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SPECIAL OFFICER Life hangs in balance Civic chief as blood banks run out gets his name of stock in Srikakulam in V’wada’s

G RAMESH BABU @ Srikakulam hall of fame

K KRISHNAVENI from Buditi in Jalumuru mandal, with a tumour EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE in her uterus, came to Srikakulam for a hysterectomy procedure @ Vijayawada at a private hospital. Doctors told her she had to arrange for blood, if the surgery had to be performed. A community hall in Krishna Krishnaveni, along with her husband, reached the Red Cross Lanka has been named after Vi- blood bank, among the two prominent blood banks in the town, jayawada municipal commission- early Monday. “The officials told me B+ units are out of stock. I er G Veerapandian in recognition have been waiting here for three hours for a donor. I have no clue of his services to the locality. if I can get the surgery performed at all,” she complained. The Normally,such gestures are made stock chart suggested there were only 13 towards politicians, government Emergency O+ units available, with the columns officers and others either after situation showing the availability of other groups they retire or expire, but this is reading ‘zero’. the first time that the Vijayawada 75 Units of blood The situation at the RIMS medical col- municipal corporation has decid- available at RIMS lege and hospital was no different. It was ed to name the community hall hospital left with only 75 units of blood, compris- after a serving officer. ing all groups. The stocks at the blood The proposal to name the com- 13 Units (only O+) of banks in Srikakulam are fast depleting HOLIDAYS FOR STUDENTS munity hall on Swargapuri Road blood available at Red owing to lack of donors, leading to emer- in Krishna Lanka after Veera- Students in a joyful mood after conclusion of their first year intermediate exams in Vijayawada on Monday | P RAVINDRA BABU Cross blood bank gency situations at city hospitals. pandian was mooted by YSRC 70 to 100 Units all city “Since Sunday evening, I have been corporator Chandana Suresh of hospitals need per day doing the rounds to the Red Cross blood 24th Division before the VMC bank for a unit of A+ blood. No luck so standing committee. Interesting- far,” rued M Krishna Rao from Arasav- ly, corporators irrespective of alli, whose sister’s surgery was due on Monday. Officials say stu- party affiliations endorsed it in dents, the key donors, are shying away from donating blood since Cong buys time in Manipur, the corporation’s council meet- the exam season is on. “This is all we have. After the exams, sum- ing on February 21. mer vacation will begin. The situation is expected to be normal At that time, Veerapandian only after the colleges reopen,” said RIMS blood bank in-charge Dr thanked the residents of Krishna K Papa Ratnam, adding that they had a few units for emergency Lanka. After the community hall cases like thalassaemia, and dialysis. On an average, RIMS needs contests decision on Goa was inaugurated by mayor 20 units per day, 50 per cent of which goes to the maternity ward, Koneru Sreedhar on Monday, apart from the 2-3 needed for dialysis. On an average, the city hos- Veerapandian told TNIE, “I do pitals need 70 to 100 blood units per day. A few NGOs have agreed CM Ibobi Singh claims he will resign today even as BJP’s Biren Singh gears up to head not feel any special but am hum- to donate blood. But the crisis may last till summer’s end. new govt; urgent hearing in Supreme Court today over challenge to BJP govt in Goa bled by such a gesture.” Municipal authorities say it is not the first time that such a ges- PRASANTA MAZUMDAR @ Guwahati government,” said Ibobi. But the ber House, the Congress moved Jaitley gets addl ture was made towards officers Chief Minister-in-waiting, Biren the Supreme Court on Monday who served Krishna district or AFTER a day-long drama, Ma- Singh, claimed the support of 33 for an urgent hearing on the situ- charge of Def Min Vijayawada where several roads nipur Chief Minister Okram Ibo- MLAs - 21 from BJP, four each ation in Goa. The CJI has agreed Finance minister Arun and locations are named after of- bi Singh resigned on Monday from the NPF and the NPP and to set up a special bench to hear Jaitley was on Monday ficials recognising their services evening after the BJP and its al- one each from TMC, LJP and the the plea on Tuesday. given additional charge to the city’s development. For in- lies called on Governor Najma Congress, besides an Independ- The petition says Governor of the Defence Ministry stance, Ajith Singh Nagar was Heptulla to seek her invitation to ent. The Congress MLA, Shyam- Mridula Sinha’s decision to in- named after IAS officer Ajith after Manohar Parrikar form the government. The dele- kumar Singh, defected to the BJP vite the BJP to form the govern- Singh. Similarly, Urmila Subba resigned. A Rashtrapati gation was led by the newly-elect- on Sunday. He will soon resign ment is “illegal”. “The single Rao Nagar was named after the Bhawan communique ed leader of the BJP legislature and contest the by-elections on a largest party should have been municipal commissioner for party N Biren Singh. Earlier on BJP’s ticket. asked to form the government,” said that the shifting slum dwellers from Sunday, the Governor had asked Meanwhile, heat of the politi- the petition said. “Parrikar did resignation of Parrikar Bhaskararaopet in 1981 and con- Ibobi to step down so that the cal action was also felt in Panaji not even contest election. No one as Defence Minister, on struction of the Pandit Nehru process of formation of the next and New Delhi as the BJP moved knows if he is popular among the the advice of PM Modi, Bus Station (PNBS). government could be initiated. swiftly to capture the State As- people of Goa. This is murder of has been accepted with Another area, Rajiv Nagar As both the Congress and BJP sembly that witnessed a frac- democracy in broad day light,” immediate effect near Payakapuram, was named have claimed that they have the tured mandate. While former De- said Congress’ Priyanka after Rajiv Sharma, who served numbers to form government, it fenceMinisterManoharParrikar, Chaturvedi in a TV interview. as municipal commissioner from remains to be seen as to who gets who quit on Sunday,is set to take The incumbent BJP, with 13 1987 to 1990. A road near Payaka- Kin of patients,in need of blood,wait at the Red Cross blood bank in Srikakulam the invite from the Raj Bhavan. the oath of office and secrecy on seats, claims to have the support puram was named after Krishna on Monday | EXPRESS While the Congress emerged as Tuesday as the Goa Chief Minis- of eight other legislators needed Parrikar did not even District Collector AVS Reddy. the single-largest party in the 60- ter,Union Finance Minister Arun to cross the magic mark. Parri- contest election. No one When contacted, YSRC corpo- member House with 28 seats, the Jaitley was given the additional kar will have to prove his major- knows if he is popular rator Chandana Suresh said BJP came second with 21 seats, responsibility of the portfolio. ity in the Assembly within 15 among the people of Goa. Veerapandian played a vital role This is murder of but claimed to have total support Irked by the development, de- days of swearing in. He will also in sanctioning funds for the reno- democracy in broad No kidding, last year was of 33 MLAs. “We emerged as the spite having emerged as the sin- have to get elected to the State daylight vation of a crematorium in single largest party and hence, gle-largest party in the State by legislature within six months. Krishna Lanka, a long pending the worst for Syrian children we should be invited to form the winning 17 seats in the 40-mem- (With inputs from New Delhi) Priyanka Chaturvedi, Congress demand from the residents. With a 20% increase in the number of kids killed in Syria, aUNICEFreportpublishedonMondaysaid2016wastheworstyearfor EXPRESS READ the country’s children. Here are the key findings Rajamahendravaram Airport records 60 pc passenger JNU student from L1.50 L cr Proposed traffic growth, eyes expansion to handle cargo too Salem kills himself spending in TS budget The Rajamahendravaram Airport is on the growth path with air traffic New Delhi: A Jawaharlal Nehru Hyderabad: The Telangana 652killed steadily increasing every year. The airport handled 2.5 lakh passengers last University student from Salem government on Monday 255 of them in or near a school year, recording a passenger growth rate of 60 per cent when compared to committed suicide on Monday presented a welfare-oriented 2015. The airport was also upgraded recently to Grade-III alongside after alleging discrimination in budget focusing on irrigation Vijayawada and Tirupati airports. According to Airport Director M Raj M.Phil and PhD admissions. He and reviving traditional Kishore, Grade-III status enables the airport to achieve rapid development. earlier studied at University of occupations of backward On an average, the airport is handling 23,000 passengers a month now as Hyderabad, where the Rohith classes, with a proposed 851 1/4 against 13,000 per month prior to Godavari Pushkarams. The airport Vemula suicide sparked expenditure of nearly J1.50 runway expansion is in progress to make it a hub for cargo handling as well. nationwide protests last year. lakh crore. recruited to victims of fight - more explosive than twice as weapons are much as in 2015 children Safe scavenging? RAMKY STAFF TRIED TO CHEAT COPS, BRIBE Social Welfare Minister H children were injured - Anjaneya said he plans to 25% more than in 2015 647 introduce a legislation in trapped in hard-to- VICTIMS’ FAMILIES BEFORE BEING NABBED Karnataka to let scavengers 2.8mnreach areas to enter manholes in case of EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE cident, were nabbed in Hydera- accused, was carrying out the an emergency, in the Syrian schools destroyed/ @ Bengaluru bad. Preliminary investigation sub-contract on behalf of Ramky presence of police officials, 1/3damaged/sheltering revealed that they were directly but was heading a different firm. fire department personnel, displaced people/used for A week after three people suffo- responsible for the death of the N T Reddy was managing the an ambulance and civic military purposes cated to death inside a manhole labourers, police said. project works of Ramky at agency officers. Activists in India’s ‘Silicon Valley’, the On Friday, two people turned ground level,” police added. responded saying the attacks on schools and Byappanahalli police arrested up before the Bengaluru police to The police officers said that the 87education personnel minister cannot attempt to While venturing outdoors could three persons of Ramky Infra- surrender claiming to be Ramky accused had pressurised the vic- give legal sanction to structure Ltd, the contractor supervisors. It is now learnt that tims’ family members to take be fatal for children in Syria, 25% OF CHILDREN ARE something that has been they aren’t much safer indoors — STUNTED IN HARD-TO-REACH firm, on Monday. Babu Reddy had offered them back the complaint on the prom- deemed illegal by the The arrested have been identi- money to surrender. However, af- ise of giving them attractive com- whether in school or at home AND BESIEGED AREAS Supreme Court and the 2013 fied as K Babu Reddy, AGM (who ter quizzing them, police found pensation. The accused, in their Prohibition of Employment was in charge of projects), Vem- that they were not responsible for recording their statements. Some statement, blamed the deaths on as Manual Scavengers and ula Anjaneyulu, sub- contractor the deaths but gathered informa- of the accused are still at large the negligence of some officials of Ramky Infrastructure Ltd and tion from them. and efforts are on to nab them,” of the Bangalore Water Supply their Rehabilitation Act and 2.3million Rules. 1.75mn 5.8mn N T Reddy, Manager (Projects). “The accused will be taken into the officer added. “Babu Reddy and Sewarage Board. “We are KIDS OUT OF INNEED A senior police officer said the police custody for five days for looked after the operations in probing this angle as well,”police Syrian child refugees SCHOOL INSIDE SYRIA accused, absconding since the in- further investigation and we are Bengaluru, Anjaneyalu, the key said. Full coverage: P6 in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt 2,80,854 IN BESIEGED AREAS ALMANAC TODAY FORECAST Sunset 18.06 hrs Partly cloudy sky Tuesday: 14/03/17 Year: Durmukhi Aayanam: Uttaraayanam Rituvu: Sisira Rutuvu Sunrise 06.06 hrs Masam: Phaalguna Paksham: Sukla Paksham Tithi: Vidiya 09:52 pm MIN MAX Moonrise 19.41 hrs Nakshatram: Hasta 08:14 pm Durmuhurtham: 108:51-09:38 am Varjyam: WEATHER 0 0 04:53 am (Start) Rahukaalam: 03:24-04:53 pm Yamagandam: 09:27-10:56 am WATCH 24.3 C 32.0 C Moonset 07.11 hrs

VISAKHAPATNAM 02 TUESDAY 14�03�2017 Two masons on work Officials roll sleeves to prevent forest fire killed in wall collapse New fire lines set up in vulnerable areas ahead of summer, forest watchers to keep a strict vigil in remote areas

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Woman set ablaze EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Gudilova has the longest fire line. May and the watchers are enough @ Vizianagaram @ Visakhapatnam “The fire lines are in place at Kam- for this area as they are 36 in total. by mother, sister WHAT IS FIRE LINE? We have balakonda, Peddapalli in Yellaman- At present, fire lines seem to be recruited 26 fire IN a tragic incident, two ma- A 40-year-old woman is IN an attempt to prevent the forest chili, Ananthagiri Road and several enough as no major fire incident The fire lines are a gap in battling for life after her sister watchers for sons died in a wall collapse at fires in the district this summer sea- others. We have constructed a total have been reported in the district in vegetation that are a barrier Visakhapatnam Pothannapalle in Srungavara- and mother set her ablaze, at son, the forest authorities have tak- 10 km of fire lines in various areas the past two years, he said. to prevent fire from division and two pu Kota (S Kota) mandal of the Ralamalapalli near Gajularega en several measures. As fires break- this year and at every place the fire Giving details about the forest fire spreading from one part of fire camps with district on Monday afternoon. in Vizianagaram mandal. The ing out in the forests during in the line is of different, depending on the incidents reported in the past, the the line to another. five members The mishap occurred when victim, identified as D Laxmi, is hot season between January and need. divisional forest officer said that the each have also PREVENTIVE MEASURES they were busy plastering the a daily wager. According to May,the district officials have laid a This year, we have recruited 26 only major fire incident that oc- been set up in wall. The deceased have been Vizianagaram Rural CI new fire line in a stretch of 10 km in fire watchers for Visakhapatnam di- curred was at Gudilova and that too � Fire lines in place at Visakhapatnam identified as P Eswara Rao (25) Narasimha Murthy, the victim January, before the onset of vision and two fire camps with five a long time ago. Kambalakonda, Peddapalli and Chodavaram of Pothanapalle and K Nagab- had conflicts with her sister D summer. members each have also been set up “Even if we have seen some minor in Yellamanchili and hushanam (25) of Seethampeta Parvati and mother D The fire lines are a gap in vegeta- in Visakhapatnam and Chodavar- fires in the recent past, the flames Ananthagiri Road Alan Chong Teron, of the mandal. Papayamma. On Sunday, Laxmi tion that are a barrier to prevent fire am,” said Alan Chong Teron, divi- did not spread to an extent that did � Fire lines set up in a Visakhapatnam According to S Kota CI Ram- went out for her work and did from spreading from one part of the sional forest officer of major damage to the forest resourc- divisional forest stretch of 10 km as ana Murthy, the masons were not returned to home. After her line to another. The Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam. es. The resources we are having at officer per need working on the old tiled house return on Monday, her sister and division has a total length of 50-km “The fire watchers are recruited present is adequate to prevent and for the last couple of days. The mother made some indecent fire lines in different forest lands. every year between January and contain the fire,” the DFO added. duo were removing the old plas- remarks on her character, which ter at around 2.30 pm on Mon- led to an argument. In the fit of day, when the wall, built dec- rage, Papayamma doused ades ago, caved in suddenly.The Laxmi with kerosene, while locals with the help of rods and Parvati set her afire, the CI said. Water supply a few others removed the bricks Hearing Laxmi’s cries, the and debris and found the duo neighbours rushed her to a to be hit in some dead on the spot. Police sent the hospital. Doctor said that her bodies for postmortem. A case condition was critical. Laxmi city areas for has been registered at S Kota has three children. police station. two days

Visakhapatnam:Owingtothe Two Odisha labourers maintenance works undertaken for layingtheRCCmainpipelineconnecting Meghadri Gedda reservoir with killed in lorry mishap Natyelapalem,near Sheela Nagarpetrolbunk,thewatersupply EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE were working a granite compa- departmentoftheGVMCannounced @ Srikakulam ny in Kotabommali. thattherewillbenowatersupplyto At around 1 am on Monday, some areas for two days. TWO labourers belonging to the trio came to roadside for a The following areas will not get water Mayurbhanj district of Odisha break and were talking to each from9amofMarch14to9am died and another sustained se- other.A speeding lorry heading of March 16. vere injuries after they were hit to Narasannapeta from Tekkali, by a speeding lorry at Chinna- hit all of them. The police, with Zone 5 : Gajuwaka area bammidi village of Kotabom- the support of the locals, shifted mali mandal late Sunday the victims to a hospital, where VUDA Colony, Samatha Nagar, night. Ganesh and Susanth were de- Gudivada Appanna Colony, The deceased have been iden- clared brought dead. With the Ramnagar, Mindi tified as Susanth Kumar Mo- condition of deteriorating, the hanto (27) and Ganesh Kumar doctors referred him to a hospi- Zone 4: Ward no. 45 Behara (27) and the injured tal in Visakhapatnam. Mulagada Colony, Jagendhra. The police arrested the lorry Himachal Nagar, Ganapathi The trio are resident of driver. A case has been regis- ALL SET FOR THE JATARA Nagar, New Express Service Men Krishna Chandrapur of Mayur- tered at Kotabommali police Colony, Santhagiri Colony, bhanj district of Odisha. They station. Investigation is on. Ahead of the Pydithalli Jatara, a girl decorating the idols of the Goddess near Women's College in Visakhapatnam on Monday | EXPRESS Nakkavanipalem, Santhi Nagar, Srinivasa Nagar, Chilukavanipalem, EXPRESS READ Eduruvadipalem Ward no. 46: Sriharipuram, Ramnagar, Jawahar Nagar, FZ25 bike launched in city HPCL donates 38 grievances received by GVMC BSNL mega free SIM Indra Colony steel plates, mela from today The much awaited FZ25 bike was On the occasion of GVMC Grievance Day, 38 Ward no. 47: Janatha Colony, launched by the zonal manager of glasses for MDM grievances were received and GVMC additional Visakhaptnam: The Bharat Sanchar Industrial Colony, Prakash Colony, Indian Bank, Dilip Satpathy, at commissioner GVVS Murthy accepted the As part of its CSR Nigam Limited (BSNL) will organise a TDP Colony Vaishnavi Automobiles at Birla requests and passed orders to the concerned activity, Hindustan two-day mega free SIM mela at Junction here on Monday. On the officials to redress those grievances as soon as Ward no. 48: Prakash Nagar, Petroleum Corporation various places across the district, occasion, managing partner of possible. ENS Malkapuram, Gudivada Appana Limited (HPCL) beginning Tuesday. The customers can Vaishnavi Automobiles Trinath Raju Colony, Alluri Seetharamaraju donated 12,582 steel visit the mela with their identity proof, said that this model would be another Colony, Durga Colony, Durga plates and glasses to address proof (Aadhaar card) and success story in FZ series which won AU yoga camp from March 16 Nagar, Trinadhpuram, the school for the mid- passport size photographs, a press the hearts of the Indian youth in terms Kakarlova, Kranthi Nagar, Jai day meals programme A special yoga camp for weight reduction will release said on Monday. Meanwhile, of styling, performance and Andhra Colony, Chinatalova initiated by Akshaya be conducted by the department of Yoga and the BSNL has launched special offers maintenance. The new FZ25 has newly Patra Foundation. The Consciousness, Andhra University, from March on the occasion of Holi. The customers Ward no. 49: AKC colony designed air-cooled, 249 cc, 4-stroke, plates and glasses will 16. The camp will be under the guidance of will get a talk time of K600 on a SOHC, 2-valve, single-cylinder, high- Ward no. 50: Mulagada, be distributed on yoga instructor Pratap for a month from 5-6 recharge voucher of K490 and a talk torque fuel-injected engine on a Indira Colony Tuesday at St. Peters am, 6-7 pm everyday. Interested candidates time of K220 on a K190 voucher. The lightweight frame (148 kg). ENS High School. ENS can contact 0891-2566640, 9490536733. ENS offer is valid till March 17. ENS

THE PHANTOM Test your number crunching CROSS WORD skill with our unique puzzle PETER VIDAL SU DO KU 14th March: Today, a word from the ancient astrologers. Back in the Middle Ages, star-gazers would have regarded the current Mercurial alignments as inauspicious for launching new enterprises. I disagree, but there’s something rather tempting in 1 9 4 the idea that the entire week favours people who like to do nothing. A slacker’s charter, perhaps? 4 3 5 2

ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr. 20) LIBRA (Sept. 24 - Oct. 23) 1 5 2 The Moon is intensifying its The Sun’s brilliant alignment HI AND LOIS 5 emotional influence over your begins to shift, which means that 3 6 sign, so your intuitive faculties are in fine you may suddenly be forced to abandon form. Your business and professional certain personal goals and deal with the 2 6 5 9 7 imagination is now in top gear, so it’s inevitable costs slightly sooner rather than naturally an amazing day for anyone going later. Still, it’s best that you do so now rather 5 9 2 to meetings or interviews. than leave it until it’s too late. 6 8 3 TAURUS (Apr. 21 - May 21) SCORPIO (Oct. 24 - Nov. 22) In spite of recent disagreements There is a lot to be said for keeping 3 1 5 4 over finances, other people should your distance and maintaining a now show their willingness to get on with dignified silence. Only if other people refuse 4 8 3 life as normal. The very fact that Mars and point-blank to honour an agreement should BEETLE BAILEY Mercury are influencing your house of you leap into the fray. As an extra aside, MEDIUM Solutions to Yesterday’s puzzle marriage, by the way, means that there is no watch out for rising social or romantic costs. 4 3 1 9 8 2 5 6 7 ■ Fill in the grid room for time-wasting and waffle in 2 7 8 6 5 4 9 1 3 relationships. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23 - Dec. 22) with digits in such 9 6 5 7 1 3 4 2 8 You must realise that for every GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) a manner that every 8 5 3 4 7 1 2 9 6 little piece of self-indulgence row, every column There still seems to be an air of there is a price to be paid. Therefore this 7 1 9 2 6 8 3 4 5 mild confusion over career or week you should always make sure that your and every 3X3 box 6 4 2 5 3 9 7 8 1 professional interests. One reason could be emotional account remains in credit. It could accommodates the 3 2 7 8 9 6 1 5 4 that other people have not been entirely be favour pay-back time, so return all the digits 1 to 9, without 1 8 4 3 2 5 6 7 9 straight or honest. Neither have they goodwill that you’ve been offered in recent repeating any. 5 9 6 1 4 7 8 3 2 understood the implications of their actions. times. Puzzle by websudoku.com It might be up to you to put them right. ■ Each sudoku has a unique solution that can CAPRICORN (Dec. 23 - Jan. 20) HENRY ACROSS DOWN CANCER (June 22 - July 23) be reached logically without guessing. You have had more than your fair 1 2 The best that can be said share of criticism, complaints and A head for capital investment (9) Turning up to deposit gold sovereign (5) about recent planetary condemnation, and now it really is the time 8 Entertainment for 3 In lead, faltered and got caught (6) THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME aspects is that they have taught you the to boost your reputation. Spend as much by David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek time after work (5) 4 In turn I’ve become idle (8) virtues of self-reliance. Now that so time and take as much care as is necessary Unscramble these four Jumbles, 9 Enthusiasts may wax it (7) 5 In a new role it may make many planets are surging through creative to arrange social engagements. Happiness one letter to each square, 10 Turn up at ten on no attempt to hurry (6) to form four ordinary words. regions of your chart, you can afford lies in getting the details right. the dot initially (6) 6 Admit you take in stolen goods? (7) to enjoy yourself in the way that ANYHE only you know how. AQUARIUS (Jan. 21 - Feb. 19) 11 Customer has legal right in court (6) 7 Blunt note to a job-seeker (9) This is no time to be a shrinking 12 I’m put to the test and 11 What are you doing here? (9) LEO (July 24 - Aug. 23) ©2016 Tribune Content Agency, LLC violet. You must forget your All Rights Reserved. made better (8) 13 Ready-made paper turned If you expect to have life all your democratic qualms and realise that you GUOLM 15 Impressed by eastern flight (8) out crimson (8) own way, especially at home, you deserve to be number one. Nothing lasts for LOCKHORNS DENNIS THE MENACE 18 Mountain retreat 14 Bearing out what one will be making a very grave mistake. There is ever, but you must enjoy whatever glory you a feeling abroad that what is needed is a can get. Your emotional mood enters a more needs freezer for fish (6) would be rude to do (5,2) businesslike arrangement and plain relaxed phase, by the way, although there’ll LUBNED 20 In we go for a duck (6) 16 Inquests take place speaking rather than sentimental frills, so still be surprises around every corner. Check out the new, free JUST JUMBLE app 21 Interrupt a burglary? (5,2) between golf teachers (6) don’t be caught off guard. 22 Produce straight lines, say (5) 17 Country girl on a vessel (6) PISCES (Feb. 20 - Mar 20) 23 It is rough, could be smoother (9) 19 Number take cover from rebuke (5) VIRGO (Aug. 24 - Sept. 23) How can you stay in one place AACREM Now arrange the circled letters There are now few signs of any when emotionally you are being to form the surprise answer, as more financial openings for Virgos, drawn to another? This is not the first time suggested by the above cartoon. YESTERDAY’S SOLUTIONS which means that all you can do today is that you have faced this Piscean dilemma, Ans: formalise any recent agreements or and hopefully you are now well on the way Across: 1 Caprice,4 Mezzo,7 Mail,8 Marginal, 10 Cartoonist, 12 Rusted, 13 Around, (Answers tomorrow) 15 Call it a day, 18 Alphabet, 19 Edam, 20 Tarot, 21 Shotgun. decisions. Somehow even missed to a solution of a recurrent personal Jumbles: FORGOGUMBOWALNUTFUSION Saturday’s opportunities will present themselves for a problem. And about time, some Yesterday’s Answer: The talkative person wrapping Christmas pres- Down: 1 Comic,2 Prioress,3 Evadne,4 Magistrate,5 Zany,6 Obliged,9 Poles apart, second chance over the next week. people might say. ents at the mall had the — GIFT OF GAB 11 Guide dog, 12 Rampart, 14 Sleeps, 16 Yemen, 17 Spar. Did you know? The ISL project target will be achieved Ammunitions were used to be stored in the by 10 am on March 14. The works Vivek Yadav, Queen Mary School during the British rule Vizianagaram are going on at a brisk pace. collector

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CBSE NORM School buses to have GPS from coming academic year

Schools find tech glitches associated with the device a challenge

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE lem. “In 2010, all our buses were @ Visakhapatnam affixed with GPS. But, we discon- tinued as we were frequently IN a bid to prevent the accidents bugged down by software issues involving school buses, the Cen- and late delivery of messages. A tral Board of Secondary Educa- meeting has been scheduled in tion (CBSE) has issued a revised the month-end to implement it notification recently to all its af- again,” he says filiated schools to install speed “All our nine buses have speed governors, GPS and CCTV cam- governors and we check the de- eras in the vehicles ferrying the fix GPS devices in two buses in vices regularly to ensure that they students. the first phase,” says Vallisnath, are working properly.The drivers The notification has also fixed principal of Visakha Valley have also been trained to main- the maximum speed limit of 40 school, adding that the school tain the speed limit.,” says IK kmph. Although the CBSE school management will bear the cost. Anand, Principal of Presidential authorities in the city are aware “We will have GPS in our buses School, adding that plans were of the notification, they say that from the coming academic year. afoot to install GPS and CCTV it will take some time to imple- Fitting speed governors and from the coming academic year. ment the rules in toto. “We have CCTV cameras are also in the DPS which plies three buses already held talks with two soft- pipeline and will be installed in a have speed governors. Principal ware companies regarding the phased manner,” he said. SK Pandey says that GPS will be GPS installation. The estimated Murthy, transport in-charge of fixed in the buses soon.”We are RIOT OF COLOURS expenditure to install the devices Chaitanya School, however, says yet to look for lady attendants for in our 14 buses has been calculat- that technical challenges pertain- our buses which has been made Youngsters enjoy a rain dance organised as part of the Holi celebrations at MGM Grounds in Visakhapatnam on Monday | EXPRESS ed to `6,000 each per year. We will ing to the devices remain a prob- mandatory by the new rule. Two bank staff 585 kg ganja stuffed in drums booked for fund seized from truck, four arrested defalcation EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Visakhapatnam Three more members of the gang are on the run, the police said. EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE AROUND 585 kg of ganja was seized by the According to police, the accused pro- @ Visakhapatnam Visakhapatnam Rural Police at Ped- cured the ganja from the interior areas dapeta Junction of Rolugunta of agency and were trying to shift it TWO bank employees, including the depu- m a n d a l o n M o n d a y to other states. ty manager (Operations) of State Bank of morning. Acting on a tip-off, the police India, Buchireddypalem branch, in Nel- The cops arrested four intercepted the truck laden lore district, have been booked by Central of a seven-member with 270 packets of ganja Bureau of Investigation (CBI) for their al- gang, when they were stuffed in 18 bags. leged involvement in misappropriating shifting the contraband The accused had hidden funds of `12.4 lakh by misutilising their to other states from the the ganja inside drums official position post-demonetisation. Vizag Agency in a meant for carrying chemical Deputy manager (Operations) IJ Raja truck. loads to misguide police. Sekhar, and senior special assistant M Sul- The accused have been The cops also recovered cash tan Mohiuddin resorted to criminal con- identified as Radha Mohan of `35,500 and mobile phones spiracy between November 15 to Novem- Yadav (35) from Bihar, among others. ber 25 last year,a press note released by the Avataar Singh (22), Jaspal Singh The accused have been sent to re- CBI, Visakhapatnam, said here on (42)- both from Punjab-and Pangi mand and a case has been registered at the Monday. Balaram (26), a resident of GK Veedhi Rolugunta police station. Further investi- “Sultan Mohiuddin had availed of four mandal. gation is on. gold loans worth `9.7 lakh on benami names, which were sanctioned by Raja Sekhar. The duo also had processed and sanctioned three more gold loans worth `2.70 lakh to benamis and made the dis- bursements in cash in new currency notes, exceeding the limits laid down by the RBI after demonetisation,” the press release quoted R Gopala Krishna, superintendent of police, CBI (Visakhapatnam) as saying. Subsequently, two benami gold loans were closed on November 21 and Novem- ber 25 last year, by depositing the demon- etised currency notes in `1,000 and `500 denominations. “In the process, the duo misappropriated bank funds to the tune of `12.4 lakh,” said R Gopala Krishna. After registration of a case, searches were conducted at the residential premises of the accused and several incriminating documents were seized. The CBI have booked cases under Section 120-B, 409 IPC and Section 13(2) of the PC Act, 1988. The investigation is in progress.

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05 VISAKHAPATNAM TUESDAY 14�03�2017 No money, no tools: State to wait & watch forest fires this summer too?

R PRITHVI RAJ @ Vijayawada mained a cry in the wilderness and said that at a time when the Unless the government Venkateswara Swamy temple As Andhra Pradesh has forest have rich growth of grass in for- for years,” an official in the For- Forest Department needs liberal takes a serious view, complex. “The fire caused exten- which is mostly deciduous in na- est clearings for their cattle, LIKE every year, forest fires are est Department said. allocation of funds, what it was protection of forests, sive damage for three days from ture and therefore it begins dry- sheep and goats, set fire to the for- going to be a major threat to flora, Recently, the Forest Depart- getting was just `1.2 crore, which particularly prevention of March 20 to 22 to the forest in an ing up from January. The south- est area. The grass burns out, but fauna and biodiversity in the ment has sent a proposal to the is peanuts,” he said. forest fires or battling them area of 213 sq km,” the official west monsoon visits the entire the roots of the grass would con- when they break out, would State with the State government National Green Tribunal (NGT) said. State from June to September ex- tinue to be alive and would send remain a pipedream not having any mechanism in that the State would require a A recurring phenomenon In fact, the Forest Department cept for Chittoor, Nellore, Pra- out a profuse growth of grass. place to control them. minimum of `4.5 crore for taking Forest fires could be very damag- An official has not yet made any scientific kasam and Kadapa, where as The most affected areas are Na- “The department neither has measures to protect the flora and ing. For instance, Seshachalam estimate of the damage done to northeast monsoon visits in Oc- garjuna Sagar-Srisailam Tiger money nor equipment to fight fauna of the forests. As it was in forest range is notorious for for- the forest areas by the forest fires. tober and December. Maximum Reserve and Rayalaseema, the of- forest fires. We have been seeking the form of a directive from the est fires which rage for days and MODIS satellite data indicated forest fires occur in February, ficial said. a ban on grazing in forest areas, NGT, the State had to send the die down on their own. Till now, According to officials, in March that 31 per cent of the compart- March and April. The wildlife affected by fires is since the farmers deliberately set proposal but the officials wonder more than 11,000 forest fires have 2014, the huge forest fire that ments of forests of the total spread in the 16 protected areas fire to the grass in the forest area what purpose would it serve since broken out in the 13 districts of spread in Tirumala hill range number of 9,553 in the State are Threat to wildlife including three national parks, 13 to ensure profuse growth of grass protection of forest is not a prior- the reorganised State since 2004, drew national attention. The fire prone to fire damage in varying The official said that forest fires wildlife sanctuaries which in- the following year for their cattle ity issue. “Nothing will come out causing an extensive damage to occurred in the dense jungles less degrees leaving balance 69 per in the State are deliberately clude Nagarjuna Sagar-Srisailam to graze. Our request has re- of it, I am sure,” the official said the ecosystem of the State. than 10 km from the Lord cent unaffected. caused. Farmers who want to Tiger Reserve.

100 selected L7,000 cr sought for Ugadi for MGNREGA Puraskar EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE works next fiscal @ Vijayawada THE Andhra Pradesh Film Chamber of Commerce (APFCC) State gets R5,340 crore from Centre in on Monday announced ‘Ugadi current fiscal under the rural job scheme Puraskar’ for 100 people under four categories in film crafts in- cluding exhibitors, distributors, Works taken EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @ Vijayawada p r o d u c e r s a n d s t u d i o up under proprietors. MGNREGA in THE State government has sent various pro- APFCC president Raja Vasi 2016-17 fiscal posals to the Centre seeking `7,000 crore for Reddy Bopal Prasad told news- Under ‘Chandranna carrying out works under the Mahatma Gan- men here on Monday that the Baata’, CC roads dhi National Rural Employment Guarantee award ceremony would be con- were laid to a Act (MGNREGA) for the 2017-18 fiscal. ducted at Happy Resorts near At- The state government has got funds to the makur of Guntur district on length of 4,697 kms tune of `5,340 crore in the current fiscal under March 28. As many as 3,000 peo- against the target the rural job scheme and is heading towards ple from Telugu film fraternity of 5,000 km spending the full money by the end of the would attend the event and re- in the fiscal fiscal. ceive the Ugadi Puraskar for 2012 Initially, the prime objective of the MGNRE- -2016. The APFCC president said GA was to provide work to the needy. Now, it that felicitations would be also 1,00,269 turned out as a boon to the States as they are conducted to the veteran actors taking up various development works under and actress on the occasion. Plans Number of vermi the scheme. are afoot to construct studios and compost pits As the share of the state government is just promote film shootings in the completed in AP 10 per cent and the remaining will be released new capital city of Amaravati, he by the Centre, cash-starved Andhra Pradesh added. government is focusing on utilisation of maxi- ENJOYING A WHIFF OF FRESH AIR Meanwhile, Chief Minister N mum funds under MGNREGA and implement- Chandrababu Naidu has final- 1,793 People take a morning walk in the lush green environs of Loyola College near Gunadala in Vijayawada on Monday | RVK RAO ing various development works under the ised March 29 as Ugadi. Number of gram scheme. panchayat offices Even if there is delay in getting funds from being constructed, the Centre, the State government is spending each at a cost of funds from its exchequer without stopping any R15 lakh works under MGNREGA and getting the funds NTR Videshi Vidyadharana evokes poor response from Centre at a later stage. Recently, the state government got `1,000 crore from Centre towards reimbursement un- EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE every college from April. BC stu- Funding your dreams leges or universities and also 332 der the MGNREGA. @ Vijayawada dents with a family income of bank loan for further fee amount. Download JEE mains BC students with family income Number of mandal less than `6 lakh per annum are But, only one person from each hall tickets from today AP tops in many categories ‘NTR Videshi Vidyadharana’ eligible for the scheme. of below R6 L/year eligible family is eligible to take up high- buildings being Vijayawada: Students who have Explaining the works undertaken in the State scheme launched by the State BC At present, the BC Corpora- er studies through this scheme. constructed, each at Each to get 10 L aid from govt under MGNREGA, Rural Development Depart- Welfare Department is receiving tion is giving `10 lakh to each R “The response has been good, applied for the JEE mains 2017 a cost of R32 lakh can download their hall tickets ment Special Chief Secretary Dinesh Kumar poor response from the youth. selected student for their higher 209 students travelled to USA, but most of the students lacked from the website, jeemain.nic.in, said that Andhra Pradesh stood top in digging Even as the BC Corporation, studies abroad. However, the stu- 61 to Australia, 24 to Canada, awareness on the programme from Tuesday. The exam will be farm ponds under the ‘Panta Sanjeevani’ which is looking after the imple- dents need not pay back the 22 to Germany, 34 to Philippines and the procedure to study held on April 2. From this year, 1,268 programme. mentation of scheme, targeted to amount. and 7 to UK abroad. So, we are offering free “Against the target of 2.5 lakh, we have start- enrol 1,000 students under the Sources said, the main reason coaching classes for eligibility there shall be no weightage for Number of burial ed works of 4.04 lakh farm ponds and complet- scheme, only 412 students have behind poor student turnout is tests like GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, the 12th class marks in grounds being ed the works of 2.66 lakh,” he said. been selected for the scheme for the lack of awareness on the seas must approach the BC Cor- etc., from next month,” explained calculating the ranks in the JEE developed, each at And works of 3.25 lakh individual household 2016-17. scheme and bank loan process as poration with their score card of BC Welfare Commissioner mains examination, but the a cost of R10 lakh latrines (IHHLs) have been started. Hence, the BC Welfare Depart- `10 lakh won’t be enough to the eligibility test, admission Harshavardhan. students must secure a minimum By completing works of over 1.77 lakh ment is planning to bring aware- study abroad. card of the college in overseas The BC Corporation has spent of 75 per cent or be in a top 20 IHHLs, AP stood first in the nation in the cat- ness among students on the According to the BC Welfare and family’s financial details. over `40 crore of the targeted percentile in their 12th standard egory followed by Tamil Nadu (1.36 lakh) and scheme, by offering free coach- officials, students interested in Based on their score, they can `100 crore under the scheme examinations to take up the Telangana (83,892 lakh). ing classes for eligibility tests in pursuing higher studies over- avail scholarships from the col- funds so far. admissions through JEE. ENS Naidu unhappy LOOKING FOR A SOLUTION Finding Bhuma’s heir with slow pace of Polavaram works Suggest alternatives to auction Agri, Akshaya a tough task for TDP

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE properties, High Court tells AP, TS govts EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE TDP faces piquant situation @ Vijayawada @ Vijayawada Though it is too early for the EXPRESSING his dissatisfaction EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE The bench of Justice V Ram- doubts at the ongoing probe by AFTER the sudden demise of TDP to look for a candidate to over the slow progress of Pola- @ Hyderabad asubramanian and Justice S V the CID saying that no HC reserves Nandyal MLA Bhuma Nagi Red- field from Nandyal, it would have varam project works, Chief Min- Bhatt said this while dealing chargesheet was filed in the dy,Telugu Desam Party is facing to face the problem sooner than ister N Chandrababu Naidu di- A division bench of the Hydera- with batch petitions by Agri case since last three years. Al- a piquant situation on deciding later.One name doing the rounds rected the Irrigation Department bad High Court on Monday Gold and Akshaya Gold deposi- leging that there were some in- order on Jagan’s his successor. is Bhuma Kishore Reddy, who is officials and contractors to take asked the petitioners, manage- tors and Agents Welfare Asso- fluential persons and benamis The problem before the TDP is the son of Bhuma’s brother late immediate steps to bring the re- ments of Agri Gold and Ak- ciations and others seeking CBI behind the case, Advocate K Sra- discharge plea that there is no successor for Sekhar Reddy. The party circles quired machinery and other shaya Gold companies and And- probe into the scam and for re- van Kumar urged the high court Bhuma, as his elder daughter believe that the ticket would go equipment to the project site for hra Pradesh and Telangana covery of the depositors to adopt the procedure followed Akhila Priya is already a legisla- to the person decided by Mohan expediting the works. governments to come up with money. by the Supreme Court in Sahara EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tor from Allagadda and his other Reddy. Though Bhuma joined After knowing about the ongo- better suggestions than already As for the Agri Gold issue, the case, and also to examine the is- @ Hyderabad daughter Mounika and son Jagat the TDP after an assurance that ing works of the Polavaram taken for auction of the identi- steps taken for auction of its sue of constitution of a commit- Reddy are too young to step into he would be taken into the Cabi- project through virtual inspec- fied properties of the two scam- properties are not yielding prop- tee as was done in Satyam case. THE Hyderabad High Court on their father’s shoes. net, of late, there has been tion from his residence at Undav- hit companies. “Suggest alter- er results. It is not possible to On the other hand, senior Monday reserved its orders on The only close rela- speculation that it may alli near here on Monday, Naidu natives to auction the properties satisfy all the 32 lakh affected counsel L Ravi Chander, appear- petitions filed separately by YSR tion to Bhuma family not happen since he held a review meeting with the on a regular process without in- depositors, the bench observed. ing for Agri Gold company,said Congress president YS Jagan- is S V Mohan Reddy, won the election on officials and sought more coop- volvement of the court,’’ it told Advocate K Sravan Kumar, it was not possible for the com- mohan Reddy, ex-MLA Jogi who is representing YSRC ticket. eration among the construction the parties. appearing for pany to deposit money on a par Ramesh and other party work- Kurnool in the This is because companies for completing the Recently, the court cancelled one of the peti- with Sahara case. After hearing ers seeking to quash the crimi- Assembly. Bhuma became a de- works under the prescribed the notification issued for auc- tioner asso- the arguments, the bench of nal proceedings registered He won the elec- fector after he joined schedule. In case of the contrac- tion of properties of Akshaya ciation, ex- Justice V Ramasubramanian against them by Nandigama po- tion on YSRC ticket the TDP and Naidu is tors having any problems in exe- Gold company as there was poor p r e s s e d and Justice S V Bhatt asked the lice in Krishna district. but recently switched reportedly averse to cution of works, they should take response to it. parties concerned to come up On Feb 28 this year, Nandiga- sides and joined the take an MLA from Op- the issue to the notice of officials with better suggestions and ma police registered the case Telugu Desam Party. The challenge position party into the for resolving the same, he said p o s t e d t h e m a t t e r t o against Jaganmohan Reddy and Mohan Reddy is the Cabinet since he him- of finding a and wanted the contractors to put March 22. 14 others for allegedly assault- brother of Shobha self had attacked Tel- sincere efforts for completing the ing government servants, ob- Nagi Reddy, who rep- successor angana CM Chan- works. structing them to perform their resented Allagadda in Bhuma’s elder drashekhar Rao when While enquiring about the duties and trying to snatch post- the past. daughter Akhila he included TTDP equipment for speeding up the mortem report from the doctor She died in a road Priya is already a MLA Talasani Srinivas works, the Chief Minister ex- after the road accident at Penu- accident after contest- legislator from Yadav in his Cabinet, pressed unhappiness with the ganchiprolu mandal near Vi- ing the 2014 Assembly Allagadda after he joined the TRS. contractors for not bringing jayawada. Senior counsel C V elections and won the Bhuma badly wanted equipment such as penta con- Mohan Reddy, appearing for Ja- seat posthumously. His other daughter to become a minister,a crete batching plants, putz- gan, submitted that when it Later, Bhuma’s Mounika and son position that eluded meister 12 Cum Surge Crete, Put- came to notice of the petitioner daughter Akhila Pri- Jagat Reddy are him throughout his life zmeister Telebelt, Putzmeister that postmortem was not done ya was elected to the too young to step though he was elected Agitator, concrete trucks and wa- on the body of the driver,he told Assembly unopposed into their father’s as MLA twice and MP ter chilling plants. the collector it was not proper. in the by-election. shoes thrice. It is not always possible to clean manholes MACHINES using machines. They do not have that much reach. In the event of a sewage overflow, there NO USE is no option but to get workers to clean them.

06 VISAKHAPATNAM TUESDAY 14�03�2017 Minister tries to aid manual scavengers despite SC ban on activity

SURAKSHA P @ Bengaluru give legal sanction to something law department.” are fighting for complete eradica- with 44 types of safety devices. these rules.” ister, he should prohibit it. What that has been deemed illegal by KB Obalesh, state convenor, Sa- tion of this activity. Whether We didn’t want this clause to be Clause e states, “Any circum- if there is no ambulance, what EVEN as the police made its first the Supreme Court, and also the fai Karamchari Kaval Samiti there is insurance or ambulance added,” he noted. stance, when it is absolutely nec- will the minister do? arrests in the manual scavengers 2013 Prohibition of Employment Karnataka, said, “The preamble is irrelevant. essary to have manual sewage “Moreover, the 2013 rules al- case in the city on Monday, Social as Manual Scavengers and their of the 2013 Act says that manual “This practice should not be Rules crystal clear cleaning, after the CEO of the lo- ready specify whatever he is pro- Welfare Minister H Anjaneya Rehabilitation and Rules Act. scavenging is illegal, and the so- there at all. In any case, there’s a cal authority has permitted to do posing in a new legislation. How told Express he was planning to Anjaneya said, “In emergency cial welfare ministry is the nodal clause in the 2013 Act that says in In the gazette notification of the so after recording in writing the does one define an emergency? introduce a new legislation in the situations, if they are required to agency for prohibiting manual absolutely necessary situations, 2013 Act, Chapter II is titled Obli- specific valid reasons for allow- India is one of the most techno- State. It would allow these scav- enter manholes, we’ll bring in a scavenging, not promoting it. We people can enter a manhole but gations of Employer towards Em- ing such cleaning.” logically-advanced countries in engers to enter manholes in pres- legislation mandating the pres- ployees engaged in the cleaning Bezawada Wilson, National the world. He is giving regressive ence of police, fire department ence of the police, ambulance of sewer or septic tank. Convenor, Safai Karamchari An- proposals instead of coming up personnel, an ambulance and of- and fire department.” India is one of the most technologically-advanced countries in the Rule 3 (1) states, “No person dolan, said, “Even in case of with an action plan that prohibit world. He is giving regressive proposals instead of coming up with an ficers of civic agencies. This was Asked about legality of such a action plan that prohibit manual scavenging. shall be allowed to clean a sewer emergency, the SC judgement manual scavenging. We don’t decried by activists who claimed legislation, he added, “It’ll be for- manually with the protective says you cannot allow any human need human intervention in sew- the minister cannot attempt to mulated only after consulting the Bezawada Wilson, National Convenor, Safai Karamchari Andolan gear and safety devices under being inside a manhole. As a min- ers,” said Wilson.

I’m a permanent employee, so my salary is good, but those working on contract are paid poorly and the contractors exploit them. — Jangaiah, a sewer lineman in Hyderabad Government fails in bid to provide workers any security amidst claims

SISTLA DAKSHINA MURTHY @ Vijayawada

IT is not uncommon to see workers unclogging manholes with sticks and rods, without wearing shoes, gloves or masks in Numbers that Vijayawada. But it’s not just this city.In fact, not even a single conservancy worker in Andhra Pradesh is fully equipped with tell the story safety gear.Over 2,000 such workers go down the drains every single day in major municipal corporations like Vijayawada, Express takesalookatfactsthatshow Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Guntur, Kurnool, Anantapur, Ra- jahmundry, Kakinada, Eluru and Ongole. the plight of manual scavengers in the Though there is a ban on manual scavenging under the Pro- state of Andhra... hibition of Employment as Manual Scavengers and their Re- habilitation Act, 2013, the practice continues unabated, with official sanction in the State. Two workers died due to suffoca- tion near the civil courts complex in March last year.One had 2,000 gone down a manhole to clear it, but toxic fumes paralysed him. His colleague, in a bid to save him, got inside only to suf- Number of conservancy workers in fer the same fate. Despite the tragedy, nothing has changed. State in Vijayawada, Over the last eight years, seven workers have died, even as the Visakhapatnam, Tirupati, Guntur, Vijayawada Municipal Corporation paid no attention. Across Kurnool, Anantapur, the State, at least 25 workers have died exactly in this fashion Rajahmundry, Kakinada, Kadapa, in the past decade. Eluru and Ongole. Municipal corporations entrust the task of manual scaveng- ing to private contractors, but the latter claim it’s the duty of the civic body to equip workers. When contacted, three con- tractors refused to take questions on the issue. The workers A11,000 File picture of a sewage worker in Hyderabad | EXPRESS must be provided with face Per month wage/ D9,270 take masks, gloves, headlight and home after excluding PF,ESI and gumboots before they enter income tax. manholes. A senior official of the Un- No safety equipment like gloves, derground Drainage (UGD) masks, gumboots, oxygen, light YOU DON’T KNOW HOW wing of the Vijayawada Mu- with cap are provided nicipal Corporation, on con- dition of anonymity, admit- ted that workers do not have safety equipment, but rea- A10,000 IT FEELS TO BE ME... soned that there was “no ne- Given to bereaved family if the cessity” for the same. “These worker dies on job Like in other places in the country, manual scavengers face the same problem of neglect days, there’s no such need for conservancy workers to and humiliation. Here’s a tale of workers who descend the black hole physically enter a manhole to clear clogging, as neces- 25 NILESH VIJAYKUMAR @ Hyderabad manhole. It was quite a scary sary machines are supplied experience.” by the civic body.Sometimes, Deaths of conservancy workers SEWER lineman Devaraju’s day Most sewer linemen use no clogging cannot be cleared reported in the State in the last DREAMING starts when he sets out with a list safety gear, not even a mask or by a machine. In that case, decade OF CHANGE of complaints to attend to. These gloves. They just enter the man- we use manpower, but until No Insurance scheme available to are blocked-sewer complaints holes and clear the waste clog- then, for complaints, we pre- them Sewer lineman Srinivas from across Hyderabad. He starts ging the sewer lines, which can fer machines,” he explained, said his father was in from the Hyderabad Metropoli- range from used sanitary pads, adding that for this reason, Monthly pay delayed by two or the same ‘vocation’ but tan Water Supply and Sewerage diapers, used condoms, plastic no budgetary allocation had three months is determined that his Board (HMWSSB) office in Si- waste and human waste. been made to supply safety gear to the workers. three children will not taphalmandi at 9 am. He climbs decreased over the years, not be- No sewer line worker has heard However,the workers are not convinced. “It’s ridiculous on have to do the same job down manholes, clears the cause the HMWSSB has become of any medical check-ups by the part of the government to play havoc with our lives. The tall as his. “I don’t want clogged filth with his bare hands sensitized to the issue but mainly government. There have been no claims of the government about efficient usage of technology HEALTH INSURANCE them to do anything and goes on to the next. He does due to the fear of the backlash it surveys to find out the health im- proved wrong, as it miserably failed in providing us safety DENIED, FORCED TO which is against human six or seven a day. has to face when a worker dies in pacts on sewer line workers due gears. Despite being a life-threatening job, we’re still continu- PAY OUT OF POCKETS dignity,” he said. Apart It has been close to two decades a manhole. But the practice per- to prolonged exposure to disease- ing the profession hoping that our services will be regularised from these ‘outsourced’ since he started out in this ‘voca- sists, and the conditions of their causing environment. some day.If not, we’ll quit,” N Satish, a conservancy worker, Workers don’t have health sewer linemen, private tion’ if it can be called that. He is work have not changed. The sew- told Express. He clarified that he had never seen a machine do insurance, and are forced to pay contractors also employ today what is called an ‘out- ers contain high amounts of Limited use of machines the job. He has been working as a conservancy worker in Vi- for medical treatment out of daily wage labourers sourced’ employee engaged by methane which can kill a human jayawada for almost 10 years. their own pockets. Most suffer without any experience the Water Board, which effective- in minutes. The air-tech machines that help In many cases, conservancy workers are exposed to deadly from asthma and skin allergies. ly means he is not on its rolls but Devaraju says, “When we open in clearing blocked sewer lines viral and bacterial infections that affect the skin, eyes, limbs, of this kind of work. In Vijayawada, there are around does its shitty business. He makes the manhole cover we see the gas have helped in reducing the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems. These labourers are paid 70 conservancy workers, while `6,700 per month. bubbling up as a white floating number of times a sewer lineman “On an average, 10 to 15 conservancy workers get treatment 400-500 per day. In a Visakhapatnam has around 50. D Devaraju is among more than mass. We wait for it to escape, has to get down a manhole. everyday for various ailments at the ESI Hospital here. Most colony of daily wage 1000 sewer linemen who unclog sometimes even for an hour. We Devaraju says, “Only when the of them are provided medicines for respiratory problems, and earners called Hyderabad’s sewer lines every sometimes get water from the manholes are very deep and the some of them are referred to private hospitals for better medi- EVEN COMPENSATION Manikeshwari Nagar, day. Speaking to sewer linemen residences nearby and pour a few machine proves useless are we cal aid,” Ch Bhaskara Rao, senior physician at ESI Hospital, TOO LITTLE FOR THE residents said there are working on outsourced basis buckets into the manhole so that forced to enter the manhole.” Vijayawada, said. still some people who with HMWS and SB revealed the gas escapes. Once we are sure However, there are only 58 ma- WORK THEY CONDUCT take up the work for the some shocking facts, including that there is no more gas, we en- chines for all of Hyderabad’s four When they die while on the job, money but since the that none of them get a single day ter the manhole.” lakh manholes. An HMWSSB of- a pittance — D10,000 — is paid death of three holiday. They work all days of the Another sewer line worker, ficial said they are “expecting” Regular employees don’t enter manholes; to the bereaved family, that too dailywagers in a year. If they take leave when sick, speaking on the condition of ano- new machines to be inducted this for funeral expenses. No manhole last year, only contract employees do the dirty job. their salary is cut. nymity, says, “When I started off month. compensation is paid. A meagre people are reluctant to This despite the mandate that people in this job, there were a few times The machines are not of much compensation like D1 lakh or D2 take up the work. Getting into the manhole when I opened a manhole and the use in small lanes or when the doing regular work should be on rolls of lakh is paid to the bereaved gas just knocked me off my feet. amount of waste to be cleared is the organization and not on contract. families, only after officials are The number of times Devaraju I once felt so nauseated that I huge. The sewer lineman is the put under pressure. needs to get inside a manhole has staggered and almost fell into the only fallback then. A Ranganayakulu, AITUC state official Descent into death not changing system, even as babus paint different picture

KIRAN MURALI @Kozhikode ise of a clerical job to Naushad’s the manhole and the three even- work, not to mention construc- as the STP is yet to be commis- “Also, we’ll consider innova- wife in the Revenue Department tually died of asphyxiation. tion of manholes, in the city has sioned. Besides, only 20 per cent tive techniques available in the NEARLY 18 months after Naush- is yet to materialise. Police had submitted a come to a grinding halt, as fund- of the construction has been market to reduce manpower for ad choked to death while clean- Death came calling on Novem- chargesheet against three people ing too dried up. completed till now. such works,” KV Baburaj, corpo- ing a manhole here, his family is ber 26, 2015. Auto driver Naush- in the sewage company, which According to corporation au- The authorities also said man- ration standing committee chair- yet to come to terms with the ad, 32, and two other contract undertook the maintenance thorities, maintenance work of ual scavenging is not practised in man (health), told Express. tragedy. The mishap claimed workers gasped their last in a work. Post the tragedy, all upkeep manholes are in the backburner, the city. They also averred to be Kerala Sustainable Urban De- three lives in all — two contract manhole near Palayam in extra-cautious regarding the velopment Project (KSUDP) is the ‘safai’ workers hailing from And- Kozhikode. The latter two had safety of workers when construc- implementing agency of the STP hra Pradesh and the hapless climbed down the manhole to IIn the future, we’ll ensure the agencies undertake the work in strict tion and maintenance of STP here. “Since the 2015 accident, Naushad, who rushed to save the measure the water level in it dur- compliance to stipulated safety guidelines for workers. Also, we’ll work resumes. we’ve strictly enforced safety consider innovative techniques available in the market to reduce workers trapped in the manhole ing maintenance of a sewerage “In the future, we’ll ensure the norms for sewage companies. manpower for such works. while hundreds of citzens treatment plant (STP) without agencies undertake the work in But construction has hit a road- watched in dismay. any safety gear. Naushad, who KV Baburaj, strict compliance to stipulated block,” K Mohan, project man- The state government’s prom- had rushed to help, tripped into Corporation standing committee chairman (health) safety guidelines for workers. ager, KSUDP, clarifed. If I want to sum up my achievements as the Defence Minister,

I can say I have worked towards boosting the morale of the Manohar forces and for better procurements Parrikar ������������� 07 TUESDAY 14�03�2017 After 10 years, Punjab Congress MLAs hungry for ministries Intense lobbying underway to secure a berth in the new Cabinet led by Captain Amarinder Singh, who will be sworn in as the chief minister on March 16

HARPREET BAJWA @ Chandigarh turned-politician Navjot Singh be taken by Congress vice presi- minister, a post he held in the out- caste, regional and religious fac- purthala and Rana Gurmeet Sidhu, who joined the Congress dent Rahul Gandhi. going Parkash Singh Badal gov- Race for berths tors would have to be Singh Sodhi from Guruharsahai, NEW Congress MLAs in Punjab just 19 days before the polls after Amarinder is travelling to Del- ernment as well. accommodated. and first-time MLA Amit Vij from are lobbying hard to get into the having resigned from the BJP hi on Tuesday to meet party high Besides Badal, the others in the Among women lawmakers, The other probabilities are Pathankot. Cabinet of Captain Amarinder last year. Fifty-four-year-old Sid- command leaders, including Ra- race include Tripat Rajinder the race is between Aruna Balbir Singh Sidhu from Mohali, Besides, former MP Vijay In- Singh, which will be sworn-in on hu, a first-time MLA, is also eye- hul Gandhi. His Cabinet will be Singh Bajwa and former Olympic Chaudhary, a Hindu, and Brahm Mohindra, a Hindu leader der Singla from Sangrur, Indian March 16 here. With the party ing the post of deputy chief min- sworn in at the Raj Bhawan here hockey player Pargat Singh. Both Razia Sultana, a Muslim. from Patiala, Charanjit Singh Youth Congress president Ama- coming back to power after a gap ister, which he was apparently by Governor V P Singh Badnore are Jat Sikhs from the Majitha Former CM Rajinder Kaur Channi from Chamkaur Sahib, rinder Raja Warring from Gid- of 10 years, the GOP lawmakers promised before he joined the on Thursday. and Doaba belts of the State, Bhattal missed out on a Dr Raj Kumar Verka from Amrit- derbaha and Kuljit Nagra from are hungry. party. Manpreet Singh Badal, who too respectively. ministerial opportunity as sar, Sadhu Singh Dharamkot, all Fategarh Sahib, all Rahul Gan- Among the frontrunners for Amarinder Singh has said the joined the Congress from Akali The State can have a maximum he lost the election. Dalits. Also in the reckoning are dhi’s favourites, are in with a Cabinet berths are cricketer- decision on having a deputy will Dal last year, will be the finance of 18 ministers within which Rana Gurjit Singh from Ka- shout.

Despite tall MEN OF THE MOMENT Seven contenders for While Goa has chosen Manohar Parrikar to be its new chief minister, Manipur’s Biren Singh claims, NRIs still awaits the final verdict. A lowdown on the saffron party’s two favourite leaders fail AAP in U’khand CM’s post When it comes to choosing the Chief Minister of the hill State, Punjab Narendra Modi may have a problem of plenty. The Prime Minister Biren read the pulse of may opt for someone who is young the people in Manipur HARPREET BAJWA @ Chandigarh B C Khanduri (82) Manohar Strength: Served as CM and Union THE Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Parrikar PRASANTA MAZUMDAR @ Guwahati IBOBI’S minister. Clean image MAN could win only 20 seats in Punjab BJP in the Assembly polls despite the Weakness: Age not on his side A national-level footballer who was also the edi- FRIDAY intense campaigning in the Doa- IIT grad- tor for a vernacular daily, Manipur’s BJP chief While in the ba region — the bastion of Non turned- minister-in-waiting N Biren Singh seems to have Bhagat Singh Congress, Biren Resident Indians (NRIs). politician both the intellect and panache that the hot seat Koshiyari (74) was Ibobi’s Prior to the election results, demands. right hand man. the AAP leaders had claimed that Strength: RSS veteran. National VP One of Manipur’s first footballers to play out- To the chief the NRIs were supporting the of BJP side the State, 56-year-old Biren was a key mem- minister, he party during the elections. How- ber of the Border Security Force team that won was what Weakness: Age not on his side ever, post-elections, in Doaba re- the Durand Cup in 1981. As a left-back on the foot- Himanta Biswa gion, which has 23 constituen- ball arena and the editor of the daily Nahorolgi Sarma was to cies, AAP could only win two Thoudang, he knows the value of teamwork too, Ramesh Pokhriyal Tarun Gogoi. In seats — from Bolath and Garh- a quality that saw him through in the political Nishank (57) the Congress, shanka. Sukhpal Singh Khaira, a arena. Biren was a key second time MLA from Bolath, Strength: Played significant role in Manohar Parrikar: Biren made his debut in electoral politics in poll strategist had won the election in 2007 on a ensuring Harish Rawat’s defeat 2002 when he got elected to the Legislative As- Congress ticket. sembly from Heingang constituency on the Dem- and the The AAP, which fought the As- Weakness: Mired in land scam Going, going Goan ocratic Revolutionary Peoples Party ticket. How- trouble- sembly elections for the first ever, a year later, he defected to the ruling shooter. Every time Ibobi time, led in 33 Assembly seg- Vijay Bahuguna (70) Congress. The then chief minister Okram Ibobi ments in the State in the 2014 R ANANTHA SUBRAMANIAN @ Chennai Singh, who incidentally went on to serve for faced a Strength: Former CM who brought CLIMBING problem in the General Elections in which the THE three terms, roped in the services of Biren by party won four Lok Sabha seats. many to the BJP THERE were always hints, either from the top making him a Minister of State. But for reasons ethnically- LADDER sensitive State, This time in Doaba, its vote share Weakness: Recent defector from BJP leadership or from Manohar Gopalkrishna unknown, he fell out with Ibobi last year and re- After it was Biren also dropped by 0.5 per cent from Congress Prabhu Parrikar himself, that he did not like it signed both from the Assembly and the party. 24 per cent, which it got in the graduating to much in New Delhi, though he was the defence Later, he joined the BJP, which duly rewarded that he sought. General Elections of 2014. the BJP from minister of the country. That his time as chief him by appointing him as a spokesperson and Biren won two The diaspora wing of the par- Satpal Maharaj (65) the ranks of minister of Goa had been more closer to his co-convener of the party’s election management elections from ty had launched a campaign heart. That he yearned for Goan food which was committee. the same seat Strength: Close to Amit Shah. the RSS, ‘Chalo Punjab’, for the NRIs who not available in the national capital. Not many people in Manipur were optimistic to be inducted Spiritual leader with support from Parrikar’s extended their support for AAP, Perhaps for anyone other than Parrikar, leav- about the BJP’s poll prospects, but having spent into Ibobi’s all sections political career in the State. Despite significant began in ing Goa for a plum and high-profile position in his life in the Imphal Valley, Biren could read the Cabinet. involvement of NRIs in propa- Weakness: New entrant. Age not on earnest only in the Union Cabinet would have been a dream pulse of the people. ganda, publicity, perception- his side 1994, when he come true. Not for the IIT-Powai grad. When the building and raising funds, it became an first Modi wave swept the party to power at the turned out to be a damp squib MLA in the Centre in 2014, the savvy politician from the Biren Singh for the party. Trivendra Singh Rawat small coastal State was thought to fit the Defence (46) Goa Assembly. BJP Institute for Development and He had joined Minister’s role and he was paradropped to North Communication (IDC) director Strength: Crafted BJP victory in the BJP in Block, raising questions of Parrikar who? He Footballer- and political expert Dr Parmod Jharkhand. Close to the top brass. 1988. He duly settled in the role and even piloted a land- cum-journalist Kumar told New Indian Express, mark deal with the US by which the latter coun- Unflinching loyalty to party became the “If they (AAP) had NRI support, try’s naval personnel would get to use India’s opposition the relevant question arises that Weakness: Inexperienced, relatively bases for some R&R. But the longings for Goa leader in the why did it not translate into young never ceased. votes? Either the NRIs have no Assembly in Fast forward to 2017, Parrikar’s yearning to influence back home as nobody 1999 and went return to Goa, where he lost his wife, has come took them seriously or it was just Prakash Pant (56) on to become true. He will be back in the state as CM on Tues- the CM on a hype created by AAP.” Strength: Legislative experience and day, following the insipid showing by his replace- October 24, The party had finished second has served as speaker. Said to be ment, Laxmikant Parsekar. Maybe life has come 2000, while in the State Assembly after the consulted by BJP Parliamentary a full circle for the 61-year-old metallurgical en- continuing in Congress with 20 seats but could Board gineer. That he also received his Distinguished only get a vote share of 23.7 per the position Alumnus Award from IIT and was the first IITian cent. It was less than the Shiro- Weakness: Relatively inexperienced until 2002. to become a CM in the country may now be be- mani Akali Dal, which came side the point. For, he is now back to where he third with just 15 seats. believes he belongs. SAAI

75% of Akhilesh’s ministers blown away

LUCKNOW: The saffron tsunami Arvind Singh Gope and Abhishek Among others who could not which swept Uttar Pradesh also Misra from Ramnagar and Luc- cut ice with the electorate are KIN FIND PARTY blew away almost three-fourths know North respectively. Cabinet ministers Ravidas Me- NO BIG TIME of ministers in the Akhilesh Ya- Akhilesh’s decision to stay put hrotra (Lucknow central constit- FAVOUR dav government. with the rape-accused minister uency), Shivakant Ojha (Rani- IN U.P. Among the ministers who had Gayatri Prajapati and re-nomi- ganj), Ziyauddin Rizvi The UP polls entered electoral fray, veteran Sa- nate him from Amethi also failed (Sikanderpur), Awdhesh Prasad turned out to A youth waves majwadi Party leader and As- to find favour with the (Milkipur), Vinod Kumar alias be a litmus test a BJP flag as he sembly Speaker Mata Prasad electorate. Pandit Singh (Tarabganj), Ram- for family participates in Pandey also failed to hold ground Prajapati, considered close to murti Verma (Akbarpur), members of Holi celebrations in his traditional Itwa seat, los- SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, Shankhlal Majhi (Jalalpur), ex-CMs, with in Allahabad on ing the seat to the BJP and slip- warmed his way into the Akhilesh Ramkaran Arya (Mahadeva), the electorate Monday | PTI ping to the third spot. camp in the midst of family feud Brahmhashanker Tripathi favouring only Notable cabinet colleagues of and got the ticket despite the new (Kushinagar), Kamal Akhtar five of the eight outgoing Chief Minister Akhilesh equation denying tickets to most (Hasanpur), Riyaz Ahmed (Pilib- candidates who Yadav who lost at the hustings in- of those who were close to the hit) and Shahid Manzoor were in the fray. cluded his close confidants earlier order in the party. (Kithore). PTI

BLAME GAME ON Goa Suraksha Manch hits out at ally for ‘insult’; Congress legislators fault top brass

EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE hands with the BJP to form the GSM, which fought the recent- MoI issue, which was raised largest party in the polls. not take a decision at the right tended support to the party. Goa government are committing ly held Goa Assembly polls in al- against the BJP during the recent “I am very upset with the way time,” said Vishwajit Rane, who Also, informal talks were on AGAINST the backdrop of in- dishonesty towards their voters liance with MGP and Shiv Sena, polls, reduced its tally to 13. our party leaders handled the won from the Valpoi constituen- with three legislators of the Goa tense political manoeuvring fol- who had reduced the Manohar drew a blank. MGP, which won A group of Congress legisla- situation after the (Goa Assembly cy. He said that “gross misman- Forward Party on Saturday, be- lowing the declaration of Assem- Parrikar-led party (BJP) to a mi- three seats, supported the BJP. tors in Goa, meanwhile, were poll) results, which gave us the agement” by party leaders and fore the BJP stole a march on its bly election results in Goa, the nority,” GSM president Anand Shirodkar said though the GSM “upset” and blamed the party’s first right — as the single largest the “delay” in choosing the Con- rival after it could not muster the Goa Suraksha Manch (GSM) on Shirodkar told the media here. could not win any seat, it will top leadership for the failure to party — to form the government. gress Legislature Party (CLP) numbers to capture power. Monday hit out at the Maharash- “It is sad to see that the MGP, continue to play its role in the po- form the government in the State I feel let down at the functioning leader hurt them. Congress’ lone woman legisla- trawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) which had a pre-poll alliance litical space of the State. He said despite emerging as the single of the party leaders who could The Congress won 17 seats in tor Jeniffer Monserratte repre- saying the latter has “insulted” with us, has gone with the BJP to the demand of mother tongue as Goa, only four short of the magic senting Taleigao constituency the pre-poll alliance with it by form the government led by Par- Medium of Instruction (MoI) People wanted us to form the government and hence, they had figure to form the government. said, “People had given us the joining hands with the BJP to rikar. This is an insult to our pre- based on which the party was rejected the BJP. But we failed to give people their government Soon after the results threw up a mandate but our party leaders form the State government. poll alliance agreement,” said formed will not be withdrawn. hung assembly, Independent can- failed to respect it. It is entirely “The parties which are joining Shirodkar. Shirodkar also claimed that the Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, Congress legislator from Curtorim didate Rohan Khaunte had ex- their fault.” When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological

complex is too large, scientific Albert method in most cases fails Einstein

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OPINION INDIAN EXPRESS IS NOT AN INDUSTRY. IT IS A MISSION. A SURYA PRAKASH — Ramnath Goenka Chairman, Prasar Bharati Email: [email protected]

BJP DOES A Pundits don’t go beyond the moth-eaten script that sees everything through the prism CONGRESS IN GOA of ‘secularism’ and Hindu communalism AND MANIPUR ith the Bharatiya Janata Party becoming the principal pole in WHY THE India’s polity, it has started play- Wing the same sneaky games the MEDIA MISSED Grand Old Party once did when- ever it failed to muster the numbers at the THE ‘TSUNAMO’ hustings. How else does one describe the AMIT BANDRE BJP’s attempts at cobbling together a ma- jority after the recently concluded elec- he Bharatiya Janata Party’s al political forces are to be toler- India—and Prime Minister workers, Modi got a mind-bog- campuses in New Delhi and spectacular victory in Uttar ated and manipulated whenever Modi, who was offering the gling 250 million poor citizens West Bengal, where students, tions in Goa and Manipur? In both the Pradesh and its impressive per- necessary. The Nehruvian and youth and the aspirational to open bank accounts. supported by the Left, are heard states, though it fell short of a majority, it formance in three other states Marxist schools have permeat- classes a new India in which the The media also lost track of shouting Bharat ko Tudke, was the Congress that was the single larg- has stunned commentators and ed the media, specially the Eng- mool mantra would be equal op- the fact that Modi never played Tukde Karenge (We will break- est party in the Assembly. AT psephologists alike. The even- lish media, the academia and portunities for everyone. This the communal card in this elec- up India) has unnerved the av- When the Congress was the dominant tual outcome in this unforgetta- the bureaucracy over the last media also got it completely tion. He only spoke of develop- erage Indian. Further, he is un- party, it often tried to gang up against the ble electoral battle was nowhere seventy years and ensured that wrong when it came to demon- ment policies that would em- able to understand how leaders near what most political pun- much of the discourse is along etisation. Although the poorest brace everyone. Since the media of many national and regional BJP if it emerged as the single largest dits were churning out as con- the lines scripted by them. of the poor, who stood in long is used to a staple diet of com- parties could support Kashmiri party in a fractured mandate to form a sidered analysis or what poll- Therefore, it is fashionable to be queues for hours, backed Modi munal or caste conflict in elec- militants and others who are ‘secular’ government. That dadagiri of the sters were predicting in their Nehruvian or left-leaning. to the hilt on this, influential toral politics, it refused to be- raising secessionist slogans. non-BJP parties to keep saffron out of the pre-poll surveys and even exit Those who do not conform to sections of the media never saw lieve that the prime minister The vulgar appeasement of re- political mosaic by fair means or foul is polls. It seemed as if main- these two schools are to be treat- The media this. It also did not see that Modi was seeking votes on the most ligious minorities and the divi- stream media—both print and ed as pariahs and generally kept had through his fair implemen- secular agenda of them all— sive politics of many regional now being paid back in the same coin. also lost television—had lost the capaci- away from the upper echelons track of the tation of policies such as Ujjwa- development! In any case, the and caste-based parties has also Remember just the other day, Samajwa- ty to step back and dispassion- of the editorial departments. fact that la (providing cooking gas con- media believed that develop- become a matter of concern. di Party chief Akhilesh Yadav had indi- ately view the electoral drama Coming back to UP 2017, since Modi never nections free to women from ment is not “sexy” enough to Finally, the country is yet to cated his willingness to forge an alliance as it unfolded. the media, dominated by these played the BPL households), the Jan-Dhan garner votes! recover from the wobbly coali- One of the prime reasons for two schools, views everything Yojana and the low-premium in- There are several messages tion that Manmohan Singh with arch-rival BSP’s Mayawati to keep communal this is the deep-seated prejudice through this prism, they were surance scheme for the poor, emanating from Uttar Pradesh, headed for ten years, which en- card in this communal elements (read BJP) at bay af- and even hatred for Prime Min- unwilling to go beyond this tem- had over the last two years, qui- Uttarakhand and Manipur and feebled the country and raised election ... ter exit polls showed a hung House with ister Narendra Modi and the plate of the electoral battle be- etly entered the hearts and from Orissa and Maharastra, serious doubts about our ability the BJP predicted to emerge as the single BJP among commentators and ing a Maha Yuddh between “sec- In any case, hearths of the poor. which witnessed panchayat and to govern ourselves. Overall, af- the unwillingness to go beyond ular” forces and Hindu the media It is here that one can draw a municipal elections recently. It ter a lapse of three decades, largest party. The wheel of fortune has believed that turned a full circle, and the victim is now the moth-eaten script that sees Communalists! As the results comparison between him and is now obvious that the people there is a national mood build- everything through the prism show, they went horribly wrong development Indira Gandhi. She too caught see Modi as a decisive leader ing up in favour of a robust, the aggressor. And it is the Congress that of so-called secularism and Hin- because the people did not per- is not “sexy” the imagination of the poor and who can take tough decisions over-arching national party is now playing the victim card. du communalism. As per this ceive their so-called secular par- enough to spoke ad nauseum about ban- and re-build a strong and united headed by a strong leader who In Goa, the BJP scored 13 on 40 while the narrative—largely pushed by ties as “secular”. Nor did they garner votes! ishing poverty (Garibi Hatao), India. They are worried about can take tough decisions and Congress got 17, with BJP CM Laxmikant Nehruvians and their Marxist perceive Modi and his party as but had no plan to execute it. the fissiparous tendencies that keep the country together. The Parsekar as also a few other ministers los- friends—the Nehruvians are a bunch of Hindu communal- The comparison must end here, are growing in the country and mood is against unstable coali- the good guys in Indian politics. ists! In reality, it was a battle be- because Modi’s ability to exe- the overt and covert support tions, parties which play de- ing their seats. Yet when BJP’s Manohar The Marxists, who ride piggy- tween retrograde forces like the cute his ideas is of a different that the Congress Party and left- nominational politics and par- Parrikar met Governor Mridula Sinha to back on the Nehruvians are Congress Party, the Samajwadi level altogether. While she na- leaning elements in our polity ties like the two communist stake his claim to form the new govern- also, by association, good guys. Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj tionalised banks and squan- are lending to those who are try- parties playing the treacherous ment, along with letters of support from Those who have a nationalist Party (BSP)—who were bom- dered public money on bogus ing to weaken the unity and in- game of encouraging centrifu- the Maharashtra Gomantak Party and bent of mind are the bad guys barding the people with divi- loan melas in which the benefi- tegrity of India. The strange gal forces. And, who can fix all and those who represent region- sive, decrepit slogans of an old ciaries were often Congress developments in university this? Modi, of course! Goa Forward Party to prove his majority, she accepted it and gave him 15 days to take the floor test. While the textbook method involves inviting the single largest Albert’s Annus ‘What are we going to do if he accepts?’ party first, the Governor couldn’t have ig- ‘SUBTLE Mirabilis nored the stability factor. She preferred 1905 While Einstein’s political utterances were not usually practicable, he was far from naive, writes Pais and narrates an the single largest grouping that could pro- Einstein lived by a deep IS THE anecdote. After the death of the first Israeli president Chaim vide a stable government. Manipur too faith—a faith not capable He discovered some of of rational foundation— Weizmann, the country’s founding father David Ben Gurion appears heading that way. That’s another LORD… nature’s laws and in 1905, his that there are laws of ‘miracle year’, published six decided to offer the presidency to Einstein. Ben Gurion then déja vu moment in the making. But malicious He is Nature to be seminal papers on varied asked his personal secretary Yitzhak Navon, “What are we not,’ said a famous discovered, wrote his topics—two on special going to do if he accepts?” While Einstein was a pacifist, he physicist born on this biographer and fellow relativity, one on the new was no fan of Soviet communism even in the beginning day in 1879. What physicist Abraham Pais. determination of molecular did Albert Einstein, ‘‘Nature hides her Abraham Pais dimensions (which earned SPINNING A one of the legendary secret because of her him his doctorate), one on The essential of the being of a man of my type lies figures of the essential loftiness, but not the photoelectric effect precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not what CONTROVERSY twentieth century, by means of ruse,” Einstein (which got him a Nobel prize) he does or suffers he pitch continues to dominate the mean? once said and two on Brownian motion Albert Einstein narrative whenever teams visit In- dia for a Test series. Through differ- MAILBAG Tent degrees of spin-friendly tracks, Write to: [email protected] the hosts negate the strength of their adversaries. More often, it results in How Shakespeare The Congress and Left have lost their charisma success. However, there is a hint of mis- chief in the way the pitches have behaved The Congress and Left have lost No Modi magic in Uttar Pradesh Australian media should apologise for the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy. their charisma in the North. The If the Punjab results in the recently The Australian media has compared Pune was rated ‘poor’ by the Internation- saved my life Congress lacks capable leaders and held Assembly elections was be- Kohli with animals. This has to be al Cricket Council. They can still be ex- the unattractive ideology of the Left cause of anti-incumbency and mal- condemned. The Australian cricket have made their revival difficult. cused, for this was the first Test they were governance, BJP’s victory in Uttar board and the media should apolo- ad and traumatic experiences do have the great potential to Leaders like Lal Bahadur Shastri Pradesh could well be because of gise to the team. If they don’t, India hosting. But the script was the same in push us into the hell of depression. Sometimes we feel as if and Kamaraj rose from the grass the same reason. What is Prime should cancel the Test matches Bengaluru, one of India’s oldest Test cen- darkness is overpowering us. Even the faintest ray of hope may roots, while Rajiv Gandhi and Ra- Minister Modi’s special role in the scheduled with Australia. tres. There are speculations that the Indi- not be seen anywhere near. hul were dropped from parachutes. UP results? Why has the media then A S Gopala Krishnan, Coimbatore an team is trying to manipulate pitches, to I have often found myself in situations that seemed to be the People like Sitaram Yechury and gone bonkers over Modi in UP? Pun- B end of everything. In such situations, the more desperately I Prakash Karat live on ideologies Case of pot calling kettle black make sure that Australia does not domi- jab is no mean state. It is a bread struggled to get out, the more deeply I have been entangled. In which do not attract the masses. In basket and a very crucial border This is in reference to the report nate. But those were just speculations. one such situation, a re-reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet mi- fact, despite their negatives, Mama- state. And truth be told, the cam- Johnson calls Kohli frustrated. This Ranchi provided the slip when the pitch raculously helped me survive the traumatic experience. ta and Kejriwal are better leaders. paign there was much more reason- seems like the pot calling the kettle curator revealed things he should not When we lose someone whom we consider the most precious Dr P P Joy, Kochi able. In UP on the contrary, the BJP black. Also, as long as we have have. He said three pitches had been pre- one in our lives, we are shattered irreparably.When I had such was more interested in creating spineless BCCI, ICC and its match a personal loss, it weighed me down heavily; it nearly killed BJP scouting for allies referees and umpires, we will have pared and it was up to the captain or the new acronyms out of SCAM and me. As Hamlet says in the world-famous soliloquy in the first The BJP-led-NDA has won by huge to digest such taunts. team management to choose one. Even KASAB. scene of Act III of Hamlet, the question was “‘to be, or not to margins in Uttar Pradesh, Uttara- Dr M Balakrishnan, Bengaluru N Mahadevan, Chennai though the home team does that all over be”. Hamlet’s meaningful lines gave me the strength to struggle khand and gained foothold in Ma- Stay safe during Holi celebrations forward. See the encouraging lines of the soliloquy: “To be, or nipur. But the party has fallen short Will BJP fulfil its promises? the world, officially the pitch is to be pro- Holi revellers and others involved not to be: that is the question: / Whether it is nobler in the mind of numbers in Goa. Instead of scout- The Editorial, Uttar Pradesh: BJP vided by groundsmen and not to be chosen in wild celebrations should exercise to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or ing for allies to rule Manipur and must use mandate to end goonda raj, by the hosts. By speaking the avoidable caution in their revelry especially to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end Goa, BJP should function as a re- Dec. 13 aptly tells that the newly near water bodies so that tragic loss truth, the curator has made a tactical er- them.” sponsible opposition. Let not the elected UP government should fulfil of lives as happened in Hyderabad ror and handed the Australian media a Of all the characters of Shake- message go across that BJP has an its poll promises. Will it be safe to can be avoided. Being alive is the speare, Hamlet is the one who is a insatiable desire to form the govern- guess that the BJP government, chance to cry over something. Already HAIL HAMLET biggest celebration. busy trying to unsettle Virat Kohli, they complete philosopher. Hamlet ment by hook or crook. having captured the voters’ hearts SUKUMARAN C V will not fail them? Elizabeth Koshy, email lapped it up to spin a conspiracy theory. speaks about human greatness and H P Murali, Bengaluru Email: [email protected] at the same time reveals the incon- C R Narayanan, Cuddalore While a theory like that appears far sequential nature of human exist- BJP has adopted secularism Kejri not just a summer storm fetched, pitches have been sub-standard ence too. In the second scene of Act In the victory speech delivered at this series. Having home advantage is not II, he says: “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in rea- the BJP headquarters, the prime Although the Punjab and Goa re- new, it is even permissible. But the extent son, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express minister has rightfully spoken that sults show AAP chief Kejriwal mis- of the advantage becomes the talking and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension under the BJP, all citizens will be read the electorate, he cannot be how like a god! The beauty of the world, the paragon of ani- considered as Indians irrespective written off as a summer storm. On THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS point in case of excessive assistance for mals. And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?” of religion or caste or community. the contrary, Kejriwal must tone Chairman of the Board: Manoj Kumar Sonthalia spinners from the first day. Pune was over Once he tells the King with contempt: “We fat all creatures Though he has not used the word down populism and adopt a prag- Editor: G S Vasu in three days. Bengaluru saw four. The re- else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king secularism, his speech implies that matic approach by choosing his bat- Published by R K Jhunjhunwala on behalf action would have been completely differ- and your lean beggar is but variable service—two dishes, but BJP has adopted the principle. tle carefully to prove that he is not a of Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd., at 3rd ent had India lost the second Test. India to one table. That’s the end.” Sollin S Dharmaraja, Chennai mere flash in the pan. Floor, D. No. 45-40-44/1, Abid Nagar, Akkayapalem, The salient features that differentiate Hamlet from all other K R Srinivasan, Secunderabad Visakhapatnam - 530 016 and printed by him has seen rank turners prepared for the Shakespearean tragic heroes is that he is not sentimental at Wake-up call for oppositions at Sakshi Press, Survey No.86/10, Madhurawada odd match, not one after another in a se- all. As A C Bradley says in his Shakespearean Tragedy, “This The recently held Assembly elec- Ex-ISRO chief rightly praises NASA Village, MCV Limits, Visakhapatnam. ries, like now and against South Africa in man, the Hamlet of the play, is a heroic, terrible figure. He tions to five state Assemblies is a Locating a long-lost spacecraft of Andhra Pradesh - 530 041. Vol. 33, No. 62. 2015. Not only does it involve risk of back- would have been formidable to Othello or Macbeth. If the sen- wake-up call for the Opposition in course, is an incredible feat. The ex- RNI Reg. No. 44901/86. 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P Chidambaram Sitaram Yechury @SitaramYechury Sanjay Jha @JhaSanjay @PChidambaram_IN Are the govts being sworn-in in Goa: #BJP reduced from 21 to 13.CM A party that comes second has no Goa and Manipur really what the /6 Cabinet Ministers routed.@ TWEETS right to form the Government. BJP voters voted for? INCIndia moves up from 9 to 17.Just OF THE DAY stealing elections in Goa and Manipur #PoliticalImmorality how politically immoral can Modi get?

09 VISAKHAPATNAM TUESDAY 14�03�2017 Armyman strikes at corrupt politicians with acerbic banner I wish no corrupt politician or government official touches my body if I die while performing my duty, says lance-havaldar Ranjit Gawde in a poster in his village

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE ing my duty,” lance-havaldar ing born every day. Some of “We are the same soldiers who media. Maharashtra legislature later apologised for his remarks. @ Mumbai Ranjit Gawde has said in a post- them sell the country,some reli- have been fighting for ages. saw pandemonious scenes for a Following an uproar last Thurs- er, appealing to fellow armymen gion and some family.And then From the times of Mahabharata couple of days before BJP sup- day, Maharashtra Legislative ANGRY over certain derogatory to unite to be able to live with some of them call us rapists, to that of King Shivaji and even ported independent MLC Prashant Council Chairman Ramraje remarks made by a Maharashtra dignity. some others just shame us, some today. We shall always fight off Paricharak’s membership being Nimbalkar suspended him for 18 politician targeting Army men, Gawde, who is serving with say we are out there just to die all ills,” Gawde said in his poster suspended for 1.5 years. months and even appointed a their wives and children an In- the Indian Army unit in West and they even question our in- that bares the title— ‘who am I?’. Paricharak, a legislator from nine-member panel to probe the dian Army soldier has vented Bengal, is on a short vacation at tellect. This leads us to the ques- Gawde has urged the soldiers to Solapur, had joked — during entire issue though Paricharak public ire at politicians and bu- his village Mahalunhe in Kol- tion— why should we fight? Why come forth and unite to be able campaigning in local polls last later apologised for his indiscre- reaucrats in a video and a large hapur district. He released a should we die? We live with this to live with dignity and teach a month — that soldiers stationed tion. A committee of the upper banner in his home village on video and a banner on Saturday question in mind. Yet, we shall lesson to the—“barking dogs”. at the border distribute sweets house of the legislature too has Monday. that condemned several state- keep fighting, keep dying to pro- The video that Gawde released when their babies are born al- been formed to decided on “I wish no corrupt politician ments made by politicians tect our country from all ills,” and the photographs of the ban- though they haven’t come home whether he needs to be impris- or government official touches recently. Gawde said in the poster he ner that he has displayed at his in a year, indirectly alleging oned or his membership termi- my body if I die while perform- “One can see a new leader be- made public on Sunday. village have gone viral on social their wives are unfaithful. He nated permanently. Ranjit Gawde JNU student Muthukrishnan killed self after playing Holi on campus

EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE was tired and left for his friend’s the Marginals.” This appears to @ New Delhi/Hyderabad/Salem place in Munirka Vihar at 1.30 be a reference to the Ad-Block pm. movement at JNU wherein stu- MUTHUKRISHNAN (27), study- Muthu Krishnan’s Facebook dents and faculty have opposed ing at Jawaharlal Nehru Univer- post, dated March 10, had ended adoption of a May 2016 UGC noti- sity in New Delhi allegedly com- saying: “When equality is denied fication that changes admission mitted suicide on Monday. everything is denied. There is no norms for MPhil and PhD Following the incident, a police students. control room call was received at Dontha Prashanth from the 5.05 pm that a person had locked Father, a security guard University of Hyderabad, and himself in a room at a house in friend of Rohith, recalled Muthu Munirka Vihar, said a senior po- Muthukrishnan’s father as someone who could always be lice officer.On reaching the spot, Jeevanandam, a resident of counted on. Muthu’s supervisor police forced open the door and Saminathapuram near and professor Dr Eshwar at UoH found a young man hanging from Arisipalayam in Salem, works as a said Muthu was committed to the ceiling fan. “He had come to security guard. Apart from Dalit politics and social issues his friends’ house this afternoon Muthukrishnan, they have three and “not someone who was capa- to have food. He said he wanted to daughters. ble of killing himself”. sleep and went to a room and His parents in Salem claimed locked himself inside. Later, his that there is no chance of their friends called him out and on get- equality in M.Phil/PhD admis- son committing suicide. His fa- ting no response, they called the sions, there is no equality in viva ther Jeevanandam said Muthu police,” the officer said. Amal PP, voce, there is only denial of equal- was not a coward and he partici- JNUSU vice president told Ex- ity, denying Prof. Sukhadeo Tho- pated in various protest, while press that Muthu had participat- rat recommendation, denying studying in Hyderabad. “We sus- ed in Holi celebrations on the students protest places in Ad pect foul play in his alleged sui- campus on Monday. He said he block, denying the education of cide,” Jeevanandam said. POLL FATIGUE Urgent SC Minister of State Ramkripal Yadav pulling a rickshaw while celebrating Holi along with supporters, in Patna, on Monday | PTI Irom Sharmila to spend hearing for a month vacationing at Cong plea on Union minister rides rickshaw for Holi Parrikar as CM ANAND ST DAS @ Patna liquid colours, he came out on aide of RJD chief Lalu Prasad a bullock cart. Hundreds of Attapadi in Kerala to the street and rode a rick- Yadav for more than a decade BJP supporters were part of NEW DELHI: The Congress on HOLI celebrations by politi- shaw. He made the rickshawpull- and a half, said he is “very this rally and they chanted slo- MondaymovedtheSupremeCourt cians in Bihar took on distinct- er sit on the rickshaw and rode sure” that BJP-led NDA would gans such as “BJP government EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE to reach Attapadi at 9 am on challenging Goa Governor Mridu- ly political colours this time it himself as his supporters form the government in Bihar in Bihar the next time”. @ Palakkad Tuesday. Irom Sharmila may la Sinha’s decision to appoint BJP due to the results of the Assem- raised slogans. “This Holi is in the next Assembly polls by Senior BJP leaders including also interact with the media at leader Manohar Parrikar as the bly polls in five states. As ex- very special. This has clearly dislodging the state’s three-par- former deputy chief minister HUMAN rights activist Irom 10 am, said sources. Chief Minister of the state. pected, grand celebrations were indicated that the days of vote ty grand alliance led by JD(U) Sushil Kumar Modi, leader of Sharmila, 44, whose foray into Sharmila contested from The hurriedly filed petition late held by BJP leaders in Bihar. bank politics and winning elec- chief Nitish Kumar. Opposition in Assembly Prem electoral politics backfired af- Thoubal assembly constituency in the evening was discussed at BJP leader Ram Kripal Yadav, tions by fooling the people are Sanjiv Chaurasia, a BJP leg- Kumar and former minister ter the Manipur Assembly polls, against three-time chief minis- the residence of Chief Justice J S the Union minister of state for on the verge of ending,” said Ya- islator from Digha near Patna, Nand Kishore Yadav celebrated will reach the tribal village of ter Okram Ibobi Singh. Khehar, who agreed to give an ur- rural development, celebrated dav, MP from Pataliputra con- organised a raucous Holi cele- Holi along with a large number Attappadi near here on However,she received only 90 gent hearing on Tuesday. Holi in a unique style. After cel- stituency in Bihar. bration at his residence and of their supporters at their Tuesday. votes. In fact, there were more A special bench would be consti- ebrating with both gulal and Yadav, who had been a close then took out a rally sitting on residences. Irom, who barely leaves Ma- people who pressed the button tuted as the apex court is on Holi nipur, has chosen for NOTA on this break for a week. Attapadi for her qui- seat than those who The petition filed by Goa CLP ANNUAL TREAT et retreat after the voted for her. leader Chandrakant Kavlekar recent turn of The three-time has sought stay on the swearing- events. Chief Minister in of Parrikar as the Chief The iconic activist Okram Ibobi won Minister. Manipur teens wait to hold hands for Yaoshang will spend a month comfortable with The petition has also sought at the Shanthi Medi- 10,740 votes. Sharm- quashing of the decision of the cal Information Cen- ila’s chance of secur- governor to appoint Parrikar as AISHIK CHANDA @ Imphal grounds in every locality of Ma- chom Neelam. The dance pattern tre promoted by Uma ing a seat in the the chief minister. I continued without nipur during the five nights of consists of rhythmic foot-steps Preman in Attappa- 70-member assembly The petition, filed by advocate even water for 16 “THABAL Chongba during Ya- Holi or Yaoshang festivities. that include moving a step for- di. Vernacular jour- years yet... people now rests on Khurai, Devdutt Kamath, is likely to be ar- oshang gives us the only opportu- Young men and women hold ward, bending the knee to sway nalist Basheer Ma- need to be the other seat from gued by senior advocate Abhishek nity to hold a girl’s hands and hands and dance in a big circle the body sidewards and then tak- dala who interacted awakened. They let w h e r e s h e i s Manu Singhvi and has made the dance with her in full public around lit tube lights to the tunes ing a step back. with Irom Sharmila me down...The contesting. Centre and Goa as the parties. glare, without fear of parents or of a particular pattern for four to “Often a boy takes the girl he during the course of people let me down Irom Sharmila The Goa CLP leader has argued the society,” said 16-year-old Arib- five hours. Generally, a pattern of likes out of the cacophony of the Assembly elections, had contested the that the Congress emerged as the Irom Sharmila am Chhatrajit, with a big smile music continues for an hour with Thabal area to treat her to sweets told Express that elections under the single largest party in the polls on his face. Gender segregation is 15 minute intervals. and coffee. Phone numbers are Irom Sharmila banner of the Peo- and under the constitutional con- strict in the Meitei society of Ma- Parents are more lenient with also exchanged, with some rela- seemed depressed with the ple’s Resurgence and Justice Al- vention, the Governor was bound nipur. This is why many young curfews for their children, as tionships built during the dance election results and subse- liance (PRJA). to invite the single largest party to boys and girls— who otherwise Thabal Chongba performances getting established over a period quently expressed her desire to The Iron lady of Manipur form the government and give it would not dare express intimacy generally start at 8 pm and con- of time,” said Surjit Usham. Sev- travel to Kerala to ‘rejuvenate who has vowed to continue her the opportunity to prove majority in public—are allowed, during Devotees visit the Ibudhou Pakhangba tinue till 12 or 1 am. eral youngsters get drunk, result- herself’. fight against the draconian AF- in the floor test. the traditional dancing festivi- temple in Kangla Fort in Imphal on “I wait the entire year to dance ing in several street fights. She was immediately wel- SPA had ended her 16-year-old It said the decision of the gover- ties, to hold hands and dance with Monday | AISHIK CHANDA with the boy of my choice. I prac- An application named ‘Kum- comed and the tickets were ar- fast to enter electoral politics. nor is a blatantly unconstitutional a boy or girl of their choice in tice the steps for it,” said Thok- hei’ has been launched that helps ranged and sent to her, Madala Sharmila had announced her action and is illegal, arbitrary and front of parents and society, with- teenagers track Thabal Chongba added. decision to quit politics after violative of the basic features of out fear of rebuke. I wait the entire year to dance with the boy of my choice. I practice performances in various parts of Sharmila reached Bangalore the defeat. On the eve of count- the Constitution. Thabal Chongba literally the steps for it Imphal valley. The app can be airport by 10.30 pm on Monday. ing in Manipur, Sharmila said He added that the decision was means ‘the full moon dance’ and downloaded from Google Play As per the schedule, after an if defeated, she would try again hastily taken by the governor on Thokchom Neelam is performed on roads and Store. overnight stay, she is expected in 2019. Sunday. PTI

EXPRESS READ MUMBAI SRINAGAR KOLKATA GUN SALUTE NEW DELHI AHMEDABAD Maha min apologises over Cross-LoC bus service Dead singer’s driver All cash withdrawal TCS staffer drowns in remarks on Brahmins suspended, schools shut arrested for negligence limits go back to normal Infocity swimming pool Maharashtra Minister of State for For the second consecutive day on The driver of the vehicle, which met All limits on savings bank cash A 30-year-old employee of the Social Justice Dilip Kamble on Monday, Pakistani troops with an accident last week killing withdrawals post-demonetisation Tata Consultancy Services Monday tendered apology after breached border ceasefire and popular Bengali folk singer ended on Monday, as had been allegedly drowned in a swimming his remarks referring to Brahmins fired from automatic weapons Kalikaprasad Bhattacharya, has announced by the Reserve Bank pool at Infocity near Gandhinagar triggered a controversy. “Am I a and resorted to mortar shelling on been arrested. Arnab Rout, who was of India (RBI) last month. In a in Monday, the police said. The Brahmin to be afraid,” Kamble Indian army posts and civilian absconding since police booked him two-stage process, the weekly incident occurred when Shaishav had said at a public event at areas along the Line of Control under IPC Section 304, was arrested withdrawal limit per account had Chauhan, who used to work in the Latur on Sunday. He was (LoC) in border district of Poonch from Kasba late on Sunday night, a been raised to D50,000, from IT department of the firm in talking about the “middlemen” in Jammu and Kashmir, prompting senior police officer said. “There was D24,000, with effect from Feb 20, Gandhinagar, entered the who he alleged were ganging up authorities to suspend cross-LoC negligence on the part of the driver and all limits on ATM withdrawals swimming pool along with his against him as he had stopped bus services and close some while driving on the expressway that were slated to cease from March friends after participating in a their malpractices. “I am a schools close to the LoC. Around led to the accident. Initial probe 13. The announcement had been Holi bash organised at Infocity Dalit. Am I a Brahmin to be afraid 6.40 am, the Pakistani troops revealed that the driver was dozing Police personnel give a gun salute to the mortal remains of CRPF HC Mangesh made by RBI Deputy Governor R. Club. At least 400 persons (of middlemen),” Kamble had fired on army posts in Poonch while driving, following which the Balpande,who was killed in a Naxal attack in Sukma,during his cremation at Gandhi following the fiscal’s last attended the party when the said. sector from automatic weapons. mishap happened,” he said. Tumsar village Maharashtra on Sunday | PTI monetary policy review. incident occurred. Beijing 11 0 SNY Los Angeles 18 11 LC Colombo 30 24 TDS Melbourne 28 17 SNY 1,295 Dhaka 30 21 LR Moscow 5 2 LC GLOBAL Dubai 26 18 SNY New York 1 -8 SNY Motorcyclists were held for violating WEATHER Hong Kong 21 17 SNY Singapore 28 24 TDS LR: Light RainHR: Heavy Rain Islamabad 20 7 SNY Tokyo 14 5 LC tra�c rules in Kathmandu during Holi TDS:ThundershowerLC: Light Cloud SNY: Sunny London 12 6 LC Washington 5 -5 SNY

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WASHINGTON LONDON BEIJING HAITI BAGHDAD LONDON DAMASCUS Abrupt dismissals spark Desi mom’s seat belt HK ex-leader elected to Bus runs over at least 34 Daesh terrorists ‘trapped’ ‘Russia cyber attackers Damascus bombings ire among fed attorneys drive in son’s memory China’s top advisory body people in northern Haiti in Mosul: US envoy may target UK elections’ claimed by al-Qaeda ally Two days before Attorney General An Indian-origin mother, who lost Hong Kong’s outgoing Chief At least 34 people have been Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists are Spies at the Government A day after Levant Swords rebel Jeff Sessions ordered dozens of her 12-year-old son in a car crash in Executive Leung Chun-ying, who killed and 17 injured when a bus completely “trapped” and “the last Communications Headquarters group said it was involved in the the country’s top federal Britain nearly two years ago, has stonewalled pro-independence ploughed into a crowd outside the road out of Mosul” has been cut have called an emergency summit double bombing that killed 74 prosecutors to clean out their launched a ‘seat belt campaign’ in protests last year, was on Monday northern Haitian city of Gonaives. off, claimed a US envoy to the anti- with Britains political parties after people, al-Qaeda-linked Nusra desks, he gave those political his memory to highlight the elected as vice chairman of China’s Marie-Alta Jean Baptiste, head of IS coalition Brett McGurk Sunday in warning them that the next Front claimed responsibility for the appointees a pep talk during a importance of wearing seat belts. top political advisory body. Leung Haiti’s civil protection office said Baghdad. “Just last night, the 9th general election is vulnerable to attack on Shia pilgrims, Xinhua conference call. The seemingly Sukhi Atwal has released footage was declared elected as vice Sunday that first the bus ran over Iraqi army division, up near Badush, cyber attacks by the Russians. said Sunday. Nusra front also abrupt about-face Friday left the of the crash to show the moment chairman of the Chinese People’s two pedestrians. Then the driver cut off the last road out of Mosul,” Ciaran Martin, chief executive of claimed that the Shia Iraqis were affected US attorneys scrambling her son, Amar, was hit by a Political Consultative Conference rammed into a band of street he said. Meanwhile, Iraqi forces National Cyber Security Centre, not pilgrims to shrines in to brief the people left behind speeding taxi and flung because at the annual session of the top musicians while trying to speed have expelled IS fighters from 30% has written to party leaders Damascus but fighters supporting and say goodbye to colleagues. he was not wearing a seat belt. political advisory body. away, killing 33 others. of western Mosul. offering to strengthen firewalls. the Syrian government forces.

MCCAIN AT IT China warns Prove claim on wiretap or of trade war retract, Sen if US imposes tells Trump tariffs on goods

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A senior Republican lawmaker CHINA has warned of a trade war with the on Sunday challenged President US if the Trump administration decides to (L-R) Netherlands’ prime minister Mark Rutte; Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan; Policemen stand guard by a black wreath near the Dutch consulate in Ankara on Monday | AFP Donald Trump to prove his claim ignore WTO rulings and unilaterally imposes that his phone was tapped by tariffs on its goods. predecessor Barack Obama dur- “If any member ignores WTO rules for its ing last year’s campaign — or own interests and rejects WTO rulings on else retract the unsubstantiated trade disputes, multilateral trade mecha- allegation. Tensions rise as Europe gangs nisms would become Senator John McCain, a fre- meaningless and the Boeing’s first quent Trump critic, issued his trade wars of the 1930s demand in an interview with could even be repeat- overseas CNN. “The president has one of ed,” Sun Jiwei, a factory two choices, either retract, or to up against Turkey’s Erdogan spokesperson for the in China provide the information that the Ministry of Commerce American people deserve,” (MOFCOM) said, react- US aircraft giant McCain said. “I have no reason to The European Union asks Turkish President to stop ‘inflammatory rhetoric’ following row over ing to moves by Wash- Boeing will set up believe this is true, but I also be- Turkish FM being barred from a Rotterdam rally; defiant Ankara summons Dutch envoy again ington to ignore the its first overseas lieve that the president of the world trade body. factory in eastern United States could clear this up Sun was reacting to China aiming to in a minute,” he continued. “All ISTANBUL Germany says no find ways to calm down the sit- annual trade policy deliver 100 Boeing he has to do is pick up the phone, future ‘free pass’ for uation,” their statement added. agenda sent to Congress 737 planes a year, call the director of the CIA, the TURKEY and the Netherlands’ But Turkey’s EU Affairs Minis- Scotland plans new by the new US govern- official media director of national intelligence diplomatic feud deepened Sun- Turkish politicians ter Omer Celik responded by ment implying that reported Monday. and say, ‘OK, what happened?’ Be- day with the Turkish president warning that Ankara “should America is not bound Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Boeing and cause they certainly should know accusing the NATO ally of fas- look at its policy on preventing independence vote by World Trade Organi- Commercial whether the former president of cism and Denmark joining the chief of staff says that while migrant flows across land bor- sation decisions. The the German govt hasn’t blocked EDINBURGH: Scotland’s announcement on Aircraft the United States was wiretap- fray, decrying “rhetorical ders, although it would keep Monday that it will begin preparations for a new US policy will also Corporation of ping Trump Tower.” Obama, attacks against the campaign appearances by halting the illegal and danger- strictly enforce its trade Turkish politicians, that isn’t a new independence bid raised the spectre of China will start to through a spokesman, has denied Netherlands.” ous sea crossings as a matter of one of Brexit’s most feared consequences — the laws, which include a build a Boeing 737 Trump’s claim, which the billion- The European Union on “free pass” for the future. Many human responsibility”. “safeguard” provision end of the United Kingdom. First Minister centre by March aire-turned-politician made in a Monday warned President German municipalities Following similar moves in that allows the Wash- cancelled rallies of Turkish pols Nicola Sturgeon said she would seek the semi- series of tweets earlier this Recep Tayyip Erdogan to avoid Germany, Austria and Switzer- autonomous Scottish Parliament’s authority ington to unilaterally month. Obama’s director of na- inflammatory rhetoric as a dip- land, the Dutch had prevented impose relief “if in- next week to ask the government in London for tional intelligence James Clapper lomatic crisis between Turkey with the EU ahead of the April the plane of Turkish Foreign creasing imports are the powers to hold a referendum before Brexit also said in an interview that and the Netherlands deepened 16 referendum on constitution- Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu substantial cause of se- happens. The decision also heightened the there was no wiretap of Trump over the blocking of Turkish al change, Brussels sternly from landing and blocked Fam- rious injury to a domes- or his campaign. ministers from holding rallies warned Ankara to avoid mak- ily Minister Fatma Betul Sayan uncertainty surrounding Britain as London tic industry,” state-run But Trump has not walked to win support for plans to ing the situation worse. In ap- Kaya from holding a rally in braces for two years of tough negotiations to Global Times reported. back his allegation, and the White expand his powers. Erdogan at parent reference to Erdogan’s Rotterdam. The ministers had leave the EU — itself an unprecedented step. US President Donald House asked a congressional the weekend twice accused comments, EU foreign policy been seeking to harness the Scotland rejected independence in a 2014 Trump, who made some committee that is examining Rus- NATO ally Netherlands of act- chief Federica Mogherini and support of 400,000 people of referendum by a majority of 55% but recent tough statements Duterte lets sian interference in last year’s US ing like the Nazis, comments EU Enlargement Commission- Turkish origin in the country polls indicate support for the union. Scottish against China before Chinese ships presidential election to investi- that sparked outrage in a coun- er Johannes Hahn called on ahead of the April 16 referen- daily The Herald released Monday found that and after his election, to survey gate the wiretapping claim as try bombed and occupied by Turkey to “refrain from exces- dum on constitutional changes 52% were against breaking off from the UK. If branded Beijing as a well. House Speaker Paul Ryan German forces in World War II. sive statements and actions giving Erdogan greater powers. the EU Bill passes through in Monday’s final currency manipulator Philippines said he had nothing to comment In an escalating standoff that that risk further exacerbating Turkish FM on Monday sum- vote, without any hiccups, PM May could trigger to gain unfair advan- Philippine on the row when asked Sunday risks damaging Turkey’s al- the situation. “It is essential to moned the Dutch envoy for the Article 50 as early as Tuesday. Agencies tage from exports and President Rodrigo during a CBS interview. AFP ready deteriorating relations avoid further escalation and third day in a row. Agencies even threatened to im- Duterte said he had pose 45% tariffs on Chi- agreed to allow nese goods. China’s Chinese BETTER LATE THAN NEVER Commerce Minister surveillance ships Zhong Shan, told media into Filipino last week that China waters, and the US are interde- contradicting his ‘Carlos the Jackal’ back on trial for 1974 Paris attack pendent, and bilateral trade relations affect defence minister not just the two coun- who described PARIS thetic to the Palestinian cause. Khartoum in 1994 by elite French tries but the world. their presence as “very concerning”. Carlos, 67, a Venezuelan whose police, Carlos is already serving Ilyich Ramirez Zhong said China re- CARLOS the Jackal, the perpe- real name is Ilyich Ramirez a life sentence for the murders of ceives 26% of Boeing He also said he did trator of headline-grabbing at- Sanchez, describes himself as a two policemen killed in Paris in Sanchez, known orders, 56% of US bean not want to have a tacks in the 1970s and early 1980s, “professional revolutionary” and 1975 and that of a Lebanese as Carlos the exports and 16% of au- “fight” with China goes on trial in France Monday was dubbed “Carlos the Jackal” revolutionary. Jackal, gestures tomobile exports. Chi- for the deadly bombing of a Paris by the press when he was one of He was also found guilty of during his trial na-US trade reached $519.6 billion in 2016, shop more than 40 years ago. the world’s most wanted terror four bombings in Paris and Mar- in France for the representing 207 times that of the 1979 With attention in France now suspects. The nickname came seille in 1982 and 1983, some tar- deadly bombing amount, when diplomatic relations started, focused on the ever-present threat from a fictional terrorist in the geting trains, which killed a total of the Drugstore he said. However, the balance of trade is heav- of a jihadist attack, the trial in 1971 Frederick Forsyth novel, of 11 people and injured nearly Publicis in Paris ily tilted in favour of China as US exports Paris will reach back to a time “The Day of the Jackal”, which 150. Carlos will be judged by three more than 40 amount to about $ 100 billion. “A trade war is when Europe was repeatedly tar- was turned into a popular film. judges for the attack on the Drug- years ago | AFP not in the best interests of the two countries,” geted by ruthless groups sympa- Arrested in the Sudanese capital store Publicis. AFP Zhong had said. PTI

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Artist plunges into shark-pond Uniforms in tribute to hero are always BARCELONA: Catalan extreme artist Markus appealing braved the shark-infested waters of Barcelona TRUNG KHANH, aquarium to pay tribute to one of his heroes, VIETNAM: A extreme sports pioneer Alvaro Bultó, who died young girl two years back. Markus descended into the shark taking a selfie tank and began to paint the first of two such picture with a tributes to one of his lifelong heroes, RT said. policeman at a local Sunday Blogger goes on trial for playing market fair in Male Aussie shepherd plays mom ‘Pokemon Go’ in a church the northern to endangered cubs border district MOSCOW: A trial for the blogger who is accused of Trung Khanh, CINCINNATI: When a Malayan tigress abandoned of inciting religious hatred for playing “Pokemon province of Cao her three newborn cubs in February, zookeepers Go” in a church has begun in the Russian city of Bang | AFP here were worried until their heroic male Yekaterinburg. Investigators have charged Australian shepherd pitched in for mommy duty. Ruslan Sokolovsky with insulting the feelings of The three female cubs are among the last in the religious believers after he posted a video of him world, but Blakely, who had taken care of playing the smartphone game in a church. cheetah cubs, is happy to help, RT reported. persons have tax profiles that are not in line Profile with the cash deposits made by them mismatch 17.96 lakh during the demonetisation period

������������� 1� TUESDAY 14�03�2017 India’s largest DTH firm to begin ops from Sept 2017? Dish TV Videocon Ltd., formed by merger between Dish TV and Videocon d2h, will boast active DTH subscriber base of 27.6 million and market share of 45 per cent

JONATHAN ANANDA @ Chennai Jawahar Goel told Express that gional Tamil and Telugu chan- September was the outside mar- nels in the last one week. “There WITH approvals proceeding gin for beginning combined op- is immense potential here,” apace and no hitches foreseen in erations. “We feel July or August pointed out one official. the coming months, the roll-out is definitely doable. But we will According to Goel, who is slat- of India’s new direct-to-home begin operations by September,” ed to be the head of the combined (DTH) behemoth is slated for no he said. Sources in Videocon d2h venture, both brands will contin- later than September. Dish TV also confirmed the expected time- ue as they are, with neither nar- Crude prices hit three-month low Videocon Ltd., the result of a line for launch. rowing focus to specific markets merger between two of the larg- The combined entity will, in (urban or rural) once the new est DTH players in the Indian one shot, become the largest DTH company takes over. “There is no as US drillers ramp up production market, will create the single and media company in the coun- such demarcation in the Indian largest DTH company in the try, boasting a subscriber base of market. What this will do effec- country. more than 27.62 million (as on ny in India, surpassing Zee En- tively, is give us twice the reach in ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU nearly three month lows on to rein in production between The company, however, has al- September 2016, Dish TV and Vid- tertainment (`5,850 crore) in distribution and marketing @ New Delhi Monday. OPEC and other major oil pro- ready announced that it will keep eocon d2h had a subscriber base sales, it will boast an even more strengths,” he said. Brent crude fell nearly 7 cents ducers including Russia was the Videocon d2h and Dish TV of 15.1 million and 12.52 million impressive market share in the Earlier, during the announce- CRUDE oil continued to fall on on the day, at $51.30 a barrel, hav- agreed upon late last year. brands separate. respectively). Combined sales in DTH market at 45 per cent, al- ment of the deal, Saurabh Dhoot, Monday in the global markets, ing hit a session trough of $50.85, This marks one of the longest Confirming that the new com- financial year 2015-16 stood at most double that of its nearest executive chairman of Vd2h, had as rising inventories in the Unit- its lowest level since November falls in crude prices since the pany is expecting to begin opera- `5,920 crore. competitor -- Tata Sky (24.2 per expressed similar sentiments. ed States and revived drilling 30. WTI fell 15 cents to $48.34 a precipitous drops recorded tions by September, Dish TV While the merged company cent). It will also have more than “We are excited at how in the long activity in the country cancelled barrel. through most of early last year. chairman and managing director will be the largest media compa- a 15 per cent share in the 145-mil- term, the combination can un- out the expectations that OPEC’s The fall has been spurred by Crude prices have fallen by lion Pay TV market. lock significant value for share- attempts to restrict crude pro- more drilling by producers in more than 8 per cent since last The merged entity has set its holders, and the synergies.” Dish duction would yield results. the US, reportedly adding rigs Monday, the biggest week to We have kept a (safety) margin of September 2017 to begin eyes on the fast growing local and TV promoter Essel Group, which According to reports, both for the eighth consecutive week drop in four months. How- operations of the combined firm. But we believe a roll-out in July or hyperlocal market, according to also owns Zee Entertainment, Brent Crude (the global bench- week. ever, analysts say that they do August is definitely doable... Videocon sources. Videocon d2h will pick up an extra 5 per cent mark) and West Texas Interme- This has hit prices after the not expect the fall to continue Jawahar Goel, CMD, Dish TV alone added a bouquet of 42 re- stake in the new firm. diate (the US benchmark) hit steadying influence that a deal much further.

PROTECTIONISM POSES BIG RISK TO EXPORTS, ECONOMY, Chinese imports keep steady SAYS SUBRAMANIAN ‘E-com firms need drastic Telecom instruments continue to be some of the largest imports from the neighbouring manufacturing powerhouse, ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU with the April to December period in 2016 amounting to $8,357.3 million. @ Kochi IMPORT OF CHINESE PRODUCTS | Total imports from China (Value in $ millions) CHIEF Economic Adviser changes in HR strategy’ Arvind Subramanian on Mon- 2015-16- 61,706.83 day said that if the Western economies become more pro- 2016-17 (April to Dec)- 45,629.11 SHRUTHI H M @ Bengaluru tectionist, it can have a “big impact” on the domestic E-COMMERCE firms in the country, already fac- Low-skill IT, economy. 2120.1 ing a crisis in manpower, are facing a Human Re- Calling 2016 a watershed Bulk Drugs, Drug Intermediates 1359.0 sources management disaster. Even as the indus- year for advanced economies, 4413.7 try grapples with high attrition and huge losses, BPO jobs to he said, “... will go down in Computer Hardware, Peripherals 3114.1 forcing companies to downsize teams, experts say history as the moment when 2204.2 that the situation is unlikely to improve unless the advanced economies... ac- Consumer Electronics 1638.6 they re-strategise their HR policies. tually decided to change their Speaking to Express, industry experts say that disappear soon Electric Machinery And Equipment 2170.2 model of development and 1520.1 the inability of e-commerce companies to shake how they run economy by be- out of a proprietorship model, absence of invest- OINDRILA SARKAR @ Bengaluru Electronics Components 3514.5 coming more inward- 2812.0 ment in training talent and setting themselves looking...” unrealistic goals have brought upon challenging WITH the lull in the job market continuing 2866.6 “If the world becomes more Industrial. Machinery For Dairy etc. 2096.6 times. Over the last few months, there have been and fears of more job cuts increasing in the protectionist...it’s going to ample instances of crisis in the industry, includ- IT sector, vice-president of Robert Bosch have a big impact on the Indi- Organic Chemicals 2416.7 ing workforce downsizing in Snapdeal and high Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI) 1675.0 an economy. If the world was attrition at the executive level in Flipkart. Sri Krishnan said that it is the low-end IT to become protectionist, our Telecom Instruments 10093.4 “What we are seeing in the e-commerce space enabled services and BPO jobs that will dis- exports cannot grow at 25 per 8357.3 is the result of challenges like instability because appear in the next five years. Krishnan is cent, which means our growth 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 of evolving space, changing business models, also the head of the firm’s Artificial Intel- will suffer quite a bit,” he heavy dependence on funding, unrealistic targets ligence (AI) division in India. warned. (in $ Millions) 2015-16 2016-17 (APR-DEC) leading to unrealistic expectations etc. Investors “People’s fear of AI is new, but it is the have been lax in scrutinizing the business plan next industrial revolution. When automa- before dishing out large chunks of money. Instead tion started in the textile industry in the UK of being frugal in the initial years of business, or when the steam engine appreared, there startups offering irrational salaries to secure tal- was fear that machines would replace those ent. Planning is going to be a key essence,” said jobs. With productivity going up a 100 times, ESAF’s small Chirag Dagli, Director (Ecommerce Strategies), there was also fear as to who would con- Ecumen.in. sume those things, because people wouldn’t Prathibha S, a HR professional who has worked have jobs. But soon men reskilled them- bank targets with several e-commerce companies observed selves to work in manufacturing plants,” he that HR Policies in the e-commerce companies pointed out. “What you are seeing now is needed a radical change to accommodate diverse not mechanised job automation. This is `20K cr biz points of view. “Most of these places run on the about intelligent jobs getting automated, so idea of proprietorship. Often, there is little or no people need to get rid of their fears.” space for employees to air their opinions. This is Transactional jobs can be automated. by 2020 one of the reasons why there is huge attrition in This ‘robotic process automation’ will take the e-commerce set up. To fulfil targets, compa- over these jobs. Work like data entry, read- ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU nies hire more people than they are capable of ing an invoice etc. doesn’t need a human, @ Kochi managing. The end result is a fiasco.” unless he or she is doing more intelligent The HR function in e-commerce has been swept checks. But, these intelligent checks can THRISSUR-based Evangelical by the wave of scale and growth where very few also be automated now. Social Action Forum (ESAF) organizations give this critical anchor of busi- “It is high time people start re-skilling which is all set to commence ness sustenance its due importance. Looking at a themselves — not just the ones who are on microfinance operations on way ahead, HR needs to keep the business out- the job but also those in the education sys- March 17 targets `20,000 crore puts, like productivity and innovation at the core tem. Even a classical engineer will not have business by 2020. and should let these guide the input metrics like a job unless he knows machine learning “The bank will focus on Mi- talent and cost, according to Prasad Menon, sen- and AI topics. Pure classical software pro- cro banking, MSME financ- ior vice-president-Human Resources, Cleartrip. gramming, also called sequential program- ing, home and agriculture ming, will not survive the next 10 years,” Markets expected to ride election loans. We want to increase our Krishnan pointed out. customer base from 13 lakh New talent needs to be brought up to speed Beyond formal educational systems, the now to one crore in five years. with not just how to deliver at work but should biggest experts on Deep Learning have also be guided on the finer aspects like culture Women will be the primary their videos on YouTube now, Krishnan wave to hit record highs on Tuesday and purpose of existence of the organization target for the micro banking added, pointing out that it is only aptitude segment as we will offer pen- Prasad Menon, senior vice president-HR, Cleartrip to learn that will help job-seekers now. ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU at the opening bell on Tuesday. Nifty is up by 200 points. You can sion, insurance and recurring @ Bengaluru Nonetheless, market analysts expect a big gap at opening of deposits to them,” K Paul Tho- also point out that this rally is not more than 150 basis points in Nif- mas, founder and executive POST the BJP’s election victories expected to be a long or sustained ty tomorrow. Now, the market is director of ESAF Microfi- on Saturday, especially the man- one, but could be upset by events slowly is adhering to the fact that nance, told Express. date the party at the Centre re- in the near future considering there will be a continuation of ESAF has raised `330 crore ceived from the politically crucial global uncertainties. the BJP government’s policies by issuing commercial papers. IT firm Mphasis gets nod from state of Uttar Pradesh, the capi- Globally significant announce- post 2017. This amount will be utilised shareholders for buyback plan tal markets are expected to open ments set to come in over the “Investors expect that there for the operations of the new IT services provider Mphasis on Monday said bullish on Tuesday, following the next few days, including those will be another 7 years of politi- bank. Another round of fund- that its shareholders have approved the Holi holiday on Monday. from the US’ Donald Trump pres- cal stability and continuation of ing will take place after six The BJP’s success in the major- idency, are pushing investors to economic reforms. However, that months and the amount has proposal to buyback 1.73 crore equity shares ity of the state that went for the remain cautious. need not necessarily result in a not been finalised, he added. worth about Rs 1,103 crore. The proposal to polls is being seen as a major cat- “Already today, Sgx Singapore stay-in bull rally from now on, be- ESAF Microfinance, which buy back 1,73,70,078 equity shares at a price alyst for the markets to go for a cause of global headwinds,” said is among the ten financial not exceeding Rs 635 per share has been possible bull run. Even on Friday, V K Vijaykumar, chief invest- services firms selected by RBI Hyundai expands dealer network, approved by shareholders, the company analysts pointed out that the mar- Market high ment strategist, BNP Paribas. for setting up small finance opens new showroom in Chennai stated in the voting results on the proposal, kets were going strong in the The broad-based Nifty is al- banks, currently has a net- in a BSE filing. According to the statement, Experts say that the morning, following results of the ready at 8,934.55 points as of work of 285 branches spread Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL), the second the special resolution to buy back 1.73 crore exit polls. markets could open on March, nearing the psychological over 11 states. Of this 104 largest car manufacturer have been expanding shares representing 8.26 per cent fully paid While some anticipated the re- Tuesday at a high and high of 9,000 points and if predic- branches are in Kerala. The their network aggressively. The Korean company up capactial was approved by the requisite sults of the elections, the margin could see benchmark tions of a 150 basis points rise on bank aims to expand its total has opened a new dealership, Kun Hyundai at majority. Promoters and promoter group by which the ruling party won indexes rising by nearly 150 Tuesday comes true, will be clos- number of branches to 500 Iyyappanthangal, Kattupakkam in Chennai. “The hold 60.42 per cent share in the company, the big state has come as a sur- basis points. er to its all time high of 9,119 and appoint over 10,000 bank- new showroom will help strengthen our presence while public shareholding is at 39.58 per prise. Analysts expect a big gap points. ing correspondants by 2022. in Tamil Nadu,” said Y K Koo, MD & CE0, Hyundai. cent as in December, 2016. 11:00 pm 4:00 am 8:00 am Onthe FOOTBALL TENNIS NBA German Cup: Lotte vs Dortmund Indian Wells Masters: Day 6 Sacramento vs Orlando TUBE Live on Ten 3 Live on Sony ESPN Live on Sony Six, HD

������������� 1� TUESDAY 14�03�2017 State units hosting IPL write to BCCI for money Hit by court clamp on cash flow, nine associations staging annual T20 extravaganza seek clearance of `30 lakh per game, citing agreement

ATREYO MUKHOPADHYAY The BCCI gives the associations bai, Delhi, Pune Kolkata, Mohali, the letter from Saurashtra Crick- advent of IPL. The court stopped @ Chennai another `30 lakh per match after Rajkot and Indore are hosting et Association secretary Madhu- grants in October 2016 and the the tournament. With a court matches this time. The fee they kar Worah. maximum an association will get IT’S been about five months that clamp on BCCI funds at the mo- get is for providing ground, pitch- Addressed to Johri, the letter from the BCCI for hosting IPL the Supreme Court has stopped ment, the units are asking about es, practice facilities, galleries has been forwarded to members matches is `2.1 crore. the BCCI from releasing money to the second part. and floodlights in good condition. of the COA, BCCI CFO Santosh “Because of the weekend and its state units. Resistance to Lod- “It’s mentioned in an agree- It has been learnt that all of them Rangnekar, joint-secretary Am- holiday because of Holi, we be- ha reforms and unwillingness to ment related to IPL between the have written to Johri and the itabh Choudhary, treasurer Ani- lieve the process has got stalled. comply to orders was the reason. BCCI and state associations that court-appointed committee of rudh Chaudhry, BCCI General We expect to hear from the BCCI While that is still to be sorted out, host bodies will get `30 lakh for a administrators. Manager Ratnakar Shetty and all CEO or the administrators soon. associations hosting IPL matches match from the board, and the “There are five IPL matches to state associations. Representa- Not receiving board funds is still in the upcoming edition have same amount from the franchise be played at Saurashtra Cricket tives of a few other associations to affect us, but it will if this con- asked the BCCI for money. whose home game it is. With mon- Association Stadium (Rajkot). have also confirmed writing to Jo- tinues. Whatever we get for IPL In a meeting of the staging as- ey from BCCI stopped after the SC Please refer to our letter dated hri to this effect. will make things easier,” said a sociations in Mumbai last week, order, we want to know what hap- March 2 requesting for ensuring Used to around `8 crore as an- state unit head, who added that everybody decided to write to the pens to that part,” said an official and confirming timely payment nual grant from BCCI till 2008, the annual expenses of associations BCCI CEO Rahul Johri. Accord- of a state association hosting of `30 lakh per match, as per state associations who constitute are around `4 crore including ing to practice, the franchises pay matches. agreement between BCCI, staging the board saw incomes multiply everything. associations `30 lakh per match. Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Mum- association and franchise,” reads State units are paid for providing ground, pitches, practice facilities and floodlights to over `30 crore a year after the [email protected]

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PCB orders inquiry as man Injury-hit Oz pacer Siddle CT would decide Dhoni’s HCA official meets barges into dressing room happy to wait for chance fate, says mentor Banerjee LAHORE: The PCB has initiated an inquiry SYDNEY: Australian pacer Peter Siddle is KOLKATA: The Champions Trophy, to be into an incident involving an unidentified confident of recovering from injury and held in June, would decide the fate of striking staff over fan entering the dressing room of one of playing for the national side later this India’s most successful captain MS Dhoni, the teams before the final of the Pakistan year. “I’ve been pretty positive,” Siddle his childhood coach Keshav Banerjee Super League (PSL) earlier this month. told cricket.com.au. “I guess you always said. “If he’s successful there (Champions The incident has come as an have little setbacks with injury. It is bit Trophy), I think he would go on till the pending benefits embarrassment for PCB officials. easier to take in when you get older.” World Cup 2019,” Banerjee said.

VISHAL VIVEK @ Hyderabad Demands

THE Rajiv Gandhi International Bonus for 45 days for 2015 Stadium in Uppal is scheduled to Bonus for 45 days for 2016 host the first IPL encounter be- CoA changes tween defending champions IPL incentive for 2016 Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore on April Leave encashment for 2016 board law firm 5. With the city geared up to host India-Bangladesh Test match seven more matches, including bonus the final, excitement should be E N S @ Chennai in the air. Instead, there is de- spair as the 120-strong mainte- We will continue this till our THE court-appointed committee of administrators nance staff under the Hydera- demands are met. Some of (CoA) running BCCI has ended the board’s long- bad Cricket Association (HCA) us have worked here for standing partnership with a legal advisor firm and has been on strike in the stadi- more than a decade. After a appointed in its place another firm helping them um for three days against non- lot of thought, we decided implement Lodha recommendations. payment of salary for 45 days to go on strike. The decision was taken at a meeting of the CoA and other benefits. A striking staff member members with various other parties last month. In On a day when many Indians place of BCCI’s Advocate on Record Radha Rangas- were out celebrating Holi, 94 of wamy, around for about 15 years, comes representa- the maintenance staff, which in- of our survival.” tives of the firm Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas cludes around 15 women, braved Demands include disburse- (CAM). Advocate on Record is the one who submits the hot weather to protest. “We ment of the `25 lakh HCA got as documents to court on behalf of the plaintiff and will continue this till our de- an incentive for preparing the assists him/her/them in various matters. mands are met. Some of us have best pitches in IPL 2016. “I have Radha Rangaswamy is the sister of former India worked here for more than a dec- not been able to provide examina- women’s cricket captain Shanta Rangaswamy, who ade. After a lot of thought, we de- tion fees for my two kids. My wife recently became the first woman recipient of the cided to go on strike,” said one of has stopped talking to me,” said BCCI lifetime achievement award. “Since the CAM the ground staff. another, who has been working at team is assisting in the process of implementation Late in the evening, a senior the stadium for eight years. of reforms, it would be in the fitness of things if the HCA official met the workers. The salary ranges between same was also the Advocate on Record,” says min- “The official said the issue will be `8,000-`15,000 for the general staff utes of the CoA meeting held on February 17. dealt with. But, he could not tell and goes up to `25,000 for those in when that day would come,” an charge, sources said. When Ex- Appeal against Shetty, Sridhar electricity staffer added. press contacted HCA, a senior of- In another development, Aditya Verma, petitioner Asked about the possibility of ficial said, “We recently contacted in the cases against BCCI, has said he would file an HCA being in trouble hosting IPL BCCI about this issue. Once we appeal against BCCI General Manager Ratnakar matches due to the strike, the get a word from them, we will act. Shetty and Game Development Officer MV Sridhar staff responded in unison, “This And, it is great to know that the on March 20. “Both have served their respective is our city and we definitely want staff are eager to help us host the IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN state associations for over 10 years. The court says IPL to happen here. But, what can IPL matches,” said the official. The Indian women’s hockey players, preparing for Women’s World League Round 2, celebrate Holi in Bhopal on Monday those to have completed nine can’t hold any posi- we do? It has become a question [email protected] tion,” said Verma. Challenger series: Feeling the heat The marquee series between India and Australia has expectedly been hard-fought, and is currently tied at 1-1. Ahead of the third Test in Ranchi, a look at the players who will be under pressure...

� Virat Kohli � David Warner � Karun Nair � Shaun Marsh � Peter Handscomb After a Bradmanesque run in Test Warner is without doubt With India getting bowled out The middle-order batsman Handscomb’s average in the cricket, which saw him break a slew Australia’s most aggressive twice for totals below 150 in certainly silenced a few critics four Tests he played before of records, Kohli has hit a rough batsman in Tests. If he bats for Pune, it was hardly surprising with his battling half-century setting foot in India was 99.75. patch. Scores of 0, 12, 13 and 15 so a session, he takes the game to see Karun back in the in the first innings in He made his debut against far don’t do justice to his away from the opposition, more playing XI for the Bengaluru Bengaluru. However, the knock South Africa in Adelaide, reputation, and in the first often than not. However, Test. The Karnataka batsman is unlikely to get him a long scoring a half-century before innings in Bengaluru, he was despite his success in IPL, he had, after all, smashed a triple rope, as a couple of below-par hitting a couple of hundreds dismissed offering no shot to hasn’t cracked the code in Tests hundred in just his third Test, performances in Ranchi could against Pakistan. However, the an innocuous off-break from in India. In six games, he has and looked like the ideal once again put him under India series has come as a Nathan Lyon. He didn’t get the scored just 293 runs, at an candidate to shore up India’s pressure. When he was picked wake-up call for him, after bowling changes right, and the average of 24.41. He has already batting. However, he made just for the India tour, many scores of 22, 19, 16 and 24. Spin DRS controversy and banter fallen to R Ashwin on three 26 and 0, with his dismissal in questioned his place, and has been his undoing, with with Aussie captain Steve occasions in this series, and has the first innings, playing an scores of 16 and 0 had led to Ravindra Jadeja and Ashwin Smith have also put him either been too aggressive or aggressive shot at a crucial calls for his axe. With Usman each accounting for him twice. under pressure. He will want extremely cautious against the time, attracting criticism. He Khawaja waiting in the wings, He will need to find runs to bounce back in Ranchi. turning ball. has a point to prove. Marsh needs to be consistent. sooner rather than later.

MAN WITH THE PLAN Steering Hyderabad through choppy waters on and off field

MADHAV AGARWAL @ Hyderabad there were surprises galore as far When we started, there weren’t many expectations. When I came to ners. Be it Mohammed Siraj, Cha- feat. That means you are in the as performances by weaker teams the team, players lacked self-belief and confidence, two of the most ma Milind, Ravi Kiran or Mehedi selectors’ radar. Both deserved it. THE scoreboard read 121/7. At was concerned. Right from And- important ingredients. All boys had talent but that is not enough. We Hasan, all players credit their Siraj has pace and can bowl in the crease were BS Anirudh and hra to first-timers Chhattisgarh, addressed that, and now I can say that we can win from any situation. skipper for rise in standards. It right areas while Milind is a fast CV Milind. Hyderabad still need- to Jharkhand, who managed to was the experience that Badri- bowling all-rounder, which is a ed another 110 runs to make it to reach the semifinals for the first Subramaniam Badrinath nath brought which did a world rarity,” Badrinath added. the Ranji Trophy semifinals. time. However, Hyderabad dis- of good. Badri, as he is fondly Realising that all is not well Mumbai had their noses in front played consistency which no oth- Nadu’s star batsman Subrama- we churned out have made me called, thinks that had the boys with the Hyderabad Cricket As- with only three opposition wick- er team managed. niam Badrinath offered his serv- happy. When I came to the team, not responded to the whole trans- sociation, the veteran might not ets remaining, that too on a tricky When the tournament started, ices to the sinking ship. Along players lacked self-belief and formation process, nothing would continue with the team next year, Raipur wicket, with all-rounder not many would have given Hy- with him came Bharathi Arun. confidence, two of the most im- have been possible. “It’s great to but hopes that the mess doesn’t Abhishek Nayar bowling one of derabad a chance. The perform- The duo changed the complex- portant ingredients. All boys had hear that the team credits me and hamper the team. “It’s still early his more memorable spells in do- ances may have surprised the ion of the whole team, be it in bat- talent but that is not enough. We Arun paji for their success. We days to talk about my future. I mestic circuit. players themselves who played ting, bowling, or attitude. More addressed that, and now I can say did play our roles but the team have enjoyed my cricket here. I The Hyderabad batsmen dis- out of their skins to produce re- importantly, Badrinath gave the that we can win from any situa- showed the drive to improve.” had a shoulder to lean on, in played grit, battling it out on the sults. Seasoned pros like Hanuma team direction and helped play- tion,” Badrinath told Express. Two have found themselves in Arun paji. Hopefully the office final day, when it was least ex- Vihari and DB Ravi Teja shifted ers bring out their A game. “It’s Throughout the domestic sea- national reckoning. Siraj, with 41 will be in order soon and all prob- pected. They fell just 30 runs base to Andhra, leaving Hydera- unbelievable where we reached. son — Ranji, Syed Mushtaq and Ranji scalps, and Milind, with 35 lems will be sorted out,” Badri- short, thus ending their dream. bad in the lurch. Then something When we started, there weren’t Vijay Hazare Trophy — Hydera- and 316 runs, got India A call-ups. nath signed off. Throughout the domestic season, miraculous happened. Tamil Subramaniam Badrinath many expectations. The results bad had quite a few match-win- “Representing India A is no mean [email protected] Barney Ronay @barneyronay Broken Cricket @BrokenCricket WTA Insider @WTA_insider Stop googling Shakespeare in search of 19-yr-old Taylor Fritz gets best win of his The Pliskovas love taking playful digs at each inappropriate quotes from a play you’ve never young career, notching his first top-25 other. Q: Your sister seems to be doing better read to put in an article about Leicester City win with a win over ATP #7 Marin Cilic now… @KaPliskova: Yeah. Finally… [laughs].

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Punjab beat Railways Players’ body sparks debate over ISL draft in Santosh Trophy FPAI questions proposal, wants minimum wage cap for players; AIFF dismisses calls stating that body is not recognised NAVELIM: Punjab got the better of Railways by a 2-1 margin in a Group B final round league match of the VISHNU PRASAD @ Chennai 71st Santosh Trophy football tournament. Punjab, who led by 1-0 AS a proposed ‘merger’ between the In- at half time, scored through a brace dian Super League and I-League draws from Rajbir Singh(16th, 61st) while near, discontent was always going to Railways pulled one back through break out in Indian football. Bad blood Rajesh Soosanayakam in the 59th between the clubs, All India Football minute. The match was devoid of Federation and Football Sports Devel- any spirit as play was confined to opment Ltd — the company set up to midfield for most part of the match. run the ISL — was always in the offing. But now there is a fresh feud, with the players’ body on one side and AIFF- FSDL combo on the other. Lee matches Frost four, According to the Football Players As- Tai wins Taiwan’s first sociation of India, the issue started when they questioned the ISL’s deci- BIRMINGHAM: Malaysia’s Lee sion to re-introduce the player draft Chong Wei bagged the All-England next year. “ISL wants to introduce new Open with a trampling 21-12, 21-10 clubs, so they want the player draft win over China’s unseeded Shi Yuqi. next year. But the draft essentially cre- It was Lee’s fourth All-England ates a situation where a player has to title, which equals the achievement move to a club against his will,” says of Morten Frost, the Dane who is Cyrus Confectioner, FPAI’s general his coaching director in Kuala manager. “If the new clubs want to get Lumpur. In the women’s final, Tai the top players, they can pay them Tzu Ying became first-ever champ more.” Confectioner adds that the FPAI from Taiwan. She beat Thai had put forward a few other sugges- Ratchanok Intanon 21-16, 22-20. tions to the FSDL as well. “We were ex- erting pressure on them on a few other areas like having five foreigners and six Indian players in the starting line- up instead of vice versa. We also want- Durban stripped of 2022 ed a minimum wage cap for the players. Commonwealth Games But the FSDL deflected the pressure onto the AIFF.” LONDON: Durban was stripped of The AIFF’s reaction was to state that The Football Players Association of India (FPAI) was founded by former India captain Bhaichung Bhutia around 10 years ago to protect the interests of footballers in the country the right to host the 2022 the FPAI was not a recognised body, a Commonwealth Games on Monday statement that its secretary Kushal Das Pro, the global player’s union. But the for them to claim they don’t recognise currently headed by Renedy Singh, has because the South African There are many countries where stands by. “We don’t recognise them the players union is not recognised AIFF’s sudden U-turn over them has just days after this is rather strange.” more than 400 members. Confectioner, government couldn’t provide and it’s nothing new. There are many by the governing body. Even in left Confectioner bemused. “Just last Das again rubbished the claims. though, says that it looks after all play- financial guarantees, plus other countries where the players’ union is cricket, the Federation of month, we had an issue with an I- “We’ve never worked with them much, ers, not just members. “If the AIFF commitments made when it won not recognised by the governing body. International Cricketers League second division side called so I don’t know what they’re talking does not want to recognise us, that’s the bid had still not been met Even in cricket, the Federation of In- Assocaition is not recognised by Pride FC. We received a call from them about. They keep making these fine. Because even they know that they nearly two years later. Liverpool ternational Cricketers Associations is the ICC. saying that the players weren’t being claims.” will get into trouble if they don’t listen have already expressed interest to not recognised by the ICC.” Kushal Das, AIFF secretary paid and their hotel bills were out- Caught in the tussle though are the to us over player problems. Our next ac- host the 2022 Games if they were The FPAI countered by issuing a standing. We immediately contacted players for whom the FPAI is the sole tion will be to go to FIFPro who work no longer in Durban. statement that it does not need AIFF’s the AIFF, and they helped us sort the respite. The organisation, founded by closely with FIFA,” he says. recognition, since it is affiliated to FIF- matter out, along with the I-League. So Bhaichung Bhutia 10 years ago and [email protected] Djokovic sets Scheduling & ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP up Del Potro injury aside, Fit-again Irfan leads clash as Nadal teams looking & Federer win for victory India’s Japan hopes

KRISHNENDU BANERJEE @ Bengaluru S H A N A S @ Kochi

BENGALURU FC scripted history A race walker’s life is difficult, to put by becoming the first Indian club it simply. Away from spotlight, they to reach the AFC Cup final last slog it out early mornings and mostly year. But their journey ended in wrap up their routine before the day heartbreak as they lost narrowly to breaks. Rarely do we hear from the Iraqi club Al-Quwa Al-Jawiya in athletics world stories of bone inju- the final in Doha. The fairytale ries caused by deficiency of Vitamin journey saw new coach Albert Roca D due to inadequate exposure to sun- taking over the club’s dressing light. But, in race walking it happens room by storm. Four months later, because they mostly stay away from A F P @ Indian Wells their I-League defence is all but sunlight. over, despite creating more chanc- The enormity of the loneliness and NOVAK Djokovic launched his bid es and having more possession, self-chosen seclusion is so much that for a sixth ATP Indian Wells Mas- and they are fifth in the league. the current national record holder in ters crown with a two-set triumph But the Blues never give up, as 50 km, Sandeep Kumar, had once re- over Kyle Edmund as the stars skipper Sunil Chhetri said. And marked that “a walker would feel that shone Sunday in the California they renew their search for Asian he is the only person moving and the desert. The 46th-ranked Edmund glory against familiar opponents rest of the world appears to him as served for the second set at 5-3, but VAMOS RAMOS! Mohun Bagan, with whom they static. He feels that he is in a whole World No 2 Djokovic broke him en Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos (right) scored a late winner to help his team beat Real Betis shared spoils 72 hours ago, albeit in separate world”. Some like the idea of route to a 6-4, 7-6 (7/5) triumph. the I-League, here on Tuesday. being at peace with themselves, some 2-1 on Sunday. Consequently, Real grabbed top spot in La Liga standings | AFP His reward is a tough third- As per the newly introduced for- not quite. Neither has an alternative. round clash with former US Open mat, BFC find themselves clubbed Come this Sunday, a group of Indi- Naturally, I want to record better champion Juan Martin del Potro, with Bagan, Dhaka Abahani (Ban- an race walkers will hit the roads of timing in Nomi. The training has a 7-6 (7/5), 6-3 winner over fellow Shakespeare seeks good play gladesh) and Maziya (Maldives) in Nomi in Japan, in the Asian Race been good so far. For a good three Argentine Federico del Bonis. Group E of the AFC Cup. walking Championship. Spearhead- seasons or so, I was suffering “I think I played very well in the Under new manager Craig Shakespeare, improved Leicester look to overturn a 2-1 deficit in Going into the match, both teams ing the campaign is KT Irfan, who from injuries. This season has been injury-free for me. first set,” Djokovic said. “Second Tuesday’s last 16 second leg at home to Sevilla... find themselves in difficult situa- took not only him but the sport as well set was obviously up and down. tion with players fatigued. Both are out of the abyss of obscurity with a Irfan KT But credit to Kyle for playing some Leicester vs Sevilla Juventus vs Porto yet to have their full squads back creditable 10th place at the 2012 Lon- really aggressive tennis. | Live on Ten 2 @ 1: 15 am | Live on Ten 1 @ 1: 15 am and have an endless list of injuries. don Olympics. “He made a lot of winners in the Roca, who doesn’t believe in squad- Despite being around in the nation- said. “I am fully fit after a long time. beginning and midway through Shakespeare has reverted to the Porto face a monumental challenge to rotation, didn’t have too much time al scenario for six years, the grains of Naturally, I want to record better tim- the second. There was not much starting XI that won the title last overturn the first leg deficit away to to prepare for the game. “The uneasiness with media attention are ing in Nomi. The training has been wrong I did. I did miss some fore- season, with January signing Wilfred Juventus. The Italian giants are schedule is punishing and Tues- still visible. He is affable, but asking good so far. For a good three seasons hands. But other than that, it was Ndidi taking the place of N’Golo unbeaten at home since August 2015 day’s game will be our fourth in him to open up about the sport, his or so, I was suffering from injuries. a very solid match. Good, quality Kante, now of Chelsea. The Foxes had and extended their 17-month winning nine days. But we’ve to work tactics and his chances, it’s like trying This season has been injury-free for tennis, a good test.” a training camp in Dubai ahead of league run as Paulo Dybala scored a around circumstances and deliver. to get hold of a slithery snakehead. It me. Hope I can deliver the goods and Roger Federer and Rafael Nad- Tuesday’s return leg against Sevilla at controversial last-gasp penalty in a 2-1 I’m confident the boys will have took a bit of coercion to make him finish in a good position,” he said. al also reached the third round, the King Power Stadium. victory over AC Milan. enough for what is an important talk on his prospects in Japan. This is Apart from Irfan in the main event, Federer flying through with a 6-2, game for us,” the Spaniard said. the second competition the 27-year-old three other walkers, who finished af- 6-1 victory over France’s Stephane First leg: Sevilla 2-1 Leicester First leg: Porto 0-2 Juventus Bagan coach Sanjoy Sen, who is taking part in after the 2014 Incheon ter him in the National Champion- Robert in just 51 minutes. earlier denied prioritising the con- Asian Games, where he came fifth. ship, will participate in the open cat- Nadal opened his account with a Sevilla are aiming to Juventus are looking to enter tinental event over the I-League, Last year in Nomi, he stopped midway egory. In the women’s 20 km, Priyanka steady 6-3, 6-2 victory over Argen- reach last-eight for first 1958 10 last-eight for the tenth time, said his side will look for a win. due to an injury. Goswamy will represent the country. tina’s Guido Pella. time since 1958. third in last seven attempts. 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BANKING ON HOCKEY In search of national opportunities, Jagdeep still looking towards the light

R AV I I Y E R @ Chennai rently playing in the Indian Bank progress. “I got a glute injury them as an employee. They have It’s all about putting in my best state-level invitation hockey tour- midway through the nationals in been calling me for a while now efforts whenever I get one field, THE goalkeeping stock in India nament here, he was one of the 2014. That hampered my progress, to play with their squad but I no matter which event I’m play- has never been higher. In the best young goalkeepers at the both as a keeper and in terms couldn’t make it for some reason ing in. The likes of Sreejesh and hockey national squad, there is beginning of this decade of making the leap into the or the other. This time, I was free Dahiya are doing a good job right PR Sreejesh, goalie extraordi- and backed that up with senior set-up. But the last and made sure to come here and now, and it won’t be easy displac- naire and captain. The able Vikas some brilliant perform- two years have been play with these boys. But in terms ing the at all. But one can be al- Dahiya, his deputy, has done well ances, especially at the good, and though I of a job, I’m still looking. I haven’t lowed to dream. as No 1 keeper of the junior South Zone senior haven’t had much tan- gotten anything yet but, hopeful- “I was also close to making it squad. Then there is Krishan B men’s championship, gible success, I feel my ly, something will come up soon, in the HIL. I did figure in the 2014 Pathak, the second custodian in where his displays keeping is coming along and preferably in hockey.” auction but did not get picked,” the victorious Junior World Cup helped Karnataka win well,” Jagdeep told Ex- The Kolar Gold Fields native he concluded. campaign last December. The cof- and make the then IHF sen- press on Monday. still harbours hopes of playing [email protected] fers are full and getting past one ior national championship. The 26-year-old revealed he for India one day and also in the Results: IOB 8-5 Loyola College; Indian Bank of these guys is no easy feat. He even made the 2013 Junior was playing for Indian Bank on Hockey India League. “Of course, 1-0 Chennai City Police. And Jagdeep Dayal is one of Men’s World Cup squad as a invitation and is still looking for V Raja of Indian Bank (C) in action against Chennai City Police during the Indian that is the final aim and hopefully Tuesday’ fixtures: SAI vs Central Excise (2 those attempting to do so. Cur- standby but injury hampered his employment. “I’m not playing for Bank Trophy invitational state-level tournament on Monday | D SAMPATHKUMAR I can get fulfil that ambition soon. pm); Southern Railways vs ICF (4 pm). The google doodle On August 30, 1998, the first doodle was made. Since then, the search engine changes the logo on its home page to celebrate holidays and festivals and also anniversaries of famous people and events.

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High and Happy FILE Flying colours! Associated with Lord Shiva, bhang has become the official Holi drink. The festival of Holi celebrates the beginning of spring. Express gives you a brief on the origin and significance of the celebration... They are prepared from leaves and buds of cannabis. It helps escalate the spirit of the festival. Used as RED an intoxicant in India around 1000 Source of YELLOW BC, it soon became a part of Hindu energy and Optimism and culture. LIGHT BLUE security the colour of turmeric The colour of Krishna GREEN GULAL A symbol of Love and prosperity compassion

ne of them tells oli also celebrates the legend of Radha and elebrating the n South India, it is Ous about how HKrishna. Krishna whose skin was blue used Cdeath of Ogress Icelebrated to mark the Lord Vishnu saved gulal — the main colour thrown during the Pootana who tried to sacrifice of the Lord of Prahlada from a pyre festival — as he worried that he wouldn’t be kill a baby Krishna by Passion — Kaamadeva, where Holika, accepted by his lady love. He mischievously feeding poisonous who risked his life to save Prahlada’s aunt, was applied them on Radha and other gopis to milk to him is another Lord Shiva from meditation burning. make them look like him. reason. and save the world.

Some special Gujiya Malpua Mathri Puran Poli Dahi Vada dishes

Fun fact Historically, gulal was made of turmeric, paste and colour extracts. Today, people use various synthetic versions. Scientists race to prevent wipeout of coral reefs According to University of Victoria researchers, underwater rainforests in Maldives are fading away due to stress of rising ocean temperatures

GONE TOO SOON catastrophe. The world has lost something that’s going to happen Without drastic intervention, for one in four marine species. Change Institute at University of roughly half its coral reefs in the 100 years from now. We’re losing we risk losing them all. “To lose Reefs also form crucial barriers Queensland. MALDIVES: There were star- last 30 years. Scientists are now them right now,” said marine bi- coral reefs is to fundamentally protecting coastlines from the “This is not just some distant tling colours here just a year ago, scrambling to ensure that at least ologist Julia Baum of Canada’s undermine the health of a very full force of storms. dive destination, a holiday desti- a dazzling array of life beneath a fraction of these unique ecosys- University of Victoria. “We’re large proportion of the human They provide billions of dol- nation. This is the fabric of the the waves. Now this Maldivian tems survives beyond the next losing them really quickly, much race,” said Ruth Gates, director lars in revenue and are used in ecosystem that supports us.” And reef is dead, killed by the stress three decades. more quickly than I think any of of the Hawaii Institute of Marine medical research for cures to dis- that fabric is being torn apart. of rising ocean temperatures. The health of the planet de- us ever could have imagined.” Biology. Coral reefs produce some eases. “Whether you’re living in “You couldn’t be more dumb ... to What’s left is a haunting expanse pends on it: Coral reefs support a Even if the world could halt glo- of the oxygen we breathe. Often North America or Europe or Aus- erode the very thing that life de- of gray, a scene repeated in reefs quarter of all marine species, as bal warming now, scientists still described as underwater rainfor- tralia, you should be concerned,” pends on the ecosystem and hope across the globe in what has fast well as half a billion people expect that more than 90 per cent ests, they populate a tiny fraction said biologist Ove Hoegh-Guld- that you’ll get away with it,” become a full-blown ecological around the world. “This isn’t of corals will die by 2050. of the ocean but provide habitats berg, director of the Global Hoegh-Guldberg said.

Flipping happy: Coin swallowing turtle from Thailand on the mend

FIT AND FINE

BANGKOK: A sea turtle dubbed ‘Piggy Bank’ for swallowing nearly 1,000 coins took swimming lessons Monday as she em- barked on a rehabilitation programme following the removal of the treasure trove by Thai surgeons. The hapless reptile underwent a seven hour operation in Bangkok last week to remove five kilogrammes (11 pounds) of coins from her diges- tive tract — good luck pennies thrown into the pool she swam in. The story of her plight and successful operation went viral, with headlines around the world. On Monday the 25-year-old turtle, called ‘Omsin’ (Piggy Bank), paddled around a small pool with relative ease. Nantarika Chansue, a vet in charge of Chulalongkorn hospital’s aquatic research centre, said she was overjoyed by just how much movement Omsin had gained in her flippers since the operation. “Before this she didn’t use her left side at all, because every time she moved it probably made it painful,” she said. “Look at her now, she’s fully using all the limbs very effectively.” The troubled reptile lived for two decades in a small public park in Chonburi Province. Visitors tossed coins into her TOO BIG FOR ME! pond seeking to ‘make merit’. Nantarika said media reports have had the added bonus of making Thais think twice about Pedestrians walk by giant pink sunglasses, a sculpture known as ‘Sea Pink II’ by Marc Moser, at the Baltic Sea town of Zingst in Germany | PTI throwing coins into ponds. “Because of this, all the ponds that I know they are cleaning up their ponds, pulling out all the coins, putting signs up that there is no throwing coins.” Antibiotic-free meat gets foothold in America

HEALTHY DIET nies limiting pharmaceuticals the Natural Resources Defense to what extent it’s a fad or a long- that scientists believe increases Council (NRDC). Still, the term trend remains to be seen,” NEW YORK: Facing pressure drug-resistance for treating breadth of the movement should said Zain Akbari, a food industry from environmentalists and pneumonia, infections and other not be overstated. analyst at Morningstar. shareholder activists, major US illnesses in humans. While an estimated 40 to 50 Experts in animal farm sci- food companies and restaurant The wave started in 2014 with percent of US chicken now is ence say US farmers for decades chains are moving to limit anti- Perdue Chicken and chicken- antibiotic-free, the percentage is routinely employed antibiotics biotics in farm animals raised based fast-food chain Chick-fil-A, far lower for pork and beef. More- as a means to speed growth rates for meat. Last month, Tyson followed by McDonald’s, Wal- over, several leading companies for animals, and to prevent dis- Foods announced a “no antibiot- Mart Stores, Pilgrim’s Pride and have resisted action. Kentucky ease outbreaks on farms where ics ever” pledge for all Tyson- others. The announcements vary Fried Chicken, part of Yum animals are frequently packed in branded chicken products, build- in scope, with some companies, 2016 United Nations General As- Brands, currently scores an “F” close quarters. But an April 2014 ing on an earlier promise to for example, still permitting use sembly resolution that pledged on an NRDC scorecard on antibi- World Health Organization re- restrict drug use on broiler of ionophores, antibiotics not coordinated action to address otics policy, while Sanderson port warned of the potential for chickens. used in human medicine. overuse. “We’re seeing a cry Farms, a leading US chicken pro- a “post-antibiotic era” in which Analysts see the latest Tyson The shift follows warnings from consumers for meat that’s ducer, has lampooned the trend. “common infections and minor announcement as further evi- about antibiotic resistance from responsibly raised,” said Lena “There’s certainly strong and injuries can kill” as drugs be- Doctors at Chulalongkorn hospital examine ‘Piggy Bank’ | AFP dence of a trend of large compa- health officials and a September Brook, a food policy advocate for growing demand for it today, but come ineffective.

G L O R B U E S T R T O H T R T E E A R T SVI Pre-installed malware stealing data from mobiles

JERUSALEM: Israel-based cyber apps were not part of the official The malicious applications Encryption Standard (AES) en- cious goal,” the cyber security security firm Check Point has de- ROM supplied by the vendor, and were not part of the official cryption algorithm to encrypt all firm said. Pre-installed malwares tected a malware that is not were added somewhere along the read-only memory (ROM) files on the device and demand steal data from the devices and downloaded due to users’ use but supply chain,” the company said. supplied by the vendor, and ransom in return for their de- are installed to system, taking is already present in Android de- The malware added to the de- were added somewhere cryption key. full control of the device. The cy- vice. According to a company vices’ ROM could not be removed along the supply chain. “The most notable rough adnet ber security firm suggested users blog post last week, the pre-in- by the users, therefore, the devic- which targeted the devices is the to protect themselves from regu- Check Point, Israel-based cyber stalled malware was detected in es had to be re-flashed. The re- Loki Malware. This complex mal- lar and pre-installed malware by security firm 38 Android devices, belonging to search team at Check Point found ware operates by using several implementing advanced security a large telecommunications com- that one of the pre-installed mal- different components; each has measures capable of identifying pany and a multinational tech- wares was Slocker, a mobile ran- its own functionality and role in and blocking any abnormality in nology company. “The malicious somware, that uses the Advanced Pre-installed malware was detected in 38 Android devices achieving the malware’s mali- the device’s behaviour.