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PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 4, ISSUE 9 | Tuesday, 9 January 2018 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS pNIFTY 10,623.60 (+64.75) pSENSEX 34,352.79 (+198.94) pDOW JONES 25,295.87 (+220.74) pNASDAQ 7,136.56 (+58.64) qRUPEE/DOLLAR 63.51 (-0.14) pRUPEE/EURO 76.06 (+0.32) pGOLD/10GM 30,480 (+30.00) qSILVER/K 39,880 (-120.00) MERCURY INCHES OPPOSED TO US ‘FINGER ‘OLD STORY’ IN PRIYANKA CHOPRA TOWARDS 100C AS POINTING’ AT PAK ON NEWLANDS AS SUPPORTS TIME’S KOLKATANS SCURRY TERROR-RELATED INDIA SURRENDER UP CAMPAIGN FOR WOOLLENS PG4 ISSUES: CHINA PG10 BY 72 RUNS PG14 PG16 Centre asks SC CM INAUGURATES WEEK-LONG UTTAR BANGA UTSAV 1st ever all-India traffic to modify order on playing of Mamata promises full support conference in city to anthem in halls promote road safety MPOST BUREAU PRITESH BASU NEW DELHI: In a change of for development of the Hills stand, the Centre on Monday KOLKATA: For the first time suggested the Supreme Court OUR CORRESPONDENT congratulate them all,” she said. ever, a two-day-long All India to modify its earlier order Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) Traffic Conference will be held making it mandatory for cin- DARJEELING: Urging the people of leaders Tamang and Thapa, who in Kolkata during the Road ema halls to play the national North Bengal Hills to remain peace- rebelled against the GJM chief Bimal Safety Week as part of the Safe anthem before screening of a ful, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Gurung during the Gorkhaland agita- Drive Save Life campaign. feature film. on Monday said her government will tion in Darjeeling, have been appointed Sources said that letters It said an inter-ministerial provide all support to the Gorkhaland to the board of administrators of the have already been sent out to committee has been set up as Territorial Administration (GTA) and GTA by the state government. the police top brass in all the out the Safe Drive Save Life framing of guidelines describ- work relentlessly for development of Besides, Gorkha National Libera- states inviting them to take part campaign. On Monday, there ing circumstances and occa- the region. tion Front (GNLF) chief Mann Ghis- in the all India conference. It is was a discussion regarding the sions on which the national Inaugurating the week-long Uttar ing has been given the chairmanship learnt that senior police offi- same at the state Secretariat. anthem is to be played or Banga Utsav (North Bengal Festival) of newly constituted Hill Area Devel- cers, handling traffic-related Though the panel of speak- sung, and observance of in Siliguri’s Kanchenjunga Stadium, opment Committee. issues in other states, will be ers is yet to be finalised, sources proper decorum on such the Chief Minister said: “The people She also stated that projects are participating. said senior police officers with occassions requires extensive of North Bengal can no more com- being taken up for the socio-economic This comes at a time when wide experience of working consultations. plain that North Bengal is neglected. development of the tea garden work- Bengal has gained huge suc- in traffic management will be The government said the We have always given priority to these ers. “A new Tea Directorate has been cess in reducing both fatal and present along with speakers top court may "consider the res- regions. The people of North Bengal opened up along with a welfare board non-fatal road accidents with from other states as well. toration of status quo ante until love me and I have been visiting these for tea garden workers with schemes Chief Minister Mamata Baner- It may be mentioned that then i.e restoration of the posi- parts at least once every month. The working for the development of these will come to visit it,” stated Banerjee. amounting to Rs 100 crore being jee’s statewide Safe Drive Save Bengal was one of the states in tion as it stood before the order recent tourism festival in the Hills was parts. She stated that new airports are launched for them,” she stated. Life campaign. Moreover, the the country where many peo- passed by this court on Novem- very successful. I want the people of “We are establishing road networks being built in Balurghat and Malda She also said that she would be vis- Road Safety Committee of the ple lost their lives due to road ber 30, 2016" as it mandates the this region to be peaceful and happy. with neighbouring countries — Ban- respectively. “Air Deccan will soon start iting Alipurduar district on Tuesday Supreme Court has specially accidents. As soon as it came to playing of the National Anthem Our government will provide full sup- gladesh, Bhutan and Nepal. A corridor a Kolkata-Cooch Behar service. Cooch from where a host of development proj- acknowledged her role and the Chief Minister’s notice, the in all cinemas before the feature port to the GTA for the development connecting North Bengal with South Behar has already been declared a heri- ects will be inaugurated. the Bengal government for its statewide Safe Drive Save Life film starts. The government of Hills.” Bengal is being constructed at a cost of tage town,” she remarked. As many as nine persons were excellent performance. campaign was initiated in July said it has decided to constitute She stated that North Bengal is a Rs 3 and a half crore,” she added. She stated that tourists have already awarded the “Banga Ratna” award from The Road Safety Week had 2016. With continuous moni- an inter-ministerial commit- land of mountains, forests, rivers and The CM further stated that National started visiting the Darjeeling Hills. “If the inaugural ceremony of the Uttar been continuing for several toring and extensive campaigns tee headed by Additional Sec- docile, friendly people. “We have been Highway 55 connecting Darjeeling to the Hills remain peaceful, tourism will Banga Utsav by the Chief Minister. years now in a bid to make peo- since then, the state has wit- retary (Border Management), constantly striving for the betterment the plains is being repaired at Pagla- automatically grow.” “Festivals such as these are very ple aware of the traffic norms nessed a reduction in road acci- Ministry of Home Affairs, with and development of North Bengal from jhora along with the stretch of NH-10 “Binay (Tamang) and Anit (Thapa) important as it gets people together, considering that it helps to dents by 16.06 percent, injuries representatives from various the Hills to the foothills, incorporating from Siliguri to Sikkim. are now working in the GTA. There despite differences,” she remarked. bring down the number of due to accidents have dropped other ministries, including the all the districts in our stride,” she stated. On the tourism front, Gajoldoba, is another development board led by Similar festivals including Vivek road accidents drastically. This by 12.10 percent and fatalities Ministries of Defence, External She further said that the North Ben- 25 km from Darjeeling is being devel- Mann Ghishing here. There are at Utsav, Subash Utsav, Chhatro Utsav, year, the Road Safety Week has have gone down by 13.34 per- Affairs, Culture, Woman and gal Development department, Tourism oped as a major tourism hub. “I have least 12-13 development boards in Bigyan Utsav and Krishi Utsav are in begun from Monday and it will cent during the period of Jan- Child Development and Par- department and the Siliguri Jalpaig- named it Bhorer Alo (morning light.) the Darjeeling Hills working for the the offing and will be commemorated continue till January 13. uary-October, 2017, compared liamentary Affairs. uri Development Authority have been Soon people from all across the state development of the region. I wish to at all the blocks of the state. This is the first time when to that of the same period of the Kolkata Police are going to time in 2016. If we had taken our organise the All India Traffic Now, according to senior Former Indian Bank Conference that will be held on police officers, the All India chances in the first innings, Aadhaar leak: Govt on backfoot as January 11 and 12 respectively Traffic Conference is going to even after them counter- CMD convicted by when awareness campaigns be another major step to bring attacking, we could have kept through the Road Safety Week down the number of road SC says allow freedom of expression will continue in full swing. accidents further as many new them to 220 special CBI court According to a senior police aspects would come up during VIRAT KOHLI officer, the All India Traf- the event on which there will Centre in damage-control mode after outcry OUR CORRESPONDENT fic Conference is going to be be further discussions and if organised at Netaji Indoor Sta- necessary, the same could be In today’s OUR CORRESPONDENT appreciate if Tribune and its jour- dium where the top brass of the implemented to ensure a safe nalist have any constructive sug- NEW DELHI: Former Chairman- Kolkata Traffic Police will share and secure road transport sys- paper NEW DELHI: Amid outrage on gestion to offer,” the UIDAI said cum-Managing Director of Indian their experiences of carrying tem for commoners. the FIR lodged over the reporting in a tweet. Bank M Gopalakrishnan and two ... of alleged Aadhaar data breach, the The FIR had attracted sharp other ex-officials of the bank have AGUSTAWESTLAND CHOPPER CASE CITY government went on the defensive criticism from various media been convicted by a special CBI on Friday said it had been filed organisations and bodies, includ- court in Chennai nearly 25 years COAST GUARD BOLSTERS SECURITY 4 against “unknown” accused while ing The Editors Guild of India after they committed cheating of Italy court acquits asserting its commitment to the which sought withdrawal of the about Rs 18.80 crore, an agency NATION freedom of the press. »»UIDAI also said it would case. spokesperson said on Monday. TUTING INCIDENT RESOLVED 7 The Supreme Court which approach the news- The Editor-in-Chief of The He said the special CBI court, two top executives is hearing a petition challenging paper and its reporter Tribune, Harish Khare, had said Chennai, sentenced Gopalakrish- EDIT the validity of Aadhaar, mean- for cooperation in the in a statement on Sunday that “the nan, A V Shanmugasundaram, the MILAN: An Italian court on handed a four- year jail term while, made it clear that politi- authorities have misconceived an then Zonal Manager in New Delhi, Monday acquitted Giuseppe on the same charges, was also OLD-SCHOOL MAGIC 8 investigation of the al- cians should “allow freedom of leged data breach honest journalistic enterprise and Satish Kumar, then Assistant Orsi, the former president of cleared, Italian news agency INTERNATIONAL expression” during the hearing on and have proceeded to institute General Manager, Indian Bank, defence and aerospace giant ANSA reported. another case. »»Govt extends deadline criminal proceedings against the New Delhi to three years of rigor- Finmeccanica, of charges The case against Orsi and 26/11 SURVIVOR EMOTIONAL 10 A day after the Delhi Police for Aaadhar linkage to whistleblower”. ous imprisonment and fines from related to alleged bribes paid Spagnolini resulted from an confirmed registering of an FIR on small savings schemes In a related development, Rs 30,000 to Rs 1.40 lakh. in exchange for a Rs 3,600 crore investigation launched in 2012 BUSINESS January 5, based on a complaint Government has extended the It was alleged in the FIR that VVIP chopper deal to sell 12 into the sale of 12 luxury heli- DOT WORRIED ABOUT CALL DROPS 12 by Aadhaar-issuing body UIDAI, deadline for linking of biometric Shanmugasundaram, Satish Kumar AgustaWestland helicopters to copters to India. IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad against “unknown”. identification Aadhaar to small and Gopalakrishnan conspired dur- India. India had scrapped the con- SPORT took to Twitter to clarify the gov- “I’ve suggested UIDAI to savings schemes like post office ing August 1989 and August 1993 Orsi was arrested in 2014 tract with Finmeccanica's Brit- ernment’s position on the issue. request Tribune and its journal- deposits, Kisan Vikas Patra by with the Director of Scantel Pvt Ltd and resigned as chief executive ish subsidiary AgustaWestland AUSTRALIA ROUT ENGLAND 14 “The government is fully com- ist to give all assistance to police three months to March 31, 2018. and Allied Equipment and Services of the aerospace group which in January 2014 for supplying mitted to freedom of the press in investigating real offenders,” “It has now been decided to Ltd, New Delhi. was later renamed as Leonardo. 12 AW-101 VVIP choppers as well as to maintaining secu- he said. extend the last date for submission "In pursuance of the conspiracy, Orsi was at the helm of to the Indian Air Force over FOR ADVERTISING rity and sanctity of Aadhaar for The UIDAI also said on Mon- of ‘Aadhaar’ number from Decem- the accused released Rs 18.08 crore AgustaWestland when the the alleged breach of contrac- kindly contact at 9810195709 India’s development. FIR is against day that it is committed to the ber 31, 2017, to March 31, 2018,” a as credit facility to the said Director deal was struck, and he is sus- tual obligations and charges of or unknown,” he said. freedom of the press and will Finance Ministry notification said. of a private firm who cheated the pected of involvement in the kickbacks paid by the firm for [email protected] Though the complaint by approach the newspaper and its BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha on Indian Bank," CBI Spokesperson payment of bribes. He had been securing the deal. Unique Identification Author- reporter for cooperation in the Monday wondered if the people Abhishek Dayal said. sentenced to four-a-half-years India's defence ministry had ity of India (UIDAI) named four investigation of the alleged data of the country were living in a He said after completion of the years in jail for false accounting ordered a CBI probe into the FOR SUBSCRIPTION persons, including the Chandi- breach. “banana republic”, saying a jour- investigation, charge sheet was filed and corruption. allegations of kickbacks to the kindly contact at 8800854665 garh -based daily The Tribune’s “We’re going to write to @thet- nalist who did a story to highlight before the designated court at Chen- Bruno Spagnolini, a for- tune of Rs 362 crore after the or reporter who had filed the story ribunechd and @rachnakhaira to the misuse of Aadhaar details was nai for criminal conspiracy cheating mer CEO of the company's arrest of Orsi and Spagnolini [email protected] on alleged breach in Aadhaar give all assistance to investigate being hauled up for reporting an and provisions of prevention of cor- helicopters subsidiary Agus- by Italian investigators in con- database, Prasad said the FIR was to nab the real culprits. We also “alleged truth”. ruption Act. taWestland, who had also been nection with the case. See P5 SC to review its order which SMOOTH SAILING FOR THE FILM IS, HOWEVER, NOT YET GUARANTEED decriminalised gay sex Padmavat to release on January 25, MPOST BUREAU indulging in consensual gay sex. Senior advocate Arvind Datar, appear- NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ing for Johar, said the penal provision was Rajasthan govt says won’t allow it on Monday referred to a larger bench a unconstitutional as it also provided prose- plea seeking decriminalisation of gay sex cution and sentencing of consenting adults MPOST BUREAU allow the release of Padmavat in various Rajput groups, primar- between two consenting adults. who are indulging in such sex. the state. ily the Karni Sena, alleged that it A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak "You can't put in jail two adults who NEW DELHI: Deepika Padu- On December 30, Censor distorted history, a claim repeat- Misra and Justices A M Khanwilkar and D are involved in consenting unnatural sex," kone-starrer Padmavat is set to Board chief Prasoon Joshi had edly denied by Bhansali. As pro- Y Chandrachud said the issue arising out Datar said and referred to a recent nine- hit the screens on January 25 after announced that the film, based tests spread and the cast received of section 377 of the Indian Penal Code judge bench judgement in the privacy mat- months of uncertainty and violent on a 16th-century poem on leg- violent threats, the film's makers (IPC) required to be debated upon by a ter to highlight the point that the right to protests that led to the controver- endary queen Padmini, would be deferred its release. larger bench. choose a sexual partner was part of the fun- sial film’s name being changed given a U/A certificate and sug- Smooth sailing for the film is, Section 377 of the IPC refers to 'unnat- damental right. from ‘Padmavati’. gested that the makers change the however, not yet guaranteed with ural offences' and says whoever voluntarily He also referred to the 2009 Delhi High Sources in Viacom18, the pro- film's title to 'Padmavat'. A U/A the Karni Sena pushing for a com- has carnal intercourse against the order of Court judgement delivered on a plea of ducers of the film, confirmed the certificate means all age groups plete ban. "Members of the Rajput nature with any man, woman or animal, NGO 'Naz Foundation' in which the pro- film’s new release date. A Janu- can view the film. community will gather in Chittor- shall be punished with imprisonment for vision was held unconstitutional. ary 25 release means Sanjay Leela The Central Board of Film garh on January 27 to give a clear life, or with imprisonment of either descrip- Subsequently, the apex court in 2014 Bhansali’s film will clash with Certification (CBFC) had also message that the sacrifice of Rani tion for a term which may extend to ten had set aside the high court judgement Akshay Kumar-starrer Padman at suggested certain modifications Padmavati has not gone in vain. years, and shall also be liable to pay a fine. and termed the provision as constitutional. the box office during the Republic in the disclaimer of the film, mak- Anyone who supports our call The bench was hearing a fresh plea filed After the dismissal of the review plea Day weekend. ing it clear that it did not glorify in it. fications were carried out and the of banning the film can join us by one Navtej Singh Johar seeking to declare against the 2014 judgement, a curative plea Meanwhile, Rajasthan Home the practice of "Sati", and relevant The CBFC had clarified that final material was submitted. in Chittorgarh,” the group’s chief section 377 as unconstitutional to the extent was filed which was referred to a larger Minister Gulab Chand Kataria changes in the song, "Ghoomar", the U/A certificate would be The film was to release on Lokendra Singh Kalvi said at a that it provides prosecution of adults for bench. See P5 said that the state govt would not to befit the character portrayed issued to the film once the modi- December 1 but was stalled after press conference last week. 2 mp around town MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 DAYINDAYOUT TIMING: 6 pm onwards What’s on Around Town SIZZLING SIZZLERS It’s time to dig into the exotic spread of KASHI KE RANG vegetarian and non-vegetarian sizzlers A solo show of paintings and sculp- such as Mix Meat Sizzlers, Aqua Sizzlers, tures by Benaras-based artist, Mamta Surf and Turf Sizzlers, Indi Barbeque Malhotra, showcases a delicate balance Sizzlers, Sweet Sizzlers and much more between art and architecture. Malhotra at Lounge and Bar. Served with perfect views the city of temples through the ka- accompaniments like potato wedges, leidoscope of Makar Sankranti, and cap- crispy salad and garlic crostinis; the tures the soul of Kashi in dazzling detail. unique mix of aromas and flavours of Her work celebrates a coming of spring, these piping hot plates will set your taste blooming of flowers, an awakening of buds on fire. nature and a time of richness for Benaras WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Lounge and that has been through a long and hard Bar, Eros Hotel, Nehru Place TIMINGS: winter of neglect and deprivation. 12 pm – 11 pm WHEN: January 9 – 14 WHERE: India Habitat Centre PARIS BALLET LEGENDS TIMINGS: 11 am – 7 pm Showcasing the best of ballet, Bonjour India’ 17-18 brings to you the most SABRANG 2018 loved and mesmerizing Paris Ballet In the loving memory of Pt. Acchan Opera, a classical and contemporary Maharaj, the great Kathak Legend of dance tribute to Paris, where ballet was Lucknow Gharana and father of Pt. born four centuries ago. The repertoire Birju Maharaj, a two-day live dance promises to take Indian audiences on a and music festival will be organised by journey through iconic classical and con- Ministry of Culture and Kalahetu. While temporary ballet. Each piece carries the the first day will see Hindustani Classical soul of legends be it the composer, the Night shift may put women at increased Music being performed by maestros, the choreographer, the dancer or the theme second day will bring together kathak from Petipa to Piaf, Bizet to Prvert, that dance performers on one stage. WHEN: was intimately inspired by Paris. January 9 – 10 WHEN: January 10 WHERE: Sirifort WHERE: Kamani Auditorium Auditorium TIMING: 7 pm onwards CANCER RISK MANORAMA unveils 2018 yearbook

omen who work in night shifts may cancer (28 per cent) compared with those be at a significantly higher risk of that did not work night shifts. breast, skin and stomach cancers, Of all the occupations analysed, nurses scientists have warned. had the highest risk of developing breast WSince breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer if they worked the night shift, cancer among women worldwide, most previous according to study published in the jour- meta-analyses have focused on understanding the nal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers association between female night shift workers and Prevention. and breast cancer risk, but the conclusions have “Nurses that worked the night shift been inconsistent. were of a medical background and may To build upon previous studies, researchers skin (41 have been more likely to undergo screening exami- from Sichuan University in China analysed whether per cent), breast (32 nations,” said Ma. long-term night shift work in women was associ- per cent), and gastrointestinal cancer “Another possible explanation for the increased ated with risk for nearly a dozen types of cancer. (18 per cent) compared with women who did not cancer risk in this population may relate to the job They performed a meta-analysis using data perform long-term night shift work. requirements of night shift nursing, such as more from 61 articles comprising 114,628 cancer cases After stratifying the participants by location, intensive shifts,” he said. and 3,909,152 participants from North America, researchers found that an increased risk of breast The researchers also performed a dose-response Europe, Australia, and Asia. cancer was only found among female night shift meta-analysis among breast cancer studies that OUR CORRESPONDENT Jayati Ghosh and others on dif- The articles consisted of 26 cohort studies, 24 workers in North America and Europe. involved three or more levels of exposure. ferent topics, this little guide is case-control studies, and 11 nested case-control “We were surprised to see the association They found that the risk of breast cancer THE 53RD EDITION of a must read. “Quiztival 2018” studies. These studies were analysed for an asso- between night shift work and breast cancer risk increased by 3.3 per cent for every five years of Manorama Yearbook has is another attraction for the ciation between long-term night shift work and only among women in North America and Europe,” night shift work. been published. The cover readers. risk of 11 types of cancer. said Xuelei Ma, from Sichuan University. “Our study indicates that night shift work story of this handy encyclo- With different sections on A further analysis was conducted, which looked “It is possible that women in these locations serves as a risk factor for common cancers in pedia this year is, “GST as the current affairs, science and specifically at long-term night shift work and risk have higher sex hormone levels, which have been women,” said Ma. Game Changer”, and it has medicine, IT, education and of six types of cancer among female nurses. positively associated with hormone-related can- “These results might help establish and imple- covered virtually all aspects career, India, world, Interna- Overall, long-term night shift work among cers such as breast cancer,” Ma said. ment effective measures to protect female night of GST. It would be very use- tional relations, GK, who is women increased the risk of cancer by 19 per cent. Among female nurses alone, those who worked shifters. Long-term night shift workers should ful for the students as well as who, sports and so forth, this When analysing specific cancers, the researchers the night shift had an increased risk of breast (58 have regular physical examinations and cancer professionals. book becomes handy for read- found that this population had an increased risk of per cent), gastrointestinal (35 per cent), and lung screenings,” he said. PTI With special articles by ers who wish to enhance their luminaries like Shashi Thar- knowledge and attempt com- oor, Shiv Khera, Sy. Quraishi, petitive exams. WHERE WORDS END, MUSIC BEGINS People lived well past 40 hushi Bombay Jayashree. The ‘Behala Classical Festival’ in its successful endeavour to promote Indian prior to modern medicine Classical Music has witnessed the pres- ence of many luminaries, who inspired true,” said Cave. “Once people are fully grown it becomes and influence many in the genre of “For people living traditional lives with- increasingly difficult to determine their age music. The four-day long festival show- out modern medicine or markets the most from skeletal remains, which is why most cased the participation of Sarod Maestro common age of death is about 70, and that studies just have a highest age category of Ustad Amjad Ali Khan, Flautist Expo- is remarkably similar across all different 40 plus or 45 plus,” she added. nent Hariprasad Chaurasia, Violinist cultures,” she said. “So effectively they don’t distinguish N. Rajam, Indian Vocalists Venkatesh Cave said the myth has been built up between a fit and healthy 40 year old and a Kumar, Jayanthi Kumaresh, Bombay due to deficiencies in the way older people frail 95 year old. Jayasri, renowned Sitar Player Ustad are categorised in archaeological studies. Cave said the new method will give Shahid Parvez Khan, and classical singer “Older people have been very much archaeologists a more accurate view of Dr Debashree Bhattacharya. ignored in archaeological studies and part past societies and what life was like for OUR CORRESPONDENT Ustad Amjad Ali Khan would be of the reason for that has been the inability older people. felicitated with Shyam sundar Co. jew- to identify them,” she said. For those in the three cemeteries she MUSIC IS THE SOCIAL act of com- eller’s ‘Sarvottam Samman’ during the “When you are determining the age of studied, she found a marked difference in munication among people; a strong closing ceremony i.e., on January 9, of children you use developmental points like the way male and female people of old age gesture of friendship, and so was the the festival for their immense contribu- tooth eruption or the fusion of bones were buried. call of “Behala Classical Festival” which tion to Indian Classical Music. that all happen at a cer- “Women were more likely to be given stepped in its sixth edition this year. Speaking on the occasion Rupak tain age,” she prominent burials if they died young, but Presented by Shyam Sundar Co. Jew- Saha, Director, Shyam Sundar Co. Jew- added. were much less likely to be given one if they ellers, the sixth season of the classical ellers said, “Indian music is said to be were old,” she said. festival will pay tribute to Pt. Ravi Shan- one of the oldest, unbroken musical “The higher status men are generally kar, and would be held on January 9 at traditions in the world. Many legends buried with weapons, like a spear and a the Behala Blind School Ground, Kol- have grown up concerning origins and shield or occasionally a sword. kata. The festival was inaugurated by development of Indian classical music. “Women were buried with jewellery, Partha Chatterjee, Minister of School The younger generations too are closely like brooches, beads and pins. This high- Education, Higher Education, Parlia- knitted with the Indian classical music t was common for people to live to old lights their beauty which helps explain why mentary Affairs, Govt. of West Bengal because its essence cannot be ignored. ages in cultures throughout history, a most of the high-status burials for women and Debasish Kumar, Member, Mayor- It has always been a great pleasure to study has found, dispelling the myth were for those who were quite young,” In-Council in the august presence of the be associated with Behala Classical that most humans did not survive past she said. PTI doyens of Indian Classical Music, Bid- Festival.” I40 prior to modern medicine. Christine Cave from Australian National University (ANU) has developed a new method for determining the age-of- death for skeletal remains based on how worn the teeth are. Using her method, which she devel- oped by analysing the wear on teeth and comparing with living populations of com- parable cultures, she examined the skele- tal remains of three Anglo-Saxon English cemeteries for people buried between the years 475 and 625. The research, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, deter- mined that it was not uncommon for people to live to old age. “People sometimes think that in those days if you lived to 40 that was about as good as it got. But that’s not

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For editorial, call: 9836072100 city 3 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp State govt to compensate 2,300 left jobless as 2 Jalpaiguri family members of labourer Noapara bypoll: BJP files new tea gardens found dead in Gujarat shut down OUR CORRESPONDENT cials informed them about candidate post Manju debacle OUR CORRESPONDENT the Chief Minister’s decision KOLKATA: The state gov- and that on Tuesday they DARJEELING: Two tea gar- ernment has decided to give would be getting a cheque Partha Chatterjee, Anubrata Mondal train gun on Mukul Roy over ‘gimmicks’ dens in the Jalpaiguri district financial assistance to the fam- worth Rs 2.5 lakh. have been shut down with the ily members of a 22-year-old It may be recalled that OUR CORRESPONDENT Trinamool Congress dis- some corruption charges management of both the gar- youth who was killed when he the Chief Minister had also trict president in Birbhum against Mondal holding him dens putting up work suspen- went to work in Gujarat. condemned the murder of KOLKATA: After former Tri- Anubrata Mondal also responsible in land related sion notices thereby rendering Sources said the Mohammad Afrazul in Raj- namool Congress legislator launched a scathing attack on corruption. 2,300 workers jobless. Mamata Banerjee govern- asthan and also announced a Manju Basu declined to stand Mukul Roy on Monday by call- Mondal on Monday organ- ment will be handing over a compensation of Rs 3 lakh to on BJP’s ticket for Noapara by- ing him “nothing less than a ised a Brahmin convention and In the past, the cheque of Rs 2.5 lakh to the his family and a job to one of elections on Sunday, BJP was thief”. He raised questions over said the convention aims to garden had youth’s mother. his family members. compelled to field a new can- how Roy has been amassing so highlight “misinterpretation” of It may be recalled that the There were some more inci- didate in the assembly seat on much wealth over the years. the Hindu religion by the BJP. witnessed a victim Madhu Sarkar was a dents in which people from Monday. BJP’s new candidate, “He did not have a broken State Food & Supplies min- similar lock out in resident of North Point in Bengal were killed when they 38-year-old Sandip Banerjee, car 35 years ago. How did he ister and TMC district pres- December 2015. Alipurduar. went to work in Kerala and is the party’s Barrackpore dis- Manju Basu earn money over the years? ident of North 24-Parganas He went to work in a Odisha. trict chief. Everything will come to light Jyotipriya Mallick said Roy was Around 1,500 timber mill in Gujarat and Being concerned over Trinamool Congress on “Someone’s loyalty towards should first secure his place gradually. He has been involved trying to sideline Bengal BJP workers were he was found murdered at the safety and security of the Monday took a swipe at ex- Mamata Banerjee cannot be within the party he has entered. in the corruption of crores,” chief Dilip Ghosh. “Mukul Roy Taranpur near Ankleshwar people from Bengal who are party stalwart-turned-BJP taken away by invoking fear. He also refuted the allega- Mondal said at a conference is doing politics of lies. He is rendered jobless police station in Bharuch in other states for the sake leader Mukul Roy, who had The man from Kachrapara tions of Roy on Sunday that of priests at Bolpur town on also in a tug-of-war with Dilip district in Gujarat. of their jobs, Chief Minis- reportedly recommended would not be able to do any- their nominated candidate for Monday. Ghosh over candidates. Manju Sailyee Tea Estate in the Sources said that victim’s ter Mamata Banerjee had Basu’s name as the candidate. thing by resorting to these sort Noapara was arm-twisted by He further alleged that Roy Basu should file a defamation Malbazar block and Hilla Tea mother Mala Sarkar and sis- directed district magistrates Party Secretary General of gimmicks,” Chatterjee said in TMC. It may be mentioned that had done harm to Trinamool suit against him,” Mallick said. Estate in the Nagrakata block ter Sumitra Sarkar went to to help those who want to Partha Chatterjee advised a veiled reference to Roy who Manju Basu had herself said on Congress with which the latter Roy at a party programme have been shut down. the office of the district mag- return leaving their jobs and Roy to focus on party organ- had defected from Trinamool Sunday that she is with TMC was associated for a long time. at Dhulagarh in Howrah said: The management of Sailyee istrate of Alipurduar where assist them in earning their isation instead of resorting to in November last year. party supremo Mamata Baner- It may be mentioned here that “This has happened due to my Tea Estate have alleged that senior administrative offi- livelihood. ‘gimmicks’. Chatterjee further said he jee and has full faith in her. Roy had repeatedly brought adventurism.” there is a lack of work cul- ture among the workers and the environment is not con- Mitra is new director of Information ducive for running the garden KMC takes to social media to hence they put up the work suspension notice late on Sun- and Cultural Affairs department day night. The management of spread dengue awareness Hilla Tea Estate have blamed workers’ unrest for the closure. OUR CORRESPONDENT of the Managing Director of Differences had cropped The new CEO of PB Resham Silpi Mahasangha OUR CORRESPONDENT the KMC has also asked the up between the workers and KOLKATA: In a reshuffle in Nandan is Mahua Samabay Limited. local clubs to highlight do’s the Management of Sailyee Tea the WBCS (Exe) cadre, Mitra Papia Ghosh, who was KOLKATA: In a bid to and don’t’s pertaining to den- Estate over alleged non pay- Chatterjee has been made the Banerjee the Joint Secretary of Women strengthen awareness cam- gue when they conduct pro- ment of dues. In the past, the new Director of the Infor- and Child Development and paign against vector borne grammes like blood donation garden had witnessed a simi- mation and Cultural Affairs opment Authority and has the Social Welfare department, diseases particularly dengue, camps. lar lock out in December 2015. department. additional charge of KEIIP. has become the Joint Secretary the health department of the Mayor Sovan Chatterjee Around 1,500 workers of the Chatterjee, who was the Nandan has also got its new of Urban Development and Kolkata Municipal Corpora- himself will walk in a rally on garden were rendered jobless Joint Secretariat of Transport Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Municipal Affairs department. tion (KMC) is taking the mat- dengue awareness in Central then. Department, has been made The new CEO of Nandan is Satyajit Sen has been made the ter to social media right from Kolkata on January 20 that Rajen Oraon, trade union the Director of Information Mahua Banerjee. She was the new AO of the West Bengal the beginning of this year. will mark the beginning of the leader said the management of replacing Ritendera Narayan special secretary of the Micro State Council of Science and “We will be active on awareness drive. On the same the Sailyee Tea Estate has left Basu Roychoudhury, who has Small and Medium Enterprise Technology replacing Parna social networking sites like day, councillors will hold ral- workers of the garden in the become the Special Secretary department. Arunima De, Chanda, who has become the Facebook, Twitter and also lies in their respective wards dark after putting up the work of the Health and Family Wel- who was earlier the Managing Joint Secretary of the Women on whats app in collabora- with the same purpose. suspension notice. fare Department. IAS officer of Director of PB Resham Silpi and Child Development and tion with NGO’s, clubs and Atin Ghosh, Member Mayor visits with pamphlets and leaf- “We had begun awareness “They have been constantly 2002 batch, Saumitra Mohan, Mahasangha Samabay Limited, Social Welfare department. organisations which take up in Council (health) said. lets and a number of rallies in drive against dengue from Jan- instigating unrest among the has been given the additional has now become the Special Abhijit Mukhopadhyay, such awareness campaign. It has been decided that all the 144 wards with the ini- uary last year and there were workers” alleged Oraon. charge of commissioner of Secretary of the Home and Hill who was the Additional Direc- We also want feedback from the health department of the tiative of the respective coun- much lesser number of cases District Labour Commis- School Education replacing Affairs department. Debjani tor and Joint Secretary of Tour- the common people through civic body will start its dengue cillors to spread the message of the vector borne disease in ioner Partha Biswas has cal- Avanindra Singh. Mohan is Datta, who was the Joint Secre- ism department, has become social media. We are hope- awareness drive from January of dengue awareness,” an offi- comparison to other major led for a tripartite meeting for at present posted as the Chief tary of the Urban Development the Joint Secretary of Micro ful that this move will involve 20 and it will continue till the cial of KMC’s health depart- cities in the country. We will the Sailyee Tea Estate on Janu- Executive Officer (CEO) of and Municipal Affairs depart- Small and Medium Enterprise more and more people and will month of June. ment said. improve further this year,” an ary 12 and for Hilla on Janu- Kolkata Metropolitan Devel- ment, has been sent to the post department. give teeth to our campaign,” “There will be door to door It may be mentioned that official said. ary 15.

Fountain of Light of Development in the District of Alipurduar In the presence of Mamata Bandyopadhyay Hon’ble Chief Minister Inauguration of a cluster of projects including the Integrated Administrative Building “ Dooars Kanya” in Alipurduar, Laying of Foundation Stones and Providing Services 9 January, 2018 • Venue: Parokata,Shamukpota, • Time: 2p.m.

Inauguration Laying of Foundation Stones Providing Services

Integrated Administrative Building- ‘Dooars Kanya’ ● Bridges Thalassemia Control Unit and Fire Extinguishing System in Alipurduar Kanyashree ● Sabujshree ● Gatidhara ● Banglar Abas Yojana ● over the Basra and Bala rivers ● I.T.I. in Kalchini Block ● District Hospital ● Altogether 8 Sub-Health Centres in Kumargram Bon Patta ● Bhumi Patta ● Grant for the units for preparing spices, Altogether 4 Karmatirthas in Alipurduar-I , Falakata, Kalchini Block ● Rooms for the male and female in the Blood Bank of Birpara spinning silk threads from cocoons, processing of plates and bowls and Madarihat-Birpara Blocks ● New Branch of the Jalpaiguri Hospital in Madarihat-Birpara Block ● Altogether 140 Anganwadi from spathes of betel-nut trees ● Grant for Silk manufacturing unit Central Co-Operative Bank at Naxalbari ●Patlakhawa P.T.T.I. Centres in the different Blocks of the District ● Altogether 2 ● Agricultural Implements ● Assistance to Self-Help Groups ● Micro in Alipurduar-I Block ● Water supply projects at Chhoto Karmatirthas in Alipurduar-II and Kumargram Blocks ● Bridge over Credit ● Term-Assistance to the members of Minority sections ● Grant Shalkumar in Falakata Block, Paitkapara and Dakshin Sonapur the Charu river in Madarihat –Birpara Block ● Embankments: 3 in through the West Bengal Scheduled Castes and Schedule Tribes in Alipurduar-1 Block and at Jayanti Tea Estate in Alipurduar- Kumargram Block, 1 in Madarihat-Birpara Block Block, 1 in Falakata Development and Finance Corporation ● Relief for farmers affected by II Block ● Box-Cell structured bridges on Rajabhatkhawa- Block and 1 in Alipurduar- II Block ● Widening of embankments to disasters ● Rehabilitation for destitute women belonging to minority Jaigaon Road and Sonapur-Hasimara Road in Kalchini Block prevent land erosion along the Raidak river in Kumargram Block and communities ● Musical Instruments ● Facilities in Home-stay Project and widening and reinforcement of right-side embankment of at Paschim Jaydebpur along the Kaljani river in Alipurduar-I Block ● Identity Cards to the new artistes under Lok Prasar Prakalpa Basra river under Gaburbachhra Banbasti area in Kalchini Block ● Development of Irrigation at the Mouzas of Nararthali, Central ● In total 3 Ashram Hostels in Kumargram, Alipurduar-II and Nararthali of Kamakshyaguri, South Nararthali and North Nararthali Falakata Blocks ● Kalchini Adarsha Hindi Medium school in in Kumargram Block ● Repairing work along right embankment of Kalchini Block ● Market Complex at Jaigaon ●Police Building the Nathuatari Kaljani river of North Choukoksheti in Alipurduar-I at Hasimara under Jaigaon police station and C.I. Office Block ● Altogether 14 deep tube-wells at Panabasti, Bijaypura Basti and Housing Quarters in Kalchini ● Badaitari Ujuria High and Dalsinghpara in Kalchini Block and at Newland Forest Basti Madrasah Girls’ Hostel in Falakata Block ● Boys Hostel for and Kumargram Forest Basti in Kumargram Block ● Residential minorities in Madarihat-Birpara Block Building for the Additional District Magistrate ● Office Buildings for the District Registrar and District Sub-Registrar ● Sadbhab Mandap in Madarihat-Birpara Block ● Altogether 5 roads in Alipurduar-I&II, Kumargram and Kalchini Block ● Altogether 5 roads and Drainage System at Jaigaon and in Madarihat-Birpara Block

Dignitaries to be present Shri Aroop Biswas, Hon’ble Minister, Shri Goutam Deb, Hon’ble Minister, Shri Dasharath Tirkey, Hon’ble M.P. Government of West Bengal Government of West Bengal Shri Wilson Champramary, Hon’ble M.L.A. Shri James Kujur, Hon’ble Minister, Shri Mohan Sharma, Shri Anil Adhikari, Hon’ble M.L.A. Government of West Bengal Hon’ble Sabhadhipati Shri Sourav Chakraborty, Hon’ble M.L.A

ICA - 72(16)/2018 Department of Information & Cultural Affairs • Government of West Bengal 4 city mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 0 ROAD RAGE Mercury inches towards 10 C as Minibus runs over pavement on Strand Road, costs pedestrian his leg OUR CORRESPONDENT The bus driver ies. Local residents rushed to Kolkatans scurry for woollens the spot and took the victims to KOLKATA: Anup Kumar and conductor a nearby hospital, where both Samanta, a pedestrian who was of them were declared brought Temperature may dip below 10 degree Celsius in the city in the next couple of days standing on Strand Road near fled from the spot dead. Millennium Park, had his right immediately after The local people, however, OUR CORRESPONDENT leg severed from the knee after managed to catch hold of the being knocked down by a mini- the accident truck driver, who was later KOLKATA: The tempera- NO RESPITE bus that ran over the pavement handed over to the police. The ture in the city on Monday The city on Monday witnessed a further and hit a tree. injured passengers were taken vehicle was also seized. The slightly dropped from what »» Five passengers travelling in to Calcutta Medical College incident had triggered a traffic was recorded on Sunday, giv- dip in the temperature as it touched the bus received injuries in the and Hospital for treatment. jam in the area for some time ing a cold shiver to the people. 10.5 degree Celsius, which is the lowest incident. Some are stated to be Police have seized the bus, the in the morning. According to the Regional recorded in the past five years in serious condition. frontal portion of which has The other accident took Meteorological Centre at Ali- »»According to the records, the mercury The incident took place on been damaged in the accident. place near Kunur River Bridge pore, the mercury may drop Monday afternoon, leading to at Kanksa on Panagarh-More- further in the next 72 hours. had plunged below 10 degree Celsius disruption of traffic movement Two killed, 11 injured in 3 gram Road late on Sunday The cold spell will also sweep only twice in the last decade in the area for a while. Senior separate accidents: Mean- morning, when a private car through the city and South »»It touched 9 degree Celsius in January police officers later brought the while, two persons were killed rammed into a truck from Bengal districts in the next cou- 2013 and 9.6 degree Celsius in Janu- situation under control. The while eleven others have been behind. Police said that four ple of days, as predicted by the bus driver and conductor fled injured in three separate road passengers, including two weather office. ary 2012 from the spot immediately after accidents in the districts since women, were injured in the The city on Monday wit- »»According to a senior official of the the accident. late Sunday night. incident. nessed a further dip in the Met office, the prevailing conditions are Police said that the How- One incident took place at They were immediately temperature as it touched 10.5 People cross a railway track as trains arrive through dense fog on a cold, winter morning conducive for the cold spell to extend rah-bound minibus was pick- Sonarpur in South 24-Parga- rushed to a private hospital in degree Celsius, which is the ing up passengers from the nas in the wee hours of Mon- Durgapur. It was learnt that in Kolkata on Monday PTI further, at least for the next four days lowest recorded in the past Rabindra Nagar area on Mon- day, when two bikers were hit some of the injured passengers five years. The city’s tempera- day afternoon, when the driver by a speeding truck. The vic- are in critical condition. ture on Sunday stood at 10.6 According to the records, East Burdwan has recorded erly wind, which is bringing that there was a little delay in lost control over the vehicle and tims have been identified as The victims were return- degree Celsius. the mercury had plunged below a minimum temperature of 5.6 cold air from North India. The the winter setting in as the it ran over the pavement. Local Binay Naskar (36) and Bappa ing to Palasdiha after attend- According to the Met 10 degree Celsius only twice in degree Celsius, while Srinik- north-westerly originates from western disturbances had residents told police that the Das (23). ing a programme at Deul in office prediction, the tempera- the last decade. It touched 9 etan had touched 6.8 degree Jammu and Kashmir, which slowed down the process of driver was overspeeding when According to the South Kanksa, late on Sunday night. ture may dip below 10 degree degree Celsius in January 2013 Celsius on Monday. Asansol, has seen heavy snowfall. north-westerly flow. the accident took place. 24-Parganas police, the The driver lost control over the Celsius in the city in the next and 9.6 degree Celsius in Janu- Krishnanagar and Purulia reg- The cold spell has also been G K Das, Director, Regional Samanta, identified as a deceased were going to Kamal- vehicle and hit a truck from couple of days. The mercury ary 2012. According to a senior istered 7.8 degree whereas Dur- sweeping through the entire Meteorological Centre at Ali- bank employee, was standing gaji from Sonarpur on a motor- behind. has already dipped below 10 official of the Met office, the gapura, Bankura and Jhargram northern region including pore, said: “There is a possi- there after getting down from cycle. When they were passing Police are investigating to degrees Celsius in some of the prevailing conditions are con- recorded 7.5, 8.6 and 8 degrees Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand bility that temperature in the another bus a few moments through the Milanpally area, know if the driver had fallen South Bengal districts. The cold ducive for the cold spell to respectively. and Bihar. The chilly spell may city may drop below 10 degree before the accident took place. the bike collided head-on with asleep at the time of the acci- spell started on January 3 this extend further, at least for the According to the official, sweep through till the north- Celsius in the next few days. He was waiting there to cross a loaded truck coming from dent. Raids are being con- year, when the city recorded a next four days. There will be no the chilly spell will sweep westerly’s flow is interrupted, The cold wave will also sweep the road, police said. the opposite direction. The ducted to nab the truck driver minimum temperature of 13 respite from the chilly spell in through the city under the the official maintained. through due to the impact of He was immediately rushed duo suffered critical injuries who had fled from the spot degree Celsius. South Bengal as of now. influence of the north-west- It may be mentioned here north-westerly”. to SSKM Hospital. The five on various parts of their bod- after the accident. ‘Rail roko’ agitation disrupts AVIAN GRACE 16 Jaipuria students barred train services in 5 districts from sitting for OUR CORRESPONDENT hours. Several trains including the Rajdhani Express was held CU semester KOLKATA: Train services up around 6:20 am at Jhatiphari were affected at the rail tracks railway station in Bankura dis- spanning across five districts trict. Later, the Rajdhani and KOLKATA: The situation at of the state bearing the brunt Purushottam Express were Seth Anandaram Jaipuria Col- of the ‘rail roko’ agitation that diverted through alternative lege took a dramatic turn, with was called by two tribal parties, routes. As many as 10 passen- principal of the college Ashok namely the Jharkhand Disam ger trains were cancelled. Dense Mukhopadhyay requesting Party and the Adivasi Sengal fog in North Bengal has resulted Calcutta University not to Abhiyan. in delay of trains for the last few allow 16 of its students with It may be mentioned that days. ‘Rail roko’ agitation fuelled less than 60 per cent attendance the organisations were pro- the situation. to sit for their B.Com semes- testing against the Centre and Both state police and the ter test. Jharkhand Government’s deci- wire causing delay in arrival and Railway Protection Force were The college had earlier sion to implement the Land departure of trains in the state. deployed at various stations allowed them to fill in the uni- Acquisition, Rehabilitation Rail services were mainly to control the agitation by the versity’s forms for appearing in and Resettlement (Jharkhand affected between Adra in Puru- tribal outfits. the tests. It has been learnt that Amendment Bill), 2017 and the lia and Bankura district and The agitators were protesting the principal of the college, on Jharkhand Freedom of Religion Tatanagar station railway junc- against the amendments made Saturday evening, had written Act-2017. tion in Jharkhand. The other to the Bill on land acquisition A swan swims around in a pond at Alipore Zoo in Kolkata PTI to the university in this regard, The Adra division in Puru- districts which bore the brunt which states that land can be stating that they are revoking lia was the worst affected with were Malda, Uttar Dinajpur and taken away from adivasis with- their earlier decision of allow- the agitators encroaching on East Burdwan. out making any assessment on ing the 16 students to sit for the the railway tracks at Kanta- The call for ‘rail roko’ started the significant social impact of examination. dih, Madhukunda and Indrabil from 6:00 am at various stations the project in case of building a Coast Guard bolsters security to The earlier decision of that threw train services hay- and was lifted after almost six school, college or hospital. allowing these students with low attendance to appear for examinations had invited criti- ensure safe, secure Gangasagar Mela cism from a section of teachers millenniumpost.in of the college. OUR CORRESPONDENT will be displayed, covering It may be mentioned that all the transit points both in out of the 655 B.Com students KOLKATA: In a bid to ensure mainland and the island, bus of the morning, day and eve- is now available in everypart of Bengal safety and security of pilgrims stands, the temple and the ning sections, 134 have less at Gangasagar, the Indian mela premises. than 60 per cent attendance. SL DISTRICT Centre Name Agent Name Contact No Coast Guard (ICG) has beefed It may be mentioned that CU vice-chancellor (aca- NO NAME up security arrangement as Chief Minister Mamata Baner- demic) Dipak Kar had made lakhs of people will visit the jee held a high level meeting at it clear on Saturday morning 1 East Midnapore TAMLUK N.C.Bera 7501493175 island to take holy dip at the Nabanna a few weeks ago to that the university would bar HALDIA Ayesha 9474306356 confluence of river Ganga and discuss all aspects of the Gan- students with less than 60 per Begum,Ranichak Bay of Bengal. gasagar Mela, in which around cent attendance from sitting for DIGHA Kamal Lochan Panda 8906868884 ICG has deployed hover- 20 lakh people will turn up. the B.Com semester test. crafts to carry out Search and The Chief Minister has The 16 students who were 2 West Midnapore MIDNAPORE Balaram Pandit 9932708271 Rescue (SAR) operations as also visited Sagar Island to allowed to fill in the forms have 3 Jhargram JHARGRAM Champa Maity 9547230220 well as to provide security and interceptor boats have measures so that people do not take stock of preparation of attendance between 50 and 59 4 North 24 - Parganas BARASAT/NILGUNJ B N Kundu 9836333630 cover along the riverine route. been deployed to maintain face any problem in reaching the mela on January 26 and 27. per cent. Four teachers of the At the same time, a life-saving vigil. An Offshore Patrol Ves- the mela premises. She visited various places in college had said that they will BARRACKPORE Biswajit Ghosh 9830830798 team comprising divers and sel (OPV) with a helicopter on This is the first time when a Sagar Island and gave all nec- step down to protest against BASIRHAT Uttam Biswas 9474574927 medical personnel has also board has been positioned off mega control room will be set essary directions to concerned the decision of allowing the 16 5 Bardhaman BURDWAN Kamal Mukherjee 9332192230 been posted at a nearby loca- Sagar Island for continuous up near Mela Office in Sagar officials for further develop- students to fill in the forms. 6 West Bardhman ASANSOL Hiralal Sen 9933662126 tion so that they can rush-in, surveillance. Island to ensure monitoring ment of the island. They were requested to rejoin in case of any emergency. The state government has from Bagbazar Ghat in Kol- It may be mentioned that on Sunday. DURGAPUR WARIA Joy prakash Ray 9563601176 / Moreover, in a bid to also taken several initiatives kata to Sagar beach through the state government has also Jaipuria College authorities 7864818860 provide long range aer- for safety and security of pil- surveillance cameras. decided to bring people visit- had allowed the students to fill NIRSHA Gopal Chatterjee 9386695330 ial surveillance, a Dornier grims. The state police, along Forty 52-inch LED screens ing Gangasagar Mela under in the forms last month after Do-228 aircraft has also been with the district administra- will be installed, in which foot- coverage of an insurance students demanded that they BARAKAR Jai Bhagwan Singh 9334652173 deployed. Fast patrol vessels tion, have taken all necessary ages of 500 CCTV cameras scheme of Rs 5 lakh each. be allowed to take the test. MPOST 7 Murshidabad BAHARAMPUR COURT Dipak Choudhury 9851612424 8 Nadia KALYANI / Dey News Agency 9830609355 KANCHRAPARA 9 Howrah HOWRAH CENTRE Manik Lal Bag 9883393201 Disaster Management dept calendar to /9732243933 10 Purulia PURULIA D.C.Nag 9434130550 11 Jalpaiguri SILIGURI Toton Saha 9832046238 feature photo of young ham 12 Hooghly CHINSURAH / CHAN- B.Singh 9883108806 DAN NAGAR SOUMITRA NANDI in 48 hours. “A year back, the that Saborni had received 13 Birbhum SHANTINIKETAN Anita Shaw 9232162151 couple visited our residence at the certificate for operating 14 Darjeeling DARJEELING Bitta Newspaper 9434131515 KOLKATA: The achieve- Sodepur. It was a great honour an amateur radio station in Agency ments of a young ham in the for me,” said Saborni. the year 2012, when she was field of disaster management Ambarish Nag Biswas, only twelve-years-old. She 15 Cooch Behar COOCH BEHAR Jayanta Das 9434217084 has received the acknowl- Saborni’s father, has been her had successfully cracked the 16 Alipurduar ALIPURDUAR Bablu Saha 9733166169 edgment of the state Disaster inspiration. He had worked examination of the union tele- 17 Kalimpong KALIMPONG Sandeep Jain 9832016738 Management & Civil Defence in natural calamities - like the communication ministry to department. A page of the earthquake in Nepal and the get the license of a ham. 18 Uttar Dinajpur RAIGUNJ Pradyut Karmakar 9434384154 calendar of the department Hudhud cyclone in Andhra The calendar also comes 19 Dakshin Dinajpur BALURGHAT Sujan das 8670582892 this year comes with the pic- Pradesh in 2014. with a series of precaution- 20 Malda MALDA TOWN Ashim Kr.Sarkar 7797919580 ture of young ham Saborni “Uniting missing persons ary measures like listening Others District List Nag Biswas, who is one of the with their families has been to weather forecasts in tele- youngest amateur radio enthu- one of our priorities during vision or radio on a daily 21 Jharkhand RANCHI Birendra Nath Singh 9431929279 / siasts in the country. department and the district ago, when the husband-wife disasters and it has received a basis to get alerts for natural 8409298763 Saborni has been a regular administration. This will be duo had been estranged boost with the launch of our calamities and not to panic TATA NAGAR Surender Singh 9835170495 in the Gangasagar Mela for the her fourth appearance in the from each other. The helpless website myham.in, which will or spark rumours associated DHANBAD S.K.Pandey 8409984151 last few years, working with mela. woman had sought help from be in operation during Gan- with it. It also mentions the a team of ham radio opera- She was instrumental in young Saborni and with the gasagar Mela that starts from toll free number 1070, which 22 Bihar PATNA Nandalal Yadav 7765012713 tors in close coordination with uniting a couple from Uttar assistance of her ham team, she Tuesday,” Nag Biswas said. can be dialled during natural the state Disaster Management Pradesh at the mela two years managed to trace her husband It may be mentioned calamities. nation 5 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp SOCIAL MEDIA AND CYBER CRIMES Most Muslims favour ban on bad Law Minister blames tradition of triple ‘orthodox segment’ PM asks top cops to deal talaq, says Naqvi MUMBAI: Union Minor- on instant triple talaq ity Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said majority of Muslims were in OUR CORRESPONDENT with menace on priority the favour of banning the prac- tice of triple talaq. NEW DELHI: When trans- “Triple talaq is un-Islamic formational laws are brought OUR CORRESPONDENT of the discussions in the con- and is a bad tradition. We want for the welfare of the people, ference over the last few years, the empowerment of women. the orthodox segments oppose TEKANPUR: Prime Minis- now, once an objective is clearly It (banning ‘talaq-e-biddat’) is them but the opposition even- ter Narendra Modi on Monday defined for the police force, not a Hindu or Muslim issue. tually fails, Union Law Minis- drew the attention of the coun- there is a lot of cohesion in the We cannot leave out Muslim ter Ravi Shankar Prasad said mational laws like triple talaq try’s top police officials to the execution. women in empowerment pro- on Monday, referring to those bill” were brought for the wel- problems arising out of social He said this conference was grammes being undertaken by opposing the draft law on fare of the people, “the ortho- media and cyber crimes, say- helping top police officers get a our government,” the minister instant triple talaq. dox segments oppose that but ing they should be dealt with more holistic view of the prob- told reporters on the sidelines He added that history was their opposition fails”. on highest priority. lems and challenges. He said of a function here. full of examples where the He added that over 300 Speaking at the concluding the range of topics being dis- In recently-concluded opposition to such laws had cases of instant triple talaq day of the annual conference cussed has also become more winter session of Parliament, failed. were reported in 2017, of which of the DGPs and IGPs here at broad-based over the last two Lok Sabha passed a landmark In a series of tweets, Prasad more than 100 were reported the BSF Academy, the prime years. This has helped give a bill making talaq-e-biddat or said many Muslim women after the Supreme Court minister said that there was whole new vision to senior instant triple talaq a “cognisa- had met him and requested judgment in August, declaring an emerging global consensus police officers, he said. ble and non-bailable offence”. for a stringent penal provi- the practice unconstitutional. towards greater information Discussing ways to add The bill recommends maxi- sion against the practice of “Triple talaq was taking sharing on illicit financial deal- even more value to this con- mum three-year imprisonment “talaq-e-biddat” or instant tri- place even after the Supreme ings and India could play a key ference, the prime minister for any Muslim man who gives ple talaq. Court had called it unconstitu- role in achieving this. suggested that the follow up instant divorce to his wife by “Many major Islamic coun- tional. To safeguard the women Modi said cyber secu- should continue through work- uttering the word talaq three tries have done away with this victimised by (instant) triple rity issues should be dealt Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers a speech at a valedictory ceremony at DGP/IGP Conference at ing groups, all the year round. times in quick succession. The practice. Why should a secular talaq, it was important to make with immediately and should Tekanpur on Monday. Also seen Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Minister of State for Home Affairs In this context, he specially bill also provides for subsis- country like India not abolish a law that provides penal action receive highest priority, accord- Hansraj Gangaram Ahir PTI emphasised the importance tence allowance to Muslim it?” he asked. against those who practised it,” ing to an official release. of involving younger officers. women and custody of minor Prasad said when “transfor- Prasad said. In this context, the prime India is an “organic entity” Modi, the home ministry has evant, in the context of chal- Modi said this would greatly children as may be determined minister particularly men- and not an “assembled” one been organising the confer- lenges and responsibilities help in improving effectiveness by the magistrate. tioned the importance of social and asked the police officers ence outside the national capi- facing the country. He said of the exercise. Though the bill was tabled Ratan Tata worships at media. from the states to open up in tal since the NDA government the new format of the confer- The prime minister also in Rajya Sabha, it could not be He said messaging should sharing information on illicit came to power in 2014. ence has resulted in a marked presented President’s police passed as the Parliament was Tirumala temple rely on local languages for financial dealings. The last three conferences improvement in the quality of medals for distinguished ser- adjourned till budget session. greater effectiveness. He said while openness is were held in Guwahati, Rann discussions. vice to Intelligence Bureau (IB) Opposition members in Upper TIRUPATI: Tata Trusts RPT Trusts Chairman Ratan Referring to the radicalisa- getting increased acceptance of Kutch and Hyderabad. The prime minister com- officers. During his address, the House had demanded that the tion of youth, Modi urged the worldwide, there is a need for The prime minister recalled mended the country’s security prime minister congratulated bill be referred to a select com- Tata on Monday offered worship at the famous top police officers to use tech- greater openness among states how the nature and the scope apparatus for the work they and appreciated the medal win- mittee. Naqvi said majority hill shrine of Lord Venkateswara at Tirumala near nology to pinpoint the prob- too, on security issues. of the conference has changed have been doing in securing ning officers of the IB, for their of Islamic communities and here. He was accompanied by TATA Sons chair- lem areas. Modi said security can- since 2014, beginning with its the country. dedication and commitment groups have welcomed the man Natarajan Chandrasekaran. Tata was in the Around 250 top officers not be achieved selectively, or being shifted out of Delhi. He said that the officers to service. Centre’s move to criminalise shrine for about 20 minutes, temple sources said. from the state police forces alone, and for that breaking of He appreciated the officers present in the conference have Union Home Minister tribal talaq. He said the Central and central police organisa- silos and information sharing who have been instrumental in delivered leadership, despite Rajnath Singh and union min- government wanted to offer an After offering prayers, Tata and Chandrasekaran tions participated in the three- among states can help make facilitating this change. often having to operate in an isters of states Hansraj Ahir and “economical option” of travel to were honoured with a sacred cloth and ‘prasa- day meet. everyone more secure. Modi said the conference environment of negativity. Shri Kiren Rijiju were also pres- Indian Muslims as Haj subsidy dam’ by the temple authorities. MPOST The prime minister said Following a directive of has now become more rel- Modi said that as a result ent on the occasion. was getting reduced. Section 377: Legal experts call Section 377 has no place in Woman dies after surgery; kin for overhaul of archaic law 21st century, says Congress blame hospital for negligence OUR CORRESPONDENT Anand Grover, Colin Gon- has correctly placed the matter NEW DELHI: The Con- salves and lawyer Kamini before the five-judge constitu- gress on Monday welcomed OUR CORRESPONDENT The family then lodged a condition,” he said. NEW DELHI: The legal fra- Jaiswal were unanimous in tion bench, which is hearing the Supreme Court’s decision complaint with the Council as She died on December 19 ternity on Monday said the welcoming on Monday’s order a curative petition against the to reconsider its 2013 verdict, MUMBAI: Relatives of a the “unprofessional attitude immediately after she was dis- Supreme Court’s decision to of the bench comprising Chief SC order, and it will be eagerly criminalising gay sex. Congress 56-year-old woman who died and gross medical negligence” charged from the hospital, he refer to its Constitution Bench Justice Dipak Misra and Jus- seen what they are going to do. spokesperson Manish Tewari after surgery at a city hospital on part of hospital cost her life, said. Bafna, whose heart valve the plea seeking to decriminal- tices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Dave said: “It’s quite refresh- said section 377 should be have approached the Maha- he said. Doctors at the hospital had been replaced earlier, was ise the archaic penal provision Chandrachud. ing to see a positive stand in the decriminalised and hoped that rashtra Medical Council, had assured the family mem- hospitalised after she devel- relating to gay sex was a posi- Dhavan and Dave criticised matter. The judgement of the the government would repeal it between two consenting adults. claiming she died due to “gross bers that it would be “200 oped breathlessness, he said. tive move and has utmost social the apex court’s 2013 verdict apex court declaring 377 to be or courts read down the article. The section refers to negligence” of the hospital. per cent safe” for the patient The hospital asked the fam- and legal significance. declaring the IPC provision intra vires really requires seri- “The time has come that “unnatural offences” and says They said the hospital con- to undergo the newly-intro- ily to pay the bill of Rs 44 lakh, The legal luminaries called penalising gay sex as constitu- ous reconsideration. This pro- either the courts must read whoever voluntarily has car- vinced them that the patient duced the Transcatheter aortic he said, adding the hospital for a total overhaul of the 1869 tional and said the two-judge vision itself, on the face of it, is down section 377 or the gov- nal intercourse against the needed to undergo a new and valve implantation procedure, returned Rs 11 lakh after the Indian Penal Code, and said bench seemed to have taken archaic and wholly unconstitu- ernment should repeal it from order of nature with any man, expensive heart valve proce- he said. family pointed “lapses” in her the apex court’s 2013 decision “an unwarranted view” which tional. Nobody can support it the Indian Penal Code. It is an woman or animal, shall be pun- dure, claiming it was “200 per “They told me that my treatment. overturning the Delhi High “requires a serious reconsidera- under any circumstances. “The archaic provision which has no ished with imprisonment for cent safe”. mother-in-law would be able Action should be taken Court verdict decriminalising tion” of the archaic law. judgement of the Supreme place in 21st century India,” he life, or with imprisonment of “My mother-in-law Manju to go home within five-six days against the hospital doctors section 377 of IPC requires Jaiswal, Gonsalves and Gro- Court was, in fact, quite sur- told reporters. The Supreme either description for a term Bafna died a fortnight ago after after the surgery which was and staff for ethical and pro- reconsideration. ver said it was high time that prising, and I would say it was Court on Monday referred to which may extend to 10 years, being discharged from the hos- performed on October 25. She fessional misconduct, he said. Senior advocates Rajeev the 2013 judgement was revis- quite orthodox not in tune with a larger bench a plea seeking and shall also be liable to pay a pital while still in coma,” said was forced to leave on Decem- The hospital hasn’t come Dhavan, Dushyant Dave, ited. They said the apex court the changing times,” he said. decriminalisation of gay sex fine. MPOST Sanjay Bharkatia. ber 19 while still in a comatose out with a statement yet. Hardeep Singh NGT directs Hry Puri elected Acquittal of Orsi, Spagnolini to AI terminates over to submit action unopposed to 400 contractual staff plan on waste RS from UP have no bearing on case: CBI management OUR CORRESPONDENT mer CEO of the company’s of the Milan court of appeals. Rs 3600 crore. The two were helicopters subsidiary Agus- “We have had a completely accused of international cor- OUR CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI: The acquittal of taWestland, were acquitted by different probe. We have very ruption and false invoicing in former top executives of Fin- an Italian court on Monday. strong case,” CBI Spokesper- relation to bribes exchanged for NEW DELHI: The National meccanica and AgustaWest- The officials said the same son Abhishek Dayal said here. the contract with India. Green Tribunal has directed land-- Giuseppe Orsi and set of evidence had resulted in In Italy, criminal sentences Both were cleared on the Haryana government and Bruno Spagnolini -- will have their conviction earlier. are not usually considered charges of committing inter- civic bodies in Palwal dis- no bearing on the CBI case as The sources said the case in definitive until the appeals pro- national corruption at the trict to submit a time-bound it is based on an independent Italian courts is based on the cess has been exhausted. first-instance trial in 2014 but action plan with regard to col- investigation with strong evi- evidence gathered by the Ital- The case against Orsi and convicted of false invoicing lection, segregation and dis- dence, senior central agency ian authorities whereas the CBI Spagnolini resulted from an and sentenced to two years in posal of solid waste generated officials said on Monday. carried out a completely inde- investigation launched in 2012 prison. Both appealed against in the city. The comments came after pendent investigation in the by Italian authorities looking the conviction, while the pros- OUR CORRESPONDENT by Executive Director-Person- A bench headed by acting Orsi, ex-president of defence matter. They said there is an into alleged corruption into the ecution appealed against the nel on January 5. Chairperson Justice U D Salvi OUR CORRESPONDENT and aerospace giant Finmec- option of appeal with Italian sale of 12 helicopters to India acquittal on the corruption NEW DELHI: Disinvestment- The directive, however, directed the Palwal Munici- canica, and Spagnolini, a for- authorities even after the order for the use of VVIPs worth charge. bound Air India has termi- adds that exceptions could be pal Council to submit details LUCKNOW: Union Minis- nated the services of over 400 made for officials performing including quantum of solid ter Hardeep Singh Puri was on employees who were hired by critical roles on a case-by-case waste generated in the area. Monday elected unopposed in the airline on contractual basis basis. “Action plan submitted by a bypoll to a Rajya Sabha seat Etawah Police take 11-year-old for joyride after their retirement. “In case there are cases authorities fails to give clear cut from Uttar Pradesh, principal The employees affected are which cannot be terminated timelines for achieving the goal secretary of the state Assembly those hired for non-technical as they are handling critical stepwise. We, therefore, direct Pradeep Dubey said. after the child complains about father roles and the move follows an assignment, proper justifica- Haryana and Palwal Municipal The seat fell vacant follow- order from the airline’s Chair- tion to be put up to CMD for Council to place before us the ing the resignation of Manohar ZAFAR ABBAS exhibition. man and Managing Director his perusal and approval,” as time bound action plan regard- Parrikar, who quit as defence The pictures that were cir- Pradeep Singh Kharola. per the order. ing collection, segregation, minister after becoming the NEW DELHI: An interesting culated on social media like The latest directive follows a Air India spokesper- processing and disposal of solid Goa chief minister. His term case has come to light from Whatsapp, Facebook and Twit- similar order issued in August, son G P Rao confirmed the waste generated within limits was to end on November 25, Etawah in Uttar Pradesh where ter brought immense applause which put on hold proposals development. of Palwal Municipal Council 2020. a 11 year old boy approached for the Etawah police for their for employing recently retired Another source added that in accordance with Solid Waste “Today was the last date of the city police station with a out of the book gesture and officials as well as renewing there were nearly 412 retired Management Rules, 2016,” the withdrawal of nominations and complaint against his father. humble attitude. contracts for those former personnel working with the air- bench said. The tribunal also Puri was the lone candidate. The officer present on duty “Unbelievable but True, employees who were due for line whose services have now sought time-bound action plan He was elected unopposed,” filmed the complaint which Parents who punish their chil- an extension. been discontinued. with regard to scientific dis- Dubey said. went viral. dren physically and do not give Last year, the Union Cab- These employees also posal of existing waste lying A career diplomat-turned- The angry child wanted them their due time could find inet gave its in-principle include those working with Air at the site. The NGT was hear- politician, 65-year-old Puri police to teach his father a les- Police knocking at their doors approval for disinvestment India’s subsidiary companies ing a plea filed by Palwal-based was sworn in as a minister in son for not taking him to the in India too. A child wronged of Air India and constituted such as Air India Air Transport SND Public School against September and was allocated exhibition in the city despite by his father in Etawah reached an inter-ministerial group for Services Limited (AIATSL), Air illegal dumping of municipal the housing and urban devel- repeated requests. to Police Sttion and the SHO working on the strategy for the India Charters Limited, Air- waste by the municipal coun- opment ministry. But since he The child who identified reached his house & counselled airline’s stake sale. line Allied Services Limited cil on common land in village was not a Member of Parlia- himself as Om Narayan Gupta his father,” said Rahul Srivas- “The CMD has directed and Air India Engineering Ser- Meghpur in the district which ment, he had to enter either was furious as some of his viral on social media shows the The police team acompanied tava, PRO, UP police. that contract of the retired vices Limited. is marked for grazing. the Lok Sabha or the Rajya friends were going to the exhi- angry boy complaining and a the boy to his home and coun- The gesture also brought employees under non-tech- The previous CMD, Rajiv The plea has sought imme- Sabha within the stipulated six bition but when he approached calm and composed police offi- celled his father. appreciation from IG Uttar nical category (i.e. exclud- Bansal, had ordered in August diate stay on dumping of waste months of taking oath. his father Amar Nath Gupta for cer asking him several question The story did not just end Pradesh Navniet Sekera who ing pilots, flight dispatchers, that “all proposals received for and removal of dumped gar- His election was all but cer- the same, not only his request to know about his ordeal. here, instead the Etawah police said “Superb work Etawah service engineers, OPT, OTT the post-retirement engage- bage from the common land tain in view of the BJP’s massive was turned down but he was What followed was really decided to take the boy along police. All of us must be sen- instructors, flight safety) be ment of employees and renew- in order to prevent pollution to strength in the 403-member also beaten up. not just interesting but also a with his father and 50 under- sitive to woman and children terminated with immediate als may be kept in abeyance till the adjacent pond and ground Uttar Pradesh Assembly. The video that has become noble effort by the UP Police. privilaged children to the issues.” effect,” as per a circular issued further orders. water. 6 nation mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 TN Guv addresses House, seeks Twitter war between UP CM and K’taka CM goes viral on internet `4,854 crore for cyclone relief OUR CORRESPONDENT BENGALURU: A Twitter OUR CORRESPONDENT ing cyclone-hit Kanyakumari, war between Karnataka Chief he said the Centre should ask Minister Siddaramaiah and CHENNAI: Amid a boycott its team which visited Tamil his Uttar Pradesh counterpart by opposition parties led by Nadu to assess storm dam- Yogi Adityanath, mocking each the DMK, Tamil Nadu Gov- ages to expeditiously submit other on the issue of develop- ernor Banwarilal Purohit on its report. Recalling the finan- ment and governance, has gone Monday made his maiden cial assistance provided by viral on the internet. address to the state assembly, the State government to the Adityanath took part in urging the Centre to sanc- bereaved families vis-a-vis the the ‘Nava Karnataka Parivar- tion Rs 4,854 crore towards storm, he said Tamil Nadu was tan Yatre’ rally organised by Cyclone Ochki rehabilitation committed to continuing res- the BJP’s Karnataka unit here for the welcome, he cited they represent taking sides work. cue efforts till the last fisher- yesterday, as part of the par- an increase in farmers’ sui- and trolling each other with Soon after he arrived in man was rescued. ty’s ongoing state-wide 75-day cides and alleged ill treat- hashtags “#YogiInBengaluru” the House, Purohit greeted all Lauding the State for campaign to “expose misdeeds” ment to honest government and “#HogappaYogi” (go Yogi). members with a ‘Vanakkam’ achieving a smooth transition of the Siddaramaiah govern- officials under the Congress Addressing the ‘Nava Kar- and began his address. to the GST regime, he said ment. Welcoming the Uttar dispensation. nataka Parivartan Yatre’ rally Even as he began his Tamil Nadu’s fiscal position Pradesh chief minister, Sidda- He also pointed out that he yesterday, Adityanath alleged speech, Leader of the Oppo- has been “resilient” and con- ramaiah tweeted that there’s was trying to “undo the mis- that the Congress government sition MK Stalin was on his tinues to be so despite unex- a lot Adityanath can learn ery” unleashed by Congress’ in Karnataka was pushing the feet trying to raise some issues. pected setbacks in revenues. from Karnataka to address the allies in Uttar Pradesh. state five years back “due to cor- The governor paused for a “Though there is a concern reported starvation deaths in “Thank you for the wel- ruption, divisive politics and moment and told Stalin ‘please about increasing revenue defi- his state. come @siddaramaiah ji. I heard anti-development policies”. utkkarunga’ (please take your cit due to slow growth in reve- “I welcome UP CM Shri @ number of farmers committing Accusing the Congress of seat) in Tamil but to no avail. Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit during his maiden address to the State Assembly in Chennai on nue receipts, the State is firmly myogiadityanath to our state. suicide in Karnataka was high- trying to divide the society on Stalin was supported by Monday. The main opposition party DMK along with its allies staged a walked out PTI on the path of containing the There is a lot you can learn est in your regime, not to men- caste lines, keeping assembly his party MLAs, who raised fiscal deficit and Debt to GSDP from us Sir. When you are here tion the numerous deaths and elections in mind, he said: “The slogans demanding that their lined AIADMK leader TTV his address which was pep- “I urge the Central gov- ratio within the norms.” please visit an Indira Canteen & transfer of honest officers.” party has become a burden...a leader be allowed to speak. Dhinakaran, who made his pered with praise to late Chief ernment to...sanction the due Referring to his State-wide a ration shop. It will help you “As UP CM I am working to problem for the nation.” A little later, the DMK debut in the assembly after Minister J Jayalalithaa’s vision release of Rs 401 crore for tours, Purohit complimented address the starvation deaths undo the misery and lawless- Assembly elections are due Working President led his having won the December 21 and expression of thanks to temporary restoration and Tamil Nadu for “active par- sometimes reported from your ness unleashed by your allies,” in Karnataka early this year. party members and staged a RK Nagar bypoll by a thump- the Centre for fund-releases Rs 4,854 crore for permanent ticipation,” in “Swachh Bharat state. #YogiInBengaluru,” Sid- Adityanath tweeted. This is the second visit of walkout. Congress members ing margin of 40,000 votes towards instances including an restoration towards damages Mission,” which was being daramaiah tweeted. The “welcome” barbthe Uttar Pradesh chief min- and the lone IUML legislator against E Madhusudhanan of “on-account” release of Rs 133 caused by Cyclone Ockhi.” pursued by Prime Minister Adityanath promptly between both the chief min- ister to the state in less than also followed suit. AIADMK, was seated calmly. crore for cyclone Ockhi reha- Thanking Prime Minis- Narendra Modi with a “mis- responded. isters has gone viral, with sup- a month to campaign for his Amid noisy scenes, side- Later, Purohit resumed bilitation work. ter Narendra Modi for visit- sionary zeal.” Thanking Siddaramaiah porters of political parties party. AAP set to contest 35 seats in EC seeks 107 additional CAPF Unions were misled: Tamil NATION BRIEFS Meghalaya Assembly election FIVE LABOURERS KILLED, 30 HURT AS companies for Transport Minister on strike VAN OVERTURNS IN TELANGANA Meghalaya poll HYDERABAD: Five persons were killed and 30 others OUR CORRESPONDENT injured when the mini cargo van in which they were SHILLONG: The Elec- travelling overturned in Telangana’s Jogulamba Gad- tion Commission has sought CHENNAI: Agitating trans- wal district on Monday, police said. A police official deployment of 107 additional port unions have been mislead said they suspect that negligence on part of the van’s companies of Central Armed about the wage hike, Tamil Police Force from the Minis- Nadu Transport Minister M driver led to the mishap near Gadwal town, located try of Home Affairs during the R Vijayabhaskar said, as the about 175 kms from here. “More than 30 labourers assembly election in Megha- indefinite strike call given by working in a ginning mill were travelling in the vehicle laya, Chief Electoral Officer F them entered its fourth day on when the accident took place. Five of them died on the R Kharkongor said on Sunday. Monday. spot and 30 people were injured,” the official said. He said this is in addition The unions, which launched The injured, including the van’s driver who sustained to the CAPFs already deployed the strike on January 4 over for law and order in the north wage revision, declared that multiple fractures, were admitted to different eastern state, where the term of their agitation would continue hospitals, he said. the current assembly expires on till their demands were met. ter K Palaniswami should hold operated weekday services MAN HIT BY BULLET NEAR LOC IN OUR CORRESPONDENT “We are Aam aadmi and March 6. Based on the recom- Claiming that the wage set- talks with them and come out on Monday on the Chennai we will have common man as mendations made by the state tlement proposed by the gov- with an amicable settlement. Beach-Tambaram and MRTS JAMMU & KASHMIR’S RAJOURI SHILLONG: The Aam Aadmi candidates, we have few retired election department, the EC ernment would benefit the “We want the chief minister suburban sector instead of JAMMU: A 45-year-old civilian was injured after Party (AAP) on Monday said it officers, few intellectuals who has sought deployment of addi- workers, he said, “The unions and the ministers to take steps weekend reduced services to will contest at least 35 seats in want to contest and we prefer tional 107 companies of CAPFs have been mislead.” in order to arrive at a solution,” accommodate the extra rush being hit by a bullet near the Line of Control (LoC) the Meghalaya Assembly elec- our candidates be to be AAP from the MHA during the elec- “Nearly 23 rounds of talks he said, adding that it has been in view of the strike. in Naushera sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri tions. Elections to the 60-mem- candidates,” he said. tions in the state, Kharkongor have happened so far with the planned to hold protests across The frequency of local district, the police said. Mohammad Yousuf, a resident ber Meghalaya Assembly are Declaring the first list of told reporters. transport workers’ union. The the state tomorrow. trains will be every 10 minutes of Pukherni village, was injured apparently from sniper due in the first half of this candidates, Nongtdu said He said that 536 out of the Labour Progressive Front and Thousands of commuters on the Chennai Beach-Tam- fire from across the border around 7:30 pm on Sun- year as the term of the present Peter Aiborlang Dohkrud will total 3082 polling stations in the CITU are not accepting the were left stranded across Tamil baram section, instead of 20 day, a police official said. The man was hit by a bullet Assembly expires on March 6. contest from Mawlai, Dorass the state have been catego- proposed hike, and are staging Nadu following the indefinite minutes, and 15 minutes on “We are hoping to field 35 Ramsiej from Mawkyrwat, rised as “vulnerable”, another the protests for the last three strike called by the unions. the MRTS section instead of in the leg and was admitted to a sub-district hospital candidates for the next elec- Wonder Lapang will take on 444 critical and 67 vulnerable days,” he told reporters here. Even though private buses 20 minutes, a Southern Railway for treatment, he said. tion as we have good chance of Congress president Celes- as critical, while the rest 2025 The minister claimed that were operating, several passen- release said. winning,” AAP state president tine Lyngdoh from Ums- were declared as normal, he nearly 80 per cent of buses were gers complained that they did Opposition DMK had FORMER SHIV SENA CORPORATOR Wanshwa Nongtdu told report- ning constituency in Ri-Bhoi said. Asked, he said there are operating in the state. not carry destination boards urged the government to hold KILLED IN MUMBAI ers here. and Debrict Binone from a number of polling stations in “Based on the advice by the unlike government buses. talks with trade unions and He claimed the chances of Nongpoh. East Garo Hills and South Garo officials, the employees will get In several districts, a major- bring an end to the impasse. MUMBAI: A former Shiv Sena corporator was killed the AAP is “good”. According to the AAP Hills districts where security a good hike. But, the employees ity of the buses stayed off roads As many as 17 trade unions by unidentified assailants here last night, a police of- The AAP leader also exuded leader, the candidates have been measures have been taken due are mislead and due to that they prompting transport depart- had launched an indefinite stir ficial said on Monday. Ashok Sawant, 62, a two-term confidence that the party will approved by AAP chief and to militancy-related problems. are protesting,” he said. ment authorities to operate since Thursday, with scores of corporator from Samata Nagar in suburban Kandivli, form the next government by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kharkongor said the final Earlier, CITU leader and them with temporary drivers Tamil Nadu State Transport was attacked with choppers while he was returning fielding “common man” as its Kejriwal and party observer electoral roll will be published former legislator A Soundara- and conductors. Corporation (TNSTC) staff home after meeting a friend around 11 pm, he said. MPOST candidates. for North East, Rakesh Sinha. on January 10. rajan had said that Chief Minis- The Southern Railway joining the protest. He was rushed to a nearby hospital in Kandivli but was declared dead on arrival, the official said. Sawant Fire in sessions court building had entered the cable television business a few years Fire at BRD Hospital; principal’s ago, he said. in Mumbai, none hurt EIGHT BOGIES OF GOODS TRAIN DERAIL IN UTTAR PRADESH office, record room gutted OUR CORRESPONDENT parts of the city, the official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal BARABANKI: Eight bogies of a goods train derailed OUR CORRESPONDENT facility. been constituted to probe the their attention was drawn to MUMBAI: A fire broke out Corporation’s (BMC) disaster near Alapur township here this morning disrupting While the police said it reasons behind the fire. Six fire the blaze as soon as flames were on the third floor of the ses- management unit said. train movement on Lucknow-Gonda rail route. No one GORAKHPUR: A major fire seems that short circuit may tenders took nearly an hour to noticed by the people there. sions court building here this The fire brigade personnel was injured in the incident, railway sources said. Eight on Monday gutted the prin- be the cause of the fire, a bring the blaze under control. “It should be probed as to morning, an official said, add- rushed to the spot and man- bogies of the goods train, on its way to Gonda from cipal’s office and an adjacent local Samajwadi Party leader Describing the fire as myste- how and why only important ing that no casualty or injury aged to douse the flames in record room of the state- run described the blaze as mys- rious, SP district chief Prahlad files were reduced to ashes,” was reported, though some the building, which has been Lucknow, derailed near Alapur town around 10.30 am, BRD Hospital here, the fire terious and sought a probe Yadav suspected that it was an Yadav said. official records were gutted in accorded a heritage status. they said. Prima facie, the incident took place because department said. into why “only vital files were act of sabotage to destroy vital The BRD Medical College the blaze. Though the building did of some minor cracks on the rail tracks due to severe No loss of life has been destroyed”. documents related to provision had hit the headlines in August This is the fifth fire -inci not suffer any major damage, cold, sources said, adding rail traffic on the route reported, but the fire destroyed “Prima facie, it seems that of oxygen to the hospital and last year when 63 children, dent in the city in the last three some official records and elec- would be restored soon. important documents in the the fire was caused by a short files pertaining to its shortage including infants, died within weeks. The fire brigade got a trical wirings were gutted, the record room of Baba Raghav circuit,” SP (North) Ganesh in supply that led to deaths of a span of four days when the call at 7.14 am about the blaze official said. ANIMAL WELFARE BOARD ISSUES Das Medical College, which Saha said. so many children last year. supply of oxygen was allegedly in the court building, located The police and the fire bri- was in the news last year after Chief Fire Service Officer T He alleged that officials disrupted due to non-payment near the campus of the Mum- gade officials are yet to ascer- GUIDELINES ON JALLIKATTU EVENTS scores of infants died at the K Singh said a committee has reached the spot late though of dues to the vendor. bai University in the southern tain the cause of the blaze. NEW DELHI: Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) chairman SP Gupta, former IAS, has cleared the stand on the issue of Jallikattu that Board will not take any Flight makes emergency chance where animals would be affected from any landing at Mumbai airport Naqvi: Saudi Arabia okays India’s plan distress and pain. “Since the objective of the board is to prevent cruelty to an animal and not hurt the senti- MUMBAI: A Mumbai-bound Air India flight ments the people, the board would not compromise from Goa with over 90 passengers on board on to ferry Haj pilgrims via sea route with any cruelty and torture to animals and stringent action would be initiated against anyone who violates Monday made an emergency landing here due OUR CORRESPONDENT the rules,” Gupta said while issuing guidelines for to the failure of the aircraft’s hydraulic system. from 1995. organising Jallikattu. The Airbus A319 aircraft made a safe landing Naqvi also said that for the first time NEW DELHI: Saudi Arabia has given its Muslim women from India will go to Haj CBI RAIDS PREMISES OF ALL ACCUSED and all passengers were deplaned without any nod to India’s plan to revive the option without ‘Mehram’ (male companion). harm, an Air India spokesperson said. Flight AI of ferrying Haj pilgrims via sea route to “Separate accommodation and trans- FOR CHEATING PEC 662, carrying over 90 passengers, was forced Jeddah, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas port have been arranged for these woman NEW DELHI: The CBI has conducted searches at Hy- Naqvi said in a statement on Monday. Haj pilgrims in Saudi Arabia and woman to make a “priority” landing at the Chhatrapati derabad and Visakhapatnam at the office of private Shivaji International Airport here this evening fol- Naqvi made the comment after the Haj assistants will be deployed for their signing of annual Haj agreement between assistance,” he added. firm and residences of public servants for cheating lowing a technical glitch, the spokesperson said. India and Saudi Arabia in Mecca. More than 1,300 women have applied Project & Equipment Corp. Ltd (PEC) and recovered However, airport sources said full emergency “Saudi Arabia has given its nod to to go for Haj without ‘Mehram’. All these incriminating documents. Earlier, the CBI has reg- was declared for the flight after the pilot re- revive the option of sending pilgrims by sea women will be exempted from lottery sys- istered a case under different sections of the IPC ported failure in the hydraulic system of the A319 route...Officials from both the countries through ships would help cut down travel tem and allowed to proceed to Haj, he against Hyderabad-based private sugar company, its aircraft. The flight made an emergency landing will discuss all the necessary formalities expenses significantly and added that it added. and technicalities so that Haj pilgrimage would be a “revolutionary, pro-poor, pil- Women above 45 years of age, who managing director, director, manager. Also, officials at the main runway at around 8:10 pm and full through sea route can be started in the grim-friendly decision”. wish to go for Haj but who don’t have a of Central Warehousing Corporation have also been emergency was withdrawn 15 minutes after the coming years,” Naqvi said according to The practice of ferrying Haj pilgrims male companion, are allowed to travel booked in an alleged loss of Rs 82.11 crore caused aircraft made a safe landing at 8:30 pm. MPOST the statement. between Mumbai and Jeddah by water- for Haj in groups of four or more women to PEC Ltd. Naqvi said that sending pilgrims ways existed earlier too, but was stopped according to the new Haj policy of India. nation 7 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp ARUNACHAL PRADESH INCURSION Fire in Bengaluru resto-bar Tuting incident resolved, claims five employees OUR CORRESPONDENT

BENGALURU: A major fire excavators returned to China swept through a resto-bar located in a 70-year-old build- OUR CORRESPONDENT troops had foiled attempts by an apparent reference to China. ing in a busy area in the city, Chinese road building teams Days after the end of the killing five employees in their NEW DELHI: Army Chief to build a track around 1km Doklam standoff, the Army sleep early on Monday, police General Bipin Rawat on Mon- inside Indian territory in Tut- chief had said India should be said. day said Indian and Chinese ing, government sources had prepared for a two-front war, The blaze broke out in Kai- troops had resolved an issue said. noting that China had started lash Bar and Restaurant on the over the recent attempt by Chi- They had said the civilian “flexing its muscles”. ground floor of the Kumbara nese teams to build a road on teams went back when con- He had also said China was Sangha (potters association) the Indian side of the border at fronted by the Indian troops, trying to take over Indian terri- building at Kalasipalya around Tuting in Arunachal Pradesh. but left behind two excavators tory in a gradual manner, and 2.30 am, when smoke was Police officers stand guard at the site after a fire broke out at a bar- Government sources said and some other equipment. cautioned the forces to guard noticed and fire brigade alerted cum-restaurant, in Bengaluru on Monday PTI two excavators, brought in for “The two excavators were against such attempts. by some persons nearby, police road building activities by the returned to the Chinese side “Future wars will be fought said. the safety aspect of the build- guilty in the incident will not Chinese teams, were returned following the BPM on January in difficult terrains and circum- “Fire services were pressed ing. The owner should have be spared.” on Saturday following an ami- 6,” the sources said, adding that stances. We have to be prepared into action.. Two fire tenders also considered whether to “This is a 70-year old cable resolution of the Tuting India’s objection to the incident for them,” Gen. Rawat said. and one fire rescue vehicle allow his employees to stay in building where the incident incident at a Border Personnel was conveyed to China. He further said the armed attended to it and it has been the building.” happened.. We’ll wait for the Meeting (BPM) between the such activities. there was a major reduc- In an address at an event on forces needed major moderni- doused...The cause of the fire Police suspect that though forensic and postmortem two sides in Arunachal. “The Tuting incident has tion of Chinese troops in the modernisation of the armed sation and that the country is not known and is being the owner was the licence report. It appears all the five They said the Indian side been resolved,” Gen. Rawat told Doklam area. Troops from the forces, Gen. Rawat said future must fight the next war with investigated,” a senior police holder to run the business, he died of suffocation,” he said. had conveyed its concerns reporters on the sidelines of an two countries were engaged wars would be fought on diffi- indigenous solutions. officer said. Resto-bar owner had leased it to someone else. Sampath Raj said the BBMP over the incident to China, event, adding that a meeting of in a 73-day long standoff in cult terrains and circumstances Gen. Rawat said the Army VR Dayashankar who went The victims were identified will carry out fire safety audit of which said that the teams had border personnel was held two Doklam in the Sikkim sector and the forces would have to be was ready to induct equipment absconding after the incident as Swami (23), Prasad (20), all high rise and commercial crossed into India by mistake days ago. last year. prepared for them. and platforms made by domes- was later arrested, police said. Mahesh, all natives of Tuma- buildings. and would no longer engage in The Army chief also said On December 28, Indian His comments were seen as tic defence firms. Karnataka Home Minister karu, Manjunath (45) from He said several bars had Ramalinga Reddy told report- Hassan and Keerthi (24) from already been sealed and notices ers at the spot that it was the Mandya. issued to some others for viola- US woman on business responsibility of the owner Bengaluru Development tion of relevant rules. Engineers of DRDO, IT, aeronautical to look after the safety of his minister K J George who vis- Police Commissioner T employees. ited the spot along with Mayor Suneel Kumar said at the site visa in India deported: Reddy also said the city R Sampath Raj announced a that a case has been registered streams moves SC for relief civic body Bruhat Bengaluru compensation of Rs five lakh against the owner of the resto Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) to the next of the kin of the bar under section 304 of the Centre tells High Court should have ensured safety. deceased. IPC which pertains to culpa- OUR CORRESPONDENT competitive examinations study centres affiliated to these “BBMP and excise depart- Condoling the deaths, ble homicide not amounting based on degrees obtained universities did not even have OUR CORRESPONDENT External Affairs showed a let- ment should have looked into George said, “Whoever is to murder. NEW DELHI: A group of from these universities and necessary infrastructure. Those ter from December 2017 that engineers, including those qualified it to get a job. They who will not pass the examina- NEW DELHI: The Delhi the foreigner was blacklisted Money laundering from DRDO’s chemical war- are now at senior positions in tion will have to face the conse- High Court was on Monday as she was involved in NGO Govt to start process to buy fare unit, who are facing the their respective organisations. quences,” the bench observed. informed by the central gov- activities in Puducherry while threat of suspension of their “These candidates risk Senior advocate Meenakshi ernment that an American holding a business visa. case: ED attaches degrees, on Monday moved losing their jobs after being Arora, appearing for one of woman entrepreneur, who The government’s coun- 12 minesweepers afresh the Supreme Court for relief, 10 -15 years in service. The the students who studied from was detained and denied entry sel said her blacklisting was `472 crore assets saying most of them have court should have a humane ITM university (now Northcap at Chennai Airport, has been recommended following visa been working for over 10-15 approach towards them as it University) at Gurgaon, said deported to the US. violations. OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT years and their career will be will have a cascading effect on that his client didn’t even know The issue came up before The court asked whether jeopardized. them and their families will be that his degree was in the dis- the court when it was informed the woman was informed in NEW DELHI: The Enforce- NEW DELHI: The govern- The engineering degrees in trouble,” he said. tance learning category. that the American citizen, who advance that she was black- ment Directorate on Monday ment will start a fresh pro- of these candidates, many of Giri said that there were Arora said that there is was living in India for over a listed, to which her lawyer said it has attached assets worth cess this month to procure 12 whom are employed in aero- also some candidates who another category of students decade on a multiple entry valid Kamlesh Kumar Mishra replied Rs 472 crore, including one in advanced minesweepers for the nautical and IT streams also, were in service and used their who didn’t know it was a dis- business visa, was detained at in the negative. Australia, in connection with Indian Navy after negotiations were obtained after pursuing degrees to get the promotion. tance learning course as they the Chennai Airport at 1.30 am The bench said it was open its money laundering probe in for the Rs 32,000-crore project distance learning course from The top court said that the attended regular classes. on January 5 and was told that for the woman to seek appro- the PACL ponzi scam case. between the Goa Shipyard and defence majors which build four institutions in academic degrees were wrongly given “World class companies since there was a mark on her priate orders from the appro- The ED had registered a a South Korean company hit a minesweepers. session 2001-2005. by the universities and it had tested their skills, they quali- file, she would have to go back priate forum regarding her criminal case against the firm dead-end. According to original However, according to a the interest of students in its fied for the post, did their post to the US. blacklisting. in 2015 based on a CBI FIR The Navy badly needs the understanding, the Goa Ship- November 3 order of the apex mind while granting them graduation all on the basis of Taking note of the devel- According to her lawyer, against the group, its directors minesweepers or mine coun- yard and the Kangam Cor- court, the degrees of students, two opportunities to clear the that degree,” she said. opment, the court said that Kasha was running a cafe and and officials. ter- measure vessels to guard poration were to build 12 who studied in these four examination to be conducted “It is not the case where as the 48-year-old woman, boutique named Kasha ki Asha “Properties worth Rs 472 India’s critical sea lanes in the minesweepers in India under deemed universities--JRN Raj- by AICTE. their skills were not tested. Kasha Elizabeth Vande, has in Puducherry. crore have been attached under backdrop of China’s grow- the Make in India initiative and asthan Vidyapeeth, Institute of “Post facto approvals were They had all necessary already been deported, it can- On her arrival to Chen- the Prevention of Money Laun- ing naval might in the Indian the deliveries were to be com- Advanced Studies in Educa- granted to these universities infrastructure at their col- not restrain the authorities nai via Kuwait Airlines, she dering Act (PMLA) in PACL Ocean region. “We will issue pleted within nine years of the tion (IASE), Rajasthan, Alla- by the authorities concerned leges and students attended all from sending her back to her was detained at the airport ponzi scam operated by Nirmal fresh EoI (Expression of Inter- start of the project. habad Agricultural Institute despite there being a provision the classes just the degree was country. after which she informed her Singh Bhangoo. The proper- est) for the project very soon. However, both sides strug- (AAI) and Vinayaka Mission’s for prior sanction for enroll- from another university,” she “Court is informed that the acquaintance Lal Babu Lalit ties include MiiResorts Group It will be issued this month,” gled to finalise various key Research Foundation, Tamil ing the students. There was contended. US national was put on a flight about the incident who then 1 Pty Ltd and Sanctuary Cove Chairman of state-run Goa aspects of the project. Nadu, will remain suspended ambiguity between them but Additional Solicitor Gen- the same day and returned to filed a habeas corpus petition properties in Australia,” it said. Shipyard Ltd Rear Admiral A parliamentary standing from January 15 this year. we didn’t want the students to eral Maninder Singh supported the US on January 5, 2018. in the high court through advo- PACL is being probed by (retd) Shekhar Mital said. committee on defence last year A bench of Justices Adarsh suffer and hence granted them the cause of the students and “In view of the above devel- cate Mishra. multiple agencies. Sources said the Goa Ship- had slammed the government Goel and U U Lalit on Monday opportunities,” the bench said. said that some other method- opment, the court granting the The plea had sought an Earlier, capital markets yard Ltd had to call off the for delay in procurement of said that it will pass orders on After their degrees were ology could also be there for relief of retraining the authori- order to the authorities to regulator SEBI had found it negotiations with Kangnam the minesweepers and asked multiple petitions separately on held to be “illegal and void”, it testing the abilities of students. ties from deporting the woman immediately produce Kasha to have collected money from Corporation following dif- it to make efforts to fill the gap January 12. was not the students’ right that He said that if on the basis does not arise,” a bench of Jus- before the court. crores of investors allegedly ferences over a host of issues in the Navy’s capability. The Senior advocate V Giri they be given such an opportu- of this foundation degree, a tices S Muralidhar and I S The court had sought through unauthorised collec- including terms and conditions minesweeper ships detect and appearing for some of the nity, it said. candidate acquires another Mehta said. response of the MEA and tive investment schemes, also for technology transfer. destroy underwater mines and engineers said that there were “There has to be some test superior degree than his case During the hearing, the Bureau of Immigration on the called ponzi schemes, in the The EoI is likely to be issued are considered vital for keeping candidates who appeared in of their abilities as many of the can be considered by the court. counsel for the Ministry of petition. name of real estate projects. to a number of major foreign the critical sea lanes safe.

Nitish gets Mufti Mohammad Accidents have decreased by Notice Inviting e-Tender No. 17 of 2017-18 (3rd Call) EE/TD/PWD, Purba Medinipure invites e-tender for the work “Conservation Sayeed memorial Award and restoration of Rangibasan Palace at Mahishadal in the District of Purba Medinipur (3rd Call)” JAMMU: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was 40-45%, says Railway chief Estt. Amt.: Rs. 36,24,854.00 Tender ID-2017_WBPWD_147588_1. Bid Submission End Date is 25.01.2018 at 16.00 Hours. on Monday conferred the first Mufti Mohammad For details visit the website http://wbtenders.gov.in Sd/- Sayeed Award for Probity in Politics and Public OUR CORRESPONDENT here, Lohani said that priority Executive Engineer, PWD, Life at an official function here in the winter capital would be given to electrifica- Tamluk Division of Jammu and Kashmir. The award, given by J-K BILASPUR: Railway Board tion, food served in trains and Governor N N Vohra, has been constituted by the Chairman Ashwani Lohani on cleanliness of trains and rail- Monday said that train acci- way premises. He informed PDP to commemorate the death anniversary of dents had come down by 40-45 that by June, 500 railway sta- PDP founder and two-time state’s chief minister per cent in the current finan- tions would get Wi-Fi facility Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. The PDP founder died cial year as compared to the as part of the Union govern- on January 7, 2016. Flanked by the CM Mehbooba previous fiscal. ment’s Digital India initiative. Mufti, Indian-origin UK politician Lord Meghnad Hoping that train mis- Reply to a query on haps would further decrease, increasing long-distance trains Desai, Deputy Chief Minister Bihar Sushil Kumar Lohani said the transporter’s and their stoppages, Lohani Modi, Governor N N Vohra presented an award -- prime focus this year was to said that capacity augmenta- a shawl and traditional fur cap to Kumar -- at the address safety and mainte- tion was currently underway General Zorawar Singh Auditorium in the city. MPOST nance issues. and a decision on this would Speaking to reporters be taken later. Arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari declared as proclaimed offender NOTICE OF LOSS OF SHARES OUR CORRESPONDENT I, PAWAN KUMAR KEDIA the registered holder(s) of the under defence ministry, including those related mentioned shares of MONSANTO INDIA LIMITED hereby give notice to a much-delayed proposal to buy mid- that the share certificates in respect of the below mentioned shares NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Monday air refuellers, were allegedly recovered have been lost/misplaced and that I have applied to the Company declared controversial arms dealer San- from his premises. to issue duplicate share certificates. jay Bhandari as a proclaimed offender in The FIR was registered in October on Any person who has a claim in respect of the said shares should lodge such claim with the Company at its Registered Office at Ahura Centre, an Official Secrets Act case related to the a complaint by a senior defence ministry 5th Floor,Office Mahakali Caves Road, Andheri (E), Mumbai — 400 recovery of confidential documents of the official that the documents and copies of ICA/T156(3)/2018 093 within 15 days from this date, else the Company will proceed to Ministry of Defence from his residence classified papers recovered during the raid issue duplicate certificates without further information. during an IT raid in 2016. were violative of the Official Secrets Act. Name of holder Folio No. No. of Share Distinctive Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Deepak The documents were allegedly related Shares Certificate No.(s) Sherawat said the accused failed to appear to defence purchases and proposals placed No.(s) before the court despite having ample before the Defence Acquisition Council PAWAN KUMAR KEDIA 0001723 100 1748 199741- opportunities and “it appears that he is (DAC). There were also allegedly cop- 199840 deliberately avoiding to appear before ies of minutes of the Contract Negotia- 100 12275 1649657- the court”. be declared a proclaimed offender. tion Committee meeting for purchasing 1649756 The proclamation of accused was pub- The Crime Branch is probing an Offi- refuellers. lished in newspapers and 30 days had cial Secrets Act case against Bhandari, reg- The I-T Department had been carry- 2 12276 1649757- already passed but he failed to appear, the istered in connection with the recovery of ing out an investigation against Bhandari 1649758 judge observed. “Therefore, the accused is the documents of the ministry from his and the offset company in a tax evasion 404 18774 8643955- declared as proclaimed,” he said. residence and his associate during an IT case when they stumbled upon the con- 8644358 The south-western range (SWR) of raid in April, 2016. fidential papers and copies of documents Place: Kolkata Name of Shareholder: the crime branch had recently moved an During searches carried out by the of the defence ministry during the raids, Date: 09.01.2018 Pawan Kumar Kedia application before the court requesting he Income Tax Department, papers of the police said. 8 editorial mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 EDITORIAL Old-school magic Highway to hell Keynesian economics is still relevant to India. s a country, we do not only boast of containing the second highest population in the world, but we also garner one of the youngest population groups, with The government must invest to ensure economic growth 1.2 billion of our people under the age of 26. By 2020, AIndia is slated to become the youngest country in the world, n unnecessary con- tices and commercial bank asset with the average median age at 29 years. These numbers are troversy is being cre- quality norms. promising for a growing economy like ours, as the future of NANTOO BANERJEE ated about India’s India’s anemic private sec- a country with a propelling youth population harnesses the ‘untenable’ fiscal tor and signs of fatigue in the ability to create wonders in terms of increased productivity, Adeficit for the financial year property market point to the improved entrepreneurial engagement and simply, a promising 2017-18 as it reached 96.1 per increasing needs of the gov- tomorrow brighter than the gore of yesterday. Compared to cent of the budget estimate ernment to provide additional other leading economies of the world, India has a great advan- towards October end, lifted by stimulus to swell the economic tage in this aspect. China’s median age stands at 35, UK’s at 40 an increase in expenditure. Sim- growth target to 7.8 per cent in and the US’s at 38. However, this bright future of our country ilarly, the growing criticism by 2018-19 and 8.5 to 9 per cent which could achieve great heights with a prospering youth certain interest groups about in the next two years. Invest- population is in deep jeopardy. Horrifying statistics show that large non-performing assets ments in roadways, railways, in India, 26 student suicides are committed every 24 hours. In (NPAs) with the majority of inland waterways, mass hous- simple terms, a student wishfully ends their life every hour in state-controlled banks would ing, rural digital connectivity our country. In 2016 alone, 9474 students committed suicide appear to be unwarranted, if not and defence manufacturing across the states and UTs of our country. Somehow, this num- uncalled for, given the develop- should drive this growth. The ber is undeniably less than the truth, many more such deaths Banks must play ing status of India’s economy 82 years later, Keynes’ theory of debt financing continues to be relevant for developing economies government should not worry remain unaccounted as suicide continues to be prejudiced in and the importance of most of about budget deficits for such a our society. The instant reaction to suicide is either of pity or their part to boost the defaulters’ stalled projects. nist leadership had selectively Dai-Ichi Kangyo, the world’s and create jobs for growth. purpose. Banks must play their of apathy. We readily believe that either the troubles fell heav- overall domestic First, there is nothing wrong used the Keynesian economic largest bank during the latter However, the government part to boost overall domestic ily on the youth or that the youth was resorting to coward- in the government’s large bud- theory to its great advantage, part of the 20th century? It was focus radically changed since spending through credit expan- ice. Isolated incidences of suicide would probably fit either spending through get deficits, if it is meant for although it took over 20 years created in 1971 by a consor- 1991, after a foreign debt crisis sion, the hallmark of Keynes- of the definitions, but what we are witnessing today is not a credit expansion, supporting basic industrial for John Maynard Keynes’s tium of Dai-Ichi, Japan’s old- and half-hearted World Bank- ian policies. Massive job cuts in sporadic occurring, it has been greatly inflated to become a projects, housing and infra- “General Theory” to be trans- est bank, and Nippon Kangyo IMF guided economic reform the private sector will have to phenomenon. It is no less than a pervading social evil that is the hallmark structure, creating a large num- lated into Chinese. It was first Bank, a state financial insti- that slowly conceded the indus- be more than matched by cre- clutching onto the youth of today, particularly the urban youth. of Keynesian ber of jobs, raising income and published in China in 1957, tution that granted long-term trial turf to foreign direct invest- ation of new jobs through pub- The last two decades, since the dawn of this millennium, has demands. That will also induce around the time of Mao Tse loans to industry and agricul- ment, according to the overseas lic spending in new projects. If witnessed an unprecedented turnover in our lives. With the theory. Massive profit-oriented private sector Tung’s “anti-rightist” cam- ture. The bank served its pur- investors’ choice. Keynes was necessary, the Rupee may have advent of technology and social media uprooting our lives job cuts in the firms to invest, progress and, paign. Mao started his famous pose for several years before it quickly forgotten. The focus to be devalued to encourage from its foundation, we have entered a new phase where the in the process, further grow the agrarian revolution to unite sulked under high NPAs. It had shifted to deficit control, mar- exports and compress imports. distinctions between private, personal, social and public have private sector will economy. It is time that India, millions of farmhands to pro- to be merged with Fuji Bank ket forces, large trade imbal- The policy will strongly sup- been greatly obfuscated. While evidently, it seems that tech- have to be more once again, starts flirting with mote communism in China. and the Industrial Bank of Japan ance, foreign borrowing and the port the government’s ‘Make- nology has allowed us more scope to express ourselves and the widely repudiated theory of Uniting industrial workers to form the Mizuho Financial floating Rupee. For long, India’s in-India’ programme. In 1935, drawn even the most remote individual into the public sphere, than matched Keynesian economics. Develop- and state promotion of large Group in 2000, without creating private sector entrepreneurs John Maynard Keynes wrote it indeed has worked in quite the reverse. A growing number by creation of ing China’s emergence as the industries came later. In 1950, any panic among its depositors have been drawing excess funds to George Bernard Shaw: “I of social media friends has diluted the essence of relationships world’s second-largest economy China, now the world’s larg- and creditors. It was restruc- from the nationalised banks believe myself to be writing today. The quest is no longer in maintaining existing relations; new jobs through owes a lot to both large deficit est steelmaker, produced even tured again, the very next year. for their projects by inflating a book on economic theory instead, it is materialistically driven to derive quantifiably the public spending financing by the state between less steel than India. Post-Mao, India’s initial ‘socialistic pat- the project costs and collud- which will largely revolutio- most while laying quality on the line of sacrifice. In the plastic the mid-1970s and 1990s and, Chinese leaders selectively fol- tern’ of economy built in the ing with banks. Excess funds nise – not, I suppose, at once world of virtual media, the youth of today has lost the abil- in new projects once again, in 2008 and 2009, lowed Keynesian economics for 1960s and1970s were substan- were mostly diverted by those but in the course of the next ity to truly express itself. This, topped with the worldly goals to expand infrastructure, core rapid industrial growth. Hu Jin- tially designed on Keynesian entrepreneurs to float another ten years – the way the world of achieving top grades, securing a respectable job, mint- industries and defense man- tao and Wen Jiabao embraced prescriptions of deficit financ- company or support other proj- thinks about its economic prob- ing loaded cheques and mindlessly running a race with zero ufacturing. China also con- Keynesian economic prescrip- ing and job creation. The gov- ects. Inflated project cost led lems.” And, true to his words, introspection has driven each individual into a scary corner trolled the exchange rate of tions with great determination. ernment created a large public to high production cost. Some Keynes’ magnum opus — The of isolation, emotional deprivation and restlessness. Over five Yuan to subsidise export pro- In 2008, they handled the coun- sector to provide a big industrial turned NRIs to run away from General Theory of Employ- crore people today suffer from depression in our country, and duction to earn precious foreign try’s financial crisis by approv- boost for growth of the private the country with such funds, ment, Interest and Money — a large portion of that number can be comfortably assigned exchange and enhance local ing a large stimulus package and and co-operative sectors since running their India business published in February 1936, to the burgeoning youth who are disarrayed with their emo- employment. China’s commer- spurred the country’s banks the1980s. India’s private sector comfortably from outside. It transformed economics and tions, blinded with plastic goals and left with the inability to cial banks mostly maintained to lend. business did not have enough would be wrong to assume that economic policymaking around foster emotional balance. A prime point of concern that has a very high level of NPAs — In Japan, most large com- money to invest big in the core a developing economy such as the world. Eighty-two years on, allowed this aberration to spread its wings and become a real- much higher than what India mercial banks too maintained and infrastructure sectors. Fam- India, should at this point of the Keynesian theory still holds ity has been the failed education system in the country that witnessed in the recent years. high rates of NPAs during its ily-run commercial banks were time, strictly follow the patterns up in developing economies, emphasises only on creating mechanical producers rather than China’s policymakers were not fastest growth years between nationalised to support the gov- of highly developed economies including India. IPA well-rounded individuals. No matter how much we try, the concerned. the 1970s and 1990s. How many ernment and private invest- in Europe and North America (The views expressed human will remain a social animal, desperate in the search for China’s post-Mao commu- Indians today remember Japan’s ments, expand branch network on deficit management prac- are strictly personal.) companionship and an outlet to vent out stress. The growing incidence of suicide in the country must be an awakener for dear the civil society to realise that a disease is plaguing its social EDITOR millenniumpost.in and educational system today. Suicide is a most extreme step Quote martial ALTERNATE METHODS that is often triggered by the most innocuous instances. But what transforms a harmless incident to a devastating conse- It isn't pollution Including renewable energy projects in priority sector and lending guidelines is indeed a very Log on to write letters to the quence is in its repercussion upon the fragile human mind that's harming the pragmatic and a much-needed move. While solar energy is an ideal solution to many problems editor or send them to and our subsequent inability to battle the crisis. We are a environment. It's the pertaining to environment and economy, it is not feasible for a number of reasons. Though the [email protected] raging population that is being fed into becoming machines that churn out enviable grades and mind-boggling numbers, impurities in our air and returns may be remarkable, the setting up of a solar power plant and maintenance of that is no You can also send your without sparing a thought on the qualitative aspects that cre- water that are doing it small task. This method of extracting resource is akin to harvesting rainwater which is difficult comments to The Editor, ate and sustain a human being and subsequently a collective to do on a small scale. There should be more institutionalised undertaking of solar power Millennium Post, society. It is time to pause and reflect upon the inner-self, to realise that not all victories are worth the losses endured in DAN QUAYLE exploitation so the environment may be of better quality. Pratap Bhawan, 5 Bahadur Shah conquest. Peace with the minimalistic often supersedes glory NAMRATA LAL Via email Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002 from empty magnanimous accomplishments. Germany in In the world of constants dilemma Despite modern innovations, some objects have remained unchanged over centuries ew countries have had the meteoric rise since the Second World War as Germany, to set an example to cessors and operate in exactly the same the rest of the world; but none, ironically, remain in way that they did for our great-grandfa- the state of suspense that it is in today. Indeed, ever ther. In fact, other than the advent of the Fsince its General Elections, held three months ago, Chancel- semi- and fully-automatic mechanisms, lor Angela Merkel has been hard put to cobble up a coalition and vast improvements in sighting (i.e. that can “deliver”. If she is still at the helm, it is because of the telescopes), a hunter or a police consta- German President’s request that she ought to continue till a AMIT KHANNA ble from 100 years ago would have no proper government can take over. The Christian Democrats trouble using a modern rifle. that Merkel leads are considered “conservative” and their coali- The axe, saw, nails, hammer, screw- tion partner during the last two terms, the Social Democrats, driver and spanner are still the same as have been at loggerheads since before the last election. True, they were 100 years ago. A fisherman the “conservatives” emerged with the highest number of seats, would use a boat in the late 19th cen- but not enough to govern on their own. The new “opposition” tury as his counterpart does today. The that once used to be known as the main opposition, the Social bicycle has hardly evolved in 100 years, Democrats, lost many of their seats but insist they do not want nor has the motorcycle. Vacuum clean- to lose their Left identity. Meanwhile, causing a good deal of ers, toasters, mixers, ovens and grind- concern to many within and outside Germany, a far Right ers have remained almost the same for Wing has emerged reminding many of the phase before the All this talk years. Let’s look around the kitchen and Second World War. This, incidentally, is a new wave in Europe of fancy guns pantry. Baked beans still come in cans as the Right comprising new and young leaders has taken up and tomato ketchup in a bottle. The the reins in neighbouring Austria. The emergence of the new and revolvers bread is baked the way it was 200 years Rightists has been attributed to Merkel’s large-heartedness in and other ago. The pressure cooker is the same accommodating Refugees from the Middle East. Even if the since 1864. The mixer-grinder has been rest of the world applauded her stand on this issue, it did not sophisticated around for 100 years. The best pizzas are go down well with the electorate. That was understandable. firearms would Despite several modifications, the basic structure of the wheel has remained unchanged since 5,000 years still baked in wood-fired ovens and the Till the 1990s, Germans were finding it difficult to deal with best tandoori chicken is made not on a Turkish immigrants and those that had stolen their way in imply the s they say, never reinvent the lar tracks and sleepers even as we are devices), telegraph and telex may have rotisserie but a clay tandoor. You still use across the borders. The very thought of refugees merging with basic rifle has wheel. Well, we haven’t in the constructing (and in many countries disappeared, but the good old landline frozen peas, vegetables, sausages, pate the local populace was both scary and revolting to many. Dis- millennia. It is ironical that running) bullet trains. Till a few years is still very much around. As are the and cheese made the way they were for gruntled voices came up from different parts of the country. disappeared. No some of the oldest inventions ago, we also had vintage steam locomo- cables strung across poles for all these generations. Bottle openers, knives, cut- Even former Diplomats tossed diplomatic norms aside and sir, the modern, Aof man have remained unaltered for cen- tives of the 19th century in use in many services and, in fact, now for even the lery, crockery, pots and pans all go back turned critical. Much of this happened after a couple of terror turies. In an age where mobile phones, parts of the world. In India, 150 years likes of cable TV and broadband. centuries; as does most of the furniture. attacks. Merkel tried hard to explain that they needed to lead bolt-action rifle cars and even aeroplanes get an upgrade after trains were introduced, we still use We have all seen the neighbourhood Fountain and ball pens were invented on humanitarian grounds so that others could emulate them. and chamber- every few months, some products and a hole in the floor of a small lavatory to “dhobi” ironing clothes with a rusty coal in 1884 and 1888, respectively, and are The unforeseen Right was quick to pounce on the opportunity services remain unaltered except for defecate. And people still travel on train iron. Clothes have been pressed in this still in use. The list goes on. that stared them in the face. Now, they are threatening to gain firing revolver cosmetic changes. roofs! By the way, though aeroplanes way for centuries. Even the steam iron is Newspapers are edited, printed and more support and power. All this leaves Germany and Ger- are essentially Let’s look at some examples. One have evolved a lot, their loos are still more than 120 years old. Did you realise distributed as they were 300 years ago mans in a dilemma. Indeed, till the Elections, Germany had of the earliest inventions still in use is what they were many decades ago (and that the ubiquitous glass bottle has been save for moving from letterpress to off- become the most powerful Nation in Europe with an economy unchanged from the plain and simple wheel. It may have the seats have actually become smaller). around in some form or the other since set and to computer layouts from hand- to reckon with. Angela Merkel has been the most respected their predecessors been adapted and changed to suit every- That reminds me, you must have 1,500 BC? Dry-cleaning of clothes was painted pages. So, from scissors and leader in the continent. And, now, at the behest of the Ger- and operate in thing from a “thela” to a modern jet, noticed High Transmission Cables first done almost a hundred years ago. locks, thermometers and fountain pens man President, the Conservative leader, Angela Merkel and but its basic design remains the same. strung across tall pylons racing past Kerosene may have given way to ben- to knitted pullovers, patchwork quilts the Left leader, Martin Schultz, have resumed talks for a pro- exactly the same Take the bullock cart, or tonga, which you as you travel on railroads or high- zene and other newer solvents, but the and leather coats and cotton swabs, anti- spective coalition. Schultz is under pressure from his party way that they did you can still spot on Indian roads – it ways. In spite of rapid advancements process remains the same. The bespoke septics and aspirin, the past continues hardliners and supporters that they must not let the new far is what it was 5,000 years ago during in materials, this is the way electricity tailor even today uses the same tools of to cling on to our present with a reluc- Right be the main opposition in the Parliament. According for our the Vedic times. Did you know that the has been transmitted since its invention the trade as his forefathers did centu- tant obstinacy. The last 10 years have to them, the new Party would be given far too much impor- great-grandfather rubber tyre on your bike or car has not 150 years ago. A few years ago, when ries ago. As do other artisans: cobblers, seen technology leap many generations tance. They, instead, must form the Opposition. Both the main changed substantially since John Dun- super-conductivity was discovered, it weavers, metal workers, embroiders, with the microchip and the Internet, but Parties, incidentally, were coalition partners before the last lop invented the first rubber tyre in the was predicted that power transmission masons, carpenters, butchers and even utilities, consumer goods and products General Elections. Both have to yield on some issues before late 19th century? would become several times more effi- bootleggers. remain in the same mould as they were they arrive at some understanding. But will they? That is the Although 10 million people flew cient and easy. Nothing happened. Nor All this talk of fancy guns and revolv- originally imagined. Most services are million Euro question. Trying to answer that will amount to in India last year, over 100 million still have the plugs, switches, meters or fuses ers and other sophisticated firearms still dispensed the same way. Lateral shooting in the dark. If they do arrive at a compromise, it will travel by railways annually. Since 1804, altered much. would imply the basic rifle has disap- thinking, anyone? IANS be business as usual in Germany. If they do not, it will have when the first locomotive hauled a train Typewriters (the QWERTY key- peared. No sir, the modern, bolt-action (The author is a writer, filmmaker, to be a matter of returning to yet another General Election. over the rails in Wales, we have almost board invented in 1868 remains the rifle and chamber-firing revolver are and media guru. Views expressed similar trains running on almost simi- same even on post-modern comps and essentially unchanged from their prede- are strictly personal.) 9 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp in focus New mafia capitalism gains hold John Green writes about dirty money from drug dealing and clandestine corruption world over

t aims to highlight a new stage in the evolution of global capitalism: Mafia capitalism. We are, though, not talking here of a few family Cosa Nostras con- Itrolling the underworld, but well-organised crime syndicates, with links to governments and security services, gnawing their way to With the the core of capitalism. The recent revelations from WikiLeaks enormous and the Panama and Paradise Papers expos- sums of money ing massive tax evasion by global companies only show the seemingly less grubby aspect of generated by capitalist venality. But such massive evasion drug-dealing, of tax and the apparent ease with which the super-rich are able to hide away their wealth cybercrime, and sends a clear signal to everyone that duplicity pornography, and even crime itself can in fact pay. If individuals and companies can avoid there was an tax with impunity and vast sums can be laun- urgent need to dered so easily, many will ask: why should I remain a law-abiding citizen, working in a not only hide the nine to five job and paying my full tax bill? ill-gotten gains With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the eastern bloc, combined with the voracious but to invest Western appetite for drugs and porn, a new, them in safe totally unregulated and unscrupulous form of capitalism has emerged. areas. This new With the enormous sums of money gen- Mafia’s secretive erated by drug-dealing, cybercrime, and por- operations nography, there was an urgent need not only to hide the ill-gotten gains but to invest them are facilitated in safe areas. This new Mafia’s secretive opera- by electronic tions are facilitated by electronic communi- cations and the easy means of shifting large communications sums of cash rapidly around the world and and the easy thus keeping it hidden and unregulated. Albanian gangs have been involved in means of shifting drug-dealing and trafficking young women large sums of to work as sex slaves; cybercrime syndicates are now largely based in eastern Europe. Alba- cash rapidly, thus nian organised crime is highly active not only keeping it hidden in Europe but in both North and South Amer- Diamond exploration in Africa is another den of global capital mafias (Representational Image) ica and other parts of the world, including and unregulated the Middle East and Asia. According to the London in 2006, almost certainly by members pristine forests and on the coast. leaked documents showed that the govern- compounded by Western capitalism’s will- US State Department, Albania is the main- of the Russian secret services. He ended up in a hospital with multi- ment believed there had been a total of 25,000 ingness to facilitate it. The recent exposure stay of organised crime worldwide and one of Grigory Pasko, a former Russian naval ple injuries, including a fractured skull and people missing across the country: silent vic- of the Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler is just the main points of drug trafficking, weapons, officer and founding editor of Ecology and broken nose. Rudomakha and several other tims of the drug war. one example. He is the founder and presi- immigrants and counterfeit goods. Law, an environmental and citizens’ rights activists had just returned from the Black Sea, This year, the tally is close to 33,000. But dent of the Dan Gertler International Group The British National Crime Agency magazine, was attacked by unknown assail- where they were documenting the illegal con- the truth is that no-one knows how many of companies. He has been heavily involved (NCA) said it was increasingly concerned ants in 2016 after he had published infor- struction of a luxury mansion. These are just people are missing in Mexico. Most of these in the exploitation of the diamond and cop- by what it called the Albanians’ “high-profile mation about the secret dumping of nuclear a few on a long list of attacks on those who deaths are a result of turf wars between drug per reserves of the Democratic Republic of influence within UK organised crime.” It has waste in the Sea of Japan. attempt to expose Mafia capitalism. But such gangs, but with the collusion of state security the Congo. also warned of the threat of cybercrime from Environmental activist Galina Golubova, activities are not confined to Russia. forces. The drugs are destined largely for the The worldwide relaxation of financial con- former eastern bloc countries. of EcoDefence and the Movement for the Pro- The recent murder of campaigning jour- US. Without that ready market, the gangs trols and deregulation has only made the work A whole number of journalists and envi- tection of Childhood, disappeared in Mos- nalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta dem- would be deprived of their income. of the new capitalist Mafia easier — as has the ronmental activists in Russia who have tried cow in 2012. onstrates how widespread intimidation is In Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, and Gua- election of a man in the United States who is to expose widespread corruption and the And most recently, in December 2017, becoming and how invulnerable such Mafia temala, campaigning environmentalists and heavily tainted by corruption and accused of flouting of environmental regulations by pow- Andrei Rudomakha of the Environmental capitalists and their henchmen now feel. Her those exposing corruption have also been underhand dealing, and who makes clear his erful companies and individuals have been Watch on the North Caucasus was attacked relentless focus on corruption, cronyism, and brutally eradicated. In almost all cases, the contempt for the rule of law. The Mafia capi- physically attacked and, in the worst cases, in the southern city of Krasnodar by three political malfeasance in Malta had drawn attackers are not brought to justice, encourag- talists are jubilant. Without a restoration of murdered. masked men. wide attention. ing others to employ the same means to keep strict financial regulation and control, as well The investigative journalist Anna Polit- For years he has exposed illegal landfills, In Latin America, the situation is even their dirty operations secret. as real national sovereignty over economies, kovskaya was murdered in Moscow in 2006. the destruction of landscapes and the con- worse than here in Europe, particularly in Around 100,000 people in Latin America Mafia capitalism will continue to expand. IPA Alexander Litvinenko, who revealed how cor- tamination of waterways in Russia’s south. Mexico where the country has been in a are murdered each year as a direct result of (The writer is a contributor to ruption in Russia went right to the top and Some investigations have exposed land grabs state of de facto civil war for decades and the drug laws cobbled together in Washington. Morning Star, Britain. The views involved the secret services, was murdered in by local officials who have built mansions in rule of law has virtually collapsed. In 2012, Africa is rife with corruption at all levels, expressed are strictly personal.)

tweet Checking corrupt practices RETWEET Sadly, words do not match the actions on ground hile the Prime Minister is busy claiming that he ATISHI MARLENA has launched a crusade @AtishiMarlena against corruption, on Wcloser inspection the aggression seems to SUGATO HAZRA be missing on the ground. From a small office staff in a municipality making file The Common Mobility Card being noting of births and deaths to even a launched today by CM @ArvindKejriwal Chief Secretary of a resource-rich state will make travel convenient for can easily escape the loopholes avail- able aplenty in the Indian administrative residents who use both Metro and system. In the end, the Prime Minister’s DTC services. Hassle-free public “Maan Ki Baat’’ sounds empty. The fault transportation is critical for a city's lies with the system that has developed growth. since India won Independence. In a well-distributed power structure a Prime #AAPRedefiningTransportation Minister can set the agenda but how it is carried out depends on the functionaries at different tiers of governance. In a well- The problem is reforms, even if it is BHAICHUNG BHUTIA aimed at punishing the guilty, must start @bhaichung15 distributed power at the bottom as strongly as it is propa- structure, a Prime gated from the top. Given the labyrinth Minister can set of the bureaucratic process, it does not happen. Take a recent news item from Political leadership must be alert to growing corrupt practices that plague the Indian economy (Representational Image) WHEN WILL THIS STOP!!! Playing the agenda but Jharkhand. This relates to the politically high profile “chara ghotala’’ where money to suppress many misconducts by her ing has shielded the officer. In the vol- sions and find out how banks take care area (surface )in the stadium is only how it is carried was siphoned off from the treasury. A friends in the cadre. A case in point umes of files neatly bound in red tape to infuse fresh funding in order to enable for sports. We hardly have grounds to out depends on former Chief Secretary of Jharkhand is is illegality in Kathautia coal block in in India’s corridors of powers, there are, the potential defaulting company fund play and the ones we have are being the functionaries in the dock and marks his presence in Palamau district which was allocated to it will not be wrong to assume, millions its repayment schedule. If the Finance used for non sporting purposes. This the voluminous photographs splashed Usha Martin Ltd, a Kolkata based com- of such cases where the guilty go unpun- Minister wants us to believe that this was at different tiers in media. What escapes attention is that pany in 2003. This allocation was later ished. Not only that, the hard-earned the practice when UPA was in power, he should change across the country. of governance. the current Chief Secretary of the state cancelled by the Supreme Court by its taxpayers’ money goes into defending is wrong; there are glaring evidence of #SUPPORTSPORTS #stadiumforsports Rajbala Verma, as per media report, was order in 2014 and subsequently, it was the guilty in India’s courts. No wonder the banks indulging in “evergreening’’ Reforms, even guilty of dereliction of duties. As Deputy allocated to Hindalco through e-auc- to a common man the well-meaning “ of accounts well within the tenure of if it is aimed at Commissioner of Chaibasa, CBI found tion. It was alleged that there had been Maan Ki Baat’’ sounds hollow for no the present government. that Verma did not submit reports of illegal acquisition of forest land around fault of the leader himself. There are many other cases of nep- NARENDRA MODI punishing the accounts to AG of then undivided state the Kathautia coal block when the mine Take another shadow area of the otism as well. In one particular case, it @narendramodi guilty, must start of Bihar. This helped hiding the fraud was first allocated. This could take place economy – the banking sector. Arun was seen that banks were lending money from the auditors. In 1998 CBI asked with the connivance of the officials of Jaitley, the Finance Minister, proudly to a company which was manufactur- at the bottom as for departmental action, one of major the district. In fact, when the issue first claimed (Millennium Post, January 3, ing computers to help it meet the order strongly as it is punishment, on her. Since then report- came to light, after the mine was real- 2018) that “Most NPAs result of bank book. Effectively the company was hav- Had focussed discussions with groups edly 30 reminders have gone, with the located to Hindalco, a revenue official loans before April ‘14”. Clearly, the smart ing orders on paper only since the indi- of officers on specific areas of policing propagated from case never been taken up. Rajbala Verma was suspended for facilitating illegality communicator conveys his Herculean rect tax department of the state found the top rose to the rank of Chief Secretary and in the mine. The illegality was noticed effort to clean the Augean stable left by out there was no additional tax paid from and security. I also inaugurated five is due for retirement in February 2018. when Hindalco went ahead to work on the previous government. This is yet the reported additional order. Evidently, new buildings at the BSF Academy. This is how the high and mighty escape the mine. This has created a problem another instance where more is hidden there was collusion with bank officials to punishment for dereliction of duty. for Hindalco which won it following a than exposed in bank balance sheets. siphon off funds. It is futile to shut eyes Evidently, the case illustrates how transparent system but is now caught in Apparently, the Finance Minister is not and claim that this had happened earlier the collusion among the fraternity helps the mire of past illegality. briefed on how much money was lent and does not happen now. RAMESH SRIVATS breed corrupt practices. Clearly, as a A six-member committee went by banks in order to stop loan accounts Corrupt practices which have bur- @rameshsrivats junior officer, Rajabala Verma felt obli- through the complaints against the ille- turning NPA. According to RBI circu- dened Indian economy seem to be going gated to her seniors and avoided fol- galities committed and found that the lar, a loan turns non-performing when on unchecked despite the best efforts lowing the due procedure so as to help then Deputy Commissioner, Puja Sing- interest or principal repayment is delayed from the top. Unless the political lead- her seniors in swindling the exchequer, hal, was prima facie guilty of dereliction beyond 90 days. The thumb rule is suit- ership everywhere is alert, the sincere Fifth fire in 20 days? as subsequent court judgments proved. of duty and in October 2015 even pre- ably reshaped to meet different kinds of efforts of the Prime Minister will not She could effectively stall action on the pared a charge sheet. Singhal is currently advances. What does a bank do to avoid translate into the desired action. In the This spirit of Mumbai seems to be basis of CBI report with similar frater- Secretary, Department of Agriculture in an NPA situation? Simple, they lend end, “ Maan Ki Baat’’ will remain handles highly inflammable. nity support. The same milk of frater- Jharkhand. Despite the matter reaching more money. Any inquisitive researcher for humour on social media. nal love perhaps encouraged Verma Supreme Court, the strong fraternal feel- can access a company’s board discus- (The views are strictly personal.) 10 world mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 Cold wave claims 7 more Opposed to US ‘finger pointing’ at lives in Nepal; toll reaches 24

KATHMANDU: Intense cold Pak on terror-related issues: China weather in Nepal has claimed seven more lives, taking to 24 BEIJING: China on Monday under the $50 billion China the death toll due to severe said it is opposed to the US “fin- Pakistan Economic Corridor. winter conditions over the past ger pointing” at Pakistan and The Chinese official media is Trump administration trying something week in southern part of the linking it with terrorism, insist- highlighting reports that Paki- country, according to a media ing that the responsibility of stan may allow China to build a report. cracking down on terror outfits a military base at Jiwani located new to deal with Pakistan, says official More than half of the them, cannot be placed on a particu- close to Iran s Chabahar port, 14, were reported from Saptari lar country. which is being jointly developed WASHINGTON: The Trump administration problem that we're facing," the official said. The district while five each in Rau- China’s support for its all- by India, Iran and Afghanistan. feels it is time to try "something different" to "previous administrations have tried to exercise tahat and Siraha districts in the weather ally came as the US Jiwani is also close to the prevent Pakistan from becoming a safe haven what they might call strategic patience or offer- Tarai region, it said. stepped up its efforts to pressure strategic Gwadar port in Balo- for terrorists as exercising patience or offering ing inducements like Kerry-Lugar-Berman bill Seven people, including a Pakistan to eliminate terror safe chistan which is being devel- inducements have failed to deal with the prob- which gave billions of dollars to Pakistan", the 7-month-old child, lost their havens on its soil. oped by China. While defending lem threatening the region's stability, a top offi- official said, adding none of it has worked so far. lives due to excessive cold in The US last week suspended Pakistan, Lu said China at the cial said on Monday. In 2009, the Kerry-Lugar-Berman Act (KLB), various municipalities of Sap- approximately $2 billion in US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping same time backed international The remarks by the official came days after also known as the Enhanced Partnership with tari district last night, the security assistance to Pakistan counter terrorism efforts. the Trump administration suspended approxi- Pakistan Act of 2009, is passed and Congress Himalayan Times quoted for its failure to take decisive in its national interest to crack- ald Trump increased rhetoric “First and foremost, I would mately $2 billion in security assistance to Paki- authorised tripling of the economic-related assis- senior police officials as saying. action against terror groups like down on terror safe havens. against Islamabad providing like to say that terrorism is the stan, resulting in an outrage from Islamabad. tance to Pakistan to $7.5 billion over five years, The locals of Saptari have the Taliban and the Haqqani “We have stressed many safe havens for terrorists. common enemy of the interna- President Donald Trump in a New Year's Day from the period of 2010 to 2014. sent a memorandum to Prime Network. times that Pakistan has made Trump in a New Year’s Day tional community. tweet accused the country of giving nothing to Terrorists continue to operate freely inside Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, “China always opposed link- important sacrifices and con- tweet accused the country of “Cracking down of terror- the US but "lies and deceit" and providing "safe Pakistan and there is a relationship between demanding relief materials for ing terrorism with any certain tributions to the global anti ter- giving nothing to the US but ism calls for the joint efforts haven" to terrorists in return for $33 billion aid terrorist organisations and the establishment, those vulnerable to cold. country and we don t agree to rorism cause.Countries should “lies and deceit” and provid- from the international com- over the last 15 years. The official said policies the official said. In Rautahat, two people place the responsibility of anti strengthen anti-terrorism coop- ing “safe haven” to terrorists in munity,” he said. followed by the successive US administrations "This administration believes it's time to try died due to freezing cold last terrorism on a certain coun- eration on the basis of mutual return for $33 billion aid over “Actually, China is defending post 9/11 vis-a-vis Pakistan have not worked. something different. We simply can't ignore the night, Superintendent of Police try,” Chinese Foreign Minis- respect instead of finger point- the last 15 years. countries that have been mak- The US is committed to not allowing either Paki- sanctuaries if we're going to make progress in Yagya Binod Pokhrel said. try spokesman Lu Kang told a ing at each other. This is not Chinese media has been ing anti-terrorism efforts in a stan or Afghanistan to become a safe haven for Afghanistan," the official said, adding that "the Rautahat District Admin- media briefing. He was respond- conducive to the global terror- speculating that Trump’s efforts just and fair way. China also terrorists from where they can attack America president has been clear about his commitment istration Office said warm ing to a question on a White ism efforts,” Lu said. to step up pressure on Pakistan welcomes all the global joint and its allies, said the senior Trump administra- to stabilising Afghanistan". clothes and blankets were House official’s remarks that China has been vocal in may move it closer to Islamabad efforts in terms of counter ter- tion official on condition of anonymity. "These On Trump's comprehensive South Asia strat- being distributed to the poor China could play helpful role in extending support to Paki- as Beijing is involved in a num- rorism on the basis of mutual sanctuaries really threaten stability in the region egy for regional diplomacy announced in August and in Dalit settlements of convincing Pakistan that it was stan since US President Don- ber of projects in the country trust,” he said. AGENCIES and they continue to fuel the overall terrorism last year, the official said. AGENCIES the district. AGENCIES BBC editor of French Prez begins China resigns Protest outside Pakistan embassy China state visit at over gender pay gap dispute against treatment of Jadhav’s family WASHINGTON: A group of This behaviour will lead to Paki- Silk Road gateway LONDON: A BBC editor has Americans of Indian, Afghan stan's own destruction," said the resigned from her post, citing and Baloch descents has pro- protester Dhananjay Shevilkar. XIAN (CHINA): French Pres- pay inequality with male col- tested outside the Pakistani Pakistan on December 25 ident Emmanuel Macron on Macron is leagues, a media report said embassy against the "inhu- had issued a video of Jadhav in Monday launched a state visit on Monday. mane" treatment of the wife which he was purportedly seen to China in Xian - the starting beginning the In an open letter, BBC and mother of Indian death thanking the Pakistan govern- point of the ancient Silk Road three-day visit China’s editor Carrie Gra- row prisoner Kulbhushan Jad- ment for arranging a meeting - in a nod to his counterpart's in Xian as a cie, accused the corporation hav during their recent visit to with his wife and mother. scheme to revive the famous of a “secretive and illegal pay Islamabad. India has asserted that Jad- trading route. gesture to Chinese c u l t u r e”. Braving freezing cold, the hav appeared coerced and under Macron will visit the north- President Xi Gracie, who has been at the protesters also brought along considerable stress during the ern city's famous terracotta BBC for more than 30 years, sandals to give them to the Paki- tightly-controlled interaction. warriors along with his wife Jinping's colossal said it was facing a “crisis of stani embassy officials. Jadhav was sentenced to death Brigitte before delivering a key- New Silk Road trust”, after it was revealed that "The trial of Kulbhushan by a Pakistani military court on note speech on the future of two-thirds of its stars earning Jadhav violated all norms of charges of espionage and terror- Franco-Chinese relations. project, an more than 150,000 pounds a international law as it was con- ism in April, following which The 8,000-man clay army, ambitious initiative year were male. She said she ducted by a military court," said India moved the International crafted around 250 BC for the would return to her former Ahmar Mustikhan, founder of Court of Justice (ICJ) in May. tomb of China's first emperor to connect Asia post in the TV newsroom the American Friends of Baol- Pakistan says he was a Qin Shihuang, is a symbol of and Europe by “where I expect to be paid chistan, which organised the controlled interaction with the "The recent episode of Carl Clemens, volunteer commander rank officer in the ancient Chinese artistic and equally”. unique event named as "Chap- 47-year-old Indian national on Pakistan makes a mockery of with several local community Indian Navy. But India says Jad- military sophistication in a road, rail and sea In the letter, Gracie, a China pal-Chor Pakistan" (slipper- December 25 in the Pakistan humanity. By not returning the organisations alleged that the hav was a former naval officer. country that proclaims itself a specialist who is fluent in Man- thief Pakistan). Foreign Office. slippers of Smt. treatment given to the mother New Delhi also says Jadhav 5,000-year-old civilisation. has so far been cautious on it. darin, said “the BBC belongs to Both Jadhav's wife and During the meeting, whose Kulbhushan Yadav and and wife by Pakistan foreign was kidnapped in Iran where he Macron is beginning the Observers say China is waiting you, the licence fee payer. mother were asked to remove pictures were released by Pak- asking them to remove even office typified the "petty vin- had legitimate business inter- three-day visit in Xian as a ges- for Macron to outline his views “I believe you have a right to their sandals, mangalsutras and istan, Jadhav was seen sitting Bindi and Mangal Sutras and dictiveness and humiliation" ests, and brought to Pakistan.A ture to Chinese President Xi Jin- on the scheme, in his emerg- know that it is breaking equal- bindis before they were allowed behind a glass screen while changing their dresses as well, that is the prevalent culture in 10-member bench of the ICJ on ping's colossal New Silk Road ing role as a European leader- ity law and resisting pressure to meet him, and the sandals his mother and wife sat on the it is just another sleazy activity Pakistan. May 18 restrained Pakistan from project, an ambitious initiative ship voice. for a fair and transparent pay were subsequently stolen, Mus- other side. Pakistan has done to a Bharata "They have humiliated the executing Jadhav till adjudica- to connect Asia and Europe by Macron's first official visit structure.” tikhan said. The protesters said They spoke through inter- Soubhagya Nari (married religious and faith symbols of tion of the case. road, rail and sea. to Asia marks a new stage for Last July, the BBC was that Pakistan meted out "inhu- com and the entire 40-minute Indian woman)," said Krishna Hindu womanhood. Because of It is expected to hold The $1 trillion infrastruc- his diplomacy, which has so far forced to reveal the salaries of mane" treatment to Jadhav's wife proceedings appeared to have Gudipati, local Hindu commu- this sort of behaviour Pakistan another hearing in March ture programme is billed as a been concentrated on Europe all employees. AGENCIES and mother during their tightly- been recorded on video. nity leader in USA. has found itself on a watch list. or April. AGENCIES modern revival of the ancient and Africa. He plans to seek Silk Road that once carried a "strategic partnership" with ICONIC REFLECTION fabric, spices, and a wealth of Beijing on issues including ter- Eight children other goods in both directions. rorism and climate change, and 26/11 survivor emotional Known in China as "One Belt make Xi an ally in implementing One Road", the plan is to see the Paris accord to fight climate among 21 killed gleaming new road and rail net- change after the US pulled out works built through Central of the deal. in Syria Idlib about visiting Mumbai Asia and beyond, and new mari- After Xian, Macron will time routes stretching through travel on to Beijing along with strikes: Monitor the Indian Ocean and Red Sea. his delegation which takes in Moshe Holtzberg, the Israeli child, who survived the The project has elicited both some 60 business executives BEIRUT: Air strikes by regime 2008 terror attack at a Jewish centre in Mumbai interest and anxiety and France and institutions. AGENCIES and Russian aircraft on rebel positions in the northwestern JERUSALEM: Moshe Holtz- Minister Netanyahu and his province of Idlib killed at least berg, the Israeli child who as a wife Sara, and hopefully PM 21 civilians, including eight toddler survived the 2008 ter- Modi 'at his home in Mumbai'," children, a monitor said on ror attack at a Jewish centre in the grandfather said. Monday. Mumbai, is feeling "emotional The young boy will be The strikes carried out on and excited" as he prepares for accompanied by his grand- The Jefferson Memorial is reflected in the frozen surface of the Sunday were the latest against his "homecoming" during the parents, Shimon and Yehudit Tidal Basin at daybreak in Washington on Monday. PIC/PTI jihadists and rebels in a week- four day visit to India by Prime Rosenberg, nanny Sandra and old regime offensive on Idlib, Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a psychologist during his trip the last province in Syria to next week. to Mumbai. "During a meeting escape government control. Moshe, 11, was two when with the psychologist, who has The raid left "at least 21 his parents were killed in the been mentally preparing him dead, including eight children Mumbai attacks at Nariman for the visit, Moshe gave him and 11 members of the same House (also known as Chabad Mumbai, and when I get older, an account of places in Mum- family west of the town of Sinjar House) by Pakistan-based live there. I will be the director bai he would like to visit. He in the southeast of the province, Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists. of our Chabad House," Moshe has done his homework and .Regime and Russian strikes The attack on the Nariman had told the Indian Prime knows about not only the site are continuing on Monday House and other locations like Minister. seeing places but also other on several parts of Idlib prov- the Taj Hotel left 166 people Modi had responded by places where his parents car- ince,” Rami Abdel Rahman, the dead. saying, "Come and stay in India ried out works related to their head of Syrian Observatory for The boy, standing and cry- and Mumbai. You are most assignment," Rosenberg noted. Human Rights said. AGENCIES ing between his dead parents' welcome. You and your all fam- Moshe's parents, Rabbi bodies, was saved in a daring ily members will get long-term Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, move by his Indian nanny, San- visas. So you can come anytime who were serving as Direc- dra Samuels, who was hiding in and go anywhere". tors at the Chabad House, a room downstairs when the Netanyahu then promptly were killed along with six oth- attack happened. asked Moshe to join him when ers when the place also came "Moshe is very excited and he travels to India, a promise he under attack by Pakistani ter- at the same time emotional did not forget and has invited rorists during the November as he gets ready to leave for the family to join him in Mum- 2008 Mumbai attacks. Mumbai on January 15. He is bai during his forthcoming visit "It is heart warming to see returning to his birthplace and to India starting on January 14. that the Indian leadership and is waiting to see many things "Moshe says that he was the people of India haven't for- connected to his late parents touched by the warm embrace gotten us and share our pain. It that he has heard about from he received from Prime Min- gives us strength and makes us us and his nanny. There are lots ister Modi when he met him feel one", Rosenberg said. of memories," an overwhelmed in Jeursalem during his July In a brief telephonic call, Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg, visit to Israel. He says that he Sandra, who was in Afula Moshe's grandfather, said. felt like it was one of his own in the north of Israel where In an emotional meeting people giving him a warm hug," Moshe and his family lives, with Prime Minister Narendra Rosenberg said adding, "he is said that the boy is excited Modi on July 5 in Jerusalem, hoping to meet the Indian and told her before leav- the young boy had expressed Prime Minister again during ing for school on Sunday his wish to visit Mumbai. his India trip". that it is like "homecoming" "I hope I will be able to visit "He is waiting to host Prime for him. AGENCIES world 11 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp US joins search for 32 missing Armed clashes kill 11 people in Mexico's troubled Guerrero state ACAPULCO: Violent clashes after ships collide off China involving gunmen, a com- munity police force and state police killed 11 people in the BEIJING: The US Navy has according the UN-run Interna- troubled southern state of joined the search for 32 crew tional Maritime Organization. Guerrero, while a separate members missing from an The IMO listed its regis- series of shootouts the previ- Iranian oil tanker that caught tered owner as Hong Kong- ous night left seven dead in the fire after colliding with a bulk based Bright Shipping Ltd, on northern Mexico beach resort freighter off China's east coast. behalf of the National Iranian of San Jose del Cabo. China, South Korea and Tanker Co, a publicly traded Guerrero state security the US sent ships and planes company based in Tehran. The spokesman Roberto Alvarez to search for the 30 Iranians National Iranian Tanker Co. said eight people were initially and two Bangladeshis who have describes itself as operating the killed when gunmen ambushed been missing since the collision largest tanker fleet in the Mid- community police before dawn late Saturday. dle East. in the town of La Concepcion, Marco Antonio Suastegui, prevent the arrest of the com- The US Navy, which sent a An official in Iran's Oil Min- near the resort city of Acapulco. the founder of the commu- munity agents: “Some people P-8A aircraft from Okinawa, istry, who spoke to The Asso- Two of the dead were from the nity force and the leader of a were dragged by the hair to take Japan, to aid the search, said ciated Press on condition of community force. social movement that for over them away.” late on Sunday that none of the anonymity because he was not Later in the morning, a decade has fought against a Hernandez is a regular con- missing crew had been found. authorised to speak to report- state police arrived to disarm hydroelectric project in the tributor of photographs to The The Panama-registered ers, said 30 of the tanker's 32 the local agents, and another region. Associated Press but was not on tanker Sanchi was sailing from crew members were Iranians. shootout erupted in which Photojournalist Bernan- assignment for AP at the time. Iran to South Korea when it "We have no information three people were killed. Alva- dino Hernandez said that while Guerrero has been one of collided late Saturday with the crew members were all Chinese in thick black smoke. lion barrels) of condensate, a on their fate," he said Sunday. rez said he did not know how covering the violence he was Mexico’s most violent states Hong Kong-registered freighter nationals. It wasn't immediately Chinese authorities dis- type of ultra-light oil, according We cannot say all of them have they died, but local media said beaten, kicked and dragged in recent years, home to mari- CF Crystal in the East China clear what caused the collision. patched three ships to clean to Chinese authorities. died, because rescue teams are they were community police. by state police and forcibly juana and opium poppy fields Sea, 257 kilometers (160 miles) State-run China Central the oil spill. It was not clear, By comparison, the Exxon there and providing services." State Attorney General relieved of his camera’s mem- as well as warring organized off the coast of Shanghai, Chi- Television reported Sunday however, whether the tanker Valdez was carrying 1.26 mil- The official said the tanker Xavier Olea Pelaez said 30 ory cards. crime gangs. na's Ministry of Transport said. evening that the tanker was was still spilling oil as of Mon- lion barrels of crude oil when was owned by the National Ira- members of the community He also witnessed several It’s also where 43 teachers All 21 crew members of still floating and burning, and day and the size of the oil slick it spilled 260,000 barrels into nian Tanker Co. and had been police were detained on suspi- other journalists being treated college students disappeared the Crystal, which was car- that oil was visible in the water. caused by the accident also was Prince William Sound off rented by a South Korean com- cion of crimes including homi- roughly. in 2014 after being taken by rying grain from the United Photos distributed by the South not known. The Sanchi was Alaska in 1989. The Sanchi has pany, Hanwha Total Co. He said cide and illegal weapons and Hernandez said he had police from the city of Iguala States to China, were rescued, Korean government showed carrying 136,000 metric tons operated under five different the tanker was on its way to drug possession. photographed police using who allegedly handed them the ministry said. The Crystal's the tanker on fire and shrouded (150,000 tons, or nearly 1 mil- names since it was built in 2008, South Korea. AGENCIES Among those arrested was force against locals who tried to over to a drug cartel. AGENCIES PM's ruling party ahead in Turkish German-Russian man admits to Dortmund team bus bombing

DORTMUND: A German- set off the three explosive after the blasts, by calmly walk- Cypriot poll: Partial results Russian man admitted on devices hidden in a hedge as ing into its restaurant to order Monday to carrying out a the bus was leaving the team a steak. Dortmund, also known NICOSIA: The ruling party of efforts on hold until both sets of to a UBP-CTP coalition, which bomb attack on the Borussia hotel for a Champions League as BVB, is the only football club the prime minister of northern elections are over. could be useful for president Dortmund football team’s bus match. in Germany that is listed on the Cyprus, a statelet recognised The National Unity Party Mustafa Akinci, as the CTP in an elaborate bid to make a Prosecutors charge that W. stock exchange. only by Turkey, was leading (UBP) of prime minister Huse- broadly supports peace talks fortune on the stock market. had sought to profit from an If its share price had parliamentary elections on yin Ozgurgun led the polls with he has led.But the HP -- which “I deeply regret my actions,” anticipated plunge in the club’s indeed plunged, W. could Monday but will probably still 36 percent of the vote, ahead of may still play a role in the coali- said the man, identified only stock market value by cashing have made as much as 500,000 need to form a coalition, partial the socialist Republican Turk- tion -- has expressed scepticism as Sergei W. in keeping with in on so-called put options, euros ( 600,000) in profit, say results showed. ish Party (CTP) at 21 percent, over negotiations to reunify the German convention in court essentially bets on a falling prosecutors. More than 190,500 people Turkish Cypriot media reports island. Akinci will want broad cases to protect the identity of share price. Instead, W. allegedly sold were registered to vote in the said, based on a count of 58 backing at home as he seeks to defendants. He was staying in the same the options days after the Turkish Republic of Northern percent of ballot boxes. push once more for a federal In a statement handed to Dortmund hotel as the players, attack, making just 5,900 euros. Cyprus (TRNC), established in The vote of the Demo- solution to the Cyprus problem the court in the western Ger- age. Prosecutors say the three ist attack were dismissed, W. had a view of where the bombs A day after the attack, the wake of Turkey’s 1974 inva- crat Party (DP) -- the out- and convince his Greek Cypriot man city, he insisted he did not fragmentation bombs each was arrested 10 days later. went off and had bought the Dortmund played their post- sion of the island in response to going junior partner in the counterparts he means busi- aim to kill or hurt anyone. contained up to a kilogramme Police charged the 28-year- put options on the team’s shares poned game against Monaco an Athens-backed coup. ruling coalition -- however ness. The election in the north- The triple blast last April 11 (2.2 pounds) of a hydrogen per- old electrical technician with on the day of the attack, pros- and lost, prompting then coach The vote comes ahead of collapsed to 7 percent. The ern third of Cyprus comes six shattered the team bus’s win- oxide mixture and around 65 28 counts of attempted murder ecutors said. Thomas Tuchel to rail against presidential polls later this People’s Party (HP) -- a new months after efforts to reunify dows and left Spanish inter- cigarette-sized metal bolts, one as well as setting off explosions W. reportedly drew atten- UEFA for not giving the play- month in the internationally party -- polled well on 17 per- the island collapsed at a United national Marc Bartra, 26, with of which ended up lodged in and causing serious bodily tion at the hotel, first by insist- ers time to come to terms with recognised Greek-majority cent. If confirmed, the results Nations-hosted peace summit a broken wrist, while a police Bartra’s headrest. harm. ing on a window room facing their fear before returning to Republic of Cyprus, with peace would probably pave the way in Switzerland. AGENCIES officer suffered inner ear dam- After initial fears of a jihad- He had allegedly remotely the front and then, in the chaos the pitch. AGENCIES Seoul seeks to put family reunions NY airport flooded as brutal ‘NASA satellite on North Korea talks agenda cold grips US East Coast to scan border of NEW YORK: International flights were suspended into a flooded SEOUL: South Korea will Olympics”, Yonhap reported, terminal at New York's flagship airport on Monday, flung into seek discussions on resuming The two Koreas agreed last week to and could lead to further prog- chaos after a water main broke during brutally cold temperatures Earth and space’ reunions of separated fami- hold their first official dialogue in more ress. North Korea’s state media following a deadly winter storm. lies at this week’s inter- Korean has stopped condemning the Gushing water compounded meltdown at John F Kennedy NEW YORK: NASA is set to talks, Seoul’s top delegate said than two years and will meet Tuesday at South and instead called for International Airport, where furious passengers have camped launch a satellite that will exam- on Monday, as the North the border truce village of Panmunjom “independent reunification” out for days as a result of equipment damaged by the storm and ine the Earth's upper atmo- trumpeted the importance of without relying on other coun- a backlog of flights. Water poured from the ceiling and the arriv- sphere to see how the boundary achieving reunification. Minister Cho Myoung-Gyon ment comes after North Korea’s tries such as the United States. als area was submerged by standing water, through which a few between our planet and space The two Koreas agreed last told reporters, according to the leader Kim Jong-Un warned “The master of improved intrepid passengers picked their way gingerly, according to foot- changes over time, the US space week to hold their first offi- Yonhap news agency. in his New Year speech that inter-Korean relations is not age broadcast by CNN. agency said. cial dialogue in more than two Because the 1950-53 he had a nuclear button on his the outsiders but the Korean International flights into Terminal 4 were suspended and the The new mission, called years and will meet Tuesday Korean War ended with an desk -- but also said Pyongyang nation itself,” the North’s official water main break occurred just before 2pm, said a spokesman for Global-scale Observations of from low-Earth orbit missions," at the border truce village of armistice rather than a formal could send a team to the Win- Korean Central News Agency the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey that runs the air- the Limb and Disk (GOLD), Richard Eastes from the Uni- Panmunjom. peace treaty, the two Koreas ter Olympics in Pyeongchang. said at the weekend. port. The west end of Terminal four lay under about three inches will launch from Kourou, versity of Central Florida was The talks will largely focus remain technically at war. Seoul responded with an “The flunkeyism and idea of (eight centimeters) of water, where maintenance crews were mop- French Guiana, on January 25. quoted as saying by 'Space.com'. on the North’s participation in Tensions soared last year as offer of talks, and last week the dependence on outside forces ping up, with police and fire crews on site, the spokesman said. The mission will focus on "We wanted to be able to next month’s Winter Olympics the North made rapid progress hotline between the neighbours are the venom which makes the The cause of the break is being investigated, he added. the temperature and makeup back off (to a higher orbit) and in the South, but the two sides on its banned weapons pro- was restored after being sus- nation slavish and spiritless,” it Terminal 4 is used by more than 30 airlines, including Air of Earth's highest atmospheric get the big picture, get a whole are also expected to bring up grammes, launching ballistic pended for almost two years. added. Donald Trump said at India, China Airlines, Delta, Egyptair, El Al, Emirates, Etihad, layers. hemisphere at once. That lets us their own issues of interest. missiles it said are capable of South Korean Foreign Min- the weekend that the rare talks KLM Royal Dutch, Singapore Airlines, Thomas Cook and Virgin Along with another upcom- put things into context that we “We will prepare for dis- reaching the United States and ister Kang Kyung-Wha said between the two Koreas would Atlantic. On Saturday the airport was forced to close Terminal ing satellite, called ICON, can't understand when we are cussions on the issue of sepa- carrying out its sixth nuclear the North’s participation in go “beyond the Olympics” and 1, which serves the likes of Air France, Japan Airlines and Luf- GOLD will examine how just looking at one little piece," rated families and ways to ease test, by far its most powerful. Pyeongchang would strengthen that Washington could join the thansa, to international arrivals in an attempt to get on top of the weather on Earth - and space said Eastes, the principal inves- military tensions,” Unification Their tentative rapproche- the Games’ profile as “a peace process at a later stage. AGENCIES backlog. AGENCIES weather caused by the Sun - tigator for GOLD mission. affects those uppermost layers. GOLD will inspect the "For years, we have been ultraviolet radiation that the studying the Earth's upper upper atmosphere releases, Heavy snowfall wreaks atmosphere - thermosphere and will also be the first to take and ionosphere - and we have comprehensive records of that New recipe for origin been looking at those (layers) atmospheric layer's tempera- havoc in China; 21 killed in detail from the ground and ture, Eastes added. AGENCIES BEIJING: Heavy snowfall in The snow will result in icy China continued to wreak havoc roads, the local observatory said on Monday, damaging houses, in its forecast. Liaoning will see of life on Earth found agriculture and power facilities, temperatures plunge by up to with authorities saying 21 peo- 10 degrees Celsius due to the WASHINGTON DC: A ids and b-ketoacids as in the ple have been killed and millions snowfall, it said. team led by an Indian-origin citric acid cycle. hit in the last one week. In Xinyang city, central Chi- researcher has developed a These shared reactions The provinces that have been na's Henan province, snowfall “fascinating” new theory for include aldol additions, which badly hit by the weather are from Wednesday to Friday, the how life on Earth may have bring new source molecules Anhui, Henan, Jiangsu, Hubei, worst since local records began begun. into the cycles, as well as beta Hunan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and in 1951, killed one person and Their experiments demon- and oxidative decarboxyl- Chongqing Municipality, the injured three others. strate that key chemical reac- ations, which release the mole- China National Commission for Primary and middle schools tions that support life today cules as carbon dioxide (CO2). Disaster Reduction said. in the city have suspended could have been carried out As they ran these reactions, More than 3,700 people have classes since Thursday. with ingredients likely pres- the researchers found they been relocated and 14,000 are in The disaster flattened 26 ent on the planet four billion could produce amino acids in need of emergency assistance, houses and damaged over 2,000 years ago. addition to CO2, which are also said the commission, noting that hectares of crops, causing total “This was a black box for the end products of the citric over 700 houses had collapsed economic losses of 219 million us,” said Ramanarayanan acid cycle. and nearly 2,800 were damaged, yuan (USD 33.8 million), offi- Krishnamurthy, associate pro- The researchers think that state-run Xinhua news agency cials said. fessor at The Scripps Research as biological molecules like reported. In eastern China's Anhui Institute (TSRI) in the US. Their experiments demonstrate that enzymes became available, they The weather has affected province, quilts and coats have “But if you focus on the key chemical reactions that support life could have led to the replace- more than 233,100 hectares been distributed to residents chemistry, the questions of ment of non-biological mol- of farmland, with more than to withstand the biting cold, origins of life become less today could have been carried out with ecules in these fundamental 8,100 hectares destroyed, caus- following heavy snow since daunting,” said Krishnamur- ingredients likely present on the planet reactions to make them more ing direct economic losses of Wednesday, the worst in Anhui thy, senior author of the study elaborate and efficient. 5.55 billion yuan (USD 854 mil- since 2008. published in the journal Nature four billion years ago “The chemistry could have lion), it said. The snow has affected 1.5 Communications. stayed the same over time, it Nineteen expressways in million people and damaged Krishnamurthy and his col- from flamingoes to fungi, nate cycle - could have come was just the nature of the mol- northeast Liaoning province over 160,000 hectares of crops, leagues focused on a series of relies on the citric acid cycle to together to kick-start a crude ecules that changed. The mol- have been closed or controlled causing total economic losses of chemical reactions that make release stored energy in cells. version of the citric acid cycle. ecules evolved to be more since snow started last night, 3.5 billion yuan, Xinhua quoted up what researchers refer to as The study outlines how two The two cycles use reactions complicated over time based according to local transport the provincial government as the citric acid cycle. non-biological cycles - called that perform the same funda- on what biology needed,” said authorities. saying. AGENCIES Every aerobic organism, the HKG cycle and the malo- mental chemistry of a-ketoac- Krishnamurthy. AGENCIES 12 business mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 DoT worried about call drops; Managerial pay: Stricter norms for defaulting cos NEW DELHI: Companies to meet telcos on January 10 which have defaulted on pay- ment of dues to banks will NEW DELHI: Concerned ing under the new formula. require their approval for man- about the deteriorating call Meanwhile, Telecom Com- agerial remuneration beyond a drop situation, the Depart- mission, the highest decision- certain threshold, according to ment of Telecom (DoT) will making body of the Telecom the government. hold separate meetings with Department, will meet on The approval will also be operators as well as the sector Tuesday to discuss multiple needed in case of defaults to regulator TRAI on January 10, issues including a proposal for public financial institution, non- to discuss the issue. raising of spectrum caps, as convertible debenture (NCD) Telecom Secretary Aruna recommended by the regulator. holders and other secured Sundararajan said the meeting The TRAI has suggested creditors. with CEOs of telecom com- removal of ceiling on spec- The provision is part of the panies will discuss the current trum held by mobile operators amendments to the Companies "situation on call drops" as well within a particular band, while Act which were cleared by Par- institution or non-convertible asset in which he has direct or as the new service quality rules mooting a 50 per cent cap on liament last month. debenture holders or any other indirect interest or becomes so implemented by the Telecom combined radiowave holding A few provisions of the secured creditor, then the con- interested at any time during Regulatory Authority of India in efficient bands like 700 MHz, amended Act, which were noti- cerned entity's prior approval three years prior to his appoint- (TRAI) in October last year. 800 MHz and 900 MHz. fied on January 3, have impor- would be needed "for such pay- ment as valuer or three years DoT will also separately Sundararajan said Telecom tant bearing on the working of ment of managerial remunera- after valuation of assets was con- meet the regulator the same Commission will also take up the Insolvency and Bankruptcy tion", the release said. ducted by him", the release said. day (that is, January 10) to dis- some proposals relating to Code, 2016, an official release The nod of the lenders con- Section 247 of the Act had cuss the issues related to call IMG (Interministerial Group) said on Monday. cerned should be taken before barred a registered valuer from quality. report, wi-fi rollout under The Code provides for a obtaining the approval for such undertaking valuation of any "We want to communicate broadband connectivity proj- market-determined and time- payments at the company's gen- assets in which he has a direct to the operators, the concerns ect Bharat Net, and increasing bound resolution of insolvency eral meeting. According to the or indirect interest or becomes of the Government on the state connectivity in Andaman and proceedings. Many cases of release, the amended Act allows interested at any time during of call drops...we will ask ser- Nicobar Islands. stressed assets have already been companies to issue shares at a or after the valuation of assets. vice providers to get their act It may be recalled that IMG referred for resolution under discount to its creditors when The bill to amend the com- together," Sundararajan told for call drops (Re 1 for each call "The service providers "monitoring" the situation. in its report to the Government the Code, which became opera- the debt is converted into shares panies law to strengthen cor- reporters on the sidelines of a dropped) but the missive was had made commitments on Under TRAI's new Qual- last year had recommended tional in December 2016. in pursuance of any statutory porate governance standards, Bharat Net event. struck down by the Supreme improving the infrastructure... ity of Service (QoS) formula, giving one-time opportunity to Under Section 197 of the resolution plan. These include initiate strict action against The call quality situation Court. call drop has an impact on con- telecom operators may face telcos to opt for more number Companies Act, 2013, firms resolution plan under the Code defaulting companies and help has deteriorated, she said cit- The Telecom Department sumers," Sundararajan added. a maximum penalty of Rs 10 of instalments (16 years instead are required to get approval at and debt restructuring scheme. improve ease of doing business ing increasing number of con- had in a series of meetings over The meeting with telecom lakh for call drops which will be of the current 10) for payment their general meetings for pay- Prior to the changes, issu- in the country was passed by sumer complaints. the last few quarters asked tel- industry CEOs will be chaired measured at mobile tower level of spectrum. ment of managerial remunera- ance of shares at discount was Parliament last month. Over the last two years, cos to undertake immediate by the DoT Secretary. instead of telecom circle level. Other recommendations tion in excess of 11 per cent of prohibited under Section 53 On December 19, the Rajya service quality in telecom has measures to improve call qual- Stating that new call drop The new call drop rules include easing the interest the net profit. of the Act. Sabha passed the Companies been a burning issue. In 2016, ity, including setting up addi- norms have now come into came into force from October 1 rate on delayed payment of Now, if a company has Another amendment pro- (Amendment) Bill, 2017 by a the regulator had even ordered tional mobile towers across the effect, the secretary said the and the December quarter will license fee and spectrum usage defaulted in payment of dues hibits "a registered valuer from voice vote. It was adopted by operators to compensate users country. Government is constantly see the first instance of report- charges. PTI to any bank or public financial undertaking valuation of any the Lok Sabha in July 2017. PTI PM Modi to meet Task force to study feasibility of Bharat Net phase-2 may be completed by Dec economists and nd sectoral experts making methanol from coal gas 2 phase aims to provide broadband facility to 1.5 lakh panchayats OUR CORRESPONDENT that the state-owned Bharat on January 10 NEW DELHI: The government liquid fuel," according to a steel Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has has constituted a task force to ministry notification. NEW DELHI: Buoyant over floated its tenders. study the feasibility of produc- The terms of reference of the successful completion of “...Wi-fi tenders whereby ing methanol from coal, and task force include examining the first phase of Bharat Net, from 38,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, by using coal gas as a replace- the feasibility of transporting the government on Monday the end of implementation that ment of natural gas in steel methanol to India and convert expressed hope that the sec- is planned for December 2018, production. it into olefins, parafins and other ond phase of the project aimed India will go to half a million The development assumes chemicals. at providing broadband con- Wi-Fi hotspots. We believe that significance as the country is "The task force would be nectivity to 1.5 lakh gram pan- will be a game changer,” the aiming to achieve crude steel The 15-member expected to outline the action chayats would be completed Secretary said. capacity of 300 million tonnes task force under plan and the time lines of before time by December this Under Phase 1 of the proj- (MT), which will require exten- implementation," the notifica- year. ect, till May 31, 2014, the work sive mobilisation of natural the chairmanship tion said. Asserting that under Phase- had been started in 4,918 gram resources, among others. of Niti Aayog Asserting that the delibera- I, one lakh gram panchayats panchayats and 358 km optical NEW DELHI: With about The 15-member task force tion of task force will become have been provided with hi- completion of the first phase of “The project would generate fibre cable (OFC) was pulled three weeks left for Union under the chairmanship of Niti member V K reference point for project fea- speed broadband connectiv- Bharat Net project and to felic- massive employment oppor- and only 59 gram panchayats Budget 2018-19, Prime Min- Aayog member V K Saraswat Saraswat has sibility, the steel ministry said, ity, Union Telecom Minister itate implementation partners. tunities both direct and indi- were made service ready. ister Narendra Modi will has secretaries of coal and steel adding that "the task force shall Manoj Sinha said, “Financial The original timeline for com- rect in the country in days to Until June 30, 2016, work meet leading economists and ministries. secretaries of coal submit the report within 60 days incentives and disincentives pletion of the second phase is c om e .” had been started in 84,834 sectoral experts at Niti Aayog Coal India Chairman Gopal and steel ministries of formation". should be built into clauses for March 2019. The project aims to provide gram panchayats and 1,24,817 on January 10 to deliberate on Singh, BHEL CMD Atul Sobti, Under the National Steel the second phase of the project Sinha further said that the affordable broadband services km OFC pulled covering steps which could be taken to SAIL Chairman P K Singh, JSW tuted...to explore the feasi- Policy, the government has set to reward players for on-time vision and the mission of the to citizens and institutions in 53,557 gram panchayats with boost growth and generate Steel Chairman and Manag- bility of producing methanol a production target of 300 MT delivery.” country are to connect India to rural and remote areas, in part- 7,229 gram panchayats made employment. ing Director Sajjan Jindal, Essar from coal at Mozambique and by 2030-31. “We have already started realise the goal of Prime Min- nership with states and the pri- service ready. As on Decem- The meeting, according Steel Chairman Shashi Ruia and India, replacement of natural The government had ear- Phase 2...the Cabinet has ister Narendra Modi’s Digital vate sector. ber 31, 2017, 2,54,895 km OFC to a senior government offi- NMDC CMD Baijendra Kumar, gas by coal gas through gasifi- lier expressed hope that the already approved it. We hope it India by bridging the digital Stating that the tender pro- has been laid covering 1,09,926 cial, will be attended by vice among others are also members cation process in steel plants, steel production capacity will will be completed well in time divide. Describing the Bharat cess for the second phase has gram panchayats out of which chairman and members of of the task force. and carbon dioxide capturing be much higher in the next fis- by December 2018,” Sinha said Net as the world’s largest rural already started, Telecom Secre- 1,01,370 gram panchayats have Niti Aayog, members of Eco- "A task force is consti- from steel plants into methanol cal from the present 126 MT. PTI at a conference to mark the broadband project Sinha said, tary Aruna Sundararajan said been made service ready. nomic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC- PM), economists and sec- Mercedes-Benz tops Indian toral experts. Gujarat tops logistics performance Gold ETFs outflow The meeting comes in the backdrop of latest estimates luxury car market in 2017 of national income by Central index chart: Commerce Ministry at `730 cr in 2017 Statistics Office (CSO) which showed that India's growth NEW DELHI: Mercedes-Benz NEW DELHI: Investors con- is expected to slow down to continued its hold on the Indian NEW DELHI: Gujarat has While Gujarat occupied the and Chandigarh. tinued to pull out money from four- year low of 6.5 per cent luxury car market, maintaining topped logistics index chart, top position among 22 states, As regards the hilly states, gold exchange-traded funds this fiscal, the lowest under top position for a third year in an indicator of the efficiency Jammu and Kashmir appeared Tripura was on top followed (ETFs) and withdrew Rs 730 the Modi-led government. a row in 2017 with record sales of logistical services necessary last, even a notch below Bihar. by Mizoram and Meghalaya. crore in 2017, making it the The Gross Domestic of 15,330 units, beating rivals for promoting exports in par- The second place is occu- The LEADS index, accord- fifth consecutive year of out- Product (GDP) was 7.1 per BMW and Audi. ticular and economic growth pied by Punjab, followed by ing to the report, provides flow from such products. cent in 2016-17 and 8 per cent The company, which sold in general. Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka useful insights into "how stake- The outflow meant asset in the preceding year. It was 13,231 units in 2016, said it against 7,861 units in the pre- According to the report and Maharashtra ranked for holders perceive international under management (AUM) 7.5 per cent in 2014-15. was able to clock 15.86 per cent vious year. Audi, on the other by the Commerce Ministry - the index based on the analy- trade logistics performance of gold funds plunged by 12 Finance Minister increase in sales on the back of had posted sales of 7,876 units LEADS (Logistics Ease Across sis of perception with regard across the states and UTs". per cent to Rs 4,855 crore dur- Arun Jaitley will present new products and a robust cus- as compared to 7,720 units, a Different States), prepared with to eight parameters, including Commerce and Industry ing the period under review, Union Budget on Febru- tomer centric approach in 2017, growth of 2 per cent. the help of consultancy firm infrastructure, services, reg- Minister Suresh Prabhu in his latest data with Association of ary 1, the last full (rpt) full which was otherwise a "chal- Tata Motors-owned Jag- Deloitte, the findings would ulatory process and safety of foreword said, the report tells Mutual Funds in India (Amfi) budget of the NDA gov- lenging and a year of missed uar Land Rover’s sales in India help in identifying the right cargo. "what enables and/or impedes showed. ernment before the 2019 opportunities" for the industry. stood at 3,954 units as against problem areas in the sector Among the Union Territo- logistics efficiency across the Over the last few years, Lok Sabha election. PTI In 2017, BMW Group 2,653 units in 2016, an increase and prepare policy responses ries, Daman & Diu occupied country as perceived by users retail investors have been put- reported sales of 9,800 units as of 49 per cent. PTI to deal with them. the top slot followed by Delhi within the community". PTI ting in more money into equity, as compared to gold ETFs, mainly on account of strong return. gold prices globally, sound Stocks scale record highs as investors eye earnings, budget Equity and equity-linked rally in the Indian equity mar- saving schemes saw an infusion kets in 2017 has meant that MUMBAI: Stocks rose to fresh 50-issue NSE Nifty hit a new stock exchanges. 1.40 per cent, followed by cap- of close to Rs 1.5 lakh crore last gold as an asset class has not life-time closing high levels on intra-day high of 10,631.20, NSE NIFTY BSE SENSEX Coal India was the best ital goods index 1.22 per cent, year, while overall mutual fund been favoured. A strong Indian optimism over earnings, growth smashing its previous record Intra-day on January 8, 2018 Intra-day on January 8, 2018 gainer among Sensex compo- healthcare 1.20 per cent, realty schemes witnessed an inflow of equity market may mean a and upcoming budget, with the of 10,566.10 hit on January 5. High:10,631.20 Low: 10,588.55 High:34,385.67 Low: 34,216.33 nents by surging 3.26 per cent, 0.87 per cent, metal 0.78 per Rs 2.4 lakh crore. sober outlook for gold," Vidya benchmark BSE Sensex jump- However, he index shed +64.75 Close: +198.94 followed by Infosys 2.33 per cent, FMCG 0.78 per cent, oil As per Amfi data, a net sum Bala, head of MF Research at Close: ing 199 points to end at record some grounds to close at (0.61%) 10,623.60 (0.58%) cent and Sun Pharma by2.28 & gas 0.67 per cent, teck 0.66 of Rs 730 crore was pulled out FundsIndia.com said. 34,352.79 and Nifty scaling the 10,623.60, still a new closing 34,352.79 per cent to Rs 591.95. per cent and infrastructure 0.39 of 14 gold-linked ETFs last year Going ahead, Chirag 10,600 mark for the first time. high, up by 64.75 points or 0.61 L&T too showed strength per cent. as compared to Rs 942 crore Mehta, Senior Fund Man- Gains in key IT, capital per cent. It broke the previous and ended 1.80 per cent higher While telecom index ended in 2016. ager- Alternative Investments goods, healthcare and metal record of 10,558.85 reached on after the company said its con- 2.64 per cent lower as investors It had witnessed an outflow at Quantum AMC said: "Both Open: stocks after consistent buying January 5. Previous close: struction arm has won orders booked profits at higher levels. of Rs 891 crore, Rs 1,651 crore investment demand and prices Open: Previous close: 34,216.33 by domestic and foreign inves- "Supportive global market 10,591.70 10,558.85 34,153.85 worth Rs 2,265 crore from The market rally lifted the and Rs 1,815 crore in 2015, will rise the next time the eco- tors helped both the key indices and optimism ahead of earn- Andhra Pradesh Capital Region mid-cap index by 0.98 per cent 2014 and 2013, respectively. nomic and political environ- to scale new peaks. ings season took the market 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Development Authority. and small-cap 0.97 per cent. In 2012, gold ETFs saw an ment inspires investors to rush The 30-share Sensexto a new high. A cut in FY18 Other big gainers include In the Asian region, Shang- inflow of Rs 1,826 crore. even more dramatically back opened higher and continued GDP growth estimate by CSO Hero MotoCorp, IndusInd hai Composite gained 0.52 per "Lacklustre performance by to gold". its upward march to touch a did not impact the movement ing year mainly due to impact Geojit Financial Services said. Bank, ITC Ltd, Hindustan cent while Hong Kong's Hang real estate and gold, and low "The world continues to new intra-day record high of since it was overtly conserva- of GST on manufacturing and Foreign portfolio investors Unilever, HDFC Ltd, Wipro, Seng rose 0.28 per cent. Finan- interest rates on traditional sav- remain in state of great dis- 34,385.67, surpassing its pre- tive. Revival in earnings, incre- subdued farm output. (FPIs) have been supporting the Tata Motors, Reliance Indus- cial markets in Japan remained ings instruments have contrib- equilibrium, both with respect vious high of 34,188.85 hit on mental QoQ growth in GDP "Sentiments were also ongoing rally in the new year by tries, ICICI Bank, M&M, Kotak shut for a public holiday. uted in pushing investor flows to the global economy and geo- January 5. and Budget expectations are boosted by the positivity from pumping in sizeable money into Bank, Maruti Suzuki, Yes Bank, In the Eurozone, markets into equities," Bajaj Capital politics as well. The fallout of But it lost some ground due sustaining the momentum," global peers and expectations the market. Power Grid and HDFC Bank, were trading higher in their CEO Rahul Parikh said. the geopolitics globally seems to profit-booking and settled Vinod Nair, Head of Research, on the upcoming union budget, Foreign portfolio investors rising by up to 1.37 per cent. early deal, tracking a broadly Gold ETFs are passive to now cap the downsides in up by 198.94 points, or 0.58 Geojit Financial Services Ltd. anticipating reforms for fiscal bought shares to the tune of Rs In contrast, Bharti Airtel, upbheat session in Asia. Paris investment instruments that gold. Given the macroeco- per cent, at 34,352.79 – its all- The CSO on Friday said that consolidation and enhance- 581.43 crore while domestic ONGC, SBI, Tata Steel, Adani CAC 40 rose 0.17 per cent, are based on price movements nomic picture, gold will be a time closing high. The Sensex India's growth is likely to slow ments in rural spending. Recov- institutional investors (DIIs) Ports and Dr Reddy's ended while Frankfurt's DAX was up and investments in physical useful portfolio diversification bettered its previous record of down to 6.5 per cent in 2017-18 ery in dollar rode the pharma purchased shares worth a net lower on profit-booking. by 0.19 per cent in late morning gold. tool and thereby helping you to 34,153.85 touched on January 5. against 7.1 per cent in 2016-17 and IT stocks higher," Anand Rs 243.13 crore last Friday, as Among sectoral indices, IT trade. London's FTSE, however, "While demand from India reduce overall portfolio risk," Similarly, the broader and 8 per cent in the preced- James, Chief Market Strategist, per provisional data from the stayed in the lead by surging shed 0.13 per cent. PTI has traditionally buttressed he added. PTI business 13 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp Govt considering incentives Air India likely to offer laptops to business class passengers for States promoting exports NEW DELHI: In a bid to woo business class passengers on its international flights Air India NEW DELHI: The commerce will not require exporters to is considering providing lap- and industry ministry is mulling pay and then seek refund". On tops to its premium travellers, incentives for states which play incentivising states to promote its Chairman and Managing a proactive role in promoting exports, he said their full par- Director Pradeep Singh Kha- exports as it will help boost eco- ticipation is important to push rola said on Monday. nomic growth, Union Minister India's outbound shipments. The move is geared towards Suresh Prabhu said on Monday. The ministry also asked improving the airline's passen- He said he has sought the the states to participate in the ger load factor or seat occu- views of states on the issue, Trade Infrastructure for Export pancy in business class which which was raised during the Scheme (TIES). often sees almost half the seats third meeting of Council SO far detailed project going empty. for Trade Development and reports have been received from "In our long haul flights batch Karnataka cadre officer, earmarked for VVIP opera- Promotion. Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Mad- business class can be a money who took charge of Air India tions will be operated are still "We are thinking of ideas hya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh spinner for Air India. Our pas- last month, also said that the being finalised, adding that whereby we can incentivise the and Tripura only. senger load factor is only 50 per plan to introduce a direct flight availability of pilots for these states which promote exports. Later, an official statement cent on these flights. We will to Los Angeles is very much on. planes was an issue. I have mooted this idea before said that Prabhu called upon try to see how to increase that, "We are working on (plans Air India has tied up with the states and asked them to give and the ministry is working during the council's meeting trade enabling environment, states to explore ways of tap- perhaps offer better quality of to connect) Los Angeles. Long three foreign banks, i.e. UAE- their ideas on this," Prabhu told on an 'e-wallet' system to resolve include role of foreign direct the commerce ministry said in ping into global trade by pro- services. If our in- flight enter- hauls are doing very well, we based First Abu Dhabi Bank reporters here. the matter. Before the imple- investment (FDI) in promoting a statement. moting services exports, organic tainment is not doing well, then might be thinking of increas- as well as Standard Chartered Trade contributes signifi- mentation of the GST last July, exports and enhancing role of Members of the council farming, value addition to agri- we are thinking of alternatives. ing frequency on the long haul Bank and Mashreq Bank, to cantly in boosting the coun- exporters used to get ab-initio states to push shipments. also deliberated on creating cultural products, utilisation Laptops to business class pas- routes both towards Australia avail short-term loans for try's economic growth, the exemptions from duties. But During the meeting, Prabhu a framework for making the of the benefits accorded to the sengers is a possibility," Kharola and the US," Kharola said. acquiring the three Boeing 777 commerce and industry min- now they have to pay first and said, Goa chief Minister Mano- states active partners in boost- SEZs and creating employment. told reporters. He added that Air India will aircraft. ister said. then seek refund. Due to this har Parrikar suggested that all ing exports. He said there was a need to He added that a decision be getting three new Boeing In 2006, Air India placed If the GDP of states rises, process, the FIEO has stated states prepare their export The state ministers of com- develop state and district level is yet to be taken on whether 777s by February and while two orders with Boeing for 68 air- it would push the country's that about Rs 1,85,000 crore will policies. So far, only 14 states merce and industry, secretar- strategies. these laptops would be offered of them will be used for VVIP craft. Of these, the state-run growth, he said, adding that the get stuck with the government. including Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, ies of central departments and Besides Parikkar, Deputy to passengers only when the purposes, the remaining one carrier has already taken the focus should also be on the dis- Under the proposed sys- Tripura and Jammu and Kash- heads of other export related Chief Minister of Gujarat Nitin in-built video screens are not could be used for flights to Los delivery of 65 planes. tricts' GDP, which in turn would tem, according to Federation mir have done that. organisations are the members Bhai Patel, ministers from 11 working or as an additional Angeles. In 2010, the delivery of fuel the nation's economy. of Indian Export Organisations FIEO President Ganesh of the council. states, senior state government perk for premium travellers. "These planes were bought a three B777-300 ERs was post- Prabhu said the ministry (FIEO), the problem of liquidity Kumar Gupta suggested exemp- The country's merchandise officials and industry bodies Air India flies Boeing 747, long time ago and they have to poned due to the downturn in is in the process of preparing will be solved as exporters may tion from electricity duty exports during April-November attended the meeting. 777 and 787s as well as Airbus be used. The airline exists and the global aviation sector and a strategy to promote overall use it like a running account under the GST regime and 2017-18 increased by 12.01 per In the meeting, Parikkar 320 on its international routes. we have to manage it well," he in 2015 Air India decided to exports and push the country's where money will be debited transport subsidy to increase cent to $196.48 billion. raised the issue of imposition While the new Boeing 787 explained the rationale behind induct these aircraft. industrial growth. from e-wallet when duty paid competitiveness. On GST refund, Prabhu of 5 per cent duty on import Dreamliner in Air India's fleet adding new destinations while The Union Cabinet last year When asked about the con- supplies have to be undertaken The council was constituted said the solution "lies in the of raw cashew. Patel said that offers state-of-the-art in-flight the government is working on gave its in-principle approval cerns raised by exporters in the and the amount will credited on July 3, 2015, to ensure a con- fact that, you (exporters) do frequent changes in the export entertainment, there are com- modalities to divest its stakes for disinvestment of Air India meeting related to GST (Goods when the proof of exports is tinuous dialogue with states and not have to first pay and then regulations cause hardship to plaints about dysfunctional in the airline. and constituted an inter-min- and Services Tax) refund, he made available. The other issues Union Territories on measures claim refund. So, we are work- exporters as this renders exist- monitors on older aircraft. Kharola also said that isterial panel to work on the said the issue was discussed which came up for discussion for providing an international ing on e-wallet system, which ing contracts infructuous. PTI The new CMD, a 1985- details on how the two B777s modalities of the stake sale. PTI 'Expect hike in SC stays K’taka HC verdict against 85% Govt to divest Urgent need to raise tax base to minimum pension 1.5% in NMDC achieve fiscal target: SBI report to `7.5K/month pictorial warning on tobacco products at `153.5 per NEW DELHI: India needs payments and refunds are now under EPS-95' NEW DELHI: The Supreme share today to urgently raise its tax base mostly online. On the revenue Court on Monday stayed the to meet the fiscal deficit tar- side, major tax components NEW DELHI: Pensioners Karnataka High Court order NEW DELHI: The govern- get without curbing essential were growing healthily before under EPS-95 may get a mini- quashing the 2014 govern- ment will on Tuesday begin expenditure, says a report. 2007-08, it said. mum of Rs 5,000 a month as ment regulation that packets sale of 1.5 per cent stake in The country's gross fiscal "After the crisis, the collec- interim relief, and Rs 7,500 of tobacco products must carry NMDC at a floor price of Rs deficit as percentage of GDP, tions were subdued. They have eventually, in view of the assur- pictorial warning covering 85 153.50 apiece, with an option started shooting up after the revived, but are still volatile. ances by the labour ministry, per cent of the packaging space, to retain over-subscription of 2008 financial crisis, said the Disinvestment receipts have the organisation pushing for saying that "health of a citizen equal quantum. report -- 'India's Public Finance states is required," it said. picked up pace after the 2008 the cause said on Monday. has primacy". The two-day offer for sale Trends'. However, with eco- The report further said: crisis," it said. The pension is Rs 1,000 a A bench comprising Chief (OFS) will open for institu- nomic recovery gaining pace, "However, in the ultimate analy- The SBI report said that for month at present, provided Justice Dipak Misra and jus- tional investors on Tuesday the government embarked on sis, in a country where close to 2017-18, the government is tar- under the Employees' Pen- tices A M Khanwilkar and D and for retail investors on the path of fiscal consolidation only 4 per cent of the population geting Rs 72,500 crore worth of sion Scheme 1995 (EPS-95) Y Chandrachud was "unim- Wednesday. and has brought down its fiscal pays taxes, it is urgently needed disinvestment, an increase of a managed by the Employees' pressed" with the submis- a citizen has primacy and he causes irretrievable hazard to Sale of 1.5 per cent would deficit to 3.5 per cent of GDP that the tax base be increased so whopping 59 per cent from the Provident Fund Organisation sions of the Tobacco Institute or she should be aware of that health. It is the obligation of the fetch Rs 750 crore to the exche- in 2016-17. that austerity measures are not last fiscal. On the expenditure (EPFO). of India (TII) that the interim which can affect or deteriorate state to make the people aware quer, a source said. "The states' fiscal deficit, required to remain on the path side, to maintain the fiscal bal- The All India EPS-95 Pen- stay would harm the funda- the condition of health. of the injurious nature of these The stake sale will have a however, has increased. To reach of fiscal consolidation." ance while promoting growth, sioners Sangharsh Samiti said mental right to do business of "We may hasten to add that indulgences, Venugopal said. green-shoe option to retain the combined target of 6 per Apart from fiscal consoli- the government is focusing on in a statement that the labour tobacco manufacturers. deterioration may be a milder Initially one may start with over-subscription of a further cent fiscal deficit for the Cen- dation, India has also ramped curtailing revenue expenditure, minister had assured its delega- "Considering the ...submis- word and, therefore, in all pos- smoking or chewing tobacco as 1.5 per cent, the source added. tre and states an alignment of up its fiscal infrastructure in a while maintaining the level of tion, on December 6, 2017, of sion advanced at the Bar and sibility the expression 'destruc- an "adventure, but gradually it Shares of NMDC closed at the policies of the Centre and big way, it said, adding that tax capital expenditure, it added. PTI meeting its demands. PTI keeping in view the objects and tion of health' is apposite." becomes a habit and, thereaf- Rs 161.85, up 2.11 per cent on reasons of the Cigarettes and The bench then posted the ter, it gets converted to addic- the BSE. Other Tobacco Products (Pro- appeals filed by NGO 'Health tion. That addiction becomes The floor price of Rs 153.50 ‘Wheat output may touch all time high of 100MT this year’ hibition of Advertisement and for Millions Trust' and Umesh the killing factor or causation of is at a discount of 5 per cent Regulation of Trade and Com- Narain for final hearing on pain, suffering, agony, anguish over the closing price of Rs merce, Production, Supply and March 12 and asked the par- and ultimately death," he said. 161.85. The government has NEW DELHI: The country's touch over 100 million tonnes planting," he added. As per the Distribution) Act, 2003 and the ties to complete pleading in the "So far as tobacco is con- already raised over Rs 52,500 wheat production is expected this year," Pattanayak said. agriculture ministry's data, area measures taken by the state, we meantime. cerned, this is the most danger- crore in current fiscal through to touch an all-time of over 100 Wheat acreage is lower so sown to wheat remained lower think it appropriate to direct Attorney General K K Venu- ous thing as it causes cancers stake sale in PSUs, including million tonnes in the current far, but the area will be covered by 4.77 per cent at 283.46 lakh stay of operation of the judge- gopal and Advocate R Balas- and heart diseases," Venugo- listing of insurance PSUs and 2017-18 crop year (July-June) up. Sowing got delayed as fields hectare till last week of the rabi ment and order passed by the ubramanian, appearing for pal said. exchange traded fund. due to likely increase in acre- were not free for planting of the season compared to 297.67 lakh High Court of Karnataka," the the Centre, said that the high If the high court order of It has set an ambitious tar- age and yields, Agriculture Sec- wheat crop, he said. The Secre- hectare in the year-ago period. bench said. court judgement needed to be pictorial warning covering 40 get of raising Rs 72,500 crore retary S K Pattanayak said on tary said the wheat acreage is Besides UP, less coverage of Rejecting the submissions stayed and 85 per cent pictorial per cent of packaging space of for disinvestment in the cur- Monday. 97.50 million tonnes wheat out- lower largely in Uttar Pradesh. wheat was reported in Madhya of senior advocate Kapil Sibal, warning on packaging space of tobacco products is allowed rent fiscal. Of this, Rs 46,500 In the 2016-17 crop year, put for the current year. Sowing However, the sowing window Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharash- appearing for tobacco manu- tobacco products be allowed to operate than India will be crore is to be raised through wheat production had reached of wheat, the main rabi (winter) is till January-end, so it will be tra and West Bengal till last week facturers, that it would affect to remain as a large section of pushed to 147th rank after Zim- minority stake sale in PSUs and a record 98.36 million tonnes. crop, begins from October and covered. "The UP government of the season, the data showed. their business, it said, "We the population is not educated. babwe which mandated more Rs 15,000 crore from strategic The previous high was 95.85 harvesting from March. "Rabi has said the wheat acreage will Wheat is sown in an average have remained unimpressed Life sans health is not worth prominent display of such pic- sale. Another Rs 11,000 crore is million tonnes in 2013-14. The sowing is progressing well. We be covered because weather is area of 301.74 (rpt) 301.74 lakh by the said proponent as we are living and chewing of tobacco or torial warnings, the Attorney to come from listing of insur- government has kept a target of are hoping wheat production to conducive and has enthused hectare. PTI inclined to think that health of smoking of cigarettes or bidis, General said. PTI ance companies. PTI Coal India awarded Citi Foundation promotes job Govt assures sugar companies to hike duty to for automated opportunities for check all unnecessary imports from Pak: ISMA tendering process young artisans NEW DELHI: The govern- lakh tonnes in 2017-18 against ment has assured that it would 203 lakh tonnes in the previ- AGRA: Citi Foundation is consider hiking import duty on ous year. implementing a programme sugar from the current 50 per "It was agreed that there was "E2E-Embroidery to Employ- cent to check any cheaper ship- unrealistic talk about 2018-19 ment in Agra" as part of its 2016 ments from neighbouring Pak- sugar production, whereas not India Innovation Grant Pro- istan, the Indian Sugar Mills even about 10-15 per cent of gram (IIGP) through its imple- Association said on Monday. the sugarcane for harvesting menting partner Foundation for In view of steep fall in then has been planted," the MSME Clusters. global prices, Pakistan has not sugar association said. The 'E2E Program' aims to been able to export its surplus Though the sugarcane sow- infuse new skill sets as per mar- sugar and is mulling a subsidy ing may improve with better ket requirements and enhance to make outward shipments rainfall in western and south- income opportunities among viable. ern states, it was accepted that 500 embroidery artisans in Agra "If Pakistan imports do it is totally "premature" to even through a self-propelling model. become viable, or if any con- guess a figure about next sea- KOLKATA: Mining major Coal ics Centre (NIC), using their A Design / Product Innovation tracts start taking place for son s production, it said. India Ltd on Monday said it has GePNIC software for online Centre formed out of a commu- importing sugar into India "In fact, the sugar produc- been awarded for "innovative bidding, the state-owned miner nity enterprise will further con- from Pakistan, especially if the tion can get adversely affected use of its fully automated ten- said in a release. tinue to function as an design state of Sindh notifies any sub- if the rainfall from June to Sep- dering process" at a national The software uses the con- innovation and marketing net- sidy, the Government of India tries together import around approached, who has kindly On sugar exports from tember 2018, is not good. workshop organised by the ventional two-cover system for work for future market linkages is willing to increase the import 30 lac tons annually, which assured that he will use his India, the ISMA said it was dis- Therefore, July 2018 will be government. technical and price bids for pro- beyond the project period. duty adequately to check any will be sufficient to absorb all good offices for all support and cussed that there would be "no a better time to have any pre- The workshop was con- curement of goods, works and So far, Programme has such imports," ISMA said in a the surplus if any, next year. It assistance that is required in scope for any exports" because liminary idea about 2018-19 ducted by the Ministry of services, the release said. enhanced income of 400 arti- statement. was agreed that there is enough this direction. the closing stock would be tight production, and not earlier," Finance, Department of In January 2016, the com- sans by almost 20% and a com- Regarding need of export- time for such Government to This along with other issues at 40 lakh tonnes at the end of it added. Expenditure, NIC, Ministry of pany designed the e-procure- munity enterprise set to operate ing the surplus, if any, in 2018- Government discussions and related to the sector were dis- the ongoing 2017-18 season Nevertheless, the Food Electronics and Information ment process for automatic on its own. By end of March 19 sugar season, Bangladesh negotiations, since the surplus, cussed last week in a meeting (October-September). Ministry officials assured that if Technology. Coal India and its evaluation of bids and online 2018, the Program will enhance and Sri Lanka Governments if any, would come up only after with the Food Ministry offi- "Therefore, reduction in there is a surplus in next 2018- subsidiaries have a dedicated submission of earnest money skill for 500 young artisans and are being approached for November 2018, and there is cials. Officials from the ISMA the export duty may not make 19 season, appropriate timely e-procurement portal (https:// deposit. The EMD of unsuc- link them with new buyers extending preferential duties no concern about the surplus and the National Federation much sense now," it said. The action would be taken to ensure coalindiatenders.nic.in) that cessful bidders is refunded which will result in to increase under SAFTA and treaty till then. of Cooperative Sugar Facto- ISMA has pegged sugar out- surplus sugar is exported even was developed in 2013 in asso- automatically once their bid is in income by 25% of these 500 amongst SAARC nations. The Union Minis- ries (NFCSF) were also in the put of India, the world's sec- to SAARC nations, the ISMA ciation with National Informat- unsuccessful, it added. PTI artisans. MPOST These two neighbouring coun- ter of Commerce was also meeting. ond largest producer, at 251 said. AGENCIES 14 sport mp MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 AZHAR BARRED FROM ATTENDING HC SGM, AUSTRALIA’S LYNN OUT IVELIN POPOV NAMED BULGARIA’S EX-CAPTAIN SLAMS MOVE OF ENGLAND ODI SERIES BEST FOOTBALLER OF 2017 HYDERABAD: Controversy broke out at the Hyderabad Cricket SYDNEY: Big-hitting Australian batsman Chris Lynn has SOFIA: Spartak Moscow midfielder Ivelin Popov has won the Association after it barred Mohammad Azharuddin from at- been ruled out of this month’s one-day international “Best Bulgarian Football Player of The Year” for the third tending its Special General Meeting, leaving the former India series against England with a calf problem, Cricket consecutive time here. A poll of 104 journalists from 48 media captain fuming. Azharuddin was initially not allowed to attend Australia said. Lynn suffered the injury to his right calf houses on Sunday awarded him 248 points, exactly twice as yesterday’s SGM because of his alleged “association with an fielding in the Brisbane Heat’s Big Bash League match much as striker Martin Kamburov from Bulgarian club Lokomotiv unofficial cricket body”, HCA president G Vivek said here. against the Perth Scorchers on Friday. Plovdiv who came second, reports Xinhua news agency.

ONLY TIME’LL TELL IF PANDYA Saha becomes 1st ‘Old Story’ in Newlands as IS A GENUINE ALL-ROUNDER: KAPIL Indian keeper to affect CHANDIGARH: Hardik Pandya certainly has 10 dismissals in Test India surrender by 72 runs the ability but only time will tell if he would go during the ongoing open- on to become a genuine ing match between India and CAPE TOWN: India’s much- improbable win. South Africa here. vaunted batting line-up fell However, they were mis- all-rounder, said former The 33-year-old surpassed apart in the face of a Vernon placed as Quinton de Kock India captain Kapil Dev, former India captain Mahen- Philander-led pace attack’s pulled off a smart catch stand- considered as the coun- dra Singh Dhoni, who had relentless aggression as South ing up to Philander. try’s best ever all-round- claimed nine dismissals in a Africa emerged victorious by Philander picked up his 12th er. “Time will tell, wait Test match against Australia at 72 runs in the first cricket Test five-wicket haul as Mohammed for some time. He has the the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Monday. Shami (4) was caught at second ability,” Kapil said when (MCG) in 2014. While South Africa grabbed slip two balls later. He finished He achieved the feat on the a 1-0 lead in the three-match things off in style as Jasprit asked if Pandya can fourth day of the match. series, the visitors squandered Bumrah (0) was out in the same emerge as a genuine all- Saha took 10 catches — five a golden opportunity to script fashion on the very next ball. rounder. “The team has to in each South African innings a memorable win outside the Philander improved on his pre- see the right combo, that’s — to take his number of dis- sub-continent. vious best of 6-44 against New it. When you have an all- missals to 85, which includes Needing 208 on day four Zealand in March 2012. rounder, it is always good 10 stumpings. He also eclipsed for their third ever Test win on This was after Moham- CAPE TOWN: Wriddhiman Farokh Engineer’s record of 82 South African soil, the Indian med Shami and Jasprit Bum- for the captain, he has Saha on Monday became the dismissals to become the fifth batsmen let their team down for rah shared six wickets as South the option.” AGENCIES first Indian wicketkeeper to most successful Indian wick- the second time in the match, Africa were bowled out for 130 affect 10 dismissals in a Test etkeeper. AGENCIES getting skittled out for 135 in runs (41.2 overs) in their sec- 42.4 overs. ond innings at the stroke of The game finished well lunch. inside three days despite a full South Africa celebrate after defeating India by 72 runs on the fourth day of the first Test at Newlands The hosts lost 8 for 65 in Australia rout England by day’s play being washed out. Stadium in Cape Town PIC/PTI the morning session to lead by There was no Dale Steyn overall 207 runs. Shami took in the second innings, yet the the embarrassment of being behind off Philander in the 8th hav Maharaj (0-12) dropped 3-28 while Bumrah had 3-39. an innings to win Ashes 4-0 South Africa pace department bowled out for under 100. over as the slide began for India. Sharma (on 9*) off Rabada Starting from day two over- had enough firepower to expose The duo shared a 49-run Six balls later, Dhawan was (2-41) in the 23rd over, but night 65/2, the slide began in SYDNEY: Australia ruthlessly the visitors’ batting line-up on stand for the eighth wicket, the caught pulling much like the the batsman didn’t make this the second over of the morn- extinguished England’s resis- a bouncy and seaming surface. highest of the innings, but it first innings, only this time off chance count. An over later, he ing. Shami had Hashim Amla tance to claim an innings vic- Philander was simply out- folded quickly after Philander Morkel (2-39). Four overs later, played on Philander. (4) caught at gully with Rohit tory in the fifth Ashes Test standing with his pace and had Ashwin caught behind with India were struggling at 39/3 First innings’ hero Hardik Sharma taking a low catch. and complete a 4-0 series rout precision, ending with a career- the keeper standing up. as Cheteshwar Pujara (4) was Pandya (1) then gave slip catch- The decision went up to the on the final day in Sydney on best six for 42 and match haul Post lunch, India began caught behind off Morkel too. ing practice off Rabada as India TV umpire but he didn’t find Monday. of nine wickets. in circumspect fashion. Shi- Virat Kohli (28) and Rohit lost eight wickets for 52 runs conclusive evidence to overturn The beleaguered tourists, Mornel Morkel and Kagiso khar Dhawan (16) looked to Sharma (10) stemmed the slide in this session. Wriddhiman the soft signal. with skipper Joe Root weak- Rabada played the supporting make a quick start, but Murali by adding 32 runs for the fourth Saha (8) fell at the stroke of tea, Four overs later, Shami ened by a stomach bug and role well, finishing with two Vijay (13) struggled against wicket. After drinks though, trapped lbw by Rabada. sent back Rabada (5), caught unable to continue batting, wickets apiece in the second Philander. Philander returned from the Post tea, Ashwin and Kumar at second slip. In the 29th over dissolved after lunch, losing innings. The latter survived twice via other end and trapped Kohli looked to bat for time. They put then, when Bumrah had Faf their last four wickets for their With India reeling at 82 for DRS reviews for caught behind in front of the wicket. on 49 runs for the 8th wicket du Plessis (0) caught behind fourth comprehensive defeat of seven, R Ashwin (37) and Bhu- and lbw appeals. Vijay wasn’t India were desperately to take India past the 100- off a snorter, South Africa were the series. the leading wicket taker in the drawn in Melbourne. vneshwar Kumar saved them third time lucky though, caught struggling thereafter. Kes- mark and raised visions of an struggling at 82/5. AGENCIES “It has been a great couple series with 23. Stricken Root did not come of months. The cricket that we “To get through the five out to bat after lunch as he con- have played in the last couple Tests and end the series here tinued to experience discom- of months has been outstand- at home. I couldn’t asked for fort after his overnight stomach Bangladesh to try 20’s and 30’s were not enough ing,” Australia skipper Steve much more,” said an ecstatic bug. Smith said. Cummins. “He is asleep. He has a gas- “We have just been able to England finished at 180 for tro bug and he has not been too on this track, says Kohli get on top and win those key nine off 88.1 overs as Austra- well through the night and the cricket gamblers moments and not let them back lia won by an innings and 123 heat yesterday didn’t help. always wants to do well, even in the game which is crucial.” runs. He is asleep in the dressing- away from home. He showed a Pat Cummins led the Aus- It followed comprehensive room trying to recover,” said in special courts lot of character and the knock tralian offensive in Sydney losses on the troubled five- Test vice-captain Jimmy Anderson, was brilliant.” with four wickets for 39 to tour in Brisbane, Adelaide and deputising for Root at the post- His opposite number Faf finish man-of-the-match and Perth. The fourth Test was match presentations. AGENCIES DHAKA: Bangladesh will set du Plessis was happy how his up special courts at its cricket Gamblers caught team responded during tough stadiums to try and convict during the tri- periods. Australia swap any punters caught gambling “Every single time in this Sushil Kumar personally during an upcoming interna- nation series Test, we had to stand up in places with tional series, an official said on against Sri Lanka tough periods. The way we Monday. responded was brilliant. Even instigated his supporters Gamblers caught during and Zimbabwe — with them getting to a decent England after the tri-nation series against starting January start, we stuck to our guns. Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe — “The first morning, we against me: Parveen Rana starting January 15 — would 15 — would be expected it to move around, Ashes triumph be hauled from the stands and hauled from the but quite a bit of damage was tried on the spot by judges CAPE TOWN: India cap- short (Dale Steyn) but they done in the first hour. DUBAI: Australia’s innings- in temporary courtrooms, a stands and tried on tain Virat Kohli blamed losing pitched the balls in the right “I thought 270 was par but and-123 run win over England cricket board official said. the spot by judges wickets in a heap as one of the areas and bowled their hearts Pandya then took risks and it on final day of the fifth and “Betting will be treated as a biggest reasons for their 72-run out. We need to rectify our mis- came off. Once again, the bowl- final Ashes Test have pushed public nuisance. Anyone found in temporary defeat against South Africa in takes also.” ers stepped up. The plan was to them to third spot in the latest involved will be convicted and courtrooms, a the first Test here. Not having a single big try and get 200 runs and have ICC team rankings. punished instantly in the sta- “Well in hindsight, we lost partnership (save Bhuvnesh- a lead of 350 and have a crack Australia have moved into dium,” Bangladesh Cricket cricket board by 70-odd, if we had taken war Kumar-Hardik Pandya’s at them. third place while England have Board chief executive Niza- official said chances in the first innings, 99 for 8th wicket in the first “We were surprised how dropped to fifth position fol- muddin Chowdhury said. they would have been 220,” innings) is something to worry much the ball was doing. It lowing the conclusion of the The special courts will con- said Kohli in the post-match about for the team. was like a day one pitch. Green, NEW DELHI: Wrestler stage at the KD Jadhav Indoor Ashes in Sydney on Monday. tinue to target gamblers during phones during the latest edi- presentation. “This game is all about part- again,” Du Plessis said. Parveen Rana on Monday Stadium when supporters of Australia had entered the Sri Lanka’s tour of Bangladesh, tion of the Bangladesh Premier “Losing wickets in bunches nerships, and crucial runs, and The former Chennai Super accused two-time Olympic both Sushil and Rana clashed series in fifth position on 97 which starts at the end of Janu- League Twenty20 tournament, we something have to plug in. they did better. The bowlers Kings batsman is happy that medallist Sushil Kumar of and beat each other. points, while England were in ary after the tri-nation series. which concluded last month. We were in the game for the learnt pretty quickly and did they have been able to put “personally instigating” his “We mid-level wrestlers third place on 105 points. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka At least a dozen of them three days and it was a won- well in the second innings. We opposition under pressure supporters to manhandle participate in championships However, following a 4-0 will play two Test matches and were foreigners. derful match to be part of. We are still feeling good about how first up. him after the Commonwealth and tournaments on our own series win, Australia have two Twenty20 internationals. The police in November would have taken that if some- we went about this Test match. “It is really important to put Games selection trials a few but when it’s the question of climbed to third place on 104 Gambling is illegal but ram- deported at least five Indians one told 208 would be the tar- “The mindset really mat- the opposition under pressure days ago. CWG these popular wrestlers points, while England have pant during cricket matches caught gambling during these get,” the captain was honest in ters when you travel away in a three-match series. Dale “As soon as the bout ended come into the limelight say- slipped to fifth on 99 points. in Bangladesh, where punters short format matches. his admission. from home. You need to be would have been a real handful. Sushil Kumar told his sup- ing they want to perform for exploit a brief delay between So-called “mobile courts” Kohli felt India needed a positive in defence and leav- We feel sorry for him and wish porters ‘yeh raha isko dekhle’ the country. Australia have live play and the official broad- are popular in Bangladesh. In batsman to score a 70 or 80 in ing, and cash in on scoring,” the him a speedy recovery.” (here he is show him) and then “If they want to perform, cast of results to place frantic October, more than 200 peo- the second innings. straight-talking skipper said. Man of the match Vernon walked into a room. He per- win medals why don’t they par- moved to third bets. ple accused of abuses against “It was a great effort but He was all praise for Pan- Philander said that India had sonally inistigated them,” Rana ticipate in Asian Games and place while Authorities threw nearly 80 Rohingya refugees in Bangla- we needed someone to get a dya, whose 93 was a face-saver caught them off-guard on first said. World Championships? It is spectators out of matches for desh’s southeast were jailed by 75 or 80. 20s or 30s were not in the first innings. morning but 286 was a fantas- An unprecedented brawl because they know they can England have placing bets using their mobile special courts there. AGENCIES enough. They were a bowler “We believe in Pandya. He tic score. AGENCIES between the supporters of both get their way in CWG and then dropped to fifth the camps took place as soon stay away for three years,” Rana position as the trials concluded. Rana’s said. elder brother was injured in Rana also claimed he was Sindhu: Keep working hard till you achieve perfection the scuffle. threatened before the Nation- Australia are now trailing “He was hit by a chair on his als, and the walkover he gave number-one ranked India (124 CHENNAI: Expectations have will learn by seeing the top head. We have taken him for a to Sushil was because he was points) by 20 points, while they sky-rocketed since her Rio Sindhu said players, like Viktor (Axelsen) MRI scan,” Rana said. struggling with an injury. are seven points behind sec- Olympics silver medal and P there were a and some of the Olympians and Asked about the bout Rana “During the Nationals I ond-ranked South Africa (111 V Sindhu says the only way to others. It is a good opportunity alleged it was Sushil’s strategy was threatened. I don’t know points). handle the huge responsibility lot of positive for them to learn things and to claim he had been bitten in who was behind it but a few The top two ranked sides is to practice till she ac hieves things to learn actually go and work out. order to take rest during the men came to me and threat- are presently involved in their perfection in all her strokes. “If the young players work bout. ened me. I gave the walkover three-Test series, which con- “Since the Rio Olympics, from the year’s hard there is a bright future “I did not bite Sushil. There because I was injured. I knew I cludes in Johannesburg on 28 the expectations are always performances ahead. Playing with the pro- is a move in wrestling called had CWG trials a few days later January, following which the high and the responsibilities are fessionals will give an idea of ‘Kheme Dav’. In that move the and I wanted to focus on that,” Test team rankings table will also high. I am used to it now. what it takes to achieve suc- opponent’s wrist slides pass the Rana said. be updated. You have to keep going such as world no 1 Dane Vik- cess,” she added. mouth. Sushil was trying to rub The 25-year-old grap- Australia will now travel to and keep working hard,” the tor Axelsen, during the Premier She felt happy that the stan- his wrist again and again on my pler acknowledged that such South Africa where they play a 22-year-old shuttler said. really good for me. Definitely, some more tournaments are Badminton League (PBL). dard of PBL was improving. mouth,” Rana said at the side- an unprecedented incident, four-Test series from March 1 “I have been working on a lot of positive things to learn actually adding up. I have to “Indian players are doing “Well, it is good to see many lines of a Pro Wrestling League involving two wrestlers and to April 3, while England s next all the areas because I feel from,” said Sindhu, who won keep moving and keep work- well. Many of the youngsters top level players are coming (PWL) event. their supporters, had never series is against New Zealand everything is really important. the India Super Series and ing hard. It will be really nice are doing really well. And defi- and playing in the PBL. It is “It was his strategy, he occurred before in India. from March 22 to April 3 when You have to keep on learning Korea Super Series, besides to achieve much more success nitely in the coming years you good for the Indians, especially showed the blood on his hand The two grapplers are set they will play a two-Test series. all the time unless and until reaching the finals at Hong in 2018.” Sindhu said many will see all of them. They will youngsters to look at the high to the referee and took rest to clash on January 21 when In their home season, Eng- you become perfect in all the Kong Open. players are coming up in the have to get a little more expo- level players and learn. As a four times during the bout,” Rana’s Veer Marathas take on land will host Pakistan for a strokes,” she added. “In the year 2018, there country and they can learn by sure,” she said. league, it is improving and is he added. Sushil’s Delhi Sultans in the two-Test series and India for “The year 2017 has been are so many tournaments and watching top-class shuttlers “By being part of PBL they coming up,” Sindhu said. AGENCIES Controversy took centre- PWL. AGENCIES five Tests. AGENCIES sport 15 MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata |Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 mp Churchill Brothers hold East Arsenal, Man City contact West Brom over defender Evans Bengal 1-1 with Mechac’s strike rsenal and Manches- ter City have made con- tactA with West Brom about VASCO DA GAMA: Deb- the potential signing of Jonny utant Mechah Koffi’s 75th Evans. minute strike cancelled out Gunners manager Arsene Joby Justin’s opener (26’) as Wenger may be willing to ask the I-League 2017-18 clash his club to pay £25mn to take between Churchill Broth- the 30-year-old Northern Ire- ers Goa FC and East Bengal land international to Emirates ended 1-1 at the Tilak Maidan Stadium. on Monday. Arsenal have the advan- The home side made four tage of knowing the Baggies are changes from their last outing interested in their 32-year-old with Banpynkhrawnam Non- full-back Mathieu Debuchy, gkhlaw, Alber Gonsalves, Eric who wants regular first-team Obinna Chukwunyelu being football. replaced by Wayne Vaz, Alber City need cover for cap- Gonsalves and Mechac Koffi. tain Vincent Kompany, who is Former Pune FC man PM injured once again. Britto also made his first sea- France defender Eliaquim son start. Mangala has played 14 times Vaz and Martins have been for the club this season but acquired on-loan from Indian manager Pep Guardiola does Super League (ISL) outfits FC not view the 26-year-old as via- was on the bench for Man- 2015. He still has 18 months Pune City and FC Goa respec- ble long-term back-up. chester United’s Champions remaining on his Baggies con- tively while Koffi is one of the Other Premier League clubs League final defeat by Barce- tract but has not been offered four new signings alongside are also interested in Evans but lona in 2009. an extension, although he has Bektur Talgat, Cisse Gwada and cannot match the lure of Euro- Evans joined West Brom told the club he has no interest Hussein Eldor. pean football for a player who from United for £6m in August in signing a new deal. AGENCIES East Bengal made only the solitary change as Cavin Lobo made way for Mohammed Coutinho’s Barca start delayed due to thigh injury Rafique in the midfield. Jobby Justin continued to feature up Peter Omoduemuke but the position to get on the end of inches after a free-kick taken by ing past Arnab Mondal and BARCELONA: Philippe Coutinho, 25, will be top as Willis Plaza made his Nigerian shot over the target Justin’s through ball. However, Peter was cleared as far as the crossing the ball across the Coutinho will not be able to officially unveiled by Barca way into the bench after being and a couple of minutes later despite a timely reaction by Churchill medio around the face of goal. Britto lobbed it make his debut for Barce- later on Monday, complet- declared fit. the home side were behind. Osagie Mondayrooted, the Syr- hour mark. The Red Machines towards Uttam but the Sik- lona until the end of Janu- ing a 160-million-euro ( 192 Churchill Brothers could Jobby Justin dived in to nod ian effort crept past the far post. eventually replied back with a kim-born forward could only ary because he has a thigh million) move from Liver- have had the first bite of the Laldanmawia Ralte’s delivery Lalram Chullova’s cross goal in the 75th minute when see the pass hover above him injury, the club said on pool, making it the third cherry in the 10th minute from the right with the initi- after being released on the right Koffi controlled the ball and before it was cleared. Monday. richest transfer in history. but Uttam Rai wasn’t able to ation of the attack provided by Danmawia in the second curled it past a hapless Luis East Bengal searched des- “Coutinho has an injury The Brazilian could connect cleanly to Nicholas by Katsumi Yusa in the 26th half was in a dangerous area Barreto from around 18 yeards perately for a winner towards to his right thigh and he in theory make his debut Fernandes’ cross after an exem- minute. but both Justin and Yusa were after a neat one-two with Britto. the dying minutes but the is expected to be out for on January 28 when Alaves plary pass from Obga Kalu to The lead was almost dou- beaten by the flight of the ball Five minutes later, home side’s defence held firm around three weeks,” Bar- visit the Camp Nou in the left winger. bled by Mahmoud Al-Amna in the box. Churchill Brothers could have as the points were eventually celona said on their website. La Liga. AGENCIES Nicholas did well to set up who ran himself in an on-side Kalu missed the target by pulled ahead with Koffi mov- shared on the night. AGENCIES Soundararajan seeks to India exploring Koffi’s solitary strike helps rectify mistakes vs Neroca newer ways to Lajong defeat Arrows 1-0 COIMBATORE: Chennai City SHILLONG: Shillong Lajong will take on Neroca FC in an score goals, says returned to winning ways after a I-League match here on Tues- 1-0 win against the Indian Arrows day, seeking to improve on their at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium showing in the first leg. in Shillong. Chennai City were dealt a PR Sreejesh It was the solitary strike from painful 1-2 blow earlier this Abdoulaye Koffi in the 80th min- season. BENGALURU: Having returned to the Indian ute that propelled Lajong to fourth Ngangom Ronald’s injury- hockey team, veteran goalkeeper P R Sreejesh on place on the table, displacing Mohun time winner left Soundarajan’s Monday said the team is exploring newer ways Bagan. boys pointless despite Jean- to score goals. Bobby Nongbet made two Micheal Joachim cancelling “I am happy to see my name in the (Indian changes to the side that drew 0-0 out Kallon Kiatamba’s first- team) list, and definitely, I have been through a with Chennai City FC at home. half strike. tough time for almost six months for recovery In defence, Kynsailang Khongsit Chennai City will now seek through rehabilitation programmes. It is a proud replaced Laurence Doe who is suf- to rectify their errors and take all moment for me,” he told reporters here. fering from a foot injury and skip- three points from their newly- “We are focussing on scoring goals. Also, work- per Samuel Lalmuanpuia returned fast for the North-Eastern side and by Al-Hagri. Lajong started from shifted home ground. ing hard to achieve that in a new way,” he added. to the starting XI, relegating Redeem had Hardy Cliff connected to a per- where they left off as they kept surg- “We have a specific strategy Jean-Micheal Joachim will be NEROCA defence, who, along- Sreejesh said he is seeking to regain the confidence Tlang to the bench. fectly measured diagonal ball from ing forwards in search of goal after for the opposition team and the man to mark for NEROCA side Mohun Bagan, have only let of his teammates. He said 2018 will be a big year Portuguese coach Luis Norton Samuel, the Reds could have taken the restart. Samuel tried to make we have the support of play- as the Frenchman has already in a league-best five goals in the for the team with three major events coming up, de Matos continued with his rotation the lead within the first ten min- amends for his penalty miss with ing on our home ground. In notched five goals so far in the campaign so far. starting with the Commonwealth Games. policy and made seven changes to utes. The Reds had another golden a superbly taken free-kick, but his Imphal, we lost the match as campaign, equalling Katsumi Singam Subhash Singh is “We would also play the Asian Games and the the side that went down 2-1 against opportunity to break the deadlock effort rattled the crossbar. Gill con- we missed many chances and Yusa and Aser Dipanda Dicka at in supreme form for Neroca World Cup,” he added. Coach Sjoerd Marijne said NEROCA FC. Jitendra Singh was when Deepak Tangri handed the tinued his majestic form under the a penalty kick. Now we know the top of the goalscoring charts. and the forward will once again Sreejesh’s comeback is good for the team as he is the only one to retain his place at ball inside the penalty box. Sam- sticks as he kept out Hardy Cliff’s our mistakes and we will go all Playmaker Soosairaj is spearhead the Gift Raikhan- an experienced player. He added: “Of course, it the back-line. Edmund Lalrindika uel’s spot-kick effort was kept out towering header from a set-piece out tomorrow (Tuesday),” said V responsible for the majority of led team’s attack. With three is good for us that he (Sreejesh) is coming back. replaced Rahim Ali up-front. by Prabhsukhan Gill who correctly that was destined to go in. How- Soundararajan, the head coach Chennai’s forays forward. The goals to his name, Subash has He is really an experienced player, but at the time After being humiliated 3-0 in dived low to his left. Minutes later, ever, his goal was finally breached of Chennai City. local lad, who is a mainstay managed to catch the eye of the when Sreejesh was not there, the other two goal- their previous encounter against it was Gill once again with his hero- with ten minutes to go when Koffi Chennai City are eighth in in midfield for Chennai, will Indian football audience with ies Suraj Karkera and Akash Chikte had their Indian Arrows, Lajong came out ics under the bar, who denied Koffi unleashed a powerful strike after the standings with two wins and look to feed Jean Joachim with his impressive performances moments in his absence.” AGENCIES with intent and a desire to find the from scoring the opener after he a brilliant turn that left Jitendra two draws to their name. Striker early balls to get the better of the up front for Neroca. AGENCIES opener. Chances came thick and was fed a delicious ball from the left wrong-footed. AGENCIES Murray Nadal maintains top spot, Muguruza announces hip Real Madrid fall 16 points behind surgery, hopes slips to third spot in world rankings Barcelona after draw against Celta to return soon MADRID: Real Madrid man- LONDON: Andy Murray aged to eke out a 2-2 draw announced he had hip surgery against Celta Vigo away at in Australia on Tuesday and is Balaidos, remaining 16 points hoping to return to competi- behind La Liga leaders Bar- tive tennis in time for the grass- celona, who won 3-0 at home court season midway through against Levante. the year. The 30-year-old Scot Forward Gareth Bale, who has not played competitively made his first La Liga start since being knocked out of the on Sunday night since Sep- Wimbledon quarter-finals last tember after getting through year and last week withdrew both calf and hamstring diffi- from this month’s Australian culties, scored twice for Real. Open. “I underwent successful But Celta drew thanks to goals right hip surgery at the St Vin- from Daniel Wass and Maxi cent Hospital in Melbourne,” Gomez, reports Efe. the former world number one In Barcelona, two first-half said on Facebook. goals from Argentine star Lio- “I’d like to thank Dr John nel Messi and Uruguay’s Luis O’Donnell and all of the staff Suarez as well as a last-gasp for looking after me. I look goal by Brazilian Paulinho, forward to returning to com- earned the hosts their 15th petitive tennis during the league win. grasscourt season. Thanks to Barcelona, who have 48 everyone for all the well wishes points, enjoy a nine-point lead and support over the last few over second-placed Atletico days. I’ll come back from this.” Madrid. goalkeeper Kaylor Navas, who the minutes ticked away, how- title. They went at full steam in The grasscourt season starts MADRID: Rafael Nadal of der Zverev of Germany jumped cle cramps. Romanian Simona Although Real Madrid was out of position. ever. And finally it was Maxi the first half, but eased the pace after the French Open, with the Spain remained in the number to the fourth position ahead of Halep managed to stay atop have a game in hand, the capi- Real equalised just three Gomez who settled the final after the break. Coach Ernesto first event taking place in Stutt- one spot in the men’s Associ- Austria’s Dominic Thiem. the rankings after winning the tal club now trails Barcelona by minutes later on a shot by result after moving through a Valverde decided to put French gart from June 11. AGENCIES ation of Tennis Professionals Meanwhile, Stan Waw- Shenzhen Open title in China 16 points. They have work to Welsh forward Bale, who then lax Madrid defence to blast in winger Ousmane Dembele into (ATP) world singles rankings, rinka of Switzerland occupied on Saturday, reports Efe. do to keep in touch with sec- swooped in for another goal a header eight minutes before the starting line-up for the first released on Monday. the ninth position, followed by Carolina Wozniacki of ond and third placed Atlet- two minutes after that. the final whistle. time since September 2017. Nadal, the 16-time Grand Pablo Carreño Busta of Spain. Denmark moved up one place ico Madrid and Valencia (37 The host team had a great Talking about the title chal- Dembele joined Messi and Slam champion, was nearly a Garbiñe Muguruza of Spain to be ranked second, just 90 points), who won their respec- chance to get back to even lenge, Zidane said: “If we lose Suarez on the attack, while thousand points ahead of Swit- slipped from second to third points ahead of Muguruza. tive home games on Saturday. when Costa Rican Navas con- points every week, we can not Spanish veteran midfielder zerland’s Roger Federer, reports place in the Women’s Tennis Elina Svitolina climbed to Zinedine Zidane-coached ceded a penalty in the 72nd get close. You have to go match Andres Iniesta also returned Efe. Association (WTA) rankings, fourth place after her win in Real showed clear signs of lack minute, but the custodian man- by match.” to the starting line-up at the World No.3 Grigor Dimi- released on Monday, due to her Brisbane, replacing Karolina of motivation. Hosts Celta got aged to make up for his mistake Barcelona showed in their Camp Nou stadium. Iniesta trov trailed over 4,600 points withdrawal from the Brisbane Pliskova of the Czech Repub- on the board first in the 33rd by saving lago Aspas’ spot-kick. game against Levante that they made his 650th appearance for behind Federer, while Alexan- International because of mus- lic, who fell to sixth. AGENCIES minute on Wass’ chip over Celta continued to battle as are best placed to regain the the Catalan club. AGENCIES 16 mp Entertainment MILLENNIUM POST | Kolkata | Tuesday, 9 January, 2018 Golden Globes 2018 opposes HARASSMENT, GENDER INEQUALITY Sterling K Brown Hollywood’s A-listers extended their support to the Time’s Up campaign by walking the red carpet in black ensembles Oprah Winfrey LOS ANGELES: From an all- hailed the “power of women” while black dress code to the presenta- accepting the accolade. tion of the awards to acceptance Kidman noted that her ‘Big Lit- speeches, the 75th Annual Golden tle Lies’ character was in sync with Globe Awards was all about taking the ongoing conversation in Hol- forward the issue of sexual mis- lywood surrounding sexual assault conduct in Hollywood, pitching and harassment. First time winners for gender balance and express- “This character I played repre- Recipient Category ing solidarity to the Time’s Up sents something that’s at the cen- movement. tre of our conversation: abuse,” Sterling K Best Actor in a TV Series Golden Globes was the first said the actor. Brown (This Is Us) award gala held after the wave of Elisabeth Moss, who took the sexual harassment cases involving Best performance by an actress in Aziz Best Actor in a TV Musical/ big names like Harvey Weinstein, a TV series – Drama trophy for Ansari Comedy (Master Of None) her role as Offred in ‘The Hand- maid’s Tale’ also talked about the Gary Oldman Best Actor in a Motion Picture “fight for equality and freedom in – Drama (Darkest Hour) this world”. Laura Dern, Nicole Kidman, Zoe Kravitz, Reese Witherspoon and Shailene Woodley Many winners and presenters Frances Best Actress in a Motion at the ceremony brought up the McDormand Picture – Drama (Three Bill- scandal. Host Seth Meyers opened boards Outside Ebbing, Missouri ) the show with a political under- tone – jokes around US President Guillermo del Toro Alison Best Supporting Actress in Donald Trump and sexual harass- Janney Motion Picture (I, Tonya) ment scandals in Hollywood. Laura Dern Ben Affleck, Brett Ratner, Char- “Welcome ladies and remain- Saoirse Best Actress in the Musical/ lie Sheen, Dustin Hoffman, James ing gentlemen. It’s 2018 and mari- Ronan Comedy (Lady Bird) Toback and Kevin Spacey made juana is finally allowed and sexual news and caused outrage. harassment finally isn’t,” he said. Ewan Best Actor in a Television The evening began as many As Oprah Winfrey became McGregor Limited Series/ Motion Picture of Hollywood’s A-listers – from the first black woman to receive (Fargo) Meryl Streep, Oprah Winfrey, the Cecil B. DeMille award, she Alicia Vikander, Kendall Jenner, called for – in a powerful accep- Guillermo del Best Director for Motion Mariah Carey, Jessica Chastain, tance speech – a world free of sex- Toro Picture (The Shape of Water) Nicole Kidman, Mandy Moore, ual abusers where nobody ever has Heidi Klum and more – walked to say ‘Me too’ again. Martin Best Screenplay (Three the red carpet in black ensembles Winfrey’s inspirational and McDonagh Billboards) – and extended support to Time’s moving speech drew a standing ers who take us to the time when Up campaign, which hopes “to ovation from the Who’s Who of nobody ever has to say ‘Me too’ shift the focus back to survivors Hollywood. again.” Stellan Best Supporting Actor in Aziz Ansari and on systemic, lasting solutions” After talking about the dark Actor Laura Dern, who won Skarsgard Limited Series (Big Little Lies) to sexual violence. phase, the famed talk show host, the Best Supporting Actress in a The movement to bring in a actor, producer and philanthropist Limited Series for her role in ‘Big Sam Best Supporting Actor in Mo- change continued on the stage too. said: “A new day is on the horizon.” Little Lies’, Frances McDormand, Rockwell tion Picture (Three Billboards) Elisabeth Moss Actor Nicole Kidman, who “And when that new day finally and Reese Witherspoon addressed Rachel Best Actress in a Television took home the award in the Best dawns, it will be because of a lot the harassment issue. Performance by an Actress in a of magnificent women, many of Actor Natalie Portman joined Brosnahan Comedy Series (The Marvelous Limited Series or Motion Picture whom are right here in this room the conversation by calling out the Mrs Maisel) Made for Television category for tonight, and some pretty phenom- “all-male nominees” of the Best James Best Actor in a Comedy or her portrayal of abused housewife enal men, fighting hard to make Director category while present- Celeste Wright in ‘Big Little Lies’, sure that they become the lead- ing the trophy. IANS Franco Musical (The Disaster Artist) ‘A cop film will always Priyanka Chopra Justin be compared to supports Time’s Timberlake’s Dabangg, Singham’ Up campaign robotic NEW YORK: Even if actor Priyanka alter ego Chopra was not at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, it didn’t stop her from lending support to the Time’s Up cam- LONDON: Singer Justin Timberlake says paign by sporting an all-black ensemble. that he is the person behind the dance moves The actor took to Instagram to of his robot in his “Filthy” video. shared a photograph of herself in an The 36-year-old singer donned a black all-black ensemble – much like what turtleneck and glasses to play an inventor was flaunted by Hollywood’s Who’s unveiling his droid dancer creation to an Who at the awards gala in Los audience in the promotional film for his Angeles. comeback single, and in a behind-the-scenes She captioned it: “Today clip, he’s now revealed he’s also responsible for we wear black. Wher- the automaton’s fancy footwork. ever you are, who- In the clip, Timberlake could be seen ever you are, wearing a unitard and skull cap and was whatever you’re doing... join us. Time’s hooked up to motion-capture equipment Up. Why we wear black.” while the song played in the background, The Golden Globe Awards event saw reports femalefirst.co.uk. MUMBAI: Director Rohit Simmba. most celebrities in black ensembles, He jokingly grabbed his crotch before Shetty says cop films such as “Let’s see how the signifying a silent protest against the someone pushed him off balance, and the Dabangg and Singham have set first one does (refer- spate of sexual harassment scandals that then took a box and carried it across the stage. the bar so high with their box ring to its commer- have rocked Hollywood. Putting out the mes- He captioned the clip: “Making of a office success and popularity cial success). The sage louder were black-and-white ‘Time’s Up’ pins. (robot).” that it is obvious for any police- first one has to The colour black was chosen as a way for the movie and The ‘SexyBack’ singer recently revealed his centric movie to be compared work and then we TV industry to make a statement against a pervasive culture of upcoming new album, ‘Man of the Woods’, is with them. will think (for the misconduct. inspired by his wife Jessica Biel and their The filmmaker, whose next second one).” The Time’s Up campaign is a coalition of 300 Hollywood two-year-old son Silas, as well as his roots project Simmba will see Ran- Presented by women-actors, directors, producers, writers, agents and enter- in Memphis. veer Singh don the khakhi uni- Reliance Enter- tainment executives-who have also established a $13 mil- He said in a video preview posted on Ins- form as Sangram Bhalerao, said tainment, the lion legal defence fund to provide support for women and tagram: “This album is really inspired by my he is confident the film will be film is produced by men who have experienced sexual harassment or abuse in son, my wife, my family, but more so than original in its character. Rohit Shetty Pic- the workplace. IANS any other album I’ve ever written, where I’m “What usually happens is turez and Karan from, and it’s personal.” IANS that Chulbul Pandey and Sing- Johar’s Dharma ham have become the iconic Productions. characters. When we were Simmba is the making Singham, a lot of peo- first collaboration Radiohead sues Lana Del Rey ple told us are ‘you trying to among the three top make a Dabangg kind of a guns of Bollywood. film’, but the film has its own “Ranveer is a for allegedly copying ‘Creep’ identity. unique personal- “This will always happen. ity. With Rohit, LOS ANGELES: Singer Lana I offered up to 40 over the last Whenever a cop film will be he will make Del Rey has confirmed rock few months but they will only made people will either draw his own char- band Radiohead is filing a law- accept 100,” she tweeted. comparisons with Dabangg acter. There is suit against her for allegedly lift- “Their lawyers have been or Singham. If the look and no actor like ing their breakthrough single, relentless, so we will deal with part is serious then Singham, him that I have “Creep”. it in court,” Del Rey added. if entertaining then Chulbul seen so far. He Speculation was rife over According to BBC.com, Pandey. Our cop (Ranveer) is is an energy ball, the the weekend that the British Radiohead were sued over not a Chulbul Pandey kind of a way he will explode is going music group was taking action head song, yet she had offered similarities of the same song character,” Shetty said, who has to be good. I don’t think any- over ‘Get Free’, the final number 40 per cent of the publishing (‘Creep’) to ‘The Air That I directed Singham and Singham one would show the explosion on the singer’s latest LP, ‘Lust royalties to the group, which Breathe’ by The Hollies. Returns. like him on screen,” Johar said. For Life’. they declined. Albert Hammond and Mike While Dabangg and Sing- Meanwhile, the director- Del Rey, 32, took to Twitter “It’s true about the law- Hazlewood were later named as ham have mushroomed into a producer duo will be seen to share the news. suit. Although I know my co-writers for the song and split franchise in the action-drama judging ‘India’s Next Super- The ‘Young and Beautiful’ song wasn’t inspired by Creep, the royalties with the band. series, the director said it is stars’, which goes on air from singer maintained her song was Radiohead feel it was and want Radiohead is yet to respond too early to say the same about January 13 on Star Plus. PTI not “inspired” from the Radio- 100 per cent of the publishing - to Del Rey’s claims. PTI