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NEARBY CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Karnataka trust vote on Monday Tough trek Governor’s second direction also ignored, Speaker adjourns Assembly

Special Correspondent Bengaluru JD(S), Congress Despite two directions from Appeal filed to reopen Karnataka Governor Vajub­ move SC Samjhauta case hai Vala to Chief Minister NW DELHI H.D. Kumaraswamy to hold Legal Correspondent A Pakistani woman has filed the trust vote on Friday, the NEW DELHI an appeal in the Punjab and process got put off to Mon­ Amid the political turmoil, Haryana HC against the acquittal of all accused, day, with Speaker K.R. Ra­ Karnataka JD(S) president including Aseemanand, in the mesh Kumar adjourning the H.K. Kumaraswamy and the 2007 Samjhauta Express Assembly. Congress Legislature Party blast case. All eyes are now on the on Friday approached the Governor’s possible moves, Supreme Court with NATION Ī PAGE 9 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD while the Congress­JD(S) go­ separate applications. Mr. vernment seems to have got Kumaraswamy said a chance to hang on at least Biding time: Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy holding Governor Vajubhai Vala was till Monday. Coalition lead­ talks with MLAs in the Assembly on Friday. * K. MURALI KUMAR intruding into the conduct ers are hopeful of the tide of the trust vote and was turning in their favour in the could set such deadlines at leader Siddaramaiah that the even dictating the time it Supreme Court. all, but only after the Speak­ trust vote would not be post­ should be held. Long path to devotion: Devotees near Mahagunas Top in Anantnag district of Jammu and The adjournment came er extracted an assurance poned beyond Monday. Kashmir while on their way to visit the Amarnath shrine earlier this week. Over 6,000

after a protracted discussion from the Chief Minister and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 pilgrims offered worship at the cave shrine of Lord Shiva on Friday, officials said.* PTI on whether a Governor Congress Legislature Party CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 CONGRESS’S CHARGE Ī PAGE 12 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Three killed in Bihar Supreme Court questions need Dissent in Cong. over Finish Babri case in nine over ‘buffalo theft’ for NRC sample reverification search for party chief months: SC Police detain two for interrogation ‘Informal’ process questioned by MPs Centre, Assam had wanted July 31 deadline extended Legal Correspondent Press Trust of India early hours. Two of them Sobhana K Nair be held to put a new com­ NEW DELHI Chapra were killed on the spot. Krishnadas Rajagopal migrants might have made it 10% reverification in the oth­ New Delhi mittee in place. The trial in the Babri Mas­ Three people were beaten to Another died of injuries on NEW DELHI to the list. er districts. But the court A clutch of Congress leaders “If the president has re­ jid demolition case, in death by a mob in Saran dis­ the way to hospital, Superin­ The Supreme Court on Fri­ The Centre and Assam voiced its scepticism. It re­ are planning to raise ques­ signed, the CWC has to be which prominent BJP and trict of Bihar on Friday, alleg­ tendent of Police Har Kishore day questioned the plea had urged the court for ferred to NRC Coordinator tions about the legitimacy of automatically disbanded Sangh Parivar leaders such ing that they attempted to Rai said. He said two or three made jointly by the Centre more time to cross­check Prateek Hajela’s reports and an informal process under and there should be elec­ as L.K. Advani, Murli Ma­ steal a buffalo, the police people have been picked up and Assam to indefinitely ex­ “wrong inclusions and ex­ said reverification seemed to way for selecting a succes­ tions... If we can get elected nohar Joshi and Uma Bhar­ said. The families of the vic­ for interrogation. tend the deadline for the pu­ clusions” from the draft pu­ have been done during the sor to Rahul Gandhi, who under such adverse circum­ ti are accused of criminal tims denied the allegation. DSP Ajay Kumar Singh blication of the final National blished on July 30, 2018. disposal of claims. resigned as party president stances, why should nomi­ conspiracy, should be com­ Raju Nat, Bides Nat and rushed to the village as a Register of Citizens (NRC) They said a 20% sample re­ in May. The MPs are likely to nated members decide the pleted in nine months, the Naushad Qureshi were at­ clash erupted between the al­ from July 31 to conduct a verification of the names in­ CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 begin a public battle de­ future of the Congress?” a Supreme Court ordered on tacked at Nandlal Tola of Pith­ leged attackers and the fami­ “sample reverification” to cluded in the draft should be F EARS OF EXCLUSION Ī PAGE 13 manding that the Congress Lok Sabha member said. Friday. auri village in the Baniapur ly members of the deceased quell the “growing percep­ conducted in districts bor­ INCLUSION OVER EXCLUSION Working Committee be dis­ police station limits in the DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 13 tion” that lakhs of illegal im­ dering Bangladesh and a Ī EDITORIAL banded, and fresh elections CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 TENURE EXTENDED Ī PAGE 12 Priyanka stopped on way to U.P. village Release pleas of Jessica, Mattoo murder convicts rejected Congress leader sits on road in protest, escorted to Chunar guest house Manu Sharma, Santosh Kumar Singh rebuffed by Sentence Review Board Saurabh Trivedi prisonment in the murder of a District and Sessions dered by the Board,” a Delhi special correspondent “A big atrocity has taken Jatin Anand case. It is the second time Court judge, a Joint Com­ government source said. LUCKNOW place. What happened to New Delhi the SRB has rejected the missioner of Delhi Police, Sharma’s lawyer Amit The gunning down of 10 tri­ the tribals in Sonbhadra is The Sentence Review Board, premature release plea of the Home Secretary, the Sahni said that his client has bal people by a village head wrong.” which is headed by the Del­ Sharma. Law Secretary, the Director undergone more than 22 and his associates over a Amid the development, hi Home Minister, on Friday The SRB also rejected the General of Prisons and an years of incarceration (with land dispute in Uttar Pra­ Chief Minister Yogi Aditya­ rejected the release pleas of request of premature re­ external expert. remission) and ought to desh’s Sonbhadra district nath held the previous Con­ the accused in the Jessica lease of Santosh Kumar have been recommended on Wednesday, led to the gress governments respon­ Lal and Priyadarshini Mat­ Singh, who is serving life 59 cases approved for release. He said he will unfolding of a political dra­ sible for the land dispute. too cases. term for the 1996 rape and “Of the total number of cas­ challenge the rejection in ma on Friday, with the State The then Congress go­ In April 2018, Jessica’s sis­ murder of law student Priya­ es considered by it, the Delhi High Court. “In spite government preventing vernment illegally trans­ ter Sabrina Lal, in a letter to darshini Mattoo. Board was of the view that of fulfilling all parameters Congress general secretary ferred gram sabha land in the welfare office of Central According to Delhi go­ release be recommended in for premature release, his Priyanka Gandhi Vadra the name of Adarsh Cooper­ Jail, Tihar, had mentioned vernment sources, 205 cas­ 59 cases and 145 cases were case has been rejected yet from travelling to the affect­ No going back: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi ative Society on December that she had no objection to es were considered by the rejected. One case which again, while convicts who ed area to meet the kin of Vadra sitting on a road in Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh, on Friday 17, 1955 through an order of the release of Manu Sharma seven­member Board was on the list is undergoing do not fulfil the parameters the victims. after she was stopped from proceeding to Sonbhadra. * PTI the tehsildar, “to snatch the as he has spent 15 years in which, apart from the Delhi adjudication in the Supreme are released,” Mr. Sahni The day began with Ms. rights of locals.” prison. He is serving life im­ Home Minister, also consists Court, so it was not consi­ said. Vadra first visiting the BHU persons. She later tweeted that trauma centre in Varanasi Flanked by her security she was kept under arrest Illegal arrest: Rahul and meeting some of those guards and Congress lead­ for nine hours and asked to Congress leader Rahul Foreign national injured in the firing. ers, Ms. Vadra sat on the furnish a bail bond of Gandhi came to his sister gang­raped road in protest and de­ ₹50,000 to avoid 14 days of Ms. Vadra’s support, saying Section 144 manded that the officials judicial custody. her ‘illegal arrest’ was ‘dis­ Special Correspondent However, when she moved show her the order or cite She said she was pre­ turbing.’ GURUGRAM towards Ghorawal in Sonb­ the law under which she is pared to go to jail but would In a tweet, he said: “This A 24­year­old foreign na­ hadra, 80 km south, go­ being prevented from going not backtrack on her stand arbitrary application of tional was allegedly gang­ vernment officials stopped to Sonbhadra. She also of­ on meeting the kin of the power, to prevent her from raped by an autorickshaw her in Narayanpur on the fered to go there in a group victims. meeting families of the 10 driver and his friend on way to Mirzapur. The admi­ of four keeping in mind Sec­ “We have only come here Adivasi farmers brutally Thursday, the police said nistration also imposed Sec­ tion 144. to meet the families peace­ gunned down for refusing on Friday. The two accused tion 144 of the CrPC in Ms. Vadra was then taken fully,” she said. She blamed to vacate their own land, re­ have been arrested, they Sonbhadra, which restricts to the Chunar guest house the government for ‘lapses’ veals the BJP Govt’s increas­ said. assembly of more than four in a government vehicle. leading to the incident. ing insecurity in UP.” DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 3

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Sidharth Yadav introspection, Alpviram, can “If you attend a shivir as Bhopal help you become a better part of a group instead of Happiness is a universal human not by means of individually, there is support virtue worth acquiring. It sermons, but by sharing and you never feel alone. must be shared, and experiences. You go there representing learning to embrace it your State and inculcate a collectively can be much Positive outlook sense of cohesiveness,” says more invigorating, so At day­long sessions every Mr. Agal. believes the Madhya first and fourth Saturday in Around 10 of the 30­40 Pradesh government. Bhopal, master trainers seats are reserved for the Soothing the tempers of share their journeys to public to attend courses on government officials since happiness. Until now ‘Building Capacity to Live a 2017, the Rajya Anand reserved for government Fulfilling Life’, ‘Inner

Sansthan (State Happiness servants, the sessions have A session on introspection in progress in Bhopal. * SPECIAL Engineering Retreat’ and the Department) has now been opened to the public at ARRANGEMENT ‘Art of listening to Yourself’. opened its doors to the ₹200 per session. “There is Departments shell out general public. no religious angle. Each programmes on happiness, can be revitalising, believes around ₹20,000 for officials “Before asking others to session has a different supported by Initiatives of the department. Now, attending any of the four­ work on themselves, you trainer,” says Mr. Argal. Change, Panchgani. others can accompany day­long courses. Others can should work on yourself,” The department plans to Temporarily renouncing officials, on government also avail of the subsidised says Akhilesh Argal, CEO of expand the course to other home to rediscover oneself duty, to attend “Anand price, but the registration the department. A districts, where 50,000 and know others pursuing a Shivirs’ in Coimbatore, window for them closes at bimonthly course on volunteers are running similar quest for happiness Bengaluru and Panchgani. least 10 days earlier. CM YK DELHI THE HINDU 2 CITY SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Exchange programme brings together ‘ambassadors of peace’ Seven school students from Pulwama spend 8 days in Capital with host families

Jaideep Deo Bhanj the terror attack when the NEW DELHI name is mentioned. I think Titled Art in Fusion, a paint­ that more student exchanges ing of Hazratbal Shrine in Si­ like this will help show what a nagar and Humayun’s Tomb nice place Pulwama is as they in the Capital overlapping will come visit and see for with the domes of both mon­ themselves,” Ayaan said. He uments coming together as added that he liked the hospi­ one, was created by students tality of the people in Delhi. from The Dolphin Interna­ tional School, Pulwama, and Bonded well Bluebells School Internation­ Students from Pulwama at the Bluebells School International The students of Bluebells

al in the Capital as a part of a in the Capital on Friday. * R.V. MOORTHY School International were student exchange visibly excited to not only pay programme. time, and were eager as well chatting with Sohna and her host but also to visit Pulwama The painting captures the as nervous to travel by air for family and I told them about soon. essence of the initiative by the first time. “I really en­ Pulwama and my life back On Friday, the students on both schools which is being joyed the light show at India home. The schedule is a little exchange got to participate in carried out as a friendship Gate at night, shopping at different in both the schools a workshop organised by an building exercise. Seven stu­ malls and the food in Delhi. I but overall it is quite similar. NGO WISCOMP with five oth­ dents from Classes VI and VII particularly enjoyed the free­ Delhi is really nice, especially er schools in Delhi in which from Pulwama have spent dom with which we got to Big Chill Cafe, where we had they were encouraged to pair eight days in the Capital liv­ roam around at night as this a nice meal,” Soha said. up with someone they had ing with host families and at­ is not possible back home, Ayaan, who loves playing never met before and share tending classes at Bluebells said Zaira a Class VI student. cricket, felt that it was unfor­ stories about their life, hob­ School International. Soha, another Class VI stu­ tunate that people associate bies and fears. They were al­ Speaking about their expe­ dent, said she felt completely the name (Pulwama) with ter­ so taught the concept of iden­ rience, the students said they at home at her host Sohna’s ror attack. “Many teenagers, tity and how they could build were excited to visit the Cap­ house “On the first day itself I who did not know about Pul­ bridges and become ambas­ ital, some of them for the first stayed up till late at night wama, now only think about sadors of peace. As tomato price soars, Safal to sell it at ₹40/kg

Special Correspondent city markets. NEW DELHI The price spike and sup­ With monsoon disrupting ply disruption were dis­ the supply of tomatoes to cussed at a high­level Inter­ the Capital, the Centre has Ministerial Committee directed government­ meeting chaired by Con­ owned Mother Dairy to curb sumer Affairs Secretary Avi­ price rise by increasing its nash K. Srivastava on Friday. availability and selling the Noting that tomato prices vegetable for ₹40 per kg at have been rising sharply its own Safal shops. since July 10, the committee Tomato price has dou­ directed Mother Dairy to im­ bled over the last week in mediately begin selling the NCR, now selling for at quality tomatoes through its least ₹60­₹80 per kg in most retail outlets at ₹40 per kg. NGT panel to check operation of stone crushers near schools

Staff Reporter A Bench headed by NGT NEW DELHI chairperson Justice Adarsh Following a plea seeking di­ Kumar Goel said, “Let a rections against the opera­ joint committee of Central tion of stone crushers near Pollution Control Board, Ha­ schools in Mahendergarh, ryana State Pollution Con­ the National Green Tribunal trol Board and the District (NGT) has constituted a joint Magistrate, Mahendergarh committee to look into the to look into the matter and pollution allegations and furnish a factual and action­ furnish an action taken re­ taken report within one port on the same. month.”

DELHI TODAY

Talk: “Mind and Society: From In­ dian Studies to General Sociology” by J.P.S. Uberoi, Oxford University Press at Seminar Rooms – I, II and III, Kamaladevi Complex, Main Building, India International Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m.

Music Talk: IHC Lok Sangeet Sam­ melan 2019 on the Folk Music of Maharashtra. The Emergence of Folk through Classification of Music: The Case of Lavani and Other Genres in Maharashtra. A scholarly lecture with recorded music by musician and sociologist Dr. Urmila Bhirdikar, drawing on her research in Lavani, Marathi theatre and other forms at Amaltas Hall, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 7 p.m.

Dance: India International Rural Cultural Centre (IRCEN) presents a Kuchipudi dance recital by T. Reddi Lakshmi at Govt. Girls Senior Sec­ ondary School, No.1, Roop Nagar, 9 a.m, and Govt. Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya, Sarai Rohilla, 11 a.m.

Exhibition: “Pushpanjali”, an ex­ hibition of paintings and drawings by artist Gouri Shankar Mukherjee at Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre (IHC), 11 a.m – 7 p.m (Mail your listings for this column at [email protected])

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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 CITY 3 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Insurance firm finds fake News channel Traffic violaters can now files defamation pay fine online NEW DELHI case against With the launch of e-challan cover notes in its name and e-payment system on Mahua Moitra Friday, traffic violators can now pay fines online from Lodges police complaint after receiving notices from MACT Nirnimesh Kumar anywhere, the police said. New Delhi Delhi Police Commissioner Hemani Bhandari Amulya Patnaik along with The persons are not firm’s name did not exist in Zee Media Corporation Li­ NEW DELHI <> Special.CP (Traffic) Taj only cheating the their records. mited has filed a criminal Hassan and DG (NIC) Neeta A n insurance company company but also The firm, in their com­ defamation case against Verma launched e-challaning based on Barakhamba accident victims plaint, said that unidenti­ Trinamool Congress MP Road approached the pol­ fied accused are suspected Mahua Moitra. system and e-payment with forged gateway. ice after it discovered 12 to have been collecting mo­ Taking the complaint fake insurance cover notes insurance policy ney in the name of insu­ on record, Additional NDMC launches campaign issued in its name to vehi­ because they will rance policy premium and Chief Metropolitan Magis­ to prevent dengue cle owners. not be entitled to issuing fake policies. “The trate posted the case on NEW DELHI The zonal manager of any insurance persons are not only cheat­ August 1 for The New Delhi Municipal the firm said they received cover ing the company but also consideration. Council on Friday said that it notices from Motor Acci­ Insurance company accident victims with has launched an intensive dent Claims Tribunal in its complaint to police forged insurance policy be­ Similar complaint campaign in collaboration (MACT) to issue insurance cause they will not be entit­ The MP has also filed a si­ with representatives of RWAs, amount claimed by victims company gives the claimed led to any insurance cover,” milar complaint against MTAs, NGOs and other involved in accidents with amount to the victim’s par­ the complainant said. the news channel and its government buildings to vehicles insured by the ty after the latter approach­ editor­in­chief Sudhir prevent dengue. It said that company. es the MACT. FIR lodged Chaudhary for alleging the drive would continue till “After a notice is re­ The firm shared details Additional Deputy Com­ that her speech in the Lok the end of the monsoon season. ceived, the company of the 12 cases in which missioner of Police (New Sabha on the “seven signs checks the genuineness of claims were sought for and Delhi) Eish Singhal said that of fascism” was the claim... It has been the insurance cover were a first information report plagiarised. International Police found that fake insurance found to be “forged”. In has been registered under “Ms. Moitra had on July Conference held NEW DELHI cover notes are being is­ most of the cases shared by Sections 420 (cheating), 3 made defamatory state­ The International Police sued in the name of the the firm, the accident vic­ 468 (forgery for purpose of ments against the compa­ Conference-2019 under the company for insuring vehi­ tims are dead. They found cheating) and 471 (using as ny. She knowingly made theme ‘Challenges to cles. The notes are forged,” that the vehicles which genuine a forged docu­ several frivolous, false, strengthen peace and he alleged. caused the accident and ment) of the Indian Penal malicious and derogatory security’ was organised at In a genuine case, the ac­ claimed to have insurance Code and an investigation statements,” the com­ Pragati Maidan on Friday. The cused party’s insurance policy document in the has been taken up. plaint by the said new event will end on channel alleged. Saturday.Manufacturers and “The intentional hate technology players from 25 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC campaign of the accused countries have participated in [Ms. Moitra] has tarnished the event Glow-ry the reputation of the com­ plainant [news channel],” Snag hits Delhi the complaint further Metro’s Violet Line said. NEW DELHI The channel has sought Services on the Delhi Metro’s prosecution of the MP un­ Violet Line were affected for der Sections 499 and 500 over an hour on Friday due to of the Indian Penal Code. some technical snag, officials said. There was slow movement of trains between JLN Stadium and Khan Market stations. Many passengers, deboarded trains at JLN Stadium stations.

Take challenges as opportunities: JNU V­C NEW DELHI Addressing new students at an orientation programme, JNU Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar said that the real challenge was not Safdarjung Tomb, the Mughal-era monument, glows in a new light after sunset on Friday. getting into JNU but to equip The illumination project has been completed by the Archaeological Survey of India. It themselves and develop skills comprises simple yellow and static lighting that accentuates the silhouette of the to be able to address the monument with the interplay of light and shade. The tomb will be illuminated from 7 p.m. modern challenges that the to 11 p.m. daily. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR country is facing. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Foreign national gang-raped by 2 auto drivers

She had hired the vehicle to reach a metro station; accused arrested

Special Correspondent the shopping mall on Meh­ stayed at a friend’s place and Gurugram Police Spokes­ GURUGRAM rauli­Gurugram Road and approached the police dur­ person Subhash Boken said A 24­year­old foreign nation­ was returning home when ing the day on Friday to file a that the accused have con­ al was allegedly gang­raped the incident happened, the complaint. A case was regis­ fessed to having gang­raped by an autorickshaw driver police said. tered on charges of rape at the woman. The accused, and his friend after she hired The driver’s friend was Sector 5 police station in this both autorickshaw drivers, the three­wheeler to reach a there on the rear seat of the connection. live in rented accommoda­ metro station late on Thurs­ auto­rickshaw when the wo­ Her medical examination tions in Gurugram. Mr. Bo­ day, the police said on Fri­ man boarded the vehicle. was conducted and state­ ken said that they would be day. The two accused have The accused took the woman ment recorded before a Ma­ produced before the court been arrested, they said. to a room in Sheetla Mala Co­ gistrate under Section 164 of on Saturday. The woman, a hair stylist, lony and then allegedly took the CrPC. The M.G. Road stretch in had hired the autorickshaw turns to rape her. Several police teams were Gurugram, dotted with shop­ from outside Sahara Mall The woman, however, formed and the driver’s ping malls, is infamous for around midnight to reach managed to open the door of friend was arrested from crime against women. Many Guru Dronacharya metro the room without the know­ CRPF Chowk. The driver was cases of abduction and rape station. She had come from ledge of the accused and es­ later arrested and his vehicle have been reported in this Delhi to visit a night club at caped around 3 a.m. She was impounded. area. CM orders release of ₹500 crore for Man shot dead by stepson, unauthorised colonies’ development accused held ‘Facilities include sewers, drains, roads, laying of water lines’ STAFF REPORTER Staff Reporter (I&FC) department for the there is no financial con­ New Delhi New Delhi purpose and of the total straint for the development A 24­year­old man, identi­ Chief Minister Arvind Kejri­ ₹1500 crore for the present work and funds must be re­ fied as Munna Khan, alleg­ wal, the Delhi government year’s budgetary allocation, leased on time,” the state­ edly shot his stepfather said in a statement on Fri­ ₹700 crore had already been ment also said. Anis dead in Narela Indus­ day, has directed that ₹500 released to the department The work of providing trial Area on Friday, the crore be released for deve­ in the first quarter of the on­ basic developmental facili­ police said. lopmental work at unauth­ going year. ties, which include sewers, DCP (Outer) Gaurav orised colonies across the “The fund has been trans­ drains, roads and lanes, the Sharma said that Munna Capital. ferred to the I&FC under the statement said, is being car­ has been arrested and he The statement said that head of ‘Development of Un­ ried out on a “war footing” said that he killed Anis as the Urban Development authorised Colonies’ for the in unauthorised colonies he allegedly used to beat (UD) Department has re­ financial year 2019­2020. and water distribution lines Munna’s mother. The wea­ leased ₹500 crore to the Irri­ Mr. Kejriwal directed the UD are being laid by the Delhi Jal pon of offence has been re­ gation and Flood Control Department to ensure that Board. covered, police said. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 4 CITY SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I N BRIEF CRPF man killed, 2 injured as teen Govt. politicising fund allocation: councillors NEW DELHI Several councillors of the rams luxury car into their vehicle South Delhi Municipal Corporation sat on a protest at Chandagi Ram Akhara on Friday over the Passer-by nabs accused, hands him over to police; drunk driving ruled out “politicisation” of fund STAFF REPORTER Father-in-law of deceased chand side and going allocation to the civic body by NEW DELHI the Delhi government. meets with accident towards Chirag Delhi,” said A 24­year­old CRPF man was NEW DELHI Mr. Kumar. killed and two others were The father-in-law of the CRPF “On the complaint of Vi­ Self-defence module injuries after a luxury car constable, who was killed on nod, an FIR was registered for girl students driven by a teenager jumped Friday, was hit by a bus in at Greater Kailash police NEW DELHI Manesar near Gurugram while The Directorate of Education a red light on BRT and station under IPC Sections rammed into their vehicle he was on the way to the 279 [rash driving] and 304 on Friday announced that national capital after being with the assistance of Delhi on Thursday, the police said. A [causing death by negli­ The injured persons, who informed about the tragic gence]. Accused Sanidhya Police, it has prepared a incident, his family members were deployed for the Prime The vehicle in which the has been arrested in the training module on self- said. Shri Ram (55), a resident Minister’s security, were victims were travelling. case and has been medi­ defence for girls studying in of Alwar district in Rajasthan, heading home after complet­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT cally examined. No traces Delhi government schools. was coming to the city to ing their duty. collect the body of his son-in- of alcohol were found in Vijay Kumar, DCP (South), charged after treatment. either of the drivers in­ EDMC to hold mega law when the accident said that the PCR received a Mr. Vinod was driving the happened. volved in the accident,” parent-teacher meet call at 11 p.m. on Thursday car. said Mr. Kumar. The driver NEW DELHI regarding a road accident at Mr. Kumar said that a of the luxury car was given The East Delhi Municipal Archana crossing on BRT. A black luxury car and another uation from a college in bail in the case. He was going Corporation (EDMC) will hold a mega parent-teacher meet police team rushed to the hatchback were found at the London. to meet his friends after visit­ on Saturday, the civic body spot and took the injured accident spot. The driver of “Eyewitnesses told the ing his grandmother, the pol­ said. The meeting will focus persons to AIIMS for treat­ the luxury car, Sanidhya police that the luxury car, ice said. on the all-round ment where one of them, Garg (19) was caught by a which was coming from Siri The police have obtained development of children, identified as Narendra, suc­ passer­by and handed over Fort side, hit the victims’ car CCTV footage of the acci­ spreading awareness on cumbed to injuries. He ad­ to the police. He is a resident after it jumped the red light dent. Mr. Kumar said that cleanliness and vector-borne ded that the injured CRPF of Model Town in Delhi and at Archana crossing. Anoth­ the vehicles have been im­ diseases, the EDMC said in a personnel, Vinod Kumar his father owns a factory in er car involved in the acci­ pounded for forensic survey statement. and Babulal, were dis­ Noida. He is pursuing grad­ dent was coming from Mool­ adding that probe is on. DU releases RS members condemn ‘intimidation’ Second cut­off fifth cut­off list of DU council by ABVP activists for NCWEB out Staff Reporter Staff Reporter New Delhi New Delhi Delhi University released Seek PM’s intervention to ensure autonomy of university Delhi University has re­ the fifth cut­off list for me­ leased the second cut­offs rit­based undergraduate Staff Reporter forced entry was to intimi­ Council claimed that the UG for undergraduate pro­ New Delhi programmes on Friday. date professors of certain de­ Curriculum Revision Com­ grammes under the Non The cut­offs will be dis­ Eighteen Rajya Sabha mem­ partments to coerce them in­ mittee had sent another list Collegiate Women’s Educa­ played on the notice bers on Friday have written to making certain changes in of corrections. earlier. “The tion Board (NCWEB) on boards of colleges on to Prime Minister Narendra their syllabi that would make NDTF and ABVP may be suc­ Friday. Saturday. Modi, condemning the “inti­ it acceptable to the ideology cessful in their nefarious With this, admission to While admissions to sev­ midation” of the Delhi Un­ and values endorsed by the agenda as they are more po­ only two courses offered eral courses at DU have iversity’s Academic Council RSS,” the letter stated. werful than the university. across 26 colleges have closed, cut­offs for several by the ABVP activists. The MPs said that the at­ Academic arguments are not closed. others have been reduced. The parliamentarians, be­ mosphere of physical threat being heard and the univer­ The courses closed for Among these, B.Com and longing to the CPI, CPI(M), raised questions about the sity is following their diktats” admissions to unreserved B.Com (H) courses, two of Congress, DMK, RJD and SP, state of law and order, free he alleged. students include B.A. pro­ the most popular subjects have expressed concern over speech and debate in public Meanwhile, the ABVP has gramme with economics at DU, remain open at sev­ the reports of the ABVP’s for­ institutions and demanded decided to start a “satya­ and political science at Mi­ eral colleges. B.A Econom­ cible entry into the V­C’s of­ that the PM intervene to en­ grah” from Monday till the randa House which had ics remains open at SRCC fice complex on Tuesday, sure the academic autonomy Executive Council Meeting posted the highest cut­off with a cut off of 98.62%. and allegations of threats of DU at the earliest. on Tuesday to protest what it of 85% (along with three This is the last list of cut­ made to the council mem­ Saikat Ghosh, professor of termed “propagandistically other courses) and the offs the university had bers. “We have learnt that the English department and introduced changes in the same programme at Rajd­ scheduled to release. the intention behind this member of the Academic curriculum”. hani College. 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DELHI Timings Saturday, July 20 Mayawati asks BJP to RISE 05:36 SET 19:19 U.P. puts Azam Khan’s RISE 21:46 SET 08:23 Sunday, July 21 RISE 05:37 SET 19:19 reveal source of funds RISE 22:18 SET 09:16 name on list of land mafia Monday, July 22 ‘BJP, RSS casteist RISE 05:37 SET 19:18 Govt. rejects SP charge of him being framed in fake cases RISE 22:50 SET 10:08 outfits, don’t want Press Trust of India assembled at 11 a.m., Mr. Ha­ deprived people Rampur (U.P.) san raised the issue, saying, to progress’ Samajwadi Party MP Azam “The most painful thing is Khan’s name has been put that Khan has taken land for Press trust of India on an online list of land ma­ building a university and not Lucknow fia by the district administra­ for any personal gains. In Terming the BJP and the RSS tion here following FIRs re­ which direction is the go­ casteist outfits, Bahujan Sa­

gistered against him, vernment going? Azam Khan maj Party chief Mayawati on Mayawati * FILE PHOTO drawing strong protest from is part of the land mafia?” Friday asked the former par­ his party. The SP raised the Leader of the House and ty to make public the source from the deprived sections issue in the Legislative Coun­ Deputy Chief Minister Di­ of funds deposited in its progressed, especially in bu­ cil alleging that he is being nesh Sharma termed the bank accounts during the siness. framed in “fake” cases. Samajwadi Party MP SP’s allegations “baseless”. election. She said the BJP used The State government dis­ Azam Khan. * FILE PHOTO “The government is treating “The BJP and the RSS are power and government ma­ missed the allegations, say­ everyone in the same man­ casteist outfits that do not chinery against them to ing that it was treating eve­ Singh said the “farmers had ner, and it is not an act of want to see people of the de­ serve its casteist rivalry. She ryone the same and the claimed that Azam Khan had vengeance.” prived sections progress in said the BJP had not made action was not driven by any acquired their land for Un­ “The allegations are base­ education and business,” public the source of ₹2,000 political vendetta. iversity through coercion”. less, and do not have any the BSP chief said here. crore deposited in its ac­ 0 Chief Minister Yogi Adi­ “The name of those who link with the policy and in­ The former Uttar Pradesh counts during the election. DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to verify and make appropriate enquiries to tyanath alleged that Rampur have acquired someone’s tention of the government,” Chief Minister’s remarks “It is not clear who gave the satisfy themselves about the veracity of an advertisement before responding to was an example of “land­ land with alleged criminal he said. He added that since came a day after the Income money and everyone wants any published in this newspaper. THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & grabbing” culture under the acts and continue to have Mr. Khan is not a member of Tax Department attached a to know its source. Is it Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch for the authenticity of any advertisement previous SP government. possession over it are includ­ the House, the matter can­ ‘benami’ commercial plot benami?” or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s products and/or services. In no event can “The name of the Rampur ed in the list,” the DM added. not be raised. Following this, worth ₹400 crore in Noida “This money was used to the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ MP has been put on the list The SP, however, alleged Mr. Hasan requested the belonging to her brother influence voters from the company be held responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for any claims of anti­land mafia portal of that the move was a conspi­ Chair that an all­party com­ and his wife. poor and deprived sections and/or damages for advertisements in this newspaper. the State government on racy by the Rampur DM to mittee be formed, but Mr. The BSP president said af­ during the election. All are Thursday after FIRs were defame Mr. Khan and the Sharma opposed it. ter coming to power under aware of it,” Ms. Mayawati lodged against him on land­ university. Amid unruly scenes, the Narendra Modi and Amit added. I N BRIEF grabbing charges,” Addition­ Deputy CM sought coopera­ Shah, the BJP had bought Warning that the attempt al District Magistrate (Admi­ 21-member panel tion of the Opposition to run properties worth millions of to crush the voice of the de­ nistration) J.P. Gupta said. SP president Akhilesh Yadav the House. But the agitated rupees. “From where has prived people would not H C stays meet to hold municipality trust vote “The listing was done by has constituted a 21­member SP members trooped into this money come to the BJP? succeed, Ms. Mayawati said KOLKATA the SDM Sadar,” he said. committee, led by the Lead­ the Well, prompting Chair­ Why are the BJP and the RSS the BSP was with them. The High Court on Friday The former State Minister er of the Opposition in the man Ramesh Yadav to ad­ afraid of giving their ac­ On the attachment pro­ stayed a meeting for holding was named in the FIRs Legislative Council, Ahmad journ the House till 12 noon. count? Is this massive ceedings against Ms. Maya­ a vote of confidence in the lodged in connection with Hasan, to “probe fake cases” When the House re­assem­ wealth not BJP’s benami wati’s brother, U.P. Deputy chairman of the Halisahar alleged forcible acquisition against Mr. Khan. bled, Mr. Hasan raised the property,” she asked. CM Dinesh Sharma said, Municipality on a plea by a of land for Mohammad Ali Proceedings in the Legis­ matter and SP members The BSP chief said when “The government will not councillor that the provision Jauhar University, of which lative Council were disrupt­ came into the Well of the their own people became act against anyone in a pre­ is being misused by the head he is the founder and ed on Friday as the SP mem­ House. Later, the Chairman wealthy overnight, they had judiced manner. There will of the civic body to get Chancellor. bers protested against the adjourned the House till no problem but they could be an impartial and transpa­ protection. PTI District Magistrate A.K. issue. As soon as the House Monday. not tolerate it when people rent probe.” Opposition blasts Punjab Punjab badly hit by heavy govt. over drugs issue rain: Minister Questions Sidhu’s return as STF chief SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT action, but the government CHANDIGARH CHANDIGARH is busy in ‘cosmetic' moves Punjab Local Government The Opposition in Punjab to save its face,” said senior Minister Brahm Mohindra hit out at the Congress go­ party leaders Kultar Singh on Friday held a meeting vernment on Friday, accus­ Sandhwan, Sadhu Singh and with senior department of­ ing it of not having any con­ Gurdit Singh Sekhon in a ficials to take stock of the crete policy to fight the joint statement here. waterlogging at many plac­ drugs menace prevalent in es in the State following in­ the State. CM targeted cessant rain. The criticism came a day The leaders also took pot­ Mr. Mohindra said that after the State government shots at the Chief Minister. Punjab has been badly hit brought back IPS officer “The government should by torrential rain in the last Harpreet Singh Sidhu as give the reason why Mr. Sid­ few days. “Some of the ci­ chief of the anti­drugs Spe­ hu was removed earlier and ties of the State have a cial Task Force, nearly a why now he is being saucer­shaped topography, year after he was removed brought back. While we do which resulted in flooding from the post following re­ not question Mr. Sidhu’s de­ as it is not possible to drain ports of a tussle between termination towards his du­ off rainwater with natural him and the then DGP. ty, the Chief Minister’s in­ gravity,” he said. Leaders of the Aam Aad­ tentions are under cloud,” The Minister said the de­ mi Party, the principal Op­ said the leaders. partment is keeping a close position, said the State go­ Punjab BJP chief Shwait watch on the ground situa­ vernment’s decision of yet Malik said that the purpose tion. “Bathinda has been again change the STF chief of setting up the STF was on­ badly affected as it re­ shows lack of planning and ly to corner political oppo­ ceived 178 mm rainfall on concrete policy. nents. “Replacing officers July 16, which created a “The Congress has been only proves that if anyone flood­like situation. All the in power for over two years does not cooperate with the accumulated water was now, yet the problem of government’s whim and drained out on July 18 and drugs continues unabated. fancies, he or she should be the situation is under con­ It’s time for taking decisive moved,” he told reporters. trol,” he said. ‘Make statement on deficit rainfall’ Odisha Speaker directs Revenue Minister Sudam Marndi

Special Correspondent Mr. Saluja said one farm­ Mr. Mishra also demand­ BHUBANESWAR er’s death by suicide due to ed financial assistance for Odisha Assembly Speaker crop loss in the Sadar block the farmer who had died in Surjya Narayan Patro on Fri­ of the Bolangir district this Bolangir due to loss of his day directed Revenue and week has already been re­ kharif crop. Disaster Management Minis­ ported. On Thursday, ruling Biju ter Sudam Marndi to make a All the blocks of the dis­ Janata Dal MLA Ananta Das statement on the deficit rain­ trict were facing drought­ from Bhograi had also fall situation in the State like situation, he added. claimed that a drought­like within two days. situation was prevailing in The Speaker gave the rul­ Delayed action coastal Balasore district. ing after Leader of the Con­ Mr. Mishra also blamed the At least 17 of the 30 dis­ gress Legislature Party Na­ State government for delay­ tricts in the State have re­ rasingha Mishra and ing action to tackle the situa­ corded deficit rainfall so far, Congress MLA Santosh tion thus arising. according to weather ex­ Singh Saluja expressed con­ The State government perts. As a result, agricultu­ cern over the deficit rainfall had been falsely claiming ral operations have been in Bolangir district. Both the that 33% of the cultivable badly hit in many parts of leaders are from different land in Bolangir had assured the State, including districts constituencies in Bolangir. irrigation, he said. of Jagatsinghpur and Jajpur. No protection given: triple talaq case petitioner

Press Trust of India In a complaint lodged at “My landlord is still pres­ Kolkata Golabari police station in suring me to vacate the Ishrat Jahan, a petitioner in Howrah on Wednesday, Ms. house... I have no place to the triple talaq case, on Fri­ Jahan had accused her lan­ go... I am yet to receive pol­ day claimed that she had not dlord and brother­in­law of ice protection,” Ms. Jahan received police protection abusing her and threatening said. despite her representation to kill her for attending a The police, however, said earlier this week alleging ‘Hanuman Chalisa’ recital in an officer visits her house threat to her life. a hijab. She also alleged that daily to check on her. “No She also alleged that her the two had threatened to policeman has been posted landlord was exerting pres­ throw her out of her house outside her house, but an of­ sure on her to move out of and had sought police ficer visits her house every her house. protection. day,” an officer said.

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Whether we are in A case of cheating has been na beach here, the High Dhule power or not, the Shiv Sena registered by police in Court of Bombay at Goa on Amid talks of him being the is the only party which Chinchwad town near here Friday sentenced a shack Shiv Sena’s contender for stands with the people all against a couple for alleg­ worker to 10 years rigorous chief minister’s post, Yuva the time,” he said. edly duping chairman of imprisonment. Sena president Aaditya During an interactive ses­ BVG group Hanmant Gaik­ A Division Bench of Justic­ Thackeray said on Friday it is sion with students at a city wad of over ₹16 crore. es R.D. Dhanuka and Prithvi­ the people who will have to college, organised as part of Mr. Gaikwad (46) lodged raj Chavan had held Samson decide whether he is ready the yatra, a student asked a complaint on Friday D’Souza guilty on July 17 for for the top job or not. Mr. Thackeray if he would against Vinod Jadhav and “culpable homicide not Policemen escorting Samson D'Souza from court in Panaji on Speaking during his Jan like to be the education mi­ his wife Suvarna Jadhav, amounting to murder” and Friday after he was sentenced for 10 years for the rape and Ashirwad Yatra, Mr. Thacke­ nister to solve the academic who allegedly own several molestation, among other murder of a British teenager in 2008. * AFP ray said his immediate prior­ problems faced by young­ firms. charges. handed over the case to the (culpable homicide not ity, however, is to listen to sters. To this he said, “Yes. In the complaint, Mr. The Bench had over­ Central Bureau of amounting murder) and 201 the people’s voice and fulfil The home ministry is consi­ Gaikwad said that in 2011 turned the verdict of Goa Investigation. (destruction of evidence) promises made by Shiv Sena. dered as the most important the couple persuaded him Children’s Court which had D’Souza, who worked at a and for child abuse under The 29­year­old chief of department in the country. and his wife to invest over acquitted D’Souza. It howev­ beach­side shack, and Car­ section 8 (2) of the Goa Chil­ the Shiv Sena’s youth wing is But equally important is the ₹16 crore in their firms Sava er upheld the acquittal of valho, a suspected drug dren’s Act. on a mass outreach pro­ Yuva Sena president Aaditya Thackeray interacting with education department if we Medica, Biodeal Laborato­ the second accused Placido dealer, were first arrested, D’Souza was present in gramme ahead of Assembly college students at Jaihind College in Dhule on Friday, the were to look at the future. I ries and Anagha Pharma, Carvalho. based on witness accounts, the courtroom on Friday. polls due in second day of his Janadesh yatra. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT definitely would like to work promising high returns. The 15­year­old victim, by Goa Police. His lawyer sought a stay to September­October. in that department,” he “Gaikwad allegedly did who was holidaying in Goa The CBI named both in its the sentence for 12 weeks so Shiv Sena’s Rajya Sabha have to decide whether I am Thackeray, has embarked on added. not get the assured returns with her mother and si­ charge sheet, claiming they that he could file an appeal MP Sanjay Raut, who is ac­ ready to occupy the post or the yatra “to thank” those He pitched for encourag­ and felt duped, so he ap­ blings, was found dead on drugged the girl and sexual­ in the Supreme Court. companying Mr. Thackeray, not. I can’t talk about it as who voted for the party in ing research and innovation proached police. We have the popular beach on Febru­ ly abused her. Trial court The Bench rejected the had said on Thursday that this is the only thing which is the recent Lok Sabha polls in the country. registered a case under IPC ary 18, 2008. The cause of judge Vandana Tendulkar plea. D’Souza was sent to the Yuva Sena leader would not in my hand. What is in and “win over hearts” of The yatra, which will cov­ sections 406 (criminal death, according to the au­ acquitted them in 2016, judicial custody and will be be chief minister if the post my hand is to fulfil the pro­ those who didn’t. er four districts of north breach of trust) and 420 topsy report, was drowning. which the CBI challenged. shifted to a prison at Colvale comes to Shiv Sena. mises the Shiv Sena makes,” The Shiv Sena had won 18 Maharashtra, was launched (cheating),” said an official Initial investigation was The high court two days in North Goa district. The Shiv Sena currently Mr. Thackeray told Marathi of the 23 Lok Sabha seats it in Jalgaon on Thursday and attached to the Chinchwad conducted by Goa Police. ago held D’Souza guilty un­ Senior lawyer Vikram Var­ shares power with the BJP at news channels here. contested in Maharashtra. will cover Nashik and Ah­ police station. However, the victim’s moth­ der IPC Sections 328 (for ad­ ma, who represented the the Centre and in the State. The young politician, son “My first priority and duty mednagar districts over the Nobody has been arrest­ er alleged that the probe was ministering drugs), 354 (out­ victim’s mother, said justice “It is the people who will of Shiv Sena chief Uddhav is to listen to the voice of the next two days. ed in the case, he added. “shabby”. The State then raging modesty), 304 has been finally delivered. HC junks plea seeking ban on ‘Alibaug se aaya hai kya?’

Have fun... don’t phrase is commonly used in projected people of Alibaug highly objectionable to ridi­ Maharashtra to address so­ as illiterates. cule the people of Alibaug by get humiliated, meone who is considered Mr. Thakur’s plea states projecting them as ‘illiterate’ says Chief Justice foolish or naive. that Alibaug is a well­to­do who do not have common A Division Bench of Chief place, a major tourist attrac­ sense,” the plea said. Justice Pradeep Nandrajog tion, and that it has several Mr. Thakur had urged the Press Trust of India and Justice N.M. Jamdar dis­ good schools and a high lite­ court to direct State authori­ Mumbai missed the public interest li­ racy rate. It also says that Ali­ ties to get public refrain The Bombay High Court on tigation (PIL) filed by Rajen­ baug has a rich culture and from making such a Friday dismissed a petition dra Thakur, a resident of history. comment. seeking a ban on the phrase Alibaug. “Alibaug is bestowed with He had also urged the ‘Alibaug se aaya hai kya?’, “Jokes are made on every “We do not find anything nature with scenic beauty. In court to ensure that films, observing that there was community...Santa­Banta jo­ derogatory in this,” the spite of having such a rich documentaries, TV serials, nothing derogatory in it and kes...Madrasi jokes and Bench added. background filled with histo­ among others, that have the it should not be taken as a jokes on north Indians. Have In his plea, Mr. Thakur ry, culture, industry, tou­ above phrase as part of its humiliation. fun... don’t get humiliated,” said that the phrase is “un­ rism, medical facilities, na­ dialogue, are not granted As per the plea, the Chief Justice Nandrajog said. fair and humiliating” as it ture and education, it is censor certificate. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I N BRIEF ‘I am not clinging on to power’ Brindavana of Vyasaraja Karnataka Chief Minister narrates his ordeal as head of the coalition government Tirtha rebuilt in Karnataka Special Correspondent Bengaluru Charge of It was destroyed by suspected treasure hunters Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy used the ‘₹5 crore offer’ Staff Reporter debate on the confidence KOPPAL motion moved by him as an creates furore The Brindavana of Sri Vyasa­ ‘Mohanlal secured ivory opportunity to insist that he raja Tirtha that was des­ ownership certificate’ was “not clinging on to pow­ Special Correspondent troyed early on Wednesday Bengaluru KOCHI er” and narrated the politi­ by suspected treasure hun­ The Kerala Forest cal ordeals he has had to en­ Charges of horse­trading ters was rebuilt by devotees Department has informed the dure since he came to head dominated the Karnataka on the same spot at Nava Kerala High Court that the coalition government in Karnataka Chief Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy and Deputy CM Assembly proceedings in Brindavana at Anegondi in though it was found during 2006 and during the Opposi­ G. Parameshwara at the Assembly session. * K. MURALI KUMAR the first half of the day on Karnataka on Friday. A team an inquiry that actor tion BJP’s recent attempts to Friday, with legislators of from Vellore, Tamil Nadu, Mohanlal and others were in topple the present coalition Recalling episodes of pol­ had systematically been cir­ the governing JD(S)­Con­ helped in reconstructing the illegal possession of two government. itical turbulence during the cumventing the anti­defec­ gress coalition making se­ Brindavana. Employees of pairs of ivories, the Mr. Kumaraswamy said 2008­2013 BJP government, tion law and thereby our de­ rious allegations against the Archaeological Survey of investigation officer did not that 14 months of the JD(S)­ he said it was the BJP that mocracy. “It needs to be BJP leaders, accusing them India assisted architect Nee­ submit the inquiry report Congress coalition was now started a new chapter in the recorded for posterity,” he of buying MLAs to destabil­ raj in the reconstruction and Restoring sanctity: Sri Vidya Shreesha Tirtha of Sosale before the magistrate court approaching its final stage. State’s history by getting said. ise the government. restoration. The reconstruc­ Vyasaraja Mutt offering puja to the Brindavana of Sri due to subsequent issue of He reiterated that he was not MLAs to resign to circum­ He insisted that there Srinivas Gowda, JD(S) tion was initiated on a war­ Vyasaraja Tirtha after it was reconstructed. * RACHAIAH S.S. ownership certificate for interested in official posi­ vent the anti­defection law. should not be a sense of ur­ MLA for Kolar, made a footing on Thursday soon af­ them by the government. tions and it was the Congress Arguing that it only led to in­ gency in the voting on the pointed allegation that the ter Sri Vidya Shreesha Tirtha Only the superficial stone Tirtha of Pejawar Mutt said N arrow escape for that had urged him to be­ stability in the BJP govern­ trust vote. He recalled that BJP offered him ₹5 crore. of Sosale Vyasaraja Mutt structure on the grave is des­ in Gangavati. passengers at Renigunta come Chief Minister after the ment, he said: “I want to see the former Prime Minister “Malleswaram MLA C.N. rushed to the spot from troyed. It is a matter of relief After the reconstruction, TIRUPATI fractured mandate in 2018. how stable a government A.B. Vajpayee took 10 days to Ashwath Narayan, Yela­ Mysuru. for all of us that the mis­ the seers performed rituals As many as 40 passengers of you will give after all this ex­ debate and put the motion of hanka MLA S.R. Vishwa­ “The actual grave of Sri creants could not reach the to restore the sanctity of a private bus, travelling from Political turbulence ercise.” Alleging that the BJP confidence to vote in 1999. nath, and former MLA C.P. Vyasaraja Tirtha is intact. actual grave,” Sri Vishwesha Brindavana. Visakhapatnam to Bengaluru, “Power is not permanent. had been making attempts to “Why such a big hurry Yogeshwar came to my had a narrow escape when Power comes and goes,” Mr. topple the coalition govern­ now?” he asked. house and offered ₹5 crore the bus tilted while stopping Kumaraswamy said. “The ment from day one, the Responding to allegations to cross over. I refused and at a coffee kiosk, near the BJP may have won 303 seats Chief Minister said: “You are that the government was ef­ said I am not a person who Renigunta checkpost on today. But I would like to re­ having a good time now, but fecting transfers before he can be bribed. Now, they Governor summons Kerala Friday. CCTV footage showed mind the BJP that the late Ra­ it’s temporary. You will also had proved that he enjoyed are offering me ₹30 crore. the driver was making a sharp jiv Gandhi had won a man­ face trouble in future.” the confidence of the House, If they say it is false, I will curve. The vehicle swerved to date with more than 400 He sought a detailed de­ the Chief Minister said he prove it is otherwise. I University Vice­Chancellor its left and tilted sidewards. It seats. But what happened la­ bate on the allegations the had not taken any policy de­ want to ask them if people could have overturned, but ter? Let them not assume Opposition had made cisions. The government was voted for us to be pur­ Special Correspondent leaned on a cargo vehicle Thiruvananthapuram parked next to it. power is permanent,” he against his government, and still in office and transfers chased with money,” he Police recover penknife said. the manner in which the BJP were regular business. said. Governor P. Sathasivam Cardinal’s supporters summoned Vice­Chancellor Special Correspondent the weapon from under a draw flak from forum of Kerala University V.P. Ma­ Thiruvananthapuram pile of dry leaves near an KOCHI hadevan Pillai to the Raj Bha­ The police on Friday said open stage the Students The Archdiocesan Movement van on Friday in connection they retrieved the penknife Federation of India (SFI) for Transparency (AMT) treats IMA founder Mansoor returns, held by ED with the scandal surround­ used in the near­fatal attack had expropriated as its unit with contempt statements of ing the alleged use of stolen on University College committee office. All Kerala Catholic Congress Staff Reporter government said in a state­ an audio clip in which he answer sheets by leaders of student Akhil Chandran on The Kerala campus and KCBC Laity Commission, Bengaluru ment that it tracked Khan to threatened to commit sui­ the Students Federation of July 12. violence had occurred belittling the relay hunger I Monetary Advisory (IMA) Dubai after he fled the coun­ cide, apart from accusing India (SFI) to cheat in the Investigators recovered during a recess. strike against Cardinal George Group founder and manag­ try on June 8. It then per­ politicians of borrowing mo­ examinations. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Alencherry, launched on ing director Mohammed suaded him to return to In­ ney from him. Officials said the Gover­ Thursday by the priests of the Ernakulam­Angamaly Mansoor Khan, accused of dia and submit himself As the furore over the nor, who is the Chancellor, explained the steps taken so The police had chanced Archdiocese of the Syro­ cheating investors of over before the law, said the state­ case increased , he released sought an explanation from far to fix accountability and upon the stolen answer Malabar Church, AMT general ₹2,500 crore, was arrested ment. Police officials expect another video where he of­ Mr. Pillai at the one­to­one elaborated on the measures books during their raid on secretary Riju Kanjookaran by the Enforcement Directo­ the ED to present Khan in a fered to return to India and closed­door meeting. considered by the university the house of SFI leader Siva­ said on Thursday. Those rate (ED) after he landed at local court before bringing cooperate with the probe. Mr. Pillai purportedly to prevent such anomalies in renjith last week. treating the strike with the Indira Gandhi Interna­ him to Bengaluru on Satur­ The IMA is accused of run­ briefed the Governor about future. He is the main accused in disdain could be among the tional Airport in Delhi from day. ning a ponzi scheme that de­ the progress of the varsity’s An official said the Gover­ a case relating to the near­fa­ beneficiaries of the land deal Dubai early on Friday. The Khan fled the city a day frauded thousands by pro­ probe to trace the prove­ nor made a rare break with tal knife attack on University involving the archdiocese, he Special Investigation Team before a complaint was filed mising them returns of over nance of the answer sheets. university customs by sum­ College student Akhil Chan­ said. Mohammed Mansoor Khan (SIT) set up by the Karnataka against him, leaving behind 50%. He is also believed to have moning Mr. Pillai directly. dran on July 12. 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Special Correspondent New rules will bring about transformation in Telangana: KCR ANANTAPUR A seven­year­old boy, Pa­ Special Correspondent Significantly, the Act has van, studying in the go­ HYDERABAD strict provisions for demoli­ vernment school at Pothu­ In a major benefit to the ur­ tion of illegal constructions kunta in Anantapur district ban poor under the New Te­ without notice. was bitten by a snake. He is langana Municipalities Act, Another major feature is fighting for life in a hospi­ 2019, Telangana Chief Minis­ that layout approvals with tal. The incident took place ter K. Chandrasekhar Rao self­certification will be gi­ when he went out of the announced in the State As­ ven by the Collector who is school compound to answ­ sembly that no municipal given ample powers of regu­ er nature’s call. approval was needed for lation by the Act to rid the The incident happened construction of Ground plus K. Chandrasekhar Rao State of land mafia and ille­ three days ago, but the 1 houses in plots of up to 75 gal layouts. Common spaces matter was allegedly sup­ sq. yards. permissions in an area up to in a layout for roads, parks pressed by the school auth­ Home owners will have to 500 sq m and 10 m of height. should be registered to the orities. When he was ad­ pay just ₹1 for registration Online permission will be gi­ municipality before final mitted to the paediatric and ₹100 as property tax to ven automatically if every layout approval is given. ward of the Government bring them on municipal document is in order within “I am there in every sen­ General Hospital in Anan­ rolls for house numbers and stipulated time or it will be tence of the Act drafted tapur, the matter came to provision of water connec­ deemed approved. without affecting the spirit light. The doctors said tion and other civic ameni­ The Act brought in heavy of the Constitution,” said Mr. when the boy was brought ties. The government, he penalties for violations of Rao, explaining the Act to the hospital he was un­ said, also proposed to give the rules. For property tax, which has provisions in able to open his eyelids new door numbers to all online self certification will place to bring about transpa­ and this would happen on­ houses with ‘QR’ code in the be enough but if the flying rency, remove corruption ly when the venom entered State for safety and security. squads led by Collector de­ for issuing birth, death and the nerves. He was put on a As part of citizen­friendly tect any discrepancy, then other bonafide certificates, Journey halted: Fishermen unloading nets from a boat after rough seas forced it to return to the Vizhinjam harbour in ventilator and was being urban governance, one need the property owner will be and reduce human interfe­ Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. Seven fishermen have gone missing since Wednesday. Heavy rain on Friday claimed two lives. The treated with best possible not go to a municipal office slapped with a penalty of 25 rence in sanctioning appro­ Met Depatment has issued a red alert for most of the districts as rain is expected to continue till Tuesday.* S. GOPAKUMAR medicines, but he was still for building construction times the accurate amount. vals and permissions. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC unconscious, doctors said. Pandemonium over Polavaram project ‘Varavara Rao kept under pathetic condition’ Andhra CM tells Assembly that previous government was responsible for delay Wife writes to Maharashtra Governor again, demands better facilities in prison

Staff Reporter tracts relating to the would be relaxed so that ma­ STAFF REPORTER rence on Friday, she said “I came to know through AMARAVATI Polavaram project. The com­ ny firms could participate in HYDERABD that Mr. Varavara Rao, a Te­ the media that Varavara Rao The Andhra Pradesh Legisla­ mittee was examining the the tenders, the CM added. Revolutionary writer Varava­ lugu poet and lecturer for and his eight co­accused had tive Assembly witnessed contracts in detail. “The pro­ ra Rao’s wife P. Hemalata de­ the past six decades, is being written a letter to you (Mr. pandemonium over the Po­ ject turned out to be full of ‘Wrong priorities’ manded better facilities for denied to read or write in his Vidyasagar Rao) and waiting lavaram project on Friday. scams. The rates were en­ Mr. Jagan further said the the former in Yerawada Cen­ mother tongue, Telugu. for your response for the last The ruling YSR Congress Par­ hanced and the contracts previous government should tral Prison of Pune, as he is “The prison staff has al­ one month. However, neith­ ty and Opposition Telugu were awarded to close asso­ be held responsible for the being allegedly kept under lowed him books only in En­ er did I get any response Desam Party (TDP) got into a ciates of TDP ministers and delay in the progress of the pathetic jail conditions. glish. We request the govern­ from the media nor was heated argument on the is­ Chandrababu Naidu in the works. Wrong priorities had According to her, 79­year­ ment to let him read Telugu there any improvement in sue. name of subcontracts and impacted progress and four old Varavara Rao is being books and newspapers,” she the conditions in Pune jail. [on] nomination basis,” he months were lost, he al­ forced to sleep on the floor said. That’s why I chose to write to TDP protests alleged. leged. The government, ho­ and not provided adequate Mr. Varavara Rao and you once again,” Ms. Hema­ TDP members were on their Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy According to preliminary wever, was committed to facilities, including a cot and eight others, including civil lata said in her letter. She re­ feet all through Question estimates, the savings would completing the Polavaram chair. “After repeated ap­ rights activist Sudha Bhard­ minded the Maharashtra Go­ Hour, demanding a “proper protest instead of participat­ be at least 15%­20%, Mr. Ja­ project by 2021, and works peals, the prison officials Varavara Rao waj and Sudhir Dhawale, vernor of his association reply” to their queries. Sev­ ing in a discussion on the gan claimed, and on works would begin by November, have installed a ceiling fan in were arrested by Pune police with Mr. Varavara Rao dur­ eral attempts made by questions raised by them. worth ₹6,500 crore, the go­ he said. his barrack in the end of matter and direct the go­ last year for allegedly plot­ ing the Emergency days in Speaker Tammineni Sitaram Intervening, Chief Minis­ vernment could save ₹1,500 Water Resources Minister summer, which had a switch vernment to provide basic ting to assassinate Prime Mi­ prisons. to placate them went in vain. ter Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy crore. Reverse tendering P. Anil Kumar said only outside,” she said. amenities to her septuage­ nister Narendra Modi. They Over 30 people, including Ignoring the obstruction, the said the expert committee would be undertaken once 3,900 of 1.06 lakh displaced On Friday, Ms. Hemalata narian husband, keeping in are also accused in a case re­ educationalists, poets, wri­ Speaker went ahead with the constituted by the govern­ the expert committee sub­ families had been rehabili­ wrote to Maharashtra Gover­ view his age and deteriorat­ lated to the Bhima­Koregaon ters, journalists and social agenda. TDP members, ho­ ment would reveal the shod­ mitted its report, he said. tated during the TDP’s five­ nor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao ask­ ing health. violence in Maharashtra in activists had extended their wever, chose to continue the dy and corrupt deals in con­ Pre­qualification criterion year tenure in the State. ing him to intervene in the Addressing a press confe­ 2017. support in the letter.

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I N BRIEF Weather Watch Women in CRPF will soon get Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday specially designed body gear Idea first mooted in 2016; they have been using gear designed for men Hari Singh’s birthday to be a holiday in J&K Vijaita Singh SRINAGAR Institute of Physiology and go for mass production. It sizes and the material used is New Delhi In a rare move, the Jammu Allied Sciences (DIPAS), a will increase the efficiency of the same as that used in male Municipal Corporation has In a first, women per­ unit of the Defence Research women as the protectors be­ body protectors. It will en­ passed a resolution to sonnel of the Central and Development Organisa­ ing used earlier were de­ sure better mobility. It has al­ declare the birth anniversary Reserve Police Force tion (DRDO). signed for men and the ease so paved the path for further of Dogra monarch Maharaja (CRPF) who have to Dr. Bhuvnesh Kumar, Di­ of operation was lacking,” research and development Hari Singh on September 23 face riotous mobs will rector, DIPAS said, “The gear said Anupam Kulshreshtha, in the field of women­specif­ as a State holiday, days after soon get a body gear covers all soft parts of hu­ IG, CRPF. ic body armours and vests,” the State paid tributes to that fits them. man body such as rib­cage, said Moses Dhinakaran, DIG people killed during his rule Since Indepen­ back of the arm, inner calf, <> The gear is anti-stab, and spokesperson, CRPF. in 1931 in the Valley. dence, the women per­ thigh and groin area of fe­ anti-acid. The Another official said once sonnel had to compromise males deployed in riot con­ the mass production starts, P ilot suspended for prototype has been with bulky, oversized body trol.” the gears will be available for transmitting hijack code tested Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) protectors designed for men. Scientist Dr. Shweta Ra­ other central armed police NEW DELHI Anupam Kulshreshtha Forecast for Saturday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall likely at isol­ Around 300 women CRPF wat, who led the designing forces and State police forces The DGCA on Friday IG, CRPF ated places over Kerala, Mahe, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Konkan, suspended an AirAsia India personnel posted in Srinagar team, said anthropometric also. It will weigh around 6 Goa, Vidarbha, east Rajasthan, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Gu­ pilot for a period of three to control the stone­pelting data was used to design the Ms. Kulshreshtha added kg. jarat, Marathawada, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, central months for erroneously incidents are to benefit from the gears which ensure pro­ that the idea for gender­ Around 8,000 women de­ Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karaikal transmitting the ‘hijack code’ these gears, a CRPF official tection of vital organs of specific protective gears was ployed in the anti­riot Rapid city rain max min city rain max min to the Air Traffic Services said. women. first mooted at the National Action Force (RAF) will get Agartala...... 6.4....34.2....26.5 Kozhikode...... 146.0....26.4....23.0 Ahmedabad...... —....39.1....28.4 Kurnool ...... —....36.5....25.2 during a Delhi­Srinagar flight The full body protector “The gear is anti­stab, an­ Conference for Women in the body protectors. The Aizawl...... 20.0....29.3....21.5 Lucknow...... —....37.3....28.6 on June 9. “Capt. Ravi Raj was has been designed by a team ti­acid. The prototype has 2016. CRPF is likely to place an or­ Allahabad...... —....39.5....29.0 Madurai...... —....38.6....27.3 supposed to transmit the of scientists of the Defence been tested and soon we will “It will be available in all der for 9,000 such pieces. Bengaluru ...... 1.0....28.4....21.6 Mangaluru ...... 6.9....28.6....24.1 emergency code 7700 to the Bhopal ...... —....35.0....25.4 Mumbai ...... 1.6....36.2....26.6 Bhubaneswar.... 12.5...... —....26.7 Mysuru ...... —....31.0....21.4 ATS. Instead, he erroneously Chandigarh...... 0.1....31.5....27.4 New Delhi...... 3.6....36.4....25.0 ‘squawked’ the hijack code Chennai...... —....34.2....28.6 Patna...... 4.0....37.6....28.4 7500,” said sources. PTI Coimbatore ...... —....32.2....23.4 Port Blair...... 0.3....32.4....25.4 Appeal to reopen Dehradun ...... —....33.0....23.6 Puducherry ...... —....34.1....26.6 Tamil Nadu govt. opposes Gangtok...... 7.6....24.0....18.0 Pune...... —....33.3....22.4 I ndia, China to have joint Goa...... 4.6....29.4....23.8 Raipur ...... 13.3....36.6....24.8 exercise in December Guwahati ...... —....35.0....27.2 Ranchi ...... —....33.2....24.0 NEW DELHI Hubballi ...... —....27.0....22.0 Shillong...... 1.2....25.1....16.9 Samjhauta case filed Hyderabad ...... —....35.0....25.2 Shimla...... 2.4....20.2....16.5 The annual joint army NEXT for MBBS students Imphal ...... —....34.4....17.5 Srinagar...... 3.1....29.3....17.4 exercise between India and Jaipur ...... —....35.8....25.6 Thiruvananthapuram.... 29.1....27.6....23.0 China will be held in Pakistan woman files plea in HC Kochi ...... 90.0....27.0....23.8 Tiruchi...... 3.2....38.5....26.6 December at Umroi, near AIADMK, DMK on the same page on the issue: Vijayabaskar Kohima ...... 12.4....25.0....17.4 Vijayawada ...... 64.2....36.7....25.5 Kolkata ...... —....35.8....28.6 Visakhapatnam...... 5.8....34.2....27.0 Shillong. “The two­week long special correspondent company­level exercise will New Delhi Special Correspondent uate medical courses in fo­ When the Centre invited (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) take place in the second half A Pakistani woman has filed CHENNAI reign countries. inputs from Tamil Nadu on Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday The Tamil Nadu government He said some of the provi­ the proposal in 2018, the CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE of December. The planning an appeal in the Punjab and Ahmedabad..... 105 134 67 ... 70 .....— ....* conference to finalise the Haryana High Court against told the Assembly on Friday sions in the Bill went against State government had given Bengaluru ...... 9 .64 89 ... 45 .104 ....* In observation made at 4.00 * p.m., Loni Dehat, Uttar modalities will be held in the acquittal of all accused, that it opposed the provision the federal principles and its suggestions to the stand­ Chennai ...... 11 .32 55 ... 87 .....— .... Pradesh recorded an overall August,” said an Army source. Delhi ...... 18 .51 57 . 106 .298 ....* air quality index (AQI) score including former Rashtriya in the National Medical Com­ rights of States. ing committee concerned. Hyderabad ...... 46 .33 16 ... 81 .114 ....* of 247 indicating an Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) mission (NMC) Bill propos­ The decision of the Union Raising the issue in the Kolkata...... 2 .17 .7 ... 39 ...43 ....* unhealthy level of pollution. ED attaches assets of * In contrast, Haldia, West member Aseemanand, in ing a common final­year Cabinet on the NMC Bill, House, Mr. Stalin referred to Lucknow...... 4 .29 50 . 172 .....— .... Bengal recorded a healthy Mumbai ...... 13 .17 .9 ... 43 .120 ....* Devas Multimedia the 2007 Samjhauta Express Aseemanand MBBS exam, to be known as which, among others, pro­ the Union Cabinet’s appro­ AQI score of 23 NEW DELHI Pune...... 68 ...8 67 ... 68 ...68 ....* blast case. National Exit Test (NEXT), posed NEXT was yet to be val for conducting NEXT and Visakhapatnam .12 .58 53 . 103 ...97 ....* The Enforcement Directorate Sixty­eight people, in­ kil, 35, is the daughter of for admission to post­grad­ communicated to the State added that some of the pro­ (ED) has attached movable Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) cluding 10 Indians, were Mohammad Vakil, a Pakista­ uate medical courses. government, Dr. Vijayabas­ visions of the draft NMC Bill SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, assets worth ₹3.1 crore of killed in the terror attack. ni who was killed in the at­ In his reply to the issue kar said and added that the were against the principles making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air Devas Multimedia Private particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues Limited in a case of alleged The accused were acquit­ tack on the Samjhauta Ex­ raised by DMK president ruling AIADMK and the Op­ of federalism and the States’ and monuments. illegal agreement with Antrix ted by a special NIA court in press near Panipat, when and Leader of the Opposi­ position DMK were on the rights. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by Panchkula on March 20. the train was on its way tion M.K. Stalin in the same page on the issue. As for National Medical reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. Corporation, the commercial CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to arm of the Indian Space The court had said: “NIA from Delhi to Lahore. House, Health Minister C. Vi­ The Minister recalled the Commission, there has not critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause Research Organisation (ISRO). miserably failed to prove the Ms. Wakil filed the appeal jayabaskar said the State go­ AIADMK MPs’ opposition been sufficient representa­ dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. It had earlier attached assets charges framed against the through her maternal uncle vernment favoured NEXT when the Bill was proposed tion to Tamil Nadu, which PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced worth ₹79.76 crore in the accused.” Mahroof, a resident of only for candidates who to be introduced in Parlia­ has a large number of medi­ lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature same case. The appellant Rahila Wa­ Shamli in Uttar Pradesh. completed their undergrad­ ment in 2016. cal colleges, Mr. Stalin said. death in people with heart or lung disease Plea to frame guidelines Monsoon now covers Gujarat must act on Devalia on identifying ‘minorities’ entire country, says IMD lion attack death, says NHRC Cyclone Vayu delayed advancement

SC asks AG to be served copy of advocate’s writ petition SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT maining parts of West Rajas­ Labourer was killed, 2 others were mauled inside safari area NEW DELHI than and hence covered the Legal Correspondent was hearing the petitioner, The Southwest monsoon entire country today,” the Staff reporter to the Secretary, State De­ While the lions dragged NEW DELHI represented by senior advo­ has finally covered the IMD said in a release. Bhopal partment of Forest and Envi­ Keshwala into the forest and The Supreme Court on Fri­ cate Mukul Rohatgi, chal­ whole country, the India This year, the southwest The National Human Rights ronment, directed the auth­ killed him, Mr. Shokhat day asked the Attorney­Gen­ lenging a notification issued Meteorological Department monsoon set over Kerala on Commission (NHRC) has is­ orities concerned to “take managed to escape with in­ eral of India to be served a on October 23, 1993 under (IMD) said in a statement on June 8, against its normal sued a notice to the Gujarat appropriate action within juries. He informed officials copy of a writ petition filed the “unbridled powers” of Friday. That makes it four date of June 1. The delay and government, urging it to act eight weeks associating the of the department about the by advocate Ashwini Upad­ Section 2(c) of the National days behind its normal sche­ the effect of cyclone Vayu within eight weeks over the complainant/victim and in­ incident, after which 50 for­ hyay, who is seeking direc­ Commission for Minorities dule of July 15. substantially delayed the death of a forest labourer form them of the action ta­ esters began a search for tions to the government to Act of 1992. “Due to favourable mon­ monsoon’s advance into and injuries to two others in ken in the matter”. Keshwala, whose body was either frame guidelines for The petition said the Oc­ soon circulations, there has south, central and east India a lion attack in the Devalia At noon on November 29, recovered two hours later. identification of minorities tober 1993 notification de­ been light to moderate rain­ and led toa deficit of about Safari Park in the Gir forest 2018, two lions attacked Raj­ Another labourer, was at­ at the States’ level or, in the clared Muslims, Christians, fall with isolated heavy falls 33%. of Junagadh last November. nish Keshwala and Dinesh tacked while recovering the alternative, to “declare Hin­ Ashwini Upadhyay Sikhs, Buddhists and Parsis over West Rajasthan during Rainfall has been signifi­ Acting on a petition filed Shokhat, daily wage labour­ body. Mr. Dubey alleged that dus as ‘Minority’ in States as ‘Minority’ community the past 24 hours. Thus, the cantly below normal in by wildlife activist Ajay Du­ ers employed by the Forest the park had been function­ where they are a real A Bench, led by Chief Jus­ without conducting any stu­ Southwest monsoon has south India, with the short­ bey, the NHRC, in a letter Department who were lead­ ing without permission from minority”. tice of India Ranjan Gogoi, dy, research or homework. further advanced into re­ fall at almost 27%. dated July 4 and addressed ing the big cats to their cage. the Central Zoo Authority. Management quota students can’t be charged more: HC ‘Higher fees applicable only to NRI category’

Mohamed Imranullah S. regulate such admissions or the go­ CHENNAI vernment could issue executive in­ Frowning upon the practice of priv­ structions on the subject. ate medical colleges charging exor­ “So long as the State does not do bitant fees from students gaining ad­ it, it will be for the fee fixation com­ mission under the management mittees, constituted pursuant to the quota, as compared to those admit­ directions of the Supreme Court in ted under the government quota, the Islamic Academy of Education the Madras High Court held that case in 2003, to regulate,” the judg­ there should not be any differentia­ es clarified, while ordering two priv­ tion in the fee structure for students ate medical colleges in Puducherry admitted under the two quotas. to refund excess fees collected from A Division Bench of Justices R. students. Subbiah and C. Saravanan said, Authoring the judgment, Justice “The only discrimination that is per­ Saravanan said that the need for missible is regarding fees that can constitution of fee fixation commit­ be charged from students admitted tees, headed by retired High Court against the seats allocated under the judges, in every State and Union NRI quota, which has been pegged Territory of the country had arisen at 15% of the total seats available in on account of the tendency of priv­ every medical institution.” ate colleges to charge exorbitant Asserting that merit should not fees in their quest to commercialise be given the go­by even while mak­ higher education and generate ing admissions under the NRI quo­ profits. ta, the judges said that the fees col­ “Higher fee amount can be col­ lected should be used only for lected only from students admitted subsidising education of students from the NRI quota and such excess from economically weaker sections. money collected from those stu­ dents can be used for subsidising Orders refund the fees of students coming from the Sounding a note of caution on the economically weaker sections of so­ possibility of medical institutions ciety. Once fee is fixed, approved by misusing the NRI quota to make mo­ the committee concerned and noti­ ney, the Bench suggested that either fied, it cannot be tampered with,” the Assembly could pass a law to they concluded. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE The NEP and liberal arts education The draft’s endorsement of critical thinking would have gained credibility if it had promoted liberal values critical thinking or inquiry has said. The liberal arts undergrad­ qualify as a liberal administrative gained enormous popularity of uate courses I am referring are to measure. late. It does not mean ‘critical’ in cost ₹8 lakh per year. Perhaps this is what the draft Inclusion over exclusion the common sense. How the term The draft NEP’s support for lib­ NEP also wants in its push for the Fears of a vocal section should not override has evolved in recent educational eral arts comes with a plea for in­ liberal arts, as a futuristic substi­ theory implies the ability to place creased public funding. It also tute for the monochromatic ‘BA’ the rights of NRC claimants to due process Krishna Kumar ideas and problems in a larger cites employability as a justifica­ our system is used to and stuck in. ith the Supreme Court­led process of updat­ context in order to locate creative tion. Even more interestingly, the Since the draft NEP is committed ing the National Register of Citizens in Assam links and clues by using informa­ argument excavates historical to critical thinking, surely its wri­ few months ago, a school tion and concepts drawn from dif­ grounding. It says: “Indian univer­ ters had cast a glance at the larger nearing its deadline of July 31, the complexi­ W principal told me about her ferent subjects. Imagine our sities such as Takshshila and Na­ ethos and noticed the demise of ties involved in the gargantuan exercise have dawned Aconversation in the morning youngsters proceeding to higher landa... definitively emphasis ed several bastions of liberal educa­ upon the executive. Both the Central and State govern­ assembly with children of the mid­ education after this kind of intel­ the liberal arts and liberal educa­ tion. Had they evinced even mod­ ments have sought an extension. But it remains to be dle (Grades VI­VIII) section. She lectual training at school: you can tion tradition.... The critical In­ erate concern, their endorsement seen whether the Court, which has insisted on sticking had asked them for suggestions to picture a transformed college GETTY IMAGES dian concept of liberal arts has in­ of the liberal arts would have to the timelines, would relent when it hears the matter turn the school into heaven. Some classroom. wards neo­liberal policies has wea­ deed become extremely gained credibility. Unless liberal on July 23. The first draft NRC published on the inter­ children suggested a garden, with kened critical thinking in liberal important in the modern day em­ arts graduates are to be produced trees, grass, and flowers blossom­ Pivotal to reform arts courses. This matter has sud­ ployment landscape of the 21st exclusively for export, their train­ vening night of December 31 and January 1, 2018 had ing all year round. Others pointed In the draft NEP, the section for denly become relevant for us in century, and liberal arts education ing would have to include the the names of 19 million people out of the total 32.9 mil­ out that the school already had a higher education opens with ‘lib­ the wake of the draft NEP propos­ of this kind is already being exten­ smartness to not let anyone know lion who had applied for inclusion as citizens. The se­ nice garden. They suggested that eral arts’ as the key to reform. This ing both critical thinking and liber­ sively implemented today (e.g. in what exactly you believe in. One cond draft NRC, published on July 30 last, upped it to heaven should have peace, so we is another term that has been gain­ al arts, virtually in the same the United States in Ivy League suspects that their American 28.9 million but left out four million found ineligible. should end all fights. The assemb­ ing currency in India over recent breath. schools) with great success. It is counterparts already receive such Around 3.6 million of them subsequently filed citizen ­ ly ended with everyone taking a years, but its history is rather diffe­ time India also brought back this training. ship claims. An “additional exclusion list” was issued vow to stop all fighting in the rent from that of critical thinking. Applying critical thinking great tradition back to its place of Let me get back to the heaven school to make it like heaven. A In India, owing to our colonial his­ Implementing the draft NEP in my origin.” (pp. 223­224). alluded to in the principal’s story. last month containing 1,02,463 names included earlier short while later, two boys came tory, we are more used to the term own mind, I thought of using criti­ The resounding, elaborate com­ Trees and peace apart, a school in the draft list . In anticipation of millions being ulti­ scuffling into the principal’s office, ‘liberal’. In modern education, cal thinking to reflect on the pros­ mendation of liberal arts in the turned into heaven will surely mately left out, the Assam government is moving to set quarrelling and seeking her inter­ ‘liberal arts’ refers to undergrad­ pects of liberal training. The late draft NEP brought me back to the have to resolve the problem of up 200 Foreigners’ Tribunals to handle cases of people vention. On inquiry, one of them uate courses in America’s elite Professor Ravinder Kumar, an principal’s story about turning her fear, so endemic to our education to be excluded from the final NRC, as part of a large r said, “Ma’am, didn’t you say you private universities. For years, I eminent historian of modern polit­ school into heaven. The boy who system. The boy who wanted the plan to establish 1,000 such tribunals. The State go­ want our school to be like hea­ have been looking for a suitable ics, was a self­avowed liberal. I asked her about his classmate — principal to adjudicate was not vernment is also preparing to construct 10 more deten­ ven?” Then he pointed at the other term in my mother tongue, i.e. once heard him explain why liber­ “What is he doing here, Ma’am?” — afraid of indicating to her his own boy and asked, “What is he doing Hindi, to convey the many layers alism is the hardest social doctrine was asking a fundamental ques­ preferred solution. It was implied tion centres; six are now running out of district jails. here, Ma’am? He fights with me all of meaning underlying the word to practice. He said the capacity to tion pertinent to the future of lib­ in the question: ‘What is he doing A humanitarian crisis awaits Assam whether the final the time.” ‘liberal’. The common translation tolerate your adversaries, with cu­ eral values. The youngster’s query here?’ This stance also carries the NRC is published on July 31 or after. In the run­up to the This story came back to me is ‘udaar’ or large­hearted. (I am riosity to understand them, calls demonstrates that he has internal­ hope of impunity from being final publication, case after case has emerged of per­ when I started reading the section sure this is the term they will use for a mutual agreement. If there is ised the spirit of the age. Many charged of intolerance. As a sons wrongfully left out of the list. The process has left on higher education in the 480­ when the draft NEP is made availa­ no such consensus, i.e. liberal out­ children do that. Their questions grown­up he might say: ‘If we want no group out of its sweep, be it Marwaris or Biharis page draft of the National Educa­ ble in Hindi.) The idea of liberal­ look is practised by one side only, carry valuable material to under­ to preserve our neatly fenced hea­ from elsewhere in the country, people tracing their an­ tion Policy (NEP). I had completed ism as large­heartedness or intel­ it can be frustrating, and might stand our times better and more ven, why can’t we expel from it the tecedents to other Northeastern states, people of Nepa­ my reading of the section on lectual generosity ran into trouble even lead to a tragic failure of lib­ objectively than we might be able people we don’t appreciate?’ We school education, so I was ready to when ‘neo­liberalism’ gained eralism itself. When I hear about to do as adults, submerged as we might add: isn’t this already being li origin, and caste Hindu Assamese. The prime targets be told how a future generation centre­stage in economic policy. liberal arts courses being offered are in our ethos, feeling forced to argued in many liberal countries, of this exercise, however, are Hindu Bengalis and Ben­ that spends its school years under The only way one might notice in private universities, I often won­ cope with it. The boy’s query con­ so why should we hesitate? My gali­origin Muslims of Assam— more than 80% of the 4.1 the guidance of the proposed new some generosity in it was by recog­ der what future awaits them. How tained the hope that principal principal friend, however, fol­ million people named in the two lists belong to these policy will spend its college years. nising the state’s willingness to will they face a world in which the Ma’am, being the custodian of hea­ lowed her instinctive good sense two groups. Yet, the rationale of the Centre and State in For improvement in learning at loosen its grip. Neo­liberalism has ‘narrow domestic walls’ are rising ven, will exercise her authority to and sent the two boys away, asking seeking a deadline extension, as found in their submis­ school, the draft NEP wants criti­ now settled in, transcending ideo­ higher and higher? This metaphor adjudicate in his fight. What were them to talk it over and play with­ sions in the Supreme Court, betrays an exclusionary cal thinking and creativity to be logical boundaries, but its impact was used by Tagore, a bold liberal, her choices? There were mainly out a quarrel together. treated as the cornerstones of in­ on liberal arts education in Ameri­ who wanted India to become a two: to expel the alleged fighter or bias. The joint plea sought time to conduct a 20% sam­ tellectual development from early ca is far from clear. Many scholars ‘heaven of freedom’. ‘Where to ask the complainer to talk to his Krishna Kumar is a former director of the ple reverification process in districts bordering Bangla­ childhood onwards. As a term, have suggested that the turn to­ knowledge is free’, the same poem adversary. Only the latter would NCERT desh and 10% in the rest of the State to quell a “growing perception” that lakhs of illegal immigrants may have slipped into the list. This, despite the State NRC Coordi­ nator’s reports to the apex court suggesting that up to Green shoots of economic growth 27% of names have been reverified during the process of disposal of claims. It hasn’t helped that the Cen tral Without factoring in agriculture, the vision of a $5-trillion economy will remain a distant dream government keeps holding out the prospect of unleash­ policy regime in the past several fronts. There also needs to be a growth in non­agricultural sec­ ing a nationwide NRC to detect and deport illegal aliens, decades has resulted in sluggish centralised institutional mechan­ tors. Public investment in agricul­ when it has no index to base such an exercise on — the investment growth in the farm sec­ ism to help maintain farm level­da­ ture research and development in 1951 register was exclusive to Assam. The accent should tor. Therefore, strengthening the ta available for real time (virtual) terms of percentage share in agri sector with an enabling invest­ assessment, while also helping GVA stands at 0.37%, which is fair­ be on inclusion, not exclusion. The wheels of justice ment package (both public and plug the loopholes in subsidy dis­ ly low in comparison to between cannot pander to the suspicions of a vocal majority Naveen P. Singh & private) is critical. tribution, funding and unrealistic 3% and 5% in developed countries. without giving the excluded access to due process. Ranjith P.C. First, the wave of investment assumption in production estima­ Also, in real terms, current in­ should touch segments such as tion. This will help in effectively vestment can create an enabling

agro­processing, and exports, GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO implementing and monitoring va­ environment to route private in­ Unpresidential slant ndia’s dream of becoming a $5­ agri­startups and agri­tourism, sation and value addition. This rious schemes for a pragmatic vestment in R&D. Therefore, pu­ Trump’s racist tweets risk damaging trillion economy by 2024 is now where the potential for job crea­ would lead to a sustained increase food system. blic investment in agriculture Iin the open with a ‘blue sky’ vi­ tion and capacity utilisation is far in farm income and savings with It is widely accepted that re­ should see a commensurate rise the fabric of American society further sion envisaged in the Economic less. Integrating the existing tou­ an export­oriented growth model. source conservation comes with with a healthy mix of education, visceral debate on racism and immigration has Survey this year. The document rism circuit with a relatively new Fourth, investment in renewa­ behavioural change, which needs research and extension encourag­ again gripped the United States, after President lays down a clear strategy to aug­ area of agri­tourism (as a hub­and­ ble energy generation (using small dedicated investment in behaviou­ ing ‘blue­sky thinking’ in all seg­ Donald Trump attacked four Democratic Con­ ment the growth of key sectors by spoke model), where glimpses of wind mill and solar pumps) on fal­ ral farm research sets . Perhaps ments, while pushing for a target­ A shifting gears as the current eco­ farm staff and farm operations are low farmland and in hilly terrain this would help find a way to lever­ ed pruning of public expenditures gresswomen of colour, asking them to return to the “to­ nomic conditions are smooth in displayed to attract tourists, would would help reduce the burden of age nudge policies/choice archi­ on subsidies, kind transfers, loan tally broken and crime infested places from which they terms of macroeconomic stability help in boosting the investment debt­ridden electricity distribu­ tecture for resource conservation, waivers and populist measures. came”. His tweets raised a furore over their racist tenor to expand growth. However, un­ cycle and generate in­situ employ­ tion companies and State govern­ fertilizer use, irrigation and elec­ Agriculture and its allied sectors and exacerbated the sense of bitter polarisation, gi ven less there are adequate investment ment. ments, besides enabling energy tricity consumption. Above all, are believed to be one of the most the strident ongoing debate over Mr. Trump’s zero­tole­ reforms in primary sectors, steps Second, investment needs to be security in rural areas. there is a need to converge frag­ fertile grounds to help achieve the rance approach toward undocumented migration. The taken to augment growth in other driven to strengthen both public Fifth, a farm business organisa­ mented investments (public, priv­ ambitious Sustainable Develop­ House of Representatives, under Democratic control, sectors would be futile. and private extension advisory tion is another source of routing ate and foreign) to address the mental Goals (SDGs). However, systems and the quality of a gri­ private investment to agriculture. structural weaknesses in the agri­ with the current pace of agricul­ voted to condemn Mr. Trump’s remarksas racist, mark­ Investment is the key education and research through Linking these organisations with culture sector, enunciated in the ture growth, India requires ‘pa­ ing the first such reprimand of a sitting President in ov­ According to the Food and Agricul­ collaboration and convergence. It commodity exchanges would pro­ Economic Survey 2016­17. tient capital’, as financial returns er a century. Not only did that Congressional rebuke to ture Organisation (FAO), insuffi­ would also serve as a stage to de­ vide agriculture commodities to investment are unlikely to mate­ Mr. Trump pass mostly along partisan lines, by a vote of cient investment in the agriculture monstrate resource conservation more space on international trad­ Trickle­down effect rialise in the initial years. An inclu­ 240 to 187, but other senior Republicans including S e­ sector in most developing coun­ and sustainable use through or­ ing platforms and reduce the bur­ Though economic transition has sive business model facilitating nate majority leader Mitch McConnell defended the tries over the past 30 years has re­ ganic, natural and green methods, den of markets in a glut season, seen significant growth contribu­ strong investor­farmer relations President against the racist label. Nevertheless, Mr. sulted in low productivity and and also zero budget natural farm­ with certain policy/procedural tion from services and industry, should be created, with a legal and Trump hit back again at the four Congresswomen — stagnant production. ing. modifications. agriculture remains the most trust­ institutional framework for gover­ In India, with a steadily decreas­ Third, given that India has the ed sector in helping alleviate po­ nance. Expanding institutions is who have adopted the moniker “the Squad” — on Twit­ ing share of 14.4% in Gross Value highest livestock population in the Pivotal role for data verty, hunger and malnutrition essential to accommodate the de­ ter for what he called their “horrible and disgusting ac­ Added since 2015­16, the sector’s world, investment should be made Finally, data is the key driver of and ensuring better income velopmental impacts of foreign tions”, “racist hatred”, and for being “anti­America”, contribution to a $5­trillion econo­ to utilise this surplus by employing modern agriculture which in turn distribution. agricultural investment. “anti­Semitic”, and possibly communist sympathisers. my would be around $1 trillion — next­generation livestock technol­ can power artificial intelligence­ An earlier experience of BRIC Stepping back from the immediate, acerbic terms of assuming a positive annual growth ogy with a strong emphasis not on­ led agriculture, e­markets, soil (Brazil, Russia, India and China) Naveen P. Singh and Ranjith P.C. are with this exchange, the bigger concern is that these hate ful rate hereafter. ly on productivity enhancement mapping and others. Currently, nations has shown that a 1% the ICAR-National Institute of comments risk damaging the fabric of American socie­ Investment is the key to unlock­ but also on conservation of indige­ there are issues of enumeration, growth in agriculture is at least Agricultural Economics and Policy ing the potential of a developing nous germplasm, disease surveil­ maintenance and accessibility to two to three times more effective Research, New Delhi. The views expressed ty further, as they are an unmistakable and painful hint economy. However, the myopic lance, quality control, waste utili­ help maintain agri­data on various in reducing poverty than similar are personal from their President that legal immigrants, especially people of colour, are not welcome. Yet, there can be no denying the significance of immigrants as a demograph­ LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. ic cohort of the country. More than 44.5 million imm i­ grants, at least 13.7% of the overall population, reside in Betrayal of verdict would ensure that the of legislators with criminal construed as an indictment that more than 70 years protecting national security the U.S.; one in seven U.S. residents is foreign­born. The political conundrum in mandate given to a party is records vindicates this point of Islamabad’s military since India’s Independence, are open knowledge Mexicans, Indians and Chinese immigrants are respec­ Karnataka, and the apex not sabotaged by individual (Parley, “Does the anti­ courts and its system of the state is deploying it not (Editorial page, “OIC’s tively the largest sub­groups within this cohort. It was court’s reaction to it, come politicians and also save the defection law serve any dispensing rough­and­ready just to settle political scores curious record on Xinjiang,” as a disappointment to the expenditure incurred in purpose?” July 19). justice. but also to silence journalists July 19). The writer’s little surprise then, that Ilhan Omar, one of Mr. Trump’s State’s electorate (Front conducting bypolls. The Karnataka crisis has However, though the ICJ has when they report on issues observations on how targets, situated the comments in the agenda of white page, “Karnataka CM asked B. Sundar Raman, turned into a street­fight with halted Mr. Jadhav’s execution like the Maoist insurgency countries in the Organisation nationalism, arguing that given the direct contraven­ to prove majority on Coimbatore legislators switching sides pending a review of his trial, and communal violence of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) tion of U.S. constitutional values implied, it was time to Friday,” July 19). Legislators and throwing barbs at each it has not entertained India’s (Editorial, “Sword against work may have some consider impeaching him. Yet impeachment would be get elected because of the ■ The anti­defection law has other. The parties care less request for either his pen,” July 18). The sedition substance but it won’t be an option only if the Senate were also to come under backing of their party and been often misused by some about what the people what; acquittal or a retrial in provision is not just an appreciable for India to Democratic control, or if there might be some conceiv­ voters choose a party more legislators to suit their winning the crown is all that civilian courts. The anachronism in the indulge in ‘whataboutery’. than the candidate. Hence, unethical and immoral matters to them. The international court did not democratic set­up of the The OIC’s silence on able reason why Republicans would break with their re­ it is unethical for MLAs to political intentions. However, Supreme Court’s bizarre have the jurisdiction to rule country, it also runs counter restrictions in Xinjiang cent record of siding with Mr. Trump no matter how switch loyalties midway deleting the 10th Schedule verdict on the rebel MLAs on such matters. Both the to the freedom of speech and doesn’t absolve India of its egregious his conduct. A more tedious, but deep­root ­ into a term. To pre­empt will amount to throwing out has only come as the cherry the countries must now expression enshrined in own responsibilities. If New ed approach would be for liberals of all hues to engage such crises, the the baby with the bathwater. on the cake. The common move forward and pursue Article 19 1(a) of the Delhi wants to get more in a meaningful dialogue with their conservative de­ Representation of People Also, the suggestion that man is left scratching his diplomatic channels to bring Constitution. It is high time respect in the international tractors, over what they could agree on as a common Act should be amended and legislators who act in head in bafflement. closure to the case. the government of the day arena, it needs to raise the minimum agenda and values that could anchor their the new rule should unscrupulous ways should A.V.S. Shubhangi, K.S. Jayatheertha, abrogates the provision. bar when it comes to stipulate that once a be voted out in subsequent Bengaluru Bengaluru Vijay Singh Adhikari, protecting the human rights nation’s march into the 21st century. If a nationwide candidate gets elected from elections may not work in Nainital, Uttarakhand of all its citizens and conversation of this sort, aimed at discovering a reason­ a given party’s ticket, his India as polls are fought not ICJ reprieve Abolish sedition law residents. able middle ground is not undertaken, the very idea of resignation, stepping down on the merits of a candidate The International Court of Section 124A of the IPC, Violation of rights Bitra Raghuveer, the American dream, of a meritocracy built on harness­ or demise will result in the but on extraneous factors Justice’s directive to Pakistan introduced by the British to The Indian state’s violations Mangalagiri, Andhra Pradesh ing talent from around the world, will unravel fast. party nominating a like caste and money power. to reconsider the case of curb dissent, is a draconian of human rights in Jammu more letters online: different member. This The ever­increasing numbers Kulbhushan Jadhav can be provision. 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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 GROUND ZERO 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Ecstasy and the agony The small town of Aluva in Kerala is emerging as a hub for narcotic traffic and use. The State is stepping up its efforts to curb the problem, but easy availability and access to drugs is spurring the trade, reports M.P. Praveen

“Stringent laws and severe punishment do not seem to have worked as a deterrent for peddlers.” * THULASI KAKKAT

ressed in a grey shirt and black ment work. transforming into a transit point, a cog dence to that effect. The advent of boot­ <> Earlier, I could not smile, enjoy trousers, Amal*, 21, walks into Two months into Operation Mon­ in the wider scheme of international legging and consequential law and or­ jokes, or have a normal Dthe room with a big smile. No soon, excise officials conducted an drug cartels. der problems in America in the conversation. I was in a one would be able to guess that he was awareness session at a school in Aluva The anti­narcotics squads have also aftermath of prohibition is a classic different world. I could beat locked up in a drug rehabilitation centre when a section of students tipped them noticed a unique but disturbing trend in case,” he says. anyone to pulp and feel in Muvattupuzha in eastern Ernakulam off about an ice­cream vendor who sold the State where abusers double up as By the time the decision to close nothing about it. I feel more for over a fortnight. Amal was acquaint­ toffees to senior students. The sleuths carriers. And this is forcing the squads down bars was reversed by the new go­ ed with drugs when he was just 13 years sent a student to purchase toffee, sold in to keep a tab on youngsters commuting vernment in 2016, drug peddlers had human now (after rehab). old. He was in danger of “losing his the range of ₹30 to ₹50. The toffee between Kochi and places like Bengalu­ spread their tentacles far and wide. Amal Manjali resident mind”, he says, before he controlled his turned out to be ganja parcelled in ru and Goa. “A sense of adventure gets impulses in order to get his life back on wrappers. The seller had purchased the the better of many youngsters when A long journey to de-addiction cial quantity, and anyone found pos­ track. Gentle prodding by the excise of­ wrappers in bulk from Tamil Nadu. they are away from home. They try out At the rehabilitation centres, counsel­ sessing that much even inadvertently or ficials who had nabbed him as well as “Aluva is perhaps ideally located for drugs thinking it’s going to be a one­ lors have a tough time dealing with the out of ignorance lands up behind the his mother’s tears paved the way for his transporting, storing and supplying the time thing, but soon find themselves addicts. “In most cases involving ganja, bars for years,” says M. Revi Krishnan, a rehabilitation. contraband across the district,” says To­ linked to the rackets as the trade fetches the users gather a lot of wrong informa­ lawyer in the Kerala High Court. “The Amal looks composed. “It feels like my. easy money,” says a squad member. tion on the perceived benefits of canna­ statute is rigorous. With the judiciary al­ waking up from a nightmare,” he says. From Aluva, the shadowy network bis. Ganja is found to be the most com­ so taking a serious note of the drug me­ “Earlier, I could not smile, enjoy jokes, has cast its spell over Kochi. Former Ex­ Spike in cases mon gateway to synthetic drugs and nace, even procedural lapses are not ta­ or have a normal conversation. I was in cise Commissioner Rishi Raj Singh had The number of narcotic cases registered intravenous (IV) drug abuse using stuff ken as a ground for bail,” he adds. a different world. I could beat anyone to warned a few years ago that Kochi in Kerala by the Excise Department like Buprenorphine. Once people reach pulp and feel nothing about it. I feel would become home to the second big­ alone spiked from 2,033 in 2016 to 5,946 that stage, chances of recovery are very State-led initiatives more human now.” gest community of drug addicts after in 2017 and 7,573 (nearly 1,000 in Ernak­ remote,” says Faris Basheer, Medical Of­ Efforts are under way at various levels While his little hamlet Manjali in Er­ Amritsar. He wasn’t completely off the ulam district alone) in 2018. In the first ficer at the Vimukthi de­addiction to deal with the crisis. Student Police nakulam district is famous for its halwa mark. five months of 2019, 3,316 cases were re­ centre run by the Excise Department at Cadet, a novel initiative of the Kerala and biryani, it was ganja that Amal fell Despite the spike in demand for de­ gistered, of which Ernakulam accounts Muvattupuzha. police, has emerged as an effective tool in love with as a teenager, influenced by The theory for long has been signer drugs, ganja continues to have a for 421. The figure has already sur­ Set up six months ago, the centre has in countering the problem. There are his peers. “But I never got addicted to it. <> stranglehold over drug abusers — per­ passed the total number of cases for the so far treated 462 outpatients and 62 in­ about 60,000 student police cadets that youngsters with The ganja that we get here is of low qual­ haps because it is cheap and readily whole of 2016. patients. The Vimukthi de­addiction across school campuses in the State and ity. Once, during an online chat, a emotional problems and from available. “Ganja largely comes from the The police registered 6,501 narcotic centres are manned by a psychiatrist­ one of their major tasks is to ensure that friend and I shared some pictures of the dysfunctional families are Naxal­infested areas of Andhra Pradesh, cases in 2016, 9,359 cases in 2017, 9,521 social worker, a medical officer, a psy­ the immediate vicinity of their schools grass we smoked. And he snubbed me most vulnerable to drugs. Now Chhattisgarh and Odisha. This is where in 2018, and 3,970 cases till May this chologist, a counsellor and three nurs­ is tobacco­free. These cadets also pass for savouring trash,” he says. youngsters from perfectly a few ganja farmers from Idukki district year. The volume of ganja seized by the ing and security staff each. The centres on information about substance abuse Like several others, Amal went on to normal families are also have migrated and it is from these plac­ Excise Department for the correspond­ follow a protocol starting with detoxifi­ among their peers to teachers to ensure trade ganja for headier stuff, all because turning to drugs solely for es it is smuggled in via Namakkal, Cum­ ing periods stood at 502 kg, 1,333 kg, cation of victims, a personality study timely, corrective intervention. of a friend who was into “real stuff” and recreational purposes. bum and Theni in Tamil Nadu. A colony 1,885 kg, and 1,365 kg. Seizure of hash­ and motivational sessions leading to Besides, a campaign named Our Res­ kept the source of his supply close to his C.J. John named Uthamapuram, located between ish dropped from 10.79 kg in 2016 to eventual rehabilitation and main­ ponsibility to Children, run by the State chest. Soon, Amal was catapulted to a Psychiatrist Namakkal and Cumbum, is notorious 1.98 kg in 2017 before soaring to 65.94 streaming during a three­week­long Police and the Women and Child Deve­ life of perpetual high, riding on a cock­ for ganja trade but remains out of kg in 2018 and 40 kg till May this year. stay, free of cost. lopment Department, is under way for tail of meth, MDMA, and LSD. use. Easy availability of drugs, peer pa­ bounds for enforcement agencies,” says The most perceptible rise was in the Psychiatrist C.J. John, who has over early detection of children vulnerable His family, comprising an indifferent tronage, mobile phone­aided access to T.A. Ashok Kumar, Assistant Excise seizure of Nitrazepam tablets — from the years dealt with several drug abuse to drugs. Under the programme, 15,000 father, clueless mother and a younger dope networks, and lack of care from fa­ Commissioner (Enforcement). 1,500 tablets in 2016, it rose to 7,800 in victims from all age groups and family teachers have been trained to detect po­ brother, had known that something was mily or society are egging on the trade. The business model for ganja is sim­ 2017, 10,700 in 2018, and 3,100 in 2019. backgrounds, says that there is a new tential victims early on, intervene amiss with him. But it took his mother The users are mostly students who are ple. A couple of kilograms for a few “The seizures account for just a frac­ trend among the youth. “The theory for where correction is needed, and ensure time to find out what was going on. barely out of school and college. thousand rupees are smuggled in, split tion of the drugs smuggled in,” says Sam long has been that youngsters with their integration into the mainstream. Vishal*, 19, was on the verge of de­ “It was after considering the vulnera­ into numerous small packets, and mar­ Christy Daniel, State Additional Excise emotional problems and from dysfunc­ Over 100 psychiatrists and psycholo­ pression at 15 when his learning disabil­ bility of these students that we began keted under the brand name, Idukki Commissioner (Enforcement). “The tional families are most vulnerable to gists and 2,000­odd social mentors are ity isolated him from his competitive two enforcement drives in Aluva: Oper­ Gold, to leverage the popular percep­ apex court decree that the informant drugs. While that theory still holds wa­ also associated with the programme. peers. At his school in suburban Ernak­ ation Holiday with a focus on students tion that ganja from Idukki is the best, and the investigation officer should not ter, a new tendency seems to be on the Then there is Hope, a programme in­ ulam, neither his teachers nor his peers who stayed back in hostels during the says Kumar. be the same person has further dented rise where youngsters from perfectly troduced a couple of years ago, which is came to his rescue. His aloofness, ho­ summer vacation, and Operation Mon­ Vying with ganja in terms of volume the enforcement drive of the Excise De­ normal families are turning to drugs aimed at extending academic and ca­ wever, attracted the attention of a ped­ soon to sensitise newcomers at the start are the Nitrazepam tablets. These are partment which is already affected by solely for recreational purposes. As we reer support to students who failed to dler who introduced him to ganja. By of the new academic year,” says K. smuggled from Tamil Nadu and Karna­ manpower shortage. The enforcement focus more on treatment and rehabilita­ clear the 10th standard exam. “You can the time his dependence on drugs was Chandrapalan, Deputy Excise Commis­ taka where they can be bought from wing of the Excise Department is res­ tion, the most critical area of early de­ imagine the state of mind of these stu­ detected by the family, Vishal had be­ sioner, Ernakulam district. medical shops without a prescription. A tricted to 58 circle inspectors and 14 De­ tection is often overlooked,” he says. He dents. They are the most vulnerable as come an addict. He went through a de­ ‘Sniffer Sheikh’, a well­known sup­ strip of Nitrazepam tablets bought for puty Excise Commissioners for 138 ex­ says there is a need for an enforcement they crave for acceptance. This makes addiction routine, which proved futile. plier of Nitrazepam tablets to the stu­ around ₹40 is sold for as high as ₹500 cise range offices across the State.” protocol in dealing with the youth them perfect targets for anti­social ele­ But four years since his first experience dents of a college in Aluva, was caught making it a highly lucrative business While contraband drugs always had caught in drug trade so that they are not ments and drug networks,” says P. Vi­ with ganja, Vishal is slowly piecing to­ during Operation Holiday. Nitrazepam proposition, Kumar says. their presence in the State, the prolifer­ stigmatised for the rest of their lives. jayan, Inspector General of Police (Ad­ gether his life. A bad accident which is a psychotropic drug prescribed for There are other types of drugs too. ation of narcotic drugs and psychotrop­ Stringent laws and severe punish­ ministration), Police Headquarters. confined him to bed for about three anxiety and insomnia, but is a hit Early this year, an excise squad in Er­ ic substance cases is attributed by large ment do not seem to have worked as a School Protection Groups operated months was what finally pulled him among the youth. nakulam made arguably the biggest­ev­ sections to the previous government’s deterrent for peddlers. The Narcotic jointly by the Education, Police and Ex­ away from the clutch of drugs. “He had thick, lustrous hair and a fe­ er haul of hashish in Kerala. Over six ki­ decision to close down bar hotels below Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act cise departments and ward­level Vi­ minine face. He used to cleverly use that los of hashish valued at ₹13 crore in the the four­star category towards the end has two schedules dealing with narcot­ mukthi Senas with five volunteers each An emerging hub for narcotics to enter girls’ hostels too. He ran a well­ market were seized from a man who of its term in 2015. ics drugs and psychotropic substances. are some of the other initiatives being It is hardly a coincidence that Amal and entrenched network assisted by four used to smuggle the substance from Ne­ Constitutional expert Sebastian Paul The punishment varies with the kind of tried out by the State to keep its younger Vishal hail from places near Aluva, aides for the State­wide supply of Nitra­ pal via Uttar Pradesh. thinks that the growing menace of drugs drug and the quantity of seizure. “It is generation away from drugs. which is to the north of Kochi in Kerala. zepam tablets which he sourced in bulk In September last, 30 kg of MDMA, al­ is a fallout of the liquor ban. “Enforcing only in the case of contraband drugs The number of addicts and seizure of Located on the banks of the Periyar riv­ from neighbouring States,” says N.D. To­ so known as Ecstasy, worth around prohibition without laying the ground­ like ganja that less than one kg is treated drugs shows that it requires sustained er, the town is in the news almost every my, a Civil Excise Officer who was part ₹200 crore, was seized after it landed at work will not only lead to its failure but as a small quantity and bail is granted. efforts to curb the new scourge. other day for its unenviable profile as an of the drive and was awarded by the Ex­ a courier company in Kochi from Chen­ give rise to other more serious societal As for psychotropic drugs, even a few emerging hub for narcotics traffic and cise Minister for exemplary enforce­ nai while on way to Malaysia. Aluva is problems. History is replete with evi­ milligrams are considered the commer­ *Names have been changed to protect identities

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FROM PAGE ONE Discuss Bills to help transgenders, Karnataka in Congress alleges plot Confidence vote to LS: Danish Ali depositors introduced Ruckus prevents debate in Lok Sabha be held on Monday Special Correspondent against Karnataka govt. NEW DELHI SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Bill gives a person the right While the Governor’s first and circumstances convey Bahujan Samaj Party MP MPs protest after Speaker disallows discussion on issue NEW DELHI to choose to be identified as letter to the Chief Minister “a very sorry state of af­ Kunwar Danish Ali has de­ A new Bill that seeks to em­ a man, woman or transgen­ sent on Thursday had set fairs.” manded that the events un­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT larly, every Assembly and its power the transgender com­ der, irrespective of sex reas­ 1.30 p.m. on Friday as the However, the debate folding in Karnataka and NEW DELHI Speaker has its own autono­ munity and another legisla­ signment surgery and hor­ deadline to prove his major­ through the day in the inside the Assembly be dis­ The political turmoil in Kar­ my,” Mr. Chowdhury said. tion to crack down on Ponzi monal therapy. ity, the strongly­worded se­ House was around the Go­ cussed in the Lok Sabha as nataka was raised in the Lok He said what was happen­ schemes were introduced in cond one gave him time till vernor’s right to set dea­ they concerned “the inde­ Sabha on Friday with Con­ ing in Karnataka was a the Lok Sabha on Friday Clause dropped the end of the day. The Go­ dlines when the process of pendence of the gress members repeatedly “threat to the independence amid protests from Opposi­ While the legislation pro­ vernor had also sent a com­ trust vote is under way in legislature”. raising slogans against the of legislature and democracy tion members over the Kar­ vides for a person to go muniqué to the Speaker the the House. The Chief Minis­ Mr. Ali, who was pre­ BJP for “conspiring” to bring is being killed in the State”. nataka political turmoil. through a district screening previous day stating he de­ ter took exception to the let­ viously with the Janata Dal down the Congress­Janata As soon as the Lower The Transgender Persons committee and the district sires a floor test by the end ter and said, “The Governor (S), is considered one of Dal (Secular) government in House began proceedings, (Protection of Rights) Bill, magistrate to get certified as of Thursday. cannot act as an ombud­ the architects of the Con­ the State. Congress members wanted 2019, introduced by Social a transgender, a contentious In his second letter to the sman of the legislature.” He gress­JD(S) coalition in Leader of the Congress in to talk about the situation in Justice and Empowerment provision that criminalised Chief Minister, the Governor said that he was “pained by Karnataka. the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Karnataka, but the Speaker Minister Thawarchand Geh­ begging by transgenders has What is happening expressed suspicion that the second love letter from Speaking to The Hindu, Chowdhury wanted to raise <> did not entertain the re­ lot, provides a mechanism been dropped. The Trans­ in Karnataka is a “detailed debates and dis­ the Governor.” Mr. Ali also demanded a re­ objection regarding the Kar­ quest. This prompted Con­ to empower the transgen­ gender Bill had been intro­ cussions appear to be mere­ Rural Development Mi­ look into the anti­defection nataka Governor issuing di­ threat to the gress and DMK MPs to troop der community socially and duced in the 16th Lok Sabha ly to delay the floor test.” nister Krishna Byre Gowda Law and the 10th Schedule rections to the Speaker, and independence of to the Well of the House. economically, along with but had lapsed. He said, “I am receiving said the Governor could not of the Constitution. alleged that the BJP was con­ legislature Over 30 members from their educational The Banning of Unregu­ various reports about the at­ set deadlines once the Chief “What is happening in spiring to bring down go­ Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury the Congress, DMK and a few advancement. lated Deposit Schemes Bill, tempts being made for Minister has moved the con­ Karnataka is a farce. If one vernments in States where Congress leader in LS other parties were in the Though Lok Sabha Speak­ 2019, will replace an ordi­ horse­trading. This can be fidence motion and accused buys MLAs wholesale, it’s Opposition parties were in Well for over 15 minutes with er Om Birla called out the nance. It seeks to help crack averted only and only if the the BJP of “misusing” Con­ not defection, retail shop­ power. Constitutional post. some members displaying name of the Congress’s down on illicit deposit tak­ exercise of conducting floor stitutional offices, amid ping of MLAs or if one Speaker Om Birla allowed “Sir, suppose the Presi­ placards, saying “Save Shashi Tharoor, he could ing activities exploiting reg­ test is conducted at the ear­ shouts of “Go back Gover­ switches allegiance be­ Mr. Chowdhury to raise the dent of India issues a direc­ democracy”. not speak as members from ulatory gaps and lack of liest and without any delay.” nor” from the treasury comes defection. It’s a issue in the House, but made tive to you and tells you ‘this Opposition MPs, many his party were protesting ov­ strict measures to dupe He added that these facts benches. mockery of the 10th Sche­ it clear he could not speak won’t happen or this will first­timers among them, er the Karnataka political poor and gullible people. Fi­ dule of the Constitution,” about any Assembly or the happen’, you will not like it were heard shouting “We crisis. nance Minister Nirmala Sith­ he said. person who was sitting in a as you have autonomy. Simi­ want justice” slogans. The Transgender Persons araman introduced the Bill. JD(S), Congress move BJP MP’s Supreme Court Drug haul unveils unique smuggling strategy proposal gets Both Mr. Kumaraswamy and and the trust vote should be the Congress, through its held before 1:30 pm on Five arrested, heroin worth ₹600 crore seized in late­night raid by Delhi police RS support State president Dinesh Gun­ 19.07.2019”. The applica­ du Rao, sought a clarifica­ tion, filed by advocate Sunil Hemani Bhandari that the convoy would as­ luxury cars and 40 mobile Special Correspondent tion from the court on its Ju­ Fernandes, said, “It is res­ New Delhi semble near Ashram flyov­ phones were recovered in NEW DELHI ly 17 order allowing 15 pectfully submitted that no A unique modus operandi er around 12.30 a.m. on the raid. Members of the Rajya Sab­ dissident MLAs liberty to such direction could have of smuggling heroin into Thursday, a trap was laid “The mobile phones ha on Friday welcomed a opt out of the Assembly been issued by the Hon’ble the country has come to and two cars intercepted were disposed of after deliv­ resolution moved by BJP session. Governor when the confi­ light following a Delhi pol­ with Deepak and Raees in ery of each consignment,” member Vijay Pal Singh To­ They said this freedom dence motion has already ice crackdown on an inter­ them. Sixty kilos of heroin said an officer. mar, seeking the setting up worked to whittle down the been initiated. The debates national drug syndicate op­ were recovered from a cavi­ of a National Farmers’ constitutional right of the on the motion are currently erating in the Capital. ty between the back seat Spice trade Commission with constitu­ parties to issue whip against ongoing and the House is in Deputy Commissioner of and the boot of the two During interrogation, the tional status. However, he them. It was also in the teeth session. The Speaker has Police (Special Cell) Manishi cars, the police said. accused confessed to taking withdrew it following the of the Tenth Schedule (anti­ opined that the Division will Chandra said five persons, advantage of the spice trade government’s assurance defection law) of the Consti­ take place only at the end of including two Afghan na­ Processing unit between India and Afghan­ that all possible steps were tution, they noted. the debate.” tionals, have been arrested The duo allegedly told the istan, said the police. being taken for the farm­ In his five­page applica­ Notwithstanding the first and 150 kg of Afghan heroin police about a three­storey The jute sacks, once ers’ welfare. tion, Mr. Kumaraswamy communication, the Gover­ worth ₹600 crore in the in­ The police seized 150 kilos of Afghan heroin from the building in Zakir Nagar empty, were picked up Mr. Tomar sought an in­ complained that the Gover­ nor sent a second one. This ternational market reco­ possession of the five accused. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT where the processing unit from the mandis by gang crease in the funds provid­ nor sent his first communi­ time, he demanded that the vered from their was being set up. “A raid members and brought to ed to farmers under the Ki­ cation on July 18 “directing trust vote be held at 6 p.m. possession. mat Gul (30) and Akhtar months ago regarding a was conducted and the two the processing unit, where san Samman Nidhi scheme that the confidence motion on Friday. Mohammad Shinwari (31), convoy of luxury cars mov­ Afghan nationals were ar­ they were put in chemicals from ₹6,000 a year to Heroin-soaked sacks both residents of Afghanis­ ing late at night in the con­ rested from the building,” and the heroin extracted. ₹10,000 a year till the time The five men were allegedly tan’s Jalalabad, Vakeel gested area at intervals of Mr. Chandra said. The narcotic was then farming turned remunera­ extracting the narcotic Ahmed (36) and Raees 10­15 days. He added that another packed and transported tive. He urged the govern­ SC questions need for from jute sacks soaked in Khan (43) from Delhi and consignment of 60 kg of he­ across the country, espe­ ment to educate farmers heroin­laden solution, Dheeraj alias Deepak (21) Cars intercepted roin was recovered from cially to Punjab, and also to on the latest technologies dried and packed with spic­ from Faridabad. Stepped­up surveillance re­ the place. Vakeel was ar­ Sri Lanka, the police said. and ensure proper imple­ NRC reverification es to be transported to In­ A senior police officer vealed that the convoy was rested from the spot with The Indian mastermind mentation of the crop insu­ dia from Afghanistan, the said the syndicate was bust­ transporting drugs and a another 30 kg of heroin of the syndicate has been rance scheme . Member “Mr. Hajela’s report says not truly reflect the reality police said. ed after a tip­off from a Spe­ heroin processing unit was which he was loading in his identified and a search Sukhendu Sekhar Ray while disposing of claims, on the ground. “ They must The accused have been cial Cell officer living in dis­ possibly being set up. car, the police said. launched for him, the pol­ raised the issue of farmers’ 80 lakh names have been re­ have done excellent work, identified as Shinwari Reh­ guise in Jamia Nagar a few Based on a specific input Pistols, cartridges, four ice added. land being grabbed. verified. That means at least but mistakes have crept in. 27% of names have been re­ The quantum of people in­ verified, and you are asking cluded in certain areas is ‘Scheme for for 20%... So, is there need more... Wrongful inclusions Lok Sabha clears Bill for a sample reverification? are manifold in the border­ Five more hectic days If we are satisfied that verifi­ ing districts, lakhs of illegal minorities a cation has been done pro­ immigrants have been in­ on NHRC constitution perly, then there is no need cluded in the draft NRC list. non­starter’ for a sample reverification, The problem in the border for govt. in Parliament isn’t it,” Chief Justice of In­ districts is more,” he sub­ Special Correspondent Piecemeal and cosmetic, says Tharoor dia Ranjan Gogoi, who is ac­ mitted. He said the wrongful New Delhi companied by Justice Rohin­ inclusions may be because Prime Minister Narendra It plans to introduce 13 Bills and take up talaq ordinance Special Correspondent NEW DELHI ton Nariman on the Special local officers were used in Modi’s 15­point pro­ Bench, told Solicitor Gener­ the NRC process. gramme for minorities is a Special Correspondent which was cleared by the The Lok Sabha on Friday al Tushar Mehta, appearing The Bench adjourned the complete “non­starter”, New Delhi Lok Sabha on Thursday. passed the Protection of Hu­ for both Assam and the case to July 23. It asked Mr. said Samajwadi Party MP The last five working days of There is no clarity yet on man Rights (Amendment) Centre. Mehta to go through what Javed Ali Khan on Friday in the first session of the 17th whether the government Bill, 2019 by voice vote. Mr. Hajela had to say on the the Rajya Sabha. Lok Sabha is going to be jam­ will indeed extend the ses­ The Bill expedites the ‘Mistakes have crept in’ issue of reverification in his Mr. Khan said the moni­ packed with pending legisla­ sion. According to sources, process of appointment of Mr. Mehta said the findings reports to the Supreme toring committees that had tion as government plans to the Opposition is not on Chairperson and members in Mr. Hajela’s reports may Court on July 10 and 18. been set up from the dis­ introduce 13 Bills and take board as the session has of the National Human trict to Centre level had not up the triple talaq ordinance been on for nearly a month Rights Commission (NHRC) met in the last five years. amid speculation about ex­ now. and provides for, among “When I entered Rajya tending the session that others, including the chair­ Nityanand Rai speaking Dissent in Cong. over Sabha in 2014 I got a letter ends on July 26 to August 2. No scrutiny: Opposition persons of the National in the Lok Sabha. * PTI from the Minority Ministry Detailing the business for The Rajya Sabha has to The Opposition alleged that Commission for Backward appointing me as a mem­ next week, Minister of State debate and pass the Budget. none of the legislation had Classes, the National Com­ the government to bring a search for party chief ber of the monitoring com­ for Parliamentary Affairs V. passed the scrutiny of stand­ mission for the Protection of fresh one. He said the Bill mittee for my district. I Muraleedharan told the Ra­ are pending ordinances ing committees as the panels Child Rights and the Chief was “piecemeal and A group, that includes both of selecting the new presi­ have not been invited even jya Sabha that the govern­ such as the Muslim Women had not been formed yet. Commissioner for Persons cosmetic”. Lok Sabha MPs and party dent. once in these years for the ment planned to move 13 (Protection of Rights on Mar­ “Except the Motor Vehicles with Disabilities as mem­ Mr. Tharoor alleged that functionaries, has decided Rahul Gandhi resigned as meeting,” he said during Bills in the Lok Sabha, which riage) Ordinance, 2019 that Bill, none of the Bills has bers of the NHRC. human rights were being that once the Karnataka pol­ party president on May 24, the zero hour and demand­ would go to the Upper needed to be taken up. The been scrutinised ,” Trina­ In his reply in the House, violated in the detention tri­ itical crisis ends, a public during the CWC to discuss ed that the programme be House. Upper House also has to de­ mool Congress floor leader Minister of State for Home bunals in Assam over the battle will be mounted to the Lok Sabha election re­ scrapped. Other than these, there bate and pass the Budget, Derek O’Brien said. Nityanand Rai said the go­ National Register of Citi­ raise the demand for fresh sults. More than a month la­ vernment was sensitive to zens, and said that 57 peo­ elections to the CWC. “The ter, on July 3, he wrote an the rights of humanity and ple committed suicide after delay is hurting us as the open letter calling an end to was committed to streng­ failing to produce citizen­ Congress president’s chair speculation that he may thening the commission. ship documents. has not been vacant for so want to continue. SC extends tenure of Babri case judge BJP MP and former Mum­ long in the past,” another Promises transparency bai Police Commissioner Sa­ MP said. Two MPs from LS He sought more time to conclude trial of Masjid demolition, conspiracy cases “With this Bill, every section tya Pal Singh alleged that The group has both elect­ Till now, the process of con­ of society has now received human rights activists often ed members as well as se­ sultations to bring in a new Legal Correspondent Parivar leaders such as L.K. tion of India have allegedly rivar leaders of having given representation. We are a go­ targeted the police and go­ New Delhi nior Congress functionar­ regime has been limited to Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi been committed almost 25 speeches to promote enmity vernment that stands for the vernment institutions and ies, a source said. the CWC. A Supreme Court Bench led and Uma Bharti in connec­ years ago” in a 40­page and threatened national human rights of victims not take foreign funding. “They The last time Congress Together with 24 mem­ by Justice Rohinton Nariman tion with the demolition of judgment. integration. of terrorists and perpetra­ never speak against terro­ saw a contest for the post of bers, 19 permanent invitees extended the tenure of the the 16th century mosque on With the clubbing of the tors of sexual crime. The rists, they will never speak president was in October and 10 special invitees, the Special Judge conducting the December 6, 1992. Rae Bareilly case cases and revival of the con­ amendment will ensure against Naxals,” he said. 2000 when Jitendra Prasada CWC has 53 persons. joint trial of the Babri Masjid The court evoked the In 2017, the Supreme Court spiracy charge, the accused transparency in the ap­ Mr. Singh’s comments stood against present Unit­ There are only two Lok demolition and criminal maxim ‘Let justice be done transferred the Rae Bareilly political leaders would be pointment of chairman and that he believed Indians ed Progressive Alliance Sabha MPs in the commit­ conspiracy cases. though the heavens fall’ to case, languishing in a magis­ tried under the composite members of the commission were descendants of great chairperson Sonia Gandhi. tee. CWC members were The judge, who was sche­ flex its extraordinary consti­ trate court, to the CBI court charge sheet filed by the CBI and will help fill all the va­ sages (rishis), and not mon­ Ms. Gandhi was contesting asked for their preference duled to retire on September tutional powers under Arti­ in Lucknow for trial along on October 5, 1993. The cancies,” he said. keys, drew sharp criticism. for the president’s post for for the president’s post, and 30, had sought more time to cle 142 of the Constitution to with the Lucknow case, Bench agreed with the char­ The debate witnessed “My ancestors are not the first time. Of the 12,000 it was decided that based on complete the trial. bring the cases to justice. It which is against “lakhs of un­ gesheet’s finding that both sharp exchanges between any rishis. And I was born votes cast, Mr. Prasada se­ these deliberations, a meet­ On April 19, 2017, the apex extolled its “power, nay, the known kar sevaks” and deals the criminal conspiracy by the Opposition and Treasu­ out of Sudras ... We are here cured less than 1,000 votes ing of the committee will be court gave the judge two duty to do complete justice with the actual act of demoli­ the leaders and the actual ry benches. because of the fight of social at the time. called to pick a provisional years to complete the trial af­ in a case when found neces­ tion and violence. It was be­ demolition by kar sevaks Congress leader Shashi justice system,” DMK leader Because of the situation president, who will then ter reviving the criminal con­ sary. In the present case, ing investigated by the CBI. were part of the “same tran­ Tharoor, initiating the de­ Kanimozhi said, and urged in Karnataka, the Congress chair the elections for a new spiracy charge against pro­ crimes which shake the sec­ The Rae Bareilly case ac­ saction” and warranted a bate, said there were several the House to uphold scien­ has put on hold the process president. minent BJP and Sangh ular fabric of the Constitu­ cuses the BJP and Sangh Pa­ joint trial. gaps in the Bill, and asked tific temperament.

CM M ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Three killed in Bihar over ‘buffalo theft’ RTI Bill introduced

Police detain two M an dies after being amid Opposition flak thrashed in Rajasthan for interrogation; JAIPUR kin of victims A 28­year­old Dalit man died Centre to set service terms of panel after allegedly being Radha Mohan Singh to deny charge thrashed by a mob at Phalsa SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT head panel on BJP polls village, near Bhiwadi, in NEW DELHI NEW DELHI Press Trust of India Rajasthan’s Alwar district BJP president Amit Shah on Amid protests by the Oppo­ Chapra following a road accident in sition parties, a Bill to Friday named party veteran which his motorcycle hit an Three people were beaten to amend the Right to Informa­ Radha Mohan Singh head of elderly woman. The injured death by a mob in Saran dis­ tion (RTI) Act and give the the BJP’s organisational woman’s relatives and elections panel to put a new trict of Bihar on Friday, alleg­ villagers allegedly thrashed Union government the pow­ president in place. The ing that they attempted to Harish Jatav and fled, after er to set the service condi­ elections are expected to steal a buffalo, the police which he was taken to tions and salaries of Infor­ conclude in December. Mr. said. The families of the vic­ hospital. The Alwar police are mation Commissioners was Singh will be assisted by tims denied the allegation. investigating the case. introduced in the Lok Sabha former MP Hansraj Ahir, Raju Nat, Bides Nat and on Friday. Karnataka MLA C.T. Ravi and Naushad Qureshi were at­ Mistaken for thief, Dalit The Bill was eventually Lok Sabha member Vinod tacked at Nandlal Tola of man set afire in U.P. introduced after the Treasu­ Sonkar, who heads the party’s Pithauri village in the Bania­ LUCKNOW ry benches won a vote with Scheduled Caste Morcha. pur police station limits in A 28­year­old Dalit man on 224 MPs supporting it and the early hours. Two of them Friday sustained injuries after nine opposing. are statutory bodies esta­ Vivek Kumar appointed were killed on the spot. some people mistook him for Though the Congress op­ blished under the Right to Private Secretary to PM Another died of injuries on a thief and allegedly set him posed the introduction of Information Act, 2005,” the AHMEDABAD on fire when he entered a the way to hospital, Superin­ A cry for help: Relatives of the victims of the mob attack pleading with police officers at Chapra the Bill with senior leader Bill said. Vivek Kumar, currently house to avoid stray dogs in tendent of Police Har Kish­ in Bihar on Friday to take action in the case. * REUTERS Shashi Tharoor calling it an Introducing the amend­ Director of the Prime Uttar Pradesh’s Barabanki ore Rai said. He said two or “RTI elimination Bill”, the ment, Minister of State in Minister’s Office, was district, the police said. The three people have been victims had gone out to re­ lo. The attackers and the at­ complaints. The families of party chose to walk out the Prime Minister’s Office appointed Private Secretary victim, Sujit Kumar, was to Prime Minister Narendra picked up for interrogation. lieve themselves when they tacked belonged to the same the victims “created a ruck­ rushed to a hospital, where when Hyderabad MP Asa­ Jitendra Singh said the Bill is Modi on Friday after the Deputy SP Ajay Kumar were beaten to death. social groups ,” Mr. Singh us” at the Sadar hospital, his condition is stated to be duddin Owaisi demanded a aimed at institutionalisation Appointments Committee of Singh rushed to the village as “We can say it with cer­ said. where the bodies were taken stable, they said, adding that vote. and streamlining of the RTI the Cabinet, headed by Mr. a clash erupted between the tainty that this is not one of Police have been de­ for post­mortem, prompting two of the four accused Act. He said it strengthened Modi, cleared his new role. alleged attackers and the fa­ those incidents of mob ployed in the village, while police to use “mild force” to named in the FIR had been Power with Centre the overall RTI structure, Mr. Kumar, an Indian Foreign mily members of the de­ lynching. The animal alleg­ people from both sides were bring the situation under arrested. The incident took The new Bill seeks to change corrected anomalies and Service (IFS) officer of the ceased. The relatives said the edly being stolen was a buffa­ at the police station to lodge control, officials said. place in Raghopur village. the status of the Information described it as an enabling 2004 batch, replaces Sanjeev Commissioners who are on legislation for administra­ Kumar Singla, who is taking a par with the Election Com­ tion purposes. over as India’s Ambassador to missioners, and states that “Has it ever happened Israel. Mr. Singla is from the the term of office, salaries, that the CIC has the status of 1997 batch of the IFS. NRC: minority outfits fear large­scale exclusion allowances and other terms a Supreme Court judge but and conditions shall be “as the judgment can be ap­ Centre’s assurance on Vetting of papers ly investigating the opinions ority’s alleged instruction to prescribed by the Central pealed in a High Court,” banking sector sought of some 3,300 disposing of­ treat certain documents government”. Currently, asked the Minister as the NEW DELHI nears completion ficers for inclusion or exclu­ with “utmost suspicion”. Section 13(5) of the Act pro­ Opposition protested. Rajya Sabha member Jairam in Assam sion of the applicants. These include birth certifi­ vides that these are equiva­ Leader of the Congress in Ramesh on Friday sought an The draft, published in Ju­ cates issued in States such as lent to that of the Chief Elec­ the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan assurance from the Centre SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ly 2018, excluded 40.07 lakh Nagaland and refugee regis­ tion Commissioner for the Chowdhury said the draft that public sector banks GUWAHATI people, out of which 36.2 tration and citizenship certif­ Chief Information Commis­ law was a threat to the inde­ would not be privatised. Minority organisations in As­ lakh reapplied for inclusion. icates issued in Tripura and sioner and to an Election pendence of the Central In­ During a special mention at sam apprehend a large­scale Another 1.02 lakh names West Bengal, besides Assam. Commissioner for an Infor­ formation Commission the Parliament, Mr. Ramesh exclusion from the final Na­ were removed from the NRC “Despite the Supreme mation Commissioner. while Mr. Tharoor said this said, “I welcome the announcement of the Finance tional Register of Citizens and put on an additional ex­ Court allowing these docu­ “The functions being car­ Bill was actually an “RTI Minister on the (NRC) to be published on Ju­ clusion list on June 26, but ments..., we have come to ried out by the Election elimination Bill” removing recapitalisation of public ly 31. They have attributed it they were allowed to know that officials handling Commission and the Cen­ two greater powers of insti­ sector banks to enable them to the alleged pressure on of­ NRC officials checking documents. * AFP reapply. the vetting process have tral and State Information tutional independence. to meet prudential norms. At ficers handling the vetting The fear that the applica­ been told not to entertain Commissions are totally dif­ Trinamool Congress lead­ the same time, I urge the process to be strict in accept­ nation of documents, is the Deputy Commissioners of tions of most of those who them. There is a conspiracy ferent. The Election Com­ er Saugata Roy sought that government to come out with ing certain documents is­ last and most crucial phase the districts handle the reapplied — primarily the to deliberately keep certain mission of India is a consti­ the Bill be referred to a par­ a categorical statement in sued in other States, includ­ of the exercise. It has two second. Bengali­speaking Hindus communities out of the tutional body... On the other liamentary standing com­ Parliament that privatisation ing in the northeastern stages. Expected to be completed and Muslims and Gurkhas — NRC,” said a leader of the All hand, the Central Informa­ mittee. He said only 26% of public sector banks will not region. The revenue circle officers by Saturday in some dis­ could be rejected has Assam Minority Students’ tion Commission and State Bills were referred to such take place.” Vetting, or careful exami­ take care of the first and the tricts, vetting entails critical­ stemmed from the NRC auth­ Union. Information Commissions panels in the last Lok Sabha. Constable gunned down in J&K He was the personal security officer of PDP leader Sajad Mufti special correspondent mosque when the gunmen the masses. Either ways, ere punishment”. Srinagar struck outside and snatched Kashmiris are paying a heavy The Jammu and Kashmir Unknown gunmen killed the the service rifle from the price.” Pradesh Congress Commit­ personal security officer of constable, police officials Several parties have con­ tee described the incident as Peoples Democratic Party said. demned the attack. a “mindless and shameful (PDP) leader Sajad Mufti out­ The attack came just six act on the part of killers”. side a mosque after Friday days after National Confe­ NC’s view “Violence in any form and prayers in the Bijbehara area rence (NC) leader Peer Tau­ “Another police bodyguard manifestation is condemna­ of Anantnag. qeer Shah’s guard was killed killed in the line of duty in ble. Such incidents are inhu­ “Policeman Farooq Ah­ in an attack in the Kokernag south Kashmir. I condemn man and unfortunate and mad Reshi sustained critical area of Anantnag. the attack,” National Confe­ the perpetrators of violence gunshot injuries. He was rence vice­president Omar have achieved nothing ex­ evacuated to hospital for Heavy price Abdullah said. cept for rendering irrepara­ medical treatment. Howev­ PDP president Mehbooba The Congress, in a state­ ble loss to the victim family,” er, he succumbed to his inju­ Mufti, a close relative of Mr. ment, demanded that the Mohammad Yousuf Tariga­ ries,” the police said. Mufti, said, “Such dastardly authorities “ascertain the mi, Communist Party of In­ Mr. Mufti was inside the acts only add to the woes of identity of the killers for sev­ dia (Marxist) leader, said.

Assam tribal body seeks inclusion of STs on 12­member panel

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Guwahati An apex body of the scheduled tribes (STs) of Assam has resented the “snub” by the Centre while constituting a high­ level committee on the implementation of Clause 6 of the Assam Accord. This clause of the Assam Accord, signed in August 1985 to end a six­year agitation for the ejection of illegal mi­ grants from the State, says “constitution­ al, legislative and administrative safe­ guards, as may be appropriate, shall be provided to protect, preserve and pro­ mote the cultural, social, linguistic iden­ tity and heritage of the Assamese people”. The Centre had formed the 12­mem­ ber committee headed by retired Gauha­ ti High Court judge Biplab Kumar Sarma on Tuesday. None of the members be­ long to any of the more than 20 sche­ duled tribes of Assam accounting for at least 15% of the population. “We appreciate the Centre’s move, but a panel for safeguarding the interests of the indigenous people is ridiculous without the real sons of the soil – the tri­ bal people who have been marginalised more than any other group. The Centre has insulted us,” All Assam Tribal Sangha secretary­general Aditya Khakhlari said. Mr. Khakhlari is a Bodo, the largest ST community in the Kachari group that is considered the earliest inhabitants of As­ sam. The tribal body demanded the inclu­ sion of a retired civil servant or any other capable person from among the tribes. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 14 WORLD SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ELSEWHERE Israel spyware firm can hack Tehran dismisses U.S. claim data from social media: report of destroying Iranian drone Trump reiterates U.S. warship shot it down for coming too close NSO told buyers it can scoop user data from servers of Apple, Google, Facebook Trump picks Scalia for Associated Press Labour Secretary’s post Agence France-Presse programme had “evolved to Tehran WASHINGTON Jerusalem capture the much greater Iran on Friday denied Presi­ U.S. President Donald Trump An Israeli spyware firm has trove of information stored dent Donald Trump’s claim has selected lawyer Eugene told clients it can scoop user beyond the phone in the that a U.S. warship des­ Scalia to be his new Labor data from the world’s top so­ cloud, such as a full history troyed an Iranian drone Secretary. Previous secretary cial media, the Financial of a target’s location data, ar­ near the Persian Gulf. Alexander Acosta had Times reported on Friday. chived messages or photos”. The Iranian military said resigned over his handling of The London­based new­ NSO says it does not oper­ all its drones had returned a plea deal with financier spaper wrote that NSO group ate the Pegasus system, only safely to their bases and de­ Jeffrey Epstein in 2016. AP had “told buyers its technol­ licensing it to closely vetted nied there was any confron­ In troubled waters: A file photo of USS Boxer. * AFP ‘ China home to worst ogy can surreptitiously government users “for the tation with “USS Boxer” na­ human rights crisis’ scrape all of an individual’s sole purpose of preventing val vessel the previous day. Iran says it has Gibraltar extends WASHINGTON data from the servers of Ap­ Cyber threat: The tool can access history of a target’s location or investigating serious “We have not lost any U.S. Secretary of State Mike ple, Google, Facebook, Ama­ data, archived messages and photos. * GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO crime including terrorism”. drone in the Strait of Hor­ seized tanker Iran tanker’s stay zon and Microsoft, accord­ The group came under the muz nor anywhere else,” Pompeo has said China was Associated Press Reuters home to one of the worst ing to people familiar with its and suggested in today’s FT It did not name a suspect spotlight in 2016 when re­ tweeted Deputy Foreign Mi­ TEHRAN LONDON human rights crisis of the sales pitch”. article.” but Washington­based ana­ searchers accused it of help­ nister Abbas Araghchi. present times, slamming In May, Facebook­owned lyst Joseph Hall, chief tech­ ing spy on an activist in the Mr. Trump on Friday in­ Iran said on Friday it has Gibraltar's Supreme Court Beijing for violations against Denies link WhatsApp said it had re­ nologist at the Center for De­ UAE. sisted the U.S. had taken captured a British­flagged ruled on Friday that a minorities. PTI An NSO spokesperson, ho­ leased an update to plug a mocracy and Technology, NSO is based in Herzliya, down an Iranian drone that oil tanker, Stena Impero, seized Iranian tanker Kosovo PM resigns after wever, denied the allegation. security hole in its messag­ said at the time that the hack near Tel Aviv. It says it em­ was threatening a U.S. naval in the Gulf. suspected of breaching summons from war court “There is a fundamental mis­ ing app that allowed inser­ appeared related to the ploys 600 people in Israel vessel in the strategic Strait The website of Iran’s sanctions by shipping oil PRISTINA understanding of NSO, its tion of spyware that could be NSO’s Pegasus software. and around the world. of Hormuz. “No doubt about Revolutionary Guard said to Syria can be detained Kosovo Prime Minister services and technology,” it used to spy on journalists, It is normally sold to law Pegasus is an invasive tool it, no — we shot it down,” Mr. the tanker was seized for for 30 more days. Ramush Haradinaj, a wartime said. activists and others. enforcement and intelli­ that can reportedly switch Trump said. “non­compliance with The Grace 1 supertanker commander of the Kosovo “NSO’s products do not It said the attack bore “all gence services. on a target’s cell phone cam­ Mr. Trump on Thursday international maritime was intercepted by British Liberation Army, resigned on provide the type of collec­ the hallmarks of a private Friday’s FT report, citing era and microphone, and ac­ said that the vessel took ac­ laws and regulations” and Royal Marines and Friday after being called as a tion capabilities and access company that works with a documents it had viewed cess data on it, effectively tion after the drone ignored was taken to an Iranian Gibraltar's police on July 4 suspect before a war crimes to cloud applications, servic­ number of governments and descriptions of a pro­ turning the phone into a commands to stay away and port. The report did not as it was on waters court in The Hague. AFP es, or infrastructure as listed around the world”. duct demonstration, said the pocket spy. came too close to it. say which port. claimed by Gibraltar.

Indian jailed Kabul University blast kills 8 for smuggling Merkel shows solidarity with lawmakers Students were waiting to take an examination at the time people into U.S. Says Trump’s tweets against Congresswomen “go against what makes America great” Agence France-Presse contributed to what makes International condemna­ Agence France-Presse Press Trust of India Berlin the country great.” tion has rained down over Kabul New York German Chancellor Angela Mr. Trump on Sunday the comments. British Prime At least eight people were A 51­year old Indian­origin Merkel on Friday con­ urged a group of four pro­ Minister Theresa May called killed and dozens more woman was sentenced to demned President Donald gressive Democratic con­ them “completely unaccep­ wounded on Friday when a three years’ imprisonment Trump’s xenophobic tweets gresswomen of colour — all table”. New Zealand’s leader bomb detonated near Kabul and ordered to forfeit more against four minority Demo­ American citizens and three Jacinda Ardern said she University while students than $7 million for her role cratic Congresswomen, say­ of them U.S.­born — to “go “completely and utterly” dis­ were waiting to take an ex­ in smuggling hundreds of ing the U.S. leader’s attacks back” to their countries of agreed with Mr. Trump. am, officials said. undocumented people, “go against what makes origin. While usually refraining The blast comes amid a Security personnel at the site of a bomb explosion in front of primarily from India, into America great”. Despite a domestic uproar from commenting on other wave of violence across Af­ Kabul University on Friday. * AFP the U.S. for fees ranging “I firmly distance myself over the comments which Angela Merkel countries’ domestic politics, ghanistan, where civilians from $28,000 to $60,000 from (the attacks) and I feel were deemed “racist” by the Ms. Merkel on Friday had are being killed almost every involvement in Friday's eight, with another 33 in­ per person. solidarity towards” the wo­ House of Representatives, love for America, certain pe­ markedly sharp words about day in the country’s gruell­ blast. jured. “Wounded have been Last year, Hema Patel men, she told journalists. Mr. Trump repeatedly re­ ople hate our country,” he Mr. Trump’s latest attacks. ing conflict, now in its 18th Health Ministry spokes­ receiving the required medi­ pleaded guilty to smug­ “In my view, the strength newed his attack. tweeted on Tuesday, while Questions over racism are year. man Wahidullah Mayar said cal and surgical treatment,” gling of people for financial of America lies in that peo­ “If you’re not happy here, repeating the same message particularly sensitive in Ger­ The Taliban denied any the death toll had reached he said on Twitter. gain. ple from different (origins) you can leave... This is about to a rally on Wednesday. many given its Nazi past.

Airspace closure costs DA files complaint in U.S. court against art dealer for trafficking antiquities Pak. $50 mn Subhash Kapoor and 7 others smuggled artefacts, worth about ₹988 cr., from India, Pak., Afghanistan, Nepal and other countries, say court documents

Press Trust of India Sriram Lakshman Attorneys. Kapoor, 70, is cur­ Aditya Prakash, Vallabh Pra­ false history of an antiquity – Cy Vance’s office and he tigation should be conduct­ Karachi Washington rently in jail in Tamil Nadu, kash, Richard Salmon and generally through forged in­ came to the Consulate not ed. Sadly, it’s precisely this Pakistan suffered a whop­ Eight individuals, including as he awaits trial on similar Neil Perry Smith. voices and letters — attempts long ago and handed over lack of qualified work both ping $50 million loss after Subhash Kapoor who charges. He was arrested in The charges brought to cleanse an antiquity of its two extraordinarily valuable on the technical support it closed its airspace with achieved notoriety on allega­ Germany in 2011 and extra­ against these individuals in­ illegal past”. pieces. As a result of the from the Archaeological Sur­ India for nearly five tions of antiques trafficking, dited to India thereafter. clude knowingly possessing “There is absolutely no cooperation, several traf­ vey of India and even sup­ months following the Bala­ were charged in a Manhattan stolen property in excess of doubt that Subhash Kapoor ficked antiquities have been port from a legal standpoint kot air strikes in February, court last week in connec­ Loot of over two decades $1,000,000 with the intent and his accomplices have returned to India and some that has allowed looters to according to the country’s tion with the looting and traf­ The idol and antiques traf­ to benefit a person other wreaked havoc on our histor­ more are in the pipeline. The escape from the clutches of Aviation Minister. ficking of antiquities, a crimi­ ficking occurred over a pe­ than the owner and to im­ ical sites and temples. They indictment is a very positive the law despite the thou­ Pakistan closed its air­ nal complaint filed by the riod of at least two decades pede recovery of said pro­ helped create an obnoxious step and will discourage oth­ sands of idols he sold,” said space on February 26 after Manhattan District Attor­ from 1986, when Kapoor’s perty by the owner. market for antiquities and er traffickers,” Mr. Chakra­ S. Vijay Kumar, a Singapore­ the Indian Air Force struck ney’s office revealed. company Art of the Past was hurt us very badly,” India’s vorty said. based art enthusiast and co­ a Jaish­e­Mohammed camp Kapoor is allegedly the incorporated, to October 26, ‘False legitimacy’ Consul General in New York, founder of the India Pride in Balakot in retaliation for ring leader of a network that 2016, when it was dissolved. The U.S. Department of Ho­ Subhash Kapoor, 70, is Sandeep Chakravorty, told Faces 86 counts Project. the Pulwama attack. trafficked in thousands of an­ The total value of the an­ meland Security’s Homeland currently lodged in prison in The Hindu. Kapoor faces 86 counts, in­ “Further, this filing expos­ Pakistan’s Minister for tiquities from India, Pakis­ tiques stolen exceeded Security Investigations (DHS­ Tamil Nadu. * M. MOORTHY/FILE “The happy part of this cluding grand larceny, crimi­ es the dark underbelly of the Aviation Ghulam Sarwar tan, Afghanistan, Nepal, $14,35,17,000 (about ₹988 HSI) investigation led to the story is the extraordinary nal possession of stolen pro­ art world using Hong Kong as Khan said that the Civil Thailand and Cambodia, as crore), the court documents seizure of over 2,600 an­ Kapoor loaned antiquities to cooperation we received perty and scheme to defraud an important transit point Aviation Authority suffered per the complaint filed by revealed. tiques, documents and com­ major museums and institu­ from the Americans and the in the first degree. and also the criminal nexus a loss of Rs. 8.5 billion ($50 prosecuting attorneys Mat­ In addition to Kapoor, in­ puters related to Kapoor’s tions, thereby creating a false authorities in India and sev­ “The case filing by the U.S. between professional restor­ million), but underlined thew Bogdanos and Chris­ dividuals named in the com­ and his employees’ business veneer of legitimacy, de­ eral police departments. I law enforcement is a lesson ers in London and America.” that this restriction “hit In­ topher Hirsch, both Manhat­ plaint are Sanjeev Asokan, dealings for Art of the Past. scribing the laundering pro­ have worked personally with for our own law enforcement (With inputs from R. Sivara- dia harder than Pakistan”. tan Assistant District Dean Dayal, Ranjeet Kanwar, The complaint said that cess as “the creation of a Manhattan District Attorney on how meticulous an inves­ man in Chennai)

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market watch Sensex tanks 19-07-2019 % CHANGE Sensex dddddddddddddddddddddd 38,337 ddddddddddddd-1.44 How villas, donations eased IL&FS’ way to ratings 560 points; US Dollardddddddddddddddddddd 68.80 ddddddddddddd-0.24 Gold ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd 35,950 ddddddddddddddd0.78 Brent oil ddddddddddddddddddddd 62.02 ddddddddddddddd0.04 Forensic audit also flags possible conflict of interest via IL&FS’ stake in an agency; says NBFC’s officials influenced ratings bank, auto

ASHISH RUKHAIYAR la for Ambreesh Srivastava of ded. The report also stated then key employees of IL&FS stocks bleed NIFTY 50 MUMBAI India Ratings. Similarly, that “the credit rating ration­ did not receive the desired PRICE CHANGE The forensic audit report on Arun Saha, former CEO, ale, which is supposed to be rating..., they used to poten­ Press Trust of India Adani Ports...... 405.50...... -6.90 Mumbai Asian Paints...... 1369.10...... -15.85 credit rating agencies (CRAs) IL&FS Ltd., arranged Real drafted by the rating agen­ tially pressurise CRAsto eith­ Axis Bank ...... 729.25...... -11.15 of IL&FS has alleged serious Madrid football match tick­ cies, was materially modified er withdraw the rating or ap­ Extending losses for the se­ Bajaj Auto ...... 2558.25...... -72.55 lapses on the part of such ets for Brickwork Ratings’ D. by or significant suggestions proach other CRAs [for] the cond consecutive session, Bajaj Finserv...... 7566.35. .. -281.30

Bajaj Finance ...... 3323.10. .. -144.55 agencies that had concerns Ravishankar. The IL&FS from the former key em­ desired ratings,” said the re­ market benchmark BSE Bharti Airtel ...... 339.95...... -2.55 related to the operations of Group also donated ₹25 lakh ployees of IL&FS were incor­ port. Queries sent to Crisil Sensex plunged 560 points BPCL...... 351.00...... 1.75 the entity way back in 2012 to Sameeksha Trust whose porated to provide and sup­ and Care Ratings remained on Friday after the govern­ Britannia Ind ...... 2749.15...... -71.70 but chose to downgrade rat­ managing trustee D.N. port good ratings given by unanswered till the time of ment thwarted hopes of a Cipla ...... 536.70...... -10.30

Coal India ...... 221.90...... 1.60 ings only in 2018. Ghosh was also the ICRA the CRAs.” In the case of Care going to press. “ We are re­ tax relief for FPIs. Dr Reddys Lab ...... 2613.15...... -42.40 The report, prepared by chairman. Ratings, the report has also viewing the... report; howev­ Led by a sell­off in auto Eicher Motors...... 17664.00. .. -742.00 Grant Thornton, also raises The report cited instances alleged a possible conflict of er, we cannot comment on and banking stocks, the 30­ GAIL (India)...... 137.60...... -4.35

Grasim Ind ...... 879.95...... -27.75 questions on the protocols where the CRAs initially de­ interest as IL&FS Limited the accuracy of the informa­ share index cracked 560.45 HCL Tech...... 1015.60...... -2.95 followed by CRAs while stat­ cided to downgrade IL&FS and IFIN owned about 5.9% tion at present,” said an ICRA points or 1.44% to settle at HDFC ...... 2303.55...... -41.60 ing that credit rationale re­ but did not actually do it af­ Shades of grey: Credit rationale reports, prepared by CRAs, stake in the CRA which, as spokesperson. 38,337.01. The broader HDFC Bank...... 2375.65...... -36.25 * REUTERS Hero MotoCorp ...... 2387.40...... -92.05 ports, made by the agencies, ter meeting senior officials of were modified by key staff of the beleaguered group. per the report, could have af­ “The report... ignores the NSE Nifty sank 177.65 Hindalco ...... 196.00...... -4.55 were modified by key em­ IL&FS. “We identified multi­ fected the “independence of fact that the government has points to 11,419.25. Hind Unilever ...... 1720.40...... -18.75 ployees of IL&FS. ple emails which indicate mited), and IL&FS Limited. group (including potential the rating agency.” charged the former manage­ On Thursday, Finance Indiabulls HFL ...... 634.95...... -24.15

ICICI Bank ...... 410.30...... -8.35 The report has also stated that credit rating agencies The emails identified are ov­ stress and liquidity indica­ The report said IL&FS offi­ ment of IL&FS with engaging Minister Nirmala Sithara­ IndusInd Bank ...... 1422.15...... -49.30 that IL&FS Group and its se­ had raised multiple issues er the period from 2008 to tors) during June 2012 to cials pressurised CRAs for in... fraud and producing man had said the proposed Bharti Infratel ...... 259.50...... -3.65 nior staff provided favours to with regard to the operation 2018,” stated the report. June 2018, the ratings as­ good ratings and even inten­ ‘falsified, spruced up’ finan­ hike in tax on individuals Infosys ...... 785.40...... -7.30 rating agency officials. of the IL&FS group, mainly “... it was noted that alth­ signed were consistently tionally provided incorrect cial statements, which all earning more than ₹2 crore Indian OilCorp...... 146.50...... -1.10

ITC ...... 268.30...... -4.70 As per the report, Ramesh ITNL (IL&FS Transportation ough credit rating agencies high and the same were re­ or incomplete information to CRAs rely on to produce ac­ will not impact FPIs, pro­ JSW Steel...... 259.05...... -7.05 Bawa, former CEO, IFIN, fa­ Networks Limited), IFIN had concerns/issues with the versed/downgraded only avoid a downgrade. “We not­ curate ratings,” said an India vided they organise them­ Kotak Bank ...... 1498.90...... -39.35 cilitated the purchase of a vil­ (IL&FS Financial Services Li­ operations of the IL&FS post June/July 2018,” it ad­ ed instances where, if the Ratings spokesperson. selves as a company. L&T...... 1411.55...... -23.65

M&M ...... 571.30...... -26.10

Maruti Suzuki ...... 5769.10. .. -113.25

NTPC ...... 129.90...... 2.85 ONGC ...... 143.90...... 0.50 ‘India’s refining PowerGrid Corp ...... 205.70...... 0.35 Centre rejects SEBI plea IndiGo clocks highest­ever quarterly net Reliance Ind ...... 1249.00...... -12.85 State Bank ...... 356.00...... -7.65 capacity needs Sun Pharma ...... 421.35...... -4.85 on transfer of reserves Profit surges to ₹1,203 cr., aided in part by cessation of operations by Jet Airways Tata Motors ...... 154.85...... -5.90 to expand’ Tata Steel ...... 458.05...... -8.55 TCS ...... 2076.95...... 11.00 Bill says 75% surplus meant for Centre SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT the results was much await­ Tech Mahindra ...... 675.05...... -12.15 Press Trust of India NEW DELHI ed because of the ongoing Titan ...... 1091.05...... 11.05 New Delhi UltraTech Cement...... 4522.95...... -78.80 TCA Sharad Raghavan constitute a reserve fund IndiGo on Friday reported spat between co­promoters UPL...... 643.45...... -11.30 NEW DELHI and 25% of the annual sur­ Amid a push for electric its highest­ever quarterly Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Vedanta ...... 161.25...... -1.80 In what could spark the plus of the general fund in vehicles, Oil Minister Dhar­ profit of ₹1,203 crore for the Bhatia. The former had Wipro ...... 264.70...... -4.40

YES Bank...... 83.25...... -2.55 souring of ties between the any year shall be credited to mendra Pradhan on Friday quarter ended June, a 43 sought SEBI’s intervention Zee Entertainment ...... 352.95...... -7.15 Centre and the Securities such reserve fund and such said India will continue to times jump over the same into alleged governance laps­ and Exchange Board of In­ fund shall not exceed the to­ rely on petrol and diesel period last year. es as well as related party dia (SEBI), the Finance Mi­ tal of annual expenditure of for running automobiles, The airline’s revenue from transactions between Mr. EXCHANGE RATES nistry has refused pleas preceding two financial and needs to expand its oil operations stood at ₹9,420.1 Bhatia’s InterGlobe Enter­ Indicative direct rates in rupees a unit except yen at 4 p.m. on July 19 from the capital markets years,” the Finance Bill says. refining capacity by 80%. crore for the quarter, an in­ prises and IndiGo. “There CURRENCY TT BUY TT SELL regulator to amend the pro­ “After incurring all the ex­ “EV is a priority but the crease of of 44.7% over the was a fulsome discussion on

US Dollar...... 68.60...... 68.92 vision that mandates that penses… and transfer to re­ incremental requirement year­earlier period. all the issues,” said Mr. Dutta. Euro ...... 77.10...... 77.46 about 75% of its surplus be serve fund… the surplus of of fuel will have to be met Its expenses rose 22% to British Pound...... 86.00...... 86.41 transferred to the Centre’s the general fund shall be through a combination of ₹8,277 crore. Passenger tick­ Woman director mulled Japanese Yen (100) . .. . 63.73...... 64.03 Chinese Yuan ...... 9.97...... 10.02 coffers. transferred to the consoli­ (ultra­clean) BS­VI grade et revenue rose 46.4% to He said the board also dis­ Swiss Franc ...... 69.79...... 70.12 The Finance Bill 2019, dated fund of India,” the Bill petrol and diesel, CNG and ₹8,445 crore and ancillary cussed the appointment of a Singapore Dollar ...... 50.49...... 50.73

Canadian Dollar...... 52.59...... 52.84 passed by the Lok Sabha on added. biofuels alongside EVs,” he revenue stood at ₹902 crore, as well as a 35% increase in formance,” he said in a con­ woman independent direc­ Malaysian Ringitt ...... 16.68...... 16.77 Thursday, has a provision This decision has been said at an event here. an increase of 32.2% over the revenue from cargo with the ference call with analysts tor to comply with the law, Source:Indian Bank stating that the SEBI must opposed by SEBI, with India would need a com­ year­earlier period. airline adding a range of pro­ Giving an outline of its another issue highlighted by set up a reserve fund into Chairman Ajay Tyagi meet­ bination of cleaner diesel IndiGo’s CEO Ronojoy ducts for its cargo belly. plans for international ex­ Mr. Gangwal. which 25% of its surplus is to ing Finance Minister Nirma­ and petrol, compressed Dutta attributed the strong “This quarter also saw a pansion, the CEO said that it The airline has responded BULLION RATES CHENNAI be transferred. The remain­ la Sitharaman earlier this natural gas (CNG), biofuels revenue performance par­ high percentage of bookings will connect Vietnam and to SEBI’s request for details July 19 rates in rupees with previous rates in parentheses ing amount is to be trans­ week. and electric vehicles (EVs) tially to the cessation of oper­ in the 0­15 day window with Myanmar next quarter. and will be replying to the

Retail Silver (1g) ...... 44.6...... (43.8) ferred to the Centre. (With Ashish Rukhaiyar for meeting its transporta­ ations by Jet Airways, optimi­ closing fares also holding up The board meeting pre­ Ministry of Corporate Affairs 22 ct gold (1 g) ...... 3363...... (3332) “The [SEBI] Board shall in Mumbai) tion needs, he said. sation of the airline network and helping our revenue per­ ceding the announcement of by the end of next week.

RBI’s Das, PSB RIL reports slowest growth in 10 quarters, Q1 net at ₹10,104 cr. chiefs discuss Gross refining margins slump to $8.1 per barrel, sluggish petrochemical business weighs on earnings; exports fall by 4.5% rate cut Special Correspondent <> The company digital services business con­ SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT MUMBAI continues to make tinues to transform the mo­ Mumbai Reliance Industries Limited major strides in its bility market in India, while Jio net up 45.6% to ₹891 cr. Reserve Bank of India Go­ (RIL) reported a 6.8% growth retail and digital scaling newer milestones,” vernor Shaktikanta Das in its first quarter net profit services businesses Mr. Ambani added. Brookfield to invest in RIL tower arm met chief executives of pu­ to ₹10,104 crore, the slowest Mukesh Ambani, RIL had an outstanding blic sector banks (PSBs) on growth in 10 quarters, as low­ debt of ₹2,88243 crore as on Special Correspondent infrastructure vehicle. Friday where the need for Chairman, RIL MUMBAI er gross refining margins June 30, 2019 against cash In a regulatory filing , a deeper rate cut by the (GRMs) and a sluggish petro­ ing the quarter fell 4.5% to and cash equivalent of Reliance Jio has reported a RIL said its wholly owned banks was discussed. chemical business continued ₹50,158 crore. ₹1,31,710 crore. 45.6% increase in net pro­ subsidiary Reliance Indus­ The meeting, ahead of to weigh on earnings, a trend Commenting on the re­ fit to ₹891 crore during the trial Investments and the monetary policy re­ partly offset by the growth in Deep integration sults, investment adviser S.P. June quarter. Holdings Limited (RIIHL) view announcement on consumer businesses. RIL chairman Mukesh Amba­ Tulsian told The Hindu, “Ov­ The average revenue has entered into an agree­ August 7, discussed various The energy­to­telecom ni said, “Our first quarter erall, good results with a bit per user fell to ₹122 during ment with BIF IV Jarvis In­ issues, including challeng­ conglomerate saw its GRMs earnings were strong despite of disappointment on the the quarter even as the dia Pte Limited, an affiliate es of credit flow to the pro­ (the amount a refiner earns a weak global macroeconom­ GRM side. The petchem EBIT subscriber base increased of Brookfield Asset Man­ ductive sectors of the for every barrel of crude pro­ ic environment and challeng­ margins have improved by to 331.3 million. In another agement Inc. (Brookfield) economy. cessed) falling to $8.1 per bar­ ing hydrocarbon market con­ RIL, which became India’s “The company continues 120 basis points. Retail and development, Canada’s for the investment. “The Governor acknow­ rel, the lowest in the last 18 ditions. Our downstream most­valued firm by market to make major strides in its Jio have done considerably Brookfield Asset Manage­ Jio has pipped Bharti ledged discernible im­ quarters, compared to GRMs businesses delivered resi­ value last week, saw its refin­ retail and digital services bu­ well.” ment has agreed to invest Airtel (32.03 crore mobile provements in the banking of $10.5 per barrel in the year lient performance in an envi­ ing and petrochemicals busi­ sinesses, led by focus on RIL shares on the BSE de­ ₹25,215 crore in the units subscribers) to become the sector while underscoring ago period. ronment of slower demand nesses contributing ₹8,810 growth markets with offer­ clined 1.01% to close at ₹1,249 proposed to be issued by second largest mobile op­ that several challenges still The profits came on the growth and incremental sup­ crore and ₹5,152 crore to the ings in the right product seg­ in a weak Mumbai market on Tower Infrastructure Trust erator with 32.29 crore remain to be addressed, back of a 22.1% growth in re­ plies. The performance re­ EBITDA respectively. Organ­ ments and compelling value Friday, valuing the company of Reliance Industries subscribers and 27.80% particularly with regard to venues to ₹1,72,956 crore, flects the benefits of deep re­ ised retail and digital servic­ proposition. We are pleased at ₹7,91,750.71 crore. (RIL), making it among the market share in May, ac­ the stressed asset resolu­ with the consumer business fining and petrochemicals es contributed ₹2,049 crore with the robust growth both The results were an­ largest foreign investment cording to TRAI data. tion and credit flows to accounting for 32% of total integration, chain economics and ₹4,908 crore to the com­ in revenues and operating in­ nounced after the closure of transactions in an Indian (With PTI inputs) needy sectors,” the RBI revenues. RIL’s exports dur­ and feedstock flexibility.” pany’s EBITDA respectively. come for Reliance Retail. Our market hours. said in a statement. ‘Merger with Gruh will RBL shares fall CoC okays resolution on $10­mn Sundaram Finance to on asset quality help Bandhan expand’ concerns interim funding for Jet Airways focus on core markets Bank eyes presence in south, west Disbursements grow 9.3% to ₹17,170 cr. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT E­voting for first meeting ends, bidding process from today Special Correspondent 39.4% to ₹45,420 crore, MUMBAI Special Correspondent on account of the strong KOLKATA while total deposits in­ Private sector RBL Bank Lalatendu Mishra Board of India (Insolvency CHENNAI customer relationships that The proposed merger with creased by 42.3% to ₹43,701 (erstwhile Ratnakar Bank) MUMBAI Resolution for Corporate Sundaram Finance Ltd. it had built and nurtured ov­ Gruh Finance will enable crore. saw its share price plung­ A $10­million interim fund Persons) Regulations, 2016, (SFL) will focus on its core er the decades and its ability Bandhan Bank to achieve Bandhan Bank’s net NPAs ing almost 14% despite re­ infusion into Jet Airways and wherein all the resolutions, markets and segments while to raise resources at com­ better geographical ba­ were at 0.56% against 0.58% porting a 41.5% rise in its appointment of consultants including appointment of In­ simultaneously exploring petitive rates. lance, said the bank’s MD a year ago. “The year has net profit for the April­June — to value the company’s as­ terim Resolution Profession­ opportunities in newer ge­ T.T. Srinivasaraghavan, and CEO Chandra Shekhar started on a promising quarter. This was because sets and to decide the eligi­ al Mr. Ashish Chhawchharia ographies, said a top official managing director, SFL, Ghosh. note,” he said, adding that of the management’s gui­ bility criteria for the bidders as Resolution Professional, while addressing the share­ said that in recent years, the Addressing a press meet, he expected it to get better dance that asset quality — were among the resolu­ have been approved by re­ holders at the 66th annual firm had ventured into new he said that the bank was through the subsequent may worsen significantly tions approved by the Jet Air­ quisite majority.” general meeting. States and geographies. trying to increase its pre­ quarters. over the next 6­9 months ways’ Committee of Credi­ “Further, resolution to During 2018­19, SFL post­ Now, it would expand its sence in States where it was Mr. Ghosh said the merg­ and credit costs may rise. tors in an e­voting process as raise interim finance and ed a 9.3% growth in disbur­ presence in these markets. weak. This would include er was now awaiting the ap­ According to Vishwavir per provisions. key terms for the eligibility sement to ₹17,170 crore due “Over the years, SFL has the southern and some proval of the National Com­ Ahuja, MD & CEO, RBL The bidding process for The window for e­voting criteria for prospective reso­ to sharper focus on the ra­ grown on the basis of pru­ western States. The Gruh pany Law Tribunal (NCLT) Bank, the lender could in­ Jet Airways is likely to start under the IBC opened on lution applicants have been pidly growing construction dence. Our growth this year portfolio will enable it to after getting approval from cur additional 40 bps cre­ from Saturday with Ashish Thursday and closed on Fri­ also approved by the requi­ equipment and interme­ will be cautious, without mark a strong presence in the Reserve Bank of India, dit costs on account of Chhawchharia, the Interim day. In a filing with the ex­ site majority of voting diate and light commercial comprising on quality,” he Maharashtra and Gujarat. the Competition Commis­ stress in some of the corpo­ Resolution Professional changes, Jet Airways said, share,” it added. vehicle segments and the said. Mr. Ghosh said that Band­ sion of India and the Securi­ rate lenders and gross non­ (IRP) appointed for Jet Air­ “We wish to inform that the This clears the way for in­ deepening of its presence in On the outlook, Mr. Viji han Bank had closed the ties Exchange Board of performing assets could go ways (India) Ltd. by the Na­ e­voting for the First Meeting viting the EoI by setting the new geographies and mar­ said that the uncertainties first quarter with a 45.4% India. up to 2­2.5%. tional Company Law Tribu­ of Committee of Creditors of terms and conditions. ket segments, said S. Viji, surrounding market liquidi­ rise in post­tax profit to ₹701 “During the year, we ex­ “Given the difficult envi­ nal, planning to release Jet Airways (India) Limited Currently, only the con­ chairman, SFL. ty, interest rates, global oil crore on the back of a 36.1% pect the Gruh merger to get ronment, we do expect to advertisements inviting Ex­ concluded at 4 pm IST on Ju­ sortium of Jet Airways em­ He also said that SFL was prices and the imminent in­ rise in net interest income to consummated, which will face some challenges on pression of Interest (EoI). A ly 19, 2019, in accordance ployees and U.K. based Adi able to counter pricing pres­ troduction of the BS­VI ₹1,411 crore. bring diversification and some of our exposures in person privy to the develop­ with the Regulation 26 of the Partners are serious players sure in the fiercely competi­ emission norms rendered Total advances grew by add to growth,” he said. the near term,” he said. ment confirmed this. Insolvency & Bankruptcy in the fray. tive vehicle finance segment forecasts difficult.

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In fact, Pant should fi­ Bharat Arun has been a quiet tremely talented, multi­di­ bated anticipation after M.S. gure in all three teams. achiever as India’s bowling mensional Ravindra Jadeja Dhoni returned to the Old The Prasad­led selection coach, putting together an showed finger­spinners had Trafford dressing room fall­ committee has chosen Ben­ aggressive wicket­minded at­ a role to play too. It was a dif­ ing a run out­victim to Mar­ gal’s Wriddhiman Saha and tack that can sting. ficult decision to leave out tin Guptill in the World Cup Bharat in the India­A team Despite India’s shock exit Mohammed Shami in the semifinal against New Zea­ for the three multi­day in the ICC World Cup semifi­ semifinal but had we made it land. matches against the West In­ nal, chiefly caused by a bat­ to the final at Lord’s he The cricketing fraternity, dies­A to be played in July­ ting collapse in the first 10 would have been in the ele­ somewhat disappointed August in Antigua, Port of overs, Arun, in a conversa­ ven as the fourth paceman. with the way he batted in the Spain and Tarouba. tion with The Hindu, felt On wrist­spinners not World Cup, believed that he Saha, 34, is trying to stage there were many positives having a great World would announce his retire­ a comeback after an injury for Virat Kohli’s men from Cup: The conditions did not ment from white­ball cricket forced him out of the team the competition. really suit them, it was cold. after having bid adieu from after the first Test against On India topping the 10­ The batsmen also played the traditional Test cricket South Africa at Cape Town in team group stage: We per­ them well, a lot off the back­ after the second Test of the January 2018. Saha returned formed with consistency and foot. 2014 series against Australia to active cricket during the aggression and were the On the effective deliver­ in Melbourne. IPL and, most importantly, team of the World Cup till ies in the tournament: Those who have wished Wicketkeeper­batsman in the Mushtaq Ali T20 tour­ the semifinal, topping in a The deliveries on a good Dhoni well right though his K.S. Bharat. * FILE PHOTO nament for Bengal. gruelling format revived af­ length that moved. The slow­ spectacular career believe DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD In the last 12 months, Bha­ ter 1992. er off­cutter bouncers, the that he would not allow his DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD rat has played 11 unofficial On the semifinal defeat quick bouncer and the cross procrastination to be a stum­ B Bharat has played 11 Tests against the ‘A’ teams of against New Zealand: The seam deliveries. bling block to the Indian unofficial Tests against the West Indies, South Africa, whole team was heart­bro­ Top bunch: B. Arun said many felt that India was the bowling side of the World Cup.* AP On how the final conclud­ team selection. ‘A’ teams of West Indies, Australia, New Zealand, Sri ken. Just 45 minutes of bad ed: I agree with Sachin Ten­ With the BCCI president South Africa, Australia, Lanka and England Lions, cricket saw us out. Also India casions, Virat Kohli bounces sion is taken. his pace and variations. His dulkar that one more Super and secretary rendered irre­ New Zealand, Sri Lanka and scored 686 runs with three batting on the second day off ideas off Dhoni, respects On the relationship bet­ hard­to­pick short­pitched Over could have been levant by certain actions of England Lions, scored 686 centuries and two half­cen­ runs, held 41 catches and hurt us. The ball always does him. In the semifinal, we ween skipper Kohli and deliveries skid on to the bat­ played. Why look only at the Committee of Adminis­ turies, held 41 catches and effected six stumpings things in the mornings in En­ were all confident till Dhoni vice­captain Rohit Shar­ smen. boundaries when there are trators (CoA), only the chief DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD effected six stumpings. gland and it moved. On day was there. We could see he ma: It has to be seen to be Bhuvneshwar [Kumar] so many methods to make selector M.S.K. Prasad can one, the pitch actually eased was lining himself up for the believed. Rohit often runs up showed character, moved runs? Looking at the number talk it over with Dhoni about at a basket that’s not really Impressive record out and the momentum was big hits in the final over. Sad­ to Kohli to discuss things. the ball. Hardik Pandya was of wickets lost is the best way his future with the national full, but offers options. One Overall he has an impressive with us. ly, the run out happened. They get along very well, a revelation with his changes to decide. team. is Andhra’s wicketkeeper­ record of 65 First Class On the format for the On the harmony within share great admiration for batsman K.S. Bharat. The ra­ matches, 3798 runs with knockout stages: There the team­management each other’s ability. Kohli led Selection on Sunday tionale is that performances eight centuries, 20 fifties and should be some incentive for and the support staff: It’s the side well, is maturing as a It may have already hap­ for India­A should be given 223 catches and 27 stumping the teams that finish first and not that we agree on everyth­ captain and it’s nice that he pened or will happen before meaning and recognition. and thus has made a strong second in this long, demand­ ing. We have our arguments has Rohit for support. The the selection committee If there is an award for an claim for a Test squad spot. ing league phase. We should and discussions on various spirit in the camp was won­ meets here on Sunday to India­A player of the year, He has scored three cen­ have playoffs like in the IPL. aspects like the composition derful throughout. pick the Indian team for the the 25­year­old Bharat would turies against Australia­A On the criticism directed of the team and the strategy. On the Indian bowling in West Indies tour that in­ be among the front­runners. (106 at Alur), England Lions at M.S. Dhoni: It was very Everyone voices his opinion. the World Cup: Many felt volves three ODIS and T20Is Rishabh Pant, though, (142 at Wayanad) and Sri unfair. He has contributed so But, at the end of the day, the we were the bowling side of each and two Tests, all from would be the first­choice Lanka­A (117 at Hubli), and much to the Indian team, is a other person’s view is res­ the tournament. Jasprit Aug. 3 to Sept. 3. wicketkeeper for the Test se­ these good numbers cannot legend. In fact, on many oc­ pected and a collective deci­ Bumrah was brilliant with The committee is looking ries. He scored an unbeaten be ignored. Stokes — New Tendulkar and Donald Zealander Double delight for Indian paddlers of the Year? in ICC Hall of Fame Men’s and women’s teams get past England in contrasting styles IANS C’WEALTH TT Wellington England all­rounder Ben Amol Karhadkar Manika pulls out of Stokes, who broke millions CUTTACK of Kiwi hearts in the recent­ India’s men and women over­ individual events ly concluded World Cup, came England in contrasting has been nominated for finals to repeat their last Amol Karhadkar events. the ‘New Zealander of the year’s team championship CUTTACK “I am very sad because Year’ Award. double­gold medal feat at Despite leading India’s I really wanted to play New Zealand­born Commonwealth Games by women paddlers to a and win but I didn’t know Stokes has been nominated lifting the glittering trophies historic first gold medal, that this (infection) will for the award along with on the third day of the 21st Manika Batra had mixed happen. But it’s okay as I Black Caps captain Kane Commonwealth table tennis emotions while cheering have to take care of my Williamson, Newstalk ZB championship. her male counterparts in health as well,” said Batra. host Simon Barnett, form­ * LAURENCE While the women rolled their final versus England, “I pushed myself in the er league star Manu Vatu­ Sachin Tendulkar. Allan Donald. * FILE PHOTO GRIFFITHS/GETTY IMAGES over England 3­0 in an one­ here. teams (championship) vei and one of the heroes of sided affair to win a historic After all, the bug has and we won, so I am the Christchurch mosque Press Trust of India the game along with Sir Do­ first gold for India in the tour­ forced her to withdraw happy after winning a attacks, Abdul Aziz, re­ London nald Bradman and remains nament’s 48­year history, A. Total success: India’s men’s and women’s teams pose with from all the individual gold medal in teams.” ports New Zealand Herald. Indian batting icon Sachin the top run­accumulator in Sharath Kamal’s boys made a their rewards. * BISWARANJAN ROUT New Zealander of the Tendulkar has been induct­ both Tests and ODIs. He has stunning comeback to edge Year Awards chief judge ed into the International 34,357 runs across formats past England 3­2 and re­ Harmeet Desai then sur­ kar sailed past the England Kun Ting 11­9, 10­12, 11­9, 11­8); 11­4, 11­3; Madhurika Patkar bt Cameron Bennett said Cricket Council’s Hall of and is the only batsman to tained their team title. vived tense moments before girls without breaking sweat. England bt Malaysia 3­1 (Walk­ Emily Bolton 11­9, 11­7, 11­6). both Stokes and William­ Fame alongside South Afri­ have 100 internationals hun­ overcoming England’s David er bt Wong Qi Shen 11­5, 11­2, 9­ son had received several The results: Team Champion­ Semifinals: India bt Singapore can pace legend Allan Do­ dreds under his belt. Challenging McBeath to celebrate his 11, 11­6; Jarvis bt Ashraf Muha­ 3­0 (Batra bt Wong Xin Ru 7­11, nominations after the dra­ ship: Men: Final: India bt En­ nald. Joining Tendulkar and The 52­year­old Donald is The men’s final turned out to birthday in style. An aggres­ gland 3­2 (A. Sharath Kamal mad Rizal 12­14, 11­7, 11­6, 11­7; 11­9, 9­11, 11­3, 13­11; Kamath bt matic World Cup final. McBeath lost to Leong Chee Donald in the Hall of Fame one of the finest bowlers to be far more challenging than sive Sathiyan and a com­ lost to Thomas Jarvis 7­11, 8­11, Goi Rui Xuan 7­11, 11­2, 11­8, “He might not have been Feng 11­9, 4­11, 11­5, 10­12, 7­11; was two­time World Cup­ have played the game and India anticipated. Veteran posed Sharath then saw India 4­11; G. Sathiyan lost to Samuel 11­5; Patkar bt Lim Eunice oe playing for the Black Caps Walker bt Rizal 8­11, 11­7, 11­7, winning Australian woman had 330 Test and 272 ODI Sharath suffered a shock de­ home by making short work Walker 11­5, 11­9, 4­11, 8­11, 8­ 11­6, 11­7, 11­7); England bt Ni­ but, having been born in 11­2). geria 3­0 (Ho bt Cecilia Akpan cricketer Cathryn wickets to his credit before feat to England’s promising of Jarvis and Walker, respec­ 11; Harmeet Desai bt David Christchurch, where his McBeath 4­11, 11­5, 8­11, 11­8, Final standings: India, England, 11­9, 11­3, 11­4; Payet bt Offiong Fitzpatrick. calling it quits in 2003. youngster Tom Jarvis. G. tively, to help India win its parents now live, and with 11­8; Sathiyan bt Jarvis 11­2, 6­ Singapore, Malaysia, Nigeria, Edem 10­12, 11­8, 11­6, 9­11, “It’s a huge honour for Fitzpatrick is the second Sathiyan then led 2­0 against third team championship. Maori ancestry, there’s 11, 11­4, 11­4; Sharath bt Walker Wales, Australia, Sri Lanka, Cy­ 11­6; Bolton bt Ajoke Ojomu 7­ me,” Tendulkar said at the highest wicket­taker of all England’s top paddler Sam Women, however, had it clearly a few Kiwis about 15­13, 12­10, 11­6). prus, South Africa, Bangladesh, 11, 11­7, 2­11, 11­5, 11­9). induction ceremony held time in women’s cricket with Walker but the latter rallied easy. After breaking eight who think we can still Semifinals: India bt Singapore Scotland. Final standings: India, England, here on Sunday night. The 180 ODI scalps and 60 in to help England double the times defending champion claim him,” Bennett said of 3­0 (Sharath bt Pang Yu En Women: Final: India bt England Singapore, Nigeria, Malaysia, 46­year­old former right­ Tests. As a coach, she guided lead, leaving the gallery spell­ Singapore’s run in the semifi­ Stokes. Koen 11­5, 8­11, 11­8, 11­5; Sath­ 3­0 (Archana Kamath bt Ho Tin­ Australia, Wales, Sri Lanka, Cy­ hand batsman is regarded the Australian women’s team bound with his powerful nals, Manika Batra, Archana iyan bt Chew Zheyu Clarence Tin 8­11, 13­11, 11­9, 11­9; Mani­ prus, Scotland, Bangladesh, No suspension the greatest to have played to three World Cup titles. backhand winners. Kamath and Madhurika Pat­ 11­6, 11­8, 13­11; Desai bt Beh ka Batra bt Denise Payet 11­6, South Africa. for over­rate offences: ICC Lowry surges with a sizzling outward nine, Holmes consolidates Press Trust of India Shubhankar in line to make cut; no such luck for Woods, Mickelson; Frittelli’s charge tempered by a double­bogey at the 17th London International cricket cap­ weather earlier in the day <> I’m disappointed Spieth, are well­placed to tains will no longer run the and consolidated his chal­ with the bogey but challenge on five under. risk of being suspended for lenge with a 68. I’m where I want to There will be no trademark slow over­rates, with the They will play together in be and happy. I Tiger Woods charge on Satur­ ICC deciding instead to the last group on Saturday in day, however, after he mis­ knew the rain was dock points and fine the what promises to be a battle sed the cut. entire side for any such vio­ of the beards. coming so I wanted Woods looked more like a lations, starting with the to get a fast start. I’m 15­time Major champion on very, very excited for upcoming World Test Reuters Tough terrain Friday after his opening­ Championship. PORTRUSH (Northern Ireland) Once again the par­71 layout tomorrow round 78 but his one­under The recommendations on the Antrim coast proved Shane Lowry 70 was in vain. of the ICC Cricket Commit­ Ireland’s Shane Lowry tough terrain for the world’s Phil Mickelson was also tee were approved by its proved master of the Dun­ best golfers, although there assured himself of the wee­ cut, meaning it is the first board in order to curb the luce links for the second suc­ were some low numbers on a kend action after signing for time in the 83 Majors in menace of slow over­rates. cessive day to move into a congested leaderboard. a one­over­par 72 in the se­ which the two American The world Test champion­ share of the halfway lead English duo Tommy Fleet­ cond round. It will be the se­ heavyweights have both ap­ ship, which runs from 2019 with American J.B. Holmes at wood and Lee Westwood, cond time he would make peared that neither survived to 2021, gets underway the British Open on Friday. both looking for their first the cut in as many starts at for the weekend. with the Ashes, starting Au­ A flurry of birdies early in Majors, made hay with the Open. With 70­72, he was Late in the day all eyes gust 1. “In World Test a sizzling outward nine of 31 rounds of 68 moving them to even par for 36 holes and turned to local favourite Ro­ Championship matches a looked like giving the 32­ seven under while South T­51. ry McIlroy who produced a team that is behind the re­ year­old from across the bor­ African Justin Harding’s post­ thrilling counter­attack in a quired over rate at the end der the outright lead but a ed the lowest round of the Digging deep: Shane Lowry’s push for sole lead suffered due to a bogey at the 18th that put him Well­placed bid to make the cut after his of a match will have two bogey at the 18th left him on day, six birdies and an eagle eight under after successive rounds of 67. * STUART FRANKLIN/GETTY IMAGES Holmes left several other big­ nightmare 79 on Thursday. competition points deduct­ eight under after successive helping him to a six­under 65 ger­name Americans in the After 12 holes McIlroy was ed for each over it is be­ rounds of 67. to move three off the lead. who scored a 66, and En­ telli, who only secured his was tempered by a double­ shade again although Brooks five under for his round and hind,” the ICC said in state­ Holmes, the overnight Alongside Harding are gland’s Justin Rose after a 67. place last week, was also on bogey at the 17th. Koepka, the world number just two shots off the one­ov­ ment here. leader, had the better of the Australian Cameron Smith, South Africa’s Dylan Frit­ six under after his charge Shubhankar Sharma has one, and 2017 winner Jordan er cut mark.

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THE HINDU DELHI SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 SPORT 19 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE T V PICKS Prithu Gupta is India’s 64th GM Aishwarya Commonwealth TT: DD Sindhu makes last four Sports, 10 a.m. takes gold Indonesia Open badmin­ ‘The journey has just begun. I know, I have a long way to go’ ton: Star Sports 1 (SD & HD), Gets the better of Okuhara in straight games with record 10.30 a.m. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD RAKESH RAO DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Sports Bureau The Open golf: DSport, 3.30 NEW DELHI Suhl (Germany) p.m. BADMINTON B A Class X student of PKL: Star Sports 1 & 2 (SD & Less than six years after tak­ Modern School (Vasant Aishwarya Pratap Singh HD), 7.30 p.m. Press Trust of India ing to chess, Prithu Gupta Vihar), Prithu made ripples Tomar clinched the gold JAKARTA became the country’s 64th early last year when he with a junior world record Grandmaster on Thursday became an International P.V. Sindhu stormed into the 459.3 score in the final in IN BRIEF night. Master before his 14th semifinals of the Indonesia birthday the rifle 3­position event at North Korea wins Open badminton tourna­ The city­lad, aged 15 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the Junior World Cup on Intercontinental Cup ment after beating Japan’s years, four months and 10 his 14th birthday. Friday. The earlier record AHMEDABAD Nozomi Okuhara in straight days, met all technical stipu­ of 458.7 was shot by Filip North Korea triumphed in the games on Friday. lations needed to be a GM His incredible rise can be Nepejchal of the Czech Re­ second edition of the Sindhu, seeded fifth, following the fourth round gauged from the fact that he public in the Beijing World Intercontinental Cup football hardly had to break a sweat of the Portugese League. gained a whopping 1300 rat­ Cup in April. tournament, beating as she posted a comfortable Earlier this month, in the ing points in quick time — After qualifying in the Tajikistan by a solitary goal in 21­14, 21­7 win over the third­ Porticcio Open, Prithu made from being 1187 in October fourth place with a total of the final here on Friday. Pak Prithu Gupta. seeded Japanese shuttler. his third and final GM norm 2013 to July this year. 1171, Tomar beat Zalan Pek­ Hyon Il scored the match­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT The Indian will face se­ to go with the ones made in Unlike children of his age, ler of Hungary by 4.5 winner for North Korea in the cond­seeded Chen Yu Fei of the 2018 Gibraltar Masters Prithu is very selective about 71st minute after coming on Sir… You have always been points for the gold. The China in the last­four clash of and the 2018 Biel Masters. as a substitute. The champion Smooth sailing: P.V. Sindhu had it easy against Nozomi the biggest inspiration.” the events he participates in. qualification topper Zhang the BWF World Tour Super * On Friday, he touched the was richer by $50,000 while Okuhara in the quarterfinals. AP Last year, he played in only Changhong of China, who 1000 tournament. rating stipulation of 2500 A milestone six tournaments and collect­ had shot 1181, was pushed the runner­up received Doubles: Meghana Jakkampudi Meanwhile in Vladivostok, mour of Scotland, while Siril points by beating Germany’s ed two GM norms besides to the bronze medal. $25,000. PTI went down 21­11, 29­27 to Ih­ & Poorvisha S. Ram bt Viktoriia A boy of very few words, Meghana Jakkampudi pro­ Lev Yankelevich. Prithu’s initial reaction on taking his rating from 2373 to India was on top of the Rutuja & Strakhova san Maulana Mustofa of Kozyreva & Mariia Sukhova gressed to the semifinals of (Rus) 21­19, 21­11; Erina Honda reaching the landmark was, 2462! tablewith 10 gold, nine sil­ duo bow out Indonesia. Pat from Anand both mixed and the women’s & Nozomi Shimizu (Jpn) bt “Call it a milestone in my According to his coach, ver and four bronze. OLOMOUC (CZECH REPUBLIC) The results (quarterfinals): doubles at the Russian Open Aparna Balan & Prajakta Sa­ Reacting to Prithu’s feat, The results: Junior men: 50m Third­seeded Rutuja Bhosale journey. Nothing more. The International Master Roktim BWF Tour Super 100 Indonesia Open: Women’s sin­ want 21­17, 21­11 country’s first GM and five­ rifle 3­position: 1. Aishwarya and Valeriya Strakhova of gles: P.V. Sindhu bt Nozomi journey has just begun. I Bandyopadhyay, “Prithu has tournament. time World champion Viswa­ Pratap Singh Tomar 459.3 Ukraine were outplayed 6­1, Okuhara (Jpn) 21­14, 21­7. know, I have a long way to a good positional under­ However, it was curtains Mixed doubles: Meghana & nathan Anand tweeted: WRJ (1171); 2. Zalan Pekler 6­0 by Anastasia Detiuc and Russian Open: Men’s singles: go.” standing and plays imagina­ for Rituparna Das and Siril Dhruv Kapila bt Maksim Maka­ “And we are complete. 64th (Hun) 454.8 (1170); 3. Zhang Johana Markova of the Czech Ihsan Maulana Mustofa (Ina) bt lov & Ekaterina Riazantceva A Class X student of Mod­ tively. He loves to work hard. Changhong (Chn) 442.8 GM!! Welcome our newest Republic in the doubles Verma in singles quarterfi­ Siril Verma 21­11, 29­27. (Rus) 21­3, 21­12; Evgenij Dre­ ern School (Vasant Vihar), Now that the GM title is out (1181); 18. Harshrajsinhji Gohil quarterfinals of the $25,000 nals. Women’s singles: Kirsty Gil­ min & Evgenia Dimova (Rus) bt GM Prithu Gupta!” Prithu made ripples early of the way, I expect him to 1163. Team: 1. China 3502; 2. ITF women’s tennis Rituparna lost 21­10, 16­21, mour (Sco) bt Rituparna Das 21­ Krishna Prasad Garaga & Poor­ Prithu responded by last year when he became an play freely and scale greater Norway 3490; 3. Russia tournament here. 21­16 to top seed Kirsty Gil­ 10, 16­21, 21­16. visha 21­11, 21­14. tweeting: “Thank you Anand International Master before heights.” 3488; 6. India 3479. Gift Of Grace may repeat

B ENGALURU: Gift Of Grace, who is in 3. NEW CREATION fine nick, may score an encore in the Nawab M. Arshad Ali Khan Me­ NAWAB M. ARSHAD ALI KHAN morial Cup (1,400m), the feature 5 MEMORIAL CUP (1,400m), 3­y­o event of the races to be held here on only, (Terms), 4­00: 1. Breaking Saturday (July 20). False rails (width Bounds (1) Trevor 57, 2. Roma Victor about 4m from 1,600m to the win­ (5) Akshay K 55, 3. Mystic Bay (4) ning post) will be in position. Yash 52, 4. Star Cavalry (8) Darshan 52, 5. Victorious Sermon (3) Sandesh DELHI CUP (DIV. II), (1,400m), 52, 6. Abira (6) Neeraj 50.5, 7. Gift Of 1 rated 00 to 20, 2­00 pm: 1. Savisa Grace (2) Zervan 50.5 and 8. Palm (12) S. Shareef 60, 2. Above The Rest Reader (7) P.S. Chouhan 50.5. (2) R. Manish 58.5, 3. Jersey Storm (11) Chetan K 58, 4. Odyssey (8) M. 1. GIFT OF GRACE, 2. ABIRA, Kumar 57.5, 5. Winx (9) T.S. Jodha 3. MYSTIC BAY 57, 6. Duty Call (6) B. Harish 56, 7. Purity (10) Antony 56, 8. Aafrikaan CHENNAI CUP (DIV. I), (1,100m), (5) Darshan 54.5, 9. String Of Pearls 6 rated 15 to 35, 4­y­o & over, 4­30: (4) A. Merchant 54.5, 10. Turf Pro­ 1. Ultimate Speed (10) Darshan 60, 2. spector (1) Md. Asif Khan 54.5, 11. Charmaine (7) Trevor 59, 3. Mischief Romantic Haven (7) Nazerul 53.5 Flyer (3) A. Ramu 58.5, 4. Papadokia and 12. South Bell (3) Irvan 53. (11) A. Imran 58.5, 5. Flicka (2) Ashok 1. ABOVE THE REST, 2. PURITY, Kumar 58, 6. Princess Holly (6) 3. JERSEY STORM Rajesh K 57, 7. Simply Magical (5) Yash 57, 8. Lagopus (4) Tauseef 56.5, MYSORE CUP (1,200m), maiden 9. Kasauli (8) Arshad 56, 10. Bold 2 3­y­o only, (Terms), 2­30: 1. Runner (9) Akshay K 54.5 and 11. Desert Combat (5) M. Naveen 56, 2. Perfect King (1) Irvan 54. Mzilikazi (8) Akshay K 56, 3. Awe­ some Girl (3) A. Merchant 54.5, 4. 1. BOLD RUNNER, 2. CHARMAINE, Cipriani (6) Ranjeet Singh 54.5, 5. 3. MISCHIEF FLYER Donna Bella (9) P.S. Chouhan 54.5, 6. Mrs Thatcher (1) Sandesh 54.5, 7. ANGEL DUST TROPHY (1,200m), Queen Regnant (4) Bhawani Singh 7 rated 30 to 50, 5­00: 1. Tzar (3) 54.5, 8. Radiant Beauty (7) Suraj 54.5 Rayan 60, 2. Venus Bay (7) Zervan and 9. Skiathos (2) Zervan 54.5. 60, 3. Mega Ikon (8) A. Imran 58.5, 1. MZILIKAZI, 2 RADIANT BEAUTY, 4. Spanish Beauty (10) Sandesh 58, 3. DONNA BELLA 5. Animal Queen (5) Suraj 57.5, 6. Commodus (4) Trevor 55, 7. Scarlet DELHI CUP (DIV. I), (1,400m), Princess (6) M. Prabhakaran 55, 8. 3 rated 00 to 20, 3­00: 1. Chinese Bernardini (12) Akshay K 54.5, 9. Princess (9) Ranjeet Singh 60, 2. Desert Rose (1) Arshad 54.5, 10. Half­ Three Wishes (6) Sandesh 60, 3. All sies (11) S.A. Amit 54.5, 11. No Opin­ By Myself (5) S. Shareef 59.5, 4. ion (2) R. Manish 54.5 and 12. Tonys Honey Trap (3) John 59, 5. Show Girl Pet (9) P.S. Chouhan 53.5. (2) P.S. Chouhan 59, 6. Lovemyboss (7) Akshay 58, 7. Ocean Park (11) T.S. 1. COMMODUS, 2. BERNARDINI, Jodha 57.5, 8. Aleef (1) Md. Asif Khan 3. ANIMAL QUEEN 57, 9. Great Celebration (8) Akshay K 57, 10. Hunters Moon (10) Sai Vamshi CHENNAI CUP (DIV. II), (1,100m), 57, 11. Natalie (4) M. Naveen 57 and 8 rated 15 to 35, 4­y­o & over, 5­30: 12. Irish Prince (12) M. Prabhakaran 1. Midnight Sky (6) Adarsh 60, 2. Per­ 56. fectgoldenera (11) M. Kumar 59.5, 3. 1. SHOW GIRL, 2. THREE WISHES, Air Of Distinction (5) Bhawani Singh 3. HONEY TRAP 57, 4. Galvarino (3) Akshay K 56.5, 5. Grecian Light (12) S. Shareef 56.5, 6. K.N. GURUSWAMY MEMORIAL Princess Pride (9) Shobhan 56.5, 7. TROPHY 4 (1,600m), rated 60 & Winning Force (1) Suraj 56, 8. Col­ above, 3­30: 1. Ultimate Warrior (6) onel Harty (8) Rajesh K 55, 9. Sky­ Chetan Gowda 64, 2. Buscadero (5) bound (10) Vaibhav 54.5, 10. Admir­ Sai Vamshi 58, 3. Magistero (1) Dar­ able (7) Irvan 54, 11. Mayurana (2) shan 58, 4. Psychic Force (3) Zervan Md. Asif Khan 53.5 and 12. Com­ 57.5, 5. Shesmyscript (4) P.S. mandpost (4) R. Manish 53.5. Chouhan 57, 6. Corybantic (10) Ar­ shad 55, 7. Punjabi Girl (12) Akshay K 1. GALVARINO, 2. WINNING FORCE, 55, 8. New Creation (2) Sandesh 54, 3. PRINCESS PRIDE 9. Dr Logan (11) S. Shareef 53.5, 10. Day’s best: GIFT OF GRACE Mr Handsome (8) S.A. Amit 52.5, 11. Blue Moon (7) T.S. Jodha 51 and 12. Double: MZILIKAZI — COMMODUS Ambrosio (9) Trevor 50. Jkt: 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8; Tr (i): 3, 4 and 5; 1. AMBROSIO, 2. PUNJABI GIRL, (ii): 6, 7 and 8. N R I Power wins HYDERABAD: N R I Power (Kuldeep Trainer: M. Srinivas Reddy. Singh up) won the first division of S. S. MALAKONDA REDDY MEMORIAL Malakonda Reddy Memorial Cup, the CUP (DIV. I), (1,400m), 4­y­o & feature event of the races held here 5 over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. II): N R I on Friday (July 19). The winner is POWER (Kuldeep Singh) 1, Nayadeep owned by Mr. Ravinder Reddy Male (P. Sai Kumar) 2, Miss Lily (Trevor) 3 and trained by Robin Reddy. and One One One (Abhay Singh) 4. 1­ NIZAMABAD PLATE (1,100m), 1/4, 1­1/4 and 1­3/4. 1m, 25.85s. ₹35 (w), 1 maiden 3­y­o only (Cat. II), 8, 10 and 5 (p), SHP: 34, FP: 352, Q: (Terms): SOVET PRIDE (Trevor) 1, 164, Tla; 627. Favourite: Miss Lily. Southern Lady (Ashhad Asbar) 2, Ex­ Owner: Mr. Ravinder Reddy Male. celsior (Suraj Narredu) 3 and Safra (N. Trainer: Robin Reddy. Rawal) 4. 5, shd and nose. 1m, 5.98s. NELSTON PLATE (DIV. II), ₹17 (w), 7, 5 and 7 (p), SHP: 17, FP: 42, 6 (1,200m), 5­y­o & over, rated 20 to Q: 14, Tla: 131. Favourite: Southern 45 (Cat. III): MARINA DEL REY Lady. Owners: M/s. Y. Damodar & (Umesh) 1, Proud Warrior (P. Sai Ku­ Ashok Kumar Gupta. Trainer M. Srni­ mar) 2, Actually Surya Prakash) 3 and vas Reddy. Freedom Fire (B. Nikhil) 4. 5­1/4, 3­1/2 NELSTON PLATE (DIV. I), and shd. 1m, 12.67s. ₹15 (w), 6, 12 and 2 (1,200m), 5­y­o & over, rated 20 to 8 (p), SHP: 37, FP: 190, Q: 117, Tla: 570. 45 (Cat. III): PLATINUN CLAASZ (Afroz Favourite: Takisha. Owners: M/s. Khan) 1, Humaaghar (G. Naresh) 2, Gautam Chand Jain, Prakash Chand New Comer (Jitendra Singh) 3 and Jain, Rahul Jain & Pratik Jain. Trainer: Thundering (Trevor) 4. Not run: Joy L. D’Silva. Of Giving. 1­1/4, 1/2 and nk. 1m, 13.85s. S. MALAKONDA REDDY MEMORIAL ₹24 (w), 8, 7 and 13 (p), SHP: 17, FP: 7 CUP (DIV. II), (1,400m), 4­y­o & 145, Q: 60, Tla: 1,394. Favourite: over, rated 40 to 65 (Cat. II): ACE ACE Thundering. Owner: Mr. Syed Abdul ACE (Koushik) 1, Siyabonga (Akshay Subhan. Trainer: M.F. Alikhan. Kumar) 2, Golden Fortune (Ajeeth Ku­ TINTINNABULATION PLATE mar) 3 and Dunkirk (Afroz Khan) 4. 3 (1,600m), 3­y­o & over, (Cat. II), Shd, 2 and 3/4. 1m, 25.63s. ₹18 (w), 6, (Terms): WAVE RIDER (Akshay Ku­ 6 and 8 (p), SHP: 16, FP: 38, Q: 12, Tla: mar) 1, Rikki Tikki Tavi (Suraj 131. Favourite: Siyabonga. Owner: Mr. Narredu) 2, Doroteo (Koushik) 3 and M. Ramachandra Rao. Trainer: R.H. Nimble Mind (Nakhat Singh) 4. 1/2, 2­ Sequeira. 1/2 and 2. 1m, 39.85s. ₹15 (w), 5 and 6 WANDERING STAR PLATE (p), SHP: 19, FP: 30, Q: 7, Tla: 156. Fa­ 8 (1,400m), 4­y­o & over, rated upto vourite: Rikkii Tikki Tavi. Owners: Dr. 25 (Cat. III): DELMONICO (Ajeeth Ku­ Peddi Reddy Prabhakar Reddy, M/s. mar) 1, N R I Flame (Kuldeep Singh) 2, P. Prabhakar Reddy & Rama Seshu Symbol Of Star’s (Akshay Kumar) 3 Eyunni. Trainer: R.H. Sequeira. and Brave Warrior (Koushik) 4. Hd, 1­ NAWAB MEHDI JUNG BAHADUR 1/2 and nk. 1m, 28.22s. ₹150 (w), 17, 10 4 MEMORIAL CUP (1,200m), 3­y­o & and 7 (p), SHP: 20, FP: 1,911, Q: 804, over, rated 20 to 45 (Cat. III): MON Tla: 6,315. Favourite: Symbol of GENERAL (Gaurav Singh) 1, Victory Star’s. Owner and trainer: Mr. M.P. Parade (Trevor) 2, Liberate (Suraj Ananta Vatsalya. Narredu) 3 and Kamyar (Santosh Raj) Jackpot: ₹2,22,936 (three tkts.), Run­ 4. 1/4, 3­1/4 and 2­1/2. 1m, 12.02. ₹26 ner­up: 1,637 (175 tkts.), Mini Jackpot: (w), 8, 6 and 7 (p), SHP: 19, FP: 76, Q: 40,332 (three tkts.), Tr (i): 532 (82 21, Tla: 260. Favourite: Victory tkts.), (ii): 867 (46 tkts.), (iii): 3,292 (37 Parade. Owner: Mr. S.R. Sanas. tkts.). 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I suddenly woke up and real­ dom too much, and I cannot PEOPLE ised that my life was so live selfishly, dedicating my crowded and busy, where life to one man and my chil­ would I be fitting a husband dren,” explains the author, Back with the band and family into it? Life was whose first novel, Karukku good the way it was,” the (1992), established her as a Akhil Sachdeva is back in the city, to perform with 72­year­old says. Dalit feminist. “By staying un­ his old group Nasha However, she acknow­ married, I have the indepen­ ledges that she had it ea­ dence to dedicate my time, sy, thanks to her uncon­ resources and finances to a ventional family who cause that is dear to me.” did not pressure her in­ The decision came with its to marriage. With two challenges. As a young, un­ aunts who were un­ married woman, she strug­ married themselves, gled to find a job in her village it did not come as a of Pudhupattii (where she surprise to her pa­ still lives), and then was re­ rents when their mo­ fused accommodation. “I torcycle­riding even lied about being mar­ daughter decided to ried, and said that my hus­ go down the same band worked elsewhere,” she road. admits. She also had to con­ In her essay, Del­ tend with loneliness, espe­ hi­based Tyabji cially during bouts of illness speaks candidly that included a stint of pneu­ about the bouts of in­ monia and later, a hysterecto­ security and loneliness my surgery. she experienced in her Tackling pronounced un­ 30s, particularly when kindness in rural communi­ Singer-songwriter-music composer Akhil Sachdeva her friends got busy with ties was another challenge. sprang to fame with his hit song Humsafar in the film parenting. But she’s over “In a village, people are more Badrinath Ki Dulhania in 2017. Since then, he's done that now. “Of course, from direct. They will ask you to concerts, an album and worked for a movie, until time to time you will feel a va­ your face, ‘Why are you not Kabir Singh, hit the screens this year. Now, the Delhi cuum somewhere,” she ad­ married? What is wrong with boy is back in the city with his Sufi rock band, Nasha, mits. “But you fill it with the you?’ And they treat you like ready for his five-city Tera Ban Jaunga India Tour. resources you have, in the a strange person. But in a ci­ Edited excerpts from a short chat. Malavika best way you can.” ty, almost everybody is a Balasubramanian But even as more of us stranger to the other in a When did you know you wanted to compose music ditch the image of the ‘old, crowd.” and sing for a career? In a heartwarming essay moody spinster’, Tyabji be­ The 60­year­old has learnt Laila Tyabji from the upcoming book, lieves that we have a long way to laugh off the biting com­ I didn’t realise anything or choose anything , it just “Marriage is not an insu- Single by Choice , sports jour­ to go. “I think it’s a bit facile ments and snarky remarks. happened to me. I participated in the All India Level rance for old age. I think this nalist Sharda Ugra recounts a SOLO to say that just because socie­ “After a point, I began ignor­ Competition by TATA Indicom in 2010. I was a solo is a very wrong idea incul- scene from more than 10 ties in Delhi and Mumbai are ing their taunts. It wasn’t ea­ artist and I won that competition. I found my cated into women, till this years ago. A male friend, more open to the idea today, sy, but they too realised that bandmates who are playing with me right now, there. date. There are several wo- upon walking into her Delhi everything across the coun­ nothing is going to shake me.” They used to play in a different brand then — Nasha men – not just me – who are apartment (where she lived try is hunky­dory. Women in Single by Choice, pu­ happened from there. And Nasha was the first song I quite happy living single wrote in my life. I feel was destined to become a even in their old age.” alone), asked astonished, advantage rural India still face a lot of blished by Women Unlimited, “Who did all this?” challenges and the situation will be available for ₹275 musician. It's the only thing gives me happiness and decided I should do this all my life. “What provoked this ques­ is completely different,” she starting July 30 tion perhaps, was its sheer Essays from 13 unmarried women on says. Which do you prefer: singing live with Nasha or normalcy,” Ugra writes. And But that hasn’t stopped dealing with the pressure to get playback singing in Bollywood? possibly the assumption that some of these women from unmarried women lead dark, married, and why they opted to stay looking “almost wistfully” at Both have their own charm; the more I sing as a forlorn, depressing lives. But single her when she visits villages in playback singer, the more it will help my band to the writer goes on to remind Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Kar­ more shows. I’m a stage artist, a performer. I’d say us that singlehood is, in fact, fortable — and more impor­ decided to stay unmarried,” nataka, on work. “They look stage is the biggest high ever. a normal experience. tantly, content — in their sin­ says Sharma, who also auth­ at me and say, ‘you’re so Do you keep in touch with music artists in Delhi? It is no wonder then that glehood. Other contributors ored the introductory essay. lucky not to have to deal with Any plan to collaborate with them? Ugra’s essay sparked a con­ include craft activist Laila an evil mother­in­law’,” she versation on social media — Tyabji, scientist Vineeta Bal Good the way it is laughs. I'm open to collaborating with good artists. A lot of one which continues to reso­ and Tamil Dalit writer Bama. For craft activist Laila Tyabji, people started at the same time that I started my Kalpana Sharma nate with many single wo­ Peppered with humour singlehood was more a natu­ Living single in rural music career. I was the first ever guy in India to start a Sufi Rock band. I love collaborations, especially “Writing about being single men who ward off questions and sober revelations in ral process than a conscious India when there are a lot of people involved. I’m vocal is not an easy subject, even about their solitude and sin­ equal measure, the book ad­ decision, despite the 15 pro­ Tamil writer Bama’s decision Bama “Women — like men — are about how independent bands shouldn’t be in if you are a writer. It is a very gle state. dresses the liberation of be­ posals that came her way. to stay unmarried was con­ precious human beings. A competition but should collaborate to put the best deeply personal decision, Published by Women Unli­ ing single, as well as the chal­ Between her busy work sche­ scious. In her early 20s, she woman should be allowed music forward. which not only involves you, mited and edited by journal­ lenges of societal pressure, dule, social commitments decided that serving her com­ to explore her potential and but your family and sur- ist Kalpana Sharma, Single by and loneliness. “The idea was and the added bonus of no fa­ munity and becoming an acti­ the possibilities with her Have you got a chance to practise with Nasha? roundings as well. It prati- Choice is a compilation of 13 to bring together voices milial pressure, life conti­ vist were priorities that life. That is what will help We will practise on 19th July for the show as half of cally lays you open to the essays penned by unmarried across age groups, and not nued without the need for would only get diluted with bring her inner peace.” the band is in Mumbai and half in Delhi. It’s important public.” women who are quite com­ just older women who had marriage, she says. “One day, marriage.“I value my free­ as it is a part of Tera Ban Jaunga India Tour, and the first one is going to happen in Delhi today.

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EVENT CONCERT TRIBUTE FOOD FILM Book launch Fundraiser Kargil Diwas Sunday brunch Documentary on the Parsis Author and playwright, Sarabpreet Singh will This Sunday, Saints N Sinners is holding a On the occasion of 20th anniversary of Kargil Jaypee Vasant Continental at its all-day dining Kriti Film Club will screen the national award launch his latest book titled, The Camel Merchant fundraiser concert called A Song for a Voice. In Diwas, Select Citywalk has organised a two-day Canadian concept restaurant, Eggspectation, has winning documentary, Qissa-e Parsi: The Parsi of Philadelphia, this evening. The book, which its second edition, the event will feature event called Let’s Not Forget, in honour of Indian introduced a specially curated Sunday brunch. Story, in English. Directed by Shilpi Gulati and examines the life of Maharaja Ranjit Singh will be performances by four bands comprising soldiers. This will feature a thematic installation, The menu offers some seasonal ingredients and Divya Cowasji, the film explores the history of released in the presence of Lt. Gen.(Dr.) D.D.S. teenagers. This includes a band from the One film screening, cultural show, and dance and features starters, salads, assorted cold cuts, the Parsi community, their relationship with the Sandhu - PVSM ADC (Retd), and Aanchal World College of Music. The proceedswill be music performances. Collected funds will go Arabic mezze, farm house cheese, pasta, dim Indian state, and their association with the city of Malhotra, an author and historian. utilised for the education of unprivileged girls. towards the Army Wives Welfare Association. sum, briyani, all served with soft beverages. Mumbai. Venue: Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan, Gole Market Venue: GF-21 Global Foyer, Sector 43, Gurugram Venue: Select Citywalk, Saket Venue: Jaypee Vasant Continental, Vasant Vihar Venue: Kriti, A-15, Tara Apartments, Alaknanda Time: 4 p.m. Time: 6 p.m. onwards Time: 5 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. Time: 12:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. Time: 6 p.m.

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Not just Director: Smeep Kang sexist jokes — unlike Mukher­ Be it traditional animation Starring: Rishi Kapoor, jee’s sparkling ladies — but Jimmy Sheirgill, Rajesh here the women are ren­ or contemporary photoreal­ Sharma, Manoj Joshi, Sunny dered deliberately vapid and istic digital/computer ani­ Singh, Omkar Kapoor, inconsequential. mation, what has worked for Lillete Dubey, Nimisha The single biggest pro­ The Lion King is the “hu­ Mehta, Pujita Ponnad blem, however, is that the manification” of animals. I Storyline: Varun (Omkar young cast is colourless to am deliberately not using Kapoor) can’t get along the core, unable to leave an the word humanising here with his farmer dad Yograj impression. Their only because, as we are well (Rishi Kapoor) in Punjab strength, so to speak, that aware, it’s the animals who and goes back to Mauritius keeps getting projected on are at most times more hu­ in search of a job. Soon we mane than the brutes that find him lying his way the big screen, is jiving with a group of dancers in the back­ the human race has through to get married to become. Riya (Nimisha Mehta). One ground on the beach. But even that is utterly forgetta­ Humanification is to imp­ lie leads to another and it’s ly that what transpires on no holds barred when his ble. It’s the older actors who Loud humour only Kang’s film has very few inspired moments * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT screen transcends the ani­ father decides to come manage to somehow hold mal kingdom; it is what one Aural magic The 2019 version stays true to the original film calling. the show together — Rishi Ka­ * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Namrata Joshi identities and harmless lies. Varun (Omkar Kapoor) poor and Rajesh Sharma associates with the world of Smeep Kang also tries to can’t get along with his farm­ with their brothers­in­law women and men. Hence, so­ This may sound too pre­ build his film on a similar er dad Yograj (Rishi Kapoor) emerged organically from banter; Rakesh Bedi in a mething we can identify The Lion King from the original. However, with closely. There is a fami­ a larger reinterpretation of posterous but throughout web of falsehoods and adds in Punjab and goes to Mauri­ the kooky situations his cha­ small but effective turn. And Director: Jon Favreau Jhootha Kahin Ka, I was elements of Luv Ranjan’s tius in search of a job. Soon, racters would get caught in the reliable Jimmy Sheirgill liarity to the relationships, the lineage­inheritance the clear divisions between Starring: Voices of Donald trope — why does the son of thinking of Hrishikesh Muk­ brand of rom coms, told we find him lying to get mar­ and he had an intrinsically as a sharp­shooter called Glover, Seth Rogen, herjee. A bunch of his gentle from the point of view of cal­ ried to Riya (Nimisha Mehta). dignified way of juggling Tommy, who is the butt of the good and the bad indivi­ a king have to take over from duals, the situations and Chiwetel Ejiofor, James him — would have made it a and genteel comedies — low young men. But, beyond One lie leads to another and with even the risqué ele­ some infantile man­dog Earl Jones, Beyonce emotions, with each charac­ little less out of joint in these Chupke Chupke, Golmaal, a few inspired moments to­ it’s no holds barred when his ments. Kang can’t stop the jokes that only he could have Knowles­Carter (English) ter personifying a feeling — times. However, having said Jhooth Bole Kauwa Kaate — wards the end, the film refus­ father decides to come call­ humour turning loud and pulled off with his deadpan Voices of SRK, Aryan Khan, have sprung from mistaken es to fly. ing. Mukherjee’s humour crass with double entendres comic timing. love and pride (Mufasa); am­ Ashish Vidyarthi, Sanjay that, it’s also a trifle ironic bition, jealousy, treachery Mishra, Aasrani, Shreyas that in India, the most and violence (Scar); loyalty, Talpade, Shernaz Patel, looked forward to thing care and concern (Timon, Achint Kaur (Hindi) about the film’s Hindi ver­ Pumbaa and Zazu); loss, Storyline: The lion crown sion has been the fact it’s Family of Thakurganj grief and the denial of it; the prince Simba’s jealous Shah Rukh Khan’s son All about that bro code Director: Manoj K. Jha overwhelming guilt, its uncle Scar kills his father, Aryan Khan who has voiced Starring: Jimmy Sheirgill, psychological ramifications King Musafa. Burdened Simba. Does the son of Bol­ Nandish Singh, Mahie Gill, and the battle in coming to with the misplaced guilt of lywood’s Badshah have it in The cast of Family of Thakurganj is let down by the film they’re featured in Supriya Pilgaonkar, Saurabh terms with it (Simba). being the reason for his him has been the moot Shukla, Manoj Pahwa, The lion crown prince killing, Simba goes into question. Namrata Joshi ladies with swag, Manoj K. Mukesh Tiwari, Pavan Simba’s jealous uncle Scar exile in the company of Well, the voice does have Jha turns Family of Thakur- Malhotra, Raj Zutshi, kills his father, King Musafa. Timon and Pumbaa, the gravitas, flexibility and an It’s a Jimmy Sheirgill double ganj into an unwieldy, Yashpal Sharma, Sudhir Burdened with the mis­ meerkat and the warthog. ability to articulate trauma. bill this week. And he, along pointless mess about a Pandey, Pranati Rai Prakash placed guilt of being the rea­ But can the son of the In fact the film hinges on the with a set of reliable veteran group of gangsters and cops Storyline: A small town, son for his killing, Simba king not be a king himself? aural more than the visual actors, remains the only fighting it to the finish with some ordinary people and goes into exile in the compa­ magic. The animation at strong reason to head to a a Baba Saheb at the centre two brothers on either side ny of Timon and Pumbaa, the father­son relationship. large makes it seem as of the law cinema. Family of Thakur- as the bossman (Saurabh the meerkat and the war­ Simba’s hero­worship of his though one is on a virtual sa­ Runtime: 133 minutes ganj has an army of pol­ Shukla) who is excellent, es­ thog. But can the son of the dad Mufasa and their mu­ fari into the jungle but the ished performers. However, pecially when asking his king not be a king himself? tual love gives the film its digital animal visages them­ while they try to put their goons to speak better Hindi: er 30, Nandish Singh is He has to return to and re­ emotional tug but the idea selves remain flat, two di­ best foot forward, the film is “Character nahin to bhasha again seen managing a claim his kingdom of Gaurav of the ruler and his succes­ mensional, not half as vivid unable to rise up to their sudhaaro (if you don’t have coaching centre on screen. Bhoomi. sor also makes it a trifle an­ and layered as those in the collective talent. Unwiedly mess The film is overtaken by people settling character at least improve This time on his own and It’s the angst of the tediluvian. The film does try original. It’s the soundtrack Basically the film is Dee- scores with each other * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT your language)”. not for his brother. He wronged brother Scar — to play down royalty by pos­ and the star voices — both in war redone. In a small There are some nice lines seems most comfortable about being a commoner iting the king as a protector, the English and the Hindi town, peopled with ordin­ Munnu (Nandish Singh) is behind Nannu and Supriya and wordplay in the film, playing the manager but ve­ and life having been unfair the one who serves and versions — that bring things ary folks, two brothers the righteous good boy. Pilgoankar does a Nirupa but all of it gets overtaken ry ill at ease romancing his to him — that has dramatic gives instead of owns and alive, specially in some thro­ grow up on either side of What’s interesting is the re­ Roy with a twist. Even Nan­ by shoot­outs, killings and lady love Suman (Pranati potential before lapsing into takes. The country can’t be­ waway light moments, like a the law. Nannu (Sheirgill) is casting of women — the wife nu’s young daughter is a de­ blood as people settle Rai Prakash). Bollywood the clichéd bad man por­ long to one person. affianced­betrothed word­ the Robin Hood­esque fi­ Sharbati (Mahie Gill) as the vious one. Instead of dwell­ scores with each other. song­n­dance around the trayal. And, towering over The 2019 version pretty play or a hornbill versus gure while younger brother, shrewd, manipulative mind ing a bit more on these Close on the heels of Sup- trees is not so easy after all. everything else in the film is much sticks to everything woodpecker debate.

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DELHI THE HINDU 22 SPORT SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Chhattisgarh suspended, Sohil and Tijil The Walmiki brothers’ journey take pole West Bengal warned Sports Reporter Chennai — from darkness to light National Youth Championships slammed for poor facilities Bengaluru teenagers Sohil Shah and Tijil Rao took ATHLETICS West Bengal, meanwhile, tary if there are more than was issued notice for pulling two cases of over­age ath­ pole positions in the MRF Amazing success story of the siblings from Mumbai F1600 and Formula LGB U thra Ganesan out of hosting the national letes from a state, a decision 1300 categories in the third our house, which is someth­ Agra Inter­State Championships that saw many protesting to HOCKEY round of the MRF MMSC­ ing to celebrate,” Yuvraj says. Chhattisgarh Athletics Asso­ without any satisfactory rea­ no avail. FMSCI Indian National Car ciation was suspended and son. “We have changed ve­ In fact, the state units Racing Championship at Ashwin Achal West Bengal issued show­ nues before but never been Bengaluru Out of favour were squarely blamed for forced to change the dates. the MMRT here on Friday. Devinder too has since fallen cause notice as the Athletics most of the ills in Indian ath­ Other than a natural calami­ Sohil, 18, came up with The Walmiki brothers, Yuvraj out of favour with the nation­ Federation of India’s annual letes. ty or Force Majeure, no oth­ his best lap of one minute, and Devinder, recall the great al selectors, but like Yuvraj, general meeting here be­ “It is not the job of the AFI hardships they had faced came a day of chastisement er reason can be acceptable. 39.218 seconds, much he hasn’t given up hopes of to prepare athletes. The in­ quicker than his timings in when they were young. for state associations on “We have had to postpone making a grand comeback ternational federation only the two Free Practice ses­ “Very often, I had to skip Friday. the tournament, the last yet. “We still have interna­ conducts events but we have sions earlier in the day. meals so that Devinder had “We have decided to sus­ qualifying event for the taken this responsibility be­ tional quality; all we need is In the second spot was something to eat. Our family pend the federation, form World Championships, to cause the states were not do­ one chance to prove our­ Nayan Chatterjee, followed lived in a small shanty in selves,” Yuvraj says. an ad­hoc body and give it end August (27­30) in Luck­ ing their job ­­ identifying Mumbai, with no electricity, six months to conduct fresh now. Once they reply, we by Manav Sharma and Nir­ Regardless of what the fu­ athletes and training them, water or even a proper roof,” elections and find a new set can suggest to the State mal Umashankar. ture holds, the brothers can providing good competition Yuvraj, the elder of the two, of office­bearers. We cannot Olympic Association to reth­ and getting good coaches. In the FIA Formula­4 The Hindu take pride in what they have South­East Asia series, tells here on keep giving warnings and al­ ink their affiliation also,” AFI “They have to conduct accomplished so far. Oman’s Shihab Al Habsi Friday. so allotting competitions,” president Adille Sumariwal­ district level meets and pro­ “When I started playing topped the practice session Their life forever changed AFI Planning Committee la said. vide a strong foundation to hockey in 1999, my mother with a flying lap of when Yuvraj scored a crucial chairman Lalit Bhanot said The AFI top management athletes before they join the struggled to buy ice to treat 01:37.862, while the three tie­break goal against Pakis­ categorically. made no secret of its displea­ elite ranks. What we do at my injuries. Indians in the fray, Yash tan in the final of the 2011 The 2019 National Youth sure at the lack of accounta­ national level, you have to Aradhya, Mira Erda and Asian Champions Trophy “She would wash my Championships in February bility and performance at do in states – scrutinise and Sneha Sharma were fifth, hockey tournament in China. match jersey every single day had been slammed for poor the grassroots. conduct tests,” Bhanot ad­ seventh and eighth fastest. “My parents had taken a lot with her bare hands. When I facilities and organisation “A vast majority of doping ded even as Sumariwalla Tijil (Momentum Motor­ of loans to help us pursue our scored against Pakistan in and also racked with age­ and age­fraud issues happen cautioned that there was in­ sports), 16, put in a fine dream of playing hockey. 2011, she watched the match fraud controversy. at the state and district levels creasing pressure from IAAF performance in Formula When Yuvraj returned from on our neighbour’s televi­ The state is supposed to and it is the state body’s res­ and WADA to get Indian ath­ LGB 1300 with a hot lap of China, he paid off all the sion. Right through school, host the next National ponsibility to ensure it letics in order. 01:53.523, nearly a second loans — totalling around ₹30 Devinder and I studied under Games but athletes and offi­ doesn’t happen. If it does, The AFI also unveiled quicker than his best in the lakh,” Devinder says. candle light. Now we have a cials had complained of they have to pay the price,” new kits for Indian athletes practice sessions earlier. television, washing machine, poor arrangements at the Bhanot slammed. The AFI with the legendary Sriram Dream realised air conditioner, lights and 2017 national cross country has provisioned for a one­ Singh and Anju Bobby Ge­ Watching Yuvraj shine streng­ fans — things that my parents championships as well. year suspension of the secre­ orge doing the honours. thened Devinder’s resolve to have never owned in their Alaphilippe break into the Indian team. lives. The ultimate dream was real­ “Even now I get emotional beats Thomas ised in 2015, when both Yuv­ when I think of those days. raj and Devinder scored a From darkness to light — that The stars: The Walmiki brothers, Devinder and Yuvraj, are in 13th Stage goal each in a 3­0 win over is our journey,” Yuvraj says. keen to get back into national reckoning. * G.P. SAMPATH KUMAR Poland in the Hockey World Reuters League semifinal. PAU “All the newspapers car­ France’s Julian Alaphilippe ried a photo of me lifting and A mother’s diktat claimed an impressive vic­ hugging Yuvraj, with a hea­ tory in the 13th stage of the thunderous reverse­ among the first to run agreement. “I call my dline ‘Walmiki Brothers do Tour de France, a 27.2­km flick from forward over and congratulate mother after every match. India proud’. That was a truly A individual time trial, to ex­ Yuvraj gives Bengaluru him. memorable moment,” Devin­ “If I don’t score a goal, tend his overall lead on United Hockey Club the der says. “If Yuvraj doesn’t score my mother bluntly says Friday. lead against South Central Along with the highs came a goal, I get into trouble that I am not fit to be a The Deceuninck­Quick Railway in the Bengaluru the lows as well, when inju­ because our mother striker. “So it’s imperative Step rider clocked 35 mi­ Hockey super division ries and other issues forced scolds me for not passing for me to keep finding the nutes over the lumpy championship here on Yuvraj out of the 2012 and the ball and creating net, or else we’ll be in big course to beat defending Friday. 2016 Olympics. Devinder, on chances for him,” trouble when we return to champion Geraint Thomas the other hand, made it to His younger brother, Devinder laughs and says. our home in Mumbai,” by 14 seconds and Belgian the 2016 Rio Games. midfielder Devinder, is Yuvraj nods in Yuvraj says. Legendary honours: Sriram Singh and Anju Bobby George unveiled the new kits for Indian Thomas de Gendt by 36 “We have one Olympian in athletes at the annual general meeting of the AFI. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT seconds. Smooth start to AITA Trust scholarship scheme TENNIS rents not to neglect their dian junior teams in many kept short to help the young­ children’s education in pur­ events over the years, re­ sters tackle the heat and hu­ Special Correspondent suit of a tennis career. quested the players to capi­ midity on the hard courts, NEW DELHI “Education is very impor­ talise on the immense know­ with minimal physical tant for the development of a ledge of the selection strain. The AITA Trust scholarship player, and kids will lose committee trio. On the last two days, there camp — to identify eight boys confidence if they don’t get “It is a challenge to play will be a fitness test which and girls for a per year scho­ good education,” he said. good tennis in a adverse sit­ would also demand good larship of ₹1,00,000 — got off uation,” said Ankita. physical condition of the to a smooth start at the DLTA Holistic players after a series of Complex here on Friday. Every aspect of their game Four groups matches. Davis Cupper and FedCup and behaviour — in victory The 32 boys and girls were “We will also look at how team captain Vishaal Uppal and defeat, while playing at divided into four groups hungry you are to become a made it clear that scores and their best or not — would all each. They will all play on a world class player,” Uppal results would only be one of be noted, the players were league basis in the group, in said. many factors to be consi­ told clearly. a ‘best of 13 games’ format. Talking to parents, Bal­ dered for selection. Uppal was categorical in Thereafter, all the No. 1 ram suggested that the chil­ Fed Cup coach Ankita stressing that it would be a players will get into one dren should be handled with Bhambri told the players to holistic process. group, the No. 2 in the se­ care, especially when they relax and enjoy their tennis. Another seasoned coach, cond group, etc. for another lose a match. “Don’t talk to Former national coach Nar Singh, who has rich ex­ spell of matches. the child immediately. Talk Balram Singh advised pa­ perience of guiding the In­ The matches are being later,” said Balram. Sanjivani gets two years Swati and Priyanka for doping violation suffer defeats

Special Correspondent Set to lose her Asian 10,000m bronze medal Karaikudi Former national champion Y.B. Sarangi vedic medicines and she and WGM Swati Ghate and KOLKATA never cheated. seventh seed WIM Priyan­ The Athletics Integrity Unit While noting that Sanjiva­ ka Nutakki of Andhra Pra­ (AIU) has handed a two­year ni “failed to disclose the use desh suffered shock de­ suspension to 23­year­old of ayurvedic medicines on feats in the opening round long­distance runner Sanji­ dope control forms,” AIU, in of the 46th National wo­ vani Jadhav for testing posi­ its order released on Thurs­ men’s chess championship tive for probenecid, a day, said there was no evi­ here on Friday. banned substance under the dence to support her claim category Diuretics and Mask­ that these medicines con­ Senthamizh Yazhini of ing Agents, in­competition tained the banned Tamil Nadu defeated Pri­ twice last year. substance. yanka and Bindu Saritha (LIC) stunned Swati. Sanjivani, whose urine Considering that the ath­ samples collected during the lete admitted to the doping However, the other TCS World 10k (Bangalore, violation, the AIU handed seeded players had a rela­ May 27, 2018) and National her two years’ suspension tively easy day out. inter­State athletics cham­ for her first offence. Playing the black side of pionships (Guwahati, June It ordered that Sanjivani’s the London System game, Swati blundered on the 29, 2018), said that she had Sanjivani Jadhav. * FILE PHOTO results at the TCS World 10k, not taken probenecid National inter­State meet 33rd move to hand over knowingly. Sanjivani admitted to the and events following that piece advantage to her LIC doping violation. The AIU, which imple­ would be “disqualified” and teammate and surren­ ments the IAAF anti­doping She, nevertheless, re­ titles, awards, medals, dered after five more rules, charged Sanjivani quested for a reduction in points and prizes won would moves. with committing anti­doping her period of ineligibility on be forfeited. Meanwhile, WGM Sou­ rule violations and offered grounds such as the concen­ As a consequence, Sanji­ mya Swaminathan (PSPB), her an opportunity to either tration of probenecid was vani will lose her 10,000m the top seed, got past V. admit the anti­doping rule too low to be used as a mask­ bronze medal achieved in Nanditha (Telangana) and violation and accept a two­ ing agent, she suspected the the Asian championships in defending champion Bhak­ year­ suspension or request prohibited substance might Doha in April this year. ti Kulkarni (Air India) a hearing before a disciplin­ have entered her body due The decision is appeala­ made short work of Ana­ ary panel. to use of contaminated ayur­ ble. nya Bothra (West Bengal). CM YK