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THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I FRIDAY 17 I JANUARY 2020 WEATHER Max: 31OC Min: 18OC Rainfall: Nil NATION | 7 SPORT | 14 TABLOID ASTROGUIDE Lalu in court for last India to take on Stun Siva bags award Vikari: Thai 3 Tithi: Sapthami fodder scam case Australia in 2nd ODI for his acting prowess Star: Chithirai Rahukalam: www.facebook.com/deccannews, www.twitter.com/deccanchronicle, www.deccanchronicle.com Vol. 15 No. 291 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | ` 3.00 10.30 am to 12 noon Yamagandam: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm ■ PRAYERS ‘Pak can avoid this global embarrassment time and again’ BULL POWER Fajar: 5.20 am Zohar: 12.23 pm Asar: 3.35 pm Maghrib: 6.01 pm India slams China for Isha: 7.17 pm SUNSET TODAY 6.02 PM SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.36 AM MOONRISE TODAY 10.38 PM MOONSET TOMORROW 11.52 AM going to UN on Kashmir SRIDHAR allegations and present- IIT-M device to KUMARASWAMI | DC India to invite Imran, other leaders ing an alarming scenario NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 lacked any credibility”. produce Sources said no other Following Beijing's rais- for SCO’s annual heads of govt meet country at the UNSC hydrogen fuel ing of the Kashmir issue SRIDHAR Shanghai Cooperation backed China which Chennai: In an effort to com- on Wednesday at KUMARASWAMI | DC Organisation (SCO) means that 14 out of the 15 bat vehicular pollution, resea- Pakistan's behest for NEW DELHI, JANUARY 16 Council of Heads of UNSC members backed rchers in country's premier In- informal consultations at Governmment meeting the Indian position. dian Institute of Technology the UN Security Council New Delhi on Thursday that will be hosted by Sources also said Beijing (IIT) Madras have developed a that ended in a damp confirmed it would invite India later this year, pos- seems to be under tremen- green tech to generate hydro- squib, India lashed out at Pakistan Prime Minister sibly in October or dous pressure from gen fuel from waste and sea- China on Thursday, ask- Imran Khan for the November. ■ Islamabad to keep raising water. Abdul Malek, who com- P7 A bull jumps over a tamer at the jallikattu event in Palamedu, Madurai on Thursday. As pleted PhD from Chemistry ing it to “seriously reflect the issue informally at the many as 600 bulls and 400 bull tamers participated. ■ More on P2 — Kasi Manikandan dept at IIT-M, has planned to on this global consensus, Pakistan” and that “the Pakistan that needs to be UN. This is the third time launch a start up, 'Gen-Madzi draw the proper lessons informal closed-door discussed, it should be China has attempted to Hydro Fuel', to develop hydr- and refrain from taking meeting, therefore, con- discussed bilaterally”, raise the matter. The first TIRUVALLUVAR DAY ogen fuel for vehicles, missiles such action in future”. cluded without any out- adding that “Pakistan can was in August last year, and rockets. ■ P2 New Delhi said the “overcome”. avoid this global embar- soon after India revoked whelming majority of the Hitting out at Islamabad rassment time and again Article 370, when the SC dismisses UNSC members were of as well, India said it “sin- by putting their energy in UNSC informally dis- the view that UNSC was cerely hopes that the mes- something constructive”. cussed the situation in V-P replaces saffron telcos’ plea seeking not the right forum for sage has gone across loud The MEA said “it once Kashmir. The second such issues and this and clear to Pakistan that again highlighted that attempt was made in review of verdict should be discussed bilat- if at all there is any mat- Pakistan's desperate mea- December, but China New Delhi: The Supreme erally between India and ter between India and sures to peddle baseless backed off. Court Thursday dismissed robes to avoid tension review petitions of top telecom firms including NEWS ANALYSIS G. BABU JAYAKUMAR | portrait adorning the Bharti Airtel and Vodafone DC Assembly walls and hence Idea seeking review of its Cong-DMK ‘Trump’s poor knowledge of India, CHENNAI, JAN. 16 accepted by all. earlier order asking them Though the image of to pay `1.47 lakh crore in alliance Just about two months Tiruvalluvar in saffron past statutory dues by heading south? China geography left Modi stumped’ after a controversy broke was first circulated when January 23 saying it did over the draping of a Prime Minister Narendra not find any “justifiable G BABU JAYAKUMAR Washington, Jan. 16: Tiruvalluvar statue in saf- Modi released a Thai trans- CHENNAI, JAN. 16 reason” to entertain them. Donald Trump once left Trump impeachment: fron, the office of the Vice- lation of Tirukural in Will the simmering dif- Prime Minister Narendra President of India commit- Thailand, Friday's tweet of Putin cements ferences between the Modi flabbergasted after ted a faux pas by carrying Modi had no images and Congress and DMK in he told him that India and US House sends an image of the Tamil saint just said: 'I bow to the great power as Russian Tamil Nadu flare up China didn't share a bor- poet in saffron robes, along Thiruvalluvar on his into a conflagration der, revealing the US historic case to Senate with a tweet remembering Pillariaripatti near Than- Jayanti. His rich thoughts Duma votes for PM and scorch the allian- President's “woefully” Washington: The US him on his ‘Jayanthi Day’. javur was smeared in cow and literary works give ce? The question ran- Moscow: Russian lawmak- poor knowledge of geogra- House of Representatives The photograph was dung, under cover of dark- strength to millions. He kles in the minds of ma- phy, according to a new passed a resolution and immediately taken down, ness, and later on draped in inspires us to work toward ers are set to quickly appr- ny even as the state's ove the appointment of a book authored by two first three years as submitted the articles of after tweeple pointed to the saffron by a leader of a social equality, justice and political class gears up Pulitzer Prize-winning President, the impeachment against Do- objectionable colour of Hindutva outfit. compassion.' However, the new prime minister Thurs- for the 2021 elections to American journalists. Washington Post reported nald Trump to the Senate Tiruvallur's attire. A note During those days, sever- tweets of Tamil Nadu BJP day, a day after President the Assembly and also Vladimir Putin kicked off for the next set of civic The 417-page book, 'A on Wednesday. The busi- for a historic trial to re- was put out that it was al BJP acolytes circulated stalwarts, particularly H an unexpected reshuffle of elections to the urban Very Stable Genius', writ- nessman-turned-politi- move him from office, a posted by mistake, but not visuals of the digitally dre- Raja and S Ve Sekar, had his inner circle that could local bodies and the ten by Philip Rucker and cian won the US presiden- move described by the before the goof-up had cre- ssed Tiruvalluvar, which images of the poet in saf- keep him in power well left-out rural local bod- Carol D Leonnig, detailed tial election in 2016 and unfazed President as “an- ated another round of flut- was viewed as a cultural fron robes. past the end of his term in ies, which are expected similar vivid incidents assumed the position on other con job” by the Op- ter on Twitter. invasion as the official im- BJP Tamil Nadu also put 2024. Mikhail Mishustin, to happen soon. ■ P4 from Trump's tumultuous January 20, 2017. ■ P13 position Democrats. The state was rocked by a age of poet was constructed out a tweet that gave a reli- the chief of Russia's tax series of events last Nov- by scholars based on his gious twist to Jallikattu. It service, met with lawmak- ember relating to the dress explicit philosophy, evi- said, 'When Lord Shiva to- ers from various factions in of the cultural icon who denced from his writing, ok the form of a hunter and the State Duma ahead of gave Tamil one of its best which is primarily secular. wrestled with Arjuna with the confirmation vote in Nirbhaya convicts the Kremlin-controlled Children being radicalised in literary treatises. It started So the painting by a view to testing his stre- lower house. with digitally dressing up Venugopal Sharma, in ngth, Arjuna had the privi- shifted to jail Tiruvalluvar in saffron which Tiruvalluvar is lege of embracing God. Ba- COUNTER POINT since in all earlier images draped in white with no sed on that episode, Hindus Kashmir: Chief of Defence Staff no. 3 for hanging he had been only in white. sacred thread, was used in embrace the bull, which is Then, a controversy the postal stamp released a form of Nandhi that is PAWAN BALI | DC “You can start isolating New Delhi, Jan. 16: All raged. First, his statue at in his memory and for the Lord Shiva's vehicle.” NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 these people gradually. the four death-row con- And then start a counter- victs in the Nirbhaya Chief of Defence Staff radicalisation program- gang rape and murder (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat me by identifying people case were shifted on on Thursday suggested who have been radicalis- Thursday to Tihar prison that highly radicalised yo- ed to what degree. You complex's jail number ‘Brave’ Davinder ung people in the country got to segregate them in three where their hang- could be put in de-radical- degrees and then look at ing is set to take place, a isation camps as a way to start countering radicali- those who have been co- jail official said. was an extortionist deal with terrorism. sation by looking where mpletely radicalised, fir- The four death row con- He said that to end ter- it is happening and who st target them,” he said. victs -- Vinay Sharma, VIKRAM SHARMA | DC ● Jammu and Kashmir rorism, ideology, and are the people who are “But then also start Akshay Kumar Singh, HYDERABAD, JAN. 16 administration has with- radicalisation has to be radicalising people. “It is looking at the future like Mukesh Kumar Singh drawn the Sher-e-Kash- Bookie Sanjeev addressed on priority. happening from schools, what we are seeing in and Pawan Gupta -- were Stories of his ''ruthless'' mir Police Medal for “Anything that has universities, from reli- Kashmir. We saw radical- scheduled to be hanged on ways of interrogating sus- Gallantry awarded to Chawla to be Market report started can be put to an gious places and sites and isation happening. Today January 22. However, the pected stone-pelters and Deputy Superintendent of Police Davinder Singh 24 ct (1 gm): `3,995.00 end. To say that radicali- then there are group of we are seeing radicalisa- Delhi government told terrorists inside dingy extradited to India GOLD 22 ct (1 gm): `3,808.00 who was arrested along sation cannot be counter- people who are spreading tion being undertaken the High Court on rooms across the Kashmir London: Alleged bookie ed, I don't quiet agree wi- it,” said Gen Rawat. He even among the young Wednesday their execu- valley are well-known and with two Hizb-ul- Bar (1 Kg): `50,200.00 Mujahideen (HM) militants Sanjeev Chawla is set to SILVER th it. Radicalisation can said that one has to get to people, girls and boys as tion has to be postponed police officials of all ranks in southern Kulgam be extradited to India to Sensex 41,932.56 pts be countered,” said Gen the nerve of the whole young as 10 and 12, are in view of the pendency of of the UT police force have INDICES Nifty 12,355.50 pts district earlier this month face charges of match fix- Rawat. thing by identifying who now being radicalised,” a mercy petition by one of tales of their colleague ing after he lost a last- EXCHANGE US$: `71.01 Euro: 79.03 He said that one has to is radicalising the people. said Gen Rawat. them. — PTI DSP Davinder Singh's bra- as the National Investi- ditch appeal attempt in vado, including one when gation Agency (NIA) is the UK High Court on terrorists opened fire and interrogating Davinder Thursday. a bullet pierced his left leg Singh, the DSP who was during an operation a few posted in the anti-hijack- years ago. ing squad at Srinagar air- Dhoni may bat on but no BCCI contract But behind his khaki uni- port and was arrested fer- form was a man, it turns rying two wanted Hizbul R. MOHAN | DC balls. Of course, he had that he is not being judged to back a plan to fete Dhoni out, who allegedly threat- Mujahideen terrorists in CHENNAI, JAN. 16 stopped playing the red ball on performance like every- for his enormous contribu- ened dozens of Kashmiri Kulgam recently. game long ago, mid-tour in one else. The selectors can tion to Indian cricket by families with ''serious con- Sources associated with The Dhoni era may really Australia six years ago. gauge his form and fitness holding a T20i series in sequences'' after randomly the investigation as well as have ended the day he was Dhoni made his Test in the IPL too. And no one India, with a match also in picking up their loved ones some colleagues told the caught centimetres short retirement public in an discounts the possibility of Ranchi, as a farewell series and torturing them, on the DC that under Singh's dire- ED summons when he stretched his bat unusual manner in his being picked for the for him so that the country mere suspicion of their ct supervision, while he but did not dive for the December 2014 when he T20i Worlds that begin in could honour him in a involvement in stone-pelt- was at SOG (Special Opera- AirAsia CEO crease in the World Cup was down under. His turn- Australia in October. proper way before he gives ing or links with terrorist tions Group) and positions semi-final against New ing up in India colours in a The man who set alight up the international game. groups - and later extorted like DSP, Pulwama, over Zealand. He had not picked matic, Dhoni carried on T20i again is in the realm of the first T20i Worlds by Dhoni is just not eligible money for their release. the years, hundreds of yo- Tony Fernandes up a bat since that fateful without a care of what speculation. But one thing leading India to a surprise for an annual contract If whispers in the police uths were picked up after New Delhi: The Enforce- day in England last July. plans others had for him. is for sure - Chennai's victory in 2007 might fancy since he has not shown are true, Singh would not raids on their houses in di- ment Directorate (ED) On Thursday, BCCI ended He came out to the favourite cricketing son another shot at the title, as himself to be active in the bother to withdraw his fferent parts of the Valley. has summoned senior ex- ecutives of Air Asia inclu- his tenure on the A list in Jharkhand Ranji team nets will be at the helm of CSK batsman and wicket-keep- game. This may not quite salary for months togeth- Kashmir witnessed cycles ding CEO Tony Fernand- which contracted players on Thursday. He has also in IPL season-13 and, per- er, which his 38 years be the end of the Dhoni era er, as he was already mak- of stone-pelting incidents es next week for question- are paid the highest annual invested in a bowling haps, one more season. would still permit him. but close enough to it if he ing lakhs of rupees. over the past decade, some- ing in connection with a amount of Rs 5 crore. machine to hurl the quick In playing IPL he would BCCI sources said there isn't picked for T20 Team The details of his extor- thing that was an industry money laundering case, The irrepressible, if enig- stuff at him, with white also be deflecting criticism are several officials willing India again. tion is tumbling out even for terror groups. officials said. c m y k c m y k

■ SHORT TAKES Quarrel between parents drives boy to suicide Actress’ suicide PUJAS FOR NANDI Three kg attempt leaves her gold seized 14-yr-old hangs self, in critical condition CHENNAI: Customs sleuths seized 3.4 kilograms gold Chennai: TV actress worth `1.39 crore at the Jayashree, who recently Chennai international airport. filed a domestic violence According to the sources, on upset dad ends life complaint against her hus- Tuesday, based on informa- band and actor Ishwar tion that the gold is likely to DC CORRESPONDENT ● The couple used to Raghunathan because of be smuggled by some pas- CHENNAI, JAN 16 quarrel often because which the actor was arre- sengers arriving from of Balakrishnan’s sted, attempted to commit Colombo, a strict vigil was In a sad event, a 14-year- drinking problem and suicide on Wednesday. She kept by AIU officers of cus- old boy committed sui- abusive nature.Upset has been admitted to a pri- toms at the arrival hall. cide on Wednesday night over this, Vetrivel vate hospital in the city. Six Sri Lankan nationals, as he was reportedly Jayashree was in the Mohammed Rishan ( 47), upset with his parents allegedly committed news a few weeks back Althaf ( 51), Mohammed quarreling in suicide on Wednesday after her allegations of an Rimaz ( 33), Mohammed Chengalpet. Minutes affair between her hus- Rafeek ( 39), Mohammed after the boy’s death, his and when he went in band and actor Ishwar Lahir ( 36) and Smzul 45-year-old father also search of him, found Raghunathan and actress Wadeka Moulana( 45) who committed suicide. Wednesday night, an him hanging from the Mahalakshmi. She had arrived by Sri Lankan airlines According to the police, argument broke out ceiling in another room. also made child molesta- flight were Balakrishnan (45), a resi- between them and A shocked Balakrishnan tion complaints against intercepted at the exit. dent of Muthigainallan Vetrivel intervened and informed his wife about Easwar, who was reported- On persistent questioning, all Kuppam village in tried to solve the issue. the incident, but when ly in a relationship with an admitted having concealed Chengalpet district was However, things got out she rushed to the house actress working with him gold in the paste from in rec- a van driver who lived of hand and Sundari left she found her husband in the television serial tum. Around 3. 40 kg of with his wife, Sundari for her mother’s house in next to his son. Devathayai Kanden. He 24-carat purity valued at (38) and two sons the same area. Upset On being alerted, was jailed and has come `1.39 crore was recovered Vetrivel (14) and Deva over this, Vetrivel Thirukazhukundram out on bail.According to and seized under the cus- (5). allegedly committed sui- police recovered the bod- the police, before taking toms act of 1962. Three pas- Police said the couple cide on Wednesday night ies and sent them to the the extreme step, Jayash- sengers were arrested and used to quarrel often after his father went to Chengalpet government ree sent an audio message further investigations are because of sleep. hospital for post- to her friend saying she underway. Balakrishnan’s drinking At midnight, mortem. A case has been was depressed and didn’t problem and abusive Balakrishnan had woken registered and an inves- wish to live anymore. She nature. Meanwhile, on up to find Vetri missing tigation is underway. was found unconscious by The huge Nandi at Kapaleeswarar temple in Mylapore is decorated with a variety of Rajnath to inaugurate her friend who rushed her sweets to mark Mattu Pongal on Thursday. —DC to the hospital. A case has induction of Su-30 been registered. —DC fighter squadron Tribunal orders `86L for Thiruvananthapuram: Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would inaugurate the induction ceremony of SU-30 techie’s kin, estranged wife Five held for driver’s murder fighter squadron at the Air DC CORRESPONDENT engineer with WIPRO Limited were mandated Force Station in Thanjavur in CHENNAI, JAN. 16 drawing a monthly to pay the compensation DC CORRESPONDENT was walking to a theatre Preliminary inquiries and Madan were relatives Tamil Nadu, Air Marshal Amit salary of `44,045, was to him and his daughter CHENNAI, JAN 16 near his house around 7 revealed that the deceased and Madhan used to visit Tiwari said on Wednesday. The Motor Accident fatally knocked down on J. Premalatha, he said. p.m., an armed gang of five had developed illicit inti- his house when he devel- At a press meet here, Tiwari Claims Tribunal, April 25, 2012 by a truck He also sought compen- A gang of five members started following him. macy with a married oped an affair with said this would be the sec- Chennai, has directed an when he was driving his sation for Parameswari, was arrested for murdering Apprehending trouble, woman, and that could have Ashwini. ond frontline fighter insurance firm to pay a two-wheeler on the the estranged wife of the a driver in full public view Madan attempted to flee, been the reason for his Knowing this, squadron of the Indian Air compensation of `86 Medavakkam - victim though their in Uthiramerur in but the gang pounced on murder. The police officers Dhasarathan had warned Force (IAF) to be based in lakh to the family of a 32- Perumbakkam main divorce case has been Kanchipuram district on him and attacked him with suspected the hand of one his wife and Madan, despite South. The induction ceremo- year old IT professional road. His discharge sum- pending before a Wednesday evening. deadly weapons and fled the Dhasarathan and his four which they continued their ny would take place on who was killed in a road mary said he died due to Chennai court. According to the police, the spot. other friends in the crime. relationship and that is January 20 and the fighters accident. A share of the injuries. Judge at Vth Small victim, N.Madan (26), a res- On information, a police Based on information when he decided to elimi- would have the most potent amount will be paid to The Mount traffic Causes Court V. Sutha ident of Uthiramerur, was team rushed to the spot obtained during the inter- nate Madan. platform capable of long the estranged wife of the investigation wing had said negligence of the working as a car driver in where Madan was lying in a rogation of a few persons, Based on Dhasarathan’s reach and multi-role capabili- victim, too, as per the filed a first information driver led to the accident Maraimalai Nagar and liv- pool of blood. He was taken the police arrested inputs, Police arrested, ties, he said. The maritime order. report against driver and and ordered the compa- ing in a rented room there. to a private hospital nearby, Dhasarathan, who admitted Kannariyam (24), Deva (30), strike squadron inducted in In his petition, P. hence the owner of the ny to pay Jayaraman and Police said he visited his where he was pronounced to having killed Madhan for Kanniappan (34) and the IAF is also armed with Jayaraman had stated truck and the insurance Paramaswari `42,88,350 native Uthiramerur to cele- dead. The body was shifted having an affair with his Karthikeyan (35). They the indigenous Brahmos mis- that his son Vijaya- company L&T General each and Premalatha brate Pongal and on to Chengalpet government wife Ashwini. were remanded to judicial sile, Tiwari said.—PTI ragahvan, 32, a senior Insurance Company `40,000 as compensation. Wednesday night when he hospital for post-mortem. Police said Dhasarathan custody. Indecorous Puducherry Chief Minister V. 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■ SHORT TAKES Joint exercise to strengthen ties between two nations Happy to celebrate Pongal as Pondy CM dares Bedi to prove land ICG eyes 200 ships, 100 a farmer, says CM Edappadi grab charges ZAKEER HUSSAIN | DC SALEM, JAN 16 Puducherry: Puducherry aircraft inventory by 2025 Chief Minister V “I am happy to celebrate Narayanasamy on Thursday the harvest festival of challenged Lt Governor Kiran Chennai, Jan 16: The signed with his Japanese ‘Pongal’ as an ordinary Bedi to prove the land-grab- Indian Coast Guard has counterpart, the official farmer with all of you,” bing allegations made by a planned to acquire 16 said Coast Guard has said Edappadi rebel Congress legislator advanced light helicop- signed similar agree- Palaniswami without against him. ters apart from 50 vessels ments with South Korea, flaunting his Chief Slamming Bedi for making to its fleet as part of its Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ministerial tag as he joined public the allegations against vision to have 200 ships Sri Lanka, Oman, the festivities in his native him and his son by suspend- and 100 aircraft inventory Vietnam and Pakistan. Siluvampalayam village in ed Congress MLA N. by 2025. On the MoC, Japan Edappadi union in Salem Dhanavelou, the Chief Speaking to reporters Coast Guard comman- district on Wednesday and Minister told reporters here it on Thursday, Coast Guard dant admiral Takahiro Thursday. was “shocking” that she Director General Okushima said the rela- Interacting with local came out with a press state- Krishnaswamy Natarajan tionships between the two farmers, he said he was ment on the issue without said, “Today we have 50 coast guards was getting more happy to be with Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami celebrates Pongal at ascertaining their veracity. ships under construction stronger every year. them as one amongst them his native village near Salem. —DC He also said the Lt Governor in various Indian ship- “So far we have conduct- rather than as Chief should verify the genuineness yards and apart from that ed 18 such joint exercises. Minister. At the courtyard Pongal’ to the people of his Mr. Palaniswami said the of the charges before issuing we have 16 advanced light Through today's exercise behind his house, ‘Pongal’ village. He also witnessed a festival reflected the best of the press release. helicopter MKIII under Indian Coast Guard and the Japanese Coast Guard we realise once again the was cooked in the open by display of folk arts, besides Tamil traditions and con- Hitting back at the Chief production with HAL, undertake Joint Exercise code named “Sahyog-Kaijin” partnerships steadily family members and trying his hand with the veyed his greetings to the Minister, Bedi said he should Bengaluru.” off Chennai coast on Wednesday. —DC enhanced..,” he said. friends. tennis racquet and took people on the occasion. challenge MLA Dhanavelou The first of the twin Earlier in the day, the Mr. Palaniswami offered potshots at the traditional Several MPs and MLAs’ for making the charges engine helicopter was which will have a capabil- ther strengthening ties exercise was conducted prayers and then fed the game of ‘Uriyadi’. In were among the hundreds instead of wasting energy on expected to be inducted ity of maintaining sur- between the two nations. off the Chennai Coast as cows with sweet rice. He Edappadi he also launched of people who participated her. The former IPS officer in by March 2020, he said veillance in our exclusive Natarajan said the part of strengthening the also distributed ‘sweet the ‘Tennis Club’. in the function. a WhatsApp message to after the 19th edition of economic zone,” he said. Japanese Coast Guard bond between the two Narayanasamy said, “the Indo-Japan joint exercise The Indian Coast has extended support to countries. Chief Minister needs to “Sahyog-Kaijin,” about 50 Guard, fourth largest Indian Coast Guard by One ship of the counter the allegations made nautical miles off coastal security agency in capacity building in the Japanese Coast Guard by his own party man who Chennai coast. the world, has installed 36 form of training. and four ships and an air- according to media reports Natarajan noted that the Coastal Surveillance “You all should know craft of the Indian Coast Prepare fresh provisional has been suspended tem- Coast Guard has recorded Radar Network on the Japan Coast Guard is the Guard took part in the porarily today instead of significant progress and mainland and 10 on second largest Coast exercise. challenging me.” the present inventory was islands that can track sus- Guard of the world, after Led by Commanding She advised Narayanasamy at 145 ships and 62 air- picious vessels. the US. I can also proudly Officer Captain Kiyoshi selection list: HC to TRB to challenge his own party craft. “We also plan to install say Indian Coast Guard Harada, the ‘Echigo MLA, who has been making “The budget (of Coast 38 more Radar Stations has acclaimed the stature PLH08’ and the four ships the allegations against him. Guard) which was about apart from integrating of 4th largest with 145 and a Dornier aircraft of J.STALIN | DC vision provides for reserva- ry instead of fitting the Bedi, who has been at log- `1,000 crore has now the radar stations with ships in its inventory and Indian Coast Guard par- CHENNAI, JAN. 16 tion of appointment. candidates thereof in gen- gerheads with the Chief grown to more than Vessel Traffic 62 aircraft..,” he said. ticipated in the drill Section 27 (f) merely states eral turn, they have been Minister ever since she `5,000 crore in terms of Management System of In 2019, the Coast Guard around 50 nautical miles In a major relief to the can- that if the required number fitted in MBC/DNC catego- assumed office in 2016, also both revenue and capi- the Ports. Our vision is to has apprehended `2,000 off Chennai. didates who were not of candidates belonging to ry. This mistake is very said she has advised tal,” he said. reach 200 ships and 100 crore worth of drugs with The exercise marked selected to the post of PG the communities which fall apparent on the face of the Dhanavelou to hand over the “We are also in the aircraft by 2025,” he said. most of them from the demonstrations of search Assistants in Chemistry, under reservation were not impugned provisional evidences to the CBI exclu- process of acquiring 14 On the joint exercise, he Western Coast. and rescue, external fire- the Madras high court has available, then, the vacan- selection list that has been sively dedicated to the Union twin engine heavy heli- said this year it was the Referring to the fighting and sharing of directed the Teachers cies for which selection made the subject matter of Territory. She pointed out in copters and 6 multi-mis- turn of Japanese Coast Memorandum of best practices. —PTI Recruitment Board to pre- could not be made in the challenge in these peti- no uncertain terms in her sion maritime aircraft Guard to visit India, fur- Cooperation (MoC) pare a fresh provisional current year, should be tions. The TRB went wrong message that challenging her selection list for the posts of treated as backlog vacan- in understanding the pur- was only a “verbal tirade and P.G.Assistants in cies and, in the subsequent port of section 27 of the is misdirected”. Bedi also Chemistry. recruitment, the backlog Act. The said provision told Narayanasamy that he SSI killing: Two Justice N. Anand vacancies and the current merely provides that the could as well counter the Venkatesh gave the direc- vacancies for the particular backlog vacancies will have allegations before CBI if the Bar digital banners in tive while disposing of a community must be sepa- to be first accommodated investigating agency so suspects brought to batch of 10 petitions from rately announced and that and thereafter only, the reg- probed the matter. K.Shobana and others. the direct recruitment ular vacancies should be Suggesting to the Chief TN for investigation According to M.R. must first accommodate accommodated. This does Minister to convene a special centre median area: PIL Jothimanian, counsel for the backlog vacancies and not mean that the backlog session of the territorial Kanyakumari(TN): Two the petitioners the TRB thereafter only, the current vacancies of a particular Assembly, she said DC CORRESPONDENT garding safety of others. but there is distraction suspects in the murder of issued a notification on vacancies can be accommo- community will not be con- Narayanasamy could ask the CHENNAI, JAN 16 The craze for erecting that is also to be consid- a policeman at a check June 12, 2019, inviting dated. sidered under general turn MLA to make the allegation digital banners and plac- ered”. Despite all these post in the district, were applications through This was very clear from irrespective of the mer- on the floor of the House and A PIL has been filed in ards was not only among efforts, there has been a brought here for interro- online from eligible candi- a plain reading of the above its/rank”, the judge added. then make his statement. the Madras high court to political parties and per- growing tendency on the gation on Thursday, amid dates for direct recruit- said provision, the judge The judge said in view of “DO not waste your energy declare as illegal, Rule 5 sonalities but also indi- part of the commercial tight security. ment to the posts of PG added. the discussion, this court on me. You should challenge of the Tamil Nadu Urban viduals to celebrate/com- establishments to put up The duo was medically Assistants/Physical The judge said in the pres- was of the considered opin- the one who challenges you. I Local Bodies (Permission memorate any event in advertisements of vari- examined at the Thakalai Education Directors, Grade ent case, the TRB has read ion that the provisional have already told your party for Erection of Digital life from birth to death. ous hues on traffic signal police station and interro- I in school education and the provision as if the selection list prepared by MLA to go to CBI. Banners and Placards) The proliferation of digi- posts, across the roads gated in connection with other departments for the backlog vacancies must be the TRB has to be reconsid- We will await their investiga- Rules, 2011 in so far as the tal banners and placards along the entire width of the murder of Special Sub year 2018-2019. Petitioners fitted in MBC/DNC catego- ered and in lieu thereof, a tion and facilitate their same permits erection of was unimaginable and traffic signals, severely Inspector Wilson, police had applied online for the ry, irrespective of the merit fresh provisional selection enquiry if they seek help. We digital banners and plac- poses serious threat to and adversely affecting said. posts of PG Assistants in of the candidate or the list prepared. are duty bond to assist the ards on the median of the road safety, resulting in road safety as the adver- The two men had shot at Chemistry. After written rank secured by him/her. While preparing the fresh investigation agencies,” she road as the same is viola- ever rising road acci- tisements tend to distract Wilson using a pistol and examination and certifi- “This wrong understand- provisional selection list, stated in her message.—PTI tive of Article 21 of the dents, he added. all the road users includ- stabbed him when he was cate verification, the TRB ing of the provision has the TRB was directed to fit Constitution of India and Sathiachandran said in ing the drivers of the on duty at the Kaliyakavi- published the provisional resulted in confusion in in all the candidates under consequently declare the year 2011, the peti- vehicles, which makes lai checkpoint on the bor- selection list and the peti- preparing the provisional general turn, only based on Rebel Pondy Cong that the centre median of tioner filed a petition for the roads accident prone, der with Kerala on Jan 8. tioners did not find their selection list. Also, in the their merit and ranks, irre- any road as banned area removal of commercial he added. They were picked up names in the list. On going instant case, the highest spective of their communi- MLA suspended for erecting any pole, advertisements exhibited He said it was way back from Udipi Railway sta- through the list, the peti- mark that was secured was ty and when it comes to the advertisement, digital on the centre medians of in 1992, the Indian Road tion in Karnataka on tioners found that the TRB 109 and, up to 90 marks, the selection of candidates Puducherry: Rebel Congress banners etc., the roads, which distract Congress (IRC) published January 14. The suspects had fitted meritorious can- candidates were fitted in belonging to a particular Legislator in Puducherry N. A division bench com- the road users. The gov- the guidelines on the have been identified as didates under MBC quota general turn. Where the community, who do not fall Dhanavelou was on Thursday prising Justices M. Sath- ernment accepted his roadside advertisements. Abdul Shameem (29) and instead of general turn and candidates have secured within the merit/rank, suspended from the party on yanarayanan and R. contention and accord- The updated guidelines Taufeeq (27), both hailing thereby, 34 vacancies which high marks and come with- they should be considered charges of indulging in ‘anti- Hemalatha before whom ingly, this court disposed issued in 2009 specifically from Thiruvithancode ought to have been consid- in the merit category, the under the community party activities.’ Addressing a the PIL filed by Coim- of the petition by record- deals with the advertise- near Nagercoil. ered under general turn candidates will have to be quota, based on the marks hurriedly convened press con- batore Consumer Cause ing the statement of the ments on traffic signals. According to police were fitted in to MBC.DNC selected under general turn fixed for that community. ference here, PWD Minister represented by its secre- state government. But they were not fol- sources, the duo has con- quota. Aggrieved over the irrespective of their com- While doing so, the back- and PCC president A. tary K.Kathirmathiyon Subsequently, the govern- lowed. Therefore, the fessed to having links with same, they filed the present munity. While undertaking log vacancies must be first Namassivayam said came up for hearing, ment issued an order for petitioner in 2016 filed a some IS activists from petitions, Jothimanian this process, the communi- accommodated and only Dhanavelou had been directed the government removal of all commer- PIL and this court direct- Kerala’s Mallapuram and added. ty does not play any role thereafter, the current indulging in ‘anti-party activi- pleader to file counter cial advertisements put ed all the collectors to Kozhikode districts. They The judge said in the con- and it is only merit that is vacancies must be filled up. ties’ violating basic principles affidavit and posted to up in the centre median permit advertisements were said to be helping sidered opinion of this taken into consideration. With the said clarity in of party discipline. He said the January 22, further hear- of roads in the state. In only as per IRC norms. them recruit members for court, the entire confusion The candidates, who fell mind, the TRB shall pro- suspension of the legislator ing of the case. regard to the rampant However the authori- the terror outfit. has arisen due to the wrong within the category of BC ceed to prepare the fresh came into ‘immediate effect’. Petitioner’s counsel practice of occupying ties continue to permit The police said they were reading of the provision and who secured the marks provisional selection list Namassivayam along with the S.Sathiachandran sub- public space by advertise- erection of digital ban- trying to ascertain under section 27 of the between 109 and 90 have for the posts of PG Chief Minister V. Narayana- mitted that of late, the ments and ill-effects, the ners and placards in the whether the duo conspired Tamil Nadu Government rightly been fitted in gener- Assistants in Chemistry samy returned from Delhi on culture of erecting digi- Supreme court had centre median, which to carry out any attacks in Servants (Conditions of al turn. However, when it within two weeks, the judge Wednesday after apprising tal banners has become observed that “Even if resulted in a number of Tamil Nadu. —PTI Service) Act. The said pro- came to MBC/DNC catego- added. Congress president Sonia part of life totally disre- there is no obstruction accidents. Gandhi and senior leader Rahul Gandhi of “continued anti-party activities of Dhanavelou.” The PCC leader said “on the recommendation of the high command Dhana- Is Congress-DMK alliance heading south? velou has been placed under suspension.” Namassivayam G. BABU JAYAKUMAR |DC Minister and AIADMK the hope that his party was Leader KR Ramasamy by called by Congress interim inclined, will the Congress said a show-cause notice CHENNAI, JAN. 16 honcho D Jayakumar say- not at all dependent on the NEWS ANALYSIS issuing an open statement president Sonia Gandhi, gravitate towards the would be served on ing on Thursday, ‘anything DMK for electoral gains. on January 10 expressing sending across the mes- AIADMK, which is desper- Dhanavelou seeking his expla- Will the simmering differ- can happen in politics,’ He reminded the media withdraw his nomination, pain over the DMK short- sage that all was not well ate to shed the ‘anti-minor- nation which would enable the ences between the and even wondering why that the Congress had sup- Durai Murugan had to changing their party in the between the two parties. ity, pro-Hindutva’ image? party's Disciplinary Committee Congress and DMK in the Congress should ported the candidature of urge Alagiri to make a trip allocation of seats in the When he was asked about Minister Jayakumar has to go in for next course of Tamil Nadu flare up into a remain with the DMK after Kanimozhi when the DMK to Vellore to personally rural local body elections. the fate of the alliance, he not ruled it out. It can hap- action. Dhanavelou elected conflagration and scorch it had been made to look wanted to field her for a persuade Hassan, who had Though the statement, in said ‘time will give an pen, say some, adding that from Bahoor constituency the alliance? The question like baggage by DMK Rajya Sabha seat in 2013 won as a rebel candidate in which DMK’s alliance answer.’ the combine may even would be asked to submit his rankles in the minds of Treasurer and former min- though both the parties the past. It helped Kathir dharma was questioned, Reacting to that, Alagiri, rope in actor Rajinikanth, reply to the cause notice in a many even as the state’s ister Durai Murugan. were not in an alliance Anand win the elections. created a storm at the who arrived in Chennai if he were to launch his week’s time. Namassivayam political class gears up for Durai Murugan, in a then. Another top state level grassroots level of the after a meeting with his party by then. alleged Dhanavelou had been the 2021 elections to the press meet on Pongal Day, He also recalled the leader, TNCC Working DMK but was justified by party high command in To give credence to the making attempts to topple the Assembly and also for the had said ‘Let them go, they recent by-election to the President Mohan Congress workers and Delhi on Friday, said, ‘time theory of Rajini holding Congress government in collu- next set of civic elections have no vote bank,’ when Vellore Lok Sabha con- Kumaramangalam said local leaders, the real fall- will always give good the hands of Congress, sion with the opposition to the urban local bodies he was asked about the stituency, from where the Congress party had out happened only a couple answers,’ which did not they point to a recent AINRC and BJP. The PCC and the left-out rural local peeves of the Congress Durai Murugan’s son given its full support to the of days later at New Delhi. explain if the alliance remark by former Union leader also accused the bodies, which are expected over the lesser allocation Kathir Anand won with a DMK when it ruled the Surprising many, the would continue or not. Minister P Chidambaram, Bahoor MLA of meeting inde- to happen soon. of seats in the local bodies. majority of around 8,000 State without a majority in DMK boycotted the anti- However, there is ample who welcomed Rajini’s pendent legislator from Mahe But the speculation of a But Durai Murugan’s sug- votes. the House between 2006 CAA meeting, called by the speculation in the political statement that there would N Ramachandran at one stage break raises more ques- gestion that it is the When former MLA and 2011, enabling Durai Congress. circles, some of them even be a political change in to seek his support to tions. One, will it lead to a Congress that has to lose Wallajabad Hassan filed Murugan to complete his It was rumoured that preposterous. 2021. dethrone the Narayanasamy- realignment of forces in something by breaking his nomination from the term as PWD Minister. Alagiri had made a bid to Taking into account the When Chidambaram had led Congress government the state? Two, who will be free, however, was disput- constituency as an inde- ‘Why you did not get this douse the fire by writing to DMK leadership’s appar- broken away from the here, which the latter rejected. the bigger loser if the ed by Congress leaders pendent giving rise to wisdom earlier?’ asked the DMK, clarifying that ent anger against the Congress along with the Namassivayam also said that DMK and Congress go immediately and vehe- fears that he might split Karti Chidambaram, he was only expressing the Congress and the words of late G K Moopanar in 1996 he and the Chief Minister had their own way? The mently. the votes of the DMK- Sivaganga MP, in a tweet sentiments of the cadre, Durai Murugan, it is said to form the Tamil Maanila placed before the AICC lead- answers could be deduced On Friday, Congress MP Congress alliance as he tagging both Durai but the DMK wanted the that the party might take a Congress (TMC), which ers a detailed report about from the utterances of from Virudhunagar, was a locally popular Murugan and his son letter to be made public in final call at the party exec- subsequently had a tie up Dhanavelou’s “anti-party activ- leaders and cadre, who Manicka Tagore, reacted politician, it was TNCC Kathir Anand, triggering Delhi, to which the utive meeting, scheduled with DMK, Rajinikanth ities” for some time now and have been shooting their to Durai Murugan’s state- president K S Alagairi who an exchange in Twitter. Congress was not game. for January 21. had played a vital role in now the high command had mouths in the last days. ment saying nobody is any- intervened, he said. The controversy was, DMK MP from So if the DMK snaps ties, ensuring the victory of recommended his suspension. There was a clear indica- body’s slave and one need After exhausting all his however, started by TNCC Sriperumbudur, TR Baalu, for which many second DMK-TMC. As Jayakumar —PTI tion of a possible political not remain in an alliance endeavours to make the president KS Alagiri and who was in Delhi on that rung leaders in that party said, “anything can hap- realignment with State by taking insults, exuding independent candidate Congress Legislative Party day, skipped the meeting, are not favourably pen in politics.” Award for Ilayaraja Music maestro Ilayaraja was conferred the PAGE 'Harivarasanam Award' jointly instituted by Kerala State 5 government and Travancore Devaswom Board DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY I 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

■ Seeking gender parity, novel intiative at Tiruchengode SHORT TAKES HOMAGE TO THYAGARAJA 1 drowns in sea off Dhanushkodi ‘Naveena jallikattu’ for Rameswaram: In an unfortunate development, one person was drowned in the sea off Arichalmunai, the women and girl children southeastern extreme point of Rameswaram island, police said on Thursday. ZAKEER HUSSAIN | DC If the traditional jallikat- The tragedy happened when NAMAKKAL, JAN. 16 tu is hailed for its valour, S Mubarak, 22, of Madurai, the ‘Naveena jallikattu is to was bathing in the sea and ‘Jallikattu’ as taming of the celebrate ‘Vivekam (discre- was submerged by strong bull, associated with the tion)’, for discretion is the waves. He was part of a traditional ‘Pongal’ festivi- better part of valour as the group of 44 persons includ- ties in the state and hailed age-old adage goes, chuck- ing 21 women who travelled as a valour sport of the les Devendran, member of by an omnibus from Madurai Tamils, is an all-male affair. the local organising com- to Rameswaram Arichalmunai In a bid to restore gender mittee here. near Dhanushkodi. Mubarak parity to this rural sport, a The sheer novelty of the was struggling for his life group of people in sport during ‘Pongal’ giv- when police on information Hundreds of musicians paid homage to Saint Thyagaraja by singing his Tiruchengode in Namakkal ing prominence to women rushed to the spot and tried pancharathna kritis in chorus at the aradhana for the saint at Thiruvaiyaru on district have in recent years and the girl child brought to rescue him with help of his ‘Panchami Tithi’ on Wednesday. — DC evolved a novel variant of Ms. Sharmila, all the way local fishermen. He was then the sport, called ‘Naveena organised this event on within the specified time. from Bengaluru to her rushed to the Rameswarm jallikattu’, which is exclu- Wednesday. The sport Young girls are also native Tiruchengode to rel- government hospital where sively for women and the involves tying one end of a allowed to take part in this ish the moments as a game- doctors declared him brought Ooty freezes as girl child and also simulta- rope to a leg of a blindfold- novel sport, which the watcher. dead. Coastal Security wing ‘Yaanai Pongal’ at neously a satirical counter ed woman-participant and organisers bill as a “I feel so happy seeing so police are investigating. to the all-male ‘Jallikattu’. the other end is tied to a leg women’s response to the many women and young mercury level People of Nandhavanam of a chicken and she, mov- ‘all-male jallikattu’ event. girls participating in this street in Tiruchengode for ing within a pre-drawn cir- And then prizes are award- Naveena Jallikattu,” said Speeding car kills MTR in Nilgiris the 11th year this year cle, has to catch the chicken ed to the winners. Sharmila. B. RAVICHANDRAN | man-animal conflict in hits zero 4 women DC challenging times and B. RAVICHANDRAN | DC OOTY, JAN 16: terrains. The occasion OOTY, JAN. 16 Thanjavur: At least four was also to underscore women were killed, one on The hoary 'Mattu their role in jungle per- Frosting within the town the spot and three others at Pongal" in the country- ambulation and limits here has intensi- Kovai youth wins wildlife award Thanjavur Medical college side on Thursday safaris, which help to fied further as mercury hospital after admission, and turned out to be jungle promote wildlife level touched zero B. RAVICHANDRAN | DC four days to complete the in each category will replicate the flora and four other persons were Pongal at Mudumalai tourism.. degrees Celsius on LAKSHMI L LUND | DC artwork. The award will be receive their award from K. fauna that I saw on paper. injured, when a car rammed Tiger Reserve(MTR) Around seven 'Kumki' Thursday morning, even COIMBATORE, JAN. 16 conferred on him at a func- Ullas Karanth who founded Paper and colour pencil are into them as they were walk- on Thursday, wherein elephants at the ele- as frost-bite has now tion organised in the Centre for Wildlife my favourite medium,” said ing on a road near Vallam ''Kumki' elephants in phant camp at become a cause of con- B. Lenin Dani Raj, doing Bengaluru on Friday. The Studies (CWS). Also, the the youth before he left for Puudur near here on the elephant camp Theppakadu limits, cern for forest managers his final year Master of award includes a cash best entries are on display Bengaluru on Thursday. Wednesday evening. there celebrated had been readied for in the hills. Social Work at PSG College reward, medal and an at the Venkattappa Art In 2019 after by selling The names of the deceased "Yaanai-Pongal" that the event with the bath Though late, the frost- of Arts and Science here, option to visit the Pilikula Gallery which is venue for some of his art work, the were given as Kavitha (25), charmed an impressive in the nearby Moyar ing mode which has set in has been selected to receive National Park in function. youth purchased his cam- wife of Manikandan of Nethaji turnout of tourists who river and smearing of only in the first week of the 'Artists for Wildlife and Mangalore. Lenin's tryst with draw- era. “I would click images Nagar, Bengaluru, Selvi (45) thronged to the camp to 'sandal paste' on their January this winter has Nature (AWN)' award for The AWN awards an ini- ing started when he was of bird and butterfly wife of Selvam of Nethaji witness this event. foreheads and ear lobes been keeping the hills in his artwork titled 'our tan- tiative of Prasad Natarajan just ten-years-old. “Back species and replicate them Nagar, Keerthi daughter of While 'Mattu-Pongal' to pep up the festival shivers between dusk and gled love' in the open cate- the international wildlife then, I would sketch my on paper.” he said. Selvi, and Kanniayammal is being celebrated to mood. dawn. The Government gory. artist international who is most cherished cartoon The youth plans to move (48), wife of Devaraj. honour cattle and These kumki jumbos botanical garden (GBG) The piece of art work also founder of the organi- character. out of his comfort zone While Kavitha died on the livestock which are walked up to the temple recorded Zero degree which is done on paper sation. A competition invit- As I grew older, I devel- which is sketching on paper spot, the other three women part of human life and in the camp entrance Celsius on Thursday using colour pencil depicts ing artwork in wildlife and oped a fondness for birds animals, birds and plants died at hospital. According to do yeomen service in and took part in the morning, indicating the a pair of common rose but- nature from artists in six and butterflies; From 2017 and work in the direction of the police, the deceased and farming, at MTR jun- special 'puja' per- severity of winter mode terflies mating on a different categories was onwards I ventured on sev- conveying the message of injured were walking on the gles it was celebrated formed to mark the that is catching up in the Helicona species of flower. announced for the third eral birding expeditions. conserving nature through road after taking bath in a as "Yaanai-pongal' to event. The jumbos were hills here. It took the 21-year old youth consecutive year. Winners Post such trips, I would his art work. tank at Vallampurudur and recognize the services also fed with special While the cold wave is were going to a prayer hall being rendered by the food including sweet sweeping across the hills where people gather on kumki jumbos, espe- Pongal, jaggery and between dusk and dawn Pongal evening and offer cially, in managing the sugarcane. due to plummeting tem- prayers, when the car hit perature in the night them. Among the Injured hours, it is the frost-bite Salem couple: Death does not do them apart Satyanarayanan, driver of the which is becoming a car, his parents-father and cause of concern. Frost- ZAKEER HUSSAIN | DC sons, fell ill and died in a mother in the car and bite, if continued for SALEM, JAN. 16 hospital where she was Balakrishnan of another couple of days admitted on Tuesday Thirukattupalli, were admitted would char the plants as A nonagenarian man and night, with her hubby to Thanjavur Medical College it would take away the his octogenarian wife Pachamathu Gounder at hospital. juices from the sap of the were laid to rest together her bedside. leaves and other parts of in their farm land at Unable to bear his wife's the plants. Likewise, the Mecheri near here on demise, a weeping 3 killed in tea plantation fields too Thursday, as their kin and Gounder slipped and fell have begun to experience friends in the village bid a near her body, suffered a different mishaps the impact of the frost tearful farewell to a couple serious head injury. He bite. married for 73 years and was then rushed to the Tiruvarur: At least three per- who died on the same day Mettur government hospi- sons including an engineering ● Frost-bite, if in a moving tale of a tal where he too passed graduate were killed in three model couple united in The elderly Salem couple Pachamathu Gounder and away, not responding to different road accidents in continued for death too. Kullammal. —DC treatment. Pachamathu Tiruvarur, and Tiruchy districts another couple of Kullammal, 87, who bore had retired from a textile on Wednesday night. In the days would char the Pachamathu Gounder, 96, seven children including four daughters and three mill in Mettur. first mishap, two persons A kumki jumbo at the special ‘puja’ in MTR. —DC plants including an engineering graduate were killed on the spot when a two-wheeler they were riding collided with a Sizeable sports state-owned Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation National anthem is a protest song: Krishna (TNSTC) bus proceeding to sponsorship for Coimbatore from Mannargudi, Kozhikode: The national and of possibilities," said debated at length query of that "India lies in every with CAA and all these at Serumangalam village near anthem is a "protest song" Krishna. "I see it as a 'what makes a country?'. citizen, every individual things, we need many Tiruvarur. Police said the Kovai girl and it is time all sing this protest song. It protests "The answer is: Jana Gana who inhabits this land...It Sindhs in this country," he deceased were identified as Coimbatore: Abinaya song at least "100 times" a against everything that Mana," he told the audi- also lies in every individ- asserted. In 2005, a peti- Rajkumar (24) and his friend Raghupathy, a promising day to remind everyone our present government is ence. "We think of the ual who may or may not be tion filed in the Supreme Dinesh (24) hailing from young roller skating what India is and what it is establishing as India. It song as geographical first, its citizen but resides in Court demanded the inclu- Karakkottai village and they champion from not, Carnatic singer and tells us that is not India but the three words 'Jana this land." The vocalist sion of the word Kashmir were on their way to Coimbatore recently was activist TM Krishna said again and again. And Gana Mana' are cardinal. also talked about the usage in the national anthem Mannargudi when they met awarded a sponsorship of on Thursday. The song, these are the reasons why Jana means the people, of 'Sindh' as a metaphor and the deletion of Sindh, with this fate. Vaduvur police Rs. two lakh to help fulfill Krishna argued, protests I've started singing this Gana is the collective of for those who are "not which became part of took into custody of the bus her sport needs. The "against everything the song -- especially its the people and Mana is the mentioned" in the song, its Pakistan following the driver Durairaj and are investi- young prodigy has been present government TM Krishna. unsung verses," he added. heart and the mind of the controversy and why Partition. The Supreme gating. A 65-year old woman actively pursuing the stands for" -- the Nobel laureate people. "It is so beautiful Sindh in the anthem is so Court had dismissed the was fatally knocked down by sport for the last six Citizenship Amendment Literature Festival (KLF) Rabindranath Tagore and so relevant today important "Sindh are all petition. Historians such a speeding car when the years. She has participat- Act (CAA), NRC (National during a session titled, wrote 'Jana Gana Mana' in when the whole country is those people who don't as Ramachandra Guha, deceased attempted to cross ed in over 40 national and Register for Citizens) or "Jana Gana Mana: Poetic 1911 in Bengali and it was protesting. That the indi- have provinces in their William Dalrymple, novel- the Tiruchy-Thanjavur national international tourna- National Population Masterpiece, National adopted as the national vidual transformation, the names. Sindh are all those ists like Benyamin, highway near suburb ments and has won over Register (NPR). The full Treasure". "At one level anthem in 1950. However, collective transformation, people who are not called Namita Gokhale, Chetan Ariyamangalam on 120 medals in various cat- song -- including the the song is about India, the the national anthem is and the collective and indi- Tamilians, Bengalis, Bhagat and journalists Wednesday night. The egories. Abinaya holds 'unsung part' -- is about the geography of India, at only a part of the poem vidual minds and hearts of Punjabis. Our India has so Karan Thapar and deceased was yet to be iden- the credit of being the spirit of "incredible possi- another level it is about penned and composed by the people is what makes a many million people who Rajdeep Sardesai are tified, police said. first Quad Skater to win a bility, idea of India, the human struggle. It is Tagore. Deconstructing country," he explained. are Sindhs. "We need among the many other Police arrested the car driver National medal and the human struggle" and also about the mind, the the unsung portion, verse According to Krishna, the Sindh in our national writers who will be attend- Balasubramanian of first player from Tamil much more, he opined. He fear, the need to awaken, to by verse, note by note, the song, which he said has anthem to remind us of all ing the four-day festival. Coimbatore and are Nadu to participate at an was speaking here at the remain together, inspite 43-year-old said Tagore been -- and will be -- inter- the people who are not The focus theme of KLF investigating. International competition inaugural day of the fifth and despite, and with all through the song, among preted in different ways by mentioned. In the time 2020 is environment and in roller skating. Arjuna edition of the Kerala diversity and differences, other things, also answers different people, tells us when we're being forced climate change. PTI Awardee and celebrated 2 DPC staff badminton player Jwala Gutta and Eshwar N exec- suspended in utive vice-president, mar- Plea to cut GST keting, Casagrand, hand- Tiruvarur ed over the sponsorship to Liver taken from Madurai to the young champion as on goods Tiruvarur: Two employees of part of ‘Casagrand the Tamil Nadu Civil Supplies Aspiring Stars Coimbatore in 30 minutes Corporation (TNCSC) Programme’. Abinayav is transportation attached to the paddy direct the only sportsperson DC CORRESPONDENT specialty Kovai Medical COIMBATORE: At the purchase centre (DPC) at from Coimbatore to COIMBATORE, JAN. 16 Center and Hospital state-level annual general Kudavasal near Tiruvarur receive this sponsorship. (KMCH) rushed to the body meeting of the were suspended for allegedly The liver from a Madurai hospital and Tamizhaga Hire Goods purchasing paddy without deceased male youth was performed a surgery and Owners' Association valid documents. Tiruvarur transported from retrieved the liver from (THGOA) held here collector T. Anand said in a Madurai to Coimbatore the deceased youth. recently, new office- bear- release here on Thursday in 30-minutes on Subsequently, the liver ers were elected. At the that the relieved employees Thursday. was airlifted by a heli- meeting association mem- are Selvam and Sampath. Sarathkumar (21 )of copter and transported bers passed several reso- The Collector told the farm- Ramanathapuram, to KMCH Coimbatore lutions including to bring ers that if they noticed any recently met with a road The medical team who after which it was suc- down the Goods and irregularities in the DPCs' traffic accident in airlifted a liver organ cessfully transplanted Services Tax (GST) from they should bring to his Ramanathapuram dis- from Ramnad. —DC on a patient in dire need the current 18 per cent to notice and based on that trict. He was being treat- of liver. The surgery was five per cent on goods suitable action would be ed at the Velammal brain-dead. His parents performed by liver trans- transportation. They taken. He said that 210 DPCS Medical College Hospital then expressed their plant team including Dr urgeda separate welfare are functioning in Tiruvarur and Research Institute at willingness to donate Paari Vijayaraghavan, panel for THGOA workers BOOK EXPO district during the current Madurai. Not respond- vital organs of their son. Dr Maheswaran, Dr and to permit two persons 'Samba' season to purchase ing to treatment, doctors Meanwhile, a team of .Arulraj and Dr. to travel in vehicles used paddy directly from the Abinaya Raghupathy, the at the hospital in medical specialists from Aravindh on Thursday, for transporting infra Visitors throng Chennai Book Fair at Nandanam on farmers. Roller Skating Champion. Madurai declared him Coimbatore-based multi- thus saving a life. goods. —DC Thursday. —DC Chief rebuke PAGE Hitting out at Kerala Governor Arif Mohammad Khan, CM Pinarayi Vijayan says that the British days when Nation 6 residents were appointed in princely states are gone DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI SHORT TAKES I’m not a rubber Rally for CAA AASU: NEW POLITICAL stamp, says OUTFIT SOON Kerala Governor MANOJ ANAND | DC GUWAHATI, JAN. 16 GILVESTER ASSARY | DC THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Amidst the ongoing movement JAN. 16 DHANKHAR against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Kerala Governor Arif TAKES DIG AT CU All Assam Students Union Mohammad Khan on (Aasu) on Thursday said that Thursday said the case VC’S ABSENCE they would intensify the filed by CPM-led state process of forming a new government in Supreme Kolkata, Jan. 16: West political party in the state Court against Citizenship Bengal Governor after February. Amendment Act without Jagdeep Dhankhar on Pointing out that there have informing him, was a vio- Thursday took a dig at been suggestions from various lation of protocol. the absence of Calcutta quarters to Aasu to explore The Governor also University vice-chancel- the possibility of an alterna- refused to sign an ordi- lor Sonali Chakraborty tive political force, Aasu presi- nance seeking delimita- Banerjee at the convoca- dent Dipanka Kumar Nath tion of local bodies’ tion of St Xavier’s said, “People are talking about wards expressing reser- College here. the need for a new political vations over the haste the The Governor was the alternative and the process government was showing chief guest at the convo- will be intensified after in the matter. cation of the St Xavier’s February.” Khan said he came to college. Artists and intellectuals know about the suit filed Turning to the vacant involved in the anti-CAA in Supreme Court chair of the CU V-C at the movement have already been through the media. “I am convocation podium, advocating the need for explor- the first citizen of the Dhankhar said during ing a new political alternative. state and I should have his address that he has Assam is going to polls in 2021. been taken on board been informed that vice- On Wednesday, black flags before challenging an Act chancellor (Chakraborty were shown to Assam Chief passed in Parliament in Banerjee) has fallen ill. Minister Sarbananda Sonowal the court,” he said. The Governor wished by protesters while he was en “I am not a rubber Chakraborty Banerjee “a BJP supporters attend an awareness rally on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) that was addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at route to his home in stamp, be clear in your very speedy recovery”, Kharauna Pokhar near Vaishali, Thursday. — PTI Dibrugarh. mind. Constitution does and said, “I take the Asserting that their prime not expect me to be a rub- blame (of CU V-C’s focus is to ensure the repeal of ber stamp. I have to apply absence) partly for the CAA, Nath who was in my mind. I have to take myself.” TENDERS / NOTICES Goalpara, said, “People of my time. The file is with “Several places that I JNU extends registration date Assam feel that such an alter- me, I will take some time have gone to, some people native force is definitely need- to make up my mind to take ill, I don’t dispute ed to protect their interests.” think what to do about it. as people may fall ill in Meanwhile, people across I don’t want to argue with the right sense...,” he for winter semester to Jan 17 the state burnt the copies of them. I have raised cer- said. the CAA in the — Mejji — holy tain questions,” he said. West Bengal Minister New Delhi, Jan 16: university official said. Many of the remain- bonfire as part of Bihu on The proposed ordinance Partha Chatterjee has Amid registration boy- "After February 9, the ing hostel residents are Wednesday. is to amend Kerala said on Sunday if neces- cott by a section of stu- VC may consider writ- returning to the cam- Panchayat Raj Act and sary, the upcoming dents, the Jawaharlal ten requests for regis- pus from their homes, Kerala Municipality Act Calcutta University con- Nehru University (JNU) tration and if deemed he added. "Since NO TAKERS to facilitate increase of vocation will be held said on Thursday the fit, grant permission for January 15 was the last seats in the local bodies without Governor deadline to register for the same with imposi- date for registering in FOR DRESS ahead of the polls to be Jagdeep Dhankhar as he the next semester has tion of appropriate the winter semester, held later this year. has “consistently” made been again extended, amount of fine at his there was a last-minute Law minister A.K. statements targeting the this time till January 17 discretion," the official rush yesterday. CODE FIAT Balan said if the state government. following requests from said. Several students Governor has any reser- — PTI several students. Out of the about 8,500 approached us to extend M K ASHOKA | DC vations these can be JNU Vice-Chancellor students in JNU, on- the last date for winter BENGALURU, JAN. 16 resolved. “In normal Mamidala Jagadesh campus accommoda- registration by another course, if the Governor the opposition in Kerala Kumar said students tion in different hostels two days," the VC said. Srusthi Institute of Art, has some Constitutional Assembly Ramesh had approached the is provided to about Following this, the uni- Design and Technology which doubts he can seek clarifi- Chennithala has written administration to 6,450. The remaining versity decided to push was in the thick of controver- cation from the govern- a letter to the Governor extend the last date for students are day schol- the deadline by two sy over graffiti on Prime ment. This is the practice asking him not to sign the winter registration by ars, the VC said. Nearly days to January 17. Minister Narendra Modi on followed by the ordinance. The ordinance another two days. "The 95 per cent of day schol- All the schools and the college wall has decided to Governors so far,” he is being brought with a deadline for registra- ars have cleared their centres have announced challenge the dress code diktat said. Khan has ques- political motive to tion for the ongoing semester dues, Kumar their time-tables and allegedly by the supporters of tioned the urgency being increase the party’s seats winter session has been said, adding more than are working on conduct- a local BJP MLA. shown by the government in local bodies. extended up to January 65 per cent of students ing tests for those stu- The BJP workers had in pushing through the The ruling CPM-led Left 17 without late fees. staying in the hostels on dents who did not com- stormed the institute campus, ordinance since Democratic Front However, by paying late the campus have plete the last semester angry over the graffiti on the Assembly session is going accused the Governor of fees of up to Rs 500 one cleared their hostel academic require- Prime Minister which ran the to be convened soon. taking provocative posi- can register till dues by paying the new ments, the vice chancel- line “Sab Change Si’ (All is Meanwhile, leader of tions on various issues. February 9," a senior hostel charges. lor said. PTI well) across the bottom of the graphic with the PM’s index finger pointed at his mouth. The BJP workers who had walked into the campus pep- NCM asks Kerala pered the authorities with India believes in dialogue: Modi questions on the dress code DGP to probe followed by the students while New Delhi, Jan. 16: In by the power of dialogue. is drawn towards India been India's strength that announcing that wearing love jihad charge a world that is seeking to Addressing a seminar on because of its virtues of its thoughts have become shorts and skirts was not in break free from mindless "Globalising Indian peace, unity and brother- living traditions, guided keeping with Indian tradition. DC CORRESPONDENT, hate, violence, conflict Thought" at IIM- hood. Despite different by simplified and relat- They also objected to students THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, and terrorism, the Indian Kozhikode via video, the languages, traditions, able practices, which are smoking on the streets in pub- JAN. 16 way of life offers a ray of Prime Minister said habits and faiths, "for not rigid, he added. Modi lic. hope, Prime Minister respect for different opin- centuries, we have lived said India has been one of However, the management of The National Narendra Modi said on ions and innovations in peace. For centuries, the biggest contributors the institution has refused to Commission of Thursday. comes naturally when we have welcomed the to the UN peacekeeping buckle under pressure from Minorities on Thursday He also said India's civil- there is openness. The world to our land. Our operations for decades. the saffron groups, and said directed Kerala state isation prospered innovative zeal of civilisation has pros- "If some of the most con- that they had given their stu- police chief to submit a because of peace and Indians is drawing the pered when many could flict-prone zones could dents the freedom to wear any detailed report within harmony, and the Indian world to the country, he not. Why? Because one breathe the air of peace, dress they wanted in spite of 21 days on the alleged way of conflict avoidance told the gathering. finds peace and harmony our soldiers had a role to the alleged threat by associ- rise in the number of is not by brute force but Mr Modi said the world here", he said. It has also play in it," he said. PTI ates of powerful local MLA cases of 'love jihad' in from Yelahanka constituency the state. S.R. Vishwanath, who is also The commission in the political secretary to the his directive to the CONGRESS Chief Minister B.S. police chief also Yediyurappa. enclosed with a repre- POSERS TO PM, sentation from Synod of Syro Malabar Church. BHIM ARMY The Synod of the DEFENCE MIN church on Wednesday passed a resolution ON SUB DEAL CHIEF AZAD expressing concern over the rising cases of New Delhi, Jan. 16: A WALKS FREE love jihad. Half of the day after alleging that 21 youths recruited by the Narendra Modi gov- New Delhi, Jan 16: Bhim IS from Kerala were ernment was "favour- Army chief Chandra Shekhar converted from ing" a private entity in Azad, who was arrested in Christianity, it had the Rs 45,000 crore 75-I connection with the violence said. The NCM said if Submarine project, the during an anti-CAA protest in the DGP failed to com- Congress on Thursday Old Delhi's Daryaganj, was ply with its directive to questioned the prime released from Tihar Jail on submit detailed report minister and defence Thursday night, officials said. within 21 days then the minister's "silence" Azad's outfit had organised a commission will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP working over the matter. march from Jama Masjid to forced to take action It also said the Prime president Jagat Prakash Nadda and other BJP leaders at CEC meeting at party Jantar Mantar against the and issue summons for Minister cannot be amended citizenship act on hearing the matter. office in New Delhi, Thursday. — PTI above accountability. December 20, without police Congress' chief permission. He was sent to spokesperson Randeep judicial custody on December Surjewala tweeted, 21. On Wednesday, a Delhi "PM's and RM's silence court had granted bail to Delhi polls: Nominations pick up in the Rs 45,000 crore Azad, who was accused of submarines project is inciting people during the New Delhi, Jan. 16: elections after holding a Nominations for the Youth Party, and five as intriguing and raises anti-CAA protest at Jama Senior AAP leader and road show. high-stakes Delhi elec- independent candidates. further suspicion as to - Masjid. Delhi Deputy Chief "He filed the nominations kicked off on Elections to the 70-mem- What is BJP govern- The court also restrained Minister Manish Sisodia, tion around 2 pm and Tuesday with poll ber Assembly promises to ment hiding? Why are Azad from visiting Delhi for his fellow lawmaker, and there is no dummy candi- authorities issuing the be a triangular contest PM/RM 'mum'? Why four weeks and directed him eleven other candidates date for him," a senior notification for the polls with the Aam Aadmi did government violate not to hold any dharna till the on Thursday filed their poll official said. on the same day. On Party hoping to retain DPP, 2016? Why was elections in the national capi- nominations ahead of Thirteen fresh nomina- Thursday, nominations power on the plank of 'Empowered tal. Additional Sessions Judge the February 8 assembly tions by as many candi- were filed in various development and the BJP Committee' of Navy Kamini Lau had granted the polls, officials said. dates were filed in differ- other constituencies, and the Congress deter- overruled? Is govern- relief to Azad on furnishing a With this the total num- ent assembly constituen- including Sultanpur mined to put up a spirited ment batting for Adani bail bond of Rs 25,000. While ber of nominations for cies on Thursday. Besides Majra, Mustafabad, challenge. “The notifica- Def ?" Congress leader granting bail to Azad on the upcoming elections Sisiodia, Nitin Tyagi, the Mehrauli, Bijwasan, and tion for the Delhi election Anand Sharma said on Wednesday, the judge recited has gone up to 25 from 23 sitting lawmaker from Dwarka by people belong- was today issued by poll Twitter, "The defence Rabindranath Tagore's candidates. Sisodia, 47, Laxmi Nagar, also filed ing to small parties, authorities. Nominations preparedness of India famous poem 'Where the Mind filed the nomination the nomination from the including the Aapki Apni today began for the has been diluted and is Without Fear' and said citi- from the East Delhi's same seat, a senior offi- Party, Rashtriya upcoming Assembly the Make in India made zens have a fundamental right Patparganj constituency cial of the Delhi CEO Rashtrawadi Party, Tipu polls," a senior official a platform of crony to peaceful protest. PTI for the Delhi Assembly Office said. Sultan Party, National had said. 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SHORT TAKES INDIA TO INVITE IMRAN, OTHER R-Day terror RAUT TAKES LEADERS FOR BACK ‘INDIRA SCO SUMMIT module busted DC CORRESPONDENT also investigating their COMMENT’ FROM PG 1 SRINAGAR, JAN. 16 complicity in other terror crime incidents.” DC CORRESPONDENT Shanghai Cooperation The Jammu and Kashmir Later, the J&K police MUMBAI, JAN. 16 Organisation (SCO) is police on Thursday tweeted, “In a major suc- an eight-member claimed that it has busted cess the Srinagar police Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut’s Central Asian Grouping a Jaish-e-Muhammad busts Jaish module. Two comments about former Prime that comprises China, (JeM) module which was grenade blasts in Minister Indira Gandhi creat- Kazakhstan, planning a major terror Hazratbal area worked ed a furore in the state, leading Kyrgyzstan, India, strike ahead of the out. Major attack averted to the Rajya Sabha MP finally Russia, Tajikistan, Republic Day by arresting ahead of Republic Day. retracting his statement. Uzbekistan and five of its members. Five terror operatives However, the incident has Pakistan. India and Deputy inspector gener- arrested. Huge explosive again exposed the cracks in Pakistan became SCO al of police (Central material recovered.” (sic) the newly appointed members in 2017. Kashmir), V.K. Birdi, A police statement said, Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi “India will be hosting while addressing a hur- “The investigation so far alliance government. the SCO Council of riedly-called press confer- has revealed their Raut, whose party is part of Heads of Government ence here, said that, fol- motives to enforce shut- the ruling alliance with the meeting later this year. lowing the investigations downs and paralyse nor- Congress and the NCP, on The meeting is held into a grenade attack in mal life in Srinagar city Wednesday had claimed that annually at the Prime Srinagar’s Habak area on and further plan to exe- Ms Gandhi used to meet Minister's level and it January 8, the police cute sensational inci- Karim Lala, an underworld discusses the SCO's pro- arrested five persons dents like terror attacks don active during the 1960s Union defence minister Rajnath Singh in a K9 VAJRA-T gun during its flag off ceremony at L&T Armoured System gramme of multilateral involved in the incident. and causing improvised and 1970s in Mumbai. Lala Complex in Hazira, Gujarat on Thursday. — PTI economic cooperation “During the course of explosive device (IED) was one of the three top as per the established investigation, these per- explosions.” underworld dons of Mumbai practice and procedure sons confessed their The J&K police has also for over two decades, from the within the SCO. All involvement in executing claimed arresting an 60s to the early 80s, the other eight members of SCO a terror attack (a grenade “associate” of Lashkar-e- two being Mastan Mirza alias as well as four observers blast) near Sir Syed Gate Tayyaba (LeT) in Haji Mastan and Varadarajan states and other inter- of University of Awantipore area of Mudaliar. Centre calls meet on national dialogue part- Kashmir’s main campus southern Pulwama dis- Following the widespread ners will be invited," at nearby Hazratbal on trict. It identified the criticism from the Congress, MEA Spokesperson November 26 last,” he accused as Ishfaq Ahmad Raut finally withdrew his Raveesh Kumar said on said. Dar alias Maheed, a resi- comment saying, “If someone Thursday. The police officer identi- dent of Pulwama’s feels my statement hurt Indira NPR, census today But there is specula- fied the arrested as Ajaz Dangerpora-Padgampora Gandhi’s image, or someone’s tion that the Pakistan Ahmad Sheikh, Umar village. feelings, I take it back.” New Delhi, Jan 16: The PM may Hamid, Imtiyaz Chikla “He has been assisting However, several Congress Union Home Ministry has however alias Imran and Naseer active terrorists of LeT in leaders expressed outrage convened a meeting on Bengal officials not to attend choose to Mir — all residents of Padgampora, Sonrigund, over his comments. Terming Friday to discuss the send a sen- Hazratbal — and Sahil Gulzarpora, Beighpora, Raut’s comment as ‘wrong,’ modalities for the 2020 ior minister Gojri of Soura area of Reshipora and state Congress chief Census and the National Census, NPR meet in Delhi instead if Srinagar. Dangerpora areas of Balasaheb Thorat on Population Register he is not Birdi said that “incrimi- Awantipora,” the police Thursday said such remarks (NPR), officials said. DC CORRESPONDENT home Nityanand Rai be conducted from April keen on nating material including said adding that “he was would not be tolerated. Union minister of state NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 will chair the meeting 1 to September 30 this attending arms and other explosive involved in threatening The state revenue minister for home Nityanand Rai which will also be year across the country the meeting in view of substance were recovered and intimidating civil- cautioned all leaders against will chair the meeting In another issue that attended by home secre- except in Assam. the dismal state of Indo- during the course of ians residing in the area making remarks criticising which will be attended by could snowball into a tary Ajay Bhalla. Home ministry offi- Pakistan ties. Sources investigations” and that and also in providing great leaders. Union home secretary political controversy, Along with West cials clarified that the said it was too early to “further investigation in logistic support and assis- Ajay Bhalla and chief sec- West Bengal chief min- Bengal, states like NPR would merely be a say whether the the matter is in tance to LeT terrorists retaries and census direc- ister Mamta Banerjee Kerala and some others database for "usual resi- Pakistan PM would progress”. operating in the areas of BIHAR POLLS tors of all states. The has said that officials are opposed to NPR on dents of the country" attend or not, given that He added, “The police is Awantipora.” meeting will discuss the from her state will not the grounds that it will and have some demo- there was still about modalities for the house- attend the meeting of form the basis for the graphic as well as bio- nine months to go for UNDER listing phase of the cen- chief secretaries and nationwide National metric particulars. the SCO meeting in a sit- sus and the NPR, to be car- census directors of Register of Citizens Notification for the NPR uation wherein even a Rawat for hardline ried out from April 1 to states to be held on (NRC). and house enumeration week is a long time in NITISH: SHAH September 30, a Home Friday to finalise the The meeting is being was issued in the wake Indo-Pak ties. NAYEAR AZAD Ministry official said. modalities for Census held to discuss the of largescale protests New Delhi has always PATNA, JAN 16 West Bengal Chief Mini- 2020 and the National process for the house- across the country maintained it will con- against radicalism ster Mamata Banerjee has Population Register listing phase for the next against the contentious tinue to stand by its Ending speculations regard- already announced that (NPR). census along with the Citizenship Amendment multilateral commit- ing the leadership crisis in representatives from her Minister of state for NPR. The exercise is to Act (CAA). ments. Ties between the FROM PG 1 Bihar, Union Home Minister state will not attend the two nuclear-armed and BJP President Amit Shah meeting. A few state gov- (NRC). Officials said the as biometric particulars, most states have notified neighbours has been He said that these people on Thursday said that the BJP ernments, including West objective of the NPR is to they said. The notification provisions related to the deteriorating since 2016 can still be isolated from and JD(U) will contest the 2020 Bengal, have declared that create a comprehensive for the houselisting and NPR, which is a register of but reached the very radicalisation in a grad- Bihar assembly polls under they will not participate identity database of every NPR exercise came amid usual residents of the depths following the ual way. “But there are the leadership of Chief in theNPR exercise now as usual resident in the furore over the con- country. It is being pre- Pulwama terror attack people who have been Minister Nitish Kumar. it is a prelude to a coun- country. tentious Citizenship pared at the local subdis- in February last year completely been radi- “Some political parties have try-wide National The database would con- Amendment Act (CAA). trict, district, state and followed by Balakot air- calised these people need been trying to create confu- Register of Citizens tain demographic as well The ministry officials said national levels. PTI strike later that month. to be taken out separate- sion about the unity of NDA in ly, possibly taken into Bihar. I want to end all some de-radicalisation rumours today by declaring camps,” said the CDS. there is a need to take a that the NDA will contest the He said that we have got hard-line approach in assembly elections under the India slams China for going to UN on Kashmir de-radicalisation camps dealing with terrorism, leadership of Chief Minister going on in our country. the way the US went after Nitish Kumar. The NDA in FROM PG 1 as well. China should seri- again misuse the platform closed-door meeting, there- to Pakistan that if at all “Let me tell you that even terror groups after the Bihar is united and BJP – On why China was ously reflect on this global of UNSC for discussing a fore, concluded without there is any matter Pakistan is doing the 9/11 terror attacks. JD(U) alliance is unbreak- repeatedly insisting on consensus, draw the prop- bilateral matter. The over- any outcome. It once again between India and same. Pakistan also has “As long as there are able”, BJP chief Amit Shah raising the Kashmir issue er lessons and refrain from whelming majority of highlighted that Pakistan's Pakistan that needs to be got de-radicalisation states which sponsor ter- said while addressing a rally. for informal consultations taking such action in UNSC members were of desperate measures to ped- discussed, it should be dis- camps. They have under- rorism, we will have to Sources said that Amit at the UNSC, external future.” the view that the UNSC dle baseless allegations cussed bilaterally. stood that some of the ter- live with the menace. We Shah’s statement during a affairs ministry Commenting on the was not the right forum for and presenting an alarm- Pakistan can avoid this rorism they have been need to take the bull by its public rally in Vaishali on spokesman Raveesh issue, the MEA said: “An such issues, and this ing scenario lacked any global embarrassment sponsoring is actually hit- horns and strike at the Thursday would silence those Kumar said: “I suggest that effort was made by should be discussed bilat- credibility. We sincerely time and again by putting ting back at them,” said root cause,” he said in an who have been raising ques- this question should be Pakistan through a mem- erally between India and hope that the message has their energy in something Gen Rawat. oblique reference to tions about the leadership of posed to the Chinese side ber of the UNSC to once Pakistan. The informal gone across loud and clear constructive.” Gen Rawat also said Pakistan. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. Crisis had deepened recently when Dalit leader and BJP MLC Sanjay Paswan said that LALU IN COURT “the party has the capability J&K police strip Davinder Singh of gallantry award to contest and win elections in IN LAST FODDER Bihar on its own. People want police personnel in recog- a BJP leader becoming the YUSUF JAMEEL I DC nition of their meritori- DAVINDER BOUGHT PROPERTIES IN Chief Minister”. SRINAGAR, JAN. 16 ous work and gallantry. SCAM CASE Authorities said Singh’s Ranchi, Jan 16: Jailed The Jammu and Kashmir act “amounted to disloyal- SRINAGAR WITH ILL-GOTTEN MONEY RJD president Lalu administration has with- ty which also brought the From Page 1 and soon after was moved Prasad appeared before DILIP GHOSH drawn the Sher-e-Kashmir J&K police organisation to the SOG. “His success- a special CBI court here Police Medal for Gallantry into disrepute.” Besides releasing inno- ful anti-terror operations on Thursday and record- awarded to deputy super- An order signed by J&K’s cent persons, Singh also always came in for praise ed his statement in con- RE-ELECTED intendent of police principal secretary (Home) allegedly set free some from the top brass and nection with a case per- Davinder Singh who was Shaleen Kabra said, people who were actually therefore his corruption taining to fraudulent arrested along with two “Consequent upon the involved — all for finan- was ignored for too long,’’ withdrawal of Rs 139.35 WB BJP HEAD Hizb-ul-Mujahideen mili- arrest of Davinder Singh, cial consideration. sources said. He invested crore from Doranda Kolkata, Jan. 16: With an eye tants in southern Kulgam Dy. SP while trying to assist Davinder, from Tral in most of his ill-gotten Treasury when he was on the 2021 Assembly polls, the district earlier this month. terrorists to travel outside Pulwama district, a wealth in high-end proper- the Bihar chief minister BJP on Thursday re-elected The award instituted J&K and recovery of arms hotbed of Hizbul ties in Srinagar. He also in the 1990s. Dilip Ghosh, who is credited after J&K’s legendary and ammunition, which Mujahideen, was recruit- bought expensive watches Prasad's advocate for the growth of the saffron leader Sheikh Muhammad amounts to disloyalty and ed as sub-inspector in 1994 among other things. Prabhat Kumar said his party in West Bengal, as presi- Abdullah who is also conduct that has brought client will produce wit- dent of its state unit for the known as ‘Sher-e- the force into disrepute, the ed.” Singh, posted as DySP sion and the authorities nesses and other pieces second consecutive term. Kashmir’ or the ‘Lion of Sher-e-Kashmir Police at the Srinagar have recommended that he of evidence in the court Ghosh, being the only nomi- Kashmir’ to his support- Medal for Gallantry, award- International Airport, has may be dismissed from Media persons at the residence of J&K police officer on January 20. nee for the post, was elected ers, is given annually to ed to him is hereby forfeit- been placed under suspen- service. Davinder Singh in Srinagar on Thursday. — PTI This is the fifth and unopposed as West Bengal last fodder scam case BJP president for 2020-2023 at against the RJD presi- the state committee meeting. dent in Ranchi. Ghosh’s re-election to the top SHOCKING | RECORD 29-year-old’s bank account shows transactions of `134 cr in 2011-12 There is a sixth case post came just days after his against him in controversial remark that Bhagalpur in his native anti-CAA protesters “were state Bihar relateed to shot like dogs” in BJP-ruled the multi-crore fodder states drew sharp criticism Youth claims he got faulty I-T notice for `3.5 cr scam. both from the opposition and Accompanied by close his party men. RABINDRA NATH eyes when I went through The registration of the the department seeking a registration in Gujarat. aide and senior RJD During Ghosh’s tenure as CHOUDHURY I DC the I-T notice sent to me in firm which has made probe into the matter. “The IT department has leader Bhola Yadav, state president, the BJP wit- BHOPAL, JAN. 16 March 2019. I had then the transactions in the Mr Gupta has written to now threatened me to Prasad entered the nessed a meteoric rise in West ignored it since my salary the Madhya Pradesh attach my properties to courtroom around 11 am Bengal bagging 18 out of the 42 A youth from Madhya at the time was barely account was done on August Cyber cell, Maharashtra recover dues”, he said. and left around 2 pm. parliamentary seats in the Pradesh has received the `7,000 per month and I did 25, 2011 in Surat in Gujarat, police, PMO and I-T office The transactions were The RJD supremo, who state. shock of his life when he fall under the tax payer while I was in Indore on the seeking a probe into the purportedly made by a dia- wore a blue half-sleeved “I will continue to fight and got an income-tax (I-T) category. same day matter to clear him of the mond company based in sweater, shawl and won't stop till BJP forms the notice seeking to explain I took it seriously when I — RAVI GUPTA charges. Gujarat, according to him. woollen cap, appeared next government in West transactions of `134 crore got another I-T notice On January 17, 2020, he “The registration of the unperturbed when he Bengal,” he said. Hitting out at made in his purported reminding me to pay the Bhind, Madhya Pradesh received another notice firm which has made the returned after recording the opposition, Ghosh said bank account in 2011-12. tax in July 2019. I had then crore made on a business barely 21 then. I was work- informing him of exten- transactions in the his statement. “There are a few people who Ravi Gupta, 29, a resident rushed to Mumbai to account opened with his ing in a private firm for a sion of date of tax pay- account was done on An ailing 71-year-old are criticising me for my com- of Mohana in Bhind dis- probe into the matter with PAN number in a private salary of 7000 per month. ment. He was earlier sum- August 25, 2011 in Surat in Prasad, who is lodged in ments. I want to make myself trict, has received the I-T the I-T office”, Mr Gupta bank’s in Mumbai in 2011- In fact, I have not visited moned by I-T department Gujarat, while I was in the Rajendra Institute of clear that the time has come notice seeking payment of told reporters on 12. The transactions were Mumbai during the peri- asking him to bring Indore on the same day. Medical Sciences for BJP. Earlier, they (parties I-T of `3.49 crore on the Thursday. made between September od”, he said. account details, account This can be verified with (RIMS), was taken to the opposed to BJP) used to speak transaction made in ‘his’ According to him, the IT 9, 2011 and February 13, A senior officer in the I-T opening form, PAN card, my actual bank statement special CBI court, about and we listened, now we will account during the period. notice had sought queries 2012. “I have never opened department said Mr Gupta service tax registration, of SBI, Indore”, he told four km away, under speak and they will listen.” “I could not believe my on transactions of `134 such an account. I was can lodge a complaint with TIN registration and firm this newspaper. heavy security. — PTI c m y k c m y k MIND POWER A.P.J. 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Ministers’ J&K visit Subhani a pointless exercise n Saturday, a drove of three dozen Union ministers are to descend on the newly-created Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Their job is to promote development plans the Centre has for J&K Oafter the reduction in the former state’s status, and the severe political and communications clampdown which accompanied the drastic action effective from August 5 last year, setting off serious uncertainties. In the past five months, little development efforts have been noticed by the Kashmiri people, though much official hype was created around tourism possibilities, especially in the Valley. None of this has materialised. Faith in official pronouncements appears to be at an all-time low. Greater energy by the Centre seems to have been expended on crafting “a new politics” for Kashmir — after locking up prominent politicians of Valley-centric political parties, including three former chief ministers of the state — rather than on doing anything to give concrete shape to development plans. The key question is: Is development possible in the absence of mobile tele- LETTERS phony, which was the case for much of the time since August, and the snap- ping of the Internet? The Supreme Court recently grappled with this ques- CONSIDER RURAL EDU? tion but did not offer justice, although it held that cutting off the Internet for Reclaiming our identity The Annual Status of an indefinite period was “impermissible”. Education Report (ASER) The official reason for cutting off Kashmir’s links with the outside world 2019 released a few days was that this was necessary to curb terrorism. This is what the government ago paints a sad picture on sought to impress upon the international community. And now a non- Muslim decorated police officer has been discovered to be mixed up with the rural education in India, terrorists. The default line is for people of the Valley’s majority Muslim as Indians & Muslims with 'only 16 per cent of community to be suspected of terrorism. To what extent terrorism has been children in Class 1 can read eradicated on account of disrupting communications and locking up politi- illallah. But is it too much where it could ignore text at the prescribed level, cians can only be tested once all curbs are removed. But will they be to ask that we not be communal considera- and nearly 40 per cent can't removed any time soon? If not, then is it possible to posit any meaningful obstructed from raising tions and select leaders on development activity and economic acceleration? These are key questions Abdul Sabur our slogans? the basis of merit without even recognise letters.' Maj- worthy of debate. The liberal resentment regard to majority or ority of India still lives in vill- Sending to Kashmir Union ministers — a cast of characters who have lit- Kidwai against public expres- minority. ages, and naturally the topic tle knowledge or interest in the region except to routinely revile it in com- sions of Muslim identity One feels that the of rural education gains ut- munal terms as being a hotbed for militancy — to spread the message of is well-documented, with Congress, as embodied in most importance. Fewer co- development at a time when practically all economic indicators in the coun- the narrative being that Mr Tharoor, has still not mmitted teachers, lack of try are showing negative results — cannot possibly be taken seriously, at while Muslims may have reached a stage where it least not by J&K residents. The only likely explanation is that the minis- started this movement, could ignore communal proper text books and learn- ters’ visit is a part of a massive propaganda exercise that is especially aimed here has been Mr Tharoor is perhaps now that the “main- considerations and sup- ing materials in schools are at an international audience. considerable reflective of the larger dis- stream” figures have port a demand for rights some of the major issues for While Indian politicians have been prevented from visiting Kashmir, and debate about appointment with the arrived at the scene, the and assertion of identity quality and access to educa- obstacles have been placed in the path of journalists, in the past two months the slogan of Congress, which has burqa-clad women, and without regard to majori- tion in rural India. In some the government has organised conducted tours for members of European “La Ilaha always claimed to stand topi-wearing and beard- ty or minority. village government schools Parliament of the far-right persuasion and a clutch of foreign ambassadors TIllallah” and its place, if up for the idea of India. sporting Muslims must Statements refuting the in New Delhi. With US President Donald Trump expected in India some- any, in the anti-CAA The handwringing of the relegate themselves to fol- anti-Muslim nature of the still single teacher is mana- time soon, the planned visit of a horde of Central ministers seems little protests. It has given rise Congress over a vast lowing the leaders. This Citizenship ging all classes and if that more than a shoddily choreographed mind-bending exercise. to questions about asser- array of injustices to sidelining of Muslims is (Amendment) Act teacher is absent the school tions of Muslim identity Muslims, individual and not limited to only this abound, stating it should declares 'holiday'. Also seve- in India today. In his institutional, had already protest: it is a mental not be opposed as an anti- ral government schools in ghettoisation, much like Muslim act, but as an tweet, Shashi Tharoor spelt out its demise, even villages are packed with stu- Why snub for Jeff Bezos? has equated implicitly the as Mr Tharoor seemed a the physical ghettoisation unconstitutional one credal statement of Islam whiff of fresh air. Yet, it of Muslims in urban cen- owing to its criterion of dents, which lead to the im- “La ilaha illallah” to seems that he embodies tres. naturalisation of foreign balance in teacher-student mazon founder-CEO Jeff Bezos’ India visit, weeks before the gov- Islamist terrorism. The all the Muslim com- NRC ka masla kya? citizens being religion. ratio. Can authorities look ernment’s rollout of the National Ecommerce Policy, has led to statement is the founda- plaints with the Congress: La ilaha illallah The anti-CAA protests into this pathetic condition? Aheadlines in both India and the United States. While the official rea- tion of Islam, and as selective action, an inher- Tera mera rishta kya? are immediately against R. Sivakumar, Chennai son for his visit was to inaugurate Amazon’s engagement with small busi- sweeping a statement as ent bias towards La ilaha illallah the CAA, NRC and NPR, nesses, the government cold-shouldering the world’s richest person by Mr Tharoor’s is, to say the Hinduism, an attempt to The slogan had circulat- and by extension, the denying an appointment to meet either Prime Minister Narendra Modi or least, problematic. explain away that bias, ed much before the vio- lynchings, mob violence A HYPOCRITE! commerce minister Piyush Goyal took away the focus of this visit. The nationwide anti- and a ready explication of lence of December 15 on and the Ayodhya case It is really unbecoming of actor The three-day visit, ahead of the announcement of the National CAA protests are sponta- anti-Muslim sentiments. the campus of Jamia verdict, but in its essence, Rajinikanth to have commented Ecommerce Policy, seems aimed at lobbying for ease regulations for for- neous and there is little to Those disapproving of the Millia Islamia and it is a movement for us to that a person with a copy of Mura- eign players. In October, Doug McMillon, CEO of Walmart, which owns no coordination within slogan of La ilaha illallah Aligarh Muslim live in India with dignity, soli can be identified as a DMK Amazon’s competitor Flipkart, urged Mr Modi to ensure certainty and a these. Many have erro- warn of non-Muslim University. It was an to reclaim our right to our man while one with a copy of predictable business climate in India. However, if Mr Modi denying an neously thought that “La alienation from the anti- attempt to mobilise country which is being Tuglak can be termed an 'intellec- appointment is seen as a pointer, the government may act tough against ilaha illallah” is the slo- CAA protests. That may Indian Muslims, and to eroded with the approval tual', at an event to release the 50th foreign ecommerce players. The regulatory stance too has turned hostile gan of the anti-CAA very well be the case. strengthen the bond of of Parliament. anniversary special magazine of to foreign ecommerce firms. Recently, the Competition Commission has protests! Rather, it is an However, how is it any pan-Indian Islam which This movement is the Tamil weekly Tuglak. If the begun a probe into deep discounts offered by Amazon and Flipkart. assertion of identity by different from asking had first been forged in unique for Indian actor was particular about prais- It is, therefore, no surprise that Amazon’s CEO tried a charm offensive those facing state-spon- Muslim voters to consis- the Khilafat and Non- Muslims, as they are ing the 'Tuglak' weekly which has by promising an additional billion dollars of investment to boost small sored terror because of tently support the Cooperation Movement. fighting not for religion- become an organ openly promot- businesses’ sales on its platform. As a sweetener, Mr Bezos predicted their identity. The shared Congress, despite its fla- If the Muslims of India do specific demands. Rather, ing religious fanaticism after exports from Indian small businesses on Amazon’s global platform would faith in La Ilaha illallah grantly anti-Muslim unite and fight for their it is a movement geared Gurumurthy, a hard core RSS ide- touch the $10-billion mark. is what unites the nature, for the greater stake in the country, as towards Muslims being ologue, became Tuglak editor, he While scheduling issues were blamed for Mr Modi refusing an audience, Muslims across the coun- good of the nation? Indians by invoking the considered equal citizens could have stopped short of prais- there was speculation that it was a reaction to the editorial stand by the try, and Mr Tharoor, the On October 17, 1919, the Constitution, as they in the secular democratic ing the weekly without insulting Washington Post, the iconic American newspaper Mr Bezos owns, on most prominent opponent Khilafat Movement, have always done, and republic that is India. the DMK cadre. Would he have da- India’s actions in Kashmir and the controversial Citizenship of this slogan, need not which was started at the also as Muslims, by say- As such, it is all the red to say a word against Mura- (Amendment) Act. If this is the reason, the government should be advised have fear of Islamist ter- call of Indian Muslims, ing “La ilaha illallah”, is more important to ensure soli, when Karunanidhi was alive? caution as it should not forget that the UPA-2 government’s woes started ror. India has been abounded in Islamic sym- that not a good sign? By that identity assertion Till Kalaignar's death, the actor after it locked horns with Vodafone on retrospective taxation. Global immune to Islamist terror bols. Apprehensions were chanting La ilaha does not become the only appeared to be his ardent devotee. investors want a stable policy and any deviation for political reasons from “normal” Indian rife among the British illallah, we are espousing message which we take Tharcius Fernando, Chennai would be counter-productive for the economy. Muslims because of a government and Indians the idea of India where we away from the anti-CAA very strong sense of about the impact of pan- can have an unhyphenat- protests. This slogan and belonging to the country. Islamism on Indian ed existence, as Indians as indeed this movement STRENGTHEN UDAY It is this sense of belong- Muslims. However, as well as Muslims. should not be used to UDAY scheme was launched five ing that has impelled us to Gail Minault points out, The unease with sketch a nation within years ago with a mandate to engi- protest against the CAA the symbolism con- Muslims is hardly a new which Muslims remain neer a sustainable turnaround in and the NRC. tributed to the creation of phenomenon. Writing an insular and isolated the fortunes of beleaguered distri- The slogan of “La ilaha a pan-Indian Islam. It was about how Dr Syed unit. After all, it is a bution segment, but there are no DECCAN CHRONICLE illallah” was raised in a source of pride for Mahmud was bypassed movement to reclaim our indications yet on the ground to show that UDAY had accom- ADITYA SINHA T. VENKATESWARULU Jamia Millia Islamia, Muslims to be Indians, for the first chief minis- identity as Indians as well Editor Printer & Publisher Aligarh Muslim Univer- and this pride was fos- tership of Bihar under as Muslims. plished its objective. That the loss- R. MOHAN sity and in Kerala in soli- tered by the use of Islamic Provincial Autonomy The Muslims of India es of state owned distribution com- Resident Editor darity with those stu- symbols in the Khilafat because of the “commu- have marched with the panies have increased manifold, DECCAN CHRONICLE offices are located at: besides a surge in their dues for Chennai: SP 3 Developed Plot, Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai 600032. Phones: (044) 22254747, dents who were attacked Movement, which nal demands” of Dr tiranga at all of the anti- 22254748 by the state apparatus in merged with the Non- Rajendra Prasad, CAA protests, and we the power purchased, is a case in Coimbatore: 77 Vivekananda Road, Ramnagar, Coimbatore 641009. 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Nellore: Survey No. 527/2, Burranpur Village, Venkatachalam (M), Chemudugunta Panchayat, Nellore. views, articulation, and parallels with the Bhim It is high time that we is contemplating to introduce Phone: (0861) 2348581/ 82, Telefax (0861) 2348580 religion-specific another scheme to address slew of Karimnagar: Survey No. 1341, Vavilalapally Colony, Jagityala Road, Karimnagar 505 001. commitment to the values Army chief, receive similar trust. Phone: (0878 ) 2228908; Telefax (0878) 2220433 of India. For such a tweet Chandrashekhar Azad. It demands. Rather, it issues plaguing the power sector Kochi: No. 3-B, 3rd Floor, DD TRADE TOWER, Kaloor-Kadavanthara Road, Ernakulam, to be coming from him is risible to think that is a movement The writer is a master’s should be considered thoroughly. Ph: 0484-4039408 student of English M. Jeyaram, Sholavandan Kozhikode: No 6/1002 E, First Floor City Mall, Opp. YMCA Kannur Road, Kozhikode - 673 001 was a shock to a commu- Muslim protesters expect geared towards Fax : 0495 4019018 nity already reeling non-Muslims, or even all Muslims being Literature at Aligarh Thiruvananthapuram: St Joseph Press Thycaud post, Cotton Hills, Thiruvananthapuram-14, Ph: 0471- under a multitude of of the Muslims, support- Muslim University. He Mail your letters to 2735105/6/7, Fax: 0471-4016112 Gram: CHRONICLE Postal registration no: No. H/SD-348/2006-08ss considered equal blows across the nation. ing the movements across writes about Muslim [email protected] The disenchantment with India to chant La ilaha citizens in India. culture and history.

f a picture is worth a thousand frequency and ferocity. That scientif- truth was leaked even before fellow so far, however, of any intention to has ever heard of artificial snow words, it was perhaps the indeli- ic conclusion may be considered Australian tourists in Hawaii had step up Australia’s thus far dismal being deployed to impart a festive ble image of a scampering kan- incontrovertible elsewhere but the chance to tweet selfies with a response to the multiple challenges semblance to New Year festivities in Igaroo silhouetted against a wall remains controversial in Australia. grinning prime minister. posed by climate change — not least Moscow, or of temperatures soaring of fire on New Year’s Eve that seared A couple of years ago, in his capacity The vacation had to be cut short, because the conservative coalition into the mid-teens in Norway at the the ongoing Australian bushfire as federal treasurer, Scott Morrison, but when Morrison visited a few of the prime minister represents is pep- height of winter, or of glaciers tragedy on to the international con- infamously carried a black lump into the devastated communities, many pered with denialists and those inter- around Mount Everest making way Mahir Ali sciousness. In fact, the driest conti- parliament, where he declared: of the victims did not hesitate to con- ested chiefly in preserving the privi- for greenery? nent on earth has been alight since “This is coal. Don’t be afraid. Don’t vey their true feelings in chaste leges, profits and export potential of Even nations far more alive than September, the onset of spring in the be scared. It won’t hurt you.” Last Aussie slang. The unfiltered com- the fossil fuel industry. Australia to the threats that lie southern hemisphere calendar. The month, in his capacity as prime min- ments were a reaction not so much to Such attitudes are not restricted to ahead are falling far short of the dras- fires have been spreading ever since. ister, Morrison went on a holiday to his tendency towards climate change Australia, of course. The Paris tic changes required to curb the con- Millions of hectares have been Hawaii with his family, while the denial as to his insouciance, which Agreement may have outlined whol- sequences of global warming. The Australia aflame: reduced to ashes. Bushfires have reg- flames were getting higher in the included avoiding a meeting request- ly inadequate measures for restrict- tipping point was probably reached ularly recurred across Australia for country he is supposed to govern. ed for months by the heads of nation- ing global warming, but it obviously long ago in the relentless march to thousands of years. But the extent Everyone is entitled to a vacation, wide firefighting outfits, who wished doesn’t help when one of the world’s hell on earth. Immediately adopting Doing nothing is and intensity of the past five months’ even if it’s poorly timed, but to leave to alert him to dangers they foresaw. biggest polluters pulls out and its green new deals may help to restrain seemingly unquenchable flames is behind instructions, as Morrison Perhaps chastened by the rebukes chief honcho begins dismantling the fires next time — or, more likely, unprecedented in living memory. apparently did, that his location and dwindling poll numbers, a seem- already inadequate environmental the time after that. But doing next to consent for doom It is, or by now should be, common must not be revealed to the media or ingly contrite Morrison has hinted at constraints. Australia experienced nothing is a green light for doom. knowledge that climate change exac- anyone else goes beyond the pale of changing course and offered to hold a its hottest year on record in 2019, but erbates natural disasters, in terms of the proverbial Aussie “fair go”. The public inquiry. There is no evidence it wasn’t the only such country. Who By arrangement with Dawn Word SPY OCHE BHUT JOLOKIA PAGE The line behind which darts players A super-spicy chili pepper cultivated in Arunachal Oped 9 stand when throwing Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur and Nepal DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI Soleimani: Lavrov-Zarif duet, Trump solo in offing

Indian Parliament, did New Iraqi Prime Minister The deputy head of Hashd al been taken into this calculus. salience gloated the new theo- Delhi become a bonafide “vic- Shaabi, or Iraq’s popular mobi- The consequence is that the rists. Sunni Shia was the new tim of terror”. It was a strange Adil Abdul Mahdi was lization, also in the convoy was assassination-in-a hurry has strategic faultline. The inaugu- triangle: New Delhi and someone defence a key player in a group which united even disparate forces in ration of the Kuala Lampur Saeed Naqvi Islamabad were not on talking secretary Mark Esper has the sanction of Grand Iran, Iraq and the larger West summit of Islamic countries, terms, but both were yoked in consulted half an hour Ayatullah Ali Sistani in Najaf. Asia. It left Europe dazed, and the winning lineup in West the US-led war on terror. It reflects on American caprice Britain embarrassed and the Asia has altered the picture. This was the state of play before the assassina- that in 2005 Sistani was a fig- rest of the world wondering as US and its allies look increas- when in April 2003, George W. tion. ‘I advised him ure of adoration in the US to what would happens next. ingly cornered and isolated. In Bush was pushed into occupy- against the decision’ establishment. In March of The only country to have this Soleimani had a decisive ing Iraq by his neo-con drum Mahdi revealed. He that year Thomas Friedman of expressed support for the role as he did in defeating ISIS he presence in the Raisina dialogue, which beaters sketching designs of could have alerted the New York Times had pro- action is Israel. And Israel is much to the chagrin of those New Delhi of Iran the two foreign ministers “full spectrum dominance” in posed the Nobel Peace Prize for on notice by the leader of who had begun to see terror foreign minister attended. Like Banquo’s ghost, the New American century. It Soleimani’s convoy. Sistani in his column titled “A Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. groups as an asset to be relo- Javad Zarif and Soleimani will be present dur- was all very tempting when the Nobel for Sistani”. Incidentally, New Delhi has cated from one theatre of con- Russian foreign ing the Trump visit, too. It is, Americans invited New Delhi Saddam city. Muqtada Sadr it Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis was been in interaction with Falih flict to the other. minister Sergei therefore, important to under- to be their partners in Iraq was who mobilised Shias to clearly Soleimani’s eyes and al Fayyadh. He arranged for Once the dust settles, Lavrov provides stand the sequence leading to which was now “theirs”. come out in celebration, beat- ears in Iraq. But he was only the Institute of Defence Studies Soleimani in his death will be justT the sort of balance the ghastly murder in Troops were readied but Atal ing Saddam’s photographs the second in command of the and Analysis to be affiliated seen to have achieved some- required to cope with the Baghdad. Behari Vajpayee as the Prime with chappals even as the Hashd. Where was the leader of with al Nahran Centre for thing he strove for: US depar- imminent Donald Trump visi- As the post-Cold War world Minister put his foot down: it marines pulled down the stat- the Hashd, Falih al Fayyadh? Strategic Studies in Baghdad. ture from Iraq. A US field com- tation in the near future. Who transited to the post 9/11 was a foolish idea. ue with cranes. In deference to Last month he had made a sur- Studies by IDSA will surely mander’s letter leaked to knows, he may turn up with Islamophobia, New Delhi, by The real author of the Iraq this act, the occupying power prise visit to Washington to augment the pool South Block Reuters suggests plans for an CEOs of Lockheed Martin and choice and circumstance, held expedition, vice-president Dick renamed Saddam city as Sadr meet defence secretary Esper, will require for the Trump exit strategy. Ofcourse, the General Atomics whose daz- firmly onto American coat Cheney, choreographed his city. the very same person who visit. shooting of Air Ukraine carry- zling Hellfire Missiles and MQ- tails, even putting up with an victory speech on April 9, 2003, Iraqi Prime Minister Adil alerted Prime Minister Mahdi Soleimani caused extreme ing 176 passengers has altered 9 Reaper Drones were insult or two. Pakistan, and not to synchronise with the pulling Abdul Mahdi was someone about the action which killed discomfort to the US, Israel, the mood in Tehran. But the employed in the murder of India, was first incorporated down of Saddam Hussain’s defence secretary Mark Esper Soleimani, Muhandis and a Saudi combine not because he detention of the UK Iran’s Gen. Qasem Soleimani into the global war on terror. statue at Baghdad’s Firdos consulted half an hour before host of others. was plotting military actions. Ambassador, Robert Macaire and deputy head of Hashd al US Ambassador Robert Square. The celebrating Iraqis the assassination. “I advised The information obtained by He was hated because by knit- among the protestors, places a Shaabi or Iraq’s Popular Blackwill was terse: “Yours is did not appear. him against the decision” Esper directly may have ting together powerful proxies question mark on the new Mobilization Front, Abu an old regional quarrel with In desperation, Americans Mahdi revealed. But “half an encouraged him to believe that on the periphery of Israel and demonstrations. Mahdi al-Muhandis. Pakistan; that country is part- contacted Shia clerics like hour” in the circumstances, the anti-American line up in Saudi Arabia he had defeated It is unlikely that reverbera- nering us in our global war on Muqtada Sadr. The cleric was was eternity. He could have Iraq was a divided house. Even an idea: the strategic faultline The writer is a senior tions from Gen. Soleimani’s terror.” Only after the an iconic figure in a Shia ghet- alerted Soleimani’s convoy. Muqtada Sadr’s visit to Riyadh invented by US-Israeli strate- journalist and commentator assassination were not felt at December 13, 2001, attack on to north of Baghdad named Why did he not? some months ago would have gists. Palestinian issue had lost based in New Delhi

Why are thermal power plants still being David Frum encouraged by the state of Telangana? and target. Especially consider- Although the action plan increasing its power generation solar street lights, solar thermal ing how the state of Telangana capacity from 4,422 MW to 10,222 systems, the renewable energy Meghan as ‘Queen has been experiencing extreme has an estimated `312 MW from thermal power plants industry is slowly and gradually Hema weather events in the past few crores for the promotion alone. failing to make it in the market years in the form of climate of affordable alternative The state action plan also lays because of de-incentivisation of Canada’? How Vaishnavi variability, affecting its agricul- energy sources i.e. solar out an estimated budget of from state governments of tural output, and leading to `3,425 crore from 2017-2022 for Telangana and Andhra intense droughts, heatwaves systems, the renewable electricity generation using Pradesh. For instance, the state a joke went viral and floods. In the year 2018, the energy industry is slowly non-conventional sources. of Andhra Pradesh has either state of Telangana lost “1,682 and gradually failing to Despite this, the renewable lowered the energy tariffs for n January 8, I tweeted about the Sussex-Markles: hectares of forest cover as nega- make it in the market transition is suffering, and the renewable energy or has “Obviously the plan is to return to Canada, lead he climate crisis is slat- tive changes in forest cover state is actively gearing towards stopped its generation altogeth- a revolt against British rule, and establish an ed to have a drastic were observed in 410 forest com- because of de-incentivi- investment in coal-based power er because of mounting dues. independent Canadian monarchy.” Two days sation from government While all this is linked to the O effect on the economy. partments.” With increasing generation. With this active later, the New York Times opened a story about the Although the emissions from the upcoming coal-based power generation, slump in economic growth, the Canada-bound Duke and Duchess of Sussex: “Some have T effect, nonetheless, is on energy Government of India and subse- thermal power plants and the state will experience a set- suggested they could become king and queen of Canada.” quently the state governments decreasing forest area in the are produced”; leading among back in its carbon emissions transition. IT WAS A JOKE! Otherwise, I’m going to have Canadian have made policies to address state, how will the state them is the erstwhile combined target, which is yet to be decid- So, the bigger question here is, security surveilling my cottage in Ontario as a node of the problem, either by switch- sequester the forthcoming state of Andhra Pradesh. ed or even outlined in the State why is the state still pursuing Sussexite sedition. Yet maybe I had glimpsed something. ing to renewables or emissions? This month, the state govern- Action Plan documents. Studies thermal power generation A poll has suggested that 60 per cent of Canadians would thwarting fossil fuel power pro- Currently, the state of ment of Telangana exempted TS have found that for every fossil instead of divesting the money support the appointment of Prince Harry as governor duction, we are far from com- Telangana is at an installed Genco from conducting a social fuel burned in India “at least towards renewables? While the general. When the Sussexes announced their intention to bating climate change and capacity of 4,422 MW from impact study for acquiring 234 three quarters of a ton of carbon state of Andhra Pradesh is still spend last Christmas in Canada, Justin Trudeau tweeted: switching to renewables. thermal coal-based power acres for the `20,000-crore 4,000 is released as CO2. It has been drafting its State Action Plan, “You are always welcome here.” He may not have intend- The states of Telangana and generation. MW thermal power plant at found that 0.8-0.9 kg/kWh CO2 is the Telangana documents do not ed “always” to mean “permanently”… but the invitation Andhra Pradesh are home to If you look back, in the year Veerlapalem village in emitted in Indian power mention or suggest that there is in writing. five of the top ten districts 2009, the Government of India Nalgonda’s Damaracharla man- plants”. Moreover, emissions will be divestment from fossil which are expected to face directed all the state govern- dal. Just last month, the from combustion of coal are cur- fuel energy to renewable ener- eventeen years ago, I was part of a presidential severe environmental conse- ments to draft a State Action Singareni Collieries Company rently responsible for over 60 gy. Cutting down of fossil fuels administration that chose war with Iraq. We had quences if the causes of climate Plan on Climate Change Ltd (SCCL) in Telangana got the per cent of the enhanced green- energy production is not even a Swith us a broad international coalition, an authoris- change are not addressed. These (SAPCC), in keeping with the green signal for expanding its house effect. priority, and neither is replace- ing vote in Congress, majority support in public opinion. states are gearing towards a cli- approach laid out by the `5,879.62 crore thermal power Although Telangana’s action ment. We were acting at the zenith of US power, at a time when mate catastrophe and the state National Action Plan on project in the state, from the plan has an estimated `312 Russia had ceased to be a factor in international politics policies aren’t exactly helping. Climate Change (NAPCC). So existing 1,200 MW to 2,000 MW crores for the promotion of The writer is an MPhil and China had only barely become one. And still we The national and state plans far, 28 states, including the state capacity in Mancherial. With affordable alternative energy scholar from IIT Hyderabad failed to leave behind a stable, Western-oriented Iraq. In start off by emphasising on the of Telangana, are known to have these projects, the state will be sources i.e. solar home systems, working on climate activism the weeks since Christmas, President Trump has been current abundance of CO2 in the rolled out state action plans. driving to a similar conflict with Iran. But Trump can atmosphere as compared to the EPTRI (Environment claim none of the advantages behind George W. Bush in year 1750, which now stands at Protection Training and 2003: no support from Congress, massive public opposi- 395.5 ppm. The document stress- Research Institute) prepared tion, no international coalition, and a much less es that greenhouse gases the SAPCC for combined favourable international situation. Unlike the Iraq (GHGs) need to be cut by 40-70 Andhra Pradesh, which was hawks of 2003, today’s Iran hawks deny they intend a war. per cent by 2050, from the level endorsed by the National They say the plan is to squeeze Iran to the point where the in the year 2010, and that fossil Steering Committee on Climate Iranian people arise in democratic revolution. The fuels should be phased out com- Change, Ministry of Iranians themselves will change their regime. But vio- pletely by 2100. Environment, Forest and lent revolutions seldom lead to liberal outcomes, in the As part of its National Action Climate Change (MoEFCC) in Middle East least of all. The peace of the region may Plan for the 11th Plan period, 2013. After the bifurcation of the depend on Trump’s impulsiveness. Last month, he unpre- the Government of India state, a state action plan was dictably picked the harshest measure on a menu of announced a domestic goal of prepared for the state of options, a targeted killing of the terrorist-general, reducing the volume of carbon Telangana in 2015. Qassem Soleimani. Back in June, Trump equally impul- emissions released per unit of The state action plan lays out sively vetoed at the last minute a military response to the the country’s GDP. The govern- the importance of how the state shooting down of a US drone. Who knows what he will do ment has outlined how “low car- is being sourced by a mere 20 next? Certainly not him. bon strategies will particularly per cent of the total energy sup- require enhanced deployment ply from hydropower projects, eanwhile, the peace of my house has been hugely of renewable and clean energy and outlines the importance of improved by the completion of the last revisions technologies, and capital finding “renewable and non- Mof a new book about US politics after Trump (it is finance for improvements in coal based sources”. The state released on 5 May). I spent my first post-book weekend technology”. action plan also outlines how starting a long-awaited project to digitise our family pho- But, when it comes to the use of fossil fuel is the prin- tos. It’s been very moving to scan my way through 30-plus Telangana, no such state emis- cipal contributor to climate years of marriage and the raising of three children. Every sion targets have been set yet. It change. Over “81 per cent of the phase has been different; all have been sweet. Yesterday’s seems rather puzzling to know emissions from fuel production task was the period 1993-95: the double toddler years. how the state’s policies are laid can be attributed to six states Almost every image of my wife’s beautiful face is shaded out without an emission count where coal, oil and natural gas The Roaring Twenties vs the Boring Twenties by an expression of faint worry. Even when smiling on a beach, the worry appears in her eyes. As Danielle now says: ‘The most beautiful sentence in the English language is, “The bathroom is over there.”’

y youngest daughter Beatrice is completing applications to university this fall. The looming depar- Total surrender needed for peace Mture casts gloom upon a house that has grown larger as the resident population has dwindled smaller. formed him. Only then ther, hold me, and responds and comes forward to But at least we’ll have tuition bills for company. A year at was he able to coura- guide me to the uplift us. a prestigious private college such as Stanford and geously resist his truth.” The fifth factor Vibhisana left Lanka with the Princeton costs more than twice as much, after inflation, unrighteous brother, is to throw oneself firm conviction that the Lord as it did in 1980. At a state school like the University of Swami Tejomayananda stand up to him and totally at the mercy of would protect and shelter him. North Carolina or the campuses of the University of forever leave the the Lord: “I am yours His surrender was complete California system, tuition costs as much as 15 times what adverse atmosphere of to do what you wish. I when he saw the Lord and was it did a generation ago. If young Americans seem in a Lanka. Tulsidas am a flute in your totally captivated by His beau- Bolshie mood, it may be because so many of them are sub- advised Meera to forsake her hands; play whatever tune you ty, love and compassion. The ject to Tsarist-style predation and exploitation. persecuting relatives. Dashrat wish to play.” There are no last two steps happened in a he Vaishnava sampra- ducive. Effortlessly give up all repelled his wife and Bharat reservations. Bali not only flash. He fell at the Lord’s feet he next weeks of the US political calendar will be daya describes six factors pleasures, name, fame, power, his mother, when Kaikeyi sent gave his entire kingdom to and an expression of total help- crowded. Trump delivers the 2020 State of the Union Tof surrender. First is to relationships, wealth, objects Sri Ram to the forest. Lord Vamana but also finally lessness burst forth in him. Ton 4 February. If the impeachment trial is still pend- entertain favourable thoughts and attachments if they The third aspect is firm faith gave himself to the Lord. He Instantly, he was blessed with ing, be prepared for an outburst of world-historical insan- of wanting the Lord and be will- obstruct spiritual progress. in the Lord’s protection, at all surrendered both his posses- unswerving devotion. The ity. The British election of 2019 offers an obvious warning ing to do everything conducive Willingly renounce all false times and under all circum- sions, the sense of “my-ness”, Lord’s vision bestows both to Republicans as well as Democrats: unpopular candi- for reaching Him. One must notions and prejudice and stances. He is kind and compas- and his ego, the sense of “I- worldly and spiritual wealth dates tend to lose. Trump is the most unpopular first-term create an appropriate environ- work tirelessly to remove nega- sionate and His love is uncon- ness”. and he was blessed with both. president in the history of polling, the only president ment, attend satsang, follow tive sentiments like anger, jeal- ditional. The devotee knows The last aspect is expressing never to attain 50 per cent approval in any reputable poll. the instructions of the teacher, ousy, pride, hypocrisy. that despite all shortcomings one’s total helplessness. As Swami Tejomayananda is A plurality of Americans want him impeached and cultivate the qualities for gain- Vibhisana had an intense long- he/she is sheltered by the long as we think we can do from Chinmaya Mission. To removed. Trump’s fluke success in the 2016 College star- ing His vision and become a fit- ing for the Lord and continued Lord’s abundant blessings. The things by our own effort, inde- find out more about Chinmaya tled many pundits into doubting the usual rules of poli- ting recipient for His grace. his spiritual practices, but fourth is to actually seek refuge pendent of the Lord, He does Mission and Swamiji, visit tics. Yet as former Romney campaign manager Stuart Secondly, in order to attain remained a passive witness to in the Lord. Pray for protec- not interfere. As soon as we www.chinmayamission.com. Stevens memorably reminds: ‘The casino does not the Lord, one has to reject the the evil around him until tion, blessings and grace: “I seek refuge, surrender and © Central Chinmaya Mission always win. Still, that’s the way to bet.’ unfavourable and the non-con- Hanumanji inspired and trans- have come this far, take me fur- reveal our helplessness, He Trust. By arrangement with the Spectator Court approached PAGE Musharraf approaches Pak SC to suspend death sentence ruling by World 10 special court in high treason case DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

IN BRIEF Lebanon holds 100 Trump impeachment trial set to begin after protests Beirut: Lebanon’s security forces Speaker Pelosi names managers for ‘historic’ trial as House submits Articles to Senate were holding at least 100 anti- Washington, Jan. 16: So sad, so tragic for government protesters Thursday, The US House of our country, that the SIKHS TO BE A lawyers told AFP, after two Representatives passed a actions taken by the presi- nights of demonstrations that resolution and submitted turned violent in Beirut. the articles of impeach- dent to undermine our SEPARATE ETHNIC An unprecedented nationwide ment against Donald national security, to violate movement of protests demand- Trump to the Senate for a his oath of office and to GROUP IN U.S. ing an end to endemic corrup- historic trial to remove jeopardize the security of tion and the wholesale removal him from office, a move our elections, has taken us Washington, Jan. 16: of Lebanon’s political elite broke described by the unfazed to this place. For the first time, Sikhs in out nearly three months ago. President as “another con the US will be counted as With little change in sight, pro- job” by the Opposition — NANCY PELOSI a separate ethnic group in testers, also angered by a finan- Democrats. House Speaker the 2020 census, an organ- cial crisis they blame on The House, controlled by isation of the minority Lebanon’s oligarchs resumed the Democratic Party, on Here we go again, community said describ- their rallies with renewed deter- Wednesday voted to send another Con Job by the ing it as a milestone mination Tuesday after a holiday articles of impeachment Do Nothing Democrats. All moment. Sikh Society of lull. According to documents put against President Trump of this work was supposed San Diego chief Baljeet together by a committee of to the Senate, in a major to be done by the House, Singh said their efforts lawyers defending the protest- development to remove not the Senate! have come to fruition. ers, 101 protesters are currently him from office for his “This has paved the way being detained over the alleged abuse of power — DONALD TRUMP forward nationally not violence. and obstruction of US President only for the Sikh commu- Congress. nity but also for other eth- In a 228-193 vote, which nicities in the US,” he Haftar ready to was mainly on party lines, remarked, before using said. Describing this as a the House appointed seven several ceremonial pens to milestone, the United join Berlin summit impeachment managers sign the articles. Sikhs said that this will be who will argue the While Pelosi’s press con- the first time the minority Democrats’ case for ference was in progress, group will be counted and removing Trump from the Trump weighed in on coded in the decennial US office of the US President. Twitter: “Here we go Census. According to the The managers were again, another Con Job by United Sikhs, an estimate named by House Speaker the Do Nothing US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi signs the resolution to transmit the two articles of impeachment against President of Sikhs living in the US Nancy Pelosi. “We are Democrats. All of this Donald Trump to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday. — AP is 10 lakhs. — PTI here today to cross a very work was supposed to be important threshold in done by the House, not the American history,” Pelosi Senate!” Berlin: Libyan strongman Khalifa said, addressing the House The seven managers, Haftar has agreed to abide by a before the vote. “This is after Pelosi’s signature, Giuliani associate implicates Trump ceasefire and said he was ready what an impeachment is then walked the articles to participate in an international about,” she said earlier, across the Capitol Rotunda Washington, Jan. 16: US president Biden and his sent of Rudy Giuliani or Parnas, a Soviet-born ■ THE WHITE House conference in Berlin on Sunday, announcing the seven- in a procession to the President Donald Trump son, part of the impeach- the president.” American, was arrested violated federal law in Germany’s foreign minister said. member prosecution team Senate, where majority “knew exactly what was ment inquiry that will for- On Tuesday Democrats on charges of campaign Libya’s UN-recognised govern- led by Congressman Adam leader Mitch McConnell going on” with an alleged mally read out charges released newly acquired finance violations in withholding security ment in Tripoli has been under Schiff, chairman of the received the documents. campaign to pressure facing the president in the files that showed Giuliani October as he attempted to assistance to Ukraine, attack since April from Haftar’s Permanent Select Comm- The impeachment process Ukrainian officials to Senate. working with Parnas flee the country, and was which Congress passed forces, with clashes killing more ittee on Intelligence. now moves to the Senate investigate political rival Lev Parnas, an associate early last year to pressure ordered to turn over key less than a year ago, a than 280 civilians and 2,000 “So sad, so tragic for our where Trump’s Joe Biden, an indicted of Trump’s personal Kiev to investigate Biden. documents to House inves- federal watchdog fighters and displacing tens of country, that the actions Republican Party has member in his inner cir- lawyer Rudy Giuliani, told They also showed the tigators. agency said Thursday, thousands. taken by the president to majority of 53-47 in the cle told US media. MSNBC on Wednesday two, working with The president has The leaders of the North African undermine our national 100-member Upper House. Trump has strongly that “President Trump Ukrainian officials, trying denied all wrongdoing, adding that “the state’s warring factions were in security, to violate his The trial — likely to begin denied allegations he knew exactly what was to force out the US ambas- and sought to distance President is not vested Moscow early this week at talks oath of office and to jeop- on January 21 —would be ordered a campaign pres- going on”. sador to the country, himself from Parnas with the power to aimed at finalising a ceasefire ardize the security of our presided by Supreme suring Ukrainian officials “He was aware of all my Marie Yovanovitch, who when he was arrested in ignore or amend any orchestrated by Russia and elections, has taken us to Court Chief Justice John to investigate the business movements. I wouldn’t do was eventually removed October — along with his such duly enacted law”. Turkey. “During my visit to Libya this place,” Pelosi Roberts. — Agencies dealings of former vice- anything without the con- by Trump. business partner. — AFP today, General Haftar made clear: He wants to contribute to the success of the Libyan conference in Berlin and is in principle TALIBAN FOR ready to participate in it. He has agreed to abide by the ongoing Iran: No limit to N-enrichment Gen Bajwa orders ceasefire,” German Foreign BRIEF AFGHAN Minister Heiko Maas tweeted. Tehran, Jan. 16: Iran’s ■ THE IRANIAN also defended the 2015 President Hassan international agreement CEASEFIRE Rouhani on Thursday president also designed to limit Iran’s military reshuffle Iraq: US resumes said that there is “no defended the 2015 nuclear programme Islamabad, Jan. 16: limit” to the country’s international which has been in SHAFQAT ALI | DC The Taliban have offered joint military ops enrichment of uranium agreement designed tatters since Trump uni- ISLAMABAD, JAN. 16 a brief ceasefire to the following its decision to laterally pulled out of it in US, two insurgent Washington: The United States abandon its commitments to limit Iran’s 2018. Pakistan army chief sources said on on Wednesday resumed joint under the 2015 nuclear nuclear programme Rouhani said that with Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa Thursday, a move which military operations with Iraq, deal in response to the which has been in the nuclear deal “we have on Thursday ordered a could allow for the that had been put on pause after killing of its top general proven in practice that it major reshuffle in the resumption of talks the US drone strike that killed a in a US airstrike. tatters since US is possible for us to inter- military. seeking a deal for top Iranian general in Baghdad, In a speech before the President Donald act with the world”. Major General Babar Washington to withdraw the New York Times reported. heads of banks, Rouhani Trump unilaterally “Of course, it’s diffi- Iftikhar replaced Major troops from Two US military officials quoted said the nuclear pro- pulled out of it in cult,” he acknowledged. General Asif Ghafoor as Afghanistan. by the paper said the Pentagon gramme is in a “better sit- “They tell us: there are the new Director General Washington has for 2018. Qamar Javed Bajwa wanted to resume these opera- uation” than it was before Hassan Rouhani people you should not Inter Services Public weeks been calling on tions in order to pick up the the nuclear agreement trust,” he said, referring Relations (ISPR), or the commanded the the militants to reduce fight against the Islamic State with world powers. war,” Rouhani said in a President Donald Trump. to the rhetoric of Iranian chief spokesperson of armoured and infantry violence, posing it as a group. Washington began the He said dialogue with televised speech, adding Rouhani, a moderate on ultra-conservatives about the military. brigades. Apart from condition for resuming pause on January 5 two days the world was “possible” that “for me this is a daily his country’s political Europe and the United Major Gen Ghafoor has teaching at the NDU, the formal negotiations on after the strike that killed Iranian despite high tensions with concern”. spectrum, also defended States. been appointed as the Major General also an agreement that would general Qasem Soleimani at the the United States, and He said that the Iranian the policy of openness to “It’s true,” the Iranian General Officer taught at the Pakistan see US troops begin to Baghdad airport. The same day stressed that Tehran was retaliation — which the world that he has pur- president said, adding Commanding (GOC) of Military Academy. leave the country in of the suspension furious Iraqi working daily “to prevent caused significant materi- sued since his first elec- that “if there were trust- the Pakistan Army's 40th General Ghafoor was return for security guar- lawmakers voted to expel the military confrontation or al damage but no casual- tion in 2013, and which worthy people ... it would Infantry Division in appointed as the DG ISPR antees, after a near two- more than 5,000 US troops that war”. ties according to the US has come under fire be simple and easy” while Okara. in December 2016. He had decade fight. “It is an are in Iraq. It was not immedi- “The government is military — had strength- from Iran’s ultra-conser- also referring to Trump as Major General Babar replaced Lt. General offer for a ceasefire ately clear if anyone in the Iraqi working daily to prevent ened Iranian deterrence vatives. “an unpredictable man”. Iftikhar was commis- Asim Bajwa. either for seven or 10 government had approved the military confrontation or against the “threats” of The Iranian president — AFP sioned in Pakistan Army Major General Asif days,” a senior Taliban resumption of the joint military in 1990. He is a graduate Ghafoor was commis- official who requested operations, the Times reported. of Command and Staff sioned on 9 Sep 1988 in 87 anonymity said, adding College Quetta. Medium Regiment. He is that the offer was made General Iftikhar per- graduate of Command & to US negotiators in formed duties in Staff College Quetta, Doha. “It has been Syrian, Russian jets pound Idlib Pakistan Military Command and Staff finalised and given to SURVEY SAYS Academy and National College Bandung the Americans. It is Beirut, Jan. 16: Dozens Wednesday south of the Defence University. He (Indonesia) and NDU going to pave the way for MILLENNIALS of fighters and civilians city of Maaret al-Numan, was commanding Armed Islamabad. He holds mas- an agreement.” were killed in Syria’s together with heavy bom- Division before assuming ter's degree in strategic A second insurgent Idlib province as the gov- bardment despite the the position of DG-ISPR. studies. source, based in FEAR N-ATTACK ernment pressed a deadly Russian-Turkish truce,” The new DG ISPR is also Army Chief Qamar Pakistan, confirmed Geneva, Jan 16: More than offensive Thursday Rami Abdel Rahman, head a graduate from Royal Javed Bajwa called on that the offer had been half of millennials fear there towards a key town in the of the Syrian Observatory Command and Staff Prime Minister Imran handed to the US. The will be a nuclear attack some- country’s last rebel bas- for Human Rights, said. College Jordan. Khan on Thursday and Taliban have yet to where in the world within the tion. The latest violence, Twenty-two anti-govern- The ISPR said Major discussed the national release an official state- next decade, according to a sur- which followed air strikes ment fighters were killed, General Iftikhar has vast security along with vari- ment, and Washington vey by the Red Cross released that killed 18 civilians on most of them members of experience in command, ous professional affairs has not said whether it on Thursday. Of the 16,000 Wednesday, buried a Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a staff and instruction. He of the Armed Forces. has received any offer respondents, aged between 20 ceasefire deal announced group that includes fight- also served as a brigade The meeting discussed from the insurgents or and 25, from 16 countries, some by Russia and rebel ers from the former Al- major and brigade staff the security situation what its response will 47 percent believed it was more backer Turkey that never Qaeda affiliate in Syria. for an infantry division across the Line of be. The Taliban and the likely than not that there would really took hold. Seventeen government in North Waziristan. Control (LoC) along with US had been negotiating be a third world war in their An aerial view of a destroyed building following a “Clashes broke out troops and allied militia In operation Zarb-e-Azb, other regional security the deal for a year. lifetime. “Millennials appear to regime air strike on Ariha town in Idlib. — AFP around midnight on were also killed. — AFP General Iftikhar also matters. — AFP see cataclysmic war as a real likelihood,” Peter Maurer, president, International Committee of the Red Cross, said in his POWER | SHIFT New premier says priority is to increase citizens’ real incomes foreword. The ICRC took note HK may keep spl of “worrying trends”, such as around 41 percent saying they would support torture of enemy combatants in some cir- status beyond ’47 Duma approves Putin’s pick for PM cumstances. Only 54 per cent had heard of the 1949 Geneva Hong Kong, Jan. 16: months of pro-democra- Moscow, Jan 16: Russian candidacy, although be laying the groundwork the State Council, an advi- Conventions, to protect prison- Hong Kong may be cy protests, which Lam President Vladimir Communist lawmakers to assume a new position sory body, to be expanded ers of war and civilians in war allowed to keep its and Beijing have taken a Putin’s new prime minis- abstained. or remain in a powerful and enshrined in the con- time. Maurer said the results unique freedoms beyond hard line against. The ter promised “real Speaking before his behind-the-scenes role. stitution — adding to con- also revealed “a worrying their 2047 expiry date, its protests are fuelled by changes” on Thursday as approval, Mishustin Mishustin said his prior- jecture that Putin could acceptance of dehumanising leader said Thursday, but fears that the city is los- he was approved by law- called on parliament to ity would be to “increase take it over after 2024 to language or actions towards only if inhabitants ing freedoms under an makers after the Kremlin work with him to urgently citizens’ real incomes” but preserve power. perceived or real enemies that remain loyal to Beijing’s increasingly authoritari- announced sweeping enact Putin’s programme. also said the government Outlining the proposals, is prevailing in an era of fake vision of how the city an Beijing. Lam said the reform plans. “People should already must “restore trust” with which would be the first news, disinformation and should be run. city’s continued freedoms The lower house State now be feeling real the business community significant changes to the polarised viewpoints”. There Chief executive Carrie were contingent on the Duma voted overwhelm- changes for the better,” and drive innovation, country’s constitution was some optimism — 60 per- Lam, a pro-Beijing city not challenging ingly to approve Mikhail Mishustin said. echoing the state-of-the- since it was adopted in cent of Syrians polled believe appointee, made the com- Beijing. Security officials Mishustin as premier, less The naming of a new Mikhail Mishustin nation speech on 1993, Putin said there was the current civil conflict would ments during a fiery ses- had to be called in multi- than 24 hours after premier was one in a Wednesday when Putin a “demand for change” end in the next five years. sion in the city’s legisla- ple times to force out pro- Russia’s political order series of bombshell his longtime prime minis- announced the reforms. among Russians. Syrians also had the highest ture, where she was fre- democracy lawmakers was shaken by Putin’s announcements that ter Dmitry Medvedev In his state of the nation Independent political support among respondents for quently interrupted by who shouted slogans and announcement of consti- rocked Russia on resigned along with the speech, Putin said he analyst Maria Lipman showing humanity in war, with opposition lawmakers — held placards, including tutional reforms and the Wednesday, when Putin cabinet. wanted more authority said the announcements 85 per cent saying captured many of whom were one that portrayed Lam resignation of the govern- said constitutional reform Putin’s current term transferred to parliament indicated that Putin want- combatants should be allowed ejected. Hong Kong has as a vampire with bat ment. would change the coun- ends in 2024 and observers from the president. He ed to “stay on as number to contact relatives. been battered by seven wings. — AFP No MP voted against his try’s balance of power and say the 67-year-old could also called for the power of one”. — AFP Climate action PAGE German Chancellor Angela Merkel sealed a pact that could end electricity generation from World 11 coal in 2035, three years earlier than planned DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

IN BRIEF Pope appoints woman to Vatican UN warns of more extreme weather Vatican City: Pope Francis has appointed a female Italian Pollution needs to be cut into half, 1/3rd of Earth needs to be protected by 2030 to save biodiversity: UN lawyer to a high-ranking role in the Vatican’s diplomatic division, Geneva, Jan. 16: The further cementing his credentials past decade has been the The moment of ■ ECONOMIC as one of the most progressive hottest on record, the UN crisis has come in SHOCKS stemming 45M need urgent Holy Fathers in history. said, warning that the efforts to tackle climate from rising sea lev- Francesca Di Giovanni will serve higher temperatures were change. We have been els pose a long-term as the under-secretary in the expected to fuel numerous putting things off for food aid in S. Africa Section for Relations with extreme weather events in year after year. As I risk to the sovereign States, the arm of the Catholic 2020 and beyond. speak, south east credit ratings of Johannesburg, Jan. 16: school, selling off pre- church that handles the Holy The World Meteoro- dozens of countries Roughly 45 million people cious assets and falling See’s political and diplomatic logical Organisation, Australia is on fire. in southern Africa are in into debt to stave off agri- activity, according to a story which based its findings Why? Because the which have large urgent need of food aid as cultural losses. published in the church’s official on analysis of leading temperatures of the areas at risk of sub- a result of drought, flood- In southern Africa as a media Vatican News. The story international datasets, Earth are mersion, including ing and economic hard- whole - where tempera- notes that Di Giovanni is the first said it also confirmed data increasing. Vietnam, Egypt, ship, the UN said tures are rising twice as woman to hold a position at that released by the European — Thursday. fast as the rest of the level in the secretariat of state, Union’s climate monitor SIR DAVID Suriname and the “This hunger crisis is on world - people are experi- the department which includes last week showing that ATTENBOROUGH, Bahamas, Moody’s a scale we’ve not seen encing the worst drought Naturalist and the Section for Relations with last year was the second Extreme weather throughout 2020 and the coming decades are said on Thursday. before and the evidence in 35 years, according to States. The Roman Catholic hottest on record, after broadcaster expected. shows it’s going to get the UN. Church currently only permits 2016. worse,” World Food Low growth, rising pop- men to be ordained as priests. “The year 2020 has start- expect to see much five-year (2015-2019) and UN Convention on in 2010, at a summit in Programme (WFP) region- ulation, drought and ed out where 2019 left off - extreme weather through- 10-year (2010-2019) periods Biological Diversity. Japan. But almost all of al director Lola Castro floods have combined to SARS-like virus - with high-impact weath- out 2020 and the coming were the highest ever A draft plan was the countries failed to said in a statement. worsen food insecurity in er and climate-related decades, fuelled by record recorded. released by the UN agency meet these goals due to The agency warned that the region. events,” WMO chief Pett- levels of heat-trapping Pollution needs to be cut this week, according to which they are now facing it had secured only $205 “If we don’t receive the spreads to Japan eri Taalas said in a state- greenhouse gases in the into half and approxi- which the wildlife needs unparalleled extinction million of the $489 million necessary funding, we’ll Tokyo: Japan has confirmed a ment, pointing in particu- atmosphere,” he said. mately one-third of the to be saved from mass rates, the imperilled eco- it requires, saying fami- have no choice but to case of a mystery virus that first lar to the devastating The UN agency said that Earth needs to be protect- extinction in the coming systems and the depl- lies across the region were assist fewer of those most emerged in China and is from bushfires in Australia. average global tempera- ed by 2030 to save our bio- decades. Similar targets orable condition of hum- already skipping meals, in need, and with less,” the same family as the deadly “Unfortunately, we tures during both the past diversity according to the were set by the convention an survival. — Agencies taking children out of Castro said. — AFP SARS pathogen, authorities said. It appears to be only the second time the novel coronavirus has been detected outside China, after the World Health Organi- zation confirmed a case in PoK avalanches Thailand. Japan’s health ministry said a man who had visited Wuhan, the apparent epicentre of the outbreak, was hospi- death toll 100 talised on January 10, four days after his return to Japan. He Muzaffarabad, Jan. 16: Shahnaz Bibi, who lost a reported a persistent fever. Tests A 12-year-old girl was son and another daugh- on the patient, who was released found alive on Tuesday ter, the rescue was noth- from hospital, confirmed he was after being buried in ing short of a miracle. infected with the new virus. snow for 18 hours when After being pulled out of “This is the first domestic dis- an avalanche in Pakistan- the snow earlier, Shahnaz covery of a pneumonia case occupied Kashmir engu- said she and her brother, related to the new coronavirus,” lfed the family house, her Irshad Ahmad, had given the ministry said in a statement. mother said on Wedne- up hope of finding sday. Samina alive. Samina Bibi recalled Samina said she could shouting for help as she not sleep while she wait- lay trapped in a room ed to be rescued. Her leg under the snow. was fractured and blood The death toll from was oozing from her Monday’s avalanches in mouth. Pakistan-occupied For the family, the disas- Kashmir’s Neelum Valley, ter happened very fast. rose to 74, according to “We didn’t hear a rum- Pakistani officials, as res- ble,” Shahnaz said, recall- cuers continued to recov- ing the moments before er bodies. the avalanche buried the Samina was one of the three-storey house where lucky ones. “I thought I she and her family were would die there,” she told sheltering with others 20,000 apply to be from a hospital bed in from the village. At least Muzaffarabad, where she 18 of them died. and dozens of other Samina and her family Yusaku’s girlfriend injured people were were huddled round a fire Tokyo: Applications to become receiving treatment after when the avalanche hit. Japanese billionaire Yusaku being airlifted out of the “It happened in the blink Maezawa’s girlfriend have avalanche-hit area. of an eye,” said Shahnaz. topped 20,000, streaming serv- Residents search for avalanche victims in the snow in Neelum Valley, in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir. — AFP For Samina’s mother, — Reuters ice AbemaTV said on Thursday, ahead of its documentary on his search for a “life partner” to take on his moon voyage. Maezawa, who will be the first private passenger on Elon Rain brings relief from Oz bushfires Volcano threat in Musk’s SpaceX, has already gen- erated huge social media buzz Melbourne, Jan. 16: burnt, there were “good with a $9 million giveaway to his Thunderstorms and rain falls” on some blazes early SEARCH DOG followers that secured his posi- across parts of bushfire- Thursday, the local mete- Philippines high tion as Japan’s foremost Twitter devastated eastern Aust- orology bureau reported. celebrity. The show’s application ralia brought some relief “Relief is here for a TAYLOR KOALA’S Tagaytay, Jan. 16: The ■ DISASTER site now includes a “love diag- to the harried people and number of firefighters threat of the Philippines’ RESPONSE teams nostic test” where potential firefighters but posed a working across NSW”" the BEST FRIEND Taal volcano unleashing entrants can test their compati- new challenge of flash state’s Rural Fire Service a potentially catastrophic were on standby in bility with the entrepreneur. floods. said. SydneyJan. 16: Taylor, a eruption remains high, Fiji on Thursday as Multiple-choice questions The raging Australian Change in cooler weath- 4-year-old English authorities warned Thur- the Pacific island include “If you rode in a private bushfires, one of the er conditions that hit the springer spaniel, has sday, saying it was show- nation faced a sec- jet where would you go?” and “If worst in its history, bur- state came with new been among the hard ing dangerous signs des- Maezawa farted in front of you ned over 10 million hect- warnings for flash flood- working rescuers during pite a “lull” in spewing ond cyclone threat what would you say?”. ares of land, destroyed ing and dumping hail- Australia’s bushfire cri- ash. Scores of earth- in less than three over 2,000 homes and stones. sis. When told: “Koala, quakes rattle the region weeks. Gale and pushed many species The rain is offering Find!”, Taylor ventures daily and large fissures heavy rain warnings towards extinction, apart some relief for fire crews Fewer than 200 of Wollemi Pines exist in Australia. out into burnt-out bush- are opening up in the from claiming the lives of battling blazes, but there land, finding injured mar- ground, which means were in place on TWITTER CEO 28 people. are concerns the wet supials by sniffing out the the magma that would northern Rotuma The air quality in weather could cause land- Secret mission saves Australia’s scent of their fur or their fuel a major eruption is island. EATS ONLY 7 Melbourne deteriorated to slides, flash flooding and faeces, also known as still flowing beneath. the “worst in the world” contaminate water, the scat. Authorities are strug- damaged by the fissures on Tuesday due to the Australian Broadcasting ‘dinosaur trees’ from bushfires Each time she finds a gling to keep evacuees, or covered with a thick MEALS A WEEK smoke from the massive Corporation (ABC) Sydney, Jan. 16: A secret World Heritage Blue koala, she is rewarded some 50,000 of whom layer of ash. “Please bushfires. reported. operation by specialist Mountains, northwest of with a tennis ball or culi- fled to shelters after allow us to observe the While 16 fires are still Cool, wet conditions are firefighters has saved the Sydney, an area hit by one nary treat. Taal burst to life on lull period for now. We burning across Austr- good news for firefighters, world’s last stand of of the biggest bushfires Australia’s koala popu- Sunday, away from the are studying what that alia’s Victoria state, thun- who have been battling Wollemi Pines, a pre-his- that have ravaged much of lation has also been danger zone around the means,” Maria Antonia derstorms on Wednesday hundreds of blazes across toric species known as Australia for months. severely affected. In New volcano. Bornas, a scientist from night brought some relief the state since September, “dinosaur trees”, from With flames approach- South Wales state alone, People are trying to get the Philippines' seismol- from the dense smoke it said. A huge volume of Australia’s unprecedent- ing the area late last year, officials estimate 30% of back to homes they left ogy agency said. “A long haze. rain from Wednesday has ed bushfires, officials air tankers dropped fire koala habitat - eucalpyt in a hurry to get a lull could be just a break In the state of New caused a sinkhole in said. Fewer than 200 of retardant in a protective woodlands, may have change of clothes, feed from volcanic activity,” Washington, Jan. 16: Twitter South Wales, where many Melbourne's north-west. the trees exist in the wild, ring around the trees. been lost. livestock and pets and she said. “The danger CEO Jack Dorsey answered of the worst fires have — PTI hidden in a gorge in the — AFP — Reuters check on properties remains.” — AFP many questions from Twitter users during a Q&A session with Wired. While most questions were related to tech sup- POST | BOMBSHELL Prince Harry to host 2021 Rugby League World Cup draw at Buckingham Palace port like the introduction of the edit button, spell-check, etc, an interesting question pertained to Dorsey’s personal lifestyle habits. A user asked the Twitter Meghan appears in public since shock announcement head if a CNBC article based on Dorsey’s eating and wellness Vancouver, Jan. 16: printed a handwritten let- in what goes on for women was to make his first pub- from official royal funding habits was a satire piece. Peter Meghan Markle has made ter it had been shown by in this community, who we lic appearance on and pull out of the palace's Frank’s question highlighted her first public appear- Thomas Markle. all know are marginalised Thursday. media arrangements. three key points, namely, ance since she and Prince The weekly newspaper women who’ve faced many The Duke of Sussex was They made the announc- Dorsey meditates two hours a Harry sensationally decid- has now issued its defence, challenges and barriers to to host the 2021 Rugby ement unilaterally on a day, spends 52 minutes every ed to quit as full-time roy- leading to the possibility their wellbeing,” said Kate League World Cup draw at new website -- without day doing sauna and ice bath, als, visiting two women’s that Meghan and her fat- Gibson, the acting execu- Buckingham Palace — first squaring their wishes and that he eats five meals a charities in Vancouver as her could be called to testi- tive director of the centre. with all eyes on whether with Queen Elizabeth II. week. Dorsey did accept that he British media reported fy against each another. The Vancouver-based he will address the still- Harry was summoned to meditates two hours each day she could face her father A crisis summit at Queen non-profit Justice for Girls unresolved royal crisis. a hastily-arranged family and eats seven meals a week, in court. Elizabeth's Sandringham also said Meghan had Harry, 35, is patron of the meeting on Monday with two more than his previous Harry and Meghan are in country residence on stopped by, tweeting pho- Rugby Football League, his grandmother, father quota of five meals a week. the middle of a storm after Monday was missed by tos on Wednesday of the the sport’s governing body Prince Charles and broth- “Some of it is real. I try to making their bombshell Meghan, who was in duchess during her visit. in England, and his partic- er Prince William to meditate for two hours every announcement last week -- Canada - where she and “Yesterday, The Duchess ipation in the draw was thrash out a way forward. day. I definitely do not do a before they had discussed Harry plan to live part- Prince Harry’s wife Meghan Markle (3rd R) during a visit of Sussex, Meghan Markle planned long before last The final outcome is set sauna and ice bath every day. the plans with Queen time. to Justice for Girls, an NGO, in Vancouver. — AFP visited to discuss climate week's shock announce- to be determined in the And I eat seven meals a week. Elizabeth II. The Duchess of Sussex justice for girls and the ment. coming days. Harry will Just dinner,” he said. In March That followed Meghan on Tuesday visited the women who are fleeing of frontline staff to dis- rights of Indigenous peo- The couple want to step now face the tricky deci- last year, Dorsey had revealed launching legal action Downtown Eastside violence, dealing with cuss the challenges wom- ples,” said the group, back as senior royals, split sion of whether to say any- that he eats one meal a day, and against The Mail on Women’s Centre, a non- homelessness or living in en in the neighbourhood which helps teenage girls their time between Britain thing about the rolling sometimes doesn’t eat at all Sunday’s publishers in profit organization that poverty. Meghan met with are facing. who live in poverty. and Canada, become storm as he hosts the draw during the weekends. October after the tabloid provides support to the director and a handful “She was very interested Britain’s Prince Harry financially independent from 12.00 GMT. — AFP Asia dominates top ranks of the world's most expensive cities Audi, the German luxury car maker, has introduced its flagship Hong Kong crossover SUV in India, the Audi Q8, priced at Rs 1.33 crore Shanghai onward at pan-India showroom. Audi has allotted only 200 Tokyo units of the Q8 model for the Indian market. Rivals for the Audi New York Q8 include the Range Singapore Rover Sport, Porsche Los Angeles Cayenne Coupe and London the BMW X6 which is Taipei also expected to be Zurich launched in 2020. The Monaco Q8 combines the luxu- Bangkok ry quotient of a four- Paris door coupe and an FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI Baer Julius 2020, Report Lifestyle and Wealth Bloomberg/Global Source: SUV.

■ Court dismisses plea to reconsider order CBI books Adani Enterprises, NSE case: quick Sebi lets off Telcos get no NCCF ex-honchos over tender Ravi Narain, BITES Says coal supply bids details leaked to the firm 8 others FC BUREAU open tender to call for bids relief from SC NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 from the competitive bid- New Delhi, Jan. 16: In INDICATORS % ders, citing lack of time as the high profile NSE co- Sensex 41,932.56 0.14 PRAMOD KUMAR ment. “We wonder how The CBI has registered a the deadline was July 7". location case, regulator Nifty 50 12,355.50 0.10 with agency inputs weaker operators like case of corruption, cheat- Six days later, on July 7, Sebi on Thursday exon- NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 Vodafone Idea will make ing and criminal miscon- APGenco informed NCCF, erated nine current and S&P 500* 3,305.09 0.48 this payment, and not that duct against Adani Hyderabad, that the date of former officials of the Dollar (`) 70.91 0.14 The Supreme Court on Bharti Airtel is getting any Enterprises and a former tender has been extended exchange, including ex- Pound Sterling (`) 92.61 0.43 Thursday rejected a plea by respite as the amount has chairman and an ex-man- to July 12, following which MD and CEO Ravi the telecom service to be paid up,” said aging director of the allocation to MBCL was Narain, saying they can- Euro (`) 79.14 0.23 providers (TSPs) for a Gaurang Shah, vice presi- National Cooperative cancelled and an open ten- not be held responsible Gold (10gm)* (`) 40,458▲43 0.10 reconsideration of the dent at Geojit Financial Consumers Federation of der was floated, they said. for any misconduct or court’s 2019 verdict that Services Ltd. “It isn’t easy India Ltd (NCCF) for the June 29, 2010, sources said. Six bidders—Adani Ent- non-compliance in the Brent crude ($/bbl)* 64.79 1.23 directed them to pay Rs to raise tariffs and retain alleged irregularities in The tender enquiry was erprises, MBCL, Vyom 'dark-fibre issue'. IN 10-Yr bond yield 6.598 - 0.394 92.000 crore of past dues customers. It remains to be selecting a company for a forwarded to seven public Trade Links, Swarna Proj- The former officials US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.800 0.671 over sharing of adjusted seen how companies now tender to ferry coal from sector undertakings, ects, Gupta Coal India and who have been absolved gross revenue (AGR). “The industry continues respond to this decision ports to power stations in including NCCF, a coopera- Kyori Oremin—responded from the charges are the * As of 9:30 pm IST The TSPs that had sought to face severe financial because the court has twice Andhra Pradesh. tive under the Union con- to the NCCF tender on July exchange's senior VP a reconsideration of the stress and the outcome spelled it out for them.” According to sources, the sumer affairs ministry. 10, 2010. The bids were tab- (operations) R Nanda- order included Bharti could further erode the via- For two decades, the TSPs CBI has booked Adani The CBI FIR alleged that ulated and sent to the head- kumar, colocation head Airtel, Vodafone Idea and bility of the sector as a had challenged the way Enterprises (Ahmedabad) the NCCF officers "com- quarters by Hyderabad Jagdish Joshi, chief Mandatory gold many now defunct telecom whole,” Bharti said in a authorities calculated their and NCCF;’s former chair- mitted irregularities by unit on the same day. technology officers N companies. statement. AGR, a share of which is man Virender Singh, for- way of manipulation in the Gupta Coal India had Muralidharan and Ravi Dismissing the TSPs’ The internet service paid as licence and spec- mer MD G P Gupta and its selection of the bidders, quoted 11.3 per cent mar- Apte. hallmarking plea, a bench of Justice providers (ISPs) supported trum fees. But in October, senior advisor S.C. Singhal thereby giving undue gin for NCCF while MBCL The current officials of Arun Mishra, Justice S. the TSPs and exhorted the the court upheld the gov- under IPC sections related favour to Adani had kept it at 2.25 per cent, the exchange, who have notified Abdul Nazeer and Justice government to step in ernment’s method while to alleged criminal con- Enterprises Ltd in award but the remaining compa- been exonerated are its M.R.Shah said, “Having immediately to review the rejecting the companies’ spiracy and cheating and of work for supply of nies had not quoted any chief operating officer The government has notified perused the review peti- definition AGR for the sur- plea to exclude revenue provisions of the Preven- imported coal to APGenco margin, it said. (trading) Mayur Sindh- the mandatory hallmarking of tions and the connected vival of the telecom sector. from non-telecommunica- tion of Corruption Act for despite its disqualifica- The CBI alleges that the wad, CTO-projects San- gold jewellery and artefacts, papers with meticulous “It is going to be a disas- tions businesses. allegedly favouring the tion.” NCCF officers did post ten- karson Banerjee, CTO- which will come into force from care, we do not find any jus- ter for the telecom indus- The top court by its Ahmedabad-based compa- The CBI, sources said, der negotiations to Adani operations G Shenoy Jan. 15, 2021. Till then, jewellers tifiable reason to entertain try. Dismissal of review October 24, 2019 verdict ny in the tender and viola- alleged that NCCF’s Enterprises to give it and VP-Regulations have been given time for imple- the review petitions. The petition will lead to a duop- had directed the cash- tion of guidelines. Hyderabad unit, which had undue benefits even Supra-bhat Lala. mentation of this notification. review petitions are, oly situation, which is not strapped TSPs to pay up Rs Andhra Pradesh Power received the APGenco ten- though the company did The order came after As per the notification, only a accordingly, dismissed.” good for consumers. Small 90,000 crore—around 3 per Generation Corporation der enquiry on June 29, not qualify when the ten- an investigation by the registered jewellers will be With this, the court also ISPs will not be able to sur- cent of AGR as spectrum (APGenco) had floated a had forwarded it to its der was opened at the Securities and allowed to sell the hallmarked rejected the plea for an vive unless government charges and 8 per cent as limited tender enquiry for headquarters in Delhi to Hyderabad office of NCCF, Exchange Board of gold articles through certified open court hearing of the steps in to review AGR def- licence fees. the supply of six lakh MTs Singhal. “The same day the sources said. India against several sales outlets. review petitions. inition," Internet Service The court had said that of imported coal from sea head office selected a sin- Adani Enterprises on the former and current NSE Bharti Airtel said it was Providers Association of except for termination fee ports to the Narla Tata Rao gle party, Maharishi same day informed NCCF employees and stock disappointed with the India president Rajesh and roaming charges, all Thermal Power Plant in Brothers Coal Limited that it agrees to pay a min- brokers in the co-loca- Supreme Court’s decision Chharia said. revenues coming to tele- Vijayawada and the Raya- (MBCL), to transport the imum margin charge of tion matter. GMR to sell 49% and it would evaluate filing Analysts were also wor- com service provider laseema Thermal Power coal at a margin of 2.25 per 2.25 per cent to NCCF, the It was alleged that cer- another petition. ried about the develop- would be counted in AGR. Plant (RTPP) in Kadapa on cent, instead of floating an sources said. tain stock brokers were permitted to avail of stake in airport point-to-point (P2P) dark fibre connectivity from biz to Tatas Sampark Infotainment Goyal says Amazon not doing Pvt Ltd, a non-empan- Malaysia Exchanges can launch elled service provider, and the connectivity provided by this compa- talks to India a favour by investing ny conferred a latency options in goods advantage to a few bro- India over FC BUREAU like Amazon may have kers which resulted in NEW DELHI, JAN. 16 put in a billion dollars but SANGEETHA G futures contracts on or substantial increase in if they make a loss of a CHENNAI, JAN. 16 before the day of launch- their turnover during palm curbs A day after visiting billion dollars every year, ing option in those goods. the period from April- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos then jolly well will have to The Sebi has allowed These option contracts August, 2015. GMR Infrastructure said it will MEI MEI CHU announcing $1 billion finance that billion dollar. stock exchanges to launch shall have same quality While granting per- sell 49% stake, instead of KUALA LUMPUR, JAN. 16 investment in India, So, it is not as if they are ‘option in goods’ in their specifications, delivery mission to stock brokers 44.44% in its airport business Union commerce and doing a favour to India commodity derivatives centres, final settlement for establishing P2P con- to Tata Group subsidiary TRIL Malaysia is talking to industry minister Piyush when they invest a billion segment. It has also noti- price methodology etc. as nectivity from its colo- Urban Transport, as the group the Indian government Goyal on Thursday said dollars,” Goyal said. fied the product design in the case of correspon- cation facility with the continues with efforts to trim and trade officials in a the company was not and risk management ding futures contracts. help of Sampark, NSE its debt. GMR has decided to bid to resolve concerns doing any favour to the The minister further framework for the option. "The provision shall has been alleged to have increase the quantum of stake over New Delhi’s new country by the invest- questioned why an e-com- The ‘options in goods’ will pave the way for launch- adopted a discriminato- sale nearly 10 months after palm oil import restric- ment and wondered how merce marketplace be available in addition to ing options contract in ry approach towards a announcing the deal, which also tions, a minister in the giant online retailer model, where a firm pro- ‘options on commodity commodities based on large number of other received green signal from the Kuala Lumpur said on from America could incur comes at a time when the vides an IT platform for futures’, which already underlying spot market stock brokers, by allow- Competition Commission. Thursday amid a trade such ‘big losses’ in India fair trade regulator buyers and sellers, incur- exist in the market. price and settlement ing Sampark's services spat between the coun- but for its predatory pric- Competition Commission ring huge losses, adding “Earlier, the underlying through compulsory to be availed of by a few tries. ing. of India (CCI) opened an that it needs to be looked was the commodity delivery. Option will selected stock brokers. India last week placed The rare snub to a visit- investigation into upon. “They are investing futures. Now the options reduce the risk for the Sebi, in its order, said curbs on imports of ing dignitary by the gov- Amazon’s business prac- money over the last few will be based on the spot hedgers, said Sanjit that none of the nine China: Phase-1 refined palm oil and has ernment follows the vir- tices, which came under years also in warehousing price of the commodity. Prasad, managing direc- officials was occupying informally asked tual boycott of his signa- the radar after several and certain other activi- This will increase clarity, tor and CEO, ICEX, a post of director and/or deal addressed traders to stop import- ture event in New Delhi small traders complained ties, which is welcome ease and make trading adding, “Options in agri- key managerial position ing all kinds of palm oil on Wednesday by govern- about the e-commerce and good. But if they are less uncertain,” said culture commodities can at the exchange during mutual concerns from Malaysia, the ment officials, apparently behemoth’s excessive bringing in money largely Himanshu Gupta, vice prove to be an important the relevant period— world’s second biggest over the ongoing antitrust sway over the market. to finance losses, and president and head of tool to replace minimum April- July 2015. China said the phase-1 trade producer and exporter probe against the compa- Besides Amazon, another those losses are in an e- commodities and curren- support price interven- "Further, the materials deal, signed with the US on of palm oil. n y. major e-com player, commerce marketplace cies research, Globe tion scheme of the gov- available on record also Wednesday, "considerably Reuters reported on The world’s richest per- Walmart-owned Flipkart, model,” Goyal noted. Capital. ernment.” don't indicate even addressed" mutual concerns Wednesday that India son, Bezos is the founder, is also being investigated The minister said India "This is a progressive Exchanges willing to remotely, the role of any and is "good" for both. Liu said could also restrict president and CEO of by the watchdog. allows foreign invest- step towards integration start trading in options of the noticees as an the accord has "considerably imports of petroleum, Amazon. On Wednesday, Bezos ments in e-commerce of spot market with deriv- contracts with goods as employee of NSEIL addressed the concerns" of aluminium ingots, liq- Goyal said investors in announced his plan to marketplace model and in atives market. It will play underlying shall take (National Stock both sides. Liu said China's uefied natural gas, com- e-commerce platforms invest $1 billion into digi- this model buyers and a major role in stimulat- prior approval of Sebi for Exchange of India Ltd) commitments under the deal on puter parts and micro- should not try and look tising India’s small and sellers are free to trade, ing agricultural market- launching such contracts. in facilitating Sampark IPR protection, tech transfer processors from for loopholes in the exist- medium-sized business but the marketplace playing and enable farmer- Exchanges will have to to establish the P2P con- and financial market would be Malaysia. ing framework of laws enterprises, with the com- er cannot own the inven- friendly options prod- make necessary disclo- nectivity at NSEIL," it applied to its other partners. However, India’s com- that regulate business in pany setting an aim of tory, or they cannot deter- ucts," said Narinder sures such as open inter- added. merce minister Piyush the country. “A probe into exporting $10 billion mine prices. “There are Wadhwa, president, est of top 10 largest partic- With regard to the alle- Goyal on Thursday said Amazon’s activities has worth of goods from several established mar- Commodity Participants ipants/group of partici- gations of irregularities New Delhi had not already been initiated and India. ket rules for an e-com- Association of India and pants in “option in goods” in allowing Sampark to imposed any curbs on the company is not doing The country does not merce marketplace busi- CMD, SKI Group. (both long and short) and continue to provide the imports from Malaysia India any favours by allow foreign investment ness in India and I think Only those goods shall the details of their com- services, the regulator Cyient Q3 net and Turkey, and that the investing $1 billion in the beyond 49 per cent in as long as everybody fol- be eligible as underlying bined open interest in said it did not find any government was not country,” Goyal said at multi-brand retailing and lows these rules, we very for these options, on underlying constituents. evidence worthwhile to profit up 17.6%, contemplating any the Raisina Dialogue has not yet approved any much welcome e-com- which the exchange either The exchanges should proceed against these restrictions on the two here. application of overseas merce into India,” he is already trading the also augment their moni- officials. countries. The Goyal’s statements retailers. “The company added. futures contracts or is toring and surveillance —PTI revenue down “This year, we foresee proposing to launch the capacity, Sebi said. IT firm Cyient reported a 17.6% more challenges in some rise in net profit at Rs 108.3 of our major markets,” crore for the December 2019 Teresa Kok, Malaysia’s quarter against Rs 92.1 crore in primary industries min- the year-ago quarter. Revenue ister who is in charge of fell 6.9% to Rs 1,106 crore from palm oil, told an indus- Citi Singapore adjusts pay for women paid less than men Rs 1,187.6 crore. "PAT increased try conference, refer- by about 10 per cent quarter-on- ring to India’s new palm individuals where neces- narrow a persistent pay study by the city-state’s quarter, primarily on account of import rules. WES GOODMAN & sary,” Jorge Osorio, head difference between men Ministry of Manpower higher other income," it said. In Kok said the Indian CHANYAPORN of HR at Citi Singapore, and women, though and the National dollar terms, net profit rose high commissioner was CHANJAROEN said in a statement. advanced economies have University of Singapore. 18.6% to $15.2 mn while revenue one of the people she SINGAPORE, JAN. 16 The move follows a glob- reported progress in Similar analyses in other was lower by 6% at $155.2 mn. was in touch with. al pay review earlier this recent years. Men remain countries showed gaps of It is “important for us Citigroup Inc has adjusted year from Citi, which over-represented in top 8 per cent in the US, 7.7-8.3 to engage with them fur- the pay in Singapore of found on average the com- positions and the highest- per cent in Canada and ther through diplomatic women who earned less pany’s female employees earning careers, and even 18.3 per cent in China, the Printed & Published by channels and stakehold- than their male peers for earn 29 per cent less than though gaps narrow when study showed. T Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan ers,” she said. doing the same work, the the men there, a reflection adjusting for things like The UK, which requires Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed & In some good news for latest action in a growing of how few women occupy job titles, education levels firms with at least 250 Published at Deccan Chronicle Presses Malaysian palm sellers, trend of companies and the most lucrative jobs. and age, men and women workers to report how situated at SP-3 Developed Plot, Bangladesh’s farm min- countries seeking to close In addition to pay adjust- globally on average aren’t much women are paid Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai. ister said his country the gender gap in pay. ments, the bank is acceler- paid equally for equal compared with men, saw Editor: T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI Reg. No. TNENG/2008/25473 Air surcharge Re was open to buying “Since 2018, we made an ating the pace of promo- work. its gender pay gap shrink 1. © All rights reserved. Reproduction in more from Malaysia if it assessment of where we tions for women. A major- Singapore’s gender pay to a record low last year, whole or in part without written per- offers competitive rates. are and what we need to ity of the bank’s full-time launched a program tar- ested in returning to the differential was 6 per cent even as men continued to mission of The Editor, Financial do to close the gender pay hires from universities in geting mothers who workforce. in 2018 when adjusted for out-earn women in the Chronicle ® is prohibited. —Reuters gap and have announced Asia were women, and the stepped back from their Companies and coun- age and education level, vast majority of occupa- base salary adjustments to company in November careers and are now inter- tries have struggled to according to a recent tions. —Bloomberg PAGE Books+ 13 DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

INDIAN TOP 10 BESTSELLERS Asiatic Society’s 2019 Reprints: NON-FICTION Siraj-ud-daulah Looking back at a glorious past at Plassey: A

world consisting of over forgotten. Many of these translations have largely 130,000 volumes, all of have been classified by the been forgotten but need to critical review which are housed within the Asiatic Society under its be resurrected. For they Asiatic Society in Kolkata’s “Bibliotheca Indica” series were not just remarkable Indranil Banerjie Park Street. which is composed of orien- scholars of the past but also For many years, the socie- tal works translated into fascinating individuals in ty had endured neglect and English. their own right. For review a sad decline in academic From this collection, I instance, Henry George Sudeep Chakravarti interest. It is of great signif- picked up a strange little Raverty (1825-1906) came to icance that the society is book called the Qanun-i- India as an infantry officer ndians are fond of Gita, the laws of the now showing signs of Humayuni of Khwandamir, and fought in a number of mentioning their glo- Gentoos, Muslim law and so revival. Most notable is the written originally in campaigns, including the excerpt 2019 HOW MODI WON rious past without on. new 2019 catalogue which Persian in 1535 during the ones in Punjab (1848-49) and 1 INDIA knowing too much The meticulous transla- shows evidence of several reign of the Mughal emper- Swat (1850). During his stay t isn’t as if people offered a structured Rajdeep Sardesai, about it. Mythology tions of Sanskrit, Persian, reprints and lists more than or Humayun. This work was in Peshawar, he learnt haven’t tried justify- defence of ‘the unfortu- Harper Collins, `699 generally is equated Urdu, Bengali, Tibetan and 300 classic works. translated into English by Pushto and later Persian. ing British colonial nate Sirajuddaula, riven withI historical knowledge. other works opened up A large number of rare the Indian scholar Baini This began a long and illus- steps in India, and it by calumny and perenni- trious career in Orientalist I THE EMPEROR WHO Curiously, this mindset was India’s past to the rest of the books long gone out of print Prashad, and printed by the isn’t as if people haven’t ally held by history as NEVER WAS- DARA what the first Europeans world. It also proved that have been reprinted after a society in 1940. The account studies. He translated over a responded. If I may illus- guilty’. This quote from a 2 dozen significant works into SHUKOH IN MUGHAL encountered when they India has heir to an aston- gap of several decades. This provides a fascinating view trate with a few examples translation of Tagore’s started setting up trading, ishing, ancient and highly is a great relief for scholars, of life during Humayun’s English and kept up his pas- here (several more appear critique by the scholar INDIA and later ruling, establish- sophisticated culture, far book lovers and those inter- times and his strange inven- sion all his life after retiring in appropriate contexts Rosinka Chaudhuri con- Supriya Gandhi ments here. from the pagan, supersti- ested in our exceedingly tions including palaces of to his native England. throughout the book). cludes the comment: Bellknap Harvard, `699 The Hindus, the initial tious worldview suggested interesting past. barges of the river Yamuna, Similarly, there is the lit- Take George Bruce ‘Sirajuddaula may not Europeans wrongly by the average Hindu. There is also a handful of his division of his adminis- tle-known Scotsman who Malleson’s The Decisive have been a person of the INDIA’S FOUNDING believed, belonged to an old The Royal Asiatic Society new publications including tration into those looking first translated the Ain-i- Battles of India from 1746 highest character and 3MOMENT pagan race, whose beliefs of Bengal, as it was called “Persian Studies under the after jurisprudence and the- Akbari into English, sign- to 1849, which is consid- greatness, but his bravery Madhav Khosla, and past were nothing more during British times, was Sultans of Bengal”, by ological matters, military ing his works under the ered required reading for and simplicity…and Harvard, `599 than a motley collection of the single most important Gholam Sarwar, which con- and administrative matters name of H. Beveridge. He Plassey. humility…sparkles in the superstitions and folk tales. institution for the identifi- tains several essays on the and, of all things, a ministry was actually a senior Malleson, an officer and low falsehoods this dis- REMNANTS OF A It was only with the coming cation, translation, collec- Persian language, adminis- of mirth. British administrator and civil servant in India who pute has brought to the later judge, Henry SEPARATION of the first Orientalists, tion and annotation of trators, Sufis and sultans in Among other classics writ- transitioned from Comp- fore. That is why Malleson 4 such as the famous William Indian historical treatises. medieval Bengal. ten in Persian would Beveridge (1837-1929). His highlighted it…’ Aanchal Malhotra any to Crown after 1857, Jones who established the More than two centuries of But the catalogue’s real include the Tabakat-i-Nasiri major works include “The offered a paean to the Tagore conceded that HarperCollins, `599 Asiatic Society in Calcutta hard work, patronage and gems are the classical trans- of Aby Umar Usman, the Trial of Maharaja Nanda British treatment of its Maitreya had gone some- in 1784, that the dust began perseverance has produced lations handed down to us Tabaqat-i-Akbari, Ma’Asir-i- Kumar, A Narrative of a colonial subjects in India what overboard in his THE ANARCHY to be cleared over India’s one of the largest reposito- over the decades by scholars Alamgiri, Abu Fazl’s Judicial Murder (1886)”, and as compared to the injus- defence of Siraj. ‘In only 5 William Dalrymple truly remarkable past, its ries of ancient texts in the long departed and usually famous Ain-i-Akbari and he is best known for his tices Russian despots prac- one department has he Bloomsbury, `699 histories, philosophies and the Ma'athir-ul-Umara. superb translation of the tised on their subjects: [Maitreya] broken the body of forgotten scientific Many of these works are Akbarnamah and Ma’athir- Not in this way did the laws of history. Although GANDHI’S HINDUISM: knowledge. today available in reprints ul-Umara. British behave towards the he has not tried to conceal 6THE STRUGGLE AGAINST Men like William Jones by various publishers, but Baini Prashad (1894-1969) races of India. In all their any of the flaws in Siraj’s JINNAH’S ISLAM who came as part of the the society’s catalogue was an unlikely scholar of onward progresses they character, nevertheless, he M.J. Akbar English ruling contingent to reminds us how they came ancient manuscripts that he had the assent and support has taken his side with a Bloomsbury, `699 India where men of the into common circulation. helped translate, rectify and of the populations who shade too much of enthu- Enlightenment and were The Ma’athir-ul-Umara, annotate. He was primarily desired to maintain law siasm. Instead of present- A CHEQUERED intensely curious about which lists the names and a zoologist more interested and order. The decadence of ing his material calmly in the mating habits of fish BRILLIANCE antiquities, new worlds and titles of important Mughal the Mughal rule was pro- with the sole aid of histor- 7 officials during the period and the behaviour of mol- ical witness, he has Jairam Ramesh new discoveries. India ceeding rapidly when Clive proved to be an unparalleled 1556-1780, was originally luscs and the like. He was first landed in Bengal. revealed his own opinion Penguin Viking, `999 treasure trove. The East composed in Persian by the first Indian director of Then the buffalo was to the at the same time with a lit- India Company’s first gover- Nawab Samsam ud Daula the Zoological Survey of man who held the bludg- tle too much impatience GOOD ECONOMICS FOR nor-general, Warren Shah Nawaz Khan and his India. His fertile interests, eon. These pages show and ardour. Fighting a 8HARD TIMES Hastings, was himself an son Abdul Hai Khan. This which included knowledge how, under English rule, rigid and hostile prejudice Abhijit V. Banerjee, Enlightenment man, an voluminous work was of the Persian language, at the buffalo is the property and facing blind and Esther Duflo associate of men like painstakingly translated by some point led him to take of the man, woman or unfair opinion at every Juggernaut, `699 Benjamin Franklin, Joseph the scholar H. Beveridge, up the job of correcting and child who has the legal step, he naturally becomes Priestly and others, and a and then later revised, anno- revising the English transla- right to possess it. We have extremely agitated. But THE NEW WORLD great patron of literate men tated and completed by the tion of the Ma’athir-ul- shed no blood except on the the peace that resides in DISORDER AND THE in Bengal. redoubtable Baini Prashad Umara of Beveridge. battle-field, and the blood truth has been destroyed 9 It was the patronage of in 1941. To peruse the catalogue of we have shed there has in the process, and the INDIAN IMPERATIVE Hastings and the vision of Another classic is the the Asiatic Society therefore been the blood of the reader has occasionally Shashi Tharoor and Jones that led to the cre- Tabakat-i-Nasiri, written by is also to travel back to the oppressors of the people. been a little troubled by Samir Saran, Aleph, `799 ation of the Asiatic Society. the Afghan from Ghori, time of outstanding schol- While it isn’t difficult to the thought, quite without Both men sought out Indian Minhaj-i-Siraj. This hap- ars and an age of rediscov- disprove this astonishing foundation, of 1971: A PEOPLE’S savants, Hindus, Muslims, pens to be the oldest history ery of India’s splendid past. declaration in these rela- favouritism.’ 10HISTORY FROM Buddhists and more, to of Muslim Bengal covering The new catalogue is a tively unblinkered post- But Tagore also had a BANGLADESH, PAKISTAN learn from them about the first century and a half treasure, and one can only colonial times, aided by word in his critique, writ- AND INDIA India’s past and true beliefs. following the conquest of hopes that the Asiatic greater access to informa- ten in 1898, on an Anglo- Anam Zakaria These men commissioned Bengal by Bhakhtiyar Society restores and tion and saturation- Indian paper being livid Penguin Vintage, `699 maulanas and pundits to Uddin Khilji. It was trans- reprints more of its many research, Indian histori- about the book: ‘…as long translate important histori- lated into English by Henry critical works. ans and chroniclers active as we are weak and the cal, religious and juridical George Raverty and pub- in the late-Raj era of the English strong, our criti- works into English. Among lished in 1864. The writer is an independ- twentieth century did so cism of the English is the first books to be trans- The men and women ent commentator on political too. But they, and their col- nearly harmless to them, lated was the Bhagavad The Asiatic Society’s 2019 catalogue behind these priceless and security issues leagues who followed, their criticism of us is both in India and over- deadly. Our newspapers seas, also readily grasp at may only cause a bit of ear a certificate to Siraj that ache to them and their Malleson provides in the memsahibs, but their same work: newspapers spray bullets Whatever may have been into our heart…’ Rail tracks, objects, memory, history his faults, Siraju’d-daulah had neither betrayed his Excerpted from Plassey master nor sold his coun- — The Battle that splinter of a sleeper — its and rather appropriately, I Tagore to Nirad C. try. Nay more, no unbiased Changed the Course of gnarled backbone embed- carried Arup K Chatterjee’s Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan Englishman, sitting in Indian History with per- ded with its own stories. The Great Indian Railways and Ruskin Bond-the aura judgement on the events mission the publisher For decades now, the rail- (Bloomsbury) as my read- of Indian trains and rail- which passed in the inter- FICTION Sudeep Sen way-signal lights here have ing companion. There are way stations have enchant- val between the 9th been permanently red, the several books written on ed many writers and poets. February and the 23rd THE TESTAMENTS green and amber blackened the Indian Railways, but With iconic cinematogra- June [1757], can deny that 1 (BOOKER PRIZE 2019 Polyphony out by dirt, cobweb and The Great Indian Railways phy from The Apu Trilogy, the name of Siraju’d- WINNER) lack of electrical power. is a unique “cultural biog- Aradhana, Sonar Kella, daulah stands higher in Margaret Atwood The single, semaphore, out- raphy”. “Following an Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, the scale of honour than Chatto & Windus, `799 stretched paddle-arm has experimental railway track Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of does the name of Clive. He not moved its limb-position at Chintadripet, in 1835, the Wasseypur, and numerous was the only one of the THE CARPET WEAVER y heart is warm days towards the lake vil- for years, or even wit- battle for India’s first rail- others, Indian cinema has principal actors in that 2 Nemat Sadat with the friends I lage of Besse. It was also nessed the once-regular road was fought bitterly paved the way for mythical tragic drama who did not Penguin Viking, `599 make, / And bet- the point where the electri- drills — a balletic, coordi- between John Chapman’s railroads in the national attempt to deceive! Mter friends I’ll fication abruptly ended, as nated series of shunting Great Indian Peninsular psyche. Nobel laureate for litera- not be knowing, / Yet there if suddenly arrested, with- exercises that engine and Railway and Rowland The Great Indian ture Rabindranath Tagore GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER isn’t a train I wouldn’t take, out any apparent reason. wagons engage in to keep MacDonald Stephenson’s Railways takes us on a his- actually referenced this 3 (BOOKER PRIZE 2019 / No matter where it’s Perhaps this was the divid- movement fit on tracks. East India Railway toric adventure through assertion of Malleson in a WINNER) going.” — Edna St. Vincent ing line of the axes of What does one do with Company, which was many junctions of India’s critique of a book, Bernardine Evaristo Millay power during the Wars –— memory and objects that merged with Dwarkanauth hidden railway legends, for Sirajuddaula, by the histo- Hamish Hamilton, `799 One of my walking routes a sign of technological accompany them? Either Tagore’s Great Western of the first time in a book rian Akshaykumar recently in the rural south advancement stalled due to you leave them where they Bengal Railway. Even at the replete with anecdotes from Maitreya in 1897. Both the HASSAN’S STATE OF of France was a disused political histories or com- are and let them slowly height of the Mutiny of imperial politics, European book and the critique were 4AFFAIRS rail-track that once con- mercial needs of the time. erode and vanish with time; 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar and Indian accounts, the in Bengali. Maitreya’s PLASSEY — THE BATTLE Mirza Athar Baig, nected Carnoules, or if you are nostalgic, col- promised Indian owned battlefronts of the Indian tone is often sarcastic THAT CHANGED THE Translated by Haider Brignoles and Aix-en- he track went lect the relics as talisman. railway tracks for native nationalist movement, when remarking on the Shahbaz, Harper Provence. A tourist train through several So my collection includes a merchants if Badshahi rule Indian cinema, songs, post-Plassey era (‘Ekhon COURSE OF INDIAN wooden sleeper-shard, was restored in Delhi. advertisements, and much amra shobbho hoiachhi’— Perennial, `699 occasionally plies on this Ttwists and turns — its HISTORY route in peak summer sea- perspectival disappear- some crooked nails, rivets From Jules Verne to more, in an ever-expanding we are now civilized— son, otherwise the tracks ance, its languid curvature and other metallurgy — Rudyard Kipling to Mark cultural biography of the when discussing life in THE FAR FIELD By SUDEEP are overgrown with auburn and the relics of abandon- and many photographic Twain to Rabindranath Great Indian Railways.” rural Bengal, for CHAKRAVARTI 5 Amitav Ghosh weeds and wild flowers that ment most interested me. images recording the instance), and his work Madhuri Vijay, Aleph glow golden and ochre in As I walked on the cracked track’s length. These are rup K Chatterjee has was arguably the first that pp.695; `799 4th Estate, `599 the late evening light. wooden sleepers, I noticed the only tactile elements done a stellar job in The track is maintained a variety of nails, rivets, left to preserve the history, Adocumenting railway KISS THE GIRLS AND intermittently by the mili- bolts, fishplates and other albeit a fractional and per- history as an expert sutrad- 6 MAKE THEM CRY tary because of its strategic fasteners that held the rails sonal one. But at least the hâr, mixing both non-fic- Mary Higgins Clark importance — and if it down. They were individu- abandoned steel felt the tion and poetry skills with TRUMP’S IGNORANCE ABOUT Simon & Schuster, `599 weren’t for them, the shrub- ally etched in robust indus- touch of life again, a great effect. This book — bery and adjoining forestry trial fonts with letters and human hand that found it containing wonderful INDIA, CHINA STUMPS MODI GENESIS would have completely cov- numbers — RM, PM, CS, 53, worthwhile to resurrect archival photographs and Robin Cook ered the rail-lines (as it 55, 58, 72 — part of a very their narratives. generous endnotes — FROM PG 1 tion”. The two reporters 7 already has over many complex and intricate ana- When I put my ear to the would simultaneously were part of the team that Pan Macmillan, `650 stretches) — and unless you logue of railway-codes. metal of the rail tracks, I interest an academic and a The book claimed during won a 2018 Pulitzer Prize had prior historical knowl- Many of these metal and can still hear the rumbling researcher, as well as a lay one of his meetings with for its reporting on Trump RAAVANPUTR edge of their existence, you wooden bits had come loose roar of a distant defunct reader and a railway enthu- Modi, Trump told him, and Russia. The book quot- 8MEGHNAD-PRINCE would not even know that over time and with disuse. I train and the shrill tweet of siast. The Great Indian “It's not like you've got ed a Trump aide as saying OF LANKA the lines were there. collected some of these lit- the whistle of a steam Railways is extremely well China on your border.” that Modi probably “left Kevin Missal There is something other- tle remnants — the errant engine that pulls the coach- researched, its stories However, the Washington that meeting and said, Simon & Schuster, `250 worldly about walking on pieces stained my bare wagons. Whether it is in my enthusiastically told, where Post report did not men- 'This is not a serious man. abandoned tracks, some- hands with a strong aroma imagination or reality, it “journeying and jour- tion the year in which I cannot count on this man JAIPUR JOURNALS thing that reminds you of unique only to the locomo- does not matter — what nalling” coalesce elegantly President Trump made as a partner'”. “After the 9 Namita Gokhale your childhood reading of tive world. The metal pos- matters is memory itself. in an informative and fasci- this gaffe. After Trump meeting”, the aide told the Penguin Viking, `499 Enid Blyton’s Famous Five sessed a fresh, pungent, Tom Waits wrote, “Their THE GREAT INDIAN nating journey. bungles his India-China authors, “the Indians took or Secret Seven or similar engine-oil smell typical of memory’s like a train: you RAILWAYS geography, the authors, a step back in their diplo- LOST adventure-mystery stories the steam or diesel engines can see it getting smaller as Sudeep Sen’s both Post reporters, matic relations with the 10James Patterson & of the time. of the past. Even rust and it pulls away.” By ARUP K. [www.sudeepsen.org] new claimed that “Modi's eyes United States.” India and James O. Born, My walking point started time had not been able to CHATTERJEE book as an editor is Modern bulged out in surprise” China have an unresolved at the outer limit of erase this sharp scent. A loser at home on a English Poetry by Younger and his “expression gradu- border dispute that covers Century, `599 Bloomsbury Carnoules village, at times few miles on, I found a dis- the 3,488 km Line of recent train journey pp.376; `479 Indians (Sahitya Akademi). ally shifted, from shock Bahrisons, New Delhi towards Aix, and on other engaged, dagger-shaped Chere, coincidentally and concern to resigna- Actual Control (LAC). In rehab PAGE Injury-plagued Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has undergone a sports hernia surgery in London and will begin his rehabilitation at Cricket 14 the National Cricket Academy (NCA) after returning to the country DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

SHORT TAKES MSD dropped from Ashwin signs up with Yorkshire BCCI contracts list London: Senior India off-spin- New Delhi, Jan. 16: ner Ravichandran Ashwin will India face heat Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s play for Yorkshire during this omission from the central year’s English County Kohli to be back at No.3 as India contracts list was immi- Championship, the club said on nent and he was duly Thursday. Ashwin, 33, who will informed before the play for Delhi Capitals in the out to salvage series in Rajkot national selection commit- upcoming Indian Premier tee finalised the names, a League, will be Yorkshire’s main Rajkot, Jan. 16: Wankhede, could open, top BCCI official said on overseas spinner following Skipper Virat Kohli is and there could be a toss- LIVE on TV Thursday. If the former South African Keshav Maharaj’s set to be back at his reg- up between Rahul and skipper makes it to the T20 stint in 2019. Ashwin is sched- ular number three posi- young Shreyas India vs Australia squad sometime this year, uled to feature in a minimum of tion after the strategy of Iyer at num- on STAR Sports 1, HD he might be re-inducted on MS Dhoni eight County Championship fix- coming two-down ber four. a pro-rata basis even tures for the White Rose next boomeranged in the @ 1:30 PM though chances of that are BCCI Central Contracts season after the conclusion of lung-opener as India remote. for October 2019 to his IPL commitments followed take on a resolute eager to make a strong The 38-year-old double September 2020 by a short period of rest at the Australia in the must- comeback and prove World Cup-winning former BCCI’s request. “I’m thrilled to win second ODI here on their mettle. Bumrah, India captain’s omission Grade A+ (`7 crore): be joining Yorkshire, a club with Friday. since his comeback, from the list was not unex- Virat Kohli, Rohit a wonderful history and a fan- India go into the game has not been as pected as he has not played Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah tastic fan base. I think our team 0-1 down after Australia Iyer effective any international cricket looks extremely talented with registered a 10-wicket had a for over six months now. Grade A (`5 crore): some superb pace bowlers and win in the lung-opener rare failure “Let me clarify that one of Ravichandran Ashwin, exciting batsmen,” Ashwin told at Mumbai, courtesy on Tuesday. the top-most BCCI office- Ravindra Jadeja, the club’s website. — PTI David Warner and Pant’s absence bearers spoke to MS and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Aaron Finch, who hit could pave the way for told him about how they unbeaten hundreds. In a the inclusion of are going about in the cen- Cheteshwar Pujara, bid to field all three in- Karnataka batsman tral contracts. He was Ajinkya Rahane, K L form players — Rohit Manish Pandey, who clearly told that since he Rahul, Shikhar Dhawan, Sharma, Shikhar made optimum use of hasn’t played any game in Mohammed Shami, Dhawan and KL Rahul the opportunity that he as earlier the said period (September Ishant Sharma, Kuldeep — Kohli dropped himself got in the third T20 and he would 2019 till date), he cannot Yadav, Rishabh Pant. down the order but the against Sri Lanka in like to change the be included for the time plan backfired spectacu- Pune. It would also be perception. being,” the official said Grade B (`3 crore): larly as he was unable to interesting to see which It would be inter- on conditions of Wriddhiman Saha, Charulata Patel convert his start. among the experienced esting to see whether anonymity. Umesh Yadav, Opener Dhawan later Kedar Jadhav and rook- India play Delhi Asked who among Yuzvendra Chahal, India’s superfan said he was ready to bat ie Shivam Dube makes speedster Navdeep BCCI president Sourav at number three if asked the squad. Saini or persist with Ganguly, secretary Jay Hardik Pandya, Mayank Charulata dies to by the team manage- Rohit, who had a phe- Shardul Thakur, who Shah and CEO Rahul Agarwal. ment, but since Kohli nomenal 2019, failed in gave away 43 runs in Johri spoke to Dhoni, the Grade C (`1 crore): New Delhi: Charulata Patel, the has been successful at the first game, but given Mumbai. Ravindra official refused to divulge. Kedar Jadhav, Navdeep octogenarian “Superfan” of the that position, the skip- the form he is in, the Jadeja looks a certainty “Let’s not get into Indian cricket team whose exu- per would be more than opener is expected to and so the choice would who spoke. The fact is that Saini, Deepak Chahar, berant support prompted skip- willing to walk in one- bounce back strongly be between chinaman a player of his stature Manish Pandey, Hanuma per Virat Kohli and his deputy down. Kohli batting at here. Ditto for Kohli, Kuldeep Yadav, who con- needs to be told that he is Vihari, Shardul Thakur, Rohit Sharma to seek her bless- three also provides sta- who is just one hundred ceded 55 runs in the first not being awarded a cen- Shreyas Iyer, ings during the World Cup in bility to the middle- short of equalling crick- ODI and Chahal as the tral contract for the time Washington Sundar England, has died due to age- order. et icon Sachin lead spinner. being and it was done in an related ailments. Patel, 87, With a concussed Tendulkar’s record of On the other hand, a appropriate manner,” he (October 2020, after cur- passed away on Monday, a post Rishabh Pant out of the most hundreds on home high on confidence said. rent contracts’ duration on her official Instagram page, second game, Rahul is a soil for India. Australia will be looking However, the official said ends) or even before that, ‘Cricket Daadi’, stated. “With a certainty as he will keep The bowlers led by to seal the issue to regis- that if Dhoni makes it to he can be included on a heavy heart, I inform you that wickets. So, like in the Jasprit Bumrah had a ter back to back series the World T20 team pro-rata basis. — PTI our beautiful grandmother took last game, Rohit and forgettable outing at the wins in India, a rare feat her last breath on January 13th Dhawan, who made a Wankhede and they for any visiting team. at 5:30 pm,” the post read. dogged 74 off 91 balls in would be more than — PTI Dhoni starts training with state “She was such a cute little lady, it is true that small things come In this It's going to be an side, gets new bowling machine in small packages. Our dadi was a pleasure, it was/is really situation, you attacking approach. I New Delhi, Jan. 16: Indian Premier League. exceptional. It was our world. I should be think if you're on the Dropped from BCCI’s cen- This was on a day when want to thank you all for mak- ready to bat at tral contracts list, former BCCI axed him from the ing you feel special last year. back-foot and have a India skipper Mahendra list of centrally contract- She loved the attention.” The any number defensive mindset then Singh Dhoni began prac- ed players. BCCI took to twitter to offer because it is that's when he (Kohli) tising with the “Even we did not know condolences. “#TeamIndia’s Jharkhand Ranji Trophy that he was going to come Superfan Charulata Patel ji will really important to play in can get on top of you. The most squad on Thursday amid and train with us. It was a always remain in our hearts and the team, (considering) the important thing playing in places fresh speculation on his pleasant surprise. He bat- her passion for the game will future. ted for a while and did the keep motivating us.” — PTI competition which we have like India against these guys is to The 38-year-old showed usual training routine,” a now right now. have a little bit of character. up at his home team’s net source close to the Ireland stun — SHREYAS IYER, — ADAM ZAMPA, practice in Ranchi, indi- Jharkhand team manage- cating that he is gearing ment said. Indian batsman Australian leg-spinner Virat Kohli during a training session ahead of the second himself for the upcoming ~— PTI West Indies ODI against Australia in Rajkot on Thursday. — AP St. George’s (Grenada): Ireland rode a career-best 95 from opener Paul Stirling before keeping their nerve in a nail-bit- ing final over to pull off a four- run win over world champions Stokes, Pope give hope A kangaroo challenge for India West Indies in the first of a three-match Twenty20 series don’t blame India for put- push the ball to milk the on Wednesday. The burly ting three openers at the single. Ponting’s Australian Stirling steered Ireland to 208-7 for England in third Test top of the order. This is well team had showed the final in their 20 overs. However, the established strategy frontier could be taken in home side appeared comfort- South Africa, Jan. 16: and were able to lift a Maharaj and an appeal R. Mohan against pace attacks that the middle of the last ably on course for victory — World cricketer of the slow scoring rate after for a catch at slip off put the new ball to very decade. Team India would bringing up their hundred year Ben Stokes sur- England were able to what South Africa Line & Length good use, employing the have to bring its A game inside 10 overs with just two vived three reviews by score only 117 for two in thought was an inside three-quarter length well in against the Aussies to wickets down — until the game South Africa as he and 58 overs before tea. edge off the pad. the white ball game. If assume again that seeming was decided in the last over. Ollie Pope regained the Stokes was unbeaten on South Africa wasted t’s not seldom that teams nent like Australia who can Kohli has a numbers prob- invincibility at home. Needing 15 to win, all-rounder initiative for England on 38 at the close while their last review when from Down Under have put pace to the ball off the lem with batting two drop The Aussies trotting to Josh Little got rid of the dan- the first day of the third Pope made 39 not out. Stokes played no shot Ibeen on top in India. pitch. Dhawan might not be in ODIs, he can switch back victory at a venue where gerous Dwayne Bravo, one of Test at St George's Park Stokes came into the against Vernon They called it the Final a sensation in T20 cricket, to no. 3 and still keep three Team India won a World two wickets to fall in the last on Thursday. match a day after being Philander with the sec- Frontier but that didn’t but he must be given his openers in the top four. Cup is a 2020 wake-up call over. — AFP England were 224 for named player of the year ond new ball but the ball stop the Australians from due in the 50-overs game. That is worth trying in this for Virat Kohli’s men. This Brief scores: Ireland 208/7 four at the end of an by the International was well outside the off striving to conquer it. They There was just a feeling contest against this full- team has no claim to a (Stirling 95, O’Brien 48, Bravo attritional day during Cricket Council and on stump. did so primarily by mental- that Dhawan’s return strength Australian team in birthright in ICC events 2/28, Cottrell 2/37) bt West which South Africa had the back of a man-of-the- Rabada took two wick- ly preparing themselves for would muddle up India’s this series. and hence has to work that Indies 204/7 (Lewis 53, Little briefly claimed the match performance ets for South Africa but the culture shock of India. plans in the white ball A 10-wicket victory is much harder to break the 3/29, Young 2/31. advantage. when England levelled the home team's most There was a time long ago game as he seemed rot have rare, even rarer in a romp jinx. How they play England were 148 for the four-match series by impressive bowler was when Bob Simpson said the become a bit of a laggard. that the chase was made to Australia in the remaining four when Stokes and winning the second Test Maharaj who took one bottle of Bisleri had However, appear as Finch and ODIs, particularly in the do- Pope came together, in in Cape Town by 189 for 55. — AFP changed the fundamentals there Warner displayed the die second encounter in danger of failing to capi- runs. Brief scores: England of an Indian tour. The avail- should extent of their knowledge Rajkot would help deter- BOOKIE CHAWLA talise on batting first on Stokes made a shaky 224/4 (Z. Crawley 44, ability of a bottle of clean be a of batting in India. No mine the future because the a placid pitch on a hot, start, surviving a leg B. Stokes (batting) 38, water had helped the place for more crass swipes at the T20 Worlds is not far away, sunny day. before wicket review on O. Pope (batting) 39; K. Aussie cricketers take on him as an spinners, which display- but there is time to reshape TO BE BROUGHT But the pair added 76 umpire's call against Rabada 2/48) vs South India better, a process that anchoring ing the understanding that the batting strategy. What without being parted left-arm spinner Keshav Africa. began in 1987 with the opener in an if you watch the ball all the we lacked in Mumbai was BACK TO INDIA Reliance Cup. ODI and way you can wait and still the ability to take off after The depth of their mental surviving the new ball, London: Alleged cricket bookie preparation was seen in the which the team had not Sanjeev Chawla is set to be ROHIT, KOHLI BAG ICC AWARDS way the Aussies dismantled managed in the world Cup extradited to India to face ICC Awards 2019 India in Mumbai, a rare semi-final against New charges of match-fixing after he ODI TEAM OF feat of upending India in a Zealand. lost a last-ditch appeal attempt Sir Garfield Sobers THE YEAR first game because teams In sport at least it’s some- Thursday in the UK High Court. Trophy for Best usually take a while accli- times good to know you are At the end of a half-day hearing Rohit Sharma, Shai matising to India. Of not as good as you think Cricketer of the Year: Hope, Virat Kohli (c), at the Royal Courts of Justice in Ben Stokes (England) course, this is the IPL era in you are. Again, sports- London, Lord Justice David Babar Azam, Kane which touring India is no men are defined not by Bean and Justice Clive Lewis Test Cricketer of the Williamson, Ben Stokes, more an exotic adventure what they achieve when concluded that they were ‘satis- Year: Pat Cummins Jos Buttler (wk), and playing cricket on its they are in top form but fied that permission to appeal ndia's swashbuck- (Australia) Mitchell Starc, Trent pitches not experiments in how they bounce back should be refused’. Iling opener Rohit ODI Cricketer of the Boult, Mohammed futility. The Aussies know after hitting the floor. Under the India-UK Extradition Sharma was named Shami, Kuldeep Yadav. Indian conditions well and Serena Williams’ quote Treaty, the UK Home Office is the ICC's '2019 ODI Year: Rohit Sharma they had proved it last time on this is always worth now expected to formally Cricketer of the (India) too when they came from 2- repeating — “I really certify the court order for Year' for his incredi- T20I Performance of TEST TEAM 0 down to win 3-2 in ODIs think a champion is Chawla to be extradited to ble run of form, the Year: Deepak OF THE YEAR last year. defined not by India within 28 days. Under while English all- Chahar (India) The margin of the their wins but by exceptional circumstances, rounder Ben Stokes Mayank Agarwal, Tom Mumbai defeat might have how they can there is a possibility of moving walked away with Emerging Cricketer of Latham, Marnus seemingly shamed Team recover when the UK Supreme Court on a the overall honours. the Year: Marnus Labuschagne, Virat India. But its chances of they fall.” Fallen point of law but barrister Mark Indian skipper Virat Labuschagne Kohli (c), Steve Smith, coming back strongly to Team India has Summers, representing the Kohli was named (Australia) Ben Stokes, BJ Watling even win the series are not from the pedestal it Indian government in the case, captain of both the (wk), Pat Cummins, to be discounted. The one climbed on to again said that as a matter of law that ICC's Test and ODI Associate Cricketer of missing factor was a sense after the World Cup avenue is not possible after teams of the year the Year: Kyle Coetzer Mitchell Starc, Neil of adventure in the batting, fiasco. The West permission has been denied by besides winning the (Scotland) Wagner, Nathan Lyon. which Shikhar Dhawan Indies stretched the High Court. 'Spirit of Cricket' Spirit of Cricket alone was able to bring in, Team India on occa- Chawla’s lawyers had tried to award for his ges- Award: Virat Kohli even if he played a dispro- sion but do not have establish that their client has a ture of trying to portionate number of dot the power to sustain statutory right to appeal stop the fans from David Shepherd balls. Dhawan’s prowess in levels of intensity. The against the District Judge’s booing Steve Smith Trophy for Umpire of the white ball is not to be Australians have it, which order sent to the UK Home during a World Cup the Year: Richard doubted again, particu- is why they are India’s Secretary for a sign off. match. larly against an oppo- biggest challengers. Illingworth. Shikhar Dhawan — Agencies Alex withdraws PAGE Australia’s Number.1 player Alex de Minaur withdraws from the Australian Open owing Games 15 to a “really serious” abdominal tear DECCAN CHRONICLE FRIDAY | 17 JANUARY 2020 | CHENNAI

SHORT TAKES Broady slams Mithali, Jhulan Oz Open officials Awesome Ashleigh get downgraded Melbourne: Britain’s Liam Broady Thursday lashed out at New Delhi, Jan. 16: Australian Open officials for Veteran cricketer Mithali CONTRACT LIST insisting qualifying take place Barty beats Vondrousova to make Adelaide last-4 Raj was on Thursday this week despite toxic smoke demoted to Grade ‘B’ from ■ Grade ‘A’ (` 50 lakh): from bushfires, telling fellow Adelaide, Jan. 16: ‘A’ in the BCCI central con- Harmanpreet Kaur, Smriti players: “We can’t let this go.” Ashleigh Barty won a re- tracts while Radha Yadav Mandhana, Poonam Air quality in Melbourne was match of last year’s SANIA CRUISES and Taniya Bhatia were Yadav. among the worst on the planet French Open final elevated to the middle ■ Grade ‘B’ (` 30 lakh): on Tuesday and described as Thursday as the bracket. Mithali Raj, Jhulan “hazardous” by city authorities Australian reached the INTO HOBART Mithali not being kept in Goswami, Ekta Bisht, following months of blazes that semifinals of the ATP- the ` 50 lakh category was Radha Yadav, Taniya have devastated huge swathes WTA Adelaide SEMIFINAL expected as the 37-year-old Bhatia, Shikha Pandey, of the country. International. retired from T20s in Jemimah Rodrigues, Slovenian Dalila Jakupovic The top seed dominated Hobart, Jan. 16: Indian September last year. Deepti Sharma. was forced to retire while lead- Czech tournament num- tennis ace Sania Mirza’s However, she remains the ■ Grade ‘C’ (` 10 lakh): ing in her match after a dis- ber eight Marketa comeback from maternity ODI captain and plans to Veda Krishnamurthy, tressing coughing fit, saying Vondrousova 6-3, 6-3, to leave continued to be a carry on till the 2021 World Punam Raut, Anuja Patil, she was “really scared that I thrill home fans at success as she entered the Cup. Mansi Joshi, D Hemlatha, would collapse”. Memorial Drive in the women’s doubles semi- T20 skipper Harmanpreet Arundhati Reddy, Other qualifiers also suffered, inaugural edition of the finals of the Hobart Kaur retained his ‘A’ cate- Rajeshwari Gayakwad, with world number 234 Broady event. International with gory contract alongside Pooja Vastrakar, Harleen taking to Twitter to claim “mul- Vondrousova was play- Ukrainian partner Nadiia Smriti Mandhana and Deol, Priya Punia, Shafali tiple” players needed asthma ing her first tournament Kichenok here on Poonam Yadav. Verma. medication, despite never hav- in six months after injur- Thursday. Radha and Taniya, who ing suffered from the ailment ing her left wrist. Sania and Kichenok both had a Grade ‘C’ con- before. Barty advanced to a defeated the American tract worth Rs 10 lakh last made 124 against Australia — AFP Friday semi against duo of Vania King and year, have now entered ‘A’ in Brisbane. The opener American Danielle Christina McHale 6-2, 4-6, Grade ‘B’ (` 30 lakh). will be expected to deliver Collins, a 6-3, 6-1 winner 10-4 in a contest that last- Players getting a central in the upcoming T20 World Qualifer Humbert over Swiss fourth seed ed one hour and 24 min- contract for the first time Cup Down Under. Belinda Bencic. utes. are 15-year-old opener Dropped from the list is beats Shapovalov She won the opening set The fifth-seeded Indo- Shafali Verma and Harleen Mona Meshram, who was with just one break, but Ukrainian combination Deol, who like the teenager in Grade ‘C’ last year and Auckland: World number 13 was made to work in the will now lock horns with is an attacking batter. hasn’t played a single game Denis Shapovalov crashed out second, saving four break the Slovenian-Czech pair Shafali has attracted a lot in recent times. of the ATP Auckland Classic on points to hold on for 5-3 of Tamara Zidansek and of attention ever since The latest contracts run Thursday, beaten in straight before putting away the Marie Bouzkova. making her India debut from October 2019 to sets by French qualifier Ugo win. Zidansek and Bouzkova last year. She recently September 2020. — PTI Humbert. “I feel my game is get- got the better of Canada’s There was only one break in ting better and better,” Sharon Fichman and each set of the evenly contest- Barty said. Ukraine’s Kateryna ed clash with Humbert winning Barty, who also beat Bondarenko 6-3, 3-6, 10-4 Russian GM top seed 7-5, 6-4, clinching the victory Collins on the way to her in their last-eight stage with the Canadian’s sixth dou- Paris trophy is expecting clash. ble fault. a battle in the semi-final. Sania Mirza and Nadiia at Chennai Open chess The 57th-ranked Humbert There was a quarter- Kichenok made a strong advanced to a semifinal show- final shock for two-time start and broke their DC CORRESPONDENT Das, Karthikeyan P and down big-serving American Grand Slam winner opponents twice to take CHENNAI, JAN. 16 Sundararajan Kidambi John Isner. Simona Halep, who heads the lead. They also did among others. Isner survived on his thunder- into the Australian Open well to save four break Russian Grandmaster This prestigious annual ous serve with an impressive 25 with room for improve- points in the opening set. Ponkratov Pavel (Elo 2622) event, organised by Tamil aces to overcome Kyle Edmund ment after being upset 6-4, The second set went on leads the challenge in the Nadu State Chess in the opening quarterfinal. 6-2 by Aryna Sabalenka. serve till the eighth game 12th Chennai Open Association, is scheduled While Edmund had the better before King and McHale International to be held at Hotel Novotel of the fourth seed for much of SABALENKA LEAVES broke Sania and Grandmaster Chess & Ibis OMR from January the match, Isner served his way HALEP GASPING Kichenok to draw level in Tournament 2020 for the 18 to 25. out of trouble when it mattered The reigning Wimbledon the contest. Sakthi Group Dr. N The tournament carries and the Briton was unable to champion and former However, the third set Mahalingam Trophy. total prize money of `15 convert any of his nine break World No.1 dropped serve was a stroll in the park for Following Ponkratov lakh. The winner gets the points. five times and was flat- Sania and her partner Pavel is the second seed glittering Chennai Open — AFP tened in the second set by Kichenok. Martinez Alcantara Jose trophy and a cash award of her opponent from Sania is returning to Eduardo (Peru) and `3 lakh, while the runner- Belarus. WTA circuit after two defending champion up is awarded `2 lakh. Boxer Garcia eyes The 71-minute rout years. Pantsulaia Levan This 10-round Swiss tour- leaves Halep standing 1-1 During her two-year (Georgia). nament offers Pacquioa bout for the season with the break, she battled injury This time around, Grandmaster Norm and first Grand Slam of the breakdowns before taking Chennai Open has attract- International Master New York: Former world wel- year starting on Monday Aryna Sabalenka returns to Simona Halep during their women’s singles quarterfinal a formal break in April ed 267 entries consisting of Norm chances for title terweight champion Danny in Melbourne. match at the Adelaide International tennis tournament in Adelaide on Thursday. 2018 to give birth to her 37 foreign players from 20 aspirants, along with an Garcia is looking at Manny Sabalenka will battle Aryna won the match 6-4, 6-2. — AFP son Izhaan. — PTI countries. The titled play- opportunity to improve Pacquiao and Errol Spence in a Dayana Yastremska on ers number 65 which their International bid to reclaim the throne, pro- Friday for a place in the includes 29 Grandmasters, rating. vided he gets past Ukrainian final after the Ukrainian 25 International Masters For the past eleven years, Ivan Redkach next week. 19-year-old beat a second and three Women the Chennai Open has pro- If Garcia defeats Redkach on top 20 opponent this week Grandmasters. vided ample opportunities January 25 at the Barclays when she put out Croat Indian challenge will be to Indian and especially Centre, he would be in line to Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-3. led by Grandmasters Tamil Nadu youngsters to fight World Boxing Council and Sabalenka, ranked 12th Visakh NR, Venkatesh MR, attain GM, IM, WGM and International Boxing Federation to Halep’s fourth, won her Karthik Venkataraman, WIM Norms. Top 20 games champion Spence (26-0 with 21 first match after two loss- Vishnu Prasanna V, are scheduled to be web- knockouts). es to the Romanian, Saptarshi Roy, Neelotpal cast Live. But Garcia has also been men- coached by Australian tioned as a possible next foe Darren Cahill. for Filipino icon Manny “It feels great, we had a Pacquaio (62-7 with two drawn tough match and she and 39 knockouts), the World played well. I tried to stay Boxing Association champion focused on each point. I at 147 pounds (66.7kg), and the don’t care about the 31-year-old US fighter fancies Grand Slam, I’m just play- his odds against either reigning ing each match. I didn’t champion. care about the past, I “I feel like my style is danger- stayed in the moment, ous for both Spence and that helped me to win,” Pacquiao,” Sabalenka said. — AFP LEFT: Caroline Wozniacki returns during the charity match between Team Wozniacki and Team Williams in the Garcia said. “For Errol, I see Rally for Relief, to support those impacted by bushfires at the Lod Laver Arena. The event raised almost AUD $5M he likes to stand in front of his for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. RIGHT: Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic share a light moment. — ATP opponents and he isn’t the hardest guy to hit. With Manny, I feel like my counter punching and style would also be hard for him.” — AFP Nadal, Serena get easy openers Melbourne, Jan. 16: ● Rafael Nadal will take on Bolivian Hugo last year. World No.1 Rafael Nadal Dellien in the Australian Open first round Djokovic could meet S. Srikrishna will take on Bolivian Greek young gun Stefanos Hugo Dellien in the next week while Serena Williams faces Tsitsipas in the last eight. PRAJNESH’S Australian Open first Anastasia Potapova in her quest for a 24th The ageless Federer, 38, round next week while is up against American Another jr billiards It feels great, we had a Grand Slam title. FINE FORM tough match and she Serena Williams faces Steve Johnson in the third played well. I didn’t Anastasia Potapova in her quarter of the men’s draw. quest for a 24th Grand could be waiting for him ing at Melbourne Park Serena Williams, who is title for Srikrishna CONTINUES care about the Slam title. in the fourth round, the and Wimbledon on the seeking to match past, I stayed in the The Spaniard is attempt- draw revealed Thursday. way to ending the year as Australian Margaret DC CORRESPONDENT breaks of 130 and 126 Melbourne: India’s top-ranked moment, that helped ing to match Roger Defending champion number two, behind only Court’s record 24 major CHENNAI, JAN. 16 points which took the singles player Prajnesh me to win. It’s nice to Federer’s record of 20 Novak Djokovic will start Nadal. singles titles, gets under- game away from Pherwani. Gunneswaran is one win away be in the semifinal. Grand Slam singles titles his bid to lift a record He will start his drive to way against 90th ranked Chennai boy S. Srikrishna “Right now I won the jun- from sealing a place in the — ARYNA on his least favourite sur- eighth Australian Open extend his incredible Russian Potapova with a won the junior billiards ior billiards. Next I will be Australian Open main draw SABALENKA face, having won in title against Jan-Lennard Melbourne run — he potential quarterfinal title in the national cham- playing junior snooker, after progressing to the final after defeating Melbourne just once, back Struff. holds a 68-8 record — against defending championship at PYC Hindu after that senior billiards round of the qualifiers but it Simona Halep in 2009. The Serb had a fine 2019, against a German who pion Naomi Osaka. Gymkhana in Pune on main draw,” said was curtains for compatriot Australian Nick Kyrgios winning five titles includ- crashed at the first hurdle — AFP Thursday. Srikrishna who practices Sumit Nagal here on Thursday. After potting the highest at the Mylapore Club in Prajnesh, ranked 122 in the break of the tournament Chennai. world, had to battle it out for (211 points) against Rayaan “While playing the sen- one hour and 22 minutes to get SRM EMERGE Razmi of Maharashtra on iors we juniors will have past Yannick Hanfmann of Wednesday, Srikrishna got an advantage since we are Germany 1-6 6-2 6-1. the better of Sparsh playing here for the last ten Prajnesh, seeded 17th in the CHAMPIONS Pherwani 989-338 in the days,” added Srikrishna qualifiers, will take on either last round robin match. who trains under his Federico Coria of Argentina or Chennai, Jan. 16: SRM Srikrishna managed father N Suryanarayanan. Ernests Gulbis of Latvia in the IST beat MG University final round. (25-14, 25-21, 25-23) in the The Indian defeated local wild final to emerge winners of card Harry Bourchier 6-2 6-4 in the South India inter-uni- Lathika wins gold the opening round. versity volleyball tourna- Earlier in the day, Nagal suf- ment held at Trivandrum. DC CORRESPONDENT fered a straight-set loss in the Calicut University and CHENNAI, JAN. 16 first round to crash out of the University of Kerala men’s singles qualifiers. secured third and fourth M. Lathika of M.CT.M Nagal, seeded 21st in the places respectively. Chidambaram Chettiyar qualifiers, was shown the door League Results: SRM IST Matriculation Higher by Mohamed Safwat of Egypt bt Kerala University 25- Secondary School, 7-6 (7/2) 6-2 after a one hour 20, 27-25, 20-25, 25-20; Mylapore, has bagged gold and 28 minute contest. SRM IST lost to Calicut medal in silambam event Ramkumar Ramanathan on University 21-25, 25-14, of the 65th School Games Tuesday made an early exit 25-19, 24-26, 12-15; SRM Federation of India cham- along with lone Indian con- IST bt MG University 25- pionship in New Delhi. She tender in women’s singles qual- 14, 25-21, 25-23. has been learning silam- ifier, Anikta Raina. SRM IST, winners of the South India inter-university volleyball tournament held at Trivandrum. They beat MG Best Player: Madhu bam at the age of nine. She — PTI University in the final (25-14, 25-21, 25-23). Sudhana Rao, SRMIST. is coached by Pandian. M. Lathika