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"   0@'<<<  Government to seek the help of injured another constable by court ordered quashing of all $ " "  $       $ foreign judicial authorities in firing at them from AK-47 letter rogatories (LRs) sent by   "  probing an offshore entity in assault rifles during a flag Directorate of Revenue connection with an ongoing meeting on the international Intelligence (DRI) to coun- ((      $ ?  domestic probe. boundary in West Bengal. The tries, including Singapore,       *    The Thursday Bombay meeting took place to discuss against three Adani group com-    "  "  "  High Court order is big setback the arrest of an Indian fisher- panies accused of overvaluing        "  for the DRI and all those who man by the Bangladesh para- Indonesian coal imports 0<:: 0<:A had alleged that the Adani and military force. between 2011 and 2015. several other companies made Miffed over the incident, A division bench of justices the DRI had not taken any JSW Steel, Hyderabad — based overvaluation of coal imports. huge money by overpricing BSF chief Vivek Johri called up Ranjit More and Bharati H cognisance of offence under the NSL Group, India Cements, The Customs, Excise & Service the Indonesian coal imports his BGB counterpart Major Dangre allowed the Adani Customs Act 1962 against the NTPC, MMTC, Tamil Nadu Tax Appellate Tribunal had between 2011 and 2015. General Shafeenul, who Enterprises Ltd’s (AEL) writ group firms. SEB and Karnataka Power already rejected this plea. The other aspect of the coal assured him a thorough probe petition which questioned the The court order virtually Corporation. All of them are In June this year, the DRI scam probe related to allotment into the incident, officials said. #$ %&   procedural legality involved in brings down the curtain on the also facing DRI probe for charged AEL of attempting to fraud had also generated a big Later the BSF tweeted, “DG issuing the LRs. The petition- ongoing probe against Adani alleged overvaluation of coal block its probe into the over- controversy when the role of & all ranks #BSF salute the his head and succumbed and er pointed out that LRs were group of companies and also imports from Indonesia. valuation charge. former CBI chief Ranjit Sinha supreme sacrifice of Head the constable/crew (boatman) issued “without any notice and comes handy for over three The DRI had demanded The DRI filed an affidavit had come under scanner for Constable Vijay Bhan Singh received bullet injuries on his hearing the companies”. It also dozen other companies such as around 29,000 crore from in the Bombay High Court on allegedly helping the accused and offer condolences to the right hand. Both injured BSF said that at that point of time Essar group, JSW Energy and these companies for alleged June 13 questioning the logic companies. family members. On 17th personnel were evacuated to the October ‘19, HC Vijay Bhan nearest medical facility. Head Singh was martyred while on Constable Vijay Bhan Singh R       an operational duty (flag meet-  %&5+%6% was declared brought dead. ing with BGB) on Indo-   +   + Injured Constable has been    ! Bangladesh Border.”      %  taken to Murshidabad Medical    “Today morning, three %  7 !8%  College and Hospital.” ##    2..=>      Indian fishermen went for fish-  4 BGB authorities have been ing in River Padma in the bor- contacted and senior officials elhi Chief Minister Arvind    der area. Two fishermen troopers in the BSF boat, are on the spot, it said. DKejriwal on Thursday returned and approached BSF approached BGB patrol in the The attack on the BSF announced rules for odd-even ##    2..=> Parking Fee (BPF) committee post Kakmarichar ( Riverine water channel of River Padma trooper is primarily an indica- scheme that will be effective has recommended a hike in the border of River Padma which near Boundary Pillar 75/7-S. tor of some local issues in from November 4 to 15 to tack- elhi Chief Minister Arvind fee by a “factor of 1-3” depend- falls in the AOR (area of oper- During flag meeting, BGB Bangladesh aimed at address- le air pollution. DKejriwal on Thursday said ing on peak hours and crowd- ation) of this BOP (Border Out patrol did not release Indian ing the domestic audience The list of exempted peo- that hiking parking fees during ed areas such as markets. Post) to inform that Border fisherman and also tried to cor- through radical elements in the ple include President, Vice the implementation of the odd- “Since, it is suggested to be Guards Bangladesh had appre- don (gherao) BSF troops. BGB ahead of the national President, Prime Minister, Lok even vehicle rationing scheme increased by a factor of 1-3, we hended them and later released Sensing the situation worsen- elections. The incident does not Sabha Speaker, Deputy will be counterproductive. (SDMC) can increase it by a two of them to call BSF post ing, BSF party immediately reflect any design at the level of Chairman of the Rajya Sabha, Kejriwal’s statement came factor of one, so that it effec- Commander for flag meeting,” returned. the Government there which Governors, Chief Justices of after the Supreme Court-man- tively the fee would remain the the BSF said in a statement. “BGB troops opened fire has been friendly with India India and Judges of the dated Environment Pollution same. We do not want to put The BSF further stated, on the returning BSF party. and cooperating on a number Supreme Court and the Delhi (Prevention and Control) burden on the people unnec- “Around 10.30 hours, Post Head Constable Vijay Bhan of issues including counter-ter- High Court. Emergency, Authority (EPCA) chairman essarily,” Gupta said. Commander along with 5 Singh received bullet injuries on ror operations, sources said. enforcement, defence, para- Bhure Lal had asked the Delhi North Delhi Mayor Avtar military and embassy vehicles Government last week to fix odd-even days and if parking submitted,” he said. Singh said the BPF committee  will also be exempted. parking charges as per the fees are increased, they will be Meanwhile, officials of the has made recommendations Violations of the rule will new parking policy so that it deterred to take their vehicles Delhi Municipal Corporations to the apex monitoring com- "   #$%$    be punished with a fine of Rs could be hiked in view of out. There will be threat of said they are waiting for the mittee for its final approval. OP    4,000 which was earlier Rs growing air pollution. chaos,” he said. final approval of the authorities “We will take steps from our   2,000. Addressing media persons, Speaking on the issue, on new parking norms, but side, once the final picture R          Two-wheelers will also be the Chief Minister said, “It will Transport Minister Kailash they also assured that whatev- emerges. Whatever happens,    NO   exempted under the scheme. become very difficult for peo- Gahlot refused that a report on er be the new rules, no addi- we will take steps accordingly     Vehicles driven or carrying ple to travel if the odd-even parking fees was submitted to tional burden would be put on in a way that there is balanced !  "  women and those carrying scheme is implemented and him. “I do not have informa- people by the civic bodies. approach so that we neither put   $L   physically disabled persons will parking fees are also hiked.” tion that any such report has Chairman of the Standing burden on the people nor  M  "' $$   be exempted. But private CNG “We are asking people to been submitted. 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5 6   ++  9:; '  "      #   2..=> and deploy their troops. The digital format will also  %<4  2..=> end of next year, on its own. nion Home Minister Amit help in ensuring that a large Shah played down the UShah has directed the grievance of personnel regard-  2..=> uestions raised by some of unease in the alliance, saying it Central paramilitary forces ing their transfer and posting Qthe BJP leaders in Bihar is natural for some differences including CRPF, BSF, ITBP to a place near to their parents he Devendra Fadnavis  !  "   recently over the party not to crop up at the local level and and others to undertake a or family home will be TGovernment in N ,  H'-   taking leadership in the State that this is an indication of a mega manpower planning and addressed up to a limit, he said. Maharashtra has "fulfiled over  ?      and playing a second fiddle to healthy alliance. ensure that around 7 lakh stable gets to stay with his fam- The forces have been given 96 per cent of the promises" (     " the JDU were unambiguously repeatedly criticising the Bihar 'Matbhed' (difference of jawans get to spend at least 100 ily for about 100 days, they said. a deadline of two months to made by the party in its 2014 ,  2  ,     set aside by the BJP president Government for its "inept" opinion) has not changed into days with their families in a The directive, when imple- implement the direvtive. Assembly elections manifesto,      I I $ Amit Shah, who, on Thursday, handling of water-logging in 'manbhed' (change of heart), he year. mented, will ensure that the According to reports, an the BJP claimed on Thursday 4!  I 9 I affirmed that the JDU-BJP several parts of Patna following said.JDU has been on an Shah was given a presen- jawans will be posted to their average jawan spends 75 days asserting that good Governance $ )>     $ alliance would contest heavy rainfall to which he also uneasy term with the BJP after tation last month about the nearest units and they can with his family in the BSF. has been the cornerstone of the  ",  N  H*  Assembly polls together under received an acid retort from the it opted out from the Modi functioning of the Forces in the travel and stay with their fam- Similar situation prevails in ruling dispensation.  '-=  ) the leadership of incumbent JDU leaders who sought him to Government for it not includ- Ministry, following which he ilies when there are no opera- other forces due to lack of Releasing a report by the IJ ,  H    Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. mind his own central Ministry. ing two of its leaders in the directed that the deployment tional exigencies, an official reserve component and con- Public Policy Research Centre  K   L $4! Shah asserted that their "The JD(U)-BJP alliance is union cabinet and making details of the troops of these said. tinuous deployment. Lack of (PPRC), which analysed imple-    9 $ )( alliance is "atal" (firm) and that 'atal'. Both parties will go to the space for only one cabinet forces should be "digitised" so The forces' chiefs have family connect has been attrib- mentation of the BJP's 2014 4!K    it will fight the Bihar Assembly elections together and we will berth for its alliance partner. that better manpower ratio- been asked to assess and pre- uted to one of the many reasons assembly elections manifesto,    L  elections next year under fight under the leadership of JDU has also not been backing nalisation can be done, officials pare reports of their addition- putting the jawans under stress. days before the polling in the   $  $  Kumar. Nitish Kumar. This is clear as triple talaq bill and objected to said. al manpower so that the over- Stressed out jawans also. At state, BJP vice-president Vinay  'I     A section of BJP leaders far as Bihar is concerned," the criminalization clause in it. The Union Home Ministry all deployment of a paramili- times, tend to indulge in frat- Sahasrabuddhe said the BJP-led >  '   N H  from Bihar pitched for Kumar Shah told a news channel. The discord between the two has now asked all the Directors tary unit is not affected. Unlike ricidal incidents even leading to government gave the State sta-   >   N H making way for a BJP leader at He was asked if the BJP is had at one time set off specu- General of the Forces to under- the paper file format, digitized casualties. bility which created an envi-   ) the helm in the State. Union considering fighting the State lations of Kumar again drifting take the exercise and implement data will make force head- The move will give a sig- ronment for unleashing the Minister Giriraj Singh has been election, slated to be held by the to the opposition camp. a regime where a jawan or a con- quarters' job easier to to rotate nificant relief to the jawans. economic transformation. #6 ' " #  ( * +  K*+L         :<9  $     = 7   #           /"     * +        ,   $ "(  ' !! " 7' In the current fiscal, NHAI Gadkari led Ministry for for model on build-operate-trans-   " *+ )(*+    2..=> has set a target of constructing unplanned and excessive fer (toll) basis. The stretches      " , 90@$ 5 4,200 kms of roads and award- expansion of roads by declar- have been selected after con- +   -9:M    $)  n the wake of funds crunch ing projects of cumulative ing state highways as national sultations with bidders in  2..=> Kapil Sibal accused ED and the $ $  " , 9 Ihitting major road projects, 6,000 kms. The Ministry has highways which ultimately States including Haryana, Government for cleverly tim- 0@$   $  the Road Ministry has asked projected a revenue deficit of impacted the central exchequer. Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu,   he trial court on Thursday ing up the ED arrest to settle             the Central road making over 37,000 crore to the Ministry sources said West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Tsent former Finance Minister political vendetta. He said that     ), 90@ agency NHAI (National finance ministry. NHAI has initiated discussions Madhya Pradesh. New Delhi: A Hindu party P Chidambaram to seven days of ED even told the court that     $ "/  Highways Authority of India) According to the Ministry, with the Indian Institutes of This exercise is NHAI's Thursday sought action from custody of Enforcement they don't want to arrest :M 0; ?  * +  to explore reducing the road per-kilometre cost of devel- Technology (IITs) for research attempt at reviving the BOT the Bar Council against senior Directorate in the INX Media Chidambaram few weeks back /" H.  $ ( '+9 infrastructure construction oping a two-lane highway was and development to bring down model of construction. Under advocate Rajeev Dhavan, rep- bribery case. This visibly upset when former Finance Minister :; > ) costs through new technology between 11- 12 crore, while the cost of road construction BOT, private players build, resenting Muslim litigants in Chidambaram, who would have filed a surrender application. and innovative means in a bid four-lane highway was around with improved quality. operate and maintain the road the Ayodhya case, for his "high- to spend the time in the Tughlak Solicitor General Tushar   ' 7 to make projects financially 30 crore per km till three IITs will do a comprehen- for a specified period of time ly unethical act" of tearing the Road police station lock-up Mehta countered that the  8 viable. years ago and this costing has sive study on the alternative before transferring the asset pictorial map purportedly room during the ED's custody as accused person doesn't decide 2  N(4 "-  The moves comes after cumulatively gone up by 30 environment friendly methods back to the Government. In showing the birthplace of Lord the agency has no custody room the timings of the investigating (     $   Road Transport and Highways percent. for road and highway con- the case of HAM, the central Ram during the Supreme facilities. Chidambaram thus agencies. He said that ED's case    $    Minister Nitin Gadkari in a "The Minister assured us structions and simultaneous- Government bears 40 per cent Court hearing on sought air conditioning facility is different from CBI and the 2-=*(   review meeting last week sug- (officers) there is no dearth of ly maintaining the quality. In of the project cost and the Wednesday. and even requested that he be agency was preparing to get   $ "        gested the Ministry and NHAI funds for projects, and even the last couple of years con- remaining amount is arranged One of the factions of the sent to CBI's custody room. some statements from crucial    $ 9  officials to ponder over the long-term financial institu- struction cost has increased by by the developer. All India Hindu Mahasabha The Special Court Judge witnesses to confront  $ "' $ = idea of rationalising the con- tions are willing to lend to the almost 30 percent by the given The Centre has made fund (AIHM) wrote to the Bar Ajay Kumar Kuhar, however, Chidambaram regarding the K=L)(' "   struction costs. authority and don't get de- materials, substances and allocation to NHAI for works Council of India condemning rejected the demand and money laundering.   *,6     According to official motivated by baseless rumours methods in practice now under the Bharatmala Project Dhavan's action on the con- approved other requests like Mehta objected to  ,   '   sources, in an effort to boost with no substance. He To keep up with the pace and the money will come cluding day of the 40-day provision of home-cooked food, Chidamabram's demand for air       the morale of officials involved (Gadkari) shared that that of highway development of 40 from the Central Road hearing in the Ram- western toilet and medicine etc conditioning facility in ED cus-     $ 9 2-- in highway constructions, PMO is in full cooperation and km a day the road Ministry Infrastructure Fund (CRIF), Janmbhoomi-Babri Masjid land to the former Finance Minister tody and said that they should   "   5 Gadkari conveyed them to that they want ," said sources said that projects Permanent Bridges Fee Fund dispute case before a who has to be in the ED's cus- provide all security and has no $9     focus on delivering projects the official. spread across 10 states will (PBFF) and Monetisation of 5-judge Constitution bench tody till October 24. objection in allowing home     $ rather than getting stuck in The PMO in August this now come up on the public- National Highways Fund headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Arguing for cooked food and meeting of    $   procedures. year had questioned the private partnership (PPP) (MNHF). Gogoi. PTI Chidambaram, noted lawyer family members.  " )       '7  2..=> population residing perma-        nently or temporarily in forest aced with an ambitious tar- ecosystem in relation to malar- Fget to end malaria by 2030, ia transmission and vector con-    the Union Health Ministry is trol interventions. looking towards researchers to Studies on community New Delhi: The Supreme and had ordered a CBI probe New Delhi: The Supreme His name was recom- help address gaps and behavior, accessibility and uti- Court Collegium has recom- and an inquiry by the Patna Court Collegium has recom- mended to replace the then challenges to tackle the lization of current vector con- mended the transfer of Patna district judge into how a former mended elevation of two high Chief Justice of Madras High vector-borne disease. trol operations under the High Court judge Rakesh IAS officer, whom he had court judges — Justice Ravi Court V K Tahilramani, who For instance, it has asked national programme, includ- Kumar, who had recently denied anticipatory bail in a Ranjan and Justice Mohammad was transferred to the the researchers to conduct ing study of logistic supply courted controversy following corruption case last year, was Rafiq — as the chief Meghalaya High Court. studies on the changing behav- chain. his stinging observations over granted regular bail by a trial justices of the Jharkhand and However, she refused to go iour of mosquito vectors such The ICMR is also looking alleged corruption in the judi- court. Meghalaya High Courts there and tendered her as feeding and resting behav- towards development and test- ciary, to the Andhra Pradesh Justice Kumar had also respectively. resignation which was accept- iour, to find out frequency ing of new insecticides and High Court. directed that copies of his While Justice Ranjan is a ed. and level of vector resistance to formulations to increase effi- The Collegium has also August 28 order sitting judge of the The Collegium has also the insecticides that are in use cacy of sprays/LLIN/larviciding recommended transfer of Patna be sent to the Punjab and Haryana recommended the transfer of for malaria vector control in assessment of feasibility and High Court Chief Justice A P Chief Justice of High Court, Justice Tripura High Court Chief high risk and residual trans- cost effectiveness of new vec- Sahi to the Madras High Court India, the apex Rafiq is posted at the Justice Sanjay Karol to Patna mission areas. ly endemic to malaria and ies and tools are being sought tor control strategies/products as its chief justice. court Collegium Rajasthan High High Court as its chief According to the shoulders the burden of two to take the vector headon. that are at the development The apex court Collegium, and the Prime Court. justice. Government, a total of 842,095 major malaria parasites, As the emergence and stage. headed by Chief Justice of Minister's Office The apex court The Collegium also cases and 104 deaths were Plasmodium falciparum and P. spread of drug and insecticide Also, field testing of novel India Ranjan Gogoi, held a besides the Union Collegium, headed approved the proposal for ele- reported in 2017. However, vivax. resistance is undermining the tools such as toxic sugar-bait- meeting this week and decid- Law Ministry. by Chief Justice of vation of advocates Moksha the World Health Organization A senior official from the efficacy of existing tools, the ed traps, endectocides, and ed to recommend the transfer Later, a full India Ranjan Gogoi, Kazmi (Khajuria) and Rajnesh (WHO) in its 2017 Global Indian Council of Medical ICMR is seeking new improved targeted larviciding has been of chief justice Sahi and justice bench of the Patna High Court, decided this in its meeting Oswal as judges of the Jammu Report has put the estimation Research (ICMR) said that a tools and approaches for dis- proposed for interrupting Kumar. headed by Chief Justice A P held on October 15, a state- & Kashmir High Court. at 13.1 million cases and 23,990 programme has been launched ease surveillance, diagnosis, residual (outdoor) transmission "The Supreme Court Sahi, had set aside Justice ment uploaded on the top It also approved the pro- malarial deaths in India for the with an aim to bring the vari- treatment and tackle the vector. or reducing the receptivity. Collegium in its meeting held Kumar's order, terming it as an court website said. posal for elevation of judicial same year. ous stakeholders on a single Proposals have been sought to According to the Ministry, on October 15, 2019, has decid- instance of judicial and admin- The Collegium also rec- officers — Parthivjyoti Saikia In fact, as per the WHO, in platform to identify and pri- conduct studies to assess and nearly 70 per cent malaria ed to recommend transfer of istrative overreach and a com- ommended transfer of and S Hukato Swu — and 2017, five countries accounted oritise research work needed to quantify outdoor/residual cases in India are contributed Justice Rakesh Kumar, Judge, plete nullity. Meghalaya High Court Chief advocate Soumitra Saikia as for nearly half of all malaria meet the target to eliminate the transmission by vectors that by five of 36 States and Union Patna High Court to Andhra Justice Kumar was divest- Justice A K Mittal to the judges of the Gauhati High cases worldwide: Nigeria (25 disease by 2030. feed outdoors or biting early in Territories. These include Pradesh High Court," a state- ed of his judicial work by the Madhya Pradesh High Court as Court. per cent), the Democratic Called Malaria Elimination the evening or are resistant to Odisha (36 per cent), ment uploaded on the apex high court administration on its chief justice. It approved the proposal Republic of the Congo (11 per Research Alliance India insecticides. Chhattisgarh (12 per cent), court website said. the day he had passed the It had earlier recommend- for elevation of judicial officer cent), Mozambique (5 per (MERA India), the programme Also, the researchers have Jharkhand (9 percent), Madhya Justice Kumar had made order. However, a day later his ed that Justice Mittal be trans- Wanlura Diengdoh as a cent)and India and Uganada (4 took off on April 24 under been asked to look into socio- Pradesh (9 per cent) and stinging observation over the judicial work was restored by a ferred to the Madras High judge of the Meghalaya High per cent each). India is high- which various innovative stud- cultural behavior of the human Maharashtra (5 per cent). alleged corruption in judiciary special 11-judge bench. PTI Court as chief justice. Court. PTI  "   "                      $   "      New Delhi: All postgraduate "The move is aimed at pro- "Satisfactory completion of medical students will have to viding practical experience to this rotation shall be an essen- New Delhi: last serve in district hospitals for at future specialists in real-life set- tial condition before the candi- month scrambled two F-16 least three months in order to ting of the country's public date is allowed to appear in the jets in its airspace to intercept       be eligible to appear in the final health system. Also, this will final examination of the respec- a SpiceJet plane, assuming it to exam, the Board of Governors help address shortage of spe- tive postgraduate course. The be a military aircraft, which was New Delhi: India on Thursday grims," he said. (BoG), vested with the powers cialist doctors in district hos- Ministry of Health is requested heading to Kabul from Delhi asked Pakistan not to insist on Kumar said India has of the Medical Council of India pitals of rural and remote areas, to develop guidelines for the with around 120 passengers, a levying a fee of USD 20 per urged Pakistan not to levy the (MCI), has proposed. and help strengthen services at scheme in partnership with the senior Government official Indian pilgrim and hoped that fee in the interests of devotees, Currently, students pursu- such hospitals," a senior State Government and BoG in said. an agreement to operationalise and also because the opening ing undergraduate medical Government official said. three months," it read. The incident came in the the Kartarpur corridor will be of the corridor is a people-to- courses are attached to prima- The note sent to the Union For the purpose of the backdrop of tension between The SpiceJet pilot was "There was some mix up at inked soon between the two people initiative. ry health centres or urban Health Ministry said all post- proposed programme, a district India and Pakistan that had asked by F-16 pilots to lower the end of Pakistan's Air Traffic countries. "We hope that the health centres for three months graduate students shall under- hospital will be defined broad- escalated after the Indian the altitude and give flight Control (ATC)," the second External Affairs Ministry agreement can be concluded as part of a compulsory rotat- take a rotation in designated ly as a functional public sector Government revoked Jammu & details, the official added. official added. SpiceJet did not Spokesperson Raveesh Kumar and signed in time for the great ing internship. district hospitals/health sys- or publicly-funded hospital of Kashmir's special status on Another senior respond to the query sent by said both India and Pakistan event," said Kumar. The BoG has written to the tem for a period of three about 200 beds or more, with August 5 and bifurcated it into Government official said,"On PTI on this matter. reached an agreement on the Pakistan has been insisting Health Ministry to develop months as a part of the course facilities for specified special- union territories. September 23, Pakistan Pakistan had fully closed its corridor except on the matter on levying the service fee of guidelines for implementation curriculum. ities, designated by the Centre "On the morning of assumed that the SpiceJet flight, airspace on February 26 after of the service fee. USD 20 per pilgrim to meet the of the proposal for postgradu- For postgraduate students or State Governments. September 23, the SpiceJet which had around 120 passen- the Indian Air Force (IAF) "After several rounds of operational costs of the corri- ate students in partnership of community medicine, the Medical colleges, both gov- flight SG 21 left Delhi airport gers, is an Indian Air Force struck a Jaish-e-Mohammed discussion with Pakistan, we dor linking the historic with it and the state govern- requirement can be posting at ernment as well as private, will and was going through plane. Once Pakistan realised (JeM) terrorist training camp in have reached an agreement on Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in ments. It has also sought that primary health centres and place their post-graduates at the Pakistan's airspace to Kabul. that it is commercial flight, the Balakot in retaliation to the all other issues, except the Pakistan's Kartarpur with Dera this provision comes into force field experience in addition to disposal of the government for Pakistan scrambled two F-16 F-16s escorted the SpiceJet Pulwama attack on February 14 matter of service fee. Pakistan Baba Nanak shrine in from the next academic ses- activities at the district hospi- rotation/posting for the dura- planes and intercepted the plane till the Afghanistan air- and fully opened it for all civil- insists on levying a fee of USD Gurdaspur district in sion. tal. tion of the course. PTI flight mid-air," said the official. space." ian traffic on July 16. PTI 20 (approx. 1420) on all pil- Punjab. PTI chhattisgarh 03 RAIPUR | FRIDAY | OCTOBER 18, 2019 Diarrhea outbreak hits Bastar’s Chief Minister invites Pithapur, claims two lives Nobel laureate Abhijit STAFF REPORTER n “There was a Bhandara on the occasion and Dusshera on October 7-8 JAGDALPUR and thereafter the deceased were suffering from n outbreak of diarrhea has of Navratri and Dusshera on October Banerjee Chhattisgarh symptoms of diarrhea. They hit Pithapur village of A 7-8 and thereafter the deceased were were detected of diarrhea on n Bakawand block, claiming the October 13 this month and STAFF REPORTER life of two including a child on suffering from symptoms of diarrhea. there after a team of health RAIPUR Thursday. Twenty three more They were detected of diarrhea on department was constantly hief Minister Bhupesh persons are found suffering monitoring the situation by CBaghel has written a from it and are being treated October 13 this month and there after a holding health camps there’’, letter to economist Abhijit in the health camps at the the official said. Banerjee, congratulating village. team of health department was Panic created among the him on receiving 'The Nobel District Collector Ayyaj villagers after the detection of Memorial Prize' in Tamboli talking to The Pioneer constantly monitoring the situation by diarrhea and more than 60 Economics, and invited him confirmed the two deaths due persons complaining about to Chhattisgarh on behalf of to diarrhea and informed that holding health camps there’’ similar symptoms were the people of the state. the outbreak came to light examined. Among them, 23 Chief Minister stated in when the 3-4 persons of a suffering from loose motions “There was a Bhandara persons were suffering from the letter to Banerjee that “it family complaint about and vomiting, and died later. on the occasion of Navratri diarrhea, the official added. is a proud moment for every Indian across the globe, which is inspiring us to achieve such greatness that is recognized across the world at highest-level. Your Ban on sale of fruits research on context-based solutions on issues such as and empowerment to the has taken many initiatives letter to the Nobel laureate. 'Relationship between bare- last person of the society. for uplift of rural economy Chief Minister, in his let- foot children, whooping “The idea of 'Minimum through context-based ter to Banerjee, has extended a cough and school drop outs' Income Scheme' (NYAY) has employment activities. I am cordial invitation on behalf of will provide practical and been a guiding principle to our sure that your guidance on the people of the state to visit with stickers attached implementable solutions to endeavours to eradicate pover- the state vision and future Chhattisgarh as per his many and will help them ty and disparity. The state has roadmap will reaffirm our convenience. He stated that an tackle the underlying embarked upon its journey of methods and beliefs, “insightful conversation with complex behavioural issues.” poverty eradication and rural motivating us to continue on you over the current policies Chief Minister stated in development through 'Narva, the path of development and of the state and the steps the letter that government of Garva, Ghurva and baadi',” the empowerment of every required to accelerate poverty Chhattisgarh is committed CM said. single person of the state,” alleviation will be an uplifting to bring the development “The state government stated Chief Minister in the and lasting experience.” Three suspected Naxals

STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR section 59, imprisonment and fine will be gums which is generally made by chemi- imposed by taking necessary legal action. cals due to which the chemicals damage ood and Drugs administration, arrested in Sukma Office of Controller FDA has intimat- the fruits. Then, it becomes unfit for FGovernment of Chhattisgarh has made ed the fruits being sold in market mainly human consumption. As per the FSSAI STAFF REPORTER n SUKMA CRPF, and district police had Committee President), Podiyam an appeal to all the fruit sellers not to sell apple, mango, orange, guava, banana, Act standards, the traders and fruit sellers launched an area domination exercise Hidma (26) and Madkami Deva (25) the fruits by pasting stickers on it. The sitaphal (custard apple), nashpati (pear) are not allowed to store, distribute or sell hree suspected Naxals, wanted in from Tongpal police station limits both Janmilita members, police said people have also been urged not to procure and others are pasted with stickers. The such fruits in the market. Even they are not Tconnection with attack on a police about 400 km south of state capital while adding they were all residents of or purchase fruits which have stickers. fruit sellers generally claim it to be premi- allowed to sell the fruits and vegetables party, were arrested during an anti- Raipur and nabbed the three from a Tongpal Sukma. Controller, FDA said if any food trad- um brand or to conceal the damaged part which have started to decay. Naxal operation carried out by security forested patch between Uplanka and They were involved in an IED blast er is found to store unsafe food materials, of the fruit. Generally, the stickers carries Similarly, the sale of fruits covering a forces in a forested patch of insurgency- Junapani villages,” a local police which happened on February 2 this indulge in its distribution or its sale, then the traders’ brand, OK tested, best quality layer with wax, mineral oil, colours, hit Sukma district, police said here on officer said. year at village Marjum in Tongpal under Food Safety and Standards or name of the fruit. ripening the fruits using calcium carbide is Thursday. They were identified as Kawasi police station limits wherein a police Authority of India (FSSAI) Act 2006, It is reported that the stickers have also banned. “A joint team of 227 battalion Aaytu (27) (Maoist Panchayat jawan was injured, police claimed. BJP’s dual stand on Mahatma Baghel govt’s directives on Gandhi unmasked: Congress Hardcore Naxals give ‘Gauthan Diwas’ celebration STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR by the department include BJP promises Bharat Ratna to Savarkar in its manifesto immediate opening of bank up arms in Dantewada he Chhattisgarh govern- accounts of these committees STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR Tment on Thursday issued n so that the process of provid- STAFF REPORTER and Mada Madkami alias lage. Police was searching him in directives to all collectors and ing allocation in these tate Congress claimed that BJP’s dual DANTEWADA Hadma (22) both residents of connection with murder of CEO’s of the state on how to character and anti-Gandhi ideology accounts begins from S Katekalyan police station limits Metapal Turrempara Sarpanch celebrate “Gauthan Diwas” at November. They have been was unmasked by its promise of ‘Bharat wo hardcore Naxals carrying in the district, police informed. Dharmu Kurami and Kosa various ‘gauthans’ (cowsheds) directed to provide names and Ratna’ to Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in Tcash reward of Rs 5 lakh Hadma Mandavi was Madvi in Chhindgarh. Both were developed under the Chief each on their heads gave up bank details of all the members its manifesto. Katekalyan area committee killed in 2016. Minister’s flagship project of ‘Gauthan Sewa Samiti’ in arms before police and district In a statement Congress’s state gen- member and Peddras LOS (local Apart from killings in 2018, “Suraji Gaon Yojana”. various districts to the eral secretary and chairman communi- administration officers here on organizing squad) commander, and 2019 he was also wanted for The instructions have Director, Animal Husbandry cation wing Shailesh Nitin Trivedi Thursday, police said. while Mada Madkami was also a his involvement in blowing up been issued by the by November 10. “Both Naxals, who were dis- backed the statement of Chief Minister member of Katekalyan area vehicles through IEDs and Department of Agriculture Foundation laying cere- satisfied with the violence and committee and Katekalyan area attacking police party, police Bhupesh Baghel and said the foot- Cooperation and Farmers mony of new selected and marches held by BJP on Mahatma’s birth Maoist ideology, gave up arms Janmilita commander, police claimed. Welfare to celebrate sanctioned ‘gauthans’ will also anniversary were just political gimmick. during a district level ‘Kabbadi’ said. According to police, Mada “Goverdhan Puja”, on second Citing findings of Kapoor event. They were involved in Hadma had joined Maoist Madkami was involved in blow- day after Diwali, as ‘Gauthan take place at panchayat and Committee about involvement of ouring Savarkar. various serious Maoist attacks cadre in 2010 as a Sangham ing up a CISF vehicle in Diwas’. Collectors and CEO’s gram level on ‘Gauthan Diwas’. Savarkar in conspiracy of Gandhi’s Honouring Savarkar is an insult to that had claimed lives of over 20 member and by 2018 he was pro- Kirandul on May 13, 2012 have also been asked to ensure Traditional rituals of assassination, Trivedi said it was painful Gandhi and reveals the dual character of men,” Superintendent of Police moted as LOS commander. In wherein 5 CISF jawan and a formation of ‘Gauthan Sewa ‘Goverdhan Puja’ will be per- that BJP even thinks of felicitating a per- BJP, he further said. (SP) Dantewada Abhishek Pallav 2014 he was involved in killing of civilian was killed. He was also Samiti’ before the event as formed along with participa- son who was responsible for Gandhi’s Notable the Maharashtra unit of BJP in said. Toylanka Sarpanch and in 2015 part of Maoist team that execut- these committees will be for- tion of women self-help assassination. It is more disappointing its election manifesto promised honouring They were identified as he was part of Maoists team that ed deadly ambush in Shyamgiri mally given the charge of groups, which will be working that the BJP has chosen the 150th Savarkar with highest civilian award of the Hadma Mandavi alias Hariram killed a man suspecting him as hills wherein 6 jawans were ‘Gauthan Diwas’. in these ‘gauthans’, at the cele- anniversary year of Mahatma for hon- country Bharat Ratna. alias Midkom alias Raju (28) police informer in Tongpal vil- killed. Other instruction issued bration. State’s scientific models C’garh govt running on selected for innovative ideas ‘Digvijaya Model’: Kaushik STAFF REPORTER n RAIPUR the statements issued by the state STAFF REPORTER n Kashyap. automatically the pad governments cannot be believed. RAIPUR Atal Krishi Mitra model opens and also flushes. eacting on the financial status The conditions of roads itself is an agricultural robot, When the user comes out it of government of speak volumes of claims of devel- hree scientific models R which carries out all work- flushes once more. If any Chhattisgarh, Leader of opment, he pointed out. of Chhattisgarh, made T ers like ploughing, seeding, person throws plastic bottle Opposition and BJP leader Meanwhile, Raipur Member by students of Government inside it, it has a sensor and Dharamlal Kaushik said Multipurpose Higher harvesting, separation of of Parliament Sunil Soni on civic blade which will cut the Chhattisgarh is in same situation Secondary School, Bilaspur foodgrains, levelling, spray- bodies’ election said state govern- bottles into pieces. The as was in undivided Madhya at 46th Jawaharlal Nehru ing of pesticides, irrigation ment has been violating the dem- National Science, and even transportation. lower portion has six-level Pradesh where across depart- ocratic and constitutional norms. Mathematics, Environment Mechanical Smart Bio- tank having azo-bacteria ments developmental works had Soni said as a general process, Exhibition for Children- toilet model, which is a which consumes the feces come to a standstill. cannot be won on developmental the cabinet sub-committee should 2019 has been selected by solution to the railway bio- and converts into liquid He said Chief Minister works plank. Kaushik claimed have submitted its recommenda- the Niti Ayog out of the toilet system that is facing form. Alum is added to it, Bhupesh Baghel was then minis- government in continuously tak- tions to the cabinet which could 15,000 projects across the December 5, 2019. using air-condition in a bid problem of over-flow, smell which release the pure ter in Digvijaya Singh cabinet and ing loan thus the farmers are have passed it after a meeting. country. Out of which 25 The selected model is a to recycle plastic and help and chocking. The students water which can be used for that he should recall the moment being duped in the name of loan Based on it, the Governor signs students and 5 teachers will green shield which uses a the environment. It has had exhibited it to mechan- flushing again. It has been when only claim of developmen- waiver. The funds sent for devel- the ordinance. But without dis- be selected to represent the technology where waste been designed by Prakash ical engineers of Railway designed by Yogesh Das tal works was made. opmental works are being cussion in cabinet and signature country at Sochi, Moscow plastic is used to control Nirmalkar, Harish based at Bilaspur. The Manikpuri, Manish Yadav Even the then Chief Minister recalled. Same situation prevailed of Governor, the state govern- from November 24 to room temperature without Choudhary and Prince model has a sensor where and Nikhil Prajapati. Digvijaya Singh claimed election during Digvijaya government so ment is indulging in politicking.   !"# $ ! 4544Q57 " #  $  %  >*?B*2* *2(*?.=B "I want to ask Congress %       ' +?/,(>. leaders where human rights lamming Congress leader violations are taking place. # (% (  /6*?/ SRahul Gandhi over the -/2 ?.44) Human rights violations were ( *    + Rafale puja (worship) con- 6*4>,?4/!? taking place when terrorist troversy, Defence Minister activities were occurring (in ringing honour to his alma " #   ,--. Rajnath Singh on Thursday 2(.?2*=,*((.?) Kashmir). Why did you not Bmater and to the State of  '! (  asked what should he have ==(>.?..* speak at that time?" the senior Jharkhand, former student of       written on the fighter jet if not BJP leader asked the DPS Bokaro (1993 batch) "Om", a word with spiritual 4-!44/2/2( Congress. Neelkanth Mishra has been / (  relevance. 2/(>.? "I want a reply from the appointed as the member (Part % 0 0  1 "When I wrote Om on the Congress. Kashmir is our Time) in the Economic     0    Rafale jet, people said why did -/!2(?.4)))== internal matter. Will there be Advisory Council to the Prime he write (the word). I would B/!.4-!442 a discussion on it in other Minister Narendra Modi.  2  +3  like to ask Rahul Gandhi if countries...Will you be dis- The letter No.   01 not 'Om', what should I have 6*4>,?,*((.? cussing Kashmir matter in 1/31/1/2017CAB, dated 16 th   + 1+  written on the aircraft," Singh 2/(>.? other countries?" he said. October sent by Director, said at an election rally here Many people have lost Bhaskar Das Gupta from the present EAC-PM.”   in Bhiwani district of Haryana -/!2(?.4 their lives in terrorist attacks Cabinet Secretariat sent to Neelkanth Mishra who that will go to the polls for 90 in Jammu and Kashmir. CEO NITI Aayog, Amitabh passed out of the DPS Bokaro Government of India such as Assembly seats in a single delivery of the first Rafale jet "They (Congress leaders) Kant states, in 1993 came fourth in IIT the RNR Committee on GST phase on October 21. because there was "guilt" in purchase of 36 Rafale fighter also accused the Congress of have created a strange situa- “In continuation of secre- entrance test as well. Presently and the FRBM Review Rahul Gandhi has said the minds of Bharatiya Janata jets, manufactured by internationalising the tion. What has happened to tariat communication of even he is the Managing Director, Committee. Delighted on the that the Defence Minister Party (BJP) leaders over the Dassault Aviation of France. Kashmir issue, saying "it is an them? It seems they have lost number dated 24th September the India Strategist and Co- achievement of his student, A. had gone to Paris to receive Rs. 59,000 crore deal for the At the election rally, Singh internal matter". their minds," he added. 2019 regarding reconstitution Head of Equity Strategy, Asia S. Gangwar, Principal, DPS of the Economic Advisory Pacific, for Credit Suisse. Bokaro said, "Neelkanth had Council to the Prime Minister He has been rated among always been a keen learner; (EAC-PM), the Prime Minister the best analysts in India by the excited to explore and innovate. has approved the appointment Institutional Investor and Asia Even as a student he exhibited of three economists, Neelkanth Money polls. leadership qualities and was Mishra, Nilesh Shah and V. He is also a part of the sensitive to changes around. Ananth Nageswaran as part Advisory Council to the I am indeed happy and time members in the EAC-PM Fifteenth Finance Commission proud to have him as my stu- for a period of two years from and has been an advisor to dent. May he achieve greater the date of the constitution of committees appointed by the heights in life. ' "'7 *93:)*) 3()"*9;< ';()"*9;< ->*2 *?> ((=+?)3< @ 3)(A*((=+(*)B @ 3)(A*((=+(*)B 0<:1 GO?     D1<@AO       ! n Haryana, the State 0<<@ :1AO  M0:<*2 *?> cy of development was equal for ten years. Regarding actual on October 21, showcases an :@@: GDO2    G:A@;O* "  the people of BJP as well as for implementation 80 per cent of ?       interesting trend of electoral hey are the show stoppers the MLAs of other parties. all the announcements made contests going right down to :@DM :G;DO>   1A01DO!  6  Tfor their respective parties Drawing the attention of reached actual implementation the wire and also, witnessing :@D0 :

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Facing a barrage of Kurdish-led forces, Russia and are contacting the Syrian pressure to curb its deadly Kobane is a highly sym- criticism in Washington for the Syrian government in regime and the Russians in offensive against Kurdish forces. bolic town for Syria's Kurds, abandoning the Kurds, Damascus to protect against a order to protect our country President Recep Tayyip whose forces had in 2015 wrest- Trump has imposed sanctions Turkish offensive in northeast- and land," Abdi, better known Erdogan vowed on Wednesday ed it from the Islamic State (IS) on three Turkish ministers and ern Syria, the commander of by his nom de guerre Mazloum that Turkey's operation -- which group in an epic battle backed raised tariffs on its steel indus- the force said as his fighters bat- Kobani, told a local TV station, has been facilitated by the with- by the US-led coalition. try. tled a new push by Ankara- Ronahi TV. drawal of US troops from Days after American troops Pence's office said the US backed fighters to seize a strate- "He said, 'We are not northern Syria -- would con- abruptly began withdrawing, would pursue "punishing eco- gic border town. against that. 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Wednesday between the two decision to pull US troops out suspension of proceedings. the emoji count was far scrambling to provide aid to The front lines are being merican domestic politics leaders started after the White of Syria, calling it "strategical- A day earlier, Lam was from kind. hundreds of thousands of peo- rapidly redrawn as more than Ahas experienced a new low House had invited the leadership ly brilliant," and denied giving forced to abandon an annual Carrie Lam — the ple as rapidly shifting battle 160,000 people flee the fighting, with President Donald Trump and top committee members of Turkey a "green light" to launch policy address in the chamber, city's unelected Chief lines make it increasingly dif- including many who were dis- and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi both Democrats and operations against Kurdish mil- later delivering it by television. Executive — currently ficult to reach them. placed by earlier battles in engaging in an unprecedented Republicans, and the Congress itants. Disruption in the chamber boasts record low approval Nearly all foreign aid work- Syria's eight-year civil war. war of words on the issue of pull to brief them about their policy "President (Recep Tayyip) and the attack Wednesday ratings as the financial ers have been evacuated The offensive has created a out of US forces from Syria, a on Syria. 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Gordon Sondland, the Joint Comprehensive Plan gested on customs and consent 4 scheduled to appear Thursday, of Action (JCPOA), and the issues, and there is a lack of clar- would be the latest in a series of policy "will remain ity on VAT (value added tax)," witnesses to be interviewed unchanged until the desired the DUP, which backs Johnson's behind closed doors by House conditions are met and Iran's Government, said in a brief # ?!44.=4 Pro-EU parliamentarians lawmakers. economic interests from the statement on Twitter. hope they can defeat it and Trump blocked his appear- JCPOA are ensured," Iranian "We will continue to work uropean Commission chief Brexit can still be delayed to ance last week, but Democrats Deputy Foreign Minister with the government to try and EJean-Claude Juncker con- allow a general election or a promptly subpoenaed Sondland. Abbas Araqchi was quoted as get a sensible deal that works for gratulated Prime Minister new referendum on whether to His appearance is especial- saying by local media. Northern Ireland and protects Boris Johnson on their Brexit leave the EU at all. ly anticipated since text messages Araqchi made the the economic and constitution- withdrawal deal Thursday and Arriving later at an EU and other witness testimony remarks in a meeting on al integrity of the United said it meant there should be summit of leaders expected to place him at the center of a for- Wednesday with his Swedish Kingdom." The statement was "no further delay". endorse the new withdrawal eign policy dialogue with counterpart Anika Soder in seen as a major setback for "We have a deal, and this plan, Juncker said he hoped Ukraine that forms the basis of Tehran, Xinhua reported. Johnson, who would most like- deal means there is no need for British MPs would pass the the impeachment inquiry and He said despite ly need the support of his DUP any kind of prolongation," plan as agreed so that Britain that officials feared circum- Washington's withdrawal allies in parliament for any deal Juncker told reporters as he can leave on October 31. vented normal channels. from the JCPOA and reim- agreed in Brussels. welcomed the British leader to "There will be no Part of that effort involved position of sanctions, "Iran It came as British and EU EU headquarters ahead of prolongation. There is not pushing the former Soviet tried to keep the windows of negotiators worked late into the summit talks. British MPs are an argument for further delay republic to commit to political- interaction and diplomacy night in the hopes of presenting expected to vote on the deal on — it has to be done now," he ly charged investigations sought open, while Europe has only a last-minute Brexit deal to Saturday. said. by Trump, including into a gas relied on political support company connected to the son and refused to keep the of Democratic rival Joe Biden. accord alive".   !"# $ * 5 ,   ,  $  ) "O   Q(     ") "O  O

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While writing these lines, there is a vivid            &  image in my mind of one such journey I  S            made and I’m certain, a similar image    #4 >      % must have appeared in the minds of the readers, too. ;      !     ! An interesting aspect of train travel  #/             # is the diversity on display during the jour- =  3 9     !  ney. One gets to hear of so many lan- guages, accents, smell a variety of food &        !  and absorb different perspectives. Once,  #/  O   " ?8C> it got me thinking about what it means  3 4:. O    !#  "  to be an Indian. Unlike other nations like Pakistan,      8 ?  !   India is not defined by a particular reli- 3 4:.        .;>  gion. Some may argue that being a Hindu- -**,#D        ) majority country, an Indian’s identity is pri- marily driven by this majoritarian outlook.  :         : !  Such an argument does not hold ground   3 !     :  #?8!   because not only does India contain a mul- With none forthcoming, ensured that hundreds of ry reasons for our intellectu-    -*E*!    % 9 >  tiplicity of religions but significantly also Dastagir took matters into fathers didn’t suffer the same al prowess is the manner in  " !  % 9      a multiplicity of castes. Therefore, a his own hands and informed fate as he did. which our culture respects Brahmin Hindu (approximately five per his superiors to suspend all Dastagir was a true knowledge and the pursuit of  #3  !        "  cent of the Hindu community) can hard- trains that were headed to Indian. In such moments, we the same.        !   ly claim to represent all Hindus. It’s the Bhopal. He then summoned forget about which religion a The most recent example  #. !     &) same with languages as well. his staff. While he was barely .*?.(/=(/ person belongs to, which caste is that of Indian-origin econ- The recent debate about Hindi able to stand or breathe and he was born into or which lan- omist Abhijit Banerjee, one of #/ ?;!        becoming a “national” language does not against all protocol, he direct- +/-!4/2/!? guage he speaks. All that we the winners of the Noble Prize  3        !    .@#   hold water because of the variety of lan- ed his staff to clear the ++.?.2-.4 care about and all that we for economics. His win adds   . C>     ) guages spoken in our country. If you do Gorakhpur train for departure remember is the great sacrifice to a very rich list of Indian not believe me, just ask a Maharashtrian even though 25 minutes were ?*(>.?(>*2 of an Indian brother. In real- luminaries.     ;      or a Tamilian about how they feel about left for it to roll out. He ity, this is what it means to be Sadly, however, some of    #/  &       ) “Hindi” being a national language. The assured his staff that he would 4(?.2 (>4*2 an Indian. It means recognis- our leaders attempt to replace        >      ) truth really is that “Indian identity is take full responsibility for any /!?=.*.?4 ing that at the time of inde- these values with those that forged in diversity and everyone of us is blowback that may follow. pendence, we promised our- are antithetical to Indian core 3  #/  ! a minority”, as Congress leader Shashi In doing so, Dastagir ?..*(.=B selves and our future genera- values. We are told now to    !    #  Tharoor put it eloquently. saved hundreds of lives. He 4>/4*2 tions that we would set aside focus on our differences rather ;      %   "     5F But this still doesn’t explain what it did not, however, stop here. As all that divides, to forge a bet- than strengths and our lead- means to be an Indian. The story of terror spread across Bhopal, +/?62/=. . ter India. The poignant story ers repeatedly show disdain ?         ) Ghulam Dastagir, however, does. Dastagir large crowds of the affected (>*2*++2(B of Dastagir reminds us of this for knowledge with an affin-      % ?    #/  was the deputy station superintendent on population descended on to core value. ity for dogma. This is not the   !  !     duty at the Bhopal Railway station on the station in an attempt to +/?/ ,*)(>4 Another value that forms idea of India we cherish and December 2, 1984 — the day when the escape the gas chamber. 42/((>..* the core of being an Indian is it is not what it means to be an   !   !!" "  #; S ) Bhopal gas tragedy took place. By mid- Dastagir went from platform the respect and admiration for Indian.    !        night, the railway station, which was to platform, attending to and /+2*. knowledge. This is evident I imagine most of us swell       #/ >     extremely close to the Union Carbide consoling victims and sent an ->.?4>*2( from the fact that whenever a with pride when we recount plant, was filled with poisonous gases that SOS to all nearby railway sta- book falls down to the ground, the story of Dastagir or when .@    ??>#7 8 ?!     S killed everything in its path. tions to send ambulances and 42/(>*( we almost unknowingly touch we talk about the contributions       "        On that fateful night, the brave doctors. (,.*24(/. it to our forehead as a sign of made by Banerjee to the field  #%  "8"  !! ?#D deputy station master stepped on the plat- He himself suffered terri- respect. It is this core value of economics. We must ensure           #  form with itchy feeling in the throat and bly due to the gas leaks. He *22*2 that has enabled India to be that we retain our core values a burning sensation in his eyes. died in 2003 and a large part blessed with brilliant minds. and try to inspire similar pride >      >   !"  # Immediately, he knew something was of his life was spent in the hos- We have had leaders in the in others. After all, that’s what wrong. Unaware that 23 of his colleagues pital due to exposure to toxic field of mathematics, litera- it means to be an Indian. had already succumbed to the gas leak, fumes. He also lost his son in ture, technology and philoso- (The writer is a former IPS he tried to get clarity on what was hap- the tragedy. However, through phy among others and I officer, an MP and currently a pening and sought further instructions. his bravery and courage, he believe that one of the prima- member of the AAP) ;>? =     "        '" 6     "   O H       " $              +  O$ $ "        )2 ' "  $$     )( "    O$ ' O   "     )        "$      $   $" 9     "  $ "  "       !    "$  ) )(    )      )     "    )      "     <39 3<;9((*,9 ?9<9)9 !9="<()9 3<;9((*,9 #    $  K  5  4   K *  K     K4  (   %  &'$% (      )  ! !    *+ ",-   -,,-*                   . "#/       &     )   sector can go up, too, by retriev-        ing unaccounted money through  !  #     the Voluntary Disclosure  P!Q' !!    (     #/  Sir — This refers to the editorial,  $    'L   MK/  Scheme, whereby those declaring          -*2 “Bangla pride” (October 15). The :AL)4          9 may be asked to invest 50 per Nobel Prize for Economics award- (   )>    $  K cent of the amount in other long- !        3      ed to Indian-American Abhijit   "    "$      term infrastructural bonds with  &    ! #4  )    Banerjee, his French-American      ""   K "  " nominal interest to be issued by    ! #.!,-,,-+  & 25 wife Esther Dufflo and Michael   ) >        $ "    public sector undertakings like Kremer for “their experimental  ""     $$$  )  the IRCTC.    #. !!     approach to alleviating global        " '      Madhu Agrawal !   #4  !  6 poverty” underlines the renewed    $    $ -   $  -     Delhi 7!      #8 concern over global poverty and K--L  $   )(    ways to alleviate it. The husband  '    :<"      !-5+#,,    !!#4  and wife have spent considerable    )     9 !   ) ) ) time studying various poverty  O    "     "   #4   !   ) alleviation programmes. Welcome --O$      " )( 9 Sir — Prime Minister Narendra as much this is, we will perenni-      ' $     9  M L    M   $    Modi’s statement at an election    "        ally regret the decision of the wise  )-     $ $$    7 ) $--"   O  )/    rally that India will not allow its         # !   men to deny a Nobel prize to the (   $L $  $ M  "    $    --  ),  " 9 water to flow to Pakistan and          :   ) Mahatma despite the fact that he        "$ " )"    '  '  $  $ '     instead put it to use here is yet was nominated thrice. "  ?        7  5     $      K ' '4 9 another example of empty “poll #; !         We revel in the general feel-  -"  5     )       "    K ) promise.” The Indus Water &     .8'. ! 8(   ing of happiness among Indians       5 $  $ " $  *<*C*)*) Treaty signed between India and     3 3# that one of them, albeit with an    )> '    " 97 L 9  Pakistan makes it clear that the        S ) American passport, is a Nobel former is bound to release water laureate yet again. Indians are to the latter. It is strange that the #7  . = !       competent to excel in any field but Q   for packaged water, confec- with the help of long-term bonds Prime Minister raised an emotive     ;;3  >     for that, a conducive environment tionery items and other food will provide huge employment in issue just for votes, to the extent  # ,,!!       #/ ) is required, which unfortunately products to replace cooked meal the public sector, apart from giv- of showing no respect to exist- is not available in our universities. Sir — The great success of in trains and schools, where ing sizeable profits to the public ing bilateral agreements.    +     #3   & It is a sad fact that needs serious IRCTC, where its shares doubled complaints of sub-standard food exchequer. Products can be sold Swadha 5   !#        introspection by our politicians, overnight, calls for the issuance in unhygienic conditions are in the open market so as to Via email      !!       academicians and policy makers. of long-term bonds by it to set quite common. ensure that private players bring JS Acharya up large-scale production units The setting up of such big down their prices. & ++! - =       !  # Hyderabad in every district of the country units in large numbers by IRCTC Employment in the public ))9()3C3<9D;=*4?3=   !"# $    ,   ,  7% %     /&%/&%     ! '   '  " '  P2    Q '''' "  #' "  .'   7."    .'4 #   #     #'  "4      $      L# " L# "  ""  O  " C,   "' " "" ''   $    6 "4-5(66 "8 @@   ; 7 ' ;7( 4 ."   ! S !    &   ) / ,-*),   !")   #   !  "-#-    ,2      !      #    )     &      ' (   !#E   # )     !  )       ! ,#  ! ! +#5       #/       !             # 3        ? 9  /'?9/( G !"   *7 6   "   6 7   ?9/      olonial India’s Muslim leaders shivered at     "        ) the thought of being perpetually controlled       !   #/! Cby Hindus in a united India once the  PQ P Q) British left the country, unless there were safe-            # guards enshrined in the Constitution. Prime 9      H "    > Minister Narendra Modi has proven them right. .>         By pursuing a populist ultra-nationalist agenda, he has unwittingly validated the much-maligned   #/     )!   “two-nation” theory that formed the rationale   &     behind dividing British India to create Pakistan           ) as a Muslim homeland.     #/  His policy pits Hindus against Muslims, an " !         unfortunate schism that all of his predecessors     ! !  "#/  "   fought against. Seven decades after the blood-   >     !  soaked Partition, hyper-nationalist Modi won a     #       landslide re-election victory in May, donning the  !"         !   saffron-coloured garb of Hindu gurus and   # allowing divisiveness based on Islamophobia. His crown is made of two emotion-filled 9  "      ! ! O +/==/2 >4 explosive elements: Kashmir and migration, both ?.9.=.-(/2'(>. !          having a common thread of bias and suspicion O! !  !    )"   ! against Muslims. They have roots in the centu- 2*(/2*=          #/ !  ry-old vision of Hindutva, or Hinduness, outlined ?. 4(.?/+        ) " in the 1920s by VD Savarkar, a violent revolu- -(.24'>->    #7 & $ !   tionary-turned-ultra-nationalist. Savarkar, a .?+.4   "  ! )!   )!  British-trained lawyer and avowed atheist, -(.24>'  '  (    "G): ) espoused several ideas to deal with India’s *+(.?4..?*=   'A; (   !   minorities, mimicking Adolf Hitler’s racist solu- +=*.-/!2(4'     " 8 ;# tion to Germany’s Jewish question. >*4-=*44+. Since his re-election, Modi’s administration 2.*?=B(/   "  >     '  has aggressively moved on both Kashmir and the policy is its anti-minority agenda. It is lar laws for other minorities intact. party has vowed to fight it. State BJP       (  I   ,==/2 alleged illegal migration from Bangladesh, which =/2 9(.?, this very posture of the professedly sec- What’s behind Hindutva poli- chief Dilip Ghosh, who is seeking to  !      "  is India’s most friendly neighbour. In early ular Indian National Congress party tics? To boost his re-election bid, deport the alleged migrants, remains     )    #/   August, keeping local leaders in detention and ?.4.2(4*4 and its paramount leaders — Jawaharlal Modi fired up his anti-Muslim rhetoric adamant because rhetoric is the magic      !  )     ") deploying nearly a million security personnel in 2/29-(.24/? Nehru and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel — and took the crusade to India’s north- wand for his party to win votes.  )  !    ) Kashmir, it abolished a decades-old law that 4(*(.=.44),/4( that propelled British India’s Muslims eastern State of Assam, plagued by a Muslims foresee the BJP’s game:     #4 " ! )     granted Kashmiris special rights — their own flag, /+(>.,*?.*( to demand a separate homeland as they half-century-long hate-based politics. Ironically, while Ghosh wishes to expel            own laws and land rights. Meanwhile, India’s (>./((/,/+ feared that the Hindus would perpet- The politics that originated with a them to an unnamed country — pre-  6D      ) Home Minister Amit Shah, who heads Modi’s (>..-/2/,- ually control the Muslims once the demand to drive out non-Assamese sumably Bangladesh — Modi is urging              nationalist BJP and is widely expected to succeed =*.?)(>.B British left. quickly turned into an anti-Bangladeshi Hindus to flock to Muslim-majority him as Prime Minister, is pressing ahead with his ==. The Congress balked at granting outcry at the BJP’s instigation. Modi has Kashmir, which barred non-Kashmiris            agenda to deport fictitious 40 million illegal special rights and Britain created vowed to rid the State of all the alleged from owning land until New Delhi    S"        ) .(*2.2 Bangladeshi migrants. -*,4(> Pakistan in 1947. But problems surfaced Bangladeshi migrants. scrapped its autonomy in August.   # Clash over Muslim migrants: This idea has soon afterward with semi-autonomous Following his re-election, the The BJP prescription to push more %  :    ! )!  ") provoked a sharp backlash from Bangladesh. =,(.? >(4 princely States, including Kashmir. National Register of Citizens, which Hindus into Kashmir is intended to   :    Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan has dis- The picturesque Himalayan region verifies citizenship, after several flawed change the demographic balance in the   P! &Q ?9/# missed the BJP’s assertion, noting that encompasses roughly 135,000 square counts, has classified nearly two million restive territory of 12 million people. /   &     ) Bangladesh’s economy is at par with India’s, so miles, almost Germany’s size, with long-term residents as non-citizens or Modi’s arbitrary action is the mother of          ) no one from his country’s stays illegally in India. about 18 million people. India controls stateless. Most of them are at the bot- several repugnant ideas. This is exact-  #/    '!!  "  Still the matter turned acrimonious enough dur- 85,000 square miles, Pakistan 33,000 tom of the economic ladder. They will ly the kind of capriciousness on the part        ! !(   ing Shah-Khan talks in Delhi in August to pre- and China 17,000. Both Pakistan be detained in camps with limited of the overwhelming Hindu majority vent them from issuing a customary joint state- and India claim the entire area as their rights, considering that the government that British India’s Muslim leaders   !"   !    ment. own. has promised not to send anybody back feared most. "  ) "    #.  ) India, nevertheless, seems determined to In 1948, after a Indo-Pakistan to Bangladesh, which fears a reverse One of those leaders, Liaquat Ali S       #  push ahead its agenda. It has started a campaign fight, India raised Kashmir in the influx. Khan, the right-hand man of Pakistan’s         !   to round up Muslims unless they can prove they United Nations Security Council, which Unfortunately for the Hindutva founder, Mohammad Ali Jinnah, artic-     !      "' have lived in India way before 1971 when called for a referendum on the territo- brigade, the citizenship count has ulated this concern while talking with !(#   :   !   !   ) Bangladesh was created. They will be put in con- ry’s status. It asked Pakistan to withdraw become a boomerang. Of the two mil- George Merrell, then America’s high-           centration camps, which ironically the migrants troops and India to cut military pres- lion designated non-citizens, 1.2 mil- est-ranking diplomat in India, on  $ !  "# themselves are building now. ence to a minimum. A ceasefire came lion unexpectedly turned out to be December 27, 1946. Liaquat believed  !!  P7"   Q !>  " Of India’s 1.3 billion people, 14 per cent are into force but Pakistan refused to pull Hindu. Modi’s followers are now cry- that the Congress was “determined to        !     Muslim. Modi’s party does not target migrant out. Kashmir has remained partitioned ing foul, demanding a recount. The BJP seize power without regard for Muslim Bangladeshi Hindus, classifying them as refugees ever since. had expected to find four million rights.” Now, 73 years later, Modi’s     #/ $ "! and minorities from neighbouring countries. But Until Hindutva swept Modi to migrants in Assam, most of them Hindutva agenda, which calls for a  '  (&   ) it seeks to deport Muslims. In fact, India has power, India assuaged minorities by Muslim. Muslim-free India, has proven Liaquat     "     #  already deported Rohingya Muslim refugees to pursuing a policy that emphasised on Assam’s neighbour West Bengal, right. By scrapping Kashmir’s status, the     "        Myanmar and detained hundreds of them. national unity. In contrast, Modi began which shares a common language and Prime Minister has taken a highly risky             6 Modi faced global criticism for the Godhra mas- his tenure by killing a centuries-old a rich culture with Bangladesh, is gear- gamble in challenging the secular 4 !"!         ) sacre in 2002 in his home State of Gujarat. He Muslim marriage law. Even the ing up to play political hotball against matrix and embedding a majoritarian 6; !# ruled Gujarat for 13 years before becoming Prime Mughals and the British left Indian per- the BJP. The hardliners want to repli- consciousness. '      ( Minister in 2014. sonal law untouched. The government cate the citizenship drill in West Bengal (The writer is an established author What is most disturbing in this government’s voided the Muslim law but kept simi- but Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s on Bangladesh-related issues.) 68 79:                       !         

ues unabated in spite of the activity Even though experts have hailed 1, 2018 to January 6 this year, being deemed illegal. According to GRAP for the gradual reduction in showed that the Government’s a report by the Centre-run System of pollution levels over the years and for emergency plans to tackle the city’s Air Quality and Weather Forecasting fixing accountability — as it clearly annual crisis had failed, according to ?.3(.*=2/( and Research (SAFAR), this biomass marks the agency responsible for a report of the United Residents’ Joint * *,./+->.44 burning is likely to add nine per cent each action to be taken — the effi- Action (URJA), a collective of the to Delhi’s PM 2.5 concentration. cacy of the plan is yet to be proven. city’s resident welfare associations.       /%- 8 In spite of all this, enforcement This is because many of the pol- The report summarised the find-      of the law pertaining to crop burn- lution-triggering factors are beyond ings of 45 Right to Information    $  $  he fast-approaching winter ing in Punjab has been lax, to say the the purview of the Arvind Kejriwal (RTI) applications filed at 14 months have now become syn- least. This toxic mix of smoke and administration and the Delhi Government departments.     $$ Tonymous with a worsening vehicular pollution has resulted in Government needs active coopera- Responses were sought from Central, "  $   )* air quality in the Delhi-National Delhi-NCR’s Air Quality Index tion and collaboration of the State State and municipal bodies to assess   ",     Capital Region (NCR). The pollution (AQI) plummeting to alarming lev- Governments of UP, Haryana and the effectiveness of GRAP. The        reaches unmanageable levels, large- els. However, all is not lost as a bevy the sales of diesel vehicles have air pollution in Delhi-NCR, by Punjab. In the absence of a cohesive analysis of data collected by URJA for 5   $  ly due to the smoke emanating from of efforts undertaken by the helped salvage the situation in Delhi proactively rolling out measures like collaboration strategy, the GRAP 68 days showed that except for one crop residue burning in the neigh- Government and authorities con- and the situation now is much bet- discouraging private vehicles on the might just end up being a knee-jerk day in Central Delhi’s ITO, the    S "  bouring States of Punjab, Haryana cerned has had a positive impact on ter than what it was five years ago. city’s roads, stopping trucks from reaction to the pollution onslaught. national Capital’s air quality was con- "   and Uttar Pradesh (UP), blowing an otherwise grim scenario. But clearly much more needs to outside, using diesel generators, clos- The gaps in the fight against pol- tinually above permissible limits.    )(   over to Delhi-NCR. First, awareness regarding the be done. Probably, keeping this in ing brick kilns and stone crushing lution are becoming visible with gen- The GRAP initiative for this year     ' Incidents of stubble burning quality of the air we breathe in mind, the Delhi Government has units. It seemed a timely step as on erators being used in Gurugram with cannot be allowed to be a rerun of $   $   have already begun increasing in through regular publicity of the AQI introduced the Graded Response October 13, the AQI was “very impunity due to the exceptional last year. The Government must Punjab and Haryana and are likely has made people conscious. Second, Action Plan (GRAP) early this year poor” with the level going beyond the power cuts the city faces. Similarly, undertake necessary steps to over-     5  $  to peak in the next 10-12 days as the the introduction of the much-clean- to handle pollution in an incremen- 300-mark. On October 14, the AQI many questions were raised on the come possibilities of failure and         harvest season picks up in Sangrur, er BS-VI fuel ahead of schedule has tal manner, depending on the level improved by around 50 points but GRAP’s efficacy in January 2019. achieve the objective of curbing       Patiala, Ludhiana and Fatehabad also instilled confidence among the of severity, especially in the winters. the situation has continued to oscil- This is because toxic levels of air pollution levels effectively.   ) districts. Here, the tradition of open citizens. Furthermore, the closure of GRAP came into force from late between “poor” and “very poor” pollution monitored over Delhi (The writer is an environmental field burning is rampant and contin- coal-based power plants and fall in October 14 with the objective to curb over the last few days. almost every week, from November journalist) K      L   !"# $ ;

! # '  2  &5   @ @   ( %4 79     6/=6*(* said, “it is the political build up against NRC that the Centre  6/=6*(* good governance at the Centre. Q=R ny forced implementation has been forced to retrace its The country’s economy has Aof National Register for step saying they will consider he ruling Trinamool gone for a toss due to the faulty  2..=> Citizens in Bengal will help introducing it post 2024. TCongress on Thursday economic policies of the Modi Mamata Banerjee in the In fact the Left will resist mocked BJP president Amit Government and BJP should he Centre has accorded West Bengal ultimate run, the ruling NRC tooth and nail. We will Shah for “day dreaming” about first look into reviving it,” he TGovernor Jagdeep Dhankar ‘Z’ category VIP Trinamool Congress feels. prepare the entire population of forming the next Government said. security cover in the wake of “potential threats” Senior Bengal Minister Subroto “In Bengal if they try to the State against the enlarging in Bengal with two-thirds TMC also hit out at the BJP to him. Mukherjee on Thursday said implement NRC then it will go black shadow of NRC.” majority and said he and his government at the Centre for Union Home Ministry has issued an order that it would be a political blun- in favour of the Trinamool On the Delhi’s move to saffron camp should instead allegedly trying to drive out and directed the Central Reserve Police Force der for the BJP-ruled Centre to Congress. Its implementation construct detention centres concentrate on reviving the Bengalis from Assam in the (CRPF) to take charge of Dhankar’s security that implement NRC in Bengal. will turn out to be a hundred throughout the country, economy. name of implementation of the will be valid in all parts of the country and not “If the BJP tries to force percent gain for Mamata Chakrabarty said let them try Shah, also Union Home National Register of Citizens. remained confined to his cover in West NRC in Bengal it will a big Banerjee,” the septuagenarian and build one in Bengal. I can Minister, had told a news The saffron party is plan- Bengal. political blunder committed Minister said. assure you that the people of channel during the day that ning to replicate the NRC exer- Under the ‘Z” category, the West Bengal by them,” Mukherjee one of the The TMC’s views found the State will smash all those BJP is going to form the cise in Bengal but as long as Governor will have about 8-10 armed security founder members of the TMC reflection in the Left Front illegal structures designed after Government in West Bengal TMC is in power in the State it personnel with him when he travels apart from said adding “the BJP will not camp too as State Left concentration camp of Hitler.” with two-thirds majority in the will never allow such an “divi- an escort car. The CRPF will take over the charge only lose the advantage it Legislature party member and Reacting to the TMC and 2021 Assembly polls. sive exercise” to take place, soon, officials said. extracted in the Lok Sabha CPI(M) central committee Left leaders’ statement BJP Reacting to Shah’s claim, TMC secretary general Partha CRPF cover came as a threat assessment including Union Home Minister Amit Shah. polls but also it will be routed member Sujan Chakrabarty leader Mukul Roy said that senior TMC leader Subrata Chatterjee said. report prepared by central security and intelli- The Governor had on Tuesday said that he in the Assembly elections.” said, “NRC will not be accept- there was no escaping NRC in Mukherjee said Shah should “The BJP is trying to cre- gence agencies found that Dhankar needs to be was deeply hurt at the treatment allegedly meted The people irrespective of ed by the people of Bengal. Bengal. “Implementation of stop “day dreaming” about ate a panic in Bengal in the secured by a professional team of personnel out to him at the Durga Puja Carnival on Red caste and religion had become Whole State will oppose it NRC is a foregone conclusion. forming the Government in the name of NRC. Eleven people especially in the wake of the recent incident at Road on October 11. Usually governors are given highly skeptic of the NRC after tooth and nail.” The people want NRC in state. have already died in the state Jadavpur University where Union Minister state police cover. its “fraudulent implementa- On the BJP leaders’ repeat- Bengal.” Any such move would “Instead of day dreaming due to NRC panic. The people Babul Supriyo was heckled and he had rushed VIP security cover entails four categories: tion” in Assam where the future ed assertion in favour of NRC take place “in line with the and making tall claims the of Bengal will give BJP a befit- to save him. “Z-plus” (34 guards); “Z” (22 guards); “Y” (11 of more than 19 lakh people is should that party came to United Nation’s BJP leader should first con- ting reply in the next Assembly The CRPF guards a number of VIPs guards) and “X” (2 guards). in stake, he said. power in the State Chakrabarty regulations.” centrate on his own party and polls in the State,” he said. % 6    6 8 - %<4       =7E %    =7$  6/=6*(*  6/=6*(* India (CPI). Bill provides for according  6/=6*(* “We will soon bring a no confidence The CPI was formed on 17 Indian citizenship to Hindus, motion against the present BJP board. est Bengal Chief Minister PI(M) general secretary October 1920 at Tashkent in Jains, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists day after taking control of Naihati Several of our councillors who had WMamata Banerjee on CSitaram Yechury on Thursday Uzbekistan, then part of USSR. and Parsis from Bangladesh, Amunicipality, which it had earlier lost switched over to BJP are in touch with Thursday said her government accused BJP and the RSS of trying Yechury said the updation of Pakistan and Afghanistan after to BJP, the ruling TMC on Thursday us and want to rejoin the party. They had is committed to alleviating to destroy the country’s secular fab- the NRC in the rest of the country seven years of residence in India claimed it will soon take over Bhatpara defected under threat and intimidation poverty and the theory by ric and letting loose a “reign of fear after Assam is against the interests instead of 12 years currently even civic body, the only one in the State which from BJP,” Mullick, the party’s North 24 Nobel laureate Abhijit Vinayak ed. and distrust” across the country by of the people as BJP intends to use if they do not possess any docu- is being ruled by the saffron party. Parganas district president said. Banerjee on it will go a long On the occasion of the implementing the contentious NRC it for its “divisive communal agen- ment. TMC will soon bring a no confidence Reacting to TMC’s claim, senior BJP way in helping the poor. International Day for the and CAB. da”. Expressing concern over motion against the present board of the leader Mukul Roy, who had played a key Banerjee took to the Eradication of Poverty on Yechury said BJP is trying to “The BJP government is talking alleged attempts by BJP and sever- Bhatpara municipality, party senior leader role in the defections, Thursday accused Twitter to express her views Thursday, Banerjee in a tweet propagate its ideology of Hindu about extending the NRC process al other Hindutva outfits to build Jyoti Priya Mullick said. Mamata Banerjee’s party of using politi- and posted some photographs earlier in the day said, “...Our nationalism by replacing the prin- in the whole of India. This is up communal frenzy over NRC and Bhatpara municipality was the first cal and administrative powers to force the of her visit to the residence of Govt in #Bangla is committed ciples of Indian nationalism, which uncalled for and it is being done CAB, the former Rajya Sabha MP civic body to be taken over by BJP in June councillors to rejoin it. the Nobel laureate’s mother to alleviating poverty, reducing had its roots in the Independence only with the aim of targeting cer- said the saffron party after a majority of its Trinamool Congress “They (the councillors) had joined Nirmala Banerjee Wednesday unemployment, combating movement. tain sections of people and to cre- sees the sharpening of communal coucillors switched over to the saffron BJP as they were fed up with TMC’s func- evening in the city. illiteracy and upholding human “The communal forces have ate polarization,” he said. polarization as the only way to con- party days after the Lok Sabha polls tioning. Since then they are being threat- “Yesterday, I spent time rights.” increased their activities by leaps He criticised the BJP solidate its Hindutva vote results were announced. ened by the police and goons. TMC is with the family of our very own The United Nations and bounds and they are trying to Government at the Centre for bank. BJP had then bagged 26 of the 34 now forcing them to rejoin it. The same Nobel Prize winning econo- General Assembly had in 1987 flare communal passions across the omitting Muslims from the list of It has been acknowledged since wards of the municipality in a trust vote has been done in other municipal bod- mist, Abhijit Banerjee. His designated October 17 as the country. Now the BJP is taking religious denominations eligible Independence that the unity of after 15 TMC councillors switched to it ies too,” he added. contribution to the experi- International Day for the about NRC and CAB. It will now for getting citizenship in the pro- India lies in its diversity. and Bhatpara became a trouble-torn area Located in the northern fringes of mental theory of poverty alle- Eradication of Poverty to pro- decide who are citizens and who posed Citizenship (Amendment) The BJP-RSS cannot tolerate witnessing frequent violence between Kolkata, Bhatapara municipality falls viation will go a long way in mote awareness about the are not,” he said while addressing a Bill, 2019 and called it a “complete the diversity and federal principle the two parties. under Barrackpore Lok Sabha con- helping people #Bangla is very need to eradicate poverty and programme to commemorate 100 violation” of the Constitution. and want to create a Hindu Rashtra, The tenure of the present civic body stituency, which is now represented by proud of him!,” Banerjee tweet- destitution. years of the Communist Party of The Citizenship (Amendment) he alleged. is till 2020, when it will go to the polls. 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 *?*2*4 unit said in its election mani- The Gupta period is called festo that the party would ask the golden period of indian his- he First War of the Centre to confer the Bharat tory and Skandagupta is known TIndependence in 1857 Ratna, India’s highest civilian for fighting against Hunas. would have been regarded as a award, on Vinayak Damodar Shah also praised Madan revolt had it not been for Veer Savarkar, popularly known as Mohan Malaviya for founding Savarkar, said Home Minister Veer Savarkar. a university where “Hindu Amit Shah here on Thursday “Had it not been Veer dharma and sanskriti” were amid a row over the BJP sug- Savarkar, the 1857 ‘kranti’ propagated even after so many gesting that the Hindutva icon (revolt) would not have years. be given the Bharat Ratna. become history and we would He said Skandagupta Stressing the need to have been seeing it from the Vikramaditya needed to be rewrite history from India’s British point of view,” the home brought on top of our history point of view, Shah credited minister said. as he fought and won the war Savarkar for calling the 1857 “It was Savarkar who gave (BHU). tory from India’s point of view which even Rome lost against rebellion as India’s first inde- the name First War of A large number of histori- but without blaming anyone.” the alien enemy. pendence struggle. Independence to the 1857 ans, scholars and political “It is our responsibility to He re-formulated the rev- Shah said had it not been ‘kranti’, otherwise, our children thinkers from India and write our history. How long are enue collection method, for him, the rebellion of 1857 would have known it as a abroad attended the seminar. we going to blame the British? administration and munici- would have become history revolt,” he said, inaugurating a Referring to eminent his- We don’t have to dispute any- pality, Shah said, adding that it and India would have seen it two-day international seminar torians in the audience and on one, only write what is truth was believed that the Gupta from the British point of view. here on ‘Guptvanshak-Veer: the dais, he said, “It is my and it will stand the test of ruler stayed at Ghazipur in this & - !  +     + & <!  ) - * His remarks came two Skandgupta Vikramaditya’ at request to all that there is a time,” the Union Home Poorvanchal region and -    4 days after the Maharashtra BJP Banaras Hindu University need to rewrite the Indian his- Minister said. worked from here, he said. E "         & 86   F 9         4# %<4=6   ,>*= :"<()9(*,=39 logue, the Chief Minister said (5?:()(35,+ Manipur belongs to its people nion Minister of State 39;*<(,*()9(*< and asserted that the state gov-  *!? them, the Opposition holds no value,” U(Independent Charge) for <93<=<)3:C*?< ernment would not allow any- he said. Tourism and Culture, Prahlad thing that may hurt the inter-  *?*2*4K!L eiterating that democracy was in He said that it was the BJP’s inten- Singh Patel, has said the wrong ))*)4P*99.)359()( ests or sentiments of any com- Rdanger in the country under the tion to ensure a one-party rule in the perception of the North-East 5(,)3:*9)3()) munity living in the state. ttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi BJP rule, Rajasthan Chief Minister country. Targeting Prime Minister needs to be changed to attract *9*(3:))*),5)3 The Chief Minister said the UAdityanath has asked the officials Ashok Gehlot on Thursday said peo- Narendra Modi for accusing the more tourists. )C339**<,39,94 State Government is urging the concerned to initiate a campaign to ple should understand this and ques- Congress of dynasty politics, the chief Inaugurating the third Centre to bring about a “topo- ensure that Prime Minister Narendra tion the Centre what it was doing for minister said no one could stop any- Shirui Lily festival in Manipur’s '39.)*)*( graphical need-based budget” Modi’s parliamentary constituency them. one from joining politics in a democ- Ukhrul district, along with ?*<;,.P(*, to ensure inclusive develop- Varanasi is the cleanest in the country. He also accused the BJP of racy. Chief Minister N Biren Singh, ment of the state. Modi had won the seat in the Lok indulging in politics in the name of “This is a useless thing. It is not the Patel said despite being gifted gered Shirui Lily and to pro- “The Centre has imple- Sabha elections held earlier this year by nationalism and religion. era of kingdoms where the one born with scenic beauty and rich cul- mote Ukhrul as a tourist des- mented the Hill Areas a huge margin of 4.79 lakh votes. He had remains illuminated from Diwali till “The democracy today is under to the queen will rule. It’s a democra- tural heritage, due to some tination. Development Programme not only retained the seat, but also saw Dev Diwali, Adityanath said as he threat. We have no enmity with the cy where people elect those whom they wrong perceptions, the region Speaking on the occasion, (HADP) for states with hilly his victory margin increase by nearly 1 directed the PWD to make the roads RSS or the BJP but we have a fight of like,” he said. is unable to attract tourists in Biren Singh said the law and topography like Manipur. lakh votes as compared to the 2014 gen- free of potholes by October 30. ideology, policies and programmes. The Chief Minister exuded confi- large numbers. order situation in the state has Tamenglong district in the eral elections. The government is committed They should also do this. dence that their party would win the “A collective effort is need- improved under the two-and- state is among the 82 districts The chief minister held a review towards the makeover of Kashi. Prime The public should pressure the October 21 bypolls in Mandawa ed from all the stakeholders to half years of BJP-led rule. across the country where the meeting of the development work and Minister Modi had laid the foundation Government and ask what it has done (Jhunjhunu) and Khimsar (Nagaur) in explore ways to attract more The Chief Minister said scheme would be implement- law and order situation in the state here stone of many projects in February 2019 for them,” he said. the state. tourists to the state,” he said. more such fests would be ed in the first phase,” on Wednesday night and instructed the out which 13 have been completed and Stressing that the fight should be On the cabinet’s recent decision of Patel said he has written to organised as there is an envi- he said. officials to make “Kashi number 1 in the the remaining 25 will be completed in for ideology, policies and programme, allowing non-councillors become the Union HRD Minister ronment of peace in the As part of it, Tamenglong country” in terms of cleanliness. this financial year,he said. Gehlot told reporters after returning chiefs of urban local bodies in the state, whether it would be possible State.”Earlier, tourists used to would get Rs 90 crore for According to an official spokesper- The chief minister further said that from Mumbai, “They have created an Gehlot said that the decision was taken to make it compulsory for stu- fear to visit the hill areas of the implementation of develop- son, he also asked the officials to launch the government schemes should not be atmosphere in the name of nationalism in view of the current scenario where dents of the central schools to State due to the poor law and mental projects, Singh said. special cleanliness drives in villages as misused at all and only eligible candi- and religion and doing politics for the BJP was “doing politics” in the visit the northeast at least once. order. However, that has Mentioning that around well as urban areas before the festival dates should be entitled for beneficia- that.” name of nationalism and was “One who has witnessed changed,” he said. Rs 600 crore would be spent on of Diwali. ry schemes. On the BJP suggesting the Bharat creating a divide in the name of reli- the region at a tender age Lauding the hospitality of improving road connectivity in Roads, parks and vacant plots of Stray cattle should not be seen on Ratna for Veer Savarkar, the Chief gion. would never forget it through- the Tangkhul community, Ukhrul district, the Chief land should be included in the cam- the streets, he said. Minister said the party had a fascist ide- “We want that the gap in society out his/her life,” he said. Singh said more than 2,000 Minister said around 250 paign. In view of Chhath Puja, start a He also asked the officials to to solve ology and did not consider what the does not widen in the name of religion The four-day festival that homestays have been booked crore has been sanctioned for special campaign to clean the ghats of water logging problems within three public or other political parties think. and members of all political parties, began on Wednesday, aims at by tourists for the festival. construction of roads between the Ganga, the chief minister said. days and organise health camps in the “In a democracy, sentiments of the castes and communities maintain dia- spreading awareness about Noting that all disputes Kamjong and Tengnoupal Do something special so that Kashi affected areas. opposition are considered but for logue,” he said. the conservation of the endan- can be settled through dia- districts.   !"# $ -

+ " & ! +  &        8 G  ' 5   4?2* *? cabs were also seen plying in few areas of the valley. hops opened for few hours However, the other modes   ""  Searly Thursday morning in of public transport were off the some areas here including in roads. " '!'  *,,!  *,,! Jammu & Kashmir for resi-  *,,! the commercial hub of Lal Schools and colleges were dency and Government jobs. Chowk but main markets and open, but students stayed away ruck drivers, camping in he State administration in The order issued by ormer State president of other business establishments as parents continued to keep TKashmir valley to ferry TJammu & Kashmir has set Secretary to the State FPDP’s Scheduled Caste wing remained shut, officials said. their wards at home due to apple boxes outside the State, in to motion the process of Government, Farooq Ahmad Vijay Anand on Thursday Few vendors had set up apprehensions about their safe- are living in constant fear after bifurcating the State of Jammu Lone, also directed transfer of joined the BJP along with six stalls on the TRC Chowk-Polo ty, the officials said. Mobile ser- the terrorists carried out sec- & Kashmir in to two Union all vehicles purchased from others here, a party spokesper- View road, they said. vices were restored in Kashmir ond ‘surprise’ attack on two Territories. Late Wednesday time to time to the Director of son said. Private transport was ply- on Monday, but the SMS facil- apple traders hailing from evening, the State administra- State motor garages and hand- Anand accompanied by ing unhindered in the city ity was snapped once again Punjab late Wednesday night in tion issued a formal order for ing over of the building of the Sanjay Kumar, Himanshu, Ravi here and elsewhere in Kashmir, later that night due to appre- Shopian district. abolition of Jammu and Council along with furniture Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Ajay the officials said, adding auto- hensions of the services being One of the apple trader Kashmir Legislative Council. and electronic gadgets to the Kumar and John Sotra joined rickshaws and few inter-district misused. identified as Charanjeet Singh The 36-member Legislative Director of estates. the BJP’s Scheduled Caste succumbed to his fatal injuries the truck drivers, stranded in earn our livelihood”. “We real- Council was established in “Consequent to the aboli- wing in presence of its state while another, identified as the vulnerable pockets, the ly don’t know why are these ter- 1957 after an act was passed by tion of the Jammu & Kashmir president Jagdish Bhagat and Sanjay Churaya, is undergoing local police authorities beefed rorists targeting us. We are sole the Parliament. Legislative Council in terms of state spokesperson Balbir Ram I treatment in Srinagar. Both up security deployment by way bread earners of our families The Council functioned Section 57 of Jammu & Rattan. Welcoming the new hailed from Fazilka in Punjab. of area domination. Posters of and they are dependent on us”, as an upper house for the 87- Kashmir Reorganization Act, entrants into the party fold, Q@G Before this, a truck driver terrorists, believed to be behind truck drivers told local member State Assembly. 2019, it is ordered that all the Bhagat said the BJP has relieved from Rajasthan was also killed the targeted killing of apple reporters. According to the order, staff of the State legislative ‘Valmiki Samaj’ of the suffer- Jammu: The BJP’s Jammu & senior leader Aqib Mir from his in cold blood by terrorists in traders was also pasted at dif- In the recent weeks, more the 116-member staff of the council shall report to the ings which they had to bear Kashmir unit on Thursday present party post of State sec- Shopian on Monday evening. ferent places so that they can be than 30,000 trucks have ferried Council has been asked to GAD by October 22,” the order during the last 70 years due to disqualified eight party leaders retary due to “breach of party Later, his truck was also set on tracked down and neutralised. large quantities of apple crop report to the General said. All records pertaining to Article 370. for filing their nominations as discipline”, he said. fire to spread terror in the area. Meanwhile, interacting outside the state. Commenting Administration Department the Council Secretariat “These people were not Independents against the “Taking strong note of the After these attacks, fresh with local media in Shopian on the targeting killing of apple (GAD) by October 22. including related legislative treated as citizens of the state official candidates for the Block filing of nominations as wave of terror has gripped the several truck drivers raised the traders and truck drivers, Jammu & Kashmir will be business shall be transferred to and their educated children Development Council (BDC) Independents by party leaders area. The main markets, where issue of their safety. Governor Satya Pal Malik a Union Territory with a State the Department of Law, Justice could not apply for the gov- elections, scheduled to be held against the official candidates apple growers were bringing Without identifying them- Thursday said, terrorists are Assembly. Parliamentary Affairs by the ernment jobs or other benefits,” on October 24, a party of the BJP for the BDC elec- their crop from different selves in front of media, the targeting apple traders and The Centre had on August Secretary, the order added. he said, adding the BJP abro- spokesperson said. tions, the State BJP has dis- orchards in the region, wore a truck drivers said, “we are wor- truck drivers to spread terror. 5 abrogated the provisions of JK administration orders gated the provisions of Article Meanwhile, the State qualified them for indulging in deserted look on Thursday. ried for our own safety. “we are He said, “we are after them and Article 370 of the Constitution abolition of legislative council, 370 to benefit the weaker sec- Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha anti-party activities,” the To instil confidence among here to ferry apple boxes and we will finish them”. which granted special status to asks its staff to report to GAD tions of the society. (BJYM) also discharged its spokesperson said. PTI         7  6  ! +   !  = 7    9   -  :; 4  ' ' ,!,* nents, in the process it is unable N2!?*2*?.*4'..?B(>? many leaders from to find solution that will ensure B/!2 .?4/24/=.44) Maharashtra. I found that they  ' ' ,!,* ebunking Narendra Modi’s revival of the economy partic- .!-*(.2!*=4>*. were all committed to deliver- Dmuch-advertised “double ularly strengthening of our (/+*-.*> >.??*(./+ ing good governance to the verring that history would engine” model of governance banking system,” the former people of Maharashtra. The Atake cognisance of state- which “has utterly failed”, Prime Minister said. !2.,=/B,.2()(4(>!42/ Bandra-Worli sea link is one ments by all those who former Prime Minister Singh’s comment should 4!??4.(>*(,*2B/+/!? example of the many spectac- ridiculed the Government’s Manmohan Singh on Thursday be seen in the context of the B/!2 ,.2*2/,.2*?. ular works Congress could decision to abrogate Article 370 charged that the Government remarks made by Sitaraman (*62 !=/*B2 /4) ensure. At a time of agri-dis- of Constitution, Prime Minister was “obsessed” with trying to during a lecture Columbia 2.4(/?4*?.4>+(2 (/ tress, we delivered an effective Narendra Modi on Thursday somehow fix blame on its University’s School of loan waiver and ensured rural demanded to know if the coun- opponents and in the process, International and Public Affairs /(>.?4(*(.4)(>.4(?.44 growth,” he said. try— after its much-discussed it had failed to revive the econ- In in New York on Tuesday. “I .?*2 /!??!?*=*?.*4 Among other things, the decision —had been “ruined” Article 370, the country will be margin,” he said. omy. have no reason to doubt that ==/2=B*(/(>. former Prime Minister said or “has the country lost” ruined. It is going to be three Modi, who subsequently A day after Prime Minister Rajan feels for every word of !2.,=/B,.2(?/=.,*4, ?*(/22-?.*4.4O that while Maharashtra levied Kashmir as predicted by a few months since we abrogated addressed rallies in Satara and Narendra Modi went to town what he is saying. And I’m here the highest VAT on petroleum Congress leaders. Article 370, has the country Pune,urged the voters to pun- claiming that the “double- today, giving him his due past, Maharashtra used to not being willing to adopt peo- products, “the high VAT cou- Addressing an election been ruined?” ish the Congress and its lead- engine” governance involving respect, but also placing the fact attract talent from around the ple-oriented policies, Singh pled with Modi Government’s rally at Parli in Beed district of “Another Congress leader ers for their involvement in him and Chief Minister before you that Indian public country. Today there is a dearth said: “As water shortages com- decision to levy excessive excise Marathwada region, Modi said that by annulling Article scams and their questionable Devendra Fadnavis was a sector banks did not have a of opportunities in this other- pound, the situation will duties has punished the people offered to “make arrange- 370, we have lost Kashmir. I remarks. “All those who have “super-hit” during the last five worst phase than when the wise vibrant state. become still worse if not despite low international crude ments” to all those who desired would like to ask you: has the looted the country will not be years and was giving a “eleven- combination of Singh and “In urban areas, every third addressed soon. People from prices”. to go Jammu & Kashmir. country lost Kashmir? If you spared. They will be put behind fold” boost to the State’s Rajan, as Prime Minister and young person is jobless. Maharashtra are already grap- Replying to a question on Castigating the Congress want to go Kashmir, tell me I the bars. I will not rest till all development, Singh said: “The the Governor of Reserve Bank, Educated individuals have to pling with low availability of the PMC Bank crisis, Singh and other Opposition leaders will make arrangements... Does the money looted from the much advertised “double had. At that time, none of us face a higher rate of unem- clean drinking water and are appealed to Modi and chief for mocking the BJP-led NDA it behove well of all those lead- State exchequer returns”. engine” model of governance knew about it,” she said. ployment. It is thus no surprise resorting to digging up dried minister Devendra Fadnavis to Government’s decision to annul ers who ruled for such a time “If the entire Maharashtra on which the BJP seeks votes Maintaining that the that many of our young men river beds. While we cannot resolve the issue at the earliest. Article 370, Modi said: to make such statements? I is behind the BJP-Shiv Sena has utterly failed. Mumbai and Government’s “apathy and and women are taking up low control the vagaries of nature, He indicated that the Congress “Whenever debate takes place have a long list of questionable alliance, it is because of the Maharashtra have had to face incapability” were affecting the paying jobs. Investors are shift- we can ensure the mitigation of would take up the PMC Bank in future about the abrogation statements made by the hard work put in by us during some of the worst effects of the future and aspirations of mil- ing to other states. The distress the damage if we are econom- issue in a big way in Parliament of Article 370, history will take Congress leaders in this the last five years. See the con- grave economic slowdown”. lions of our people, Singh said: pervading our rural areas will ically sound”. during the Winter Session cognisance of statements made regard,” the Prime Minister trast: on one side, you can get Interacting with business- “Manufacturing growth rate only add to the unemployment “A lot of problems facing beginning in mid November. by the leaders ridiculing the said. to see the work ethics of the saf- men, professionals and the of Maharashtra has been problem as migration increas- Maharashtra today are man- “I appeal to the Chief decision taken in the national Modi, who was campaign- fron alliance Government, media at the Garware Club of declining for four consecutive es.” made and the solutions lie in Minister and the Prime interest.” ing for campaigning for late while on the other, the the Wankhede Stadium here, years. Maharashtra has wit- The former Prime Minister policies which are inclusive Minister to resolve this matter Exhorting the people to Gopinath Munde’s Minister- Opposition Congress and NCP Singh took a swipe at Finance nessed one of the highest fac- said that Maharashtra, from and welfare people-oriented., at the earliest. The grievances “punish” all those mocking the daughter Pankaja Munde at leaders are working for selfish Minister Nirmala Sitaraman tory shutdowns in the past once being the number one in he said. must be solved,” he said. Government’s decision on Parli, said that Parli gave motives,” the Prime Minister for her comment that Indian five years” attracting investments, “it is “It is my sincere belief that Asked if he would inter- Article 370, Modi said: “One friends like Gopinath Munde said. public sector banks had the “The industrial slowdown today a leader in farmer sui- we need to go back to these vene in the matter, Singh said: Congress leader said that the and Pramod Mahajan. “Both In Satara, Modi cam- “worst phase” under the com- has been met with rising cide”. time-tested measures if are to “The matter is coming up in Kashmir issue not the country’s Munde and Mahajan are no paigned for sitting MP and bination of him as the then imports from China. In the last “Despite the promises of ensure gainful employment for the Supreme Court, so it is sub- internal matter. Will agree with longer there. People from the 13th descendent of Chhatrapati Prime Minister and Raghuram five years, imports from China doubling farm incomes, the our young people, men and judice I don’t want to comment it? Can the leader saying such younger generation like Shivaji Udayan Raje Bhosale, Rajan as the RBI Governor. have risen by more than Rs. rural areas of Maharashtra are women, farmer welfare, and a much (on the issue). I am thing be pardoned? Will you Devendra Fadnavis and who recently quit the NCP and “I have just seen the state- 1,22,000 crores. Chemicals, witnessing nothing short of a better standard of living for all appealing to the Maharashtra not punish those who said Pankaja Munde are trying to joined the BJP, is contesting the ment by Smt Nirmala fertilisers, electronic goods, crisis. Caught between low the people of Maharashtra,” he Government, the RBI and the such things in the election? ... fulfil their dreams. Lok Sabha by-polls from Satara. Sitharaman, I won’t like to and automobiles, products incomes and high debt trap, the said. Centre to put the pragmatic hat One leader said it’s a black day Modi said that the The by-poll has been necessi- comment on that statement but manufactured in Maharashtra, suicide rate has doubled. The Calling for a change in the and solve this at the earliest” for Indian politics. Another Assembly elections were a bat- tated by the resignation of I can merely point out that have seen rising imports from obsession with low inflation is Government in the State, Singh “I have heard your feed- said it’s against democracy, tle between BJP’s “karyashak- Bhosale from Lok Sabha. before one can fix the econo- our neighbouring country,” he inflicting misery of our farm- said: “I can say without a doubt back. I assure you that when danger to national security...A ti” (power of development) In Pune, the Prime my one needs a correct diag- said. ers. The Central Government’s that the State will progress the Parliament convenes in senior Congress leader said and opposition’s “swarth shak- Minister campaigned among nosis of its ailments and their Lamenting that the indus- import-export policies are also much better under the leader- mid-November, this issue that after the abrogation of ti” (selfishness).”Lotus ( the BJP other for BJP’s State President causes,” Singh said. trial slowdown was coming in hurting farmers,” he said. ship of Congress-NCP” (PMC bank and such cases) symbol) has always bloomed Chandrakant Patil, who is con- “The Government is India’s way to optimally utilise Accusing the BJP “During my time as the will figure very very promi- in Beed. Pankaja will win the testing from the Brahmin dom- obsessed with trying to some- its demographic dividend, Governments, both at the Prime Minister of India, I had nently,” the former Prime Assembly polls with a record inated Kothurd constituency. how fix blame on its oppo- Singh said: “Only in the recent Centre and at Maharashtra, of the privilege to work with Minister told a questioner. .   (  :A)A     T     , " ,  O $O  ' '    N  ,!,*

Mumbai: Union Minister he Income Tax Piyush Goyal on Thursday TDepartment said the ED launched a probe officials have seized against NCP leader Praful 15.5 crore of Patel after his signatures were unaccounted cash found on the documents from various places which were also signed by the in Mumbai since wife of gangster Iqbal the declaration of Mirchi. Model Code of The Enforcement Conduct for the Directorate has summoned Maharashtra Patel on October 18 in con- Assembly polls by nection with a probe into the Election Commission of According to the official, alleged illegal assets of India (ECI) on the IT department is respond- Mirchi, who was an aide of September 21. ing to every call and informa- fugitive gangster Dawood “We have increased the tion from police/public/other Ibrahim. PTI strength of the Quick Response agencies and subject to the exis- Teams, formed for this period, tence of credible information, with additional manpower so search/ survey actions are being as to ensure elections free from conducted almost on daily influence of cash and/or valu- basis. ables,” a senior IT department Set up to curb the use of official said. black money and cash induce- “We will give special atten- ment in the ongoing Assembly tion to the movement of unac- Elections in the State, the counted cash/valuables and Directorate General of Income also prohibition of distribution Tax (Investigation) has since of cash/ valuables meant for September 21 been working in wooing the electorate, particu- close coordination with sever- larly during the period when al law enforcement agencies election campaign ceases on and other Government depart- 19th October till the date of ments, in order to contribute to polling — October 21,” the offi- the conduct of free, fair and cial said. smooth elections.   !"# $ ' ,

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 *4>2 (/2 CNN Business. including a return of $30.9 bil- utive had got a pay of  He received $29.6 million in lion in the form of share repur- $25.8 million. ith Microsoft posting stock award, $10,7 million in chases and dividends.” Nadella became the CEO  5 2          9      "" Wstrong results, the com- non-equity incentive plan The directors credited of Microsoft in 2014. Under his $ "/ :M'0<:@'$   /$$     pany’s CEO Satya Nadella has compensation and Nadella for his “strategic lead- leadership, the company has /$$  - 4 $$-  '! ? '-  =   ' got a 66 per cent raise in the around $1,11,000 in other com- ership, including his efforts to become a major force in  O     -)(     ""   2..=> egory of major states. 2018-19 fiscal, taking his total pensation. strengthen trust with cus- cloud computing.  ,T-./ $ '->44,  5  ?  - $ Karnataka’s number one posi- yearly earnings to a whopping In a proxy statement, tomers, drive for a company- In September, Microsoft )(- $(  . 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It is also among the top base salary of a little over $2.3 for financial performance, and markets.” back as much as $40 billion of  ' 5 6 " ( )4  *   '   '- 4 $$-   in southern and western India. performers in infrastructure, million, most of his pay came Microsoft delivered strong In the 2017-18 fiscal, the its own stock, the CNN Business  ) These rankings were knowledge workers, knowl- from stock awards, reported results for our shareholders, Hyderabad-born business exec- report said. released by the NITI Aayog on edge output and business envi- Thursday under the India ronment. Innovation Index 2019. Tamil According to the NITI R Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Aayog, the index shows that the ?I Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, innovation ecosystem of the H West Bengal, Gujarat, and country is strong in south and Andhra Pradesh form the western parts of India. In fact,  ,!,* sumption to the NBFC crisis before the end August 2018 I8 remaining top ten major states three of the top five major states that began in September 2018 default by IL&FS which triggered respectively. The top ten major are from southern India. Delhi New Delhi: In a push to domes- he consumption slump, a when IL&FS went belly up the liquidity crisis for NBFCs. states are majorly concentrated and Haryana seem to be an tic drone manufacturing, India’s Tmajor challenge afflicting following which consumption She said the fall in con- in southern and western India. exception to this rule and seem civil aviation regulator DGCA the economy, cannot be attrib- financing — a forte of shadow sumption is responsible for a New Delhi: Telecom regulator “severest penalty” on them for Sikkim and Delhi take the to be doing well on the Index. has given nod the for companies uted to the NBFC crisis as it banks, stopped with a chill in third of the overall dip in over- Trai will finalise, in next two violating regulations and licens- top spots among the north - “Thus, there seems to be a to manufacture Unmanned predates the first default by disbursements by these players. all growth, with the global slow- weeks, its views on call ring ing norms. After the fresh set of eastern & hill states, and union west-south and north-east Aircraft Systems (UAS). infra lender IL&FS, says a bro- According to Prachi Mishra, down coupled with funding time — a contentious issue on allegations surfaced, Bharti territories. Delhi, Karnataka, divide across the country”, the In an interview to IANS, kerage, which has also slashed the chief economist at Wall constraints. “There is a slow- which old and new operators Airtel immediately hit back Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, index report said. Directorate General of Civil growth forecast to 6 percent Street brokerage Goldman Sachs, down and the growth numbers have locked horns. saying Jio was trying to mis- Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh The index was released in Aviation (DGCA) Director with a downward bias. her analysis indicates that con- have fallen by 2 percentage On the controversial issue guide the regulator ahead of the are the most efficient states in the presence of Rajiv Kumar, General Arun Kumar said the Many people attribute the sumption has been falling since points,” Mishra said, speaking at of Jio’s latest allegations that crucial consultation on call con- translating inputs into output. Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, regulator has given its approval deepening slowdown in con- January 2018, which is much an event by The Economist. rival telcos are fraudulently nect charges (also called IUC or According to the NITI Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI to 5 companies for drone man- masking fixed-line as mobile interconnect usage charges). Aayog, the study is an outcome Aayog, Ashutosh Sharma, ufacturing based on the pre- calls for undue enrichment and Meanwhile, at the open of extensive research and analy- Secretary, Department of sentations made to it earlier. should be slapped with penal- house discussions on the issue sis, which looks holistically at Science, Renu Swarup, Market watchers told IANS ty, a senior Telecom Regulatory of call ring-time on Thursday, the innovation landscape of Secretary, Department of that firms such as Skylark Authority of India (Trai) official a senior Jio official urged the India by examining the inno- Biotechnology and Vaidya Drones and ideaForge among said the matter will be exam- telecom regulator to keep the vation capabilities and perfor- Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, others, have received the nod to ined just as all complaints to the matter under forbearance. mance of Indian states and AYUSH. start manufacturing opera- authority are. Jio has maintained that if at union territories. Rajiv Kumar expressed tions. “Domestic drone manu- New Delhi: Auto industry body Ministry of Road Transport & the country and will lead to “Any complaint that gen- all Trai wants to take a view on “The aim is to create a hope that the India Innovation facturers have approached us SIAM on Thursday said the Highways for setting up of increase in latent demand for erally comes to us will be the issue, it should be in form holistic tool which can be used Index would create synergies with their products. These are draft guidelines on authorised AVSF, Society of Indian end-of-life vehicles available for examined... If there is any vio- of a reference guidelines and by policymakers across the between different stakeholders tested by our engineering vehicle scrapping facility (AVSF) Automobile Manufacturers scrapping,” he said in a state- lation, we will look into the not in form of a mandated country to identify the chal- in the innovation ecosystem department,” Kumar said. in India will help in setting up (SIAM) President Rajan ment. As per the draft AVSF matter...” the official said. value. “In such a case, the lenges to be addressed and and India would shift to com- “We are concerned with of such facilities in an organised Wadhera said the automobile guidelines, individuals, firms Reliance Jio has accused old range of 20 seconds to 25 sec- strengths to build on when petitive good governance. the safety aspect of these prod- manner, while reiterating that industry wholeheartedly sup- society or trust will be allowed operators including Bharti onds may be prescribed as ref- designing the economic growth Amitabh Kant added that ucts.” According to Kumar, the the sector is waiting for incen- ports the vehicle scrappage to set up scrappage facility Airtel and Vodafone Idea of erence guideline,” Jio has policies for their regions”, it said India has a unique opportuni- move is expected to reduce tive-based Vehicle Scrappage initiative of Government. subject to meeting eligibility “illegally” masquerading wire- informed Trai, which is in the in a statement. ty among its myriad challenges import dependence and give the Policy from the Government. “The draft guidelines will criteria and receiving line numbers as mobile num- process of finalising its views Karnataka is the leader in to become the innovation necessary push to the nascent Welcoming the draft help in establishing organised authorisation from licensing bers for “undue enrichment” on the issue through a consul- the overall rankings in the cat- leader in the world. domestic industry. 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He came back 4   5  $  unbeaten on its recent       and played a couple of games, maybe   :: "   "  ' Belgium tour, where it won all      played through the pain barrier,”      $= -   five matches against the      "O Solskjaer added.  $$    "   M90$   world champions hosts and  $   “He had a scan after the Arsenal  " - " = ) world number eight Spain.   : :M' game and maybe needed a few weeks’ (         Reid said he had a lot 0<00  ) rest in a boot so hopefully he won’t be  (  "7     “good takeaways” from the +  "O  - ' too long, but he won’t make this game,  '   " "  Belgium tour. $     no.”  $"   ) “Our GPS numbers were   '+>   United have recorded two wins in > '    $   great, which means that the   )  their opening eight league matches      "  running, effort, speed and this season and sit two points above     $  ' intensity was actually even right things. the relegation zone in 12th place. 7 @ P44 !!+ !   0  P< 7   4 0 'BADA9   4E5 4     - " = $    higher than last year’s World “There is always the con- Anthony Martial, Luke Shaw and  ) Cup. So they were very good cern about playing a team like Aaron Wan-Bissaka are likely to REINFORCE SQUAD son without reinforcing United’s 4-0 win over Chelsea but have scored L O K   numbers for us to see, and for Russia and it is, that they hold return from the treatment room but Manchester United will try to attack. five goals in seven league matches    L'M      the players to understand that the ball very well, they like to Solskjaer is yet to make a decision on sign one or two players in the January “We’re looking at one or two new since and Solskjaer said an injury to (  )L   to play at that level, you need be in possession. Trying to get their availability. transfer window to improve their signings. We’re one or two players forward Anthony Martial, who has    ) to be achieving those consis- the ball off them is always dif- “Hopefully, Aaron and Anthony chances of finishing in the top four light,” Solskjaer told Sky Sports. “If the not played since August, was a fac- L$  "   tently,” said Reid. ficult, so that is something we will last the training this week and be but will not spend big on transfer fees right ones are available in January tor in their struggles. "     “Another part was the need to keep an eye on, and available for selection,” the Norwegian and wages, manager Ole Gunnar then we might do something. If not, “There’s many reasons, but one of  "  consistency of our perfor- make sure that our tackling, coach added. Solskjaer has said. these players will give everything (for them is injuries to Anthony,” the 46-    mances against Belgium and interception, and pressing “If it’s for half a game or 30 min- United are 12th in the Premier a top four finish). year-old former United player said.   Spain, and it was good to see skills are at the highest level. utes I don’t know but let’s see where League ahead of Sunday’s home “I’m not going to go down the “Creating chances has been a chal- 7 ) that we kept building momen- “We want to make sure they’re at.” game against league leaders Liverpool route of bringing players in on big lenge for us with teams dropping L       tum as the tour progressed.” that we are playing at our best, Liverpool have made a perfect after a poor start to the season that contracts and big fees if they’re not deep.  "      Reid, who took over as and there will be no compla- start to the season with 24 points from has been further disrupted by injuries the right ones for the whole group “But we’re practising patterns     " ) the chief coach in April 2019, cency. It does not matter who eight matches and will look to equal to key players. and for the future. The money is every single week. When we get the    said while taking on Russia in we play, we will approach the Manchester City’s record of 18 con- Solskjaer sanctioned the depar- there to strengthen in January and in players fit, I’m going to make Marcus 7  $   $  the the FIFA Qualifiers on game in the same manner, secutive top-flight victories when tures of forwards Romelu Lukaku the summer.” and Anthony score those scruffy    November 1 and 2, his wards that is, in a professional and they visit Old Trafford. and Alexis Sanchez in the close sea- United started the season with a goals, as that’s what I did.” $ $ )M # will be focused on doing the respectful way.” *     &    5!    $7 ++ A1:    (    9   4  # ,=*2 million to 113.8 million. last Serie A title in 2011, and LAHORE: Pakistan's top-order Milan finished fifth in have not played in the batsman Azhar Ali is likely to 'Former junior world to give direct selection only to do the same.” roubled former Italian Serie A last season but sur- Champions League since the replace Sarfaraz Ahmed as the champion boxer Nikhat Zareen the Gold and Silver winners. Mary Kom has maintained that Tfootballing giants AC rendered their Europa 2013-2014 season. national team's skipper in the has written to Sports Minister The qualifiers will be held in she would follow the BFI guidelines on Milan have suffered record League berth after breaching The club are 13th place longest format of the game while Kiren Rijiju, demanding a trial China in February next year. selection trials and will compete if losses, according to reports UEFA's financial fair play in Serie A, following a run of wicketkeeper-batsman bout against the celebrated M C “Sir, the very basis of sport asked by the federation. in Italy. rules. four defeats in seven games. Mohammad Rizwan could serve Mary Kom before India’s squad is fairplay and need to keep The Sports Ministry is not entitled Gazzetta Dello Sport Revenues from the sale Italian media mogul and as his deputy. for next year’s Olympic proving oneself each and every to intervene in selection matters of any claimed that in the year to of players in particular former prime minister Silvio Pakistan's head coach Qualifiers is decided. time. Even Olympic Gold national federation unless requested by June 30, 2019, losses rose by dropped from 42 million Berlusconi, who oversaw Misbah ul Haq is unhappy with Mary Kom (51kg) claimed medallists have to fight again to the parent international body as any 16 percent to 146 million ($ euros to 25.5 million euros. Milan's glory years during Sarfaraz's performance and her eighth world medal at the qualify to represent the country,” such unilateral move is considered a 162 million) euros com- To keep the club afloat, his 31-year ownership, sold according to sources, Misbah has recently-concluded champi- she wrote in the letter. violation of the Olympic Charter. pared to 126 million euros Elliott have injected 325 mil- the club to Li in 2017 with made it clear to the PCB that onships in Russia. She was “I have been inspired by Zareen said even if she were to lose for the same period the pre- July 2018. lion euros in total up until Elliot assuming control after Sarfaraz should not continue as selected for the event ahead of Mary Kom since I was a teenag- the trial bout, should she get one, she vious year. The club's absence from this September, Sky Sport the Chinese businessman the of the Green Brigade Zareen, who was refused a trial er. The best way I can do justice would feel content about at least get- Gazzetta said the figures European football has had Italia reported. defaulted on a loan payment. but the board is unwilling to take by the Boxing Federation of to this inspiration was to strive ting a chance. were far worse than the pre- an impact on merchandising On the pitch the 18-time AC Milan are currently any chance with a new captain on India (BFI), which decided to go to be as great a boxer as her. And “I look for no favours, just fairplay. dicted loss of 90 million and sponsors, with income Serie A champions are also working with city rivals Inter a tough tour of Australia. by Mary Kom’s consistent per- Mary Kom is too big a legend in And whether Mary Kom or any other euros. from sponsors slipping by in turmoil with Marco Milan on a new 1.2 billion According to reports, the formances while making the sport to need to hide from boxer qualifies after the trial, we can US hedge fund Elliott 6.7 million euros and ticket Giampaolo sacked as coach euro ($ 1.34 billion) stadium management is experimenting choice. competition and not actually at least sleep at night knowing that took over the debt-ridden sales down by 1.2 million after just seven games and project to rebuilt the San Siro with young players for the The BFI now also plans to defend her Olympic qualifica- every one of the candidate for the best seven-time European cham- euros. Stefano Pioli coming in as and the area surrounding Australia tour and in case the send Mary Kom for the Olympic tion,” she said. possible opportunity to make India pions from Chinese busi- However, revenues from the club's eighth coach in stadium to the west of the team fails to deliver results, the qualifiers on the back of her “After all, if 23-time Gold- proud at Olympics,” she said. PTI nessman Li Yonghong in TV rights rose from 109.3 five years.Milan won their city. management can give the excuse Bronze-winning show at the medallist Michael Phelps has to of the team going through a tran- world championships, moving re-qualify every time for the sition phase. away from the previous decision Olympics, the rest of us should 88KL 5   %"O66  2..=> 5 F  'B'B he seventh season of VIVO Pro # *?4 P7 %>77" TKabaddi League has entered its twilight stages, with the grand final wiss tennis legend Roger Federer on Thursday # 4/+* between Dabang Delhi and Bengal Ssaid he will play the French Open in Paris next Warriors looming. Interestingly, year. acists must be "kicked out" of stadiums, FIFA VIVO PKL will have a new winner “I will play the French Open. I probably won’t Rpresident Gianni Infantino said on Thursday, whatever be the result, with both play much before that because I need some time as he pressed for a worldwide ban on spectators teams playing their first final of away from it (tennis) and I need some time with the who abuse black footballers. India's top Kabaddi tournament. family,” the 38- Speaking days after England's Euro 2020 The final itself is testimony to year-old told CNN. qualifier in Bulgaria was twice stopped because the competitive nature of season The 20-time of chants targeting English players, Infantino seven that saw favourites stumble Grand Slam cham- insisted the world body would punish racism. while young stars scripted new pion returned to "If there are racists that abuse footballers, we records. Three-time champions Roland Garros this have to stop the game," he told a press confer- Patna Pirates failed to reach the year after a three ence on a visit to Dhaka. playoff stages despite another stel- year absence, "We cannot let the racists win. The football lar season for Pardeep Narwal falling to Rafael has to continue and we have to punish the peo- while pre-season favourites Tamil Nadal in the semi- ple," Infantino said during his visit. Thalaivas' poor run reminded finals. He added it was now easy to identify the cul- everyone how Kabaddi is a team Federer ha prits in modern stadiums with closed circuit TV dent in a statement on Tuesday, calling racism sport and not just about a group of sconfirmed he will and that a "strong message" must be sent. an "obnoxious disease that seems to be getting talented individuals. (302) in overall points. compete at next "They have to be taken, kicked out of the sta- even worse in some parts of the world". Ever since the dawn of the A FINAL ON MERIT year’s Tokyo dium, they must not be allowed to enter into He said Thursday that on top of stadium A SEASON OF HIGHS VIVO PKL, Kabaddi as a sport has The League stage's top two Olympics after football stadiums any more, and criminal pro- action better education was needed. 'High-flyer' Pawan Sehrawat evolved, and season seven was teams — Dabang Delhi and Bengal Wimbledon and ceedings should be brought against them. "We have to educate our youth, our children was once again the standout raider once again proof to the fast chang- Warriors — will fight it out for the prior to the US "It's a crime and it should be a crime in all and those who are a bit older as well," he said. of the season and brought ing nature, with the defenders hav- coveted trophy tomorrow. Both Open. countries of the world to commit a racist abuse," Infantino also said that the 2022 World Cup Bengaluru Bulls within touching ing a bigger say in results. While UP teams have shown remarkably con- But his priori- he said. in Qatar "will be the very best World Cup ever" distance of a place in the finals. The Yoddha's Nitesh Kumar couldn't sistency throughout the season ty before the Infantino reaffirmed that if a country bans despite new controversy over the heat and empty defending champions were heavi- match his 100-point tally from last and deserve a shot at the title for French Open a spectator because of racism, "FIFA will extend stadiums after the world athletics champi- ly reliant on Pawan's raiding skills season, you could see a distinct their all-round performances. The which he has won it worldwide because racists have no place in onships in September saw some long distance and he scored 346 points in 24 changes in approaches as the cor- Bengal corner combination of only once in 2009 football in any country and no place in any foot- races badly affected. match with 18 Super 10s and a stag- ners starting tackling more eager- Baldev Singh and Rinku Narwal will be a family vacation. ball stadium or arena in any part of the world." The FIFA boss insisted that it would be cool- gering strike rate of 75%. While ly. In fact, the success of teams like will be keen to stop Naveen 'Express' “We need a vacation, we need a break, and espe- Six Bulgarians have been indicted for abuse er as the football tournament would be in Naveen Kumar didn't exactly match U Mumba, UP Yoddha and Bengal Kumar from reaching another cially if I am playing the Olympics and all that,” he at Monday's Bulgaria-England game when November and December. Pawan Sehrawat's points, his 20 Warriors was down to effective cor- Super 10 while at the other end the said. monkey chants and apparent Nazi salutes over- "I am sure in Qatar we will witness from a consecutive Super 10s was the key ners. U Mumba's 'Sultan' Fazel experienced duo of Ravinder Pahal In Tokyo he will be in competition for a men’s shadowed England's 6-0 win. Three more are technical point of view, the very best World Cup in Dabang Delhi's road to the Atrachali topped the chart with 82 and Joginder Narwal will look to singles Gold medal, the only major prize he has yet being sought. ever." He also expressed confidence that the sta- finals. The 20-year-old, a produce tackle points. UP's duo of Sumit and thwart the Bengal raiders. The to win. One 18-year-old was indicted on Wednesday diums would be "full". of the Future Kabaddi Heroes Nitesh Kumar scored 77 and 75 Warriors haven't been beaten by Earlier this week he said he had been debating for using Nazi salutes and four others have been "Football is the number one sport in the (FKH) programme, scored 283 respectively while Sandeep Dhull Delhi this season but it remains to with his team on his programme after Wimbledon fined and banned from sports events for two world. We will fill the stadiums in Qatar and points in 22 matches, and will end clinched 73 despite playing for a be seen if their talisman Maninder and before the US Open. years. anywhere else in the World easily with the World the season behind only Pawan Jaipur Pink Panthers side that Singh will be fit enough to start “At the end of the day my heart decided to play Infantino had already condemned the inci- Cup." 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6     ?*2-> kipper Virat Kohli and opener Rohit SSharma skipped the optional practice session but spinner Kuldeep Yadav looked to hone his batting skills ahead of India’s third and final Test against South Africa here on Thursday. Kuldeep, who sat out of the first two Tests, made full use of the net session dis-  ?*2-> playing some elegant cover drives in their afternoon practice which was also attend- outh Africa opener Dean Elgar ed by Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, says he got “stretched” as a Mayank Agarwal and Ishant Sharma Scricketer and learned a lot among others. more about himself during what has Earlier chief coach Ravi Shastri and been a humbling India tour, part of bowling coach Bharat Arun had a close look which included visiting “smaller at the pitch which wore a dry look, indi- places and staying in hotels” not that cating that it would have something for the good. spinners. After managing a 1-1 draw in Spin duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and the T20 series, South Africa suffered Ravindra Jadeja have been the key bowlers big defeats in the first Two Tests of for India, bagging 14 and 10 each the three-match rubber against a and Kuldeep’s inclusion will only be at the dominant outfit led by Virat Kohli. cost of a pacer. “It’s a challenging tour. You get The pacers too have made crucial con- stretched as a person, you get tributions with Mohammed Shami claim- stretched as a cricketer, I think you ing eight wickets at a strike rate of 41 and get to know yourself quite a lot as a Umesh snapping six wickets at an even bet- person when you come to the ter strike rate of 21 and it remains to be seen smaller places where the hotels are if Kohli tinkers with his winning combina- maybe not as good, and you get chal- tion. lenged on the field,” Elgar said. The Proteas trained in the morning ses- “It’s always a good learning sion with focus on their batsmen. curve coming to India.” South Africa’s training was attended by The introduction of the World skipper Du Plessis, Temba Bavuma, Test Championship means South Theunis de Bruyn, Quniton de Kock, Africa still have “quite a lot to play Senuran Muthuswamy as they faced the net for” in the third Test despite conced- & + ?"> !  +  + ! & +  4 4 bowlers. ing the series, Elgar said. Vernon Philander was seen among the “Back in the day it was always lowing our process against India in hundred in India after nine years of a challenge for all of us. We haven’t which is an immensely proud morale in the camp is still very good. bowlers but the new-ball bowler was a bit of a dead rubber game but now the last Test. That’s something we during the opening Test, said the played our greatest , consis- moment for every player. “We still have one game and we mostly seen honing his batting skills. with the World Test Championships can’t neglect going into this game. Proteas batsmen will have to go back tent cricket. But we are trying to be “We still motivate everyone can actually change quite a lot. We around, we still have points to play There is still a lot to play for,” he to the basics to tackle the Indian positive. The senior players are try- within our squad. It has been a chal- are still pretty hopeful and pretty for,” Elgar said. added. Elgar, who became the first bowlers in the final game. ing to keep the guys motivated. We lenging few weeks but it’s still not too positive going into the last Test,” he “We can still get 40 points by fol- South African batsman to score a “It’s no secret that it’s been a bit are still representing our country gloomy for us. We are upbeat, the asserted.

 ?*2-> &  A   =5+&! “frustrated” South African  ' Having already lost the the hosts scored 502 runs while they Abatsman Aiden Markram three-match series, South Africa put on 601 runs in Pune. was on Thursday ruled out of P2  Q 4     9 !      skipper Faf du Plessis has called on And, du Plessis wants his batsmen the third and final Test against  9    :  % his players to come out with an to learn from the Indian batters and India, having sustained a wrist improved performance, especially make most of their first innings in the injury after punching a solid his injury.” Thursday morning. The team with the bat when they face India in final Test. object. Markram has had a mixed management hasn’t called up the final Test beginning Saturday in “We need to put big runs on the As per Cricket South tour of India. While he scored any replacement. Ranchi. board in the first innings,” said du Africa’s media release, “The two hundreds in the practice A disappointed Markram The Proteas have not been able Plessis while addressing a press confer- injury took place following the games, he couldn’t carry forward admitted he has let his team to make use of their first innings — ence on Thursday. opener’s dismissal in the second his form into the Test series. down and said, “It’s sad to be barring the Vizag Test where they “When you get runs in the first innings of the match. In a After scoring 5 and 39 in the going home on this note and I managed to score 431 in reply to innings anything from there is possi- moment of frustration with his first Test, he was dismissed for completely understand what India’s 502. India, on the other hand, ble. For us first innings runs will be vital own performance, he lashed a pair in the second. I’ve done wrong and take full have dominated by getting big runs and then anything could happen in the out at a solid object, resulting in He left for South Africa on accountability for it.” in their first innings. In the first Test, second innings,” he added. IANS R8 9  >*6* into the squad as some of our other fast bowlers are # 4B2.B eft-arm spinner Arafat injured,” said chief selector &0'B LSunny and pacer Al- Minhajul Abedin. ll-rounder Mitchell .+   Amin Hossain were recalled The selectors also AMarsh is set to miss as Bangladesh on Thursday decided to drop Sabbir the opening Test against # -/=/,/ announced a 15-member Rahman, Nazmul Hossain Pakistan after fracturing squad for next month’s Shanto, Rubel Hossain and his right hand punching  =  H(0<  three-game T20I series Taijul Islam from the team a wall, with Australian 4=  ,    against India. of the last T20 Bangladesh coach Justin Langer  6     Opener played during the tri-nation branding him “an idiot”. 2     ' also made a comeback after series at home. The Western   a break during which he The T20I series will Australia captain took his        missed the tri-series at begin with the first match frustrations out in the   $ '  home involving Afghanistan on November 3 at Arun changing rooms after he (      and Zimbabwe. Jaitely stadium in New was dismissed for 53 in a :;9" 7    Both Sunny and Delhi. The next two games Sheffield Shield match *  ) Hossain have been out of are at Rajkot and Nagpur on against Tasmania on (   "      -  contention for a long time November 7 and 10 respec- Sunday.  * / having played their last T20I tively. Scans revealed a frac- the bone,” Marsh, who me. Hopefully it’s a good /0M  in 2016.  #   +   Squad: ture, and an apologetic was sporting a cast on his lesson for other people as      / 0 + 8   The 33-year-old Sunny, (C), Tamim Iqbal, Liton Marsh said he faced up to arm, told reporters. well,” added Marsh, G< $   "  who has taken 12 wickets in The 29-year-old Das, Soumya Sarkar, Naim six weeks on the sidelines. Marsh had only been whose blunder could ,-  2 ":)  ,!,* 10 T20Is, was suspended Hossain also last featured in Sheikh, Mushfiqur Rahhim, That would almost recalled to the Test side open the door for Marcus (G5*, ,  '6 during the 2016 ICC World the 2016 ICC World Mahmudullah Riyad, Afif certainly rule him out of for the final game of the Stoinis in Brisbane.  '6, ' est Indian batting great Brian Lara on Thursday praised Twenty20 for an illegal Twenty20. Hossain, Musaddek the opening Test against Ashes against England “At the end of the day,    '*+  ' Wthe current Indian pace attack, which reminded him of bowling action. He had also “We have recalled Hossain, Aminul Islam Pakistan in Brisbane start- last month after a long it’s a game of cricket.   '4   '4 the deadly West Indian attacks of yore. spent two months in jail Sunny because we need Biplob, Arafat Sunny, ing on November 21. period out of favour and Sometimes you get beat-      '? 5   ' The Indian pace trio of Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and after being arrested in 2017 someone experienced for Mohammad Saifuddin, Al- “It’s my middle finger, there are no guarantees he en, sometimes you get /+  ' >    '=4   ' Mohammed Shami, in 2018, picked the record 142 wickets for his involvement in a India, which is a tough Amin Hossain, Mustafizur just below the wrist — a will win a spot back. out, and you can’t be 2 '=6 "  ' among them in Test matches. family dispute. country. Al-Amin comes Rahman, Shafiul Islam. fracture straight through “It’s a good lesson for punching walls.” !  T6  ? 5  ) Asked what makes Indian team special, Lara said: “It’s the Indian pace attack. Unbelievable. I saw them in the West Indies. When you look at the quality —(Jasprit) Bumrah, (Mohammed) 5      8 -  . Shami, (Umesh) Yadav — all these guys, and the guys on the sidelines, like Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) are unbelievable.” “It reminds me a little bit of the (pace bowling) strength The 34-year-old that the West Indies had in the 80s and 90s. The reserve strength         Wawrinka, seeking his first is very important in assessing a team’s ability. It means that your ATP trophy since he lifted the attack has quality,” Lara added.  2..=>  /.24. title in Geneva two years ago, Lara, who had scored 11,953 Test runs, was also lavish in served 17 aces — one less his praise for Virat Kohli, whom he termed the ‘Ultimate hree-time Olympic medallist ndia’s campaign at the $ 775,000 Denmark Open than Lopez — and converted Captain’. TCarmelita Jeter is impressed with Icame to a disappointing end with the trioka of PV one out of four break-point “He’s (Kohli) the ultimate captain. In terms of his perfor- India’s Dutee Chand and said a reput- Sindhu, B Sai Praneeth and Sameer Verma — all-exit- opportunities to edge the tight mances, he leads by example. And I mean that in all facets of ed coach can guide the country’s talent- ing after suffering straight-game losses, here on match. the game, and off the field too. He is came off very well in the ed sprinters reach the highest level in Thursday. Up next for the world background of MS Dhoni, who laid the foundation, and did future. World Champion Sindhu, seeded fifth, yet again number 18 is unseeded Gilles things in a different way. “I have seen Dutee Chand compete struggled to buck the trend of recent early exits as Simon, who powered past his “So, I think Indian cricket, as we all know, is headed in the at the Olympic Games. She has done she was knocked out after she lost 14-21, 17-21 to French compatriot Jo-Wilfried right direction. It’s influenced by some of the best people, and some remarkable things. I hope more Korea,s An Se Young in a 40-minute second-round Tsonga 6-4, 7-5. is reaping the benefits of it,” Lara told reporters here. young ladies will step up and represent women,s singles clash at the BWF World Tour Super Wawrinka has beaten Lara also seemed happy that a player of Rohit Sharma’s cal- the country,” said Jeter, who is the inter- 750 event. Simon four times in seven ibre is set to play regularly across formats. national event ambassador at the 15th It turned out to be a dismal day for Indian shut- meetings but the Frenchman “I think that Rohit is an awesome player in all formats of edition of the Airtel Delhi Half tlers in general as B Sai Praneeth, Sameer Verma, and prevailed in straight sets the the game. Obviously, in the limited overs game, he’s been very Marathon. in the 100 meters. men's doubles pair of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and last time they played each successful. I don’t see any reason why he should not be in Test “I feel that all sprinters need good Carmelita Jeter was a part of the his- Chirag Shetty also went down in straight games in other on the hardcourts of cricket. It seems that he has the passion to play and wants to coaches. If a big name coaches Indian toric 4x100m USA team which set the their second rounds. Shanghai in 2016. prove himself on that stage (Test cricket) as well. athletes, then you will certainly see a rise world record at the 2012 Olympics. The While Praneeth was outclassed by two-time Argentina,s Guido Pella “To exclude a player like that (from the Test team) will be of Indian sprinters in the future,” said American said that sharing a medal World Champion Kento Momota of Japan 6-21, 14- joined the duo in the last eight very difficult, with the talent that I see. So, hopefully, he will Jeter. with three other women was even more 21 in yet another dominating show, Sameer lost 12- &8 - !+  after beating South Korea,s be successful. He is a gifted batsman,” said Lara. The fastest woman alive, Jeter is special than an individual medal. 21, 10-21 to Olympic champion Chen Long of China. Kwon Soon-woo 7-5, 7-5 to set Lara, who holds the record for highest individual run scor- delighted to see over 40,000 participants “It was a moment for the USA Thailand Open champions Satwik and Chirag   *2(.? up a clash with Ugo Humbert er in Tests, also welcomed the ICC move of Test Championship, ready to give it their all at the Half team. It was a special team out there. also suffered a 16-21 15-21 defeat against sixth seed or second seed David Goffin. saying it has provided contest to the game. Marathon, which is an IAAF Gold Label People think that four of the fastest run- Chinese combination of Han Cheng Kai and Zhou tan Wawrinka was made to In first-round action, Pablo “I think (World Test Championship should have started Road Race, on Sunday. ners form a good 4x100m group, but no, Hao Dong in men's doubles. Swork hard at the European Cuevas beat Hugo Dellien 6-4, earlier). In terms of Test Championship, where there is an end, A world record holder, Jeter had a team has to have four people who trust Later in the day, Pranaav Chopra and N Sikki Open on Wednesday as the 6-3 and will take on Briton it culminates into a team becoming Championship, that is some- finished with a winning time of 10.64 each other and have chemistry. It was Reddy put up a gallant fight before going down 24- Swiss veteran outlasted Andy Murray next. American thing that should have happened a long time ago and happy seconds at the Shanghai Golden Grand great to share a Gold medal with a team. 26 21-13 11-21 to fourth seeded Malaysian pair of Feliciano Lopez 6-7(4) 6-4 7- Frances Tiafoe overcame to see it now. Even if you play against the Prix in 2009, giving her a spot in his- Winning a medal with three other Chan Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying in the mixed dou- 6(4) to reach the quarter-finals Germany's Yannick Maden 7- minnows—Afghanistan, Bangladesh — it means something. tory as the second-fastest woman ever women was even more special,” she said. bles competition. in Antwerp. 6(7), 6-3.