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• • BRIEFLY SC rejects plea to put of ‘69% of political funds Centre seeks to withdraw from unknown sources’ BCCI panel appointment NEW DELHI: The total income of national and regional political Centre and some parties between 2004-05 and its jallikattu notification State cricket bodies 2014-15 stood at ₨11,367 crore, with the highest of ₨3,982 crore can suggest names being the Congress’s share. Informs SC that it However, 69% of the income of LEGAL CORRESPONDENT these parties was from will move an unknown sources, according to NEW DELHI: Attorney General an analysis done by the application in Mukul Rohatgi on Tuesday Association for Democratic view of T.N. Bill asked a three-judge Bench, Reforms. The income of national led by Justice Dipak Misra, to parties from unknown sources KRISHNADAS RAJAGOPAL freeze the process for ap- increased by 313%; for regional pointment of a Committee of parties, it went up by 652%. NEW DELHI: The Centre on Administrators to run the ½ NEWS | PAGE 12 Tuesday informed the Su- BCCI, by at least two weeks. preme Court that it will Mr. Rohatgi said the gov- move an application with- ernment was considering le- drawing the January 7, 2016 gislation or executive action central notification allowing to arm the various sports as- jallikattu in the wake of the sociations with ‘some fect sports administration but “downgraded” to associ- Bill passed unanimously by autonomy’ against external internationally. ate memberships by the the Tamil Nadu Assembly. interventions. “If these interventions are Lodha panel reforms. The court refused to keep made into the afairs of Mr. Rohatgi referred to the Statement spurred in abeyance the process. It, private bodies, tomorrow 2005 Zee Telefilms SC ver- Attorney General Mukul however, allowed the Centre private bodies dealing with dict which had held that the Rohatgi’s statement for the and some State cricket asso- art, films, etc., will be af- BCCI was not a ‘State’ under Centre was spurred by a NO ENTRY: The Marina beach in Chennai wears a deserted look on Tuesday as the police ciations to suggest names for fected. There will be interna- Article 12 of the Constitu- IIMs can soon grant mentioning made by a law- kept away the public. — PHOTO: V. GANESAN the committee before Janu- tional ramifications. This tion, but only a private body. degrees and Ph.Ds yer as soon as a three-judge ary 30, the next date of hear- case has far-reaching con- “But you are also not exactly Special Bench sat for a ing. sequences,” Mr. Rohatgi cau- sure what impact your legis- NEW DELHI: The Indian Institutes scheduled hearing in the Marina out of bounds; demand for Mr. Rohatgi said sweeping tioned. lation would have in the in- of Management (IIMs) will soon BCCI-Lodha Committee and drastic changes within He is appearing for the ternational arena, are you?” be able to grant degrees and spat case. sports bodies, as proposed Railways, the Armed Forces the Bench asked the govern- Ph.D to their students, instead Justice Dipak Misra, who action against police grows louder by the Lodha Committee in and the Association of In- ment in turn. of Post Graduate Diplomas and heads both the Jallikattu BCCI’s case, would not only dian Varsities. All three were Fellow Programmes in Bench and the Special Bench R. SIVARAMAN nally, it left, late in the night. have a national impact but af- full members of the BCCI, ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Management, as the Union in the BCCI case, told Mr. NHRC issues notice Cabinet on Tuesday cleared the Rohatgi that such an applica- CHENNAI: A day after the sands to Tamil Nadu ‘Shift police chief’ IIM Bill 2017. The 20 IIMs will tion of the government, if of the Marina turned into a Leader of the Opposition Trump dials Modi also be declared Institutions of filed, would be considered war zone overshadowing NEW DELHI: Taking suo M.K. Stalin sought the shift- HC stalls U.P. govt.’s National Importance. The by the Jallikattu Bench in due memories of the week-long motu cognisance of ing of Chennai Police Com- as new regime much-awaited Bill is expected course. peaceful jallikattu protests, media reports, the missioner S. George for the to be introduced in Parliament On the Jallikattu Bench, the beach remained out of National Human Rights violence and a judicial in- assumes oice bid to widen SC list in the budget session. Justice Rohinton Nariman bounds for the public. The Commission on Tuesday quiry, while PMK leader An- ½ NATION | PAGE 9 accompanies Justice Misra. rest of the capital city, how- issued notice to the bumani Ramadoss deman- “We [Justice Misra and ever, went back to normal Tamil Nadu authorities ded a CBI probe. VARGHESE K. GEORGE OMAR RASHID Justice Nariman] will sit in mode on Tuesday. on the alleged police ‘Missing’ Kerala leader combination and decide excesses on jallikattu Probe by retired judge WASHINGTON: President Donald LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High traced in Delhi what to do,” Justice Misra, Police on guard protesters. PAGE 8 The three-party People’s Trump spoke to Prime Min- Court on Tuesday stalled the flanked by Justices A.M. A heavy police posse Welfare Front instituted a ister Narendra Modi on Samajwadi Party-led Uttar KOLKATA: The national general Khanwilkar and D.Y. stood guard on Kamarajar fact-finding team headed by Tuesday afternoon, the Pradesh government’s de- secretary of the Communist Chandrachud for the BCCI Salai and all roads leading to overnight at the beach re- retired judge Justice Hari White House said. Press sec- cision to include 17 most Party of India Marxist-Leninist hearing, told Mr. Rohatgi. the beach were heavily barri- fused to leave unless it was Paranthaman to ascertain retary Sean Spicer said a backward castes (MBCs) in (CPI-ML [Red Star]), K.N. caded even as a group of over shown proof of the President what led to the violence. readout on the call would be the Scheduled Castes list, a ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Ramachandran, who was 300 pro-jallikattu agitators granting assent to the Bill provided later in the month after the State Cab- reported “missing” since ½ THE END OF A PROTEST squatted on the sands. The amending the Prevention of ½ LAST OF PROTESTERS afternoon. inet passed the proposal. Sunday evening in Kolkata, was | EDITORIAL group that had remained Cruelty to Animals Act. Fi- LEAVE MARINA | PAGE 8 Mr. Modi is the fifth world A Division Bench of Chief traced in Delhi on Tuesday. He leader President Trump has Justice D. B. Bhosle and Akhilesh Yadav claimed that he was “abducted” spoken with after he as- Justice Yaswant Verma dir- by six men claiming to be from sumed oice on Friday. Ca- ected the State not to issue sue of including the 17 most the “Central intelligence.” nadian Prime Minister Justin SC certificates to the 17 backward castes (MBCs) of ½ SOUTH | PAGE 8 JNU Proctor quits, second in one year Trudeau, Mexican President castes. the State in the Scheduled Pena Nieto, Prime Minister The court passed the or- Castes list. La La Land bags 14 JAIDEEP DEO BHANJ He had recently sent the students of “violence,” all when the V-C, “violating all Benjamin Netanyahu of Is- der on a PIL petition filed by While this was not the first disciplinary notices to stu- procedures, was slapping rael and Egyptian President a Gorakhpur-based organisa- such move by the SP, it was Oscar nominations NEW DELHI: Jawaharlal Nehru show-cause notices dents and faculty members baseless charges against stu- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi were the tion, Dr Ambedkar viewed with suspicion by op- LOS ANGELES: The candy- University Chief Proctor A.P to nine activists of have been issued by the Re- dents and teachers.” first four. Granthalaya Evam Jan position parties given that Dimri, who conducted the gistrar and not by the On November 9, Mr. Modi Kalyan Samiti, arguing that elections are near. The 17 coloured love letter to musicals the ABVP for using Second resignation La La Land on Tuesday landed a inquiry into the disappear- Proctor. was the fifth world leader to issuing the SC certificate castes are Mallah, Kashyap, ance of Najeeb Ahmed, has “derogatory” language Mr. Dimri is the second speak to Mr. Trump after the would allow candidates from Kumhar, Dheemar, Bind, record-tying 14 nominations to ‘Moral victory’ the Academy Awards, which resigned allegedly due to Proctor to resign since the latter won the election. these castes to contest elec- Prajapati, Dheevar, Bhar, Ke- fielded a notably more diverse “long standing diferences” Recently, Mr Dimri had Reacting to the resigna- current V-C took over in British Prime Minister tions from reserved seats. wat, Batham, Kahar, Mach- field of nominees following two with the university sent show-cause notices to tion, students said it was a January 2016. Theresa May will be the first The State has also been hua Rajbhar, Nishad, Turha, straight years of administration. nine activists of the ABVP “moral victory” for the stu- His predecessor resigned foreign leader to visit the U.S asked to file a counter-ai- Manjhi and Gaur. ‘OscarsSoWhite’ backlash. La La Mr Dimri did not give any for using “derogatory” lan- dents and teachers who have while handling the investiga- under the new presidency, davit in two weeks. Land matched Titanic and All reason for stepping down. guage on October 15, the been protesting against the tion into the February 9 in- on Friday. Advocate-General Vijay Mayawati condemns About Eve for most nominations University Vice Chancellor night before Najeeb went handling of the Najeeb incid- cident, sighting personal Addressing an event or- Bahadur Singh, appearing on BSP chief Mayawati had ever, earning nods for best M. Jagadesh Kumar appoin- missing from the campus. ent, the conduct of the 142nd reasons. ganised by the Republican behalf of the State govern- termed the State’s recom- ted Vibha Tandon, Professor Academic Council Meeting, Former JNUSU vice pres- Hindu Coalition in October, ment, submitted that the mendations a “failed at- picture, stars Emma Stone and Final report Ryan Gosling, its jazz-infused in the special centre of Mo- the suspension of the nine ident Shehla Rashid said the Mr. Trump had said he State had sent the recom- tempt” to “mislead people” songs and its 32-year-old lecular Medicine, as the new However, the final report students for protesting out- V-C must answer why two “looked forward to working mendation of including the right before the polls. writer-director, Damien Chief Proctor. released by the university side the meeting venue and proctors have quit in one with Prime Minister Naren- 17 castes in the SC list for ap- The inclusion of these 17 Chazelle. nearly a month later termed the notices to the faculty year. dra Modi,” whom he de- proval to the Centre. No castes into the Scheduled Cases of indiscipline the incident a “scule” and threatening salary cut and The students also said scribed as “very energetic in fresh caste certificates had, Caste list has been a conten- ½ WORLD | PAGE 14 The Proctor’s oice deals recommended hostel trans- disciplinary measures for JNU was being run under the reforming India’s bureau- however, been issued in the tious issue since 2005, when with all cases of indiscipline fer of the students. participating in the strike. “dictatorship” of the V-C cracy.” meanwhile, he said. Mr. Mulayam Singh first ini- on the campus and conducts University oicials said JNUSU member Satarupa “who is showing extreme “Great man. I applaud him Chief Minister Akhilesh tiated the move. EMPOWER internal investigation into ever since Mr Dimri sent the Chakraborty said the resig- disrespect towards his for doing so.” Mr. Trump had Yadav last month had re- Pages 17 & 18 such cases. show-cause notice, accusing nation has come at a time colleagues.” said. opened the contentious is- ½ CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 2 LeT militants killed in Kashmir Metro trains every 90 seconds in Phase III: DMRC chief PEERZADA ASHIQ SIDHARTHA ROY Heritage Corridor, “It is almost ready but SRINAGAR: Two Lashkar-e- needs fire clearance and Taiba (LeT) men plotting at- NEW DELHI: When the Delhi which will link ITO clearance from the Com- tacks on Republic Day in the Metro opens its new and Kashmere Gate missioner for Metro Rail Valley were killed in central Magenta and Pink Lines this metro stations, Safety. It is a sensitive issue Kashmir’s Ganderbal district year, commuters can expect as other agencies are in- on Tuesday. to get a train every 90 unlikely to open volved, it is not in our Colonel Sandeep Sirohi, seconds. before Holi hands,” he said. Commanding Oicer, said In an interaction with The The DMRC chief said that on a tip-of, security Hindu editorial team in New in these lines have a longer Phase III was a huge chal- agencies launched an opera- Delhi on Tuesday, Delhi trial period, Mr. Singh said. lenge, partly because Indian tion on Monday in the Ha- Metro Rail Corporation Man- contractors involved in the doora area. aging Director Mangu Singh No hurry project lacked capability, “Two hiding LeT milit- said the reduced interval “We are not in a hurry to but the entire planning was ants, both from Pakistan, between trains could be ex- open half done stations,” Mr. done without any help of were killed. There was no ci- Soldiers stand guard during a gunfight with militants at pected in the upcoming Shiv Singh said, referring to Phase foreign experts. vilian casualty or damage to Bakura on the outskirts of Srinagar on Tuesday. — PHOTO: PTI Vihar-Majlis Park and Jana- II when many stations were The technology used was property,” said Col. Sirohi. kpuri West-Botanical Garden DMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh during an interaction opened to the public even be- also largely indigenous. Active in the Valley since the militants were transport- of a civilian, Abdul Ahad Dar, corridors of Phase III. at The Hindu office in New Delhi. - PHOTO: V. V. KRISHNAN fore all the work was He said most metro January 2013, the militants, ing newly infiltrated groups in 2015. At present, the minimum completed. coaches were not only being identified as Qari Hanzullah and managing safe places Meanwhile, the Army interval between two metro forms at metro stations are He said with conventional Speaking about the much- manufactured in India but and Anas Bilal, opened fire at and hideouts for them. foiled an infiltration bid in trains during peak hours is designed to accommodate signalling systems, an inter- delayed and much-awaited were also being exported. the search party. Both the ul- Two AK-47 riles, one the Pir Panchal’s Rajouri dis- two minutes and 15 seconds. only that many coaches, the val of two minutes to two- ‘Heritage Corridor’, which “The manufacturers are ex- tras were in touch with the grenade, six magazines and trict and killed an infiltrator. frequency of trains would and-a-half minutes is normal. will link ITO and Kashmere porting these coaches to Hizbul Mujahideen for co- 180 rounds were recovered at An Army spokesman said ‘Driverless’ trains definitely improve in Phase It will, however, take some Gate metro stations, Mr. Australia and New Zeal- ordinated attacks, said the the encounter site. The milit- the incident took place early Mr. Singh said while it is III, which will boast of a new time for the Phase III cor- Singh said the line was un- and,” he said. police. ants are believed to have on Tuesday along the LoC in not possible to go beyond system with “driverless” ridors to become operational likely to open before Holi on According to the police, been involved in the killing the Sunderbani Sector. eight coach trains as plat- trains. as the new technology used March 13. ½ SEE ALSO | PAGE 4

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 2 | CITY THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 DELHI Jan 25, Wed Jan 26, Thu Jan 27, Fri RISE 07 13 SET 17 55 RISE 07 12 SET 17 56 RISE 07 12 SET 17 57 RISE 04 48 SET 15 43 RISE 05 38 SET 16 33 RISE 06 25 SET 17 28 Pragati Maidan revamp okayed Project proposes to bring down the iconic Hall of Nations and Nehru Pavilion

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NEW DELHI: The Cabinet Com- mittee on Economic Afairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, approved the pro- posal of the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) to redevelop Prag- ati Maidan into a world class Integrated Exhibition- cum-Convention Centre (IECC) at a cost of ₨2,254 crore.

Two phases planned The redevelopment pro- ject is envisaged in two phases. The first phase is expected to be competed by May 2019, and will be cap- able of hosting global con- ferences and exhibitions. The decision to re- develop Pragati Maidan has been taken as the facilities at present fall short of inter- national standards.

Opposition to plan It has also been proposed The redevelopment pro- Pompidou Centre (Paris), structures may be 40 years that to ease road conges- ject has been opposed by president of Union of Inter- old, but with some renova- tion, a flyover will be built various sections as the plan national Architects, and tion they can last for an- at the junction of Mathura proposes to bring down two president of the Architects other 200 years. Road and Bhairon Road and iconic buildings -- the ‘Hall Regional Council Asia to The Indian National there will be a subway con- of Nations’ and the ‘Nehru the Union Ministry of Com- Trust for art and Cultural necting Mathura Road to Pavilion’ -- at the Pragati merce and Industry, re- Heritage had also in a plea Ring Road across Pragati Maidan. questing for these ‘architec- in court said that buildings Maidan. The two structures were tural masterpieces’ to be like the Hall of Nations and designed by famed archi- preserved. the Nehru Pavilion at Prag- tect Raj Rewal and con- ati Maidan are part of "mod- structed in 1972. ‘Architectural heritage’ ern heritage" and need to be These structures will Commenting on the pro- protected. Letters in support ject, architect Raj Rewal be lost forever, They represented India’s had told The Hindu that Appeals made which is very first “modern” architecture “these structures will be The Indian Institute of serious. It is not only and architects and histori- lost forever, which is very Architects had also made ans feel they should be pre- serious. It is not only na- several appeals to the gov- nationally important, served for posterity. tionally important, but is ernment to save the build- but is also part of Letters in support of pre- also part of international ar- ings, which it had described serving the structures had chitectural heritage. A as “testimony to the na- international been written by the curator structure like this is unique tion's prowess in structural architectural heritage of New York’s Museum of in its own way.” engineering and Modern Art, curator of He had said that the architecture”.

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CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 CITY 3

Girls help cops chase down mobile snatcher

STAFF REPORTER valour, raised a cry and star- ted chasing the boy. One of NEW DELHI: A group of girls the girls apprehended the helped policemen chase person who snatched the down a mobile snatcher in phone. In the meantime, west Delhi's Punjabi Bagh patrolling staf also reached last week, the police said. there and arrested the ac- According to one of the cused,” said a police oicer. girls, she and her her two friends were on their way to Hockey skills Peera Garhi Bus Depot from The girls are hockey play- SPM College on January 20. ers and said their habit of Around noon, when their bus running around the field stopped at Madipur, two boys helped chase down the 19- snatched her mobile phone year-old. The accused has and started running. been identified as Dalchand “The complainant and her alias Sunny. Hunt is on for the friends showed extreme accomplice.

22-year-old Bus topples after being electrocuted to death hit by truck, 12 injured STAFF REPORTER NEW DELHI: A 22-year-old man Passengers returning from a wedding; both drivers flee was electrocuted after com- ing in contact with a high- STAFF REPORTER At least seven PCR vans tension live wire in Na- reached the spot and the in- jafgarh's Nangli Sakravati NEW DELHI: Around 50 passen- jured were taken to the Deen area on Monday. The gers aboard a bus had a close Dayal Upadhaya Hospital, decased has been identified shave when their vehicle All India Institute of Med- as Abdul, who was working toppled after being hit by a ical Sciences (AIIMS) and as a labourer in a factory and truck near Delhi Canton- Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. At hailed from Gorakhpur in ment in the early hours of least 12 persons sufered Uttar Pradesh. Tuesday. Nearly a dozen minor injuries and all were According to the police, among them sufered minor discharged after treatment Abdul was part of a construc- injuries in the accident. on Tuesday. tion crew that was working While the police are probing on building along with two the case, the drivers of both Hunt on for drivers others. Around 2:30 p.m., Ab- vehicles involved are said to Seven of them who were dul was walking on the ter- be on the run. The damaged bus. taken to Ganga Ram Hos- race when he accidentally PHOTO: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT pital have been identified as came in contact with the Jump red signal Lakshmi Devi (54), Lakshmi high tension wire. The victims were a group truck carrying such heavy (45), Upasna (34) and Mok- of 47 returning from a mar- loads and its speed at the sha (8 months) were admit- Body removed after 7 hrs riage function in Mayapuri time meant that the bus ted in AIIMS Trauma Neighbours witness to the in a chartered bus. toppled soon after it was hit. Centre. incident said they saw Abdul According to the police, According to the police, Meena (50), Radheshyam slowly getting charred to the accident happened at soon after the accident, (55) and Sajid (30) were also death. The other two labour- the intersection of Gopinath drivers of both the vehicles rushed to Ganga Ram ers locked the door despite Roundabout and Base Hos- fled the spot leaving the Hospital. hearing cries for help. pital in Delhi Cantonment trapped passengers behind. The police have lodged an The locals said the rescue area around 1:30 a.m. The bus had ferried invitees FIR under sections 279 (rash efort was slow as teams Prima facie both the from Lajpat Nagar to a mar- and negligent driving en- couldn’t venture near the drivers – the driver of the riage and were on their way dangering human life) and spot because of the high- truck and the bus – jumped back. 337 (causing hurt) of the In- voltage line. The situation the red signal. dian Penal Code and was brought under control The truck bearing a Ra- Seven PCRs respond launched a hunt for the er- after oicials from Power jasthan registration number The bride and the groom rant drivers. Discom who reached the was loaded with sand and were not in the bus at the Both the vehicles have spot after almost seven mud. The impact of the time of the accident. been impounded. hours.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 4 | CITY THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 ‘Unified transport system needed for last-mile connectivity’ In an interaction with the editorial team of The Hindu in New Delhi, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation Managing Director Mangu Singh talked about meeting the expectations of 30 lakh Metro users, the challenges of completing Phase III of the network and what’s in store for commuters this year Your tenure was recently you can go up to 90 seconds extended. What are your and the capacity will in- priority areas for the crease automatically. next five years? Is the Metro system First priority is finishing safe from hacking? Phase III and opening all the We have ensured that our lines and, of course, we will system is very robust. We have to take up Phase IV also. have a small team who looks The other big challenge will after cyber security and we be the operations side be- are also getting auditing cause the demand is growing done from third parties. We much more than our expect- don’t share our data and we ations. The DMRC is aug- feel quite secure. menting capacity of the ex- With Connaught Place isting system. to witness pedestrianisa- Why is the Blue Line tion soon, will the Metro plagued with regular FUTURE PROOF: DMRC chief Mangu Singh said that a 24x7 be able to handle the ex- technical snags? Metro service is unsustainable but the corporation is tra rush? The reason is the sig- considering increasing the frequency of trains on several At Rajiv Chowk, the crowd nalling system. Whenever stretches. PHOTOS: V. V. KRISHNAN, SANDEEP SAXENA is actually for interchange the system finds that there is and the people going in and an issue, it moves on the fool- tions in Lutyens’ zone where was just extension of Phase I. out are very less compared to proof side. The signalling there are fewer passengers. Phase III is confined to the the facility provided. Rajiv system of Line 3 is such that it Phase III stations will have city, such as the Heritage Chowk can handle much goes into that mode if there is much more artwork as per- Line. In Phase III, the capabil- more traic and we are very even one interruption. It is manent features. ity of our mostly Indian con- confident. better in ensuring safety than Is the DMRC still get- tractors was not that good Are you satisfied with Line 2, but once it goes ting help from abroad or and eforts from the DMRC the increased footfall on wrong, the back up system is the technology being had to be there to supplement the Airport Line? takes a long time to kick in. used indigenous? the shortfalls. With about 45,000 com- All signalling systems are Saying 100% indigenous is Land availability was also muters a day, the traic level proprietary and we can’t ac- neither feasible nor wise, diicult in certain areas. is satisfactory. We are not cess the software even if we you should always be open to Since we went for higher level looking purely from a rev- want to. receive something better of technology, it also requires enue point of view but util- The Delhi government from outside. longer trial period. However, isation of the system and that had suggested increasing The planning is done by we have compressed one year is why we reduced the fare the number of coaches only wish that the fare system, where the DMRC I take rides on the more pressure and the sys- us, but we still have support trials to six months. drastically. and frequency and was should be revised very regu- can provide the major cor- tem will deteriorate fast. from outside consultants for Also, inconvenience to With more automated willing to compensate larly as input costs are in- ridors and all other modes Metro occasionally Also, traic in that hour is certain areas, such as sig- public in Phase III was kept to vending machines being too. What is the status at creasing. I think now the will supplement that. It is the without telling anyone very less and managing the nalling systems in order to a minimum. installed, will the DMRC present? time has come as the fare-fix- reason why there is addi- system is very costly. Apart keep updated and get the Do you travel in Metro need fewer people to We have our own plan on ation panel has given its re- tional pressure on the and hear what from midnight to 5 a.m., the best system. trains to get a first-hand man counters? augmentation. The Delhi commendation and it is un- DMRC. The planning has to people have to say system is operational and we Given the experience experience? We visualised right from government wanted more der consideration. When we be for the overall city-wide only get about four hours for of breakdowns, are I do, but I take out my wal- the beginning that people than that. We worked out propose the fare we don’t transport with a unified muters are in the age group maintenance. driverless trains a matter let and keep it in my vehicle should go for these auto- how many coaches are re- consider the returns on the transport authority that can of 19 to 35 years. It is a young Many Metro stations of concern for the public? first. I go occasionally matic machines instead of quired and the procurement original investment. The take care of the transport and educated group.Their have become vibrant so- Depending on a person is without telling anybody and coming to the counters. will start soon. We have re- loan is required to be repaid needs of the city. behaviour in the Metro is cial hubs with eating and not that reliable as depend- hear what people have to say. About 70% of commuters are ceived the go-ahead from the by us and recovery of invest- The DMRC is planning much better than behaviour shopping options. Are ing on a system. A technical Are eight-coach trains using smart cards and we Delhi government for addi- ment will be there. to introduce e-rickshaws outside as they try to keep it you looking at more of system is much safer and going to be the standard want that even recharging of tional costs and final funding Last-mile connectivity for last-mile clean. Despite the 30 lakh these? more reliable. There is a or can the DMRC add smart card should be has to be decided by the has remained a big issue. connectivity pair of shoes coming into our All these stations are of downside that human judge- more coaches to trains? through machines or Centre. We are receiving the Providing last-mile con- These are only pilot pro- system from roads, which are the road, with space for such ment is not there and when We can’t go beyond eight netbanking. coaches, which will be used nectivity to all 30 lakh people jects, we are only facilitating, dirty and dusty, we are able facilities. Wherever we have the system takes care of false coaches. The Heritage Line What is the status of for increasing trains from six certainly can’t be done by the not planning any such ser- to keep the system clean. that luxury, we do it, but it is alarms, it afects availability will have only six-coach common mobility cards? to eight coaches. DMRC. This can happen vices. We will provide park- Are their plans to not possible at stations over and causes disruption of ser- trains. We can increase the In Phase III, we have The DMRC has been only with help of supple- ing space and facility for provide 24x7 Metro the road. We certainly look vices. It is to ensure safety frequency. In conventional ofered the infrastructure wanting to hike the fare mentary traic system like charging of e-rickshaws. services? for such avenues as we also and doesn’t always mean that signalling systems, two to and we have the facility of for a long time. What is the DTC or other modes of With nearly 30 lakh The public will always like earn extra and it’s on our something is wrong. two-and-a-half minutes are other modes logging in to the status on that? Is the transport like e-rickshaws. commuters daily, has the to have a 24x7 system but wishlist. What have been the normal, which we have our system. Now it is a ques- DMRC looking at break- Meeting needs of all com- DMRC undertaken any that is not a sustainable sys- Is the DMRC looking biggest challenges in already stretched to two tion of other modes of trans- ing even and repaying its muters is beyond the scope study on commuter tem as you need some time at more tie-ups to show- Phase III? minutes and 15 seconds. In port procuring machines in loans? of the DMRC. What is behaviour? for maintaining the network. case art? Phase III was as challen- the new system, which is buses and linking with our It’s not in our hand, we can needed is a unified transport About 78% of our com- Otherwise, there will be We have done this at sta- ging as Phase 1 as Phase II driverless and automated, system. Five names Will bureaucrats’ wards go L-G transfers 16 Bhikaji flyover safe, JNUTA cancels shortlisted for DANICS oicers lectures, replies AIIMS director to govt schools, asks HC NEW DELHI: In the second major repairs soon: govt to notice reshule since he took over STAFF REPORTER STAFF REPORTER as Lieutenant-Governor, STAFF REPORTER the reinforcement earth STAFF REPORTER Anil Baijal on Tuesday trans- (RE) wall settled. The PWD NEW DELHI: Five names have NEW DELHI: Will children of ferred 16 DANICS oicers, NEW DELHI: The Delhi govern- is in touch with the DMRC NEW DELHI: The Jawaharlal been shortlisted for the post bureaucrats study in govern- including Kuldeep Singh ment on Tuesday clarified and the consultant who de- Nehru University Teachers’ of All India Institute of Med- ment schools, the Delhi High Gangar who has been at log- that the Bhikaji Cama flyover signed this approach,” said a Association (JNUTA) can- ical Sciences (AIIMS) dir- Court asked on Tuesday as it gerheads with the Delhi was “completely safe” for senior government oicial. celled the last day of its lec- ector, a senior health oicial directed the city administra- government. traic movement and the ap- ture series ‘Democracy and said while adding that these tion to improve infrastruc- The move comes days proach ramp, which had re- Approach ramp Social Justice: Access and will be placed before the In- ture in its own institutions in- after the Lieutenant-Gov- cently sagged, will be “re- The flyover, the oicial Equality’ on Friday in the stitute Body on January 28. stead of trying to control ernor transferred 14 IAS paired and restored shortly.” said, was completely safe for wake of student protests The current director of private schools. oicers. Constructed by the Public traic movement and the ap- near the Administrative AIIMS M. C. Mishra is set to “The problem around ad- Senior Delhi, Andaman Works Department (PWD) proach ramp will be repaired Block. retire on January 31. missions is because govern- and Nicobar Islands Civil in 2002 and handed over to and restored shortly. The JNUTA, however, said “Five names have been ment schools are not good. Service (DANICS) oicer the Delhi Metro Rail Corpor- The road surface has been that the release of the book shortlisted by a selection- You have to improve infra- Gangar has been transferred ation (DMRC) three years restored by filling up the ‘What the Nation Really cum-search panel headed by structure. Why do people in as Deputy Commissioner ago. settled portion and the Needs to Know: JNU Nation- Union Health Secretary C. K. the US want their wards to go (SDMC). Mr. Gangar, who The DMRC is construct- DMRC will replace the alism Lectures’, which is a Mishra,” the oicial said. to government schools? It is UP THE STANDARD: The High Court asked the Delhi government was earlier project director ing an underground Metro broken panels of the RE wall compilation of the lecture because they are good qual- to improve infrastructure in its institutions. FILE PHOTO (Rural Development) ser- Station at Bhikaji Cama Place under PWD supervision, ad- series held after the February The selected ity schools. Here, no one vices, had been at logger- near Africa Avenue Flyover. ded the oicial. 9 incident on campus, would Among those selected are wants to go to government State’s January 7 notification, The ASG also said that the heads with the Aam Aadmi “They are constructing an To prevent any accident, go ahead as per schedule at 4 Dr. V. K. Paul, HOD paediat- schools,” said Justice which made it mandatory for court should recollect the Party government over not underpass across the road barricading has already been p.m. near the Nehru Statue. rics; Dr. Randeep Guleria, Manmohan. all private unaided schools quality of government being given any post. from the Metro Station using done. The DMRC has com- The JNUTA also replied to HOD of pulmonary medi- To this, the Delhi govern- on DDA land to admit 75 per schools from 30 years ago. Among the DANICS of- push-box technique. The pleted its work under the a notice served to it for going cine and sleep disorder; Dr. ment’s senior standing coun- cent students from within a “Schools like the Central ficers who have been given box was being pushed by the ramp of the flyover and the on a day-long strike. The As- S. C. Sharma, HOD of ENT; sel Rahul Mehra said that im- radius of 1 km. School in Sarojini Nagar new responsibilities in the DMRC below the ramp of the rest of the underpass will be sociation has written to the Dr. Balram Bhargava, Pro- provement was there for Additional Solicitor Gen- were so good three decades Delhi government and muni- flyover on the Ring Road. constructed using the cut- Registrar highlighting their fessor of Cardiology, and Dr. everyone to see. eral Sanjay Jain submitted, ago. It had a swimming pool cipal corporations are S R During the manoeuvre a por- and-cover method, the oi- constitutional rights and Subrata Sinha, director of “The schools have desks, “For example, should we not and girls from there particip- Kataria. —PTI tion of the road and part of cial said. freedom under Article 19 (1- National Brain Research toilets, water and all facilities regulate red line buses if we ated in national-level com- A) and 19 (1-C). They also Centre (NBRC), Manesar. available in good schools. We fail to make the DTC fleet petitions,” said the ASG. asked him to “desist from is- The Institute Body will are improving gradually,” world-class? So, how can we The court agreed to this ar- suing any notice that was now finalise one name and said Mr. Mehra. say that if government gument, after which Mr. Jain seemingly unconstitutional send it to the Appointments “If you are saying your schools are not good, we said, “But, Delhi is not what it Police investigation into Maruti as this might contribute to Committee of the Cabinet public sector schools are should not regulate private used to be 30 years ago. The vitiating the academic envir- (ACC), which is headed by very good, would you have schools. This is the first time demography has changed. onment on campus.” the Prime Minister. bureaucrats’ children study- that the government has There is the influence of TV violence case is shoddy: lawyer Apart Mr. Mishra, the ing here?” asked Justice taken a pro-citizen where advertisements show ‘Accused can at best be charged with voluntarily causing grievous hurt’ Concern for Dileep panel comprised the PM’s Manmohan. initiative.” children being pampered. The teachers expressed Principal Scientific Advisor He went on to say, “There Poor kids, too, want the same. ASHOK KUMAR argued that they faced alleg- attributed to them. concern over the health of R. Chidambaram; Soumya Encouraging misuse? is a perception that students When they do not get it, it ations of assault, extortion On the recoveries made Dileep Yadav, the student Swaminathan, Secretary of “You want to encourage in government schools are leads to crimes.” GURUGRAM: A day after ar- and setting the premises on from the accused, Ms. John who went on hunger strike Health Research; Director corruption, you want to en- not interested in studying guing that a murder charge fire, but none of them could said that the prosecution had and was later taken to hos- General of Health Services courage misuse. How many and the teachers are not in- Deadline extended could not be made out be charged with murder or failed to explain as to how pital. According to the Jagdish Prasad; and Delhi parents will give the address terested in teaching. This In another development, against the accused in the attempt to murder. these weapons (shockers JNUTA, it was clear that the University V-C Yogesh of relatives as their own, only will change. Rome was not the deadline for nursery ad- Maruti violence case, senior and door beams) reached V-C and the current adminis- Tyagi. because they want their child built in a day. Neighbour- missions under the Econom- advocate Rebecca John took Argument for acquittal the hands of the accused. tration were responsible for Last month, AIIMS had re- admitted to a school that is hood principle is a step in ically Weaker Section (EWS) forward the arguments on “Two of the accused Ms. John said that the re- the deteriorating conditions commended a panel headed not in their neighbourhood,” that direction.” category has been extended Tuesday and contended that Sandeep and Dhanraj only covery of these weapons on campus since last year. by Union Health Minister J. he added. The court, however, said, till February 14. The first list the accused could at max- face charges of extortion and from the homes of the ac- They lamented that the P. Nadda, which was rejected The court was hearing the “No one is saying you are not will now be announced on imum be prosecuted for vol- should be immediately ac- cused more than five to six campus, which was one of by the Department of Per- government’s reply to peti- taking steps, but do not try to March 7 while the second list untarily causing grievous quitted. Similarly, Jia Lal and days after their arrest was the most academically pro- sonnel and Training. tions that challenged the take over private schools.” will come out on March 31. hurt. Sohan face allegations of set- suspicious. “There is no in- ductive in India, had wit- ting the premises on fire, but dependent witness to the re- nessed growing insecurity as ‘Recoveries manufactured’ the same could not be covery ,” said Ms. John. well as intimidation of fac- Ms. John also cast serious proved and should be acquit- The advocate added that ulty and students by the Govt subsidy to over 3,000 e-rickshaw owners doubts on the recoveries ted,” argued Ms. John as per the doctors treating administration. made by the police saying “The remaining have been the injured executives, the In a statement, the JNUTA STAFF REPORTER sain said on Tuesday ‘green’ technology by levy- will be released in February. that it was all “tailor-made” accused of causing injuries injuries inflicted on them said that it believed the uni- The Delhi government ing a fee on the sale of diesel. As per Deputy Chief Min- and “manufactured”. to non-vital organs of man- could also be caused by fall versity could and should de- NEW DELHI: In an efort to pro- will disburse ₨7 crore for For 2,027 e-rickshaws that ister and Finance Minister The advocate, who repres- agement oicials and thus on uneven or hard surface fend its own admission mote less-polluting trans- 3,382 e-rickshaws registered were registered as of March Manish Sisodia’s budget ents the former Maruti Su- cannot be charged with and none of the doctors were policy that includes depriva- port options and boost last- with the Transport Depart- 31, 2016, a subsidy of ₨15,000 speech for 2016-17, the gov- zuki Workers’ Union oice- murder or attempt to shown the “weapons of of- tion points, diferentiation in mile connectivity, the Delhi ment, Mr. Hussain said. The each will be given. Another ernment had given a total of bearers, took up the indi- murder,” said Ms. John, fence” as required by law. qualifying marks on the basis government will ofer sub- amount will come from the 1,355 e-rickshaws that were ₨4.97 crore as subsidy for vidual roles of the thirteen adding that most of these ac- Ms. John said that the police of social background, adding sidy to over 3,000 e-rickshaw Air Ambience Fund, which registered after April 1, 2016 3,709 battery-operated accused before the court of cused were either not identi- had conducted the “shoddi- both written and viva-voce owners, Environment and was set up by the Delhi gov- will get a subsidy of ₨30,000 vehicles and e-rickshaws in Additional District and Ses- fied correctly or were identi- est” possible investigation marks and deprivation Forest Minister Imran Hus- ernment in 2008 to boost each. The subsidy amount 2015-16. sions Judge R. P. Goyal and fied without any role into the case. points for final admission.

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Rajnath’s son booked for Kejriwal, kin face probe for fraud violating model code

EOW to investigate alleged irregularities in grant of contracts for roads, sewers PURUSHARTH ARADHAK

STAFF REPORTER way of fraud in criminal con- He said the PWD had GREATER NOIDA: Hours after fil- nivance with government ser- already ‘confirmed’ by RTI ing his nomination for the Ut- NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police’s vants posted at PWD,” the reply that the money had been tar Pradesh Assembly polls, Economic Ofences Wing complaint alleged and cited disbursed and credited to the Union Home Minister Ra- (EOW) has launched a pre- RTI replies and other enquir- bank account, contrary to the jnath Singh’s son and BJP can- liminary enquiry into allega- ies to back his claim. State Government’s claims didate from Noida, Pankaj tions of forgery, cheating and that not a penny had been Singh, was booked for viola- fraud against Chief Minister Fake bills paid to Messrs Renu Con- tion of the model code of con- Arvind Kejriwal, his brother- RACO, an NGO which struction and hence there was duct. He allegedl travelled in Pankaj Singh in-law and a Delhi Govern- monitors public works, al- no loss to the public ex- his car beyond the permiss- ment employee for alleged ir- leged that Mr. Bansal had sub- chequer. ible limit. An FIR has been When asked if there is a regularities in the grant of mitted fake bills and invoices A senior police oicer said lodged against him at Sura- prescribed limit for persons contracts for roads and sewer Arvind Kejriwal to the PWD. the IP Estate police station jpur police station. that can accompany a candid- lines by the Public Works The complainant also transferred the complaint to ate to file nomination, she Department. in-law Surender Kumar claimed to have spoken to EOW and there were “sui- Vehicle beyond limit said, “Yes there is prescribed Bansal, who runs a construc- other employees of the PWD cient grounds” to launch an Superintendent of police limit. We have been told by Case of cheating tion company Messrs Renu who expressed inability to enquiry but did not divulge (rural) Sujata Singh told The policemen at the scene that The action comes days Construction, and P.K. Ka- help complete the projects further details. Hindu that as per rules, no there were more people with after the complainant, Roads thuria, then PWD Executive ‘without any irregularities’, as candidate is allowed to carry him than is the limit. We will Anti-Corruption Organisa- Engineer posted in north Del- the Chief Minister was ‘back- ‘Payment stopped’ vehicles within 100 metres of scan the CCTV footage to es- tion (RACO), moved a court hi’s Shalimar Bagh. ing’ the other two accused. He The oicials in the PWD the place where the nomina- tablish the case.” after having failed to get a He had sought lodging of a also quoted a Superintendent said the payment to the con- tion is being filed. “Pankaj criminal case of cheating filed case against them for cheat- Engineer of the PWD claim- tractor was stopped after they Singh violated the rule and Four others with Singh at a local police station here. ing, forgery and criminal ing that the money ‘siphoned found that the drain work took the car within 100 Sub-divisional magistrate Lawyer Kislay Pandey, who conspiracy. of’ was to ‘help’ Mr. Kejriw- wasn’t done. “The payment metres. I was not positioned Amit Singh told The Hindu had first approached the po- “From the records re- al’s Aam Aadmi Party to con- was stopped and the depart- there but the local police of- that he was inside the room lice on behalf of RACO trieved and other sources, it test the Punjab and Goa As- ment took necessary action,” ficers told us that Pankaj where nominations were founder Ahul Sharma, had has come out that Mr. sembly elections. said an oicial. Singh's car and some other filled. “To the best of my submitted that there were ir- Surender Kumar Bansal oper- Mr. Pandey said the total “It is mischievous and mali- cars with him were within a knowledge there were four regularities in the award of ates Messrs Renu Construc- loss to the exchequer was to cious and doesn’t merit any 100-metre radius," said Ms. other persons with Pankaj contracts for construction of tion Company and various the tune of ₨9 to ₨10 crore in response. The police are try- Singh. “We have booked him Singh. An FIR has been roads and sewer lines by the other dummy companies in the form of payments made to ing to malign the CM,” said a at Surajpur police station and lodged for carrying vehicles Chief Minister, his brother- order to obtain contracts by clear 100 bills. government spokesperson. further probe is on,” she said. within 100 metres,” he said. Uber driver’s family vows to continue fight STAFF REPORTER accused in such cases are jailed for a longer time,” said Minazul. NEW DELHI: Even as the 24-year-old executive, who allegedly rammed BMW in ‘high speed’ his BMW into an Uber cab killing During interrogation, the its driver, walked out on bail accused, Shoaib Kohli, allegedly within 24 hours of the accident, told the cops that he was driving the victim’s family has vowed to at a high speed as he wanted to continue its fight for justice. reach his friend’s house in Vasant Minazul, the nephew of the Kunj quickly and he lost control victim, Nazrul Islam, said he has of the vehicle. been trying to collect the CCTV He blamed the Uber driver for footage from cameras around the the accident and said that he spot to prove that the BMW switched of his cellphone after driver was at fault during the returning home. incident. Meanwhile, Nazrul's body was “We will try out best to ensure buried on Tuesday evening after that harsher sections of the law it was handed over to the family are invoked. We would approach members following the autopsy. the family of other accident Preliminary reports suggest he victims to support us so that died of an internal haemorrhage.

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‘Donations of electoral trusts not personal info’ NHRC notice to Maharashtra over NEW DELHI: Details of donations sion (CIC) has said in an order whether they received In- been distributed to political received by electoral trusts aimed at ensuring transpar- come-Tax exemptions. parties. and their further distribution ency in electoral funding. A Division Bench of the The Bench said the CIC dir- to political parties are neither The Commission has direc- Commission also directed the ective to disclose Income-Tax student deaths at govt-run school personal information nor held ted the Income-Tax Depart- department to take views of returns of the political parties by the Income-Tax Depart- ment to make public the list of these trusts on furnishing the became final as that was “Some of the girls had been sexually abused by staff at these schools” ment in fiduciary capacity, the electoral trusts formed during details of contributions re- neither challenged nor re- Central Information Commis- 10 years since 2003-04 and ceived by them which have versed. — PTI

STAFF REPORTER last 10 years. As per reports, This time, the NHRC has of parents was questioned. some of the girls had been issued a notice to the Chief As per a recent report, a NEW DELHI: The National Hu- sexually abused by teachers Secretary of the Maha- tribal girl complained of a Sastra University urges man Rights Commission and other staf at these rashtra Government and stomach pain when she re- (NHRC) on Tuesday issued schools. asked for a detailed report turned home for Diwali. It a notice to the Maharasthra within six weeks. The turned out that she had been MHRD to ofer scholarships HOMAGE government over the repor- Report sought NHRC observed that the sexually abused at her ted deaths of more than 500 This is not the first time media reports indicated a vi- school. Another 12-year-old- to B.Ed students girls at State-run schools for that the NHRC has taken up olation of the Right to Life girl complained of sexual as- tribal students. It had sent a this matter. On October 10, and Dignity of the students sault by a sweeper of the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ation of B. Ed colleges, exit similar notice to the State 2016, the NHRC had issued a and pointed towards negli- same school, which is in test for all B. Ed graduates government in October notice to the State govern- gence by the authorities. Khamgaon. The residential NEW DELHI: Sastra University and a compulsory induction 2016. ment asking for a detailed The NHRC said the re- school has 70 girl students, Vice-Chancellor R. Sethura- programme for government The NHRC took suo motu report after media reports ports had revealed that the but does not have a female man has written to Minister school teachers,” the letter cognisance of media reports claimed that 740 children school authorities kept superintendent. of Human Resource Devel- says. about the death of more than had died at the residential “menstruation records” of In total, there are about opment Prakash Javadekar “The MHRD may think of 500 girls belonging to the Ashram schools in a decade. the girls and even “carried 1,100 State-run and aided suggesting that the govern- introducing a scholarship Scheduled Tribes (ST) un- Despite sending a reminder out urine tests to check for residential schools for tribal ment consider ofering a scheme ofering ₨3,000/- der “suspicious circum- on November 26, 2016, the pregnancies” when any of students where around 1.6 scholarship of ₨3000 a per month to all the students stances” at the Ashram NHRC said on Tuesday that the girls missed a period or lakh girls and 2.3 lakh boys month to students clearing or top 1,000 students in the schools run by the Maha- it had not received a report returned from vacations. study. These schools have the proposed national-level proposed entrance examin- rashtra Government for tri- from the Maharashtra Gov- This “unethical practice” on been plagued by allegations B.Ed. ation for admission into the bal communities over the ernment. minors without the consent of sexual abuse. Examination on condition B. A., B. Ed./B. Sc. B. Ed. pro- that the recipients would grammes approved by the work as teachers for at least NCTE. Such students will five years after completion consequently work as teach- “God’s Own Country is turning Woman found dead near Jamia of the course. He has also ers on completion of the ofered to provide such course for a minimum STAFF REPORTER ing when the police re- scholarships to the top 50 period of five years.” into a land of demons” ceived a call from the students irrespective of It adds: “SASTRA Univer- NEW DELHI: The body of a university guards in- which B.Ed college they join sity is prepared... to join this STAFF REPORTER Commission (NHRC) Kerala organised by young woman was forming them that the and another 50 from among National Mission by ofer- into alleged political Hindu groups in front found near the en- body of a woman, be- the first 500 if they choose to ing 50 scholarships to top 50 NEW DELHI: “God’s Own violence taking place of Kerala House at trance of Jamia Milia lieved to be in her early join Sastra University. students on the above con- Country is turning in Kerala. Jantar Mantar on Islamia on Tuesday. 20s, was lying in a lane “The Minister has rightly ditions irrespective of their into the land of Condemning “re- Tuesday. The woman has not between Jamia and stated that B. Ed cannot be place of choice of study and demons” Rashtriya curring assaults and “The Backward yet been identified and Holy Family Hospital. the last resort for young- another 50 scholarships to Swayamsevak Sangh gruesome killings of Commission and the police suspect that The deceased was sters who do not qualify for candidates within the top (RSS) ideologue Dat- RSS and BJP workers”, NHRC should look she was murdered wearing dark blue other disciplines. With an 500 students who prefer to tatreya Hosabale said the RSS joint secretary into the issue political somewhere else and jeans and light blue top aim to improve the quality join SASTRA University while demanding an urged the people in murders happening in her body dumped near and a dark blue jacket of teachers & teaching in and complete B. A., B. Ed./B. urgent intervention of the state to demand Kerala immediately. Gate Number 1 of the over it. The police have schools, the HRD Ministry Sc. B. Ed. (NCTE approved the Backward Com- President’s Rule at a God’s Own Country is university. formed several teams is proposing to introduce a programmes). This scholar- mission and the Na- sit-in protest against turning into the land The matter came to to identify the victim national-level entrance test ship is for first five years of tional Human Rights political violence in of demons”. light on Tuesday morn- and find the accused. for the B. Ed course, certific- this proposed initiative.”

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NHRC issues Last of jallikattu protesters leave Marina notice to T.N.

Police enlist the help of agitators who had spearheaded the protest to clear the R-Day venue STAFF REPORTER

R. SIVARAMAN NEW DELHI: Taking suo motu cognisance of media re- CHENNAI: With the Marina ports, the National Hu- Beach being the venue for man Rights Commission the Republic Day celebra- on Tuesday issued no- tions in Chennai, the police tices to the Tamil Nadu spent anxious hours trying authorities over the al- to convince a group of 300 leged police excesses on Ramasubba Rao and Subbalakshmi wanted help in getting jallikattu protesters, who jallikattu protesters. passports for their disabled daughters. — PHOTO: K. RAVIKUMAR had stayed put, to leave on Protests broke out in Tuesday. The police also put Tamil Nadu demanding up iron barricades and that the bull-taming Nellore couple thank sealed Kamarajar Road, Dr. sport, banned by the Su- Radhakrishnan Road, Wala- preme Court in 2014, be jah Road, Bharathi Road, allowed to take place Sushma for timely help Avvai Shanmugam Road and across the State. The Dr. Besant Road. Tamil Nadu government STAFF REPORTER tweet, the couple received The police engaged on Monday passed the calls from the passport of- young agitators, who had TAPERING OFF: The last group of people seen at Marina Beach before they left on Tuesday. — PHOTO: K.V. SRINIVASAN Prevention of Cruelty to NELLORE: Ramasubba Rao Ral- fices in Delhi, Hyderabad spearheaded the jallikattu Animals (Tamil Nadu lapalli, a 75-year-old retired and Tirupati saying the pass- movement, to hold talks 25 persons who had agitated ers to hold negotiations with been achieved,” he said. The Less than 100 persons Amendment) Bill, 2017 in tehsildar, and his wife Sub- ports would be processed with the group that had with them. They also de- the agitators. “The group negotiators failed to con- stayed put insisting that TV the Assembly, allowing balakshmi, 70, of Nellore and sent in a day or two. squatted on the sand and manded a signed copy of placed demands such as re- vince the agitators to leave. channels broadcast live jallikattu. were elated when their peti- The special branch police hoisted black flags on tem- new legislation facilitating trieval of Katchatheevu Is- Around 3.30 p.m., over 150 their set of demands. But the While evicting protest- tion for help on ‘change.org’ in Nellore had already vis- porary masts. jallikattu. land from Sri Lanka. They agitators from Nagapatti- crews refused to accept ers from the Marina drew a positive response ited their home and collec- At one point, the agitators wanted the agitation to con- nam, Tiruvarur and Salem, their demand. After much Beach in Chennai, the po- from Minister for External ted details of their daughters threw sand on media per- ‘Purpose achieved’ tinue forever and wanted who were visibly tired, left negotiation, they came to lice allegedly beat them Afairs Sushma Swaraj. for verification. sons, accusing them of H. Abdul Hameed, who immediate solution to a host the Marina. They were the place where media per- up and arrested them. Ac- The couple, who had Mr. Rao told The Hindu providing unfair coverage to was among those who of problems confronting taken in a bus to board trains sons were stationed and ad- cording to media reports, sought the Minister’s help in that he was grateful to the the protests. They told the spearheaded the original Tamils. But, in our view, the or buses to their native dressed them. They reiter- the police “damaged getting passports for their Minister for her gesture. police that no cases should agitation, was sent by the purpose of our agitation was places. Another 50 persons ated their demands before private property in order disabled daughters, had He also thanked be booked against a group of police along with a few oth- to hold jallikattu. That has dispersed half-an-hour later. dispersing late in the night. to disperse a large num- made an emotional plea to ‘change.org’ and the 45,000 ber of people gathered at reach out to her. members who supported his landmark places in Chen- Ms. Swaraj responded on petition on the website. nai,” the NHRC said in a twitter promising to help In his petition, Mr. Rao statement. with the passports. She said: wanted the oicials to send ‘Cong. did not support ban ‘Will bring ordinance “I have gone through your the passports directly to his ‘Unprovoked action’ petition. We will definitely daughters — R. Gayathri on kambala if needed’ The commission ob- help you. Please give me Devi and R. Sarvani — who on jallikattu in poll manifesto’ served that the reports in- your address and phone were 72 per cent and 90 per SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Based on its outcome, the dicated “unprovoked po- numbers.” cent disabled on account of SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Party was in favour was true that it was the UPA government would take a lice action” that Soon after the Minister’s polio. government in 2011 that al- MYSURU: Following Tamil decision. amounted to a violation NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu Con- of legalised jallikattu, lowed bulls to be added to Nadu’s move on jallikattu, of human rights. It said gress has refuted the BJP’s says member of the list of performing anim- Karnataka Chief Minister Popular rural sport the protesters at the charge that it had supported als that efectively ended Siddaramaiah has said his The bufalo slush-track beach had not exceeded ‘Missing’ Kerala leader a ban on jallikattu in its panel that drafted the chances of a legally government will consider race is a rural sport popular their fundamental right. manifesto for the 2016 As- the document sanctioned jallikattu. promulgating an ordinance in the coastal belt of the “The visuals on television sembly polls in the State. But the then UPA had on kambala — traditional State, but it has been stayed news channels showed traced, alleges kidnap C.R. Kesavan, member of He was reacting to an in- subsequently amended the slush-track bufalo racing — by the High Court. that police set on fire the manifesto-drafting terview with Union Minis- aidavit in a matter going and other such sports in the There is growing support huts, autos, motorcycles, STAFF REPORTER from Kerala, said he reached committee for Tamil Nadu, ter for Commerce Nirmala on in the Supreme Court, State, if the need arises. for it, following the ordin- vegetable shops on the Delhi around 11 a.m. He said the document issued Sitharaman carried in the seeking that bulls be “ex- Speaking in Mysuru on ance promulgated by the streets and other prop- KOLKATA: The national general claimed that he was “abduc- by the party was very The Hindu on Tuesday. empt from the list of per- Tuesday, he said “we are for Tamil Nadu government to erty on internal streets in secretary of the Communist ted” by six men claiming to clearly for “legalised The Minister had alleged forming animals,” he said. kambala,” adding “we will bypass the Supreme Court Chennai,” the NHRC said. Party of India Marxist-Len- be from the “Central Intelli- jallikattu”. that the Congress had “Furthermore, under the bring an ordinance if neces- stay on jallikattu. Taking “a serious view inist (CPI-ML [Red Star]), gence.” They allegedly took “I was a member of the changed its earlier stance of UPA government, from sary” to give a fillip to the “But jallikattu and kam- of the unprovoked police K.N. Ramachandran, who him to a building on the city’s manifesto-drafting commit- supporting a ban on the 2012-14, jallikattu had taken growing momentum on get- bala are diferent,” said the excesses,” the NHRC is- was reported ‘missing’ since outskirts. Vinod, a Malayalee tee of the Congress in last sport and, in the face of pop- place every January in ting the court stay on it va- Chief Minister, adding that sued notices to the Chief Sunday evening in Kolkata, oicer, interrogated him, he year’s polls and nowhere ular protests, was support- Tamil Nadu, till of course cated. Mr. Siddaramaiah said the issue might also come up Secretary, the DGP and was traced in Delhi on Tues- said. Later, he was made to does it say that we are sup- ing the lifting of the ban. the Supreme Court decision the hearing on the local sport in the Assembly that has the Chennai Police Com- day morning. board a Delhi-bound Rajdh- portive of the ban on “What the Minister said in May 2014,” Mr. Kesavan was expected to come up in been convened from Febru- missioner, asking for re- Speaking to The Hindu ani Express. He hinted that jallikattu,” he said. is not correct,” he said. It said. the High Court shortly. ary 6. ports in two weeks. over phone, Mr. the TMC may be behind his Ramachandran, who hails “abduction”. Pawan raises pitch for T.N.-style protest THARUN BODA social media campaign asking the whelming response from netizens. youth to gather at the R.K. Beach in After initial announcements about VIJAYAWADA: Actor-turned-politician Visakhapatnam on January 26, for a the release of the album and a series and founder of Jana Sena Party, “jallikattu type of protest” against of poetic tweets, Mr. Kalyan started Pawan Kalyan, on Tuesday released the Centre for denying SCS to releasing one song every 45 minutes. the songs of ‘Desh Bachao,’ a musical Andhra Pradesh. In all, he released four songs. album aiming to raise voice against Much to the surprise of his fans, all politicians, and demanding special Poetic tweets the songs were remix versions of his category status for Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Kalyan advanced the release hit songs released between 1999 and Pawan Kalyan, whose party sup- date of the album from February 5 to 2004. In between lyrics, Mr. Kalyan ported the BJP and the TDP in the January 24 after his call for “silent makes statements similar to what he Assembly and Lok Sabha elections, protest” in Visakhapatnam, Vijay- has said in his various public hit the news after his approval to a awada and Tirupati received an over- speeches.

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 NATION 9

IIMs to grant Climate change degrees instead of India to ratify amended plan to get Bihar parties vie to claim diplomas soon new missions Karpoori Thakur’s legacy SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT version of Kyoto Protocol AMARNATH TEWARY NEW DELHI: India’s eight-point NEW DELHI: The Union Cab- Move is aimed at putting pressure on developed nations plan to fight climate change PATNA: Political parties in Bi- inet on Tuesday approved will soon become a 11-point har vied with one another on the Indian Institute of Man- JACOB KOSHY plan with new missions to ad- Tuesday to champion the agement (IIM) Bill, 2017, dress the impact of climate legacy of former Chief Min- which aims at permitting NEW DELHI: In a token measure change on health, coastal ister Karpoori Thakur on his the IIMs to grant degrees to put pressure on developed zones and waste-to-energy birth anniversary in an efort rather than diplomas and be countries to deliver on cli- on the anvil, senior oicials to woo the Extremely Back- declared as Institutions of mate change commitments, in the Environment Ministry ward Classes (EBC). National Importance. India will soon ratify an told The Hindu. While the JD(U) declared The Bill is now likely to amended version of the Since 2012, the Prime Min- that he was the inspiration be placed before Parliament Kyoto Protocol. The Union ister’s Council on Climate for its policy on prohibition in the budget session. Cabinet chaired by Prime Change India has instituted a and reservation in panchay- “Being societies, IIMs are Minister Narendra Modi National Action Plan on As- ats and judicial services, co- Police use water cannons to disperse Jan Adhikar Party not authorised to award de- gave its approval to ratify the sessment, Adaptation and alition partner RJD deman- workers during a protest in Patna on Tuesday. — PHOTO: PTI grees and, hence, they have deal that is set to expire in Mitigation of Climate ded that the former leader be been awarding Post Gradu- 2020 and was shunned by Change, that has specified conferred the Bharat Ratna. “Our government gave reser- poori Thakur became Chief ate Diploma and Fellow several developed countries, eight national missions. The BJP used the occasion to vation to extremely back- Minister of Bihar twice with Programme in Manage- most prominently the WAY FORWARD: Protocol incentivised many Indian firms to retrofit These include a National Wa- urge political parties to raise ward people and women in the help of the Jan Sangh.” ment,” an oicial release United States. polluting plants with newer technology. — FILE PHOTO: REUTERS ter Mission, Green India Mis- the quantum of reservation panchayat and in judicial ser- Meanwhile, protesting the explained. sion, National Solar Mission, to 60 %. vices…even the prohibition exploitation of Karpoori “While these awards are U.S. reluctance luter, to be part of the Pro- panying press note. Develop- National Mission on Sustain- “When Karpoori Thakur inspiration had come from Thakur’s name and legacy by treated as equivalent to Until now, 75 countries tocol and lack of commit- ing countries like India have able Habitat, National Mis- started the movement for re- Karpoori Thakur,” he added political parties, leaders and MBAs and Ph.D, respect- have ratified the so-called ments by Canada, Japan and no mandatory mitigation ob- sion on Enhanced Energy Ef- servation for the EBCs, the workers of the Jan Adhikar ively, the equivalence is not Doha Amendment of the other major developing ligations or targets under the ficiency, National Mission Jan Sangh was one of the four Great socialist leader: Lalu Party (JAP) held a march universally acceptable, es- Kyoto Protocol, which spans countries meant that global Kyoto Protocol. for Sustaining Himalayan parties which opposed it… At a separate event at the near the Gandhi Maidan. pecially for the Fellow from 2012 to 2020, and falls emissions actually rose dur- The Kyoto Protocol in- Ecosystem, National Mission But, today I’m happy seeing RJD headquarters, party The protesters led by party Programme.” far short of the 144 needed to ing this period. centivised several firms in for Sustainable Agriculture, them surrendering before chief Lalu Prasad said, “No leader and Madhepura MP The Bill will also aim at bring it into force . India to retrofit their pollut- and a National Mission on the ideals and thoughts of one can forget the great so- Pappu Yadav were lathi providing the IIMs com- The 1997 Kyoto Protocol Sustainable development ing plants with newer tech- Strategic Knowledge for Cli- Karpoori Thakur while cel- cialist leader Karpoori Thak- charged when they tried to plete autonomy, apart from came into efect in 2005 and “Implementation of Clean nology in the hope of earning mate Change. “The impact of ebrating his jayanthi (birth ur’s contribution for the poor cross a police picket. “All accountability, said the re- obligated the rich and indus- Development Mechanism carbon credits. However climate change is far ranging anniversary),” Chief Minis- and deprived section of the these leaders try to reap lease. Under it, the Board of trialised countries to reduce (CDM) projects under this after an initial spike, carbon and we have to consider its ter Nitish Kumar said at a society…he fought for their political and electoral bene- an IIM will drive the man- emissions by 5.2% of 1990 commitment period in ac- credit prices — that could be impact on health, wind and gathering at Patna’s S.K. Me- cause and we’re carrying for- fit by celebrating Karpoori agement of the institution. levels during the 2008-2012 cordance with sustainable traded in emission-trading coastal zones,” Ravi Shankar morial Hall. ward his legacy…I demand jayanthi every year…they do The Board will select the period. development priorities will markets like shares — have Prasad, joint secretary in the He said his government Bharat Ratna award for him.” not do anything for poor and Chairperson and Director However, the refusal of the attract some investments in crashed to rock-bottom Environment Ministry, told has always strived to take At the BJP headquarters, deprived section of the soci- of the institution. U.S., the second largest pol- India as well,” said an accom- prices. The Hindu. forward Thakur’s mission. party leaders claimed, “Kar- ety,” said Mr. Pappu Yadav.

Improved Pinaka rockets test-fired CBI files charge Chennai Metro takes the green route with bike rental scheme SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT sheet against Under the pilot plan, commuters ready to deposit ₨3,000 can ride off from station on bicycles CHENNAI: Pinaka rockets, with Vijay Mallya a guidance system and an en- SUNITHA SEKAR said, “I wonder how many hanced range, were success- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT fully test-fired from the In- would want to invest so CHENNAI: Chennai Metro Rail much. They should have tegrated Test Range (ITR) at MUMBAI: The CBI on Tuesday has started renting out the option to rent by the Chandipur in Odisha on filed a charge sheet against Tuesday. bicycles in its stations and hour. Also, they should be businessman Vijay Mallya in hopes to eventually join available in all stations.” The earlier Pinaka ver- the case of ₨900-crore loan sion, which was an unguided the global movement to get paid by the IDBI Bank to enough green wheels on Bengaluru, Delhi models one, has now been trans- Kingfisher Airlines. formed into a guided ver- the road to reduce traic The idea of rental bikes On Monday, the CBI arres- congestion. was earlier launched in sion, with a navigation, guid- ted former IDBI chairman ance and control kit The plan has begun Delhi and Bengaluru Yogesh Aggarwal, former small with Chennai Metro Metros. But Bangalore developed by the Research Chief Financial Oicer of Centre, Imarat (RCI), Hy- Rail Limited (CMRL) Metro Rail Corporation Kingfisher Airlines A. stationing 10 bicycles in (BMRC) found few takers, derabad. The guided Pinaka rocket being test-fired from the Integrated Raghunathan, IDBI execut- The RCI comes under the Test Range at Chandipur, Odisha, on Tuesday. — PHOTO: DRDO Ekkatuthangal station, and and has now introduced ives O.V. Bundellu, S.K.V. ofering them to users on a bikes in some stations that Defence Research and De- Srinivasan, R.S. Sridhar, B.K. velopment Organisation rocket all through its flight converting the unguided sys- hire system this week. can be rented by the hour. Batra, and Kingfisher execut- The commuter has to COOL COMMUTE: Delhi Metro opened a free bicycle stand and Chennai Corporation, (DRDO). path. The guided version is tems into weapons of high ives Shailesh Borke, A.C. Pinaka mark-II, which precision.” pay a refundable deposit of offers bikes for four hours at ₨10. — FILE PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN which has a Non- Shah and Amit Nadkarni. ₨3,000. “They don’t have to Motorised Transport Longer range evolved from Pinaka mark-I. The guided Pinaka was de- Seeking judicial custody of According to the DRDO G. Satheesh Reddy, Sci- veloped jointly by the Arma- pay a daily fee. We want to bicycles in other locations. But commuters say policy for the city, had all the nine, the CBI said that persuade commuters to A tender for another 10 locking up ₨3,000 is planned a network of oicials, the conversion entific Advisor to the De- ment Research and Develop- despite weak financials, neg- helped in enhancing the fence Minister and Director ment Establishment use this facility to go from bikes has been put out. “We expensive for people taking bicycle tracks in Anna ative net worth and low the station to their have more bicycles public transport. Rather, Nagar in 2010, to provide a range and accuracy of General (Missiles and Stra- (ARDE), Pune, the RCI, and credit resting of the bor- Pinaka. If its range was tegic Systems), DRDO, who the Defence Research and destination and back. This available for our oicials to they would like to rent link to schools. rower company, the loan was will be helpful especially use when they go on bicycles on an hourly basis, The project was shelved, earlier 40 km, it is more than was present during the Development Laboratory disbursed. All the accused 70 km now. Radars, electro- launch, said, “The success of (DRDL), Hyderabad. The for regular commuters,” an inspection. We are slowly just as the traditional hire but the civic body now have been remanded in judi- oicial said. trying to promote eco- model used to operate. plans to implement it after optical systems and tele- the guided Pinaka has rein- ITR, Chandipur, provided cial custody till February 7 metry systems at the ITR forced the technological the range and launch If the initiative succeeds, friendly ways of travelling,” Narayan V, a 20-year-old Metro Rail work is and their bail applications Chennai Metro plans to put he added. commuter from Vadapalani complete. tracked and monitored the strength of the country in support. will be heard on January 30.

Man dies after cardiac arrest during Raees’ train promotion

VADODARA/NEW DELHI: Tragedy hit Shah Rukh Khan’s train promotion campaign for his upcoming film Raees when a man died of cardiac arrest during a massive rush of the actor’s fans at the Vadodara railway station in Gujarat. The deceased was identi- fied as Farid Khan Pathan (45), a local politician from Vadodara. He was a relative of one of the journalists travelling with Mr. Khan, and had ap- parently come to meet her.

Unfortunate: Shah Rukh Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu took to Twitter on Tuesday to say he had direc- ted the Director-General of Railway Protection Force (RPF) to investigate the mat- ter and take stern action against any lapse even as Mr. Khan described the incident as “really unfortunate”. The Railway Ministry has ordered a probe into the incident. An estimated 15,000- strong crowd went berserk to have a glimpse of the su- perstar when the Mumbai- Delhi August Kranti Rajdh- ani Express train halted at Vadodara at 10.30 p.m. on Monday. Two policemen were also injured as the crowd went out of control at Vadodara. Mr. Khan had boarded the train from Mumbai Central for Delhi as part of his pro- motional campaign ‘Raees by Rail’. Among others, cricketers Irrfan and Yusuf Pathan, who reside in Vadodara, were also at the station to meet Mr. Khan. — PTI CM YK NOIDA/DELHI 10 | EDITORIAL THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 Navigating a Trumpian world The past is no longer a guide to the future. In the coming years, Indian foreign policy will need less red lines and greater agility and pragmatism as the country seeks to find its place in this Age of Uncertainty

change. Most significant is Mr. Trump’s con- ued uninterrupted despite changes of gov- WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 viction that the U.S. is no longer a beneficiary ernment though the pace of change has var- RAKESH SOOD of the global order, often described as the lib- ied. This trajectory will continue in the same eral international order. It is an order that the direction for India sees itself as a beneficiary U.S. has invested in for more than a half cen- of globalisation. The end of tury. True, it is somewhat dysfunctional The third is the coming of age of the Indian Last week, as Donald Trump took the oath of today and the U.S. is no longer willing to diaspora in the U.S. Gradually, the first gener- oice to become the 45th President of the shoulder the burden alone. However the ation of Indian professionals who migrated in a protest United States, millions around the world other major powers — Russia and China — the 1960s and 1970s has moved towards form- watched, gripped by the thought that the sur- are demanding a high price to be a partner ing political groupings and has made its pres- verybody loves a good protest — an or- real had become real. Clearly, this is not just a ILLUSTRATION: SURENDRA and Europe, the traditional partner, is preoc- ence felt in local and national politics. The derly, self-limiting protest at iconic land- regular political transition that takes place cupied internally. With elections in France second generation is also entering the policy- marks organised with state sanction and every eight years (or sometimes, four years). The return to nationalism is in and Germany due this year and the jolt of making arena by joining government and police protection. But what began as a This is a transition pregnant with implica- Brexit in 2016, an air of uncertainty hangs running for public oice. With every elec- E tions, not just for the U.S. but also for its role the high pressure bubble of 24/7 over the Euro and the European model. tion, the number of Indians in the administra- people’s protest on Chennai’s Marina beach against the ban on jallikattu quickly descended into chaos in the world at a moment when tides of news, pushing populist leaders The return to nationalism in the 21st cen- tion and in the Congress continues to rise. and confusion when the protesters stood their change are already under way. Mr. Trump’s towards staking out positions tury is taking place in the high pressure These three factors encouraged Prime elevation adds to the unpredictability, mark- bubble of 24/7 news, amplified in the echo Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to describe In- ground even after the government came up with a ing 2017 as the beginning of a new age of from where retreat is difficult chamber of social media, pushing populist dia and the U.S. as “natural allies” when India practical, legislative solution to the judiciary-im- uncertainty. leaders towards staking out positions from was still subjected to U.S. sanctions after the posed prohibition of the annual bull-taming ritual. If there were any expectations that Presid- cause of their expanding role in diferent re- where retreat is diicult. This is true not just nuclear tests of 1998. These very factors As the police resorted to force, violence broke out ent Trump was going to be diferent from gions and not because it has been weakened for Mr. Trump but also for Russia, China and helped change U.S. President Barack Oba- in several parts of Tamil Nadu. Unfortunately, some candidate Trump, these were quickly dis- or depleted. Other countries have benefited other leaders who have crested the wave of ma’s initial inclinations in 2009 when he was in the police not only used excessive force but also pelled by his inaugural speech. There was from the U.S.-supported global order, be- populism. In a post-truth world, the line toying with the idea of giving Richard Hol- tried to match the rioters in lawlessness by attack- neither a healing touch nor a sense of humil- coming more prosperous but not at the cost between half-truths and lies gets blurred. brooke responsibility for Kashmir in addi- ing two-wheelers and setting fire to autorickshaws. ity. The polarising election campaign rhet- of “U.S. decay” as Mr. Trump would have the tion to Afghanistan. By 2010, Mr. Obama’s Only later in the day did the authorities try to use oric was in full-throated evidence during the Americans believe. No longer business as usual shift was evident when he described the U.S.- rational arguments by taking the help of a retired short address. He remained the outsider, rep- His belief that “the wealth of our middle Navigation requires reference to a fixed India engagement as “the defining partner- resenting the ordinary Americans even as he class has been ripped from their homes and point, a North Star, but in today’s policy ships of the 21st century”. judge and a group of lawyers to persuade the pro- railed against the “establishment”, represen- then redistributed all across the world” is a world with all the major powers playing a Prime Minister Narendra Modi kept the testers to vacate the Marina where the Republic ted by Washington. gross exaggeration but useful as a spur to hedging game, even as the existing institu- momentum going in a remarkable display of Day parade is scheduled to be held. Clearly, the gov- protectionism, restricting immigration and tions fall short of coping with the challenges pragmatism, marked by nine bilateral meet- ernment was slow to react, relying more on hope America first but alone bringing back borders. The fact is that more posed by a world in transition, there is no ings with Mr. Obama in two and a half years and good fortune than on facts and ground reports. “America first” may be a slogan used ef- U.S. manufacturing jobs have been lost due to pole. Every major power is dissatisfied with and more than a hundred new initiatives. And when it did, it acted as if the agitation was a fectively by Mr. Trump but it hardly makes increased eiciency and automation in the the status quo but no major power or even a Today, there exist more than 40 oicial bilat- case of breakdown of law and order. Many among for an innovative strategy. Previous U.S. Pres- U.S. manufacturing sector than on account of coalition of major powers is able to define, let eral dialogues covering the entire gamut of those who had taken the lead in the protests gave a idents have vowed to make America strong China becoming the world’s factory. Even as alone seek to establish a new status quo. the bilateral relationship. call for withdrawal of the agitation, but by this time and prosperous again but the fundamental the U.S. lost manufacturing jobs, its manufac- Meanwhile, the economic interdependence During the last decade, the major trans- diference this time is that Mr. Trump seeks turing output grew by over 86% during the between the U.S. and China coupled with a formation has been in the nuclear and the de- the movement had acquired a life of its own. No one to make America great on the plank of na- last decade. growing strategic mistrust creates the inevit- fence sectors. While the negotiations by the thing would have pleased what had become a large, tionalism and not by bolstering the global or- ability of the Thucydides Trap, in the ab- Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited amorphous crowd of several groups of people with der which the U.S. has shaped and led since Discontinuities in foreign policy sence of a forward looking leadership. with Westinghouse and GE for nuclear very diferent agenda items: jallikattu was by now the end of World War II. Mr. Trump’s policy reflects three key dis- Where does this leave India? The tides of power reactors are yet to be concluded, the no more than a loose binding thread. According to Mr. Trump, the global order continuities. First, he believes that he will be change will not come to a standstill merely sales of U.S. defence platforms to India dur- For days the Marina had beenthe haunt of people has hurt America. “For many decades, we’ve able to change the nature of relations, making because Trumpian America wants time out. ing the past decade have exceeded $15 billion of all hues. Those owing allegiance to Hindutva saw enriched foreign industry at the expense of Russia a cooperative partner — in Europe, in The churning in Asia will continue and un- covering howitzers, helicopters, transport the ban as an attack on cultural rituals and seemed American industry, subsidised the armies of Syria and against “Islamic terror”, which he like during the Cold War, India no longer has aircraft and maritime surveillance planes. to make common cause with those from minority other countries while allowing for the very has vowed to wipe out. Such a rapproche- the option of remaining disengaged. It is More significantly, working groups set up communities who felt threatened by the BJP-led sad depletion of our military,” he announced. ment would change a rivalrous relationship clear that it is no longer business as usual. under the Defence Technology and Trade Like his campaign rhetoric, this too is an ex- that has existed since 1948 when the Cold For the last quarter century, relations with Initiative (DTTI) have identified half a dozen government at the Centre. Conservatives sensed a ample of the post-truth era. Corporate Amer- War began. As recently as 2009, Hillary Clin- the U.S. have followed a predictable traject- co-development and co-production projects. judicial overreach on civil issues and shouted the ica has never been richer and therefore re- ton tried but failed to “reset” it. ory, determined by three key factors. The same slogans as left-wingers who imagined the up- mains both a driver and a beneficiary of Second, he would also like to change the first was the end of the Cold War and the dis- Age of uncertainty surge to be a people’s uprising against authoritari- globalisation even as it leads in technological U.S.’s China policy which has now been in integration of the former USSR. Russia under The Indian diaspora remains a constant anism. AIADMK members who tried to showcase innovation. It is the American worker who place since 1972. Trump’s conversation with its President, Vladimir Putin, has success- with some influence in the Trump adminis- the protest as a rebuf to a domineering Centre has sufered but his lot can hardly be im- Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, his question- fully reasserted itself but economics and tration, as does the continuing bipartisan stood not too far from DMK loyalists who wanted proved by constraining corporate America. ing of the One China policy, threatening demographics will not let it emerge as a su- support for India on the Hill, but Mr. Trump’s to use the opportunity to paint the State govern- The U.S., with a defence budget of more countervailing duties on Chinese imports, perpower, as was the case during the Cold shifts in other areas can impact bilateral ties. ment as inept. Not surprisingly, many of these than $600 billion, spends more on its security describing it as a currency manipulator and War. A retreat from globalisation translates into than the next six countries put together. If the threat to cybersecurity are indicators that The second shift was the opening up of the U.S. protectionism and tightening of the H1B people wanted the protest to go on, no matter what. U.S. defence forces appear stretched, it is be- that the four-decade-old policy is in for a Indian economy, a process that has contin- visa regime. The legislation addressed only the symptoms of If the U.S. loses interest in preserving and their anger, not its underlying cause. The govern- CARTOONSCAPE sustaining the current international order, it ment and its police force must take the blame for may induce a shift from the “Asia pivot” misreading the mood and mishandling a volatile which would remove a key plank in the U.S.- situation and putting a whole State through an en- India strategic partnership. Closer ties with tire day of anger and anguish. Russia would have implications for U.S. policy on Afghanistan, which is bound to raise concerns in Delhi, given Russia’s (and Iran’s) newfound acceptance of the Taliban. Mr. Trump’s calls for defence burden sharing Budgeting for could weaken NATO (and East Asian part- nerships) while his talk of shifting the U.S. the elections embassy in Israel to Jerusalem could spark a new Intifada. he suspense over the timing of the Union The Cold War had given way to a period Budget for 2017-18 finally ended on which remained undefined, described Monday with the Election Commission merely as a post-Cold War world; what is and the Supreme Court scotching calls, in clearer is that a quarter century later, we are T transitioning to more unpredictable times. It the light of upcoming elections for five State As- is neither the age of global hegemons nor the semblies, to defer the February 1 date proposed by age of multipolarity, but rather the age of re- the Centre. The NDA government has been keen to gional powers, each jostling to ensure its role abandon the tradition of presenting the next finan- in its region, often with shifting coalitions. cial year’s Budget on the last working day of Febru- The past is no longer a guide to help us peer ary, citing the potential benefits for the economy into the future. In the coming years, Mr. from faster spending of the approved public ex- Modi’s foreign policy will need less red lines penditure. With a February-end Budget, transmis- and greater agility and pragmatism as India sion of funds, and thereby meaningful implementa- seeks to find its place in this Age of Uncertainty. tion, seldom starts before June, by which time the monsoon sets in. This leaves just about two quar- Rakesh Sood is a former diplomat and currently ters to spend a whole year’s funding for projects in- Distinguished Fellow at the Observer Research volving physical infrastructure capacity-creation, Foundation. E-mail: [email protected] for instance. This is the argument in favour of ad- vancing the Budget date. The Opposition, for its part, has voiced concern that a Budget presentation LETTERS TO THE EDITOR this year so close to Assembly pollscould influence Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. voters. In 2012, the last time these five States were headed for polls, the UPA government had volun- From clamour to chaos restraint in the face of unreasonable children as well which reiterates the drought and other crises ahead. “performance” or have a tarily opted to defer the Budget presentation. But as defiance by frenzied pro-jallikattu belief that if people come together What is the use of “identity” and “performance-index” for an the Supreme Court has pointed out, the Central The ugly and violent end to the protesters. Some of the protesters for a cause, any goal is achievable. “pride” on an empty stomach? administrator unlike in the private Budget cannot shake the minds of voters in a State. student-led protest in Tamil Nadu were seen acting in an aggressive Murugan Sarangapani, Sharada Sivaram, sector (“Dealing with the Interestingly, the Election Commission’s nod for against the legal ban on jallikattu is manner with police oicers. Chennai Chennai deadwood”, Jan.22). Under such a February 1 Budget comes with the caveat that it shocking (“Jallikattu protests turn Television viewers will vouch for the circumstances, if a precedent is must not announce schemes aimed at poll-bound violent across Tamil Nadu”, Jan.24). fact that most of the policemen and The agitation would not have ended The agitation itself was an established to compulsorily retire a Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and The Tamil Nadu government owes women were seen moving around the way it did had the media not exhibition of mob mentality. The civil servant on grounds of “non- Goa, or even expound on any achievements of de- us all an explanation for the way in without lathis. It is strange how given it undue coverage, the public students who professed to be an performance” without safeguards, velopment programmes in these States. The cau- which it grossly mismanaged the political parties are now pouncing not blindly encouraged the enlightened group did not even then it could be misused by the tion to the government to not use the Budget as a situation. There were also police on the police for doing what they protesters and the government know the power of an ordinance. political leadership as a mechanism excesses. It is strange why the Tamil were supposed to do. How can stepped in earlier. Students have Their ignorance made them jump to “tame” the bureaucracy. campaign tool is understandable, and the govern- Nadu Chief Minister did not find the anyone support the gathering of used social media for a wrong cause. from one demand to another leaving Suyash Saxena, ment will have to be more nuanced in addressing time to visit Marina beach but could lakhs of people for days on end Instead, they could have used it to even impartial observers disgusted New Delhi the concerns of the entire country in the Budget go to Alanganallur instead. When demanding an instant solution to a exchange ideas to improve society as by the direction in which the protest without making a regional pitch. For long, govern- most of the students at the Marina issue caught in a web of judicial and a whole. Tradition and culture was heading. When a crowd is R.K. Raghavan may not be right ments have voiced discomfort with the model code requested the police to give them legislative limitations? Sanitary should encompass compassion for divided into sections and each one when he claims that no such “bold” of conduct in India’s perpetually ticking election some time to study the amendment, conditions at Marina beach were animals. seeks a separate explanation, how is action was taken in the last over 40 cycle, arguing that it inhibits decision-making. In- why was there a hurry to evict them? also fast deteriorating. R. Senchudar Tamizharuvi, it possible for the government to years against “a complacent and deed, this anxiety to reduce the paralysis imposed R.P.N. Padmanabhan, M.R. Anand, Coimbatore have a coordinated approach to growingly dishonest civil service” In by the model code has been one of the main reasons Chennai Chennai solve the problem? the 1980s, a dozen Indian Revenue The wave of protests is the Service oicers, equivalent to cited for a proposal for simultaneous elections to V. Rajagopalan, The brutal manner in which the Though the way the protests ended proverbial last straw in the already Chennai additional and joint secretaries, Parliament and State Assemblies. But simultaneous police evicted the participants who is an aberration, the movement is a battered image of the State. The poor were retired. But experience has elections could pose their own complications. The had assembled peacefully at various case study by itself. Apolitical handling of the floods last year We have burning issues such as shown that this was not the most departure from practice efected now is an oppor- sites across the State deserves to be without a typical pyramid of a which has cost the State crores of agrarian distress following a failed eicacious way to rid the civil tunity for the Centre not just to get on with the busi- condemned. What is worse is how a proper command and control set-up, rupees of prospective investment, monsoon. When such problems service of either the “deadwood” or ness of government, but also to do so in a confid- section of the police went about it swiftly achieved its goal with the and the number of working days lost stare us in the face, why protest for a the “corrupt” or both. As someone ence-building manner that would make a case for indulging in arson and damaging the help of social media. these past few months after natural revival of jallikattu and demand an those days said: “You cannot expect relaxing further, or reforming, the parameters of property of people from the lowest Communication was swift and the disasters and the uncertain situation instant result? What about the final an island of honesty amidst an ocean the model code. The government must act in good strata. To now deflect the blame on arrangements, which included following the death of Jayalalithaa judgment from the Supreme Court? of corruption.” It holds good even faith, and table a statement on the improvements “miscreants and anti-social ensuring complete safety for have sullied the image of the State as Mani Nataraajan, today. Corruption is too complex an elements” cannot erase the fact that women, were exemplary. This also a conducive place to work in. Even Chennai issue to be efectively addressed by recorded in outcomes on account of advancing this atrocities were carried out against leads us to believe that such “investor unfriendly” States such as the occasional use of the annual ritual when the Union Finance Minister hapless people. movements would provide a Kerala and West Bengal are leading compulsory retirement tool rises to present the Budget next week. Too-clever- Civil service reform S.V. Venugopalan, platform for the common man to the race in attracting foreign available with the government to by-half messaging to use the speech as a campaign Chennai address challenges in a Gandhian investment. The protesters and their The nature of the administrative rein in the corrupt. tool would only imperil this reform. way. One could see the whole- handlers should think about how the service is such that there cannot be S.K. Choudhury, The police acted with utmost hearted participation of women and State is going to cope with the any objective yardstick to judge Bengaluru

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 PERSPECTIVE 11

POLICY Flirting with chauvinism Lift the veil of secrecy In Tamil Nadu right now, the danger lies in the possibility that political elites within the Dravidian The primary aim of the demonetisation exercise was to tap black money. To mark the last day for de- parties may empower the more intolerant strand of Tamil identity politics positing the demonetised notes, on December 31, 2016, the Prime Minister, in his address to the nation, forces of collusion behind the uprising fully acknowledged the great hardship sufered by NARAYAN built on the sentiments of Tamil cul- K. PADMANABHAIAH common people due to the serious delay in making LAKSHMAN tural identity, the political ramifications the new currency notes available in the banks, may take much less time to bubble to ATMs and rural areas, and thanked them for the the surface. faith they reposed in him in spite of such hardships. He announced a slew of A great wave of ethnic sentiment is Yes, it is true that the top brass of the financial sops to the marginalised and farmers. While he made a passing sweeping across Tamil Nadu. What All India Anna Dravida Munnetra reference to black money hoarders being on the run, and about collusion on began as an admirably peaceful protest Kazhagam and the Dravida Munnetra the part of a few bank and government oicials, he made no mention of spe- against restrictions on jallikattu, the Kazhagam have been unable to assume cifics like the government’s estimates of black money and counterfeit Tamil tradition of bull taming, has this the mantle of leadership of this protest money unearthed by the demonetisation. Perhaps it was too early to arrive week mutated into violent hooliganism so far. However, given that the former is at such estimates with some precision. and police crackdowns. Many people witnessing a behind-the-scenes power have been injured across the State, po- tussle between the Sasikala clan and the Subverting the system lice stations are in flames in some loca- disgruntled non-Thevar party bosses, Newspapers were full of reports of some sensational cases of hoarding of tions, and the State government ma- and the latter may be awaiting an oppor- new currency notes, within a few days after the demonetisation, even as chinery is getting stretched thin in its tune moment for recently anointed common people could not get more than one, and then two new ₨2,000 attempts to keep protesters, many thou- Working President M.K. Stalin to prove notes even after standing in queues for hours. As of December 10, it was re- sands converging on Chennai’s Marina his mettle once again, it would not be ported that a stash of ₨242 crore in new currency notes had been uncovered. beach for example, under control. surprising if one or both of these parties Cases have to be investigated with the greatest speed as top priority and Beneath the surface of these law-and- soon seek to step into the fray. persons involved should be given exemplary jail terms. The investigation order problems a darker agenda of re- No matter who wins this battle, either should reveal how the new surgent Tamil chauvinism also appears of the major parties, or even popular notes, which were in such Most people think that the to be rearing its ugly head. Not only is leaders from within the protester co- short supply, reached these the anti-Delhi mood of the mobs be- hort, what is evident is that the jallikattu hoarders in record time. The fountainhead of black money is coming more strident by the day, but protests reflect a flirtation with the Prime Minister or his repres- the provision that parties need posters of Velupillai Prabhakaran, late forces of Tamil ethnic politics that can entatives should have given not disclose source of leader of the extremist Liberation Ti- AN UGLY TURN: “The spiralling mass demonstrations come at a juncture when both demonstrably spin out of control of any some details about the likely gers of Tamil Eelam in Sri Lanka, are major Dravidian parties are facing their toughest test of leadership in recent institutional mechanism and become time frame for strong action contributions of ₨20,000 or less popping up, as are “secessionist slo- history.” Protesters and policepersons clash near the Marina beach. PHOTO: R. RAGU increasingly chauvinist. against those caught, includ- gans” reported in several protest sites. The long history of the Dravidian ing hoarders and corrupt oicials, to reassure the common man about the These signs are indicative of a deeper As the protest slogans have potentially feasible; yet, as in the case of movement shows that the Tamils have a government’s seriousness in dealing with black money. play, and it cannot be a coincidence that any policy in India, and specifically remarkable capacity for articulating There are two other aspects of demonetisation on which clarity is re- the spiralling mass demonstrations become more shrill, it has policies that clash with weighty histor- valued cultural attributes, whether the quired. One is the status of political funds, and the other the status of dona- come at this particular juncture in become evident that ical-cultural practices, the eicacy of Tamil language, Tamil cinema, or their tions/oferings made to temples and religious institutions, through the so- Tamil politics, when a feverish search is regulation will boil down to sheer polit- love for their god-like political heroes. It called temple hundis. on for political legitimacy, and both ma- invisible forces have been ical will. This applies to every level of only takes an emotive trigger such as jor Dravidian parties are facing their backing the protesters government, from the very apex of the jallikattu to bring the masses to their Political donations as conduit? toughest test of leadership in recent his- State administration down to oicers feet, as we have seen over the past week. Political party funds are exempted from income tax, though parties are tory. charged with monitoring the event at required to maintain books of accounts, and file income returns. Moreover, the debate is the allegation by animal the village level. The changing nature of the State they are not required to keep any details of the source of funds if the indi- Beyond jallikattu rights organisations such as the Animal This brings us to the nub of the issue: Historically the ebb and flow of this vidual contributions are ₨20,000 or less. It is well known that almost 90% of While jallikattu indeed enjoys a tem- Welfare Board of India and the People the role of politics in fomenting or con- movement has come up against the the funds of major political parties are of this nature. poral provenance that dates back to the for the Ethical Treatment of Animals trolling what is being naively dubbed as broader rubric of the Indian state, for The Union Revenue Secretary reportedly said on December 16 that polit- hoary history of Tamil civilisation, as (PETA) that the Bos indicus bulls used the ‘Tamil Spring’ by some overzealous example during the anti-Hindi agita- ical parties can accept cash donations even after November 8. The Finance far back as 400-100 BC according to in jallikatu are subject to cruelty, are pundits. tion, and on such occasions a comprom- Minister, however, said a couple of days later that political parties cannot some accounts, the latest legal saga of physically and mentally tortured for hu- ise solution has usually emerged, strik- accept donations in old ₨500 and ₨1,000 notes. The question, thus, is the “sport” relates directly to the May 7, man pleasure, and the sport is thus dir- Behind the protests ing a balance between radical whether parties did accept cash donations in demonetised bills after 2014 decision of the Supreme Court to ectly in contravention of the POCA. The remarkable energy that has in- ethnic-based demands and forced uni- November 8. If so, it could have been a great device for converting black ban the sport by upholding a notifica- This appears to be borne out by a pleth- fused this apparently leaderless ‘move- formity imposed by a distant capital. money into white in the hands of unethical political parties by breaking tion issued by the Ministry of Environ- ora of photographic and video evid- ment’, as well as its uniformly peaceful Similarly the changing nature of down huge contributions into a number of small ones of ₨20,000 or less; an ment in 2011 to add bulls to the list of an- ence, some of it available on the You- nature, were seen as praiseworthy at- Tamil society, which has been impacted unethical political party could even receive cash contributions after imals whose training and exhibition is Tube channels of the aforementioned tributes during the first few days of the by recent trends in economic mobility November 8, but show in its books that the money was received before that prohibited. animal rights groups. protest marches in the State. and the influx of people from other date. Perhaps fearing the loss of political The countervailing arguments by Yet as the protest slogans have be- States, has profoundly transformed the Disclosure of figures about cash donations received by political parties currency associated with the ban in the spokespersons of the jallikattu “move- come more shrill, and festive gatherings more radical-assertive anti-Brahmin- before and after November 8, and the amount deposited in the banks by aftermath of the death of Tamil Nadu ment” include the claim that as a key on the Marina beach have given way to ism of the early years of the Dravidian December 30, and whether any part of it will be taxed, would help in an in- Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Decem- event of Mattu Pongal, jallikattu is es- more unruly agitations across the State, movement into a more inclusive, pa- formed debate. It may be noted that all political parties have taken a stand ber 5, 2016, the State government acted sential to preserving the indigenous it has become evident that invisible ternal-populist welfarism of the late that they are not subject to the jurisdiction of the Right to Information Act. quickly, promulgating an ordinance to bull species, a way of life in rural, pas- forces have been backing the protesters. 1990s and beyond. It would also be useful to find out the amount of cash deposited by amend the Prevention of Cruelty to An- toral Tamil Nadu, and is indeed a celeb- Otherwise, who could have funded The danger at the present juncture temples after November 8 purportedly received as donations to know how imals Act, 1960 (POCA), thus making rated feature of Tamil identity itself, de- the distribution of food and water to the lies in possibility that the political elites funds so received will be dealt with (so as not to enable conversion of black jallikattu legal again. Legislation was scribed as it is at several points in the many thousands gathered with their within the fold of the Dravidian parties money into white), and whether any part of such collections would be subsequently passed in a special ses- cherished Sangam literary tradition. families on the beach last week? Was it may, in their bid to capture the mo- taxed. sion of the State Assembly on Monday. On the face of it, the argument about out of a sheer sense of duty that the en- mentum of the jallikattu movement, That, despite this, swelling crowds preserving biodiversity cannot consti- tire police machinery quickly snapped empower the more intolerant, unstable Keeping the public informed have continued to bring life to a stand- tute a full and consistent defence of to attention to marshal the crowds on and violence-prone strand of Tamil Even if the entire ₨15.4 lakh crore of demonetised currency is received still, that riot-like conditions have jallikattu, for that reasoning does not Marina beach, to manage with a firm identity politics. back in the banks, obviously a part of it would be black money (i.e. money gripped other parts of the State such as address the charge of animal cruelty, the but gentle hand all the traic snarls and If that unfortunate outcome should that hadn’t been taxed). The government should ask the Income Tax De- Alanganallur in Madurai district, and burden of disproving which belongs to bandh-associated disruptions across materialise, it would be a series back- partment to finalise suspicious cases within six months, if necessary by that the anti-New Delhi sentiment con- the proponents of the event — espe- Chennai and similar issues elsewhere in slide for the State in terms of the com- putting aside all routine work relating to regular assessments, etc. for the tinues to stalk the land speak to factors cially given the startling clarity of the the State? mendable progress made under the old time being. underpinning the civic disturbance that animal abuse evident in video evidence. While it will probably be an ongoing guard. Before the demonetisation exercise, it was reported that the Income De- go beyond sentimentalism for jallikattu. The proposed middle path of permit- endeavour of investigative journalists claration Scheme, which ended on September 30, 2016, has fetched ₨67,382 Taking a macro view, at the heart of ting jallikattu but tightly regulating it is and political analysts to unpack the [email protected] crore of undisclosed income and should result in tax and penalty of ₨30,322 crore, to be paid in two equal instalments on November 30, 2016 and September 2017. The government should reveal how much tax was actually received by November 30 out of the estimated ₨15,161 crore. The Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana provides a window from Bridging the Gulf December 17, 2016 to March 31, 2017 for holders of black money to declare their assets. Fortnightly data of remittances to this fund should be released for information of the public. Most people think that the fountainhead of black money is the provision India-UAE ties are an exemplar for the changing Indian approach towards the wider region that political parties need not disclose source of contributions of ₨20,000 or less. Support for the Prime Minister would have soared sky-high had he de- ate in its planned infrastructure expan- clared that from the midnight of December 31, all cash donations to parties sion. Meanwhile, the Gulf states are were to be banned. But he missed the opportunity, and now it cannot be HARSH V. PANT interested in human resources from In- done even if one wants to until the upcoming Assembly elections to five dia in order to develop sectors as varied States are over. as information technology, construc- tion, transportation and services. K. Padmanabhaiah, an IAS officer of the 1961 batch, served as Union Home Secretary and is the India’s ties with the United Arab Emir- India’s trade and energy security is Chairman of the Court of Governors of Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI), Hyderabad. ates (UAE) are set to get a major boost inextricably linked to the security of the with the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Straits of Hormuz and Bab-el-Mandeb. Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al With this in mind, the Indian Navy reg- Nahyan, visiting New Delhi as the chief ularly visits Gulf ports, and trains with guest at the Republic Day parade. states in the region. It has undertaken a FROM THE ARCHIVES In recent years, Delhi has often used series of naval exercises with a number this ceremony to send out important of Gulf States in recent years, thereby signals on the foreign policy front by in- helping in expanding India’s reach in viting its key partners. The Modi gov- the region. Indian warships have also (dated January 25, 1967) ernment has invested significant diplo- been deployed in the Gulf of Aden to matic capital towards strengthening its carry out anti-piracy patrols. Income ceiling will consumption levels and ties with the UAE. With the conclusion foster brain drain productivity. Dr. Madan of a Comprehensive Strategic Partner- Expatriate labour emphasised the productivity test. ship agreement between India and the In addition, Indians are the largest ex- A Steering group on incomes What weight should be attached UAE this week, this relationship is patriate community in the GCC states, and prices policy has come to the to each of these would be poised for a dramatic leap. numbering around 7 million. There are conclusion that it is not determined by the permanent A contingent of 179 UAE soldiers will an estimated 2.6 million Indians in the practicable in Indian conditions body. lead the Republic Day parade. Several UAE alone. Indian expatriate labour to enforce either a floor or a Dr. B.N. Adarkar, another agreements, including one on road and BOOSTING TIES: “India is well positioned to emerge as a credible security and constitutes around 30 per cent of the ceiling on incomes. However, it Deputy Governor of the Reserve maritime transport, are expected to be economic partner of the UAE.” PM Narendra Modi receives Abu Dhabi's crown total population of the UAE, and Indi- has suggested a permanent body Bank of India, who was one of the signed during the visit. The two sides prince, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in New Delhi. PHOTO: AP ans have a significant presence in to study and recommend members of the Steering Group, will underscore their commitment to Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. India re- workable policies from time to added that the incomes policy deal with terrorism. They also hope to the Emirates in 34 years. The joint state- ceives around 52 per cent of its remit- time, in relation to general should not be looked upon as the work closely in Afghanistan, where five ment issued by Mr. Modi and Crown The UAE endorsing India’s tances from its Gulf expatriates, which economic conditions. The remedy for an inflationary UAE diplomats were killed earlier this Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al concerns on terrorism have contributed significantly to India’s Steering Group, whose well- situation. month in a terror attack and where re- Nahyan redefined the contours of a re- underscores the challenges economic resurgence, even as there argued report was released here Mao’s plan for gional alignments are in flux. lationship that had long lacked political facing the Gulf kingdoms at a have been growing concerns about the [Bombay] to-day [January 24], new party heft. Both sides denounced and op- living and working conditions in the was presided over by Dr. B. K. Trade and investment posed terrorism in “all forms and mani- time when the IS is rising host countries. India is pursuing man- Madan, Deputy Governor of the Mr. Mao Tse-tung, Chairman of Currently, India and the UAE have a festations, wherever committed and by power and labour agreements with Gulf Reserve Bank of India. It was set the Chinese Communist Party has $350 billion bilateral trade, which they whomever, calling on all states to reject widening. states to help Indian workers in the re- up in June 1964, at the suggestion decided to have a new plan to increase three times in the near and abandon the use of terrorism New Delhi has tried to anchor its gion. It has also launched the eMigrate of Mr. T.T. Krishnamachari. Communist Party for China based future. After China and the U.S., the against other countries, dismantle ter- UAE policy in a broader regional frame- system for recruitment of Indian work- Explaining the report at a news on 100 per cent “Maoism” and, if UAE is India’s largest trading partner. rorism infrastructures where they exist, work as the economic dimension of In- ers across the 17 Emigration Check Re- conference, Dr. Madan said that necessary, the new party would be The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and bring perpetrators of terrorism to dia’s Gulf policy has become more pro- quired countries. incomes policy would be diicult set up in parallel to the existing one of the largest sovereign wealth justice.” The target was clearly nounced in recent years. The Gulf India is well positioned to emerge as a to enforce over the whole of the one, press despatches received funds, is seeking to identify investment Pakistan, as they came down strongly Cooperation Council (GCC) is India’s credible security and economic partner economy. The main point was that here [Tokyo] from Japanese opportunities in the Indian infrastruc- on countries sponsoring terrorism second-largest trading partner, the of the UAE and the larger Gulf region at incomes should not outstrip the correspondents at Peking said ture sector. The $75 billion UAE-India against other states. That Mr. Modi largest single origin of imports into the a time when the West is looking inwards growth of the national product, to-day [January 24]. The reports Infrastructure Investment Fund, to sup- could get the UAE, one of the countries country, and the second largest destina- and China’s rise is getting hobbled by its and that they should be said Mr. Mao has also ordered his port investment in India’s infrastruc- closest to Pakistan, to deliver such a tion for exports from India. The GCC aggressive rhetoric on territorial issues. suiciently flexible to go up when followers to proceed with the ture sector over a decade, has not seen message shows how well he had read countries supply 45 per cent of India’s India-UAE ties are an exemplar for the productivity goes up and move setting up of a “model- much progress and the two sides are the changing strategic realities in West petroleum, with the UAE being the changing Indian approach towards the down when productivity goes Government tor Peking” (Peking hoping to put it on a fast track. Asia. The UAE endorsing India’s con- sixth largest source of imports of crude wider region. down. A meaningful price policy municipal area) and that also, if The vigour in India-UAE ties today cerns on terrorism underscores the oil. The region remains a major destina- in Indian conditions would take need be, in parallel to the existing owes its origins to Prime Minister Nar- challenges facing the Gulf kingdoms at tion for Indian investment. India hopes Harsh V. Pant is a Distinguished Fellow at Observer into account the cost of living, set up. endra Modi’s visit to the UAE in 2015, a time when the Islamic State is rising that major GCC states such as Saudi Ar- Research Foundation, New Delhi and Professor of the first by an Indian Prime Minister to and sectarian divide in the region is abia, the UAE, and Oman will particip- International Relations at King’s College London. CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 12 | NEWS THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017

FROM PAGE ONE SC rejects plea on ‘69% of political funds from unknown sources’ BCCI committee Association for Democratic Reforms says the income of national parties from unknown sources increased by 313% DEVESH K. PANDEY ₨1,835.63 crore were avail- has not submitted its dona- none of these countries it is “We are not for destruction it should also ‘take charge’ able. The income from other tions report to the EC possible for almost 75% of of autonomy. We are for re- of State cricket associations NEW DELHI: The total income of known sources, such as sale between 2004-05 and 2006- the source of funds to be un- moving the impure ele- and their assets like stadi- national and regional polit- of assets, membership fees, 07. The Congress has de- known, but at present it is so ments, so that they [sports ums, if they continue to re- ical parties between 2004-05 bank interest, the sale of pub- clared donations of ₨400.32 in India,” said the report, bodies] gain back true fuse to implement Lodha and 2014-15 stood at ₨11,367 lications and party levy, was crore. adding any organisation that autonomy,” Justice Misra reforms. crore, with the highest of ₨1,698.73 crore, about 15% of receives foreign funding told Mr. Rohatgi. “I am not going to give ₨3,982 crore being the Con- the total. I-T returns should not be allowed to sup- Amicus curiae and any undertakings because gress’s share. However, 69% While about 43% of the According to the ADR, the port or campaign for any senior advocate Gopal Sub- all this is totally in violation of the income of these total income of six national income-tax returns of 42 of candidate or political party. ramanium said eforts were of law. How can you take parties was from unknown parties was that of the Con- the 51 regional parties ana- on to sow confusion, scut- away my rights? How can sources, according to an ana- gress, the BJP stood second lysed were unavailable for at Tax exemption tling the progress attained you appoint a body of ad- lysis done by the Association with just over 35%, or least one financial year. The Recently, the report men- in the BCCI case so far. ministrators over elected for Democratic Reforms ₨3,272.63 crore. The CPI(M) total declared income of re- tioned that the Election To this, Justice Misra said bodies,” Mr. Sibal objected. (ADR). declared the third highest in- gional parties during the Commission had recommen- that “once we pen an order, He submitted that the Su- The income of national come of about ₨893 crore. period stood at ₨2,089 crore, ded that tax exemption be it is clear as day that it will preme Court should hear parties from unknown “About 83% of the total in- the highest being that of the awarded only to those polit- be implemented.” the State associations first sources increased by 313% come of the Congress, Samajwadi Party at ₨819 ical parties which contest before appointing the during the decade; for the re- amounting to ₨3,323.39 crore, crore, followed by the DMK and win seats in the Lok Age bar to stay committee. gional parties, it went up by and 65% of total income of with ₨203 crore and the AI- Sabha or Assembly elec- The court made it clear The Bench was hearing 652%. The BSP is the only the BJP, amounting to ADMK with ₨165 crore. tions. The EC suggested that that it would not consider the specific issue of ap- party which has got 100% of ₨2,125.91 crore, came from Based on the findings, the details of all those who — in conformity with the pointing the administrative its income through dona- unknown sources.” ADR has recommended that donate above ₨2,000 be Lodha panel recommenda- committee based on a con- tions from unknown sources. full details of all donors be made public. Scrutiny of the tions — any person who is fidential list of names sug- Its total income increased by Voluntary contributions made available for public political party’s financial over 70 years old for the gested by Mr. Sub- 2,057%, from ₨5.19 crore dur- The total donations above the highest of ₨918 crore vol- ing the same period,” the re- scrutiny under the RTI. documents should be con- committee of ramanium and senior ing 2004-05 to ₨111.96 crore ₨20,000 per entry, for which untary contributions in the port said. “Some countries where ducted annually by a body administrators. advocate Anil Divan. during 2014-15. the national parties are to de- category. “The donations de- The BSP has not reported this is done include Bhutan, approved by the EC and the The Attorney General’s The ADR report, released clare the sources, was about clared by the BJP are more any donation above ₨20,000 Nepal, Germany, France, Comptroller and Auditor submission about pro- Delegates for ICC meet on Tuesday, says the details ₨1405.19 crore and the BJP than twice the donations de- in the past 11 years, while the Italy, Brazil, Bulgaria, the General for greater transpar- posed legislation for Meanwhile, the court al- of donors pertaining only to topped the list for declaring clared by the Congress dur- Nationalist Congress Party United States and Japan. In ency, the report said. autonomy had come imme- lowed the BCCI to name diately after senior advoc- three of its current oice- ate Kapil Sibal, appearing bearers who are not dis- for some State cricket asso- qualified by the Lodha PM must tell nation EC tells parties to ciations, brought attention Committee recommenda- what note ban The voice of Modi’s foreign policy to an application filed by tions, for the purpose of uphold SC order Mr. Subramanium. representing the BCCI at achieved: Nitish SUHASINI HAIDAR Jaishankar has made Mr. Jaishankar will now be Mr. Subramanium said the ICC executive commit- counted on to smooth the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT that once the Committee of tee meeting in the first AMARNATH TEWARY NEW DELHI: By granting Foreign a mark not just for transition from President Administrators is in place, week of February. Secretary S. Jaishankar an ex- carrying out Modi’s Obama to President Trump, NEW DELHI: The Election Com- PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister tension for a year, Prime foreign policy but and to ensure that Washing- mission (EC) on Tuesday is- Nitish Kumar on Tuesday Minister Narendra Modi has ton continues the Obama sued an order to all political said Prime Minister Naren- made a departure from the also articulating it policy towards India: on sup- parties to strictly adhere to Centre seeks to withdraw dra Modi must tell the coun- norm of a fixed two-year ten- port for membership of the the recent Supreme Court try what were the positives ure for bureaucrats. How- for frank and direct conver- Nuclear Suppliers Group, judgment that soliciting of of his government’s demon- ever, the extension had been sations between the leader- keeping commitments on votes on the ground of reli- its jallikattu notification etisation move. widely expected, say Ex- ships. Their shared appear- funding India’s climate gion, caste, race, community Mr. Kumar also appealed ternal Afairs Ministry oi- ances — including the change projects, on making or language is a “corrupt The submission came a day to the PM, that like Bihar, he cials and Mr. Jaishankar’s world’s most powerful selfie allowances for Indian tech- practice” and calls for dis- after the Assembly passed should enforce total ban on predecessors. — and utterances would ies and H1B visa hopefuls to qualification of the candid- the Prevention of Cruelty liquor at least in BJP-ruled “This was the general ex- have been diicult to envis- continue to work in the U.S., ate. to Animals (Tamil Nadu States. pectation. Both his compet- age a year ago.” but most important, to re- “By a majority judgment, Amendment), Bill, 2017, “I had supported the de- ence and his proximity to the main an important presence the apex court has held that which is now before the monetisation move of the Prime Minister have been re- Indo-U.S ties in India’s neighbourhood to any appeal to vote or to re- President to see if there is Central government and my cognised, and within the ser- S. Jaishankar When it comes to actual contain China’s frain from voting for a can- any repugnancy with the support was variously inter- vice, too, there was no resist- policy, Mr. Jaishankar’s transgressions. didate on the ground of reli- Central Act. preted by several people and ance,” former Foreign policy in continuity to the biggest success is the Indo- gion, caste, race, community The passing of the Bill political parties as well…but, Secretary Kanwal Sibal told past. “Remember Barack U.S. relationship that has Choppy waters ahead or language of the candidate, and the Centre’s move now after 76 days I would re- The Hindu. “I think there Obama’s visit on January 26? gone from being one of a “India doesn’t want an election agent, any person seeking withdrawal of the quest the Prime Minister would have actually been a Or the bonding with Shinzo number of India’s strategic America that withdraws making the appeal with the January 7 notification that he must tell the country great deal of surprise if he Abe in Kyoto. Assess the re- partnerships to its most im- from the world at this point,” consent of the candidate or would end up rendering a Participants trying to tame a what have been its good im- [Mr. Jaishankar] did not re- cent response of Nepal and portant one. explained former NSA on the ground of the religion, judgment on the constitu- bull during jallikattu in pact and results…we all ceive the extension.” Bangladesh on long-standing The signing of the joint Shivshankar Menon during a caste, etc., of the electors tionality of the notification Madurai. — FILE PHOTO: PTI want to know,” said Mr. Ku- issues. Look at Op. Rahat in vision statement for Asia Pa- discussion in Jaipur on would amount to corrupt infructuous. The Supreme mar, while addressing a ‘Change’ from the past Yemen and Op. Maitri in cific and Indian Ocean re- Sunday. “China sees an op- practice [under the Repres- Court had reserved a batch massive protests. function held to celebrate In the past two years, since Nepal. Consider the integ- gions, followed by the sign- portunity both strategically entation of the People Act],” of petitions filed by animal The court had acqui- the birth anniversary of Mr. Jaishankar was appoin- rated tours of Central Asia, ing of the LEMOA military and economically if that hap- said the EC order. lovers and organisations, esced. Since the passing of former Bihar Chief Minister ted just days short of his re- East Asia, or the Indian exchanges agreement, in- pens in the Trump era.” “The political parties may challenging the notifica- the Amendment Bill, nearly and veteran socialist leader tirement, he has made a mark Ocean. So let me ask you: denting a $15 billion in de- In that sense, most diplo- also suitably brief and in- tion after prolonged hear- 70 caveats, including that of Karpoori Thakur. for not just carrying out the does this look like diplomacy fence purchases and leading mats and foreign policy ana- form their lower formations ings on its legal validity. the Tamil Nadu govern- Earlier, on Monday the JD foreign policy of the Modi as usual,” Mr. Jaishankar had up to the U.S. Congressional lysts agree, Mr. Jaishankar’s and party cadres and all their It was only last week, on ment, have been filed to (U) core committee meet- government but also articu- asked an audience in Delhi ratification of India as a “Ma- challenges in the next year candidates about the ruling January 20, that the Centre prevent the apex court ing was held at the oicial lating it. on India’s “new foreign jor Defence Partner”, can all will be less about establish- of the SC and ask them to de- had approached the Su- from passing any orders residence of the Chief Min- At a book release in 2015, policy”. be notched up to a large ex- ing India’s foreign policy as sist from any activities that preme Court to delay the against the new State legis- ister till midnight to discuss the Foreign Secretary made A few days later, he told an tent to Mr. Jaishankar’s stable and solid, and more would amount to soliciting pronouncement of its judg- lation without hearing the issues of demonetisation it clear that he spoke for Mr. audience in Singapore about squiring of the Indo-U.S. and about dealing with the turbu- votes in the name of religion, ment on the notification by them first. and the party’s course of ac- Modi’s foreign policy as a the Prime Minister’s meet- Modi-Obama relationship as lence and unpredictability it caste, etc…such appeals may a week. Mr. Rohatgi had The January 7 notifica- tion in the Uttar Pradesh As- ‘change’ from the past, and ing with Chinese Premier Li India’s Ambassador to Wash- may see from as a result of all also fall within the ambit of then submitted that pas- tion was issued by the sembly poll. not, as has been the tradi- Kequiang, ington (2014-2015) and as the changes blowing through the Model Code of Conduct,” sions were running high in Centre to circumvent a 2014 tional way, of showing it as “The mood today allows Foreign Secretary. Beijing and Washington. said the order. Tamil Nadu, and some lee- Supreme Court ban, which way should be given by the termed the event conduc- court so that the Centre and ted during the Pongal fest- the State government could ival as an ‘inherent act of 777 policemen to India hopes for $75-bn engage in talks to end cruelty’ against bulls. In a rare display, Tejas get President’s Police Medals infra fund from UAE HC stalls SP govt.’s to thunder over Rajpath SUHASINI HAIDAR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT DINAKAR PERI before. There is no rigid rule. NEW DELHI: India and the UAE bid to widen SC list But it is not common too,” NEW DELHI: As many as 777 po- are expected to announce His government amended fitting the 17 MBCs. In NEW DELHI: In a rare Republic said Air Marshal (Retd) M. licemen will get the Presid- more than a dozen agree- the UP Public Services Act, 2008, Mayawati govern- Day flypast for a single-en- Matheswaran, former ent’s Police Medals on the ments as they spell out their 1994 to make way for the in- ment even made some re- gine aircraft, the indigen- Deputy Chief of the Integ- occasion of Republic Day. strategic partnership on clusion. commendations to the ously developed light com- rated Defence Staf. A total of 597 personnel Wednesday, including an However, since the Centre but with the clause bat aircraft, Tejas, will set a He said that it was a matter will be given the Police MoU on the proposed $75- power to declare any caste that the 17 MBCs be added record on Thursday. Three of pride that an Indian-de- Medals for Meritorious Ser- billion UAE sovereign Mohammad Bin Zayed as “Scheduled” rests with to the SC list only after the of these aircraft will take of signed aircraft was leading vice, 85% of them going to wealth fund investment in Al Nahyan the Centre, the UP govern- expansion of the quota for from Bikaner and fly in vic- the flypast. “Today’s reliabil- the lower ranks. Only 15 IPS Indian infrastructure that ment’s decision came to Dalits, a stand she sticks to tory formation over Rajpath. Three Tejas aircraft will do a ity of single-engine fighters oicers have been selected, has been hanging fire for 18 a linchpin of stability and se- nought in absence of the even today. “After an incident in the flypast this Republic Day. is as good as double engines,” while the remaining are con- months. curity in the Asian contin- Centre’s consent. The de- After Akhilesh Yadav 1980s, as a practice, single- — FILE PHOTO he added. stables, assistant sub-in- The agreements to be ent”, adding that the future cision was later quashed by came to power, another engine aircraft have gener- In addition, the Ordnance spectors and sub-inspectors. signed after bilateral talks would see “breakthroughs” the Allahabad HC. proposal was sent to the ally been avoided in view of lieved to face a greater risk Factory Board (OFB) is dis- Eighty President’s Police between the visiting UAE in the strategic partnership When the BSP came to Centre in 2013 but the public safety,” a defence from bird hits, low-flying playing the Dhanush artil- Medals for distinguished crown prince of Abu Dhabi During Mr. Modi’s visit to power in 2007, the facilities Centre rejected it. When source said on Tuesday. conditions and also in view lery gun, while the Defence service are being given, with and deputy supreme com- Abu Dhabi in August 2015, given under the proposal the NDA came to power in In October 1989, a of large public gatherings Research and Development a 50% increase in the number mander Mohammad Bin Za- the two sides announced a were also withdrawn. 2014, the Akhilesh Yadav Mirage-2000 fighter crashed and presence of important Organisation (DRDO) is dis- winners from the constable yed Al Nahyan and Prime plan to create a mechanism regime sent another pro- while performing man- dignitaries. However, ex- playing the Advanced Towed and sub-inspector ranks. Minister Narendra Modi will in India to facilitate the in- Chipping at votebank posal to the Centre but it oeuvres during the 57th an- perts say that it is not a rigid Artillery Gun System. While no one gets the include MoUs on invest- vestment of “up to” $75 bil- The BSP feared that the was also rejected. niversary celebration of the rule. Dhanush is upgraded from President’s Police Medal for ment, strategic partnership lion over a period of 10 years motive of the Samajwadi The Congress has now Indian Air Force at the Palam “It is not an exception as the Swedish Bofors how- Gallantry, 100 will get the Po- on oil and energy, defence from UAE. Party move was to dent its promised these castes a Air Force station. MiG-21s and Mirage-2000 itzers India procured in the lice Medal for Gallantry. Of manufacturing and pur- The decision to set up the votebank rather than bene- quota within quota. Single-engine jets are be- jets have flown on Rajpath mid-1980s. them, 55 are constables, 25 as- chases, oicials said here on National Investment and In- sistant sub-inspectors, sub- Monday. frastructure Fund (NIIF) inspectors and constables, 15 A joint vision statement was announced by Finance assistant commandants/ from Mr. Modi and the Minister Arun Jaitley in the deputy superintendents of Crown Prince is also expec- Union Budget 2015-16 and Ukraine’s Deputy PM to join R-Day celebrations police and five additional su- ted to be released. “Both was subsequently approved perintendents and superin- leaders have invested a lot of by the Cabinet in July 2015. KALLOL BHATTACHERJEE “We expect Mr. Kubiv’s representatives of Bharat significant as the last major tendents. Another 10 get it personal time and energy,” Even so, UAE oicials said visit to produce a new indus- Heavy Electricals Limited visit from Ukraine was by posthumously. With 32 secretary Economic Rela- the project was delayed as NEW DELHI: In a move that is ex- trial and economic agenda and several other major pub- President Viktor Ya- medals, Jammu and Kashmir tions, Amar Sinha told journ- the Indian side failed to re- pected to draw sharp atten- which we will take forward lic sector companies during nukovych who met Prime police leads this list. A J&K alists ahead of the visit. vert on their questions on ad- tion from Moscow, India will in the inter-governmental his last visit that are expec- Minister Manmohan Singh sub-inspector, Nazir Ahmad For the second time since ministering the fund, for hold bilateral discussions commission meeting in ted to be in focus during the in 2012 in Delhi. Kuchey, will get two for his Mohammad Bin Zayed vis- more than a year. with a major Ukrainian April,” said Mr. Polikha. visit of Mr. Kubiv. The visit could not pro- role in two encounters in ited in February 2016, Mr. “We were awaiting a re- leader on January 26. Ties between India and During his visit Mr. Kubiv duce forward movement as 2014 and 2015 that killed Modi went to the airport to sponse from the Indian side Ambassador of Ukraine Ukraine began warming up who will be accompanied by Ukraine was drawn to a Pakistani militants. receive him, exchanging em- for the terms and rules which Dr Igor Polikha told The last year with the discussion five senior diplomats from broader conflict with Russia P. Sanjoy Singh, a Manipur braces with him on the tar- would be applied before the Hindu that in a symbolic ges- between Ukrainian diplo- the Ukrainian government, soon thereafter. inspector, is getting the sev- mac. This is the first time In- creation of this fund, ” UAE ture, First Deputy Prime mats and MEA’s Secretary in Stepan Kubiv will hold bilateral meeting Indian sources however enth in his career. The State dia has hosted a non-head of Ambassador to India Ahmed Minister Stepan Kubiv will charge of Western hemi- with Mr. Akbar. He is likely pointed out that the visit is a recommended him for state or government in 50 Al Banna told The Hindu participate in the Republic sphere, Sujata Mehta. Sub- The inter-governmental to meet Minister of Com- sign of India’s diplomatic killing two United Revolu- years, making a rare excep- earlier this month. Admit- day celebrations to mark the sequently, the Minister for commission will be co- merce Nirmala Sitharaman, continuity. Mr. Polikha said tionary Front militants in tion for the UAE leader. ting the delays due to the fact beginning of a new phase of Heavy Industries Anant chaired by Minister of State and several other ministers, that Ukraine is hopeful of 2015. Constables Rajesh Responding to a tweet the NIIF didn’t even have a India-Ukraine ties after a gap Geete visited Ukraine in for External Afairs M.J. Ak- before flying to Vishakhapat- continuing with bilateral ex- Shukla and Randhir Singh from Mr. Modi on Wednes- CEO until October 2016, the of several years caused by November 2016. Mr. Kubiv’s bar and the Ukrainian for- nam to participate in the changes. “We hope to host get the medal for killing a day night, Prince Mo- MEA sources hoped all the Ukraine’s war with Russia visit is being viewed as a re- eign minister Pavlo Klimkin. Partnership Summit 2017. the Indian president some- Khalistani militant, Khajan hammad Bin Zayed wrote loose ends would be tied up over Crimea. ciprocal gesture by Ukraine. Mr. Geete had taken along The visit from Ukraine is time this year,” he said. Singh, in Punjab in 1992. that the UAE “views India as on Wednesday after talks.

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POLLDIARY For BJP, all bets are off in western U.P. Look who’s hosting dinner IMPHAL: The elections have shown up the desperate shortage of professional cooks and caterers in While the party has to set its house in order and worry over demonetisation impact, a Sangh leader has raked up the quota question Manipur. This when prices of chicken and other meat and fish have shot through the roof as SMITA GUPTA ticket, he announces, and a In Budhana in Muzaf- candidates are hosting cheer goes up. farnagar, a large section of Jat dinners, lunch and tea. BADAYUN: In Barkheda village Saying that Mr. Patel’s fel- farmers are with the BJP, but Because of the economic of Badayun, agitated villa- low Kurmis, traditionally some are considering other blockade and heavy gers pounce on me to com- BJP-backers, will shift with options. “With demonetisa- demand, caterers have plain that instead of four- him, Satbir Singh claims that tion, the BJP has hurt every- increased the price of a meal time BJP MLA Ram Sewak Kurmis in the neighbouring one; farmers like us have from Rs. 180 to Rs. 300. As Patel, the Bharatiya Janata Shekhupur seat, too, will been destroyed. We’ll vote the election date draws near, Party has selected business- vote against the BJP. for Ajit Singh’s party,” said the demand is only going up. man Mahesh Gupta, “an out- Less than an hour later, in Balbir Singh. The expenditure officials of sider”. Sher Singh Chauhan, Konar, also in Badayun, the the Election Commission are a young BJP worker, majority Jatavs are TRACK ILLUSTRATION: SATHEESH VELLINEZHI yet to move in. — A and Satbir Singh rooting for the DUST Correspondent Chauhan, a VHP Bahujan Samaj activist, are the Party. But the village In western U.P.’s district most vocal in this also has Khatiks and courts, upper caste lawyers Shiromani Akali Dal manifesto out Thakur-dominated Dhobis, Dalit com- are divided. And Kulbhushan CHANDIGARH: Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir village, where all — munities who tradi- Shatma, a Brahmin, is clear, Singh Badal (in photo) on Tuesday released the including Valmikis tionally back the “The BJP is on the wane.” election manifesto of his party, Shiromani Akali Dal and Mauryas — but BJP. As I talk to the WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TOMATOES: The harvest left to rot on a field in Badayun district of western The RSS that worked very (SAD), promising to waive debt of small farmers, the Muslims are Jatavs, an SUV Uttar Pradesh. — PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY hard in 2014, appear to be install CCTV cameras to check crime and improve likely BJP voters. sweeps in: the BJP’s more relaxed now. Kamal rural infrastructure. The manifesto promises to “Ram Sewakji will fight as Naresh Singh Patel, a Kurmi, says. “Modiji ka hawa nikal ting ticket, of eigies of Mr. party experienced after last Purwar in Bareilly backs waive debt of all farmers with landholdings of up an Independent,” Satbir jumps out. He has come to gaya (Modi’s balloon has Shah being burnt or of year’s surgical strikes against Sangh spokesperson Man- to 2.5 acres and give a fertilizer input incentive of Singh says. “He is the seek votes for not the BJP but been punctured).” protests being staged. Pakistan has evaporated with mohan Vaidya’s controver- ₨100 a quintal on both Hindutva face here; the RSS the Shiv Sena. Why? As I drive through western Indeed, the BJP did not demonetisation. Today, the sial statement on the need to wheat and paddy also wanted Patel but didn’t “[BJP president] Amit U.P., I find similar stories of need irate party workers at party’s old core voters are in- end reservation (even above the minimum succeed in prevailing on the Shah had promised to select young dynasts or of “out- this stage. The Hindu- tact, but there is some attri- though similar remarks by support price. BJP leadership. We’ll all candidates on the basis of a siders” — such as the party- Muslim polarisation that tion in the two sections that RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Besides, small work for him.” Suddenly, his survey. That hasn’t been hopping Avtar Singh Badana, powered the BJP to a sweep it was hoping would see it before the Bihar polls dam- farmers will also be mobile phone rings — Ram done; the BJP won’t get a ma- a Gujjar millionaire from in the 2014 general elections through — upper castes and aged the BJP’s support base eligible for a ₨2 lakh Sewak has got the Shiv Sena jority,” an angry Mr. Patel Haryana’s Faridabad — get- in U.P. is muted, the high the the most backward castes. among the MBCs ). interest-free crop loan. The manifesto also promises to compensate farm workers in case of damage to crops due to natural calamities. Mr. Badal said: “We have provided clean drinking water and sewerage in 165 towns. Now we will do Hop on, hop off Shivpal Yadav left the same in all 12,000 villages, besides making cemented streets and putting up solar lights.” On the emotive Sutlej-Yamuna Link canal, the party out in the cold made it clear that it cannot be constructed under OMAR RASHID Jaya Bachchan. Many leaders any circumstances. The manifesto also focusses and Ministers close to Mr. on skill development of youth. The Malwa region LUCKNOW: Shivpal Yadav’s isol- Shivpal, including Syeda will be made a textile hub, an industrial park will be ation in the Akhilesh Yadav- Shadab Fatima and Vijay Ku- created across 2,500 acres in Rajpura, trade fair led Samajwadi Party contin- mar Mishra, have been centres will come up in Mohali, Ludhiana and ues. After being shunted denied ticket this time. Amritsar. World-class IT hubs will be created in from the post of its State Mr. Mulayam and Mr. Mohali and Amritsar. Mr. Badal said all kutcha president, sacked as a Minis- Shivpal did not attend the houses would be made pucca and the houseless ter and reduced to a single SP’s function on Sunday given jobs. Monthly welfare pensions would be seat, Jaswant Nagar where the party’s raised from ₨500 to ₨2,000. — Special in Etawah, the manifesto was re- Correspondent Chief Minister’s leased, in a sign uncle does not fig- that a compromise ure on the party’s within the family BJP out to divide Manipur: Ibobi list of star cam- was yet to be IMPHAL: Manipur Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh paigners sent to the reached. has said that the BJP and the NSCN(IM) have a Election Commis- Rajya Sabha tacit plan to install a coalition government in sion for the first member Amar Manipur. He told presspersons here on Tuesday phase of the Uttar Singh, whom the evening that as in Nagaland, the BJP and the Naga Pradesh elections. Akhilesh team People’s Front (NPF) were planning Number one on the list of blamed for the family feud, is to have a coalition government in 40 is Mulayam Singh, who is also missing from the list. Manipur. He said the NSCN(IM) was now designated party pat- The SP’s ally in the elec- asking Naga politicians to contest as ron. All other members of tions, the Congress, released NPF or BJP candidates. If they the Yadav family — Dhar- its list of start campaigners refused, they would not be allowed mendra Yadav, Akshay Yadav on Tuesday. Party president to contest the March elections. The (Ramgopal Yadav’s son), Tez Sonia Gandhi, vice-presid- United Naga Council, which was Pratap Yadav and Dimple Ya- ent Rahul Gandhi, his sister imposing an economic blockade in COVERING GROUND: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav arrives for an election dav, all MPs — feature on the Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Manipur, was a “frontal organisation of the NSCN meeting in a helicopter in Sultanpur on Tuesday. — PHOTO: PTI list. So does veteran actor former Prime Minister Man- (IM)”. The “framework agreement” the Union and Rajya Sabha member mohan Singh are in the list. government had signed with the NSCN(IM) was nothing but a ploy to disintegrate Manipur, he added. If the people give the mandate to the BJP in the upcoming elections it was as good as giving it carte blanche to disintegrate Manipur. Those who Modi, Akhilesh have same In battle for Punjab, Malwa are all for the territorial integrity of Manipur should not support the BJP.— A Correspondent development model: Owaisi is where the action is ‘SP’s development is limited to Saifai and Etawah’ POLLSTAT The region holds 69 Asaduddin Owaisi, pres- weaker sections has to im- from London. You have so of the 117 seats, and ident of the All India Ma- prove. And in my little many kids dying in jlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslime- practical political know- Gorakhpur due to many all contenders are en, is hoping to make in- ledge, that is possible only diseases but you do not going the whole hog roads into the Muslim- when you have a strong even have proper medical majority areas of Uttar political voice. For in- facilities. A narrative has NISTULA HEBBAR Pradesh with his first foray stance the budget for SCs, been developed that only in the Assembly elections. STs and minorities in Uttar Akhilesh can develop U.P. BHATINDA: Of the 117 seats in The fiery lawyer from Hy- Pradesh is just 2% of the which is not backed by the the Punjab Assembly, 69 lie derabad, in an interview to total budget, whereas in situation on the ground. in the crucial Malwa belt of Mohammad Ali, insists Telangana it is 8%. The SP the State, districts where the his focus is on long-term manifesto announced How do you say that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) development, and says the primary, secondary and development model of Mr. drew much of its support Samajwadi Party has upper primary schools but Modi and Mr. Akhilesh during 2014 general elec- AAP leaders with a ‘Flame of Hope’ brought by NRIs from the failed to keep its promises. they do not exist on the Yadav is the same? tions. In addition, all major U.K., outside the Amritsar airport on Tuesday. — PHOTO: PTI ground. There is not even a players — Captain Am- What is your plan in Uttar single university in areas During the Gujarat riots arinder Singh of the Con- tion symbol of the AAP) a for the programme, or the Pradesh? like Sambhal, Bijnor, Am- of 2002, the then Narendra gress, Chief Minister Par- chance,” he said. “We are Captain Smart Connect pro- roha and a vast part of Modi government in the kash Singh Badal and waiting to see which Opposi- gramme,” said Rishi Raj We are contesting 11 western and eastern U.P. State failed to protect the Bhagwant Singh Mann of the tion side shapes up better,” Singh, a member of the In- seats in the first phase. The life [of people] which is the AAP — are contesting seats he added. dian Political Action Com- initial reaction of people in In the situation where the constitutional duty of a in the region. The AAP is strong in the mittee (IPAC) campaign rallies is good but the chal- priority of the secular government, and people Last week, Capt. Am- districts of Bhatinda, team which is associated lenge is to turn that into block may be to defeat the will not forget the Gujarat arinder Singh filed nomina- Faridkot, Sangrur, Mandsa with the Congress. “Each votes. But I want to make it BJP, how do you rate your riots. Similarly, the tion papers from Lambi, Mr. and Barnala. The Congress’ constituency has been di- clear that we are not here prospects? Akhilesh Yadav govern- Badal’s constituency, not just strongholds have been vided into 12 zones, with a for just one election but we ment failed to fulfil its con- to respond to the AAP’s Fazilka, Muktsar, Patiala core member of our team to a will continue our work. We Look, I am tired of an- stitutional duty. How can charge that the Akali Dal and (Captain Amarinder Singh’s constituency each.” plan this as a long-term swering this question. This one forget the Muzaf- the Congress were part of an other constituency), Mohali, “[Delhi Chief Minister] commitment. The SP gov- situation will remain so for farnagar riots? How and old system of mutually col- Fatehgarh Sahib and Ludhi- Arvind Kejriwal was to ar- ernment did not give us the rest of my life and it has why is it that the Akhilesh luding political parties, ana. AAP’s star campaigner rive in Malwa to campaign in permission to organise been so since the last 65 Yadav government has, which would not take action Bhagwant Mann is an MP late November last year; we meetings. It was only at the years. I mean, before this even after three years of on each other’s acts of omis- from Sangrur and is challen- began our campaign then. TONGUE IN CHEEK end of 2016 that we started was the Babri Masjid, and the violence, not given sion and commis- ging Deputy Chief Between November 20 and Surendra getting permissions. before that was Partition sanction to file charge sion once elected, Minister Sukhbir December 10, over 28 lakh and communal riots. There sheets against all the ac- but also to energise Badal from voters in the 18-35 age group What is the purpose of will always be something. cused irrespective of their the campaign for Jalalabad. and matriculates registered contesting this time? The debate has been re- religion in the Muzaf- seats in Malwa. with us for the scheme that duced to so-called devel- farnagar riots cases? “I filed nomina- Data crunching promised a smartphone, First of all, the social, de- opment. The model of tion papers from “From the be- with a year’s free 3G data,” he velop- Akhilesh Yadav and that of Do you think your image as Lambi as I feel our ginning, we have added. “We have been con- mental Narendra Modi is the same. someone focussed only on intensifying cam- been realistic sistently taking the fight into and edu- If you oppose Modi, you Muslims may hamper your paign there would about the chal- the rival camp, be it these cational become anti-national. If prospects in U.P.? afect the surround- lenge of Malwa campaigns through the year, situation you oppose Akhilesh, you ing seats,” Captain Singh had and have drawn our strategy or Captain Singh fighting of minor- become anti-U.P. What Then what is the image told The Hindu in an inter- accordingly. Our aim has from Lambi,” he said. ities and kind of binary is this? of Mulayam Singh Yadav view. Strategists in the Con- been to positively influence The AAP for its part has Akhilesh Yadav talks and Akhilesh Yadav? What gress concur with this view. people through our cam- divided the campaign into about development is the image of BJP? Why Gurnam Singh, a govern- paign and we have concen- door-to-door campaigning, but that happens only me? Fine — you can ment oicial in Bhatinda, trated on that. For example, with the aim to cover each only in Safai and blame me but what about conveyed the confusion we have data of over 60 lakh household in the area at least Etawah. You have a other people. I hope they faced by the electorate in voters in this region alone twice over. “The rallies by safari park there can see themselves in the these polls. “My family of who have positively engaged our star campaigners have and when six mirror. It’s not true that I five have promised both the with either the Berozgaari been kept as a parallel activ- lions die, you only talk about Muslims. I Akalis and the Congress that Baththa (unemployment ity with a completely difer- Seat adjustment with the alliance partners get doc- talk about Muslims, Dalits we will vote for them, but dole) campaign where we ent team to look into it,” said was a smooth affair. It’s the seat adjustment tors and other weaker sections. now we feel we should give provided a unique number to Deepak Bajpai, spokesper- within the family that is getting tough. jhaadu (the broom, the elec- each person who texted us son for AAP. CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 14 | WORLD THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 U.K. govt. must get Parliament No decision on shifting embassy to Jerusalem: U.S. nod for Brexit: Supreme Court VARGHESE K. GEORGE Israel approves WASHINGTON: The Trump ad- ministration has taken no de- 2,500 new Conservative govt. accepts ruling, to stick to timetable to trigger Article 50 by March-end cision on shifting the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel settler homes VIDYA RAM in the House of Lords, where Aviv to Jerusalem, the White its ability to control the House press secretary said JERUSALEM: Israel has approved LONDON: The British govern- timetable is more limited, on Monday, indicating that 2,500 settler homes in the ment’s plans to commence and where the Conservatives the new President may be occupied West Bank, officials said the process of leaving the do not have a majority. How- treading with caution on one on Tuesday, marking a major European Union speedily ever, it is still possible for the of the campaign promises. settlement expansion. this spring met with uncer- government to force the le- “There’s no decision,” The planned new homes tainty as the Supreme Court gislation through the upper Sean Spicer said in his first approved by Prime Minister on Tuesday ruled that the house rapidly if needed. press briefing on Monday. Sean Spicer, White House Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence U.K. could not trigger Article “We’re at the very early press secretary, Minister Avigdor Lieberman may 50 — the EU article that sets Long-term tensions stages of that decision-mak- speaking on Monday. be the largest number to have out how a country can leave While the developments ing process...,” Mr. Spicer been given the green light since the union — without a parlia- regarding the devolved gov- said, putting to rest specula- to the U.S in early February. 2013, said settlement watchdog mentary vote. ernments will have been tion that an announcement While the U.S. Congress Peace Now. Around 100 are to be It upheld the verdict of the welcomed in U.K. govern- was imminent on the shifting has passed several resolu- located in the settlement of Beit High Court last year. How- ment circles, it also adds to of the embassy. He said the tions urging the shifting of El near Ramallah, it said. U.S. ever, the court ruled that the longer term tensions: the administration was “going to the embassy, Presidents, Re- President Donald Trump, his government would not have Scottish government has continue to consult with publican and Democratic, nominee for Ambassador to Israel to consult the devolved legis- said it could push for a stakeholders” on the issue. have overlooked them. David Friedman and the parents latures in Northern Ireland, second referendum in the Palestinian leaders, Jordan Fighting Islamist terror- of his son-in-law Jared Kushner Scotland and Wales. wake of a hard Brexit, and and several European coun- ism is Mr. Trump’s stated pri- have all reportedly contributed The government, which Tuesday’s verdict is likely to tries have cautioned the ority and his attempts to financially to Beit El. — AFP has accepted the verdict, has breathe life into the inde- Trump administration demonstrate his pro-Israel said it plans to stick to the ex- VERDICT UPHELD: A man waves a European Union (EU) flag outside the Supreme Court, in central pendence movements. against acting in haste on an leanings will have to be fitted alignment with the Assad re- isting timetable to trigger London on Tuesday. — PHOTO: AFP It also has to be re- issue that has the potential to into a broader West Asia gime in Syria, in pursuit of Article 50 by the end of membered that the court is ignite violence in West Asia. strategy. The U.S. did not victory against the Islamic March. Brexit Secretary that the 1972 European Com- Labour Party says it Britain into a “bargain base- not the last legal challenge to News reports that followed a join the Russia, Iran and Tur- State (IS), a possibility that David Davis told the House munities Act allows for min- ment tax haven of the coast the government’s Brexit telephone conversation key-led summit on Syria in Mr. Trump had hinted of Commons legislation sters to withdraw from EU will seek amendments of Europe”. plans — there are more chal- between President Donald Kazakhstan this week. But earlier. “We’re not going to would be introduced in a treaties without going to to ensure The Supreme Court ruling lenges, including a move to Trump and Prime Minister the U.S. is open to talking to get together with people un- matter of days, to give the Parliament. proper scrutiny of has added uncertainty to the require the government to Benjamin Netanyahu of Is- Russia on resolving the crisis der the guise of defeating government the legal power On the devolution issue, government’s timetable. keep the U.K. in the rael speculated on an early in Syria, Mr. Spicer said. [the IS] if that’s not truly to commence negotiations. the court considered the the Brexit process While the Liberal Democrats European Economic Area, decision. The White House also ap- their guise,” Mr. Spicer said. “This will be the most Sewel Convention that states (who hold 9 seats in Parlia- and even legal challenges in Mr. Netanyahu will travel peared to be ruling out an “So let’s not take that too far.” straightforward bill pos- that Westminster did not le- ceded parliamentary in- ment) have said they will Dublin due to commence sible,” he said during a lively gislate on devolved issues, volvement but only to give vote against the triggering of later this week. The referen- session in Parliament on and ruled that while the con- the final Brexit deal the go- Article 50 unless a second dum and the role of Parlia- Tuesday. It was right that vention played an important ahead, well after Article 50 referendum on the terms of ment and government have Comey to remain FBI director; Parliament scrutinise and role, the “policing of its had been triggered. Brexit is held, the Scottish divided society like few oth- debate, he said, but it should scope and operation is not a “Only Parliament can National Party (with 54 MPs) ers: Ms. Miller, the claimant, not “thwart” the “will of the matter for the courts”. grant rights to the British has said it could bring as has spoken repeatedly about Tillerson narrowly wins approval people” or disrupt the gov- people and only Parliament many as 50 amendments to the torrent of hate she has ernment’s timetable. Blow to government can take that away. No Prime the legislation. been subject to since com- WASHINGTON: U.S. President assures the full Senate will None of the committee’s 10 By 8 to 3, the justices ruled Though the judgment was Minister, no government, Labour’s Shadow Brexit mencing her court case. Donald Trump intends to keep FBI confirm his nomination. Democrats voted for Mr. Tillerson. that the government could widely expected — and the can expect to be unanswer- Secretary Keir Starmer said Things were quiet outside Director James Comey in his post, Members of the panel voted They cited concerns Mr. Tillerson “not hold any power if it government has insisted it able or unchallenged, Parlia- the party would seek amend- the Supreme Court as the a person familiar with the along party lines, 11-10, to back would continue to view the world would thereby change U.K. will stick to its original ment alone is sovereign,” ments to ensure proper scru- judgment was delivered — a decision said on Tuesday, amid Mr. Tillerson following a through the lens of a corporate laws, unless it is authorised timetable of triggering Art- said Gina Miller, one of the tiny and accountability handful of protesters reports that U.S. law contentious confirmation hearing executive. to do so by Parliament”, Lord icle 50 by the end of March — claimants, speaking outside throughout. “The end result gathered in the icy condi- enforcement and intelligence nearly two weeks ago that stoked Every nominee for the job Neuberger, President of the it is a significant blow to the the Supreme Court. will be better if scrutinised tions. However, media out- agencies are scrutinising Mr. concerns he might not win the going back at least four decades Supreme Court, said on government, which has Labour Leader Jeremy than it would otherwise be,” lets that supported the Leave Trump’s associates over their ties panel’s recommendation. But just has been approved by Tuesday, accepting the clung onto its insistence that Corbyn said that while his he said. The Labour holds campaign were quick to post to Russia. hours before members cast their overwhelming votes from both claimants’ argument that the executive’s prerogative party would not “frustrate 229 seats to the Conservat- incendiary headlines: “Yet Also, Rex Tillerson’s bid to be votes, Sen. Marco Rubio sides in the Foreign Relations leaving the EU would change powers could see it through the process for invoking Art- ives’ 329. again the elite show their Secretary of State narrowly won (Republican-Florida) declared his Committee. No other nominee U.K. law and the rights of its the triggering of Brexit. In icle 50”, it would seek to The government also contempt for Brexit voters!” approval on Monday from the support for Mr. Tillerson, backing since 1977 has received more residents. The justices rejec- her speech last week, Prime amend the bill to prevent the faces the prospect of opposi- screamed the headline on Republican-led Foreign Relations off from a challenge to the new than two “no” votes from the ted government arguments Minister Theresa May con- government from turning tion — and amendments — the Daily Mail website. Committee, a move that all but President. committee. — AFP, AP Arrest warrant against Afghan Pakistan tests 2,200-km range V-P’s bodyguards surface-to-surface missile KABUL: Afghanistan’s Attor- ney-General has ordered the MUBASHIR ZAIDI conducted a test-firing of arrest of nine bodyguards of submarine-launched cruise Vice-President Abdul Rashid KARACHI: Pakistan on Tuesday missile “Babur-3”, having a Dostum for sexually abusing conducted the first flight test range of 450 Km. and torturing a rival, an oi- of long range surface-to-sur- cial said on Tuesday. Mr. face ballistic missile Ababeel. Babur-3 test Dostum, a former warlord, It claimed that the missile has In an obvious reference to has been accused of abduct- the capability to carry nuc- India, oicials said a second ing Ahmad Ishchi in Novem- lear warheads and engage strike capability gives ber last year during a tradi- multiple targets with high Pakistan the option of a tional game of Buzkashi, in precision, defeating the en- ‘measured response’ to nuc- the northern province of emy’s hostile radars. lear strategies and postures Jowzjan. Mr. Dostum al- An oicial statement by being adopted in the legedly kept Mr. Ishchi host- the military said the test was neighbourhood. age for five days, where he successful and that the mis- Babur-3 is a sea-based vari- was said to have been tor- sile has a maximum range of ant of cruise missile Babur-2, tured and sodomised. 2,200 Km. “The missile is which was successfully The Attorney-General capable of delivering mul- tested in December. launched an investigation tiple warheads, using Mul- The Ababeel missile is fired It incorporates state-of- into the allegations after local tiple Independent Re-entry from an undisclosed location the-art technology, including media said Mr. Ishchi under- Vehicle (MIRV) technology,” on Tuesday. — PHOTO: AFP under water controlled went a medical examination said Inter Services Public Re- propulsion and advanced at the U.S. air base at Bagram lations (ISPR) spokesman (BMD) environment and that guidance and navigation fea- to confirm the abuse. “The in- Major Gen. Asif Ghafoor. it will further reinforce de- tures, duly augmented by vestigating team has issued an He said the development terrence. Prime minister Global Navigation, Terrain arrest warrant against nine of of Ababeel Weapon System is Nawaz Sharif and Chief of and Scene Matching System. Mr. Dostum’s bodyguards...,” aimed at ensuring survivabil- Army Staf congratulated the It also features terrain- said Jamshid Rasuli, spokes- ity of Pakistan’s ballistic mis- team involved and the armed hugging and sea-skimming man for the Attorney-Gen- siles in the growing regional forces on this achievement. flight capabilities that will eral’s oice. — AFP Ballistic Missile Defence On January 9, Pakistan had enable it evade hostile radars. La La Land ties record of 14 nominations he candy-coloured love cently derided as “overrated,” Tletter to musicals La La landed her 20th nomination. Land on Tuesday landed a re- Her performance in Florence cord-tying 14 nominations to Foster Jenkins was among the the Academy Awards, which best actress nominees that in- fielded a notably more di- cluded Stone, Natalie Port- verse field of nominees fol- man (Jackie), Ruth Negga lowing two straight years of (Loving) and Isabelle Huppert ‘OscarsSoWhite’ backlash. (Elle). Beside Adams, also left La La Land matched Ti- out was Annette Bening for tanic and All About Eve for 20th Century Women. most nominations ever, earn- The nominees for best actor ing nods for best picture, stars were Mr. Gosling, Casey Af- Emma Stone and Ryan Gos- fleck (Manchester by the Sea), ling, its jazz-infused songs Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw and its 32-year-old writer-dir- IN TUNE: A still from the musical ‘La La Land’. — PHOTO: AP Ridge), Viggo Mortensen ector, Damien Chazelle. “I’m (Captain Fantastic) and Den- in Beijing right now. This only tion Fences and Theodore rested for drunk driving in zel Washington (Fences). adds to the disorientation,” Melfi’s crowd-pleasing 2006 and a 2011 conviction for Nominated for best sup- Mr. Chazelle said by phone on African American mathem- domestic violence. Not only porting actor were Maher- Tuesday. “All that I have in my atician drama, Hidden Figures, did his World War II drama shala Ali (Moonlight), Jef head is ‘thank you’ a million insured that for now, at least, Hacksaw Ridge land a best Bridges (Hell or High Water), times over.” ‘OscarSoWhite’ wouldn’t be picture nod, but Mr. Gibson Michael Shannon (Nocturnal The other nominees for trending on nominations scored an unexpected best Animals), Lucas Hedges best picture were Moonlight, morning. director nomination. (Manchester by the Sea) and Arrival, Manchester by the After two straight years of Denis Villeneuve’s cerebral Dev Patel (Lion). Sea, Hell or High Water, Lion, all-white acting nominees, science fiction thriller Arrival Viola Davis, the supporting Fences, Hidden Figures and seven people of colour were tied Moonlight for the second actress favourite for her per- Hacksaw Ridge. among the 20 actors nomin- most nominees with eight formance in Fences, notched ated on Tuesday. nods. the expected nomination. Bringing diversity The biggest surprise of the Yet Amy Adams, the five- Also up for the category are Barry Jenkins’ luminous morning was the strong boost time nominated star of Ar- Naomi Harris (Moonlight), coming-of-age portrait Moon- of support for Mel Gibson, rival, was left out of the com- Nicole Kidman ( Lion), light, nominated for eight who had long been shunned petitive best actress nomin- Octavia Spencer (Hidden Fig- awards, Denzel Washington’s in Hollywood since an anti- ees. Meryl Streep, who U.S. ures) and Michelle Williams fiery August Wilson adapta- Semitic tirade while being ar- President Donald Trump re- (Manchester by the Sea). — AP

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Bharti’s profit Tax guidelines to target slides 55% in the Mistry’s firms seek NCLT wake of Jio entry shell companies notified

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT waiver on shareholding norm Place of effective management is where key decisions are made: norms NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT POEM – April 1, 2016. dominantly located,” the services provider, an- Their holding of issued share capital in Tata Sons is below the stipulated 10% “This certainly merits de- guidelines added. “A com- nounced a 54.6% decline in NEW DELHI: The Finance Min- ferment of POEM by a year pany’s head oice is not ne- its net profit for the October- SPECIAL CORRRESPONDENT total issued share capital istry made public the final to April 1, 2017 else this retro- cessarily the same as the December 2016 quarter, (equity and preference) guidelines on the Place of Ef- spective application could place where the majority of driven largely by new MUMBAI: Cyrus Mistry-led in- would aggregate to ₨355 fective Management lead to confusion,” Mr. Van- its employees work or where entrant Reliance Jio’s ofer of vestment firms filed a plea crore while Mr. Mistry’s in- (POEM), underlining the vari said. its board typically meets.” free services since its intro- before the National Com- vestment firms’ collective government’s intent to target Following the definition of “In the final guidelines, duction last September. pany Law Tribunal (NCLT) equity and preference share- shell companies that may a company engaged in active the CBDT has provided ad- The company’s net profit requesting a discretionary holding has a face value of have been created to keep in- business outside India, the equate safeguards to ensure stood at ₨504 crore in the waiver of a clause that man- ₨7.40 crore translating to come out of India even when guidelines also defined the that the POEM guidelines do quarter, compared to ₨1,108.1 dates a minimum 10% equity 2.17% of the total issued real management was taking various components of that not become an oppressive crore in the same period a shareholding in Tata Sons, to share capital of Tata Sons. place within the country. definition. ‘Passive income’, tool in the hands of revenue year ago. The company’s qualify as a petitioner. Mr. Mistry’s investment The Place of Efective for example is “income from to harass genuine assesses,” total revenue fell by 3% dur- Mr. Mistry’s firms own firms claimed that the com- Management is defined in the transactions where both said Rakesh Bhargava, Dir- ing the period under review 18.37% equity stake in Tata pany’s petition as filed was the Income Tax Act to mean the purchase and sale of ector of Taxmann. “Now the to ₨23,336 crore from ₨24,066 Sons but hold only 2.17% of maintainable and that the “a place where key manage- goods is from/to its associ- assessing oicer can ascer- crore in year-ago period. the issued share capital in CRUCIAL CLAUSE: The holdings of Mr. Mistry’s firms have a face firms reserved their right to ment and commercial de- ated enterprises and income tain the residential status of “The quarter has seen tur- the Tata Group’s holding value of ₨7.40 cr. or 2.17% of the issued share capital— FILE PHOTO make legal submissions in cisions that are necessary for by way of royalty, dividend, foreign company on basis of bulence due to the continued company. this regard. the conduct of the business capital gains, interest or POEM guidelines only after predatory pricing by a new Desai and Diwanji, advoc- to apply under section 241 for Sons that said that the peti- Last month, two invest- of an entity as a whole are, in rental income”. taking two-stage approval. operator,” Bharti Airtel MD ates for the petitioners, in a the relief as claimed in the tion by Mr. Mistry’s firms ment firms owned by the substance, made.” First approval is required be- and CEO, India & South Asia, fresh petition to the NCLT, petition. This petition was was not maintainable in the Mistry family had moved the According to the ‘The intent is not to fore initiating any proceed- Gopal Vittal said in a requested the bench to exer- filed without prejudice to NCLT as maintainability was tribunal with a plea that Tata guidelines, a company will ings and second approval is statement. cise their powers and waive their contention that their to be decided on the basis of Sons was oppressing the be deemed to be engaged in target Indian required before giving any fi- “The present termination the requirement of Section petition is maintainable. the issued share capital of rights of minority sharehold- active business outside India multinationals nal finding on residential costs at 14 paise which are 244 (A) in the present case so The petition was filed in Tata Sons. ers, and had accused the if the passive income is not engaged in business status of foreign company.” well below cost has resulted as to enable the petitioners reply to an aidavit by Tata According to Tata Sons, its group of mismanagement. more than 50% of its total in- According to the in a tsunami of minutes ter- come and less than 50% of its activity outside India’ guidelines, the first stage minating into our network. total assets are situated in In- would involve the identifica- This has led to an unpreced- dia, less than 50% of the total This definition, however, tion of the person or persons ented year-on-year revenue Charge on digital number of employees are will not apply in the case of a who actually make the key decline for the industry, Centre defers move to cut situated in India or are resid- banking company or public management and commer- pressure on margins and a payments above ent in India, and the payroll financial institution. cial decision for the conduct serious impact on the finan- expenses on such employees “This clarifies that the in- of the company’s business as cial health of the sector.” EPF administrative charges is less than 50% of the total tent is not to target Indian a whole. The second stage As per the ofer by new- ₨50,000 mooted payroll expenditure. multinationals which are en- would be the determination comer Reliance Jio, its sub- SOMESH JHA Manipur – in March. Bandaru Dattatreya, in SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT gaged in business activity of the place where these de- scribers have been able to ac- The EPFO had sent a December. ‘Subjective on substance’ outside India, but to target cisions are in fact being cess free data and voice NEW DELHI: The Employees’ formal proposal to the La- “Considering the need to NEW DELHI: The Committee of These norms emphasise shell companies and com- made. services since September. Provident Fund Organisa- bour Ministry on January 4 promote ‘ease of doing busi- CMs, formed to prepare the substance over form, said panies which are created for “A passive income excep- The ofer is on till March 31, tion’s (EPFO) long-pending to decrease administrative ness’ in India and to make In- road map for rapid adoption Girish Vanvari, national head retaining income outside In- tion for interest income of after which these sub- proposal to reduce adminis- charges for companies from dian business more compet- of digital payment methods, of tax for KPMG in India. “It dia although real control and banking and financial insti- scribers will have to pay for trative charges for employ- 0.85% to 0.65% of a worker’s itive, and in response to the on Tuesday, recommended attempts to diferentiate management of afairs is loc- tutions has been made allevi- specific services. ers may be further delayed salary for its EPF scheme. It financial eiciency gained levying a handling charge for between shareholder con- ated in India,” said Amit Ma- ating concerns from that in- Bharti Airtel’s consolid- till March due to the model also proposed doing away by EPFO, the Central Board cash payments above trol, management control heshwari, Managing Partner, dustry,” said Rohinton ated revenue growth was code of conduct coming into with administrative charges decided to recommend fur- ₨50,000, while pitching for and routine decisions. Ashok Maheshwary & Sidhwa, Partner, Deloitte also muted on account of de- force in states going to the of 0.01% of a worker’s salary ther reduction of adminis- tax breaks to consumers and Whilst the guidelines are Associates. Haskins & Sells. valuation of Nigeria cur- polls beginning next month. levied to implement the Em- trative charges to 0.65%,” the merchants using digital comprehensive, it is subject- “‘Head Oice’ of a com- “In addition, controls have rency. India revenue for the The Labour Ministry has ployees’ Deposit Linked In- EPFO had said in December. modes of payments. ive on substance and can be pany would be the place been placed over a tax as- third quarter at ₨18,013 crore informed the EPFO that its surance (EDLI) scheme. The EPFO had proposed In its interim report sub- challenged for interpretation where the company's senior sessing oicer triggering grew by 1.8% year-on-year. proposal would get approval The decision to reduce ad- the reduction in administrat- mitted to Prime Minister in many places,” he said. management and their direct these rules. He will need ap- “Slowdown in mobile rev- after the electons are con- ministrative charges was ive charges in September Narendra Modi on Tuesday, He also asked how one support staf are located or, if proval of a three-member enue growth (was) primarily cluded in the five poll-bound taken at the EPFO’s central 2015, but the decision was de- the panel also recommended would comply with they are located at more than collegium of his senior of- due to free voice and data of- States – Uttar Pradesh, Ut- board of trustees meeting, ferred due to opposition abolition of the merchant guidelines issued 10 months one location, the place where ficers prior to invoking these fering by a new operator.” tarakhand, Goa, Punjab and chaired by Labour Minister from trade unions. discount rate (MDR). after the efective date for they are primarily or pre- guidelines.”

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 16 | BUSINESS THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 SNIPPETS HDFC Bank net Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana wins Cabinet nod ‘Banks may cut deposit rates NEW DELHI: The Cabinet on Tuesday gave its post-facto approval for profit climbs 15.1% introduction of the Varishtha Pension Bima Yojana 2017. “The scheme will be implemented through Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT of demonetisation. during the current financial year to provide social security to persons by about 125 bps in 6 months’ He said the merchant dis- aged 60 years and above against a future fall in their interest income MUMBAI: Private sector lender count rate – which was due to uncertain market conditions,” the government said in a HDFC Bank reported a waived for consumers dur- statement. The scheme will provide pension based on a guaranteed rate YES Bank CEO expects RBI will reduce the key repo rate to 4% by March 2018 steady growth in net profit ing November and Decem- of return of 8% per annum for 10 years, with monthly/quarterly/half- for the quarter ended ber in the wake of the with- yearly or annual basis options. The difference between the return TCA SHARAD RAGHAVAN would be critical in helping December 31 despite uncer- drawal of high-value generated by LIC and the assured return of 8% per annum would be to boost consumer spending. tainties due to banknotes and the resultant borne by the government as a subsidy. — Special Correspondent NEW DELHI: Banks are likely to “Especially against the demonetisation. cash crunch – was a ‘mean- cut deposit rates by about 125 backdrop of demonetisation, The second-largest ingful amount.’ basis points (bps) over the I believe this will be instru- private sector lender repor- MDR is the fee banks earn Cabinet clears redevelopment of Pragati Maidan next six months due to the mental in providing an im- ted a 15.1% growth in net when a customer uses a debit increase in their deposit base mediate thrust to household profit to ₨3,865.3 crore, beat- or credit card. NEW DELHI: The Cabinet approved a proposal to redevelop Pragati in the aftermath of demonet- incomes and financial sav- ing market expectations. On the other hand, the Maidan by setting up a world class Integrated Exhibition-cum- isation, YES Bank’s Man- ings,” he said. Net interest income (in- withdrawal of the currency Convention Centre at a total cost of ₨2,254 crore. Pragati Maidan of aging Director & CEO Rana terest earned less interest ex- notes resulted in an increase India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) is a Mini Ratna Company Kapoor said. ‘Double 80C limit’ pended) for the quarter grew in low-cost deposits of the under the Department of Commerce. The ITPO will utilise ₨1,200 crore Mr. Kapoor also said he Mr. Kapoor said that the by 17.6% to ₨8,309.1 crore, lender as the current and out of its free reserves towards funding of the project. It will raise was hopeful that the Reserve 80C limit could also be in- driven by average assets savings account deposits institutional loan / soft loan / external aid / land monetisation for the Bank of India (RBI) would creased to ₨3 lakh from the growth of 18.6% and a net in- grew by 37%, now constitut- balance amount of ₨1,054 crore with government guarantee for the reduce the repo rate by an- current ₨1.5 lakh. terest margin of 4.1% for the ing 45% of the bank’s total amount of institutional loan, an official statement said. The Cabinet other 100 bps in 2017-18, DEMONETISATION DIVIDEND: The rise in deposits will help lower “This will also help quarter. deposit base. Committee on Economic Affairs gave the nod. — Special Correspondent bringing it to 4% by March the cost of funds for lenders, says Rana Kapoor. — FILE PHOTO deepen the mutual fund in- “The net interest margin The bank’s loan growth 2018. dustry and capital markets, came down by 10 bps both also remained steady with “The new regime of Mar- the currency in circulation, as there is a large pool of sequentially and year-on- domestic loan portfolio Apple executives meet Commerce Minister Cost of funds ginal Cost of Funds-based there is likely to be a greater funds which needs to be in- year,” Paresh Sukthankar, growing by 17.5%. The do- “A rise in deposit base will Lending Rate (MCLR) will room for the RBI to ease its centivised, from the Pay NEW DELHI: Top-level executives of the U.S. tech major Apple met deputy managing director, mestic retail loans and allow banks to lower the immediately take into ac- policy rate further. “I am Commission roll-out,” the Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Attended by told participants on a post- wholesale loans grew by blended cost of funds as count the lower cost and will hopeful that the RBI will YES Bank chief said. Apple’s vice president (operations) Priya Balasubramaniam, the meeting earnings conference call. 17.8% and 16.8% respectively, higher CASA deposits help thereby lead to a decline in ease by another 100 bps in “As an additional step, I comes ahead of an inter-ministerial panel meeting on Wednesday that Other income for the Mr. Sukthankar said. to replace the high cost of lending rates, which will 2017-18 to a repo rate of 4% by would also encourage bank will look into Apple’s proposal to establish a manufacturing unit in India lender grew by 9.4% to Asset quality also re- borrowing and lower overall boost economic activity in March 2018,” Mr. Kapoor deposits by reducing lock in for products including iPhones and iPads. Apple officials are likely to ₨3,142.7 crore, aided by treas- mained stable with gross cost of funds,” Mr. Kapoor the medium-term,” Mr. Ka- said. for tax rebates to one year make a presentation to the high-level panel. Though there are more than ury gains of ₨399 crore dur- non-performing assets at told The Hindu in an e-mail poor said. Regarding the upcoming (from five years) and raise 40 firms making mobile phones in India, none of them has sought the ing the quarter. 1.05% in December as against interview. “We expect banks He added that with im- Budget, Mr. Kapoor said that the threshold for mandatory sort of concessions that Apple has. Apple executives who called on Ms. “The absolute numbers do 1.02% in September. Provi- to reduce deposit rates by proved monetary transmis- the government should aim TDS on interest income to Sitharaman declined to comment. — Special Correspondent reflect the reality in the mar- sions and contingencies about 125 bps over the next sion, economic eiciency to incorporate several direct ₨50,000 a year (from ₨10,000 ket,” Mr. Sukthankar said were ₨715.8 crore versus six months.” and structural moderation in tax concessions as these currently),” he added. when asked about the impact ₨653.9 crore a year earlier. Cyient to acquire U.S.-based services firm Certon HYDERABAD: IT firm Cyient Ltd announced the signing of an accord to acquire Certon, a product life-cycle engineering services firm based in HCL Tech net rises 7.8%, Florida. The acquisition, through subsidiary Cyient Inc, will be its fifth in the last two and a half years and part of the “Design-Build-Maintain Can print 16 billion notes a year: RBI press strategy.” With cash reserves of $127 million, Cyient will look for more retains growth outlook acquisitions, said a company statement. The statement did not divulge MANOJIT SAHA ₨500 notes are printed November 2016, 22 billion citing Section 8 (1) a of the the details of the acquisition. Incorporated in 2006, Certon provides SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT billion, while profits grew both by the government- pieces of currency notes Right to Information Act, services to companies seeking certification approval for safety-critical 5.2% to $306 million. An- MUMBAI: Bharatiya Reserve owned Security Printing were withdrawn from which allows information systems, embedded software and electronic hardware. The company NEW DELHI: The country’s nouncing a dividend of ₨6 Bank Note Mudran Private and Minting Corporation circulation – of which 15.7 to be withheld if it “would has a core team of about 45 people. — Special Correspondent fourth-largest information per share, HCL Tech kept its Ltd. (BRBNMPL) – a of India Ltd. and billion were in ₨500 notes prejudicially afect the technology services com- forecast for full-year revenue subsidiary of the Reserve BRBNMPL while the and 6.3 billion were of the sovereignty and integrity HP sets up digital offset processing centre pany HCL Technologies on growth unchanged at 12-14% Bank of India which prints ₨2,000 denomination bank ₨1,000 denomination. of India, the security, Tuesday reported net profit in constant currency terms. banknotes – has said it has notes are printed only at However, BRBNMPL strategic, scientific or CHENNAI: HP has teamed up with Redington to set up a centre of rose 7.8% the quarter ended “We continue our robust the capacity to print 16 BRBNMPL. declined to reply to economic interests of the excellence here. The centre has come up at the Guindy Industrial Estate. December 2016 to ₨2,070 financial performance with a billion pieces of currency “The capacity of queries seeking State.” BRBNMPL also It will showcase HP Indigo’s digital offset processing along with a host crore, helped by growth in revenue growth of 3% QoQ notes per annum, when printing presses of information on the sidestepped a question on of pre-press, post-press and web-to-print solution for commercial photo, public services and manu- and 13.8% YoY in constant operating in two shifts and government of India is not specific number of new whether the government publishing and labels and packaging segments. Redington, according to facturing verticals. currency terms,” President when the presses are available,” the RBI ₨500 and ₨2,000 notes that or RBI plan to print E.H. Kasturi Rangan, its Whole-Time Director, has invested close to $3 Revenue rose 14.2% to and CEO C. Vijayakumar operating at full capacity. subsidiary said. had been printed and currency notes outside the million in the centre. HP, according to Alon Bar-Shany, General Manager, ₨11,814 crore during the said. “We expect our FY17 In reply to an RTI query Following the circulated, as well as country and said, HP Indigo, has already three centres of excellence in Singapore, Atlanta quarter. revenue to be in the middle filed by The Hindu, demonetisation of ₨500 questions on the security “Information not held by and Barcelona. The Chennai centre may play a crucial role in speeding In dollar terms, revenue of the range (of the revenue BRBNMPL said the new and ₨1,000 notes in features in the new notes BRBNMPL.” the change towards digitisation, he said. — Special Correspondent was higher by 11.4% at $1.74 growth outlook).”

Exchange Rates BASF unveils pesticides Cabinet clears Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m on January 24 interest waiver TT TT to increase rice yields Currencies Buying Selling for farm loans U.S. Dollar 67.95 68.27 SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT jendra Velagala said fungi- Euro 72.91 73.28 cides Seltima and Adexar SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Pound Sterling 84.53 84.94 HYDERABAD: German chemic- would address rice blast Jap Yen (100 Units) 59.90 60.19 als major BASF has forayed fungus and sheath blight. NEW DELHI: The Cabinet has Chinese Yuan 9.91 9.96 given its ex-post facto ap- Swiss Franc 67.91 68.24 into products for rice in In- Herbicide Basagram is for Singapore Dollar 47.84 48.09 dia with the introduction of controlling weeds. proval for an interest waiver Australian Dollar 51.37 51.61 two fungicides and a for the two months of Canadian Dollar 51.10 51.34 herbicide. Other products November and December, Swedish Kroner 7.69 7.72 The products were un- The existing crop protec- 2016 for farmers accessing Danish Kroner 9.81 9.85 veiled by the Crop Protec- tion solutions of BASF are fo- short-term crop loans from New Zealand Dollar 49.10 49.34 tion Division of the company cused on soyabean, fruits cooperative banks. Hongkong Dollar 8.76 8.80 here on Tuesday. and vegetables. It also approved an in- Malaysian Ringgit 15.31 15.41 Over the next three years, The products proposed to terest subvention to Kuwaiti Dinar 221.68 224.19 BASF plans to introduce 26 be introduced by 2020 in- NABARD on the additional UAE Dirham 18.50 18.59 new products in India, in- clude those for cotton, chilli refinance by NABARD to co- Bahraini Dinar 180.18 181.12 cluding two more for rice, and wheat. operative banks. Qatari Riyal 18.71 18.72 President of the Division The company has submit- “Farmers in the whole of Saudi Riyal 18.17 18.17 Markus Heldt said. ted dossiers pertaining to the India availing short term Omani Riyal 176.48 177.40 The three products will products it sought to intro- crop loans from cooperative Source:Indian Bank help manage major rice para- duce, to the government of banks will be benefited,” ac- sites, weeds and pests India. cording to an oicial state- thereby contributing to an Crop protection products ment. “The decision intends Bullion Rates improvement in the average are imported and marketed to ensure availability of re- January 24 rates in rupees with rice yield, which is at a relat- in the country and the duties sources with cooperative previous rates in brackets ively low 3.6 tonne/hectare on them were prohibitive, banks helps farmers in easily Chennai in the country. chairman of BASF compan- accessing crop loans from Bar Silver (1 kg) 41,955 (41,860) The target is to help in- ies in India, Raman cooperative banks to over- Retail (1 g) 44.90 (44.80) crease the yield to 5.8 tonne/ Ramachandran said. come the diiculties in view 24 ct gold (10 g) 29,740 (29,700) hectare, Senior Vice Presid- Mr. Heldt said BASF, de- of the reduction in availabil- 22 ct gold (1 g) 2,825 (2,822) ent-Crop Protection for Asia pending on the market dy- ity of cash for carrying out Delhi Pacific said Gustavo Palerosi namics and growth poten- Rabi operations.” Silver 41,840 (41,800) The Cabinet also ap- Standard Gold 29,725 (29,715) Carneiro. tial, would consider setting Sovereign 24,300 (24,300) Business Director-South up manufacturing facilities proved NABARD to make Asia (Crop Protection) Ra- for crop solutions in India. short-term borrowings. TI Cycles of India to sell ‘Fixies’ to ‘Fat bikes’

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Ridley will be rolling out 11 models specially designed CHENNAI: TI Cycles of India, a for the Indian market. part of the ₨29,500-crore In addition, five global Murugappa Group, has cre- models and a flagship road ated a division, Premium bike made specifically for Cycles Group (PCG), to fo- women ‘Ridley Liz’ were un- cus on building new models. veiled by Edward Vlutters, In the current year, TI International Sales Director, Cycles will be rolling out Ridley Bikes. more than 100 new models across its international port- Herculean evolution folio of brands such as Mon- K.R. Chandrasekaran, tra, Ridley, Cannondale and Chief Operating Oicer, TI Schwinn and domestic Cycles of India said: “Her- brands such as BSA, Her- cules is a heritage brand and cules, Mach City and Mon- one of the first brands of bi- tra. Besides, it will also un- cycles to be introduced in In- veil a new identity for its PEDAL POWER: The Montra 2017 range has been designed in dia. The brand has remained flagship brand, Hercules. England as per global standards. — PHOTO: BIJOY GHOSH strong for six decades by Arun Alagappan, Presid- constantly evolving to stay ent, TI Cycles of India said: categories.” The 2017 range The Montra 2017 range has ahead of the times. The new “Today, we are rolling out the comprises a bouquet of been designed in England as logo seeks to make the brand full range of our products for brands and product oferings per current international bi- more contemporary and rel- the year 2017, much ahead of for performance cyclists, in- cycle standards. evant for the future.” the season of March-June, in novative products for kids, The new range will have TI Cycles, in association line with international best fashionable cycles for girls, 28 new models ranging from with Absolute Foods, will be practices. With the new thrilling products for boys, Fixies to Fat Bikes. inaugurating Ciclo Cafe out- range of bicycles, TI Cycles pioneering products for Last year, TI Cycles inked lets in Gurugram, Bengaluru seeks to create new bench- rural teens as well as stylish a deal with Ridley Bikes of and Coimbatore respect- marks in innovation and products for urban adults, he Belgium to bring in high-per- ively, in the next three design in almost all product said. formance bicycles to India. months .

CM ND-ND YK NOIDA/DELHI 18 | THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 Can ‘maternity coaching’ check attrition rate? Counselling mothers who return to work is not new, but in recent times it has attained the status of a structured programme

SAUNDARYA RAJESH tion of women who return While Ellison argues that a lowing would be highly from maternity. The Mater- woman actually ends up beneficial: n a span of five years, nity Benefit Amendment building far more robust 1. A customised policy to- IDivya quit her job twice. Bill 2016 (still waiting to be- business skills through wards maternity leave that The first time she did so, it come an Act pending clear- changed neurological pat- allows the manager of the was six months after she had ance from Lok Sabha) stipu- terns post-maternity, the pregnant woman to take en- returned to work from her lates a six months benefit crucial clincher is that the abling decisions from a suite first maternity break. After a with the option of flexible woman requires self-aware- of oferings. A leading year’s break, she got a job as working. However, the leave ness and support to actually FMCG organisation recog- part of a second career pro- provision alone does not emerge stronger. nises that not all women gramme ofered by a BPO. seem to play a major role in Maternity coaching or want to go on a really long Two years into her new job, curbing attrition. counselling emerged as a maternity leave. As such, she resigned again. Sarah, 32, working with a strong discipline in corpor- there is a wide spectrum The reason: she had her leading IT services firm, has ate counselling since the within which the woman second baby. been considering quitting early 2000s. As part of psy- and her manager make a Eight months on, a role her job for the past three chotherapy, maternity choice. Not all maternity has emerged that would suit months, ever since she re- coaching did not obtain the support systems need to be Divya to a ‘T’, but she is not turned from her first mater- same level of awareness or built on long periods of just hesitant, but also nity break. Her organisation, utilisation as did its more leave diident. a generous one, gave her six famous counterparts. In a 2. Gender Intelligence She feels she no longer be- months maternity leave country like India where the training for managers that longs in the workplace. And even before the Bill has been joint family system had an can facilitate better under- this is a college topper, inter- passed. influence on the mother, standing and empathy. Di- view-cracker and excep- Sarah identified a crèche maternity counselling was versity training (aka sensit- tional performer at work (referred by her employer) present by default. It was al- isation training) is a that we are talking about. to which her child goes and most like a rite of passage must-have across all levels she also gets the option of handed down from genera- of the organisation. The ad- Whose loss is this? working flexibly for two tion to generation. Yet, in age that too much is never When women like Divya days in a week. However, her these frenetic times, with enough can be aptly applied decide that the workplace is key challenges do not lie in nuclear families being the to gender intelligence train- no longer sustainable for these hard options — on the norm, and with the young ing especially in the context them, who bears the brunt of contrary, it is the softer as- mother having to deal with of returning mothers. this damage? pects of her transition that the pressures and stresses of In 2011, Goldman Sachs Is it the system which in- seem to hasten her decision double-horse riding at home began the practice of train- vested in Divya’s education of dropping of the and work, greater attention ing managers to demon- as a girl child? Is it the cor- workplace. to maternity counselling or strate empathy and sensitiv- porate that trained her, in- coaching has been ex- ity to returning women and vested in her and expected Maternity coaching tremely beneficial. it had a great impact on the her to rise to position of The demands on a woman Twenty-six out of “the performance of the women. leadership? professional who goes on a Working Mother & AVTAR Aditya Birla Group, Morgan Or is it Divya herself who, maternity break are high. 100 Best Companies for Wo- Stanley and Shell are big after getting of to two good Sarah describes her state of men in India” ofer mater- proponents of the concept starts, not just one, is fearing mind as “being a jump from nity coaching. of gender training, leading the workplace again? professional to mother and There is a significant dif- to greater empathy creation Forty eight per cent of working women under the age of 30 take a break in career due to maternity. The leaky pipeline cannot then back to a professional ference of 8 % in women’s in the minds of managers. PHOTO USED FOR REPRESENTATIONAL PURPOSE ONLY. be ignored. again. attrition in companies with 3. An enabling attitude Having a child, leave When you are neither maternity coaching and that recognises and celeb- One of the strongest ena- 5. On-the-ground coun- and provided the same. tool during an out-of-sight/ alone two, one encounters 100% mom nor 100% profes- without. As much as the rates the woman’s personal blers for a woman profes- selling by way of imparting 6. A coaching programme out-of-mind scenario, being the ‘leaky pipeline’, which is sional and seek to be a com- quantifiable objectives, milestone while also gently sional, mother or not, is a preparedness training to the to support returnees prior confident even as a fresh re- the bane of organisations. bination of the two, you companies which use ma- nudging her to keep her supportive peer group. Or- young mother on how she to, during and after mater- turnee, manage time and The most exotic policies seem to fail miserably at ternity coaching also ex- skills updated and retain her ganisations such as HUL, will cope with the demands nity leave. priorities well to hit the around women’s workforce both.”Plagued by guilt and press the following professional edge. Cisco, Mahindra Group and of motherhood and her Solutions to questions ground running and also the participation seem to unable to prioritise, Sarah positives: In the early 2000s, HCL Integra have consistently in- career. such as how a woman on important art of setting crumble like dust in the face feels that quitting her job is a) Improved engagement recognised that women on vested in building these Companies like IBM, Fi- maternity leave can stay boundaries — are an abso- of the harsh reality of attri- the only sane alternative. and productivity among re- maternity required to be peer groups that provide delity, Deloitte and connected, how to ensure lute must for the young re- tion caused by maternity. The draining emotional up- turning women. kept updated on the happen- confidence and psycholo- Mindtree have acknow- that hard-won relationships turning mother. Even for the most logical heaval that she goes through b) Smoother re-integra- ings at oice and the oppor- gical stamina to the young ledged the importance of at work do not sufer, how to (Saundarya Rajesh is founder- woman, going through ma- while stepping inside the tion of women post mater- tunities that were emerging. returning mother this very critical support utilise communication as a president, AVTAR Group) ternity is a gigantic emo- doors of her workplace are nity leave. A community was built that tional roller-coaster which not very helpful to her c) Better management of helped the women-on-ma- throws her best-laid plans performance. maternity breaks of employ- ternity-leave to stay of-balance. Over 48% of The diferent dynamics ees by managers/teams. connected working women under the that influence a women’s For an organisation that is 4. Support structures that age of 30 take a break in ca- thinking post-maternity a serious investor in gender result in confidence build- reer citing maternity as the have been discussed aptly inclusion and believes in the ing when the mother makes top reason. And, companies by Katherine Ellison in her power of women’s work- her return after maternity see a surging spike in attri- book The Mommy Brain . force participation, the fol- leave. NOIDA/DELHI | THE HINDU WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2017 SPORT 19 Telecast schedule Mind-boggling It’s personal Special relationship Australian Open: Sony Six & Sony Six To play an unbelievable player, future Hall of Famer Venus, We can talk during the game. Nothing It’s always been different when I have played HD, 1.30 p.m. & 5.30 a.m. (Thursday); to be on the court with her, I’ve only experienced it one special, yeah. We just spoke about against Roger... because of everything he’s South Africa vs Sri Lanka: 3rd T20, TEN Ī time before. 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Bayliss to unleash new English pace weapon BETWEEN WICKETS CRICKET / Left-armer Tymal Mills is capable of sending down deliveries at 94mph Confusion is BCCI’s ally,

RAKESH RAO gave away just 22 runs in four consecutively this winter and “With the symptoms and hence the need for clarity overs against Sri Lanka. Since I’ve been injury-free so I want type of injury I get, it can hap- SURESH MENON KANPUR: England coach Trevor then, he played T20 leagues in to stay healthy and keep enjoy- pen out of nowhere. Bayliss has made no secret of Bangladesh, New Zealand and ing my cricket. “That is a result of over- how he felt about the team’s Australia, and did well enough “Down the line, I don’t know bowling. So I’ve found a nice The leadership crisis in Indian cricket adminis- bowling in the three One-Day to catch the eye of the England what might happen. But in the routine of what I can and can’t tration is being prolonged. There is much work Internationals against India. selectors. immediate future I’m only do. to be done; in fact, the real work hasn’t begun Following a firmly under- “I’m only 24 and I’ve spent a looking to play T20s, if I’m “It’s worked for me so far yet. The current uncertainty is anathema to stated “a little disappointed” lot of time injured. It’s not honest,” said Mills. this winter because I’ve been stability. with the bowlers for conced- much fun so I don’t want to put Indeed, Mills is wiser and smart in how I’ve trained and The Board of Control for Cricket in India can ing 1053 runs in three outings, myself at risk as such. I’ve knows the extent to which he played. I’ll look to continue use confusion to its advantage. The delay in naming the Com- Bayliss is set to test the Indian played 16 or 17 games pretty can stretch. that in future.” mittee of Administrators charged with getting the house in batsmen with a new pace order cannot be good for cricket. weapon in the T20 series be- An important home series — against Australia — is round the ginning here on Republic Day. corner (before that there is the Test against Bangladesh), IPL Tymal Mills, the 24-year- deals need to be worked out soon, there is the matter of crucial old left-arm speedster capable I shouldn’t have played that shot, International Cricket Council meetings coming up, and the of sending down deliveries at BCCI remains headless, and largely bodyless too. Indian cricket 94 miles per hour (151 kmph), cannot aford to have inactivity replace over-activity; it is better is ready to impress not just the says Hardik Pandya to have a bad administration than no administration at all. desperate English supporters If the Supreme Court is seeking perfection, that is an im- possible dream. Bishan Bedi, rumoured to have been in the but also the franchises of the SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Hopefully I will Indian Premier League (IPL) Supreme Court’s list that was to be announced yesterday (but now stands postponed), getting ready for the players’ KANPUR: Through the hard way, rectify my auction. made a point at the Jaipur Indian cricket Hardik Pandya is slowly learn- mistake next time Literature Festival when he “I’ve got a point of difer- ing to understand the respons- said, “I find it strange that ence in being left-armed and around and choose cannot afford to ibility that comes with the ex- professional sport should able to bowl fast. I’ll always try the right shot pectations that skipper Virat be run by amateurs.” have inactivity to bowl quick,” said Mills and Kohli has from him in the Cricket is serious busi- quickly added, “But I’ve got to replace over- shorter versions of the game. ness in India, and the faith be smart because sometimes FAST AND FURIOUS: Left-arm seamer Tymal Mills has the Dravid and Paras Mhambrey The budding allrounder, in even well-meaning ama- against high quality batsmen attributes to become a serious component in England’s pace for the results. activity; better a still looking to cement his teurs has contributed to the the faster you bowl, the faster battery in the three-match T20I series. — PHOTO: PTI “After the World Cup, I had place as a vital cog in team, current mess. It is time to bad administration it comes of the bat. This will a reality check. I knew I had realises how a wrong choice of divest cricket administra- be a great chance to see where the whole duration of the extended on a regular hyper- areas to improve, the ‘A’ tour than none at all shot in the last ODI not only tion of its destructive ro- I’m at.” event,” said Mills. basis, it results in the malfunc- of Australia was pretty im- spelt his doom but also raised manticism. No, players do not always make the best With Chris Woakes back In 2015, Mills was con- tioning of the spinal cord. Hardik Pandya. — FILE PHOTO: portant for me. I learnt a lot of England’s prospects of ending administrators. No, not everyone is keen to “serve” without home and David Willey not sidered England’s fresh pace After a long, anxious period, things about my game there. the series with a win. being paid for their time and efort — this only leads to corrup- sure of recovering in time hope until he was diagnosed Mills found the treatment rectify my mistake next time “Rahul (Dravid) sir helped tion and lack of accountability. from a shoulder injury, Mills with a congenital back condi- working and slowly the nat- “I shouldn’t have played that around and choose the right me a lot. He spoke to me about could become a serious com- tion that not only threatened ural athlete in him took over. shot (in Kolkata), but I felt the shot,” was the candid reflec- my game as well as working on Corporatising the game ponent in England’s pace bat- to rule him out of the game but From the time when four- asking rate was climbing and tion of a man who has the con- the mental aspects. “Paras sir The time has come to corporatise our cricket. Selectors are tery in the three-match series. also raised doubts over the day cricket was ruled out for someone had to take a chance. fidence of the team manage- (Mhambrey) helped me with young man leading a normal him, Mills focused entirely on Kedar (Jadhav) was the one ment. my bowling and worked on my paid, coaches are paid, support staf is paid, match referees are Eyeing the IPL life. returning to the shortest who would have stayed until Speaking to mediapersons fitness. paid. It is no wonder then that these posts attract top profes- “I am keen to do well here. I The problem that Mills format of the game. the end and I was the one who here on Tuesday, Pandya “It was a complete package, sionals. Presidents and secretaries, however, do it, “for the love am also looking forward to be- faces is his spinal chord and Last year, in Southampton, should take the risks. shared what he had learnt in my fitness, my bowling as well of the game”. Thus do we place enormous responsibility in the ing picked up at the IPL auc- vertebrae are too close for Mills played his only T20 “In that process, I ended up the period following the 2016 as the mental aspects of the hands of many who are incapable of handling it. Or in the hands tion since I will be available for comfort. With his back getting match for England till date and getting out but I will hopefully World T20 and credited Rahul game,” said Pandya. of those who then hand it over to the people from whom they expect to gain the most in terms of posts, travel, even monetary benefits. Cricket has been given the opportunity — through the Su- HOCKEY INDIA LEAGUE preme Court — of modernising itself, of getting rid of outdated SC asks Govt., SAI to take a stand notions of how it ought to be run, and ensuring that the events that led to the present crisis are not repeated. Kemperman’s last-gasp efort The Committee of Administrators on which so much hope on Lodha recommendations rests has a huge responsibility and months of work ahead both at the nuts-and-bolts and at the policy-making levels. Some of the cricket associations are registered with the Registrar of G. VISWANATH bamboozles Wizards Societies, some under the Companies Act. The first task of these associations (which will involve general body meetings) is to PUNE NANDAKUMAR MARAR : Responding to a petition BCCI trying to convene take the legal route to changing their manner of functioning, made by 28 sportspersons, in- backed by their members. This will take time. cluding Olympians and former meeting on Thursday MUMBAI: Robert Kemperman India cricketers, the Supreme sent the home fans into a frenzy with a last-minute Checking eligibility criteria Court has sought the Govern- PUNE: The BCCI is attempting to order) is trying to find ways to It would be surprising if the Supreme Court, the Lodha Com- ment of India’s (GOI) views on convene a meeting at the Cricket field goal, directing home a convene one. pass through a crowd of legs mittee or the CEO of the BCCI has worked out a list of oice- the Justice Lodha Committee’s Centre in Mumbai on Thursday to bearers in associations across the country and their eligibility to recommendations for reform. Many officials have been in the Coal India-Hockey In- identify three cricket administrators disqualified by the January 2 order remain in their posts under the new ruling. Some associations The SC has also asked the whose names it can submit in a dia League on Tuesday. of the Supreme Court and a Dabang Mumbai, riding on have over 150 oice bearers at various levels. Even if we take a Sports Authority of India (SAI) sealed cover to the Supreme Court majority of the States will have to conservative 100 as the average, that is nearly 3000 administrat- for its view; SAI functions dir- on Friday. One of them will be the field goal, overturned a make sure that only the correct deficit of two goals at half- ors. If, as is suspected, around 80% of that figure is ineligible, ectly under the Ministry of nominated by the court to attend representative is nominated to that leaves 2400 slots to be filled. Youth Afairs and Sports, GOI. the ICC board meeting in Dubai time and 2-3 till then to win attend. 4-3 against Uttar Pradesh And filled with fresh, honest people ready to hit the road The sportspersons have during the first week of February. The Maharashtra Cricket Wizards. Harmanpreet Singh running. That’s a dream too. It will take time. asked that the recommenda- The BCCI’s MOA and rules and Association (MCA) has nominated had kept the blues in the hunt One of the unintended consequences of the current mess is tions be integrated with the regulations do not permit a meeting the ousted BCCI secretary Ajay with two penalty-corner the reluctance of good people to get into cricket administration. National Sports Development to be convened in two days, but it Shirke — former MCA president strikes. Eligibility, stature and integrity do not always come together in Code of India 2011. appears that BCCI joint secretary — as its nominee for BCCI Dabang notched up its first the same individual. “It’s submitted that like in Amitabh Chaudhary (acting meetings. The MCA’s present win in two home games at the NOT ENOUGH: Despite Ramandeep Singh’s best efforts, Uttar With the old guard in the BCCI determined on a scorched the game of cricket several ol- secretary because Ajay Shirke has president is Abhay Apte. — Special Mahindra stadium, while the Pradesh Wizards suffered a reverse against Dabang Mumbai. earth policy — raising legal questions, firing their guns from the shoulders of others — and the Supreme Court delaying the igarchies exist in other sports been removed by a Supreme Court Correspondent Wizards’ first match of the — PHOTO: PTI administration which is to the season ended in a defeat after drawing of a line under its own rulings, much time is being lost. great detriment of the respect- In between, there is the Lodha Committee which issues clarific- it led in all four quarters and home side and two by the vis- lowed up and swept home, ive sports. ect bearing on the SC order on “It was not generally the ations which may or may not be binding. was in firm control till half- itors — stood testimony to but Mazzilli got the credit as July 18, 2016 that validated the Government of India, but it The Committee of Administrators, whose job it is to oversee “It may also be noted that time. the good work done by the the ball had rolled in by then. Lodha Committee recom- was essentially the Ministry of the changes in administration in the BCCI as well as the various there is an urgent need to defenders at both ends. The mendations. Railways, the tri-services of The Mumbai defence and State associations, may not necessarily be the final authority if amend and rework the Na- Direct approach ferocity and execution in the Armed Forces and the As- midfielders soaked up pres- its job description is limited to “overseeing”. tional Sports Code so as to en- Dabang chose the direct penalty corners is one of Matter before Parliament? sociation of Indian Universit- sure in the first half. The CEO is the only authority right now with a clear mandate sure that sports administration route to goal in penalty hockey’s highs, matched only A veteran administrator ies. A direct penalty-corner — he looks after the daily work of the BCCI till the administrat- is not treated as a self perpetu- corners, twice out of the three by the surprise element and said, “The AGI has already ar- conversion by Harmanpreet ors take charge. ating business but instead must “Yes of course, the Railways earned. Wizards were up 2-0, reflexes displayed when a gued for a recall of the July 18 reduced the deficit to 1-2 as All that makes for too many layers and too many centres of be for the betterment of the Ministry and Armed Forces via a field goal from Argen- field goal is scored. sports concerned,” said a re- order. are part of Government of tine Augustin Mazzilli, and an the half-time hooter sounded. authority. Mazzilli sent the ball racing lease from the petitioners. “In the event of the GOI ex- India.” indirect variation was on the The sturdy Indian dragged The possibility of contradictory interpretations is ever through a narrow gap, lend- Those keenly following the pressing an opinion against the The AGI argued, “I am seek- cards. home another penalty corner present. Is it nine years as oice-bearer in either the BCCI and ing a finishing touch to a intervention applications in recommendations, one cannot ing a recall of this order and P. Sreejesh, under the bar, to level the score before Kem- the State association, allowing for 18 years in all, or nine includ- move created by Edward the apex court, especially with rule out the possibility of the have filed an application in this was beaten twice by Harman- perman made it a memorable ing both (with cooling of in each case)? That took some to-ing Ockenden, via a diagonal pass regard to the Attorney General matter placed before the regard. I am also raising a more preet. The drag-flick special- night for Mumbai. and fro-ing. along the carpet. of India (AGI) Mukul Rohatgi Parliament.” fundamental issue regarding ist and one of India’s emer- The result: India ran world cricket till recently, but now finds itself appearing for the GOI bodies, In an interview to a broad- the extent of judicial review in ging stars fired the first to the Australian Ockenden’s Dabang Mumbai 4 (Harmanpreet struggling to run its own. Association of Indian Univer- sheet, the AGI said: “I appeared matters of internal administra- right corner and the second pass to Mazzilli saw the latter Singh 24 & 31-PC, Robert Kemper- That is not a happy state of afairs. Indian cricket cries for sities (AIU), Railways and Ser- in the BCCI matter for the first tions of a private society, be into the roof. squeeze the ball home man 60-FG) bt Uttar Pradesh Wiz- clarity and administrators with energy and vision. The road vices, feel that the GOI and time on behalf of three organ- that BCCI or several other Five penalty corners over through the gap. ards 3 (Augustin Mazzilli 13-FG, ahead is long; a start must be made soon. SAI’s response will have a dir- isations. State associations.” four quarters — three by the It was Van Ass who fol- Ramandeep Singh 58-PC). Fluent Federer sets up semifinal with Wawrinka, Venus’s run continues

MELBOURNE: Roger Federer beat Grand Slam since Jimmy Con- who stunned French Open ner Kaya Gore with a 6-3, 7-6(6) giant-killer Mischa Zverev to nors reached the 1991 US Open champion Garbine Muguruza win over sixth seeds Zizou become the Australian Open’s last four aged 39. to reach her first Grand Slam Bergs and Yshai Oliel. oldest men’s semifinalist in The draw has opened up in- semifinal. The results: Men’s singles: nearly 40 years on Tuesday, as vitingly for Federer, a four- Quarterfinals: 4-Stan Wawrinka fellow veteran Venus Williams time winner in Melbourne, and Sania, Bopanna to meet (Sui) bt 12-Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (Fra) 7- also rolled back the years. 2014 champion Wawrinka, as in the quarterfinals 6(2), 6-4, 6-3; 17-Roger Federer (Sui) The stylish Swiss made light well as fellow thirty-something Sania Mirza and Rohan bt Mischa Zverev (Ger) 6-1, 7-5, 6-2. of the chal- Rafael Nadal after the exits of Bopanna set up a mixed Women’s singles: Quarterfi- lenge posed Murray and title-holder Novak doubles quarterfinal clash nals: 13-Venus Williams (USA) bt 24- by German Djokovic. against each other. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (Rus) 6-4, serve-vol- In the women’s draw, Bopanna and his Canadian 7-6(3); Coco Vandeweghe (USA) bt leyer Zverev Venus’s age-defying campaign partner Gabriela Dabrowski 7-Garbine Muguruza (Esp) 6-4, 6-0. to reach a re- reached new heights as she knocked out the fifth-seeded Mixed doubles: Second round: cord-extend- beat Russia’s Anastasia team of Yung-Jan Chan and Rohan Bopanna (Ind) & Gabriela Dab- ing 41st Grand Slam semifinal. Pavlyuchenkova to become the Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 5-7, 10-3 in rowski (Can) bt 5-Yung-Jan Chan Federer won 6-1, 7-5, 6-2 in oldest female Grand Slam their second round match. (Tpe) & Lukasz Kubot (Pol) 6-4, 5-7, just 92 minutes to set up a last- semifinalist in 23 years. Later, Sania and her partner 10-3; 2-Sania Mirza (Ind) & Ivan four clash with his compatriot Venus, 36, won 6-4, 7-6(3) to Croatian Ivan Dodig, seeded Dodig (Cro) bt Saisai Zheng (Chn) & Stan Wawrinka, who won a reach the last four without second, overcame stif resist- Alexander Peya (Aut) 2-6, 6-3, 10-6. bad-tempered quarterfinal dropping a set and move to- ance from Saisai Zheng and Al- Junior boys doubles: Second with Frenchman Jo-Wilfried wards a possible ninth Grand exander Peya before winning round: Siddhant Banthia (Ind) & Tsonga 7-6(2), 6-4, 6-3. Slam final against her sister 2-6, 6-3, 10-6. Kaya Gore (Tur) bt 6-Zizou Bergs The 35-year-old Federer be- Serena, 16 years after their first. Meanwhile, in the juniors (Bel) & Yshai Oliel (Isr) 6-3, 7-6(6). comes the tournament’s oldest Next up for Williams is her events, Siddhant Banthia Junior girls: Second round: 10- semifinalist since Arthur Ashe hard-hitting, aggressive fellow reached the boys doubles Mai Hontama (Jpn) bt Mihika Yadav in 1978, and the oldest at any American Coco Vandeweghe, quarterfinal with Turkish part- (Ind) 6-2, 6-1.— AFP

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Tukhaev keeps FORMULA ONE sole lead Advani races past Rupesh ‘Dictator’ Ecclestone had to go, CHENNAI: Ukrainian GM Adam Tukhaev (7.5), with a quick BILLIARDS / Wins his eighth National title draw in the top board against says new boss Carey compatriot Vitaliy Bernad- skiy, maintained his lead after LOS ANGELES: Bernie Eccle- four or five years.” “He has run the eighth round of the Chen- stone’s four-decade reign as a this sport for his entire adult nai Open Grandmaster chess “dictator” of Formula One had life and I respect completely tournament for the Sakthi to end if the sport was to have that this is a diicult change,” Group Dr. N. Mahalingam the fresh start it needed, said Carey said. Trophy on Tuesday. new chairman and chief exec- Carey added that Formula Following the leader with utive Chase Carey. One had not grown as much as seven points were GMs An- Ecclestone’s time as the col- it needed to and that Liberty drei Deviatkin (Russia) and ourful ringmaster of the Grand could exploit new technolo- Attila Czebe (Hungary) Prix circuit was efectively fin- gies to do that. “We needed a respectively. ished on Monday when the sport that, while respecting Further half a point behind US-based Liberty Media com- what made it great, has a sense Chase Carey. — FILE PHOTO were seven players including pleted its takeover of motors- of energy and innovation.” India’s IM S. Nitin and Saptar- port’s most prestigious brand Despite sidelining Eccle- “In many ways, in a shi Roy. in a deal valued at about $8 stone to an advisory role as simplistic sense, the sport said Two rounds remain in this billion. ‘chairman emeritus’, Carey ‘no’ too much and we have to ₨11,00,000 prize-money event There has also been the view stressed that he had “tremend- start saying ‘yes’ — not gim- that concludes on Wednesday. inside and outside the sport — ous respect” for Ecclestone mick it up but find ways to do The results (eighth round) (In- and a concern shared by Carey and will value his input. new and exciting things to dians unless specified): Adam — that it is wrong for one man But, he said F1 “needs to be have the sport continue to Tukhaev (Ukr) 7.5 drew with Vitaliy to wield as much power as Ec- run diferently compared to grow and interest and excite Bernadskiy(Ukr) 6.5; Andrei Devi- clestone did in Formula One. what has happened for the last people.” — AFP atkin (Rus) 7 bt Jacek Stopa (Pol) 6; Attila Czebe (Hun) 7 bt Sahaj Grover 6; Alberto David (Ita) 6.5 bt R.R. Lax- BADMINTON man 5.5; M. Kunal 5.5 lost to Vitaly Sivuk (Ukr) 6.5. Arjun Kalyan 6 drew with Vadim Malakhatko (Bel) 6; D. Gukesh 5.5 Sindhu fancied, Jwala withdraws lost to Adam Horvath (Hun) 6.5; Valeriy Neverov (Ukr) 6.5 bt SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Saensomboonsuk. lists, head the seedings, fol- Siddharth Ravichandran 5.5; Puneet It will also be a good oppor- lowed by teammates Mathias Jaiswal 6 drew with P. Shyaamnikhil LUCKNOW: Strange as it may tunity to the likes of H. S. Pran- Christiansen and David 6; S. Nitin 6.5 bt Mithil Ajgaonkar 5.5. sound, out of five titles at stake noy, Sameer Verma and B. Sai Daugaard. Here, the duo of — Sports Bureau ON A ROLL: Pankaj Advani clinched the billiards crown of the Manisha National championships. at the $120,000 Syed Modi In- Praneeth to advance deep. Manu Attri and Sumeeth ternational badminton tourna- Prannoy, winner of all seven Reddy, seeded three, has a G. VISWANATH consistent player in the Na- cuesport legacy... we have a statistics. ment here, Denmark starts as singles matches in the recent good chance to prove its grow- tionals, but that’s the way it galaxy of billiards stars, cham- “I don’t think I could be in a favourite for four, sparing the Premier Badminton League, is ing worth. Kyrgios chosen PUNE: Pankaj Advani, India’s goes,” said a gracious Advani pions who have won multiple better place now. I am enjoy- ladies singles crown for obviously upbeat. He could do The ladies World No. 2 pair most prolific cuesport player, after receiving the winner’s National and world titles, ing my game, there are times Olympic silver-medallist P.V. well to hog the limelight and of Kamilla Rytter Juhl and for Davis Cup brushed of Rupesh Shah’s cup and cheque for Rs. 30,000 starting with Wilson Jones, you are going to miss, you are Sindhu. join Srikanth in leading the Christinna Pedersen – silver challenge to clinch the bil- from Rajan Khinvasara, BSFI Michael Ferreira and then human. In the last two games, I The spate of withdrawals, home charge. medallists at the 2016 Rio MELBOURNE: Controversial star liards crown of the Manisha vice-president and president Geet Sethi. Rupesh himself has had a couple of easy misses. the latest one being G. Jwala In the ladies singles, the Olympics – will be hard to Nick Kyrgios will play but National billiards and snooker of the Billiards and Snooker won three world titles in bil- On the whole, I am enjoying and her latest mixed doubles field is clearly the weakest stop. Christinna could well re- Bernard Tomic was unavail- championship at the PYC Association of Maharashtra liards. We had some top-class the process. partner Manu Attri, has ever and Sindhu is not expec- turn with the mixed doubles able for the Australia team Gymkhana here on Tuesday. It (BSAM), and also the sponsor. players here and to come out “It’s amazing to win because robbed the event of much ted to drop even a game all the title, as well, in the company of named on Tuesday for next was the 31-year-old’s eighth Advani complimented on top in such a field is defin- at the end of the day it’s the sheen. In the three doubles, way to the title. After all, the Joachim Fischer Nielsen. Win- week’s Davis Cup World National billiards title. Brijesh Damani, too, for reach- itely a special feeling,” said performance and the title that famed Danish pairs are expec- strongest player in the field, ner of the mixed doubles Group tie with the Czech In fact, he had bagged his ing his maiden National bil- Advani. really count. I think I am trying ted to triumph in fields dotted behind World No. 6 Sindhu, is bronze in the 2012 London Republic. seventh at the Kolkata Nation- liards semifinal. Last year’s He added that he was happy to produce a beautiful and with a large number of home Spain’s Beatriz Corrales. After Olympics, this pair could well Captain Lleyton Hewitt als, a triumph that was not up- winner Sourav Kothari fin- with the way he played in the quality game, play positive entries. World and Olympic champion run into Sumeeth Reddy and named world number 13 Kyr- dated in the personal portal. ished third, defeating Damani Nationals. and entertain the fans.” The men’s title-race Carolina Marin, Corrales is the Ashwini Ponnappa in the gios along with Sam Groth, Advani won the final, set to 3-0 in the play-of for the third “Beginning with the point- The results: Final: Pankaj Advani provides a fair chance for de- strongest Spanish lady player, quarterfinals. Jordan Thompson and nine games, 5-1 in a little under and fourth spots. format in the world billiards (PSPB) bt Rupesh Shah (PSPB) 5-1 fending champion K. Srikanth ranked 23. The progress of second doubles specialist John Peers three-and-half hours. The face of Indian cuesport tournament in Bengaluru, I [(150(83)-135, 150(150)-54(54), 151 to retain the crown although It is diicult to look beyond seeds Pranaav Chopra and for the February 3-5 opening “If Rupesh had the won the for a long time now, Advani have been on a solid winning (109)-122(113), 104-151(144), 151(74, World No. 14 Hans-Kristian the Danes in doubles. World Sikki Reddy will be watched round clash on hardcourt at first game, the outcome would was delighted with his per- streak. I have probably won 67)-112)]. Third-place play-off: Vittinghus is the highest- No. 4 Mathias Boe and Carsten keenly. Had Jwala not with- Kooyong in Melbourne. have been probably closer. He formance. 30-plus matches. For me, that’s Sourav Kothari (PSPB) bt Brijesh ranked player left in the field Mogensen, the two-time All drawn, the Chopra-Sikki pair Kyrgios was picked despite had a chance to make it 4-2 too. “It’s obviously a great feel- a great number, although I am Damani (PSPB) 3-0 [150(103)-116, after the withdrawal of top England champions and Lon- would have faced Jwala and being slapped with $5,500 in He has been the best and most ing. In India, we have a rich not a person who believes in 150(134)-32, 150(140)-9]. seeded Thai Tanongsak don Olympics silver medal- Manu Attri in the first round. fines for swearing and throw- ing his racquet after his ex- traordinary second round de- FOOTBALL feat at the Australian Open last Hari and Adhiban week. — AFP Indian Women’s League on Jan. 28 No I-League-ISL merger battling to avoid defeat AIFF may rename SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT this year, says Praful Patel WIJK AAN ZEE: P. Hari Krishna itself Football NEW DELHI: Amidst a prolifera- SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT like Bengaluru was brought into the excuse for the clubs to wash their fought back twice from in- tion of professional leagues I-League was with the expectation hands off. ferior positions to attain India across sports in an attempt to NEW DELHI: Indian football circles that the footballing culture in our “Many new clubs are coming in equality against Russia’s Ian develop the games and cash in may be awash with talks of a unified country would change. also. The clubs which have pulled Nepomniachtchi in the ninth NEW DELHI: The All India Foot- on their growing popularity, National league, and rumours of the “The traditional mindset we have, out were not investing in football. round of the Tata Steel Mas- ball Federation (AIFF) is con- the AIFF on Tuesday an- I-League dying out after a merger we do not professionalise to get the They blame other factors but the ters chess tournament here templating renaming itself as nounced the launch of the with the Indian Super League (ISL), best out of our teams. I don’t want real reason is that they don’t have on Tuesday. Football India, president first-ever Indian Women’s but AIFF president Praful Patel has to blame anybody but people have any bandwidth now to continue,” he Like Hari, compatriot B. Praful Patel said at the launch League to develop women’s brushed aside any possibilities of the to invest. If we do that, the returns said. Adhiban sat behind black of the Indian Women’s League football in the country. pieces and was looking to same in the near future. would be visible — there will be Meanwhile, talking about the on Tuesday. Unlike the other leagues, draw against China’s Wei Yi. “I have my doubts and frankly, I good games, more spectators, a “Simply IWL doesn’t have however, the first edition of upcoming FIFA Under-17 World Cup, don’t see any merger happening at any mention of football. It is the IWL would be a short, two- value and a brand created for the Patel was realistic. “I am not saying Deeper trouble least this year. Also, I don’t see any named AIFF Indian Women’s week afair starting January 28 teams. we should win the title. I only hope Both Indians were playing reason for conflict and I cannot “For the ISL final in Kochi, there they make us proud and that the League, which refers to foot- with all the matches in the six- NEW CHALLENGES: Players launch the IWL with Sports Minister with a pawn less on the board. understand why it is constantly was a sea of yellow supporting country’s performance should be ball. team event being played at Vijay Goel and AIFF president Praful Patel. — PHOTO: PTI Compared to Hari’s position “We may later rename the Delhi’s Ambedkar Stadium. being touted as ‘I-League merging Kerala Blasters. There is passion for visible and recognised. We have following the 70th move, Ad- league as Football India IWL The IWL would be played in a beyond the traditional pockets against national players,” she with ISL’? Why can we not say that the game, people want to see a given them a free hand and full hiban was in deeper trouble but for that we have to rename round-robin format with the of the game to make the game said. the ISL might merge with the good a contest. I would urge all support,” he said. after 57 moves. AIFF as Football India. Al- top four teams advancing to more inclusive and wide- Patel also announced a re- I-League? teams to follow the module. I am though a decision is yet to be the semifinals. spread. “There are teams from ward of ₨25 lakh for the na- “The name is not important. definitely not satisfied with the way Optimistic Pressing for victory taken, but it may be announced “Indian women are ranked Puducherry, Haryana and tional team for retaining the I-League is I-League, you have to others, the traditional clubs are With the next big target for the In the other ongoing game, soon,” said Patel. — PTI 54th in the world against 129 Odisha here, which is a great SAFF Championships earlier have a National league and we have continuing but I wish they would National team being the Asian Cup Russia’s Dmitry Andreikin for the men. There is an out- thing. The women's World this month. one,” he said on the sidelines of change,” Patel said. qualifiers, Patel said he was was pressing for victory side chance and who knows, Cup is in 2019 and it is not im- The first-leg of the qualifi- launching the Indian Women’s optimistic. “I am hopeful but, at the against former leader our women may qualify for the possible to make the cut for ers for the IWL were held last League here on Tuesday. Just an excuse same time, fingers crossed. Our Ukraine’s Pavel Eljanov. Mohun Bagan, World Cup before the men’s our women,” Patel said. year with 20 teams from nine While three prominent Goan ranking has been improving, no one When the action resumed team but for that we have to States, nine of which pro- Critical of clubs clubs — Salgaocar SC, Dempo SC can say we came from 175 to 129 after a day’s rest, World DSK Shivajians take football to more girls and Club culture gressed to the preliminaries, At the same time, Patel was and Sporting Clube de Goa — had without any effort but that doesn’t champion Magnus Carlsen in drawn match women. I know it is not easy Jeppiaar Institute of Tech- held in October 2016. critical of the traditional football united to oppose the proposed make us happy, we should get scored over Loek van Wely to and this is the first but very im- nology FC (Puducherry) cap- Four of these qualified for clubs, slamming them for resisting restructuring and ‘merger’ and better. move to 5.5 points — half a portant step towards making tain Sumithra Kamaraj agreed. the IWL along with one team point of leader Wesley So. change and refusing to invest in the withdrawn from the I-League, there PUNE: Mohun Bagan and DSK football a viable career for wo- “I think this league would go a inducted from an ISL (FC “We will invest in the future of The results: sport. Holding up Bengaluru FC as an Shivajians wasted chances men footballers,” AIFF presid- long way in bringing the club Pune City) and an I-league is no representation from Kerala and Indian football, the youth and the Ninth round: Wesley So (USA, 6) galore as the leader was held to ent Praful Patel said at the culture and professionalism in (Aizawl FC) franchise. example, Patel said the club should Kolkata giants East Bengal and women aggressively. We have a drew with Levon Aronian (Arm, 5); a goalless draw, its first after a inauguration. women’s football and hope- The teams: FC Alakhpura (Hary- been a role model for the rest, Mohun Bagan have struggled in good coach but we are open to Magnus Carlsen (Nor, 5.5) bt Loek run of four wins, by a home Hoping that the IWL would fully enough money as well to ana), Jeppiaar Institute of Technology instead they were blaming everyone recent years. getting more personnel in. At the van Wely (Ned, 1.5); Anish Giri (Ned, side that seemed to have its help bring in more profession- make it a lucrative career for FC (Puducherry), Aizawl FC (Mizoram), but themselves for slipping in But Patel insisted that with the moment, though, all the focus for 4.5) drew with Richard Rapport nose slightly ahead in the I- alism in women’s football – at us even as it would give new FC Pune City (Maharashtra), Rising popularity. proposed roadmap only that and the next three months should only (Hun, 3.5); Radoslaw Wojtaszek (Pol, league encounter here on par with the men – Patel added talent a chance to step up to Student Club (Odisha), Eastern Sport- “One of the reasons why a team nothing concrete, it was simply an be on the qualifiers.” 4) drew with Sergey Karjakin (Rus, Tuesday. — PTI that it was important to move the top level by competing ing Union (Manipur). 5). — Sports Bureau CRICKET Pawar, other BCCI members had backed Bengal under-19 champs look ahead Manohar on ICC matter Y.B. SARANGI said it was high time these young cricketers made it to the G. VISWANATH 22% before the ICC had paid abh Chaudhary, Anirudh ary. The ICC’s Working Group KOLKATA: For Saurabh Singh, next level. “At least five or six for its expenses and others ap- Chaudhry, P.S. Raman, Suresh has met a few times in the last whose brilliant 196 helped of them should be there in the PUNE:There has been much fuss portioned a small percentage. Bafna, Brijesh Patel, Ajay 12 months to dissect and dis- Bengal beat Delhi to win the scheme of things for the Ranji over the proposed change in A BCCI oicial who was at Shrike, T.C. Mathew, Arshad cuss governance issues and under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy Trophy. the governance structure at the SGM said: “Mr. Pawar said Ayub, G. Gangaraju and Niran- also the modalities of distribut- title after 19 years, being the “Two or three should be in the International Cricket that the Cricket Boards of jan Shah. ing money among its members. namesake of famous citymate the reckoning for India in the Council (ICC) and also the rev- Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Two years ago, the then It will be up to the ICC Board to and former India captain next couple of years.” enue sharing model over an Bangladesh, South Africa, Zi- BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel take a call on the proposals Sourav Ganguly is a huge en- Former Bengal Ranji eight-year cycle. mbabwe and West Indies have had told a select group of re- made by the Working Group. couragement. It also gives the Trophy-winning captain and But reliable sources re- always supported the BCCI’s porters that the BCCI would Eventually, the entire pro- youngster a sense of ex-National selector Sam- vealed that the former BCCI initiatives and hence these initially take 22% of ICC’s an- posal will be put before mem- responsibility. baran Banerjee said the boys and ICC president Sharad Boards should get enough nual revenue with the others bers at the annual conference “The name gives me a nice had the potential to graduate to Pawar backed Shashank Man- money to develop cricket in getting a single digit percent- in June; the consolidated votes feeling. He is such a great the higher level. “Some of them ohar to the hilt at the BCCI’s their countries.” age and another 4% after all ex- of the ten full members has a cricketer and an inspiration,” play in my club and I know all special general meeting penses are paid. Clearly, the 75% weightage as against the said Saurabh on the sidelines IMPACT PLAYERS: Bengal under-19 players Kanishk Seth and of them. They have got the tal- (SGM) of February 19, 2016, Unanimous resolution proposal to change the gov- associate and ailiate’s votes of a felicitation of the Bengal Saurabh Singh who came up with crucial knocks in the Cooch ent but they have to work to- when the matter of distribu- Thereafter a unanimous res- ernance structure and the rev- which has 25%. Each of the ten u-19 squad at the Eden Gardens Behar Trophy final against Delhi. — PHOTO: PTI wards serving Bengal and In- tion of ICC revenue was olution was adopted stating enue sharing model, after Man- full members has 7.5%. here on Tuesday. dia in future.” discussed. that the BCCI president Mano- ohar became the BCCI’s The Supreme Court has “I have to work harder to his potential. “I am thankful to bowlers for every situation. Ganguly, who is also the The Tamil Nadu Cricket As- har and secretary Anurag representative and thereby the asked the BCCI to propose make myself worthy enough to sir. He has guided me well to That’s why we managed to re- CAB president, reiterated the sociation (TNCA) had raised Thakur be authorised to take ICC chairman, has been wel- three names on Friday and that play at the elite level,” said achieve success,” said strict Delhi.” association’s commitment to- the issue of Manohar’s pro- the ICC revenue sharing comed by almost all full, asso- it will pick one among them to Saurabh, who migrated from Saurabh. According to Kanishk, mak- wards grooming young crick- posal to rollback the ICC rev- model forward in a manner ciate and ailiate members of attend the ICC Board Meeting Lucknow six years ago to pur- Kanishk Seth, who scored 91 ing it to the next grade would eters. “This association be- enue sharing model firmed up that would not cut much into the ICC. in Dubai. The BCCI’s joint sec- sue his cricketing ambitions. to forge an important 90-run be a challenge. “Now I will put longs to the players. Some in 2014, but Pawar, represent- BCCI’s percentage. retary Amitabh Chaudhary, Saurabh thanked Bengal u-19 partnership for the seventh in extra efort to make it to the players were in the Vision ing the Mumbai Cricket Asso- Present at the SGM were all ICC to meet in February who is discharging the duties coach Pranab Nandi, who pro- wicket, said Bengal had the Bengal squad. I do not think 2020 programme for the whole ciation (MCA), sided with the oice-bearers of the BCCI ICC’s next quarterly meet- of the secretary, is eligible to moted him up the order to bat wherewithal to tame Delhi at too far ahead.” season. Without the system Manohar who said it was un- and full-member representat- ings will take place at Dubai attend the chief executive at No. 3 and helped him realise the Ferozeshah Kotla. “We had Test cricketer Pranab Roy nothing will happen,” he said. fair that the BCCI was to get ives including Thakur, Amit- during the first week of Febru- meeting.

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