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deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 15 No. 313 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | ` 3.00 ASTROGUIDE Vikari: Thai 24 Tithi: Chaturthi MODI VS RAHUL Star: Pusam Delhi goes Rahukalam: $50K crore petro 9.00 am to 10.30 am Yamagandam: to polls Apology battle rocks LS 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm project for TN PRAYERS today DC CORRESPONDENT Fajar: 5.22 am CHENNAI, FEB. 7 Zohar: 12.28 pm Asar: 3.43 pm SANJAY KAW AND In a significant develop- as mantri, Rahul wrangle Maghrib: 6.12 pm SHASHI BHUSHAN | DC ment, the Kolkata-based NEW DELHI, FEB. 7 Haldia Petrochemicals SREEPARNA Isha: 7.25 pm Limited (HPL) founder- CHAKRABARTY | DC SUNSET TODAY 6.12 PM If surveys are to be chairman Purnendu NEW DELHI, FEB. 7 SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.34 AM believed, the Aam Aadmi Chatterjee met the MOONRISE TODAY 5.21 PM Party is all set to return to Tamil Nadu Chief Major trouble erupted in MOONSET TOMORROW 5.33 AM power in the national cap- Minister, Mr. Edappadi the Lok Sabha on Friday ital where polls to all 70 K Palaniswami here on when Union health minis- Assembly seats will be Friday, raising hopes of The State govern- ter Harsh Vardhan asked COUNTER POINT held on Saturday. HPL propelling huge ment had entered former Congress presi- But if one goes by grand- investments of the order into an in-principle dent Rahul Gandhi to standing, then the BJP of Rs.50,000 crore for set- apologise for a remark appears set to usher in a ting up a petroleum MoU for the pro- against Prime Minister new chapter in Delhi and refinery-cum-petro- posed petrochemical Narendra Modi during an forming the city-state's chemical complex in complex in election rally earlier this government on its own Cuddalore district. Cuddalore district, week. after 22 years. The State government south of Chennai, Within minutes of Dr Two surveys, one had entered into an in- with HPL as part of Harsh Vardhan's demand, released on Wednesday principle MoU for the the bunch of MoUs' MPs from both the trea- and another earlier on proposed petrochemical that were signed sury benches and the Monday, clearly suggest complex in Cuddalore with various captains Opposition were seen fac- that the AAP will not be district, south of of industry when Mr. ing each other as if in a able to retain all 67 seats Chennai, with HPL as Palaniswami went on battlefield and almost Opposition members protest in the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament, it won in the 2015 elec- part of the bunch of a tour of the US last came to blows. in New Delhi, Friday. — PTI tions, but will be able to MoUs' that were signed year to attract more It all began when the form the government on with various captains of industrial investme- moment the minister read its own. industry when Mr. nts into Tamil Nadu out the apology demand They give 10 to 14 seats Palaniswami went on a to the House, Congress Word from Modi speech to the BJP. But home min- tour of the US last year Palaniswami, represen- MP from Virudhunagar, ister Amit Shah has to attract more industri- tatives from the Tamil Manickam Tagore, Senthil Balaji claimed his party will be al investments into Nadu side included the jumped into the Well and winning more than 45 Tamil Nadu. State Industries minis- moved towards the minis- in Rajya Sabha expunged granted bail seats. The saffron party The meeting that took ter, M.C. Sampath, ter, but was stopped by Chennai: The Madras high won in just three con- place Friday at the Chief Chief Secretary, K. BJP MPs led by New Delhi, Feb. 7: In a ra- dated Feb. 6 at about 6.20 court has granted anticipa- stituencies in 2015, where Minister's camp office Shanmugam and Indus- Kaiserganj MP Brij re move, a word from Prime and 6.30 pm,” Secretariat tory bail to DMK MLA and the Congress couldn't here is said to be in pur- tries secretary, Mr. N. Bhushan Sharan Singh. Minister Narendra Modi’s said. Naidu routinely ex- TAKE ACTION former transport minister retain one seat. suance of the MoU with Muruganandham, sou- As both sides almost speech in Rajya Sabha was punges any remark found Senthil Balaji and his broth- According to the ABP HPL, which has symbol- rces said. came to blows, Congress expunged from records. unsuitable from RS’s reco- AGAINST TAGORE: er, who apprehended arrest News-CVoter survey, ised the industrial This meeting assumes MP from Ernakulum Hibi Rajya Sabha Chairman M rds after going through the in connection with a job Arvind Kejriwal's AAP is resurgence in West added significance as in Eden was seen playing Venkaiah Naidu expunged proceedings of the day. Th- UNION MIN scam in the transport depa- predicted to win 42 to 56 Bengal in recent years November 2019, the HPL peacemaker and leading the word used by Modi on is has been done on several New Delhi: Condemning rtment. Justice P.D. Audike- seats. The IPSOS-Times with the setting up of a had filed a fresh bid for Mr Tagore out of the Thursday during his reply occasions but rarely was the Congress and its MP savalu granted anticipatory Now survey, based on a modern naphtha-based the oil refinery of melee. to the discussion on a moti- any remark of Modi expun- Manickam Tagore for "mis- bail to Senthil Balaji and his sample size of 7,321 vot- petrochemical complex Nagarjuna chemicals in After the House was on thanking the President ged. Modi had made the re- behaving" with Union brother Ashok Kumar on ers, says the AAP is like- at Haldia, 125 km from Cuddalore district, as adjourned by the for his address to the joint mark as he launched a stro- Minister Harsh Vardhan in the conditions that they ly to get anything Kolkata. part of the efforts to turn Speaker, MPs from both sitting of both Houses of Pa- ng defence of the NPR say- Lok Sabha, Union should execute a bond for between 54 and 60 seats, While the HPL's execu- around that defunct oil the ruling side and the rliament at the start of the ing the population register Parliamentary Affairs Rs 50,000 each with two the BJP 10 to 14 seats, tive vice-president plant in coastal Tamil Opposition were seen Budget session. “Chairman was being updated with de- Minister Pralhad Joshi on sureties each for a like sum while the Congress may Robin Mukhopadyaya Nadu into a large petro- shouting slogans at each was pleased to direct expu- mographic info for better Friday demanded that and shall report before the draw a blank or win, at was also part of the chemical complex and other. Many remained in nction of a certain portion targeting of government's action be taken against police on the date and time best, two seats. ■ P6 meeting with Mr. refinery. ■ P2 the well. of the proceedings of RS welfare schemes. him. whenever required until further orders. ■ P2 Nirbhaya case: Lay down arms, enjoy Judge rejects plea for warrants life, PM tells militants New Delhi: Efforts by MANOJ ANAND | DC authorities for a speedy national mainstream and GUWAHATI/KOKRAJHAR, “A canard is being “celebrate life”. He also hanging of the four convicts spread that lakhs of in the Nirbhaya case suf- FEB. 7 attacked the previous fered a jolt as a trial court people will come non-BJP governments for on Friday refused to issue Prime Minister Naren- from outside after “procrastinating” on a fresh death warrants, asking dra Modi said here Fri- the CAA's enact- resolution of vexed how is it presumed that the day that the new Bodo pe- ment. Nothing of that issues that alienated peo- fourth condemned prisoner ace accord would bring in sort will happen” ple and made them lose is not going to seek the last peace and development their faith in democracy available legal remedy for a in Assam. Saying it was spread that lakhs of peo- and the Constitution. reprieve. now time to work toge- ple will come from outsi- “Those still with ther, while addressing a de after the CAA's enact- bombs, guns and bullets huge public rally at the ment. Nothing of that so- in Kashmir, other parts CBI arrests OSD Bodo Territorial Area Di- rt will happen,” he said. of the Northeast, and strict (BTAD) of Assam The Prime Minister Naxalites... Come back. to Delhi deputy in Kokrajhar, Mr Modi also urged Kashmiri mili- Join the mainstream. promised that the Citize- tants, other banned out- Wapas laut aiye aur jee- CM Sisodia nship (Amendment) Act fits in the Northeast and van ka jashn manaiye New Delhi: The CBI on would not harm their int- the Naxalites to lay down (come back and celebrate Friday carried out searches erests. “A canard is being their arms, join the life,” he said. at the premises of IAS officer Udit Prakash Rai in connection with the arrest of Budget session of TN Footwear issue: Minister Gopal Krishna Madhav, OSD apologises to boy, mom to Delhi Deputy Chief Assembly from Feb. 14 Minister Manish Sisodia, in a Chennai: The Tamil Nadu budget Ooty: The infamous footwear contr- bribery case, officials said. for the year 2020-21 will be presented oversy, involving the TN forest min- Over a dozen more officers in the Legislative Assembly on ister Dindigul Srinivasan, came to of the Delhi government are Friday, February 14, when the an end as the minister met the emb- also under the agency's budget session of the house arrassed tribal boy and his mother, scanner in the case, they begins. and apologised to them personally. said. ■ FULL REPORT ON PAGE 2 ■ FULL REPORT ON PAGE 2 ‘Pangolins may’ve spread coronavirus’ Beijing, Feb. 7: Pangolins ple, indicating pangolins reported in China on could be responsible for the may be an intermediate Thursday due to the novel spread of the deadly coron- host of the virus, according coronavirus. avirus in China, scientists to a study led by scientists As of Friday, 638 people said on Friday after they at the South China Agricu- have died mostly in Hubei found the genome sequence ltural University. province and its provincial separated from the endan- According to Liu Yahong, capital Wuhan due to the vi- gered mammals 99 per cent president of the university, rus with the total number of identical to that from the research team analysed confirmed cases jumping to infected people. consumption in countries more than 1,000 metage- 3,143, Chinese officials Pangolins are believed to like China and Vietnam. nome samples of wild ani- announced on Friday. Mo- be one of the world's most The genome sequence of mals and found pangolins lecular biological detection trafficked mammals. Thou- the novel coronavirus stra- as the most likely interme- revealed that the positive sands of them are poached in separated from pangoli- diate host, state-run Xin- rate of Betacoronavirus in every year due to their me- ns was 99 per cent identical hua news agency reported pangolins was 70 per cent, dicinal value and human to that from infected peo- as 73 new deaths were the scientists said. — PTI c m y k c m y k

IN BRIEF Flagpole Rajapaksa embarks on 4-day visit to India mishap: Woman DC CORRESPONDENT gets govt job NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 7 Sri Lankan Prime MNM opposes Lankan PM’s visit to India Coimbatore: A 30-year-old Minister Mahinda woman, whose injured leg Rajapaksa reached New DC CORRESPONDENT as President and Mahinda ● MNM has appealed itime security cooperation, was amputated after a truck Delhi on Friday at the CHENNAI, FEB. 7 took over as PM in the Prime Minister the delegations from both hit her scooter while she was beginning of a four-day island nation. Narendra Modi to the countries are expected avoiding a falling flagpole, visit to India during Kamal Hassan's Makkal Citing that Tamil nation- highlight the plight of to discuss key areas under was Friday given a which he will meet "good Neethi Maiam has opposed al anthem has been stopped Tamils in Sri Lanka and the defence and maritime government job. Rajeswari friend" Prime Minister the four-day visit of Sri been played during mount pressure on security initiatives that received the order Narendra Modi on Lankan Prime Minister Independence celebration, Mahinda to end the include the Sri Lanka-India appointing as Village Saturday in the Capital strengthening the already Mahinda Rajapaksa to the even after completion of anti-Tamil policies. annual defence dialogue Assistant in Sanganur and will also visit existing ties between our country from Friday. war a large number of and the trilateral maritime Village from Municipal Varanasi, Sarnath, Bodh nations." Besides meeting President army personnel are posted Mahinda to end the anti- security cooperation with Administration Minister Gaya and Tirupati. MEA spokesperson Ram Nath Kovind and in Tamil dominant areas in Tamil policies. The visit ing aims to build on the India and the Maldives. S P Velumani at a The Sri Lankan PM Raveesh Kumar tweeted, Prime Minister Narendra Sri Lanka and Indian will be the Mahinda strong relationship that Mahinda also likely to function in the district tweeted earlier in the "On PM @narendramodi's Modi, Mahinda will hold Tamils continue to face the Rajapaksa's first overseas already exists between the visit the religious places - collectorate. Rajeshwari, day, "I will be in Delhi invitation, Prime discussion with Indian del- heat from Sri Lankan navy visit since his brother two countries. Varanasi, Sarnath, along with her relatives, on a state visit, meeting Minister of Sri Lanka egation and visit religious in the high sea, the MNM Gotabaya was elected as Mahinda hopes to Bodhgaya and Tirupathi. thanked the my good friend @PresRajapaksa arrived important places in the urged the Sri Lankan gov- President in November last finalise the implementa- Two Tamil ministers in the government and Velumani. PM @narendramodi, the in India to a warm wel- country. ernment to withdraw anti- year. tion of the $ 450 million line Rajapaksa government - Both the legs of Rajeswari President, the External come, on his first overseas In a statement, the Tamil policies. Mahinda will have meet- of credit pledged by Prime Douglas Devananda from got grievously injured after Affairs Minister and other visit since assuming Makkal Neethi Maiam has MNM has appealed ings with President Ram Minister Modi to President the north and Armugam the truck hit her scooter government officials. office. Sustained stated that Tamils were Prime Minister Narendra Nath Kovind, Prime Gotabaya Rajapaksa dur- Thondaman from the cen- while avoiding the falling Looking forward to build- exchanges at the highest subjected to serious hard- Modi to highlight the plight Minister Narendra Modi ing his visit to New Delhi in tral tea plantation districts flagpole erected by the ing new avenues of coop- level continue to energise ship after Gotabaya of Tamils in Sri Lanka and and external affairs minis- November. In an effort to expected to be in the 10- AIADMK on November 11 eration with this visit and India-SL ties." Rajapaksa assumed office mount pressure on ter S Jaishankar. The meet- enhance sub-regional mar- member delegation. last. Rajeswari was on her way to work when the accident took place and was in the ICU of a private hospital and her left leg had to be amputated from knee after four days. Stalin reiterates demand for CBI probe Senthil Balaji granted The incident kicked up a row with opposition DMK D. SEKAR | DC Hindu card' by portraying allies will again meet and raising the issue of CHENNAI, FEB. 7 TNPSC SCAM DMK as anti-Hindu, Mr. chalk out a much bigger erecting flagpoles TNPSC comes, should quit Stalin said that will never agitation plan. advance bail by HC especially after a banner The DMK president, Mr. on moral grounds. be possible as "the people put by an AIADMK worker M. K. Stalin on Friday Adverting to reports that are solidly with the DMK." Doctors’ leader's death DC CORRESPONDENT ed against them due to been raised for granting fell on another woman and reiterated his party's some 'top brass' were Later, speaking at shocking: CHENNAI, FEB. 7 political vendetta taking anticipatory bail to them. was run over by a lorry in demand for a CBI probe allegedly involved in the Royapuram in north umbrage of the order In reply to the same, Chennai. —PTI into the recently surfaced recruitment scam, Mr. Chennai where he stopped In a separate statement, The Madras high court dated November 27, 2019, Senior Counsel Tamil Nadu Public Stalin alleged that the by to oversee the Mr. Stalin expressed deep has granted anticipatory passed by this court on a Prabakaran stated that Services Commission State government was try- DMK's signature cam- pain and grief at the pass- bail to DMK MLA and for- petition filed by the the petitioners would (TNPSC) recruitment ing to cover up the whole paign against the ing away of the noted sur- mer transport minister Intervener, directing to appear for interrogation ‘Ceat tyres’ scam and also demanded issue. Hence, only a CBI Citizenship Amendment geon from Salem, Dr Senthil Balaji and his conduct further investiga- when any notice was the resignation of the probe will be able to bring Act (CAA)/ NPR/ NRC Lakshmi Narasimhan, brother, who apprehended tion in the matter. He fur- issued to them. In the top officials also Fisheries minister, Mr. D. out the whole truth, said exercises, Mr. Stalin said president of the Fede- arrest in connection with ther submitted that the backdrop of the aforesaid Jayakumar who is also in- Stalin in backing his that they (DMK and its ration of Government a job scam in the trans- first petitioner who was a rival contentions, public call on CM charge of Personnel and demand. He added that the allies) have already col- Doctors Associations, who port department. minister in the govern- prosecution Natarajan Administrative Reforms DMK, on returning to lected close to two crore died of a sudden heart Justice P.D.Audikesav- ment of Tamil Nadu dur- produced a copy of the From p1 department. power, will take strong signatures all over Tamil attack earlier on Friday. alu granted anticipatory ing the period from 2011 to summons issued to the Speaking at a marriage action against all those Nadu against their target He charged the AIADMK bail to Senthil Balaji and 2015 would fully cooperate petitioners for their It may be recalled that function here, Stalin refer- involved in the scam. of one crore signatures. government with being his brother Ashok Kumar with the investigation, but appearance in terms of HPL has already galvanised ring to more arrests being If the Central govern- responsible for Dr on the conditions that attempts were being made section 41 A of the Cr.P.C. a large number of made by the Police regard- BJP's Hindu card: ment did not pay heed to Lakshmi Narasimhan's they should execute a to lower his image in soci- Accordingly, the petition- downstream units in West ing the TNPSC irregulari- the message from this death through its repres- bond for Rs 50,000 each ety by implicating him. It ers were ordered to be Bengal as the complex has a ties and fresh information Taking a dig at certain massive signature cam- sive measures by transfer- with two sureties each for was also vehemently released on bail in the capacity to process more coming out every day, Mr. political forces trying to paign pressing for revoca- ring him to a like sum and shall argued that the procedure event of arrest, before the than 3.50 lakh tonnes per Jayakumar, the minister "destroy the DMK" by tion of CAA, Mr. Stalin Ramanathapuram after report before the police on prescribed under section magistrate concerned, the annum of polymers, is a under whose control the playing the 'majoritarian said the DMK and its the strike was withdrawn. the date and time whenev- 41-A of the Cr.P.C has not judge said. joint venture of the West er required until further been followed in requiring The judge said the peti- Bengal government, the orders. the petitioners for any tioners shall not tamper Chatterjee group founded by The judge said it was interrogation, despite the with evidence or witness Purnendu, the Tata contended by senior coun- directions of this court during investigation. group and the IOC. Budget session of TN Assembly from Feb. 14 sel S. Prabakaran, appear- dated January 7,2 019, the They shall not abscond The 'Ceat Tyres' chief ing for the petitioners that judge added. during investigation and financial officer Kumar DC CORRESPONDENT the budget session of the the Assembly to meet at 10 Mr. O. Panneerselvam, at the time of registering The judge said public they shall immediately Subbiah and vice president, CHENNAI, FEB. 7 house begins. am on that day. who is also in charge of the complaint, the peti- prosecutor A.Natarajan surrender their passports V. Sundararajan, also met the An official release from The Governor Mr. Finance portfolio, will tioners were not even stated that the petitioners to the magistrate con- Chief Minister today The Tamil Nadu budget the Legislative Assembly Banwarilal Purohit has present the budget. remotely cited as connect- have been out of reach for cerned. If any of the separately in connection for the year 2020-21 will be Secretariat, by secretary fixed the date for the This communication has ed in any manner with the service of any summons aforesaid conditions were with the inaugural of their presented in the K Srinivasan here said presentation of the state been sent to all the Tamil alleged offences, much for interrogation and have not complied, the bail radial tyre factory in the Legislative Assembly on that the Speaker, Thiru. P. budget on February 14. Nadu MLAs', the release less as accused, but now a absconded, though no granted shall stand can- state, sources added. Friday, February 14, when Dhanapal has summoned Deputy Chief Minister added. false case was being foist- other objections have celled, the judge added. CORONA PREVENTION Footwear issue: Minister apologises to boy, mom Health seretary Beela Rajesh inspects corona B. RAVICHANDRAN | DC Kaaliyammaal, their rela- the regret and apology from virus infection prevention OOTY, FEB. 7 tives and tribal leaders the minister, and thus decid- measures at Stanley reaching 'Tamizhagham' ed to end this issue. Medical College in Chennai on The infamous footwear con- guest house here, where the On Friday morning, some Friday. —DC troversy, involving the TN minister was staying. private organizations sta- forest minister Dindigul After an hour-long parley, ged protest in front of Tami- Srinivasan, came to an end minister Srinivasan told zhagham guest house here, School students from Tiruvallur as the minister met the media persons that he exp- where the minister was district participate in a embarrassed tribal boy and ressed his regret and apo- staying. handwash awareness campaign his mother, and apologized logized to the embarassed to keep away from infections, Forest minister Dindigul to them personally. Thus he tribal boy and his mother, Srinivsan with Kethan’s specially after corona scare in struck a compromise note, and the issue came to an family on Friday. Collector Tamil Nadu. District collector before leaving Ooty on end. Maheshwari Ravikumnar Friday afternoon. Speaking to mediaper- Divya is also seen. —DC inaugurated the The tribal boy, Kethan, a sons, Kaaliyammaal, said campaign. —DC class 9 student in a local the minster apologized to school near Thepakkadu them and also promised to Action sought against forest minister tribal village in Mudumalai look after some of the Tiger Reserve (MTR), demands put fourth by the DC CORRESPONDENT The incident took place on that a repeat of the incident walked to the police station tribes in regard to infra- COIMBATORE, FEB. 7 Thursday in Ooty and on does not happen in the at Masinagudi along MTR structure and basic ameni- the same day the minor bo- future." U K Sivagananam, border on Thursday late ties in Theppakadu tribal Members of the Tamil y's family filed a police com- state deputy general secre- evening, to file a complaint village. She also said that Nadu Untouchability Era- plaint. However, on the fol- tary of TNUEF said. against the minister under minister also promised to dication Front (TNUEF), lowing day on Friday, the Seconding him is Dinesh atrocities against the Tribes look after her plea for a job The Students' Federation of boy's family withdrew their Raja district secretary SFI Act. However, the cops who for her in the MTR. "From India (SFI) and Dravidar complaint. "Ministers take Coimbatore chapter who received the complaint our side, we promised to Tamilar Katchi on Friday an oath that untouchability added, "government offi- asked the boy to come again withdraw the police com- morning submitted a peti- is sin. Contradictory, to this, cials and police personnel on Friday morning to regis- plaint against him, as this tion to L. Balaji Saravanan, are some of these ministers were also present when the ter the case as the inspector issue is settled now," she deputy commissioner of actions which are punish- incident took place. They was not available in station added. Police (Law and Order) able under law," the petition (officials) must explain why then. Meanwhile, B. Pushpa- Coimbatore city requesting said. Moreover, the tone they stood as mute specta- While all were expecting kumar, secretary, Nilgiris that action be taken against used by the minster to call tors and allowed the inci- some drama at the Particularly Vulnerable State Forest Minister the boy is disrespectful, the dent to take place." Masinagudi police station Tribal Group Council, said, Dindigul C. Srinivasan for petition added. The CoP on receiving the on Friday morning, an the tribal boy's family and asking a teenage tribal boy "Despite the complaint complaint assured that it unexpected twist saw the tribal leaders who took C B Kethan (14) to unbuckle having been withdrawn, the will be forwarded to the Kethan and his mother part in the parley accepted his footwear. minister must be warned so legal cell. An opportunity to fast track consumer cases about 3 years, which is close impose costs, which in most beyond the statutory pre- is to permit a "maximum 45 ment of objects of the But before all that, can the to 10 times more than what cases, are not substantial scription, can be granted to days for filing the version by Consumer Protection Act, ministry of consumer Section 13 (3-A) of the enough to carry deterrence. an opposite party to file his the opposite party. 2019, the words "timely" and affairs please let consumers Sanjay Consumer Protection And the theoretical setting written version. Therefore, the aforesaid "effective" are added in the know the date from which Act,1986, contemplates. the party exparte. These The filing of the written mandate is required to be context of settlement of con- the new 2019 statute, which Then comes the exploitation orders are invariably set version, which is the strictly adhered to" On the sumer disputes. received Presidential assent Pinto of the procedural scope for aside that they have become response to the complaint, other, is the ruling in The pending case presents 6 months ago, will come into delay by the opposite party a sure shot strategy to pro- must be done within an Kailash Vs Nankhu (2005) to an opportunity for the force? As the new Act drasti- at every stage. tract the case. The 'delay - extended total period of 45 the effect that "the provision Constitution Bench of the cally alters the pecuniary A young media executive No turn in delaying the exparte - condonation' route days (30+ 15) under Section being in the domain of the Supreme Court to rule on jurisdiction of the three filed a case in a consumer case is left unstoned! A has become so common that 13(2)(a) of the Consumer Procedural Law, it has to be not just the 45 day extended tiers - district, state and forum over a manufacturing delay in entering appear- it is almost accepted as a Protection Act,1986, or held directory and not period for the filing of the national, cases are kept defect in her expensive ance with a Vakalatnama, a template today. The longer under Section 38(2)(a) of the mandatory" and that exten- written version but all the pending indefinitely, defeat- mobile phone. The wide gap delay in filing the written the duration, the costlier the new 2019 Act. sion of time may be allowed stages in a consumer ing its legislative intent between statute and reality version, a delay in marking battle. Corporate entities JUSTICE The interpretation of the under "circumstances which case - right from the limita- itself. Till that happens, one dawned on her, making her documents with a proof affi- have retainerships with words "not exceeding" are exceptional, occasioned tion period to file a fresh hopes the young media wonder if she will have the davit, a delay in filing writ- advocates, individuals don't. before the extended total by reasons beyond the con- complaint to a cap on the employee with a defective resources or the inclination ten submissions and delays It is against this backdrop FOR ALL period of 45 days, has seen trol of the defendant and pendency of a case itself. phone stays on line and does to brazen it out against a in advancing oral argu- of a mockery of a legislation conflicting decisions of the grave injustice would be The term "sufficient cause" not hang up! global corporate goliath. ments. For every delay, intended to be expeditious, Assurance Company Supreme Court. On the one occasioned if the time was that pops up in condonation First it was the shocking there is the condonation that the reported reserving Limited Vs Hilli hand was the court's view in not extended." of delay petitions needs to (The writer is an practical picture from her escape route. The only whip of orders by a Constitution Multipurpose Cold Storage Dr J.J. Merchant Vs The right to speedy justice be fleshed out with a advocate at the Madras advocate on the average time that the consumer forum or Bench of the Supreme Court Pvt. Ltd, the apex court is to Shrinath Chaturvedi (2002) flows from Article 21 of the possible enumeration of cir- high court, columnist for disposal of the case - Commission can crack is to must be seen. In New India rule on whether extra time, that "the legislative intent" Constitution. In the state- cumstances. & author) STATE DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 4

■ IN BRIEF Marriage beyond caste, religion, nations in Namakkal GLISTENING PLATES 2 die as car catches fire near Tamil-Swedish couple unite Musiri Tiruchy: Two persons were killed on the spot and five as per 3 wedding customs others were seriously injured when an Omni car in which ZAKEER HUSSAIN | DC ceremony was held at they were travelling caught NAMAKKAL, FEB. 7 Tiruchengode on fire and rolled down Thursday. into a road side ditch after A week ahead of Topping it all, the part- hitting a tree at Valentine’s Day, people in ners entered wedlock for a Thiruengoimalai near Musiri this small town of third time on Friday in a on the Tiruchy-Salem high- Tiruchengode near here typical, simple ‘Self- way in the wee hours of hardly expected to witness Respect Marriage’, as Friday. The occupants of the a dream, model Tamil- Tharani is personally a car hailed from Kolappalur in Swedish wedding that rationalist, sources said. Erode district and were on went beyond considera- Today’s ceremony was the their way home after offer- tions of caste, religion and simplest of the three-, the ing worship at Sri nationality and performed beaming couple, dressed Saneeswarar temple at as per three distinct mari- in traditional Indian attire Visitors take a look at wide collection of ‘Thambaalams’, (metal plates) at an exhibi- Thirunallaar when the tal customs. of ‘veshti’ and ‘sari’ tion-cum-sale organised by Crafts Council of Tamil Nadu in Coimbatore. —DC mishap occurred. The blessed two who respectively, exchanging Police said the deceased entered into wedlock were garlands amid their were identified as car driver S. Tharani, a youth from friends and close relatives Manikandan and Mayilsamy, Tiruchengode’s Sanarpa- besides exchanging rings-, nCoV: 100 persons occupant of the car. layam area and working Susan and Tharani exchange garlands at Tiruchengode sources said. BJP supporters protest The injured including Mrs as an engineer in Sweden on Friday. —DC People of Tiruchengode Loganayagi wife of the after completing his MS were amazed that to avoid under home deceased Mayilsamy, and his degree, and Ms. Marina they did not want culture- disappoint her parents, any inter-religious or Vijay film shoot at NLC son Yuvagtheesh, father-In- Susan, who belongs to specific marriage customs both Tharani and Susan inter-cultural conflict, the quarantine in Kovai law Arumugam, mother-in- Stockholm. to pose any hurdle to their first entered wedlock as couple decided to marry DC CORRESPONDENT front of the second mines law Mrs Chellammal, and his Tharani first met Susan wedding. per the Christian tradi- as per three different cus- CHENNAI, FEB 7 site of the Neyveli Lignite LAKSHMI L LUND | DC relative Viswanathan, were in Stockholm few years Both Tharani and Susan tion. toms- Christian, Hindu Factory (NLC) demanding COIMBATORE, FEB. 7 admitted to the Government back in a basketball court were on the same page on Tharani, on his part, not and Self-Respect mar- Tension prevailed at the the management of the hospital Musiri, police added. and their friendship soon this aspect and hence they to displease his Tamil par- riages-. Shanmugavel and Neyveli Lignite corpora- Central government- Nearly 100 individuals blossomed into love. They decided on an inclusive, ents, persuaded Susan Tamizharasi, the parents tion after the TN BJP owned company immedi- who are in Coimbatore decided to tie the knot and inter-cultural approach, that both will marry of Tharani, were all protested against the man- ately cancel the permis- from China are under 1 boy killed, 30 got the consent of the par- said a source close to according to Hindu tradi- smiles in hosting this rear agement of NLC India sion given to shoot the home quarantine for a ents from both sides, but Tharani’s family. Not to tional practices and that inter-cultural fusion. Ltd, a public sector under- film and stop the proceed- period of 28 days. In the taking, in Cuddalore dis- ings immediately. backdrop of the novel others hurt in bus trict for permitting the According to media coronavirus (2019-nCoV) shooting of actor Vijay's reports, a team of around affecting 24 countries capsize Sterlite pinch upcoming movie 'Master'. 200 people including across the globe, the Perambalur: A teenaged Oil leaks from ONGC pipe Actor Vijay busy shoot- artistes and technicians is Health and Family school boy studying 9th ing for his upcoming film shooting in the mining Welfare department of standard was killed on the seen in Copper Master hit the headlines area of the company. The the Government of spot and at least 30 bus pas- on Wednesday after makers of the 'Master' Tamil Nadu has stepped sengers were injured when a hit black gram crop in delta income tax department team have reportedly paid up vigil across the private bus in which import surge raided his houses in Rs 25,000 per day to state.“Government of they were traveling tumbled DC CORRESPONDENT R. VALAYAPATHY | DC Chennai. The actor Neyveli Lignite Tamil Nadu has into a roadside ditch after CHENNAI, FEB 7 TIRUVARUR, FEB 7 returned to Neyveli after Corporation Limited and strengthened surveil- hitting a cement tanker lorry extending full cooperation they have paid an amount lance and control meas- at Othiyam Patahai near Import of refined copper Black gram (Ulunthu to the Income-tax officials of Rs 2.5 lakh for 10 days of ures against the virus as Kunnam on the Perambaur- increased from 44,245 Payiru) cultivated in an who conducted a 35-hour shooting at their place. per the national guide- Ariyalur highway near here tonnes in 2017-18 to 92,290 area of one acre has been enquiry with him and Sources said that a few lines.” a source from the on Friday. tonnes in 2018-19, Union totally damaged due to oil declared that no inappro- BJP cadres with their health department said. The deceased student was Minister of Commerce spills (leakage) from the priate cash or accounts flags staged a protest. In Coimbatore alone identified as P. Arya. The and Industry, Piyush ONGC crude oil pipeline were discovered on his Neyveli Vijay fans and from January 24 to Feb. Injured were admitted to the Goyal said. which broke at premises. cadres belonging to VCK 4, a total of 78 air pas- Government hospital Replying to a question, Moolangudi village near The actor resumed the party gathered at the NLC sengers from flights Perambalur, police said. Goyal told the Rajya Sabha Tiruvarur on Friday. shooting of Master on in huge numbers and from China, Singapore, on Friday that export of It might be recalled that Friday. However, things stood in support of the Hong Kong and copper has also gone down the ONGC extracts the only turned worse, when actor. Police initiated a Thailand were screened CME prog for from 378,555 tonnes to crude oil in different cadres belonging to BJP mild lathi-charge to dis- universally through 47,917 tonnes for the same parts of Tiruvarur dis- conducted protests in perse the crowd. thermal screening. pediatricians in period.He cited the reason trict and moved it Oil spills from the ONGC crude oil pipeline which broke During the period, a for the decline in copper through pipelines laid at Moolangudi village near Tiruvarur on Friday. —DC total of 13,112 air pas- production in the country under the cultivable farm sengers were screened at Pudukkottai dt to the closure of copper lands to its refinery for spill from his field and ment to remove all the the various airports Pudukkottai: The pediatric smelter plant of Vedanta over 50 years now. due to the incident, he crude oil pipeline of the across the state of which medicine department of Ltd in Thoothukudi in The oil spills, in the was unable to cultivate ONGC laid under Relief for veggie traders as as many as 1,351 are Government Medical College May 2018. wake of the ONGC any crop for at least six agriculture lands and to under home quarantine Pudukkottai, organised a A few days ago Minister pipeline crack, spoiled years; so the ONGC protect the farmers’ for a period of 28 days. continuing medical educa- for Mines, Coal and the black gram grown should pay adequate com- livelihood. temporary market opens The local health tion programme (CME) on Parliamentary Affairs field of one pensation to him, he A team of ONGC offi- department has issued Friday. In a release here, col- Pralhad Joshi told Lok Panneerselvam and the urged. cials also rushed to the G.SRINIVASAN | DC advisory to the public to lege dean, Dr.AL. Sabha about the increase crude oil submerged the Another group of spot and assured the THANJAVUR, FEB 7 strictly follow the basic Meenakshisundaram in import and drop in entire crop, which result- famers of that village affected farmer that the hygiene routine like who presided over the func- export of copper and said ed in its damage. who gathered there point- oil spill will be cleared Temporary vegetable washing hands with tion said the infant mortality that copper consumption Mr. Panneerselvam told ed out that similar loss immediately and the market on SPCA grounds soap regularly and cov- rate was very much reduced in India was growing at 10 visiting newsmen that was suffered by other efforts would be made for on Pudukottai road near ering face while cough- in Tamil Nadu because of the per cent compound annual the ONGC authorities farmers of that area and getting suitable compen- Child Jesus church starting and sneezing. continuous and dedicated growth rate. should clear the entire oil urged the Central govern- sation to him. ed functioning from “Individuals who have effort of pediatricians. He Friday at Thanjavur. arrived from the regions appealed to the doctors and Wholesale traders and impacted by the 2019- the public to ensure 100 per retail traders of Kamaraj struction of a new market nCoV must be under cent immunization for all the market near palace and he declared it open strict home quarantine, babies in Tamil Nadu. grounds, shifted their with 93 wholesale shops regardless of them displ- In this programme, retired Salem grieves death of people’s doc vegetable shops to outlets and 212 retail shops. aying symptoms of the pediatric surgery professor provided by the city cor- The plan now is to con- virus or not.” official from Thanjavur Medical ZAKEER HUSSAIN | DC ple’s demands for better to work. Dr Lakshmi of the 127 service doctors poration in the tempo- struct a new market com- said. College Dr T.V. Sathappan SALEM, FEB. 7 medical facilities besides Narasimhan then had per- transferred during that rary market to facilitate plex on 17.47 acres of land delivered a lecture on doctors’ legitimate suaded the doctors to call period. Depressed by that the construction of a new at a cost of `17.47 crore. "common pediatric surgical The medical fraternity demands for last 25 years. of their stir on the assur- move, sources said, Dr market complex under “The market will be com- problems”. here is shocked and pained During the recent strike ances of the Chief Lakshmi Narasimhan was smart city scheme in the pleted in eight months CM urged to grant over the sudden demise of by the government med- Minister, Mr. Edappadi K under great mental stress, place where the Kamaraj time,” said corporation Dr N Lakshmi Narasim- ical doctors across Tamil Palaniswami and Health leading to his fatal heart market existed. officials. han, a senior surgeon in Nadu, Dr Narasimhan had minister, C Vijayabhaskar. attack today. In the temporary mar- The complex will house tea subsidy for government medical serv- coordinated their peaceful Though the government The deceased doctors’ ket put up on two acres of 211 shops and will have ice and president of the protests to press for among had also assured that they wife Ms. Anuradha said, land, there are 96 whole- parking place for eight small farmers Federation of the Gover- other things, equal pay for would not penalize the Dr Lakshmi Narasimhan sale shops and 224 retail lorries,17 four- wheelers nment Doctors state government doctors protesting doctors, sources had been highlighting the shops. Market started and 176 two-wheelers. It Ooty: In a memorandum Association who had coor- on par with central govern- said that after their agita- plight of doctors and functioning from 4 am on will have toilet and drink- to Chief Minister Edap- dinated a prolonged stir to ment doctors, time-bound tion, many doctors were patients for the last four Friday and people started ing water facilities. padi K. Palaniswamy, press for the doctors’ fair promotions for doctors and transferred. Dr. Lakshmi years and paid a heavy purchasing vegetables, Meanwhile, banana Ooty Congress MLA, R. demands. appointment for more doc- Narasimhan, who was a price for it. "He used to fruits etc from the new traders appealed to the Ganesh, had requested Dr Lakshmi tors to cope with the practicing surgeon at the organise fasts and other temporary market. city corporation officials immediate steps to grant Narasimhan, 52, from increasing number of Mohan Kumaramangalam peaceful forms of protest, History of Kamaraj to allot them shops in a subsidy to small tea gro- Raman Nagar in Mettur patients flocking to gov- government hospital here, but the government took market, which is to be more convenient place in wers (STG) in Nilgiris. near Salem, suddenly col- ernment hospitals. had been earlier promoted no action on any of those reconstructed, dates back the temporary market The memorandum stat- lapsed here on Friday The state-wide strike dur- as associate professor in demands pulling him into to 1804. It started as a than the place now allot- ed that there are 65,000 The cheque for `2 lakh being morning following a car- ing November 2019 had vir- the government medical a depression and leading to weekly shandy and later ted to them as it is in a STG families in the handed over to family of diac arrest. Sources said tually brought public college hospital, his death," Ms. Anuradha converted into a daily corner and hence could Nilgiris whose livelihood Yagesh on behalf of Sastra he was rushed to a private health services to a halt, Dharmapuri. wailed. "At least after my market. not attract the attention depend on tea cultiva- university, Thanjavur. hospital here, but doctors forcing the Tamil Nadu However, after the recent husband's death, the Tamil In1965, a fire devastated of customers. Traders tion. Though the green there had pronounced him government to warn of agitation, as coordinator of Nadu government should the market. also demanded better toi- tea leaf (GTL) which the brought dead. An avid severe disciplinary action the strike, he was shunted fulfill the legitimate The then Chief Minister let and drinking water STG cultivate and supply Sastra varsity activist, he had been in the against the protesting doc- to Ramanathapuram gov- demands of its doctors," of Tamil Nadu K. facilities in the tempo- to tea factories, used to forefront of voicing peo- tors if they did not return ernment hospitals as part she urged. Kamaraj ordered con- rary market. fetch around `20 per kg in the year around 1996, rewards youth’s but for the past two decades, the GTL pro- family for bravery curement price had come Thanjavur: Yagesh, a 23- down to an average of year-old youth saved the life Ryots laud tests-based fertiser use `10 per kg.This is not of a young woman from the only non-remunerative, hands of notorious auto driv- R. VALAYAPATHY | DC all the demonstration but subjected small tea er, sacrificing his life in the PUDUKKOTTAI, FEB. 7 work. The field day was growers to untold misery process. conducted today by assem- and made it difficult for For his act of bravery and Field day was conducted bling all the farmers at the them to make ends meet. sacrifice, Sethuraman, chair- by the Agriculture depart- demonstration site . With increase in the man, Sastra University ment , at a Paddy cluster Mohammad Rafi, cost of farm inputs and announced `2 lakh as a demonstration laid out in Agricultural officer and increase in wages and token reward to Yagesh’s over 40 hectares of land at subject matter specialist other related expendi- family and the same was Singathakurichi village of from the office of the joint ture, tea cultivation is handed over by Srinivasan Viralimalai block in director of Agriculture pinching STGs who sole- on behalf of the Thanjavur- Pudukkottai district, on delivered special lecture ly bank on tea cultivation based university. Friday. on the necessity of soil for their livelihood. The At Thiruvallur recently, a In a release here, the testing and soil-test based dip in prices of tea is also woman boarded an auto to joint director of nutrient application in the affecting the tea-based go back home, but the driver Agriculture M. cultivation of economy in the Nilgiris. took a different route and Periyasamy said that Agricultural crops. As tea cultivation has she shouted for help, under the National The farmers shared become non-remunera- Yagesh and his friends, hear- Mission on Sustainable their experiences about tive, many STG families ing the women’s cry for help, Agriculture , soil samples Farmers at the demonstration plot near Pudukkottai. how the soil test based have begun to migrate in chased the auto and freed were collected in grid —DC nutrient application and search of job opportuni- the young woman; but the sampling method from all soil fertility management ties in the neighbouring auto hit the three youth, one the farm holdings in the problem soils were select- and other fertilizers were practices helped in getting districts, he noted. of whom, Yagesh fell down. village, analysed in state ed for cluster demonstra- applied based on soil test higher yield, by ten per So, at this juncture, the He was taken to hospital Visitors look at the handicrafts at the Co-optex show- soil testing laboratory and tion and paddy crops were value, he said. cent more than control govt should come for- with injuries, but he unfortu- room during the Dastkaar Nature Expo organised in soil health cards were sown . In these demonstra- Under his guidance, field, besides considerably ward to grant `5 as sub- nately died in hospital. Egmore on Friday. —DC issued to all the farmers . tion fields, set of packages assistant directors of reducing cost of fertiliz- sidy for a kg of GTL to Out of total of 120 farm like green manure , farm Agriculture T. Ramar, and ers and total cost of pro- help STGs tide over the holdings, 40 fields with yard manure , gypsum Rajasekaran monitored duction. crisis till conditions improved, he urged.—DC NATION DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 5

IN BRIEF NIRBHAYA CASE Tainted J&K cop Security up for Delhi polls claims life threat BJP confident of winning 45 seats as surveys point to AAP win Appeal for law on Srinagar: Tainted Jammu and Kashmir police officer FROM P1 Davinder Singh and four others including two Hizb-ul- Tight security measures separate hanging Mujahideen (HM) militants have been put in place and their two alleged ‘over- across the city, especially PARMOD KUMAR | DC ground workers’ (OWG) sensitive areas like NEW DELHI, FEB. 7 were on Friday sent to 15- Shaheen Bagh, for peace- TIHAR PLEA FOR day judicial custody by a ful polling in which The Centre and Delhi gov- special NIA court in Jammu. Delhi's 1.47 crore voters ernment on Friday urged NEW EXECUTION While Singh was soon sent will decide whether Mr the Supreme Court to lay to Hiranagar jail in Kathua Kejriwal gets another down a law to separately DATE DISMISSED district, the others were term as chief minister for hang death row convicts lodged in high-security the development work who are convicted for the New Delhi, Feb. 7: A Kotbalwal jail. Singh had ear- done and promised, or the same crime so that they Delhi court on Friday dis- lier pleaded before the judge BJP, which campaigned may not by a “calculated missed the pleas of Delhi that he may face a serious aggressively on the "anti- design” delay the execu- government and Tihar threat to his life if he too is Shaheen Bagh" national- tion of sentence. jail authorities seeking lodged in Kotbalwal prison. ism pitch, will get a Taking the court fresh date for execution chance to form the govern- through the dates of the of the four death row con- ment. The voters' verdict FIR LODGED ON Nirbhaya case to contend victs in the Nirbhaya Kerala withdraws will also decide the politi- that the four convicts in a gang rape and murder cal relevance of the “calculated” manner case. calamity warning Congress in the state it AAP FOR SHOLAY were delaying the execu- Additional Sessions had ruled for 15 consecu- tion of sentence, Solicitor Judge Dharmendra Rana Thiruvananthapuram: The tive years. SPOOF VIDEO General Tushar Mehta took note of the Delhi Kerala government on Friday The last two weeks of said, “Nation’s patience High Court’s February 5 withdrew the ‘state calamity’ campaigning for the coun- New Delhi, Feb. 7: An has been tested enough order permitting the con- warning issued in the wake try's most prestigious elec- FIR was registered now … as death convicts victs to exercise their of the novel coronavirus toral battle since the Lok against the Aam Aadmi are not exhausting their legal remedies within (nCoV) scare as no new pos- Sabha polls in April-May Party over a spoof video legal remedies and adopt- one week. “It is criminal- itive cases of infection have 2019 saw the BJP roping in of popular Bollywood ing delaying tactics.” ly sinful to execute the been detected over the last almost all Union minis- film Sholay in which The Solicitor-General convicts when law per- few days, even as over 3,000 ters, 11 chief ministers Union Home Minister placed before the court a mits them to live. The people are still under obser- and 200-odd MPs to hard- Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal offers prayers at the Hanuman Mandir, in New Amit Shah is shown as chart with dates showing High Court on February 5 vation. State health minister sell its nationalistic narra- Delhi on Friday. ‘Gabbar’ and three BJP the way in which four has permitted the con- K.K. Shailaja said as of today tive to garner the support leaders as dacoits, police convicts have taken steps victs, in the interest of 61 people are in isolation of voters to unseat Mr said on Friday. to exhaust their legal justice, to exercise their wards of various hospitals Kejriwal. Many BJP lead- The FIR was registered remedies including mer- legal remedies within across the state. ers even tried to polarise on January 25 by the cy petitions with Pawan one week from same voters along communal Sisodia OSD held for graft Special Cell of Delhi Kumar Gupta yet to file a order,” the court said. lines. Police on the complaint curative petition and the — PTI Virus screening at To address the Hindu DC CORRESPONDENT behalf of the officer. in trade and tax depart- of the BJP, they said. In mercy petition and con- votebank, the chief minis- NEW DELHI, FEB. 7 Sources said that the ment, officials said. its compliant, the BJP tributing to delay in the ter even recited the agency has not found Mr “It was alleged that the alleged that the spoof execution of sentence. said that the death row 12 major ports "Hanuman Chalisa" at a The CBI has arrested Sisodia’s involvement in private person (Gupta) video of the famous As Mr Mehta proceeded convicts could not be New Delhi: The government recent show organized by Delhi Deputy Chief the case so far. was acting as a middle- scene from Bollywood with his submissions, the “compelled to exhaust all on Friday said it has directed a news channel where he Minister Manish Sisodia’s “CBI has arrested man on behalf of some film Sholay has been top court bench compris- their legal remedies”, all 12 major ports to immedi- declared himself to be a OSD (Officer on Special Dheeraj Gupta, who is a GST department officers, edited by the AAP and is ing Justice R. Banumathi, Justice Banumathi said ately put in place screening, diehard follower of Lord Duty), Gopal Krishna resident of Delhi, and including for the public being circulated on a Justice Ashok Bhushan that the High Court has detection and quarantine Hanuman. On Friday, he Madhav, on the basis of Gopal Krishna Madhav, servant (Madhav), for col- large scale on social and Justice A.S.Bopanna given the four convicts 7- system for disembarking along with his family information provided by a the GST officer in trade lecting illegal gratifica- media and YouTube said that they would like days time to exhaust their seafarers and cruise passen- offered prayers at the middleman who allegedly and taxes department of tion from transporters for with an intent to “dam- to hear the SG on merits legal remedies and time is gers as a preventive measure famous Hanuman Temple collected bribes from tran- government of NCT not charging GST from age, demean and tar- of the case and posted the still there. Justice against the coronavirus out- in Connaught Place. After sporters on his behalf, Delhi, who is also the OSD them,” the spokesperson nish” the party’s image. matter for further hear- Bhushan said one does break. The direction comes his visit to the temple, he officials said on Friday. to deputy CM of Delhi, in said. Madhav was imme- It alleged that the spoof ing on February 11, 2020. not know the situation against the backdrop of the tweeted: "Sought blessings The arrest of Madhav a bribery case of `2.26 diately taken to the head- video is being projected Solicitor General Mehta that would emerge after virus — which first emerged of Hanumanji at famous was made by the agency in lakh,” a CBI spokesperson quarters where he was and circulated on a large urged the court to issue seven days. in Wuhan city in China's cen- Hanuman temple at CP. an operation on Thursday said. questioned in detail by the scale to influence the notices to the four con- The HC in its February 5 tral Hubei province — Bhagwanji said - 'You are evening, ahead of the cru- During the questioning, CBI officers, officials said. voters of Delhi. victs in Nirbhaya case as judgment had held that spreading to 25 countries. doing good work. cial Delhi elections, after Gupta claimed that he was Gupta has been sent to According to the com- it would be required. The all the four death row con- Continue serving people middleman Dheeraj collecting the bribe for judicial custody by a spe- plaint, the video shows bench said that it would victs in Nirbhaya gang- like this. Leave the out- Gupta, nabbed on Febr- Madhav, a Delhi, cial court while Madhav BJP leaders as first like to hear the SG rape and murder case will Indrani seeks bail come to me, all will be uary 5, claimed he was Andaman and Nicobar will be produced before dacoits. on merits. be executed together and by citing parity fine'." collecting money on Island civil service officer court on Friday, they said. — PTI While Justice Bhushan not individually. Mumbai: Indrani Mukerjea, the prime accused in the Ring closes on 2012 Sheena Bora murder case, Friday told the court Naidu as aides Isaac to mop up that she should be granted Kerala Budget cover stirs row bail on grounds of parity as the co-accused in the case, face big raids DC CORRESPONDENT her former husband Peter more revenue THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, RECTIFY STAND ON Mukerjea, was granted bail. S.N.C.N. ACHARYULU I FEB. 7 She said the CBI’s claim that DC DC CORRESPONDENT towns, total ban on use of she killed her daughter for HYDERABAD, FEB. 7 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, CFL by November 2020. The CPM led Left Front ANTI-CAA STIR, money was false as 75% of FEB. 7 Land transactions will Government in Kerala property was in her name. A series of raids in the cost more with fair price utilised the budget speech CM TELLS PM last 48 hours by Central The CPM-led LDF govern- being increased by 10 per on Friday to launch a Varsity violence: 10 agencies of the homes ment in its last full budg- cent. Tax on luxury build- scathing attack on the DC CORRESPONDENT and offices of close asso- et before next year’s ings increase increased. Citizenship Amendment THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, ciates of former chief Assembly elections, anno- Cars up to `15 lakh will Act. The cover picture of FEB. 7 held, freed on bail minister N. unced a slew of measures cost more with increase the budget speech featur- DC CORRESPONDENT Chandrababu Naidu, for mopping up addition- of 2 per cent tax, 1 per ing the painting of Kerala CM Pinarayi Vija- CHENNAI, FEB. 7 including his former pri- al resources and pro- cent additional tax on Mahatma Gandhi’s also yan on Friday said Prime vate secretary, is caus- viding relief to the motorbikes not triggered a controversy. Minis-ter Narendra Modi Around 10 students of SRM ing some anxiety in poor sections. costing above `2 The Left Government must rectify his statement University, Kattangulathur Telugu Desam circles The government lakh. There will defended the picture say- that maligned anti-Citi- campus, were arrested by about the future of their announced welfare be one time 5 per ing it was to remind the zenship Amendment Act Maraimalai Nagar police for boss. programmes for cent tax for all people that Hindu commu- (CAA) protests in Kerala. involving in violence inside Income-tax officials women, raised the electric vehicles. nalists were behind the He said that it was not the college campus, alleged- raided the residences social welfare pension The government also gruesome murder. The cover picture of Kerala’s Budget speech featuring a befitting a PM to be part ly carrying deadly weapons and offices of Mr by `100, 1000 eating out- announced austerity Reading out the budget painting of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination that trig- of those who were disap- like a machete and a gun. Naidu’s former personal lets to be opened across measures. Instead of buy- speech Finance Minister pointed with the fact that gered a controversy in the state. The students were booked secretary P. Srinivasa the state for providing ing new vehicles, the gov- Thomas Isaac painted a Kerala is leading the under IPC sections Rao and Kadapa district meals at `25, She Lodges ernment will hire cars for grim picture of the coun- struggle against the com- 147(Punishment for rioting), TD president for women in all major official purpose. try. “Democracy and dicta- osition leader sitting in the picture on budget munalism of both the RSS 148 (Rioting, armed with Srinivasula Reddy at torship are standing face Satyagraha against CAA speech. and the SDPI. Mr Vijayan deadly weapon), 343 Vijayawada, Kadapa and to face in India. The rulers on the same platform, The BJP on the other was referring to the state- (Wrongful confinement for Hyderabad. IT’S RAINING SOPS, TOO in Delhi speak only in the passing of unanimous res- hand said the Left government made by the PM three or more days), On Friday, I-T officials ■ `1,000 crore for rural roads development project language of hatred and olution against CAA and ment was using such tac- about Kerala during the 294(b)(sings, recites or reportedly raided ■ 1.5 lakh jobs to be created in agri sector rancour. The administra- filing of suit in Supreme tics to divert the attention motion of thanks to the utters any obscene song, Aveksa Corporation in tive set up has completely Court against CAA sent of people from its failure President's address in ballad or words, in or near Hydera-bad owned by ■ 12,000 public toilets to be constructed yielded to communalism,” out a powerful message to on all fronts. The finance Parliament. any public place,) and former TD minister ■ School uniform allowance raised by `200 he alleged. Isaac said the the whole country. minister, however, defend- He said the PM’s state- 506(ii) (Punishment for Prattipati Pulla Rao's ■ threat of detention camps The Congress led opposi- ed the decision to use ment was prot-est-worthy criminal intimidation). son Sharath. 50,000 streams and canals will be cleaned up is hanging over 19 lakh tion expressed reservatio- Mahatma Gandhi assassi- and untrue. Apparently, I-T offi- during the current financial year. Assamese. In this back- ns about the use of Maha- nation picture saying that Mr Modi had referred to cials have never raided ■ 50,000 wells to be recharged, 25,000 ponds to be drop, the unity shown by tma Gandhi assassination it reminded the people Mr Vijayan’s recent state- the house of the person- modernized the ruling and opposition picture on the cover of bu- about the act of Hindu ment that certain extrem- IIMR ENCASHES al secretary of a former ■ parties in Kerala in fight- dget speech. Opposition communalists. chief minister be- `3 crore for providing assistance to women ing against CAA, was a leader Mr Ramesh POPCORN CRAZE fore. directors model for the rest of the Chennithala said it was IN JOWAR PUFFS country. The CM and Opp- not appropriate to use

N.B. HOMBAL | DC UP’s Basti dt may be BENGALURU, FEB. 7 Indian cities turning urban renamed after sage Popcorn is a craze among movie-goers across the world Gorakhpur, Feb. 7: Deen Dayal and encashing on this mind- The renaming of Upadhyay. set, Hyderabad based Indian heat islands: IIT study Basti district after According to offi- Institute of Millet Research Maharihsi cials, about a year (IIMR) has developed a tech- Kolkata, Feb. 7: A team of hazards due to heat waves enhanced cooling effect on Vashishth appears ago during Basti nology using which one can researchers from IIT apart from pollution, an IIT- surface” in suburban areas to be on the cards Mahotsav, CM Adi- produce Jowar puffs, Bajra Kharagpur has found that KGP statement said on Friday. during daytime as against with the local tyanath had puffs and puffs from various most cities in the country are “Our research is a detailed cities in arid regions, the administration announced that types of millets, which not turning into “urban heat and careful analysis of urban researchers said. sending a proposal Basti Medical Coll- only taste similar to popcorn islands” in all seasons during heat islands of India, which is “Evidence from our study on this to the state’s ege will be named but are also more nutritious. day and night, officials said. the difference between urban suggests that more green revenue board. DM after Maharihsi Speaking to Deccan In their study, researchers and surrounding rural land spaces within the city and its Ashutosh Niranjan Vashishth, who Chronicle on the sidelines of from Centre for Oceans, surface temperatures, across boundary could reduce the said the proposal to according to Hindu the National Horticulture Fair Rivers, Atmosphere and Land all seasons in 44 major cities temperature in the city and its change the name of mythology was the here, IIMR-NutriHub Techn- Sciences (CORAL) of IIT-KGP from 2001 to 2017,” Professor neighbourhood,” co-author of the district has guru of Lord Ram. ical assistant, Sai Prashant and its Architecture and Arun Chakraborty, one of the the paper Prof. been sent to the rev- After that said, “We have received more Regional Planning depart- researchers, said. Jayanarayanan Kuttipp-urath enue board and the announcement, a than 50 inquiries in the last ment showed that most big He further said, “For the said. expenditure for it is number of people two days on the setting-up of cities in the country with pop- first time, we have found evi- Conservation of water bod- pegged around `1 demanded changing this puff making machine in ulation more than one million dence of mean daytime tem- ies and expansion of green crore. the name of the dis- Karnataka. After tasting our have recorded rise in mercury perature of Surface Urban areas in and around cities The Adityanath trict. products, many have shown level during daytime while Heat Island (UHI Intensity) could be an effective strategy government has On November 28 interest but it will take some showing an increasing trend going up to 2C for most cities, to curb the effects of urban changed the name last year, the pro- time to finalise the deals.” in the night hours. as analysed from satellite tem- heat islands, he said. Allahabad to posal of changing According to him, IIMR has The study, Anthropogenic perature measurements in The construction of build- Prayagraj and the name of the developed this process for forcing exacerbating the monsoon and post-monsoon ings and infrastructure with Faizabad to district was sent manufacture of millet puffs urban heat islands in India, periods.” In Kolkata, Pune eco-friendly materials could Ayodhya. It has also to the Revenue using explosive puffing or gun noted that the relatively and Guwahati where the also prove to be crucial to mit- renamed Board which sought puffing where the grain is warmer temperatures in urban areas are surrounded igate the effects of heat Mughalsarai rail- an estimated expanded to the maximum. urban areas, compared to sub- by large green cover in subur- islands, he said. way station after — PTI urbs, have potential health ban regions, there is “an — PTI WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 7

IN BRIEF Democrats set France pushes Trump unleashes fury arms control for NH debate Paris: French President Prez celebrates impeachment acquittal by blasting Oppn Dems Emmanuel Macron warned Manchester (New Ham- Friday that European nations Washington, Feb. 7: A pshire), Feb. 7: The “cannot remain spectators” combative President Democratic Party’s seven faced with a potential Donald Trump celebrated strongest presidential nuclear arms race, urging his acquittal in the gru- contenders are preparing them to push an “internation- elling impeachment trial for what could be the al arms control agenda”. by launching a tirade fiercest debate stage clash “Europeans must realise col- against the Democrats, of the 2020 primary sea- lectively that in the absence saying, “they want to son as candidates look to of a legal framework, they destroy our country.” survive the gauntlet of could rapidly face a new race A day after he was contests that lie ahead. for conventional weapons, acquitted by the ruling The field has been shak- even nuclear weapons, on Republican Party-control- en and reshaped by chaot- their own soil,” Macron said led Senate on the two ic Iowa caucuses earlier in a speech laying out impeachment charges – this week, and Friday's France’s post-Brexit strategy abuse of power and obstr- debate in New Hampshire for its nuclear arsenal. He uction to Congress – — coming four days added that France had Trump appeared confi- before the state's primary already reduced its number dent, energetic and com- — offers new opportunity Democratic presidential of warheads to under 300, bative as ever against his and risk for the shrinking candidate Senator Bernie giving France “the legitimacy opponents. “It’s a celebra- pool of White House Sanders speaks during a to demand concrete moves tion,” Trump said of the hopefuls. Two candidates, press conference at his from other nuclear powers event, attended by top Vermont Sen. Bernie New Hampshire head- toward global disarmament Republican politicians, Sanders and former quarters. — AP that is gradual, credible and including Senate Majo- Midwestern mayor Pete can be verified”. rity Leader Mitch McCo- Buttigieg, enter the night ■ THIS IS the eighth nnell as well as the mem- as the top targets, having debate of the race, bers of the Cabinet and emerged from Iowa essen- and none has really Pak jet crashes the legal team that defen- tially tied for the lead. ded him in the Senate Those trailing after the had an impact. during training trial. “We went through first contest — including There’s been a hell, unfairly, did nothing former Vice President Joe noticeable lack of Islamabad: A Mirage aircraft wrong, did nothing Biden, Massachusetts of Pakistan Air Force crashed wrong. I’ve done things Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacks or memo- on Friday in Punjab province wrong in my life, I will and Minnesota Sen. Amy rable lines, and tele- during a routine operational admit,” Trump said in the Klobuchar — have an vision ratings have training mission. The PAF East Room of the White President Donald Trump pauses as he speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington. — AP urgent need to demon- tanked. said in a statement that the House. “This is really not strate strength. Mirage jet crashed near a news conference. It’s not Billionaire activist Tom Shorkot area in Punjab a speech. It’s not any- Steyer and New York ent- “Expect it to get more province. “The pilot ejected thing. It’s just we’re sort GOP governor Warren apologises to repreneur Andrew Yang, feisty.” Indeed, it was a safely and no loss of life or of - it’s a celebration bec- meanwhile, are fighting debate at this same stage property has been reported ause we have something to prove they belong in in New Hampshire four on ground,” according to the that just worked out. I the conversation. years ago on the Repu- statement. The cause of the mean it worked out,” the flays Trump 6 women of colour The rapidly evolving blican side that then-New accident was not known. A 73-year-old president said. dynamic means that the Jersey Gov. Chris Chri- board of inquiry was ordered In his speech that lasted Montpelier should have been Derry (US): Elizabeth paign and an organisation candidates have a very stie devastated Florida by Air Headquarters to for over an hour, Trump (Vermont): Verm- allowed to hear from Warren is apologising to six that is diverse and welcoming, real incentive to mix it up Sen. Marco Rubio's presi- determine the cause of the said, “Now we have that ont’s Republican gov- more witnesses dur- women of colour who left her that celebrates people, that with their Democratic dential ambitions with a accident. On January 7, gorgeous word. I never ernor says he thinks ing the impeachment presidential campaign office encourages people to bring rivals in the 8 pm debate well-timed take-down. two Pakistan Air Force thought it would sound so President Donald trial that ended in Nevada before the state’s their whole selves to work hosted by ABC. They may Rubio never recovered, pilots were killed when their good.” “It’s called ‘total Trump abused his Wednesday with an caucuses because they felt every single day,” she said. not get another chance. making it easier for China-made trainer acquittal’.” power and shouldn’t acquittal for Trump. marginalised and because Politico reported that six “This is the time when Donald Trump to emerge aircraft crashed in Punjab “They want to destroy be in office. Scott says that “I their concerns weren’t women have left Warren’s voters are eager for candi- as his party's presidential province. our country,” Trump said Gov. Phil Scott is a believe he abused his addressed by supervisors. campaign office since Nove- dates to show they can nominee. of the Democrats. Trump frequent Trump crit- position of power.” “I believe these women com- mber. Nevada holds its Demo- compare and contrast, The stakes are particu- was impeached by the ic, but his comments He also praised Sen. pletely and without reserva- cratic caucuses on February but also show they’re in it larly high this week for ‘Shouldergate’ Democratic Party-led at a news conference Mitt Romney, of tion. And I apologise that they 22. Campaigning in New to win it,” said Demo- Biden, who has played House of Representatives Thursday are a Utah, the only have had a bad experience on Hampshire for the state's Feb. cratic strategist Lily front-runner in virtually dress for auction in December for abuse of notably rare dissent Republican to break this campaign,” the Massa- 11 primary, Warren said she Adams, who worked on every one of the previous power and obstruction of from within party ranks with his party chusetts senator said after an understands “the long legacy California Sen. Kamala seven debates but left London: Labour MP Tracy Congress, but was acquit- ranks. and vote to convict event in Derry, New Hamp- of racism in this country and Harris’ unsuccessful 2020 Iowa in distant fourth Brabin, who was branded a ted in the Senate. — PTI He says the Senate Trump. — AP shire. “I tried to build a cam- what it means”. — AP presidential campaign. place. — AP “tart” for wearing an off-the- shoulder dress in the House of Commons, is selling it on PALESTINIANS: ebay for charity, with bids already topping £1,250. Ms Brabin, 58, hit back at “sex- US kills Yemen TRUMP PLAN ist” criticism after the top of her outfit slipped down her LED TO CLASHES shoulder as she leaned on the despatch box on Monday. Qaida leader Jerusalem, Feb. 7: The Widespread coverage of the Palestinians on Friday incident – which saw many Washington, Feb.7: rejected United States spring to the shadow culture President Donald Trump allegations of incite- secretary’s defence – report- said Thursday that the US ment after a day of edly saw a surge in demand at his direction has con- clashes and attacks left for the black pencil dress. An ducted a counter-terror- three Palestinians dead item description accompany- ism operation in Yemen and more than ing the new ebay auction lot that killed Qassim al- a dozen Israelis wound- reads: “This is an ASOS dress Rimi, an al-Qaida leader ed. which has been flying off the who claimed responsibili- They instead linked shelves... and is now sold ty for last year’s deadly the violence to President out!” shooting at Naval Air Donald Trump’s Mideast Station Pensacola, where initiative, which heavily a Saudi aviation trainee favors Israel on all the killed three American most contentious issues MALALA’S sailors. of the conflict and would Al-Rimi is a founder of allow it to annex large al-Qaida in the Arabian parts of the occupied SHOOTER Peninsula. The affiliate West Bank. has long been considered Qassim al-Rimi “Those who introduce the global network’s most plans for annexation ESCAPES dangerous branch for its opened fire inside a class- and apartheid and the Islamabad, Feb.7: Ehsanullah attempts to carry out room at the base, killing A passenger plane narrowly escapes being shot by Syrian anti-aircraft fire. — AP legalization of occupa- Ehsan, the Taliban terrorist attacks on the U.S. main- three people and wound- tion and settlements are responsible for shooting Nobel land. Trump said the U.S. ing two sheriff ’s deputies the ones who bear full Peace prize winner Malala and its allies are safer as a before one of the deputies responsibility for deep- Yousafzai in 2012 and carrying result of his death. killed him. Eight others ening the cycle of vio- out the deadly Peshawar Army “We will continue to were also hurt. lence and extremism,” school terror attack in 2014-in protect the American peo- The shooting focused Syria fire targets passenger jet senior Palestinian offi- which 132 students were killed- ple by tracking down and public attention on the cial Saeb Erekat said in has escaped from prison, eliminating terrorists presence of foreign stu- Mascow, Feb. 7: A pas- to human error. The a statement. according to an audio clip who seek to do us harm,” dents in American mili- senger plane carrying 172 Syrian defense ministry He was responding to released by him. Trump said. tary training programs passengers from Tehran said on Thursday it had remarks delivered the In the audio clip, which sur- While Trump confirmed and exposed shortcom- to Damascus made an Ankara, Feb. 7: Turkey A Turkish security intercepted Israeli mis- day before by Jared faced on social media on reports that al-Rimi had ings in the screening of emergency landing at the has sent nearly 150 vehi- source emphasised siles over Damascus that Kushner, Trump’s son- Thursday, Ehsanullah Ehsan been killed, he did not say cadets. In January, the Russian-controlled Hme- cles with commandos they were only to were fired at military tar- in-law and the architect said that he escaped the con- when the U.S. operation U.S. sent home 21 Saudi imim Air Base in Syria on and ammunition to rein- reinforce the 12 existing gets in southern Syria. of the Mideast blue- finement of Pakistani security was conducted or offer military students, saying Thursday to avoid coming force its observation posts established under a Israel has declined to com- print, who had blamed agencies on January 11, claim- any details about how it the trainees had jihadist under fire from Syrian air posts in Idlib, Syria’s last 2018 deal with Russia ment. The Airbus A320 Palestinian President ing Pakistani forces failed to was carried out. or anti-American senti- defenses, Russia said on rebel-held region, to prevent an (AIR.PA) had been coming Mahmoud Abbas for the keep their promises made to Al-Rimi had said in an ments on social media Friday. The Syrian forces Turkish state news offensive by Syrian into land at Damascus latest violence. him during his surrender in 18-minute video that his pages or had “contact were responding to Israeli agency Anadolu reported government forces. International Airport “Don't call for days of 2017. group was responsible for with child pornography,” strikes on targets in Syria, Friday. —AFP when it was forced to div- rage and encourage “With the help of God, I suc- the Dec. 6 shooting at the including in internet chat Defense Ministry spokes- ert to the nearest alterna- (your) people to pursue ceeded to escape on January 11, base. He called the shoot- rooms. man Igor Konashenkov tive airfield, the Hmeimim violence if they’re not 2020 from the confinement of er, Saudi Air Force officer Trump’s announcement was quoted as saying by month after a Ukraine Tehran, killing all 176 peo- Air Base near Latakia in getting what they want,” the security forces,” he is Mohammed Alshamrani, confirmed earlier indica- Interfax and other International Airlines ple on board. Iran later northwest Syria, which is Kushner said on heard saying in the clip. a “courageous knight” tions that al-Rimi had Russian agencies. passenger plane crashed said its forces had shot it operated by the Russian Thursday. Without revealing his current and a “hero.” The shooter been killed. —PTI The incident took place a shortly after take-off from down unintentionally due military. — Reuters —AP location, Ehsan said that he would soon make a detailed statement about his confine- ■ ment. ROYAL | IMPACT British govt says it has changed policy of flying flags for scandal-hit Andrew Malala Yousafzai, 22, was shot for campaigning for girls’ education in 2012 in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. In the audio clip, Ehsanullah Ehsan said that he surrendered UK ditches flags for Prince Andrew’s birthday to the Pakistani security agencies on February 5, 2017 London, Feb. 7: The Brit- later said it would be Jeffrey Epstein. Flying ing the British flag on UK under an agreement but the ish government said it had advising councils “that flags on government build- government buildings forces failed to keep their changed the policy of fly- there is no requirement to ings in his honour “would include the birthdays of Epstein scandal: Prince promise made before the sur- ing flags on royal birth- fly flags on the 19th be wholly inappropriate”, Queen Elizabeth and her render. days, with local authori- February following the opposition Labour law- husband Prince Philip, “I followed the agreement for ties no longer required to decision by the Duke of maker Wes Streeting told their wedding day, the defers navy promotion about three years. But these raise the Union Flag for York to step back from The Sun daily. birthdays of their four London, Feb. 27: Bri- copter pilot during the shrewd security institutions scandal-hit Prince And- public duties for the fore- Johnson’s spokesman sa- children and of their tain’s Prince Andrew is to 1982 war with Argentina put me in prison along with my rew. Officials earlier said seeable future”. id the email, sent by a civil grandson Prince William defer an honorary Royal in the Falklands Islands, children in violation of the they were considering The Sun newspaper had servant in the local gov- and his wife Kate. Navy promotion after he was set to become an agreement,” he said, adding how the policy applied “in published a leaked email ernment ministry, was an Andrew has strenuously stepped back from full admiral for his 60th birth- that he finally decided to flee changing circumstances, sent to local authorities Britain’s Prince Andrew “administrative email denied claims he had sex royal duties over his links day on February 19. from the forces. such as when members of reminding them to fly the about long-standing poli- with a 17-year-old girl pro- to convicted sex offender But a palace spokes- The authenticity of the audio the royal family step back British flag for Andrew's public life and royal duties cy”. He said discussions cured by Epstein, a finan- Jeffrey Epstein, woman said Andrew and veracity of Ehsanullah from their duties”, accord- 60th birthday on February after a disastrous televi- were under way between cier found dead in prison Buckingham Palace said would push back the pro- Ehsan’s claim was not verified ing to a spokesman for 19. It came just weeks after sion interview defending the ministry and the Royal last August while awaiting Friday. motion until he can by the security forces or the Prime Minister Boris Queen Elizabeth II’s sec- his friendship with the Household about a change. charges of trafficking The former naval officer, resume full royal duties. Pakistan government. Johnson. The government ond son withdrew from late US sex offender Designated days for fly- minors. — AFP who saw service as a heli- — AFP MIND POWER There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of EDIT establishing the truth. — Marie Curie DECCAN CHRONICLE SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 8

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A conscious move to Subhani deepen social divide rime Minister Narendra Modi’s lengthy replies in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on Thursday to the debate on the motion of thanks on the President’s address underscored a push — on the eve of the Delhi PAssembly polls — to deepen the communal divide which his senior col- leagues in the BJP and the government have been working hard to sharpen as a vote-polarising tactic. Perhaps the most graphic example of this came on the same day as the PM’s intervention in Parliament as one of his ministers said suicide bombers were being trained at Shaheen Bagh. When the country is in the grip of a serious economic crisis, it is noteworthy the PM’s reply showed no sign that the holder of the highest executive office was sensitive to the impact on the people’s lives of the economic downturn caused by faulty policies. The efforts of Opposition leaders to elicit from the PM a response framed under circumstances of urgency, and doing something special to alleviate the worsening jobs situation, proved futile. The President’s address to the joint session is a document cleared by the government, and is seen as a statement of the government’s priorities and inten- LETTERS tions. It made explicit that the government would be focused on politics, not economics. The politics surrounding the revised citizenship law gained pride ENSURE DEMOCRACY of place in this as this law is tailormade for deepening communal schisms if Saffron rainbow rises as Prime Minister Narendra Modi the ruling party is intent on doing so. has warned that the protests Mr Modi lost no time in exploiting the situation. At the theoretical level, he against the Citizenship Ame- had a hand packed with aces when he declared when a law passed by Parliament or a state Assembly is opposed by the people, this produces a ndment Bill by the Opposition recipe for chaos. parties across the country will As a broad principle, this is unexceptionable. This is why, in the normal queers police their own lead to anarchy. It must he course, laws duly passed are not opposed wholesale and, when they are, the remembered that the will or government and ruling party typically come forward with ameliorative These queers New York finally losing decision of the absolute maj- amendments in the spirit of democratic sensitivity. it with police tyranny, ority government is not nece- It is only a brute majoritarian government which, in the first place, brings a embrace the state whereas these folk are law that it knows will be deeply contentious and will be bitterly opposed, and Ashley Tellis and are bending tweeting the police ask- ssarily the will of the majority then proposes to defend it in the public sphere on the ground that it has par- over backward to ing them to come arrest of the people. The governme- liamentary sanction. In effect, this amounts to the defence of majoritarian kick their own to members of the commu- nt has passed the bill in haste rule, and not of democratic life, ethics and standards. nity. “Queer” has its ori- and is reaping the conseque- In the case of the BJP-RSS, the CAA springs from its belief which, at base, the kerb. These gins in demanding nces. It is imperative that the sees people of a certain minority faith as the hostile “other”. This is not pro- Pride arches are healthcare from the government senses the pulse claimed officially but no stone is left unturned to propagate this to the faithful. state at the height of the about apolitical of the society before framing Forceful civil society interventions are the instrument to diffuse the ruling frolic and parties at AIDS crisis when the US party’s ideological preferences to a wider public. f you still had any from those “supporting had left gay men to die. such sensitive laws to ensure Looking at this controversy, there would have been no need for a CAA if doubts that the anti-nationals” and peo- five-star hotels These queers embrace a peaceful democracy. India had only announced, without naming religious groups, that it would “queer movement” ple who “bring political later. the state and are bend- S. Ramakrishnasayee, offer citizenship to those facing persecution. For the BJP-RSS, however, a cer- in India is a right- flags” (what on earth is a ing over backward to Chennai tain religious category had to be openly declared as being excluded in order wing, neoliberal, non-political flag?) and to rape my mother, my kick their own to the for it to assert its politics. hellishI agglomeration, pollute Pride, which is wife (yes, most Indian kerb. These Pride arches SO AUTHORITATIVE the events of the last few only about “raising gay men have wives or are about apolitical frol- This is with reference to, Forest min days should have settled awareness”. Clearly, are going to get them, so ic and parties at five-star apologises for embarrassing boy. them. these folk have no they presume all gay hotels later. Tamil Nadu forest minister Dindigul Don’t let Kia leave Andhra men do) was predictable. If “queer” lost its polit- First, there was the awareness of the origins C.Sreenivasan has caused outrage singling out of protest- and history of Pride. But Jasbir Puar, a US ical edge long ago in the after asking two minor boys from trib- report by international news agency Reuters that South Korean auto ers who exercised the “national integrity and South Asian academic, US (once it was co-opted al communities to remove his slippers major KIA Motors is planning to shift its manufacturing facility locat- democratic right to security cannot be com- in her book Terrorist by US academia), its cir- while on a visit to Mudumalai Tiger Aed in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district to neighbouring Tamil protest against CAA- promised.” Heil Hitler! Assemblages over a culation across the Reserve and subsequently before Nadu has rightly created political ripples and public concerns. NPR-NRC as part of Then, Delhi had an decade ago, had come up world through the glob- entering into a temple nearby. The The question underlying the political churn and doubts in the minds of the Bombay Pride. And they event against the Budget with the idea of homona- alspeak of NGOised sex- district collector Ms Divya who general public is, does chief minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy have the capac- were singled out and and all sorts of minority tionalism by which she ual governance had little accompanied the minister was seen ity, interest and willingness to focus on development of the state and creating reported by members of organisations partici- meant countries like the more than an assimila- witnessing the incident without try- a business-friendly eco-system that will help the state rise in line with aspira- the “queer community”. pated, but “queer” US and Israel using gay tionist and inclusivist ing to prevent it. The act of the minis- tions as an industrial and business powerhouse, and prosper. Ashok Row Kavi, well- groups were conspicu- politics/positions to jus- rhetoric going for it. ter was in bad taste as the tone of him Mr Reddy has scored in reforms and welfare — he has made English the known, rabid, right- ous by their absence. tify imperialism, claim- But even that is gone while calling the boys was so authori- default medium of school education and delivered on almost all his social wing amma of the The one trans activist ing the gay for the from the new (or were tative. The minister who represents welfare promises — but there is clearly more to a CM’s job scope — mak- LGBTs, reduced them to present, Meera Sangha- nation to other the fig- they always that, but it the people has to be role model to oth- ing his state conducive to welcoming investors, creating jobs and setting “Left-Islamist nonsense” mitra, who, by her own ure of the “terrorist”, is only now that their ers instead he was setting a bad prece- it forth on a journey of ever-increasing growth. It is on this count that and claimed that their public admission, had demonising the Muslim fangs are bared?), right- dent; he was not ready to utilise any- perhaps Mr Reddy has disappointed not only his voters and supporters colleges were easy to not intended to speak at and the Muslim country. wing Hindu-fundamen- one out of the persons who were at his but the business community. “comb and search”. all, eventually spoke but The nation here has talist queers who are disposal and available with him at the The new report came as a bolt but it was not from the blue. YSRC lead- Several queers took to did not feel the need to done no such thing (the now deciding which time of the incident, this itself is the ers — including its Hindupur member of Parliament Gorantla Madhav, the social media to con- even mention Chuda- Indian State is robustly queers get to be Indian proof that he misused his power. who reportedly misbehaved with the global CEO of Kia Motors at the demn the protesters and vala and Bombay or heterosexual and mas- and which don’t. A. Kumar, Chennai plant inauguration programme last year — have been making unrealistic claim “queer” space and Pune Pride. She settled culinist and does not The Left anti-Budget and unethical demands of Kia — whose denial of the news report was tame Pride March space as for bland solidarities want to claim queers at meeting had the usual suspects invoking the RATES STATUS QUO and not convincing enough. apolitical. The organis- and a banal rewriting of all), but queers are clam- The decision of Monetary Policy usual laundry list of Let Mr Reddy not forget the Nano episode — West Bengal under Mamata ing body of the march the national anthem. ouring to be included in Committee (MPC) to maintain the sta- minorities: farmer, wor- Banerjee is still to recover from the decision of the Tatas to leave. Mr distanced themselves Fourth, no “queer” the nation. They are tus quo on basic rates is hardly sur- ker, dalits, adivasi, wo- Chandrababu Naidu put in some effort to bring Kia to AP — in a seeming from the protesters, con- group has come out with each more hysterical prising given the surge in inflation man. The queer was political zeal to undo every decision taken by the previous government, demning pro-Sharjeel a statement condemning than the other in their and no sign of it relenting in the com- missing. While that usu- Mr Reddy must not let Kia leave. slogans as harming the the CAA-NRC-NPR, let claim to the nationalist. ing quarters. While MPC underscored ally incenses me, this “integrity of India”, alone the arrest of mem- Moreover, the “terror- its commitment to accommodative even as they claimed bers of their community. ist” is anyone who criti- time it was reassuring. DECCAN CHRONICLE monetary stance to revive growth and Queers are the enemy. allegiance to the Fifth, as an experi- cises the State (the duty indications about cut in rates once ADITYA SINHA T. VENKATESWARULU It is time for the real Constitution and law, ment, I changed my han- of a citizen in a democra- there is a discernible fall in inflation, Editor Printer & Publisher sexual minorities to both of which they clear- dle on all the gay dating cy) and they don’t mind RBI with no restrictions on policy R. MOHAN stand up, please. 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here is no end to the twists in cites a statement by the PML-N. “The with a lot of reliance on common In the hours and days to come, the ties that they enjoy, they have this this family saga made up of investigations revealed significant sense, would help the government thrust is likely to intensify. More luxury of falling back on their jails, hospitals, vast sprawl- ischemic burden affecting major claim there was a deal behind this reports of a long silent Mian Sahib sources in the world beyond. These Ting estates and foreign areas of heart and impaired function escape by the former ruling family. stubbornly shaking his head in rejec- scribes get heavenly letters that can dreams, with all kinds of characters as well.” And then there is the real The removal of as many Sharifs as tion to all trying to persuade him to neither be denied nor questioned. and frills thrown in for effect. Mian purpose of these technical details possible, the point goes, would free undergo a cardiac procedure we are Unfortunately, the facility is unavail- Asha’ar Shahbaz Sharif has taken the story to that another patient wanting some the Imran Khan government to con- told he ought to have undergone a able to the meek and timid, but some- Rehman the latest dizzying stage with a reve- privacy would rather keep under centrate on development. The gov- long time ago, could increase pres- thing we cannot do without, suppose lation about the hurdles in the long- wraps: “In view of the unstable state ernment cannot be forever bogged sure on the accountability-obsessed we were to today receive that elusive awaited and urgently required treat- of health of Mian Sahib, Maryam down in the romantic ideal of hold- government. envelope in the mail? What would View from Pakistan ment for Mian Muhammad Nawaz Nawaz should be allowed to join her ing everyone accountable for past Indeed the government may be too the contents of that letter be? Sharif. father. The more time is passing, the deeds. Frankly, this is not at all a single-minded. This could spark And even more importantly, who Here is a serious patient needing less is the space for intervention.” new angle. The original advice to the some very tense moments in the would be its sender — that someone urgent medical intervention and his Desperation begets desperation. PTI government had warned the emotionally charged Pakistani poli- important on the other side suffi- learned attendants are risking a Some of the reaction that this rather party against having too deep an tics. If the past is any guide, a grow- ciently moved by an event to write delay — for whatever reason. There desperate-looking attempt at master- obsession with punishing rulers of ing number of commentators may be the long-awaited note? Like “Dear are serious issues with this explana- minding a long-distance flight for Ms the past. It is the prime minister who swayed by the human side of it to call scribe. This is Kulsoom Nawaz tion (to begin with) that could spark Maryam Nawaz is reflective of the has, against counsel, steadfastly upon Prime Minister Imran Khan to Sharif. I hope you are doing well and an unending debate about roles and disastrous mindset in the PTI camp opposed all suggestions that might make this departure. still have enough motivation to occa- Is okaying responsibilities and blame. right now. One quote from a more have found him extending favours to Meanwhile, the discussion about sionally report on voices that are But trust the good old younger vocal minister from the same story those facing corruption charges. whatever the PML-N needs right closer to the more obscure versions brother for trying to be as convinc- would suffice. However, a situation where it now — leadership, to start with — of truth. “I need your help to convey Maryam exit ing in his plea as he has ever been. The worthy minister says that seems that Mr Imran Khan has been can wait. What can be guessed is that this message to Mian Shahbaz Sahib Mr Shahbaz Sharif goes about build- allowing Ms Maryam to leave at this forced to grant a reprieve has its own the task of repairing the party from ... Next time could he please not men- ing his case with typical emphasis on stage would be like striking the last demerits. It has an element of sur- abroad would be far more onerous tion my illness as he goes about certain words. He wants everyone to nail in the PTI’s accountability render to it as opposed to a leader this time round than it was two appealing for Maryam’s presence by freedom or believe that he is speaking on behalf pledge. It couldn’t have been more magnanimously, or simply proudly, decades ago after the Sharifs were Mian Sahib’s side in a London hospi- of a man whose condition is serious- damning than this. agreeing to the departure of politi- toppled and sent out by Gen tal. Illness. Hospital. London. As an ly unstable. It would seem that a large number cians under trial by invoking the old Musharraf. It would require some elder it is my duty to ensure that surrender? “Mian Sahib was investigated com- of people had long got the drift. In doctrine of ‘good riddance’. special intervention, the kind of there are no unwanted comparisons prehensively at Royal Brompton various commentaries, it has been The intended alarm in the latest magic spun by Begum Kulsoom between family members who have Hospital, London, for the present car- discussed how the government statement by Mian Shahbaz Sharif Nawaz back then. undergone or are undergoing med- diac status and to determine the need would be far better off dispatching signifies the beginning of another, We all know the privileged scribes ical treatment.” for intervention,” reads a story in the whole Sharif clan across the stronger push by the PML-N to carry amongst us live in a neighbourhood this paper by Amir Wasim which fence. The absence, it is submitted Ms Maryam Nawaz across the line. of their own. 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ished support base. Former According to the latest haven’t been this high since more fractured today with the only be expected to intensify vice-president Joe Biden is Gallup polls, approval 2005. Gallup polls showing that 50 during his tenure. widely considered the In short, President Trump is per cent Americans continue India and the United States Democrats’ favourite, but for Donald Trump has doing pretty good. Yet, on the to disapprove of him. have a common opponent in the Indranil Banerjie some reports suggest Bernie shot up from flip side, Americans have Given the current political form of the great disrupter, the Sanders, the Brooklyn-born 41 per cent in never been as divided as they configuration in the United People’s Republic of China. senator from Vermont, has a October last year to are today. While President States, this disapproval rating President Trump has emerged chance of taking the lead. Trump might have been will translate to little; politics, as the first US leader to stop his If the Iowa caucuses 2020 48 per cent in January acquitted in the Senate economics and the US strategic country’s slide into total indebt- results are anything to go by, this year, which impeachment trial and is push- outlook can be expected to edness to China. His “America the results are significant. suggest that impeach- ing ahead with a popular tail- remain consistent over the First” slogan, slapping of resident Donald Republicans’ best and only bet While President Trump got an ment proceedings wind, it does not mean that the medium term. import duties on Chinese goods Trump’s tri- now, and there’s simply no overwhelming majority of fundamental churnings within This can only be good news and decision to enhance US mil- umph appears credible opposition to him Republican votes, the actually helped him American society and politics for India. For President itary presence in the Indo- total after the within the party. Senator Mitt Democrats’ vote was split, with have ended. Far from it. Trump, despite his hard deal- Pacific region suggest a mind- collapse of his Romney, the lone Republican Pete Buttigieg securing an 21 (on a scale of 100 to 100) to 40. Timothy Naftali, co-author of ings in trade and business mat- set determined to resist China’s impeachment to vote against the President, unexpected 26.2 per cent share, As much as 62 per cent of the book Impeachment: An ters, does not appear to dis- total domination of Asia and its trial in the US whom he publicly accused of Bernie Sanders 26.1 per cent, Americans said the economy is American History, pointed out favour India. spreading global ambitions. Senate, leading committing “an appalling Elizabeth Warren 18.2 per cent “excellent” or “good”, as in an interview that wrongs do Even his unwelcome offers to An unrestrained hegemon in to his acquittal Wednesday abuse of public trust”, finds and Joe Biden trailing with against eight per cent, who not necessarily lead to mediate between India and Asia is not in India’s interest Pnight. Not only that, his popu- himself ostracised and staring just 15.8 per cent. These results described it as “poor”. impeachment. Bill Clinton was Pakistan over the Kashmir either. Besides, India also faces larity ratings too have soared, at the end of his political are not just a big upset, but Clearly, the President’s hard- impeached in 1998 but like Mr issue appears more a conces- an economic as well as a strate- according to the Gallup polls. career. also reflective of the turmoil nosed economic decisions, par- Trump was later acquitted in a sion to the Pakistani leader- gic challenge from China. New The Democrats are in disarray, Massachusetts governor Bill within the Democratic Party. ticularly the renegotiating of Senate trial. ship than an ill-intentioned Delhi’s repeated requests for and as of now he looks a clear Wield, talk show host and for- President Trump’s populari- trade deals (with Canada, However, a failed impeach- snub to India. For Washington greater market access for frontrunner in the run-up to mer US representative Joe ty, meanwhile, continues to Mexico, China and India), has ment trial also does not suggest continues to negotiate with Indian goods and services or a the November presidential Walsh, and realtor Rocky De grow despite his unpredictable the approval of large numbers that the charges were wrong. Islamabad over a possible deal resolution of border disputes elections. La Fuente have thrown their behaviour, frequent gaffes and of Americans. Also, employ- In the end, as in the Clinton on Afghanistan and President has met with prevarication or President Trump’s victory in hats into the ring, but nobody claims of past misconduct. ment is at a 50-year high and case, the Trump impeachment Trump has to keep the obfuscation. the Senate trial was a foregone considers them serious chal- According to the latest Gallup the economy has been doing was all about politics and Pakistani leaders appeased. New Delhi will do well to fur- conclusion with its Republican lengers to Mr Trump. The Iowa polls, approval for Mr Trump consistently well over the past power. The substance of the Donald Trump will be visit- ther cultivate a politically reju- majority standing firm behind Republican caucuses that took has shot up from 41 per cent in few years. charges was secondary and in ing India later this month as a venated President Trump, their leader. Senate rules place on February 3 gave the October last year to 48 per cent Not surprisingly, in the same the ultimate analysis of little confident and relaxed fresh from his Senate triumph, require a two-thirds majority President 97 per cent votes, in January this year, which period, the polls saw a happy consequence. President. He will be tough in and determined more than for a successful impeachment, illustrating clearly which way suggest that impeachment pro- rise in US “satisfaction levels”, President Trump might have negotiations and expect con- ever before to push through his and it was clear from the begin- the wind is blowing. ceedings actually helped him! or the percentage of Americans triumphed and is likely on the cessions from India, which he overall agenda for America. ning that the Democrats and The Democrats, on the other Gallup’s economic confi- who are satisfied with the way path for a second stint as US most likely will extract. Yet, in Mr Trump’s rivals could never hand, present a much-divided dence index shows an even things are going in the coun- President, but he has not been the overall scheme of things, The writer is an independent muster that figure. house with as many as 11 pres- sharper rise between October try, which is up from 28 to 41 able to unite the country the strategic engagement commentator on political Mr Trump continues to be the idential hopefuls and a dimin- 2019 and January 2020, up from per cent. Satisfaction levels behind him. If anything, it is between the two countries can and security issues Is the BJP paying attention to Wanting to kill all is just madness, it’s the voices from Shaheen Bagh? not about religion Only cowards and losers protesters at Shaheen Bagh? Listen to their cries? Respond to their pleas? with zero imagination and Nazia has called her son a “shaheed” Khan, who killed two people near even less intelligence (martyr). How many more shaheeds London Bridge in November, is talk in terms of shooting does India need before this govern- perhaps the most infamous. Khan those who disagree with ment wakes up? Rod was actually engaged in a deradi- them. They are, There have been attempts to con- calisation conference when he vert Nazia’s son’s death into some- Liddle decided to have a break and mur- Shobhaa’s Take in reality, shooting their thing else and not a sad consequence der a few kafirs. own feet — and looking of him being present at Shaheen Have we not grasped that these like absolute fools. Bagh in the bone-chilling cold of the programmes are not terribly effec- he political contradictions ain’t going anywhere! Deal with it, Please guys, your dhamkis capital. You know what? Such tive? Neither the “hard” nor “soft” and optics are countless folks. manipulation comes with conse- programmes, the latter of which and sickening. Looking at The rest of the disturbing and are so yesterday! quences. Perhaps, the arrogance of udesh Amman was singu- attempt to divert their subjects the front page of leading depressing domestic news involves those in power does not allow them larly unsuccessful in his into developing agreeable hobbies, dailies… forget visitors comical clips that would have raised to confront the truth of Shaheen wish to kill kafirs, as he put such as ping-pong or basketry. Tfrom outer space… even we, the citi- a chuckle had they not been so huddled with the protesters and Bagh. “Goli maaron saalon ko…” is Sit, and thereby find himself Nor, pace Ms Khan, is prison work- zens of India, are left bewildered and bizarre. “Tigers must be punished their children, determined to have such a pathetic response to the far surrounded by the hoor al ayn — ing terribly well. There is no doubt upset. In fact, we are feeling like for eating cows, like humans,” her voice heard. She is mother to more powerful and stirring cry of beautiful handmaidens who’ll do that many are radicalised in such aliens in our own land. Visitors to a declared NCP MLA Churchill two other children, and this is what “Azaadi... Hum dekhenge.” Only anything you want, frankly — in places as Belmarsh. We are not destination called India that we can Alemao after a tigress and her three she had to say when asked about the cowards and losers with zero imagi- the afterlife. He had perhaps not helped by the fact that many no longer recognise. We can collec- cubs were killed inside the death of her youngest: “I am ready to nation and even less intelligence followed the instructions in the imams we allow to minister to tively star in a movie titled, “Aliens Mahadayi Wildlife Sanctuary. And sacrifice myself and my other two talk in terms of shooting those who book he had about how to stab peo- these maniacs are followers of the in Modiland”, and show the rest of no, he was not sacked by his bosses. children for the cause, if need be.” disagree with them. They are, in ple. Two were injured by the mad- Deobandi sect, which is strictly the world, what’s going on… it’s sci- His bosses happen to be educated, When asked by a reporter why she reality, shooting their own feet — man on Streatham High Road; opposed to integration. fi meets horror, meets Comedy intelligent, seasoned netas — but had taken an infant with her for the and looking like absolute fools. both, mercifully, should live. We are also a little hamstrung by Central, meets melodrama. A they let it go. Anywhere else in the protest, she answered simply: Please guys, your dhamkis are so However, Amman was shot dead our liberalism, as ever. Ian macabre formula for a mega box- world, this man would have been “Because there is nobody at home to yesterday! India is on the brink of a by plainclothes policemen before Acheson, who led the independent office experience, for those who are questioned and made to issue an take care of my child. I have sacri- major shift. India has always nur- he could even scream out the old review of Islamic extremism in our not a part of the script. I am looking apology/clarification. Not in India. ficed one child for the sake of the tured a thriving culture of protest “Allahu Akbar” thing. The cops prisons, is opposed to the parole at a perfectly framed photograph of He had raised the “C-word” (cow). nation. Yeh desh hamara hai… we and dissent. The Prime Minister can were already there because board assessing the threat value of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at And he got away with that outra- will not leave our country. If we try scare tactics and warn the nation Amman was known to them — prisoners about to be released and the DefeExpo 2020 in Lucknow. He is geous comment. have to go anywhere it will be about an “anarchic situation”. If he known very well to them. I sup- commented: “Cultural sensitivity shown pointing a lethal weapon, Cut to a rowdy group of mostly straight to Allah.” indeed believes it has come to this — pose, under British law, they were among [prison] staff towards eyes screwed up as he takes careful men, waving the tricolour and I wonder: Did Narendra Modi step up, mate. Take control. Start a required to wait until he’d tried to Muslim prisoners has extended aim (target, unknown). The report yelling, “Desh ke gaddaron ko… goli watch that heart-rending clip? What dialogue with those ladies at stab somebody before they shot beyond the basic requirements of says India should target exporting maaron saalon ko,” (“shoot the trai- about Amit Shah and the others? Shaheen Bagh. Ask the people of him. That is perhaps the first law faith observance and could inhibit billions of dollars worth of military tors/scoundrels”). The video clip Doesn’t it tell them something? While India what’s bothering them. Then, that I would revisit when it comes the effective confrontation of gear in the next five years. Hurrah! clearly shows the police “protect- they announced the go-ahead for the maybe, we will find a more equitable to jihadi terrorists. I’d find it extremist views.” In a small, left hand corner of the ing” this lot, when they should be Ram Mandir, a different drama was way through the chaos and sorrow. preferable if we dealt with them You would guess that’s about same newspaper, we have another arresting a few for inciting murder. being staged in their backyard. What when they emerged from their right. But there is another point to megalomaniac, Donald Trump, Who are the “gaddars” this lumpen sort of blinkers prevent those in Readers can send feedback to homes. It would save a lot of time. I be made here. We insist, whenever scowling for the cameras, as Nancy lot wants to gun down? Errrr… let’s power from paying attention to the www.shobhaade.blogspot.com wonder how many policemen were such terrorist incidents occur, that Pelosi dramatically tears up his look at just one. A young Muslim tracking Amman? Bear in mind the attack was “nothing to do with State of the Union speech. The news lady called Nazia, who has been that they have at least another Islam”. And yet we are not consis- of his impeachment and acquittal is protesting at Shaheen Bagh. So, 3,000 known jihadis to keep an eye tent in this belief. The way in which so blah, nobody thinks it’s worth what’s special about Nazia? There on and you have an indication of we treat the perpetrators later more than a casual mention. are thousands of Muslim and non- the enormous cost imposed on the always contains a genuflection Trump’s bombast knows no limits. Muslim ladies at Shaheen Bagh stag- taxpayer. toward the suggestion that these His boast, the “Great American ing a non-violent, peaceful protest. Amman was well-known to the people are in some way enemy com- Comeback”, mocked by critics but They have been there for over 50 security services because he had batants on account of their faith. greeted with loud cheers from his days now, braving the bitter Delhi just been released from prison for They are afforded imams, they are supporters, is a precursor to his cold. Yes, the same harsh and unfor- terrorist offences. He had been quartered with other Muslims, they expected second term win. Well, our giving cold that took the life of released, automatically, early — are sent on deradicalisation pro- man has no such tension back home. Nazia’s four-month-old son, who and it is this fact which seems to grammes where Muslim communi- He is comfortably ensconced — and caught a chill, while his mother ‘Our target is to meet net zero by 2035.’ have caused most outrage. The ty elders address their violent, er, government is now thinking of shortcomings. ceasing the automatic release of Why do any of this? If we are seri- terrorists halfway through their ous that these attacks have nothing sentences, mindful that some more to do with Islam, then let us apply of them are due for release this some consistency to this apparent year. I am not sure that we are conviction. If somebody wishes to God, our Father, who sets us free much better off if we simply let the kill as many people as possible likes of Amman wait another 14 because they do not believe pre- as “daddy”; or papa, appa name is holy. Repeating the “Give us today our daily months before enjoying a brief cisely what that person believes, or dadda in Indian lan- thousand names of God bread!” is a petition for stabbing spree. It seems to me to be and further holds that their reward guages. Broken up into its brings peace and happi- food. God is Annadata, missing the point somewhat. for doing so will be an endless suc- constituent pleas, “Our ness. For instance, of the food-giver, who sustains us More has emerged about the stab- cession of hoor al ayn, they are Francis Gonsalves Father” is very meaningful nam-simran, the Guru through the benevolence of ber. He had apparently urged his clearly mad and should be sec- and puts the focus not on Granth Sahib succinctly mother earth whose girlfriend to decapitate his father tioned, incarcerated permanently selfish, individualistic says: “Repetition of God’s resources must be shared — and mother-in-law — well, okay, as a consequence of their derange- needs but on a loving rela- name expunges, grief, pain by all God’s children. How we’ve all been there. He had ment. That is what we would do to tionship with God and with and fear and produces hap- can we allow people to die expressed a wish to kill the “filthy someone possessed of similar nar- others. piness, everlasting.” of malnourishment and kafirs” and while in prison had cissistic delusions who did not dig- On their request, “Lord, “Your kingdom come; hunger if God is abba- voiced a desire to kill an MP. His nify them by recourse to the o his disciple who God is regarded as teach us to pray,” Jesus your will be done!” is trust- amma? mum, meanwhile, a lady called Quran. They are all simply psy- persistently prayed “Father” in some religious instructs his disciples to ful surrender of the believ- Finally, “forgive us our Haleema Faraz Khan, insisted that chopaths, not simple criminals, to God to fulfil the traditions, mainly Judaism say, “Our Father” and not er: allowing God to be God. sins as we forgive those her offspring was a “nice polite and should be treated as such. Tsmallest of his and Christianity. In the “my Father”, for God is nei- It entails striving for God’s who sin against us” is boy” who had been radicalised in Wanting to murder us all is sure- needs, the master said, Bible’s First Testament, ther the private property of universal family where humble acceptance that Belmarsh prison. Given that he ly a conviction rooted in insanity “When will you stop lean- common to Judaism and one particular love, joy, unity, each of us is guilty of the was sent to prison for possession of — and given that we have decided ing on God and stand on Christianity, viewing God group nor privi- peace, prosperi- vengeance and violence ISIS material and the aforemen- the likes of Amman are insane, we your own feet?” as “our Father” is rare, leges one specif- ty, equality, that has turned our tioned book about how to stab peo- can hold them indefinitely and not Astonished, the disciple occurring just 14 times. By ic people, forget- sharing and car- homelands into battlefields. ple, you may think Ms Khan a little let them out to be trailed across the protested, “But, wasn’t it contrast, in the Gospels ful of others. ing will prevail, May God — called by every wide of the mark, certainly on the country by plainclothes police- you who told us to call God containing narratives of Thereafter, here and now. name — free us from all “nice” bit, although we cannot be men, waiting for them to stab ‘Father’?” The master Christ’s birth, life, death there are four It’s vital that we manmade divisions and certain that he did not wish his vic- someone. It would be hard for any- replied, “Yes! But, when and resurrection, Jesus not hallmarks of collaborate with strife! tims a cheery “good afternoon” one to oppose such an approach, will you realise that a only calls God “Father” 170 prayer: praise, God to build a before he plunged the knife in. seeing as it also tidily removes father isn’t someone who times, but also teaches his surrender, peti- world communi- Francis Gonsalves Amman is the latest case of a ter- Islam, and thus the wider and satisfies your needs all disciples the “Our Father” tion and forgiveness. ty called Vasudhaiva is a professor of rorist released from prison, under- blameless Muslim population, though your lifetime, but prayer. “Holy be your name!” Kutumbakam, Ram Rajya, theology. He can going a spectacularly unsuccessful from the equation. someone who rids you of Jesus speaks of God as expresses praise and wor- Umma, Sangha, Kingdom of be contacted at deradicalisation programme and your tendency to lean? “Abba”, loosely translated ship due to God. God’s God, or whatever. [email protected] then wandering off to murder, or By arrangement with try to murder, kafirs. Usman the Spectator WORLD DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 10

IN BRIEF Botswana elephant hunting auction on China to probe Wenliang’s death Gaborone: Botswana, home Whistleblower doc was first to raise alarm about novel coronavirus in early January to the world’s largest elephant population, on Friday Beijing, Feb. 7: China’s was set to hold its first major anti-graft watchdog on auction for trophy elephant Friday launched a probe hunting quotas since scrap- into the death of a whistle ping a hunting ban last year. blower doctor who was We’ll defeat The sale will be conducted by reprimanded by police for a local firm from the premises spreading “rumours” of the Ministry of Enviro- about the coronavirus out- nment, Nature Conservation break in China that has the virus: Xi and Tourism in the capital claimed over 630 lives, Gaborone. President Mokg- amid an outpouring of Beijing/Shanghai, founder Mao Zedong weetsi Masisi raised the ire of global grief and anger Feb.7: Chinese President which meant a prolonged conservationists in May when over his demise. Xi Jinping spoke on struggle with the support he revoked a moratorium, just China’s ruling Commu- Friday with his US coun- of people while fighting a year after he succeeded Ian nist Party has sent a high- terpart Donald Trump on for a particular cause. Khama, an avid environmen- level investigation team to the novel coronavirus out- Xi told Trump that the talist, who introduced a blan- the epidemic-hit Wuhan break and asked him to Chinese government and ket ban in 2014 to reverse a city in Central Hubei pro- assess the epidemic in a the people were making decline in the population of vince to probe Li Wen- “calm” manner, urging their maximum efforts to wild animals. Masisi fended liang’s death on Thursday. America to adopt and contain the outbreak. “We off criticism of his govern- Li, 34, was among eight adjust its response meas- have adopted the most ment's decision, saying the Wuhan residents who ures in a “reasonable comprehensive and stri- move would not threaten the were reprimanded by local way” to China’s intensi- ctest prevention and con- elephant population. The gov- police in early January for fied efforts to contain the trol measures through mo- ernment is issuing seven spreading “rumours” dreaded virus that has bilising and rapid respo- hunting “packages” of 10 ele- about the outbreak of the claimed over 630 lives. nses. We have declared a phants each, confined to novel coronavirus in the Xi, in his first phone call people’s war against the “controlled hunting areas”, a province. The doctor died with Trump since the epidemic through preven- wildlife spokeswoman Alice due to the very virus he coronavirus outbreak in tion and control,” Xi was Mmolawa said. desperately tried to high- December, told the US quoted as saying by state- light in December last year President that China had run CCTV. “We are fully through social media and launched a “people’s war” confident and capable of Texas executes has become a national icon against the epidemic that fighting the epidemic. The with millions of netizens has been wreaking havoc long-term trend of China’s man who killed 5 expressing their grief and in China and across the economic development anger over the way he was A couple wearing face masks exchanges their rings in a mass wedding ceremony at the Cheong Gapyeong: Shim world. People’s war is an will not change,” the South Huntsville, Texas: Dallas man treated. Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Friday. South Korean and foreign couples exchanged or reaf- ideological concept devel- China Morning Post quot- was executed Thursday His death is widely firmed marriage vows in the Unification Church’s mass wedding arranged by Hak Ja Han Moon, wife of the late Rev. oped by the ruling ed the official television as evening for a shooting in reported by the state-run Sun Myung Moon, the controversial founder of the church. —AP Chinese Communist Party reported. —Agencies which he killed his wife, two media which had earlier children and two other rela- shunned him. A special ■ JAPAN ON FRIDAY tives during a drug-fueled team will head to Wuhan reported 41 new rage nearly 18 years ago. to investigate issues regar- A floating prison’: Cruise of THAI MINISTER Prosecutors say Abel Ochoa ding Li, state-run People’s cases of the virus on was high on crack cocaine Daily quoted China’s top the cruise ship SLAMS TOURISTS and looking for money to buy anti-corruption agency as Diamond Princess Asia ends in virus quarantine more drugs when he started saying on Friday. that’s been quaran- Bangkok, Feb. 7: shooting inside his home in The action has been YOKOHAMA, Japan: like a floating prison,” entering and spreading Thailand’s health minis- August 2002. Ochoa, 47, was approved by the central tined in Yokohama David Abel’s 50th wedding Abel said on Facebook further into Japan, Abe ter lashed out at pronounced dead at 6:48 government and the team harbour. anniversary luxury cruise from the ship in the port of said. “Western” tourists on p.m., 23 minutes after receiv- will have a comprehensive ■ began with him eating his Yokohama, outside Tokyo. As Japanese officials Friday for not wearing ing a lethal injection at the investigation into matters ■ BRITAIN, fill and enjoying the sights He is among thousands loaded the Diamond face masks and suggested state penitentiary in related to the deceased GERMANY and Italy of East Asia. of people on two cruise Princess with supplies to they be expelled from the Huntsville for the slayings of doctor, China’s National have announced It’s ending with him ships in Japan and Hong make the quarantine as country for putting others his wife, Cecilia, 32, and his 7- Supervisory Commission Li Wenliang quarantined in his cabin Kong who are facing quar- bearable as possible, pas- at risk during the coron- year-old daughter, Crystal. He said in a statement. more cases of the aboard the Diamond antine because of the sengers took to social avirus outbreak. also killed his 9-month-old Li’s death has been new virus from the international commu- Princess for two extra virus. media to highlight kind- The outburst came as the daughter, Anahi; his father-in- mourned by the National China, bringing the nity. “We are deeply sad- weeks, eating a “lettuce Japanese Prime Minister nesses by the crew and to kingdom faced steep loss- law, 56-year-old Bartolo Health Commission. total number of con- dened by the passing of Dr sandwich with some Shinzo Abe announced complain about dwindling es over a drop in visitors Alvizo; and his sister-in-law, The police reaction in sti- Li Wenliang. We all need to chicken inside” and Thursday that Japan will medicine, the quality of from China. Tourism 20-year-old Jacqueline Saleh, fling his warning of coron- firmed cases in celebrate work that he did watching as officials in deny entry of foreign pas- the food and the inability accounts for 18 per cent of and seriously injured his sis- avirus which now has Europe to 31. on 2019nCoV,” the WHO hazmat-style suits escort sengers on another cruise to exercise or even leave the country’s gross domes- ter-in-law Alma Alvizo. become a national and tweeted. dozens of infected people, ship heading to Japan — their cabins. tic product and Chinese international disaster has ment, Wenliang passed According to his post on some of them hiding their Holland America’s cruise Their photos and videos holidaymakers make up a evoked public resentment. away. We deeply regret and Weibo on December 30, Li, identities under sheets, off ship Westerdam, on its showed the vessel that quarter of total arrivals. Cabbage compound As of Thursday, 636 peo- mourn Li’s death,” the an ophthalmologist at the the ship to hospitals for way to Okinawa from once had 3,711 passengers Thailand has detected 25 ple have died due to the Central Hospital of Wuh- Central Hospital of treatment of a new virus. Hong Kong — because of and crew is now a ghost coronavirus cases and for liver disease virus outbreak with the an announced on Thurs- Wuhan, warned in the Officials said Friday that suspected coronavirus ship of deserted reception nine of those patients total number of confirmed day. The doctor’s death tri- online chat group WeChat 61 people from the ship patients found on the ship. areas, swimming pools have recovered, while Houston: A natural compound cases jumping to 3,143, ggered an outpouring of that he had seen a report had the fast-spreading The new immigration and hallways. Babies on streets, public transport found in widely consumed Chinese officials announ- millions of comments on that showed positive test coronavirus. policy takes effect Friday the Hong Kong ship were and shopping centres have vegetables such as cabbage, ced on Friday. China’s social media sites results of SARS for seven “It’s not going to be a lux- to ensure border control to reportedly running out of filled with people wearing kale, and cauliflower may help “After emergency treat- as well as concerns from patients. —PTI ury cruise; it’s going to be prevent the disease from diapers and milk. —AP face masks. —AFP treat fatty liver disease, a study claims. The study, published in the journal Hepatology, demonstrates how non-alcoholic fatty liver T-shirt weather disease (NAFLD) can be con- Rains ‘breaking the back’ of bushfire crisis trolled by indole, a natural compound found in gut bacteria, Sydney, Feb. 7: Heavy and in cruciferous vegetables. rain was raising hopes on BAT TORNADO in Antarctica? It also addresses how this nat- Friday for an end to ural compound may lead to Australia’s unprecedented Antarctica, Feb. 7: new treatments or preventive bushfire crisis, as down- WREAKS HAVOC Antarctica has logged its measures for NAFLD, the pours douse blazes that he local community of hottest temperature on re- researchers said. “We believe have burned out of control Ta small town in Que- cord, with an Argentinian healthy foods with high for months. ensland, Australia have research station therm- capacity for indole production The devastating fires, been plagued by a colony ometer reading 18.3 are essential for preventing fuelled by prolonged of “fruit bats” which have degrees C, beating the NAFLD, and are beneficial for drought and record-high been causing widespread previous record by 0.8C. improving the health of those temperatures, have raged havoc. What started as an The reading, taken at with it,” said Chaodong Wu since September, burning uptick in fruit bat num- Esperanza on the north- from Texas A&M AgriLife more than 10 million bers around the small ern tip of the continent’s For representation only Research in the US. hectares (25 million acres) town of Ingham has bec- peninsula, beats Antar- and killing 33 people. An ome a virulent plague wh- ctica’s previous record of latitude — is 19.8C, taken estimated billion animals ich the people of this town 17.5C, set in March 2015. on Signy Island in have perished in the fires have been fighting to root A tweet from Argentina’s January 1982. BOLSONARO that destroyed more than out for the better part of meteorological agency on Prof James Renwick, a 2,500 homes. the decade. Friday revealed the reco- climate scientist at Vict- The rains in New South Sometimes referred to as rd. The station’s data goes oria University of Well- HAS A PLAN Wales (NSW), which began “flying foxes”, the bat back to 1961. ington, was a member of earlier in the week in some colony has reached such Antarctica’s peninsula – an ad-hoc World Mete- areas and are forecast to biblical proportions that the area that points orological Organization FOR AMAZON extend into next week, are it now outnumbers Ingh- towards South America – committee that has veri- Rio De Janeiro, Feb. 7: Brazil- expected to drench a num- A couple take shelter under an umbrella during rain in Sydney on Friday. —AP am’s 4,300 residents by is one of the fastest fied previous records in ian President Jair Bolsonaro ber of the remaining fires gargantuan margins. Res- warming places on earth, Antarctica. He said that has unveiled a sweeping plan and help contain others. act” levels — a situation and consoling children change to the relentless idents have called the situ- heating by almost 3C over Australia it was likely the for the Amazon rainforest that “It’s breaking the back of virtually unseen in almost who, like him, lost their campaign of hot, dry ation a “bat tornado”, the past 50 years, accord- committee would be would open indigenous lands to this bushfire season, half a year. Beleaguered firefighting fathers in weather” he said. As the with the epicentre resid- ing to the World Meteo- reconvened to check the mining — a “dream” for the far- there’s no doubt about it,” volunteer firefighters who bushfires — expressed joy bushfire crisis abates, ing over the town's botani- rological Organization. new Esperanza record. right leader, but a “nightmare” said Shane Fitzsimmons, have fought the blazes day- at listening to the rain fall authorities are now brac- cal gardens and the trees Almost all the region’s He said “Of course the for environmentalists and trib- the head of rural firefight- in-day-out declared them- overnight and driving ing for possible flooding. in nearby local primary glaciers are melting. record does need to be al leaders. ers in NSW, the state worst selves “over the moon” at with windscreen wipers The Bureau of Meteo- schools. The Esperanza reading checked, but pending Bolsonaro proposed a new bill hit by the crisis. By Friday the rain. on. “Obviously we don’t rology issued a string of Pilots and aviation breaks the record for the those checks, it’s a per- Wednesday that would allow afternoon there were no Even Fitzsimmons — want to see lots of wide- flood warnings and said enthusiasts in 2013 had Antarctic continent. The fectly valid record and mining, farming and hydroelec- bushfires burning in NSW who became the public spread damage and destr- some parts of NSW will complained about the fly- record for the Antarctic that [temperature] station tric power projects on formerly at the most dangerous face of the crisis through uction from flooding, but it see their highest rainfall ing foxes as their presence region — that is, every- is well maintained.” protected land in the world’s emergency or “watch and stoic daily TV briefings is certainly a welcome totals in four years. —AFP made flights difficult. where south of 60 degrees —Agencies largest rainforest, saying: “I hope this dream... comes true.” He further stoked controversy ■ by naming a former Evan- SHRINKING | COUNTRY UN has stepped in to help what is being considered a national emergency gelical missionary to head the government department responsible for protecting isolated indigenous groups in Brazil, which is home to at least 100 Exodus! Serbia struggles with population decline uncontacted tribes, more than any other country. Blagojev Kamen Serbia, ating a Greater Serbia out now there are only few of but the problem is acutely of pensionable age. Together, the measures under- Feb.7: Uros Trainovic of the ashes of the former us and there are no young different in Central and The U.N. Development lined the Brazilian president's remembers when his Yugoslavia. people any more.” Eastern Europe where the Program and the U.N. committment to two key groups small mining village in Near-empty villages with However it’s measured, low fertility rates that are Population Fund have of supporters: conservative eastern Serbia was a abandoned, crumbling the numbers look stark. commonplace in devel- assembled a group of Evangelical Christians and vibrant home to 200 fami- houses can be seen all over According to the World oped countries combine seven international expe- agrobusiness. But they drew lies, had a school of its Serbia — a clear symptom Bank, Serbia’s population with high migration rates rts of different back- outrage from other quarters. own, a doctor and a shop. of a shrinking population of just below 7 million is and low immigration more grounds and specialities to “Bolsonaro’s dream is our How times have changed. that is raising acute ques- projected to fall to 5.8 mil- akin to developing help out. The members nightmare, and it will be our Now, 60-odd years later, it’s tions over the economic lion by 2050. That would nations. visited Serbia last month extermination. The mining ind- a ghost village with just well-being of the country. represent a 25% fall since The economic knock-on for a fact-finding mission. ustry brings death, disease, and eight residents. The decline is happening 1990. effects on a country striv- Wolfgang Lutz, an misery, and it will be the end of The transformation of so fast it’s considered a The Serbian government ing to join the European Austrian expert in demo- our children’s future,” said Blagojev Kamen is not national emergency and says the Balkan country is Union are evident and graphics at the Internat- Sonia Guajajara, of the Braz- unique in a country that the United Nations has effectively losing a town amount to billions of dol- ional Institute for Applied ilian Indigenous People’s Ass- experienced years of war stepped in to help. each year, and that as lars in the short term. In Systems Analysis, or embly (APIB). The clash sho- and sanctions in the 1990s “This village used to be many as 18 municipalities the longer run, there are IIASA, said the main prob- wed Bolsonaro’s determination following the break-up of full of people, I used to go have fewer than 10,000 peo- also costs related to the lem is related to the make- to press ahead with his agenda Yugoslavia. In a twist of to school here,” the 71- ple: “We are 103 people less fact that a smaller popula- up of those leaving Serbia for the Amazon basin region, historical irony, one of the year-old Trainovic recalls. each day.” tion of working age will rather than the overall despite international condem- causes behind those years “It is such a pity and so Population changes are a have to contribute more to population decline. An abandoned factory seen near the town of Kucevo, nation of his policies last year. of war was the idea of cre- sad that everybody left ... fact of life across Europe, support the ranks of those —AP Serbia. AP SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 11 ■ Large-caps see more earnings cut than SMIDS Firms see disruption if quick Earnings downgrades China shutdown lasts BITES ■ Suzuki Motor looks outside China for components outstrip upgrades in Q3 SANGEETHA G chain, and is looking for ing director of Bluestar. INDICATORS % CHENNAI, FEB. 7 sourcing vehicle compo- In the tyre industry, 15 to nents from outside China. 40 per cent of the raw Sensex 41,141.85 -0.40 ASHWIN J PUNNEN slowdown in operating Manufacturing activity in However, industry insid- materials are being Nifty 50 12,098.40 -0.33 MUMBAI, FEB. 7 profit growth as against 54 India across industries ers find that sourcing shipped from China. S&P 500* 3,335.54 -0.32 per cent in the previous may get stuck if closure of from alternate markets These include synthetic With companies reporting quarter. factories in China gets may not be an immediate rubber, carbon black, Dollar (`) 71.40 0.28 tepid top line growth, Most companies in spe- extended beyond a week. solution. Suzuki does not chemicals, nylon tyre coat Pound Sterling (`) 92.56 0.09 there are more earnings ciality chemical, media Suzuki Motor Corp, par- produce or sell any cars in fabric. downgrades than and insurance showed a ent of India’s largest car- China, but procures com- “There is no alarm as yet Euro (`) 78.23 -0.08 upgrades in the current slowdown in their operat- maker Maruti Suzuki, has ponents for its plants in because the Indian domes- Gold (10gm)* (`) 41,249▲112 0.27 results session ing profit trajectory. already declared that India. Other automakers, tic consumption is not For the results declared The companies in retail, virus infection in China like Toyota Motor Corp looking up. Have we been Brent crude ($/bbl)* 54.85 -0.08 so far, 57 per cent of com- power, FMCG and threatens to disrupt vehi- and Fiat Chrysler Auto- in our peak production, IN 10-Yr bond yield 6.439 -0.007 panies have seen consen- durables largely missed cle production in India. mobiles are also reported- there would have been an US 10-Yr T-bill yield* 1.602 -0.042 sus FY21 EPS (earnings expectations on operating Consumer durable-mak- ly staring at a disruption. imbalance. However, if per share) estimates being profit, while those in agri- ers, who source most Consumer durables and the product-halt in China * As of 9:30 pm IST cut by analysts. chem and auto largely beat products from China, are appliances are heavily continues till end of Interestingly, large-cap expectations. also concerned. And so do dependent on China for February or mid-March, companies are seeing “Private banks, NBFC, tyre and drug companies. their components as some we will definitely see dis- more earnings cut than cement and IT sectors “As of now we hear that brands just assemble the ruption,” said Rajiv RBI to conduct small and mid-cap firms ies of any turn in con- these companies reported have met expectations, units (in China) might get imported parts in India. Budhraja, director gener- (SMIDS), even as mid-cap sumer sentiment. Our a deceleration in sales while consumer has deliv- opened by February 10. For electronic compo- al, Automotive Tyre Man- and small-cap stocks are Underweight positions are growth in Q2, in Q3 half of ered a beat,” Motilal Oswal But if this gets extended, nents, television panels, ufacturers Association. long-term repo ruling at a premium to in engineering/ capital the stocks reported an Financial Services said. manufacturing might get LED chips, compressors Drug manufacturers get large companies. goods and financials acceleration in top-line It says there are several affected across sectors, as for refrigerators and air- active pharmaceutical ops on Feb. 17, 24 Earnings expectations remain,” the report fur- growth trends. concerns on corporate China is the main compo- conditioners as well as ingredients (APIs) from The RBI will begin the first are largely pushed down ther said. The improvement in top- growth, capping the nent provider for most of motors for almost all the China for their formula- tranche of its long-term repo in companies in sectors An analysis shows that line trajectory was evi- upside in market. the products. Even if products and brands are tions. Usually they stock operations on Feb. 17 with like power, retail, FMCG there is broad-based stabil- dent in agri-chem, auto, “The ongoing 3QFY20 units in China resume dependent on China. raw materials for a mon- three-year repo of Rs 25,000 and cement, while com- isation in top-line growth power and retail, while results season has high- production, we do not Consumer durables, espe- th. But the lag effect of the crore, followed by another on paneis in telecom, agri- but overall numbers still pharma, media and chem- lighted several concerns, know how fast they will be cially fridges and ACs, are closed days will remain in Feb. 24 for an equal amount. chem, auto and NBFC sec- remains weak, analysts icals, while most compa- especially on asset quality able to scale up to their already into their biggest the supply chain. The operations date is tors are seeing upgrades in said. nies in other sectors and elevated slippages in peak production levels. In season sales in summer. “We are unable to assess announced a day after the RBI's earnings. At an aggregate level, the report a weak top-line tra- some banks. We expect the that case, there could be a “Most of us currently the magnitude of impact. monetary policy wherein it said “We continue to see top line across all compa- jectory. market to stay narrow lag effect on our manufac- have enough inventory for We are dependent on the long-term repos aggregating downside risks to consen- nies that have reported The aggregate operating until the emergence of turing,” said Kamal March sales. But Chinese $4 billion imported APIs up to Rs 1 lakh crore will be sus Nifty EPS growth of 28 was flat YoY – showing profit growth remains sta- greater evidence of Nandi, president of Con- companies have already from China. Formulation conducted in tranches from per cent for FY21, said continued weakness but ble at 10 per cent YoY, indi- growth recovery. sumer Electronics and lost one week of produc- supply will get affected if mid-February to ease liquidity Emkay Global in a report. arresting the declining cating improvement in Meanwhile, select sectors Appliances Manufactur- tion. If it prolongs, sales the closure prolongs,” in the system. “Our preference stays trajectory of previous margin trajectory. with better earnings visi- ers Association. during the peak season of said S. V. Veeramani, past with consumption themes quarters. Top-line growth However, a disaggregat- bility will continue enjoy- Suzuki said that it is April, May and June can president of the Indian such as auto and con- for SMIDs is still positive ed analysis shows that ing valuation premium bracing for disruption in get disrupted,” said B Drugs Manufacturers sumer goods – which could though. nearly 57 per cent of the over the broader markets,” production and supply Thiagarajan, joint manag- Association. be the earliest beneficiar- While nearly a third of companies have seen a it further said. Tata Steel reports `1,228 cr net loss in Q3 E-com firms under govt radar SBI cuts rates, says more next time FC BUREAU Promotion of Industry and excessive discounts. FALAKNAAZ SYED SBI will, however, depend In view of surplus liq- MSME loans. The CRR is NEW DELHI, FEB 7 Internal Trade (DPIIT) “The extant foreign MUMBA, FEB. 7 on the loan amount and uidity in the system, SBI the percent of cash under the commerce min- direct investment (FDI) other factors. also said it is realigning deposits a commercial E-commerce giants have istry is looking into all policy on e-commerce sec- A day after the central However, the impact of its interest rate on retail bank must maintain with come under the scanner as complaints, alleging preda- tor, inter-alia, specifies that bank announced several MCLR cut may not be term deposits (less than the RBI. This money the government is looking tory pricing and excessive e-commerce marketplaces measures to boost liquidi- immediate as there is a Rs 2 crore) and bulk term earns no interest. The cur- into matters related to discounts on e-commerce will not directly or indi- ty and bring down the cost reset-period clause in deposits (Rs 2 crore and rent CRR level is 4 per unfair business practices platforms. The govern- rectly influence the sale of funds for lenders, State MCLR-based home loan above). The bank slashed cent, which means that for of firms like Amazon and ment was alerted after the price of goods or services Bank of India and Bank of contracts which is gener- term deposits rates by 10- every Rs 100 of deposit Flipkart, against whom the CCI conducted a market and shall maintain a level India announced a cut in ally of 12 months after 50 bps in the retail seg- that a bank holds, it keeps commerce ministry has study on goods, food servic- playing field. These repre- their marginal cost of which the interest rate ment and 25-50 bps in the aside Rs 4 with RBI. recived predatory pricing es and accommodation seg- sentations are under exam- funds-based lending rate gets reset. bulk segment. The RBI has now said Tata Steel reported a consoli- complaints. ments and started investi- ination,” he said. (MCLR). Similarly, BOI housing Banks have been reluc- that new retail and MSME dated net loss of Rs 1,228.53 The Centre’s move comes gation against Amazon The government, howev- SBI announced a reduc- loan will now be available tant in aligning their lend- loans disbursed till July crore for the December quarter, on the back of the order and Flipkart over alleged er, noted that services tion in its MCLR by 5 basis starting from 8 per cent ing rates in response to 31, 2020, will be adjusted mainly due to lower sales and issued by fair trade body anti-competitive practices. should be provided by the points across all tenors per annum and vehicle the rate cuts as effective against a bank’s CRR impairment provisions for its Competition Commission Confirming the move, e-commerce marketplace while BOI cut MCLR by 10 loan from 8.5 per cent. transmission of rates was requirements while European operations. The of India (CCI) in January, commerce and industry entity, or other entities in basis points for maturities The reduction for both mere 69 basis points ensuring that banks meet company had posted a consoli- which asked the ministry minister Piyush Goyal told which the e-commerce up to six months. lenders is effective against 135 bps of rate at least 90 per cent of their dated net profit of Rs 1,753.07 to enquire into the opera- the Lok Sabha in a written entity has direct or indi- SBI’s one-year MCLR to February 10. cuts by the RBI during CRR requirements. crore for the year-ago quarter. tions of both Amazon and reply that representations rect equity participation or which home loans are In a release, SBI said the February to October 2019. This would free up the Its gross sales fell to Rs 34,774 Flipkart, including their have been received from common control, to ven- linked will now stand at impact of recent RBI poli- The RBI on Thursday banks to monetise more of crore from Rs 38,086 crore in ‘illogical’ discounts and DPIIT alleging that some e- dors on the platform at 7.85 per cent per annum cy measures and reduc- allowed banks exemption their liquidity and over the year-ago quarter. Total exclusive tie-ups with pre- commerce platforms are arm’s length and in a fair from 7.90 per cent. tion in deposit rates will from maintenance of CRR the next few months expenses for the quarter were ferred selling agents. engaged in predatory pric- and non-discriminatory The actual effective be reflected in the next on incremental disburse- should soften interest at Rs 35,849 crore against Rs The Department for ing and are providing manner. home loan interest rate of review of MCLR. ment on auto, housing and rates further. 35,930 crore. ACC net profit Soon, insurers, Coronavirus to slow China Voltas Beko drops 62.7% TPAs have to opens first to `273 crore reveal hospital GDP growth to 3.8% in Q1 plant in India Cement maker ACC reported a RAVI RANJAN PRASAD Nomura expects China’s 62.68 per cent decline in con- MUMBAI, FEB. 7 GDP growth to slow from 6 Sanand, Feb. 7: Voltbek solidated net profit to Rs track record per cent year-on-year in the Home Appliances Private (L to R) Mr. Hakan Bulgurlu, CEO, Arçelik, Mr. Jayant Balan, CEO, 273.28 crore for the December Global rating agencies and fourth quarter of 2019 to Limited, a joint venture FC BANKING BUREAU 3.8 per cent in the first Voltbek Home Appliances Ltd and Mr. Pradeep Bakshi, MD & CEO, quarter from 732.35 crore in the brokerages have started between Voltas and Voltas Ltd at the launch of Voltas Beko's first factory in Sanand, Gujarat. year-ago quarter. Its total MUMBAI, FEB. 7 assessing the impact of the quarter of 2020 (previously Europe’s leading con- income was up 4.89 per cent at deadly coronavirus on the 5.8 per cent), before sumer durables player (over Rs 1,000 crore), the Mr. Pradeep Bakshi, MD Rs 4,117.85 crore from Rs In order to help policy- Chinese and global econo- rebounding to 6.4 per cent Arçelik, opened its first facility will create an & CEO, Voltas, said, 3,925.61 crore. Total expenses holders make informed my and they expect in the second quarter. For manufacturing OEM base for home “Since its launch in 2018, of the company, which follows choices, the insurance China’s first quarter full year of 2020, Nomura facility in India at appliances in the Voltas Beko has estab- January-December as its fiscal regulator has proposed growth to fall sharply to 3.8 now expect 5.6 per cent ver- Sanand, Gujarat. Business region. Mr. Noel lished itself as one of the year, were at Rs 3,709.42 crore to mandate insurance per cent and full year sus 5.7 per cent earlier. The factory will NOTE Tata, Chairman, fastest growing consumer against Rs 3,585.32 crore of the companies and TPAs to growth to 5 per cent. “For the rest of Asia, the manufacture home Voltas Limited, said, durables brands in the corresponding quarter, up 3.46 disclose various impor- They also expect the economic impact for now is appliances, including “We continue to see huge country and is expected to per cent. tant parameters about virus to be contained by as mainly indirect via weaker refrigerators and washing growth opportunities for sell close to half a million the network hospitals early as March 2020 to May China demand, disruption machines. Backed by an consumer durables in the units by the end of this fis- providing cashless 2020 as it doesn’t like sun- to supply chains, collapse investment of $180 million Indian market.” cal year.” health services on their light, high temperature “We now expect an above- in visitor arrivals from respective websites. and humidity. trend 6.4 per cent growth China and lower commodi- General Atlantic This would include the According to Nomura, rate in 2021, compared with ty prices rather than direct number of hospital the first quarter growth our previous forecast of 5.6 lower tourism revenues, beds, ICU beds, the doc- rate in China may dip to 3.8 per cent,” S&P said. impact on vulnerable local invests $200 mn tor-bed ratio, doctor- per cent before a bounce “China accounts for one- services, as infections out- patient ratio, doctor- back in Q2 on pent-up third of global growth so a side China are low,” Over 4.6L card data on sale in Byju’s nurse ratio, the number demand. Outside China, 1 percentage point slow- Nomura analyst said. of qualified doctors, Hong Kong, Taiwan, down in the country's However, IHS Markit, a ARCHAK SENGUPTA contained in the card mag- PE investor General General nurses in ICU and gener- Singapore and Thailand growth rate is likely to London-based information HYDERABAD, Feb. 7 netic stripe), which can be Atlantic has joined the latest al wards, number of sur- will be impacted the most. have a material effect on provider said on Friday, stolen, for example, round of funding in ed-tech geons or intervention- Virus was not so deadly global growth. said the outbreak of coron- With digital payments through the compromise of firm Byju’s. According to ists like cardiologists, outside Wuhan with just “The global impact will avirus will have a larger expected to more than dou- offline POS terminals.” sources, Think and Learn, which gastroenterologists who two deaths outside China be felt through four real negative effect on the glob- ble to $135.2 billion by 2023, According to Rohan Seth, owns K-12 learning app Byju’s, are on the rolls of the and much lower mortality economy channels: al economy than the SARS India has become a technology policy analyst has received from General hospital and those who rate outside Wuhan in sharply reduced tourism (Severe Acute Respiratory favourite target for nefari- at The Takshashila Institu- Atlantic a funding of $200 mn, are not on full time roll. China, says brokerage firm revenues, lower exports of Syndrome) outbreak in ous actors, thanks to its tion, a Bengaluru-based which is almost similar to what Other performance- CLSA after interaction consumer and capital 2003, as any slowdown in poor digital safety prac- think-tank, Indians need to Tiger Global had pumped into related data to be pub- with a leading Hong Kong- goods, lower commodity Chinese economy would tices. In less than four Moreover, not only does take greater care about the firm in January. Byju’s was lished include average based medical expert work- prices, and industrial sup- send not ripples but waves months, cybersecurity the database reveal very their digital safety. “India then valued $8 bn. Sources said time for admission and ing on such viruses for the ply-chain disruptions,” across the globe. firm Group-IB discovered sensitive information such is reportedly the second the current round values the discharge and average last 25 years. S&P said. "The slowdown in a new database containing as card numbers, expira- most affected country due firm at about $8.2 billion. length of stay in hospi- S&P Global Ratings esti- “These spillovers could Chinese growth may be a records of over 4.6 lakh tion dates, CVV/CVC to cyberattacks. Almost 70 tals. Insurers and third- mates China’s full-year become larger if markets significant drag on global cards that have been put on codes, it also reveals the per cent organisations are party administrators GDP growth will fall to 5 start to price in the risk of growth. In 2002, China con- sale in a popular under- cardholders’ full name, at risk of a data breach… Printed & Published by (TPAs) will also have to per cent in 2020, from 5.7 a material global slow- tributed 23 per cent of ground cardshop in the emails, phone numbers Indian organisations have T Venkateswarlu on behalf of Deccan disclose the Caesarean per cent projected earlier, down and financial condi- world GDP growth, in 2019 dark web. The Singapore- and addresses, the cyberse- been guilty of leaving Chronicle Holdings Limited. Printed & section rate. but it feels the lost ground tions tighten as risk pre- China contributed an esti- based cybersecurity firm, curity firm said. parts of their websites Published at Deccan Chronicle Presses “This move is aimed at will be made up in 2021. mia rise across asset class- mated 38 per cent of world in October 2019, had also According to Group-IB exposed. So information situated at SP-3 Developed Plot, ensuring that for a par- "Most of the economic es. Pressure on the renmin- growth," IHS said. discovered a database con- ?ybercrime research unit that should only be accessi- Industrial Estate, Guindy, Chennai. ticular ailment or surgi- impact of coronavirus will bi exchange rate will be In 2019, China's oil taining records of nearly head Dmitry Shestakov, ble to people with a user- Editor: T.Venkatram Reddy, RNI Reg. cal intervention, hospi- be felt in the first quarter, important to track, but for demand was 13.9 million 13 lakh cards on the same “Such type of data is likely name and password, comes No. TNENG/2008/25473 Air surcharge Re tals do not keep patients and China's recovery will now, markets are taking barrels per day or 14 per Joker’s Stash cardshop. to have been compromised up indexed in Google, 1. © All rights reserved. Reproduction in longer than necessary,” be firmly in place by the the impact in their stride,” cent of world market as While the source of the online—with the use of allowing anyone to access whole or in part without written per- said the Insurance third quarter of this year," the rating agency said. compared to 5.6 million latest leak is unknown, phishing, malware, or JS- it. There have also been mission of The Editor, Financial Regulatory and Deve- said Shaun Roache, Asia- The impact of coron- bpd in 2003 which equated nearly 98 per cent of the sniffers. In the previous reports of Aadhaar data Chronicle ® is prohibited. lopment Authority. Pacific chief economist for avirus is still uncertain, to 7 per cent of world records are from some of case, we dealt with card being stored and transport- S&P Global Ratings. but Japanese brokerage demand. the biggest Indian banks. dumps (the information ed in hard disks,” he said. 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IN BRIEF Jameela says she H’wood legend Kirk Douglas dies at 103 identifies as queer London: Actress Jameela Veteran actor was a humanitarian, one of the last stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age: Micheal Jamil came out as queer in a Twitter post on Wednesday. Los Angeles: Veteran Amsterdam, Kirk Douglas when he was honourably star had discharged as a lieutenant. The Good Place actor and Hollywood’s Douglas was the the 1950s and 60s was one of the seven chil- added a rainbow to her Post-war, he returned to Golden Era icon Kirk son of Jewish He was nominated dren of his parents — Twitter name years ago, but civilian life and Douglas, known to fans Russian immigrants three times for the Jewish immigrants from she had never revealed her Broadway, replacing world over for his films who rose through best actor Oscar in Russia. When he came of sexuality officially, Jamil said Richard Widmark as the such as Spartacus, 20,000 the ranks to become 1949 for Champion, age, he went to work to in a post to her Twitter. “I juvenile lead in Kiss and Leagues Under the Sea, one of Hollywood's The Bad and the support his family. New show kept it low because I was Tell and appeared in Trio The Bad and the Beautiful biggest-ever stars Beautiful in 1953 According to The scared of the pain of being and Star in the Window. and Champion, has passed The famed actor, and Lust for Life in Hollywood Reporter, Kirk accused of performative His performance in “The on Marilyn away at the age of 103, his who was one of the 1957 Douglas put himself bandwagon jumping, over Wind Is Ninety” brought family has announced. last of Hollywood's Douglas never through New York’s St something that caused me a him to Hollywood’s atten- The actor died of natural Golden Age, made received an Lawrence University by lot of confusion, fear and tur- tion. Monroe in causes on Wednesday. His more than 90 Academy Award for working as a janitor. moil when I was a kid.” Jamil What followed was his son, actor Micheal movies in a career an individual film After receiving his bach- said that it was scary to come Hollywood debut in 1946 Douglas shared the news that stretched but the Academy of elor of arts degree, he the works out as a South Asian actress with the film The Strange of his father’s death on across seven Motion Picture Arts moved to Manhattan in her 30’s, and that Twitter Love of Martha Ivers” social media. decades and Sciences award- where he received a spe- Los Angeles: The show was not the place she wanted with Barbara Stanwyck, It is with tremendous Films such as ed him an honorary cial scholarship for the business’ love affair with to do it. This week, Jamil has which led to leading man sadness that my brothers Spartacus and The Oscar in 1996 for his American Academy of one of its favourite been addressing backlash roles in the 1950s-60s. and I announce that Kirk Vikings made him role as a creative Dramatic Arts. muses, Hollywood icon surrounding her involvement He starred as a ruthless Douglas left us today at the one of the biggest and moral force in He made his Broadway Marilyn Monroe, refuses in , an upcoming boxer in Champion (1949), Legendary age of 103. To the world he box-office stars of the industry debut as a singing mes- to die as a new project on HBO Max ballroom competi- was a legend, an actor senger boy in Spring a hated, ambitious movie the legend is in the tion show. — Agencies from the golden age of Again, starring Grace producer in The Bad and works. According to The movies who lived well into husband,” he wrote along- who worked to aid the shall love you for the rest George and C. Aubrey the Beautiful (1952) and Hollywood Reporter, his golden years, a human- side pictures of Kirk public and bring peace to of my life. I miss you Smith, soon after graduat- iconic painter Vincent Yellowstone producer 101 itarian whose commit- Douglas through the ages. the planet. already. Sleep tight...” she ing in 1941. van Gogh in Lust for Life Studios and UK produc- Viola to play Michelle ment to justice and the Michael Douglas said his “Let me end with the wrote. Next year, he legally (1956). tion company Seven Seas causes he believed in set a father leaves a rich cinema words I told him on his Filmmaker Steven changed his name to Kirk He also launched his Films are collaborating Obama in TV series standard for all of us to legacy behind but he will last birthday and which Spielberg, who presented Douglas before enlisting banner, Bryna to develop a TV series New York: Oscar-winning aspire to. also be remembered for will always remain true. Kirk Douglas with an hon- in the US Navy during Productions, in 1955. He is based on the final actress Viola Davis will play “But to me and my broth- his contribution to public Dad - I love you so much orary Oscar at the 1996 World War II. He attended billed as the first actor to months of Monroe’s life. former US first lady Michelle ers Joel and Peter he was service. and I am so proud to be Academy Awards, remem- the Midshipman School at take control of his career The show, based on Obama in a new TV series on simply Dad, to Catherine, “Kirk’s life was well your son,” he wrote. bered the actor who Notre Dame, and was com- through a production Keith Badman’s nonfic- the Showtime cable network, a wonderful father-in-law, lived, and he leaves a lega- His daughter-in-law, retained his movie star missioned an ensign. He house in the post-War era, tion book The Final it was announced to his grandchildren and cy in film that will endure actor Catherine Zeta- charisma right till the served on anti-submarine challenging the strong- Years of Marilyn Wednesday. First Ladies will great grandchild their lov- for generations to come, Jones also shared a loving end. patrol in the Pacific as a hold of Hollywood stu- Monroe, is the first focus on the wives of US ing grandfather, and to his and a history as a photo with Kirk Douglas. Born as Issur communications dios. filmed project about the presidents and their lives in wife Anne, a wonderful renowned philanthropist “To my darling Kirk, I Danielovitch Demsky in officer until 1944, — PTI late star’s life to be the White House, and media endorsed by Authentic reports said Eleanor Brands Group, the owner Roosevelt and Betty Ford of the Monroe estate. would also be portrayed. CEO David Glasser said “Presidents’ spouses have Essence event affirms power though many people wielded remarkable influ- have explored the life of ence, not only on the nation’s the Some Like It Hot star, leaders but on the country of black women in Hollywood the upcoming series will itself,” Jana Winograde, pres- be a class apart. ident of entertainment for BEVERLY HILLS, Calif, Hollywood event. "We ty," she said. “Beloved Marilyn Showtime, said. Davis, 54, Feb.7: Through laughs, work hard on our craft Matsoukas, who has also Monroe has had many has been nominated three tears and speeches that and our self love, and have directed videos for A-lis- memoirs created about times for Oscars, winning in turned into sermons and to remind ourselves daily ters including Beyonce's her life, but none quite 2017 for her supporting role affirmations, the overar- that we deserve a seat at "Lemonade" opus, added: like this. Keith Badman in “Fences.” — AFP ching theme of this year's the table." "Recently I've been bat- has uncovered gems of star-studded Essence "Queen & Slim" director tling my own rage. As I never before released luncheon was that in an Melina Matsoukas, anoth- keep saying, the daily details, centered around unforgiving industry that er honoree, echoed onslaught of white the last few months of often overlooks, black Lynch's sentiments when supremacy and coloniza- her sensationalized life women need no validation she received her award tion is infuriating and also and the accusations from Hollywood - or else- from "Insecure" actress exhausting. made. The series pays where - to appreciate their and creator Issa Rae, who "I shared my sentiments homage to her,” Glasser self-worth. tapped Matsoukas to with Ms. (Ava) DuVernay said. — PTI "No one in this room direct the hit HBO comedy the other night, and what derived from luck. We are series. she said went deep. It was a powerful force field that "It feels incredible to be simply: 'Don't let them derived from greatness," seen, respected and have steal your joy,'" she said to said "Captain Marvel" your work valued; it applause. "Since them, I've Lucy Boynton to play actress Lashana Lynch at means more when that been thinking about how People walk in snowfall past one of the four famous horse sculptures on the Thursday afternoon's acknowledgement comes to reclaim my own joy." Fontanka River in St. Petersburg on Thursday. — AFP Marianne Faithfull Essence Black Women in from your own communi- —AP Los Angeles: Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton is set to play the role of iconic British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull in a musi- NEWS INUGGETS Sleep issues cal biopic. The film will be directed by Ian Bonhote, best ‘Penguin call common in known for helming documen- infants: Study tary McQueen about British shares traits of fashion designer Alexander London: Sleep prob- McQueen. Titled Faithfull, the human speech’ lems in children are film will be set in mid-1960’s common, and London and track the Italy: The call of the improve with time, singer’s rollercoaster career Derek Mackay penguin, a wheezing according to a study from initial stardom, her time bray that sounds like a which help parents as a homeless drug addict, donkey in distress, fol- understand if their and her subsequent recovery. Minister quits lows some of the same toddler’s sleep pat- According to Entertainment linguistic laws found in terns are normal or Weekly, the movie will also over messages human languages, sci- not. chronicle her tumultuous entists have found. The study, published romance with singer-song- to teenager According to in the journal Sleep writer Mick Jagger that researchers, just like in Medicine, found that inspired some of their great- our own speech, more the time taken to fall est songs. Julia Taylor- in Scotland frequently used sounds asleep reduces to an Stanley of Artemis Films, London: Scotland’s within the call tend to average of 20 minutes Colin Vaines of Synchronistic finance minister has be shorter, while the by the age of 6 Pictures, and Andee Ryder of resigned, hours longer the call, the months, and by the Misfits Entertainment will before he was due to shorter the sounds with- time infants are two produce the movie. — PTI deliver his annual in it. It is the first time years old, they wake budget, after he this pattern has been up only once during reportedly sent hun- shown outside pri- the night on dreds of messages to mates. — Agencies average. — PTI U.S. LOST ‘MORAL a 16-year-old boy on social media. Derek Mackay quit LEADERSHIP’: on Thursday, saying ‘Yarn made from human skin could he had “behaved fool- HARRISON FORD ishly”. soon be stitching up your wounds’ The Scottish Sun Paris: It may sound which they developed Mexico: Harrison Ford, in newspaper reported like a gruesome detail from skin cells, can be Mexico City on Wednesday to that 42-year-old from a movie, but scien- used for knitting, promote his latest film, Mackay sent the teen tists believe yarn sewing and even cro- decried the collapse of US more than 270 mes- grown from human chet, and can aid in “moral leadership” on issues sages on Facebook skin could soon be used medical procedures. such as improving the environ- and Instagram, to stitch up surgical The string-like sub- Jessica Simpson at ment and immigration policy. telling the boy he was patients and repair stance would have the Macy’s Herald Square to “We need moral “cute” and offering to organs. ability to “truly inte- promote her new mem- leadership. We’ve take him to a rugby The researchers say grate into the host’s Devon Windsor, Nina Agdal and Heidi Klum attend the oir Open Book in New lost some of our match and to dinner. their “human textile,” body,” scientists. amfAR Gala New York AIDS research benefit on York on Wednesday. credibility and we Mackay is not Wednesday. — AP — AP are anxious to accused of breaking regain it,” the the law. Hollywood star “Serving in govern- told reporters. ment has been a huge Ford was in town privilege and I am Harrison Letterman reveals Tarantino once threatened to beat him up to talk about his sorry to have let col- starring role in The Ford leagues and support- Los Angeles: Veteran TV And I was saying, ‘No, room. Typically, I would Call of the Wild, an ers down,” Mackay host David Letterman has you’re not dating Quentin After Letterman not want to meet a person adventure film set in Alaska in said in a statement. revealed that Quentin Tarantino.’ And she said, joked about Tarantino before the show. But this the 1890s and based on a Mackay was a ris- Tarantino once threat- ‘Yes, yes I am.’ And I said, during an episode of time, I went to see novel by US author Jack ing star in the ened to thrash him and in ‘Oh, please tell me this The Late Show, the Quentin. I go in there and London. Relaxed and smiling, Scottish National his response, he gave the isn’t true... I’m pretending director allegedly he was with his publicist... the veteran actor also touched Party, which runs filmmaker an option to that I’m stunned that this called him with some I said, ‘Remember that on his iconic Hollywood roles Scotland’s semi- choose his weapon — his glorious movie star is dat- explicit words. He said thing when you were in the Star Wars, Indiana autonomous fists or a bat. ing this little squirrelly though Tarantino was going to beat me and we Jones and Blade Runner Edinburgh-based The 72-year-old shared guy,” Letterman revealed. had a plane ticket waiting movies. A fifth Indiana Jones administration. the story during his Days later, Tarantino not ready to apolo- and a baseball bat ready... I movie, starring as the swash- He had been seen as appearance on called up the TV host and gise, his publicist think you owe me an apol- buckling archaeologist with a potential successor Showtime’s Desus & Mero. threatened to beat him to David Letterman Quentin Tarantino made him do so. o g y. ” the unusual first name, is also to First Minister He said the feud started death. Letterman said though in the works. “To do another Nicola Sturgeon as after he interviewed a “He starts screaming at on a bit.’ This is so go “He was full blown, clini- it... There’s no cooling off. Tarantino was not ready Indiana Jones movie, it seems leader of the SNP, “famous star”, who was me, ‘I’m going to beat you good, I’m going to get my cally goofy,” the host said. It just keeps blowing up.” to apologise, his publicist like a good idea, if we had a which advocates apparently dating to death, I’m going to kill producer to pick up the He then asked Letterman said he final- made him do so. good script and I believe we independence from Tarantino at the time. you. I’m coming to New other line...” Tarantino, “‘How do you ly met Tarantino when the “So finally he apolo- are very close to have the the United Kingdom “There was one guest on York and I’m going to beat After his producer want to do this? Bat or filmmaker came to pro- gised. But he was not cer- script that we really want, so I for the nation of 5.5 the show and her girl- the crap out of you. How joined the call, Tarantino fists?’ He said, ‘Bat. You mote “Inglorious tain that he owed me an am excited about the idea,” million. — AP friend was somebody he can you say that about again threatened get me a bat and I’ll beat Bastards” on his show. apology,” he added. he said. — AFP was dating. A famous star. me? I said, ‘Quentin, hang Letterman. the hell out of you with “He was in the make-up — PTI CRICKET DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 14

WOMEN’S TRI-SERIES SHORT TAKES NZ ‘A’ post 276/5 vs India ‘A’ on day one Lincoln (New Zealand): India ‘A’ bowlers struck at regular All pumped up intervals but middle-order batsman Glenn Phillips’ fine half-century guided New Jolted India to take on resurgent New Zealand in the second ODI Zealand ‘A’ to 276 for five on the opening day of the sec- Auckland, Feb. 7: Some ond unofficial Test here on of their bowling and field- Friday. Phillips smashed nine ing frailties exposed in the We’ve to be fours and a six in his 80-ball series-opener, India will 65, while Dane Cleaver and aim for quick course cor- skipper Hamish Rutherford rection when they take on aggressive, also chipped in with useful a resurgent New Zealand contributions after the hosts in the second ODI here on won the toss and decided to Saturday. says Guptill bat. For India, medium pac- Flying high after the 5-0 ers Mohammed Siraj and whitewash of New Auckland, Feb. 7: New Avesh Khan took a couple of Zealand in the T20 series, Zealand opener Martin wickets each, while spinner India were brought to the Guptill on Friday said Shahbaz Nadeem also ground after the hosts his team will look to snapped one scalp. — PTI took a 1-0 lead in the three- pump up the aggression Brief Score: New Zealand ‘A’ match series with a four- against Indian spinners Australia’s Natalie Sciver en route to her half-century 276/5 in 90 overs (Glenn wicket win in the first during the second ODI against India in the T20 triangular series at Melbourne Phillips 65; Avesh Khan 2/57, ODI. here on Saturday in pur- on Friday. — ICC Mohammed Siraj 2/58) vs The Black Caps chased suit of an early series India ‘A’. down their highest-ever win against the fancied total in ODI cricket at visitors. Seddon Park and the toss The Black Caps chased Another defeat for will be crucial once again down their highest-ever at the even shorter Eden total in ODI cricket at Park where the side bat- Seddon Park on way to India women in T20 ting second will have a their four-wicket win in clear advantage. the first ODI for a 1-0 Melbourne, Feb. 7: The BRIEF SCORES New Zealand opted to bat lead in the three-match Indian women’s cricket here in both the T20Is, but series. team produced another India 123/6 in 20 India chased well in both Guptill said the key to listless batting perform- overs (Smriti instances albeit in differ- New Zealand’s victory ance to suffer a second Shaheen Shah Afridi Mandhana 45; Anya ent circumstances. India was playing well against successive loss in the T20 Shrubsole 3/31) lost find themselves in a famil- the spinners. Kuldeep triangular series, going Pak’s Shah bowls iar situation after the loss Yadav and Ravindra down to England by four to England 124/6 in in Hamilton. Jadeja were taken to the wickets here on Friday. 18.5 overs (Natalie KL Rahul carries the weight of expectations after his recent performances in limited- But the visitors have cleaners in Hamilton by Sent in to bat, Indian Sciver 50; Rajeshwari Bangla out for 233 overs format. —Twitter come from behind against Kiwi batsmen and batters failed to capitalise Gayakwad (3/23) Rawalpindi: Lanky paceman the West Indies and take wickets in the middle India would want to leaked 148 runs in all. on their starts as they Shaheen Shah Afridi took Australia to win their last overs. address in their composi- “It’s completely differ- struggled to 123 for six in India were expected to four wickets to help Pakistan two ODI series and Virat The opposition batsmen LIVE on TV tion. India’s fielding too ent conditions, isn’t it? 20 overs with opener put up an improved show dismiss Bangladesh for a Kohli’s men will look to do took advantage to hit big India vs New Zealand will be under the scanner. You have to be a little bit Smriti Mandhana emerg- but Harmanpreet and Co. paltry 233 on the opening the same here. Like in and the Indian attack did- on STAR Sports 1, HD In each of those losses at more attacking here I ing as the top-scorer with were once again below day of the first Test here on Chennai against the West n’t have any answers. In Chennai, Mumbai and guess and have the confi- a 40-ball 45. par. Friday. Shaheen recorded Indies, or in Mumbai the first ODI, skipper @ 7:30 AM Hamilton, it was poor dence that the ball will Chasing the total, Sixteen-year-old Shafali figures of 4-53 in 21.5 overs against Australia, India’s Virat Kohli turned to despite flashes of individ- probably will not spin Natalie Sciver smashed a Verma, touted as the next and was ably assisted by fel- loss at Hamilton was down Jasprit Bumrah every a wicket. This over- ual brilliance. past your edge as much. strokeful fifty as England big thing in women’s low pacer Mohammad Abbas to their lack of ability to time he went searching for dependency is something — PTI You know the odd one romped home comfort- cricket, continued her and spinner Haris Sohail to might as it did the other ably, scoring 124 for six disappointing run as she justify Pakistan’s decision to night,” he said. with seven balls to spare. lasted just nine balls. She send Bangladesh in to bat INDIA-NEW ZEALAND AT AUCKLAND “I thought the way we Sciver’s 50 off 38 balls was bowled by Sophie on a greenish-yellow handled the Indian spin- contained six hits to the Ecclestone in the sixth Rawalpindi stadium pitch. Team P W L T N/R ners in Hamilton was fence and a six. over. Pakistan were due to bat for some of the best we have For India, Rajeshwari Mandhana, who five overs but bad light India 9 4 4 1 - done it in a long time. So Gayakwad (3/23) was out- smashed seven fours and forced umpires to call it a New Zealand 74 34 35 2 3 we can take confidence standing with the ball, one maximum in her 40- day. — AFP from that going forward while Radha Yadav (1/24) ball innings, was the next Brief scores: Bangladesh 233 India (vs NZ) 8 3 4 1 - in the series.” Guptill also took two wickets but to go as she was caught in 82.5 overs (Mohammad also warned his side the total on the board was behind by Amy Jones off Mithun 63, Najmul Hossain Stats: S.PERVEZ QAISER against complacency, just not enough. India Katharine Brunt’s deliv- 44; Shaheen Shah Afridi saying it cannot afford to had beaten England in ery in the 10th over. 4/53, Mohammad Abbas take a world class team their first T20 of the Jemimah Rodrigues (23) 2/19) vs Pakistan HIGHEST LOWEST like India lightly. series. and skipper Harmanpreet INNINGS INNINGS “I don’t think you can After their disappoint- (14) were off decent starts TOTALS TOTALS count India out. They ing show with the bat only to throw them away. CCB files charge are a world-class side, against Australia, which India will next play India: 314-9 in 50 India: 108 in 32.5 they have got match win- resulted in a four-wicket against Australia on sheet in KPL fixing overs v New overs v New ners batting and bowl- loss in their last match, February 8. — PTI Bengaluru: The Central Crime BACK IN ACTION Zealand in 2014 Zealand in 2002 ing. So, we still have to Branch investigating into the New Zealand: New Zealand: 73 put up a very good per- Karnataka Premier League 340-5 in 48.4 overs in 26.3 overs v formance tomorrow to match-fixing scandal has be get another win New Zealand’s Kane Williamson at a training session with his WC can revolutionise filed charge sheet in three v Australia in 2007 Sri Lanka in 2007 under the belt and take cases, Additional teammates ahead of the second ODI against India at Auckland. the series,” he said. Commissioner of Police — BLACKCAPS — PTI game: Harmanpreet Sandeep Patil said on Friday. He said the charge sheet in Melbourne, Feb. 7: the case at Cubbon Park Performances of the police station was filed teams have gone better against six accused-team Sridhar concedes downward curve in fielding and better in the last two owners of Belagavi Panthers years and the upcoming Ali Asfaq Thara and Ballari Auckland, Feb. 7: India’s at home was somewhere the workloads and prac- position,” he said. national outings of late women T20 World Cup Tuskers Arvind Reddy-, fielding hasn’t been par- we really dropped. We tice schedules of all play- “We try and tell them to and conceded 84 runs in has the potential to revo- KCSA management commit- ticularly good in the ongo- were average, to say the ers. think ahead of the game, his 10 overs and took two lutionise the game even tee member Sudhindra ing series against New least. But definitely we “We keep reminding the you as a fielder captain wickets in the first ODI further, India skipper Shinde, two cricketers C M Zealand, coach R Sridhar have not lived to the stan- players about attention to yourself, see which way against New Zealand on Harmanpreet Kaur said Gautham and Abrar Kazi and said on Friday but refused dards as we did in the basic detail...In a T20 the breeze is, which way Wednesday. It was his first on Friday. a bookie Amit Mavi. In the to blame tight schedules world Cup or even in the game, each fielder the batsman’s tendencies game of the tour after In a column for the ICC, second case registered at for the “downward curve” build-up to the World Cup has to be his own to hit are, what’s the being left out of the eleven Harmanpreet wrote how Harmanpreet Kaur the JP Nagar station based despite conceding that in the last couple years,” captain. He bowler’s plan and position in the five T20 women’s T20 cricket has the ICC Women’s T20 on a complaint by Ballari hectic travelling is affect- said Sridhar on the eve need not wait accordingly. Internationals. come a long way in the World Cup 2020 has the Tuskers player Bhavesh ing the side’s practice of the second ODI here. for the cap- “He is fully fit and he is last two years. potential to revolutionise Gulecha, charge sheets were plans. Sridhar said they have tain to move ‘Kuldeep’s irregularity not carrying any injury. “It wasn’t so long ago the game even further.” filed against four accused, Sridhar said India’s accounted for the down- him or the affects his rhythm’ He is totally cleared to that a par score in T20 The tournament begins Bhavesh Bafna, Sayyam, fielding has at best aver- turn in fielding standard bowler to move Sridhar dismissed reports play all the games. He has cricket was 120 or 130. in Australia on February Jatin Sethi and Harish. — PTI age in the last four by a grading system him in a certain raising question marks played a lot of ODI cricket, Now, that’s not enough. 21. months. He said fatigue privy to the support direction or over Kuldeep Yadav’s fit- played all three games Teams are looking much “If I look back two could be a contributing staff. He said the to a cer- ness, saying the spinner is against Australia. He did- more confident and try- years, India’s 50-over side factor to losses during this team manage- tain fully fit but not playing n’t play the T20s as Chahal ing to get bigger scores on was doing well and our time period, including the ment keeps a regularly is probably hav- was there. Maybe Kuldeep the board,” said T20 was struggling. But one in the first ODI sharp eye on ing a negative impact on is the kind of guy who Harmanpreet. in the past two years, we against New Zealand at his bowling. needs a lot of overs under “It’s that change in the have transformed as a T20 Hamilton on Wednesday. Yadav has been fairly his belt to get his rhythm. mindset that means per- team and are very posi- “...the West Indies series inconsistent in his inter- — PTI formances are getting bet- tive going to Australia.” R. Sridhar ter across the board and — PTI Labuschagne is special: Sachin Gujarat push Delhi out Sydney, Feb. 7: Indian injured, I saw Grabbing his chance with ‘No-brainer in joining cricket icon Sachin Labuschagne’s second both hands, Labuschagne Bushfire charity game’ of Ranji knockout race Tendulkar on Friday innings,” Tendulkar made four consecutive It’s a country which picked Australian Marnus responded. half-centuries to notch up almost gave him a new New Delhi, Feb. 7: BRIEF SCORES Labuschagne as the player “I was sitting with my with 353 runs at 50.42 in accent and this “special Gujarat virtually pushed who most reminds him of father-in-law. I saw the Ashes. feeling” for Australia was a lacklustre Delhi out of In Delhi: Delhi 293 & 333/8 decl. (Himmat Singh himself, calling the fast- Marnus get hit off the sec- Tendulkar said one of the reasons why the knockout race after 70) drew with Gujarat 335 & 128/2 (Manprit rising batsman a special ond ball from Jofra Archer Labuschagne’s fine foot- Sachin Tendulkar didn’t grabbing three points Juneja 51 no). Points: Gujarat 3. Delhi 1. talent with impeccable and, post that, the 15 min- work is also a sign that he think twice before joining from their group A Ranji footwork. utes he batted, I said, ‘This is a mentally strong player. the Bushfire Bash charity Trophy match, which At Rajkot: Mumbai 262 & 362/7 decl. Here to coach a side at player looks special’,” he “...because if you’re not, game on receiving a call ended in a draw here on (Suryakumar Yadav 134, Shams Mulani 92; Sunday’s charity recalled. your feet will not move. from his former on-field Friday. Prerak Mankad 2/52) drew with Saurashtra 335 fundraiser for the dev- “There is something His footwork was incredi- foe Brett Lee. On the basis of their 42- & 158/7. Points: Saurashtra 3, Mumbai 1. astating bushfires in about him. His footwork ble,” he said. Tendulkar, who will run first innings lead, Australia, Tendulkar was precise. Footwork is Labuschagne has coach the Ricky Ponting XI Gujarat grabbed three At Shimoga: Karnataka 426 & 62/1 drew with was asked to name not physical, it’s mental. If amassed 896 runs this Test during Sunday’s charity points from the contest to Madhya Pradesh 431 (Aditya Shrivastava 192, the player who he you’re not thinking posi- summer, notching up four fundraiser match at the take their tally to 29 from Venkatesh Iyer 86; Abhimanyu Mithun 3/69). thinks comes tively in your mind, then centuries. Tendulkar, how- Junction Oval here, said seven outings. They now Points: MP 3, Karnataka 1. closest to resem- your feet don’t move,” he ever, refused to be drawn the moment he got a call sit atop the cross pool bling him at his added. into the debate on who from Lee, it was “no-brain- (group A and B) stand- Mumbai out of drawn affair, courtesy prime. “I hap- The 25-year-old among Virat Kohli and er” that he wanted to join ings. contention their first-innings lead. pened to be Labuschagne became Test Steve Smith should be con- the project. The top five teams in the Multiple-time champions Mumbai, whose fight back watching the sec- cricket’s leading scorer sidered the better. “I don’t “I received a message cross pool will qualify for Mumbai were knocked was led with Surya Kumar ond Test match last year with 1,104 runs. like getting into compar- from Brett Lee. Brett said the quarterfinals. out of the ongoing Ranji Yadav’s ton, had to be con- at Lord’s He broke into the scene isons. People have tried that Kevin (Roberts, Top two from Group C Trophy after drawing tent with a lone point. between England after coming in as a con- comparing me to a number Cricket Australia’s chief and the best side in the against Saurashtra on the Mumbai, the most suc- and Australia. cussion substitute for of guys and I’ve said, ‘Just executive) would like to be Plate Group will complete fourth and final day of cessful team in the history When Steve Steve Smith during the leave us alone’,” said in touch with you. It was a the line-up. Delhi are now their elite Group B match of Ranji Trophy with 41 Smith got Ashes last August. Tendulkar. no-brainer.” — PTI left with a home game at Rajkot on Friday. titles, still have a game left against Rajasthan, start- Dharmendrasinh Jadeja against Madhya Pradesh, There is something about Labuschagne. His footwork was precise. Footwork is not ing here from February and Kamlesh Makwana but their campaign is over 12, and they have to get played patient knocks to as they have only 14 points physical, it’s mental. If you’re not thinking positively in your mind, then your feet seven points (including deny Mumbai an outright and even an outright win don’t move. — SACHIN TENDULKAR bonus) to have any chance win. Saurashtra, thus, won’t help them to make left. took three points from the the knock-outs. — PTI GAMES DECCAN CHRONICLE | SATURDAY | 8 FEBRUARY 2020 | CHENNAI pg 15

SHORT TAKES North East race Osaka stunned by Sara at Fed Cup into PBL final Madrid: A tearful Naomi Osaka followed up her Australian Open BIG TWO BOMB GANDHARV KAMALA | DC disappointment with another HYDERABAD, FEB. 7 surprise defeat on Friday when she was beaten 6-0, 6-3 by The dream run of the world number 78 Sara Sorribes Barcelona, Real Madrid beaten in Spanish Cup North Eastern Warriors Tormo in the Fed Cup. continued as they made it Spain took an unexpected 1-0 Madrid, Feb. 7: to their maiden Premier lead over Japan in the tie in Barcelona and Real Badminton League final, Cartagena after Sorribes Tormo Madrid both crashed out defeating Chennai capitalised on a careless per- of the Copa del Rey as Superstarz (3 to -1) in the formance from Osaka, who Athletic Bilbao and Real fifth season being played made an astonishing 50 Sociedad pulled off a at the Gachibowli Indoor unforced errors in the 15 games. shock Basque double to Stadium in Hyderabad on Sorribes Tormo enjoyed the reach the semifinals. Friday. backing of a sizeable home Barca were beaten 1-0 by The Indo-Thailand pair crowd at La Manga Club and her Bilbao at San Mames, of Krishna Prasad consistency proved too much where Inaki Williams Garaga and Bodin Isara for Osaka. headed in a dramatic 93rd- playing for the Warriors, “We knew that Sara had the minute winner, after La defeated the Indian duo of game to make it very uncom- Real had seen off Madrid B. Sumeeth Reddy and fortable for Naomi. She stuck to 4-3 in a seven-goal thriller Dhruv Kapila 15-13, 14-15, the game plan perfectly,” Spain at the Santiago Bernabeu 15-10 in their men’s dou- captain Anabel Medina on Thursday. ble match to help the Garrigues said. Two sensational upsets Warriors slay 2017 cham- Osaka, a two-time Grand Slam added another layer of pions Chennai. champion, has endured a shaky excitement to a competi- Krishna and Bodin start to the year after being tion that has been full of added insult to the injury knocked out by 15-year-old surprises this season, as they won Chennai’s Coco Gauff last month. — AFP with Bilbao and Real trump match. Lee Cheuk Yiu of the Sociedad joining Granada Earlier, Lee Cheuk Yiu North Eastern Warriors and second division got the Warriors off to a plays a shot during his Mirabai adjudged Mirandes in an unfamiliar good start as he beat match against Tommy line-up for the draw on Tommy Sugiarto of the Sugiarto of Chennai Friday. Chennai Superstarz in Superstarz in the first best weightlifter For Barca, defeat was the men’s singles. Yiu got semifinal of the Premier Kolkata: Chandrakant Mali of particularly painful, com- the better of Sugiarto 15- Services smashed three records ing at the end of a turbu- 12, 15-12, handing him his Badminton League in to take the concluding day hon- lent week that saw Lionel first defeat of the league. Hyderabad on Friday. ours even as Railways reigned Messi engage in a public The World No.18 made a — DEEPAK DESHPANDE supreme, grabbing both the spat with the club’s sport- strong statement by win- men’s and women’s trophies at ing director Eric Abidal ning the first four points ● Krishna Prasad the Senior National and Ousmane Dembele of the opening game to Garaga and Bodin Weightlifting Championships ruled out, probably for the put the Indonesian on the Isara of the here on Friday. rest of the season, with backfoot. Sugiarto stole Former world champion Mirabai another hamstring tear. three quick points to Warriors beat Chanu, who had shattered three To make matters worse, Above: (from left) Barcelona’s Spanish midfielder Sergi Roberto, Dutch midfielder Frenkie de Jong and French make it 4-5. Both Yiu and Chennai trumps B. records to win women’s 49kg Gerard Pique hobbled off defender Samuel Umtiti react after Athletic Bilbao’s Spanish forward Inaki Williams scored in their Spanish Copa Sugiarto traded shots in Sumeeth Reddy with his own injury prob- an exciting encounter title, was adjudged the Best del Rey (Kings Cup) quarterfinal at the San Mames stadium in Bilbao on Thursday. and Dhruv Kapila to Senior Women’s Lifter with lem in the second half before the Hong Kong Below: Barcelona’s Argentine forward Lionel Messi (left) reacts during the match. Real Madrid’s French coach 865.796 ‘Robi points’. against Bilbao and looks player taking the first add insult to injury. Youth Olympic champion doubtful to face Real Betis Zinedine Zidane (right) looks on during the Copa del Rey quarterfinal against Real Sociedad at the Santiago game 15-12. Jeremy Lalrinnunga, who creat- in La Liga on Sunday. Bernabeu stadium in Madrid on Thursday. — AFP Not once in a match, Dae and Na won the first ed a record in clean and jerk on Messi's riposte that that lasted 27 minutes, did game 15-12. But the Indo- way to winning the men’s 67kg “everyone should take the World No.21 manage Brit pair of Reddy and for Services, became the Best responsibility for their to get a lead over Yiu, los- Pugh were not going Senior Men’s Lifter with 658.962 own decisions” after ing the second game too down without a fight. ‘Robi points’. Abidal suggested Ernesto with an identical score- They took the second 'Robi Points’ is the official IWF Valverde was sacked last line of 12-15. game 15-9 to make it one calculation method to compare month because of the Earlier, in the opening game apiece. In the individual athlete total results players, means Barcelona match, the South Korean decider, both teams con- across each of the IWF body- are in political turmoil off pair of Lee Yong Dae and tinued to draw a point weight categories. the pitch. Kim Ha Na, representing each until the scores read Mali hoisted a total of 330kg, And the fear is Messi the league-stage toppers 14-14. With all to play for, improving the previous mark of could even leave in the Warriors got the better of the South Koreans held Ankit Chhoker by 6kg. — PTI summer by activating a B. Sumeeth Reddy and onto their nerves to win clause in his contract that Jessica Pugh of the the final point and sealed allows him to walk away Superstarz. the match 15-14 in favour from the club for free. In a topsy-turvy rubber, of the Warriors. Ayushi, Divya win Defeat in the Copa del Rey, a distant third in at shooting trials Barca’s list of priorities Thiruvananthapuram: Ayushi this season, will not dic- Podder won the women’s 50m tate Messi’s thinking but WOMEN PULL OUT OF Rifle 3 Positions (3P), while T. S. another setback certainly Divya and Adarsh Singh claimed adds to the sense of a club the titles in the women’s 10m currently in crisis. ASIAN BADMINTON Air Pistol and men’s 25m Centre Quique Setien has lost Hyderabad, Feb. 7: The Indian women’s team will not Fire Pistol T1 events respectively two of his opening six participate in the Badminton Asian Championships, on the penultimate day of the games in charge, with a scheduled to be played from February 11 to 16 in National Shooting Trials for Rifle Champions League tie Manila, Philippines, in view of the Coronavirus scare. and Pistol here on Friday. against Napoli fast- However, the men’s team will go ahead with the West Bengal’s Ayushi, in fact, approaching. The fall-out event. won both the senior and junior from another failure in “Unforeseen health hazard apprehension due to the categories in women’s 3P, Europe would prove Corona Virus outbreak has resulted in withdrawal of shooting 452.3 in the senior cat- longer-lasting. the women’s team for the upcoming Badminton Asian egory and 0.1 less in the junior For a rotated Madrid Championships,” Badminton Association of India final to take home a coveted side, who sit top of La the superb Alexander Isak Gorosabel was also sent (BAI) secretary Ajay Kumar Singhania said in a state- double. Liga, the loss against Real hit two to give Real off. Ten-man Real THE RESULTS ment. She got the better of Tamil Sociedad was perhaps less Sociedad a remarkable 3-0 Sociedad held on for a “BAI had reached out to the concerned authorities in Nadu’s N Gaayathri in the senior damaging, even if they lead. superb win to progress to Real Madrid 3 Badminton Asia (BA) for assurances regarding the final by 0.4 points and Madhya conceded as many goals in Marcelo and Rodrygo the last four while (Marcelo 59, Rodrygo 81, Nacho Fernandez 90+3) current situation and necessary health advisory and Pradhesh’s Bandhvi Singh in the 69 minutes as they had in both scored late in the sec- Madrid's run without suc- Real Sociedad 4 precautionary measures taken. After receiving com- junior event by 0.9 points. their last 11 matches put ond half and while Mikel cess in Spain's domestic (Odegaard 22, Isak 54, 56, Merino 69) plete assurances from BA, BAI had discussed the same Ayushi had earlier topped quali- together. Merino added a fourth for cup extends to six years. with the Indian squad, the men’s team agreed to travel fication in both categories with Martin Odegaard, on the visitors, a Nacho “It hurts, we have to be Athletic Bilbao 1 and confirmed their participation. They will leave for a score of 1166. loan at la Real but allowed Fernandez header set up a honest,” Madrid coach (Williams 90+3) Manila on February 9. However, the women’s team was In the women’s 10m Air Pistol to face his parent club, wild final three minutes, Zinedine Zidane said. Barcelona 0 withdrawn owing to concerns showed by parents and final, Karnataka’s Divya came up found the opener before in which Andoni — AFP players,” the statement read. trumps in a low-scoring final, finishing ahead of experienced Shweta Singh. — PTI CORONAVIRUS POONACHA, India up against world champs Captain credits SCARE NIXES Bhubaneswar, Feb. 7: Briels believes India will HOCKEY TOUR KADHE GET They are confident after a be a totally differently fitness for run stupendous debut at the opponent, especially after New Delhi, Feb. 7: The FIH Pro League but India their morale-boosting win New Delhi, Feb. 7: The combination of fit- outbreak of the deadly WILDCARDS have their task cut out over Netherlands. Skipper Rani Rampal ness and skill has been Coronavirus has forced Bengaluru: Reigning national when they host world “India are looking really feels the improved level of great. Earlier we used the Indian women’s champion Niki Poonacha and champions Belgium in sharp and they have been fitness has played a key to lag behind in fitness. hockey team to cancel Pune’s Arjun Kadhe have been their second round of the playing well which is role in the Indian But that has improved their tour of China, leav- given the singles wildcards for tournament, starting here something we saw in their women’s hockey team’s in the last three years. ing the federation with the upcoming Bengaluru Open on Saturday. initial two matches recent success. Wayne Lombard (scien- the difficult task of find- ATP Challenger, that kicks off After skipping the first against the Dutch,” Briels Last year marked an tific advisor), has ing an opponent to com- on Monday. edition of the tournament had said after arriving eventful season for the worked really hard with pete with as part of its A total of five wildcards will be in 2019, India made a here. Indian women’s team as it preparation for the given in the main draw of 48 in dream debut at the “We expect a tough cou- booked its ticket to 2020 the team, personally Olympics. the singles. League, collecting five ple of matches, and it’s Olympics, where for the and individually. The Indian women’s “I am thrilled to have received a points from the opening going to be a good fight for first time in the history of — RANI RAMPAL team was scheduled to wild card for the Bengaluru tie against the us as well. Of course, we the game it will make Indian women’s travel to China from Open which is taking place in Netherlands. are wary of the threat that back-to-back appear- hockey captain March 14 to 25. However, my city. I have been playing well World number five India they (India) possess, but ances. due to the fast-spreading but unfortunately it is not fructi- thrashed Netherlands 5-2 we are really excited to The team also scripted disease, that has killed fying into great results,” said in the opening match of play a tough opponent like creditable victories level of the players, some- over 636 people and the 24-year-old Poonacha, who the two-leg tie before beat- India so we can improve against quality sides like thing the squad had infected at least 31,161, it won the National championship ing the Dutchmen 3-1 in further before the Spain, Ireland, Japan, lacked earlier. has been cancelled. in Delhi last year. shoot-out after both the Olympics,” he said. China, Korea among “The combination of fit- “We had to travel to “I thank the KSLTA and AITA for teams were locked 3-3 at Even though India are other countries last year, ness and skill has been China but that has been having given me this opportuni- the end of regulation time the hosts, Belgium are tak- while defeating higher great. Earlier we used to cancelled due to the ty and I will strive to make the in the second match here ing confidence from the ranked teams like New lag behind in fitness. But virus. So a lot of teams best use of the wildcard,” he last month. fact that the venue Zealand and Great that has improved in the are also not available to added. But since then, the Kalinga Stadium has been Britain in 2020. last three years. Wayne play with because they Kadhe, ranked 219 in doubles Manpreet Singh-led side a happy hunting ground “The starting of the Lombard, has worked are participating in the and 612 in the singles, also has not featured in the for them. Olympic year has been really hard with the team, Pro hockey league,” thanked KSLTA. league so far, thus slipping “It feels really good to be good. Specially, because personally and individu- Indian skipper Rani “There are strong and competi- to the number five in Indian captain Manpreet Singh and chief coach Graham back in the city where we last year we managed to ally,” she said. said. tive players in this edition of the points table. Reid pose with the FIH Hockey Pro League Trophy in became the world champi- qualify for Tokyo. Since “In today’s time if the “Hockey India and our Bengaluru Open. We hope to Belgium are currently Bhubaneswar on Friday. ons. We have some amaz- then women’s hockey’s fitness is good we can coaches are working out see some exciting action. Both leading the standings with ing memories of playing graph is going well. In the play well but if there is no whom to play,” she Kadhe and Poonacha are talent- 11 points from four games, confident start, the world rankings, are brim- here, and it is always a last three years the team fitness even the skill added. ed players and deserve a while Netherlands are Indians are expected to ming with confidence great spectacle when we has done quite well,” won’t help,” she said. With less than five chance to prove themselves. We placed second with seven face a tough outing after wins over Australia step foot onto the turf at Rani said. Rani, who currently has months left for the hope they utilise the platform to points from as many against Belgium at the and New Zealand. the Kalinga Hockey The skipper feels South more than 240 caps for Olympics, time is cru- the best,” said Sunil Yajaman, matches. Kalinga Stadium, a venue But the visiting team Stadium.” African Wayne Patrick India, feels the improved cial for preparing for the Tournament Director. Australia are placed where the Red Lions won skipper Thomas Briels India and Belgium have Lombard, who was level of fitness has quadrennial event. Prajesh Gunneswaran, third with six points from their maiden FIH World has no qualms in admit- played 10 times here with appointed as the scientif- brought a belief in the “For good preparation, Sasikumar Mukund, Sumit Nagal six points from four Cup in 2018. ting that they are expect- the visitors coming out on ic advisor of the women’s players that they can beat you need to play with and Ramkumar Ramanathan games, followed by Belgium, who recently ing a tough fight from the top on eight occasions team in 2017, has made a any team irrespective of good teams,” Rani have all got direct entries into Germany and India. replaced Australia in the hosts India in the upcom- while two games ended in significant contribution the rankings. added. the main round. — PTI But irrespective of the coveted top position in the ing matches. draws. — PTI in improving the fitness — PTI — PTI