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05 56( "# last meeting with these groups gion cannot determine nation- Citizenship Amendment Bill,” in the early hours of hood,” he told reporters in Communist Party of India he stage is set for a bitter Wednesday. Parliament premises. (Marxist) general secretary Tconfrontation between the Senior Home Ministry Veteran Congress leader Sitaram Yechury said in a tweet. 7(&8 4 Opposition and the Treasury Officials said the Inner Line and three-time Assam Chief Defence Minister Rajnath Benches in Parliament next Permit (ILP) regime areas and Minister Tarun Gogoi said the Singh on Tuesday had asked t least 18 Indians were week when the Government those regions which are gov- Congress will move the party MPs to be present in large Aamong 23 people killed tables the controversial erned under the Sixth Schedule Supreme Court against the numbers in Parliament when and over 130 injured in a hor- Citizenship (Amendment) Bill of the Constitution will be CAB which is “unconstitu- the Bill is tabled. This Bill is as rific LPG tanker blast that which aims to provide citizen- excluded from the purview of tional” and “divisive”. “The important as the move to nul- destroyed a ceramic factory in ship to non-Muslim refugees the Bill. In terms of Section 2 Congress will move the SC lify Article 370, he had said. Sudan, the Indian mission said from Pakistan, Bangladesh and of the Bengal Eastern Frontier because we believe that CAB is The draft legislation is here on Wednesday. Afghanistan. The Union Regulations, 1873, the Inner unconstitutional and against expected to sail through Lok Sixteen Indians were miss- Cabinet on Wednesday Line Permit system is prevalent the spirit of secularism. It is Sabha, where the BJP has a ing after the incident that hap- approved the Bill, which was in Arunachal Pradesh, divisive, and violates the con- majority, and is unlikely to face pened at Seela Ceramic Factory termed as “communal” and Mizoram and Nagaland. stitutional provision - equality serious hurdles in Rajya Sabha in Bahri area in the Sudanese “divisive” by the Opposition Citizens of other States require for all. There cannot be division as the ruling party has often capital Khartoum on Tuesday. parties, who plan to challenge ILP for visiting these three on basis of religion, caste or managed the support of parties The blaze sent large plumes it in the Supreme Court. States. Under the Sixth creed,” he said in a tweet. like the BJD, TRS and YSR of black smoke into the sky of Briefing the media after the Schedule of the Constitution, The All India United Congress for its flagship agen- the northern part of the in with the workers and their Cabinet meeting, Union autonomous councils and dis- Democratic Front, has written da. northeastern African country’s families,” he tweeted. Minister Prakash Javadekar tricts were created in tribal a letter to Shah, requesting him The CAB was an election capital. “As per latest reports, The Indian Embassy on said the Government has taken areas in Assam, Meghalaya not to introduce the CAB in promise of the BJP in the 2014 but so far not confirmed offi- Wednesday issued a detailed care of the interests of every- and Tripura. The autonomous Parliament as it is “against the and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. A cially, 18 are dead,” the Indian list of Indians who were hos- one. “People will welcome it as councils and districts enjoy interest of people of Assam and large section of people and Embassy said in a release. pitalised, went missing or sur- it is in the interest of the certain executive and legislative the country”. Twelve MPs from organisations in the North- “Some of the missing may vived the tragedy. nation,” Javadekar said, when powers. the North-East wrote a letter to East have opposed the Bill, say- be in the list of dead which we As per its data, seven peo- asked about the protests in the The Congress, Trinamool Prime Minister Narendra Modi ing it will nullify the provisions are still to receive as identifi- ple have been hospitalised, North-East. Congress, CPI(M) and a few last week saying civil society of the Assam Accord of 1985, cation is not possible because with four in critical condition. Talking to the media, many other political parties have groups of the region are oppos- which fixed March 24, 1971, as of the bodies being burnt,” it A total of 34 Indians who BJP leaders said the Opposition been steadfastly opposing the ing the Bill. Despite facing the cut-off date for deportation added. Official Sources in New survived have been accommo- is unnecessarily creating con- Bill, claiming that citizenship serious opposition, including of all illegal immigrants irre- !"## $% & '( Delhi said 68 Indians were dated at the Saloomi Ceramics troversies as the Bill intends to can’t be given on the basis of from ally JD(U), the BJP has spective of religion. working in the factory. Factory residence. provide citizenship to non- religion. Congress’s Shashi expressed its determination to The BJP-led NDA Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) ly to be applicable to the BTAD “Deeply grieved to learn According to a statement Muslim refugees facing reli- Tharoor said it violates the pass the Bill. Government had introduced appear to be divided on the areas which is under the Sixth that some Indian workers have issued by the Sudanese gious persecution in the neigh- basic idea of India that religion The CPI(M) termed the the Bill in its previous issue with its founding presi- Schedule of the Constitution. lost their lives while some oth- Government, the blast in a gas bouring Islamic countries. can never be a reason for citi- Bill as “unacceptable and tenure and got the Lok dent and signatory to the The influential All Assam ers have been seriously injured,” tanker triggered the fire in an The Cabinet approval to zenship. “Those who believe unconstitutional” and said that Sabha’s approval. Assam Accord Prafulla Kumar Students’ Union (AASU), External Affairs Minister S industrial area because of the Bill came hours after Union that religion should determine citizenship could not be deter- But it did not introduce it Mahanta opposing the Bill Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba-Chatra Jaishankar said. which 23 people were killed Home Minister Amit Shah nationhood... That was the mined by or linked to religion. in the Rajya Sabha, apparently while the current chief and Parishad (AJYCP), Krishak “The Embassy representa- and more than 130 injured. completed his three days of idea of Pakistan, they created “India’s citizens are its citi- due to vehement protests in the Agriculture Minister Atul Bora Mukti Sangram Samiti tive has rushed to the site. A 24- “Preliminary observations interactions with leaders of Pakistan. We have always zens, irrespective of what faith North-East. The Bill lapsed has come out in support. (KMSS), premier literary hour emergency hotline +249- indicate a lack of necessary political parties, students bod- argued that our idea of nation they follow or don’t, what they following the dissolution of The ruling party’s third organisation Asam Sahitya 921917471 has been set up by safety measures and equip- ies and civil society members was what Mahatma Gandhi, eat, what work they do, their the last Lok Sabha. alliance partner and Bodoland Sabha (ASS) have announced @EoI_Khartoum. Embassy is ment at the factory, in addition from the North-East to assuage Nehruji, Maulana Azad, Dr caste, creed, place of residence, The BJP’s alliance partner People’s Front has also not agitation against the Bill till it also putting out updates on to random storage of flamma- their concerns. Shah held his Ambedkar have said, that reli- gender or colour of skin. No to in Assam Government, the opposed the Bill as it is unlike- is withdrawn. social media. Our prayers are ble materials,” it said. $ &' & '( ) *! , () *# !! , ! % ! " #$$ % 05 56( ! " )) -( &6 05 56( arliament on Wednesday O P ports Minister Jitu Patwari n a rare incident of fratricide, Ppassed the much-awaited ! Shere on Wednesday scaled a Ia constable of the Indo- Bill to grant ownership rights ""#"$ &""'( rock climbing wall in less than Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) to residents living in 1,731 '" a minute throwing a challenge allegedly opened fire at his col- unauthorised colonies in Delhi " % to his counterpart Kiren Rijiju leagues in Chhattisgarh’s after the Rajya Sabha gave its + in New Delhi. Narayanpur district on approval by voice vote. The Lok , -." Minister for Sports and Wednesday, killing five of them Sabha had on November 28 % Youth Welfare Patwari, who and injuring two others before passed the Bill, providing own- always sets his high standards shooting himself dead. ership rights to more than 40 % & of fitness on Wednesday The incident took place lakh residents living in these P reached Barkatullah University around 8.30 am at a camp of unauthorised colonies. '($'( /% to attend a sports event riding the ITBP’s 45th battalion in The Bill, known as the 0 , a bicycle for several kilometres. Kadenar village, around 350 National Capital Territory of On reaching the universi- km from Raipur. ITBP consta- Delhi (Recognition of Property "12'"" 0- %, ty, he delivered fitness mantra ble Masudul Rahman opened Rights of Residents in % % to the students and for exhibit- , - * # ))# fire from his service weapon, Unauthorised Colonies) Bill, ing his message with live exam- # . % % & killing four troopers on the spot 2019, states that there has been 3 " 3 ple, he then expressed desire to and injuring three other Sundarraj P told PTI, “An ITBP Pradesh) and Daljit Singh a phenomenal increase in the . % 2 scale the 40-feet-high rock jawans, after some unknown constable, identified as (Ludhiana, Punjab), consta- population of the National climbing wall on the campus. mantra to achieve success in sports policy would be formu- dispute among them, officials Masudul Rahman, opened fire bles Surjit Sarkar (Burdwan, Capital Territory of Delhi in the %P % To the surprise of the stu- life, the Minister added. lated in the State and 5 per cent said. One of the injured per- from his service weapon, killing West Bengal), Biswaroop last few decades owing to ! dents and faculties, Patwari Patwari, an MLA from reservation would be intro- sonnel succumbed to his four troopers on the spot and Mahto (Purulia, West Bengal) migration and other factors. 4 ' immediately started climbing Indore’s Rau constituency despite duced in Government jobs to injuries, they said. injuring three other jawans, and Bijeesh (Kozhikode, However, it says, the devel- the wall and took almost a his hectic engagements of poli- national and international “Constable Musdul after some unknown dispute Kerala), apart from Rahman, opment of planned housing "+ 3 4 -"" minute to reach the top amid tics makes it a point to pay atten- medal winners in the State. Rahman opened fire at col- among them.” who hailed from Nadia, West colonies has not kept pace ""'' % applause from the crowd. tion to fitness and is seen in his Announcing to enhance leagues before shooting himself The two injured soldiers Bengal, the officer said. with the requirement of bur- " ,4 The Minister surprised constituency riding bicycle dur- the grant for sports in Madhya and no cross firing or neutral- were airlifted and admitted to Constables SB Ullas geoning population which 3.3 those on the spot with the state- ing his public contact drives. Pradesh, Patwari announced ising was done by the col- a private hospital in Raipur for (Tiruvandaapuram, Kerala) resulted in increase of unau- + 3 ' ment that despite being a sports Later, addressing the stu- that sports grounds will be leagues, said ITBP spokesper- treatment. and Sitaram Doon (Nagour, thorised colonies. The RS wit- % ""' lover, he hadn’t climbed the dents in Bhopal university improved in colleges son Vivek Kumar Pandey. Those killed have been Rajasthan) were injured in the nessed a war of words between "% , wall once in his life. I wished to Patwari reaffirmed his older and universities in the State Earlier, Inspector General identified as head constables incident and are recuperating the BJP and AAP during the set an example that fitness is the announcement that a new with 200 crore. of Police (Bastar range) Mahendra Singh (Himachal at hospital, he said. debate on the Bill. - , ./ ! ! " $ & 05 56( .&4 )) 05 56( spots to be installed across the tion at every 500 metres in the he Supreme Court on city, 4,000 hot spots will be city, with the hot spot connec- TWednesday granted bail to our Army officials who he Aam Aadmi Party installed at bus stands. The tions supporting a radius of 100 Congress leader P Fwere guarding the frontiers T(AAP) Government-led by remaining 7,000 hot spots will metres. Chidambaram in the INX of the nation in adverse weath- Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal be installed across the market- With 15 GB a month, a Media money laundering case, er conditions died in two snow on Wednesday announced the places and Residents’ Welfare maximum limit for a day will being probed by the avalanches near the line of Wi-Fi scheme under which a Associations (RWAs) in Delhi, be 1.5 GB. On an average, the Enforcement Directorate. control in Tangdhar and Gurez person will get free 15 GB data with each constituency having maximum speed of the con- Chidambaram was sectors in north Kashmir late per month through a hot spot 100 hot spots. nection of the data will be 200 released from Tihar Jail on on Tuesday. network across the national As per the officials, the mbps, but the estimated speed Wednesday night after106 days “A post in Tangdhar Sector Capital from December 16. work order for the installation will be between 100-150 mbps. in the prison. and an Army patrol in Gurez With this announcement, of the 100 free Wi-Fi connec- Each hot spot will be able to Several Congress workers Sector were hit on December Kejriwal asserted his party has tions has been awarded and the support 150-200 users simul- greeted the former Union 3,” said Col Rajesh Kalia, fulfilled all its poll promises. installation is under process. taneously, which amounts to Minister after he stepped out of Ministry of Defence He said 100 hot spots will September 2020. digital age. Considering the “The total expenditure of around 22 lakh users simulta- the prison. ## Spokesman in Srinagar. be inaugurated in the first The Government is also importance of internet in our the installation scheme will be neously accessing the internet The SC said ED’s con- ) # ' Three Army personnel phase at bus stands and parks planning to integrate the lives, the Delhi Government around 100 crore. The scheme across the city. tention that Chidambaram can *+ & '( were killed in Tangdhar sector coming under the Samaypur CCTV cameras with the Wi-Fi has decided to provide free will operate as per a standard The AAP Government has tamper with evidence cannot and one in Gurez sector, the Badli and Adarsh Nagar hot spots. internet on the same lines of rent model — the Delhi created an mobile application be accepted on “face value” as Minister, the apex court Spokesperson added. Assembly constituency on “Providing free Wi-Fi facil- providing basic lifeline ameni- Government will pay rent every (App) and the users who want he is neither in “political restrained him from either giv- Due to foul weather, the December 16. The CM said 500 ity to the people of Delhi was ties like 200 units of free elec- month to the to use the free Wi-Fi have to power” nor holds any post in ing “any press interviews” or bodies could be retrieved on more hot spots will be set up an essential promise of our tricity and 20,000 liters of free company for each hot spot,” download and fill their KYC the Government. “any public comment” in con- Wednesday. This is the third every week till the Capital has manifesto. Internet connectiv- water to the residents of Delhi,” said the CM. details and use the OTPs While granting bail to 74- nection with the case regarding incident of avalanche in the 11,000 hot spots, as promised ity and data usage have become said Kejriwal. The people of Delhi will be received on their phones to year-old former Finance him or other co-accused. region in the last two weeks. by the AAP Government, by a requisite for people in this Out of the total 11,000 hot able to locate a Wi-Fi connec- access the hot spot connections. !"#$%&
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aval NCC Cadet Senior Cadet Captain (SCC) Pavitra NPatidar of Rabindranath Tagore University was select- ed for the International Naval Cruise Camp. For this camp, ten best cadets were selected from 17 NCC Directorate from all over India. SCC Pavitra Patidar is the only cadet of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh Directorate selected for International Naval Cruise Camp. The 35-day visit to this camp started from Kochi Port on September 22. During this camp, the SCC holy Patidar three countries traveled to Madagascar, Kenya and Tanzania with the tip of the Indian Navy. NCC Officer Sub Lieutenant Manoj Manral of Rabindranath Tagore University said that the camp is under the Overseas Deployment of Indian Navy. The purpose of this camp is to understand our friend- ly relations with other countries and the Navy’s functioning of those countries, and the cadets have to deal with the daily activities of the Indian Navy at the same time as the Indian Navy’s Life Style. The journey from INS Arrow Ship left Kochi for Madagascar. The first training squadron started by One Training Squadron SHIP with INS Arrow, INS Shardul, INS Sujatha and ICGS Sarathi. Cadets were involved in various activities of the Indian Navy during the voyage. Consisting mainly of Toeing of Ships under which pulling from one ship to another, boat lower- ing under which the rescue boat is discharged into the sea and carrying out rescue activities, replenishment at sea, under which exchange of goods and soldiers from one ship to anoth- er, navigational communication exercise under which com- munication from one tip to another tip was taught, light machine gun, INSAS rifle, firing was carried out from the Carabine Gano. During the journey, cadets were made aware of SHIP Damage Control and Fire Fighting. Cadets were given duties like soldiers in the Ship. Under the guidance of Captain Varun Singh of First Training Swadron who is awarded the Shaurya Chakra, 10 NCC cadets from All India experienced the Indian Navy lifestyle. Pavitra while sharing his experiences said the OSD Naval Cruise Camp was the most spectacular experience of his life. “I have lived the lifestyle and works of the Indian Navy. I wish that I could get selected in Indian Navy in future. I also request the youth of the country to also be a part of this magnificent force.” Rabindranath Tagore University Vice-Chancellor Prof AK Gwal and Registrar Vijay Singh congratulated the SCC Cadet Holy Patidar on this achievement.
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He was the person empower the urban Development Kamal Nath gave heavyweights, including out- credited with the party's success bodies in view of the increas- a new direction to the devel- he Bharatiya Janata Party going State head Rakesh Singh, in Haryana where the party ing urbanisation. opment of cities across the T(BJP) leaders are still not former CM Shivraj Singh rose from four to 47 seats in the He said elected public rep- country and introduced sever- sure whether State BJP president Chouhan, party national gen- State Assembly polls in 2014, resentatives of local institutes al schemes. Singh said that he Rakesh Singh would be replaced eral secretary Kailash snatching power from should recognise the rapid is committed for the effective by any other senior leaders. Vijayvargiya and party vice Congress party. The party had change and work for expansion implementation of the urban Despite the fact that the BJP lost president Prabhat Jha are in the gone to Assembly polls under of their cities with new think- development policies of the Assembly elections during his hunt for the coveted post, Vijayvargiya who was the in ing and vision. Nath was Government. regime in the State, he contin- sources in the BJP claimed. charge of the State. addressing the meeting of the Singh said the Government ues to lobby for the second term. After losing power during Recently, the party also chairpersons of municipal is working with a new outlook The organisational polls last year's Assembly polls in showed handsome improve- councils and municipalities at for the development of small of the BJP have entered the Madhya Pradesh and the party ment in performance in Lok the Mantralaya on Wednesday. and big cities. Everyone has a final stages. Elections to the appointing him as national Sabha polls in West Bengal in Chief Minister Kamal Nath right to drinking water for presidents in almost all the dis- vice-president entrusting him a State also spearheaded by said now is the time when we which the Government is tricts have competed and soon with the key responsibility of Vijayvargiya as in charge. should plan our small and , 1#+ # , % & forming a ‘Right to Water’ pol- the list would be out. BJP's pan India membership Meanwhile, former BJP big cities according to future icy. The activities by which the Party sources said soon drive, Chouhan time and again State president Prabhat Jha is requirements. cities are identified, are also after the final list of district has made it clear that his heart also in the fray. Jha who is In this era of change, peo- tance. For this, they should the Government took some Faith has been returned for being conserved. presidents is sent to the high and soul lies in his home state. presently party's national vice- ple’s expectations have also start new activities. major decisions. While fulfill- investment to tackle the chal- Chairperson of State command, the process for the Party sources claimed that president is also a Member of increased. The need is that we The Chief Minister said the ing the promise of loan waiv- lenge of unemployment. Municipal Council and Nagar election of State president it is for sure that in the BJP, the Parliament in Rajya Sabha but should change our working new Government has proven er, loans of 21 lakh farmers Nath said the office-bear- Parishad Sangathan Harmeet would commence. Among oth- election would be unanimous. his term to the Upper House style and culture and work for its intentions and policies have been waived off. ers of urban bodies should Kaur and other heads gave ers who are in the race for the Since, Shivraj is continuously expires in April 2020. Besides, planned development of cities through its working in the last Several technical difficulties play an important role in tak- suggestions to strengthen the State president post are -former taking keen interest in the State candidature of incumbent State according to the expectations of one year. There was financial came up during the process of ing our work to the public. urban bodies. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh politics he might be picked up head Rakesh Singh is also in the people. crisis. The State was on top in loan waiver due to which several Urban Development and On this occasion, the Chief Chouhan, Kailash Vijayvargiya by the high command. the contention for another The Chief Minister added the country in suicides by problems had to be faced but we Housing Minister Jaivardhan Minister was felicitated and pre- and Prabhat Jha. Besides, party national term. Singh's claim also held urban bodies will have to devel- farmers, unemployment and solved them all. From this Singh said that we are fortunate sented with a shawl-shriphal on After the completion of the general secretary Kaialsh prominence that the party had op new sources of income crimes against women. month we are going to start the to have Chief Minister Kamal behalf of the Nagar Palika evam organisational polls, the party Vijayvargiya's name is also in swept Lok Sabha polls under along with Government assis- Amidst these challenges, second phase of loan waiver. Nath’s experience and guidance Nagar Parishad Sangathan. is set to get its new State pres- the contention for the top post his leadership in 2019. " ( Bhopal: A film festival dedi- wife and three children. His will be performed at 3 pm. It cated to Noted film maker dream breaks and he has to was directed by Amiya Balraj Sahani kick started with spend his life with great strug- Chakraborty. Nutan also has an )) -( &6 film Waqt. The three-day gle. Wives and sons also grow important role in this film. On Punaravaloki film event began up in different situations of des- the same day at 6.30 pm, bag carrying 4 lakh cash at Ravindra Bhavan here tiny. At the end of the film, Anuradha directed by Awere stolen by a youth from Wednesday. everyone meets in dramatic Hrishikesh Mukherjee will be from a shop at Chhawani road The Punaravaloki film fes- events. The businessman, shown. The film starring Leela under Mangalwara police sta- tival started with the film Waqt whose role was played by Balraj Naidu played in 1960. tion area on Tuesday. at 6.30 pm. The film was direct- Sahni, accepts the stick of luck On the third and last day of According to police, late in ed by Yash Chopra. The film and time. The songs written by the festival, on December 6, the night on Tuesday when the was produced in 1965. Apart Sahir and the music of Ravi Friday, the Chetan Anand- victim Sunderlal Chawla was from him, Rajkumar, Sunil brought a lot of enjoyment to directed film Haqiqat will be closing his shop a youth who Dutt and Shashi Kapoor had the large number of audience screened at 3 pm. The film was used to buy empty cartons lead roles in the film. present in the auditorium. released in 1964. On the same came to his shop and when vic- It is the story of a busi- Two films will be screened day, the final film Do Bigha tim went inside the shop nessman who believes in karma on Thursday, December 5, on Zameen will be performed at accused escaped with the bag rather than luck. But there the second day of the ceremo- 6.30 pm. The director of this "# ) ) ## ) " # ) # 2# .% & 4, carrying cash. comes an occasion in his life ny. In these, the film Seema, film was Vimal Rai. The film " #+ 4) ) " #" ) #) # ) ## 2# The victim runs a shop of when he is separated from his which was screened in 1955, was produced in 1953. SR + mouth fresheners and beetle- nuts at Chhawani road. In his complaint he stated that accused came around 11 pm '=8'>8**'("8'"8 ":**6 $""+?"8 when he preparing to close the shop and asked for empty car- tons which victim refused to )) -( &6 3 " 0 <"" " the dam has been filled upto provide as it was too late and +% + -"% %% 137 metre level, claimed the asked him to come next day armada Bachao Andolan " % " % senior activist who had led and went to switch off N(NBA) founder Medha " C% % hundreds of affected persons’ the lights and when he returned Patkar on Wednesday alleged 3" stage dharna at Narmada Valley bag carrying cash and accused that no progress has been made Development Corporation were missing. on the relief and rehabilitation 0-&% % " " office last month. Police claimed that the vic- front of the Sardar Sarovar 3 3 % The dharna had ended tim has provided that the bag Dam oustees as promised by " % after State Government acced- was carrying 4 lakh. Out of the Congress Government in ed to certain demands and the 4 lakh, 3.5 lakh were of Madhya Pradesh following the ing with the law ministry and pletely or reduced to an island promised to follow up action his brother Prakash Chawla six-day dharna staged by the required urgent action which but despite their heavy losses, no on others. For discussing pend- who runs a chemist shop while dam-affected persons in did not take place. compensation has been dis- ing works of rehabilitation and 50,000 was of his collection Bhopal last month. Narrating ordeal of the ous- bursed to them, she added say- resettlements, the Chief from the sales during the day. While talking to media- tees are subjected to, the NBA ing surveys and disbursement of Ministers of four states con- The accused used to visit persons here, Patkar claimed founder said hundreds of fam- compensation was to be done cerned including MP Chief shop for buying the empty that Narmada Valley ilies are forced to live in within a month under RBC Minister Kamal Nath, were cartons and on Tuesday night Development (NVD) Minister makeshift sheds and their kids rules but nothing happened. required to meet as on Oct 24, he came for the same but after Surendra Singh Baghel had are deprived of education and Despite rehabilitation 2019 in accordance with finding cash which the victim discussed various issues at employment opportunities. works for farmers, labourers, Supreme Court orders but it is ,2"" , ) # ## # %* 5 6 counted in front of him he length during the dharna and There are farmers whose fishermen, boatmen, potters yet to happen till date, affirmed 7 # %*, ' # , #8 6 escaped with the cash. several of these issues are pend- land has been submerged com- and others yet to be ensured, the NBA leader. + #8 .% & , 'R! ,*&;
Bhopal: An international train- Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Sudan, curatorial staffs viz P Shankar 9, 5 ing programme on “Formal South Sudan, South Africa, Rao, (Assistant Keeper), Srikant Solutions to Informal Tajikistan, Tanzania, Trinidad & Gupta (Museum Associate), N Settlements” under ITEC pro- Tobago have participated. Shakmacha Singh (Museum ) ) # :, gramme conducted by Union In the beginning of pro- Associate) and Garima Anand Ministry of External Affairs and gramme Surya Kumar Pandey Dubey (Museum Associate). )) -( &6 ,?AA" $,?AA! organised by Human Settlement (Assistant Keeper) gave intro- During this education visit, stu- ' 2+ "% Institute of Urban Development duction of museum followed by dents were addressed with the inister for Tribal Welfare 3 Corporation Limited. Students of documentary film of IGRMS. importance and uniqueness of MOmkar Singh Markam &"" + 29 participants board from 22 Thereafter, they visited Rock IGRMS by Dilip Singh, Joint said it is a matter of pride for '" countries viz Afghanistan, Art Heritage Centre, Tribal Director (A&S) and DS Rao, Madhya Pradesh to hold ' $ Botswana, Ethiopia, Fiji, Kenya, Habitat, Indoor Gallery of Veethi Head of Office. Vote of thanks Eklavya Model Residential & "$# " Lesotho, Mauritius, Mongolia, Sankul and Library of museum and programme was conducted School All India Sports "% Myanmar, Malawi, Nigeria, Peru, under the guidance of senior by P Shankar Rao. SR Competition in Bhopal. He ""'" directed the departmental offi- 0 + % ,6" cers to complete all the neces- % ,@ sary preparations for the com- + % , ""< petition in time. " % Markam was reviewing the & 3% +" % !# preparations in a meeting held + at Mantralaya on Wednesday. The Principal Secretary Deepali Rastogi was also pre- and Ankur School Ground-6 sent at the meeting. no. Stop. The swimming com- Minister Markam sought petition will be held at Prakash information pertaining to lodg- Tarun Pushkar. ing arrangements, condition of Besides, it was informed sports grounds and cultural that 2 age groups ie under-14 programmes to be held during and under-19 have been made the competition. Markam also for boys and girls participating sought information about those in the competition. As many as players of Eklavya Schools, 555 students of 26 residential who will represent Madhya schools of Madhya Pradesh Pradesh in the National Sports will exhibit their skills in var- Competition. ious sports disciplines. It was informed in the Enchanting presentations meeting that 3,500 players and focusing Tribal Folk Culture 1,500 office-bearers of 23 States will be showcased by about 500 including Madhya Pradesh are artists of Madhya Pradesh and taking part in the All India 150 artists of other states dur- Sports Competition to be held ing the competitions. The from December 9 to 13. A total Director Tribal Regional Plan of 16 sports disciplines are Rakesh Singh, Managing included in the competition. Director Tribal Finance The competitions will be held Development Corporation at TT Nagar Stadium, Lal Abhishek Singh and Additional Parade Ground, Major Commissioner Tribal Dhyanchand Stadium, Motilal Development Rishi Garg were Vigyan Mahavidyalaya Ground present at the meeting. ! !"#$%&
) ) # 0 9,Q R* # )) )) -( &6 ( two-day event ‘Deshantar’ ndore Adl DG Varun Kapoor Abegan with spontaneous Ion Wednesday disclosed the performance by artists from name and identity of the Tajikistan. The event began accused who was involved in here from Wednesday. rape and brutal murder of The event is being organ- four-year-old girl child in the ised in collaboration with the night of December 1. Indian Council for Cultural While addressing the Relations, Tribal Folk Arts and mediapersons, he told that Languages Development police have solved the case in Academy, Madhya Pradesh less than 48 hours. Culture Council. It was inau- The accused Ankit gurated by Vijayalakshmi Vijayvergiya of Shankar Sadho Minister of Culture, Khilona Wala Ka Bagicha in Medical Education and Ayush front of Prahsanti hospital Madhya Pradesh at Madhya Mhow confessed to police that Pradesh Tribal Museum by he abducted the girl who was lighting the lamp. sleeping with her parents in " ) % & ; # Shodiv Afzhalsho front of Sai temple carried her ) (Tajikistan) performed dance on her shoulder and took her to and music performances with the abandoned building where his fellow artists in the muse- he raped the girl child and um auditorium on the inaugu- when the girl started crying , * 23 4 ration of the two-day long fes- loudly he killed her by stran- tival. Yusupova Fezigul started " #' ) ) ##O P ', #% gulating her throat and came the performance with her & back to his house and slept. singing, she first introduced the The next day he was watch- #! *4"R ! environment and human love the presentation. he presented the song focused Shodiv Afzalsho and Yusupova ing the investigation of the through song. The artists then After the singing by on the beauty and culture of Fezigul mesmerized the audi- police from his house. Kapoor )) -( &6 " $ tered a case under sections 454 performed songs focusing on Yusupova Fezigul, Sadova Tajikistan to the audience. ence with their artistic singing said we will take this case as spe- % &$ and 380 of the IPC and have the cultural diversity of India. Valida Latifovna and Sharipova Subsequently, Shodive Afzalsho skills on stage. During the pre- cial case and put the case in fast old ornaments worth started further investigation. After this, the artists present- Zarina Qurbonovna performed along with his fellow artists per- sentation, synthesizer and key- '( % track category for early judg- G 1.98 lakh were burgled ' Meanwhile, electronic ed the song ‘I am a disco classical dance of Tajikistan. formed a song focusing on the boards were played by Ergashev ment. SP West Indore Awdesh from a Lawyer’s house at " ( * goods worth Rs 50,000 were dancer’ the popular song of After the dance perfor- friendship between India and Mamur and in accordion by Goswami, ASP Mhow New Subhash Nagar under burgled from a office near Hindi cinema. Yusupova mance, Shodiv Afzalsho along Tajikistan. After this, the Talabov Rajbali Kutovich, Dharmraaj Meena, SDOP Aishbagh police station area + Sabzi Mandi under Ashoka Fezigul ended her presentation with his fellow artists present- enchanting playing of the Saidova Valida Latifovna and Mhow Vinod Sharma, TI Mhow on Tuesday. , Garden police station area on by presenting a song focused ed the song at the museum hall, Scrippa instrument was pre- Sharipova Zarina Kurbonovna Abhay Nema, TI Sanwer Yogesh Police said that the victim Wednesday. on the richness of culture and focusing on the love and affec- sented to the audience. in dance. This presentation was Tomar, T I Khudail Rupesh Sandeep Gorapa found that that lock of the almirah was not Police said the victim Pooja folk of Tajikistan at the end of tion of the mother. After that During the performance, directed by Shodiv Afzalsho. Dubey led the different team valuables from his almirah opening. The victim checked Gill found in the morning that which apprehended the culprit. were stolen and lodged a com- and found it locked and later the lock of the shutter broken The former DRM of plaint with the Aishbagh police. broke the locker only to find and two laptops were burgled. ; * Ratlam division RS Sunkar A complaint was lodged by that the gold ornaments were A complaint was lodged told The Pioneer that he has the victim stating that lock of burgled. with the police stating that in ,#*! ! 5 written several times to the almirah at his house was not The total loss in the bur- the morning on Wednesday Indore administration to shift working properly and to repair glary was claimed to be around when she went to open shutter * , this liquor shop which is locat- a key maker approached in the Rs 1.98 lakh. The key maker was found broken and valu- ed under railway over bridge afternoon on Tuesday and after escaped with the jewelry ables were found missing. The # =? because from this under bridge checking the almirah he told to alleged the victim. police have registered a case road the resident of railway return with the keys in the Based on the complaint under sections 457 and 380 of colonies moves to railway afternoon but late in the after the preliminary investi- the IPC and have started fur- = ,*R )) -( &6 colony. evening victim’s wife reported gation the police have regis- ther investigation. n exhibition of paintings Awill begin from Thursday 7* )) 05 56( at Swaraj Bhavan. The art lovers of the city will witness a - Q/. olice on Wednesday arrest- spectacular creative work in a Ped the brother-in-law of painting exhibition organised businessman Gulshan by Aakar group. /!./* R Vasudeva, who had jumped to The four-day exhibition /% 8&0 ( death along with his wife and will begin from Thursday and another woman after killing his will be on view till Sunday for MM executive chief and for- two children in Indirapuram the art lovers of the city. The Jmer CM, Hemant Soren on the outskirts of Delhi. exhibition will be inaugurated addressed one after another five After arresting Rakesh by a renowned ceramic artist massive poll rallies to garner Verma, police are looking for Nirmala Sharma. maximum votes in support of his Verma’s mother, who with his With artworks by party candidates for State son is accused of duping renowned artists and aspiring Assembly elections. Soren is Vasudeva and selling his prop- artists, the Aakar exhibition of leaving no stone unturned to erty for 1.49 crore to a person artwork will indeed be a treat turn the tide in the party’s favour named Imran Ali. When for the eyes. Apart from sever- and form a Government in the Vasudeva pressurised him to al demonstrations by senior State. Soren addressed elections return the money, Verma gave artists are also lined up promis- rallies at Jugsalai seat for the party him blank cheques which ing great learning experiences. candidate Mangal Kalindi, for bounced at the bank, said a The art lovers will find JMM candidate, Sanjeev Sardar police official. exquisite works of artists in at Potka, at Kharsanwa for the “Rakesh Verma, the broth- crore in a property and also relationship with him, why form of canvas paintings. party candidate Dasrath Gagrai, er-in-law of Vasudeva, has made him convince his friend would she jump along with It is to be noted that exhi- for JMM candidate Champai been arrested for abetting sui- and chartered accountant Vasudeva and his wife Parveen bition would be a continuum of Soren at Saraikela and for the cide, while his mother Phoola Praveen Bakshi into investing from the balcony,” he told creativity and one could feel the 95< # ) , party candidate Joba Manjhi at Verma, also an accused, is on the money in his plan around reporters. transformation of it into colors. ; #8 ).% & Manoharpur. the run,” said Ghaziabad Senior five years ago. On Tuesday, the society’s The artists have presented their Superintendent of Police “He promised to pay them guard had spotted the three perceptions before the specta- Sudhir Kumar Singh. back an additional interest of people lying on the ground and tors focusing on different con- Vasudeva (45), his wife five per cent on the principal had informed police, who cepts like the beauty of women, ) . ? ) Parveen and manager Sanjana money,” Singh said. Verma told found the bodies of the chil- nature and even more. jumped to their death in the the police that he had returned dren after entering the house. As a part of the exhibition, early hours of Tuesday from the Rs 98 lakh to Vasudeva as inter- Gulshan, Parveen and a Portrait Demonstration by )! R identified as Dr Omprakash pute between them could be investigation. eighth floor of their apart- est, but Bakshi and Vasudeva Sanjana were rushed to a near- renowned artist Harikant Kukreja, a resident of Rohini the reason behind the killing,” “Kukreja is survived by his ment block in Krishna Apra were asking for the rest of the by hospital where the doctors Dubey will be given on Friday. ! Sector-13, while his employee said the police official. wife, a son and a daughter. The society in Indirapuram. amount, which was Rs 1.39 declared them brought dead. Besides, a Landscape has been identified as Sudipta “A wedding card was also son, an ENT specialist, lives in Before jumping to death, crore with interest, Singh said. Sanjana had been living with Demonstration by eminent Mukherjee, a resident of Rohini found in the vehicle. It seems Dehrahun with his wife, who is Vasudeva had killed his son The SSP said an FIR was the couple for the last six years, artist and Professor Rekha )) 05 56( Sector 18. Police said that they were returning from a also a doctor and her daughter, Hrithik (14), daughter Hrithika lodged against Verma and his police had said. Dhiman will be given on Kukreja shot Mukherjee in the wedding in Paschim Vihar on a dentist lives with her family in (18) by slitting their throats at mother under IPC sections Police had also found a Sunday. n a sensational incident, bod- chest and then he turned the Tuesday night,” said the DCP. Delhi’s Yamuna Vihar,” said the around 3.30 am on Tuesday 420, 406, 506 at Sahibabad message scrawled on a wall of the One of the core team Iies of a general physician and gun towards his the temple. “During initial probe it police official. “The doctor lived and also killed their pet rabbit, Police Station and he and his apartment, blaming Verma for members of Aakar Group, Saba his employee with gunshot According to SD Mishra, was revealed that the doctor with his family in Rohini Sector- the police said. mother were subsequently putting him and his family under Iftikhar said, "Aakar is very injuries were found in a car in DCP, Rohini district, after and the woman had worked 13.The deceased woman’s hus- According to police, arrested and sent to jail in 2015. financial distress, which com- close to my heart as it is organ- Delhi’s Rohini Sector-13 on receiving a PCR call, a police together for over 15 years. The band works at a transport com- Vasudeva had invested money When asked about a pos- pelled him to commit suicide. In ised by the Picture perfect and Wednesday morning. Police team reached the spot and woman earlier used to assist pany in Delhi while her married in a property scheme on the sibility of an extramarital affair the message, Gulshan has stated I have been with it since the said that preliminary investi- found that the car, belonging to him at his clinic in Samaypur son lives with his family in behest of Verma, who had with his manager which led to that all five of them must be cre- very start. Picture perfect start- gation suggests that the doctor the doctor, was locked from the Badli. Later, when the doctor Dubai. The woman lived with assured him good returns but the suicide, Singh refuted the mated at one place. It also men- ed off with its very successful (62) shot the woman (50) with inside and duo was lying in the started his own hospital, her family in Sector 18, Rohini,” instead put him in debt. claim. “Sanjana’s brothers have tioned the phone numbers of smartphone Photography exhi- his licensed gun and then shot pool of blood. “During the time Nirvana nursing home, in the police official added. “Verma had duped sever- claimed that she was married Gulshan’s father and brother. bitions and soon the Aakar cre- himself. Police were informed they worked together, they Sector 15, Rohini, in 2005, she “Bodies have been al people by offering them to Vasudeva but we have not Some currency notes were also ative art exhibitions were about the incident around 7:45 became closer. It is suspected joined him there and was look- sent for autopsy. Further inves- good returns on investment in got any document or evidence found pasted on the wall possi- launched. Seeing the over- am on Wednesday. that they were in an extramar- ing after administrative works,” tigation is still going on,” the property. He lured Vasudeva as to ascertain that claim. Also if bly to cover the expenditure of whelming responses from The deceased have been ital relationship. A personal dis- said the police official privy to DCP said. well into investing Rs 1.09 she was in an extramarital the cremation, police had said. viewers is heartwarming." 6 /' #, - 50
.) ! pleted its full tenure. Earlier, support of Saffron party can- erment among others. Highlighting the achieve- importance for BJP as the Jharkhand had a history of giv- didates. Nadda also talked about ments of Modi Government, region known for Left Wing ing Chief Ministers who failed Nadda, seeking votes in Prime Minister Narendra Gadkari said that under Extremism (LWE) and !,!! to complete their full term.” support of BJP candidate Deo Modi’s strong commitment in Namami Gange project, water- Pathalgadi movements will go Highlighting the benefits Kumar Dhan also highlighted abrogating Article 370 of ways in Country has been to vote. The second phase = of stable Government, Nadda the Centre and State schemes Constitution from Jammu & strengthened, industries and election will be held for 20 said, “A State can develop only saying that the double engine Kashmir which granted special ports on the banks of river Assembly constituencies with if it has stable and strong Governments had initiated status to the northern State, Ganga is developed, bio fuels BJP having eight seats from 8&0 ( Government. I urge all of you various schemes. banning Triple Talaq which Compressed natural gas these 20 constituencies. The to repose faith on BJP once Nadda said, “Under the aims at providing justice to (CNG) is prepared. He also fate of important candidates JP national executive pres- again in making strong and PM Awas Yojana around 8.15 Muslim women among others. praised Chief Minister whose fate will be decided in Bident Jagat Prakash Nadda stable Government.” lakh houses has been con- Also, Union Surface Raghubar Das for various wel- second phase includes Chief on Wednesday urged the peo- With election dates for structed and in Mandar alone Transport Minister Nitin fare schemes and successfully Minister Raghubar Das, rural ple to vote for BJP candidates second and third phase getting around 6,000 houses has been Gadkari campaigned at Dakra implementing centre’s scheme. development minister to form a strong and stable nearer, the BJP has intensified constructed. Similarly, under in Khalari in support of BJP’s Apart from Nadda and Neelkanth Singh Munda Government in the State. The its campaigning. On Ayushman Yojana around 57 Kanke candidate Samrilal. Gadkari, Uttar Pradesh among others. BJP leader campaigning in Wednesday, apart from Nadda, lakh families have been cov- Gadkari said, “Eradication of Deputy CM Keshav Prasad As many as 20 con- support of party’s Mandar Union Surface Transport ered in State.” The BJP execu- poverty has remained a poll Maurya and actor turn politi- stituencies will go to the polls candidate Deo Kumar Dhan at Minister Nitin Gadkari, Uttar tive president also mentioned issue for Congress since Pandit cian and Delhi BJP president in the second phase on Bero said, “The biggest Pradesh Deputy Chief about registry of property Jawaharlal Nehru to Rahul Manoj Tiwari too addressed December 7. Polling for 17 achievement of Raghubar Das Minister Keshav Prasad upto 50 lakh for women at Gandhi, but it is Prime rallies at Patratu and Koderma constituencies spread over Government is that he has Maurya and Delhi BJP presi- token 1, schemes such as Minister Narendra Modi who respectively. eight districts, will be held in %* ) *+ given a stable and strong dent Manoj Tiwari too Sukanaya Samridhi Yojana, took the initiative in eradicat- The second and third the third phase on 12th of this ) )# @ * " #) Government, which has com- addressed public meetings in which aims at women empow- ing poverty in the real sense.” phase of poll assumes great month. , & !"#$%& &
!/ ! % 4 /56/0$ 4 2 ! : * ; % 07 % - * ') ) 05 56( 05 56( 2# 66 0 @ ndia and Uganada were the /5 58 &+5+ 05 56( n an effort to resolve the Ionly two countries among Iboundary dispute between the world's 11 highest malaria 02A$> ith members expressing the two countries, Chinese endemic nations, to report dip Wconcern in the Rajya Foreign Minister and State in the vector-borne cases Sabha on Wednesday over the Councillor Wang Yi will hold between 2017 and 2018, with the most malaria global- phenomenon of mob lynching talks with National Security achieving a 28 per cent reduc- ly. "Although cases continue to and demanding a separate law Adviser Ajit Doval(NSA) here tion in such cases, according to decrease in the public sector, to deal with it, Home Minister later this month. a new World Health estimates indicate that there are Amit Shah said the The two countries had set Organization (WHO) report. still gaps in reporting from the Government has set up a up the mechanism some years While India had 2.6 mil- private sector and those seek- committee to suggest necessary back with Special lion fewer malaria cases in ing treatment in India, as in amendments in the Indian Representatives of the two 2018, Uganda had 1.5 million Myanmar and Indonesia. The Penal Code (IPC) and Code of countries to address the long fewer cases last year, com- estimated burden of malaria, Criminal Procedure (CrPC). pending issue involving a 4,000 pared to the previous year, the WHO report says is 6.7 Responding to a series of km border and have held at said the report "World Malaria million while only 4 million queries during Question Hour, least 20 rounds of discussions Report 2019". However, India cases were reported in 2018. Shah said he has also written to so far. Doval and Wang are the and Africa has one of the low- "While we have come a all State Chief Ministers and ; #, "# 5 designated Special + ) " " est funding per person at risk long way, sustained focus and Governors to send recom- & # + & '( Representatives. of being inflicted with malar- increased funding are crucial to mendations on making Giving this information implementation of decisions asserting that pending the final ia at just USD 0.2. boost India's fight against changes to IPC and CrPC after CrPC. The Minister, in his written here on Wednesday, diplomat- taken at the summit. Wang was resolution of the boundary This success builds on malaria and ensure that India consulting with experienced On the issue of lynching, reply, said a group of Ministers ic sources said besides holding to visit India for the SR talks in issue, it is necessary to main- India's 24 per cent reduction in continues to lead the world and investigating officers and pub- Minister of State for Home was constituted to deliberate on boundary talks with Doval, September but the trip was tain peace and tranquillity in malaria cases between 2016 becomes malaria-free by 2030," lic prosecutors Affairs Nityanand Rai said a law to specifically handle the Chinese Minister will have postponed then. the border areas. and 2017 reported last year by said Sanjeev Gaikwad, India "Under the Bureau of there is "no separate" definition cases of lynching and make rec- an extensive dialogue with The two sides have already The focus of the second the WHO. Country Director of nonprof- Police Research and for such incidents under the ommendations. External Affairs Minister S held over 20 rounds of talks informal summit between However, the research also it organisation Malaria No Development (BPR&D), a existing IPC. Lynching inci- Responding to another Jaishankar. under the framework of Modi and Xi was to further revealed that 19 countries in More. committee has been set up to dents can be dealt with under query on status of laws to curb It will be the first visit by a Special Representatives dia- broaden India-China ties. The sub-Saharan Africa and India In 2016, India introduced make changes in the IPC and Section 300 and 302 of IPC. mob lynching passed by two senior Chinese leader to India logue which was set up to find two leaders held their first carried almost 85 per cent of its first National Framework for CrPC. We will start working on Section 302 provides that State Governments, he said after the informal summit an early solution to the border informal summit in April last the global malaria burden. Malaria Elimination (2016- amendments after receiving whoever commits murder shall Manipur and Rajasthan between Prime Minister dispute. The India-China bor- year in the Chinese city of According to the report, 2030) and has sustained recommendations from the be punished with death or Governments have passed such Narendra Modi and Chinese der dispute covers Line of Wuhan months after bilateral India's progress means the progress toward defeating committee," Shah informed imprisonment for life and shall laws and they are reserved for President Xi Jinping in Actual Control(LAC). China ties came under severe strain country no longer has the malaria since the plan's launch. the Upper House. He said the also be liable to fine. Offence of central accord. "The consulta- Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu in claims Arunachal Pradesh as following a 73-day standoff world's fourth highest malaria Globally, malaria afflicted Government will keep in mind murder is a cognisable, non- tion process is going on. We October. part of southern Tibet while between the armies of the two burden, though it still is the 228 million people and killed Supreme Court orders while bailable and non-compound- will take a call after the con- During Wang's visit, the India contests it. countries in Doklam, near only non-African country an estimated 4 lakh people last making changes to the IPC and able offence, he said. sultation is over," he added. two sides are likely to review Both sides have been Sikkim. among the top 11 countries year. B4C0) ,D1P /0 !. % $ Pragati Maidan, will undertake selecting a suitable developer "+ 3 / % /0 a mega project to redevelop the and operator third party land into a world-class through a transparent com- International Exhibition and petitive bidding process to 4 -"" 05 56( undetected, having moved to hands of poachers, with two Convention Centre. construct, run and manage the cyberspace. With India's incidents reported from Odisha The approval has been (directly or through a profes- t least one wildlife crime internet user population reach- and one each from given for "transfer of 3.7 acres sional brand) the hotel on a Awas registered everyday in ing nearly 500 million, cyber- Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, of land at Pragati Maidan on a long-term fixed lease basis. 2018 by the wildlife enforce- crime is now becoming a Meghalaya and Jharkhand. 99-year fixed leasehold basis at Throughout the world, a 05 56( ment authorities from across mounting concern. In 2017, eight cases of ele- a price of 611 crore in favour hotel facility is an integral part the country taking the total India is only 2.4 per cent of phant deaths due to poaching of the special purpose vehicle of any Meetings, Initiatives, he Union Cabinet on cases to 346. West Bengal world's land area, but con- were reported. Four incidents (SPV), which will be formed by Conferences and Exhibitions TWednesday approved the topped the list (55) followed by tributes about 8 per cent of were from Assam, two from India Tourism Development (MICE) hub/destination, the Central Sanskrit Universities Maharashtra with 43 cases and known global wildlife, includ- Odisha, and one each from Corporation (ITDC) and release said. Bill and it will be introduced Assam with 42 cases. ing over 45,000 species of Jharkhand and Nagaland. In Indian Railway Catering and "Hotel facility will add in Parliament, Union “Indian authorities detect- plants and 91,000 species of 2016, 13 cases of elephant Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) value to IECC project and pro- Minister Prakash Javadekar ed 346 cases of wildlife crime, animals. deaths due to poaching were (A%, * ) ) for development and operation mote India as a global desti- said. Three Sanskrit deemed including six elephants' death In 2017 again, West Bengal reported. Four incidents were ) # + & '( of a five-star hotel". nation for trade and commerce to be universities will be con- due to poaching and 21 cases recorded maximum number of registered in Karnataka, two The implementation of the along with employment gen- verted into central universi- of tiger poaching during 2018," cases (59), followed by Tamil each in Assam, Kerala and 05 56( Maidan to build a five-star International Exhibition and eration," it said. ties, he added. as per the Government data. Nadu with 44 and Assam with Odisha and one each in hotel was taken up at the Convention Centre (IECC) The International Trade According to the Union 41. In 2016, 66 cases each were Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu and he Government on Union Cabinet meeting chaired project is in full swing and Fair which has lakhs of visitors entrepreneurs and visitors. Ministry of Environment, a reported from West Bengal West Bengal. TWednesday approved by Prime Minister Narendra scheduled to be completed in and small traders participating This will ensure higher total of 346 cases of wildlife and Uttar Pradesh, 45 cases As per National Tiger transfer of 3.7 acres of land at Modi. the year 2020-21, said an offi- every year will also benefit turnout at the trade fair, revi- crime took place in 2018 from Maharashtra and 40 cases Conservation of Authority Pragati Maidan here to ITDC Giving details, Information cial release. from the transformation of talising it and providing a across the country, against from Assam. (NTCA), a statutory body and ITPO on a 99-year lease for and Broadcasting Minister In order to ensure com- Pragati Maidan, it said. vibrant platform to expand 395 cases in 2017 and 412 About elephant deaths due under the ministry, there have 611 crore to set up a five-star Prakash Javadekar said India pletion of the hotel project in Increased facilities and their business horizons and cases in 2016. to poaching, the Ministry said been 21 cases of poaching of hotel. The decision for mon- Trade Promotion Organisation a fast track mode, the SPV will modern amenities will greatly promote Indian goods and ser- However, these are just tip that in 2018, a total of six ele- tiger and 10 cases of tiger body etisation of land at Pragati (ITPO), which manages the take necessary steps including benefit the participating traders, vices, it added. of the iceberg as many cases go phants lost their lives to the part seizures during 2018. % 7 9 * 57 O ' P * 05 56( eases (such as cholera, dengue (" $A$% % " 05 56( or malaria). "" " " '% lthough health impacts of However, about 60 per cent ongress leader in Lok Aclimate change are being of these countries report that @% '% > " CSabha Adhir Ranjan acknowledged in national plan- the assessment findings have "" " " " Chowdhury expressed regret in ning, it is yet to translate in had little or no influence on the D> % % the House on Wednesday over additional financial or human allocation of human and finan- his "nirbala" remark on Finance resources allocated to the cial resources to meet their " 3 %'"" Minister Nirmala Sitharaman health sector, the WHO said in adaptation priorities for pro- % % % %" and described her as his sister. its Health and Climate Change tecting health. Mainstreaming "" Just before Sitharaman was Survey Report released recent- health in national and inter- " " to reply on the debate on " 5 ly. national climate processes Demands for Grants, 2 Half of the 101 countries could help access the necessary cent a lack of capacity to pre- to be effective to protect peo- Chowdhury said if his remarks & surveyed have developed a funds, said the report. pare proposals. ple's health, all levels of have hurt the finance minister, # + & national health and climate The survey found that While two-thirds of current Government need to prioritise he expresses regret. '( change strategy or plan but just erations to pay, it's a price that the future." countries have difficulties in Nationally Determined building health system He said the minister is like about 38 per cent have finances people are paying for now with 48 per cent of countries accessing international climate Contributions (NDCs) to the resilience to climate change," a sister to him, he considers ter has become weak and called in place to even partially imple- their health," said Dr Tedros have conducted an assessment finance to protect the health of Paris Agreement mention said Maria Neira, Director, himself as her brother. her 'Nirbala Sitharaman'. ment their national strategy of Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of the climate risks to public their people. Over 75 per cent health, and the health sector is Department of Environment, While participating in the During her reply, plan, and fewer than 10 per Director-General of the WHO. health. The most common cli- reported a lack of information among the five sectors most Climate Change and Health, discussion on the Taxation Sitharaman did not directly cent channelling resources to "It is a moral imperative mate sensitive health risks were on opportunities to access cli- often described as vulnerable to WHO. The 2015 Paris Laws (Amendment) Bill on refer to Chowdhury's com- implement it completely, said that countries have the identified by countries as heat mate finance, over 60 per cent climate change, this has not Agreement aims to restrict Monday, Chowdhury took a ment but concluded her speech the report. resources they need to act stress, injury or death from a lack of connection of health resulted in the necessary level global warming to well below swipe at Sitharaman and sug- by saying she is still Nirmala "Climate change is not only against climate change and extreme weather events, food, actors to the climate finance of implementation and support. 2 degrees Celsius compared gested that the finance minis- and "sabla" (empowered). racking up a bill for future gen- safeguard health now and in water and vector-borne dis- processes, and over 50 per "For the Paris Agreement with pre-industrial times. %
er an alternative airport site to The law officer also sought consider involving the Railways "Prima facie, we see no rea- / 8- + meet the increase in the air traf- permission to allow such to solve the problems of antic- son why such permission fic due to rise in tourist influx increase in air traffic at the air- ipation of tourists and "bear in should not be granted," it said 0 85&+5 0 to visit the Taj Mahal and port after conducting a study. mind the fact that it will serve and also took note of Mehta's other destinations in and However, the bench made nobody's interest to have the submission that if the author- around Agra in Uttar Pradesh. it clear that "it might be diffi- area polluted with a resultant ities propose to allow and & 88&// Further, the top court said cult to permit an increase in air damage to the people and the increase the number of aircrafts it has been informed that the traffic." heritage monuments. that take off and land from this 05 56( Railways can provide more "We therefore consider it The apex c site, then it will be hazardous excellent trains like the "Palace appropriate to direct the ourt asked the Centre to sub- to the environment. he Supreme Court on wheels" and such trains Union of India to consider an mit the report within a period "Prima facie, we consider TWednesday permitted could have employed to trans- alternative site in such antici- of three months. this objection to be a sound building of an additional ter- port passengers from the new patory increase in traffic where "In the meanwhile, the objection and we do not pro- minal at airport in Agra near air field to the Taj Trapezium the aircrafts could operate interim prayer for restraining pose to allow an increase in air Taj Mahal but made it clear that Zone (TTZ), Agra. from. the Union of India from allow- traffic on this air field," the it would not allow increase in A bench headed by Chief "We are informed that the ing increase in air traffic will be bench said. air traffic on the airfield as that Justice S A Bobde made it clear Railways can provide more considered after the Union of The apex court was told will be hazardous to environ- that it was willing to allow the world heritage sites including ing for the Airport Authority of Nadkarni that the Centre wish- excellent trains like the 'Palace India files its response by that an airport is coming up in ment and asked the Centre to construction of additional ter- Taj Mahal. India and environmentalist es to undertake a study to take on wheels' and such trains January, 2020," the bench said. Jewar in Greater Noida, adja- consider luxurious trains like minal at the existing airport but The bench, also compris- lawyer M C Mehta who into account the number of could be employed to transport In the order, it noted that cent to the national capital the "Palace on wheels" to the was against increasing the air ing Justices B R Gavai and opposed the project. tourists who utilise the airport passengers from the new air Sinha appearing on behalf of which would be one of the few city. traffic which could "damage" Surya Kant, took on record the It also took on record the and the anticipatory increase in field to the TTZ, Agra," the AAI seeks permission to build largest airport and will have the The apex court also the environment in an "eco- submission of senior advo- submission of Additional the number of such tourists bench said in its order. an additional terminal at the potential to cater to the increase directed the Centre to consid- sensitive area" having some cates Ajit Kumar Sinha, appear- Solicitor General Atmaram over the years. It said the Centre will also existing Agra Airport. in tourist influx. !"#$%& . '3 E" G " E" E ) );43'(@) =='2 2) ! ' "< /'. 0' * - * * ! . , ' %"'" " %"% % '% , $ ( # 3 %, %" " ( " 2 6 ( 6 $ 7 6$8 - 6 ( ( # 6 $"! 4 2 9 $ 729$8 , few months ago, a board was ) $ ) ) placed outside a monastery in ( * Tibet; it stated that : 29$ ( Government officials and com- munist cadres were not allowed , ) " toA enter the premises of the gompa as the # ( Chinese State was atheistic. One can O 29$ , 6 understand that the Communist Party of China (CPC), which religiously follows the ) $ S , , - precepts of its founding fathers, is not in , < S favour of any spiritual practices. More - ) , % )( recently, the CPC issued a notice banning retired Tibetan Government employees , $ 29$ from taking part in any religious activities. 3 1 According to Human Rights Watch, the ( 29$S notice required “all Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Government and retired 6$ # Government employees — regardless of $ =5 whether those retirees are party members — ) to submit a list by August 18 of any ‘retired personnel performing the kora’, the Tibetan + , practice of circumambulating a sacred site.” 6 , Though the People’s Republic of China is , S . 2 # atheist by definition and does not believe in the return of a soul, it now wants to control ( $ ) the reincarnation of the Tibetan Lamas. Read , , S ( * $ the “management measures for the reincar- , - nation of living Buddhas in Tibetan Buddhism” notified by the State Council on brought some clarity. On sion concerning the way and the As a result of the dispute, the 29$S July 13, 2007, and you will understand. November 29, the Dalai Lama manner in which the next rein- Panchen took refuge in China - ) > Article 1 spoke of “protecting religious addressed the issue of his rein- carnation of the 14th Dalai in 1923; he was well-looked after % 6 ) $ # concord and social harmony and protecting carnation at a three-day Tibetan Lama should appear solely rests by the Kuomintang, who had an the normal order of Tibetan Buddhism.” It Religious Conference, a gather- (5+ 8 4&6 with His Holiness, the 14th eye on Tibet. A Chinese schol- , ) 6$ asserted: “Reincarnating living Buddhas ing of 117 Tibetan Buddhist and Dalai Lama himself. No ar recently wrote that “the treat- P 6 $ Q , " $ S should respect the religious rituals and his- Bon senior leaders, in 65& 58 Government or otherwise will ment of the ninth Panchen ) , * P* torically established systems of Tibetan Dharamsala. During the closing &00 40 5 (& have such authority.” It was the Lama was further enhanced in 29$ 6$S 3Q Buddhism.” It insists on an old ritual rarely ceremony, the Tibetan spiritual best way to counteract Beijing’s response to [China’s] needs on used, the Golden Urn, which can easily be leader told the Rinpoches that (585 &+0 stance (and new religious “skills”). the border [with India]. In June - $ manipulated. Further, “Reincarnating living there was no hurry to talk about The third point the monks’ 1931, the National Government - ) Buddhas shall not be interfered with or be his reincarnation. He affirmed, (4889 &67 gathering urged was that “the appointed the ninth Panchen $ S ( ( under the dominion of any foreign organi- “I am fine physically and men- &- 4( + same unique Tibetan tradition- Lama as an Ambassador and set sation or individual.” In other words, the Dalai tally — is there any hurry to talk al method, which has been up an agency which was given 6 1 Lama is not allowed to be reborn in India. about my reincarnation?” He 85 0 &80& 0 continuously used until now, a hefty monthly budget of 29$ )$ - S ( Is China an atheist or a religious State? added that he will consult his ( + +& will be followed.” 15,000 yuans.” A5555 The answer is: It depends on the interests of advisors to decide on his rein- Though it says that this The Panchen Lama himself the party. When it is convenient, it follows the carnation when he turns 90. 56 5 (&05 method conforms to “the basic received 120,000 yuans month- Marxist orthodoxy but when its interests dif- This is a welcome change /8 + 5 philosophy and tenets of the ly. It was not a salary, said the fer, the CPC becomes an expert in religious from some contradictory state- Buddha dharma and originated scholar, but “for his personal 29$ $ S 6 practices, particularly in the “reincarnation” ments he had made earlier, par- 08& 89 in Tibet over 800 years ago,” no expenses and the living expens- process. Already in 2015, Padma Choling, the ticularly those like he was not +&550+(5 details were provided, leaving es of his followers and monks.” ( then Chairman of the Standing Committee keen to “return”, that the system the door open to possible The fact that the US 3 $ of the TAR People’s Congress and then the was “medieval” or that he would & 55&86 58, manipulation by China. Congress recently passed a Bill $ 6 only “ethnic” Tibetan and a member of the come back as a woman. &8 46&869 Incidentally, it is regrettable on the succession or reincarna- CPC’s Central Committee, created a flutter On the first day of the con- that among the 117 senior tion of the Dalai Lama and , % when he declared: “It’s not up to the Dalai ference, the assembled Lamas ( +56 75(5 monks, the feminine gender was other Tibetan Buddhist leaders 2 Lama to decide about his own reincarnation.” passed an important three-point &+0 7550 not represented. This is proba- shows that it is still a highly , , He objected to an announcement by the Lama resolution to counter China. The bly one of the reasons why the political issue today. The that “his traditional religious role should cease first point mentioned was the 85480,(&(5 Dalai Lama terms the system as Tibetans should be left alone to $ S with his death.” Choling affirmed that the Karmic bond between the Dalai “medieval.” decide their spiritual future 3 # Lama’s renouncement was against “the Lamas and the Tibetan people, +9+5 &+ The Chinese are aware that but even if India does not 1 Tibetan Buddhism tradition as the soul of a which is “unbreakable.” It added 5 5<&6 8(& the reincarnation system is not interfere, New Delhi does have senior Lama is [always] reincarnated in the that all Tibetans “genuinely wish purely a religious affair; it has high stakes in the issue, partic- 29$ body of a child on his death.” for the continuation of the insti- (5 46 5 always had a political angle. One ularly in connection with the Marx would have shuddered in his tution and reincarnation of the -& 7&+& &0 historical example is the strife Himalayan region where tomb had he heard Choling utter this blas- Dalai Lama in the future.” The between the ninth Panchen and Buddhism has so far played a phemy. But this does not disturb the Lama was supplicated to “come the 13th Dalai Lama, which stabilising role. The Dalai Lama Communist leaders “in the new era.” Today, back.” revolved around taxes to be paid is hopefully aware of this. they argue that one can be Marxist and cap- The second point made it by the Panchen Lama estate to (The writer is an expert on ', A italist at the same time. A recent development clear that “the authority of deci- the Dalai Lama’s Government. India-China relations) Q& =* # >#! ' R 8 9 : 4; - . # * "" ' H 3 " % ! % ) * ' % , 3 "" " "" " @% '" ' " # '% ' 3" H 3%,% * * % @% % + 7+'8 ('( (*+8 $:(*+8"+'8 "C"*+"( K8+ 3 K&37% K 3 K&3" * , $ % % S ( - ; ; ; 8 ;; < :4;8 * S # ( the mandate to the BJP-Shiv Sena combine. Had the BJP not , " acted in haste, it would have ) Sir — This refers to the editorial, H3 3 6 3 proved itself cynosure of all eyes * “India Inc worried” (December 4). " , , among the public. Industrialist Rahul Bajaj is prob- / %" '" " " It is also true that if the pre- * ., ably the most outspoken voice of ' ,'" 83 sent Uddhav Thackeray-led ./ 0 Indian Inc. He has always been ", ' - Government falls, how will it $ * forthcoming with his views on key ' " " %"' ! face the public if mid-term polls issues affecting the economy. So 2>! !"4 7 , are held, a fact ignored by the * ( when he asked if the present - ' 6 3 Sena. Moreover, can the Shiv Government was open to criti- & %"' Sena afford to ignore or dilute its # cism and that there was a sense of % 9 3 C% :( Hindutva ideology if it contin- fear among entrepreneurs and , @" ! ues to enjoy power for full term? ( businessmen, it’s really worth " ' "" '"," Sagar Singh S 1 ( pondering over. It was heartening % % "" K Muzaffarnagar S that Home Minister Amit Shah - " % " '% " + H % '%" 3 &"" # S ( acknowledged his concerns and promised that indeed if what he -% % , % ' % " % 2 said was true, then his " ,%"%"" ,%" '3 ,"% !" "% ' * Government would work on the % " " ' % @% "" @% Sir — It’s encouraging that the 1 * issue. However, it was surprising % % %"' ! 7"8" tiger population in the country that Finance Minister Nirmala % 6 - %" O ' has increased by 750 in the last Sitharaman said that Bajaj’s com- four years to 2,976. However, this ( ment could hurt national interests. should also mean a correspond- ( Our economy grew at 4.5 per leader Ajit Pawar, who said he had and the Congress, who were ing increase in the number of cent in the last quarter of the pre- the backing of his party’s MLAs. fighting elections separately, people visiting the forest areas. 0 sent financial year, the slowest in Thus, the BJP became vulnerable formed the Government out of With the rise in their numbers, it the last 26 quarters. This is proof Sir — This refers to the article, to onslaught from all sides. convenience. On the other hand, is also essential to expand and $ 0 " 3 that something is seriously wrong “Historic leap of faith” (December However, I do not subscribe she has opined that in build new sanctuaries so that the in the way the economy is being 3) by Priyanka Chaturvedi. It is to the writer’s viewpoint that Maharashtra, the public wanted big cats have roaming privileges. $ S (455 managed. Some external factors true that the BJP showed haste in there is no analogy between the the Shiv Sena-Congress-NCP Sunita * 1 ., may be the reason but we can’t forming a Government in way Governments were formed in combine to form the Via email # 2 ( have an ostrich-like approach. Maharashtra. Perhaps it could not Karnataka and Maharashtra Government. Does this not sound Bal Govind read through the hollow claims of respectively. The writer is of the ludicrous? Rather, the opposite ) : $ Noida Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) view that in Karnataka, the JD(S) holds true. The public had given ++8*+'='(8B>:"57': !"#$%& 5 4 ;8"9 ( .. / + 89; + ) ) ! ! P1 / @ @ D)E 5P ) @!! 5 )5 % "% L! L 8"% , % % 6 O "+" ? " "#
#1!() ++ , 0 < * -# ; @A) . + ! ! *! ! # # ( , ( ( # ( ( B * " ( # ( 2 " ( $ +; * ime changes fast and so does the mood of *(% the people. The initial euphoria over the $ : , Tabrogation of Articles 35A, 370 and division # , $ of the erstwhile State of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) 6 ! into two Union Territories is dying and stark real- ity is staring the people in the face. They are dis- appointed by the fact that the situation is wors- " ening and not improving. Unemployment, corrup- ( tion, poor governance, red tape and a non-respon- ( sive administration continue to haunt the people. ! While officialese like “large projects require 2 2 a gestation period”, “large investments will take ( time to flow in”, “no loss of lives is paramount” and ( 4((5 6 “there will be no compromise on security” is well +!&44+? + , understood by the people, it is the widening dis- 90& +&85 ( connect between the citizens and the administra- tion that is worrying. 50 8569 - Though the post-August 5 dynamics are //5850 0 entirely different in Jammu & Kashmir, there is one .&4&0 # commonality and that is the need to win the con- 7&+( 8, fidence of the people. Nothing much has been done (585 + 05 in this respect either by the Central Government 0&6 9 or the UT administration headed by the newly- &0 (& +(5 # appointed Lieutenant-Governor. Lofty announce- 055 0(5 ments made by the last Governor of the former 0/ 50 5 / # State remain on paper and have yet to be imple- (55 65 mented. Pakistan was a nuisance then and it contin- 0 ( 04 ( 2 ( ( ues to remain so even today. The figures tabled in (&+-550 05 scam seems to have been buried, too. as it has become a necessity not just for administration remains cast in the same ( the Parliament by the Minister of State for Home 0( +85+5 This has disappointed the citizens who accessing Government services but also mould as it was during the era of 370. ( Affairs do not project a positive picture as far as 5 (58-9(5 were anxiously looking forward to action for running businesses, trades, offices, The raja (king) and praja (citizen) " law and order is concerned. As per him, there were 508&6 against the corrupt. Gradually, the con- hospitals and hotels. Security is para- approach has to give way to the sevak * 361 cases of stone pelting/law and order disrup- <58050 8 fidence in the system is getting eroded. mount but blanket denial of this facili- (worker) and praja system to gain the # tion up to August 4 and 190 from August 5 to (54 Grassroot-level democracy was ty amounts to collective punishment. confidence of the people. ( November 15. Going purely by statistics, while & 0 +8& 0 introduced in the State with much fan- Mass punishments seldom resolve the Revival of tourism is crucial to win - there were 51 cases per month prior to August 4, (5& 5 -9(5 fare and the people participated in the problem but in fact add to it because of people’s confidence because it affects O the figure went up to 54 cases per month after 05 panchayat and local body elections in collective annoyance. It is not only both the regions. Special “Leave Travel ( August 5. Not a very rosy picture, despite the large numbers, defying terrorist threats. adversely affecting students and busi- Concession” packages for Central changed circumstances and the increased deploy- 6 5450&0! But nothing seems to have changed nesses, it is also adding to the Government employees for visiting # ment of security forces. <580 8 thereafter. These bodies are still crying Government’s revenue loss due to non- Kashmir during winters are likely to % Though there have been no civilian deaths due 6 /9 for empowerment and financial indepen- filing of various mandatory returns. increase the footfall of civilian tourists to retaliation by the security forces, Pakistan-spon- &00 40 550+ dence and promises made to them have However, every dark cloud has a sil- too. # sored terrorists have been able to create fear & 5-9(5 yet to be fulfilled. The lukewarm ver lining. The fall in the number of local Exclusive fast track courts need to be through random killing of civilians and migrant 6&+ <580 8 response to the Back to Village initiative youth joining the militant ranks is very set up to try corruption cases and inves- labourers associated with the industry and the /(5/ 858 to reach out to the people at the grass- heartening. Long queues seen at the tigations must be speeded up. Deadwood apple trade. The speed at which procedures were +&585& 0 0 roots level as compared to its first ver- recruiting rallies of the police, Indian should be got rid of or sent on postings : carried out during “Operation All Out” to flush &58&0 (&<5 sion will certainly be a cause of worry for Army and Central Armed Police Forces to some distant UTs. ( terrorists has decelerated and “Operation Clean 95 -5 the new L-G. are even more heartening. But the To save the youth from further rad- - Up” has yet to gain momentum, though in win- The promise of providing 50,000 Government has to provide more icalisation, not only the madrasas but ters it is easier to track down and eliminate ter- 65505 Government jobs to the youth remains avenues of employment to the youth to school education needs a thorough # rorists as they are forced to vacate their hideouts unfulfilled and there is no indication of keep them away from militancy because overhaul. The Jammat cadre, which has # in the upper reaches. the Government even putting the process the adverse effects of conflict-related been rehabilitated under the Rehbar-i- # The crusade launched against graft by the pre- into motion. Though there were certain stress can easily make them rebellious. Taleem scheme, is doing greater harm vious Governor received an overwhelming recruitments made by the police but the There is a need to give a fillip to tradi- than the teachers of the madrasas. response and people were happy when the corrup- people belonging to the West Pakistan tional sectors like horticulture, handi- Genuine grievances of the people # % tion in the J&K Bank was exposed. But after the refugee community and other deprived craft, tourism, handloom, animal hus- need to be considered sympathetically ! * ( initial hullabaloo nothing much has happened till communities were denied entry as they bandry and agriculture. and disposed of without the baggage of ( ) date, creating a doubt in the people’s mind over did not possess a Permanent Residence The people of Jammu had welcomed erstwhile State politics. The administra- * the Government’s sincerity in dealing with the cor- Certificate, which should have become the abrogation of Article 370 with open tion needs to engage the aggrieved sec- AC555 D554 EF555 D54C , rupt. irrelevant post abrogation of Article 35A. arms and has countered the propagan- tion in a dialogue and close their griev- More than a dozen proven cases of corruption The much-awaited domicile laws have da launched by the status-quoists. But ances. This will help win the confidence pertaining to prominent politicians, including ex- yet to see the light of day adding to the now, the prevailing view in Jammu is that of the people in the short-term so that *S ( " ( Ministers, have been languishing for more than a prevailing feeling of disappointment. while de jure Jammu has been rid of they become willing partners in ensur- G ( decade, with no forward movement at all under After abrogation of Article 370, the Kashmiri hegemony, de facto it contin- ing the success of long-term measures, *S ( the present dispensation, too. No action has yet people were hoping that the policy of one ues to remain subservient to the as envisaged in the new narrative. This # been taken against those involved in scams in the nation, one tax would be implemented Kashmir-centric approach of the bureau- is essential to bring peace, stability, devel- ( ( J&K Cricket Association and the Roshini scheme. here as well but the levying of toll tax on cracy. This anomaly needs to be set right opment and happiness for the people of Many other cases of corruption, including a few select goods entering the UT through by the administration. the Union Territory of Jammu-Kashmir. 7 involving former Chief Ministers exposed by the Lakhanpur has added to the list of woes. The big question in the mind of most (The author is a Jammu-based vet- 8 previous Governor, have yet to be investigated. The The lack of internet for over 100 days of the people is “what has changed”? eran, political commentator, analyst, much talked about Employees Group Insurance has not gone down well with the people Nothing can change as long as the columnist, security and strategic analyst.) + B E 8 4+9 =
that would be like? A Bill, meant to pro- Protection is the right of every No job reservation: As far as tion between biological sex and gen- listen to the voices emerging from it. tect the trans-community, stands on the marginalised community but the ulti- addressing economic equality, what der. What’s more bizarre and disap- Unless we figure out the root of a leak, very foundation that evokes the idea of mate aim is to get them on par in soci- exactly is the road map for the integra- pointing is that stakeholders were not it is impossible to stem the flow of discrimination. The Transgender ety. The provisions of the Transgender tion and protection of the trans-com- consulted while drafting or amending water. Similarly, if we don’t understand Rights Bill treats gender in a fixed bina- Rights Bill passed by the Parliament fail munity? In the NALSA judgment, the the Bill. After there have been numer- the issues plaguing the community, any ry, which goes against the basic prin- on all accounts. State and Central Governments were ous protests by the community across Bill will only work as a superficial ban- 6&0 +85& ciple that trans-rights activists have No legal protection against rape asked to extend reservations to trans- the country regarding the irksome pro- dage without providing any real heal- <589 569K been fighting for. The concept of and sexual assault: The new Bill does people in education and public employ- visions of the Bill, ignoring the com- ing. requiring certification to prove one’s not fill the legal gap by laying out any ment. However, there is no mention of munity’s reservations shows the apathy As my activist friend Zainab sum- - - 2!()3 4 gender is draconian. It not only stems much-needed, specific provisions or a reservation in the Bill. It is creating of the Government and its insincerity marises, “Instead of protecting and pro- . % from the idea of discrimination but also punishments to deal with the rampant roadblocks in terms of employment in protecting the rights of trans-indi- moting our rights and entitlements, the " n India and south-east Asia, we have provides a doorway for increased cor- issue of sexual violence, rape and and education. As per the directions of viduals. The Bill has flouted basic Government has taken away our right traditionally and culturally celebrat- ruption. An already ostracised and eco- assault of trans-people. The Bill only the SC, trans people were to be includ- human rights, the directions of the apex to self-determine our gender, forceful- % Ied transgender people from time nomically weak community will be fur- states, whoever “harms or injures or ed in the Other Backward Class (OBC) court and the guidelines set by inter- ly rehabilitated us with biological fam- ' immemorial. With colonisation and ther humiliated and exploited to enable endangers the life, safety, health, or quota for jobs and education. The Bill national bodies like the World Medical ilies. It has willfully remained silent on - other cultural shifts, the idea of a diver- this said process of certification. well-being, whether mental or physi- has disregarded that directive. Association and the World Professional issues of reservation and watered - sity mosaic, which was intrinsic to the According to a trans-activist, the 2014 cal, of a transgender person or tends Parenthood: How can one over- Association for Transgender Health. down punishment for hate crimes and 9 % DNA of our existence, seemed to fade NALSA judgment stated that transgen- to do acts including causing physical look the cumulative effects of the What we do get instead are some cos- assaults on us.” way in time. der people had the right to gender self- abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emo- Surrogacy Bill and the Transgender metic changes like district screening The authorities concerned need to 3 C%" A struggle started in 2014 with the identification and that a trans-person tional abuse and economic abuse, Rights Bill. Put the two together and committees and dilution of the begging interact with trans-community mem- "% %3 NALSA Vs Union of India case and could choose to identify as a male, shall be punishable with imprisonment trans people, who are either single or provision. bers and take their point of view into continues till today, where the legisla- female or third gender. for a term which shall not be less than un-operated, can bid the idea of sur- The Bill violates the fundamental account. I am not one to despair and ' 3 ture has a chance to undo the atroci- The Government’s Bill says that six months but which may extend to rogacy and therefore parenthood, rights of transgenders. The trans- lose hope but the Parliament’s approval ties the trans community has been sub- one has to go through a District two years and with fine”, as opposed to goodbye. community believes that the Bill makes of this Transgender Rights Bill does % ' jected to over time, much like what the Magistrate (DM) to receive a certificate a minimum seven-year jail term in the A study of the Bill makes it clear a mockery of their personhood, com- make me understand the enormity of % , Supreme Court (SC) did for the approving one’s identity as a trans-per- Indian Penal Code for sexual assault on that those drafting it neither have sen- munity, rights and only adds to every- the task in front of us. It is upon us, the . O Section 377 verdict in September son. However, to be identified as male a woman. This implies that it is “okay” sitivities for the community nor are day humiliation and violation. I con- people, to assert what we desire the ""3" ' 2018. or female, one will have to undergo to violate the bodies of transgenders, qualified to undertake the task. The Bill cur. In its current state, the Bill is pro- future of our nation to be. Can we imagine a world without surgery and then get the certificate or it is less of a crime to force yourself identifies transgender and intersex moting transphobia. The need of the (The writer is Executive Director, separation and labels? I wonder what revised. on a trans-individual. persons together. There is no distinc- hour is to support the community and The Lalit Hotels) M "N !"#$%& 0
"#P ) ##) 28:( -? $ !!,*!5 ) 2 O# .&4 Ministry of Defence spokesman in .&4 all soldiers. Srinagar, “an avalanche hit a post in During the visit to the #P1 # our Army personnel, who were Tangdhar sector and an Army patrol he Army’s northern com- sector, Lt Gen Singh was briefed Fguarding the frontiers of the Nation was hit by a blizzard in Gurez sector on Tmand chief, Lt Gen Ranbir by the commanders on the +8 0&&8 in adverse weather conditions, sacrificed December 3”. Singh, on Wednesday visited ground about the current oper- their lives in two different incidents of He said, the rescue teams managed forward areas along the Line of ational situation, prevailing nternet services would be snow avalanches near the Line of to locate and retrieve all personnel from Control (LoC) in Rajouri and security scenario and the Irestored in Kashmir in phas- Control in North Kashmir late Tuesday both the locations. Poonch, and asked troops to actions taken to meet the chal- es once the situation turns evening. Despite best efforts by the rescue remain battle ready at all times. lenges of increased ceasefire “more normal”, Jammu and This is the third incident of and medical teams, three Army per- The Army commander, violations through aggressive Kashmir Lieutenant Governor avalanche hit in the region in the last sonnel in Tangdhar sector and one accompanied by White Knight domination of the Line of (LG) G C Murmu said on over two weeks. Due to local condi- Army personnel in Gurez sector suc- Corps Commander Lt Gen Control. He interacted with Wednesday. tions, the dead bodies of the soldiers cumbed”, he added. On November 30, Harsha Gupta, visited forward the soldiers and complimented However, he gave no time- were recovered early Wednesday morn- two Indian Army soldiers were killed posts in Poonch and Rajouri them for their unwavering ded- line for restoration of internet ing. Official sources said, “an Indian after they were trapped in an avalanche Sectors in the backdrop of ication to duty, selfless devotion services, which were snapped Army post in Tangdhar sector of North in southern Siachen Glacier at an alti- increased ceasefire violations and high standard of profes- across all platforms in the Kashmir was hit by an avalanche on tude of approximately 18,000 feet. by Pakistan Army, a defence sionalism, spokesman said. Kashmir valley on the inter- Tuesday afternoon. The rescue teams On 18 November, four Army sol- spokesman said. He also interacted with vening night of August 4 and Wednesday morning recovered three diers and two civilian porters died after He emphasised the need to residents of Seklu village in August 5. dead bodies while the fourth soldier was Army has lost a total number of 10 sol- avalanche in Siachen glacier at a height they were trapped in an avalanche on remain vigilant and battle ready Poonch sector where a heli- The Centre announced retrieved safely. diers while two civilian porters also lost of over 18,000 feet. the Siachen Glacier’s northern at all times, appreciated the pre- copter had crash-landed on abrogation of Jammu and Since November 18, the Indian their lives after they were buried in snow According to Col Rajesh Kalia, sector. paredness and high morale of October 24. Kashmir’s special status under Article 370 of the Constitution on August 5. “We are reviewing it (inter- /'- "#) ## ) net ban) and as it (situation) becomes more normal, we will do it (restore) phase-wise. We Q! * R .&4 by the commanders on have already discussed it with ground about the current our administration and we are t-Gen Ranbir Singh, Army operational situation, pre- taking it up,” Murmu told LCommander, Northern vailing security scenario and reporters on the sidelines of the . Command on Wednesday visited the actions taken to meet the passing-out parade of police village Seklu in Poonch on a thanks challenges of the increased recruits at the Police Training giving visit and expressed deep ceasefire violations through Centre, Sheeri in Jammu: As the hunger strike by ‘panch- Dozens of panches and sarpanches gratitude for their wholehearted aggressive domination of the north Kashmir’s Baramulla es’ and ‘sarpanches’ demanding various on Tuesday began a week-long hunger assistance in management and Line of Control”. district. measures to strengthen the Panchayati strike here in support of their various speedy evacuation of the injured. “The Army Commander The LG described the sit- Raj institutions in Jammu & Kashmir demands, including the clearance of Lt-Gen Singh along with senior interacted with the soldiers uation in the valley post abro- entered second day, the BJP here on 1,000 crore liabilities under the officers of the Northern Command and complimented them for gation of Article 370 as “very Wednesday called for meeting their Centre’s flagship MGNERGA were injured when their helicopter their unwavering dedication good”. “genuine demands” expeditiously. scheme. crash landed in the area on October to duty, selfless devotion and “I think the situation is “Panches and sarpanches can prove The hunger strike under the banner 24. high standard of profession- very good, it has improved very a game changer if empowered proper- of the All Jammu and Kashmir Ministry of Defence alism”, defence spokesman well. The police have been ly and bestowed proper respect and pro- Panchayat Conference (AJKPC) also spokesman in Jammu, Lt Col said. Defence spokesman said, doing a yeoman’s service and tocol. However, no move seeks to press for security cover to all Devender Anand said, “during his Lt-Gen Singh also empha- there is a high level of coordi- has been made in this respect so far panches and sarpanches belonging to visit to the frontier districts of sized on the need to remain nation among all the forces despite a lapse of almost a year after the vulnerable areas and enhancement of the Rajouri and Poonch, the Army vigilant and battle ready at all here. People’s participation is panchayat elections,” BJP spokesperson monthly honorarium of 2,500 and Commander, accompanied by the times, appreciated the pre- very good, they are coming out Brig (Retd) Anil Gupta said in a state- 1000 presently given to sarpanches White Knight Corps Commander, paredness and high morale of and are interested in develop- ment here. and panches respectively. PTI Lt Gen Harsha Gupta, was briefed all soldiers”. ment,” he said. '+, ) @ , * ! !$ ) 7 67&&
) E# undreds of Hindu Jagran HManch members many of P whom are co-members of the Bharatiya Janata Party too on Wednesday clashed with the Kolkata Police at different places in Kolkata leading to minor lathi-charge. A multiple rallies called to protest against alleged attacks on the Hindutva organisations saw the HJM taking the police on in guerilla style after being blocked from proceeding by )) ## ; *,) . .1 & '( the men in uniform beyond Sealdah Station area and at Viswa Bharati University them brutally,” Roy said adding who would take on the (500& Esplanade. was subsequently whisked the police acting upon the AIMIM, sources said. + ) *A1 ) #) 0 . ' !'$. A large posse of police led away by his security staff. instruction of the ruling party Chief Minister Mamata amil Nadu Chief Minister %# & '( by Deputy Commissioner The incident seen as the “did not even spare Professor Banerjee had last month TK Palaniswami on (Central) Sudheer Kumar saffron forces’ desperate to Anupam Hazra.” Such actions attacked AIMIM and its chief Wednesday felicitated a city- Neelakantam batom-charged gain back relevance days after were “not acceptable in a civi- Asaduddin Owaisi for trying to based techie who helped US the protesters when they tried the BJP suffered a humiliating lized country,” he said claiming help the BJP in Bengal by space agency NASA discover / 4 ..5 to break the barricade at defeat the hands of the about 150 protesters were breaking the TMC’s minority Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lan- Sealdah. Trinamool Congress in all the arrested by the police. vote bank. “Some parties have der’s debris on the lunar sur- While about 50 rallyists three Assembly seats of Meanwhile in a separate been imported from face. 4 . / . / were arrested from the Sealdah Kaliaganj, Karimpur and development the ruling Hyderabad (read AIMIM) and Shanmuga Subramanian area, hundreds of them resur- Kharagpur that went by-elec- Trinamool Congress has decid- are in the payroll of the BJP had analysed data for about faced at Esplanade three km tions late last month was con- ed to raise a separate minority who are trying to destabilise eight hours everyday to zero in 7 67&& Registrar.” visiting the districts and hold- away raising slogans and tak- demned by senior TMC leader arm of the ruling outfit to Bengal. I alert all the people on the crash site, and the 33 He said he had come in the ing administrative meetings ing on the men in khaki. and Union Minister Mukul counter the growing clout of including the minorities to year-old had come in for all engal Governor Jagdeep capacity not as the Governor of with the Government staff The police were seen Roy who called it an open war All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul- remain alert against these round praise on Tuesday for his BDhankhar once again came the State but the Chancellor of would go down well with the jostling with the central secu- by the Trinamool Congress Muslimeen or AIMIM (All imported people,” she had said discovery. down heavily on the State the historic University and ruling party and things reached rity personnel guarding State against the Hindu organsia- India Council for Unity of drawing flak from Owaisi him- Palaniswami felicitated Government for pulling the “desired to meet the staff here such a pass that the both the BJP leader and former MP tions. Muslims). self who wondered how during Subramanian on Wednesday, strings from behind to control or whosoever wanted to visit Chief Minister and the Anupam Hazra who was lead- “The HJM was protesting The new TMC wing will Banerjee’s regime the BJP could and posted a picture of him institutions like the universities me.” He complained that not a Governor came face to face at ing the procession. Hazra a for- peacefully when the police include a host of minority expand its base in such a big handing over a bouquet of that fall within direct jurisdic- single mobile or landline Srare Assembly recently on mer TMC leader and professor pounced upon them beating leaders and even moulanas way. flowers to the former. tion of the Raj Bhavan with the worked when the senior Constitution Day celebrations NASA had marked the Governor being the Chancellor officials were tried to be con- but would not exchange pleas- location of the crash site ‘S’, giv- of all the State universities. tacted. antries. The twosome literally B',,2" ing credit to Subramanian for The Governor said so after “This is unprecedented” looked the other way when 0; ?%#* +0 the discovery. he visited the Calcutta he said adding the room of the they came face to face. ) %* “Thank you for your email University only to find not V-C was locked and he was Meanwhile the Governor informing us of your discovery single senior office bearers forced to sit outside. The on Wednesday announced that ) : of debris from the Vikram lan- including the Vice Chancellor Governor and Chief Minister he would visit the State ! * der. The LROC team con- to receive him. Mamata Banerjee had been at Assembly on Thursday with an firmed that the location does Deeply “humiliated once loggerheads ever since he went intention to visit the library and ', ) % exhibit changes in images taken again” the Governor who had to Jadavpur University on the people there. (500& before and after the date of the “informed the Vice Chancellor September 19 to personally The Assembly which is in Kolkata: Three TMC MLAs landing,” deputy project scien- about my intention to visit the rescue Union Minister Babul session has been unprecedent- who had switched over to the ational Agricultural tist Lunar Reconnaissance University at 2 pm today” said Supriyo gheraoed by students edly adjourned for two days BJP after the Lok Sabha polls NCooperative Marketing Orbiter mission (LROC) John he could find not single top for 5-6 hours. following the Governor with- this year are in touch with the Federation of India Ltd Keller said in an email to officials — “not even the Vice Subsequently the holding three bills sent by the Mamata Banerjee-led party (NAFED), the body under the Subramanian. Chancellor, pro-V-C or the Governor’s repeated attempts at Government. and have expressed their wish Government of India that is to return to the party fold, entrusted with market inter- TMC sources said. vention viz-a-viz agricultural However, Trinamool commodities in the country 5 +5 . Congress leadership claimed had warned the States about the that none of the turncoats impending shortage of 55 / would be taken back to the onions. Maharashtra and Andhra Koyambedu Vegetable party as “traitors” cannot be As onion prices in retail Pradesh resulted in crop fail- Wholesale Merchants trusted. markets in Tamil Nadu were ure and this could be the rea- Association said that thisn is 2 . 1 6 According to the TMC ruling between 170 to 180 son for the sudden hike in the first time in the last four sources, within months of join- per kg on Wednesday, a senior onion prices. decades the price of onion was Kolkata: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi will be the ing the saffron party, three NAFED official told The “The Government of India making a hole in the pockets of Asaduddin Owaisi will be main speaker,” he said. TMC MLAs of North 24 Pioneer that the agency had has put orders for procuring the buyers. addressing a mega rally in After the rally, the Parganas have been trying to procured more than 50,000 onion from Egypt and Turkey. “Though we had seen Kolkata in January ahead of the Hyderabad MP’s brother, get in touch with the party top tones of onions from farmers in The first consignment is prices of commodities like civic polls in West Bengal, Akbaruddin Owaisi, and other brass and have expressed their Maharashtra and Gujarat ear- expected by December 10 and tomato, chillies, shooting up, with an eye on the 2021 assem- senior leaders of the AIMIM desire to return to the parent lier this year. the subsequent shiploads this is the first time the name bly elections, a party leader would tour different districts of party. “But the State would reach Mumbai port on of onion itself bring tears in the said. the state to strengthen the “Three MLAs from the Governments does not show December 17, 24 and 31. We eyes of housewives,” said Abdul The party has sought per- party’s organisation, he said. district who had switched over any interest in procuring the hope the prices would start get- Khader, secretary of the asso- mission from the authorities to The announcement of the have been sending feelers to stock from us. Onion being a ting stabilized with the arrival ciation. organise the rally in the second rally at Brigade Parade party leaders. The perishable commodity, we were of the stocks from Egypt and The Department of week of January at the Brigade Grounds, which has been wit- party high command will take not in a position to keep the Turkey,” said the official Horticulture has drawn up Parade Grounds, state presi- ness to several historic politi- a call,” a senior leader of TMC’s stock for long and exhausted He said that onion was plans to bring in an addition- dent of the All India Majlis-e- cal gatherings, comes days after North 24 Parganas said on the commodity. There was no being sold at 20 per kg even al 25,000 acres of land under Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) a war of words between condition of anonymity. Senior communication demanding in the month of October and onion cultivation in the Zameerul Hasan told PTI. Mamata Banerjee and Owaisi, minister and president of extra stocks from the States,” there was no hint of any short- State. This is in addition to the “We have already sent a let- after the Chief Minister warned North 24 Parganas TMC unit, said the official who did not age in the commodity other 50,000 acres of land where ter to the authorities seeking a the people against “minority Jyotipriyo Mullick said the want his name to be quoted. than the reports about the onion is cultivated as of now, suitable date in the second extremism”, in an obvious party would never take them He pointed out that the crop failure. said a department week of January for the rally. attack on the AIMIM. PTI back. 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=! ! , &3" + ) ) ! N O ) ! # * 4)0?8 O # Allahabad: The Allahabad High detain her further, the court added. % 4 Mumbai: Against the backdrop of horrific rape and Court on Wednesday granted bail to During the bail hearing, the 8O&48M4N murder of a veterinarian in Hyderabad, the police the law student charged with trying woman’s counsel argued that she is Lucknow: Describing reports in Maharashtra’s Nagpur city have launched a new to extort money from Swami a victim of sexual harassment and 15-year-old girl was of rapes and atrocities from initiative: transport facility for women stranded in Chinmayanand, the BJP leader claimed that all allegations against Aallegedly abducted and across Uttar Pradesh as “heart- lonely places at night. Police commissioner Bhushan whom she has accused of rape. her are fabricated. gang-raped by four men, wrenching”, Samajwadi Party Kumar Upadhyay said the measure was necessary to Chinmayanand, whose trust The counsel alleged that the including a CRPF jawan in president Akhilesh Yadav on boost women’s confidence in the aftermath of the runs the Shahjahanpur law college student was raped by Chinmayanand Uttar Pradesh’s Mirzapur dis- Wednesday said this is the Hyderabad incident. where the woman studied, was over a long period of time. trict, police said on Wednesday. “worst period” for women’s As per his directive, issued two days ago, if a arrested under section 376-C of the Chinmayanand’s lawyer opposed The incident took place security. woman dials `100’ or calls up a nearby police sta- IPC and continues to be in judicial the bail application and said the stu- on Monday night when the His tweet was soon coun- tion between 9 pm to 5 am saying she wants to go custody. dent had used a spy camera for high school student was tered by another from the BJP to a particular place but there is no safe transport But, in a related case, the 23-year- recording the video clips. allegedly called by one of the Government, which claimed option, a beat marshal will reach the spot to help her. old woman and her three friends The BJP leader was arrested on accused, who along with three that the period when Yadav If needed, a police vehicle with a woman cop will were also booked on September 20 by a special investiga- others took her to a forest and himself was the Chief Minister drop her at her destination. The gruesome rape and Chinmayanand’s complaint that they tion team (SIT), formed by Uttar gang-raped her, they said. was worse. murder of a 25-year-old woman veterinarian by four had demanded Rs 5 crore from him. Pradesh Police following directions An FIR was registered by “The way in which news men in Hyderabad last week led to nationwide out- The former Union Minister from the Supreme Court. the victim’s father on of rapes, atrocities and murders rage and put a question mark on women’s safety in alleged that they had threatened to He was booked under section Tuesday at Haliya police station vehicle and drove towards CRPF jawan, Ganesh Prasad of sisters and daughters of the cities. “After that incident, there was environment of make public video clips that showed 376-C, a charge short of rape. It is under various sections includ- Halia forest. Bind, Lovkush Pal and Jai state is coming is heart- fear among women. There was a need to boost their him getting massages from the stu- applied when someone in authority ing Protection of Children Seeing this, the villagers Prakash Maurya, who is said to wrenching,” the former UP confidence and with this initiative they will feel safe dent. takes advantage of his official posi- from Sexual Offences informed the police. When the be the son of a former jailor. chief minister tweeted in Hindi. and secure,” commissioner Upadhyay told PTI. Allowing the student’s bail appli- tion and “induces or seduces” a (POCSO) Act, Inspector accused were returning with Mirzapur Superintendent “From the point of view of “We are getting good response from women to cation, Justice S D Singh observed woman to have sex with him. Davidar Shukla said. the girl a few hours later, police of Police Dharamveer Singh security, this is the worst peri- this move,” he said, claiming it could be a first of its that the police had already complet- Apart from the rape allegation, He said the accused had caught them and took the five said the four accused and the od ever for the State’s girls and kind initiative in any metro city of the state. ed the investigation and filed a the 23-year-old student said she was called the girl’s mother on including the victim to the victim will sent for medical women. Highly condemnable,” The Nagpur police already has anti-eve teasing charge sheet. He said no reasonable often called for giving massages to Monday night at 10 pm but police station, he said. examination. Yadav added. He did not spec- Damini squads, Bharosa Cell and Women Safety apprehension had been cited by the Chinmayanand, and used a con- when the girl came out of her Those arrested includes The matter is being probed, ify any particular case of Committees for the assistance of women in distress, state that her release on bail will delay cealed camera to record video clips house, they forced her in their Mahendra Kumar Yadav, a he added. rape. PTI he said. PTI the trial. Hence, there is no need to as evidence. PTI ) %* .5 :1 % % ! #" "C ! * 4-& : the defeat of these two women from her twit- the daughter late BJP leader leaders, the OBC leadership has ter handle Gopinath Munde. Pankaja had he Pankaja Munde saga weakened in the State. More sparked taken over the legacy of her Tassumed a new dimension than certain individuals who intense specu- father Gopinath Munde after :, - R on Wednesday, as the senior contributed to the defeat of the lation that she the latter died in a road acci- side-lined BJP leader Eknath two leaders, the State BJP lead- might quit the dent in the national capital on Bengaluru: The crucial by- Speaker. Khadse made a shocking alle- ership that is to be blamed,” the BJP on June 3, 2014. elections to 15 assembly con- Thirteen of the disqualified gation after meeting her that senior BJP leader said. December 12, Pankaja had created a stituencies in Karnataka that MLAs have been fielded by the Pankaja and his daughter While Pankaja was defeat- Pankaja had major stir in the state political will determine the fate of Chief BJP after they joined the party Rohini Khadse in the recent ed by her cousin Dhananjay said on circles on Sunday through her Minister BS Yediyurappa led last month following the State Assembly polls were Munde in the October 21 State Tuesday: “I Facebook post. While inviting BJP Government will be held Supreme Court allowing them defeated due to a conspiracy Assembly polls by a margin of had not put her supporters for a meeting on Thursday amid concerns of to contest the bypolls. hatched by some party leaders. 30.701 votes in their home the Facebook called on December 12 her late political parties of a possible During the campaign, the A day after the BJP’s former constituency of Parli in Beed post to indulge Munde’s birth anniversary, she low voter turn out. BJP sought votes for “stability”, Minister Pankaja Munde said district of Marathwada, Rohini Shiv Sena, so as to protect her in pressure tactics within the had written: “Considering the Polling will be held power. while the Congress and JD(S) that she had no plans to quit Khadse faced a defeat at the own political identity in the party. I am a loyal party work- changes that changes in polit- between 7 am to 6 pm on The BJP needs to win at urged the electorate to defeat the party, Khadse met the for- hands of an independent can- state. er. Rebellion is not in my ical situation in the stat and also Thursday in the 15 con- least six of the seats to remain the disqualified legislators mer at her Mumbai residence didate Chandrakant Nimba “Since she is an OBC blood. My Facebook post has the responsibility before me, we stituencies where a total of in majority in the 225-member responsible for the collapse of and discussed with the aggriev- Patil at Mukhtainagar con- leader, Pankaja is being weak- been misinterpreted. I am upset need to decide our future 37.78 lakh electors are eligible Assembly (including the their coalition Government in ed party leader the circum- stituency in Jalgaon district of ened within the BJP. It is her with misleading news reports. course of action”. to cast their votes and all Speaker, who has a casting July. stances leading to her putting north Maharashtra. own interest that she joins the I am very committed to the BJP. “You are asking me time arrangements have been made vote), which would still have Among 15 constituencies out a Facebook on Sunday, in It may be recalled that Shiv Sena. The BJP had in the Rumours are being spread to for meeting you. I will give you for the exercise, officials said. two vacant seats — Maski and going to the bypolls, 12 were which she had indicated she Eknath Khande had filed nom- past an attempt to remove her suggest that I am leaving the all time after eight to ten days. The by-elections are being R R Nagar. held by Congress and three by would decide on her “future ination to contest the 2019 father Gopinath Munde in a BJP”. During the eight to ten days, let held to fill the vacancies caused In the Aassembly with the JD(S). journey” on December 12. Assembly polls from similar manner. However, the Pankaja had made the me introspect. I want to decide by the disqualification of 17 current strength of 208 after the BJP has fielded 13 of the 16 Talking to media persons Muktainagar constituency, but attempt had fallen flat after statement after former minis- on what should I do next? rebel Congress and JDS MLAs, disqualifications, the BJP has disqualified legislators as its after the meeting, Khadse said: was denied ticket by the BJP some leaders had thrown their ters Vinod Tawade, Babarao Which way should I go?. What whose rebellion led to the col- 105 MLAs (including an inde- candidates from their respec- “Some senior BJP leaders are leaders. The BJP instead gave behind Munde and opposed Lonikar and Ram Shinde met can I give to people? What’s my lapse of the H D pendent), the Congress 66 and tive constituencies from where responsible for the defeat of party ticket to his daughter the efforts to show him the Pankaja at her Mumbai resi- strength? What do people Kumaraswamy-led coalition the JD(S) has 34 MLAs. There they had won in the 2018 Pankaja and Rohini. There was Rohini. door. Similar attempt is being dence and requested her not to expect from me? After delib- government in July and paved is also one BSP member, a assembly elections on Congress a conspiracy behind the defeat Khadse has been in the made to force Panaka out of the take any extreme step of quit- erating on all these questions, the way for the BJP to come to nominated member and the and JDS tickets. PTI of both Pankaja and Rohini. I doghouse ever since June 4, party,” Shendge said. ting the BJP. I will come before you on know who were behind the 2016, when he resigned from Though Pankaja has gone Earlier on Monday, State December 12,” Pankaja told her defeat of both Pankaja and his post as the State Revenue on record saying that she had no BJP president Chandrakant supporters through her ,# Rohini. I have complained to Minister over irregularities in plans to quit the BJP, informed Patil had ruled out the possi- Facebook post. % the BJP leadership. I am hope- the purchase of a plot of land party sources insisted that she bility of Pankaja quitting the In her another pointer to ful that action would be taken at Bhosari in Pune district. would make a big announce- party. “There is absolute truth fact that she moving away C%"6& '"" against the BJP leaders con- Meanwhile, Dhangar com- ment on the occasion of her in the rumours that Pankajatai from the BJP, Pankaja on :, cerned”. munity leader and former father Gopinath Munde’s birth would quit the BJP. Many of us Monday removed the party’s Khadse said that the defeat MLA Prakash Shengde, who anniversary on December 12. have spoken Pankajatai. I don’t name from her twitter handle Bengaluru: A day after public added. of Pankaja and Rohini was was a close aide of senior BJP Talking to media persons a think there is any possibility of @Pankajamunde... The only campaigning ended for bypolls The ruling BJP needs to Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief part of conspiracy to erode the leader Gopinath Munde, said day after her Sunday’s her taking sh a step ( of quit- mention that is there on twit- in 15 Assembly constituencies win at least six seats inthe Minister BS Yediyurappa may influence of the OBC leader- that it was essential for Pankaja Facebook post and subsequent ting the BJP),” Patil had said. ter handle is: “RT’s r not of Karnataka, JD(S) patriarch H bypolls to 15 constituencies to go for cabinet expansion after ship in the State. “Because of to quit the BJP and join the removal of the BJP’s name Forty year-old Pankaja is endorsements”. D Deve Gowda on Wednesday remain in a majority inthe the December 5 bypolls to 15 urged voters to defeat the dis- 224-member Assembly, which assembly segments, Deputy qualified legislators, and would still have two vacant Chief Minister Laxman Savadi uphold the dignity of the state. seats— Maski and R R Nagar. said on Wednesday. + ) People of the State have got The BJP has fielded 13 of The Cabinet expansion will absolute authority to give their the 16 disqualified legislators be done after securing approval verdict against the disqualified who joined the party from from the party’s national lead- , 0) :, 8 MLAs, who defected from the their respective constituencies, ership, he told reporters at party for the sake of moneyand as it candidates. Athani. 4-& : decision has been implement- were arrested, while the police power, the former Prime The bypolls were necessi- “After considering pros and ed or not”. initiated preventive action Minister said. tated after the resignation and cons, Chief Minister will decide hen Maharashtra’s new Uddhav was referring to against 2053 people,” Fadnavis “People of the country have absence of 17 Congress-JD(S) on whom to WChief Minister Uddhav the announcement made by had said. their attention on the verdict legislators during the trust vote be inducted, he (Chief Thackeray assured a delegation former Chief Minister Of the total property of Rs that the people of Karnataka in July, which led to the collapse Minister) is thinking about it. of NCP leaders late on Tuesday Devendra Fadnavis on the 13 crore destroyed during and will give. I request them to give of the H D Kumaraswamy He would also seek advice evening that he would with- floor of the State Assembly on after the January 1, 2018 riots, a verdict that upholds the dig- headed JDS-Congress coali- from the high command,” draw the cases against the March 23, 2018 that the State miscreants destroyed proper- nity of the state,without falling tion government and paved the Savadi said. activists linked to the Bhima- Government would withdraw ty worth 9.54 crore at for any allurements,” Gowda way for BJP to come to In response to a question, Koregaon incident, he spoke cases filed against those Bhima-Koregaon in Pune dis- tweeted. “In the bypolls that power. he said senior BJP legislators about the cases that were reg- booked for incidents of vio- trict. will be held tomorrow, Irequest The 17 legislators were like Umesh Katti and istered against activists in con- lence and arson that took place He had also announced you to vote for JD(S) candidates subsequently disqualified by Basanagouda Patil Yatnal may nection with violence and after the January 1, 2018 the appointment of an inquiry and bless them. the then Speaker K R Ramesh be considered during the arson that followed the inci- Bhima—Koregaon caste riots committee under retired chief #DefeatTheDisqualified Kumar, under anti-defection expansion “as they are dent. in which one person was killed Justice of the Bombay High #RejectDisqualifiedMLAs,” he law. PTI seniors.” PTI He was not referring to the and property worth Rs 13 Court J N Patel look into the cases registered against the crore was destroyed. serious offences registered in CPI (Maoist) linked activists In a statement made in the connection with the Bhim- associated with the Elgaar State Assembly, Fadnavis had Koregaon disturbances Parishad “conspiracy” as is said that the police had in all It may be recalled that being made out in a section of registered 58 cases and arrest- thousands of Dalits had gath- the media, official sources said ed 162 persons in connection ered at Bhima Koregaon in here on Wednesday. with the violence and arson Pune district on January 1, to While making an that followed the Bhima- celebrate the 200th anniver- announcement about with- Koregaon incident. sarry of January 1, 1818 victo- drawal of Bhima-Koregaon- In the post-Bhima- ry of British troops over related cases, Uddhav said late Koregaon incident, 60 police Peshwa Bajirao II’s army in on Tuesday evening: “The pre- personnel and 58 citizens were Koregaon Bhima. Some vious Devendra Fadnavis-led injured. activists opposing the cele- government had taken a deci- “After the incident, 17 brations, allegedly belonging to sion to withdraw Bhima- offences under the Scheduled a couple of right-wing organ- Koregaon-related cases which Castes and Tribes (Prevention isations from Pune, had hurled did not involve serious crimes. of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and stones at the gathering, leading I have given instructions to the 600 other crimes were regis- to violence at violence and administration to check if the tered. As many 1199 people arson. In the disturbances that followed, scores of vehicles, shops and other properties were set on fire in the village. In the bandh called on January 3, 2018 by various Ambedkarite organisations in protest against an attack on a Dalit gathering, there were incidents of violence involving road, highway and railway blockades and stone-pelting and consequent police lathi- charge, in which a 16-year-old boy was killed in Nanded dis- trict and more than 50 BEST buses were damaged in Mumbai. !"#$%& /
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He, however, Swill also become the chief of challenged the transfer of secu- Karvy from taking new bro- Legal sources on decision was taken by its board said whatever the SAT will the parent company Alphabet rities held with Karvy Stock kerage clients and also pre- Wednesday said the combined and also cited a June 19 order order will be “valid and accept- after the internet giant’s co- Broking back to the clients or vented it from using the power value of the loans given out by by Sebi which barred them able to all”. founders Larry Page and Sergey transfer them into an escrow of attorneys (PoAs) given by its the petitioning lenders using Brin stepped down from their account. clients after the brokerage was the securities which were with executive roles, making the ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank found to have allegedly mis- Karvy is 1,400 crore, while the ;+ 0? India-born tech wizard one of and Indusind Bank had con- used clients’ securities. total value of the securities at the world’s most powerful cor- tended that many of these On Wednesday, SAT bench the time of the transfer was porate leaders. securities had been used to bor- comprising MT Joshi and CKG 2,800 crore. #" " -"R Page and Brin are stepping row money from them and had Nair refused to give nay relief They clarified that it will be down as CEO and President, pleaded with the tribunal to to the lenders beyond the order inappropriate to say that the ! * respectively, of Alphabet, the either get back the securities in the Bajaj Finance plea and loan to value ratio is 50 per cent company announced on back to them or put them in an instead asked them to approach because 1,400 crore is the Tuesday. escrow account to protect their Sebi by December 6. combined value of loans made 05 56( debt and commodity derivatives Pichai, 47, the current CEO ascendancy of Mr. Pichai, as mounting scrutiny over its size, funds. The case pertains to the SAT also Sebi whole-time out by different lenders and the segments. of Google and a longtime exec- one of tech’s most powerful data privacy practices and securities held by Karvy, which member (Ananta Barua who underlying securities may also he Securities Appellate Karvy had allegedly mis- utive at the company, will take people,” The New York Times potential impact on society. were used by the brokerage for issued the order against Karvy be carrying of different risk TTribunal (SAT) has asked used securities of over 95,000 over as CEO of Alphabet in commented. With Alphabet now well- borrowing courtesy the power on November 22) to give a per- perception. During the course the NSE to take a decision by clients which it was holding on addition to his current role. “Now he is the sole execu- established, and Google and of attorneys that they held. The sonal hearing to the aggrieved of the arguments on Friday in the matter of sus- behalf of the clients to raise “I’m excited about tive in charge of a company that ‘Other Bets’ operating effec- securities held by over 83,000 parties and pass an order by Tuesday, a counsel for HDFC pension of trading licence of over 600 crore in loans from Alphabet’s long term focus on has giant businesses in search, tively as independent compa- clients were given back to them December 12. Bank had said it has an expo- Karvy Stock Broking Ltd. various lenders. In an order tackling big challenges through advertising, maps, smartphone nies, it’s the natural time to on Monday after Sebi asked In the Bajaj Finance case, sure of 300 crore to such This comes after Karvy passed on Tuesday, the tribunal technology. Thanks to Larry & software and online video, as simplify our management NSDL to do so, forcing Bajaj SAT had on Tuesday had asked loans, while the value of the moved to SAT against the NSE’s said Karvy will be at liberty to Sergey, we have a timeless mis- well as a variety of fledgling structure, the two Google co- Finance to move the SAT and Sebi to hear the financier lat- securities against which the directive which suspended the file an appeal under the NSE sion, enduring values and a cul- bets in far-off areas like drone founders, who are both 46, secure an interim relief on est by Wednesday, and direct- loans were made is 470 crore, broker’s licence on Monday due Rules. “In case, if such an ture of collaboration & explo- deliveries and internet-beam- wrote in a public letter. further transfers. ed Sebi to pass a fresh order by while Bajaj Finance’s exposure to non-compliance of regulato- appeal is filed, appellant ration — a strong foundation ing balloons,” it said. “We’ve never been ones to The NSDL move helped 90 December 10. is 312 crore. ry provisions of the exchange. (Karvy) shall be heard as expe- we’ll continue to build on,” Considered as a significant hold on to management percent of the Karvy demat On these banks’ specific The lenders had collec- This suspension pertains to its ditiously as possible and in any Pichai tweeted after the shakeup in the Silicon Valley roles when we think there’s a accountholders get back their request for either getting back tively said that the NSDL deci- trading in capital market, futures event shall be decided by announcement of his elevation. company, the shuffle comes at better way to run the compa- shares bought on borrowed the securities which have been sion following a Sebi direction & options, currency derivatives, December 6, 2019,” it added. “The move confirms the a time when Google is facing ny,” they said. 5/0= /! D? , - . * 8:C 999B 4-& Benz C Class and Audi A4. in India, Rohit Suri said that The XE sees several cos- JLR has seen its market share E FEG sumers. These plans will go-live of market analysts that the . " & ! 07: ritish carmaker Jaguar Land metic changes to its exteriors in the luxury segment increase on December 6, 2019,” Jio said company will price them lower BRover (JLR), owned by the and interiors and features sev- to 16 per cent and also said that - in a statement. The company compared to rivals. “We think New Delhi: Finance Minister 4-& Tata Group on Wednesday eral technical updates, 2020 will see some major on December 1 has announced the incremental 300 per cent Nirmala Sitharaman on took the wraps of their updat- including the addition of Apple launches from the JLR stable 05 56( that it will raise mobile plans benefit which Jio is talking Wednesday said in Lok Sabha ash-strapped Infrastructure ed XE sedan. CarPlay to the infotainment including the new Land Rover rates by up to 40 per cent. about is by offering more data that the Government has taken CLeasing & Financial This car, the smallest in system. Despite a tough year for Defender as well the illionaire Mukesh Ambani’s According to the new tar- allowances. a host of measures including Services (IL&FS) on Jaguar’s line-up competes against JLR’s parent Tata Motors, the award-winning Jaguar I-Pace BReliance Jio will raise iff plans, Jio customers will In our view, it incremen- imports to deal with the rising Wednesday reported a stand- the BMW 3-series, Mercedes- carmaker’s Managing Director electric SUV. mobile call and data charges by have to pay 555 for 84-day tally doesn’t entice users much prices of onion. alone net loss of 22,527 crore up to 39 per cent from validity and 1.5 GB of data per beyond 1.5 GB. Even after She said there are several for the fiscal to March 2019, as December 6 through its all-in- day, which is 39 per cent high- these hikes, we believe Jio will structural issues related to stor- against 333 crore in the pre- . 5 / ( CB one plans, which still will be an er than the earlier plan of 399 continue to be 15-20 per cent age of onions and the govern- vious fiscal. estimated 15 to 25 per cent offering similar benefits. cheaper than the incumbent ment is trying to addressed The scam-ridden infra + cheaper than rivals’. The company has raised operators,” Bank of America them. The Minister was replying lending major reported revenue . 5 The all-in-one plans will the price of 153 plan to 199; Merrill Lynch had said. to the debate on the first batch of 824 crore, massively down 0) ##) provide at least 1.5 GB per day 198 plan to 249; 299 plan to Telecom companies’ move of Supplementary Demands for from 1,734 crore in the pre- of data and increased number 349; 349 plan to 399; 448 to raise mobile tariff follows the Grants. Prices of onions prices in vious year. %/ % 40 5 0& 0+ of offnet calls, the company to 599; 1,699 plan to 2199, Supreme Court judgement, on many places have crossed 100 This is the first earnings said in a statement. and 98 plan to 129. October 24 this year, uphold- per kg because of shortage. announcement after the gov- 05 56( bond ETF. ndia has ranked 73rd out of The tariff hike, which is The 199 plan, a 28-day ing the Government’s method Steps taken by the govern- ernment sacked its board in It will help deepen bond I152 countries in a business- planned to match similar validity plan that offers 1.5GB of calculating revenue share ment to check rising prices of October last year. fter exchange traded fund market as was announced in to-consumer E-commerce increases by rival Bharti Airtel data per day, is about 25 per that it should get from earnings onion include ban on exports, As of end March 2019, Afor equities, the Union the Budget, she said. ETF will index that measures an econ- and Vodafone Idea Ltd earlier cent cheaper than the plans of of service providers. imposition of stock limit, total assets stood at 4,148 Cabinet on Wednesday be a basket of bonds issued by omy’s preparedness to support this week, give 300 per cent rivals offering similar benefits Vodafone Idea last month import and transfer of onion crore, a pale shadow of 23,868 approved the launch of state firms or any government online shopping, moving seven more benefits, it said. at a price of around 249. reported a consolidated loss of from surplus to deficit area. crore year-ago, a company exchange traded fund (ETF) for organisation, and will be trad- places up in the list. “Further to its last state- Bharti Airtel and Vodafone 50,921 crore — the highest She also said due to imple- statement said, adding its lia- bonds to create an additional able on exchange, she said, The United Nations ment dated 1st December 2019, Idea have already raised mobile ever loss posted by any Indian mentation of direct benefit bilities rose to 21,083 crore source of funding for Central adding that the unit size will be Conference on Trade and Jio...Announced the new ‘All- services rates by up to 50 per corporate — for the September transfer scheme, the from 18,276 crore in FY18. Public Sector Enterprises of 1,000, allowing small Development’s Business-to- in-One plans’. These plans will cent effective December 3. quarter on account of liability Government has been able to It said the board adopted (CPSEs) and state-owned investors to invest. Consumer (B2C) E-commerce provide up to 300 per cent Reliance Jio new plans arising out of the Supreme save 1.41 lakh crore in the last prudent provisioning on financial institutions. Each ETF will have fixed Index 2019 has been topped by more benefits to the Jio con- come in line with expectation Court’s order. five years. PTI loans/impairment for invest- The New Fund Offer maturity date and will track the Netherlands for the second ments, besides taking a con- (NFO) of this ETF is expected underlying index on risk repli- consecutive year. servative view on fair market be to launched during cation basis, she said, adding European nations hold value and recovery estimates. December itself. that for now it will have two eight of the top 10 spots on the D 0 # <, 8') # In October 2018, the gov- Bharat Bond ETF would be maturity series — 3 and 10 index, which ranks 152 coun- ernment seized control of the the first corporate bond ETF in years — with a low cost of tries on their readiness to 05 56( sentatives Kerala, Rajasthan, will be due now, so August- Asked about meeting with debt-trapped company and the country. “With the creation 0.0005 per cent. engage in online commerce. Chattisgarh and West Bengal November. Government is states on GST compensation, superseded its board led by and launch of umbrella ETF we Speaking to reporters, The only non-European coun- inance Ministers and rep- attended the meeting over delay under obligation to pay.” Finance Minister Nirmala Uday Kotak as the chairman. hope to diversify investor base,” Department of Investment and tries on the top 10 list are Fresentatives of Opposition- in payment of compensation. So far, the State has not Sitharaman said, “Some of state The new board, as part of Finance Minister Nirmala Public Asset Management Singapore (3) and Australia ruled States on Wednesday Speaking to reporters after the received compensation for the finance ministers met and they the overall resolution process Sitharaman told reporters after (DIPAM) secretary Tuhin (10). The index scores 152 met Union Finance Minister meeting, Punjab Finance month of August and have requested compensation for the IL&FS Group, has sold the Cabinet headed by Kanta Pandey said, “we are nations on their readiness for Nirmala Sitharaman and Minister Manpreet Singh Badal September and post December amount to be given...All of us a number of assets to clear the Prime Minister Narendra Modi hoping to launch the NPO online shopping, worth an esti- expressed their concern over said the Government is under 10, compensation for the peri- are duty-bound to safeguard dues and debt. gave in-principle approval to during the month”. mated USD 3.9 trillion global- the delay in release of GST obligation to pay the compen- od October-November will the interest of States.” ly in 2017, up 22 per cent from compensation which they said sation which is pending for also be due, he mentioned. The Centre will ensure the previous year. has put them in an acute finan- August and September. “The Finance Minister that the rights of states in ! India is ranked 73rd in the cial position. “We discussed that issue assured us that the compensa- terms of compensation under 2019 index, slightly improving The Finance Ministers of with the Finance Minister. Even tion will be released as early as the Goods and Services Tax are - ! its position from 80 in 2018 and Delhi, Punjab, Puducherry and the compensation for the next possible but she did not spec- protected, Minister of State for / 83 in 2017. Madhya Pradesh and repre- period (October-November) ify any timeline,” he said. Finance Anurag Thakur said. 05 56( '2;( 5; 4=);4=2 5 nion Environment Minister " FB .7 UPrakash Javadekar on Wednesday said Union New Delhi: The board of tele- to raise $2 billion. The balance tranches for an aggregate ( )4(; ('2 '55 Cabinet has approved fourth com major Bharti Airtel on $1 billion would be raised amount upto $1 billion (equiv- labour code — the Code on Wednesday approved a plan to through debentures and bonds. alent currency) on private New Delhi: The Union Cabinet Parliament. Social Security Bill 2019. raise $3 billion via Qualified The Airtel board has placement basis or otherwise.. on Wednesday approved the The Ministry of Electronics The Bill seeks to consoli- Institution Placements (QIPs), authorised the Special “..and issuance of unse- much-anticipated Personal and Information Technology date the laws relating to social stake sale, as well as by debt, to Committee of Directors for cured and/or secured, listed Data Protection Bill and the (MEITY) moved the Bill in the security of workers and sub- pay its adjusted gross revenue taking necessary steps for and/or unlisted, redeemable government will now introduce Cabinet and Telecom and sume eight Central laws. “In a (AGR) dues worth 43,000 implementing the fundraising non-convertible debentures for the bill in Parliament in the Information Technology major labour reform, this social crore to the Government by plans. “One or more Qualified an aggregate amount upto $1 ongoing winter session. Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad security code is approved by January 24. InstitutionS Placements for an billion private placement basis Union Minister for had recently informed the the Cabinet today. This is In a stock exchange filing, aggregate amount of $2 billion, or otherwise. Apart from $2 bil- Information and Broadcasting, Upper House that the work on fourth labour code,” Javadekar the company said that it will issuance of unsecured and/or lion, the overall issuance for Prakash Javadekar, however, Data Protection law is in told reporters in a briefing on launch one or more QIPs, or secured, listed and/or unlisted, now shall be upto $1 billion, did not give any details of the progress and would be intro- Cabinet decisions on offer for sale of equity shares, or Foreign Currency Convertible thereby totaling to $3 billion,” bills to the media, saying details duced very soon in Parliament. Wednesday. a combination of similar offers Bonds (FCCBs) in one or more the Airtel filing said. 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Washington: President Donald chairs of the three House sary. secure foreign help in his re- Trump abused powers of his Committees after the release of The White House imme- election was uncovered, office and endangered US a damning report on Tuesday. diately dismissed the report President Trump engaged in national security by soliciting Released by the House and slammed the House categorical and unprecedented the interference of a foreign Permanent Select Committee Democrats for their bid to obstruction in order to cover- government to benefit his re- on Intelligence, ‘The Trump- remove 73-year-old Trump up his misconduct. election in 2020, the Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry from office. “These matters are not Opposition Democrats have Report’ was written by the “At the end of a one-sided seriously contested. To the alleged and said there was staff of the House Intelligence, sham process, Chairman Schiff contrary, they make it plain “overwhelming evidence” to Oversight and Reform and and the Democrats utterly that President Trump abused impeach him. Foreign Affairs Committees. failed to produce any evidence the power of his office for per- According to the House In a joint statement, of wrongdoing by President sonal and political gain, at the Intelligence Committee leading Intelligence Committee Trump,” White House Press expense of our national secu- the impeachment enquiry Chairman Adam Schiff, Secretary Stephanie Grisham rity,” they alleged. against Trump, the Republican Oversight Committee said. “The President’s actions president placed personal Chairwoman Carolyn B “This report reflects noth- have damaged our national political interests “above the Maloney and Foreign Affairs ing more than their frustra- security, undermined the national interests of the United Committee Chairman Eliot tions. Chairman Schiff’s report integrity of the next election, States” by trying to “solicit Engel alleged that the evi- reads like the ramblings of a and violated his oath of office. foreign interference” from ; , 21,) 4. . dence is clear that Trump con- basement blogger straining to They have also challenged Ukraine to help his 2020 re- ; , & ) .50 ditioned official acts on the prove something when there is the very core of our election bid. 24. . ) ) public announcement of these evidence of nothing,” Grisham Constitutional system of “The evidence is clear that ;& ' " investigations: a coveted White said. checks and balances, separa- President Trump used the House visit and critical US mil- But the three top lawmak- tion of powers, and rule of law,” power of his office to pressure investigations into his political Biden, and a debunked con- Ukraine, not Russia, that inter- itary assistance Ukraine need- ers alleged that evidence is the joint statement said. Ukraine into announcing rival, former Vice President Joe spiracy theory that it was fered in the 2016 election,” said ed to fight its Russian adver- clear that after his scheme to PTI %. #
Washington/Beijing: The US that America redirects Kevin McCarthy said. permanent residents on the measures taken by the 7 Congress overwhelmingly resources to address the mass “As with the Hong Kong American soil. Chinese side are effective, and passed a Bill seeking a tough internment of over 1,000,000 Democracy and Human Rights In Beijing, the Foreign security situation has improved response from the Trump Uyghurs and other Muslim Act, we are sending a simple Affairs Committee of the markedly in Xinjiang where . * Administration over reports ethnic minorities in China. but powerful message to the National People’s Congress, there have been no violent, ter- of mass detention centres in The Act, which calls for an Communist Party: power can- China’s top legislature, on rorist incidents in the past Hong Kong: The venue is reserved, the wedding rings custom- China’s Muslim-majority end to the detaining, torture not be maintained at the Wednesday issued a statement, three years,” it said, justifying made and the search for the dress has begun. But Hong Kong Xinjiang province, prompting and harassment of the Uyghur expense of the rights of the expressing strong indignation the “vocational education and protester May’s nuptials are on hold because her friends oppose Beijing to threaten possible communities in China, was people without substantial con- over and firm opposition to the training centres” in Xinjiang. her marrying a policeman. retaliation. passed by the Senate earlier. sequences,” he said. passing of the bill by the US Foreign Ministry spokes- Six months of unprecedented protests in Hong Kong against The US House of By passing this bill, Senators Marco Rubio and Congress, state-run Xinhua woman Hua Chunying said eroding freedoms under Chinese rule have divided the city’s pop- Representatives on Tuesday Congress is showing that the Bob Menendez, Ranking news agency reported. the US Congressmen were ulation. passed the Uyghur Human US will not turn a blind eye to Member of the Senate Foreign The US Congress passed making “unwarranted accusa- Rifts in some cases have pitted relatives, friends and even Rights Policy Act, which the suffering of the oppressed, Relations Committee, said that the so-called ‘Uyghur Human tions and totally untrue facts.” lovers against each other. May, who asked to be identified by a among other things, proposes House Republican Leader the bill is an important step in Rights Policy Act of 2019’, “For all wrong actions and pseudonym, is one of those who has seen the political become countering the totalitarian “maliciously attacking the words... The proper price must deeply personal, threatening to torpedo her February wedding. Chinese government’s wide- human rights conditions in be paid,” the spokeswoman “One of my closest friends — my maid of honour — told me spread and horrific human Xinjiang, slandering China’s warned. Asked if the US move that she’s thinking about not attending my wedding,” May told rights abuses in Xinjiang. de-radicalization and anti-ter- would have an impact on trade AFP. Among these include the rorism efforts, making ground- talks, Hua did not directly “I never thought about losing my friends... It makes me very, mass internment of more than less accusations against the answer the question. But she very sad,” the 28-year-old said. “It has made me realise how frac- one million Uyghurs and other Chinese government’s Xinjiang said there was “no way this can tured the relationship between the police and residents has predominantly ethnic Turkic policies and grossly interfering have no effect on China-US become.” Hong Kong’s police were once hailed as an example Muslims, as well as Beijing’s in China’s internal affairs, said relations as well as the two for other Asia forces, but they have become a target of intense intimidation and threats the statement. countries’ cooperation in hatred to many pro-democracy protesters who accuse them of against US citizens and legal “Facts have proved that important areas.” PTI excessive force. AFP 3 ! D + +% 47B3 % + #5 R $ ! Islamabad: Pakistan Government has ,+ written to the British authorities, seek- ) 5(8&0 “What they’ve done was not right but... 8&-& ing return of ailing Nawaz Sharif after We must not be strict with these people,” his medical treatment in the UK, ran’s President Hassan Rouhani on he said. he Moroccan security ser- according to a media report. IWednesday called for the release of But Rouhani said people who used Tvices on Wednesday disman- Sharif, 69, left for London on innocent people who were arrested dur- weapons or committed serious crimes dur- tled in coordination with the November 19 in an air ambulance for ing nationwide protests against a fuel price ing the violence should be treated sepa- Spanish police a terrorist cell medical treatment after the Lahore hike last month. rately. linked to the Islamic State (ISIS) High Court allowed him to travel Demonstrations erupted in Iran on “Those who are criminals must be militant group, and arrested four abroad for four weeks. November 15 against the unexpected dealt with according to the law,” he said. suspects. The ARY News on Tuesday report- decision to raise the price of petrol by as They included “those who have come “This security operation led ed that Islamabad has written a letter much as 200 per cent. to this incident in an organised manner”, to the arrest of three people who to the British government seeking Iran has yet to give overall figures for he added. were operating in the region of handing over of Sharif to Pakistan after the number of people arrested when secu- Rouhani said their “confessions” Farkhana and Beni Nsar (near his medical treatment is completed in rity forces moved in to quell the unrest that would be broadcast “in the future, and you the northern city of Nador), Britain. The Government’s letter gave saw buildings torched and shops looted. will see they had been planning for more including the brother of a fight- details of the cases against Sharif. A “All those people who have been than two years”. er present in Iraq and Syria two-member bench headed by Justice arrested, of course some of them are inno- “Their masters abroad told them that region,” said a statement of the Ali Baqir Najafi ordered the federal cent and should be freed,” Rouhani said now is the time, carry it out... These peo- Central Bureau of Judicial Government to remove the former pre- in an address broadcast by state television. ple must be dealt with.” Investigation, Morocco’s intelli- mier and Pakistan Muslim League- “There are some who... Have com- Iran has blamed the violence that gence bureau. Nawaz supreme leader’s name from the mitted an offence, not a crime. Someone broke out on “thugs” backed by its arch- The cell’s leader was arrested Exit Control List without placing any has set fire to a tyre; we must not keep foes the United States, Israel and Saudi simultaneously in the suburbs of conditions. PTI them for what they’ve done. Arabia. 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New York: United Airlines said on Tuesday it had ordered 50 Airbus A321XLR aircraft, worth an estimated $6.5 billion, to replace an existing fleet of aging Boeings. The new Airbus planes, to be delivered starting 2024, will allow United to retire its Boeing 757-200s, the company said. The Airbus order is the latest blow to the American man- ufacturer, already deeply mired in the crisis surrounding its 737 MAX, which has been grounded worldwide after two crashes that resulted in 346 deaths. Boeing has no new aircraft to compete with the Airbus A321XLR in the mid-market range. Airbus launched the A321XLR only this year, at the Paris Air Show in June. The single-aisle aircraft’s range is 15 percent above that of its predecessor, the A321LR, making it a cost-effective alter- native to long-haul wide-body planes. AFP !"#$%& /
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(% "" 3" " “The strikers are there to score goals . +"% + , "" H % 6% and we need him,” said Guardiola of Jesus’s "7 , %""5 " F M$D2,$A importance with Aguero also expected to % H " % % 6 H "N miss Saturday’s Manchester derby. 2A$ "" ' % , “His effort, his commitment is always - " H % H there but strikers like him and Sergio live 6%B?2K 8' / BD$ for the goal and it’s important.” EK " % B$K ' " ASIA XI VS WORLD XI MATCH AT MOTERA Robbie Brady pulled a late goal back .%BAK "" B2 K .% Ahmedabad: & !"3 + " 3 for Burnley, who remain in 11th. %" % %@ %" “City are a top-class side and they + &Q "Q ' ' " showed it tonight,” said Burnley boss Sean 6% 2A$?!$#, 3 % ' % Dyche. 3-% % ' " " “We kept it tight first half and made 3%$ , % $,$A,AAA& it awkward but they were excel- , % ' ' " lent second half and we never got - " to grips with it.” %% &Q "Q %" The visitors were dominant ' - H from first minute to last and C% &Q ! "Q ' could have been far more con- ' - " 3 - M- -N vincing winners but for some 3 ' % H wayward finishing and Nick +3%@'% 8 " Pope’s resistance in the Burnley 2A ' , goal. 3 “We played a good game, we controlled them and we didn’t JEETAN IS NEW ENG SPIN CONSULTANT concede much apart from the goal in the New Delhi: / 0 O" ! last minutes,” added Guardiola. . "' 5 " H “Our level was so good in most of the '" %" % % +% games. I don’t have the feeling we played & + 6 3 " ", bad in certain games. In general, I’m more 5 " H%%"! 2A than satisfied with the level of the team.” 0O" ""@ 5 " ' 2D % ‘NOT GOING TO GIVE UP’ - ("" Jesus did not look like a striker "' !'""" +% & searching for confidence as he opened the % , "% 2A ( scoring with a sumptuous curling effort """" "% 5 " H that found the far corner from David Silva’s % + 6 3 2A2A . pass. 8* ) ) ) % ' , ' ?! $ )P 1 !G$ % # 5) !@$ 2H' 8 H" ! Pope then stood up well to block with " his feet from Raheem Sterling and 22 minutes from time. his 50th Premier League goal with a pre- ing for more than 70 minutes with 10 men Bernardo Silva to keep Burnley in the The Spanish midfielder insisted City L 3 C%" 3 cise strike on his weaker right foot from at Selhurst Park. PUJARA IN SAURASHTRA RANJI SQUAD game until the break. would be ceaseless as they attempt to chase + outside the box. Mamadou Sakho was sent off for a Rajkot: " %@ Jesus gave City a cushion five minutes down Liverpool in the title race. Brady denied City a first clean sheet wild challenge on Adam Smith, but $#! ' +% C% into the second half with a thumping fin- “Until the maths say something else, in eight games, but that was the only neg- Palace frustrated the Cherries and then 8 @ ' ish from Bernardo’s inswinging cross. we are not going to give up on anything. ' " ative for the champions ahead of struck 14 minutes from time when Jeffrey ' " Rodrigo continued a night of fantas- We are going to fight until the end,” M Manchester United’s visit to the Etihad. Schlupp burst through the Bournemouth " $# ' +% H tic finishes when he capped a brilliant indi- Rodrigo told Amazon. Crystal Palace moved up to fifth with defence and fired low and hard past Aaron , " ' " ! vidual display by drilling high past Pope Mahrez came off the bench to score K&-8 56.5+4+ a 1-0 win over Bournemouth despite play- Ramsdale. .4 3 "89+(9 @ ( * , # ) # ( Angeles Galaxy last month follow- ! ing the club’s elimination from the Major League Soccer playoffs. Indian Super League “I am incredibly proud to “I’ll join a club which must get team Chennaiyin FC on join Chennaiyin FC as Head back to winning, which must Wednesday appointed former Coach. I believe we possess a renew its history and is in search Burnley and Bolton Wanderers squad with great potential and of a battle against everyone and manager Owen Coyle as the the hunger to do well, compli- everything,” Ibrahimovic told GQ new head coach till the end of mented by an ardent fanbase " )" Italia. the season. always backing us. I can't wait “That is the only way I’ll be The 53-year-old Scot to get started,” Coyle said in a able to find the necessary motiva- replaces Englishman John club statement. tion to surprise you again. Gregory, who parted ways with Coyle begins his stint as "#) “It’s not just about choosing a the two-time champions on CFC head coach with an away team, as there are other factors that Saturday after a lacklustre start game against Jamshedpur FC ) &8&50& nament that the event is need to line up, including in the to the ongoing ISL season. on December 9. PTI being co-hosted. interests of my family. , # < ! $ ,<H' ustralia will face Lionel Argentina and “I’ll see you in Italy soon.” AMessi and Argentina in Colombia were chosen as According to reports in Italy, 4-& here and later, FC Goa defeated two. Kerala have also played six, would have to put a strong next year’s Copa America hosts after South American Ibrahimovic has been offered a six- the hosts by a similar margin on won one, drawn two and lost show if Mumbai have to record after being drawn alongside football’s governing body month deal to come to the aid of umbai City FC will be November 7. three. their second win of the season. the tournament co-hosts on CONMEBOL turned down struggling former giants AC Milan, Meyeing their first home Moreover, this would be The hosts also have equal- The role of their custodian Tuesday. an offer from the United who are 11th in the Serie A table. win of the season when side’s first home game ly strong mid-fielders compris- Amrinder Singh, who has so far The Socceroos, one of States Soccer Federation to ( # )) , "H<) Napoli are also a possible des- they take on Kerala after it was announced ing Paulo Machoda, Raynier made 17 saves in the tourna- two guest teams invited to hold an expanded 16-team tination as last season’s runners-up Blasters in an Indian that the City Football Fernades, Rowlin Borges, Diego ment, will also be of utmost the South American football edition of the Copa America. ) 6&0 sit seventh, after a run of six Super League game Group has acquired a Carlos, Bipin Singh, Mohamed importance. championship, will also face The 2020 tournament league games without a win. here today. majority of shares in Larbi, Mohammed Asif and Amrinder would expect to Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay will also see a change in for- weden footballer Zlatan “I love to make the difference,” The Jorge Costa- the team. Mohammed Rafique. keep a clean-sheet. and Chile in Group A. mat. SIbrahimovic has fuelled specu- he added. “I don’t just want to do managed team have Both Mumbai and They will have to be on their For Kerala, its coach would In Group B, Asian At this year’s Copa lation that he is set to return to Italy, one or two things well, I want to played two home games Kerala are placed in the toes to keep the Kerala forwards want forward Bartholomew champions Qatar, the other America, won by host nation where he has played for AC Milan, do all of it.” this season at their usual fortress lower half of the points table and at bay. Ogbeche and Messi Bouli to play guest nation, will face Brazil, the 12 teams taking Inter Milan and Juventus, by say- Ibrahimovic played for two the Mumbai Football Arena in a win would help them improve Their line will be manned to their potential. Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, part in the event competed ing in an interview: “see you soon seasons between 2010 and 2012 suburban Andheri, but suffered their position. by Pratik Chaudhari, Mato Grgic Their midfielders and Ecuador and Peru, with all in three first round groups of in Italy”. with AC Milan, helping them to defeat on both the occasions. Mumbai have played six and Sauvik Chakrabarti. defenders also will have to play games taking place in four teams, with the top The 38-year-old striker con- their last Serie A title, and scoring First, it was Odisha FC who games so far, of which they have Their defence is definitely to their potential if Mumbai have Colombia. two in each group and the firmed his departure from Los 42 goals in 61 league appearances. stunned Mumbai with a 4-2 win won one, drawn three and lost an area of concern and they to stopped in their own den. The first round designa- two best third placed teams tions for Australia and Qatar advancing to the quarter- were the only major issue left finals. 7&(&0 4 to be decided at Tuesday’s Next year, the tourna- ceremonial draw. ment will instead see two first rack and field athletes led . 55 5 (4 The other teams in the round groups of six teams. TIndia’s Gold rush on the two groups had already been The top four finishers in each third day of competitions in the determined based on geo- group will qualify for the 13th South Asian Games as the time of 24.37 seconds. graphical proximity to co- quarter-finals. country added a whopping 29 Suresh Kumar won the men’s " hosts Argentina and Tournament co-hosts medals to surge ahead in the 10,000m race with a time of 29 Colombia, which are sepa- Argentina will kick off the medals tally on Wednesday. minutes 32 seconds before the %'"" rated by some 4,350 miles tournament against bitter India won 15 Gold medals duo of Lokesh Sathyanathan (7,000 kilometers). rivals Chile on June 12 in with athletics contributing five of and Swamynathan produced an @ Indian paddlers Australia coach Graham Buenos Aires. them as the country’s medal tally Indian 1-2 in men’s long jump by bagged Gold and Silver medals Arnold said his team was rel- Chile scored back-to- stood at 32 Gold, 26 Silver and clearing impressive distances of in both men’s & women’s dou- ishing the prospect of facing back victories over Argentina 13 Bronze for a total of 71. 7.87m and 7.77m respec- bles events in Kathamandu on Argentina in Buenos Aires. in the finals of the Copa Athletics gave 10 medals (5 tively. Wednesday. ( #P 1 1 # # ) “That’s what it’s all America in 2015 and 2016. Gold, 3 Silver and 2 Bronze) Another 1-2 In an all Indian affair, about, it’s about testing our- Argentina defeated Chile in while six each from came from result for the Indians Harmeet Desai and Anthony '5. 5. 2 2 selves at the highest level,” the third place play-off at this table tennis (3 Gold and 3 came in the men’s discus Amalraj defeated Sanil Shetty Arnold said following the year’s tournament. Silver)and taekwondo (3 Gold, 2 throw through Kirpal Singh and Sudhanshu Grover in the ndian men’s and women’s points win and a scoreline of draw. “The players are so Australia will open their Silver and 1 Bronze), five from (57.88m) and Gagandeep Singh men’s doubles final. Ikho kho teams players 16-9. Deepak Madhav was the excited to have this great tournament against Uruguay triathlon (2 Gold, 2 Silver and 1 (53.57m). The duo of Harmeet and reigned supreme as they fin- hero of the day as he scored 5 opportunity.” on June 13. Bronze) and two — all Navjeet Kaur Dhillon Amalraj won 8-11, 11-7, 11-7, ished champions for the second crucial wickets for the team as “Our boys haven’t real- Qatar, meanwhile, who Gold — from kho kho. fetched India’s fifth Gold of 11-5, 8-11, 12-10 in the title consecutive time in Kathmandu he also stayed on the mat for ly had the experience of finished bottom of their India completely dom- the day in women’s discus clash. on Wednesday. more than two minutes. playing in South America. group at this year’s Copa inated in athletics yet again throw with a below-par 8 8 ) ) "8 In the women’s doubles final, The 2016 Gold medalists In the women’s final, cap- So to be able to play in South America to exit in the first to take the total medal 49.87m while Survi Biswas’ Madhurika Patkar and Sreeja crushed the men’s team of tain Nasreen led from the front America in those great sta- round, will open their tour- count from the discipline to 47.47m effort was good ruled the roost by clinching six Akula beat Sutirtha Mukherjee Bangladesh in the finals for the as she chased down 5 points diums in that environment nament against Peru on June 20. enough to win a Silver in medals, including three Golds. and Ayhika Mukherjee 2-11, 11- second consecutive time as the while her teammate Kajal Bhor is going to be a buzz.” 14. Archana Suseendran won a mediocre field. Indian shuttlers also contin- 8, 11-8, 11-6, 5-11, 11-5. women’s team led by Delhi’s also made a vital contribution The June 12-July 12 her second Gold by clinching the In women’s long jump, ued their dominating show with In mixed doubles final, Nasreen, also successfully with claiming 5 points. SPLIT FORMAT tournament is the 47th edi- women’s 200m race in 23.67 sec- Sandra Babu won a Bronze to four individuals and as many Harmeet combined with defended their title against Eventually they wrapped the The 2020 Copa America tion of the Copa America, onds to add to her yellow metal add to India’s medal tally with an doubles pairs cruising into the Sutirtha Mukherjee to down hosts, Nepal. match 17-5 to finish top of the marks the first time in the the oldest international com- in the 100m dash. Compatriot A effort of 6.02m. semifinals to assure themselves Amalraj -Ayhika 11-6, 9-11, 11- Indian men registered their podium with a innings and 12 modern history of the tour- petition in world football. Chandra Lekha was third with a In taekwondo also, India of medals. 6, 11-6, 11-8. PNS victory with an innings and 7 points win. PNS/New Delhi 9: *;'<
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They Ranbir Kapoor’s fear of commitment, Review. 3 have bred a perverse demand for the leading him to cheat on every woman, The awards, announced recently by female anatomy. Something that has in Bachna Ae Haseeno made it cool for the National Board of Review, handed simply whetted soft porn and even guys to make girlfriends just to have a Netflix its second major honour in % " deviant fantasies. “high score.” Akshay Kumar’s “Shaadi Hollywood’s quickening awards season. 8 ' ( The impact this has on mass social se pehle ladkiyan sex object hoti hain or Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story won best ! psyche, particularly among the lowest uske baad, they object to sex!” in feature at the IFP Gotham Awards, which % ! sections of society with access to cheap Kambakkht Ishqq is one of the most honor independent film. Both films are data on phones, can hardly be under- demeaning comments ever made about widely expected to eventually reap numer- ,L % lined. How often would you find truck- a woman’s sexuality. Arjun Kapoor’s ous nominations at the Oscars, with ! ers, constables, guards and menial ser- marrying a girl of the rival family and either potentially landing Netflix its first vice providers glued to salacious item then abandoning her to complete his best-picture win. 3 numbers on their phones? One would revenge in Ishaqzaade glorified the idea The Irishman also took best adapted C% M shudder to think the effect of such crass of cheating, slapping, abusing and tor- screenplay, for Steven Zaillian’s script, and bombardment of cheap desire. turing a woman. Ali Zafar’s “When you an icon award for Scorsese, Robert De There can be no greater tragedy can’t change the girl, CHANGE the girl” 2() 2"# Niro and Al Pacino. than how Bollywood has nor- in Chashme Baddoor is The board, as it typically does, other- O malised misogynistic ideas again an offensive @ A6 wise spread its awards around to help fill and harassment of women ($ 2) take. Vivek Oberoi’s its annual gala with stars. Quentin through comedy. The most @$ A6 “Balatkaar se yaad Tarantino took best director for Once * recent incident that shed aaya, meri biwi : Upon a Time... in Hollywood. Best actress B 4 light on this issue again was " kahan hai?” in went to Renee Zellweger for her perfor- actor Akshay Kumar’s com- % & Grand Masti blatant- mance as Judy Garland in Judy. Adam ment on the growing rape ! ly justified marital Sandler won best actor for Josh and Benny culture in the country and rape. Also, not to Safdie’s upcoming New York thriller * how people “go mad” and forget, soaked in Uncut Gems. talk about it “all the time” even if one sexism, the two mono- Brad Pitt, widely seen as the Oscar incident takes place. The actor was logues by Kartik Aaryan in the Pyaar front-runner for his co-leading perfor- slammed for the same and some Ka Punchnama series. Akshay Kumar mance in Once Upon a Time... in B $ 4 % of the dialogues from his makes it to the list again with “Aurat ka Hollywood, won best supporting actor. % film Housefull 3 were khaas khayal do hi umar me rakhna The National Board of Review also threw " used to point out how padta hai. Ek jab uski umar hojaati hai its support behind Clint Eastwood’s violent language in the satrah, tab badh jaata hai khatra. Aur upcoming docudrama on the 1996 ( B name of humour is jab aurat hojaati hai tees, toh ban Centennial Olympic Park bombing, $ * % being mainstreamed. jaati hai cheez” in Rowdy Rathore. “Richard Jewell,” giving it best supporting * ( ' 'B Sample the following: Such dialogues also indicate actress for Kathy Bates and breakthrough “Uski ovaries nikaal do. that focus shouldn’t be just on how performance for Paul Walter Hauser. 4 ( $ ' % Na mamma banegi, na mia women are depicted or being The picks by the National Board of '( milega. Mamma Mia!” and looked at in films but also on Review, a long-running organisation “Kya tum meri tawayaf, oh, men. Actor Tillotama comprised of academics and film profes- wife banogi?” Shome of Hindi sionals, have in recent years seldom lined BP There’s not just one Medium-fame, up with eventual Academy Awards win- LD example. It was Shah had earlier ners. But its best-feature choice last year, Rukh Khan, who had said, “It’s Green Book, went on to triumph at the said that cinema in usually the Oscars. H India does not lend manly man, Other awards included: best ensem- + + itself to any idea that either ble to Rian Johnson’s whodunit Knives & "" degrades women, aggressive or Out; best screenplay to Uncut Gems; best calling the thought very conser- documentary to Maiden, about a historic ! “myopic.” Does he vative. The all-woman sailing crew; best foreign lan- "% remember his dia- stereotypes guage film to Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite; best +3 "! logue in Kuch Kuch are as dam- animated film to How to Train Your , Hota Hai where he aging for the Dragon: The Hidden World; best directo- said, “Squeeze man as it is rial debut to Melina Matsoukas (Queen & me?” And not to for the Slim); and Roger Deakins (1917?) for out- , forget, his “Tum ek woman, and it ing sexual violence against Indian say then? Kabir Singh hasn’t left any stone standing achievement in cinematography. ,L% patni ho, tumhara does impact soci- women because of its imagery and nar- unturned in glorifying abuse and vio- The board additionally bestowed its .% "3 "" " pati jaisa chahega, ety in taking for- ratives? Does Bollywood incite sex lence in the name of love. Also, let’s not freedom of expression award on both the O' 0 vaisa hi hoga ward those stereo- crimes? Well, if a man could slap his even go to the numerous examples of Death Row drama Just Mercy and the " kyunki yehi shaa- types.” beloved woman for not obeying him and stalking, which, as per Bollywood films, Syrian war documentary For Sama. di ka dastoor hai. So is there could be an Arijit Singh love song imply an act of wooing the girl. Josh, The awards will be handed out in a '3 % Sirf bistar par Bollywood to playing in the background, to which peo- Main Tera Hero, Badrinath Ki Dulhaniya, ceremony in New York on January 8, host- "" % sona hi biwi ka blame for foment- ple even hum along, what more could we Raanjhanaa are some examples. ed by Willie Geist. L" % " " , 3 & , ould you describe that How did you begin the radio Cmoment when you actually telemetry project to study king O 3 look into the eyes of a dangerous cobras? What were your biggest '" M snake? When was the first time )! (2!( !#! challenges and your most impor- you felt a personal connection tant lessons? with snakes? Romulus Whitaker started I don’t look at a snake with a 8 +(&07&8,% 7" 8 5"M7 85N, the King Cobra Radio Telemetry % pre-conceived idea that it is ‘dan- project at Agumbe and I was gerous’. I look at it with respect. "3 3 ! %-5& < <& instrumental in getting it off Every time I look into the eyes of ground and running it by sup- & ! the king cobra, I feel a connection Every time you rescue a king porting in various capacities. L H 2A M' and it helps me gauge its charac- cobra, you are in a way facing Challenges were in finding " ter. I have come to realise that death. This is because there is no snakes and tracking them every each snake has a character of its anti-venom for king cobra bites in minute of the day from dawn to " own. The first time I felt a connec- the country. I have rescued over dusk. The biggest challenge was (,L H 2A tion was during my college when 350 king cobras, which means I the relentless monsoon that typ- 0, " I used to visit Bannerghatta have died 350 times already if the ically lasts for four to five months. " , % National Park (in Bengaluru) and king cobras decide to bite me but During this time, keeping equip- ' 3,' , spend many hours observing king they don’t. I was bitten by a king ment dry, trekking on tough ter- cobras in the enclosure. Though cobra in 2005. I survived as it was rains, health issues and keeping ' M by this time I had caught many only a scratch and the snake did oneself dry to avoid fungus grow- " '% other snakes, it was the king not pump in enough venom in ing, became a task. During sum- ' " "! cobra I felt a connection with. me. That was the closest call. I mer, ticks were a challenge. Since " , think my superpowers are knowl- trackers were required to venture Tell us about some dangerous edge, respect and patience. deep into forests, it was important and miraculous experiences you to keep the anti-Naxal squad in %" have had. What is more danger- How different is it to encounter the loop all the time. I had to " ous — to rescue snakes in the a king cobra as compared to build trust and convince people wild or in the city? other dangerous snakes? Do you to accommodate trackers to " We need to understand that a see it as a majestic creature? pass/camp through their lands. snake is true to what it is. It’s us King cobra is undoubtedly a An important lesson was to who place ourselves in dangerous majestic creature. Being the keep the focus on the snake at any encounters. Some most challeng- longest venomous snake, one attending a university. The team ious aspects. He would keep the can share now? cost. And also make sure you H ing rescues were when I had to which stands on ground and was highly experienced, with team entertained with his witty Amazingly, snakes form a don’t step on other venomous ' rescue a king cobra from a well stares into your eyes, possessing great knowledge and understand- and funny jokes. This documen- pivotal character in the stories that snakes like common cobras, L H and the other was when I had to a huge quantity of venom that can ing about the subject and most tary was also a great way to net- we have listened to from our kraits, malabar pit viper and get remove one from a rooftop. deliver a fatal bite, and its unwa- importantly, very accommodating work. grandparents. For me, these sto- bitten. " , We only rescue a snake if it is vering demeanour, sets it apart and willing to help a relatively ries did not frighten, instead they " near human proximity. In the from all other snakes. Fear is not novice person on the sets. The How do you communicate intrigued me. Probably that is why Give us your thoughts about wild, the snake has ample space a word I would associate with my producer-director Harry Marshall with your team in the presence I sought to know more as I grew Rom Whitaker. How do you " and opportunity to escape and encounters or engagement with was very creative. He would of a snake? up. At 13, when I caught my first look up to him in this field of "" find refuge in other spaces still king cobras. I would rather call it sketch out scenes that not only Communicating in the pres- snake, I realised that snakes did study? close to other homes. While in big respect as this snake commands helped us coordinate and deliver ence of snakes was not tough at all not come back to take revenge or I have worked with Rom for H cities, the challenges are with it. what was expected but also as snakes cannot hear. This chase you. Instead, if given a 10 years. He is like a godfather H % narrow spaces where the rescuer reduced the risk which usually allowed us to speak and interact chance, they will try to escape. and a walking university from , "% needs to manoeuver the snake Tell us about the making of this comes when you are working with during shots and we did not have As for the secrets, they are whom I have learnt a lot. That , efficiently to ensure that it isn’t show — about the crew and how subjects like a king cobra. to worry about disturbing the now in the open for all to know kind of knowledge, perception '% " beaten or stressed. Hence, both they work with you in the wild. Alphonse Roy is a remarkable cin- snake with our voice. We only had if only they care to learn. I urge and vision cannot be found in any places have their challenges and This show has been a great ematographer and by far, one of to ensure that we did not make the younger generation today to book. He would list out things to , cannot be compared. 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How would you describe your 49 <8 ; journey till now as a former politi- cian, lawyer and chancellor of VIT? ) " -) ) It has been quite a journey. I came 3 " ( ( 4! +" 0()# 4' to Delhi as a Tamilian and became an '+,# , ) # . Indian. My early education was confined )) ) to a small village in Tamil Nadu. I was ) " ) 0 #4( good in academics right from my ; * * .". ! 6 +. E,) ' ." P childhood. I completed Advanced #) ) Management Programme at Harvard %,6 0%;;&:6 ;0;+7;0. " *. ! - " " ) 0 # Business School in 2003. I did my 7 # ) . ) ) Bachelors and Masters in Economics 4 * $ F) 3 *! * B # ) 4( ) from the prestigious Loyola College, # ) G 4' Chennai. I entered into politics in my because I feel they are not that capable ) " ) 0 twenties. I fought for people’s issues in to select as per their preferences as they # )0 the parliament and they, in turn, are fresh from schools. 7 # ) 4 reposed faith in me for fulfilling their expectations. They re-elected me by a How effective are the placements 1 % bigger margin in the next election for in VIT? 2# another five-year term. I travelled to dif- For the 8th time VIT has entered !15(%;D$. ferent parts of the world as a member the Limca Book of Records in its 2019 )) . of parliamentary delegations and appre- edition for campus placements. Earlier, ) # ciated issues in a global perspective. VIT has entered into the Limca Book Then I was elected to Tamil Nadu of records in 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015 (two # Legislative Assembly for 10 years. records), in 2016 for the highest num- , P During this period, I served as a ber of IT services placements and in M, 4N( Minister for two years. I founded the 2017 for the highest number of dream % Vellore Engineering College in 1984. I offers. E <# envisioned that this Institution would The PAT centre plays an integral <"( ) ) , 4' offer world-class education to students role in creating the placement record of , ,. , #) A who would in turn create an indelible VIT. It ensures smooth functioning of < 4( )E ., ) .15(%;D impact on the society. The engineering the placement activities in the campus. ) 5 .) .< 4 college that started with an intake of 180 The centre further facilitates training students in 1984, evolved as a univer- activities of the students and makes sure " ; % . sity in 2001. they get placed in the best of both 0 ))# national and international companies. ) . ) What all major changes have In 2018-19 alone, PAT has brought more # ) been incorporated since the univer- than 600 companies on campus for ) sity started? placements. Last year, the highest offer ) 4 Vellore Institute of Technology made was 39 lakh per year by ' * ) (VIT) was established with the aim of Microsoft. Over the years, many reput- 18% . # providing quality higher education on ed companies such as Intel, Ebay, * ) (. J par with international standards. It Amazon, Dell, GE, Texas Instruments, ) 2 ## persistently seeks and adopts innovative Schneider Electric, DE Shaw & Co, ) 4( ) methods to improve the quality of high- Hitachi, HP, PayPal, Tata Motors, L&T, ) , #.(." 8 .) 1 er education on a consistent basis. The Dr Reddy’s, Bosch, Deloitte, Morgan E# . #) # & " ) ) 4 Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) Stanley, Qualcomm, Ashok Leyland, . #; #, (. with various international universities Honda, Ford, Global Analytics, TCS, ) )) 4 are our major strength. They provide for Cognizant, Accenture, Wipro and an exchange of students and faculty and InfoSys have participated in hiring % "M"2 ( ) encourage joint research projects for the from VIT. ) mutual benefit of these universities. Wipro Technologies (Wipro Turbo) M # 8 Many of the students, who pursue made job offers to 238 students with a , "N their research projects in foreign univer- CTC (cost to company) of 6 lakh per # sities, bring high quality to their work annum from the 2019 graduating batch #)) and esteem to India. We have added Due to my passion for societal We have even established the Universal We have also introduced the fully of VIT. This is the highest number of ) # 4' ) another feather to the cap by securing development and compassion for the Higher Education Trust to create oppor- flexible credit system, where the students dream offers given by the company to the first rank among private institutions underprivileged, we have launched sev- tunities for higher education to every are allowed to choose their favorite sub- the students from a single institution. 8 ," in the country in the Atal Ranking of eral schemes for uplifting the women deserving student in the region. We have ject, professor, timing and building, too. Apart from Wipro the following MNC’s @N. Institutions on Innovation and unemployed youth in the region to adopted several villages with the motto We have given them complete flexibil- have given highest offers from a single ) . Achievements (ARIIA 2019) awarded by help them become self-reliant. We have of improving the quality of lives of the ity. Indirectly, it builds pressure on the Institution (VIT). Deloitte — 191 offers, ) the Ministry of Human Resource offered scholarships to students from rural people. I have a vision of trans- professor also. If he’s not good, the stu- Bank of America — 108 offers and Intel # 4( Development (MHRD), Government of disadvantaged sections of the society to forming Vellore into a greener and cool- dent will not choose him. Only in the — 147 offers. 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ust like violence, pollution leads to destruction. formed. As a result, the air covered that the wood of derstanding that best to find the solution but has also become a prob- In this regard, Vedas was clean and breathable. mango tree when burnt in a yajyen/havan generates car- nothing could be done. The Jlem for the nation, espe- state that by performing daily Some of the benefits of yajyen liberates formic alde- bon dioxide. But when car- country came to know about cially for the people in metro agnihotra/yajyen, pollution yajyen to destroy pollution hyde gas which destroys all bon dioxide comes out from yajyen, which revived the cities. But we should pay gets destroyed completely. are — when we add ghee and the harmful bacteria and havan, duly mixed with ghee forest. attention towards Vedic The problem of pollution samigri in the havankund makes the atmosphere pure. and other samigris, it We must understand that knowledge like Rigved remains unsolved because while saying the Ved mantras, A scientist named Tautlik becomes beneficial to all this grave problem of pollu- mantra, which focusses only man-made means are being the divine qualities of the it also discovered that if we humans. Burning of mango tion is universal and does not on the extreme happiness and adopted ignoring the divine ends the pollution and yajyen breathe yajyen smoke for wood does not liberate much pertain to a particular section prosperity and not on issues Vedic approach. purifies earth. God com- half an hour, the bacterias of of carbon-dioxide. or class. Therefore, like pollution. The study of mands in Yajurved mantra to typhoid are destroyed com- I can recall to have read yajyen/agnihotra is best The constitution of Mahabharata, Shastras and perform yajyen with Ved pletely. an article about a country, divine solution to counter Vedas governs the earth. Valmiki Ramayana reveals mantras, which helps to pre- Everybody knows that (most probably Chilli), where this problem from its roots. However, when people do that during previous yugas, vent infectious diseases and matters are never destroyed a forest dried up due to a (The author is the chief not follow Vedic rules, which there was no house where gives constant relaxation. A but they only change their virus in herbs and trees. The editor of Ved Ishvareeya vani, # emanate directly from god, it daily agnihotra was not per- French scientist, Trelle, dis- shape. There is also a misun- government tried their level a bi-annual magazine.) #" # ! " ( +"B"! +C he 33rd edition of the Guadalajara Constitutional Governor of the State of "#!( TInternational Book Fair (Feria Jalisco, Alejandra Frausto Guerrero, International del Libro de Guadalajara) Secretary of Culture of the was inaugurated in the Rulfo Government of Mexico, Luz Elena hotos of the winners of the Women of Arugam Bay” are Auditorium, Expo on Saturday with Gutiérrez de Velasco Romo, PAndrei Stenin International women from Sri Lanka who India as its Guest of Honour country. Spokesperson for the Jury of the FIL Photo Contest organised by the decided to learn how to wind- It is largest book fair of the Latin- Prize for Literature in Romance Rossiya Segodnya news agency, surf. One of the most staggering American region, and the second Languages 2019, David Huerta, win- under the patronage of the photos that took the first prize in largest book fair in the world after ner of the FIL Prize for Literature in Commission of the Russian the My Planet category is by Frankfurt Book Fair. Sanjay Dhotre, Romance Languages 2019. Federation for UNESCO, are Justin Sullivan of South Africa. Union Minister of State of Human On the occasion, two books of being displayed in the city for the It depicts an African elephant Resource Development, spoke on the National Book Trust, India were second consecutive year. that was killed by ivory-hunting occasion as the leader of the Indian del- released in Spanish translation, titled The exhibition at the poachers in Northern Botswana. egation, comprising over a hundred Stories from Bapu’s Life and Holidays AIFACS gallery at Sansad Marg The display includes photos delegates from India. have Come (by Rabindranath Tagore). is replete with dozens of photos taken by four winners from He emphasised on the cordial The National Book Trust has especial- by the world’s best young pho- India. Kolkata-based journalist Indo-Mexico cultural ties and ly published 12 of its titles into Spanish tographers from Russia, India, and freelance documentary pho- expressed his happiness over India translation through Mexican-based South Africa, Italy, the US, tographer Debarchan Chatterjee being chosen as the Guest Country as translators. France and many other coun- earned an honourable mention it is the first and only asian country to India represented books in English, tries. from the competition jury in the have been given this honour. Speaking Hindi, Sanskrit and Spanish. There was hen it comes to hospitality, beach resorts in the South such as part of this programme whenev- The highlight of the exhibi- Top News category for his photo about the 150th birth anniversary of author’s corner for literary events, WThailand is closer to perfec- Phuket to the mountainous sur- er they want to,” said Anil Dev, tion is the photographic series focussing on the protest move- Mahatma Gandhi being celebrated in digital exhibitions, Gandhi installation tion as it satisfies everyone of roundings in the North or the Managing Director, SLW. More The Wretched and the Earth ment. India this year, he said that his quote, and much more. The NBT India had diverse interest, age and budget. bustling cities of Bangkok and than 150 quality service providers taken by Italian Grand Prix win- The main objective of the “Let our lives be openbooks” is our also brought book fair representatives From pristine sandy beaches to Pattaya, there are golf courses to like Thai Airways, callaway and a ner Gabriele Cecconi. The series contest is to support young pho- motto because it represents the entire from Sahitya Akademi, Capexil, lush jungles, bustling busy cities to suit every preference. number of golf courses, resorts and is a truly tragic epic about the tographers and draw public atmosphere of interaction and commu- Vigyan Prasar, Lalit Kala Akademi, traditional villages, Michelin star To promote the golf experi- hotels have come on board as part- forced confrontation between attention to the challenges of nication of book fairs. IGNCA, ICCR, Central Hindi menus to roadside noodle stalls, ence, SLW, golf management com- ners,” he added. man and nature. It focusses on modern photojournalism. It’s a The Inaugural ceremony was also Directorate and CSTT, besides other historic Buddhist temples to 21st pany had launched the first ever The director of Tourism the Rohingya refugees and the venue for young photographers addressed by Raúl Padilla López, private publishers. In addition, more century sky scrapers, Thailand is loyalty programme in 2017. “Thai Authority of Thailand, Isra Southern regions of Bangladesh who are talented, sensitive and President of the book fair and Civil than 15 authors writing in different truly amazing. Golf Passport was launched in Stapanaseth congratulated the put on the brink of slow destruc- open to everything new. Association of the FIL Prize for liter- Indian languages and in different gen- It also has golf facilities. There India to offer Indian golfers a partners of Thai Golf Pass for the tion by their migration. The (The exhibition will remain ature in Romance Languages. He along res were also the part of various liter- are more than 200 golf courses seamless golf experience in success of the project as it is in the heroines captured by Francis open from 11 am to 7 pm till with Enrique Alfaro Ramírez, ary sessions during the nine-day fair. throughout the country. From the Thailand. Indian golfers can be a third edition now. Rousseau (France) for “The December 5.)
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ormer West Indies speedster & " Ian Bishop says the foundation Fof India’s “another level” fast bowling unit was laid by the likes of # legendary Kapil Dev and built on by current captain Virat Kohli, who believes in the attack. (9 58&-& Simmons said: “I have worked He said Kohli’s passion to put with Monty before and he is an together a strong fast-bowling unit he West Indies on Wednesday excellent coach. He has proven he has made it easier to build on the Tnamed Monty Desai as their has the ability to get players to 1 ) ) ) ## '( foundation that Kapil laid. batting coach ahead of the limited- improve on their talent and also to “Let’s remember that this group overs series against India. perform better in matches. of bowlers did not emanate right Desai, who has been handed a “He has vast knowledge of the D )P now. The foundation was laid — if two-year contract, has joined the game and it is good he is starting you go back to Kapil (Dev) and team here before the the first T20. here with us in India. I look forward down the line, Javagal Srinath, He has held coaching roles to seeing him work with our bats- ) Zaheer Khan, Munaf Patel, with Afghanistan, Nepal, Canada, men in all formats as we look to get Sreesanth,” Bishop said in an inter- Indian regional teams and IPL sides better in all areas.” view with ESPNCricinfo. Rajasthan Royals and Gujarat Lions Desai, on his part, said he is 1 :## “Now it’s been built on with a in a career of over 12 years. looking forward to being part of a captain who likes fast bowlers, who “Desai joined the West Indies journey to create a winning work (9 58&-& believes in them. But also the fact ahead of the start of the T20 environment. that you’ve found a generational tal- International Series against India, “I am eager to join forces with est Indies coach Phil Simmons says ent in Jasprit Bumrah. which bowls off on Friday, Head Coach, Phil Simmons and Whis bowlers will have to avoid being “Generational because he plays December 6 at the Rajiv Gandhi Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams, “too scared” of Virat Kohli when they take all formats of the game very well. Stadium in Hyderabad,” the West and our Captains, such that I may on India in a limited-overs series as it will And (Mohd) Shami has taken his Indies Cricket Board said. contribute in every possible way to make the already difficult task of getting game to another level. Ishant West Indies head coach Phil the success of our team.” the Indian skipper out, tougher. (Sharma) has also gone up another Stating that Kohli is a “difficult propo- level,” he added. sition” to dismiss, Simmons jovially listed The 52-year-old Bishop, who “There are so many. Jofra always a hope to do so. some out of the box ideas to get the pro- took 161 wickets in 43 Tests between Archer. I almost feel when he’s on “Well, you always have a chance lific batsman out. 1989 and 1998, said he couldn’t have song that it’s the perfect streamlined of winning. (But) How many peo- “One, I can make him bat with a predicted that India’s fast bowlers technique. Naseem Shah. Jasprit ple come to India and beat India? It’s stump. Two, we can sign a book and in the would come to the Caribbean and Bumrah. Mohammed Shami — oh a cauldron. My expectation and ODIs, we can give him a 100 and bowl at do to the West Indians what they did god, I love Shami! That whole core hope is for them (West Indies) to the rest of the players or we can make sure to others so many decades ago. group of what India bring, where I win — but if they don’t, I’m not that our plans to him are spot on,” he said “So credit to Bharath Arun, the don’t want to pick anyone and say, going to be put off. when asked what are his plans to deal with bowling coach, and the administra- ‘This one more than the other’. “This is what I want people in Kohli. tors and captains. I couldn’t see this “If I had to pick the best tech- the Caribbean particularly to under- “We can make sure that the bowlers much (improvement), but I thought nique right now, Jofra Archer when stand: India are a dominant force in don’t get too scared of him. But in the end, there was a great deal of promise in he’s firing. But, I am salivating the world game. West Indies can’t go may be two can bowl at him at the same having guys who could bowl close about world cricket (because of fast from winning one World Cup game time. You never know what can happen but to, or over, 90mph,” he said. bowling talent). That is exciting.” to beating a team that got to the it’s a difficult proposition to get Virat Kohli He, however, refused to com- Bishop also named uncapped semi-finals of that World Cup with out,” he added. pare the Indian unit to the fearsome 21-year-old Uttar Pradesh pacer assurance. Admitting that India are not an easy West Indians of the past. Shivam Mavi and 19-year-old “The fans will want to see vic- team to beat anywhere in the world, the “Well, they (Indians) have been Rajasthan’s Kamlesh Nagarkoti as the tory, but what I’m saying is, maybe 56-year-old former all-rounder called on performing that well that the com- future prospects for India. this Indian tour is a bridge too soon. his players to utilise their past experiences parisons are going to come. I would “I’m eagerly waiting to see if If it doesn’t happen, all is not lost.” to get the better of Kohli and his men. want to stay away from it, because Shivam Mavi and Kamlesh He said West Indies’ limited “Last year we had some T20s and ODIs I don’t know how you measure it. Nagarkoti can be fit and continue overs tour of India will serve as a in India and we weren’t miles apart. We had “When people talk about their progress. Nagarkoti, in partic- good preparation for next year’s T20 one game where I think we were tied. So (Michael) Holding and (Joel) Garner ular.” World Cup. we weren’t that far apart,” Simmons said. and (Malcolm) Marshall and (Colin) Describing India as a “cauldron” “Victory will be important, but “We have to look back at what we did Croft and (Andy) Roberts — who and dominant force in world crick- if it doesn’t happen against this then and see how much we can add to that bowled together for so many years et, Bishop said a T20 World Cup tri- dynamic Indian team, it is not, now because they have added things to — how do you compare with that?” umph does not mean that the West ‘Break the house down and build it their games. We have to make sure that we he asked. Bishop was also reluctant Indies can beat Virat Kohli’s men over’. It is about fine-tuning their have to get better than last time because to pick the best among the current during the limited-overs series game for the T20 World Cup next India is not easy. India is India,” he told crop of fast bowlers in the world. 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Yaiming to replace Hardik Pandya in India’s T20 the other. not only develop speed but watching the video posted on set’, ‘go’ to doing stretching Since the time of squad but is certainly looking to make the most At times, the queue in can also deal with pressure the BCCI website, the pur- exercises and suddenly get- Shankar Basu, the Indian of the opportunities that are coming his way. front had a handkerchief that there is someone hot on pose of the drill is to enhance ting up and sprinting. team’s training methods Pandya has been out of the team for more than placed on the back of their his heels chasing. running speed development Then during one such changed drastically and there a month because of a back injury that needed a shorts and those in the sec- “Players either chase and enhancing the training set, players had one hand are times fun elements were surgery in England. He is currently undergoing ond line would try to chase someone or be chased which environment through com- ‘virtually tied’ to the back introduced in order to make rehabilitation and that has paved the way for & %2 & down and pluck it out. increases sprinting intent,” a petition,” the trainer while sprinting. mundane sessions interest- Shivam to make the team and he is now gearing ) P ) ) 2P ) It is learnt that the Indian senior IPL team trainer, who explained. “Changing different ing. up for the upcoming limited-overs series against the West Indies. Asked whether he is looking to oust Hardik from the team, Shivam said: “I don’t think it’s an ! 2 ; ! # 5 5 . opportunity to replace Hardik but I think I have got a chance and I will try to do well for my coun- try. I have got a job for my country and I will try 4-& the year,” the ICC said in a statement. 4 to do that better.” Australian fast bowler Mitchell Starc 5. "&'< D Primarily a bowling all-rounder, who can hit ndia captain Virat Kohli on Wednesday is another Australia player to gain in the 6 - big shots, Shivam will be aiming to assert him- Iregained the top spot in the International latest rankings, he moved up four places 7&8& ( self more in the upcoming T20 games . Cricket Council’s (ICC) Test rankings to 14th after grabbing seven wickets in the easoned South In the three matches he has played so far, after Australian Steve Smith slipped a rung Adelaide Test. SAfrican fter creating flutter during his Test Shivam hasn’t done anything remarkable, except in the latest list issued. Pakistan’s Babar Azam has moved up Mickey Arthur is Adebut in Australia, 16-year-old for that three-wicket burst against Bangladesh, but Kohli, who had struck a fine 136 in the two places to 13th, thanks to his fight- set to take over as Pakistan pace sensation Naseem Shah the lanky all-rounder said he enjoys the support day-night Kolkata Test against Bangladesh ing knock of 97 in the first innings, Sri Lanka’s new will now spearhead the national under- of skipper Virat Kohli and the team management. last week to reach 928 points, is now five while left-handed opener Shan national cricket 19 team’s bowling attack in next month’s “Everyone is supporting me. The support from points clear after Smith’s knock of 36 Masood has gained 10 places to coach on a two- ICC youth World Cup in South Africa. captain and the team management was really good in the Adelaide Test against Pakistan reach a career-best 47th position. year contract The head coach of the Pakistan for me. They gave me a lot of confidence. So, I feel saw him slip to 923 points from 931 England captain Joe Root is with Grant juniors Ejaz Ahmed confirmed on really happy and relaxed in the dressing room,” before the match. back in the top 10 after spending a Flower and ,)" " Wednesday that he has asked chief selec- he said. Cheteshwar Pujara has held week outside it, his innings of David Sekar as tor and national bowling coach Waqar Insisting that fitness is key to success for an on to his fourth spot, while 226 pulling him up to seventh his support staff. According to a report in Younis to release Naseem from the all-rounder, Shivam said he is confident about his Ajinkya Rahane has come down from 11th. Rory Burns’ sec- ESPNCricinfo, Flower will be Sri Lanka’s bat- senior outfit for the youth World Cup. bowling skills. a spot to sixth in the latest ond Test ton has pushed him ting coach for the limited-overs format, “Like I said before he will be our “It’s always difficult being an all-rounder. Most update. into the top 40 for the first time. while Sekar will be their new bowling coach. main weapon in the mega event and I important for me is to maintain my fitness levels Among the bowlers, Jasprit For New Zealand, Ross Australian Shane McDermott has want him to join the training camp with because as an all-rounder, you need to both bat Bumrah is the highest-placed Taylor has gained two places to already been roped in as team’s new field- the junior players at the National + # ) ) and bowl. So, maintaining fitness is really a dif- Indian at the fifth position. reach 16th among batsmen and ing coach. Cricket Academy in Lahore,” he said. &7- )' ) (H' ficult job,” he said. Senior off-spinner R Ashwin Tim Southee has moved up one “They will all be joining on two-year The former Test captain, who “I am very confident of my bowling. In T20 was also static at ninth in place to 13th among bowlers. contracts,” Sri Lanka Cricket CEO Ashley De recently guided the Pakistan Emerging pion India is the team to beat in the games, every bowler gets a bad as well as a good the rankings. West Indies captain Jason Silva was quoted as saying. side to the Asian Emerging Nations Cup Youth World Cup. game. So, I try to prepare myself in very good sit- “Australia opener Holder’s five wickets have helped him The 51-year-old Arthur, who has served title, said once Naseem joined the “Naseem will add a lot of potency uations and I feel that I can be a proper bowler David Warner’s epic move up one slot to third place with as South Africa and Pakistan’s national junior team the pace attack would look to our attack as we have some other very who can bowl four overs. I have done that job,” 335 not out has lifted a career-best 830 rating points and coach, will be Sri Lanka’s 11th coach in the very menacing. good young pace bowlers and spinners,” he added. him 12 places to the he has also consolidated his posi- last eight years. Naseem made his debut in the first he said. Shivam rated the West Indies as a good T20 fifth position while tion at the top of the all- His first assignment will be a tour of Test at Brisbane and impressed with his The defeated Pakistan squad is due side but said he is confident of India pocketing Marnus rounders’ list. Pakistan later this month. pace but was then sidelined for the sec- to return from Australia by Thursday the series easily. Labuschagne is in Rahkeem Cornwall has Flower was until recently head coach of ond day and night Test in Adelaide with night and a source said Ejaz will meet “They (West Indies) have got a good T20 side the top 10 for the broken into the top 50 with a Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) side Waqar insisting that it was a decision with Misbah and Waqar the next day to but we have prepared very nicely. I think India is first time after being 10-wicket haul while Rangpur Rangers, while Saker, who has been based on workload management. He confirm on Naseem joining the camp the best team in world cricket and we will win the ranked as low as Shamarh Brooks rises 68 involved with the likes of England and took one wicket his debut Test. and take a progress report about his fit- series,” he said. 110th at the start of places to 62nd. Australia, was bowling coach of USA. Ejaz also said that defending cham- ness.