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! "$% !& ! "! ! 4 7 . * # !# 8 7 # !01.023 oritisation across different 3 branches of the armed forces. ! ndia will have soon an elite The IDS will also oversee the R Iunit of commandos drawn setting up of the proposed from the three Services to con- Space Agency to be headed by 4 * duct special missions of strate- an IAF officer for space-based 9 ! gic interest to the country. missions. !*" Named Armed Forces Special The Naresh Chandra 34 " " Operations Division, the unit Committee in 2012 had rec- will be on the line of the US ommended setting up three :*&&& 24!.3"452 Special Operations Command, commands, namely Special 9- " which was responsible for tak- Operations, Cyber, and Space 7 special CBI court in ing out Osama Bin Laden. to deal with new challenges fac- . * 4 APanchkula on Thursday The Armed Forces Special ing national security. The com- awarded life imprisonment to Operations Division will start mittee was asked by the Dera Sacha Sauda chief functioning from November Government to give recom- Gurmeet Ram Rahim and first week this year initially with mendations on fine tuning three others in the murder a small team of commandos higher defence management to case of journalist Ram Chander selected from the Special Forces enable the armed forces to ; Chhatrapati. of the Army, Marine fight in a fast changing warfare 3 Along with Ram Rahim, Commandos (MARCOS) of scenario. . his close aide Dera manager the Navy, and Garud com- As regards the Special Krishan Lal and carpenters at Kuldeep Singh, Nirmal Singh mando force of the Indian Air Operations Division, officials Dera -Nirmal Singh and and Krishan Lal were present Forces(IAF). said here on Thursday besides Kuldeep Singh -have been in the court through video The special division having having commandos from the awarded life imprisonment by conferencing from Ambala jail. 3,000 commandos will be three Services with the Army rorists and cripple the war three forces. At present, the capabilities and a combined the CBI court. CBI counsel HPS Verma, headed by a Major General. playing an eminent role as it fighting capabilities of the Special Forces of the Army, command of commandos of ed and therefore there was a Special CBI Judge Jagdeep while talking to the mediaper- The Government recently gave has the most experienced pro- enemy. The missions no doubt MARCOS and Garuds func- three Services should be need to bring under one Singh also imposed a fine of Rs sons said that Ram Rahim will the clearance for the setting up fessionals for such missions, the will be high risk given the tion separately. formed to conduct sensitive umbrella for covert operations 50,000 each on all the four have to remain in prison for life of the squad along with cre- unit will have its own dedicat- strategic importance, sources Once the Division comes missions within and outside the and anti-terrorist missions, accused. following Thursday’s judgment. ation of a Cyber Agency to be ed helicopters, transport planes said. into being, the special talents boundaries of the country, offi- they said. The same judge had earli- All four convicts have been headed by a Navy officer of the and specialised weaponry Once the Division becomes and assets of the three Services cials said. Incidentally, the er convicted 51-year-old Dera sentenced to life imprison- equivalent rank. On the lines of besides surveillance equipment functional in November, plans will be pooled. Naresh Chandra panel had Government in the last few head Ram Rahim in the rape ment,” Verma said. the Commando Division, the for carrying out strategic mis- are already in place to bring The idea to have such a also recommended forming of months has cleared some pro- case of two female disciples on Ram Rahim and the three Cyber Agency will also have sions. together the commandos from Division, which was earlier to Special Operations Command posals for procurement of spe- August 25, 2017 and sentenced others were convicted by the experts from the three Services Elaborating upon the the three Services to a central be known as Special as India needs to enhance its cialised weaponry for the com- him to 20 years of rigorous CBI court on January 11. All to fight the fast emerging threat nature of the proposed place or station for joint train- Operations Command, was unconventional and special mando forces of three Services. imprisonment. the four were convicted under of cyber warfare, officials said Division, they said the spe- ing to conduct special missions mooted by the Naresh Chandra warfare capabilities to execute They include sniper rifles, Sirsa-based Dera chief Section 302 (murder) and 120 here on Thursday. cialised teams will be respon- during peacetime and war, committee and several military politico-military and connect- midget submarines, special Ram Rahim is already lodged B (criminal conspiracy) of the Both the specialised units sible for conducting missions they said. officials after the US Special ed operations to meet uncon- communication systems, ther- in Rohtak’s Sunaria jail after his Indian Penal Code. Nirmal will function under the within and outside the country. Explaining the objective Operations Command carried ventional challenges. mal sights and ammunition. conviction in 2017 in the rape Singh and Krishan Lal were Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) The missions include targeting of the Division, officials said out the raid to kill Osama Bin The panel also felt at pre- These items will be procured case had appeared before the also convicted under the Arms responsible for enhancing strategic installations, high the stress is on synergising laden. Officials said that the sent the full potential of the from Israel, Germany, Sweden, court through video confer- Act. coordination and enabling pri- value targets in terms of ter- special operations amongst the Indian forces too have similar Special Forces was not exploit- Russia and Finland. encing. Other three convicts, Continued on Page 4 R !01.023 !01.023 !01.0236237!" he Government on TThursday curtailed the tandards of morality in a eeks after 15 miners got tenure of CBI Special Director Ssociety changes with time, Wtrapped in a flooded rat- Rakesh Asthana, who was ear- the Supreme Court said on hole coal mine in Jaintia Hills lier sent on forced leave, with Thursday while setting aside district of Meghalaya, the Navy immediate effect, according to certain provisions of a 2016 divers, engaged in rescue mis- an official order issued on Maharashtra law which sion on Thursday, found the Thursday. restricted licensing and func- body of one of the miners. The tenures of three more tioning of dance bars. The miners were trapped IPS officers in the CBI — Joint The SC, which paved the in the illegal mine on Director Arun Kumar Sharma, way for grant of licences and re- December 13 last year after Deputy Inspector General opening of dance bars in water flooded it. The State Manish Kumar Sinha and Maharashtra, said the State can Government then launched a Superintendent of Police Jayant neither exercise “social control” multi-agency rescue effort. J Naiknavare — have been with its own “notion of moral- “The Navy divers detected curtailed, reads the order. ity” nor take exception to stag- the body using underwater # $% The development comes ing dance performances per se. remotely operated vehicles & $' ( ) * + ! " days after Alok Verma was “It needs to be borne in (ROV) at a depth of approxi- shunted out of the post of CBI mind that there may be certain mately 160 feet and 210 feet down due to the conditions in pressed into the rescue mission Director and appointed activities which the society inside the rat-hole mine,” Navy the mine. So a Remotely on December 25, has deployed Director General of Fire perceives as immoral per se. It spokesperson DK Sharma said Operated Vehicle (ROV) has ten divers. The search in the rat Services, Civil Defence and may include gambling (though in New Delhi on Thursday and been employed by the divers hole mine has been on for over Home Guards by a high pow- that is also becoming a debat- attached video grabs of the for the search. One body three weeks. ered committee headed by able issue now), prostitution, operation on the Twitter. detected by Navy divers using On Wednesday night, a Prime Minister Narendra Modi etc. It is also to be noted that The body has been pulled ROV at a depth of approxi- ROV located a body and some and comprising Justice AK standards of morality in a soci- P up to the mouth of the mine. mately 160 feet and 210 feet skeletons. Forensic experts are Sikri of the Supreme Court and ety change with the passage of ! " A team of doctors has been inside a rat-hole mine.” expected to reach the site on leader of the Congress in the time,” said a Bench of Justices rushed to the site to advise the He also said “the depth is Thursday evening. They will Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge. AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan. installation of CCTV cameras norms keep changing with dynamic, factor in social analy- rescuers on how to pull the 160 feet and the body has been give directions on how to pro- Verma had resigned after The SC quashed several in dance bars, saying it was time. “Social change is of two sis,” the Bench said. body out of the mine, officials pulled up to the mouth of rat- ceed forward. The bodies have being removed as CBI chief. It provisions of the Maharashtra “totally inappropriate and types, continuous or evolu- The court said it cannot be said. It was also learnt that hole mine and shall be extract- been decomposed due to high is not known if his resignation Prohibition of Obscene Dance amounts to invasion of privacy”. tionary and discontinuous or denied that dance perfor- some skeletons were also sight- ed out of the mine under the sulphur content there which letter has been accepted. The in Hotels, Restaurant and Bar The court said a particular revolutionary. The most com- mances, in dignified forms, ed in the mine. supervision of doctors.” has converted into acid due to shake up comes days ahead of Rooms and Protection of activity which was treated as mon form of change is contin- are socially acceptable and The Navy spokesperson Meanwhile, sources also presence of water, they added. the January 24 meet for pick- Dignity of Women (working immoral few decades ago may uous. This day-to-day incre- nobody takes exceptions to it. said, “Divers are not able to go said the Navy, which was Continued on Page 4 ing a new CBI Director. therein) Act, 2016, including not be so now as societal mental change is a subtle, but Continued on Page 4 # !01.023 Mahal — in the Films Division from the silent era to talkies, Joshi was also constituted to campus in Mumbai. Bollywood technology and creativity in provide an upgrade to NMIC. rom silent movies of old stars Amitabh Bachchan and cinema as well as a children’s NBCC CMD Dr Anoop Ftime to recent blockbusters, Akshay Kumar are among activity gallery. Kumar Mittal said completing O all will feature in the state of the those who will attend the event. Set in an elegant 19th- a project that lies at the heart art ‘National Museum of Indian The displays present showcase century heritage bungalow in of a congested city, without Cinema (NMIC) in Mumbai, the journey of over a hundred South Mumbai, the new muse- compromising on the quality of which will be inaugurated on years of Indian cinema. um building has four exhibition construction, speaks volumes Saturday by Prime Minister The museum was con- halls divided under the cate- of NBCC’s capabilities and !" Narendra Modi. ceived in 1997. The restoration cent buildings. The first one is gories -- Gandhi and cinema, engineering expertise. “In an # Conceived in 1997, the of Gulshan Mahal, where Films in the freshly-restored her- children’s films, technology endeavour to make the entire %&& first-of-its-kind project met Division was born in 1948, itage building Gulshan Mahal creativity and Indian cinema complex a potential ‘film hub’, with multiple hurdles over the started in 1998, along with on the Films Division’s premis- and cinema across India. The the Victorian-Gothic era com- L M last two decades and missed building a collection of exhibits. es on Peddar Road. It will dis- museum has five floors and plex, which once drew lumi- * several deadlines for inaugu- However, various complica- play a rare collection of static two Mezzanine floors account- naries to its musical soirées and +, ration. The last deadline was tions kept on impeding the artefacts, vintage equipment, ing for a total built up area of cultural gatherings, is now missed in the middle of 2018 process. The plan was revived MoHUA, the creation of the “The museum aims to take various memorabilia and other 12,000 sq metres. It is divided well-equipped with modern - due to certain reasons. The in 2012, the year Indian cine- museum has been guided by its visitors through an absorb- exhibits to take visitors through into nine sections — the origin amenities and facilities, includ- museum has been built at a cost ma turned 100. The museum, the Museum Advisory ing journey of over a century of India’s over-a-century-old cin- of cinema, cinema comes to ing expansive auditoriums. P O P# of 140.61 crore by the NBCC including a new building, was Committee headed by noted Indian cinema in a story telling ematic journey. The second India, Indian silent film, advent In addition to this, the # of the Ministry of Housing and to come up by 2014 but a series film maker Shyam Benegal. mode with the help of visuals, part of the museum is housed of sound, the studio era, the complex houses a multi-pur- .O / Urban Affairs (MoHUA). of changes in planning led to Kolkata-based National graphics, artifacts, interactive in a modern building next to impact of World War II, cre- pose hall that has been L M The museum is housed in the delay. Last year, too, it was Council of Science Museums exhibits and multimedia expo- Gulshan Mahal. It will have ative resonance, new wave and designed to be used as a movie two buildings — the New scheduled to be inaugurated by (NCSM) was entrusted with sitions,” it said. over 40 interactive galleries beyond, and regional cinema. preview theatre and for social Museum Building and the 19th the prime minister. designing the museum and The museum, built in two devoted to cinema across India, An innovation committee functions, conferences and century historic palace Gulshan According to sources in the the galleries. phases, is housed in two adja- the journey of Indian cinema headed by lyricist Prasoon other seminars,” Mittal said. ( ) ( *+, -.*/
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The new highway will “The development of recommendations made by a medium and long-term plan IDelhi, the Ministry of Road allow commuters to avoid the Akshardham-Geeta Colony- task force on the use of space has been proposed for imple- 3 Transport and Highways congested areas of east Delhi Shastri Park-Khajuri Khas- technology in improving bor- mentation in five years in close (MoRTH) has approved a 155- and reach the Saharanpur- Delhi-UP Border at Loni have der management which have coordination with the ISRO 9 C39D km six-lane highway project bound national highway been approved to decongest the been accepted by Home and the Defence Ministry. worth 4,405 crore under the NH709B near Loni from the national Capital under Minister Rajnath Singh. “Major recommendations of # 4 # Bharatmala scheme. NH-24 directly. Bharatmala projects”, Gadkari Later speaking to media, the report are to build capaci- # 5 The roads include The new roads will connect said adding that this road road Union Minister for State for ty in border guarding forces to Akshardham to Loni Border at northeastern parts of the Delhi has now been declared as Space Jitendra Singh and ISRO use space resources for securi- 3 Delhi-Up Border (14.75 kms), and facilitating those travelling National Highway no 709 B. Chief K Sivan said that India ty, operational planning and E% Delhi-UP Border -Mandola- to Shamli, Mandola and “The project is being given has developed a border man- border infrastructure devel- L1?&& Eastern Peripheral Expressway Saharanpur in western UP. top priority. This road will be agement technology. Speaking opment,” the statement issued @? (EPE) intersection (16.57 kms), The road would start from developed as six lane access at the launch of a programme by the Home Ministry said. 3 3 EPE junction to start of Shamli the NH-24 near the controlled road with service called UNNATI, an initiative of In short term, immediate * bypass (61.4 kms) and start of Akshardham flyover and touch roads on both sides”, he said. the Indian Space Research needs of border guarding forces ,: Shamli bypass to Saharanpur the Delhi-Saharanpur NH- “Further, from Organisation, Singh said, “I was will be met by procurement of EFG& * bypass (62.7 kms). 709B near Garhi Jassi in Loni Akshardham to EPE intersec- amazed the other day that we high resolution imagery and * In a letter to Delhi BJP Dehat. tion, there is a provision of 19 have actually started a tech- hiring of bandwidth for com- President Manoj Tiwari, Union The proposed road would kms of elevated section which nology the integrated compre- munications, it said. “In mid- E% *M < Road Transport and Highways be aligned along the Noida would help in minimizing hensive border management — term, one satellite is being 3C< 3D minister Nitin Gadkari Link Road and the Marginal acquisition of land and segr- which is a pioneer project ",- ( & launched by the ISRO for 9 < 3 announced that the four pro- Bund Road in Delhi and eration of local traffic,” the let- started in the international * M0. "N20 exclusive use of the MHA,” the 3 3 jects have been approved by the Baghpat Road in Uttar Pradesh ter read. border of Pakistan. . ",-30,, 20, 3 statement said. 0 8 ministry worth 4405 crore to (UP). In Delhi, the road would According to the ministry, You can virtually enter ! " The task force headed by 9 2 > decongest the national capital. pass through Ramesh Park, the bids for the Akshardham to inside the house of a person liv- Joint Secretary (Border The project Akshardham Geeta Colony, Shastri Park, UP Border and Delhi-UP ing across the border. So such Nanosatellite Assembly and statement. UNNATI pro- Management), having mem- O , to UP Border and Mandola in Sonia Vihar Extension and Border-Mandola to EPE inter- minute precision has been Training by ISRO) is a capaci- gramme is planned for three bers from the BSF, the P Delhi-UP Border to EPE inter- West Karawal Nagar. While in section projects are being invit- made by the camera.” ty building programme on years in three batches and will Department of Space and BM ;B< 4 section will cover 31.32 kms UP, it would pass through ed by next week. The work has He said space technology is nanosatellite development. target to benefit 90 delegates division of the Home Ministry, * and it will cost 2900 crore. Ankur Vihar, Welcome City been awarded for the project used in infrastructure works, It provides opportunities to from 45 countries, the space consulted all stakeholders 4339 * Currently, commuters from and Indrapuri before ending at EPE junction to Shamli bypass construction of roads, inter- the participants from develop- agency said. including border guarding Western UP have to pass the Pooja Pusta Police Chowki that will cost 725 crore. The section of Railway network, ing countries to strengthen Each batch will be for 8- forces, the ISRO, National * through the east Delhi areas in Loni. project connecting Shamli manning of railway lines and their capabilities in assem- week duration and will com- Security Council Secretariat such as Shastri Park, New The stretch connecting bypass to Saharanpur bypass disaster management. bling, integrating and testing of prise theoretical course work (NSCS) and the Ministry of 1 Usmanpur, Khajuri Khas and Akshardham to Khajuri Khas will cost 780 crore. UNNATI (UNispace nanosatellites, ISRO said in a on nanosatellite definition, util- Defence to finalise the report. L! < ;B<*4 -* 2 &P &' ( + HM O 5- 4 ; " & !#*7& # !01.023 cases to the agency. ing and cleaning, the FIR stat- 4 B & The CBI, which had on ed. !! 3*>-2 he CBI has registered six Wednesday booked two shelter The FIR said the shelter Tfresh cases on connection homes in Bhagalpur and Gaya, home was being run from a New Delhi: The Enforcement erals in Hamirpur district dur- 7 > * !01.023 that while there are three more with the alleged abuse of registered six new cases against building meant for an obser- Directorate (ED) has regis- ing 2012-16. Sand and gravels 3B directors of GNY, one of them inmates in shelter homes in Novelty Welfare Society, which vation home and was not “liv- tered a money laundering case constitute minor minerals. ; he Congress on Thursday is Don W Ebanks whose name Bihar, taking the tally to nine. ran a short-stay home in able” for young children. in connection with the illegal “The role of the then 4 * Talleged National Security appears in Panama’s ‘Paradise The cases were registered Munger district; Panaah shel- The CBI has booked mining in Uttar Pradesh, where mining ministers concerned . Adviser Ajit Doval’s son Vivek papers’ also referred as ‘Panama on the basis of details given in ter home, also in same district; Sudarshan Ram, Pintu Pal and the CBI recently registered a during the relevant period may 7 5 *" started a hedge fund in papers’. the Tata Institute of Social Gram Swaraj Sewa Sansthan Tara Devi, all office-bearers of regular FIR and said it was be looked into during the ! Cayman Islands days after Alleging that “there is cer- Sciences (TISS) audit report of which ran a short-stay home in Gram Swaraj Sewa Sansthan, probing the role of former course of investigation of the demonetisation and demand- tainly a link between demon- shelter homes in Bihar. The Kaimur; Om Sai Foundation which ran the short-stay home State Chief Minister Akhilesh case,” reads the CBI FIR. ed a probe by the Reserve etisation and FDI inflows from TISS report brought sordid which ran sewa kutir in at Lalpur in Kaimur district. Yadav and some bureaucrats. Akhilesh Yadav was the Bank (RBI) into FDI inflows Cayman islands”, he said this is state of mismanagement, abuse Muzzafarpur; and short-stay It is alleged that the secu- The ED has filed the case Chief Minister of the State - from the tax haven. a “round tripping of money” and unlivable conditions. home run by Ikard and Kaushal rity guard was sexually abusive, under the Prevention of Money between 2012 and 2017 and < 9 * Senior Congress leader and demanded a probe. “This Following the TISS report, the Kutir run by Don Bosco Tech passing lewd comments and Laundering Act (PMLA) and held the mining portfolio dur- 9 * Jairam Ramesh also asked the is not FDI, it is round tripping Supreme Court had also direct- Society in Patna. physically assaulting women pressed charges against those ing 2012-13. Akhilesh was suc- 3 RBI to make public details of of demonetised money and ed the CBI to probe all the 17 Director of Novelty Welfare and girls inmates. booked by the CBI including ceeded by Gayatri Prajapati, FDI inflows from Cayman has a direct link to black cases of abuse at the various Society and others used to IAS officer B Chandrakala. who took charge as mining islands since demonetisation, money.. There should be a shelter homes. lock the room of a mentally- The ED will probe the case minister in 2013 and was # which he claimed were to the probe into the FDI that came In its May 2018 report, sick woman inmate causing from money laundering angle arrested in 2017 following a # tune of 8,300 crore during into the country from Cayman TISS had expressed “grave con- wrongful restraint and con- and will look into the money complaint of rape by a woman 9 2017-18 and equalled total Islands after demonetisation,” cerns” on the management of finement and ill-treated other trail as also the assets generat- residing in Chitrakoot. ;" funds flowing into India he demanded, saying, “GNA 17 shelter homes, including inmates. ed out of the proceeds of crime. Others named as accused 3 between 2000 to 2017. Ramesh, owes an explanation to the ‘Balika Grih’ in Muzzafarpur The NGO also sublet a New Delhi: The CBI has taken The CBI had conducted in the CBI FIR included Dinesh " however, did not substantiate country”. where 34 girls had reported portion of the shelter home for into custody a few officers and searches at 14 locations early Kumar Mishra, brother of SP %&& his allegations with any docu- “What is the role of GNY abuse at the hands of office- a rent of Rs 10,000 and did not some other persons Thursday this month in connection with MLC Ramesh Mishra, Ram 4 mentary evidence. Asia in FDI inflows. We bearers and outsiders. provide proper ventilation or in connection with a case of its FIR against 11 persons, Ashrey Prajapati (then mining ; 2 For his part, CPI-M leader demand that the Reserve Bank The audit report was sub- sanitation facilities for the alleged corruption in Sports including Chandrakala, clerk), Ambika Tiwari; Sanjay 8 Sitaram Yechury also tweeted makes public all funds from mitted to the State Government inmates, the FIR alleged. Authority of India (SAI), offi- Samajwadi Party MLC Ramesh Dixit’s father Satyadev Dixit, 2 9 B<! demanding answers from where money has come into and later became the basis of a In the case of ‘Panaah’, it is cials said. The arrests were Kumar Mishra and Sanjay Dixit Ram Avtar Singh (retired min- F*?G*&&& Doval citing a media report on the country from Cayman SC directive for a CBI probe alleged that office-bearers of made during searches at the (who unsuccessfully contested ing clerk), Karan Singh (lease the issue to allege that the role Islands,” Ramesh said. He said into the Muzaffarpur shelter the home “physically exploited” sports administrator’s office in the 2017 assembly election on holder), and Adil Khan, the - %&& of the PMO and its top securi- the RBI should publish details home case. The apex court later the inmates forcing them to do Delhi’s Lodhi Road area, they a BSP ticket), to probe alleged illegal excavation contractor. ty official was under a “dark of all those who brought in handed over the remaining 16 manual work including cook- said. PNS illegal mining of minor min- PNS shadow”. He said it was the money from Cayman islands. prime minister’s responsibility “There should be com- to ensure the NSA’s account- plete information on this made ability as he was not account- available to the public,” he " ) * 4 + - able to Parliament being an un- said, adding “the RBI should elected official, and asserted probe the identity of funds who 25 " “silence amounts to culpability”. brought in 8300 crore in one 6 "# " $ +* Yechury said, “The role of year”. Modi’s PMO and its top secu- “It is not natural that we New Delhi: The Supreme ing justices LN Rao and SK 2! rity official is under a dark raised this question. A Prime Court on Thursday requested Kaul, ordered this after * shadow. Serious questions of Minister of a neighbouring the search committee on Lokpal Attorney General KK !01.023 cular said. probity and propriety get more country had to resign after his to recommend by the end of Venugopal apprised the court !01.023 heard urgently as one of the “The swearing-in-ceremo- weight due to NSA Doval’s role name appeared in the Panama February a panel of names for that due to certain difficulties women was assaulted by her arnataka High Court Chief ny of Justices Dinesh in the 59,000 crore Rafale papers,” he said, alleging that appointing the country’s first like lack of office space, infra- he Supreme Court will hear mother in-law. KJustice Dinesh Maheshwari Maheshwari and Sanjiv scam, where he was illegally the name of a former chief anti-graft ombudsman. structure, manpower and sec- Ton Friday a plea of two The plea sought round- and Justice Sanjiv Khanna of Khanna as judges of the negotiating in Paris withthe minister’s son also appears in A bench headed by Chief retariat, “possibly, the search women seeking round-the- the-clock security to both the the Delhi High Court will be Supreme Court will be held on French. Doval, who has these papers. Ramesh also Justice Ranjan Gogoi asked committee has felt handi- clock security after they recent- women due to threat to their sworn in as judges of the January 18, 2019 at 10:30 AM grabbed more and more power sought to know what are the the Centre to make available capped in convening its meet- ly entered the Sabarimala tem- life for entering into the hilltop Supreme Court on Friday. in the Chief Justice’s court,” the for himself under Modi, can’t relations between Vivek Doval’s requisite infrastructure, man- ings and in holding its delib- ple in Kerala despite protests shrine. The Government had noti- circular said. be above the rule of law”. fund GNY Asia and Zeus power, secretarial assistance erations”. It also noted in its right-wing Hindu groups. The plea sought directions fied on Wednesday the The five-member SC Ramesh at a Press confer- Capital, another company in and others to enable the com- order that the eight-member A Bench of Chief Justice to all authorities to allow appointment of justices Collegium, comprising CJI ence alleged that a hedge fund which his brother Shaurya mittee, which is headed by committee, which was consti- Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L N women of all age groups to Maheshwari and Gogoi and justices A K Sikri, S GNY Asia was opened in Doval has business interests. former apex court judge tuted by a Government notifi- Rao and S K Kaul said that it enter the temple without any Khanna as judges of the apex A Bobde, NV Ramana and Cayman Islands on November Cayman Islands are an Ranjana Prakash Desai, to cation of September 27 last would hear the plea filed by hindrance and to ensure secu- court. Arun Mishra, on January 10 21, 2016, 13 days after demon- autonomous British Overseas commence its work immedi- year, had not undertaken any two women — Kanakdurga rity and safe passage, including Chief Justice of India recommended names of jus- etisation, with Vivek Doval as territory in the western ately and conclude it within the deliberations till January 16 and and Bindu — on Friday after police security to women wish- Ranjan Gogoi will administer tices Maheshwari and Khanna one of its directors. The former Caribbean Sea, which is con- time frame. a meeting was held only on senior advocate Indira Jaising ing to enter the temple in the oath of office to the two for elevation as apex court Union Minister also alleged sidered a tax haven. The Bench, also compris- Wednesday. PTI contended the matter should be future. judges on Friday, an official cir- judges. $ #% !01.023 should prevent further losses to will be consumed as a result. each country’s circumstances.” er healthy diets by 2050. threat to the stability of the biodiversity, and bring about But without change, cur- The findings represent the They found that major planet. Sustainability of the o prevent unavoidable envi- improvements in fertiliser and rent trends will lead to climate first scientific targets for dietary changes, improved food food system must therefore be Tronmental catastrophe in water use efficiency. change, biodiversity loss, healthy diets via sustainable production processes and defined from a planetary per- the wake of burgeoning popu- The study which was fund- increased pollution, and unsus- food production systems, reduced food waste are need- spective,” said the study’s co- lation, climate change and bio- ed by the Wellcome Trust and tainable changes in water and which operate within the plan- ed for planet to continue to be lead, Commissioner Professor diversity loss, scientists have EAT (specifically funding from land use. et’s ability to produce food sustainable, and added that no Johan Rockström. called for change in the current the Wellcome Trust and “The food we eat and how and promotes diets consisting single measure on its own “There is no silver bullet diet trends across the globe — Stordalen Foundation) said we produce it determines the of a variety of plant-based would be enough to stay with- for combatting harmful food cut down consumption of red that daily dietary pattern of a health of people and the plan- foods, with low amounts of ani- in the limits. production practices, but by meat and sugar by half and planetary health et, and we are currently getting mal-based foods, refined They added that global defining and quantifying a safe double your intake of nuts, diet should consists of approx- this seriously wrong,” says one grains, highly processed foods, collaboration would also be operating space for food sys- fruits, vegetables, and legumes imately 35% of calories as of the study’s authors, Professor and added sugars, and with required, such as tems, diets can be identified by 2050. whole grains and tubers, pro- Tim Lang of the City, unsaturated rather than satu- changes to the agriculture that will nurture human health The EAT-Lancet tein sources mainly from plants University of London. rated fats. industry to focus on more var- and support environmental Commission study released on — but including approximate- “We need a significant Using these targets, the ied nutrient-rich crops and sustainability.” The Stockholm Thursday also said that fossil ly 14g of red meat per day — Consumption is expected 2050 while it will also become overhaul, changing the global report’s authors modelled var- increased governance of land Resilience Centre was the sci- fuels should be eliminated in and 500g per day of vegetables to increase as the global pop- wealthier, with an expectation food system on a scale not seen ious scenarios to develop a sus- and ocean use. entific coordinator of the agricultural production, which and fruits. ulation grows to 10 billion by that more animal-based foods before in ways appropriate to tainable food system and deliv- “Humanity now poses a report. 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aipur District Education ROfficer has issued a notice, to all the Block Education #' ) Officers, principals and head- & ' masters of schools of Raipur ' district to ban the cell phones ' in the schools. The notice issued by the Raipur DEO A N Banjara to all & the block education officers, *' ' Principals and head masters of &' government, government aided Higher Secondary and High ',#' Schools, states, “During the ' * inspections of schools it was ' found that boys and girls are & ' using the mobile phones which ' is affecting the teaching and learning including other school *& activities. It was also brought to !"$" the notice that the mobile phones are being misused.” “Therefore, it is being directed that students both 5" + " 6 . 0 , ! boys and girls should be refrained from bringing cell phones in the school by advis- effective for the private 543<85 Gandhi National Rural Chief Minister said that during ed to organise Gram Sabhas in the problem of stray cattle in to seek advise of agricultural ing them. The students and schools also. Employment Guarantee the upcoming Gram Sabhas on co-ordination with Panchayat the farming sector. scientists to grow tomato, their parents should also be Since long the school edu- hief Minister Bhupesh Scheme (MGNREGS). January 26, the grazing ground and Rural Development He urged the farmers to onion and potato crops. counselled on the rational side cation department has been CBaghel on Thursday said Addressing the 8th Indian for cattle must be identified. Department. confine cattle so that cost of He also urged the farmers of the aspect,” states the order. trying to come up with a guide- the State Government will link Horticultural Congress at the He said that the The Chief Minister said putting up fensing could be to advise farmers on conserv- The order states that it is line on the use of cell phones development of farming sector Indira Gandhi Agriculture Agriculture Production that due to lack of irrigation saved. ing crops due to effect of cli- not limited to the government in schools but it is for first time in Chhattisgarh with Mahatma University (IGAU) here, the Commssioner had been direct- facilities, one is encountering Baghel urged the farmers mate change. and aided schools; it will be such an order has been issued. !9. I !
543<85 Chhattisgarh, officials Steel plant coming up at informed. Nagarnar. MDC Ltd will be out- The company which is also NMDC is operating iron Nsourcing operation and in the process of laying a 15 ore mines at Bailadila Complex maintenance of Outdoor Million Tonnes Per Annum in South Bastar Dantewada Pipelines package (ODBL) for (MTPA) slurry pipeline is exe- District Chhattisgarh and is a period of two years for 3.0 cuting the project in two phas- having long term commitment MTPA Integrated Steel Plant at es. The first phase is being exe- for supply of iron ore Nagarnar near Jagdalpur in cuted from Bacheli to Nagarnar to major steel plants across Chhattisgarh. in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh the country. NMDC's Ore Processing at an estimated outlay of Rs Hence, JV Company Plant at Bacheli will be inter- 4,000 crore; and the second between NMDC and connected by a Slurry Pipeline phase will be executed from Chhattisgarh Mineral System between Bacheli and Nagarnar to Vizag in Andhra Development Corporation Nagarnar in Chhattisgarh, offi- Pradesh at an outlay of Rs (CMDC) i.e NMDC-CMDC cials informed. 6,000 crore, officials informed. (NCL) was formed for devel- Notably, NMDC had Notably, to transport pellet opment of a new deposit in the sought Right of Use (ROU) / feed concentrate from Bailadila already prospected areas i.e Right of Way (ROW) permis- to Vizag via Jagdalpur, the Bailadila Deposit-4 with a pro- sion earlier for developing a company will have the pipeline duction capacity of 7 MTPA for land corridor for its Slurry laid along the highways with a meeting the iron ore require- Pipeline project from Bailadila provision of partial off-take to ment of Steel plant of NMDC to Nagarnar in Bastar region of feed its proposed 3 MTPA at Nagarnar, near Jagdalpur. 8 . - 7 +
543<85 and girls. Weekly iron-folic supple- two- day National mentary tables are being pro- AAdolescent Health pro- vided to schools and anganba- gramme review meeting began di centres. here on Thursday. The presentation states that The programme officers peer educator system has been from states of Chhattisgarh, developed in Bijapur, Bilaspur, Telangana, Maharashtra, Dantewada, Jashpur and Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Surguja. In each village having Bihar, Gujarat, Dadar-Nagar population of 1000, four peer Haveli, Daman are participat- educators, two boys and two ing in the meeting. girls having age of 15 to 17 In the presentation made years are trained. Similarly, in by Chhattisgarh, it was point- school two peer educators and ed out that state has adolescent in villages, village cleanliness population of 9 percent and and health committee also around 21.56 lakh go to school deputes two peer educators. In 543<85 der community in the residential community is a part of our society and said. It is noteworthy that Transgender Corporation Pramod Dubey, while 1.58 lakh boys and girls present around 1146 peer edu- premise built under BSUP Scheme in they have every right to live a Community had organized the Corporators, RMC Commissioner . had left school. cators have been trained. rban Administration Minister Tatibandh on Thursday. respectable life. thanksgiving programme for allot- Rajat Bansal, people of transgender State has commenced 104 The different states UDr Shivkumar Daharia attended In his address to the programme, It is our responsibility to include ment of residential flats. On the occa- community and residents of the local- toll free number for boys made their presentation. a programme organized by transgen- Dr Daharia said that transgender transgenders into the mainstream, he sion, Mayor, Raipur Municipal ity were also present. ! " # $ % S ' " (
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' /8 . ! : + 9 " ! 2453.145 ith the snow falling on the mountain 543<85 Good Manufacturing Practice Wtops of the Himalayan ranges these (GMP), production capacity, days, hundreds of species of birds are com- hhattisgarh State Medical technical staff information, ing on winter migration to the plain areas )! *+$& ! Balrampur and 10 candidates CServices Corporation performance certificate, ISO and the water bodies of northern and east- ,- of Kanker have been issued (CGMSC) to bring trans- certificate, import and sales ern parts of India. They come for six notice by the concerned district parency in the procurement of license and other details have months every year and after the wintery electoral officers. medicines/equipment has to be given. chill is over with the advent of the Vasant, 543<85 Similarly, in Janjgir- decided to register the vendor He further said that they return to their homelands. The beau- Champa and Mahasamund 8, firms through online mode CGMSC officials would be tiful black eyed Khanjan has also registered otice has been issued to Mungeli 7, Raigarh 6, Koriya, and issue license for a year. after evaluation of documents its arrival in Haridwar this winter. These tification characteristic that they keep wag- N123 candidates for non- Kabirdham and Baloda Bazar CGMSC Manager Dr issue the registration certificate. birds have found references in the ancient ging their tails frequently. submission of election expense 4 each, Rajnandgaon and Sarveshwar Narendra Bhure It would be valid for a year. scriptures and many Indian poets have For years, it was said that the migra- accounts. Surapur 3 each, Jashpur and stated that the Corporation Firms can re-register by used the beautiful eyes of ‘Khanjan’ to por- tory birds coming from Palearctic region Chhattisgarh Chief Dhamtari two candidates while had been constituted for pro- applying having completed the tray their heroes. could not cross the Himalayas and must Electoral Officer Subrat Sahoo Dantewada and Korba one curement of allopathy medi- license period. The renowned ornithologist professor have come crossing the crevices in the informed that under the each candidates have been cines, AYUSH medicines and Dr Bhure said that Dinesh Bhatt said that the big- eyed wag- mountain ranges. But after some moun- Representation of the Peoples issued the notice. equipments. earlier in each tender, all doc- tail has started reaching the plains of taineers affirmed that these birds had come Act 1951, Section 78, the can- The CEO said that at Bastar, For first time, the system of uments were sought and was to Haridwar and the Ganga wetlands. The lit- over the Himalayas peaks the notion didates who were in poll fray Gariaband, Sukma, Surguja, one-time online registration be uploaded which used to eral meaning of ‘Khanjan’ is one which changed. will have to submit their election Bijapur, Bemetara, Durg, Balod, of the vendor firms and agen- take time. takes birth in skies. It is said that our saints Speaking to The Pioneer, Dinesh expense account within the 30 Narayanpur and Kondagaon, cies has been put in place. The Now with new system, and sages of yore used to live on the heights Bhatt said, “The Himalayan wagtail not just days after declaration of result. all the candidates had submitted vendors can log in and register once registered the firms can of the Himalayas and were very fond for migrates to the northern parts of India but Those candidates not hav- their election expense accounts along with upload their tender participate in the tendering nature. They might have seen hordes of they also fly down to Mumbai and south- referred to the birds in different styles, por- ing submitted the accounts within time-limit. documents. process and there is no need for these birds descending down on the ern plateau. Their memory is very sharp traying them as wonders of nature,” he says. within the specified time will As per rules of ECI, if can- The vendor can upload re-uploading the documents plains and named them Khanjan. Out of and they remember their migratory loca- The research students of bioacoustics have to explain for failure to didates have not submitted the details of turnover certificate, and re-evaluation by the the six varieties of the bird species, three tions well. The gardens and areas in laboratory of Gurukul Kangri University submit accounts . accounts within specified limit audit report, GST registration, department officials. It would are migratory in nature which come from which they come in one season, they con- said while talking to The Pioneer that they All poll expense details of without valid reason can be medicine/medical equipment help to save time and bring in the distant regions of Leh and Ladakh, tinue to come in subsequent years too.” are hearing the sweet chant of the grey each candidate will be debarred from contesting elec- manufacturing license, WHO transparency. Kashmir valley, Kullu Manali, Niti – The famous litterateur and Hindi wagtail birds these days. uploaded on Election tion for next three years. Maana for spending the winter in the wet- poet Maithili Sharan Gupt was so much “We wonder why these birds sing so Commission of India website. The deadline was January lands of Ganga riverbeds and water bod- impressed by this bird that in his epic sweetly during the winter when we Sahoo said for non-sub- 10 and now the candidates ies and return after the spring arrives for work, ‘Saket’, he compared the beautiful know that they sing during the mating sea- mission of expense accounts, having been issued notice have breeding purpose. eyes of Lakshman of Ramayana with the son which comes in the summer,” one of 32 candidates from Raipur dis- to submit accounts within 20 4&9+! Commonly known as ‘Khanjan’ or eyes of this bird. them said. trict, 17 from Bilaspur, 11 from days. wagtail, the three common migratory The assistant professor of Uttarakhand Notably, the bio acoustics laboratory species are grey, yellow and black and Sanskrit University, Haridwar Vinay Sethi of Gurukul Kangri University of Haridwar white. The grey wagtail is identifiable with says, the Sanskrit scholars have mentioned is one of the leading labs where study of its yellow stomach and continuous wag- the birds beautifully in their works. “Hindi breeding and communication of birds is ging of its tail up and down. It is their iden- poet Surdas and many others have studied.
24!.3"452 “Modi Government’s efforts has opened the aking it clear that 2019 Kartarpur corridor, the Centre ."#""!""$!" MLok Sabha election would is also carrying out lot of devel- be fought in coalition with the opment works in Sultanpur Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Lodhi where Guru Nanak Dev # P Punjab, the saffron party on spent 14 years of his life...People Thursday expressed confidence will surely vote in our favour,” of winning all the seats bank- said Capt Abhimanyu, who is 24!.3"452 Kartarpur Sahib Corridor had it was, at the same time, doing ing on the Narendra Modi also Cabinet Minister in the once again shown that neither its best to put hurdles in the Government’s achievements neighbouring Haryana. unjab Chief Minister Capt the ruling BJP nor its ally SAD way of its smooth operational- including opening of Kartarpur Blaming the Congress party PAmarinder Singh on were interested in facilitating isation. corridor, conviction in 1984 for allegedly giving political Thursday lambasted the Union the devotees by making travel While even Passport waiv- anti-Sikh riot cases, among patronage to 1984 riots accused, Minister and Punjab BJP’s for- hassle-free, said the Chief er was not an impossibility, the others. Capt Abhimanyu said that Modi mer president Vijay Sampla for Minister. visa requirement could defi- Punjab BJP in-charge Capt Government put in their best trying to scuttle the Sikh com- He said that Sampla’s claim nitely be done away with for Abhimanyu, in his first inter- efforts to put the accused of munity’s dreams by unneces- that all Punjabis had passports devotees crossing the corridor action with the media after his 1984 riots behind the bars. sarily complicating the process was highly irresponsible and by allowing travel to Kartarpur appointment, also brushed Capt Abhimanyu, who had ear- of travel and darshan at the his- wrong, and showed how Sahib on a travel permit, which aside reports of change in seat- lier worked for three years with toric Kartarpur Sahib misinformed and disconnect- was meant only for limited sharing and arrangement with the party workers in Punjab as Gurdwara in Pakistan. ed from the masses the movement to the Gurdwara the SAD for the ensuing par- co-in-charge in 2009, said that “Instead of finding ways of Minister was. Sahib for paying obeisance, liamentary polls. the people of Punjab were not facilitating the Sikh pilgrims, Lambasting Sampla for Capt Amarinder pointed out. “There is no plan to change happy with the Congress the Central Government, espe- rejecting his proposal out of A travel permit could suf- the seat ratio in Punjab for Lok Government as it has not ful- cially responsible elected rep- hand without even studying the fice to regulate entry and exit Sabha elections...BJP will decide filled any of its promise. resentatives such as Sampla, Sahib Corridor,” said Capt possibility for passport and through the corridor, with any their candidates just after the Apparently closing eyes to were constantly putting hurdles Amarinder. visa waiver for the pilgrims to official document, like the announcement of elections,” SAD’s alleged involvement in the in the way of the realisation of Sampla’s statement reject- Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, Aadhar card (which has bio- said Capt Abhimanyu, who was sacrilege cases that rocked the their dream to visit the historic ing the possibility of passport the Chief Minister said that metric details of the citizens), accompanied by Punjab BJP state in 2015 and even threw the Gurdwara, which they had waiver and making visa while the BJP was, on the one as identification proof for those president Shawet Malik. At the SAD-BJP combine out of power, seen being fulfilled with the mandatory for the poor and hand, trying to take credit seeking to travel through the same time, Capt Abhimanyu Capt Abhimanyu maintained decision to open the Kartarpur illiterate pilgrims crossing the for the opening of the Corridor, Corridor, he added. expressed confidence of win- that the issues for the state ning all seats in the state, main- assembly and Lok Sabha elec- taining that BJP-led NDA tions are a lot different. “Modi impugned Act even when it was passed in the Government at the Centre had Government has done many year 2014. In fact, after the amendment in done lot of works, including for works for Punjab and Punjabis Maharashtra Police Act in 2005, no licences have Punjab and the Sikh commu- like Kartarpur Corridor, justice been granted for dance bars,” the Bench said. nity, which would favour the in 1984 Sikh riots cases, and thus From Page 1 The court said though the 2016 Act SAD-BJP combine with the people of Punjab is not It said since obscenity is treated as immoral, appeared to be regulatory in nature, the real con- Congress-led Punjab against the BJP and will stand therefore obscene dance performance may not sequences and effect was to prohibit such Government completely fail- with the party in 2019 Lok be acceptable and the State can pass a law pro- dance bars. “The state, thereby, is aiming to ing in fulfilling its promises. Sabha elections,” he said. hibiting such dances. achieve something indirectly which it could not 999 However, it observed that “a practice which do directly. Such a situation is beyond compre- may not be immoral by societal standards can- hension and cannot be countenanced,” the court From Page 1 not be thrusted upon the society as immoral by said. “We have quashed those provisions of the Several agencies including the State with its own notion of morality and Act and the Rules which we have found as unrea- Navy, National Disaster thereby exercise social control”. sonable and unconstitutional. We hope that Response Force(NDRF), Air “It appears from the history of legislative applications for grant of licence shall now be Force are involved in the res- amendments made from time to time that the considered more objectively and with open mind cue operation. respondents (Maharashtra and others) have so that there is no complete ban on staging dance According to the five somehow developed the notion that such per- performances at designated places prescribed in miners who had made it alive, formances in the dance bars do not have the Act,” it said. one of the workers could have moralistic basis,” the court said in its judgment. The court delivered the verdict on petitions accidentally punctured the It said that many conditions stipulated for filed by association of various hotel owners and walls of possibly another obtaining the licence were virtually impossible bar owners, RR Patil Foundation and Bhartiya nearby abandoned the flood- to perform. “It is this reason that not a single Bargirls Union, challenging certain provisions ed mine. establishment has been issued licence under the of the 2016 Act and the Rules. In the Khloo-Ryngksan area, where the ill-fated mine is located on the western side narrating how women were adjoining Chandigarh, was a of a small hillock, the Lytein being sexually exploited by the virtual fortress on Thursday river crisscrosses the valley sect head at the Dera head- with strict checking of all peo- for over two km. quarters. ple and vehicles coming to the Deputy Commissioner of The publication of the let- area. East Jaintia Hills F M Dopth ter and other stories carried by To avert the violence that said there are at least 80-100 Chhatrapati, which were criti- rocked Panchkula and Sirsa flooded and abandoned cal of the activities of the sect towns in Haryana following mines in the area. and its chief, had upset Ram Ram Rahim’s conviction for The Supreme Court had Rahim who asked his close rape in August 2017, anti-riot rapped the Meghalaya From Page 1 aides to eliminate the journal- police was present in strength Government over the slow “This is the triumph of ist. outside the court complex. progress of the search opera- truth, I feel relieved today. The Chhatrapati was shot at Panchkula Administration had tion and inaction against ille- prosecution had demanded outside his house and had later imposed Section 144 CrPC in gal miners. capital punishment but we are succumbed to his injuries. the area to prevent the assem- satisfied with the punishment,” A case was registered in bly of five or more people. said journalist Ramchandra 2003 by Haryana Police. But, The area around the Chhatarpati’s son Anshul on Chhatrapati’s family had later Sunaria Jail near Rohtak, where court pronouncing the quan- approached the Punjab and Ram Rahim is lodged, was tum of sentence on Thursday. Haryana High Court in 2003, also completely sealed by secu- “We had to fight a lot to get seeking the transfer of the case rity personnel while security him (Ram Rahim) punished,” to the Central Bureau of was also tightened in Haryana’s he added. Investigation. Sirsa town, where the sect’s The judgment has come According to the CBI headquarters is located. over 16 years after the murder chargesheet filed in the murder Punjab Police had also of the journalist. case, Dera manager Krishan Lal taken preventive security mea- Earlier, arguments of had given his licenced revolver sures in the neighbouring State lawyers of the CBI, and a walkie-talkie to two as the sect has lakhs of follow- Chhatrapati’s family and the shooters in the presence of ers in Bathinda, Mansa, Moga sect chief were held for more Ram Rahim. and Sangrur. than two hours. The sentenc- Khatta Singh, the former Notably, thousands of Dera ing came over two hours after driver of Dera chief who was a chief followers, who had gath- that. key witness in the murder case ered at Panchkula went on a The counsel for Ram had told the court that it was rampage after Ram Rahim was Rahim had pleaded for a less- Dera chief who had ordered convicted on August 25, 2017 er sentence, citing the social Chhatrapati’s killing in front of in the rape case. work being done by the sect. him. More than 40 people were Sirsa-based journalist Meanwhile, security was killed, over 260 were wounded Chhatrapati was shot at in tightened in parts of Haryana and property worth crores of October 2002 after a newspa- and Punjab ahead of the sen- rupees was damaged within per owned by him, had pub- tencing. The CBI court com- few hours of his conviction in lished an anonymous letter plex in Panchkula’s Sector 1, Panchkula. ( ) ( *+, -.*/ /
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Hquently" placed in poor are underpaid, vulnerable to Secretary of Energy (Nuclear 19- on Wednesday, a day after As many as 172 suspects working conditions and "vul- abuse, and frequently placed in Energy), Aditya Bamzai for her Government suffered a his- were placed on the Exit Control 0 nerable to abuse", a US think- poor working conditions. member of the Privacy and toric parliamentary defeat over List (ECL) on the recommen- tank claimed Thursday, seeking Adopting safeguards to ensure Civil Liberties Oversight Board her Brexit divorce deal with the dations of a JIT formed by the &%8&6(3 7 :& reforms such as substantial H-1B workers are paid appro- and Bimal Patel as the assistant European Union. apex court. A person cannot fly ! increase in wages. priate wages, provided fair secretary of Treasury. Speaking outside 10 abroad if his name is placed on In a report, the South Asia working conditions, and given The nomination of Downing Street after the voting, ; < ! * the ECL. Center of the Atlantic Council greater employment rights Baranwal, Bamzai and Patel was May said the Government has + ) .! The Supreme Court, in a also sought safeguards like would not only improve their sent to the Senate Wednesday. won the confidence of detailed judgement, ordered the < 9 ><7 providing fair working condi- lives, but would also better pro- So far, Trump has nomi- Parliament.This now gives “us vised interview after the win- ter said she has held “construc- government to remove the tions, and greater employment tect US workers,” it said. nated or appointed more than all the opportunity to focus on ning the vote of no confidence.. tive” meetings and will be meet- names of opposition Pakistan rights for those working under The report said adopting three dozen Indian-Americans finding a way forward on Earlier, Labour leader ing MPs along with senior Peoples Party (PPP) chairman the visa programme. adequate safeguards would also in key positions. Brexit”, she said. Jeremy Corbyn argued that Government officials in the Bilawal and Sindh Chief The report comes days ensure the H-1B programme Nikki Haley, the first cabi- “Overwhelmingly, the May’s “zombie” administration coming days. Minister Murad Ali Shah from # - ) after US President Donald contributes to the US economy net ranking Indian-American British people want us to get on had lost the right to govern dur- May also reiterated a the ECL. It, however, referred the 17>4 Trump said he is soon coming by filling genuine shortages in and Raj Shah, the first Indian- with delivering Brexit, and also ing a six hour debate on his promise to return to the report and material collected by FG + ! out with reforms that will give the labour market with foreign American deputy Press address the other important motion. Commons on Monday to give the JIT in the Rs 35 billion 'fake = +&%?* H-1B visa holders certainty to workers who possess rare skills Secretary, have left the Trump issues they care about,” the His party has not ruled out MPs another vote on her plans. accounts case' to the National 1* ; stay in America and an easy and can be rightly charac- administration. Conservative leader said. tabling further no-confidence “The House has put its Accountability Bureau (NAB), pathway to citizenship. terised as the “best and bright- Baranwal holds the post of This is now the time to put motions. confidence in this government,” Dawn news reported. ; 4 “H1-B holders in the est". Director, Gateway for “self-interest aside”, May said After her victory, May told she said in the House of The JIT probe focused on 4 United States can rest assured The think-tank suggested Accelerated Innovation in “Now MPs have made clear MPs that she would “continue Commons. 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We want to encour- “The first, and most will also be responsible for the “That’s why I am inviting European Union”. dence of the British people.” The others. "Removing of the names +&%@ age talented and highly skilled important, reform is to sub- department’s nuclear technolo- MPs from all parties to She invited leaders of all Democratic Unionist Party, will not prevent (the) NAB to people to pursue career options stantially raise the wages of H- gy research and the development come together to find a way for- parties to have individual which props up May’s minori- probe and in case sufficient ? in the US,” Trump had tweet 1B workers. If the United States and management of the depart- ward. One that both delivers on meetings with her on the way ty government, also voted to material is found connecting * # Friday. is going to invite in the “best ment’s nuclear technology infra- the referendum and can com- ahead for Brexit, starting keep her administration in these individuals with cognisable &7&7 L The report has been and brightest” workers, they structure. Previously, Baranwal mand the support of Parliament. tonight, but called on them to power despite their strong offences, it will not be preclud- 4>,@ authored by Ron Hira from ought to be paid in the top served as director of the This is now the time to put self- approach them with a “con- opposition to the Brexit deal. ed from making an appropriate Howard University and head, quartile,” the report said. Technology Development and interest aside,” she said. structive spirit”. May’s divorce deal to leave request to the federal 1* South Asia Center of the Second, employers should Application at Westinghouse The prime minister said she “We must find solutions the EU was overwhelmingly Government to place their * Atlantic Council, Bharat demonstrate they have active- and was a manager in Materials believes it was her duty to deliv- that are negotiable and com- rejected by MPs on Tuesday, names on (the) ECL again or Gopalaswamy. ly recruited US workers, and Technology at Bechtel Bettis, er on the British people’s mand sufficient support in this triggering a no-confidence take any appropriate action pro- The current system not offered positions to qualified where she led research and instruction to leave the House,” she added. motion against her government vided by law," according to the only harms Americans, but it people, prior to turning to the development in nuclear fuel European Union. “And I intend During her address form and leaving the country with no judgement authored by Justice also enables H-1B workers to H-1B programme, it said. materials for US naval reactors. to do so,” May said in the tele- 10 Downing, the prime minis- plans for Brexit on March 29. 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;4!">7> Thursday after being convict- last February in the sleazy sea- “missing puzzle pieces” regard- romance and relationship ed of participating in a “sex side resort of Pattaya. ing claims the Kremlin aided course. Vashukevich pleaded 1 # Belarusian model who training course”. In a case that veered Trump’s 2016 presidential elec- guilty alongside seven others to Aclaimed she had evidence Anastasia Vashukevich, between salacious and bizarre, tion victory. multiple charges, including 34!;8 Fahrettin Altun, communi- our friends and allies, including of Russian efforts to help known by her pen-name Vashukevich said she had trav- But the material never sur- solicitation and illegal assem- cations director at the Turkish the Netherlands, and rely on Donald Trump win office was Nastya Rybka, was held with elled to Thailand after becom- faced and critics dismissed the bly at a Pattaya court on Dutch journalist based in presidency, confirmed her their insights to identify and deported from Thailand on several others in a police raid ing embroiled in a political claims as a publicity stunt. Tuesday, which ordered the ATurkey was deported from expulsion but said it “was in no neutralise threats against Turkish scandal with Russian alumini- In the risque Pattaya sem- group be deported. the country on Thursday, a day way related to her journalistic and European security,” Altun um tycoon Oleg Deripaska -- inar led by Alex Kirillov, a self- On Thursday afternoon, after she was arrested, on suspi- activities during her stay in said. a one-time associate of Trump’s styled Russian seduction guru, Vashukevich and the majority cion of links to terrorism, Turkey.” Until now, the Turkish disgraced former campaign some participants wore shirts of the convicted were put on an Turkish officials said. “The Turkish authorities authorities, with help from their director Paul Manafort. that said “sex animator” - Aeroflot flight for Moscow, The officials said Ans have recently received intelli- international partners, have She then set tongues wag- though one person at the time bringing to an end the Thai Boersma’s deportation was not gence from the Dutch police that blacklisted tens of thousands of ging by promising to reveal described it as more of a side of a baffling case. related to her journalistic activ- Ms Boersma had links to a des- individuals with links to terror- ity but that Ankara had received ignated terrorist organisation ist organisations as part of an a tip-off from the Dutch police and a request for information ongoing effort to combat that she had links to a terror about her movements in and out extremism, he noted. / group. of Turkey,” he said. Another Turkish official, Boersma, a freelance jour- It was not immediately clear who wished to remain anony- nalist based in Istanbul who has to which terror group the jour- mous, said Boersma’s press cre- ! %0 contributed articles to the finan- nalist had alleged links. dentials were valid until January cial newspaper Het Financieele A number of groups includ- 31, 2019. Human rights defend- 1423!"7! nificance as the White House describing when and how it Dagblad, had announced she ing the outlawed Kurdistan ers have raised concerns over a is preparing for another sum- would occur. had been expelled. Workers’ Party clampdown on freedom of he US awaits "concrete mit between President Donald Pence said that the US “I got arrested yesterday (PKK) and the Islamic State expression in Turkey under Tsteps" by North Korea to Trump and the North Korean awaits North Korea to dis- (Wednesday), got deported this have carried out a spate of President Recep Tayyip dismantle its nuclear weapons leader Kim Jong-un. mantle its nuclear weapons. morning. Flying out now,” she attacks in Turkey in recent years. Erdogan, with dozens of jour- that threaten America and The two leaders have "While the president has said in a messaging group for “Due to the seriousness of nalists and civil society activists other countries in the region, recently exchanged letters. started a promising dialogue foreign journalists in Turkey. the threat, we work closely with put behind bars. Vice President Mike Pence has Kim and Trump held a his- with Chairman Kim, we still said. toric meeting in Singapore on await concrete steps by North Pence's statement came June 12 last year where they Korea to dismantle the nuclear during his address to the glob- issued a vague goal for the weapons that threaten our peo- + + + al chief of mission conference "complete denuclearisation" of ple and our allies in the region," on Wednesday and gains sig- the Korean Peninsula without Pence said. **/ *+ 7!.7! forces, British media reported on as saying. Thursday, citing officials. “His selfless action will be heavily-armed man seen “Without this British remembered by those he res- Aworking with Kenyan forces special forces soldier, many cued and privately celebrated and helping victims during the more lives would have been and acknowledged by his col- Nairobi attack this week was a lost,” the Daily Mirror quoted a leagues,” the military source member of Britain’s special senior British military source said. ( ) ( *+, -.*/ * 2 M O.< M M &&*);:&%' " " 11 !! 2! '! 4 * 8< O * . * 3 1 ( 8 S &0 3! 9 * ) ) 1 ( f all the speeches, tweets and S 9 % off-the-cuff remarks which # ) % together constitute President Donald J Trump’s articulation O of the US’ global policy prior- ( O ) itiesO and ideological positions (or lack 1 ) ( thereof), there has never been one that defines his presidency more than his ) 1 address to the United Nations in end-2017. It was the most unambiguous speech 1 ) $ by a world leader to the globe’s most ambiguous institution in recent history. In " ) a sense, it was a rather effective exercise in # showing the mirror to the UN. He started % ! ! ; < - =;<-> ( off by putting the cat firmly among the pigeons by reminding the gathering that 8 ) President Harry S Truman was instrumen- ( tal in establishing the UN as an organisa- tion specifically for post-WW II nation- states to help build democratic institutions ) * + in their respective countries that would % strengthen member-states’ sovereignty and ) help them serve their citizens better. It was a timely intervention. After all, S * someone needed to juxtapose what was intended with what the UN has become — % ( a sinecure for the elite of various nations 1 which passes ineffective and often unim- plementable resolutions, an illiberal club which are ideologically com- are good to go! The reality, of Washington’s given this once- American conservative estab- ; which has ended up bestowing legal rights mitted to undermining the course, is more complicated in-a-generation opportunity. lishment that the US’ contribu- to groups at the cost of the individual and global order premised on than that; for example, Saudi It is not only about meta-nar- tion to the UN budget is 22 per 9 an organisation that happily tolerates nation-states or blocs thereof as Arabia should in an ideal world ratives but also the smaller cent of the total despite the US grotesque aberrations of a Libya or Sudan the primary unit of interaction. make it to any list of despotic issues on which there is an being just one of the UN’s 193 hyh1 finding a place on its human rights coun- (North Korea and Syria, also Islamic regimes but it is neither emerging convergence of member-states. But he was ) # cil, for example. attacked by Trump, represent in the US’ nor India’s interest views. quick to add even while ( Trump also laid out his doctrine for proxy threats for the US and are to proffer such a suggestion. For example, Trump was encouraging other members to America’s place in the world which, over a discussion for elsewhere.) The situation, however, is not emphatic in telling the UN that contribute more that the invest- 1 the past year and a bit since his speech, His definition of such so complicated as to not pro- pressure by its refugee organ- ment was worth it if peace and ) ( seems to have been broadly accepted by the rogue nations as the “wicked vide New Delhi enough lever- isation on the US to allow global order could be delivered. ) ) ; ; American establishment though his style few” and his exhortation to age to make space for itself at refugees stateside was in effect The disproportionate of doing things is, perfectly understandably, “decent nations not to become the high table, provided we dictatorial, chipped away at military/financial contribution unacceptable to many, including the sim- bystanders” were just sound keep our domestic internal sovereignty and untenable. At of the US in terms of the influ- patico. But let us not confuse style with sub- and fury signifying American security situation under con- the cost of resettling one ence it has on the world body stance. This doctrine emphatically under- strategic interests, so they need trol, economic growth robust refugee in the US, we can help is a sentiment India is in a good lines the supremacy of the nation-state in not detain us here. But his and democratic institutions 10 make a better life in their position to exploit if it is adroit global interaction and/or cooperation frontal attack on bogus inter- ticking over despite the odd own countries, he said. New in the steps it needs to take to while championing sovereignty, security nationalism and exhortation to setback or two. Especially, Delhi, grappling with similar secure its strategic objectives. 2 and prosperity for them individually. all UN member nation-states to given Washington’s targeting as pressure despite not having The US President’s paean Crucially, he was careful to emphasise put their country first just as he articulated by Trump in his UN the economic wherewithal of to the nation-state and advo- 1 # ! the demonstration effect of robust, liber- was putting America first pro- speech of those nations which the US in regard to, say, accom- cacy of independent, strong, al, democracies even as he iterated that vides India the opportunity it support and promote the aims modating Rohingya refugees, prosperous countries guiding ! Washington was not in favour of impos- needs to recalibrate its own of “Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, should obviously take note. It the UN as the best way to ing a way of life on others and was accept- place in the world at a time of Taliban and others”, the last- is the citizens of low-income secure peace in our time as S ing of diversity in governance models geo-strategic flux. mentioned presumably keeping neighbouring countries who opposed to letting far-off, ( * across the globe which may not albeit be In calling for a renewal of the door open for inclusion of bear the cost both of refugees faceless bureaucracies such as ) ideal. Where he was explicit was in calling the founding principle of the terrorist tanzeems operating fleeing conflict and oppression the UN have the deciding say + +,) ! out Iran/Yemen, as corrupt, despotic UN, which is its member- in the Indian State of Jammu or plain economic migrants. is in consonance with the % ( (Islamist) dictatorships and states’ sovereignty, focussing on and Kashmir in this list. US emphasis on result/out- approach of the Indian deep Cuba/Venezuela as corrupt, totalitarian outcomes not ideology and Of course, in isolating come-orientated global actions, state. It’s better to have people (Socialist) dictatorships. He did, of course, adhering to what may be pseudo-socialist totalitarian however, does require a funda- taking ownership of their take a swipe at Russia and China, without termed principled realism, the regimes and repressive Islamic mental reform of the United future rather than be led by a * + naming them, for their expansionist moves US, if it continues down this theocracies — though that Nations itself. That is where the paternalistic global elite that in in the Ukraine and the South China Sea path, has opened up space for does not mean one doesn’t deal real opportunity for India lies the name of seeking mutual - ( respectively as well. But there was a qual- India to attempt and secure its with them in one’s national if it can find common ground bliss-points ignores the itative difference in the latter criticism, strategic interests in a substan- interest even if with a pinched with the US. For example, oppressive nature of the rooted as it was more in fighting both tial manner. To be facile, all we nose — Trump is focussed on given his transactional regimes that push this line. ( countries as global power competitors as need is to replace Iran with US interests; the trick for New approach, President Trump (The writer is an indepen- dent journalist and commenta- " opposed to the “bogus internationalism” of Pakistan in the countries list- Delhi to pull off is to see how has been quick to articulate the the so-called Islamist/Socialist countries ed by Trump at the UN and we far our interests align with long-standing grouse of the tor based in New Delhi.) " ( . " (( , . ! $ 0# + , / 0 + , * / 0 < * 34 + * + # ! 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With such a massive election verdicts only fan more ; %P@% 0 *3 divide among people across the political games played by politi- " * < 9 B ! 9 " society, no one knows what lies + cal parties. It’s high time voters ! * * ahead and what should be done. cast their mandate decisively and 9 Some support no deal at all, oth- 67 ( get themselves a stable and good * ers want no Brexit at all. The best Government they all deserve. 3 option, however, is to get back to # ( , . Sumit * the EU and seek better term. But ( Via email O &%&6 then, where is the time? March 29 < 9 will be the deciding day. There are around 1.3 million $ " people living in 27 European S ( eration to the Government dur- ly and logically. Did Kharge not countries, while 3.8 million EU # * Sir — This refers to Congress ing its term. On the contrary, it protest against the selection of citizens are residing in the United leader Mallikarjun Kharge’s frequently indulged in Modi bait- Verma as the CBI director? Kingdom. The interest of both + , + ( demand to make public the find- ing and hating without caring Undoubtedly, fair, sound and Sir — This refers to the editorial, sides needs to be taken into ings of the Central Vigilance about the nation’s interest. logical criticism is an imperative “What next for Britain” (January account. Indeed, Britain is going " ( Commission (CVC) that led to Alok Verma, formerly the for democratic politics but arro- 17). Britain Prime Minister through one of its worst the sacking of Alok Verma. director of the Central Bureau of gant demeanour, errant behav- Theresa May’s withdrawal plan political crises. 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Approximately, 45.2 per cent of remains plagued by child marriage. to defer having children by using tem- ( that huge gaps still exist. Of the 45 million 75!05 4!"3#0 the girls, aged 15-18 years in the State, So, in Khagaria district, which has porary contraceptive methods. And - women, 31 million are not using any contracep- 1790!20 have a BMI less than 18 kg/m, indicat- the highest prevalence of child marriage counselling is a crucial component in tion. Further, the report found 14 million 500.797.005 ing that they are underweight. Further, in the State, it is not uncommon to see decision-making. women used unreliable traditional methods, 60.3 per cent of the women aged early marriage that is followed by If couples are educated and allowed ( which enhanced the risk of pregnancy by three 24#3!" 23.50!;= between 15 and 49 years suffer from quick motherhood. The percentage of to make an informed choice, based on ) ( times when compared to using modern meth- 83!"09<7545= anaemia. This means that the chances girls marrying below the legal age of the advantages and disadvantages of ods (birth control pills, condoms, sterilisation 7!54 0<3#0 of post-partum haemorrhage, especial- marriage in Khagaria is 34.4 (NFHS-4). contraceptives available, they will want ( and intrauterine devices). 9027. ly for these 3.5 lakh teenage births in Not only is the high percentage of family planning services. There is a ( What is surprising is that despite a decline 78!03!"34 Bihar, are higher and expose the early marriage in rural Bihar (91.4 per clear relationship between TFR and ( " in India’s total fertility rate (the average number 58 34 women and girls to maternal mortali- cent) worrying but the fact is also that contraceptive prevalence rate. Data ) of children that would be born per woman in her 79<7!0!3! ty and morbidity. The survival of chil- 78.9 per cent of the marriages in the age has shown that where there is very low = vh life) — from 2.7 children per woman in 2005- .0 337!94>3!" dren, who are underweight, and that of group between 15 and 19 occur among contraceptive prevalence, fertility is very > ( 06 to 2.2 in 2015-16 — there was also a drop in anaemic mothers is also bleak. Bihar’s the poor households (2018 NCPCR- high as is in Bihar. In States like Tamil contraceptive use (any method) — from 56.3 per infant mortality rate (IMR) is 38 per Young Lives study). Poverty often Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, fertility is vh # ( cent in 2005-06 to 53.5 per cent in 2015-16 1,000 live births compared to 34 for the means that education remains out of lower because contraceptive preva- (NFHS-4). There has also been a decline in the rest of the country. reach for these girls. A 2017 Population lence is much higher. use of modern methods of contraception — from High-risk births occur because Council study found that two in three By providing an appropriate range "( 48.5 per cent in 2005-06 to 47.8 per cent in 2015- girls and women are unable to under- unmarried girls and less than one in of contraceptive services, India can avert ) ( 16 — even though more contraception methods stand the risks of early pregnancy. Nor seven married girls were currently in 23.9 million births and prevent one mil- ( are now available for free under India’s family are they empowered to delay or space school. Families appeared to invest less lion infant deaths and over 42,000 ( planning programme. their pregnancies. Bihar has the lowest in girls with 41 per cent of unmarried maternal deaths by 2020. It has been % ( But Khagaria’s high Total Fertility Rate spacing time duration (44.4 per cent) girls not attending school regularly. proven that as contraceptive use rises, (TFR) of four is a clear indication that contra- with approximately 15 lakh high-risk Once they are married, fertility for maternal and infant deaths decline. It is . ( ception services still elude women. Moreover, this pregnancies, compared to the nation- women like Suguna begins too young. estimated that MMR could be reduced high TFR has not only remained unchanged over al average of 51.9 per cent. Less than Lack of information, coupled with by a third through spacing of births. A - the last decade but surpasses both State and three years between pregnancies inability to access reproductive and Lancet study has shown that India national TFR, which stands at 3.3 and 2.2 respec- enhances the risk of maternal and child sexual health services, means too would save $18.2 billion in consump- % ( tively. Therefore, not much has changed in terms mortality. This is also a big reason for many and frequent pregnancies. But tion expenditure in 2020 if the FP2020 of usage of contraceptive services over the last high Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) by ensuring that adolescents are aware goal were to be achieved. This would # 10 years. Incidentally, Bihar retains its position in Bihar, which stands at 208 per of the services available to them and also improve the chances of achieving as the State with the highest TFR in India of 3.3 100,000 live births, as per Sample educating them about their sexual and the Sustainable Development Goal S * children per woman, according to UN Fund for Registration System survey 2015. This reproductive health, the Government (SDG) 3.7 goal of eliminating unmet " Population Activities’ report titled, ‘The State of is way above the national MMR of 130. can help them plan their pregnancy. needs by 2030. But it is imperative that World Population 2018’. Every woman should be able to This is where family planning cor- access to quality family planning infor- - ( One of the reasons for this is that nearly 41 decide whether, when and how many ners located at public health centres in mation and services is ensured and per cent of the population in Bihar has an unmet children she wants to have. But sever- Bihar have a pivotal role to play. By pro- women are given the power of choice % demand for modern contraceptive methods. This al factors prevent her from doing so. viding information about reproductive in planning their families. Uur vr h r Trv Srrh pu Tpuyh Ahpy s is the highest in our country. Coupled with unmet Early marriage is one of the major rea- and sexual health as well as on contra- (The writer is a senior journalist) HhhtrrTqvrVvr vs9ryuv4 ! # Eyuxuyusuuuyutywxuruusy yYqTqtuxxuuxuWT qt@WT uwyuutqs ryutys xuqus vytuxq xuyqyqsuqxuqy quuyruqssu @r xuusy qutyvvuuqtxutuquut uvyuyw uuwuys y
Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh test on 37 seats. Gujarat model as a precursor of devel- parties a hammer to beat the Modi that vary every passing day and can Pradesh was represented by BJP stal- Yadav joined hands. The BSP and SP Plain arithmetic shows that the opment and promised achche din to Government. To top it all, the agrar- impact the result, which can be unex- wart Hukum Singh. In all these seats, contested the 1993 Uttar Pradesh alliance between the SP and BSP can the people. Just four to five months ian crisis, including non-payment of pected sometimes. A sitting law- SP, BSP and RLD contested unitedly. elections as allies. Uttar Pradesh once give jitters to the BJP because in 2014, before the 2014 elections, signals cane arrears and stray cattle menace maker of the SP said that on the face But in politics, people say, by-elec- again became a crucible of political the saffron party and its allies got 43 were clear that the Congress would not in Uttar Pradesh, has made the BJP of it, party workers are happy that the tions cannot predict the outcome of experiments, to see whether ‘caste’ per cent votes, which translated into return to power and this time, unpopular among the masses. SP entered into an alliance with the the general elections. This holds true could get the better of religion, because 73 seats in Uttar Pradesh. The party Narendra Modi would head the coun- In this scenario, the SP-BSP BSP but results cannot be depicted for the 2019 elections too. One thing in local parlance, it is believed that reli- won 71 seats on its own — the high- try. Even in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP alliance seems to be a potent combi- merely on the basis of the 2014 elec- is clear that in Uttar Pradesh, where 3&2 0 "3 gion is the glue that binds all castes. est tally in Uttar Pradesh — and its gained ground after the Muzaffarnagar nation to take on the BJP. Even as the tion. “In 2014, there was a wave in caste plays an important role, selection fter the demolition of the Babri The result was an eye-opener for all. allay, Apna Dal, won two seats. On the pogrom, which divided western Uttar Congress will not be a part of the favour of Modi but in 2019, there is no of candidates will be of paramount Masjid in 1992, the then Chief The alliance decimated the BJP and its other hand, SP got 22 per cent votes Pradesh along sharp religious lines. alliance, and its leaders have declared wave either for or against the BJP. importance. A leader, who is popu- AMinister of Uttar Pradesh, count came down from 221 to 108 and and BSP, 20 per cent, while the Reports of exodus of Hindu families that the grand old party will contest People are angry with the ruling lar and is working with the people, can Kalyan Singh, resigned because his Mulayam Singh Yadav became the Congress secured six per cent. SP won from Kairana and Shamli further the election separately, theoretically, it party but that anger needs to be trans- turn the situation in favour of the Government failed to protect the dis- Chief Minister. five seats — all of them in the so-called added fuel to an already communal- seems that the SP-BSP alliance will formed into votes. This is a tedious job alliance. But if a candidate is given a puted structure despite having given In the last 26 years, much water Yadav belt, while the Congress was vic- ly surcharged atmosphere. sweep the 2019 Lok Sabha election and and needs to be meticulously worked ticket merely because he is rich but has an assurance in the Supreme Court has flown down the Gomati river and torious only in Amethi and Rae Bareli The situation in 2019, however, is will win around 50 seats out of a pos- on,” he said. no roots among the masses, could that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the BSP and SP have once again decid- which are the party’s pocket boroughs. different. The BJP is now facing anti- sible 80 in Uttar Pradesh. Yogendra What has given the Opposition prove catastrophic for the alliance. Government will ensure protection ed to join hands. This time, the man- Interestingly, all these parties con- incumbency. Decisions like demoneti- Yadav, the psephologist, has claimed confidence is the results to by-elections Second, merely announcing and security of the mosque. This inci- tle is in the hands of BSP chief tested elections against each other. sation and the haphazard implemen- that if the BJP, BSP and SP are able to in various States. In Uttar Pradesh alliance will not unite caste base of both dent led to another bout of State elec- Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Moreover, in 2014, the then Congress- tation of the Goods and Service Tax retain their vote percentage of 43 per itself, a united Opposition defeated the parties at the ground level. Both lead- tions in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP was Yadav. On January 12, they made the led UPA Government, which was sup- have made the BJP Government cent, 20 per cent and 22 per cent, BJP in Gorakhpur, Phuplur and ers need to chalk out a strategy to bring confident that it would return to silhouette of this alliance public with ported by SP and BSP from the out- unpopular among the masses. The respectively (which these parties got Kairana parliamentary elections. a thaw between intermediary castes power, riding high on the Hindutva both parties deciding to contest 38 side, was facing massive corruption Centre for Monitoring Indian in 2014), the BJP will win 41 seats, Gorakhpur was said to be the BJP’s like the Yadavs, Kurmis and Dalits, wave that swept the country then. seats each and leaving four seats for charges and the mood of the people Economy in its recent study said that which is 32 less than its tally of 2014, citadel, where Chief Minister who otherwise are always at logger- Kalyan Singh emerged as the Hindu other parties, which include Amethi was against the ruling regime. over 35 lakh people have lost jobs while the BSP-SP alliance will get 41 Adityanath Yogi had won five times in heads at the village level. If the sense mascot and the 1993 election was con- and Rae Bareli for the Congress and In this scenario, the BJP played a because of demonetisation when seats, up by 36 seats, compared to the a row. Deputy Chief Minister Keshav of unity does not percolate down, it tested around him and Ram Mandir. two others for the Rashtriya Lok Dal shrewd political card by projecting the high-value currency notes were culled last elections. Prasad Maurya, too, won the Phulpur, will be a requiem for the alliance. Amid this political cacophony, (RLD). Later, developments showed then Chief Minister of Gujarat, in one go in 2016. Issues of lack of But then, elections are not a constituency in 2014. Both leaders (The writer is Executive Director Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder that SP was ready to give another seat Narendra Modi, as the party’s prime employment and alleged corruption in game of psephology. They are based vacated their seats after they joined the (News) with Lucknow edition of The Kanshi Ram and the then Samajwadi to RLD from its quota. So it will con- ministerial candidate. The BJP sold the the Rafale deal gave the Opposition on permutations and combinations State Cabinet. Kairana in western Uttar Pioneer). ( ) ( *+, -.*/ 6
0###% # 5!"! ,7849 -! ( , " <6 2 * ! ! ' " .#% ! @ " 6!6 $+ Port Blair: A strong earthquake of magnitude 6 hit the seismi- Bikaner: Rajasthan's Ahmedabad: Prime Minister cally active Andaman and Hanumangarh district admin- # # >7>44 Narendra Modi on Thursday Nicobar Islands Thursday, the istration on Thursday began a said the Constitutional amend- National Centre for Seismology probe into allegations that two n a significant statement ment to provide 10 per cent (NCS) said. RTI applicants were sent Imade barely hours before reservation to economically There was no report of envelopes containing condoms she goes to host one of the poor in the general category loss of life or damage to prop- in response to their queries, an biggest mega rallies Bengal has was achieved due to the polit- erty. official said. ever seen in the history of free ical will of his Government and The earthquake hit the RTI applicants Vikas India, Chief Minister Mamata would be implemented from region at 8.43 am and its epi- Chaudhary and Manohar Lal, Banerjee on Thursday said this academic year. centre was Nicobar Islands residents of Chani Badi in regional parties would play a Addressing a gathering region, the NCS, an institute Bhadra tehsil of the district, * &' ' 0 crucial role in forming the next after inaugurating the 1500 under the Ministry of Earth had sought information relat- * &' '* 0 Government in Delhi. bed Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Sciences (MoES) tracking seis- ed to development work done ' & * With the BJP unlikely to Institute of Medical Science mological activities, said. there in 2001. 0' * & win more than 125 seats in the : = !. # and Research, Modi said the No tsunami alert was After their second appeal, ' coming general elections the = 2,3 (#! ,= ( 2<3 economic reservation has been issued as sea levels around the the Rajasthan Information “federal parties” will play the ! 6 ; (# ! " given without impacting the Andaman Nicobar archipelago Commission had directed the said. decisive role in forming the new existing social reservations. ! O? showed no major rise, said SPS gram panchayat to provide He said the Hanumangarh Government, Banerjee said Banerjee said “the listen to what the other leaders "The new reservation will 6= 6 ; Shenoi, Director, Indian information to the applicants. district collector has sought a even as she visited the Brigade Opposition mega rally will say as it is a meeting of the all be implemented in 40,000 col- . ! " National Centre for Ocean They had received two separate factual report in the matter Parade Ground to oversee the sound the death knell for the parties and not our own party.” leges across 900 universities in Information Services envelopes. from the Zila Parishad CEO preparations of January 19 BJP which will not get more Senior leaders like former the country from this academ- scheme, he said. (INCOIS). The inquiry was initiated and the block development mega rally being hosted by her than 125 seats,” adding the PM HD Deve Gowda, NCP ic year. The number of seats This will be the first The INCOIS is an institute after a video purportedly show- officer. party Trinamool Congress. “regional or federal parties will chief Sharad Pawar, K’taka will be increased by 10 per Government hospital to have a under the MoES and it has a ing applicants finding con- Sarpanch of Chani Badi The rally is likely to break make the decision regarding Chief Minister HDK, his cent," he said. helipad, he said, adding the network buoys and other appa- doms inside RTI envelopes panchayat Pushpa Bansal has all the previous records who will form the Government Andhra Pradesh counterpart N Modi said his Government new medical facility will help ratus to check rise in the sea had gone viral. lodged a complaint at Bhirani Banerjee has already gone on in New Delhi.” Chandrababu Naidu, former was committed to provide equal boost health sector in the state. level in case of a tsunami. It "RTI applicants have reit- police station in the matter, record saying even her party “BJP will not get more than Arunachal CM Gegong Apang, opportunities to all sections of "Cleanliness and health- alerts not only the Indian erated their allegations during stating it to be a conspiracy. colleagues expect an atten- 125 seats, the Congress will NC leaders Farooq Abdullah, the society. The Institute will be care has always been the prime authorities, but also its neigh- investigation and gram sevak Hanumangarh Zila dance of more than 30 lakh. “So make an estimate of their own Omar Abdullah, SP chief linked to the Ayushman Bharat agenda of Ahmedabad munic- bours in case of a tsunami. had submitted in written that Parishad CEO Navneet Kumar much so that not all people will tally,” Banerjee said adding the Akhilesh Yadav, RJD leader scheme so that poor people can ipal corporation since the time All of the Andaman and he did not put any objection- said he has received informa- be able to come at the Brigade federal parties will be in a Tejaswi Yadav, Delhi CM avail medical facilities free of Sardar Patel was the mayor. The Nicobar Islands lie in Zone V. able material in any RTI enve- tion related to the matter and Ground and so we have decisive position to form the Arvind Kejriwal, DMK leader cost, he said. In 100 days, seven hospital project started in 2012 The entire island chain is also lope and information was pro- it is being investigated, adding arranged for them giant screens Govt. Insisting that she “would Stalin and “even a BSP repre- lakh poor people have received and I am mesmerised by the prone to tsunamis both from vided to the applicants against that it could be the outcome of at the other corners of the not impose our views on other sentative would attend the mega treatment under the Pradhan way it has turned out to be," he large local quakes and also from the application they had filed," rivalry between two groups in city,” said a senior party leader. parties,” Banerjee said “we will rally,” Banerjee said. Mantri Ayushmaan Bharat said. PTI massive distant shocks. PTI SDM Bhadra Raj Kumar Kaswa the village. PTI ).# % < &60 ) 1++ + ++ " ! # $ " " .0 *+*+ 1 +* )* + 3 6 4=5 Guwahati: The Opposition light procession will be taken ) .# Srinagar: Former Jammu & ! Congress on Thursday out to protest against the Bill. Kashmir Chief Minister Omar announced a series of pro- The Congress has decided Jaipur: In his address at the first like finding flaws of its previous Abdullah on Thursday ques- grammes till January 31 across to strongly oppose any move to session of the new State Government,” Kalyan Singh tioned Army officials boasting Guwahati: BJP general secretary Madhav said. Assam to protest against the pass the Bill," Konwar Assembly, Rajasthan Governor said. about the number of militants Ram Madhav appealed to the On some of the state BJP Citizenship (Amendment) Bill. informed. Kalyan Singh on Thursday “As a result of which the killed in the State last year, say- Asom Gana Parishad on legislators coming out publicly Assam Pradesh Congress The Citizenship accused the former BJP annual average economic ing it would have been a "great Thursday to reconsider its deci- against the bill, Madhav said, Committee Spokesperson (Amendment) Bill, which was Government of getting “dis- growth rate, which was 8.16 per year" if no youth had joined mil- sion to snap ties with the party "They have a genuine concern. Rhituparna Konwar said the passed by the Lok Sabha on tracted” from more important cent in 2009-10 to 2013-14 itancy. over the contentious citizenship They will go to Delhi and we will BJP-led state and central gov- January 8, provides for accord- issues as it tried to find flaws reduced to 7.19 per cent in 2014- "I beg to differ, a great year bill last week. explain to them to allay their ernments are "imposing" the ing Indian citizenship to with the Congress-led regime 15 to 2017-18. The average would be one in which no Madhav, who is also the apprehensions". Bill, which will completely nul- ernment "gets its wisdom Hindus, Jains, Christians, Sikhs, before it. increase in per capita income young man would join mili- incharge of the Bharatiya Janata The civil society, student lify the Assam Accord of 1985. back". Buddhists and Parsis from The customary address — was 14.95 per cent from 2009- tancy, no terrorists would be Party in the Northeast, sought to unions and regional political "This Bill will endanger On January 23, 'Sankalp Bangladesh, Pakistan and in which the Government of the 10 to 2013-14 but it reduced to killed & no security personnel allay apprehensions regarding parties are protesting against the the very existence of Assamese Divas' will be organised coin- Afghanistan after six years of day lays out its agenda — was 9.68 per cent during 2014-15 to would lose their lives in encoun- the bill, saying it was not only for bill in northeastern states, fear- community. To protest this, we ciding with birth anniversary of residence in India instead of 12 marred by disruptions by 2017-18," he said in his address, ters. The compulsion of killing Assam or the Northeast, but for ing that their identities would be have decided to launch our sec- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose years, which is the norm cur- Rashtriya Loktantrik Party chief which was tabled in the House. militants/terrorists shouldn't be the entire country. affected. ond series of agitation under to get inspired by the secular rently, even if they do not pos- Hanuman Beniwal who Similarly, the growth rate in treated as a cause for celebra- Among those opposing the "A situation has been creat- 'Jagaao Asom, Bachaao Asom' ideology of the freedom fight- sess any document climbed on to a platform near the agriculture sector which was tion," Omar wrote on Twitter. bill, there are some who are gen- ed in Assam by creating a fear programme from January 21 to er to fight the communal Bill, Massive protests broke out the assembly secretary's desk. 4.19 per cent in 2008-09 He was responding to the uinely concerned "whom we psychosis to stall the work of the 31," Konwar said in a state- Konwar said. across the state and other parts Speaking for the recently increased to 8.94 per cent in remarks of Northern Army respect", but there are also some high-level committee set up by ment. The following day, a five- of North East after Prime elected Congress Government 2013-14," he said. But with the Command chief Lt Gen Ranbir who are opposing only for their the Centre to go into Clause 6 of As per the programme, all hour sit-in will be held, while Minister Narendra Modi led by Ashok Gehlot, the “wrong policies” of the Singh in which he reportedly "political interests", Madhav said Assam Accord. district and block Congress human chains will be formed announced in Silchar on Governor said economic growth Vasundhara Raje Government, said that 2018 has been a great at a press conference here. "We understand that under units would light lamps and on January 30 across the state, January 4 that the controver- rate dropped during Vasundhara which followed, the growth year for the security forces as There are others like the such circumstances it is normal hold 'Sarba dharma' (all reli- he added. sial document would be passed Raje Government's term. rate in the sector dropped to more than 250 terrorists were United Liberation Front of to be concerned. I assure that all gion) prayer in the evening of "On the last day, which is as soon as possible in "The former Government 3.95 per cent in 2017-18, killed, 54 caught alive and four Assam (ULFA), who are oppos- measures will be taken so that January 21 so that the BJP gov- January 31, a two-hour torch Parliament. PTI got distracted over useless issues according to the address. PTI surrendered to the forces. PTI ing the bill to "disturb" peace and the identity of Assam is not create unrest, he added. affected," he said. The AGP had on January 7 Clause 6 of the Assam pulled out of the BJP-led coali- Accord, 1985, envisages consti- tion government in Assam, after tutional, legislative and admin- &60 ! its "last-ditch attempt" to con- istrative safeguards to protect, vince the Centre to withdraw the preserve and promote the cul- proposed legislation failed. tural, social, linguistic identity The Citizenship and heritage of the Assamese ) : (Amendment) Bill, 2019, which people. was passed in the Lok Sabha on "There is no need for the January 8, seeks to provide cit- uncalled for concerns among the izenship to non-Muslims from people as legislative and admin- Q The end of the Congress is cer- ed controversy by likening cow Bangladesh, Pakistan and istrative measures are being tain,” he told reporters here. smugglers as “terrorists”. He said Afghanistan. Three AGP min- taken to protect the identity, lan- !R Contrary to what the BJP on Thursday the concern for isters had resigned from the guage and culture of Assam and leader said, Aurangzeb who cows displayed in the Congress Assam cabinet the next day. the other northeastern states," died in 1707, was not the “last” is nothing more than a sham. "We appeal them (AGP) to the BJP leader asserted. Jaipur: Rajasthan BJP vice pres- of his dynasty. He claimed the Bharatiya reconsider their decision to "I want to remove the lie that ident Gyan Dev Ahuja on The last Mughal ruler was Janata Party will win the by- leave the alliance as we went is being spread... I am confident Thursday compared Congress Bahadur Shah Zafar, who died election for the Ramgarh assem- together to the people before the that after telling the truth to the president Rahul Gandhi with in 1862. But Aurangzeb is often bly seat, where polling was elections and also fought the people, they will understand our Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, seen as the last of the prominent called off due to the death of assembly polls together. standpoint," he said. suggesting that the Congress Mughal kings as the empire Bahujan Samaj Party candidate "That is why Chief Minister "The Government will keep “empire” was coming to an end. began disintegrating after him. Laxman Singh. Sabananda Sonowal has not in view its obligation to the He said the Congress pres- Gyan Dev Ahuja also ques- The Congress won 99 of the forwarded the three AGP min- refugees, the minorities of erst- ident is the “last emperor” of the tioned Congress president's remaining 199 Rajasthan assem- isters' resignation letters to the while Pakistan, as well as the Congress “sultanate”, just like claim of being a “janeu dhari” bly seats where elections were governor for acceptance as the interests of the people of Assam Aurangzeb. (a Hindu who wears the sacred held last month. The bypoll for mandate of the people was for and the northeast region... That “Like Aurangzeb who was thread), saying his party should Ramgarh will take place on an alliance. We respect the peo- is why I appeal to those spread- the last emperor of the Mughal name the priest who conduct- January 28. In the last Assembly, ple's mandate and appeal the ing misinformation to stop it," sultanate, Rahul Gandhi is the ed the ceremony for it. Ahuja was an MLA from AGP to reconsider its decision," Madhav said. PTI . B 6 + # 2. 3 ! " last emperor of this sultanate. In the past, Ahuja has court- Ramgarh. PTI "$" ) " 7A Agartala: The 15th Finance 3!4! 0 799337! Government said that it has said that he feels all northeast- Singh said he finds it Commission (FC) has endorsed 8=245020 made a strong pitch for ern states will have to become important to improve Land ! % the view of 'North East Vision #337!720 increased devolution to set up more reliant on their own and air connectivity which is 2020' document that says the better infrastructure, especial- resources in future. necessary to give further boost region needs more funds to "7#05!90!4!. 230 ly in health, IT, power, educa- Singh said that the state to tourism. Mumbai: A doctor who had also said that he did not take To a defence lawyer's ques- catch up with the rest of the 93!305794>0 tion, tourism, disaster mitiga- government during the last ten Singh also said the com- treated Indrani Mukerjea's son drugs. Dr Yusuf Machiswala, tion whether Mikhail was country, the panel's chairman N 53<854497.040 tion and other sectors. months has taken very impor- mission had a very detailed dis- Mikhail Bora for psychosis told who treated Mikhail at Masina admitted to hospital against his K Singh said on Thursday. The Government has laid tant initiatives for development cussion yesterday with three tier the special CBI court here on Hospital here, said Mikhail was wish (in 2006), Machiswala said, A 15-member team of the 4200!.720 importance on four points and laid importance in several panchayats and district Thursday that he was not con- referred to him for "substance- "At that time he was a minor, so commission, headed by Singh, "7#I0!850 including access to Chittagong important areas concerning the parishads. fined or put under physical induced psychosis" in 2006. "To there was no question of his wish on Thursday received a mem- port in neighbouring economy of Tripura. Singh said the commis- restraint, as alleged, during the the best of my knowledge, he or consent." orandum from the State —NK Singh Bangladesh to make Tripura a "Finance Commission fully sion received a memorandum treatment. was abusing tobacco and "I didn't ask Mikhail Bora Government and held a meet- maritime hub for NE India, shares the vision of the from Tripura Tribal Areas Mikhail had earlier told the cannabis," the doctor told Judge about his wish. He was cooper- ing with the Council of Minister and Governor of improve road connectivity to Government and Chief Minister Autonomous District Council court, which is conducting trial J C Jagdale, adding that he was ating with treatment. I don't Ministers headed by Chief Tripura to make it a model boost tourism, capitalize on to make Tripura a model State (TTAADC), who explained in the Sheena Bora murder, transferred to another hospital remember whether Mikhail told Minister Biplab Kumar Deb. State. Tripuras comparative factor at the end of the Government's their plans and informed about that he was tortured during the after two months. me he doesn't want to be in hos- "We endorse the view The FC team had arrived advantages in skilled manpow- tenure. I think they have an different projects. treatment at the behest of his "Indrani (again) called pital," the doctor added. recorded in the document of yesterday and held deliberations er and agro-related industries HRD plan to improve the over- The TTAADC constitutes mother Indrani, the main sometime in the month of April "As far as I remember, he the North East Region Vision with different stakeholders. and granting a host of specific all HRD sector in the State. The two thirds of the State's territory accused. 2012 and said that Mikhail was was not physically restrained," he 2020 that the region needs "The new leadership of projects aimed to fulfil aspira- Chief Minister also said the and is home to the tribals, He had alleged that he was behaving aggressively and she said to another question. Sheena ample funds to catch up with Tripura is committed to make tions of the states tribal com- health sector in Tripura has a who constitute a third of the put in confinement, given elec- also mentioned the name of (24), Indrani's daughter and the rest of the country. We will it a fair contributor in devel- munities. huge opportunity not only in States population. tric shocks and tortured during Sheena," the doctor said, adding Mikhail's sister, was allegedly consider the view while rec- opment of the nation. Tripuras However, when asked health services here but to set up Singh said the commis- the treatment for psychosis that he suggested an anti-psy- killed by Indrani with the help ommending funds," Singh said. growth trajectory is sound, he about plans of revising the tax health institutes where a lot of sion would submit a report to because his mother wanted to chotic medicine and asked to of others in April 2012 over a He said that the commis- said. base for erstwhile special cate- people from Bangladesh can the Government at the end of prove that he was "insane". He bring Mikhail to hospital. financial dispute. PTI sion shares the vision of Chief A statement from the state gory states in NE India, Singh receive benefits," he said. this year. PTI ( ) ( *+, -.*/ 7
##15!"1###! = 25 2 = ! ! ,&6 6 # # ;0!"4858 copter has carried out air to air missile of contemporary attack helicopters of its engagement. None of the helicopters class”. midst controversy, the Hindustan with the military services in the coun- Equipped with Helmet mounted AAeronautics Limited (HAL), a try has demonstrated such a capability. sight and a forward looking infrared Defence Pubic Sector Undertaking has With this, LCH has successfully com- sighting system, LCH pilots can now achieved a milestone on its desi built pleted all weapon integration tests and detect and destroy any target on ground ! $* Light Combat Helicopter. The LCH car- is ready for operational induction”. or in the air. Using these sights, pilots ried out air to air missile firing on a mov- Other weapons on LCH include a can now launch a missile onto any tar- ing aerial target. According to a press 20mm Turret gun and 70 mm Rockets, get without having to turn the helicopter. B4998 release issued by HAL in Bengaluru on the firing trials of which have already The fire and forget missile is effective Thursday the tests conducted in inte- target, destroying it completely,” the been completed last year. against all types of aerial threat, includ- top commander of the grated test range at Chandipur, Odisha release added. The release said “LCH is the only ing UAVs and micro light aircraft. AIndian Army, heading recently. The Light Combat Helicopter attack helicopter in the world capable of Capable of operating from dispersed strategic Northern Command “Wg Cdr Subash P John, VM (LCH) is indigenously designed and operating at altitudes as high as Siachen locations and flying at ultra-low levels, headquarters in Udhampur, (Retd), test pilot, Col Ranjit Chitale, developed by HAL and proved its capa- glacier. Designed and developed by LCH can now effectively provide a pro- Lt-Gen Ranbir Singh on (Retd), Flight Test Engineer from HAL bilities to the requirements of the Rotary Wing Research & Design Centre tective umbrella from all aerial threats. Thursday confirmed that and Gp Capt Rajeev Dubey, test pilot defence forces. (RWRDC) of HAL in response to the The DAC has accorded approval for Pakistani army has suffered from IAF executed a flawless mission R Madhavan, CMD-HAL said “this operational needs of Indian Armed procurement of initial batch of 15 heavy damages in the recent and achieved a direct hit on the aerial is the first time in the country that a heli- Forces and its capabilities far exceed that LCHs (10 for IAF and 5 for Army). retaliatory strikes along the Line of Control in Rajouri and Poonch sectors. 6 Unofficial reports had ear- 8D#; + 3 1+ + lier claimed that at least five ; Pakistan army personnel were elimination of five Pakistani Pakistani army again resorted killed and three others seriously soldiers by Indian forces in to heavy firing in Jhangar, " O ; 5 1 +** + injured when the Indian troops retaliation in the last few days, Laam, Pukherni and Peer launched major retaliatory Lt-Gen Singh said, "in the last Bhadreshwar areas of Rajouri Panaji: The Congress party on action to silence the roaring few days, as you mentioned in district, prompting the Indian 7( Thursday said Goa’s Draft Pak guns on the LoC, which your question, 5 Pakistanis Army to retaliate in equal mea- Tourism Policy 2018, which + had been targeting forward were killed, it shows that sure. has been put in the public posts of Army and civilian Indian Army is always ready On Tuesday, Pakistan Guwahati: Krishak Mukti of the 40 lakh excluded from domain for suggestions, was areas in twin border districts of to give them a befitting reply. killed BSF’s assistant com- Sangram Samiti (KMSS), the complete draft of NRC "disastrous" for the State and its Aizawl: An umbrella organisa- ing their votes, leaving many of Poonch and Rajouri. “We are one step ahead of mandant in sniper firing on the which is spearheading the (National Register of Citizens), residents. tion of the thousands of Bru them extremely hungry while The Line of Control wit- Pakistan and are giving befit- international border in protests against the Citizenship 22 lakh were Hindus. The Opposition party said refugees living in Tripura has standing in the queue to exer- nessed strong retaliation close ting reply to them", he added. Hiranagar sector of Kathua (Amendment) Bill, on "Saugata Roy had said in the socio-economic and socio- appealed to Chief Election cise their franchise. on the heels of a statement Lt-Gen Singh was talking district on Tuesday. Thursday claimed that around Parliament that 28 lakh Hindu cultural impact of the policy has Commissioner Sunil Arora to The MBDPF also claimed made by the Army chief Gen to media after inaugurating a Last Friday, a Major rank 20 lakh Hindu Bangladeshis Bengalis are excluded from not been studied, and encour- set up polling stations for the that no revision of voters' lists Bipin Rawat that the Army bridge at Kalai in Poonch dis- army officer, soldier and a would become Indians if the NRC. So, these different figures ages privatisation of assets of the Lok Sabha election in their have been conducted in the won’t hesitate from taking trict. porter were martyred in controversial Bill is passed. by various sources clearly say state-run Goa Tourism relief camps. relief camps. strong action against inimical In response to another Nowshera and Sunderbani sec- Addressing a press confer- that around 20 lakh Hindus Development Corporation Many of the refugees could They appealed to Arora to designs of Pakistan on the LoC. question he said, “2018 has tors of Rajouri district. ence, KMSS Adviser Akhil from Bangladesh are living in (GTDC). not vote during the election to give directions to the state elec- On Thursday when been a great year for the secu- Indian Army, meanwhile, Gogoi slammed the BJP-led Assam, not eight lakh as Tourism Minister Manohar the Mizoram Assembly held on tion department to expedite media persons posed a rity forces, more than 250 ter- continued to maintain high Government for its attempt to claimed by BJP," Gogoi said. Ajgaonkar on Wednesday November 28 last as polling sta- conduct of electoral roll revision straight query to Lt-Gen rorists were killed, 54 were alert all along the LoC in view get the Bill passed despite He further claimed that as chaired a meeting of MLAs to tions for them was erected 70 in the relief camps. Ranbir Singh, GOC-In-C caught alive, and 4 surren- of reports that Pakistani troops widespread protests across the per Bangladesh Bureau of discuss the Draft Tourism Policy kilometres away near the state The Mizoram election Northern Command, to con- dered to the forces”. could try to push infiltrators North East. Statistics, there are around 1.7 2018. Talking to reporters in border, the organisation said in department had conducted firm media reports related to Meanwhile, on Thursday, into the Indian side. "The BJP and Himanta crore Hindus, which is 10.7 per Margao on Thursday, Congress a letter to Arora. revision of voters lists of Bru Biswa Sarma is saying that cent of that country's total MLA and party spokesperson Around 35,000 Bru refugees in their camps before only eight lakh Hindu population. Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco said refugees living in six relief the repatriation last year, despite - " Bangladeshis, who are already "If the Bill is passed, this he has written a letter to camps at Kanchanpur sub-divi- opposition from the civil soci- staying here, will get citizen- will pave the ways for these 1.7 Ajgaonkar in which he has sion of North Tripura district eties. ship. But our assessment is that crore people in Bangladesh to objected to certain provisions in are originally from Mizoram. However, enlistment forms ! 20 lakh people are present in come to Assam and get Indian the policy. Elderly and ailing people, duly filled in by inmates of the Assam at this moment and they nationality as there is no cut- "The policy is disastrous for pregnant women and even relief camps were stolen at the will get citizenship as soon as off date in the Bill. Goa and Goans...The report many able-bodied persons election office of Mizoram's the Bill is passed," he added. So, there is a possibility that (policy) is silent on the exact could not vote as they had to Mamit district on August 23, 7 Elaborating on his claim, a total of 1.9 crore people are income or revenue generated by travel 70 km by vehicles to two days before the month-long the prominent RTI activist said likely to get Indian citizenship the tourism industry in Goa and reach Kanhmun village to vote, repatriation of Bru families Aizawl: Mizoram Government Imphal: Manipur Chief other northeast states, the state that a report of former Assam in coming years," Gogoi said. how much of it percolates to leading to low poll percentage from Tripura to Mizoram was has banned import of pigs and Minister N Biren Singh has said government would not support Governor Lt Gen S K Sinha had He claimed that if that local Goans," Lourenco said. at those temporary polling sta- to start from August 25. piglets to prevent outbreak of a that the BJP-led Government in the Citizenship (Amendment) mentioned that over one crore happens, the entire demogra- "The socio-economic and tions, MBDPF president A However, out of 5,000 odd disease that has cost the lives of the State would not support the Bill," the chief minister said people have entered India. phy of Assam will change socio-cultural impact of the Sawibunga, vice-president R refugee families, only 150 mem- thousands of swines in the State. passage of Citizenship after inaugurating several "When I met former irreparably. master plan or policy has not Laldawngliana and general sec- bers of 42 families returned to The Mizoram Government (Amendment) Bill unless there development projects in Assam Assembly Deputy Gogoi accused the BJP- been assessed. How much and retary Bruno Msha said in the Mizoram during the exercise. has instructed deputy commis- was a provision for protecting Chandel district on Wednesday. Speaker Dilip Kumar Paul, led government for garnering what kind of employment will letter. The State election depart- Thousands of Bru refugees sioners of all the eight districts to the indigenous people of the He had earlier sent a mem- who is from BJP, he said around votes in the forthcoming Lok accrue to Goans and the extent ment had set up 15 temporary from Mizoram fled to Tripura issue prohibitory orders banning northeast. orandum to Union Home 15-20 lakh Hindu Bangladeshis Sabha polls by bringing in of in-migration to fill up the rest polling stations at Mizoram- during an ethnic violence in the import from other countries Singh also stressed that his Minister Rajnath Singh, seeking are in Assam. Himanta Biswa three sensitive issues one after has not been studied at all," he Tripura border village of 1997. The clashes broke out to stop, Animal Husbandry and Government would want President's nod for Manipur Sarma himself had said that out another. PTI added. PTI Kanhmun to facilitate over after a forest official was killed veterinary Minister Dr K President's assent to Manipur Peoples' (Protection) Bill. 12,000 Bru voters lodged in the by Bru National Liberation Beichhua said on Thursday. People's (Protection) Bill, 2018 "The stand of the Manipur relief camps to cast their votes. Front (BNLF) militants. The porcine reproductive before passage of the government is very clear. Before The letter submitted to The Centre, in association and respiratory syndrome Citizenship (Amendment) Bill, the Citizenship (Amendment) Arora in Delhi on Tuesday with the Governments of (PRRS) has cost the lives of over 2016. Bill is passed by the Rajya also claimed that the Bru vot- Mizoram and Tripura, was 10,000 swines in Mizoram since The Manipur People's Sabha, the President should ers were provided lunch at the repatriating the displaced Brus 2013 and it is believed that it hap- (Protection) Bill, passed unan- give his assent to the Manipur polling stations only after cast- in phases. PTI pened due to import of pigs and imously by the Assembly last People's Bill," he asserted. >5 piglets from Myanmar where the July, aims to grant the status of The Citizenship disease was known to be preva- "natives" to Meiteis, Pangal (Amendment) Bill, which was Mumbai: A 35-year-old The woman, a Candian and then lodged a complaint at lent, officials said. Beichhua said Muslims, scheduled tribes and passed in the Lok Sabha last Canadian woman was alleged- national who works for an event the Santacruz police station the ban of import of pigs from others who moved to the state week, provides for according ly molested by an employee of management firm and often vis- here on Monday. other countries was the only way before 1951. Indian citizenship to Hindus, a city-based five-star hotel dur- its India, in her complaint The accused was arrested to prevent outbreak of the PRRS The rest, categorised as Jains, Christians, Sikhs, ing her stay there, a police offi- alleged that while she was stay- on Tuesday and booked under in the State. The PRRS is a dis- "non-Manipuris", will have to Buddhists and Parsis from cial said on Thursday. ing at the hotel, the man came Indian Penal Code Sections ease affecting domestic pigs. register themselves within one Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sumit Rao (32), a staff to her room and molested her 354 (assault or criminal force on The symptoms include repro- month of the notification of the Afghanistan after six years of member of the hotel located in on the pretext of taking a selfie woman with an intent to out- ductive failure, pneumonia and law. residence in India instead of 12 Juhu area, has been arrested in with her, the official said. rage her modesty) and 354 (d) increased susceptibility to sec- "Unless there is a provision years, which is the norm cur- connection with the alleged According to police, the (stalking), he said. ondary bacterial infection, the for protecting the indigenous rently, even if they do not pos- incident that took place on woman brought the matter to A probe was underway into sources said. PTI people of Manipur as well as the sess any document. PTI January 5, he said. the hotel management's notice the case, he added. PTI ! O6 = ;
Allahabad: President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife on Thursday visited Allahabad and performed 'Ganga pujan' in the Sangam area during the ongoing Kumbh Mela, officials said. The President and first lady Savita Kovind reached the Bamrauli airport on a special plane of the Indian Air Force around 9:30 am. They were welcomed by Governor Ram Naik, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and several cabinet ministers, the officials said. President Kovind and his wife partic- ipated in 'Ganga pujan' in the Sangam area along with the governor, chief minister, his deputy Keshva Prasad Maurya and Health ! ,( A <( O6 != ; Minister Sidharth Nath Singh among ( 8D$E .2! =3 ! " others. PTI ( ) ( *+, -.*/ 8
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!01.023 financial problems. On December 31, 2018, the carrier B 4 et Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal has defaulted on a loan repayment to the con- Joffered to invest up to 700 crore in the sortium. GS ** & French Government called for crisis-hit airline as well as pledge all his “I am informed that under Indian law, '5 &' him to be replaced at the head shares on the condition that his stake amounts payable by the company to pro- !01.023 of Renault, the only one of the does not fall below 25 per cent, accord- moter group entities, should be treated at % three companies he used to ing to a letter. par with the other overdue creditors of the hares of Jet Airways erased early loss- & ' head that has retained him. Amid the full-service carrier grap- company and the same, upon conversion Ses and ended over 5 per cent higher on Japanese firms Nissan and 2" 3 F pling with financial woes, Goyal has writ- into equity is considered as cash,” Goyal Thursday after Chairman Naresh Goyal * & Mitsubishi Motors jettisoned , = 6< ten to SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar with said in the letter. offered to invest up to 700 crore in the air- him as boss almost immedi- .. & # ! 9$ reference to the resolution plan under He has also sought a fair and equi- line on the condition that his stake does '' ately after his arrest, but .. ) ! 9$0 + discussion and in view of Etihad’s posi- table resolution in the best interests of the not fall below 25 per cent. " Renault was more cautious tion, “despite the significant cash crunch airline and all its shareholders. The scrip bounced back and ended and appointed an interim and imminent grounding, which the air- “I respectfully submit that unless my 5.09 per cent higher at 284.80 on the BSE. leader while Ghosn fought the line is facing”. shareholding goes below 10 per cent and/ During the day, the stock had plunged 5.31 7>=7 charges. The letter also comes against the or my group is not represented on the per cent to 256.60. If the bail appeal is turned backdrop of strategic partner Etihad board, I would continue to be held out At NSE, shares of the company soared awyers for former Nissan down he faces at least a two- reportedly putting forward strict condi- as a promoter, and be faced with the 5.28 per cent to close at 283.95. Lboss Carlos Ghosn on month period in pre-trial tions, including that Goyal should give attendant exposures/ risks of being a In terms of equity volume, 48.12 lakh Thursday appealed against a detention. This can be extend- up control, for infusing funds into the air- promoter,” Goyal said in the letter dated shares of the company were traded on BSE decision by a Tokyo court to ed almost automatically by one line. January 16. and over 6 crore shares changed hands at refuse him bail, as he faces month at a time. Goyal said he is committed to an Hence, it is only fair and equitable NSE during the day. charges on three counts of His wife Carole has “infusion of funds into the company to that “our shareholding be at least 25 per Goyal said he is committed to an “infu- financial misconduct. appealed to Human Rights the extent of 700 crore” and pledging all cent”, Goyal said. sion of funds into the company to the Since his stunning arrest on Watch over his detention, say- his shares. Shares of the airline rose over 5 per extent of 700 crore” and pledging all his November 19 the auto tycoon ing he was being held in This is subject to the condition that cent to close at 284.80 on the BSE. shares. This is subject to the condition that has languished in a Tokyo “harsh” conditions and sub- ?,6 & 2, 3 " - O.(+.8D$EP his shareholding post such infusion is at “As part of a continuous engagement his shareholding post such infusion is at detention centre, facing ques- jected to round-the-clock inter- 2 # ( 3 F least 25 per cent, he said in the letter. with SBI, Naresh Goyal has communi- least 25 per cent, he said in the letter which tioning over allegations he rogations in an attempt to PTI , + @ & : 9+ “Should this not be possible, then I cated his position on the resolution was seen by . under-reported his salary and extract a confession. O.(+.P would not be able to infuse any funds or plan to SBI, which is under considera- Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal tried to shift personal losses Ghosn has been seen only ,+G "- pledge my shares, unless Sebi accords me tion,” the airline said in a filing to the has told the State Bank of India (SBI) that onto the company. once in public since his deten- an exemption permitting me to increase BSE. he is ready to invest up to 700 crore in the On January 11 he was for- tion, in a dramatic court my reduced stake (if it is to be below 25 The filing was in response to a clar- airline on the condition that his stake does mally charged on two of the appearance. per cent) without triggering the Takeover ification sought from Jet Airways on not fall below 25 per cent. counts and his request for bail He had clearly lost a lot of Code,” Goyal, who currently holds 51 per Goyal’s proposal to infuse 700 crore into Goyal’s offer comes against the back- refused again. Even his own weight but seemed otherwise in cent stake in the airline, said. the airline subject to certain conditions. drop of strategic partner Etihad reported- lawyer has admitted he is like- good health. He passionately When shareholding of an entity in a On Thursday, the SBI said lenders are ly putting forward strict conditions, includ- ly to be kept behind bars until proclaimed his innocence and listed company goes beyond a certain considering a resolution plan for Jet ing that Goyal should give up control, for a trial — which could take six his love for Nissan, a company threshold, then the open offer require- Airways to ensure long-term viability of infusing funds into the crisis-hit carrier. months. he is widely credited with sav- ment is triggered under Sebi’s Takeover the debt-laden company. In a letter to SBI Chairman Rajnish The court has previously ing from the brink of bank- Code. The airline, on Wednesday, said dis- Kumar, Goyal said he is writing with ref- refused to release the 64-year- ruptcy. State Bank of India (SBI) is the lead cussions are “progressing well” with erence to the resolution plan under dis- old Franco-Lebanese-Brazilian “I have been wrongly lender of a consortium of Indian banks stakeholders on a comprehensive reso- cussion and in view of Etihad’s position, businessman on the grounds accused and unfairly detained that has provided loans to the airline, and lution plan that also contemplates equi- “despite the significant cash crunch and that he could present a flight based on meritless and unsub- the stakeholders are considering a reso- ty infusion and consequent changes in its imminent grounding, which the airline is risk and destroy evidence. stantiated accusations,” Ghosn lution for Jet Airways that is facing acute board of directors. facing”. The appeal came as the told a packed courtroom. ;20 0# $ ,7 3 ? 8$ . 2 ! " E ? 6= 6 ! !0 9 ( ,)&2:,"3 ! !01.023 . in India] of the Department of BHEL’s scope of work in ! !0 ! Heavy Industry (DHI), the project includes design, 989;43 harat Heavy Electricals Government of India. engineering, manufacturing, 4290.4;4. BLimited (BHEL) will set up The establishment of EV supply and installation of the he Indian rupee reversed its four-day los- a network of Solar-based chargers at regular intervals EV charging stations along he Netherlands said on Thursday it is sign- Ting streak by recovering 21 paise to close Electric Vehicle Chargers over the entire 250 kms stretch with a Central Monitoring Ting 10 MoUs at the Vibrant Gujarat Global at 71.03 against the US dollar on Thursday on (SEVC) on the Delhi- between Delhi and System. Each SEVC charging Summit starting on Friday with focus on sectors increased selling of the greenback by exporters Chandigarh Highway. The Chandigarh would allay range- station will be equipped with like smart city and waste management, health- and lower crude oil prices. project is covered under the anxiety among the Electric a rooftop solar power plant to care and agricultural cooperation. Besides, liquidity infusion by central FAME scheme [Faster Vehicle users and bolster their supply green energy to fast and The European country is being represented banks through open market operations and Adoption and Manufacturing confidence for inter-city trav- slow chargers planned to be by a delegation, which has more than 100 mem- unveiling a RBI new policy for overseas bor- of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles el. installed at the location. bers, at the three-day business conclave being held rowings, allowing all eligible entities to raise at Gandhinagar. foreign funding under the automatic route and The delegation, led by Netherlands’ Minister removing sectoral curbs, supported the rupee. of Finance for Taxation and Customs, Menno At the Interbank Foreign Exchange, the Snel, consists of representatives from 45 com- rupee opened stronger at 71.15 a dollar panies, three trade associations and government against the previous close of 70.24. The local ,( &+0& - HD agencies. unit moved in a range of 70.92 to 71.40, before O P “We met Chief Minister (Vijay) Rupani...We finally ending at 71.03, showing a gain of 21 ) . " ) have 45 companies, out of which 10 are signing paise. 2" ) 3 9 I # 'D MoUs. Our delegations have been growing. The rupee Wednesday plunged by 19 paise 88 Lots of MoUs are on strategic cooperation,” to close at 71.24 against the US dollar. Snel told reporters here Thursday. “Indian rupee has broken the four days los- Out of 10 MoUs, five were signed Thursday ing streak, after liquidity infusion by central and the rest will be inked during the summit, he banks through open market operation. Central said. bank eased overseas borrowing rules for The MoUs deal with mobility management, companies, which also helped rupee to recov- waste-to- energy conversion, delivery system in er from the lower levels,” said V K Sharma, diagnostics, saline farming, and protected culti- Head PCG and Capital Markets Strategy, vation of horticultural crops. HDFC Securities. A Dutch company, Pal-V, which makes fly- Meanwhile, the dollar index, which gauges ing cars, is also participating in the summit. the greenback’s strength against a basket of six Pal-V plans to deliver its first vehicles, currencies, was trading lower by 0.01 per cent which will have seating capacity for two per- at 96.04. sons, to customers in Europe by 2019 or early Furthermore, losses in crude oil and 2020. gains in domestic equities also supported the trading sentiment in the forex market. Brent crude, the global benchmark, was trading at $60.56 per barrel, lower by 1.24 per cent. “The Brent crude rally halted today on the face of strongly rising crude oil production coming out of the US. The news on Brent reflected in the INR movement which rose ( !-:),6,"& after depreciating for four straight days. The HDDJ88DJ$'8(? ! 9 rupee was among the top five best perform- ,( 0 2" ing EM currencies today,” said Sunil Sharma, 3 ! , ) 9 Chief Investment Officer, Sanctum Wealth I8D = Management. ( ) ( *+, -.*/ * 88 &*-(),,. )!. -6.K ),). +.<)! ,"0!+ ! N&? 4
90;785!0 6 + 6* through at Flushing Meadow 5 7/%8 & over Serena Williams last year erena Williams stepped %'.;'8';)%*5 made her a new standard up her drive for a record- bearer for tennis in her Sequalling 24th Grand 4 — her second three-set test Japanese homeland and Asia, ? Slam on Thursday by swatting in a row. and she is working hard on aside Eugenie "I have no idea how I won living up to the hype. Bouchard, as world this, it's so tough to explain "I thought I served alright, 2 9 number one Novak what happened on court," this was my first time playing Djokovic won an said the French Open cham- her and I'm just happy to win emotional 2008 pion, who now meets Venus to be honest," Osaka said ! Australian Open final Williams after the 38-year-old after setting up a clash with rematch with Jo-Wilfried rolled back the years to beat Taiwan's Hsieh Su-wei. 97!4 7 Tsonga. France's Alize Cornet. In contrast, Asia's top- But women's top seed In another titanic battle, ranked men's player Nishikori ce Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat has Simona Halep and young gun Canadian Milos Raonic oust- needed an energy-sapping Abecome the first Indian to receive a nom- Alexander Zverev had to dig ed 2014 champion Stan 3hr 48min to get past big- ination in the prestigious Laureus World deep to make the third round Wawrinka in four tightly- serving Croat Karlovic 6-3, 7- Sports Awards to be held here on February 18. on a day of epic battles and the contested sets that all went to 6 (8/6), 5-7, 5-7, 7-6 (10/7) in The 24-year-old Indian, who made a sen- latest start to a match ever at tie-breaks, while eighth seed humid conditions. sational comeback after battling a long injury the tournament. Kei Nishikori was stretched to Sixteenth seed Raonic lay-off to win a Gold medal at the Gold Coast American great Williams a draining five sets against Ivo emerged the victor against Commonwealth Games and Jakarta Asian followed up her first round 49- Karlovic. Wawrinka, a three-time Games, has been nominated for the Laureus minute romp by spending Seventh seed Dominic Grand Slam champion who is World Comeback of the Year. just 70 minutes on Rod Laver Thiem limped out when he on the comeback trail from The Haryana wrestler, who was stretchered Arena to dispose of the retired while losing 7-5, 6-4, injury. off after dislocating her knee during the quar- Canadian 6-2, 6-2. 2-0 to young Australian wild- The Swiss, unseeded for terfinals of 50kg freestyle event at the 2016 "It wasn't an easy match card Alexei Popyrin. the first time since his debut Olympic Games, has been nominated along- tonight," said the 37-year-old, Zverev, hailed as a flag- in 2006, fell 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 side US Tour Championship winner Tiger seeded just 16. bearer for the next generation, (8/6), 7-6 (13/11), 7-6 (7/5). Woods, who won his first tournament in five "So I knew 'Serena, you've also struggled against veteran Despite being seeded six years. got to come out hot, you've got world number 36 Jeremy and seven respectively, neither Also nominated are four inspirational to come out firing, she's a real- Chardy, before putting him Elina Svitolina or Karolina Winter Olympic athletes; Japanese figure ly good player and I haven't away 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 5-7, 6-7 Pliskova has progressed fur- skater Yuzuru Hanyu, Canadian snowboard- had many matches since last (6/8), 6-1. ther than the last eight at the er Mark McMorris, US ski racing legend year'." Williams is bid- Amid rain delays and Australian Open. Lindsey Vonn and Dutch Paralympic cham- ding to match drawn-out matches, Spain's But self-assured Svitolina pion Bibian Mentel-Spee. Margaret Garbine Muguruza and is bubbling with confidence The last time an Indian sporting feat made Court's record Britain's Johanna Konta did- after dismantling Viktoria its way to the Laureus World Sports Awards of 24 Grand n't get on court until half-past Kuzmova 6-4, 6-1, while was in 2004 when the Indian cricket team and Slam midnight - the latest start to a Pliskova woke up after losing Pakistan cricket team shared the Laureus Sport crowns, Serbian top seed Djokovic We felt a lot of emotion and match in the event's history. the first set to race past for Good Award for playing an International and win an is also looking to make histo- tried to play a great game," US Open champion and Madison Brengle 4-6, 6-1, 6- match despite political tensions between the eighth in ry by winning a seventh title. said Djokovic as the memories fourth seed Naomi Osaka 0. two countries. Australia, on He was too good again for of that tense final came flood- had it relatively easy, sweeping Other women through Most recently, Magic Bus from India won her first return France's Tsonga, who he beat ing back. past Slovenia's Tamara included Italy's Camila Giorgi the Laureus Sport for Good award in 2014. to Melbourne in the 2008 final, rolling In contrast, world num- Zidansek 6-2, 6-4 with the and China's Wang Qiang. However, Vinesh makes history as the first Park since lifting through 6-3, 7-5, 6-4. ber one Halep staggered roof closed on Margaret Court Men still in the hunt includ- Indian athlete to be nominated in one of the the trophy in 2017 "You could feel the ten- through against American Arena due to the rain. ed Croat Borna Coric and seven main categories at the Laureus World while pregnant. sion on court at the beginning. Sofia Kenin 6-3, 6-7 (5/7), 6- The 21-year-old's break- Spain's Pablo Carreno-Busta. Sports Awards. ' #? # 6 - < 0 1 # + London: 9 . 0 0 >84489<85 In men's singles, Srikanth continued < 2 - his unbeaten run with a hard-fought 23- 9 * ! + " 5J :% ; op Indian shuttlers Saina Nehwal and 21, 8-21, 21-18 win over Hong Kong's C D TKidambi Srikanth produced yet Wong Wing Ki Vincent to set up a fight %+ CE%: G D another fine display to progress to the with fourth seeded Korean Son Wan Ho. titles, Commonwealth Games. But I . * quarterfinal of the Malaysia Masters The seventh seeded Indian, who am still hungry to achieve only one - 1 2 8 I here on Thursday. had a title-less run last season, has a 4- (medal), that is the Gold at the 9 4 * Saina, seeded seventh, took 39 min- 5 head-to-head count against the Korean Olympics," Mary Kom said < ; utes to tame Hong Kong's Pui Yin Yip 21- world No 5. onThursday. 14, 21-16 in her second round women's Former Commonwealth Games "Being an athlete, I am dreaming - T! * singles encounter. champion Parapulli Kashyap, however, (hoping) for that one chance," added *T. * The London Olympics Bronze bowed out of the tournament after his "Magnificent Mary", who is the event medallist will play second seed and fight ended with a 17-21, 23-25 loss to ambassador of the January 20 Tata < Mumbai Marathon. T3 2017 world champion Nozomi Okuhara Anthony Sinisuka Ginting of Indonesia. of Japan in the last-eight stage of the first Women's doubles pair of Ashwini But the star boxer admits that the T. * Super 500 tournament of the year on Okuhara, which includes back-to-back Ponnappa and N Sikki Reddy also suf- 2020 Olympics, to be held in Tokyo, ?& ; *- Friday. wins over the current world No 2 in the fered 18-21, 17-21 loss to Indonesian will be a big challenge. 4 +&%+ World No 9 Saina holds an 8-4 last two tournaments — last year's combination of Ni Ketut Mahadewi "It is a very big challenge. Even overall head-to-head record against Demark Open and the French Open. Istarani and Rizki Amelia Pradipta. 989;43 London 2012 was also a big challenge # # # for me. It was the first time I fought London: 0 7 egendary boxer Mary Kom, the in the 51kg category. After that, I 1 3 - Lonly woman to clinch six world missed the qualification for Rio ) 6 # ! !! championship titles, is now eyeing the (Olympics). +G elusive Olympic Gold medal next "This time I am trying (to qual- ; year as her crowning glory. ify). If there is possibility, I will get - ing moved away from Turin to virus would spread among the The 35-year-old pugilist from young boys (who are) stronger than 1 3 make way for Ronaldo last summer. other players, so that was my deci- Manipur said winning Gold at the me (for training). * Coach Gennaro Gattuso said sion. 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be a big Mary Kom said she wasn't sur- 1 the Argentine was suffering from "He had a fever last night, we challenge. prised that she was the number one T *7 a fever and missed the team photo did everything to get him better, "Muhammad Ali was my inspi- boxer. "I am not surprised that I am - because they were afraid he would but he didn't play much, so I pre- ration when I learned boxing. After ranked No 1. I am so happy that my 2 infect other players. ferred a fresher player." all these years, I feel there's nothing performances have been recognised. 8>*T "It might seem like a joke, but Milan's best shot on goal was much to achieve. I already (have) all I am grateful for the love and support 0 1 ; 1 it's true. Higuain wasn't in the pic- a Patrick Cutrone effort after the the medals in the game. that I have received from the entire ture when the Saudi Prince came break with their hopes dwindling "I have medals from the country. Your prayers have helped me 0 I to visit because I was afraid the after Kessie's sending off. Olympics, Asian Games, six World win a lot of medals," she added. 7 # 4 # London: I & < 4 B0..42 The match had been . 3 overshadowed by controver- ristiano Ronaldo scored sy with calls for it to be relo- 94.53. #45*52 I Cthe only goal to hand cated over human rights 9 I Juventus their first trophy of issues in Saudi Arabia with ntoine Griezmann scored one ++ 1* the season with a 1-0 win women only allowed to Aand set up another but could . G: 2 over ten-man AC Milan in attend the game if they were not prevent Atletico Madrid tum- #45 . I the Italian Super Cup on accompanied by a man. bling out of the Copa del Rey as ; * Wednesday in Saudi Arabia. On the pitch the players Girona progressed on away goals 4 IF? ! 5 Ronaldo — signed by the suffered in the heat with after a thrilling 3-3 draw. Italian giants last year from temperatures hitting 25 Real Madrid and Sevilla each . %, 2 Real Madrid as they target a degrees Celsius amid freez- avoided upsets on Wednesday, 1 I first Champions League title ing conditions in northern their first-leg victories proving #45 I since 1996 — headed in a Italy. enough despite losses to Leganes 5 B *9 61st-minute winner. In the end Juventus came and Athletic Bilbao respectively. 1 . I/ 1 I AC Milan played the away with a record eighth Defeat for Real, however, last quarter of an hour a man Super Cup title, one more means they have now won only two down after Ivorian midfield- than AC Milan who have of their five matches this year # # # er Franck Kessie saw red for won seven. while Santiago Solari's frosty rela- New Delhi: 4 . 1 * a bad tackle on Emre Can. "It was very hot and the tionship with Isco shows no signs "I have my first title with important thing was to win," of improvement. Griezmann had scored then ished. Arias and snuck into the corner. Juventus so I'm happy," said said coach Massimiliano Isco started, but struggled, and too, and in between against With Girona still pro- Madrid were beaten 1-0 by * the Portuguese star who now Allegri who won the trophy was replaced in the 68th minute. Levante on Saturday. This gressing on away goals, Leganes, Martin Braithwaite giving - ; has 28 trophies including for the second time, having For Atletico, Griezmann came was his eighth goal in as Atletico had just over 20 hope to the hosts, who failed to < 1 five Champions League and lost to AC Milan in 2016 and off the bench in the second half and many matches. minutes to find a winner. take a number of chances to launch - *- league titles from England Lazio last year. turned the tie in their favour on A sumptuous volley Santiago Arias thought he an unlikely comeback. Real had - T1 - and Spain, and a European "Ronaldo? We always Wednesday, teeing up Angel from Valery Fernandez and had it but VAR showed him just won the first leg 3-0. * 1 Championship with say the same thing... that's Correa and then scoring himself to Cristhian Stuani's header had put offside. So did Griezmann, as he "We got through but the per- * Portugal. why we signed him. He is give his team a 3-2 lead at a rock- Girona in charge after Nikola latched onto Thomas Lemar's formance was weak," Solari said. %? %P *T 4 I "I really wanted this, to decisive and scores big goals, ing Wanda Metropolitano. Kalinic had given Atletico an early scoped ball through and smashed His team now turns their atten- I 4I 1 get off to a good start in 2019. but the whole team put in a But Girona pulled out one lead. it into the roof of the net. tion to Saturday's crunch La Liga 4 9 - This is only the start, we'll good performance." more surprise to go through to the However in the 61st minute, He celebrated like he had won game against Sevilla, who slipped ;<* take it one step at a time. AC Milan forward quarter-finals as Seydou Doumbia's Griezmann entered the field. In the the tie but there was one more sting to a 1-0 defeat at home to Bilbao. * We've got this cup, now we Gonzalo Higuain only played shot found the corner in the 88th 65th, he set up a goal, Kalinic let- in the tail. Borja Garcia raced Gorka Guruzeta scored the winner F% 1 must keep working hard to the final 20 minutes against minute, snatching a 4-4 draw on ting his team-mate's pass run but clear down the right and his cut- for a rejuvenated Bilbao side but . achieve the next trophy," his parent club, ahead of a aggregate after last week's first leg doing enough to distract Girona's back landed at the feet of Doumbia. Sevilla still progress 3-2 on aggre- warned Ronaldo. touted move to Chelsea, hav- finished 1-1. defence. Correa nipped in and fin- His shot flew through the legs of gate. ( ) ( *+, -.*/ * 8 '+.&*# ;#':;%:;%* ;%7* 01 " % 2 % 3 1, 4 % % 5 1 " 0 1 "1 " % 1 ""
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uoyant and self-assured in + # equal measure, India Bwould be eyeing a maid- en bilateral ODI series tri- P 7 & umph on Australian soil after the path-breaking Test conquest when they 90;785!0 take on the home team in the tour finale here on ndian opener Shikhar Friday. IDhawan on Thursday said The three-match series is level suspended fast-bowling all- at 1-1 after Australia won the first ODI rounder Hardik Pandya is "cru- in Sydney by 34 runs and India won cial" for the team's balance but the second in Adelaide by six wickets. rejected suggestions that the The Men in Blue have never won side was struggling for a fifth a bilateral ODI contest on Australian bowler in the ongoing ODI soil, and their only two series' wins in series against Australia. this format have come in 1985 (World India take on Australia in Championship of Cricket) and 2008 the series-decider on Friday. (CB Series). There are bound to be changes In fact, this is only the second to the team composition in the bilateral ODI series India have played light of Khaleel Ahmed and in Australia, losing 4-1 in 2016 when Mohammed Siraj failing to they toured here last. impress in the first two match- Also, by winning this third ODI es. in Melbourne, India will finish the Dhawan came out in sup- current 2018-19 tour without having port of the two young pacers, but # & lost a series here. +* + & & & ; ' 5& #53!' group that took part in option- added that the presence of an all- ' -&" While India will take winning 5 7/:8 & al training on Thursday, along rounder in the side is imperative &8 E 3;;$$F momentum into this third ODI, their %'.@=;' ';)%*5 with Shankar, Chahal, Jadhav, for balance. against a good side," he said. only worry at the moment is the fifth 4 %+: @, ,G % : F% @? Mahendra Singh Dhoni and "The balance that Hardik "If they go for runs, that's bowling option. However, the argument 3 +% %& %% K K ,@ F% Shikhar Dhawan. (Pandya) creates when he's in where they have to lift them- So far in the series, senior pacers against Shankar is whether Dhoni's form, which has the team is very crucial for our selves up and think more about Bhuvneshwar Kumar and the Indian team manage- 43 %, P G K F& ,+ been a constant concern for a team," Dhawan acknowledged their game and strategies. That's Mohammed Shami have been impres- ment can trust him enough '5 !6 5 6&$ # )0 while now, has been decent so in the pre-match press confer- how they'll become more mature sive, while the two left-arm spinners to deliver 10 overs on ODI &% $3% far and he has two consecutive ence. players. It's good that they are Kuldeep Yadav and Ravindra Jadeja debut. half centuries to draw confi- "Even when Kedar (Jadhav) getting chances over here," he have provided control and break- Siraj struggled to do &F&++&&, 4 @ dence from. plays, the overs of off-spin he added. throughs in the middle overs. so and Kohli was left %&&++&&? 3 G Australia, on the other hand, bowls are very beneficial for Dhawan said the team is In the absence of Hardik Pandya, wondering how he would &G&++&%+ 4 FG C.MD will be worried about lack of us...I would say he is our gold- looking to make history by win- India have used a full-time seamer as bowl him for a last three- %?&%+&%G 4 , runs from their opening duo, en arm, and he always takes ning the first ever bilateral ODI their fifth bowling option both at the over spell. This is where Finch and Alex Carey, with wickets when he comes on. So series on Australian soil, fol- Sydney Cricket Ground and the Chahal might prove to %@&%+&%F 4 : their middle-order having to do often, he's broken a big part- lowing up on the 2-1 Test series' Adelaide Oval. be a more reliable A AA the bull work in the last two nership. An all-rounder in Tests win here. He felt the batting line- Khaleel Ahmed (0-55) and option, even if India have matches. and limited-overs' cricket is up, including veteran Mahendra Mohammed Siraj (0-76) though failed to play two pacers and three spinners. overs can then be divided between The home team made two equally important," he added. Singh Dhoni, finding form only to impress in their singular outings. Seam bowling all-rounder Vijay The bigger boundaries at the Jadhav and Shankar. This move would changes from Adelaide. Leg-spinner Talking about Ahmed and bodes well for their preparations It becomes a particularly crucial Shankar and leg spinner Yuzvendra MCG, and Chahal's ability to bowl mean one of Ambati Rayudu or Adam Zampa came in for off-spinner Siraj, Dhawan said the young- ahead of the 2019 ODI World aspect considering that India will go Chahal are in contention and both had economical and attacking spells as well Dinesh Karthik will be left out. Nathan Lyon, who couldn't pick a sters will mature and get better Cup. in with the same batting line-up as in a rigorous workout during the option- as use the new ball within the first 10 Karthik was handy in finishing wicket in the first two ODIs, while with time. "Winning the series will the first two matches. With Virat Kohli al training session on Thursday at the overs, might be a factor in his favour. the second ODI, while Rayudu has pacer Jason Behrendorff was ruled out "It's not a worry (about the mean a lot to us. Winning both not keen on bowling Ambati Rayudu MCG. If Kohli does pick Shankar for his been rusty but seen as India's favoured owing to a sore back. bowling). They just came in. Tests and if we win tomorrow, again in the series, they need to get Shankar provides the third seam ODI debut, it would disturb the set number four option, making this a Billy Stanlake is his replacement, They are young blokes. We will it is going to be a big achieve- their five-bowler attack right on the bowling option, and as an extra bats- batting line-up and make space for tough decision for the Indian captain. while all-rounder Mitchell Marsh has back them. That's how they're ment for us. We are going to money. man, elongates the batting line-up. Kedar Jadhav. The fifth bowler's 10 Rayudu was part of the small been ignored again. going to learn, when they play value it and cherish it," he said. B @ ! 6.60
14=4!. who struck a big blow in the last First Class double hundred, and Rajasthan for 222 to set them- ball of the same over, trapping the # second for Vidarbha. He was on selves a 184-run target for a place cripting history, Kerala stormed prolific Priyank Panchal (3) to &%$8&6 36$ G the cynosure of all eyes, hitting in the last four. Sinto the semifinals of the Ranji leave the visitors at 10 for 2. " :,? GF: +G?:, G% ,F :,& ?% %&G 26 boundaries in his 296- ball Off-spinner Gowtham Trophy for the first time with a 113- Left-hander Rahul Shah was stay at the crease. (4/54) snared four batsmen while run win over Gujarat on the third the only batsman to offer resistance :%& ,P& +G:PF G@ ?, +,?A ?% %%F Wicket-keeper Akshay leg-break bowler Gopal scalped day of the quarterfinal on with a fighting knock of 33 not out > 5- - :&@ G&& +,FP+ GF :@ +?GA @+ %&P Wadkar (98) and Aditya Sarvate (3/52) three. Mithun picked up Thursday. (70 balls, 4X4). 5. +P? ,P@ +:@P, GG :: +@& F? %%@ (57 not out) then continued to two wickets after conceding 26 This is the first time that the Gujarat skipper Parthiv Patel, frustrate the opposition bowlers. runs. Kerala team has entered the last probably the biggest threat for ## +F@ ,:F %P@:& G% F, :G: GG P? Wadkar, who struck 14 Chasing the target, four stage of the prestigious tour- Kerala, was run out for a duck, by 1 B +G% ,&P %P&@P G% GF :%,A G@ ?? boundaries in his 167-ball Karnataka were 45 for three nament in over five decades. In the his opposite number (Sachin Baby). #-2 +:? :F@ %?@,& G? :? :%FA F& @: innings, missed a in 18 overs at stumps, with last season, the state made its Dhruv Raval (17) was the only A AA deserving century. Test discard Karun Nair maiden entry into the quarterfinal, Gujarat batsman other than Rahul Sarvate and and Ronit More, bat- but lost to Vidharbha. Shah to get into double figures as Akshay Wakhare (3 ting on 18 and five. Requiring 195 to win the the visiting side struggled on a pitch ed and only two days left in the second wicket stand to com- not out) were the Aniket Choudhary match, Gujarat was shot out for 81 with variable bounce. match, the hosts are all set to pletely demoralise the visiting unbeaten duo for the rocked the the host top- in 31.3 overs as Basil Thampi (5 for The fifth-wicket partnership of enter the semi-final of the cov- team, playing in its debut season. hosts at stumps. order by sending back 27) and Sandeep Warrier (4 for 30) 39 between Rahul Shah and Raval eted domestic tournament after Ramaswamy, overnight inform batsmen, Dega wrecked the strong rival batting was the highest of the Gujarat sec- with eight wickets each. Vidarbha grabbed a mas- ending the day 3 at an imposing unbeaten on 112, could add 0 Nischal (1) and Krishnamurthy line-up. ond innings as the rest of the bat- sive 204-run first innings 559 for 6. only 29 runs to his tally and was # # Spinners Siddharth (5). Gujarat didn't have the best ting line-up struggled against the lead against Uttarakhand At 260 for 1, opener Sanjay dismissed on 141. Krishnappa Gowtham and Other Ravikumar Samarth start, losing opener Kathan D Patel impressive Thampi and Warrier. # Veteran batsman on the third day. Ramaswamy (141) and Wasim But 40-year-old Jaffer kept Shreyas Gopal shared seven (16) too did not last long as he in the sixth over. Thampi, who was named man Wasim Jaffer slammed a With Vidarbha's first Jaffer (206) resumed the innings playing his shots and in the wickets between them as was trapped leg before by Patel was bowled by Thampi, of the match and Warrier finished double hundred as holders innings yet to be complet- and stitched a massive 304-run process completed his ninth Karnataka bundled out Lomror.