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Ram Rattan Dubey R/o defamation case against Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Devi W/o Late Sh Govind Mandir Gali Chabutra Bazar H.No. 4, Lane No.1, Opposite other AAP leaders for their remarks over alleged deletion of Udhampur on 25-02-2020. Fifth Day Govt. Dispensary Paloura voters' names from electoral rolls in the national capital. Ram Gupta R/o Nagrota Sh. Jagdish Sh. Lalit Kumar Smt. Sureshta will be performed on 29/02/2020 Jammu who left for heavenly Justice Anu Malhotra, while staying the proceedings in the tri - Gujroo. 10th Day will be Chander Vaid (Saturday) at 11.30 A.M., at our resi - Jandial Dubey abode on 20-2-2020. 10th Day al court, issued notice to the Delhi government and BJP leader dence W. No. 8 H. No. 138, Hara Rajeev Babbar, who moved the defamation complaint on be - performed on Saturday on Rama Hara Krishana Street Dhar will be performed at our resi - half of the party's Delhi unit, seeking their responses by April 29-2-2020, timing 10.30 dence Paloura Jammu on 29-2- 23. Kejriwal and three others Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Road Udhampur. AM at our residence at GRIEF STRICKEN: 2020 (Saturday) at 11 AM. Kriya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Gupta and party leaders Manoj will be performed at our resi - Kumar and Atishi Marlena have challenged a sessions court Nagrota Gujroo Teh. Sh. Jagdish Chander Gupta & Smt Sneh Lata dence Paloura Jammu on 01-03- order which upheld a magisterial court's decision to summon Ramkot Dist. Kathua. Ritu Gupta & Sh. Sanju Gupta Ramnagar. them as accused in the complaint. Smt. Bindu Gupta & Sh. Rakesh Gupta Udhampur. 2020 (Sunday) at 11 AM. They have sought quashing of the magisterial court's Kriya will be performed on Mob. No. 9419158040 GRIEF STRICKEN March 15, 2019 and sessions court's January 28 this year or - 02.3.2020 (Monday) at Ram Rattan Dubey -Husband ders. Babbar, in his complaint, has sought proceedings against our residence at 10.00 Bhuvan Dubey -Son them for "harming" the reputation of BJP by blaming it for the Rashika Dubey -Daughter deletion of the names of voters from electoral rolls here. He AM. 10TH DAY KRIYA had claimed that the AAP leaders, during a press conference & SAMAST SHARMA/DUBEY PARIVAR held in December 2018, alleged that on the directions of the GRIEF STRICKEN With deep regret and anguish it is MB: 7006960948, 9419113711 BJP names of 30 lakh voters from Bania, Poorvanchali and the Sons & Daughter-in-laws to inform that Smt. Shama Kanth Muslim community had been deleted by the Election Sh Tilak Raj & Smt Neeta Devi W/o Lt. Prem Nath Kanth originally Commission. Kejriwal and others, represented by advocates resident of Kral Gund Handwara Mohd Irshad and Rishikesh, have claimed that the trial court Sh Madan Lal & Smt Neena Devi and presently at H. No. 10 Lane 01, 10TH DAY/KRIYA failed to appreciate that no offence, whether defamation or Sector 01, Durga Nagar, Roop Sh Nitya Nand & Smt Anu Radha With profound grief and sorrow, we otherwise, is made out against them. The trial courts' orders Nagar (near Rising Electronics) Smt. Shama M/s Govind Tilak Raj Nagrota Gujroo inform the sad demise of our moth - failed to appreciate that the AAP leaders did not make or pub - breathed her last after a brief ill - Kanth er Smt. Roopawati Koul (Devki) lish any statement against Babbar or his party as alleged by M- 9419373806, 9419293816 ness. Her ‘atma’ left her mortal him, the plea in the high court has claimed. W/o Lt. Sh. Krishan Koul originally frame to mingle with the from Ichkoot, Budgam Kashmir, ‘Paramatma’ on 25th Feb. 2020. A/P H. No. 95, Lane 1A Adarsh 10th Day Kriya will be performed at Nagar Bantalab Jammu on 26-02- Smt. Roopawati Akhnoor Ghat on 05th of March 10TH DAY CHOUBARSI 2020. MOURNING FROM MA - Koul 2020. Assembly will be held at 11 WITH PROFOUND GRIEF & SOR - LYUN SIDE will also be held at Four years have passed since you am at our residence (Durga ROW WE INFORM THE SAD DE - above address. TENTH DAY left us but your memories always Nagar). MISE OF OUR MOTHER SMT. KRIYA shall be performed on 06- remain with us. CHOUBARSI GRIEF STRICKEN SHEELA DEVI W/O L. SH. AC - 03-2020 (Friday) at 8 A.M. at Pooja of our beloved Lt. Sh. Daughters-in-law & Sons CHAR SINGH ORIGINALLY Akhnoor Ghat and Assembly after Jagdish Chander Vaid (R/o H. No. Smt. Sunita & Sh. Sunil Kanth (9419301778) FROM R/O MEEN CHARKAN TENTH DAY KRIYA shall be at 38, Mast Garh, Jammu) shall be Smt. Jyoti & Sh. Sanjay Kanth (7006481904) (UPPER) NEAR SMAILPUR ON SMT. SHEELA Sh. Jagdish Muthi Ghat at 10.30 A.M. performed at Luxmi Naryan Daughter & Son-in-law 20/02/2020. TENTH DAY WILL BE DEVI Chander Vaid GRIEF STRICKEN Mandir, Dhakki Sarajan Jammu at Smt. Suneta & Sh. Anil Pandita PERFORMED ON 29/02/2020 Smt. Sarla & Sh. Piyaray Lal Koul 12 Noon on Saturday the 29th of Devranis & Devars (SATURDAY) AT OUR RESI - Smt. Rajni & Lt. Sh. Nana Ji Koul February 2020. Smt. Gauri & Sh. Jagar Nath Kanth DENCE MEEN CHARKAN. Smt. Sunita & Sh. Kumar Ji Koul DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY: Smt. Doora & Sh. Rattan Lal Kanth GRIEF STRICKEN AND SAMAST PARIVAR Smt. Sudha Gupta-Wife Smt. Veena & Sh. Roshan Lal Kanth DAUGHTER-IN-LAW & SON Daughters & Son-in-law PH: 9469257070, 8492957273, 9469662828 SMT. VIJAY LAXMI & SH BISHAN SINGH Smt. Renu & Sh. Bansi Lal Kanth Smt. Sonia Vaid & Sh. Atul Gupta Grand Children: Saatvik, Manvi, Ojas, SMT. SUNITA DEVI & SH DHRUB SINGH Smt. Palak Vaid & Sh. Sumit Gupta SMT. SANTOSH DEVI & SH ARJUB SINGH Shivani, Shivam, Bhavna Grand Children: Atikish, Veeha, Syona & Abhyday Bhabis & Brothers PARSANTA DEVI & SH BALWAN SINGH Vaid Family 10TH DAY/KRIYA/RASAM PAGRI GRANDSONS Smt. Durga & Lt. Roshan Lal Bhat Mobile: 9469486195, 9086086195 With profound grief we inform the BHANU PARTAP SINGH CHARAK Smt. Dulari & Lt. Chooni Lal Bhat sad demise of our beloved mother CHETAN SINGH CHARAK Smt. Bimla Devi W/o Late Sh. Ajit ABHEY SINGH CHARAK Singh Samyal (D.P.O) on 20-02- SANGRAM SINGH CHARAK 2020. Daswan will be performed on BABBY CHARAK 10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA CHOUBARSI 29-02-2020 Time 9 AM and Kriya PRIKSHIT CHARAK With profound grief and sorrow, we Some souls never die as they be - on 02-03 2020 Time 12 Noon at our Smt. Bimla Devi CHARAK FAMILY inform the sad demise of our come eternal and live forever in the residence Mandi Kotli, Samba. CONTACT NO:- 9419237686,9419288578, beloved Sh Devi Dass S/o Lt. Sh hearts and memories of those who RASAM PAGRI will be performed 7006620578, 9796249010 Munshi Ram R/o H.No.95, Lower were touched by them. You were on 2-3-2020 at 3.30 pm at our resi - Laxmi Nagar, Sarwal, Jammu. one such soul who always spread dence. TENTH DAY will be performed on smiles and joy to all whoever met IN GRIEF 29 Feb. 2020 at 10 am at our resi - Sh Devi Dass Sh. Dilbag Rai you. Your memories and guidance Pradeep Singh dence. KRIYA will be performed on Gupta 10TH DAY/KRIYA/RASAM PAGRI are still in our hearts. CHOUBARSI Mrs & Mrs. Vinod Samyal 2-3-2020 at 10 am at our resi - of our beloved father Sh. Dilbag With profound grief and sorrow, we Sunita Singh dence. UTHALA will be performed Rai Gupta S/o Lt. Sh. Dewan regret to inform the sad demise of Veena Katoch on 2-3-2020 (Monday) at 4 pm to 5 Chand Gupta (Mirpur Wale) will be our beloved Sh Ajay Gupta (Raju) pm at Hari Mandir Rehari Colony, performed on 29-02-2020 S/o Sh Ved Parkash Gupta of Jammu. (Saturday) at our residence W. No. Samba. Tenth Day will be per - GRIEF STRICKEN 208, Bakshi Nagar, Jammu at formed on 29/02/2020 (Saturday) Smt Radha Rani -Wife 12.00 P.M. BARKHI at our residence Opp. Bhargava Sh Ajay Gupta Smt Tripta & Digvijay -Daughter-in-law & Son GRIEF STRICKEN With profound grief we inform the College Samba at 11 AM. Kriya will Lt. Sham Lal & Smt Neelam -Brother & Bhabi Smt. Chanchal Devi-Wife sad demise of our beloved mother be performed on 02-03-2020 Smt Vimla Malhotra & Adarash Malhotra - Daughters-in-law & Sons Smt Pyaree Ji (Shanta Devi) W/o (Monday) at 11 AM & Rasam Pagri Sister & Brother-in-law Smt. Indu Gupta & Sh. Romesh Gupta Lt. Sh Dwarka Nath Bali presently on 02- 03-2020 (Monday) at 4 PM Mr Aryush -Grand Son Mob: 9419247647 Smt. Neelam Gupta & Sh. Rakesh Gupta at H.No.69/70 Amar Colony Gole at our residence Opp. Bhargava Daughters & Sons-in-law Gujral Road Talab Tillo, Jammu College, Samba. Smt. Shashi Gupta & Sh. Sunil Gupta who left heavenly abode on 23-02- Smt Pyaree Ji GRIEF STRICKEN Smt. Renu Gupta & Sh. Ravi Gupta 2020 (Sunday). THE TENTH DAY Parents Smt. Seema Gupta & Sh. Sanjeev Gupta KRIYA will be performed on 03-03- Smt Swarn Kanta & Ved Parkash Gupta BARKHI Janta General Store, 20 (Tuesday) at Akhnoor Ghat at Smt Anu Gupta -Wife Barkhi rituals of our beloved Sh. Janta Traders, Dilbag Di Hatti 08.30 am and the Assembly will be Raghav Gupta & Madhav Gupta -Sons Charan Dass Padha S/o Late Sh. Contact No: 94196-05886, 9086354566, 7006089020 held at our residence sharp 11.30 Smt Santosh Gupta -Tai Ji Kaka Ram Padha will be per - am. Brothers & Sister-in-laws formed at our residence H.No. 178, IN GRIEF Smt Reva & Sh Raman Gupta Krishna Nagar Dogra Mohalla, Smt Khama Bali & Sh T.K Bali -Daughter-in-law & Son Smt Neetu & Sh Sanjeev Gupta Canal Road, Jammu on Saturday Smt Vijay Mala -Daughter Smt Monika & Rajiv Gupta (29-02-2020) at 12.00 Noon. Sh. Charan Dass 10TH DAY/KRIYA Smt Ranu Bali & Sh R.K Bali -Daughter-in-law & Son Smt Rajni & Vinay Gupta DEEPLY REMEMBERED BY Padha With profound grief & sorrow, we in - 9469377889, 7006123582, 9149914558 Smt Seema & Sandeep Gupta Mrs. Santosh Sharma- Wife form the sad demise of our beloved Sister & Brother-in-law Daughters & Son-in-laws mother Smt. Sham Rani W/o Late Smt Anju & Sh Naveen Gupta Mrs. Nirmal & Dr. K.R. Sharma Shamboo Nath Raina originally Neice & Nephews Mrs. Ruchi & Er. Gulshan Kumar resident of Village Drusoo Parth, Pallak, Aakriti, Maheshi, Mahesh, Sarthak, Sukriti Mrs. Neetu & Sh. Suresh Kumar Pulwama A/p H.No.21 Balak 10TH DAY Mob: 9419152526, 9419223811 Grand Son: Deepankul, Mayankul, Divyansh, Suyash Nagar Dandial Udhampur near Smt. Sham Rani Mob. No.: 9906149895, 7006099200, 9149405850 WITH PROFOUND GRIEF AND Chief Education Office, SORROW, WE INFORM THE SAD Udhampur. TENTH DAY KRIYA DEMISE OF OUR BELOVED SH will be performed at Devika Ghat BODH RAJ CHOUDHARY S/O SH 10TH DAY/KRIYA/UTHALA Udhampur on 2nd of March 2020 DHUNI CHAND (NAKA GURHA at 7 am and Assembly will be held With profound grief, we inform the 10TH DAY WALE) R/O VILLAGE GANIAH at our residence. SH BODH R sad demise of our beloved SH. With profound grief and sorrow, we TEH NOWSHERA DISTT RA - AJ GRIEF STRICKEN CHOUDHA SATISH KUMAR KOTWAL (Retired inform the sad demise of our JOURI WHO LEFT FOR HEAV - RY Son & Daughter-in-law Chief Engineer) who left for his heav - Mother Smt. Kanta Devi W/o Late ENLY ABODE ON 22ND OF THIS Shuban Lal Raina & Santosha Raina (9149441805) enly abode on 22-02-2020. TENTH Sh. P. L. Kaul on 20/02/2020 R/o MONTH. 10TH DAY WILL TAKE Mohan Lal Dhar & Bita Dhar -Son-in-law & Daughter DAY will be held on Sunday 01-03- H.No- 102, L.No-5 (Ext.) Vinayak PLACE ON MONDAY 2ND OF Kulbushan Bhat--- -Son-in-law (9469316581) 2020 at 10 AM at Home ( House No. SH. SATISH KU- Vihar, Khajuria Mohalla, Near KID MARCH 2020 AT OUR RESI - 67, Sector No.7, Trikuta Nagar MAR KOTWAL ZEE SCHOOL, Paloura Jammu. Smt. Kanta Devi DENCE AT 11 AM. Jammu) KRIYA will be held at Home GRIEF STRICKEN at 12 Noon on 04th March 2020 TENTH DAY will take place on (Wednesday) and UTHALA will be 29/02/2020 at Akhnoor Ghat 09.00 Sons and Daughters-in-law held on the same day at Panch AM and Prayer/Assembly will be 10TH DAY/KRIYA Sh Bahadur Singh and Smt Sudesh Kumari Mandir Sector 2, Chhanni Himmat , held at our residence at 11.30 AM With profound grief we inform Capt Babu Ram and Sudesh Kumari Jammu from 4 to 5 PM. GRIEF STRICKEN the sad demise of our beloved Capt Balbir Singh and Vinod Kumari GRIEF STRICKEN: Smt. Mohini Kaul -(Jethani Ji ) mother Smt. Bimla Devi W/o Sh Vijay Singh PET and Nirmal Kumari Veena Kotwal (Wife) Daughter-in-law & Sons Late Sh. Ajit Singh Samyal Insp Kulbir Singh Choudhary and Anju Singh Rameshwari Devi (Mother) Smt. Babita & Sh. Manoj Kumar Kaul (D.P.O) on 20-02-2020. Daswan Daughter and Son-in-law Deepa Kotwal & Dr Pawan Kotwal IAS Smt Pushpa and Late Sh Biru Ram Smt. Indu & Sh. Satish Chander Kaul will be performed on 29-02- (Daughter & Son-in-law) Smt. Bhawna & Sh. Rajesh Kaul Smt. Biml Smt Rani and Col Ram Saroop 2020 Time 9 AM and Kriya on a Devi Abha Kotwal (Daughter) Miss Raj Kumari Kaul -Daughter Smt Shakuntla and Late Sh Manohar Lal Amresh & Rita Kotwal (Brother & Bhabhi) GRAND CHILDREN: 02-03- 2020 Time 10 AM at our Smt Sarita Chouhan and Late Sh Sat Paul Chouhan Er Manjeet Kotwal (SE) & Anu Kotwal Kapil, Mithun, Akhil, Tarundeep, Ridhima residence Mandi Kotli, Samba. Grand Children: Rajesh, Amit, Vishal, Anurag ,Vishu, (Brother & Bhabhi) Mob:- 7006614766 , 94192-12163 & 9871477741 IN GRIEF Sachin, Kulvinder, Arun, Kala, Sourav, Abhiraj Rupali, PR Kotwal (Brother-in-law) Pradeep Singh HKL Kotwal (Brother-in-law) Bhabhi & Brother Rashi, Diksha Pinky, Anita Sunita, Poli, Geetu, Gappa, Adv NP Kotwal & Anita Kotwal (Brother-in-law & Sister) Smt. Ratni & Sh. B.L Zutshi Mrs & Mrs. Vinod Samyal Rekha, Ruku, Aanisha, Manvi Dinesh Kotwal & Amita Kotwal (Brother-in-law & Sister) Smt. Suman & Sh. A.K Zutshi Sunita Singh Great Grand Children : Aanaya, Aadya,Yougraj and Er. Vinay Kotwal & Dr Saroj (Brother-in-law & Sister) (Sister & Brother-in-Law) Veena Katoch Rudhra Pawan Kotwal & Catherina (Brother-in-law & Sister) Smt. Nancy & Sh. M.K Kaloo AND FAMILY M.No. 9419152096 3 LOCAL ##+ )*+(/ (+(/ BFDC thanks advisor DDC Kishtwar Inspects prestigious Dr Jatinder k.k. 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Continuing its anti-encroachment drive, the District Administration Rajouri has retrieved 967 kanal state/Kacharai land from the possession of encroachers on 1000 MW Pakal Dul HEP here across Rajouri, Thanamandi, Manjakote, Khawas and Teryath Tehsils. The anti encroachment drive was KIsHTWar, feBruarY 28: started in the year 2018 and is conducted under the overall supervision of the Deputy targeted to be completed in 66 Commissioner, Mohammad Nazir Sheikh. As per District Development months at an estimated cost of Rs Deputy Commissioner, 967 kanal of state/Kacharai land Commissioner, Rajinder Singh 8112.12 Crore. was retrieved in the five Tehsils. The encroachers were Tara today visited various sites of During the interaction with warned not to encroach upon the state land henceforth, 1000 MW Pakal -Dul, Hydro elec - project authorities and officers while lamberdars and chowkidars of the area were di - rected to report immediately, if any land is re-en - tric project here at village at Dangduro, the DDC reviewed croached, Deputy Commissioner said. Dangduran and Arzi Dul and re - the progress on the vacation of viewed the progress of work acquired houses and structures, BS IV vehicles: ARTO Udhampur there. provision made for accommo - He also took stock of the im - dating Government Primary briefs Transporters, Automobile plementation of Local Area School Sewarbati, provision Development Plan and made for water supply to the dis - dealers Reconstruction and placed families, construction of udHaMPur, feBruarY- 28-: &Rehabilitation plan for the dis - Veterinary dispensaries, Dipping placed people. tank for Sheep Husbandry Assistant Regional Transport Officer, Udhampur He was accompanied by Department, Training Centre of Rachna Sharma chaired a meeting of Transporters and Assistant Commissioner Agriculture department, alter - Automobile dealers, here on Thursday. ARTO Udhampur informed all the Automobiles dealers that in - Revenue, Dr. Amir Hussain; nate route for the Dachan beyond compliance to Supreme Court’s direction, no BS IV vehi - SDM, Marwah, Dr Javid Iqbal the submerged Zone, recreation - cle shall be entertained for registration after March 25, Rather; ALC, Anoop Kumar; al facilities at Dachhan, disburse - 2020. She further informed all the Automobiles dealers District Animal Husbandry ment of various components of and general public that inspection of commercial/non Officer, Dr Sanjay Sen; District R&R plan, among others. commercial vehicles shall be conducted on all working Sheep Husbandry Officer; The DDC fixed the timeline labour welfare and safety are for providing employment letters, Dangdaroo village. days in ARTO office till March25, 2020. Dealers were Tehsildar Dachhan Mohammad for each work to be executed by provide at the work site. He wage slips and identity cards to all Later, during a review at proj - advised to transfer files online to the office of the ARTO younus Zargar; Tehsildar various executive agencies and asked the ALC Kishtwar to sub - the workers working at project ect site at Dul, the DDC was in - on the same day of purchase of vehicle along with all re - Kishtwar Pramod Kumar; CGM, asked SDM Marwah and mit a report regarding the num - site. formed by ACR Kishtwar that quired documents. Chenab Valley Power Projects. Tehsildar Dachan to monitor the ber of locals engaged by compa - Responding to the demand of various components of Local Area P.B.Jain; DGM AFCON, progress daily on real time basis. nies , number of workers from the public, the DDC exhorted up - Development Plans (LADP) in - Kartiken; Consultant Civil Jai He also stressed upon the con - outside the UT with family wise on the CGM CVPP ltd to conduct a cludes Construction of communi - JAMMU POWER DISTRIBUTION CORPORATION LIMITED Prakash Associates limited, ducting the weekly review of the breakup of each project sites. To geological survey of effects of ty hall, two passenger sheds with OFFICE OF ThE ExECUTIvE ENGINEER Murari Singh; AGM Jai Prakash progress so that all the timelines know whether youths are en - blasting on the habitations near toilet, water supply scheme for Associates limited V.K kutyal; are met and prestigious project is gaged c ommensurate to their ed - dam site at Dangduro. Directions Arzi village, Veterinary ELECTRIC DIvISION vIJaYPUR (SaMBa) AGM AFCONS, N. Masoodi; completed on time. ucational qualification, he further were also issued to the XEn Dispensary and a Veterinary Email : [email protected] Phone: 01923231021 No. EDV/TS-1/644-47 Date : 24-02-2020 AEEs, and other officers/offi - Regarding issue of labour asked the ALC to submit the com - PMGSy for expediting the pace of Mobile Van, Dipping Tank for cials . welfare, he directed the project prehensive report regarding the work on the Dachhan road be - Sheep Husbandry among others. ExTENSION NOTICE While briefing the DDC, the authorities to ensure that timely parameters on which the youth sides to prevent any mishap. The In this regard, the DDC empha - Due to poor response in e-NIT No. EDV/41 of 2019-20 CGM said that the construction wages are paid to the workers have been engaged by the compa - XEn PDD was asked to shift the sized upon all the stakeholders to dated : 06-02-2020 for “Rate contract for supply of mate - of Pakal Dul HE Project was and the basic amenities for nies. Directions were also issued power line passing over the work in close coordination . rial” under the jurisdiction of Electric Division vijaypur (Samba) published the said tender is hereby extended Director Agriculture reviews functioning upto 10-03-2020. Udhampur DLSA hosts cricket tournament Tender Inviting Authority of Department in Doda district Executive Engineer J&K Police’s Prosecution team wins tournament Electric Division JaMMu, feBruarY 28: cers to upload beneficiary related data un - udHaMPur, feBruarY-28:- employees of district court his address, Secy DLSA DIP/J-5002-P/19 vijaypur (Samba) der different schemes on relevant DBT Udhampur on Wednesday ensured players of full Director Agriculture Jammu, Inder portals and instructed for geo-tagging of To promote the con - which was won by Bar support in their future Jeet today reviewed implementation of www.jkpcc.com all works under execution. While taking cept of Social Justice and Association by 30 runs. On sports endeavours. In the farmers’ welfare schemes and pro - J&K Projects construction Corporation Ltd. component–wise review of progress of to encourage the participa - the concluding day today tournament, three teams grammes in Doda district, here at a meet - various Centrally Sponsored (CSS) and tion of youth in sports ac - final Match was played be - viz Team of Court Office of the Deputy General Manager, JKPCC Ltd. ing of concerned officers. CAPEX Budget, the Director asked the of - tivities, District Legal tween Bar Associating and Employees, Bar UNIT 9TH DODA Chief Agriculture Officer, Shahid ficers to ensure maximum achievement at Services Authority (DL - Prosecution wing of Association and CIN : U45205JK1965SGC000296 Iqbal; Assistant Soil Chemist, Sudhir the earliest. He also instructed the staff to SA), Udhampur organized Jammu and Kashmir Prosecution wing of CORRIGENDUM Singh Chib; SDAO, Pranoo, Sushil Rattan follow the guidelines and norms while im - a two day cricket tourna - Police team which was won Jammu & Kashmir Police Sharma; SDAO Thathri, Haroon; Subject plementing various farmers’ welfare ment, here at Delhi Public by Prosecution team by 19 participated. Name of works: Construction of Govt. Degree College Matter Specialists, Agriculture Extension schemes and ensure involvement of PRI School, Udhampur in as - runs. Gourav Khajuria of The inaugural match Ukheral Ramban by way of Officers, AEAs, besides others attended members in selection of beneficiaries. He sociation with Department Bar team was declared was played between Bar Construction of Academic Block Cum the meeting. stressed on development of model farming of youth Services & Sports Man of the tournament. Association Udhampur Administrative Block (Framed structure The Director Agriculture impressed cluster in every Panchayat to promote Udhampur.The tourna - Rahul Bargotra Captain of and Judicial employees G+2), Services (Electric/Plumbing). upon the officers and field functionaries to mushroom cultivation, Bee Keeping, ment was inaugurated by Court Employees team al - of district court Ref : E-NIT No: 40 of 2019-2020 Doda create mass awareness regarding the Protected Vegetable growing with special Chairman DLSA (Principal so scored 80 score in tour - Udhampur on Dated: 11-02-2020 farmers’ welfare schemes and pro - focus on organic farming. Director District & Sessions Judge), nament On the occasion, Wednesday which was grammes. He directed the field staff to Agriculture instructed the officers to make Udhampur, Mohan Lal Chairman DLSA along won by Bar Association Kindly read the item No. 2 of the BOQ of NIT as; strive hard for 100% completion of all the Manhas in presence of, Secretary DLSA, interact - by 30 runs. On the con - the Mobile Soil Testing Lab and Plant “Earth work in excavation by mechanical means targets fixed under Kissan Credit Card Secretary DLSA, Sandeep ed with the cricket players. cluding day today final Health Clinic fully functional. Earlier, (Hydraulic excavator) over areas (exceeding 30cm in Scheme (KCCS) and Pradhan Mantri Kour, District youth In his address, Match was played be - while inspecting office of CAO and other depth, 1.5mtr in width as well as 10 sqm on plan) including Kisan Samman Nidhi yojna (PM-KISAN). Services and Sports Officer Chairman DLSA com - tween Bar Associating subordinate offices, the Director asked the disposal of excavated earth, lead upto 50m and lift upto The Chief Agriculture Officer informed Udhampur, Swaran Singh, mended the participants and Prosecution wing of officers to promote work culture and en - 1.50m disposed earth to be leveled and neatly dressed. that over 80% target has already been Chairman DPS School, for their active participa - Jammu and Kashmir sure punctuality with increased mobility Hard Rock 80% & Hard/ Dense Soil 20% including dis - achieved under the schemes till date. The Para Legal volunteers, tion in sports and also en - Police team which was in the field for effective implementation of posal by mechanical means upto 5 Kms. Director further impressed upon the offi - various farming welfare schemes. school children and a large couraged them to fully uti - won by Prosecu tion team number of public.In the lize the ir inherent will by 19 runs. Gourav Instead of; tournament, three teams power and strength. He Khajuria of Bar team was Earth work in excavation by mechanical means viz Team of Court also gave away winner declared Man of the tour - (Hydraulic excavator) over areas (exceeding 30cm in Employees, Bar trophy to Kuldeep Bhat- nament. Rahul Bargotra depth, 1.5mtr in width as well as 10 sqm on plan) including Govt focused to promote innovative Association and captain of winning team Captain of Court disposal of excavated earth, lead upto 50m and lift upto Prosecution wing of and runner up to J.D Employees team also 1.50m disposed earth to be leveled and neatly dressed. startups in JK: Saurabh Bhagat Jammu & Kashmir Police Slathia- captain of Bar scored 80 score in tourna - (a) All kinds of soil participated.The inaugu - team. Participation cer - ment On the occasion, Sd/- Chairs 123rd JKEDI’s Steering Committee meet, ral match was played be - tificates were also given Chairman DLSA along Deputy General Manager, tween Bar Association to players who participat - Secretary DLSA, interact - JKPCC Ltd., Unit 9th, DIP/J- 5029-P/19 clears 232 cases Udhampur and Judicial ed in the tournament.In ed with the cricket players. Doda srInaGar, feBruarY 28: sides focus shall also be laid on High Employment Potential Sectors (HEPS) as DDC Kishtwar flags GOVT. OF UNION TERRITORY OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR Commissioner Secretary, Labour and well as Agricultural and allied activities, Employment, Saurabh Bhagat today said Tourism under the Seed Capital Fund OFFICE OF ThE aDMINISTRaTOR that Jammu and Kashmir Government was Scheme and youth Startup Loan Scheme off Beti Express focused to promote the innovative start - being implemented by JKEDI. KIsHTWar, feBruarY 28: aUQaF DEPaRTMENT JaMMU ups—asserting that several schemes have Bhagat stressed the officials of the JKE - been rolled out for the benefit of the bud - DI to encourage entrepreneurs with some District Development Commissioner, Rajinder (3rd Floor Hajj House Block-A, Rail Head, Jammu) ding entrepreneurs of the Himalayan re - innovative ideas. Singh Tara today flagged off Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Ph. 0191-2479169 Email: [email protected] gion. He said that the meeting should be held (BBBP) awareness express, here. This he said while chairing the 123rd after every two months—in which officials The awareness express is flagged off as a part of NOTIFICaTION NO 07 OF 2020, Steering Committee meeting of Jammu and and the district officers of EDI should intro - ongoing drop out enrollment drive launched by Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development spect on roping in innovative projects. He DaTED: 25 -02-2020 Education Department, under the supervision of Institute (JKEDI) here today. directed that a descending order of the Chief Education Officer, Dr. Kuldip Kumar Sharma . Sealed bids affixed with Rs. 10/- revenue stamp along with earnest money in the Director, Entrepreneurship Innovative projects should be generated Additional District Development Commissioner, shape of Demand Draft for the amount of 10% of the minimum bid fixed (as per the Development Institute (EDI) GM Dar, separately.Director, Entrepreneurship Mohd Hanief Malik; Assistant Labour specified terms & conditions of the Notice) drawn in favour of Administrator Auqaf Director Employment, yP Sumon, Vice- Development Institute (EDI) GM Dar, Commissioner(ALC), Anoop Kumar; Deputy Chief Jammu, are invited from All the Permanent residents of Jammu & Kashmir irrespec - President, J&K Bank, Peer Masood Ahmad Director Employment, yP Sumon, Vice- Education Officer, Rajinder Kumar Sen; District tive of religion or caste, for leasing out of the following shops/office Blocks situated at Chishti, District Nodal Officers of JKEDI President, J&K Bank, Peer Masood Ahmad Education Planning Officer (DEPO) Omesh Khar; Auqaf Palika Bazar, Residency Road, near Shahidi Chowk, Jammu: from Kashmir division, scores of sectoral Chishti, District Nodal Officers of JKEDI Principal Government Girls Higher Secondary experts from all the line departments at - from Kashmir division, scores of sectoral S. Description of the Property Total No. Monthly Ground CAM Charges School, Kishore Kumar; Principal Government tended the meeting. experts from all the line departments at - No of shops Rent per Sft. Common area Higher Secondary School, Atholi Paddar, Tirath Lal; The Commissioner Secretary said that tended the meeting.Director, (in Rs) maintenance DRGs DIET Kishtwar, Sumit Kumar Sharma and Government has rolled out many ambitious Entrepreneurship Development Institute Sandeep Rathore and others were present at the flag schemes for the benefit of the budding en - (EDI) GM Dar, Director Employment, yP 1. Shops on Ground Floor 03 Rs. 12.50 Shall be fixed off . The BBBP Express, with banners and public ad - trepreneurs—which has complete hand - Sumon, Vice-President, J&K Bank, Peer 2. Shops on 1st floor 04 at the time of dress system playing BBBP giggles and songs shall holding from the beginning to the end. Masood Ahmad Chishti, District Nodal execution of traverse across the district, particularly rural areas, 3. Shops on 2nd Floor 03 During the meeting 232 cases of aspir - Officers of JKEDI from Kashmir division, lease agree - informed the CEO. The awareness programme aims 4. Shops on 3rd floor 04 ing entrepreneurs sponsored by Jammu scores of sectoral experts from all the line ment at spreading the awareness about the importance of and Kashmir Entrepreneurship departments attended the meeting. 5. Office Blocks on 4th Floor 03 the girl child in the society and increasing the enrol - Development Institute (JKEDI) under Seed The Commissioner Secretary said that ment of girl child in the schools, Nodal Officer BBBP The Offers indicating the amount of offered bid in words and figures shall reach to of - Capital Fund Scheme (SCFS) and youth Government has rolled out many ambitious said. Other activities associated with this pro - fice of the Undersigned on or before 6th day of March, 2020 upto 1400 hrs. and the Startup Loan Scheme (ySLS) were ap - schemes for the benefit of the budding en - gramme are sticker pasting and distribution of IEC tenders shall be opened on the same day at 1500 hrs. or on any other convenient proved by the Steering Committee—out of trepreneurs—which has complete hand - materials and point to point contact programme date, in presence of the intending tenderers who may like to be present on the occa - which 222 are being sponsored under SCFS holding from the beginning to the end. through the counselors, who shall be traveling in the sion. and 10 cases from ySLS. The estimated The Commissioner Secretary said that express, the CEO added further.The BBBP Express, The Tender Forms along with the detailed Terms & Conditions including the detail of project cost is nearly Rs. 33 crore. Government has rolled out many ambitious with banners and public address system playing Minimum Bid fixed for each unit, can be obtained from office of the Undersigned and Most of the cases of the aspirants hail - schemes for the benefit of the budding en - BBBP giggles and songs shall traverse across the dis - site office at Residency Road, Jammu on any working day during office hours upto ing from remote areas of Kashmir division trepreneurs—which has complete hand - trict, particularly rural areas, informed the CEO. 5th of March, 2020 against the payment of Rs. 500/- for each form. were approved so that they are able to start holding from the beginning to the end. The awareness programme aims at spreading the their ventures and earn livelihood. Bhagat said that Innovative Clusters Sd/- awareness about the importance of the girl child in During the meeting, it was decided that should be identified—which would be given (Wakeel ahmed Batt)KaS the society and increasing the enrolment of girl child emphasis shall be laid to encourage women all the benefits of the several Government- administrator in the schools, Nodal Officer BBBP said. to start their entrepreneurial ventures, be - run schemes under one-roof. DIP/J- 5019-P/19 auqaf Deptt. Jammu Glimpses of Future Edit/OpiniOn JAMMU SATURDAy FEBRUARy 29, 2020 Glimpses of Future Aadhaar, no standout performer in welfare delivery ESTABLISHED IN 1986 BY : Praveen CHaKravarTY ciaries using the technique of ran - domised control trials(RCT). The Aadhaar-based biometric authen - study was set up in a manner where tication did not reduce PDS leakages, one set of beneficiaries went through US strengthening ties with India finds Jharkhand-based empirical the Aadhaar-based biometric authen - study. “Aadhaar has curtailed leak - tication while the other group used resident Donald Trump's just-concluded maid- ages of government subsidies... the old system of procuring their ra - Through Aadhaar, savings worth tion. The results were then compared en official visit to India has demonstrated the 90,000 crore have accrued to the to see if Aadhaar-based biometric au - value Washington places on its ties with New government,” said Ajay Bhushan thentication had any impact in reduc - P Pandey, then CEO of the Unique ing leakages. The study concluded Delhi. President Trump and his family visited India Identification Authority of India that Aadhaar-based biometric au - from February 24 to 25 at the invitation of Prime (UIDAI) and current Revenue thentication had no measurable bene - Secretary, in UIDAI’s 2017-18 annual fit. Aadhaar-based biometric authen - Minister Narendra Modi. Trump was accompanied by report. But not so fast, say Professors tication did not reduce leakages due to top brass of his administration, including National Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus elimination of ghosts and duplicates, Security Advisor Robert O'Brien. Trump has de- and Sandip Sukthankar. They have as widely perceived. On the other just published a new working paper in hand, they found that Aadhaar-based scribed the US' relationship with India now as extraor- the prestigious National Bureau of biometric authentication increased dinary and said a lot of progress was made in the bilat- Economic Research, which details transaction costs for beneficiaries. findings from an extensive empirical That is, to claim ration worth 40, ben - eral ties during his maiden official visit to the incredi- study of the impact of Aadhaar in re - eficiaries in the Aadhaar system in - ble country. Democratic traditions unite us, shared in- ducing leakages and accruing fiscal curred an additional 7 of costs than savings. When Aadhaar was con - those in the old system, because of terests bond us, and under the President's leadership ceived a decade ago, the rationale pos - and vastly improve efficiency in wel - This new research paper, the first multiple trips to authenticate them - our partnership has and will only grow stronger. As we tulated was: India spends nearly three fare delivery. In fact, the former comprehensive field study of selves and the opportunity cost of ia, we remember that trillion rupees a year across several Union Minister, Arun Jaitley, even re - Aadhaar, offers a sobering counter to time spent. This is a whopping 17% ex - deepen our partnership with Ind core welfare programmes such as named the Aadhaar Bill to ‘Targeted all of us, “Aadhaarphiles”, who truly tra cost burden of the value of the ben - our two countries have always been united by shared Public Distribution System (PDS), Delivery of Financial and other believed that Aadhaar was the efit they were entitled to receive. To traditions of democracy and constitutions that protect LPG, Mahatma Gandhi National Subsidies, Benefits and Services’ Bill, panacea for India’s leaky welfare make matters worse, Aadhaar-based Rural Employment Guarantee Act making it amply clear that Aadhaar’s regime. The findings Professor biometric authentication also intro - freedom, individual rights, and the rule of law. excel- etc; roughly 30-40% of this is lost in primary, if not sole purpose, was to Muralidharan and the rest of the team duced what empirical scientists call lent progress has been made during the Trump’s visit leakages; leakages are largely due to improve welfare delivery efficiency. tell us that Aadhaar by itself has no Type I error of exclusion. In simple ‘ghost’ and ‘duplicate’ beneficiaries The Bill’s renaming was also a clever impact in reducing leakages signifi - terms, Aadhaar authentication falsely to India. Trump's trip to India advanced the shared using fake identities to avail these by half attempt to legislate it as a mon - cantly. They conducted a scientifically rejected genuine PDS beneficiaries goals and paved the way for further cooperation in key benefits; a unique identity biometric ey bill, thereby avoiding debate and designed study of the PDS system in who were then denied their ration scheme can eliminate these leakages scrutiny in the Upper House. Jharkhand covering 15 million benefi - areas such as energy, defence, people-to-people ties aadhaar on Page 7 and Indo-Pacific coordination. India looks forward to continued engagement with great American suppliers of energy products, including Westing House Nuclear Some hard, home truths and our Indian partners for big deals that will power US-India relationship into the new decade and be- BY : aJoY KuMar lence that has been unleashed, yond. Private sector partnerships have made our there are some issues that are in - It is an irony of our times that disputable and require some tough economies stronger. The US has concluded over USD the very Government, which answers. The first is, how did such 3 billions in defence sales to provide America's finest promised to protect the country a riot take place, that, too, in the from any divisive internal or exter - capital city? Delhi is not just the military helicopters to the Indian armed forces. nal force, has failed to fulfill its du - capital of this country but is also People-to-people ties between the two countries are ties. When the Bharatiya Janata home to India’s most well-funded Party (BJP) was voted to power in and trained police force. Let this stronger than ever. The US president was feted at the 2014 and then even more resound - sink in. Theoretically speaking, world's largest cricket stadium in the "Namaste ingly in 2019, one of the pillars that this means that the Delhi police, y tens the party sought to stand on was its which functions under the Central Trump" event in Ahmedabad and was cheered b claim that Prime Minister Government that is controlled by of thousands of people. During Trump's visit, India Narendra Modi will represent a the BJP and more specifically and the US finalised defence deals worth USD 3 billion strong Government and that it will comes under the direct supervi - protect the country from any divi - sion of Union Home Minister Amit under which 30 military helicopters will be procured sive internal or external force. It is Shah, is India’s best equipped po - from two American defence majors for the Indian this assurance that forms the back - lice force. This means that in terms drop of the now-infamous belief of numbers and assistance, com - armed forces. The deals will include procurement of that the Prime Minister’s “56-inch pared to other forces across the 24 MH-60 Romeo helicopters by India from the US at chest” will provide India with a country, the law and order situa - protective shield. Events that un - tion in Delhi could not have been a cost of USD 2.6 billion. Another contract to acquire folded in Delhi over the past week, better protected. Well, hypotheti - could not stop acts of mass vio - less in preventing violence? This is six AH-64E Apache helicopters for USD 800 million where clashes broke out between cally speaking, at least. In addition lence in places where its base is the a greater cause for concern be - communities that led to the killing from the US is also on the table. to this, Delhi is also the centre for strongest, how exactly does it plan cause if the Delhi police is better of 35 people (at the time of writ - all intelligence agencies in the to protect the rest of the country? equipped to tackle violence than ing), have thrown cold water over country. It is home to several intel - Let’s once assume that this is not any other police force in the coun - the Prime Minister’s hollow claims ligence bodies, whose job includes true. But the element of bias can - try, why did it fail to deliver? These of leading a strong Government. to be alert about all possible acts of not be denied because as per re - are not the only questions over the In fact, there will be few in - violence or riots that may erupt in ports, the Delhi police was sent at conduct of the Delhi police. Why stances in the history of independ - the country. But the intelligence least six alerts on Sunday are videos of police personnel de - Costlier casualty ent India where a citizen has felt bodies and the police force have (February 23), asking for deploy - stroying CCTV cameras doing the more unsafe than he/she does failed to prevent violence in not ment to be stepped up after BJP rounds? The only way to get an - right now. Delhi is in the midst of more than a 10-km radius from leader Kapil Mishra called for a swers and to ensure that such riots its worst riots since 1984. And as Parliament. How does this make gathering in support of the do not happen again is to dig deep relevant authorities examine who those residing in other parts of the Citizenship Act at Delhi’s Maujpur. and find out as to what exactly hap - exactly is to be blamed for the vio - country feel? If the Government Why then was the police so help - Some hard on Page 7 Shouldering responsibility BY : sandeeP KuMar duBeY apparently not content with the ex - isting treaties. For example, India, South Asian nations face a wa - an upper riparian nation, does not ter crisis which poses a threat to seem to be happy with the Indus agriculture and industries. Given Water Treaty with Pakistan, a low - its increasing influence, is India er riparian nation in this case. willing to become a provider of wa - Between Bangladesh, a low ripari - ter security in the region? On May an nation and India, the Teesta riv - 23, 2013, while speaking at the er issue still remains unresolved, foundation stone-laying ceremony with Dhaka asking for an increase for the Indian National Defence in water share. People in Nepal, an The Delhi violence is serious because it shows that binaries have been University, Gurugram, the then upper riparian nation, think water deep-set and a panic economy has taken over. The story of the Delhi vio - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh treaties with India produces envi - lence lies much beyond the headlines or the number of the dead. The ter- exuded confidence that India was ronmental injustices to the river - rifying visual of a man, whose photo of being beaten up by a violent mob well-positioned and willing “to be - ine people of Koshi river. Along simply because he wore a certain kind of clothes and sported a beard went come a net provider of security” in with this kind of political ecology of viral, validated the pogrom-like sequence of events as the new normal its immediate region and beyond. the region, the issue of sovereignty and its casual acceptance in normal life. It’s something as statistical as an In 2015, the Institute for Defence in South Asia is a very sensitive accident on the crime charts. It is serious simply because it happened in Studies and Analysis (IDSA), New topic. South Asia represents a typi - Delhi, the nation’s capital no less, and not in a far-flung town in India Delhi, came out with an assess - cal case of the Westphalian con - clouded by obscurantism. It is a test case that could get copied elsewhere ment report titled, India as a cept of sovereignty, where each na - and worse, be passed off as another law and order situation that can be Security Provider. The report high - tion has exclusive sovereignty over tamped down by Section 144. When a judge like Justice Muralidhar, lights India’s growing military ca - its territory and the natural re - whom junior lawyers call an inspiration, gets transferred overnight for pabilities and its proactive re - the region emerging from sectors and managing and governing it has sources, including water. No na - Costlier on Page 7 sponses to the human and non-hu - such as water and energy. Today always been a challenge at any tion would like to be seen as com - man threats to the littoral nations all the nations of South Asia face a scale, be it local or regional. A par - promising its sovereignty. of the Indian Ocean, which corrob - water crisis in one form or another ticipatory robust institutional ar - However in reality, in the face of H I S T O R Y T H I S D A Y orates the country’s image and po - due to a range of factors — popula - chitecture for water governance is globalisation and trade integra - sitioning as a benign power and net tion growth, urbanisation, ineffi - needed to manage and govern re - tion, each nation is bargaining its security provider in the region. But cient use, bad management and sources in a systematic and effi - sovereignty with the other nations 1982 : Getty Museum endowed the question here is: Is India also lack of governance, among others. cient way. Many of the important and regional and international ac - willing to play the role of net secu - The unfolding water crises pose a water bodies in South Asia are tors. These two factors the existing On February 28, 1982, the J. Paul Getty Museum becomes the most rity provider when it comes to en - serious threat to sustainable devel - transboundary and thus their South Asian political ecology and richly endowed museum on earth when it receives a $1.2 billion bequest left suring water security in the re - opment, agriculture and indus - basins spread in more than one the power politics played out in the to it by the late J. Paul Getty. The American oil billionaire died in 1976, but gion? The above-mentioned IDSA tries, poverty reduction and the country. Integrated basin manage - name of sovereignty both hinder nd ex-wives kept his will in legal wrangling over his fortune by his children a report points out, “While tradi - ecosystem. Climate change has ex - ment would not be a reality with - and open up opportunities for re - probate until 1982. During those six years, what was a originally a $700 mil- tional security threats limit India’s acerbated the brewing water crises out regional cooperation at the gional cooperation at the same lion bequest to the museum nearly doubled. By 2000, the endowment was role; cooperation on non-tradi - like never before. The United South Asian level. Most of the wa - time. Some may think that region - worth $5 billion–even after the trust spent nearly $1 billion in the 1990s on tional threats opens up a new op - Nations Secretary General ter treaties in South Asia are bilat - al cooperation compromises on the construction of a massive museum and arts education complex in Los portunity for India to play a re - António Guterres has termed cli - eral in nature, which form the core the sovereignty of a State. Angeles. Jean Paul Getty, born in Minneapolis in 1892, built his fortune gional role.” Thus, it is a geostrate - mate change as “the most system - of the South Asian political ecology However, the notion of sovereignty through the accumulation of oil companies. He began collecting artworks in gic imperative for India to focus on atic threat to humankind.” of governance. Be it upper or lower can be broadened to accommodate the 1930s, preferring Renaissance and Baroque paintings and French furni- non-traditional security threats in Water is a common resource riparian, nations in the region are 1982 on Page 7 Shouldering on Page 7
Printed, published and owned by Prem Nath Sharma, Printed at Glimpses of Future Press 63 Padha Street, Purani Mandi, Jammu. Chief Editor Prem Nath Sharma, Associate Editor : Rajiv Sharma, Ph. 2546079, Fax 0191-2547240, RNI NO. 43798/86, email : [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Glimpses of Future 7 natiOnal JAMMU SATURDAy FEBRUARy 29 , 2020 Mamata raises Delhi riots at EZC meet, no talks on CAA, NRC Press TrusT of IndIa claimed at least 39 lives and said that not on the agenda. "Neither they will discuss politics." She said that the Centre. Bhubaneswar, feb 28 steps should be taken so that the situ - raised the issues nor did I. It was also peace should prevail across the coun - "We have not got Rs 50,000 crore ation doesn't aggravate further. "I am not on the agenda. This meeting was try and the riot victims adequately from the Centre," she said. Banerjee West Bengal Chief Minister very sad about what happened in not for that," she said. compensated. said she also raised the issues of delay Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that Delhi. A police constable and an IB of - She joined Union Home Minister At the meeting, the West Bengal in GST compensation payment and there was no discussion on the ficial also died. Peace must be re - Amit Shah and Bihar Chief Minister chief minister raised the issue of al - lowered share of states in devolution Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) or stored in Delhi," she told the meeting. Nitish Kumar for the lunch hosted by leged negligence of the Centre to - of central taxes. Issues relating to the the NRC at the Eastern Zonal Council Speaking to reporters after attending Patnaik at his official residence. wards her state. She claimed that development of the states in the re - (EZC) meeting here, but she raised a lunch hosted by Odisha Chief Asked if she would back the demand West Bengal did not get the required gion, the need for coal royalty revi - the issue of violence in Delhi. Minister Naveen Patnaik, Banerjee of Shah's resignation in wake of the assistance during natural calamities sion, strengthening of infrastructure Banerjee expressed concern over the said there was no discussion on the Delhi riots, Banerjee said, "The prob - such as cyclone Fani and Bulbul, be - were also discussed at the EZC meet - communal clashes in Delhi that have CAA or NRC at the meeting as it was lem should be solved first and then we sides several other pending dues from ing, she said. Maha Council clears bill to Plea for NIA probe into violence National Science Day : Students bring power to Maha school in northeast Delhi; HC seeks Press TruIsT of IndIa well. If the windmill does bar direct election of mayors Beed, Feb 28 (PTI) A not work due to low intensi - Centre, AAP govt's stand science project by four stu - ty of winds, then we fall Press TrusT of IndIa as per the 'one ward-one Press TrusT of IndIa IM leaders Waris Pathan dents with help from teach - back on the solar panels," Mumbai, feb 28 corporator' policy," Shinde new delhi, feb 28 and Asaduddin Owaisi, . ers on Friday brought elec - he said. He said the project said. The BJP, however, The petition by Ajay tricity to a school in was helmed by Class VII Maharashtra opposed the bill. Leader of The Delhi High Court Gautam has urged the court Maharashtra's Beed district students Atul Aarey, Legislative Council on Opposition Pravin Friday sought response of to direct the Centre to order after nearly a year, coincid - Shubham Patil, Pawan Friday cleared the bill that Darekar said, "This the Centre and the AAP gov - the National Investigation ing with National Science Landge and Aziz Shaikh, all seeks to bar direct election amendment is unjust to ernment on a PIL seeking Agency (NIA) to find out the Day. The television set as of whom thanked their of mayor and municipal workers of parties and peo - NIA probe under the unlaw - "anti-national forces" be - well as loudspeakers at the teachers for helping them council chairperson from ple. If this decision is tak - ful activities law UAPA into hind the agitations and to Zilla Parishad school in complete it. "We are happy among the people. State en, it will end up in horse- the violence in northeast probe the role of People's Beed's Kurla area were ly - that our project has started Urban Development trading. The amendment Delhi over the Citizenship Front of India which is al - ing unused after power sup - generating electricity from Minister Eknath Shinde will now lead to elected (Amendment) Act (CAA). A legedly "funding, motivat - ply was disconnected a year today. We are thankful to tabled the bill to amend the representatives selecting bench of Chief Justice D N ing and supporting the ago, and students were our teachers," Aziz told PTI. Maharashtra Municipal mayor and municipal Patel and Justice C Hari protests". It has also sought asked to work on the wind - National Science Day is cel - Councils, Nagar council chairperson Shankar issued notices to the removal of protestors from mill and solar panel project ebrated every year on Panchayats and Industrial among themselves." "Our the Ministry of Home all the roads which have been to overcome this, science February 28, and theme- Townships Act. "The earli - government had empow - Affairs (MHA), the Delhi blocked in northeast Delhi by class teacher Bahusaheb based science communica - er provision was creation ered the people to elect government and the police the use of "appropriate Rane told PTI. "Power sup - project. The LED TV set and scrap. "We looked up online tion activities are carried of wards of multiple candi - mayor or municipal coun - seeking their stand on the force". The petition has fur - ply was disconnected after a loudspeakers were used on but the solutions were cost - held all over the country. It dates as well as direct elec - cil chairperson of their plea which also wants regis - ther sought directions to the bill of Rs 20,000 was pend - Friday after almost a year," ly. The windmill was made was on this day that Sir CV tion of mayor or municipal own choice," he added. The tration of a case against those authorities to depute appro - ing, and remains unpaid a proud Rane narrated. He from items bought from Raman announced the dis - council chairperson. We bill was later cleared with who were allegedly provoking priate force in northeast even today. So we asked said the material, costing scrap dealers. The project covery of the 'Raman Effect' want to remove it and majority of members vot - citizens against CAA, in - Delhi, where violence has students to work on a wind Rs 5,000 which was paid by took a week to complete for which he won the Nobel bring an amendment, ing in favour of the amend - cluding Congress leader claimed 42 lives and injured and solar power generation teachers, was sourced from and has storage batteries as Prize in 1930. which will enable election ment. Salman Khurshid and AIM - over 250.
Contn. from Page 6 ...... Costlier ...... 1982 ...... daring to question the Delhi police, then we should wor - time to seek our place in the world. US lawmaker Bernie ture, an d displaying them in his ranch h ouse in indicate that the museum must spend 4.25 percent of its ry, with deep furrowed brows. Simply because an inde - Sanders has expressed reservations and concern as has Malibu,California. In 1954, he formally opened the J. Paul endowment three out of every four years in order to retain pendent judiciary is the only hope for citizens seeking the US Commission on International Religious Freedom Getty Museum, which occupied a specially built wing of his its tax-exempt status. In the first year after its endowment, justice and rights that the Constitution guarantees to (USCIRF). Even UN Secretary-General Antonio Malibu home. Later, his collection outgrew the ranch, so that figure equaled $54 million; today the amount the mu - them. If this institution is broken, then our statute books Guterres was “very saddened” by the casualties in Delhi. Getty built a new museum in Malibu. The new Getty seum must spend three out of four years is more than $200 mean nothing at all and public morality simply spins out He called for maximum restraint and violence to be Museum was modeled after Villa dei Papiri, a Roman villa million. The J. Paul Getty Museum’s greatest challenge, of the orbit of our nation as we knew it. Till now. If north- avoided. Although the Modi Government sought to de - uncovered in the town of Herculaneum, which was buried therefore, is finding enough art and culture to buy–but not east Delhi, where various communities have literally scribe such comments as “factually inaccurate and mis - by theeruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It was com - too much that other museums accuse the Getty of hoarding lived cheek by jowl for decades and more, is torn asunder leading,” truth is the world doesn’t expect India to in - pleted in 1974, but Getty, who lived mostly in England after the world’s masterpieces. The museum spent a good chunk by blood-curdling rage at the mere remark of an extrem - dulge in genocidal politics. Especially, when we use the World War II, died before he could return to Malibu to see of its endowment in the construction of the Getty Center, a ist, it shows that Indians, as a people, are harbouring a optics of the Sabarmati ashram for visiting dignitaries it in person. His coffin was sent back to California, and he six-building comple x set on a hilltop in the Brentwood section of tinder box in their minds. This is a separatism that has but forget the non-violence mantra preached by its origi - was buried near his museum on a bluff overlooking the Los Angeles. The $1 billion co mplex opened in December nothing to do with the unresolved wounds of Partition. nal resident. When it comes to the Opposition, the BJP Pacific Ocean. In leaving a third of his fortune to the J. Paul 1997. Fourteen years in the making, the Getty Center in - But an otherisation propaganda that has been bred sys - anyway wins the battle on competitive whataboutery. So Getty Museum, his only stipulation was that the fortune be cludes a large museum, a research institute and library, an art tematically on a fertile ground of insecurities and eco - when senior Congress leaders, led by party chief Sonia used “for the diffusion of artistic and general knowledge.” conservation institute, a digita l information institute, an arts nomic denial. The polarisation of the mind is a far dead - Gandhi, met President Ram Nath Kovind to demand the This gave the museum extraordinary freedom–an unusual education institute, a museum management school, and a lier poison for it blunts the edge of humanity. It also resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah over his “abdi - legacy from a man who in his life had sought absolute con - grant program center. The buildings were designed in a means a subterranean conflict, which may bubble up any cation of duty”, the party reminded it of the anti-Sikh ri - trol over his affairs. The laws governing trusts, however, modernist style by American architect Richard Meier. moment and because of its smouldering nature, engulf ots of 1984. BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur, another mo - every other human possibility of reason, wisdom and tormouth who hasn’t been reined in, asked the Congress compassion. If BJP motormouth and “go and kill” insti - to review its role during that period. Only RSS general Some hard ...... gator Kapil Mishra has not been reined in despite secretary Suresh “Bhaiyyaji” Joshi advised the BJP that protests from within his own party, it legitimises the poli - nobody had the right to take the law into their hands and pened. But how will the destruction of CCTV cameras Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra and other usual suspects tics of hate as a yielder of fast dividends and delegitimises that the Centre should ensure that peace is restored in help answer that question? What I am concerned about from the BJP. While pressure by a Government on the public service. Politically, socially and culturally, there is Delhi. Placatory, high-sounding terms that are abstract and what should concern all of us is the establishment of bureaucracy and the judiciary is not an invention of the a sudden vacuum which nobody wants to plunge into or enough to spare the BJP’s extreme elements, all of whom truth and the delivery of justice to all those people who BJP — there are obvious examples of the Emergency, commit to. That explains why the Aam Aadmi Party have been birthed by its ideology. In the end, it is time for have been affected by this senseless violence. This can be 1984 and 2002 — rarely has there been as concerted an (AAP), despite winning a solid verdict, seems uncertain the civil movement to free itself from the piecemeal ap - done only by taking appropriate action against those in - effort by a Government to undermine all institutions, all about the public stance it should take. It cannot stick its propriation of causes and issues by political parties. Or volved in the violence. Perpetrators include leaders of at once. Circumstances are not helped by members of neck out simply because nobody, including the BJP, be exploited by them. For Delhiites, who have found a political parties of every hue and any official, who al - these institutions either. So often, we see bureaucrats knows what shape panic can acquire in a vacuum. new identity in a city that is a melting pot of all migrants, lowed such violence to go unabated for three days. The being asked to jump and respond back with, “How Prejudice has taken over national pride to such an extent the time for denial is over. We cannot be sporting identity more serious concern is that slowly but steadily, we have high?” In the judiciary, too, we have recently seen a sit - that everybody listens to it, not without it. The only cer - cards like a curfew pass. We must stand up and be count - reached this shameful place. There are a few reasons for ting Supreme Court judge lavish heavy praise on the tainty about these uncertain times is that it is not the best ed. this. One is the lack of resistance by the bureaucracy. I Prime Minister even as serious allegations of abuse of have some sympathy for the bureaucrats here though. State power were being examined by the very same Governments of the past have often shown and the BJP court. Such acts and comments by individuals in posi - Shouldering ...... Government has mastered how adept they are in the art tions of authority whether in the bureaucracy or in the of abuse, twist and wrangle. This is in contrast to Sardar judiciary or any other institution have chilling effects on and facilitate the idea of cooperation, which is not about ter challenges that India faces in the 21st century. In July Vallabhbhai Patel’s vision of the civil services being the the citizens. It erodes their faith in the institutions and imposing suzerainty of one nation on another. 2016, the Committee came out with a report titled, A 21st “steel frame” of good governance. Bureaucrats are now the Constitution. This poses a greater risk to India’s India has been quite active in the region in terms of Century Institutional Architecture for India’s Water routinely being threatened with transfer orders, raids by democratic health in the long term than individual acts coming to the rescue of its neighbours when they are in Reforms. The report makes a number of critical sugges - income tax authorities or the Enforcement Directorate of abuse of power by the BJP that I have highlighted in trouble. A case in point is when Maldives faced a water tions to strengthen the governance of India’s water re - or any other agency which is at the Centre’s disposal with this article. So what do we do? If the State machinery is crisis in December 2014, India launched Operation sources. One of them is about its shape and structure. a degree of reckless abandon. I don’t think we would failing us and institutions are displaying a lack of back - NEER to immediately provide Maldives with it. The The report underlines that “polycentric governance have to go more than a few weeks behind to find an in - bone, the answer and burden (unfortunately or fortu - people and the Government of Maldives were apprecia - regimes characterised by a distribution of power but ef - stance of such abuse. It has permeated all institutions, nately) fall on everyday people. Unfortunate because tive of India’s quick response and help. Having said that, fective coordination structures perform better.” including the Election Commission of India. More re - this is a great burden that the civil society must now dis - one must be mindful that those were more of a response Considering water as one of the sectors most vulnerable cently came the brazen example of Justice S Muralidhar charge when its institutions appear to be found wanting. to a crisis that emerged and similar exercises could be to climate change, the report stressed that the ability to of the Delhi High Court, who received a presidential or - Fortunate because there is rarely a time in history when useful to tackle future contingencies of that sort. respond to it is strengthened by polycentric governance der transferring him to the Punjab and Haryana High any Government or institution can suppress the will of However, water woes coupled with the effects of climate regimes. The existing political ecology of South Asia Court. This order came a day later after he pulled up the the people. The only thing we must make sure is that we change have resulted in a distinct set of challenges that makes the space of water resources a geopolitically con - Solicitor General and the Delhi police for inaction during fight, not with violence, but with vigour, voice and vote to call for India’s proactive role in the South Asian region. tested zone. Governance is needed to protect the envi - the riots in north-east Delhi. Coming down heavily on uphold the rule of the law and the Constitution. Victory What is required today is a continuous regional coopera - ronment, to save the ecology and to manage water re - the Delhi police, he pulled it up for its failure to register then will be undeniable for everyone who wants to live in tion in providing water security, which is at present sources in an integrated and holistic manner. FIRs against alleged hate-speeches by three BJP leaders, a unified, peaceful and prosperous democracy. marred by the absence of an institutional architecture Polycentrism is inherent in South Asia and by default for water governance in South Asia. India should play a distribution of power is effected by the very nature of lead role in institutionalising regional cooperation by es - South Asian sovereignty. What is missing essentially is Aadhaar ...... tablishing a robust architecture. It has already set an ex - the effective coordination to realise and unlock water supplies. The study finds that nearly 10% of legitimate bene - new law was enacted to this effect. Many studies now estab - ample with the launch of South Asian Satellite in 2017, governance potential in the region. Effective coordina - ficiaries were denied their ration either because they did not lish that ghosts and duplicates are not the significant cause of which Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his tweet tion can be established only through a well-structured have their Aadhaar linked to their ration card or due to an ex - leakages. Would it not have been better to have undertaken a termed as a “symbol of South Asian cooperation” and “a institutional architecture involving all the actors and clusion error. In summary, the study states that there was no robust pilot project of scale to test the belief about ghosts and journey to build the most advanced frontier” of regional stakeholders. With the emergence of non-State environ - direct impact of Aadhaar in reducing leakages but it denied duplicates, before embarking on it nationwide? GST parallel cooperation and partnership. With India looking for a mental actors and groups in the region, the role of gov - ration to 10% of genuine beneficiaries and increased costs by This is much like the boisterous claim of policy economists larger regional role, it cannot afford to be a security con - ernments has receded in water governance and self-or - 17% to those that were forced to get their ration using for over a decade that a multitude of State taxes are a drag on sumer. It has to metamorphose itself into a credible se - ganised governance networks have found prominence. Aadhaar. They conclude that Aadhaar authentication for inter-State commerce and hence a nationwide Goods and curity provider. Benjamin Kienzle, a faculty member of In their article “Reflections on Actor-Network Theory, PDS in Jharkhand caused “some pain with no gain”. Put sim - Services Tax (GST) by stripping States of their fiscal autono - Defence Studies at King’s College London, elucidates, “A Governance Networks, and Strategic Outcomes”, ply, Mr. Pandey’s boast of 90,000 crore savings solely due to my is badly needed. There was no empirical evidence to back security provider has a stronger interest in the immedi - Ludmilla Meyer Montenegro and Sergio Bulgacov cau - Aadhaar is hollow. These findings are sure to shock many this claim. Three years after GST, the promise of vastly im - ate security of a third party, rather than in direct security tion that, “self-organised governance networks can im - who genuinely believed Aadhaar could be the ‘game changer’ proved inter-State trade and a two percentage point boost to gains for itself…the action of a security provider easily pede (policy) implementation…or they can enhance the in welfare delivery. The study was undertaken by eminent GDP seem distant while States are hurting badly with sole lead to a win-win situation…A security consumer, on the efficiency of policy implementation…Thus, it is impor - scholars using scientific techniques and published in a re - dependence on the Centre for their taxes. The other fault line other hand, is primarily interested in its own security tant to determine how these networks are formed, who spected academic journal. So, there is no need to doubt its in policy making that this new study exposes is the engineer’s and is largely indistinct towards the security needs of forms them and how they function, since they have such veracity or intent. The findings of Professor Muralidharan way of measuring policy outcomes only through the prism of third parties…In general, security consumers create eas - direct impacts on governance. The more we know about and the rest of the team also expose many larger fault lines in numerical efficiency. In an engineer’s world, if say, nine peo - ily win-lose situations...” Notwithstanding, he makes it networks, the better we understand governance dy - India’s approach to policy making. No testing There was ple are denied welfare due to a system error while nine mil - clear that a security provider in no way compromises its namics and its relationships with the Government, in - widespread belief among the policy elite that ghosts and du - lion are benefited through greater efficiency, then it is con - own security interests. Domestically India has made formal mechanisms, and private actors.” India should plicates were the scourge of India’s welfare delivery and that sidered a net benefit for society and the policy is given a some progress to improve water governance. The then painstakingly study the governance networks that exist Aadhaar would eliminate this. But this belief was never em - thumbs up. But in a sociologist’s world and in a liberal socie - Ministry of Water Resources, River Development and today in South Asia for conceptualising a regional insti - pirically tested. It was deemed to be true simply because the ty, a policy that could run the risk of denying welfare to just a Ganga Rejuvenation (now Ministry of Jal Shakti) consti - tutional architecture for water governance in the region, intellectual elite said so. Based on this belief, an entire story few people, putting the ir lives at risk, is not worth implementing tuted a committee led by Mihir Shah to suggest institu - to not repeat another SAARC which is failing under its was concocted about improving welfare efficiency through regardless of how many millio ns it benefits. Aadhaar was held tional reforms for water governance to deal with the wa - burden. eliminating ghosts and duplicates with Aadhaar and a whole hostage to the engineer’s worldview of policy efficacy. 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California thief US spy agencies monitor coronavirus spread, steals vehicle with corpse inside concerned about how India would cope: Sources Los angeles feb 28 Washington feb 28 national security and economic di - A thief in California got more mensions, requiring a concerted than he bargained for after he stole US intelligence agencies are government-wide effort and the IC an SUV outside a church with a monitoring the global spread of is playing an important role in mon - dead body inside. The vehicle was coronavirus and the ability of gov - itoring the spread of the outbreak, parked Wednesday evening outside ernments to respond, sources famil - and the worldwide response,” the a Greek Orthodox church in iar with the matter said on official added. Pasadena, east of Los Angeles, and Thursday, warning that there were A source familiar with the activi - was left running as the driver concerns about how India would ties of the Senate Intelligence dropped off one body, Los Angeles cope with a widespread outbreak. Committee, led by Republican County Sheriff’s deputy Grace While there are only a few Senator Richard Burr and Medrano told AFP. known cases in India, one source Democratic Senator Mark Warner, She said another body was in said the country’s available counter - said the panel was receiving daily the black Lincoln Navigator when it measures and the potential for the was stolen. In a message on Twitter, virus to spread given India’s dense updates. the sheriff’s department appealed population was a focus of serious The role of US intelligence agen - to the suspect to at least return the concern. cies in responding to the coron - corpse. “Out of all the bad decisions US intelligence agencies are also avirus epidemic at this point princi - you have made, at least make one focusing on Iran, where the coun - pally involves monitoring the good one & bring back the deceased try’s deputy health minister has fall - spread of the illness around the person & casket inside the en ill during a worsening outbreak. world and assessing the responses Navigator,” the message said. The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of governments. suspect was finally arrested on said on Tuesday the United States are working closely with health Thursday morning after a driver re - was “deeply concerned” Tehran may agencies, such as the US Center for ported seeing the vehicle. A police have covered up details about the ability of governments in some de - are also focusing on Iran, where the navirus.“The Committee has re - Disease Control, in sharing infor - pursuit ended with the suspect spread of coronavirus. veloping countries to respond to an country’s deputy health minister ceived a briefing from the IC (intelli - mation they collect and targeting crashing the SUV into another vehi - A US government source said outbreak. has fallen ill during a worsening gence community) on coronavirus, further intelligence gathering. cle on a freeway. The body was still Iran’s response was considered in - The US House of outbreak. US Secretary of State and continues to receive updates on One source said US agencies inside the vehicle, authorities said. effective because the government Representatives Intelligence Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday the the outbreak on a daily basis,” an of - would use a wide range of intelli - only has minimal capabilities to re - Committee has received a briefing United States was “deeply con - ficial of the House Intelligence gence tools, ranging from undercov - Pet dog of spond to the outbreak. on the virus from the spy cerned” Tehran may have covered Committee told Reuters. er informants to electronic eaves - Another source said US agencies agencies.US intelligence agencies up details about the spread of coro - “Addressing the threat has both dropping tools, to track the virus’ coronavirus were also concerned about the weak impact. patient found to have ‘low level’ of Putin reveals plan to use UK looks to review foreign policy to virus in Hong body double to make public Kong redefine place in the world post-Brexit Bloomberg, Hong Kong feb 28 appearances for him London feb 28 sumptions. The review, billed as the largest such ex - The pet dog of a coronavirus pa - Moscow feb 28 has never had a double but when A major review of ercise since the Cold War, is tient in Hong Kong has been found asked if the idea had ever been dis - Britain’s foreign policy has expected to “cover all as - to have a “low level” of the virus, the Russian President Vladimir cussed, he confirmed it had. “I re - been triggered by Prime pects of the UK’s place in Hong Kong government said early Putin on Thursday revealed there fused to have doubles,” Putin said. Minister Boris Johnson to the world”, officials said. It Friday. The dog tested “weak posi - was a secret plan to use a double to “It was during the hardest times of take account of post-Brexit will include the diplomatic tive” for the coronavirus, the city’s make public appearances for him, the fight against terrorism.” realities from January 1, service, besides approach agricultural and fisheries depart - while insisting he vetoed it -- and Putin as prime minister and 2021, when the government to defence, security and in - ment said in a statement, without that he is the real Putin. then president oversaw the second hopes to sign a free trade ternational development. giving further details. Officials will Putin’s comments showed that a war against separatists in Chechnya agreement with India, One of the UK’s largest carry out further tests to confirm conspiracy theory widespread on from 1999 to 2000. After Russian among other non-EU coun - diplomatic networks is whether the dog has really been in - the internet that the Russian armed forces claimed victory, tries. “As the world changes based in India. Johnson fected with the disease, or if it was a strongman has been impersonated Islamist insurgent attacks became we must move with it,” said: “I am determined to result of environmental contami - over the years or even replaced by a frequent in the North Caucasus Johnson said, while an - lead a Government that de - our laurels. We must do tunities to define and nation of its mouth and nose. lookalike is not entirely without ba - while suicide bombers targeted nouncing the review as part livers for our people - both more to adapt. We will be strengthen Britain’s place Much is still not known about sis. TASS state news agency showed Russia’s main cities. “Was that in of his bid to forge a ‘Global at home and abroad. The judged by how we respond in the world at a time when the virus that is spreading around Putin a list of popular Russian-lan - the early 2000s?” asked Andrei Britain’. Foreign policy ex - UK’s institutions, expert - to the opportunities the global landscape is the world after emerging in central guage Internet searches including Vandenko, who is doing a series of perts, inside and outside ise, leadership and values ahead”. The Johnson gov - changing dramatically. China late last year. It is thought to “Putin double proof”. interviews with Putin to mark 20 the government, are to be are renowned around the ernment believes that have transferred to humans from “Are you real?” the interviewer years since he became president. consulted to constructively world”. Brexit presents new oppor - bats and has been shown to spread asked. “yes,” said Putin. He said he “yes,” said Putin. challenge traditional as - “But we cannot rest on in a number of ways, but the Hong Kong agricultural department said it doesn’t have evidence that pet an - US patient with novel coronavirus of unknown imals can be infected, or be a source The world is on fire, says teenage of infection to people. Coronavirus likely began with bats, an omen for origin untested for 5 days, whistleblower reports next epidemic If confirmed, the dog activist Greta Thunberg at UK Los angeles feb 28 Air Force Base, is in Solano County Bera, a doctor who once worked at would be the first case of a pet where the ill woman is also from. In the same hospital. catching the coronavirus amid a climate change rally Medical staff caring for a a congressional hearing, He said he learned of the case global outbreak that’s now infected California woman with the first US Representative Ami Bera said the details from former colleagues. more than 82,000 people and Bristol, england feb 28 imagination of many young people with case of novel coronavirus of un - patient was admitted to the It took another three days for claimed more than 2,800 lives. The impassioned demands for world leaders known origin were unable to get University of California Davis the positive result to return, and dog is being quarantined at an ani - Greta Thunberg denounced politi - to take urgent action.“I will not be si - her tested for five days because she Medical Center on February 19 and the Centers for Disease Control and mal facility, the Hong Kong govern - cians and the media on Friday for failing lenced while the world is on fire - will had not traveled to outbreak-hit re - quickly placed on a ventilator. Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday ment said. The department strong - her generation, saying the world is on you?” said Thunberg. “This emergency gions, a lawmaker revealed The same day, her doctors declared it the first suspected case ly advised that pets of confirmed fire but they are ignoring a looming cli - is being completely ignored by the politi - Thursday. The development comes asked to submit a sample for a of community transmission. virus patients also be put under mate cataclysm. Several thousand peo - cians, the media and those in power. amid reports citing a whistleblower coronavirus test to federal authori - This means the source of infec - quarantine. ple attended a rally in the southwestern Basically nothing is being done ... de - complaint that federal health ties. tion is unknown, a sign that the Facebook cancels English city of Bristol to see Thunberg, spite all the beautiful words.” workers interacted with quaran - But it was not until February pathogen is no longer contained. the teenage activist who has reprimand - Supporters held placards reading: tined patients in two California air 23, after her condition had wors - If confirmed, the development conference, Microsoft ed governments across the world over “Change the politics not the climate”, bases without proper gear or train - ened, that there was “an insistence represents a new and more compli - withdraws from an - climate change. Known simply as Greta, “The ocean is rising so are we!” and “At ing, before dispersing around the and a strong push and ultimately cated challenge in the battle 17-year-old Thunberg has captured the this point education is pointless.” country. One of these sites, Travis other over coronavirus the patient did get tested,” added against the virus in the US. fears san francisco feb 28 Russia and Turkey hold crisis talks after
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would cancel its annual developer deadly air strike in Syria’s Idlib conference due to fears over the Istanbul feb 28 was no immediate confirmation from coronavirus outbreak and Damascus. Microsoft Corp followed suit by The leaders of Russia and Turkey held Adding to the tensions, Moscow an - withdrawing from a gaming confer - crisis talks on Friday to try to scale down nounced that two of its warships were tran - ence scheduled for next month. “In tensions after 33 Turkish soldiers were sitting through the Bosphorus Strait in place of the in-person F8 event, killed in a regime air strike in Syria. Istanbul in plain sight of the city. we’re planning other ways for our The international community voiced But in a move to try to defuse the crisis, community to get together through fears of a rapidly-rising risk of escalation af - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his a combo of locally hosted events, ter the attack by Russian-backed Syrian Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan videos and live streamed content,” forces in the province of Idlib, where spoke by phone on Friday. “There is always said Konstantinos Papamiltiadis, President Bashar al-Assad is waging a room for dialogue,” said Russian Foreign Facebook’s director of platform bloody campaign to oust rebels from their Minister Sergei Lavrov. partnership. The conference, which last holdout. “The conversation was detailed and de - attracted 5,000 people from Hours after the strike, Turkey warned it voted to the necessity to do everything” to around the world last year, was was opening the gates for refugees to flee to implement a ceasefire deal agreed in 2018 scheduled to be held on May 5 and 6 Europe, a move that could have major between the two countries to try to bring in San Jose, California. Microsoft repercussions for its western neighbours calm to Idlib. Lavrov said Russia was ready now has plans to hold a digital-only and prompted Greece to double its border to help improve the security of Turkish event from March 16-18. Facebook African American leaders say a prayer with US President Donald Trump as they end a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White patrols. troops in Syria after the defence ministry has earlier pulled out of the Game House in Washington. The deadly bombardment added to said the slain soldiers had been among “ter - Developers Conference set to be weeks of mounting tensions between rebel rorist groups” in Idlib. held in San Francisco. In supporter and NATO member Ankara and The UN has repeatedly warned that the California, a person was detected Damascus ally Moscow, and stoked inter - fighting in Idlib could potentially create the with coronavirus infection on Iran coronavirus deaths jump to 26, Vice President national concerns about the plight of peo - most serious humanitarian crisis since the Wednesday, bringing the total ple living in the battleground province. start of the Syrian conflict in 2011. number of cases in the United Ebtekar tests positive - ‘Room for dialogue’ - But Russian vetoes, often backed by States to 15, according to the U.S. It was the highest single death toll since China, have chronically crippled UN ac - Centers for Disease Control and Tehran feb 28 told a news conference that the navirus sufferers is one of Iran’s the Turkish army first intervened in Syria in tion.NATO held urgent talks on the crisis on Prevention. The agency has warned tally of infections had risen to 245 seven vice presidents, Masoumeh 2016, and brought the total number of Friday, and joined the UN and the US in of the possibility of a community The coronavirus epidemic in with 106 more cases confirmed -- Ebtekar, who oversees women’s Turkish troops killed in Idlib this month to calling for urgent de-escalation. “There is a spread of the coronavirus in the Iran has cost 26 lives, the health the highest number for a single affairs. Ebtekar, a former spokes - 53. risk of sliding into a major open interna - country. Earlier this month, The ministry announced Thursday, day since Iran announced its first woman for students who took 52 Turkey said it retaliated to Thursday’s tional military confrontation,” said EU for - Mobile World Congress (MWC), with a vice president becoming infections on February 19. The Americans hostage at the US em - deaths by hitting more than 200 regime tar - eign policy chief Josep Borrell, echoing in - the annual telecoms industry gath - the latest top official to be infect - Islamic republic has the highest bassy in Tehran in 1979, is being gets in drone and artillery bombardments. ternational alarm about the violence. “It is ering, was called off after a mass ex - ed as the spread appeared to ac - death toll from the virus outside treated at home and members of The reprisals killed 16 Syrian soldiers, also causing unbearable humanitarian suf - odus by exhibitors due to fears . celerate. Health ministry China, where COVID-19 first her team have been tested, state according to a monitoring group, but there fering and putting civilians in danger.” spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour emerged. Among the latest coro - news agency IRNA reported. Glimpses of Future 9 spOrts JAMMU,SATURDAy, FEBRUARy 29, 2020
In Brief ‘Odds were not in India vs New Zealand: Why my favour’ - Sir England bowler Richard Hadlee on Mark Wood ruled Indian batsmen could struggle ongoing battle out of Sri Lanka with cancer new Zeland feb 28 tour more in 2nd Test It’s nowhere close to perfect but London feb 28 New Zealand pace legend Sir Richard Hadlee says he is “at the delhi feb 28 matches out 6 in Christchurch. In Durham fast bowler Mark Wood moment all clear” in his two-year- fact, the Kiwis’ win percentage of has been ruled out of England’s tour The famed Indian batting line- 66.67 is the best among all home old battle with cancer, which neces - of Sri Lanka with a left side strain up struggled big time in the first Test venues for them. The average first sitated two surgeries and changed and has been replaced in the squad against New Zealand at the Basin innings score is also just 286 runs. his perspective on life. Hadlee was by Lancashire seamer Saqib Reserve in Wellington. The match The green top in Christchurch diagnosed with bowel cancer in Mahmood. Wood sustained the in - finished in under three days as the naturally excites any quick bowler June 2018. A month after undergo - ing a surgery to have the tumour re - jury at the end of the tour to South likes of Trent Boult, Tim Southee, and Boult is no exception. moved, he had to be operated for a Africa earlier this month. A state - and Kyle Jamieson wreaked havoc “It’s pretty exciting. over the Indian batsmen. It was only secondary liver cancer. ment from the England and Wales Traditionally, you come down here, Mayank Agarwal, who could apply you normally see a bit of grass. From “It puts life into perspective be - Cricket Board on Friday said scans himself better in seaming conditions my point of view, I will be happy to cause I never had symptoms. It was had revealed the 30-year-old sus - in the first test than the other bat - see it stays like that and the ball mov - purely a freak situation where a rou - tained “a small tear to his left side”. ters. Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, ing around,” he said. Boult also gave tine colonoscopy determined the Wood will now “commence an in - Prithvi Shaw, Cheteshwar Pujara indications that Kyle Jamieson, after problem. I was faced with a huge jury rehabilitation programme, could not put a dent on the score - his match-winning all-round per - challenge in my life as odds were not working with England and Durham board in Wellington. formance at the Basin, will be pre - in my favour,” Hadlee said during a medical teams”, the ECB statement However, if the conditions at ferred over left-arm orthodox free-wheeling chat in one of his rare swing bowling compared to the Christchurch strip. Basin Reserve were hard for India, it bowler Ajaz Patel. public appearances. One of the added. England are set to travel to Basin Reserve track where they “you are not battling the wind is about to get more difficult for the “If we look at the record here greatest fast bowlers of all time and Sri Lanka on Monday. The first Test thrashed India by 10 wickets in the first of all. The overheads are there visitors in the 2nd Test. The Hagley from specifically New Zealand spin - probably the best ever from this part of the two-match series starts on opening Test. and it’s generally a nice place to pitch Oval is conducive for the pacers as ners, there haven’t been too many of the world, Hadlee said the next March 19 in Galle. Wood was trou - “...it’s probably better (than the ball up and get it swinging they average just 28 in six matches at wickets taken by spinners. “If that five years are important. “Two years bowling at the Basin). The Basin around. “So we do enjoy coming bled by a similar problem following the venue while the spinners have an suggests there isn’t much turn or have gone by and I have to go generally turns into a very nice bat - here as a bowling unit. Hopefully, we the World Cup, which saw him miss average of 59.78. Another interest - they haven’t bowled, I am not too through the next three years. ting surface. There’s a lot of runs can continue that over the next cou - the 2019 Ashes series. Lancashire ing fact is that the pacers have 8 five- sure, but generally it’s a good wicket Tomorrow I could wake up with a been scored there both in domestic ple of days,” he added. Boult took opener Keaton Jennings and Surrey wicket hauls at the venue while the that has good pace and carry,” he symptom,” Hadlee said with the fa - and international cricket,” Boult four Indian wickets in the second in - wicketkeeper-batsman Ben Foakes spinners have none. said. “I know it swings around here a miliar grit of his playing days writ said at the pre-match press confer - nings including, Cheteshwar Pujara New Zealand pacer Trent Boult bit and it is generally a good wicket, a large on his face. were both recalled to the squad. ence ahead of the second Test here. and skipper Virat Kohli. New on Friday also said that he expects good contest between the bat and He recalled the first six months Jonny Bairstow, though, will not be “Here’s a slightly different sto - Zealand’s record at Hagley Oval is the green top at the Hagley Oval to be ball. That’’ what we are going to ex - after diagnosis which were like liv - in the 16-man touring party while ry,” Boult said referring to the impressive as they have won 4 more conducive for his brand of pect.” ing hell for the legend, who played England’s record wicket-taker 86 Tests for New Zealand, taking James Anderson is another high- 431 wickets - a world record at the profile absentee, with Moeen Ali re - time. “At the moment all good, I lost maining unavailable for Test selec - Pakistan Super League 2020: Suspended Umar 10 kilos. I do all normal things now, tion. just watch my diet. I get regular check-ups every three months. BCCI yet to Tests were also in my favour but I Akmal asked to return payment am not out of the woods. “I have to ‘confirm’ Virat still get through the next 12 to 24 Karachi feb 28 pended from the PSL and all other directly to avoid any delays and as per rules, all local players par - months without re-occurrence. If it Kohli’s cricket activities until the inquiry problems as are visible in other ticipating in the PSL as well as for - comes back, I will deal with it then Pakistan batsman Umar is completed,” one source said. leagues where players have got eign players have been paid 70 per but it won’t be good. But at the mo - participation in Akmal, who has been suspended The source said as per rules, all payments even after a year’s de - cent of their contract amounts and ment all clear,” he said. The life- pending an anti-corruption inves - local players participating in the lay.” remaining 30 percent will be paid changing events of the past two Asia XI vs World XI tigation for failing to report a spot- PSL as well as foreign players have Umar, who has denied all the soon after the completion of the years haven’t come in the way of fixing approach, has been told to been paid 70 per cent of their con - charges against him including league on 22nd March. Hadlee keeping a tab on the latest in T20Is in return the payment cheque he re - tract amounts and remaining 30 meeting with a bookmaker, not re - “Umar is adamant he has done international fast bowling. “India ceived prior to the start of the percent will be paid soon after the porting an offer and allegedly nothing wrong and that he never have got some wonderful fast Bangladesh Pakistan Super League. According completion of the league on 22nd agreeing to spot-fix a match of the agreed to spot-fix any match or bowlers. Ishant (Sharma) has done to official sources, Umar, like all March.“The cheques are sent di - PSL, is yet to get a charge-sheet even got any spot-fixing offer from a wonderful job in Test cricket. I like new delhi feb 28 other players in the league, was rectly by the PCB which guarantees from the Anti-Corruption Unit of any bookmaker,” the source said. Shami. He brings in a lot of energy paid 70 per cent of his total con - payment of all players on schedule the PCB. All-rounder Anwar Ali later re - as he runs into bowl. “Bumrah is one India captain Virat Kohli’s tract amount for representing and later they adjust amount from A source close to Umar said he placed Umar in the Quetta of his kind, very unorthodox but strenuous workload will certainly be Quetta Gladiators in the PSL. the franchises shares,” the source has hired a top-notch lawyer to su - Gladiators franchise which at pres - hugely effective. That’s the point of factored in when BCCI decides its “He has now been asked to re - added. pervise the entire process which ent leads the points table in the difference that he is unusual. They list of players to feature in the Asia turn the amount to the Pakistan “The PCB handles the distribu - will start once the PCB officially PSL with three wins in four match - are a very balanced attack and that’s XI team for the two-match T20I se - Cricket Board as he stands sus - tion of contract money to players charge-sheets him.The source said es. why they are No 1. Good batsmen ries against World XI in Dhaka on and world class bowling attack.” March 21 and 22. While the Among the current generation, Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) ‘Shafali Verma is a rockstar’: Sachin Ten - Hadlee loves England swing bowler has recently stated that Kohli is ex - Jimmy Anderson and there is a glint in his eyes when he talks about him. pected to play at least one match, ‘Not sure of nice guys dulkar, Virender Sehwag laud India opener “Anderson has been phenomenal. PTI can confirm after talking to top you just watch it on telly, watch BCCI sources that the India captain emotion’- Gautam new delhi feb 28 what he is doing, outswinger, in - has not yet given his consent. The swinger, the release and wrist posi - Indian team will return from a gru - Gambhir wants a ‘riled up’ High back-lift, clean tion. “Nearly 600 Test wickets. elling six-week tour of New Zealand ball striking and fearless Stuart Broad has also got a bit to do on March 6 and are set to assemble attitude – Shafali Verma over the years. What a combination. in Dharamsala on March 10 for the Virat Kohli in 2nd Test has lighted up the ICC They are the most successful combi - Women’s T20 World Cup first ODI against South Africa on new delhi, feb 28 (PTI) 32-year-old right-hander's nation in the history of the game. in Australia. The 16-year- March 12. The second ODI is in ability to bat for long periods. Incredible.” The Canterbury Cricket old opener has given India Association will be building an in - Lucknow on March 15 and last game India Test specialist He will bring his experience to Cheteshwar Pujara was on flying starts in all of their door facility that will be named after of the series is scheduled to be held a Gloucestershire side, which Wednesday signed up by will be playing in Division One matches so far and is one of him, something he is also looking in Kolkata on March 18. Before the Gloucestershire for the first of the County Championship the main reasons why forward to and hope that adequate first ODI, a day is earmarked when six matches of the English for the first time in over a India became the first time funds are raised. “That makes you all the contracted cricketers will un - County Championship start - decade. to seal the semi-final spot appreciate the value of living life, dergo mandatory medical tests, in - ing April 12. Pujara is one of "I am grateful to the Club in the World Cup. Shafali’s having something to look forward cluding workload monitoring as - the key players in the Indian for giving me this opportunity strokeful batting has to. Like this project (Hadlee Indoor Test team, providing solidity earned praise from all facility), wanting to see it start, to be sessment ahead of the IPL starting and cannot wait to get to India beat New Zealand by nal. The “BalleWalli’ to the batting line-up with his quarters but none bigger completed and opened in my life - March 29. “The Bangladesh Cricket Bristol to meet my teammates 3 runs. Shafali has had the most technique. His stint with than the one coming from time,” he said. Board (BCB) has sent a wish list of and score some runs," Pujara “Thank you sir for your sixes (8) to her name so far Gloucestershire will be from the legendary Sachin 10 names and we are supposed to said. "I have really enjoyed the kind words and support! as well and ranks third in April 12 to May 22. "I am real - Tendulkar. “Fantastic per - send five players. As of now, we have experience of coming over to I’ll keep giving my best for the tournament in most ‘He was fearless’: ly excited to get the opportu - formance by our Flag of the UK and playing county the team sir Flag of India,” runs scored with only not confirmed any names. All the nity to represent India team to become the cricket over the last few years responded Shafali. Shafali Australia’s Alyssa Healy Glenn McGrath players including the skipper will Gloucestershire this season. first team to enter the se - and I am looking forward to has been awarded Player of and England’s Heather undergo tests to check their level of The Club has a rich cricketing mi-final of building on that whilst contin - the Match in two of India’s Knight scoring more runs. picks tougher workload. Only then we will give the history, and this is a great op - #T20WorldCup. uing to improve my game." three matches in the World She also currently has the portunity to be a part of it and It was a tight game and opponent between names,” a senior BCCI source told Pujara has previously played Cup so far. best strike rate in the tour - contribute to its success," we played well under pres - PTI. The matches are being planned in England for Derbyshire, Her 34-ball 46 against nament at a mammoth Pujara said in a press release sure. Was great to see Sachin Tendulkar by the BCB to celebrate the birth yorkshire and New Zealand took India to 172.72 drawing praise from issued by the club. The club @TheShafaliVerma play centenary of country’s founder Nottinghamshire in the their third win in three the world of Cricket who is took into consideration the yet another crucial knock,” and Brian Lara Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Kohli re - County Championship. games — and the semi-fi - watching her closely. tweeted Tendulkar after new delhi feb 28 cently spoke about the burnout is - sues and how matches along with Legendary Australia fast-bowler practice and travel schedule takes a Glenn McGrath picked the tougher toll on international players. When 4 sixes, 3 wickets: Hardik Pandya makes stunning opponent to bowl to between India India head coach Ravi Shastri was cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar and asked the question about the possi - West Indies batting great Brian ble effect on Kohli’s workload if he comeback to cricket in DY Patil T20 Cup Lara. Hailing Lara’s ability to stitch has to travel to Dhaka for a T20 together big innings on a more con - game after playing three ODIs in six new delhi feb 28 T20I against South Africa in clear indication that he has sistent basis, especially against Australia, McGrath felt the south - days, he said it’s an individual call. September, has been out of not lost any of his timing be - paw was the harder batsman to bowl “I think that’s up to the individual. If Playing his first competi - action because of a lower cause of the long lay-off. tive cricket match in more to in comparison to Tendulkar. he is feeling the strain, he will let the back injury, for which he al - Hardik was severe against than five months, India all- so had to undergo surgery Bank of Baroda bowler However, he did concede both bats - authorities know,” Shastri said. rounder Hardik Pandya last year. But on Friday, Varun Sood. All of Pandya’s men were ‘equally good’ but Lara’s BCCI has always maintained that if showed why is considered to Hardik showed little sign of sixes came off his bowling as consistency against Australia tipped any top player who is regularly play - be one of the best seam- rustiness. Coming to bat at he looked to take the attack the scale in his favour. Also Read: ing wants a break, he will certainly bowling all-rounders in the No.4 for his side Reliance 1 to the opposition after a se - ‘He should be worried about it’: be given time to physically recuper - country with an impressive in the Dy Patil T20 Cup, date start. Kapil backs Kohli to end poor run in ate. “It will now depend whether show in the Dy Patil T20 Hardik smashed 38 off 25 Reliance 1 were in a NZ “That was Brian (Lara). He nev - Kohli gives his consent or not. Don’t Cup 2020. Hardik Pandya balls to helped Reliance 1 tricky situation, losing open - er changed his game,” McGrath was forget that the IPL will involve ex - shone with both bat and ball post 150 for 8. The fact that er Shikhar Dhawan (14) and quoted as saying by TOI. “I may on his return from injury to have got him out 15 times, but he al - tensive travelling and once it’s over, will please Indian team Vishnu Solanki early but help his side Reliance 1 reg - management and millions of Pandya steadied the ship so scored big hundreds and double there are number of overseas T20 ister a 25-run win over Bank Hardik Pandya’s fans is that with Saurabh Tiwary, who hundreds against us when both me series lined up,” another senior offi - of Baroda on Friday. Hardik, he hit four sixes and four top-scored with 41, with a and Warnie (Shane Warne) were cial privy to development said. who last played for India in a fours in his innings, giving a 53-run third wicket stand. playing together for Australia.” Glimpses of Future 10 EntErtainmEnt JAMMU SATURDAy FEBRUARy 29, 2020 Yeh Meri Life Hai actress Shama Sikander sizzles in Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan box office collection day 7: 83: Ranveer Singh her new outfit and nose ring Ayushmann Khurrana starrer completes an average first week promotes his upcoming film at Juhu
Ranveer Singh is all set for the release of his film 83 on April 10 this year. The movie is based on the victory of the Indian cricket team in the Cricket World Cup 1983 lead by the all-rounder Kapil Dev. The pro - motions of the film are going on in full swing. The makers had released the first looks of the actors recently. Fans are eager to re-live the 1983 winning moment once again. Ranveer Singh was recently seen at Juhu where he was seen promoting his film 83. He showed off his batting skills and they looked exactly like Kapil Dev does. The film also stars Tahir Raj Bhasin as Sunil There's no other to say this: Shubh seen major drops at the ticket window, thoughts of emerging a moderate suc - Gavaskar, Jiiva as K. Srikkanth, Saqib Mangal Zyada Saavdhan has not per - culminating in a moderate first week. cess. The slide during the weekdays Saleem as Mohinder Amarnath, Jatin formed well in its first week at the box Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan has have all but ensured that Ayushmann Sarna as yashpal Sharma, Chirag Patil as office. The Ayushmann Khurrana star - rounded up week 1 with Rs. 2.62 crore Khurrana's streak of seven hits in a row Sandeep Patil, Dinker Sharma as Kirti rer did witness a good opening week - nett on Thursday, day 7, culminating in is going to come to a halt, but, at least, Azad and Nishant Dahiya as Roger Binny, end (through not given enough consid - anaverage opening-week haul of Rs. the actor can escape without the film Harrdy Sandhu as Madan Lal, Sahil ering the holiday on day 1, and the fact 44.84 crore nett at the box office. turning out to be a flop. Delhi NCR is Khattar as Syed Kirmani, Ammy Virk as that both the actor's last releases, Bala Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan now still contributing to the bulk of the col - Balwinder Singh Sandhu and Addinath M and Dream Girl, took better opening needs major jumps over its second lections while the remaining circuits Kothare as Dilip Vengsarkar, Dhairya sans the holiday advantage). However, weekend, if it has to first, break even, through the domestic market continue Karwa as Ravi Shashtri and R Badree as post the initial three days, the film has and then, probably, entertain any to remain low. Sunil Valson from 83. Congratulations! Ali Fazal and Richa Shruti Haasan opens up on plastic surgery : I’m not Chadha register themselves for wedding ashamed to admit
have registered themselves for a wed - ding. yes, you read that right. The two have starred in Fukrey and Fukrey Returns. A report in Mid-Day con - firms the same. Richa Chadha and Ali Fazal have recently visited the Bandra Family Court and submitted their ap - plication for marriage. A source close Actress Shama Sikander looks ecstatically pret - to the development of the same, told ty and charming in a new set of pictures, where she Mid-Day, "The duo submitted their goes ethnic with jewellery. The actress, who doesn't application on February 15, 2020. So, have to try too hard to make a style statement, as per the marriage registration rules, seems like she is in a dreamy mood in the pics. Not the wedding can take place any day long back, she opened up before the media about post-March 15. Considering Ali and her phase of depression. The website newstrack - Richa have shoots lined up, they hope live.com reported her as saying that it took her to wrap up their commitments by years to understand that she was in depression. She March 31 and dedicate April to their recalled how she had no desire to do anything, the wedding functions. The preparations website reported. Shama Sikander says sexy is a are on in full swing. Their shaadi will state of mind, as she lights up in yellow outfits. It take place mid-April, followed by the seems like yellow is her favourite colour right now. court wedding in Mumbai." That's She recently took to Instagram to post her sexy that. Now, we cannot wait for the cou - photo in which she is sporting a mustard jacket and ple to make an official announcement a black short outfit that shows off her well toned of the same. Meanwhile, an official legs. She captioned it: "Sexy is a state of mind sexy spokesperson on behalf of Richa and love hot fashion beautiful like cute beauty photog - Ali said, "Currently, only the date for raphy style fitness happy art smile. Her latest set of the registration has been taken. As per images show her back in a yellow shade. This time, the process, a three-month window is she is sporting more of an evening wear. She is valid [for the wedding to take place] again flaunting her legs in a gown with a thigh high from the date that has been allotted. slit. The actress was last seen on the big screen in The couple is working towards an offi - the 2019 thriller, Bypass Road. Shama, who gave a For a couple of weeks, the wedding stealing a lot of date nights. We recent - cial registration in the last week of series of notable performances on television, was rumours of Richa Chadha and Ali ly reported to you guys about their April, post which the celebrations will last seen on the small screen as the antagonist in Fazal have done the rounds of the net. wedding plans and we have come follow. All we can say is that it's a hap - the show, Baal Veer. This year, she appears in the The duo has been going strong for five across certain development on the py occasion, and all the parties in - music video Majnu Mix. years. And recently, they have been same front. Guess what? Richa and Ali volved are elated." Gauri Khan takes a dig at husband Shah Rukh Khan; offers a backup plan as he is not doing films
If Shah Rukh Khan is changes in their home as well. Shruti Haasan recently took to her Instagram handle and called the king of wit and She later took a dig at Shah posted a long post, opening about her plastic surgery. The humour, his wife, Gauri Rukh Khan's break from films. Gabbar actress had shared a picture in which she looked a lot Khan, must be crowned "As Shah Rukh is not doing any pale and skinny. The actress, next, posted a collage with a as a queen of the same. movie right now, I will tell him post and spoke about plastic surgery and she spoke about The star wife recently to keep his second option as a how people had left comments on her weight and her surger - took a jibe at her actor- designer in the future because ies. Well, that's Junta,quick enough to point out and express husband and we cannot he is a great designer," Gauri their sentiments. Anyway, taking to her Instagram handle, help but laugh out loud. stated. On being asked about Shruti Haasan began, "So .... I decided to post this right after She took a pot shot at his break from films, Shah my previous post and I’ll tell you why. I’m not one driven by Shah Rukh Khan's sab - Rukh Khan had earlier said, "I other people’s opinions of me but the constant commenting batical from films, which will just do a film that comes and she’s too fat now she’s too thin is so avoidable." She he took after the debacle into my heart. I have always shared a collage of two pictures that she had taken days of his last film Zero with been like this. People don't be - apart. "These two pictures have been taken three days apart. Anushka Sharma and lieve it because you reach a cer - I’m sure there are women out there who relate to what I’m Katrina Kaif. It so hap - tain status and people think going to say. Most often I’m at the mercy of my hormones pened that SRK recently that oh there must be going a mentally and physically and over the years I work hard to try visited his wife's design lot of thought into this and he and have a healthy relationship with it." she went on in her store in Mumbai and he must be planning this. But I am post. The elder one of Kamal Haasan's kids went on to high - exchanged pleasantries not planning. I have never light the pain and journey women go through and also with everyone over there. planned it. I am just happy that opened up on her plastic surgery. "It isn’t easy. The pain isn’t Later, in a media interac - I've time to come to easy the physical changes aren’t easy but what’s become eas - tion, Gauri spoke about Melbourne. Go down and ier to me is to share my journey. No one famous or not is in a Shah Rukh Khan's design spend some time with my position to judge another person. Ever. That’s just not cool. sense. "Shah Rukh has a daughter in New york. Go to I’m happy to say this is my life my face and yes I’ve had plastic great taste in designing," Trinidad and Tobago to watch surgery which I’m not ashamed to admit. Do I promote it ? she said and stated that a cricket match. It's not like I No am I against it ? No - it’s just how I choose to live," the he suggested a lot of am holidaying." Ramaiya Vastavaiya actress added. 11 LOCAL ##+ )*+(/ (+(/
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