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Opposition parties, includ- aunching a “blistering” ing the Congress, Telugu Lattack on the dynastic rulers Desam Party (TDP), of Jammu & Kashmir, Prime Samajwadi Party, CPI and Minister Narendra Modi on CPI(M) came together to high- Sunday said he won’t allow the light the issue of transparency two families of Jammu & in the election process and pro- Kashmir to divide India. tection of voter rights with a “Two families have ruined call to “save democracy”. three generations of Jammu and The ruling dispensation Kashmir. For better future of BJP however termed the State, they need to be voted out,” Opposition parties meeting an Modi said here at an impressive exercise “to find excuses for public rally in sports stadium, their impending massive ! # ! Kathua. Modi was addressing an defeat” in the Lok Sabha polls. election rally in support of BJP The party said Opposition Opposition parties will randomly verified from 1 to 5 on Monday directed the EC to you press the button before X candidate, from Udhampur- alliance is a misnomer because approach the Supreme Court per Assembly constituency. He increase random matching of party, vote goes to Y party. Doda Parliamentary seat, Dr most of them are fighting elec- seeking a direction to the EC said a fresh petition will be filed VVPAT slips with EVMs to five VVPAT displays only for 3 sec- Jitendra Singh. tions separately. Opposition for counting of at least 50 per in the matter. “We are raising polling booths per assembly onds, instead of 7 seconds,” Responding to the thun- parties, including the Congress, cent of the VVPAT slips with doubts about the EVMs. The segment, from one at present, Singhvi said. dering applause from the have been demanding that all the EVMs in every Assembly confidence of the voter can in the The BJP said people are cheering crowd Modi said, votes polled through EVMs be segment. “If the EC will ignore only be restored through paper Lok Sabha polls, saying it will delivering a massive blow to “Abdullahs and Muftis have verified with at least 50 per cent this issue then we will take trail machines. We want the EC provide greater satisfaction not “this negative Opposition” and destroyed three generations of voter verifiable paper audit other measures. We will not sit to ensure 50 per cent counter just to political parties but the their attempts to really come Jammu and Kashmir. “I will trail (VVPATs). quietly. We will approach the check of paper trail of all the entire electorate. together are only “to express not allow them to divide the ! A VVPAT is intended as an Supreme Court,” said Sibal, EVMs,” Naidu said. Singhvi said the confession of their defeat in the country. “Modi na bikta hai, % &' independent verification sys- also a Rajya Sabh member. Naidu on Saturday had Opposition parties will carry ongoing elections”. na darta hai aur na jhukta hai”. tem for voting machines Andhra Pradesh Chief met Chief Election out a nationwide campaign on He said three generations designed to allow voters to ver- Minister and TDP supremo N Commissioner Sunil Arora to the issue of discrepancies in 5 ! belonging to these two fami- ify that their vote was cast cor- Chandrababu Naidu, a key raise the issue of EVM mal- EVMs and alleged that the EC * 2 / " lies have squeezed out rectly and will help detect any interlocutor of the Opposition, functioning. The demand by was not doing enough to 6 2/6 " & resources and triggered cata- possible election fraud or mal- said EVMs are not reliable and the parties comes in the peak address issue of EVM mal- 6 *61 *61#! " strophe in the State while function of EVMs. Opposition parties are not sat- of the election season. The functioning. “Questions were remaining in power. Congress leaders and isfied with the Supreme Court first of the seven phases of the raised after the first phase of ! Modi also challenged them 414 Ex-Chief Minister senior advocates Kapil Sibal order directing the EC to Lok Sabha polls was held on elections, we don’t think the EC ! ! to bring their entire clan into Mehbooba, whose party was in and Abhishek Singhvi said increase the number of EVM’s April 11. The Supreme Court is paying adequate attention. If ! field. “Bring your chacha, he BJP, with its “noxious power in the State from 2015- ! L mama, bhai, bhatija, bhanja. Tagenda” of “banishing” 2018 in an alliance with the BJP, "! !M Abuse Modi as much as you Muslims and minorities wants said the PM bashes political 76% " want but you won’t be able to to “divide” the country, PDP families before the elections , ! ! divide this nation”, he dared. president Mehbooba Mufti and then sends envoys to stitch " " On the occasion Modi also said on Sunday as she hit back alliance with them afterwards. )( exposed the politics being at Prime Minister Narendra “Why does PM bash polit- played by the troika of Modi over his remarks at a ical families pre elections & O ''62 Congress, National Conference rally in Kathua in Jammu then sends his envoys to stitch %! - ! and Peoples Democratic Party region of the State. alliances with the very same par- " " ! in the State. “What they were Also, NC president Farooq ties? NC in 99 & PDP in 2015. doing all these years is now out Abdullah dubbed Modi and Why do they choose power over L M! 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& #2034 programmes covered by The Pioneer, Hema suggested resi- onkey menace in the tem- dents to avoid feeding samosas Mple city of Mathura- and soft drinks and offer fruits Vrindavan has taken the cen- instead. tre stage during the ongoing “Unfortunately neither any Lok Sabha campaign where sit- contestant nor any political ting BJP MP and film star of party has been talking about yesteryears Hema Malini has the monkey trouble in taken a cautious stance in view Vrindavan and Mathura. While of the sentiment against the the populated areas are strug- simians among the voters and gling everyday for their safety, a favourable stand for the farmers are distressed by the mammals by followers of Lord damage caused to their crops in Hanuman. their fields. Malini has been guarded in While visits by the politi- her address while talking about cians to agricultural farms after the simians in her nukkad landing from the helicopter campaigns in the constituency. may be fine but the real griev- While residents of ances of the residents have to Vrindavan have formed sever- be addressed. We are with the al groups and vowed to cast () % !* + ! candidate who assures us of a their votes only to the candi- ! % &' solution to the problem,” said date who promises to address Narayan Bohre, who is leading the monkey business in the Yogi Adityanath had recently Hanuman) to pacify the ani- the ‘Save Vrindavan from area, Hema is treading cau- advised the angry residents to mals and forge harmony Monkeys’ movement around tiously on the sensitive issue as recite Hanuman Chalisa (cou- between the humans and simi- the Rangji Mandir. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister plets glorifying Lord ans. In one of her campaign Continued on Page 4 !"# $ (
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n India the legislation to as well as elderly have suc- forests, human and animal Animal rescue and kindness should be incul- Iprevent cruelty against ani- cumbed to serious injuries confrontations have become centres must be cated in children by taking mals was made as early as through animal bites are not inevitable. These homeless ani- better funded by them to animal rescue centres 1960, in the shape of unheard of. Most of these street mals have no place to live and government and and farms and encouraging Prevention of Cruelty to animals are not vaccinated, keep wandering in residential people should be them to feed animals. Animals Act. The same year underfed, ill and abused. It’s not places and markets in search of encouraged to In Dehradun several the Animal Welfare Board was a surprise then that they tend something to eat. Alongside make donations organisations like People For also created to mitigate uneth- to attack someone whom they human abuse, they also become to them. Animals, Doon Animal ical treatment of animals. perceive as a threat. Most ani- victims of road accidents and Maximum num- Welfare, Wildlife Preservation Despite these interventions the mals have been roaming about sustain crippling injuries. ber of stray ani- Society Of India, Raahat and horrific incidents of animal in a particular territory for Neither are animal emergency mals should be few others are already making abuse in India have perpetual- years and fed sporadically by medical services sufficient in shifted to animal a huge difference by helping ly been on the rise. Gandhi had residents of that area. They number nor do people in gen- rescue shelters animals in distress. We need rightfully propounded that “the become very territorial in eral have the will to provide and more farms more magnanimity and vol- greatness of a nation and its nature and tend to confront prompt medical help to them. should be devel- unteering for providing a life of moral progress can be judged those entering their localities Every year the stray animal oped as rescue dignity to animals in our city by the way its animals are after dark. People often get fed population seems to be rising centres for capac- who suffer in silence. With lit- treated”. up of being chased by stray unabated. The main reasons ity expansion. tle humanity and generosity on Across almost all Indian dogs and monkeys. Often feral being the failure of Free and quality the part of humans, a peaceful cities and towns the snow- cats, monkeys and cattle break Government in effective treatment should coexistence between humans balling population of stray ani- in to their premises in search administration of neutering be provided for and animals can become pos- mals is being perceived as a of food. People’s frustration due services to stray dogs and injured animals sible. Inspiration can be taken health menace or nuisance for to limited help from municipal doing the needful for other by the govern- from Istanbul where a veteri- the public. In the last few years bodies, animal shelters and stray animals.Besides this sev- ment through nary bus with a team of doctors several heart rending incidents rescue centres results in a eral people ruthlessly abandon proper helplines drives around the city and of violence and mass killing of majority of them becoming their old and sick pet dogs and and ambulance provides food, vaccination, stray dogs in various states had violent towards such animals. cattle. These abandoned ani- services. Pet own- medicines and restorative caught media attention. In fact They simply take law in their mals are completely unable to ers should be treatment to stray and each month the municipal cor- own hands by sometimes hir- fend for themselves and end up pressed into orphaned animals. Initiatives poration of Dehradun receives ing paid individuals to kill or being either critically injured or obtaining official like these talk volumes on the complains where residents relocate the cats and dogs, being starved to death. In registration and moral evolution of people in want stray dogs, cats, monkeys despite laws clearly forbidding many neighbourhoods in proper vaccina- society. Just like us, animals and cattle removed from their displacement of stray animals Dehradun people regularly tion for their pets. want to live their lives free of localities. This sheer revulsion from territory to another. This complain of monkey men- mals is a proactive initiative by for animal welfare. People must dumping waste carelessly out- Any acts of abandoning pets pain and suffering. It is up to of people towards stray animals feeling of revenge against stray ace.People fail to understand the government, NGOs and the be strongly discouraged form side the waste containers must should be punishable. More each one of us to make choic- emanates from the cases of dog animals emanates from the that it is humans who have public. A mass systematic neu- discarding leftover food in res- be fined heavily. Acts of cruel- and more people should be es that respect all animals on bites, monkey bites and cattle inability of people to empathise made inroads into their habi- tering must be done for all the idential areas to avoid attract- ty against stray animals includ- encouraged to adopt cats and earth. bullying that are becoming with their plight. tats and not vice versa. stray dogs by the government ing animals. Garbage contain- ing killing, maiming or poi- dogs from rescue centres rather increasingly common. With expansion in resi- The only solution to ensure with the involvement of non ers must be properly closed and soning must be thoroughly than purchasing expensive for- (The author is a retired civil Instances where young children dential areas and felling of the safety of people as well ani- profit organisations working cleaned routinely. Anyone punished by law enforcers. eign breeds. Values of giving servant) $ % & -! ( ,
/-04/3 fire stations in total. In the year /-04/3 2018 in all fire stations we he police department paid received 706 reports regarding uthor and historian Thomage to the fire and res- fire related incidents in the dis- ARoshen Dalal along with cue service personnel who laid trict. Responding to these inci- authors Ratna Manucha and down their lives in the line of dent reports, we managed to Paromita Goswami interacted duty during the rescue opera- save lives of many humans with children at an event tion in the year 1944. April 14 and animals apart from saving organised by literary startup is observed every year as the property amounting to about The Booknerds. The event National Fire Service Day to Rs 43,81,23,200.” focussed on the reading culture remember those 66 fire fight- He further added, “With and reducing screen time ers who lost their lives during rapid urbanisation in the state among kids. the explosion that took place at there has been a rise of about Moderating the event, co- freighter SS Fort Stikine at the 600 per cent in fire related founder of The Booknerds, Victoria Docks in the then incidents. In the past few Rohan Raj introduced the Bombay Port. years with active fire fighting authors while also asking them At Gandhi Road fire sta- the importance of passive fire about their beginnings as writ- tion in Dehradun, the Senior protection has also increased. ers. Author Roshen Dalal who Superintendent of Police (SSP) This is why for raising the is an ex- teacher said that teach- Nivedita Kukreti paid homage awareness of citizens, April 14 ing history in schools made her to the fire fighters who laid to 20 is observed as as realise the need to make these down their lives during rescue National Fire Service week, concepts understandable to missions. Addressing the gath- during which various pro- kids. She also mentioned the ering present on the occasion grammes will be held. Further, story of her first book Puffin she said, “From 22 fire stations we have computerised all fire History of India Volume One dren's books, which stayed with Later, Manucha read an up questions from the audience to 33 fire stations with three stations so that fire services with Penguin and how she her as she grew older. Paromita extract from her book Cinders on writing ideas and schedule. units, we have come a long way / % ! % can be provided through became an accidental writer. Goswami talked about her char- Red and Gold followed by the There was storytelling by in these 19 years. At present online medium too.” Ratna Manucha recalled that acter Messy from her book authors talking about their Goswami after which the about 970 fire fighters are are ready to be opened.” Dehradun, the Chief Fire Fire fighting and rescue since childhood she had been an Grow Up Messy and how Messy favourite children’s book, how authors interacted with all the working day and night in the Giving details about the Officer (CFO) Sandeep Rana skills were also demonstrated avid reader and she used to sit is a reflection of her memories parents can help encourage readers during a book signing state and about 11 new units progress of fire department in said, “In Dehradun we have five by personnel on the occasion. in libraries and read all the chil- of growing up in the 80s. reading among kids and took session. ! *!P ! '
& had been requisitioned for his countries. “There was began to move camp to #3 5541- use by the Indian government. no interference from Dharamshala. His mother was with him, Delhi over how I and It was on April 29, 1960 t was sixty long years ago besides some others from his the growing number of (59 years ago) that the Dalai Iwhen Tibetan spiritual leader household. His officials lived Tibetans conducted Lama left Mussoorie for DalaiLama, who is unwell these close to Birla House. our lives. I had begun Dharamshala. Today, there are days, arrived in Mussoorie, his In his autobiography, to give weekly audi- several families who still live first home in India. After “Freedom in Exile”, Dalai Lama ences in the grounds of in the Happy Valley whose spending a year in the tranquil has described this one-year Birla House. This gave ancestors came along to hills of Mussoorie, the Tibetan stay in Mussoorie as “A me the opportunity to Mussoorie with the Dalai government in exile moved to Desperate Year”. The year meet a variety of peo- Lama. At The Tibetan Homes Dharamshala in Himachal included several meetings with ple and tell them about Foundation in the Happy Pradesh. the then prime minister the real situation in Valley, paintings of the Dalai Thus, this popular hill sta- Jawaharlal Nehru. The first Tibet,” he says in his Lama sitting with Nehru can tion has the great distinction of was on April 24, 1959-(60 autobiography. be seen by visitors. being the very first home of the years ago) at Mussoorie. It was around the In September 1959, the Dalai Lama, when he came to “We talked for over four end of the year 1959 Dalai Lama went to Delhi from India in 1959.The Dalai Lama hours, assisted by a single that Dalai Lama came Mussoorie to meet then Prime has visited Mussoorie as well as interpreter ……I began to to know of the Indian Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and the Doon valley in later years realise that the prime minister government’s plans to Jayaprakash Narayan. It was in several times. But the first visit found himself in an extremely move him to perma- the spring of 1960 that the of the Tibetan spiritual leader delicate and embarrassing posi- nent accommodation Government in exile was shift- in April 1959 will always tion,” writes the DalaiLama in at Dharamshala. “I ed to Dharamshala in remain memorable for this hill his autobiography. “In the found Dharamsala Himachal Pradesh. station. It was indeed a historic Indian Parliament, another on the map and dis- However, Mussoorie, the April for Mussoorie. tense debate on the Tibetan covered that it was “Queen of Hills” will always be The month of April in the question had followed the news another hill station, proud of the fact that it was the years 1959 and 1960 witnessed of my escape from Lhasa.” like Mussoorie, but in Tibetan spiritual leader’s first landmark events in the histo- He also writes that he a considerably more home in India and memories of ry of the Tibetan government began to get the impression remote location. I his year-long stay can be felt in in exile in India as it was in that Nehru thought of him as requested that I be the atmosphere of the area April 1959 that the young Dalai a “young person who needed to allowed to send a where he and his followers Lama arrived in Mussoorie be scolded from time to time”. Tibetan government resided. Families of those and in April 1960 that he left Soon after Dalai Lama’s arrival official to Dharamshala Tibetans who stayed on here this hill station for another hill here, a large number of refugees to see whether it was and did not leave for town, Dharamshala in arrived in India. He sent his really suitable for our Dharamshala with him are Himachal Pradesh, with eighty officials to receive them at the needs.” always ready to share a tale or officials of the government in camps opened by the Indian The Tibetan offi- two about the year when the exile. government. cial who was sent came Dalai Lama and the govern- The 23 year old Dalai Lama On June 20, 1959 Dalai back after a week and ment in exile were in fled Tibet in March 1959 and Lama broke his silence and announced that Mussoorie’s Happy Valley. reached Mussoorie where he held a Press conference in “Dharamshala water is Mussoorie was witness to this began staying at the Birla Mussoorie which was attended better than Mussoorie important chapter in Tibetan House in Happy Valley which by 130 reporters from several milk”, and preparations history. ! " # $ % S ' " (
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041/.4 (+ $$ he war of words between Ttwo Bharatiya Janata Party /-04/3 from touring his constituency tory would be considerable. The MLAs in Haridwar district- extensively. He stressed that the BJP State president further Pranav Singh ‘Champion’ and eturning to Dehradun after general public is enthusiastic informed that the party workers Deshraj Karnwal shows no Rpolling for the Lok Sabha and eager to re-elect Narendra from Uttarakhand would also go signs of abating. The verbal elections, the Bharatiya Janata Modi as Prime Minister for a sec- to other states to campaign for the spat between Singh who rep- Party state president and party’s ond term. Due to the will of the party. They would be going to resents Khanpur and Karnwal Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar public, the BJP is confident of vic- Himachal Pradesh, Uttar who represents Jhabreda has constituency candidate, Ajay tory in all the five Lok Sabha con- Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, West been escalating for some time Bhatt reiterated that the party will stituencies in the state. “While Bengal, Odisha and Chhattisgarh. now with both making con- mark a resounding victory from campaigning in the Nainital- The BJP State vice president troversial statements against all the five parliamentary con- Udham Singh Nagar con- Jyoti Prasad Gairola has prepared each other. The statements stituencies in Uttarakhand. Bhatt stituency for the Lok Sabha elec- the list of party workers to be sent being made by the two MLAs returned to Dehradun and tion, I kept in touch with the rou- to these states for campaign. against each other are causing resumed charge as the party’s tine activities of the party and Earlier, while welcoming discomfort for the party with a classes. bout at the Nehru stadium in state president at the BJP state used to get information from him, Gairola said that even difference as the discipline it is This is not the first time he Roorkee. office where he was accorded a across the state. Based on the while campaigning in his con- known for is being shred by 6 ! #) has questioned the BJP state While Karnwal reportedly welcome by the party members information I have received from stituency for the parliamentary such open allegations and government. Earlier, before the went to the stadium on on Sunday. across the State, I am confident polls, Bhatt had maintained counter-allegations, opine Dehradun: The Bharatiya behaviour. He said that the party had declared candidates Saturday morning and left after After paying tribute to BR that the BJP candidates will be communication across the state. observers. Janata Party State president senior leadership of the party for the Lok Sabha elections, he waiting for some time, Singh Ambedkar on his birth anniver- elected in all the parliamentary The BJP State media in-charge While Singh has been Ajay Bhatt has stated that the had also been intimated about had alleged that developmen- also went to the stadium later sary, Bhatt said that he did not constituencies of Uttarakhand.” Devendra Bhasin was also pre- alleging that Karnwal had sub- public statements being made the verbal spat between the two tal works had not been exe- in the day and returned after wish to contest the Lok Sabha Referring to the situation in sent on the occasion. It will be mitted a fake caste certificate, by the two MLAs from MLAs of the party. cuted in the Haridwar parlia- waiting for some time. Later at elections but was directed to do Nainital-Udham Singh Nagar recalled here that with Bhatt the Jhabreda MLA has been Haridwar district amount to The party would issue mentary constituency. a Press conference, Karnwal so by the party leadership after constituency, he said that he did being busy campaigning as the alleging that Singh’s qualifica- indiscipline. Talking to media notices to the duo and after The verbal spat between had stated that the era of set- the sitting MP Bhagat Singh not find any challenge in the con- candidate from Nainital-Udham tions are fake and that he is no persons at the party state office receiving their replies would Singh and Karnwal has been tling disputes through wrestling Koshyari expressed his unwill- stituency from Congress candi- Singh Nagar constituency, the champion. The Khanpur MLA here on Sunday, Bhatt said consider whether to take dis- escalating for about a fort- was past and gestured pressing ingness to contest the election. He date Harish Rawat. Expressing party’s state general secretary has now reportedly also alleged that notices would be served to ciplinary action against them, night now. Recently, the a trigger with his finger while said that he had been regularly confidence about his chances of Naresh Bansal had been tem- that the State Government is the two MLAs seeking expla- added the party’s state presi- Khanpur MLA had challenged stating that this was how dis- taking feedback from the party’s winning from the constituency, porarily made the acting state ignoring the other backward nation from them for their dent. PNS his Jhabreda counterpart to a putes are now settled. district heads and others apart he added that the margin of vic- president of the BJP. 0 !" * ! !( )0 2 0 %%
100 years old, this tree has been said dates is due to the dou- a prominent feature of this ble line construction work place. happening near Lucknow- Two of its large branches Raebareli railway track. developed cracks following Providing information strong winds experienced in about the cancellation of these the recent past. trains station superintendent It is said that Corbett him- Sitaram Sonkar said on self used to hold chaupals Sunday, “Trains from different (meetings) in the shade of this areas are getting affected by very tree. the double line construction Presently, visitors to the work that’s been happening Corbett museum also enjoy the near Lucknow-Raebareli rail- shade of this tree located near way track. From Dehradun, the museum. two trains have been can- The museum in-charge celled this week. Janata Umed Singh Nagarkoti had express will be cancelled from informed in writing to the April 16 to 24. Another one is Ramnagar range office for lop- Upasana Express, which will ping of this tree to avoid dam- be cancelled on two days, age in case the branches fall. April 17 and 20.” Nagarkoti informed that When asked that when Corbett is said to have held these trains are set to resume meets under this tree which is he said, “Hopefully now about a century old. the construction work will It is also said that when an be done within the time unusually large tiger was active frame. In the meanwhile pas- in the Kaulagarh area, Corbett sengers can use Howrah reached the area and managed Express as an alternate medi- to kill the big cat. um.” The said tiger is also It is pertinent to mention reported to have been buried here that Janata Express runs under this tree. It now remains from Dehradun to Varanasi to be seen as to what the /-04/3 The Dehradun-Varanasi Upasana Express (12328) on via Haridwar, Moradabad, & 0)/.1 tionist Jim Corbett is believed A large Kanju (Holoptelea department does to ensure the Janata Express (14266) has April 17 and 20. Bareilly, Hardoi and Lucknow. to have held meetings has integrifolia) or Indian Elm tree protection of this tree which is assengers travelling from been cancelled from April 16 According to the station The Upasana Express runs tree in Kaladhungi, said to developed cracks on some of its is located in the campus of the not only environmentally valu- PDehradun to Varanasi and to 24. Passengers travelling superintendent of Dehradun from Dehradun to Abe about 100 years old branches due to strong winds Jim Corbett museum in able but also historically impor- Ujjain will have to face diffi- from Dehradun to Howrah railway station the cancella- Howrah via Varanasi, Patna under which hunter-conserva- in the recent past. Kaladhungi. Said to be about tant. culty for some time. too will not be able to board tion of these two trains on the and Jhajha. $ ' ( ""$ %& ' )' * &"+!)' /-04/3 041/.4 eputy inspector general and Traffic he long weekend with back to back DDirectorate director Kewal Khurana Tsnans of Vaisakhi and the occasion of has reiterated that rallies should not be Ambedkar Jayanti are a challenge for the allowed on the main roads during peak district police and administration for hours. Despite comparatively sparse traf- which ample security measures were fic on Sunday, various processions taken made by the district authorities. On out in the city caused disruption of traf- Sunday thousands of people took the holy fic on different roads. dip at Har Ki Paidi. The Vaisakhi snan Processions taken out for religious, passed peacefully amidst strict security. cultural, protest and political purposes in In the morning hours the traffic flow the provisional state capital from time to was normal but with the progressing of the time cause considerable disruption in day towards late evening, vehicular traf- traffic and major inconvenience to the fic increased. Route diversions for vehicles public. With the local authorities appear- coming from Dehradun to Delhi are ing helpless to effectively address this issue, planned for the next two days. The light days on account to Somvati Amavasya lady constables, 13 traffic police constables, DIG Kewal Khurana has reiterated that any vehicles coming from Delhi will be rout- snan for which ample of security measures two traffic sub inspectors and one com- sort of procession shall not be allowed on ed through Khanpur rather than normal have been taken.” pany of Provincial Armed Constabulary the main roads of the city during peak route of Narsen traversing through The officials were directed to take nec- had been deployed in the mela zone. hours. -& %! % & Pherupur. essary measures to maintain law and Besides these, two teams of Bomb Disposal He told The Pioneer through phone The vehicles coming via Najibabad to order in the area. Squad, two bike fire service teams and dog from Assam, where he is on election duty, If necessary they can be held early in the It is pertinent to mention here that on Haridwar were made to park in They were directed to keep the closed squad had also been arranged in case of that he will once again speak to the offi- morning,” he added. the occasion of Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s Gaurishankar and Neeldhara parking circuit television cameras operational in emergency. cers concerned on this issue. He said, “I About the traffic congestion caused by birth anniversary, a procession was held while returning they were routed through sensitive areas of Har ki Paidi, Khadkhadi, Whole of the mela zone was divided will speak about this issue to Dehradun various processions here on Sunday, SP that started from DL Road and passed Chandi Ghat to Najibabad highway. railway station and Rodibelwala. Four into 14 zones and 41 sectors and security senior superintendent of police once I (Traffic) Prakash Chandra said, “A prop- through Kanak Chowk, Lansdowne Speaking to The Pioneer, the Haridwar teams of water police and divers were personnel were deployed at the sensitive come back. We have earlier issued letters er route plan was made for these proces- Chowk, Survey Chowk and then ended at senior superintendent of police Janmejay deployed. areas and major crossings. From the early to superintendent of police (Traffic) and sions and traffic police men were also pre- at DL Road again. Similarly procession of Khanduri said, “It was just a normal day A team of 130 sub inspectors, 28 police hours of the morning, the security per- other officers who are on field that these sent with the procession. However, route Veer Savarkar Sangathan on the occasion on Vaisakhi but we are anticipating heavy station in-charge, 35 lady sub inspectors, sonnel were directed to reach their post- processions should not be allowed on the diversion always creates difficulties for the of Ram Navami disrupted traffic near rush from today evening till next three 55 head constables, 547 constables, 145 ed points by the district administration. main roads, especially during peak hours. citizens.” Clock Tower and nearby areas. % $ # # &
& & damental right of every child in education since initial years in Most of its recommenda- Haridwar district administra- school dropouts and non- working in quarrying areas 041/.4 the age of 6 to 14 years through the post-independence era. In ! tions dealing with elementary tion in the eye. schooling is in minority and move to their work site after 3- the 86th amendment by insert- 1949, recognising the urgency of ! school education were not Single teacher schools are a labour classes. The parents of 4 months. Similar is the case ven after 10 years of ing a clause in the Indian catching up with scientifically " implemented due to some polit- big challenge before the admin- minority class prefer sending with farmers who work as Eannouncement of Right to Constitution in 2002. advanced countries, the Indian # $# ical compulsions of the time. istration. RTE Act specifies that their children to madrassas labourers on farm lands. Education (RTE) law re- But still as per child census government appointed a high- Different priorities like any school with enrollment where they are deprived of for- They keep shifting to Uttar enforced under Parliament Act 2016-17 census, Out Of School er education commission and eradication of poverty and the upto 60 students at primary mal education. Pradesh border areas with of India on August 4, 2009, the Children(OoSC) in the six to 14 implemented its recommenda- egalitarian society consistent like needed to be addressed. level must have at least 2 teach- We are trying to bring them change of harvesting crops situation is grave in the moun- years age group from Haridwar tions. with the ideals of Indian con- But now even after 70 years ers. Very few students enroll at to the main stream by giving which in turn affects their prop- tain state of Uttarakhand. The shows that total of 479 children However, elementary stitution. of independence the education primary level, and those who accreditation to these madras- er regularised education. official data in Uttarakhand are not attending school out of school education did not In 1966 the National for every child is not realised. do, drop out before reaching sas. As far as the children of Education guarantee schools estimates it has hundreds of which children with special achieve a priority treatment. Education Commission pro- Amid a considerable short- secondary level. labour class are concerned, (EGS) and residential schools children who do not go to needs are 161. This was the first and crucial duced a detailed blueprint for age of educators and dilapidat- The District Education most of them engage their chil- with bridge courses have been school or are drop outs. A glance at the past shows missed opportunity as it would achieving an educational revo- ed primary school buildings, Officer (Basic) Brahmpal Saini dren in work. initiated which provide them Education became a fun- that India has been focusing on have contributed to building an lution. many challenges are staring the said, “The major problem of Many labourers who are education at the work site.” !"# $ ' ### #R 333 012 2 -) From page 1 are also seemingly inclined in Another unit led by favour of the ( 6 Acharya Mridul Shastri of Mahagathbandhan candidate Radha Kant Mandir rued that and the remaining electorate leaders commit solving the from the community may even -./-)01 injury on his left cheek. hold a road show from the Biju Besides, Uttar Pradesh problem just before an election vote for Congress candidate During investigation, it was revealed that Patnaik International Airport Chief Minister Yogi but nothing is done once the Mahesh Pathak, a local busi- raze for shooting a video and in eagerness to Salman, along with his two friends Sohail, a resi- 4( (BPIA) to the meeting venue Adityanath would also hit the polls are over. “This time nessman, who according to Cupload on social media platform, proved fatal dent of New Jafrabaad and Aamir, a resident of New via Siripur Square, Mohanty BJP election campaign trail in around, the residents of residents is nowhere in the for 19-year-old on Saturday night, as he was killed Seelampur, had gone to India Gate in his Creta car. 6 said. Odisha on Monday. He would Vrindavan are united on this race. by one of his friends. The youth’s friend was report- While they were returning from India Gate and On the day, before coming attend public rallies in issue and have made it clear to Hailing from South India, edly trying to make a video while holding a coun- reached near Ranjit Singh Flyover, Sohail, seated 7037- .4 to Bhubaneswar, Modi would Rourkela, Angul and leaders including the sitting Hema has now been staying try made weapon (Katta) and shot at his face. The on the front seat along with Salman who was dri- visit Sambalpur and address an Phulbani. MP Hemaji,” said Shastri. near the Banke Bihari temple in incident took place at Barakhambha Road and the ving. Sohail took out a country made pistol which rime Minister Narendra election rally there, informed This was informed by BJP But more than the mon- Vrindavan and made the loca- injured youth Salman was taken to a hospital but he was carrying with him and fired upon aiming PModi is scheduled to visit Union Minister Dharmendra State spokesperson Golak keys, what seems to bother tion her second home. was declared dead. at Salman on the pretext of making video on ‘tik Bhubaneswar on Tuesday Pradhan. Mohapatra on Sunday. Hema more is the stronger SP- Residents and BJP party work- Police said, they have registered a case of mur- tok’ mobile application, said the senior police offi- (April 16) to address a BJP elec- Notably, both Earlier a few days ago, BSP-RLD Grand Alliance can- ers around Hema Malini’s cam- der and have arrested two friends of the deceased cial. Salman was shot twice from a very close range. tion meeting at the Baramunda Bhubaneswar and Sambalpur Adityanath had to return with- didate Kunwar Narendra Singh. paign base said she has and are investigating whether it was an acciden- Their friend Aamir was seated on the rear seat Ground at 2 pm, informed Parliamentary constituencies out joining an election cam- While pulling the horse cart matured as a politician and tal firing or a case of homicide. of the car when the incident happened, police said. BJP State vice-president will go to polls in the third paign in Ganjam was easier for Hema in 2014 developed an effective con- The deceased has been identified as Salman, According to a relative of Salman, “Two of his Samir Mohanty here on phase of the simultaneous Lok and Kandhamal districts as amid the Modi wave, the nect with the electorate. a resident of New Jafrabad area of North east Delhi. friends came last night at his house and asked him Sunday. Sabha and Assembly elections his aircraft lacked night flight Muslim-Jat Mahagathbandhan In 2014 Lok Sabha elec- According to a senior police official, information to visit Indian Gate along with them following Prior to this, Modi would in Odisha on April 23. fitness. combination has forced the tions, Hema had defeated RLD was received from the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash which Salman took his car and left the house. The veteran Parliamentarian to take heavyweight and party vice- Hospital that one Salaman was admitted in the incident took place while they were returning home choppers to agricultural farms president Jayant Chaudhary emergency ward after having received gunshot on Saturday night. to aggressively canvass in the by a massive margin of 3,30,743 run up to polls for the con- votes under the influence of an stituency on April 18. apparent Modi-wave. Mathura “There are no worries. Me constituency, considered to be #+R $%&999 and my people here are more the stronghold of Jat voters, is 7-A54- 2421 more the unique also visited several temples in love with each other and all set to face a direct fight selling proposition (USP) of during the election campaign hence Mahamilawat, a refer- between Hema and From page 1 He said the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 45/ 05. BJP, primarily known as a and ahead of filing nomination ence to the Mahagathbandhan, Gathbandan candidate Kunwar “They are openly threatening us to divide commitment and ‘Desh Ka Chowkidar’ (refer- Hindu party. Apart from Prime paper. will have no impact on our pyar Narendra Singh. India, resort to bloodshed. Pakistan was also say- ring to himself) carried the same emotions as BHUBANESWAR: Temples Minister Narendra Modi and When Patnaik went to file (love),” Hema told The Pioneer Political analyst Subransh ing that we have nuclear weapons. But every- Syama Prasad Mukherjee. have now become the starting BJP president Amit Shah, his nomination papers seeking on the sidelines of a campaign Rai said if the grand alliance one knows what we did. We will never allow Criticising the Indian National Congress, point of political shows and Congress president election for fifth time from in Vrindavan area. candidate manages to swing the those people to succeed who want a separate PM Modi said they won’t succeed in ‘disinte- leaders follow it with all sin- Rahul Gandhi also adorned Hinjili, he visited Maa Tara While the traditional BJP entire Jat, OBC, Muslim and Prime Minister for the State. Jammu and grating’ the ‘motherland’ (India). He said that cerity. ‘dhoti’ and offered puja at Shree Tarini Temple, a powerful and Modi (Prime Minister Thakur votes in its favour then Kashmir is an integral part of India,” he thun- Congress is doing everything to come back to More than the blessings of Mahakal temple recently. Shakti Pitha, where he per- Narendra Modi) voters will it will be difficult for Hema this dered. power. “They (Congress) want to do away with gods and goddesses, the lead- BJD president Naveen formed puja before going to the remain intact as they are com- time. Referring to National Conference president the AFSPA but the BJP will never allow them ers want to show their voters Patnaik is also no Sub-Collector’s office at mitted party voters, the Jat “Congress candidate Omar Abdullah’s demand of a separate Prime to do so,” Modi said. He said the Armed forces that they too believe in the different. Chhatrapur in Ganjam dis- votes are estimated to go in a Mahesh Pathak is eyeing the Minister for Jammu and Kashmir, Modi said, “I and security agencies operating in the State need almighty and therefore start Though it is considered trict. People found him with a consolidated way in favour of upper caste and Muslim votes will never allow ‘Do Nishan, Do Vidhan and Do the protection of the AFSPA. their work from the temple that Patnaik is not like a per- red ‘tilak’ on his forehead while Mahagathbhadhan candidate, and this could only be a spoil- Pradhan’ (Two constitutions, two flags and two The Prime Minister also held Congress gates. son to frequent temples or filing nomination papers for an RLD nominee, and a Jat. er for the major contestants,” sovereign heads) to rule in our land. Ours motive responsible for the migration of Kashmiri Thus, visiting temple is no perform puja at home, he has Hinjili. PNS Larger chunk of Muslims Rai said. is that of Syama Prasad Mukherjee,” Modi said. Pandits. 7 % ! , & '- ) imately 50 subways and 73 Foot over Bridges (FOB) located in different parts of Delhi for the use of pedestrians. According to -./-)01 officials, the PWD plans to open shops in the subways and he Delhi Police have arrest- provideTed three cheats including a proper lighting so that woman who used to dupe job subways don’t wear a deserted aspirants by creating fake web- look. site of a renowned online job PWD’s measures were portal, said the police on announced after Lieutenant- Sunday. Governor Anil Baijal directed The arrested trio were iden- the department to address this tified as, Raju Kumar (24), Ravi issue and take remedial mea- Kumar (21) a native of Aara dis- sures. The main aim of the plan trict in Bihar and their woman was to remove the anti-social accomplice Aamna 25), they activities being carried out in said adding that the Cyber subways after sunset. Crime Cell of West District has The authorities have decid- claimed to bust a gang of online ed to provide space in subways job fraudsters prior to their wherever feasible for shops arrest. which can be operated till late at DCP (West) Monika night. Bharadwaj said, a complaint At Bhikajii Cama Place, alleged that he in search of a there was 20 year old Aishwarya new job visited a job portal. ( 3 -'& # ! 4!(- ! 6 # ! who was franctically waiving at When he logged in the website speeding motorists to allow her a lady called him and offered job passage to cross the road said, “I opportunities in banking sector. & city. their nose to escape the foul people. ways is poorly constructed, Ahmad, a resident of Kashmere know it is risky but my person- She further told the complainant -./-)01 The PWD top brass after smell. The shopkeepers and peo- stinking as the people urinate, Gate. al safety is more important. that an amount of Rs. 10/- is to receiving umpteen complaints, The Pioneer visited more ple living near Kashmere Gate, the walls are dirty and littered Another subway situated The subway is highly unsafe and be paid to sign up on the web- n order to rein in anti-social asked its staffs to conduct spe- than 10 subways situated across said, “It’s better to wait at the red with betel stains. near Hanuman Mandir, Yamuna scary too. site. Aadhar card and PAN card Ielements from running amok cial inspections and also to keep the city such as Lajpat Nagar, light and cross the road than Moreover, the local people Bazar (Kashmere Gate) that The other subway behind number of the complainant in the subways, especially after a close eye on the maintenance Andrews Ganj, Kashmere Gate, using the subways which accom- and the shop dwellers are scared allows both vehicles (auto, motor the Bhikaji complex has become was also asked for filling in the evening hours, the Public Works and cleanliness of the Foot Over Asaf Ali Road, Bahadur Shah modates anti-social elements to use these subways as it is a cycles, rickshaws) and there is no a bit better after it was connect- field. Department (PWD) last year Bridge (FOB) situated across the Zafar Marg, Bhikaji Cama Place, such as drug addicts, pickpock- home for drug addicts, who separate track for pedestrians. It ed with the metro station. Complainant made pay- had proposed a plan to open city. Munirka, Safdurjung, All India eters and thieves. Why to take often rob people. “The walkways becomes extremely dangerous Authorities should also link the ment of Rs. 10 through his cred- shops with proper lighting, However, in a reality check Institute of Medical Sciences risk when a little wait can take have been constructed but there after the sunset as poor lighting other subway with the metro to it card, thereafter; he noticed cleanliness and other steps such done by The Pioneer found that (AIIMS), ITO, Connaught Place you to the other side safely”, they are no proper facility, no lights, makes it easier for the anti-social make it safer as more people will that his credit card has been as security guards, so that sub- 90 per cent of the subways and (CP), Scindia House and found added. stinking and no security guard. elements to control the subways. will be using it.” debited with almost Rs 10 thou- ways don’t wear a deserted look. FOBs constructed by the PWD that people especially women There are two subways at Even if there is a guard either he Locals said they fear using this In other places such as at sand. The complainant enquired The aim behind the plan was to are in pathetic condition avoid using these subways. the Kashmere Gate that are not is drunk or he also fears these subway, even during the day as Lajpat Nagar and Andrews with the lady who simply told provide safety and security and as nauseating stench Vagabonds and drug addicts connected to Delhi Metro and drug addicts and outlwas. These these elements are lurking in the Ganj, pedestrians also com- that it was a technical glitch and to encourage the public to use emanates 24/7 and pedestrians could be seen inside subways are virtual nightmare for the subways are not safe for both the vicinity. plained about the lack of esca- they will refund the amount these subways situated across the could be seen putting scarves on and that acts as a deterrent to the public as the underground walk- boys and girls,” said Zakir Currently, there are approx- lators, ramps and lifts. right now by sending an OTP to the complainant. The com- plainant gave his OTP to the alleged person and after which .' ' /"" )' * , "' %' * " twice the money was deducted from his account. (' ) ) ' * - *. % () + -. were developed R /-)01 and arrested two 01#) accused within 24 elhi Police have hours of incident he Bharatiya Janata Party -./-)01 Ali’s daughter was admitted in -./-)01 Darrested two persons and recovered the T(BJP) in Himachal Pradesh the Trauma centre after she fell who used to dupe public cheated money is gunning its own party leader, ruckus was created at AIIMS from the fourth floor of her t was a warm Sunday, with by impersonating as from their pos- who resigned from the Jai Ram ATrauma Centre after the house in Nizamuddin area cou- Ithe maximum temperature Income Tax officers. session. Thakur-led cabinet two guards and bouncers thrashed ple of days back. settling two degrees Celsius Inspired by bollywood During inter- days ago. the family of a patient who They further alleged that above normal. The maximum flick Special 26 the rogation, Sood The BJP is asking its former alleged that the hospital securi- whenever they went to meet temperature was recorded at accused recently con- disclosed that he Power Minister Anil Sharma to ty staff passed lewd comments their daughter the guards used to 38.1 degrees Celsius, while the ducted a fake raid in West is a graduate in quit from the party over his love on his wife. pass lewd comments on his minimum temperature settled (Meteorology and Delhi’s Rajouri Garden zoology and was for his son. Congress greenhorn However the hospital wife. Today when he confront- at 21.8 degrees Celsius, a notch Climate Change) of Skymet area and duped a person running Ashray Sharma, who learnt pol- authorities denied such claims ed them the matter escalated. above normal. said. to the tune of 48 lakhs. Ayurvedic medi- itics for years from his father Anil and said that the persons were However the hospital staff Humidity level oscillated “In the wake of fresh The arrested duo have been 48 lakhs cash. cine shop in Rohini. He was Sharma, is in the fray from the forcefully entering the emer- denied the allegations made by between 67 and 26 per cent Western disturbance, a cyclonic identified as, Nitin Sood (32) The accused then prepared also arrested in a robbery case Mandi Lok Sabha seat. He is pit- gency ward which is not allowed. the family and said that the while the sky remained partly circulation is likely to form over and Praveen Kumar (30), said seizure memo and took his sig- of 90 Lakhs from a Jeweller of ted against first-time BJP MP According to the Deputy alleged family along with their cloudy, a MeT department offi- Rajasthan and a trough will the police and recovered Rs. nature and asked him to report Paschim Vihar and another Ram Swaroop Sharma. Commissioner of police (south relatives was forcefully trying to cial said. The weatherman has also extend to north MP. So we 22.45 Lakhs from their pos- to Income tax office after two case of cheating case wherein The father and son belong to west) Devender Arya, at about 3 enter the restricted area of emer- predicted thunder and dust expect Delhi and adjoining session. days, along with the proof of he sold a plot with forged doc- the political dynasty of former pm a PCR call was received gency ward and when the secu- storms between Monday and areas to experience pre-mon- DCP (West) Monika money. While leaving the uments. Union Telecom Minister Sukh regarding quarrel at AIIMS rity staff stopped them they Wednesday with the likelihood soon activities,” he said. Bharadwaj said, on Thursday, house they also took away One of his friends Neha Ram, 91. The BJP has raised the Trauma Center. A 37 year old indulged in a verbal spat which of rain. According to the depart- a complainant reported that at DVR of CCTV from his house informed him that there is battle cry of dynastic politics. lady informed that guards of the turned ugly. “There are chances of ment, the maximum tempera- about 9 am four persons on the pretext to ascertain huge unaccountable cash in the BJP Chief Minister Thakur, hospital thrashed her husband On the complaint of the vic- weather activities in north- ture is likely to hover around 39 including a lady came to his persons visiting his house. house of the victim. On this he who is leading the poll campaign, Ashgar Ali and assaulted her sis- tim a case under appropriate sec- west India including Delhi and degrees Celsius tomorrow, house posing as IT officers. During investigation, along with his accomplices never forgets to tell voters that ter at the gate of the Trauma cen- tions have been registered at NCR and thus dust storm and whereas the minimum can be They showed their identi- CCTV footages in the vicinity Parveen, Deepak and Seema "his former Cabinet minister tre. Ali had been injured along Safdurjung police station and five thunderstorm and rain over at around 23 degrees Celsius. ty cards and informed him that of the area were analyzed and hatched a conspiracy and com- has love for 'putra' (son) Ashray with other persons and MLC of persons have been apprehended Delhi can be expected between On Saturday the maximum they have information about found that one suspicious car mitted this incident, said the Sharma and that is why he's not all the four members were pre- in this regard and further CCTV April 15 and 17. Intensity may and minimum temperatures unaccountable huge cash in his was identified in the CCTV DCP adding that efforts are campaigning in Mandi for BJP pared. footages are being analysed to be more on April 16,” Mahesh were recorded at 36.8 and 21.6 house and conducted the installed at MCD Dustbin. On being made to nab the candidate Ram Swaroop The victim’s kin alleged that, identify them, police said. Palawat, the vice president degrees respectively. search and eneded up seizing the basis CCTV footage clue absconding accused. Sharma". !"# $ (
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Tdemanded a probe into the December 2017 that killed five The terrorists were identi- alleged transportation of a personnel. fied as Fardeen Ahmad “suspicious black trunk” in Irshad Ahmad Reshi was Noor Trali, a little over four-feet shelter and transport for the Khandey, Manzoor Baba and a Prime Minister Narendra picked up from Pulwama in tall, a NIA spokesperson said. terrorists and conducting Pakistani, Abdul Shakoor, a res- Modi’s helicopter during his South Kashmir after the inter- The attack on CRPF Group reconnaissance of the CRPF ident of the Rawalakot area of visit to Chitradurg in rogation of Nisar Ahmed Centre, Lethpora was executed Group centre, Lethpora before Pakistan Occupied Kashmir. Karnataka for election cam- Tantray and Syed Hilal under a conspiracy to avenge the terrorist attack. Five CRPF personnel were paign. Congress spokesperson Andrabi, arrested earlier by the the death of Noor Trali, who Four accused — killed in the attack. The three Anand Sharma asked the probe agency. was killed in an encounter Fayaz Ahmad Magrey terrorists were also eliminated. Prime Minister to come clean Reshi was an over ground with security forces in (Lethpora), Manzoor Ahmed Reshi will be produced and said the Election worker (OGW) of the pro- December 2017, he said. Bhat (Pampore), Nisar Ahmed before the Special NIA court in Commission should enquire * ( " ( 76 ( " ') " 4 scribed Jaish-e-Mohammed The spokesperson said Tantray (Tral) and Syed Hilal Jammu on Monday with a into the contents of the “trunk”. 6"# !"! (JeM) terror group and a close Reshi has been found to be a Andrabi (Ratnipora, Pulwama) request for grant of police cus- He said the Congress’ 0 * O+ ( L* ! " associate of slain terrorist Noor key conspirator who provided — were arrested earlier tody for further investigation, Karnataka unit has already !" -! ! M !"! Mohammad Tantray, alias logistic support in form of by the NIA. the spokesman added. filed a complaint with the *"" $26" Election Commission in this # ! " (# !! regard. The Prime Minister + ( O * C F ! ' had addressed an election rally " ! /74"( in Karnataka’s Chitradurga ($. ($1 on April 9. ! D 26# ! ! “We saw there were three E ! ! ! more choppers escorting the Prime Minister’s helicopter. 4 ! * O" " After landing, a black trunk was taken out and whisked rule to the people of the coun- Francois Hollande on the the Republic of India,” he said. away in a private car which try as a tribute to Dr BR Rafale deal public by tomorrow. Sharma also slammed BJP was not part of the SPG car- Ambedkar on his birth As there has been a controver- leader and Union Minister cade,” he alleged. anniversary. sy, it would help settle it once General VK Singh (Retd). Sharma suggested there “The Prime Minister is for all,” he said. “There is Prime Minister’s was cash stashed in the trunk. trying to control and change The Prime Minister in his defence and his apology “What was there in the trunk. the narrative because he has no “desperation to win has done Minister, including one of his If there was no cash in it, let courage to face real issues,” enormous disservice to the Ministers, who should have there an enquiry be held,” said he alleged. nation by dragging in the been made literate in the mil- ( % Sharma. The Congress also Raising the issue of Rafale, Armed Forces for Partisan itary history of the country. I played a video clip claiming Sharma asked Modi to make political propaganda”, Sharma am referring to retired General +! that the purported trunk, after public the minutes of a meet- further alleged. VK Singh, he said — Indira being unloaded from the PM’s ing held last year between him “Seeking votes for the Gandhi benefitted electorally P helicopter, was shipped to a pri- and former French President courageous action and sacri- from the Bangladesh war.” vate Innova car, that Sharma Francois Hollande on the fight- fices of our soldiers is an “Is he ignorant of history - % ! alleged was not a part of the er jet deal. unpardonable transgression when he himself was a com- SPG carcade, and taken away. “Why is he (PM) silent on and also an insult to the Armed missioned officer?” Sharma < % Reacting to Congress’ his role in Rafale scam? Make forces who defend the moth- asked. “To reeducate him, these demand for a thorough probe, the minutes of the meeting erland under the tricolour and are the facts: General Singh got -./-)01 BJP spokesman GVL between Prime Minister and not under one person or party. commissioned in June 1970, Narasimhan Rao said these are former French Pesident The Indian Army belongs to Smt Indira Gandhi recorded a elhi High Court has issued baseless allegations and the massive electoral win in March Dnotice to Cabinet Secretary “Congress party which is syn- 1971 and India won the 13-day on the issue of dual control over onymous to corruption” should war with Pakistan on 16 #! ; % - ; * Assam Rifles by Home come out clean on their issues. December 1971. VK Singh ! ! 2 Ministry and Defence Ministry. appropriate decision. Sharma also asked Modi to should extend an uncondi- ! ( (#! %% The Bench headed by “In effect the Ministry of give an account of his five-year tional apology,” he said. ! Justices S Muralidhar and IS Home Affairs (MHA) has Mehta expressed displeasure on washed its hands off the issue the reply of Home Ministry on and placed it at the doorstep of & # ! ! , the petition filed by Assam the Cabinet Committee on / ( Rifles Ex-Servicemen Welfare Security (CCS). The Court is Association detailing the prob- therefore constrained to issue New Delhi: Congress leader national’,” Pitroda said. lems due to the dual control on a notice to the CCS to explain Sam Pitroda said party chief “Who has given BJP leaders the force by Ministries of Home what decision it has taken on *4 Rahul Gandhi has experienced the right to declare others as and Defence. the note forwarded to it by the the trauma of terrorism and traitors?” he said. On being Assam Rifle is administra- MHA on March 20, 2019,” those questioning him in the asked about Congress’ prospects tively controlled by Home said the High Court order matter should feel ashamed. in this election, the senior party Ministry and operationally dated April 9, directing Cabinet ( The remarks come at a leader said, “The elections may controlled by Defence Ministry. Secretary to respond. time when Prime Minister ! throw many surprises this time. The petitioners preferred con- Advocate Neha Rathi Narendra Modi and other BJP Voters should remember that trol of Defence Ministry citing appearing for the Assam Rifle -./-)01 leaders had often attacked the Gandhi) to terrorism and that their votes can make or mar the good pay and perks and welfare Ex-Servicemen Welfare Congress president on the issue the leader understands the country’s future.” measures to pensioners. In Association argued that lack- nion Steel Minister of terrorism and national secu- trauma and suffering associat- The long-time Gandhi fam- December 2018, the Court adaisical approach of the UChaudhary Birender rity in the run up to Lok Sabha ed with it. ily advisor said Narendra Modi directed to both Secretaries of Government on the critical Singh, a prominent Jat leader of elections. He said those doubting from the veteran leader. “I dis- and Rahul Gandhi are two dif- Home and Defence to convene questions when lakhs of fami- BJP in Haryana, on Sunday said In an interview to PTI, Rahul Gandhi’s nationalism agree with Advani on many ferent personalities. One leader a meeting on this regard and lies are suffering is extremely he has offered to resign from Pitroda said Rahul Gandhi lost should be ashamed of them- issues, but respect him as a per- (Modi) has a manufactured directed to inform the decision. unfortunate. The petitioners the Cabinet and from Rajya his grandmother (Indira selves. Referring to senior BJP son. BJP leaders must learn image, while the other (Rahul) In March, 2019, Home pointed out that due of the dual Sabha as his son has got a Lok Gandhi) and father (Rajiv leader LK Advani’s recent from Advani who has advised is an honest young leader who Secretary informed the Court control, the serving as well as Sabha ticket and he wants to remarks in a blog post, the chief against excess self-promotion understands people’s problems that they had sent a note to retired soldiers are deprived of send across a message against of Indian Overseas Congress and calling people with differ- and has overcome many chal- Cabinet Committee on many benefits like other Army dynasty politics. #,& said BJP leaders must learn ent political views as ‘anti- lenges, he said. PTI Security (CCS) to take an and Para-Military forces. The announcement, made by the 73-year-old Minister % during a Press conference at his = official residence here, fol- ! " lowed selection of his son #,$/,# $%.+/-+-., % ! Brijendra Singh as the BJP 8#$98),(:-., $(--( New Delhi: New Delhi: candidate from Hisar in 8#((-,$,8(-+$/:%.- Congress president The Khadi and ceeded in surpassing the targets. “Surprisingly, the KVIC Narendra Modi’s vision of He said the online portal Haryana. The senior leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday paid Village Industries Commission “Incredible it may sound, achieved 105.05 per cent success Digital India. The KVIC as the has brought transparency and said he has informed BJP’s %$+-/$+-#),$/.+ tribute to BR Ambedkar on his has created over 20 lakh new amid much debate about job in this process as it had set up nodal agency of the PMEGP expedited disbursement of president Amit Shah about his /,9+($-(#,+%$+$)$, birth anniversary and said those jobs in the last five fiscals crisis in the nation, the Khadi 73,408 new projects, disbursing scheme, had taken various margin money subsidy under resignation offer and it was up -.-.,8#-P+8#$98),+ who weaken the principles of under the ambitious Prime and Village Industries margin money of Rs 2068.31 steps of digitalisation — to the PMEGP. to the party chief to take the justice, liberty, equality and fra- Minister Employment Commission, leading from the crore and creating 5,87,264 new increase organisational capac- “The KVIC has introduced final call. ternity are doing disservice to Generation Programme front, has created 20,63,152 employments,” He said. ity to meet the various online submission of applica- Singh, grandson of Jat icon families. the memory of the architect of (PMEGP), the commission’s new jobs and set up 2,67,226 “Surpassing the target, how- requirements towards imple- tion by the prospective benefi- and farmer leader Sir Chotu Sharma has been a two- the Indian Constitution. “On Dr top official has said. new projects under its ambitious ever, is not a new phenomenon mentation of this scheme. ciaries and the payment of Ram, said he wants to send time MP from Karnal between Babasaheb Ambedkar’s jayanti, KVIC chairman Vinai Prime Minister Employment for KVIC in the last five finan- “Earlier PMEGP was Margin Money subsidy is across a message of anti- 2004 and 2009 and has also let us re-dedicate ourselves to the Kumar Saxena said the Generation Programme cial year. Barring 2015-16, it has implemented off-line. But from directly made into the benefi- dynasty politics as his son has represented Sonipat as an 4 universal values of JUSTICE, Commission has always (PMEGP) in the last five fiscals, always achieved more than 100 July 1 2016, KVIC launched ciary account through Direct got the Lok Sabha ticket. “I Independent MP. He will take LIBERTY, EQUALITY & FRA- achieved more than 100 per i.e. between 2014-15 to 2018- per cent success in execution of online portal. The software Benefit Transfer (DBT). With have offered my resignation on Congress’ sitting MP TERNITY enshrined in our cent success rate in execution of 19,” Saxena said. PMEGP,” He said. used for digitalisation of the digitalization of the whole from both Union Cabinet and Deepender Singh Hooda, the Constitution. Those who pay the PMEGP.He said prior to In 2018-19, the KVIC, the While in the 2014-15 the PMEGP was developed in- process, not only the applicants Rajya Sabha and I have son of former Chief Minister him tributes on this day, while 2014-15, the achievement rate nodal agency of PMEGP, had achievement percent was house by the IT team of the can now track the status of their informed the party chief Amit Bhupinder Singh Hooda, from insidiously weakening these val- was never over the stipulated been given a target of setting up 102.70 per cent, it was 118.29 KVIC, saving approximately Rs applications at any point of Shahji about this,” Singh told Rohtak. ues, do his memory disservice,” target. But in the last five fiscals, 70,386 new PMEGP projects and 112.17 per cent in 2016-17 20 crore of the government time, it had also taken out even reporters. The BJP has now named he said in a tweet, which is being due to the push given by Prime disbursing margin money of Rs and 2017-18 respectively. exchequers as some external the minor chance for middle- Singh said it is the princi- candidates for all the 10 Lok viewed as an attack on the BJP Minister Narendra Modi, to 1,968.80 crore for creating “Success in PMEGP is mani- agency could have charged this men — to bluff the appli- ple of the BJP not to promote Sabha seats in Haryana, where leadership. PTI digital India, the KVIC suc- 5,62,351 employments, he said. festation of Prime Minister for it,” Saxena said. cants,” he said. PTI nepotism and fight against polling will be held in the dynasty rule and his decision to sixth phase on May 12. resign is in line with the party’s The bureaucrat-turned- principles. Singh, who was politician sees similarities 89: ! - with the Congress for almost between his previous job and four decades before switching his future assignment, saying to the saffron party in 2014, the purpose of both is & -./-)01 tant for India as the world given advantages over ad valorem the clear and growing body of Development, Kaushik Basu, was once in reckoning for to serve people, the State and that tobacco use, obesity and excises and over complex and evidence, industry opposition professor of economics, Cornell Haryana’s chief ministership. the country. evying taxes on unhealthy risky alcohol consumption have multi-tiered taxes. These taxes to smart health policies will University, Helen Clark, former Currently, he is a Rajya He felt that in politics there Lproducts particularly tobac- become three leading risk fac- should be regularly adjusted for continue to mislead the public UNDP Administrator, former Sabha member of the BJP from is a more direct connect with co, alcohol and sugary bever- tors for the development of inflation and income growth to about the harmful effects of Prime Minister of New Haryana and his wife is an the people and said that a ages by 50 per cent over the NCDs, killing 40 million peo- make sure that products their products. That makes it all Zealand, Margaret Chan, for- MLA in Haryana assembly. MP’s vision should not be lim- next five decades will be a win- ple each year and representing become less affordable over the more important for the mer director general, WHO, His son Brijendra, who has ited to his constituency, but win situation for the nations as 70 per cent of all annual deaths. time,” as per the report. international community to Bent Høie, Minister of health been nominated as the BJP should extend to the whole not only over 50 million pre- The report ‘Health Taxes to Larry Summers was of the support countries in adopting and care services, Norway candidate for Lok Sabha from country. mature deaths due to soaring Save Lives’ is prepared by task opinion that “if we want to effective, evidence-based health pointed out that policies to dis- Hisar, was an IAS officer. Replying to a question, non-communicable diseases force on fiscal policy for health improve global health, we need taxes that will save lives.” courage consumption of these In 2016, Singh was shifted Brijendra said he was hopeful (NCDs) could be prevented, — co-chaired by Mike to tax the things that are killing While obesity has many three key risk factors — tobac- to Steel Ministry from the that people of Hisar would the impact of these taxes is pro- Bloomberg and economist mended that taxes on tobacco, us. Taxing things that are bad for causes, one significant factor is co, alcohol and sugar-sweet- Ministry of Rural make the BJP victorious with a jected to yield over $20 trillion Larry Summers, former alcohol, and sugary beverages your health, like tobacco, over the growth of consumption of ened beverages — are central to Development, Panchayati Raj big margin. Brijendra said that in revenue, according to a Secretary of the US Treasury should be set high enough, and things like savings and income highly processed foods and achieving the SDG Goals that and Drinking Water and he supports and respects his global report released recently. and former Director of the raised quickly enough, to is as close to a free lunch as you sugary beverages worldwide, call for a one-third reduction in Sanitation. father’s decision but the same The recommendations of National Economic Council. reduce consumption and can get in economics. The eco- similarly, more than 1 billion premature mortality from The BJP also cleared the time, “it puts more responsi- the report ‘Health Taxes to Save Asserting that the Finance improve health. nomic rationale for taxing these people in the world smoke NCDs by 2030. name of former Congress MP bility on my shoulders”. Lives’ holds Ministry controls a Also, “Countries should products is strong if we want to while about 3.3 million people Stating that the report Arvind Sharma, who joined the On the legacy of his great impor- powerful tool i.e. design their health taxes to be save lives and make a better, die each year from alcohol makes sense, Dr Arun Gupta, BJP recently, from Rohtak seat. grandfather, Sir Chottu Ram, tax policy to easy to administer, hard to healthier world.” use, approximately 5 per cent Central Coordinator BPNI, Both Hisar and Rohtak are he said it was not just limited reduce the harmful manipulate, and difficult to Echoing similar views, of all deaths worldwide also called for the need to end high-stakes constituencies, to Haryana. “Since childhood, use of these prod- game. This generally means Mike Bloomberg said, The task force members marketing of harmful food considered strongholds of I was impacted by his ideolo- ucts, the task force applying simple uniform spe- “Countries can save millions of including Masood Ahmed, which have high sugar and are Bhajan Lal and the Hooda gy,” he said. members recom- cific taxes, which have many lives if they take action. Despite president, Center for Global ultra processed. !"# $ ) :4; ;## '! ! 5 ,* ) # ! % .$ 5 Aligarh (UP): Attacking the +5)+2 the Government or anyone else communal division is leaving anti-BJP alliance formed for the to stop us and feel the conse- little space for the democratic, ongoing Lok Sabha polls, Prime n what could put even the quence,” he said even as he rat- secular politics which is an Minister Narendra Modi on IHindi heartland to shame, tled the saber and mace in air. alarming trend for a State like Sunday said while people want- Bengal watched two of the At Birbhum the parlia- Bengal,” he said holding Chief ed to get rid of terrorism, those State’s most formidable political mentary constituency presided Minister Mamata Banerjee sole- in the “maha milawat” wanted opponents competing each over by TMC strongman ly responsible for “degeneration to remove him from power. other over the Ram Navmi pie Anubrata Mandal the TMC of the State politics.” Addressing a poll rally here, ahead of the second round of leaders including a State Meanwhile, the BJP on Modi asked the crowd, “Tell me general elections. Minister performed public Sunday demanded a foolproof whether terrorism should be In an unprecedented show offerings of the pooja even as his measure to enable voters to cast eliminated or not, whether we of affection for the God of val- followers took out long proces- their votes in the remaining six should enter Pakistan and kill our, both Trinamool Congress sions down the windy streets of phases of polling in Bengal. the terrorists, whether we pen to Modi later on, should the nate terrorism, corruption and and BJP on Saturday and Siuri and Bolpur. “We have seen how the should conduct surgical strikes decision be based on this? Modi illness, and alleviate poverty". Sunday descended on the Ram Navami not a major voters were stopped from com- and airstrikes, whether our never thinks about himself, he The Prime Minister also streets, clad in saffron dresses, festival in Bengal until its elec- ing to booths, how polling was jawans should get a free hand thinks about the country." He said it was his dream to see the even as a confused lot of voters toral value was driven home a rigged in booths manned by the or not? Has your chowkidar said his mission was to "elimi- defence corridor. PTI watched genuine electoral issues couple of years ago was cele- State police,” both in done the right thing?” The shifting to the backburner. brated with much fanfare in Coochbehar and Alipurduar # ! crowd replied, “Yes.” While in Kanthi, TMC MP, Bankura, Purulia and Howrah while the armed TMC gangs Hitting out at the anti-BJP -% % > Dibyebdu Adhikary, performed too where the politicians played took control of the streets, BJP Thanjavur: A 75-year old sup- In a fit of rage, Gopinath alliance, the Prime Minister said, a public puja before his sup- to the gallery as never before observer for Bengal Kailash porter of Prime Minister attacked Govindarajan who "You are saying terrorism should % , porters took out processions even as the Left and the Vijaybargiya said demanding Narendra Modi died after he was also a fan of AIADMK be eliminated, but those in the chanting religious songs in the Congress cried foul. full CCTV coverage for the elec- was allegedly attacked by a sus- founder late M G maha milawat say Modi should Aligarh (UP): Three persons, dentally caught fire.” neighbouring Kharagpur. State Apparently cramped by toral sites. pected supporter of the DMK- Ramachandran. be removed. This will help them including an electricity con- He said the security staff BJP president, Dilip Ghosh, Marxist agnosticism CPI(M) “We want all the pooling Congress alliance following a The man collapsed and run their politics, but will it be tractor, were booked on Sunday immediately doused the fire threw electoral norms to the general Sitaram Yechury on stations to be covered by CCTV wordy duel near here, police died on the spot, police said. beneficial for the country? for "negligence" after a short before any damage could be winds even as he publicly exhib- Sunday cried out seeking and all of them to be manned said on Sunday. Gopinath was arrested on "Imagine only for a second circuit caused a minor fire done. ited his capabilities with the Election Commission’s attention by central forces in the subse- Police said they arrested Sunday and produced before that if there was a small goof-up under the stage on which Prime The Prime Minister's con- sword and mace. to "blatant breaking of model quent phases of polling,” he said. Gopinath who got into an court which remanded him to in the surgical strike or airstrikes Minister Narendra Modi was tinued his speech uninterrupt- “This is our tradition. We code of conduct." The BJP leaders had earlier argument with the elderly man judicial custody, they added. carried out by us, wouldn't all of delivering his speech here. ed while the security personnel are Hindus and worshippers of “Most unfortunately” the staged a dharna at the Chief while the latter was seeking Police said Gopinath was them have ripped Modi apart Senior superintendent of tackled the mishap without Lord Rama the God of valour BJP and the Trinamool Elect oral Officer’s office in votes for the AIADMK-BJP stated to be a supporter of (Modi ki chamdhi udhedh dete police Akash Kulhari said, “The anyone knowing about it, he and power. We have all the right Congress are feeding each other Kolkata demanding re-poll in alliance at Orthanadu late DMK-Congress alliance sup- ki nahi, Modi ke baal noch lete wiring of air-conditioning cir- said, adding an enquiry has to follow our tradition with fan- and dividing the electorate along more than 300 booths of Saturday. porter. PTI ki nahi)?.... But what would hap- cuit got overheated and acci- been ordered. PTI fare: elections or not. We dare communal lines, he said. “This Alipurduar and Coochbehar. % % = % - 6 - 4 ( ,+! ) #<7 6 Badaun (UP): Seeking to drive Bengaluru: Defence Minister Balakot and mentioning the a wedge between alliance part- Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday valour of the armed forces in ners SP and BSP, Union Kolkata: Slamming the BJP- O > ! said neither Prime Minister defending the country. Minister Rajnath Singh on led Government, CPI(M) gen- Narendra Modi nor any other The Congress on Friday Sunday said Samajwadi Party eral secretary, Sitaram NDA leader wanted to politicise moved the Election will have to bear the conse- Yechury, on Sunday said it Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief soldiers will have their inter- armed forces and there was Commission against Modi and quences of teaming up with the stands on the twin pillars of Minister Ashok Gehlot sug- ference here like Pakistan?" nothing wrong in talking about BJP chief Amit Shah for Mayawati-led party in the Lok loot of natural resources and gested on Sunday that his Gehlot asked. He said Pakistan the political will giving freedom allegedly "dragging" the armed Sabha elections. more misery for the poor. Uttar Pradesh counterpart, had military rule several times, to the forces to take action as forces in the political domain by Addressing an election Yechury also accused the Yogi Adityanath, should be but the defence forces were they deem fit. using them to seek votes. meeting at Dataganj here, he camps were destroyed... Had it Narendra Modi-led NDA booked for sedition for kept separate from politics in At an informal interactive Over 150 military veterans said, "... Samajwadi Party (SP) been one or two, we could have Government of trying to use labelling the military as Prime India for the past 70 years. session with intellectuals, aca- Action was taken after have written to President Ram does not know what big mis- counted them. the armed forces to polarise Minister Narendra Modi's "Our Army protects the demicians and young thinkers Pulwama because we felt the Nath Kovind, expressing out- take it has committed by forg- "But, they were so many, to the elections in the face of its Army. nation and fulfil duties," the here, she said the Opposition heat from the people saying Is rage over what they called "use" ing an alliance with the BSP. It what extent could have we imminent defeat. "Yogi ji is saying, 'this is Congress leader said, claiming had been constantly coming up this India? Is this the govern- of the armed forces for "politi- will have to bear the conse- counted? The job of IAF is not He said it is "quite evident" Modi sena'. There should be a that it was for the first time the with the allegation that armed ment we voted for? Are you cal purposes" and sought his quences." to count the bodies," he said. from the anger against the case of sedition on Yogi ji. If armed forces were being forces were being politicised. incapable of taking action? intervention in preserving apo- Earlier this year, BSP supre- Singh was referring to the present dispensation at the someone criticises the gov- politicised. "Nobody wants to politicise "And then the political will, litical character of the services. mo Mayawati and SP chief air strikes carried out by the grassroots that a secular ernment, the person is direct- The Rajasthan chief min- the armed forces, not particu- based on sound intelligence Referring to the Rafale deal, Akhilesh Yadav announced Indian Air Force (IAF) on ter- democratic Government will ly called anti-national. But ister cautioned that the youth larly myself or Prime Minister information, gives the freedom Sitharaman charged with that they will fight from 38 and ror camps in Balakot. come to power after the elec- the anti-national person is he should be aware of the politi- or anybody from here to the armed forces to take the Congress with spreading lies 37 seats, respectively while The senior BJP leader also tions. who, while being the chief cal propaganda on social (Government). We dont want necessary action as they despite the Supreme Court's leaving two for the Congress in underlined the Centre's resolve "Recently, a report came minister, says 'Modi ji ki sena' media. "Our countrymen, par- to politicise the armed forces, deemed fit. Is it wrong to say it? order and the report of the Uttar Pradesh. The seats that in providing best security appa- out where it stated that bank (Modi's army)," Gehlot told ticularly the youth, should she said. That is not politicisation of the Comptroller and Auditor were left out by the SP-BSP ratus to the armed forces. loans of corporates worth 5.5 reporters here.At a rally in not be misled. Modi and his Sitharaman sought to know armed forces, the Defence General (CAG). alliance included the Gandhi He said the soldiers had lakh crore were waived off in Ghaziabad on March 31, team are brainwashing youths whether it was wrong to com- Minister asserted. "In spite of supreme court family's stronghold of Amethi been demanding bulletproof the last five years. This only Adityanath had dubbed the through social media. If you pare how "weak" the She asked the people to dif- decision, In spite of the CAG and Raebareli. jackets since 2009, but in vain. sums up from where the BJP Army "Modi ji ki sena", trig- are misled, this will be dan- Manmohan Singh-led govern- ferentiate between politicisation report, in spite of former The Union home minister "As soon as Prime Minister is getting so much money in gering a political firestorm gerous for the country," he ment was in 2008 post Mumbai and talking about the political Raksha Mantri Arun Jaitley, in also said that barely 13 days Narendra Modi came to know terms of electoral bonds. with the Opposition attacking said. attacks and the how "strong" the will. spite of me all of us making in after the Pulwama terror attack, about this, he immediately "This Modi Government the Uttar Pradesh chief min- Gehlot later addressed a Modi government was now in Congress and other oppo- the Parliament point by point 'revenge' was taken. gave orders for providing bul- rests on twin pillars of loot of ister for "insulting and humil- rally in Gangapur city of Sawai 2019 after the Pulwama terror sition parties have objected to answer, if the Congress party is "Congress and other oppo- letproof jackets to Army natural resources, cronyism iating" the armed forces. Madhopur district and alleged attack by Jaish-e-Mohammed Modi and several other BJP going about saying the same sition parties started demand- jawans. Such jackets have been and more misery for poor and "Where do you want to that Modi had won the 2014 which killed 40 CRPF Jawans in leaders referring to IAF's air things all over again, it is pure- ing proof as to how many ter- given to 1.86 lakh soldiers," the common masses," Yechury take the nation? What will Lok Sabha election on false February. strikes on terror camp in ly false”, she said. PTI rorists were killed, how many Minister added. PTI told reporters here. PTI happen in the country when promises. PTI " R +- ' 5 , # -( -#*O >P
' A Manju, another power- coalition politics of Congress dates in the other 21 con- tions the future of the party. % , 4 7-)343 ful vokkaliga leader of the and JDs. This is also a test on stituencies. In all these elections the JD(S) BJP, is taking on 29-year-old how people and party work- A senior politician from and the Congress were bitter Sambhal (UP): Pragatisheel election. "You will see that this assan in Karnataka is one Prajwal Revanna who hails ers respond to the dynasty Hassan Gandasi Shivaram a rivals in many constituencies Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief alliance will not be able to cross Hof the constituencies from a powerful Vokkaliga politics. A peek in to the former congress minister who and Hassan is facing the wrath Shivpal Yadav on Sunday the double-digit mark," he said. where BJP is fighting Prajwal family of Deve Gowda. His political history of the state had taken the Gowda family of rebellion of rank and file. described the SP-BSP-RLD Pointing out that the Revanna of the Deve Gowda father HD Revanna is the shows that in south Karnataka head on says he is campaigning In Hassan, former combine as an "alliance of Samajwadi Party was fighting clan. A cat has nine lives, but PWD Minister in that the Janata Dal-Secular for JD(S) Congress candidate as Congress Minister A Manu crooks" and claimed that it on 35 Lok Sabha seats this time, Deve Gowda has 10!" is a Kumaraswamy’s Cabinet. He is (JD-S) and Congress had part of the diktat of the high who joined the BJP in protest would not be able to cross the Shivpal Yadav said: "But when phrase people use in the elder brother of fought bitterly against each command. However he refused against the alliance and is double-digit mark in the Lok the reins of party were in 'neta- Karnataka, as the former Kumaraswamy. Deve Gowda, other in the Assembly election to comment on the rebellion in contesting on a saffron ticket. Sabha election. ji's' hand, the SP used to fight Prime Minister and ruling who fought many elections less than a year ago. the Congress. He says as a con- This rebellion was primarily Addressing a public meet- Akhilesh had shook hands on all 80 Lok Sabha seats." Janata Dal-Secular (JD(S) from Hassan, has sacrificed his However the alliance of gress worker he was to only fol- against JDS candidate Prajwal ing in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal with the same Mayawati. This He claimed that the PSPL supremo battles at the age of seat to his grandson Prajwal JD(S) and Congress hasn't low the coalition dharma. Revanna, grandson of Deve district, Shivpal Yadav said: is not a 'gathbandhan' of the SP- was a bigger party than the 86 to give political births to Revanna — a well-thought gone down well with the rank A Congress district level Gowda. Manju said “ I am "(BSP chief) Mayawati, during BSP, it is 'thagbandhan' Samajwadi Party, saying the two of his grandsons in his strategy to baptise the third and file in the State. According functionary at Hassan said confident of winning with her stint as the chief minister (alliance of crooks)," said former was fighting on 60 Lok political terra firma. In generation into politics. The to a pre-poll agreement even if the party dismissed the Modi wave and rebellion of UP, had got cases registered Shivpal Yadav, who is the Sabha seats in the state and on Hassan, the JD(S)-Congress JD(S), a family party, has been between the two parties, the him he will not work for in the Congress and JD(S). All against 'netaji' (Samajwadi estranged uncle of Akhilesh 27 seats across 11 states. coalition is facing the rebel- surviving on the caste and JD(S) has fielded its candi- JD(S) candidate Prajwal the grass root workers are with Party patriarch Mulayam Yadav. "We will win 15 seats and lion. The workers of both the Deve Gowda’s shrewd politics. dates in seven of the 28 Lok Revanna. He says the alliance me and I am fighting against Yadav). She had unleashed The PSPL leader said the be a part of the government at parties are refusing to obey The fight is also signifi- Sabha seats, while the has doomed the prospects of the dynastic politics of atrocities on SP workers." SP-BSP-RLD combine would the Centre," Shivpal Yadav the diktat of alliance. cant and a litmus test for the Congress has its own candi- Congress at Hassan and ques- Devegowda.” "And, now, (SP chief) not succeed in the general added. PTI & =% %
Kolkata: The Triple Talaq Bill Ironically, anti-triple talaq faces of the party in Bengal. It central governments to look has been a major poll plank of champions — Ishrat Jahan, was also speculated that she into the early disposal of the case. the BJP, with the party trying its Shayara Bano and Atiya Sabri — would figure in BJP's list of Lok "My sister stays with me. She best to woo a section of minori- who had moved the Supreme Sabha candidates in the state. is part of my family. We don't ties with the legislation, even as Court to seek an end to the prac- "Things appear to have want any financial help, we just those who had led the crusade tice of instant divorce continue changed. I am not in touch want this matter to end soon," against the practice continue to to live in abject poverty, with lit- with the party any more. At times Rizwan said. fight for their survival. tle or no means of income. I visit party meetings, but that's Two other petitioners, In its recently released The court, in a landmark about it," she said, when asked if Afreen Rahman and Gulshan manifesto for Lok Sabha polls, judgment in 2017, held the the BJP leaders inquire about her. Parween, could not be con- the saffron party, which failed practice "void" and "unconsti- The story is no different for tacted. Rahatkar, when to legislate the bill in Parliament tutional". Shayara Bano and Atiya Sabri, apprised of the condition of the due to stiff resistance by the Divorced in April 2015, who live under stressful financial three women, said she had Opposition, has pledged to Ishrat Jahan lives with her two conditions with no help from met Jahan and assured her of eliminate the practices of children in neighbouring their divorced husbands. financial assistance. instant talaq and nikah halala Howrah district. "She doesn't have any "We should always stand by if re-elected to power. "I am struggling to make income of her own ... We try to those women who have suffered Vijaya Rahatkar, the nation- both ends meet. I don't have help her in whatever way we but not given up. I spoke to Ishrat al president of the party's Mahila money to send my children to can," Bano's brother Arshad told and told her that we will provide Morcha, said the efforts of the school. As of now, I depend on PTI from Uttar Pradesh. assistance if she needed to send Narendra Modi Government to my relatives for financial assis- Sabri's brother Rizwan, who her children to school. We are pass the Triple Talaq Bill "will tance," she told PTI. is a resident of Uttarakhand, said also willing to give her loan surely yield positive results for Jahan had joined the BJP in the family wants the court mat- under the Government's Mudra the BJP" in the ongoing Lok 2018 and was initially expected ter to be disposed off soon. He scheme to help her start a busi- Sabha polls. to be one of the major minority appealed to both the state and ness," Rahatkar told PTI. PTI () ! * % 6 !"# $ * # ( , '/-** $ ) # ' Q) R " 01% 2 -'"" Srinagar: NC president Farooq N534A1021 ' Abdullah on Sunday dubbed Silchar (Assam): Coming down Prime Minister Narendra Modi .12020- heavily on the BJP, Congress Thiruvananthapuram: The have intervened in the name of and BJP president Amit Shah /1'1 1'-A54*- $ leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Opposition Congress in Kerala faith. But they didn’t. “biggest enemies of people”, on Sunday said the Constitution Sunday attacked the BJP and Modi said his party and alleging that they want to divide .- 053)/ is not respected and an attempt Prime Minister Narendra Modi Government will approach the the country. 321)1 -534 is being made to destroy it by on the Sabarimala issue, saying Supreme Court, explaining the The former Jammu & the present dispensation. people would not tolerate the traditions of Sabarimala. They Kashmir Chief Minister made 65.-45A'52- Holding a roadshow in ‘drama’ being played by the could’ve have done this long the remarks at a public meeting 25 05. 3*0 Silchar in support of Congress saffron party in the name of ago. But they didn’t. in Mir Bahri Dal. candidate and sitting MP Lord Ayyappa and that the People will tolerate all kinds “PM Modi and Shah are the A54*- 4- Sushmita Dev, she also said that devotees have been “cheated”. of drama, but using the name of biggest enemies of people who the identity of the State. Prime Minister Narendra Modi Hitting out at Modi and the Swami Ayyappa for election believe in dividing the nation on “They have forcefully 11#1*)25534 has toured the world over, but BJP, AICC General Secretary drama is beyond limits, “ basis of caste, creed and religion. vowed to do away with the pro- 6-*1) 223 hardly spent time in his own (Organisation) K C Venugopal Venugopal said at a meet the But the people have made it a visions of Article 370, Article 35 constituency in Varanasi. alleged that the party had press programme here. point not to fall prey to the divi- A in that manifesto. Their sole 20-144102 “It is ‘Mahapurush’ (BR) “cheated” the devotees and “are The Congress has official- sive agenda of the BJP,” agenda is to change the demog- 6)*-O Ambedkar ji’s birth anniversary. % 6 % sincere to Sabarimala only when ly asked in Parliament for leg- Abdullah said. raphy of our State. However, let He laid the foundation of this ! &' it comes to election and voting”. islative intervention on the The National Conference me tell them that they are play- country through the The senior Congress leader Sabarimala matter, he said. (NC) patron accused the BJP of ing with fire,” he said. cial status their right place. Constitution. It is the duty of did not spend even five minutes Speaking highly of alleged that the Centre and the Attacking the Left govern- trying to divert people’s atten- Alluding to the Peoples They can go to any extent to every leader to respect that with anyone there in the last five Sushmita Dev, Gandhi likened state were hand-in-glove for ment in the state, he said it could tion by propping up emotive Democratic Party (PDP) and grind their axe, they will use Constitution. years. the Congress lawmaker with her having worsened the Sabarimala have sought time to implement issues. People’s Conference (PC), men, money and machinery to “Today, you are seeing that “He went to America and grandmother and former Prime issue. the Supreme Court verdict, but “These people want to Abdullah said the BJP was coerce the voters,” Abdullah the Constitution is not respect- hugged there, went to China Minister Indira Gandhi. “Why is the Prime Minister did not do so. change the very framework of using its “cronies” to weaken the said. ed and an attempt is being and hugged there, too. He went “If you remember Indira playing a drama over “The RSS/sangh parivar the Constitution of India, which special status of Jammu & “However, the need of the made to destroy it,” said Gandhi, and hugged in Russia and Gandhi even today, it is because Sabarimala? I had brought up tried to disrupt the peace an grants equal rights and oppor- Kashmir. hour demands us to remain who is Congress’s general sec- Africa. He went to Japan and she worked for you. I have the matter in Parliament on tranquillity at the hilltop shrine. tunities to everyone. It is the “To meet this purpose, they united and vigilant of their retary in-charge of Uttar played the drum. In Pakistan, he come here for Sushmita. She has January 4. I had sought legisla- Sincere devotees were denied Constitution of India which have employed various hench- machinations. This time we are Pradesh East. had biriyani. that courage which Indira ji had. tive intervention to protect the their right to pray. grants rights to profess any men in our State, such cronies voting for our identity and the Slamming the the BJP man- “But in his own con- Sushmita has that honest and rights of the believers.Has the Both the state and the cen- faith. It is the same Constitution can be seen holding inkpot integrity of our state,” he said. ifesto, she said there is no space stituency, he did not go once to good intention, and wants to Prime Minister or his minister tre Governments were hand-in- that confers upon our state cer- (PDP’s party symbol) and apple He warned any mistakes for different cultures and reli- a family’s house to enquire work for you from the heart,” ever uttered a single word on the glove in making the situation tain constitutional safeguards,” (PC’s party symbol) in their will have serious repercussions gions in it, as well as any respect about their condition,” she she said. issue in Parliament?,” Venugopal worsen. Abdullah said. hands. The sole aim of BJP and for the coming generations. for the Constitution. alleged. Gandhi also criticised the asked. Both the Governments “It is the same Constitution its cronies is to make non-state Abdullah said the National “On the other hand, the The Congress leader BJP-led NDA Government for Recalling that the NDA were responsible for worsening which grants our state a special subjects buy land and property Conference would not allow Congress manifesto has the appealed to people to defeat the its “flawed policies and inten- had brought forward an ordi- the Sabarimala issue,” status by means of Article 35 A in our state,” he said. anybody to fiddle with the ‘NYAY’ scheme, under which a BJP-led Government, which tions” in the last five years, and nance to validate the lapsed Bill Venugopal alleged. and Article 370. These people The NC president said these state’s special status. poor family will get 72,000 she said does not listen to pub- cited the withdrawal of the on Triple Talaq, he sought to Venugopal said the AICC have always shown abhorrence polls would decide if India “We have been (protecting) annually... In every word, there lic voice, does not try to under- Special Status to Assam, snap- know why the same enthusiasm decision to appoint a special for our special status and spe- remains secular or not. and will continue to protect the is respect for the Constitution,” stand their problems, does not ping of the north east-specific was lacking in the case of observer in cial constitutional position,” he “Our fight is with the divi- identity, integrity and pluralis- she said. believe it is peoples’ gover- industrial policy and suspen- Sabarimala. Thiruvananthapuram was to added. sive forces. We should utilise our tic character of our state. We Gandhi said she was told by nance, and only wants to enjoy sion of two paper mills in the “An ordinance would have monitor the poll activities in the Abdullah said the BJP man- power of vote to show such would not allow anyone to people in Varanasi that Modi power. State. PTI been enough. The Centre could major constituencies. PTI ifesto reflects the BJP’s hatred for forces as are inimical to our spe- abridge our rights,” he said. PTI 1 P > # # #/? ; Thiruvananthapuram: done by his Government. Chowkidar chor hi hai (the Gaya: A group of Maoists shot Congress general secretary KC “Nothing on development, watchman is indeed a thief). dead a former cadre here sus- Venugopal accused Prime nothing on black money, noth- We have evidence. It is rare that Srinagar: A Hurriyat leader pecting him to be a police Minister Narendra Modi on ing on farmers or jobs. His the Supreme Court hears a was intercepted at the Srinagar informer, police said on Sunday. Sunday of running away from only weapon is polarisation. review petition. But it is, now, airport on Sunday for alleged- The incident happened in real issues and trying to divide But he got it wrong this time. in this case. This was because ly carrying over 14 lakh “unac- Khaira village under the juris- people, and said his only Just because it happened once, the Centre had misled the counted” cash, officials said. diction of Dumriya police sta- weapon in the ongoing Lok does not mean it may happen Supreme Court,” he alleged. Aga Syed Hasan Mosavi, a tion on Saturday night when the Sabha polls was “polarisation”. again,” he said. The defence ministry has noted Shia leader, was briefly man was sleeping on the rooftop The Congress was raising Raising the Rafale issue, said that any connection drawn detained by the Jammu & of a relative’s place, the police the concerns related to jobs, the Congress leader alleged between the tax issue and the Kashmir police after he landed said. agrarian crisis, women’s safe- that the Prime Minister over- Rafale deal is totally “inaccu- here from Delhi with the cash The deceased has been ty, development of all, but ruled the defence secretary’s rate” and “tendentious”. of 14.38 lakh. It is suspected to identified as Raghu Ravindra Modi was running away from opinion and went forward In its reaction, Reliance be unaccounted and has been alias Sunil Singh Bhokta, the these real issues and trying to with the agreement to pur- Communications has rejected seized in view of the election Superintendent of Police (SP) of divide the people of the coun- chase the French fighter jets. any wrongdoing and said the season, the officials said. Gaya, Sushil Kumar, said. try, Venugopal alleged at a The defence secretary had tax dispute was settled under The case has been trans- Bhokta was earlier associat- meet-the-press programme said a direct negotiation by the the legal framework which ferred to the Income Tax ed with the CPI(Maoist), the SP here. prime minister would “weak- was available for all companies Department and Mousavi has said. The CPI (Maoist) cadres, “Modi had promised acche en” India’s position, he claimed. operating in France. been summoned before an in a leaflet left behind at the spot, din (good days) to the people. Venugopal also referred Venugopal said the investigating tax officer on charged Bhokta of being a police This election verdict is going to to a report published in a Congress was confident of Monday, the officials said. informer, he said. be a referendum on the BJP French daily that claimed that forming the Government at the The Income Tax Bhokta had left the government’s performance. Anil Ambani’s Reliance Centre as the strongholds of Department is looking to ascer- CPI(Maoist) around three years Modi’s performance is zero. Communications was given the ruling Bharatiya Janata tain the source of the cash, ago and had joined Tritiya One can analyse his speeches tax waivers. Party (BJP) were “trembling” which is primarily believed to be Prastuti Committee (TPC), a and see that he has not men- “Who is Anil Ambani to after the first phase of the Lok from a Shia organisation based ! ! = % #!! % police officer said. PTI tioned anything that has been the French government? Sabha polls. PTI in Iran, the officials added. PTI ) ) ' - ( " ' ( &$%$ %% % Palghar: Vasai MLA Hitendra Gavit, who is contesting as a Shiv Court for falling prey to the Thakur, whose party— Bahujan Sena candidate. pressure by the ruling parties.” Vikas Aghadi (BVA)— failed to The Election Commission “We have got the auto-rick- $$ ' get its regular poll symbol ‘whis- had allotted the ‘whistle’ symbol shaw symbol. There are thou- tle’, on Sunday blamed leaders of to the newly-formed Bahujan sands of autos running in Vasai the ruling parties, and accused Maha Party (BMP) this time. belt and each and every auto is ##3 identified its owner also,” them of pressuring the election However, after its Palghar can- our campaigner. Symbol is sec- Inspector General of Police machinery. didate withdrew from the elec- ondary for us, but the manner olice have seized the car (IGP), Jammu Zone, M K Sinha He also threatened to tion, the BVA staked claim to the in which they pressurised the Pused in the Kishtwar terror told PTI. approach the Supreme Court symbol. administration and ensured that attack in which a senior RSS Hussain has reportedly against the returning officer However, returning officer the symbol is snatched from functionary and his PSO were joined terror outfit Hizb-ul- and the election machinery for Prashant Narnavre told Thakur us...I want to drag them to killed, an officer said on Sunday. Mujahideen recently but police bowing to pressure of the early on Saturday that since the court,” he said. The vehicle was recovered did not confirm this. ruling parties. ‘whistle’ symbol has already “They thought that symbol from an area in Kishtwar dis- According to sources, the The BVA, which had lost its been allotted to the BMP, it is our strength, but our work and trict, he said. Police have car had a false number plate election symbol of ‘whistle’ to a could not be given to his or any workers are our real strength. released a photograph of the and had changed hands four newly-formed outfit, Friday other party. The BVA has been Our work will speak for itself owner of the vehicle, Zahid times. made a last-ditch effort to get it allotted the ‘auto-rickshaw’ sym- and we will make every effort to Hussain, who had been Senior RSS leader back, but could not succeed in bol. Peeved at not getting BVA’s win the seat this time. The rul- absconding since the attack, the Chanderkant Sharma and his it. The BVA has fielded former regular poll symbol, Thakur ing party has done nothing officer said. security guard were killed on MP Baliram Jadhav from Sunday said, “I will drag the great, but only snatched the “We have identified and April 9 when a militant opened Palghar Lok Sabha constituen- returning officer and the elec- whistle from us,” he alleged. PTI tracked down a vehicle (used in fire inside a health centre in % ! ( !#! ! &' cy against sitting MP Rajendra tion machinery to the Supreme the terror attack). We have Kishtwar town. PTI 4,+ ) 3 @ . 9R < ! ! ( ' (& 8( 6# ) * 9 ( # #.# 6 Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief tos were not put up at Jamnagar (Gujarat): A month joined the Bharatiya Janata Party Minister Yogi Adityanath on Government offices. “When after Ravindra Jadeja’s wife on March 3 in Jamnagar in the Sunday said the BJP we assumed office, the first Lakhimpur Kheri (UP): A joined the BJP, the cricketer’s presence sitting MP Poonamben 61 session of the state Legislative new infrastructure in the Government in the State had thing we did was put up 10-year old male tiger was father and sister joined the Maadam, who was renominat- Assembly. coastal state. started the process of educating Babasaheb’s photographs at all found dead in the Dudhwa Congress in Gujarat on Sunday ed by the saffron party. he BJP-led Goa Parrikar had read out the Sawant further said the the Dalits. the Government offices,” he range of Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in the presence of party leader Hardik Patel was expected TGovernment would imple- financial statement of the Government would tap new Speaking at a programme said. (DTR) on Sunday morning. and Patidar quota spearhead to be fielded by the Congress ment the Budget drafted by Budget in the Legislative resources for generation of held here to celebrate the birth Adityanath later tweeted “The dead tiger had serious Hardik Patel. from Jamnagar, but the Patidar former Chief Minister Assembly in January with a revenue. anniversary of Babasaheb saying, “I bow down in rever- puncture wounds on its head, Jadeja’s father, Anirudhsinh, leader’s chances were scuttled Manohar Parrikar who could tube inserted through his He also said that the state Bhimrao Ambedkar, Adityanath ence of Bharat Ratna Babasaheb one of its eyes was completely and sister, Nainaba, joined the after the Supreme Court had on not table it in the State nose. government wanted to usher said, “Babasaheb used to say Dr BR Ambedkar, an apostle of damaged and the claws were Congress at an election rally in April 2 rejected the plea to stay Legislative Assembly due to “The last Budget was in human development along that the Dalit society’s uplift will equality & freedom, and whose injured, which indicated that it Kalavad city of Jamnagar district. his conviction in a case in which his ill health earlier this year. already prepared by Manohar the infrastructure develop- be possible when they become work left an indelible mark on had to face a tough fight with Jadeja hails from Jamnagar and he was sentenced to two years in Incumbent Chief Minister Parrikar but it was not placed. ment. educated.... We have started making of New India. I draw some other big cat,” Field the Congress candidate for jail. Pramod Sawant, who took During the next Assembly “The human development working in that direction.” supreme inspiration from your Director Ramesh Pandey told Jamnagar Lok Sabha seat, Mulu Polls to all the 26 Lok Sabha the charge after the death of session, we will implement will encompass everything. It He added that prior to the ideals, which constantly guide PTI. Kandoriya, was also present. seats in the state will be held in Parrikar last month, on that budget,” Sawant told PTI. will touch lives of people of all formation of the BJP me to work for welfare & dig- He ruled out any foul play The Chennai Super Kings the third phase of the general Sunday said the budget would He said thrust of the bud- ages and from various strata of Government, Ambedkar’s pho- nity of our people.” PTI behind the tiger’s death. PTI all-rounder’s wife, Rivaba, had election on April 23. PTI be implemented in the next get would be the creation of the society,” he added. !"# $ + 5'" %5 ) !($!": 92/ 6 "$!": : (,+03>(01 # , R ' / - ): ) ) ' ; S # 7 N 6 ( O ! " ?@ 7 ( # * ! " ! ! 8 S # , * ( 7 +S ( ( 7 S 4 .@. ( 6 7 ,-./ # akistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was too clever by half in sug- ( / 7 + gesting that his supposedly ‘Naya Pakistan’ could teach India “how to treat its minorities.” The genealog- 7 4 ( " / ( Pical basis for Pakistan (literally “land of the # pure”) was conceptualised in the 1933 pam- ( phlet presented by Choudhary Rahmat Ali, who sowed his “two-nation theory” by insti- ( + tutionalising the spirit of “others” or minori- + ( ties by observing: “These differences are not 8 (< ( confined to broad, basic principles. Far from it, they extend to the minutest details of our O < < B + < 7 lives. We do not inter-dine; we do not inter- ( < S marry. Our national customs and calendars, " even our diet and dress are different.” Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s speech on August 11, 1947 to the Constituent Assembly of # " % C / 7 Pakistan, however, had sent a contradictory / ( sense with, “You are free. You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your C D mosques or to any other place of worship in ( this state of Pakistan.” But our neighbour has C ? % knowingly, steadily and violently walked towards its puritanical moorings. No amount S + of sophistry in ‘Naya Pakistan’ can cover the same. The drift towards religious extremism % was a project-in-making that was temporar- Pakistan and three million in cumbed to the fanatical group routinely hit targets across India, E 0 1 7 ily contained during the direct military years Afghanistan were also systemat- Tehreek-i-Labaak. Imran Khan’s Afghanistan and Iran. These of the Ayub-Yahya era and revived in full ically targetted by the Pakistan- own federal Government is also extremist forces can often turn ( " earnest with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s advent in supported Taliban regime in the guilty of funding Darul Uloom their attention towards Pakistan’s ( Pakistani leadership. Thereafter, all leaders of 1990s. Their distinct Central 6+1 21 4- Haqqania (infamous as the hapless minorities and exert vio- 4 Pakistan, be it military or civilian, have pan- Asian features make them easi- “University of Jihad”) that has the lent intolerance and sectarianism dered dangerously to the clergy and the ly recognisable and easy targets 6;120-641*- most notorious terrorists, like against them. Unfortunately, % accompanying religious sentiments, thereby of militant groups like Lashkar- A5462451 1 Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Pakistan’s own track record on O + O spiralling the narrative of religious importance e-Jhangvi, who have reduced the Haqqani among others, as its willingly controlling these + 7 S ( to metamorphose into the “terror nursery” Hazaras to a ghettoised existence -<24-#1 2 alumni. This instinctive tilt extremist forces was in full dis- of the world. in Pakistan. Last year, the Hazara -)-#-2 / towards extremist thought has play with its initial and natural + ( Today, the concept of minority or the community had to go on a pub- led Ministers of ‘Naya Pakistan’ reluctance to ban Hafiz Saeed’s # % “other” in Pakistan is not just its shrinking lic hunger strike and seek assur- 20-64))-) to share public platforms with Jamaat-ud-Dawa’ah and Falah-e- 7 + minorities of Hindus, Christians, Zoroastrians ances of protection from the real #41)1 215 terrorists like Hafeez Saeed, who Insaniat. and even Jews, but also includes the severe- seat of power in Pakistan, ie, its have been proscribed by the Beyond the posturing of ( ly persecuted Ahmadiyas, who are con- Army Chief Gen Bajwa, after the 5A20-14 United Nations. Little wonder ‘Naya Pakistan’, the issue of pro- # + demned from preaching or professing their spate of Hazara killings had that global-watch agencies like tecting minorities needs belief, besides being declared as “non- become chillingly commonplace. #5/-42- the Financial Action Task Force Constitutional cover that does Muslims”, following Ordinance XX that was Pakistanis are paying the -*3)4/ have kept relentless pressure on not diminish, decry or indigni- passed by the ultra-religious General Zia-ul- price for patronising extremist Islamabad to mend its sovereign fy the credentials of any faith. $ ' Haq in 1984. For all practical purposes, the elements and the parallel margin- /-#5*421* behaviour that nurtures terror, Basic amendments to laws con- simmering sectarian tensions of the Sunni- alisation of their moderate, sec- A54*- $.120 both externally and internally, as cerning blasphemy are realistical- / ) R )( ) Shia divide have regressed into unprecedent- ular and democratic forces. With indeed leading to more insecu- ly a “no-go” for Imran Khan’s ed levels of polarisation and violence with a virtual immunity afforded to '1423) rity for its vulnerable minorities. Government, given its track ) - ' 2 supremacist militia targetting the “minority” the likes of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba, 1##312; Herein routine news like the record of either supporting or ( Shias and their offshoot adherents with and Jaish-e-Muhammad among AA54/-/2520- forcible conversions of minorities capitulating to the regressive either utter impunity or even indirect state- others, it is hardly surprising that no longer make headlines. forces. The societal divide and support. A far cry from the days when General Pakistan is recognised as a con- )1+- 5A)-2/ Fact is, both in Pakistan tensions for “minorities” are a ) Muhammad Musa Khan, a Hazara Shia, was fessional state, despite the feeble and India, there is a societal reality and not a matter of polit- ( the Pakistani Army Chief during 1958- attempts of nomenclaturising -#121 04/); churn and regression towards ical one-upmanship or point- 1966. Contrast this with the uproar of the itself as ‘Naya Pakistan’. It is 34641 1202 majoritarianism and hardening scoring between Pakistan and # ostensible Ahmadiya/Qadiani link that sur- under Imran Khan’s watch that of religious opinions. Ironically, India. Pakistan (‘Naya’ or other- * rounded the appointment of the current the Princeton University econo- 6+1 21 in both countries, religious sen- wise) has to redefine and legis- + + ( Pakistani Army Chief Qamar Bajwa, which mist, Atif Mian, was dropped 4-*51 -/ timents are pandered and har- late its corrective agenda within expectedly had to be rebutted and squashed. from his Economic Advisory nessed for their electoral curren- its Constitutional tenets, else ( + ( Recently, the ongoing and bloody saga of Council (EAC) on account of his *5A- 15) cy. However, in Pakistan, there is horrific incidents like the latest ,- .-- ( societal irreconcilability within Pakistan’s belonging to the “minority” 22- an additional angularity of state Hazara massacre will continue / imploding mainstream claimed at least 20 Ahmadiya faith. Imran Khan sanctification afforded by way of unabated. innocent lives in a terror attack that was seen then failed to change the narra- its perceived utility in cross- (The writer, a military veter- + ( to be targetting the “minority” Hazara Shia tive with his feeble handling of border leverage that is sought by an, is a former Lt Governor of 01 community in restive Quetta. These verita- the Asia Bibi (of Christian faith) sheltering certain religion- Andaman & Nicobar Islands and 23 4 S ble “minority” groups of nearly a million in blasphemy case, where he suc- inspired terrorist groups that Puducherry) * " ( / 0 - 1 2,3 7 & 7 2* 2 " ) 5+ ( $$$)0 " O ! ! 4 O -*$. !"F !( ! $ + ; ! "!! " -'# 5 " S 5 (6 $$$0" $ $$$2 ! / 9 CC 7 8 + 0 0 " / $ #6 # O $ 6 & $ - $ 99 5(6 6 9.,: $($$+-,# .,:$+-,# 9-(# 8 0 K# K K* K 4(+ ( ( 3 3 % 3 0 33 / 1,30% ( Indira Gandhi, which declared $ ( Q Emergency in June 1975, ( breached democracy and the Sir —The Election Commission ( 6"# 1" + rule of the law. Freedom of P* (EC) should strive for an inno- 7 6 76 speech and expression was + vative solution to restore miss- 6" ! 6"# # undoubtedly curbed. In some + Q ing names on voter lists, a fac- ! ! respect, cruelties were inflicted tor which did impact turnout in ! $1 ! upon some adversaries. This 4 ( the first phase of elections. It is " 76 does not need any elaboration. ( ironical that despite successive !(5 $ The Congress’ dastardly act of # ( and extensive campaigns, quite 1" + O "F cruelty and barbarity was well ! ! a few voters were still confused manifested when more than about voter slips and identity ! $! 3,000 innocent Sikhs were killed ( ( cards. There was enough time "0 ! allegedly at the behest of party- for technological solutions to " " " $ . ! men after the assassination of 4 quickly identify missing/deleted !>J? >K * !( ! !$ "" 1 Indira Gandhi. names. But perhaps an over- !+ "!!"" 6 ( O !" "$1" Recall the Bhopal gas #S ( worked EC was busy with the " ! $ " 6 + O " " tragedy, which caused the death ( many issues to be resolved under " ! " ! of lakhs of people and was the 4 S the Model Code of Conduct. "!"! !F ! $ worst disaster in the history of Varun SD $" " 0 &#/+$=$ India. Still, the then Prime (+ < Bangalore " ! Minister Rajiv Gandhi, being 4 ( callous about the horrendous /#<8 = devastation, allowed the owner work after they are elected. help their careers in the long- commitment. They gave back. of the factory, Warren Anderson, > ( Not only are they unaware of run. What is needed to stay on M Pradyu to escape from India. * Sir — Most political parties give the people’s needs in their in the hearts of the people is ser- Kanpur Did the Congress tickets to members from the film respective constituencies, they vice to the ordinary citizens. Government preserve national fraternity in order to woo the vot- are also least interested in the There are some good examples interest by allowing the accused $ ( ers. Television and film stars are betterment of the party they rep- of celebrities who have done escape unpunished? Can the # also employed to campaign for resent. As such, they turn out to some genuine public service. party undo past wrongs? ) various political parties. While be a liability. Further, what these Stars of today must learn from Sir — This refers to the article, Nimai Charan Swain some celebrities are genuinely personalities do not understand the likes of J Jayalalithaa and “Making false promises” (April Bhubaneswar interested in furthering interests is that while they can gain the Sunil Dutt, who carved a place 9) by A Surya Prakash. It is an / of parties and working for the voters’ support with their glam- in the hearts of the people by indubitable fact that the % , people, others do little productive our and popularity, these do not sheer dint of hard work and Congress Government under ),--,#+-(8($,,#>%)*9( !"# $ 4 5'" %5 ) 5,%306- * % 6 0-3% 6 !& '& ! & &* " ") $ "& & ' & & & & ' 1 * !& & @ * 1 ! !! L L !" ! & & ! " ' ) .36 O )( ( '() ' 2 ( + ( 6 0/ $ 4 D ( 3)) ) ) ) E ( ( $ $ F E < + ( ( <( ( " + + 6 $ + 8 =6$+(8>> * 4 # 6 $ ( 6$+=8> % # ( 6761% S ( eft by her parents to fend for herself at a 6 F S S ( residential school for poor children # G P8 when she was just five, this was proba- bly the best thing that happened to Jyoti. QH P QH One of seven siblings, she showed no P QH P Q signsL of heartbreak at being abandoned by her fam- # ( ily. Instead, she displayed surprising maturity at that 0 young age and understood that this was her big chance to do what she wanted the most — to study. + So, unlike other girls of her age, Jyoti did not run away to escape the rigours of the spartan life there. + She embraced life at the ashram and used the opportunity to improve her knowledge and skills. 8 ( Little did she know that this wisdom and resilience # would help her become a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of the ruling Janata Dal (United) 12. ;521O # [JD(U)] in Bihar. However, not many know how 3**- 1 Jyoti was catapulted to the political centre-stage. 2341' 2 # G 6 As we celebrated the 129th birth anniversary of B 744-)/ # ( ( R Ambedkar, the father of the Indian Constitution 1254-- " on April 14, it is also time to laud the achievements 7-)2 .12020- ( of the unknown and unheard Dalit women, who overcame caste barriers with their courage and 412-*01L3- / /520-4 * determination to fulfill their dreams. Jyoti’s win as the JD(U) candidate from the 1/1-53 E #-205/ 202 D reserved seat (Scheduled Caste) of Barachatti in Gaya district, Bihar, was remarkable for many rea- *30220- Besides motivating them to stand up Government’s national rural employ- Dignity and Elimination of Manual + ( ( sons. Before she received a call from Chief 22-2155A against violence, both within and outside ment guarantee scheme. Scavenging), a coalition of 30 commu- # Minister Nitesh Kumar to contest the Assembly *01-A#11 2-4 their homes, she trained them to look Phoolmati has also inspired confi- nity-based organisations from 13 Indian * poll in 2010, Jyoti and her husband used to teach 121 0+3#4$ after their own health, using a new farm- dence among women in the communi- States, working to improve the lives of E ( children in Bapu Gram, a remote village in Gaya /12. ing technique, a system of rice intensi- ty to stand up against violence. Women these marginalised communities. Once district. Both husband and wife saw this as an cation or SRI, after learning it from are ready to file complaints against per- Choti Bai decided to give up manual opportunity to give back to their Musahar com- 20- --AA542 Pradan, a not-for-profit organisation petrators, including their husbands. In a scavenging, she braved opposition from < # 202 / ( munity although salaries were low — Jyoti’s hus- working with the community. It was State where patriarchy keeps women her husband and mother-in-law. She *5241732-/25 # ( band received 110 while she got a paltry 90. Jyoti’s success in turning vast barren lands closeted in their houses and violence turned to work as a daily wage labour- When they subsequently moved to a more back- 0-4'1*254;1 into green belts with the SRI technique against women is the highest in the coun- er in the fields and took to sewing clothes. + 20-65)) K O ? " ward block, Fatehpur, in the same district and and other indigenous methods that try, this is a big step. Statistics reveal that When campaign activists saw her found there were no schools, they decided to open 0-/-A-2-/ caught the attention of Chief Minister between April 1, 2017, and January 31, determination, they asked her to work one so that more children from the Musahar com- 0-45665-2 Nitish Kumar. And it was these efforts 2018, there was a 25 per cent increase in with them. In 2012, she joined the cam- " + munity could be educated 7;#415A that contributed to her victory in the polls rapes, 40 per cent rise in incidents of paign as a motivator, earning a month- The Musahar community in Bihar is one of 5'-4MN??? — she defeated her opponent by a mar- molestation, 35 per cent jump in cases ly salary of 1,700, far more than she E ( the most deprived and socially disadvantaged '52- gin of over 24,000 votes. Although she of kidnappings of women and a 50 per ever earned as a manual scavenger. Her + + groups in India. Literacy rate in this community did not contest for a second term in 2015, cent increase in cases of eve-teasing, com- new life has brought her dignity and 6 is just 9.8 per cent, the lowest among Dalits in the Jyoti did not let her experience as MLA pared to the corresponding period in respect, especially from those who # country. Only about one per cent of the Musahar go waste. She continues to work for the 2016-17. once considered her untouchable. She ( women is literate. community and inspire other women. Not just in violence, Uttar Pradesh has helped persuade 112 women work- ( The couple began classes under a tree until the Just as Phoolmati is doing in Nebua has another dubious distinction. Here ing as manual scavengers in her district D village gifted some land. The community pitched Naurangia, a remote block in one in every five girls is a child bride. to give up this work. While some of in by donating labour for the construction of a Gorakhpur district in neighbouring Phoolmati was one of them. Married these women have been helped to start modest building. Since then, all children go to Uttar Pradesh. Here, she is empower- young to a much older man, Phoolmati a small poultry business, others have school. In fact, 10 neighbouring villages were so ing women in her Dalit community to managed to study only till Class V. When been helped to get job cards under ( inspired by this community effort that they, too, stand up for their rights. One of the big she got a chance to learn about her rights MNREGA. Now, thanks to Choti Bai, got together to do the same. When the State changes that she brought about was and entitlements after becoming a SHG there are no more female manual scav- ( Government opened a primary school and an motivating women in this backward member, thanks to the Rajiv Gandhi engers in her village. R S anganwadi in Fatehpur block in Gaya, Jyoti was block to launch an anti-liquor agitation. Mahila Vikas Pariyojana, a not-for- This is a big achievement consider- D the natural choice as an anganwadi worker, being Their determination and courage in profit working for women’s empower- ing in India, manual scavengers are most- + the only active woman from the community. She standing up against the powerful lobby ment, she decided to share this with other ly women. Men from this community + not only inspired women to bring their children that promoted alcohol bhattis (small- marginalised women. She has helped clean septic tanks and sewers. The ( ( to the anganwadi, she was also able to debunk sev- scale production units) led to the clo- over 750 women step out of their hous- Socio-Economic Caste Census of 2011 eral myths related to maternal and child health. sure of such units. The women over- es and transform their lives with the help counted over 1.82 lakh families that had Realising that the lack of information held back came their fear of a backlash from of knowledge and training disseminat- at least one member employed in man- + ( Musahar women from immunising their children, upper caste men running these units, ed through the SHGs. ual scavenging. Jyoti said she first got her own children vaccinat- thanks to their collectivisation as SHGs But for Choti Bai, a resident of Changes being brought about by ed and then asked other women to follow her facilitated by Phoolmati. She has sin- Chittorgarh district in Rajasthan, reali- women like Choti Bai, Phoolmati and * C + example. gle-handedly helped the formation of sation of her rights came late. It was only Jyoti need to be recognised and cele- Realising that women’s empowerment was the over 50 SHGs in the block. This is why after 22 years of cleaning toilets with her brated. They have broken the shackles ( ( key to improving maternal and infant health, she women here have come together to bare hands that she discovered manual of caste and patriarchy and reclaimed # began organising them into self-help groups demand roads and demonstrate in scavenging was illegal. This was in 2008 their rights, especially to live with dig- (SHGs). Over the next 10 years, the number of front of the district magistrate for when she met activists of the Rashtriya nity. SHGs increased from 10 to 350. employment under MNREGA, the Garima Abhiyan (National Campaign for (The writer is a senior journalist) < # R ) -; E 50%,.-8 !"# # $ # %$
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QR# " ! % -./-)01 -./-)01 Besides, mutual fund ayments network ndian capital market out- asset under #3#71 PNPCI is consid- Iperformed several major management ering using highly global markets, including the grew by 11.4 per et Airways scalable blockchain developed ones like the US and cent to nearly Jpilots body, the solution to further the UK as well as developing 24 lakh crore National strengthen digital economies such as China and and Foreign Aviator’s Guild payments, which Brazil, with double-digit Portfolio (NAG), on have seen an expo- returns in the fiscal ended Investors’ asset Sunday deferred nential growth in March 2019 despite numerous under custody its “no flying” recent times. global and domestic head- expanded by 8.6 call to a later A blockchain or winds, data shows. per cent to close date, particularly distributed ledger is a contin- As per a recent report of The Indian market benck- to 30 lakh when the man- uously growing list of encrypt- global consultancy firm PwC, mark indices also improved on crore. 2018-19 as against 2.84 lakh agement is ed transactions called blocks. A India would be one of the their own performance in the This is despite the fact that crore in 2017-18 and 1.30 lakh scheduled to block may contain any type of world’s blockchain leaders by previous fiscal, with the BSE’s 2018-19 was relatively a diffi- crore in 2016-17. meet the lenders data such as unique digital 2023. Sensex (17.3 per cent) giving cult and challenging year on The year also saw the on Monday. identifiers of physical products “Blockchain stores infor- relatively better returns than account of global and domes- much-awaited REIT (Real Earlier in the The National Payments mation about transactions the NSE’s Nifty (14.9 per cent) tic headwinds. Estate Investment Trust) final- day, the Guild, Corporation of India (NPCI) is between users in a way that can in 2018-19. Fundraising from the cap- ly taking off in India. which has an umbrella organisation for all be tracked by any user for for- This is much better than ital market also continued its REITs have been used around 1,100 retail payments in India. It ever for maximum trans- the equity market returns positive trend during 2018-19, worldwide as a vehicle for pilots as its was set up with the guidance parency. This gives visibility recorded in the US (7.6 per with funds raised through debt monetisation of assets by real members, decided to stop fly- 15 in their uniforms, it said. we have decided to go ahead and support of the Reserve which can lead to greater effi- cent), the UK (3.2 per cent), and equity rising by 5.3 per estate developers. As an instru- ing from April 15 in protest Siroya Centre is Jet with our call of no-flying from Bank of India and the Indian ciency by automating or con- China (minus 2.5 per cent), cent to nearly 9 lakh crore. ment class, it provides to against non-payment of salaries Airways headquarters in April 15. All 1,100 pilots of Banks Association (IBA). firming transactions and Brazil (11.8 per cent), Japan The double-digit returns investors stable and predictable since March. Andheri suburb in Mumbai. NAG will stop flying from 10 Promoted by 10 banks in increasing liquidity in the sup- (minus 1.2 per cent), South came in despite subdued sen- returns, matching those and “It is come to our notice According to NAG, it has am Monday,” a Guild source India under the aegis of the ply chain,” said Innefu Labs Co- Korea (minus 12.5 per cent) timents at times in view of cer- often exceeding returns from that there is a critical meeting also called upon other depart- said earlier in the day. IBA, it aims to become the Founder Tarun Wig. and Hong Kong (minus 3.5 per tain negative developments other alternative investments. planned tomorrow (Monday) ments to join the gathering at The NAG, which claims “best payments network glob- NPCI has invited bids for cent) in 2018-19. since September 2018, partic- Capital market regulator morning with the airline man- the headquarters as a show of representation of around 1,100 ally”. Presently, 56 banks are selection of Liaisoning An analysis of equity mar- ularly on the fixed-income Sebi had issued REIT regulations agement and SBI. unity. pilots of the total 1,600 with the shareholders of NPCI. Consultant (LC) to acquire ket returns for these countries securities front. in 2014 to give impetus to this “In light of the meeting, the An Open House will be full service carrier, had in late “NPCI intends to develop various End-to-End Statutory shows that the Indian bench- On the mutual fund front, instrument and, in turn, to the members have requested, called shortly as per the avail- March called for no flying a resilient, real time and high- permissions for Construction mark indices had underper- debt-oriented funds witnessed real estate sector in the country. through their team leaders, ability of the venue and the from April 1 over non-payment ly scalable blockchain solu- of Captive Data Center (CDC) formed those in the US, Brazil, net outflows on the back of cer- The Government has also pro- that the call of ‘No Pay No committee members, the com- of salaries. tion. It is proposed to develop in Chennai and Hyderabad. Japan, South Korea and Hong tain developments in debt mar- vided pass-through tax status to Work’ be deferred to give the munication added. However, on March 31, it this solution using an open NPCI provides services Kong in 2017-18, though the ket since September 2018. REITs registered with Sebi. airline a chance of survival. The pilots, along with engi- deferred the agitation to April source technology/ frame- like cheque clearance and facil- performance was better than the But, equity-oriented mutu- In March, the first REIT Accordingly, as requested, the neers and senior management, 15, saying it wanted to give work/solution,” it said in a itates digital payments. UK and China even in that year. al funds continued to receive public offer came and it has list- Committee would like to have not received salaries since more time to the new man- notification. It has developed Unified With positive performance positive net inflows across all ed units worth about 4,750 inform all that the decision January. The debt-ridden car- agement. In this regard, the NPCI Payments Interface (UPI), an by benchmark indices and months during 2018-19 and crore. The issue was well stands deferred for the time rier has also not paid the Jet Airways is at present has floated an Express of instant payment system. increasing fund raising from other mutual funds received received with oversubscription being,” the Guild committee March salary to employees of under the management control Interest (EOI) in order to UPI is fast gaining traction the market, the size of the cap- positive net inflows in 10 out of of two times in institutional said in a late evening commu- other categories as well. of SBI-led consortium of enable bidders to propose their in the country with total pay- ital market in India also con- 12 months of the financial year. category and upwards of three nication to its members. “As on today, we have not lenders after the approval of a capability for developing dis- ments through it soaring to tinued to expand during 2018- Net fund inflows in equi- times in retail category. All pilots are still requested, been paid for nearly three-and- debt-rejig plan last month, tributed ledger technology/ 1.33 lakh crore in March 2019 19, with the market capitalisa- ty-oriented and other types of This is the largest listed however, to be present at Siroya a-half months and we do not which also led its founder blockchain in the payment from a meagre 3.1 crore in tion rising by over 6 per cent to mutual funds together were to REIT in Asia in terms of area Centre at 0930 hours on April know when we will be paid. So chairman Naresh Goyal to quit. domain. August 2016. over 151 lakh crore. the tune of 1.58 lakh crore in of assets. + ) 9 A ! ! ! #(' = ( ' ! " OO !! 7! 4* ) -./-)01 itors and operational creditors crore. Of this, financial credi- ) ,( stood at 65,635 crore and 3,131 tors received 63.49 per cent of early half of their total crore, respectively, as per data. claims, while the operational AB@8! / -./-)01 On questioning the credi- Nadmitted claims worth The IBBI, a key institution creditors’ realisation stood at bility of statistical data by over 100 over 1.42 lakh crore have set up under the IBC, provid- 80.94 per cent. #3#71 ormer Niti Aayog vice chair- economists and social scientists, been recovered by financial and ed the figures in an affidavit With regard to Electrosteel, Fman Arvind Panagariya has Panagariya said unless such crit- operational creditors from as submitted to the National total admitted claims for both he Reserve Bank remained . 0125 zation’s 189 members, recog- said the Modi Government has ics identify precisely what part of many as 88 debt-ridden com- Company Law Appellate financial and operational cred- Ta net buyer of the US dol- nized the need to “resolve achieved ‘major successes’ in the CSO/MOSPI methodology, panies under the insolvency Tribunal (NCLAT) last week. itors were 13,958 crore. In this lar for the third consecutive rade frictions are seen as a trade tensions” and support social sector programmes like described in detail in a 40-page law, according to official data. On March 27, the tribunal resolution process, in which month in February, when Tthe main source of uncer- reforms of the World Trade Ayushman Bharat, PM-Kisan document, they find problemat- The Insolvency and directed the IBBI to file an affi- Vedanta group got control of itbought $825 million from tainty for a slowing global Organization that have been and rural electrification. ic, their statements only amount Bankruptcy Code (IBC) seeks davit, with details about aver- the company, financial creditors the spot market, according to economy, but there are more demanded by the United States. Besides, this Government to assertions. to provide market-determined age percentage of distribution got 40.38 per cent of admitted the data from the central bank. glimmers of hope for a US- While the IMF itself has has made an ‘unprecedented “None of the international resolution for stressed assets in of realised amount between claims, while the operational In the reporting month, the China agreement. warned against the “self-inflict- progress’ in tackling corruption, institutions including the World a time-bound manner. financial creditors and opera- creditors’ share was nil. central bank bought $2.086 While there is no deadline ed wounds” of tariffs and trade he added. Bank, IMF and the United Claims totalling a little tional creditors subsequent to In the matter of Monnet billion and sold $1.261 billion for ending the protracted trade barriers, the committee itself On the reforms undertak- Nations, have expressed any over 1.42 lakh crore were insolvency resolution process. Ispat & Energey, total admitted in the spot market as the rupee war with China, US Treasury steered clear of what has en by the Narendra Modi-led doubt in the integrity of our sta- admitted in 88 cases under the According to the affidavit, claims were 11,478.08 crore, of was under pressure. Secretary Steven Mnuchin said become an unexpected hot NDA Government, he said the tistical institutions or the num- IBC till February 28, data col- the realised amount was more which financial creditors got The central bank had Saturday the talks are nearing button in a forum once devot- three major areas of initiatives bers these institutions generate. lected by the Insolvency and than 100 per cent in some 26.26 per cent and operational turned net buyer of dollar for their conclusion, a fresh signal ed to trade liberalisation. were implementation of the Nor have I seen any objective Bankruptcy Board of India cases. creditors received 5.40 per cent. the first time in fiscal 2019 in of progress. IMF chief Christine Goods and Services Tax (GST), evidence that the institutions (IBBI) showed. In the 88 cases, financial The NCLAT had asked December 2018 buying Mnuchin’s remarks came Lagarde said many officials at Insolvency and Bankruptcy have tried to fudge their data on Of the total admitted creditors got 100 per cent real- IBBI to give data in the reso- $607million. In January 2019, on the margins of Spring meet- the meetings in Washington Code (IBC) and direct benefit their own or at the behest of any claims, financial creditors isation of admitted claims in 11 lution process of Essar Steel, the RBI had net purchased ings of the International “actually made their views well transfer (DBT). other Government depart- sought to recover dues worth resolution plans, while opera- where operational creditors $293 million. Monetary Fund and World known about the benefits of In an interview to PTI, the ments,” he asserted. 1.36 lakh crore and opera- tional creditors got only full and some financial creditors It had bought $1.025 bil- Bank, which were once again trade” for economic growth. eminent economist said The Columbia University tional creditors 6,469 crore. realisation in only 6 cases. are opposing the resolution lion from the spot market and dominated by fears US trade China’s deputy central bank “...Ayushman Bharat, PM-Kisan, professor also noted that revi- Financial creditors recov- In three cases, financial plan approved by the sold $732 million. policy could upset global eco- governor, Chen Yulu, warned that cooking gas, rural roads and sion of GDP estimates is noth- ered 48.24 per cent of their creditors got more than 100 per Committee of Creditors (CoC) In February 2018, the nomic growth. “the protectionism of some coun- rural electrification represent ing new and this has been a well admitted claims and opera- cent realisation of admitted and are seeking a higher share. apex bank was also a net The IMF predicted this tries has harmed mutual trust major successes of the Modi established practice. tional creditors got 48.41 per claims. As per the resolution plan buyer of $1.665 billion pur- week that the slowing world among countries,” although he Government. Unprecedented Former RBI Governor cent of their admitted claims. Among the 88 cases were approved by CoC, chasing $3.320 billion and economy should begin to did not name the United States. progress has also been made in Raghuram Rajan recently had The figures are with respect to big-ticket takeovers, including ArcelorMittal, the successful selling $1.655 billion in the rebound in the latter part of In the meantime, combating corruption.” expressed doubts over Indian 88 cases, including those where Tata Steel acquiring over resolution applicant, would spot market. 2019 - provided in part that the Washington this week rattled Talking about infrastructure economy growing 7 per cent resolution has been completed, Bhushan Steel and Vedanta’s pay Essar Steel lenders 41,987 In the forward dollar mar- world’s top two economies EU nations by threatening a sector, he said the Government when not enough jobs were cre- for the period till February 28. acquisition of Electrosteel. crore for their total dues of ket, the outstanding forward resolve their differences. new set of tariffs in retaliation has managed to greatly accel- ated and said the current cloud Creditors realised 68,766 In the Bhushan Steel mat- 49,395 crore. Operational sales at end February was In a final statement from for subsidies to the aviation erate outcomes in sectors like over the GDP numbers must be crore of the total admitted ter, total admitted claims of creditors would get only 214 $4.372 billion, compared to a the meetings Saturday, the manufacturer Airbus while roads, railways, waterways, civil cleared by appointing an impar- claims in those 88 cases. operational and financial cred- crore against their outstanding sale of $3.032 billion in January, IMF’s steering committee, separately prepare for new aviation and digitisation. tial look at the data. The share of financial cred- itors amounted to 57,505.05 of 4,976 crore. according to the RBI data. which represents’ the organi- trade talks with Japan. # C & " " ((%! ( ; ( @ " 1" & ) # -./-)01 to make public #3#71 rently, hopes to bag another sector banks 25,000 crore of contracts in tate-owned Bank of Baroda (PSBs) healthy, 2 iding high on the pace of the current financial year, S(BoB) is likely to complete robust and global- Rgrowth in the oil and gas, chief operating officer for % the process of merger of Dena ly competitive. 344# nuclear and urban infra- industrial systems Bank and Vijaya Bank with it As part of the structure sectors, Tata Satyanarayana K told PTI in two years, said a senior reform process, ebia Academy Global, an Projects, a part of the diver- here over the weekend. official of BoB. the government Xeducation business unit of sified Tata Group, is eyeing up He said the company is The merger of Dena Bank had also Xebiahas recently signed a to 16,000 crore worth of upbeat about the potential in and Vijaya Bank with BoB announced trans- Memorandum of revenue this fiscal. the oil and gas sector along became effective from April 1. fer of majority 51 Understanding (MoU) with The company, one of with the prospects of nuclear Information technology per cent stake to SRM University, Delhi-NCR, fastest growing infrastruc- power projects picking up as platform integration alone will Life Insurance Sonepat to launch a ture companies in the coun- thermal projects loses policy take about 12 months and Corporation in B.TechComputer Science try with an order book of thrust for a litany of reasons other processes and systems IDBI Bank in Engineering program around 50,000 crore cur- including pollution. may take another year or so, the August last year to Specialisation in DevOps for official said. transform the the academic session 2019-20. The process has been Mumbai-based In this collaborative under- #3#71 designed to ensure that there is lender. taking, Xebia will design the minimum disruption of the on the balance sheet of the The consolidated entity Besides, the Department of course curriculum and creat- truggling carrier Jet customers during the transition bank during the first quarter started the operation with a Financial Services made a estudy modules containing SAirways Sunday said its period, the official said adding when the maximum impact of business mix of over 15 lakh record capital infusion of 1.06 high quality and industry-spe- Independent Director that the branding of the three the merger will play out and, crore on the balance sheet, with lakh crore in the PSBs in 2018- cific content along with place- Rajshree Pathy has quit the entities will be retained in the subsequently, the impact will deposits and advances of 8.75 19. As a result, five PSBs, ment support for the graduat- company, effective April 13, interim period and will be moderate, the official added. lakh crore and 6.25 lakh crore, including Bank of India, ing students. Xebia will also citing time constraints and transitioned to the new brand The maiden three-way respectively. Corporation Bank and help in strengthening their other commitments. in a phased manner to ensure amalgamation is the first step BoB, the second-largest Allahabad Bank, were out of faculty-building a team of com- “This is to inform you that minimum disruption to exist- in the consolidation of the public sector lender after State the prompt corrective action petent educators and subject Rajshree Pathy has submitted ing operations. public sector banking indus- Bank of India, now has over framework of the RBI earlier matter experts. her resignation as an As far as capital is con- try recommended in 1991 by 9,500 branches, 13,400 ATMs, this year. Non-performing The B.Tech program will Independent Director of the cerned, the official said, the the Narasimham Committee and 85,000 employees to serve assets showed a negative trend focus on the future-oriented company with effect from government has infused 5,042 report. Through this merger, 12 crore customers. in 2018-19 and reduced by field of DevOps. Its course April 13, owing to time con- crore in the bank taking care of the government has created The announcement of the 23,860 crore between April structure has been designed in straints and on account of her additional expenses and main- an institution of global scale three-way merger was among 2018 and September 2018. a way that it addresses the tal- other current commitments,” taining minimum regulatory and size, thereby providing several reforms initiatives Following the merger, the ent gap by providing relevant ' %# % ' 6 % B ! 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)-#6/- A4*- EU on March 29, but this was delayed to April 12 and now to n or out? The repeated delays October 31 amid disagreement )* 4! Ito Brexit are a nightmare for in parliament over how to map makers and guidebook manage the split. printers who have to decide AEDIS, which has 12 how to depict Britain’s rela- members of staff, was quick to 5 : , R - tionship with the European remove Britain from the EU in Union. its publications following the )5/5 frustration, fascination and sound and fury signifies — not “We are completely lost,” 2016 referendum vote for shame at the ongoing political much. said Henri Medori, manager of Brexit. Medori said there was s a symbol of the woes of chaos. So do politicians on Britain is no further out publisher AEDIS. “public pressure” to respond, ABritain’s Brexit-era democ- both sides of the Brexit divide. the EU door or clearer about In a hangar that serves as explaining: “We were chal- racy, it could hardly be bet- “I am ashamed to be a its post-Brexit direction than it his firm’s logistic hub in lenged by some readers who tered. Lawmakers had to be member of this Parliament,” was at the start of the year. Lempdes, near Clermont- claimed our maps were wrong sent home in mid-debate last said pro-EU Liberal Democrat A divorce agreement Ferrand in central France, by including the UK.” week when water from a burst lawmaker Norman Lamb after struck between Prime Minister dozens of copies of laminated Then other clients com- pipe began gushing into the lawmakers once again failed to Theresa May’s government leaflets on “Europe at 27” rest plained, in emails that were House of Commons chamber. find a way forward on Brexit. and EU late in 2018 lays out on boxes. They reflect the “sometimes insulting”, saying The image perfectly illus- Bill Cash, a pro-Brexit the terms of an orderly UK number of countries that will that technically Britain remains trates Parliament’s problem as Conservative, said this week departure and promising close be part of the EU once Britain a member of the bloc. it tries to solve the puzzle that that Britain had been “humil- future ties. Since January, finally leaves. “So we added a box is Brexit. On the outside, the iated” by failing to leave the EU Parliament has rejected it three “We have at least ten books explaining Brexit,” he said. UK institution is resplendent, on time. times. Pro-Brexit lawmakers that have a map of Europe, of But the firm has sold at a world-famous symbol of The last few months in won’t vote for it because they the European Union. So it’s a most 6,000 documents showing democracy sitting majestical- Parliament, as lawmakers favour a more definitive break little complicated,” he told AFP. Europe as a union of 27 coun- ly on the River Thames. On the repeatedly tried and failed to with the bloc. “We have frozen the print tries, mostly in shops in motor- inside, it’s decrepit and increas- agree on a roadmap for Parliament has also voted run — we will start it as soon way rest areas. adding that he had received no removing maps if they will lectors’ item,” said manager ingly unfit for use. Britain’s departure, have pro- on other options including as we have certainty about “For a year and a half, we guidance from EU institutions. simply cause confusion.” Tamara Goldstein. She also The hidden flaws in duced close votes, late nights leaving without a deal and Brexit.” have mostly given up on sales In Britain, the Oxford In Brussels, at a souvenir has a jigsaw puzzle that is sell- Britain’s political system have and high drama. holding a new referendum on Britain was due to leave the in this area,” Medori said, University Press (OUP) has shop near the EU’s headquar- ing well, showing the European been laid bare — and televised It’s a political soap opera Britain’s EU membership. And avoided any radical changes to ters, some items showing Union as it will be after Brexit, worldwide — since voters that has sent the viewership of twice lawmakers have rejected its maps but it also has to adapt. Britain’s membership will dis- with “no sign of Britain”. chose, almost three years ago, Parliament’s live-streaming them all. “We’re monitoring the sit- appear with Brexit. And many But given the uncertainty to leave the European Union. website soaring and made an To avoid a chaotic no- 26 ! uation but not making major of them, such as a badge with — with some politicians in Decision-making has international celebrity of deal departure that could dev- changes until we have greater the EU and UK flags, are fly- London and Brussels still hop- ground to a standstill, even as House of Commons Speaker astate an economy already clarity,” a spokeswoman told ing off the shelves. ing Brexit might never happen business leaders and residents John Bercow, with his bellow- weighed down by Brexit uncer- AFP. “Anything with the UK on — some items remain alike cry out for certainty. ing cries of “Orderrrrr” and tainty, May has twice gone to % - ( “But in some cases, we are it might one day become a col- unchanged. Many Britons feel a mix of “The ayes have it!” But all the the EU asking for more time. )#- #; )5/5 “But I don’t think that this question can be allowed to he British Government drag out for much longer.” 0-) 1+1 significant influence in the reported at some polling sta- mate hysteria” of other parties Twill resume talks with the May was forced to ask fel- talks to form the next govern- tions in the capital. seeking action against global main opposition Labour party low EU leaders this week to inns voted on Sunday in a ment, which in Finland is typ- Around lunchtime the warming. next week on how to resolve postpone Brexit for a second Fgeneral election where anti- ically a coalition of three or four leaders of the main parties At a Finns Party rally on the deadlock over Brexit, time, from April 12 to October austerity sentiment looked set parties. were seen casting their ballots the eve of the vote in Minister said on Sunday. 31. to propel the opposition Social The current government’s in their constituencies: Halla- Myyrmaki, a disadvantaged Prime Minister Theresa She has been unable to Democratic Party back to the cuts to Finland’s prized educa- aho in Helsinki, Rinne in the suburb of the capital, a crowd May’s effective deputy, David persuade MPs to back the head of government for the first tion system, and a tightening of town of Mantsala in the south, of people, young and old, clam- Lidington, said they wanted to withdrawal terms she has time in 16 years. unemployment benefit criteria, and Petteri Orpo in the south- oured around party leader Jussi be able to “take stock” of any struck with Brussels, but is also The left-wing party leads provoked loud and widespread west city of Turku. Halla-aho, asking for auto- progress when parliament unwilling to take Britain out of Finland’s two main opinion public opposition. Opinion polls suggest the graphs and congratulating him returns from its Easter break the EU with no deal at all. polls with about 19 percent of Outside a polling station in Social Democrats’ lead has on the campaign. on April 23. She is still hoping Brexit the vote, having campaigned central Helsinki on Sunday narrowed in recent weeks to as “You will be the next prime “What we have agreed is a can happen in time to avoid against the steep cost-cutting of morning, a local resident who little as two points, ahead of the minister,” one woman assured programme of meetings next Britain taking part in Centre Party Prime Minister gave her name as Jenny said National Coalition and Finns him. week on particular subjects European Parliament elections Juha Sipila and his Finance that she had only settled on Party which are battling it out Forecasts suggest no party with the ministers and shad- on May 23. Minister Petteri Orpo -- leader who to vote for at the last ! / % !% % ! % for second place. is likely to draw more than 20 ow ministers concerned get- May met Labour leader of the conservative National minute. # % ! % ! % P PP Some have blamed the percent of the vote, meaning ting together,” he told the Jeremy Corbyn on April 3 and Coalition Party. “There have been a lot of / shrinking lead on the inability the result could be historically BBC. there have been further lower- But the far-right Finns cuts and some, like education, of party leader Antti Rinne, a close. They would discuss envi- level talks since then over Party, led by hardline MEP in areas they promised they gramme, has denounced the some more generous public 56-year-old former trade union This could make the nego- ronmental standards and Labour’s demand for a close Jussi Halla-aho, has seen a wouldn’t cut. Of course, the Social Democratic Party’s anti- spending. boss, to attract large numbers tiations to build a government workers’ rights after Brexit as future relationship with the surge in support in recent parties from the last govern- austerity plans as “irresponsi- The heated debate in the of new, younger voters. coalition particularly tricky. well as the future security EU. Lidington said there must months during an anti-immi- ment are going to suffer ble”. run-up to the vote led some The growing Finns Party The major parties have all relationship with the EU. be “compromise on both gration dominated campaign, because of that now,” she told However, in a tacit analysts to predict that turnout ratings, on the other hand, expressed strong reservations “Then we would hope to sides”, adding that if no agree- urging people to “Vote for AFP. acknowledgement that the will be high. A record 1.5 mil- appear to be driven by new about joining a government take stock of where we are as ment could be reached, they some borders”. Petteri Orpo, leader of the public mood is against further lion Finns — over a third of the supporters who have not voted with the Finns Party, whose soon as parliament gets back would put a series of Brexit Polls show the Finns Party conservative National Coalition belt-tightening, Orpo has electorate — had already cast in the past. policies lurched to the right after the Easter recess,” he options to parliament to ending up in second or third Party and co-architect of the insisted the economy is now their vote in advance of polling The anti-immigration after Halla-aho became leader said. decide. place, meaning it could hold government’s savings pro- strong enough to allow for day. On Sunday, queues were Finns Party also decries the “cli- in 2017. .02 ' "" ( ' ! ! P 3%033,-. A "4 ! ! 0 & -.$/ " Addis Ababa: Far from the din emony, visited with weavers ( +04253# of Washington, Ivanka Trump and announced new financial (! )( >' . toured businesses run by support for businesses. O - udanese protesters demand- women in Ethiopia on Sunday “Investing in women is ( !F Sed new military rulers set up while promoting a White smart development policy and !" ! $ a civilian government as the )5/5 In a letter signed by six ISIS House global economic pro- it’s smart business,” Trump foreign ministry called Sunday leaders and addressed to Abu gram for women. said, sitting in Dumerso Coffee, & for backing from the interna- he Islamic State terror Bakr al-Baghdadi — the group’s President Donald Trump’s a dimly lighted space with a tional community to help the Tgroup is plotting deadly “caliph” — and his deputy, the daughter and senior adviser woven ceiling, tile floor and $B# "2( country’s “democratic transi- attacks across Europe along the authors break down ISIS strat- visited a coffee shop and textile colorful paintings. Alongside !" tion”. lines of the one carried out on egy abroad into two parts: company in Addis Ababa. It were women who work in the 1 Thousands remained a concert hall in Paris in which operations and borders. was her first stop in Africa on industry. ! encamped outside Khartoum’s 130 people were killed four Operations abroad, they a four-day trip to Ethiopia and This is Ivanka Trump’s first army headquarters overnight to years ago, a leading British write, will be directed by an Ivory Coast on behalf of a visit to Africa since the presi- 6 4! 2 - keep up pressure on a military newspaper has ISIS member called Abu White House project intended dent launched the Women’s ! " $ council that took power after reported. Khabab al-Muhajir. to boost 50 million women in Global Development and ousting veteran leader Omar al- The November The document says he con- developing countries by 2025. Prosperity Initiative. It’s a pro- 4& !& 1C& Bashir on Thursday. military council “to achieve the and that protesters detained 2015 Paris attacks trols three cells: one in Aiming to offer assistance gram she hopes will outlast an & A 10-member delegation Sudanese goal of democratic under a state of emergency were a series of coordi- Russia and two in and learn about the struggles of administration better known (.$$,+#% ! representing the protesters transition,” it said in a state- imposed by Bashir during his nated terror attacks in Paris Germany. Another women in business, she took for “America First” isolation- ! delivered their demands during ment. final weeks in power would be and the city’s northern group will be based part in a traditional coffee cer- ism. AP =PJ talks with the council late The council chief General freed. suburb of Saint-Denis. in northeastern Saturday, according to a state- Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is Burhan took the oath of In the attacks, three Syria under sepa- ! ment by the Alliance for “committed to having a com- office on Friday after his pre- suicide bombers struck rate command. $ Freedom and Change umbrel- plete civilian government and decessor General Awad Ibn outside the Stade de The first aim of )(3) la group spearheading the ral- the role of the council will be Ouf stepped down little more France stadium during a the cells would ' 4 " lies. to maintain the sovereignty of than 24 hours after ousting football match, followed by be to steal &!& “We will continue... Our the country”, it added. Bashir. several mass shootings and a money to fund # #8() A 2 sit-in until all our demands are Talks between protest lead- Tens of thousands of peo- suicide bombing at restaurants. the caliphate. (=M= met,” including the formation ers and Sudan’s new rulers ple have massed non-stop out- A total of 130 people people “Killing infidel venture cap- Islamabad: An international gold and jewelry to banned KP= ! " + of a fully civilian government, were followed Sunday by a side the army headquarters were killed at the Bataclan italists, hacking banks through terror financing watchdog has outfits and terrorist organisa- 0 ! said one of the alliance’s lead- meeting between Washington’s since April 6, initially to urge concert hall. bank accounts, bank robberies asked Pakistan to implement a tions. The FATF has urged " ( ers, Omar al-Degier. top envoy to Khartoum, Steven the military to back their Documents seen by The or robberies of places that are new set of constraints in its Pakistan to collect data of all ) ! .0 Later the military council Koutsis, and the military coun- demand that Bashir be Sunday Times reveal detailed pre-studied,” the letter said, crackdown against terror trusts operating across the 5 $ met with political parties and cil’s deputy. removed. Burhan comes with plans of terrorist attacks in adding that “after any operation financing, including docu- country as well as their bank urged them to agree on an Mohammad Hamdan less baggage from Bashir’s Europe and the Middle East, of this kind, we will send the menting and regulating all gold accounts on the district level. It ! “independent figure” to be the Daglo, widely known as deeply unpopular rule than funded and controlled by ISIS money as we procure it”. markets, a media report said on has also asked the country to !& ! ! country’s prime minister, an Himeidti, told Koutsis “about Ibn Ouf, a former defence leaders who are “actively plan- The cells will also commit Sunday. ensure regulation of thousands )% AFP correspondent present at the measures taken by the mil- minister and long-time close ning” to recreate the Paris-style attacks including vehicle-ram- The finance ministry has of registered trust organisa- ! the meeting said. itary council to preserve the aide of the deposed president. attack of November 2015. ming operations, it said. reportedly received a new list tions. Pakistan is due to submit “We want to set up a civil- security and stability of the But while celebrating the “The operations in Europe Most importantly they will of recommendations from the a third report on the measures ! " ian state based on freedom, jus- country,” the official SUNA fall of both men in quick suc- are only a fraction of the plans plan “special operations” with Paris-based Financial Action being taken by the government ! tice and democracy,” a mem- news agency reported. cession, protesters remain cau- outlined in the documents, a “determined goal and out- Task Force (FATF) which in compliance with the rec- "3 ber of the military council Himeidti is a field com- tious. which were found on a hard come that are picked carefully”. requires documentation of all ommendations of the FATF Lieutenant General Yasser al- mander for the Rapid Support Protest leaders say their drive dropped by members of The authors list the Paris gold markets and purchase and its regional affiliate, the $L. Ata told several political par- Forces (RSF) counter-insur- demands include restructuring an ISIS cell in a firefight near massacre of 2015 and the and sale of gold in the country, Asia-Pacific Group (APG) till D ties, urging them to agree on gency unit, which rights groups the country’s feared National the militants’ final stronghold in “Manhattan attack” of 2017, in Geo TV reported. April 15. !" M the figures to sit in civilian gov- have accused of abuses in the Intelligence and Security Syria earlier this year,” it noted. which a terrorist-driven truck The FATF has asked The compliance report 4 ( ernment. war-torn Darfur region. Service (NISS), whose chief The documents provide mowed down eight people to Islamabad to collect data of all would be taken up by the The protestors have insist- On Saturday, the military Salih Ghosh resigned on details of how, even with its so- death, as “inspiration”. gold markets in the country FATF review group in its meet- ! " $L2( ed that civilian representatives council’s new chief General Saturday. called caliphate destroyed in According to the newspa- and to restrict the sale and pur- ing scheduled to be held in "" 3 ! must join the military council, Burhan vowed to dismantle Rights group Amnesty Syria, the ISIS terror group per, the picture that emerges chase of gold items using cash, May. In June last year, the " and demanded that a fully Bashir’s regime, lifting a night- International on Saturday continues to run sophisticated from the documents is one of instead requiring payment to FATF had placed Pakistan on M $2 civilian government be set up time curfew with immediate urged the military council to international networks, move the ISIS supporters in Europe be made with a debit or credit the ‘grey list’ of countries whose .() ( ! to run day-to-day affairs. effect. examine Ghosh’s actions dur- fighters over borders, fund oper- and other areas outside the so- card, it said. domestic laws are considered ) ! Meanwhile,the foreign He also pledged that indi- ing a crackdown against pro- ations and plan bank robberies, called caliphate being inti- The watchdog has also weak to tackle the challenges of ! 7 ministry urged the interna- viduals implicated in killing testers during the final weeks of vehicle rammings, assassina- mately linked with the group’s demanded that the country money laundering and terror- ! M?=M$ tional community to back the protesters would face justice Bashir’s rule. tions and computer hacking. leadership in Syria and Iraq. ensure restriction on supply of ism financing. AFP # 9 !"# $
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The bar session usually lasts #132- 2021 with the facilitator and she told me with whether or not she can go through with her plan. Starring for 60-90 minutes. 4-)1 -/ a lot more. “I could feel the energy Melissa Joan Hart, Sean Astin and Siena Agudong, part one releas- $ Coming back to the session, I coursing through you. This happens es on Netflix on April 15. = had just heard how phenomenally it 5#-201 sometimes, but not necessarily " had changed lives of people — a gen- /1AA-4-2. always. This was because you were tleman had managed to better his them for another five minutes and ready for change,” Sangeeta said. ( 6 " eyesight, another shrugged off cer- 3/-4.;$A5420- then turned her attention back to my However when I questioned the fact vical pain as if it had never existed forehead. For those who think it was that initially I was sceptical and unbe- > and yet another did not have to A14 221#-1. a massage, no, that wouldn’t quite fit lieving that this can bring about a 3 " worry about money. But then, it was 7)+$20-4-. in the description. She just placed her change, so I was not essentially ? ! the cynical old me attending the ses- hands really, really gently on my fore- believing that the session could # sion, so scepticism in anything that 52 1)- head and nape during the session. bring about a change, she told me, remotely sounds like mumbo-jumbo 205302202. And it was about 10 minutes or a lit- “You might not have been, but then, > or even faintly resembling it, is tle under that time that I realised once in the session you thought, let’s 6 $ bound to be scoffed at. 431204530 something different was underway. see what happens and that is what " $ Nevertheless, I decided to take #;0-/3)1+-20- For the first time after God knows made it possible.” # it lying down (figuratively speaking) many years, I was blank. There was Poonam also told me that she # # >2 $ and give in to the expert hands of the 3 3).0-4-2 not a single thought that was running has been a facilitator for the past six facilitator. Five minutes into the ;1'-#5#-2 through my head unlike the usual years. “I was a housewife and I was session and Sangeeta Kochhar placed where at any given moment there are going through a lot emotionally " her feather light hands on my fore- 20-4-4-2)- 2 atl east 30 tabs, if I take the analogy when I decided to enroll for this,” she , head and back of the neck while the >?27 1A12+-20- of a computer, open. From the says. Now, her young daughter, too >P thought that kept running through deadlines that I have to meet to the is a facilitator who she says is better L 6 my head was, “Huh! What is so great )5;5A book that I am reading and the oh- than her. about this session? I don’t feel a thing. so-interesting twist in the web series For anyone to become a facili- It is indeed some new fangled mar- *5#632-456- to state of affairs in the country, stuff tator, all it takes is a one-day session. ! keting gimmick being sold to peo- that I have to wind up at home and However, becoming a certified facil- & ple who have more money and time more... I am sure you get the drift. itator takes longer. on their hands than they can utilise.” And I panicked. For the very idea of Coming back to me, I can say I aunted by eerie visions and sinister impulses after a heart ! " But Sangeeta sure had other not having a thought sounds some- did sleep a lot better that night. But Htransplant, Chambers is a story a teenager, who tries to ##:$ ideas. She asked me to move my thing almost akin to blasphemy to did it make much of a difference in unmask the truth behind her donor’s mysterious death. Starring .$O !"F hands up with palms turned upward, me. So I reached out to the only other my life in the long run? The jury is Sivan Alyra Rose, Uma Thurman and Tony Goldwyn. The sea- " applied the slightest pressure on person in the room questioned still out on that one. son 1 is slated to release on April 26. D e never intended to invent “wed- M?=J ! ding rap.” It happened quite by 3/3B 6 ( & L1O ! " F Haccident. Turns out Siddharth !$1O " ! Sood popularly known as MC Sid was . ) 1 " making a living doing gigs when some- /% body asked him if he could perform at a // " " sangeet and engage with the guests who $1 ( were attending it. “I told him I could even ''*% %77 667$ "" 8 %% 1 / rap in the bathroom, if he wanted,” he " 1"" laughs, recalling the day he took up the $$'% * % - "" %$' ! O & ! "$M challenge and how his livewire act in a grand Mumbai hotel gave him legitima- ) '9$) $ %$% 6!/ '& cy as a wedding performer with a differ- !0" & ence. " / (/ Siddharth feels that rap is the epito- So, I had to engage with the audience to 4 ( # $ me of pop culture and as a genre is glob- be able to make it engrossing so that peo- ally the biggest. He has been in the rap ple would enjoy it and follow it more.” !! + scene for the last 15 years and when he It’s obvious, he says, that he faced a + + " & had started, people told him that this was lot of criticism and struggled to make a ! $ just a phase, which would disappear once place for himself as an artist. He shares, he grew up. “But, it didn’t,” he says and “There was a lot of censure. My family adds that much before he started rapping, members wouldn’t understand what kind $ it was already a culture in the US. of work I was into. My grandfather, at one n a hint that Facebook CEO Mark “Whereas everybody here used to ask point, began to think that I am fooling IZuckerberg has begun taking steps when was this going to end? When is it people at weddings. They wondered if towards merging all his platforms into one, going to change? Is this even a genre of this was even a job. My father was very the social network is planning to bring ! music? But most people didn’t realise that concerned and thought I am a freeloader back chat right into its core mobile app. ! & ( rap is here to stay,” says he. who just gatecrashes weddings. It was dif- According to a report in Engadget, Rap is an acronym for rhythm and ficult to make them understand.” App researcher Jane Manchun Wong has ! poetry, he explains. It is just a different He explains that even choosing the spotted the feature in the works. Currently, " # $ and musical form of poetry, which has type of content to rap on at weddings was the chat button on Facebook acts as a ! been in our lives since the very beginning difficult since it couldn’t be the ones from shortcut to a standalone Messenger app #$(.# of civilisation. And it’ll go on forever. Eminem or Yo Yo Honey Singh, which which has over 1.3 billion users. F The rapper says, “This is going to stay were full of slangs. And weddings are If you do not have downloaded forever because it’s a form of true happy and fun. “So, it required a bit of Messenger on your smartphone, the short- ! expression where people are able to homework. I spent some time with the cut will take you to Google Play Store or 0 ! voice what they want to even if it family members. They told me little Apple App Store. !" is in terms of negativity of oppres- details of the family and introduced me “Facebook’s Messenger app icon would 7 "$ sion. Earlier, rock and metal music to close relatives and friends. I had to remain but instead of launching a stand- / used to have this kind of vibe. make it personalised to not sound like alone app, it would open Facebook and People who were rebellious used something readymade. Rapping without take you directly to a section called !+ to listen to such music. Our par- expressing something doesn’t makes Chats,” the report claimed. L " ents used to say, yeh kya bakvas sun sense,” he says. shown in the film. “They don’t come only that rap is something which people in Facebook upset millions of users A !( raha hai? (What rubbish are you The rapper, who still raps at around from the slums or small, backward poverty rely on. It’s true to some extent. when it removed chat from its core ! listening to?) Now the difference is 50 weddings a year, feels that the film areas. It is not like what those rappers did I highly appreciate that Naezy and mobile app in 2014 and created a stand- that it has become a lot more vocal.” Gully Boy is one of the best things to have has been the purest and truest form of Divine have grown out of their situation. alone app called Messenger. Zuckerberg is %!5 More than just spontaneity and happened for people who express them- rap, they just belong to a backward area But that doesn’t mean that I will always planning to merge Facebook, WhatsApp having a freestyle, one also has to be selves in this genre. “It has given an and that is why they represented their call out to how ‘I have come with noth- and Instagram into a single messaging ser- ! musically inclined for the act to stay opportunity to many young rappers to problems like the angst of the youth ing and will leave with nothing,’” he vice by 2020. 7 $ intact, he believes. He explains with an proudly take it up as a profession. The through their lyrics. They reflect the real- exclaims. In an earning call in January, A 1( example, “Just the way there are differ- film was evidence that rap is indeed ity of how they have faced exclusion Ask him about the evolution of rap Zuckerberg said, “The integration that ent styles of swimming — front crawl, something that could be seen and recog- throughout. Whereas, we belong to a culture in India, he apprises us, “I have we’re thinking about, we’re really early in " back-stroke, butterfly-stroke, breast- nised as an art. Undoubtedly, it has moti- well-to-do family and we would repre- to give Yo Yo Honey Singh full marks. thinking through this. There’s a lot more $. stroke and freestyle — where the last one vated many children to follow their pas- sent the same through our lyrics — fun The story starts from there and then we need to figure out. I think it’s the direc- " means that you can do it in any manner sion, which is great,” he says. and drama. What’s wrong with that? I’m Badshaah, Raftaar and now may be Gully tion we should be going with more things O D 1 you want. And that is the truest form,” However, Siddharth feels that Indian here for that. It’s just the difference of Boy.” He lauds Honey Singh when he in the future.” he says. rap has been a wholesome genre in the where we come from,” he explains. says, “He created the concept that there He added that “tens of millions” of The rapper’s first step to make the art north India and is 10 times bigger than Siddharth believes that it complete- could be rap in a song too. Gully Boy Android users who use Messenger as their "M reachable to more people was audience it is in Maharashtra. But the differences ly depends on the society one belongs to. could be seen as an idea that threw light default app would benefit from having + $ engagement. He tells us how, “Gully Boy arise only in the kind of backgrounds we “We all have freedom of speech and on the rap culture in India. Zoya Akhtar end-to-end encryption enabled as a has happened only recently. However, have. The culture has been the same all expression. There is nothing wrong. It is showed a different angle of it. So that the default. earlier, people did not know what rap was. around. And only one part of it has been just that the depiction of the film shows film became the story of an underdog.” L' # & 9' !"# $ &+0#';0#&04+ 2 0 4 # & * 7 ! " " ! " !$736 04# eaten up his land that his forefathers cultivated and lived a good life on. While these people have been liv- ing at the mercy of nature for ages, their plight has become more miser- able in recent times due to unpre- dictable climatic conditions that have 1 ! " severely affected their lives and liveli- hood. ! Once wealthy, Khan has become " " ! ! "! ! a marginal farmer due to erosion. He 4 740#+3#4 1+3 1 now works on the fields of others in ;51 the village to earn a minimum share of the paddy as his wage. His three oday, each of us is seek- sons left farming and now work as ing peace, aren’t we? daily-wage labourers in the nearby TThe prime reason for towns, earning 250-300 per day. this is our dilemma and dif- “I owned 32 bighas of land here. ficulty in surviving in a world The land was fertile and the produc- that seems to be riddled with tion was good before the river ate it all kinds of conflicts. One up. We grew three crops every year finds irreconcilable differ- of paddy, lentils, mustard, jute and ences at all levels of the soci- vegetables. Land here is so fertile that ety. Even a man’s mind is like one does not need to care much for a house divided against itself. the crops. What I earn now is not suf- Obviously, this is not a happy ficient to run a large family like ours. state of affairs. One, therefore, My sons have been forced to do low- wants to know what is wrong paying non-farm activities. What with the functioning of man can we do? This is our fate,” Khan that he has lost his peace? interaction with proximate said, blaming the river. When we make an attempt to matter and souls. When we Miah and Khan are among 25 understand the nature of the strip-off our original positive lakh people living on an estimated man and the state of society, we energies, negativity manifests 2,251 chars that dot the entire river find that all actions of man are in our minds, then our actions system in Assam. They have been hit goaded by one or the other of finally result in sufferings. hard by the changing climatic con- his four basic desires. One of When there is suffering, we uslim Miah finds it difficult ditions that have affected the hydro- the desires concerns the fulfill- seek our original, truly peace- to remember how many logical pattern of the Brahmaputra ment of physical or economic ful and blissful state of being. Mtimes he has built a home for and its tributaries, forcing them to needs that include food, cloth- However, our endeavours to his family. relocate — within a char or away ing and shelter. To fulfill these attain that peace are limited by A resident of Majidbhita Char, or from the river banks. desires, he requires money or certain human constraints of a river island, in Assam’s Barpeta dis- According to data provided by wealth. But the problem is which the first and foremost is trict, the 70-year-old Miah has been the Assam government during the that man never stops fulfilling the constraint of the human shifting from one place to another session of the 126-member these basic needs. His desires body. It is due to our attach- with his family for years due to ero- Legislative Assembly in October for comfort take the form of ment to the body and its rela- sion of the river banks and creation 2018, a total 4.27 lakh hectares of greed and that is when the real tions and possessions that five of chars. These chars keep shifting or land have been lost due to erosion in struggle begins. His excessive vices enter our minds. changing shape with the mood of the Assam. Former Minister of Assam and endless demands come The first fallout of this is river. Water Resources, Keshab Mahanta into clash with the longings of that we lose our peace of Erosion has been a perennial told the House that an average of other people. It also puts him mind, joy and power. All our problem for river Brahmaputra and its more than 25 per cent in the south- under water, there is no point in liv- 8,000 square km land is eroded by in conflict with the law of the actions are tainted by either tributaries such as Beki in Assam. ern parts of Assam. ing here,” he said. Brahmaputra and its tributaries every land, with his relatives and lust, ego, greed, anger or Char-dwellers say what has changed “I have built too many makeshift The 70-year-old farmer said that year. society and even with his own attachment. We get trapped in is the rate at which we are loosing our houses to remember. Our lives depend he had about 50 bighas of land to cul- “The change in temperature and self. This, therefore, becomes a circle of karmic bondages lands for more than a decade now. on the water of the river. I have been tivate when he was young. He now has rainfall pattern in the Northeast cause for his peacelessness. helplessly seeking out libera- Experts attribute this to climate in Majidbhita for the last 10 years but 12 bighas on the char that he has been indicates that climate change has It is mainly because of tion from these vices so that we change. UK-based website, Carbon I don’t know how long we can live living on for the past 10 years during impacted Assam and other parts of this that our planet, to-day, has can regain our peaceful state. Brief said that most of the areas in here. The river has become hungrier which he lost his house several times the region along with the rest of the millions of people whom the Even though if we wish to give Assam including Guwahati has for land, eating away the large chunks due to erosion. world. This change in the rainfall pat- World Bank calls the ‘absolute- up our vicious habits, we are already become warmer by 1.3 degrees N-4)1-4.-*53)/ of earth around our homes in the past “I grow rice, lentils, mustard, tern has led to the recent volatility of ly poor.’ It is this unchecked unable to do so because our Celsius and it is projected to be 64-/1*220-A)55/ few years. If this place is eroded, we vegetables and the like on my plot. But the rivers. The Himalayas are also desire of man which has spiritual power is depleted by warmer between 1.4 C to 4.8 C by 7325.20-4-1 5 would have to shift somewhere else,” productivity has reduced along with fragile and more rainfall triggers their caused the class war or the sinning repeatedly. Hence, we 2100. Miah, a farmer like his father and the cultivation area probably due to erosion. Besides, the Northeast is conflict between the ‘haves’ need to empower our soul by The climate projections of the 622-4$ 5#-21#- grandfather, said. the change in weather. Sometimes, the located in Seismic Zone V and and the ‘have-nots.’ linking with the supreme Assam State Action Plan on Climate 20-4-4-204-- Members of his family learnt to weather is too dry and sometimes it hence, witnesses regular seismic Besides these, man also has source of unlimited power, Change also indicate that there is like- live with the floods since they began rains too much,” he said. activity, which also leads to erosion,” emotional needs, like love, the Supreme and also with the ly to be an increase in extreme rain fall .'- /20-520-4 cultivating the fertile char in the Some distance away from said Partha Jyoti Das, who heads the care, attention, understand- power of pure actions. Peace is events by five to 38 per cent with 21#- 12O )- $1A20- Beki river years ago. But times have Majidbhita, the people of Balapara water, climate and hazard division of ing and the desire for an hon- in fact a corollary of purity. respect to base line. The report fur- changed. “Earlier, we could predict the Char in Barpeta district face the Aaranyak, a Guwahati-based biodi- ourable life. But if he stretch- Hence, when the mind is ther projected that drought weeks are )/5- 3/-4 floods but now there is no pattern. same problem. Rahim Khan, a resi- versity and conservation organisa- es this desire to an inordinate cleared of all impurities, peace going to rise, with Southern districts .2-45.20-4-1 Sometime there are three waves of dent, lost his cultivable land and hous- tion. extent, then his longing for and happiness dwell there nat- showing marginal reduction in 565121 floods, sometimes more now. The es several times due to erosion. Khan (The story is written as part of a prestige, position, privilege, urally. But the biggest question drought weeks but rest of the district tides erode the edges of our land very has not heard of climate change but fellowship offered by climate cell of and power takes the form of is — how does one achieve it? showing an increase by more than 75 )1'10-4-O fast depriving us of our only liveli- he is certain that his condition would Assam Science, Technology and jealousy and hatred. He again It is indeed very simple. First, per cent. Floods are going to rise by hood, agriculture. If the land goes not have been so bad had the river not Environment Council.) comes into conflict with oth- we need to understand that ers. So, it is because of this peace is a composite phenom- unbridled desire of the man enon. Hence, one cannot hope he idea of a smart home Organisation (WHO), great amount of man-made that there is power struggle to live in peace without hop- is no longer a futuristic " ' ) International Agency for and natural radiations. These everything, and cold war, ing the same for his/her neigh- Tfantasy. One can control Research on Cancer (IARC) are called everyday radiations armed conflicts and endless bours. Therefore, our positive lights, air conditioning, TV had classified electromagnet- as they are affecting us 24x7. craving for military suprema- actions that ensure peace for and other household appli- ic radiations as possibly can- Despite the problems caused cy. self, society and the environ- ances from the comfort of ) ) ; cerous to humans, based on an by these, we still do not take The peculiarity of all this ment alone can generate and your couch with the flick of increased risk of brain cancer care to protect ourselves. This is that man desires to be extri- sustain universal peace. the proverbial button. But are in recent years. During use, is because many people are not cated from the situation of con- However, such actions can smart homes also healthy wireless devices like mobile aware of what this radiation flict and peacelessness. He take place only when we homes? Even as smart tech- - ! ! phones, for instance, emit pollution does to their brain desires peace, liberation or understand our relationship nologies transform our lives, electromagnetic radiations and body. freedom. It is for the fulfillment with the Supreme, who is the there is a downside that we !" " ! " ; 65//4 and the brain becomes the tar- This reminds us of anoth- of this desire that different ‘reli- creator, director and actor often overlook. get. er environmental pollution — gious’ or ‘secular’ attempts are and who is beyond all limita- By adopting smart tech- Many people report health Apart from these electro- that of the air, which is afflict- made. Societies are formed, tions that bind us. He never nologies, we have also exposed issues like headaches, lower magnetic radiations, we are ing most of the country. This constitutions are framed and comes in bondage of matter ourselves to electromagnetic immunity, excessive fatigue, also enveloped by natural radi- has compelled many people to religious institutions are estab- and karma, of life and death. radiation. It is emitted by all hypersensitivity and depres- ations inside homes and buy air purifiers. However, lished. But with competing He has an abundance of peace, forms of technology, including sion, among other symptoms. offices, also known as geo- people are yet to fully realise desires, there again arises a love and happiness so he smart phones, smart homes, Moreover, these radiations are pathic stress, which emerge the repercussions of being conflict situation. There are never has any personal smart meters, smart appli- very damaging and suscepti- from the surface of the earth. around radiation pollution. It clashes between the majority desires. So, he can and does ances, smart TVs, laptops, ble especially for children and They are caused by natural is high time that we did. and minority communities or restore peace on earth when tablets and WiFi connections. can lead to the reduction of cavities, underground water We cannot run away from between oppositions. And so, all human endeavours at mak- Although radiation emanating brain cells, loss of cognitive streams and magnetic core of these everyday radiations but there has to be a rational ing peace fail. With this divine from smart gadgets and appli- abilities (like learning, mem- the Earth. Prolonged exposure we definitely can opt for radi- acceptance of self-control. knowledge the road to spiri- ances is of a lower frequency ory), hearing loss and more. to them is linked to health ation purification solutions Not many of us are aware tual endeavour and attain- but when you consider the Also, people who keep their issues like poor sleep quality, for homes and workplaces. that peace is our original ment of our original peaceful length of time that we are smartphones and tablets close aches and pains. (The writer is the nature, but when we arrive on state opens up! Remember, exposed to these, it can have to them while trying to sleep Stop. Now imagine, you Managing Director of a compa- earth, we act through human unless we make peace with a major negative impact on often complain of insomnia. and your loved ones are sitting ny which works for the creation bodies and lose our original ourselves, we cannot re-estab- human health. 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Corominas was Fchampions of the a title winner in the 64th Goa started gaining a forcing Karanjit to make once again at the heart of 001 Hero Super Cup after minute to seal the contest foothold in the game and a save. the action as he picked up defeating Chennaiyin 2-1 in Goa's favour. could have scored if not However, the the ball 30 yards from ewis Hamilton said that he in a tense final at the Despite Goa being for some questionable rebound fell perfectly to goal and released L"redeemed" himself with a Kalinga Stadium here on billed as the favourites to finishing from Jackichand the Spaniard, who had the Brandon with a perfectly lightning start to win the 1,000th Saturday. take home the crown, it Singh. simple task of tapping weighted through-ball. Formula One grand prix on Ferran Corominas was Chennaiyin, who In the second half, the ball home. The small-statured Sunday in a blustery Shanghai. opened the scoring in the started the game as the Goa drew first blood Just as it seemed that winger was quick on his Hamilton started from sec- 51st minute with a simple better of the two sides. through their mercurial Goa would run away with feet as he beat Mailson ond on the grid but grabbed the tap-in, while Raphael They created three forward Corominas. After the tie, Chennaiyin drew Alves and Karanjit to slide lead from Mercedes team-mate Augusto's deflected effort consecutive chances in a Thapa cheaply gave the level. Raphael Augusto the ball home — a truly Valtteri Bottas on the first cor- brought Chennaiyin back space of three minutes ball away near the pounced on a loose ball remarkable goal. ner and romped to a victory which gives him the world championship lead. 1654- The title-holder from Britain finished more than 6.5 apan's Kento Momota withstood a 3 seconds ahead of Bottas in the Jbarrage of smashes from Indonesia's third Mercedes one-two in as Anthony Sinisuka Ginting to rally for many races this season, with a thrilling 10-21, 21-19, 21-13 victo- Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel third. ry on Sunday in the Singapore Open Okuhara to 5-4. Max Verstappen of Red final. "Okuhara is a good opponent, Bull was fourth and Charles great, which was really decisive The world champion struggled to she's very durable, so I was prepared Leclerc in the second Ferrari was moment of the race. After that contain his powerful Indonesian for a long match," Tai said. "I am play- fifth. it was fairly straightforward." opponent, who was finding both cor- ing well right now but it's important Sixth was Verstappen's The 34-year-old, who now ners of the court in the first half of the to stay injury-free with the Tokyo team-mate Pierre Gasly, the leads the Finn Bottas by six match. Olympics coming up next year." Frenchman earning a bonus points in the standings, said that But the top seed dug deep to fight In other finals, Thailand's point for clocking the quickest he has had problems with his back from 16-11 behind in the second Dechapol Puavaranukroh and lap, one minute 34.742 sec- starts down the years. game to force a decider. Sapsiree Taerattanachai eased to a 21- onds, in windy and hazy condi- "The first few races have Momota trailed again in the last 14, 21-6 victory over Malaysia's Tan tions. been very difficult for me off the game as Ginting sought a third Kian Meng and Lai Pei Jing in the Hamilton, for whom this line so it's nice to finally redeem straight upset win in as many days. mixed doubles. was a sixth Chinese Grand Prix myself and rectify that," he But the left-hander used a com- Japan's Mayu Matsumoto and win and 75th overall, said that added. bination of improvisation and guile to Wakana Nagahara beat South Korea's it was "a little bit of a struggle this Bottas, who pipped craft a run of 13 points in 14 to Kim Hye-jeong and Kong Hee-yong weekend for me". Hamilton to pole by just 0.023 seal a stunning victory with a title in 2015, told reporters. 21-17, 22-20 in the women's doubles. The five-time world cham- seconds, was always playing disguised drop shot on his first "He tried to push a little too There was further success for pion wrestled with his car in catch-up after labouring out of match point. hard in the second game but I Singapore Open title with a 21-19, 21- Open triumph with a display full of Japan in the men's doubles as Takeshi qualifying but said that "a shift the blocks. "I felt my opponent played kept telling myself to stay 15 victory over Japan's Nozomi speed, skill and spontaneity to outfox Kamura and Keigo Sonoda outlast- in driving style enabled me to "I lost it on the start, honest- better than me today but I was patient and never give up." Okuhara. the world number three in 40 minutes. ed Indonesia's Mohammad Ahsan unlock a bit more the potential ly, shame about the start, I got able to capitalise when he got tired," In the women's singles final, Tai The Taiwanese world number The result improved her head-to- and Hendra Setiawan 21-13, 19-21, of the car". some wheel spin on the start Momota, who also won the Singapore Tzu-ying claimed her second one backed up last week's Malaysia head record against the energetic 21-17. "The start was obviously line," he said. 0?
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mran Tahir spun a web before Suresh Raina found his mojo back Iwith a half century as Chennai Super Kings inched closer towards another Play off qualification with a five-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in an IPL match on Sunday. After Tahir's career-best 4 for 27 restricted KKR to 161 for 8, CSK coast- ed to the target in 19.4 overs as Raina anchored the chase with an unbeaten 58 off 42 balls with seven fours and a six. Ravindra Jadeja also played an important cameo hitting 31 off 17 balls to pave the way for the team's seventh ! ' % # ( ' *% !%@B win in eight games. Needing 24 runs off the last two overs, Jadeja smashed Harry Gurney # ( ' for three successive fours to make it just a formality in the last over. This was the defending champion's #3#71 On the bowling front, RCB's fourth win on the trot as they consol- had struggled so far, Tahir spun 4-6-4 in the third over. biggest asset has been Yuzvendra idated their position atop the table with the match in favour of Chennai Such was Lynn's domi- resh from a much awaited victory, Chahal, who is the second on the most 14 points and one more win will vir- with his twin double blows in nance that the otherwise explo- FRoyal Challengers Bangalore will be wickets list with 11 scalps. Chahal tually seal their spot in play-offs whose the 11th and 15th overs en route sive Sunil Narine looked like a aiming to maintain winning momen- would be key player on a slow cut-off over the years has been 16 his career-best IPL figures that spectator at the other end with tum and spoil Mumbai Wankhede track and Live on Star Sports 1& 2 HEAD points. took him past Kagiso Rabada in the Aussie having a share of 31 Indians' party when the TO has the potential to dis- This was also their first win at the the leading wicket-takers' tally. off 33 runs in the first four two sides face-off at HEAD mantle Mumbai's Eden Gardens since 2013 as they did Tahir removed an omi- overs. Wankhede stadium on strong batting line up. 42 a double on KKR who suffered a hat- nous-looking Chris Lynn (82 off A 200-plus total looked Monday. 063 ,'6 But he would need trick of defeats for the first time since 51 balls; 7x4, 6x6) and in a space imminent with Lynn looking After a string of )* support from 2014 and set to slip out of their second of four balls removed the dan- dangerous and Russell starting losses where nothing 2(' Mohammed Siraj (6 place in the table. Incidentally, 161 is gerous Andre Russell (10) for to explode with a boundary and worked in their favour, #5/; O%??6# + wickets), Navdeep Saini their lowest score at the Eden this sea- the first time under a score of a six off Tahir. fifties by skipper Virat (4 wickets), Moeen (3 son. 40 this season to put brakes on But Tahir, aided by some Kohli and ever-reliable Ab de Villiers, wickets) and a profligate Umesh Yadav KKR next face Royal Challengers their scoring. brilliant catching from Faf du helped RCB register their maiden win (2 wickets). The arrival of veteran Bangalore here on April 19. Tahir's bowling had such Plessis and the substitute Dhruv of the season on Saturday night. South Africa pace Dale Steyn is also a Sunil Narine was the pick of KKR devastating effect that KKR Shorey, made inroads removing The team is heavily reliant on Kohli massive boost for RCB. bowling with figures 2/19 that includ- managed just 28 runs from last Nitish Rana (21) and Robin and de Villiers and both would be keen On the other hand, after suffering ed a wicket-maiden when he cleaned five overs and went on to lose Uthappa (0) in space of two to recreate their magic in front of a a four wicket loss against Rajasthan up Faf du Plessis (24) to end the pow- three more wickets to end up balls. capacity crowd in Mumbai, on a day Royals, Mumbai would be aiming to erplay. with a below-par total. CSK's catching was excep- when the Indian team for the upcom- get back to winning ways. But Raina held on at the other end But it was a different script tional with Du Plessis charging ing World Cup is scheduled to be The good sign for them is that with significant partnerships including for KKR early on with a fit- in from long-off to dismiss picked. skipper Rohit Sharma (165 runs), a 40-run stand with skipper MS again Lynn giving them a flying Uthappa off first ball, then Despite the win against KXIP, who made a comeback after missing Dhoni. start en route to his second fifty Shradul Thakur at deep square RCB remain at the bottom of the points out a game due to injury and South It all seemed a walk in the park for this season that came off just 36 leg clung onto a flat hit from table and remain to win all their African Quinton De Kock (238 runs), CSK when Narine gave the biggest balls. Lynn. remaining league games to have any have got runs under their belt along breakthrough dismissing Dhoni for 16 Having missed his team's The big one was that of hopes of progressing in the tourna- with Hardik Pandya. with team's score of 121/5, needing 41 last match because of flu, Lynn Shorey when he charged in for ment. The others — Ishan Kishan, Surya runs from 26 balls. went ballistic against Deepak a swerving low catch to get rid Apart from Kohli (270 runs from Kumar Yadav (154 runs), Kieron But Raina held his nerves while Chahar who bled 22 runs from off Russell, who looked in his 7 matches) and ABD (232 runs from Pollard (185 runs) and Krunal Pandya Jadeja gave the finishing touches. On his first two overs with the usual explosive zone with 10 7 matches), RCB's other strength has (92 runs) — need to be consistent with an Eden Gardens track where spinners # # ) % #8 % Aussie smashing the seamer for runs from 4 balls (1x4, 1x6). been the pint-sized wicket-keeper the bat. batsman Parthiv Patel. The bowlers would want to forget Despite his father being in the ICU, the hammering by Englishman Jos Patel has shown commitment and Buttler and come up fresh. &" "?@9% $% $ $"$ AA %B amassed 191 runs in seven games. Also a word on West Indian pacer However, the likes of Akshdeep Alzarri Joseph, who sustained a shoul- Nath, Moeen Ali, Marcus Stonis and der injury while fielding in the last 0;/-47/ Bhuvneshwar Kumar returned while Munro was more cued a bounceer off the Colin De Grandhomme should score game, is awaited from the team man- with figures of 2/33 while aggressive with four bound- bowler with Bhuvneshwar heavily. agement. oung left-arm pacer leg-spinner Rashid Khan and aries and three sixes in his 24- Kumar taking the catch at fine Khaleel Ahmed Abhishek Sharma took a wick- ball knock. leg. Dhawan had scored an Ygrabbed three key wick- et apiece as the Sunrisers' Delhi Capitals struggled unbeaten 97 in Delhi's win in ets in an impressive spell to bowlers made it difficult for with openers Dhawan and their last match against help Sunrisers Hyderabad Delhi batsmen to score runs. Shaw back into the dressing Kolkata Knight Riders. restrict Delhi Capitals to 155 For Delhi, captian Shreyas room by the fourth over with One-down Munro, how- for 7 in their IPL match here Iyer top-scored with a 40-ball Ahmed accounting for both ever, was in a punishing mood on Sunday. 45 and his 56-run partnership the key batsmen. and he smashed Ahmed for a The 21-year-old bowler with Pant for the fourth wick- Shaw was the first to go in four and a six each in the took the wickets of openers et took them a challenging the second over as he was fourth and sixth overs. Delhi Prithvi Shaw (4) and Shikhar total after a wobbly start. done in by the extra bounce reached to 51 for 2 after six Dhawan (7) as well as that of Colin Munro was the other extracted by Ahmed as the overs. dangerous Rishabh Pant (23) notable contributor with a batsman ended up edging the He was out in the eighth while conceding 30 runs from 24-ball 40. delivery to wicketkeeper Jonny over with Abhishek getting a his four overs after Delhi were Shreyas hit five fours Bairstow. thin edge off the batsman for put into bat. before he was dismissed by In his next over, Ahmed Bairstow to take the catch Senior Sunrisers pacer Bhuvneshwar in the 16th over got rid of Dhawan who mis- behind the stumps. WC selection dilemma: 1 slot and 3 possible combinations
-./-)01 source said. But what could pose a problem he debate will centre around the is India's fourth specialist pacer Tsecond wicketkeeper, number Umesh Yadav's inconsistency. four slot and the need for an addi- Khaleel Ahmed is a left-arm tional pacer when the selectors option but he has not shown enough meet to pick one of India's most maturity in tesg times. ( ; % % # ( ! P %! predictable World Cup squads ever Ishant Sharma, for his past in Mumbai on Monday. record in England, a tearaway quick At the end of the home series like Navdeep Saini or may be even against Australia, skipper Virat a good Powerplay bowler like ($$*$ () Kohli had indicated that only one Deepak Chahar could all be inspi- slot was up for grabs, as the core had rational choices which this selection been set for the past one year. committee may or may not indulge C - %0$ With 14 members all but decid- in. ed for the marquee event in "This selection committee has England starting May 30, the dis- been pretty consistent with their #50)1 ference. Stonis also praised cussion on combination is likely to policies and I don't think they have "The more comfort- the knock played by take precedence over any out-of- any reasons to deviate. Don't expect ollowing a match- ing factor is batting with KXIP opener Chris the-box name or a left-field selec- left field selections like Amay Fwinning partnership AB de Villiers, that Gayle. tion. Khurasiya (1999) or Dinesh Mongia with AB de Villiers , RCB makes it easier." "Main thing is every Young Rishabh Pant's compe- (2003). But you never know," he all-rounder Marcus He said that RCB team has got world class tition for the second keeper's slot ' % ! % ! !IJ K! # added. Stoinis said batting badly needed a win to players and they have with veteran Dinesh Karthik will be alongside the South stay alive in the tourna- got someone like Chris the highlight of the discussion. Riders), though, have thrown their said. In case the team management F African great made his ment. Gayle, who is arguably Pant, who has so far scored 222 weight behind their respective In case Rahul is made the sec- considers all-rounder Vijay Shankar CERTAINTIES: (14) job a lot easier. "We needed it, it's the best T20 player," he runs in the IPL compared to a mere stars. ond keeper, it might just open the as their No 4 at the start of the tour- Virat Kohli (captain), Rohit Stoinis remained good get to two points said. 93 by Karthik, looks favourite on However, with K L Rahul (335 doors for Ambati Rayudu as the spe- nament, then it would be curtains for Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar unbeaten on 28, ensuring and get ourselves started," On the games ahead, paper as his inclusion comes with runs in the ongoing IPL) back in the cialist No 4 batsman. Rayudu. Dhawan, KL Rahul, Mahendra an eight-wicket win he said. he said RCB are not certain advantages. mix as the third opener and regu- Rayudu was a certainty till The final bone of contention Singh Dhoni (wk), Kedar Jadhav, against KXIP, RCB's After Kohli got out, thinking too far ahead. He can bat at any slot between larly keeping for Kings XI Punjab, November when Kohli and Ravi could be the fourth specialist seam- Hardik Pandya, Vijay Shankar, maiden victory of the Stoinis said he had a chat "We are not thinking Nos 1 and 7, is a left-hander, who the selectors might be tempted to Shastri had identified him as their er considering that the English Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, season. with de Villiers on how to about finals and that sort can be a designated finisher plus the use him as the second keeper, No 4 but the Hyderabad batsman's weather could be very fickle, espe- Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar The all-rounder had go about the target. of thing..It is just about second keeper. apart from third opener. adventurous decision to quit long cially in places like Birmingham, Kumar, Mohammed Shami, walked in at the fall of "Make sure to keep each game now, we can't Pant's keeping skills against "The second keeper only comes form domestic cricket and poor Leeds and Manchester. Ravindra Jadeja skipper Virat Kohli with head straight, watch the afford to get too far spinners has room for improvement into play if MS Dhoni is injured. technique against fast bowling has "As of now the team is looking 15TH MEMBER (OPTIONS) RCB needing 46 runs off ball, keep it simple and ahead of ourselves, it is but even Karthik hasn't done any- Rishabh is a phenomenal talent but left him thoroughly exposed. at Vijay Shankar and Hardik Pandya If 2nd keeper: Dinesh 27 balls. then once you get in good to get started, we thing in the last 12 months to make he has not done anything excep- With Shreyas Iyer (221) not as the combined fourth seamer. Karthik/Rishabh Pant "I am pretty familiar think about which balls will take next game as it a strong case for himself. tional in ODIs. Can he hit consis- given any chance during the season, Ravindra Jadeja with his all round If specialist No 4: Ambati Rayudu with this ground, I have you want to target," comes and hopefully we Their franchise coaches Ricky tently in 50 overs is the question. Rayudu might get lucky if the idea skills and big hitting prowess is a If 4th pacer: Umesh played here for three Stoinis said, referring to will win few on trot..It's Ponting (Delhi Capitals) and But he is in mix," a former India of a specialist second keeper is necessity. Plus in dry conditions, he Yadav/Khaleel Ahmed/Ishant years," said Stoinis at the the advice from his still a long season," he Jacques Kallis (Kolkata Knight player, privy to selection patterns, done away with. will be a restrictive option," the Sharma/Navdeep Saini. post-match press con- senior partner. said.