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However since there together to warn the Centre Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din, has been a Government advi- against any move to tinker Sajjad Lone and Imran Raza sory, I had a meeting with with the special status of the Ansari of Peoples Conference, Jammu & Kashmir Cricket  #  State. Shah Faesal Chairman of Association (JKCA) CEO Staunch political rivals Peoples’ United Front, Bukhari and administrator assembled in the lawns of Muzaffar Ahmad Shah, Justice Prasad.  # Farooq Abdullah’s fortified President of Awami National Continued on Page 4 Gupkar road residence and Conference.  " ) sent an unequivocal message Farooq Abdullah also that when it came to protecting appealed to the people of  "* the special status enjoyed by the Jammu & Kashmir to keep State, they stood shoulder to peace and calm in the Valley.     .$50$67( shoulder. “I also appeal to both the Burying their own political countries, India & Pakistan    fter fuelling hopes and differences, the representatives not to take any step that may Afrenzy about taking some of mainstream political parties accelerate the tension between spectacular decision on the along with the Congress the two countries,” he said. !! "  status of Jammu & Kashmir, resolved to protect and defend The situation remained curtailing Amarnath Yatra, the identity, autonomy and the tense in the Valley and former     '3-- and deploying thousands of tightlipped about the out- special status of the State India all-rounder Irfan Pathan, troops in the Valley, the Modi come of the high-level meet- against all attacks and !    "#$   %           who is the mentor of Jammu & t a time when Peoples’ Government is expected to ing that took place in onslaughts — whatsoever.   &         '       Kashmir State teams, along ADemocratic Party (PDP) discuss its option to deal with Parliament complex, it is After chairing the all-party with age-group aspirants, left Chief and former Chief the troubled State in a crucial understood that the situation meeting, National Conference Reading out the text of the Farooq Abdullah also said tives will also apprise them of for their respective homes after Minister Mehbooba Mufti is Cabinet meeting on Monday in Kashmir and strategies to president and Member of resolution passed during the the political parties in this the ‘unwholesome’ conse- ongoing Under-16 and Under- busy forging unity among morning. tackle it was discussed in Parliament from Srinagar, meeting he said, “Modification, meeting resolved to seek audi- quences, both short and long 19 trials in Srinagar have been mainstream political parties Ahead of that meeting, threadbare. Farooq Abdullah, flanked by abrogation of Article 35-A, ence with the President of term, bound to follow the postponed due to prevailing in Kashmir, the Anti- Home Minister Amit Shah The possibility of the PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti 370, delimitation or trifurcation India, the Prime Minister and ‘unconstitutional’ violation of security situation in the Valley. Corruption Bureau (ACB) chaired a high-level security Union Cabinet taking some and PDP patron Muzaffar of the State would be an aggres- also other leaders of the polit- these guarantees. The repre- The State administration has asked her to explain her and intelligence meet on important decisions on Hussain Baig, told reporters, sion against the people of ical parties to apprise them of sentatives of the political par- has issued an advisory for all position before it regarding Sunday. The hour-long meet- Kashmir seemed very much “During the all-party meeting Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.” the current situation and make ties also resolved to remain tourists and Amarnath Yatris to the illegal appointments in ing was attended by National on the cards with Prime it was unanimously resolved Ironically, there was no an appeal to them to safeguard united and stand together for leave the Valley due to a poten- Jammu and Kashmir Bank. Security Adviser Ajit Doval, Minister Narendra Modi that all the parties, will be unit- reference on the prevailing the legitimate interest of the safeguarding the identity, tial terror threat. The ACB is currently Union Home Secretary Rajiv telling his party MPs to be pre- ed in their resolve to protect security situation emerging people with regard to the con- autonomy and special status of Pathan was in Srinagar to investigating complaints of Gauba and other senior offi- sent in Parliament from and defend the identity, auton- along the Line of Control due stitutional guarantees given to the State. oversee the trials for the U-16 financial irregularities and cials. The additional secretary Monday to Wednesday. Modi omy and the special status of to regular incidents of “unpro- the State by the Constitution of The all-party meet was (Vijay Merchant Trophy) and illegal appointments in the of Jammu & Kashmir also met was addressing them at the the State against all attacks and voked” ceasefire violations by our country.” also attended by former Chief U-19 (Cooch Behar Trophy) Jammu and Kashmir Bank. Shah. end of the two-day conclave of onslaughts what so ever”. the Pakistan army. “The political representa- Minister Omar Abdullah, and prune the list of probables. While senior officials were the BJP MPs.      "       #              R   $        788.9537(. 8.     .$50$67( addressing their concerns Health Providers). “We were Dr Harsh Vardhan tweet- while drafting the regulations also assured by the Minister ed, “Today morning, I have wo separate mass shootings ollowing the assurance of of the NMC. The Minister that representatives of RDA met RDA representatives of Twithin 24 hours left 30 peo- FUnion Health Minister also told them that the repre- and students unions AIIMS Safdarjung and AIIMS. I have ple dead and several others Harsh Vardhan, the resident sentatives of the AIIMS RDA (New ) will be consult- clarified their doubts and mis- injured in the US States of Texas doctors of All India Institute of and students’ union will be ed before framing of regula- understanding related to and Ohio, including one thought Medical Sciences (AIIMS) consulted while drafting the tions of the NMC bill under NMC bill. I have explained to to be a hate crime, the latest in called off their four-day long regulations of the commis- section 57 of the Bill,” the doctors that NMC Bill is one a string of such incidents in strike on Sunday. However, sion. AIIMS RDA said. “In this of the biggest reform in the America that have shocked the the Safdarjung resident doctors “The Health Minister regard, a GBM of RDA-AIIMS medical education sector nation. are yet to resume non-essential explained the objectives of was convened and its execu- which is would a blessing for The first shooting took place services. bringing NMC Bill 2019 at tive committee conveyed that 130 crore population of the in the southern border town of The move came after the length and assured us that the decision of withdrawing on country.” El Paso in Texas, where a 21- Health Minister assured the apprehensions... Will be duly the strike and resuming of all “I have appealed doctors year-old gunman opened fire at delegation of Resident Doctors’ addressed while drafting the services by the resident doc- to call off the strike so that a crowded Walmart store, killing Associations (RDA) of AIIMS regulations by the NMC once tors with immediate effect,” patients should not get any 20 people and wounding 26 oth- and Safdarjung hospital that it is constituted,” the AIIMS read the letter. difficulty in availing health- ers on Saturday. Hours later, a their concerns over the RDA said in the communique. “If the Bill cannot be care facilities,” the Health man killed nine people before National Medical Commission It referred to section 14 amended in the present situ- Minister tweeted. being shot dead by police in (NMC) Bill will be duly (1) para (2), admissions into ation, it was also requested After a governing body Oregon district, a historic neigh-                   addressed. undergraduate courses at that as per section 4 (3) (g) meeting of the RDA AIIMS, bourhood known for its night-     P         In a communique to the AIIMS New Delhi, section Director AIIMS, New Delhi the executive committee clubs, bars, art galleries and AIIMS director, the RDA said 15(5) admissions into AIIMS should be made ex-offico decided to withdraw the strike shops, in Dayton, Ohio early  during a meeting, the Union New Delhi vide Exit Test and member of the NMC at least and resume all services with Sunday, police said. Minister assured them of section 32 (Community in its 1st term,” read the letter. immediate effect. Detailed report on P12  !       # $           ()+ ,-  - .         &'"              )3.&7( focused to make members from          different section of society, on      round 5,000 full time BJP Saturday international power  %  &    !" Amembers in State on Sunday lifter, Sujata Bhakat too joined the '    (         launched a special day long BJP. Bhakat, an international    # membership drive with a target power lifter has won several     ' ) to enroll five lakh new members. medals and trophies at national      The 5,000 full time members and international events includ-   .$50$67(    ! "  # moved across the State, visiting ing Asain Gold power lifting $%$&' $    villages, panchayats, blocks and championship 2001 held at Kobe fter a series of desertions     & party’s shakti kendras to achieve Japan, Asia and Europe Power Aby party leaders and los- ' ( )*  the target. Each full time mem- lifting championship 2015 ing the coalition Government     ber was given the target to make among others. in Karnataka, the Congress !      at least 100 new members. Similarly, during the recent has finally decided to convene +,  """  The Sunday membership visit of BJP membership drive the crucial Congress Working      was the biggest exercise carried national in-charge Shivraj Singh Committee (CWC) meeting     # out by a political party making Chouhan to State Capital, around this weekend to find a suc- baton since she was newer to five lakh members in a single day 400 sportsperson joined the BJP. cessor to Rahul Gandhi to lead the party as compared to her      $-/       + ,-  .   /%      # ( in State. The Bharatiya Janata      1 % . . )$! -         Apart from sportsperson the party. sibling Rahul, who has ruled ) )*%' -  Yuva Morcha (BJYM)—youth 2     joining BJP, last month JMM top The party on Sunday out the possibility of a Gandhi wing of the Bharatiya Janata legal brain and JMM chief Shibu announced that CWC will meet family member succeeding him .  -   Party has been given the task to members visited door-to-door Syama Prasad Mookerjee segments. Continuing with BJP Soren’s close confidante and on August 10 and sources said Karan Singh on Sunday /' -    achieve the target. within the shakti kendras with an launched a membership at dif- membership drive, AJSU party senior advocate of Patna High finding a new party chief is in said Priyanka will be a “unify-   ! BJYM State President Amit aim of making minimum 100 ferent educational institutions leader Munchun Rai, who con- Court, Ravi Shankar Mazumdar top on the agenda. The meet- ing force” and will enthuse      Kumar said, “This is the biggest members each. The drive which enrolling new members. Sources tested for the post of deputy joined the BJP in presence of BJP ing would be the first since cadres if she takes on the man-      membership exercise carried out started in morning continued till said that through the member- mayor of Ranchi in municipal national working president JP Rahul had announced his deci- tle of party president.   # by BJYM in a day. To achieve the evening. The BJP cadres were ship day, the BJYM had already elections held in April 2018, too Nadda. Sources said that sion to quit as the party chief. Last month, Singh had task, strategy was chalked out asked to give special focus/atten- made 1.6 lakh new members. joined Saffron party along with Mazumdar, had never been JMM The meeting comes after said he was “aghast” at the #+,       among office bearers from all tion to youths, women, working Sources said that BJYM tar- large number of his supporters in member but was considered as several top party leaders such disorientation into which the #     panchayats/wards, shakti professional, businessmen, farm- get of making five lakh members presence of Urban Development one the legal brains working for as Shashi Tharoor, Amarinder party has fallen following $&$ '01 2 kendras, mandals, district and ers, minorities, tribals and other will add to BJP’s target of mak- Minister CP Singh, Hatia MLA both Shibu Soren and Hemant Singh, Anil Shahstri, Karan Rahul’s resignation, and urged .03  / state officers from all 81 section of society in making ing 30 lakh members across the Naveen Jaiswal and others. Rai Soren. He was appointed as State Singh amongst others voiced the working committee to &-  . 4  Assembly segments. The office members so as to achieve the tar- State ahead of Assembly election. who is associated with different Advocate general twice first in concern over lack of clarity over meet immediately under the    bearers from these units were get.” Prior to Sunday membership To achieve the target, the party social organizations in State is 2010 when Guruji was Chief the leadership issue and opined chairmanship of former  provided with membership slips drive, the BJYM on July 6, on the has asked its MLAs/district pres- also the president of Ranchi Minister and second time in 2013 that Priyanka Gandhi was the prime minister Manmohan 3    to achieve the target.” Kumar fur- occasion of martyrdom of BJP ident to make at least 50,000 Railway Station Durga Puja when Hemant was Chief need of the hour. Priyanka has Singh and take necessary ' ! # ther said, “The full time 5000 ideologue and Jan Sangh founder, members from each Assembly Samiti. As the Saffron party has Minister. said she is not ready to take the decisions.   !"#$% 

               !" /  '  $" ** # $%#& ""#&" /05   /843)8 rebel commander Mahraj   '3-7$0 ) Pramanik was involved in all iming to conserve water the rebel attacks taken place in Aand secure the future, a eraikela-Kharsawan police Seraikela-Kharsawan district plantation drive was conduct- Son Saturday evening arrest- during the past two months. ed at Bokaro Steel Plant (BSL). ed three CPI-Maoist rebels "During the interrogation CEO Pawan Kumar Singh involved in the Chandil sub- Lakhan revealed that during inaugurated GM Mechanical division's Khukru weekly mar- the attack engineered by the Park, a newly developed park ket Maoist attack in which five rebels at Khukru Haat, not only near the ED building premis- policemen were killed on the five police men were killed and es and planted saplings under evening of June 14. as many assault rifles were Jal Shakti Abhiyan. The police arrested taken away by the attackers, but “BSL has adopted specific Josheph Purty alias Tipura one of the naxals was fatally measures towards water con- (35), Lakhan Sardar (32) and injured. servation. Following the clari- Enom Hassa Purty (29), all Lakhan Sardar divulged on call given by Prime Minister      ! ! !! hardcore rebels belonging to that during the attack on the Narendra Modi to save water #  $# %$ &&! !    the group of naxal commander cops at Khukru weekly haat, and secure the future, we (BSL) Mahraj Pramanik. one of the slain police men had are on move to increase green %!  %  %) # $! ! The police have recovered opened fire at the attackers, cover in its periphery,” said MK # ! # )!  *!  ! three cell phones from them causing a naxal to sustain shot Dhan, Chief of and also gathered information in his right eye. The naxal suc- Communication BSL.  !!#   % ! !!  ! about the movement of dread- cumbed to his injury in the “I had to urgently return to recently also wrote to Nitin “We have targeted to plant   +!!# + !! &+ $ + ed rebel Mahraj Pramanik. next few hours, leading the   '3-7$0 ) the city for my official work but Gadkari, Union Minister for about one lakh saplings on the Revealing about the break- remaining rebels to bury the due to a road accident ahead, Road Transport Highway and 100 acres of land near Garga   +!!&+ +& $%+ through, Seraikela-Kharsawan body at a nearby jungle. We are ith the onset of I got delayed. It was really Shipping to take immediate Dam by ‘shram daan’ (volun-  )   &%$% !  !,! $ superintendent of police, trying to get what Lakhan has WMonsoon, traveling is pathetic to see long serpentine steps to start the repair work of tary work) under the Jal Shakti # ! Karthik S said that last evening said, verified," said the super- becoming difficult along roads of vehicles stuck on National NH 33. Abhiyan,” he added. they got a tip off about the intendent of police. on NH-33 since a numerous Highway. A lorry driver who makes Dhan said that an intensive whereabouts of three naxals Five policemen were killed potholes have developed over Surprisingly the four kilo- at least 10 trips on this stretch tree planting programme is sapling plantation in the plant decades. who were involved in the attack as CPI-Maoist rebels attacked the stretch leading towards metres stretch between a month, said even drivers of underway and over thousands premises and city is also in the SAIL has been reusing and on a police party at Khukru a patrol party at Khukru block Ranchi. Even the roads which Jamshedpur to Ranchi with heavy vehicles like his find it of sapling were planted in past direction of environment pro- recycling most of the water weekly market in June. under Chandil sub-divisional have been repaired recently are the advent of monsoon has challenging to negotiate the few days. Under the tree plan- tection. BSL is also taking ini- required in these processes. "A task-force of the in adjoining Seraikela- once again full of potholes, developed craters and potholes. stretch. tation drive trees like Banyan, tiative in the direction of rain- Through various measures Seraikela-Kharsawan police set Kharsawan district, about 70 insufficient slant towards the There is a heavy flow of Broken axles and suspen- Peepal, Sheesham, Sagwan, water harvesting and is com- including localised re-circula- up to nab the rebels and they Kms away from here on June drains and the inadequate traffic on the route since it is an sion system have been the com- Acacia, Neem, Arjun, mango, mitted to making this cam- tion of water through Effluent nabbed the three, one after 14. The rebels who had come number of outlets leading to NH. However, the authorities mon complaints from drivers jackfruit among others are paign successful, said COC. Treatment Plants another, on Saturday evening. in two bikes attacked the police the drains through which the are yet to take any steps,” said and owners of heavy vehicles being planted. The COC said that Steel (ETPs),Industrial and The arrested rebels were inter- party which was patrolling at water can seep away. an official of a steel company. even as toppling of lorries was “Under Jal Shakti Abhiyan Authority of India Limited Township Sewage Water rogated resulting in important the vicinity of a weekly-haat Moreover, NH-33 that con- She said that for the users a regular phenomenon, he said. rainwater harvesting, reuse of (SAIL) is observing August Treatment and re circulation, information about their activ- known as Khukru haat under nects the city with the rest of of this road, it is an ordeal every The bitumen surface on the treated wastewater, rejuvena- 2019 as water conservation plugging of leakages, rain water ities in Chowka Chandil and Tiruldih thana area in Khukru the country is gradually day- dust, potholes, and lack of ghat stretch has almost worn tion of water bodies and inten- month across all its Plants and harvesting and implementing Kuchai area and about the block at about 6.30 pm. The becoming an accident prone adequate space for pedestrians, out and craters have surfaced sive tree plantation would be Units. SAIL has been taking state-of-the-art technologies Khukru weekly market attack," rebels who were reportedly six zone. buses and four-wheelers. on the road. carried out,” he informed. specific measures to sustainably SAIL has brought down its said Karthik while addressing in number had killed the With the onset of mon- Concerned over the plight Heavy vehicles and com- BSL has already taken ini- use this natural resource. water consumption level sub- newsmen at Adityapur on policemen by attacking them soon, several mishaps have of NH 33 and 32 in Singhbhum, mercial vans usually develop tiative in relation to the recy- Through consistent efforts, stantially over the years. It is Sunday. with knives. Having killed been reported. The people are Singhbhum Chamber of broken axle and damage to cled wastewater and is moving SAIL has achieved 75 percent taking proactive further steps The SP said that Lakhan them, they took away the rifles facing problems due to poor Commerce and Industry, wheel base due to the craters on forward towards zero dis- reduction of specific water to reduce it continuously, said Sardar who is very close to the of the cops and fled. condition of the highway. largest trade body in Kolhan the road. charge. Similarly, continuous consumption over the last two Dhan.   .      '( )"!* !&!+, ! &          +) ( +&))*' ," ) &03> 7 * $ 0    ! ! 5- -&   '           "  )3.&7( relief camp. coriander, turmeric, Sambhar  (? ?(#       Also, the organisations will Masala and others among food  #(        n a bid to help those affect- carry out the assessments to items.      ! (?/  Ied by the recent floods in gauge the families that would Apart from this, the kit will  3  (?       Bihar, the Ranchi district require support to re-establish also include an assortment of (  (?3#        administration, with the sup- the settlements which are called utensils including cooking ves-    ) &  port of a number of city-based ‘back to home’ kits or ‘family kits’. sels, plates, spoons and others.     !    social organisations, is all set to “Survivors with strong social There are also plans to include     # send relief material to its neigh- networks experience faster sanitary items like soaps, tooth- bouring State. recovery and have access to paste, detergent, sanitary pads   #   #  #  " A number of places have needed information, tools and among others along with a num- been identified in the city where assistance. Therefore, we have ber of garments for the survivors. the interested persons can drop arranged all the mediums Atul Gera of Life Savers in relief material for this noble through which we propagate the said, “People can either donate a cause. Some of the drop points message about this relief drive. few things or an entire kit identified in the city include Also, we have made common depending on what their budget Jharkhand Thalassemia zones to drop the necessity allows. Once sufficient items Foundation in Main Road and including eatables, toiletry items, are collected we would pack Hotel Konark near Railway and clothing. them and send them to Bihar Station. However, soon the Meanwhile, the organisa- with the help of railways.”   /843)8 was contributed by local mem- The cheque was handed NGOs plan to come up with tions have also urged people to He added, “A similar drive bers. “The Chairman Kumud over in the presence of Manoj more such drop locations across support by donating help kit was organized by the district ithila Sanskriti Parishad, Kumar Thakur and General Jha, Santosh Mishra and the city. which includes matchsticks, administration with our support MBokaro, has taken a step Secretary Rajendra Kumar of Mayanand Jha. Social organisations includ- kerosene stove, buckets, if pos- during the Kerala Floods last forward to help the people Mithila Sanskriti Parishad Beside others, Ravindra ing Life Savers, Fallen Leaves, sible,” said Shreysee Banka, a year.” who have been facing the ter- handed over a cheque to the Jha, Arun Pathak, Sunil Mohan Rotaract Club and others will not member of NGO Fallen Leaves. The flood situation in Bihar )- 3( 4  -     6 rible tragedy of floods in the Mithila Student Union work- Thakura, Mithila Mahila just supply foods but also One back to home or fami- remains grim as more than 88  *. * 3'      past several days in Bihar. ing in the service of the flood Committee Chairman Anju mobilise other essential items like ly kit will include 5kgs of rice, 1 lakh people have been severely & &     -    Parishad has provided an victims,” informed Arun Jha, Secretary Usha Jha, medicines, sleepers, clothing, kg of Toor Daal, 100gm sugar, hit by the calamity. People are still & #      assistance of 45,000 for the Pathak, a member of the Treasurer Sangeeta Mishra toiletry, soaps and more which 250 gms of milk powder and 100 struggling to stand back on their       3' # flood victims. The said amount Parishad. were present on the occasion. can be used by survivors in the gms each of basic spices like feet.       '()"Q  /#! "    4567)  !  )& !') )        )3.&7(

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  "  )3.&7( here, slated later this year. On moned senior Jharkhand lead- the allegations have been    '  Thursday, supporters of Kumar ers and the party’s General proved right yet, the party ongress party’s State pres- and former union minister Secretary KC Venugopal had a leaders, he said, has made up its Cident Ajoy Kumar is likely Subodh Kant Sahay locked closed door conversation with mind to contest the upcoming to be asked to step down after Ranchi: A group of Congress Sonal Shanti, media in-charge upcoming Assembly elections horns at the State headquarters each of the senior leaders on elections under a new president the Congress Working party leaders on Sunday called of MCM, said that the leaders under his leadership. of the party in Ranchi and the Saturday. “None of the senior in Jharkhand. Committee’s (CWC) meeting for an emergency meeting in who met on Sunday have The meeting was chaired by tiff between them transformed leaders are in support of Ajoy Former JPCC presidents in New Delhi on August 10, Ranchi’s Congress Bhavan and unanimously decided to MCM Vice President into an ugly scuffle, which Kumar. They have openly crit- Pradeep Balmucchu and insiders from the Jharkhand decided to dissolve the extend their support to Surendra Sahu and attended broke open the lid of bottled up icized his actions in Delhi. It is Sukhdeo Bhagat, and senior Pradesh Congress Committee Mahanagar Congress Jharkhand Pradesh Congress by various office bearers from indifferences within the party. 100 per cent confirm that he leaders Rameshwar Oraon and (JPCC) said on Sunday. The Committee (MCM). A press Committee (JPCC) president different blocks, the press “The bad blood between will have to resign,” said the Alamgir Alam are in fray to reason they highlighted was a communiqué, undersigned by Ajoy Kumar and contest the communiqué said. supporters of Subodh Kant office bearer who has been in replace Kumar, party sources lack of motivation among party us during the general elec- Sahay and Ajoy Kumar may the thick of events lately. said. Kumar, a former MP workers to go to the Assembly tions. After all the hullaballoo anonymity. statement regarding the ruckus the 17th General Elections and just be the tip of an iceberg, and A tribal legislator, who did from Jamshedpur, has been polls under the incumbent over his (Kumar’s) role in the The party’s high command in the party to the media or at Kumar found himself in the the party will have to appoint not wish to be named, said that among the vocal leaders in the party chief and poor support of loss, the legislators and party has strictly directed all the any public forum may invite crosshairs of fellow Congress a new State president in order many leaders have leveled alle- Congress cadre. The top cop Congress legislators for Kumar. workers want a new person at leaders in Jharkhand to stay trouble for them. leaders. The party leadership to restore harmony,” said a gations related to apathy turned politician had served as “The workers do not want the helm,” said a non-tribal mum over the developments in The Congress party here was evidently divided over the JPCC office bearer. towards party workers and the National Spokesperson of to go to the Assembly elections Congress legislator in the party. The leaders here ran into rough weather after choice of a captain for the Congress party’s high com- misappropriation of funds the party prior to taking the under the same person who led Jharkhand, requesting have been warned that any tasting a humiliating defeat in upcoming Assembly elections mand in New Delhi sum- against Kumar. While none of charge of Jharkhand. .   

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  "  )3.&7( tal stress –a major contributor for any patient suffering from patients who may get treated over-prescription of psy- that severe cases of mental ill- to most of the mental illness- stress induced disorders. The with counseling and lifestyle chotropic drugs across the globe nesses do require the use of t a time when mental es—is an area that remains commonly prescribed antide- changes,” he said. lately. Clinical psychologists drugs. Dr. D Ram, Director of Ahealth has become the ele- unexplored so far. “The use of pressants only mask the symp- Another Ayurvedic practi- and counselors have also voiced Central Institute of Psychiatry phant in the room and the use herbal medicines for treating toms, but do not address the tioner based out of Ranchi, Dr. their reservations towards in Ranchi refused to comment of psychotropic drugs is mental illnesses has great root cause of it. Besides, these Akhawri Shankar, said that unabated use of psychotropic on the effectiveness of becoming as common as potential. A class of plants medicines also have side extracts of Ashoka tree is effec- drugs, a practice becoming Ayurvedic medicines claiming antacids, Ayurvedic experts called Medhya Rasayana has effects,” he said. tively used in treating diseases common in the younger gener- that it was not his area of and clinical scientists in Ranchi been clinically proven to According to Agarwalla, in such as insomnia and demen- ation in India. expertise. claim that herbal medicines improve memory and enhance many cases, Selective Serotonin tia. Shankar also runs his own “If you are in stress over a He, however, said that psy- coupled with proper counsel- cognitive functions,” said Dr. Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRI), company of Ayurvedic medi- loss of job or a divorce, how can chotropic drugs prove to be life ing can be an effective substi- Suresh Kumar Agarwalla, an which are commonly called cines by the brand name KDS4 any pill make you feel better? saver in many cases of severe tute for popping in an antide- MBBS who has worked close- antidepressants, further and sells medicines for treating You have to undergo counseling mental illnesses and they should pressant every time you feel low ly with patients in the psychi- increase symptoms of anxiety mental illnesses. “There are and address the core issue,” not be stigmatized. “Psychiatry or anxious. atry ward of Kolkata’s NRS and depression in patients. In nearly 900 types of mental dis- said Dr. Agarwalla, adding that institutes have a multi-discipli- Ranchi has been long Hospital. some cases, they make patients eases and around 300 of them the approach of “take a pill for nary approach towards patients. known for its psychiatry insti- Dr. Agarwalla, who runs lethargic, passive or too sleepy, are curable. Common disorders ough research in the field of Several scholars and even the every problem” was plaguing Common mental disorders are tutes and the treatments they his own practice in Ranchi, is he said. “Many doctors these such as anxiety disorder and Ayurvedic treatment for men- American Psychological the society and making people often treated with counseling offer to patients suffering from against the use of antidepres- days are in a hurry to treat even severe ailments such as tal disorders can give major Association, one of the leading vulnerable and fragile when it and other forms of therapy, common and severe mental ill- sants for common mental ill- patients in a short span of time, autism can be treated using breakthroughs and help people umbrella bodies that deals with comes to dealing with chal- while the serious disorders may nesses. However, the use of nesses caused by daily stress. so they resort to prescribing Ayurvedic medicines,” he said. lead better lives without the side psychiatric disorders and its lenges in life. even require hospitalization and herbal medicines to ease men- “First of all, counseling is must psychotropic drugs even to Shankar added that thor- effects of psychotropic drugs. treatments, has criticized the Psychiatrists, however, say heavy dosage of drugs,” he said.   %4   !"#$% $ !6    '     '  !   #  and past life regression thera- once indulged in discussion ments, personal traits, unex- get self-realization,” she adds. a traumatic past life, they are &73.0( 3)7 pist says, “Many people choose related to Karma, reincarna- plainable pains, reasons of At Dr Nitu’s Divine being guided to leave things to experience past life regres- tion, soul family and soul- negative patterns and many Health Clinic in Sector 22 that are not good there only #"! ou are not your body; you sion for spiritual reasons, mates. The fascinating concept other things. This helps in here, Rs 9000 is charged for and move ahead. The PLR is Yare not your brain, not curiosity and to find the con- of PLR is also based on a belief breaking the negative pat- one session of PLR and each totally safe and is never harm- even your mind. You are spir- nection of present life prob- of reincarnation and the the- terns that you carry over to session takes about two to ful. People feel physical or   )3.&7( Ghaghra-Netarhat road (54 it. All you have to do is reawak- lems with their past lives.” ory of Karma. the present life.” three hours.Aditi (name emotional pain for some time, km), Chanho (on NG 75)- en to the memory, to remem- “Most people come to me It is widely believed that While the entire concept changed), 32, a resident of if they witness something he Raghubar Das Dighia (on MDR-001)- ber. with questions like why did the Karmas of the past are the may sound illogical and unsci- Chandigarh shares that she traumatic in the past,” she TGovernment ahead of year- Purnapani (on NH-23)-Lapung This famous quote by Dr this happen to them or what seeds that we have sown and entific to intellectuals but had been suffering from the adds. end Assembly election is to (on MDR-030 road) among Brian Weiss, a renowned went wrong? Many of them that have left a Karmic imprint many of the patients, who problem of fibromyalgia and She also tells that 70-80 focus on infrastructure improve- others. American psychiatrist, hyp- have problems related to rela- in the present life. Thus, the were earlier skeptical about anxiety issues since long but percent of her patients have ment, especially road connec- Apart from these roads, notherapist and an author who tionships, anxiety attacks, pho- sufferings in the present times undergoing PLR sessions, the counseling and PLR ses- attended only one PLR ses- tivity. The State Road there are around 41 other roads specializes in past life regres- bia, inexplicable pain among may be due to a past life claims that the technique has sions by Dr Nitu helped her a sion while around 10 percent Construction Department has in which construction will begin sion therapy implies that the other issues. They usually seek desire, a past thought, past feel- helped them overcome their lot. attended five sittings and set a 120 day deadline with a tar- or will be completed within the souls that have been transmi- counseling and after going ing, a past vow, a past promise, problems in the present “It seemed I had some about 3-5 percent have gone get to construct 400 km roads stipulated time frame. grating for many lives, can through their case study, I a past decision or a past trau- life.Before conducting the burden from the past life through more than 10 -12 ses- and 15 bridges in this duration. Sources said that the Road actually recall past lives and accordingly suggest them to matic experience. PLR therapy, counseling ses- relationships. I did not believe sions. As the construction of roads and Construction department has can teach us about the ultimate undergo past life regression The PLR therapists believe sions are conducted and a in it earlier but after under- Commenting on medical bridges will require technical been asked by Government to soul journey . therapy. Also, people who feel that the therapy delves into the consent form is signed going PLR sessions, I experi- practitioners and other expertise, the Road Construction speed up the construction work It was in the 1980s that Dr some kind of connection with past to make you understand informing the patients about enced the past lives and was experts calling the PLR as Department is to recruit 969 ahead of year-end Assembly Brian had introduced the past their past lives and some, sim- the soul journey, learn lessons the nature of the technique able to realize the source of “unscientific”, Dr Vandana engineers on the rank of assistant election. Sources said that as life regression in the main- ply desiring to explore it out of from past, learn forgiveness, and assuring them that their my present life problems. says “Dr Brian Weiss, who engineers and junior engineers improvement and strengthening stream and also, authored sev- curiously, undergo the PLR release the feeling of hatred experiences will be kept con- This has helped me in introduced the concept of in the coming days. of road infrastructure has been eral books including “Many sessions,” she says. against someone and move fidential. dealing with anxiety issues,” PLR, is a renowned psychia- Department secretary KK the top priority of Raghubar’s Lives, Many Masters”, based on Having seven years of ahead in the present life. Dr Vandana tells, “About she claims while not divulging trist himself. I am a doctor Soan said, “The department, to Government, the Road the true case of the past life experience in this field, Dr Dr Vandana Raghuvanshi, 60 percent of the patients much about her past life story. myself and many doctors fill up the vacancies of engineers, Construction department has regression therapy that Nitu, 41, claims to have per- Chandigarh based past life come to her on their own and Kiran (name changed), come to me to experience the has decided to make appoint- been asked complete or start changed the lives of both him formed over a thousand PLR regression therapist tells, “The do not share the PLR experi- who is in her early 40s and a PLR therapy.” ment of 969 engineers. 732 posts work on all major road projects. and the young patient sessions with the patients. Her PLR session is no touch, no ence, even with their family resident of Mohali had gone “In hypnosis, the mind of assistant engineers and 237 According to Road involved. youngest patient to undergo medicine technique. The ther- members while 40 percent tell through the PLR under Dr cannot make up stories like posts of junior engineers will be Construction department The past life regression the PLR session was a 10 year- apist speaks and takes the about it to their family mem- Vandana’s guidance. Kiran this... In many cases, we have filled. The appointment process sources, the department has (PLR) is a technique of going old child. patient or client to a deeper bers. We have to keep their shares, “I was facing rela- managed to cross-check the will be completed within two- earmarked 4,700 crore bud- into a hypnotic state to explore Elaborating the concept trance, in which they experi- identity confidential.” tionship issues since a long information provided by the three months.” getary provision in the financial the subconscious memories of PLR and soul memory, Dr ence her/his past life. It can be “People in their 20s usu- time and decided to go patients about their past life,” He added, “While the year 2019-20. Out of this, the from previous lives. Nitu, M.Phil (Psychology) says, in the form of glimpses, feel- ally come for PLR out of through counseling and PLR says Dr Nitu Dhiman on the Jharkhand Public Service department expenditure till July The PLR is not a new con- “The soul carries the pain and ings or thoughts.” curiosity. I have conducted session. I was also under authenticity of past life Commission (JPSC) will carry 2019 is 1,904.34 crore which is cept in the country and a lot desires to the new or next life. “The soul memory is your PLR sessions of people from depression. One PLR session accounts shared by her out the appointment process of nearly 40.51 per cent of the total has been said about its healing It is said that the Karma is the sub conscious mind and age group of 14-80 years”, she helped me a lot to find patients. assistant engineers, the junior allocation in the financial year. ability and ways to help the luggage that the soul carries on through PLR, we try to bring adds. answers to the problem in the When asked to sum up engineers will be appointed by As per the total allocation of mind, body and soul to grow its trip from life-to-life and those memories to conscious At Dr Vandana clinic and present life.” their feelings and experiences Jharkhand Staff Selection the budget, the physical target as well as to confront and PLR is a technique that can mind. Such sessions has 90 counseling centre in Sector 44 While there remains about the PLR, both Dr Commission (JSSC).” for construction of roads is understand the issues in the help you balancing the Karma.” percent success rate. here, one can undergo a ses- reservation about the authen- Vandana and Dr Nitu say that The appointed engineers 1350 km while bridges are 40. present life. Also, there are Quoting her ideal Dr Brian Sometimes, people with ana- sion of PLR by paying Rs ticity of memories recovered PLR is a holistic healing which will be placed at various projects Against the physical target, many myths around the prac- Weiss, she says, “The body is lytical mind do not experience 8500.On how the PLR tech- under regressive hypnosis, works on body, mind and of road construction depart- around 290 km road has been tice and medical practitioners just a vehicle for us while we anything during the PLR ses- nique heals the patients, Dr there are also many myths soul. ment. constructed at the same six and other experts generally are here and it is our soul that sions. A PLR session, usually Nitu Dhiman explains, “The about the PLR. “And, lives prior to the Some of the major road bridges has been constructed. term it as “unscientific”. last forever. Through PLR, one takes one to two and a half basic purpose is of realiza- Talking about the myths incarnation can teach us about projects which the department A senior road construc- Yet, the topics of past life can get the realization of past hours time,” says, Dr Vandana, tion… We follow the teach- related to the therapy, Dr the ultimate soul journey,” has a target to complete within tion department official request- regression and incarnation mistakes or happenings and MBBS, MS (Surgery) and hav- ings of Gautama Buddha who Vandana says, “People often they conclude. 120 days includes—Hazaribag- ing anonymity said, “As per tar- remain intriguing and the dis- can begin the healing process ing 10 years experience in the had attained enlightenment.” ask about getting stuck in the Barkagoan-Tandwa-Khelari- get set by department, the con- cussions surround them also in the present life.” field of past life regression. “If you are religious or past life during the PLR ses- (The story is an attempt to Bijupara Road (115.65km), struction work on major road interest even those who do not Dr Nitu also tells, she her- Dr Vandana, who has per- spiritual, the ultimate aim is sions. But, it does not work explore the concept of past life Chhattarpur-Japla road projects will gain momentum. believe in it. self has gone through PLR formed thousands of PLR ses- enlightenment or liberation like this. People also express regression therapy and in no (115.65km), Patratu-Hendegir- We have been asked to complete So, why do people under- sessions with the help of other sions with her patients says, from the cycle of rebirth. The concern about seeing some- way promoting it. We leave it Mcluskiganj (45km), Vikas- the construction work on new go past life regression therapy? experts and has seen her var- “Through this therapy, one past life memories help to thing bad in the past life that to the wisdom of the readers booth More-Kantatoli to projects or to complete the Dr Nitu Dhiman, ious past lives.Unarguably, can uncover the source of decode the source of bad can affect their present.” whether to believe in the con- Rampur road (25.35km), pending projects.” Chandigarh based Psychologist every one of us has at least their phobias, unusual attach- karma or toxic energies and “If a person is regressed to cept or not.) 7         & '    +   

    &73.0( 3)7 guilty. Besides, some of the anonymity, while talking with MLAs lashed out at their own The Pioneer. acing resentment of sorts Ministers for not paying heed to The legislator said that the Ffrom within in the third their requests and demands. Congress came to power as year of power, the Congress is set The Congress lawmakers people were against the Badals, to bring its ‘discontented’ legis- expressed their concern over the and we promised them to act latures on a same page. State Government’s sluggish against them for their misrule. After an open outburst by pace in significant issues, con- “But, if we fail to act against some of the party MLAs during cerning the state and the people, them, we may also have to face the Congress Legislative Party which may make it difficult for people’s ire,” added the MLA. (CLP) meeting on Friday, them to face the voters ahead of The meeting on Monday Punjab Chief Minister Capt next elections. evening, to be held after the Amarinder Singh has convened Taking note of the same, the House proceedings, is expected an all-MLA meeting on Monday Chief Minister has decided to to be stormy. It has been learnt evening to listen to their griev- undertaken in their segments. convene a meeting of all party that several party MLAs have ances and suggestions. Notably, several party MLAs MLAs, to listen to their griev- decided to raise their issues The meeting comes at a had raised the issue with the ances, and resolve their issues. with the Chief Minister openly time when the party leaders are Chief Minister during a meeting “People have now started “without any hesitation”. not too satisfied with the way at Vidhan Sabha convened, after coming out questioning the “It is our government and matters of grave concern are the conclusion of House pro- leaders, as was seen during the we have to tell those in power being handled in the State ceedings on the first day of the Lok Sabha elections. They have what is wrong and appreciate for including the issues of sacrilege monsoon session, to discuss become more aware of the issues what they are doing right. If the and related firing incidents, the floor strategy. and are judging the govern- Chief Minister has called a drug menace coupled with During the meeting, some ment’s performance at every meeting to listen to us, we action against rival political of the MLAs minced no words step. To be in the power, the gov- should speak without any hesi- leaders, especially the Badals. to attack their own government ernment has to perform, and, in tation so that the Government Besides, the MLAs alleged that for slow pedalling over the issue fact, fulfil its promises,” said a can improve where it is lacking,” no development works are being of sacrilege and punishing the Congress MLA, requesting said a young MLA. $%    2&&,)!%+(" !" ))       ''!# !*0())&$ )#!$!    , 9:;   &73.0( 3)7 Chandigarh:The Shiromani enowned advocate and for- Akali Dal core committee met Rmer Aam Aadmi Party in New Delhi on Sunday under (AAP) leader HS Phoolka has party president Sukhbir Singh asked the Punjab Vidhan Sabha Badal to discuss ‘The Inter State Speaker Rana Kanwar Pal River Water Disputes Singh to accept his resignation   &73.0( 3)7 One acre land would be said that the State Government ed development in the fields of (Amendment) Bill 2019’. as Vidhan Sabha member or he provided for the setting up of has formed a Trust after the roads and other infrastruc- The SAD core committee would knock the door of the fter paying obeisance to Sikh Dharamshala and for this, name of Baba Banda Singh ture, special emphasis has been unanimously decided that the country’s Apex Court. AGuru Nanak Dev on his Deputy Commissioner, Sirsa Bahadur for the development given on imparting quality Bill is against the interests of the Phoolka, who had submit- 550th Prakash Parva, Haryana has been asked to identify suit- of Lohgarh as a tourist desti- education to the children based people of Punjab.The commit- ted his resignation as Dakha Chief Minister Manohar Lal on able piece of government land, nation. A memorial of Baba on moral values so that they tee resolved that the party has MLA in October 2018, has ted his resignation in a proper it clear to you that I have Sunday announced that land the Chief Minister said. Banda Singh Bahadur, could contribute in developing always stood for the cause of asked the Speaker to accept his format. resigned from the party and my measuring 9.75 acres would be Manohar Lal also Museum and Martial Art insti- a new nation waters of Punjab and will safe- resignation so that by-polls Phoolka had stepped down resignation may be accepted,” transferred to Gurudwara announced to establish a Sikh tute would soon be construct- He said that during the guard the interests of waters of could be held in his assembly to press for immediate action Phoolka stated. Chilla Sahib, Sirsa where Guru Museum in Kurukshetra so as ed in Lohgarh with the help of next tenure, Security, Health Punjab by any means. The party segment along with the two against those involved in des- "And I had further told you Nanak Dev had spent 4 months to give inspiration to the young this Trust, he added. and Education (SHE) would be shall apprise the Prime Minister vacant seats — Jalalabad and ecrating the Guru Grant Sahib that in case you feel my resig- and 13 days during his journey. generation and said that 400 While congratulating the our thrust areas. This, he said, and Union Jal Shakti Minister Phagwara. in the state in 2015. nation is not in the (proper) “Ownership rights of land, posts of Punjabi Teachers large number of Gurus, saints could not be achieved by the on Monday about the gravity of “If the Speaker fail to While quitting as MLA, he format, then tell me in what which at present rests with the would be advertised soon to and devotes which converged government alone and support the situation and will urge them accept my resignation, I may had claimed the Congress gov- format it should be, (and) I will State Government would be give more recognition to the in Sirsa not from Haryana but of society at large would be not to press this Bill in the Rajya approach the Supreme Court,” ernment had not taken the sign that," he wrote. transferred in the name of Punjabi language.He further from other states also, the needed to achieve this. Sabha in the present form, said he declared in a letter written desired action against those "Despite all this, till today Gurudwara as per the policy of announced that signboards in Chief Minister said that we The Chief Minister further a party spokesperson.The meet- to the Speaker. named in the Justice Ranjit my resignation has not been the State Government,” said the name of Guru Gobind have a long history of great per- said that the State Government ing discussed in detail ‘The Inter Phoolka, who has Singh Commission's report on accepted as yet. I request you Manohar Lal while addressing Singh would be installed on the sonalities and the messages has decided to celebrate the State River Water Disputes resigned from Vidhan Sabha sacrilege incidents. to immediately accept my res- a state level function orga- national highway passing from delivered by them from time to anniversaries of our great per- (Amendment) Bill 2019’ and in October last, and also from In his fresh communica- ignation so that the bye-elec- nized to mark the 550th Haryana upto the border of time play a vital role in our sonalities at the state level so as resolved that the passage of this AAP in January this year, is tion to the speaker on Sunday, tions for the Dhaka con- Prakash Parva of Guru Nanak Punjab and Rajasthan. lives. to spread a positive message to Bill is a grave injustice with the not attending the ongoing Phoolka wrote, "I had originally stituency could be held along Dev at Sirsa. Wth a view to enable large He emphasized that mere all sections of the society. people of Punjab, the spokesper- monsoon session that started submitted my resignation in with those for Phagwara and The Chief Minister also number of pilgrims be it education is not enough and till The coffers of the State son said. on Friday. the month of October 2018, Jalalabad constituencies," he announced that the State Hindu, Sikh or of any other we do not instill moral values Government are always open The SAD core committee Phoolka had earlier too thereafter, I had personally said. Government would provide region to visit religious places, among the children, we could for the welfare work of people made it very clear that ‘The Inter written to Speaker Rana K P appeared before you and had BJP's Som Prakash and all support and cooperation to 50 per cent concession in fare not achieve our target in life belonging to all sections of the State River Water Disputes Singh saying he will not have also submitted a one-line res- Shiromani Akali Dal's Sukhbir the Gurudwara Chilla Sahib for would be given to them. The and added that Saints and society, he added. (Amendment) Bill 2019’ is not a rethink over his resignation. ignation from the Vidhan Singh Badal, who were the starting projects of public wel- State Government has recent- Gurus have a big role to play in Earlier, the Chief Minister going to help the aggrieved He had earlier said the Speaker Sabha.” MLAs fromNotably, Phagwara fare.He said that Guru Nanak ly given relaxation in fare to the this direction. inaugurated a blood donation people of the state in any way had assured him that he would "After that I had resigned and Jalalabad respectively, were Dev had spent 4 months and 13 senior citizens visiting holy Manohar Lal further said camp near the venue and also but rather it will further jeop- take a considered decision on from the Aam Aadmi Party. elected to the Lok Sabha from days in Sirsa where he also cities of Amritsar and Varanasi, that during the tenure of pre- went around an exhibition put ardize the water rights of peo- his resignation. You had called me for a hear- Hoshiarpur and Ferozepur delivered his divine message for he said. sent State Government, so far, up on the life of Guru Nanak ple of Punjab if passed in the It was earlier believed that ing on March 23, 2019 and in respectively in the general elec- the welfare of the society. The Chief Minister also besides ensuring unprecedent- Dev . present form. PNS the lawmaker had not submit- that meeting also, I had made tions earlier this year.   !"#$%   %5

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Since the BJP where Government func- sons), by Accounts Officer India ahead of the repeat elec- ,- .   - . !       P  ,-  #  !%  Minister Pralhad Joshi said all came to power in 2014, it has tionaries will be bound to (Administration) Where an tions in September. Modi visit-    party MPs from both Lok been consistently engaging its deposit the gifts they receive article has been in the Upahar ed Israel in July 2017, the first by Sabha and Rajya Sabha have MPs to spread words about var- from “domestic/unknown” Sangrahalay for more than two an Indian Prime Minister in 70 been divided in groups of 20- ious achievements of the gov- sources. These rules will apply years, it should be re-valued by years. During the historic visit, 25 MPs each. ernment and the welfare to every person appointed to a the Board before it is sold by the warmth between Modi and $     The Ministers will invite schemes begun by it. civil service or posts (including the Accounts Officer.” Netanyahu, also known as Bibi, them on dinners and will dis- After the tabling of the a civilian in Defence Service) in The proposal said the assis- was apparent. PTI cuss the Government’s working Union Budget also, the party’s connection with the affairs of tance of the a Scheduled Bank and its various welfare schemes, top brass had asked its MPs to the Union Government. would be necessary for dispos- he said. The first such meetings discuss its key initiatives with The proposal states that al of gold and diamond articles      were held at several Ministers’ locals in their respective con- that the officers should not and approval of the Board residence on Saturday, stituencies. The BJP had also accept any gift in case where should be obtained in cases he added. asked its MPs to carry out sanction of the Government is where it is proposed to sell arti- This exercise will not be ‘padyatra’ in their respective refused under the Central Civil cles at reduced price. It said arti- : 0$#! restricted to the periods during segments to inform voters Services (Conduct) Rules. In cles which are neither needed parliament sessions alone but about various welfare schemes case the gifts have been accept- for any presentation or dispos- would be continue on a month- of the Government. ed by the Government func- al should be sold by e-auction.   .$50$67( The leading manufacturer of infant milk substitutes and he Union Health Ministry infant foods has been found to Thas asked the Indian sponsor research in hospitals            Council of Medical Research namely Cloudnine Hospital, (ICMR) to probe into the alle- Bengaluru, Institute of Child gations against the Indian arm Health, Kolkata, Manipal   .$50$67( expects normal monsoon in acreage at only 223.5 lakh of Swiss food giant, Nestle, for Hospital, Bengaluru, Sir Ganga August and September due to hectare and pulses in 105.14 lakh allegedly sponsoring research Ram Hospital New Delhi, elayed and deficient mon- favourable weather conditions. hectare. As per the Agriculture in five Indian hospitals in vio- and Calcutta Medical Research Dsoon have raised concerns According to ICRA, nn Ministry’s latest ministry data, lation of a law that protects and Institute, Kolkata, as per over the outlook for agriculture terms of the major regions, rice — the main kharif crop — promotes breastfeeding. the BPNi. yields, food prices and rural sen- substantial deficit was record- has been planted in 223.53 lakh The move followed after an “On examining the ICMR timents. As per the Investment ed in the case of the South hectare so far in the current NGO Breastfeeding Promotion Clinical Trial Registry main- Information and Credit Rating Peninsula (19 per cent below kharif season of the 2019-20 Network of India (BPNI), tained by the ICMR, BPNI con- Agency (ICRA) report on LPA), as on July 31, 2019. crop year (July-June), down wrote to the Ministry com- firmed that Nestle India ‘South West Monsoon 2019- Moreover, the deficit stood at from 255.48 lakh hectare a year plaining that the Nestle had Limited, a producer of infant Update’, the overall volume of 11 per cent below LPA, 8 per ago. Sowing of kharif crops violated the infant milk sub- milk substitutes and infant rainfall during June-July 2019 cent below LPA and 5 per cent begin with the onset of south- stitutes, feeding bottles and The IMS Act bars financial foods, is sponsoring research,” was considerably below normal, below LPA, respectively, in the west monsoon and harvesting infant foods act, also known as inducements, pecuniary bene- said the BPNi letter. at 90.8 per cent of Long Period case of the North-East India, subdivisions received normal regions. Moreover, some dis- from October onwards. the IMS Act which prohibits fit, and funding of seminars, However, the Nestle Average (LPA), led primarily by North-West India and Central precipitation on a cumulative tricts in Assam and Bihar have Similarly, acreage of puls- direct and indirect sponsorship educational courses, contests, spokesperson said that the significant shortfall record- India. “As many as 14 subdivi- basis till July 31, 2019, where- reported heavy flooding in the es was down at 105.14 lakh of health workers by product fellowships or research for “Clinical study for the purpose ed in June 2019. Weak El Nino sions received deficient rainfall as three subdivisions recorded recent weeks which may also hectare as against 113.74 lakh manufacturers. health workers by companies of scientific information is not conditions over Pacific Ocean -- Gangetic West Bengal; excess rainfall,” it said. This is dampen the outlook of crop hectare, while that of coarse Nestle, however, has denied manufacturing baby products prohibited under the IMS Act. coupled with cyclone Vayu in Jharkhand; West Uttar Pradesh; likely to have an adverse impact output in these areas,” said cereals at 136.17 lakh hectare as the allegations stating that the listed under the IMS Act. The IMS Act does not dis- Arabian sea impeded the Uttarakhand; Haryana, on agricultural output and ICRA adding that temporal against 145.16 lakh hectare in trials were being conducted According to the BPNi courage or prohibit dissemina- progress. Chandigarh and Delhi; incomes in those regions. distribution has been the said period. after following all the norms. complaint, Nestle India Ltd is tion of scientific information.” While the India Himachal Pradesh; Odisha; Moreover, some districts in unfavourable with a low 26 per The coverage of oilseeds In a letter dated August 2, listed as the primary sponsor In a statement, the Meteorological Department Gujarat region; Saurashtra and Assam and Bihar have report- cent of instances of normal was also less so far as 149.49 lakh Health Secretary Preeti Sudan and source of monetary or spokesperson said the objective (IMD)’s latest data, India Kutch; Marathwada; Telangana; ed heavy flooding in the recent rainfall across the sub-divi- hectare was covered so far this instructed ICMR director gen- material support to five hospi- of the clinical study was to recorded 453.3 mm rainfall as Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and weeks, which may also damp- sions on a weekly basis. kharif season when compared eral Balram Bhargava to tals conducting the research encourage science-based against the normal of 489.3 Karaikal; South Interior en the outlook of crop output As per Agriculture with 157.39 lakh hectare a year “ensure that all trials in future titled “Multicentric research and all Institutional mm, a deficiency of 7 percent Karnataka; and Kerala and in these areas. Ministry’s latest data, area sown ago. Among cash crops, area are screened for any infringe- Observational Study to Ethics Committee approvals so far. As many as 12 sub divi- Mahe,” the ICRA said. “This is likely to have an to almost all kharif (summer) under sugarcane and jute ment of IMS Act”. ThePrint has Observe Growth in Preterm had been obtained from the sions are faced deficient rain- “Notwithstanding sub- adverse impact on agricultur- crops was lagging so far due to remained lower, while cotton seen a copy of the letter. hospitalized infants”. participating sites. fall across the country. IMD stantial weekly variation 19 al output and incomes in these deficit rains and floods, with rice acreage remained higher so far. ,-  '       .  / 0  )

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0    state Disaster Management For the fifth consecutive Authority (SDMA) said in a day, island villages under 1   23    Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Salman Taj Patil for taking constable, will also be probed,"   ' release. Devipatnam mandal of East Government on Sunday shunt- "one-sided decision" against he said. Power supply remained cut Godavari district remained in ed out the District Magistrate the villagers. He said another team will off while road and communi- darkness as power supply was -  4  and Superintendent of Police of Directives have been issued be set up under Additional Amaravati: The continuing cation network were badly cut off. Sonbhadra, besides ordering to attach Agrawal and Patil to Chief Secretary (Revenue) heavy flood in Godavari river damaged in the two districts, it Consequently, as many as    --/3( sen to stay indoors. However, action against 13 other officials the Department of Renuka Kumar to look into the affected over 74,000 people in said. 17,632 people were moved to people living in low-laying areas after they were indicted in an Appointment and Personnel issue of land grabbing by "fake" parts of East and West Godavari As per preliminary esti- relief camps where over 35,000 t least six persons were bore the maximum of the heavy inquiry into the killing of 10 and the DGP Headquarters, societies in the last 60-70 years districts in Andhra Pradesh mate, damage to roads and food packets have been dis- Akilled in rain-related inci- rains that battered the metrop- Gond tribals last month over a respectively, he said. in Mirzapur and Sonbhadra. on Sunday with nearly 18,000 other infrastructure was 6.45 tributed for them on Sunday dents in and elsewhere olis and adjoining areas. land dispute. S Ramalingam has been "Fake societies in of them being shifted to relief crore. afternoon, the release said. Maharashtra, even as the Indian While a slum dweller iden- Addressing a press confer- made the new District Sonbhadra and Mirzapur have camps, officials said. The heavy floods battered The Yedduvagu and Air Force (IAF) helicopters air- tified as one Mehaboob Mazar ence at his residence, Chief Magistrate of Sonbhadra, while grabbed more than one lakh A second warning signal at least six mandals in the two Siddaramvagu bridges in West lifted 58 people marooned in a Shaikh (20) was swept away in Minister Yogi Adityanath said Prabhakar Chaudhary is the acre of land. In 1972, then chief was issued at Sir Arthur Cotton districts with the impact more Godavari district remain sub- flooded village in Kalyan taluka swollen waters of a creek at FIRs have been registered new Superintendent of Police, minister Hemwati Nandan Barrage at Dowaleswaram as on East Godavari where 52,500 merged, cutting off trans- of Thane district and the NDRF Dharvi in north-central against against 28 people in this officials said. Bahuguna had constituted a water flow in the river, which people were affected, the portation to villages in the and the local fire brigade per- Mumbai, one Mala Bhumanna matter. Twelve primary mem- "The entire matter will be probe committee under has been in spate since last week SDMA said adding a total of region. sonnel rescued at least 850 Naagam (52) and her Sanket bers of Adarsh Krishi Sahkari probed by an SIT. The SIT will Mangaldev Visharad. However, following heavy monsoon rains, 21,568 were hit in West Rice (25 kg to each affect- stranded people from inundat- Bhumanna Naagam (26) were Samiti, Umbha, who are alive, be headed by DIG SIT J no action was taken as a num- crossed the 13 lakh cusecs Godavari. ed family), kerosene, edible oil, ed low-lying areas of Kurla and electrocuted in their home near will also be booked for grab- Ravindra Gaud, and will have ber of Congress leaders were mark on Sunday morning and In all, people in 280 villages potatoes and redgram daal have Santa Cruz in Mumbai and Raje Sambaji school at Santa bing gram sabha land. Additional SP Amrita Mishra involved," Adityanath said. almost the entire quantum was in both the districts were facing been supplied for the flood vic- Vasai taluka in Palghar district. Cruz’s Golibar Rao in north- The disputed land in along with three inspectors. "The Government has being let out into the Bay of the brunt of the flood fury, the tims in the two districts, the The skies opened up in west Mumbai. Umbha and Saphi villages also DG SIT R P Singh will be mon- formed a six-member team Bengal. authority said. SDMA release said. Mumbai and several parts of A 14-year-old boy –Pavan be transferred back and regis- itoring the work of the SIT," the which will probe into the land However, there were no The famous Goshpada In West Godavari, officials Maharashtra for the second Prajapati – was washed away in tered in the name of gram Chief Minister said. grabbed by fake societies in casualties reported and teams of Kshetram on the banks of organised 47 medical camps in consecutive day, inundating the flood waters at Mori village in sabha, he said, while announc- "Action has been initiated Mirzapur and Sonbhadra and the National Disaster Response Godavari at Kovvuru was inun- the flood-hit areas to prevent railway tracks at several places Vasai taluka of Palghar district. ing that a Special Investigation against eight gazetted officials, then using it for their person- Force and the State Disaster dated, following which temples outbreak of communicable dis- and low-lying areas across the Two persons from Pune – iden- Team (SIT) will look into the including the district magis- al use. The probe report will be Response Force reached out to here were closed. eases. metropolis and adjoining areas tified as Nitin Shelar, (37) and matter. trate, superintendent of police, submitted in three months' the affected areas with essential The water-level touched 29 State Panchayat Raj and thus affecting the suburban Vaishakh Nambiar (38) – Adityanath said depart- additional SP, three circle offi- time," he added. In July, 10 peo- supplies and food. metres at Polavaram dam con- Minister Peddireddi train services and road traffic. drowned at a waterfall in Satara mental proceedings have been cers, ARO co-operative and ple were killed and 28 injured All required measures have struction site, but all access to Ramachandra Reddy spoke to Being a Sunday, normal life in western Maharashtra. The initiated against Sonbhadra ARO (Revenue Department). in the clash after a village been taken by the Collectors of the project remained cut off as Collectors of the Godavari in Mumbai remained by and two deceased had gone for pic- District Magistrate Ankit Seven non-gazetted officials, headman and his supporters these two districts and the sit- the main approach Kademma districts and reviewed the sit- large unaffected as sizeable sec- nic along with others when the Kumar Agrawal and including three inspectors, one opened fire on a group of trib- uation was under control, the sluice bridge submerged. uation. PTI tions of Mumbaikars had cho- mishap took place. Superintendent of Police SI, two head constables and one als over a land dispute. PTI (              !&  ) 0   '        /  =,  P#"+!5+) " 6!*#&" ' Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala cial custody. Venkitaraman had (35), Bureau Chief of Patna: Bihar Chief Minister alumnus of the university, Prasad's RJD launching a bar- IAS officer Sriram allegedly driven the car in an Malayalam daily "Siraj" while he Nitish Kumar on Sunday referring to its centenary cel- rage of ridicule on the chief Venkitaraman, arrested after intoxicated state and knocked was riding a motorcycle in the lamented that his fervent ebrations held in October, minister. Bengaluru: Facing flak for decided to pay the penalty of Rs the car driven by him fatally down K Mohammed Basheer early hours of Saturday. PTI request for grant of central sta- 2017. "That was, however, a dif- presenting a basket of fruit 500," the mayor said in a state- knocked down a journalist, was tus to Patna University two At that programme two ferent occasion. Today we are wrapped with banned plastic to ment Saturday. on Sunday shifted to the years ago was dismissed by years ago, Kumar said, he had here to celebrate the centenary Karnataka Chief Minister B S The Mayor, however, "remand cell" in the '     Prime Minister Narendra repeatedly requested Modi, of the library of Patna Yediyurappa recently, the city pointed out that there was no Government Medical College Modi denying the institution who shared the dais with him, University," Kumar said recol- Mayor Gangambike clause in the rules for penalis- Hospital here from a private much needed help. "with folded hands" to consid- lecting that the vice president Mallikarjun has said she 'vol- ing those using plastic though health-care facility, police said.  .$      He said he is hopeful now er the demand for a central sta- was also present at that pro- untarily' paid a fine of 500 for there was such a provision Amid tight security and that the university will get its tus to the university. gramme as the chief guest. the violation. against traders. high drama, Venkitaraman, Alappuzha(Ker): Kerala PWD in IAS and IPS). They consid- due as Vice-President M "But my plea was turned Turning towards Naidu, After the photo of her pre- She also said there was a who got himself admitted to the Minister G Sudhakaran, er themselves as God. Venkaiah Naidu is present at down," Kumar said. whom Kumar has known since senting the basket went viral, proposal to impose fine on the private hospital soon after the known for making controver- They are human beings," the programme held to observe The prime minister, who the days they were cabinet Gangambike was criticised end users of plastic products accident on Saturday, was sial statements, on Sunday Sudhakaran told reporters the centenary of the library of had spoken afterwards, had colleagues in the Atal Bihari because there is already a ban and it would be incorporated in brought out in a stretcher with criticised IAS and IPS officials, here in response to queries the varsity. dismissed the request stating Vajpayee government, Kumar on plastic ban and several the law. a face mask and shifted to the saying there were many peo- regarding the accident involv- Later in his address, Naidu that the idea of granting cen- said, "Now that you are among traders in the city had been "In order to spread medical college hospital after ple like arrested IAS officer ing the civil service officer. said he would talk to Union tral status to universities had us, I hope something would be penalised in the past for stor- awareness among masses being produced before a mag- Sriram Venkitaraman in the Observing that one should HRD Minister Ramesh become obsolete and Patna done to give this university its ing and using the plastic prod- about the problems posed by istrate. civil service. not have a notion that the Pokhriyal and find out if mea- University would do better to due. The state government is ucts. polythene bags, I decided to The 33-year-old officer was Venkitaraman was arrest- character of a person would sures could be taken to accord avail of the opportunities at doing its bit. But had the "My photograph of gifting pay the penalty even before this seen lying motionless on the ed Saturday after a car he was improve if he cleared IAS central university status to it. hand given the government's Centre agreed to take it over, a basket of dry fruits wrapped clause is incorporated in the stretcher with his spectacles driving in an allegedly inebri- examination, the minister said, Had his request been thrust on making institutes of it would have made a world of with a plastic cover to the plastic ban bylaw," the mayor on. The IAS officer was shifted ated condition fatally knocked "It is only an exam." The IAS accepted two years ago, the higher learning world class. difference." chief minister went viral in the said. to the Government hospital down a journalist in officer, who was allegedly glory of the institute which was The development had The chief minister said social media. Gangambike rued that the after charges that "five star Thiruvananthapuram. drunk, rammed his car into a once considered "the greatest come barely a couple of Bihar is the land of scholars Being the first citizen of the plastic ban was in place since treatment" was being given to "I had said earlier also bike, killing K M Basheer, not just in the country, but the months after Kumar returned like Aryabhatta and Chanakya city, I did not wish to send 2016, yet it had not been effec- him in the private hospital, that there are similar type of bureau chief of a vernacular whole of Asia", could have to the NDA and it had led to ancient seats of learning like across a wrong message to the tive in curbing the polythene despite being remanded to judi- people (who drink and drive daily. PTI been restored, said Kumar, an opposition parties like Lalu Nalanda. PTI people of the city. Hence, I menace. PTI ' " "" !# ) !" "   O  @ %   7       ,!*,! " &          

   #   %#! Kochi: Experts from different The meet aims to recognise fish,Abdussamadsaid. The participants, including to put pressure on the  & #,  research institutes in the coun- micro-level ecological factors of Apart from El Nino, various  ! % %%) $  former Union Information Information Commissioners try would gather at the Central the ocean that influence the bio- oceanographic phenomena $   ! $! Commissioner Shailesh Gandhi directly so that people cannot Marine Fisheries Research logical cycle of oil sardine, said such as increase in the sea sur- M  !! N and activist Anjali Damania, exercise their right to infor- Banda: Irked by his wife cele- a complaint by his wife. Institute (CMFRI) here on E M Abdussamad, principal face temperature, upwelling and decided to go public and organ- mation,” Galgali said. brating passage of the anti-triple In her complaint, Mufeeda Tuesday to analyse the reasons scientist of the CMFRI. fluctuations in ocean produc-    --/3( ise a movement against the RTI AAP spokesperson Preeti talaq bill by the Rajya Sabha, a said her husband reached her for the fluctuating existence of He said recent investigation tivity are considered crucial amendment bill. Memon Sharma charged that Muslim man allegedly gave her home and "divorced" her oil sardine in the southern of the CMFRI had indicated factors affecting the life-cycle of ctivists and people from Gandhi said that the the amendment had been made instant triple talaq and expelled instantly pronouncing "talaq" Arabian sea. that climate change, especially oil sardine. Avarious walks of life on changes made in the original so that the Government could her from his house in Fatehpur thrice in front of her parents. The national-level sympo- El Nino-La Nina episodes, has A multi-disciplinary Sunday staged a protest against RTI Act without the necessity control the Information district near here, said police. The Parliament on July 30, sium would try to identify the a significant impact on the oil approach is essential to analyse the Right to Information were wrong and that the Commissioners by giving them "Mufeeda Khatun, a resi- had approved the bill that factors affecting this marine sardine. these aspects to generate a (Amendment) Bill, 2019 Bill Government was not giving post retirement benefits “In dent of Jigni village under makes instant triple talaq a species along the south-west Based on this, CMFRI had refined view on this enigmatic passed last month by both the “concrete answers” as to why it effect, the right to information Bindki police station celebrat- criminal offence, with the Rajya coasts and find ways and means issued an advisory that avail- fish species, he said. The sardine Houses of Parliament, a legis- had amended the Act. environment is being ed the successful passage of the Sabha passing the contentious to address the issue, a CMFRI ability of sardine from Kerala resource is highly susceptible to lation that empowers the Anjali Damania said that destroyed,” she said. anti-triple talaq bill in Rajya legislation. press release said here Sunday. coasts this year would decrease frequent and heavy fluctua- Union Government to fix after the amendment, “ the bat- Senior journalist Hemant Sabha. This angered her hus- Lok Sabha had passed the Experts working in the drastically depending on the tions, but specific causative tenures and the salaries of tles have started and now we Desai said that the Centre was band Shamsuddin who expelled Muslim Women (Protection of areas of climate change, intensity of El Nino. agents for this remain an enig- information commissioners. need to fight the battle at all resorting to politics using her from the house on August Rights on Marriage) Bill last oceanography, fishery biology The collapse experiencing ma to the researchers, fisher- At a meeting held the Air levels”. RTI activist Anil Galgali Enforcement Directorate and 3 after giving hr instant triple week. With the Rajya Sabha also and socio-economics would today endorses the CMFRI men and managers, he said, India Modern School of Kalina said that the government made CBI, while another journalist talaq," said Bindki's Circle approving it, the practice of engage in a panel discussion to findings. However, micro-level adding that the discussion on a in north Mumbai, the partici- changes in the Constitution by Ravindra Ambekar said that it Officer Abhishek Tiwari on instant divorce by Muslim men set a way for the future course analysis is required to identify multi-disciplinary approach pants adopted a resolution to ignoring the provisions and was wrong to expect anything Sunday. has been rendered punishable of research on fluctuating trend how various oceanographic and would lead to a better under- fight against the RTI amend- rules. “The government is a from the politicians by the The police have registered with a jail term of up to three of oil sardine on a multi-disci- climatic parameters affect the standing of the reasons behind ment "at all levels". conducting a new experiment people. a case against Shamsuddin on years. PTI plinary platform. biology of the the situation. PTI $>   .   ,     -  Madurai: Days after a food vis- delicacy, unlike many other Several local people laud- halal." a-vis religion wrangle involving towns of Tamil Nadu and fur- ed the hotel for its initiative and Preferring only halal meat food aggregator Zomato,a ther linking it to a communi- said it was a step in the right is "my right, faith and choice restaurant here has kicked up ty that was tied to vegetarian direction. and this cannot be linking reli- a row by naming a chicken del- food has exposed their inten- When contacted on the gion to food," he said. icacy after 'Iyers', a Brahmin tions, he said. twin issues, Vice President of "There is a right to religion caste,while another hotel in On a Pudukottai hotel say- the Tamil Nadu Thowheed in food, only thrusting religion Tamil Nadu won support by ing it won't serve anyone who Jamath, Abdul Rahman, said on matters related to food is not announcing it will not serve linked food to religion, he linking the Brahmin commu- correct. No one can dictate those who link food to religion. asked "what about the demand nity to a non-vegetarian deli- what the other person should Though the restaurant here for halal tagged food..?, please cacy was a wrong step. eat and must not eat." has apologised for naming a tell me if this is not an attempt "Knowing fully well that Asked about the dish as "Kumbakonam Iyer to link religion to food?" Iyers do not eat non-vegetari- Pudukottai hotel's new slogan Chicken," it has raised ques- Also, he wondered why an, if you name a non-vege- he said, "I don't know its inten- tions on the reasons behind it that hotel came up with this tarian dish after them, what tion, but this appears to be and a Hindu outfit alleged that slogan now and not before the does it mean ?" he asked, aimed at promoting and sup- Jaipur: The bodies of a man and Netata village, he said. "cheap publicity" was a key dri- Zomato episode. adding nothing should be done porting harmony." a woman were found hanging They were missing since last ving factor. of Tamil Brahmins. alleged the labelling was noth- The hotel at Pudukottai, to hurt the sentiments of any Zomato had on July 24 from a tree in a village farm in Thursday, he said, adding that The hotel tendered an The town is popular for its ing but a cheap publicity stunt. about 110 kilometers from caste, community or religion. refused to resolve the com- Amer area here on Sunday, both were married to someone apology and removed the pro- distinct coffee flavour and the "You are hurting them and here, has put up a board saying On the claim that the plaint of a customer about police said. else and had children. motional content on social generic term "Kumbakonam you are playing with their sen- "No food to those who look at demand for halal tagged food being assigned a Muslim deliv- It appears to be a case of Priyanka's husband had media after Brahmin associa- Coffee" is used by many hotels timents and this may incite religion (in food)., food has no was linked to religion, he said: ery executive for his food order. suicide, however, no note was lodged a complaint against tions and Hindu outfits strong- to mean the authentic taste of trouble, which is completely religion." "We say the name of God, it is "Food doesn't have a reli- recovered from the bodies, Sub- Hanuman for running away ly protested against it. the region, a favourite beverage avoidable. This is a cheap pub- Also the hotel condemned a prayer and then the meat is gion. It is a religion," the com- Inspector, Amer Police Station, with his wife, the officer said. Kumbakonam is a town in among Brahmins of the dis- licity stunt," he told PTI. what it called "bigots," who cut properly to drain out the pany had tweeted in response Mahesh Chandra said. The bodies were handed Thanjavur district, the hub of trict. Choosing the town's name, chose to link food to religion blood and make it clean and fit to the customer's request for The deceased were identi- over to family members after the Cauvery delta in Tamil Hindu Tamizhar Katchi which is not very popular for on the background of the for consumption...This is a sci- change of the rider as he was a fied as Hanuman Meena (30), post-mortem and further inves- Nadu, with a sizable population leader Rama Ravikumar any specific non-vegetarian Zomato controversy. entific method and this is 'non-Hindu'. and Priyanka Meena (24), of tigation is on, he added. PTI   !"#$%   %9

5 ' !) # )#)"!"0&) ) &   - .!     8  "! # 4,0 . '*+) )'(!+  3   Mumbai: Mumbai Congress away from the procedure to pick Lucknow: The condition of the chief Milind Deora on Sunday the new Congress chief, we Guwahati: Expressing concern Unnao rape victim who was proposed the names of Sachin must respect his decision," over pendency of cases, Chief critically injured along with her Pilot and Jyotiraditya Scindia for Deora added. Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi lawyer after their car was hit by the post of party's national pres- When asked if the Congress said on Sunday that more than a truck in Rae Bareli on July 28 ident. will accept a non-Gandhi as the two lakh cases are in courts for is stable, doctors attending to Deora told PTI he agreed party chief, the former Lok 25 years, while over 1,000 cases her at a hospital here said on with Punjab Chief Minister Sabha MP said the contribution have not been disposed of even Sunday. Amarinder Singh that the new of the Nehru-Gandhi family to Hyderabad: At least 12 people, after five decades. King George's Medical Congress president should be the party was unmatched. including some women died Speaking at a public func- University Trauma Centre in- young, capable and possess elec- "We are standing at such a and four others were injured tion here, Justice Gogoi said charge Dr Sandeep Tiwari said, toral, administrative and organ- regarding the new president, crucial juncture in history that after the three-wheeler in though the judiciary faces crit- "The condition of both the isational experience, and a pan Deora said Congress must we have to depart from con- which they were travelling was icism for the huge number of Unnao rape survivor and her India appeal. respect the faith 13 crore voters ventional political routes. It is hit by a lorry in Mahabubnagar pending cases, it is not entirely lawyer is stable." "In my view, Sachin Pilot have reposed in the party by tak- their (Nehru-Gandhi family) district on Sunday, police said. responsible for the delay as the Yesterday, the rape victim and Jyotiraditya Scindia have all ing decisive steps. decision to stay out of the lead- The incident happened executive also has some respon- had developed pneumonia. these qualities and can provide "It is high time we, as a party, ership race and we must respect atKottapalli village in Midjil sibility in the justice delivery  -   -  +1        Because of pneumonia, strength to the organisation and made a collective call on our it," he said. mandal of the district when the mechanism.      1  <    1      she has fever and is also being vigour to the opposition space," leadership. In my opinion, we On general secretary lorry rammed into the over "In India, we have a little given medication to control he said. need to put our best foot for- Priyanka Gandhi's possible can- crowded three-wheeler vehicle over one thousand 50-year-old pending criminal cases, about 45 judges. This is my dream. It her blood pressure. She is He added that he was ward, enthuse the cadre and didature for the top job, Deora coming from opposite direc- cases and above two lakh 25- lakh are petty offences. should be carried out by my suc- being given oxygen through a "unequivocally ruling myself once again attract the attention said, "Priyanka Gandhi is excep- tion, they said. year-old cases," he said. Justice Gogoi said he had cessor Chief Justice (of India) tube inserted in the windpipe, out" adding that "I know my of the electorate," he said. tionally talented. It is the fami- The deceased were labour- The CJI said, out of about 90 addressed the chief justices of and I don't see why he cannot Tiwari said on Saturday. strengths and capabilities and I He said the delay in electing ly's decision to not be involved ers and were returning home, lakh pending civil cases, more various high courts on July 10, change the face of Indian judi- He stressed that KGMU is am willing to work with anyone a new congress chief was hurt- with the office of the Congress police said adding the vehicle than 20 lakh are at a stage during which he requested them ciary," Justice Gogoi said. fully equipped to provide best in the best interest of our party". ing the party. president. We must respect this was at least carrying 16 in it where summons have not been to "go after" the 50-year-old and On the trial courts, the CJI treatment to the two patients. Deora said Pilot or Scindia "India's single largest oppo- and move on." when the incident happened. served yet. those pending for 25 years. said already around 4,000 posts She and her lawyer suf- should be made interim presi- sition party has a huge respon- When asked if the leader- Telangana Chief Minister "This is about 23 per cent of He instructed Gauhati High have been filled of 6,000 vacan- fered critical injuries in the dent at least, and be publicly sibility towards strengthening ship vacuum hurt the Congress K Chandrasekhar Rao the civil cases in the country. In Court acting Chief Justice Arup cies and 1,500 more will be filled truck-car crash; her two aunts backed by the Gandhi family. the world's largest democracy," in Karnataka and Goa, Deora expressed shock over the road criminal cases, the figure is Kumar Goswami to clear such up by the end of this year. were killed. One of the aunts "Unless of course, the he said. Speaking about the said many of these events could accident. worse. Out of 2.10 crore (pend- long pending cases in Assam as "As far as the high courts are was a witness to the rape of the Gandhi family disagrees with upcoming assembly polls in have been avoided if the party Rao conveyed his heartfelt ing) criminal cases, the total soon as possible. concerned, out of 1,079 posts all woman in 2017 when she was my assessment," he added. some states, including had a strong and decisive cen- sympathies to the family mem- pendency at the summoning He also expressed hope that over the country, 403 are vacant. a minor. To a query on what if the Maharashtra, Deora said, "We tral leadership. "We do not have bers and instructed the officials stage is over a crore. the Centre will accept his pro- I have requested the chief justices The victim and her lawyer party decided on someone other have crucial elections coming up the luxury of time," Deora said concerned to offer best medical "If summons have not been posal to raise the retirement age (of the high courts) to send their are under round-the-clock than the two, he said, "If the in October and further delay can about the need for the Congress facilities to the injured, an offi- served, how do my judges start of high court judges to 65 years recommendations.... Make good observation, doctors said. party collectively decides on impact our prospects adversely." to act fast. Responding to a cial release said. the trial? This is my question to from the current 62. recommendations," he said. The Supreme Court someone else, I will respect its On Rahul Gandhi's s deci- question on whether he Meanwhile, a group of peo- the executive. The responsibili- "The immediate result - In Assam and other North will pass orders on Monday wisdom. But I will be surprised sion to quit, Deora said it was favoured polls for the post of ple including family members ty of summoning solely lies there will be a freeze of retire- East states, there is no case whether the woman should if the party or public disagrees unfortunate and added that the Congress president, Deora said and relatives of the deceased with the executive arm of the ment for three years. In these which is 50 years old, but there be moved to AIIMS hospital with my assessment." Congress leader did his best for a call on this would have to be staged a protest demanding jus- government," Justice Gogoi said. three years, we can try and fill are 106 cases which are pending in Delhi for better Responding to a question the party. taken by the party's working tice, including a compensation He said out of the total up the 403 vacancies by good for 25 years, Gogoi said. PTI treatment. PTI on the party's indecisiveness "If he has decided to stay committee (CWC). PTI for those killed. PTI ,-  .          !,   O  @ .           486433 Apparently advised by elec- strategy is full of possibilities for Chennai: A police complaint well known television face of the tion strategist Prashant Kishor the Government to perform has been lodged by a BJP BJP in debates, said in his plea ithin days of Bengal Chief — who is professionally direct- but on the other hand if this is spokesperson against Bishop that Sargunam's remarks were WMinister Mamata ing the Trinamool Congress not handled and followed up Ezra Sargunam for his alleged being circulated in the social Banerjee launching her public and Banerjee’s image-makeover scrupulously then you are in for provocative and abusive remarks media and sought action. relation portals “Didi ke Bolo” drill — the TMC supremo had trouble as it will not take long for against Prime Minister His online complaint was (Tell Didi) and “Amar Gorbo after much trumpet blast the popular faith in you to die Narendra Modi in a Tamil news registered in the Abiramapuram Mamata” (Mamata My Pride) in launched the portal Didi ke down,” he said advising the channel's digital platform. Police Station on Sunday and a an apparent bid to assuage pop- Bolo.com and a helpline where Chief Minister to take care of the The Bishop, a well known receipt with acknowledgement ular feeling by reaching out to the people were asked to regis- follow-up exercise. evangelist of the Evangelical number was given under the the masses, one of her key ter their complaints to enable the “I will request the Chief Church of India, made the Community Service Register Ministers Subroto Mukherjee on Chief Minister to directly inter- Minister to take up and follow remarks in an interview of him (CSR). The crux of Sargunam's Sunday said things could vene and solve their problems. up each and every case to redress by Cauvery News's digital plat- allegation in the interview boomerang if not followed up In fact the nodal office at the them otherwise things may form which was streamed a appeared to reflect accusations scrupulously. State secretariat Nabanna, had boomerang,” the Minister said. few days ago. Prime Minister Modi faced Mukherjee a senior leader received humungous response Mukherjee is credited with In his complaint, Narayanan about a decade ago when he was known for not speaking out of from the masses with thousands bringing Banerjee, a firebrand Tirupathi, BJP's Tamil Nadu the Gujarat Chief Minister. turn and sans insinuations said of complaints pouring in since young leader into the Congress unit spokesperson, detailed the When the anchor pointed “Didi ke Bolo is a good gesture the launch of Didi ke Bolo. and fetching her a ticket to con- allegations made by Sargunam out that none of the allegations to reach out to the masses and “A complaint not reaching test her first parliamentary elec- and sought the Bishop's arrest against Modi were proven in a address popular issues but at the the Chief Minister is one thing tions from Jadavpur con- and prosecution under IPC 504 court of law, the evangelist in same time it is a risky move too and the issue officially reaching stituency whence she defeated (intentional insult with intent to his repartee used a particular because if you do not follow up her but not getting redressed the Marxist heavyweight provoke breach of the peace). word which is also seen as and redress popular grievances immediately is another" said Somnath Chatterjee to enter A             -    The senior functionary, a untenable. 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+  .     Q  <           addressed by fans, would be lowers to work tirelessly for Pradeep Ranganathan and     / &7$..3( ready with the party and making him the Chief actor Jayam Ravi. By Sunday plans in time for the next Minister while they them- morning, the trailer drew a Barpeta (Assam): Three suspected he Tamil chauvinists in Assembly election scheduled selves should not aspire for viewership of over one mil- Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party will hold a Day-long members of the Jamaat-ul- TTamil Nadu film industry for 2021. But the DMK and anything. It is an open secret lion. protest across the state on August 9 to highlight the Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were has chosen an innovative style other outfits are not that nothing would be print- There is a big fight among alleged "poor law and order" situation in the State. arrested from different parts of to lampoon superstar humoured by the moves of ed in Murasoli without the starts of the Tamil film indus- The party workers will be staging demonstrations Barpeta district, police said on Rajinikanth’s political dreams. Rajinikanth. An unsigned concurrence of party chief try to grab the political space all over the state on August 9 in which all party MPs, Sunday. While Kamal Haassan, the article published in ‘Murasoli’, MK Stalin. vacated by J Jayalalithaa, the MLAs and office bearers of its different wings will be Police nabbed two sleeper cell other superstar, who tried to the DMK’s mouthpiece in The latest attack on former Chief Minister, who participating, said SP national spokesperson Rajendra members and one linkman of JMB break into the world of poli- October 2018 had lambasted Rajinikanth is a film Comali breathed her last in 2016. Chaudhary. on Saturday night, a senior officer tics with an outfit named and lampooned Rajinikanth (Tamil for Joker) which por- Vishal and Joseph Vijay are "There is complete jungle raj in the state. In every said. Makkal Neethi Maiam had to for his political dreams. trays the political dreams the ones in contention for the district, there has been a spurt in the crime graph. The The three have been identified as make a hasty retreat following The article was in hilariously of the protago- chair while there are others SP workers are being targeted in every district. The Mustafizur Rahman (25), Shafiqul the drubbing he received in response to Rajinikanth's let- nist who was in coma for 16 too waiting in the sidelines to BJP leaders are giving patronage to criminal elements Islam (29) and Danesh Ali. They were Last week, four more suspected the Lok Sabha election held ter to his fans and followers years. Though the movie try their luck. Interestingly, in the state," said Chaudhary in a statement. produced before a court which sent jihadis were arrested from different on April 2019, Rajinikanth that those who are after power maker, a staunch Dravidian Stalin and other Dravidian The statement listed a series of demands, includ- them to eight days police remand. parts of Barpeta and adjoining has not yet announced the and wealth would not have activist, is silent about the nationalists are silent over ing the shifting of the Unnao's woman rape accused Barpeta Superintendent of Police Chirang districts. name of the party he propos- any place in his scheme of character, the teaser of the the entry of film actors born and BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar to a jail outside Robin Kumar said Rahman and They were identified as Hafizur es to launch. things. The Murasoli article movie released on Saturday in Tamil Nadu while they are the state, allocation of land to tribals of Umbha vil- Islam are trained JMB cadres, while Rahman, Yakub Ali, Sariful Islam and What is known is that asked how was it possible for makes it clear that Rajnikanth opposed to any kind of polit- lage in Sonbhadra district and entering their names Ali is the linkmen of all jihadi activ- Hanif Ali. They were arrested for “Thalaivar”, as Rajinikanth is Rajinikanth to expect his fol- is the target of director ical move by Rajnikanth. in revenue records. PTI ities in the district. jihadi activities, police said. PTI  8 9        : 

Siliguri (WB): The vicious "Since there is a huge Bangladesh. cattle smuggling besides it is an talks between the BSF and the tackle the menace. cycle of cross-border cattle demand for cattle in "A cattle smuggler becomes easy earning of all the stake- BGB were concluded in Dhaka Brigadier Jalal Gani, smuggling along the India- Bangladesh, smugglers never a trader once he is in holders in the entire chain. during which it was mutually Commander of the North West Bangladesh border has snow- lose a single chance to cross Bangladesh and pays taka 500 "The price difference is decided to enhance coopera- Region, Bangladesh, said that balled into a major challenge over to the neighbouring coun- per animal as Customs duty such that it is a profitable trade tion to better check crime and smugglers are poor people who for the BSF which always try where they earn easy after smuggling of cattle from even if a cattle is auctioned smuggling of cattle and nar- indulge in the illegal activity remains on the receiving end. money. The demand and sup- India," he said. thrice," the official said. Porus cotics across the 4,096 km just to sustain themselves and On July 11, a BSF soldier ply chain has to be broken," the Bangladesh generates border and unfenced gaps are frontier shared by the neigh- not to lead a lavish lifestyle. lost his hand and suffered seri- official said, adding that these income at three stages from this favourable conditions for the bours. The BGB, however, has "Regarding the killing of ous injuries in a bomb attack by criminals often open fire at the vicious cycle of cattle smug- smugglers. accepted that cross-border smugglers by the BSF, this is Bangladeshi cattle smugglers BSF, killing or injuring the gling. Smuggling of cattle, drugs smuggling cannot be stopped our request that we should fol- along the India-Bangladesh officials deployed at the border. First, they get revenue at and narcotics, leather, arms completely at the Indo-Bangla low the law of the land. Killing border in West Bengal. According to officials, tens the entry of the animal in and ammunition has been a frontier as it sought greater is not the solution," the com- According to an official of thousands of cattle are esti- Bangladesh, second in meat major challenge for the Border cooperation from the BSF to mander said. PTI who spoke on the condition of mated to be smuggled to water currents are favourable the animals to the other side of export and third is the indus- Security Force (BSF) and the anonymity, cattle smugglers Bangladesh annually through for the smugglers who prefer the border where their accom- tries related to it like textile. Border Guard Bangladesh from India are treated as the porous India-Bangladesh sending the cattle after sunset plices wait for the livestock. The factors contributing to (BGB) — the border guarding traders once they cross over to border in West Bengal. to avoid detection. The demand for cattle in cattle smuggling include the forces of the two countries. Bangladesh. Floating banana stems are As per the modus operan- Bangladesh is always high and supply and demand chain, Since it is a source of "All these smugglers need hugely popular for illegally di, the smugglers place the it peaks ahead of Eid festivities. unabated movement of cattle income for the government of to do is to furnish taka 500 per sending cows, oxen and buf- heads of the bovines between The official said that from hinterland to border Bangladesh, the BSF does not animal to the officials in faloes across the border into two strong banana stems and Bangladesh does not treat cat- areas. get any support from the BGB Bangladesh afterwards they Bangladesh using the flow of tie them together before they tle smuggling from India as a The implementation of to stop cattle smuggling. are free to sell it to whoever river. are pushed in the deep water, crime as cattle trade is a legal non-lethal strategy by the BSF Last month, the 48th bi- they wish," he said. 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According to the Economic graver food crisis looms on the hoods across India, jointly con- Government has identified 1,592 under irrigation,” says Dr                    P( Survey 2017-18, farmers without access to irri- horizon because when irrigation ducted by the National Council blocks in 256 districts facing Biksham Gujja, former head of  (  Q              gation lose nearly 14 per cent of their income wells go dry, farmers use untreat- of Applied Economic Research acute water scarcity and over- water policy at WWF-    because of rainfall shocks. And among those, ed wastewater laced with indus- (NCAER) and University of exploitation of groundwater as International and founder of who are able to irrigate their fields, 62 per cent trial chemicals and human Maryland, the US, in 2004-05 prospective locations for rainwa- AgSri, a private organisation ;            >          = rely exclusively on groundwater. Since ground- sewage for watering their food and 2011-12. IHDS found that ter harvesting and water conser- promoting sustainable agricul-   " 2             $ water is replenished only through rain seep- crops, which eventually find only 44 per cent households had vation in the first phase. ture and water resources man-      D                ing into the ground, the vagaries of the mon- their way into our kitchens. It is access to piped water, with the fig- Other initiatives, including agement. He argues that the Jal soon lead to a vicious cycle of drought-rid- obvious that India is sitting on a ure going up by merely four per renovation and re-use of tradi- Shakti Ministry should instead            7 9    den fields and rapidly depleting aquifers across potential “water” bomb threaten- cent between 2004 and 2012. The tional water bodies and water- focus on developing tools and                   E 7    the country, with the depth of access to ing public health by unleashing IHDS findings also show a sub- shed development, are slated for technology for efficient hydro-                        ( groundwater plunging from 7.5 m in 1998 to a spectre of diseases among its stantial decline in the duration of the next phase. The Union logical management. 9.2 m in 2018. over-populated and under- water availability — from 5.3 per Budget 2019-20 also allocated On an optimistic note,      0              ( A 2012 World Bank report on ground- resourced habitations. cent in 2003-04 to 3.8 per cent in 9,150.36 crore for the National India’s relatively wet climate,     @F     @A5             water exploitation in India asserted that the How did India, venerated as 2011-12 — for households with Rural Drinking Water even in the most arid regions,                0       ( country recorded the highest dependence on a land of rivers and holy waters piped water in metro cities. Programme, marking a massive offers hope even in today’s water from aquifers globally. While 90 per cent since primordial times, achieve Consequently, households with- increase of 69 per cent over the dire situation. What is needed                    of this groundwater is used for irrigation, the this disconcerting status of a out indoor water sources spend allocation of 5,391.32 crore in is efficient and wider imple-      (             ( remainder is used to supply drinking water. nation riddled with water defi- precious time collecting water at 2018-19. mentation of programmes for            9       ( Highlighting over-exploitation of 29 per ciency and toxicity? “After 1990, an average of 80 minutes per day, Water conservationists and rainwater harvesting, develop- cent of groundwater blocks, the report pre- cities in India have grown rapid- extending to even three hours for experts are, however, not ment of water storage bodies         (            0  ( dicted a 60 per cent rise in this figure in 20 ly but without considering where about 10 per cent of these house- impressed, dismissing the Budget like ponds and reservoirs, pro-         7             years, with serious implications for agricul- the resources are coming from”, holds. How will the economy provisions as a “pipe dream”. motion of water re-use and      1:$S          tural sustainability, food security and econom- says Samrat Basak, Director of counter this time burden and Raman VR, Head of Policy at the recycling and better filtration ic growth. the World Resource Institution huge opportunity cost? NGO WaterAidIndia, posits that techniques for de-contaminat-  0                   ( However, the crisis is almost upon us (WRI) India’s Urban Water Compelled to take cogni- in 2017, the Ministry of Drinking ing potable water, across the        1           ( much before the World Bank’s deadline. In Programme. Reflecting on the sance of the water crisis, the Water and Sanitation itself esti- country. And these solutions                 June 2018, the NITI Aayog had predicted that social impact of the water crisis, Government decided to prioritise mated the need for 500,000 need to be enforced now — the the demand for potable water would com- VK Madhavan, Chief Executive water management in the latest crore for providing piped drink- time for long-term planning         1             ( pletely outstrip supply by 2030 in the absence of the non-profit WaterAid India, Union Budget, to ensure provi- ing water to all households. Even has run out!                   of any urgent action. Even more alarmingly, contends that soon young girls, sion of potable water throughout if States contribute half this Coleridge’s hapless mariner                 21 cities, including Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai especially in rural areas, might the country by 2024 under the amount, the annual requirement survived the challenges at sea, and Hyderabad,would run out of groundwa- start dropping out of school en proposed “Har Ghar Jal” scheme. till 2024 would be over 60,000 presumably finding clean water ter as early as 2020, affecting 100 million peo- masse to help their families fetch Union Finance Minister Nirmala crore, to cover hardware, human at the end of his ordeal. But will ple and leading to an estimated six per cent water from increasingly remote Sitharaman also announced the resources, infrastructural, oper- the rising tide of India’s popula- =   loss in GDP by 2050. water access points. 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In fact, it is a symptom of a much bigger       8         malaise — a rapidly evolving technology ecosystem with disparate and reactive attempts            ( at accountability and regulation.   ?          "      The reason why Governments around the   #         world and industries have become so con- # P Q    -     ( cerned about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in gen- 0     .    #      eral is because it presents vast economic and 7              social opportunities. AI systems (ie, comput-      8       ( er science that emphasises on the development         P Q      of intelligent machines to mimic certain fea-              tures of the human brain) have improved   #               mobility, fostered greater information-sharing                  culture and are fundamental to many functions and businesses today, including LinkedIn,     social media firms, search engine functions and                ( cab aggregators like Uber. However, with an                increase in the use of AI, multiple issues of    #              trust, privacy, bias, market dominance and   +             security have also arisen.                 #  On the issue of algorithmic bias itself,                 Chandrasekhar is right to the extent that var-                 ious technology companies have skirted these                 issues in the past and have been criticised for      7        being politically influenced or for using tech- nologies in a manner that is sometimes              ( beyond their control or are driven by hidden to consider and experiment with innovative their commitment to achieving “Trustworthy to control and correct for such bias in the     #          ( motives — often both. Further, due to price models so as to ensure that the economic gains, AI.” Most importantly, the EU guidelines deployment of any technology, including AI,              efficiencies and immediate benefits like lower social influence and security impact of AI is identified core ethical imperatives such as pre- or at the very least, opens our minds to the pos- $     (       prices and convenience benefits to consumers, positive for all. Thus, engaging and bringing vention of harm, respect for human autono- sibilities of over-reliance on such AI.                ( people tend to be “present biased” and are more all relevant stakeholders into the conversation my, fairness and explicability. Further, any regulation on AI will need to                  than willing to trade off future benefits (say pri- — academia, policy-makers and the wider Therefore, in India, before attempting to begin with the establishment of foundational      0           ( vacy or stronger redressal mechanisms among community — will be crucial to assessing the craft laws and regulations, officials and the concepts and building on the existing frame-                  other things) for present gratification (like challenges that lie ahead. public alike need to better understand in gen- works of law and governance before we move          0      lower prices and convenience). In this context, understandably, various eral the effect of AI and the impact of deploy- on to ethical and other challenges that may go               This common cognitive bias results in a Governments around the world, as also inter- ing its uses on individuals and the society in beyond the framework of the law. tendency to overestimate immediate utility and national organisations, have begun to weigh in general, while establishing clear policy objec- Policy will then need to take into account             discount future or invisible harms that may on the issues of regulating certain technology tives and governing principles. More impor- the scope of deployment of AI and the impact 0               accrue to communities later, much like the fall- companies and their use of AI. In India, con- tantly, policy discussions need to clarify the dif- of such deployment. In the clamour to regu- 1 S    /       ( outs of climate change or the impact Facebook versations around regulating AI and technol- ference or lack thereof between regulating tech- late technology companies, it must not be for-         0        ( on the 2016 US elections, or the impact on civil ogy companies have been conflated and there nology companies deploying AI unethically, gotten that there are differences in various       7        liberties, attributable to predictive technolo- is no clarity as to how this can be achieved. and behind regulating all kinds of AI indis- firms deploying AI and its varied uses. For         7          gy used for policing and facial recognition Further, discussions around technology regu- criminately. instance, there is a difference between AI used "                applications. Notably, allegations of AI lation in general have been scattered across reg- Further, regulations in this space need to on an OTT platform to present viewers with     ;               ( entrenching bias and discrimination are not ulators (depending on specific subject matter) be grounded on core principles of data priva- choices of certain kinds of movies over others                 limited to technology companies, they extend and are bereft of guiding principles, unlike cy, security, consumer safety, ethics and fair- and the one used to filter or moderate con-  +G? G                to Governments and State authorities as well. what has been done in several other countries. ness. It is instructive to note that at present, tent on a big social media platform that can Take the example of the discriminatory out- For instance, in Australia, following the there is no cogent and comprehensive data pri- lead to real world violence.                   comes of using AI in the US criminal justice release of a White paper on the governance of vacy law in India. Simultaneously, it must also A governance framework that does not #                ( system and for policing in Australia. AI by the Australian Human Rights be noted that the potential impact of certain engage in the nuances of technological uses and               Thus, there have been rising and com- Commission earlier this year, another kinds of AI, including on other human rights, the different kinds of biases — which exist in               pelling reasons to regulate technology firms, Australian federal Government agency, respon- goes beyond privacy, and impacts future of the offline and online world, in our thinking                 # particularly those, who rely on discriminato- sible for scientific research (CSIRO), released work and innovation, decision-making, and and in the software we build, in power struc-              ry and biased AI outcomes. However, adopt- a discussion paper on AI and ethics, propos- has a profound impact on our democractic tures and differing incentives, in our             #      ing the right governance framework is becom- ing a toolkit to assist stakeholders in applying processes and institutions. Governments and businesses — can be both          P Q $     ing increasingly difficult, both because AI tech- eight core principles. Similarly, in Europe, the In this context, it is crucial to remember misleading and misguided. In correcting for                    nologies are becoming more complex and are EU High-Level Expert Group comprising 52 that any meaningful policy discussion around discrimination and bias, unless we militate        #        being applied in a variety of different contexts experts on AI, including representatives from the regulation of AI and algorithmic bias in against absolute and simplistic understandings — from helping in procedural vetting of doc- academia, civil society and industry, recently India will first need to start by acknowledg- of technology and on drafting laws without 0              #  uments to content moderation. They present published its Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy ing that core socio-economic issues and bias- consulting the wider community, a law regu-                  twin capacities for enormous social develop- AI, following stakeholder consultation on es cannot be cured by technological advance- lating algorithmic bias may be more harmful            = ment and harm, often together. Therefore, draft guidelines. The EU guidelines were not ments. Acknowledging the inherent bias in our to the innovation ecosystem in India than no            before rushing to draft a law to “regulate algo- binding, but nevertheless offered stakeholders sociological understanding of the world, in our law at all. rithmic bias” in India, the need of the hour is a set of guiding principles to follow to indicate databases and existing jurisprudence, allows us (The writer is fellow at the Esya Centre)  ''    GvG„tyq„‰qˆ‘†‰qˆu ˆuq‚‚•s ƒ†uu“yxxuyˆs ‘„uˆ†qˆ‰y„xutu’u‚ †utus „ ƒyu‰xu•„uutƒ ˆu‰uqƒ‚u‰‰qssu‰‰  ƒqˆu‰qrˆ qtuq‰yuˆu„ˆ• s‘‰ ƒuˆrq‰uq„tqˆ ‘u sq†yq‚q„tƒu„ ˆ‰xy†

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The late stay relevant in the global markets ing platform, Cleartrip, and the craft their own channels to attract cus- property launch events in regions panies and academic institutions. could be a designated Trade Cell, 1980s saw the birth of IT companies, cape, they need to develop a busi- beer brand, Bira 91, are a few other tomers and build brand image. Big with a high volume of NRI diaspo- Innovations need to focus on soci- which is funded by the Government some of whom went on to become ness plan with an eye for other glob- companies that have successfully data can be mined to create ra. They can tie up with foreign mar- etal problems such as healthcare, and has the sole mandate of help- giants on the global economic map al markets, targetting countries expanded their operational base. detailed purchase records of trav- keting agencies to reach out to education, transportation, sanita- ing start-ups and SMEs to gain a after the IT revolution. 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0   ?@A4 ",=B  1      .$50$67(   he country will need to grow Tby 9 per cent every year for (1      five years continuously and raise aggregate investment rate to 38    ' ' per cent of GDP to achieve   .$50$67( ket where telecom prices are set Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s at very low levels and popula- target of turning India into a $5 ndustry body CII on Sunday tion is high. Instead, the CII trillion economy, Ernst & Young  6 >   8 ; Iurged the government to recommended use of dol- (EY) has said. lower the base price for 5G lar/MHz/revenue or In its latest edition of   .$50$67( is estimated to grow at 7 per spectrum, saying the high price dollar/MHz/GDP as a metric Economy Watch, EY said cent in 2019 and 7.2 per cent of such radiowaves will halt for comparing spectrum price assuming India grows by pro- he current slowdown in in 2020. The Asian accelerated growth of the sec- across markets. jected 7 per cent in the current Tthe Indian economy is Development Bank had also tor and deter adoption of tele- “The population level of fiscal year ending March 31, cyclical and growth will pick up lowered India’s GDP growth com services by the masses. the country does not translate 2020, the size of the economy in one or two years, former RBI forecast to 7 per cent for the The Confederation of Indian into proportionate revenues, will grow to $3 trillion from Governor Bimal Jalan said on current year on the back of fis- Industry (CII) cautioned that resulting in lower cash flows for $2.7 trillion in the previous Sunday. cal shortfall concerns. participation of Indian telecom mobile operators,” the CII said. year. Jalan further said the gov- Asked why the private sec- companies may be severely con- Further, the approach of It will have to grow by 9 per ernment has already tor still not investing, Jalan said, strained in the upcoming auction relying on last auction prices cent in each of the five subse- announced many reforms, and “It may be due to post-demon- for 5G spectrum due to low aver- worked only when there were quent years to take the size of it is now a question of imple- etisation effect or may be they age revenue per user, and added no distortions in the auction the economy to $3.3 trillion in deficient capacity utilisation.” FY19, it said. aggregate investment. After mentation, particularly in were waiting for (Lok Sabha) that high reserve prices could process, said CII, adding that FY21, $3.6 trillion in FY22, Historically, India’s average “If the inflation rate is adding central PSU’s capital terms of investment. election results.” further subdue this. ground-up valuation of spec- $4.1 trillion in FY23, $4.5 tril- ICOR during the three-year lower than 4 per cent on an expenditure of 2.4 per cent of “The slowdown in the On overseas sovereign bor- In a representation sub- trum is a better approach. lion in FY24 and $5 trillion in period from FY17 to FY19 has average and if the exchange rate GDP in FY19, the Centre’s con- growth is cyclical. In one or two rowings, he said they should be mitted to the government, the “Also, this approach of FY25. averaged 4.23. The highest depreciation is higher than 2 tribution to the investment years, I am sure, there will be long term. CII made a case for a lower 5G inflating the auction prices to “Assuming an inflation rate achieved investment rate in per cent per annum, reaching increases to 4 per cent of GDP, a turnaround,” he told PTI in “The government has spectrum reserve price, the arrive at the reserve price has- of 4 per cent which is the tar- India was 39.6 per cent in the size of $5 trillion would be which is 12.6 per cent of the an interview. already announced that it (over- auction for which is expected n’t been followed in all cases by get inflation rate as per the FY12. delayed even beyond these tar- total investment. Jalan also pointed out that seas borrowings) will be for 5- to be held later this year. the TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Monetary Policy Framework, a EY said achieving such get years.” “This can be substantially the situation today is very dif- 20 years, it should not be for “India’s telecommunication Authority of India) in the past. real growth rate close to 9 per levels would be consistent with While the central govern- improved. The center may ferent from 1991 when the short term,” the former chair- sector has achieved global Where in some case, the TRAI cent would be required to the requirements of our demo- ment plays a four-fold role in therefore provide a policy country faced a severe eco- man of the Expenditure recognition for the speed of its has reduced the reserve price increase the size of the Indian graphic dividend. determining the overall invest- framework to induce the state nomic crisis on the external Management Commission said. growth and has the lowest tar- even when the market prices in economy to $5 trillion by FY25. In China, average saving ment rate through its bud- governments and the private front. Finance Minister Nirmala iffs in the world, ensuring access the preceding auctions were This implies a nominal growth and investment rates of close to getary capital expenditure, sector to uplift their investment “India is in a very strong Sitharaman in the Budget for for poor users and in remote higher,” the CII said. rate of 13 per cent, assuming an 45 per cent have been main- spending through PSUs, poli- rates,” EY said. position today, unlike in 1991. 2019-20 had announced that geographies. High reserve prices It urged the government to average annual depreciation tained for a long period. cy initiatives inducing private “Furthermore, if the central If you look at our inflation rate, the government would start of spectrum will halt this accel- relook the base prices for 5G of the rupee viz-a-vis the US$ Total investment is the investments and coordination government can successfully it’s quite low. If you at look at raising a part of its gross bor- erated growth and deter uptake spectrum by valuing them at 2 per cent,” it said. sum of public investment, with state governments, the reduce its revenue deficit, there our reserves, it’s quite high,” he rowing programme from exter- of telecom services by poorer ground up, using models which In FY19 (2018-19), the household investment and Centre’s share in country’s would be room for higher cap- asserted. nal markets in foreign curren- sections of society,” the CII said factor in the current financial gross investment rate, estimat- investment by the private cor- aggregate investment was quite ital expenditure with the same Last month, the IMF and cies. in a statement. stress of the sector. ed at 31.3 per cent, was able to porate sector. small at 1.6 per cent of GDP in fiscal deficit. It can also induce Asian Development Bank Asked what were the The association has ques- Highlighting the financial deliver a real growth rate of 6.8 Raising the growth rate to FY19. additional investment through (ADB) had cut India’s growth biggest risks for the Indian tioned the current spectrum difficulties being faced by the per cent. The implicit incre- 9 per cent in FY21 would As per actuals from the the CPSEs while keeping in forecast, citing global and economy, Jalan, also a former pricing model arguing that industry, the CII noted that mental capital-output ratio require uplifting the investment Controller General of mind, the overall constraint of domestic headwinds. member of Parliament, said he using the metric of dollars per since 2016, high competition in (ICOR) was 4.6, it said. “This rate to close to 38 per cent of Accounts (CGA), this consti- resources in the form of savings According to IMF’s latest thinks unemployment is a very megahertz per population is the market had led to lower is relatively high because of GDP as against 31.3 per cent in tuted only 5.1 per cent of the in the system.” projection, the Indian economy important problem. “inappropriate” for Indian mar- realisations.      ,(  $ 7 $+4          A        .$50$67( ual and relatively lower than the tries and sectors, including report had said the Indian repo rate revisions, it said real estate, to pick up in the economy is in the throes of a he Reserve Bank is expect- The CII said the RBI coming times and register sub- broad-based slowdown—sharp :    '   (<& Ted to cut the policy rate by should cut cash reserve ratio stantial growth in the latter part contraction in auto sales, slow- 25 basis points, for the fourth (CRR) by 50 bps which will of the calendar year,” he added. ing investments and subdued time in a row, on Wednesday to release around Rs 60,000 crore In its June policy review, exports.   .$50$67( prohibited the Appellant from   .$50$67( General Insurance Corporation give a boost to the economy at into the system. while reducing the rate for the “In our view, the RBI should evicting the ‘Corporate Debtor of India in 2017 opened its a time when key indicators “This along with infusing third time in a row, the RBI had ideally front-load a 50bps rate he National Company Law (Sterling Biotech) from ‘A’ n a bid to promote IFSC as an IFSC Insurance Office (IIO) at point towards a slowdown, liquidity in the banking system signalled more easing as it cut at its forthcoming meeting TAppellate Tribunal Wing premises of Lakshmi Iattractive destination for IFSC Gandhinagar in Gujarat, opined experts. will also reduce the burden on looked to support an economy on 7 August, but the RBI gov- (NCLAT) has stayed eviction of Towers,” said NCLAT. investment for global re-insur- the first and only IFSC so far. The industry also expects banks’ resources, given the fact growing at the slowest pace ernor’s recent interview suggests Sterling Biotech from its However, it also said that ers, the government has relaxed Opening an office at IFSC the six-member Monetary that currently, the credit-deposit since the BJP first came to a more measured approach. premises as the debt-ridden “So far as the question as to norms for setting up shops at would allow global players to Policy Committee (MPC) ratio is hovering at a high of 77- power in 2014. Hence, a 25bps rate cut looks company was going under the who is the owner of ‘A’ and ‘B’ Gandhinagar international cater to the needs of customers headed by RBI Governor 78 per cent,” it added. Finance Minister Nirmala more probable,” it said. insolvency resolution process Wings premises of Lakshmi financial services centre. outside the jurisdiction of the Shaktikanta Das to take steps to Industry body Assocham Sitharaman will meet heads of Shanti Ekambaram, and was under the moratorium Towers and whether the The notification of Finance domestic economy. improve liquidity situation and said that economy requires public as well as major private President — Consumer period. Appellant has any right over the (No. 2) Act, 2019, has paved the Such centres deal with also ensure transmission of funding at a cheap rate for fur- sector banks on Monday to Banking, Kotak Mahindra A two-member bench said property, such questions way for reduction of the Net flows of finance, financial prod- rate (repo) cuts to borrowers by ther investment to boost the review the flow of credit to Bank too opined that the cen- headed by NCLAT Chairman are not required to be deter- Owned Funds (NOF) require- ucts and services across bor- the banks. growth rate and to speed up the important sectors of the econo- tral bank is likely to cut the Justice S J Mukhopadhaya mined in the proceeding under ment for the opening of ders. The Monetary Policy transmission effect because the my, including MSME, automo- repo rate by 25 bps. upheld the order passed by the the ‘I&B Code’.” branches of foreign re-insurers Finance Minister Nirmala Committee (MPC) will meet inflation is well contained. bile and housing sectors, accord- “It will be important to Mumbai Bench of the National NCLAT also said if Sterling in International Financial Sitharaman in her budget during August 5 to 7, 2019 for “Addressing the liquidity ing to an official statement. study the policy narrative to get Company Law Tribunal Biotech is saved during the liq- Services Center (IFSC) to Rs speech, announced the gov- the Third Bi-monthly problem of NBFCs, a rate cut Generally, the finance min- a direction of likely future (NCLT), which had asked Srei uidation proceeding or if it is 1,000 crore from Rs 5,000 ernment’s intent to make India Monetary Policy Statement for will help in boosting the eco- ister holds a review meeting action by the RBI, liquidity Infrastructure Finance, a finan- sold to a third party along with crore. a hub for aircraft financing and 2019-20. nomic growth and consumer with heads of public sector measures, any other structur- cial creditor, to hand over the the employees then, in such The significant reduction leasing activities by leveraging Managing director and spending that may increase banks and financial institu- al changes etc. Suffice it to say possession of the A and B wing case, one may move before the in NOF requirement with the business opportunities available CEO of Union Bank of India the demand for passenger and tions, but this time the ministry that inflation will be the cen- premises of Laxmi Towers. Competent Court of law for amendment in the Insurance in India’s financial Special Rajkiran Rai G said that the commercial vehicle,’ it added. has also invited major private- tral theme balanced with the The appellate tribunal appropriate decision. Act 1938 is expected to attract Economic Zones (SEZs), MPC is likely to cut rate by 25 When asked for expecta- sector lenders. need to boost growth,” observed that although Sterling Besides, the appellate tri- global re-insurance companies namely, IFSC. basis points. tions from the MPC, Ashish R. Puravankara, Ekambaram added. Biotech, which is presently bunal also said that “the operating in financial centres Besides, the government “At this point of time we Anshuman Magazine, CBRE’s Managing Director, While inflation continues going through liquidation, is Liquidator cannot sell the assets like Singapore, Dubai, Hong has provided several direct tax need growth impetus. I am sure chairman and CEO for India, Puravankara Limited said it is to remain within the RBI’s not the owner of the premises of the premises in question.” Kong, Malaysia, London etc. To incentives to an IFSC including they will reduce rates,” he said. South East Asia, Middle East very encouraging to hear the comfort zone, key indicators it cannot be ejected or dis- Resolution Professional of set up branches in IFSC in 100 per cent profit-linked Industry body CII in a and Africa said in the light of RBI Governor’s advisory to like automobile sale and almost turbed during the moratorium Sterling Biotech had moved India. deduction in any ten-year block statement said the central bank increasing investor confidence banks to pass on the benefit of flat growth in the eight core period as the company has to NCLT against the financial The above amendment is within 15 years and exemption started its interest rate easing and consumer spending, the the rate cuts announced in sector industries showing signs remain as a going concern. creditor to return the posses- thus expected to increase the from dividend distribution tax cycle in February 2019, taking economic sentiments are cur- June, down to the industries. of a slowdown. “We hold that the sion of B Wing premises of number of foreign re-insurance among others. cognizance of the headwinds to rently looking up. “For real estate sector a India’s economic growth Adjudicating Authority Lakshmi Towers and restrain players in IFSC, Gandhinagar Together, these steps will growth and inflation reading India’s retail inflation mar- reduction in the cost of funds rate slowed to a five-year low (NCLT) has rightly directed the Srei Infrastructure Finance and lead to on-shoring of inter- lead to the creation of aspira- remaining below the RBI’s tar- ginally accelerated, following means that we can pass that on of 5.8 per cent in the January- Appellant to hand over the pos- from taking any action in rela- national insurance transac- tional jobs in insurance and get of 4 per cent. the third consecutive policy to our customers directly, March quarter of 2018-19, due session of ‘B’ Wing premises of tion to A Wing premises, which tions, a senior finance ministry aviation finance and contribute However, the transmission rate cut by RBI to 25 basis which will be encouraging for to poor performance in the Lakshmi Towers and rightly had allowed it. official said. to making IFSC a global finan- of the rate-cuts to the end-con- points, he said. the sector at large,” he said. agriculture and manufacturing State-owned reinsurer cial and IT services hub. sumers has remained very grad- “We expect several indus- Edelweiss Research in a sectors.  ! % ! ( $ "   .-0& ( ('  5#    !  (      4((  ;    .        .$50$67(  61 >*  he UGC has   .$50$67( Trecommended   .$50$67( the granting of overnment tenders worth Institution of yundai Motor India sold Gover 25,000 crore were Eminence (IoE) Hover 16,200 units in the either cancelled or modified status to Odisha- utility vehicle segment in July and re-issued after the based Kalinga to take a lead over Maruti Department for Promotion of $       1+   ) ! Institute of Suzuki India (MSI) and Industry and Internal Trade 1    ! B)'1      Industrial Mahindra & Mahindra (DPIIT) stepped in to change     Technology (M&M), which have for long their conditions in order to (KIIT). dominated the vertical. promote ‘Made in India’ goods, The decision was taken at a started in 1997 and became a Last month, Hyundai sold a a top official said. meeting of University Grants deemed University 15 years total of 16,234 units of Creta, “The department is taking Commission (UGC) where five back. . For this Dr. Achyuta Venue, Tucson and Kona every step for effective imple- top public universities including Samanta, Founder, KIIT & Electric, while in comparison   .$50$67( This conference was attended mentation of public procure- Delhi University, Hyderabad KISS has given the credit to M&M sold 16,003 utility vehicles by more than 600 delegates ment order, 2017, to promote University, BHU and IIT Madras Narendra Modi, Prime (UVs). M&M sells seven mod- MDC received “Innovative from 16 countries. ‘Made in India’ products,” the and Kharagpur were also rec- Minister of India, Ramesh els in the UV segment like XUV NStakeholders Interface” During the said conference official said. ommended for the same . Pokhariyal Nishank, Minister, 500, Scorpio, Bolero and Thar. award at the SCOPE Corporate deliberations took place on The government issued the KIIT is the only institute in HRD and Naveen Patnaik, MSI on the other hand Excellence Awards 2019 at the future of minerals and order on June 15, 2017, to pro- Odisha and among seven pri- Chief Minister of Odisha. reported sale of 15,178 units in New Delhi today. metals worldwide. The seminar mote manufacturing and pro- vate universities in the country In addition to KIIT, the UV segment last month. Its Shri Sumit Deb, Executive also helped to understand the duction of goods and services to be recommended for the IoE Samanta, an academician- UV portfolio comprises mod- Director (P&A) received the global commodities market for in India and enhance income status. “For this (recommen- turned BJD MP, also set up els like Ertiga, Vitara Brezza award on behalf of NMDC minerals and metals, high- and employment in the dation) Dr Achyuta Samanta, KISS (Kalinga Institute of and S-Cross. from BP Singh, IAS, Former lighting the inter-linkage country. Founder, KIIT... has given the Social Sciences) for tribal stu- “Hyundai has strong posi- Governor of Sikkim and between mineral development A tender worth 8,000 credit to PM Narendra Modi, dents.At present 50,000 indige- tion in compact SUV segment Former Home Secretary, and economic growth, the crore was withdrawn and re- Ramesh Pokhariyal Nishank, nous students are provided with Creta. Now with Venue, Government of India. developments in the interna- issued with modified condi- )12   . .&  5:9  !%  Minister, HRD and Odisha free food, lodging and educa- we have further consolidated NMDC received this award tional metals market that can tions after the intervention of (9!%   D  7     Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik,” tion. The effort is aimed at our position in the UV seg- for organizing an International impact the Indian metals the DIPP. The project was (;     .   :9  a KIIT statement said. weaning away poor tribal ment,” Hyundai Motor India Conference on Minerals & industry and identifying related with setting up of a urea !% 5 &!%      !% KIIT, an institution for youths from the clutches of National Head-Sales Vikas Jain Metals Outlook-2030 at New opportunities in Indian mining and ammonia plant for gasifi- E$ $      professional education, was Naxalism. said. Delhi during October 2018. and metals. cation.   !"#$% ) @@

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God bless the peo- in response to "the Hispanic  # latest in a string of such inci- an even darker statistic: It ple of Dayton, Ohio," Trump invasion of Texas." dents in America that have occurred on the 215th day of said. The manifesto is filled with     "   shocked the nation. the year, meaning there have Marcelo Ebrard, the secre- white nationalist language and    The first shooting took been more mass shootings tary of foreign affairs of racist hatred toward immi- $(%'=& ).33G place in the southern border than days so far this year. Mexico, said six Mexican grants and Latinos, blaming ' G   town of El Paso in Texas, where "The ages and genders of all nationals were among the El immigrants and first-genera-    $ $ a 21-year-old gunman opened these people injured and killed Paso injured. tion Americans for taking away - !  ? fire at a crowded Walmart are numerous in the age Victor Guerrero, a jobs.       store, killing 20 people and groups," El Paso Police Chief spokesman for Del Sol Medical Citing a source familiar   3    wounding 26 others on Greg Allen said. Center, said the hospital was with the investigative process,    HN5 N# Saturday. "The situation, needless to treating 11 El Paso victims. the CNN said the FBI has Hours later, a man killed say, is a horrific one." Nine were in critical but stable opened a domestic terrorism      F nine people before being shot Texas authorities are inves- condition and two were stable, investigation into the shooting      7 " dead by police in Oregon dis- tigating the El Paso shooting as he said. Patient ages ranged to be worked concurrent to the (*$?$.$/ 3.  trict, a historic neighbourhood a possible hate crime, Allen from 35 to 82. state investigation, with Texas     known for its nightclubs, bars, said. The University Medical authorities taking the lead.  ! G   art galleries and shops, in For several minutes on Centre of El Paso received 13 A Twitter account that F"""  K4+ Dayton, Ohio early Sunday, Saturday morning, the packed patients, according to Ryan appeared to belong to Crusius .  /   ! police said. Walmart store, where shoppers Mielke, the hospital's has been shut down. Tweets on    (((K* + "The shooter is deceased. were busy buying back to spokesman. the account had praised Trump       There are 9 others also school stuff for their kids, filled             !    $ Mielke said the victims' and, in particular, his effort to  # deceased. At least 16 others with gun smoke and the echo conditions ranged from minor build a wall along the US- went to area hospitals with of gunfire. Footage shot on shooting in El Paso, said Texas days in the history of Texas." ple. injury to fatal. Mexico border.      injuries," Dayton police said. mobiles appeared to show mul- Gov. Greg Abbott. President Donald Trump "The FBI, local and state The authorities identified The FBI is asking witness-      At least 26 others were tiple bodies lying on the ground "On a day that would have condemned the attacks as an law enforcement are working the El Paso gunman as Patrick es who took photos or videos (*$?$.$/ 3  injured, Dayton Mayor Nan in the store's parking lot. been a normal day for someone "act of cowardice" and said together in El Paso and in Crusius from an affluent Dallas during the shooting to submit (  -  Whaley told reporters. Twenty people were killed to leisurely go shopping, turned there could be no justification Dayton, Ohio. Information is suburb. He was taken into cus- their unedited media to them !  !   The first shooting that tore and 26 others injured in the into one of the most deadly for the killing of innocent peo- rapidly being accumulated in tody after he surrendered to the for examination. 3              P!         '     "!!" ( *+) !  #         041 '            ' "(#&!"" (,) ( %$$ <               &3()8 demanding a rapid transition to "There will be no democ-          a civilian authority. They have racy without peace," he said.    $7)3. sure" against Tehran. announced they had impound- (     udan's pro-democracy been locked in tense negotia- "National reconciliation will Tokyo: A strong 6.3-magnitude Ships have been attacked, ed the British-flagged Stena  "F /   Smovement signed a power- tions with the military for be the slogan of the transitional earthquake struck in the Pacific ran has seized a foreign drones downed and oil tankers Impero in the Strait of Hormuz       # sharing agreement with the weeks while holding mass period." off Fukushima, northeastern Itanker in the Gulf, state seized since May, a year after for breaking "international ruling military council on protests. The two sides reached a Japan, on Sunday, but there was media said Sunday, in what the United States withdrew maritime rules". " "  2 Sunday aimed at paving the General Mohammed preliminary agreement last no tsunami threat, US and would be the third such seizure from a landmark nuclear deal The identity of the latest     way for a transition to civilian Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy month following international Japanese authorities said. in a month amid heightened between Iran and world pow- vessel seized and the national- 9'>*'H6   rule following the overthrow of head of the military council, pressure, amid growing con- The quake jolted large tensions with its foe the United ers and began reimposing bit- ity of its crew had not yet been     C+ President Omar al-Bashir in told a joint news conference cerns the political crisis could areas in the region at 7:23 pm States. ing sanctions against the coun- revealed on Sunday.    G April. that the deal has ended an era ignite civil war. (1023 GMT) with its epicentre The Islamic Revolutionary try. The Guards said their boats      6 Representatives initialed a in Sudan's history "character- That document provided located 54 kilometres (34 Guard Corps "seized this ship At the height of the crisis, had been patrolling the Gulf to A  constitutional document that ized by rivalry and fighting." for the establishment of a joint miles) east of Namie, eastern around Farsi Island which was US President Donald Trump control traffic and detect illic-  # would establish a joint military "We have entered the nego- civilian-military sovereign Fukushima, according to the carrying around 700,000 litres called off air strikes against Iran it trade when they seized the and civilian council to rule for tiations as partners and leave as council. US Geological Survey said. of smuggled fuel", said a at the last minute in June after tanker.        a little over three years until one team. The national will has A military leader would The quake was also felt in Guards statement quoted by the Islamic republic's forces "The ship was transferred     elections can be held. The triumphed... It is a win-win," he head the 11-member council Tokyo. The Japan the official news agency IRNA. shot down a US drone. to Bushehr and its smuggled  )     agreement would establish a said. for the first 21 months, fol- Meteorological Agency said Seven foreign crew were The seizure of the latest fuel was handed over" to the      Cabinet appointed by the Protest leader Omar al- lowed by a civilian leader for there were no worries about arrested in the operation car- tanker would be the third by authorities in coordination     activists, as well as a legislative Dagir said a "fair and trans- the next 18. There would also tsunami damage. ried out on Wednesday night, Iran in less than a month in with judicial authorities, said a  #N5   body. parent" investigation into be a Cabinet of technocrats The agency issued an said Fars news agency, which is Gulf waters -- a conduit for statement. Fars quoted  ! >    The military overthrew al- recent violence by security chosen by the protesters, as well warning when the quake hit, considered close to the Guards. much of the world's crude oil. Brigadier General Ramezan      Bashir in April following forces against protesters, and as a legislative council with but there was no report of Tensions between arch- On July 18, the Guards said Zirahi, a commander of the     E#C months of mass protests against achieving peace with rebel majority from the Forces for injuries.Shinkansen bullet train enemies Iran and the US have they had detained the Panama- Guards who carried out the   +#O  N his three-decade-long auto- groups, would be top priorities the Declaration of Freedom services were temporarily sus- soared this year after flagged for MT Riah for alleged seizure, as saying the tanker  7  !    cratic rule. The protesters for the transitional and Change, the main protest pended in the region, public Washington stepped up its fuel smuggling. had been en route to deliver ! 3   remained in the streets, Government. coalition. broadcaster NHK said. AFP campaign of "maximum pres- And a day later, they fuel to Gulf Arab States.  #  +       0!   %    *6   1>    

     ! \QP$Q53 al-Sham, the main jihadist group the northwestern region of Idlib feet in implementing the deal,   -3.(63 crew were rescued. derstorms and rain-triggered in Syria's northwestern Idlib, on condition that a Turkish- which provided for a buffer journalist in the Gulf Coast 7$7()0 A third ferry, which was landslides amid a tropical on Saturday refused any with- Russian buffer-zone deal is zone of up to 20 kilometres (12 Astate of Veracruz has been '8).36(4(66$0 escuers recovered more not carrying any passengers, depression more than 1,000 drawal from a future buffer implemented, according to state miles) between the two sides, free shot dead just days before he Rbodies in rough seas where also capsized in the Iloilo Strait kilometers (620 miles) off the zone after a truce went into effect news agency SANA. of heavy weaponry. was scheduled to testify before (.3(. 6$5$$4 three ferry boats capsized after but its five crewmen survived, country's eastern coast. in the area. Most of Idlib province and "We will not change our state authorities about threats 3.07$"74(66$0 being buffeted by fierce winds Balilo said. Classes and work were sus- "What the regime could not parts of Hama, Aleppo and position, neither at the request of of violence against him. and waves off two central Survivors recounted how pended in metropolitan Manila take militarily or by force, they Latakia — which currently hosts our friends or our enemies," The state attorney's office 7(=$3)(.-$?(&8 Philippine provinces, bringing the sky suddenly turned dark on Friday and Saturday amid will not get through peaceful some three million residents — Jolani insisted, refusing any idea said in a statement that Jorge the death toll to 31 with three midway through their trip, fol- heavy rains and flooding, means or through negotiations are controlled by the HTS. of a demilitarised zone. Celestino Ruiz Vázquez was missing, the coast guard said lowed by strong winds and rain which caused intense traffic and politics," said Abu Mohamed The region is supposed to be Air strikes on the Idlib found dead at his home short- authorities next Tuesday. He Sunday. that battered their ferries. jams in low-lying areas of the al-Jolani. "We will never with- protected from a massive gov- region stopped on Friday after ly before midnight Friday after alleged that Actopan Mayor Coast guard spokesman Authorities wondered why capital. draw from the zone." ernment offensive by the the government's truce police responded to a call alert- Paulino Domínguez Sánchez Armand Balilo said the dead a third ferry was allowed to sail About 20 typhoons and Jolani made his comments Turkish-Russian deal, but it has announcement but the fighting ing them to gunshots at the res- was behind the threats. were mostly passengers of two about three hours after two storms batter the Philippines during a meeting with reporters come under increasing fire by since late April has killed 790 idence in Actopan, 60 kilome- The Committee to Protect ferries that flipped over in other ferries overturned almost each year, making the archi- organised by the former Al- Damascus and its backer civilians in regime and Russian ters (37 miles) south of state Journalists says Ruiz Vázquez sudden wind gusts and pow- at the same time at noon in bad pelago that lies on the Pacific Qaeda affiliate group Hayat Moscow since the end of April. attacks, the UK-based Syrian capital Xalapa. was the third journalist killed erful waves Saturday off weather. typhoon and earthquake belt Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). The Government of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Ruiz Vázquez was sched- in a single week, and the 10th Guimaras and Iloilo provinces. Forecasters have warned of one of the world's most disas- On Thursday the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has monitor says. AFP uled to give statements to killed this year, in Mexico. Sixty-two other passengers and heavy monsoon rains, thun- ter-prone countries.(AP)  $! % (,! )!P6 ) (! ,6!  )5)(!*!"    C Damascus: A Syrian pro-gov- Saturday at the base, saying it Phnom Penh: Khmer Rouge 'brother month. Cambodia. ernment newspaper is report- killed an undetermined num- !)!O#%    number two' Nuon Chea died on Sunday The reign of terror led by "Brother The UN-backed court sentenced him ing 26 soldiers, including seven ber of soldiers. It said the blast aged 93, a spokesman for the Cambodia tri- Number 1" Pol Pot left some two million to life in prison last year after he was found officers, have been killed in an was caused by a technical error bunal where he was convicted of genocide Cambodians dead from overwork, starva- guilty of genocide against the ethnic explosion blamed on a techni- while transporting ammuni- !  .% !  and crimes against humanity told AFP. tion and mass executions from 1975 to Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minority cal error in central Syria. tion. "We can confirm that defendant Nuon 1979. group. Al-Watan quoted a military The Britain-based Syrian Chea... Passed away this evening on 4 But Nuon Chea, considered the Khmer His lawyers had informed the court that official as describing Saturday's Observatory for Human    68.08. was agreed, 61 percent of all the August 2019 at Khmer Soviet Friendship Rouge's chief ideologue, was not arrested Nuon Chea would appeal, but prosecutors explosion at the Shayrat air Rights, an opposition-linked EU states' MEPs have changed. hospital," said Neth Pheaktra, spokesman until 2007. are now expected to ask the Supreme Court base in the Homs province as group that monitors the war, ritish Prime Minister Boris Such a fundamental shift illus- for the tribunal. He and other senior members of the chamber to terminate his case following his severe. put the death toll at 31. It said BJohnson's Government has trates the need for a change of The cause of his death was not given ultra-Maoist group were put on trial at the death, according to a court official. The official news agency the cause of the explosion was urged EU leaders again to drop approach. but he had been in hospital since early last Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of AFP SANA reported an explosion unclear. AP their opposition to renegotiat- "Mr Barnier needs to urge ing the terms of Brexit, claim- EU leaders to consider this if ing recent European elections they too want an agreement, to required a change of approach. enable him to negotiate in a 5 4 '   '    >   Johnson, who took office way that finds common ground late last month, says he wants with the UK. to leave the European Union "Otherwise, no deal is    0873 eighth round, began on But despite a rapid con- that enables withdrawal," reduced to as low as 8,000 from Sydney. with a deal but insists the cur- coming down the tracks." Saturday with no end date clusion to the conventional Khalilzad tweeted on Friday as the current level of around An Afghan official hinted rent terms are unacceptable Former prime minister Theresa he US and the Taliban were issued publicly. phase of the war, the Taliban he arrived in Doha after talks 14,000. last week that the government and if necessary Britain will exit May quit after delaying Brexit Tthrashing out elements of a A Taliban source told AFP have proved formidable insur- with Pakistani Prime Minister In exchange, the Taliban of President Ashraf Ghani was on October 31 with no agree- twice while she tried unsuc- deal to bring a close to efforts had been made to gents, bogging down US troops Imran Khan in Islamabad. would abide by a ceasefire, preparing for direct talks with ment at all. cessfully to get the divorce Afghanistan's 18-year conflict organise a direct meeting for years. "Our presence in renounce Al-Qaeda, and talk to the Taliban, the details of which In an article in the Mail on terms she struck with Brussels at the second day of renewed between US envoy for Washington is hoping to Afghanistan is conditions- the Kabul administration. have yet to be announced. Sunday newspaper, Johnson's through the British parliament. talks in Doha on Sunday. Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad strike a peace deal with the based, and any withdrawal will "After 19 years, President "We have no preconditions Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay But the EU has refused to The US, which invaded and Taliban co-founder Mullah Taliban by September 1 -- be conditions-based." Trump has made it very clear to begin talks, but the peace said European Parliament elec- reopen the deal, the result of 17 Afghanistan and toppled the Baradar, who heads the move- ahead of Afghan polls due the In another sign of progress, that his desire is that we devel- agreement is not without con- tions in May had changed the months of tough negotiations. Taliban in 2001, wants to with- ment's political wing. same month, and US presi- the Afghan government has op a diplomatic resolution that ditions," Ghani wrote in Pashto political dynamic and urged Johnson has ramped up draw thousands of troops and The men have met previ- dential elections due in 2020. formed a negotiating team for permits us to reduce the on his Facebook page on Friday EU leaders to amend the man- preparations for leaving with- turn the page on its longest ever ously, as recently as May. US President Donald separate peace talks with the resources that are located ahead of the talks. date of their chief negotiator, out any agreement. war. But it would first seek A coalition led by Trump told reporters at the Taliban that diplomats hope there... While simultaneously "We want a republic gov- Michel Barnier. However, some British law- assurances from the insurgents Washington ousted the Taliban White House on Friday that could be held as early as later ensuring that Afghanistan ernment not an emirate," he "The political realities have makers have vowed to stop that they will renounce Al- in late 2001 accusing it of har- "we've made a lot of progress. this month. never again becomes a platform said, a challenge to the Taliban changed since Mr Barnier's him, fearing the economic con- Qaeda and stop other militants bouring Al-Qaeda jihadists We're talking". The Washington Post where a terrorist can strike the which has insisted on reverting instructions were set," Barclay sequences of severing ties with like the Islamic State group who claimed the September 11 "We are pursuing a peace reported Thursday that an ini- United States," US Secretary of to the "Islamic Emirate" name wrote. Britain's closest trading partner using the country as a haven. attacks against the US that agreement not a withdrawal tial deal to end the war would State Mike Pompeo said Afghanistan bore under its "Since the last mandate overnight. The talks, now in their killed almost 3,000 people. agreement, a peace agreement see the US force in Afghanistan Sunday during a visit to rule.    @1   !"#$% 2  /

%. !& !) %% ! % B % 3  #     :      A  !     /  +""#<  03 O            A        A  !       !    (        # 7  L(  +"   &73734 -(36  #( G!     # t hasn’t been long ago when one of Pablo Picasso’s paintings had set a (   new world record as it was sold at ( $179 million (approximately 1,147  ( crore) in New York. It became the  N8! mostI expensive artwork to have ever sold ! ! at an auction. The painting is believed to have comprised the complete size of the !#O A Indian art market. Looking at the statistic,  it is evident that India holds a very minus-    cule part of the international art market.     And to be statistically accurate, the share  #( is less than 0.5 per cent. The need, hence, is to broaden the art  market in India to help artists get more ,$  &  ,  %  #G (  value and recognition in the global art #M scene. And an auction is a perfect way to     allow the market evaluate an artist’s worth. reserve price has to be less than the esti- Even though the painting appears to    Or so believes Ashish Anand, MD and mated price. He says, “The reserve pricing be highly powerful and represents some- CEO of DAG Modern, which holds anoth- is a price where you are willing to sell some- thing that might take one by storm if s/he   4 er fund-raising for 115 years of Charity thing. In an auction like this, if a painting dwells deeper into its concept, its dark )  Gala, for the Taj Public Service Welfare is of 10,00,000, so it could potentially sell theme wouldn’t make someone want to A  # Trust. He tells us that a very few Indian even for 2,00,000. So literally, it can be sold look at it everyday in their homes. A vis- artists are known outside India and even on any price. And if there is not much com- itor and art connoisseur, Ravi Bajaj, says, in the country, not many people are aware petition, the painting could also sell at “The writer might have created this mas- O)!! ! ! of the senior and accredited artists. He says, 8 (3)8' 36O 2,00,000.” terpiece to surely create something pow- %,! “Introducing these respected masters to   ! $6$ 8) So what is it that sells a painting, even erful. However, it’s too dark. For an auc- buyers is very critical. They are a part of ,1 +  if it is a mere sketch, for lakhs? As per his tion, it’s not something that gives a happy # #% ! our heritage and culture. They reflect the 8.$/3&487$ observations over the years, he says the rep- vibe. Personal emotions are also important. ,!  art traditions in India. And what better than 8)($8<785 utation of the artist and quality of work are I like more colour and brightness rather !!  $* auction houses to preserve their legacy?” Krishna was born and how Vasudeva had chosen the most. “The people are willing than the dark demons that seem to be hid- )  % $ While SaffronArt and Christie’s had carried the infant in a basket on his head >30$>3730&3))($0 to pay big prices because of the value of the den here in this mysterious but brilliant art-  !! already been creating space for more in order to save him from the wrath of 68)04)(7.3(.3 artist’s work. Else, who will pay 45,00,000 work.” artists to gain prominence and become Kansa. However, the only difference here for a painting? 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So if one finds anything from MF framework of the artist through its visual. by people who are interested in collecting was sacrificed to ensure that Krishna Hussain, even his sketch will have a lot of Sunil was a very good friend of mine and  !< &   art. So why not?” could live. Pal, here, represents the margin- 43.3#7$)$358-3. value. It is because of the rarity and antiq- I absolutely adore his work. They have a 0% !  $ The auction, to be held on August 9, alised voice of women while alluding to &3))($7$/34$8. uity of their works that they sell,” explains meaning and try to say something that is   # ! puts on display 25 paintings from 20th cen- their strength. he. imperative to understand. I think this is a ! #% ,!#!%#!* tury contemporary artists. So what is the criteria for selecting the 7$)7$30#7$(0$3( As we proceed further, we come very powerful painting,” he adds. ; ! % ! The first painting at the display, as one paintings? Ashish says that the artworks by 7357(6$$>$)=8.$ across artist Sunil Das’ Untitled painting, Ashish, upon this, says, “Not every takes a walk through the exhibition, is artist the most established artists and that of high which strikes at one glance due to its var- painting is meant for every person. This is  !!  % P Khemraj’s Asha Hans, priced at quality are usually chosen. “We also ensure &$6$/)3$4)(7.3O ious mysterious entities like strong hors- not for the one who doesn’t want to look  ! !  !  %*P 15,00,000 to 20,00,000. The painter that the works that we have are of differ- /()7.88.$-8). es, sensuous bulls and shadowy women. at it everyday. Different paintings are for L  ; #  uses ink and gold on ivory and through a ent styles and on disparate subjects, which The painting highlights a woman in white different people and not all of them can series of squirrel’s back-like textured lines, can fall into a comprehensive range. The 7$0$378<3 ()6 attire ahead a dark background, whose own it. Das’ painting is dark yet beautiful 7  he intertwines a range of figures, which are paintings here range from 2,00,000 to “eyes could easily transfix the spectator.” It and strong.”  &7(6057853    placed with intimate proximity to each 45,00,000,” says he. brings one in the presence of such a Among other artists displayed are FN other. It is said that the painting showcased While the Untitled sketch painting by 3&)(<(&$0 woman, whose smouldering eyes hold Souza, GR Santosh, Shobha Broota, PT     human angels rising in unison to reach the Amrita Sher-gil, with its starting price of allure, anguish and desolation. One can Reddy, J Sultan Ali, Jamini Roy, Shanti  numerous golden-headed deities. 40,00,000 to 60,00,000 stands to be the sense how her body has been consumed Dave, Bimal Dasgupta, Madhavi Parekh, G  A Moving further, one of the most strik- most expensive of the lot, the least expen- by time, her unabashed gaze and a proud Ved Nayar, SH Raza, Sohan Qadri, Natvar   ing paintings, is Gogi Saroj Pal’s Aag ka sive ones are by Krishna Reddy and Pooja demeanour imbues her with a sense of dig- Bhavsar, KH Ara, Sakti Burman, Rabin       Dariya, priced at 7,00,000 to 10,00,000. Broota, priced at 2,00,000 to 3,00,000 nity, claiming her space outside the dark Mondal, Avinash Chandra, P Khemraj and The very first glance at the artwork might each. Talking about the criteria for the and the shadows. The woman in the paint- Anupam Sud.  "  teleport one back to the stories of how Lord reserve pricing, Ashish explains that the ing, though, looks invincible. = .+'     !     #3     AA ven before I sat for the inter-      view, director Nikhil Advani D Efired his first salvo, “Yes, how   A   # do I help you?” I asked him about his 9    L    forthcoming film, . He     A counter questioned, “How old are  !' )  8  "" ( (&!*)    you? Where were you when the operation Batla House happened? )!!!*" )(!,& #&!#! "#!' !" )6!6&! ) !&&  # 0 And when 26/11 happened?” As I -    # was about to respond, he said, “Ask " ) &$! "7 8 8 

M    the people of Delhi about this, their    A reaction will tell you everything.” lab hai Surgical Strike, matlab keep-     # He told us that if you ask about ing India Safe. Fark sirf itna hai ki the 26/11 incident from humare borders shahar ke andar hote 7   < Mumbaikars, they will share their hai.’ (Encounter means surgical -  .   experiences like ‘they were at office strike, which in turn means keeping      working or probably sleeping at India safe. The only difference that  # home’. When Nikhil asked the peo- lies is, we have borders within our ple of the capital about the incident, cities). “We have used the word he got similar reactions. So, as a res- encounter very loosely and often E %   !  ident of Mumbai, who was there dur- misinterpreted it. We asked proof for A couple’s caustic, increasingly jarring interactions over a    !  % ing the attacks, he could easily relate surgical strikes, not bothering about Mumbai evening strain their relationship until it threatens to to their reactions.” the soldiers and pilots, who have break at its fraying seams. !   $ %% There is no denial of the fact gone on that mission. Infiltration is Starring Khushboo Upadhyay, Rohit Kokate, Himanshu that the incident had shaken people not happening only on the borders, Kohli, the arthouse drama releases on Netflix on August 9. 3  A      to the core. “I was in great shock too, it is happening with our own peo-       the moment I got to know about the everyone started saying that the reach the door of the Batla House ple and within our cities.  '& O    incident. I knew about Batla House students are terrorists and the police building and nobody knows what How has this film enriched his !#!   but was not aware of the aspects and is corrupt,” he said. At its core, the happened inside the door or that the journey as a director? Nikhil said When a dad-to- dimensions of the case. So when film talks of truth getting lost. He said police just went in because at the after a long contemplative pause, “It be learns he’s actual-  A  Ritesh (Shah, writer of the film) came that we labelled five students as ter- time, there were six bomb blasts in has certainly increased my patience ly a sextuplet, he sets     to me with the script, the first thing rorists without any evidence and also Delhi and they had the pressure of level. I did Kal Ho Na Ho, Salaam- off on a wild journey     I said was, yaar Ritesh, Dilli police! forget that the lost truth is connect- arresting somebody, so they just went e-ishq and to China, to meet his long-lost    . #3 He then told me to at least read the ed to a police commissioner (Sanjeev and picked up those boys. Was it all because I wanted to prove it to family. Actor Marlon     # script first. ‘We need to change the Kumar Yadav), who has been award- that? I have shown everything.” The everybody that I am still relevant. Wayans stars as all mindset of people like you’, he said. ed six times for his bravery but we film is kept open for interpretations But I soon realised that I have start- the six siblings. &      I read it and asked him to show me are calling him a murderer without because even though the court has ed making films for all the wrong Among others,   # everything that he has not included giving a second thought to it. He is passed the judgement but people are reasons till I made D-Day and the slapstick comedy &   O in it,” said Nikhil. He wanted to know the film’s central character. Nikhil appealing it, so nobody knows the everything changed.” He then made film stars Bresha Webb and Michael Ian Black. It releases on > -  !  every single detail of the incident so told us, “Most people will say that truth. “At the end, we are showing two more films, which he feels if he August 16 on Netflix. that he could decide whether he because the film is made on Sanjeev what the court accepted but it hasn’t made, he wouldn't have been    wants to do it not. He was curious Kumar Yadav, it would show his was very important to tell the as patient. “Batla House has taught A  # to know the reason why one part of side only. But no, that’s not the another point of view also,” me that it takes quite an effort and    % & *!  the story was kept out. And, after he case. I want to showcase every he added. time to write a good script, research The drama features a Victorian fantasy world filled with O      knew everything, he met people who side of the story.” Recalling a Making a film on a real and get the material tog00ether. I am mythological immigrant creatures. Feared by humans, they are     reported from the field when the funny incident, Nikhil said, life incident is nothing less enriched as a director because today forbidden to live, love or fly with freedom. But even in dark- encounter had taken place. He “He called me up one day and than a challenge. Because it I realise I am very much satisfied ness, hope lives, as a human detective and a faerie rekindle a # describes how the incident was said ‘yaar wo Sumo (car) nhi is a linear story, it might get with what I have done. Most people dangerous affair. The city’s uneasy peace collapses when a string ( interpreted differently by different thi humare paas, Qualis confusing but, Nikhil said, have said ‘yaar I have spent the of murders reveal a monster no one could imagine. The thriller (    people depending on which side of thi, wahi use karna.’ “Because Ritesh is a good whole time googling about Batla releases on August 3 on Amazon Prime.   L the story they were, either the police (We did not had writer, we have tried to House’,” Nikhil said. He has under-     or the students. “I told Ritesh that we Sumo car, we separate the threads stood the importance of figuring have to tell the second side of the had Qualis, of the characters to things out before jumping to the #M  story as well, ye ek tarfa nhi ho sakta please use that avoid any confu- conclusions. O  (this can’t be one sided). So we took only in the sion.” Emphasising “I now know that I will have to &   A people’s view into account and film). on how engrossing do other things like making a show  # rewrote the whole script,” added he. The direc- the story is, he said and producing a film for my daily The excitement with which tor said guess- that one won’t be bread and butter but personally I Nikhil was narrating the story made ing, “During the able to reach for should tell the stories that I want to it quite evident how important this incident, there their phones in the and not compromise on it,” he film was for him. “I feel that one must have been cinema hall while added. needs to have multiple perspectives some evidence watching the film. (The film releases on to be able to tell a story accurately. that the police The film has a mes- August 15.) When the encounter happened, followed to sage, ‘Encounter ka mat- = .+'      '  @4   !"#$%

very third year, the temperature in the Thar Desert rises to 50 Edegrees due to famine or drought. The rural population is dis- turbed but locals do not get distract-    8  ; ed. This is the reason why Thar is the only desert in the world where there is density of life in abundance. The bio- 4 ?         N '        A  diversity has never depleted even in complex geographical and meteoro- ' B    A  ' B N      '         logical conditions and in fact, has found the possibilities of life by always               ' '   .+ :.94 adjusting itself to the conditions. There will be shortage of water in a water or by building dams to block single village or region in the desert, Gandhi, late Anupam Mishra, wrote doldrums. There could be a crisis of desert but this is nature’s way of deal- rivers. where there is no traditional source of some of his experiences seen in the water when there is disruption in sup- ing with it. This is a region where salty The exercise of pulling under- water. Did you know that the names construction process of ponds and the ply of through canals and pipelines. water is extracted from beneath the ground water from heavy capacity- of villages are based on the sources of wastage caused due to it in his book There is no reason why the old water earth and sweet water pours from the powered pumps and through pipelines water. They have — Bera, Beri, Nadi, — Aaj Bhi Khare Hai Talaab (The sources can’t be restored; it is only a sky. But dense rainfall can make the from the place of origin developed the Sagar, Hala — prefixed to them. A vil- Ponds are Still Relevant). He wrote, lack of will. Lately, the government, desert a swamp with the entire area culture of tap water, which made lage’s name is kept without it meaning “Hundreds and thousands of ponds civil society organisations and media becoming a saline lake. Every living humans forget the value of it. Still there ‘water stagnation’. In the last five to six did not appear from oblivion. There establishments have started taking care organism has adapted its life accord- are people, who walk miles just to fetch decades, the government’s plans for were some who was commissioned to of the traditional sources, harvesting ing to the available resources, while a jar of water. A person who has been providing water to the people are mak- work for these ponds and there were rain water, organising the society to maintaining the possibility of life by saving wealth and resources for the last ing them forget the traditional water many who actually constructed hun- spread awareness on water crisis and mutually cooperating with other seven generations is least concerned sources as well as making them eye- dreds and thousands of them. But in are driving a campaign to build hun- species. Mankind created unique trea- about the availability of water needed witnesses to their own methods of the last few decades, they have been dreds and thousands of units of these sures of water storage for themselves, for existence. wasting water. From Barmer to treated as a complete waste especial- water sources. By combining manpow- their animals (especially cattle) and for Will the next seven generations Jaisalmer, Bikaner, Churu, Nagaur, ly by technologically advance people.” er and hydropower, the society has the future generations, life has been have water and air to survive? By see- Jodhpur, Pali, Jalore to the foothills of Perhaps this is a time shift. The new opportunity to revive the traditional arranged to move ahead smoothly. In ing tap water, the people were so fas- Aravali, Sikar in Jhunjhunu, old Johad generation that measures the world water sources. To rejuvenate these, to    some areas of India, where there is cinated that they forgot the precious — community owned traditional har- with a snap of a finger has seen these hand over these priceless treasures into more rainfall than the Thar Desert, treasures of water harvesting passed vested rain water storage — ponds, water sources being turned into the hands of the future generation, there is scarcity of drinking water, down to them by their ancestors. Even rivers, streams, kunds (small ponds), garbage dumps in the villages. They there is a need to raise thousands of while the people of the desert avoid the after seeing that they were looted in baavdis (step well) — all have turned aren’t aware of the traditional water hands again so that the coming .     situation by utilising water as if it was front of their eyes, they remained into ruins. The villagers have filled sources that was so prevalent in the seven generations could live with the treasure of their ancestors. silent. Imagine the thousands of years them with soil and garbage. They have olden times. This generation is least four million species of living Time changed, developments took of indefatigable hard work that went become places of illegal mining. The concerned about the sources. Due to beings. (   A    place, humans tried to control nature into making these precious treasures. courtyard of the house, well known for lack of communication between the L . "  through technology. To make life To provide water, our government its cleanliness, is now used to get rid two generations in regard to knowl-      more convenient and prosperous, we spends money at a faster pace than a of dead animals and trash. A genera- edge and culture, the gap has widened.      have developed ways that by a sim- flowing river, making directionless tion that drank water only from these As things are evolving now, nature ple gesture, our needs are made policies and schemes, which give less traditional water sources, today only is changing and weather patterns are  !  )3'=8 ( /)37-34-3) .(4.' '( available at our disposal; whether water and more troubles. talks about how waste these become. changing too. The water crisis in the it is by storing under- There isn’t a A follower of desert has started knocking. The he topic of ‘management innovative trends, one must ground Mahatma method of harvesting Twithout stress’ in the cor- have resilience through such rainwater is in porate world has quite popu- pressures. A lack of this would lar and is nowadays being dis- affect one’s health and happi- cussed in most seminars and ness and a tranquil state of plenaries held across the globe. mind. It’s a known fact that corpo- If one plans, organises and rates spend millions and in manages the above factors some cases even billions to properly, one can sustain an find that magical technique of atmosphere of growth and can management without any kind achieve success for himself of tension. But still no compa- and for all the members of the ny has found that technique. team. If not, one is bound to Why? fail in life, business, adminis- After lot of brainstorming tration and organisational and following a pragmatic work. Now, in order to attain approach, it can be said that success in achieving the goal of the art of stress-free manage- life, we must add two Ms, Ps, ment is mainly about using Ss and Ts to the above list as eight Ms, seven Ps, six Ss and well. These are — moral val- five Ts in an organised, useful, ues, meditation, purity, peace- profitable and peaceful man- ful and calm personality, spir- ner so as to ensure the maxi- itual study, soul-conscious- mum possible satisfaction of ness, truthfulness and trustee- all concerned. The eight Ms ship. are — men, money, material, If we practise meditation, machine, marketing, mutual there would be no mental ten- dvertising is dead, long connection, mutual relation sion and that is why it is usu- live advertising’. If one and means. The seven Ps — ally explained to managers Awere to believe the chat-      C productivity and performance, and administrators that one ter around the advertising busi- price and profitability, plan- must give some time to med- ness over the last few years, one ning ahead of time, pecuniary itation everyday in order to would assume it’s all gloom and        discipline, publicity, public manage and multi-task with- doom. 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Now, in order to be there is tension at many places have been ringing loud. from agency heads of legacy and the old ways are dying, what a good manager, one has to because there is management Or have they? This is how I agencies like Ogilvy and Leo I have heard has been extreme have a good judgement of all without meditation. And in see it, the business is growing. I’d Burnett, founders of new-age optimism on both the craft as these factors and the abilities disturbed atmospheres, many say it’s booming! Everyone content companies like Pocket well as the scope of advertising. of innovation, intuition, entre- might find it difficult to med- from Facebook to Google and Aces and Kommune, marketers Because the power of an idea is preneurship and enthusiasm. itate as well. There is thus the Amazon are in the advertising and communicators from plat- so much stronger if it has more One should have the qualities need to follow good principles business. 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atwiksairaj Rankireddy and &785(. Chirag Shetty on Sunday created Shistory by becoming the first (. 6$(6$ Indian pair to win a BWF Super 500 badminton tournament, stunning    /3. 484 reigning world champions Li Jun Hui and Liu Yu Chen in the final of aiwan shuttler Chou Tien-chen Thailand Open here. Tclinched the men's singles title at ! .'          E  India’s top men’s doubles duo of the Thailand Open badminton tour- Rankireddy and Shetty posted a hard- nament on Sunday, in a thrilling final fought 21-19, 18-21, 21-18 win to against Hong Kong opponent Angus claim its biggest career title after bat- Ng Ka Long. '      tling for an hour and two minutes Both players collapsed after against the third seeded Chinese third-seed Chou eked out victory 21- combo. 14, 11-21, 23-21 in a 67-minute E   This was not only their first tri- match at Bangkok’s Indoor Stadium umph at Super 500 level and above but Huamark. also the most prestigious doubles title “I love you guys, thank you,” the    537(. 8. for India since the inception of the 29-year-old winner told the crowd in ranking system. an on-court interview. ustralia’s Nick Kyrgios overcame a mid-match meltdown This achievement will also propel Former world champion and Aand his rival’s shoe repair delays to defeat Greek top the current World No 16 Indian com- hometown favourite Ratchanok seed Stefanos Tsitsipas and reach the ATP Washington Open bination into the top 10 for the first Intanon was denied a third Thailand final. time, making it the first-ever Indian Open title later on Sunday when The 52nd-ranked Aussie hammered 19 aces, saved a men’s doubles duo to enter the elite Chinese top seed Chen Yufei defeat- match point and often played to the crowd in a dramatic bracket. ed her 22-20, 21-18. and emotional 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (9/7) victory over Tsitsipas, This was the first final of the 2019 In women’s doubles, Japanese whose broken shoes caused two third-set delays. season for the unseeded Indian pair, seventh seeds Shiho Tanaka and Tsitsipas, who becomes world number five on Monday, doubles Silver medallist at the 2018 Koharu Yonemoto fended off Du Yue fell behind a set and a break, took advantage of Kyrgios los- Commonwealth Games. and Li Yinhui, the eighth seeds ing control with racquet slams and call complaints to force During the thrilling summit clash from China, in three close games. a third set, only to fall in the tie-breaker. against the World No 2 Chinese team, Kyrgios will play for the $365,390 (328,851 euro) top Rankireddy displayed brilliant antic- prize against 10th-ranked Russian Daniil Medvedev, who ipation and extraordinary placements We just were steady and did not rush eliminated German lucky loser Peter Gojowczyk 6-2, 6-2. from the front court, while Shetty con- things to give them a bigger lead. The 24-year-old Aussie beat Medvedev this year in trolled the backcourt effortlessly. “We just stuck to our plan of keep- Rome in their only prior meeting. Li and Liu had earlier this year ing the shuttle low and not hurrying Kyrgios, who improved to 4-1 against top-10 rivals this beaten the Indians at Australian Open. through the points. I think that real- year, seeks a sixth career ATP title and his first since “When we played them at the ly worked and that helped us get the Acapulco in March. Australian Open, we lost to them very lead at 8-6.” “It’s probably one of the best tournament weeks of my closely. We understood they were Intelligent rotation of the shuttle life,” Kyrgios said. under pressure today but we had combined with Rankireddy’s power- Medvedev, 23, seeks his fifth ATP title after taking his none since we were very excited to play ful smashes flummoxed the world’s most recent crown at Sofia in February. our first final,” said Rankireddy. second-best pair whose every come- Italy’s 62nd-ranked Camila Giorgi, a 2018 Wimbledon “I have some shoulder issues so we  . +.         P     back was thwarted by the ever-alert quarter-finalist seeking her third WTA title, and 79th- had decided that I would play more Indians. ranked American Jessica Pegula advanced to the women’s from the front and Chirag from the Although Li and Liu After the interval, Li on, the Indians never looked back and Even when Li and Liu tried to pro- final at the US Open tuneup tournament. back. I was focussing more on the ser- narrowed the gap further and Liu surged ahead to kept their composure to maintain the long the rallies in an attempt to tire out vice and the net,” he added. down to 19-20, the Indians 13-11, but the Indians lift- edge till the end. the Indians, Rankireddy and Shetty Kyrgios excited the crowd throughout with such flam- Rankireddy and Shetty started managed to win the crucial ed their game and drew Even though the Chinese pair were up to the task and never relin- boyant moves as underhand serves, between the legs shots attacking from the word go and after point to wrap up the first parity at 13 apiece. fought back and at one stage reduced quished their advantage, converting and leaping drop shots. Other times he would just swat away. breaking away from a tied 3-3, they game. The Indians then overtook their the gap to 18-19, the Indians looked on their first match point to get the “He was on fire in some moments,” Tsitsipas said. moved ahead to open up a 10-6 lead, In the second game, the opponents to make it 16-14 and then in no mood to climb down and went monumental victory. “It felt like sometimes he didn’t care at all. It’s proba- but their Chinese opponents kept Rankireddy and Shetty managed to climbed to 18-16 before the Chinese on to pocket two consecutive points “It’s the biggest title we have won bly his plan to put you out of focus.” breathing down their necks and made take an upper hand at the beginning pair won five consecutive points to to seal the match in their favour. so far in our career. Right now I am Kyrgios admitted, “I’ve always been able to play high it 14-14. as they moved up to a 6-2 lead, but the take it to the decider. Rankireddy said, “Well, we kept out of words after playing in a final level tennis. I just need to be more consistent. I have to be It was a closely-fought affair after Chinese soon bridged the gap to 5-6 Rankireddy and Shetty were slow our calm all throughout the tourna- and beating the current world cham- mentally tougher.” that and the Indian pair could take a before catching up with them at 11- off the blocks in the third game but ment. Even when we were down 1-4 pions. I am extremely happy,” said It was the Greek star’s first match against Kyrgios, who slight edge only at 20-18. 11. managed to make it 6-6. From there- in the third game, we didn’t lose hope. Shetty after the win. is of Greek and Malaysian heritage. Each man won 91 points, hit 58 of 91 first serves, won 48 of 58 first-serve points and 16-of-33 second serve points. “His serve was just unreal first set. I couldn’t do any-  * + " 6&))* (),, (!&* thing with it,” said Tsitsipas. “I haven’t seen anything like it.”

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Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Champions League just weeks Sane, who limped off in the 0      Oleksandr Zinchenko. later. 10th minute holding his right US teen Coco Gauff, the 15-year-old who electrified anchester City drew fired The jubilant celebrations On the evidence of this leg after collapsing while chas- Wimbledon with a fourth-round singles run last month, cap- Mthe first shot in their bat- from City's players and fans hard-fought contest, which fea- ing a long pass. tured her first WTA title on Saturday in women’s doubles. tle for supremacy with rivals showed inflicting an early psy- tured both flashes of quality Sane was playing on the Gauff and partner Catherine McNally, who combined Liverpool on Sunday as they chological blow on Liverpool and signs of rustiness, there will day reports claimed his agents to win last year’s US Open junior women’s doubles title, snatched the Community Shield was a moment to savour, regard- little to separate the two teams had agreed a contract with defeated Hungary's Fanny Stollar and American Maria with a 5-4 penalty shoot-out win less of the supposed warm-up as they go head-to-head for the Bayern Munich, who are keen Sanchez 6-2, 6-2 to hoist their inaugural WTA trophy. after a 1-1 draw at Wembley. status of the glamour friendly. major prizes once again over to sign the Germany winger. The teens jumped into each others arms and later hugged Raheem Sterling gave City With City installed as the next 10 months. City's victory was a well- in celebration of the breakthrough milestone triumph. a first half lead before Joel favourites to win the title for a Retaining the Community time riposte for Guardiola, Gauff defeated idol Venus Williams in the first round Matip grabbed a late equaliser third successive season and Shield trophy they won 12 who this week hit back at at Wimbledon and rescued two match points on the way to for Liverpool in the annual Liverpool expected to present months ago would improve Klopp's claim that the champi- beating Polona Hercog in the third round before eventual curtain-raiser to the English the strongest challenge to Pep City's belief that they can repeat ons live in a transfer "fantasy champion Simona Halep eliminated her. top-flight season. Guardiola's side, their meeting last season's remarkable silver- land". Gauff, in her first post-Wimbledon singles appearance, In the shoot-out, City keep- on the eve of the season was a   @        )   ware haul, but Liverpool could Guardiola gave a debut to qualified for the Washington main draw but lost her first er Claudio Bravo saved from window into what to expect take encouragement as well Spain midfielder Rodri, who match 6-4, 6-2 to Kazakhstan’s Zarina Diyas. Georginio Wijnaldum, with this term. rivals' 97, City went on to won earlier in the campaign. after they finished strongly joined from Atletico Madrid McNally, a 17-year-old American who made only her Gabriel Jesus driving in the After pipping Liverpool to complete an unprecedented But Jurgen Klopp's men enough to have won. for a club record £63 million fourth WTA appearance in singles, took her first three tour winning kick after successful last season's Premier League domestic treble by adding the didn't dwell on that painful The only dark cloud for (69 million euros) in the close- match wins to reach the semi-finals, where she lost 7-6 (7/5), efforts from Ilkay Gundogan, title with 98 points to their FA Cup to the League Cup they near-miss as they won the City was an injury to Leroy season. 6-2 on Saturday to Italy’s Camila Giorgi.    /$)6(. >(!"! "# ngland forward Jadon Sancho   !  Escored a goal and set-up anoth- er as Borussia Dortmund beat 6&!$* ! Bayern Munich 2-0 on Saturday to    -8.)$36 Nadal could face a chal- deny the German league and cup    3.'8$ lenge in the second round after champions a fourth straight Super efending champion Rafael a bye, with a possible match Cup title. hina’s Zheng Saisai surprised seventh-seeded DNadal heads the field for against Australian Alex de Sancho, 19, fed Spain forward CMaria Sakkari 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 on Saturday to line the ATP Montreal Masters that Minaur — winner of the Paco Alcacer for Dortmund’s open- up a title clash with second-seeded Aryna starts on Monday with Novak Atlanta title last weekend. er just after the break before clinch- Sabalenka at the WTA tournament in San Jose, Djokovic and Roger Federer Second seed Thiem has ing the victory and his side’s first California. opting out of the key US Open purposefully left it late for the trophy since 2017 with a clinical fin- Unseeded tuneup. hardcourts, preferring to stay as ish within the final half an hour of Zheng knocked With Djokovic and Federer long as possible on European play. off her third seed- putting a return to action on clay by entering both Hamburg “We absolutely wanted to win ed opponent of hold after their dramatic and Kitzbuehel. this match, it was very difficult,” said the week, after Wimbledon final, 33-year-old Thiem, beaten by Nadal in Dortmund coach Lucien Favre. downing eighth- Nadal will be seeking to retain the last two Roland Garros “Bayern were very strong and seeded American the title he earned last year in finals, has a special goal driving had a lot of possession but we Danielle Collins Toronto, when he beat rising him when he lands in fran- defended well and stayed very -    $     1    and fourth-seeded star Stefanos Tsitsipas in the cophile Canada. compact. US teen Amanda final. “I’ve never won a match in “We knew that we had to go on The home side, who finished with quick step-overs. Anisimova in a The Greek is back, taking Canada, I’d like to change that.” the counter-attack and we did that second in the league last season, had The teenager fed striker three-set quarter- the fourth seeding behind a pair !   #    he said. very well.” a good early chance. Alcacer at the edge of the box who final marathon on of fellow young guns in num- E P      “I’m just hoping to play Bayern, who pipped Favre’s Portugal winger Raphael beat Neuer with a low shot for a 1- Friday night. ber two Dominic Thiem of well. side to the Bundesliga title last sea- Guerreiro broke down the left 0 lead on 48 minutes. On Sunday, Austria and Germany’s beach resorts with his family “Canada is a big goal — I’m son and lifted the German Cup, flank and cut-back to find captain Dortmund’s lead was doubled Zheng will be Alexander Zverev, seeded third. prior to picking up the racquet really hoping to get a win there.” were without World Cup winning Marco Reus inside the penalty with 22 minutes to go from a clin- seeking a first Federer and Djokovic aren’t once again. Thiem will open his cam- left-back and new signing Lucas box. ical counter-attack. WTA singles title scheduled to resurface until Nadal, meanwhile, is pacing paign against either Canadian Hernandez due to a knee problem. Reus’s effort was then well Sancho was free once again on when she takes on the Cincinnati Masters starts on himself after another season Denis Shapovalov or Dortmund’s big name summer saved by Neuer after less than a the right wing, he burst into the box Sabalenka, the world number 10 who defeated fifth- August 12, giving them one marred by injury, insisting Frenchman Pierre-Hugues arrivals of winger Thorgen Hazard minute of play. beyond Bayern’s back-four and seeded Croatian Donna Vekic 6-4, 6-3. tournament prior to the August despite the pleas and induce- Herbert. and Julian Brandt, as well as defend- Bayern’s best opportunity of the nutmegged the experienced Neuer Sabalenka, of Belarus, reached her first final 26 start of the US Open at ments of Cincinnati officials Third seed Zverev, who er Mats Hummels, returning the first half fell to Kingsley Coman 10 to make it 2-0. since she won the Shenzhen Open in January. Flushing Meadows, the final that he won't decide whether to won the title here two years ago club after three seasons in Bavaria, minutes later. Influential Sancho left the field She and Vekic traded six service breaks in the Grand slam of the year. play there until he sees how he with a win over Federer in the were also ruled out due to injuries. He found himself unmarked in with 10 minutes to play after seem- first seven games before Sabalenka pocketed the Federer has been training feels after Montreal. final, will open against either Bayern captain Manuel Neuer the box but his toe-poke shot was ing to be hurt following an off-the- set. on hardcourt at home in “Depending on what hap- Briton Cameron Norrie or said errors proved costly. saved by Marwin Hitz low to the field challenge by Joshua Kimmich. Sabalenka broke twice more in the second set Switzerland after falling to pens in Montreal, I’ll take a Hungarian Martin Fucsovic. “We gave Dortmund the match right. Bayern coach Niko Kovac to capture the match in just under 80 minutes, after Djokovic in a dramatic five-set decision on Cincinnati,” he Tsitsipas will bid to better by making too many mistakes,” Bayern’s inability to make the brought on Portugal midfielder the players combined for 14 double faults and 10 final at the All England Club said. his 2018 finals showing but Neuer said. most of the ball in first 45 minutes Renato Sanches and France World service breaks. three weeks ago, in which the “Cincinnati is still an must first get past either home- “We made the mistakes all on came back to bite them almost Cup winner Benjamin Pavard late- “I don’t know, I just hit the ball as hard as I Swiss great held two match option. But I want to arrive well grown Milos Raonic, the 2013 our own, we gave them possession immediately after the break. on but they were unable to find the could and everything was going in,” Sabalenka said points. prepared and ready for the US finalist, or American Taylor and that’s why we conceded the Sancho attacked down the left goals to retain the title and the early- of the key to her victory. “Probably was a lucky day Djokovic has been pictured Open, the last major of the sea- Fritz, runner-up to de Minaur goals.” drawing four Bayern defenders season bragging rights. for me.” relaxing at various European son.” in Atlanta.   !"#$% #% @6 5,%D"4 "D9 )( % &&+ * )?@A<" 2!" *!"

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Keemo Paul gave West           FT+ tury in his comeback Test saw "He knows exactly what he's try- Indies their first break-   G     4   Australia compile a potentially match- ing to do, exactly what the opposition through when he bowled   A FFF# winning lead in the Ashes opener at are trying to do... he analyses every ball Shikhar Dhawan with the Edgbaston on Sunday. and it's like a computer, he spits out the Indian scorecard reading 67 Ashes-holders Australia, bidding answer," added Waugh, now a mentor for one in the eighth over. end, Kohli's deputy Rohit third man fielder Kieron to win their first Test series away to to the Australia squad. Two quite overs followed then smashed Carlos Pollard. England in 18 years, were 356-5 at tea England captain Joe Root brought as Indian captain Virat Kohli Brathwaite for a six and four Sheldon Cottrell then on the fourth day — 266 runs ahead himself on to bowl his part-time off- joined Rohit, who broke the as India's hundred came up had the big one, sending — with the hosts a bowler down in the breaks and deployed Joe Denly's occa- shackles with a six over deep in the 13th over. Kohli's middle stump cart- absence of James Anderson. sional leg-spin in a desperate bid for midwicket, Sunil Narine It took a fine catch from wheeling for a 23-ball 28 Smith made 142 following his 144 wickets on a sluggish pitch. being the bowler, and then Shimron Hetmyer to bring with a perfectly-executed in the first innings of the match — the Wicketkeeper Wade, playing as a brought up his 17th half-cen- an end to Rohit's stay in the yorker and performing his former Australia captain's first Test specialist batsman, with Australia cap- tury in this format with a sin- middle -- he hit one high up trademark salute celebra- since the end of a 12-month ban for tain Tim Paine behind the stumps, gle to long-off. in the air off Oshane Thomas tions. his role in last year's ball-tampering reverse-swept Root to complete a 70- Nicely getting under- with just over six overs left in By that time tough, scandal in South Africa. ball fifty. neath the flight of left-arm the Indian innings. Kohli became the highest Matthew Wade, in his first Test for Wade was given out lbw to Broad spinner Khary Pierre, Kohli Rishabh Pant (5) per- run scorer among Indians in nearly two years, was 86 not out after by Wilson on 69 but his review showed got going with a neat six. ished quickly, top-edging T20 cricket, including putting on 126 for the fifth wicket with the ball going over the top of the Well settled at the other Oshane into the hands of domestic tourneys. Smith. stumps. Only three times have a side made The new ball, however, did even- more than 150 in the fourth innings tually give England the wicket they to win a Test at Edgbaston. craved. Smith is just the fifth Australia Chris Woakes, on his     batsman to score a hundred in both Warwickshire home ground, got a innings of an Ashes Test, following delivery to deviate in the air outside off Warren Bardsley (1909), Arthur stump, with Smith edging an intend-   630$)7(66 that,” Bhuvneshwar said at the senior pacer. 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His con- their jobs, Cricket South Africa be appointed, who would take Moroe would appoint an interim tract was due to expire next month. <  "  (CSA) announced on Sunday. charge of all aspects of the nation- management team for the tour of Gibson said during the recent The decision, taken during a al team, including the appointment India as well as an interim selec- Cricket World Cup that he was keen board meeting last week, follows a of a coaching staff, the captain or tion panel and captain. to continue in the job but his    /03 $ disastrous South African World captains and medical and admin- Faf du Plessis, the current cap- prospects plummeted when South Cup campaign in which the istrative personnel. tain, was on Saturday night named Africa were among the first teams to ewis Hamilton regained his Proteas finished seventh of the 10 The team manager will report South African Cricketer of the Year be eliminated from contention for a Lmomentum in the drivers’ teams. directly to a Director of Cricket, a and it would be a surprise if he was World Cup semi-final place. world championship with a mem- The clean-out comes shortly new position. replaced. Van Zyl, 57, played in one unof- orable strategic victory on Sunday before a tour of India next month Former South African player Sunday’s statement said none ficial Test during South Africa’s when he overcame young rival during which South Africa will Corrie van Zyl, currently in charge of the current team management, years of isolation and in two one-day Max Verstappen to triumph in a play their first three Test matches of cricket pathways at CSA, will be including coaches, would be internationals in 1992 following the tense and thrilling Hungarian in the new world Test champi- acting Director of Cricket until a retained. country’s return to official interna- Grand Prix. onship. full-time appointment is made. “This change will herald an tional cricket. He had a brief spell as The 34-year-old defending In a statement, CSA said a The statement said Van Zyl exciting new era for the SA cricket South African coach between 2009 five-time champion started third on football-style team manager would  1      and CSA chief executive Thabang and will bring us into line with best and 2011. the grid in his Mercedes and, after stalking the 21-year-old Dutch tyro for most of a fascinating tac- tical contest, finally swept into the 7    lead on lap 67 of a stirring 70 laps. 2   G  1 Hamilton’s record seventh win  in Hungary and 81st of his career   .$50$67(   3.3 wrecked Red Bull’s hopes of turn- ) <    Kandola widened the gap Turkey last month. ing Verstappen’s maiden pole posi- between the two teams when he tar India grappler Vinesh “The biggest positives from tion into victory and increased his was ninth in the second Mercedes he Haryana Steelers played helped Haryana carry out an all SPhogat has bagged her wrestling against strong oppo- lead in the title race to 62 points and Alex Albon 10th for Toro Ttheir heart out, but went out of the Tamil Thalaivas team third consecutive Gold in nents are it forces me out of my before the sport’s European sum- Rosso. down 28-35 to the Tamil in the eleventh minute. women’s 53kg category after comfort zone, makes me push mer break. “What a drive, what a strategy,” Thalaivas in the Pro Kabaddi Naveen and Vinay backed winning the Poland Open my limits, and teaches important Verstappen, who led most of said Hamilton’s race engineer Peter League in Patna on Sunday. up Kandola with a few raid wrestling tournament in lessons! Happy with my perfor- the race before his tyres faded, Bonnington. “Only you could make Vikash Kandola bolstered points as the Haryana Steelers Warsaw. mance at the #PolandOpen came home 17.796 seconds behind that work today.” the Haryana team after making ended the first half with a nine- The 24-year-old pre- Excited by this start as a 53 kg in second and clocked a record race Mercedes matched Red Bull’s a return to the side, but the point lead at 19-10 vailed 3-2 over local wrestler wrestler, now onwards and fastest lap for the Hungaroring after strategy until gambling with a late Thalaivas found a way to main- The Tamil Thalaivas tried to Roksana in the final of the upwards,” Vinesh tweeted. a late pit-stop. additional pit-stop that left tain their lead in the last few fight back through a tackle competition. “As always, thank you to Four-time champion Sebastian Hamilton with 20 laps to make up minutes of the match. point and a few raid points, but Vinesh had earlier beat- everyone out there for the con- Vettel was third for Ferrari ahead a 20-second deficit on fresh tyres The Haryana Steelers got off raiders Kandola and Naveen en Sofia Mattson of Sweden, stant stream of good wishes, of team-mate Charles Leclerc, — a move that worked with to a great start through fantas- ensured that Haryana stay in the the Rio Olympics Bronze love, and support A big thank Carlos Sainz of McLaren and Pierre Verstappen complaining to his tic raids by Kandola and Naveen lead. Dharmaraj Cheralathan medallist, in the quarterfinals you to my coach Woller Akos, Gasly in the second Red Bull. team before he lost the lead “my in the opening minutes of the tackled Ajay Thakur in the 26th of this international tourna- physio Rucha, @IndiaSports, Kimi Raikkonen was seventh tyres are dead”. match. minute as the Haryana Steelers ment. @FederationWrest, and for Alfa Romeo ahead of Hamilton’s “They rolled the dice and it Vinay pulled off a brilliant took a five-point lead at 24-19. The top Indian woman @OGQ_India. Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas worked for them, unfortunately,” raid point in the sixth minute However, the Tamil wrestler had stood atop the “I thank god for the oppor- who had been forced into an early Red Bull team boss Christian and Sunil scored a tackle point Thalaivas gained momentum podium at Grand Prix of tunity. #lookingforward pit-stop after a first lap incident. Horner told Verstappen. in the next minute which helped thereafter and clinched raid and Spain and at the Yasar Dogu #makeeverydaycount British rookie Lando Norris “But you drove your heart out.” Haryana take a four-point lead. tackle points quickly. International at Istanbul, 2       1   #1YearToGo,” she added.