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STATE | 3 NATIONAL | 5 BUSINESS | 7 SPORTS | 8 GOVT TO DISTRIBUTE 20000 QTLS OF WILL ALLY WITH CONGRESS, LEFT TO TAKE SUPPLIED 80% STEEL REQUIRED FOR SARDAR SACHIN TENDULKAR SALUTES MS DHONI FOR ADDITIONAL FOOD-GRAINS FOR MUHARRAM: ON BJP IN GUJARAT, SAYS JD(U) SHARAD SAROVAR PROJECT: SAIL SCORING 100 INTERNATIONAL CRICKET 50S Mehbooba directs regulated Rahul Gandhi is non-serious supply of power, drinking water, person: Nirmal Singh ‘Congress playing politics, don’t want BJP to complete tenure’ Srinagar, Sep 18: Calling All food grains during Muharram India Congress Committee (AICC) vice president, Rahul Directs immediate improvement of roads, street lights, sanitation, health facilities in Shia areas Gandhi as non-serious person, Srinagar, Sep 18: Chief Minister, The Chief Minister was informed the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Mehbooba Mufti today reviewed the that 193 ambulances, 1563 paramed- Nirmal Singh on Monday said arrangements for the coming days of ics and 212 doctors have been detailed that the Congress party is play- Muharram put in place by the State for duty by the Health Department ing politics to hoodwink the administration. near various Imambaras and Shia people of Jammu and K ashmir. The Chief Minister directed avail- dominated areas during these days. The senior BJP leader also ability of regulated power and drink- Also, the meeting was informed, ad- said that the Bharatiya Janata ing water supply besides availability equate transport diversion plans have Party (BJP) has not destroyed of adequate quantity of food grains been devised by the Traffic Police for Peoples Democratic Par t y (PDP) and fuel during Muharram days. ensuring hassle free movement on in the state. Muharram, which also marks the the routes of Azadari processions. He, according to the KNS beginning of a new Islamic calendar, Adequate number of buses has been correspondent, was reacting to would be commencing by the end of detailed on the routes toImambaras the statement made by AICC vice president; the country is concerned, everybody has right this week. and places of congregation during Rahul Gandhi wherein he had accused Modi to met people. “I hope that they are not play- Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. Nirmal late hours to ferry the faithful, the led government of destroying the PDP in the ing politics and hope their visit to the Valley Singh; Chairman, Legislative Coun- The Chief Minister directed im- The Chief Minister also directed meeting was informed. state. will help in resolving the issues,” he said. cil, Haji Anayat Ali; Minister for Food, mediate repairing of street lights, enhancement in the funds being re- Regarding the power supply, the While replying to a query on the sidelines He also welcomed the MLA Langate, En- Civil Supplies & Information, Choud- ensuring of uninterrupted power sup- leased to respective Deputy Commis- Chief Minister was informed that a of the party function here at his residence, gineer Abdul Rasheed’s statement wherein hary Zulfkar Ali; Minister of PWD, ply to Imambaras and devising prop- sioners for the purpose. buffer stock of 470 transformers has Dr Nirmal Singh said that BJP has not de- he had asked Congress to help Modi led gov- Naeem Akhtar; Minister of State for er traffic management and diversion Mehbooba Mufti also directed been created for meeting the require- stroyed PDP. “The congress party is playing ernment in resolving the Kashmir issue. Hajj & Auqaf, Syed Farooq Andrabi; plans on the routes of religious pro- putting in place adequate arrange- ment during the days. Also electrifi- politics as they don’t want the current regime Meanwhile, BJP’s National General Sec- Minister of State for Health & Medi- cessions. She directed improvement ments for the Muharram observanc- cation of interior lanes and bye lanes should continue,” he said. retary, Ramlal while replying to a question cal Education, Asiea Naqash; legisla- and macadamisation of roads in Shia es in Ladakh and Jammu regions has also been done by the PDD. Besides, Asked about the Congress’s Policy Plan- over ceasefire on LoC said that the BJP gov- tors, Syed Abid Ansari and Asgar inhabited areas particularly leading par ticularly K argil, Jammu, Poonch, in Srinagar city 800 street lights ning group’s visit to Kashmir, Deputy Chief ernment will take every step to ensure K arbalai were present in the meeting. to Imambaras on immediate priority. Ramban and other places.  See Mehbooba....Pg 02 Minister said that as far as the democracy of  See Modi's....Pg 02 Interactive Session: Don’t believe or forward WhatsApp messages NOTE BAN, GST A JAMMU LAWYERS DOUBLE WHAMMY ON without verification: Rajnath Singh GDP: MANMOHAN SINGH URGE FOR RETENTION Both demonetisation and GST have affected India's New Union home minister consider it to be true. fenced borders with Pakistan gross domestic product (GDP) growth adversely, former OF ARTICLE 35-A. Rajnath Singh on Monday said “I want to tell SSB jawans and Bangladesh. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday. Jammu, Sep 18: Veteran lawyers from Jammu region anti-national elements have not to believe such messages “In an open border, the "Both demonetisation and GST have had some impact held an interactive session on the topic, “Different Facets been trying to foment tension and forward to anyone with- security-men do not know on GDP," Manmohan Singh, who has earlier said the In- of Article 35-A” in the High Court Bar Room in Jammu on in the society by posting un- out verification as anti-na- who is anti-national, which dian economy has been running on only "one engine" of Monday during which lawyers unanimously pitched for verified information on social tional elements have been way a criminal is coming or public spending, told CNBC-TV18 channel. the retention of Article 35A. media and asked people not trying to foment trouble in who is carrying fake cur- "Both would affect the informal sector, the small scale Advocate Sheikh Shakeel Ahmed presented the to forward such messages the society. We all have to be rency or fake drugs,” he said. sector that are responsible for 40 per cent of of GDP... 90 welcome address and also introduced the topic of discus- without verification. careful before believing or Referring to his earlier per cent of employment is in the informal sector. sion. Singh said information forwarding them,” he said km- long Indo-Nepal and the announcement that the fam- "So when 86 per cent of currency is withdrawn from Senior Advocate and Former Bar President A.V. and news, that was complete- after launching the intelligence 699 km-long Indo-Bhutan ily of each martyred para- circulation, plus GST, which was put in practice in haste.. Gupta initiated the discussion and laid much emphasis on ly wrong or having no basis, wing of the Sashastra Seema borders, Singh said it is very military solider will get at least lot of glitches are now coming up, it was bound to affect the historical perspective of Article 35-A. The Senior was being regularly circu- Bal (SSB) here. tough to guard such open Rs one crore as compensation, GDP growth adversely," he said.  See Lawyers....Pg 02 lated on social media such as Lauding the role of the borders, which allow visa-free the home minister said he  See Singh....Pg 02 WhatsApp and many people SSB, which guards the 1,751 movement of people, than  See Rajnath....Pg 02 Geelani ask OIC to play effective ANGANWARI Patient care a casualty at SKIMS: NC role to Solve Kashmir WORKERS FOR Director SKIMS negligent in performing his duties ‘Every section of society should resent defamation campaign launched by NIA’ Srinagar, Sep 18: National Conference on Monday expressed serious concern over the Srinagar, Sep 18: Syed Ali Geelani on PERMANENT JOBS unprecedented state of administrative chaos Monday, asked OIC to play its active and ef- Srinagar, Sep 18: Demanding regularization of their and mismanagement at the Sher-e-Kashmir fective role in resolving the issue faced by jobs, monthly pension and releasing of pending salaries, Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS), Sou- Muslim Ummah. Organisation of Islamic Anganwari workers of Kashmir Monday staged protest ra. In a statement issued from NC Head Office, Countries has adequate resources to tackle demonstration against the state and central government ‘Nawa-e-Subha’, NC Additional Spokesperson problems and serve best for the betterment here. Sarah Hayat Shah lashed out at the State and upliftment of humanity. They took to roads and blocked vehicular movement Government and Director SKIMS for the In a statement issued to KNS, Geelani near Exchange Road here in Srinagar. rapidly deteriorating patient care at the Val- while welcoming the statement of OIC on “We are being asked to leave the job. We were waiting ley’s premiere tertiary care health institute K ashmir, said that they hope that this institu- for our regularization but instead the authorities are now and said hundreds of patients with serious SKIMS for turning the office of the Director tion will leave no stone unturned and will message of peace and righteousness of Islam telling us that they can’t regularize us. It is injustice with ailments were suffering miserably due to the into a political liaison and PR cell for the CM’s play its effective and pivotal role in world and OIC is the best platform to promulgate us,” they said. administration’s arrogance and incompetence Grievance Cell In-charge and functionaries politics. and promote this message,” added Geelani.  See Workers....Pg 02 in dispensing their basic duties. The NC of the ruling dispensation. “There is dire need to represent the divine  See Geelani....Pg 02 Spokesperson also lashed out at the Director  See NC....Pg 02

SITUATION IN INDIA KAS Prelim Exam: EVEN WORSE THAN Big wall created between Hindu Jammu and DROPPED OUT CANDIDATES ACCUSE PSC OF VIOLATING EMERGENCY: MAYAWATI Muslim Kashmir: Civil Society Group COURT DIRECTIONS MEERUT: Targeting the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo May- Srinagar, Sep 18: The qualified candidates for Kashmir awati today asserted that the current scenario in the nation ‘Will unite people of all three regions to defend Article 35A in SC’ Administrative Services (KAS)-2016 preliminary exams was worse than even Emergency. Srinagar, Sep 18: The Advocate Mir Javed, Sikh who have been dropped by Jammu and Kashmir Public Addressing a public gathering here after her resigna- Civil Society Coordination leader Jagmohan Raina and Service Commission after it came up with a new list of tion from the Rajya Sabha, she alleged that the Central Committee, We The People, Mufti Nasir-ul-Islam. candidates following the controversy over wrong answer Bureau of Investigation, Enforcement Directorate and Monday said their job is to According to the K NS cor- keys shown against 24 questions Monday alleged that other agencies were targeting leaders of opposition parties bridge the gap socially, po- respondent, addressing a press JKPSC has been violating court directions and there are on the orders from the Centre. litically, and geographically conference here, Shah said grim chances that they could be allowed to sit in the Mains Ms Mayawati said that some political parties tried to bet ween K ashmir and Jammu this particular civil society Examination. derive political mileage from the Saharanpur riots and as there is a lot of disparity group is of diverse opinions. Court has already passed directions asking JKPSC to alleged that it was the Bharatiya Janata Party which had that has been created between “Our job is to bridge the gap. allow 429 candidates in the Mains Examination till its masterminded the violence. ”In Rajya Sabha, I was not the two regions. A big wall has been created final verdict, however, the dropped out candidates claim  See mayawati....Pg 02 The group comprises five between Hindu Jammu  See Dropped....Pg 02 members Awami National Conference Chief Muzzafar Shah, Advocate G N Shaheen,  See Society....Pg 02 02 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus STATE GOVERNOR INAUGURATES PRIYA SETHI FOR BETTER UPKEEP OF PARKS INTERNATIONAL YOGA FESTIVAL Stresses on developing better facilities and green patches JAMMU, SEP- Announces cash awards TEMBER 18: Minister SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER of State for Education, 18: Governor N.N. Vohra in- Technical Education, augurated the 2nd Interna- Culture, Tourism, Hor- tional Yoga Festival cum In- ticulture, Floriculture ternational Yoga Sports and Parks, Priya Sethi Championship 2017, organized today stressed upon by the Yoga Society of Kash- the concerned officers mir at the Sher-i-Kashmir to ensure proper main- International Conference tenance of parks and Centre. About 300 participants green patches of Jam- from various parts of India, mu region as Parks Vietnam, Taiwan, Canada, provide intrinsic en- Bulgaria, U.S.A. and Nepal vironmental, aesthet- are participating in this Fes- quired mental and physical performances which were ic, and recreation tival. Mrs. Usha Vohra, First discipline which enables the demonstrated before the large benefits to the people Lady, was present on the oc- practitioner to lead a whole- audience Governor Vohra an- The Minster was casion. some, stress free and balanced nounced a cash prize of Rs. speaking at the meet- Welcoming the partici- life. 31,000/- to be distributed ing convened to review pants, Governor N.N. Vohra, Governor wished all the among the 10 young yoga of development of parks complimented Sh. Shabir participants a happy and practitioners from Jharkhand in Jammu region here Ahmed Dar, Yoga therapist comfortable stay here and and complimented their today. & Coach, for establishing the suggested that the Organisers Coaches Pooja Rani and Commissioner Yoga Societ y of K ashmir and should take them, particu- Nanda Dula Dutta. The Gov- JMC M. Raju, VC JDA Rajesh Sharma, to developmental works and main- parks for children’s recreation. Jammu beautiful. organizing this Championship. larly the foreign visitors, on ernor also announced a cash Director Floriculture Jammu Babila tenance of parks. Priya Sethi asked Minister said that Floriculture She directed the concerned agen- He also complimented Sh. a sightseeing tour of the sce- prize of Rs. 21,000 for the R ak wal, JC Work s JMC Kushal Chand, the concerned departments includ- department will provide the requi- cies to ensure beautification of green Altaf Bukhari, Minster for nic Kashmir Valley. outstanding performance Executive Engineer Patnitop Develop- ing Jammu Municipal Corporation, site assistance to all other organiza- patches alongside Airport to Satwari Education and Chairman of Earlier, inspiring perfor- given by Sh. Sourabh Singh ment Aut hor it y A shwa ni Ku ma r A na nd, JDA, Housing, Social Forest and tions in shape of on job Training, road adding that the tourists which the Yoga Societ y for prov iding mances of rhythmic and ar- from Amritsar Punjab. Co-Convener INTACH Dr. C. M. Sein, other departments to work in close landscaping expertise, providing come for Pilgrimage to Shri Mata the required encouragement tistic yoga were presented by Sh. Altaf Bukhari, Min- CEO Surinsar Mansar Development coordination with the Floriculture composite manure etc to ensure bet- Vaishno Devi Ji and other tourism to Sh. Dar. a Yoga group from Jhark hand ister for Education, stressed Authority Arvind Kotwal,, Man- Department to ensure proper upkeep ter management of the parks. spots of the State plying through Observing that Yoga is and Sh. Sourabh Singh from the importance of Yoga for a ager J&K Tourism Development and beautification of parks. She also asked to take up proper this road in large numbers. enormously beneficial for the Amritsar. Governor, First healthy life and said that very Corporation Suresh Kumar, besides She further stressed for prepar- identification of parks held by var- Priya said that it is important growth of a healthy mind and Lady, Minister Bukhari and soon he shall enable yoga in- other senior officers of concerned ing a roadmap and constitute a com- ious organisations by colour coding. that requisite facilities are provided body, Governor emphasized Dr. Shehnaz Ganai, MLC pre- struction to be given in vari- departments were present in the mittee for ensuring timely mainte- She also stressed on setting up of a to the people and specially children that learning to practise yoga, sented awards to the achiev- ous schools in the State. meeting. nance and development of various Committee of officers from concerned in these parks which act as lungs of especially from a young age ers and promoters of Yoga. Ms. Shehnaz Ganai, MLC, Threadbare discussion was held parks in Jammu and also stressed departments and to hold quarterly the cities providing recreational helps in developing the re- In appreciation of the yoga was present on the occasion. on various vital issues pertaining for establishing play grounds in some meetings to work in tandem to make space. Continue from Front Page......

disturbance of law and order. OIC for its stand on Kashmir, urged to raise Kashmir issue to remain silent, the stakes for the people of the State are far MEHBOOBA Former Assistant Solicitor General of India (ASGI) Mr. in all international forums and use influence to highlight too important to be ignored. If the Chief Minister has unof- have been repaired or replaced, the meeting was informed. K.K. Pangotra contended that non-issue has been made an atrocities perpetrated by Indian authorities, arrest spree, ficially surrendered her powers to her brother, she should do Also sanitation drives have been launched in Shia domi- issue just to vitiate peace in State of J&K. Mr. Pangotra in his uncalled and unjustified use of brute force against peaceful the people a favor and officially disengage from such consti- nated areas and in close vicinity of Imambaras, the meeting brief address stressed for retention of Article 35-A. and innocent citizens. tutional duties and responsibilities so that people are not was informed. Advocate Pawan Kundal stated that Article 35-A is the Appealing its member countries, Geelani urged to favour misled”, the NC Spokesperson further said. The meeting was informed that adequate stock of LPG, soul of Article 370 and it should not be altered. Similar were and present unanimous resolution in UNO for settlement of The NC Spokesperson said the Government should take Kerosene oil and foodgrains is available for distribution. the views expressed by Advocate A.M. Malik. Palestine and Kashmir issues and urged to resolve all bilat- immediate measures to address these issues that are plagu- Additionally, the Food Supplies Department would be releas- The discussion concluded with the decision to hold a eral and political issues amicably. ing the premiere health institute. ing additional quota of 2000 quintals of rice to Shia domi- massive awareness campaign by involving lawyers, intel- Syed Ali Geelani while favouring peaceful political settle- nated areas for community utilisation. Also market checking lectuals and people belonging to different shades of life so ment and situations in Middle East, added that member MAYAWATI by the concerned Department is being carried out during that people of the state are educated about the various facets countries should ask UN Secretary General to find ways and allowed to speak about Dalit atrocities in Saharanpur, so these days, the meeting was informed. of Article 35-A and its adverse effects on its being abrogated. means to stop those oppressive forces responsible for prevail- I resigned,” she asserted. Ms Mayawati alleged that the Regarding water supply, the meeting was informed that While concluding the discussion Advocate Supriya Chou- ing bloodshed in the region. Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)were tampered by the regular supply is being provided to 81 locations during these han referred to various historic facts responsible for the in- Geelani while hailing the Bar Association for their moral BJP in the recent state assembly elections and asserted this days besides availability of 21 tankers. Also more water PSPs troduction of Article 35-A and she strenuously urged that the support for its president, Advocate Mian Qayoom, said that reason behind her party’s defeat in polls. ”Our party took would be installed this year, the meeting was informed. Also privileges enjoyed by the permanent residents will be taken each and every section of society should resent and resist the EVM issue to the apex court”, she affirmed. 142 works of urgent nature in Shia dominated areas are being away with the abrogation of Article 35-A. She further stated sinister designs, and stand firm against unauthorized, base- undertaken by the R&B Department besides macadamization that J&K is a unique state within India and the spirit of Ar- less allegations and defamation campaign launched by NIA. CIVIL of many roads leading to Imambaras and Shia areas, the ticle 370 needs to be respected for the retention of the special Meanwhile, paying tributes to Shaheed Aijaz Dar on his and Muslim Kashmir,” he said. meeting was informed. status and she closed her views by stating that the people of 29th martyrdom anniversary, Syed Ali Geelani said that he Shah said they will start a campaign and will reach to Besides, the meeting was also attended by Chief Secretary, the state had rejected the idea of Pakistan and had volunteered was a great warrior and a front line solider in freedom move- every nook and corner of the state and bring all the people B. B. Vyas; Director General of Police, Dr Sheesh Pal Vaid; with Secular Indian State and the voices against Article 35-A ment. beyond religious and political lines under one banner to fight Administrative secretaries of several Departments, Inspec- are repugnant to the spirit of the special status enjoyed by Geelani prayed for speedy recovery of ailing Haji GM Dar, the evils of abrogation of article 35A. tor General, Kashmir zone, Munir Ahmad Khan; Inspector the permanent residents of J&K State. father of slain commander. “We will pick up a full civil society which will comprise General of Police, Traffic, Jagjit Kumar; heads of various members from Jammu and Ladakh and Kashmir. This Departments; officers of Srinagar district administration RAJNATH WORKERS group will stand there in the Supreme Court and will be and other officers. was contemplating to “do something” for those serving They threatened to intensify protests in case their demands part of the all the SC deliberations on Article 35A. This is personnel who face an emergency situation but are unable to are not met. the job we want to do as a part of this committee. We have NIRMAL cope up with it and need help. Police tried to disperse them when they clashed with joined together irrespective of political views and religion.” the safety and security of people and border. “We will give “I am also thinking to do something and I will certainly the women police. Some of the Anganwari workers were They said the people of Jammu and Kashmir on this befitting reply to Pakistan,” he said. do it,” he said amidst applause from about 1,000 guests, detained for some time. part of the ceasefire line take Article 35-A and Article 370 Refusing to speak the party’s stand over Article 35-A, mostly serving and retired personnel from different para- Later in the evening, they assembled at Press Enclave as the spirit of their identity till final resolution of the Ramlal said the case is pending in the court, let the decision military forces. here and alleged that instead of regularizing them, the gov- dispute on Jammu and Kashmir and would not like to come. Earlier, the home minister launched the the SSB’s first- ernment has been mulling to handover Anganwari projects disturb Article is sought to be disturbed by involving Su- He informed reporters that the party, which was held ever intelligence wing, which will gather information along to private parties. preme Court of politically sensitive which has potential to today, was called to discuss varied issues related to the peo- the borders with Bhutan and Nepal, which are often used by ruin the rot. ple and the party. criminals and Kashmiri militants returning from Pakistan. NC Therefore, it is the incumbent duty upon Indian Na- The intelligence wing will have 650 field and staff agents “The administration at SKIMS seems to be either com- tional Congress to protect the Article 35-A and restore LAWYERS to gather actionable information. pletely inept or unquestionably arrogant by failing to ensure Article 370 in letter and spirit till final resolution of the Counsel urged that Article 35-A was achieved due to the Due to the visa-free regime, India has with Nepal and the patients receive the kind of medical care they deserve. In dispute on Jammu and Kashmir, they added. struggle launched in Jammu during Maharaja’s Regime by Bhutan, there is a trans-border movement of criminals and a number of cases patients with severe ailments, including “The attempts to disturb or play with Article 35-A has two prominent personalities namely, Com. Dhanwantri and anti-national elements which pose a major challenge, a home young children, women and elderly, have been waiting for united the people of Jammu and Kashmir in all the three Lala Roop Chand Nanda ministry official said. months altogether for critical procedures, the delay in which regions i e. Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh, because nobody He also stated that for special rights to the state subjects, As many as 230 former Kashmiri militants, based in could result in potentially life threatening consequences. It wants to play with it or allow anybody to play with it. We all the Jammu had observed complete shut down for 7 days and Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir, have returned seems to have become the norm that the quality of patient stand in defense of Article 35-A, irrespective of our political because of the agitation the Constitution of J&K, 1996 BK home through the Indo-Nepal border since 2010. care is directly defined by the recommendations by certain belief, religious denominations, ethnic classifications and was enacted and in the said constitution, first time the term The Indo-Bhutan border is known to be frequented by the PDP leaders. Those patients who are not politically con- regional destinations. Let us suggest do not play with it,” state subject was defined and provisions were made that no Assam-based insurgent group National Democratic Front of nected to the ruling dispensation are not only mistreated but cautioned the members of the group. outsider can acquire immoveable property in State of J&K. Bodoland (NDFB), which has even attacked Bhutanese na- also left at the mercy of God”, the NC Spokesperson said in Mr. Gupta concluded his stance by saying that the peo- tionals in the past. the statement. DROPPED ple who are opposing Article 35-A cannot be the well wishers The SSB has also been declared as the lead intelligence The NC Spokesperson also highlighted recent disturbing that JKPSC has been dodging them and till date the Com- of Jammu and State of J&K as the said Constitutional guar- agency for both the borders. Thus, the central government media reports wherein expired drugs were administered to mission has made no correspondence with them in this regard. antee was achieved by Jammuites after long struggle. felt that a well-knit intelligence network of the highest capa- patients at SKIMS. Earlier it was reported that the admin- “We were preparing for Mains exams after we were Former Senior Additional Advocate General S.C. Gupta bility that can function and deliver would be the prime re- istration failed to take note of the expired Hepatitis C drugs declared successful, but now they have dropped us from the echoed for retention of Article 35-A and submitted that the quirement for comprehensive border management. resulting in an enormous wastage at the expense of the list. It is sheer injustice. Even the court has asked PSC to al- same needs to be further strengthened by the Indian Parlia- This was essential as the SSB’s operations are based on state exchequer. The NC Spokesperson castigated the Chief low us to sit in the Mains Examination but they are using ment. Mr. S.C. Gupta further submitted that any tinkering intelligence to prevent criminals and smugglers from taking Minister’s Office for undue and improper direct interfer- dilly dally tactics,” a group of aggrieved candidates complained with Article 35-A will have an adverse effect on Article 370 advantage of the friendly borders with Nepal and Bhutan, ence into even the technical aspects of the Institute’s func- to news agency CNS. of the Indian Constitution which accords special status to the official said. tioning and said it doesn’t behoove the Chief Minister to The candidates blamed Commission for making “mock- the State of J&K. turn such a vital health institute into political and familial ery” of high level competitive exams. “We will hit streets if Mr. Gupta further stated that in the name of demo- SINGH subsidiary. PSC didn’t come clear on the issue. They must show us our graphic change by certain vested interests the people of the Former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan “Then there is also the matter of the gross suppression OMR sheets through RTI,” they said. state are being misguided and mislead and a duty is cast upon estimated earlier this month that the country's GDP had of merit at the hands of certain individuals of the Chief “The irony is that access to OMR sheets are denied to the lawyers fraternity to educate the common masses about taken a hit of between 1 to 2 per cent due to demonetisation, Minister’s family who were incidentally and illegitimately, us even through Right to Information Act,” said the dropped the political implications of the scrapping of the Article 35-A. which translated to a sum of around Rs 2 lakh crore. in violation of all forms of scrutiny, objectivity and pro- out candidates. Former Member of Legislative Council, Advocate M.R. priety, involved in the selection process of certain top posts Pertinently, after a controversy, Public Service Com- Qureshi while affirming the views of Mr. A.V. Gupta and Mr. GEELANI in the institution. It has also come to fore that the consti- mission In the fresh list dropped 429 out of 6925 candidates S.C. Gupta stated that at the time of accession, certain com- OIC has a greater and pivotal role in international politics, tution and regulations of SKIMS are being violated by who were declared qualified earlier, citing they could not mitments were made to the people of the State and by a design, asserted Geelani and stressed OIC authorities to play its as- taking direct orders from the now extra-constitutional make to the revised cutoff merit of 277.275 marks after ap- the same are sought to be abridged. signed and outstanding role in resolving the issues related CM’s Grievance Cell”, the NC Spokesperson added. plying revised answer keys. Advocate Qureshi according to news agency CNS further to K ashmir, Palestine, A fghanistan, Sy r ia, Yemen, Qatar, and “The Chief Minister seems to have become a vestigial When contacted, In charge Chairman Public Service submitted that Jammu province will be maximum affected issues related to genocide of Rohingya Muslims. entity in the scheme of the Institute’s functioning as it was Commission, Mr Lal Chand said they are waiting for the final by the tinkering of Article 35-A as maximum people from Denouncing the statement of India over OIC, wherein they the CM’s brother who was taking all important policy and verdict of Honorable Court. “We will comply with the court rest of the country are expected to settle in Jammu. He further have said that ‘’OIC has no locus stand on Kashmir’’, Geelani administrative decisions instead of the Chief Minister who orders and if it directs us to allow the dropped out candidates pointed out that with the repeal of Article 35-A, there will be said that India is deliberately overlooking the historical back- is the Chairperson for the Governing Board. While the Chief to sit in the Mains examination, we will surely oblige,” he disintegration of the State of J&K resulting in chaos and ground and facts related to Kashmir issue and while hailing Minister might have accepted this aberration and has chosen said. 03 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus NEWS Swachhata Hi Seva National Media Appointment Consultation held in Capital of DG, NIA and Delhi, 18 August: Over 100 journalists, to the common citizen, involving Union Min- let usage to be 91%. He concluded by calling costs averted, value of mortality averted, and DG, SSB development agencies and community work- isters, Governors, Chief Ministers, legislators, upon the media to spread the message of the value of time savings, an average family New Delhi 18 August: The Appointments Committee of ers attended a National Media Consultation celebrities, faith leaders, and corporate lead- sanitation and cleanliness during the fortnight that invests in a toilet will save Rs 50,000 per the Cabinet has approved the following: on the Swachh Bharat Mission in the Capital. ers spearheading the campaign in their re- and beyond. Mr Nicolas Osbert, Chief, WASH, year. The cost-benefit ratio of a household 1. Appointment of Shri Y. C. Modi, IPS (AM:84), Ad- The Secretary, Ministry of Drinking Water spective areas of influence. He particularly UNICEF India, in his welcome address, spoke found in the study was 430% in fully ODF ditional Director, CBI as Director General, National Inves- and Sanitation, Shri Parameswaran Iyer, appreciated the tremendous efforts being about the impact of lack of sanitation on the communities. This meant that a single rupee tigation Agency (NIA) for a period upto the date of his super- presided over the consultation. In his opening made by school children, central police ser- health and growth of small children. He said invested in sanitation, allows a family to save annuation i.e. 31.05.2021, from the date of assumption of remarks, Shri Iyer shared details of the nation- vices and defence personnel. that it was heartening to note that, with the Rs 4.30. He added that these benefits are the charge of the post or until further orders, whichever is ear- wide mass mobilization drive, “Swachhata The Secretary also shared a snapshot of Swachh Bharat Mission and the personal highest for the poorest quintile of the popula- lier vice Shri Sharad Kunnar, IPS (HY: 79) (Retd.) on comple- Hi Seva”, which follows an impassioned call the progress made by the Swachh Bharat Mis- leadership of India’s Prime Minister himself, tion in a community, which was encouraging tion of his tenure on 30.10.2017. by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, sion so far, mentioning that 5 States, nearly concrete action is happening on the ground as it established that improved sanitation The ACC has also approved the appointment of Shri Y. ahead of the 3rd anniversary of Swachh Bharat 200 districts and nearly 2.4 lakh villages with respect to changing old habits through helps the poorest of the poor the most. C. Modi as OSD in NIA with immediate effect, to ensure Mission that falls on 2nd October. He said across the country have already declared genuine focus on behavior change. Swachh Bharat Champions from the grass- smooth takeover of responsibilities in NIA. that the Swachhata Hi Seva campaign is see- themselves as Open Defecation Free. 1.5 lakh He also shared with the media present, roots, Ms. Madhu Chauhan (Sarpanch, Bijnor 2. Appointment of Shri Rajni Kant Misra, IPS (UP:84), ing large scale mobilization of people from villages have ranked themselves on the Village the results of an independent survey con- district, Uttar Pradesh), Shri Rajneesh Shar- Additional DG, BSF as Director General, Sashastra Seema all walks of life to undertake shramdaan for Swachhta Index based on the solid and liquid ducted by UNICEF across 10000 households ma (Primary School Principal, Meerut district, Bal (SSB) for a period upto the date of his superannuation cleanliness and construction of toilets, and waste management in the villages. He also in 12 States of the country, to measure the Uttar Pradesh), and Ms. Deepa Joshi (ANM i.e. 31.08.2019, from the date of assumption of charge of the cleaning up of public and tourist places. The quoted an independent survey conducted economic impact of sanitation at a household supervisor, US Nagar, Uttarakahand), also post or until further orders, whichever is earlier vice Smt. participation has already begun in full swing, across 140,000 households by the Quality level. He said the survey found that, in fully shared their experiences with the media on Archana Ramasundram, IPS (TN:80) on completion of her and has ranged from the President of India Council of India, which found household toi- ODF communities, considering the medical the occasion. tenure on 30.09.2017. CM chairs BoD meeting of ERA Govt to distribute 20000 qtls of additional Chase project completion with all seriousness, food-grains for Muharram: Zulfkar Ali SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER stick to deadlines: Mehbooba to ERA 18: Keeping Muharram ar- rangements in mind, Minis- Rs. 56 Cr Rawalpora-Chanapora drainage project, Rs 43 cr Doodhganga ter for Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs distribution network likely to be commissioned soon (FCS&CA), and Information SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER kilometres of road widening Department Chowdhary 17: Chief Minister, Mehbooba besides completion of 30 Zulfkar Ali today directed for Mufti today underlined the bridges has been executed by distribution of additional need for sticking to completion the Agency in the State. Also 20000 quintals of food grains deadlines in case of mega more than 400 k ilometres of among consumers, especial- projects as these involve multi drinking water distribution ly in Shia inhabited areas. lateral funding and are meant network has been laid by the The Minister issued the for very large chunks of pop- Agency across the State besides instructions during a depart- ulation. She suggested encour- commissioning of 53 reser- mental review meeting. ed for formulation of various Reiterating need for own- issues of office accommoda- aging the agencies which voirs, 32 tube wells and five Speaking during the meet- market checking squads to ing departmental responsibil- tion, posting of stenographers, complete such projects in time. Gupta and Agha Baqir Rizvi tilevel parking slots at Lal water treatment plants. ing, the Minister said that keep a check on profiteering, ity, the Minister said that it support staff, posting of Chairing the Board of Di- were present in the meeting. Chowk in Srinagar and City Rs. 25 crore worth ma- people, especially living in hoarding and black-market- is imperative that department deputy registrar, and provi- rectors meeting of Economic For future, the Chief Min- Chowk in Jammu and other chinery has been replaced at Shia dominated areas should ing during the month. To should make full use of allot- sion of furniture for office were Reconstruction Agency (ERA) ister advised the officials of such projects. various water supply schemes be provided with an addi- ensure that government pre- ted finances, especially sal- discussed. here today, the Chief Minister ERA to identify projects in The meeting was informed of the State by the Agency tional 20,000 ration supply scribed rate list is followed in ary revenue. He said the de- The Minister also stressed asked the executives of ERA drinking water augmentation, that Rs. 43 crore Doodhgan- whileas Rs. 14 crore worth at an earliest so that people letter and spirit, the Minister partment should hire the for raising awareness on con- to chase the project comple- drainage, solid waste manage- ga water supply distribution equipment for Solid Waste in general, and Shias in par- said those found in dereliction services of competent au- sumer protection act. tion with all seriousness and ment and other such sectors system is almost complete and management has been hand- ticular across State do not face from the same should be dealt thorities to fill up the vacant Commissioner Secretary discourage the contractors with which the needs of a likely to be commissioned ed over to municipal author- any kind of difficulty during as per the law. posts at an earliest. FCS&CA Shafiq Raina, Con- who do not follow a strict majority of population are before the autumn. Also the ities, the meeting was in- holy month of Muharram. The meeting also reviewed Zulfkar Ali impressed troller, Legal Metrology schedule. linked. The meeting was R s. 56 crore R awalpora- Cha- formed. Among the major Chowdhary Zulfkar Ali the status of 37228.32 lakhs upon officers to ensure that Department Vipra Bahl, Deputy Chief Minister, Dr. given a brief about the projects napora drainage project is infrastructure projects under said Government is also work- funds released by Finance uniformity is maintained in Director FCS&CA Jammu Nirmal Singh; Minister for already executed in the State almost ready for commission- execution by the Agency in- ing hard to procure addi- Department to FCS&CA. The the distribution of funds in R A Inqalabi, Director Public Works, Naeem Akhtar; by the Agency. Among those ing and work on all pumping clude Rambagh flyover and tional sugar supply so that Minister was informed that both Jammu and Kashmir FCS&CA Kashmir Nissar Minister for Education, Syed include Achan landfill site where stations of the project stands TRC Grade Separator in Sri- each house hold in Shia areas the department under various region. Ahmad Wani, Joint Control- Altaf Bukhari; Minister of the third cell has also been made completed. nagar, a mega drainage proj- would be provided with one heads utilized a fair portion Earlier, the Minister also ler LMD Amar Singh and State for Forests, Mir Zahoor operational and the entire patch The meeting was also in- ect for Jammu city besides a kg of sugar during the month. of the budget for various de- held a “Consumer Commis- other concerned were pres- Ahmad; legislators, Rajesh of land has been fenced, mul- formed that more than 500 Rs. 34 crore Sewerage. The Minister also direct- partmental works. sion” review meeting, where ent in the meeting. Kohli concludes extensive week- CEO inaugurates 2-day training long tour to Leh, Kargil programme on ERO-NET Stresses for proper implementation of Govt schemes, achieving targets in time-bound manner Says ERO-NET to be launched on Sept 19 LEH, SEPTEMBER 18: Minister SRINAGAR, SEP- for Animal, Sheep Husbandry and TEMBER 18: Saying that Fisheries, Abdul Ghani Kohli today with the launch of (Elec- concluded a weeklong tour to various toral Registration Offi- areas of Leh and Kargil district. cer) ERO-NET in the These areas included K argil, Dis- State, the electorate can kit, Shey, Turtuk, Drass, Khalsi, No- upload their personal bra and Hunder villages. details at his or her own During the extensive tour, the levels to register them- Minister took stock of various devel- selves as elector, Chief opmental works under execution in Electoral Officer, J&K Animal, Sheep and Fisheries sectors Mr. Shaleen Kabra said in the t w in distr ict of Leh and K argil. the system will reduce The Minister asked the concerned the chances of mistakes officers to work with utmost dedica- in electoral rolls and tion and speed up the pace of work Electoral Photo Identity on all ongoing developmental works Card (EPIC) details. under execution in these areas and The Chief Electoral complete them in a stipulated time Of ficer (CEO) was speak- frame. ing at the inaugural func- The Minister also inaugurated tion of 2-day Training various developmental works in these Programme held here districts and asked the concerned today by State Election Department in col- concerned at district level to submit necessary to ensure that the benefits of these laboration with Election Commission of India infrastructure related reports required for projects should be reach to maximum sured them that their genuine demands working and come up to the expecta- is committed for the development of to sensitize about ERO-NET to the personnel effective implementation of ERO-NET besides people. He also asked the Officers will be looked into. In some cases, Mr tions of the people. Ladakh region and major schemes who are directly involved with the election ensuring internet facilities. He also asked of Animal, Sheep Husbandry and Kohli gave on the spot directions to The Minister had also inaugu- are on anvil to promote tourism, related activities in the State. them to conduct awareness camps in the dis- Fisheries Department to gear up the concerned for immediate redressal. rated Disease Surveillance Center animal and sheep and fish farming The Chief Electoral Officer said that the trict regularly to sensitize people about the their respective field functionaries Interacting with the people at dif- (DSC) and Geographic Information in the region. ECI time and again has initiated various use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and conduct frequent field visits to ferent places, the Minister said that System (GIS) laboratory of the Sheep The CEC LAHDC Dr Sonam Dawa measures to fine-tune the electoral rolls and and Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT). their respective areas and aware the Government is committed to pro- Husbandry Department. The center Lonpo thanked the Minister for de- has achieved in many of them. He said that Imparting the training through Power general masses about the programmes vide equitable development of all the was first of its kind in the area and velopmental tour of the region and ERO-NET is an initiative to provide error-free Point Presentation during the programme, and schemes of the Government. three regions of the State. He said was a long pending demand of the also appreciated the role of Animal EPIC cards to voters, besides lessen the paper Director, ICT, (ECI) Dr. K aushal Pathak dwelt He also instructed them to ensure focused attention is given to develop people. and Sheep Husbandry department work as correct form filled at the entry level in details about various aspects of ERO-NET medicines and other first aid fa- the hilly and backward areas of the Mr Kohli also said that R s 21 crore in launching various initiatives in the will be accepted through the system. and National Voters’ Service Portal (NVSP) cilities in all Veterinary Centres of State with the aim to improve the mega Project of Department of In- region. Mr. Kabra said that ERO-Net is a web- system so that it could be implemented ef- twin districts. living standard of the people living dustries and Commerce has also been During the tour, Commissioner based app to facilitate the voters where fectively in the State. During the tour, several deputa- there. sanctioned by Central Government Secretary, Animal, Sheep Husband- people can get register themselves for EPIC Pertinently, the ERO-NET will be launched tions met the Minister and put forth During the visit to various areas which would help Pashmina industry ry Department, Director Fisheries, card or can get changed their details of voter tomorrow. their individual and collective issues. in Kargil and Leh, the Minister was to grow, besides Rs 2 crore have been Director Animal Husbandry Kashmir, Identity card online. He said that the inac- Deputy Chief Election Officer, District These included up-gradation of Vet- given warm well come by the people released to Sheep Husbandry by GoI Director Sheep Husbandry Kashmir curacy and duplicity of voters will be contained Election Officers, Deputy District Election erinary Centres, sanctioning of incen- of these regions. Mr Kohli expressed for promoting high breed Pashmina and other Senior Officers of Ladakh with the launch of the ERO-NET. The people Officers, District Informatics Officers, Elec- tives for establishing of Fish Farm, satisfaction over the working of the goats in the region. Autonomous Hill Development Coun- can apply online throughout the years through tion Naib Tehsildars and supporting staff of Sheep and Goat Units. The Minster Departments under his control. He, While wrapping up the four day cil, Leh and allied departments were this app, he maintained. election department attended the training gave them a patient hearing and as- however, asked them to improve the tour, Minister said the Government accompanied the Minister. The Chief Electoral Officer directed the programme. 04 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus EDIT/ OPED NUCLEAR RHETORIC  By JOHN CHERIAN At a time when Trump is calling for a TIME FOR military response to North Korea’s move, The successful test-firing of an inter- Moon Jae-in of South Korea made a dra- continental ballistic missile (ICBM) by North matic offer in a speech he made in Ger- Korea on July 4 has added a new dimension many ahead of the G20 summit. He said on CAUTION to the crisis in the Korean peninsula. Don- July 6 that he was w illing to meet K im Jong- India’s external balance sheet may have improved ald Trump had pledged after taking over as un for talks and proposed that the reunion significantly since the infamous taper tantrum of the President of the United States that he of long-separated families from the two would not allow Pyongyang to gatecrash Koreas should start again. He also called 2013, but there are now signs that warrant more into the elite club of nations possessing this for the demilitarisation of the border between caution from policymakers. Last week, the current kind of missile technology. “It won’t hap- the two countries. At present, it is the most account deficit (CAD) widened to a four-year high pen,” he tweeted in January. He followed it heavily weaponised international border. of $14.3 billion in the first quarter of the current up by stating that Nor th Korea “is a problem, The South Korean capital, Seoul, is within financial year, standing at 2.4% of gross domestic a problem that will be taken care of”, lead- the artillery range of North Korean guns. ing some commentators to speculate that Moon, who had promised during his pres- product, compared to 0.1% last year. The widening Trump was weighing immediate military idential campaign to pursue peace talks CAD was driven by a greater increase in merchan- options. During his meeting with China’s with the North, said that sanctions should dise imports than exports. A strong capital account President Xi Jinping, Trump said that the only be used as a tool to get the North back surplus, however, has helped the country pay for U.S. would take care of the North Korea to the negotiating table. The U.S. has been its import bills without much trouble. Foreign inves- problem if the Chinese side was incapable using “sanctions” as a weapon to induce of doing so. regime change in Pyongyang. tors starved of yield have been stepping up their But less than seven months into Trump’s While running for the presidency, Trump investments in India, which remains one of the few presidency, the North Koreans have con- had told a reporter that he would be willing places offering higher yields. Compared to last year, ducted an array of successful missile tests. to meet with Kim Jong-un and “do a deal”. net FDI almost doubled to $7.2 billion in the first Many of the missile tests conducted last um-range missiles are nuclear capable and is aware that the U.S. and Japan are using He still has not completely ruled out a meet- quarter, while net portfolio investment jumped year failed for a variety of reasons. North that it has miniaturised its nuclear arsenal. the Nor th Korea card to surround it militar- ing with the North Korean leader “under about six times to $12.5 billion. The strong inflow Korea seems to have more than made up The Pentagon, as well as experts in Seoul ily. certain circumstances”. But right now, the for those failures. Washington and Tokyo and Tokyo, have doubted this claim, but The recent stealthy installation of the U.S. President is adopting a belligerent po- of foreign capital has also led to a significant increase have reluctantly acknowledged that Pyong- they realise that it is only a matter of time THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea sition, boasting that he is handling North in foreign reserve holdings, thanks to the Reserve yang now has the capability to hit parts of before North Korean scientists achieve this is an indication. China has demanded that Korea “very well, very firmly” without di- Bank of India which has been busy buying dollars mainland America and its intermediate- goal too. the system be removed at the earliest. The plomacy. Ordinar y South Koreans are wor- to weaken the rupee. Forex reserves were at an all- range missiles can easily target U.S. military After the July test, Washington once newly elected South Korean President, Moon ried about the war jargon that Trump rou- time high of $400.7 billion for the week ending bases in Japan and Guam. Nor th Korea has again ratcheted up its threats to take recourse Jae-in, had strongly voiced his opposition tinely uses. Any attack on the North would now joined a dozen or more countries that to military action. President Trump blamed against its installation during his campaign. evoke an immediate response. Much of the September 8, while the rupee has appreciated by have long-range missile capabilities. China for not putting sufficient pressure After a meeting between President Xi collateral damage would be borne by South over 6% against the dollar this year. Low global oil The ICBM, named Hwasong (Mars)-14, on North Korea. After Xi Jinping’s first and President Vladimir Putin of Russia in Korea and Japan. Nearly half of South Ko- prices over the last two years have also helped con- launched on July 4 travelled more than meeting with Trump earlier in the year, the first week of July in Moscow, the two rea’s population lives less than 100 km from tain a good portion of its import bills. 1,200 kilometres and was airborne for over Beijing had imposed additional sanctions countries issued a joint statement calling the border with the North. All this might change with the impending tight- 37 minutes. It reached an altitude of more on North Korea and even halted the purchase on the major parties involved in the Ko- The U.S. had considered a “surgical than 2,800 km, according to the U.S. mil- of coal. The export of coal is a source of rean peninsula to sign up to a de-escalation strike” on a North Korean reactor in 1994. ening of monetary policy by the U.S. Federal Reserve itary’s Pacific Command, which monitors much-needed hard currency for Pyongyang. plan drafted by China. It envisages a mor- But better sense prevailed after the Bill and other central banks. After all, emerging Asian such launches. (The International Space But as recent history has shown, the North ator ium on the Nor th Korean ballistic mis- Clinton administration realised that it would markets have been the biggest beneficiaries of loose Station orbiting the earth is only 400 km Koreans have a tendency to be more resolute sile programme coupled with a freezing of lead to open hostilities resulting in the deaths monetary policy in the West, so any change in stance above the earth.) American experts say that and innovative in the face of adversity. the frequent joint military exercises and of hundreds of thousands. The Clinton ad- would most definitely affect them. Indian companies, such a missile will have an actual range of China is the country’s biggest trading part- missile tests that the U.S. military conducts ministration in its last years focussed on around 6,700 km, which would allow it to ner. But when it comes to politics, the North with the South Korean army. finding a diplomatic solution. A breakthrough for instance, have aggressively tapped into the mar- reach the American state of Alaska. The Koreans have been hewing a lonely furrow “The situation in the region affects the seemed imminent after the then Secretary ket for rupee-denominated foreign debt, which can Hwasong-14 uses solid fuel, which enables for decades. national interests of both the countries,” of State, Madeleine Albright, visited Pyong- work against them if the flow of foreign capital turns quick loading and fir ing. The Nor th Korean In a telephone conversation with the the statement said. “Russia and China will yang. volatile. The RBI has been regulating the amount of ficial media hailed the ICBM launched as Chinese President after the North Korean work closely to advance a solution to the The advent of George W. Bush and the and quality of such borrowings, so it may seem like “a momentous event in the history of the ICBM launch, Trump once again warned complex problem of the Korean peninsula “war on terror” brought the situation back things are under control for now. Further, India’s country”. The timing of the launch was not that the U.S. would be willing to take uni- in every possible way.” to square one on the Korean peninsula. The a coincidence. K im Jong-un, Nor th Korea’s lateral action if China was not able to rein In the same declaration, Moscow and Nor th was put in the so-called “a xis of ev il” total external debt declined by 2.7% during the fi- supreme leader, called it a “gift” to the U.S., in its neighbour. “Perhaps China will put a Beijing called for the removal of the THAAD along with Iran and Iraq and on the list for nancial year 2016-17, standing at $471.9 billion, which celebrates its Independence Day on heavy move on North Korea and end this missile systems from the Korean penin- regime change. driven by a fall in external commercial borrowings July 4. “As a proud nuclear power that pos- nonsense once and for all,” Trump tweeted. sula. The statement accused the U.S. of In the wake of the ICBM test, the U.S. and deposits by non-resident Indians. The World sesses not only nuclear weapons but also His administration then went ahead and using the North Korean issue as an excuse may have to put the military option on the Bank, in fact, has said that India’s external dynam- the most powerful ICBM that can target imposed sanctions on a leading Chinese to further its military infrastructure in the back burner for the foreseeable future, not- any part of the world, North Korea will root bank for having dealings with the North region and change the balance of power. withstanding Trump’s tough rhetoric. U.S. ics remain very favourable given the size of its out the United States threat and blackmail Korean government. Then the U.S. announced “The deployment of THAAD will cause se- Defence Secretary James Mattis recently economy and foreign reserve holdings. But a pro- of nuclear war and solidly defend the peace the sale of weapons worth $1.4 billion to rious harm to the strategic security interests said that a war with North Korea “would longed period of unfavourable trade balance when and stability of the Korean peninsula and Taiwan and branded China as a “human of regional states, including Russia and be tragic on an unbelievable scale”. North combined with volatile international capital flows the region,” the statement from the North trafficker”. China did issue a statement China,” it said. Korea is now a de facto nuclear power armed can lead to unsavoury macroeconomic situations. Korean government said. condemning the missile test stating that it President Putin in an interview with with delivery weapons. At the beginning of his term, Trump violated United Nations Security Council the TASS news agency said that it was in Many prominent Americans, like former According to a report by India Ratings & Research had militarily threatened North Korea by resolutions. However, China has not insti- the mutual interests of Moscow and Beijing President Jimmy Carter, have been long earlier this year, a 10% depreciation of the rupee emphasising again and again that “all op- tuted the kind of harsh sanctions that the that “there is a comprehensive resolution urging a negotiated settlement. North Ko- combined with a 50 basis point interest rate hike tions were open” against the country. In U.S. wants it to impose on its already im- of the problem of the Korean peninsula in rea’s basic demand is diplomatic recognition can severely affect most Indian borrowers. It add- June, he dispatched an American naval poverished neighbour. order to preserve lasting peace and stabil- by the U.S. and the signing of a comprehen- ed that as much as 65% of foreign debt exposure of armada, consisting of aircraft carriers and In a statement issued immediately after ity in north-eastern Asia”. The joint state- sive peace treaty containing a guarantee submarines, streaming towards the Ko- the launch, the Chinese Foreign Ministry ment urged the “confronting parties” to sit that the U.S. will not attack it. North Korea Indian companies may be unhedged. As the world rean peninsula. But as most observers of spokesman urged all the parties involved down for talks, agree on the principles of had once disavowed its nuclear ambitions looks to withdraw from an era of historically low the region had predicted, North Korea did in the Korean dispute to remain calm and non-confrontation and pledge to make the in exchange for nuclear reactors from the interest rates, it would be wise for India’s policy- not blink. In the first week of June, North stressed that the situation in the region “is Korean peninsula free of nuclear weapons. West and economic aid. It was only after makers to be ready with an emergency plan to Korea successfully tested land-to-sea cruise complicated and sensitive”. The last thing At the same time, the document stressed Washington reneged on its commitment tackle a period of significant volatility. missiles. In February, it successfully launched that China, which shares a long border with that the international community should that Pyongyang chose its current course. the Pugkusong-2 medium-range missile. North Korea, wants is a war on its doorstep take into consideration “the sensible con- It knows that a nuclear deterrent is the best Pyongyang claims that its long- and medi- and U.S. troops on its borders. Besides, it cerns” of North Korea. guarantee against regime change. A peep into the past  By AJOY ASHIRWA his staff to let India know of his prefer- reader the impression that India intrigued from both to chart its own neutral path 10-mile drive afforded President Nass- aircraft to bring him and his 15-member ence for Indian coffee and Indian ciga- many leaders. They wanted to know, see of development. As a result, world lead- er a view of the enthusiastic crowds that entourage to New Delhi from Geneva. IN 1973, R ashtrapati Bhavan of ficials rettes, and also his aversion to goat meat, and understand the cultural enigma that ers were intr igued at the confidence that had lined the streets. They waved paper Because of such attempts, Zhou Enlai received an uncommon request just ahead curd and cheese. Abode Under the Dome, was India. For instance, U.S. President India showed. India’s first Prime Min- flags and cheered as the motorcade drove told the Indian press during his fourth of the visit of Leonid Brezhnev, the gen- authored by Thomas Mathew, Addi- Dwight D. Eisenhower, during his visit ister, Jawaharlal Nehru, owing to his past, adding to the joyous mood of the v isit to India in 1960: “ The Chinese gov- eral secretary of the central committee tional Secretary to the President of India, in 1959, said that his desire to v isit India extensive knowledge of history and city that was in the grip of excited an- ernment holds that Sino-Indian friend- of the Communist Party of the Soviet is full of such interesting anecdotes and was partly because he was intrigued by politics and a genuine interest in pure ticipation of the two important festivals ship is of extremely great significance Union (CPSU). The Union of Soviet So- documents the visits of state dignitaries it. “The evincing of sudden interest was sciences, commanded respect like no of Dussehra and Durga Pooja that were bet ween the 1,000 million people of the cialist Republics (USSR) had just man- who stayed at Rashtrapati Bhavan be- understandable. Until Independence, other Asian leader did. His efforts to fast approaching. Buntings and stream- two countries and to the Asian and world aged to neutralise the United States’ tilt t ween 1947 and 1967. Brought out by the India was a colony, whose material and form a formidable front in NAM by unit- ers welcoming President Nasser added peace. This friendship should not be, towards Pakistan, and India, therefore, Publications Division, the book makes human resources could be harnessed at ing developing nations, which had a more colour to an already festooned city nor can it be, jeopardised because of the viewed Brezhnev’s “friendly-official” a significant contr ibution to understand- a short notice and at will, by orders from history of colonialism, drew praises from and even Parliament Street which [is] temporary lack of settlement of the Sino- visit as a great possibility to strengthen ing the building of a new nation, its val- London. All this changed and an inde- not just within but also outside the coun- not normally decorated had a paper arch Indian boundary question.” its relationship with that country. ues and its glorious tradition of hospital- pendent India could now voice its own try. His statesmanship, impartiality and of flowers.” In 1950, when India’s first President, Brezhnev had visited India in 1961 as ity. The author stresses that the phi- opinion, support and oppose issues, judiciousness were unquestionable even In a similar vein, the book delves Rajendra Prasad, invited Pakistan’s first the president of the CPSU, but this losophy of atithidevobhava (guest is akin positions and nations. This freedom when world leaders differed with his deep into India’s initial efforts to find Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, to visit as the general secretary of the to god) was taken very seriously by exercisable on international issues was opinions. peace with aggressive nations like Pak- stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan, he readily party was deemed much more important Rashtrapati Bhavan. The author has a new dimension that other powers had The visits of NAM leaders like Gamal istan and China. The six visits by Paki- accepted. His meeting with Nehru over because of the unwavering support the culled details from various sources, in- to factor in their strategic calculus. Abdel Nasser, the president of the Unit- stan’s Presidents and Prime Ministers contentious issues, especially over Ben- Soviet Union extended to India during cluding news reports, archival photos Equally important was the sustainment ed Arab Republic (now two different and four visits by Zhou Enlai provide gal, which was torn apart by communal the Bangladesh war of 1971. and official papers, to create narratives of the pluralistic political system in In- nations, Egypt and Syria), and Josip an astute understanding of the diplo- clashes, lasted over two hours. The book The unusual request was to place a that give readers a sense of India’s initial dia, more so for the unpredictable con- Broz Tito, the Yugoslavian President, matic initiatives India made. It was draws upon various documents which “Lifebuoy” soap bar in every room. Life- diplomatic history. He does this suc- sequences its failure could spawn,” writes and Ghana’s Kwame Nk r umah, therefore, Defence Minister V.K. Krishna Menon show that there was great optimism buoy was a soap which India manufac- cessfully by providing a political context Matthew in the introduction. became extremely important. These who extended an invitation to the Chinese between the leaders and both tried to tured and made popular among the around each world leader’s visit. In this context, a significant part of leaders were welcomed with great pomp Premier during the Geneva Conference bridge the widening gap after Partition. masses. It was meant as a token of respect The photographs and the context the book is devoted to India’s role and and show that later became a normal of 1954, which was held to bring an end Later, Pakistan’s Prime Minister for India. Although bewildered, the of- presented in the book go well beyond leadership in the Non-Aligned Movement practice whenever any world leader stayed to the Korean War. Zhou Enlai accepted Mohammed Ali Bogra and Governor- ficials put Lifebuoy soaps, along with the itinerary of every visit and build a (NAM). India after Independence as- at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Matthew the invitation, but his visit was kept a General Malik Ghulam Mohammed also other brands of soap, in each room. diplomatic narrative by highlighting the serted its right not to be part of the Cold writes about Nasser’s visit thus: “After secret until he arrived. Nehru postponed visited India. Matthew writes about the Similarly, Premier Zhou Enlai of the great camaraderie India enjoyed with War dynamics. At one level, it refused the welcome ceremony, President Nass- his customary 10-day trip to Shimla that grand civic reception India gave to Bogra People’s Republic of China, during his world leaders soon after it became in- to be an ally of either of the superpowers, er drove to Rashtrapati Bhavan in the was planned during this time. In a wel- at the Red Fort in New Delhi: visit to India in 1956, specifically asked dependent. The stories clearly give the at another level it drew strategic support Indian President’s Mercedes Benz. The coming gesture, India sent a special ********************** Let Col Purohit, first Army officer arrested ffor terrorism, claims innocence

05 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus INTER STATE PM Modi seeks support of celebs across fields to promote Swachh Bharat Abhiyan NEW DELHI: As his pet Clean their support. leading up to Gandhi Jayanti on 2.“I personally invite you to lend India campaign completes three Introducing the subject of his October 2, “we can encourage your support to the ‘Swachhata years, Prime Minister Narendra short letter as something which widespread support for, and par- Hi Seva’ movement and dedicate Modi has written to opinion mak- was very close to Mahatma Gandhi’s ticipation in cleanliness initiatives some time for the cause of a Swachh ers across fields including indus- heart, Modi said, Bapu believed across India”.He wrote, “Let us Bharat,” Modi wrote adding their try, sports and cinema seeking strongly that Swachhata is for each ensure that the coming days are participation will further inspire their support to ‘Swachhata Hi of us to practice. “An inspiration about living the Mantra of ‘Swach- others to be a part of the move- Seva’ movement, saying it is the to billions across generations and hata Hi Seva’.”The Swachh Bharat ment.Coming together for clean- most noble service. borders, Mahatma Gandhi recog- Abhiyan aims to make India a liness would be a fitting tribute to Modi, who had on October 2, nised that our attitude towards cleaner place by emphasising on Bapu and work towards building 2014, picked up a broom to launch cleanliness also reflects our at titude sanitation and health as also chang- a New India, he said. the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, or towards society. Bapu believed in ing age-old attitudes towards “A clean India is the most Clean India Campaign, to promote achieving cleanliness through hygiene.President R am Nath Ko- noble service we can do for the sanitation, has written personalised community participation,” he said vind last week launched the na- poor, downtrodden and the mar- letters to iconic celebrities, prom- in the letter seen by PTI. tionwide ‘Swachhta Hi Seva’ cam- ginalised. Unclean surroundings inent industrialists, sportspersons, Asking the opinion makers to paign to reignite the cleanliness adversely impact the weaker sec- film stars, inter-faith leaders and pledge towards cleanliness, the movement by mobilising people tions of society even more,” he other noted personalities to enlist Prime Minister said in the days support in the fortnight to October wrote signing off with a “Jai Hind!” Will ally with Congress, Govt initiatives to further improve health Left to take on BJP in Gujarat, says JD(U) facilities across JK: Bali Bhagat Hails centre for sanctioning Ayurvedic College for Jammu Sharad faction JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 18: Em- Ayurvedic healthcare in He said that that the 1st Batch phasizing on providing better med- the region. for BAMS course in the college will NEW DELHI: Acting president of the Sharad Yadav-led ical facilities to the people, Minister He said that arduous start from the current session. He rebel JD(U) faction Chhotubhai Vasava said on Monday for Health and Medical Education, efforts were made to further said that the State Govern- that his group will ally with the Congress and others like Bali Bhagat today said that the Gov- achieve this goal. He also ment has already taken up the issue the Left parties while also exploring a tie-up with Hardik ernment has taken up several initia- hailed the Union Govern- of selection of 50 eligible candidates Patel to take on the BJP in the Gujarat assembly polls. tives to further improve the health ment for sanctioning the for the course with the Board of The six-time Gujarat ML A, who enjoys influence among facilities across the State. establishment of this Professional Entrance Examination tribals in parts of Gujarat, attacked the BJP, saying demon- Health is the prime concern of College at Jammu. (BOPEE) authorities. etisation and the GST have “destroyed” the economy. everyone and the Government will He said immediately Pertinently, the Government He also claimed that the Sardar Sarovar Dam inaugu- continue to make efforts to strength- after taking the reign of Ayurvedic College in Jammu, the rated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday would en this sector, he added. the Ministry of Health only such institute in the state, was not be of much help to the common man. “We will ally with The Minister was speaking at a and Medical Education, established in 1962 and now going the Congress and also other parties like the Left. We will function organized by the residents health and medicare institution the College, the aspirants of BAMS the process for the establishment to be revived after four decades. also try to have a tie-up with Hardik Patel,” he told a press of Raipur-Domana constituency sanctioned for Jammu by the Cen- from all over the state will be ben- of this much needed institution was Later, the Minister interacted conference here.The state polls are slated for later this year. today to felicitate the Minister for tral Government. efited as they need not to go outside set in motion. with the medical team coming for The Yadav faction on Sunday declared the Bihar chief his vigorous efforts for the revival Dedicating the Ayurvedic College the State for pursuing their degrees. The Minister informed that all 3-day medical camp to be organized minister Nitish Kumar’s election as the party chief as void of Government Ayurvedic College to the people of Jammu, the Minis- Describing the decision of the important issues pertaining to ar- in Raipur-Domana constituency. and appointed Vasava as its acting chief. at Jammu after four decades. ter said that it was a long pending Central Government for sanctioning rangements of faculty, selection of The team comprises doctors and A sked about Kumar’s position in the par t y, Vasava claimed The residents congratulated the demand of the region which has been Ayurvedic College as historic, Bha- candidates and infrastructural fa- medical students from Bihar, Gu- he had left the organisation. Minister for his persistent efforts fulfilled. gat said that the opening of the col- cilities were streamlined for the jarat, Banaras and other parts of Javed Raza, a leader of the Yadav faction, said they had to get the much needed traditional He said that with the revival of lege will restore lost glory of the revival of the Aurvedic College. the country. moved the Election Commission to stake claim over the party’s symbol and sought four weeks time to supply it with documents to support their claim of having a majority sup- port in the party. With a big majority of the party’s elected members and 5 years on, no chargesheet in Navruna murder case office bearers backing Kumar following Yadav’s challenge to his leadership, Vasava claimed that MLAs and MPs have MUZAFFARPUR: The Central Bureau wanted to sell and had even taken advance graph test, they have failed to respond to in the last three-and-a-half-years since it no role and insisted that his group has adequate support of Investigation (CBI) is yet to file a chargesheet money of Rs 21 lakh for it from a property CBI summons for brain mapping.Having took up the case, what will the CBI do in within the party. and has just one arrest to show in the sen- dealer. Hav ing zeroed in on 10 accused, the missed two previous deadlines — October the nex t 12 days,” wondereThough Nav r una’s Kumar and leaders supporting him have refrained from sational Navruna Chakraborty murder case, CBI had on September 4 arrested Rakesh 31, 2016 and March 31, 2017 — for complet- body has still not been recovered, the in- commenting on yesterday’s developments. which completed five years on Monday. Kumar Sinha ‘Pappu’, a councillor of ward ing investigations in the case, the CBI is vestigating agency has unofficially told They have already approached the Rajya Sabha chair- Bihar’s land mafia had on September 18, number 23 of the Muzaffarpur Municipal now racing against time to meet the Sep- Navruna’s parents that the skeleton recov- man to disqualify Yadav and another party MP Ali Anwar 2012 kidnapped 14-year-old Navruna, a Corporation. Both Pappu and property tember 30 deadline — the third — fixed by ered from the drain near their house was over their alleged anti-party activities. student of class 7, from her residence on dealer Brajesh Kumar have been evading the Supreme Court hearing the case.Peeved that of their daughter. Yadav came out against Kumar after the latter dumped Jawaharlal Road in Muzaffarpur, and sub- brain mapping test, which the CBI has re- over the tardy progress of the probe, Navru- The CBI has submitted the DNA test the RJD and the Congress and joined hands with the BJP sequently killed her. A skeleton recovered quested for. Of the 10 accused, four have na’s parents have questioned the motive of report, in a sealed cover, to the special CBI in a matter of hours, saying that he could not run a govern- from the drain near her house on November undergone polygraph test, also called nar- the CBI. They alleged that it was trying to court in Muzaffarpur. The parents, who ment in Bihar with the RJD as its leader and then deputy 26 was believed to be hers. The land sharks co or lie detector test in common parlance, shield some politicians and senior admin- refused to buy the CBI theory, have been chief minister Tejashwi Yadav had not come clean on cor- were eyeing a chunk of six kathas land, which while four others have refused it. Though istrative and police officials who were involved demanding a copy of their DNA test findings ruption charges. Navruna’s father, Atulya Chakraborty, Pappu and Kumar have undergone the poly- in the case. “When it has not done anything along with that of the skeleton. Who is Maya Kodnani: Once rising star of Educationists demand stricter Gujarat, convicted in 2002 riots laws to check school security NEW DELHI: After a child was murdered including the minorities’ schools. A law em- AHMEDABAD: BJP president and another raped on the school premises powers parents. What we are being offered Amit Shah on Monday appeared as a in the National Capital Region last week, is cosmetic,” he said.Educationist and former defence witness for Maya Kodnani, educationists and lawyers say a stricter law principal of Laxman School Dr. Usha Ram telling a special court that the former to regulate schools’ security as well as better said: “Random inspections by the Delhi gov- Gujarat minister was at the state as- monitoring of existing provisions are need- ernment are common, maybe twice or thrice sembly and a government hospital ed.Ashok Agarwal, a lawyer and the president in a year, but these are just to ensure good when the 2002 riots broke out in of the All-India Parents Association, said academics and infrastructure in a school, Ahmedabad.Kodnani stands accused the fundamental problem was that since like whether CCTV cameras are installed of inciting a mob that killed 11 people private schools can be profit-driven, they correctly or not.”She added that schools should in the city’s Naroda Gam on February can forget about involving the most impor- make sure that there are attendants at wash- 28, 2002.Once a rising star in the tant stakeholders – the parents. rooms for students and separate washrooms Gujarat BJP, Kodnani, a g y naecologist Right to question for staff/ parents and students, which Lax- by profession, was elevated to the “Parents should be involved, not kept man School had done.Regular supervision minister of state for women and child outside the school boundaries. There should Ashok Pandey, the principal of Ahlcon development in the Gujarat govern- be a shift of power from the school manage- International School, said that only bringing ment in 2007. In 2009, Kodnani was ment. The Centre should enact a law giving in more security measures would not be forced to resign after her arrest in the 50% representation to parents in committees sufficient.“One activity is not sufficient. Se- separate Naroda Patya rioting case. that run unaided schools,” he said. curity should take center stage and for that, Early life He added that currently parents account we should renew our efforts to make students A report in the Indian Express for just one member of the 22-member com- safe," he said.According to him, re-visiting describes Kodnani’s early life, study- won and Kodnani was later elevated 28, 2002, where 97 people, including A Supreme Court-appointed mittees.Random inspections facilities and regular supervision by au- ing in a Gujarati-medium school to the chairman of the standing com- women and children were brutally special investigation Team (SIT) "Guidelines don't ensure safety. There thorities are required as just installing cam- founded by her father in Deesa. After mittee.In 1998, Kodnani was elected murdered by a mob led by the Bajrang made Kodnani an accused in the should be a proper law enacted by Parliament, eras or other security features is not enough. school, she enrolled in the Baroda as the BJP MLA from Naroda. She Dal.Kodnani is also accused of insti- Naroda Patiya case. She was declared Medical College to pursue MBBS, fol- was also the general secretary of Gu- gating the Naroda Gam riots, where an absconder after she failed to re- lowed by a diploma in gynaecology jarat Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha 11 people died, and of firing a pistol spond to SIT’s requests for a depo- progress.The project was launched in 2012 and obstetrics. At the same time, she and later, from 1998 to 2000, its chief. and distributing arms that she had sition.Kodnani was arrested in March PDS digitisation at a cost of 884 crore to ensure that, at every joined Rashtriya Sevika Samiti, the In 2000, she became the first transported to Naroda in her car. 2009, following which she resigned step from field to fork, the government would RSS women’s wing. woman president of the Ahmedabad After the riots as minister of state for women and moving at snail’s pace be able to track the movement of foodgrains She later moved to Ahmedabad BJP, a position she retained till 2005. Kodnani’s ascent to power con- child development. NEW DELHI: The Narendra Modi govern- so that they reached the right beneficiaries. and set up the Shivam Maternity Hos- Narodya Patya and Naroda Gam tinued after the riots. Mentored by In August 2012, a special SIT ment’s claim to ensure end-to-end digitisa- As part of the effort, all fair price or ration pital in Kubernagar in Naroda. massacres BJP patriarch LK Advani, she won court convicted and sentenced Kod- tion of the Public Distribution System (PDS) shops were to be digitised. But out of 5.26 Political career The 2002 riots in happened dur- the 2002 elections with a huge ma- nani to life, describing her as the is coming to naught even after three years of lakh ration shops, only 51% have been digitised Her first br ush w ith politics came ing Kodnani’s stint as BJP’s ML A from jority. In 2007, she was appointed “kingpin of the massacre”. being in mission mode. At least 11 States have in three years, it was found at a review meet- in 1995, when the BJP fielded her as Naroda. She was convicted for insti- as the MoS for women and child In 2014, a Gujarat high court not taken the elementary step of digitising ing chaired by the Minister of Consumer their candidate from Saijpur ward in gating rioters and orchestrating the development. accepted Kodnani’s plea for regular fair price shops and nine other States, includ- Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Ram Ahmedabad civic elections. The BJP Naroda Patya massacre on February The case against Kodnani bail on ‘health grounds’. ing Uttar Pradesh, have hardly made any Vilas Paswan, on Friday. 06 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus HEALTH This simple test may help predict 14-MONTH-OLD BRAIN DEAD TODDLER IS preterm births

GUJARAT'S YOUNGEST ORGAN DONOR Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that a After being declared brain dead, fourteen- simple test of cervical mucus may reveal month-old Somnath Shah has become the young- pregnant women's risk of going into est organ donor in Gujarat by donating his heart labour too early.Up to 18 per cent of and kidneys to two persons.Somnath, who hailed babies born worldwide arrive before from Mubarakpur village in Siwan district of they are full-term, defined as 37 weeks Bihar, was declared brain dead after he suffered of gestation. The study, published in a haemorrhage and multiple skull fractures. the journal Scientific Reports, showed Taking his family's consent, his heart was that cervical mucus from women who transplanted into Mumbai’s three-and-a-half- delivered their babies before 37 weeks was nor- year-old Aaradhya Muley, while kidneys to a very different from that of women who de- mally 15-year-old boy from Banaskantha.The little one livered later.This type of analysis could of- blocks access fell from stairs while playing with his elder sis- fer an easy way to calculate the risk of to the uterus.For the new study, the research- ter near his house and hit his head and became early labor, potentially allowing doctors to ers decided to investigate the mucus's per- unconscious.His parents took him to a local doc- try to intervene earlier to prevent preterm meability to small particles. Mucus is formed tor, on whose advice, they rushed him to New births."Our prediction is that we might be from polymers known as mucins, and the Civil Hospital in Surat. able to identify risk for preterm birth ahead composition and arrangement of these mu- As per a report published in Indian Express, of time, before labour sets in," said senior cins determine how porous the gel is.The Nilesh Mandlewala, president of Surat-based Do- author of the study Katharina Ribbeck, As- researchers collected samples from two nate Life, an initiative for organ donation, said the to the family. Besides working on organ donation, said they that agreed for organ donation after the sociate Professor at MIT.Between 25 and groups of patients. The low-risk group in- hospital doctors informed them about Somnath. we also double up as counsellors,” said counsellors explained them its impor tance. “If the 40 per cent of early births are believed to cluded pregnant women who came in to “He had a brain haemorrhage and multiple fractures Mandlewala.“ The family finally agreed on Monday lives of other children can be saved by our son, be caused by infections that occur when their doctors' offices for routine visits around in skull. Somnath was declared brain dead on Sun- evening, and we started the process of finding the what can be better than this? We are proud of our microbes reach the uterus through the cer- 30 weeks and ended up giving birth after day night after which we explained organ donation recipients,” added Mandlewala. Somnath’s father decision,” said his father over telephone. vical plug, which is made of mucus and 37 weeks. This is how goggles prevent New app can replace ultrasound to measure heart health Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now Type-2 diabetes – Read there is an app for that. Researchers have shown that the camera on your smartphone can nonin- vasively provide detailed information about your heart's health.With this app, what used to require a 45-minute scan from an ultrasound machine can now be accomplished by simply holding your phone up to your neck for a minute or two, according to a study published in the Journal of Critical Care Medicine.The team developed a technique that can infer the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) of the heart by measuring the amount that the carotid artery displaces the skin of the neck as blood pumps through it. Echocardiography, however, requires a trained technician, an expensive ultrasound machine, and up to 45 minutes of a patient's time. "What is exciting about this study is that it shows our technique is as accurate as echocardiog- out with each beat, and the LVEF value is lower. an MRI examination, and data from both tests Have you ever thought that by just wear- developed at Flinders University in Aus- raphy at estimating LVEF when both are compared LVEF is a key measure of heart health, one upon were compared. The measurements made by smart- ing a pair of goggles, it would be possible to tralia to help treat sleep issues.Light helps to the gold standard of cardiac MRI," said senior which physicians base diagnostic and therapeutic phone had a margin of error of around 19 per cent avert Type-2 diabetes?Researchers have regulate one's body clock which regulates author Mory Gharib, Professor at California Insti- decisions.To test the app, clinical trials were con- compared with those done in an MRI. By way of found that type 2 diabetes could be pre- the release of certain hormones.The release tute of Technology (Caltech). ducted with 72 volunteers between the ages of 20 comparison, the margin of error for echocardiog- vented by using goggles that release bright of such hormones which control blood "This has the potential to revolutionize how and 92 at an outpatient magnetic resonance imag- raphy is around 20 per cent. The app works because light into the eyes, as per reports. sugar levels, is "irregular in people with doctors and patients can screen for and monitor ing (MRI) facility. MRI is the gold standard in the walls of arteries are almost completely elastic As per a report published in Deccan pre-diabetes," according to the report."Light heart disease both in the U.S. and the developing measuring LVEF but is seldom used clinically due - they expand and contract with each beat of the Chronicle, originally attributed to the exposure can have profound effects on world," Gharib said.LVEF represents the amount to its high cost and limited availability. To measure heart. That expanding and contracting can be Daily Mail, the goggles, called Re-Timer, some of the body’s hormones. It will be of blood in the heart that is pumped out with each LVEF using the technique developed at Caltech, measured and described as a waveform that encodes have four small lights in the frame and interesting to determine the effects of this beat. In a normal heart, this LVEF ranges from 50 doctors simply held iPhones against the volunteers' information about the heart. For the study, the are designed to help regulate the body light therapy on insulin sensitivity — al- to 70 per cent. When the heart is weaker, less of necks for one to two minutes. team used an iPhone 5, but any smartphone with clock.The special eyewear was originally though perhaps getting. the total amount of blood in the heart is pumped Afterwards, the volunteers immediately received a camera would work, the study said. WHILE TECHNOLOGY LETS YOU MEASURE HEART HEALTH, One more swine flu death reported, INCLUDE THESE FOODS TO STAY FIT toll rises to 41 in Odisha

Considering the rise in the rate of cardiovas- One more patient died of swine flu at critical state as a result of which we are not cular diseases around the world, it is imperative SCB Medical College and Hospital on Wednes- able to do much to save their lives," said a to keep a track on your heart health every now and day, taking state's H1N1 death toll to 41.The doctor. He advised people to visit doctor then. Looks like experts are going to make it easy deceased was identified as Kalpana Jena(55), immediately if they develop flu like symp- for you. The camera in your smartphone may be a native of Damodarpatna village in Jag- toms. "We have noticed that as H1N1 has able to non-invasively provide detailed information atsinghpur district. She was admitted to similar symptoms like flu people are ignor- about your heart’s health. According to the study, SCB three days ago and her condition was ing it in primary stage. Once it affects the published in the journal of Critical Care Medicine, really critical. "She was kept on ventilator respiratory system then patients are com- what used to require a 45-minute scan from an but her condition deteriorated,and the pa- ing to hospital. It's too late by then," said a ultrasound machine can now be accomplished by tient passed away at around 1am," said senior doctor.Meanwhile, the r ise in inflow simply holding your phone up to your neck for a nodal of ficer of sw ine flu ward, Dr Manoran- of dengue patients has turned a cause of minute or two. jan Pattnaik. This was the 14th swine flu concern for SCB authorities. In the wake of The team has developed a technique that can death reported at SCB this season."Most of sudden rise in number of patients, SCB au- infer the left ventricular ejection (LVEF) of the the patients are coming to hospital in a thorities were forced to expand dengue ward. heart by measuring the amount that the carotid artery displaces the skin of the neck as blood pumps through it. "What is exciting about this study is that it shows our technique is as accurate as echo- cardiography at estimating LVEF when both are be included in your diet. Good sources of omega-3 of heart diseases. Scientists have found that con- compared to the gold standard of cardiac MRI," fatty acids are walnuts, flaxseed oil, salmon and suming flavanol-r ich cocoa products such as dark said senior author Mory Gharib, Professor at Cal- trout. Experts have long been suggesting cutting chocolate may benefit cardiovascular health. ifornia Institute of Technology (Caltech).\Technol- down on salt consumption as it leads to a rise in Switch to green tea or green coffee. They have ogy may help keep your heart health on track, but blood pressure levels, further causing heart is- various antioxidants that help prevent blood to keep yourself fit, it is essential to sw itch to healthy sues. It is recommended to cut down on junk and clotting and heart ailments.Including vitamin foods and a proper diet. Here’s what you should processed foods that have a high amount of salt. C rich foods in your diet can actually help in add to your daily diet for a strong heart. Chocolate lovers, rejoice! Eating a little bit of lowering the risk of heart diseases because of its Omega-3 fatty acids are good fats that should dark chocolate daily can actually lower the risk powerful antioxidant properties. 'NOT A WOMAN'S CHOICE' INDIA'S ABORTION LIMIT PUTS WOMEN AT RISK, SAY CAMPAIGNERSI They didn't pop open boxes of sweets or send said Nikhil Datar, a Mumbai-based gynecologist, ical board to study the abortion plea of the 13-year- least six patients currently on their abortion pleas.'Not fetal anomalies are detected – are often denied, out excited phone messages when their first child whom the couple consulted.Datar guided the old rape survivor who is now 31 weeks' pregnant, a Woman's Choice'Abortions in India are a "con- despite studies showing that only a small propor- was born at public hospital on a rainy Mumbai couple to file the abor tion petition in the Supreme and will hear her plea this week."It is unethical ditional right," offered only if there is a substantial tion of these abor tions are sex-selective.A s a result night in July.The couple had known from the Court citing the foetus's abnormality."She [the to put a victim of rape through the trauma of a risk of the child being born with a physical or men- many women visit small backstreet clinics to ter- 24th week of the pregnancy that their child would mother] has now slipped into depression. We full term pregnancy and then abandon the child," tal handicap or in the case of contraceptive failure. minate their pregnancies, where the cost of the be born with Arnold Chiari Type II syndrome don't disturb her any more," Datar told the Thom- said Sangeeta Rege of the Centre for Enquiry But the termination must be carried out within 20 procedure is high but care is poor.It is estimated – a structural defect in the brain.Since abortions son Reuters Foundation.When India introduced into Health and Allied Themes (Cehat), a health weeks – unless the mother's life is in danger – and that about 10 percent of the nearly 45,000 mater- in India are allowed only up to 20 weeks of preg- the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in charity supporting the 13-year-old.These cases the final decision rests with the doctor, who will nal deaths in the country annually are due to unsafe nancy, the couple petitioned India's Supreme 1971, it set a 20-week deadline for abortions, were among a string of petitions, backed by the often consult the woman's wider family."Abortion abortions," said Subha Sri, chairperson of Com- Court to allow them a to terminate the preg- which campaigners say was an arbitrary decision some of the country's best known doctors, health is not being understood as a woman's right. Wom- monhealth, a national coalition of health nancy, which was by then 27 weeks. The court then, and now ignores the medical advances charities and lawyers, seeking abortions at India's en are asked to bring their spouse or in-laws if they charities."Studies have shown that the more des- rejected their plea.The couple, who chose to India has made.The Indian government remains top court.The court has approved more pleas than are seeking an abortion particularly in the second perate the woman for an abortion, the higher its remain anonymous in the much-publicized case, reluctant to change the law fearing its misuse it has declined, but activists say suggested amend- trimester," said Rege."So abortion is not a woman's cost."Proposed changes to the MTP Act have raised said in media interviews that they did not have for sex-selective abortions.But the 20-week dead- ments to the 1971 act to extend the abortion dead- choice, but that of the family."And doctors fear concerns in the Indian government that the the wherewithal – emotional and financial – to line has hit victims of sexual assault, especially line to 24 weeks and to train more doctors to flouting another law – the Pre Conception and amendment may increase sex-selective abortions, take care of the child, while doctors could not the very young whose pregnancies are detected carry out abortions should be passed in parliament Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act – that aims a concern campaigners say is not based on evi- indicate the infant's expected life span."There late, campaigners say.In July, the Supreme Court to unburden the court and save women from un- to stop the widespread practice of female foeticide dence.But the proposal is backed by the health was no treatment available for the baby. Pus was rejected an abortion plea made by the parent of necessary stress."In 45 years, technological inter- and sex-selective abortions in India, where boys ministry and is currently with the Prime Min- flowing from the brain. The mother was home a 10-year-old rape victim who delivered a child ventions have improved. Terminations are becom- are preferred over girls.So abortion requests in the ister Narendra Modi's office for consideration, and cared for the baby for a month and a half," in August.The court last week appointed a med- ing safer and safer," said Datar, who is guiding at second trimester of a pregnancy – which is when said a health ministry official. 07 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus BUSINESS Modi to meet Jaitley, top finance ministry officials on Tuesday to review economic situation

introduction of the GST, billed as India’s big- ago. Centre eyes cuts in gest tax reform in 70 years. Complicating the finance ministr y’s budget A mbiguous r ules, an onerous return filing arithmetic further, the Reserve Bank of India system and glitches with its IT back-end have announced last month that its annual surplus, spending as glitches made doing business far more complicated for a dividend transferred by the central bank to many companies. Frequent changes in tax the government each year, would be only $4.9 in GST hit revenue rates after the GST’s launch have heightened billion, less than half the initial estimate, business uncer taint y, resulting in many firms largely due to costs of Modi’s shock “demon- NEW DELHI: India could be forced to cut failing to register for the new tax. etisation” initiative last year. spending on key infrastructure such as railways Manpreet Singh Badal, finance minister “This is an abnormal year. A shortfall in and highways as lower-than-expected tax col- of the northern state of Punjab, told Reuters tax and non-tax revenue could give a shock,” lections and sluggish growth have upset the the new ta x was launched in a “hurr y resulting said NR Bhanumurthy, an economist at the government’s budget calculations, two finance in a lot of chaos and pandemonium”. National Institute of Public Finance and Pol- ministry officials said. Punjab, for example, had suffered a revenue icy, a Delhi-based think-tank funded by the NEW DELHI: Concerned about slowdown last fiscal.The figure compares w ith 0.6% ($3. 4 Tax receipts were about $7.8 billion in July shor tfall of about R s 8 billion in the first month finance ministry. in the economy, Prime Minister Narendra billion) for January-March 2017. - a little over half the monthly target - mostly of the July-June fiscal year, He said the economy was still recovering Modi will interact with finance minister Arun The teething troubles with the rollout of because millions of firms failed to comply with he said as the textile, engineering goods from Modi’s move to withdraw 86% of high Jaitley and other top officials on Tuesday to the Goods and Services Tax (GST), after-effects the new Goods and Services Tax (GST) system and other small industries were hit. The state value banknotes as part of a fight against graft. take stock of the situation and discuss reme- of demonetisation and the fiscal space avail- that harmonises all state and central sales tax- expects to raise near Rs 395 billion ($6.17 TAX COLLECTIONS dial measures to bolster growth. able is likely to figure during the meeting. es but is still a work in progress. billion) in tax in 2017/18. A finance ministry spokesman said tax Modi will threadbare analyse the eco- To date, direct and indirect tax collections The big worry is that economic growth, which Under a GST deal, the central government receipts were expected to improve as problems nomic situation with Jaitley and secretaries as well as projections for the year may be slipped to a three-year low in the last quarter, has to compensate states if their receipts fall related to the new GST system and the technol- of the finance ministry and explore options presented to the PM. could take a further hit if the public spending below an annual growth of 14% in taxes for ogy underpinning it were tackled. to stimulate the economy, official sources said. Disinvestment proceeds may also be put that largely underpinned expansion were to be the next five years. In his annual budget presented in February, The meeting comes days after government before Modi to give a fuller picture of govern- slashed.“There is a concern over lower tax col- India’s GDP growth itself has slowed to finance minister Jaitley had projected a 17% data showed GDP growth in the first quarter ment finances.Inflationary pressures, along lections,” a senior finance ministr y of ficial said. 5.7% in the April-June quarter from 7.9% a growth in tax collections, while estimating of the current fiscal slumping to a three-year with reasons for the lacklustre manufacturing The revenue shortfall could be at least Rs year earlier, a slowdown also partly blamed spending of nearly $335.05 billion in the cur- low of 5.7%, from 7.9% in April-June of 2016 growth of 1.2% in July, may also come up for 800 billion ($12.5 billion) if the current trend on the introduction of the GST, adding to the rent fiscal year.Jaitley also has to set aside and 6.1% of January-March. discussion, they said, adding that the meeting continues until the end of the year, a second pressure on the state coffers. funds for stressed state-run banks, which need GDP growth has declined steadily for six may also take stock of spread of monsoon and official said, forcing a re-think in government Dividends from state-run companies are nearly $60 billion in ex tra capital to meet new straight quarters and the Economic Survey- its impact on agricultural economy. spending.He said receipts from individual and expected to fall and a $11 billion share sale international banking rules by March 2019 II predicts that the economy may not be able Both wholesale and retail inflation rose corporate income tax may slightly overshoot programme is slowing down. according to Fitch Ratings estimates. to achieve the targeted growth rate of 7.5% in August.With demonetisation said to have the target of R s 9.8 tr illion ($152.8 billion) for “If the revenues remain below target, then Balancing those demands while trying to owing to deflationary pressures. dealt a blow to black money, steps being tak- the whole year, partly due to a crackdown on the government could cut spending on railways control the fiscal deficit would involve a cut in Expor ts are facing strong headw inds and en to prevent its generation may also be dis- tax evaders. And in coming months, GST col- and road transport,” the second finance min- public spending, analysts said. the industrial growth is the lowest in five cussed at the meeting.Sources said the inter- lections may pick up.Both officials spoke on istry official said. Soumya Kanti Ghosh, chief economist at years.The current account deficit (CAD) in action may focus broadly on what ails the condition of anonymity.Without spending cuts, Aiming to boost growth, Finance Minister State Bank of India, said in a research note the April-June quarter has risen to 2.4% of economy and the fiscal space available with the second of ficial said, the fiscal deficit could Arun Jaitley increased budgetary allocations this month that first quarter economic growth GDP, or $14.3 billion, mainly on account of the government.Steps to boost economic slip to 3.5% of GDP, from the target of 3.2% for the railways by one-fifth to 550 billion was supported by higher state spending but increased trade gap.CAD, the difference be- growth, create jobs and reviving private that the Narendra Modi government has set rupees and by 24% for highways development the need to rein in the fiscal deficit could force t ween inflow and outflow of foreign exchange, investment may be part of the discussion, for 2017/18. The main problem has been the to Rs 649 billion this fiscal year from a year the government to cut expenditure. was 0.1% ($0.4 billion) in the June quarter of they said.

Supplied 80% steel required for Global debt may be understated by $13 trillion, Sardar Sarovar Project: SAIL NEW DELHI: State-owned SAIL on Sunday said it rise in interest rates could spark crisis: BIS has supplied 80% steel required for the construction of Sardar Sarovar Project, inaugurated by Prime Minister LONDON: The conundrum of monetary and economic department continued to rise. Deleveraging Narendra Modi. stubbornly low inflation despite a of the BIS, referring to a play in which has not really occurred and where “Once again partnering in one of the most prestigious pick-up in global growth and con- the main characters wait for some- private debt levels have adjusted, and important national projects, Steel Authority of India tinued monetary stimulus is a “tril- one who never arrives. at least to some extent, public debt Ltd (SAIL) has supplied 80% steel required for construc- lion dollar” question, the umbrella But the BIS says no one has yet has taken over.“A defining question tion of the Sardar Sarovar Project inaugurated by Prime body for the world’s leading central worked out why inflation has re- for the global economy is how vul- Minister Narendra Modi today,” the public sector firm banks said on Sunday. mained so subdued while economies nerable balance sheets may be to said in a statement. The Bank for International have approached or surpassed es- higher interest rates.” SAIL supplied around 85,000 tonnes of steel (TMT) for Settlements (BIS) said in its latest timates of full employment and Certain indicators do also point the entire Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL) quarterly report that cheap borrow- central banks have provided un- to vulnerabilities. Property devel- project which comprises all the canals throughout Gujarat ing rates and the rare simultaneous precedented stimulus. opment, a traditional bubble which are connected to Narmada River and Dam, the state- expansion of advanced and develop- “This is the trillion-dollar ques- blower, is helping to fuel booms in ment said. ing economies are dr iv ing financial tion that will define the global parts of Asia. Debt-service ratios, The Sardar Sarovar project is the second largest con- markets higher, with signs of “exu- economy’s path in the years ahead meanwhile, are only so low because crete gravity dam (by volume) and has the world’s third berance” starting to re-emerge. and determine, in all probability, zero interest rates, while a third said tensions and what the BIS called interest rates have fallen so much. largest spillway discharging capacity. US corporate debt is much high- the future of current policy frame- the shift to more domestically issued the “remarkable” low levels of mar- “There is a certain circularity The Sardar Sarovar Dam is a gravity dam built on er than before the financial crisis works,” Borio said. and longer-dated bonds in emerging ket volatility.“We do not fully un- in all this that points to the risk of Narmada river near Navagam, Gujarat, which will ben- and a drop in the premiums inves- “Worryingly, no one really knows markets could make them more derstand the factors at work. But a debt trap,” the BIS said. efit four states – Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra tors demand for riskier lending has the answer.” resilient to external shocks despite surely the unprecedented gradual The protracted decline in inter- and Rajasthan, the company said. boosted sales of so-called covenant- Under-reported debt the increase in overall debt levels. pace of monetary policy normalisa- est rates to unusually low levels, A part of the Narmada Valley Project, it will help in lite bonds offering high yields. The report also contained a study There has been a doubling in tion has played a role,” Borio said. regardless of the strength of the irrigation and electrical power supply. The BIS said this raises a ques- that showed global debt could be outstanding government debt of “All this puts a premium on un- underlying economy, creates the The company said it is a part of a large hydraulic tion over the potential for another under-reported by about $13 trillion emerging market economies since derstanding the ‘missing inflation’, conditions that complicate their engineering project, involving the construction of a series crisis if there is a significant rise in because traditional accounting prac- 2007 to $11.7 trillion at the end of because inflation is the lodestar subsequent return to more normal of large irrigation and hydroelectric multi-purpose dams interest rates. The body has called tices exclude foreign exchange de- 2016. Government debt rose from for central banks.” levels, it added. on the Narmada river. for a gradual return to higher rates, rivatives used to hedge interna- 41 percent to 51 percent of GDP over Debt trap “Against this backdrop, the One of the 30 dams planned on river Narmada, Sar- though central banks are being ten- tional trade and foreign currency the same period. The BIS, as normal, used its increase in the percentage of firms dar Sarovar Dam (SSD) is the largest str ucture to be built. tative because of persisting low bonds.Another said central banks The main focus of the report, report to flag potential areas of unable to cover their interest pay- “The project will irrigate more than 18,000 m2 (190,000 inflation. need to do more work on digital or though, was the lack of inflation, risk that may be developing. ments with their earnings – so- sq ft), most of it in drought prone areas of Kutch and “It feels like ‘Waiting for Godot’,” cryptocurrencies but that they could the heady rally in financial markets, Since the global financial crisis, called “zombie” firms – does not Saurashtra. The total installed capacity of the power said Claudio Borio, the head of the make it easier to implement sub- their ability to shrug off geopolitical global debt in relation to GDP has bode well.” facilities is 1,450 MW,” the steel major said.

SBI reviewing minimum balance Indias demography a goldmine, to drive charges for savings accounts third great wave of Asian growth: Deloitte MUMBAI: State Bank of India (SBI) sector banks.With regard to rising bad said it is reviewing charges for certain loans, unions have made suggestion of NEW DELHI: India will emerge By 2042 there will be more over- categories of accounts for non- maintenance declaring wilful defaulters as criminals, as an economic superpower supplying 65s in Asia than the populations of of monthly average balance (MAB) after said All India Bank Officers Confederation more than half the increase in Asia’s Europe and North America combined. receiving feedback from customers.In April (A IBOC) Joint General Secretar y R av inder potential workforce over the coming This will provide a target-rich this year, the country’s largest lender re- Gupta.AIBOC is one of the bank officer decade in a developing scenario where environment of business opportuni- introduced charges on non-maintenance unions of the UFBU.He further said, on demography is shifting the balance ties arising from trends such as rising of monthly average balance (MAB) after a the one hand banks are writing off loans of power in Asia, according to Deloitte’s life expectancy, increasing relative gap of five years.“We have received feedback of big corporates, on the other hand they “Voice of Asia” report.“India is among health care costs and tightening pub- from our customers on the issue and we are increasing charges on their customers. a handful of South Asian countries lic sector budgets. are reviewing those. The bank will take This is unfair and unions have requested that sits on a demographic gold mine. Asia is ageing fast, with a billion into account those and make an informed the finance minister for his intervention. India has a median population age people in the region to be aged 65 and decision,” the banks managing director As per the list of revised charges of SBI, of 27.3 years compared to that of 35 over by the middle of this century, (national banking group) Rajnish Kumar failure to maintain monthly average bal- years for China and around 47 years Deloitte said. told PTI.“We will internally debate wheth- ance in accounts will attract penalty of for Japan,” the Indian arm of British “The money being spent by and er any moderation for certain categories up to Rs 100 plus goods and services tax financial services multinational De- on ageing populations will grow even of customers like senior citizens and students (GST).In metropolitan areas, there will loitte said in a release here on faster than Asia ages, because the needs to be done anywhere. The charges be a charge of Rs 100 plus GST, if the Monday.“Demographic growth is impact of new technologies and the are never cast in iron.”Meanwhile, United balance falls below 75 per cent of the significant as it is intr insically linked on-going management of increasing Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU), an um- MAB of Rs 5,000. If the shortfall is 50 to economic growth and, therefore, lion people in the nex t t went y years. in their working age population, most chronic conditions means health care brella organisation of all banks unions, per cent or less of the MAB, then the bank cannot be ignored,” it said. Deloitte India Lead Economist Asian nations are ageing, which will costs will rise faster than most other has sought finance minister Arun Jaitley’s will charge Rs 50 plus GST.In rural areas, With about 12 million people Anis Chakravarty said: “India will also generate a growth cluster of new costs,” it said. intervention to rollback the hike in charg- the monthly average balance requirement added to the working age population account for more than half of the business opportunities, according to “Private sector opportunities will es imposed on customers.SBIBesides, the has been kept at Rs 1,000. Any shortfall every year, India will drive the third increase in Asia’s workforce in the Deloitte.“Ageing populations may well grow even faster still, because stretched representatives of UFBU, at a meeting with in maintaining minimum balance in ru- great wave of Asian growth after coming decade. The consequences be challenging to some nations, but government budgets mean the share the finance minister on September 15, also ral areas can attract penalty in the range Japan and China earlier. India’s for businesses are huge.” they will also present some incredible of health-related costs borne by tax- requested him to stop the merger of public of Rs 20 to Rs 50 plus GST. potential workforce is set to rise from While India and some Southeast business opportunities within those payers is likely to decrease in the 885 million people now to 1.08 bil- Asian economies are seeing an increase same nations,” it said. decades ahead,” it added. 08 SRINAGAR | September 19, 2017, Tuesday www.timeandus.com www.facebook.com/TimeandUs [email protected] timeandus @timeandus SPORTS Rooney receives two-year Sachin Tendulkar salutes MS Dhoni for driving ban for drunk-driving

LONDON: Former England football captain Wayne Rooney scoring 100 international cricket 50s was banned on Monday from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid community work after pleading MUMBAI: His critics may have been history of ODI cricket to do so. Dhoni had guilty to drink-driving. making sporadic demands for answers achieved the feat during the fifth ODI of The Everton striker apologised for an “unforgivable lack of over his future, but MS Dhoni does not India’s five-match series in Sri Lanka ear- judgement” following his sentencing by a court in northern Eng- seem to be wrapping up anytime soon. On lier this month, in a mere 302 ODIs. land for being nearly three times over the drink-drive limit while the other hand the former Indian cricket Former Sri Lanka cricketer Kumar his pregnant wife and their three sons were on holiday. team captain, who has been a vital cog for Sangakkara is on the second position with He was stopped by police when driving a woman's black Volk- Virat Kohli’s side late in the batting order 99 stumpings in a career spanning over swagen Beetle at around 2am on September 1 and later arrested of late, has been on a record-making spree. 15 years and 404 ODIs. Dhoni played a and bailed.Stockport Magistrates' Court was told a breathalyser MS Dhoni on Sunday created yet an- match-winning role for India in the first test showed Rooney's alcohol level was 104 microgrammes in 100 other record when he notched up a fine ODI against Australia at Chennai. Walking millilitres of breath.The drink-drive limit in England and Wales 79 -r un k nock against Australia at the M A out to bat with India tottering at 64 for is 35 microgrammes per 100 millilitres of breath. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. four after 16 overs and slipping to 87 for Rooney, 31, was banned from driving for two years and ordered Dhoni completed his 100 half-centuries five soon, he teamed up with Hardik Pan- to perform 100 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month com- in international cricket, becoming the dya to turn the game in favour of India. munity order.His legal team asked the judge to consider not fourth Indian batsman to do so. The 36-year- MS Dhoni added 118 runs with the ex- imposing a community order because of his ongoing charitable old has so far scored 33 half-centuries in plosive Pandya who raced to a 66-ball 83, work but he said he was “not convinced” that imposing a large Test cricket, 66 in ODIs and one in T20Is. as India finished at a commendable 281 fine “would have the same effect”. With 164 fif ties, Sachin Tendulkar leads Sachin Tendulkar shared a memorable scored a total of 16 centur ies, w ith 10 com- for seven in their allotted 50 overs. Rooney, who rejoined boyhood club Everton after 13 trophy- the list followed by Rahul Dravid (145) and photograph of Dhoni from Sunday’s match ing in ODIs and the rest in Test cricket. Despite rain interruption resulting in laden years at Manchester United in July, tweeted an apology to Sourav Ganguly (106) in terms of making and congratulated him. Dhoni achieved A few days ago, MS Dhoni had created long delays, India won the game by 26 r uns his 16.4 million followers.“Following today's court hearing I want most fifties in international cricket across the feat in the 472nd innings of a total of the record of registering 100 stumpings via the Duckworth-Lewis Method restrict- publicly to apologise for my unforgivable lack of judgement in formats for India. 470 international matches. He has also as a wicketkeeper, becoming the first in ing Australia to 137 for nine in 21 overs. driving while over the legal limit. It was completely wrong,” Rooney said in a statement.“I have already said sorry to my family, my manager and chairman and everyone at Everton FC. Now I want to apologise to all the fans and everyone else who has followed and supported me throughout my career. La Liga: Gareth Bale India vs Australia: Both teams arrive “Of course I accept the sentence of the court and hope that I can make some amends through my community service.” strikes in vital Real in Kolkata ahead of 2nd ODI Charity work Earlier, Rooney entered court in a dark blue suit and black tie Madrid win at Real KOLKATA: India and Australia and sat in the public gallery next to his agent Paul Stretford. today landed here this afternoon for When asked how he pleaded to the charge that he drove under Sociedad the second ODI of the five-match series the influence of alcohol while over the prescr ibed limit, he replied at Eden Gardens after their thumping guilty.Michael Rainford, defending, said Rooney accepted the MADRID: Gareth Bale responded in win over the visitors in Chennai. facts of the prosecution case in full and highlighted his charity st yle to his cr itics w ith a fine finish as Real Dressed it white T-shirts, the ‘men- work.“He is not somebody who pays lip service to the charities as Madrid got back to winning ways with a in-blue’ looked rela xed as they headed so many often do,” he said. “This is somebody who is actually 3-1 win at Real Sociedad on Sunday. straight to the team hotel along with hands-on with the work he carries out. It is something that is very Borja Mayoral rewarded a bright start their support staff and chief coach Ravi close to his heart.” by Real with his first Madrid goal before Shastri. Following the hearing, the footballer left court with his lawyers Sociedad’s Kev in Rodr igues scored at both “There’s no practice schedule today again followed by a media scrum of TV cameras, press photog- ends to give the visitors a 2-1 half-time and everyone will be resting,” the local raphers and reporters.His entourage fought their way through lead.And Bale secured the three points as Team India manager said at the airport the throng to a waiting people-carrier with tinted windows and he sped past Rodrigues and dinked the after both the teams landed via a char- Rooney was driven away.Everton manager Ronald Koeman said ball over Geronimo Rulli for just his sec- tered flight at 3.30pm. earlier this month the matter would be dealt with internally, ond goal of the season on the hour mark. Earlier, the BCCI had posted pho- adding that he was “disappointed” by the drink-driving charge. Victory moves the European champions tos of the Indian team with Mahendra Rooney has been married to his high-school sweetheart Coleen up to fourth and within four points of Singh Dhoni relaxing on the floor at since 2008 and they are expecting their fourth child. leaders Barcelona. the Chennai aiport lounge while oth- He was given a warm welcome at Old Trafford on his return Bale had received stinging criticism ers including Virat Kohli, KL Rahul to former club Manchester United on Sunday but it ended in from the Spanish press and Madrid fans and Hardik Pandya sitting next to disappointment with a 4-0 defeat for Everton. for his underwhelming displays in Ron- the former skipper. Rooney, England and Manchester United's record goalscorer, aldo’s absence in recent weeks as Real India defeated the world champions made a successful start to his second Everton spell following his dropped points at home to Valencia and by 26 runs by D/L method in a rain- after a two-hour rain delay in Chennai, spinner Kuldeep Yadav, but his dis- return, scoring on his first two Premier League appearances. Levante.“It’s great to always score, but the curtailed ODI last night to draw first Australia lost their top four batsmen missal paved India’s win for a 1-0 lead His form moved England manager Gareth Southgate to offer most important thing was to get the three blood in the bilateral series. in eight overs as their run rate stalled in the series. him an international recall, but he decided to call time on his points for the team, get back on track and Dhoni (79 from balls) and allround- to just above four runs an over. Indore, Bengaluru and Nagpur will England career.Rooney first burst onto the scene aged just 16 at get back to winning ways,” Bale told Span- er Hardik Pandya (83 from 66) shared Glenn Maxwell briefly gave rise to host the remaining three ODIs while Everton and went on to score 17 goals in 77 appearances for the ish TV station Movistar. a centur y stand to propel India to 281/7 hopes of an unlikely victory when he three T20Is will be held in Ranchi, “Toffees” before moving to Manchester United, where he won “I just have to try to keep my head in 50 overs after they were 87-5 inside hit 39 from 18 balls, including three Guwahati and Hyderabad in the lim- multiple trophies, including the Champions League. down and keep working hard and that’s 22 overs. Needing 164 from 21 overs consecutive sixes off left-arm wrist ited overs series. all I can do.“I can’t control what goes on, I can only control how hard I work on the pitch.“You go through ups and downs in your career -- it is how you bounce back.” Without the suspended Cristiano Ron- PV Sindhu may run into Nozomi Okuhara again at Japan Open badminton aldo, as he completed a five-game ban, and injured Karim Benzema, Zinedine NEW DELHI: With the Korea Open with her after claiming silver at the he will take on another Indian in B. Zidane handed 20-year-old Mayoral a title in her kitty, PV Sindhu will now Worlds in Glasgow and then winning Sai Praneeth, who won the Singapore shock start up front. And the Frenchman’s shift her focus to the $325,000 Japan the crown in Seoul on Sunday --- her Open Superseries in April and will faith was rewarded inside 20 minutes when Open, the eighth Superseries tourna- third Superseries title. To add to it, face a qualifier in his opener.Ace shut- Mayoral swept home a loose ball with a ment on the calendar that commenc- the World No 4 Indian has a 2-1 record tler Kidambi Srikanth, who was on a classy finish from close range.Mayoral’s es at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymna- against the World No 19 Minatsu. roll after winning two back-to-back strike meant Madrid have now matched sium on Tuesday. If Sindhu moves ahead, she might Superseries titles earlier this year, will a world record of scoring in 73 consecutive Hav ing made t wo finals in the last run into another Japanese, the un- face a big challenge in the form of world games set by Pele’s Santos in the 1960s. one month, Sindhu will be the cynosure seeded Nozomi Okuhara, for the third No 10 Tian Houwei, who has a 6-1 Crazy 60 seconds of all eyes as she will take the court time in as many tournaments. The record against the Indian.If Srikanth However, the visitors’ joy lasted just against local player Minatsu Mitani. duo have shared quite a bit of time manages to beat his Chinese opponent, nine minutes as Rodrigues levelled thanks Though the Japanese lost to Sind- together on court and are 4-4 in career he will be up against Anthony Sinisu- to a blunder from Keylor Navas. hu in the quarter-finals in Seoul last meetings, which also includes their ka Ginting of Indonesia, who clinched Rodrigues fired Alvaro Odriozola’s week, she cannot be taken lightly at last two epic meetings --- with the the Korea Open crown on Sunday. cross towards goal on the volley, but the any cost. Minatsu was out of action Worlds final going in favour of No- HS Prannoy and Sameer Verma Real ‘keeper should have made a comfort- for three months until Korea Open zomi and Korea Open to Sindhu. bronze medallist moves past the Thai meeting in 2017.If Saina and Sindhu will also return to action and will be able stop rather than letting the ball slip but the Japanese player knows how On the other hand, Saina Nehwal girl, Saina will face old nemesis and progress further against all odds, then up against Danish Anders Antonsen under his grasp. to win Superseries and Grand Prix will return to action after her bronze- reigning Olympic champion Carolina we could have the two Pullela Gopi- and a qualifier, respectively. The match was then held up as a cam- tournaments, having done so in the medal winning campaign at the World Marin in the singles second round. chand protégés facing each other at In doubles, Manu Attri and B. Su- eraman had to be stretchered off with his past. Interestingly, she had also claimed Championships. The former World Seeded fif th here, the former world the semi-final stage.Meanwhile, in meeth Reddy (men), Ashwini Pon- leg heavily strapped as he was injured the bronze at the 2014 World Cham- No 1 will open against Pornpawee champion from Spain will be looking men’s singles, Sourabh Verma faces nappa and N Sikki Reddy (women) from fans surging forward from a tempo- pionships along with Sindhu. Chochuwong, against whom the In- to exert her dominance and win her an uphill task against two-time Olym- and Pranaav Jerry Chopra and Sikki rary stand behind the goal Sociedad were But on the positive side, fourth dian has a 2-0 record. fourth match against Saina in eight pic champion Lin Dan of China. If the have managed direct qualification for defending.Once the game got back under- seed Sindhu has form and momentum If the London Olympic Games meetings. This could also be their first five-time world champion progresses, the main draw. way, a crazy 60 seconds for Rodrigues swung the match back in Madrid’s favour. The left-back was inches away from bagging a second when his looping effort Abhinav Bindra may appear Ashes: Josh Hazlewood rules out chance of came back off the bar. However, Real broke straight up the other end and the unfortunate Rodrigues in film on shooting star’s life Australia using 4 pacers in opener turned Mayoral’s cross into his own net. MUMBAI: Director Kannan Iyer, who is helming Abhinav Bindra Bale sealed the points after the break by biopic, hints that the Olympic gold medallist might appear in the MUMBAI: Australia pacer Josh includes Mitchell Starc, Hazlewood, Pat edged that it w ill be ver y dif ficult to keep scoring for the fifth straight match at An- upcoming film on his life.The yet-to-be-titled movie is being adapted Hazlewood on Monday ruled out the Cummins, James Pattinson and Jackson Lyon out of the mix. oeta as his pace took him beyond the So- from Bindra’s autobiography -- ‘A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey possibility of his side fielding a four- Bird — by the time Ashes begins, the “The way Nathan has bowled it’s been ciedad defence before coolly chipping over to Olympic Gold and Beyond’.When asked if Abhinav Bindra would make pronged pace attack, for the opening recent performances of their ace off- absolutely fantastic the last couple of the advancing Rulli. an appearance in the film, Kannan told PTI, “Yes, possibly towards the Test of the Ashes 2017-18 at The Gabba spinner Nathan Lyon has made him a years. Just for the balance of the team Earlier, Alaves sacked Argentine coach end, it is a kind of tradition in sports biopics but we are yet to decide.” The in Brisbane. strong force in the team’s bowling attack. it’s always handy to have a spinner there Luis Zubeldia after just four games in plot of the film, which features Harshvardhan Kapoor in the lead role, The Ashes 2017-18 begins November Lyon finished w ith 22 w ickets in the and probably only fit three quicks in,” charge as they slipped to the bottom of La will pretty much pan out on the lines of the book, he says.“He has written 23 at the venue where Australia have two-Test series in Bangladesh, following Hazlewood was quoted as saying by Liga with a 3-0 defeat at home to Villar- a book, so we are going by that. He has loved the script and is always enjoyed an impeccable record. Austra- which Australia’s head coach Darren cricket.com.au.As the build-up for the real.Zubeldia failed to muster a point or available for consultation.”The “Ek Thi Daayan” director reveals Harsh- lia have not lost a Test at The Gabba since Lehmann had declared that he was a Ashes 2017-18 intensifies, Hazlewood even a solitary goal in his brief stint in vardhan has begun his training under a trained shooter. Recently, the 1988 when West Indies had pummelled certainly for the Ashes 2017-18 opener. has thrown in his bit of observation about charge with defeats to Leganes, Barce- “Mirzya” actor posted a brief video holding a gun and listening to the them by nine wickets. Hazlewood, who had bowed out of the England batsmen. He feels the visi- lona and Celta Vigo also sealing his fate. instructions of an expert.“He will be training for some time under the While Australia are hoping to have the Bangladesh tour in the first Test at tors do not have enough experience in world class shooter Suma Shirur, followed by sessions with Abhinav. a battery of pace attack ready — which Mirpur due to a side strain, had acknowl- the middle order.

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