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Cong., BJP spar over Vikas Pathak payment to Kohli IMPHAL DEHRADUN Addressing a well-attended Putting to rest allegations election rally here on Sat- being raised by the BJPover urday, Prime Minister Naren- the payment of ₹47.19 lakh dra Modi sought to reassure to Virat Kohli, allegedly from the people of Manipur that funds meant for disaster- there was nothing in the related works, the Naga Peace Accord — signed Uttarakhand Chief Minister said the BJP was by his government with the “unnecessarily” trying to NSCN-IM in 2015 — that “rake up” the issue. would go against the in- NEWS Ī PAGE 9 terests of the State. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mr. Modi’s assurance fol- Ajmer blast verdict lows Chief Minister Okram Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a garland at a rally put of till March 8 Ibobi Singh's statement, ask- in Imphal on Saturday. AP JAIPUR ing why the precise terms of The National Investigation the agreement have been that agreement that can be it, under which there is a Agency (NIA) special court kept “secret” by the Centre. construed as harmful to Ma- blockade and children do here on Saturday deferred till nipuri interests,” he added. not even get milk?” March 8 its judgment in the Dividing people Hiting out at the Ibobi “We will not let the block- 2007 Ajmer dargah blast “This accord happened a Singh government for failing ade continue once our gov- case. An aerial view of devotees taking a holy dip in the sea after the Mahasivaratri Jagaran at Rama Krishna Beach in Visakhapatnam on year-and-a-half back. I told to maintain the supply of es- ernment comes to power in NEWS Ī PAGE 9 Congress leaders what was sential services following the the State,” the Prime Minis- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Saturday. K.R. DEEPAK in it. And today they are di- economic blockade of the ter said. INSIDE viding Manipuri people. Will State by Naga students, Mr. He accused the Congress you accept the lies of the 15- Modi said, “Is it not the State of instigating people as well year corrupt Congress re- government's duty to main- as paying those who organ- gime or the truth of the tain supply of essential com- ise bandhs. Losing wombs to medical malpractice Prime Minister who has modities? As per the Consti- Mr. Modi added that a gov- served you honestly for two- tution, this is the ernment that kept people and-a-half years,” Mr. Modi responsibility of the Manipur hungry to win polls did not Licences of four Karnataka hospitals suspended for performing procedure asked the crowd. government and the police. have the right to rule even “There is not a word in What kind of government is for a minute. KUMAR BURADIKATTI missioner Ujjwal Kumar SATHISH G.T. Ghosh suspended the li- KALABURAGI/HASSAN cences of Noola hospital in An unusually large number November 2016, and the Police are ABVP agents: Kejriwal of hysterectomies per- other three hospitals on formed in Kalaburagi dis- January 10, 2017, for six trict of Karnataka has led to months. CM condemns action against Delhi University students a State government probe, and an order suspending SUNDAY SPECIAL Staff Reporter Police has become an agent said: “I hope the PM will per- the licences of four hospit- New Delhi of the ABVP and the BJP. It is form his duty in an impartial als. Mr. Ghosh wrote to the Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- the duty of the police to pro- way and not work like a BJP During a 30-month Karnataka Medical Council wal on Saturday criticised tect the people of Delhi and worker. Mr. Modi is not the period, the four institu- (KMC) on January 23, 2017, the Delhi Police over its not allow the ABVP and the PM of the BJP only but of all tions are said to have re- recommending disciplin- handling of clashes at Delhi BJP to engage in goondaism people, including me, and moved the uterus of wo- ary action against Dr. Gir- University’s Ramjas college (sic),” the CM told reporters he should perform his duty,” men, often without ish Noola and Dr. Smita and alleged that the force at a press briefing at his offi- Mr. Kejriwal said. medical justification and al- Pinku Bai at her small tin-shed at Belamagi Tanda in Noola, who conducted over has become an “agent for cial residence in Civil Lines. Ramjas College had on legedly for entirely com- Kalaburagi district. ARUN KULKARNI 600 hysterectomies in two Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Holding Prime Minister Wednesday witnessed mercial reasons. years, in alleged violation Parishad (ABVP) and BJP Narendra Modi responsible clashes between members tomy procedures were & Surgical Nursing Home — of law and professional eth- goons”. for the “manner in which of the Left-affiliated AISA Complaints galore done in 30 months in were probed for alleged vi- ics. The KMC has yet to “I strongly condemn the the Delhi Police was allowed and the RSS-backed ABVP. A spate of complaints Kalaburagi district. The olation of various provi- take a call on this. The sur- manner in which the Delhi to behave”, Mr. Kejriwal MORE REPORTS ON Ī PAGE 3 prompted the State govern- four hospitals at the centre sions of the Karnataka geries have left young ment to form an expert of the probe — Girish Noola Private Medical Establish- mothers in Belamagi Lam- committee, headed by A. Surgical & Maternity Hos- ments Act (KPME) 2007 bani tanda of Aland taluk in SECTION 2 Ī 14 PAGES Ramachandra Bairy in Oc- pital, Basava Hospital, L.M and Rules, 2009. Kalaburagi district, in rural tober 2015. Its investigation Care Hospital, and Sudha Based on the inquiry, Karnataka in a daze. SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES found that 2,258 hysterec- Memorial Smruti Maternity Kalaburagi Deputy Com- CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CLASSIFIEDS Ī PAGES 4,6 & 7 PDS beneiciaries can go for ‘give it up’ option Will address bogus billing problem

T. Ramakrishnan rice or irregular supply of Chennai rice, even though officials in A few months after the charge of fair price shops launch of the National Food (FPS) are bound under the Security Act (NFSA) in the NFSA to ensure the provi- State, the public distribu- sion of five kg of rice per tion system (PDS) authorit- month per person. The ies have quietly begun a policy of the State govern- “give it up” drive, covering ment is supply rice free of all the essential commodit- cost. ies that are being provided at heavily subsidised rates. Nothing from ration A housewife, whose card is No announcement with a FPS in Kamara- Though there is no formal japuram, near Tambaram, announcement regarding says, “If you do not visit the drive, any PDS benefi- your shop within the first ciary can give up all the week, you will not get any commodities permanently thing from the ration.” or block them for a specified Pointing out that there is no period by visiting the web- such government rule, T. site (https://tnpds.com). Sadagopan, president of the One can open an online ac- Tamil Nadu Progressive count, by registering with Consumers’ Centre, says the website the details such that if and when rice is avail- as number of ration card, able, FPS officials would or- mobile phone, and Aadhaar. dinarily give greater quant- Aimed at about 1.91-crore ity of boiled rice than raw rice-drawing cards, the rice. “give it up” option covers A beneficiary, attached to not only rice, sugar, toor FPS in Ram Nagar, Velach- dhal, urad dhal and wheat ery, says even though his but also the Pongal gift card has four members, he pack. is being given only 15 kg rice Meanwhile, since Novem- against his quota of 20 kg as ber [when the Act came into per the law. Besides, out of force] there have been com- the 15 kg, the quantity of plaints of non-availability of raw rice is five kg.

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Let out some steam in Gurugram Despite protest, St. Stephen’s irm on autonomous status Breakroom in popular Sector 29 market arms you with a metal rod and allows you to smash things

Staff Reporter Students, DUTA members want to be part of consultations Gurugram Press Trust of India All of us have days when we New Delhi want to smash something Amid protests by students and release the pent-up an- and teachers, the Governing ger and stress. Body of St. Stephen’s Col- Yet, we hold ourselves lege on Saturday decided to back because breaking go ahead with the proposal things in a fit of rage is so- seeking autonomy for the in- cially unacceptable. stitution. And let’s face it, most of “The GB has in-principle us would not want to reduce decided to seek autonom- our own belongings to bits. ous status for the college,” But there is some good said a member of the Gov- news for those who want to erning Body (GB), the su- let off some steam. preme decision-making body. Go on a rampage Contentious issue: DUTA members protest outside A new place, aptly called DU panel formed St. Stephen's College on Saturday. SANDEEP SAXENA Breakroom, is the perfect With the Central govern- place to vent frustration. ment announcing provi- ation (DUTA), meanwhile, three times in a row. The idea is simple. If you are sions for more autonomy for sat on protest as the meeting stressed, just come here and educational institutions was underway, demanding Petition signed break things. across the country in the an- for wider consultations to be “A petition signed by more Located in the basement nual budget, Delhi Univer- held before a conclusion is than 500 students and 30 of Gurugram’s popular Sec- sity had earlier this month arrived at. teachers was presented to tor 29 market, the place formed a committee for its Unless the colleges get the Governing Body by a arms you with a metal rod colleges seeking autonomy university status with teacher representative dur- and allows you to go on a or university status. powers to award degrees, ing its meeting,” the DUTA rampage. Prestigious colleges like granting them more said in a statement. Done up like a living SRCC, St Stephen’s, Ramjas, autonomy will not necessar- “The Governing Body ig- room, Breakroom lets you Hansraj and those run by ily mean that they will not nored the plea and decided smash cups, plates, TV sets, the Delhi Sikh Gurdwara be part of the university. by a majority vote to adopt computer screens, furniture Management Committee In order to be eligible for the proposal for autonomy and refrigerators. But not had approached the univer- autonomous status, the colin-principle and follow the before the staff here ensures sity and HRD officials seek- leges will be required to im- procedure laid down for that the ‘smasher’ gets into a Novel concept: A brainchild of Sanwari Gupta and Akshat ing greater autonomy and part quality education, consultation prior to send- bodysuit and a helmet. Garg (right) Breakroom lets you smash cups, plates, TV sets decision-making powers. maintain the student-faculty ing the application. Four Scores of students and ratio and infrastructure, be- teacher representatives and computer screens. SHANKER CHAKRAVARTY No holds barred members of the Delhi Uni- sides getting A-grade in voted against the resolu- Each session at Breakroom, versity Teachers’ Associ- NAAC accreditation for tion," it added. which became operational in January, lasts between two and 15 minutes. A basic session costs ₹199 ‘Set up waste plant by end of year’ for two minutes, allowing you to attack furniture and refrigerators. All you need to do to L-G Anil Baijal inspects recycling plant in north Delhi’s Burari smash TV sets, utensils and computer screens is shell Staff Reporter out some extra money. New Delhi The brainchild of Sanwari Lieutenant-Governor Anil Gupta and her business Baijal on Saturday inspected partner Akshat Garg, the the “country’s first large- idea came up during their scale” construction and de- trip to the US. molition (C&D) waste recycling plant in north Delhi’s Dallas has an Burari area, where he direc- <> “Dallas has an Anger where we got the idea concept. frustration. ted the North Delhi Muni- Anger Room that is Room that is quite popular from,” Sanwari recalled. Speaking of one such cli- “He was calm when he cipal Corporation to set up a quite popular among office-goers. In In- “But considering we were ent, Sanwari said, “A boy in left,” Sanwari added. But second such plant in Rani among oice-goers. dia, too, stress levels run confident, they agreed,” she his 20s called us and said he what about the risks? Ask Khera by the end of the year. Directions issued: Mr. Baijal was accompanied by the north In India, too, stress high among professionals, said. was angry with life and Akshat if the place promotes Mr. Baijal was accompan- civic body commissioner P. K. Gupta . SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT levels run high which is why we thought of wanted to smash everything violence and he says the ied by the north civic body among Breakroom,” said Akshat. Young clientèle at Breakroom. Honestly, we staff monitors every client. commissioner P. K. Gupta a capacity of 2,000 metric example of a paradigm shift professionals, The duo, who expected to were anxious. Our staff was Till date, he said, they and other senior civic offi- tonnes, has been running from illegal dumping to sci- Some hiccups cater to professionals in the instructed to keep an eye on hadn’t come across anyone cials. The L-G also instructed since 2009 and till date over entific processing and recyc- which is why we But it wasn’t a smooth ride. 30 to 40 years age group, him,” she added. getting violent. officials to use automation in 30 lakh metric tonnes of ling of C&D waste. This is a thought of The duo met with resistance were left surprised. Most of Later, the boy told them “Many studies have manufacturing products C&D waste had been re- major initiative to deal with Breakroom from their parents. “Our their clients are in their that he had gone through a proved that breaking things from recycled C&D waste. cycled and converted into the problem of disposal of parents didn’t know how to early 20s who come here to bad ‘break-up’ and was look- helps release stress. It is Mr. Gupta informed the products such as sand, ag- waste and the resultant air Akshat Garg Founder, Breakroom react. They wondered experience the novel ing to release his anger and therapeutic,” he added. L-G that the plant, which has gregates. “The project is an pollution,” Mr. Baijal said.

Noida Metro enters Limca book Annual fest at DU college IN BRIEF Staff Reporter are many shades of grey in New Delhi between, which is where the NMRC puts 200 U-shaped girders in a month on 30-km line The Journalism Department truth mostly lies. This is the Purusharth Aradhak of Kalindi College organised key message of our fest.” Noida ridor erected 200 U-shaped commercial run of both the its annual fest ‘Mono- After inaugurating the girders in May 2016, making lines will start in 2018. Dead- chrome’ on Wednesday with event, Praveen Kumar said, The Noida Metro Rail Cor- it the most in a month on a line is April 2018, but we are veteran actors Praveen Ku- “In today’s age, the girls poration (NMRC) has single line project. working ahead of the dead- mar and Vanya Joshi present need to be as bold as the entered the Limca book of line and expecting to start as chief guests. boys. It’s really heartening records by putting 200 U- Ahead of deadline operations before time,” Mr to see the energy and confid- shaped girders in a month The speed of the work Raman said. The official said ‘Monochrome’ ence in the girls here. It’s al- BJP’s win is support for on the 30-km metro line. will allow the metro link to that Noida-Kalindi Kunj line Talking to The Hindu,an ways a delight interacting demonetisation: Tiwari Uttar Pradesh principal become operational before is likely to start in July 2017. organiser said, “In the post- with young minds.” New Delhi secretary (industries) and deadline, Mr Raman said. The NMRC has also truth age we live in, the The day-long event saw a BJP’s victories in civic body chairman of the Noida Au- “The Noida-Greater Noida planned to rope in a bank to word ‘monochrome’ be- seven competitions being polls in Maharashtra and thority, Rama Raman, said metro link and City Center provide the ‘one-city-one- comes more relevant. We try held where students from other States is a reflection DMRC engineers working on to Sector 62 trial run to take card’ facility to metro pas- to see everything in terms of different DU colleges of the “positive” response the Noida-Greater Noida cor- place this year, however sengers. black and white when there participated. of people towards demonetisation, the party’s Delhi unit chief Manoj Tiwari said. Delhi BJP Blind people an inspiration: Sampla workers celebrated the party’s performance in the recent polls in Orissa, 15 visually-challenged achievers felicitated at event Chandigarh, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat. PTI

Ayan Sharma New Delhi DelhiWood fair:450 A programme to celebrate exhibitors to participate the achievements of visually- New Delhi impaired people was organ- Over 450 exhibitors from ised at the India Islamic Cul- 30 countries, including tural Centre here on Sat- China, France and urday. The event, Anhad, was Germany, would showcase inaugurated by Vijay Sampla, their products and Minister of State for Social machinery during the Justice and Empowerment. four-day DelhiWood 2017 In his address, Mr. Sampla fair at the India Expo said blind people were an in- Centre, Greater Noida. The spiration. “The recent spec- fair will see companies tacular performances by our exhibiting machines and blind teams in the cricket skill development world cup and other sporting For a cause: An event called Anhad was organised at the India techniques. PTI events are an example,” he Islamic Cultural Centre on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT added. ment to take required steps,” A discussion on ‘World of Police ile status report Ophthalmologists needed he said. Blind: Challenges and Re- on plea against Kejriwal Rakesh Sharma, Managing Later, Mr. Sampla sponsibilities’ was another NEW DELHI Director of India Eye IHRO launched a portal — www- feature. Moderating the dis- (International Human Rights .thinkforblind.com — to cussion, Garimella Sub- The Delhi Police has filed Observer), said, “Of the 37 spread awareness about ramaniam, Deputy Editor its status report before a million blind people in the blindness. Besides perform- with The Hindu, said, “Being court in connection with its world, close to 15 million are ances by Blind School stu- blind is very normal to me or inquiry into a criminal in India. But, we should dents, another highlight was anyone who was born this complaint filed against know that at least 50 per cent the felicitation of 15 visually- way. We have never con- Chief Minister Arvind of these cases could have challenged achievers. The sidered it an obstacle. We Kejriwal, his brother-in-law been cured if there were suf- awardees included legal ex- have the same emotions and and a government official in ficient ophthalmologists in perts, academics, musicians, ambitions like anyone with the alleged PWD scam. The the country.” journalists and sight. I want people to under- report said the inquiry was “I appeal to the govern- sportspersons. stand that.” in progress. PTI CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Ramjas condemns Twins drown in washing machine 3 arrested for murder Three-year-old boys found dead at Rohini residence Minor also apprehended over incident Staff Reporter Staff Reporter the police said no foul play at 12:45 p.m. but didn't find “Nafees and Imran were New Delhi violence on campus New Delhi was suspected yet. her sons inside the house Aslam’s friends but recently Three-year-old twin siblings The victims' father is a and began searching for Four accused, including a had a fallout over the owner- drowned to death after fall- manager at a local branch of them,” said a senior police minor, were apprehended ship of a vehicle in Aslam's Principal to address students, reassure them of their safety ing into a washing machine a prominent private insur- officer. for gunning down one of possession. They gunned at their residence in north- ance company. They also The PCR received a call their friends in a market at him down minutes before Staff Reporter west Delhi's Rohini here on have a 10-year-old brother over the incident around 1:10 north-east Delhi's Jafrabad, they were supposed to meet NEW DELHI Saturday afternoon, the po- who was away at school p.m. The victims' father, who the police said on Saturday. to settle their differences fol- The Ramjas College Staff lice said. when the incident had rushed home from lowing which they spent the Council has unanimously happened. work, found the children in- Recent fallout night at a red light district,” condemned the “acts of viol- ‘No foul play’ side the washing machine According to the police, said a senior police officer. ence and intimidation” of According to the police, their Mother steps out and rushed them to a local Nafees Malik and Imranud- According to the police, teachers and students within mother, Rakhi, had gone to “At 12:39 p.m. the children’s hospital where they were de- din were arrested for pump- Aslam was a cab driver and the college premises on Feb- the neighbourhood general mother left her residence at clared dead. “The father ing 9 bullets into their victim used to run his cab from ruary 21 and 22. store when the children Avantika in Rohini to buy then took them to the Jaipur — Aslam — while Kartar Khajuri to Anand Vihar. The Following a two-hour- seemingly fell into the ma- washing powder leaving be- Golden Hospital and both Singh and the juvenile were vehicle had been hired from long meeting called to dis- chine while playing. Though hind her twin sons Naksh were declared dead there guilty of harbouring the duo a woman who resides at cuss the acts of violence per- investigation was under way, and Neeshu. She came back too,” the officer further said. following the incident. Yamuna Vihar. petrated by the ABVP, the Council on Saturday decided that the College Principal Dr. Rajendra Prasad would address the students on Monday to “reassure them about their safety” in college.

‘Reputation hit’ It also decided that the discipline committee of the college would look into the acts Boiling over: The discipline committee of the college would of violence committed by look into the acts of violence committed on the campus on students on the campus and February 21 and 22. FILE PHOTO recommend disciplinary action against those who per- also suggest steps to restore equate police presence out- petrated them. While some confidence of the students side the college to ensure teachers felt that the reputa- and the staff. safety of students and staff tion of the college has on the college campus. suffered on account of the Increased security During the meeting, the violence, others felt that the It was also decided in the teachers expressed their institution had stood up for meeting that the administra- sentiments during and post principles by organising the tion will ensure entry inside the incidents that happened seminar that triggered the college is strictly through I- just few days after Ramjas attack by the ABVP. The dis- card. The principal will also college completed 100 ciplinary committee would be making a request for ad- years. DCW orders probe into ‘attacks on women’ by policemen at DU Says attacks amount to molestation, wants cops identiied

Press Trust of India police and the matter needs New Delhi to be investigated urgently,” Delhi Commission for Wo- it added. men has ordered an inquiry DCW Chief Swati Maliwal into the alleged attacks on has pointed out in the notice women by policemen dur- that a similar “manhand- ing the violence at Delhi Uni- ling” of female students by versity’s Ramjas college and policemen had taken place has issued a notice to the last year when they were Delhi Police. protesting in connection with the case of missing JNU Large-scale violence student Najeeb Ahmed. Ramjas College on Wednes- Swati Maliwal day had witnessed large- ‘Report in a week’ scale violence between AISA beating and misbehaving The commission has asked and ABVP supporters. with women protesters are the police to respond within The clashes had erupted resonating across Delhi and a week with information on after an invitation was sent India and have severely “number of police officers to JNU students Umar Khalid damaged the reputation of (male and female separ- and Shehla Rashid to ad- Delhi Police. It is a classic ately) deployed in and dress a seminar on ‘Culture case of protectors turning around Ramjas College for of Protests’, which was with- abusers,” said the notice is- the said protest, names and drawn by the college author- sued to Joint CP, central designations of the police ities following opposition range. personnel clearly identifi- from the ABVP. able in the videos and pho- Similar case tographs — who were seen Damaging reputation “Further, the Commission is punching and manhandling “We are of the view that aghast to read newspaper women protesters”. these attacks on women reports alleging that Delhi The Delhi Police had ad- protesters by policemen Police claims it does not mitted “unprofessional” may also amount to mo- know who ordered the lathi- conduct on the part of some lestation and need to be charge on the protesters. of its personnel during the severely punished. The im- Such statements raise suspi- clashes and suspended ages of Delhi Police officers cions about politicisation of three policemen. Man’s nose DELHI TODAY Art: 16th All India Water Colour, Centre Foyer, India Habitat Centre bitten in 14th All India Traditional Art & 9th (IHC), 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Portrait Show at All India Fine Arts & Exhibition: “Whispering Wood” - a Craft Society (AIFACS), 1 Rai Marg, group exhibition of wooden sculp- road rage 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. tures at Visual Arts Gallery, India Photography: ‘Enigma - Street Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. – 7 Press Trust of India stories of Delhi’ - solo photography p.m. New Delhi show by Ahmed Firoz, at Delhi ‘o’ Exhibition: “World of Watercolors” Delhi Foyer, India Habitat Centre - solo art show by Paresh Maity at In a case of road rage, a 29- (IHC), 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Lalit Kala Akademi, Rabindra year-old man was allegedly Exhibition: Metal-O-Art2-asolo Bhavan, Copernicus Marg, Mandi painting exhibition by Maya Karan- House, 11 a.m. – 7 p.m. attacked by three men who jkar at Open Palm Court Gallery, In- Screening: “The masons” Spanish beat him up before one of dia Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m. - 7 ilm screening with English subtitles them bit off part of his p.m. at Instituto Cervantes, 48, Hanuman Exhibition: Group painting exhibi- Road, Connaught Place 4.30 p.m. nose in north Delhi's tion by Dip Narayan Paul, Subrata (Mail your listings for this column Lahori Gate area. Saha, Ranjan Paul at Convention at [email protected] ) The incident happened on February 23 when Aman, a businessman had left his shop near SPM Marg around 9 p.m for his home in his Innova car, said a senior police officer.

Wedding soon Aman is a resident of Surya Vihar in Ghazibad and is in the food colour business. His wedding was set for March 4. In his complaint, he told the police that he took a u- turn towards Novelty Cinema. When he took the turn, three men — Vishal Pandey, Dheeraj and Vipin Mehra — allegedly stopped his vehicle and told him he was driving on the wrong side, said the officer. They started abusing and hitting him and amid all this, Dheeraj bit off the right portion of Aman's nose, he said. They allegedly threatened to kill him if he reported the matter, he added.

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Police custody of CM’s Holi bonanza: 37% Kejriwal moves HC for IAS oicer Jaitley’s inancial details extended hike in minimum wages Nirnimesh Kumar AAP leader seeks to negate claims made by Finance Minister New Delhi Proposal to be sent to Lieutenant-Governor Anil Baijal on Monday A Special court here on Sat- Staff Reporter the Delhi and District The AAP leaders had al- urday extended the police Staff Reporter New Delhi Cricket Association. legedly attacked Mr. Jaitley custody of Principal Secret- New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- The Chief Minister has and his family members in ary of the Chhattisgarh gov- The Delhi government on Sat- wal on Saturday moved the sought statement of all bank various fora, including social ernment, B. L. Agrawal, urday approved a recom- Delhi High Court seeking de- accounts held by Mr Jaitley media, over alleged irregu- and two others for three mendation to revise min- tails of bank accounts, tax directly or through his fam- larities and financial days in connection with a imum wages by around 37% returns and other financial ily members from 1999- bungling in the DDCA. bribery case. for unskilled, semi-skilled and records of Finance Minister 2000 to 2014-15. Mr. Jaitley, in December Besides Mr. Agrawal, skilled workers in the Capital. Arun Jaitley who has filed a last year, had appeared be- Special CBI Judge Virender Calling it a ‘Holi bonanza’ defamation suit against him. Copies of all accounts fore the HC to record his Kumar Goyal also extended for the city’s labourers, Chief Mr. Kejriwal said he He has also demanded cop- evidence in connection with the custody of alleged Minister Arvind Kejriwal said needed the financial details ies of all accounts held the defamation case middleman Bhagwan Singh that the idea is to put money to disapprove Mr. Jaitley’s jointly or otherwise by him Besides the civil suit, a and the officer’s relative directly into the pockets of claim of defamation against and his family members and criminal defamation case is Anand Agarwal after the the poor. him and his party col- also copies of the ledgers. also pending against Mr. probe agency said they leagues. Mr. Jaitley had filed the Kejriwal and others. were required to be con- Timing of announcement The CM has sought the defamation suit in 2015 seek- The DDCA had filed the fronted with another ac- The timing of the announce- Minimum wage of unskilled details to negate the claim ing ₹10 crore in damages defamation suit against him cused arrested in the case. ment assumes significance as workers will be hiked from made by the Finance Minis- from Mr. Kejriwal, Raghav and former cricketer Kirti The fourth accused, the civic poll are scheduled ₹9,724 to ₹13,350 per ter that he did not make any Chadha, Kumar Vishwas, Azad for making alleged de- Syed Burhanuddin, claims for April and the model code month. FILE PHOTO financial gains during his Ashutosh, Sanjay Singh and famatory statements regard- to be posted at the Prime of conduct may come into tenure as the president of Deepak Bajpai. ing its functioning. Minister’s Office. force by the middle of March. the minimum wages. The CM, however, said that ‘Crucial stage of probe’ the approval has “nothing to Second attempt ‘Preference to During the hearing, the do with the elections”. This is the second time the Cong won’t release list CBI claimed that the probe Mr. Kejriwal added that the AAP government has ap- was at a crucial stage and panel’s recommendations proved an increase in the youth, women the chain of hawala trans- will be sent to L-G Anil Baijal minimum wages. till civic polls notiied actions was yet to be estab- on Monday and that he him- Mr. Jung had in September in AAP list’ lished. It was investigating self will meet the L-G and re- last year declared the recom- if any other public servant quest him to give his nod at mendation of a government- Press Trust of India Party going through 10,000 applications was involved in the case. the earliest so that workers appointed committee as “null New Delhi The CBI has alleged that are benefited. and void”, saying the AAP dis- Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- Damini Nath challenging the reservation the 1988-batch IAS officer Mr. Kejriwal said his gov- pensation did not seek his wal on Saturday said that New Delhi of wards for women and wanted to “settle” an ongo- ernment has cleared all re- prior approval to form the the Aam Aadmi Party Congress candidates for the Scheduled Caste candidates. ing CBI probe against him. commendations of a 15-mem- panel. The Delhi government (AAP) has made conscious municipal elections in April The next hearing is on March It further alleges that the ber committee set up by had recommended a 50% efforts to give preference to will only be named after the 8, said Mr. Maken. officer is facing investiga- former Lieutenant-Governor hike in minimum wages at the women and youth for the schedule for the polls is noti- tion in two cases registered Najeeb Jung last year to revise time. upcoming municipal polls. fied, Delhi Pradesh Congress New method in 2010 when he was the “We think the AAP is of Committee president Ajay The Congress has adopted a Health Secretary in the youth. There are conscious Maken said on Saturday. different method to select its State government. He has efforts (by us) that women The party is in the process candidates this time around. been chargesheeted in Delhi budget session likely from March 6 should get more promin- of going through over 10,000 The party has invited applic- one, while the probe is go- ence in politics,” Mr. Kejri- applications received from ations from potential candid- ing on in the other. wal said. “In unreserved those hopeful of a ticket, ates and given workers a say The officer had ap- Signiicant allocations expected for education and health sectors seats, we preferred candid- said Mr. Maken, adding that in the selection. Each applic- proached Mr. Singh, a res- ature to women where we they would not jump the gun ant has to name five workers ident of Noida, who took Staff Reporter — much like last year. take big chunk of the AAP mental works in their respect- had a choice between male when it came to announcing in their area, who will be him to Mr. Burhanuddin to New Delhi The session will com- government’s financial alloca- ive areas on a priority basis. and female aspirants,” he its candidates. asked about their candid- get a graft case “settled”. Chief Minister Arvind Kejri- mence with a speech by Lieu- tions for the following fiscal Asked about the Opposi- added. The Aam Aadmi Party ature. Mr. Burhanuddin, who wal said on Saturday that his tenant-Governor Anil Baijal. with sources claiming that as tion’s allegation that his gov- The AAP had declared (AAP) had on Friday an- Mr. Maken said that while has many aliases, claimed government will call a five- The budget is expected to be much as 25% of the total ernment may influence on Friday its first list of 109 nounced the names of its the Congress was becoming that he was working in the day budget session of the presented on March 7 or 8. budget was likely to be dedic- voters in the municipal polls candidates for the upcom- candidates for 109 out of the “more democratic”, the AAP PMO and would help him Delhi Assembly beginning The decision was taken at a ated to education. scheduled in April by present- ing polls. Of these, 49 are total 272 wards in Delhi. had become “undemo- settle the case in his favour. March 6. Cabinet meeting chaired by The AAP dispensation is ing its budget, Mr. Kejriwal women candidates, includ- Mr. Maken, however, said cratic”: “The AAP had said Mr. Burhanuddin had al- Thisyear’sbudgetisex- Mr. Kejriwal at his official res- also likely to provide “suffi- said that the State Election ing three seats, which were it would be “premature” to they would ask the people, legedly demanded ₹1.5 pected to be underlined by idence in north Delhi’s Civil cient funds” to mohalla Commission had so far not is- not reserved for women. announce the candidates as their workers for inputs in crore for his services, the significant allocations to the Lines. The education and sabhas where local residents sued any notification on the The list also has 64 the Delhi High Court was yet selecting candidates. But CBI has said. education and health sectors health sectors are likely to can have a say in develop- civic polls. young faces. to give its judgment in a case that is not happening.”

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 6 NORTH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Rajasthan appoints panel Jat issue, SYL to stir up on 7th Pay Commission Haryana budget session Opposition wants quotas for Jats, jailed leaders freed ‘Not a single drop of The three-member committee is headed by ex-Chief Secretar D. C. Samanty Press Trust of India gress have come out in sup- water to be shared’ Special Correspondent announced establishment of order of ₹10,000 crore if all Chandigarh port of the Jats this time and AMRITSAR Jaipur the committee in the last recommendations are The Haryana Assembly’s have asked the government Taking a defiant stand over the SYL canal issue, Deputy The Rajasthan government year's Budget. Since the pro- enforced. budget session, starting here to meet their demands. Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh has appointed a three-mem- cess for giving pay hike to Though the State govern- on Monday, is likely to be Badal on Saturday said not ber committee, headed by the government employees ment had given its consent stormy with the Opposition SYL issue even a single drop of water former Chief Secretary D.C. has begun, Chief Minister to the Centre for giving the set to train its guns on the The Opposition is also set to would be shared with any of Samant, to study and imple- Vasundhara Raje may an- Seventh Pay Commission’s BJP government over various raise the SYL canal issue. On the neighbouring States of ment the recommendations nounce implementation of benefit to the officers of all issues, including the ongoing Thursday, some INLD lead- Punjab. of the Seventh Pay Commis- the Pay Commission’s re- India services in August last Jat stir and the SYL canal. ers led by Mr Chautala tried On their relations with the sion for employees in the commendations in her up- year, the recommendations Kaptan Singh Solanki to march into Punjab to dig Chautala family, he said that State. coming Budget speech dur- are yet to be implemented Governor’s address its portion of the SYL canal. there was no alliance of the ing the ongoing State for them for want of a final The session will commence agitating for nearly a month However, the march was Akali Dal with the INLD led Financial burden Assembly session. decision in respect of State with the address of Gov- in support of their various foiled by the Punjab Police. by jailed leader Om Paraksh The committee, which will Vasundhara Raje employees. ernor Kaptan Singh Solanki, demands. The INLD has maintained Chautala and his son Abhay have two retired Rajasthan 7 lakh employees Reacting to the decision, an official spokesman said Besides seeking quota in that the Supreme Court has Chautala. PTI Accounts Service officers as According to official There are over seven lakh the Rajya Karmachari Samy- on Saturday. education and government given the order in favour of its members, has been asked sources, another mandate of government employees in ukta Mahasangh said the The budget for 2017-2018 jobs under the Other Back- Haryana on the SYL and ac- IS supporter sent to to make an estimate of finan- the committee is to make the State, including those in State government was trying is likely to be presented on ward Classescategory, their cused the State and Central judicial custody cial burden on the ex- suggestions for revising and the Panchayati Raj and local to mislead the employees by March 6 and the session is to demands include the release governments of not doing JAIPUR chequer and recommend fixing various allowances self-government institutions appointing a new commit- continue till March 10, offi- of those jailed during last anything to implement the A suspected supporter of new pay scales for the gov- payable with different salary and the urban local bodies. tee. Mahasangh general sec- cials sources said. year’s stir, withdrawal of decision. Islamic State (IS), Mohammad ernment employees. It will slabs. Besides Mr. Samant, Besides, the number of pen- retary Tej Singh Rathore said The Jat reservation issue is cases and government jobs Besides, both the parties Iqbal, was on Saturday sent to submit its report to the State the panel's members are sioners exceeds three lakh. the new pay structure set to figure prominently in for the kin of those killed would seek reply on other judicial custody till March 10 government in three D.K. Mittal and M.P. Dixit. The financial burden on should be introduced with the session as the com- and injured. issues like law and order by a court here. months. The State government had the exchequer will be of the retrospective effect. munity members have been The INLD and the Con- situation and farmers. He was brought here on from Chennai for interrogation by CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC the Rajasthan Police’s ATS on CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC production warrant on February 13 and sent to police NHAI cuts over 9,000 custody. It is alleged that Iqbal was in touch with Rajasthan village boy wins laurels with grit another operative of the trees for lyover, road terror outfit, Jameel Ahmed Dharma Ram has excelled in academics and extra-curricular activities, including kabaddi and art who was arrested by the ATS from Sikar in November last MeT dept. fears temperature may rise Mohammed Iqbal and transferred funds for the young boy's confidence and which covers his school. His Jaipur IS. PTI resolution grew with the family comprising two Press Trust of India Moreover, the agency has By his sheer grit and passage of time. In addition brothers, a sister and father Gurgaon not given any blueprint determination, a poor to his keen interest in continues to face financial Gurgaon is paying a heavy about developing green Five killed in separate teenage boy from a remote science, he emerged as an hurdles. price for building crucial channels and city forest to accidents in Himachal village in Jodhpur district of all-rounder student. road infrastructure as over compensate for the chopped SHIMLA Rajasthan has won laurels by Dharma lost his mother to Represents school 9,000 trees have been felled trees. Five persons, including a getting prizes and awards, cancer and his father quit The young boy has recently to develop a flyover and “Majority of the trees newly-wed couple, were on thanks to his teachers' his daily job at the mines won first prize in a State- Saturday killed and nine three underpasses in the were fully grown and over 25 others injured in separate guidance and an educational due to failing health, while level science exhibition city, raising the ire of years old that would disturb accidents in Shimla and quality support programme the family survived on organised by the Ministry of environmentalists. the climate of micro level Kinnaur districts, the police honing his skills. occasional stints at the stone Human Resource The move has raised eye- areas. If we develop trees said. Three persons were quarries. Despite such tough Development. He was also brows as environmentalists again, it will take 25 years to killed and five injured when High scores conditions, Dharma has sent to represent his school and Meteorological depart- get same status,” said envir- their camper rolled 150 feet Fifteen-year-old Dharma excelled in academics and at a State-level science quiz ment officials are appre- onmentalist Jagdeep Mann. down into a gorge in Kinnaur Ram has excelled in both Dharma Ram with his teachers. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT won several medals at the competition, where he won hensive that atmospheric NHAI is constructing district. academics and extra- State-level science quiz the third prize and was temperatures could rise up three underpasses and loops In another accident here, a curricular activities, winning Dhandhaniya Bhaila village. was working at a stone competitions. encouraged to continue to 3 degree Celsius in the af- at Iffco Chowk, Signature newly-wed couple, Salim (32) prizes in athletics, kabaddi quarry and mother was pursuing his aspirations in fected micro areas. Tower and Rajeev Chowk and Fatima (24) of and inter-school arts Financial hurdles battling the last stage of Science teacher the field of science. and a flyover at Hero Honda Muzzafarnagar, were killed on competitions, in addition to Dharma started his cancer. Dharma told The Hindu from School principal Lalit Green channels Chowk at the cost of many the spot and four others, scoring high marks in his education at the age of six During his early days in Dhandhaniya Bhaila village Kumar said Dharma, The National Highway Au- peepal, banyan and neem including a child, were injured science subject. years in his native Jati school, Dharma’s teachers that he aspires to be a consistently a topper in his thority of India has chopped trees. NHAI officials claim when their car fell into a He is at present a student Bandhu village, when his sensed his thirst for science teacher. He is getting class, was preparing hard for gorge on Shimla-Nahan road more than 9,000 trees to de- that this was done with the of Class X at the Government family was struggling to knowledge and encouraged help from the Satya Bharti his examinations due next this morning. PTI velop a flyover and three un- Forest department’s Senior Secondary school in make ends meet. His father him to polish his talent. The Quality Support Programme, month. derpasses in the city. permission.

THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 NORTH 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Meerut brass bands yet to Nitish takes a dig at Modi hit right note since note ban over neglect of Ganga “Ganga maiya has been asking where was her son” Elections in politically-charged city make bookings few and far between Amarnath Tewary Mohammad Ali Patna Meerut Taking a dig at Prime Minis- Tiger found dead, It’s been a week since Mo- ter Narendra Modi’s state- starvation suspected hammad Irfan and his brass ment made before the 2014 SEHORE band at Jali Kothi in Meerut Lok Sabha poll in Varanasi A male tiger was found dead have received any bookings. that he had come there on in the Sehore district of The brass band is one among the invitation of (river) Madhya Pradesh two days hundreds that the western Ganga mata, Bihar Chief ago, a forest department Uttar Pradesh city is famous Minister Nitish Kumar on official said here on Saturday. The body of the animal was for. Saturday said “Ganga found in sludge in a rivulet at Old Meerut’s Jali Kothi, maiya” now has been asking Basapura village, said forest the go to place for any where was her son. officer S. Alawa. bandsman, comes alive Mr Kumar also said the Autopsy led the officials to ahead of wedding seasons. It condition of the river had believe that it died due to is here that the snazzy red- become so deplorable that starvation, he said. silver uniforms of one band “he gets emotional over it.” Seminar on Ganga: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar with This is a third tiger death compete with the shine of “When I visited Varanasi ‘waterman’ Rajendra Singh in Patna on Saturday during an recorded in the district in the blue-gold uniforms worn by recently people there were international conference on the Ganga. - PTI last two years. - PTI another. The measuring saying river Ganga has been tape-wearing industrious asking for her son who ing floods every year in wala, said the Central gov- darzis, with a stubby pencil earlier had declared that he Bihar.” ernment raises the issue of Two get life term for tucked behind their ear, are had come there only on the “Several river experts cows but not of Ganga. raping girl in U.P. determined to make their invitation of Ganga have expressed a similar MUZAFFARNAGAR bandsmen sparkle. The mu- Hit hard: Members of a band practising in Meerut. - SPECIAL ARRANGMENT mata…why he (PM Modi) has opinion but nothing has Problem of silt deposit A fast-track court here on sical whirr of treadle sewing stopped saying so…the con- been done yet,” he said. Bihar Water Resources Min- Saturday sentenced two machines churning out glit- his. tion results,” he added, brass bands and for instru- dition of river Ganga has be- “It is because of the ister Rajiv Ranjan Singh said persons to life imprisonment tery band uniforms fills the “Our bad luck did not stop while rehearsing with his ments went down after come so deplorable that I Farakka barrage that Bihar the conference would dis- in a case of gangraping a void left by percussions in there,” said Mr. Irfan, who is troupe. November 8.” get emotional seeing it,” the gets flooded every cuss in detail the problem of 16-year-old girl. the daily rehearsal duels in his early 30s, sitting in his Located a few steps from Chief Minister said while ad- year…there is a danger to Bi- siltation in the river bed. Judge Rajesh Bhardwaj hold between the trumpets and square office at Jali Kothi. Mr. Irfan’s brass band office Glorious history dressing an international har due to the barrage,” The experts and delegates maternal uncle of the victim harmoniums from across the “We were hoping that the is the workshop of Ahmad Walking down the lanes of conference on “Incessant Magsaysay award winner would look into all aspects and his friend guilty under road. The musical Jali Kothi year will start on a good Kareem, where he and his Jali Kothi, Mr. Kareem rattles Ganga” here. and water conservationist of human intervention, in- Sections 363 (kidnapping) and 376 (gang-rape). The only stops to take a breath at note, but demonetisation workers make instruments off the glorious musical his- Rajendra Singh said. cluding the proposed con- judge also imposed a fine of the end of the wedding has affected business with for brass brands. tory of Jali Kothi. In 1900s, “Close Farraka” He said the Central gov- struction of barrage for in- ₹8000 each on them. season. bleak prospect. There was Since Independence, said Nadir Ali, a musician in the Mr Kumar said he had de- ernment project of Namami land waterways, which have According to government barely any work due to cash Mr. Kareem, almost 80% of British army, started import- manded the closure of the Gange has been benefiting resulted in the deterioration lawyer Sitaram Rahe, the girl Out of tune crunch. We’re hoping the the country's brass bands in- ing brass instruments from Farakka barrage in West only contractors. of the Ganga, an official of was abducted and raped by However, this finely-tuned situation will improve in the struments have been made Europe. In 1920s, he started Bengal “as it has been the Another river expert and the state Water Resource De- the two at a village in Shamli instrument went out of tune next season,” said the father in manufacturing units loc- the business of manufactur- root cause of siltation caus- economist, Bharat Jhunjhun- partment said. district on October 27, 2008. on November 8, 2016, when of two school-going girls. ated in the dingy alleys of Jali ing brass instruments here it- -PTI Prime Minister Narendra The next wedding season Kothi, which is part of the self. Though guitars, pianos Modi made the demonetisa- will start from April 15 and old city. and violins also come out of tion announcement in the end on July 2. So far, he said, Sitting on the floor next to manufacturing units at Jali ₹50 lakh relief for Major’s family Sand miners booked middle of the wedding sea- his brass band has received four workers, Mr. Kareem Kothi, the area is famous for under NSA son. Over three-and-a-half 12 orders against the usual described demonetisation as its signature brass BHIND months later, business at 25. Moreover, elections hit the “gravest setback” the in- instruments. Army oicer killed in Kashmir encounter last week In a bid to curb rampant Bharat Chaman Band and the brass band business dustry has encountered “Just look around the Jali PRESS TRUST OF INDIA illegal mining of sand in Company is yet to hit the adversely. since Independence. Kothi market and you will Nangal Nunia to Banihari traordinary courage. MAHENDRAGARH Madhya Pradesh, the district right note. “Music is for happy times. find everything a bandsman and a Government College “Major Satish Dahiya had administration here on Generally, Mr. Irfan’s work ‘Waiting for poll results’ People play or listen to mu- needs. This thriving in- The Haryana government on in Nangal Chaudhary would brought pride to the state Saturday initiated action is dependent on mahurats. “Meerut is a politically- sic when they are happy or dustry, which is worth over Saturday announced ₹50- be named after him. with his supreme sacrifice, under the National Security The auspicious period star- charged city. Almost every- celebrating. The demonet- hundred crore annually, is lakh assistance to the family and would live on in the Act (NSA) against six miners. ted from January 15 to March one is part of one political isation announcement yet to land on its feet since of Major Satish Dahiya who Govt job for wife hearts of the people of the “On the proposal initiated by Superintendent of Police, Anil 4. The first wedding season party or another. Then, brought with it tension, the demonetisation an- died following an encounter He also announced a govern- State, the Chief Minister Singh Kushwaha, district of the year usually sees Mr. there are people associated crisis and long queues. nouncement. We’re waiting with militants in Kupwara ment job for wife of the said. administration took action Irfan's band flooded by over with those who are contest- When people spent all their for election results so that district in Jammu and Kash- martyr. Mr Khattar also an- under NSA against six illegal 25 bookings.However, de- ing elections. As a result, time and energy standing in things become normal. The mir on February 14. Paying tributes to him at nounced that a ‘vyayam- sand miners to curb the monetisation and the sub- they don’t schedule wed- lines outside banks or ATMs, elections interrupted our Chief Minister Manohar village Banihari in Ma- shala’ would be established menace,” Bhind Collector, sequent cash crunch set the dings in the election season. why would they call brass work,” added a bespectacled Lal Khattar also announced hendragarh district, Khattar in village Banihari in his Illaiyaraja T. said. - PTI tone for brass bands such as We’re waiting for the elec- bands? In fact, bookings for Mr. Kareem. that a road from village lauded Major Dahiya’s ex- name.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘RSS antithetical to secularism’ Accused in actor attack Pinarayi slams Sangh after arriving amid hartal in Mangaluru sent to police custody

Special Correspondent With tight security in MANGALURU place, there were no unto- Expand scope of investigation, demands Kerala Congress On the day a hartal was ward incidents barring stone called by the Sangh Parivar pelting in Mangaluru and Special Correspondent groups opposing his visit, other places. With shops and KOCHI Kerala Chief Minister Pin- establishments remaining The judicial first class magis- Youth shot dead in arayi Vijayan launched an at- closed and no transport, trate Court on Saturday sent Sudan laid to rest tack on the Rashtriya people were hard hit. Sunil Kumar aka Pulsar KURNOOL Swayamsevak Sangh at the However, private vehicles Suni, and V.P. Vijesh, key ac- Karavali Sauharda rally here plied as usual giving a cused in the abduction and The body of Syed Farook Basha, 26, Field Project on Saturday. Normal life in breather to students attend- sexual harassment of an Coordinator in Omaski Sai many parts of Dakshina Kan- ing First PU examination. actor, to police custody till Infra Company Ltd., who was nada was affected because of March 5. shot dead in South Sudan last the hartal. VHP’s charge Considering a petition Friday, was laid to rest on Even though unpreceden- The Vishwa Hindu Parishad filed by the Special Investig- Roza Dargah premises at ted security was in place in and affiliate organisations ation Team on February 24 Santoshnagar in Kurnool Mangaluru city in view of Mr. Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan addressing a rally in had called for the hartal on seeking their custody for 10 town on Saturday. Vijayan’s visit, about 20 Mangaluru on Saturday. PTI the ground that Mr. Vijayan days, the court granted their buses, most of them belong- was “responsible” for the in- custody till March 5. MLA P.T. Thomas with KPCC president V.M. Sudheeran in Kochi ing to the Karnataka State evening, Mr. Vijayan said government was now “con- creased political killings in on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Rising mercury brings Road Transport Corporation, though the RSS had “made trolled by the RSS” and its Kerala. ‘Widen probe’ Karnataka to a boil were pelted with stones at all efforts to prevent him agenda, Mr. Vijayan said. The Police department P.T. Thomas, Congress MLA Mr. Thomas, who had all the accused had been BENGALURU different parts of the city. from landing in Mangaluru,” The RSS was intolerant of had deployed over 4,000 from Thrikkakara, began a called the Director-General nabbed by the police. Mercury has shot up in Most shops remained shut he had managed to particip- freedom of expression, he al- personnel, including those 24-hour fast here on Sat- of Police seeking action KPCC president V.M. Sud- Karnataka, bringing the State to a boil. For the second year through the day and ate in the rally. leged, recalling that it had, drawn form neighbouring urday demanding that the against the perpetrators on heeran, who inaugurated in a row, Bengaluru recorded autorickshaws were scarce. on different occasions, asked districts and reserve police scope of the investigation the night of the attack, ex- the protest, said the State a temperature of 35.5°C, the The city was deserted. Ker- ‘Minorities suppressed’ Jnanapeeth award winner platoons, to maintain law into the case be expanded to pressed strong reservations had witnessed a rise in highest for February in a ala also suspended bus ser- He alleged that the RSS was late U.R. Ananthamurthy, and order. cover all possible angles, in- about Kerala Chief Minister crimes against women. He decade, on Friday. In Mysuru, vices to the city. “antithetical to secularism” actors Ameer Khan, Sharukh They had also detained cluding whether there was a Pinarayi Vijayan’s statement attacked Mr. Vijayan for the daytime temperature Speaking at the rally, or- and believed in suppressing Khan and Nandita Das to go several right-wing leaders on conspiracy behind the or- that there was no conspiracy “curtailing” the scope of the went up from 30.9°C on ganised by the CPI(M) in the the minorities. The Union to Pakistan. Friday night. ganised assault. behind the attack and that investigation. February 18 to 35°C by Friday.

Western Ghats report: UDF postpones hartal Cab strike leaves Bengaluru Killing of Jambri hits Maoist leadership IDUKKI The district-level hartal called by the United Democratic residents high and dry He was seen by ultras as one who could mobilise Adivasis Doubts linger Front on March 4, demanding the final notification of the Western Ghats report, has Sumit Bhattacharjee him. He could mobilise the aram village, over a petty over ultra’s VISAKHAPATNAM been postponed to March 6 in Poor public transport aggravates problem Adivasis for Maoist meetings, issue between the tribals. view of the Public Service Gemmeli Narayan Rao alias including their plenary ses- This incident and other al- killing Commission tests, according Vivek Narayanan were nearly 84,000 cabs, 2014, the addition of autos Jambri, the divisional com- sions. leged atrocities put him in to UDF chairman S. Ashokan. BENGALURU compared with around was 9.4%. This fell to 6.8% in mittee member of the Ga- At the same time, the the bad books of the Maoist Special Correspondent The four-day strike by 30,700 in March 2013. This 2016. By December 2016, likonda area committee of Maoist leadership faulted leadership and the tribal VISAKHAPATNAM drivers of taxi aggregators increase far eclipses the 45% the number of autorick- the CPI (Maoist), who was him for his high-handed be- people, even though he was Doubts have been raised Red sanders logs seized has shown how dependent growth of non-transport shaws was 1.7 lakh. The dip killed by the Greyhounds on haviour with the tribal a tribal from Mettiguda vil- over the killing of Gemmeli in Andhra Pradesh forest Bengaluru has become on private vehicles (which oc- is attributed to app-based Friday near Annavaram vil- people. lage in Visakhapatnam Narayan Rao alias Jambri TIRUPATI cabs over the past three cupy the bulk of the city’s taxi services. lage, enjoyed a love-hate re- In fact, he was demoted agency. on Friday. According to po- Ten red sanders logs were years. roads) during this period, While private cabs are lationship with the Maoist from the post of ACM (area He gained prominence lice records, Jambri carried seized by task force officials, Since March 2013, when shows data from the Trans- booming, public transport top bosses and the Adivasis committee member) after an after Gopal alias Azad, the a .303 Lee Enfield rifle. But near the Kalletivanka forest the first ride-hailing apps port Department. seems to be on the decline. in the agency areas of incident in Sagulu . earlier divisional committee ever since he was ‘elev- area in Chandragiri mandal and cabs were introduced, The proliferation of cabs The drop in the number of Visakhapatnam. member (DCM) of Galikonda ated,’ Jambri was seen car- during the early hours of Saturday. The team came the number of taxis has shot seems to be at the expense buses, say experts, is push- Among Maoists, he was Alleged atrocities area committee, was killed rying an AK 47. across footprints near up by nearly 180%. A major- of autorickshaws. While the ing many towards the ‘more regarded a fierce fighter and On February 19, 2013, three in an exchange of fire with But the weapon re- Sachinodibanda. After ity of the new additions are number of cabs increased by reliable’ cab aggregators. had the ability to elude the Bagatha adivasi men from the security forces in May covered from the spot is a following the trail, the attached to taxi aggregators, leaps and bounds, the In the past four days, police with ease. He was an Sagulu were allegedly killed last year. With Jambri also rusted World War II era combing party spotted the such as Ola and Uber, be- growth of autorickshaws has commuters were left scam- expert in extortion, had a in cold blood by a Maoist mi- gone, a big void has been Thompson sub-machine smuggling operatives,who lieve transport experts. seen a consistent dip. pering for an alternative hold over the contractors in litia squad led by Jambri dur- created in the tribal leader- gun. The production of the abandoned the logs and fled. By the end of 2016, there Between March 2013 and mode of transport. the agency areas who feared ing a ‘praja’ court at Lakkav- ship of Maoists gun was stopped long ago.

Malleswara temple in Kuppam is patronised by people of A.P., T.N. & Karnataka

Staff Reporter Karnataka. Participation of CHITTOOR people from all three States The temple of Lord Mal- was a big plus point for ush- leswara Swami, atop Mal- ering in tourism in the hill lappa Konda hillock in the zone, he said. Later, elders Gudupalle mandal of Kup- from the hamlets assured pam division, bordering the police officer that they Karnataka and bearing close would continue to work for proximity to Tamil Nadu, re- the development of the mains the favourite location temple. for the people of the three In the last four decades, States. It is a symbol of social the yearly festivals and harmony during mass fest- rituals have been organised ivals like Maha Sivaratri and by the local people of Chin- Karthika Deepotsavam. naparthi Kunta hamlet of The week-long Maha Gudupalle mandal. For the Sivaratri festival, which con- last one decade, people cluded on Saturday, drew Picture of harmony: Lord Malleswara Swami temple atop from about two dozen ham- over one lakh devotees from Mallappakonda hillock at tri-State Kuppam Junction. lets of Karnataka have joined the three States. On Friday, the festivals. While the however, there was a tiff Karnataka. Mild tension pre- Kuppam Circle-Inspector temple is located in the Chit- between the local organisers vailed with each group M. Rajasekhar defused the toor district, the rear por- when devotees from the claiming rights for conduct- tension. He said the pres- tion of the hill and approach hamlets of Karnataka tried to ing pujas. Devotees from the ence of police from roads fall in Karnataka. A conduct the sacred bath of villages of the Tamil Nadu Karnataka was necessitated person standing atop the hill the presiding deity in the border pacified the two to guide the devotees from can see the Tamil Nadu bor- presence of police from sides. hamlets on the foothills of der at a distance. Clouds of smoke: Pollution caused by garbage burnt by the roadside blinds drivers in Madurai on Saturday. S. JAMES

Noticed near the Eravikulam Park V. Geetanath transformed into talent unknown, I shall never give 20,000 seats last year! There Hyderabad incubators as its Secretary. up.” are40,600seatsnow Radhakrishnan Kuttoor patiens varieties, one of Indian Police Service (IPS) “Many had apprehensions available from Classes 5 to Pathanamthitta which was Impatiens travan- officers are usually about making students go Success stories 12. In a major breakthrough in corica that was spotted portrayed on the big screen for mountaineering, but the Students chant this every Born to poor Dalit parents eco-conservation, forest of- sometime ago. as swashbuckling heroes students were willing and day as if to remind in the Alampur village of the ficials in Munnar have spot- One of the new plants, beating up trigger-happy more so, the girls,” says the themselves of the tasks Gadwal district, Dr. Kumar ted two critically en- Impatiens panduranganii, roughnecks. Poorna, 49-year-old. ahead. saw discrimination at close dangered impatiens plant was first noticed in 2015 by however, is based on the A product of the social Soon, alumni from quarters and is clear that species on the peripheries Prasad G., wildlife warden true life story of Telangana welfare hostel himself, Dr. TSWREIS were securing education is the way out of of the Eravikulam National of Munnar, during a re- IPS officer Dr. R.S. Praveen Kumar hung up his uniform admission to courses in the rut of poverty. Park. search on impatiens in the Kumar, and will have a five years ago and engineering, then medicine, “I wanted to help people Impatiens, also called Pettimudi area. It is similar different story. Multi-faceted volunteered to take over the and private universities like like me. I see a generation of jewel weeds, are seen in to Impatiens travancorica. actor Rahul Bose plays the moribund TSWREIS, the Aziz Premji University students from under- pristine forests where mois- Talking to The Hindu,Mr role of the cop who inspired surprising his peers and (AZU), universities abroad privileged communities ture content and relative hu- Prasad said the number of the youngest girl to scale superiors alike. The hostels and so on, on merit. They studying in hostels, doing midity are high. The species then spotted was Mount Everest — the film were in a pitiable state with A ile picture of actor Rahul Bose, mountaineer Malavath Purna also began climbing well and showing the light to Eravikulam National Park very low due to the un- takes its name from few takers and funds (left) and child actor Aditi Inamdar. PTI mountains and learning future generations, as Chief and the Mankulam forest di- scientific road construction Malavath Purna, the allocated for them got music — one all-girls band Minister K. Chandrasekhar vision are surrounded by to Edamalakudy. daughter of tribal farm reverted as they were not girls. What Dr. Kumar did the leader wherever I am, I even played for the Rao has sanctioned sholas. Two new species of Only below 35 plants with labourers who studied at the spent. “We had to change was to insist on an English- shall do what I love and be Cyberabad Commissionerate whatever we sought and balsams (impatiens) have flower could be found in Telangana Social Welfare the mindsets, infrastructure medium education. Students different, I shall always think during the Republic Day this more,” he says. been discovered by the offi- 2015. In 2016, when Prabhu Residential Educational and pedagogy,” he recalls. were motivated first through big and aim high, I shall be year. Dr. Kumar looks forward cials from the shola forests Kumar of Kottakkal Arya Institutions Society Within two years, he had peer groups like The Hindu’s honest, hardworking and Word spread and parents to watching the premiere of on the periphery of the park Vaidyasala visited Munnar, (TSWREIS), the residential transformed the once-dingy E-Plus clubs, video lessons punctual, I shall never began showing up in such Poorna with President and Mankulam with the there were about 200 and schools for Scheduled Caste, hostels into institutes of and counselling. Then, he blame others for my failures, large numbers that from Pranab Mukherjee at the help of scientists. 300 of the plants, which Scheduled Tribe and excellence and now, poor unleashed the ‘10 I shall neither beg nor cheat, 4,000 vacant seats, Rashtrapati Bhavan soon, The Munnar-Mankulam were named Impatiens underprivileged children Dalit parents flock to admit commandments’ — “I am not I shall repay what I borrow, I TSWREIS received more before the film is released landscape is famous for im- panduranganii. that Dr. Kumar has their wards here, especially inferior to anyone, I shall be shall never fear the than 1.5 lakh applications for nationwide. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 NEWS 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Massive recruitment drive to Extraordinary leave is not curb youth unrest in Gujarat matter of right: Delhi HC ‘Employee cannot be allowed to work at her convenience’ Shahnaz Hussain in In two years, the State has seen many agitations and caste mobilisation drives disciplinary authority of the maternity leave was granted Harvard curriculum Mahesh Langa Akanksha Jain applicants, said Gujarat Rajya Sabha secretariat. to her with leave coming to MUMBAI AHMEDABAD New Delhi Chief Secretary Dr JN Singh. The court in this case an end on May 16, 2015. Padma Shri awardee Shahnaz Hussain is now a subject of In a bid to counter protests “As per the official figures Legal entitlement to leave is noted that of a total of ap- Claiming that she needed to study at the Harvard Business led by youth complaining of 5th Annual Employment/ with regard to leave which is proximately 10 years of ser- look after the baby, she ap- School. A video interview of about lack of jobs and also to Unemployment Survey by authorised, like maternity vice till December 2014, the plied for extraordinary leave Shahnaz, titled ‘Creating create a positive image the Centre, Gujarat has the leave or child care leave. woman had been on leave of another 180 days which Emerging Markets’ and ahead of the Assembly polls lowest unemployment ratio However, extraordinary for 1,917 days — around 5½/6 was also granted. conducted by the Harvard scheduled in December this per 1,000, which is 0.9 per leave is not a matter of right, years. Thereafter, claiming that professor Sunil Gupta year, the Gujarat govern- cent. That means only 9 out the Delhi High Court has The woman had chal- she had no family support in sometime ago has been ment has launched a drive to of every 1,000 persons in said. Justice Valmiki Mehta lenged her termination from India, she went to the U.K. to included in the Harvard hold mega job fairs at district Gujarat are unemployed,” Dr has held that the “grant of service on account of her join her husband, and again Business School Teaching levels to bring job seekers Singh said. extraordinary leave is not a unauthorised absence, i.e sought extraordinary leave Curriculum. PTI and private companies to- Youth leaders like Hardik matter of legal right and remaining absent from duty which was not granted. gether. New strategy: Youths at a recent job fair in Ahmedabad. PTI Patel and Alpesh Thakor every employer, before without any leave being But she did not rejoin Family of braveheart In the last two years, Gu- have been alleging that des- granting extraordinary sanctioned after proceeding duty despite being served of- jarat has witnessed a num- lessness in the State, which recruitment drive to fill up pite high rate of investments, leave, has to balance various on maternity leave. fice memorandum. She seeks Modi’s help ber of agitations and caste attracts high investments in almost 65,000 vacancies in Gujarat has failed to create aspects, including the work- She had argued that unau- failed to appear for enquiry. NEW DELHI mobilisation on the issue of the industrial sector. its departments. jobs. “More than 50 lakh ing requirement of the em- thorised absence could not The Rajya Sabha secret- The family of sepoy Mandeep Singh, whose body was quotas in education and jobs The pressure from these “A total of 68,000 people people in the State are either ployer not being affected on lead to automatic termina- ariat told the court that the mutilated by terrorists last and distressed agriculture agitations and social move- will be recruited in the gov- jobless or underemployed- account of leave sought by tion of services. detailed report discussed all year during a ceasefire and lack of employment op- ments has forced the govern- ernment before the As- ...but the government is not an employee”. aspects, and evidence led to violation in J&K, has sought portunities. ment to expedite its recruit- sembly elections,” a close admitting it,” Mr. Hardik Pa- The court made the ob- ‘Recalcitrant employee’ hold the petitioner guilty of Prime Minister Narendra ment drive for hiring more aide of Gujarat Chief Minis- tel recently told The Hindu. servation while dismissing The Rajya Sabha secretariat, unauthorised absence from Modi’s intervention to get Patidar protests than 60,000 posts across ter Vijay Rupani told The Mr. Thakor said jobs in the petition of a woman, ap- on the other hand, conten- duty, and conduct unbecom- them the promised Patidar agitation leader various departments includ- Hindu. Gujarat were taken away by pointed Assistant Director, ded that she was clearly a ing of a government servant. compensation. “Mandeep’s Hardik Patel and Alpesh ing police, education and In the recently held mega “outsiders because the gov- Library, Reference, Re- “recalcitrant employee”. “The present is a case of an wife, who serves as a head Thakor, who runs an am- also for subordinate staff for job fairs, as many as 2,184 ernment has not enforced its search, Documentation and In the instant case, the employee wanting to do her constable with the Haryana barella agitation for back- government departments. job providers participated labour policy which pre- Information Service, against woman had applied for ma- duties at her own conveni- police, should be promoted. ward communities, have Currently, the government is and offered jobs to 1,09,520 scribes all factories to hire 85 the order of her termination ternity leave of 180 days ence, which cannot be per- His mother should get a been raising the issue of job- in the process of a massive candidates out of 1,42,970 per cent locals”. from service passed by the from November, 2013. The mitted,” the court observed. petrol pump,” said Mandeep’s brother-in-law Sachin. ANI CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Defence Security Corps Ajmer blast case put of till celebrates Raising Day A plunge at sunset NEW DELHI The Defence Security Corps (DSC), responsible for March 8 providing security to sensitive defence and civil installations, on Saturday More time is required for studying ‘voluminous’ documents, celebrated its 70th Raising Day. Lieutenant General J.S. Special Correspondent March 8 after the nine ac- Cheema, Deputy Chief of JAIPUR cused were produced in the Army Staff (Information The National Investigation court. Systems and Training) and Agency (NIA) special court The court is analysing the Colonel Commandant of the here on Saturday deferred testimony of 149 witnesses DSC, complimented all the till March 8 its judgment in and the contents of 451 doc- personnel for their efforts, a the 2007 Ajmer dargah blast uments submitted to it. press release said. IANS case. It said the case was Twenty-six witnesses turned “voluminous” and more hostile during time was required for study- cross-examination. Elephant breaks gate of ing the documents submit- After the court order, railway level crossing ted by the prosecution and eight of the nine accused JALPAIGURI (WB) the defence. were taken back to the An elephant broke the gate of The explosion in the 13th Jaipur Central Jail. arailway level crossing in the Century dargah of Sufi mys- Chapramari Wildlife tic Khwaja Moinuddin Sanctuary area of Jalpaiguri Chishti on October 11, 2007, district on Saturday, forest during Ramzan, left three department officials said. The railway line passes through persons dead and 17 injured. the reserve forest area. After The shrine was packed to breaking the gate, the adult capacity, with about 5,000 male elephant stayed in the devotees, when the blast oc- area for around 15 minutes curred at the time of ‘iftaar’ then returned to the forest, (breaking of fast). the officials said. PTI Up in the sky: An enthusiast takes part in bungee jumping during the ‘Bhoj Adventure Festival 2017’ in Bhopal on Saturday. AFP NIA special judge Dinesh Gupta adjourned the case till Centenary tribute to Shirdi Sai Baba Life and philosophy of the saint captured in special volume

Special Correspondent October 01, 2017 to October Shirdi 18, 2018, and sevakkari (ser- The special volume on the vice) would be the main 19th century saint Shirdi Sai theme. Baba, Seat of Syncretic Spir- The temples worldwide ituality, brought out by The and in India would launch Hindu, was launched in several initiatives. Shirdi on Saturday by Shri Among those present at Shirdi Saibaba Sansthan the function were vice-chair- Trust chairman Suresh Kash- man of the trust inath Haware. Chandrasekhar Laxmanrao Dr. Haware lauded The Kadam; trustees Bhausaheb Hindu for bringing out the Rajaram Wackchaure, 100-page book consisting of Sachin Bhagwat Tambe, Mo- well-researched articles on han Motiram Jaykar, Pratap the life and times of the Sakhahari Bhosale; Mayor saint, with some memorable At his feet: Seat of Syncretic Spirituality, published by The and trustee Yogita Abhay colour photographs of the Hindu, being placed before the idol of Shirdi Sai Baba at the Shelke; Executive Officer Samadhi Mandir, the Samadhi Mandir in Shirdi on Saturday. ARUN KULKARNI Bhajirao Walmik Shinde; Dwarkamai (the masjid Public Relations Officer Mo- where Shirdi Sai Baba spent Shri Sai Baba in the Samadhi 4,000 temples in India. The han J. Yadav; Deputy Execut- his lifetime), Chavadi, Mandir. main motto of the saint was ive Officer Sandeep Aher; Gurusthan and other im- Dr. Haware said the Sai Shradda and Saburi, and ser- and Chief Accounts Officer portant places in the Shirdi movement was growing by vice to the humanity was his Baba Saheb Ghorpade. The Sai Baba temple complex. leaps and bounds through- main preaching, he said. Regional General Manager of Before the release, the out the world. Already, there He said the centenary cel- The Hindu in Mumbai, N volume was placed at the were over 500 temples in ebrations of the Samadhi of Vaidyanathan, was also feet of the marble idol of different countries and over the saint would be held from present.

Cong., BJP spar over payment to Kohli

Staff Reporter Dehradun Putting to rest allegations being raised by the BJP against the Harish Rawat-led State government over the payment of ₹47.19 lakh to the captain of the Indian cricket team Virat Kohli, allegedly from funds meant for disaster-related works, the Ut- tarakhand Chief Minister on Saturday said the BJP was “unnecessarily” trying to “rake up” the issue. In a reply to the Right to Information (RTI) application filed by one Ajendra Ajay, who is associated with the BJP, it was found that ₹47.19 lakh was made to Mr. Kohli by the Rudraprayag District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) for his 60-second television commercial promot- ing Uttarakhand Tourism, of which Mr. Kohli is the brand ambassador. Mr. Rawat said: “The BJP must say whether it is wrong to advertise that Ke- darnath is safe for travel and whether Virat Kohli is the wrong person to propagate that.” CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE ‘Populist politics behind rise in racist attacks’ Losing wombs to British MEP Neena Gill blames politicians who point a inger at one community or the other medical malpractice Suhasini Haidar counter racist attacks. India Bilateral Trade and In- ister Theresa May for making ernment’s pet “Make in In- NEW DELHI Ms. Gill said she had no vestment Agreement (BTIA). “false claims” about the out- dia” project, as competing Pinku Bai married at 13, had They are also demanding Attacks on immigrants in the doubt that the attacks in the Talks over the FTA or come of Britain’s exit from policies in the U.K. and other three children by 19, and un- suitable compensation for U.S. post-elections and in the U.K. and the shooting of an BTIA have stalled since 2011 the EU, Ms. Gill said it would countries would want to derwent a hysterectomy at the victims. A survey of 35 U.K. post-Brexit are a sign of Indian engineer in the U.S. — over visas and services be hard to see how U.K.-In- move manufacturing bases 24 because her doctor tandas (habitations) done by “cultural regression” in the by a man believed to have agreements mainly, and Ms. dia trade and immigration to their countries. warned her of “serious the KJC claims the ratio of world because of “populist told him to “get out of the Gill said one of the big out- would increase, as assured “Look, all countries want health complications due to households to hysterectom- politics”, says U.K. Member country” — were a con- comes of recent elections by visiting British Ministers to increase their own manu- a swollen uterus”. Severe ies is high. In Ambalaga of the European Parliament sequence of populist move- has been an anti-globalisa- Priti Patel and Alok Sharma. facturing and their own abdominal pain and vaginal tanda, Kalaburagi, it was 55 (MEP) Neena Gill. ments that pinpoint immig- tion sentiment. “Wrongly or skills, but let us understand, discharge had prompted her households to 15 hysterec- “During the (U.K.) referen- ration as one of the big rightly, our populations be- Blow to ‘Make in India’ nothing is now produced in to seek medical help. tomies; in Ajjanahalli, Has- dum and after it, many politi- threats. lieve these FTAs and global- “How can you say [that] the one place. It all has to be co- With the dire warning of san district, it was 40:13; at cians in the mainstream have isation has not delivered for whole issue that triggered ordinated between different the “Big C leading to death” V.K. Salagar tanda it was been openly voicing opposi- Impact on free trade Neena Gill those who feel left behind. It Brexit was immigration but countries, which is what ringing in her ears, she un- 40:25; and in Belamagi tion to immigrants,” Ms. Gill, “The atmosphere is being is also true that automation after Brexit, we may see MNCs do. Now in the U.K., derwent a hysterectomy in tanda, 80:25. a Labour party leader of In- vitiated by politics of this and say, that is the problem.” and digitisation have made more Indians coming to the the government has this idea November 2014, paying A Health Department sur- dian-origin, told The Hindu. populist kind. In the U.S. and Ms. Gill was part of three people feel their traditional UK? I’m surprised even Min- that they will get investment ₹30,000 with money bor- vey in 2015 found 371 cases “It was the Asian com- the U.K., there are (non- European Union delegations ways of working have faded isters in the PM May govern- to manufacture here from rowed from relatives. Today, in the gollarahattis (hamlets) munity and the African com- white) immigrants who are that visited Delhi last week, out, and they have lost out. I ment who are of Indian ori- say, India, but not take work- wiping away tears, Pinku Bai in Arsikere taluk, Hassan munity of Britishers who third and fourth generation, and met Finance Minister think many nationalistic gin are making these false ers. I don’t think that’s going says, “I agreed to the sur- district. have borne the brunt,” she who have known nothing Arun Jaitley and Commerce politicians also use globalisa- claims,” she said pointing to to work,” said Ms Gill, who gery as I kept thinking, what Teena Xavier, a KJC said referring to attacks on other than the country they and Industries Minister tion as a convenient whip- what she called the “impact said she had discussed the would happen to my chil- health activist, said the hos- her staff members in recent were born in. It’s very dam- Nirmala Sitharaman as well ping boy when the problem of Trump policies” (on H1B concerns India had over re- dren if I were to die?” But pitals capitalise on the ig- months, that has led her to aging for our societies when as NSA Ajit Doval. The dis- is that they haven’t kept their visas) on the Indian IT sector. strictions on immigrants and the procedure did not end norance of the women. set up a cross-party coalition populist politicians point to cussions focussed largely on promises,” she said. Ms. Gill said the Brexit move students in the U.K. with offi- her difficulties. She de- Umarga in Osmanabad dis- in the British Midlands to one community or the other the need to speed up the EU- Criticising U.K. Prime Min- would impact the Modi gov- cials here as well. veloped severe backache, trict in Maharashtra, has weakness, prolonged tired- also emerged as a ‘hysterec- ness, chest pain, and partial tomy hub’ and gets patients vision loss. from border villages in Making statesmen Many young women of Kalaburagi district. Trump silent on racist killing the Lambani community On why the health issue and the Golla community has snowballed, Roopa Has- went under the knife. Illiter- san, writer and social activ- out of lawmakers acy, poverty and unethical ist said: “It’s largely due to White House denies that anti-immigrant climate is to blame for murder doctors ‘making a fast buck’ unhygienic customs that Varghese K. George bipartisan support for India- have pushed the Pinku Bais women are forced to adopt Washington U.S. bilateral relations. “I am Ansari seeks inter-parliamentary ties to undergo unnecessary in the gollarahattis. During sure all right-thinking people hysterectomies, health act- menstruation, they have to Two days after an Indian en- in America will work to- Kallol Bhattacherjee ivists say. stay away from their homes, gineer was murdered and gether and ensure that this NEW DELHI In Arsikere and Kadur in a shelter which is not another injured in an appar- tragic event is behind us,” India needs to increase par- taluks, Chitradurga, Dav- clean. Many find hysterec- ent case of racial-related viol- Mr. Sarna said. liamentary interaction with angere and Tumakuru dis- tomy a relief from this ence, the White House on Several U.S. lawmakers other countries to create an tricts, in Chincholi, Aland, monthly ordeal. Doctors Friday rejected the sugges- and civil rights groups con- all-weather group of inter- Chittapur and Jevargi taluks capitalise on this. Those tion that the incident may demned the incident and locutors, senior diplomatic of Kalaburagi, Yadgir and who performed hysterec- have been caused by the blamed the rhetoric and ad- sources have said. Raichur districts, there are tomy for flimsy reasons ac- anti-immigration climate cre- ministrative actions by Mr. The role of parliamentari- many stories of women ap- tually violated the sexual ated by President Donald Trump for the atmosphere ans for cultivating their proaching gynaecologists and reproductive health Trump. of racial hostility in the counterparts in other coun- with complaints of bleeding, rights of women. I have Asked whether the “rhet- country. tries was taken up recently nagging abdominal pain, or spoken to many women and oric that the President or “We can’t let hatred win,” by President Yoweri Hamid Ansari a simple urinary tract infec- none had a biopsy or pap that generally has been out said Indian-American Sen- Musaveni of Uganda, who tion, only to return home smear done before having here recently could have ator from California Kamala urged Vice-President Hamid crucially fallen short is without a uterus. the uterus removed.” contributed in any way” to Harris. “Senseless acts of vi- Ansari last week to address Africa which used to receive Omkaramma, 30, of Kola- Concurring with this, R. the murder of 32-year-old olence have no place in our the gap by sending more In- a large number of visits — gunda gollarahatti in Has- Venkatesh, a gynaecologist Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kan- country. I’m heartbroken by dian lawmakers to Africa. the issue that figured during san, had a hysterectomy and District Health Officer sas on Wednesday night, this tragedy,” said Pramila “Diplomacy is about con- Mr. Ansari’s visit to Rwanda four years ago after just one in Hassan, says, “Hysterec- White House press secretary Jayapal, Democratic Con- tacts and exchanges. We and Uganda. consultation. She was ready tomy should be done as the Sean Spicer said: “I mean, gresswoman from Washing- hope the mechanism of ded- to do anything to get rid of last option when all other obviously, any loss of life is ton State. She said hate icated parliamentarians for Role in shaping opinion the excruciating pain. Three medications fail to control tragic, but I’m not going to crimes were rising as a result various countries will be re- “Parliamentary interactions other women from the same abnormal bleeding, infec- get into, like, that kind of — of Trump administration’s stored (to its earlier intens- came up for discussion and village were operated upon tion, and fibroids, and that to suggest that there’s any ideas against immigrants. ity). India is known as the a point was made that there the same day. One of them too after conducting a correlation, I think, is a bit Meanwhile, wife of the de- biggest and possibly the old- was not enough of it. In con- died three months later. biopsy, pap smear, and absurd. So I’m not going to ceased Srinivas Kuchibhotla est one, democracy with a sultation with the Speaker Lalitha Bai’s medical ex- other examinations.” go any further than that.” said she had discussed the parliament at its core. More of Lok Sabha, we will work amination pointed to a urin- Another inquiry commit- President Donald Trump idea of returning to India interactions will mean more out on how to fill this gap. ary tract infection. “Noola tee constituted by the did not tweet on the Kansas many times with her hus- possibilities and tools that MPs play an important role Hospital in Kalaburagi told Karnataka State Commis- attack even after it was Hate crime: CPI(M) activists burn Donald Trump’s eigy band, but said he — on an can serve any “bad in shaping opinion and in me I would die soon, and sion for Women in Septem- prominently covered across during a protest in Vijayawada on Saturday. V. RAJU H-1B guest worker visa — was weather” moments in bilat- lending support to govern- convinced me to have a hys- ber 2015, headed by social U.S. media platforms even as keen to remain in America. eral ties,” said a senior Am- ment policies,” Mr. Ansari terectomy. I was operated activist K. Neela, investig- he responded to gun viol- Meanwhile, Indian Am- ures to ensure that such in- “I need an answer; I need an bassador, who revealed that said. upon even though we had ated the issue in Kalaburagi ence in Chicago the same bassador to the U.S. Navtej cidents were not repeated. answer from the govern- India has not answered his The number of inter-par- no money. But I was dis- district and submitted a 105- evening with a tweet: “Seven Sarna told an audience that In a first-of-its-kind diplo- ment. I need an answer for country’s desire for parlia- liamentary exchanges have charged only after we paid ₹ page report in April 2016. people shot and killed yes- included 27 U.S. State Gov- matic initiative, Mr. Sarna everyone out there,” Sunay- mentary exchanges. fallen under the present 25,000,” she recalled. Post- “We have provided suffi- terday in Chicago. What is ernors on Friday evening hosted Governors from both ana Dumala said during a government as India has not surgery, her infection per- cient and solid evidence to going on there — totally out that India was confident that the Republican and Demo- media interaction organised From 40 to just one continued many such sists and she spends hard- prosecute the doctors and of control. Chicago needs American administrators cratic parties, which he said by Garmin, the company There were more than 40 groups with partner coun- earned money buying drink- hospitals involved. Yet, no help!” would take necessary meas- was a demonstration of the that employed Kuchibhotla. parliamentary groups dur- tries. “The MPs should ing water, hoping it would action has been taken,” she ing the UPA rule which have know issues a bit better,” help. says. The expert committee dwindled to just one on said Mr. Ansari highlighting In most cases, the hyster- constituted by the State China, at present. The other the need for meetings ectomies were performed Health Department headed ‘Farooq’s remarks a poll stunt’ groups like the one on between Indian MPs and without a prior medical ex- by T.R. Sudha found that Dr. Taiwan are yet to be formal- their counterparts else- amination, save for a sono- Dayanand, a government ised. Mr. Ansari and Presid- where, especially in Africa. graphy, the government in- doctor at Biruru Com- ent Pranab Mukherjee have D. Raja of the CPI urged quiry committee found. munity Health Centre in Hurriyat leaders slam NC chief’s statement about ‘sacriice’ by J&K youth been taking delegations of the government to send Karnataka Janarogya Cha- Chikkamagaluru, conducted MPs along during foreign multi-party delegations of lavali (KJC), a group of pub- 1,428 “unnecessary hyster- Peerzada Ashiq “Dr. Abdullah is trying to “State’s freedom and has given various statements trips to familiarise them parliamentarians to Africa, lic health activists, took up ectomies” at a private estab- Srinagar befool people ahead of par- peoples’ rights”. against the militants in the with various regions. Latin America and multilat- the issue in 2015. lishment between 2012 and Making light of National Con- liamentary byelections in “In the old age, Dr. Abdul- past but has now changed The group on China was eral organisations. “Previ- KJC activists and victims 2014. More than 40% of the ference (NC) president Srinagar and Anantnag par- lah has virtually lost balance his language. We don’t take started in 2014 by BJP MP ously, a delegation of MPs allege that the doctors iden- women who underwent the Farooq Abdullah’s statement liamentary constituencies of mind,” said Mr. Koul. his statements seriously.” Tarun Vijay. However, with used to visit the United Na- tified by the probe are con- surgery were below the age about the ‘sacrifice’ by youth and proposed elections for Describing Dr. Abdullah Mr. Akbar said, “The NC the end of his Rajya Sabha tions every year. As far as I tinuing with unwarranted of 35. in Jammu and Kashmir, the Panchayats,” said BJP State as “chameleon”, Hurriyat can go to any extent because tenure, Mr. Vijay is now run- know that kind of visits have hysterectomies. They de- A CID inquiry is under Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) general secretary Ashok spokesman Ayaz Akbar said, of the lust of power.” ning a similar group under been discontinued which is mand the cancellation of way even after two years. on Saturday called it a polit- Koul. “The statement is aimed to Meanwhile, CPI (M) leader the aegis of the Confedera- a loss,” said Mr Raja, high- the registration of the doc- The only action taken up ical gimmick, while the sep- Dr. Abdullah had on Fri- befool the people of Kash- and MLA Yousuf Tarigami tion of Indian Industry (CII). lighting that the world is tors and booking of criminal was the transfer of the doc- aratists termed it day said that the youth were mir. It is only an election appealed to all parties to One area where the par- curious about Indian demo- cases against them. tor from Birur to Davangere. “non-serious”. sacrificing their lives for stunt and nothing else. He unite for the Kashmir issue. liamentary delegations have cracy. Jaitley call for a debate on free speech Pests eat away 35% of total It does not extend to “assaulting a nation’s sovereignty”, he says Defends crop yield, says ICAR scientist

Vidya Ram view,” he said, adding that in note ban LONDON his personal view, freedom ‘Such large-scale crop loss has adverse efect on biosafety’ Freedom of speech does not of speech did not extend to Vidya Ram extend to “assaulting a na- assaulting a country’s sover- LONDON Staff Reporter tion’s sovereignty,” said Fin- eignty. Finance Minister Arun Jait- Kolkata ance Minister Arun Jaitley ley on Saturday defended About 30-35% of the annual here on Saturday. He said Cancellation of invite India’s demonetisation crop yield in India gets some universities were now Violence broke out between programme, describing it wasted because of pests, ac- home to an “alliance of sub- members of the Akhil Bhar- as the ‘smoothest possible cording to P.K. Chakrabarty, version” between those on atiya Vidyarthi Parishad currency replacement’ that assistant director general the ultra-left, and those with (ABVP) the RSS-backed had taken place anywhere (plant protection and a separatist agenda. group, and the Left-linked in the world. biosafety) of the Indian Mr. Jaitley has become the All India Student’s Associ- In a speech to students, Council of Agricultural Re- latest senior government fig- ation (AISA) at Delhi Uni- business people, and aca- search. He said that among ure to tackle the issue of free versity’s Ramjas College on demics at the London such pests, nematodes (mi- speech, under the spotlight Wednesday following the School of Economics on croscopic worms many of following the violence at cancellation of an invite ex- the government’s “vision which are parasites) had re- Damage control: The farmers are still not fully aware about Delhi University’s Ramjas Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, centre, at the London tended to Umar Khalid — ar- for the next decade,” he cently emerged as a major these potential crop-destroyers. College. School of Economics on Saturday. PTI rested for sedition in 2016 — said they had quickly threat to crops in the coun- Mr. Jaitley, who was re- and Shehla Rashid of Jawa- reached the stage where try and they caused loss of 10-12 % of crop production cil of Agricultural Research sponding to student ques- them. “I don’t think there individual group can resort harlal Nehru University. demonetisation of high 60 million tonnes of crops every year,” said Mr. Chakra- HS Gaur expressed his ap- tions at the London School should be any space for viol- to any physical violence,” he In its latest annual report, value notes had almost annually. He also said that barty. He was speaking at prehension about the spread of Economics following a ence,” he said, adding that said. human rights group Am- been completed. such large-scale crop-loss the XIII Annual Group Meet- of nematode in the country. speech on the government’s there was a need for a de- However, those who “ad- nesty International said that The transition from the was having an adverse effect ing of All India Co-ordinated Citing the instance of a par- vision for the future of the bate on the freedom of vocated the philosophy” of “regressive laws continued cash economy and the in- on the agricultural biosafety Research Project (AICRP) on ticular kind of nematode economy, said that those speech issue, and whether it national disintegration to be used” to persecute tegration of the formal and which was “paramount to Nematodes in Cropping Sys- which affected plants such who believed in freedom of extended to an “assault on couldn’t be seen as the best those exercising freedom of informal economy would food security.” tem in the city on Friday. as potatoes and tomatoes, speech, including their right the very sovereignty of the advocates of peace in India. expression, pointing to last in the long term provide “Nematodes, consisting of “The farmers are still not he said the Potato Cyst Nem- to question a nation’s sover- nation”. “If you believe you have year’s arrests of JNU stu- the government with the roundworms, threadworms fully aware about these po- atode was first discovered in eignty, had to concede that “When you have incidents free speech then you have to dents, as well as other incid- resources it needed for the and eelworms, are causing tential crop-destroyers,” he the Nilgiris and had now others had freedom of of varying versions I won’t be ready to concede free ents involving alleged “anti- development of rural loss of crops to the tune of added. spread to various parts of speech to disagree with sit on judgment on that: no speech to counter your national” behaviour. India. almost 60 million tonnes or The Dean of Indian Coun- the country. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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IN BRIEF Play by rules, BJP tells Sena It takes a village to break

Says both parties must remain alert to Congress plans to destabilise government free of party ailiations

Nistula Hebbar alert,” he told a Marathi tele- party. NEW DELHI vision channel. Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Ra- In Rajnath’s constituency, vote is for him, not party Returned postal ballots The statement implies a jya Sabha member and party Amid speculation that the parting of ways between the vice-president, said the Sena Smita Gupta to be reissued Congress may support a Shiv BJP and the Shiv Sena as needed to get back to the old BHABHAURA (CHANDAULI) CHANDIGARH Sena Mayor as the Brihan- partners in the Devendra rules of engagement In Yadav-majority Bh- The Chief Electoral Officer, Punjab, V.K. Singh said on mumbai Municipal Corpora- Fadnavis government in the between the old alliance abhaura, where Thakur Saturday that postal ballots tion polls threw up a hung State and at the Centre. partners and recognise families number fewer than returned undelivered could verdict, the BJP has urged its changed ground realities. a dozen, Union Home Min- be reissued on a request of National Democratic Alli- Change in equations “It is unfortunate that the ister Rajnath Singh is the the voter. The Returning ance partner to reconsider Senior BJP sources con- Shiv Sena is refusing to see toast of the village. Officer may reissue them by its opposition to the party. firmed that any decision by reason. In the past, the BJP Parshuram Yadav, who was post or deliver them in Union Minister for Roads the Sena to ally with the Con- has sacrificed several seats six years the Minister’s person. During counting, the and Highways Nitin Gadkari gress or any party other than recognising shifting ground senior in school, puts it this candidates would be had said on Friday that the the BJP would lead to an im- situations, including giving way, “We are all honoured Bholanath Yadav, left, Rajnath Singh’s classmate, and intimated about the number Sena and the BJP had “no mediate removal of Shiv up the seat of the late Ram by the fact that he was born Awdhesh Singh Yadav, right, gram pradhan. SMITA GUPTA of returned ballots. PTI option” but to come together Sena Ministers from both Kapseji who was a Rajya in this remote village in and form the ruling bloc in Nitin Gadkari governments. Sabha member, in 1996. The eastern Uttar Pradesh. It is avi [election time] stunt. He Prime Minister Narendra the Mumbai local body. “We will have to recon- Shiv Sena broke this ground he who has put Bhabhaura knows Akhilesh has worked Modi’s constituency were BSF sends back Pakistani On Saturday, Mr. destabilise the government, sider the position with re- rule for the first time and I on the map.” for the poor, not just for Ya- selected. who crossed border Gadkari’s words were spe- and that is why they want to gard to their continuance in say what Gadkariji has said, This is election time, so davs. He is trying to fool But today, the money CHANDIGARH cific with regard to the con- support the Shiv Sena. It is the governments led by us that the Sena must recognise who will the village vote people but we believe in that was allotted has be- The BSF has sent back a sequences of a Sena-Con- not oriented towards the bet- and, at the same time, polit- that both parties require for? “Barring the Dalits, we Rajnath Singh,” Parshuram come a bone of contention. 60-year-old Pakistani who gress tie-up. terment of Mumbai. The BJP ically undermining us,” said each other,” Mr. Sahasr- will all vote for the BJP Yadav says. “We vote for the In Bhabhaura, its youth- inadvertently crossed into the “The Congress wants to and the Shiv Sena must be a senior office-bearer of the abuddhe said. [Bharatiya Janata Party] be- man, not his party.” ful gram pradhan, Awdhesh Indian territory, an official cause the honourable Min- If the Minister was not Singh Yadav, and village said on Saturday. Troops at an ister is from our village,” from this village, would the elders meet under a outpost in the Amritsar sector says Bholanath Yadav, who Yadavs still vote for the BJP? thatched sit-out, discussing arrested Mureed Faqir on was Mr. Singh’s classmate. Bholanath Yadav is about to the status of an ongoing Friday, a BSF official said. He BJP lush with cash: Anand Sharma Even the Yadavs? Of course, respond when Parshuram project being implemented was handed over to Pakistan the Yadavs say. Yadav stops him: “That is a by the Central government. Rangers on humanitarian Parshuram Yadav ex- trick question: don’t an- “I hear ₹25 lakh has been grounds. PTI ‘Demonetisation has not afected the party’s Assembly election campaign’ plains, “After Independ- swer it.” But later, he re- spent on toilets for our vil- ence, the village would vote lents: “One should tell the lage school,” says Staff Correspondent Janata Party, which was de- man and the country’s eco- money. The process of re- for the Congress, then we truth. A few Yadavs will Bholanath Yadav solemnly. Rare turtles seized at SHIMLA ploying massive resources in nomy that had suffered the monetisation was too slow used to vote for Charan vote for the SP.” “But tell me, is it true that Malda railway station Senior Congress leader and the ongoing Assembly elec- most, he added. and had not helped any- Singh’s party, but after Ra- Rajnath Singh is not just 25 children will be able to MALDA former Union Minister tions in five States, showed Mr. Sharma said the gov- body, he said while claiming jnathji became Chief Minis- the pride of his village, he defecate simultaneously At least 1,200 rare turtles Anand Sharma on Saturday that there was sufficient ernment was not coming out that the entire economy was ter, we have been voting for has brought benefits to with these facilities?” were recovered by the said the so-called master money already with the with the exact figures of the a shambles. The process his party.” The current nar- Bhabaura. When IDBI Bank There is an embarrassed Railway Protection Force at stroke of demonetisation by party cadres during the de- money recovered and depos- might take more than two rative of the BJP’s campaign offered a sum of money un- laugh, and then the explan- the Malda Town railway station on Saturday. Three Prime Minister Narendra monetisation move, and the ited in the banks. He said it years to normalise, he is that only the Yadavs have der its corporate social re- ation: no, ₹25 lakh has been men were arrested in this Modi was a cover for one of people close to the BJP did could have been more than warned. benefited from Samajwadi sponsibility (CSR) pro- sent to improve the school connection. The turtles were the biggest scams in history. not suffer any heat of the 98% of the currency in circu- He said investments, Party (SP) rule. gramme to two villages, and only two toilets have brought from Uttar Pradesh, a At a press conference Prime Minister’s abrupt de- lation. All un-banked money credit off-takes and capital “That is just Modi’s chun- Bhabhaura and another in been constructed. police official said. PTI here, he said the Bhartiya cision. It was the common could not be named black formation had nosedived.

Omar Rashid burden of being Mukhtar An- Mau sari’s son — the four-time Past mustard and wheat MLA from neighbouring Mau fields, over a dusty bridge, a seat is accused of dozens of cavalcade of 13 SUVs enters a crimes and is currently in jail nondescript village in Mau in connection with the 2005 district of eastern Uttar Pra- murder of the BJP MLA desh. Abbas Ansari walks Krishnanand Rai. out of one of the vehicles to- “False cases were re- wards the square. He bears a gistered against my father to strong semblance to his put an end to our politics. If father, Mukhtar Ansari, es- he was mafia, why would pecially because of his people entrust faith in us for twirled-up moustache. The Abbas Ansari, the son of jailed politician Mukhtar Ansari is the past 25 years,” says Mr. 26-year-old sports a blue contesting the Ghosi seat on the BSP ticket. RAJEEV BHATT Abbas, who himself enjoys a scarf and four wristbands of clean image. In fact, he is an the Bahujan Samaj Party’s bas and his family. Some hours. “Dial the chairman,” exemplary sportsperson. He blue. Young and old, espe- even reach out to bless him. he directs his aides without is a member of the Indian cially women, rush out to “All these electric poles were any delay. After speaking to a shooting team and is among welcome him. A plate of set up 15 years ago by senior official, he assures vil- the top 10 skeet shooters, chura (a rich, flattened Mukhtar bhai (the village lagers that power would be winning acclaim in two sub- snack), jaggery balls and a then fell under the Mau con- restored within a few hours. sequent World Cups — Ger- glass of water is served to stituency), and the roads “I will take care of you. Be- many and Finland. He se- him as custom in this part of and tubewells too. But no stow me with your bless- cured his first national the country. party or MLA has worked for ings,” Mr. Abbas appeals to championship in 2011 in the “The media people call us us since. Look at the condi- villagers as he exits the shotgun category, and mafia. Now you show them if tion of the roads today,” Gan- locality. missed a berth in the Rio we are mafia or messiah,” pat Rajbhar said. Making his political debut Olympics after an accident in Mr. Abbas addresses the Ra- from the Ghosi seat on the 2014, which kept him out of jbhar women (a ‘most back- A call away BSP ticket, Abbas hopes his practice for a year. “I am one ward caste’) assembled there A few moments later, Mr. Ab- father’s goodwill among the of the few shooters who ex- in chaste Bhojpuri. bas is informed by residents poor and downtrodden, and cel in all three categories — Fun voyage: Foreign tourists enjoying a shikara ride in Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday. After months of unrest, tourism is The villagers have good that the village has had no clout, will see him through. big bore rifle, skeet and pis- expected to pick up in the coming season. NISSAR AHMAD things to say about Mr. Ab- power supply for the past 24 But there also comes the tol,” says Mr. Abbas. Dawood plan to kill Phire Dhekha: Buddhadeb cries betrayal businessman busted In memoir, former Bengal Chief Minister slams Governor’s role post-Singur

Police arrest contract killers in Rajkot Suvojit Bagchi mistake? [Is it] in the process acres proposed by the Gov- Kolkata of acquiring the land? Have I ernor. Rather, he asks, When Buddhadeb Bhat- made a mistake in being le- “What the Governor really tacharjee, as West Bengal nient towards the opposi- wanted?” Chief Minister, embarked on tion,” Mr. Bhattacharjee “I shared a friendly rela- a path of industrialisation in asks. He admits that he is go- tionship with him (Gov- 2006, the Left Front rallied ing to “learn from his ernor). But why did he step behind him. It was based on experience.” in to protect the opposition? a “realisation” that “frag- “But it has devastatingly A poisonous wound has sur- mentation” of land was re- damaged West Bengal,” he faced on the question of in- ducing agricultural produc- says. dustrialisation. As long as it tion in the State. However, would generate toxic blood, Alleged sharpshooter Ramdas Rahane and accomplices. PTI the decision to industrialise Salvo at Governor the people of the State a State where agriculture is Perhaps, it was not his rival would remember Governor Special Correspondent Based on inputs, the po- the primary source of liveli- Mamata Banerjee whom Mr. Gandhi,” Mr. Bhattacharjee AHMEDABAD lice laid a trap near hood was soon to boomer- Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Bhattacharjee has criticised says. The Gujarat Police arrested Kuvadva, 15 km ahead of Ra- ang. for the damage as much as four persons on Saturday jkot on the Ahmedabad The Left suffered a series allot land to big industrial the role of Gopalkrishna Party failures while they were allegedly on highway and intercepted of electoral defeats, with the houses. Gandhi, who was then the Mr. Bhattacharjee also ques- a mission to eliminate a Jam- the bus. The DCP said that biggest blow coming in the As a major step in this dir- Governor of the State. Mr. tions the party’s failure to nagar-based businessman on searching their luggage, 2011 Assembly elections, ection, land was allotted to Bhattacharjee claims that he address public grievances at on the outskirts of Rajkot. a pistol, six live cartridges, which the Trinamool Con- the Tatas to set up a small had proposed the name of the panchayat level, follow- The police said Dawood’s two knives and fake number gress won decisively. car factory in Singur. Chal- Mr. Gandhi as Governor. ing the Left’s defeat in the brother Anees Ibrahim, had plates having vehicle regis- Now, the former Chief lenging popular views, Mr. “I and two of my col- 2008 (panchayat) election. given the contract to kill the tration numbers of Gujarat Minister is candidly ques- Bhattacharjee says the ac- leagues, Nirupam Sen and He agreed that the people businessman to Ramdas Ra- and Maharashtra were tioning his own ideas, even quisition was not left to the Surjya Kanta Mishra, met of the State slowly started hane, a sharpshooter, and found. admitting mistakes, while administration alone and him. The discussion was fo- “drifting away” from them three others for ₹10 lakh. Rajkot Police Commis- occasionally criticising his “the farmers, organisations, cused on returning 400 and”… it was all about nar- “Rahane and his three ac- sioner Anupam Singh party in the second volume public forums, political acres (of 997 acres) of land row party interest, corrup- complices were on their way Gehlot said they had of his memoir, Phire Dhekha party and cultural groups” acquired. I explained that tion and nepotism which to Rajkot on a private bus to planned to steal a vehicle (Looking Back). too were involved. More those are marked for ancil- had defeated us (in 2008). kill the businessman, who from Jamnagar to execute than “80% of the farmers” lary industries. So the land (We) realised, we need to ad- runs a construction com- their plan. “We learnt dur- Alarming state gave up land willingly, he cannot be returned,” Mr. dress the issues immedi- pany in Jamnagar,” Deputy ing the interrogation that Bengal’s agriculture, accord- writes. “Then, who op- Bhattacharjee writes and ately. But situation never re- Commissioner of Police, Ra- they had planned to steal a ing to Mr. Bhattacharjee, posed? The unwilling farm- goes on to question Mr mains static,” the former jkot, S.R. Odedara, who led vehicle after reaching Jam- was in an “alarming state” as ers, many of whom did not Gandhi’s approach in the fol- Chief Minister added. Mr. the police team, said. nagar, change the number the land size remained fixed have proper possession doc- lowing paragraph. Mr Bhat- Bhattacharjee acknowledges The businessman has plates with fake ones which and fragmented affecting uments, amounting to less tacharjee, however, does not former Home Minister L.K. been identified as one Ash- they were carrying and ex- production, while the “num- than 18%,” he says. comment on a much-dis- Advani’s “unflinching sup- faq Khatri, who has interests ecute the crime before re- ber of the unemployed” “In fact, later, I thought a cussed issue — whether port” to address security re- in shipping and construc- turning to Maharashtra,” Mr. grew sharply. So he and his lot about this episode — there was a difference within lated issues on the tion activities. Gehlot said. party decided to acquire and where have I committed the the party on returning 400 Bangladesh border. 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WHO apparently told his interrogators that he when Kim Jong-il met her in the 1960s, Shimbun, Kim Jong-nam admitted that 2010, months before Kim Jong-un was PQpq wanted to visit the city’s Disneyland. He according to the North Korea Leader- his father was “suspicious” of his views. officially declared the successor of their was deported to China. The incident ship Watch website. Ms. Song divorced “After I went back to North Korea fol- ailing father. In October that year, a day caused a major embarrassment to the her husband and started living with Kim lowing my education in Switzerland, I before Kim Jong-un debuted as the North Korean leader and he cancelled a Jong-il. Kim Jong-nam is their only child. grew further apart from my father be- country’s successor, Kim Jong-nam told planned visit to Beijing. For Kim Jong- He did his schooling abroad, mostly in cause I insisted on reform and market- Asahi TV, a Japanese news network, Kim Jong-nam nam, then seen as the successor of Kim Moscow, and his early college education opening, and was eventually viewed that he was “personally against the third Jong-il, life would never be the same in Geneva. By the late 1980s, Kim Jong- with suspicion,” he wrote. Abroad, he generation succession,” but would be again. He fell out of favour with his Il, his father, had consolidated his posi- lived a flamboyant life, loved gambling happy to help. murder victim father and moved abroad to live a way- tion in Pyongyang’s power circles. In and travelling, occasionally making ward life, mostly in Macau and Beijing, 1988, Kim Jong-nam returned home and statements on the North Korean regime Message to the world? till his gruesome death on February 13 launched his political career. He first being led by his half-brother Kim Jong- The use of VX agent at a crowded in- as agent of at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur Interna- worked as a cadre in the Ministry of un, who rose to power when he was in ternational airport in the heart of Asia tional Airport. According to Malaysian People’s Security. After Kim Jong-il be- exile. He was spotted in several big cit- raises several questions. If the hit was a investigators, he was assassinated with came the North Korean leader following iesinEastAsiaaswellasinWestern Pyongyang job, as the Malaysian invest- death VX nerve agent, one of the most danger- his father’s death in 1994, Kim Jong-nam Europe. igators suggest, North Korea may be In May 2001, Japanese immigration offi- ous chemical weapons. also rose through the ranks. He was ap- His assassination is shrouded in mys- sending a message to its rivals. For cials arrested a 30-year-old man at pointed to the important DPRK Com- tery. The use of chemical weapons in years, Pyongyang conducted nuclear Tokyo’s Narita International Airport for Rise and fall puter Committee in 1998, which was the killing strengthens the theory that and missile tests in defiance of sanc- travelling on a forged Dominican Re- Born in Pyongyang in May 1971, Kim overseeing the regime’s key technology the hit was ordered by his half-brother. tions. Now, it appears to be drawing the publican passport using a Chinese alias, Jong-nam grew up with his maternal rel- initiatives. But all chances for him to Kim Jong-nam had earlier ruled himself world’s attention to its chemical and Pang Xiong. Later, it turned out that the atives, away from the public glare, as succeed his father were dashed in 2001 out of the game of thrones in Pyongy- biological weapons stockpiles, a new real name of Pang Xiong, meaning ‘fat the relationship between his father and when he was arrested in Tokyo. ang, but it’s not a secret that the broth- challenge for powers which have long bear’ in Mandarin, was Kim Jong-nam, mother Song Hye-rim was not approved According to some reports, Kim Jong- ers hardly got along. A North Korean wanted to take the fight to this reclusive and he was the eldest son of the then by grandfather Kim Il-sung, founder il was wary of his son’s westernised life- agent arrested in South Korea had told country. North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il. Dur- leader of North Korea. Ms. Song was a style even when he was working in the his interrogators that he had been ing his three-day detention in Tokyo, he leading film actress in Korea Film Studio regime. In a letter to the editor of Tokyo tasked with killing Kim Jong-nam in July STANLY JOHNY

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ries on at the back, around the space for around the time of the India Art Fair in what Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak in- the sender’s name. The letters are ad- Delhi, various exhibitions and films tended with their groundbreaking films, dressed to short Bombay addresses, in- bring us acute reminders of that time, and it was what the architects who built cluding ‘Chembur’ and ‘Fort’, for this is its triumphs and mistakes, and the mul- modern Delhi were continuing from the way before PIN codes were assigned. tifarious legacies to which it gave birth. Chandigarh experiment. The addressees’ names are also brief, There is a speech that Nehru gave to the The Bombay Progressive Artists’ PASSING BITE just initials and then the surnames: S.H Indian Institution of Engineers, in 1959, Group may have disbanded and a lot of Raza, K.H Ara. The questions are also which appears in different contexts. their work may now seem derivative or about other surnames: Husain, Bakre, Speaking about inviting Le Corbusier to dated, the Indian Brutalist architecture ruchir joshi Gade, and the letters are signed ‘Yours, build Chandigarh, Nehru says: “Many of the ’60s and ’70s may have traversed is a writer, ilmmaker and columnist Newton’. The examples of the corres- people argue about it, some like it, time with mixed success, the films of pondence in the vitrine are from the some dislike it. It is totally immaterial Ghatak and the younger Mani Kaul may The tone of the letter is plaintive and 1950s, when the painter Francis Newton whether you like it or not. It is the prove to be hard work for the uniniti- typical of a young man who finds him- Souza of the Bombay Progressive biggest thing in India of its kind... be- ated viewer, but these were the building self in a cold foreign country, writing to Artists’ Group found himself trying to cause it hits you on the head and makes blocks, the learning shocks of a unique his pals back home: has X received my make a career in post-war London, and you think. You may squirm at the im- cultural melange that is typically, if at letter? Has Y forgotten me or should I what was even more expensive than pact but it makes you think and imbibe times exasperatingly, Indian, and we understand that he’s remembering me back home was the paint and canvas he new ideas and the one thing that India should be thankful for the risks these in silence? What’s the progress of Z? needed to make his work. requires in so many fields is to be hit on practitioners took, individually and Why aren’t you people replying to me? In another section of the Kiran Nadar the head so you may think.” collectively. Then, of course, there are the com- Museum of Art in Delhi, there are sharp There is a supreme arrogance here Looking at the jostling crowds at the

plaints and warnings: the place is too black-and-white photo prints — pristine ISTOCK/ GETTY IMAGES but there is also an inescapable truth. events around the India Art Fair, you cold and the people unfriendly; things new buildings that have just been com- Perhaps our environment didn’t need to realise that so much of urban cultural are more expensive than they were back pleted; the light grey exposed concrete the structures as the ones you pass by Opening our minds be hit on the head with the dams, or our production today is enslaved by con- home; food is the first priority, and the white paint bits stark against a every day in central Delhi, the lines and When thinking about art and architec- agrarian economy with the big govern- sumerism and fashion. To be reminded everything else be damned; and so on. deep, clear sky; the window and jaali curves now obscured by other construc- ture, we tend to forget the first three mental industrial projects, but we did amidst all this about the very different The letters are aerogrammes of light shadows marching in dark black grids; tions — by the curtaining mess of the decades of Independence and the vari- need the hits on the head that opened ethos of the ’50s and ’60s, a very differ- blue paper and, like many Indians, the the surroundings often bare plots dot- street, by the stains and grime all desi ous leaps of imagination and labour that up our thinking and we still do. It was ent vision of a society and a nation that man crams in as much as he can. In at ted with trees. modernist architecture seems to clutch were made while coming out of the pen- what the early artists’ collectives were isn’t mired in jingoism but in the spirit least one instance the writing even car- With a shock you recognise some of to itself. umbra of the British Raj. This year, trying to achieve in visual art, it was of internationalism, is startling. Merely opening accounts for The curious story of women won’t ensure equality a forgotten war Changing attitudes will address gender imbalance in inancial services As the terms of interventionism are rewritten, a look at America’s war in Laos

have a bank account to start with. of women have a cell phone compared From 39% of women having bank ac- to over two-thirds of men in India. counts before the Pradhan Mantri Jan- With ‘Digital India’ driving digital de- Dhan Yojana kicked off, the figure livery of financial services, this means jumped to 61% of women within a year that six out of ten women are automat- of the PMJDY being operational. This ically excluded. ON THE OTHER HAND has been the largest single-year nar- rowing of the gender gap in banking A question of perception WORD COUNTS R. Srinivasan achieved in any country in the world. But these are solvable problems. Ac- is Editor, The Hindu Business Line This is a terrific beginning, but only counts can be opened, cell-phone con- mini kapoor the first step. Simply opening a bank nections can be issued. But percep- is Ideas Editor, The Hindu For some reason, the government ap- account for a woman does not make tions and attitudes cannot be changed pears to have developed last-minute her financially independent, or even by physical intervention. They need at- The United States is a changed country cold feet about delivering the coup de any greater a part of the financial sys- titudinal change. with the inauguration last month of grâce to the Bharatiya Mahila Bank, tem than she was before. Unless the This cannot be achieved through Donald Trump as its President, and his started with much fanfare a few years women actually start using these ac- fiat or token affirmative action. rewrite of the superpower’s rules of in- ago as a bank of, for and by women, counts, and banks actually start Whether or not there is a woman at ternational engagement is still a work which has been going nowhere in a serving them as customers in their the top in the banking system, and re- in progress. But it is worth recalling hurry since its launch. For a govern- own right, even this spectacular gardless of the number of female cus- some of the stops on his predecessor ment headed by Prime Minister Naren- achievement promises to remain no tomers, the formal financial sector Barack Obama’s global itinerary. THE HINDU ARCHIVES dra Modi, who has often reiterated more than a tick in the tokenist check- simply does not see women as eco- Obama never did make it to Iran, but that he is not one to shy away from nomic agents worthy of taking finan- he signalled substantive efforts at re- second glance, at least in public, at its ral America and Afghanistan to the tough decisions (and who amply cial risk on. For instance, according to conciliation in other countries that own mistakes, and their long-lasting drone warfare that had expanded so demonstrated this strength of will with a report by the IFC and McKinsey had been frozen out of Washington’s consequences. vastly on Obama’s watch. the demonetisation decision), this re- (‘Scaling up access to finance for wo- engagement, such as Cuba, Myanmar, A new book just out, A Great Place Kurlantzick, who had previously ex- luctance is puzzling. Because killing men entrepreneurs’), women own and Laos. Each of those was a historic to Have a War: America in Laos and the amined American choices in Southeast the Bharatiya Mahila Bank is not a very one-third of small and medium enter- visit. Indeed, it was in the Laotian cap- Birth of a Military CIA by Joshua Kur- Asia in a biography of Jim Thompson difficult decision to take. Tokenism has prises (SMEs), but only 6% of the SME ital, Vientiane, last September that he lantzick, provides a history of the (The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim never achieved anything much any- banking portfolio is allocated to wo- came close to apologising for Amer- “secret war” America waged in Laos in Thompson and the American Way of where, let alone in the field of gender men. According to the report, women ican actions of the past. In town for the the purported effort to contain com- War), counts the consequences for equality in financial inclusion. in emerging markets face a global summit of Association of Southeast munism. Writes Kurlantzick: “Presid- Laos. By 1975, he notes, 200,000 Lao- credit gap of $260-$320 billion. Ac- Asian Nations, he said, “Given our his- ent Dwight D. Eisenhower and his tians had died, a figure that was 10% of Closing the gap cording to a 2014 Goldman Sachs re- tory here, I believe that the United staff, attuned to the domino theory of Laos’s total population at the start of If simply having women running the port (‘Giving credit where it is due’), States has a moral obligation to help one country after the next falling to the war. Some of the descriptions are show was the answer to addressing the other things being equal, the rejection Laos heal.” communism, saw Laos as a bulwark — chilling to read: “In the most heavily vast gender imbalance prevailing in rate for loan applications from wo- a nation where the United States could bombed part of the country — a high, the financial services sector, the issue men-run SMEs was twice that of male- Long-lasting consequences make a stand to prevent communism strategically located plateau in the should have been solved without tak- run ones. Obama noted that the U.S. had from spreading west out of China and middle of Laos, called the Plain of Jars ing recourse to creating a special bank dropped more bombs in Laos during North Vietnam into Thailand and India — the American bombing runs never run by women. After all, India’s largest Seeing an opportunity the 1960s and early ’70s than it had in and beyond.” paused.” Of the 150,000 residents in nationalised bank is run by a woman. Contrast this with the microfinance Japan and Germany combined during In fact, notes Kurlantzick, Eisen- these parts, only 9,000 survived the So is India’s largest private sector sector, especially self-help groups, the Second World War. He pledged to hower told John F. Kennedy, who had war. bank. In fact, women-led banks in In- where a majority of the customers are double the U.S.’s financial commit- been elected to succeed him as U.S. Many of the CIA men who particip- ISTOCK/ GETTY IMAGES dia – both nationalised and private sec- women. By simply viewing women as ment to $30 million a year for the President, that Laos “was the most ated in the war went on to lead its mil- tor – control an estimated 40% of as- being worthy of taking a financial bet clean-up of unexploded bombs in the pressing foreign policy issue in the itary efforts in other parts of the globe. sets in the banking sector. This is the list. At the moment, more than a third on, the fortunes of millions of poor country. The mismatch in those two world”. By then the CIA (Central Intel- But two of the dramatis personae, a highest proportion in the world – no of PMJDY accounts are dormant. And families have been transformed. An as- facts — the enormous damage wrought ligence Agency) had gained approval CIA operative called Bill Lair and Vang other country comes even close. So, if 86% of women PMJDY account hold- tonishing 97% of the customers of on landlocked Laos and the recom- for Operation Momentum, to arm Pao, an anti-communist Hmong having women in charge was the an- ers, according to a Financial Inclusion Bandhan Financial Services, India’s pense offered all these decades later — Laos’s Hmong tribesmen against the leader, would end up disillusioned swer, the issue of gender inequality in Insights study, have only used their largest microfinance institution which is staggering, but perhaps what’s more Pathet Lao backed by North Vietnam. men. There is a particularly intriguing financial services should have been bank accounts for basic activities like has just turned into a bank, were wo- staggering yet is how forgotten that It would expand into an ambitious CIA reference early in the book, where solved. Long ago. deposits. men. The MFI sector’s bad loan portfo- long episode of America’s Cold War in paramilitary operation, a “covert Vang Pao recalls a commitment that In fact, the biggest measure this gov- Lack of financial literacy is one big lio is smaller by several multiples than Southeast Asia is. Those of us devoted war”, “the first such secret, CIA-run the Hmong would not be abandoned ernment – or indeed any government factor. A 2015 Standard & Poor’s sur- that of the traditional banking sector. to crime fiction have got a sense of it in war in American history”. Kurlant- by the Americans “no matter what”, that we have had so far – has taken to- vey on financial literacy found that What’s the difference? They saw in recent years through Colin Cotterill’s zick’s holding theme is how the Laos but Lair would later say he did not re- wards redressing the gender imbal- 80% of female respondents in India these women what organised banking Siri Paiboun books, set in the 1970s war changed the CIA, giving the collect statements attributed to him. In ance in financial inclusion has been were financially illiterate. There is a – regardless of whether it is run by wo- after the U.S. shipped out of the region agency a template for future interven- any case, there was no CIA commit- simply ensuring that more women also a huge ‘digital divide’ – only 44% men or not – did not: an opportunity. after the fall of Saigon without a tions, ranging from operations in Cent- ment on paper. A song of our collective freedoms, an act of unfreedom Coercing children to learn the national anthem will not make them fonder of the nation or foster cohesion

More than the melody and gravitas, the fragments. Patriotism, or a form of com- ounces of patriotism in our schools. On real challenge is to speak to a diversity mitment to the nation, in essence, how- the contrary, what we see world over is in a country without being treacly and soever disfigured its patrimonial that strong states are marked by norms melodramatic. In essence, while acts of legacies have often been, is here to stay. of collegiality and traditions of respect patriotism are probably easier to and dissent towards symbols of our col- identify, finding the right kind of lan- Sacralising the nation lective union, not legally enforceable guage to describe patriotism is hard. These questions of patriotism burble up mandates with the threat of punish- SERENDIPITIES Conversely, harder still is knowing what yet again now because the Attorney ment. Dismissing a West Virginia state exactly is this ‘patriotism’ that our lan- General, Mukul Rohatgi, has deemed law that previously demanded Jehovah’s Keerthik Sasidharan guage seeks to describe? that a debate on mandatory anthem Witnesses recite the Pledge of Allegi- was born in Palakkad and lives in New York singing in schools is necessary. Further, ance, Justice Robert Jackson of the U.S. Patriotism from above he proposes to review, and perhaps re- Supreme Court wrote in 1943 that “to Here is a thought experiment. Say, the Even Rabindranath Tagore, who was litigate, the 30-year-old exception from believe that patriotism will not flourish powers that be who govern India have ever suspicious of false gods and whose singing the anthem granted to the ad- if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary decided that we, the people, are in need lines are now deemed as part of our herents of Jehovah’s Witnesses. This and spontaneous, instead of a compuls- of a new national anthem. More import- “sacred obligation” by the Supreme plan is in spite of an overburdened judi- ory routine, is to make an unflattering antly, you, the reader of this page, have Court no less, was suspicious of patriot- cial system, ostensibly because accord- estimate of the appeal of our institu- been asked to write the words. The con- ism from above. In his now little-read ing to Mr. Rohatgi, it is “extremely im- tions to free minds.” ditions proposed are simple but open- collection of essays on nationalism, portant to instil a sense of nationalism This is something our democratic ended: the words must be jargon- and Tagore writes that “neither the colour- from childhood”. For an officer of the government must also remember. euphemism-free, the lines must arouse less vagueness of cosmopolitanism, nor state — a post-colonial state, no less, sur- Worse yet, coercing the singing of the a feeling of the collective but also be the fierce self-idolatory of nation-wor- rounded by inimical neighbours and national anthem, a song of our collect- spacious enough for our private imagin- ship is the goal of human history”. Man, marked by inflexible citizens citing tran- ive freedoms, a testimony to the affirm-

ations to wander, and ultimately, the he thought, is not born to worship his G. RAMAKRISHNA scendental claims — it is understandable ations of gratitude and joy by our an- words must neither coerce identities nation, far less offer an uncritical fealty that sacralising the nation seems nat- cestors will paradoxically be associated nor elevate one group of people over to the symbols that exalt the idea of that which our adult emotional lives are filiations — connected yet separate. ural, even attractive. by our children with an unfreedom no another. And yes, it must be short. nationhood. Yet one of the great myster- spent. Most of us can’t imagine our lives Even refugees, who sometimes save But this attitude forgets that nations different than the tedium of multiplica- This now, when you think about it, is ies of our lives in the 21st century is how without a nationality to anchor themselves at the expense of their don’t grow fonder in our hearts, far less tion tables and the tyranny of eating ve- a mighty difficult task: to write words the idea of a nation, or of a bureaucratic ourselves to. Man may not be an island, peers, insist on a membership in the elicit sacrifices or foster cohesion from getables. We don’t, after all, legally that can soar and yet remain grounded. state, becomes the carapace inside but he is an islet in an archipelago of af- very same collective that now lies in citizens because of state-mandated daily mandate either of those two. CM ND-ND YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE CAPSULE There is more to come in the CRISPR story Though the verdict is out on the patent case, there are many reasons why the ight to own this gene editing technology will continue

New York Times quick resolution to the European But there are alternatives to Cas9 patent battle either: Coombes es- that provide other functions, and The U.S. Patent and Trademark Of- timates that it could drag out for a way to sidestep the Berkeley– Bees play ball fice recently issued a key verdict in another five years or more. Broad patent fight. Tool use is not limited to the battle over the intellectual 3. Other parties are also claim- One attractive alternative is humans, primates and marine property rights to the potentially ing patent rights on CRISPR–Cas9. Cpf1, an enzyme that may be sim- mammals as we know. lucrative gene-editing technique Attention has focused on the pler to use and more accurate According to a new study, CRISPR–Cas9. Berkeley–Broad battle because than Cas9 in some cases. The published in the journal It ruled that the Broad Institute their patents are fairly broad and Broad has already filed patents on Science, invertebrates such as of Harvard and MIT in Cambridge, are seen as being crucial to most applications of Cpf1 in gene edit- bees, too, can be trained in Massachusetts, could keep its pat- commercial applications of CR- ing, and has licensed them to the this skill. The experiment ents on using CRISPR–Cas9 in euk- ISPR–Cas9. But there are 763 pat- biotech company Editas Medicine involved training bumblebees aryotic cells. That was a blow to ent families (groups of related pat- in Cambridge (which also has li- to roll a ball by offering them the University of California, Berke- ents) that claim Cas9, according to censes for some Broad patents on a reward. ley, which had filed its own pat- the consulting firm IPStudies near CRISPR–Cas9). In all, there are ents and had hoped to have the Lausanne, Switzerland. Of those, already 28 patent families that Broad’s thrown out. some claim patent rights to certain claim Cpf1, according to IPStudies, The fight goes back to 2012, aspects of CRISPR–Cas9 gene edit- and not all of them are from the when Jennifer Doudna at Berkeley; ing. Over time, holders of those Broad. Emmanuelle Charpentier, then at patents may try to assert those Reports of other enzymes are the University of Vienna; and their rights. trickling in. In December, re- colleagues outlined how CRISPR– Prime contenderJennifer Doudna, right, and her lab manager, Kai Hong, working in her laboratory in Berkeley, That may not happen until com- searchers at Berkeley said that Cas9 could be used to precisely California. AP panies that use CRISPR–Cas9 start they had found two new Cas9 al- cut isolated DNA. In 2013, Feng to make money from their ternatives, CasX and CasY3. And Zhang at the Broad and his col- confident Berkeley feels that its Yet the details of the USPTO’s not necessarily follow the same products. At that point, someone some researchers may already be Fear-free mice leagues — and other teams — own patents, once granted, would ruling could weaken Berkeley’s path as the USPTO, notes Cather- who owns a related patent may trying to patent unpublished al- Japanese researchers showed how it could be adapted to cover the most lucrative applica- chances of enforcing its patents in ine Coombes, a patent lawyer at sue for infringement and ask for ternatives — U.S. patent applica- temporarily abolished fearful edit DNA in eukaryotic cells such tions of gene editing in eukaryotic eukaryotic cells, patent scholars the intellectual property special- royalties. tions typically do not become pub- memories in mice by as plants, livestock and humans. cells, such as generating new say. For example, much of the ists HGF in York, England. When the time comes, look for lic until 18 months after they are deactivating a neural protein. Berkeley filed for a patent crops or human therapies. USPTO’s 50-page decision argues On the basis of European case plenty of patent holders to come filed. Such a feat is normally difficult earlier, but the USPTO granted the The Broad’s victory centred on that the use of CRISPR–Cas9 in eu- law, the European Patent Office calling, says Jacob Sherkow, an in- Sherkow likens the situation to to carry out, because the Broad’s patents first — and last a key difference: that its patents karyotic cells — described in the could choose to assess whether tellectual property scholar at New the early days of PCR (the poly- procedure would affect both week upheld them. There are high specified how CRISPR could be ad- Broad patent — required addi- the discovery of the general gene- York Law School in New York City. merase chain reaction), a tech- the cell surface and the stakes involved in the ruling. The apted for use in eukaryotic cells tional invention beyond that de- editing system described in the “Everybody and their third cousin nique used to amplify segments of internal forms of the protein in question. The research is holder of key patents could make and Berkeley’s did not. This is why scribed in the Berkeley patent Berkeley patent prompted “suffi- twice removed is going to be DNA that quickly became a vital published in Nature millions of dollars from CRISPR– the USPTO ruled that the Broad’s application. cient motivation” to try to make claiming they have some inventor- tool in molecular biology. Laborat- Biotechnology. Cas9’s applications in industry: patents would not interfere with So Berkeley may feel that it the leap to eukaryotic cells. If ship interest in the Broad’s pat- ories initially used just one en- Already, the technique has sped the granting of Berkeley’s, and so must still appeal. And its intellec- European judges find this to be ent,” he says. “The Broad is going zyme, Taq1 polymerase, to carry up genetic research, and scientists should be allowed to stand. tual property is already licensed to the case, they could rule that the to be fighting those battles for out the protocol. are using it to develop disease-res- Berkeley’s team was quick to ar- several companies that intend to Berkeley patent covers eukaryotic years.” “Now if you go through the istant livestock and treatments for gue, in the wake of the decision, deploy CRISPR–Cas9 in eukaryotic applications of CRISPR–Cas9. 4. CRISPR technology is moving catalog, there’s almost an Amazon human diseases. that its patent — if granted in its cells. Those companies will prob- That could give Berkeley an beyond what the patents cover. warehouse of polymerases that But the fight for patent rights to current state — would cover the ably prefer not to have to pay for a edge that it lacked in the United Researchers in academia and you can use depending on the par- CRISPR technology is by no means use of CRISPR–Cas9 in any cell. license from the Broad as well. States. “The fact that six groups industry have been pushing CR- ticular reaction that you want to over. Here are four reasons why. That, the team says, would mean 2. European patents are still up got CRISPR–Cas9 to work in a euk- ISPR gene editing beyond the do,” he says. 1. Berkeley can appeal the someone wanting to sell a product for grabs. aryotic environment within weeks scope of the Broad and Berkeley People are tethering the com- ruling. made using CRISPR–Cas9 in euka- Both teams have filed similar of one another shows that in the patents. mercialization aspect of CRISPR to Berkeley has two months to ap- ryotic cells would need to license patents in Europe and are still bat- field there was clear motivation to Both patent families cover the this particular patent fight, ‘Smart’ gut bacteria peal the USPTO’s ruling — and may patents from both Berkeley and tling for patent rights there. try,” says Coombes. use of CRISPR–Cas9, which relies Sherkow says. “That’s missing Researchers have described well do so. A key question is how the Broad. And the decision in Europe may Even so, there is likely to be no on the Cas9 enzyme to cut DNA. some of the broader picture.” the means by which infectious bacteria can sense that they are attached to our intestinal cells, and then remodel the expression of specific genes they possess, including those Darknet robust for lack of “rich clubs” involved in virulence and metabolism, to exploit the cells of the person whose gut The Darknet ofers anonymity on the part of the surfer and the service provider they inhabit and colonise the Shubashree Desikan gut. structure of the Internet makes it Recent research analysing the more vulnerable to attacks, be- structure of the Darknet in com- cause by hitting at the central parison with the Internet reveals nodes, one can destabilize the en- that the former is, in fact, more tire system. This can’t be done robust against factors such as se- with the Darknet which has a de- curity breaches or systemic in- centralised structure. stabilities than the Internet. The analysis shows this is because of Dynamical instability Fast to reverse diabetes its peculiar topology that is differ- The Internet crashed for the first ent from that of the Internet. The time in 1980 when it hosted thou- Autism and herpes Darknet’s lack of a “rich club”-like sands of users. The crash was due A study on mice demonstrated reversal core of highly connected nodes is to a cascading effect of a mistake Women actively infected with Indo-Asian News Service genital herpes in early one aspect that renders it robust that originated in one router and This increases production of pregnancy had twice the odds against random crashes, targeted not due to an attack on a central the protein neurogenin-3 (Ngn3) of giving birth to a child later attacks and also cascading effects node. A type of fasting diet may repro- and, as a result, promotes the diagnosed with autism of failures of core nodes. This re- This sort of cascade can gramme pancreas cells, promote creation of new, healthy insulin- spectrum disorder (ASD), a search is to be published in Phys- propagate more easily through a the growth of new insulin-produ- producing beta cells. study says. It is believed the ical Review E. “Internet is highly network with rich club nodes, cing pancreatic cells and reduce Researchers also examined mother's immune response to centralized around hubs, [has] than a decentralised Darknet type symptoms of Type 1 and Type 2 pancreatic cell cultures from hu- herpes simplex virus-2 could highly connected nodes which are structure. diabetes, a study has shown. man donors and found that, in be disrupting foetal central very interconnected each other. Explaining the strength of the In the study, led by research- cells from Type 1 diabetes pa- nervous system development, The Darknet is highly decentral- Darknet, Dr De Domenico says, ers from the University of South- tients, nutrients mimicking fast- raising risk for autism. ized: we did not find a core of “The fact that its network is ern California, mice were placed ing also increased expression of hubs. This [requires] much more Ubiquitous network: Despite being widely used, the usual search highly decentralized makes [it] on fasting mimicking diet (FMD) the Ngn3 protein and insulin effort to dismantle the network,” engines probe only a tiny fraction of the Web. NISSAR AHMAD more efficient: if a node crashes, for four days each week. production. says Manlio De Domenico, an au- the load is redistributed almost They showed remarkable re- “These findings warrant a lar- thor of the paper, in an email. so well and can access using fence establishments for passing equally among other nodes, with versal of diabetes. ger FDA trial on the use of the search engines like Google or Bing on sensitive and classified inform- no super-nodes overloaded. This The mice regained healthy in- Fasting Mimicking Diet to treat The alter ego constitutes just a small fraction of ation, it is also, for instance, used is true at the beginning of the pro- sulin production, reduced insulin diabetes patients,” said Valter The Internet and the Darknet the total of overlay networks; by journalists who require utmost cess, and it is not the case with resistance. Longo from the University of have formed the subject of much there is also the Darknet, the In- secrecy. Certainly it has a sinister the Internet (where if a hub fails, They also demonstrated more Southern California. research, especially regarding the ternet’s alter ego, which consists side, with criminals also making it is likely to redistribute its load stable levels of blood glucose — “People with diabetes could higher robustness of the latter of the Web’s non-indexed parts full use of this technology. to other hubs thus overloading even in the later stages of the dis- one day be treated with an FDA- Drones and ‘fuzzy logic’ network. First created in the early that cannot be accessed by search From a network point of view, them).” ease, the researchers said in the approved Fasting Mimicking Diet Scientists, including one of 1990s by the US agencies – De- engines. What is more, this the structure of the Darknet is The researchers also predict paper published in the journal for a few days each month, eat a Indian origin, are using fense Advanced Research Projects Darknet can be accessed only us- very different from that of the In- that the Darknet is undergoing a Cell. normal diet for the rest of the artificial intelligence called Agency (DARPA) and the Office of ing onion routers like Tor or The ternet. While in the Internet transition from decentralised to The genes normally active in month, and see positive results in ‘fuzzy logic’ to get drones to Naval Research – the Darknet is Freenet Project– which are special nodes that are central tend to con- centralised structure, based on the developing pancreas of em- their ability to control their blood navigate and land themselves both resistant to eavesdropping browsers that ensure anonymity nect more with each other, form- observations over a span of a few bryonic/foetal mice are reactiv- sugar by producing normal levels on moving platforms without and traffic analysis. of the surfer as well as the service ing a “rich club” it is not the case years. This remains, however, to ated in diabetic adult mice when of insulin and improving insulin any help. Researchers from the The Internet that we all know provider. While this is used by de- in the Darknet. The centralised be checked by future studies. cycling FMD with normal diets. function,” Longo added. University of Cincinnati in the U.S. applied fuzzy logic, the kind of reasoning people CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC employ subconsciously every Question Corner day for the purpose. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Black rhinos on the brink of extinction Foreign blood cells? cell antigens which are not routinely done by most blood Why does the immune system not banks. The species has lost 70% of its genetic diversity, inds study ODD & END attack blood that has been Since no compatibility tests are transfused? done specifically for platelets and Divya Gandhi preserved in museum Playway chemistry ■ A.P. Saradhi, Visakhapatnam white cells, in some patients the collections). Compared with When a foreign protein is system recognises these as foreign As the value of rhinoceros horn The paper calls for “a conventional class-room introduced, the body reacts by and results in mild shivering and touches $65,000 per kg, complete re-evaluation of learning, students may producing antibodies. Some of fever, which is referred to as non- poaching has begun to drive the current conservation learn chemistry better these are protective and some haemolytic febrile transfusion African black rhinoceros to “the management paradigms” for the through games despite could be hazardous to the body. reaction. verge of extinction” - not just by black rhinoceros. “By identifying receiving no formal in- In blood transfusion, the patient’s ■ Dr P Srinivasan, reducing its population size, but the genetic units remaining for class science instruction. body receives “foreign” red blood Co-Founder & Chairman, Jeevan by erasing 70% of the species’ surviving rhinos, we are This is what researchers cells, platelets, white blood cells Blood Bank & Research Centre, genetic diversity - says a research effectively defining the from the University of and plasma containing proteins. 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Karthik, Chennai genetic diversity decreases the Africa is now restricted to just ive countries. without negatively affecting the university press release. transfusing red blood cells which When you look at our nails, we see a ability of a species to survive and gene pool,” co-author Michael W. The game allows players are not 100% compatible with the white portion at the base, what is reproduce, explains lead author countries, South Africa, Namibia, second half of the 20th century, Bruford, Professor at Cardiff to incorporate the patient. When this happens the red this? Yoshan Moodley, Professor at the Kenya, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. however, poaching for horns has School of Biosciences, Cardiff properties of chemical blood cells of the patient are Department of Zoology, Genetically unique populations dramatically depleted their University, U.K told The Hindu. elements and compounds attacked by the incompatible ■ P.J. 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Museum collection diseases, said Prof. Bruford. example, convert crude oil is a compelling need for matching ■ Neerad Thanvi, Bikaner, Rajasthan 64 different genetic lineages; but The origins of the ‘genetic For the study, scientists used “Thus the loss of so much into a jetpack using not only the major blood groups of today only 20 of these lineages erosion’ coincided with colonial genetic data obtained from evolutionary potential in the distillation, chemical the two (namely, A, B or lack of remain, says the paper. The rule in Africa and the popularity existing animals and museum black rhino is worrying for its processes. Readers can send their questions/answers both “O” but also other red blood to [email protected] species is now restricted to five of big game hunting. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 BEING 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DR HUMERUS KESHAV They play with ire A German ire safety training programme aims to keep children safe by teaching them how to make ire

Children may come pertise to develop an educational <> programme for school-age chil- preprogrammed to play dren that removed the prohibi- with ire, and if so, it’s an tions against fire. Many German impulse extremely fire departments now embrace the diicult to suppress .... Julgas’ ideas. Sara Zaske focussed on young people who Criticism t a Berlin day care centre, a have already been caught setting il- Mr. Karawahn, the artist, has taken little boy lights a match and licit fires. fire training to a new level, giving Atouches it to another, mak- The prohibition around chil- weeklong workshops to 5- and 6 ing a sudden flare. The girl sitting dren and fire is so ingrained in year olds in kindergartens and day next to him shouts a word that is American culture that I, as an care centres for over a decade. the same in German and English: American, never thought to ques- More recently, he has had these AROUND THE WORLD “Cool!” tion its wisdom until I moved with older children serve as “fire ex- The two children, both under 6, my family to Berlin in 2009. There, perts” to teach other children as Antibiotics for cystic aren’t breaking any rules. They are my 7-year-old daughter came young as 3. taking part in a fire workshop de- home from school one day, excited “That’s a serious mistake,” says ibrosis may cause signed by Kain Karawahn, an artist to show us what she had learned. Paul Schwartzman, an American hearing loss who, as part of a performance She struck a match, carefully mental health counsellor who’s High dosage of a powerful class of piece about freedom in 1987, once pointing it away from her body, worked with the fire protection as- antibiotics administered to treat set a blaze at the Berlin Wall. No and lit a candle. Then, she waved sociation for 20 years. Children at cystic ibrosis may signiicantly one was hurt. the match out and watched the age 3 or 4 “are just not develop- increase the risk of permanent Now Mr. Karawahn teaches candle flame intently, her face mentally able to handle that re- GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO hearing loss, a new study has young children how to set safe glowing with pride. sponsibility,” he says. “They don’t warned. Cystic ibrosis (CF) is an fires. “The success is not ‘Hooray, Our fascination with fire runs have the intellectual ability to un- inherited life-threatening disorder that damages the lungs and it’s burning!’” he says. “The suc- deep. “It’s very clear we have been derstand what’s going to happen digestive system. About 70,000 people worldwide are living with the disease. The study, by researchers from Oregon Health cess is that after my fire, the place dependent on fire for a long, long or how quickly it can get out of & Science University, U.S., suggests that physicians who treat looks the same as before, and I time, and it has been integral to control.” Even supervised training patients with CF may be able to consider alternative strategies look the same as before.” our evolution as a highly intelli- for 6-year-olds sends the wrong for treating the symptoms of respiratory infections associated gent, information-using species,” message, Mr. Schwartzman be- with CF, especially if patients are responsive to diferent classes Earns support says Daniel Fessler, an evolution- lieves, giving children false confid- of antibiotics. Mr. Karawahn’s workshops aim to ary anthropologist at the Univer- ence that they can handle fires on “Preventing or ameliorating the efects of permanent hearing prevent tragedies caused by chil- sity of California, Los Angeles, U.S. their own. loss is crucial for patients with CF who already have a dren playing with fire in secret. Fire served as protection, warmth In cultures where making fires is signiicantly compromised quality of life due to the disease,” Young children who make a fire and a means to a higher quality still central to cooking and every- the researchers said. “People don’t realise the trauma of alone often won’t tell adults for diet, which may have allowed our day chores, children do learn to Without getting burned: “The approach stands in stark contrast to the hearing loss until after they’ve lost it,” said Peter Steyger, a fear of punishment. Even worse, pre-human ancestors to develop manage fire at a young age. Dr. ‘Learn Not to Burn’ message promoted in the U.S., which urges children PhD in the OHSU School of Medicine who lost hearing as a child they sometimes hide after setting a bigger brains, he says. Fessler found that in 19 societies, never to touch matches or lighters.” GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO after being treated with antibiotics for a case of meningitis at fire and end up dying from smoke Natural selection may even have ranging from the Yanomami in the age of 14 months. The study has been published in the inhalation. method and earned the support of done on Mr. Karawahn’s approach. favoured individuals who learned Venezuela to the Kipsigis in Kenya, Journal of Cystic Fibrosis. So he teaches children how to fire officials, insurance companies Yet he has been teaching his work- how to master fire early, he specu- children start learning about fire as burn things properly — how to and safety organisations in that shops for more than a decade, lates. In other words, our children young as toddlers and master its Tackling eczema with hold a match, use a lighter, light country. His approach stands in without any reports of his fire- may come preprogrammed to play use between 5 and 8. That’s not skin bacteria candles and build small bonfires. stark contrast to the “Learn Not to trained children setting structures with fire, and if so, it’s an impulse the case in most Western societies, Healthy human skin is alive with He lets them play with fire openly, Burn” message promoted by the on fire, he said. extremely difficult to suppress. where fire competency is delayed bacteria. In fact, there are more under adult supervision, so they National Fire Protection Associ- The alternative strategy, the In Germany, the shift in thinking until adolescence or later. Mr. micro-organisms living in and on the can indulge their curiosity and ation in the United States, which avoidance approach long used by about fire safety is widely credited Schwartzman maintains that human body than there are human learn about fire without feeling the urges children never to touch the fire protection association in to Günter and Gryta Julga, a mar- without the constant managed cells. Most can live on the human need to do so in secret. matches or lighters, let alone ex- the United States, likewise has little ried couple in Hamburg. He was a learning found in fire-using cul- skin without harming the host, GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO He has trained nearly 2,000 plore their use. evidence on its effectiveness. Most fire chief and she was a teacher. In tures, it’s dangerous to allow chil- but in some people, bacteria can educators in Germany in his No formal studies have been research on fires and children has the 1980s, they combined their ex- dren to use fire. NYT negatively alter their health, maybe even becoming life- threatening. In a paper published in Science Translational CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Medicine, researchers report isolating and growing good bacteria that produce antimicrobial peptides and successfully Vaccine science versus WhatsApp Family planning deaths transplanting it to treat patients with the most common type of eczema, known as atopic dermatitis. The team tested if bacteria normally found on human skin, including Staphylococcus must not go unpunished hominis and Staphylococcus epidermis, defend against Staphylococcus aureus — a pathogenic bacteria that aggravates Last week, the crim- skin conditions like atopic dermatitis. inal trial of the surgeon who conducted laparoscopic tubectom- The infancy guide ies which resulted in the to diabetes risk deaths of 13 women in Long before the onset of clinical Chhattisgarh was symptoms for Type 1 Diabetes, Colin Gonsalves quashed by the Chhat- changes in the immune system can tisgarh High Court. occur during infancy that may After telling the Supreme Court in Devika Biswas’ case predict who will go on to develop — a PIL filed by a social activist — that the prosecution GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO the disease, a new study reports. would be conducted properly once the case ended, Previous work suggests early-life the State government assisted the doctor by refusing events will likely set the stage for the eventual immune system to grant sanction for prosecution. As a result, the pro- dysfunction that destroys insulin-producing cells, preventing secution was quashed. those with Type 1 diabetes from regulating their blood sugar, among other complications. The scientists followed a cohort of On November 8, 2014, the surgeon and an assistant children from birth, all of whom were at a high familial risk for performed over 80 surgeries within 90 minutes at a diabetes (however only slightly more than half went on to State-run family planning camp, in an abandoned develop the autoimmune condition). The researchers found a building near Bilaspur. Within 24 hours, many of the divergent population of immature T cells with unique gene women began complaining of abdominal pain. Thir- expression patterns that were identiiable as early as at six teen women died while 65 others were injured. months of age in children who eventually developed diabetes, The State government responded petulantly to the even though these cells had not started to attack the pancreas. Supreme Court’s decision of 2016 in Devika Biswas’ The authors say their indings suggest that the poorly- case — where the court had criticised governments for understood events preceding Type 1 diabetes are likely to be the manner in which sterilisation camps were run — by part of a multi-step process beginning early in infancy. threatening to stop all such sterilisation operations in the rural areas. Women are now being forced to ap- Pathways to the brain proach the prohibitively expensive private sector. For the irst time ever, a single lexible ibre — no bigger than a Turning point strand of human hair — has Single shot: The crucial Measles-Rubella (MR) vaccination drive gets under way amid concern by the Health Ministry about In one of the first decisions on reproductive rights, the successfully delivered a an anti-vaccination campaign feeding on misinformation spread by social media gaining ground. This round of Supreme Court, in 2005, was shocked by a Uttar Pra- combination of optical, electrical, immunisation will target nearly 41 crore children across ive States. Picture shows a a child waiting to be vaccinated at desh and Bihar Health Watch report which showed and chemical signals back and a primary health centre in Bengaluru. K. MURALI KUMAR photographs of women after laparoscopy tubectom- forth into the brain, putting into GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO ies. They were lying on straw on the floor with blood- practice an idea irst proposed stained sarees. The photographs prompted the filing two years ago. With some tweaking to further improve its of the landmark Ramakant Rai case in the Supreme biocompatibility, the new approach could provide a Court. The court set out directions such as the qualific- dramatically improved way to learn about the functions and Depression, top cause ation of empanelled doctors, physical examination of interconnections of diferent brain regions. The results are women prior to the operation, informed consent, reported in the journal Nature Neuroscience. The ibres are quality assurance committees to be set up, an insur- designed to mimic the softness and lexibility of brain tissue. ance policy, compensation and an inquiry after every This could make it possible to leave implants in place and have of disability worldwide death. These directions were ignored. them retain their functions over much longer periods than is In 2012, the case of a government doctor operating currently possible with typical stif, metallic ibres, thus New WHO data show a huge spike in cases, including in India on 61 women at an abandoned school at night in Bihar enabling much more extensive data collection. shocked the world. Biswas then filed a petition in the Vidya Krishnan ety disorder (GAD), panic Supreme Court in 2012 highlighting similar horror Chronic stress could ore people are affected disorder, phobias, social stories from Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pra- make you fat Mby depression than any anxiety disorder, obsessive- desh, West Bengal, Punjab, Odisha, Himachal Pradesh People who sufer long-term other disease in the world. compulsive disorder (OCD) and Uttar Pradesh. The response of the Union of India stress may also be more prone to According to new estimates and post-traumatic stress was typical. It resulted in a series of publications in obesity, according to a study in by the World Health Organ- disorder (PTSD). English setting out new standards and procedures. the journal Obesity. Exposure to ization (WHO), depression Depressive disorders are While the case was going on, the Chhattisgarh incident higher levels of cortisol over is the largest disability characterised by loss of in- took place in 2014. GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO several months is associated with worldwide with the number terest or pleasure, feelings people being more heavily, and of people living with de- of guilt or low self-worth, Focus on female sterilisation more persistently, overweight. Chronic stress has long been pression increasing by over disturbed sleep or appetite In September 2016, the Supreme Court decision in hypothesised to be implicated in obesity — people tend to 18% between 2005 and and poor concentration. Devika Biswas’s case recorded the statement of the report overeating and “comfort eating” foods high in fat, sugar 2015. Such disorders include two Union that such camps would be phased out. The and calories in times of stress. The stress hormone cortisol Furthermore, over 80% main sub-categories: major Court also recorded the submission of Devika Biswas plays an important role in metabolism and determining where of the disease burden is in depressive disorders, which that 97% of all sterilisation procedures were conduc- fat is stored. This research involved 2,527 men and women aged developing countries. In In- involve symptoms such as ted on women and 85% of the family planning budget 54 and older taking part in the English Longitudinal Study of dia’s case, the total cases of depressed mood; and dys- exclusively went towards female sterilisation. Virtually Ageing, taking data over a four-year period — ScienceDaily depressive disorders in thymia, a persistent or no attention is paid to male sterilisation. Biswas also 2015 were 5,66,75,969 — chronic form of mild de- pointed out that between 2010-13, 363 people died DEMYSTIFYING SCIENCE nearly 5% of population. The scale: “The consequences of these disorders in terms of pression. The symptoms of due to sterilisation. She also said that unrealistic tar- The total cases of anxiety lost health are huge.” GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO dysthymia are similar to de- gets have been set resulting in non-consensual and What is the McGurk efect? disorders in the same pressive episode, but tend forced sterilisations including on the physically and period were 3,84,250,93 — close to 8,00,000 a year. combine those together, de- to be less intense and last mentally challenged and young persons. It is a powerful multisensory illusion occurring with audiovisual which is 3% of the pression ends up at the top longer. Once the camps are stopped, the operations are to speech whereby the brain can be deceived into hearing sounds population. In the long term of the list because it is very At its most severe, de- be performed in government institutions. The repor- that don’t exist. The efect is named after researcher Harry McGurk, who published a 1976 paper with John MacDonald The new data, released Dan Chisholm, author of common,” he says. “You pression can lead to sui- ted reduction in sterilisation operations in the State titled “Hearing lips and seeing voices”. last week by WHO, shows the WHO study, told report- can see one in 20 people in cide. Suicide accounted for has forced poor women to approach the private sec- It involves showing a person’s lips making the shape of one that depression is ranked as ers in Geneva that the con- the world have it and then it close to 1.5% of all deaths tor. sound — like “bah” — while the audio is actually the person the single largest contrib- sequences of these dis- has quite a high level of worldwide in 2015, bringing It looks as if gruesome crimes against women in this saying “fah.” What’s interesting is that your brain changes what utor to global disability orders in terms of lost impairment or disability as- it into the top 20 leading country will always go unpunished. Perhaps the only you “hear” based on what you see. It’s “bah” all the way worldwide and now was the health are huge. “If you sociated with it.” causes of death. It also was way forward is to have civil society monitoring integ- through, but when we see “bah” our minds transform “bah” into leading cause of global look at the prevalence of Anxiety disorders refer the second leading cause of rated in court orders. Otherwise it will be business as “fah”. It has been replicated many times and has sparked an mental and physical disabil- different disorders around to a group of mental dis- death among 15-29-year- usual, court orders notwithstanding. abundance of research. It demonstrates the overwhelming ity. Depression is also the the world and you look at orders characterised by olds globally that year. inluence that sight exerts over the brain and how the latter major contributor to sui- the disability that is associ- feelings of anxiety and fear, Colin Gonsalves is the founder of the Human Rights Law Network reorders perception to give us a consistent picture of the world. cide deaths, which number ated with them — if you including generalised anxi- [email protected]

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Suresh Nambath of people who were involved in sensitive missions.” But some of ust as villains can’t be villains the changes are but a thin dis- without their victims, heroes guise. The book speaks of ‘Dam- can’t be heroes without the vil- ani’, a “leader of a religious funda- J ■ Wildlife of Central India: lains. Veerappan: Chasing the Brig- mentalist group”, whose help was Photographic Field Guide and by retired police officer K. Vi- sought to infiltrate Veerappan’s David Raju & Surya jay Kumar is part-autobiography gang. ‘Damani’, who was lodged in Ramachandran and part-biography, as much the Coimbatore Central Jail on Notion Press about Veerappan as it is about the “charges of involvement in a con- ₹ 1,200 author himself. A retelling of the spiracy to carry out blasts in sev- details of a decade-long manhunt eral south Indian cities,” was The main purpose of the book by the Special Task Force from the asked to tell Madhaiyen, elder is to enable wildlife point of view of both the hunter brother of Veerappan who was in enthusiasts to identify and and the hunted, the book is the same jail, that he would send name the creatures they are unique in its piecing together of some radicals to help Veerappan’s likely to come across in the statements and anecdotes from ■ Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand gang. For readers familiar with the forests of Central India. This active policemen, captured ban- K. Vijay Kumar name of Abdul Nasser Maudany, comprehensive ield guide covers 850 species with over dits, and stealthy informers. Rupa who was lodged in the jail at the 900 high-quality images “I wanted this book to read like ₹500 same time, and who like ‘Damani’ captured by 100 of India’s a thriller,” Vijay Kumar wrote in suffered from several ailments, in- top wildlife photographers. the acknowledgements at the end. jungle lair. At one place he la- cluding weak muscles and bones, He has succeeded in good meas- ments that the force did not get the jumbling of the syllables in the ure, using a variety of literary helicopter-borne assistance until last name would not have been dif- devices. much later. “If only the STF had ficult to undo. The book holds together two had helicopters and drone It is a moot question whether broadly chronological narratives: Dramatic narratives: Is it possible to weed out fact from iction? THE HINDU ARCHIVES backup, then this march of the Vijay Kumar could have sacrificed one beginning with a call he re- bandits could have been stopped readability for the sake of authen- ceived from then Tamil Nadu Chief get a sense of Veerappan, includ- celebrities and reprisals against dark thoughts.” On another page, in its tracks at Bodamalai and a ticity. Even so, Chasing the Brigand Minister Jayalalithaa, in June 2001, ing the incidents that had shaped forest and police officers saw him Vijay Kumar writes: “As his men hundred deaths could have been remains the most credible account inviting him to head the Tamil him.” being held in awe by the national filed away, leaving him alone, avoided.” That was in May 1993. At of Veerappan, and, of course, Op- Nadu Special Task Force, and the and international media. And thus Veerappan’s mind flashed over the another he writes of a helicopter eration Cocoon, the operation that other starting from early 1992, a Artistic licence began the legend of Veerappan events of the last few months.” operation in 2001 that cost Rs. 70 finally ended the life of the bandit series of flashbacks as he contem- But even as he marvels at the life- that did not end even with his And, also: “‘I need to hit back de- lakh but failed because of red tape as he was brought in an ambu- plates in isolation or chats with his story of Veerappan, which he be- death. cisively and finish off these bas- in obtaining clearances. “Getting lance set up by the STF. The book ■ A World in Disarray colleagues about their encounters lieves had the “makings of a fant- Vijay Kumar can therefore be tards once and for all,’ thought the helicopter airborne for train- might not serve as a full-fledged Richard Haass with the bandit. The two narrat- astic Bollywood potboiler,” Vijay forgiven for investing his prose Veeraapan. ‘But how?’” Again: ing purposes was easy, but for op- autobiography of Vijay Kumar, Penguin Random House ives merge towards the latter part Kumar recognises a problem that with an artistic licence. The work- “‘Life comes full circle,’ thought erations there emerged the need whose career included stints in ₹ 525 of the book as the past catches up must have come back to him as he ing of Veerappan’s mind is some- Veerappan wryly, and then turned to take a long, circuitous route of the Special Protection Group for ‘Things fall apart, the centre with the present. sat down to write this book. “So times laid bare as in a novel. to the situation at hand.” The lim- approvals….” Rajiv Gandhi, and in the Border cannot hold.’ American The recounting of the past is, of much mythology has sprung up Sample this from the account of its of Veerappan’s world expanded Security Force in Kashmir, and in foreign policy expert Richard course, fast-paced: all of Veerap- around Koose Muniswamy Veerap- the day of the fatal encounter, Oc- to the extent of the limits of Vijay Credible account the Central Reserve Police Force. Haas picks up this Yeats line pan’s many dramatic run-ins with pan that it is practically impossible tober 18, 2004: “Unusually for Kumar’s language. In his introduction to the book, If read as Veerappan’s biography, to examine the history of the the law find a place, some of them to weed out fact from fiction.” If him, Veerappan was not very alert The decorated police officer the author says he has “deliber- the book has even more of an un- current world, how it got in the words of Inspector Karup- his elephant poaching and sandal- that day. In fact, his mind seemed does not hide his irritation at not ately blurred sequences, obscured finished look. But, as the story of a here and what needs to be pusamy, described by the author wood smuggling drew little atten- preoccupied with memories and always getting the support the STF details and scrambled timelines in seemingly endless manhunt, as done. Haas points out that as a ‘yogi in camouflage’. “He was tion outside of Tamil Nadu and regrets. But his natural optimism needed for a mission as complic- order to preserve operational one man’s quest to quell another, the U.S. cannot be a force for the best man for me to talk to, to Karnataka, his kidnappings of seemed to resurface despite these ated as getting Veerappan in his secrecy and protect the identities this book is complete in itself. global prosperity without its politicians and citizens reaching a new An unholy nexus Painting an Indian grammar understanding. Tracing the journey of a trailblazing artist and an A comprehensive look at the electoral marketplace and why voters readily intellectual who also gave the world Cholamandal forgive politicians and forget crimes they perpetrate Sujatha Shankar Kumar visual effect, explained in his essay ‘Chitramezuthu — Nidhi Gupta aniker, about the pion- The written picture’. Histor- Peering artist of the ian Rebecca Brown’s un- espite various allega- Madras Movement, follows a usual perspective places tions of sexual assault chronological order to re- post-colonial art and archi- Dand boastful proclam- veal layered insights about tecture on one platform, ■ Fearless In Opposition: ation about not losing voters the eponymous artist, the comparing Le Corbusier, a Power and even if he killed someone in man and his legacy. Con- Westerner arrived in the Accountability broad daylight, Donald ceived and compiled by S. East, and Paniker, an East- P. Chidambaram Trump became the U.S. Nandagopal, who is a erner exposed to the West, Rupa President. Notwithstanding sculptor and Paniker’s son, ■ Paniker both attempting an original ₹ 500 charges of amassing dispro- for launch in the 50th year Text by Ludwig Indian expression. In writing a slew of columns portionate assets, J. Jayala- of Cholamandal Artists’ Vil- Goldscheider, Josef James & as a member of the lithaa enjoyed a massive fan lage, it also reflects the his- Rebecca Brown Dynamic persona Opposition, P. Chidambaram, following and was re-elected tory of modernism in South An Artworld Publication Paniker’s essays, letters and former Union minister, says Chief Minister of a progress- India. In all, 106 works of ₹ 1,800 photographs at the end give he never forgot that his ive state like Tamil Nadu. K.C.S. Paniker (1911-1977) are us glimpses of his dynamic primary task was to perform One-third of the Members of wonderfully reproduced James explains how Paniker persona. “The best things in the role of the Opposition in a Parliament (MPs) elected in from the Paniker Museum in continually rejected all iden- life, the things men go into democracy. In this 2014 have criminal cases Thiruvananthapuram, Na- tifiers — form, shape, image raptures about, are only the compilation, the columns pending against them, and tional Museum, Delhi, the and finally even sensations. small parts of dreams some have been grouped under sections including Jammu for one-fifth of elected MPs Raj Bhavan and private col- In 1954, Phaidon press co- have dared to dream,” he and Kashmir, Demonetisation these cases are serious. This Just another day: The criminality of candidates gains credibility among voters, who rely on lections. founder Ludwig Gold- writes to painter Krishna and State of the Economy. translates to more than 100 criminal politicians to protect their interests. SUSHANTA PATRONOBISH Essays by art critic Josef scheider,impressed by Pan- Rao in 1966, while he em- (of the 543) of India’s law- James, closely associated iker’s one-man show in Lon- barks whole-heartedly into makers being charged with Clearly, amalgamation of with the Madras Movement- don, acknowledges the Cholamandal, his vision for some form of serious crime. <> By directly criminality and politics has ,comprise a substantial por- peculiar dilemma of the a space where his fellow What is more, this number contesting serious implications for soci- tion starting with his enig- modern Indian artist to nav- artists could thrive. quickly goes up if one in- elections, criminals ety. So what should be done matic query, “What is a igate between east and west. Paniker is an exceptional cludes elected state legislat- could reduce the to break this equilibrium picture?” To enter the world Goldscheider prophetically journey of an uncommon ors and local administrators uncertainty that the market for criminal of Paniker, James asks us to notes how Paniker has come trailblazer stepping into the with criminal records. What associated with politicians has reached? For read his esoteric analyses to out unbroken through the armour of individuality, does this tell us of our lead- sustainable solutions, it is demystify Paniker’s struggle ordeals of Western teaching shedding centuries of an- ers who make laws for their negotiating and imperative that both the de- to find a modern Indian ex- maintaining his Indian es- onymity, grappling with people? More importantly, renegotiating mand and supply of crim- pression to which he could sence honestly. Paniker’s western precepts and endur- what does this say about the contracts. inal politicians be thwarted. intensely and fully belong. breakthrough comes in ing the fire test to come into ■ Know This choices that voters make? As Vaishnav points out, of Even in early works since 1963, with his ‘Words and his own as a visionary, an in- John Brockman What about the implications utmost importance is clear- 1938, a luscious presence Symbols’ series, employing tellectual and a genuine HarperCollins this has for a democracy? weakening of the Congress ■ When Crime Pays: Money ing the morass around elec- overrides clarity of scene: writing to make a direct modern Indian artist. ₹ 399 and Muscle in Indian To understand why voters party and a growing assert- tion campaign finances and The latest volume in the readily forgive politicians iveness in the previously Politics improving transparency and Milan Vaishnav best-selling series from and look away from the marginalised groups that ini- inclusion in political parties. Edge.com brings together crimes they perpetrate, tially led to strong linkages HarperCollins Further, the state capacity ₹799 Caste, class and reform 175 of the world’s most Milan Vaishnav’s new book between criminals and in delivering public services innovative and brilliant When Crime Pays is an en- politicians. should be improved and in- thinkers to discuss recent lightening read. Vaishnav However, the primary vation, protection, and the stitutions dealing with rule How feudal and regressive practices came in the way of scientiic breakthroughs that studies the nexus of politics, drivers that maintain the potential financial benefits of law must be change in Travancore will shape the future. money and muscle using In- supply are the collapse of they stand to gain by hold- strengthened. Of course, Contributors, including dia as his case study. He sets the election finance regime ing office. none of these solutions, as Rajeev G.R. and caste-oriented — almost scientists and experts, try to himself up for a mammoth and a continuing breakdown The supply of criminal the author points out, is a all political parties have a answer what is the most task of finding out how of the law and order situ- politicians cannot, however, silver bullet by itself. n idea whose time has strong caste or religious interesting and important widespread crime and im- ation in India. be explained without under- Acome is unstoppable, base — the different class recent scientiic news. propriety can co-exist along- standing the demand side of Crime-politics marriage and so was the birth of Sree formations within castes side free and fair democratic Money matters the equation. The demand The insights from Vaishnav’s Narayana Dharma Paripa- tended to offset the allegi- elections. Using a database It is not as if this discourse for criminal politicians by work,intermsofwhatsus- lana Yogam in the Travan- ance to an exclusive caste of candidates’ self-disclos- about criminals being asso- political parties can be un- tains the crime-politics mar- core of the early 20th cen- politics”. ures, which the Election ciated with politicians is derstood on the basis of the riage and what should be tury, where dehumanising With its abundance of Commission maintains since new. Indeed, there are ac- soaring costs of election done to facilitate a divorce, caste practices held a fanat- data, the book’s first chapter 2003, Vaishnav crunches counts of money being inter- campaigns, which parties are fairly intuitive. What is ical sanctity. is rich pickings for students data from nearly 60,000 twined with politics and oc- are unable to afford. There- fascinating is the extraordin- P. Chandramohan’s book and scholars of 19th and candidates spread across 35 casional electoral violence fore, parties increasingly ary deftness with which examines the reform move- ■ Developmental 20th century Travancore — a state elections and two na- even in ancient Rome. look for candidates who not Vaishnav interweaves differ- ment that had the Yogam at Modernity in Kerala: sort of Sachar committee re- tional elections. He supple- However, the author adds only self-finance their cam- ent disciplines of political the forefront. What was Narayana Guru, SNDP port on the state of lower Yogam and Social Reform ments his desk research to the existing narratives by paigns, but also add to the science, sociology, econom- spawned by the middle class castes if you like. The P. Chandramohan with fieldwork in India span- unravelling the black box of party coffers and line the ics and history to create a into a powerful answer to chapter on the Guru is revel- ■ Life in Peace and Conlict Tulika Books ning over seven years where why criminals themselves pockets of party elites. On nuanced narrative. He takes the tyranny of the caste sys- atory and a primer on the Nasir Uddin ₹750 he conducts hundreds of in- turn into politicians. To do the other hand, voters con- the readers behind the tem was deflated by the saint for those not familiar Orient Blackswan terviews with various stake- this, he uses the concept of sciously elect such candid- scenes and regales them same section so much so with his historical, political ₹825 holders in the system. ‘vertical integration’, ates for their ability to “get with a plethora of anecdotes that even Narayana Guru members by tradition. The and religious roles. During A professor of anthropology whereby criminals substi- things done”. In the face of about the foul and fiendish severed ties with the Yogam. middle class provided the the Vaikom Satyagraha, he writes a collection of nine Law and order collapse tute market exchange with a weak rule of law and sali- men (while conspicuously ammunition for the move- met Gandhiji and helped essays on the conlict and To understand the motiva- politicians by internal organ- ent social divisions, the leaving out the women) who Growing dissent ment, but when it achieved end the Mahatma’s belief in peace-building measures tion of criminal candidates isation (becoming politicians criminality of candidates win in Indian politics. Bringing out the class char- its ends, steered the Yogam the Varna system. between indigenous groups in standing for elections and themselves). Vaishnav ex- gains credibility among Vaishnav writes in a prose acter of the struggle, the off the course charted out In Chandramohan’s view, and Bangladesh in the of voters in electing them, plains, “By directly contest- voters, who rely on criminal accessible to lay readers study finds that the middle by the Guru. the reformers lacked the Chittagong Hill Tracts. He Vaishnav uses the frame- ing elections, criminals politicians to protect their without losing academic class of the Ezhava com- As renowned historian support of the masses and documents everyday forms of work of an electoral market- could reduce the uncer- interests and to act like the depth. It is his thorough munity attained a critical K.N. Panikkar, who wrote because of the prevalence of discrimination and resistance place. Writing about the tainty associated with nego- crutch that helps them “nav- analysis and great mass in the early years of the foreword to the book, old feudal relations, some among dispossessed supply side of the criminal tiating (and renegotiating) igate a system that gives storytelling that make When the 20th century and grew said in a recent article in The not only kept away from the communities, and critiques politicians’ market, the au- contracts.” Criminals thus them so little access in the Crime Pays an engaging restive against the daily in- Hindu, “Although politics in movement but also prac- ‘developmental’ eforts of thor contends that it was the join politics for self-preser- first place”. read. sults inflicted on the caste Kerala is notoriously religion tised regressive customs. international agencies. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 SPORT 17 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF India brought crashing down to earth

19-Test unbeaten run culminates in one of Smith notches up ifth ton against the host in O’Keefe repeats his irst innings feat of six the worst defeats as many Tests wickets for 35

Amol Karhadkar Sehwag: a friend in need stayer Cheteshwar Pujara pads before repeating the PUNE and Virat Kohli to stretch the act four overs later to leave is a friend indeed India got a taste of its own match into the fourth day. India reeling at 99 for six at PUNE medicine as Australia — rid- However, Kohli shouldered tea. Always a team man, former opener Virendar Sehwag ing on captain Steven arms to a straight one from It took just 18 minutes came out in support of the Smith’s second innings hun- O’Keefe to let the Australian after the break for Lyon to Indian team after its massive dred and left-arm spinner camp burst into wild celeb- wipe off the tail and and trig- loss in the opening Test Stephen O’Keefe’s second rations and force a majority ger a cheerful team huddle. against Australia. six-wicket haul of the match of the 15,763 spectators to- While the two Yadavs — Jay- Taking to Twitter, Sehwag — completed a crushing 333- wards the exit. ant and Umesh — waited for exhorted everyone to back run win on a rank turner, Pujara then had an ally in ages to shake the hands, the the team. His tweet ran: with almost seven sessions Ajinkya Rahane for the next duo, along with the rest of Good friends make even to spare, to take the lead in 22 minutes until Rahane their teammates, would have difficult times easier. It’s the four-match series. lobbed a drive off O’Keefe realised that the final stretch disappointing but r you a So comprehensive was straight to Lyon at covers. In of its long home season is good friend? Time to be a Australia’s victory that Virat the next over, O’Keefe going to be far from being a good friend&continue to Kohli’s men — coming into rapped Ashwin on to the cakewalk. support Team. the Test on a high of a 19- Test unbeaten streak — got a 1st Test, Day 3, MCA Stadium, Pune reality check in the worst AUSTRALIA — 1ST INNINGS: 260 possible manner as they INDIA — 1ST INNINGS: 105 were outdone in all three de- AUSTRALIA — 2ND INNINGS RUNSBALLS 4s 6s partments of the game. David Warner lbw b Ashwin ddddddddddddd ddd 10 dddddddd 6 dddddddd 2 dddddddddd It reflected in the fact that Shaun Marsh lbw b Ashwin dddddddddddddd ddddd0 dddddd 21 dddddddddd dddddddddd Australia’s last six wickets Steve Smith lbw b Jadeja dddddddddddddddd dd109 ddddd 202 dddddd 11 dddddddddd piled on 142 runs in 129 Final nail: Nathan Lyon snares Jayant Yadav caught at the wicket as Australia, contrary to the pre-match perception, scripted a Peter Handscomb c Vijay b Ashwin dddddd ddd 19 dddddd 34 dddddddd 3 dddddddddd minutes before the visitors memorable and mammoth 333-run victory to go one up in the four-Test series. K. MURALI KUMAR Matt Renshaw c Ishant b Jayant ddddddddd ddd 31 dddddd 50 dddddddd 5 dddddddddd were bowled out for 285, set- Mitchell Marsh c Saha b Jadeja dddddddddd ddd 31 dddddd 76 dddddddd 4 dddddddddd Harbhajan takes a ting India a near-impossible tralia captain had raised his couldn’t cope with tidy spin, to each opener. And O’Keefe had no answer to one from Matthew Wade c Saha b Umesh ddddddddd ddd 20 dddddd 42 dddddddd 2 dddddddddd dig at Pune track target of 441. 18th Test ton and in the com- with O’Keefe yet again run- took just five balls to strike, Lyon that turned in. With ddddddddd ddd dddddd dddddddd dddddddddd PUNE pany of Mitchell Starc — had ning through the middle or- rapping Vijay — dropped at both the openers opting for Mitchell Starc c Rahul b Ashwin 30 31 2 ddddddddddd ddddd dddddd dddddddd dddddddddd Veteran off-spinner Spin sweep ensured India would have to der. forward short-leg off Lyon a review, India had not only Steve O’Keefe c Saha b Jadeja 6 42 1 Harbhajan Singh, who ddd dddddd dddddddd dddddddddd In reply, India lasted just 125 create a world record if it The left-arm spinner was earlier – on to the pads. lost their wickets but even Nathan Lyon lbw b Umesh ddddddddddddddd 13 13 1 predicted a 4-0 verdict in minutes and 33.5 overs — 6.2 was to win the match. introduced into the attack in the two reviews, inside the Josh Hazlewood (not out) ddddddddddddddd ddddd2 dddddddd 6 dddddddddd dddddddddd favour of India in the run-up Extras (b-4, lb-9, nb-1) dddddddddddddddddd ddd 14 to the four-match Test series overs fewer than its first es- For the second day in suc- the fifth over, after Mitchell Review fiasco first six overs. Total (in 87 overs) ddddddddddddddddddddddd dd 285 against Australia, on Saturday say — to concede all ten cession, India’s batsmen just Starc had bowled a maiden In the next over, K.L. Rahul The onus was naturally on blamed the pitch for the loss wickets to the spin duo of Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Warner, 0.6 overs), 2-23 (S. Marsh, 6.6), 3-61 (Handscomb, 20.6), O’Keefe and Nathan Lyon. 4-113 (Renshaw, 34.1), 5-169 (M. Marsh, 53.2), 6-204 (Wade, 65.6), 7-246 (Smith, in the opening match. 74.5), 8-258 (Starc, 77.6), 9-279 (Lyon, 83.4). Crediting the Kangaroos, India’s match aggregate of 212 runs was the worst ever INDIA BOWLING: Ashwin 28-3-119-4, Jadeja 33-10-65-3, Umesh 13-1-39-2, Jayant Harbhajan tweeted: “Credit Ask Daljit, quips By the numbers 10-1-43-1, Ishant 3-0-6-0. to @CricketAus for playing for any team after losing 20 unbelievable well on that wickets on Indian soil. ●This is Australia’s first Pakistan, 1969). INDIA — 2nd INNINGS RUNS BALLS 4s 6s wicket.” Smith, dropped thrice on Salgaonkar Test win in Asia since Au- ●India has previously M. Vijay lbw b O’Keefe ddddddddddddddddddd ddddd2 dddddd 23 dddddddddd dddddddddd “Let’s hope we play on good the second evening, contin- gust 2011. In its previous 11 been bowled out twice for K.L. Rahul lbw b Lyon ddddddddddddddddddd ddd 10 dddddddd 9 dddddddd 1 ddddddddd tracks from here onwards and ued to enjoy his bout of for- G. Viswanath It’s generally under- Tests in Asia it lost nine scores of less than 150 in a Cheteshwar Pujara lbw b O’Keefe ddddddd ddd 31 dddddd 58 dddddddd 2 dddddddddd get the right results,” he tune as Ajinkya Rahane at Pune stood that communication and drew two. home Test, both against Virat Kohli b O’Keefe dddddddddddddddddddd ddd 13 dddddd 37 dddddddd 1 dddddddddd added on Twitter. IANS leg-slip dropped the inside Two days before the Test, from the team manage- ●The last time Australia Australia. Ajinkya Rahane c Lyon b O’Keefe dddddddd ddd 18 dddddd 21 dddddddd 3 dddddddddd edge off R. Ashwin’s bowling Pandurang Salgaonkar — the ment to the ground-in- won a Test in India, there The first was in Kolkata R. Ashwin lbw b O’Keefe ddddddddddddddddd ddddd8 dddddd 11 dddddddd 1 dddddddddd Younis Khan shows when he was on 67. long-time curator of Maha- charge at venues goes was no Twitter, no Ins- in 1956 (136 in both in- Wriddhiman Saha lbw b O’Keefeddddddddd ddddd5 dddddd 13 dddddddd 1 dddddddddd interest in captaincy However, despite the rashtra Cricket Association through an official of the tagram and no WhatsApp. nings) and in Chennai Ravindra Jadeja b Lyondddddddddddddddddd ddddd3 dddddd 11 dddddddddd dddddddddd KARACHI chances he created, Smith’s (MCA) — had boasted “the BCCI and this time around ●This is the third instance (1960, 149 and 138). Jayant Yadav c Wade b Lyon dddddddddddd ddddd5 dddddd 17 dddddddd 1 dddddddddd With Misbah-ul-Haq not sure courageous knock — his fifth Test will last five days’’ and too it could not have been of a bowler having ●Virat Kohli’s 13 runs in dddddddddd ddddd0 dddddddd 2 dddddddddd dddddddddd of his plans, another senior Ishant Sharma c Warner b Lyon consecutive hundred in as that the “ball would fly”. different. identical figures in both the match is his lowest in a Umesh Yadav (not out) dddddddddddddddddd ddddd0 dddddddd 1 dddddddddd dddddddddd player Younis Khan has many Tests against India — When asked what happened, Five years ago, India innings (five plus wickets). home Test having batted thrown his hat in the ring to Extras (b-8, lb-4) dddddddddddddddddddddddd ddd 12 was full of flair. He tackled Salgaonkar quipped “Ask captain Mahendra Singh The previous two were in both innings. lead Pakistan. “I will Total (in 33.5 overs) ddddddddddddddddddddd dd 107 India’s spin triumvirate Daljit [Singh].” Dhoni was categorical B.S. Chandrasekhar’s six ●With 212 runs in 74 definitely consider the offer Fall of wickets: 1-10 (Vijay, 4.5 overs), 2-16 (Rahul, 5.3), 3-47 (Kohli, 16.2), 4-77 if it comes along. I don’t want really well, even pulling off What he meant was that about the need to prepare for 52 (vs Australia in Mel- overs, it represents the (Rahane, 22.3), 5-89 (Ashwin, 24.4), 6-99 (Saha, 28.3), 7-100 (Pujara, 28.5), 8-102 to retire because I am the sweep shot — not his go- the pitch prepared by him ‘designer pitches’ for In- bourne, 1977-78) and In- lowest match aggregate (Jadeja, 31.4), 9-102 (Ishant, 31.6). enjoying my cricket. Even to stroke usually — at will. was “tinkered with” by the dia’s spinners against tikhab Alam’s five for 91 for India in a home Test AUSTRALIA BOWLING: Starc 2-2-0-0, Lyon 14.5-2-53-4, O’Keefe 15-4-35-6, Hazle- after I reach 10,000 runs, I By the time he missed a BCCI’s ground and pitch Alastair Cook’s England (vs New Zealand at Dhaka losing all 20 wickets and wood 2-0-7-0. want to carry on and do well pull off a quicker one from committee representatives to team; India, however, lost in the erstwhile East also the least overs faced. Man-of-the-match: Steve O’Keefe. for the team. PTI Ravindra Jadeja, the Aus- suit the Indian spinners. the series 1-2. Australia won by 333 runs to take a 1-0 lead in four-Test series. ‘India played into our hands Relieved to be in this with pitch preparation’ position: O’Keefe They are going to come back incredibly hard, says Smith Special Correspondent G. Viswanath Pune Pune Steve O’Keefe became the Steve Smith was a proud cap- 22nd overseas bowler to retain at the press conference turn a match haul of 10 or here on Saturday. more wickets in India and Having notched up his his 12 for 70 became the first Test win in Asia, the Aus- second best after Ian tralia captain said the one- Botham’s 13 for 106 in the sided result would be right jubilee Test at Mumbai. on top of the achievements “I am probably relieved. scroll. It was a long time coming, “Right up there. We a lot of preparation has haven’t won a game here in gone into this one before 4,502 days. I’ve been told we travelled over here. those facts. “We went to Dubai be- “I think we were fortunate fore coming to Mumbai. So to post 260 after winning the just relieved [to be] in the toss on this wicket. I thought position that we’re in [1-0] Sok [Steve O’Keefe] was ab- and to personally take solutely amazing. He was some wickets,” said well supported by Nathan O’Keefe. Lyon and the two fast bowl- Did he expect a second ers as well,’’ he said. five-for in the second in- When asked about the nings? “I didn’t think it was “designer pitch’’ here, Smith goingtoturnoutthewayit said: “I think it was certainly did today. One of the things a wicket that would more from bowling for a lot of likely suit the Indian players. time is that you build up a They prepared a wicket that lot of belief.” actually played into our Smart: Steve O’Keefe managed to consistently land the ball in About bowling with hands. It would be interest- good areas and get the natural variation as well. K. MURALI KUMAR Nathan Lyon, he said: ing to see what they will “Nathan and I enjoy bowl- come up with in Bangalore.’’ sistently. If you are challen- credibly hard,” he added. ing together; we’ve done it On his second innings cen- ging the defence and if you’re He also touched upon the for a long time. We’ve done tury, Smith said: “It’s going to able to beat the bat on both lessons learnt from the Sri it unsuccessfully and we’ve be right up there. I obviously sides, you have a real good Lanka tour. “Here we prob- done it successfully. rode my luck throughout the chance to take wickets on ably kept the foot on the “The best thing about innings. I was pleased to this wicket. throat. When we got Nathan is that he takes that score a second innings hun- “But it’s only one game ourselves in positions to win in his stride and we’re will- dred in India.” [done]. It’s a four-match in Sri Lanka, we let the op- ing to communicate in how Talking about Lyon and series and we’d like to win position get back into the we can improve and we do O’Keefe’s bowling, Smith the series. But it’s going to be game. In this Test, we didn’t that throughout the said, “I think Nathan and a tough road, we know India let India back in the game match,” added the left-arm Steve hit the right length con- are going to come back in- after the first innings.” spinner. Harika loses marathon semiinal on ‘time’ The Indian settles for a bronze for the third time in the championship

Sports Bureau Muzychuk in the four-game also drawn. black with a minute less on TEHRAN final beginning on Monday. With the score tied at 4-4, the clock, a draw would In a dramatic finish, Chinese Harika settled for a the match went into the tie- have helped her advance girl Tan Zhongyi was de- bronze for the third time in deciding battle, called the while Harika needed to win. clared “won-on-time” the championship, her effort Armageddon game. Here, Harika briefly attained a bet- against D. Harika, after 99 being worth $20,000. Harika had five minutes on ter position but not good moves of their decisive After the two won from the clock to four minutes for enough to force the issue. battle, in the women World the white side in the clas- Zhongyi, with a three- Zhongyi battled all the way chess championship semi- sical games, two 25-minute second increment added for and frustrated the fourth final here on Saturday. rapid games and two 10- every move made after the seeded Indian who eventu- Zhongyi will meet second minute rapid games, both 5- 61st turn. ally ran out of time in a seeded Ukrainian Anna minute blitz games were Since Zhongyi played seemingly interior position. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 18 SPORT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Karthik delights VIJAY HAZARE TROPHY SCORES At New Delhi: Group A: Vid- (Dinesh Karthik 118, B. Indrajith pal Singh 30, Sanjay Majumder Sakure three for 49) lost to arbha 218 in 49.3 overs (Ambati 46, Kaushik Gandhi 41, G. S. 30). Tripura 4, Kerala 0. Madhya Pradesh 213 for seven Rayudu 86, Ganesh Satish 42, Raju 33, Ashish Nehra four for Group C: At Chennai: Mumbai in 40 overs (Rajat Patidar 38, TN’s big score proves diicult for Delhi to surmount Jitesh Sharma 33, Siddharth 39) bt Delhi 272 in 46.4 overs 273 for nine in 50 overs (Akhil Naman Ojha 33, Harpreet Singh Kaul four for 33) lost to Punjab (Dhruv Shorey 57, Gautam Herwadkar 41, Aditya Tare 83, 45). MP 4, Rajasthan 0. Vijay Lokapally 219 for four in 41.1 overs Gambhir 51, Milind Kumar 68, Siddesh Lad 64, Aditya Dhumal CUTTACK Group D: At Kolkata: Karnataka (Mandeep Singh 86 n.o., Manan Antony Dhas three for 52). 32 n.o., Chirag Parmar four for 266 in 49.4 overs (Manish Dinesh Karthik took the Vohra 50, Abhishek Sharma 46 Tamil Nadu 4, Delhi 0. 42) bt Gujarat 175 in 41.4 overs Pandey 77, Ravikumar Samarth Delhi attack by its scruff and n.o.); Points: Punjab 4, Vid- Maharashtra 376 for seven in (Priyank Panchal 32, Rohit 71, Rahul Shukla four for 45) bt arbha 0. forced it into submission as 50 overs (Ruturaj Gaikwad 132, Dahiya 31, Shivam Malhotra Jharkhand 261 in 49.5 overs Baroda 259 for nine in 50 three for 49). Mumbai 4, Gu- Tamil Nadu won its opening Naushad Shaikh 72, Vijay Zol 62, (Saurabh Tiwary 68, M.S. Dhoni overs (Deepak Hooda 119, Kedar Shrikant Mundhe 42 n.o.) bt Hi- jarat 0. match of the Vijay Hazare 43, K. Gowtham four for 58). Devdhar 77) bt Railways 229 in machal Pradesh 351 in 48.5 Andhra 225 for eight in 50 cricket tournament at the 46.4 overs (Saurabh Wakaskar overs (Prashant Chopra 100, overs (D.B. Ravi Teja 43, D. Siva Hyderabad 257 in 49.3 overs Barabati Stadium here on 58, Asadulla Khan 34, Shivakant Ankit Kaushik 59 n.o., Robin Bist Kumar 40, D. Swaroop Kumar (Tanmay Agarwal 68, Akshath Saturday by 42 runs. Shukla 33, Krunal Pandya three 46, Ankush Bains 38, Jagdish 30, B. Ayyappa 25) lost to Reddy 60, S. Badrinath 43) bt His clinical 118, off 97 balls for 32). Baroda 4; Railways 0. Zope four for 60, Shrikant Bengal 226 for six in 48.5 overs Jammu and Kashmir 228 in 42.4 with 13 fours and three sixes, Odisha 229 in 47.5 overs Mundhe three for 75). Maha- (Shreevats Goswami 66, Anus- overs (Ahmad Omar Banday 87, Ravi Kiran three for 49). Sushil is my idol: Babita left Delhi smarting and even (Sandeep Pattanaik 91, Anurag rashtra 4, Himachal 0. tup Majumdar 46 n.o., Manoj BENGALURU though the latter made a Sarangi 77) lost to Haryana 230 At Bhubaneshwar: Kerala 233 Tiwary 38, Abhimanyu At Kalyani: Services 263 for Wrestler Babita Phogat on valiant chase through Milind for five in 48.2 overs (Chaitanya for nine in 50 overs (Salman Easwaran 33). Bengal 4, Andhra nine in 50 overs (Nakul Verma Saturday said that she draws Kumar’s effort of 64, it was Bishnoi 83 n.o., Rahul Tewatia Nizar 82 n.o., Sachin Baby 77, 0. 124, Shaurya Sanandia four for inspiration from her father not enough. 62 not out, Himanshu Rana 32). A.K. Sarkar three for 41) lost to Rajasthan 212 in 49.1 overs 67) bt Saurashtra 215 in 39.4 Mahavir Singh Phogat and Karthik was a delight. His Haryana 4, Odisha 0. Tripura 235 for eight in 49.2 (Ashok Bhudania 38, Mahipal overs (Prerak Mankad 58, Jay- two-time Olympic medallist footwork was the key as he Group B: At Cuttack: Tamil overs (Gurinder Singh 61, Bishal Lomror 37, Arjit Gupta 32, Pune dev Unadkat 57, Suraj Yadav Sushil Kumar. “First and got into the best position to Nadu 314 for eight in 50 overs Ghosh 30, Smit Patel 30, Yash- Datey three for 25, Chandrakant four for 47). foremost my idol has been take on the Delhi attack. He my father. He is the real star treated Nehra with respect and real hero. And after him, but did not spare the rest, of- Sushil Kumar is my idol. He Bengal made inspired me after winning a ten picking the line and find- Mandeep stars for Punjab medal in 2008 [at the Beijing ing the gaps. He did not lose to sweat Olympics],” Babita said, after time in assessing the surface and judging the pace of the Haryana tames Odisha; Baroda rides on its bowlers inaugurating a two-day yoga S. Dipak Ragav pitch. and self-defence workshop RAKESH RAO fan Pathan and Hardik Chennai for women here. Babita’s The experience of giving NEW DELHI Pandya denied Railways a elder sister Geeta was also Bengal prevailed over his best under pressure successful chase of 259. present at the inauguration. As anticipated, Punjab, Bar- Andhra by four wickets in a helped Karthik plan his Baroda owed its total to oda and Haryana made win- close encounter in the Vi- knock. He had few anxious Coming good: Dinesh Karthik played the lead hand as Tamil Deepak Hooda’s 119 and moments and his attractive ning starts to their cam- jay Hazare Group C match Nadu piled it on against Delhi on Saturday. FILE PHOTO opener Kedar Devdhar’s 77. Rutuparna, Sunskrithi paigns for the two qualifying here on Saturday. range of strokes made the The scores: clinch titles berths from Group A in the job of setting a field to him Vidarbha 218 in 49.3 overs Chasing 226, Bengal was KOLKATA tough for the young Rishabh For Delhi, relief came in ing stand and but it was not league phase of the Vijay stretched by a disciplined Rutuparna Choudhury the shape of the hard-work- to be. Shikhar Dhawan failed (Ambati Rayudu 86, Ganesh Pant, leading the team for Hazare Trophy here on Satish 42, Jitesh Sharma 33, Andhra bowling attack but recorded a hard-fought 6-4, ing Manan Sharma, who to convince and Gautam the first time. Saturday. Deepak Hooda. Siddharth Kaul four for 33) lost valiant knocks from 3-6, 7-5 win over Sunskrithi bowled a steady line to reap Gambhir flattered to de- After Vidarbha found itself to Punjab 219 for four in 41.1 Shreevats Goswami and Damera to bag the under-16 three wickets. But for Man- ceive, his half century effort Niggardly Nehra restricted to 218 despite Am- back strongly to beat Odisha overs (Mandeep Singh 86 n.o., Anustup Majumdar helped girls’ title at the Sunfeast an’s spell and the wily notwithstanding. Pant, who AITA Super Series junior Time and again Pant relied bati Rayudu’s 86, Punjab by five wickets. This outcome Manan Vohra 50, Abhishek it reach the target with Nehra, Delhi would have looked to hit his way out of tennis tournament at the on the guidance of Nehra, cruised to a comfortable six- could not be imagined when Sharma 46 n.o.). Toss: Vid- seven balls to spare. conceded far more runs than trouble, perished to a pull Calcutta South Club here on who suggested field settings wicket victory with opener Odisha, opting to bat, was 157 arbha; Points: Punjab 4; Vid- what it did eventually. shot. Goswami and skipper Saturday. and bowling changes too. Mandeep Singh showing the for no loss with Sandeep arbha 0. Manoj Tiwary added 67 Karthik’s delightful show Tamil Nadu was rewarded Baroda 259 for nine in 50 Creditably, Sunskrithi Nehra bowled a steady and way with an unbeaten 86. Pattnaik (91) and Anurag runs for the third wicket. did push the decent work of for its discipline in the field. overs (Deepak Hooda 119, Kedar defeated Joshika Premkumar tight spells, commanding at- The match never really Sarangi going great guns. The Andhra medium in a three-setter to claim the Gandhi and Raju into the The bowlers complemented Devdhar 77) bt Railways 229 in tention with his stifling rose as a contest after the Vid- But in a dramatic collapse pacers and spinners, led by under-14 crown. the batsmen and the overall 46.4 overs (Saurabh Wakaskar length. His constant vari- background but the opening arbha top-order failed to spread over 14 overs, Odisha The results (finals): fielding kept Delhi under 58, Asadulla Khan 34, Shivakant leg-spinner Swaroop Ku- ation of line probed the stand of 76 runs set the cash in on good starts. Only lost 10 wickets for the addi- Rhythm pressure. Shukla 33, Krunal Pandya three mar, made Bengal work Boys: Under-16: Tamil Nadu batsmen and course of the match. Rayudu kept the hopes alive Malhotra bt Aman Dahiya The scores: tion of only 72 runs. for 32). Toss: Railways; Baroda hard for every run. kept Delhi in the game. Delhi floundered re- with some good strokeplay, 6-2, 6-4. TN 314 for eight in 50 overs That left Haryana chasing 4; Railways 0. Once the duo fell, peatedly and gave away runs but later joined the proces- Under-14: Rudra Kapoor bt Tamil Nadu openers (Dinesh Karthik 118, B. Indrajith 230, which it achieved fol- Odisha 229 in 47.5 overs Majumdar played a sens- through boundaries as Tamil sion. A 91-run start for Pun- Udit Gogoi 6-2, 7-5. Kaushik Gandhi and G.S. 46, Kaushik Gandhi 41, G. S. lowing an unbroken 97-run (Sandeep Pattanaik 91, Anurag ible knock adding 43 runs Nadu never eased its grip. jab, with Manan Vohra con- Girls: Under-16: Rutuparna Raju showed scant respect Raju 33, Ashish Nehra four for sixth-wicket stand by Chait- Sarangi 77) lost to Haryana 230 with Pankaj Kumar Shaw. Choudhury bt Sunskrithi for the bowlers. Navdeep It was paramount for 39) bt Delhi 272 in 46.4 overs tributing a half-century, anya Bishnoi (83 not out) and for five in 48.2 overs (Chaitanya With 14 required off the Damera 6-4, 3-6, 7-5. Saini and Pradeep Sangwan Tamil Nadu to cross the 300- (Dhruv Shorey 57, Gautam ensured that the team was al- Rahul Tewatia (62 not out). Bishnoi 83 n.o., Rahul Tewatia last two, Majumdar who till Under-14: Sunskrithi Damera made no impact while left- mark and create a challen- Gambhir 51, Milind Kumar 68, ways ahead. Meanwhile, at the Air 62 n.o., Himanshu Rana 32). bt Joshika Premkumar 6-7(8), arm spinner Pawan Negi ging chase for Delhi. Antony Dhas three for 52). At the Karnail Singh Sta- Force ground, Palam, Baro- Toss: Odisha; Haryana 4; Odisha then had just one bound- 6-3, 6-3. looked most ordinary. Delhi needed a big open- Toss: Delhi. TN 4, Delhi 0. dium, Haryana bounced da’s trio of Krunal Pandya, Ir- 0. ary cut loose as he hit B. Ayyappa for a six over long- on followed by two boundaries on the leg sides to Lady In Lace may repeat take Bengal home. Apache Sunrise triumphs The scores: Andhra 225 for eight in 50 HYDERABAD: Lady In Lace, who is Rawal 58, 2. Creator (4) Sai Kumar Save The Nation (1) Ajit Singh 52.5. Eyed Babe (4) Khurshad Alam 60, BENGALURU: Apache Sunrise 110 (p), SHP: ₹167, FP: ₹502, Q: SHP: ₹86, FP: ₹ 532, Q: ₹195, in fine nick, may repeat in the Sea 55.5, 3. Prince Caspian (2) N.S. 1. KING DAVID, 2. SPACE SHIP, 3. 2. Like Wise (8) N.S. Rathore 60, 3. overs (D.B. Ravi Teja 43, D. (Suraj Narredu up) won the Gov- ₹183, Trinella: ₹1,135 and ₹352, Ex- Trinella: ₹8,061 and ₹5,429, Ex- Master Plate (1,400m), the main Rathore 55.5, 4. Treasure Striker SYMBOL OF GOLD Elysian (2) A.S. Pawar 58, 4. Doro- Siva Kumar 40, D. Swaroop ernor’s Trophy, the chief event of acta: ₹5,368 and ₹3,067. Favour- acta: ₹77,883 and ₹16,689. Favour- event of the races to be held here (1) K. Mukesh Kumar 55.5, 5. Jun- teo (9) I. Chisty 55.5, 5. Ashwa RAJA NARASIMHA RAO ME- Kumar 30, B. Ayyappa 25) lost the races held here on Saturday ite: Tree Lounge. Owner: Iris Ra- ite: Ravelnation. Owner: Mr. on Sunday (Feb. 26). eau (5) Akshay Kumar 54 and 6. Ashoka (10) Akshay Kumar 54.5, 6. MORIAL CUP (1,400m), 4-y-o to Bengal 226 for six in 48.5 (Feb 25). The winner is owned by cing & Livestock Pvt Ltd. Trainer: Dinesh Kumar K. Trainer: G. Lost And Found (6) I. Chisty 51.5. 6 Nautanki (6) Koushik 54.5, 7. SLING SHOT PLATE (1,200m), & over, rated 40 to 70 (Cat. II), 3- Mr. Manjunath B.S. and trained Arjun Mangalorkar. Sandhu. Pentagon (3) Kiran Naidu 53.5, 8. overs (Shreevats Goswami 66, 4-y-o & over, rated 66 to 90 (Cat. 1. LADY IN LACE, 2. LOST AND 45: 1. Bharat King (10) Ajeeth Ku- by Neil Darashah. 1 Al Sadr (7) K. Mukesh Kumar 52.5, Anustup Majumdar 46 n.o., K. VENKATESH NAYAK ME- II), 1-10 p.m.: 1. Ashwa Raftar (2) K. FOUND mar 60, 2. Prospero (5) I. Chisty GADAG PLATE HURRICANE STUD PLATE 9. Brilliant (5) G. Naresh 52.5, 11. Manoj Tiwary 38, Abhimanyu (Div. II), 4 MORIAL TROPHY (1,200m), Mukesh Kumar 60, 2. City Of (Div. II), 60, 3. Kalinda (4) Deepak Singh LO- STORM (1,600m), rated 45 to 65: STAR NAVIGATOR PLATE White Gold (11) Deepak Singh 52.5 1 (1,100m), rated 15 to 35: rated 30 to 50: (Srinath) 1, 7 Dreams (4) Kiran Naidu 58.5, 3. (1,100m), maiden 3-y-o only 58.5, 4. Magna Carta (9) A.A. Easwaran 33). VEISINTHEAIR (Rajesh Kumar) 1, CRACKER (A. Imran Khan) 1, Ref- 4 and 11. Golden Arrow (1) Ajeeth Tamara (P. Surya) 2, Dagobert Numinous (6) Akshay Kumar 57, 4. (Cat. II), (Terms), 2-40: 1. Brook- Vikrant 58.5, 5. Citi Colors (6) Brunesco (Anjar Alam) 2, Fine erence (Srinath) 2, Secret Dimen- Kumar 51. Toss: Andhra; Points: Bengal (Arshad Alam) 3 and Tax Free Preciosa (8) Beuzelin 54, 5. Green wood (6) Sai Kumar 55, 2. Desert Kuldeep Singh 53, 6. Secret Art (2) Barristor (K. Mukesh) 3 and Re- sion (Suraj Narredu) 3 and Afore 1. NAUTANKI, 2. LIKE WISE, 3. 4; Andhra 0. (Janardhan P) 4. 2-1/4, Hd and Image (3) P. Gaddam 52.5, 6. Al- Moon (5) N.S. Rathore 55, 3. Sai Kumar 53, 7. Charming Beauty gency Girl (S. John) 4. Nk, Snk (Arshad Alam) 4. Not run: Into PENTAGON Snk. 1m, 14.07s. ₹83 (w), 26, 24 ways Together (7) N.S. Rathore Golden Aliza (9) Md. Sameerud- (3) Aneel 52.5, 8. Scooby Dooby and Lnk. 1m, 09.16s. ₹105 (w), 23, The Spotlight. 1/2, 2 and Nk. 1m, and 16 (p), SHP: ₹74, FP: ₹588, Q: 51.5, 7. Fair And Squre (5) C.P. din 55, 4. Sugar Land (10) Kunal Doo (8) Ajit Singh 52, 9. 14 and 16 (p), SHP: ₹41, FP: ₹ 717, 38.35s. ₹23 (w), 15 and 19 (p), ASIFABAD PLATE (1,200m), ₹288, Trinella: ₹935 and ₹222, Ex- Bopanna 51.5 and 8. Without Bunde 55, 5. Asteria (1) Akshay Ku- Gangadhar (7) G. Naresh 51.5 and Q: ₹145, Trinella: ₹1,145 and ₹566, SHP: ₹38, FP: ₹65, Q: ₹32, 9 4-y-o & over, rated upto 30 acta: ₹3,960 and ₹1,374. Favour- Makeup (1) Ajit Singh 51.5. mar 53.5, 6. Dare To Love (7) Rohit 10. Patron Saint (1) C. P. Bopanna Sumathi, Exacta: ₹3,847 and ₹1,385. Fa- Trinella: ₹166 and ₹100, Exacta: (Cat. III), 5-15: 1. Shandaar (5) I. ite: Dagobert. Owner: Mr. K.L. 1. PRECIOSA, 2. ASHWA RAFTAR, 3. Kumar 53.5, 7. Glorious Grey (11) 51.5. vourite: Brunesco. Owner: Mr. ₹257 and ₹86. Favourite: Star Chisty 62, 2. Whisper (12) Akshay Gangadhar. Trainer: R.V. FAIR AND SQURE Deepak Singh 53.5, 8. Kohinoor 1. SECRET ART, 2. MAGNA CARTA, 3. Ketan R. Mehta. Trainer: Naray- Cracker. Owner: M R Stud Farms Kumar 62, 3. Dawning Hope (4) S. Manohar. Lucy (3) P. Gaddam 53.5, 9. New BHARAT KING Sarda reign ana Gowda. Pvt Ltd rep by. Mr. N. NAVIGATOR PLATE (Div. I), Sreekant 61.5, 4. Sweet Story (11) GOVERNOR’S TROPHY Chandrashekar Rai. Trainer: 2 (1,100m), maiden 3-y-o only State (2) I. Chisty 53.5, 10. Plat- MAHBUBABAD PLATE (Div. N.S. Rathore 61, 5. Yes Baby (6) Ro- RAMANAGAR PLATE (1,200m), 5 (1,600m), 3-y-o, (Terms): Prasanna Kumar. (Cat. II), (Terms), 1-40: 1. Agilis (4) inum Claasz (8) Beuzelin 53.5 and 7 II), (1,100m), 4-y-o & over, hit Kumar 61, 6. Golden Joy (9) SPORTS BUREAU 2 rated 00 to 20: CASHMERE APACHE SUNRISE (Suraj Narredu) Akshay Kumar 55, 2. Champion 11. Yanga (4) K. Mukesh Kumar rated 26 to 50 (Cat. II), (winner of Deepak Singh 59.5, 7. Ram Man (3) BENGALURU (Rayan Ahmed) 1, Kiraathaka (S. 1, Lycurgus (P.P. Dhebe) 1, Bull (2) I. Chisty 55, 3. Gaandeevan 53.5. not more than one race after 31 K. Mukesh Kumar 59.5, 8. Mas- John) 2, Slightly Blonde (Darshan) GADAG PLATE (Div. I), 1. DESERT MOON, 2. ASTERIA, 3. taani (10) Md. Sameeruddin 58, 9. Nicaragua (I. Chisty) 3 and Track VAR- (6) Sai Kumar 55, 4. Seven Eleven March 2014), 4-15: 1. Prime Time 3 and Flying Prince (Irvan Singh) Striker (K. Mukesh) 4. 9-1/4, 5-3/4 8 (1,100m), rated 15 to 35: (1) K. Mukesh Kumar 55, 5. Uni- BROOKWOOD Cannon King (13) Kunal Bunde 55, Dhruv Sarda and Sumathi SHA (Srinath) 1, Island Pearl (10) A.M. Tograllu 60, 2. Pamella 4. Lnk, 2 and 1. 1m, 15.90s. ₹359 and 3-1/2. 1m, 38.47s. ₹12 (w), 10 vison (10) A.M. Tograllu 55, 6. Can- (6) Koushik 58.5, 3. In Command 10. War Lady (8) G. Naresh 54.5, 11. Nallabantu emerged cham- (Rajesh Kumar) 2, Roaring Thun- (Div. I), (w), 67, 16 and 23 (p), SHP: ₹45, and 34 (p), SHP: ₹38, FP: ₹32, Q: non Dear (11) Kunal Bunde 53.5, 7. MAHBUBABAD PLATE (4) Md. Ismail 58, 4. Pixie Girl (5) Play It Cool (1) Aneel 51.5, 12. der (Irvan Singh) 3 and Country’s (1,100m), 4-y-o & over, rated 26 pions of the Amoeba 27th FP: ₹1,392, Q: ₹284, Trinella: ₹33, Trinella: ₹39 and ₹20, Ex- Flying Ebony (5) Md. Sameerud- 5 Deepak Singh 58, 5. Supurinto (9) Touch Of Gold (2) Sai Kumar 50.5, Bloom (A. Imran Khan) 4. 2-3/4, to 50 (Cat. III), (winner of not National Tenpin bowling ₹6,258 and ₹2,347, Exacta: acta: ₹191 and ₹169. Favourite: din 53.5, 8. Marina Del Rey (9) S. Akshay Kumar 57, 6. Chester (7) 13. Beijos (ex: Kohinoor Love) (7) 3/4 and Nose. 1m, 08.21s. ₹38 (w), more than one race after 31st ₹20,559 and ₹11,748. Favourite: Al Apache Sunrise. Owner: Mr. Man- Sreekant 53.5, 9. Miss Ivory (3) Gopal Singh 55.5, 7. Wild Heart (1) S. S. Tanwar 50 and 14. Rainbow championship on Saturday. 17, 34 and 21 (p), SHP: ₹113, FP: March 2014), 3-15: 1. King David (3) Faaris. Owner: Mrs. Prabha junath B.S. Trainer: Neil Deepak Singh 53.5, 10. Plain Jane I. Chisty 55.5, 8. Surprise Party (2) Blues (14) P. Gaddam 50. Special prizes: Most prom- ₹874, Q: ₹479, Trinella: ₹3,607 Beuzelin 60, 2. Born To Do It (6) Dominic. Trainer: S. Britto. Darashah. (12) Ajeeth Kumar 53.5, 11. Royal Aneel 53.5, 9. Sunday Carnival (3) 1. SHANDAAR, 2. DAWNING HOPE, and ₹827, Exacta: ₹1,26,067. Fa- Md. Ismail 59, 3. Ikigai (10) G. ising player: R. Kishan. Dancer (8) Ajit Singh 53.5 and 12. Kuldeep Singh 53 and 10. Roma 3. WHISPER ALTENBURG PLATE TUMKUR PLATE vourite: Zafrina. Owner: Mr. Naresh 57.5, 4. Shakesphere (2) Maximum number of scores (1,600m), (1,400m), Sweet Pistol (7) Kiran Naidu 53.5. Rouge (8) Ajeeth Kumar 52.5. Shankar Srinivas. Trainer: Sriram Koushik 57.5, 5. Space Ship (4) An- Day’s best: PRECIOSA 3 rated 15 to 35, 5-y-o & over: 6 rated 30 to 50, 5-y-o & over: 1. CHAMPION BULL, 2. UNIVISION, 1. PRIME TIME, 2. SUPURINTO, 3. above 225: Men: Shabbir TREE LOUNGE (S. John) 1, Fractals RAVELNATION (Srinath) 1, Leon Komandur. eel 57, 6. Magical Skill (8) C.P. Double: KING DAVID — PRIME 3. SWEET PISTOL PIXIE GIRL Dhankot (7); Maximum num- (S. Shiva Kumar) 2, Karod Pati (R. Pradeep) 2, Internal Affair (I. Bopanna 55, 7. Symbol Of Gold (7) TIME (Srinath) 3 and One To Note (Ar- Chisty) 3 and Firing Line (Nazerul Jackpot: ₹2,416 (232 tkts); Runner- SEA MASTER PLATE K. Mukesh Kumar 55, 8. Divine J.S. DHARIWAL MEMORIAL Jkt (i): 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5; (ii): 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9; ber of scores above 200: Wo- shad Alam) 4. Shd, 3-3/4 and 4- Alam) 4. 2-3/4, 2-1/2 and Nose. 1m, up: ₹284 (846 tkts); Treble (i): ₹141 3 (1,400m), (Cat. II), 3-y-o only Heights (9) N. Rawal 53.5, 9. Ro- 8 CUP (2,400m), 4-y-o & over, Tr (i): 1, 2 & 3; (ii): 4, 5 & 6; (iii): 7, 8 men: Sumathi Nallabantu and 1/2. 1m, 40.42s. ₹30 (w), 17 and 25.92s. ₹36 (w), 18, 30 and 62 (p), (130 tkts); (ii): ₹338 (90 tkts). (Terms), 2-10: 1. Lady In Lace (3) N. hini (5) A.S. Pawar 53.5 and 10. rated 46 to 70 (Cat. II), 4-45: 1. Blue & 9; Tla: all races. Sabeena Athica (3 each). Highest score in a single DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD game: Men: Shabbir Dhankot (276). It’s Perfect Star vs. Tutankhamun Paes-Lu stun Bryans Highest score in a single game: Women: Sumathi SUDOKU MUMBAI: Perfect Star and moss (1) J.Chinoy 56, 4. Excellent 2. Abbey (2) Suraj Narredu 59.5, 3. Nallabantu and Sabeena Ath- SPORTS BUREAU Tutankhamun should fight out the Gold (11) Dashrath 56, 5. Lincoln Incentio (3) A.Gaikwad 59, 4. Al- ica (224). finish of the Poonawalla Breeders’ (4) Neeraj 56, 6. Perfect Star (13) lora (4) Trevor 56.5, 5. Undisputed NEW DELHI Multi-Million (Gr.1), the stellar at- P.S. Chouhan 56, 7. Phoenix Fal- (9) A. Imran Khan 56, 6. Cezanne traction of Sunday’s (Feb. 26) con (3) Colm O’Donoghue 56, 8. (7) K. Kadam 52.5, 7. Greek God- Leander Paes and Yen-Hsun evening races here. An amount of Sandalphon (14) S. Sunil 56, 9. dess (5) Neeraj 49, 8. Miss Arazan Lu of Chinese Taipei Panther Rs. 10,00,000 will be added to the Timeless (6) A.Imran Khan 56, 10. (6) S. Amit 49 and 9. Quixotic (1) shocked top seeds and 14- Super Jackpot collection. Tutankhamun (12) Suraj Narredu Sandesh 49. time Grand Slam men’s takes on HELLO! CLASSIC (1,400m), Cl. 56, 11. Angels Touch (2) Sandesh 1. ALLORA, 2. UNDISPUTED, 3. 1 I, rated 80 and upward, 4.30 54.5, 12. Princess P (10) Bhawani SERENITA doubles champions Bob and pm: 1. Rule Downunder (3) C.S. 54.5, 13. Ruffina (9) David Allan Day’s Best: BENEFACTOR Mike Bryan of the United Achievers Jodha 59, 2. The Champ (1) Trevor 54.5 and 14. Summer Rays (8) C.S. Double: CHIZZLER — ALLORA States 7-6(4), 2-6, [10-7] in 58, 3. Paramour (4) Sandesh 51 Jodha 54.5. Jackpot: 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. 1. PERFECT STAR, 2. the quarterfinals of the ATP and 4. Celtic Prince (2) Neeraj 50. Treble: 5, 6 & 7. Special Correspondent TUTANKHAMUN, 3. RUFFINA NEW DELHI 1. RULE DOWNUNDER Tanala: All races. Tour event in Delray Beach. RUSI PATEL TROPHY In the semifinals, the DR. GOOLAM E VAHANVATI Super Jackpot: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7. Raghav Rao and Miguel 5 (1,200m), Cl. IV, rated 20 to 46, Indo-Taipei duo will face 2 GOLD TROPHY (1,200m), 6.30: 1. Adeline (7) Trevor 59.5, 2. Saravia scored seven goals Maiden 3-y-o only, 5.05: 1. Bene- third seeds Treat Huey of Grey Flannel (8) Sandesh 59.5, 3. between them to guide Jin- factor (8) Suraj Narredu 55, 2. Airlift (5) C.S.Jodha 59, 4. Zinfan- Philippines and Max Mirnyi Leander Paes. Gazino (6) Sandesh 55, 3. Man Of Mumbai dal Panther to an 8 goals to delle (3) Neeraj 57.5, 5. Furiosa (4) of Belarus. Word (2) A. Imran Khan 55, 4. Op- S.Sunil 57, 6. Jarama (6) S.Amit 57, (Ned) bt Chandril Sood & Lak- 2-1/2 victory over Sahgal timum (7) Srinath 55, 5. Arc Shine 7. Tchibouela (11) G. Amit 56.5, 8. Meanwhile, in the shit Sood 6-3, 6-2. (5) Merchant 53.5, 6. Forest Fairy races for Stud in a league match of Royal Ace (14) Roushan 53.5, 9. $15,000 ITF men’s Futures the Maharaja Jiwaji Rao (1) P.S. Chouhan 53.5, 7. Keep Warlock (1) Raghuveer 53.5, 10. in Florida, Ramkumar $15,000 ITF men, Florida, USA: Coming On (4) Neeraj 53.5 and 8. March 1 Singles (quarterfinals): Rhyne Scindia Gold Cup 10-goal Amicus Curiae (10) A.Gaikwad Ramanathan was beaten in Medellin (3) C.S.Jodha 53.5. 52.5, 11. Tomahawk (12) S.J. Sunil Williams (US) bt Ramkumar polo tournament at the 1. BENEFACTOR, 2. MAN OF WORD, 52.5, 12. Democrat (13) K. Kadam the quarterfinals but made 3. KEEP COMING ON re-framed Ramanathan 6-4, 7-5. Jaipur Polo ground here on 52, 13. Dibaba (2) Ayyar 52 and 14. the doubles final with Jaume Saturday. In the final, Jin- INTERVALVE POONAWALLA Voulez Vous (9) Bhawani 52. Pla Malfeito of Spain. Pre-quarterfinals: Ramkumar LTD TROPHY (2,400m), Cl. IV, 1. GREY FLANNEL, 2. ZINFAN- Racing Correspondent bt Raleigh Smith (USA) 6-2, dal Panther will play Ra- Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku 3 DELLE, 3. AIRLIFT Mumbai In a similar tournament in rated 20 to 46, 5.30: 1. Jager Bomb 6-0; First round: Ramkumar bt jnigandha Achievers on (8) C.S. Jodha 59, 2. Geranium (3) SIR VICTOR SASSOON GOLD Egypt, the Sood brothers, Sunday. The Stewards of RWITC have Victor Nunez (Chi) 6-3, 6-2. Neeraj 58.5, 3. Aspen (1) Bhawani 6 TROPHY (1,400m), Cl. III, Chandril and Lakshit, were The results (league): Rajnig- 58, 4. She’s An Ace (2) G. Amit 57, decided to conduct racing rated 40 to 66, 7.15: 1. Miss Saigon beaten in the doubles final. Doubles (semifinals): Jaume andha Achievers 7 (Dhruvpal 5. Respect (6) Trevor 56.5, 6. Jeena (2) Trevor 62, 2. Carbonara (1) A. on March 1 (Wednesday). Pla Malfeito (Esp) & Ramkumar (7) S.J. Sunil 54, 7. Kitty Hawk (5) The results: Godara 3, Matthew Perry 3, Imran Khan 60.5, 3. Hedwig (6) Trainers who refused to bt Joey Jones (USA) & Thomas Dashrath 53 and 8. Othello (4) J. S.J. Sunil 56.5, 4. Merabella (4) S. $599,345 ATP, Delray Beach, Padmanabh Singh)bt Sona Chinoy 53. Sunil 56.5, 5. Dancing Lord (5) put entries on Friday, in USA: Doubles (quarterfinals): Knights (GBr) 4-6, 6-4, 10-5; Polo 4 (Samir Suhag 2, Abhi- 1. GERANIUM, 2. SHE’S AN ACE, 3. P.S.Chouhan 53.5, 6. Pink Panther protest of their benevolent Yen Hsun Lu (Tpe) & Leander Quarterfinals: Jaume Pla & manyu Pathak, Pranav Kapur) OTHELLO (3) Suraj Narredu 53.5 and 7. fund issues, have agreed for Paes bt Bob Bryan & Mike Bryan Ramkumar bt Gonzales Austin Jindal Panther 8 (Raghav POONAWALLA BREEDERS’ Chizzler (7) Sandesh 51.5. 1. CHIZZLER, 2. MISS SAIGON talks with RWITC and put in (USA) 7-6(4), 2-6, [10-7]. & Raleigh Smith (USA) 6-4, 6-1; Rao 4, Miguel Saravia 3, Sim- 4 MULTI-MILLION (Gr.1) their entries on Saturday (1,400m), 3-y-o only, 6.00: 1. 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IN BRIEF Zoravar, Sandhu miss bronze TV PICKS I-League: TEN 2, 4.30 & 7 de Villiers passes Olympian Kynan Chenai places 15th p.m. HIL: STAR Sports 2, 3 & HD Kamesh Srinivasan tual gold and silver medal- ver medallist of a Junior 2, 3, 4.40 & 7.10 p.m. NEW DELHI lists, Simone D’Ambrosio World Cup last year in Serie A: Sony ESPN & milestoneinSAwin Zoravar Singh Sandhu tried and Giovanni Pellielo of Gabala, won the gold ahead ESPN HD, 5 p.m.; Sony Six, too hard and missed the last Italy, Zoravar missed three of the four-time World 1.30 a.m. (Monday) bird and a bronze medal in of the last 10 birds as against Champion and three-time La Liga: Sony Six & Six HD Proteas’ captain becomes fastest to 9000 ODI runs 4.30, 8.40, 11 p.m & 1.10 a.m. Lahiri two shots men’s trap in the shooting one by Alberto Fernandez of Olympic silver medallistGio- Reuters World Cup at the Dr. Karni Spain, the eventual bronze vanni Pellielo. (Monday); Sony ESPN, 8.30 behind leaders WELLINGTON Singh Range, Tughlakabad, medallist. p.m. MIAMI The results: Premier League: SS Se- South Africa captain A.B. de on Saturday. India’s ace golfer Anirban Men: 25m rapid fire pistol: 1. lect HD1, 6.50 & 9 p.m. Lahiri has once again given Villiers became the fastest The self-imposed pres- Missing the bird Lao Jiajie (Chn) 31(5) 583; 2. Bundesliga: SS Select himself a shot at the title, as man to score 9,000 One Day sure of competing at home Zoravar could have salvaged Lin Junmin (Chn) 31(3) 585; 3. HD2, 7.45 & 9.45 p.m. he lies fourth at the midway International runs as he led possibly caught up with the the bronze but for missing Ruslan Lunev (Aze) 23 (579); 6. NBA: Sony Six & Six HD, stage of the Honda Classic on his side to a 159-run victory 39-year-old Zoravar who the 35th bird. Neeraj Kumar 9 (579); 12. Gur- 6.30 a.m. (Monday) the PGA Tour. The 28-year- over New Zealand in the had won a World Cup In fact, Zoravar had preet Singh 573; 15. Harpreet old, who opened the week third one-dayer on Saturday. bronze in Changwon in missed the last bird in the Singh 568. MQS: Vijay Kumar with a five-under 65, added a de Villiers scored 85, hav- 2007. Zoravar may not have fourth series in the morn- 569; Rajesh Kumar 582. two-under 68 to get to ing needed just five runs to much experience in the fi- ing. Yet, he had done a com- Trap: 1. Simone D’ Ambrosio AFI rules to seven-under and was only surpass former India captain nals except for the two mendable job of shooting (Ita) 45 (117); 2. Giovanni Pel- two shots behind co-leaders, Sourav Ganguly, who took Asian Championships in 23, 24, 23, 24 and 24 over lielo (Ita) 43 (119); 3. Alberto represent Ryan Palmer (66, 65) and 228 innings to achieve the 2007 and 2013, apart from two days in tough condi- Fernandez (Esp) 33 (120); 4. Bryan Wesley (64, 67), while milestone. De Villiers did it the Asian Games in Busan in tions to qualify for the final Zoravar Singh Sandhu 28 (118); country Rickie Fowler (66-66) was in his 205th innings. 1998, but handled the final in the fourth place. 15. Kynan Chenai 113; 33. Bi- eight-under and third. —AFP South Africa scored a remarkably well. The 20-year-old Simone rendeep Sodhi 108. Special Correspondent credible 271 for eight in its After being in the lead for D. Ambrosio, the European MQS: Manavjit Singh Sandhu NEW DELHI Bulls outlast Suns, 50 overs and then its pace the most part with the even- junior champion and a sil- 117; Prithviraj Tondaiman 113. The Executive Council of Leonard leads Spurs bowlers ripped the top off the Athletics Federation of LOS ANGELES the host’s batting to reduce India (AFI), which met Dwyane Wade tallied 23 it to 58 for six in the 20th here on Saturday, has un- points and Jimmy Butler had over before bowling it out Aniket — all of angle and pace animously agreed that ath- 22 as five Chicago players for 112 in 32.2 overs. letes attending the National finished in double figures as The victory gave de Villi- Left-armer is a regular ‘net’ bowler for Team India camps or approved Na- Bulls beat Phoenix Suns ers’ team a 2-1 lead in the tional training pro- 128-121 in overtime on Friday. five-match series with the Super Saturday: It was a memorable day for the proliic S. Dinakar the Indian team-manage- grammes would alone be The results: San Antonio 105 fourth game in Hamilton on A.B. de Villiers at the Westpac Stadium. AFP Chennai ment while bowling at the allowed to represent the bt LA Clippers 97, Denver 129 Wednesday. He was bought for ₹2 crore nets during the Tests at Kan- country. bt Brooklyn 109, Toronto 107 Colin de Grandhomme in the order. tion with 68, the opener by Royal Challengers Ban- pur, Kolkata, Hyderabad and It was decided that “ath- bt Boston 97, Chicago 128 bt was the only New Zealand Andile Phehlukwayo (two passing 50 in his last five galore in the IPL auction and Pune this season. letes who are monitored Phoenix 121 (OT), Utah 109 batsmen to really come to for 12) and Dwaine Pretorius one-day matches. The left-armer’s angle and bt Milwaukee 95, Oklahoma has been a regular ‘net’ within the system should grips with the drop-in pitch (three for 5) were the most The visitor was adept at City 110 bt LA Lakers 93, bowler for the India team. pace are his strengths. “Dur- only be eligible for selec- at Wellington Regional Sta- economical of the South rotating the strike and keep- Minnesota 97 bt Dallas 84, Rajasthan’s Aniket Chaud- ing the domestic T20 com- tion to represent the Miami 108 bt Atlanta 90, dium with 34 not out and African bowlers. ing the scoreboard ticking, hary used to biff the ball to petition recently, twice I country.” Philadelphia 120 bt highlighted that he was bat- Earlier, Quinton de Kock with 116 runs coming from distant corners playing ten- touched 145 kmph. And I Washington 112, Indiana 102 ting too low at number eight gave his side a solid founda- singles. nis ball cricket. In his early have been bowling consist- Asian Championship bt Memphis 92. days in the game, he fancied ently at 140 kmph.” The Executive Council SCOREBOARD NEW ZEALAND VS SOUTH AFRICA THIRD ODI himself as a batsman. “Iamaseambowler, agreed to take up the sub- It was only when switch- seam the ball away or cut it ject of hosting of the Asian Southee c de Kock b Rabada 5, Double delight for South Africa: Q. de Kock c Nee- 8-271. ing to the leather sphere that back into the right-hander. Championship in Ranchi sham b de Grandhomme 68, H. L. Ferguson b Tahir 4, T. Boult c Sriram Balaji New Zealand bowling: Southee Aniket realised he possessed There are times when I bowl from July 1 to 4, with the JORHAT Amla c Williamson b Southee 7, de Villiers b Pretorious 4; Ex- 10-0-66-1, Boult 10-0-47-1, something special. “I came cross-seam and the ball skids Chief Minister of F. du Plessis c Southee b de tras: (w-8): 8; Total (in 32.2 It was double delight for Ferguson 10-0-71-1, de Grand- to know that I could bowl through. I can bowl round Aniket Choudhary. FILE PHOTO Jharkhand and the Union Grandhomme 36, A.B. de Villi- overs): 112. Sriram Balaji as he clinched homme 10-0-40-2, Santner quicker than the other boys. the wicket and enjoy bowl- Sports Minister, to ensure a the singles title, beating ers c Neeshm b Boult 85, J-P. Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-11, 3-48, 10-0-45-1. I was only 12 then but I had ing the short-pitched deliv- sir taught me how to use the healthy conduct of the Vishnu Vardhan, and then Duminy run out 16, D. Miller c 4-48, 5-51, 6-58, 7-77, 8-82, 9- The Hindu ery.” non-bowling arm to generate partnered him to win the Broom b Santner 3, D. Pretorius New Zealand: D. Brownlie c de 95 speed,” he said to prestigious championship. speed. He told me to bring doubles crown in the b Ferguson 11, W. Parnell run Kock b Rabada 2, T. Latham c South Africa bowling: Rabada here on Saturday. The Executive Council $15,000 ITF men’s Futures on out 35, A. Phehlukwayo (not Duminy b Parnell 0, K. William- 10-0-39-2, Parnell 8-0-33-2, “The Indian team does McGrath connection the arm down and then pull also emphasised the need Saturday. In singles, Balaji out)1; Extras (lb-2, wd-7): 9; son b Phehlukwayo 23, R. Phehlukwayo 5-0-12-2, Pretor- not have a left-arm paceman Chennai is a familiar territ- it back up and keep it firm to ensure total participa- posted a 6-2, 7-6(1) victory Total (for eight wkts. in 50 Taylor lbw Pretorius 18, N. ius 5.2-1-5-3, Tahir 4-1-23-1. and they have called me four ory for the 27 year-old. It’s and upright. My pace in- tion of all Districts in the and then the two prevailed overs): 271. Broom c Amla b Phehlukwayo Toss: South Africa. times this season. They like here that he learnt the nu- creased.” National inter-District ju- over Mohit Mayur and Vijay 0, J. Neesham c & b Parnell 13, Man-of-the-match: de Villiers. the pace at which I bowl,” he ances of fast bowling from In 39 First-Class matches nior athletics meet (NID- Sundar Prashanth 7-6(5), Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-114, 3- M. Santner b Pretorius 1, C. de South Africa won by 159 runs, said. Glenn McGrath at the MRF for the State, Aniket has 129 JAM) and suggested action 4-6, 10-6. 115, 4-157, 5-164, 6-180, 7-264, Grandhomme (not out) 34, T. leads the 5-match series 2-1. Indeed, Aniket impressed Pace Foundation. “McGrath scalps at a creditable 27.44. against failing units.

NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 20 SPORT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Lancers shoot out Wizards Kemperman stars for Dabang Helps the Mumbai side beat Delhi Waveriders 2-0 Prevail 4-3 after the teams were locked 4-4 in regulation time Uthra Ganesan little to show Delhi was any- peat with his own shot. Gur- CHANDIGARH where in the game all jant Singh and Nikkin Thim- Dabang Mumbai continued through. It wasted three PCs maiah had their own its winning momentum to and even a penalty stroke chances but could not McIlroy clarifies on reach its maiden final of the awarded after Mandeep convert. playing golf with Trump Hockey India League with a Singh was elbowed by Tyron Delhi, meanwhile, well- LONDON 2-0 win against former Pereira in the 27th minute. served by its defence so far, Former World No. 1 Rory champion Delhi Waveriders It was the best and only was a team lost on the field. McIlroy hit back at critics on here on Saturday. clear chance the team had to It could not build up the Friday saying his decision to As the team with max- go level after Robbert Kem- attacks, Mandeep Singh play a round with US imum goals and wins perman had stopped the ball hardly had space to run up- President Donald Trump wasn’t an endorsement or a through the league stages outside the circle and front, the defenders were re- political statement of any and reaching the semifinals dragged it all the way in a peatedly beaten on the run kind. “I don’t agree with of the HIL for the first time minute earlier earlier. But and Rupinderpal Singh and everything my friends or ever, Mumbai was determ- Iain Lewers' shot was saved Justin Reid-Ross couldn't family say or do, but I still ined to go all the way. by David Harte, the FIH convert PCs. play golf with them,” McIlroy The result may indicate a Goalkeeper of the year, who Nothing went right for the tweeted. “Last week, I was close game but it was virtu- proved why the Irishman former champion, who invited to play golf with the ally a one-way street with was so highly rated. would now take on UPW in President of the United Mumbai making most of the At the other end, Mumbai the third-place playoff, even States. Whether you respect moves, creating the chances kept coming in waves and as Mumbai reinforced its cre- the person who holds that and largely staying in Delhi's kept creating chances. It dentials as favourite to win position or not, you respect half. earned six penalty corners the title this time around the office that he holds. AFP In fact, Delhi was saved but more than that, it were when it faces Kalinga Lan- the blushes and a much lar- the open chances going cers in the final. Joshna loses in ger margin of defeat by the waste that would rankle Jay For a team that repeatedly first round goalposts – twice Mumbai's Stacy's men. finished at the bottom of the CHICAGO shots came off them – and Johan Bjorkman saw his table so far, that would be Joshna Chinappa, seeded goalkeeper Vincent Vanasch, shot come off the post from the perfect turnaround. 12th, went down in straight who denied Mumbai a series close range in the 50th The result: Dabang Mumbai 2 games 13-11, 11-4, 11-5 to of penalty corners. minute and, two minutes (Robbert Kemperman 2 FG) bt Olivia Blatchford of the USA Decisive: Aran Zalewski converted for Kalinga Lancers in sudden-death. AKHILESH KUMAR Other than that, there was later, Affan Yousuf saw a re- Delhi Waveriders 0. in the first round of the Windy City Open squash here Uthra Ganesan Kalinga levelled even as Chandigarh HOCKEY INDIA LEAGUE on Friday. both P.R. Sreejesh and Uttar Pradesh Wizards Charter did their best under Mustafa and (UPW) paid the price for It kept entering the circle them in. The first and last the bar. India assured of profligacy, losing 4-3 in the and taking shots at the goal quarters, in fact, were all The sudden death then Asgar sound shoot-outs to Kalinga Lan- but every forward worth his about UPW but to no avail. saw Aran Zalewski and Lalit cers after drawing 4-4 in reg- name either hit wide or In contrast, Kalinga had Upadhyay score for Kalinga two medals conident ulation time in the first straight into the body of An- fewer chances but made even as Akashdeep’s shot re- semifinal of the Hockey In- drew Charter, who was im- sure they counted. bounded off the crossbar. Rayan Rozario Experienced Manoj Kumar bows out Siliguri dia League (HIL) here on penetrable on the day. This was the second time Saturday. The Australian saw Another to the tally UPW lost a semifinal in sud- Press Trust of India Asgar Ali (and co-driver This will be the second Florent van Aubel tap in a A penalty corner was not den death, having suffered a New Delhi pore’s Efasha Kamarudin to M.K. Mohammed Mustafa) straight final for Kalinga, deflection from Dutch com- stopped cleanly but the similar fate in 2015 against assure herself of a medal. from Erode have ruled the who finished runner-up last patriot Arthur van Doren in team kept control and Ranchi Rays. The Indians were assured of However, it was curtains national TSD circuit for sev- Pele’s son Edinho year. the fourth minute but there- Devinder Walmiki tapped in The team would now be two medals at the 68th for the experienced Manoj eral years. turns himself in after, there was no ball that before Moritz Fuerste added hoping to do better in the Strandja Memorial boxing Kumar (69kg), who went But the Biswa Bangla JK SAO PAULO Wasted chances passed him. another to his impressive bronze medal playoff on tournament after Mohamed down to Merven Clair of Tyre Himalayan Drive 5, Edson ‘Edinho’ Cholbi do UPW should have wrapped Assisted by a composed tally of penalty corners to Sunday to win its second Hussamuddin (56kg) and Mauritius in the scheduled to begin here on Nascimento, the son of up the game in regulation defence of Amit Rohidas level scores in the 35th medal in the tournament. Meena Kumari Maisnam quarterfinals. Sunday, will be a totally football legend Pele, turned time but wasted chances by and Dipsan Tirkey, Charter minute before Billy Bakker The result (semifinals): (54kg) entered the semi- Also bowing out of the new experience for the himself in on Friday after the dozen, both in open play stood tall amidst repeated chipped in a rebound to finals of the event in Sofia, last-eight stage were duo and for the rest in the being ordered by a Brazilian Kalinga Lancers 4 (Billy Bak- and through penalty assaults. However, UPW was pout the team ahead in the Bulgaria. Thomas Meitei Myangbem field as it covers interna- court to begin serving a nearly ker 2 FG, Moritz Fuerste 1 PC, corners. guilty of not having enough 46th minute. Hussamuddin, the reign- (64kg), Gaurav (91kg) and tional borders. 13-year prison sentence for Devender Walmiki 1 PC) bt Uttar money laundering and drug It earned seven penalty players upfront to convert Akashdeep finally scored Pradesh Wizards 4 (Florent van ing National champion, de- Deepak Singh (52kg). The 1250km rally, the trafficking. Edinho, who corners but couldn’t convert half chances. two minutes from time to Aubel 2 FG, Akashdeep Singh 2 feated Bulgaria’s Dushko In the women’s category, country’s first and only tri- briefly played for his father’s any despite two of the Shots from Akashdeep take the game into FG) in shootouts. Blagovestov to make the Preeti Benwal (60kg) and nation event, was flagged former club Santos, had so far biggest specialists in the Singh, Ramandeep Singh, shootouts. Shootout score: KL 4 (Lalit Up- last-four stage of the men’s Monica Saun (75kg) also off by the Siliguri Police avoided serving time while his business in its ranks – V.R. Agustin Mazzilli and Van In the shootout, UPW adhyay 2, Aran Zalewski 2) bt competition. signed off early from the Commissioner C.S. case underwent a lengthy Raghunath and Gonzalo Doren all went sailing past again took a 2-0 lead before UPW 3 (van Aubel 2, Agustin Among the women, event following opening Lepucha at the City Centre appeals process. PTI Peillat. the goal with no one to tap missing the next three as Mazzilli). Meena overcame Singa- losses. on Saturday. Chelsea beats Swansea, moves 11 points clear Fabregas, Pedro and Costa net for the Blues; Llorente scores consolation goal for the visitor

Agencies ebbed away when Lukasz Fabi- Bournemouth 1 (King 5); Chelsea 3 London anski allowed Pedro's shot to (Fabregas 19, Pedro 72, Costa 84) Chelsea stretched its lead at the squirm into the net and Diego bt Swansea 1 (Llorente 45+2). top of the Premier League to 11 Costa wrapped up the points La Liga: Las Palmas 0 lost to Real points with a 3-1 victory over a with his 16th league goal of the Sociedad 1 (Xabi Prieto 74); Alaves resolute Swansea City side at season, volleying in from Eden 2 (Ibai Gomez 77, Katai 85) Valencia Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Hazard's pass. 1 (Soler 69). Cesc Fabregas marked his Meanwhile, in Berlin, Bayern 300th Premier League appear- Bundesliga: VfL Wolfsburg 1 (May- Munich forward Robert Lewan- oral 19) lost to Werder Bremen 2 ance with his side's opener after dowski scored a hat-trick as the (Gnabry 10, 18); Bayern Munich 8 19 minutes, finishing well after Bundesliga leaders obliterated (Vidal 17, Lewandowski 24-pen, 42, being picked out by Pedro's Hamburg SV 8-0 to stay five 54, Alaba 56, Coman 65, 69, Rob- cut-back. points clear at the top and equal ben 87) bt Hamburg 0; Bayer Swansea worked tirelessly to its opponent’s heaviest league Leverkusen 0 lost to Mainz 05 2 avoid further damage and defeat. (Bell 3, Oztunali 11); SV Darmstadt stunned the leader shortly be- The results: EPL: Crystal Palace 1 98 1 (Heller 47) FC lost to Augsburg fore halftime when Fernando (van Aanholt 34) bt Middlesbrough 2 (Verhaegh 55-pen, Bobadilla 85); Llorente rose to head Gylfi Sig- 0; Hull City 1 (Huddlestone 72) SC Freiburg 0 lost to Borussia urdsson's quickly-taken free kick drew with Burnley 1 (Keane 76); Dortmund 3 (Papastathopoulos 13, past Thibaut Courtois. Everton 2 (Gueye 40, Lukaku 80) bt Aubameyang 55, 70); RB Leipzig 3 TAKING WING: Cesc Fabregas scored the opening goal in Chelsea’s 3-1 Swansea's hopes of a valuable Sunderland 0; West Brom 2 (Forsberg 5, Maroh 34-og, Werner win over Swansea. CLIVE ROSE/GETTY IMAGES point in its relegation battle (Dawson 10, McAuley 22) bt 65) bt Cologne 1 (Osako 53). East Bengal inlicts heavy defeat on Bengaluru FC Robin Singh scores a brace against his former team A scule Shreedutta Chidananda Bengaluru I-LEAGUE follows the Bengaluru FC’s I-League season went from troubled to miserable sorb some early BFC pressure in inal whistle after East Bengal inflicted a the second period. Sunil Chhet- stunning 3-1 defeat at the Sree ri’s header across goal in the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Kanteerava Stadium here on Sat- 53rd minute offered Daniel Lalh- BENGALURU urday. limpuia a gilded opportunity Tempers flared after the fi- The returning Robin Singh, but the substitute’s shot sailed nal whistle at the Sree once adored by these crowds, over the bar. Kanteerava Stadium here received a rather rude welcome Less than a minute later, East on Saturday, following East from the BFC faithful, but the Bengal scored at the other end. Bengal’s 3-1 victory over striker had the last laugh, scor- The full-back Robert Lalthl- Bengaluru FC. A scuffle ing twice in the second half amuana drove down the left broke out, with Mehtab against his former team. It put wing before swinging in a fine Hossain and the BFC head the game to bed, after Wedson cross. Robin made no mistake, coach Albert Roca at the Anselme had opened the scor- guiding his header into the bot- centre of it. ing with a splendid solo effort. tom corner. “Mehtab applauded the As BFC surged forward, East Bengaluru fans. We don’t Tense end Bengal struck the killer blow on Two-goal hero: Robin Singh, who received a rather rude welcome from need to do that. Nothing C.K. Vineeth reduced the mar- the break. A cross from the right his former team fans, had the last laugh. V. SREENIVASA MURTHY was meant by Mehtab but gin late on, which made for a was chested down by Chris- maybe the coach was frus- tense final few minutes, but it topher Payne Baden, and Robin BFC no end. Behind him, Me- far corner. Overpowered in trated. It was just pushing mattered little in the end. The applied the finishing touches. htab Hossain shadowed Sunil central midfield, BFC sought to and shoving,” said East result extended BFC’s winless It was the final nail in the Chhetri, giving BFC’s skipper — use the flanks but the excellent Bengal head coach Trevor streak to seven matches in the I- coffin on a difficult evening for and vital creative outlet — little Bukenya handled any crosses Morgan. League, leaving it 11 points adrift BFC. Albert Roca’s men had room for manoeuvre. with ease. Roca was displeased of table-topping East Bengal. struggled for cohesion during a The opening goal was the with Mehtab’s behaviour Much of the anger in the lively first half when East Bengal product of a piece of individual Aizawl posts win towards the home fans crowd towards Robin, who rev- clearly had the better of the ex- brilliance from Anselme. A BFC At Aizawl, Aizawl FC beat Chen- after the game. “Some els in casting himself as the vil- changes. foray upfield broke down and nai City FC 1-0 with Brandon players have to be more re- lain, perhaps resulted from his Trevor Morgan made seven the giant East Bengal centre-half Vanlalremdika scoring the only spectful. decision to celebrate his strike changes to the side that lost to Ivan Bukenya sparked the goal of the match in the 53rd “Our supporters don’t in the reverse fixture. Aizawl FC and if he was looking counter-attack with a fine cross- minute. deserve that. You need to He did not do so this time, for a response, he got one. field pass into Anselme’s feet. The results: Bengaluru FC 1 (C.K. show sensitivity after the fi- but that will have been little con- Robin blazed an early shot The Haitian stormed down the Vineeth 85) lost to East Bengal 3 nal whistle, especially solation for the home support. over the bar. Anselme was a inside-right channel, cut inside (Wedson Anselme 23, Robin Singh when you win away,” he After taking a 1-0 lead into the bustling, creative presence just on his left foot, and unleashed a 54, 60). At Aizawl: Aizawl FC 1 (Van- said. interval, East Bengal had to ab- behind the front two, bothering flawless, curling effort into the lalremdika 53) bt Chennai City FC 0. CM YK