Court Acquits Six Accused in Pehlu Khan Lynching Case

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Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY Court acquits six accused in Trump repeats threat to Pehlu Khan lynching case take U.S. out of WTO President questions ‘developing’ tag for China and India Sessions judge gives them the benefit of the doubt; Rajasthan govt. to file appeal Shah Faesal detained in Sriram Lakshman Delhi, taken to Srinagar Mohammed Iqbal Washington DC NEW DELHI JAIPUR U.S. President Donald Kashmiri leader Shah Faesal, Two years after Haryana dai Trump on Tuesday said the a former IAS officer, was ry farmer Pehlu Khan was al U.S. would leave the World stopped from flying out of Trade Organization (WTO), the country at the Delhi legedly lynched by a mob of airport and packed off to cow vigilantes on the Jaipur the world’s largest multilat Srinagar where he has been Delhi National Highway, a eral trade forum, if it had to. placed under preventive sessions court in Alwar on Referring to trade dis detention, a friend and a Wednesday acquitted all six putes, Mr. Trump said, “We government official persons accused of beating were losing all our cases in confirmed. The friend told him to death, while giving the World Trade Organiza The Hindu that when Mr. them the benefit of the tion. Almost every case, we Faesal reached the doubt. The April 1, 2017, inci were — lost, lost, lost. They immigration desk around 1.30 dent, caught on camera, had thought we were stupid. a.m. on Wednesday, he was sparked nationwide outrage. They were the ones ruling. told that he had a lookout Additional district & ses And then I came along. Now notice against him. sions judge Sarita Swami we’re winning a lot of cases NEWS Ī PAGE 13 pronounced the judgment in because they know that directed the Office of the Un U.S. “But people have taken DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD a packed courtroom in the on August 7 after the com submitted in a court in Beh beaten up on the accusation they’re not on very solid ited States Trade Represen advantage... Like, for in presence of the accused, pletion of arguments of pro ror, but the trial was later of smuggling cattle. Khan ground. We will leave, if we tative (USTR), asking it to stance, they view certain who were earlier released on secution and defence. shifted to Alwar. died of his injuries in a hos have to.” convince the WTO to rethink countries — like China, In bail at various stages during Fortyfour witnesses, in Khan, 55, and his sons pital after two days. Mr. Trump was speaking its classification of develop dia, many countries — for a the trial. cluding Khan’s two sons Ir were transporting cows, af APP Yogendra Khatana at the Shell Pennsylvania Pe ing countries (which can long time, they viewed them Three other accused, who shad and Aarif, had deposed ter purchasing them in a cat told The Hindu that the State trochemicals Complex. avail of special trade protec as ‘they’re growing’,” Mr. are minors, are facing pro in the case, registered under tle fair in Jaipur, to their ho would file an appeal in the However, Tuesday is not tions). Trump said. ceedings as children in con Sections 302 (murder), 147 metown Nuh in Haryana, Rajasthan High Court. the first time that Mr. Trump In his speech, Mr. Trump He added that these coun flict with law in Alwar’s Juve (rioting) and 341 (wrongful when they were waylaid has trained his guns on the named India and China as tries had now grown and CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 nile Justice Board. restraint) of the Indian Penal near Behror by the self Ī international trade body. At examples of countries that had “tremendous advantag The trial had concluded Code. The chargesheet was styled cow vigilantes and KIN DISAPPOINTED Ī PAGE 12 the end of July, the President had taken advantage of the es”. Let us now give development a chance, says Modi Changes to J&K will

Special Correspondent ruled the roost. Let us now various subjects, including tus and carving two Union dakh was not harnessed. the usual vested interest bring beneﬁts: Kovind NEW DELHI give development a chance,” the 2019 polls, the govern Territories out of the erst Now, from BPOs to startups, groups, political dynasties, Prime Minister Narendra he told IndoAsian News Ser ment’s anticorruption agen while State, he said it was from food processing to tou those who sympathise with Special Correspondent ople by allowing them to Modi said on Wednesday vice in an interview on com da and issues related to reparation for an injustice. rism, many industries can terror and some friends in New Delhi enjoy the same rights and that he wanted to assure the pleting 75 days of his second health and education. “There was injustice avail investment and create the Opposition. The people President Ram Nath Ko privileges as citizens in the people of Jammu & Kashmir stint as Prime Minister, ad against women and children, opportunities for the local of India, irrespective of what vind on Wednesday said rest of the country, includ and Ladakh that these areas ding that Articles 370 and Reparation for injustice ST and SC communities. youth,” he said. their political preference is, the recent changes to Jam ing progressive laws like would develop as per their 35A were “like chains that On Jammu and Kashmir and And, most importantly, the “Please see the list of peo have supported the steps ,” mu and Kashmir (J&K) and abolition of triple talaq. wishes. kept people tied.” his government’s decision to innovative zeal of the people ple who have opposed the he said. Ladakh will bring “im “For years, intimidation The interview touched on do away with the special sta of Jammu, Kashmir and La decisions about Kashmir — CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 mense beneﬁts” to the pe CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12

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DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF ‘Deshbhakti’ curriculum in schools No child will have to pay to from next academic year: Kejriwal take CBSE exam: Sisodia Minister says cost would be borne by State government Goel takes out tiranga ‘It will be on the same lines as that of Happiness, Entrepreneurship curricula’ yatra with Ministers Staff Reporter gory students for Classes X Staff Reporter Envoy congratulates CM NEW DELHI and XII were doubled from NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Raising the slogan Lal Quila on his style of governance Education Minister Manish ₹750 to ₹1,500 for five sub se Lal Chowk tak tiranga hi On the eve of Independence NEW DELHI Sisodia on Wednesday said jects and for SC/ST students The Ambassador of Nepal to tiranga, MP and former Delhi Day, Chief Minster Arvind that students of Delhi go from ₹375 to ₹1,200 for five India, Nilamber Acharya, on BJP president Vijay Goel Kejriwal announced that the vernment schools and aided subjects. In Delhi, SC/ST stu Wednesday called on Chief undertook a tiranga yatra on Delhi government plans to in schools would not have to dents were only paying ₹50 Minister Arvind Kejriwal and bicycle with party members troduce a ‘Deshbhakti’ curri pay any fees to take the Class with the Delhi government Deputy CM Manish Sisodia at here on the eve of I-Day. Mr. culum in all schools from X and Class XII examination giving subsidy. the Delhi Secretariat. The Goel, along with Union next academic year. as the cost would be borne Justifying the hike in its Ambassador greeted them on Ministers Babul Supriyo and The government said that by the government and that examination fee, the CBSE the eve of I-Day and extended Sanjiv Balyan, cycled to Amar its Happiness Curriculum they were working out the Manish Sisodia said that its expenditure on best wishes on behalf of the Jawan Jyoti during the yatra. and Entrepreneurship Mind Nepalese government, the modalities. conducting the Class X and set Curriculum were already Delhi government said in a He added that talks were that it had decided to restore XII exams amounted to ap ‘Make legal marriage age in place and on the same on with the CBSE to rollback the practice of charging only proximately ₹500 crore last same for men, women’ statement.“The CM shared with lines, the ‘Deshbhakti’ curri the Ambassador, the keen the recent hike in examina ₹50 from SC/ST students. year while the earnings from NEW DELHI culum would be introduced interest shown by many private tion fee but no child would Reacting to the fee hike, Mr. student exam fees was less A plea in the Delhi High Court to help students become schools of Nepal in the have to pay the fee. Sisodia had said that the go than ₹250 crore. Now, since has sought equalising of the “true patriots”. Happiness Curriculum On Tuesday, the CBSE vernment would have to it was not conducting pro legal age of marriage for men introduced in the Delhi had said that they were in consider starting its own fessional entrance examina and women. It stated that the Arvind Kejriwal at the launch of ‘Constitution @ 70’ at schools,” it added. limit of 18 years for a woman Three goals talks with the Delhi govern board if the CBSE continued tion that were a source of re Thyagaraj Stadium on Wednesday. * V. V. KRISHNAN amounts to “blatant “The ‘Deshbhakti’ curricu ment with regard to reim with its fee hike. venue, it was going back to a discrimination” while that of lum is aimed at achieving bursement of fee and said The fees for general cate noprofit , noloss model. men is 21. It contended that three important goals. First, He added that there was a cement was made said: “Or working, and at any point if the age difference was based each and every child must need to create a sense of ow dinarily we are reminded of they accept a bribe, then they on patriarchal stereotypes. PTI feel pride for the nation. Chil nership among all children our love for the country eith must feel from within that dren must be taught about that they have to take on the er when there is an IndiaPa they are betraying Bharat Ma ‘AAP govt. had nothing to DDA hurt the glories of the country. Se challenges we are facing as a kistan match or when there ta. When they jump a traffic cond, each child must be country, head on and address are tensions on the border. In light, they must feel they sentiments of made aware of their responsi them. “Third, we have to in our daytoday lives we forget have wronged their country. do with temple demolition’ bility and duty towards the stil among children the com about our country. The While announcing the Dalits: Cong. country. India has a hundred mitment to be prepared to sa ‘Deshbhakti’ curriculum is scheme, Mr. Kejriwal said CM responds to Mayawati’s remarks problems. We are poor, our crifice anything for the being introduced so that each that he and Education Minis Staff Reporter farmers commit suicide. But nation,” the CM said. and every citizen of this ter Manish Sisodia had come Staff Reporter part of which she also al NEW DELHI who will solve these pro Mr. Kejriwal in his address country truly loves their up with the idea at a meeting New Delhi leged that the incident re Condemning the demoli blems? It is us who will have to the students at a function country.” to discuss how to take con Chief Minister Arvind Kejri flected a “casteist mentali tion of the 600yearold to find solutions,” the CM organised at the Thyagaraj He said that when our chil crete steps towards building a wal on Wednesday took to ty”, Mr. Kejriwal said he felt Guru Ravidas temple and said. Stadium where the announ dren grow older and start class of patriotic citizens. Twitter to state that the Aam sad that she held AAP dis Chamar Wala Johad at DELHI TODAY Aadmi Party government pensation “guilty” along Tughlakabad, Delhi Con had nothing to do with the with the Central govern gress working president Talk: Panel discussion on the book Vamshavriksha, a modern Kannada demolition of the Guru Ravi ment in connection with the Rajesh Lilothia on Wednes classic written by S. L. Bhyrappa. BJP asks AAP to fulfil concessional pass promise das temple in Tughlakabad incident. day said that the DDA had Panellists: Dr. T.S. Satyanath, Pro fessor of Comparative Literature, here. hurt the sentiments of the Delhi University, Rashmi Do Gupta warns of stir if elderly, students, differently abled are deprived of their rights Mr. Kejriwal said so in his ‘Deeply anguished’ Dalit community by demol raiswamy, Film scholar and culture response to Bahujan Samaj “Mayawati ji, we all are ishing the historic temple. critic, Jamia Millia Islamia and Prof. Staff Reporter Rita Kothari, translator and literary sembly Vijender Gupta, in a [Delhi] government has de The Leader of Opposition Party (BSP) chief Mayawati deeply anguished. We “The temple has been a theorist, Ashoka University at India New Delhi statement, said, he sought to prived these citizens of what asked the Chief Minister and who alleged that the inci strongly oppose it. I feel sad revered religious centre for Habitat Centre , 7 p.m. The Bharatiya Janata Party remind Chief Minister Ar could have been their right Deputy CM to “remove the dent was a result of collu that you consider us guilty the Dalit community for Dance: “Miracles on Wheels”, a (BJP) Opposition on Wednes vind Kejriwal that in the elec during the last four and a dust from the election manif sion between the Bharatiya along with the Centre. In centuries. Its demolition unique dance skits by differently abled artists from Bangalore, draw day demanded that AAP ful tion manifesto of the 2015 half years...the government esto” and see the “pitiable Janata Partyled (BJP) Centre Delhi, land comes under the has not only inflicted a ing from mythological sources and fil its electoral promise of Delhi Assembly elections, should start working on ful condition” of the promises and AAP dispensation. The Central government. We deep scar in the minds of social issues at The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m. providing concessional pass AAP had promised to pro filling the promise without made to the people of Delhi structure was demolished have nothing to do with the the Dalit community in the es to senior citizens, stu vide concessional passes in any further delay...the BJP fourandahalf years ago. by the Delhi Development demolition of this temple,” country, but also exposed Exhibition: “Rainbow”, a group ex hibition by artists belonging to the dents and the differently metro and DTC to these vul will come out on the streets “Neither does the govern Authority (DDA) as per Su the CM tweeted in Hindi. the narrow mindedness army family at All India Fine Arts and abled on public transport in nerable categories. if senior citizens, students ment remember the promis preme Court orders last Earlier during the day, and antiDalit policies of Crafts Society, 1 Rafi Marg, 11 a,m. 7 p.m. the Capital. “This promise is recorded and the differently abled are es made nor does it want to Saturday. the BSP president had de the BJP towards the margi (Mail your listings for this column at Leader of Opposition in at serial number 53 of AAP’s deprived of their right,” Mr. be reminded about them ,” Responding to Ms. Maya manded that the temple be nalised people,” Mr. Liloth [email protected]) the Delhi Legislative As 70 point actionplan. But the Gupta said. he alleged. wati’s post on Twitter, as reconstructed. ia said.

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF DCP kills self, alleges blackmail Youth stabbed to death in scuffle Youth held for robbing man with toy gun NEW DELHI between two groups, 2 injured A 28yearold man identified by SHO; case filed against two as Yogesh alias Sonu, a resident of Mangolpur Kalan, Victim accompanied friend to settle matter with accused has been arrested for Son says accused mentally tortured and tried to implicate the officer in a case allegedly robbing one Aman Staff Reporter Sharma of ₹1.2 lakh inside an The two sides had On Tuesday, Lokesh and Staff Reporter The incident shows NEW DELHI <> ATM kiosk in Rohini, the hand. than three years. He was ear an argument the boy decided to settle the FARIDABAD <> police said. The accused that even Haryana The son told the police lier posted as DCP, Head A 17yearold youth was which turned matter and meet near a park showed a toy gun while IPS officer Vikram Kapoor Police personnel that Kapoor had returned quarters, Gurugram. stabbed to death and two of violent. Lokesh in Patel Nagar. Lokesh’s shot himself dead with his from the work on Tuesday His last rites were per his friends sustained injuries friends, including Shubham, robbing the victim, they said, have no and his friends adding that ₹90,000 and the service pistol at his official re night at usual time and re formed with full state ho in central Delhi’s Patel Nagar had accompanied him. The confidence in the were stabbed. gun have been recovered. sidence in Sector 30 here on tired in his room. He got up nours at a cremation ground on Tuesday evening allegedly boy had also come along with State police... Subham’s injury Wednesday, the police said. instead of seeking around 5 a.m. near Kheri Pull in the even after scuffle over a girl, the a few men. “The two sides The officer, who was post In the note left behind by ing after the postmortem police said on Wednesday. was fatal had an argument, which assistance from Assault on 5-year-old: ed as a Deputy Commission the deceased, he said that was conducted earlier in the They have registered a senior police officer turned violent. Lokesh, seniors. they are DCW notice to police er of Police, NIT, Faridabad , Mr. Sahid was blackmailing day. case and begun a probe in Shubham and one of their NEW DELHI in his suicide note, has taking extreme him and that he was reason “The incident shows that the matter. ple were stabbed in the inci friends were stabbed. Shub The DCW on Wednesday named Inspector Abdul Sa step... behind his decision to take even Haryana Police person A senior police officer said dent. The injured had been ham’s injury was fatal. The issued notice to Delhi Police hid, saying the latter black Vijay Kaushik the extreme step. nel have no confidence in the that the deceased has been taken to B.L.K. Hospital other two are currently out over the alleged sexual mailed him. Haryana Congress media incharge The son, in his complaint, State police...instead of seek identified as Shubham, who where Shubham was de of danger,” the officer said. assault on a fiveyearold girl tained for questioning, the said that the two accused ing assistance from their se was attending Class XI via clared brought dead. The police said that the ac in a south Delhi school. Abetment to suicide case police said. were mentally torturing his niors, they are taking ex correspondence. He was a Investigation revealed that cused’s group, which com Seeking details of the A case has been registered Slated to retire in October father since over a month treme step... The incident resident of Anand Parbat. All Shubham’s friend Lokesh prised fivesix persons, in investigation, the women’s commission asked the force against Mr. Sahid, posted as 2020, the DCP took the ex and trying to implicate him should be probed by the the accused have been identi was in a relationship with a cluding minors, have been to provide footage of the the Station House Officer at treme step around 6 a.m. His in a case. He said that his CBI,” said Haryana Congress fied, the police said. girl who had decided to end identified. They are abscond CCTV cameras installed in the Bhupani police station in Fa wife Neelam and son Arjun father was a simple and reli media in charge Vijay The police were informed the relationship a few ing and teams have been school. The DCW also wrote ridabad and one Satish Ma Kapoor were asleep in the gious man. Kaushik. around 8.30 p.m. regarding a months ago. “After they formed to nab them. The pol to the school principal asking lik, who owns a hotel in Fari bedroom when they heard The deceased, a Haryana Suicide prevention hel- scuffle in a Patel Nagar park. broke up, the girl became ice have filed a case under if verification of employees dabad, on charges of the gunshot. The two rushed Police Service officer, was pline: Sanjivini, Society for When they reached the spot, friends with another boy. IPC Sections 302 (punish had been conducted earlier. abetment to suicide under to the adjoining room to find promoted to the IPS cadre in Mental Health: 011-4076 they were told that a scuffle There have been arguments ment for murder), 307 (at The authorities have been the Indian Penal Code. The the officer dead on the sofa 2017. He was posted in his 9002 (Monday-Saturday, 10 had broken out between two and fights between Lokesh tempt to murder), 34 (com asked to reply by August 20. accused inspector was de with the weapon in his right current position for more a.m. -7.30 p.m.) groups of men and a few peo and the boy,” the officer said. mon intention) and others.

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Staff Reporter ‘Threat perception is high in the wake of situation in J&K’ NEW DELHI

Staff Reporter Nineteen Delhi Police offic NEW DELHI ers have been conferred Police Medal for their ser Delhi Police has made multi vices. While three will re layer security arrangements ceive President’s Police Me for the 73rd Independence dal for Distinguished Day, given the “increased Service, 16 will receive me threat perception” this year dals for Meritorious Service. in the wake of the Kashmir Joint Commissioner of crisis. Police Shivaji Sinha, Assis A senior police officer tant Commissioner of Police said that the threat percep Dinesh Tiwari, SubInspec tion on August 15 is high due tor Pushpa Jaggi were con to the situation and neces Tieups have been made with units like National Security ferred President’s Police sary tieups have been made Guard, Special Protection Group and IndoTibetan Border Medal for Distinguished Ser with crack units like Nation Police. * REUTERS vice. Additional Commis al Security Guard , Special sioner of Police Chou Kun Protection Group and Indo across districts. Special fa “Apart from security at dimang Mein, Deputy Tibetan Border Police. cialrecognition cameras the main venue at Red Fort, Commissioner of Police Mo have also been installed at adequate security arrange hammed Akhtar Rizvi, Ad 20,000 policemen strategic locations . Anti ments for athome function ditional DCP Harendra Ku Besides, 20,000 Delhi Police drone detection teams, roof at the Rashtrapati Bhawan mar Singh, Police Training officers have been deployed. top deployment and snipers have also been made. City College Principal Suman “All the agencies will be have been put in place. Offic wide alert is being exercised Nalwa, ACP Meena Naidu, working closely with each ers will also ensure that ae by the DCPs of all districts,” Inspector Harish Chander, other. SWAT teams and Pa rial space over Red Fort re the officer said. Sub Inspector Kiran Sethi, rakram vans have been stra mains clear. The route to Red Fort and ASI Bheru Singh Rathore tegically stationed,” the of Multilayer checking using the New Delhi districts and ASI Vijayan G. are ficer said. metal detectors will be con which the VIPs and dignitar among those who were con People buying rakhi on the eve of Raksha Bandhan at Gautampuri market in New Delhi on Wednesday.* SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The State police have also ducted during the Indepen ies will cross will be under ferred Police Medal for Mer CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC installed over 1,000 cameras dence Day function. surveillance. itorious Service. Flat buyers Michel moves court for Centre not even acknowledging economic slowdown: AAP hold protest, six hurt in bail in chopper deal cases ‘From falling GDP numbers, job loss, to auto industry slump, the mess is allpervasive’ CBI, ED are told to reply by August 19 Staff Reporter “We have now officially en been closed in the last 18 he said. latest numbers, India’s top 30 ‘police action’ New Delhi tered into an economic slow months and he said that the Hitting out at the Central cities had 1.28 million unsold Special Correspondent Aam Aadmi Party on Wed down. From falling GDP negative impact can be seen government’s 5 trillion dollar housing units, witnessing a Press Trust of India New Delhi nesday alleged that the Cen numbers, job loss, to the auto on tyre, steel, steering and economy goal, he said, “Even steep increase from March Noida Christian Michel, alleged tral government is not even industry on the verge of col manufacturing industries. “ as government makes claims 2018 figures, revealing that Six people, including a mi middleman in the ₹3,600 acknowledging the economic lapse — the mess is allperva Around 15,000 people have of taking India to a $5 trillion Indians aren’t buying houses nor, sustained injury alleg crore AgustaWestland VVIP slowdown in the country. sive. But is the government lost their jobs in the industry economy, India slips from 5th at the pace at which they are edly in “police action” on chopper deal, on Wednes Commenting on the willing to even acknowledge over the last three months place to the 7th in World built.” He said this will have a Wednesday during a protest day moved a Delhi court “crash” in the automobile the problem?” and that Honda had laid off Bank’s global GDP rankings.” ripple effect on subsidiary in by flat buyers from Shahbe seeking bail in the corrup sector, AAP national spokes Mr. Chadha said that 286 700 workers at their manu Talking about the housing dustries such as cement and ri village outside the office tion and money laundering person, Raghav Chadha, said: automobile dealerships have facturing plant in Haryana,” sector, he said, “As per the paint among others. of Greater Noida Industrial cases lodged by the CBI and

Development Authority. the Enforcement Christian Michel * The buyers had gathered Directorate. outside the office to protest Issuing notices to the two He had sought bail for se a proposed government probe agencies, Special ven days to celebrate Easter, Court acquits motherdaughter move of razing down illegal Judge Arvind Kumar asked for a medical checkup at a houses in Shahberi. The them to file replies to the private hospital and legal in police, however, said it was plea by August 19, the next terviews with his lawyers for duo in ‘honour killing’ case prompted to “use force” to date of hearing. making preparation for fil prevent lockdown of a go The judge had in April ing a regular bail. vernment office and further dismissed his application Former AgustaWestland Prosecution failed to connect them with crime, says judge ruckus. “Six people, includ for interim bail in both cas and Finmeccanica directors ing an eightyearold, got in es, saying that “the accused Giuseppe Orsi and Bruno Nirnimesh Kumar Court is of the view New Delhi <> jured,” a protester said, al has close links with many in Spagnolini, former Air that the leging the police fluential persons and may Force chief S.P. Tyagi and A Delhi court has acquitted a prosecution has batoncharged on a “peace tamper with evidence and others are also accused in motherdaughter duo in a failed to bring ful demonstration”. also abscond.” the two cases. case of ‘honour killing’ as home the guilt of the prosecution failed to connect them with the both the accused crime. beyond reasonable Man accompanying officers in illicit According to the prosecu doubt... tion, the accused, Saida, Vidya Prakash mother of victim and her sis Additional Sessions Judge liquor raid thrashed, five arrested ter Mohsina had smothered the victim when they saw took the victim away forci carefully in the light of all her at midnight with a man, bly. The next morning he the facts and circumstances Except one, all accused have criminal cases filed against them who was staying in the same heard that she was killed by emerging on record from building as their tenant, the duo, Israr said in his the testimonies of other pro Staff Reporter Shobha, are yet to be arrest cials and another man after hours before she was to be testimony. secution witnesses and the NEW DELHI ed, the police said. “All ex receiving a tipoff regarding engaged with the bride He further said that the documents proved during Five persons, including cept Preeti have criminal illicit liquor being sold in groom of their choice. accused took the victim to trial, does not inspire confi three women, have been ar cases registered against the area. The officials found The tenant, Israr alias her mother’s room. After a dence of the court for sever rested for thrashing a man them,” said a senior police illicit liquor in Shobha’s Guddu, was married with few minutes he heard her al reasons,” the Judge said. who had gone to Uttam Na officer. house after which the ac three children. He was a pro cries and got scared and “Court is of the view that gar with Excise Intelligence In a video of the incident cused surrounded the man secution witness and sup hence locked his room and the prosecution has failed to Bureau officials on Monday that went viral, a few resi who had come along with ported the case during the fled to his village. bring home the guilt of both to check bootlegging activi dents can be seen thrashing the officials and thrashed trial. However, Additional Ses the accused beyond reason ties, the police said on a man who tries to flee. him. Based on the com On the day of incident, he sions Judge Vidya Prakash able doubt. Consequently, Wednesday. An official from Excise In plaint, the police have regis and the victim were together rejected his evidence, saying the accused persons namely The accused have been telligence Bureau told the tered a case under relevant in his room when his wife that he was not a reliable Saida and Mohsina are here identified as Pradeep, Sun police in his complaint that sections of the IPC and ar and children had gone to witness. by acquitted of the charges ny, Renu, Binojia, and Pree he had gone to Hastsal Vihar rested the accused identi their village. The accused “The testimony of this levelled against them,” the ti. Two women, Sonia and along with a few other offi fied from the video. barged into his room and witness, when considered Judge said. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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MODI KITE Mohammad Ahmad, 29, whose family has been in the kite business for the past 40 years, says he has been KITE CRAZY selling about 4,000 ‘Modi kites’ every day. Mr. Ahmad says he is a big fan of the Prime Minister and follows him on social media. Kites are ﬂying oﬀ the shelves in shops at Lal Kuan Though Mr. Ahmad claims that ‘Modi as Delhi prepares to celebrate Independence Day kites’ are selling like hot cakes, other traders say the popularity of such kites is falling. “When Modi came to power in 2014, we used to sell a lot of ‘Modi kites’. Par ab unka TRP kam he (but now his popularity has gone down),” says Mohammad Asif, 25, who is selling kites with both Mr. Modi’s and Rahul Gandhi’s photos on them.

AN ENTHUSIAST Hasan Ali, 18, came to Lal Kuan with his friend to buy 200 kites. “We go to the terrace in the morning and start ﬂying kites. It goes on till the evening,” he says. “What I enjoy the most is cutting the string of other ﬂyers’ kites and grabbing them,” he smiles.

FAMILY BUSINESS Nousshad Ansari, 49, says GIANT KITE he is the sixthgeneration On the wall of 19year craftsman from his family old Mohammad Ali's to make kites. “I have dimly lit shop hangs a been making kites since I kite thrice the size of was 15. I am known in the a normal one. Called area by my father’s name a Teen Tawa, the kite Kallan Bhai Patangwala,” costs ₹150. A normal says the father of three. kite costs between ₹2 Showing oﬀ the violet and and ₹20. “The Teen red kites he has made, Mr. Tawa comes from Ansari says that after the Bareilly in Uttar kite season ends in Delhi, Pradesh... we have he will go to Jaipur and been selling such make kites there for two kites for the past ﬁve months. “Then I will go to years,” says Mr. Ali. Meerut for 15 days. From there, I will go to Bikaner and then Gujarat.” Text by Nikhil m babu; photos by sushil kumar verma HC stays JNU inquiry against teachers Faculty members of university had taken part in a protest in July last year

Press Trust of India listed the matter for further prohibit government ser (Conduct) Rules. New Delhi hearing on October 10. vants from resorting to or “Application of CCS rules The High Court on Wednes The teachers, represented abetting strikes, coercion or and accompanying penalties day stayed the inquiry initiat by Kapil Sibal, said they had physical duress in matters is highly prejudicial... If the ed by Jawaharlal Nehru Un sent individual responses to pertaining to service. teachers are subjected to en iversity against 45 of its the showcause notices stat The petition, filed through quiry under CCS rules, there faculty members for alleged ing that no misconduct or advocates Abhik Chimni, will be a grave risk of the res ly participating in a protest violation of rules had taken Maanav Kumar and Nupur, pondents (authorities) taking march in July last year. place, as alleged by JNU. also referred to a direction of coercive steps against them, Justice Suresh Kait sought The petition, filed by 45 the High Court in its August including placing the peti response of the JNU adminis teachers, said the chargesh 9, 2017, order which placed tioners under suspension tration on the plea by the eets issued against them re certain restrictions on loca during enquiry; reducing teachers challenging the lied on three grounds to im tions of protests being organ payscale, grade or their post chargesheets issued by the plicate them in the alleged ised by students. to a lower stage... compulso university against 48 faculty “mala fide inquiry”. It said the petitioners and ry retirement, removal or members for allegedly taking One of the grounds was JNU teachers in general are dismissal from service,” the part in the protest. The court that the CCS (Conduct) Rules not governed by the CCS petition said.

NGT unhappy with timeline for clean air

Staff Reporter New Delhi Expressing disapproval ov er the timeline to reduce air pollution, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has directed the Environment Ministry to modify the Na tional Clean Air Pro gramme (NCAP), which proposes 20%30% reduc tion in air pollution by 2024. While asking the author ities to move up the time line, the NGT also also di rected the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and the State Pollu tion Control Boards to en sure assessment and instal lation of requisite number of realtime online air qual ity monitoring systems. The green panel also di rected States where there is high level of air pollution to evolve an “enforcement mechanism” to close or shift industrial units other than household industries from residential or non conforming areas. Directing States to make action plans to curb air pol lution, the Bench said, “States must initiate time bound action on remedia tion within three months.” https://t.me/SSC4Exams https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams A ND-NDE https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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Confrontation damaged. Police said 15 people between had been arrested after kanwariyas registration of five sepa rate cases in connec and local tion with the violence residents had during the last three days and some more erupted on would be nabbed short Sunday night ly. Cases were also re Special gistered for obstructing Correspondent public servants from JAIPUR discharge of their du Prohibitory orders ties, thrashing police were imposed in 15 pol men and blocking the ice station areas here national highway. on Wednesday after Several persons who violence and commu spread rumours nal tension gripped through social media some parts of the city have also been identi for the third consecu fied. After the violence tive day, affecting the broke out on Sunday law and order situation night, police resorted since Sunday. A con to teargas shelling to frontation between prevent the situation kanwariyas and local from going out of con residents had erupted trol, as the groups of during the IdulAzha people fought on the festivities earlier this roads. week. The 15 police station areas where prohibito 25 injured ry orders under Section Mobile internet servic 144 of Criminal Proce es were suspended till dure Code have been Wednesday night and imposed with the ban additional police force on the assembly of four was deployed in the or more persons are areas where tension Galta Gate, Brahmapu was prevailing in view ri, Subhash Chowk, of Independence Day Ramganj, Manak and the Raksha Band Chowk, Bhatta Basti, han festival. About 25 Shastri Nagar, Kotwali, people, including seven Sanjay Circle, Tran policemen, were in sport Nagar, Lal Kothi, jured in the stonepelt Adarsh Nagar, Moti ing incidents and more Dungri, Nahargarh and than 50 vehicles were Jawahar Nagar. 3 held for attacking Raebareli Cong. MLA They carry a bounty of ₹25,000 each, says U.P. STF Omar Rashid LUCKNOW The Uttar Pradesh pol ice have arrested three persons in connection with the attack on the Congress MLA from Raebareli MLA Aditi Raebareli, Aditi Singh. Singh was attacked in Ms. Singh was at May. * FILE PHOTO tacked in May while she was on her way to who rebelled and con participate in a no tested the Lok Sabha confidence motion election from Raebare against zilla panchayat li against Sonia Gandhi head Awadesh Singh. on a BJP ticket in 2019. Other panchayat mem He, however, lost. bers were also part of The three accused the convoy when un who were arrested identified persons at were identified as Awa tacked it. desh Kumar, Rohit Ms. Singh had re Singh and Jitendra ceived injuries after Singh by the U.P. Spe her car overturned in cial Task Force. the incident. Carrying a bounty each of ₹25,000, the Rebel MLC three were arrested Mr. Awadesh is the near Ambedkar Park brother of Dinesh in Lucknow, the STF Singh, a Congress MLC said.

DELHI Timings ‘No aarti, Thursday, Aug. 15 RISE 05:50 SET 19:01 namaz RISE 19:10 SET 05:24 Friday, Aug. 16 on roads’ RISE 05:51 SET 19:00 RISE 19:46 SET 06:17 Press Trust of Saturday, Aug. 17 India RISE 05:51 SET 18:50 Lucknow RISE 20:19 SET 07:10 The Uttar Pra desh police have issued directives barring any “spillover” of re ligious activities, like oﬀering of namaz and aarti, on roads in the State, citing hin drance to move ment of traﬃc. Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police Om Pra kash Singh said that verbal or ders have also been issued to or ganise peace committee meet ings to see that this directive is enforced in a har monious manner.

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DELHI THE HINDU 6 EAST THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Chilika faces oil spill Assam club promotes flags threat from stuck ship that grow Coast Guard warning to Odisha govt. into plants Staff Reporter of oil from the vessel caus BHUBANESWAR ing pollution to the area, the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Indian Coast Guard has ICG said. GUWAHATI issued a warning about pos The Coast Guard also ad A club in southern Assam’s sible oil spillage into the ec vised to undertake action Hailakandi town is promot ologically sensitive Chilika on priority basis either ing biodegradable flags lake — the largest brackish through a local agent or any that grow into plants. water lagoon in the country professional salvor. These handmade cotton — from a Malaysian cargo According to reports, a flags are embedded with vessel which is stuck in the salvage team from Singa seeds of marigold. Bay of Bengal near the lake porebased Smit Salvage Pte “After use, a flag should since August 7. limited had reached Odisha be planted with respect In an urgent message dis on Sunday. and some soil and water patched to the Odisha go The vessel — Jin Hwa 32 — poured on it. The flag will vernment, the Director Gen with deadweight tonnage of germinate into a plant in eral of Shipping and the 7,500 had sailed from Mon twothree days’ time,” said State Pollution Control gla Port on August 2 and was Shankar Choudhury of In Board, the Deputy Inspec heading towards Visakha ner Wheel Club. tor General of ICG (North patnam Port. It was caught The club’s president Eastern), I.J. Singh, said: in stormy waters and drifted Kabita Das said the initia “The barge contains 30,000 towards Odisha. tive was undertaken to dis litres of diesel, 1,000 litre of “We have visited the spot courage the use of plastic lube oil and 200 litres of hy where the vessel is stuck. flags on Independence Day draulic oil. Hence spillage of Though the place is far from as well as Republic Day. oil from the aground vessel Chilika’s jurisdiction, it is “Such flags are discarded cannot be ruled out.” apprehended that in the to snowball into an ecolog Under Section356 (J) 1(B) event of spillage, the oil ical problem. We are pro of Indian Merchant Ship could drift towards Chilika,” moting the seedembed ping Act, 1958, all necessary said Susanta Nanda, Chief ded cotton flags toward measures should be under Executive of Chilika Deve making the country plastic taken to prevent any leakage lopment Authority. pollutionfree,” she said.

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IN BRIEF Death toll in rain-hit Kerala rises to 102 Seven more Rahul urges bodies recovered from Kavalappara RBI to extend Special Correspondent moratorium Writer S.L. Bhyrappa to THIRUVANANTHAPURAM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT inaugurate Mysuru Dasara The death toll in rainrelated NEW DELHI BENGALURU incidents in Kerala crossed Rain fury: A damaged bridge at Kakkineji in Dakshina Writer S.L. Bhyrappa has 100 on Wednesday with se Congress leader Rahul Kannada district of Karnataka. * H.S. MANJUNATH been chosen to inaugurate ven more bodies being reco Gandhi has written to the the 10day Mysuru Dasara vered from Kavalappara, Ma Reserve Bank of India (RBI) festival in September. A lappuram district, where a to urge that the moratori In Karnataka, farmers highlevel committee chaired massive landslip wreaked um on repayment of crop by Karnataka Chief Minister destruction on August 8. loans be extended to De B.S. Yediyurappa on A Wednesday evening up cember 31 for farmers in desert homes, cattle Wednesday selected Mr. date put the Statewide Kerala who have been hit Bhyrappa, 85, for the death toll in the rain fury at Tough task: Work being carried out at the landslip site in Malappuram.* SAKEER HUSSAIN by floods. inauguration of the festival, 102. Thirtyseven people are Mr. Gandhi, who repre Families fear landslips and flooding scheduled to be held from still missing, 29 in Malappu evening concluded that it for Malappuram, Kozhikode High waves in the range of sents the Wayanad consti September 29 to October 8. ram, seven in the landsliphit would be wise to maintain a and Kannur and yellow 3.34 m are likely along the tuency, argued that the Raviprasad Kamila huge trees following land DIDUPE TTD to probe ‘misuse’ of Meppadi in Wayanad, and high alert despite the reduc alerts for isolated heavy rain southern Tamil Nadu coast State had not only wit slips on the ghats, exten funds by advisory panel one person in Kottayam, the tion in rainfall. He also fall (up to 11.5 cm) have been from Colachel to Dhanush nessed the worst floods in Over 300 members of sively damaged arecanut TIRUMALA government said. stressed the need to speed issued for Wayanad and Kas kodi till Friday night, the In over a century, but its im about 55 farmer families plantations and homes at TTD chairman Y.V. Subba With more people return up the rescue and relief aragod for Thursday. dian National Centre for pact had been further com living in four areas at the Nandikadu, Parlamakki, Reddy on Wednesday ing home, the number of re effort. Ocean Information Services pounded by the inability of foot of the Western Ghats Tulapule and Kajakke expressed concern over lief camps have come down An India Meteorological High waves likely said. farmers to repay loans on in Malavanthige gram pan areas. These areas are 3 misappropriation of funds from 1,206 on Tuesday to Department (IMD) weather The IMD has advised fisher The losses to the farm sec account of crop loss and chayat in Belthangady ta km to 6 km from the Di allegedly by the New Delhi 1,119 on Wednesday. As many bulletin predicted a marked men not to venture into the tor have crossed ₹1,000 extensive damage to pro luk, on the border of dupe–Somanthadkka–Ujire based Local Advisory as 58,508 families (1,89,649 decrease in monsoon activi sea as strong winds from a crore, the Chief Minister ductive assets. A sharp fall Dakshina Kannada with main road. Committee (LAC). The LACs people) are still being ac ty over Kerala during the westerly direction with said. The lashing rains, in the global commodity Chikkamagaluru district With portions of the formed in various States have commodated in the camps. next few days. Orange alerts speeds reaching 45 kmph to flooding, and landslips had prices of cash crops had al have deserted their homes mud roads leading to the the power to spend funds not A review meeting con indicating isolated heavy to 55 kmph are likely along and caused crop damage in so adversely affected the leaving their cattle behind. areas getting washed away, exceeding ₹5 lakh a year. But vened by Chief Minister Pin very heavy rainfall (up to off the Kerala coast till Thurs 28,000 hectares, affecting ability of farmers to Some of them venture it takes about four hours the LAC in New Delhi was arayi Vijayan on Wednesday 20.4 cm) have been issued day evening. 1.13 lakh farmers, he said. bounce back, he said. into their villages on foot — for them to cover 6 km on accused of spending ₹5 crore. an arduous journey — to foot from Dipude–Soman Further complicating the take care of the cattle but thadkka main road, said matter, the panel got its accounts audited by a local return in the evening. Keshava Gowda from Par Chartered Accountant instead Autopsies in mosque as humanism triumphs Vasantha Gowda from lamakki, who has taken of submitting them to the Nandikkad area, who has shelter at a home near Kuk TTD’s financial and chief taken shelter in a relative’s kavu in the nearby Mitta accounts officer. Abdul Latheef Naha recent memory. humanistic values displayed house at Didupe, said un bagilu village. Malappuram As shifting the bodies to a by the locals of Pothukal. less the torrential rain “Never in the past have Three boys electrocuted A mosque near Nilambur in hospital for postmortem be “Converting a sacred stopped, none would dare such floods hit our areas,” in Andhra Pradesh Malappuram district has came tough because of the place like mosque into an au to sleep in their houses said Vasantha Gowda. He ONGOLE been converted into an au remoteness and inaccessibil topsy room is a wonderful overnight as there were added that the source of Three boys — Ameen Peer, 11, topsy room. And the bodies ity of the region, the mosque gesture from this land of chances of landslip and the landslips appear to be Ghouse Bhasha, 10, and Sk. reaching there for postmor authorities offered a portion communal amity,” Dr. Sanjay flooding. Durgada Betta, deep in the Hussain, 10 — were tem are not those of Muslims of the prayer hall and other said. With the memories of Western Ghats bordering electrocuted when they alone. facilities for performing The desks and benches flash floods, which hit ma Chikkamagaluru district. A reportedly came in contact Setting yet another exam postmortem examinations. used at the madrasa at ny areas in the gram pan 3km stretch of the road with a live electric wire at ple for humanism, the Salafi “The bodies of Mo tached to the mosque were chayat limits on Friday af leading to Nandikkad has Kopparam village, near Juma Masjid at Pothukal hammed, Chandran, Saras put together to make post ternoon, still haunting been completely damaged. Santamagaluru in Prakasam threw its doors open to take wati, Chacko and all are mortem tables. The area set them, they have been tak “It is full of silt and trench district of Andhra Pradesh on in the bodies of the victims brought inside this masjid apart for ‘wudu’ or ablutions ing shelter in relief camps es,” he said. Wednesday. Five boys were playing close to the YSRCP of the disastrous landslip for postmortem. You won’t Noble deed: The Salafi Juma Masjid in Malappuram district has was used for bathing the bo and in the homes of rela The former president of flag post and it accidentally that took place at Kavalappa find a better example for hu been converted into an autopsy room. * SAKKIR HUSSAIN dies. A set of volunteers were tives in the taluk for the the Malavanthige gram touched an overhead electric ra on Thursday last. More manism. The whole world engaged in cleaning and past five days. panchayat D. Dinesh Gow wire leading to instantaneous than 50 people are feared should know this. I salute the Government Medical College jay, who conducted the post bathing the bodies, giving Flooding by the waters da said at least 22 roads in death of three of them, while dead in one of the worst masjid officials,” said Para Hospital, Manjeri. mortem on several bodies, due respect to the victim’s of the rivers and rivulets, the panchayat limits had the other two escaped with landslips that took place in meswaran, attendant from Forensic surgeon P.S. San said he was humbled by the faith. which carried sludge and been damaged. minor burns, the police said.

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IN BRIEF Knee implant ‘Swachh’ to look beyond toilets Govt. set to ease cost to stay

ODF+ phase will waste at the Block level. If below 10% possible, plastic waste would norms for mining focus on waste be sent for recycling, or Special Correspondent management baled and shredded. This will avoid a dip in iron production NEW DELHI “There are also proposals A day after the Central go Hardik tries to meet Special Correspondent to use it in cement plants Jacob Koshy vernment noted that the Sanjiv Bhatt, detained NEW DELHI NEW DELHI AHMEDABAD and brick kilns. There is po ceiling price of orthopaed Congress leader Hardik Patel In a nascent effort to look tentially a profitable market The Union Environment Mi ic knee implants will be and two legislators, along beyond toilets and kick off its available for this waste if nistry plans to provide monitored to ensure that with their supporters, were ODF+ phase — that is, Open handled correctly,” said the “temporary” forest clea the cost does not increase detained by the Gujarat Defecation Free Plus — fo official. “We don’t want to rances to prospective bid beyond 10% in a given year, police when they were on cussing on solid and liquid create landfills across rural ders for mines whose leases the medical device indus their way to Palanpur jail to waste management, the India in the name of waste are set to expire in March try has said that it expected meet sacked IPS officer Sanjiv Swachh Bharat Abhiyan management.” 2020. The bulk of such more from the Bhatt. Others detained were (SBA) has included the pre mines are located in Odisha government. Mahesh Patel and Kirit Patel. valence of plastic litter and Obstacle course: Plastic garbage dumped in a canal at Village-based survey and Karnataka. Medical Technology As waterlogging in villages as Chepauk in Chennai. * M. KARUNAKARAN The survey aims to cover Officials said that the En sociation of India’s (MTaI) Man killed by tiger at indicators of cleanliness in 18,000 sample villages — ap vironment Ministry would Black gold: Trucks on the chairman and director Corbett reserve its 2019 rural survey. government data, the mis Singh Shekhawat, speaking proximately 30 per rural dis enable clearances to avoid a move in the Mahanadi coal general Mr. Pavan Choud DEHRADUN For the last five years, ev sion is moving on to its next at the launch of Swachh Sur trict — and take feedback potential drop in iron pro fields in Odisha. * REUTERS ary said, “We were seeking A daily wager patrolling with a team of forest guards in the er since the SBA was phase. vekshan 2019. “We are work from over 2.5 crore villagers. duction between 2020 and a 20% increase in the sell Corbett Tiger Reserve was launched on Gandhi Jayanti ing out the specific protocols In fact, citizen feedback will 2022, and catalyse mori the Mines and Minerals (De ing price of knee implants mauled to death by a tiger, an in 2014, its main focus has Four main verticals for the different modules... account for 35% of the rank bund mining auctions. The velopment and Regulation) to make up for two years of official said on Wednesday. been on eliminating open “ODF+ will have four main Right now, there is no me ing of districts. traditional process has been Amendment Act, which was price control combined The big cat pounced on defecation by constructing verticals — solid waste man chanism for plastic waste “Continuity is the basis of for mine developers to be amended in 2015. The key with continuing pressures Bishan Ram (55) and dragged toilets and promoting their agement divided into biode collection or waste disposal behaviour change. This sur responsible for obtaining change is that, unlike the of rupee devaluation and him away. His halfeaten body usage through widespread gradable waste and plastic in most villages.” vey is one step to ensure con necessary clearances to previous years when mining inflation.” was later recovered from the behaviour change pro waste, and liquid waste man A senior official explained tinuity of ODF achieve start work at a mine. leases were extended every interiors of the forest. PTI grammes. With the October agement divided into grey that the protocol for plastic ments,” said Mr. Shekhawat. 20 years, new leases would ‘Partial relief’ 2, 2019 deadline looming water, or kitchen waste wa waste would call for bans on The survey will be con A key change be issued for 50 years and “Having said that, it is reas CVC seeks models to near, and the original goal al ter, and faecal waste,” said single use plastic, as well as ducted from August 14 to This relaxation was neces they would be made availa suring that the government curb loan diversion most achieved according to Jal Shakti Minister Gajendra the collection and sorting of September 2. sary because of a change in ble via an auction. has begun to acknowledge NEW DELHI the financial pressures on The Central Vigilance Commission has medical device companies recommended uniform and has decided to provide models for financing farmers Chandrayaan2 moves Freedom fighter’s Tricolour to flutter again partial relief by letting growing sugar cane and other companies increase the crops, to prevent fraudulent price by 10% in the next diversion of bank loan funds. out of earth’s orbit Khadi flag was specially made in 1947 after it was clear that the British were leaving one year, as per paragraph “As these farm loans are at 20 of DPCO (Drugs Prices concessional rates, no action RAHUL KARMAKAR sure box. Control Order), 2013. As GUWAHATI is taken against the sugar It is to enter the lunar orbit on Aug. 20 “The box contains much we move ahead, we will companies,” it said. more than the spotless kha continue to engage with Special Correspondent craft’s engine. Nurul Hussain had intended di flag. There are records the government for a long Policemen suspended on Bengaluru “With this, Chan to display his father’s most pertaining to his joining the term solution,” he added. molestation charges The Chandrayaan2 lunar drayaan2 entered the Lunar prized possession — a khadi freedom movement under The National Pharma RAIPUR Tricolour of 1947 vintage — Mahatma Gandhi, his join ceutical Pricing Authority Three policemen have been landerorbiter was on Wed Transfer Trajectory,” ISRO suspended after a video nesday set on course to exit said in a statement. “Earlier, to mark India’s 75th Inde ing the Indian National Con (NPPA) notified the ceiling showing them molesting a earth’s gravity as it began a the spacecraft’s orbit was pendence Day. gress and assorted items as price of orthopaedic knee minor boy at a railway station sevenday journey to the progressively increased five But friends and neigh sociated with many a great implants on August 16, here in Chhattisgarh went moon in the wee hours, the times during July 23 to Au bours in Sivasagar district’s leader,” said Mr. Hussain, 2017 by invoking extraor viral on social media, an Indian Space Research Or gust 6. All systems on board Demow town, about 380 km who was the founderteach dinary powers, in public official said on Wednesday. ganisation (ISRO) said. Chandrayaan2 spacecraft east of Guwahati, advised er of the Demow Town High interest, under paragraph The incident apparently took The spacecraft, which are normal,” the space agen him not to wait that long. He School in 1970. 19 of the DPCO, 2013 for a place on August 9. was launched on July 22, is cy added. agreed to unfurl the Nation The flag was specially period of one year. scheduled to reach the vi The spacecraft carries al Flag on Thursday. “They made in 1947 after it became Subsequently, the ap Act fast on reverse cinity of the moon on Au lander Vikram and rover have a point. I am 78 and the clear that the British were plicability of ceiling prices tendering, says Jagan gust 20. Pragyan on it. The mission only survivor among Mo Nurul Hussain, centre, and his family with the flag that will be leaving India. The records, fixed for orthopaedic knee VIJAYAWADA hammed Hussain’s five * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Mr. Hussain said, trace the implants was extended for A day after the Polavaram Engineers at ISRO Telem is the country’s first lunar unfurled for the first time since 1947. sons,” he said. history of the movement in Project Authority (PPA) made etry, Tracking and Com softlanding attempt and another year, up to August it clear that reverse tendering mand Network (ISTRAC) in would also be the firstever had sown the seeds of revolt Mr. Hussain told The Hindu eastern Assam from 1938 to 15, 2019. would lead to cost escalation, Bengaluru raised the orbit arrival on the moon’s south ‘Commander Sahib’ against the British . People from Demow. 1947, including the Quit In Accordingly, the cost of Andhra Pradesh Chief of the spacecraft for the ern polar region by any Mohammed Hussain spent began to call him Comman After Commander Sahib dia movement. Many among knee implants was reduced Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan sixth and last time on the country. the later part of his life as a der Sahib. The British were died in 1971, his youngest the town’s 30,000 people significantly, by up to 69%, Reddy stressed the need to earth side. The 20minute Vikram is slated to touch cleric. Locals, however, so angry with his rebellion son took over the responsi will turn up at the courtyard resulting in a notional sav hasten decisions to take the operation was carried out at down on the moon on Sep knew him more as Comman that they confiscated 47 bility of preserving what his of the Hussain house for the ing of ₹1,500 crore per an process forward. 2.21 a.m. by firing the space tember 7. der Sahib than a maulvi. “He ‘bighas’ of land he owned,” father referred to as his trea unfurling of the flag at 7 a.m. num to consumers.

Weather Watch Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Stalin: pass antiNEET Temple in Odisha worships the Father of the Nation bills again An idol of Mahatma Gandhi within the complex of a Jagannath temple in Berhampur hogs attention Staff Reporter The worship of the Father him called Bhagavat Gadi. In Like all Hindu deities, the built, senior citizens of Gosa Staff Reporter BERHAMPUR of the Nation continues in it the Mahatma’s idol is wor idol of Gandhi ji is wor ninuagaon had decided to Chennai An idol of Mahatma Gandhi this temple since its esta shipped along with the Odia shipped every day as per tra worship Gandhiji’s idol in it. DMK president M.K. Stalin is being worshipped within blishment at Gosaninuagaon Bhagavat, written by poet ditional rituals.According to At that time, the Mahatma urged Chief Minster Edap the complex of a Jagannath in Berhampur in 1960. Like saint Jagannath Das, and pic Panchanan Choudhury, the was seen as someone who padi K. Palaniswami to call temple in Odisha’s Berham other deities, Bapu also has a tures of Lord Rama and managing trustee, while the had ushered in the new age a special session of the As pur for the past six decades. separate small temple for Shiva. temple complex was being of independence. sembly to pass two anti NEET bills again, and send it for Presidential nod. He was reacting to the Tamil Nadu government’s statement that the State was kept in the dark for two years with regard to the President having with held his assent to two anti Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) NEET bills. Forecast for Thursday: Heavy to very heavy rain likely at isolated He alleged that Health places over Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Minister C. Vijayabaskar Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, did not share information Chandigarh, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Tamil Nadu, sub that the assent was not gi Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam and Meghalaya ven and the bills returned. city rain max min city rain max min Agartala...... 20.9....28.2....25.8 Kozhikode...... 62.6....29.8....23.6 Ahmedabad...... —....32.1....26.3 Kurnool ...... —....34.2....26.0 Aizawl...... 9.0....25.3....20.3 Lucknow...... —....33.5....27.4 Allahabad...... 2.6....32.8....27.2 Madurai...... —....39.4....27.0 Bengaluru ...... 0.2....27.4....20.7 Mangaluru ...... 45.2....26.2....22.5 Bhopal ...... 13.9....26.3....23.4 Mumbai ...... 3.2....30.4....26.0 Bhubaneswar...... —....30.4....26.8 Mysuru ...... 4.0....27.5....20.3 Chandigarh ...... —....33.0....26.1 New Delhi ...... 10.9....34.4....25.6 Chennai ...... 1.4....37.2....27.4 Patna ...... 2.3....31.4....26.8 Coimbatore ...... —....30.4....22.3 Port Blair...... 14.2....27.8....23.3 Dehradun...... 56.2....33.7....24.5 Puducherry ...... 0.2....36.6....26.0 Gangtok...... 2.0....20.0....18.5 Pune...... 0.6....28.1....22.3 Goa...... 17.6....28.2....24.0 Raipur ...... 0.2....27.5....25.7 Guwahati ...... 9.6....35.6....26.4 Ranchi...... 43.7....26.0....22.4 Hubballi...... —....26.0....22.0 Shillong...... 1.1....25.2....17.6 Hyderabad ...... 1.1....32.0....23.8 Shimla...... 0.8....22.8....16.2 Imphal ...... 0.1....28.9....22.5 Srinagar...... 3.8....25.8....19.0 Jaipur ...... 13.0....31.0....23.6 Thiruvananthapuram.... 23.1....29.8....22.7 Kochi ...... 105.6....28.2....22.8 Tiruchi...... —....38.3....26.6 Kohima ...... 50.0....26.4....17.6 Vijayawada ...... 8.4....34.6....25.6 Kolkata ...... 43.2....32.1....26.2 Visakhapatnam ...... —....31.6....27.0 (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday

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DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Assam’s humanitarian conundrum Neither Delhi nor Dispur has been working on a proper plan for those who will soon be declared stateless (FTs) following their exclusion verification of the NRC, held that And will they be denied access to from the NRC. children born after December 3, government welfare measures Although there have been vague 2004 would not be eligible for in such as health and education both Symptom as cause assurances from the Central and clusion in the NRC if either parent for themselves and their children? The auto sales slump reflects State governments that the ques is a DV (Doubtful Voter), DF (De How would the state deal with tion of immediate detention and clared Foreigner) or PFT (persons those declared stateless but who a pervasive lack of demand Udayon Misra scrapping of rights does not arise with cases pending at the FTs). already hold some cultivable land? ndia’s automobile industry is experiencing a snow with avenues of appeal being open This would virtually leave out There have been suggestions to balling crisis of demand that shows no signs of abat to them, it is disturbing that neith those born within the last 15 years declare those declared stateless ing, leave alone reversing. Domestic sales across all ith the final date for pu er Delhi nor Dispur has been work to those parents, either one of not to be allowed to acquire land I blication of the National ing on any wellthought out hu whose citizenship is in doubt. ed property.

vehicle categories slid 19% yearonyear in July, as pas RITU RAJ KONWAR WRegister of Citizens draw manitarian plan for those who will Legal issues apart, it is absolute senger vehicle despatches plunged 31% to register the ing near, the dividing lines are be soon be declared as a stateless pe Finally, there would be lakhs of ly critical that the government, in Potential crisis segment’s steepest fall in almost 19 years. And with the coming sharper. While the Bhara ople. This becomes grave especial poor people without the means to due consultation with political The idea of holding lakhs of peo wheels having come off both twowheeler deliveries tiya Janata Party (BJP) has been ly when there is awareness of seek judicial redress . For them, parties and civil society groups, ple in detention centres is bound and commercial vehicle shipments, with the former expressing doubts about an “er there being errors in an exercise of the decision of the FTs would be fi draws up a viable plan to deal with to be a selfdefeating and disas contracting 17% and the latter slumping 26%, the pic rorfree” (read Bangladeshi free) such a scale. nal and they would be sent to de those who would be declared trous one which would go against ture is one of widespread gloom. The straightforward NRC, the All Assam Students’ Un tention centres. Then, there are stateless. The S tate government all fundamental humanitarian ion (AASU) and minority organisa Status before tribunals those who have already been de has limited its exercise to the set principles and international cove interpretation of the data is that demand has dried up tions such as the All Assam Minor On the contrary, statements from clared exparte as foreigners but ting up of more detention centres nants involved in the treatment of in all corners and among all key consumer segments — ity Students’ Union, the Assam some BJP leaders that the country tagged as “untraced foreigners”. to house all those declared as fo migrants, even if they happen to urban, semiurban and rural and personal and institu State Jamiat Ulama and the All In would be finally rid of the “ter Clearly, the government has no reigners by the FTs. The plight of be illegal ones. The State cannot tional. Nine straight months of contraction in passenger dia United Democratic Front have mites” and that every single illegal mechanism in place to keep track detainees — some are to be re absolve itself of its responsibility vehicle sales has also begun extracting a toll in terms of welcomed the Supreme Court’s infiltrator would be thrown out of them; a State government affida leased on certain conditions — has by declaring someone a foreigner, showroom closures and layoffs at dealerships, compo decision to observe the August 31 have only added to the overall vit in the Supreme Court cites a fi been made worse as they are not placing him or her in a detention nent suppliers and vehicle makers themselves. While deadline. panic and confusion. The resolu gure of some 70,000 people. As covered by the jail manuals which camp for a certain period to begin tion of the cases of these undocu sam’s Parliamentary Affairs are supposed to ensure the mini with and, after that, just allow him the Federation of Automobile Dealers Associations re The two sides mented stateless people passing Minister recently said that FTs had mum standard of dignified living. or her to continue to live on with cently warned of more jobs being at risk, on top of The stand by the leading minority through the FTs , then the High identified as many as 1,17,164 per A fullfledged detention centre some restrictions and without about two lakh positions that have already been shed , organisations points to their view Court and finally the Supreme sons till March 31. There is also the with a capacity to hold 3,000 de most of the rights guaranteed by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers admit ing the NRC as an instrument to re Court would, naturally, take years, issue of ‘Doubtful’ or ‘D’ voters tainees is under construction at the Constitution. ted that the industry had laid off at least about 15, 000 move the “Bangladeshi tag” from even if the final number of those (some 1.2 lakh people) who would Matia in Goalpara at a cost of ap There is a lot of speculation that contract workers in the last three months. That the lakhs of Bengali Muslims. For the left out runs into a few lakhs after be left out of the NRC till the courts proximately ₹45 crore; the S tate after all the claims and objections broader economy is experiencing a serious slowdown AASU and other ethnic organisa all claims and objections are met. resolve their cases. government has already sent a are finally met, the final number of tions, the final register will be a Assam has 100 FTs, of which 70 proposal to the Central govern the excluded might touch 15 lakh has been evident for some time now and the latest data closure of sorts to a long struggle may be said to be functional. The Legal issues ment to build 10 more such people, which would include the from the auto sector only bears testament to it. And as against foreign influx and demo State has pledged to create 200 In addition to this is the yet unre centres. four lakh out of the initial 40 lakh the RBI acknowledged last week “private consumption, graphic change. Therefore, given more FTs by September, but there solved issue of the children of What would be the infrastructu people excluded who did not file the mainstay of aggregate demand” remains sluggish. their support extended to the NRC is uncertainty over their being those deemed noncitizens. Re ral costs involved in holding these any claims. In addition to this fi While some of the factors currently bedevilling de process, apprehensions of wide functional soon after. The Central cently, there was a government prisoners with basic dignity in gure would be the one lakh people mand in the auto sector are well established — the li scale social unrest on the final day government has approved 400 out notification on the basis of a Su place? How long would these de left out in a recent revision as well quidity crunch in the NBFC industry and the resultan t could be incorrect. of the 1,000 FTs the State govern preme Court order (based on Sec tentions last especially when the as ‘D’ voters. However, this is just However, what is worrying in ment has asked for. The State go tions 3(1)(b) and (c) of the Citizen question of deportation to the an estimate. It is obvious that the tightening of credit availability to finance vehicle pur the long run is that neither politi vernment is not in a position to ship Act of 1955) that births up to country of origin does not arise? State of Assam would be faced chases, an increase in up front insurance costs and the cal parties and student organisa further increase the number of December 3, 2004 would be eligi What would the fate of these peo with a humanitarian challenge of 28% GST charged on cars, motorcycles and scooters — tions nor civil society groups seem FTs because of infrastructural and ble for citizenship if either one pa ple be after they are released on massive proportions, one for the fact that manufacturers overestimated demand seriously engaged with the major administrative issues. Thus the rent was an Indian citizen. Howev completion of the specified pe which it seems least prepared. when setting up capacity, especially of fossilfuel po humanitarian crisis that is about to process of deciding on the citizen er, in the case of those born after riod? wered vehicles, has largely been overlooked. For exam unfold as large numbers of people ship status of those left out of the December 3, 2004, the Supreme Apart from losing their voting Udayon Misra is a former National Fellow ple, Maruti Suzuki, India’s largest car maker, has an would be declared foreign nation NRC would be cumbersome, long, Court, on Tuesday, while categori rights, would they also be shorn of at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, nounced plans to stop selling diesel cars from April 1 as als by the Foreigners Tribunals and involve suffering. cally ruling out reopening or re their rights to land and property? Shimla demand has slumped. In 2012, the company decided to invest ₹1,700 crore in a new diesel engine plant in Guru gram, capacity that it now needs to repurpose or idl e. A playing field for political violence Simultaneously, the rideshare industry has mush roomed in recent years, especially in urban areas History offers a narrative on why it is so entrenched in Bengal, irrespective of political affiliations where choked roads and lack of parking space have in lenged the British in what was its country men... the Hindi or Urdu is often “the only chance… of giv centivised rapid adoption of appbased commuting. largest Presidency. When the Con speaking migrant workers”, as Di ing a meaning to your death.” The The outlook too, especially for the near term, looks far gress was dislodged in 1967 and pesh Chakravarty says in his pap story of the rickshaw puller who from hopeful. The RBI’s July round of its Consumer 1977, the State witnessed intense er, Communal Riots and Labour: lives without any social security, Confidence Survey, which reflected a decline in con violence. The quelling of the Nax Bengal’s Jute Mill-Hands in the underscores why a set of the poor albari uprising witnessed unprece 1890s. Communal violence esca is attacking another set of the poor sumer confidence in July, shows 63.8% of respondents Suvojit Bagchi dented State repression, while an lated during Partition but ebbed in the name of political or religious expect discretionary spending will stay the same or unknown number of citizens were during Left rule; there has been a ideology in Bengal. shrink one year ahead. In June 2018, the comparable killed when the Left was dislodged revival recently. The key explana From Amala Naiya’s “relief” reading was 37.3%. The onus now lies on the govern hy Bengal witnesses by the Trinamool Congress (TMC) tion of recent episodes of commu during Left rule to Bhagnu’s

ment to urgently formulate policy interventions to a d largescale political vio in 2011. Thus, the thread of vio GETTY IMAGES nal violence is not difficult to “sense of power” during the dress this sectoral crisis or risk wider contagion. Wlence is a question that is lence compounded by British poli population density among the big understand. Right’s rise, Bengal’s politics has often asked . The answer is com cies ended up damaging the States. This increased pressure on always had one narrative: empow plex and multilayered. The peo economy. land accentuated by small hold ‘A sense of power’ er the poor (rather than the rich) Unethical actions ple in Bengal, mainly the poor, de ings making it difficult for industry Almost always, the depressed politically and rule. The BJP has veloped a sense of entitlement, Economy and violence to acquire land. In addition, the castes such as homegrown Dalits realised that poverty, which is The mass defection of MLAs makes a mockery largely as a result of the Left’s long Undivided Bengal — the Bengal postIndependence policies of the or Dalit refugees from Bangladesh, real, combined with religion is the of democracy in Sikkim rule. Many argue that such entitle Subah — flourished under the Na Congress government debilitated and unemployed youth from other ideal formula to have the TMC on ment is what shaped people to ex wabs as Hooghly and Murshida the economy. Thus growth of cap States (who continue to live in ex the defensive. The West Bengal he switching of sides by 10 MLAs from the Sikkim press their opinion vociferously. bad attracted investors from over ital, other than in trading was treme poverty) are engaged in vio Chief Minister was expected to im Democratic Front (SDF) to the Bharatiya Janata For example, Amala Naiya, 65, a seas centuries ago. Problems stunted, resulting in peoples’ ex lent fights against equally poor bibe this well, combating the Left TParty in Sikkim on Tuesday and later two others domestic worker in a south Kolka began under British rule as a result treme dependence on political Muslims. Till recently these com with “a propeasant narrative... from the SDF to the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha ta neighbourhood, said that she of multiple factors. British revenue parties and their local ‘satraps’. munities were solidly with the borrowed from the Left”. But she (SKM) brings a sense of deja vu. The en masse shifts are felt “hugely empowered” after the collection was “higher” in the year As Amitava Gupta, a columnist, TMC. Bhagnu, a retrenched jute could not drive a fresh political reminiscent of what happened in Arunachal Pradesh in Communist Party of IndiaMarxist of the famine (176973) than in pre has argued in a recent article, mill worker turned rickshaw pull narrative against the Right and in (CPIM) came to power. She said, vious years, if one is to go by Pra “The biggest industry in West Ben er in Kakinara, an area witnessing stead focused more on soft Hin 2016, when rebel Congress MLAs joined the People’s “They told us to report to [the] sannan Parthasarathi’s book, Why gal is politics and [the] biggest em communal violence, argued suc dutva. It worked till the 2016 As Party of Arunachal in order to get over the legal hurdles party office on [an] employer’s Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did ployer is [the] Trinamool Con cintly why he shifted allegiance sembly election, but the script has to defection. These actions have reduced the SDF, [act of[ misconduct. It was a re Not. In addition, antipeasant reg gress.” Such dependence turned from the TMC to the Bharatiya Ja changed since 2019. which ruled the State for 25 years with Pawan Kumar lief.” This “relief” that the working ulations and Winston Churchill’s realpolitik violent as people are of nata Party: “What has secularism The faster the Chief Minister in Chamling as the Chief Minister with the longest tenure class experienced taught people to policy to block food import in the ten required to defend their em given me?” vents a political narrative that pro in India, to just one MLA — Mr. Chamling himself. Such dissent; this is perhaps why Ben 1940s triggered another famine, ployer (the political party of the He did not deny that he partici mises to empower people the bet a shift might well have helped the former SDF legisla gal witnessed protests recently crippling the economy even furth day), in turn boosting polarisation. pated in orchestrating attacks ter her chances of a fightback. But when a doctor was manhandled in er. Partition sounded the death However, physical violence, a fac against the minorities and made it can a party invent a new narrative tors stay clear of the antidefection law, which stipu comparison to the silence that has knell. After Independence, big tor to reckon with even today, is clear that protecting Bengal’s sec out of the blue? Whatever hap lates that a breakaway group must constitute at least greeted the killing of tribals in capital did not engage in the re deeply political in Bengal rather ular fabric or the Constitution was pens, the violence will not reduce. twothirds of the legislative party’s strength and that it Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh. gion like it had done in west India than being driven by caste vio not his priority given his tough But the bottomline is this: whether must merge with another party. But this was an uneth Bengal’s protests, which have to pull the State out of its crisis. lence. Religious communalism has life. While secularism or the Con the TMC gains ground or the BJP, ical manoeuvre, as the elections to the Sikkim legisla often been violent, go back in its This is partly owing to the State’s had a different story behind it. stitution failed him, Hindutva, he political violence is entrenched in tive Assembly were held barely three months ago and history, where as tribals to Na reduced size and population Communal riots were common admitted, gave him “a sense of the history of Bengalis — in Bangla the BJP had come a cropper without winning a single wabs, peasants, ascetics, fakirs growth due to inmigration. Till especially in the areas north of power”. desh and in West Bengal. (musician mendicants) to under 2001, the Census recorded the Kolkata from the late 19th century “Having a gun,” as political phi seat and just 1.6% of the overall vote. The BJP has shown ground revolutionaries often chal State as having had the highest due to a rise in settlements of “up losopher Frantz Fannon observed, [email protected] no qualms — as seen elsewhere in Karnataka, Arunachal Pradesh among others — about poaching legislators in LETTERS TO THE EDITOR stead of winning over support organically through a de Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. mocratic mandate. The Sikkim defections have added Legislative business sailed through without most productive in this longer periods. So be it. August 14). Some facts. In my fees. It is time the NEETUG yet another chapter to the hollowing out of the antide The recent Budget session adequate scrutiny. session, the credit should go Kosaraju Chandramouli, batch of 250 medical is made more rural student fection law. The SDF, which finished with 15 seats (two of Parliament not only Therefore, the model code to the Speaker of the Lok Hyderabad students only four or so hail friendly. The government since vacated), was a National Democratic Alliance transacted a high volume of of conduct for legislators Sabha. Our representatives from a rural background. should also provide quality member, but has now been replaced by the 18member legislative business but also proposed by the Vice should create the perception Unrest in Hong Kong After we graduate we want to and free preparatory SKM in the BJPled North East Democratic Alliance. remained free of noisy President, while that they are serious about With prodemocracy go back to our hometowns materials to students from a The SKM might have secured a clearer majority with disruptions (Editorial, formalising the rules for debating the country’s protesters in Hong Kong and start practice. So why rural background. More the defection of two SDF MLAs to its fold, but a cloud of “Deliberate, don’t disrupt”, parliamentary behaviour problems by maximum remaining firm in their are there so few students quality medical colleges and August 14). This is a should also scaffold the optimisation of demands, the city appears to from the rural areas? The hospitals are needed in rural uncertainty hangs over its party leader and Chief Minis welcome development that privilege of the executive to parliamentary proceedings. be sitting on a ticking time answer is the NEETUG, India, as a chunk of the ter P.S. Golay alias Prem Singh Tamang. Mr. Golay wa s should become the norm propose new bills within a R. Krishnamachary, bomb which could affect its which favours urban population lives here. convicted in 2016 in a case of corruption and had rather than an exception. framework of guidelines — Chennai status as a leading financial students; 90% of students in Shrila G., served a sentence in prison for a year till August 2 018. However, Parliament’s like, for example, hub. There is every medical colleges have Navi Mumbai ■ The People’s Representation Act, 1951, mandates that a productivity cannot be formulating a legislative There is no doubt that the likelihood of strong and attended coaching institutes, more letters online: person convicted under the Prevention of Corruption merely measured by the calendar. The bottomline is quality of parliamentary decisive action using force which also charge exorbitant www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ Act cannot contest an election for six years after re number of bills passed. there should be a minimum work has fallen precipitously against protesters. China Legislative oversight of the time between the over the years. Apart from with its rising super power corrections & clarifications: lease. The fact that he is serving as the Chief Minis ter political executive must not introduction of bills and the “model code of status could be flexible and Wrong headline: “Six killed in HP landslides” read a headline (he did not contest the Assembly polls) despite the con only be carried out but also their voting so that conduct”, it might be helpful promise more autonomy to (some editions, Aug. 13, 2019) while the text was about Ut tarakhand and not Himachal Pradesh. viction goes directly against a Supreme Court order in a seen to be in place through members can examine the to have a rule that no law Hong Kong. A sentence in the story headlined “No harmful chemicals in similar case dealing with the eligibility of former Tamil debates, amendments to proposals and come up should be passed without M. Jeyaram, PET bottles, finds CSIR study” (Aug. 13, 2019) that read “BPA is a Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa in 2001. The court had bills and enlisting the with reasoned responses. participation of a certain Sholavandan, Tamil Nadu synthetic organic compound and used in the manufacture of PET then said that the “appointment of a person to the o f services of committees to V.N. Mukundarajan, percentage of the total bottles but is now phased out after research found a link between Thiruvananthapuram the presence of BPA and the disruption of hormone regulation, as fice of Chief Minister who is not qualified to hold it scrutinise important bills. number of legislators of the Medical education Although the presiding House in the debate on the It was a surprise to read that well as breast cancer” is wrong. It should have been polycarbonate should be struck down at the earliest”. In line with the and not PET bottles. officers of the two Houses ■ Some time ago, “logjam”, bill under consideration. the ratio of doctors in urban drastic change in the party composition in the Assemb ensured that the “deadlock”, “disruption” and Every bill should also be and rural areas is 3.8:1, with It is the policy of The Hindu to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please specify ly due to the defections, the continuance of Mr. Golay as the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be Opposition’s voice was “boycott” were the usual vetted by a select committee less than 27,000 doctors to contacted by Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to chief minister makes a mockery of democratic and legal heard in the discussions, phrases readers came across before passing it into a law. serve about 650,000 villages Friday); Fax: +91-44-28552963; Email:[email protected]; Mail: Readers’ Editor, The Hindu, Kasturi Buildings, 859 & 860 Anna Salai, Chennai 600 002, India. principles. Something is rotten in the State of Sikkim. the general perception when Parliament was in For this, the Parliament may (Editorial page, “Writing out All communication must carry the full postal address and telephone number. No personal seems to be that many bills session. If Parliament was have to be in session for a clean Bill on health”, visits. The Terms of Reference for the Readers’ Editor are on www.thehindu.com

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 OPED 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Envisioning Ladakh’s future as UT A reality check on India’s Will a greater centralisation of decisionmaking help the region’s alreadyfragile terrain? renewable energy capacity for its future. This includes civil so ciety groups such as the Students’ It has not been able to make full use of reduction in costs Educational and Cultural Movement of Ladakh; the Snow Leopard Con er, the recent imposition of safeguard duty servancy India Trust; the Ladakh on imported solar photovoltaic cells, and the Arts and Media Organisation; and the ongoing depreciation of the Indian rupee vis Ashish Kothari Ladakh Ecological Development àvis the U.S. dollar, have only lessenedsome Group. These groups have done in of these cost advantages. If the government novative work on various fronts — in is concerned enough about the deteriorating Amidst the babble of voices on the cluding education; ecotourism; and Shouvik Chakraborty environment, there is an immediate need to sudden abrogation of Jammu and arts. With power receding further spend more on the research and develop Kashmir (J&K)’s special constitution away from the region and now firmly Addressing the plenary session of the World ment of these renewable energy sources. al status, the simultaneous transfor resting in New Delhi, their voices are Environment Day celebrations on June 5, One of the primary objectives for advocat mation of Ladakh into a Union Terri likely to be heard even less. 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated, ing the use of renewable energy sources is to tory (UT) has not received much “We are engaged in a massive push towards limit, and finally eliminate, the use of fossil attention. During last week’s parlia Need for a sensitive plan renewable energy generation. We have tar fuels, especially coal. But, according to Reu mentary debate on this decision, La A Ladakh 2025 Vision document, for geted [the] generation of 175 GW of solar and ters, India’s annual coal demand rose by 9.1% dakh’s Member of Parliament Ja mulated in 2005 after substantial wind energy by 2022. We are already the to nearly one billion tonnes during the year myang Tsering Namgyal argued consultation, was shelved both be fifthlargest producer of solar energy in the ending March 2019. Coal features among the powerfully that Ladakhis had been cause the Hill Council did not push it, world. Not only this, we are also the sixth lar top five imports of India, with total imports demanding UT status for the region and because Srinagar and New Delhi gest producer of renewable energy.” Along rising from 166.9 million tonnes in 201314 to for many decades. Finally achieving were not interested. The plan con with Emmanuel Macron, the President of 235.24 million tonnes in 201819. it, he said, will enable the region to tained several innovative proposals France, Mr. Modi also won the Champions of achieve its full development poten to address the needs and aspirations the Earth Award last year. More coal, more pollution tial. But are the prospects for his con The Chang La pass in Ladakh in a 2012 photo. * GETTY IMAGES of Ladakh’s population, including by True, the expansion of renewable energy Coal is the dirtiest fuel — the carbon emis stituency that clear? providing sustainable livelihoods for capacity in India is a step in the right direc sions from coal are almost double the emis For decades, a substantial part of rate State, or at least, for a territory press ahead with more hydropower, its rural people and youth. How will tion. There are benefits not only from an en sions from natural gas, and also much higher Ladakh (specifically, Leh district) has having its own legislature, forthere is mining and road construction pro the state of affairs in Ladakh change vironmental perspective but also in terms of than those from petroleum. A study by the felt stifled or alienated by J&K’s deci little evidence to suggest that coming grammes, making sensitive areas now with its new constitutional sta generating more employment opportunities. Centre for Science and Environment, New sionmaking apparatus, which was under the direct control of the Cen more vulnerable. tus? Without its own legislature, the However, the question is whether the go Delhi, shows that Indian coalfired thermal centred in Srinagar. The J&K govern tral government will signal greater The third danger to the region will region will have only limited power; vernment has put forth enough efforts to power plants are considered the most ineffi ment has often been insensitive to autonomy for the region. The way possibly come from an increased further, it is not clear if its Hill Coun take advantage of the extremely favourable cient and polluting in the world. More than the region’s ecological and cultural New Delhi has treated Andaman and presence of the armed forces . Given cil will continue. A lot will depend on cost conditions on renewable energy, espe 75% of these plants don’t comply with go uniqueness, whose incredible beau Nicobar Islands, largely ignoring its the importance the present govern what vision New Delhi and Leh can cially solar photovoltaics and onshore vernmental regulations. With the passage of ty masks the extreme fragility of its ecological fragility and the sensitivi ment attaches to threats, real and jointly come up with. winds. The costs of electricity generation the Coal Mines (Special Provision) Act, 2015 cold desert ecosystems and the high ties of its indigenous peoples, does perceived, coming from China and In March, when we met Mr. Nam from these sources have declined at a rapid and the Mines and Minerals (Development ly adaptive traditional livelihoods of not inspire much confidence . More Pakistan, the likelihood of more per gyal, who was then heading the Hill pace over the years and generating power and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015, the its people. These are so unlike the to over, the aggressive Hindu national sonnel getting stationed is high. Council, we found him sensitive to from these renewables now costs more or expansion of domestic coal usage for power pography of the rest of India that pe ist agenda of the current Central re Thousands of hectares of pasture the ecological and cultural issues the less the same as fossil fuels. generation has only worsened the existing ople from other parts of the country gime could only pose more land have already been occupied by region faces. He had just brought out Taking advantage of these lower costs, problems of pollution. cannot even understand them. challenges to Ladakh. the forces, with disruptive conse a draft for a mission on ecological other developing economies like China and A report published by the Centre for Fi Being home to enormous mineral quences for wildlife and local com farming and sounded receptive to Brazil have performed much better than In nancial Accountability in June 2018 showed Pressure on ecology reserves and tourism sites, Ladakh munities. The Army is yet to give us wards an alternative vision I pro dia in renewable energy generation. Accord that out of a total lending of ₹83,680 crore This landscape has found it difficult could easily find itself getting exploit an accurate figure on how much of posed through a presentation. ing to the International Renewable Energy for 72 energy projects, 12 coalfired power to weather the pressure being put by ed by commercial interests even the region’s land has been diverted Will he and others around him, Agency, these countries currently rank the plants with a combined capacity of 17 GW the infrastructure projects, the pre more once its economy is opened. for use by its personnel. through whom New Delhi’s decisions first and third respectively in terms of pro obtained loans of ₹60,767 crore. The 60 re sence of armed forces and excessive This would only put greater pressure Ladakh has had its own Autono will be channelled, be willing and duction of renewable energy. newable energy projects, with a combined tourism. Further, these activities, on its already fragile ecosystem , and mous Hill Development Council for able to mould the proposals to suit capacity of 4.5 GW, were able to mobilise on and the inappropriate educational consequently impact the mores of its more than two decades. However, the region’s requirements? Will they China way ahead ly ₹22,913 crore. The report also added that systems foisted on Ladakhis, have pastoral and agricultural communi during a study trip in March this revive the Vision 2025 document, China is way ahead of India in its expansion. eight out of the top 10 lenders to these coal disrupted the lifestyles of the re ties that are dependent on it. The re year, we learned from political func updating it if necessary? Will La Over the 201417 period, China’s addition to fired power plants were public sector banks. gion’s traditional ethnic groups. The gion has already been facing environ tionaries, activists and civil society dakh’s farmers, pastoralists, women its renewable energy capacity (207.2 GW) Most of these coalfired plants have been bifurcation of Ladakh, which was mental issues due to landslips, soil members that there was, on the and youth get a more meaningful was nearly six times India’s (33.3 GW). Over around for sometime, while the renewable once a single district, into Leh and erosion, accumulation of solid waste, ground, no true autonomy. Decisions voice in the new dispensation than the same period , China increased its in plants are predominantly new and need Kargil, clearly on religious grounds, disturbances to its wildlife popula were mostly made from Srinagar they have had so far within the Hill stalled capacity in solar energy by 105.5 GW, more financial assistance. This apparent fa has also been seen by many local pe tion and diversion of commons for and, to some extent, New Delhi. Council status, or will they be margi while India increased its capacity by only vouring of coalfired plants is highly proble ople to have driven an unnecessarily development projects. This is not to say that had Ladakh nalised even further? And even if 14.3 GW — a mere oneseventh of the former. matic; if the use of coal continues to expand, divisive wedge between Buddhist been given greater autonomy, it they do get a voice, will they opt for a Advanced economies like the U.S. and Japan then even with an expansion of renewable and Muslim populations. More infrastructure projects would necessarily have chosen a dif sustainable, culturally rooted future? installed almost twice the amount of solar energy sources, the increasing emission le Given the above factors, the de However, the J&K government’s fi ferent path; sections of the region’s For the sake of one of the world’s capacity over this period compared to India. vels cannot be controlled. mand to make Ladakh a UT appears nancial and administrative ability to mainstream do aspire for greater ‘de most remarkable biocultural land Despite the reduction in costs due to glo to have been backed by strong rea scale such activities up was extreme velopment’. But we need to stress scapes, let us hope so. bal technological advancement in the field of Shouvik Chakraborty is a Research Assistant Professor soning. One can wonder, though, ly limited. The Central government, here that many sections of Ladakh’s renewable energy, India has been unable to at the Political Economy Research Institute, University why the demand was not for a sepa not constrained by such fetters, may society also have a different vision Ashish Kothari is with Kalpavriksh, Pune reap these benefits to their full extent. Furth of Massachusetts, Amherst The story of India’s integration CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC FROM THE ARCHIVES The coming together of a fifth of all mankind into FIFTY YEARS AGO a single nation is one of the great events in history AUGUST 15, 1969 Insulin’s structure discovered Uday Balakrishnan undergone till, step by step, the edif India barely found the inclination to ice of a consolidated India was en British Nobel prize winning scientist Do celebrate its independence from Bri shrined in the Constitution.” The rothy Hodgkin yesterday [August 13] an tain on August 15, 1947. Communal coming together of a fifth of all man nounced the discovery of the crystalline riots and a massive influx of refugees kind, relatively peacefully, into a sin structure of insulin, the life saving drug used following Partition threatened to gle state is one of the great events in by diabetics. Dr. Hodgkin made her announ fragment the fledgling country. Broke history and one which we have sadly cement at a Press conference held on the and traumatised, it had nothing like all but forgotten. Unlike many Euro first day of a 10day meeting of the Eighth In the Marshall Plan to cope with the pean universities with centres that ternational Congress of Crystallography at challenges it faced, despite signifi study European integration, we have the State University of New York here [Stony cantly contributing to the Allied vic none to look at our own. Brook]. Scientists at the meeting believe the tory in the Second World War. India’s successful integration discovery could lead to an understanding It was in such bleak conditions holds significant lessons for the rest and elimination of the side effects of insulin. that India took up the task of con of the world, especially to the coun It also could make possible the development vincing the heads of hundreds of tries of Europe and their fitful efforts of insulin by a synthetic process instead of princely states to accede to it. That it at coming together. It took the na the present costly production of the drug succeeded in doing so in less than tions of Western Europe thirteen from natural elements. Since two Canadian two years after Independence was no years following the Second World scientists, Dr. Frederick Banting and Dr. miracle. The ‘integration project’ War to start on their process of inte Charles H. Best, isolated insulin in 1921 a was the personal achievement of two gration. This led to the establishment search has been in progress to discover how CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC remarkable men — Sardar Vallabhb of the European Economic Commun the substance works in the body. “Biologists hai Patel, the first Home Minister and ity in 1958, and later, the European DATA POINT have a virtual blueprint for this search now DeputyPrime Minister in Jawaharlal Union (EU) in 1993. However, the EU that Dr. Hodgkin has discovered insulin’s Nehru’s Cabinet; and his efficient remains a tentative and inconclusive crystalline structure”, Dr. Edwin Temple confidant V.P. Menon. experiment, with one ton, of the University of California at Berke Together, they per of its largest members — ley said. Dr. Hodgkin said work on the dis suaded the rulers of one the United Kingdom — covery was carried out at research princely state after about to exit it. A Euro laboratories at Oxford University. another — nearly 600 in pean political union, all — to sign the Instru which looked very pos A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AUGUST 15, 1919 ments of Accession to sible a decade back, is the Indian state. It not being discussed Some Difficulties in Social Work. helped that India, as the even as a possibility to successor state to British day. Contrast this with The Hon. Mr. S. Sreenivasa Iyengar delivered India, maintained a ten India, which achieved a lecture yesterday evening [August 14 in Ma uous control over the both an economic and dras] at the Y. M.C.A., on “Some difficulties princely states to, as Me a political union within in social work”. The Hon. Dewan Bahadur non explained, “protect their territo a few years of gaining freedom, giv Justice T. Sadasiva Iyer took the chair. In the ries against external aggression and ing its people what Winston Churchill course of his address [Mr. Sreenivasa Iyen to preserve peace and order through expected Europeans to achieve but gar] said that the caste system was no longer out the country.” so far have not — “a sense of enlarged what it was. It was yet to some extent effec patriotism and common citizenship.” tive in the villages and in the more orthodox Largely peaceful Integrating a land and a people of circles. It could not be at any rate said that India’s integration, historian Ian Co immense diversities to form one the vast majority of the people still adhered pland observed “represented a major country was no mean task. That this to the caste system and enforced all the old watershed. It swelled the area of the was achieved without the mass mur terror of boycott and excommunication . In new Indian state by over half a mil ders, show trials and executions the place of the old social structure a new lion square miles and its population which accompanied the rise of the one with fresh ideals and a new programme by nearly 90 million people, redrew Soviet Union and China makes the of work should be built. The discovery of so the political map of the subcontinent story of India’s coming together quite cial formulae was yet incomplete. Attempts and overthrew an entire governing the grandest one of the 20th century. made in various directions had been unsuc order.” The process was largely The 72nd anniversary of our Inde cessful. Till they discovered new formulae peaceful with a few exceptions, the pendence also marks the time when there would be discontent and restlessness. most prominent being Jammu and the integration of Indian states com The second difficulty was the conventional Kashmir and Hyderabad. menced in earnest. It is a fine time for work in social service. The feeling between In his book, The Story of the Inte- us to reflect on this achievement and the Brahmana and the NonBrahmana gration of the Indian States, Menon savour the moment. showed that all did not end with interdining. urged us not think of the project “on The next difficulty was the profound dishor ly in terms of the consolidation of the mony amongst the educated classes. Those country,” but also “pause to consider The writer teaches at Indian Institute of disharmonies were bound to produce a bit the toils and anxieties that had to be Science, Bangalore ter cleavage in the Hindu society.

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FROM PAGE ONE HC acquits A ‘huge disappointment’, say Pehlu’s kin two accused Let’s give development ‘Conviction would have helped curb the growing incidence of cases of lynching across the country’ of Maoist links a chance, says PM Ashok Kumar answer his call. Special Correspondent GURUGRAM Pehlu’s cousin Hakamad Kolkata “I have assured people that younger leadership to Expressing “huge disap din blamed the police, alleg The Calcutta High Court elections in Jammu and emerge. pointment” at the acquittals ing that they had been has acquitted two political Kashmir will continue and it “These are the same peo of all six accused in the Peh “handinglove” with the ac activists arrested 10 years is the people of these re ple whose own conduct in lu Khan lynching case by an cused and thus denied jus ago for alleged links to the gions only who will repre the 1987 elections has been Alwar court on Wednesday, tice to the family. outlawed CPI(Maoist). Raja sent the larger public. Yes, suspect. the victim’s uncle Hussain Three juveniles are sepa Sarkhel and Prasun Chat those who ruled Kashmir “Article 370 has helped Khan said “justice was not rately facing trial in the case terjee could not be convict thinking it is their divine the local political class avoid done to the family”. Recall at the Juvenile Justice Board. ed after a decadelong trial right to do so will dislike de transparency and accounta ing that Pehlu had been mur and were acquitted by a mocratisation and peddle bility. Its removal will only dered in the open, Mr. Khan ‘Police under pressure’ Bench of Justices Mumtaz incorrect narratives. They empower democracy even said he had hoped that at AllIndia Mewati Samaj presi Khan and Joy Sengupta. do not want a selfmade, more,” he said. least a few of the accused dent Ramzan Choudhary al Justice Khan retired on would be held accountable leged that the police had act Wednesday. for the coldblooded ed under government The court also reduced Court acquits six in murder. pressure to weaken the case the quantum of sentence of “If not all, we hoped the Hussain Khan, uncle of Pehlu Khan, at a dharna in Jaipur in April 2017. * ROHIT JAIN PARAS despite there being a dying convicted political activists Pehlu Khan lynching case court would hold at least two declaration, eyewitnesses involved in a mine blast in or three of them responsible cial constraints, he had that he still held hope for jus Unable to go in person to and videos where the ac West Medinipur district in While giving the benefit of were Vipin Yadav, Kalu for his murder,” said Mr. spent ₹3 lakh on the court tice. Expressing apprehen Alwar to hear the verdict on cused could be seen hitting 2008. The blast was a bid the doubt to the accused, Ram, Dayanand, Ravindra Khan, reacting to the ver case and spent hours doing sions that the acquittal of the account of poor health, Mr. the victim. to assassinate former Chief the court noted “contradic Kumar, Yogesh Kumar and dict. the rounds of the court seek accused could prove to be an Khan said he had called the Mr. Choudhary said wit Minister Buddhadeb Bhat tions” in the investigation Bheem Rathi. “But the court verdict has ing justice for his nephew. ominous signal for Pehlu’s lawyer around 5 p.m. to as nesses had been “forced to tacharjee. carried out by the police A crowd which had gath come as a huge disappoint Mr. Khan, however, was sons, who are facing charges certain as to what happened turn hostile, bought over The court declared that and the prosecution’s ered outside the court build ment to us.” clear that he would pursue of cow slaughter, he said the in the court, and suspected and threatened and there there was no evidence to evidence. ing celebrated the verdict The 61yearold painfully an appeal against the verdict fear was that they could now that something was amiss fore justice always seemed convict Mr. Sarkhel and Mr. The court ruled that the and raised slogans in sup recalled how, despite finan in a higher court, and added be held guilty. when the advocate did not impossible”. Chatterjee. They were video footage of the incident port of the accused. charged with waging war that went viral on the social Defence counsel Hukum against the State. media could not be treated Chand Sharma said the as admissible evidence in judgment was a “tight slap” Balakot strike was to prevent Nitish must take Relief for Mahato the absence of its certifica in the face of those who Chhatradhar Mahato, con tion by the forensic science were trying to give a politi vener of the People’s Com laboratory. cal twist to the case. mittee Against Police Besides, Khan’s sons re Qasim Khan, counsel for another Pulwama: Rajnath on PM: RJD leader Atrocities (PCAPA), who re portedly could not identify Pehlu Khan’s sons, said the sisted police excesses after the accused and the prose two chargesheets filed by Says he should unite the Opposition the Medinipur blast, was cution could not prove that the State police and the CID Pak. is keeping a sinister eye on Jammu & Kashmir, he says also given some relief along Special Correspondent they were the ones visible in CB contradicted each other, with other PCAPA activists. Special Correspondent was done as in the new and Patna The court reduced their the video. which benefited the ac NEW DELHI Those let off by the court cused. emerging world, the battle Senior Rashtriya Janata Dal punishment from 12 to 10 India carried out air strikes field was not only limited to leader and party national years, which would ensure on a terrorist training camp land, air and sea but would vicepresident Shivanand their release in September at Balakot in Pakistan before also spread to space and cy Tiwari on Wednesday said when they complete a de Changes to J&K will it could plan another Pulwa berspace. “India has to be Bihar Chief Minister and JD cade in the prison. malike attack, Defence Mi ready for any eventuality (U) leader Nitish Kumar Mr. Mahato, a top leader bring benefits: Kovind nister Rajnath Singh said on keeping pace with techno should come to national pol of PCAPA who confronted Wednesday. logical advancements in the itics to oppose Prime Minis the CPI(M)led Left Front In his address to the nation ing the ideas of others.” “Our neighbour is contin area,” he said. ter Narendra Modi. government in Bengal, on the eve of the 73rd Inde President Kovind ex uously keeping a sinister eye “However, let me reiter Mr. Tiwari also said that build up strong campaigns pendence Day — the first pressed confidence that “In on Jammu and Kashmir. It ate that the defence policy is since there was no “credible Nitish Kumar against the Communists. since the Centre took away dia will never lose its capac sends terrorists into our ter <> India has to be for peace and stability at re Opposition” at the Centre Following the June ac J&K’s special status by anull ity to listen to the feeblest ritory and disturbs peace in ready for any gional, continental and glo these days, Mr. Kumar tives to come to the fore of quittal and Wednesday’s ing Article 370 — President voice; that it will never lose the Valley,” the Defence Mi eventuality bal level.” should come forward and national politics to oppose judgment, civil rights acti Kovind said the generation sight of its ancient ideals; nister said in his customary keeping pace with On the welfare of the mili unite all Opposition parties PM Modi…he has that politi vists said that the adminis address to the armed forces tary personnel, Mr. Singh as he had all along main cal guts and calibre,” Mr. Ti tration should be “pun that fought for India’s free that it will forget neither its technology on the eve of Independence said he had “restored ‘ration tained his image as a “secu wari told a gathering of ished for keeping political dom did not view Indepen sense of fairness nor its Rajnath Singh dence as “mere transfer of sense of adventure.” Day. Referring to the Pulwa Defence Minister in kind’ for the officers of the lar leader”. presspersons. activists behind bars for a power but as a stepping “We Indians are a people ma terror attack on Febru three armed forces posted in His son Rahul Tiwari is decade without any stone in a longer and larger who dare to explore the ary 14 in which 40 security Pakistan before it could plan peace areas since June.” ‘It is time’ the party MLA for Shahpur evidence.” process of nation building.” moon and Mars. We are also personnel were killed, he another Pulwamalike Now, all officers including “Nitish Kumar has been the in Bhojpur. Mr. Tiwari also “In this backdrop, I am a people who persevere to said, “Our armed forces hit attack.” those in peace station would Chief Minister of Bihar for admitted that, of late, all confident that the recent create a loving habitat for back by destroying the ter On the antisatellite get them, he said. The ja the last 14 years… now it is was not well in the RJD as changes made in Jammu three of every four wild tig ror launch pads with air (ASAT) test conducted early wans were getting rations in time for him to think about party leader Tejashwi Yadav ‘Naga national Kashmir and Ladakh would ers on our planet, because it strikes across the border in this year, Mr. Singh said it all stations. his future and take initia was not in the State. be of immense benefit to is characteristic of Indian flag’ hoisted those regions. They will ena ness to empathise with na ble the people to access and ture and with all living be in Kohima enjoy the same rights, same ings,” he said. He called Ayodhya: SC questions Under ED lens in Narada scam, privileges and same facili upon every civicminded ci Special Correspondent GUWAHATI ties as their fellow citizens in tizen to defend public in the rest of the country,” he frastructure in the same way Hindu parties’ counsel The influential Naga Stu said. as soldiers protect the bor exKolkata Mayor joins BJP dents’ Federation (NSF) on “These include progres ders. “Whether you guard Travelogues of foreigners discussed Wednesday hoisted the sive, egalitarian laws and our nation at the frontiers or Special Correspondent jee would add ‘intellectual’ ‘Naga national flag’ to cele provisions related to the check that hand before it Krishnadas Rajagopal NEW DELHI heft to the party, he said. Mr. brate the 73 rd ‘Naga Inde NEW DELHI Right to Education; access throws a stone at a passing Former Mayor of Kolkata Chatterjee said democratic pendence Day’ across the ing public information train or any other public The Hindu parties involved and Trinamool Congress values were under threat un Nagainhabited areas, in through the Right to Infor property — just like that, for in the Ayodhya title appeals MLA Sovan Chatterjee and der the Mamata Banerjee go cluding Myanmar. mation; reservations in edu the sake of it; or perhaps in received a barrage of ques his close aide and president vernment and that he had On August 14, 1947, lead cation and employment and anger — in some measure tions from the Constitution of the Trinamool Congress expressed this view “in ers belonging to various other facilities for tradition you protect a shared trea Bench, including whether Professors Cell Baisakhi Ba proper forums of the Trina Naga tribes came together ally deprived communities; sure. This is not just a mat there is any evidence on re nerjee joined the BJP on mool” in the past. He did not to unfurl their ‘national and justice for our daught ter of obeying laws; it is of cord to show that the first Wednesday in the presence respond to questions on the flag’ in Kohima, capital of ers by abolishing unequal answering to an inner con Mughal emperor, Babur, or of its general secretary Arun status of his cases. Nagaland which attained practices such as instant tri science,” Mr. Kovind said. dered the building of the Ba Singh and senior leader statehood in December ple talaq,” the President ad The President praised the bri Masjid. from West Bengal Mukul Roy Sovan Chatterjee Bengal inroads 1963. ded. recently concluded session While Justice S.A. Bobde in New Delhi. Six Trinamool MLAs, and NSF president Ninoto In an address where the of Parliament where he not asked about when the struc destroyed by Babur, and the Mr. Chatterjee, who had of those leaders who had one each of the Congress Awomi said there was no President talked about the ed that several laws were ture, demolished by kar se other, that it was razed by also been a Minister in the made a big contribution to and CPI(M) have switched political message in the un relationship between the passed with crossparty sup vaks on December 6, 1992, Aurangazeb much later. Mamata Banerjee govern Ms. Banerjee’s rise to the over to the BJP since the re furling of the flag. state, its citizens and the go port and urged the Assem began to be called ‘Babri But Mr. Vaidyanathan ment, had in the past been post of Chief Minister. sults of the Lok Sabha polls “The NSF has been ob vernment, he said, “India’s blies to replicate such pro Masjid’, Justice D.Y. Chan contended that it did not summoned by the Enforce “He will now strengthen were announced in May, serving the day not to show history and destiny, India’s ductivity in law making and drachud reflected on histor matter who destroyed the ment Directorate in the Na the BJP. Let me state that the with the BJP wooing rival that Nagas are against India legacy and future, are a nation building. Comment ical texts to point out that temple as long as the missio rada scam. Trinamool will not even get party leaders to bolster its but to celebrate our identi function of coexistence and ing on the 2019 general elec Ayodhya and the disputed nary’s accounts go to prove Welcoming Mr. Chatter the status of the Opposition strength in the run up to the ty, culture, history, and conciliation, of reform and tion, he said it was a “rene area seemed to have been a the existence of a temple jee, Mr. Roy said he was one party.” Ms. Baisakhi Baner Assembly polls, due in 2021. rights. he told The Hindu. reconciliation — of expand wal of collective hope and confluence of several reli and that it was demolished ing our hearts and embrac optimism”. gions, including Buddhism, before 1786. “Who demol Jainism and even Islam. ished the temple would not Responding to these matter for us as it proves questions and observations that the temple existed. Naga groups assail rethink on RIIN cutoff Vir Chakra for from the Constitution What is important about the Bench led by Chief Justice of document is that it identifies India Ranjan Gogoi, senior the Janm Asthan and that a Some groups have called for April 1977 instead of December 1963 as the date Wing Cdr. Abhinandan advocate C.S. Vaidyanathan mosque was put up at the on Wednesday relied on tra site of the Ram temple,” he SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Naga Political Lead Special Correspondent handed over by Pakistan at velogues and personal ac submitted. GUWAHATI ers’ Forum (NPLF) of Mani NEW DELHI the WagahAttari border counts of foreign travellers A joint committee of Naga ci pur had a few days ago said it The Indian Air Force per crossing on March 1. to India to show that the be On Babur vil society groups has had submitted a memoran sonnel who were part of the “President Ram Nath Ko lief among the local people Mr. Vaidyanathan said the warned the Nagaland go dum to Nagaland Chief Mi February 26 Balakot air vind, who is also the Su that Ramjanmabhoomi was first use of name ‘Babri Mas vernment against changing nister Neiphiu Rio opposing strike on a JaisheMoham preme Commander of the divine remained unshakea jid’ traced only back to the the cutoff date for including the 1963 date as the cutoff mad terror training camp in armed forces, has approved ble for centuries all 19th century. “Nothing be people in the Register of In date. Demanding April 28, Pakistan and the air engage 132 awards to armed forces together. fore that to show it was digenous Inhabitants of Na 1977, as the cutoff date, the ment a day after have been personnel and members of Mr. Vaidyanathan point called Babri Masjid,” he con galand (RIIN). Forum said the RIIN would awarded gallantry medals paramilitary forces,” the De ed out that travelogues of fo tended. He said even the The Nagaland govern otherwise “create great ha on the eve of Independence fence Ministry said on reigners like the missionary memoirs of Emperor Babur ment, through a notification voc to the unity and fraterni Day. Wednesday. Joseph Tiefenthaler, and was “silent” on his stay in on June 29, decided to un ty” of Nagas residing in Aru Wing Commander Abhi These include two Kirti others like William Finch Ayodhya. dertake the exercise to up sued a notification that laid indigenous inhabitants of nachal Pradesh, Assam, nandan Varthaman, who Chakras, one Vir Chakra, 14 and Montgomery Martin But senior advocate Ra date the RIIN with December down the criteria for issuing Nagaland. The idea of chang Manipur, Nagaland and was caught by Pakistan after Shaurya Chakras, 98 Sena about the history of Ram jeev Dhavan clarified about 1, 1963, as the cutoff date for indigenous inhabitant certif ing the cutoff date to 1977 Myanmar. his MiG21 Bison fighter jet Medals (Gallantry), five Nao and ruins of a temple in the version being made that inclusion of people in the re icates to the residents when under pressure from certain “It will displace most of went down across the Line Sena Medals (Gallantry), se Ayodhya could be accepted Baburnama is silent about gister. Some organisations the State was formed. The quarters is not acceptable,” a the Nagas from Manipur, As of Control (LoC) on Febru ven Vayu Sena Medals (Gal as credible as the foreigners Babur’s visit to Ayodhya. have, however, demanded notification did not say spokesperson of the Joint sam, Arunachal Pradesh and ary 27 and was returned lantry) and five Yudh Seva were under no compulsion “Baburnama says about Ba that the cutoff date be whether those to be granted Committee on Prevention of other neighbouring areas three days later, has been Medals. Kirti Chakra was to lie. bur crossing the river to changed to April 28, 1977. such a certificate would have Illegal Immigrants (JCPI) who settled in Nagaland af awarded Vir Chakra, the posthumously awarded to At this point, the Bench Ayodhya. Two pages of his to be a Naga. said. ter 1963,” the NPLF said in a country’s thirdhighest gal Sapper Prakash Jadhav. The intervened to point out that stay in Ayodhya are missing. Date of statehood “The cutoff date of De He added that the com statement. The JCPI has dis lantry award. During a dog Army also got eight Shaurya Tiefenthaler seemed to have That cannot mean he did Nagaland was carved out of cember 1, 1963, is only for mittee would be on a colli missed this argument, insist fight, he shot down a Pakis Chakras, 98 Sena Medals two varied accounts of the not visit Ayodhya,” he said. Assam as a State on Decem identifying nonNagas and sion course with the State go ing that the Nagaland go tani F16 but his jet was shot (Gallantry) and four demolition of a temple in The arguments will conti ber 1, 1963. The State govern Nagas from other States who vernment if it thinks of such vernment must adhere to down soon after. He was MentioninDispatches. the area — one, that it was nue on August 16. ment had in April 1977 is may be qualified to be called a move. the 1963 date.

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THE HINDU DELHI THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Leaders to stay under detention on I-Day Lift all gags on freedom of Former Chief Ministers and local MPs are unlikely to attend the celebrations in Srinagar speech in Valley: activists Peerzada Ashiq ers have either been de Srinagar tained or put under house Former Chief Ministers and arrest. ‘People of J&K must be allowed to express their protest’ the local MPs are unlikely to The main function will be attend the firstever Inde held at the SheriKashmir Special Correspondent management of the Press pendence Day celebrations Park here where Governor New Delhi Club of India where they in J&K after its special status Satya Pal Malik will hoist the A group of activists who vi spoke. was revoked on August 5, as tricolour. The government sited the Kashmir Valley Mr. Dreze said, “Permis the current dispensation has plans to hold such functions have demanded that all sion was refused to us to put in place stringent securi at all district and sub district means of communication — show the videos. We were ty measures for celebrations levels. landline telephones, mobile told that the projector was in all districts. Additional deployments phones and Internet — be not working but the manage Asked if the regional party and drone surveys of the ve restored with immediate ment is under pressure and leaders, including incarcer nue had been completed to effect. surveillance.” ated National Conference ward off any militant attack. The group comprising When asked how the president and Srinagar MP “All preparations are com economist Jean Drèze, Kavi group moved around since Farooq Abdullah and two plete,” Mr. Kansal said. ta Krishnan of the CPI(ML), Jean Dreze the Valley had been under former Chief Ministers Omar Maimoona Mollah of the All “curfew” like conditions, Abdullah and Mehbooba Covering all flanks: BSF men patrolling the Chenab on Independence Day eve at Akhnoor. * PTI ‘Situation improving’ India Democratic Women’s down and because they had one of them said “it was diffi Mufti, would be allowed to The authorities said the over Association and Vimal Bhai run out of newsprint that cult to move but not impos attend the function in Srina law and order] is also incor However, the police are “Only those invitees all situation in Kashmir had of the National Alliance of came from Delhi. sible”. “We met two victims gar, J&K government spokes porated,” Mr. Kansal said. unlikely to release any main whose list is prepared by the remained calm “due to People’s Movements toured “We demand that the gags of pellet gun injuries in man Rohit Kansal avoided a Divisional Commissioner, stream leader on the occa Divisional Commissioner which the government has the Valley from August 9 to on the freedom of speech, SMHS hospital in Srinagar. direct answer. Kashmir, Baseer Khan has sion. will be allowed to attend the further relaxed the prohibi 13. expression and protest be The two young men [Waqar prepared the list of invitees, The NC’s two other MPs, IDay celebrations,” Addi tory orders”. At a press conference lifted from J&K with imme Ahmad and Wahid] had fac Careful analysis which, sources said, in Hasnain Masoodi and Akbar tional DirectorGeneral of Mr. Gillani said only two here on Wednesday, the diate effect.” es, arms and torso full of pel “Any decision on this is ta cludes the regional leaders Lone, are avoiding travel to Police Syed Mujtaba Javaid persons were injured during group said local newspapers The activists were not al lets. Their eyes were blood ken only after careful analy and three local MPs of the J&K since the revocation of Gillani said. street protests and were ad were unable to function due lowed to show video clips shot and blinded,” the sis. The local assessment [of NC. the special status. Nearly 250 regional lead mitted to the hospitals here. to the communication lock and photographs by the activists said in a statement.

Restrictions Shah Faesal detained in Will get back, J&K govt. tells Rahul lifted in Delhi, taken to Srinagar Congress leader had offered to visit the Valley without any conditions Jammu special correspondent statement accusing Mr. Press Trust of India Former IAS officer was barred from going abroad Srinagar Gandhi of putting too many Srinagar The Jammu and Kashmir go conditions and trying to Restrictions in Jammu have Special Correspondent from New Delhi and told her vernment on Wednesday create “unrest” over the been completely lifted but New Delhi that he had been questioned said it would get in touch Centre’s decision to end will continue for a while Kashmiri leader Shah Fae by the authorities at the air with Congress leader Rahul J&K’s special status. longer in some places in sal, a former IAS officer, was port regarding an interview Gandhi on his request to visit “Rahul Gandhi is politicis Kashmir, a senior Jammu stopped from flying out of he gave to the BBC on the proposed Union ing the matter by seeking to and Kashmir police officer the country at the Delhi air Tuesday. Territory. bring a delegation of Opposi said on Wednesday and port and packed off to Srina Mr. Faesal, a topper of the Governor Satya Pal Malik tion leaders to create further emphasised that the situa gar where he has been 2009 UPSC Civil Services Ex has already referred the mat gements for the celebration accept your invitation to visit unrest and problems for the tion is totally under placed under preventive de am, had told the channel, ter to the local administra of Independence Day,” the Jammu & Kashmir and meet common people. He has put control. tention, a friend and a go Shah Faesal “It's my generation which tion, an official spokesman spokesman added. the people, with no condi forth many conditions for Additional DirectorGen vernment official confirmed. has now got the taste of said. “The administration Mr. Gandhi, in response to tions attached. When can I visiting J&K, including meet eral Munir Khan said there The friend told The Hindu on the basis of which he was betrayal.” will get in touch with the MP a statement made by the Go come,” Mr. Gandhi tweeted ing mainstream leaders un were localised incidents in that when Mr. Faesal stopped from boarding a A senior government offi at a convenient time,” the of vernor, on Tuesday had and played on the Gover der detention,” the state various parts of Srinagar reached the immigration flight to Istanbul. He was on cial said that Mr. Faesal was ficial said. tweeted his desire to visit nor’s surname. Instead of ment said. “Since the and other districts in the desk around 1.30 a.m. on the way to Harvard Kennedy flown to Srinagar where he He said Mr. Gandhi had ta Jammu and Kashmir. Malik, the Congress MP spelt Governor had never invited Valley, but these were con Wednesday, he was told that School in the U.S. to com has been held under “pre ken four days to respond on On Wednesday, he again it as Maalik, meaning mas him with so many precondi tained and dealt with he had a lookout notice plete his course,” the friend ventive detention”. The offi the issue. asked the Governor when he ter/owner in Hindi. tions, he has referred the locally. against him. said. cial clarified that he was not “At present, the entire can visit J&K. His tweet came after the case to the police and admi There have been no ma “The authorities had his According to him, Mr. arrested under the Public State administration is pre “Dear Maalik ji, I saw your Governor’s office late on nistration to examine the re jor injuries to anyone, he photograph and the notice, Faesal telephoned his wife Safety Act (PSA). occupied with making arran feeble reply to my tweet. I Tuesday evening issued a quest further,” it added. said at a press conference. Imran Khan vows to raise Kashmir at global level Pakistan PM addresses PoK Assembly Mehmal Sarfraz Lahore Prime Minister Imran Khan addressed a special session of the PoK legislative as sembly on Wednesday, marking Pakistan’s Inde pendence Day. Mr Khan said he would be the Ambassador of Kashmir at all international forums and raise his voice for hap less Kashmiris. Imran Khan Comparing the ideology of the Rashtriya Swayamse miri women is the result of vak Sangh (RSS) to Nazism, sickminded ideology,” he Mr Khan spoke of a battle of said. ideologies. The Prime Minister said “Now the world is looking even those Kashmiri leaders at Kashmir and also Pakis who were considered pro tan. We will internationalise India are saying today that the issue of Kashmir. The Jinnah was right. world must understand how “The genie of RSS will not dangerous RSS ideology go back in the bottle. After is...the kind of statements Muslims, it will target Sikhs, coming out regarding Kash Dalits, Christians.” Review of detentions likely after Thursday ‘Mufti, Omar are in preventive custody’ Vijaita Singh New Delhi Minister of State for Home G. Kishan Reddy said former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah were in “preventive custody” and the decision to release them will be reviewed after Au gust 15. There is no clarity under G. Kishan Reddy what law several political leaders in the Valley have become imperative to take been detained since the such necessary measures night of August 4. for preventing and deterio “The two leaders are un rating and escalating further der preventive custody,” Mr. any law and order situation Reddy told The Hindu. in Kashmir.” An order signed by Srina “These are called magis gar’s Executive Magistrate terial orders and several placing Ms. Mufti in deten others are in preventive cus tion said, “Keeping in con tody,” a senior J&K police of sideration present situation ficer said. An official said in Kashmir and strong ap such orders are issued by prehensions of breach of the executive and are “pre peace and tranquillity it has cautionary” in nature. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Hong Kong protests ‘near terrorism’: China Infighting over presidential Protesters apologise after chaotic airport violence; flights resume after two days of disruptions candidate heightens in UNP Reuters the airport for five days, HONG KONG mostly withdrew by China said Hong Kong’s prot daybreak. Ranil, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya are in the fray est movement had reached It’s not clear whether the “near terrorism” on Wednes ugly scenes have eroded the Meera Srinivasan eyes on the highest office. day, after a night of ugly broad support the move COLOMBO Their disagreement now is clashes at the city’s airport ment has attracted in Hong Days after former Sri Lankan manifesting over the draft where demonstrators set Kong, while the city’s falter President Mahinda Rajapak Constitution of the National upon and detained two men ing economy has also taken a sa named his brother Gota Democratic Front, a UNPled they suspected of being go hit in recent months. baya Rajapaksa as opposi alliance that the party hopes vernment sympathisers. “We promise to reflect tion presidential candidate, to form with some of its cur Flights out of the financial and to improve,” protesters the battle over candidacy rent coalition partners, in hub resumed after two days said in one message distri within the United National cluding minority parties. of disruptions caused by buted on socialmedia app Party (UNP) has intensified, Further, while the PM wants thousands of protesters Telegram. with no indication of a deci the alliance formed before swarming the terminal at sion yet. Ranil Wickremesinghe their candidate is named, one of the world’s busiest air Tricky, says Trump While UNP legislators Mr. Premadasa, according to ports, forcing the cancella In addition to Beijing’s con point to at least three diffe Colombo elite supporting political sources, has been tion of hundreds of City in turmoil: A Hong Kong policeman takes a fall during a scuffle with protesters. * AFP demnation, the People’s Dai- rent positions on who their us,” said Ajith Perera, Minis insisting that the candidate departures. ly called for “using the sword party must field, much of ter and a staunch Premadasa be named first. China’s Hong Kong and from British to Chinese rule a peaceful sitin at the air Party’s official People’s Dai- of the law” to restore order, the disagreement in the last backer. “A majority of our With the deadlock persist Macau Affairs Office in Beij in 1997. port turned violent late on ly, and their harassment of and mainland social media few days is over the clashing MPs is with him, and a ma ing, restless supporters of ing called the behaviour at “We’re deeply sorry about Tuesday as protesters con the man they believed to be a users lauded the detained re interests of party leader and jority of our working com Mr. Premadasa organised a the airport no different to what happened yesterday,” fronted and held a man they mainland agent drew China’s porter as a hero. Prime Minister Ranil Wickre mittee members want him party rally in the central Ba terrorism and said it must be read a banner held up by a believed was an undercover strongest language yet. On Tuesday, U.S. Presi mesinghe and deputy leader to contest. Backbenchers dulla district earlier this severely punished. group of a few dozen demon Chinese agent. Bus loads of riot police ar dent Donald Trump de Sajith Premadasa, who are have also decided to support week, giving him centre Ten weeks of increasingly strators in the airport arriv Later, the seizure by prot rived in response, clashing scribed the volatile situation both presidential aspirants. him,” he told The Hindu. stage, but stopping short of violent clashes between pol als hall. esters of a reporter from Chi with furious demonstrators as “tricky”, and said China’s At this point, neither seems However, those backing naming him their candidate. ice and protesters have In chaotic scenes that na’s Global Times newspap before withdrawing once the government had moved willing to give way to the oth the Prime Minister are in no Mr. Premadasa addressed a plunged the city into its would once have been un er, a nationalistic tabloid run man was removed.. troops near the border with er, say members with evi mood to buy that line of ar huge gathering, a day after worst crisis since it reverted thinkable for Hong Kongers, by the ruling Communist Protesters, who occupied Hong Kong. dent anxiety over the delay. gument. A prominent Minis Gotabaya Rajapaksa ad The third option, for a few ter termed the claim “non dressed his supporters, and within the party, is Speaker sense”. “Can he [Mr. promised to reduce income Karu Jayasuriya. Premadasa] get Sinhala disparity and build an ex Chinese state media Amid growing specula Buddhist votes? Can he get port and investmentdriven Cathay Pacific fires two pilots tion, all eyes are on Mr. Pre urban, middleclass votes? economy. madasa, who will be the Can he draw minority votes? “We need someone like voice support for police youngest in the fray if he Can he draw the youth?” he him to take on Gota,” said The airline is under pressure from China’s aviation regulator manages to secure his par asked, making a case for 70 another supporter. Even se People’s Daily calls for ‘sword of the law’ ty’s nomination. “We need a yearold Mr. Wickremes nior figures in the UNP, such Agence France-Presse ground staff, without speci candidate who can win” is a inghe. “He [Mr. Premadasa] as Finance Minister Mangala Reuters A frontpage commentary HONG KONG fying why. Local media re popular refrain among his is substanceless,” the Minis Samaraweera have openly HONG KONG/BEIJING on the overseas edition of Cathay Pacific said on Wed ported that they were ac supporters. The 52yearold ter said, requesting backed a Premadasa Chinese state media called the Communist Party’s offi nesday it has sacked two pi cused of leaking the travel politician is the son of form anonymity. candidacy. on Beijing on Wednesday to cial People’s Daily newspap lots, as the Hong Kong car details of a Hong Kong police er twoterm President Ra However, the Minister Meanwhile, a group of ci deal with protests in Hong er said on Wednesday Hong rier comes under huge football team that was tra nasinghe Premadasa, who could be part of a camp that vil society members is galva Kong more decisively after a Kong had reached a critical pressure from Beijing to velling to the mainland. was assassinated in 1993 by seems to be dwindling, with nising around Speaker Jaya reporter from one of China’s juncture. “Using the sword clamp down on staff suppor Cathay has struggled to an LTTE suicide bomber. Sa more members gravitating suriya. Nearing 80, Mr. largest governmentbacked of the law to stop violence tive of antigovernment find middle ground in the in jith Premadasa is currently a towards Mr. Premadasa. Jayasuriya is seen as a “sea newspapers was caught up and restore order is over rallies. The airline needs to submit creasingly bitter standoff Cabinet Minister represent soned democrat” by many in overnight clashes. whelmingly the most impor “One is currently involved manifests of staff on flights between protesters and ing the southern port town Grassroots machinery activists and intellectuals . Ten weeks of violent tant and urgent task for in legal proceedings. The going to the mainland. * AP authorities. The airline is of Hambantota in “It looks harder now for But party members conti clashes between police and Hong Kong!” it said. other misused company in now subject to new regula Parliament. anyone else, with the grass nue question his popular prodemocracy protesters, Another commentary by formation on Flight CX216/ “illegal protests”. tions announced last week “Though he is western roots machinery of the party support. The three camps angered by a perceived ero a Shenzhen University re 12 August,” the airline said in The airline said last week by Beijing’s aviation regula educated, Sajith Premadasa rallying around him [Mr. may not converge on the sion of freedoms, are posing searcher, published by the a statement. it had suspended a pilot ac tor. The rules require the air is very grounded and has a Premadasa],” remarked a se “right candidate” for this one of the biggest challeng China Daily, said the Cen Cathay Pacific Chief Exec cused of rioting after alleg line to submit manifests of connect with ordinary citi nior member. election, but the one thing es for Chinese President Xi tral government should deal utive Rupert Hogg warned edly participating in staff working on flights going zens in a way that no other It is well known that both they agree on is that “time is Jinping since he came to with Hong Kong issues more staff on Monday that they protests. to the mainland or through UNP leader has. We can’t Mr. Wickremesinge and Mr. running out” for the party, power in 2012. decisively. could be fired for supporting It also said it had fired two its airspace. win an election with just the Premadasa have set their as a senior member put it. ELSEWHERE Khamenei Spies are watching our 3 Malaysian Facebook listened to users’ meets Yemen Ministers want rebels scientists, says Kremlin Naik expelled private conversations: report ‘Avoid meetings with foreign colleagues’ Agence France-Presse Reuters It says the transcriptions were made with permission Tehran Agence France-Presse on alert,” said President Vla KUALA LUMPUR Guaido warns Maduro on Iran’s supreme leader has Moscow dimir Putin’s spokesman Malaysia’s Cabinet dis moves to advance polls Agence France-Presse Messenger app who had opt held talks with a senior Ye Foreign spies keen to get Dmitry Peskov when ques cussed the permanent resi San Francisco CARACAS ed to have their voice chats meni rebel official just days their hands on Russian re tioned on the decree. dency of Indian Islamic Venezuela’s opposition leader Facebook has paid hundreds transcribed. after the longrunning in search are monitoring Rus preacher Zakir Naik on Juan Guaido warned of contractors to listen to Bloomberg said the con tervention against the re sian scientists around the Scientific espionage Wednesday, with three Mi President Nicolas Maduro on and transcribe snippets of tractors working on the pro bels by its regional foes clock, the Kremlin said on “There is such a thing as nisters — M. Kulasegaran, Tuesday that any attempts to users’ conversations, U.S. ject were “rattled” by listen Saudi Arabia and the UAE Wednesday, after experts scientific and industrial es Gobind Singh Deo and Xa bring forward parliamentary media reported on Tuesday. ing to private audio whose suffered a major setback. denounced a new security pionage,” Mr. Peskov said. vier Jayakumar — demand elections would end in Facebook acknowledged origin wasn’t disclosed and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei decree as a Soviet “It exists 24/7 and is target ing his expulsion for his al “disaster” for the the transcriptions, which which sometimes contained hosted Houthi rebel spo throwback. ing our scientists, especially leged racial remarks. government. AFP were first reported by Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s vulgar content. kesman Mohammed Abdul The Kremlin’s comments young scientists.” Naik, who lives in Malay Bloomberg, telling the news CEO, at the firm’s annual The contractors also we Salam at his Tehran resi came after scientists criti He noted, however, that sia and faces charges of Twitter to let users conference in San Jose. * AP follow interests, people agency in a statement that ren’t told the reason why dence on Tuesday after cised a Ministry directive some of the decree’s provi money laundering and they were made with users’ they were doing the tran calling on researchers not to sions “sound excessive”, ad hate speech in India, has SAN FRANCISCO UAEbacked Southern Twitter users will be able to permission, but that the Facebook did not respond scribing, the news agency Transitional Council (STC) meet foreign colleagues ding that Russia “should not come under fire for his follow a small number of practice has nonetheless to a request for comment. reported. seized Yemen’s second city oneonone and requesting be bound by some rules that comments that Hindus in interests by this year end in been stopped. The contractors were test Apple and Google have in Aden on Saturday. filed reports after every en won’t lead to anything Malaysia had “100 times the same way they follow “Much like Apple and ing the ability of the social recent weeks said they’ve Mr. Khamenei renewed counter — even a cup of good.” more rights” than the Mus people, the company said on Google, we paused human network’s artificial intelli halted the practice, while his support for the rebels, coffee. The document imposes lim minority in India. Tuesday. They can follow review of audio more than a gence to interpret messages, Amazon gives users the op who control the Yemeni “Of course we must be so significant red tape on any Muslims make up about certain topics on a curated week ago,” the company and the only users affected tion of blocking the collec capital Sanaa and much of mewhat vigilant, because visits by foreigners into Rus 60% of Malaysia’s list. AFP said. were those on Facebook tion of their voice by Alexa. the north. foreign special services are sian institutes. population.

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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12705 (set by Neyartha) SUDOKU FAITH 11 Male sheep reportedly with a 4 Metal worker to cook this after base at a meteorological the Frenchman hiding behind Krishna the strategist observation post (7,7) the forest trees is caught (11) 14 Language spoken in the large 6 Language enabling In the Mahabharata, behind every episode we find the and noisy party with no limits transformations is not new Lord’s planning, said V.S. Karunakarachariar, in a discourse. (5) (7) Satrajit was the father of Satyabhama, who married Lord 16 Grovelling with soiled livery in 7 Drawing out the thing Krishna. Satrajit owned the rare gem called Syamantaka gi the pig pen (9) embedded in the damaged ven to him by Surya. Satrajit would not part with it . A plot 17 Job location (9) ceiling (9) was hatched to do away with Satrajit, and steal the gem. Sa tadhanva killed him, while Akrura and Kritavarma stood 19 Set off to find a good leader 8 Travelling time for the judge for the navy of an African taking part in a medieval guard. When Krishna and Balarama came to know that S a country (5) joust (10) tadhanva was behind the murder, they gave chase. Satad hanva went up to Mithila (Nepal). However, when they 20 Animal on the ark with seeds 12 Tension influenced by weight caught up with him and killed him, they found that the gem for some trees (5,9) could alter one's appearance was not with him. Krishna returned to Dwaraka, but Balara 23 Language of the abdicating (6,5) ma stayed back, and Duryodhana came to him to learn how king upsets the guru allowed 13 Pet shop has pivoted to supply to return at first (6) to use the mace in fighting. Krishna kept checking on Du some fertilizer components ryodhana’s progress, and when Duryodhana’s lessons were 24 Measured the short Norse god (10) with a prominent frame (8) complete, He went to Balarama and asked him to return. 15 Brown turns up with a partner Why did Krishna wait for so long to call His brother bac k 25 English writer getting letters to go around the old city, as home? The reason was that only when Duryodhana was a from Simpson's Ayers Rock might be expected (9) address (6) skilled fighter would he dare to challenge the Pandavas, and 18 One settling a score with rage Solution to puzzle 12704 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku war would break out. And the war was necessary to esta 26 Formal apology in a clue? Pam seen around the outskirts of ■ ACROSS solved it! (3,5) blish righteousness in the world. Vellore (7) In the same way, Subhadra’s marriage to Arjuna was also 1 Language trouble eases after ■ DOWN 19 West Indian leaders ignored brought about by Krishna. Balarama wanted Subhadra to the entry of the American 1 State of the leading actor the brief bewitching marry Duryodhana, but she wanted to marry Arjuna. Arju uncle (8) visiting extended relatives (4) representation of the sea na turned up in the guise of a sanyasi, and Balarama, not re 5 Challenge the goal (6) 2 Son climbs up with the floor (7) cognising him, suggested that he stay near Subhadra’s pa 9 All of the inert compound sparkling white wine to the 21 Language discovered by Tesla lace. Krishna opposed the idea, aware that if He opposed a found inside an English city European composer (5) before reaching a capital city plan, Balarama would stubbornly go ahead with it. Al l this (8) 3 Language discovered by a from the south (5) eventually facilitated the marriage of Subhadra and Arjuna. 10 Ancient Romans conveying sailor in a retreat between 22 Language of some podiatrists Thus, it was Krishna who did all the behind the scenes work, where it originally was (2,4) Massachusetts and Hawaii (7) (4) and ensured the success of His plans.

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14-08-2019 % CHANGE Govt. asks PSBs to find Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 37,312 ddddddddddddddd0.96 July trade deficit narrows to $13.43 bn US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 71.27 ddddddddddddddd0.18 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 37,945 ddddddddddddd-1.10 out reasons for rise in Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 58.84 ddddddddddddd-3.03 Overall exports in AprilJuly rise 3.13%; trend seen as positive amid low expectations on demand Special Correspondent have started gaining accepta NPAs in last 5 years New Delhi NIFTY 50 bility in the global market.” PRICE CHANGE India’s trade deficit nar “Imports in July 2019 were Adani Ports...... 358.85...... -1.70 rowed to $13.43 billion in July $39.76 billion (₹2,73,579.71 Performance review set in motion Asian Paints...... 1569.70...... -3.65 2019, from $15.28 billion in crore), which was 10.43% Axis Bank ...... 663.20...... 13.75 MANOJIT SAHA Bajaj Auto ...... 2713.90...... 43.35 the previous month, accord lower in dollar terms and Mumbai Bajaj Finserv...... 7415.20. .... 326.05 ing to official data released 10.28% lower in rupee terms Bajaj Finance ...... 3289.95...... 68.10 on Wednesday. over imports of $44.39 bil The Finance Ministry has in Bharti Airtel ...... 361.20...... 9.55

BPCL...... 354.45...... 11.35 “India’s overall exports lion (₹3,04,916.76 crore) in itiated a comprehensive Britannia Ind ...... 2478.90...... -33.00 [merchandise and services July 2018,” the release ad consultative process with Cipla ...... 478.30...... 2.55 combined] in AprilJuly 2019 ded. Imports of pearls, pre public sector banks (PSBs) Coal India ...... 200.50...... -3.25 Dr. Reddy’s Lab ...... 2511.95...... -44.40 20 are estimated to be cious and semiprecious to find out the reasons for Eicher Motors...... 16574.65...... -70.35 $181.47 billion, exhibiting a Consumer durables in July last year. In rupee “Consumer durables and stones declined 31.02% in Ju the sharp rise in bad loans GAIL (India)...... 126.75...... 0.75 positive growth of 3.13% over <> terms, exports stood at consumer nondurables ly, and petroleum and crude in the previous five years, Grasim Ind ...... 734.50...... 24.85 and non-durables apart from outlining nation HCL Tech...... 1076.15...... 3.65 the same period last year,” have outperformed ₹1,81,190.34 crore in July, up such as electronic goods, imports shrank 22.15%. HDFC ...... 2117.70...... 17.60 the government said in a 2.42% from July 2018. pharma, marine and textiles al priorities with which HDFC Bank...... 2229.45...... 9.10 overall export statement. have outperformed the over Low domestic demand these banks have to align Hero MotoCorp ...... 2634.15...... 67.35 growth for July Hindalco ...... 180.60...... 4.35 “Overall imports in April Sectoral growth all export growth of 2.25% “This is juxtaposing the cur themselves. Mohit Singla Hind Unilever ...... 1839.05...... 14.30 July 201920 are estimated to The sectors that witnessed for July 2019,” Mohit Singla, rent slowdown prevailing in Touted as a ‘bottomup Indiabulls HFL ...... 551.35...... -21.75 Chairman, Trade Promotion Council of India consultative process,’ the * ICICI Bank ...... 417.30...... 7.05 be $214.37 billion, exhibiting strong growth in exports in chairman, the Trade Promo the economy primarily and GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCK IndusInd Bank ...... 1400.85...... 27.40 a negative growth of 0.45% cluded electronic goods tion Council of India, said. at the global level overall,” Ministry will review the per Bharti Infratel ...... 248.85...... 2.20 over the same period last Reserve Bank of India releas (51.39%), drugs and pharma “This brings good news to Mr. Singla added. formance of these entities in and then to the national Infosys ...... 774.80...... 10.05 the last five years. level. Indian OilCorp...... 126.45...... 0.55 year.” es the final figures. ceuticals (21.74%), organic exports despite an expected “Since consumption rates ITC ...... 248.75...... 2.45 Services data for July is an India’s merchandise ex and inorganic chemicals global slowdown in demand in India have plummeted, This will be the first com “The consultation will JSW Steel...... 227.75...... 7.60 estimation and will be re ports stood at $26.33 billion (13.45%), and readymade for these products . This demand has been prehensive review of PSBs cover eight thematic papers Kotak Bank ...... 1491.80...... -19.60 after Nirmala Sitharaman prepared by domain experts L&T...... 1333.70...... 20.45 vised next month when the compared with $25.75 billion goods of all textiles (7.06%). shows that Indian products squeezed,” Mr. Singla added. M&M ...... 523.55...... 11.15 took charge of the Finance and will also include a re Maruti Suzuki ...... 5816.00...... 0.55 Ministry in May, that will al view of the banks’ perfor NTPC ...... 117.60...... 0.45

ONGC ...... 126.85...... -0.90 so provide a direction to the mance during the last five PowerGrid Corp ...... 205.15...... 3.15 Wholesale inflation IDBI Bank’s Q1 ‘Nudging banks to lend PSBs for the next five years. years…” a letter from the Fi Reliance Ind ...... 1288.25...... 13.50 Banks have been given a nance Ministry to the CEOs State Bank ...... 289.75...... 6.40 loss widens to Sun Pharma ...... 417.15...... -22.10 detailed questionnaire in of PSBs said. Tata Motors ...... 120.90...... -1.05 eases to 1.08% in July to NBFCs increases risk’ which they have to give their “The consultative pro Tata Steel ...... 364.65...... 15.95 ₹3,800 crore feedback on “the reason for cess will be aimed at align TCS ...... 2204.40...... 4.95 the steep rise in NPAs dur ment of banking with na Tech Mahindra ...... 659.10...... 19.95 Fuel and power sector contracts Fitch warns of perils to financial sector Titan ...... 1084.00...... 20.15 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ing 201519. How many of tional priorities, stimulating UltraTech Cement...... 4225.90...... 44.75 Special Correspondent June. The crude petroleum Mumbai SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT India’s constant nudging these were stressed assets ideas and inculcating a UPL...... 527.20...... 24.10 NEW DELHI Mumbai Vedanta ...... 146.55...... 6.80 and natural gas sector saw IDBI Bank reported widen of banks to lend more to and which were not recog sense of involvement among Wipro ...... 251.05...... -7.45 Inflation at the wholesale le prices contracting for the ing of net loss for the April The Reserve Bank of India’s nonbanks is in contrast to nised earlier?” according to bankers down to the branch YES Bank...... 76.55...... 2.95 vel eased for the fourth con third consecutive month, by a note which had been cir level,” the letter, which has Zee Entertainment ...... 341.60...... 14.30 June quarter to ₹3,800.84 decision to take several the global trend of authori secutive month to a 25 8.43% in July, compared crore due to higher provi steps that are aimed at en ties trying to break the lin culated to the PSBs. been reviewed by The Hin- month low of 1.08% in July, with a contraction of 1.7% in sioning, as compared to couraging banks to lend to kages between banks and The government also du, further added. EXCHANGE RATES on lower inflation in the ma the previous month. ₹2,409.89 crore reported nonbanking finance com NBFCs, it said. wants to know the reasons One of the themes of the Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit nufacturing and fuel sec “The decline in the who in the same period of the panies could increase risks “India’s overarching ap for the decline in credit flow consultative exercise is ‘ena except yen at 4 p.m. on August 14 tors, according to official da lesale inflation can be attri previous financial year. in the financial sector, rating proach across the financial in the last five years. In par bling bank credit towards a CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL ta released on Wednesday. buted to deflation in the fuel Provisioning for NPAs agency Fitch said. system is aimed at achieving ticular, the Ministry want s $5 trillion economy.’ US Dollar...... 71.07...... 71.39 Growth in the Wholesale and power group for con surged to ₹7,009.49 crore Risks in India’s banking a more inclusive financial to know if credit to manu Some of the thematic Euro ...... 79.49...... 79.84 British Pound...... 85.78...... 86.17 Price Index slowed in July secutive two months and during period under re sector may rise as a result of system in which bank sav facturing has dropped, and papers on which the consul Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 67.15...... 67.46 from 2.02% in June. Within decline in inflation in manu view, from ₹4,602.55 crore the central bank’s recent ings can support lending to if so, why it had, as the IIP tation will take place are — Chinese Yuan ...... 10.13...... 10.17 the index, the manufactur factured group to a nearly in the yearago period. steps encouraging banks to parts of the economy that has risen from 2.8% in 2014 increasing digital payments, Swiss Franc ...... 73.21...... 73.54 Singapore Dollar ...... 51.20...... 51.44 ing sector saw inflation slip threeyear low,” Care Rat Gross NPAs came down lend more to nonbanking fi are beyond the banks’ distri 15 to 4.6% in 201718. corporate governance, cre Canadian Dollar...... 53.44...... 53.68 ping to 0.34% in July from ings said in a report. to ₹51,657.63 crore, or nancial institutions (NBFIs) bution network or risk ap Banks also have to dwell dit to MSMEs and farm loans Malaysian Ringitt ...... 16.96...... 17.05 0.94% in the previous “Inflation in primary arti 29.12% of total advances at and retail borrowers, Fitch petite. However, it increases on the number of loan appli among others. Source:Indian Bank month. cles continues to increase in end of June, from Ratings said. the potential of risks in the cations they received bet Some national priorities The fuel and power sec July 2019, albeit at a slower ₹57,806.84 crore or 30.78% These measures could NBFI sector spilling over to ween April 2014 and March to which PSBs need to align tor witnessed a contraction pace compared with the in the yearago period. push up banking sector risk banks, exacerbated by the li 2019 and as to how many are doubling farm income, BULLION RATES CHENNAI in prices for the second con previous month. However, it Gross NPA, however rose if they make banks accept mited capacity of India’s were accepted and rejected. Jal Shakti, housing for all, August 14 rates in rupees with previous rates in parentheses secutive month, contracting continues to rise when com sequentially. Net NPA de higher credit risk than they capital markets to provide The consultative process education loans, ease of liv 3.64% in July compared with pared with the correspond will start from branch level ing and corporate social res Retail Silver (1g) ...... 47.9...... (47.5) clined sharply to 8.02%, previously had the appetite extra funding to NBFIs,” the 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 3578...... (3569) a contraction of 2.2% in ing period last year.” from 18.76% a year ago. for, Fitch said. report added. upwards to the Statelevel ponsibility, among others. RIL will become a holding firm: analysts ‘Higher potential, post Saudi Aramco deal and listing of Jio and retail businesses’

Piyush Pandey O2C and Microsoft for data MUMBAI centres. Each of the three Post the deal with Saudi verticals of RIL has the po Aramco to sell 20% stake in tential to become another its oiltochemicals (O2C) bu Reliance in itself. The com siness and listing of its con pany’s Ebitda is going to sumerfacing businesses Jio double in the next three and Retail, Reliance Indus years,” he added. tries Ltd. will largely become Asked for comments, in a holding company, incubat vestment adviser S.P. Tul ing newer growth engines sian said, “RIL will become a for growth, say analysts. holding company, but that’s “We have received strong 23 years away. They have interest from strategic and fi just signed a nonbinding nancial investors in our con deal with Saudi Aramco. RIL sumer businesses Jio and Re Room for more: RIL has potential for unlocking value of has a market cap of over ₹8 liance Retail. We will induct another ₹4 lakh crore, says an analyst. * P.V. SIVAKUMAR lakh crore and debt of close leading global partners in to ₹3 lakh crore. That makes these businesses in the next liance Jio, as the company ing interests in O2C, retail it ₹11 lakh crore. few quarters, and move to plans to sell significant mi and Jio. With the Aramco wards listing of both these nority stake in the consumer deal, the focus of RIL is shift Potential for more value companies within the next facing businesses, on the ing from energy play to be “I ascribe ₹2.5 lakh crore va five years,” RIL chairman lines of the Saudi Aramco coming a technology compa lue to each vertical of refin Mukesh Ambani had said at deal. ny,” Sanjiv Bhasin, executive ing, petrochem, Jio, retail the AGM on Monday. vicepresident, IIFL Securi and investments, taking the RIL could well become a The ‘Grasim’ way ties, told The Hindu. total value to ₹15 lakh crore. holding company with ma “RIL will become something “RIL will get world leaders So, RIL has potential for va jority stake in the O2C busi on the lines of Grasim but in in each of its businesses just lue unlocking of another ₹4 ness, Reliance Retail and Re a much bigger avatar, hold as it got Saudi Aramco for lakh crore.” Eveready net Textiles Ministry signs HDFC Bank’s dips 63% on CSR spend lower revenue MoU for skill training rose 20% Samarth scheme to train four lakh Special Correspondent SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT KOLKATA Special Correspondent Mumbai Eveready Industries India COIMBATORE At a time when the govern Ltd. saw a 63% dip in its The Union Textiles Ministry ment has amended laws to first quarter net profit to signed a Memorandum of penalise firms for not ₹6.9 crore. There was a 16% Understanding with 16 State spending as per mandate dip in its operating income governments on Wednesday on the corporate social res to ₹321 crore in this period. to offer skill training pro ponsibility front, HDFC EIIL is engaged in the grammes under the Sa Bank said it had spent business of dry cell batter marth scheme (Scheme for ₹443.8 crore on CSR in ies, rechargeable batteries, capacity building in the tex 201819, a rise of 20% over flashlights, packet tea, gen tiles sector). Smriti Irani the previous year. eral lighting products, A press release said 18 The bank said it had met small home appliances and States had agreed to partner make them equal partners’ its CSR spending require confectioneries. with the Ministry under the to boost the textiles sector. ment for the consecutive It attributed the poor scheme. The agencies nomi The targets set by some years 201617, 201718 and performance to lower tur nated by the State Govern States were below the re 201819. nover across all segments, ments will train four lakh quirement of skilled work Violation in CSR norms due to weak consumer de people. After the training, ers by the textiles industry may attract penalties bet mand especially in the ru the candidates will be in those States. ween ₹50,000 and ₹25 ral sector. Its lighting busi placed at the textile units. She urged such States to lakh, and even jail term of ness was impacted by Speaking at the function, review their targets. Textiles up to three years. supply constraints and lack Union Textiles Minister Secretary Ravi Capoor said In a report released by of government orders for Smriti Zubin Irani said the there was a requirement of the bank, the lender said it fans. Its appliance segment signing of agreements 16 lakh trained skilled work had impacted over 5 crore was also hit on account of showed the ‘commitment of ers in the industry. The lives through its social in consolidation of portfolio the Ministry to extend sup scheme looks at making itiative Parivartan as on and supply problems. port to State agencies and workers employable. March 31, 2019. CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

DELHI THE HINDU 16 BUSINESS THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Coffee Day to sell IT park to Grasim Q1 net rises 10.25% Better performance by UltraTech and ABCL arms aids profit Blackstone for up to ₹3,000 crore Special Correspondent At a standalone fibre) prices saw a sharp de MUMBAI <> level, there has cline of ~21% YoY and ~8% Q Board also approves divestment of subsidiary AlphaGrep to a software firm Grasim Industries reported been volume oQ. This was on account of a 10.25% increase in its first growth in both VSF new capacities commis Special Correspondent leveraging of the group. quarter consolidated net and caustic soda sioned in recent past Bengaluru It also provided an in profit to ₹1,230.57 crore due (CY2018) and the negative A fortnight after the demise principle approval for the to better performance of its impact of the US China of billionaireentrepreneur disinvestment of its step subsidiaries UltraTech Ce PBT (before exceptional Trade War,” the company Free limit not to include V.G. Siddhartha, Coffee Day down subsidiary, AlphaGrep ment and Aditya Birla Capi item) went up by 35% to said. Chemicals business re failed ATM transactions Enterprises, founded by Securities in favour of Illum tal Limited (ABCL). ₹2,814 crore driven by excel ported an EBITDA of ₹446 MUMBAI him, has decided to sell a inati Software for about ₹28 On a standalone basis, lent performance of its ce crore on revenue of ₹1,503 The Reserve Bank of India piece of its real estate locat crore. the company’s profit fell by ment and financial services crore during the quarter. has clarified that failed ed on Mysore Road in the ci “The above mentioned 68.6% to ₹201 crore on a subsidiaries. The firm is planning to in transactions in automated ty for almost ₹3,000 crore. transactions will significant onetime loss of ₹290 crore “At a standalone level, vest ₹7,800 crore at a standa teller machines (ATM) will The board of directors of ly help in deleveraging the on impairment value of its there has been volume lone level for raising capaci not be included in the investment in a payment growth in both VSF and ties in both the viscose and number of free transactions Coffee Day Enterprises on Coffee Day Group, and en which banks are mandated to Wednesday approved the sure smooth operations bank. caustic soda. However, prof chemical businesses, apart offer to their customers. disinvestment of Global Vil while safeguarding the inter Grasim Industries’ conso itability was impacted due to from ongoing modernisa The RBI further said that lage Tech Park, owned by its Lighter brew: The IT park is owned by Coffee Day Enterprises’ ests of all stakeholders,” said lidated revenues during the global softening in prices,” tion capex at various plants. noncash withdrawal realty subsidiary Tanglin De realty subsidiary Tanglin Developments. * REUTERS the company in a statement. quarter went up by 13% to the company said in a state This capital expenditure will transactions like balance velopments Ltd., to New Coffee Day Global, Tan ₹18,861 crore. ment. Grasim’s viscose busi be incurred over FY20FY22. enquiry and cheque book Yorkbased private equity Global Village Tech Park is due diligence, documenta glin Developments, Sical Lo The company’s earnings ness reported Ebitda of ₹442 Grasim Industries shares request will also not be part major Blackstone Group. spread over 120 acres with a tion and receipt of requisite gistics, Way2Wealth and Cof before interest, tax, depre crore on revenue of ₹2,509 on the BSE rose 3.52% to of the number of free ATM As per a stock market fil total builtup area of 3.3 mil regulatory approvals, which fee Day Hotels & Resorts that ciation and amortisation crore during the quarter. close at ₹734.65 in a firm transactions. ing, the transaction value lion sq. ft. Closure of the is expected in the next 3045 own brands like Serai are the (Ebitda) during the quarter “Profitability was impact Mumbai market on Wednes would be in range of ₹2,600 transaction is subject to days. The board also dis main subsidiaries of Coffee stood at ₹4,217 crore, regis ed on a yoy basis as the Chi day, valuing the company at Cox & Kings defaults on to ₹3,000 crore. completion of Blackstone’s cussed ways for further de Day Enterprises. tering a growth of 31% and nese VSF (viscose staple ₹48,311.89 crore. CPs worth ₹149 crore NEW DELHI, Tours and travel services firm Cox & Kings on Wednesday said it has defaulted on ‘For years, IL&FS may not Insolvency proceedings Dr. Reddy’s shares fall commercial papers (CPs) worth ₹149 crore. The have divulged bad loans’ after it gets USFDA letter company defaulted on initiated against Karuturi Global unsecured commercial paper, Cox & Kings said in a Many borrowers were unrated: RBI Launch of 2 products may be affected regulatory filing. “The Producer of cut roses has outstanding debt of ₹86 crore Reuters Special Correspondent company is working closely of India’s biggest nonbank that we will not approve the MUMBAI HYDERABAD with its lenders to optimise ing finance companies, had Mini Tejaswi Das Mundra, the Interim Re application or abbreviated Bengaluru its strong asset base globally Infrastructure Leasing & Fi not declared bad loans in solution Professional (IRP) Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories application in its present and bring the situation back nancial Services (IL&FS), the four years to March 31, Corporate Insolvency Reso appointed by the National stock fell 8% intraday on form for one or more of the to normal as soon as which collapsed late last 2018. lution Process (CIRP) has Company Law Tribunal, the Wednesday on the back of reasons...” Copaxone (glati possible,” it said. PTI year, may not have dis been initiated against Benga company said in a stock ex an update from the compa ramer acetate injection) is closed bad loans on its High NPAs lurubased Karuturi Global, change filing. ny about the US Food and indicated for relapsing Central Bank cuts MCLR books for years despite a big Reserve Bank of India’s one of the world’s largest Karuturi Global has out Drug Administration (USF forms of multiple sclerosis, by 20 bps across tenors part of its loan book having (RBI) report, dated March producers of cut roses. standing debt of over ₹86 DA) communication that is NuvaRing is used to prevent MUMBAI soured, a report from cen 22, found that nonperform Karuturi Global owns crore in loans taken from Ax likely to have a bearing on pregnancy. Staterun lender Central tral bank said. ing assets on IL&FS’s books large rose farm holdings in is Bank. Under the new de the early launch of two ge Meanwhile, the stock re Bank of India has reduced the The government took were as high as 70% of its to Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, velopment, Karuturi Global neric products. covered some lost ground benchmark lending rate or control of IL&FS late last tal loans and advances by Pune and Bengaluru, and has been prohibited from “Received Complete Res and closed at ₹2,511.20, the marginal cost of funds year after it defaulted on March 31, 2018. grows over 555 million stems * GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK transferring, encumbering, ponse Letter (CRL) from 1.83% lower from the pre based lending rate (MCLR) by some of its debt, triggering IL&FS declined to com of roses a year across 300 alienating or disposing of USFDA; Preparing for res vious close. In response to a 20 basis points across all wider concerns about risk in ment on the findings within hectares. tional Company Law Tribu any of its assets. ponse,” is what the compa clarification sought by the loan tenors, with effect from Thursday. As a result, the the rest of the country’s fi the report. In a stock exchange filing, nal (NCLT), Bengaluru On an average, India ships ny had said in an investor exchange, Dr. Reddy’s men oneyear MCLR will be nancial system. The govern The RBI also declined to Karuturi Global announced bench. Karuturi Global ma over 100 million stems of red update for August 2019 on tioned the update provided reduced to 8.3% from 8.5%. ment also appointed a new comment. that CIRP has been initiated naging director Ram Karutu roses to markets including the launch of the generic the previous day to inves The bank is also planning to board. A significant number of in respect of the company ri was not available for com the U.K., West Asia, Austra versions of Copaxone and tors as well as referred to link its retail loan rates to the The central bank’s re IL&FS’ borrowers were eith under the provisions of the ment. lia, China and Netherlands. NuvaRing. the earnings call on July 29 Reserve Bank of India’s repo port, included in regulatory er unrated or had poor cre Insolvency and Bankruptcy Karuturi Global’s affairs, More than half of these According to USFDA, a when it had pointed to pos rate for faster transmission filings by IL&FS on Wednes dit ratings, the RBI report Code by way of an order dat business and assets are be roses are produced by Karu CRL is issued to an applicant sible queries from USFDA of monetary policy. day, found that IL&FS, one had said. ed August 2, 2019 of the Na ing managed by Ghanshyam turi Global. “if the agency determines on NuvaRing.

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PEOPLE Destination freedom Finally, stories about fauji kids

Three new books for young readers bring alive the Despite the passage of time, the emotional resonance of our freedom struggle has experience of growing up in an defence family never lost its glow. When we think of our Independence Movement, some places have instant recall, while others have faded to the fringes. Here, some of these lesserknown places from across the country:

Maharaja’s College, Kochi Cochin State was one of the first to sign a Standstill Agreement with the Indian Union in the buildup to Independence. On August 14, 1947, Cochin maharaja, Kerala Varma VII, issued an order that all government buildings in the State hoist the tricolour alongside the Cochin State Flag, both at the same height. Indian Students Union, the student wing of the Indian National Congress at Maharaja’s College objected to hoisting the Cochin State Flag on August 15, after the formation of India. The leaders of the students agitation were V Vishwanatha Menon, TCN Menon and Ambat Sulochana. This led to conflict between the elected college union and them. There were clashes and a hartal was called the next day. The incident resulted in the resignation of the Prime Minister of the Cochin State, Panampilly Govinda Menon. Priyadershini S The illustrations are fun without being frivolous, and the stories are informative, yet simple and sensitive for an early teen to relate to, without getting bored. In each of these Salt Satyagragha three new Puffin books, releasing today, it also helps that the protagonists, Rohan, Beena, and Nikky, are as old as Monument, Tiruchi their readers, going through similar situations and emotions Two pillars commemorate a nonviolent act of civil — missing friends when your parents move, or taunts from disobedience in a busy intersection leading to the older siblings when parents aren’t looking. Tiruchi Railway Junction. But what ties the three characters and their separate The pillars mark the spot where C Rajagopalachari, worlds together in a series by authors Arthy Muthanna led a group of 150 people, on a 240kilometre march Singh and Mamta Nainy, is that their immediate family to Vedaranyam on April 13, 1930. Modelled along the Gandhi Bhavan, Bengaluru members belong to India’s defence forces. lines of the Dandi March, the Vedaranyam Salt March Listed amongst the mustvisit museums in Bengaluru, the serene Gandhi Bhavan on Kumara Krupa Road, is located on the The first book, Rohan’s story, is My Mother is in the was a rallying cry against the British Raj’s unfair grounds where the Mahatma enjoyed strolls on his visits to the city. “There are pictures from his childhood to the last day of his Indian Air Force; the second is Beena’s My Father is in the revenue policies. By collecting salt directly from the life as well as letters written by him,” says V. N. Tippanna Gowda, vice president, Gandhi Bhavan. The charkhas that Gandhi Indian Army; and the third story is Nikky’s, titled My Sister is sea, the marchers broke the Salt Law. The first pillar used are also on display. Apart from being a venue for seminars, Gandhi Bhavan’s new ₹10crore venture, Mahatma Gandhi in the Indian Navy. was put up in 1973, followed by a second in 1986. Multimedia Project has a display of 1,000 photos, cartoons, film, animated movies and writings accessible on touch screen. The “We found that children not from the armed forces Guarded by iron railings and a little gate, the display is being made ready. “The project will be in English and Kannada and uses the Mahatma’s voice to answer FAQs,” says background, have no clue about transfers and deployments, and making new friends,” says Arthy, a monument is easy to miss. Gowda. Entry is free. Closed on Sundays and public holidays. children’s writer, freelance journalist, and cartoonist, Nahla Nainar Ranjani Govind recalling one of their motivations for doing this series. With many of her relatives in the forces too, she says it was “an honour” to write about the nitty-gritty of their lives. Tilak Bhavan, Chennai For Mamta, one of the major drivers behind this project, Kashmere Gate, Delhi Ask an autorickshaw anna to take you to was to explore “deployments and reunions, tender family WelcomHotel, and he’d probably drop you at this moments and patriotism...from a child’s perspective, and Past the Red Fort, near St. James Church, Kashmere Gate is a hotel on Cathedral Road. A hundred years ago, at this also to put together a tribute to the armed forces.” culmination of the lead up to it: a Mughal structure with British very place stood Tilak Bhavan, where Gandhi spent The duo recalls how the publishers had to get these additions. In the mostlyexposedbrick structure, narrow Mughalstyle quite some days, the most memorable of them being fictionalised accounted vetted by multiple people in the Lahori bricks coexist with the bigger colonialera ones. “In 1803, the March 18, 1919, around the time when the Rowlatt Bills forces for accuracy of representation. This becomes British captured Delhi from the Marathas. The colonisers invested in were passed. Gandhi spent the entire night mulling important not just for the story, but also for the helpful fortifying the gates so that guns could be mounted on them,” says about how to battle it. “I was still in that twilight informative tidbits littered through the books — there are Gaurav Sharma, who leads heritage walks. The Gate was built as an exit condition between sleep and consciousness when illustrated panels for rank hierarchy for each force, trivia to Shahjahanabad on the road to Kashmir, when the Mughal capital was suddenly the idea broke upon me…that we should call like inclusion of women and their participation and more. shifted to Delhi in 1638. It became a site for the First War of upon the country to observe a general hartal,” writes Arthy says they’ve tried not to become like a “textbook” Independence in 1857, when sepoys, in the employ of the British took Gandhi about that memorable evening he spent at the on the army, navy, and air force, but the attempt was also hold of it. The British troops maintained steady bombardment on the house owned by Kasturiranga Iyengar, Proprietor of to fill a “lacuna in the market” for this genre of books for bastions, around Kashmere Gate from the Ridge. After four months, the The Hindu. He called for the nation to observe April 6 children. She recalls speaking to the family of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, who were “surprised that [such a project] gate was breached on September 14, 1857, says the Go UNESCO website. as ‘Protest Day’, which would subsequently become a had never happened before.” Sunalini Mathew huge success. The books, as Mamta says, also “keep it as real as Srinivasa Ramanujam possible”, bringing in a single-parent family, too. In My Mother is in the Indian Air Force, Rohan’s family consists of him, his inspiring mother who insists on the importance of discipline, and his naani (maternal grandmother). In My IN OUR BACKYARD Getting involved Visitors Father is in the Indian Army, Beena and her mother cope at Lodhi Garden with her father being called to Kargil, and wonder if he’ll be Abhishek Gulshan * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA able to make it back on time for her birthday. In My Sister is CITIZEN in the Indian Navy, the sister’s boyfriend, a subject of In the face of continual bad news day areaspecific bird checklists. fascination for Nikky, is a fun presence in their lives, with about erratic weather events, glo At the time of their launch in In the father too serving, albeit at a higher rank. bal warming, massive flora and fau dia, only 118 observers were a part na extinctions, and natural habitats of the programme. We uploaded Available across bookstores; ₹199 each SCIENCE Vangmayi Parakala being disrupted across the world, 332 checklists highlighting 189 spe it’s time we become active partici cies of birds from various habitats pants in the natural world around Nature needs in DelhiNCR. Today, the portal ce us. Citizen Science — an umbrella lebrates contributions from over term that includes several activities people to get 1,472 observers in DelhiNCR with that map the status of our biodiver involved, to protect over 16,000 checklists reporting ov sity, which could later be followed and preserve the er 400 different species from the by an action plan — enables us to region. make a direct contribution to re diversity of its More than 70 million observa search, enhance scientific under flora and fauna tions from the Ebird citizenscience standing, and learn about the project helps drive the bird identifi environment. cation app, Merlin, developed by Worldwide, conservation moni Cornell Lab, is helping users all ov toring programmes rely on userfed er the world in identifying a partic data by enthusiasts and volunteers. ular species of bird by merely Increase in the use of such data uploading images and feeding in means habitats can be closely stu formation like location, habitat that died and monitored. the bird was found in. Slowly Mer Projects that recruit citizens are problem of floods in cities. flies and birds in Delhi NCR are dy the intricate conditions that but lin is being optimised and tested for getting more ambitious and di In a nutshell, Citizen Science is carefully documented and moni terflies deem sustainable, which in several regions in the world. verse, and at the same time more slowly becoming one of the largest tored seasonally. Butterfly Month is the long run lays the foundation for In short, anyone can be a citizen challenging. Beyond taking numer communities in the world for con observed in September, with exten a conservation action plan. scientist and contribute towards able images of flora and fauna to servation. The idea behind the con sive counts of butterfly species In 2014, an initiative by Cornell the environment. map species, people are now also cept is to involve as many citizens to done in varied habitats across the Lab of Ornithology, called ebird.org involved in documenting water maximise the amount of data col city and its suburbs. We ‘capture’ a was introduced to India. The 17 The writer is the founder of NINOX Owl borne diseases and working on va lected for a project, which could butterfly’s preferred habitat, the al yearold initiative has documented About Nature, a natureawareness rious flood models, which could be then be analysed for a particular teration in its distribution or popu birds globally, with enthusiasts and initiative. He is the DelhiNCR reviewer for Ebird, a Cornell University initiative, provide possible solutions in the cause. lation, if any, in comparison to the observers from all across the world monitoring rare sightings of birds. He next few years for the recurrent For instance, every year, butter previous years. This helps us to stu diligently uploading their dayto formerly led a programme at WWF India. Contact us at: [email protected]

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GOURMET CUISINE CUISINE DINING GOURMET Rakshabandhan oﬀer Special menu Coastal fare Freedom special Special platter The Artful Baker, known for its artisanal breads Punjab Grill, a restaurant that serves North To mark Independence Day and Rakshabandhan, 1911, the restaurant at The Imperial, has a Elan, a food court that specialises in South-East- and patisserie, has special gift hampers on offer Indian cuisine, is celebrating Independence Day Zambar, a restaurant that serves South Indian ‘freedom special’ lunch buffet for Independence Asian dishes, will offer some of India’s traditional for Rakshabandhan. The hampers consist of with a special buffet menu. The spread includes cuisine, is offering a special buffet with an array Day, with tricolour themed treats. The menu dishes to mark the spirit of Independence. The assorted cakes and cookies like blueberry oat soups, an extensive range of starters, the main of coastal dishes. The main menu includes dishes boasts an array of signature dishes such as platter includes Goa’s Mutton Vindaloo, Meen muffins, banana walnut muffins, cranberry and course, and dessert. The dishes on offer include like Nadan Veg Korma, Onion Garlic Curry, Nilgri Hariyali Bunno Chicken, Basanti Jheenga, Azadi Moilee from Kerala, Rajasthani Murgh Ka Soweta, white chocolate-chip cookies, chocolate Bahurangi Biryani, Nalli Nihari, Teen Mirch da Mutton and Alleppey Fish Curry, and a Tiranga ke Gole, Tiranga Pulao, and desserts like Kesaria Bengal’s Aloo Posto, authentic Hyderabadi brownies, and more. Paneer, Tiranga Paneer Tikka, and more. Barfi dessert. Phirni, a saffron rice pudding. Mutton Biryani, and more. Venue: Khan Market and Vasant Vihar outlets Venue: Punjab Grill, Sector 104, Noida Venue: Zambar, Ambience Mall, Gurugram Venue: The Imperial, Janpath Venue: The Lodhi, Lodhi Road Time: 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m. Time: 12 noon - 4 p.m. Time: 12 noon - 11:30 p.m. Time: 12:30-3 p.m. and 6:30-11:45 p.m. Time: 12 noon - 4 p.m.

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Motorcycle diaries (Clockwise from top left) Rashtriya Riders at the war memorial in Tanot, Rajasthan; on the road to Kargil; and a rider in full gear

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from varied backgrounds — professionals, businessmen and students. Apart from some of them sporting mutton chops sideburns and handlebar moustaches, and all of them wearing gloves, jackets and fullface helmets, their unifying force is that they are not in the ride for mere adventure or sport, but to res pect the armed forces. “We are one of the ve ry few groups in India that ride to celebrate their valour,” says Shekhawat. What started with a focus on Army loca tions has now extended to the Border Secur ity Force in the western sector. “We have co vered most of the North, riding through Punjab, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Ut tarakhand, where the maximum number of personnel is posted,” says Shekhawat, ad ding, “we rode 3,500 kilometres through the borderland salt pans of Gujarat and the sear A MATTER OF HONOUR ing sands of Jaisalmer when it was 45 degrees In snowbound Ladakh, stands the Celsius, to appreciate the service of the Bor Rezang La memorial inscribed with der Security Force.” The men who stop words from Lord Macaulay’s poem A new focus is to meet the families of sol Horatius — ‘How can man die better/ diers and officers killed in battle or counter Than facing fearful odds/ For the ashes insurgency operations. “With help from Vi of his fathers/ And the temples of his kas Manhas of DESH (an organisation that vi gods’. sits such families on special occasions) we The memorial commemorates the heroic were able to get in touch with them. We start stand of Major Shaitan Singh, PVC, and ed with visits across Himachal Pradesh and the Ahirs of C Company, 13 Kumaon Punjab to 12 families of heroes from the Kar FOR HEROES gil War. We gifted them a framed copy of a Regiment in the IndoChina War of 1962. Major Singh and his men, grossly photograph and a poem Amar Jyot Jalti Snowbound Kargil, heatseared Tanot, memorials in crowded outnumbered, were brutally massacred Rahe, written by one of our team.” metropolises, battlefields across India that have fallen off the map... by the Chinese, and died following the RR has mostly Bullets in its entourage, orders, “You will fight till the last man although “any disciplined biker with a bike of Jaipurbased Rashtriya Riders’ mission is to never let the Indian soldier and the last bullet”. any make that is 350cc is welcome”. Self be forgotten funded and driven by pooled resources, it The National War Memorial, inaugurated rides with the mandatory head and tail rid in 2019, stands near India Gate, New ers, navigators and bike experts, camping Deepa Alexander dra Jangir, says, “My family has a defence through Srinagar, Jammu and Delhi. It has been built as a tribute to where possible with the forces, in hotels or in forces background, but I was unable to join Pathankot, before being soldiers killed during the IndoChina War tents in the great wide open. in 1962, the IndoPak Wars in 1947, Light glows from the film reel being played the services. Four years ago, when we met at flagged in by the Army at Jaipur. “It was a “Siachen Base Camp has been on our agen 1965 and 1971, the Kargil Conflict in on stage at the Major General Samir Sinha a coffee shop, Shivaditay, Ravindra and I de 4,000kilometre journey that was both poig da. But, it has been deferred by the Doklam is 1999, and the Indian Peace Keeping auditorium, United Service Institution of In cided to do something with our passion for nant and exhilarating. I was 16 when the Kar sue and, more recently, by Article 370,” says Force Operations in Sri Lanka. It is dia, New Delhi. In that strange twilight, the the forces and show our gratitude to them. gil War broke out and had keenly followed it Shekhawat, adding that they did an exclusive designed in the 'Chakravyuh' formation lives of war heroes are told in brief, as part of We thought of a biking group that would tra in the media. When I reached Tololing peak, ride to commemorate the 1965 IndoPak War and is spread over 40 acres. the book launch of Kargil: Untold Stories vel to wherever the forces have fought or where the 2 Rajputana Rifles won a decisive by visiting the battle site of Asal Uttar and Pat The names of 25,942 war casualties have from the War. A group of men in black T served and simply thank them. In keeping victory, I was overwhelmed. This ride for the ton Nagar (Punjab), where nearly 70 captured been inscribed on 16 walls. Adjacent to shirts sporting the name of Capt Anuj Nayyar, with the ethos of India’s armed forces, our Indian Army was a revelation.” Pakistani tanks lie in trenches — tilted, bullet the main complex, the 21 recipients of MVC (Maha Vir Chakra) and camouflage members do not identify with a particular Though the Indian Army, with its long his marked and sunbleached. They also plan to the Param Vir Chakra are commemorated pants walks in. They are saddlesore, dusty caste or creed.” tory, has drilled and fought around the globe raise a memorial in Jhunjhunu district of Ra with a bronze bust. and exhausted, having set out that morning — in the Opium Wars in China, swarmed up jasthan, home to the highest number of men It is open from 9 a.m. to 6.30 p.m. from Jaipur, with pitstops at the newlycon Rite of passage the ridge from which the Turks dominated who died serving the Flag. (November to March) and from 9 a.m. to structed National War Memorial and Param RR’s first foray to celebrate ‘the few, the Gallipoli during the First World War, As RR with its crossswords and handlebar 7.30 p.m. (April to October). Yodha Sthal in Delhi, before heading to the proud’ was to visit serving soldiers in the Kar stemmed the rush of Rommel’s forces in the AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA logo navigates through golden wheat fields, South of the city to commemorate 20 years gil sector. Flagged off by the Army on Kargil western Sahara during the Second, and past prayer flags hung out like festive bunt of the Kargil War with the families of heroes. Vijay Diwas 2016 ( July 26), from Jaipur, RR fought Pathans in windswept forbidding ter derful host. At the beginning of the year, we ings, dry riverbeds and walnut orchards, its Jaipurbased Rashtriya Riders (RR), a travelled the conventional route to Kargil that rain over the past century — its fight today is chart out our itinerary — two long rides that members don’t often do it with the whoops group of motorcycle enthusiasts, was found is considered a rite of passage for bikers. confined to the inhospitable harsh valleys of are over 4,000 kilometres, two medium of delight that accompany other intrepid tra ed in 2016. Since then, it has been putting To the deep bubbly rhythms of their Royal Kashmir and the dense jungles of the North rides around 1,0001,200 kilometres and two vellers. tyre to tarmac and conquering hairraising Enfield Bullets, RR’s first six members rode east. “Getting access to visit these border short rides, around 500 kilometres, like this “We are linked by an overwhelming sense bends, chaotic traffic and splendid scenery through cosmopolitan Chandigarh, fernfor zones in India calls for plenty of logistics and one from Jaipur to Delhi. We are now 62 of pride. We want the civil population to visit with the sole purpose of celebrating India’s ested Shimla, windswept Rohtang and scree planning. It’s not as if we can turn up over members, and it’s not possible for all to ride accessible places and dwell a moment or two armed forces. dotted Leh, before pitstopping at the Kargil night and knock on the doors of a unit sta together; ideally, we look at 1025 members,” on these stories of bravery and sacrifice. We Himmat Singh Shekhawat, 36, who co War Memorial at cold, unforgiving Drass. tioned in a field area, although once we have says Shekhawat. want them to see a soldier in uniform and say founded RR with Shivaditay Modi and Ravin They completed the gravellined circuit the requisite permission, the Army is a won The members aged between 21 and 48 hail ‘thank you’. We ride to remember.”

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BCCI asks Rain forces players off the field in final ODI Subramaniam Gayle drops enough hints that this could be his last game to stay back INDIA IN WI tional game given the thea with 15 centuries. Press Trust of India trics by cricket’s showman In Wednesday’s ODI, New Delhi PRESS TRUST OF INDIA and the sendoff accorded by Gayle also experimented The BCCI on Wednesday PORT OF SPAIN the Indian players at the end with his jersey number, went back on its decision of a typically thunderous sporting ‘301’ to indicate the to call back the administra West Indies was 158 for two innings. number of games he has tive manager, Sunil Subra in 22 overs after electing to Playing the way he always played in the format. manium, after he tendered bat against India when rain does, Gayle smashed the In DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “an unconditional apolo DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD halted play for the second dian bowlers for five sixes gy” for misbehaving with time in the third and final and four boundaries. He, ho West Indies 217 for five senior officials from the OneDay International here wever, hit Khaleel Ahmed B West Indies was 217 for five country’s High Commis on Wednesday. straight to India skipper Virat in 32 overs in a match sions in the West Indies. Shimron Hetmeyer (18) Kohli, under whom he restricted to 35 overs. In what could have been and Shai Hope (19) were at played at Royal Challengers Holder was batting on 13 a first in Indian cricket, the the crease for the hosts who Bangalore in the IPL. and Brathwaite on one. BCCI had contemplated need to win the match to le Gayle smiled as the Indian DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD calling back the manager vel the threematch series. players shook hands with midway through the tour, West Indies lost Chris him as he was walking back SCOREBOARD but the Committee of Ad Gayle (72 off 41 balls) and to the pavilion. The Indian ministrators (CoA) chief Vi WEST INDIES Evin Lewis (43 off 29). players even did a ‘Gayle jig’ nod Rai let him off with a Chris Gayle c Kohli b Khaleel 72 After India had bowled 22 with him. (41b, 8x4, 5x6), Evin Lewis c severe reprimand follow overs, the skies opened up Gayle threw his bat in the Dhawan b Chahal 43 (29b, 5x4, ing his apology. again. There had been an in air, put his helmet on top of it 3x6), Shai Hope (batting) 19 “Sunil Subramaniam terruption in the second and walked off the field. He (40b, 1x4), Shimron Hetmyer didn’t know that it was a re over. then hurled the helmet up in (batting) 18 (23,1x4); Extras quest from the government India is leading the series the air and caught it while (lb2, w3, nb1): 6; Total (for of India. I had initially 10 after winning the second approaching the boundary two wkts. in 22 overs): 158. thought of recalling him, ODI. The first match was ropes. FALL OF WICKETS but in the evening, after he abandoned due to rain. The West Indian camp 1115 (Lewis, 10.5 overs), 2121 tendered an unconditional (Gayle, 11.4) The weather has affected gave him a standing ovation. apology, I decided to keep INDIA BOWLING almost every game since In In his entertaining ODI ca Bhuvneshwar 51480, Shami him for the remainder of dia landed in the Caribbean. reer, Gayle played 301 match 31310, Khaleel 40431, the tour,” said Rai. es and accumulated 10,480 Chahal 60211, Jadhav “He will complete the Warm sendoff runs with 25 hundreds and 40130 tour as his apology has Meanwhile, Chris Gayle may 54 halfcenturies. In 103 Toss: West Indies. been accepted,” added the have played his last interna Tests, he scored 7214 runs Scoreboard incomplete Signature celebration: Chris Gayle raises a toast after reaching his halfcentury. * GETTY IMAGES CoA chief. I want to improve both as a Dananjaya has Kiwis in a spot of bother Rain washes out day one Spinner picks up fivefor on rainaffected day; Taylor holding fort cricketer and as a person: Pant AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE KIWIS IN SL LORD’S Press Trust of India Jofra Archer received his Port of Spain Reuters England Test cap but was Rishabh Pant is on a learning GALLE still to deliver a ball after curve in international crick the opening day of the se et and his only endeavour is Sri Lanka’s Akila Dananjaya cond Ashes Test against to improve each day, not on spun a web around New Zea Australia was abandoned ly as a player but also as a hu land’s batsmen, picking up without a ball bowled at a man being. all five wickets to fall, on a soaking wet Lord’s. The nascent international rainshortened opening day Chris Jordan, his Sussex career of M.S. Dhoni’s heir of the first Test. teammate, presented apparent has been an event Ross Taylor held firm with Archer with the cap in En ful one — a few eyecatching an unbeaten 86 against the gland’s prematch huddle. knocks interspersed with in guile of Dananjaya to take the With rain still lashing an discreet shot selections that touring side to 203 for five increasingly gloomy 'home invited a lot of critical when rain forced early of cricket', umpires Aleem comments. stumps. Mitchell Santner Dar and Chris Gaffaney fi With India having a was the other unbeaten bat nally abandoned play for packed schedule in the next sman at the crease. the day after tea. six months, Pant was asked Key player: Rishabh Pant is happy that the team management Both sides selected three Jordan may only have about how he sees things is supporting each and every player and giving them spinners and the 25yearold made eight Test appea panning out for him. chances. * AFP Dananjaya, who in the past rances, but has been so “Every match is crucial has been suspended from mething of a ‘cricket broth for me and it is not about the set, so I want to play normal, them,” the 21yearold said. bowling in international er’ for fellow next six months. Everyday of positive cricket that can help cricket for an illegal bowling Barbadosborn county col my life is crucial and I want my team win matches,” Pant Time to move on action, made a quick impact. Wreckerinchief: Akila Dananjaya, second from left, celebrates the exit of Tom Latham, one of league Archer. to improve both as a cricke said. The World Cup semifinal ex After Kane Williamson his five New Zealand wickets on Wednesday. * AFP Ashes holder Australia ter and as a person. That’s He is happy that the team it was a disappointment but chose to bat, the opening lead the fivematch series what I am looking forward management is supporting the young ’keeper insisted pair added 64 before Danan for the Black Caps with Hen 10 after its 251run win at to,” Pant said. each and every player and it’s time to move on. jaya struck twice in the space ry Nicholls and added 100 for SCOREBOARD SL VS NZ, 1ST DAY, 1ST TEST Edgbaston last week. He scored an attractive giving them chances. “We felt bad after losing of four deliveries to send the fourth wicket before Da In 17 of the last 19 Ashes, halfcentury in the third and “We are not experiment the World Cup semifinals back Tom Latham (30) and nanjaya dismissed the latter. New Zealand — 1st innings: J. 68 overs): 203. the team that has led 10 final T20I but some of his ing as we are giving chance but as professionals we Williamson (0). Nicholls failed to connect Raval c de Silva b Dananjaya 33, Fall of wickets: 164, 264, 3 has won the series. The ex dismissals after getting set to everyone, whoever is in knew that we hadn’t played Dananjaya then induced a sweep shot and was out leg T. Latham c Dickwella b Danan 71, 4171, 5179. ceptions were in 1997 jaya 30, K. Williamson c Kar have left a lot to be desired. the team. badly. It was just 45 minutes an edge from Jeet Raval to before for 42 and BJ. Watling unaratne b Dananjaya 0, R. Sri Lanka bowling: Lakmal 10 when Australia lost at Edg “As an individual, I would “Everyone is getting a of bad cricket (against New dismiss the other opener for soon joined him in the dress Taylor (batting) 86, H. Nicholls 5140, Kumara 101370, baston, but won the six like to have a big score but proper chance and treat Zealand). As we play more 33 at the stroke of the lunch ing room after being out in si lbw b Dananjaya 42, B.J. Wat Dananjaya 222575, de Silva match series 32 and 2005 every time I go in, I am not ment. Everyone is confident cricket, we need to learn break to reduce New Zealand milar fashion to hand the off ling lbw b Dananjaya 1, M. Sant 60200, Embuldeniya when England lost at focussing on that. I have of their position as the team and keep on improving,” he to 71 for three. spinner his fourth fivewicket ner (batting) 8; Extras (nb1, 201730. Lord’s but won the five been getting out after being management is supporting said. Taylor staged a fight back haul in Tests. lb2): 3; Total (for five wkts. in Toss: New Zealand. Test series 21.

‘I have to Cricket ball India reigns supreme Kandola’s left foot floors Yoddha reprogramme goes vegan! Phanase shines in PD World Cricket Series final my thinking’ Agence France-Presse LONDON Press Trust of India W.G. Grace and Don Port of Spain Bradman may be Struggling with his form, spinning in their graves West Indies allrounder at the news an English Carlos Brathwaite said he is cricket club have working on his fitness and switched to using a trying to “reprogramme” vegan ball from the his thoughts to get his bat traditional leather one. ting back in order. Earley Cricket Club Brathwaite scored nine, in Reading, 64 10 and zero across formats kilometres west of in the ongoing limitedov

London, had ers series against India. Falling short: Monu Goyat & Co.’s efforts were not enough against Steelers.* VIJAY SONEJI introduced a vegan tea “I think battingwise I for their players. That have to reprogramme my PKL own, singlehandedly win in seven matches. With this was down to their thinking about hitting and ning points by tagging oppo victory, it climbed to the founder and chairman swiping and batting pro G. Viswanath nents with felicity, but it was third spot. Gary Shacklady, who perly,” he told reporters on Ahmedabad his ejection from the court Midway through the se found most cricket club the eve of the final ODI that resulted in his team get cond half, Steelers changed teas consisted of ham against India. Vikash Kandola deployed his ting all out in the 40th mi the course of the contest, sandwiches, not much “We are having a lot of left foot three times in the nute, giving three crucial thanks to Sunil’s solid tackles use to him when he honest conversations with last three minutes to steer points to Steelers. with which he weighed in became a vegan. Top of the world: The victorious India Physically Disabled squad with its reward. * BCCI/TWITTER the coaches and the staff Haryana Steelers to a thrill Steelers led 1612 at half with six points. Now the club has and I think one thing that’s ing 3633 win against UP time, but Monu Goyat and gone the full hog and Special Correspondent gland to 144 for eight to seal kar Warriors, in memory of kept me back is my fitness. Yoddha in the ProKabaddi company pounced on op Warriors win thriller MUMBAI introduced a vegan the title. former India captain Ajit I have been working very, League at the Arena by portunities in the early part In the second match of the cricket ball — a Kunal Phanase’s 36 (35b, The other Indian batsmen Wadekar, who played an ac very hard in the past 12 to TransStadia here on Wed of the second half to put the day, Gujarat Fortunegiants, synthetic animal 3x4) and two for 15 helped to come good were the hard tive role in All India Cricket 14 months on my fitness — I nesday. UP side up 2118 and in after pulling level at 26 productsfree one India Physically Disabled hitting Ravindra Sante (53, Association for Physically believe I can get a bit stron The actionpacked tussle creased it to 2724, before through two super tackles, covered in rubber beat host England Physically 34b, 2x4, 4x6), Keni (29, Challenged (AICAPC), who ger as well.” turned into a scrap between falling victim to Kandola’s suffered a 2628 reverse instead of leather. Disabled by 36 runs in the fi 27b) and Suganesh Mahin organised the selection and Brathwaite’s last memor Kandola and Yoddha raider spectacular raids on the against Bengal Warriors. “It does behave like a nal of the T20 Physical Dis dran 33 (11b, 4x4). preparation for the event. able innings came in the Shrikant Jadhav. As the home stretch. The threeman raiding The scores: leather cricket ball, but ability World Cricket Series, While bowling, manof World Cup when he blasted match progressed, with the Kandola’s splendid effort team of Prapanjan, Manin India 180 for seven in 20 ov it bounces more and it’s organised by England & thematch Phanase got sup an 82ball 101 to take West scores level at 27, the Steel reduced the UP side to three der Singh and Mohammad more difficult to grip,” Wales Cricket Board, at the port from Sunny Goyat two ers (Kunal Phanase 36, Vikrant Indies to the brink of victo ers’ chief raider upped his men on the court, as against Keni 29, Ravindra Sante 53, Su Nabibakhsh contributed 18 Shacklady told the Blackfinch New Road for 23. ry against New Zealand. game to add eight points in its full seven, when the ganesh Mahendran 33, L. points for Warriors. Daily Mail. “But we’re ground in Worcester. Earlier, India had earlier O’Brien two for 35) bt England But his attempt to hit a the second half to the four he teams took positions after a The results: enthused by it and The visitors scored 180 for topped the sixteam round 144 for eight in 20 overs (A. matchwinning six in the scored in the first. And Kan timeout. It was a complete Haryana Steelers bt UP we’re hopeful of finding seven in 20 overs after skip robin league stage to qualify Brown 44, C Flynn 28, Phanase penultimate over cost him dola’s left foot kicks got him mismatch that eventually Yoddha 3633; Gujarat Fortu a better version.” per Vikrant Keni won the directly for the final. The In two for 15, Sunny Goyat two for dearly as his team lost by three of those points. contributed to Steelers’ negiants lost to Bengal War toss and then restricted En dian team called itself Wade 23). five runs. Jadhav, too, came into his hardearned win — its fourth riors 2628.

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MOTORSPORTS points than her rivals. She TABLE TENNIS monwealth Games “There were lots of emo was the sole woman rider in champion. tions and expressions, which Shreedutta Chidananda the first round in Dubai, fin K. Keerthivasan Lions started off on a were captured well on televi Bengaluru ished third out of three wo CHENNAI wrong note losing to U Mum sion. Aishwarya Pissay returned men in the second round in Chennai Lions captain Sha ba TT, but slowly picked “That we could finish home on Wednesday after Portugal, fifth out of five at rath Kamal said the team ba steam. each tie in around two hours her triumph in the 2019 FIM the Baja Aragon in Spain, lance was the main reason was encouraging. I think this Bajas World Cup. and ended the season with a for it to pick up the Ultimate Motivating win year, UTT found its mojo. It The 24yearold rider, fourth place among four wo Table Tennis crown. He cre The semifinal victory over was a packed stadium in the who emerged on top of the men riders in Hungary. dited Germany’s Petrissa Goa Challengers, which Sha final. women’s section and second Aishwarya did not feel, Solja for playing a major rath said was the team to “From here, it will only go in the junior category, de though, that the size of the role. beat, gave Lions the required upwards. The viewership scribed the reaction to her field diminished her accom “This season we had a fan motivation in the final. has gone up, the production feats as “overwhelming.” plishment. “It does not de tastic team. The main factor “For us, the best team was values were topclass. So ma Last year, Aishwarya had value the achievement,” she [for the win] was Petrissa. Goa that had ChengIChing, ny moments were captured suffered a serious injury in said. “In the Olympics, if She has already qualified for women’s world No.9, India’s well on television, which in her first international event there are five people on the [Tokyo] Olympics in the Eu A. Amalraj and Archana Ka creased people’s interest in — the Baja Aragon — where a track, would you say the ropean Games in both the math, both were in fine the sport.” crash left her with a rup same thing about them? Ov team and mixed doubles. form, and the foreign player The next major assign tured pancreas. erall, if you look at the wo This is Tiago [Apolonia]’s Alvaro Robles [Spain]. ment for the Indian table She expressed delight at men's field in motorsports third season and he knows “We were trailing 15 but Sharath Kamal * AMAL JOHN tennis teams (men & wo having been able to finish all worldwide, five is a good how it works,” said Sharath. fought back to level at 66. men) will be next year, four rounds of the Bajas number. The women I raced On the importance of Pe And Madhurika [Patkar] beat the Indian 30. where it will be participating World Cup this time around. against have ridden in the trissa and himself for Lions, won a tough final match “Tiago was in great shape. in the World team qualifica “Last year, I could not Dakar (Rosa Romero and Sa Sharath said they had to con against Archana. We came His win over Sathiyan gave tion championship in Gon ride for two and a half ra Garcia Alvarez). It wasn’t tribute nine points in every back from the jaws of defeat us the momentum. Dabang domor, Portugal from Janu months after surgery. I easy.” tie. and that helped us be strong is a oneman army [Sathi ary 22 to 26. could not work on my core Aishwarya, who was “Me and Petty [Petrissa] in the final,” said the yan]. Once we took Sathiyan Sharath believes that the because the injury had not ranked 23rd overall (and se had nine points in every tie 37yearold. out, we were very confi team has a fair chance to healed. I stayed in hospital cond out of 11 riders in the together. She had three sin Playing against the de dent,” said Sharath. make it to Tokyo. for a month, after which I Junior section), was positive gles and three mixed dou fending champion Dabang “If we qualify as a team, still had a tube hanging off in her assessment of her bles while I played the same Delhi in the final was always Ok for new format then the top two places are my body when I came back own performance. “Honest number of matches. going to be tough, but what Sharath gave a thumbsup to guaranteed in singles. That to India. Psychologically, I ly, to even be able to finish “Petty was in fantastic made things easy for Lions the new UTT format. “I am makes a lot of things easier had to work on my riding af these races is a huge task,” form and she went on to win was Tiago’s fabulous display really happy with the for for all of us. We’ll have ter the accident. This year, I she said. the best player of the tourna against India’s No.1 player G. mat. It is very short, com enough time to prepare for got a lot more seat time, “For a person like me, af ment award,” said the Com Sathiyan, where the former pact and very intense. Tokyo,” he said. which itself is progress,” the ter having that big crash last TVS rider said. year, the first goal was to fin Aishwarya’s cause was ish each race, no matter Sasi Kumar helped by the fact that she what. The bonus was that Deepak Punia is World Champion was the only woman rider to we won the championship. I Smile of success: Aishwarya Pissay expressed delight at compete in all four rounds, definitely finished a lot bet having been able to finish all four rounds of the Bajas World overcomes enabling her to gather more ter than I thought I would.” Cup this time around. * SHREEDUTTA CHIDANANDA WRESTLING King’s Press Trust of India New Delhi challenge Kovac can Lahiri, Shubhankar look for PGA cards Grappler Deepak Punia on Wednesday became India’s SPORTS BUREAU build an era at first junior World Champion PORTOROZ (SLOVENIA) The two will play at the Korn Ferry Series final in 18 years after he claimed a Sasi Kumar Mukund bat Bayern, says gold medal at the junior tled to a 46, 75, 63 victory GOLF gory is 126th to 200th on Fe worlds with a win over Rus over Evan King of the Unit Matthaeus dExCup standings), Shub sia’s Alik Shebzukhov at Tal On a high: Deepak Punia pipped Russia’s Alik Shebzukhov for ed States in the second

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA hankar comes in as one of linn, Estonia. the 86kg gold. * PTI round of the Challenger Agence France-Presse COLUMBUS (USA) the six nonmembers who The score was tied 22 at tennis tournament. Dortmund For the first time, two Indian had points equivalent to the end of the 86kg men’s Before prevailing over over a minute left he scored The results: €46,600 Chal Bayern Munich legend golfers — Anirban Lahiri and 126th200th on the FedEx freestyle bout but the Indian Shebzukhov, Punia, who al two points by pushing his lenger, Portoroz, Slovenia: Lothar Matthaeus believes Shubhankar Sharma — will Cup standings. was declared champion be so won a gold at 2016 Cadet opponent twice to emerge a Singles (second round): Sasi underfire coach Niko Ko tee off at the Korn Ferry Se Lahiri, who has played cause he had scored the last World Championship, com 32 winner. Kumar Mukund bt Evan King (US) 46, 75, 63. vac can define an era at the ries final, known for being the PGA Tour for the past point. fortably defeated Milan Punia will also represent $15,000 ITF men, Jakarta, In club and walk in the foot the toughest set of tourna four years, is in a similar The last Indian to emerge Korcsog of Hungary 101 in India at the upcoming World donesia: Singles (first steps of managerial greats ments, where the players try spot as he was in 2015, the gold medallist at the junior his opening bout. Championship in Kazakha round): Niki Poonacha bt Ottmar Hitzfeld and Jupp to get their PGA Tour cards year he broke out on the world championship were He then defeated Hunter tan, having won the trails. Rhett Purcell (Nzl) 46, 62, Heynckes. In an interview via a series of three events. world scene with two Euro Ramesh Kumar (69 kg) and Lee of Canada 51. In the 92kg, Viky edged 61; Aryan Goveas bt Dusty H. with AFP ahead of Bayern’s The Top25 in terms of pean Tour wins and an entry Palwinder Singh Cheema In the semifinal Georgia’s out Mongloia’s Batmagnai Boyer (US) 64, 46, 62; Aa Bundesliga opener against cumulative money from into the World’s Top50. (130 kg) who stood atop the Miriani Maisuradze 32, Pu Eenkhtuvshin 43 to claim a ron Addison bt Kunal Anand Hertha Berlin on Friday, these three events will join Lahiri will tee off with Jo podium in 2001. nia trailed 12 but with just bronze. 64, 62. the 1990 World Cup win the Top25 of the 2019 Korn nathan Randolph and Jamie Doubles (prequarterfinals): ner said that Kovac could Ferry Tour. These 50 players Arnold, who finished in the Kunal Anand & Manish Suresh emulate the achievements will earn a card into the Category of 26th to 75th on kumar bt Soichiro Moritani & Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) 63, of Bayern’s most successful 201920 PGA Tour. the Korn Ferry Tour this Biles unbeatable, say rivals 76(3). coaches and lead it to While Lahiri qualified for year, while Shubhankar $15,000 ITF men, Sintra, Por Champions League glory. the final series with his 178th plays with Brady Schnell, tugal: Singles (first round): “I think Kovac could finish on standings (the cate who was just inside Top200 Anirban Lahiri. * AFP She pressed the limits in balance beam and floor exercise Nuno Borges (Por) bt Digvijay even build an era in the on FedExCup standings, and Pratap Singh 46, 63, 64; way Ottmar Hitzfeld, Jupp Ben Kohles. card till last year and this Agence France-Presse play of the move, whipping Even as Biles continues to Luis Faria (Por) bt Terence Das Heynckes and Udo Lattek In 2015, Lahiri was at his year a disappointing run saw Los Angeles out her phone between ro astonish in competition, she 62, 36, 63. did at Bayern,” Matthaeus, best. He was coming off a him finish 178th on the Fe Simone Biles continues to tations to check out the vi admitted as the national $25,000 ITF women, Huang 58, said. great season with two wins, dExCup standings, forcing push the boundaries of her deo. “I didn’t want to be the championships began that it shan, China: Singles (first the Malaysian champion him to play the Korn Ferry sport to the point even the last person to see it,” she was “not easy coming back round): Ye Xin Ma (Chn) bt Ri ya Bhatia 64, 16, 63. Constant pressure ships and the Hero Indian Final Series. American gymnast’s rivals said. to the sport, coming back to Doubles (prequarterfinals): Kovac was under constant Open, the latter being the can only watch in Biles — who already has a the organization that has Ye Xin Ma (Chn) & Zuzana Zlo pressure in his first year at last win for him. Global attention admiration. vault skill and a floor exer failed you.” chova (Svk) bt Lou Brouleau Bayern last season and Lahiri earned his PGA Shubhankar, who like Lahiri Sunisa Lee said she was cise manoeuvre named for She was among more (Fra) 61, 62. faced repeated criticism tour by playing just two of in 2015, shot to fame with “super happy” to take the all her as the originator — than 200 athletes abused by $15,000 ITF women, Nairobi, from inside the dressing the four events in the Korn two European Tour wins in around silver medal at the US pressed the limits in balance former US gymnastics team Kenya: Singles (first round): room, despite eventually Ferry Series finals. He was the 2018 season, attracted a championships this wee beam in Kansas City, too, doctor Larry Nassar and has Mahak Jain bt Anfisa Danil leading the club to the Tied6th at Hotel Fitness and lot of global attention. He kend, where Biles capped with a doubleflip, double been an outspoken critic of chenko (Rus) 60 retd.; Sau domestic double. T16 at the Small Business did not play the Korn Ferry her recordtying sixth nation twist beam dismount. how US Gymnastics and mya Vig bt Manuella Maria Lisa “He won the double in Connection Championships series last year, but comes al allaround title with a nev Lee was more than con Olympic Committee failed Nyonda (Gab) 62, 61; Sathwi ka Sama bt Deeksha Manju Pra difficult conditions last and that sufficed to get him this year on the strength of erbeforeseen “tripledou tent with her silver, while to protect athletes. sad 61, 62. Doubles (pre year. He showed he can into PGA Tour for 2016. having earned enough ble” floor exercise landing — Morgan Hurd, who finished Biles’ joy was evident quarterfinals): Sravya Shivani fight,” said Matthaeus. He skipped the last as he points equivalent of the Fe a finale featuring two flips fourth, called Biles ‘super when she posted a picture Chilakalapudi & Snehal Mane “He is a football expert became the first Indian to dexCup standing between and three twists. human’. “I do consider it a of herself on Instagram say bt Manuella Maria lIsa Nyonda and I think this season will Shubhankar Sharma. make the Presidents Cup 126th and 200th despite be Even Biles admitted she win, just because she’s un ing “That feeling when you (Gab) & Sariaka Radilofe (Fra) be easier for him.” * GETTY IMAGES team in Korea. He kept his ing a nonmember. couldn’t wait to see the re beatable,” Lee said. make history... twice.” 63, 62. Meiraba and Samiya — the next big thing Semenya unfazed by Duo says the tag motivates and spurs them on middledistance ban BADMINTON their name from the region. She won her maiden ju players, especially from Chi Now Meiraba, though it’s nior (u19) ranking tourna na and Indonesia. “They are Agence France-Presse S. Prasanna Venkatesan too early, is observed by ex ment in Chennai early this physically dominating,” he Johannesburg CHENNAI perts as a potential star year. says. South Africa’s twotime For the 16yearold shuttler player for the future. “I would say Meiraba’s is He says he’s particularly Olympic 800m champion Maisnam Meiraba (singles power game, while Samiya’s been working on his smash Caster Semenya on Wednes player), this year has been Four-in-a-row is an allround game,” says and forecourt play for now. day shrugged off critics in phenomenal in terms of ov Since January, he notably has the junior National coach the face of a ruling that has erall performance. won four consecutive junior Sanjay Mishra. Reducing errors banned her from defending Following the recent (u19) ranking tournaments Samiya, on the other hand, her world middle distance bronze medal in the Bulgar in Bengaluru, Vijayawada, Strengths believes she has to work on title in Doha in September. ian junior International, he’s Chennai and Trivandrum, “Meiraba’s strengths are his reducing committing un The 28 yearold has been now in Panchkula playing a reached the quarterfinals in speed, power, and accuracy. forced errors. embroiled in a bitter legal junior ranking tournament the German junior Interna He has to work on fitness; im Samiya, who has been jug battle with the International which is also a selection tour tional, won bronze in the Yo prove his stamina. For in gling a lot between the junior Association of Athletics Fed nament for the upcoming nexRoza Bty junior Interna stance, to reach the final of, and senior circuits, will not erations (IAAF) over rules Caster Semenya * REUTERS World juniors. There will be tional in Thailand, won gold say, a fiveday tournament, be available for the World ju that force female athletes to another in Bengaluru that he in the White Nights junior In you need to win four or five niors, for she will be focuss regulate their testosterone “When you are the best in will play as well. ternational in Russia. matches in a tight schedule. ing on the upcoming senior levels. the world people get ob “We have a lot of shuttlers While Meiraba shuttles “Samiya, I think, has to tournaments in Myanmar Speaking at a women’s sessed with what you are now. The popularity of and between Imphal and Benga work on power. She’s very and Nepal. empowerment conference doing.” interest for the sport has luru where he’s been train good with half smashes; de Asked if it’s extra pressure in Johannesburg, the defiant “Probably I’m a ‘pro been on the rise,” he says ov ing at the Prakash Padukone ception, in general. Also, to live up to the big expecta and confident Semenya said blem’ because I’m an over er phone, referring to his Badminton Academy, Sami she’s a fighter; doesn’t give tion — being considered as the obsession with getting achiever so we must get rid home State Manipur that pe ya Farooqui (16), who won up easily, ” he adds. potential future stars — both rid of her was driven by the of you,” said the selfconfi ople mostly associate with the girls’ singles gold in Bul Meiraba responds saying of them say it motivates them fact that she is undisputed dent athlete. football. Boxer Mary Kom garia and is considered as he’s always been working on and makes them want to ly the best in the world. Semenya was raised as a and Weightlifter Mirabhai another potential star in the his fitness and agrees that he maximise their potential. Future bright: Their innate talent and recent run of results “I’m targeted because I’m woman, races as a woman Chanu are a couple of other making, hails from and trains might be found lacking when Samiya is even being tout hark well for Maisnam Meiraba and Samiya Farooqui. undefeated...I’m the best at and is legally classified as a sportspersons who’ve made in Hyderabad. compared to the other Asian ed the next Saina Nehwal! * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT what I do.” woman.

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Instead, the Bengaluru FC 21 in a the proper perspective and the Davis Cup tie against ITF has shared its GroupA match of the 129th take a suo moto decision to Pakistan out of security plans with AITA Durand Cup at the Salt Lake either postpone the Davis Islamabad. and offered them to have Stadium on Wednesday. Cup tie, scheduled to be Earlier in the day, a discussion with their The win helped the Kolka held in Islamabad on Sep AITA had asked ITF to security consultants. ta side seal a semifinal spot. tember 14 and 15, or shift it In other matches, Goku to a neutral venue. lam Kerala FC brightened its Categorically stating that US had been postponed, TA not securing Pakistan vi semifinal chances by blank the AITA was not seeking despite the Indian team al sa for the team, the AITA Steyn not ‘medically fit’ ing Indian Air Force 30 in any shift of venue as yet, and ready being present in North said that there was enough for India tour GroupD, while FC Goa’s de pleading to the ITF, to only Carolina in September 2001, time as the procedure re CAPE TOWN velopmental side got the bet go by the official communi “even though there was no quired only a “few days”. South Africa fast bowler Dale ter of ILeague champion cation and not refer to me further security threat”. Asking for the security re Steyn is not ‘medically ready’, Chennai City FC by the odd dia reports, the national fed The ITF had postponed ports of ITF’s consultants in said Cricket South Africa’s goal in three in a GroupC eration has asked the ITF to the tie then, “considering (CSA) acting director Corrie Pakistan, AITA has said that match to stay in the hunt. note the ground realities, the overall mood in USA”, it would consult its security Van Zyl citing the reason for Needing a draw to ensure rather than just look at the AITA highlighted in its com the omission of the pacer agencies to confirm and sa a spot in the lastfour, East security arrangements at the munication. tisfy itself of the arrange from the squad announced Bengal topped the group venue. Suggesting that good at for the India tour. “He is not ments. It has also asked for a with an allwin record (nine Leading from the front: Gokulam Kerala FC’s skipper Marcus Joseph netted twice against mosphere was extremely im yet medically ready and our telephonic interaction with points) after besting BFC’s IAF on Wednesday. * RAJEEV BHATT Prevalent tensions portant for Davis Cup ties, information makes that very the security agencies on Au clear,” Sport24.co.za quoted second team. Making a long list of points AITA observed that, “the re gust 16. East Bengal youth system, DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the 18th minute through Van Zyl as saying. The Ajay Chhetri gave BFC the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD to highlight the prevalent cent developments have re Bidyashagar scored the win Mashoor Shereef’s header. “If AITA is satisfied with lead latching on to a re B East Bengal topped the tension between the two sulted in an atmosphere Proteas announced their the security arrangements squad for India tour on bound after teammate Ed ner in the 74th minute with a group with an allwin Nestor Dias scored in the 31st countries, AITA pointed out which is not conducive for a and discussion between our Tuesday and Dale Steyn was a mund Lalrindika’s 17th mi fine solo effort. record (nine points) minute to help FC Goa net that the Pakistan air space happy friendly tie between respective teams, everyth notable absentee from the nute effort came off the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD full points. had been closed, and bus, the two teams which have ing will be in order. announced squad. ANI crosspiece. Brace by Marcus The results: GroupA: East train services had been immense respect for each Gokulam Kerala, which out FC Goa, which got the bet Bengal (Bidyashagar Singh 59, stopped. other.” “In case, AITA is not satis Bidyashagar delights played Chennaiyin FC’s de ter of Army Green by a soli 74) bt Bengaluru FC 1 (Ajay “We do not have an am AITA has, in fact, sought fied, we would request the Chhetri 17); GroupC: FC Goa 2 East Bengal coach Alejandro tary goal in its previous bassador any longer in Isla to interact with the ITF Board of Directors of ITF to velopment side 40 in its first (Liston Colaco 10, Nestor Dias Menendez introduced Bi outing, found Trinidad and match, lined itself up for a mabad,” the AITA stressed, Board of Directors on the give us a hearing on our lastfour spot in GroupC. 31) bt Chennai City FC 1 (Mash dyashagar after the break Tobago import and skipper oor Shereef 18); GroupD: Gok in its communication to ITF subject. views in matters relating to and he found the equaliser Marcus Joseph striking twice Liston Colaco put Goa ulam Kerala FC 3 (Marcus Jo on Wednesday. security for this particular by the hour mark with a nice and Shibil Muhammed net ahead in the 10th minute be seph 43, 86, Shibil Muhammed AITA also pointed out that No worries Davis Cup tie,” the letter to halfvolley. A product of the ting the other against IAF. fore CCFC restored parity in 56) bt IAF 0. a tie between India and the About ITF’s concern over AI ITF stated.

Injured del Potro Indian boys and Anjum Moudgil in out of US Open Chandigarh to play in NEW YORK Former champion Juan girls post wins awesome form Martin del Potro, who had Ranji Trophy surgery in June to repair a nov 64, 63; Manas Dhamne & broken right kneecap, won't Finishes with five gold and a silver ASIAN U-12 TENNIS Ramalingam Senthil Kumar bt be ready for the US Open, Yerassy Bakhtiyar & Artem Si VRV Singh appointed team’s head coach Sports Bureau organisers said on Tuesday. Sports Bureau dorov 75, 62]. Chengdu (China) The 2009 champion’s Kazakhstan Girls: Thailand bt India 30 withdrawal sent USA’s Denis Vijay Lokapally the game in the region.” supporters that we shall World championship silver [Pariyakorn Srisuriyapatkul bt Kudla, who was previously India boys beat Hong Kong NEW DELHI medallist and the current Ika Raju Kanumuri 64, 61; Ka According to Tandon, maintain transparency in announced as a wildcard, into and Kazkahstan in their Former Test fast bowler the affiliation granted last our functioning,” the UTCA World No. 2 Anjum Moudgil league matches in the ITF monwan Yodpetch bt Riya the main draw. AFP VRV Singh was on Wednes month restricted Chandi president added. shot a perfect 600 out of Asian under12 tennis cham Sachdeva 61, 75; Yosita Sri porn & Kamonwan Yodpetch bt day appointed the Head garh’s participation only to The UTCA has invited 600 in winning the air rifle pionship here. The girls Ika Raju Kanumuri & Riya Sach Coach of Chandigarh the under23 age group. players to register on its gold in the World Police and won their matches against deva 63, 61]. which was recently grant “Last night I got this com website. Fire Games here on Hong Kong and Uzbekistan India bt Hong Kong 21 [Ika ed affiliation by the Board. munication that Chandi “We are holding trials Wednesday. but lost 30 to Thailand. Raju Kanumuri bt Tsz Lu Lee Chandigarh will field teams garh can participate in the from August 21 to pick the Along with Elizabeth Su The results (league): 61, 61; Riya Sachdeva bt Jane in all the age groups of the Ranji Trophy too along senior men’s team which san Koshy, who won the in Boys: India bt Hong Kong 30 LIng Chun Wong 64, 75; Sa Board and importantly with all the senior tourna will participate in the JP dividual silver, Sahil and Ma [Ramalingam Senthil Kumar bt miksha Dabas & Riya Sachdeva participate in the Ranji ments like Vijay Hazare Atray tournament (starting neesh Kumar, Anjum also Jacob Kailiang Shen 75, 57, lost to Jane Ling Chun Wong & Trophy. Trophy and Syed Mushtaq September 1),” said won the team gold. 62; Manas Dhamne bt Bob Tsz Lam Yeung 36, 67(4)]. The Union Territory Ali T20 Trophy. Our wo Tandon. It was a memorable out Chan 63, 61; Manas Dhamne India bt Uzbekistan 30 [Ika Cricket Association (UTCA) men’s team will compete in Chandigarh has given ing for Anjum as she fin Anjum Moudgil. Chris Morris wants to play & Arnav Paparker bt Kui Chi Raju Kanumuri bt Mlana To president Sanjay Tandon all the age groups,” he said. quite a few cricketers who ished with five gold and a sil * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT for South Africa Antonio Lee & Jacob Kailiang mashevich 64, 76(5); Riya Shen 62, 60]. told The Hindu, “we are all have represented India — ver. She had earlier won the CAPE TOWN Sachdeva bt Zlata Chinnova China. The competition in so excited at the opportun Huge responsibility Kapil Dev, Yograj Singh, individual gold in prone and Cricket South Africa (CSA) India bt Kazakhstan 21 [Ra 63, 64; Samiksha Dabas & Ri the regular international cir ities that have come our Tandon described the de Ashok Malhotra, Chetan a silver in the threeposition acting director Corrie van Zyl malingam Senthil Kumar lost ya Sachdeva bt Shakhzoda Ar cuit uses decimal scoring in to Artem Sidorov 26, 36; Ma tikbaeva & Zlada Chinnova 64, way. velopment as a “huge res Sharma, Yuvraj Singh, Di event. She was part of the on Wednesday said South air rifle, and it was old style nas Dhamne bt Amir Omarkha 62]. “For 15 long years we ponsibility” on his team of nesh Mongia. three gold winning team in African allrounder Chris scoring 10s and 9s in the Pol had been pleading for re workers. The Sector 16 Stadium, prone, 3position and air Morris, whose contract was ice Games. cognition and now that it “No doubt it is a huge where Kapil, Chetan, Mal rifle. not renewed after the World The results: Mixed air rifle: 1. “It was interesting com Cup, now wants to play after has finally happened we challenge. In the next four hotra and Yograj trained Anjum Moudgil 600; 2. Eliza he made himself unavailable Indians make want to live up to the ex days we shall finalize all the under coach Desh Prem petition. Very different from beth Susan Koshy 592; 3. Sahil for the India tour. van Zyl said pectations. required committees. It’s a Azad, will host the match other usual matches. It was 590. that negotiations for a new “It is a welcome deve gigantic task but we are es, including Chandigarh’s fun and good experience to Team: 1. India 2371; 2. IndiaA contract will begin after the knockout phase lopment for the growth of ready. I promise all our debut in First Class. shoot the full rings,” said 2343; 3. Vanguard Sports As India tour. ANI Anjum when contacted in sociation of China 2332. Special Correspondent Sanghera of Leicestershire, NEW DELHI Bushan Haobam bounced All the four Indian boys and back after losing his first girls made it to the knock match to win the next two, Shreya in lead out phase of the Road to including the one in the sup Federer and Djokovic cruise through Wimbledon UK under14 er tiebreak against Oliver Press Trust of India tennis championship in Hague of Cheshire. Serena pulls out with back trouble; Venus shocks Bertens Hyderabad Wimbledon. The two girls, Anjali Rathi Amateur Shreya Pal fired Sala and pilot ‘exposed to and Veda Raju Prapurna al It was a test of character, CINCINNATI MASTERS further shadow on her good to begin with a win,” bt Joao Sousa 26, 63, 62; three birdies in the last five carbon monoxide’ as much as playing skills, as so made it despite a shaky chances at the US Open said Federer. Stan Wawrinka bt Grigor Dimi holes for a superb fiveun LONDON rain forced the players to start. starting in Flushing Mea Venus Williams kept the trov 57, 64, 76(4); Andrey der 67 in the first round of Footballer Emiliano Sala and compete on indoor hard The results: Boys: GroupF: Agence France-Presse dows on August 26. family flag flying, the 39 Rublev bt Nikoloz Basilashvili the 12th leg of the Hero Wo Ayushmaan Arjeria bt Angus Cincinnati 67(4), 64, 62; Benoit Paire bt the pilot flying his plane courts, but the players stood Federer, seeded third, re yearold American putting men’s Pro Golf Tour here when it crashed were likely Howard 61, 61; Dylan Sang Fernando Verdasco 64 retd.; up to the challenge, much to Roger Federer and Novak mained unruffled by a one her decades of experience to Wednesday. Shreya was exposed to “potentially fatal” hera bt Ayushmaan Arjeria 64, Frances Tiafoe bt Gael Monfils the satisfaction of coach Djokovic overwhelmed op hour rain interruption at 22 good use in a 63, 36, 76(4) fifth in the 11th leg, where levels of carbon monoxide, 64. 76(7), 63; Roberto Bautista Vishaal Uppal. ponents at the WTAATP Cin victory over defending Sneha Singh, also an ama investigators announced on GroupH: Bushan Haobam bt in the second set, eventually Agut bt Hubert Hurkacz 76(6), While Ayushmaan Arjeria cinnati Masters on Tuesday, champion Kiki Bertens. teur, won the title. Wednesday. “Toxicology tests Harry Lumb 61, 63; Bushan defeating Argentina’s Juan 63; Diego Schwartzman bt where Serena Williams with The results: Men: Second On Wednesday, Shreya found that the passenger had won two matches in the Haobam bt Oliver Hague 36, Ignacio Londero 63, 64 to Laslo Djere 76(2), 63; Reilly round: Novak Djokovic bt Sam a high saturation level of league and lost to Dylan 63, [10]. drew because of back reach the third round at the Opelka bt Borna Coric 46, 63, went even better in terms Querrey 75, 61; Roger Federer 75; David Goffin bt Taylor Fritz COHb (the combination trouble. event he has won seven of scores as she shot six bir bt Juan Ignacio Londero 63, 64, 46, 64. dies against a sole bogey in product of carbon monoxide The 23time Grand Slam times. 64; Pablo Carreno Busta bt and haemoglobin),” Britain’s champion said her back was “This is the start of a long, Women: Second round: Maria the first round. John Isner 64, 67(1), 76(6). Sakkari bt Petra Kvitova 64, Air Accidents Investigation Stanley strikes, Customs “still not right” casting a long hardcourt swing. It’s First round: Denis Shapovalov Gaurika Bishnoi and 26, 63; Venus Williams bt Kiki Branch (AAIB) said in a Sneha were tied fourth Bertens 63, 36, 76(4). special bulletin. AFP with rounds of even par 72 holds Bagan First round: Anett Kontaveit bt each. Angelique Kerber 76(7) 62; Ishvari Prasanna was Victoria Azarenka bt Belinda Stosur, Gauff SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT attacking Customs players sixth with 73, while Siddhi KOLKATA Bencic 64, 10 retd.; Madison headline US in check. It missed the ser Keys bt Garbine Muguruza 67 Kapoor, Amandeep Drall Stanley’s 90thminute vices of Lalchhawnkima af (4), 76(5), 64 SuWei Hsieh bt and Afshan Fatima shot 74 equaliser enabled Calcutta ter an hour’s play, the defen Wang Qiang 63, 64. each to be Tiedseventh. Open wildcards Customs earn a 11 draw der getting sent off following against defending champion his foul on Philip. Agence France-Presse Mohun Bagan in a Calcutta However, Customs was al New York Football League Premier Di so down to 10 when De Former champion Saman vision ‘A’ match here on bayan Saha was shown a se tha Stosur and teenage Wednesday. cond yellow in the 84th Wimbledon sensation Co Bagan, which suffered a minute. Stanley’s shot off an co Gauff highlight the list of shock 30 defeat against Amit Chakraborty corner US Open wildcards an Peerless in its previous kick beat Bagan ’keeper nounced on Tuesday. match, again had a tough Shankar Roy in the closing Gauff is joined by four outing against a lesser minutes. Bagan collected its other teenagers among known side. first point and Customs its eight wildcard invitees in After taking the lead second. Caty McNally, Whitney through Fran Gonzalez in The result: Calcutta Customs 1 Osuigwe and Katie Voly the 21st minute, Bagan (Stanley 90) drew with Mohun Been there, done that: Venus Williams put her decades of experience to good use in nets and Diane Parry. found it tough to keep the Bagan 1 (Gonzalez 21). beating defending champion Kiki Bertens. * AFP CM https://t.me/SSC4ExamsYK https://t.me/Banking4Exams https://t.me/UPSC4Exams https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

DELHI THE HINDU 22 LIFE THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Songs from the soil: a unique tribute to Pulwama martyrs

U. G. Jadhav is visiting the birthplaces of the 40 CRPF men killed on February 14

Sidharth Yadav ter a musical performance. from two spots — where the strangers at roadside eater Bhopal “I couldn’t sleep for three martyr took his first step and ies and given fuel by benevo On February 14, 2019, nights straight,” Mr. Jadhav where he was given final lent drivers, Mr. Jadhav has Umesh Gopinath Jadhav recalls. “I wondered how re rites. driven 12,000 km through couldn’t possible foresee latives of the martyrs felt at Mr. Jadhav hopes to reach Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Na that a twohour flight delay that point.” Pulwama a year after the at du, Goa, Puducherry and would prod him to embark Today, in his modified se tack and create a map of the Madhya Pradesh. on a yearlong patriotic dan with a Maruti Suzuki country using the soil. “A sol He began his crowdfund mission. 800 in tow as a trolley, 39 dier does what he does for ed journey on April 9, Va As the news of the Pulwa yearold Mr. Jadav is travell the country’s soil. Although lour’s Day, from Bengaluru. ma attack in which 40 CRPF ing to the homes and villages we are born in different “I didn’t want to say rest personnel were killed began of each of the martyrs across parts, we are all part of the in peace to martyrs on social trickling in, he sat for two 16 States and to war memo same nation,” says Mr. media. Rather, I am meeting hours watching the news on rials across the country col Jadhav. their families to say that we Patriotic mission: Umesh Gopinath Jadhav during a halt in TV at the Ajmer airport, on lecting soil. Spending nights inside his stand with them,” says Mr. Bhopal on Wednesday. * A.M. FARUQUI his way back to Bengaluru af He’s collecting samples car at petrol pumps, fed by Jadhav. Eggshells used to synthesise NASA to use V. Balakrishnan’s stark new script lava field for natural bone implant material bags The Hindu Playwright Award Mars practice Agence France-Presse Nanopowder may replace commercially available substitute Gowri S. the loss of celebrated theatre Lambahraun Chennai practitioner Girish Karnad, To prepare for the next V. Geetanath compounds like hydroxya The Hindu Playwright Award JustUs Repertory led by mission to Mars in 2020, Hyderabad patite and calcium 2019 was awarded to V. Ba Gowri Ramnarayan show NASA has taken to the lava Researchers from the Indian phosphate. lakrishnan for his play Sor- cased play reading sessions fields of Iceland to get its Institute of TechnologyHyd did. The ₹2 lakh award for of Tughlaq and Taledanda. new robotic space explorer erabad (IITH) and Dr. B.R. Ball milling process the best new unpublished The decision to stage ready for the job. Ambedkar National Institute For their study, researchers and unperformed play script more plays was also men With its black basalt of Technology, Jalandhar, synthesised pure and ther in English was presented at tioned by the curator of the sand, windswept dunes have developed a process by mally stable tricalcium the launch of the 15th edition festival, Mukund Padman and craggy peaks, the Lam which bone implant mate phosphate nanopowder — of The Hindu Theatre Fest at abhan, who added, “It was bahraun lava field at the rials can be synthesised powder a hundred thousand Taj Coromandel, Nungam ambitious, but it also made foot of Iceland’s second from eggshells. times smaller than the width bakkam, on Wednesday. us look for smaller and more biggest glacier, Langjokull, The research seeks to pro <> Bioceramics made of a single human hair — The shortlisted works in diverse performance spaces, was chosen as a standin duce bone substitute mate from eggshells from eggshells. They used a cluded Ajay Krishnan’s Gaj- N. Ram, Chairman, The Hindu Group Publishing Pvt Ltd., including GoetheInstitut for the red planet’s surface. rials such as tricalcium exhibit greater milling process called ‘ball ram the Great, Deepika Ar presenting the award to V. Balakrishnan. * R. RAGU and Alliance Francaise of For three weeks, 15 phosphate, a commonly biocompatibility milling’ to produce these ac wind’s Phantasmagoria and Madras.” scientists and engineers used bone substitute mate tivated calcium phosphate Deepro Roy’s Azad Theatre, speaks simultaneously of the writing to performance — The sponsors include than other synthetic sent by the U.S. space agen rial, from natural sources. powders. chosen by a panel of three gender conflict within the thereby creating an import Apollo Hospitals, Bharat Pet powders cy descended on the site, Eggshells are made of largely Results showed that egg judges from among the 82 family as well as the larger, ant synergy between the roleum Corporation Ltd, 100 km from the capital of minerals (95.1%) along R. Uday Kiran shell waste is promising entries received. This year’s equally exploitative system award and the festival,” said SRM University, Union Bank Researcher Reykjavik, last month to with small amounts of pro enough to replace the com award was judged by scholar that emerges out of a battle Mr. Ram. of India, Casagrand, One develop a prototype. teins and water. Calcium is mited quantities,” said re mercially available tricalci and author Arshia Sattar, over scarce natural re Crest, Radio One, Fever FM It will aim to continue the main mineral search student R. Uday Ki um phosphate (produced by playwright and director sources.” Theatre fest and Air India. the work of the “Curiosity” component. ran, department of using harmful chemicals) Ramu Ramanathan, and au In his acceptance speech, The Hindu’s Editor Suresh The Hindu Theatre Fest rover, which has been ex “Tonnes of eggshells are biomedical engineering, and has the capability to de thor and playwright Annie Mr. Balakrishnan said, “If Nambath welcomed the will begin on August 16 and ploring Mars since 2012 in dumped as waste across the IITH. velop implantable biomate Zaidi (who was the winner of The Hindu hadn’t created gathering, and speaking will be held until September search of signs of ancient world but bioceramics made In modern medicine, rial for tissue regeneration, last year’s award). this competition, I wouldn’t about The Hindu Theatre 1 at Museum Theatre, life and making prepara from them exhibit greater damaged and missing bones according to the research Sordid paints a picture of have attempted to write a Fest said, “This year is a GoetheInstitut, The Music tions for human biocompatibility than other are replaced with bone from paper published in Ceramics the starkly disturbing truth play every year.” milestone year and we are Academy and Alliance Fran exploration. synthetic powders due to either the patient or a donor International. of water wives in a drought The award was presented very happy to celebrate it caise of Madras. Experts say that Iceland, the presence of additional or by using artificial mate The paper was coauth ridden region. The citation by N. Ram, Chairman, The with a lineup of 15 plays Tickets are available on a volcanic island in the bioactive elemental ions. rials containing calcium, ored by Mahesh Kumar Sah, prepared by the judges for Hindu Group Publishing Pvt across three cities — Chen Paytm, www.insider.in and middle of the North Atlan Eggshells are inexpensive such as Plaster of Paris, and Subha Narayan Rath and the winning play read: “Per Ltd. “The award has helped nai, Hyderabad and Coim www.hindu.com/theatre tic, is in many ways remi and can be obtained in unli more recently, phosphate Bharat B. Panigrahi. sonal and political at once, it to make the transition from batore.” To commemorate fest and at the venue. niscent of Mars.

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