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NEARBY SC alters Lodha’s Sensex Opposition loses the battle soars above BCCI proposals 38,000 to a for RS Deputy Chairman record high One State­one vote norm junked JD(U)’s Harivansh trounces Congress nominee Hariprasad by 125 to 101 votes Special Correspondent One held for vandalising Mumbai car in Moti Nagar Sobhana K Nair A total of 16 members The benchmark BSE Sen­ NEW DELHI New Delhi were absent, most from the sex continued its dizzying The Delhi Police on Thursday NDA candidate and JD(U) MP Opposition ranks, while the climb on Thursday, soaring arrested a kanwariya involved Harivansh was elected the treasury benches had full at­ to a new closing record of in vandalising a car in Moti Deputy Chairman of the Ra­ tendance. 38,024.37 on sustained Nagar on Tuesday. He was jya Sabha on Thursday, de­ Three Aam Aadmi Party stock purchases by over­ identified as Rahul alias Billa, feating Opposition candidate MPs remained absent since seas and domestic institu­ a resident of Gurpreet Nagar and Congress MP B.K. Hari­ Congress president Rahul tional investors. The index in Uttam Nagar. He was prasad. Gandhi failed to call Delhi previously involved in a theft added 136.81 points or The final tally of votes Chief Minister and AAP con­ case registered against him at 0.36%. the Uttam Nagar police showed 125 for Mr. Hari­ vener Arvind Kejriwal, a con­ The 30­company index station. vansh and 101 for Mr. Hari­ dition set by the AAP for sup­ breached the 38,000­mark prasad. Four Congress MPs porting Mr. Hariprasad. for the first time to notch DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 had polled their vote twice. Three Congress MPs — T. up one of its fastest 1,000 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD They sent in paper ballots al­ Subbarami Reddy, Viplove point rallies after closing Court takes police to so, thinking that their votes Thakur and Ranee Narah — above 37,000 just 9 ses­ task over language had not been electronically were absent. While the first sions earlier, on July 27. NEW DELHI recorded. The victor: Harivansh, who was elected Deputy Chairman two could not attend for Krishnadas Rajagopal Instead, the court res­ Banking majors ICICI NEW DELHI A Karkardooma court here This is the first significant of the Rajya Sabha on Thursday. * SANDEEP SAXENA health reasons, Ms. Narah tored full BCCI member­ Bank, Axis Bank and the has asked the Delhi Police to victory scored by the ruling switched over to the BJP. The Supreme Court has fi­ ships to three associations State Bank of India were at avoid using antiquated words NDA in the Rajya Sabha, there was a contest as per know of Mr. Patnaik’s deci­ Trinamool MPs K.D. Singh nalised the new Constitu­ in Gujarat and Maharashtra the forefront of the Sensex and phrases like laaparwahi, where the Opposition is in a procedures and the new sion as late as Tuesday after­ and Manas Ranjan Bhunia tion for the Board of Control each. They are the Maha­ charge, gaining 4.6%, 3.9% gaflat and tezraftaari in the majority, and could pave the members got training in how noon when the NCP called were absent. Two DMK MPs, for Cricket in India (BCCI), rashtra, Mumbai and Vi­ and 2.5% respectively, chargesheet they file in every way for an assertive BJP. to vote in the House.” The the Chief Minister to seek his including Kanimozhi, could rejecting the ‘one State­one darbha cricket associations while metals major Vedan­ road accident case. The With 73 MPs, the BJP is now comments summed up the support for its candidate not participate because of vote’ recommendation of in Maharashtra and the Ba­ ta and state­run NTPC and police can use synonyms for the largest party in the much awaited election, Vandana Chavan. the death of party leader M. the Justice R.M. Lodha Com­ roda and Saurashtra cricket Power Grid Corporation these words, it said. House. which started out as a thrill­ However, none of the oth­ Karunanidhi. mittee and altering the cool­ associations in Gujarat. were among the other er but ended as a one­sided er Opposition parties, in­ The Samajwadi Party had ing­off period for cricket “To utilise territoriality as leading gainers. DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Modi pitches in match when the Biju Janata cluding the Congress, made three absentees — Jaya Bach­ bosses. a basis of exclusion is pro­ While the Sensex pack The ruling party’s serious­ Dal (with nine members) de­ a serious effort to woo the chan, Beni Prasad Verma Softening the rigour of blematic because it ignores saw 18 members gaining ness in getting the post was cided to throw its weight be­ BJD. West Bengal Chief Mi­ and C.P.S. Yadav. Two MPs of the recommendations, a history and the contribu­ ground, the overall market underscored by the fact that hind the NDA nominee. nister and Trinamool Con­ the recently estranged NDA three­judge Bench, led by tions made by such associa­ breadth still remained Union Minister Arun Jaitley, gress president Mamata Ba­ ally, Peoples Democratic Par­ Chief Justice of India Dipak tions to the development of mildly weak, with 1,331 recuperating from renal fai­ BJD springs a surprise nerjee, who was leading the ty, which had initially sig­ Misra, on Thursday dis­ cricket and its popularity,” stocks advancing against lure, attended the House for Odisha Chief Minister Na­ co­ordination effort, too, did nalled support for the Oppo­ agreed with Justice Lodha Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, 1,351 declines. the first time to register his veen Patnaik’s decision took not take the step. sition, also stayed away, that cricket could prosper who wrote the judgment, The broader 50­stock vote. his own MPs by surprise, On the other hand, Mr. taking the total number of only if the BCCI was repre­ reasoned. Nifty of the National Stock In his speech felicitating since the party has been Modi personally spoke to Mr. absentees in the House to 12. sented by every State and Exchange also settled the Mr. Harivansh, Prime Minis­ carefully walking the middle Patnaik, and this was fol­ Union Territory. The former CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 day at a new high of FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 12 PAGES ter Narendra Modi said, path between the ruling par­ lowed by calls from BJP pre­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 CJI had relegated cricket as­ ‘I AM DISAPPOINTED’ Ī PAGE 15 11,470.70, up 20.70 points. (TABLOID) “While the outcome of the ty and the Opposition bloc. sident Amit Shah and Home EDITOR WHO BACKED SOCIALLY sociations to the status of as­ SC TWEAKS COOLING-OFF DELHIMETRO Ī 6 PAGES election was known, yet The Opposition came to Minister Rajnath Singh. CONSCIOUS REPORTING Ī PAGE 10 sociate members. PERIOD RULE Ī PAGE 15 DIZZYING CLIMB Ī PAGE 13 22 killed as rain batters Kerala 27 resorts in Nilgiris Nod for three changes to triple talaq Bill SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT These three provisions to While the proposed law Army deployed in worst­affected areas for rescue and relief jumbo path to be shut NEW DELHI the Muslim Women Protec­ will remain “non­bailable” — The Union Cabinet on tion of Rights on Marriage the police cannot grant bail Special Correspondent SC sets 48­hour deadline for closure Thursday approved three Bill, which makes instant tri­ at the police station — the ac­ Thiruvananthapuram crucial amendments to the ple talaq illegal and imposes cused can approach a magis­ Large parts of Kerala woke Legal Correspondent presentation for the resort triple talaq Bill, including a a jail term of up to three trate for bail even before up to chaos and devastation NEW DELHI owners, the Bench said this provision for bail to an ac­ years, provide additional sa­ trial. on Thursday as a renewed The Supreme Court on would be deemed as an ac­ cused before the start of feguards from the Act being monsoon unleashed torren­ Thursday ordered the Tamil ceptance of the report filed trial. misused. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 tial rain across the eastern Nadu government to shut by the Collector. “They are parts of the State, triggering down illegal resorts operat­ directed to be closed down flash floods and landslips and ing in the elephant corridor or sealed by the Collector. bringing normal life to a halt. Under water: The flooded Sundaram Colony in Palakkad town in the Nilgris district, saying We have requested counsel State Disaster Control Room on Thursday. * K. K. MUSTAFAH “elephants are our heritage.” for the State to do the need­ sources said 22 people had “We are destroying our her­ ful within 48 hours,” the died in rain­related incidents Kozhikode. Wayanad district was cut itage,” Justice Madan B. Lo­ Bench observed. The court since Wednesday, 17 of them Terming the flood situa­ off from the rest of the State kur, heading a three­judge granted 48 hours for the re­ falling victim to landslips in tion grim, Chief Minister Pin­ by a series of landslips .Most Bench of Justices Deepak maining 12 of the 39 resorts Idukki and Malapuram arayi Vijayan said the State rivers in the State are in spate Gupta and S. Abdul Nazeer, to produce documents show­ districts. was facing a disaster of un­ due to heavy inflow in the observed. ing approval and valid title The Army has been de­ precedented magnitude. catchment areas following in­ The Bench gave the State for land. “In case, the Collec­ ployed in the worst­affected Sluice gates in as many as cessant rain. As many as 11 government a 48­hour dea­ tor finds that the documen­ districts of Idukki, Kozhi­ 24 dams across the State people were reported dead dline to seal or close 27 com­ tation is incomplete or ap­ kode, Wayanad and Malap­ were opened after the water in Idukki, six in Malappuram, mercial establishments after proval not granted, she puram to assist in rescue and level in the reservoirs neared two in Kozhikode and one in perusing a report submitted should close down and seal relief work. Units of the the danger mark. People Wayanad. by the Nilgris District Collec­ the premises immediately NDRF were also rushed to downstream have been SLUICE GATES OPENED AS tor on a total 39 resorts. Not­ thereafter,” it said. Alappuzha, Ernakulam and warned of flash floods. DAMS FILL UP Ī PAGE 5 ing that there was no legal re­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10

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Sarumathi K. the non­profit Waste Impact to the vendors and Bengaluru Trust and the Centre for customers. They told us that Every evening, at Product Design and chutney and some side Sanjaynagar, a quiet Manufacturing, Indian dishes turned stale quickly. residential neighbourhood, Institute of Science (IISc), When we put forward the Chaat Street, as it is last year, and won a grant of fridge idea, the vendors popularly known, becomes ₹50,000. readily agreed to try it,” Mr. a street food hub that draws Shamanur said. food lovers from across the Pilot project “The truck with the fridge city. Around 10 to 15 Now, Mr. Shamanur has is stationed only from 4 p.m. vendors set up stalls offering launched a pilot project at to 10 p.m. The idea is to everything from chaat and Sanjaynagar with the offer fresh food to momos to idlis, parathas support of Citizens for customers. The pilot will be and 99 varieties of dosa. Sustainability, a civic group. run for a few days, and With street food, Four street food vendors, based on the feedback from however, hygiene and selling dosa, idli, vada, and the vendors, a solar­ freshness of ingredients are paratha, have been provided powered refrigerator will be always a concern. Aakarsh with mini­refrigerators to installed in the vending Shamanur, a Bengaluru­ store perishable ingredients zone,” he said, adding that ILLUSTRATION: DEEPAK HARICHANDAN turning sour has been a based architect and systems and food items such as the model could be problem. Sometimes, I integrator, believes he has a chutney and batter. The replicated in other areas Shivramegowda, who would have to throw the solution: community fridge is placed in a truck where there is a high runs a dosa stall here, found stale chutney. Now, I store refrigeration. He had near the push carts so that concentration of street food that he no longer had to half of it in the fridge,” he pitched the idea at the vendors can access it easily. vendors. The fridge throw away ingredients that said. The solar fridge will be ‘Reimagine Waste’ “Before launching the provided in the pilot run is had gone bad. “Keeping given on a monthly Hackathon conducted by pilot on August 4, we spoke an electrical one. chutney and the batter from subscription. CM YK https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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DELHI Timings Friday, Aug. 10 RISE 05:48 SET 19:05 Anger mounts in AAP against rebels RISE 04:16 SET 18:18 Saturday, Aug. 11 RISE 05:48 SET 19:04 Party office­bearers discuss way out of dissidence; Mann wants to reach out to Khaira, Sandhu RISE 05:24 SET 19:12 Special Correspondent Sunday, Aug. 12 Chandigarh RISE 05:49 SET 19:04 RISE 06:33 SET 20:00 Hit by infighting, the Punjab Infighting family unit of the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday convened a meeting to deliberate on the matter: Kejriwal current problems being faced within the party and Press Trust of India Sukhpal Singh Khaira find a possible solution. Rohtak was removed recently The meeting was attended Aam Aadmi Party chief from the post of Leader by district presidents, halqa Arvind Kejriwal on of the Opposition in presidents and other wing Thursday played down Assembly. Mr. Khaira has chiefs. Party co­president the infighting in the called Mr. Kejriwal and Balbir Singh, Member of Par­ party’s Punjab unit, Delhi Deputy CM Manish liament from Sangrur Bhag­ Rebel MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira speaks to media persons calling it a family matter. Sisodia “dictators”.

want Mann and the leader of during a press conference in Amritsar on Thursday. * AFP “Fights do take place On being asked about the Opposition Harpal Singh among members of a the resignations Cheema were also present at any action is initiated he will Bathinda, Faridkot, Mansa, family. It will be tendered in March by the meeting. try to reach out to the two Moga and Sri Mukatsar Sa­ resolved,” he told Sangrur MP Bhagwant leaders and try to convince hib. “This is a testing time for reporters here. He also Mann and Sunam MLA Demand for action them. "The MLAs are in the party workers and I am hit out at Haryana Chief Aman Arora as president “A majority of the office­ touch with me and I am sure sure that they would not let Minister Manohar Lal and co­president of the IN BRIEF bearers suggested action that they will fall in line soon me down,” he said. Khattar, saying, “he State unit, Mr. Kejriwal against legislators Sukhpal and work to strengthen the Party members informed doesn’t know how to said both posts are Singh Khaira and Kanwar party," he said. that a meeting of AAP leader work”. vacant. At the same time, Sandhu for their attempts to Mr. Mann said that he will Manish Sisodia, who is also The Punjab unit of the he added that the break the party,” said an offi­ meet the people throughout the party’s Punjab affairs in­ AAP went into a crisis resignations were not cial statement. the State in the coming days charge, at Jalandhar on Au­ after party legislator accepted by the party. Mr. Mann said that before and would hold meetings at gust 13 has been postponed.

Two held over threat to kill CM Chouhan 65­year­old beaten to BHOPAL SAD, BJP oppose Justice Gill’s Two brothers were arrested in M.P.’s Seoni district on death over cow dispute Thursday after one of them appointment as Punjab Lokpal allegedly tweeted that he was going to kill CM Shivraj Victim had sold cows to the accused Press Trust of India Singh Chouhan. “We arrested Press Trust of India Chandigarh Jitendra (32) and Bharat to another hospital in Kota. Kota (Rajasthan) Arjunwar (25) under the IT He succumbed to his inju­ The SAD­BJP combine on Act and relevant IPC sections. A 65­year­old cattle trader ries the same night, said Ba­ Thursday urged Punjab Go­ Jitendra had tweeted five was allegedly beaten to ran city Station House Ofiic­ vernor V.P. Singh Badnore to times between August 2 and death in Rajasthan’s Baran er Kalu Ram Verma. refuse assent to the appoint­ 7 that he was going to kill the district by a man who com­ ment of “Congressman” Jus­ CMr,” a senior officer said. PTI plained that the cows sold to Milk complaint tice Mehtab Singh Gill (retd.) him were not producing Initial investigations re­ as the Lokpal, saying he did Six suffocate to death in enough milk, the police said vealed that the two had an not meet the constitutional, septic tank in Bihar on Thursday. argument after Dhannalal’s political and moral qualifica­ MOTIHARI Dhannalal Gujar suffered son sold some cows to Pra­ tions needed for the post. Six persons, including four SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal speaks to the media critical injuries after he was kash, who complained that A joint delegation led by * members of a family, died of outside Raj Bhavan in Chandigarh on Thursday. AKHILESH KUMAR beaten with sticks by Pra­ they were not producing SAD president Sukhbir Singh suffocation after inhaling poisonous gases when they kash Gujar (30) on Wednes­ enough milk, the SHO said. Badal and BJP leader Par­ nister Amarinder Singh”. Akali­BJP regime,” the dele­ entered a septic tank in East day afternoon in Baran city, The police have lodged a veen Bansal submitted a “Justice Gill (retd.) abused gation said. The delegation Champaran district. The around 270 km from Jaipur. murder case against the ac­ memorandum to the Gover­ power as head of the Com­ stressed that the Lokpal incident happened at the The sexagenarian was cused, who is absconding. nor detailing Justice Gill’s mission of Inquiry formed should be a person of impec­ house of Dinesh Mahto (45) in rushed to a district hospital, Dhannalal’s post­mortem is “close association with the by the Congress government cable character and repre­ Bela Jeepur village. PTI from where he was referred under way, the SHO said. Congress as well as Chief Mi­ to look into cases during the sent public interest. Mob attack on speech­impaired person Press Trust of India the victim, suspected to be a manner and accused him of the police, he said. Jhabua (M.P.) transgender, was stopped by being a child lifter. Her The police later realised A speech­impaired person a woman whose baby was al­ another son claimed that he that the person was speech­ was allegedly assaulted by a legedly stolen from Ujjain had seen that person with impaired, Mr. Bilore said, ad­ mob at Meghnagar railway railway station three months his brother,” said GRP ASI ding that they suspect that station in Madhya Pradesh’s ago, a police officer said. Bathusingh Bilore. the person is a transgender. Jhabua district on suspicion After the woman raised an The police asked the person of being a child lifter. Child lifting suspicion alarm, a mob gathered at the to write about his identity, The incident happened “The woman saw the person spot and beat up the person but he wrote in a script that on Wednesday night when behaving in a suspicious before handing him over to they couldn’t read. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 EAST 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Assam flood Odisha to reward people situation Maoists being brought to create improves bloodbath in Jhargram: Mamata returning plastic bottles Press Trust of India Guwahati Polythene ban notification likely by September 15 The flood situation in As­ Bengal CM goes on charm offensive in the district after poor show in rural polls Staff Reporter sam has improved consid­ on returning the OMFED “We will publish a draft BHUBANESWAR erably with only Golaghat Press trust of india years, we have not let any­ said: “I do not create any di­ packets and plastic bottles,” notification banning use of district remaining in the Jhargram (WB) body disrupt peace in this vision among people. I do A high­level meeting held un­ Forest and Environment Ad­ plastic under Environment grip of floodwaters on West Bengal Chief Minister region. We have not allowed not create division among der the chairmanship of Chief ditional Chief Secretary Su­ (Protection) Act, 1986 by Au­ Thursday. Mamata Banerjee on Thurs­ the Maoists to enter this the Hindus and Muslims, Secretary A.P. Padhi here on resh Mohapatra said after the gust­end. We will solicit pu­ According to the report day accused the BJP of creat­ place. A few people are nor among the other com­ Thursday discussed modali­ meeting. blic opinion on the notifica­ of the Assam State Disaster ing division among people bringing in Maoists from munities. It’s the ruling BJP ties to implement the ban The government is likely to tion within 15 days. We hope Management Authority on the basis of religion, caste neighbouring Jharkhand to at the Centre which does from October 2. Among other come up with a draft notifica­ to finalise the notification by (ASDMA), a population of and creed, while asking create bloodbath in Jhar­ that. We are not with them things, the possibility of re­ tion prohibiting use of plastic September 15,” said Mr. Mo­ 35,611 in 53 villages of the them to repose faith in her gram.” (the BJP).” warding people who re­ in the State by August­end fol­ hapatra. The plastic ban will district are currently suf­ as she would never allow “If you (people) have faith “They (BJP) want the poor turned plastic containers and lowing a directive issued by come into force from five cor­ fering in the second wave anybody to act against their in me, I will ask you not to to face problem. They do empty packets of Orissa State Chief Minister Naveen Pat­ porations — Bhubaneswar, of the floods that has hit interests. trust anybody else other not want them to get rice at Cooperative Milk Producers’ naik to ban use of plastic and Cuttack, Sambalpur, Rourke­ the State. During a visit to Jhargram than us (TMC). Till I am ₹2 a kg, free education, job Federation after use was ex­ polythene containers from la and Berhampur. The district administra­ district, her first after the Mamata Banerjee alive, I will never let anybo­ and health care,” the TMC plored. “People will be paid October 2. (With PTI inputs) tion has set up 38 relief panchayat polls in May this dy to act against the inter­ chief alleged. camps where 13,157 in­ year, the Trinamool Con­ and the Superintendent of ests of the people. You are Against the backdrop of mates have taken shelter. gress chief urged the people Police to help solve people’s my family. I love the Adivasis the BJP making inroads in JU students lift sit­in The total number of per­ to stay united against com­ problems. She also inaugu­ (tribals),” she said at a public Jhargram district, the TMC Press trust of India sons who lost their lives in munal forces and stop them rated a number of health meeting here. had made some organisa­ Kolkata the two waves of flood this from entering the district. care projects for the district. Ms. Banerjee claimed that tional changes last month at The Arts Faculty Students’ Union on Thursday year across different parts The BJP had fared well at during the Left Front go­ block level in the district. withdrew its sit­in outside Jadavpur University of the State stands at 45, in­ the rural polls in the tribal­ Blames BJP vernment, around 300 peo­ Earlier in the day, Ms. Ba­ Vice­Chancellor Suranjan Das’s chamber after cluding three in the land­ dominated district. Accusing the BJP of trying to ple were killed in Jhargram nerjee tweeted that her go­ the Dean of Arts said he was quitting from the slides. Crop area of 3,378 Ms. Banerjee directed the disrupt peace in this erst­ in a year, while it was almost vernment has ensured all­ admission process, a student leader said. hectares was still under MLAs, party leaders as well while Maoist­affected area, nil now. round development for the The AFSU lifted the nine­hour­long demon­ flood water in the district. as the District Magistrate she said: “In the last seven Hitting out at the BJP, she tribal people in the State. stration at 5 a..m following which the V­C, pro­ V­C Pradip Ghosh and other senior university officials left for home, a teacher of Jadavpur University Teachers’ Association said. The students were protesting against the Criminal arrested university’s decision to put the history admis­ Man throws mother into river sion process on hold following the demand for review of history entrance test answer scripts after exchange of fire of all applicants. Claims he did it due to financial woes; body yet to be traced Incident took place in Ganjam district Rahul Karmakar “We have registered a Meanwhile, a woman in Guwahati case against him. He has eastern Assam’s Sivasagar Staff Reporter and attempt­to­murder cases The police arrested a man confessed,” Nagaon Supe­ district committed suicide, BERHAMPUR were pending against him. for throwing his ailing rintendent of Police Shan­ leaving behind a note saying A hardcore criminal was ar­ He was also the prime ac­ mother into a river in cen­ kar Brata Raimedhi, told she was unable to bear the rested after an exchange of cused in the murder of Biju tral Assam’s Nagaon district The Hindu. torture inflicted on her by fire with the police at Aska Janata Dal activist Sania Bisoi late on Wednesday night. her sons and Charimaili in Ganjam district in the Badagada police sta­ The police said Pramod Search to begin today daughters­in­law. in the early hours of Thurs­ tion area. Agarwala pushed his moth­ A team of the State Disaster On Thursday morning, day. Identified as Kalu Bis­ Acting on a tip­off, a pol­ er Ratna Devi into the Ko­ Response Force searched the police recovered the wal, a resident of Baliapalli ice team had intercepted long river from a wooden for the body on Thursday. half­burnt body of Anu Ba­ village under the Kavisurya­ him at Aska Charimaili while bridge near a girls’ college. “The body could not be ruah from the backyard of nagar police station limits, a he was riding a bike. “When He had brought his mother found. We will search again her house in Dichial village. revolver, three rounds of live he did not surrender and from their rented house in tomorrow [Friday],” Mr. A suicide note beside her ammunition and a bike were fired at the police team, se­ the Haiborgaon Marwari­ Raimedhi said. body said she took the ex­ seized from him. curity personnel retaliated,” patty area on a rickshaw be­ Mr. Agarwal is believed to treme step because of con­ Biswal was injured in the said Aska SDPO Subash fore pushing her into the have told the police that he stant abuse by her sons and leg during the exchange of Chandra Panda. river. had intended to jump into their wives. fire and has been admitted to On Wednesday morning, The man was taken into the river after pushing his The four have been taken the MKCG Medical College another hardcore criminal, custody based on state­ mother. He blamed his des­ into custody while the body and Hospital in Berhampur. Dilip Das, was injured and ments by some local peration to financial has been sent for an autop­ According to police sourc­ arrested after an exchange of people. difficulties. sy. es, several murder, extortion fire in the same district. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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IN BRIEF Fake patients A.P. multiplexes told Gates of 24 Kerala dams at medical college to allow outside food opened as water levels rise draw SC ire Beverages companies fined heftily

Legal Correspondent Staff Reporter (sale of the same product for GoAir set to connect Torrential rain NEW DELHI VIJAYAWADA Kannur and Dammam varied MRPs in different NEW DELHI pounds eastern The Supreme Court has im­ In a landmark verdict markets). GoAir is expected to launch parts of State posed an “exemplary cost” against violations of con­ The Bench was delivering its international operations of ₹2 crore on Telangana­ sumer rights at multiplexes a combined verdict in five si­ and connect Kannur in Kerala based Mahavir Institute of and cinemas, the District milar complaints registered Special Correspondent Medical Sciences for carry­ Consumer Disputes Redres­ by five activists and the ci­ with Dammam in Saudi Thiruvananthapuram Arabia, Tourism Minister K.J. ing out “deception and sal Forum in Vijayawada or­ ty’s Consumer Guidance So­ Alphons said on Thursday. He With torrential rain from a fraud” by posing persons dered the management of ciety in May 2017 against added that two other airlines renewed monsoon system with no serious health con­ multiplexes to allow pack­ dual MRP. will provide international pounding eastern parts of cerns as patients to get ap­ aged water, soft drinks and The three respondents flights from Kannur, these Kerala, sluice gates in 24 proval to admit students. food brought from outside were ordered to pay a com­ include Jet Airways which dams were opened as water A Bench of Justices S.A. by moviegoers into bined fine of ₹5,000 to the will connect the coastal city storage inched towards dan­ Bobde and L. Nageswara cinemas. complainant, and the multi­ of Kerala to Abu Dhabi and ger levels. The Idamalayar Rao said the court took “se­ The State’s Controller of plex was asked to return ₹ IndiGo which will provide and Kakki dams were rious note of the fraud Legal Metrology was asked 130 with interest of 9% to flights to Doha. The DGCA opened on Thursday. By played by the petitioner in to enforce the orders. the complainant, who was has also granted permission evening, four shutters of the projecting healthy persons charged more because of for operations of wide-body Idamalyar dam were opened as patients in their hospital ‘Dual MRP’ dual MRP. aircraft at Calicut airport. and the discharge increased for the purpose of showing A Forum Bench, comprising Mr. Rao wrote the verdict to 600 cusecs after the water compliance of the mini­ president Ravipalli Madhava in Telugu for the first time in Rahul meet unlikely at level in the reservoir conti­ mum standards”. Rao and members B. Srini­ the history of the consumer Osmania University nued to rise. The court referred to as­ vasu and R. Seetharamam­ forum. The Bench asked HYDERABAD A shutter of the Cherutho­ sessors’ reports of the ma, on Thursday imposed a multiplexes to sell all pro­ Congress president Rahul ni dam, part of the Idukki hy­ physical inspection, which combined fine of ₹5 lakh ducts at the same or slightly Gandhi’s proposed visit to the Osmania University (OU ) to del project, was also opened showed that a number of each in five cases payable to enhanced price as in the address students on in a trial run after 26 years as patients were not even ge­ the Consumers Welfare open market, respecting the ‘Telangana, Youth and water levels crossed 2,398 ft. nuine. “There were others Fund by three different “right to choose” of the con­ Unemployment’ is unlikely as The Kerala State Electricity who were shown as pa­ packaged drinking water sumer, besides widely offer­ the authorities apparently are Board has issued the red al­ tients with no serious and soft drinks companies ing free drinking water on under pressure from the State ert saying the shutters of the health condition deserving for practising “dual MRP” the premises. government, which does not reservoir could be opened an admission in the hospi­ want him making a political early on Friday. tal… This was done by the th statement from the A State­level 24x7 cell, petitioner with a view to 12 suspect arrested university. The OU will neither headed by Additional Chief get renewal for admission deny nor give permission to Secretary P.H. Kurian, was of students by showing that the request made by some set up at the State Secretariat it was complying with the in Gauri murder case student groups and is likely to to monitor the flood situa­ minimum standards. The keep the application ‘under tion and coordinate emer­ petitioner is guilty of de­ Kurne apprehended from Belagavi consideration.’ gency response. District­le­ Water reigns: (From top) A shutter of Cheruthoni dam, part of Idukki hydel project, being ception and fraud,” the vel cells headed by opened after a gap of 26 years, and, a view of the submerged Siva temple in Aluva after the court observed in a seven­ Special Correspondent was remanded in judicial TTD stops issuing Collectors were also release of water from the Idamalayar dam. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT, AFP page order on August 6. Bengaluru/Udupi custody for a day. The SIT darshan tickets established. The amount has to be The Special Investigation application seeking his cus­ TIRUMALA wreaked havoc across the Idukki and Thamarassery teams of the NDRF, compris­ paid to the Supreme Court Team (SIT) on Thursday ar­ tody will be heard on Friday. In connection with the six-day Boat race postponed hilly eastern region of Malap­ and Kuttiyadi in Kozhikode, ing 100 men, reached Kozhi­ Advocates­on­Record Wel­ rested Bharat Kurne from Sources said Kurne, 37, ran a ‘Astabandhana Balalaya Maha In view of the flood situation, puram district on Thursday. with minor ones reported kode by a special aircraft of fare Trust within four Belagavi in connection with mobile canteen in Belagavi Samprokshanam’ scheduled the government on Thursday Faced with the prospect of from Wayanad, Malappu­ the Air Force. weeks. The court said it did the Gauri Lankesh murder and had a three­acre farm in to commence with decided to postpone the a worsening floods, the go­ ram, Kannur and Palakkad. One of the teams was later not want to interfere with ‘ankurarpanam’ on Friday, the case. Kurne, who was de­ Khanapur, where he alleg­ Nehru Trophy Boat Race vernment requested the ser­ airlifted from Kozhikode to the decision of the Centre Tirumala Tirupati tained on Wednesday, is the edly sheltered the prime ac­ scheduled to be held at Alap­ vices armed forces, the Coast Highest rainfall Wayanad to rescue tribal fa­ to deny approval to the Devasthanams stopped 12th person to be arrested in cused in the Gauri murder issuing darshan tickets from puzha on August 11. Guard, the Military Engi­ The eastern parts of the milies stranded by the medical college. The col­ the case. conspiracy. Thursday midnight. The More than 10,000 people neering Service and the Na­ State, including Kannur, floods. Moves were on to air­ lege had moved the Su­ The police suspect that The SIT on Thursday slotted ‘sarva darshan’ token have been shifted to 157 relief tional Disaster Response Wayanad, Kozhikode, Malap­ lift rescue equipment for the preme Court against the Parushuram Waghmore, the picked up two more persons system was also dispensed camps in the last two days, Force (NDFR) for assistance puram, Palakkad and Idukki Army units from Bengaluru Centre’s decision to not al­ alleged gunman, was given from Udupi district — San­ with. No darshan tokens the government said. in rescue and relief districts, registered the high­ to Kochi and Kozhikode, low it to admit 150 students arms training at Kurne’s desh Shetty, 32, from Pade­ would be provided to the Six members of a family operations. est rainfall. from where they would be to MBBS course for 2018­19 farm. bettu near Padubidri village, pilgrims reaching the temple were killed when flash floods Major landslips occurred Following a request from transported by road. on the basis of an MCI re­ He was produced before and Yuvaraj Kulal, 31, from town on foot after midnight. following a series of landslips at Rajapuram and Adimali in the State government, two (With PTI inputs) commendation. a jurisdictional court and Kanchinadka. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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IN BRIEF Silicosis victims Vedanta gets a breather from in Rajasthan Weather Watch demand relief Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday National Green Tribunal Special Correspondent JAIPUR Mine workers in Rajasthan suffering from silicosis as Shanta misleading Given access to administrative section at the Sterlite Copper plant in Thoothukudi people, says Congress an occupational disease Shinjini Ghosh report based on an analysis arguments against the per­ fore the tribunal. have demanded steps for SHIMLA NEW DELHI Kangra Member of of the baseline pollution da­ mission granted to access During the hearing, se­ relief, while pointing out Parliament Shanta Kumar is In an interim relief, the Na­ ta of the Sipcot industrial the administrative unit, the nior advocate C. Aryama that they were not getting misleading voters in his tional Green Tribunal (NGT) area in Tuticorin to ascer­ bench said, “The district Sundaram, appearing for silicosis confirmation cer­ constituency with the false on Thursday granted per­ tain the level of pollution at­ magistrate will ensure that Vedanta, contended that no tificates from the Pneumo­ promise of setting up a mission to Vedanta to ac­ tributable to the Sterlite the appellants do not access prior notices were issued to coniosis Board mandatory cement plant in Chamba, cess the administrative sec­ plant. The TNPCB has been the production unit. We are the plant before the closure for getting compensation alleged Himachal Congress tion at the Sterlite Copper asked to submit the data concerned with the envi­ order. from the State president Sukhvinder Singh plant in Thoothukudi. within 10 days. ronment. No environmen­ Vedanta had, in July, government. Sukhu. Mr. Kumar is showing However, the tribunal tal damage can be caused moved the green tribunal About 1,000 silicosis illusory dreams to the people stated that the production Prevent leakages by access to the administra­ challenging the State go­ patients from the State’s just as Prime Minister unit will continue to remain The board informed the tri­ tive section (sic).” vernment’s May order clos­ nine districts gathered at a Narendra Modi had done in shut. bunal that a committee that ing down the plant. public hearing here on 2014, Mr. Sukhu alleged. PTI also included a representa­ T.N.’s plea rejected Alleging environmental Wednesday and narrated Report sought tive of Vedanta had been set The green panel, however, damage due to the opera­ their experiences while Woman kills self after A bench headed by NGT up to maintain the plant rejected the Tamil Nadu go­ tion of the plant, residents trying to obtain certifi­ being raped in M.P. Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) chairperson Adarsh Kumar and to prevent leakages and vernment’s contention that of the town staged a major cates for the non­curable BETUL Goel further directed the other environmental Vedanta’s plea, challenging protest in May this year, disease. The mine work­ Forecast for Friday: Heavy rain is likely at isolated places over An 18-year-old woman Tamil Nadu Pollution Con­ damages. the closure order issued, prompting the TNPCB to is­ ers said they should be in­ Uttarakhand, west Madhya Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, allegedly committed suicide Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, coastal & after being raped in Bothia trol Board (TNPCB) to file a Dismissing the TNPCB’s was not maintainable be­ sue the closure order. cluded in the national and State lists of disabilities south interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala village in Betul district of city rain max min city rain max min Madhya Pradesh, the police and given disability pen­ Agartala...... —.... 35.4.... 26.6 Kozhikode ...... 6.... 28.4.... 24.2 said on Thursday. She sion, besides the health Ahmedabad...... 15.5.... 33.5.... 24.0 Kurnool...... —.... 34.4.... 25.2 consumed poison after Kathua case: Crime Branch Hopes revive for Jaipur insurance benefits under Aizwal ...... 29.... 29.8.... 12.9 Lucknow...... —.... 33.5.... 26.6 Allahabad ...... —.... 34.5.... 27.0 Madurai...... 0.4.... 34.9.... 24.6 narrating her ordeal to her the Bhamashah Scheme. Bengaluru...... —.... 28.2.... 20.2 Mangaluru...... 2.6.... 28.9.... 23.5 mother. She died at a hospital for security to eyewitnesses man’s release from Pak. jail According to the Such­ Bhopal...... 17.... 29.3.... 23.2 Mumbai...... 2.... 28.6.... 26.5 on Wednesday evening. PTI na Evum Rozgar Ka Adhi­ Bhubaneswar ...... —.... 33.3.... 25.9 Mysuru...... —.... 28.7.... 19.4 Chandigarh ...... 8.... 34.3.... 25.1 New Delhi ...... 0.6.... 36.5.... 27.6 kar Abhiyan, which organ­ Chennai ...... 9.3.... 37.1.... 24.8 Patna ...... —.... 34.4.... 26.5 Two killed, four hurt ‘Pressure to change their statements’ Labourer Gajendra went missing in 1982 ised the public hearing, Coimbatore...... 4.... 29.6.... 22.0 Port Blair ...... 8.6.... 29.3.... 25.2 in road mishaps more than 15,000 labour­ Dehradun...... 10.6.... 33.1.... 23.2 Puducherry...... —.... 36.2.... 22.6 DHOLPUR (RAJASTHAN) Special Correspondent Special Correspondent Gangtok...... 2.... 24.3.... 18.0 Pune ...... 1.5.... 27.8.... 21.9 cluding four policemen, have 13. ers working in various Goa ...... 0.9.... 30.8.... 26.2 Raipur ...... 24.6.... 28.5.... 27.8 Two persons were killed and Srinagar JAIPUR been arrested in the case. Mr. Bohra said that Gajen­ mines across 16 districts in Guwahati ...... 1.... 35.6.... 25.6 Ranchi...... 6.5.... 28.6.... 22.7 four were injured in two The Jammu and Kashmir Pol­ Meanwhile, CPI(M) leader Hopes for the release of a la­ dra, now 68, was sentenced State have been diagnosed Hubballi...... —.... 26.0.... 21.0 Shillong...... —.... 25.0.... 17.2 separate road accidents in the Hyderabad ...... 1.6.... 33.2.... 22.9 Shimla...... 0.3.... 22.7.... 16.4 ice’s Crime Branch, investi­ M.Y. Tarigami has expressed bourer from Jaipur’s Samod to two months in prison, but with silicosis. Over 200 of district on Thursday. The Imphal...... —.... 30.8.... 22.0 Srinagar ...... 1.7.... 29.8.... 18.4 Jaipur...... —.... 35.0.... 25.9 Trivandrum ...... 56.1.... 30.5.... 22.3 deceased were identified as gating the Kathua rape­and­ concern over the alleged tor­ area, reportedly languishing languished in the Pakistani them have lost their lives murder of a minor Bakerwal ture of key eyewitness Talib in a Pakistani jail for the past jail for a long period because during the last three Kochi...... 10.6.... 29.6.... 23.8 Tiruchi ...... —.... 37.1.... 26.6 Manpal (26) and Keshav Kohima...... 48.... 27.0.... 18.7 Vijayawada...... 1.8.... 34.3.... 24.8 Singh (40). Both were on girl, on Thursday sought pol­ Hussain, a lawyer by profes­ 36 years, have revived with he did not have consular ac­ years. Kolkata...... 2.5.... 32.6.... 26.9 Visakhapatnam ...... —.... 32.0.... 27.4 their way to Madhya Pradesh ice protection for two eyewit­ sion, in the case. He urged Minister of State for External cess over the years. (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) as part of the Kanwar Yatra.. nesses. The CPI(M) has also the government to ensure sa­ Affairs V.K. Singh stating that Basic statutory rights Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday In another similar mishap, urged security for eyewit­ fety and security of Mr. he will walk free on August 13. Verification documents Social activist Aruna Roy CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE * around midnight, four nesses in the case. Hussain. The labourer, Gajendra Gajendra’s wife Makhni Devi said the infrastructure de­ Ahmedabad ...... 52 .50 41 ....44 .....— .... In observation made at Bengaluru...... 8 .32 91 ....50 .118 ....* 4.00 p.m., Bhiwadi, Kanwariyas were injured after Sharma, who went missing had lost all hope of seeing her velopment in the State Chennai ...... 11 .32 46 ....58 .....— ....* Rajasthan recorded an being hit by a vehicle. PTI Intimidation charge Nomad community from here in 1982, was traced husband alive, but the family was being carried out at Delhi ...... 23 .57 48 ..100 .126 ....* overall air quality index * (AQI) score of 193 An official said the Crime The relatives of Mr. Hussain to Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail in was informed by the police on the cost of people's lives. Hyderabad ...... 4 105 18 ....22 ...43 .... indicating a moderate 28 cows die at a Kolkata...... 2 .41 67 ....28 ...39 ....* level of pollution. In Branch has sought an FIR in­ have also filed a petition in May this year. How the poor May 4 that he was in the The silicosis patients, who Lucknow...... 16 .47 29 ..110 .....— ....* contrast, Khanna, Punjab shelter in Rajasthan to the intimidation allega­ the Supreme Court alleging man disappeared, crossed neighbouring country. were losing their lives in Mumbai ...... 15 .39 63 ....20 ...50 ....* recorded a healthy AQI score of 25 JAIPUR tions levelled by two eyewit­ that he was being targeted the India­Pakistan border and The Superintendent of Pol­ the work, were struggling Pune...... 34 .13 51 ....35 ...31 ....* Vishakhapatnam 12 .47 36 ....73 .103 ....* At least twenty-eight cows nesses in the case. The for championing the cause of landed in jail still remains a ice ( Jaipur Rural) had re­ to get their basic statutory have died in two days due to eyewitnesses have told the the nomad community and mystery. ceived documents for verifi­ rights, she said. Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) suspected food poisoning at a SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, Crime Branch that “friends received life­threatening in­ Jaipur MP Ramcharan Boh­ cation of Gajendra’s The State government cow shelter in Rajasthan’s making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues Hanumangarh district. Nearly and relatives of the accused juries during torture in cus­ ra, who along with Gajendra’s nationality. at present offers the relief were putting pressure to tody. wife and son and the local BJP The documents confirmed of ₹1 lakh to the people and monuments. 300 cows got sick due to NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by suspected food poisoning and change their statements”. “It is unfortunate that leaders met Gen. (retd.) Singh Gajendra’s presence in the La­ diagnosed with silicosis reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. 28 cows have died in the last A district and sessions such incidents are happen­ at the Lok Sabha Secretariat hore jail. The police and intel­ and ₹3 lakh to the next of CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to court in Pathankot, Punjab, ing, where a whistleblower is in New Delhi on Thursday, ligence agencies traced his fa­ kin of those who succumb critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause two days, the ‘gaushala’ dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. president said. Joint Director is hearing the case. becoming a victim because said Gajendra would be set mily, which had shifted from to the disease. The Pneu­ PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, of the State’s Animal some unscrupulous ele­ free on the eve of Pakistan’s Samod’s Maharkalan village moconiosis Board issues nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and Husbandry Department, Four cops held ments are hell bent on hush­ Independence Day. to Brahampuri in Jaipur city, certificates to the patients, premature death in people with heart or lung disease Madanlal, said that a team of The eight­year­old victim’s ing up the rape case of a mi­ The Minister assured the and informed them about the making them eligible for veterinary doctors is body was found in January nor innocent girl,” said Mr. delegation that the detainee official communication for the government's financial monitoring the situation. PTI this year. Eight people, in­ Tarigami. would be released on August confirming his citizenship. assistance. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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IN BRIEF ‘Honoured’ supervisor of a tainted home Criminals in Months after shelter home was derecognised, Girija Tripathi continued to participate in govt. functions politics leave Omar Rashid Jinnah House: Wadia DEORIA can replace petitioner Not only did the district pol­ MUMBAI ice continue to send new in­ SC anguished The Bombay High Court has mates, including minor girls, allowed Wadia Group to the shelter home in Deoria How can a murder or rape accused chairman Nusli Neville Wadia after it was derecognised for to replace his late mother financial irregularities, but become a legislator, asks judge Dina Wadia as a petitioner in its supervisor Girija Tripathi a case she filed to claim the continued to participate in Krishnadas Rajagopal ownership of Muhammad Ali official functions — even after NEW DELHI Jinnah’s house here. PTI the government’s order to “Something has to be done Man sentenced to life shut down the institution. to keep criminals at bay and for raping minor in M.P. The shelter home has prevent them from contest­ DATIA come now under the scan­ ing elections,” Chief Justice

A court in Madhya Pradesh ner for alleged sexual exploi­ Under scanner: Rescued girls at a Deoria court to record their statement. Police on bandobast duty at the shelter. * RAJEEV BHATT of India Dipak Misra said on sentenced Motilal Ahirwar, tation of its inmates. Thursday, voicing the Su­ 25, to life imprisonment for On February 9, eight Minister Surya Pratap Shahi, ble goodwill and clout called Bhatni in Deoria dis­ Women Welfare Minister. preme Court’s anguish at raping a six-year-old minor months after her shelter newspaper reports of that among the local administra­ trict. The family later shifted According to the Uttar the helplessness of society girl. The trial was completed home was derecognised fol­ date show. tion and the police, who ho­ to Deoria where they started Pradesh Child and Women to prevent criminalisation of in three working days. PTI lowing financial irregulari­ ADM (Finance) S. R. Gupta noured her on many the shelter home, gradually Welfare Department, the politics at the very entry­point. Petitions barring criminals AAP won’t join Oppn. ties detected by the CBI, Tri­ confirmed that Tripathi did occasions. building contacts with offi­ shelter home received a pathi was invited by the participate in mass marriage According to a local cials and people of influence grant of around ₹90 lakh The Chief Justice is pre­ from entering politics are alliance: Kejriwal being heard in the top court. JIND (RAJASTHAN) administration to find cou­ events of the government as source, the previous district to win projects. from 2012 to 2017 under the siding over a five­judge Con­ AAP leader and Delhi CM ples for a mass marriage late as in 2018. police chief had appointed According to the State go­ ICPS. stitution Bench hearing pe­ Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday event organised by the Social While the senior official her as the main coordinator vernment, the shelter home Over time, Tripathi and titions to bar politicians ment and hope? This is the said his party will not join the Welfare Department of the failed to explain why the of a police project under got recognition in 2009­10 her husband even set up an facing charges of heinous question bothering us,” proposed Opposition alliance U.P. government. NGO was picked, he clarified which compromise meetings under the BSP rule. After the old age home in neighbour­ crimes, like murder, rape Chief Justice Misra told the for the 2019 elections. He said that “no funds were trans­ were held to sort out diffe­ Samajwadi Party came to ing Gorakhpur. After run­ and kidnapping, from con­ petitioners, including advo­ the parties which are joining Chosen one ferred” to the organisation rences between quarrelling power, the NGO also ac­ ning it from a rented place in testing elections and trans­ cate Ashwini Kumar Upad­ the alliance have had no role Sources said her NGO was for being one of the organis­ spouses every weekend at quired the status of a child Basharatpur belonging to a forming themselves into hyay, represented by senior in the country’s development. chosen out of the five short­ ers. Now under arrest for al­ the police lines. and women protection local contractor, they even­ parliamentarians and advocates Dinesh Dwivedi, ‘You are my last hope,’ listed. Over 50 couples got leged sexual exploitation of Tripathi registered her home, adoption home and tually shifted to a well­fur­ legislators. Siddharth Luthra and Gopal Manipur wrestler tells PM married at the event, which inmates in her shelter home, NGO in the 1990s when she correction home, said Rita nished building in Chanakya­ But at the same time, the Sankaranarayanan. GUWAHATI was attended by U.P. Cabinet Tripathi enjoyed considera­ was living in a small town Bahuguna Joshi, Child and puri Colony. Supreme Court said it could Manipur wrestler K. Sanjita not legislate for Parliament. Fast track courts Chanu, who won a gold medal “The court declares the law, Attorney­General K.K. Venu­ in the 2018 Commonwealth CBI examining calls the Parliament makes the gopal submitted that fast Games, has written to the Centre asks States/UTs law,” Justice Rohinton Nari­ track courts to try accused Prime Minister seeking his man observed. politicians were “the only intervention in the doping in molestation case The court is mulling over solution”. Mr. Venugopal case against her. to inspect child shelters what it said was its “genuine said charges in such cases 34 girls were abused in Muzaffarpur concern about criminal pol­ are kept pending for long as SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The Ministry also said that tions not registered under itics”. Under the Represen­ witnesses don’t testify as the New Delhi in a consultation with the law, and shift the children to Special Correspondent visit the scene of crime to tation of the People Act, on­ Whistleblowers Protection In the aftermath of cases of States and the Union Territo­ appropriate facilities. NEW DELHI collect more evidence,” said ly convicted lawmakers are Act, which protects inform­ sexual abuse at shelter ries carried out earlier this The Central Bureau of Inves­ an official. The agency plans disqualified, not those ers, is too weak to protect homes in Muzaffarpur and year, it found that only 7,109 Onus on States tigation’s forensic team is to seek custodial interroga­ accused. them or their families from Deoria, the Centre has asked shelters for children across Under the JJ Act, registration mapping the mobile phone tion of the 10 arrested “Can we make such a law repercussions. State governments to in­ the country were registered of all child care institutions, calls made by those suspect­ accused. disqualifying persons Justice D.Y. Chandrachud spect all child care institutes under the Juvenile Justice regardless of whether or not ed of having raped 34 girl in­ The abuse at the Balika against whom charges of asked how a murder and and submit a report by Sep­ (JJ) Act, 2015. they are funded by the go­ mates at the Muzaffarpur Grih came to light following heinous crimes have been rape accused could become tember 15, Union Women Ms. Gandhi said that the vernment, is mandatory. shelter home in Bihar. a social audit conducted by framed by courts of law or a legislator. To this, the At­ and Child Development Mi­ Centre had directed the The Act puts the onus of re­ “The forensic team is also the Tata Institute of Social should we tell Parliament torney­Generalreplied that a nister Maneka Gandhi told States and the UTs in Febru­ gistration on the State/ UT examining the evidence lift­ Sciences of shelter homes that by not laying down person is presumed inno­ Parliament on Thursday. ary to shut down all institu­ government. ed by the State police. It will across the State. such a law, you are really cent until he is proven guil­ giving criminals encourage­ ty. Prabhu orders probe after Ministry rejects low Maoists kill ‘Coast Guard failed postmaster to set up air stations’ ‘racist behaviour’ by BA crew score on green health in Odisha Jacob Koshy and Columbia Universities Special Correspondent “At the end of the plan pe­ NEW DELHI along with the WEF. Press Trust of India NEW DELHI riod, despite government Bureaucrat claimed family was offloaded at London airport The Union Environment Mi­ India’s low ranking — 177 Malkangiri The Comptroller and Audi­ sanction, the force could nistry has dismissed as “ar­ among 180 countries — was A postmaster in Odisha’s tor­General (CAG) has raised not commission these air SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT The airline, in a state­ The complainant, a Joint­ bitrary” and “unscientific” a linked to poor performance Malkangiri district was ab­ serious questions about the units even after a lapse of 51­ NEW DELHI ment, said that it was investi­ Secretary with the Ministry 2017 World Economic Fo­ in the environment health ducted and killed allegedly efficiency of the Coast 95 months from the date of Minister for Civil Aviation gating the matter. of Road Transport and High­ rum­ranking that placed In­ policy and deaths due to air by Maoists on suspicion Guard as it is “plagued with sanction. Suresh Prabhu has asked the ways, recounted the inci­ dia at the bottom in terms of pollution categories. that he was a police in­ deficiencies of operational “Failure to establish the aviation regulator DGCA to Internal probe dent of July 23 and wrote environment performance. However, in a reply to the former, Malkangiri SP Jag­ infrastructure.” CGASs and CGAEs is indica­ inquire into a complaint by a “It is a safety requirement that his son, seated separate­ The January report Lok Sabha, Minister of State mohan Meena said on The Coast Guard Develop­ tive of the fact that ground bureaucrat against British for all airlines that passen­ ly, was crying during take­off ranked India 177 out of 180 for Environment, Forest Thursday. ment Plan 2012­17 mulls set­ realities and local con­ Airways for “unprofessional, gers are seated and have from London. countries on the Environ­ and Climate Change Mahesh The body of Narayan Pa­ ting up of two Coast Guard straints had not been taken rude and racist behaviour” their seatbelt fastened for Mr. Pathak wrote that the mental Performance Index Sharma attributed India’s lashi, 45, with gunshot Air Stations (CGASs) and se­ into account by Coast after he and his family were take­off. We are investigating crew member called securi­ 2018. India slipped 36 decline to a change in pa­ wounds, was found by his ven Coast Guard Air En­ Guard...,” the CAG said in a offloaded from a flight from the complaint,” according to ty to deboard him and his fa­ points from 141 in the 2016 rameters between two edi­ family members and villag­ claves (CGAEs) for carrying report tabled in Parliament London to Berlin last month a statement from British mily along with another fa­ report, prepared by Yale tions of the report. ers on the village outskirts. out operations effectively. this week. because their baby was Airways. mily, which offered biscuits crying. On August 3, A.P. Pathak, to his son. “I have directed the DGCA wrote a letter to Mr. Prabhu He also stated that the air­ to obtain detailed report seeking stringent action line neither accommodated from British Airways on the against the airline for “ra­ him in an alternate flight nor issue,” Mr. Prabhu tweeted. cist” conduct. arranged for his stay. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 8 EDITORIAL FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Perils of historical amnesia Critics of Article 35A forget that it was introduced to bring J&K closer to India, not tear it further apart

dential Order (a predecessor of Foremost, all “residuary powers” A welcome retreat 1954 Order). However, just in the rested with the State legislature. areas of defence, foreign affairs The State government could de­ The Centre wisely withdraws the FRDI Bill; and communications was Jammu tain people who did not enjoy the but the issues it sought to address remain and Kashmir put on the same foot­ right to appeal to the Supreme ing as the rest of India. On issues of Court. It also retained its contro­ n just under 12 months since its introduction in Par­ Sandeep Bhardwaj commerce, audit, judiciary, elec­ versial land reforms measures and liament, the Centre has quietly withdrawn the Fi­ tions and finance, there were con­ the final authority over any altera­ Inancial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill, 2017. siderable modifications. India’s tion of the State’s boundaries. The decision to seek the Lok Sabha’s approval to with­ he irony of today’s India is fundamental rights and directive Among its lesser known provisions draw the legislation this week is a clear acknowledge­ that while our politics is principles were not applicable in at the time was Article 35A, a hol­ looking towards our history Jammu and Kashmir at all. dover from the colonial era. ment by the government that it had underestimated the T more often than ever before, we It took another 70 years of suc­ extent and intensity of public opposition to the pro­ are also becoming comfortable The Delhi Agreement cessive governments steadily chip­ posed law. One provision in the Bill had, in particular, with its constant manipulation. Only in 1952, after the internation­ ping away at Jammu and Kashmir’s generated the greatest debate and attracted the fiercest The controversial Article 35A of al clamour for an immediate ple­ autonomy to bring it to today, criticism and ultimately proved to be its very undoing: the Constitution, which is current­ biscite had somewhat subsided, when the only meaningful “special the “bail­in” clause. That banks, by the very nature of ly being challenged in the Su­ did Jawaharlal Nehru invite Abdul­ status” that it enjoys is Article 35A. their business, are essentially dependent on the funds preme Court, is a case in point. Its lah to discuss how India and Jam­ Almost all of State’s other autono­ critics have argued that the Article mu and Kashmir could be more mous powers have been sub­ lent to them by depositors to serve as the pool of lenda­ affords Jammu and Kashmir un­ closely integrated. The result was sumed by New Delhi. Today’s de­ ble resources from which they provide credit to bor­ due powers, particularly by pre­ AFP the 1952 Delhi Agreement which, bate over the Article should be rowers is well known and requires no elaboration. So venting non­State residents to own contrary to popular belief, still fell seen as part of this larger decades­ when a depositor apprehends that her hard­earned sav­ land in the State. The media has certain aspects of Jammu and policy and communications. On short of the 1954 Presidential Or­ long process of the State’s integra­ ings placed in a bank may be at risk from a law that forc­ largely gone along with this expla­ Kashmir. all other matters, the State govern­ der. For instance, the 1952 agree­ tion into India, sometimes es her to partake in the pain of financial losses in case nation, often portraying the de­ Just as crucially, the Order had ment retained powers. On the ment did not finalise financial inte­ through legal means and some­ her bank is forced into resolution on account of dis­ bate as a question of “special sta­ come about only after the Jammu spectrum of autonomy, Jammu gration and required the times through outright fiat. tus” of Jammu and Kashmir and and Kashmir government had and Kashmir lay somewhere bet­ fundamental rights and citizen­ tress, she will naturally fear such a legislation. The go­ the Article as some sort of unusual agreed to it and passed a similar le­ ween, say, Bihar, a fully integrated ship to be granted to the State’s re­ Vestige of a broken promise vernment did make strenuous efforts to reassure the concession to the State. In fact, the gislation in its own Constituent As­ State of India, and Bhutan, which sidents via the State Legislature. To be sure, the whole project of public, explaining the rationale for the Bill as well as the fundamental purpose of Article sembly, making it clear that these enjoyed limited sovereignty under Before the Delhi Agreement federal nation­building requires built­in “safeguards” relating to the bail­in provision. 35A, when it was introduced in powers were Jammu and Kash­ the protection of India. India’s ten­ could be implemented, the situa­ constant negotiation between the However, its exertions made little headway. Union Mi­ 1954 as part of a Presidential Or­ mir’s to give, not India’s to take. In uous grasp over Jammu and Kash­ tion was altered radically because nation state and its components. nister Piyush Goyal finally informed the joint parlia­ der, was the exact opposite: in­ fact, at the time of its introduction, mir was further complicated by of three factors. First, any plans Arguably, India’s efforts to bring mentary committee that was reviewing the Bill that a stead of giving the state a “special the Order was celebrated in India New Delhi’s international commit­ for an immediate Plebiscite were Kashmir into its fold can be told as “resolution of these issues would require a comprehen­ status”, it was designed to take au­ as a great step towards bringing ment to hold a plebiscite in the abandoned in 1954, which streng­ part of such a story. However, such tonomy away from it. Jammu and Kashmir closer into State to decide its eventual fate. thened New Delhi’s hand. Second, efforts need to have an underpin­ sive examination and reconsideration”, and that there­ the Union of India. Even the Hindu It is because of this weak India­ in 1953, Nehru faced a nationwide ning of at least some kind transpa­ fore the government deemed it “appropriate” that the A larger package right­wing leaders had hailed it as Kashmir constitutional link that campaign from the Hindu right­ rent democratic process. Should Bill be withdrawn. The Article was introduced in May a “commendable step”. No eye­ Sheikh Abdullah became “Prime wing demanding greater integra­ Article 35A be removed, it must be However, the need for a specialised dispensation to 1954 as part of a larger Presidential brows were raised over the minor Minister” of Kashmir; the State tion of Kashmir. And finally, and removed as an expression of the cope with large financial corporations on the verge of Order package, which made sever­ issue of Article 35A, which made had its own Constituent Assembly perhaps most importantly, in Au­ will of the people, through a polit­ going bust cannot be overstated, especially given the al additions to the Constitution up a very small component of the and flag; there were customs gust 1953, Abdullah was arrested ical process which includes the pe­ contagion risk that a bank failure can pose to overall fi­ (not just Article 35A). The overall Order. checks between India and the and replaced by Bakshi Ghulam ople of Jammu and Kashmir in the gist of this Order was to give the Of course, the larger problem is State; the Supreme Court did not Mohammed, who was far more discussion. Or, in the very least, it nancial stability. The withdrawal of the FRDI Bill should Government of India enormously that after decades of confusion have jurisdiction over key issues in amenable to integration with has to be remembered that the Ar­ therefore be used as an opportunity by policymakers to more powers over the State than it and purposeful obfuscation, we the State; Kashmir militia was con­ India. ticle is not some special conces­ reappraise the existing framework for resolving bank­ had enjoyed before. For the first tend to forget that initially Kash­ stituted as a separate force; and So, in January 1954, New Delhi sion to Jammu and Kashmir but ruptcy scenarios among financial entities. While such a time, India’s fundamental rights mir was conceived as a State with Srinagar tried to send its own negotiated a new agreement with the last vestige of a broken pro­ review ought to include an evaluation of the progress and directive principles were ap­ “special status”. The controversial trade commissioners to foreign Bakshi, which was passed by the mise that India had made to it de­ made by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in ad­ plicable to Jammu and Kashmir Instrument of Accession signed by countries. With the coming into ef­ Kashmir Constituent Assembly in cades ago. dressing the crucial issue of debt resolution in the bank­ and the State’s finances were inte­ Maharaja Hari Singh in 1947 which fect of the Indian Constitution in February, and eventually intro­ grated with India. Importantly, the brought the State into the Union of January 1950, New Delhi’s powers duced through Presidential Order Sandeep Bhardwaj is a research associate ing sector, it must also look at ways to strengthen the Order also extended the Indian Su­ India gave New Delhi control only over Jammu and Kashmir were de­ in May. However, it still left the with the Centre for Policy Research, New Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation. preme Court’s jurisdiction over over Kashmir’s defence, foreign fined more clearly through a Presi­ State with enormous autonomy. Delhi Set up in the early 1960s in the aftermath of the collapse of two banks, the DICGC, which guarantees repayment of bank deposits up to ₹1 lakh in case a bank is liquidat­ ed, has not reviewed the amount under guarantee since Questions of faith at Ayodhya 1993. This anomaly must be addressed, especially at a time when several state­run public sector banks have been roiled by a series of frauds and high levels of bad We need to carefully understand the issues before the Supreme Court loans. Any measure that helps prevent further erosion of public faith in the beleaguered banking system guarantee Muslims an unfettered ny devout Hindus believe that should prevail in the Supreme fundamental right to pray in a Bhagwan Sri Rama was born at a Court since my fundamental right would undoubtedly be very welcome. mosque. Fundamental rights in particular spot in Ayodhya, the is a superior right in law compared our Constitution are not absolute, then capital of a flourishing king­ to the ordinary right to property and are subject to reasonable res­ dom of the Suryavamsa dynasty. as claimed by the Sunni Waqf Kohli’s moment trictions of morality, health, and Board. Subramanian swamy public order. Imam-e-Hind It is thus to forestall the supe­ Can he build on a good start to the English It is now established that Babri Rama is venerated as Maryada Pu- rior right of worship at Ram Jan­ his refers to A. Faizur Rah­ Masjid was a structure construct­ rushottam and worshipped by Hin­ mabhoomi from prevailing, and to summer to establish greatness in Test cricket? man’s article “The essentiali­ ed by invaders, and after demol­ dus in the north as an avatar of buy time till the next general elec­ AFP Tty of mosques” ( The Hindu, ishing a pre­existing temple. The Vishnu, while some Tamil saints tions, that the lawyers engaged by he latest ICC Test rankings with Virat Kohli as the August 7, 2018). He says that the Supreme Court in 1994 had direct­ 1,000 printed pages, now availa­ known as Nayanmars and Alwars the Sunni Waqf Board have intro­ top batsman provide a curiously apt backdrop to Supreme Court needs to reconsid­ ed the Allahabad High Court to ble in three bound volumes. It is composed many hymns and songs duced this new prayer (which was Tthe Indian cricket team’s current tour of England. er the Ismail Faruqui verdict, in verify this by scientific methods. this judgment that the Sunni Waqf dedicated to his divinity. In that not raised at the High Court level), His ranking was enabled by his 200 runs, 149 in the first which it stated that a mosque is The High Court then asked the Board has appealed against in the sense, Sri Rama was the first truly of setting up a larger Constitution innings and 51 in the second, in the first Test in Birming­ not essential to Islam. Instead of Archaeological Survey of India Supreme Court. national king of India, supra re­ Bench to reconsider the 1994 five­ ham which almost took India to victory, but in the event arguing his case, Mr. Rahman (ASI) to determine and verify this gion, supra varna or jati. That is judge Constitution Bench judg­ spared the tourists the embarrassment of a crushing de­ blandly states: “A reading of the fact. A team of two top archaeolo­ RESPONSE why the poet Mohammed Iqbal ment that a mosque is not “an es­ Koran and authentic traditions of gists, B.B. Lal and K.K. Mo­ called him ‘Imam­e­Hind’. sential part” of the Islamic reli­ feat. Together, the two overlapping statistics — Kohli’s the Prophet make clear the signifi­ hammed, in 2002 deployed the Before the Supreme Court to­ The exact spot of the palace gion. This is also the view of success in taking command of India’s batting in both in­ cance of the mosque in Islam.” most scientific tools and unani­ day are two sets of petitions being where Rama was born has been — prominent Islamic scholars. nings, even if it fell short of getting the team past the En­ This is, at best, a circular argu­ mously concluded that there was considered. The first is a civil suit and remains — firmly identified in To argue otherwise, as Mr. Rah­ glish total, and his ascent up the ICC rankings — frame ment and, at worst, a terrible ob­ indeed an extensive temple com­ appeal against the High Court the Hindu mind and is held man does, is nothing but a part of the juncture the India team is at. Kohli has comfortably fuscation. plex in ruins under the site where judgment, viz., on questions of sacred. This is the very area where a legal strategy to obfuscate and asserted his dominance in the abbreviated formats of the Babri Masjid structure had who the “disputed” Ayodhya site stood, from 1528 till December 6, delay the apex court judgment. the game, both One­Day Internationals and Twenty20s. Misreading the Constitution stood. belongs to. The second is my writ 1992, a structure that came to be It is also a misreading of the Con­ The High Court accepted this petition seeking enforcement of known as Babri Masjid, put up by Subramanian Swamy is a member of the Yet when it came to Tests, despite his 53­plus average, stitution of India to state, as the finding and relied on the same in my fundamental right to pray at Babar’s commander, Mir Baqi. Rajya Sabha and a former Union Law there had always been a debate over the critical dis­ writer does, that Articles 25 and 26 depth in its 2010 judgment of the site where Rama was born. Ma­ Posed as it is, my petition Minister tance he needed to traverse from being a very good bat­ sman to being counted among the greats of the modern era. His dismal showing during India’s previous tour of LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. England, in 2014, with just 134 runs from 10 innings, could not be ignored. Kohli is conscious of the need to After Karunanidhi the other force comprising lives of many in Tamil continues, we will only Montek Singh Ahluwalia August 9). Poverty, prove himself in away tours. Once he had spoken of his It is not true that there is a the AIADMK, the BJP, Nadu. have memorials of Chief were after all brought in unemployment, disability, dream to score a Test ton against Dale Steyn and com­ political vacuum in Tamil perhaps Rajinikanth’s S. Nallasivan, Ministers on the beach through lateral entry. etc. are responsible for pany in South Africa, and went on to promptly do so in Nadu following the demise yet­to­be­launched political Tirunelveli many decades from now. It Tala B. Ragunath, people begging. The Thanjavur 2013. England presents an especially important chal­ of J. Jayalalithaa and M. party and others. It looks is time to put a stop to this government, civil society, lenge to him. For one, it is a personal point to prove Karunanidhi (“M. like T.T.V. Dhinakaran has to While the AIADMK practice and maintain the the police and citizens have Karunanidhi, 94”, August join one of these two broad government was attempting beauty of the Marina. There The objective is to bring to work together to solve against James Anderson, who had in 2014 dismissed 8). The AIADMK is prone to political formations to to insult Karunanidhi, it should be an exclusive greater proficiency in this problem. Kohli on four occasions. He has clearly learnt to play disintegrate as it has contest elections, despite was nice to see the Central place earmarked for administration to manage Chitrakant Singh, Anderson, and in Birmingham, his line around the off­ survived only because of pulling crowds on his own. government recognising the memorials somewhere in new challenges. However, Greater Noida stump was either countered with a straight bat and soft the strength of its G. David Milton, contributions of the DMK the city, not on its shores. this policy needs to be hands or left alone. personalities, whether MGR Kanyakumari patriarch. The government D. Sethuraman, impartial, and the Cleaning the Ganga More importantly, with England having revived the or Jayalalithaa. The present accorded him a state Chennai appointment decisions No amount of money can tradition of five­Test series, a victorious English sum­ leaders have no mass base Politics after death funeral, and both the Prime should be taken clean the Ganga (“To help of their own; their strength It is unfortunate that a Minister and the Defence While DMK got its way, one independently. It should clean the Ganga, visit an mer has become a measure of a team’s ability to count comes from the support for five­time Chief Minister’s Minister flew down to pay cannot fault the State not become a tool for the ATM”, August 9). Crores itself among the best. In the first Test, Kohli’s innings previous leaders and their family had to struggle so their homage. The AIADMK government as it government to appoint only have already been spent on were worthy of being preserved as textbook manuals policies. However, this is much after his death over government’s behaviour encountered petitions those it wants in the Clean Ganga Project but on batting against crafty fast bowlers. Equally, his lea­ not the case with the DMK, the place of his burial deserves condemnation, seeking to stop the Marina administration. A the river remains as dership qualities were revealed by his skill in shielding which is a cadre­based (“After HC drama, while the Central from being converted into a bureaucrat encounters polluted as ever. What is the tail as he piled up his 149 in the first innings. The ICC party. DMK working Karunanidhi laid to rest on government deserves cemetery or memorial. many administrative required is the will to clean top ranking will likely remain his for some time. With president M.K. Stalin was Marina”, August 9). The appreciation. N.J. Ravi Chander, hurdles and knows how to the river and tough groomed by Karunanidhi AIADMK government Tharcius S. Fernando, Bengaluru solve them. Will lateral decisions by the 934 points, Kohli is just marginally ahead of Steve Smith and had to rise through the should have shown Chennai entry candidates with no government. We must stop (929), but the Australian is currently serving a one­year ranks. His public life has magnanimity in allowing Lateral entry debate experience in the inflow of pollutants ban for ball­tampering and holds no threat; the next been one of hardship. The the DMK leader to be Karunanidhi had himself Lateral entry of experts into administration be able to from industries, two potential challengers, England’s Joe Root (865) and charge of dynasty cannot buried near his mentor, said that maintaining the bureaucracy is routine perform effectively? households and hotels into New Zealander Kane Williamson (847), hover far be­ be applied to him. C.N. Annadurai. The Annadurai’s memorial on in countries like the U.S., Gagan Pratap Singh, the river. No bodies should hind. But the remaining four Tests, including the Lord’s A bipolar polity looks likely Madras High Court verdict the Marina was becoming Germany and New Zealand Noida be dumped into the river, fixture that began on Thursday, will determine the In­ to continue in the State, was thankfully a great difficult given its proximity (“Reforming the civil and pujas on the banks of with one force comprising relief. Had the court not to the sea (“Karunanidhi services”, August 9). India The problem of begging the Ganga should be dian skipper’s capacity to seize the moment. Kohli has the DMK, Congress and allowed this, there would turned down demand for definitely needs some field Begging is a social problem, reduced or stopped. clearly reclaimed his mojo in England, but in a team perhaps the Makkal Needhi have been a huge law and Marina memorial for experts to formulate its so the court’s decision is G. Padmanabhan, sport, he will also have to draw out the best from his Maiam, Viduthalai order problem. It would not Kamaraj”, August 9). If this policies and take key right (“Delhi High Court Bengaluru whole pack to claim greatness. Chiruthaigal Katchi, the be hyperbole to say that the trend of constructing decisions. Domain experts decriminalises begging in more letters online: Left parties and others, and court’s verdict saved the memorials on the beach like Manmohan Singh and the national capital”, www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/ CM A ND-NDE YK https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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YES, NO, IT’S COMPLICATED Does the anti­trafficking Bill address trafficking?

YES The Bill goes beyond criminalisation; it tries to places at its core the the confidentiality of vic­ nate with authorities in foreign national and international levels, rights and welfare of vic­ tims by recording their countries and international organi­ the Bill proposes attachment and combat the organised nature of trafficking tims of human traffick­ statements through video sations, and facilitate inter­State forfeiture of property and to remit ing. There are aggravat­ conferencing and by in and trans­border transfer of evi­ the proceeds of crime in the reha­ India took a giant step towards the there has been an increase in the ed forms of trafficking camera proceedings. It dence and materials. It will streng­ bilitation fund . It will also freeze protection of its women and chil­ number of victims of human traf­ which have been intro­ states that there will be then the intelligence apparatus to bank accounts of those whose dren when the Criminal Law ficking. It is to tackle this menace duced, such as traffick­ time­bound trials and re­ improve the collection, collation funds have been utilised to facili­ (Amendment) Act was passed by that the comprehensive Trafficking ing for the purpose of patriation of victims. and dissemination of operational tate trafficking. By doing this, the the Lok Sabha in 2013. Section 370 of Persons (Prevention, Protection begging, or bearing a child, or for A rehabilitation fund has been intelligence. The Bureau will also Bill handicaps the organised traf­ of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018, was the purpose of marriage or under introduced for the first time. This coordinate actions and enforce­ ficking networks. Sampurna Behura substituted with Sections 370 and passed. Instead of mere criminali­ the pretext of marriage by adminis­ will be used for the physical, psych­ ment by various bodies or authori­ is Director, 370A, which defined trafficking and sation, the Bill seeks to systemati­ tering narcotic drugs, hormones, or ological and social well­being of vic­ ties established under this Bill. Systematic surveillance Programmes, Bachpan laid out the punishment for it. Ho­ cally combat the organised nature chemical substances for the pur­ tims. The Bill seeks to build the ca­ There will be State and District Anti­ The Bureau will also develop and Bachao Andolan wever, mere criminalisation of traf­ of trafficking. poses of early sexual maturity, and pacity of victims by providing Trafficking Committees which will monitor a database on every crime ficking is not enough — several laws so on. Under the Bill, prosecution capital, infrastructure, education arrange for appropriate training under this Act. Such systematic sur­ have not been implemented in let­ Multipronged approach under these offences will be made and skill development to empower and sensitisation of functionaries of veillance of offenders will, in about ter and spirit in the absence of a The Bill ties together the approach­ timely and efficient by special pu­ them to access justice and to pre­ all personnel. three years, not only help prevent comprehensive legislative frame­ es of prevention, rescue and reha­ blic prosecutors. vent further trafficking. It is crucial to note that traffick­ trafficking but pre­empt it. The Bill work. In the case of trafficking, data bilitation to create a robust policy The Bill provides protection to For the first time, the National ing is an organised crime. In order does its bit. Now we must all come show that despite the 2013 law, framework against trafficking. It witnesses. It also seeks to maintain Anti­Trafficking Bureau will coordi­ to break the organised nexus, at the together to use it to deliver justice.

NO Most clauses have little to do with trafficking offence of “trafficking tionable in itself. preme Court for being vague and the prosecution will have to first for the purpose of beg­ The Bill also states that over­broad. Most clauses of the Bill prove the subsections of Section and more do to with imposing surveillance ging”. Employing or “whoever solicits or pu­ have little to do with trafficking and 370, which are that the victim was causing someone to beg blicises electronically, more do to with imposing surveil­ transported, recruited, harboured, The Trafficking of Persons (Preven­ ings and forced labour”. This is already a criminal of­ taking or distributing ob­ lance and restricting freedoms received or transferred for the pur­ tion, Protection and Rehabilitation) means that human beings cannot fence under anti­beg­ scene photographs or vi­ through punitive overkill. poses of exploiting her/him by us­ Bill, 2018, fails in its fundamental be bought and sold. ging laws. Similarly, un­ deos or providing mate­ ing force, abduction, deception, or purpose, i.e. it does not address the authorised immigration rials or soliciting or Interplay with existing laws by abuse of power. Only then will issue of trafficking. Proscribes legitimate activity of citizens and foreigners is dealt guiding tourists or using agents or The rhetoric around the Bill will al­ the provisions of the Bill take effect. Let us first be clear on what we Barring one provision of the anti­ with under the Passports Act, 1967, any other form which may lead to so dissipate when we understand For the police and the courts, im­ Tripti Tandon understand by trafficking. ‘Traffic’ trafficking Bill which criminalises and the Foreigners Act, 1946, res­ (emphasis mine) the trafficking of a its interplay with existing laws, plementing the numerous anti­traf­ is deputy director of means to trade something. It’s a the act of “buying or selling a per­ pectively. There is nothing novel in person shall be punished with rigo­ which have not been overruled or ficking laws will be a nightmare. Lawyers Collective, an transaction, and refers to the act of son for a consideration,” the rest of the proposed offence of “encourag­ rous imprisonment.” This means repealed. The anti­trafficking Bill Only persons accused of trafficking NGO working on buying and selling. ‘Traffic’ or ‘traf­ the clauses do not address this as­ ing or abetting any person to mi­ that no trafficking needs to take relies on Section 370 of the IPC to will benefit from the legal mess. It is human rights issues ficking’ is not wrong per se, but it is pect at all. They either criminalise grate illegally into India or Indians place; a remote possibility is suffi­ define and establish that an offence common knowledge that if more pejorative when the transaction in­ acts that are already punishable un­ in to some other country”. Besides, cient to prosecute persons and shut of trafficking of persons has taken laws are applied, the easier it will volves prohibited goods such as der other laws or proscribe activi­ illegal migration does not involve down websites. It is important to place. Section 370 was introduced be to find loopholes and secure an narcotics or firearms or if it involves ties that are not only legitimate but elements of ‘trade’ in human beings remember that similar provisions in 2013 on the recommendation of acquittal. How is this a leap or an people. Article 23 of the Constitu­ also constitutionally protected. An or trafficking. To term it an “aggra­ of the Information Technology Act, the Justice Verma Committee. In or­ advance in anti­trafficking legisla­ tion prohibits “traffic in human be­ example of the former is the ‘new’ vated form of trafficking” is ques­ 2000, were struck down by the Su­ der to try offences under the Bill, tion?

IT'S The Bill is well­intentioned and has some rehabilitation’. Bill overrides a better the first to get themselves ‘rescued’ not clear. No new courts or judges COMPLICATED Instead of strengthen­ definition of ‘victim’ gi­ and claim hefty compensations, are mentioned. The district courts positive features, but is a wasted opportunity ing the existing anti­traf­ ven in the Code of Crimi­ rehabilitation, small capital for bu­ are neither exclusively dedicated to ficking laws, the Bill calls nal Procedure. Going by siness, and worse, an absurd im­ trafficking cases nor will they ad­ The anti­trafficking Bill aims to cued. Punishment for omission of for another law, one that the established practice, munity for committing serious of­ dress such cases on priority. This solve an institutionalised socioeco­ duty can be welcomed too, if it does is uncalled­for and slop­ a victim is one who is fences that are punishable. Such move will only undo the gains of nomic problem with a ‘crime and not omit the government officials, pily drafted. The Bill ‘rescued’ by the raiding traffickers can simply plead to have the past many decades of evolving punishment’ model, relying on pol­ including the police, from its ambit. clashes with existing police. So, those rescued committed the crime under threat more sensitive and specialised ice stations, courts and jails. laws, which will lead to confusion. by NGOs, parents, friends, and so or “undue personal influence”, as courts such as Immoral Traffic (Pre­ First, the positive features. The Drawbacks of the Bill In an age when an institutional on are not victims. provided in the Bill. In South Asia, vention) Act courts, Protection of Pravin Patkar fact that the Ministry of Women Having said that, the Bill is silent on approach for victim care is rapidly often a trafficker is a person known Children from Sexual Offences is the founder of and Child Development revised the many types of trafficking, such as discredited and the demand for Rescue and rehabilitation to the victims. Section 2(x) makes courts, and family courts. The draf­ Prerana, an anti­ Bill many times before arriving at trafficking for supply chains, com­ non­institutional approach is grow­ Going by the public statements of such traffickers eligible for several ters of the Bill don’t understand trafficking centre based the final version indicates its ge­ mercial surrogacy, clinical trials, ing, the Bill adds two more unne­ an activist championing the Bill, benefits, independent of arrests, rehabilitation. Section 30 (5) makes in Mumbai nuine intention to bring out a good human organ trade, intergenera­ cessary and vaguely defined institu­ traffickers get themselves ‘rescued’ trial or its outcome. the rehabilitation fund available to legislation. The following sections tional trafficking, orphanage tou­ tions: protection homes and by the police so that they can keep How it is possible to expedite jus­ the bureaucracy for the purposes of the Bill are satisfactory: search rism and sex tourism. It also rehabilitation homes. an eye on the rescued victims and tice when the government is man­ of prevention, protection, prosecu­ and seizure; rescue and medical ex­ doesn’t incorporate the long­pend­ The term ‘victim’ appears sever­ silence them. In the absence of clar­ dated by the Bill to merely issue a tion. The Bill is by a well­inten­ amination of persons; and safety, ing demands for ‘demand reduc­ al times in the Bill but is shoddily ity, such traffickers who operate circular notifying the existing ses­ tioned Ministry with wrong advis­ care and protection of persons res­ tion’ and ‘non­institutionalised defined. Through Section 59, the hand in glove with the police will be sions courts as designated courts is ers, but is a wasted opportunity.

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When IIT Kanpur Feynman to repeated acts of indiscipline, a body of recruits, attached to appealed this decision, a division bench of the Madras High technique Responding to widespread concern the depot of a unit at that station, was segregated under guard Court stayed the previous order calling it “unwarranted”. in some new barracks. When ordered to parade, the recruits This debate raises the philosophical question of what the Education On the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Bill refused to leave their barracks and force had to be used to role of education is. Is it to train students to follow rules or is eject them. An armed escort was attempting to marshall the it to stimulate them to ponder and deduce the sense behind This refers to a learning Krishnadas Rajagopal SC/ST member. Subse­ that information relating recruits with a view to their removal for trial when the latter the lessons? Science and scientific method suggest that the technique which involves quently, the arrest of the to commission of an of­ resisted the escort by throwing bricks and attempted to es­ latter is closer to the true purpose of education, particularly teaching a concept that The Scheduled Castes and accused persons should fence should be recorded cape. While a portion of escort was doubling to cut off the fug­ because the appeal of accuracy and reproducibility far out­ one wants to learn to so­ the Scheduled Tribes (Pre­ be approved by the Senior if the probe officer has itives one of the escort accidentally discharged his rifle. weighs the power of rules. meone else in order to un­ vention of Atrocities) Superintendent of Police “reason to suspect the For example, consider the study of units and measure­ derstand it better. A lear­ Amendment Bill, 2018 concerned. The judgment commission of an of­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ner must first identify and ments. The International System of Units has, as base units, overrides a March 20 judg­ had led to widespread vio­ fence”. The investigating DATA POINT seven members including second, metre, kilogram, am­ try to explain the concept ment of the Supreme lence and loss of lives officer can arrest a person pere, kelvin, mole and candela. Measurements of base units that he wants to learn in a Court, which restricted across the country, follow­ and there is no require­ are defined according to agreed standards maintained by simple manner to a tod­ the powers of the police ing which the government ment of conducting a pre­ the International Bureau for Weights and Measures. dler through the use of ex­ under the Code of Crimi­ moved the Supreme Court liminary inquiry before re­ For instance, while the unit of time is the second, how amples and other easy nal Procedure to arrest a for a review. cording information. long exactly is the second? The answer: “It is the duration of tools. He must then try to suspect. The verdict also The 2018 Bill, passed by The principles of crimi­ 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the review and identify gaps in read down a specific bar in the Lok Sabha even as the nal jurisprudence and transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground his own understanding of the Atrocities Act of 1989 government’s review peti­ Section 41 of the Code of state of Caesium 133.” Compare this to its earlier definition the concept that were re­ against anticipatory bail. tion is pending in the Su­ Criminal Procedure imply as 1/86,400 of a mean solar day – which, while having an ap­ vealed while trying to ex­ Accused persons were not preme Court, overcomes that once the investigating peal for its apparent simplicity, is much harder to precisely plain the concept. After­ allowed to seek anticipato­ the March 20 judgment by officer has reasons to sus­ measure or check for being a standard value. wards, if necessary, he can ry bail to thwart arrest. amending the 1989 Act to pect that an offence has The exact length of one metre was the distance between try to further simplify the The judgment reasoned introduce Section 18A. been committed, he can two marks on a rod made of a platinum­iridium alloy secure­ concept. The technique is that many false cases are This provision does away arrest an accused. This de­ ly housed in Paris. This artefact was retired long ago. As D.K. named after American foisted on innocent per­ with the need for a preli­ cision to arrest or not to Aswal of National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, writes in an ar­ physicist Richard Feyn­ sons under the 1989 Act minary inquiry or require­ arrest cannot be taken ticle in Current Science, since 1960, the metre has been de­ man. and that the fundamental ment for an investigating away from the investigat­ fined in terms of the wavelength of light from krypton 86 ra­ CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC right of an innocent per­ officer to take prior appro­ ing officer. diation, hence, is derivable from nature. This dispensed CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC son to be protected from val from his superior be­ The Bill brings back the with the need for the platinum­iridium rod. MORE ON arbitrary arrest should be fore registering an FIR on bar on accused seeking The obsession with conventions is not the only problem THE WEB protected. For this, the a complaint under the anticipatory bail. It says with the Indian attitude to education, but it is an issue that 3 court ordered that a Depu­ Act. the provision of Section must be tackled if we wish to move ahead. In this venture, Watch: Flood, landslips ty Superintendent of Pol­ The statement of ob­ 438 (anticipatory bail) of the firm but light, and entirely alterable, grasp that science across Kerala ice should conduct a “pre­ jects and reasons of the the Code shall not apply to has on conventions can serve as a guiding sign. liminary inquiry” into Bill highlights that the pro­ a case under this Act, not­ http://bit.ly/Keralarains every complaint of atroci­ visions of the Code of Cri­ withstanding any judg­ The writer covers science for The Hindu ty committed against an minal Procedure provide ment/order of any court. CM A ND-NDE YK https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 10 NEWS FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE FROM PAGE ONE RS passes amendments to SC/ST Act SC alters Lodha’s Lok Sabha has already cleared changes to the Act, overturning the Supreme Court’s judgment BCCI proposals Special Correspondent the investigating officer will <> PM has assured his tions and filing a chargesheet ments would be challenged ed the Bill, but said there was NEW DELHI not require approval for ar­ government’s after registering the FIR. The in the court again. an apprehension that the law But the Bench agreed that cepted as a means to pre­ The Rajya Sabha on Thurs­ rests, if necessary. The provi­ commitment cases are to be disposed of Samajwadi Party’s Ram will be misused and inno­ the National Cricket Club vent a few individuals from day unanimously cleared the sion of anticipatory bail as al­ towards backward within two months of filing Gopal Yadav sought proper cents will be punished. and the Cricket Club of India regarding the administra­ amendments to the Sche­ lowed by the Supreme Court the chargesheet. representation of the re­ Concurring with Mr. Ya­ classes did not deserve to be full tion of cricket as a personal duled Castes and Scheduled has also been done away Although the Congress served categories in the judi­ dav’s views, CPI’s D. Raja also Thawar Chand Gehlot members in BCCI. turf,” Justice Chandrachud Tribes (Prevention of Atroci­ with. Minister for Social Justice and supported the Bill, former ciary, stating that it had vir­ raised the issue of judiciary, The court gave Services agreed. ties) Act, overturning a Empowerment Union Minister Kumari Selja tually become the “third the 9th schedule and sought Sports Control Board, the March 2018 Supreme Court Special courts in States questioned the government’s chamber” of Parliament and a provision for fast­track Railways and the Associa­ Age bar remains judgment pertaining to safe­ Replying to the debate on the terest.” He said 14 States had intention, saying it had was encroaching upon its du­ courts for speedy justice. tion of Universities full But the Bench struck a ba­ guard against the arrests un­ Bill, Minister for Social Jus­ already constituted 195 spe­ brought in the amendments ty to legislate. JD(U)’s Ram Chandra Pra­ membership in the BCCI. In lance. Justice Lodha had der the Act. The Bill was tice and Empowerment Tha­ cial courts for deciding cases due to public agitation and AIADMK’s Vijila Sathya­ sad Singh said the cases case of varsities, the court suggested that the cooling­ passed by the Lok Sabha ear­ war Chand Gehlot said: under the Act. Some States pressure from the Congress­ nanth demanded a compre­ should be probed by an offic­ described them as “a nu­ off period should kick in for lier this week. “Prime Minister Narendra have declared district and led Opposition. Ms. Selja said hensive anti­discrimination er of the DSP rank and above. cleus for encouraging the a cricket administrator after The amendments provide Modi has assured his govern­ session courts as special the law should have been law, pointing out a very low K. Keshava Rao of the TRS ex­ game of cricket among his every tenure of three that no preliminary enquiry ment’s commitment towards courts. brought under the 9th sche­ conviction rate under the Act pressed apprehension that players of the college­going years in office. Instead, the will be required for registra­ backward classes. I today say The amendments include dule of the Constitution (for and that also, raised the issue the amendments would be generation.” court said an administrator tion of an FIR against any that we are committed to­ a timeline of two months for protection against judicial re­ of 9th schedule. Sanjay Raut challenged in the court The Bench saw eye­to­eye needs to “cool­off” only af­ person under the Act; and wards safeguarding their in­ completing the investiga­ view), or else the amend­ of the Shiv Sena also support­ again. with Justice Lodha’s conclu­ ter two consecutive terms of sion that “the game will be six years in office, whether better off without cricketing in BCCI or a State associa­ oligopolies.” tion or a combination of To this end, the court both. “Six years in continua­ PM Modi has an anti-Dalit Congress’ legacy is to insult supported the recommen­ tion, is a sufficiently long pe­ dation of the Lodha panel riod for experience and that cricket administrators knowledge gained to be de­ mindset, charges Rahul Dalit leaders, says Amit Shah should undergo a “cooling­ ployed in the interest of the off period” before contest­ game without at the same ing elections to BCCI or time resulting in a monopo­ Congress chief launches scathing attack at protest meet ‘NDA has ensured strongest amendment to the SC/ST Act’ State associations. ly of power,” Justice Chan­ “Cooling­off must be ac­ drachud explained. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the weaker sections know Special Correspondent commission and block the NEW DELHI that the Prime Minister has NEW DELHI OBC commission,” he said. Accusing Prime Minister Na­ no place for Dalits in his BJP president Amit Shah rendra Modi of having an heart and mind and wants to launched a sharp attack on ‘Give time to facts’ Nod for three changes “anti­Dalit mindset,” Con­ crush Dalits. That is why we Congress chief Rahul Gandhi “Rahulji, when you are free gress president Rahul Gand­ are standing against him,” terming him weak on facts from winking and disrupting hi on Thursday launched a he said. and the Congress’s legacy as Parliament, give some time to triple talaq Bill scathing attack on him at a Mr. Gandhi alleged that being that of an “anti­Dalit to facts as well. NDA Govern­ protest meet organised by the Prime Minister, the BJP party,” after the latter took ment, through a Cabinet de­ Union Law Minister Ravi become cognisable if and various Dalit rights groups in and the Rashtriya Swayam­ part in a protest by SC/ST cision and in Parliament en­ Shankar Prasad told repor­ only if when FIR is filed by New Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. sevak Sangh don’t want Da­ groups and characterised sured the strongest ters that a provision has victim wife, or the blood re­ Mr. Gandhi said, “Eve­ Rahul Gandhi lits to have their share, the Modi government as hav­ Amit Shah amendment to the [SC/ST] been added to allow the ma­ lations or relations by mar­ rything starts from intent. If whether it is in matters of ing an “anti­Dalit mindset.” Act. Why are you protesting gistrate to grant bail after riage. Therefore, any out­ he [Mr. Modi] would have and ideology.” Mr. Gandhi al­ education or the nation’s In a series of tweets, Mr. “Prime Minister Narendra that?” he said. “It would hearing the wife. “But the side agency or neighbour had place for Dalits in his leged that Dalits are being progress. Shah said the government Modi’s legacy is of the stron­ have been good if Congress offence of instant triple ta­ initiating this is ruled out,” heart, then policies would beaten openly and crushed He asserted that the SC/ had not just brought in and gest amendments to the SC/ President would have spo­ laq under the proposed law Mr. Prasad said. have been framed different­ in States where the Bharati­ ST Prevention of Atrocities passed a Bill strengthening ST, OBC commission, panch­ ken about his party’s treat­ remains non­bailable,” he The third amendment ly. In Gujarat, he brought out ya Janata Party (BJP) is in Act was originally brought the SC/ST (Prevention of teerth [marking important ment towards Dr. Babasaheb clarified. makes the offence of instant a book of his speeches in power. by the Rajiv Gandhi govern­ Atrocities) Act, 1989, after a places in constitution framer Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Senior Law Ministry offi­ triple talaq “compounda­ which he wrote that Dalits ment, and cited Rohith Vem­ Supreme Court judgment B.R. Ambedkar’s life], while Ram and Sitaram Kesari. cials, however, added that ble”. Now, a magistrate can get spiritual satisfaction out ‘No place in heart, mind’ ula’s suicide as an example had introduced tweaks, but the Congress’ legacy is to in­ Congress way of treating Da­ the magistrate would ensure use his powers to settle the of cleaning. These lines “His thinking is anti­Dalit. of the BJP crushing Dalit as­ also got the OBC Bill cleared sult Dalit leaders and Dalit lits is patronising and con­ bail only after the husband dispute between a husband throw light on his thinking All Dalits and people from piration. in this session of Parliament. pride, oppose the Mandal descending,” he added. agrees to pay compensation and his wife. Under a com­ to the wife as provided in poundable offence, both the bill. parties have the liberty of CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC IN BRIEF withdrawing the case. The Panel fails to Stringent process triple talaq bill has been Tearful farewell Another provision is with cleared by Lok Sabha and is adopt report regard to making the pro­ pending Rajya Sabha appro­ cess of registering FIRs val. Friday is the last day of on Doklam more stringent. “Any hus­ the monsoon session of Par­ band giving triple talaq in­ liament and the government Sobhana K. Nair stantaneously and breaking could introduce amend­ New Delhi the marriage…the FIR will ments in the Upper House. For two consecutive times, the parliamentary panel on External Affairs has Gadkari seeks Sonia’s failed to adopt a report on help to pass MV Bill the recent Doklam crisis, 27 resorts in Nilgiris NEW DELHI allegedly because of prot­ Union Minister Nitin Gadkari ests from BJP members on reached out to the former jumbo path to be shut the committee. Congress president Sonia The report, according to Gandhi to help the Regarding others, whose have also filed appeals in the the sources, shows the con­ government pass the Motor names were mentioned in apex court against a Madras tradictory stand of the De­ Vehicle Amendment Bill, the report, the Bench said High Court order against fence Ministry and the Ex­ pending for one year in the necessary documents might them in this regard. ternal Affairs Ministry on Rajya Sabha. He said it seeks be produced before the col­ The Supreme Court had the Doklam crisis. At least to vastly improve the lector for verification within earlier said it was “extreme­ two members said that compensation for road a period of two months ly unfortunate” that several during the deposition in accident victims. Referring to from Thursday. The court States had not responded to front of the panel, the de­ the proposed changes in the posted the matter for hear­ two communications sent fence establishment spoke Motor Vehicle Act, he denied ing on October 24. by the Centre on the issue of about the build up at Dok­ that it sought to take away any power from the State elephant corridors to curb lam on both sides of the governments. Hotel owners’ plea incidents of human­animal border and claims that the Kanika Rane, wife of martyr Major Kaustubh Rane, holding their two­year­old son Agastya at his funeral in Mira Road, Mumbai, The Bench had earlier, conflict and reduce animal crisis was solved due to on Thursday. Major Rane, who died fighting terrorists in J&K, was laid to rest with full State honours in the presence of RS passes National while making it clear that fatalities. pressure from the Army. thousands of people. * VIJAY BATE Sports University Bill the elephant corridor was The Centre had told the The mandarins at the Ex­ NEW DELHI off­limits for resorts or any court that there were 27 ternal Affairs Ministry The National Sports construction activity, direct­ “critical” elephant corridors paint an entirely different University Bill and the ed the Collector to file a re­ across 22 States. picture claiming that the is­ Homoeopathy Central Council port about the details of the The court had earlier sue was diplomatically Lok Sabha disrupted over Rafale deal (Amendment) Bill were existing resorts and how been informed that about resolved. passed in the Rajya Sabha on they came to be there. 18,000 elephants travelled The report is also critical SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT transfer about 200 acres of Gandhi said, tagging a news called the deal one of the big­ Thursday. The National Sports The owners of some of to Tamil Nadu during the of the way the government NEW DELHI defence land to the State go­ report on the statement by gest scams. As Speaker Sumi­ University Bill, for setting up of a National Sports these hotels and resorts monsoon season. handled the crisis giving The Lok Sabha witnessed a vernment for building a new Yashwant Sinha, Arun Shou­ tra Mahajan continued with University in Manipur to leeway to the Chinese go­ couple of adjournments on secretariat and carrying out rie and Prashant Bhusan that the scheduled business, Con­ promote education in areas of vernment. Thursday as Congress mem­ other projects. called the deal a “major gress members stormed into The panel is headed by sports sciences, technology, bers stalled the proceedings, Congress MPs seemed to scandal.” the well, carrying placards management and coaching, former Union Minister Oppn. loses battle for demanding a Joint Parlia­ have taken their cue from Seeking to go big on the and raising slogans. was discussed and passed. Shashi Tharoor and also mentary Committee ( JPC) in­ their party chief Rahul Gand­ Rafale deal, the Congress has When TRS MPs trooped The Homoeopathy Central has Congress president Ra­ quiry into the Rafale fighter hi’s tweet in the morning also called for a meeting on into the well and the protests Council (Amendment) Bill, as RS Deputy Chairman hul Gandhi as member. jet deal and a reply from that targeted Prime Minister its MPs on Friday to discuss grew louder, the Speaker ad­ cleared by the Lok Sabha, was The panel has been work­ Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi. floor strategy on the last day. journed the proceedings first passed by voice vote. It The rout of Mr. Hariprasad O’Brien said it was a good ing on the report for over a Modi. Telangana Rashtra Sa­ “Here’s why HE couldn’t Leader of the Congress in for about 20 minutes till 1 provides for replacement of is a huge defeat for the unit­ match and some one had to year and wished to submit mithi (TRS) MPs trooped into look me in the eye in Parlia­ the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun p.m. Continued disruptions the Central Council of ed opposition. “If we had a win. “But at least both the it during the monsoon ses­ the well, protesting against ment, repeated by BJP peo­ Kharge raised the issue soon forced another adjournment Homoeopathy with a board of non­Congress candidate, we batsmen scored a century,” sion, which ends on Friday. the Centre’s “failure” to ple who have some guts,” Mr. after zero hour began and until the post­lunch session. governors. would have managed to get he said. the numbers. After NCP Speaking later to repor­ backed out, we could have ters, Mr O’ Brien said the convinced TDP, at least we desperation of the govern­ would have got the AAP ment was evident with the Gritty Editor who backed socially conscious reporting votes,” a senior Opposition Prime Minister himself MP said. working the phones to en­ Janata Dal (U) MP Harivansh is the first non­Congress Deputy Chairperson of the Rajya Sabha in over 40 years Mr. Modi spoke at length sure support. “This any how about Mr Harivansh re­ was a warm up match. Special Correspondent ra village on the Bihar­Uttar nalist in the magazine Dha- mountain to ensure access first time by the Janata Dal counting his humble back­ There is a world cup still to NEW DELHI Pradesh border, the birth ramyug. From there to Ravi- for the people of his village (U), and it is the first time ground and four decades in be played where the voters Rajya Sabha’s new Deputy place of famous socialist var, the magazine published after his wife died, unable to that a single term MP is being journalism. In a lighter vein, will be different,” the TMC Chairperson, Janata Dal (U) leader Jayprakash Narayan by the Ananda Bazar Patrika reach medical help. That sto­ appointed Deputy Chairper­ he said the situation in the leader said. Congress MP MP Harivansh was elected and came under socialist in­ group, and later as editor of ry is now legend for persis­ son. House is such that the um­ and former Union Home Mi­ with more than adequate fluence early in life. Prabhat Khabar, Mr. Hari­ tence and the triumph of the Discretion was a quality pire faces more problems nister P. Chidambaram too numbers on Thursday morn­ Having completed his vansh displayed both grit as human spirit. flagged by Prime Minister than players. welcomed the result. In a se­ ing, making him the first masters in economics and a an Editor and a humanitar­ Narendra Modi. “As media Appreciating the grace ries of tweets, he said, “Op­ non­Congress person to oc­ diploma in journalism from ian touch in the reporting Stint with former PM adviser to former Prime Mi­ and elegance of Mr. Hari­ position Unity was reaf­ cupy the position in over 41 Benaras Hindu University, that he encouraged. Through his socialist inclina­ nister Chandra Shekhar, he vansh Mr Jaitley said he has firmed in Rajya Sabha today. years, the last being Samyuk­ he was tipped for a banking He is credited with bring­ tions, Mr. Harivansh was also knew when his boss was to never made any personal at­ All 105 Opposition MPs ta Socialist Party leader Go­ Harivansh job. However, he followed ing to light the astounding close to former Prime Minis­ resign. He didn’t allow a soul tacks on anyone or dis­ stood together. The margin dey Murahari, who served his inclination for journal­ story of Dasarath Manjhi ter Chandra Shekhar, who to know of it, not even the turbed the house proceed­ was only 20 votes. If the BJD between April 1974 to March “Singh” by deed poll years ism, with early influences in­ from Gaya, who with just a appointed him as media ad­ paper where he had served ings during his stint as MP. had acted as a true Opposi­ 1977. ago to remove all caste, com­ cluding famous author Dha­ hammer and a chisel and a viser. as Editor for many years,” In a congratulatory mes­ tion party, the result would Mr. Harivansh (he abjured munity indicators from his ramveer Bharati, under labour of 22 years, created a In 2014, he was nominat­ said Mr. Modi of Mr. Hari­ sage, TMC MP Derek have been different,” the use of his surname name), was born in Sitab Dia­ whom he worked as a jour­ 110 metre road through a ed to the Rajya Sabha for the vansh.

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IN BRIEF KEY GOVERNMENT DECISIONS Put legacy data online: rights body Now, States can buy ‘It will be helpful pulses at a discount for those left out Rekha Sharma is of the draft NRC’ Special Correspondent past two years, resulting in a Chairperson of NCW NEW DELHI sharp drop in prices. With NEW DELHI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Having procured an all­time the government making NCW member Rekha Sharma, GUWAHATI high amount of pulses from market interventions to pro­ 54, who stoked a controversy A rights body in Assam has farmers over the past two tect farmers’ interests, price by suggesting abolition of urged Prateek Hajela, the years, the Centre has now support schemes have been confessions in churches, has State coordinator for the Na­ decided to offload stock widespread in many States. been appointed as the tional Register of Citizens from its overflowing ware­ This has led to a record pro­ Chairperson of the National (NRC), to make the legacy da­ houses by selling it to States curement of 45.43 lakh Commission for Women. PTI ta available on its web portal. for use in welfare schemes tonnes of pulses. Uploading the data would at a discount of ₹15 per kg In order to clear space for TRAI Chairman gets help people who were left over the wholesale rate. the procurement this sea­ two-year extension out of the complete NRC At its meeting on Thurs­ son, the Centre has decided AHMEDABAD draft, published on July 30, day, the Cabinet Committee to offer 34.88 lakh tonnes of The Modi government on as many of them had “failed on Economic Affairs ap­ pulses to the States for use Thursday extended the term proved the plan to sell al­ in ration shops under the of Telecom Regulatory to collect the legacy data or most 35 lakh tonnes of tur, public distribution system Authority (TRAI) Chairman collected wrong data” due to R.S. Sharma till September illiteracy and sheer igno­ channa, masoor, moong or in welfare schemes such 2020. His term was to end rance”, the Citizens’ Rights and urad dal. The scheme is as mid­day meals or the In­ this week. Preservation Committee likely to cost the exchequer tegrated Child Development (CRPC) said. Paper trail: A file photo of a woman showing her legacy data details in Morigaon district of Assam.* RITU RAJ KONWAR ₹5, 237 crore, according to Programme. This will be a Textiles Secretary shunted Legacy data is a set of doc­ an official statement. one­time dispensation for a to Land Resources Dept. uments comprising the NRC Political parties and NGOs people who fail to prove the Farmers have seen record period of 12 months or till harvests of pulses in the the stock runs out. AHMEDABAD of 1951 and electoral rolls up across Assam have set up as­ reason behind filing an ob­ Opposition delegation Textiles Secretary Anant to March 24, 1971, which is sistance booths ahead of dis­ jection to the inclusion of a Kumar Singh was shunted to the cut­off date for detecting tribution of forms for claims, suspected foreigner, doubt­ the Land Resources foreigners in Assam. objections and corrections ful voter or declared foreign­ meets President on NRC Department as part of a from Friday. Some MLAs er in the draft. Nod for four Cabinet minor top­level bureaucratic Available for 3 years have taken up the responsi­ “It is too premature a fear, Special Correspondent A memorandum submit­ extends reshuffle effected on NRC officials said the legacy bility individually. since the Supreme Court New Delhi ted by the delegation ac­ more NDRF Thursday. data was available online for would take a call on what A delegation of 10 Opposi­ cused the government of PMGSY three years after the exercise Assistance centres will or will not happen dur­ tion parties met President undermining the nation’s battalions Trafficking in Bengal: began. It is now under login “We have set up Bidhayak ing the upcoming phase of Ram Nath Kovind on Thurs­ democratic and secular va­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT rights panel seeks report credentials, which means (MLA) Seva Kendras in Dhe­ the NRC exercise,” an official day and urged him to ensure lues. It said the government Special Correspondent New Delhi NEW DELHI KOLKATA the access is limited to cer­ kiajuli. We will support every said, declining to be quoted. that not a single Indian citi­ was spreading misleading suo motu Taking cognisance tain officials. Public access to single Indian left out of the fi­ Former Chief Minister Ta­ zen is excluded from the Na­ statements against the Su­ The Union Cabinet on The government on Thurs­ The of a report published in the legacy data was report­ nal draft of NRC, and will en­ run Gogoi, meanwhile, criti­ tional Register of Citizens preme Court on the NRC is­ Thursday gave its approval day approved the contin­ Hindu on the plight of edly withdrawn after cases sure no Indian is left out,” cised Mr. Hajela for a work (NRC) in Assam. sue. “This NRC list has not for raising four more batta­ uation of the Pradhan Man­ trafficking survivors in South of misuse. Ashok Singhal, the BJP legis­ “done poorly as proved by The delegation included even spared some brave sol­ lions of the National Disas­ tri Gram Sadak Yojana 24 Parganas district, the West “Easier access to legacy lator representing the Dhe­ the apex court’s censure”. Rashtrapatiji ter Response Force (NDRF) (PMGSY) beyond the 12th Bengal Human Rights Congress leader Anand diers, ex­ ’s fa­ data would be of help for the kiajuli seat, said. Not ruling out a “faulty” final at an estimated cost of ₹637 five year plan period. Commission has sought a Sharma, TMC’s Derek mily, a former Chief Minis­ left­out people during the Other organisations such NRC, he said the citizens’ O’Brien, DMK’s Tiruchi Siva, ter and other elected crore. The decision taken by report from the West Bengal the Cabinet Committee on Legal Services Authority and process of claims, objections as the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yu­ charter would turn into NCP’s Supriya Sule, CPI(M)’s representatives and promi­ The aim is to reduce the Economic Affairs would the Women and Child and corrections,” CRPC gen­ ba Chhatra Parishad have ex­ “waste paper” if the Citizen­ Md. Salim, SP’s Ramgopal nent members of the civil response time, keeping in help in connecting 38,412 Development and the Social eral secretary Bidhayak Das pressed concern over the al­ ship (Amendment) Bill, 2016 Yadav, TDP’s Y.S. Chowdary society,” the memorandum view the country’s vast ge­ Welfare Department in this Purkayastha said. leged move to penalise is turned into law. and AAP’s Sanjay Singh. said. ographic area, an official habitations at an estimated regard by September 24. statement said. cost of ₹84, 934 crore. ‘India gained exponentially CBI: ‘hawala’ records of ‘Will continue oil trade with India’

from U.S. nuclear deal’ senior officials seized Special Correspondent interview. And Venezuela has the Chennai Venezuela shipped world’s largest certified None now objects when India conducts test: Saran Special Correspondent Profiles, have been arrested Venezuela’s crude ship­ 2,80,000 barrels per day oil reserves. It also has NEW DELHI for alleged conspiracy to fa­ ments to India, its third (bpd) of heavy crude to huge coltan reserves. Suhasini Haidar largest export market af­ India in the first half of That’s why they are after NEW DELHI The CBI has seized ‘hawala’ vour him in a disproportion­ transaction records indicat­ ate assets case against an In­ ter the U.S. and China, the year, down from Venezuela,” he said, re­ India has gained exponentially from ing that several senior go­ dian Revenue Service (IRS) fell 21% in the first six 3,55,500 bpd shipped in ferring to the U.S. the Indo­U.S. civilian nuclear deal, vernment officials were ille­ official, through certain offi­ months of the year, but the corresponding pe­ sanctions. said former Foreign Secretary gally transferring money cials of the CBI’s Anti­Cor­ the country’s Ambassa­ riod of last year, accord­ Mr. Montiel said India Shyam Saran, at an event to mark 10 abroad. The papers were ruption Branch­III. dor in Delhi has said ing to a Reuters report. had assured Venezuela years since U.S. nuclear restrictions found on the premises of a The CBI is examining the plans are on to boost Augusto Montiel The Latin American that it would not support were lifted on India. He listed per­ caterer, who has been ar­ transactions to identify production at home and country’s oil production unilateral sanctions. manent access to nuclear fuel and a rested along with a Mumbai­ those involved in the illegal that oil trade with India against the people of Ve­ averaged 1.58 million “Foreign Minister Sush­ change in international perception Shyam Saran * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA based businessman for al­ money transfers, an official will continue unabated nezuela. As a result, pro­ bpd in the first five ma Swaraj told us last as the biggest benefits for India since leged role in a corruption said. The case is related to despite U.S. sanctions. duction has come down. months of 2018, its low­ year that India would the U.S. Congress passed the deal in Jaishankar said he would “not rule it case. another FIR lodged by the “Venezuela has been But we will continue our est annual level since not back unilateral sanc­ September 2008. out,” given geopolitical shifts that Caterer Rakesh Tiwari CBI against IRS official Vivek affected by U.S. sanc­ oil trade with India,” Am­ 1985. tions. These are unilater­ “Today we have long term agree­ could change China’s perceptions. and Mumbai­based Neeraj Batra, his wife Priyanka, Ko­ tions. These are econom­ bassador Augusto Mon­ “Oil is the world’s al sanctions imposed by ments for fuel with at least a dozen Kochar, the owner of Viraj char and others. ic sanctions, aggression, tiel told The Hindu in an most wanted resource. the U.S., not by the UN.” countries. From being a target of Cut­off date technology denial regimes, and also The Nuclear Suppliers group had [being targeted for nuclear] testing, made 1967 the cut­off date for de­ we are now not a target. No one now claring nuclear powers, which India objects when India conducts a mis­ missed as it conducted its first nu­ sile test,” said Mr. Saran, who was clear test in 1974, which resulted in subsequently Prime Minister Man­ sanctions and cutting off of assis­ mohan Singh’s special envoy and tance from western countries. In Chairman of the National Security 1998, after the Pokhran tests, India Advisory Board. faced further sanctions, which led to many hardships, said Mr. Jaishankar, Three errors as he described the journey to 2005, Speaking at the same function, or­ when India and the U.S. signed a ganised by the Society for Policy Stu­ breakthrough defence framework dies, former Foreign Secretary S. agreement that changed the course Jaishankar said India’s decision to go of the relationships. ahead with the civilian nuclear deal Both Mr. Saran and Mr. Jaishankar in 2008 was an effort to reverse were part of the Indian diplomatic “three strategic errors”. team that travelled to the U.S. in July “There was the error of partition, 2008, and negotiated the contours where we lost our territory, the error of the agreement that would have to of economics where many of the re­ be cleared by the U.S. Congress forms of the 90s should have come where many opposed the George earlier, and on the nuclear side, had Bush plan to end nuclear restric­ we pushed our nuclear programme tions on India and begin nuclear as consistently as China did in the trade. “Our biggest problem was 1950s, we could have made the Non that a gentleman called Barack Oba­ Proliferation Treaty deadline.” ma posed the most difficulties about Speaking about China’s opposi­ the deal and he was not even pre­ tion in 2016 to India’s membership pared to meet us,” said Mr. Jaishan­ application for the Nuclear Sup­ kar, to laughs from the audience, as pliers group (NSG), Mr. Saran said he he described “killer amendments” didn’t think it was “likely” that the that the former U.S. Senator, who la­ membership would come through in ter became U.S. President, tried to the “near future,” although, Mr. introduce. https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 12 WORLD FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE U.S. hits Russia with new sanctions Venezuela cracks Blames Moscow for the attempted assassination of a former Russian spy in England and his daughter down on Oppn. Gardiner Harris Two lawmakers stripped of immunity WASHINGTON Moscow vows to retaliate The Trump administration Associated Press Agence France-Presse said on Wednesday that it accusing the U.S. of CARACAS ‘Pak. will build balanced Moscow “demonising Russia”. relationship with U.S.’ would soon impose new Venezuela’s pro­govern­ The Kremlin on Thursday “We consider ISLAMABAD sanctions against Russia in ment Constitutional As­ vowed to retaliate against categorically unacceptable Pakistan’s Prime Minister­in­ response to the attempted sembly stripped two Oppo­ waiting Imran Khan has said assassination in March of a “unacceptable” new U.S. the linking of new sition lawmakers of their his government will build a former Russian spy living in sanctions against Russia restrictions, which we as immunity from prosecution more “balanced and England and his daughter. over its alleged role in a before consider illegal, to on Wednesday, accusing trustworthy” relationship Under the terms of the nerve agent attack on a the case in Salisbury,” them of having roles in a with the U.S., asserting that sanctions, any attempt by a former spy, as the ruble and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry drone attack that authorities the trust deficit has resulted U.S. company to obtain an Russian stocks tumbled. Peskov told journalists. say was an attempt to kill so­ Nicolas Maduro in many ups and downs in the export licence to sell anyth­ Russia will “work on He called the U.S. an cialist President Nicolas Ma­ bilateral ties. “We count ing with a potential national developing retaliatory unpredictable partner but duro. tempted homicide. trade and economic relations security purpose — gas tur­ measures,” Foreign Ministry said “Moscow retains hopes The National Constituent During a national televi­ with the U.S. extremely bine engines, electronics, in­ Protective measures: A file photo of personnel searching a spokeswoman Maria of building constructive Assembly voted unanimous­ sion broadcast on Tuesday, important,” he was quoted as tegrated circuits and testing van in Winterslow, following the poisoning of former Russian Zakharova told journalists, relations with Washington”. ly to lift the protection for Mr. Maduro accused Mr. Re­ saying by the Dawn. PTI and calibration equipment — spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. * AP CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Julio Borges and Juan Re­ quesens, 29, and Mr. Borges will be automatically denied. quesens, who have seats in of complicity in the wee­ U.S. police officer’s son Exporters can attempt to ports to Russia that could Obama administration, ad­ 1991, which mandates that British citizen, and his the Opposition­controlled kend drone explosions. held for beating Sikh man prove that the goods will be have military purposes. ding that further sanctions once the government has de­ daughter Yulia, in large part legislature. The move came On Wednesday, Mr. Borg­ MANTECA used for legitimate purpos­ Tougher measures are expected in three months termined that a country has because of the obscure poi­ after the Supreme Court or­ es, who has rejected the ac­ A California police chief says es, but that is a tough hurdle called for in the legislation, “could be among the most used chemical or biological son involved. It was one of a dered the arrest of Mr. Borg­ cusation, met with top law­ his family is “shaken to the core” after his son was to clear. however, if Russia fails to severe yet, but could also be weapons in violation of inter­ strain of nerve agents known es, who lives in exile in Co­ makers in Colombia, which arrested in the beating of a An administration official prove that it is no longer us­ quite modest, depending on national law or even made as Novichok that they say is lombia’s capital, Bogota. has blamed Mr. Maduro’s 71­year­old Sikh man. Tyrone described the list of affected ing chemical weapons. where the Trump adminis­ “substantial preparations” to kept under tight control by Mr. Requesens was ar­ government for causing the McAllister, 18, and a 16­year­ items as “enormously elabo­ tration wants to go.” do so, sanctions must be the Russian authorities. rested on Tuesday, an ac­ crisis that has led to masses old boy could face charges rate”, but outside experts Important step The sanctions were im­ imposed. The Trump administra­ tion purportedly captured of Venezuelans fleeing including attempted robbery, said the actual amount of ex­ “Today’s step is an impor­ posed under the provisions British officials had de­ tion agreed with the determi­ in a video circulating on so­ across the border into the elder abuse and assault ports involved is fairly small tant but moderate set of of the Chemical and Biologi­ clared that Russia was to nation by the British govern­ cial media. neighboring country. following Monday’s attack in because the Obama adminis­ sanctions,” said Peter Har­ cal Weapons Control and blame for the attempted poi­ ment that set in motion the Mr. Maduro has accused “We want to see you out Manteca. AP tration already banned ex­ rell, a sanctions official in the Warfare Elimination Act of soning of Sergei V. Skripal, a sanctions. NY TIMES the two of being tied to a of power, imprisoned for weekend incident, in which the violation of human two drones loaded with ex­ rights, imprisoned for the plosives exploded while he destruction of democracy,” spoke at an outdoor military Mr. Borges said. “The only At least 29 children killed in strike on Yemen bus celebration. promoter of violence is a Constituent Assembly man named Nicolas Madu­ Agence France-Presse wounded, including 30 chil­ that at the time of the attack includes the United Arab leader Diosdado Cabello ro.” The six suspects arrest­ Sanaa dren,” the ICRC said on the children were on a bus Emirates, intervened in 2015 said Mr. Borges and Mr. Re­ ed earlier face charges of A strike on a bus in rebel­ Twitter. heading back to school to try to restore the interna­ quesens were just the first treason, attempted murder held northern Yemen killed “from a picnic, when the tionally recognised govern­ lawmakers to be accused in and terrorism. Investigators at least 29 children on Thurs­ ‘Toll not final’ driver stopped to get a ment after the rebels drove it the investigation of the inci­ have linked a total of 19 peo­ day, the Red Cross said, as A spokesman for the Red drink”. out of the capital Sanaa. dent. ple to the attack, Chief Pro­ the Saudi­led coalition faced Cross in Sanaa said the toll Geert Cappelaere, the UN Saudi Arabia had shot secutor Tarek William Saab a growing outcry over the was not final as casualties Children’s Fund regional di­ down a missile fired by the ‘Justice is coming’ said on Wednesday. attack. from the attack were taken to rector in the Middle East and Huthis on Wednesday, with “These are the first two who During his speech, Mr. The coalition said it had several hospitals. North Africa, said all the chil­ debris killing a Yemeni man appear to be involved, but Maduro displayed wanted carried out what it called The Huthis’ Al­Masirah dren on the bus were “re­ and wounding 11 others, the the investigation conti­ posters with names and pic­ “legitimate military action” TV, quoting the rebel Health portedly under the age of coalition said. nues,” Mr. Cabello said. tures of other suspects who in the area, targeting Huthi Providing aid: Doctors treating a boy injured in the air strike in Ministry, reported that 50 15”. The missile was fired from “Justice is coming.” he said are living in the U.S. rebels responsible for a Saada, Yemen on Thursday. * REUTERS people were killed and 77 “Does the world really the rebel­held Yemeni pro­ In ordering the 48­year­ and Colombia. He said he deadly missile attack on the wounded, “mostly chil­ need more innocent chil­ vince of Amran towards Ji­ old Borges’ arrest, the Su­ would provide evidence to Saudi city of Jizan on said the strike hit a bus filled “A hospital supported by dren”, though it was not pos­ dren’s lives to stop the cruel zan, the coalition said. preme Court accused him of authorities in both coun­ Wednesday. with children in the Huthi our team in Yemen received sible to verify that toll. war on children in Yemen?” The Huthis have in recent “flagrant crimes,” including tries and ask for their coop­ But the International stronghold of Saada, causing the bodies of 29 children un­ The Save the Children he added. months ramped up missile public incitement, treason eration in handing over sus­ Committee of the Red Cross dozens of casualties. der the age of 15 and 48 charity, quoting its staff, said The coalition, which also attacks against Saudi Arabia. to the fatherland and at­ pects. Pence unveils plans to Argentina Senate votes build U.S. Space Force down abortion Bill It will be the sixth military branch It was earlier passed in Lower House

Agence France-Presse and defence officials, who Agence France-Presse scarves that had come to Washington are wary of the cost and ad­ Buenos Aires symbolize their movement, U.S. Vice­President Mike ded bureaucracy. Argentina’s senators on were downcast. Pence on Thursday unveiled But Mr. Pence was un­ Thursday voted against lega­ Some burnt garbage and details of plans to build a equivocal in presenting the lising abortion in the home­ wooden pallets and threw U.S. Space Force that would administration’s wish for it land of Pope Francis, dash­ stones at riot police, who at­ become the sixth branch of to become a reality — prefer­ ing the hopes of women’s tempted to disperse them America’s massive military, ably by 2020, the end of Mr. rights groups after the Bill with tear gas and water can­ saying the “time has come” Trump’s term in office. was approved by the legisla­ non. to prepare for “the next Mr. Pence said an inde­ ture’s Lower House months The vote followed a refe­ battlefield.” pendent Space Force was earlier. rendum in Ireland, another President Donald Trump essential to counter Russia The vote, with 38 against, traditionally Catholic coun­ had ordered the creation of and China, which are “ag­ 31 in favour and two absten­ try, in May that paved the the Space Force in June, ar­ gressively” working toward tions, capped a marathon way to legislate for the ter­ guing the Pentagon needs it anti­satellite capabilities. session that began the day mination of fetuses. to tackle vulnerabilities in He repeated Mr. Trump’s before and stretched into It also came after months space and assert U.S. domi­ call for Congress to invest an the early hours of Thursday. of heated campaigns on the nance in orbit. Its creation, additional $8 billion in U.S. Fireworks and shouts of polarising issue. however, is not a done deal, space security systems over joy erupted among anti­ The move was also con­ as it needs to be approved the next five years. Shortly abortion activists camped demned by Amnesty Inter­ by Congress, and the con­ after his speech, Mr. Trump outside Congress, while national, which said Argen­ cept has met with some tweeted: “Space Force all pro­choice campaigners, tina had squandered an skepticism from lawmakers the way!” many decked in the green historic opportunity.

Trump ally indicted for Trudeau stands firm amid illegal trading dispute with Saudi Arabia Agence France-Presse New York ‘Canada will always speak up on questions of human rights’ U.S. House Republican and Trump loyalist Chris Col­ Agence France-Presse Adel al­Jubeir to try to re­ lins, who has been indicted Ottawa solve the dispute. “Diplo­ by federal prosecutors for Canadian Prime Minister matic talks continue,” he securities fraud, remained Justin Trudeau on Wednes­ said. defiant on Wednesday as day refused to apologise for On Wednesday, Saudi he vowed to clear his name calling out Saudi Arabia on state media said the king­ and secure a re­election. its human rights record, af­ dom has nevertheless also Mr. Collins, 68, was ar­ ter Riyadh said it was consi­ stopped all medical treat­ rested and charged along dering further punitive mea­ ment programmes in Cana­ with his son Cameron Col­ sures against Ottawa over its da and was working on lins and another defendant criticisms of the kingdom. transferring all patients for their role in illegal trad­ Tensions have been high there to other countries. ing of stock in Australian between the two countries Justin Trudeau Further straining ties, the biotech firm Innate Immu­ since Monday, when Riyadh Saudi central bank instruct­ notherapeutics, where the expelled Canada’s Ambassa­ “Canada will always speak ed its overseas asset manag­ elder Collins was a board dor, recalled its own envoy strongly and clearly in priv­ ers to dispose of their Cana­ member, according to the and froze all new trade and ate and in public on ques­ dian equities, bonds and indictment, which was just investments. tions of human rights,” he cash holdings “no matter the unsealed. Riyadh also said it will re­ said. cost”, the Financial Times “As I fight to clear my locate thousands of Saudi “We do not wish to have reported. name, rest assured I will students studying in Canada poor relations with Saudi But in an apparent effort continue to work hard for to other countries, while Arabia,” he added, saying to safeguard its economic in­ the people and consti­ state airline Saudia an­ Ottawa recognises that Ri­ terests, Saudi Energy Minis­ tuents of the 27th Congres­ nounced it was suspending yadh “has made progress ter Khalid al­Falih said the sional District of New York, flights to Toronto. when it comes to human dispute will not affect state and I will remain on the The kingdom was angry at rights.” oil giant Aramco’s clients in ballot running for re­elec­ Ottawa for openly denounc­ Mr. Trudeau noted that Canada. Saudi oil supplies tion this November,” the ing a crackdown on rights his Foreign Minister, Chrys­ are independent of political Congressman told a press activists in Saudi Arabia. tia Freeland, had “a long considerations, Mr. Falih conference late on But on Wednesday, Mr. conversation” on Tuesday was quoted as saying by Wednesday. Trudeau stood firm. with her Saudi counterpart state media. CM YK https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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09-08-2018 % CHANGE Panel favours powers for Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 38,024 ddddddddddddddd0.36 Sensex extends dizzying climb US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 68.68 ddddddddddddd-0.07 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 30,560 ddddddddddddd-0.01 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 72.22 ddddddddddddd-0.68 Stock index adds 1,000 points in just 10 sessions to close at a record 38,024.37 SEBI to intercept phone calls

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the 17,000 mark. Move may help bolster probes; checks and balances urged MUMBAI “Markets are gradually NIFTY 50 Special Correspondent PRICE CHANGE Sustained buying support moving higher, without giv­ ties. In what could mean giv­ Mumbai Adani Ports...... 378.00...... 3.40 from foreign and domestic ing much importance to the ing SEBI more teeth to act Asian Paints...... 1417.35...... -8.40 institutional investors, along global issues, be it escalation A committee set up by the against auditors and CAs, Axis Bank ...... 621.05...... 24.75 Securities and Exchange the panel has also recom­ Bajaj Auto ...... 2658.60...... -2.00 with earnings­revival fuelled of trade war or currency Bajaj Finserv...... 7075.10...... 23.50 optimism, led the Sensex to fluctuation,” said Jayant Board of India (SEBI) has re­ mended powers to take “di­ Bajaj Finance ...... 2830.15...... 17.00 one of its fastest 1,000 points Manglik, President, Religare commended giving the capi­ rect action against perpetra­ Bharti Airtel ...... 367.05...... -18.25 tal market watchdog direct tors of financial fraud.” BPCL...... 388.95...... 1.65 rallies on Thursday as the Broking. Cipla ...... 619.15...... -13.40 equity benchmark soared “It shows that participants powers to intercept phone The panel is in favour of Coal India ...... 280.10...... 4.10 above the 38,000­mark for are focusing mainly on earn­ calls for better investigation including a new sub­section Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2237.70...... -7.80 while strengthening the reg­ within the SEBI Act to prohi­ Eicher Motors...... 27438.75. .. -154.40 the first time ever. ings, which are largely in line GAIL (India)...... 375.55...... -1.45 The 30­share Sensex with street expectations and ulations to act against perpe­ bit schemes or artifices to Grasim Ind ...... 997.35...... -11.75 touched an intraday high of even surpassed in some cas­ trators of financial state­ manipulate the books of ac­ HCL Tech...... 956.65...... -7.90 ments fraud. er,” stated the report by the counts and financial state­ HDFC ...... 1969.95...... -14.65 38,076.23 before closing at Highs and lows: Overall market breadth showed improvement es,” he said. Investors ought HDFC Bank...... 2118.50...... -17.85 38,024.37, up 136.81 points, with 1,331 stocks advancing and 1,351 declining. * PAUL NORONHA to “however, maintain extra Committee on Fair Market ments or to hide diversion, Hero MotoCorp ...... 3281.35...... -17.70 or 0.36%. Gains were led by caution in stock selection Direct power Conduct formed under the misutilisation or siphoning Hindalco ...... 227.45...... 6.85 “The committee has recom­ chairmanship of former law of public issue proceeds. HPCL ...... 280.45...... -2.25 ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and 1,331 stocks advancing as closed above the 37,000 now as we have already seen Hind Unilever ...... 1754.20...... -2.95 State Bank of India along against 1,351 declines. This mark only 9 trading sessions decent surge,” he added. mended that SEBI may seek secretary T.K. Viswanathan. The panel has proposed Indiabulls HFL ...... 1349.50...... -20.65 direct power to intercept Currently, the regulator broadening the ambit of ma­ ICICI Bank ...... 333.00...... 14.30 with NTPC, Power Grid was in contrast to some of earlier on July 27. The index Foreign portfolio inves­ calls to aid in investigation, has powers to seek call data nipulative and unfair trade IndusInd Bank ...... 1985.05...... -15.60 Corp. and Vedanta. the earlier sessions when the earlier took 13 sessions to tors have made net purchas­ Bharti Infratel ...... 293.25...... 2.80 benchmarks rose amid sig­ move from 36,000 to es of almost ₹2,000 crore in akin to the power granted to records as part of its probes, practices, stating that listed Infosys ...... 1379.95...... 17.20 the Central Board of Direct but the committee is of the firms should have policies to Indian OilCorp...... 165.40...... -0.50 Breadth improves nificant broader market 37,000. Incidentally, it took August, while flows from ITC ...... 302.50...... 1.55 Overall market breadth, weakness. Investor opti­ only five trading sessions in domestic institutional inves­ Taxes. However, proper view that the regulator deal with leaks of unpu­ Kotak Bank ...... 1277.25...... -11.05 while still negative, showed a mism could be gauged from September 2007 for the Sen­ tors are already at record le­ checks and balances must be needs more powers to assist blished price sensitive L&T...... 1284.70...... -13.55 ensured for use of the pow­ in its regulatory responsibili­ information. Lupin ...... 822.85...... -2.70 marked improvement with the fact that the Sensex had sex to move from 16,000 to vels in 2018.

M&M ...... 933.20...... 4.90

Maurti Suzuki...... 9146.05...... -61.35

NTPC ...... 160.70...... 2.45

ONGC ...... 168.90...... -3.60 PowerGrid Corp ...... 192.60...... 3.10 HC to hear T Rowe Price Jet defers Reliance Ind ...... 1217.95...... 0.25 HDFC Bank seeks clarification on State Bank ...... 317.40...... 8.70 quarterly Sun Pharma ...... 571.45...... -2.55

Tata Motors ...... 257.85...... 2.70 in UTI case on Aug. 13 Tata Steel ...... 585.95...... 8.45 results TCS ...... 1974.35...... 0.35 Directive sought on MF ownership too exclusive security, yet to sign ICA Tech Mahindra ...... 646.20...... -7.70

Titan ...... 915.30...... -19.70 Special Correspondent UltraTech Cement...... 4310.80...... 66.70 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bank of India (SBI), Life In­ Asks IBA for solution in the event of lenders deciding to liquidate all securities MUMBAI UPL...... 637.75...... -10.10 MUMBAI Vedanta ...... 230.60...... 5.80 surance Corporation of In­ Amid concerns over its de­ MANOJIT SAHA Wipro ...... 278.70...... 0.20 The Bombay High Court will dia (LIC), Bank of Baroda approval. week a few other lenders, in­ teriorating financial ...... Mumbai YES Bank 381.05 -1.70 hear the petition filed by T (BoB) and Punjab National health, Jet Airways on Zee Entertainment ...... 522.90...... -7.80 HDFC Bank, one of the cluding HDFC Bank, were Rowe Price International Bank (PNB) — are not in fa­ HDFC Bank, the second lar­ large lenders, which is yet to likely to come on board. Thursday deferred the an­ against the other sharehol­ vour of granting an exten­ gest private sector lender in sign the agreement, has nouncement of its quarter­ ders of UTI Mutual Fund on sion to Mr. Puri even though the country, is yet to sign the sought a clarification from Other banks ly results to an unspecified EXCHANGE RATES August 13, which is also the a successor has not yet been date, after the board meet­ Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit Inter­Creditor Agreement the Indian Banks’ Associa­ IndusInd Bank is another except yen at 4 p.m. on August 09 day on which the tenure of identified. (ICA) — an understanding tion (IBA) on ‘exclusive se­ private sector lender which ing which lasted for more CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL the current managing direc­ As per the petition, the among lenders to resolve curity’, wherein, if a security is yet to sign the agreement. than three hours here. US Dollar...... 68.48...... 68.80 tor Leo Puri ends. board of UTI Trustees ap­ stressed assets quickly. of a borrower is exclusively Among public sector banks, “This is to inform that Euro ...... 79.37...... 79.75 A division bench headed proved allowing Mr. Puri to the Board of Directors of British Pound...... 88.29...... 88.70 As many as 29 lenders pledged to one particular Indian Bank is yet to sign the Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 61.61...... 61.90 by Justices R.M. Borde and continue for a further 12 have signed the ICA, which bank in a consortium, then agreement. The primary ob­ the Company, at its Meet­ Chinese Yuan ...... 10.04...... 10.09 P.K. Chavan posted the mat­ months, but independent was framed under the aegis what will be the solution in jective of the agreement is to ing held today [Thursday], Swiss Franc ...... 68.94...... 69.27 ter to August 13 after T Rowe directors on the board of Singapore Dollar ...... 50.22...... 50.47 of the Indian Banks’ Associa­ case lenders decide to liqui­ focus on the ₹50 crore­₹500 deferred the matter of con­ Canadian Dollar...... 52.49...... 52.74 Price, which has a 26% stake UTI AMC opposed the tion last month, following As many as 29 lenders have date all the securities that crore and the ₹500 crore­ sideration of the unaudited Malaysian Ringitt ...... 16.80...... 16.91 in UTI MF, asked the court decision. the Sunil Mehta Committee’s signed the Inter Creditor are pledged. ₹2,000 crore categories. financial results for the Source:Indian Bank to direct the board of the The overseas shareholder recommendation. Agreement, so far. * REUTERS According to banking in­ It is estimated that there quarter ended 30 June, fund house to allow Mr. Puri also wants the court to di­ The ICA is applicable to all dustry sources, the lender is are ₹2.1 lakh crore of 2018,” Jet Airways said in a to continue as the managing rect the other promoters to corporate borrowers who The lender with the high­ awaiting the clarification be­ stressed assets in the ₹50 filing to exchanges. BULLION RATES CHENNAI director for at least another comply with the new ow­ have availed loans for an est exposure to a stressed fore signing the agreement. crore to ₹500 crore category. The Audit Committee August 09 rates in rupees with pre- 12 months. nership norms for mutual amount of ₹50 crore or more borrower will be authorised “IBA is looking into the The total stress in public “did not recommend the fi­ vious rates in parentheses According to T Rowe funds that bar one entity under consortium lending/ to formulate the resolution matter and the issue should sector banks is estimated at nancial results to the board Retail Silver (1g) ...... 41.3...... (41.2) Price, government­owned from holding more than 10% multiple banking arrange­ plan, which will be present­ be resolved shortly,” a bank­ ₹10.6 lakh crore, as on March for its approval, pending 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 2821...... (2822) promoters of UTI MF — State in more than one AMC. ments. ed to all lenders for their er said, adding that by next 31, 2018. closure of certain matters.” ‘Can’t accept UAE top source of inward ONGC as promoter’ remittances in 2016­17: RBI Press Trust of India New Delhi ‘Maximum funds sent to Kerala, mostly for family expenses’ Virtually rejecting Oil and Natural Gas Corp.’s (ONGC) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT tances received by Indian re­ demand, Hindustan Petro­ Mumbai sidents were used for family leum Corp Ltd. (HPCL) has The United Arab Emirates maintenance, i.e., consump­ said it was acting as per its (UAE) has emerged as the tion (59.2%), followed by de­ understanding of the sta­ top source of inward remit­ posits in banks (20%) and in­ tute in not recognising the tances, while Kerala has re­ vestments in landed new majority shareholder ceived the maximum funds property and shares (8.3%),” as its promoter. sent from abroad, according the survey said. “Whatever we are do­ to the Reserve Bank of In­ ing, whatever we have dia’s survey of inward remit­ ‘RDA most popular’ done and whatever we will tances for 2016­17. The rupee drawing arrange­ be doing will be as per our UAE’s share in total remit­ ment (RDA) is the most pop­

understanding of the sta­ tances was 26.9%, followed * GETTYIMAGES/ISTOCK ular channel of remittances tute and the guidelines and by the United States (22.9%), which accounts for 75.2% of Companies Act and the SE­ Saudi Arabia (11.6%), Qatar ala has the highest share remittances, followed by BI guidelines...,” HPCL (6.5%) and Kuwait (5.5%). with 19%, followed by Maha­ SWIFT (19.5%), direct transf­ CMD Mukesh Kumar Sura­ According to the survey, rashtra (16.7%), Karnataka ers (3.4%) and cheques and na told reporters here. 82% of the total remittances (15%), Tamil Nadu (8%) and drafts (1.9%). Mr. Surana was asked received by India originated Delhi (5.9%). Private banks got the lions about ONGC seeking recog­ from eight countries — UAE, Kerala, Maharashtra, Kar­ share in total remittances nition as the promoter of the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Qatar, nataka and Tamil Nadu to­ with 74.1%, while public sec­ the company post­acquisi­ Kuwait, Oman, the United gether received 58.7% of to­ tor banks share was 17.3% tion of a majority stake in Kingdom and Malaysia. tal remittances. and the remaining with fo­ HPCL. Among destinations, Ker­ “More than half of remit­ reign banks. German auto parts maker Continental bets big on India, to ramp up headcount Firm to invest a ‘high three­digit crore rupees’ within 2 years, says board official

Special Correspondent bet big on this market.” Bengaluru Currently, the automotive Continental AG, a German supplier, tyre manufacturer maker of automotive compo­ and industrial partner oper­ nents, plans to invest a “high ates across India — with over three­digit crore rupees” 8,000 employees across 15 within the next two years in locations, including eight India and plans to ramp up plants that cater to the In­ the number of employees in dian market, and a technical the country to 10,000 over centre that supports Conti­ the same period, said Frank nental’s global R&D Jourdan, member of the ex­ activities. ecutive board of Continental Prashanth Doreswamy, and president of the chassis head of Continental India, and safety division. said: “With competent re­ “Today [the company] ce­ Key market: India is an important market and R&D hub for sources and proven Conti­ lebrates its 10th year produc­ Continental, says board member Frank Jourdan. * AP nental technologies, the ing systems and components timely investment will pro­ for safe, clean and intelligent pacity of all its divisions as formation; the largest it may pel our localisations efforts mobility locally in India,” Mr. well as greenfield invest­ have seen in its 130­year his­ for safe, clean and intelligent Jourdan told reporters here ments, spanning across key tory,” he said. mobility, for both passenger on Thursday. “Continental automotive hubs. “We are making invest­ cars and two­wheeler has been serving the Indian ments where it matters. In­ segments”. market for almost 50 years. Cusp of transformation dia is an important market Future readiness is a This sum [investment] en­ “The global automotive in­ and R&D hub for Continen­ priority for the manufactur­ tails the extension of the ca­ dustry is at the cusp of trans­ tal, and it is in our strategy to ing sector, he added. CM YK https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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NOIDA/DELHI THE HINDU 14 BUSINESS FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Walmart may seek I­T view on liability MRF’s profit more U.S. retail major expected to approach authorities for determining tax burden in $16 bn Flipkart deal than doubles in Q1

Press Trust of India chase agreement, reading in said. Walmart on May 9 had Tyre maker posts ₹260.74 crore net New Delhi depth which investor has announced that it would pay U.S. retail major Walmart routed money from which approximately $16 billion to Special Correspondent may approach Indian auth­ jurisdiction and when and buy about 77% stake in CHENNAI orities seeking withholding whether any treaty benefit Flipkart. Tyre maker MRF Ltd. posted tax certificates for determin­ apply to them, the official Significant shareholders a more than twofold in­ Nissan rolls out Sporty ing the tax liability in the $16 added. in Flipkart like SoftBank, crease in standalone net Micra at ₹5.03 lakh billion Flipkart buyout deal. Naspers, venture fund Accel profit for the first quarter CHENNAI Following CCI’s nod to the Provisional assessment Partners and eBay, have ended June 30, 2018, at Nissan Motor India Pvt. Ltd. Walmart­Flipkart deal, the Nangia Advisors LLP Manag­ agreed to sell their shares. ₹260.74 crore, from ₹106.53 rolled out the ‘Sporty’ variant I­T department expects Wal­ ing Partner Rakesh Nangia Also, co­founder Sachin Ban­ crore in the year earlier. of its premium hatchback mart to approach it under said lower or nil withholding sal would be selling his stake During the period under re­ Micra. “With a host of fun, Section 197 of the Income tax order obtained under to the U.S. retail major. view, the total revenue from intelligent and enhanced Tax Act within a fortnight. Section 197 before making The department has been operations declined to safety features, the new Eyeing sops: Under Sec. 197, any NRI selling shares can give ₹3,855.55 crore from Total revenue from Nissan Micra is the best “We were told that the reasons why they should be taxed at lower rate in India. * AFP payment to Flipkart shall act reviewing Section 9 (1) of the operations, however, value­for­money premium deal would be closed within as a provisional assessment I­T Act, which deals with in­ ₹3,971.76 crore. declined to ₹3,855.55 crore. hatchback available in India a week of the Competition reasons to Indian authorities May shared share purchase of the transaction. direct transfer provisions, to today. The more intelligent Commission of India (CCI ) as to why they should be agreement with tax authori­ The payee can represent see if the benefits under the NCDs secured and more sporty new Nissan approval. So we expect them taxed at a lower or nil rate in ties, and the I­T department the case before tax authori­ bilateral tax treaties with In a regulatory filing, MD and hypothecation by way Micra is available at a starting to file with the I­T authorities India. is currently calculating the ties to determine the with­ countries like Singapore and Rahul Mammen Mappillai of first charge on plant and price of ₹5.03 lakh across seeking withholding tax cer­ Walmart last month as­ tax rate that would be applic­ holding tax implication on Mauritius could be available said its listed secured re­ machinery at the company’s India,” said Hardeep Singh tificate under Section 197 sured the I­T department able for investors in Flipkart the transaction and the for foreign investors selling deemable non­convertible plants in Perambalur. Brar, director, NMIPL. within a fortnight,” an I­T of­ that it would fulfil all tax obli­ who are selling the shares to payer has to consider the stakes to Walmart. Singa­ debentures aggregating to Shares of the company shed ficial said. gations. Walmart. lower/nil withholding tax or­ pore­registered Flipkart Pvt. ₹500 crore were secured by ₹982.40 to close at Ramco Systems bags Under Section 197, any Bengaluru­based e­com­ The I­T department is go­ der at the time of making Ltd. holds majority stake in way of legal mortgage of the ₹75,842.95 on the BSE on order from AP Cargo NRI selling shares can give merce major Flipkart had in ing through the share pur­ payment to Flipkart, Nangia Flipkart India. company’s land at Gujarat Thursday. CHENNAI Software firm Ramco Systems said it had bagged a “multi­ million dollar” order from Jindal Steel Mcleod Manila­based air freight Sundram Fasteners ‘Taiwan’s Wistron to invest leader AP Cargo Logistic and Power Russel to sell Network Corp. to implement Q1 net rises 17.8% its logistics software. AP turns a profit ₹1,150 crore in Karnataka’ more estates Cargo would implement the software to “streamline its Profit crosses ₹100 cr. on CV demand Reuters Special Correspondent freight operations ‘IPhone contract manufacturer to make components later’ countrywide,” the firm said in Special Correspondent corded an increase of 22.4% Jindal Steel and Power Ltd. KOLKATA Special Correspondent a statement. The freight and CHENNAI in its total revenue from op­ posted its first profit in 15 Technology, the Department Mcleod Russel India Ltd. Bengaluru logistics market was Sundram Fasteners Limited erations of ₹970.97 crore quarters on Thursday and of Revenue and other minis­ may sell more tea gardens expected to reach $60.22 (SFL), part of the $7.2 billion against ₹793.44 crore (net of beat analysts’ estimates, Taiwan’s Wistron, a contract tries will have to take a call,” to remain competitive and billion by 2023, it added. pti TVS Group, posted a 17.8% excise duty) for the corres­ helped by higher iron and manufacturer of Apple Mr. Gupta said. adopt an “asset­light” mo­ increase in standalone net ponding year earlier period. steel sales. iPhones in India, plans to in­ The Union Government del, while expanding its NMDC Q1 net remains profit for the first quarter Net profit was ₹1.81 bil­ vest ₹1,150 crore in Karnata­ does not want to reduce the operations in the bought­ flat at ₹975.27 crore ended June 30, 2018, at Exports rise lion ($26.37 million) in the ka during the first phase of duties on components as it leaf sector, an official said HYDERABAD ₹106.18 crore, from ₹90.17 Export sales marked an in­ quarter ended June 30, operations, said Gaurav will hurt domestic products, on Thursday. NMDC Ltd. has posted a crore in the year earlier, aid­ crease of 11.7% at ₹321.71 compared with a loss of Gupta, Principal Secretary, he said. Wistron’s rival Fox­ The objective is to standalone first­quarter net ed by a pick up in the com­ crore from ₹287.98 crore ₹3.87 billion a year earlier. Information Technology, conn has announced plans “bring the debt down” so profit of ₹975.27 crore, an mercial vehicle (CV) seg­ during the same period in Analysts were expecting a Bio­Technology and Science to invest $5 billion in that there will be reduction increase of less than 1% over ment. “This is the first time the previous year. profit of ₹1.33 billion, ac­ and Technology to the State Maharashtra. in interest costs, vice­chair­ the year earlier period’s government. Gaurav Gupta Apple was testing the wa­ ₹969.20 crore. The public the company’s net profit has The earnings before inter­ cording to Thomson Reu­ man and managing direc­ ters to see if the State had a sector iron ore miner’s total crossed the ₹100 crore mil­ est, depreciation and taxes ters I/B/E/S. tor Aditya Khaitan told sha­ Apple seeking tax breaks demanding tax concessions robust manufacturing and income declined more than estone, said S. Meenakshi­ (EBITDA) for the quarter in­ Jindal Steel and Power’s reholders at the 20th 14% to ₹2,547.13 crore sundaram, chief financial of­ creased 20.1% to ₹191.90 steel sales rose 40% in the “They will progressively ma­ and incentives from the export ecosystem, Mr. Gupta Annual General Meeting (₹2,970.13 crore). NMDC on ficer. “Besides, we had a crore from ₹159.75 crore quarter to 1.61 million nufacture components in State government. said. “We are engaging with (AGM) here. Thursday said the company’s relatively low base in the during the same period in tonnes, the company said. Phase II and Phase III,” Mr. “There is a long wish­list. them for the last two years; “Tea is our way of life,” production and sales of iron first quarter of 2017­18 due the previous year. While global growth out­ Gupta said during an inte­ As far as the import duties Wistron has already started” Mr. Khaitan said, adding ore for the quarter ended to the implementation of “We have been sustaining look for steel remained ro­ raction with The Hindu. are concerned it is in the operations in a restricted that each garden had to be June 30, was 6.98 million Goods and Services Tax.” EBITDA margin at more bust, the U.S.­ China trade “Apple is not directly in­ court of the Government of manner in Bengaluru and seen as a standalone unit tonnes and 6.78 MT During the period under than 19% for the last three to spat poses some risk, the vesting and has given the India. 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THE HINDU NOIDA/DELHI FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 SPORT 15 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Persistent and infuriating drizzle washes out day one The forecast for Friday is better, with sunshine expected in the morning

DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD INDIA IN ENGLAND M.A.K. Pataudi, Dilip Veng­ worked without pause, clear­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD sarkar, Rahul Dravid, Kapil ing any water standing on the B Some spectators paid a visit Dev and Sourav Ganguly are covers. The rain was a con­ Shreedutta Chidananda to the MCC museum, which London the other Indian internation­ stant irritant, now slowing was open for free to those als to have been accorded the down, now growing heavier, inside the ground What is a day out at an En­ honour. refusing to stop. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD glish cricket ground without All was in readiness but it Head Groundsman Mick some rain? After weeks of in­ was just another cold, soggy, Hunt stood in the outfield Saturday and Sunday is simi­ sufferably hot weather, Lon­ miserable English mornings: surveying operations; this larly good but more wet don awoke to a persistent, in­ summer as they know it here. has been some start to his last weather is predicted for Mon­ furiating drizzle, which Some spectators paid a visit Test. day. washed out the first day of to the MCC museum, which The umpires, Aleem Dar It remains to be seen if the the second Test at Lord’s. was open for free to those in­ and Marais Erasmus, walked rain has affected the teams’ A near­full­house watched side the ground; others head­ out under their umbrellas at plans for the match. and waited in hope as the ed to the library; while some (what would ordinarily have The toss is scheduled for rain started early in the others partook of a cold bev­ been) tea­time, but they 10.30 a.m. local time on Fri­ morning and simply did not erage or two, undeterred by quickly retreated after a chat day with play set to start at 11 relent. the weather. with the ground­staff. There a.m. as normal. The close of More than an hour before was a second inspection at play will be extended by 30 the scheduled start of play, Constant irritant 4:30 p.m. local time and a minutes, however. the MCC’s members queued Lunch was taken early, but third at 4:45, when play was India has played 17 Tests at up by the Grace Gate, in their the rain simply did not re­ officially called off for the Lord’s, winning two and los­ prim suits and bacon­and­ lent. A few Indian players, in­ day. ing 11. egg ties. cluding Virat Kohli, headed The forecast for Friday is The team won on its last vi­ Sachin Tendulkar, it was to MCC’s gym, while some of better, with sunshine expect­ sit to the ground, four years announced, would ring the their English counterparts ed in the morning and light ago, when Ajinkya Rahane five­minute bell before the had a hit in the indoor nets. showers — if any — late in the scored a century and Ishant Relentless showers: A few Indian players headed to MCC’s gym, while some of their English counterparts had a hit in the indoor start of play; Sunil Gavaskar, All day, the ground­staff afternoon. The forecast for Sharma took seven for 74. nets as the rain persisted. * STU FORSTER/GETTY IMAGES ‘Cooling­off’ tweaked Judgement has taken out the Administration is not a chance It will be after two terms of three years foundation stone: Lodha to enrich oneself: apex court BCCI REFORMS ‘Disappointed because the very policy has been affected’ ‘The game is perched far above personal interests’

G. Viswanath Vijay Lokapally Krishnadas Rajagopal Mumbai want the government to play now contest the successive — and far more difficult for NEW DELHI any role in the autonomous NEW DELHI election, complete consecu­ the court to accept — that ex­ The Supreme Court’s Chief Justice R.M. Lodha, chief ar­ body like BCCI. Why should Cricket administration tive three­year terms in office perience rests on the shoul­ Justice of India (CJI) Bench chitect of the cricket admi­ the government have a vote should not be treated as an but would have to ‘cool­off’ ders of a closed group of a tweaked the mandatory nistration reforms in the which will be controlled by opportunity for personal ag­ before contesting election for few individuals. In fact, op­ three­year ‘Cooling­off’ rule country, is a ‘disappointed’ the concerned ministries? grandisement by the BCCI a third term in office either in portunities to a wide body of — recommended by the Jus­ man following the ruling on “We were not trying to af­ and State office­bearers, the the BCCI or the State admi­ talent encourage a dispersal tice Lodha Committee and Thursday by the Supreme fect the rights of the players. Supreme Court held on nistration. of experience and democrati­ endorsed by the apex court Court that signals a new era We were trying to eradicate Thursday. The judgement agreed sation of authority,” Justice in July 2016 — sharply by ad­ in the way the game would the volume of fiefdom that “Office­bearers should not with Justice R.M. Lodha that Chandrachud observed. ding the ‘combination lock’ be conducted henceforth. some officials had come to construe their position as “dispersal of authority is a The court said it was ne­ to disappoint a handful of The Court diluted a few establish.” employees with a vested necessary safeguard to en­ cessary to emphasise that the seasoned administrators in suggestions by the Lodha right to a particular tenure of sure against the perpetuation term of an office­bearer can­ the BCCI who were aspiring Committee, notably the Justice R.M. Lodha. Brighter side service… opportunities to a of power centres”. not be regarded either as an to occupy the five office­ clause related to the ‘Cool­ * FILE PHOTO Looking at the brighter side wide body of talent encour­ “Individuals who adminis­ opportunity “to enrich him­ bearers’ post at the long ov­ ing­off period’ and the ‘One of the development, Lodha age a dispersal of experience ter the game of cricket must self”. “Enrichment in the er­due BCCI elections. State one vote policy’. observed. said, “I would be satisfied if and democratisation of auth­ realise that the game is form of personal aggrandise­ The CJI Bench revised the “Honestly I am disap­ Lodha added, “Such re­ the reforms become a tem­ ority,” a three­judge Bench perched far above their per­ ment is precisely what was application of the three­year pointed because the very forms were needed to lay a plate for other sports bo­ led by Chief Justice of India sonal interests. Important as frowned upon by the Lodha ‘Cooling­off’ rule to after policy has been affected. strong foundation. We had dies. Dipak Misra observed. experience in administration Committee, and for justifia­ two terms of three years The dilution allows some of­ worked very hard, spoken to “It will ensure good prin­ Cricket administrators can is, it is far­fetched to assume ble reasons,” the court said. that adds a long stint of six ficials to continue their dom­ so many stakeholders con­ ciples of governance and years, instead of the Lodha­ Railways and Association of ination which we had tried nected with the game. It had bring in greater transparen­ recommended three­year Indian Universities and each to end,” Lodha told The been a really long and com­ cy and accountability. The break between each three­ of the three Ranji Trophy Hindu. prehensive exercise. Our re­ sports bodies should func­ Satisfied with verdict: Rai year term. teams in Maharashtra (Mah­ forms had been accepted by tion in letter and spirit of But giving an interesting arashtra, Mumbai, Vidarb­ Reforms diluted the Supreme Court which good governance. Shayan Acharya tion,” he said. twist, the apex court em­ ha) and Gujarat (Gujarat, Ba­ “They have diluted the re­ normally does not make a “The BCCI will never be Mumbai About the cooling­off pe­ phatically stated that a com­ roda, Saurashtra). But the forms which had all been ac­ lot of changes to jurispru­ able function in the same Committee of Administrators riod, Rai made it clear that it bination of a three­year stint Cricket Club of India and the cepted by Supreme Court dential aspect.” manner now. Once the new (CoA) chief Vinod Rai, react­ would not be an issue. “That as office­bearer at the State National Cricket Club will (on July 18, 2016). constitution comes in place, ing to the Supreme Court de­ (the cooling­off period dilu­ followed by another three­ only be associate members. “The idea was to break Wanted all States on par the BCCI will have to work cision on the Lodha reforms, tion) is okay. Sometime ago, years at the BCCI and vice­ The court also restored the monopoly of office­bear­ On the ‘One State one vote’ accordingly.” said it was a ‘very positive even I had said that I am okay versa will count as a six­year the composition of the se­ ers who have been long in policy, Lodha maintained, Lodha’s concluding re­ verdict’. with two terms before the straight run and this situa­ nior, junior and women’s se­ power. Unless they are re­ “We wanted to put all States mark conveyed his mood. Speaking to Sportstar cooling­off period,” he said. tion would also attract the lection committees to five. moved there won’t be space on par because of the ten­ “It was a great experience, from Ahmedabad, Rai admit­ “As long as the nine­year rule three­year cooling­off pe­ The court has remained si­ for newcomers. Our reforms dency in the past to manipu­ very different from what I ted that the ‘good thing’ remains, there should not be

riod rule. lent on the tenure of office were aimed to stop these of­ late votes. Western India will did for 21 years. It was a new about the order is the fact Vinod Rai. * FILE PHOTO any problem.” for the managing committee ficials from building their now have six votes and peo­ learning experience. Yes, I that a fixed timeline has been Rai pointed out that one of Full membership and other sub­committee kingdom for six years. The ple will take control of these will continue to watch crick­ specified. “It is a very posi­ things because it has main­ the most important aspects is The court restored the full members in the State Asso­ judgement has taken out the votes. et. Like millions of India, it’s tive verdict. I am very satis­ tained the main aspects of that the State associations membership of Services, ciations. foundation stone,” he “Similarly, we did not a passion for me too.” fied with it. It has got good the (Lodha) recommenda­ will have to fall in line now. ‘Stokes Mayank, Siraj will be watched Merchant Trophy Djokovic shines bright could have killed me’ Lack of teeth in the bowling attack South Africa­A’s worry dates revised under grey skies S. Dipak Ragav SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT lack of preparation time in del Potro withdraws with wrist injury Agence France Presse Bengaluru CHENNAI their respective venues,” LONDON After finishing the last sea­ The BCCI on Thursday re­ BCCI acting­secretary Ami­ ROGERS CUP left wrist injury. Ryan Hale, a former soldier son as the leading run­getter vised the dates for the Vijay tabh Choudhary said in a Important results (second allegedly knocked out by in both the Ranji Trophy and Merchant Trophy under­16 release. Agence France-Presse round): Ben Stokes, said the En­ Vijay Hazare Trophy, tournament, giving more The league phase will Toronto At Toronto: Novak Djokovic bt gland cricketer “could have Mayank Agarwal had a poor time to some State associa­ now start on October 21, in­ Peter Polansky 6­3, 6­4; Karen killed me”, their trial heard IPL. tions to prepare for the stead of October 3, and go Novak Djokovic defeated Pe­ Khachanov bt Pablo Carreno on Thursday, as the ex­ser­ But the 27­year­old quick­ tournament. on till December 2. The ter Polansky of Canada 6­3, Busta 6­4, 7­6(3); Frances Tia­ viceman was formally ly put it behind him with a “BCCI has rescheduled knockout stage will be held 6­4 on Wednesday, the four­ foe bt Milos Raonic 7­6(4), cleared of affray. swashbuckling double ton in the dates for the Vijay Mer­ from December 8 to January time champion powering in­ 4­6, 6­1; Denis Shapovalov bt Stokes, Hale and a third India­A’s opening game chant Trophy. 1, 2019. to the third round at the To­ Fabio Fognini 6­3, 7­5; John man, Ryan Ali, were in against South Africa­A to “Several associations put While there will be 86 ronto Masters before insist­ Isner bt Pierre­Hugues Herbert Bristol Crown Court on start the new season on a forward a request to the matches in the league, there ing that he was 7­6(3), 6­2; Stefanos Tsitsipas Thursday for the fourth high. Board to postpone the dates will be 11 games in the final “comfortable” with the con­ bt Dominic Thiem 6­3, 7­6(6); day of their trial for alleged The Karnataka batsman, for the tournament due to phase. troversial ‘shot clock’ Rafael Nadal bt Benoit Paire affray in the southwest En­ in fact, scored three List A innovation. 6­2, 6­3; Alexander Zverev bt Bradley Klahn 6­4, 6­4; Kevin glish city on September 25, tons in England before com­ The match was played Anderson bt Evgeny Donskoy 2017. ing into the series and will under threatening grey 4­6, 6­2, 7­6(0). After the prosecution once again be the centre of ISL set to kick off skies which eventually concluded its case against attention, especially with dumped heavy rain on the At Montreal: Maria Sharapova bt Daria Kasatkina 6­0, 6­2; Al­ the three men, judge Peter chief selector M.S.K. Prasad courts just after Djokovic ize Cornet bt Angelique Kerber Blair told the jury to find in town when the second on September 29 wrapped up his win. 6­4, 6­1; Kiki Bertens bt Karoli­ Hale not guilty. ‘Test’ starts here on Friday. Meanwhile, third seed na Pliskova 6­2, 6­2; Sloane “I am directing you to Another player whose Shyam Vasudevan be played in November Juan Martin del Potro was Stephens bt Franśoise Abanda CHENNAI find him not guilty in my graph is on the rise is Mo­ (between 12 and 20). We forced to withdraw prior to 6­0, 6­2; Elise Mertens bt analysis of the evidence,” hammed Siraj, who conti­ The fifth edition of the In­ will have a break of four to his opening match due to a Zhang Shuai 6­2, 6­7(2), 6­0. Blair said. nued his dream run picking a dian Super League (ISL) will five days then,” he said. Hale, 28, was formally five­for in both the innings in begin in September. About head coach Ste­ found not guilty and invit­ the first match. Another good show: Mohammed Siraj, right, picked up a “The ISL will begin on phen Constantine’s Nation­ ed to leave the dock. The pacer came into the five­for in both innings of the first ‘Test.’ * G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR 29th and the I­League al camp ahead of the AFC The court has seen se­ series after picking up 15 around October 15,” in­ Asian Cup, he said, “we’re curity camera footage of wickets in two matches in On the batting front, only the bowling attack. The fact formed Kushal Das, general still working on the dates. It Stokes, 27, brawling with England, and one more good Rudi Second impressed with that India­A was able to score secretary, All India Football is most likely to begin on Hale and Ryan in a Bristol outing here could brighten scores of 94 in each innings at a brisk rate of 4.5 showed Federation (AIFF). December 14.” street. his chances for a Test call­up though the team will take that a lot needs to be done. As the Indian team will He clarified that the ISL On Thursday, jurors if a need arises before the heart from the fact that in Most importantly, the play two friendlies ahead of would have a month­long heard that Hale told police last two Tests against the second innings, the bat­ challenge for the visitors will the 2019 Asian Cup, Das break till the AFC Cup ends in a formal interview: “I’m England. smen showed better applica­ once again be steep, for not said the league will have (February 1). a dad. He could have killed For the visitors, though tion and two others got cru­ only are the conditions alien, three breaks. On the Super Cup, which me. I don’t know why he outplayed in every facet of cial half­centuries as it it is squaring against a strong “The Indian team will tra­ pits the I­League clubs didn’t stop. It’s shocking to the game in the first match, almost managed to draw the set of India­A players grow­ vel to China to play a friend­ against the ISL sides, Das see someone doing that to there were some bright spots game. ling with hunger hoping to ly in October while another said that the AIFF would someone who didn’t do from which they can take But the biggest worry catch the eye of the selec­ friendly (most likely against like to continue the tourna­ Back to his best: Novak Djokovic has now won 21 of his last anything wrong.” confidence. would be the lack of teeth in tors. Saudi Arabia or Syria) will ment. 24 matches after a rollercoaster start to 2018. * AFP

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Asia’s best players will be Mary Kom, who skipped this High performance direc­ missing the Games. edition to avoid hassles of tor Santiago Nieva was confi­ The Japanese provide a shuffling between 48kg and dent that the Sheffield expo­ classic example as their 51kg for the continental sure — which offered great top­7 — from the 22nd­ event and the World cham­ facilities, tough sparring ranked Kei Nishikori to the pionships at home, a fine Ramkumar Ramanathan. partners and a chance to 206th­ranked Yoshihito blend of youth and expe­ * FILE PHOTO meet World champion pro­ Nishioka, the champion of Courtois joins Real rience will hold India in good fessional boxer Anthony the last Asian Games in In­ along with a bunch of minor in a six-year deal stead in the boxing arena of Joshua — would give the In­ cheon — will skip the event. ranked players like Farrukh LONDON the 18th Asian Games in dians an edge. With Japan focusing on Dustov and Sanjar Fayziev, Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Jakarta. Courtois officially signed a “It's a continuous process the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, who have been on Davis six-year deal with Real India had won four bronze of hard work which should the race is to have as many Cup duty. Madrid on Thursday, ending medals, including one each help us get good result,” said players as possible in the The women’s field will be his seven-year spell at in the heavier weights of Nieva. top­100 by competing in the more competitive with men and women, in the In­ Chelsea. Courtois completed An interesting piece of tri­ Grand Slams in order to World No. 32 Shuai Zhang of cheon Games. his move after Chelsea via may encourage the In­ achieve the target. China the top seed in the ab­ confirmed Real midfielder Since the heavier weights Packing a punch: Former youth World champion Sarjubala Devi, at a training session in dians. “Historically, we have Of course, India will have sence of 17th­ranked Naomi Mateo Kovacic had joined on have been dropped for the * never done well when we the 117th­ranked Ramkumar Osaka of Japan. loan. Real posted a clip of New Delhi on Thursday, will be keen to prove herself in a multi-sport event. PTI Jakarta Games, anything have moved straight from a Ramanathan and the 171st­ Courtois signing his contract The presence of the 53rd­ above three medals will be the Commonwealth Games climb the podium at the con­ However, their campaign ranked Prajnesh Gunneswa­ alongside club president foreign camp to the competi­ ranked Wang Qiang of Chi­ considered good progress. in April, is looking to assert tinental extravaganza. will not be easy considering ran at Palembang. Florentino Perez. “Today I am tion venue. Our boxers seem na, the defending cham­ his class again in 75kg. the depth of competition in realising a dream,” said the The presence of medal to be home sick. Korea’s No. 1 player Hye­ pion, along with runner­up Confident lower weights in Asia. The Belgian. winners in elite events, such Another Worlds bronze “It is good that this time on Chung, ranked 23rd, Luksika Kumkhum (91) of as the World championships, medallist and former Asian Commonwealth Games gold strength of Kazakhstan and they have returned home who won the men’s doubles Thailand, and Wang Yafan Asian championships and champion Shiva Thapa has medallist Gaurav Solanki Uzbekistan across all weights (from Sheffield) before flying title in the last edition of the (93) of China should make it the Commonwealth Games, wrested the 60kg slot from (52kg), silver medallist Amit is another noteworthy to Jakarta,” said well­known Asian Games at home, will lively. gives the 10­member squad a archrival Manish Kaushik Panghal (49kg) and bronze factor. coach Jaydev Bisht. not play; Kazakhstan’s Mik­ Duan Yingying (110) of formidable look. and will be hungrier than medallist Mohammed Hussa­ World championships sil­ A carefully planned sche­ hail Kukushkin, ranked China, Sabina Sharipova Among the big names, ever. muddin (57kg) and Chemis­ ver medallist Sonia Lather dule, which gives the boxers World No. 86, is also not (123) of Uzbekistan and Mi­ World championship medal­ Manoj Kumar managed a try Cup bronze medallist (57kg) is rated as the bright­ about a week’s time to get ac­ playing. yu Kato (168) of Japan will be list and former Asian Games bronze medal in 69kg in the Dheeraj Rangi (64kg) have est prospect among women. climatised to the humid The 76th­ranked Denis Is­ the others ranked higher gold medallist Vikas Krishan Gold Coast Commonwealth tasted success at the top level Another Worlds silver me­ weather of Indonesia, tomin will spearhead the than Ankita Raina (193) and Chelsea signs Kepa Yadav, who landed a gold in Games and will be keen to and make a confident lot. dallist and former World should also help. challenge for Uzbekistan Karman Kaur Thandi (198). in record deal LONDON Spain’s Kepa Arrizabalaga became the most expensive goalkeeper in history on Courage expected to score Mane cards a ‘tree-over’, opens Wednesday after Chelsea confirmed his £71.6 million BENGALURU: Courage, who has ion (8) Dhanu Singh 54.5 and 8. Courage (9) Vinod Shinde 53. 8. Foi Et Amour (6) Sandesh 54.5, move from Athletic Bilbao. been well prepared, is expected Wings Of Desire (7) Trevor 54.5. 1. COURAGE, 2. ADMIRAL HATSU, 9. Meritorious (7) Rayan 54.5 and investigation of rule book to score in the Leading Stud Cup 1. ALPHA, 2. WINGS OF DESIRE, 3. 3. AUTOMATIC 10. Zehnaseeb (2) Dhanu Singh The 23-year-old has signed a (1,400m), the main event of the AKITA PRO LEADING TIPSTER CUP 54.5. seven-year contract with the concluding day’s races to be held LEADING OWNER CUP 5 (1,600m), rated 00 to 20, 4­30: 1. SECRETIVE FORCE, 2. CIEL English giants. AFP here on Friday (August 10). (1,600m), rated 30 to 50, 3­30: 1. Natalie (6) D. Patel 60, 2. Jack Of ETOILE, 3. SUPERNORMAL TAKE MASTERS There will be no false rails. 3 1. Back Of Beyond (8) Md. Asif Hearts (4) S. Mubarak 59.5, 3. Pur­ GOOD-BYE STAKES (1,200m), CHAMPION JOCKEY CUP Khan 60, 2. Setaglow (2) Yash 60, ity (1) Antony 59.5, 4. Amazing 7 rated 15 to 35, 5­30: 1. Kasauli Ashwin Achal 1 (1,200m), rated 00 to 20, 2­30 3. Hukum (6) Zervan 57.5, 4. In­ Angel (8) Trevor 59, 5. Croziet (10) (8) Janardhan P 60, 2. Eye Sign (4) Bengaluru p.m.: 1. Moon Blink (1) Kiran Rai dian Pharaoh (5) Sandesh 56.5, 5. N. Rajesh 58.5, 6. Romantic Haven Md. Feroz 59, 3. Aerospeed (10) 60, 2. Aqua Blessing (7) Shobhan Gerontocrat (3) Antony 55, 6. Pe­ (5) Md. Asif Khan 57.5, 7. Aleef (3) Khurshad Alam 58.5, 4. Girl With Udayan Mane attracted the 58.5, 3. Indian League (5) Antony luche (7) Trevor 54.5, 7. Casey (4) Samson 56, 8. Classic Speed (11) Pearl (2) Vinod Shinde 57.5, 5. An­ attention of curious onlook­ 58.5, 4. Attaboy (8) Arshad 58, 5. Vinod Shinde 53 and 8. Nyssa (1) Dhanu Singh 56, 9. My Valentine other Rainbow (7) Raja Rao 57, 6. ers with a shot that landed Ultimate Power (3) Darshan 57, 6. Dhanu Singh 51. (7) S. Imran 51, 10. Kings Kid (9) As Good As It Gets (11) S. Mubarak Rigelray (4) Janardhan P 56.5, 7. 1. GERONTOCRAT, 2. PELUCHE, 3. Sai Kiran 50.5 and 11. Perfect 57, 7. Able Master (12) Darshan on top of a tree during the Silken Striker (6) Anjar 56 and 8. INDIAN PHARAOH Prince (2) Rayan 50.5. 56.5, 8. Phoenix Reached (9) T.S. TAKE Solutions Masters golf 1. AMAZING ANGEL, 2. ROMANTIC Helios (2) Rajesh K 51.5. LEADING STUD CUP (1,400m), Jodha 56.5, 9. Tio Rico (6) Antony tournament at KGA course Chandimal returns 1. ULTIMATE POWER, 2. ATTABOY, 4 rated 60 & above, 4: 1. Knight HAVEN, 3. KINGS KID 56.5, 10. Striking Grey (3) Adarsh to T20 squad 3. AQUA BLESSING Of Ke (10) M. Naveen 65, 2. Big Sur CHAMPION TRAINER CUP 55, 11. Island Pearl (5) Kiran Rai 54 here on Thursday. The mis­ COLOMBO TOTALIZATOR CUP (1,100m), (6) Trevor 60.5, 3. Admiral Hatsu 6 (1,400m), maiden 3­y­o only, and 12. Master Of War (1) B. Nayak hit, which held up play, test­ 54. Sri Lanka skipper Dinesh 2 maiden 3­y­o only, (Terms), 3: (8) T.S. Jodha 58.5, 4. Automatic (Terms), 5: 1. Secretive Force (8) ed the crowd’s knowledge of 1. Alpha (2) Arshad 56, 2. Armin (4) A. Qureshi 58, 5. Mickey Srinath 56, 2. Silent Ruler (10) 1. TIO RICO, 2. GIRL WITH PEARL, Chandimal returned to its (6) Yash 56, 3. Great Celebration Mouse (1) Rajesh K 57.5, 6. The Janardhan P 56, 3. Star Man (1) R. 3. AS GOOD AS IT GETS the rules of golf. Twenty20 squad Thursday (1) Khurshad Alam 56, 4. Akita Pro Lieutenant (3) R. Marshall 57.5, 7. Marshall 56, 4. Supernormal (9) DAY’S BEST: Gerontocrat On the par­5 fifth hole, after serving an international (4) Zervan 54.5, 5. Bond Of Trust Ravelnation (7) Antony 56.5, 8. Zervan 56, 5. Arrogance (5) Yash DOUBLE: Alpha ­ Tio Rico from an awkward and diffi­ Royal Serenity (2) K. Raghu 55, 9. 54.5, 6. Ciel Etoile (4) Trevor 54.5, JKT: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7; Tr (i): 2, 3 and ban for breaching the spirit of (5) R. Manjunath 54.5, 6. My Lex­ icon (3) Vaibhav 54.5, 7. No Opin­ Big Heart (5) Zervan 53 and 10. 7. Desert Angel (3) T.S. Jodha 54.5, 4; (ii): 5, 6 and 7. cult lie, Mane smacked the the game. Chandimal was ball high onto the branches included in a 15-member of a tree. The Indian pro had squad for the one-off T20 three options — to play the that will round off South ball as it lay, declare the ball Africa’s tour of the island Tamara clinches feature event unplayable, or proceed un­ nation on Tuesday. AFP der the lost ball ruling. BENGALURU: Tamara (Md. Asif 41.00s. ₹58 (w), 18, 12 and 16 (p), and 3­1/2. 1m 14.00s. ₹89 (w), 18, 1. 1m 08.37s. ₹185 (w), 34, 12 and Khan up) won the N.M. Lingaraju Mane had no chance of SHP: 35, THP: 42, FP: 172, Q: 42, 12 and 20 (p), SHP: 37, THP: 46, 14 (p), SHP: 36, THP: 41, FP: 781, Where is it? Udayan Mane and his caddie search for the ball Memorial Trophy, the feature Trinella: 299 and 154, Exacta: FP: 351, Q: 86, Trinella: 984 and Q: 356, Trinella: 983 and 432, Ex­ climbing the tree and hitting that ended up in a tree. * SUDHAKARA JAIN event of the races held here on 2,083 and 1,488. Favourite: Spirit 601, Exacta: 58,311 and 49,980. acta: 4,010 and 1,363. Favourite: a shot, so it was impossible Thursday (August 9). The winner Bruce. Owners: M/s. Blazing Favourite: Subah Ka Tara. Owner: San Bernardino. Owners: Mrs. is owned by Mr. H. Tham­ Saddles (PF) rep by. Mr. Niraj Mr. H. Thambuswamy. Trainer: S. Namitha Jagtap, Mr. B.R. Vinod, to play the ball. Incidentally, Mane’s caddie climbed his five­minute time­limit buswamy and trained by S. Britto. Tyagi & Mr. Vikas Sachdeva. Britto. Mr. Satish Dasam and Mr. G.S. Sri­ this seemingly impractical onto the buggy in an attempt was up. He had to replay the THE RESULTS: Trainer: S. Narredu. 5. B. PUTTANNA MEMORIAL harsha. Trainer: Appu. option has had a few takers. 1. COMMANCHE PLATE (1,400m), 3. ANGEL DUST TROPHY (Div. I), TROPHY (1,400m), rated 30 to 50: 7. TUDOR JET PLATE (1,200m), to spot the ball, but couldn’t shot under the lost ball rule rated 00 to 20: LASSILO (Antony) (1,100m), rated 30 to 50, 4­y­o & TEODORO (Zervan) 1, Triggar (Ar­ rated 15 to 35, 4­y­o & over: RAW In the 2013 Arnold Palmer get high enough. Mane even (one­stroke penalty). 1, Revan Star (Shobhan) 2, Secur­ over: BORA BORA (Trevor) 1, Tar­ shad) 2, Lightning Attack (Dar­ GOLD (Chetan G) 1, Bellerophon invitational in Florida, Peng handed (Yash) 2, Youresohandsome asked the photographers to ing Smiles (M. Naveen) 3 and Mu­ ini (Arshad) 2, Siyouni (Yash) 3 shan) 3 and Auric Force (Dhanu Spain’s Sergio Garcia fa­ six-month ban sic Divine (Arshad) 4. 2­3/4, 3­1/4 and Emidio (Dhanu Singh) 4. 3/4, Singh) 4. Not run: Florencia. 7­1/4, (Nazerul) 3 and High Admiral zoom in and take a photo of Sriroj leads the field and 2­1/2. 1m 30.03s. ₹26 (w), 13, Lnk and 1­1/4. 1m 08.70s. ₹31 (w), 1 and 3. 1m 26.75s. Rs. 20 (w), 11, (Vinod Shinde) 4. 1, 1­1/4 and 1­1/2. mously climbed a tree and LONDON the ball. Once again, no luck. Meanwhile, Thailand’s 15 and 24 (p), SHP: 34, THP: 52, 13, 17 and 31 (p), SHP: 38, THP: 76, 18 and 51 (p), SHP: 51, THP: 103, 1m 16.14s. ₹69 (w), 24, 16 and 102 hit a ball with one hand. China’s former World No. 1 FP: 107, Q: 48, Trinella: 717 and FP: 224, Q: 94, Trinella: 1,309 and FP: 93, Q: 44, Trinella: 1,676 and (p), SHP: 38, THP: 150, FP: 333, Q: Thammanoon Sriroj (49) The 27­year­old Mane did While the discussions doubles star Peng Shuai was 350, Exacta: 1,880 and 504. Fa­ 547, Exacta: 4,158 and 3,427. Fa­ 1,158, Exacta: 5,878 and 1,382. Fa­ 202, Trinella: 12,451 and 10,672, were on, a friendly black dog rolled back the years with a banned for six months and vourite: Lassilo. Owner: Mr. K. vourite: Helenka. Owner: Mr. vourite: Teodoro. Owner: Mr. Exacta: 1,09,391 (carried over) not want to be as adventu­ vintage performance, card­ Dinesh Kumar. Trainer: G. Aditya P. Thackersey. Trainer: S. Arun Alagappan. Trainer: Irfan and 11,720. Favourite: Daisy Duke. rous, pleading his case for joined the fun. Mane, des­ fined $10,000 on Wednesday Sandhu. Britto. Ghatala. Owners: Mr. K.R. Swamy & Mr. S. pite being under tremen­ ing a nine­under 62. for attempting to force her an ‘unplayable ball’ to the 2. STAR CONTENDER PLATE 4. N.M. LINGARAJU MEMORIAL 6. ANGEL DUST TROPHY (Div. II), Inayathulla. Trainer: S. dous stress, stroked the Top scores: 62: Thammanoon doubles partner to withdraw (1,600m), rated 15 to 35: RADIANT TROPHY (1,200m), rated 45 to 65: (1,100m), rated 30 to 50, 4­y­o & Inayathulla. referee who pointed out that dog’s head. Sriroj (Tha); 66: Feroz Singh, from Wimbledon in 2017, the TREASURE (Yash) 1, Spirit Bruce TAMARA (Md. Asif Khan) 1, Subah over: BEOND REACH (M. Naveen) Jackpot: ₹90,999 (five tkts.); Run­ he could enforce the rule on­ (Sai Kiran) 2, Black Whizz (T.S. Ka Tara (Srinath) 2, Alberetta (S. 1, San Bernardino (Darshan) 2, ner­up: ₹10,263 (19 tkts.); Treble Danthai Boonma (Tha), Scott Tennis Integrity Unit Jodha) 3 and Proudprince (Sai Shareef) 3 and Madame Sultana Panama (Antony) 3 and Princeaz­ (i): ₹1,987 (10 tkts.); (ii): ₹2,793 (12 ly if the ball could be posi­ It was then that the refe­ Vincent (Aus), Y. Sunadit (Tha) announced. AFP Vamshi) 4. Nk, 8­1/2 and 2­1/4. 1m (Irvan) 4. Not run: Zafran. 1, 4­1/2 eem (T.S. Jodha) 4. 1­3/4, Nose and tkts.). tively identified. ree informed the golfer that and Miguel Carballo (Arg).

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THE HINDU CROSSWORD 12392 (set by Spinner) SUDOKU FAITH 13 Extremely decisive exam? Gets 5 Multi-day construction or E grade! (6) universal destination, Spirit of renunciation 15 Raging sea eats up good times proverbially? (4) The Gita explains the ways and means to bring one’s body, (4) 6 Criminal’s scent all over the senses, mind and intellect under control and this sadana is place leading to links (8) 17 Old bottles in Spinner’s pocket called “atma samyama yoga.” The term ‘karyam karma’ (9) 7 Make plain design prettier by clearly spells out the subtle values of spirit and attitude be­ 20 Head of organisation, trapped including ornamentation, hind every act of an individual. It means ‘doing what is ac­ inside, is surely injured essentially (9) cepted as work that has to be done and also not with expec­ gravely (9) 8 Attention grabbing start to tation of any reward.’ It also implies that only deeds aligned 21 Traitors turning their back on song that is less difficult (6) to dharma, sanctioned by the sastras, and good deeds have hero (4) to be done. 9 Introduction of ordinance 24 Understand small numbers (6) Practice of living this committed way of life and giving up disrupting a court is, in other the fruits of one’s actions is the ideal way of life for any indi­ 25 Running away from ground, words, lamentable (9) vidual for in this way one learns to renounce all worldly ceasing to absorb pressure (8) 14 Perhaps, point is, life’s damn gains, pointed out Srimati Rukmini Ramamurthy in a dis­ 28 Very Very short conclusion to unpredictable! (9) course. It is also explained that the state of renunciation has puzzle by setter (7) no relation to one’s status or birth, learning or faith; it is 16 Tireless English unit’s purely a state of mind where all attachments are given up. 29 Old worker’s kind of nice (7) principle? Remove Kohli, One should not confuse between outward signs of renuncia­ 30 Taxing when Spinner’s absent? essentially! (9) Taking some Upma may be tion and true renunciation. There is a popular understand­ 18 Is model wearing one-piece relieving! (8) ing that a sanyasi is one who has given up agni hotra and garment in discomfort? (8) Solution to puzzle 12391 Solution to yesterday’s Sudoku wears ochre robes; and that a yogi is one who has given up 31 Bane, having lost nothing, ■ ACROSS 19 Hybrid fathering without a worldly commitments and retires into solitude to engage in overcomes resistance in meditation. These acts cannot be called renunciation if one 1 Hallowed pouch with vermilion penitentiary (6) cow! (8) has not given up desires or karma phala. The deep seated (6) 22 Stick bill at this location (6) ■ DOWN vasanas have to be destroyed and all kinds of attachment to 4 Profession is work covered by worldly attractions, objects and beings have to cut off relent­ payment (8) 1 Pitcher of beer kept in ship by 23 Nearly negate onset of lessly. soldier (8) Rickettsial disease (6) 10 Tousled curls having most It is thus clear that whatever life one chooses to lead, re­ volume (7) 2 Cold-hearted captain’s rule 26 Thoughts, surprisingly, said to nunciation is the execution of one’s ordained duties without 11 Insects eating new bit of goes astray (5) hold energy (5) an inward striving for reward. That is why Nishkama Yoga uncoated log (7) 3 Avoids publicity, abstains from 27 Spotted in Chinese entourage inculcates the spirit of renunciation in one regardless of 12 Key into soul, possibly! (8) gatherings (6) (4) whether he is a householder, or a sanyasi or yogi.

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Now, PRAGUE them, then we will NEW DELHI slow pitch was one of the rea­ if we can combine short and Indian sprinter Hima Das has score more. The Indian women's hockey inked a multi-crore two-year sons it was difficult to pass long passes, it would be deal with sports management team finished eighth at the the girls also feel,” Marijne the ball fast and there were ideal. But we maintained the The Hindu firm Infinity Optimal recent World Cup and its per­ told . so many turnovers. Only Hol­ discipline and the structure, Solutions (IOS), the company formance has given fresh With just a week’s stopov­ land managed to do it, eve­ which was very important said on Thursday. Hima joins hope to the team ahead of er before flying out again, ryone else struggled. ahead of the Asian Games,” the likes of boxers M.C. Mary the Asian Games. there will be little time for “Same was the case dur­ he said. Kom and Vijender Singh, any serious training, but the ing penalty corners. Not too As for shoot­outs, which paddler Manika Batra and Top­ranked Asian team team will play Japan in prac­ many were converted by any let India down in the quarter­ weightlifter Mirabai Chanu in The fact that the result tice games after reaching Ja­ team and the ones that were finals, Marijne was practical. signing up with IOS. The pushed India ahead as the karta next week. scored were variations be­ “We do it a lot in training, company did not specify the highest­ranked Asian side in “The defending was really cause the pitch was a bit but it’s not the same as doing exact monetary details of the the world has added to the good but we must not lose it bumpy. In the last match al­ it with 10,000 people watch­ deal. PTI team's confidence, said now. so, the injection wasn't good ing. If you experience things, coach Sjoerd Marijne. and the ball was not in a you learn from it. Acosta joins “We need to intercept East Bengal “We have a lot of self­con­ more balls and need to do good position to score,” he “We have experienced KOLKATA fidence because we did bet­ more with them, then we explained. this moment and will learn East Bengal on Thursday ter than the other teams. It is will score more,” he said. The coach, however, was from this. I am confident we announced the formal signing important to take that to the The pitch at the London happy with the way the team will win if we have to do it Ready to rumble: Sjoerd Marijne, seen with captain Rani Rampal, is happy with the of Costa Rica defender Asian Games and that’s what venue was not ideal, but Ma­ adapted to the challenges. again,” Marijne declared. way the team has adapted to challenges. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Johnny Acosta for the season. The signing paved the way for his participation in the Good day CRICKET ongoing Calcutta Football Poorvi and Suryanshi League. Acosta said, “I am Lyle loses long thrilled and look forward to for Indians Joshi, Powar among serving the club in all to fight it out twice possible ways. I had my battle with cancer Press Trust of India regular training sessions after Ho Chi Minh City coach applicants the World Cup and feel fully Sports Bureau Rohan Mittal in the under­16 Indian shuttlers Ajay Jaya­ Chandigarh fit to begin this journey The golfer was first diagnosed with ram, Rituparna Das and Press Trust of India two Tests and 31 ODIs, is al­ event. soon.” leukaemia as a teenager Mithun Manjunath made New Delhi ready serving as the interim Poorvi Bhatt and Suryanshi The results (semifinals): the quarterfinals of the Former India spinners Sunil coach after the controver­ Tanwar set up title clash in both the girls’ under­18 and Boys: Under­18: Ajay Singh bt Associated Press $75,000 Vietnam Open Joshi and Ramesh Powar sial exit of Tushar Arothe. Jitin Kumar Chetry 6-0, 6-0; 16 age groups of the AITA Melbourne Tour Super 100 tourna­ will be among 20 candidates The left­arm spinner, Lakshya Gupta bt Uddayvir Australian golfer Jarrod Lyle, ment here on Thursday. to be interviewed for the who represented India in 15 Championship series junior Singh 6-3, 6-1. 36, passed away after a long Jayaram toppled top role of the women’s cricket Tests and 69 ODIs, has had tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Under­16: Rohan Mittal bt Gu- struggle with cancer. seed Brazilian Ygor Coelho coach in Mumbai on Friday. coaching stints with Oman rustat Singh Makkar 6-2, 6-2; Thursday. “It breaks my heart to tell 22­20, 21­14 and will take on Others who will be inter­ and most recently Ajay Singh bt Smar Bir Singh everyone that Jarrod is no Canada’s Xiaodong Sheng. viewed are former India Bangladesh. Sidhu 6-1, 6-0. Aussie teenager Arzani Ajay in two finals longer with us,” the golfer’s Jarrod Lyle... tragic end. Former national cham­ wicketkeepers Ajay Ratra The veteran of 160 first­ Girls: Under­18: Poorvi Bhatt signs for City * wife, Briony Lyle, said in a FILE PHOTO: AP pion Rituparna beat Chi­ and Vijay Yadav, former wo­ class games has also In the boys’ section, Ajay bt Tanisha Pranjal 6-1, 6-3; Su- MANCHESTER statement on Thursday. “He nese Taipei’s sixth seed men’s captain Mamatha Ma­ coached Jammu and Kash­ Singh made the final of both ryanshi Tanwar bt Harleen Kaur Australian teenager Daniel passed away peacefully at Lyle was first diagnosed Sung Shuo Yun 21­8, 21­14 to ben and Suman Sharma, mir, Assam and Hyderabad. the under­18 and 16 events, 6-3, 6-4. Arzani has been hailed as one 8.20 p.m. last night.” with leukaemia as a set up a meeting with Thai­ who earlier served as the as­ COA member Diana Edul­ dropping a solitary game in of the country’s “brightest Under­16: Poorvi Bhatt bt Tan- Briony said her husband teenager and suffered land’s Phittayaporn Chai­ sistant coach when Purnima ji, BCCI cricket operations all in the two semifinals. young stars” by a Manchester isha Pranjal 6-1, 6-2; Suryanshi had asked her to pass on a recurrences of the disease in Rau was in­charge. GM Saba Karim and acting­ He will face Lakshya Gup­ City director after he signed wan next. Tanwar bt Pawandeep Kaur for the Premier League simple message: “Thanks for 2012 and 2017. He returned Young Manjunath staved Maria Fahey, who played secretary Amitabh Choud­ ta in the under­18 final, and 6-0, 6-1. champion on Thursday. The your support, it meant the to the US PGA Tour in 2013 off a stiff challenge from two Tests and 51 ODIs for hary will conduct the Iran-born 19-year-old joined world. My time was short, after apparently having Thailand’s Adulrach Nam­ New Zealand, has also ap­ interviews. from Melbourne City. He was but if I’ve helped people beaten cancer for a second kul 18­21, 21­13, 21­19 and plied for the job. The 34­ The BCCI had invited ap­ the youngest ever member of think and act on behalf of time. But the illness will face China’s Zhou Zeqi year­old is currently a coach plications for the coach’s an Australia squad for a those families who suffer returned and Lyle last week next. at ACA Academy in Guntur. role after Arothe’s bitter ex­ World Cup finals and played through cancer, hopefully it announced his decision to Kartik Jindal lost 21­10, Joshi and Powar can be it. He and senior players of in all three of its group wasn’t wasted.” forego enter palliative care. 24­22 to Canada’s Xiaodong considered strong conten­ the team developed serious matches in Russia. AFP Sheng. ders. Powar, who played differences.

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INDIANS ABROAD (10), 7-5, [11-9]. $25,000 ITF women, Nontha­ buri, Thailand: Quarterfinals: SPORTS BUREAU Y. Pranjala bt Kim Dabin (Kor) APTOS 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-2. Prajnesh Gunneswaran, the Doubles (semifinals): Rutuja eighth seed, fought past J.C. Bhosale & Y. Pranjala bt Hiroko Aragone of the United States Kuwata & Junri Namigata (Jpn) 4­6, 7­5, 6­4 in the pre­quar­ 6-4, 7-6(4). terfinals of the $100,000 Challenger here on Wednesday. In the $60,000 ITF wo­ men’s event in Jinan, Ankita Raina survived five match points to outlast En Shuo Liang of Chinese Taipei 3­6, 7­6(15), 6­3 in a three­hour battle to reach the quarterfinals. Other results: $150,000 Challenger men, Ji­ nan, China: Pre­quarterfinals: James Ward (GBr) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-3, 6-1. Doubles (quarterfinals): Zhe Li & Di Wu (Chn) bt Miliaan Nies- ten (Ned) & Sasi Kumar Mu- kund 3-6, 6-3, [10-5]. $25,000 ITF men, Jakarta, In­ donesia: Quarterfinals: Daniel Nolan (Aus) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 7-6(3); Jeremy Beale bt Karunuday Singh 7-5, 6-7(7), 6-3; Niki Poonacha bt Ajeet Rai (NZ) 6-7(3), 7-6(2), 7-6(3). Doubles (quarterfinals): S.D. Prajwal Dev & Mohit Mayur bt Coongsup Congcar (Tha) & Connor Farren (USA) 6-4, 7-5. $15,000 ITF men, Sintra, Por­ tugal: Pre­quarterfinals: Te- rence Das bt Daniel Batista (Por) 7-5, 6-1. $60,000 ITF women, Jinan, China: Doubles (quarterfi­ nals): Anastasia Gasanova (Rus) & Ankita Raina bt Chen Liang & Qiu Yu Ye (Chn) 6-7 https://t.me/pdf4exams https://www.estore33.com/ https://t.me/TheHindu_Zone_official

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Wear discovered on Australian beach boxers, not skin­tight briefs Study says underwear choice could affect sperm count The prehistoric fish, twice the length of the great white, lived 25 million years ago Pitt rebuts Jolie’s claim Agence France-Presse of poor child support paired sperm production in Agence France-Presse Paris men,” noted Richard LOS ANGELES Melbourne Brad Pitt on Wednesday Men trying to become a fath­ Sharpe, an honorary profes­ rebutted claims that he had A rare set of teeth from a er are better off wearing sor from the University of failed to support his children giant prehistoric mega­shark loose underwear, according Edinburgh’s MRC Centre for and accused his estranged twice the size of the great to a study published on Reproductive Health, who wife Angelina Jolie of trying white have been found on an Thursday. was not involved in the to manipulate the media in Australian beach by a keen­ Compared to men who fa­ research. their long drawn-out divorce. eyed amateur enthusiast, vour snug­fitting briefs, de­ Ashely Grossman, profes­ Pitt’s attorneys said the actor scientists said on Thursday. votees of boxer shorts had a sor of endocrinology at Ox­ had paid over $1.3 million in Philip Mullaly was stroll­ significantly higher count ford Centre for Diabetes, En­ bills for Jolie and their six ing along an area known as a and concentration of sperm, Science seems to have the docrinology and children since their 2016 fossil hotspot at Jan Juc, on researchers reported in the answer to the boxers vs. Metabolism, agreed, saying separation. REUTERS the country’s famous Great journal Human Reproduc- briefs question. * ISTOCKPHOTO the results were robust Ocean Road some 100 km tion. The sperm were also enough to merit a small lifes­ from Melbourne, when he more lively, and levels of a ment three to four degrees tyle change when in doubt. made the find. reproductive hormone were Celsius below body “It is a simple measure to “I was walking along the more favourable to generat­ temperature. wear boxer shorts when beach looking for fossils, ing offspring. there is uncertainty regard­ turned and saw this shining Souvenir from the past: Fossil enthusiast Philip Mullaly displaying a giant shark tooth. * AFP Researchers led by Lidia Cooling system ing fertility,” he commented. glint in a boulder and saw a Minguez­Alarcon of the Har­ This explains the design of At the same time, none of quarter of the tooth ex­ the great jagged narrow­ charocles angustidens teeth tions earlier this year to ex­ vard T.H. Chan School of Pu­ the free­hanging male scro­ the men surveyed — whether posed,” he said. toothed shark (Carcharocles in the world, and the very cavate the site, collecting blic Health in Boston exa­ tum, which is, in effect, a they wore boxers, jockeys or British Museum to return “I was immediately excit­ angustidens). The shark, first set to ever be discovered more than 40 teeth in total. mined 656 men of normal cooling system that places briefs — showed sperm looted Iraqi antiquities ed, it was just perfect and I which stalked Australia’s in Australia,” Mr. Fitzgerald Most came from the me­ weight, aged 18 to 56, whose the sperm­making testes counts below the normal LONDON knew it was an important oceans around 25 million said. ga­shark, but several smaller partners were seeking infer­ outside the main body cavi­ range. The British Museum said on Thursday that it was returning find that needed to be years ago, feasting on small teeth were also found from tility treatment at a clinic. ty. Anything that prevents Experts noted a number to Iraq a collection of looted shared with people.” whales and penguins, could Rare find the sixgill shark ( Hexan- Earlier research had this cooling is likely to im­ of gaps in the new study that antiquities up to 5,000 years He told Museums Victo­ grow more than nine metres He suspected that the teeth chus), which still exists to­ come to the same conclu­ pair both sperm output and left room for uncertainty, old, after identifying the ria, and Erich Fitzgerald, se­ long, almost twice the length came from one individual day. The sixgill teeth were sion, but with a smaller sam­ quality. and highlighted the need for exact temple they came from. nior curator of vertebrate pa­ of today’s great white shark. shark and there might be from several different indivi­ ple size. Corroborating data “The study provides rea­ follow up research. The items were identical to laeontology, confirmed that “These teeth are of inter­ more entombed in the rock. duals and would have be­ on the hormone, known as sonably strong supporting While each participant cones found on a site in the the seven­centimetre­long national significance, as they So he led a team of palaeon­ come dislodged as they sca­ FSH, was also new. evidence that wearing tight­ provided a sperm and blood ancient city of Girsu, now teeth were from an extinct represent one of just three tologists, volunteers, and venged on the carcass of the Successful sperm produc­ er underwear might cause sample, sartorial habits known as Tello, in Iraq. AFP species of predator known as associated groupings of Car- Mr. Mullaly on two expedi­ prehistoric shark. tion requires an environ­ mild, but significant, im­ were self­reported. Japanese firms admit to false emissions data Indian telescope spots distant galaxy

Suzuki Motor, Mazda and Yamaha conducted incomplete vehicle inspections Press Trust of India Gemini North telescope in Saxena from Leiden Obser­ London/Pune Hawaii and the Large Binoc­ vatory in the Netherlands. Agence France-Presse ter it emerged Nissan and er inspections on 6,401 vehi­ and the quality­control Astronomers have used an ular Telescope in Arizona. “Bright radio galaxies har­ Tokyo Subaru had cheated on fuel cles, or nearly half of those structures of automakers,” Indian telescope to discover The galaxy is perceived as it bour supermassive black Japan’s Suzuki Motor, Mazda economy and emissions da­ subject to sample checking, Transport Minister Keiichi the most distant radio galaxy looked when the universe holes. It is amazing to find and Yamaha have admitted ta. All three reported “inap­ between 2012 and 2018. Ishii said in a statement. ever known, located at a dis­ was only a billion years old, such objects as early in the using false emissions data propriate handling” of vehi­ Mazda said it 72 vehicles The Ministry said it would tance of 12 billion light­years. according to the study ap­ history of the universe; the for some vehicles, the Tran­ cle inspections, the Ministry or 3.8% of those in its sample “examine their reports and The galaxy, from a time pearing in the journal time for these supermassive sport Ministry said on Thurs­ said. were affected, while Yamaha take strict measures if neces­ when the universe was only Monthly Notices of the Royal black holes to form and grow day, in the latest product The companies admitted put the figure at 2.1% of its sary”. It said most of the 20 7% of its current age was A dish of the Giant Astronomical Society. must have been very short,” quality scandal to hit the incomplete emissions tests motorbike sample. other companies asked to ex­ found using the Giant Metre­ Metrewave Radio This also means that the said Huub Rottgering, also

country’s auto sector. were done on some of its amine their data had report­ wave Radio Telescope Telescope. * WIKIPEDIA light from this galaxy is al­ from Leiden Observatory. The companies came for­ vehicles, but their officials Strict action ed no misconduct, while sev­ (GMRT) in Pune. most 12 billion years old. Radio galaxies are very ward after the Ministry last certified the results as “This is extremely regretta­ eral others were still GMRT is an array of thirty the National Centre for Ra­ “It is very surprising how rare objects in the universe. month ordered 23 auto and though the tests had been ble as this may cause doubts investigating. Investors fully steerable parabolic ra­ dio Astrophysics. these galaxies have built up They are colossal galaxies motorbike companies to administered fully. among automobile users dumped shares of the three dio telescopes of 45­metre The distance to this galaxy their mass in such a short pe­ with a supermassive black conduct in­house probes af­ Suzuki admitted improp­ about vehicle performance firms after the news. diameter. It is operated by was determined using the riod of time,” said Aayush hole in their centre.