wanted a vehicle that was as ! cruise, but also an athlete that has comfortable albeit not as econom- +*" become better over time with ical (in petrol) I would look at the " experience. That analogy comes Toyota Innova. But as hybrids into play with the handling of the increasingly become common in 5 car. Now this is still a long and India as new emission and efficien- (?!2 heavy car but that does not mean cy norms kick in, the Camry is 2 that it rolls like a boat. Far from it, leading the pack. Priced at an intro- ' ! the Camry is surprisingly taut and ductory 36.95 lakh ex-showroom it achieves that despite having a all-India, it is not value at all for a very comfortable ride. technology leader. # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). &%& 0 <
) )$
O 5 ! "# 2 ! $ (!) & #$ $ && !- *( **!?- "' 5 $ %$" $(* -))/ 0 # 5 . 8 !
cel, full of vegetables, smoked scamorza (south Italian cow’s milk cheese) and prosecco sauce. While I gorged on the dish with utmost desire, the presentation in a pothli-like parcel failed to make its way to my heart. I preferred the dish’s fulfill- ing taste to its presentation. Moving on, 9 % A 9 I also had 5 ! Sanguine red wine D P 1 9G " $ . to accompany my next % 2 " " dish which was Pizza La Piazza, " 5 7M ! "'' (/*( +!L) which is the signature at the diner. I was ;< team, feels there are three to And last but not the least, Nehra "As I have already said, Rishabh four specific reasons to pick felt Pant has shown the ability to win could also be your third opener, so DK Pant. matches singlehandedly. (as Karthik is referred to) could be "If you look at India's bat- "No disrespect, this team has your middle order batter," he said. ting line up, save Shikhar three clear match-winners and they But is it wise to have three keep- (Dhawan), there aren't any are Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma and ers in the 15? The veteran said look- left-handers in the top seven. Jasprit Bumrah. For me, the fourth one ing at Pant and Karthik as second and ? % You need variety with a left- is going to be Rishabh Pant. third keepers is wrong. right combination, where "Ambati Rayudu, Kedar Jadhav "I don't look at it from that per- Rishabh perfectly fits," he rea- and Dinesh Karthik are all fantastic spective. If Rishabh and DK are being soned. players but they are all in the same picked ahead of specialist batsmen like The 21-year-old Pant is a mould. You need X-factor which this Manish Pandey and Shreyas Iyer, & left-hander and scored Test boy possesses," said Nehra, an artist then you are looking at them as spe- hundreds in his first series in with the white kookaburra, during his cialist batsmen. England and Australia. best days. "So why complicate the thought "Secondly, Rishabh can bat Asked whether a seasoned finish- process. As it is we have the peerless at any position between No 1 er like Karthik could be overlooked at MS Dhoni behind stumps so treat to 7 and so Virat (Kohli) and the expense of a rookie, Nehra said both as specialist batsmen," he con- the team management can use both the players can make it. cluded. $ K , 2 him as a floater," said Nehra, who also played the 2003 79.2 gave five elaborate reasons for World Cup final in South the dynamic youngster's inclu- Africa. pure match-winner, a sion in the playing XI of the The third reason cited by back-up opener and an mega-event. Nehra was Pant's ability to hit Aeffortless six-hitter in "In a team, there will always sixes effortlessly from the word the class of Rohit Sharma — be contributors but at a big go. Nehra said the fearless 5# Rishabh Pant merits selection event like the World Cup, you approach comes in handy in in India's World Cup squad and need players with X-factor. pressure situations. there are more than one rea- Rishabh Pant is not a mere con- "If it comes to effortlessly =6"7 sons for it, feels former pacer tributor but a pure match-win- hitting sixes, Rishabh comes Ashish Nehra. ner who should be picked for second only to Rohit Sharma ale Steyn and his fellow fast bowlers enabled South Africa to gain an advan- Nehra, who has tracked the World Cup," Nehra said on with his big-hitting ability. Dtage over Sri Lanka on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka at Pant's progress in Delhi and Thursday. India will need that in abun- Kingsmead in Durban on Thursday. international cricket since he Nehra, a key member of the dance during the World Cup," Steyn took four for 48 as South Africa took a first innings lead of 44. They first joined the Sonnet Club, 2011 World Cup-winning Nehra said. stretched their lead to 170 by reaching 126 for four at the close. South Africa's decision to pick five specialist bowlers meant that their advan- tage was some way short of being decisive, with Faf du Plessis (25 not out) and ( 2 Quinton de Kock (15 not out) their last two recognised batsmen going into day 62 three. Sri Lanka were bowled out for 191 and were unable to build on a good first 'G =6= day when their inexperienced bowlers surprised the South African batsmen, who could manage only 235 in their first innings. 2 ndia 'A' bundled out England Steyn and ILions for 140 to take a 252-run Vernon Philander first-innings lead and the upper soon put their hand in the second unofficial Test stamp on the on Thursday. game when Sri Following on, the visitors Lanka resumed at ended the second day at 24 for no 49 for one on loss in their second innings, still Thursday, taking behind by 228 runs. The England openers started three wickets in Earlier, the Lions fought back positively, making 23 in the first the first ten overs strongly to stop India A at 392 five overs before Max Holden of the morning. after the hosts had resumed at 282 departed for 19, leg-before to Kusal Perera for three. Navdeep Saini. played some bold Test discard Karun Nair did- The Indian bowlers came to and occasionally n't add to his overnight score of the fore, striking at regular inter- lucky strokes in 14, nicking one to keeper Ollie vals to dismiss the Lions in 48.4 making 51 off 63 Pope off Zak Chappell. overs. balls for Sri Lanka Wickets tumbled as the The talented Ollie Pope was and the hosts England bowlers stuck to their the top-scorer with 25 as the rest were frustrated task. Only K S Bharat, a centuri- of the line-up faltered against the when a barrage of on in the last game, made a sig- varied bowling attack which saw short-pitched nificant contribution, with a bel- medium-pacer Saini and left- bowling could not ligerent 46 before being the last arm spinner Shahbaz Nadeem break a stubborn man out. pick up three wickets each. ninth wicket part- Chappell was the best bowler Aaron, who has been out of nership of 32, the for the Lions with 4 for 60 while the national set-up for a while joint second- spinner Danny Briggs recovered now, bagged two wickets as did highest of the from a tough first day to finish Kerala all-rounder Jalaj Saxena, innings, between '='"2 While the two T20 matches will Bhuvneshwar are certainties in with 3 for 71. with his off-spin. debutant Lasith be a pre-cursor to the ODI series, the pace department, the bone of Embuldeniya and eroing in on players for a cou- vice captain Rohit Sharma is like- contention is a left-arm seamer Kasun Rajitha. Zple of available World Cup ly to be given a short break to reju- who will add variation to the line- "'%% )%&3! '&+ It was particularly frustrating for Steyn, who bowled unchanged for a ten- spots, including a toss-up between venate and come back fresh for the up. over spell after lunch in a bid to claim the 27th five-wicket haul of his Test career. left-arm pacers Jaydev Unadkat ODIs. Khaleel, the young Rajasthan He had already taken four wickets when Rajitha, on ten, gloved what looked and Khaleel Ahmed, will be the The selectors have already iden- speedster, played in Australia and %3-'!&/3!+3%( a simple chance to Dean Elgar in the gully, only for the fielder to put it down. selection committee's primary focus tified 13 certainties for the World New Zealand but he looked like a The stand was eventually ended by a smart run-out of Rajitha by Aiden on Friday when it picks the India Cup and they are Virat Kohli, work in progress who could be all Australian pace spearhead Josh Hazlewood Markram at short leg. squad for the limited-overs series Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, at sea in a mega-event like the said on Thursday he is confident of being fit for the Steyn took his career tally to 437 Test wickets, passing India's Kapil Dev (434) against Australia. Ambati Rayudu, Mahendra Singh World Cup. World Cup, with scans this week set to determine and drawing level with Stuart Broad of England in joint seventh place on the all- India will play two T20 Dhoni, Kedar Jadhav, Hardik Unadkat, who has only sporad- when he can make a comeback. time list. Internationals and five ODIs, start- Pandya, Vijay Shankar, Yuzvendra ically played for India since his The vice-captain missed Australia's two recent With bright sunshine following the morning's overcast conditions, the stage ing February 24, in what will be Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, debut in 2010, is suddenly back in Tests against Sri Lanka with a back injury and has seemed set for South Africa to move into a commanding position as Markram their last international assignment Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jasprit contention after a good Ranji also been ruled out of their upcoming one-day tours struck the ball crisply in making 28 off 31 balls in an opening partnership of 36 before the World Cup, which begins Bumrah and Mohammed Shami. Trophy season where he led against India and Pakistan. with Elgar. in England on May 30. Skipper Kohli and pace spear- Saurashtra to the final. Cricket Australia physiotherapist David Beakley The series against Australia head Bumrah will be back in action Unadkat is a matured bowler previously said he was suffering an early stage stress will also be an indicator as to who for the final dress rehearsal and the now with more variations and an fracture, similar to one that sidelined him for six among Rishabh Pant and Dinesh selectors are unlikely look beyond increase in pace. He is also more months last year. Karthik will board the Heathrow- 16 to 17 players, who are now in the experienced courtesy his IPL stints. Hazlewood told reporters he is targeting World bound flight as a specialist-bats- scheme of things for the World A shoot-out is expected Cup warm-up games for his return, with a follow- man-cum-second-wicketkeeper. Cup. between Pant and Karthik, who are up scan on Friday set to shed more light on his KL Rahul is back in the mix as There are at least four con- both finishers in their own right. progress. the third opener after a couple of tenders for the last two slots Pant could also double up as "I think we'll know a lot more after tomorrow, good innings for India A against depending on the combination the third opener although Rahul is to be honest. Hopefully in the coming weeks we'll England Lions in the two unofficial the team management would want. also in contention as he has the start working through it," he said. "Hopefully it's Tests. While Bumrah, Shami and team management's backing. going along to plan. AFP ($ 7"8%=6 ing on a fighting partnership, erased the deficit in the Irani Cup on ittle-known and batting with the Thursday. Ltail, Akshay Karnewar struck his With Ajinkya Rahane (25) and maiden first-class century to hand Hanuma Vihari (40) walking back Vidarbha a crucial 95-run first- unbeaten at stumps, the third day's innings lead before Rest of India, rid- play ended on an even keel. # &#%%#( "% #%( )*+,-). <7 () :/.%*3:'/3: "' 6"' eal Madrid needed a late winner from Marco RAsensio and VAR's debut in the Champions L ) League to beat a spirited Ajax 2-1 in the first leg of the last 16 on Wednesday. Ajax have not beaten Madrid in 24 years and 6*> thought they were on their way at the Johan Cruyff Arena when Nicolas Tagliafico headed home after 9 a Thibaut Courtois error. But referee Damir Skomina judged Dusan Tadic to be offside upon review and Madrid showed no pity <7<7 on their youthful opponents, Karim Benzema and Asensio scoring two precious away goals in the sec- ottenham took a huge step ond half. towards reaching the Hakim Ziyech's equaliser at least keeps Ajax in TChampions touch heading into the second leg at the Santiago League quarter-finals Bernabeu but Asensio's 87th-minute winner was a as Son Heung-min sucker-punch in a match the Dutch team had large- inspired their 3-0 win ly dominated. over Borussia Their ruled out opener will only add to the sense Dortmund in the last 16 of what might have been and it was no surprise to first leg. see a cluster of red and white shirts surrounding the Mauricio Pochettino's officials at the final whistle. side had been under the VAR has been introduced to the Champions cosh as Dortmund dominat- League for the first time in this year's knock-out ed the first half at Wembley on stages and leaflets were distributed to the media Wednesday, but Hugo Lloris before kick-off, one of the points explaining how kept them level with a series of reviews should only be for "clear and obvious mis- fine saves. takes". That set the stage for a sublime Still, there was more than an hour to play and second half from Tottenham, who Ajax were twice too easily undone on the counter- were sparked into life by a fine fin- attack. Frenkie de Jong, who will join Barcelona in ish from South Korea forward Son. the summer, and Matthijs de Ligt, who could follow Son's fourth goal in his last four him, were each dealt a lesson in the ruthlessness of appearances took him to 16 for the top European football. season, but none have been as price- Gareth Bale was reinstated to the Madrid start- less as this one. K . 1. ;I" ." . D , $ ing line-up but there was no place for Marcelo, who Tottenham defender Jan missed his first Champions League knock-out game And his passionate talk of seeing Vertonghen capped his own powerful ; $" '(0 (','(%'0 ,' It took Tottenham over half an hour in four years. performance when he swept in their sec- the "energy" in his players' eyes '0'(' "%+%3$( !0'3%(+,''33%(+ before they finally forced 'keeper Roman The crowd jeered at half-time and Benzema com- ond goal in the closing stages and sub- as they looked forward +,' (' %!&/+,!00' 0%& +!0 Burki into action after Son wriggled pounded their misery soon after. It was a goal to sum stitute Fernando Llorente's late third put to a big Champions * !&/ 8<!0 '(/%% ('0"+ through the visitors' defence. up Madrid's resurgence in recent weeks as Luka the seal on a remarkable result. League night -+ ++,'0 *'+!*'', '+% Lloris made a superb save to deny Modric flicked a ball for Vinicius Junior to race after. Although Tottenham still have to sur- proved prescient +,!&7+, +', '+%3!&!0,+,'=%- ; Dortmund on the stroke of half-time He tore past one, jinked inside two more vive the second leg at Signal Iduna Park as they worked L as Dan-Axel Zagadou met Sancho's and teed up Benzema, who found the on March 5, they have a golden oppor- tirelessly to leave ?%++'&, *%+0$()% ),@ cross with a header that the top corner. tunity to reach the Champions League Dortmund help- Tottenham captain clawed out at full Ajax refused to fade. David Neres quarter-finals for the first time since 2011. less to stem the tide. ; %&A+, ' &%( 03%(+,' stretch. and Tadic both went close before It was an especially impressive suc- Lucas Moura 0')%& , "3 %++'&, *'('+,' Despite being pushed back for Neres skipped free down the left and cess for Pochettino given he was without gave Tottenham an early -'++'(+' * ,'3!(0+, "3'$" ' much of the first half, Tottenham had crossed for Ziyech to slide in the the injured Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Danny spark when he latched onto (' ""'"" &+,'0')%& , "3'=0+ refused to surrender and their per- equaliser. Madrid wanted a free-kick for Rose and Ben Davies. Davinson Sanchez's header and (%$$' -!+ & "%0+3%)0 ; severance was rewarded in the 47th a foul on Lucas Vazquez in the build- Pochettino devised a clever game- smashed a volley just wide from the L 2 ?4%(00! minute. up but this time the goal stood. A plan that eventually frustrated Dortmund edge of the area. 2%(+*& !&/'(@ When Vertonghen swung over a draw might have appeased and secured Tottenham's first ever Juan Foyth gifted Dortmund their cross from the left, Dortmund's defence the home fans at Champions League knockout-round win first sight of goal when he dwelt on the ; ((%(2'"' (''(!*$%(+ &+3%( were out of position for the first time Amsterdam but at home. D ball too long and was alertly dispossessed 0-+', '$" '(0,%) & all night and Son timed his run they were With Rose and Davies sidelined, # $ ) by Christian Pulisic. )%*'!& & %'"" '0,%' perfectly behind Zagadou to denied even Pochettino deployed centre- But Lloris spared Foyth's blushes as +, + ; caress a fine volley past Burki. that as a slick back Vertonghen out of & & # $ he blocked Pulisic's shot at the near post. L 8 ?$(03%( ( @ Suddenly, Tottenham move position at left wing-back had all the momentum and through and switched to a three- % " Vertonghen rampaged for- midfield man defence that stifled Dortmund's rapier attacks were led England international rated as one of ward to fire over. freed the Bundesliga leaders. &! <7# by Jadon Sancho, who left Manchester Europe's hottest prospects. Tottenham were ram- Carvajal Pochettino had insist- 6 $ City to join Dortmund in 2017 without Sancho hit top gear on several pant and Llorente complet- down the ed Tottenham would be ever playing for the Premier League occasions in a mesmerising first-half ed a memorable night right. His able to ignore the draining team. display, leaving two Tottenham mid- when he glanced a close- curving effects of a gruelling sched- Just two years later, the 18-year-old fielders for dead and linking with range header past Burki cross found ule which he felt left them at &% & winger made his first appearance back Pulisic, whose shot was blocked at the from Christian Eriksen's Asensio, who a "massive disadvantage". on home soil now established as an last minute. corner three minutes later. could not miss. +!! 8 'C 8 & - '='"2 N' ( & ; ce paddler Sharath O 79.2 AKamal, who is current- " ly ranked 33 in the world, on & Thursday said he aimed to sian Games Gold-medallist burst into the top 20 in ' " AAmit Panghal (49kg) on 2019 and the next big thing 8 Thursday got a first-round bye into on his mind is the 2020 ()() < the quarterfinals of the 70th Strandja Tokyo Olympics. K Memorial Boxing Tournament in The 36-year-old player Sofia, Bulgaria. also believes that the two Amit, who is in pursuit of a sec- table tennis Bronze medals ! ond successive Gold, will be up which India won at last S2 against Ukraine's Nazar Kurotchyn year's Asian Games held in in the last-eight stage on Sunday. A 0!+0!$ 0P"%0'0+% Indonesia have given them / < 0! win will assure him of a consecutive recovering from a back injury, will the confidence that a medal the Olympics it is a possibil- begun for the Tokyo Games. 5 ' medal at the prestigious European be up against local favourite Emanuil at the 2020 Olympics is a ity (to win medals). "We have started our /" 08 !2 event. Bogoev in the opening round on ,!*0'"3A!&%++'( * possibility. "Because in the Asian preparations. At this < 8 Also, Naman Tanwar (91kg) Friday. Gaurav Solanki (52kg) will "Personally, for myself in Games the competition is moment we have chosen a D 8 was handed a bye into the pre-quar- face American Abraham Perez in his 2019, the goal would be to very high and more or less lot of tournaments, but in / 0 S terfinals and he will face Poland's oepning bout. 6<6"' match losing run against Milos get into top 20 in the world they are the recurring teams the end we will narrow it ! Michal Soczynski in his opening Ankush Dahiya (60kg) will start Raonic as he defeated the ranking and 2020 Olympic at the Olympics, apart from down as we start playing," he S2 *> bout on Saturday. his campaign against Azerbaijan's ising Greek star Stefanos fourth-seeded Canadian 6-4, Games is the next big thing," a few European nations. If said. < 8 Among the women, last edition's Sarkhan Aliyev, while Mandeep RTsitsipas said he "lost to 7-6 (7/4) to reach the last Kamal said. we can win a medal at the "So, beginning of 2020 Silver-medallist Meena Kumari Devi Jangra will square off against himself" after suffering a shock eight. "The major thing in the Asian Games, a medal at the will be the first qualifiers for *>!2 (54kg) was given a direct entry into Ukraine's Viktor Petrov. defeat at the ATP event in "I was moving much bet- plan is the Tokyo Olympic Olympic Games is not a the Olympics. Then in April ! the quarterfinals, while Neeraj In the women's draw, Sonia Rotterdam by Bosnian Damir ter in this match than some of Games 2020, especially after shot too far," explained and May, so there are lots of J (60kg) got into the pre-quarterfinals Lather (57kg) has Serbian Jelena Dzumhur on Wednesday. the others against him," said winning medals at the Asian Kamal. qualifiers coming up. We K J in the draws. Zekic to contend with in the first The 20-year-old, who the three-time Grand Slam Games. Those medals give According to the pad- need to be ready for them," S Gaurav Bidhuri (56kg), who is round, while Pinki Rani (51kg) is to dumped out Roger Federer en title winner. us a lot of belief that even at dler, preparations have he added. ! returning to top-flight action after start off against Filipino Irish Magno. route to the Australian Open "This was my best match semi-finals last month, saved in many months. Some of my two match points late in the losses this season were close third set but still slumped to a calls. I'm trying to push myself, 6-4, 1-6, 7-5 loss. I'm looking for results." D'% %)L') %)/ / )/(%)MD M It was Dzumhur's first win Wawrinka will play his since October after a run of second quarter-final of the four straight defeats, and season after Doha when he 8=9"."2 Like last year, the players Tsitsipas was left frustrated takes on Denis Shapovalov ranked within top 50 in the %%($" !&/0(3 )'C by an erratic display. after the Canadian teenager lympic Silver medallist P BWF ranking and top shut- "I lost to myself, not to beat former champion Tomas OV Sindhu sailed into the tlers in the BAI ranking, filled him," said the world number Berdych 6-4, 6-3, quarterfinals with a straight up the top eight places, who !& ('30'0+%$" 12. Earlier on Wednesday, Jo- game win but three pre-quar- were given direct entry in the "He fools you, waits for you Wilfried Tsonga continued his terfinals of the 83rd Senior singles pre-quarterfinals after 8=9"."2 to make mistakes. He stands strong form with a 6-1, 6-4 National Badminton a super draw was conducted eight metres behind the base- defeat of Italy's Thomas Championship had to be on Wednesday night. ontroversy erupted at line and plays with your Fabbiano. rescheduled after Saina Along with Sindhu, fourth Cthe Senior National strengths. He played nothing Russian fifth seed Daniil Nehwal refused to play due to seeded Assamese Ashmita Badminton Championship crazy or special, but you don't Medvedev won his opening uneven surface of the court on Chaliha, third seed Shriyanshi on Thursday with defending get any rhythm with him. match of the week, beating Thursday. Pardeshi, Riya Mookerjee, champion Saina Nehwal "The momentum was on France's Jeremy Chardy 7-6 A former champion, Aakarshi Kashyap, veteran refusing to play her singles my side but he kept putting the (7/2), 6-2. Hungarian Marton Sindhu, top seed, took time to Neha Pandit and Vaishnavi match, citing a "poor playing ball into the court and run- Fucsovics put out 2016 get into the groove before Bhale also made it to the last surface" at the venue here. risk playing on it given that ning." Rotterdam champion Martin opening her campaign with a eight round. Saina, who had suffered the All England Tsitsipas was seeded third Klizan 7-6 (7/4), 6-4. 21-11, 21-13 win over In men's singles, former a shin injury late last year, Championship is around the at the Ahoy Arena, but has Like Tsonga, Medvedev, Nagpur's Malvika Bansod in champion Sourabh Verma, took the court after Sameer corner. now lost three of his last four who turned 23 on Monday, the women's singles, while Lakshya Sen, Kaushal fourth seed and 2018 Jerry Chopra and Chirag Verma conceded his men's The officials, led by matches after following his also arrived in the Netherlands top seed Sameer Verma, play- Dharmamer, Harsheel Dani, SaarLorLux Open champion Shetty got the better off veter- singles tie following an Badminton Association of Melbourne last-four thrashing after winning a title, having ing the next match at the Aryamann Tandon and Subhankar Dey 21-15, 21-17. an pair of Rupesh Kumar and achilles heels problem dur- India Secretary (event) by Rafael Nadal with a quar- claimed his fourth ATP tour- Assam Badminton Academy Bodhit Joshi also progressed In men's doubles, top V Diju 21-8, 18-21, 22-20 to ing his match. Omar Rashid, swung into ter-final exit at the hands of nament win in Sofia. courts, conceded a men's sin- to the quarterfinals. seeds Arjun MR and Shlok make it to the last four stage. Up against Shruti action to sort out the issue. Gael Monfils in Sofia last Monfils reached the quar- gles encounter against Sourabh defeated Kartik Ramchandran defeated Rohan Arun George and Sanyam Mundada in the pre-quar- The BAI officials later con- week. ter-finals on Wednesday at Aryamann Tandon midway at Jindal 21-8, 21-15, Lakshya Kapoor and Saurabh Sharma Shukla and Krishna Prasad G ters, Saina had a look at the vinced Saina, Kashyap and Stan Wawrinka, the 2015 the expense of Italy's Andreas 21-16, 1-8 after aggravating a brushed aside Ansal Yadav 21- 21-11, 21-18 to enter the and Dhruv Kapila also surface and immediately Sai Praneeth to play in the champion, ended a three- Seppi, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3. achilles heel problem. 11, 21-8 and Harsheel stunned semifinals, while Pranaav advanced to the semifinals. made it clear that she won't evening.